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University News - Volume 098, Issue 006 (November 15, 2018)
No full textIncludes special section "The New Face of Billiken Basketball: SLU Basketball Preview 2018-2019." 24 pages.VOL. XCVIII No. 6 / November 15, 2018
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A HOUSE DIVIDED
n Nov. 6, election day, SLU’s
Political Science Department
held an election night watch
party in the CGC. The Po-litical
Science Department
invited all SLU students to
watch the national election
results all evening. The de-partment
supplied pizza and
drinks for all attendees. Students sat at tables
or in the bleachers at the back of the CGC and
watched CNN on the projected screen, while the
results from the races for the House of Represen-tatives,
the U.S. Senate and many governors’ races
were called.
CNN was projected onto the screen in
the Huh Auditorium, and students hung out with
friends while watching the vote counts come in in
real time.
SLU sophomore Mallory Galemore, who
came to the watch party said, “The event was
great because I really enjoyed being able to watch
and discuss the election with friends.”
There were also on-campus groups repre-sented
at the watch party as well. Many groups, in-cluding
College Democrats, College Republicans,
Political Science Club, Amnesty International and
Rainbow Alliance, tabled at the event, discussing
political issues with students and promoting their
missions. Many groups used the event to adver-tise
to students wanting to get more politically
involved.
Different academic groups from the Col-lege
of Arts and Sciences also came to talk to stu-dents
about taking classes in political science and
international studies and stressed the importance
of being knowledgeable voters.
SLU sophomore Jacob Cunningham, who
attended the watch party, said he thought it was
great how much students got into the spirit of the
night.
“I really enjoyed the event and I could
definitely feel a good deal of student investment
in the elections,” said Cunningham.
SLU senior Brenna Salen, who came to
the watch party representing College Democrats,
said she appreciated the diversity of the student
attendees.
“There was a wonderful blend of beliefs
and ideologies there and I thought that was awe-some,”
said Salen.
The night was tense and exciting for a lot
of politically active students, and cheers broke
out after races were called for both sides.
The event was more than just watching
numbers on a screen. During the event, political
science faculty members hung out and walked
around talking with students and discussing the
elections, and halfway through the night, polit-ical
science Professor Steve Rogers, Ph.D., who
was the main host of the event, took the stage to
discuss the importance of the election and what
some of the outcomes and consequences of the
election results could be.
SLU senior Jake Shaw said, “So often be-cause
elections get bogged down by partisanship,
to have Professor Rogers on stage explaining the
process and analysis was very useful to talk about
what could happen going forward.”
Cunningham agreed, “One of my favorite
parts was when Dr. Rogers gave a fun and infor-mative
presentation on the elections, how they
may play out and what the results could mean for
the future.”
Assistant director for service learning,
Leah Sweetman, who works on SLU’s campus to
promote voter turnout and registration, among
many other projects, also gave a short speech
where she discussed the importance of being po-litically
active no matter what the election out-comes
were. She reminded students that it was
important to continue to work and participate in
political activism.
The Political Science Department offered
free snacks, sodas and pizza to the attendees and
students were also able to enter their names in a
drawing to win an Apple Watch, which was drawn
and awarded at the end of the evening.
The event continued well into the night,
as students waited to hear the outcomes of the
elections in their home states, with the elections
in Missouri not being called until after 9 p.m.
Many students stuck it out until the end, watching
the count returns on TV and also looking them up
on their laptops at the same time.
SLU senior Paige Cook said that she
thought the event was well run and that it was
great to see so many people there.
“I think Professor Rogers did a great job
organizing the event,” said Cook.
Cunningham agreed, saying, “I found the
event perfectly suited for engaging young voters
and doing so in a positive and lively way.”
