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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
A critical history of the international art journal Artforum
No full textThe American-based international art journal Artforum has proved one of the most prominent and influential of art history's discursive agencies, playing a critical role in framing, probing, and re-working particular beliefs of art
practice, art history, and art criticism broadly conceived of as 'Modernist' and 'post-Modernist.' This thesis investigates the development of Artforum's critical and historical writing on 'Modernist,' 'post-Modernist,' and feminist issues. It takes Artforum, from 1962 to 1993, as its 'archive' and undertakes a critical history of the journal's personnel, policies, and textual discourse, as
well as its look and design.
The first chapter, "The Language of Another Generation," focuses upon the 'old' Artforum, a concept of the magazine which attempts to articulate a retrospective perception of its critical power from the mid -1960s to the mid'
70s. Specifically, it challenges a conception of the magazine which portrays it as a mouthpiece for Clement Greenberg's theories of Modernist artistic and
critical practices. In attempting to elucidate this misconception of the journal, the chapter makes use of some of Michel Foucault's suggestions for a historical
analysis that focuses on the ruptures, rather than the continuities of Lhe object of study. To this end, the chapter identifies factors which contributed to the
construction of the idea of Artforum as a Greenberg-influenced journal and then locates a discourse working against that idea, a discourse that disrupts Greenbergian Modernism.
Chapter 2, "Shameless Hussies," centres on Artforum's November 1974 and November 1980 issues and questions the journal's gendered biases toward the human figure in art. It considers the magazine's attempt to wrest from body
and performance artists Lynda Bengiis, Lisa Lyon, and Carolee Schneemarln their artistic authority, and documents its struggle to maintain the producer/product, subject/object distinctions that these artists had blurred
through their practices. Indeed, the chapter propounds that Artforum's resistance to images of the female figure waxed when the body represented belonged to the artist herself and, in view of the evidence presented by the
November 1980 issue, waned when artist and body were either distinct identies or male. The chapter concludes with an analysis of whether or not the journal succeded in nullifying the artists' political power by preventing their bodies' final collapse into ambiguous representation. Chapter 3, "Autocritique," looks at Artforum's relationship to certain concepts of post-Modernism through its notable recourses to a self-referential criticality. It discusses examples of the journal's self-reflexivity under the editorships of John Coplans, Ingrid Sischy, and current editor Jack Bankowsky and proposes that the magazine oscillates between working with and exhibiting a Greenbergian notion of Modernist self-criticism on the one hand, and an idea of a post-Modernist deconstructive impulse on the other
Assisting reading and analysis of text documents by visualization
No full textThe research reported here examined the use of computer generated graphics as a means to assist humans to analyse text documents which have not been subject to markup. The approach taken was to survey available visualization techniques in a broad selection of disciplines including applications to text documents, group those techniques using a taxonomy proposed in this research, then develop a selection of techniques that assist the text analysis objective. Development of the selected techniques from their fundamental basis, through their visualization, to their demonstration in application, comprises most of the body of this research. A scientific orientation employing measurements, combined with visual depiction and explanation of the technique with limited mathematics, is used as opposed to fully utilising any one of those resulting techniques for performing complete text document analysis.
Visualization techniques which apply directly to the text and those which exploit measurements produced by associated techniques are considered. Both approaches employ visualization to assist the human viewer to discover patterns which are then used in the analysis of the document. In the measurement case, this requires consideration of data with dimensions greater than three, which imposes a visualization difficulty. Several techniques for overcoming this problem are proposed. Word frequencies, Zipf considerations, parallel coordinates, colour maps, Cusum plots, and fractal dimensions are some of the techniques considered.
One direct application of visualization to text documents is to assist reading of that document by de-emphasising selected words by fading them on the display from which they are read. Three word selection techniques are proposed for the automatic selection of which words to use.
An experiment is reported which used such word fading techniques. It indicated that some readers do have improved reading speed under such conditions, but others do not. The experimental design enabled the separation of that group which did decrease reading times from the remaining readers who did not. Measurement of comprehension errors made under different types of word fading were shown not to increase beyond that obtained under normal reading conditions.
A visualization based on categorising the words in a text document is proposed which contrasts to visualization of measurements based on counts. The result is a visual impression of the word composition, and the evolution of that composition within that document.
The text documents used to demonstrates these techniques include English novels and short stories, emails, and a series of eighteenth century newspaper articles known as the Federalist Papers. This range of documents was needed because all analysis techniques are not applicable to all types of documents. This research proposes that an interactive use of the techniques on hand in a non-prescribed order can yield useful results in a document analysis. An example of this is in author attribution, i.e. assigning authorship of documents via patterns characteristic of an individual's writing style. Different visual techniques can be used to explore the patterns of writing in given text documents.
A software toolkit as a platform for implementing the proposed interactive analysis of text documents is described. How the techniques could be integrated into such a toolkit is outlined. A prototype of software to implement such a toolkit is included in this research. Issues relating to implementation of each technique used are also outlined
Ants as flower visitors : floral ant-repellence and the impact of ant scent-marks on pollinator behaviour
No full textAs flower visitors, ants rarely benefit a plant, commonly disrupting pollination by deterring other flower
visitors, or stealing nectar. This thesis examines three aspects of ant-flower interactions, focusing on
the occurrence of floral traits that prevent disruption of pollination and a novel means by which ants
may influence pollinator behaviour.
To assess which types of plant species possess ant-repelling floral traits I carried out a survey
of 49 Neotropical plant species. Around a third of these species were repellent to the common
generalist ant Camponotus novograndensis (Formicinae). This repellence was positively correlated
with large nectar volumes within individual flowers. It appears that there has been selection for floral
ant-repellence as a defence against ant thieves in plant species that invest in large volumes of nectar.
In some cases these repellent traits were effective against a wide range of ant species. However, in no
plant species were predacious ants particularly repelled, indicating that there may be little selective
pressure on non-ant-plants to defend potential pollinators from aggressive ants.
To investigate the importance of coevolution in determining the effectiveness of ant-repellents,
a small but diverse range of Mediterranean plant species were tested with the invasive nectar thieving
ant Linepithema humile (Dolichoderinae) and the native but non-nectar thieving ant Messor bouvieri
(Myrmecinae). Responses of both ant species to floral traits were very similar. The ability of some
plants to restrict access to ant species with which they have no evolutionary history may help to
reduce the impact invasive species, as nectar thieves, have on plant-pollinator interactions.
It is reported that flowers recently visited by bees and hoverflies may be rejected for a period
of time by subsequent bee visitors through the detection of scent-marks. Nectar-thieving ants could
potentially influence the foraging decisions of bees in a similar way if they come to associate ant trail
pheromones or footprint hydrocarbons with poor reward levels. However, my empirical work found no
differences were found in bee visitation behaviour between flowers of Digitalis pupurea
(Plantaginaceae), Bupleurum fruticosum (Apiaceae) or Brassica juncea (Brassicaceae) that had been
in contact with ants and control flowers. Ant-attendance at flowers of these species may not reduce reward levels sufficiently to make it worthwhile for bees to incorporate ant scent-marks into foraging
decisions.
Investigations like these into the interactions between ants, flowers and other flower visitors
are essential if we hope to understand the part ants play in pollination ecology, and determine how
ants have helped shape floral evolution
One of the University\u27s Highest Research Honors is Bestowed on Law Professor
No full textWednesday, April 2, 2003
WRITER: Rory Sheats, (706) 583-0599, [email protected] CONTACT: Judy Purdy, (706) 542-5941, [email protected]
UGA BESTOWS ITS HIGHEST RESEARCH HONORS
ATHENS, Ga. - The University of Georgia honored outstanding faculty and graduate students April 2 at its 24th annual research awards banquet. Sponsored by the nonprofit University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc., the event recognized exceptional accomplishments by UGA researchers and scholars.
CREATIVE RESEARCH MEDALS Five Creative Research Medals were given to UGA faculty for outstanding research or creative activity on a single theme while at UGA in the past five years. Recipients were Thomas A. Eaton and Susette M. Talarico, James T. Hollibaugh, Ming-Jun Lai and Paul Wenston, Michael P. Terns, and Richard N. Winn.
Eaton, J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law, and Talarico, Albert Berry Saye Professor of American Government and Constitutional Law, inform debate on tort reform in Georgia and the nation. They have conducted the most systematic and in-depth study of tort litigation in any state. Tort cases - or civil suits that seek damages for wrongful conduct - have long been debated among insurance companies, consumer advocates and the public. Eaton and Talarico consider public policy questions, such as whether tort reform is necessary, based on their analysis of more than 27,000 Georgia tort cases. Counter to popular opinion, their findings show that tort cases usually involve simple disputes and that plaintiffs awards tend to be modest and rarely punitive.
