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Dijaspora Bošnjačka: Broj 22
No full textBosniak DiasporaIII22Dijaspora bošnjačka (Bosnian Diaspora) is a Bosniak periodical that was published monthly between May 2004 and December 2009 in St. Louis, Missouri. It was one of the two components comprising the Bosnian Media Group (the other was Radio Behar St. Louis). The publication features original articles by an international group of contributors (including from Bosnia and Herzegovina) and was distributed in the United States and Canada and parts of Europe. The paper was launched to share information and perspectives about the aggression toward Bosnia and Herzegovina and its people between 1992 and 1995, as well as to promote the values, traditions, and culture of Bosnian Muslims.Click on the blue Maximize button in the top right corner of each image to browse the pages of an issue
Dijaspora Bošnjačka: Broj 28
No full textBosniak DiasporaIII28Dijaspora bošnjačka (Bosnian Diaspora) is a Bosniak periodical that was published monthly between May 2004 and December 2009 in St. Louis, Missouri. It was one of the two components comprising the Bosnian Media Group (the other was Radio Behar St. Louis). The publication features original articles by an international group of contributors (including from Bosnia and Herzegovina) and was distributed in the United States and Canada and parts of Europe. The paper was launched to share information and perspectives about the aggression toward Bosnia and Herzegovina and its people between 1992 and 1995, as well as to promote the values, traditions, and culture of Bosnian Muslims.Click on the blue Maximize button in the top right corner of each image to browse the pages of an issue
University News - Volume 098, Issue 011 (February 28, 2019)
No full text24 pages.VOL. XCVIII No. 11 / February 28, 2019
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ayley Hampton, an
MLK scholar and
sophomore studying
health sciences, de-fines
immigration as
the “ability to leave
one environment to
go to another with the hope that there
will be better opportunities.”
Elena Everhart adds that “im-migration
is especially important in
America as it has the reputation as
the land of the free. For this reason, it
should be available to everyone.” She
is also an MLK scholar and is a sopho-more
studying speech pathology.
Hampton and Everhart repre-sent
just two out of the over 100 stu-dents
that flooded into the CGC last
Wednesday for the “Chisme y Comi-da”
event, sponsored by UndocuWeek.
During “Chisme y Comida”—or literal-ly
“Gossip and Food”—students were
able to have open and honest conver-sations
about immigration.
This event was part of SLU’s
first UndocuWeek, which featured a
week full of events that served to edu-cate
and raise awareness on the topic
of immigration. Events consisted of a
panel discussion, a movie screening,
“Chisme y Comida” and more.
Students in attendance—in-cluding
those of the MLK scholars
program, multicultural student orga-nizations
and others—were required to
answer an individual survey consisting
of 10 questions. This survey inquired
of their personal experiences based on
their citizenship status. Students were
then encouraged to discuss these ques-tions
with each other using safe and
inclusive diction.
Students soon discovered
many discrepancies in their responses.
These discrepancies exposed insecu-rities
often faced by those of undoc-umented
statuses, including, but not
limited to, their employment, access to
federal resources, safety and even edu-cation.
One survey question explored
how citizenship affects education:
“Growing up, was attending college
more of a dream or understood ex-pectation?”
Differing responses to
this question reflected the reality that
higher education is often a privilege,
unattainable without documentation.
In general, undocumented
students are excluded from receiving
federal aid like FAFSA, as well as from
many scholarships and other need-based
programs such as the A+ pro-gram
in Missouri. States like Alabama,
Georgia and South Carolina go as far
to ban admittance of undocumented
persons. Other states—including Mis-souri—
do not provide in-state tuition
without documentation. As higher-ed-ucation
costs continue to rise in the
wake of these financial limitations, it
is no surprise that the College Board
estimates that only 5 to 10 percent of
undocumented students pursue high-er-
education. Lack of a college educa-tion
can be detrimental to one’s future
employment.
Beyond education, responses
also exposed the economic strain felt
by the undocumented population. Un-documented
immigrants, as well as re-cipients
of DACA—Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals—are ineligible to
receive federal aid or benefits, includ-ing,
but not limited to, food stamps,
Medicaid and unemployment benefits.
This reality is contradicted by the fact
that those without documentation still
pay taxes at the state and federal lev-el
without any benefit in return. This
culminates in frustrations felt toward
a system that victimizes those who are
SLU’S FIRST EVER UNDOCUWEEK A SUCCESS
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By CAROLINE LIPSKI
Staff Writer
(Riley Tovornik/The University News)
already most vulnerable.
Some students confessed to
avoiding certain areas of high police
presence in fear of being stopped and
questioned about their status. In this
way, their safety and well-being can be
put at odds with their distrust of law
enforcement.
Students admitted that back
on campus they also felt confined by
their status. For example, some may
not have the privilege to study abroad
because of a lack of a U.S. passport. For
others, they may feel isolated because
of the lack of resources in the form of
advisors or even clubs on campus to
support their needs.
UndocuWeek confronted these
injustices faced by immigrants every-where
head-on through education
and advocacy. After attending the Ig-natian
Justice Summit, SLU students
Julia Murphy, Alex Hernandez, Jibril
Muhammad and Rachel McBeath were
inspired by the successes of other Un-docuWeek
events put on by universi-ties
around the nation to spearhead
their own UndocuWeek at SLU. They
then recruited Marisa Ornelas, another
SLU student and advocate for immigra-tion
work, to help in planning.
Murphy comments that openly
talking about immigration “sheds light
on the fact that migrants are human
beings searching for better opportuni-ties.
The current administration con-stantly
demonizes them, so we must
do what we can to counteract this toxic
rhetoric.”
Murphy is hopeful that Un-docuWeek
will continue in the future.
She recognizes that “immigration is an
important topic to talk about every-where”
even if “many people don’t re-alize
it’s an important issue here, so far
from the border.” SLU’s UndocuWeek
events supported both local immigra-tion
efforts in St. Louis as well at the
border by collecting clothing and shoe
donations at all events.
Murphy encourages every-one
“to keep our representatives ac-countable
for respecting the rights of
migrants,” and reminds us of our duty
as students of a Jesuit institution, “ to
shed light on these social injustices.”
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By TANNOCK BLAIR
Associate News Editor
here is a ma-jor
develop-ment
going on
around SLU
that was brand-ed
as “Prospect
Yards.” The
name was voted upon last March
by select members of the SLU
family, SSM Health employees
and others within the commu-nity.
The area connects North
and South campuses, bordered
by Grand Boulevard and Vande-venter
Avenue. The project, led by
the St. Louis Midtown Redevelop-ment
Corporation, is composed
of a number of individual rede-velopment
projects that coincide
with one another as an attempt to
revitalize an area of midtown that
has since become largely vacant.
One such individual proj-ect
is that of the Northeast corner
of Grand Boulevard and Chouteau
Avenue. There stands a six-story,
largely vacant building that the
owner and developer, Michael
Hamburg, intends to renovate
into a 145-unit apartment com-plex.
The vicinity of these
apartments to SLU and SLU Hos-pital
will be particularly pertinent
to students as well as SSM Health
employees. “Our goal was to cater
to a wide array of different ten-ants,
including students,” said
Hamburg. “Most of our units are
one-bedroom because of that.”
The relationships be-tween
these developments and
the SLU community has always
been at the forefront of the plan-ning
process. Meetings and dis-cussions
have been organized not
only with the St. Louis Midtown
Redevelopment Corporation, but
also SLU CFO, David Heimburger
and President Pestello, as well as
various SLU board members. “My
goal is always to make sure that
I’m delivering what the Universi-ty’s
demands are,” said Hamburg.
“So that means, obviously, listen-ing
very closely to what the lead-ers
of the University are wanting
or what they are hearing students
wanting.”
One of the big focuses of
this new project is to turn mid-town
into a stronger entertain-ment
area, given that it is cur-rently
lacking in its supply of bars
and restaurants. New developers
like Hamburg want to change
this. “We want to make this a live,
work, play, type of environment
for students,” he said.
The first phase of the
apartment building is scheduled
to be done by the end of May with
33 apartments completed. Com-pletion
of the project will be in
late 2020, close to the completion
of the new SLU Hospital building.
T
n Monday, the
new members
of the 2019-
2020 SGA
Senate were
elected. Voting
started Mon-day
morning online and in-per-son
at certain poll locations. Sev-eral
board and senator positions
were up for election. Last week,
the Executive Board candidates
held a debate where they laid out
their platforms and goals for the
upcoming year.
The incoming executive
board is headed by President-elect
Maleah Fallahi, VP of Academ-ic
Affairs Jordan Glassman, Vice
President of Communications
and Internal Affairs-elect Robbie
Lasky, Vice President of Diversity
and Inclusion-elect Shreya Dash,
Vice President of Finance-elect
Alhan Sayyed, Vice President of
International Affairs-elect Zainab
Alramadhan and Vice President
for Student Organizations-elect
Ella Dotson.
Senator seats for the Col-lege
of Arts and Sciences, Public
Health and Social Justice, Doisy
College of Health Sciences, Parks
College, Chaifetz School of Busi-ness,
the School of Education,
Nursing and Professional Studies,
as well as the senate seat repre-senting
commuter students, were
also filled.
This election season was
a dramatic one, with lots of cam-paigning
and publicity surround-ing
the election. Many students
felt the campaigning was far more
aggressive this year than in years
prior.
Senior Brenna Salen said,
“This campaign season became
contentious and that comes from
the candidates, not their constit-uents.”
Many students expressed
mixed reactions about the future
of SGA.
Other students were far
more optimistic, saying that they
would like to see the positive
work of this year’s SGA, under
President Katlyn Martin, contin-ue.
“The current SGA ad-ministration
has done a lot more
than I’ve seen in the past, espe-cially
with Katlyn Martin helping
to form the Jesuit Student Gov-ernment
Alliance,” said senior
Claire Cunningham. “Hopefully
this election will bring in an era
of student leaders that are less in-terested
in their own resumes and
are more interested in achieving
tangible goals.”
Senior Tommi Poe felt
that the new crop of candidates
was refreshing. “Personally, while
voting, it was really cool to see
lots of younger people running
for positions and I am excited to
see how that turns out,” she said.
O
By SAVANAH SEYER
Staff Writer
Photo Courtesy of Pier Property Group
SGA ELECTION
SHOCK THERAPY
Photo Courtesy of Emma Carmody
MIDTOWN OVERHAUL
IN ACTION
LU’s chapter of Engi-neers
Without Bor-ders,
a nationwide
organization dedi-cated
to “building a
better world through
engineering projects
that empower communities to meet
their basic human needs,” has been
hard at work in partnership with an
orphanage in Kapenguria, Kenya, to
design and implement a solar-pow-ered
water system that provides year
round, stable access to sanitary wa-ter.
Kapenguria, a municipality
with an urban population of 13,000
and a total population of 56,000, is
located near Kenya’s Western bor-der
with Uganda. The region is filled
with communities that lack the tech-nology
to provide consistent access
to clean water. EWB-SLU executive
members, President Lauren Beduhn
and Marketing Director Maggi Rich-ard,
emphasized the importance of
reliability in regards to clean water.
The problem is not that Kapenguria
has no access to clean water, or even
that their technology is especially
primitive. Rather, the pump system
is electric, and cannot be relied on
to consistently pump clean water for
the community. Inconsistent access
to sanitary water can have devastat-ing
effects on a community, Beduhn
pointing to “water-borne diseases,
difficulty in maintaining general
sanitation and severe dehydration,”
as some of the ill effects of unreliable
water access.
Last summer, EWB-SLU
members Emma Nehring, Lauren
Beduhn and Carla Rattunde traveled
to Kapenguria under the direction of
SLU faculty members Ronaldo Luna,
Ph.D. and Craig Adams, Ph.D. to be-gin
the first stage of the project on
the ground.
Like most of the projects
EWB-USA undertakes, the Kapen-guria
water project does not come
without difficulties. Beduhn noted
a number of logistic obstacles, first
and foremost, communication. “The
time difference is a huge factor that
can make communication difficult,”
she said.
Moreover, financial consid-erations
factor into the success of
the project. EBW-SLU has done a re-markable
job in raising funds to en-sure
the project’s success. Students
have partnered with local business-es
and have promoted campus-wide
charity efforts. Without these stu-dent-
driven efforts, the project sim-ply
would not have gotten off the
ground.
