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READY TO PLAYJustin Hardy reflects on a year of basket-ball and the season to come (Sports, pg 3)
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SU Senate’s Green Energy Resolution calling for Washington University to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035 was passed unanimously in a Senate meeting Oct. 29.
The resolution, sponsored by sophomore Senators Diva Harsoor and Philip Keisler as well as sophomore committee mem-bers Joe Billips and Bryan Peltier and junior committee member Elizabeth Phelan, also called for the University to “vigorously” invest in on-site and off-site renewable energy.
Dugan Marieb, Student Environmental Council presi-dent, and Christina Lee, executive member of Green Action, also signed the resolution.
The resolution originated as a report on green energy which was drafted over the summer. In September, Harsoor and Keisler presented the draft to Senate for feedback. During the process, they also reached out to Marieb and Lee as well as University administration for feedback.
The decision to set 2035 as a goal for neutrality was inspired by St. Louis’ pledge to become completely dependent on renew-able energy by 2035 as well as
other universities’ strides towards neutrality, specifically American University, which achieved car-bon neutrality in 2018.
Harsoor says the University’s path to carbon neutrality would involve drastic cuts to carbon emissions, purchasing carbon off-sets only to cancel out intractable sources of carbon emissions.
“It’s not only a question of our carbon neutrality goals and greenhouse gases in the planet,” Harsoor said. “It’s also a question of, Washington University claims to be a leader in public health, claims to be really good on envi-ronmental issues, but you look around and you see all these peer institutions with much, much bet-ter goals.”
Keisler said they ran into dif-ficulty while drafting the report because of the lack of avail-able information regarding the University’s current energy use. The resolution calls for the University to become more transparent “by equipping stu-dents and other members of the Washington University com-munity with the information required to comment meaning-fully on the University’s energy decisions.”
Keisler hopes this change will allow students to be well-informed enough to allow them to
“meaningfully push” for change.“It’s not that the University
doesn’t care about lowering emissions. The question is how ambitious they’re willing to be,” Keisler said. “I think that Wash. U. has made an effort. It’s just that part of Student Union’s job is [to] try and push Wash. U. to make more of an effort.”
Divestment, an issue of con-stant discussion among groups such as Fossil Free WashU, was not included in the report. At the time the first draft was writ-ten, SU members were prohibited from taking stances on political issues like divestment, but on Sept. 26, SU passed a statute that would have allowed SU to take a stance on divestment. According to Harsoor, however, the report was designed to focus on opera-tional goals and not every issue related to sustainability.
“We didn’t want it to be about every single issue. We wanted to give both issues their full due,” Harsoor said.
Harsoor also emphasized the importance of encouraging student engagement in climate-related issues.
“I’m hoping that people will see what needs to be done—that they’ll see students are really invested in it,” Harsoor said. “And with the 2020 Midwest
Collegiate Climate Summit com-ing up, I’m also hopeful that this’ll be another arena where voices in the administration and student voices that support carbon neutrality can really be heard.”
While Assistant Vice Chancellor for Sustainability Phil Valko did not work directly on the resolution due to a mutual desire to keep the document student-driven, he spoke positively of their efforts.
“Carbon neutrality is a pretty complex thing and there’s a lot of different ways to define how and when to achieve carbon neutrality,” Valko said. “I think it’s ambitious, but I also believe that the world needs to be setting ambitious goals.”
Senate now plans to present the resolution to administrators and go through it together to garner additional input.
“I don’t think this is the end step,” Keisler said. “It takes a level of student engagement in activism to keep this going…We’re going to keep pushing the administration on this, not only giving them the report but also working with the environmen-tal groups to keep pushing on it to make sure that this cam-pus becomes greener and more sustainable.”
Senate-penned report calls for carbon neutrality by 2035, greater transparency
JAYLA BUTLERSENIOR NEWS EDITOR
Theta Xi and Sigma Nu were placed on social probation while Kappa Delta and Alpha Phi were given formal conduct warnings, Oct. 30.
Theta Xi was found responsible for unregistered social activity, serving alcohol at a dry event and another alcohol violation, while Sigma Nu was found respon-sible for serving hard alcohol at a registered dry event and a risk management violation. Kappa Delta was also found responsible for serving alcohol at a registered dry event and Alpha Phi was found responsible for a risk management violation.
Formal conduct warnings typi-cally do not include organizational punishments for fraternities or sororities, but instead count as a “first strike” for the group. Social probation, however, prevents organizations from hosting social events for a certain period of time.
Senior Jimmy Abraham, presi-dent of the Interfraternity Council, emphasized the constructive nature of such punishments.
“A big thing that our council has been trying to do, along with the WPA as well, is to emphasize the fact that everything the councils do, and really the FSL staff as well, is specifically done for safety… it’s not a slap on the wrist for no reason,” Abraham said. “It is that we are genuinely worried about people’s safety and that is why this happened.”
Theta Xi and Sigma Nu placed on social probation, Kappa Delta and Alpha Phi receive ‘first strikes’TED MOSKALNEWS EDITOR
SEE GREEK, PAGE 2
The Sexual Assault and Rape Anonymous Helpline at Washington University capped off Domestic Violence Awareness Month with a panel centered on issues of interpersonal violence in marginalized communities, Oct. 30.
The panel highlighted the barriers that marginalized commu-nities face when utilizing available resources and the institutions that keep those barriers in place.
Several of the panelists shared stories illustrating the barriers that survivors from marginalized com-munities face. Huvona Watkins, executive director of Life Source
Consultants, said many Black resi-dents in Ferguson are hesitant to call the police, due to issues of dis-trust, even when threatened with violence from partners. Watkins said she’s constantly meeting with Ferguson police captains to help them build trust with the public.
