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Tributaries: Spring 2010
No full textTributaries is a “collection of artwork. [The pages are filled with] poetry, prose and visual art accumulated from the pens, keyboards and brushes of our local and extended family of artists.” –Patrick Tisdel, Editor-in-Chief (2010). This issue contains the following works of poetry: Pawpaw's Rough Mechanic's Hands by Elsbeth Wofford-Tyler; The Boss-man Took It Away by Robert Frazier; White Picket Fence by Geoffrey Craig; The Station Just West of Northport by Robert Collet Tricaro; If You Ever Wish to Grow by Jose Trejo; Escape by Stephanie Harrell; Nature's Script by Robert Collet Tricaro; The Barn by Stephanie Harrell; Screening Prayers by Robert Collet Tricaro; Modern-Day Granddaughter by Stephanie Harrell; I Go Back to Oklahoma 1974 by Lizzy Gregory; Memory Long Gone by Lauren Harmon; Today Is Not My Day by Rabiul Hasan; Untitiled Haiku by Jerred Jesse; Literature Past by Rebecca Lowery; The Cost of First Dates by Patrick Tisdel; Head to Toe by Cindy Kirkland; Death Pulls Me South by Marsha Mathews; Honeybee by Regis Crowder; Constellations of Blueberries by Elsbeth Wofford-Tyler; All In by Corey Taylor; and I Should Tell You But I Would Not by Rabiul Hasan. It contains the following short stories: Lost in Reality by Lauren Harmon; Clouds by Ashlee Swilling; Frayed by Meredith Edwards; Something Blue by Nancy Mason; and His Ring by Stephanie Harrell. The following visual art works are included: The Fence by Samantha Willis; La Push by Aric Brown; Dedication by Kristen Ray Johnson; The Rejected Bride by Alex Ingle; Granny's Pain by Alex Ingle; Untitled by Jeremy Marchmon; Pure Love by Rigoberto Delgado; Wintertime by Tina Phillips; Sam Elliott by Rigoberto Delgado; Awareness by Rigoberto Delgado; Light off the Train by Samantha Willis
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University News - Volume 100[a], Issue 002 (October 22, 2021)
No full text24 pages.VOL. C No. 2 / October 22nd, 2021 UTHE UNIVERSITY NEWS ocCupy SLU
Commemorating
PHOTO BY ABBY CAMPBELL COVER DESIGN BY GRACE DUNLAVY
n the early hours of Oct.
13, 2014, two months af-ter
the police murder of
Mike Brown in Ferguson,
Mo and just a week af-ter
the police murder of
VonDerret Myers Jr. in
St. Louis, a group of nearly 1500 pro-testers
marched down Grand Boule-vard
where they were met with a long
line of riot police. Shortly after, an-other
group of protestors approached
from the opposite side of the road.
The police were forced to retreat, and
as a result, the group, which split ear-lier
in the day, reconvened by a SLU
entrance.
Out of the large crowd emerged
then SLU sophomore Jonathon Pul-phus,
who invited the group onto
campus as his guests. This moment
marked the beginning of the histor-ic
six day sit-in at the Clock Tower,
eventually known as Occupy SLU.
Seven years later, the University
continues to commemorate the oc-cupation’s
anniversary. This year, the
Office of Diversity and Innovative
Community Engagement (DICE), in
collaboration with Campus Ministry,
hosted several local guest speakers in
events that ran from Oct. 8 through
Oct. 15. To begin the commemora-tion
week, a procession took place
on campus which was followed by a
panel discussion from Kayla Reed
and Kira Banks, PhD., who were
both present during the occupation.
VonDerret Myers Sr., a SLU employee,
also spoke alongside them about his
son’s life and story.
With permission from his family,
organizers led several protests like
Occupy SLU in Myers Jr.’s name in
October 2014, which was dubbed as
‘Vontober’ to remember him. During
the occupation, many SLU students
and faculty joined community mem-bers
from across the St. Louis area as
a unified front.