Beduhn and Richard were
quick to stress that EWB-SLU is by no
means playing the role of a “savior”
to unilaterally fix Kapenguria’s water
SLU STUDENTS DO “TANGIBLE GOOD” IN KENYA
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By CONOR DORN
Staff Writer
Photo Courtesy of SLU’s Engineers
Without Borders
access problems. EWB-USA believes
first and foremost in sustainabili-ty
and cross-cultural collaboration.
“We are not swooping in to save
those at the orphanage,” said Rich-ard.
Rather, they are “facilitating and
assisting a self sustaining water sys-tem
in tandem with the Kapenguria
community.”
They went on to accentuate
the importance of the partnership
between the community and EWB-SLU.
“It is not our project,” Rich-ard
said. “We are collaborating with
the orphanage and the surrounding
community in solving the problem
together.” To that end, the 2018 as-sessment
was centered around gath-ering
relevant information about the
state of the current water system
from the community members who
know it most intimately. The ini-tial
assessment process, which took
place in conjunction with the local
experts, was aimed at procuring data
about water quality, local geography
and other factors that will influence
the implementation of a solar-pow-ered
water system. Most important-ly,
EWB-SLU made sure to reach out
to the local community and listened
to personal testaments about their
specific water needs.
The spirit of collaboration
and ultimate aim of self-sufficiency
does not end with the assessment
stage. EWB-SLU is committed to an
operation and maintenance plan
that ensures that long after the proj-ect’s
five-year timetable, the local
community will be the sole main-tainers
of the water system. Local
adults will be integral in the con-struction
phase of the project, and
will be trained to repair the system
if the need ever arises. All materi-als
will be purchased from the local
community, including replacement
parts, meaning that the impact of
the project extends to stimulating
Kapenguria’s economy, in addition
to providing stable access to clean
water.
For Beduhn, a junior study-ing
civil engineering, and Richard, a
sophomore studying mechanical en-gineering,
the project has enhanced
their classroom experience immea-surably.
Both students illustrated
the fulfillment they get in putting
classroom skills into practice in the
real world. “It’s incredibly gratifying
to use the knowledge I have gained
at SLU to produce tangible good in
the world,” Beduhn said, echoing the
sentiments of many of her EWB-SLU
peers.
Ultimately, the engineering
skills picked up in the classroom and
the practical experience gained on
the assessment trip and future wa-ter
project endeavors complement
each other remarkably. Richard de-scribed
the project as an “opportu-nity
to learn things which are not
easily learned in the classroom. We
learned how to collaborate with oth-er
engineers, and how to deal with
real world logistical details that we
aren’t necessarily exposed to in the
classroom.” On the other hand, SLU
courses in hydraulics, to name just
one, has laid the intellectual ground-work
for the water project to matric-ulate.
EWB-SLU is currently plan-ning
a trip for this upcoming sum-mer
to begin installation of the so-lar-
powered piping system. For more
information, follow EWB-SLU on
Facebook at “EWB.slu” and Insta-gram
at “ewb_slu” for updates on the
project.
nitially, it felt
very validating
to know that all
the hard work
and opportuni-ties
provided by
others to build
me up was worth it,” said Connor
Morris, a fifth-year senior studying
aerospace engineering with a mi-nor
in engineering mathematics.
“Even as an intern, I felt that I was
a part of a larger goal than myself,
and it drives me to continue my
work for the betterment of all,” he
said of his internship with NASA
Johnson Space Center in Houston,
Texas, during the fall semester of
2017.
Although Morris’ internship
was an opportunity of a lifetime,
he is one of many students that
have been able to get internships
in their field because of SLU’s fac-ulty
and resources. SLU offers ser-vices
like Handshake, specialists
available for career counseling and
career fairs.
According to SLU, they are
ranked as one of the highest uni-versities
in Missouri for employ-ment
rates post-graduation, with
96 percent of recent graduates re-porting
that they are satisfied with
their career path.
Career Services is one resource
that is vital to upholding SLU’s
admirable employment rate. They
advertise that they are available
to help students begin a process
of self-exploration that can help
them better make decisions about
majors and careers.
However, for Morris, who knew
what he was passionate about,
SLU’s faculty was the greatest help
in finding his internship.
“The faculty, staff and resourc-es
at Parks College were vital in
equipping me with the skills and
experience required to get into the
NASA Pathways Program,” he said.
Specifically, Michael Swartwout,
Ph.D., the principle investigator for
the Space Systems Research Labo-ratory
at SLU, organized a research
group made up of students that in-cluded
Morris.
“I joined the group during my
first semester freshman year, and
its members took the time to help
me develop my skills in spacecraft
systems engineering and leader-ship
that directly led to my quali-fications
for the program,” he said.
“I have had the privilege of leading
the research group with my fellow
peers prior to accepting the posi-tion
at NASA,” said Morris, as he
continues his work with his team.
However, SLU resources are not
always to thank for the esteemed
internship opportunities on cam-pus—
a large portion of the credit
goes to the students themselves.
Esther Chinwuko, a senior studying
electrical engineering, is just one
example. She had the opportunity
of working as a network engineer
for Verizon in New York during the
summer of her junior year.
Students starting from scratch,
like Chinwuko, are also not limit-ed
in their internship search. For
Chinwuko, there never was a clear
“dream internship” that seemed to
fit her desired career choices.
“Before I started this intern-ship,
I wanted to become a profes-sor
but then I decided to do intern-ship
opportunities,” she said, to
figure out whether she wanted to
go into academia or the engineer-ing
field. “Having this type of op-portunity
gave me an idea of what
it would look like after I graduate
from school.”
Chinwuko got the opportuni-ty
to help Verizon as they prepared
to launch their 5G network. In this,
she helped with research and even
got to meet with a board member
of Verizon during her internship.
Students who make their own
way, like Chinwuko, understand
the challenges involved in pursu-ing
opportunities on their own.
However, Chinwuko gives hope to
students that are in the position
she was in, saying that even though
“your GPA might be low, because
my GPA is honestly not really high,
I already got an offer from Verizon
as a full-time job,” she said.
Morris’ internship is also open-ing
up doors for his future. “This
opportunity absolutely helped me
in my future, as the program has a
greater than 99 percent conversion
rate to full-time after graduation,”
he said.
“I definitely know that I want
to work at NASA Johnson Space
Center,” Morris said about his fu-ture.
“I was very humbled to learn
NASA’s mission to explore and en-
SLU INTERNSHIP RESOURCES BRING STUDENTS
TO THE MOON
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Illustration Courtesy of
Ashlee Kothenbeutel
There were two unrelated incidents
of students collapsing on Feb. 14.
The first was at 9:15 a.m. when a
student in Monsanto Hall fainted
and slumped to the floor. DPS re-sponded
to the call, but by the time
they had arrived, the student was
already conscious and alert. The
student declined medical attention,
explaining that the fainting spell
was a result of a pre-existing med-ical
condition. The student had not
been injured by her fall and so no
further action was taken. However,
Residence Life staff was notified.
The second incident took place on
the same day at 11:57 a.m. DPS was
dispatched, to McGannon Hall this
time, after another student faint-ing
was reported. By the time they
arrived, the student was already
conscious. He explained that he
had suddenly lost consciousness
after standing up too quickly.
Thankfully, the student did not
injure himself when he fell to the
floor, and he was only unconscious
for a few seconds.
At 3:51 p.m. on Feb. 26, a sus-pect
of sexual and online ha-rassment
was identified in Pius
Library. After being issued a
Tresspass Warning by DPS,
which he signed, he was escort-ed
off campus.
By RILEY MACK
News Editor
deavor to explore space and our
Earth,” he said.
Both Chinwuko and Mor-ris
provide a roadmap for students
as they navigate toward their ca-reer
goals. Whether self-guided or
through the University, SLU pro-vides
an environment where stu-dents
are able to have opportuni-ties
by pursuing their passions.
DPS REPORTS
06 Arts and life
r e a m Wo r k s
Animation is
known for its
comedic ani-mated
movies,
producing both
the “Shrek”
and “Kung Fu
Panda” series. Now, DreamWorks
wraps up the “How to Train Your
Dragon” trilogy with “How to Train
Your Dragon: The Hidden World,”
directed and written by Dean De-
Blois. The film contains a beautiful
balance of jokes, artistry and senti-mental
moments.
“The Hidden World” takes
place a year after the second in-stallment
of the series. The colorful
cast of characters live in the Viking
village of Berk, which previously
saw dragons as a presence to be
feared. The children were original-ly
trained to hunt and kill dragons,
but the main character, Hiccup (Jay
Baruchel) actually meets a “dan-gerous”
dragon and befriends him,
naming him Toothless. Through-out
the series, he convinces the
people in his town t
University News - Volume 098, Issue 013 (April 4, 2019)
No full textSpecial Atlas Week issue. 24 pages.VOL. XCVIII No. 13 / April 4, 2019
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UTHE UNIVERSITY NEWS
EXPLORING OUR UNTOLD STORIES
ATLAS WEEK 2019
hampioned as the
“face of doing the right
thing,” ABC news cor-respondent
and cur-rent
host of “What
Would You Do?” John
Quiñones knows what
it is like to be on the wrong side of
prejudicial remarks. He was raised in
an impoverished family in Texas. His
father was a janitor and dropped out
of school in third grade to pick cotton,
and his mother dropped out of school
early to support her single mother. His
parents spoke very little English even
though the Quiñones family had lived
in Texas for seven generations.
When Quiñones was a boy, he
explained that nearly 60 percent of San
Antonio spoke Spanish. People did not
need to learn English because Catholic
Mass was in Spanish, the general store
that his family purchased food was in
Spanish and the music they listened to
was in Spanish. This was before a bilin-gual
education was implemented.
On Monday, Quiñones shared
his story as a young migrant-farm-er-
turned-journalist as the keynote
speaker for the 19th annual Atlas
Week. His presentation took place in
the Wool Ballrooms at 5:30 p.m.
Much of his success is accred-ited
to his parents who instilled the
importance of education. “My mother
grabbed me by the ear and dragged me
back to Mrs. Gregory’s class,” Quiñones
said, after mentioning that he left his
first grade class early one time. His
parents wanted him to resort to more
than a janitor or farmer.
When Quiñones was 13, his fa-ther
was laid off work. He and his fam-ily
joined a caravan to harvest cherries
to make ends meet. After cherry sea-son
commenced, they traveled to Ohio
to pick tomatoes. Quiñones wanted to
amount to more, though, and receive a
college education – but he was seldom
believed in by his advisors and teach-ers
because of his nationality.
“I would ask my teachers and
counselors how do I prepare for the
ACT and Advanced Placement classes
in English, math, biology to get into
college some day,” Quiñones said. “My
own teachers would tell me, ‘That’s
great you want to be a TV reporter
some day, but we think you should try
woodshop, or metal shop or auto me-chanics.’
My own teachers and my own
counselors would do what people do
on my show ‘What Would You Do?’ ev-ery
Friday night – they would judge me
by the color of my skin and the accent
in my voice.”
Quiñones had faith in taking
the first step, even though he could not
see the entire staircase. He had a heavy
Mexican accent and was painfully shy
in front of audiences, but he wanted to
rewrite the typical narratives on televi-sion
that broadcasted Mexican-Amer-icans
as violent and drug-infested. He
“WHAT WOULD
YOU DO?”
JOHN
QUIñONES
TELLS HIS
STORY
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By MEREDYTH STAUNCH
Editor-in-Chief
Photo Courtesy of Riley Tovornik
felt hurt because he knew there were
heroes in his community.
His first step involved partic-ipating
in drama class, where he was
required to speak in front of large au-diences
and enunciate. Fast forward
to joining his high school newspaper,
receiving assistance from Upward
Bound, a federally funded educational
program, interning at radio stations,
receiving a fellowship to study at Co-lumbia
University and, finally, receiv-ing
his first TV job in Chicago. It was at
WBBM that the spark for “What Would
You Do?” formed.
“I did a story on a hot button
topic: illegal immigration,” Quiñones
said. “I had relatives and friends who
had come over illegally to the U.S. I
wanted to know what are the push fac-tors,
how desperate must someone be
to come into this country, risking their
lives and spending their life savings
[…] I convinced my boss to let me go
undercover and to Mexico and pose as
a Mexican immigrant trying to come
into the U.S.”
