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No full textScannedI001SabaH is a Bosnian-language weekly newspaper that was published in the United States between December 1997 and October 2014. It was founded in Astoria, NY. In 2006, publishing was relocated to St. Louis, MO, but the newspaper continued its national distribution. A typical issue contains about 50 pages and features bold headlines and many photos, with articles from both Bosnia- and US-based contributors. SabaH was established to help Bosnian immigrants deal with life in their new home and keep them informed of events in their war-torn country. Its name translates to 'sunrise', symbolizing the arrival of a new generation of Bosnian immigrants in the US.Click on the blue Maximize button in the top right corner of each image to browse the pages of an issue. This project was made possible by a generous donation from Susan Powers of St. Louis, MO. Digitization is ongoing
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No full textScannedII039SabaH is a Bosnian-language weekly newspaper that was published in the United States between December 1997 and October 2014. It was founded in Astoria, NY. In 2006, publishing was relocated to St. Louis, MO, but the newspaper continued its national distribution. A typical issue contains about 50 pages and features bold headlines and many photos, with articles from both Bosnia- and US-based contributors. SabaH was established to help Bosnian immigrants deal with life in their new home and keep them informed of events in their war-torn country. Its name translates to 'sunrise', symbolizing the arrival of a new generation of Bosnian immigrants in the US.Click on the blue Maximize button in the top right corner of each image to browse the pages of an issue. This project was made possible by a generous donation from Susan Powers of St. Louis, MO. Digitization is ongoing
University News - Volume 098, Issue 012 (March 21, 2019)
No full text24 pages.VOL. XCVIII No. 12 / March 21, 2019
Cover Design by Rebecca LiVigni
UTHE UNIVERSITY NEWS
INSIDE:
ATLAS WEEK
PULLOUT
POSTER
“WE’RE
GOING
DANCING”
STORY ON PAGE 15
xciting developments
are currently under-way
just right around
the corner from SLU
in the nearby Midtown
district. Midtown is a
half-mile area which
connects SLU’s north and south cam-puses
within its boundaries of Laclede
Avenue, Chouteau Avenue, Grand Bou-levard,
Vandeventer Avenue and Spring
Avenue. This historic district will soon
be brought back to life by efforts of St.
Louis Midtown Redevelopment Cor-poration
and their developer, Cullinan
Properties, as they embark on several
individual projects to revitalize this
400-acre area.
One of such projects is the Iron
Hill development, which will occupy 14
acres at the northwest corner of Grand
and Chouteau. Brooks Goedeker, the
executive director of the St. Louis Mid-town
Redevelopment Corporation,
said that “Iron Hill is expected to help
bring much needed services and ame-nities
not only to the SLU community,
but the greater area.” With easy ac-cessibility
to transportation including
the Grand Metro line, the Grand bus
line, as well as several highway access
points, he believes that “the develop-ment
is expected to be a major draw to
an area that is under-retailed.”
Another project includes the
150-acre “Prospect Yards” develop-ment,
which is bordered by Grand Bou-levard
and Vandeventer Avenue. The
title “Prospect Yards” was recently vot-ed
on by the St. Louis community last
year to dub this upcoming mixed-use
development district.
Further developments in-clude
renovations of the dormant City
Foundry and Armory building sites,
both located within the Midtown dis-trict.
They will be replaced by a pleth-ora
of entertainment, restaurant, re-tail,
office, hospitality and residential
features. Plans include St. Louis’ first
food hall, a seven-story Element ho-tel,
modern residential apartments and
much more. A new pedestrian-friend-ly
trail, spearheaded by the Chouteau
Greenway Trail Project, is expected
to link everything together through a
direct connection from Forest Park to
Downtown St. Louis via the Midtown
area.
These developments will
bridge the gap that currently exists be-tween
both of SLU’s campuses, and will
make possible a more connected com-munity
among SLU, SSM Health and St.
Louis as a whole. This is an investment
not only in its retail opportunity, but
also the academic and professional op-portunities
Midtown has to offer.
“PROSPECT
YARDS”
PROVIDES
MODERN TAKE
ON HISTORIC
DISTRICT
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By CAROLINE LIPSKI
Staff Writer
Photo Courtesy of Cullinan Properties
“While this development
should excite all students, we think it
will be particularly exciting to our stu-dents
who are studying health sciences
and medicine on the south campus,”
said Goedeker.
The opportunity does not stop
there. “Our partner, SSM Health is
building a new hospital and ambula-tory
care center. With these and other
projects, more than a billion dollars is
being invested in and around our cam-pus,”
he said. “So much is taking place,
and we know that is going to contin-ue.
We’re truly at the start of a new era
of growth and development for Mid-town.”
Even though “it is early in the
process and details are still being fi-nalized,”
he acknowledges that Culli-nan
Properties “made it clear that they
were committed to building something
that would not only make everyone at
SLU proud, but also the entire St. Lou-is
region. We have confidence they can
deliver on that promise.”
Goedeker’s understanding of
the importance of this project to SLU,
as well as St. Louis, is rooted in his
history as a SLU alumnus as well as
native to the city. “I’ve had a passion
for improving the city ever since I was
a teenager,” he said. “Community de-velopment
is all about bringing people
together to improve communities, and
SLU’s mission definitely guides how I
approach my work today.”
“Construction will be done in
phases, beginning in the middle part of
2020,” Goedeker said. “The first phases
of the project are expected to be com-pleted
by the end of 2021.”
Developments in
Midtown
will change
atmosphere of
University
News 03
By TANNOCK BLAIR
Associate News Editor
n Wednesday,
the second an-nual
Men’s Sto-ry
Project was
performed in
the Chaifetz
Business School
Auditorium. The performance in-volved
12 men from the St. Louis
area, all from the ages of 19 to 38,
who shared personal, true stories
about their life experiences with
masculinity. Each story is told in
a unique way, including spoken
word, monologue, poetry and
even rap. Another show will play
on Thursday night in the same
venue at 7 p.m., with doors open-ing
30 minutes before the presen-tation.
The event was kicked off
by the director and producer of
the event, James Meinert, and
he began by explaining how the
Men’s Story Project was started.
Meinert gave credit to founder,
Jocelyn Lehrer, Ph.D., who was
in attendance. Meinert explained
that Lehrer “wanted to end vio-lence,”
specifically gender-based
violence, and her way to do this
was through the promotion of
healthy masculinities and gender
equality.
Some of the topics cov-ered
by the speakers included
unhealthy and abusive relation-ships,
infidelity, sex abuse, Afri-can
American masculinity, sex-uality
and gender identity and
more. The presentation was then
followed with audience discus-sion.
Hayden Peterson, a ju-nior
studying Philosophy and
Urban Poverty Studies was, as he
explained, “one of the two SLU
students doing it this year.” Pe-terson
was drawn to the Men’s
Story Project “because I’m a
white, straight, Christian male so
I kind of had to fall into the cat-egory
of the oppressor in almost
every scenario,” he said. “But it’s
not the case that those identities
make me like that, so I thought it
might be valuable to try do some
work to combat those toxic ste-reotypes.”
“It is really a blessing
how diverse the set of stories are
within this group,” Peterson said.
“One of the overlapping things
throughout all of the stories is the
sense of vulnerability; these men
are opening up about aspects of
their life and their story that they
probably wouldn’t tell to some of
their good friends, and yet they’re
telling it to an auditorium of 150
people.”