Megan Owens, the volunteer coordinator for domestic abuse shelter Alternatives to Living In Violent Environments (ALIVE), said undocumented immigrants affected by interpersonal violence often don’t seek resources for fear of deportation and a healthy dis-trust of institutions informed by their interactions with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other law enforcement
agencies. The panel spoke at length about
how to support survivors of inter-personal violence that deviate from the societally expected norm of a cisgender, heterosexual married white woman. Kristin Miserocchi, a staff psychologist at Habif Health and Wellness, said mem-bers of marginalized groups often refrain from seeking help for fear of outing themselves.
According to Miserocchi, she tries not to make assumptions for her patients; she works with them to create their own conception of what violence means to them.
“One of the most important things I can do as a counselor is to hold space for ambivalence,”
Miserocchi said. “[Forcing a patient’s hand can] remind them of power balances they experience in their relationships already.”
Owens believes that sometimes the best thing someone can do is to sit with the survivor and make them feel supported but, most importantly, not alone.
According to Watkins survi-vors often prefer talking to people from similar backgrounds; they can feel “judged” when talking to people outside their community. Peter Hovmand, the leader of Washington University’s Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Assessment Initiative, agreed and spoke of the need for people within a community who can spot signs
of abuse. Wolf Smith, executive direc-
tor of the St. Louis Anti-Violence project, spoke about the self-per-petuating cycle of abuse wherein survivors normalize their expe-riences, and often project them onto others. According to Smith, high rates of abuse in often small LGBTQIA* communities can compound that effect, often leading to thorny questions of for-giveness and justice.
“How do you allow people to heal some traumas while their presence traumatizes others?” Smith said. “Do they have the right to heal in that space?”
S.A.R.A.H. hosts Domestic Violence Awareness Month panelCURRAN NEENANNEWS EDITOR
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CARBON NEUTRALITY RESOLUTION
SU SENATE
GOALS
SU SENATE
CARBON NEUTRALITY RESOLUTION
GOALS
1Washington University should commit to becoming carbon neutral by 2035 in alignment with the goals of St. Louis
2 The University should invest in renewable energy on and off-site
3 The University should explore creative policy and business solutions to expand access to cheap, renewable energy
4 The University should establish transparency on energy use and goals
5 The University should seek input from students and the University community
GRAPHIC BY GRACE BRUTON
JAYLA BUTLER | SENIOR NEWS EDITOR | [email protected] STUDENT LIFE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2019
THURSDAY 31 At the Table: Chef as Artist and ExecutiveKnight Hall, Emerson Auditorium, 7:30 a.m.Please join us at the gateway of innovation and inspiration for an insider’s perspective on the business behind the culinary arts. We’re celebrating Olin’s new Minor in the Business of the Arts with a morning of insights on the drive, purpose and strategy poured into translat-ing a passion for the culinary arts into a successful business venture.
Gallery Conversation: On Ai Weiwei and Architectural DesignMildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, 5:30 p.m.Igor Marjanovic, JoAnne Stolaroff Cotsen Professor and chair of undergraduate Archi-tecture in the Sam Fox School, and students from “Introduction to Design Processes I” will join Sabine Eckmann, the Kemper’s director and chief curator, for a discussion of Ai Weiwei’s art in relation to architectural context and human experience. In conjunction with the exhibition “Ai Weiwei: Bare Life.”
Workshop: Fake News, Propaganda and MisinformationOlin Library, Instruction Rm. 2, 4 p.m.From the Fyre Festival to Fukushima daisies to “fake news,” mis-and-disinformation has made its impact on both the personal and political. This workshop will help you spot fake news and you’ll learn the tips and tricks needed to evaluate information more effectively.
Film Screening: ‘Night of the Living Dead’Brown Hall, Rm. 100, 7 p.m.This 4th annual Halloween screening will seat 350. We will be screening a 4k digital res-toration of George Romero’s ‘Night of the Living Dead’ (1968). It is free and open to the public. There will be popcorn and drinks as well.
FRIDAY 1 All Saints Day Mass at Medical CampusBernard Becker Medical Library, King Center (7th floor), 12:05 p.m.The Catholic Student Center at Washington University will have a special lunchtime Mass for the Feast of All Saints.
Informal Cities Workshop Kickoff Lecture: Geeta MehtaSteinberg Hall, Steinberg Auditorium, 12:15 p.m.Launched in 2014, the Informal Cities Workshop provides Wash. U. students with an inten-sive, hands-on opportunity to grapple with frictions and interconnections that exist between the informal and the formal aspects of the city. The annual workshop consists of a keynote lecture, which is free and open to the public, followed by a one-credit, weekend-long design charrette. The 2019 workshop, titled Collective Design in an Era of Climate Change, is led by Mehta and lecturer Matthew Bernstine. The site is located in Varanasi, a city in Uttar Pradesh, India, which is believed to be one of the oldest living cities in the world and one of im-mense spiritual, ecological and historical significance. The workshop is open to all Wash. U. students; however space is limited to 40 participants. To register please contact Matthew Bernstine at [email protected].
Skin Temperature: Air Conditioning and Cross-Racial Identification in ‘Orfeu Negro’Umrath Hall, Rm. 140, 4 p.m.Julia Walker, associate professor of English and Drama, will present this talk. Her paper in-vestigates the effects of air conditioning on the aesthetic response of audiences in mid-twen-tieth-century theatres. With a focus on French director Marcel Camus’s film “Orfeu Negro” (Black Orpheus, 1959) and its basis in Brazilian poet Vinícius de Moraes’s play “Orfeu da Conceição” (1956), she demonstrates how these works made complicated aesthetic appeals to audiences who were beginning to experience what it meant to “be in one’s own skin” in a new way. This is a free event.