After going into a small town
in Mexico, he found a smuggler who
sold him a fake birth certificate and
Social Security number, which was all
captured on camera. Quiñones was
then ferried across the Rio Grande to
the U.S. and took a bus back to the
outskirts of Chicago to a restaurant.
Quiñones had heard that the restau-rant
housed seven undocumented im-migrants.
The owner had not paid any
of them for 17 weeks for washing dish-es.
After being hired by the
restaurant owner, Quiñones worked by
day but interviewed the undocument-ed
workers by night. “They told me
they were being held as virtual slaves
by the restaurant owner,” he said.
After Quiñones’ time at the
restaurant, his story aired on CBS. The
restaurant was shut down, the own-er
was arrested and the workers were
given their owed money and temporary
visas to stay in the U.S.
It was through this story that
Quiñones knew that he, as a Lati-no-
American reporter, could tell the
story better than anyone because of
where he came from. His journey is
represented through an atlas, the pre-cursor
of a GPS. “It allows us to find out
where we’ve been, where we are right
now, and it also helps us to decide
where we’re going,” he said.
Signature
speaker kicks off
Atlas Week with
a retrospective
on his career
News 03
By JACOB CUNNINGHAM
Contributor
tudents had the
opportunity to
listen and ask
questions at the
‘U.S. Foreign
Policy Around
the World’ talk
held in the Busch Student Center
on Tuesday as part of Atlas Week.
The event, with a panel
of five professors from the polit-ical
science department at SLU,
aimed at highlighting key aspects
of American foreign policy in var-ious
regions and on topics of spe-cialization
for the professors.
The panel was moderated
by Professor Nori Katagiri, Ph.D.,
and included segments on an ar-ray
of issues presented by Profes-sors
Matthew Nanes, Emmanuel
Uwalaka, Ellen Carnaghan, J.D.
Bowen and Eric Royer.
Katagiri introduced the
talk by stating that, “given the
high level of demand for under-standing
the complexity of for-eign
events,” it would be appro-priate
to discuss “foreign policy
and our relations with various
regions of the world.”
The different segments
directly addressed foreign policy
questions surrounding the Mid-dle
East, Africa, Latin America
and Russia, as well as democracy
promotion worldwide. Students
were presented with ways to
think more critically about strat-egies
and agendas employed in
policy actions and, as Royer put it,
the panel addressed the need for
“more nuanced discussions and
critical examinations of disparate
topics.”
“The unfortunate reality
about American foreign policy is
that it is messy, convoluted, and
full of contradictions as well as
double-standards,” said Royer.
One way in which Royer
wanted to inform and enhance
the understanding of those at-tending
was by posing important
questions relating to American
policy abroad, such as, “Does it
have to be this way?” and “If there
is a disconnect between theory
and practice, what can we do?”
“These are truly chal-lenging
questions I hope the SLU
community can tackle togeth-er
and Atlas Week continues to
provide an invaluable forum for
these discussions to take place,”
Royer said.
He also reflected on the
importance of Atlas Week stating,
“the topics, discussions, and con-tent
truly reflect how diverse and
interconnected our world is.”
In the end, Royer hopes
“that these discussions allow stu-dents
to open their eyes to the
most glaring and pressing issues
confronting the world today and,
in particular, to challenge preex-isting
belief systems.”
S
n the midst of At-las
Week this year
was Hijab Aware-ness
Day. The
Muslim Students
Association or-ganized
an event
to mark the occasion, “Women’s
Rights in Islam.” The discussion
was introduced by Dr. Haifaa You-nis,
who was invited by the MSA
to speak. The dialogue was mainly
focused on the roots of feminism
in Islam, rights of women and the
hijab itself.
Younis began by explain-ing
that she enjoys participating
in discussions, particularly those
with non-Muslim youths. Accord-ing
to Younis, it is in these dis-cussions
that she could be most
effective in shedding light on the
truth of Islam.
The word “hijab,” Younis
clarified, does not translate to
“head cover” like many believe,
it actually translates to “barrier.”
“So when I’m covering my hair,”
she explained, “I’m putting a
shield between my hair and who-ever
else.”
A hijab is also not only a
headcover. “It is meant to cover
your whole body,” Younis said, “if
I know your size, you’re not wear-ing
proper hijab.”
Specifically, she admitted
that “you may see people wearing
it differently,” which she deemed
totally fine, “it depends where
you are from.”
“Religion is a choice. So
if you’re a part of a religion, ev-ery
action that you do under the
scope of that religion is going to
be a choice,” said one member of
the MSA. “So whether you choose
to follow things that are ordained
in your religion or you choose not
to, that’s a personal lifestyle that
you’ve chosen.”
Younis went on to say
that hijab is not restricted only
to women in Islam. “For the men,
it’s the same thing also; loose
clothing,” said Younis. “That’s the
whole idea of the hijab.”
Younis is a practicing ob-stetrician
and gynecologist, orig-inally
from Iraq. Her pursuit of
Islamic knowledge began around
the time of her studies at Wash-ington
University, where she si-multaneously
began to study with
various Islamic scholars from
across the United States.
She went on to become
the founding member of the Jan-nah
Institute, a nonprofit organi-zation
based in St. Louis. The in-stitute
began Islamic educational
programs for women and young
girls in 2013, with all kinds of dif-ferent
courses ranging from both
online and onsite, weekend or
weekday, seminars, halaqahs and
more.
The MSA had invited stu-dents
to try wearing a hijab for
the day prior to the event and free
hijabs were available for pick-up
from the MSA table the week
leading up to it.
One student described
her experience wearing a hijab
for a day as one full of judge-ment.
“Constantly, there are peo-ple
asking me about it,” she said.
“It’s been a shock to my friends
and colleagues.” Her friend from
Pakistan helper her put it on, but
she explained, “I am constantly
messing with it because I feel like
it’s showing some of my hair and I
have to readjust it.”
Relating to those in the
room that were actually practic-ing
Muslims, she said “I can only
imagine the transition process.”
“This is the flag of my
religion,” Younis summed it up.
“This is what I’m supposed to be
as a Muslim. It is different, it is
difficult, it is not the usual, simply
because I live in a time and soci-ety
in which it is not the norm.”
I
By TANNOCK BLAIR
Associate News Editor
Photo Courtesy of Emma Carmody
HIJAB AWARENESS:
A DISCUSSION ON FEMINISM AND FAITH
FOREIGN POLICY TALK
GLOBALIZES STUDENTS
itting at a white table
at the front of the li-brary,
senior Esther
Chinwuko pulls out
her computer. She
is a senior electrical
engineering major,
and like many other
engineering students, she designates
most of her nights to studying. How-ever,
Esther also tacks on another
component to her nightly routine:
practicing English.
Raised in Tokyo and from
Japanese and Nigerian descent, Es-ther
knew little English when she
came to St. Louis in August 2015,
but she also knew that as a woman
of color, it was essentially impossi-ble
to pursue engineering in Japan.
If she were to stay, she would have
needed to set herself up for success
when she was 7 years old by attend-ing
a good elementary school—a lux-ury
that her family could not afford.
Esther was also turned off
of the “sameness” of Japan. “When I
was growing up, I never had the op-portunity
to see a role model, some-one
who was similar to me,” she said.
“Every time I went outside, I only
saw similar people, who did not look
like me. They were all from the en-tertainment
side too, like singers,
dancers or comedians. No one was
involved in the professional field.”
As a result, she sought out
attending an American universi-ty
to help propel her future career.
SLU provides a website for prospec-tive
Japanese students to connect to
American students at any university.
During Atlas Week, Esther provides
this link to students, with the inten-tion
of helping more international
students attend SLU. There are cur-rently
three Japanese students en-rolled
at the University.
It was through her involve-ment
in SGA as an international
affairs senator that Esther learned
about Atlas Week. She learned of the
Parade of Nations, which would al-low
her to represent her country by
carrying its flag.
“I was very interested in
[Atlas Week] because you are able to
share your culture with others,” Es-ther
said. “You get to learn from oth-er
people as well, and this is a once-a-
year big event. This is my fourth
year participating in Atlas.”
This year, Esther gave a new
presentation called “Face Mask,”
which took place on Monday. Her
goal was to shatter misconceptions
about others based on appearance.
“When we see each other, there is a
first impression,” she said. “We don’t
want to judge people – like when you
see me, I am black – but there is a ste-reotype
there. We all have a switch-ing
code for why we behave, but you
sometimes can’t tell based off of first
impressions.” Esther’s presentation
consisted of an open dialogue about
identity.
Atlas Week is a time when
international and domestic students
can come together to learn about
cultures they are not familiar with.
Esther noted that she sees many stu-dents
during the week that she did
not realize attended SLU. “SLU as a
whole isn’t diverse, but during Atlas
Week, you feel like it is because of all
of the new people you meet,” Esther
said. “The hope is that people should
learn and want to go to different
countries, and I want others to have
an interest in different cultures.”
THE “FACE MASK” THAT FEEDS PREJUDICE
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彼女の毎日は、夜図書館へ行きパ
ソコンと本に向き合う日々である。
それは彼女だけではなく、ほとんど
のエンジニア生徒の日々でもある。
彼女の名前はチンウーコエスター
さん。セントルイス大学四年生の電
気工学科。彼女はただ四年間勉強
に没頭するたげではなく、留学生に
とって何が一番問題で、彼らがどう
したらアメリカで大学生活を楽に
過ごせるかについて、日々スタッフと
話し合い、奮闘している。
彼女は生まれも育ちも東京の日本
人であるが、日本とナイジェリアの
ハーフでもある。アメリカの大学に
行く事は、彼女にとって大きな第一
歩であった。日本は礼儀正しい素
晴らしい国ではあるが、100%日本
人でなければ日本で活躍する事は
とても難しいと常に感じていた。彼
女は小さい時から数学が得意であ
りエンジニアになるのが夢であっ
たが、日本で彼女のようなハーフが
活躍できる場はとても少なく、大抵
ダンサー、歌手、お笑い芸人などの
エンターテイメント職になってしま
い、プロフェッショナルな仕事に就
く事はとても難しかった。その為彼
女は、小さい頃からアメリカの大学
に行く事を夢見ていた。
彼女は現在セイントルイス大学と
いう名門校に通っており、約1カ月
半で卒業を迎えようとしている。
セイントルイス大学には一年に一
度、Atlasという大きな国際イベン
トがあり、世界中の色んな生徒が
一つになり、お互いの文化を教えあ
ったり、学べることが出来る。それ
は、彼女にとって一番特別な時期で
もある。セイントルイス大学には、現
在日本人留学生がたった3人しか
い。彼女は出来る限り日本の高校、
大学と連絡を取り、多くの日本人が
アメリカで少しでも心地よく勉強で
きる環境を作ろうとしている。
また彼女は大学一年生の時から
Atlasのメンバーであり、彼女にと
って今年は四回目である。今回、彼
女はAtlasの一つのイベント”Face
Mask” を手掛けた。フェイスマスク
とは、皆色んな人に会う時、人それ
ぞれ違う顔(お面)がある、でもそれ
はどうしてなのだろうか？人に気を
使っているからか？それとも本当の
自分を他人に見せたくないからか？
人々は、自分が想像しているように
自分を見てくれているのだろうか？
そんな事をみんなで深く話し合うこ
とができ、様々な意見を討論できる
素晴らしい機会でった。
Atlasは一年に一度皆が一つにな
り、自分の文化の有り難みを改めて
知ることが出来る一週間である。彼
女は”Atlasは、ただ座って参加する
イベントでない。各国の色々な人々
と会話することによって、初めてお
互いを理解できるイベントである。
この一週間が皆様にとって忘れら
れない素晴らしいATLAS week に
なり、そしてこのイベントによって自
分の国の文化に自信を持ち、それを
多くの人々にシェアしてもらえたら
嬉しい。”と語っていた。
By ESTHER CHINWUKO
Contributor
TRANSLATED TO JAPANESE
By MEREDYTH STAUNCH
Editor-in-Chief
WRITTEN IN ENGLISH
As part of Atlas Week, the University News team wants
to celebrate the different cultures on SLU’s campus.