“In all of these stories we
try to show how we can move for-ward
from it,” Peterson said, sum-marizing
the event. “Our hope is
that we try to foster more open
conversations on what it means
to be a man and why it doesn’t
have to fit into the toxic stereo-types
of masculinity that perme-ate
throughout our culture.”
O
hen you’re
h u n g r y ,
you’ll eat
anything,”
A m e r i c a n
s t a n d - u p
comic, actor and filmmaker Hari
Kondabolu said while chuckling
to Saint Louis University students
Wednesday night. No, he was not
specifically talking about filling
an empty stomach, but, instead,
used this metaphor as a spring-board
for his conversation about
his documentary “The Problem
with Apu.”
While “The Simpsons”
tries to engage a more diverse au-dience
by including character Apu
Nahasapeemapetilon, an Indian
immigrant, Apu perpetuates ste-reotypical
Indian tropes—and he
is narrated by Hank Azaria, who is
not of Indian descent. Kondabo-lu
grew up watching “The Simp-sons,”
quoting lines frequently,
and enjoyed the character Apu
when he was first released. How-ever,
people who related to Apu
in any context settled because he
was all that was there. There was
a lack of diversification within the
show.
In Kondabolu’s talk at
the Wool Ballrooms, he addressed
that there has been progress in
diversifying characters and ac-knowledging
writers and film-makers
from varying backgrounds
in the media world, but this is
only because the U.S. was so far
behind before.
“There is such a broad
range of experiences that don’t
get talked about,” Kondabolu
said. “Human beings have infinite
experiences because no one per-son
has a single set of religious
beliefs, interests, life experiences,
and other variables. How are we
repeating stories and stereotypes
when every single human being
has a unique story?”
Kondabolu considers this
when preparing for his stand-up
routines. Unlike other comedi-ans
who further isolate minority
groups, Kondabolu utilizes his
degrees in race, globalization
and human rights to form the ba-sis
of his jokes. He covers topics
on identity, inequality and the
LGBTQ+ community, to name a
few.
His comedic acts did not
initially start out this way, though.
Stand-up was a high school hob-by
for Kondabolu after gaining
interest from seeing Margaret
Cho perform on Comedy Central.
“I thought, ‘Oh my God, is this
even possible,’ because up to that
point, everything was black and
white with who you saw on TV
doing stand-up,” he said. “To see
an Asian person doing stand-up
was not common. It seemed sort
of out of the realm of possibility.”
Kondabolu’s first comedy
show at his high school included
a large amount of derivative ma-terial,
which he coined as “Chris
Rock and Margaret Cho jokes with
the word ‘Indian’ in them.” His
voice evolved in his shows as he
practiced more, and after 9/11 oc-curred.
A sophomore in college
at that point, Kondabolu experi-enced
prejudice as a non-white
person from Queens, New York
post 9/11. He explained that the
country was traumatized, but that
some, including himself, were
traumatized twice due to dis-trust.
The experience forced him
to think about the world more...
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By MEREDYTH STAUNCH
Editor-in-Chief
Photo Courtesy of Riley Tovornik
HARI KONDABOLU:
BOUNDARY-PUSHING COMEDY
“THIS GROUP IS COURAGEOUS”
MEN'S STORY PROJECT
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ast October, The
University News
published an arti-cle,
entitled “Food
Fight! The Future of
Griesedieck Dining
Hall,” which covered
the repurposing of
the space which formerly housed the
Griesedieck Dining Hall. Since then,
SGA and other student-run organi-zations
have worked tirelessly on be-half
of SLU’s student body to ensure
that their needs and interests were
given fair consideration as the Uni-versity
made its decision.
Even after Grand dining hall
opened in August 2017, there were
no explicit plans as to what would
become of the vacant space in the
Griesedieck complex. Various ideas
were proposed, and ultimately, the
University decided that the space af-forded
the opportunity to reorganize
and expand Career Services, which is
currently housed in the BSC.
SGA president Katlyn Mar-tin
and the rest of SGA were in close
contact with constituent groups
throughout the process, making
sure that University officials were
aware of the concerns that the Ca-reer
Services’ relocation introduced.
In particular, commuter students
and graduate students urged the
University to consider how the move
might affect them adversely. Mar-tin
stated that the move away from
the BSC was a concern for commut-er
students, who benefited from the
previous location’s close proximity
to the Commuter Student lounge.
Moreover, some graduate students,
especially those located on south
campus, may not be familiar with the
various on-campus residence halls
and felt that the former location in
the BSC was the most sensible loca-tion
for Career Services.
Additional concerns
were voiced by residents living in
Griesedieck Hall. After Grand Hall
was unveiled, there was talk that
the space might be converted into
an accessible laundry space for
Griesedieck and Walsh residents,
and that new spaces for study and
student collaboration might be built.
Because of the shortage of available
study spaces within Griesedieck Hall,
students currently utilize the area to
study. These students are concerned
that once Career Services is fully es-tablished,
they will lose one of the
few designated study spaces they
have.
With Career Services’ move
to the Griesedieck complex under-way,
Martin has endeavored to make
these student concerns a key aspect
THE FOOD FIGHT FINALLY ENDS
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By CONOR DORN
Staff Writer
Photo Courtesy of Riley Tovornik
of the process, and is proud of the
compromises that the University and
SGA were able to reach. Martin ap-preciated
the accommodating stance
taken by University officials in re-sponse
to student concerns.
Alongside the University,
SGA has just announced a two-year
capital improvement project to meet
the needs of the residents. An acces-sible
laundry service will be imple-mented,
which will serve residents in
Griesedieck and Walsh Halls. In ad-dition,
the SGA is working alongside
the Residence Halls Association and
the University to build lounges and
study spaces which will enhance the
social and learning environment in
Griesedieck Hall. Martin said she was
particularly pleased with the time-frame
for the improvement project,
which will commence concurrently
with the Career Services’ move.
With the relocation of the
Career Services office, the University
hopes to expand upon the tools and
resources that Career Services is cur-rently
able to offer. In an email sent
out to the SLU community, President
Fred Pestello elaborated on the aim
of the new Career Services’ program.
In particular, Pestello stressed that
the new effort seeks to “improve
career planning, preparation, and
employment” and overall to “better
ensure the success of students and
alumni.”
The University is currently
searching for a new Associate Pro-vost
for Career Development, who
will begin work at the start of fall
semester, and whose office will be
located in the new Career Services
office. The search committee has
narrowed the candidates down to
three individuals, Jeffrey Jackson,
O. Ray Angle and Troy Nunamaker.
The candidates are scheduled to give
open forum presentations in Tegeler
Hall this week, and just as in the rest
of the process, student input will be
considered.
The decision to move Ca-reer
Services to Griesedieck Hall, as
opposed to another area on campus,
was not random. Due to its central
location and, as Pestello put it, “high
visibility” on SLU’s campus, it will be
easily accessible to the vast majority
of students, even to those residing
off campus. The hope is that, despite
moving away from the BSC, gradu-ate
students and others who live off
campus will still have easy access
to the facility. The renovated space
will provide ample room for inter-view
rooms and other experiential
learning opportunities for students
to gain skills valuable for the career
seeking process.
While plans are still ten-tative,
Martin also pointed to the
old Career Services office as anoth-er
avenue for meeting student calls
for performance rooms and collab-orative
spaces. Though there might
be some shuffling of spaces on the
3rd floor of the BSC that needs to be
done, Martin said, “We hope to uti-lize
the vacant space to provide an
environment for the student body,
Charter Student Organizations and
others to meet and collaborate.”