“Without the community work
and without the streets, Occupy SLU
would not have been possible,” said
Pulphus, who led a reflection session
during the commemoration week.
“Part of our mission was to pop that
SLU bubble. We were successful at
that quest, but the jury’s still out on
the question of how serious SLU is
taking and navigating the promises
that were made in the Clock Tower
Accords today.”
The 13-point Accords were devel-oped
through conversations between
students, staff, activists and admin-istration
leaders, ending the week-long
peaceful occupation in 2014 and
committing the University to enact-ing
equitable changes. Pulphus not-ed
that months prior, in May 2014, a
group of students submitted a list of
demands to the institution after a few
racialized incidents occurred on cam-pus.
That initial list, he says, helped
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lay the foundation for the Accords.
“We are building a team now to
re-imagine the Accords and ensure that
our 2021 vision is in alignment with
what is currently happening, and to re-new
[our] commitment and investment
in DICE,” Interim Vice President of
DICE Amber Johnson, PhD., said.
Some of the programming during the
week included an Activism 101 work-shop
led by Ferguson protestors Britta-ny
Ferrel and Jamell Spann and the an-nual
reading of a speech that Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. delivered to the Univer-sity
in 1964. Luella Loseille, Cross Cul-tural
Center coordinator, led the “Say
Their Names” event in which students
read the names of dozens of victims
who lost their lives due to police bru-tality.
“Standing up here and reading these
names really hits home for me as an Af-rican
American,” senior Justice Hill said.
“A lot of times we make adjustments as
a way to survive, but I am here to tell
y’all that I don’t want to survive—I want
to live. Don’t leave this message here.
Take it back to your classrooms, take it
back to your professors and friends be-cause
this is real.”
The commemoration week also aimed
to celebrate the legacy of the late Jon-athan
Smith, PhD., who was a notable
figure during the occupation and the
formation of the Accords. As president
of The Black Rep Board of Directors,
Smith wrote “Do I Move You?,” a play
based on a collection of poetry, music
and dance which was shown Oct. 13 in
his honor.
In another speaker event, “Ferguson
and Tikkun Olam,” Rabbi Susan Talve
and Jeffery Dhoruba Hill shared their
experiences during the Ferguson pro-tests
and Occupy SLU.
“You all are celebrating and commem-orating
this event today, and I want to
stress the point that you don’t have to
be this huge special person to imple-ment
change or to have an effect,” Hill
said. “I was a homeless person with 5
friends, and we were able to organize
Occupy SLU.”
When the original Occupy SLU sit-in
occurred, there were a range of opin-ions
within the SLU community about
the protest. Many parents and students
criticized SLU President Fred Pestel-lo
for allowing the sit-in to occur. The
movement’s legacy, however, lives on as
a powerful event that shifted the Uni-versity’s
culture.
“While we have a long way to go in
terms of institutionalizing anti-racism
and anti-oppressive environments, I
am seeing progress and feel good about
what is possible,” Johnson said.
By ULAA KUZIEZ
Staff Writer
SLU honors
the legacy
of the
original 2014
sit-in at the
clocktower
with a week
of events and
speakers.
7 YEARS LATER:
COMMEMORATING
OCCUPY SLU
Luella Loseille (center) leads “Say Their Names” at the clocktower Oct. 13.
(Abby Campbell / The University News)
News
By BRIAN GUERIN
Staff Writer
enneth Lo-nergan’s
clas-sic
work “This
Is Our Youth “
was the open-ing
produc-tion
of the Saint Louis University
Theatre & Dance Season, running
from Oct. 1-10. Director Tom
Martin said he is optimistic the
show was a hit.
“It’s got three incredibly won-derful
roles and a compelling
story that I believe speaks to our
audience,” Martin said. “The most
enjoyable part is definitely work-ing
with the actors. They are a
wonderful, committed group of
actors, and they’re all absolutely
lion-hearted.”