Eaton is the first law professor to receive a Creative Research Medal from the University of Georgia Research Foundation.
Hollibaugh, professor of marine sciences, has won international acclaim for his innovative approach to the study of microbial diversity in aquatic ecosystems. Until recently, a majority of bacteria found in the ocean could not be studied because of their intractability to standard culture techniques. Hollibaugh devised an alternative approach using a molecular technique known as denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) to eliminate the need to culture bacteria. This technique has proved so effective in analyzing marine microbes that it is now a tool used by scientists worldwide. Hollibaugh\u27s work also has proved invaluable in understanding such important biological phenomena as oceanic diversity and how microbes may have interacted during the early evolution of life on Earth.
Lai, professor of mathematics, and Wenston, associate professor of mathematics, have developed a method that reduces approximation errors for Navier-Stokes equations. Mathematicians apply these equations to describe and predict how fluids move, for example when designing faster boats and creating such animations as the huge waves in the movie The Perfect Storm. The Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Mass., offers a 5,000, a professional workshop production with off-Broadway\u27s Theatre in the Square, and publication by Samuel French, a prestigious publisher of dramatic scripts. Three other original works have been performed at New York City\u27s Fringe Festival, Boston\u27s New Theatre and the University of North Carolina.
JAMES L. CARMON AWARD Presented to a UGA graduate student for innovative use of computers, the James L. Carmon award was received by Walker S. Ashley. Established by Control Data Corporation, the award was named for the late James L. Carmon, a UGA faculty member for 36 years who helped lead UGA in computer research and development.
Ashley, a doctoral candidate in geography, studies the conditions that contribute to destructive and deadly storm systems. One way to minimize the loss caused by such violent storms is to develop improved forecasting techniques. Ashley is developing a computer modeling system that simulates storm conditions based on data from past storms. The first of its kind implemented on a UGA parallel-processing computer system, the model has scientific and practical value.
GRADUATE STUDENT EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH AWARDS These awards recognize the quality and significance of graduate student scholarship and are given in the areas of fine arts, humanities and letters, life sciences, mathematical and physical sciences and professional and applied studies. Recipients this year were Sudie E. Back, Benjamin R. Bates, James A. Grimsley, Andrew Benton Reams and Vitaly N. Vologodsky.
Back, a doctoral candidate in psychology, conducts clinically relevant research in the areas of trauma and substance abuse. Back\u27s proposed dissertation will examine the chronology of post-traumatic stress disorder and substance dependence in individuals with the dual diagnosis. Her research will determine whether the onset of the two disorders is related to treatment effectiveness and will provide new data relevant to clinical treatment.
Bates, a doctoral candidate in speech communication, examines how texts have different meanings for different audiences and what this can mean for international and intercultural dialogue. His dissertation describes how conventional interpretations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fail to account for particular international goals and arguments that contributed both to the conflict and to a context-specific understanding of the conflict. Such studies can lead to a re-evaluation of how foreign policy is formed at national and international levels.
Grimsley, a master\u27s candidate in art, has developed a carving technique for porcelain that yields unique, translucent vessels that are three to five inches tall. Involving hundreds of hours of labor and as many as four firings, the process requires great determination and patience. The resulting art works are profoundly personal narratives of technical achievement and precision. Grimsley\u27s work opens a new avenue of artistic expression in a demanding and difficult medium.
Reams, a doctoral candidate in microbiology, studies bacterial genetics and physiology. His discovery that a soil bacterium readily amplifies extensive segments of its chromosome developed into a novel system to explore genome plasticity. Reams\u27 research has implications for cancer biology, antibiotic resistance, bacterial virulence and bioremediation.
Vologodsky, a doctoral candidate in mathematics, studies two areas of algebraic geometry, a field of mathematics concerned with polynomial equations. Two of his four published papers involve a classical factorization problem in birational geometry and two involve degenerations of Abelian varieties, which have many applications in mathematics and physics. His research has appeared in the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society and the Journal fur die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (a.k.a. Creele\u27s Journal).
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Papel del factor de transcripción Kruppel-like factor 2 en la disfunción endotelial hepática asociada a la hipertensión portal y al daño por isquemia y reperfusión
No full textEl endotelio disfuncional presenta, entre otras caracteristicas, alteración en los mecanismos de vasodilatación, complicaciones trombóticas, disminución de la resistencia al estrés oxidativo, aumento de la expresión de moléculas de adhesión y de la secreción de moléculas proinflamatorias. El factor de transcripción endotelial KLF2 juega un importante papel en la regulación del fenotipo protector endotelial y su expresión depende de las fuerza hemodinámicas generadas por el flujo sanguíneo y de la administración exógena de estatinas.
La hipertensión portal y el daño hepático por I/R son dos condiciones patológicas asociadas a disfunción endotelial. Los trastornos estructurales característicos de la cirrosis hepática, la mayor causa prevalente de hipertensión portal en nuestro entorno, se acompañan de variaciones en las fuerzas hemodinámicas que pueden modificar la expresión de KLF2 y su programa transcripcional vasoprotector. Asímismo, durante la isquemia asociada a la preservación de injertos hepáticos para transplante, la interrupción de las fuerzas hemodinámicas generadas por el flujo sanguíneo podría resultar en la reducción de los programas endoteliales vasoprotectores, que se debería en parte a la pérdida de expresión de KLF2.
Los trabajos de investigación de la presente tesis doctoral amplian el conocimiento de los mecanismos moleculares responsables de la disfunción endotelial hepática, demostrando:
1. Que KLF2 está muy expresado en los hígados cirróticos y que su expresión se induce en las fases tempranas de la progresión de la enfermedad, representando un mecanismo compensador para mejorar los desórdenes vasculares característicos de los hígados cirróticos.
2. Que los hígados preservados en condiciones de transplante muestran un descenso tiempo-dependiente de KLF2, acompañado de daño hepático y aumentada resistencia vascular.
Además, demostran que la modulación farmacologica de la expresión de KLF2 puede ser beneficiosa tanto en el tratamiento de la hipertensión portal como en la preservación de los injertos hepáticos para transplante
The Log of Champion Activities
No full textBetween 1914 and the late 1960s, the Champion Paper and Fibre Company published an internal newsletter, called The Log, to share news about the Canton mill, the community, and its employees. After 1940, news from the entire “Champion Family,” which included mills in Hamilton, Ohio, Houston, Texas and Sandersville, Georgia, was featured in each issue.. ."
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Champien's New Airplane ______ .. _ 2
Arl~o.na Indians ~ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3
Reuben B. Robertson Elected
President A.P.P.A. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4
Seeing Opportunity In a Dirty
W indow _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4
Charles S. Bryant _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5
r- as t er-Ed"t ton· a· t ___ • ______ ______ _ s
Which Shall It Be, Peace or
Worid War 3? ____ . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6
Rubber Tires _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7
Percy V. Paetz _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7
CHAMPION FAMILY NEWS
Hamilton Division _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8
Canton Division _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 24
Houston Division _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 33
Sandersvtlle Division _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 36
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A C·T IV IT IE S
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VOL. XXIX NUMBER 3
This Month's Cover Picture
J/w llrth o the Urrtin
Through the courtesy of the lVIetropolitan Museum of Art,
Ne-vv York City, we are pern1.itted to reproduce on the cover of
our n1agazine this tnonth, a detaiJ from the pajnting, ~'The Birth
of the Virgin/' attributed to Fra Carnevale.
_ It is said, the pai-nting is of ''exceptionally high quality and
unusual conception. Such elegant figures moving ·within
elaborate and spacious architectural settings are found in few
if any other Italian paintings."
The Artist
So far as we know, the painter of the panel "The Birth of the Virgin't
i not defin.itely knovvn, there are link with a number of diHerent master" .
''The landscape and some of the head in th painting re ea l Flo r ntine
influences, but the clea rest connection is \vith Pi e r d ell a- F ranee ca who 'va probably the teacher of th artist.' ,
"Adolfo Ventu ri and \'an l\larle attrlbu.to the paiming im1ly to tb
'chooJ of Piero d. ella F ran ee. a . V ntt:Jri , ho1vev r h d hit upon the
brill iant s uggestion that Fra arnevale mi ht hav pa inted it.' The
attrjbution to Fra Carnevale a th e artist is gen rally a c pt -d b_- The
?vl tro1 olitan Mu "'um of Art.