Renovations to Griesedieck
Hall are already underway, and stu-dents
can expect the reorganized
Career Services facilities to be up
and running next fall. Martin and
her fellow SGA representatives con-tinue
to sustain productive dialogue
with the University to ensure that
the changes accommodate the in-terests
of the students. Students can
also look forward to the increase in
study and collaborative rooms in the
Griesedieck-Walsh complex and the
BSC, which will be completed over
the next few years.
What has been a key source of motivation for you?
“In terms of SGA, the people I serve and get to serve with (so students and the rest of the
executive board) are my main motivation. I love what I do on campus and really enjoy el-evating
student voices to help address concerns and/or connecting students to resources
and help that can help make their SLU experience better... It makes me really happy that
people on campus can see someone they identify with in this position, which is something
that I wasn’t able to do since there hasn’t been a female president in my time at SLU.”
What are you most proud of in your position?
“In my time at SLU, this is the most diverse that SGA has been. I think this is a result of
a lot of intentionality to make SGA more inclusive and accessible. Also, I think this year
has been really stabilizing for student government. I think we have raised the bar in terms
of what we do, how we hold ourselves accountable, and what is expected of us … One of
my goals when elected was to shape SGA into a sustainable group that every student on
campus felt comfortable approaching to find resources, provide input and help make SLU
better. I think in some capacity we have made great strides in that direction.”
USING YOUR POWER TO EMPOWER
News 05
On 3/17 at 9:41 p.m., a car parked
on Spring Ave. was found broken
into. The front passenger’s window
was broken, and a large rock was in
the driver’s seat. The owners were
notified.
At Brown Hall on 3/17, a student
returned to her apartment to find
that her bedroom door had pry
marks on the door and door frame.
However, there was no forced entry
into the room. DPS resolved that
this may have been the result of
the residents not getting along.
On 3/19 at 12:57 p.m., a desk
worker at Demattias Hall called
DPS to state that a non-SLU re-lated
person stated that he was
being followed. DPS resolved that
the person was suffering from a
mental condition and he was sent
to a nearby hospital.
By RILEY MACK, News Editor
DPS REPORTS
IN HONOR OF WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH, THE UNIVERSITY NEWS WANTS TO HIGHLIGHT
A FEW INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN THE SLU COMMUNITY
KATLYN MARTIN
SGA PRESIDENT
How does it feel to be a woman in a position of leadership at SLU?
“If feels really good, I think that being a woman in a position of leadership sets a lot of
really good examples for people. I think it’s always for me personally really cool to see a
fellow peer of mine or just a friend, a woman that I know in a position of power because I
not only am able to learn from her, but I am also inspired to do more myself.”
What are you most proud of in your position?
“I am proud of being in this position as only a sophomore with my second year on the
team. I think I was able to handle it in a really positive way and take things on and just start
running with it. So, I am really proud of how I handled the transition from being a dancer
to being a captain.”
RADHIKA PATEL
LOGISITCS
CAPTAIN OF
SHAKTI
KAYLYN KRAUSS
CREATOR OF
THE "I AM"
PROJECT
What inspired you to create your page?
“For as long as I can remember, I have believed that no one should be held back from
reaching their full potential. However, low self-confidence and anxieties over how we see
ourselves play a role in keeping people from being their best selves … I have learned that
I am not alone in this struggle. Those I love and care for and those I go to school with, we
all have these burdens that we have placed on ourselves. Each one of us is so remarkably
unique and amazing, and my goal for this project is to showcase all the incredible things
that make us who we are. The words “I AM…” carry a tremendous amount of weight. Being
able to openly say how we view ourselves in a positive light, rather than being dimmed by
our own self-doubt are just a few steps that can be taken to build up self confidence that is
already instilled in us.”
be the best version of myself and be proud of that. My intention for the project is to serve as a reminder. A reminder of all the remarkable people that make up the SLU
community. The amount of messages I receive from people I may have never even spoke to expressing their gratitude, is a feeling I will never fully grow accustomed
to. Sometimes people just need a reminder that we are all humans, and we all struggle. However, we are not alone, and we are incredible.”
What do you hope the impact of your page is on the SLU community?
“SLU has changed my life is so many different aspects. It has become the place where I can
JESSICA EVENSON
VICE PRESIDENT
OF UNIVERSITY
COMPLIANCE AND
ETHICS
What makes you passionate about your field of work?
“I really enjoy working in the field of compliance in higher education because it is dynamic and constantly changing. One day is rarely the
same. I’m passionate about our community that fosters learning and growth and one that allows us to celebrate and honor difference in each
other. And, cheering for graduates as they walk across the stage is my favorite time of the year!”
What are you most proud of that you have accomplished so far in your career?
“I hold gratitude for so many mentors (formal and informal!) who have shaped my career. I’ve landed in professional experiences that I would
never have reached for on my own because of them. I have also worked hard, experienced difficult times and have had to change directions
when the future looked dim. I am proud of those experiences as well. Being at SLU, I am proud of our commitment to students and service.
It’s a great time to be a Billiken!”
06 Arts and life
ith a name like
The Catfish and
the Bottlemen,
the band does
more than just
spark curiosity.
It is becoming
a staple for in-die
rock. The
band made a promising return to
the Pageant on March 13 and tru-ly
brought the unique sound it is
known for.
The Pageant closed off the bal-cony
and moved tables and chairs
from two of the main seating areas
made for this concert to be a tight
and packed venue, filled with peo-ple
soaked to the bone from the
torrential downpour that was oc-curring
outside before the concert
started. The lights were dimmed
as a version of the Beatles’ classic
“Helter Skelter” began to play over
the speakers, drawing the crowd’s
attention. The band members non-chalantly
crossed the stage to their
assigned instruments and with the
words from Van McCann, the lead
vocalist, he started the show with a
simple, “We have arrived.”
The band started off the show
with one of their newest singles,
released in January, “Longshot.”
The band is currently promoting
their upcoming album
University News - Volume 099, Issue 006 (November 14, 2019)
No full textMislabeled as Volume XCVIV. 24 pages.VOL. XCVIV No. 6 / November 14, 2019 UTHE UNIVERSITY NEWS
Ministry Transcends
Border in El Paso
2019-2020 Basketball
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or the past twenty-two
years, three dioceses
of El Paso, Las Cruces
and Ciudad Juarez—all
situated around the
U.S.-Mexico border—
have hosted an annual
border mass in El Paso,
Texas in a show of international unity,
peace and solidarity.
This year, a contingent of SLU stu-dents
and faculty, sponsored jointly by
Campus Ministry and the Center for
Service and Community Engagement,
packed into two chartered buses to El
Paso in order to experience firsthand
the stunning display of solidarity that
takes place at the border mass.
Leaving in the afternoon of Wednes-day
Oct. 30, the group spent nearly a
day on the road, arriving in El Paso
midday Thursday. The group spent two
days in El Paso before the actual bor-der
mass, educating themselves on the
issues that migrants and refugees face
at and around the border through con-versation
and interaction with those
whose ministry brings them face-to-face
with the marginalized on a daily
basis.