‘A Two-Way Mirror: Set Design and Social Reflection in Shanghai Cinema, 1937-1941’Busch Hall, Rm. 18, 5 p.m.This talk examines how varied strategies of spatial configurations in Orphan Island cinema conditioned the viewers’ experience of the diegetic world and their reflections on social reality. Using the “two-way mirror” model to complicate the meaning of contemporary relevance, the talk demonstrates the critical role of set design in determining the reflective quality of a film text.
SATURDAY 2
‘Energy Storage - How Does it Work and How Can We Make it Better?’Crow Hall, Rm. 201, 10 a.m.Anders Carlsson, professor of Physics, will present a Saturday Science Lecture. The talk will explain the how-to of some key energy storage technologies, describe current limits on the technologies and point to promising directions for the future, including underground thermal energy storage.
Fall 2019 Undergraduate Research SymposiumSimon Hall, Rm. 1, 12 p.m.Join us and see the breadth of research being performed by undergraduates from all aca-demic departments, programs and schools. Opening presentations begin at noon in Simon 1 followed by a poster session from 1:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. in Olin Library. Everyone is welcome to attend.
‘Garments in the Gallery’Holmes Lounge, 1:30 p.m.Join the Sam Fox School’s Fashion Design program for this gallery-style fashion exhibition! See fall 2019 Fashion Design students work up close and on live models. You’ll also have a chance to speak with student designers and learn about their creative research and process.
Department of Music Showcase560 Music Center, E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 3 p.m. This free showcase by the music department features student performances.
SUNDAY 3
Día de los Muertos and a Celebration of Hispanic CultureMissouri History Museum, 11 a.m.Visit the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park to celebrate Día de los Muertos on Nov. 2 and 3! Enjoy altars that represent a variety of Latin American cultural traditions, live music and dance performances, story sharing, art display, food and drink vendors, a photo booth, souvenir printmaking and a procession through the park.
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Reflections, a body posi-tivity and eating disorder awareness student group, began their Love Your Body Week with a series of pan-els, discussions and other events Oct. 28.
Reflections focused pro-gramming on promoting inclusivity within the body acceptance movement, start-ing the week with a “Yoga for All Bodies” lesson, Oct. 28. Organizers strove to cre-ate an “inclusive experience for all levels of ability” and debunk the idea that one should exercise to change one’s body.
According to Reflections member and Love Your Body Week co-chair sopho-more Layna Paraboschi, the group chose to emphasize an active lifestyle and body positivity.
The second event of the week was a discussion-based workshop, held Oct. 29. Led by Campus Life Graduate Assistant for Leadership and LGBTQIA* Involvement Ilia Esrig, the discussion included topics such as the lack of representation of people of color in the beauty industry and how to make the body appreciation move-ment more inclusive of all gender identities.
“When people say to love your body, it’s not exactly inclusive of people [whose bodies don’t] reflect the body that they identify as,” Paraboschi said.
Love Your Body Week
also included program-ming designed to equip students to love their bod-ies. Marie-Laure Firebaugh, clinical research coordinator at Washington University School of Medicine’s Center for Healthy Weight and Wellness, gave a talk on how to support a friend strug-gling with an eating disorder or negative body image, noting ways to identify symptoms and talk about the issue.
Sophomore Amy Lin, who attended the event, found it to be a helpful conversation.
“I think it was very infor-mative,” Lin said. “…How you shape conversation was intriguing, like how she said you associate foods with ‘good’ or ‘bad,’ and I’ve never really thought about that.”
Junior Noa Steiner shared Lin’s sentiments, noting she was not previously aware that eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness.
“I think it highlighted how we pick and choose what we consider to be important issues, and I think this is one of the ones that we recognize it hurts people but we don’t always recog-nize it in full,” Steiner said.
Reflections will host a panel on disabil-ity and body respect today, Oct. 31, featuring Washington University School of Medicine Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy Kathy Kniepmann, Youth
Transition Coordinator at the Starkloff Disability Institute Sarah Schwegel, a St. Louis non-profit which works to support people with disabilities in the work-place and other aspects of their lives, and sophomore Payton Rule, an accessi-bility advocate who has a neuromuscular disorder called Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT).
“I think there’s a lot of stigma and stereotypes associated with disability in general in society, so I really hope that we can just bring more awareness to the topic of disability and kind of break down some of those stereotypes about what a body should be or how people with disabilities view their own self-image,” Rule said.
Rule hopes to stress that people with disabilities can participate in popular physi-cal activities such as sports, and said “We’re not really defined by our limitations of our bodies.”
The week will culminate in a day-long photoshoot in the Harvey Media Center, Nov. 1. Participants can sign up through a document accessible in the Love Your Body Week Facebook event description for 15-minute slots during which they pose, either alone or with friends, with heart-shaped signs displaying a variety of messages, including “I am more than a body,” as well as a whiteboard so that par-ticipants can choose their message.
Reflections’ ‘Love Your Body Week’ celebrates acceptance, inclusivityJADEN SATENSTEINSENIOR EDITOR
Associate Director for Campus Life-Fraternity Sorority Life Austin Sandoval-Sweeney declined to elaborate on the details of the violations of the four Greek organiza-tions beyond what was stated online, citing the integrity of the conduct process. However, he also stressed that the pun-ishments determined by the conduct council would encour-age growth and improvement.
“All chapters that go through a conduct process and are found responsible for violating policy, there essen-tially always will be outcomes focused on chapter members having an opportunity to learn and grow from the incident by way of an educational inter-vention or risk management
review,” Sandoval-Sweeney wrote in a statement to Student Life.
According to Abraham, there are still aspects of Greek life outside of social events which members of Theta Xi and Sigma Nu can still enjoy.