In order to do this we have invited the subject
of this particular story, Esther Chinwuko, to translate
and present it in her native language.
ast week the
Muslim Students
Association held
a vigil in honor
of the victims of
the recent ter-rorist
attacks at
two mosques in
Christchurch, New Zealand. The
Muslim students in attendance
were called to prayer at the begin-ning
of the vigil, and non-Muslim
guests were able to follow along
with an Arabic/English translation,
making the experience inclusive to
all in attendance. Inclusion, coop-eration
and acceptance were sig-nificant
themes of the event.
Muslim Students Associa-tion
Co-President Nadia Sirajuddin
said that including all members of
the community was a main goal for
MSA when planning the vigil.
“I wanted to impart on the
community members that we are
one community,” said Sirajuddin.
“Whether we are Muslim or not, we
should mourn this tragedy because
we are all human beings.”
Muslim Students Associa-tion
Co-President Maaz Tariq em-phasized
the community that the
place of worship provides for Mus-lims,
and how the Mosque is a place
of peace that feels like home to
many. He specifically emphasized
his horror at hearing that someone
could attack Muslims while they
were engaging in peaceful prayer,
and how the pain of this attack
goes beyond just the Muslim com-munity
itself.
“This is not just an attack
on Muslims, it is an attack on all
humanity,” Tariq said.
Sirajuddin agreed, saying,
“The deaths of these victims at the
Mosque, God’s home, where they
are praying peacefully at their most
vulnerable state, has left our entire
community of humanity hurting.”
Before he concluded his
speech, Tariq made sure to note
that people of all faiths and back-grounds
must work together to
eliminate hate, saying, “Even if we
have different beliefs, it is our love
for one another that overcomes
all.”
After Tariq, Jonathan
Smith, Ph.D., vice president for
diversity and community engage-ment
at SLU, gave a brief and pas-sionate
address to the community
members in attendance. Smith be-gan
by acknowledging that there
were “no words in any language I
know that could sufficiently offer
any comfort or consolation.”
Smith spoke to the impor-tance
of working to create and fos-ter
a community that accepts and
supports people of all races, faiths
and backgrounds.
“We can no longer seek to
find a beloved, safe, sacred commu-nity,”
Smith said. “We are charged
with making that community.”
After Smith’s speech, the
Muslim Students Association in-vited
representatives from other
faith-based organizations on cam-pus
to offer up prayers. Students
from the Hindu Students Associ-ation,
SLU Campus Ministry and
the Jewish Students Association all
came forward to share prayers from
their own faith traditions.
Regarding the inclusion of
other faiths along with the other
events held at the vigil, Sirajuddin
said, “I wanted to make this vigil
something not just for the Muslim
community alone to mourn the
victims. I wanted to get everyone
involved, which led me to try and
reach out to all the different faith-based
organizations.”
MSA also provided oppor-tunities
for community members
to send their prayers, thoughts and
support to the Mosques in New
Zealand where the attacks took
place. At the entrance of the vig-il,
attendees could fill out a paper
heart with messages that would be
sent to New Zealand.
Sirajuddin said that she
hoped that students took away a
sense of community from the vigil.
“From the vigil, I hope [the
students] took away how similar
we are when it comes down to the
themes of our beliefs. I hope that
people realize that sometimes we
are alienated more by the media
than we ought to be and that Islam
is a beautiful religion.”
A main theme of the vigil,
and of MSA’s programming, was to
include and educate all members
of the SLU community about Islam
and how they can better support
and ally with the Muslim commu-nity.
Sirajuddin said that there are
many opportunities for students to
become closer allies with the Mus-lim
community.
NEW ZEALAND VIGIL UNIFIES SLU COMMUNITY
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Photo Courtesy of
Riley Tovornik
At around 11:00 a.m. on March 22,
two vehicles collided. Following the
collision, one of the vehicles struck
the cement curbing of the median
on Grand Boulevard before coming
to a halt. One driver of the two cars
was injured, while both vehicles
sustained damage (including the
university-owned curbing). Neither
operator of the two vehicles were
affiliated with the University.
A commuting student called DPS
at around 9:45 a.m. on March 25
because she thought someone stole
both license plates off her vehicle
in Grand Hall circle. After check-ing
the security cameras, however,
she did not have her license plates
upon arrival.
On March 1, at around 1:48
p.m., a suspicious person was
observed by the south doors of
the Wool Center building. DPS
officers responded to the area
soon after. A REJIS check iden-tified
the subject as having an
extensive arrest history, but no
active warrants. The subject was
issued a Trespass Warning and
escorted off campus.
By SAVANAH SEYER
Staff Writer
“I want the SLU commu-nity
to really know that you don’t
have to be scared to ask questions.
Please ask and learn about Islam,
about anything that you are curi-ous
about whatsoever. I think peo-ple
are often times scared to ask,
thinking it’s offensive, but wanting
to learn can never be offensive,”
said Sirajuddin. “I recommend that
you attend our MSA events such
as Islam Awareness Week, Fast-a-
Thon, Hijab Awareness Day, where
we really try to educate the campus
on Islam. However even aside from
these events, you can always reach
out to MSA.”
DPS REPORTS
06 Arts and life
n March 24, Wee-zer
performed for
a vivacious crowd
gathered at En-terprise
Center.
The night began
with an English
rock band called
The Basement and then proceed-ed
into a spectacular and engaging
performance by the Pixies.
The wide age range of audience
members set this concert apart
from others. Two fans, Lisa and
Darin, both 35, said they are the
“staple fans of their generation.”
Revealing that they’ve listened
to Weezer since fifth grade, Da-rin
said, “We became fans before
we even realized what their music
even meant.”
They elaborated, saying that, at
first, songs like “Buddy Holly” and
“Say it Ain’t So” didn’t have any
meaning to them besides sound-ing
“really awesome,” implying
that Weezer’s catchy tunes were
enough to turn them into dedicat-ed
fans. However, as Lisa and Da-rin
continued to listen to Weezer’s
music throughout high school and
college, the two of them started
to understand Weezer’s seemingly
whimsically-chosen lyrics much
better and became fans for life.
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COVER Design by Rebecca LiVigni
UTHE UNIVERSITY NEWS
SlU Chess
wins big
arlier this month, the
SLU chess team con-tinued
their hot streak
as they competed at
the Midwest Collegiate
Chess Championship
at the University of
Missouri. Held Oct. 6–8, SLU’s chess
team was met with tough competi-tion
from Washington University and
Mizzou, all three teams fielding their
strongest players.
The Midwest Chess Championship
was the first event of its kind, and the
inauguration represents a push to
bring together the best collegiate chess
players in the Midwest for competi-tion.
According to Mizzou chess coach
Christian Chirila, “Collegiate chess
tournaments are generally rare, with
only a handful of important events per
year. For this reason, the best way to
get the players, the fans and their re-spective
universities involved is to cre-ate
more tournaments.”
The tournament was divided into
two back-to-back events: a five-round
classical tournament, where games
last several hours and mental stamina
is a key factor, and a nine-round “blitz”
tournament, where the games are
much shorter but the pressure is often
ramped up.
Players from each school compet-ed
individually, and both the classical
and the blitz events were won by SLU
players. Sophomore Benjamin Bok,
who recently made St. Louis headlines
for his performance at the FIDE World
Cup in Russia, built on his strong per-formance
there by capturing first place
in the blitz section, winning seven of
nine games.
With this victory in the blitz event,
Bok edged out fellow teammates, in-cluding
sophomore Akshat Chandra
and senior Dariusz Swiercz, who took
second and third place respectively.
Bok’s victory came down to the wire,
as Chandra and Swiercz both won their
final game, each finishing with a score
of 6 ½ points out of 9. Bok’s winning
score of 7 points out of 9, just half a
point ahead of his nearest competi-tors,
meant that his final-round win
clinched the victory; had he lost or
even drawn that game, the blitz event
might have ended much differently.
Another strong showing for SLU in the
blitz section was made by sophomore
Nikolas Theodorou, who placed inside
the top ten with 5 ½ points out of 9.
Commenting on his victory, Bok
said, “I was happy to win the blitz tour-nament
ahead of several strong Grand-masters,
but also because I moved up
to number 64 in the world blitz chess
rankings.”
After the blitz event, players moved
to the classical event, where five games
of chess were played. Classical chess
is played at a much slower pace than
blitz, and for that reason, endurance
and mental stamina are key factors for
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By CONOR DORN
Associate News Editor
Photo Courtesy of SLU Chess Team
success. In the blitz section, each play-er
began with three minutes on their
clock, with two seconds added to their
remaining time every time they made
a move. In classical chess, on the other
hand, each player starts with 90 min-utes
on their clock, with a thirty second
increment each time a move is made.
This difference in the duration of the
games meant that players had to ad-just
their mindset and strategy as they
moved from the blitz section to the
classical section, an adjustment that
SLU’s team made quite easily.
Swiercz added to his second place
finish in the blitz section by taking
first place overall in the classical sec-tion
with a score of 4 points out of 5.
His victory featured three wins and two
draws, including a final-round draw
against teammate Theodorou, who
took second place overall in the clas-sical
section. The final-round draw be-tween
Swiercz and Theodorou meant
that each player had scored 4 points
out of 5, and as a result, a playoff was
needed to decide the overall winner.
The playoff between the two players
was tense, made more exciting by the
fact that both players were teammates.
The playoff consisted of a two games
of blitz, with the same time format that
was used in the blitz section. Swiercz
backed up his strong finish in the blitz
section by winning both playoff games,
thereby earning first place in the clas-sical
section.
With SLU players taking the top
three spots in the blitz section and the
top two spots in the classical section,
the SLU team secured the top team
prize in both sections. Such a success-ful
showing against the top chess play-ers
in the Midwest is a testament to the
depth of talent and versatility found in
SLU’s chess team. Even though SLU
came into the event as the favorite to
win, Bok made it clear that such suc-cess
is never taken for granted. Bok
noted that “coming into the tourna-ment,
we were the favorite to win both
sections, but living up to that expecta-tion
is never easy.”
The chess team hopes to carry their
momentum into the next event on
their calendar: the 2019 World Pres-tigious
University Chess Tournament,
hosted at Nankai University in Chi-na.
Summing up the competition, Bok
said, “We will be playing against some
of the top collegiate chess teams in the
world, and our goal is to win.”
BEST
IN THE
MIDWEST
SLU Chess team
dominates
competition at
Midwest
Chess
Championship
SLU CHESS:
News 03
By CAROLINE LIPSKI
Staff Writer
he only thing
not pleasant
about receiving
a $3,310 check
and state-of-the-
art hospital-ity
is potentially
receiving the flu because of it.
Last week, SLU’s Center for
Vaccine Development initiated
its human influenza challenge
to better understand the flu and
learn how to best prevent it in the
future. As part of this study, hu-man
volunteers aged 18–49 will
be staying on campus in SLU’s
Extended Stay Research Unit, lo-cated
within the Salus Center.
This research resort, dubbed “Ho-tel
Influenza” by Nancy Soloman,
houses 24 rooms featuring private
bathrooms, Internet, TV and even
catered meals. The only catch for
the guests is that they may poten-tially
catch the flu.
Participants will be injected
with a vaccine or placebo and ex-posed
to a strain of the flu virus
via a nasal spray. They will then
be quarantined in the research
unit and monitored on the clock
for flu-like symptoms such as fe-ver,
body aches, coughing and di-arrhea.
Swabs from the nose and
throat and samples of blood taken
from the volunteers will provide
researchers further insight into
the body’s immune responses to
the virus.
This “challenge” differs from
more traditional flu vaccine re-search.
Other clinical methods
only administer the vaccine to
see if the immune system will re-spond
by creating antibodies to
fight the virus, while this study
deliberately challenges the body
by injecting a vaccine and then
exposing it to the flu to see if peo-ple
get sick or not.
In a university press release,
Daniel Hoft, M.D., Ph.D., Direc-tor
of SLU’s Center for Vaccine
Development, comments on the
benefits of the challenge struc-ture:
“You know when they’re ex-posed
to the flu, so you can plan
exactly when to study it. You are
not waiting for nature to take its
course. If a challenge trial shows
the vaccine protected a small
group of volunteers against the
flu, you can be much more confi-dent
the vaccine is more likely to
be worth the hundreds of millions
of dollars of investment to go
through phase 3 development,”
Hoft said.