The 2015 Tony Award-nom-inated
dark comedy is a snapshot
into the tumultuous lives of three
young adults on Manhattan’s
Upper West Side. After stealing
6,495 to 13,000 by
June 2022, the 50th anniversary of
the grant’s creation. According to
#DoublePell’s website, the grant in
its origination covered more than
three-quarters of the cost of at-tending
a four-year public college.
Today, Pell Grants cover less than
one-third of those costs.
“The goal is to bring it back to
its intended strength,” Dave Rice,
Associate Director of Student Fi-nancial
Services, said.
Rice explained that these ad-vocacy
efforts are not proposing
any kind of changes in the eligibil-ity
requirements, but focusing on
simply increasing the amount of
the award.
“This award is so different from
[other financial aid] because it’s
not tied to the school, it’s tied to
you,” Rice said.
The grant works on a sliding
scale, where the amount awarded
to students changes based on the
financial need as demonstrated on
students’ FAFSA paperwork. Rice ex-plained
that this kind of increase in
aid, though not resolving the finan-cial
burden of higher education as
a whole, could make the process of
paying for college more accessible
and equitable.
“If I’m going to go buy a car to-night,
and I start out with 10 percent
of it or so in hand, I might struggle
to figure out how to do it,” Rice said.
“But if I started out with 75 percent,
I might be more apt to try to go do
that.”
While some believe increasing the
grant amount would give colleges
and universities incentive to increase
tuition costs, Rice was adamant that
the correlation was not so direct.
“You could make that case, but it’s
not a one-to-one correlation,” Rice
said. “It’s not automatically going
to mean that tuition can go up any-where.
And for SLU, it’s important to
know that we publish any tuition in-creases
every year.”
Though Sajwani believes increas-ing
aid money for students through
every avenue possible is important,
she also acknowledged the oppor-tunity
available through increasing
grant money on a federal level as op-posed
to scholarships given from a
school.
“There are other universities that
maybe can’t [increase their endow-ment],
and the students who attend
those universities should not be neg-atively
affected because their institu-tion
doesn’t have the extra money to
provide for them when federally they
can be provided with that money.”
Even though Sajwani will be grad-uating
at the end of this academic
year, she feels strongly about fighting
for this change that could alleviate
some of the financial burden—even if
only by a little—that she, like so many
other students, has had to deal with.
#DoublePell is not the answer to
all of our country’s woes, but it is a
starting point,” Rice said.
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By ZOË BUTLER
News Editor
.
(Diana Jakovcevic / The University News)
STUDENT ADVOCACY SEEKS
TO DOUBLE PELL GRANT
UNIVERSITY THEATRE
OPENS WITH “THIS IS OUR YOUTH”
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ius XII Memorial
Library was rec-ognized
as the
2021 Missouri
Library of the
Year by the Missouri Library
Association.
This award came after
18 months of Pius Library
functioning through the
COVID-19 pandemic, some-thing
that caused many li-braries
across the state to
alter their services and sys-tems.
Martha Allen, Assistant
Dean of User Services at Pius
Library, said that one of the
reasons Pius Library received
the award was due to their
pandemic response.
“We did not close our
doors,” Allen said. “Pius Li-brary
was open and had the
longest open hours of any li-brary
in the state of Missouri.
And I’m talking public librar-ies,
special libraries, academ-ic
libraries, school libraries—
the library as rates of e-book
and streaming media check-outs
rose drastically, Allen
said.
Caitlin Stamm, an archi-vist
in Pius Library, says that
these services have always set
Pius Library apart.
“Before I came to SLU, Pius
Library had a great reputation
for having a great collection,”
Stamm said. “When I needed
to find things for my patrons,
I always knew that if I need-ed
a special book or a theolo-gy
book…Pius Library always
had it and was always willing
to help us. And so, I came to
SLU with the knowledge of
Pius Library—a great library.”