“Unfortunately, there are people in the community for which their sole motivation for joining a fraternity or a sorority is the social events, in which case it [social probation] is obviously a bigger deal,” Abraham said. “But I think for the people who are trying to get something out of it more than specifically social events alone, it is not a huge deal.”
Kappa Delta President senior Emma Kramer charac-terized her sorority’s violation
for the provision of alcohol at a dry event as “a slight mis-communication.” Kramer hopes to use this warning as a turning point going forward.
“We do not recall having ever been called to standards board before this and so we look forward to using this as an educational opportunity to continue the ongoing conver-sation in KD about increasing safety in the Greek community and in our chapter,” Kramer wrote in a statement to Student Life.
The president of Theta Xi declined to comment. The president of Alpha Phi and the director of standards of the Women’s Panhellenic Association did not respond to comment requests.
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Smith also mentioned their apprehension when recommending resources to survivors from the LGBTQIA* community, lamenting that “there’s no such thing as a perfect resource.”
“Many times, [survivors] are looking for something we can’t provide,” Smith said.
Smith often solicits feed-back from clients after
recommending resources, so they know which groups are safe for marginalized communities.
Panelists did share certain notes of optimism; Watkins said the #MeToo movement helped propel the discussion of interpersonal violence into the national spotlight.
“It’s become something where no matter how you identify, this needs to be
discussed,” Watkins said. Owens praised an increas-
ing awareness in young people of what consti-tutes relationship violence, while Smith mentioned an increasing acceptance of the survivorship of margin-alized communities.
“Agencies are willing to listen to me,” Smith said. “They’re willing to hear that we are really important.”
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ATHLETE OF THE WEEKATHLETE OF THE WEEKATHLETE OF THE WEEKATHLETE OF THE WEEKATHLETE OF THE WEEKATHLETE OF THE WEEKATHLETE OF THE WEEK BY MATTHEW FRIEDMANSENIOR SPORTS EDITOR
Justin Hardy refl ects on a year of basketball and another one heating up
BY MATTHEW FRIEDMANSENIOR SPORTS EDITOR
Justin Hardy refl ects on a year of basketball and another one heating up
Sophomore forward Justin Hardy helped lead the men’s basketball team to a second-place finish in the University Athletic Association last season. Averaging 14.6 points per game and shooting .549 from the field, Hardy was named to the DIII NewsAll-Freshman team and won the UAA Rookie of the Year award. In the lead-up to the No. 7 Bears’ Wednesday night exhibition match against Division I Missouri State (the Bears lost, 76-59), Hardy and I sat down to reflect on his experiences with Wash. U. basketball and his expectations of what is to come.
Student Life: What was it like to start all 25 games last year as a freshman?
Justin Hardy: It was a learning experience. Obviously, I had played a ton in high school and I understood that I had the capabilities of being a good basketball player here, but I definitely didn’t expect to step in right away and the level of impact that was expected from me. Just coming in, we were a brand new team with a brand new coach. None of our guys had played a ton of minutes except for Jack Nolan last year and we were all kind of going through the expe-rience of being a freshman together. Coach [Pat] Juckem—it was his first year, so no one had any upper hand on what the plays were or the system that we wanted to run. So, at some point I was kind of at an equal opportunity as anyone else out there. So, you know, [for] the freshmen, it was no excuse for not being ready to go. And I just got thrown into a good position where I was the beneficiary of Jack [Nolan] and Matt [Nester], and they opened up a lot of doors for me and helped me get put in the right spots right away, and they kind of did everything for me at the beginning of the year just to get me in that spot.
SL: Gotcha. What made you choose Wash. U?
JH: I think it was the school over the athlet-ics. Obviously, they have a great basketball pro-gram and a great history here with two national
championships. The year before I got here, they went 24-4 and were the number 1 team in the country for a really long time. But just knowing that I could excel in that area on the court as well as having a great edu-cation, it all just kinda fell into fruition together.
SL: I watched one of the video interviews that you did last year and one thing that stood out to me was how you talked with such passion about dunk-ing. Do you remember your first dunk, whether that’s just like ever or with Wash. U.? What did that feel like?
JH: Yeah, my very first dunk was in warm-ups in a middle school game. There was nobody in the gym and I turn around and look at the person behind me in lay-up lines and I said, “I’m about to dunk this one, watch this.” And I went up and I, you know, I tried it a hundred times before and never gotten it clean. I went up right away and dunked it. One of my buddies ran over to my mom when she walked into the gym to watch the game and he goes “Justin just dunked!” It was a pretty crazy expe-rience. There are not a lot of eighth graders out there dunking. Obviously it wasn’t in a game, but it was still pretty cool.
SL: How tall were you back then?
JH: Same height as I [am] now—I haven’t grown since eighth grade. [Justin Hardy is 6’5”]
SL: You mentioned that memory of dunk-ing from middle school. Do you have any favorite memories from last year or from the two weeks of practice that you’ve had so far this year on the basket-ball team?
JH: We had a fun trip to New York and Boston last year. I kind of think it was a turning point for our team. We really came together that weekend. We played in New York on Friday night and went to a nice team dinner [the night before]. We just bonded really well that night and then played really well the next day against NYU, blew them out by 20. And then Sunday morn-ing we come around and we’re playing in Boston. And Brandeis was a tough
team. It was a game that maybe we came into and thought we were going to win easily and we would face a little adversity early. We were down big but then Nester and DeVaughn Rucker sparked the big comeback for us that day. We were just able to gut out a really tough win on the road. And then the best part about the whole trip was that we actually ended up getting snowed in that night. We were supposed to fly back, but we spent two extra days [in] Boston just team bonding. Just being in a hotel and watch-ing the AFC championship together, unable to come back to St. Louis—that just was a great experience for all of us.