Kevin Khuel, S.J., a Jesuit scholastic
currently studying philosophy at SLU,
said it was this face-to-face encounter
that that made the trip such a worth-while
experience. Khuel stressed that
experiences with the “gritty realities
of life” are the hallmark of a true Jesuit
education, saying “part of a Jesuit ed-ucation
is the knowledge that comes
with the encounter with people that
are suffering and people that are on
the margins. The classroom can lay the
foundation but it is only in that phys-ical
encounter that our hearts start to
be transformed.”
Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, an
outspoken advocate for comprehen-sive
immigration reform that affords
migrants, refugees and asylum seekers
the basic human dignity they deserve,
delivered a presentation to the group
that outlined the efforts of his diocese
to minister to the marginalized indi-viduals
fleeing violence and seeking
economic opportunities.
The group also spent time in one
of the oldest neighborhoods in El Paso,
El Segundo Barrio. Dubbed “the sec-ond
Ellis island,” this neighborhood is
home to the Sacred Heart parish, where
the SLU contingent met Rafael Garcia,
S.J., who spoke on his experiences with
outreach and ministry efforts to mi-grants
and refugees.
Throughout the trip, the group
learned about the myriad ways that the
El Paso diocese and El Paso’s sister city,
Ciudad Juárez, have worked closely to
minister to the marginalized migrants
and refugees arriving at the border,
engaging in cross-border dialogue and
international solidarity in a refusal to
be divided by a man-made border. As
the El Paso Diocese said in their invita-tion
to the border mass: “We are mis-sionary
disciples of Christ, that we are
primarily called to live in communion.
For our Catholic faith, there is no “us
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02 NEWS
By CONOR DORN
Associate News Editor
Photo Courtesy of Jessica Trout
and them”, but one family of God.”
Saturday morning, hundreds of pa-rishioners
from both sides of the
U.S-Mexico border gathered for mass.
The mass was held in the middle of
the Rio Grande canal near the Santa Fe
Street Bridge, a bridge that connects
El Paso and Ciudad Juarez. A wooden
bridge was constructed specifically for
the event that connected both sides of
the canal.
This year, the mass was held in hon-or
and in memory of the migrants and
refugees who have lost their lives on
the journey to the border, often flee-ing
brutal violence and environmen-tal
and economic catastrophes. Those
who have died in United States deten-tion
facilities and those children who
have been separated from their fami-lies,
and the 22 individuals murdered
during the El Paso Walmart shooting
three months ago, were also honored.
Those in attendance were especially
struck by the sense of community and
solidarity that accompanied the cele-bration
of mass. Kevin Khuel empha-sized
the overwhelming atmosphere of
the mass, stating: “A big takeaway was
the sense of solidarity that came with
the border mass itself. Coming togeth-er
in that very unique space, right on
the border, with the altar literally in
the middle of the river that marks the
border, as people from the US and Mex-ico
that are divided by this man-made
border were brought together as one …
that’s an image I won’t soon forget.”
Bishop Peter Baldacchino of New
Mexico and Bishop Guadalupe Tor-res
of Ciudad Juarez joined Seitz at
the mass, urging those in attendance
“to remember that they too are refu-gees
who must open doors to others
in need.” This message of unity and
solidarity aimed to combat the divi-sive
politics of fear and rhetoric of hate
that often characterizes dialogue on
the U.S.-Mexico border.
The SLU contingent left El Paso
soon after the mass concluded, spend-ing
another twenty hours on the bus
before arriving back in St. Louis Sun-day
afternoon. As students and faculty
re-enter the SLU community, the hope
is that they continue to draw on their
experiences at the border for advoca-cy
and educational work. Khuel said:
“We have just had the experience of
solidarity with a suffering humanity”
asking, “Now, can we convert that into
action for systemic change and put our
voices, our power and our privilege to
work for the good of other people?”
SLU students
and faculty travel
to El Paso
to participate
in annual
border Mass
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THE
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By RILEY MACK
News Editor
n Monday, Nov.
11, the Great Is-sues
Committee
announced that
Monica Lew-insky
will be
speaking at SLU
in early December. The GIC came
to this decision based on Lewin-sky’s
content, which will cover
topics like the price of shame and
her life in the public eye.
Lewinsky, an activist, TV per-sonality
and fashion designer
was made famous through a sex
scandal with President Clinton in
1995 when she was an intern at
the White House. After the scan-dal,
22-year-old Lewinsky became
a figure of popular culture, her
name constantly dragged through
the mud by news outlets. Now, she
tours college campuses across the
country speaking on bullying and
the dangers of “cancel culture.”
Cancel culture is a recent phe-nomenon
that takes place on
social media platforms, a typi-cal
offender being Twitter. Users
boycott a celebrity after learning
about a problematic action in
their past, usually involving xe-nophobic
behavior. While bigotry
is not an acceptable reaction in
any context, many people, includ-ing
Lewinsky, believe that cancel
culture is also harmful in its own
way.
Chair of GIC and SLU junior,
Beatrice Beirne, says that Lew-insky
has always been on a short
list of interesting speakers to
bring to SLU. The decision was fi-nalized
the first few weeks of the
semester—since then, Beirne’s
excitement has only grown. She
believes that the subject matter
is very relevant to SLU’s campus
culture today.
“Being college students, we
can all kind of relate to [cancel
culture],” she says. “There’s been
a situation for all of us where
we’ve cancelled someone without
knowing the full story, or we’ve
been cancelled without someone
knowing the full story.” Either
way, Beirne states, “we’re all par-ticipating
in it.”
As there is a chance for her to
interview Lewinsky at the event,
Beirne states that it would be
daunting to interview someone
that’s been interviewed by some
of the greats, like Jake Tapper
and Katie Curic. At the same time,
Beirne says, “it will be cool to be
in that proximity and to see this
person that is in rap songs, for
who she really is,” she said.
Beirne also believes that SLU
students will have an interesting
perspective of Lewinsky, as the
1995 scandal happened before
most of the current students were
even born. “We got to see the sec-ond
wind of her career,” she said.
The GIC chair thinks that it is
unfair to hold Lewinsky to the
same standard she was held to in
her twenties—she hopes that the
audience shares this outlook at
the upcoming event. “We might
have the opportunity, because of
the generation we’re a part of, to
see her as who she is, and not just
her sex scandal,” to which Beirne
describes her real personality as
“overcoming” and “resilient.”
Lewinsky will speak to the SLU
community in the Wool Ballroom
on Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. with free entry
provided to students with a SLU
ID. The audience will be given a
chance to ask questions after the
interview.
Ultimately, Beirne hopes that
the audience will learn “the effect
of their actions” from Lewinsky’s
speech. “I hope that they come
away with being more intentional
with preventing themselves from
participating in cancel culture,
public shaming and hurting peo-ple
who are celebrities—but also
people they go to school with,”
she said.
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n July of 2019,
the lower level
of Fitzgerald
Hall opened
its doors to the
public as the
Interdisciplin-ary
Center for Autism Services.
The center is designed to be a
safe, reliable space where chil-dren
can be tested for autism or
any type of autism spectrum dis-order.
Families then will receive
consultation from various experts
in their fields to make a plan for
the future.
“It’s a place where families can
come and get a very thorough and
in depth evaluation” says Diane
Richter, Ph.D., a Director for the
Center.
The Center for Autism Services
at SLU first got its start with in-spiration
from counterparts like
the Knights of Columbus De-velopmental
Center at Cardinal
Glennon. Directors of the pro-gram
also noticed a need for more
centers.