\V ar ib fon d that Fra a rnC'va le \V . nC>t onl _, a paint r in ' r in),
Italy, but he was al . nrolled in lb li. t f a rchit t& cmpl d by the
:\1(JJ1t f ll ri '] n the . i ·te nth entur. a \\rriter menti -n d him among
aint rs who cPatccl ori ginal ar hi tee ural d )o·n,, :nd an th r c n-tm
·ncled hi pain tiPlgs ;[ fig 1.r s a n:! 1'l t, ~ ltcring them · fr m prQfa.n to
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PUBLISHED BY "THE CHAMPION FAMILY'
KAMJLtON, OHIO : CANTON. N.C. : HOUSTON. IEX)\5 : SANDiRSVn..:u;. GA.
!4t~bUah.e:d 1914 · ~ · • . Thlrt,y~seeon.d Yea..t of Publication
The POHr for the covet of thla moqad»e ls Chlimpfon Krom9kC!te, ®d the paper for the
in.sid.e paqes i• Champion «Jtln Be(Qld ..EfiQJtlel. We m~~ufcict,ure many grades of
bleached papera. Mochine Pinifhed, Super Ccdendered, alld Coat d.
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Th Champion Kni ht h · t k >n
to the ai . To brin all di ·i -ions iut
do er conta t the omp ny re ·entlv
bought a twin en in e ch ·raft phn~.
Air ady th avin · i 1 time r uir ·d
fo bu ine' trip~ ha ' rro\'ed tb ' wi,dom
of th purchas .
Paul rai 6 , a f n 1er mem er f he
Champion Family. r .turned fr m f 1u r
year of Tav ~- air tran ·port experience .
to become the pilot of the rl ne.
The new, plane mad"' it · initial flight
on February ,..., , from Hamilt n t
Can on. m · king the trip in le " than
two hour-- iiLtead of the u ual overnio-
ht ri~e by t rain. H arold \Yrighr
and Richard Bett of ch dullng. flew
v; ith Pilot Craig on hi fll· · t fligl~t .
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In a company \rith a~ extensive ope
rati on~ a.. Champion, frequent co n..
ultations regarding mill operations
are neces ary. The great di tance bet'i~.
reen the three mill , the clay mine
and the timberland activities, necessaril)
. made these meeting less frequent
than desirable. \Vith the plane
a ailable it will be po sible to cover
in five hours the distance to Houston,
that formerly took 30 hours by train.
Two day ' travel is saved between
Hamilton or Canton and Hou ton ..
Now it will be pos ible to schedule and
complete an important conference
within 24 hours' time. Here are two pictures of the new Champion airplane, ta.ken March 11 at Lunken Airport.
During the period of reconver ion
and a normal competitive co nditi o n ~
are restored, such savings in t ime will
be even more important. It will be
Cincinnati, just after it arrived from Houston in a flight of five hours and five minutes. The plane
immediately took off for a flight to Asheville and after a short stop there proceeded to Washington.
One picture shows. left to right. Paul C. Craig. the pilot; Thomas Alexander, chief foreste.r
for Champion: Miss Phyllis Ketchum. secretary to W. R. Crute, mill manager at Ho·uston. and
Mr. Crute. They were passengers and p.ilot in the plane on the entire Houston flight.
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necessary to mtegrate our operatiOn
more fully and thi ' can be done only by do er personal contacts
between the manufacturing department of all milL·.
The new Beechcraft is a low-winged m noplane equipped
to carry pilot and co-pilot and five passen er . It i pow red
by two Pratt and Whitney Wa p Junior ngines. It has
top peed of 226 miles p r hour, a crui ina . peed f 200 mile
and a range of 110 mile. . Th exterio . i , aluminum finish,
identified by the company trademark on th · n s and the
legend, 'tThe Champion Paper and Fibr C mpany'' a lon 1
the body of the plane. P ilot . wh hav at at th , cc m r 1,
of the new model Beech raft have de crib d it fl yin a '!ju t
about perf ct."
Stewardesses Needed By Airlines
A good opportunity for the Miss
with a yen for flying
Man_:- irl between the acre of 21 and 26 year ' old, and
betw en 5 fe t. 2 inch .5 and - f t , 6 inche taU ·weighin
T:co
from 100 to 130 pou nds wi11 be n ed d by th Nation's
lin s in th ne t few years to staff dome tic and internati
pas n er ,. lane .
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It i-: claimed, that a a re ·ult f expan ion f rvi e
intr ducti n of larger plan , and u f t wardes, f r th,
firt tim, on int rnati nal fl ight , h ve c ntributed r th
n ·e I. f r th ree time a man h te. , as \•vere n ed d in
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Durin th ne.·t twelv · month merican Airl ine will
u ~ l, perh p., t hree thou and hostesses, and m r than
l , 00 a y ar t:h r after with a long range proara m of about
_o, 0 b th end f rh year 1955.
Education 1 requ i rem nt arc two years
1 .. ' tr'tinin ~ ' or it qu iva lent, s m bu ine .
nur·mg.
or m re f col-
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Sal a ri f r d mestic and foreign service range from 120
250 for ext"
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Ari'Zo.na.
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Gr,ou:p, Ari~ona.
3. Navajo Families in
front of the-ir H()(Jans.
All Navaro women an.d
children use a gaudy
colored blan.Ket for a
d6ak.
4. Prehistoric r u i n s.
Casa Grande Natie!>nal
Park Monument. Arizona.
About 25.00() Navaios live i:n hogans like those in picture No. 3. scattered throughout the V<iJSt
Canyon. and in North-eastetn New Mexico,
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home in Arizona.
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When Christopher Columbus fir st . et fvot ur)on the soil
of the New World, he was greeted. by copper colored nativ s
whom he called Indians. The name Indian applied to the
early American by Columbus, still remains, and all the
native rac~s inhabiting thi s G:oumry from }vfex1co to th e Arctic
Ocean on the North, to Tierra del Fu.ego, forming the south~
crnm st part of South America, wer · called Indians.
There are many tribes, all of which differ somewhat in
manner and ustoms, but, perhaps·, me o fthe most interest-ing
occupy th outhwestern States.
There are in the State of Arizona today, about 40,000
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Reuben B. Robertson Elected President
American Paper and Pulp Association
At a recent meeting of the American Paper and Pulp
A ~oc iation held at the \\~ aldorf-Ast ria Hotel, New York
City, Reuben B. Robertson, Executive Yice-Pre ident of
The Champion Paper and Fibre Company, was elected
pre ident of the A ociation.
The convention daily-Paper and Paper Products, ca rried
the follm ing comment: ':Reuben B. I obenson, The
Champi n Paper and Fibre Cc;mpany, was introduced as
the new president of the American Paper and Pulp . ssoc iation
at he T ndu try Lunche m ye ·terday attend d by approximately
900 rcprc · ntati ve · of the rad , in th JranJ
Ballroom .of th \\' aldorf-Astoria.
"l\1r. Robert on succeeded D. R. Brovw . T' ·nab Paper
Company, who bccon es a \ 'icc-President. The T · ah~r of
tbe day was \\lalter full r, Pre idcnl, LHll s Puhli siJing o.,
who ave an exhau rive review CJf bu sinc conditi(Jn ·. '
Total Number of Combat Dead
In World War 2 Put At 10,000,000
The lat ·st t1¥ure· computed by life iwwr.tm c coinp~llli•s
plac th ~con bat d aJ t(Jtal , \i\'orlJ \\', r 2, .at ~q >pro il!)at. ·ly
1 0, 000,000, t \ v u m i ]] i o 11 m 01 e t h u n "' · r e I· d !c..: d 111 t lt · J • 1 r :-> t
\.\.' orld \\'a r.
It is tatcd that th e · j _- llJss i::; e. rima ted at - 2(0,00 .
rmany )CJ t th hr(re. l numbcr,-t.nt · 1 d ad s Tilll< reJ at
3,200,000, whil~ J apan lu. r 1,-o, 0) inc n;~bat duty. ltalr' ·
e timated lo 1 • 2( 0,000, and Hun ~ra t y, f t11hnd, · 11 l Hurnania
to etb er ](J:;t 22 5 0 0.
The Briti ~ h empir lo ·t ub ut 40 0. he Cnit'd
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e ing Opportunit In a Dirty Window
-Breaks Are Occuring All the Time
\ n intn · t ing fur i tCIIJ of tlr · late 1• d v· rd (Jk,
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a hake r s ~ ~top , aJJd ~s he looked a th · cake and pic di -
play ed b ·htnd the dtrty gla tlte baker came out o \·ie v
th. a~ cortt 'Ill of pa stries h. had ju . placed there.
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t iH.:y : . 1 he b )y replt d, ''They "'·ould if your v.rinduw
WCI' cle.a n. ' "That' s ," replied the baker, '111 give y u
twcr ty-ftv '. ents to _clean them." Young Edward Bok accepted
the JOb a_nd d1d so well, that the baker emp!c yed Bok
to clean tpe wmdows on Tue day and Friday afternoons
each v eek, for fifty cent a week.