The flu is a leading cause of
death in the United States, with
this past 2017–2018 flu season on
record as one of the most severe.
To combat this, new flu vaccines
are developed every year to fight
seasonal strains. The challenge
is that the influenza virus is con-stantly
mutating, which can ren-der
some vaccines less effective
than they are predicted to be. Last
year’s flu vaccine was only 40%
effective, according to the CDC.
The search is on for an effective,
and even universal, vaccine for all
strains of influenza.
As part of this search, SLU’s
pioneering efforts in vaccine test-ing
within its human “challenge”
unit are funded by the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases. SLU is one of nine Vac-cine
and Treatment Evaluation
Units that were chosen by the
NIAID in 2013 to study vaccine
development in order to protect
people from infectious diseases.
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n Saturday,
Oct. 28 and
Monday, Oct.
30, Saint Lou-is
University’s
Department of
Public Safety
(DPS) partnered with the Drug
Enforcement Agency (DEA) to
host a drug take-back drive. This
drive was part of the larger Na-tional
Prescription Drug Take
Back Day that occurred on Oct. 26
of this year, although drives like
this run consistently throughout
the year.
Shelia Hatcher has been a DPS
officer at Saint Louis Universi-ty
for the past five years and has
been running the Drug Take-Back
Drive on SLU’s campus for the
past three years. Coming to SLU’s
Department of Public Safety af-ter
working in the St. Louis Police
Department in narcotics, Hatcher
is especially experienced in ini-tiatives
like this. Hatcher pointed
out that she has seen firsthand
where these drugs can go and
keeping them out of the wrong
hands is an important mission to
her.
The DEA describes the drive
as a way to “provide a safe, con-venient
and responsible means of
disposing of prescription drugs,
while also educating the gener-al
public about the potential for
abuse of medications.” Hatcher
was especially excited to see the
number of students that showed
up to the drive, saying “That
made me feel good.”
The goal of these drives is to
ensure that these medications
stay out of the wrong hands. Ac-cording
to the Saint Louis Coun-ty
Department of Public Health,
the drug overdose death rate has
had a 61% increase from 2010 to
2016 and the trend is continuing.
St. Louis, specifically, has seen a
79% rise from 2010 to 2016. These
drug take-back drives fight these
statistics by providing a place
where a person who is struggling
from drug addiction or who knows
a friend or family member with
addiction can properly dispose of
prescriptions and medications.
While the event was on SLU
property, this event was hosted
by the DEA, which brought people
from the surrounding communi-ties
outside of SLU. Hatcher was
enthusiastic about the turnout,
saying that 20+ people brought
in multiple medications they no
longer use and were grateful that
the drive was occurring. Hatcher
proudly stated that she absolutely
felt that the goal of this drive was
accomplished.
Hatcher ended by mentioning
that there are multiple resources
for students who are struggling
or who know someone who is
struggling with addiction. Some
resources are the SLU Counseling
Center (314-977-8255), the DPS
Hotline (314-977-3000) and the
Suicide Hotline (800-273-8255).
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Staff Writer
ast week, SLU
students re-ceived
the bit-tersweet
news
that Mona
Hicks, Ph.D.,
SLU’s Associate
Vice President for Student De-velopment
and Dean of Students
would be leaving SLU to serve as
Stanford’s Senior Associate Vice
Provost and Dean of Students.
As Dean of Students, Hicks has
played a role in shaping many
campus programs and has been
a prominent face of student life
and support on campus. Hicks
describes her role as Dean of Stu-dents
as a “calling” and said that
being in her role means “always
carrying students in your heart
and mind.” Hicks has been in her
position at SLU for almost eight
years, and she told the University
News about her time at SLU and
what might be in store for her at
Stanford.
Hicks said the beginning of
her time at SLU was a special ex-perience
for her. During her mul-tiple-
day interview, which she de-scribed
as rigorous, she was able
to sit down and converse with
student leaders on campus. She
said that the Saint Louis Univer-sity
student body was what con-vinced
her that this was a place
she wanted to work.
During her time at SLU, Hicks
has been a key figure in creating,
developing and fostering pro-grams
designed to support the
student body. It hasn’t always
been an easy task, and according
to Hicks, her biggest challenge at
SLU has been “building and con-structing
a sustainable Dean of
Students Office.”
“It didn’t look like this when
I got here,” said Hicks. “We still
have a long way to go, but I’m
very proud of this [the office].”
Hicks said she was also especial-ly
proud of the work she did on
developing the Undergraduate
Learning Outcomes.
“I’m very proud of having the
opportunity to discuss just what
we want students to be able to
gain from Saint Louis University,”
said Hicks. “There are incredible
things happening. SLU students
are doing incredible things out-side
of the classroom. We were
learning how to integrate those
things with what was happening
inside the classroom as well.”
Hicks said the programs and ini-tiatives
she was most personal-ly
proud of were programs that
worked to care for and support
students who were often mar-ginalized
or isolated on campus,
such as the Veteran’s Student
Commons and the Billiken Boun-ty
Food Pantry
“I’m proud of the way we care
for students, especially students
who are pushed to the mar...
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MOVING TO
STANFORD By KLAUDIA WACHNIK
Staff Writer
n Aug. 12, 2017,
Charlottesville,
Virginia made
worldwide news
as the site of
white suprema-cist
riots. In the
wake of this event, many depart-ments
at SLU began to respond
to the incident, including the De-partment
of Theological Studies.
“We wanted to show that Theo-logical
Studies could respond,
that theology and religion had
something to say about these im-portant
moral issues going on,”
said Elizabeth Block, Ph.D., assis-tant
professor of Christian ethics.
In the fall of 2017, the Depart-ment
of Theological Studies re-sponded
to this social conflict by
implementing the “Religion and
Complex Social Issues Series.”
For their initiative to address
various social issues in society
pertaining to religion and the-ology,
the series held their first
talk on “Racial Violence and God
Talk.” The discussion was an
open and inviting environment
to discuss the recent conflicts
going on, including input and
responses from both students of
SLU and faculty members from
the Department of Theological
Studies. Block speaks on the dis-cussion
saying, “We talked about
the white supremacy, racism and
gave theological responses to
that. [We] showed how Theology
and Religion are relevant.”
Highlighting the future of the
“Religion and Complex Social Is-sues
Series,” Block poses a simple
question: “Wouldn’t it be great
if we could have these kinds of
events more frequently where we
respond to contemporary mor-al
problems and challenges? [We
would] bring together [people]
from our departments, and also
other departments, or those out-side
the university to have a panel
where we talk a little bit, but we
also open it up to student and
faculty dialogue.” Since Charlot-tesville,
the Department of Theo-logical
Studies has expanded its
efforts to provide a space where
students and faculty can engage
in a conversation relating to so-cial
issues, religion and theolo-gy,
with panels on abuse in the
church, immigration and depor-tation,
voting and values.
This year, the Religion and
Complex Social Issues Series has
decided to use a different medium
to engage in a discussion of social
issues and religion—film. Block,
Rachel Lindsey, Ph.D., Professor
of U.S. Religious History, and Em-ily
Dumler-Winckler, Ph.D., as-sistant
professor of constructive
theology, are this years coordina-tors
for the series. Lindsey intro-duced
the idea of “Jesuits in the
Movies” as a contemporary form
of communication for the series.
The idea is to have someone in-troduce
the films, speak on issues
to look for while watching the
film, and then allow for discus-sion
and dialogue after the film
has concluded. “Theology and re-ligion
are not just these discrete,
isolated disciplines, but they re-ally
can speak to and help us to
understand these things going
on in the world,’’ said Block. “[It
helps] to be able to really engage
theology as it is out in the world,’’
added Lindsey on the decision to
use film this year.
The “Jesuit in the Movies”
events began on Sept. 26, 2019,
with the film “On the Waterfront,”
and will continue until April 16,
2020, concluding with “The Mis-sion.”
The next film in the se-quence
is “The Exorcist,” with a
date being determined. The fol-lowing
films being shown in the
spring: “The Hoodlum Priest” on
Feb. 6, and “Romero” on March
26. Pizza, beverages and snacks
will be provided by the Depart-ment
of Theological Studies.
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n the evening
of Oct. 24 at the
Sheldon Concert
Hall, acclaimed
Haitian-Ameri-can
author Ed-widge
Danticat
accepted the 52nd St. Louis Lit-erary
Award from the Saint Louis
University Library Associates. This
honor has been awarded to many
distinguished recipients, including
Stephen Sondheim and Margaret
Atwood in 2018 and 2017, respec-tively.
According to the Library
Associates, the award’s mission is
to recognize “a living writer with a
substantial body of work that has
enriched our heritage by deepening
our insight into the human condi-tion
and by expanding the scope of
our compassion.”
Danticat’s works have ranged
from essay collections and chil-dren’s
books to full-length novels
and a memoir—all of which focus
on the lives of Haitian individuals
both at home in Haiti and on Amer-ican
soil. Her most well-known
works include novels “Breath, Eyes,
Memory” and “The Dew Breaker,”
short story collection “Krik? Krak!”
and memoir “Brother, I’m Dying.”
Although Danticat has won var-ious
awards, including the Ameri-can
Book Award in 1999, National
Book Critics Circle Award in 2007
and a MacArthur “Genius” Fel-lowship
in 2009, she was humbled
by the Library Associates’ recog-nition.
As she said in her accep-tance
speech at the ceremony, “It
feels surreal to get this award.” Her
speech followed Haitian dance per-formances
by the Katherine Dun-ham
Children’s Workshop and the
SLU Student Dance Troupe, as well
as poetry readings in Haitian Cre-ole
and English translations. Dan-ticat
emphasized the importance
of these performances, saying they
were “all of the hallmarks of cele-brations
back home in Haiti,” but
she also recognized a heaviness she
felt in receiving the awards when
her country is in great turmoil.
Nonetheless, Danticat answered
each question by moderator Tcher-lie
MacEnat, SLU Law student, with
enthusiasm. On her book “Breath,
Eyes, Memory,” which served as
SLU’s 2019 campus read, Danti-cat
said, “A first book is like a first
child.” She explained that this first
published work of fiction taught
her how to be a writer and contin-ues
to be a work she holds close to
her heart.
The morning after this ceremo-ny,
Danticat graciously met with
students on the second floor of
SLU’s Pius Library over coffee and
pastries. French and English stu-dents
alike gathered to meet and
converse with the multilingual au-thor.
Afterwards, Danticat moved
to the Cook Hall Auditorium for
the always-anticipated Craft Talk,
where the annual winner of the St.
Louis Literary Award sits down for
a more casual discussion of their
method of literary craft.
The Craft Talk’s moderator this
year was associate professor of En-glish
Joya Uraizee, Ph.D., whose
research and teaching focuses on
postcolonial literature. As the two
women were settling into their
chairs on stage and struggling
with their microphones, Danticat
playfully remarked, “This is also a
lesson in craft. It’s never perfect.”
This set the tone for a comfortable,
candid conversation on the process
of her artistry.
Danticat’s wisdom on the writ-ing
process primarily centered on
the idea of allowing the work to
guide the author and borrowing
from other forms of art in order to
paint colorful narratives. “Some-times
you are just haunted by an
image,” she said in response to
Uraizee’s question about the very
vivid images of trauma found in
many of her novels.
When answering questions from
the audience on the importance
of language in her compositions,
Danticat said that all Creole lan-guages
are very visual because the
original speakers needed to speak
in a way that could not be under-stood
by colonial oppressors. “It’s
vivid, it’s visual and it’s nuanced,”
she said, lending to the expressive
art she creates through her writing.
She also added that although peo-ple
often accuse multilingual writ-ers
who use phrases in different
languages as perpetuating exotica,
sometimes there is no equivalent
in English of the concept she wants
to portray.
Danticat also said, “I think the
most important thing is to be some-one
on whom nothing is lost, to be
a good observer of your life, to find
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At 6:50 p.m on Oct. 26, a DPS
officer noticed an individual
acting in a suspicious manner
outside of the BSC. The DPS of-ficer
approached the individual
and found that he had previously
been asked to leave the premises.
The individual was apprehended
and arrested for trespassing and
turned over to the
St. Louis Police.
At 11:24 a.m on Oct. 25, a SLU
student operating a motor vehi-cle
collided with another vehi-cle.
The SLU student suffered a
laceration of the forehead and
was transported to the St. Louis
University Hospital for
treatment.