“When we look at families be-sides
the [ones] in the St. Louis
metropolitan area, we’re get-ting
referrals from Illinois. There
seems to be a lack of services right
across the river”, Richter stated
about the decision to adopt a cen-ter
at SLU. Various departments
stepped in to make the center a
reality and to offer more advice
and expertise for clients. “We’ve
had a lot of support from different
Chairs, our Dean, the School of
Education, Travis Threats, Ph.D.”
In order to provide efficient and
accurate diagnostics for their
patients, the center has their pa-tients
go through various tests
with different disciplines. All pa-tients
will go through the Autism
Diagnostic Observation Schedule ,
which is a play-based assessment.
Patients will then go through a
cognitive assessment, a language
assessment, sensory processing
and occupational therapy assess-ments
and academic achievement
tests if they are of school age.
Richter adds to the depth of
testing saying, “We also take a
look at adding if there’s a need
that shows that there are con-cerns
or challenges in motor [de-velopment]
and we’ll bring in our
physical therapist.” The Center
will also bring in students that are
studying applied behavior analy-sis
under their respective...
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By LEAH GEORGE
Staff Writer
ver a decade ago,
Teka Childress
founded the St.
Louis Winter
Outreach pro-gram
after she
e n c o u n t e r e d
a homeless man trying to stay
warm near a bus stop on a freez-ing
night. She gave him blankets
and offered him help but he re-fused
it. Despite calling the police
and a bus driver, asking them to
keep an eye on the man, Childress
found out the next day that he
had passed away from exposure
to the bitter cold.
These tragic events inspired
Childress to found the Winter
Outreach program, which has
expanded throughout metropol-itan
St. Louis. Different outreach
groups drive around areas of St.
Louis, and they pick up those liv-ing
on the streets then bring them
to different churches and faith-based
organizations where they
stay through the night. St. Fran-cis
Xavier College Church has
been hosting the homeless at the
Winter Inn on Wednesdays and
Thursdays for seven years now.
When the homeless arrive to
the Inn, they are greeted by the
volunteers and are brought to
the eating room for dinner with
the volunteers. Anne Osdieck,
volunteer coordinator, said, “Af-ter
they eat, the students usually
play games with them like cards,
uno and chess.” After this, they
go to sleep in the cots that are set
up for them. In the morning they
get up and enjoy a home-cooked
breakfast.
The students that volunteer at
the Winter Inn benefit from the
opportunity because they are able
to establish personal relation-ships
with the visitors. In fact,
Osdieck said, “Most of the home-less
people that are in the shelters
are not that far removed age-wise
from the students.” Because there
is not a wide age gap, the experi-ence
is especially eye-opening for
the student volunteers.
The Winter Inn runs from Dec.
1 to March 1 on nights when the
temperature drops below 20 F
including during SLU’s winter
break. Nicole Neisen, freshman,
said, “I think it’s a great opportu-nity
to give back to the St. Louis
community and support those
who are in need.”
Students are given an oppor-tunity
to see and learn about the
harsh realities that many face
in their own St. Louis commu-nity.
Students can get involved
and volunteer at the Winter Inn
by reaching out to Tess Sanders,
at [email protected] to learn
more about their program and
sign up to volunteer.
All volunteers involved in the
Winter Inn can find meaning in
the volunteer experience, wheth-er
it be through eating, playing
games, or simply just talking to
the visitors and hearing their life
stories. All are warmly welcomed
to come and be a part of the Win-ter
Inn here at SLU.
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ROOM AT THE WINTER INN
By CAROLINE LIPSKI
Staff Writer
ew investiga-tions
into soft-ware
applica-tions
by SLU
researcher and
assistant profes-sor
of computer
science Flavio Esposito, P.h.D, has
proven that the sky is the limit
when it comes to technology.
Esposito was recently award-ed
with a $206,206 grant from
the National Science Foundation
to study distributed computing
systems like the Cloud, as well as
edge computing capabilities.
As the leader of this cut-ting-
edge research, Esposito aims
to study how decomposition, or
breaking up, of complex prob-lems
in computer science can be
applied to improving application
software performance and capa-bilities
via cloud computing. He
plans to investigate how to best
apply these insights to a wide va-riety
of software, including Virtu-al
and Augmented Reality
“Several applications to-day
(on our phones, watches or
computers) rely on cloud tech-nologies.
The future is, however
in distributed computing. This
means, taming big datasets, as
well as reducing the time to ob-tain
a response from a computer.
This emerging paradigm is called
“edge or fog computing,” or com-puting
at the edge of our end-us-ers,
not far away in the Cloud
somewhere.”
Joined by researchers at Bentley
University and Boston Universi-ty,
their team plans to push the
boundaries of computing power
to better understand how to par-tition
an application to drive cost
efficiency and usability for the
user.
Esposito points out the possi-ble
technological, as well as so-cietal
implications of this work,
“The purpose of this study is to
improve the way we can speed
up very large computations with
distributed (networked) systems.
The results from this grant will
have an impact on several fields,
from the search of a genome se-quence
in bioinformatics, to in-creasing
the revenue in an eCom-merce
application, to predict
when the next tornado is going to
hit and where”.
He adds that, “We will produce
and release publicly code and
publications that could help ad-vance
other research, and could
help increase the profit for some
computer science based compa-nies
that deal with large datasets
and artificial intelligence.”
The project also plans on pro-viding
educational opportunities
for high school students and pop-ulations
underrepresented in the
computer science field to learn
about, and become trained, in
application software and cyber-structure
management through
interactive tutorials and mentor-ship.
Esposito brings several years
of experience performing cloud
computing research to this proj-ect,
and is grateful for another
opportunity to learn about, as
well as develop, software applica-tions
of the future.
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eginning next
semester, Saint
Louis Universi-ty
will have an
official varsity
e-sports team.
E-sports, a com-petitive
organized video gaming
league, has become a growing
industry—especially on college
campuses. Many universities have
e-sports teams that have their own
gaming labs, recruit high school
students and offer scholarships—
in some cases full rides—in order
to join the team. E-sports players
compete against teams and other
individuals both locally and na-tionally.
Popular games in e-sports
leagues include: Overwatch,
League of Legends, Smash Bros
and Fortnite, among many others.
This year, SLU will become the next
college to join the world of varsity
Esports.
The origins of the new e-sports
team began a few years ago with a
small group of friends who enjoyed
playing video games together. Se-nior
Nicholas Chiu, the new Direc-tor
of SLU’s e-ports program, was a
part of this group.
“When I was a Freshman, we had
a small gaming club. It was like 6
kids,” said Chiu. “I went to a tour-nament
and really fell in love with
the community. The group grew
and more students wanted to play
more games.”
The gaming group applied for
chartered student organization
status last year and grew to around
100 members, and this rapid growth
meant that it was difficult to find
space for members to set up equip-ment
and play together. When
Chiu would speak to university
officials about space they seemed
a bit skeptical. “I took some mem-bers
of the administration to the
Spring Split, which was happen-ing
at Chaifetz Arena, which was
then the biggest League of Legends
event in North America,” said Chiu.
“They saw how big it was and how
fast it sold out, and that was hard
to ignore.”
E-sports is extremely compet-itive,
and the SLU team hopes to
build a team that competes at the
same level as other high-class pro-grams
in the area, such as Maryville
University and Mizzou. According
to Chiu, this is a likely scenario, giv-ing
that SLU’s Overwatch team has
already beaten several schools and
at the last competition, lost only
to Maryville’s team. The team is
currently coached by students who
Chiu hopes will stay on as leaders
because as the some of the original
players, they know the team better
than anyone.