1t is ai l, one day, while the baker was busy vith another
customer, Edward ventured to wait on a customer
and he did it o well that he was enga ed by the baker t~
come each afternoon and clerk in the store.
Mr. Bok attributed his success to takin~ a "break' when
it came to him. • That i the important thin " ~ aid he.
"Take advantage of every opportunity; for each time you
act on a streak of good luck, it encourage you to expect
something to happen, and when you expect thin crs to happen-
strangely enough they do happen.'
It has been aid, "one cannot o through life half asleep
and expect opport unity to come along with a big club and
hit you over t h head to awaken you to its pre ' ence, bur
if one acts on cha nces a they come you become -o en ' Jttv
to other lucky turn , that they cannot po ibly ::;neak past
you."
Felix Fuld, ~ partner of Loui - Bamburcrer, .~. evYark'
great department tore, aid; 'You cannot ra ~ p an opportunity
to qu ickly; the s izin r ){ it th very minute it
present ' its If, i · often the hair line betwe n succ , · an l
fai lu re.n
J t • em tha t g d luck doesn't com label 'U. In fa t,
we arc wkl, that it may be r c false label. on et iml's wha
~li)P tl L to be a blow )[ mi 'f rtun > may b hidd n 01- r )f-tunity-
but wl at w do ab ut it d Tid s '"'h "th r it i::; 1'0od
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number he rn ~ p ' .
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Mr. Charles S. Bryant
On February 20th, Mr. Cl1arle.., S.
Bryant, As istant Trea urer of The
Champion Paper and Fibre Company,
pas ed a·way at his home on Eastwood
Road, Biltmore F ore t. North Carolina,
of a heart attack.
Mr. Bryant, a nJ.tive of Cincinnati
Ohio, can1.e to \~ ·estern North Carolina
in 1905 a, treasurer of The Champion
Fibre Company, a subsidiary of The.
Champion Coated Paper Company.
Hamilton, Ohio, and vd1en th e company
was reorganized several year·
ago, and the name changed t The
Champion Paper and Fibre Ccmpanv
l\:1r. Bryant became a si t ant trea urer.
In point of servic , ?vfr. B ry.a nt wa
the olde t employee of the Canton
Divi icn of The Champion Pape r and
Fibre Company.
During his tay in Canton and AshevilJ
e, he made many friend , and his
death came a a great shock to t he
people of the community. Funeral .
ervices were at the All Souls Episcopal
Church, Biltmore, of which be was a
member, Thursday afternoon, February
21, 1945, at 4 o'clock_ and the
body was taken to Cinci nnati, Ohio,
for burial.
Mr. Bryant is survived by bis wife;
!vk~. Edith ~!J:oorehead Bryant, and
one daughter, ~~1rs . James A. RicKert,
of Asheville, N. C.
The late Mr. Charles S. Bryant seated at his desk in h~s office at the Canton Plant
AIUZONA INDIANS (Continued from Page .J)
full-blooded Indians, about one-tenth of the populat ion of
the state-many of whom, whose habits and manner of living
is not far removed from t heir ancestors of centuries ago. I.t
1s true that they have adopted cJothin<r similar t the whit·
man, but their homes are primi ·ive and they live tb simple
Life. However, a few of them have left their homes in th
desert and ca t their lot with he white man, in an att mpt
to make a more decent living. Wea ing, making baskets,
pottery and fa shioning ornaments and jewelry u · o£ il.ver
and other materials is their favc rite occu ati n.
Despite nearly {our cen ·uri of contact witJ · h white
man, the habits of the Indian has not h a:nacd mat riali y,
When hi ~tory found th m in 1.540, their hat it, and Ji vi r1 r
quarter were practically the same as today. Th )' are i::l
nomadjc people, living in one~r om log, n 1d, , nd straw
buts or hoO'an.s.
On pag three ar.e pi cu re of m "' ( th llJmcc
of various t:ribes and a Hopi Indian apa.rtm ot h use.
Northern Arizona is " Indian Country"-h r w·e find the
H pi~ 1 Ta ajo, Havasupa·i1 Painte, Hualpai, Mohave, and
Ya apai ·nations. ln Central Arizona liv he on -tin1e war~
like and blood-th irsty Apaches; and b . twe n
Tuc on , and j , a re the d , ert tribes o£ Nia ricopa .
Care a
Th little car s that fr ette l. m ·
I 1 st tb m est rday
Amon ·~ th · fi elds abo the s a,
J\m ng th winds o.t pla. ;
Amon()' the 1 wina of the herd ·,
r 111 e ru t l i 11 g f tl1 e t r s.
· mong tl e ~ in gin o{ tbe bird ,
'1 h · hm'l min., of th b .
T'hc fooli h f r · f what ma r hap . n,
T GL t tb m all ~-. a .
• . nwng th ~ do ·t;-. · nted g ra ss,
Am ng then · ·-r l(Y\vn bay· ·
· n::Jong th hwl in . f the .orn
\Vhcr drowsy poppi es nod,
\Vh r ill thoughts di and ,. od are born,
Llt in th · 1eld.s wi th (J d.
- El1:abeth Barrett B1·
Phoenix.
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Coop rati on and d F ll w hip ' i. in · t th . L nt
of The Cham i n ape and ibr ompan r
Hamilton hio · ant n rth a r lin a·
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those which carr_' the name of th author.
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~~~ am the resurrection, and the life:
he that believeth in uie, though he
were dead, yet shall be live." St.
John 11:25.
EASTER has a special significance-the resurrection
~rom the ci,ead- a symbol of life beyond the grave. Coming
Ill the spnng of the year, when all about us we see signs of
newness of life on one hand, and foretokens of immortality
on the other, we are persuaded, that faith in the resurrection
of Him who took the sting out of death, robbed the
grave of its victory, and assured man tha t be is destined to
live forever ; though the body retu rn to the dust from whence
it came, the soul shall find rest and security in Him who
• gave It.
Two thousand years ago, Ch rist left heaven, came to
ea rth, living among men, suffered and di ed upon the Cro
of Calvary for the remi ion of our sins, thu s, by his death
made it possible for us to have life et ernal through fait h in
Him as the Saviour of men.
This Easter day should bring n w hope and great er i r
to t he peoples of the world , because today, th world i
t hinki ng more seriou . ly abou " n arth p a . v od will
toward men" than ever b for . But, without th · s irit f
Christ ru lin in ur hearts we doubt if th r ill ev r b
lasting peace, and good wi ll a.rd m n.
Easter, the day whi h we o erve in mm mormi of
Chri st's r surrection, from t he remot t times- lon b f r
the Christian era, was cclebra ed by th An lo- ax n , .. th t.
festiva l of spring. T he nam i d riv d f m }•,a trc or
Eostre, the pa an cr dd s of pring. ' h Anglo-... a ~ un.
lo ked up n astre or Eostr a the per ni fi a ion of th
Ea t- the ri in.g un-the morni ng; and Apri l wa I dicavd
to her, and was known to the Angfo- a. n as Ea t r m nth.
At the in i tance f th or h fll Euror n narionA th
Chu rch fi rst ad pt d Easter after a bitt r fi gh b th arl '
elero-y, who t ri d to rout out all pa an u ' t m : bu faik>-cl,
o th y did the next b ~ t thing-ga e Chri ti an interpret -
Six
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t 10n ·o m. n o th
min 9f pri n~
urr rtt0rl of hri .
ust r, 1s . . h 1 , he pag-an j y t t h
t urn ·d 111 o 'hri t ian jrJy (JV t the
· _1:' l a •· n j .ht-cL y fe tiv. l w-. shor ened by the
) 1l11 h. 1~r, t<? hree day., th, 1 to wo, a 1d {inally to one.
Stn .r an tetlt 1m , h h; r · (rabbi ) ha een a svmbol of
th moo, - h lC th ~, t r bunny. ft wa in ·_;ermany
h<Jtth _tJ c -r;· • u g.~tdthn rth r bbi bring·rhecolored
c~g~: l'.g, s '. o '> d ' t' ·d ·' be• tl e, ymbol uf lif , b ·cause
' tthrn th m t th g nn of 1Jf . he hri tian takino- over
th ~. t cu ~ t t.n, .m · d th eg, ymbdic of he resurrection._
th , hell ... 1gnd mg. he tnlJ. Th e first o cnlor fhe e _rs
' ' r th J ews, ':"tth . r •n predominatin in kee inr;r with
th ~ dv ~ nt of spr1 ~g. _, l e h· i ·tian"' used red a the nre~
ltl atmg c 1. t•, m mem qr f the Crucifixion, tc. The
\..U t ~ r. d e j g up:--donnmg new clo thes on Ea ter date ~
t a ltl qw ty,. w are .mformed. ~I he pagans and even the
orth m ncan Ind1ans observed the rite-wearin nevr
cloth , as a symb 1 of a new life.