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things you are passionate about,”
in response to a high schooler in
the audience’s request for creative
writing advice. She then added,
“You might as well pick something
[to write about that] you want to
spend time with for a couple years
and that you’ll be miserable with-out.”
Danticat’s newest work from
this past summer, titled “Every-thing
Inside,” is a collection of
short stories that tackles the dif-ficult
themes of loss, grief and
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CONTENTS
04 Incoming Freshman Class Set to
be Largest in SLU’s History
Savanah Seyer
05 Staff & Faculty Profiles
Erin McClelland
Riley mack
Rebecca Livigni
conor dorn
09 Summer Concert Calendar
10
11 SLU’S Top Study Spots
Ashlee kothenbeutel
Top Summer Movies, Shows,
& Books
emma carmody
Summer Issue 2019 / 3
16 Games
17 Student Profiles
Emma Carmody
20
21
A Guide to Mass at SLU
Conor dorn
The Comeback Crew: The Three
Musketeers of Women’s Soccer
Sam Glass
12 STL Coffee Shops
Jacob cunnigham
Sarah steen
Ashlee kothenbeutel
Rebecca LiVigni
Kelly simplekamp
4 / Summer Issue 2019 / Class of 2023
SLU Welcomes the class of 2023:
The largest class in
University History
By SAVANAH SEYER
In early May, Saint Louis University Presi-dent
Fred Pestello, Ph.D., sent an email to the SLU
Community with details about the incoming fresh-man
class for Fall 2019. According to the email, the
incoming SLU Class of 2023 is set to be the largest
class in the history of the University. Over 1,700
students are expected to be enrolled in the fresh-man
class, which is far more than the 1,600-student
goal set by the Enrollment and Retention Manage-ment
Division.
The University credited the work of this
division, the Marketing and Communications and
Academic Affairs departments and the word of
mouth of current SLU students as the driving forces
behind the record-breaking enrollment numbers.
The ERM division used enthusiastic and in-spired
initiatives in order to reach more prospective
students than ever before. According to Pestello’s
email, this included increasing engagement with
historically SLU-connected high schools, as well
re-connected with those high schools that have not
been engaged with SLU in some time. Reaching out
to these less SLU-engaged high schools may have
allowed the University to make contacts with stu-dents
that never would’ve experienced SLU other-wise.
This was also supplemented with new mar-keting
tactics, especially digital, as well as increased
scholarship opportunities for students that would
be considered first-generation, underrepresented
or middle-class students. Because of this, Pestello
noted in his email that the university would only
be receiving “marginal financial gains,” due to the
fact that more scholarships were being awarded this
coming year.
Increasing the amount of scholarships
given to incoming students is an impressive under-taking
for the University, typically known for being
relatively generous with financial aid, and which
notes on its website that in fiscal year 2017, 50
million science and engineering building on North
Campus—as well as the university’s partnership
with SSM Health and the brand new hospital being
constructed on the Medical Campus.
The University also plans to increase fund-ing
to other priority areas such as “mental health,
experiential education, the Core, research and
career services,” in order to support SLU students at
all class levels. These types of extra support outside
the classroom are increasingly important to ensur-ing
student success, health and happiness beyond
their college years.
The large number of students attending
SLU in the fall was attributed to not just the ag-gressive
marketing and outreach initiatives—but
also, according to Pestello, to many high school
students’ values. A private, Jesuit education costs
far more than an education at state schools like the
University of Missouri system. It is important to
the University to continue to provide a “return on
investment” for students, especially because their
financial investment is far higher here than at other
places.
SLU seems to be delivering a high return on
investment for graduates, at least according to its
national rankings, with the university being named
the Number 36 Best Value School by the U.S. News
and World report while also being ranked number
106 overall. The University has a number of other
top-tier rankings, with four undergrad programs
and twelve graduate programs being listed in the
top-50 by U.S. News. The University is ranked as the
No. 8 top Catholic College by Niche. SLU has also
been named a “Best Value,” or “Best Buy” univer-sity
by the Princeton Review, Kiplinger and Barron
publications.
All of these factors contribute to the re-cord-
breaking number of students being enrolled
next fall, which exceeds the previous record of
1,707 in 2011.
(Emma Carmody / University News)
Question: Who is the brightest face a fresh-man
sees in the morning when they wake up?
Hint: It’s not their roommate.
The correct answer is Mae Green Cox in
Grand Dining Hall, but you may recognize
her as just Ms. Mae. She is the first person
that you see when you walk in for just about
any meal, every time she greets you with a
smile and a question about your day.
Ms. Mae is a St. Louis native and has been
working at SLU since she started serving the
priests at Jesuit Hall. She then moved over to
the Allied Health Building when it opened,
before moving over to SLU dining halls. Her
involvement and dedication to the students
led to one of the most popular sections of
Grand Dining Hall being named for her:
Mae’s Comfort Corner. She found out about
the naming of the section on Facebook after
she saw a picture posted and she immediate-ly
started crying “happy tears.”
“When I saw the Comfort Corner I felt love,
excited and all of those other good words,”
said Ms. Mae. “I cried at work and all of my
friends thought I was sad, but they were hap-py
tears.”
Her favorite meal in Grand is dinner, but
she thinks the best event that the dining hall
hosts each semester is the Midnight Break-fast
leading up to finals week. Students line
up outside waiting for Ms. Mae to open the
gates of heaven, I mean Grand, at 10 p.m. for
pancakes, french toast, eggs, bacon, sausage,
karaoke and so much more. It’s the best way
to start finals week—or any week for that
matter—and a great place to meet up with
friends over a huge plate of breakfast food.
After all, as Ron Swanson said, “There has
never been a sadness that can’t be cured by
breakfast food,” including finals.
Everything Ms. Mae does is for the benefit
of her “babies,” the students. She is always
willing to help SLUdents with projects, as-signments
or anything to help them get the
best grades possible. She genuinely wants
all of us to succeed, and she starts with a
smile followed by a full plate of food. The
students are her favorite part of her job and
that is clear in her happy spirit and infectious
laugh. Many students are friends with her on
Facebook and she loves to post motivational
quotes and inspiration to remind Billikens to
keep smiling and keep going during some of
the hardest parts of college.
“She always tells incoming students that
SLU is a family, and she makes it her mission
to make everyone feel like they are a part of
it. They aren’t just words to her, she lives
those words every day,” said sophomore Ka-tie
Vaeth.
Ms. Mae changes your day just by being
herself and does it not for recognition, but to
help every student achieve their goals. “Ms.
Mae is a true gem,” said sophomore Mimi
Leonard.
I asked Ms. Mae what her spirit animal is
and without hesitation she said, “a Billiken.”
There is no doubt that she has some of the
greatest school spirit on campus and every-thing
about her shows the spirit of the Billik-en.
Her kindness, happiness and overwhelm-ing
love for SLU and its students makes our
school a better place to be. It’s people like Ms.
Mae that make SLU special and help change
the lives of Billikens everywhere.
A Star
that
shines
in grand
dining
hall
By ERIN MCCLELLAND
Staff Profile / Summer Issue 2019 / 5
(Emma Carmody / The University News)
As 600,000 people come through the library
every year, being the public face of SLU’s be-loved
Pius Library is an honor that does not
go to just anyone. Martha Allen chair of re-search
and instruction services for Pius, how-ever,
is someone who fits the bill perfectly.
With excitement and dedication to her po-sition,
Allen has worked at SLU for over 25
years. “Librarians like to help people. That is
what makes me come to work every day,” she
said.
The library atmosphere itself is another
reason that Allen feels so passionate for her
line of work. “I like it because people think
of libraries as stacks and ranges of old dusty
books—I don’t see it that way. I see it as a
very dynamic organism where new materials
are always coming in and people are coming
in,” she said. This is especially true for Pius,
as it is the most heavily trafficked academic
building on campus, being a hub for students
to study, work and socialize.
Another part of Allen’s role at SLU is to
assist with SLU 101 orientations. While fac-ulty
prepare for the largest freshman class
SLU has ever seen this upcoming school year,
Allen is one staff member who can’t wait for
the year to begin. “This exciting time is go-ing
to pose new and wonderful challenges to
have that many students come through the
library,” she said.
With these new students, Allen hopes that
all incoming freshmen know how welcoming
and accessible the library is, as Pius is con-stantly
evolving to fit any student’s needs.
One recent addition was a chat service to
help students in a more modern way: stu-dents
can online-message, text, call, email or
even Facetime a librarian to get the help they
need.
Allen’s favorite addition to Pius, though,
is the Academic Technology Commons. The
ATC is an area of the first floor with the lat-est
academic technologies: 3D printers, 360
cameras, recording studios and hologram
technology, among many others.
Not only is Allen proud of the advance-ments
that the library is making, but also the
students that have helped implement them.
Allen says she’s felt most inspired by SLU
students when it came to the funding the
ATC—although it was tough for her to pick
just one favorite.
The library staff and IT department teamed
up to develop the design of ATC; the purpose
of the project was to create a space worthy of
the students and faculty of SLU, but it wasn’t
long before this project became unrealistic.
“The librarians and the IT staff believed
in this project so much, but we didn’t have
funding for it. That’s when the Student Gov-ernment
Association came to our rescue and
the students believed in the project,” Allen
said.
While she loves that the library and the new
ATC are places for students to gather, Allen
also finds inspiration to do her work in the
library environment—however, the location
“all depends on my mood,” she said. If she is
feeling really happy and social, Allen loves
being at the service desk because “that’s
when you really see people,” she said. When
she needs to reflect or focus on work, there
is a piece of furniture in three corners of the
fourth floor called “the Brody” that acts as a
pod to drown out noise and distractions.
Ultimately, Allen and her coworkers are a
representation of SLU’s Jesuit mission inter-twining
with the library setting. As she de-scribes
it, Pius Library exemplifies “the Jesuit
mission of men and women for others—for
the greater glory of God” through their daily
goal of helping the students and staff of SLU.
“Thank you for thinking of the librarian,”
said Allen to the University News about this
profile. But with such a vibrant and passion-ate
love for the SLU community, it’s difficult
to think of a better candidate to represent
the wonderful staff of SLU than the librarian
named Martha Allen.
SLU
Librarian
makes
every year
one for
the books
By RILEY MACK
6 / Summer Issue 2019 / Staff Profile
Dr. Elena Bray-Speth began teaching at SLU
in 2009, 10 years ago. Bray-Speth admired the
Jesuit tradition and believed the position for
Introductory Biology professor fit her needs
perfectly at the time. A few years later, in the
company of Dr. Laurie Russell, Bray-Speth
attended a teaching conference where they
learned about a program for college STEM
courses, called learning assistants. A learn-ing
assistant is like a teaching assistant but
isn’t in the classroom to just provide answers
or explanations. Bray-Speth emphasized the
LA’s role as a learning partner, allowing stu-dents
to practice reasoning through difficult
problems with the guidance of an alum of the
class. She implemented the about four years
ago in her classroom.
Teaching is only part of Bray-Speth’s work
at SLU, however. She also has a research lab
in Maclewane Hall where she studies two dif-ferent
topics of interest. The first is the idea
of teaching through what she calls a “systems
perspective.” Combining STEM education
and cognitive science, Bray-Speth under-stands
the interconnectedness of all bio-logical
systems and strives to “incorporate
practices to make connections across various
levels of organization.” The most notorious
way she promotes this systems perspective is
through Modeling. As any pre-med student
has experienced or heard of, Box-and-Arrow
models show how one organism or molecule
affects things far down the line. While some
students gripe, Bray-Speth believes they are
helpful and mirror how the brain processes
NOT YOUR
MOTHER’S
BIOLOGY
PROFESSOR
By REBECCA LIVIGNI
Faculty Profile / Summer Issue 2019 / 7
information: by making connections be-tween
pieces of information.
It’s important to Bray-Speth that students
don’t learn things by rote, because she tru-ly
believes in the value added of any college
course. She also makes a side note comment-ing
that she wouldn’t want to be a patient of
a doctor who didn’t take intro biology. Bray-
Speth believes that science is important for
everyone, even science-adverse students, to
know and understand but acknowledges that
it hasn’t been historically accessible to most
people. She quips, “I’ve found the logic that
makes so much sense to me over why science
is awesome and biology is the best subject
ever, doesn’t seem to appeal to others.”