SLU junior Matthew Brandtjen
began playing e-sports seriously
in the summer of 2017, and is now
a coach for the team. “My job in-volves
making sure players know
the optimal strategies in certain
maps or situations and practicing
those to get better at them, as well
as finding practices versus other
schools and managing the logisti-cal
stuff,” said Brandtjen. “[Also]
reviewing gameplay from players
and networking with other schools
to try and build relationships.”
In January, the e-sports team
will have a new space to play and
work together in the old IT lab of
the Busch Student Center. The cur-rent
plan is to have 12 computers
and gaming console setups. For
the first year, both competitive and
recreational players will be able to
utilize the gaming lab. After that,
Chiu says, the team hopes to move
the recreational equipment to an-other
place on campus for students
to use and allow the gaming lab to
be solely for the varsity team’s use.
The team is currently recruit-ing
SLU students to join. The ap-plications
are due on Nov. 16 and
are open to any student who is in-terested.
Chiu and Brandtjen are
holding tryouts and interviews for
potential members. Chiu said that
no one should be discouraged from
applying, because even students
who don’t make the varsity team
will have other outlets to play, in-cluding
the club team and the new
e-sports intramural leagues that
have opened this semester.
“Whatever skill level you are,
there is a place for you,” said Chiu.
In the future, Chiu hopes that the
e-sports team will work in a similar
fashion to the athletic programs on
campus. The team could potential-ly
be used as an admissions tool,
recruiting students to come join
the SLU team. There are already
scholarships available for students
who make the varsity team and
Chiu hopes that even bigger ones
could become available as the team
grows.
Chiu also said that he hopes the
team can dispel some myths about
e-sports.
“There’s a stigma around gamers,”
said Chiu. “The purpose of e-sports
is to defeat the stigma that gamers
just want to stay in their room and
play games. We want to get out and
play together,” he said. “There are
a lot of really bright and smart stu-dents
playing games, and we want
them to come get a degree and pre-pare
for the future while playing
e-sports.”
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At 11:23 a.m on Nov. 6, DPS re-sponded
to reports of a student
who had sustained an injury to
their head after a fall in Margue-rite
Hall. The student was alert
and conscious after the incident,
and was transported by DPS to
Saint Louis University Hospital.
On 10:44 a.m on Nov. 6, a stu-dent
returned to their car,
which was parked in the Ford-ham
Parking lot on Grand to
find that her windshield had
been shattered. A report was
filed with the St. Louis Police
Department.
By SAVANAH SEYER
Staff Writer
DPS REPORTS During the evening of Nov.
5, the vehicle of a SLU faculty
member was hit by one of SLU’s
shuttle buses as it was driving
down Lindell Blvd. The vehicle’s
driver side mirror was knocked
off. A SLU student witnessed
the incident and left a note on
the windshield, and the faculty
member opened a report with
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academic
priorities
Two narratives of the
same struggle for a
liberal arts education
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s displeasure with
the administration
mounts, faculty mem-bers
across multiple
departments at SLU
have banded together
to form SavingSLU, a
website/blog dedicated to recognizing
and recording issues with the Universi-ty.
The website was created earlier this
year and was announced in an email to
all Saint Louis University faculty mem-bers
on Sept. 8.
In the email, the group stated that
they were hoping to provide faculty
with information “about potential dan-gers
to the best of Saint Louis Universi-ty.”
These alleged dangers included “its
strong national reputation, its Jesuit
identity, its commitment to provide
faculty what they need to flourish and
its ability to give all of our students a
truly great education,” according to
the website.
The group’s core members include
professors from the Political Science,
Economics, Theological Studies, His-tory,
Women’s and Gender Studies, and
Languages, Literatures and Cultures
departments. The website’s main con-tent
includes blog posts that detail is-sues
deemed concerning to the future
of SLU, including inappropriate donor
influence and the closing of the Latin
American Studies Program at SLU, just
to name two.
In their faculty email, the SavingS-LU
group expressed concern about the
continued budget cuts in many depart-ments,
the reduction of hiring and the
increase of dismissals of both faculty
and graduate assistantships. Because
of this, states the group, there are
large gaps in the education offered to
students, as well as an increased and
unmanageable workload on faculty—
often without adequate compensation.
On their website, the group also claims
that the University leadership has vio-lated
mandates laid out in the Faculty
Manual.
Many professors are worried about
the University’s ability to continue of-fering
all of the courses and programs
that it currently does. A professor in the
Languages Department, who wishes to
remain anonymous, spoke with The
University News about their concerns
that there would be more cuts to de-partments
such as the languages. They
specifically mentioned the Chinese
program as one that seems at risk of
being cut. The SavingSLU organization
also singles out the fate of graduate
programs as “precarious.” They stated
that they were worried the University
was only focused on a few programs
and not promoting or supporting other
programs sufficiently.
The administration claims that the
reason STEM fields are receiving more
money and attention is because stu-dents
are overwhelmingly choosing
those study fields over others. Howev-er,
some humanities professors argue
that the University does not promote
SAVING SLU:
STAFF
DEMANDS
CHANGE
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By SAVANAH SEYER
Staff Writer
SLU Community marched for adjuct professors in spring 2017 with many of the same grievances as discussed in the SavingSLU
movement (Emma Carmody / The University News)
the humanities and social sciences
when recruiting new students.
In his remarks to the Faculty Sen-ate
this month, President Fred Pestel-lo,
P.h.D, responded to these claims by
saying that the humanities and social
sciences “will always be critical to SLU
education” and that the reason for such
emphasis on STEM and health sciences
is led by student interest.
Pestello commented on the continu-ing
cuts in other departments by say-ing,
“the areas in which we have been
trimming have already allowed us to
invest in areas that serve our students
and our patients… We have also been
investing millions of dollars from the
Sinquefield gift in our faculty, who
were hired or retained from funds from
the gift, and faculty who received re-search
funding.”
However, many professors take is-sue
with the Sinquefield gift and with
the influence of donors on certain
programs in the University and its re-search
altogether.
Professor David Rapach, P.h.D., the
John Simon Endowed Chair in Eco-nomics
in the Chaifetz School of Busi-ness,
is a member of the SavingSLU
organization. On his personal website,
he has written a number of articles
expressing concern about donor influ-ence
at Saint Louis University, espe-cially
concerning the recent donation
to the Chaifetz School of Business by
Rex Sinquefield. The University News
sat down with Professor Rapach, as
well as Bonnie Wilson, P.h.D., when
the news of the Sinquefield donation
broke. Rapach and Wilson argue that
the influence that Sinquefield has over
decision-making in requests for fund-ing
and in hiring is a violation of ac-ademic
norms that undermines SLU’s
reputation.
The two are currently working with
UnKoch My Campus, which is an orga-nization
that works to identify and re-move
alleged “undue donor influence”
in higher education in America.
They are also trying to construct a
database titled the Academic Capture
Warning System, which will aim to
“provide information on organizations
and individuals that have engaged in a
clear violation of well-established aca-demic
norms involving financial dona-tions,”
according to their website.
The group of faculty that makes up
SavingSLU is working to inform oth-er
faculty members about the issues
they claim are detrimental to the SLU
community. The University News will
continue to highlight this issue in the
weeks to come.