SLU LAWYERS DAB SWEAT OFF THEIR BROW AFTER
SUCCESSFUL WATCH PARTY
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02 NEWS
By SAVANAH SEYER
Staff Writer
(SLU’s Political Science Department)
News 03
DONATED BODIES HONORED
AT INTERFAITH SERVICE
By KIRTI VEERAMACHANENI
Staff Writer
n Friday, stu-dents
from SLU’s
School of Med-icine
and Allied
Health programs
participated in
an interfaith
memorial cere-mony
honoring
those who donated their bodies
to SLU via the Gift Body Program,
that representing all faiths within
the medical class.
The service was held at
the St. Francis Xavier College
Church and was attended by over
12,000 students, faculty and fam-ily
members of donors received
over the past year. The service was
put together by first-year medical
students and many students per-formed
music, created artwork
and organized the event. Several
students also presented their own
reflections on the event.
In the 1930s, the Missou-ri
State Anatomical Board would
allow medical schools to receive
unclaimed bodies for the purpose
of education. This program would
develop into the various gift body
programs used by many schools
today—giving way to the Gift
Body Program that got its start
in the early 1960s on the medical
campus.
The Gift Body Program is
hosted through the SLU School of
Medicine’s Center for Anatomical
Science and Education (CASE).
Donations of people’s bodies are
used to educate medical students,
residents and Allied Health stu-dents.
Bodies are cremated after
any studies have been completed,
and bi-yearly, ashes are buried at
the St. Peter and Paul Cemetery
in plot 39A approximately 6 miles
away from SLU.
A plaque which reads:
“Saint Louis University and its
students gratefully acknowledge
the charity of those buried here,
who gave their remains for the
advancement of medical science.
September 29, 1964” marks the
site within the Cemetery.
Over the past year, 413
donations have been made to this
SLU program. These donations
are primarily from within the
St. Louis Metropolitan area. Any
donations made to SLU will help
educate the next generation of
health care professionals as well
as help advance the field of medi-cine.
For more information on
the Gift Body Program please vis-it
https://www.slu.edu/medicine/
medical-education/case/gift-body-
program.php.
O
LU is now fac-ing
a tough
economic time
and are look-ing
into possi-ble
solutions
that could in-clude
cutting
faculty and
staff. The biggest thing that SLU
is trying to avoid is having some-thing
similar to the MAGIS layoffs
that happened in March 2017.
Professor of education
and president of the Faculty Sen-ate,
Doug Rush, wants to elimi-nate
the lack of transparency that
happened with the 2017 budget
cuts. He stressed that this is just
the beginning of a much larg-er
conversation that the Faculty
Senate will sign off on at every
turn.
“We believe we have a
commitment to [faculty and staff]
to be transparent, unlike the last
process so that we can work on
these solutions together,” Rush
said.
The reason for these bud-get
cuts comes from a significant
rise in undergraduate scholar-ships
from 168 million in 2019, along with
a decreased enrollment. Rush fo-cused
on tuition and enrollment
having flat revenue over the past
seven or eight years.
“We have a 7 million, but
that surplus is only due to an ex-traordinary
one time anonymous
8 million deficit.
Rush goes on to blame
the “deterioration of revenue in
the SLU Care practice” and the
shortcomings of the undergradu-ate
and graduate enrollment.
SLU’s VP and CFO David
Heimburger projects that if noth-ing
is done, the deficit will reach
30 million.
The aspects that will stay
stable are the 2 percent annu-al
faculty and staff raises, each
through 2020-2023, as well as a
pool of funds for promotions and
tenure faculty.
The tuition discounting
will continue, as well as an in-crease
of another 2 percent in tui-tion
discount in fiscal year 20 and
then an additional 1 percent in
the subsequent years until 2023.
The endowment spend will de-crease
from 5 percent to 4.5 per-cent
next year.
Another constant are the
interest rates on SLU’s borrowing
that continue to rise.
These projections be-came
known on Nov. 7, and were
shared with everyone at the Sen-ate
meeting on Nov. 13.
Rush said the Board of
Trustees will not accept a deficit
budget proposal and claims that
it is unlikely that SLU will out-grow
these issues. The fiscal year
20 budget must be developed and
approved in early spring, maybe
even as early as February, asso-ciate
professor of chemistry and
acting provost, Michael Lewis
said.