SL: You wear number 32. Is there any special story behind that?
JH: The first number that I fell in love with was 10, but then I got put on a team with kids that had already been on that team for forever and someone else was number 10—hap-pened to be my best friend. I went with [the number of] someone who I think is one of the greatest bas-ketball players in history and went to my favorite school—Michigan State, since I used to live in East Lansing—Magic Johnson, who wore 33 in college, but 32 in the pros. I went with his professional num-ber, just as a tribute to his career being a Michigan State Spartan.
SL: Who are some bas-ketball players who have inspired you and how so?
JH: Yeah, Draymond [Green] is definitely the guy I kind of modeled my game around. He’s tough [as] nails. He kinda came into a team that was pretty good. They had estab-lished vets with [Stephen] Curry and [Klay] Thompson that were get-ting going, and they were starting to become win-ners, and Draymond came in right away, fresh out of college and didn’t really care about being a rookie, being a second-year guy. He came in and showed his leadership right away, and I think that’s applica-ble in all facets of life. You know, he wasn’t the star player, but he wasn’t afraid to let his voice be heard and do the right things along the way.
SL: How has
Draymond’s game inspired you on the court?
JH: I don’t think he does anything particularly well, but he’ll defend any position on the floor and he does the things it takes to win. He takes charges and is going to block out and rebound every time—he’s going to run the floor hard. And I think that’s kind of where I fit in on this team. I’m not the greatest shooter, I don’t do anything particularly well. But if I can do all the little things, they can put me on the floor and it will make a big impact for us.
SL: Right. How do you work on those little things? I mean, that’s not necessarily the kind of thing that you often see people focusing on when they go to the park and shoot hoops. How do you work on that?
JH: I think it’s a mind-set. It’s a mentality for sure. Just every day, think-ing that when I step on the floor, I’m gonna to do everything I can to make this team better.
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The “stars” of the Washington University football team—the impact players who routinely make game-changing, exciting plays—tend to be upperclassmen. This is not surprising. The juniors and seniors who play the most minutes have earned their roles on the team through years of hard work and experience. Those upper-classmen are the leaders of the team, and they set the example for those who will soon follow in their footsteps: the freshman and sophomores who play limited minutes, but can be found studiously observ-ing the game and excitedly tracking their team’s prog-ress up and down the field on Saturday afternoons. Still in the early stages of their football careers, these underclassmen are influ-enced and supported by the upperclassmen on the team
and the coaching staff. While the life of a football player can be busy, hectic and stressful, the support system the team provides is central to ensuring that younger players can thrive at Wash. U.
The upperclassmen play a substantial part in shep-herding the younger players through their first years in the program. The upper-classmen are viewed as role models and have the huge responsibility of instilling the “play hard” mentality that is expected to be dis-played during every game.
“Our catchphrase this year is ‘Leave No Doubt’—a lot of times the seniors will come up with a new statement that will repeat throughout the year, that’s kind of their job to instill that culture of working hard all the time,” sophomore running back Matt Moore said.
The older players make sure that the work ethic that is to be expected on a daily
basis is upheld on and off the field.
“When practice is lacking a little bit, [the upperclass-men] will be like, ‘We have to step it up’ and it’s one thing to say it, but then you look out and you notice now some pads are popping and now everyone’s really getting better,” sophomore linebacker Anthony Brown said. “So it’s not as much about what they say, it’s more about what they do, they live it.”
There is plenty to be said about the younger players and who they look up to the most due to the way they carry not only themselves, but the team as a whole.
“I’d say Johnny Davidson, the [senior] quarterback,” freshman wide receiver Cole Okmin said of the player he looks up to the most. “I got to meet him before I came to school—he’s the toughest dude on the team and his work ethic is unbelievable. He really sets the example,
how to be a part of the team and how to lead the team.”
Another senior who the younger players see as a leader is cornerback Justin DiCarlo.
“He balances a heavy load because he does ROTC, football, and obvi-ously school here and I just kind of admire how he gets everything done, how he goes about it with class—he was really helpful to me and to all the underclass-men showing us along the way and outside of being a great player, he’s a great person,” freshman defen-sive back Sam Mattecheck said.
The coaching staff aims to make sure that the younger players are absorb-ing the information they will need when the time comes for them to take up the mantle.
“They push you day in and day out, let you know this is going to be you in the future; our theme is ‘Next
Man Up,’” Mattecheck said about the contributions of the coaching staff towards player development. “If someone goes down and gets hurt, something hap-pens, someone’s got to be able to take their place and step in. So I think they’re really preparing us for that. They do a great job of showing us every rep, every drill, it matters.”
The coaches are aware of the rigor and workload that comes with being a student at Wash. U., and they make sure that freshmen get the chance to adapt to the col-lege environment while not becoming overwhelmed with their responsibilities of being an athlete.
“The coaches have always been very support-ive of us—they are very capable of working with us,” sophomore linebacker Alex Harvey said. “The travel schedule is always known ahead of time so that we can make adjust-ments when making our
schedules. It’s always very clear so that we don’t miss class.”
The hard work that is expected from the under-classmen is balanced by the fun traditions that the team has kept up over the years. There are various traditions that take place annually to make sure that the new players become close friends with one another.
“Every Thursday, we’ll do a position group din-ner, so I’ll go out with all the receivers and quarter-backs,” Okmin said, adding that “there’s a special date night one, where we have to bring a date, and it was fun.”
“Each position group does their own thing,” Brown said. “For the linebackers, we go to a res-taurant over in Dogtown and the freshman have to read the history of the restaurant in front of the restaurant. So it’s kind of just fun stuff like that.”