Staff bands together
to create a
movement in
reaction to recent
administrative
developments
ast week, students
and faculty members
associated with SLU’s
Chinese Program
learned that after the
2019-2020 academic
year, SLU’s Depart-ment
of Languages,
Literatures and Cultures will no lon-ger
offer Chinese language courses
for an undetermined period of time.
The program’s future is in jeopardy
after financial difficulties influenced
the decision not to renew the only
full-time Chinese faculty member,
Lili Guo, M.D., P.h.D., who is the pri-mary
Chinese language instructor.
As a consequence, the Chinese pro-gram
will effectively cease to func-tion
after the current academic year.
Michael Lewis, P.h.D., Interim Dean
of Arts and Sciences, who was in-terviewed
on the future of the Chi-nese
program, said, “At this point,
the future of the program remains in
question. It is not officially being cut
from the books.”
Lewis explained that since the only
full-time faculty member will not be
renewed, incoming and current stu-dents
will not be able to take courses
in Chinese beginning in the fall of
2020. This nuance might give some
hope to students, since a complete
cut of the program would be signifi-cantly
more difficult to reverse.
Still, Lewis said, “I know this is no
solace, especially for those students
who would like to declare the mi-nor
but cannot.” As it stands, Lewis
is continuing to work with trustees
and other concerned parties to de-termine
if the program has a future.
To students and faculty involved
with the Chinese program, especially
the 70 current minors, the decision
represents a tacit cancellation of
the program, the ambiguous nuance
notwithstanding. Soon after the
announcement, senior Malaya Siy,
currently nearing completion of the
Chinese minor, created a Change.org
petition called “saveSLUchinese,”
in which she voiced the displeasure
felt on behalf of the faculty and the
student body. Since the petition
was launched, it has gathered more
than a thousand signatures, with the
number growing daily.
Such a positive response to the pe-tition
indicates a widespread belief
that cessation of the Chinese pro-gram
is antithetical to SLU’s values
as a Jesuit institute of higher learn-ing.
SLU’s mission to foster “pro-grams
that link University resources
to local, national and international
FUTURE OF
CHINESE PROGRAM IN DOUBT
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NEWS
By CONOR DORN
Associate News Editor
(Trenton Almgren-Davis / The University News)
communities” is a fundamental as-pect
of our identity, and the Chinese
program is a direct manifestation of
this commitment.
Since its inception in 2003, SLU’s
Chinese program has blossomed
into a vibrant and engaging curric-ulum
with the dual purpose of pre-paring
graduates for employability
in today’s globalized job market and
enriching cultural interactions on
SLU’s campus.
Siy stressed the numerous ad-vantages
that will be lost if the pro-gram
is cut. “The practical side is
significant. Chinese is the second
most-spoken language in the world,
which yields enormous practical val-ue
for students entering the job mar-ket.”
But, Siy added, the practical an-gle
is only the start. Through classes
that satisfy the minor requirements,
SLU students have the opportunity
to participate in a unique cultural
dialogue. As SLU’s last remaining
Asian language, the program is a vi-tal
linguistic component to bridging
the diverse backgrounds that charac-terize
SLU’s campus.
With 8 percent of SLU students
arriving from outside of the U.S.,
and an Asian population of almost
10 percent, the Chinese program af-fords
the Asian community import-ant
linguistic representation.
Students enrolled in Chinese class-es
are taught not only the basics of
reading, writing and conversation,
but are also exposed to Chinese his-tory,
literature and culture. And for
students, it is this cultural compo-nent
that has been the most fruitful
part of the Chinese program.
A striking example of the cultur-al
engagement that makes the Chi-nese
program so essential is Guo’s
Cultural Comparisons class, which
takes an interdisciplinary approach
to comparing social relationships,
education, food and other prominent
cultural features in the United States
and China...
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Contributor
urrently one of
the most talked
about artists in
the nation is Ty-ler,
the Creator.
Since the release
of “Igor” in May, his fifth studio
album, the excitement has only
grown. Now, he plans to come
perform for the students of SLU at
Chaifetz Arena on Oct. 4.
Earlier this summer, he an-nounced
his fall tour that started
on June 21 in Dover, Delaware and
ends in Houston, Texas on Oct.
26. Luckily for those in St. Louis
and the surrounding area, one of
the stops on Tyler, the Creator’s
fall tour will be on SLU’s campus
in early October. His concert will
begin at 7 p.m. with Blood Orange
and GoldLink as his opening acts.
Kelsie Woodward, Director of
Marketing at Chaifetz Arena, was
integral in the decision to bring
Tyler to SLU. Woodward says “His
demographic is a lot of students,
so it made the most sense for him
to come here.”
Due to the age range of his
demographic, Woodward also ex-plained
that SLU students can ex-pect
affordable ticket prices. On
StubHub, prices range anywhere
from 106.18 for general admis-sion
floor seating.
“I would totally anticipate him
to be his crazy, wild self,” said
Woodward. “If I think you can ex-pect
a good time and hear every-thing
you want to hear,” she said.
According to Woodward, fans
can expect to have a memora-ble
time at Tyler’s show, both
through his performance and en-gagement
with the audience. She
offers some advice on how to cre-ate
an enjoyable environment by
saying, “arrive early, I think it’s
important to get there early just
so you can have the whole expe-rience…
be ready to take in the
whole show. It’s a Friday night, so
it’s a great night for students.”
She also spoke on the safety
aspects of the arena. In Decem-ber
of 2017, the arena installed
walk through metal detectors to
further protect patrons in the fa-cility,
so fans can experience the
utmost comfort and security.
Tyler, the Creator’s personality
is wild, unpredictable and lively.
On Oct. 4, SLU students can ex-pect
to be greatly entertained by
the imaginative artist.
When asked whether she was
a fan or not, freshman Lizzie
Ableson enthusiastically said “I
love him so much… his music is
great!” Many fans, both national-ly
and on SLU’s campus, share this
same sentiment. Buy your tickets
now and experience a piece of Ty-ler,
the Creator’s unique mind on
Oct.4 at Chaifetz Arena.
C
ast weekend,
hundreds of
students par-ticipated
in
r ec r uitment
week to poten-tially
be a part
of Greek Life at SLU. The whole
process was broken into five very
busy days.
The first and second day includ-ed
rotationals, where students
who rushed could get to know
some of the active sorority or
fraternity members. On the third
day, if the students were asked
back by any of their top five choic-es
they ranked, they continued
to talk more with the members
about philanthropy and events.
On the next day, if they got asked
back again by either or both of
their top two, they took part in
preference, where they could get
more of an inside look into their
top picks and learn more about
the different traditions and phi-losophy
behind those sororities
or fraternities.
Finally, on Bid Day, students
opened their envelopes and
learned which chapter they were
invited to join as a new member.
Emma Riley, freshman, said,
“The whole process was a little
overwhelming because it was a
lot of talking and meeting new
people,” but she enjoyed the ex-perience
“because I met so many
different types of people doing so
many different things.”
Riley continued: “Your percep-tion
of the sorority is going to be
different based on the girls you
talked to, so one that I felt didn’t
click with me could totally click
with somebody else.” The recruit-ment
experience was different
for each person, but the sorority/
fraternity members tried to make
the process as fun as possible for
all of the potential recruits.
Keara Anonson, senior, who was
a recruitment counselor this year,
said, “As recruitment counselors,
we tried to make light of what can
be a stressful situation, whether
it be by chanting for them when
they go into the doors or high-fiv-ing
them and telling them they’re
awesome right before they go in
to hype them up.”