That is a reputation that has
been built and tended to since
Pius Library first opened in
1959. Before that, the SLU Li-brary
was located in what is
now the Pere Marquette Gal-lery
in DuBourg Hall, accord-ing
to John Waide, a former
SLU archivist who worked in
Pius Library for 47 years.
“I am really just kind of over-whelmed
by how many stu-dents
use the library,” Waide
said. “You know during mid-terms
and final exams, you
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can’t find a seat in the library, and
there are a lot of seats in the library,
don’t get me wrong. It’s just amaz-ing
to me how much use it gets.”
Students and SLU community
members do use Pius heavily, es-pecially
during the pandemic. Ac-cording
to library headcounts, Sep-tember
2021 saw over 60,000 guests
enter Pius Library. Once they enter,
of course, there are plenty of things
for them to do.
“I just like the environment of
everyone kind of studying, side by
side, and it’s like we’re all kind of
going through it together,” said
Lydia Golden, a senior studying
Health Management and Policy.
“What has become very apparent is
that the library, as a place, is so im-portant,”
Allen said. “The library is
a sanctuary to many students, and
different types of sanctuaries: a
sanctuary for intellectual research,
a sanctuary just for calm and peace,
a sanctuary for recreational read-ing,
a sanctuary just to get a bagel.
You know, where you meet with
your friends.”
A continuation of normalcy was
something Allen says they wanted
to focus on.
“I can’t tell you the number of
students who have said to me how
important it was during the pan-demic
that the library at least was
a slice of normalcy in this chaotic
new world that we were living in,”
Allen said. “They knew that they
could come to the library and feel
safe.”
Ultimately, that sense of safety
and support is what makes Pius Li-brary
what it is, said Allen.
“I just want to say we have such
an incredible team here,” Allen
said. “We didn’t win the award from
one person, one individual person.
It was the team that came togeth-er
to support the needs of the stu-dents.
And that is thrilling for me
to be in an environment that is tru-ly
committed to their mission.”
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we were open longer
than anyone else.”
Allen said that along
with the hours that it was
open, Pius Library was able
to continue offering many of
its services during the pan-demic,
which also set Pius
apart from other libraries in
Missouri.
“We were committed to try
and keep the services at a lev-el
that was [similar to] nor-mal
operating services,” Al-len
said. “We really did move
800 chairs, 40 sofas, many,
many tables. And we did that
with the help of distribution
and moving services.”
But more than changes to-pysical
functions, Pius Li-brary
was also recognized for
how quickly it adapted to the
virtual needs of campus.
“The virtual library is ab-solutely
vital to student suc-cess,”
Allen said. “And what
we quickly realized during
the pandemic was that Zoom
enabled us to reach students
that maybe we have never
reached in the past.”
There were many students
and faculty members who
utilized the virtual aspects of
Best in State
By JACK JOHNSTON
Staff Writer
PIUS LIBRARY:
he 2021 United
States Chess Cham-pionship
conclud-ed
on Monday, Oct.
18, with two SLU
students, Dariusz
Świercz and Thalia
Cervantes, competing in the pres-tigious
event. The pair, who are
also members of the SLU chess
team, both played well against in-ternationally
ranked competitors.
Świercz finished with a score of
5/11, earning 8th place, and Cer-vantes
also finished with 5/11,
earning 7th place.
The championship was played
from Oct. 8 to Oct. 20, with elev-en
rounds and two rest days. Only
one round was played per day, with
games often lasting several hours.
The tournament was divided into a
men’s and women’s section, with a
150,000 prize fund for the men’s
section and 64,000 bonus on
top of the first place prize money).
Both players took a break from
busy schedules and midterms to
compete in the championship. Dar-iusz
Świercz is a master’s student
in Applied Financial Economics,
originally from Poland. He obtained
his bachelor’s degree in Economics
from SLU in 2019. Świercz became a
grandmaster, the highest title a chess
player can achieve, at the age of four-teen,
and is currently ranked 102nd
in the world. Cervantes is a freshman
at SLU, originally from Cuba, who
moved to the United States to pur-sue
better chess opportunities. She is
majoring in Sports Business.