Mar }1 22 ,is the earlie t day o ~ which ~a er can fall 1 and Apnl 25 IS the latest. Accordmg to anc1cnt teronino
Easter was made to fall on the first Sunday after the fou;~
t~enth day f th ~ moon, .th at happened to be reigning at the
tL1he of the spnng equmox-March 21 , but later it wachanged,
and today, East er comes on the first Sunda v after
the first full moon, after the 21st of March. '
·Which Shall It Be- Peace
Or World W or Three?
ln a recent .issue of The National V\ eek it is tated. ' Preparations
for wa r in time of peace probably never have been
pre.ssed by the United States, Russia, and Great Brirain o
act1vely as at p-resent. Besides continuino- to pay the co t
of th.e !ast war, it is probable that th ese big powers in normal
peacetime years, will be spendino- the equivalent of 500 000,000 a re r.
Rus ia witl h r 5 000,000 m n 11nd ·r a rJT\S, th t :nit ·d
tat with m r than 2 000,000, r at Britain' 1.000,000,
n l Fran "vith 650,000, bring to mind t hr qucs ti n a ~ k d
by en t r Tidin o·s of I ry land; d · tl e big f . nr r a lly
b li v in th Unit d ati ns r nnizat it n a, , m an, f r
th ~ pea ful cttlcm nt f di spu t s, or do they int ni t r 1 r
mainl r n
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ast Thursday, Jan. 16,
SLU hosted its annual
memorial tribute for the
Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr., honoring the life and
legacy of King as well as
those in the St. Louis area
that exemplify King’s vision of justice and
racial equality.
The event is held each year as a remind-er
of King’s visit to SLU in 1964, when he
addressed a crowd of nearly 4,000 in the
former West Pine Gym. King’s visit to SLU
in 1964 came just two days before he was
honored with the Nobel Peace Prize and
two months before his “I Have a Dream”
speech.
For the past nine years, the Universi-ty
has organized the memorial tribute
to mark King’s visit, with an awards cer-emony
that recognizes those working in
King’s legacy in the St. Louis communi-ty.
The memorial tribute also features a
keynote address by a notable voice for
civil rights. In years past, keynote speak-ers
have included Martin Luther King
III, King’s eldest son, and UN Ambassa-dor
Andrew Young, both influential civil
rights figures.
This year, the noted journalist, author
and television personality Roland Martin
gave the keynote address. Martin, who
has written three books, including “Speak,
Brother! A Black Man’s View of America,”
has made an illustrious career discussing
current events from an African-American
perspective.
Martin was named journalist of the year
in 2013 for his efforts to chronicle issues
facing African-American voters during
AWARDS
CEREMONY
HONORS
MLK’S
LIFE &
LEGACY
By CONOR DORN
Associate News Editor
Memorial tribute
features St. Louis
community
leaders with
keynote speech
from Rowland
Martin
the 2012 presidential election, including
voter suppression and intimidation. In
2008, he received the President’s Award
by the National Association of Black
Journalists for his multi-platform advo-cacy
work.
Before Martin’s keynote address, the
audience heard remarks by President
Fred Pestello, Ph.D., and SLU alumnus
Michael P. McMillan, the president and
CEO of the Urban League of Metropoli-tan
St. Louis.
Pestello and McMillan were joined
by the Vice President for Diversity and
Community Engagement, Jonathan
Smith, Ph.D., in an award ceremony hon-oring
those in the St. Louis community
furthering Dr. King’s legacy.
Though the recipients devote their en-ergies
to a diverse array of causes, from
education inequality to health care re-form,
they are united by their commit-ment
to leading lives of public service
following Dr. King’s example.
To begin the award ceremony, Denise
Hooks-Anderson, M.D., an assistant pro-fessor
in the Department of Family and
Community Medicine, was awarded the
Donald Brennan Humanitarian Award
for her advocacy work related to health
disparities and inequality.
The Organization of the Year Award
was accepted by Wendell Kimbrough on
behalf of Area Resources for Community
and Human Services (ARCHS). The or-ganization
“funds and strategically en-hances
initiatives that improve the lives
of children and families” in especially
disadvantaged areas of St. Louis.
Art McCoy, Ph.D., the superintendent of
the Jennings School District, was award-ed
the Education Leadership Award for
his efforts to combat inequality in edu-cation.
Under his leadership, the classes
of 2017 and 2018 in the Jennings school
district achieved a remarkable 100 per-cent
graduation and career or college
placement.
Congressman William Lacy Clay was
honored with this year’s Political Lead-ership
Award. Clay serves as Missouri’s
senior Democrat in Congress. Currently
in his tenth Congressional term, Clay
is the Chairman of the House Financial
Services Subcommittee on Housing,
Community Development and Insur-ance.
In that capacity, he has advocated
for fair housing and consumer protec-tion
and fought discriminatory practices
such as redlining.
In his acceptance remarks, Clay empha-sized
his debt to King and his legacy as
well as other civil rights leaders, echoing
King’s famous declaration that “Anyone
can be great because anyone can serve.”
The final award was the inaugural
Whitney M. Young Humanitarian Award,
which was given to Michael and Neomi
Neidorff. Neidorff is the president and
CEO of Centene Corporation and has
worked to implement programs and ser-vices
under Medicaid and Medicare.
The event was capped off by Roland
Martin’s keynote address examining
King’s life and legacy. At the outset of
his address, Martin made it clear that
his remarks might be tough for some to
hear. He warned the audience: “It is my
job to make people uncomfortable.”
Martin’s speech focused on King’s leg-acy
in the 21st century, asking the au-dience
to avoid appropriating King and
his legacy and instead focus on imitat-ing
his commitment to political action.
Martin issued a challenge to the audi-ence—“
Don’t you dare quote Dr. King
unless you are willing to live like Dr.
King.”
For Martin, King was more than just a
man who gave speeches on racial equal-ity,
but a man radically committed to
social justice in all spheres of life who
paired his electrifying speeches with
tangible political action.
Martin challenged his audience to live
as King lived, striving for direct and sus-tained
action on behalf of the marginal-ized
and downtrodden.
News 03
By MIKHAIL FAULCONER
Staff Writer
he SLU chess
team finished
2019 with a
string of high
finishes in re-cent
tourna-ments.
They
now look forward to the Presi-dent’s
Cup, or “Final Four,” the
collegiate national championship
of chess in early April.
After taking the Midwest Col-legiate
Chess and Blitz Cham-pionships
in October, the team
travelled to China in November
and took third place at the World
Prestigious University Chess Invi-tational,
placing ahead of presti-gious
universities such as Harvard
and Oxford. The team also defeat-ed
its host, Nankai University.
SLU chess team coach and
grandmaster Alejandro Ramirez,
the first grandmaster from Cen-tral
America, stated that this was
the team’s first time competing
internationally as a team, al-though
most of the team’s mem-bers
have competed extensively
as individuals in the past.
Then, SLU finished again in
third place at the competitive
Pan-American Intercollegiate
Chess Tournament, which deter-mined
which teams would com-pete
in the President’s Cup in New
York. The Pan-American Tourna-ment
is different from most col-legiate
chess tournaments in its
structure.
Ramirez explained, “It’s a very
unforgiving tournament, simply
because it’s a very short event.
Tournaments of this strength are
usually nine rounds long, which
gives a little more wiggle room for
mistakes ... In this case, we had it
really rough. We got defeated by
Texas Tech, which is one of the
best universities in the country,
and the fact that we got matched
in the last round with number one
by rating, which is Webster Uni-versity.”
SLU went on to defeat Webster,
which has won five of the last
seven national championships, in
the last round of the Pan-Amer-ican
Tournament. SLU Chess
Team grandmaster Alex Ipatov,
currently ranked 142nd amongst
active players in the world by the
International Chess Federation,
defeated Aleksander Lenderman,
ranked 131st, of Webster, which
Ramirez said was the highlight
of the tournament. Ipatov com-mented,
“[Beating Webster] felt
very good. They are our arch-ri-vals
and the highest ranked colle-giate
team in the nation. We are
second.”
In 2018, SLU placed fourth at the
President’s Cup. Fellow St. Loui-sian
Webster University also qual-ified,
whose team has won the
President’s Cup five times in the
last seven years. SLU will again
face off against Webster and Tex-as
Tech, as well as the University
of Texas at Dallas, in New York
this April. In contrast to other
tournaments, the President’s Cup
features only classical chess, in
which matches can last for hours
as opposed to minutes in blitz or
other formats. In addition, teams’
aggregate scores are as import-ant
to winning the tournament as
victory in individual matches.