“The only short term
solutions may be an addition-al
round of painful reductions,”
Rush said.
Lewis will be meeting
with the deans three times a week
going forward to address the bud-get’s
needs. He stressed that he
wants to figure this out internal-ly
instead of externally, like the
round of cuts in 2017.
S
AS THE WINTER SETS IN,
SLU FREEZES SPENDING
By MONICA RYAN
Managing Editor
Photo Courtesy of Ellen Hutti
s the sun descends, signaling
night, families congregate to
share a time away from work,
a time to unwind from their
responsibilities and be in the
company of loved ones. It is
also Friday: the hallmark to
the start of the weekend. Some plan weekend
getaways, shopping excursions or time to
catch up on previously procrastinated tasks.
For those who practice Judaism, sundown on
Friday marks the start of Shabbat, a 25-hour
observance that commences at nightfall on
Saturday and of which beckons a time with
family rather than labor.
On Oct. 27, the Tree of Life Syna-gogue
in Pittsburgh held its Shabbat service
when an anti-Semite opened fire, leaving the
deadliest mark on the Jewish community in
U.S. history. The 11 fatalities not only took
a direct toll on those affected within the
congregation, but it disturbed vibrant Jew-ish
communities nationwide—one being at
Saint Louis University.
Nearly a week after the shooting,
the SLU Jewish Student Association held a
Sunday evening vigil on Nov. 4 at 7:30 p.m.
to commemorate those affected by the in-cident.
In the half-hour service, JSA Presi-dent
Maya Gross and guest speakers from
Washington University addressed themes of
religious unity and coexistence as the Pitts-burgh
shooting was not the first episode of
Jews being targeted.
“The fact that we can come to-gether
after such a tragedy shows that love
and community can trump the hate that is
in the world,” Gross said. “After [the Pitts-burgh
shooting], it is normal to feel afraid.
It is a very practical feeling to have—I was
even afraid to go back to Temple after, but
we have to go back because we have to show
strength.”
Standing up to the hate, as expressed
by Gross, attendees—both of Jewish faith and
of other religious backgrounds—sat togeth-er
at the Clocktower to not only learn about
Shabbat, but to sing songs and recite prayers
about love. “We have to rise above the hate
because if we don’t, that gives the people
who perpetuate hate what they want,” she
said.
Shabbat is portrayed as the pinnacle
of creation in the Bible, with God resting on
the seventh day of creation to observe his
work. It also memorializes God rescuing the
Israelites from slavery in Egypt by designat-ing
a day for personal autonomy. The vigil
called upon its prominent theme of thanking
rather than asking.
Jewish liturgy emphasizes God’s role
as supreme author, and as this author, he led
the Israelites out of slavery, as written in the
Torah. So too, the SLU Jewish community did
JEWISH STUDENTS COMMEMORATE PITTSBURGH SYNAGOGUE
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04 NEWS
By MEREDYTH STAUNCH
Editor-in-Chief
(Riley Tovornik/Contributor)
SAVANAH’S
SGA UPDATE
NOV. 7, 2018
Representatives from Sodexo came to Senate to
give an update on the company’s service at the University.
The representatives held a Q&A with the SGA senators
and answered questions about sustainability, plastic waste,
dietary restrictions and goals for maintaining, improving
and expanding dining operations throughout campus,
among other things. The reps took notes from the sena-tor’s
questions as well, promising to take a look at many of
the issues they brought up.
New funding directives for the annual funding
directives for CSOs were presented and discussed.
Legislation passed:
Vacant Senate seats were filled with three new
senators: one for commuter students, one
for Graduate Student Association and one for
School for Professional Studies.
Marguerite Passaglia was seated as the 2019 Elec-tion
Commissioner.
NOV. 14, 2018
The Vice President of Facilities Services gave a
presentation on several topics, including the project goals
new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building,
the moving of the Dolphin Pond and plans for improve-ments
for buildings across campus.