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Underclassmen football players and the leadership of upperclassmenMIGUEL CAMPOSSTAFF REPORTER
On Tuesday, one mas-sively important piece of news dropped that could and probably will change the future of amateur sports in America. It has been a long time com-ing. People all over the Twitterverse rejoiced. For the first time in what felt like forever, the country was united. A long over-due decision involving the NCAA was finally made. Yes, that’s right. NCAA Football is back!
Well, maybe. You see, if you saw Twitter on Tuesday, you likely would have seen some posts about the official return of EA Sports’ popular NCAA Football video game fran-chise. That is actually all
speculation at this point. Though come on; if EA Sports sees a way to make money, you know they’re going to be... in the game.
What actually happened on Tuesday is slightly more complicated. Top NCAA brass voted to begin a pro-cess of changing the rules that currently prevent stu-dent-athletes from making money. Once the new rule is implemented, student-athletes will be able to profit off of their names, images and likenesses “in a manner consistent with the collegiate model.”
This move comes over a month after the California state legislature voted to allow athletes at schools in the state do essentially the same thing.
As is always the case with the NCAA, there is
a lot to unpack here. First and foremost, yes, it is the right move on the organi-zation’s part. For a long time, college students on athletic scholarships did not have the same rights and privileges as their aca-demic counterparts. Being on a varsity team in college meant you could not make money in any way, and that is difficult as a college student. I will credit the NCAA for at least doing the right thing by getting rid of the ridiculous policy.
Here’s my problem with it though. Anyone who follows college sports knows that the NCAA is the most corrupt, back-wards sports organization in America, and that any move they make is only in their self-interest. This rule should have been changed
years ago, especially after former University of Connecticut men’s basket-ball star Shabazz Napier, directly after winning the 2014 national title, spoke about going to bed hungry over the course of the year because he had no money for food. That was over five years ago. You know how long five years is? Five years ago, the UConn men’s basketball team was actually good.
Up until this point, NCAA President Mark Emmert, who looks like the love child of Newt Gingrich and Hermey the Elf from “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” has been steadfast in his asser-tion that student-athletes should not be able to profit off of themselves. He and the rest of the NCAA have
long insisted that once student-athletes are able to make money, the “student” in student-athlete will no longer be relevant.
However, this idea is plainly false. It has been a long, long time since academics came before athletics at the Division I level. During their respec-tive seasons, DI athletes consistently spend around 40 hours per week doing activities related to their sport. Varsity sports are essentially full-time jobs. This makes sense, consider-ing that football and men’s basketball are both multibil-lion-dollar sports—college football is the second most popular sport in America, tailing only the National Football League. The play-ers have never gotten a slice of the pie and, under
the new rule, still won’t (at least not directly—they still won’t get any money from television deals or ticket sales, for example).
As for DII and DIII schools like Wash. U., nothing has really changed. Because athletes here are not on athletic scholar-ships, there are no rules preventing them from mak-ing money on the side. Additionally, DIII athlet-ics do not make anywhere close to the same kind of money as DI sports, so the situations are inherently different.
The NCAA finally suc-cumbed to mounting pressure and relented. Which is good. But college sports are still unfair to the athletes and will remain so until the players benefit fully from their own labor.
The NCAA is full of it: Why the new change is not enoughMATT SINGERCONTRIBUTING WRITER
HARDY from page 3
I don’t have to have the glamour or the glory of hitting big shots or cross-ing someone up and making them fall to the floor. But [it’s] just the mentality that I will do everything it takes to make sure I put my team in a
position to win and I want to bring others along with me on that path too.
SL: What are you most excited for this season?
JH: I think [our
exhibition at] Missouri State. It’s going to be an experience of playing in a big stadium with a lot of people there against some really talented players. But I also know that our team is really hungry to get down and play Emory
because they took it to us twice last year and it didn’t settle well with us. We talk about it every day in practice, how we want to come out ready to play.
SL: The game against Missouri State seems like it’ll be a lot of fun—good luck! My last question now: You were the UAA Rookie of the Year last year—that must be pretty dope. What was that like?
JH: It was pretty cool. I don’t play the game for awards. It’s nice that I get some personal recog-nition, but none of that comes if we aren’t a good team. All these awards
come when your team wins, [then] some good
players from those teams get recognized for it. So as cool as it was to be Rookie of the Year, we have a lot higher goals than just get[ting] some personal achievements or scoring points, right? Like we’re coming out. We want to be really good, put some Ws on the board and then, when our team ends up in the Final Four or national championship, [or] wins it all this year, those per-sonal accolades will come and we’ll all feel good about the people winning them.
This interview was edited for length and clarity.
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Sophomore forward Justin Hardy goes up for a layup against Carnegie Mellon. Hardy won the UAA Rookie of the Year last season and was named to the DIII News All-Freshman Team.
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It’s that time of the year again: midterms. In the midst of your growing test anxiety and wonder-ing whether or not you should drop out of college, you remember it’s also Halloween. Do you have a costume? No. If you’ve found yourself in this posi-tion, have no fear! I’m here to save you with a list of cute, last minute couples Halloween costumes.
Sandy and Danny from Grease
Is “Grease” one of the best movie musicals of our time? Yes. Are the two leads a couple? Yes. So naturally, my first couples costume sugges-tion is Sandy and Danny from “Grease.” All Danny needs is black jeans, a white T-shirt and a leather jacket, and all Sandy needs is a tight black outfit, and you’re ready for a night of Summer (Halloween?) Lovin’. Ps: It’s a bonus if you guys can sing.
Cowfolks
This simple costume only requires that you and your significant other have flannels, cowboy boots and cowboy hats. If you want it to be extra cute, you guys could wear matching flannels, and you’ll get to have a fun Halloween with the yee to your haw.