For the students who decided to
join Greek Life, they are now part
of a community and a network of
friends that they can reach out to
for anything and participate in
philanthropy and service. Along
with that, each group has a spe-cific
area that they focus on, in-cluding
empowering women and
spreading altruism.
The new members now have a
support group that they can al-ways
rely on and have a sense
of sisterhood or brotherhood.
Keerthi Kode, freshman, said, “On
Bid Day, I had a lot of fun running
home to my new sisters.” Greek
Life comes with a unique sense of
community in each of the chap-ters,
which will hopefully contin-ue
to be a fun extracurricular at
SLU for many years to come.
L
By LEAH GEORGE
Contributor
RECAP OF RECRUITMENT
WEEK MADNESS
Photo Courtesy of Trenton Almgren-Davis
TYLER, THE CREATOR
CONCERT CREATES BUZZ AT SLU
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Photo Courtesy of Bryan Lasky
tephanie Grant,
a 20-year-old
junior study-ing
Biomedical
engineering at
SLU, was walk-ing
across the
street near Marchetti Towers on
Thursday, Sept. 5 when a car driv-ing
erratically ran through a red
light, hitting Grant. The driver fled
the scene immediately afterwards.
Four days later, the driver was
identified as 21-year-old Aldina
Sakanovic, per the St. Louis Police
Department.
Grant told The University News
that she broke her tibia and fibula,
a few bones in her back, her nose
and eye socket. “While these were
significant injuries, it could have
been far worse, and I am so grate-ful
that all I have is some broken
bones,” she said.
When the accident happened,
Grant said she was “simply walking
back to [her] apartment and was in
the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Sakanovic was charged with
second degree assault, leaving the
scene of an accident, resisting ar-rest
and two counts of armed crim-inal
action, KMOV4 reports.
St. Louis Police say that the
silver Nissan Pathfinder Sakanovic
was driving was stolen that day
and spotted earlier near Grand and
Cherokee. Officers had started to
follow the car but stopped once
they saw how erratically she was
driving.
STLPD says that officers were
not in pursuit of the car when the
accident occurred.
Colin Thierry, a senior at SLU,
was walking ten feet ahead of Grant
when he heard the noise of an “en-gine
roaring” behind him. Thierry
turned around just in time to see
the car hit Grant and speed away.
Thierry, along with five or six
other people who witnessed the
accident, stood in shock for a few
moments. “It didn’t feel like it was
real,” Thierry said, “it was pretty
horrifying to see, honestly.”
After seeing the incident, Thier-ry
still feels safe crossing the street
on campus because “you can’t re-ally
control someone acting that
unreasonably.” However, he urg-es
other students to always “look
both ways, even when you have the
right-of-way.”
Grant also warns SLU students
of the dangers that she experi-enced
first-hand. “We all know that
Grand is not the safest street, and it
sucks that it took someone getting
seriously injured to draw attention
to the matter,” she said.
“I hope that SLU can use this
as an opportunity to prioritize stu-dent
safety and figure out a way to
keep this from happening to any-
WOMAN CHARGED IN HIT-AND-RUN THAT
INJURED SLU STUDENT
S
News 05
Photo Courtesy of St. Louis Metropolitan Police Dept. and family of Stephanie Grant
On 9/6, officers were dispatched to
Griesedieck Hall on two separate
occasions. By the time the officers
arrived on both occasions, the
occupants were gone and the
elevators were working.
On 9/17, at 2:30 p.m., people who
were assaulted in an incident
off-campus were driving to SLU
Hospital when they crashed into
another vehicle. Subjects were
then transported to SLU Hospital.
On 9/17, a student called Public
Safety at 11:45 p.m. when he no-ticed
that the rear right window
was broken on his car that was
parked on Olive street. He was
missing his wallet and backpack.
He noticed a red, older model
pickup truck pulled away from
his car, heading west.
By RILEY MACK
News Editor
DPS REPORTS
one else,” Grant stated.
In the summer of 2018, SLU
made sweeping changes to the
crosswalk on Grand and West
Pine. It provided students with
a wider median that can safely
accommodate pedestrians, addi-tional
traffic signals and dividers
to separate traffic from the me-dian.
With safety improvements
to this busy crosswalk on cam-pus,
the accident raises ques-tions
of new safety plans for the
crosswalk between Grand and
Laclede.
However, DPS Assistant Vice
President James E. Moran states
that because the incident was
unusual, “there are no specific
plans in place to share at this
time.”
Moran says they will “contin-ue
to explore ways to enhance
pedestrian safety at SLU” and
have reached out to STLPD to
figure out any additional steps
that could be taken to slow traf-fic
along Grand.
Kent Porterfield, Ed.D., Vice
President for Student Develop-ment,
in a statement to SLU, said,
“Stephanie is part of our larger
SLU family. All of us are keeping
her, her family and her friends in
our thoughts and prayers during
this very difficult time.”
In an interview with News 4,
Grant’s father states, “We are
very appreciative to everyone
for their prayers. They are work-ing.
Stephanie has made a lot of
progress. After several days of
trying, she was able to sit up at
the side of her bed. Thanks to
the community for all of the sup-port.”
Elaine Grant Farwell, Grant’s
aunt, states that her niece has
a “bright future ahead of her”
in her GoFundMe. Farwell en-courages
people to donate to
help with the emergency med-ical
funds her family is paying.
Consider helping a member of
the Billiken family by donating
to the GoFundMe here: https://
www.gofundme.com/f/emergen-cy-
fund-for-stephanie-grant.
06 Arts and life
ick, Joe and Kevin took St. Louis
on a trip back to the late 2000s
this past Saturday night with their
“Happiness Begins” tour. All fans,
new and old, joined together to
wish the brothers a warm wel-come
as they came on stage.
The Jonas Brothers popped on stage and began
the concert with “Rollercoaster,” a song off their
new album “Happiness Begins.” The audience
couldn’t contain themselves. Joy, tears, screams,
all the feelings, all at once. Once the first song
was over, the fans joined together to welcome the
brothers by screaming, nonstop, for four minutes.
Every single person in the Enterprise Center was
screaming.
They continued the night with hit single “S.O.S,”
to the crowd’s liking. The fans fed off the brothers’
energy all night long. The Jo-Bros performed as
many songs as they could, boasting a mash-up of
some of their more popular songs from the late
2000s. Nick was left on stage for a performance
of his hit “Jealous” with a surprise back up by his
brother Joe, which led into Nick singing back up
while Joe performed “Cake by the Ocean.”
During Nick and Joe’s quick change, Kevin
shared his heart with the arena; he explained
how happy he was to be back on stage with his
brothers, how a conversation with them two
years ago led to where they are now.
While the brothers performed many of their
new songs, their old hits like “Lovebug” and
“When You Look Me in the Eyes” were what left
the crowd in tears. The fans waited all night until
they finally heard the intro to “Year 3000,” and
knowing that the concert was coming to a close,
they sang their hearts out. To end the night, the
band began playing “Burnin’ Up,” and the are-na
filled with screams. The song ended, and the
N
brothers looked out into the crowd, taking in
every single one of their fans, smiling bigger
and bigger. They exited the stage, yet no fans
wanted to leave. The fans lingered for a while,
taking everything in, with the knowledge that
their childhood crushes were just there—with
the knowledge that the Jonas Brothers will al-ways
be amazing because that’s just the way
they roll.
The Jonas Brothers brought so much joy into
St. Louis on Saturday, and their performance
he
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