Founded in 2015, the team has
expanded from five to thirteen
members, which allows them
to field multiple sets of players
within a single tournament. The
SLU Chess Team features six male
and two female grandmasters.
Ramirez commented that the
team has also grown closer and
developed more chemistry in a
relative short period of time since
its founding.
Another factor conducive to the
team’s success and in attracting
new talent is St. Louis’s chess en-vironment.
Ramirez said, “There’s
no other city that has the cur-rent
chess ambiance in the U.S.
or maybe in the world. I think for
chess players it’s kind of a mec-ca.
There’s always top level chess,
lectures, opportunities ... we have
the resources to be one of the
best.”
T
ast month,
Ameren Mis-souri,
an energy
company based
in St. Louis, be-came
the latest
group to assist SLU in redevelop-ment
projects that are currently
underway in the neighborhood
after their donation of a 2.1-acre
site to the university.
The site, which sits just past
the Metrolink station near SLU’s
Medical Campus, was once home
to an electrical substation. But af-ter
Ameren began using a differ-ent
substation, the site became a
storage place. The property is re-portedly
worth around 500
million and has currently raised
1 billion
has been invested in the area for
various projects, including the
SSM Health Saint Louis Univer-sity
Hospital, the City Foundry,
the Amory project and the Iron
Hill development site. These sites
will hopefully inspire new restau-rants,
retail space, homes, hotels,
apartments and medical services
to arise in the area.
According to Brooks Goedeker,
the Executive Director of the St.
Louis Midtown Redevelopment
Corporation, there are no de-cisions
made on the use of the
Ameren site yet.
The Chairman and President of
Ameren Missouri stated that he
believed SLU had the “right vi-sion”
to use the property in a way
that will compliment the projects
currently underway in Midtown
St. Louis.
According to Daniel Monti,
Ph.D., a sociology and anthropol-ogy
professor at Saint Louis Uni-versity
who specializes in urban
redevelopment, SLU-sponsored
residential development in Mid-town
is attractive because resi-dents
will see their neighborhood
as a part of a large institution.
“Think of it like a mall,” said
Monti, “SLU is like its flagship
store.”
Monti said that the redevel-opment
of the area is important
because everyone would prefer
great neighbors as opposed to
vacant space. While parts of the
Midtown area have taken decades
to develop and become safe in-vestments
for developers and
institutions, Monti believes that
the new projects being sponsored
by SLU will be successful in their
goal of making this part of St.
Louis an even better place to live
and do business.
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By SAVANAH SEYER
Staff Writer
(Riley Mack / The University News)
AMEREN DONATES
2,000 in scholarships when the
program officially launches. SLU’s
Division of Student Development
is providing the resources to get
the esports program off the ground.
“I don’t have to know how to play
esports to understand that this
program makes students excited
to learn and feel a deeper sense
of belonging in the SLU commu-nity.
That is what matters most,”
said SLU President Fred P. Pestello,
Ph.D.
The home of the new varsity pro-gram
is a space recently converted
by the university in the lower level
of the Busch Student Center known
as the Esports Gaming Lab. The lab
features 12 stations for PC gaming
and three large TV monitors with
the three major gaming consoles
(Xbox One, Playstation 4 and Nin-tendo
Switch). This space will be
open for general student use when
the varsity team isn’t practicing.
The official ribbon cutting cere-mony
for the Esports Gaming Lab is
on Tuesday, Jan. 28 at 3 p.m. Until
the ribbon cutting ceremony, the
lab is not officially open to general
student use.
In an effort to help guide the ef-forts
of SLU’s new esports team,
an advisory group of students,
faculty, staff and administrators
was recently formed. Senior Nich-olas
Chiu, who was the founder of
SLU’s club esports team in 2017,
serves as the varsity program’s di-rector.
SLU’s eSports Club, founded
by Chiu, originally started out as
a club for players of Super Smash
Bros, a popular fighting game. The
club has since branched out into
other games to become the Univer-sity-
sponsored esports team that it
is today.
In regard to what led to the push
for the Esports Gaming Lab, Chiu
stated, “It got to the point where we
needed more space and branched
out to more games, there’s a huge
community outside of just the
Smash Bros. community, especially
at SLU.”
Another factor that played a siz-able
role in the establishment of
SLU’s esports program and the
building of the lab was the recep-tion
that Chaifetz Arena’s hosting
of the North American Spring Split
for League of Legends last year. The
event sold out Chaifetz in only two
days and showcased how much of
a demand there was for an esports
program among the SLU communi-ty.
The Esports Gaming Lab in the
BSC will serve the dual purposes as
both a recreational and competitive
space for gaming, at least during
the first semester. The varsity side
is in the back with all of the com-puters
while the spaces with the
TVs and consoles are for general
student use when the varsity team
is not using the space. “Eventual-ly
we’re probably going to move a
bunch of these recreational video
games to the Bill Grill,” said Chiu.
While this space is still in the
process of construction, the plan is
to put these recreational consoles
in the back of Bill Grill near where
the pool tables are. The idea for
this renovated section of the Bill
Grill with the recreational consoles
is to be like a “PC cafe” where you
can “get a drink, where you can get
food, and sit down and relax,” ac-cording
to Chiu. However, since the
Esports Gaming Lab was built for
SLU’s new esports program, the lab
will primarily serve the purpose as
a practice space for the program’s
varsity teams.
With 12 state-of-the-art PC gam-ing
stations installed as a part of
the lab, Chiu believes that this
space will greatly contribute to the
success of the esports program.
Though the technology and reno-vations
may seem extravagant to
some, the team believes it will be
key to their success as a program.
“Some [players] say that when
a game doesn’t run well enough,
you could misclick or something
like that,” said Chiu, “but when
you come here, it’s a whole differ-
E
(Jack Connaghan / The
University News)
At 12:29 a.m. on Jan. 18, a student
contacted the office of Public
Safety after drinking eight shots
of tequila and requested medi-cal
assistance. The student was
conveyed to Barnes Hospital for
treatment.
At 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 18, a SLU
student was found in an intoxicat-ed
state just before the SLU basket-ball
game. Chaifetz First Aid Staff
was called and the student was
escorted out of the game for treat-ment.
St. Louis City EMS transport-ed
the student to SLU Hospital for
further medical attention.
On April 7 at 7:29 p.m., a man
who attended the cheerleading
event at Chaifetz Arena exited
the building. He walked behind
his vehicle and began to urinate
when a DPS officer spotted him
and took him into custody. He
was released soon after.
By COLIN THIERRY
Staff Writer
ent game. [Players] are in a space
where they can talk to each other.”
Chiu stated that this dynamic is
especially important because a lot
of online gaming is usually played
alone, where players communicate
over headset but not in person.
“[The lab] is really nice for play-ers
to talk one on one and really go
over the problems they have as a
team but also as students a
University News - Volume 096, Issue 003 (September 15, 2016)
No full text12 pages.Vol. XCVI No. 3 A student voice of Saint Louis University since 1921 Thursday, September 15, 2016
On June 18, Humphrey’s
Restaurant and Tavern, the
beloved SLU institution, cel-ebrated
the 40th anniversary
of its founding. After four
decades marked by remark-able
consistency, however,
the bar and restaurant at
3700 Laclede Ave. will look
to turn the page on nostal-gia
and set in on establishing
a new chapter in its storied
history.
As revealed by the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, this
coming spring, if plans hold,
will see the demolition of the
original building—part of
which dates back to 1904—
and its replacement with a
more contemporary struc-ture.
While Humphrey’s will
remain at the same loca-tion,
the new plan calls
for, amongst other things,
Laclede- and Spring St.-
facing outdoor seating, a
second-story outdoor ter-race
with its own bar, a des-ignated
banquet space and
room for up to three retail
stalls flanking the restaurant.
These upgrades largely
reflect broader trends in the
bar and restaurant industry
as a whole. Many college
bars across the country have
begun the shift from hole-in-
the-wall, greasy-spoon
type establishments to mod-ern
and open floor plans that
accommodate more patrons
and are especially well suited
for dancing and mingling
rather than the traditional
seated gathering. If the de-sign
firm chosen to under-take
the rebuilding is any
indication—Oculus, whose
calling card is sleek lines and
a modern feel–it would seem
to indicate that Humphrey’s
figures to fall into this same
Russian Division
appoints new leader
Humphrey’s: SLU’s 40-year-old
watering hole gets new look
HUMPHREY’S: Since May, Humphrey’s has been under new management. Next
spring, the current building will be demolished and then rebuilt with upgrades.
Courtesy of Oculus Inc.
See “Hump’s” on Page 2
By PARKER PENCE
Contributor
general category.