Party Animals
Go crazy, go stupid this Halloween as party ani-mals! All you need to do is pair of animal masks with fancy clothes. Did someone say jungle fever?
Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson
Yes, I am aware Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson are no longer together, but for the purpose of Halloween this couples costume would slap. For Pete Davidson you just need trendy clothing, and for Ariana Grande you can channel your fierce alter ego with sky-high heels and the iconic high ponytail.
Chowder and Panini
Cartoon Network’s Chowder is one of the most iconic cartoons of our childhood and this is the hill I will die on. So Chowder and Panini would be a cute pair to dress as! All Chowder needs is a purple sweater, purple pants, and a matching hat. And Panini just wears a high ponytail and a yellow dress. Alexa, play “Panini” by Lil Nas X.
Gumball and Darwin
Did I watch too much Cartoon Network as a child? Yes. Which is why my next suggestion is Gumball and Darwin from “The Amazing World of Gumball.” Gumball wears a beige sweater and grey trousers; trousers are super in style right now, but if you don’t have a pair you can just wear jeans. And to dress as Darwin you literally just need to have green high tops. But to make it more clear who you are, you could add a predomi-nantly orange outfit.
Babies
Dressing as a baby is perhaps one of my favor-ite Halloween costumes ever. All you need are matching onesies, and to make it even cuter you can get stuffed animals
and pacifiers from the nearest grocery store. Have a happy Halloween, baby bears.
Donkey and Dragon from
Shrek
Continuing our onesie theme, another couples costume idea is Donkey and Dragon! Just go to Target and get a dragon onesie and a donkey one-sie (or a horse onesie, if they don’t have a donkey
one) and you’re good to go! Childhood nostalgia evoked.
Mario and Luigi
Last but not least, we have Nintendo’s most iconic duo. For these costumes, wear matching overalls with a green sweater and hat combo for Luigi and a red sweater and hat combo for Mario.
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Despite the cramped size of Lopata House’s basement kitchen, it feels nothing but cozy when the Culinary Arts Society takes over. People laugh and chat as they stand at stations, each individual essential to the creation of the perfect homemade dinner.
One pair works on shred-ding the chicken, another on making guacamole. Two unlucky girls are relegated to cutting the onions. It’s all in good fun, though, and soon enough, a magical aroma arises from the medley combina-tion of dishes.
Even more notable than the fact that this is the typi-cal Culinary Arts Society cooking night is that essen-tially no one knew each other beforehand. This is no mistake. The club’s president, senior Shannon Gurley, believes that food is the perfect way to con-nect with strangers.
“Food is memories, and so you share part of your-self through food,” Gurley says. “It is something that I originally bonded with with my father, and cooking with him made for some of my favorite memories.”
All over campus, there are ways to get involved and find communities and organizations dedicated to building unity through food. The Culinary Arts Society has themed cook-ing nights about once a month, ranging from Mexican to campfire food and welcoming students cooking levels. For many others, it’s even possible to combat homesickness and recreate that homey feeling of family dinners without
flying back home. Home Plate is a program
founded by Risa Wrighton that has been pairing Washington University stu-dents with host families in St. Louis since 2001. These students spend two to three nights a semester in small groups arranged by com-mon interests and hobbies, enjoying free homemade dinners, stimulating table conversation and other fun activities with hosts.
“I’m so grateful for my family,” junior Jessica Zhang said when asked about Home Plate. It’s given her the traditional family dinner experience she was never able to have at home.
“I never really ate meals with my actual family in high school due to different schedules, and when I did, it was such a pain getting my little brother to eat without an iPad,” she said.
For others, food is a way to relieve stress and make friends. Justin Kransdorf, a senior from New Jersey, has been an avid Home Plate participant for four years.
He fondly recalls his first experience with the program: a chance to “hang out with their dog” and spend “a great couple hours off of campus to destress, relax and have a really good meal.”
Getting away from the Wash. U. bubble is another big plus, according to Kransdorf. Students have the opportunity to connect with community members and become intimately acquainted with their city. Who wouldn’t want to escape responsibilities, eat a delicious meal and explore St. Louis, all in one night?
“Your home is your
school now, when you’re here,” Kransdorf said. “...It’s hard to run away from work or schoolwork that you have. So actu-ally getting off-campus to that really plays into that mindset and mentality when you step it away from it all.”
The students involved in these programs have vastly different interests, different classes and different friends and yet they’ve all found comfort and a place in the Wash. U. community through food.
Of course, one doesn’t have to make a commit-ment to a food-related group. Food can be power-ful in and of itself. Rebecca
Miller, Wash. U.’s new dietitian, believes that food is meant to be comforting. As long as there’s balance, even fried chicken and mac and cheese are fine. Equally important, she says, are the relationships that arise from food.
“We dine around our dinner tables with our families,” Miller said. “…As part of the Wash. U. campus, you create new friendships…when you eat and you go with your classmates or roommates, that’s how you develop new relationships now that will hopefully last you the rest of your life.”
Spoon University is a national organization
that publishes recipes, restaurant reviews and everything else relating to food for college students by college students. In regards to food writing, not many publications cater to the budget and convenience needs of a college student, and Spoon fills that gap.
Wash. U.’s chapter is composed of a group of passionate students dedicated to making people more comfortable with food in the environments around them, especially those of Wash. U. and St. Louis as a whole.
“Food is so relevant to society, especially in terms of socialization,” the photo director of Wash. U.’s
Spoon chapter, sopho-more Laurel Levinsohn, said. “…When you’re first becoming friends with people, you’re not going to be like, ‘Oh, want to come sit in my room and chat?’ I think that food is so relevant for people that we always form our social interactions and connec-tions around food. It’s always the centerpiece.”