This exactly captures Bray-Speth’s passion
behind her second research topic: student
strategies for studying and self-regulated
strategies. She believes that college educa-tion
is meant to help students become better
students by questioning their own under-standing
or when they feel they are ready for
a test. In the classroom, Bray-Speth devises
“ways to teach [biology] so that learners can
be more engaged.” Groupwork is an essential
part of Bray-Speth’s class, where students
must collaborate on worksheets, clicker
questions, and hypothesis brainstorming.
In the face of change for SLU’s core cur-riculum,
Bray-Speth says she’s excited to see
how SLU can reform the idea of educating
the whole person by promoting the creation
of interdisciplinary courses. She says “just as
society changes, students change, education
needs to renew itself and refocus every so of-ten.”
If you find yourself out for a walk down West
Pine or relaxing in the sun by the Clocktow-er,
chances are you will run into Spring Hall’s
very own campus minister, Fr. Joe Laramie,
S.J. A graduate of SLU himself, where he ma-jored
in philosophy and communication and
was involved in UNews and KSLU, Laramie
still frequents the same hotspots he did in his
undergraduate days. Whether it be chatting
with students on the steps of the Clocktow-er,
reclining in a chair outside the Center for
Global Citizenship or walking to and from the
house he shares with his other Jesuit broth-ers,
Laramie has become a staple of the SLU
community.
As a SLU campus celebrity, Laramie has a
few claims to fame. He bears an uncanny re-semblance
to St. Ignatius Loyola, a co-found-er
of the Society of Jesus, Laramie’s own re-ligious
order. Perhaps more important is his
talent for juggling. Dubbed the “juggling
Jesuit,” he has even been known to juggle
objects on fire, taking St. Ignatius’ exhorta-tion
to set the world on fire to heart. Laramie
hosts juggling lessons, usually on the lawn of
Spring Hall, for those interested in learning
the craft from the juggling Jesuit himself. He
also recently became a published author with
“Abide in the Heart of Christ: A 10-Day Per-sonal
Retreat with St. Ignatius Loyola,” which
will be available for purchase from Ave Maria
Press this September.
Entering into his second year as Spring
Hall’s campus minister, Laramie has a list of
plans to promote community and fellowship
in Spring Hall and across campus. Being a na-tive
of St. Louis, he knows the city well and
is always eager to show off his homegrown
knowledge. Last year, Laramie took residents
of Spring Hall on four Friday field trips to dif-ferent
sights and events in St. Louis. The first
field trip was a walk to the Cathedral Basilica,
where Laramie provided inside knowledge
into the history and art of the Basilica. Fol-lowing
the tour, he took the group out for
ice cream in the Central West End. Other Fri-day
field trips included a walk to the Gate-way
Arch and the annual Great Forest Park
Balloon Race. Laramie is planning to contin-ue
these Friday field trips in the Fall 2019 se-mester,
and new Billikens who want to get to
know the city that will be home for the next
four years are encouraged to tag along.
In addition to the field trips, Laramie gives
mass every Wednesday night at 9 p.m. in the
Spring Hall chapel. Students from other res-ident
halls are more than welcome to come
to the Mass and a post-Mass gathering with
cookies and fellowship.
During the academic year, Laramie is a com-mon
sight around campus and he will also be
around during parts of the summer. Laramie
will be on campus until June 1, when his Je-suit
duties call him elsewhere. He will come
back for a week at the start of July. His office
is located on the first floor of Spring Hall for
anyone who is on campus and wants to pay a
visit to the juggling Jesuit.
Meet
father
Joe: The
juggling
jesuit
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Movies
Shows
Books
Rocketman May 30
This biopic starring Taron Egerton depicts the life
of the iconic artist Elton John and his rise to fame.
Late night june 07
Actress Emma Thompson depicts a legendary
late-night talk show host who hires a staff writ-er
played by Mindy Kaling primarily for diversi-ty
concerns in this film that explores the topic
of women in primarily male-dominated fields.
The Lion King
July 19
An all-star cast including Donald Glover and
Beyoncé come together for Disney’s high-ly
anticipated live-action version of the 1994
animated Disney version of the classic tale.
Handmaid’s Tale JUne 05
hulu
Black Mirror JUne 05
netflix
Stranger things July 04
netflix
The popular dystopian drama returns for its third season this sum-mer
after a shocking cliffhanger that left fans wanting more. Star
Elisabeth Moss returns as her character June to fight the corrupt
government of Gilead to save herself, her friends and her family.
Season five of the sci-fi show that explores the
dangers of modern technology is returning this
summer with three new episodes. With a new
story and cast for each episode, fans are excited
to see what the new episodes will have in store.
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Naturally Tan June 04
Tan France
The turn of the key August 06
Ruth Ware
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The highly anticipated sci-fi eighties nostalgia show returns
this summer with another time jump. With the young actors
growing with the show, the Duffer Brothers say “It forces the
show to evolve and change, because the kids are changing.”
The highly anticipated psychological thriller is the fifth novel from New York Times bestselling
author Ruth Ware. The story follows the character Rowan Caine and the aftermath of her chas-ing
an unexpected opportunity that may be too good to be true.
Coming off of momentum from the third season of Netflix’s “Queer Eye”, Tan France is re-leasing
his first book. In his memoir, he tells his origin story of growing up gay in a traditional
South Asian family in South Yorkshire and his rise to fame as one of the stars of “Queer Eye.”
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best
coffee
spots
If you find yourself needing a boost
of energy and want to sit and enjoy a
unique atmosphere both inside and out,
look no further than Crave Coffeehouse.
This coffee shop is conveniently located
on the Billiken shuttle routes just be-hind
the Saint Louis School of Medicine
at 3500 Caroline St. With ample parking
space, this coffee shop is a poster child
for convenience for college students on
the go.
The convenience, however, is not the
only thing about the location that will
attract students. Located at the rustic
home of Reliant Church, with stained
glass windows, high vaulted ceilings and
a brick edifice, SLU students will cer-tainly
notice the warmth that accompa-nies
their choice of Crave favorites.
Crave’s distinct vibe is even more en-hanced
by the large seating area, both
indoors and out. Rain or shine, Crave
offer
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UTHE UNIVERSITY NEWS
CUTTING THE BUDGET
A
02 NEWS
Photo Courtesy of Emma Carmody
t the beginning of April,
all of SLU’s deans were
issued budget cuts by the
provost, Chet Gillis. The
college of arts and sci-ences
was issued the big-gest
number, that of 1.6 million that
the college still has left in “academic re-invention”
that they have to complete
in spring, this functionally rounds out to
about 10 percent of the college’s budget.
Most of the college’s budget goes
toward personnel, so the options left to
Dean Duncan are to cut adjunct spending,
graduate assistantships and faculty. Com-munication
Department Chair April Trees
expressed her confidence in the dean de-spite
the difficult circumstances, “I know
the dean is committed to minimizing the
impact on students.”
This isn’t the first time the Uni-versity
has experienced budget cuts of
this scale. In February 2016, Magis’ “Oper-ation
Excellence Program” was launched.
This was – according to SLU’s website –
an attempt to “make SLU more efficient
and effective and identify opportunities
for increased revenue and growth.” One
part of Magis was “academic reinven-tion,”
which involved academic cuts as
well. However, according to Trees, “they
had the year to plan what to do and then
had three years to implement it.” This
year, the deans only had until the end of
the month to turn in a plan that would
be implemented next year. Another part
of Magis was “organizational redesign”
SLU’S NEW
BUDGET CUTS
SHOW THAT
THE FIRST
ISN’T THE
DEEPEST
By TANNOCK BLAIR
Associate News Editor
Faculty prepares
for another heavy
round of budget
cuts for
upcoming
school year
in which they laid off over a hundred
staff-people, without an expectation
that those positions would be refilled.
SLU had a deficit the year before
Magis was implemented, “and this year
we had a deficit again” explained Trees.
Because of the deficit, a new “position
control process” was implemented at the
University. This meant that new hiring
of any sort (faculty, staff, etc.) would be
subject to a process before being accept-ed.
According to Trees, this process be-gan
with Mike Lewis, the acting provost
at the time, who had criteria that he used
to determine if the new position would
affect accreditation or if the department
was teaching more than 300 student
credit hours. From there, the applica-tion
would be passed on to a cabinet that
would then decide whether or not the
open position would be filled or not.
It is important to note that it is
not only academic programs being cut;
10 million.
Mike Lewis explained that “the Provost’s
Office is working hard with the deans to
achieve this goal.”
There are concerns within the
faculty over the accuracy of the data
they are using to come up with these
numbers, however. It may be hard to
get accurate data because it is difficult
to account for things like course releas-es
for grant work (faculty who get big
grants buy out courses and that money
then gets used to cover their teaching).
It is also difficult to account for faculty
with other responsibilities (department
chairs, for example).
Faculty members are expected
to teach at least 300 student hours a se-mester.
About two classes of 25 students
each per semester. However, this kind
of mandate doesn’t account for certain
specialist teachers. For example, ac-cording
to Trees, a piano teacher would
struggle to meet these requirements be-cause
their teaching is most often one-on-
one.
One possible alternative to lay-offs
is the “Voluntary Early Retirement
Program.” VERP gives people salary and
benefits if they don’t need to be replaced.
Any college or school that has some-one
take the VERP contributes to their
budget goal. Even this creates problems
though, because classes are already
registered for next spring. If teachers
choose to take the VERP and leave, the
classes they were supposed to teach will
have to be covered.
These budget issues are not
unique to SLU either; universities all
across the country are experiencing
economic challenges. Earlier in April,
Wheeling Jesuit eliminated all majors in
the liberal arts after finding themselves
deeply in debt. As a result, the university
is now being forced to sever its Jesuit af-filiations.
And just last week, an essay in
the City Journal on the University of Tul-sa
exposed the university as pushing the
liberal arts aside in favor of turning it-self
“into a glorified trade school.” While
SLU’s situation is far from these other
universities at this stage, it is important
to note that the academic landscape is
changing.
The future is uncertain at this
stage. Although, it is clear that these
cuts are an unsustainable method of
solution, “doing this repeatedly, without
strategic planning isn’t good,” explained
Trees. “We need to have a different sort
of solution. Until then, I don’t think this
year is the end of it,” she said.
President Pestello and Provost
Gillis are hosting an “All colleges meet-ing”
on Monday May 6 in the auditorium
of the business school, where hopefully
some of these issues will be addressed.
News 03
By CAROLINE LIPSKI
Staff Writer
hat started as
an old deliv-ery
truck has
grown into a
network of four
“mobile muse-ums”
with the
mission of driving the conversa-tion
surrounding culture, race and
identity. These mobile museums,
dubbed The Justice Fleet, “foster
healing through art, dialogue, and
play,” said Amber Johnson, Ph.D.,
associate professor of communi-cation
at SLU and founder of the
Justice Fleet.
“Once you are aware of
how social injustice impacts spe-cific
people, communities and in-stitutions,
it is hard to sit and do
nothing” they said.
Johnson works to inspire
others both inside and outside the
classroom as a scholar, artist and
activist. They are also very active
in their research on art activism
and social justice—in which the
idea for the Justice Fleet was de-veloped.
The first truck features
the theme of “Radical Forgive-ness,”
by uniting art activism
with social justice. Participants
in the exhibit are encouraged to
heal through painting a message
of forgiveness onto the Forgive-ness
Quilt. Johnson has been con-structing
Forgiveness Quilts for
over a decade in the classroom as
a visual display of liberation from
the pain and guilt suffered in so-cial
inequity.
“Our mission is simple
and universal. There are inequi-ties
on every single country on
this planet and if we’re going to
attempt to fix these inequities we
also have to also heal from them,
they have to happen at same
time,” Johnson said.
Each Justice Fleet truck
embodies its own theme sur-rounding
social justice through
interactive and creative outlets
like paint, toys, legos and even a
ball pit. By bringing their message
to communities around the coun-try,
Johnson hopes to counter the
notion that “humans have forgot-ten
how to play and how to imag-ine.”
“We are constantly in
community. We are always work-ing
with community members
from different marginalized spac-es
with different traumas and dif-ferent
inequities,” Johnson said.
These tools are intended
to initiate healing from injustices
as well as build solutions, with
the goal being to reflect, engage
and apply forgiveness to our prej-udices
and biases.