While Humphrey’s might
be changing aesthetically,
perhaps the biggest news to
come from the announce-ment
is the inclusion of the
additional retail space on
the property. The addition
of independent retail space
reflects the growing demand
and value of property in the
Cortex-Grand Center-Cen-tral
West End region as well
as a desire to serve and do
business with the upward-trending
SLU population.
Reaction to the recent
news has been decidedly
mixed as some have be-moaned
a perceived lack of
character that the renderings
seem to convey. Casey Rob-erts,
a member of the class of
2016, echoed the feelings of
many of the upperclassman
and recent alumni in stat-ing
her displeasure. “It is so
sad to think that next time I
go visit SLU’s campus one of
my favorite aspects of it will
be completely different,” she
stated when asked her reac-tion
to the news.
Current senior Brian Du-gan
built upon that senti-ment
and reflected that “As
it stands pre-demolition,
Humphrey’s charm is its
transcendence of time at
SLU. It knew the campus
when cars could drive on
West Pine, and it watched
the construction of Spring
Hall.
Ultimately, it’s a dive
bar driven by nostalgia and
tradition. Generations of
Billikens have spent their
Wednesday nights there. It
still has Big Buck Hunter and
Golden Tee, and the inflation
rate of penny pitchers over
the past forty years greatly
lags behind that of tuition.
“It doesn’t have the glam-our
of Ballpark Village, but it
doesn’t need to.” Dugan went
on to add his concern that,
“Demoing the building for a
new one runs of the risk of
Following the retirement
of longtime Russian lan-guage
professor David Mur-phy,
PhD, the accomplished
Elizabeth Blake, PhD has
ascended to the position of
Coordinator of the Russian
Division.
Established in 1968, The
Russian and East European
Area Studies Program at
Saint Louis University flour-ishes
thanks to dedicated
faculty and students from a
wide array of backgrounds.
Recent graduates work in
several diverse fields rang-ing
from
researching
the intricate
life forms
found in
Russia’s Lake
Baikal to
working for
the National
Geospatial-
Intelligence
Agency, among other excit-ing
professions. With such
success in the department,
the program has kept posi-tive
favor with the University
and remains the only Rus-sian
program in the St. Louis
region.
With the exception of
St. Louis University High
School, there are no Russian
programs in St. Louis area
high schools either. With
so few Russian programs in
existence, the importance
of the field of study is ques-tioned.
Daniel Schlafly, Phd,
spoke very highly of Dr.
Blake, saying “There’s abso-lutely
no other person more
qualified for the job of coor-dinator
of the Russian Divi-sion
than Betsy Blake.”
Dr. Blake, a world-re-nowned
scholar on the fa-mous
Russian writer Fy-
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INSIDE SCOOP:
Shreya Ghoshal
performs at the
Fox Theatre
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ARTS
New sorority Phi Mu joins Greek community
PHI MU SORORITY: Phi Mu joins the Greek community this fall. It will be one of
seven sororities on Saint Louis University’s campus. Recruitment will be held soon.
Courtesy of Phi Mu Sorority
Phi Mu may be new to
Saint Louis University but it
is actually the second-oldest
secret society for women,
coming second behind Al-pha
Delta Pi. SLU and Phi
Mu share many core val-ues.
Both believe strongly in
serving others, as SLU is a Je-suit
institution and Phi Mu’s
creed reflects their dedica-tion
to community service.
Founded in 1852, less than
25 years after the University,
some may be wondering why
it took so long for the two to
find each other.
The process of establish-ing
a new chapter at a uni-
By MEGAN ANTHONY
Contributor
versity takes time. Many may
have noticed as early as April
2015 that consultants from
Phi Mu headquarters were
on campus, already gearing
up for their first recruitment
coming later this month.
However, Phi Mu at SLU
had been in the works for
much longer than just since
last spring. It is up to the
university to decide if it can
support another sorority,
and when/if that decision is
made, the appeal is sent out
to the extension teams for
organizations.
New Chapter Specialist
for Phi Mu, Whitney Wright
shared a few words about the
process. “When SLU opened
for extension we sent in our
packet to be considered.
From there, we were invited
to present to the campus and
eventually were chosen to be
the group to join the Panhel-lenic
community!”
Once selected, the con-sultants
for the new chapter
went to work. Coming into
a smaller Greek community
compared to those at a pub-lic
university, it is important
to understand the dynamic.
“The hopes when opening a
new chapter is that we can
join the Greek community
and help to make it stron-ger,
but also offer a different
experience to students and
See “Phi Mu” on Page 2
odor Dostoevsky and the
author of Dostoevsky and
the Catholic Underground
teaches several sections on
the Russian language, Rus-sian
literature, and Russian
Orthodoxy.
During the summer
of 2016, she spent several
weeks giving lectures on
Dostoevsky and touring the
various ornate Russian mon-asteries.
When asked about
what draws most students
into the Russian program,
Dr. Blake spoke of the great
curiosity many students
have about a country so of-ten
portrayed in a negative
light by western media.
In her
opinion, most
s t u d e n t s
have little to
no previous
knowledge of
the rich cul-ture
of his-tory,
language
and the arts
that is, and
has been, so vibrant in Rus-sia
for centuries.
Dr. Blake went on to say
that students should study
Russian because, “as the
largest country in the world,
Russia is a major military
and economic power enjoy-ing
good trade relations with
China, and our Russian ma-jors
are well prepared to en-ter
successful graduate pro-grams
or to find attractive
career opportunities.”
The nation’s culture has
accumulated through its his-tory.
Dr. Schlafly, a beloved
professor of history with a
focus on Eastern Europe has
been a distinguished mem-ber
of the Russian division
for decades. His classes on
Russian and Eastern Europe-University
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Vladimir Putin,
who is the
president of
Russia, is quite
unpredictable.
Dr. Ellen Carnaghan
creating a bar that blends in
to the point of not having
character.” He remains hope-ful
however, as many do,
that “the new bar will create
its own life at SLU, distinct
from both its predecessors
and its neighbors.”
Others, typically younger
members of the SLU com-munity,
have celebrated the
announcement as exciting
news with regards to their
anticipation of their com-ing
time at Humphrey’s.
One freshman, Stephen Ol-wig,
mused that the new
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plan seemed to be a sort of
“Hump’s on steroids” with
the expectance that the fun
would correlate directly with
its increased size.
“When you look at places
like Mizzou and Ole Miss
and Alabama, these are the
types of places that are on
every street corner in those
schools’ towns and it only
makes sense that SLU-cen-tric
bars and restaurants
would seek to replicate their
success.”
Even though Humphrey’s
physically is changing and
has even seen some changes
to its ownership (as local
businessman Bernie Squit-ieri
took over the restaurant
in May), Janis Mangels-dorf
–who started the busi-ness
along with her now-deceased
husband, Robert
“Humphrey” Mangelsdorf,
himself a graduate of the
John Cook School of Busi-ness
in 1969–has remained a
constant as she will continue
to be involved in the man-agement.
While some things inevi-tably
change, some also in-evitably
stay the same. And
so it is with the bar at 3700
Laclede Ave. known simply
as “Hump’s.”
Continued from page 1
an history are incred-ibly
popular among students
even outside of the Russian
& Eastern European Area
Studies Program.
With an impressive back-ground
in Russian history,
Dr. Schlafly has been invited
to lecture on the historical
importance of the Crimean
Peninsula with respect to
the Russian annexation of
Crimea.
Dr. Schlafly cites the con-flict
in Crimea as the perfect
example of why Russian his-tory
is integral to under-standing
the modern day ac-tions
of the Russian state.
Ellen Carnaghan, Ph.D.,
a political science professor
that specializes in Russian
politics and who teaches a
class on Soviet/Post-Soviet
politics, generously offered
her input on why it is impor-tant
to study Russian poli-tics-
“Vladimir Putin, who
is the president of Russia, is
quite unpredictable.”
Furthermore, Dr. Car-naghan
went on to say that
the conflict in Crimea is es-pecially
worrisome because
“whatever has led them into
Ukraine could very easily
BLAKE: Dr. Elizabeth Blake will be taking over for Dr. David Murphy. She specializes
in Dostoevsky and She recently returned from a summer program in St. Petersburg.
Continued from page 1 lead them into similar coun-tries
that border them.” The
capriciousness of Putin’s
Russia will likely continue
to play a major role in global
politics.
Dr. Blake will be joining
Eric Carter, a student who
studied in St. Petersburg
over the summer, in a ques-tion-
and-answer session at 9
a.m. on Sept. 20, 2016 in the
Center for Global Citizen-ship.
The event will focus on
their experiences in St. Pe-tersburg
over the summer,
and a range of topics will be
discussed.
making our chapter unique
while trying to fit in with the
campus norms,” says Wright.