Both Świercz and Cervantes faced
stiff competition in their respective
sections. The top seed in the men’s
section was world number two Fabi-ano
Caruana, who won the tourna-ment
in 2016 and was also the most
recent challenger for Magnus Carlsen’s
World Champion title in 2018. World
number six Wesley So, who won the
tournament in 2017 and 2020, was the
second highest ranked player in the
championship section.
In the women’s section, Cervant-es
faced some of the top ranked female
chess players in the world, including
eight-time U.S. Women’s Chess Cham-pion
Irina Krush and two-time cham-pion
Nazi Paikidze. The eventual win-ner
of the tournament, Carissa Yip,
was ranked as the second seed in the
tournament. Yip made history in 2019
when she became the youngest woman
in U.S. history to earn the Internation-al
Master title, the second highest title
that can be achieved in chess.
SLU Chess Team coach Alejandro
Ramirez, commenting on the strength
of the field, said: “It’s the strongest
national championship in the world,
and it is the top chess news for the two
weeks it occurs. The women’s section is
also very strong and has been getting
increasingly stronger as a combination
of international transfers and rising ju-niors:
Thalia is one of those.”
Going into the tournament, Cer-vantes
says she was focused on playing
well, regardless of the outcome of the
tournament. “I was also one of the low-est-
ranked in the field, so I took it as
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more of a test of how I do against these
players. Joining SLU and this being my
first year, I have been quite busy.”
SLU Chess Team coach Alejandro
Ramirez said of Świercz and Cervantes:
“They are polar opposites...Dariusz is
the most experienced and the stron-gest
player on the team and has been
a cornerstone of our team from our
very first showing as a team in the 2016
Pan-American Intercontinental Chess
Championships. Thalia, on the oth-er
hand, is our newest recruit. Thalia
has been a top junior in the American
circuit and has recently reached new
heights of her chess.”
At the midway point of the tour-nament,
Ramirez evaluated the respec-tive
performances of his players: “I
think Dariusz is a bit unsatisfied with
his results. He has been a bit luckless,
pressing for the advantage in many
games but coming up empty handed,”
adding that “I’m sure he wants to score
a couple more victories before the
tournament ends.”
“Thalia comes in as the lowest
rated player in the event, and despite
that, she is currently in a tie for sev-enth.
Again, some things to fix, but it’s
a nice bounce back for her after a cou-ple
of rough tournaments leading up to
the champs,” Ramirez added.
Despite several tough losses early
in the tournament, Świercz played well
in the second half of the tournament,
ending with a win against Lazaro Bru-zon
and a draw against Lenier Domin-guez,
two top-ranked Cuban players.
Cervantes also had solid per-formance
overall, finishing in seventh
place with a score of 5/11. Highlights
of her tournament included a draw
against tournament winner Carissa
Yip, who is currently the third ranked
female chess player in the United
States. Cervantes described her match
against Yip as “aggressive and compet-itive.”
Cervantes also won an exciting
game against Sabina Francesca Foisor
in round three.
“I am proud of my win against Sa-bina
Foisor,” Cervantes said. “It was a
hard fought game and I ended up com-ing
out on top.”
Asked to evaluate her tournament
performance, Cervantes concluded: “It
was a nice experience, and overall a
very solid score as I drew most of my
games. I could have done a lot better,
but I am content with this result. I hope
my performances in this event only get
better and better.”
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ŚwiercZ, Cervantes
ComPete In Us Chess CHampionship
By CONOR DORN
Editor-in-Chief
(Grace Dunlavy / The University News)
Photos Courtesy of Lennart Ootes
(Diana Jakovcevic / The University News)
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By MORGAN HAUSBACK
Staff Writer
very Saint Louis resident and college stu-dent
has seen them and paused to take
a picture of the beautiful, historic town
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