Johnson recounts the in-spiration
they had for the project
when they began teaching at SLU
in 2015, when Darren Wilson was
found innocent after the shooting
of Michael Brown Jr. “My students
said to me that there’s so much
happening and people need heal-ing.
You can’t just do this in the
classroom. This was how Radical
Forgiveness and Injustice Fleet
was born,” said Johnson.
Another exhibit named
“Transfuturism” celebrates gen-der
embodiment through telling
the story of black transgender
and nonbinary people. After in-terviewing
and photographing
them, Johnson digitally projects
the participants as superheros.
These pieces of art break down
gender and race barriers, and in-stead
lifting participants up.
“I am making the argu-ment
that trans and nonbinary
people do that in the flesh...
W
tudents packed
into McGannon
Hall Wednesday,
April 24, to hear
Nina Kollars,
Ph.D., Associate
Professor of Strategic and Opera-tional
Research at the Naval War
College, give a talk on interna-tional
cybersecurity research.
The event, titled “White
Hat Hacking as National Securi-ty:
The Emerging Global System,”
focused on Kollars’ most recent
undertaking in research, and pre-viewed
a larger analysis of the is-sue
in her coming book.
The talk, which was pre-sented
by the Political Science
Department, brought a large and
diverse array of students and
faculty, not exclusive to SLU, to
listen to Kollars speak. With the
crowd packed in, the room was
standing room only by the time
the event began.
Nori Katagiri, Ph.D., be-gan
by introducing Kollars and
welcomed the large number of
attendees, as well as jokingly wel-coming
“others” listening – in the
spirit of the cybersecurity talk.
Kollars spent the majority of the
time discussing the issues and
challenges facing the future of
cybersecurity and international
relations in the public and private
sector and emphasized the role
that “white hat” hackers would
play in the not-so-distant future.
One student in atten-dance,
sophomore Caroline
Barnes said that “cybersecurity
and hacking is not something I
am usually exposed to as a politi-cal
science major.”
Barnes was not alone in
this, as Kollars surveyed the room
and found that many in the crowd
knew little, if nothing, of the topic
she was going to cover.
“I really had little knowl-edge
on hacking in general,”
Barnes said, but she continued,
“learned how vulnerable we all
are as a society and our govern-ment
in general.” Even with little
to no background on the subject,
the talk was accessible to all that
attended.
“Kollars was very knowl-edgeable
and knew how to keep
the crowd interested,” Barnes
said. “Her presentation had some
great information and taught me
a lot.”
Ultimately, the presenta-tion
by Kollars offered a lot to the
students that attended, regard-less
of their major or background.
“I think cyber security
and hacking as a whole is an issue
that is on the rise and our govern-ment
will need to create laws to
combat these issues,” Barnes said.
“I hope one day to be proposing
legislation that deals with this
topic.”
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By JACOB CUNNINGHAM
Contributor
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omen are so inspir-ing
and we don’t
talk about it,” said
Heather Brock,
Award Committee
Chair for the Wom-en’s
Commission and Assistant Di-rector
for Communication in Office
of Admissions. “We don’t talk about
what we do right, we talk about the
things that went wrong.”
Although, she said, the an-nual
Woman of the Year Awards put
on by the Women’s Commission fi-nally
gives women in the SLU com-munity
the opportunity to do so.
The Women’s Commission
has worked since 1977 to highlight
multiple women at SLU for their in-credible
accomplishments in their
work, religious, home and commu-nity-
oriented responsibilities. Each
year, they hold a ceremony to do
the unheard of—give the impressive
women of SLU an opportunity to
show off their accomplishments.
Brock emphasizes that wom-en
“do so much on a day-to-day basis
that I think doesn’t get the recogni-tion
that it needs.” While becoming
focused on their jobs and daily tasks,
women tend not to realize the amaz-ing
work that they are doing, Brock
explained.
Kellisa Lyn Fiala, President
of SLU’s Women’s Commission and
Office Manager of School of Edu-cation,
couldn’t agree more. While
women are often caught up in sup-porting
others, they aren’t able to
realize that they have a community
that supports them too, she said.
Winners of the award are se-lected
through nominations submit-ted
by faculty and students, as well "W
04 NEWS
By RILEY MACK
News Editor
Heather Brock (Award
Committee Chair) and
Kellisa Lyn Fiala (Pres-ident)
stand on stage
behind Woman of the
Year Regina Walton.
(Emma Carmody/The
University News)
WOMEN’S COMMISSION HONORS
SIX “REMARKABLE” SLU WOMEN
While women are not
accustomed to talking
about their successes,
this award continues
a crucial conversation
about the recognition
they have earned.
as discussions
by the Wom-en’s
Commis-sion.
“Taking an
hour out of your
time to actually
recognize your
colleagues is
outstanding”—
and shows the
nominees that
they have sup-porters,
too, Fi-ala
said.
“All of
the women that get submissions and
recognition are phenomenal,” Brock
said. Which leads her to the same
question every year: “how in the
world do we narrow this down?”
While they realize this is a
great problem to have, this is what
makes the decision process so diffi-cult
for Fiala and Brock.
Their ideal candidate is a
well-rounded woman, who not only
raises standards at SLU, but in every
aspect of her life.
This year, there were 45 sub-missions
total. Normally, the Com-mission
decides on five winners, but
because of an event cancellation in
the fall, they decided upon six “re-markable”
women of SLU, Fiala said.
Of those six winners were
Ghazala Hayat, P.h.D., Sadita Sali-hovic,
Regina Walton, Donna La-
Voie, P.h.D., Danielle Uy, J.D. and
Karen Myers,
P.h.D. Among
their wide ar-ray
of accom-plishments
are
being directors
of programs
to help under-served
commu-nities,
achieve-ments
in the
workplace that
go beyond their
job descriptions
and recognition
by world-renowned programs for
their excellent work.
“To be the Woman of the
Year, we are looking for three or four
components,” Fiala said. The de-cision
gets especially hard when it
comes to women who “eat, breathe,
and sleep SLU, and there’s no time to
do anything else.”
This kind of work ethic im-presses
and even inspires the Com-mission.
“Sometimes I feel like I
can’t give anything outside of my
work, but [these] women do it,” Fiala
said about the winners.
As for the future of the
Woman of the Year ceremony, Fiala
and Brock hope that their impact be-comes
larger for the SLU community.
They hope that coming to
this event can be beneficial to all
students and staff—not only to sup-port
the women being awarded, but
for their own benefit, as well. “In
2012, I was offered a free seat at a
table and I have been to every lun-cheon
ever since because I cried and
was amazed at these women that
were doing what the University says
they’re doing,” Fiala said.
Brock agreed, saying “It
makes you want to be their friend. It
makes you wonder how they got so
amazing, because I want to do that
too.” To boil the ceremony down to
one statement, Brock described it ac-curately,
with “you get the feels.”
Above all, this event brings
women together and celebrates the
amazing things they do on and off
of SLU’s campus. Supporting wom-en
of all different backgrounds and
acknowledging the incredible work
that they do is vitally important to
the development of the SLU com-munity.
While women are not ac-customed
to talking about their suc-cesses,
this award continues a crucial
conversation about the recognition
they have earned.
News 05
n November
2018, Education
Secretary Betsy
Devos proposed
sweeping chang-es
to federal
regulations un-der
Title IX. The
changes, which are meant to re-duce
expenditures and streamline
the process, have come under fire
as destructive and entirely coun-terproductive.
Critics of Devos’ proposed
changes have taken issue with key
stipulations that seem to compli-cate
and aggravate a process that is
already traumatic for survivors of
sexual assault.
For example, Secretary De-vos
proposes that campus Title IX
offices guarantee the right of the
accused to cross examine the ac-cuser
and vice versa. The cross ex-amination
would be conducted by
personally appointed advisors. This
transition toward courtroom-style
Title IX proceedings is incredibly
troubling.
First, the introduction of person-ally
appointed advisors that con-duct
cross examinations produces
grave concerns about inequality.
If one student can afford to pay an
experienced lawyer to conduct the
cross examination while the other
cannot, the wealthier student has
a massive advantage—regardless
of the guilt or innocence of the ac-cused.
The proposed changes al-low
either party to appeal the uni-versity’s
decision, which, according
to Missouri House Minority Leader
Crystal Quade, would further cre-ate
a “socio-economic imbalance,”
if one student has the resources to
influence the appeal process favor-ably
while the other does not.
Moreover, it is impossible
to overstate the detrimental ef-fect
a live cross examination might
have on survivors reporting sexual
assault. After the trauma of an ex-perience
with sexual assault, most
survivors have no desire to be in
the same room with their attacker,
let alone cross examined in their
presence.
The Title IX process is al-ready
challenging for survivors; the
proposed changes would make it
positively hellish and would dras-tically
reduce the number of survi-vors
who feel comfortable coming
forward.
These proposed Title IX
reforms have special relevance for
college students in Missouri, as the
Missouri recently introduced two
bills, HB 573 and SB 259, which
closely mirror Devos’ reforms.
However, the Missouri Title IX pro-posals
are actually more destruc-tive
to the Title IX process than
Devos’ federal reforms.
Administrators, Title IX
coordinators, and concerned cit-izens
from across Missouri have
almost unanimously condemned
the two overly accommodating to
the accused. If passed, Missouri Ti-tle
IX proceedings would provide
more protection for the accused
than any other state.
The House bill abandons
Obama-era standards of proof for
sexual assault, known as “prepon-derance
of the evidence” in favor
of a “clear and convincing” level
of proof. This requirement would
apply only to sexual assault cases.
In other words, crimes of lesser de-gree,
like theft or physical assault,
would require a higher standard of
proof than sexual violence crimes.
The Senate Bill has stipu-lations
which are equally troubling.
It allows respondents to submit a
survivor’s sexual and mental health
history as evidence, a form of ha-rassment
that is without precedent
in Title IX proceedings. In addition,
the bill allows respondents to sue a
survivor for making a “false state-ment,”
effectively discouraging
survivors from coming forward for
fear of a lawsuit if there is a lack of
conclusive evidence.
HB 573 and SB 259 have
been on the legislative agenda
for more than four months, and it
seems that the bills have stalled
for the time being. Senate Majority
Leader Caleb Rowden is not opti-mistic
that the proposal will re-appear
in the senate chamber this
session. When interviewed by Mis-sourinet
reporter Alisa Nelson con-cerning
SB 259, Rowden respond-ed:
“We’ll see. I haven’t talked to
anybody this week that has pushed
very hard to bring it back up. From
my perspective for the moment,
there’s a bunch of other things that
are a little bit more pressing.”
The legislative halt coin-cides
with reports that a Missouri
lobbyist, Robert Mcintosh, created
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On April 24 at Marchetti Towers
East, there was an altercation
between two students, one student
being bumped to the ground as
they passed each other. The two
students reported they had prior
incidences with an ex-boyfriend.
Video footage revealed little con-tact
between the two.
On April 27 at Chaifetz Arena, a
man attending the Cirque Du Soleil
show was walking down the stairs
when the person in front of him
began to fall. The man stepped
back, tripped and hit his head on
the stairs. EMS responded to the
scene for treatment.
On April 29, a Wool Center em-ployee
received an email from a
friend reporting an offer of five
Apple gift cards and that she
should fax him her credit card
information. The employee pur-chased
the cards, spending $500,
only to find out the email was
fraudulent. She soon cancelled
her credit cards and called the
non-emergency police.
By CONOR DORN
Staff Writer
a “dark money” nonprofit, called
Kingdom Principles, to push the
pair of Title IX bills through the
Missouri legislature. In addition to
hiring twenty-nine lobbyists to ad-vocate
for the bills, Kingdom Prin-ciples
reportedly spent thousands
of dollars on a Facebook ad cam-paign,
which dishonestly collects
signatures for the Title IX reform
bills by framing it as an initiative
by President Trump to “protect due
process” at the federal level. In re-ality,
the user is signing in support
of the state-level Title IX reform
bills.
With this lull in legisla-tive
activity for the Title IX re-forms
comes an opportunity for
concerned parties to voice their
displeasure with the direction in
which Missouri Title IX proceed-ings
are headed.
DPS REPORTS
TITLE IX BILLS
DEFERRED IN MISSOURI
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