Legislation passed:
Criminology and Criminal Justice Club were
awarded funding.
Graduate Student Association was awarded well
ness funding for their Winter Wellness Week.
not want to solely grieve after the names of
the 11 victims were recited at the vigil. Rath-er,
the attendees should transmit its message
of thankfulness into resilience.
“We stand up against acts of vio-lence
by showing that people of all religions,
races and sexes can come together,” Gross
said. “We are stronger than what the hate
is trying to accomplish. We will keep having
discussions and holding events in honor of
what happened and what went down. It is
important that we remember the shooting.”
ast year, the
Center for
Service and
C o m m u n i t y
Engagement
a n n o u n c e d
that the end
of Make A Dif-ference
Day was upon us. As SLU
students mourned the loss of the
beloved day, the Center wasted no
time to begin a new project—the
1818 Grant Program.
The 1818 Program “is a way
to empower students and create
their own community engagement
experiences,” said Bobby Wassel,
assistant director of the Center.
Although new, the re-sponse
to the Grant was much
higher than expected. While the
Center planned for around 30 ap-plicants,
53 groups have submitted
their proposals since it opened in
early September.
The decision process was
not an easy one. A committee of
faculty and students chose their
top 18 applicants, then the Cen-ter
approved a final 18 from their
choices. According to Wassel, the
hardest part was that only one of
every three applications got ap-proved.
Some of the grant-winning
18 proposals include a pollinator
program that builds 20 different
bee gardens at elementary schools
across St. Louis to help the bee
population and also educate the
youth on the growing bee problem.
Similarly, three engineering groups
teamed up to create a robotics class
for students in the Ville neighbor-hood.
These students “rarely
have access to any sort of STEM
education or fun robotics things
to kind of create a sense of wonder
and awe in robotics and engineer-ing,”
said Wassel.
Wassel is currently getting
the same sense from his job after
starting the program. “I’ve been
here 13 years, and this is unequivo-cally
one of the best programs that
we’ve had here at SLU. Certainly,
one that is giving me so much en-ergy
and joy,” he said, in regards
to meeting with the students and
talking about their anxiousness to
begin working.
“It reminds me why I love
working here and why I love SLU
students,” he proudly said.
The 1818 Grant Program
not only gives Wassel and his team
a reason to feel passionate about
their work, but SLU students get to
finally be the change they wish to
see in their community.
18 SLU GROUPS AWARDED 1,800 DOLLARS
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News 05
Photo Courtesy of Trenton Almgren-Davis
DPS
REPORTS
A car turning into the Laclede
Garage was struck by another car
around midday on Nov. 2. The re-sponding
officer located the car
that had been struck, which had
been operated by a SLU student.
The student was unaware her ve-hicle
had been struck until hearing
about it from the witness who had
called DPS. The unidentified wit-ness
could not be located.
On Nov. 4, a SLU student returned
to her vehicle after parking it on
the city street to find her rear pas-senger
window broken. She noticed
that the items in her vehicle had
been tossed around but nothing
had been stolen. DPS and the po-lice
were contacted sometime after
noon. The police stated they would
take the report over the phone.
High school student Cam-eron
Kasky is no stranger to the
limelight. The Parkland, Florida
firebrand gained national atten-tion
in February 2018 after he said
enough was enough following the
deadliest high school shooting in
the U.S., surpassing the Columbine
High School massacre in 1999.
Proliferated with media at-tention
since the shooting, Marjo-ry
Stoneman Douglas High School
has since become a trademark to
instill a stricter gun control poli-cy—
that of which came to fruition
on March 24, 2018, when March for
Our Lives was held in major cities
nationwide. Kasky, co-founder of
the movement, not only spoke to
SLU students about the shooting
and motive behind the march, but
he also addressed the country’s po-larization
on gun control. The talk
was held at the Wool Ballrooms on
Nov. 7 at 7 p.m.