The recruitment process
is one of those experiences
that will be different for
students, at least as Phi Mu
finds its home on campus.
Rather than formal re-cruitment,
those interested
in Phi Mu will go through a
much more casual recruit-ment,
as the goal is to attract
students who may have been
weary about going through
the traditional process.
“There are 3 requirements
Phi Mu: Recruitment begins soon
Continued from page 1 for our process: (1) You must
register on gophimu.com;
(2) You must schedule and
attend a one-on-one inter-view;
and (3) You must at-tend
at least one recruitment
event.
The interview and re-cruitment
events are casual,
get-to-know-you kind of
events.” These events offer
a great opportunity for stu-dents
to decide whether or
not they can see themselves
as a part of this sisterhood
without the pressure of for-mal
recruitment that can de-ter
potential new members.
Recruitment for Phi Mu
begins Sept. 26th. What are
the hopes for the chapter as
the date quickly approaches?
“My hopes for our mem-bers
is that we provide for
them a sense of comfort and
community at college, that
we provide them with the
best memories and great-est
friends, that they will be
challenged and grow into
confident young women,”
shares Wright.
After shining during
the extension process and
months of preparation, the
Phi Mu team is excited to
welcome its new members
home.
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Tuesday, September 13
10:52 p.m. AUTO ACCIDENT
A male SLU student was seriously injured
when he was struck by a vehicle heading
westbound on Lindell. Witnesses on scene
contacted EMS immediately along with
SLU DPS. Both units arrived simultane-ously
to the scene and the student was im-mediately
conveyed to SLU ER by the EMS
unit. SLMPD was contacted and was also on
scene. The student’s last known condition
was updated to “stable”. Pro Staff was noti-fied
and a RAVE messaged was sent out to
Command Staff.
Thursday, September 8
12:28 a.m. SICK CASE
Public Safety was contacted by a residential
Advisor stating that officers were needed
in reference to a student who had possibly
consumed some type of narcotic and was
behaving erratically. Officers responded
and made contact with the student. The
student was extremely paranoid and his
behavior was irrational. Minutes later the
student ran to his dorm room and barricad-ed
himself in his room. For officers and stu-dents
safety, Emergency Medical Services,
Pro Staff and Sgt. Sgt. Aycox was contacted
and arrived. Officer Manuel, Sergeant Aycox
and Willoughby made repeated attempts
to ask the student to open his door and he
refused. Using a key for entry, the officers
forced the door open. The student attempt-ing
to prevent entry reached his right hand
outside of the door attempting to strike of-ficers.
Officers struggled with the student,
but were able to subdue him. Medic 9 ar-rived
and transported the student to Saint
Louis University Hospital for treatment.
Let Us Introduce You:
Sidney Thompson
LUIY: Senior Sidney Thompson shares her experience as a student at SLU.
By ROBERT LINDSAY
Contributor
Recently canonized Saint
Teresa of Calcutta once said
“Never be so busy as to not
think of others.” For Saint
Louis University senior Sid-ney
Thompson, this isn’t just
a proverb—it is a lifestyle.
This Breese, Illinois, na-tive
came to SLU two years
ago to major in anthropol-ogy,
while tacking on dou-ble
minors in Women’s and
Gender Studies and Forensic
Science.
Throughout her years at
SLU, Sidney spent time on
the Women’s and Gender
Studies Advisory Board, the
Honors Student Association
and the Anthropology Club.
As a member of the Hon-ors
Program community,
she lived on the third floor
of Fusz, advising younger
members of the Honors Pro-gram
as a peer mentor. It
was in this position that Sid-ney
learned to love SLU and
everything it has to offer.
At SLU, the peer mentor
program consists of upper-classmen
SLU students (typ-ically
former participants of
the program as freshmen)
who shape the first-year ex-perience
of new students
through small group or one-on-
one meetings and vari-ous
social and academic ac-tivities.
Peer mentors are matched
with first-year students of
similar interests and back-grounds,
and guide them
through the often turbulent
transition to the college life-style.
In her time as a peer men-tor,
Thompson fell in love
with the community fostered
by the honors program. It
was on 3-Fusz that she met
all of her friends, living and
growing in a tight-knit group
in which caring for others
was a major principle.
Sidney credits this com-munity
as the most sig-nificant
source of growth
and support in her college
years, explaining that it was
on Fusz’s third floor where
she “learned to be calmer,
working with freshmen of
all types of backgrounds. I
learned to put people ahead
of myself.”
However, peer mentor-ship
comes with its chal-lenges,
and for Thompson,
it hasn’t always been fun and
games.
Sidney expressed that it’s
not always easy to get along
with everyone, and talked
about the difficult task of
trying to make a large group
of people happy, while still
managing to look out for
herself and not step on any-one
else’s toes.
She said, “When you
come to college, it isn’t al-ways
apparent at first what
people need from you. Ev-eryone
is different. Profes-sors
all want different things.
Some students need more
help, some need less help. It
takes time to figure out what
it takes to create a happy
community.”
In her final year at SLU,
Thompson says she has been
spending most of her time
working on applications to
graduate school.
Her end goal is to attain
a Ph.D. in forensic anthro-pology,
an ambition she has
been working toward since
she was 13 years old.
She hopes to be accepted
into the Forensic Anthropol-ogy
program at the Univer-sity
of Tennessee at Knox-ville,
the leading school in
the field.
After grad school, Sidney
plans to work in the field for
an organization such as the
United Nations, focusing on
situations in which there are
a large number of casualties,
such as mass genocides. This
work would consist of iden-tifying
bodies, similar to the
efforts put forth following
the terrorist attacks of Sep-tember
11th.
Eventually, she would
like to end up teaching at a
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university (“Hopefully SLU!”
she says). She wants to es-tablish
a forensic anthropol-ogy
research facility, more
commonly known as a body
farm, in which decomposi-tion
can be studied in a vari-ety
of settings.
As a first-generation
college student, Thomp-son
works two jobs to get
through undergrad and pre-pare
financially for graduate
school, in addition to her
regular courseload. This, on
top of the stressful and time-consuming
task of applying
to graduate school, has made
this the busiest semester the
senior has ever faced.
Still, when asked for
something that no article
about her would be complete
without, Sidney answered,
“I am very passionate about
the people and things I care
about. I love very hard, in
a very Leslie Knope-esque
way. I make sure people I
care about are taken care of.”
“
“
I love very hard, in a
Leslie Knope-esque
way. I make sure the
people I care about
are taken care of.
Sidney Thompson, senior
Tuesday, September 13
9:09 p.m. TRESPASSING
Responding to a call for a suspicious per-son,
DPS located a subject outside of Rein-ert
Hall who had earlier piggy backed into
Reinert Hall to use the bathroom. There
were no warrants on the subject, who was
released after being advised of the SLU
trespassing policy.
Ever use the recycling
bin provided for you in your
dorm room? If so, then you
have participated in sustain-able
practices on campus.
These bins are the result of
work done by the Green Bil-likens
Club, an organization
dedicated to promoting sus-tainable
practices on cam-pus.
And although the re-cycling
bins are one of their
bigger projects, they also
work in many subtler, less
visible ways to make Saint
Louis University a greener
place to be.
This is the second year of
the club’s existence. It was
started last year, and is run
by two graduate students.
The club is open to anyone,
and members join smaller
“interest groups,” which fo-cus
on more specific things
within the realm of sustain-ability.
Although each group
has its own specific sustain-ability
practices, they com-municate
and make sure that
all groups know about what
any one group is working on,
so that they can exchange
ideas and help out if needed.
Students are also encour-aged
to join more than one
group, if multiple things
within the realm of sustain-able
practice interests them.
On the club’s Google
Drive, they specify the dif-ferent
groups within the
club, focusing on sustainable
lifestyle, biodiversity, waste,
energy, education and out-reach,
and fundraising. The
club requires members to
attend a certain number of
meetings and to get so many
hours of working with the
club on sustainability events
outside of meetings.
Spencer Ruggles is the
sustainability coordinator
and graduate assistant at the
club. He has a BS in Financial
Economics at Centre College
and is working on a Masters
in Sustainability at SLU. He
got involved with the club
because he felt it was very
important for undergrads to
learn about sustainable prac-tices.
He is also working to
prepare the undergrads to
take over the club, since the
number of grad assistants is
dropping from two to one
next year. The undergrads
need to be prepared to take
over some of the events that
the club runs.
The club runs events all
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year long. They set up a table
during welcome month and
handed out blue recycling
bins and magnets. They have
tables at sporting events, try-ing
to make sure that people
are recycling their water
bottles and putting trash and
compost in the right bins.
They hold an Earth Day cel-ebration
as well as sustain-ability
conferences.
One of the biggest
events that the club does is
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