“I grew up addicted to
political media,” he said. “I con-sumed
it like candy. I wanted to go
out there and have people think of
Parkland not as the city where ev-eryone
was crying, but as the city
where something different needs
to happen.”
Kasky said he knew the
media would exploit Parkland, his
childhood town that was tainted by
one incident, just like it did with
the Sandy Hook and Aurora shoot-ings.
He mentioned that the media
expected to see crying; it expected
to see people’s infuriation. Kasky
realized that the once “safe” image
of Parkland was outdated—but he
used this as a backbone to reinvent
its destined image.
“I see the media giving
people like me a victim of status,”
he said. “It looks at the Parkland...
By MEREDYTH STAUNCH
Editor-in-Chief
RELUCTANT HERO:
CAMERON KASKY AT SLU
By RILEY MACK
News Editor
Scan the QR
code below to
continue reading
the article.
At 4:06 a.m. on Nov. 3, the front
desk worker at Marchetti Towers
East reported that there was an in-toxicated
person in the building.
The suspect was a guest of a SLU
resident and was acting erratically,
waving his arms in the air, yelling
very loudly and refusing to listen
to any of the officers’ commands.
He was placed in handcuffs before
quieting down and calming his de-meanor.
The suspect admitted to
drinking and explained he was up-set
because he had lost his key.
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06 arts and life
By CHANDANA KAMARAJ
MADISYN SIEBERT
Arts Editors
(Chandana Kamaraj/ University News)
THIS WEEK’S
FAVORITES
1
FOOD
Grand Tavern by David Burke
Opened: Nov. 12, 2018
Where: 634 N. Grand Blvd.
Celebrity chef David Burke brings
his talents to the Grand Center of
St. Louis, cooking up small plates
and emphasizing his own take on
St. Louis dishes, such as the Gooey
Butter Cake.
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3
4
5
CINEMA
Instant Family
Release: Nov. 16, 2018
“When Pete and Ellie decide to start a
family, they stumble into the world of
foster care adoption. They hope to take
in one small child, but when they meet
three siblings, including a rebellious
15-year-old girl, they find themselves
speeding from zero to three kids over-night.
Now, Pete and Ellie must try to
learn the ropes of instant parenthood in
the hope of becoming a family.”
CONCERTS
Starwolf
When: Nov. 23 at 8 p.m.
Where: Blueberry Hill Duck Room
St. Louis native trio Starwolf tour
their album “Ti Amo, Stargazer”
after playing at several venues, in-cluding
Loufest.
BOOKS
Becoming
By: Michelle Obama
Published: Nov. 13, 2018
In her memoir, a work of deep reflec-tion
and mesmerizing storytelling,
Michelle Obama invites readers into
her world, chronicling the experiences
that have shaped her—from her child-hood
on the South Side of Chicago, to
her years as an executive balancing the
demands of motherhood and work, to
her time spent at the world’s most fa-mous
address.
Lantern Festival
When: Nov. 17, 2018
1 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Where: Brookdale Farms
At Lantern Fest, thousands of revelers,
empowered with lanterns, join together
for one unforgettable nighttime specta-cle.
Before sundown, friends and families
can enjoy food, live music, a stage show,
princesses, face painting, s’mores, balloon
artists and more. Then, when the time is
just right... We will light the sky with our
highest hopes and fondest dreams.
fter canceling
several shows at
the beginning of
the tour, Drake
and his team
added on more
to the last leg in
other cities, and
St. Louis was one of the select cities to
be an additional stop. It was evident
Drake was going to boast a huge pro-duction
from the beginning, with the
famous rap trio Migos from Georgia
opening the show. The three Migos-
Takeoff, Offset and Quavo created hit
singles like “Versace,” “Bad and Bou-jee”
and “Stir Fry,” which went on to
be hits that start every party. With an
opener like that, who would also lat-er
return to the main stage after the
initial hour, the show was basically
the two acts put together to create
a massive experience, thus giving us
“Aubrey and the Three Migos.”
Even though this was a last-minute
show, it wasn’t anything l
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