So when you’re home for Thanksgiving, don’t rush out of that giant family dinner even if the turkey is dry. Don’t neglect the importance of 2:00 a.m. waffle runs at Bear’s Den with your friends. And when someone asks to grab lunch? Say yes.
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With Parent & Family Weekend and
Thanksgiving Break fast approaching, many have home on their minds. For some, this may come in the form of excitement as they know they will be with their loved ones soon, and yet for others, these events may make them more acutely aware of just how homesick they are.
If your parents are visit-ing this weekend, consider inviting some of your friends whose parents will not be around to share in some of your activi-ties. Parents tend to love getting to know who you spend your time with while
you are away from them. Parents, even ones that are not your own, can give a sense of home that is hard to come by on a college campus. To have this family setting year-round, consider trying Home Plate to eat homemade meals with local families.
For many, going to col-lege is the first time they have lived away from home. Being somewhere new and surrounded by strangers can be understandably stress-ful and cause a longing to go back. If the pain of this feels overwhelming, consider calling Uncle Joe’s or seeking out other mental health resources on campus. There is no shame in missing your
family, your old friends and of course your pets. Don’t feel like there is anything wrong with you for feeling this way; you are not the only one. Don’t be afraid to vocalize your feelings with your friends, as you may be surprised by how many people can relate. You may feel better, also, just know-ing that others feel similarly. However, not everyone does get homesick, and that is perfectly fine too. Family is not always a safe and welcoming environment and college may, in fact, be a refuge. Looking down on people who express not wanting to communicate with their parents or not wanting to go home is misguided. Realize that the
home life that others have may not be as positive as yours is.
With the holidays just around the corner, it is nat-ural to count down the days leading up to them, yet it is important to not treat the time between then and now as burdening days that only exist to be crossed off your calendar. It is important to remember that not everyone gets to go home for breaks and that the less populated campus may make the longing for home more acute for those that stay. For international students, the holidays that are most important to them may not fall during any break at all, keeping them from their families. Be aware of the
differing circumstances of those around you, reach out to those that are not able to see their families when they most need to, be willing to listen and to learn about others’ backgrounds.
We as an editorial board have come up with a few tips in order to alleviate homesickness. Most obvi-ously, call the people that you are missing. Even if they are busy and cannot talk at the time, simply reaching out and letting them know that they are missed can mean the world and help bring you together. If there is a certain dish a family member makes that means a lot, ask them for the recipe or even see if they are willing to video
chat with you and talk you through the process as a way to spend time together no matter the distance. If there are any activities you always did with your family or friends from home, invite people here to do them with you. Consider having a “Friendsgiving” to help solidify the family you can form on campus. The pain of missing home cannot go away if you don’t allow yourself the chance to embrace where you are. Get out and explore St. Louis: Go to the Art Museum, explore downtown, eat at the Hill, walk around Cherokee Street. There is so much to do around the city, you just have to be willing to look for it.
On homesickness and finding a sense of campus community
I almost didn’t go to WILD. When it was announced that A$AP Ferg was performing,
I all but decided I wasn’t going to stay for the main act. My first two WILD experiences were a highlight of my first year— I wanted to have fun, I wanted to be a part of the festivities, I wanted to dance with my friends and see people I hadn’t seen for weeks, but I was afraid.
I have always disliked when white people’s favorite artists are Black rap artists. I don’t dislike rap music myself, though it isn’t my favorite genre, and I have nothing against
the affinity for the music. The dislike stems mostly from my own opinions on culture, lyrics and race, and the fear that is couched there. I am afraid of being confronted with the searing, radiating feelings of anger, disappointment, hopeless-ness, pain and betrayal. And that is all avoidable—I don’t go, or I look down when I know the word is coming. I ignore, I hide, I let my fear drive my plausible deni-ability. I know it happens though; the resounding echo of the word still rings out, but at least, then, I don’t know who it is.
At WILD, at house parties and at frat par-ties especially, I’m always scared of looking up dur-ing rap songs, constantly
worried I will see a non-Black person boldly saying the N-word, and I won’t know what to do. My natural inclination is that I should speak up, say something, anything. But often, I can’t take the stress or confrontation. Arguing about society and politics is something I know well. I can argue about Jim Crow, the Thirteenth Amendment, the NRA, but once it comes to that word, I am lost on what to do. If you know not to say the N-word in every-day life but you don’t omit it in the lyrics of a song, there is a problem. I, for one, don’t want the responsibility of educating every person who would rather enjoy the full recitation of the song than ensure that safety for
all people.I ended up staying for all
of WILD. As I laughed, jumped and only slightly moshed to A$AP Ferg’s “Plain Jane,” I tried not to look at anyone but the four friends surrounding me. I enjoyed the moments of pure bliss I had, but then, of course, as it almost always goes, I looked to my left into the crowd and saw a boy reciting every word of the song’s post-chorus. I was hit with the feeling again, a bit obscured by the pure joy I had just been enveloped in, and I tried not to let it stop my fun. I knew, then, that my choice to skip WILD would have been the right one, and that made my body feel heavy and my mind race. It seems like
such a simple thing to ask, right? So why did I con-stantly find myself in this same place? Why couldn’t it matter just a little more to everyone? Why couldn’t they put in the effort?
But that’s just it—it is so easy not to say the N-word in the song. I know, it must be so hard to skip one word in a song, but it must be done—not only because it means so much to the people around you, but because the word itself carries weight you are not equipped to carry. It is so simple. The N-word has a long, oppressive history, and the fact that it is now a part of Black joy does not mean it can continue to create joy for everyone else. It makes so many Black
people feel unsafe to see or hear a white or brown person say it—so I ask, is it really worth causing pain, danger and discomfort to say a word you can easily skip? And if your answer isn’t “No,” then we have a much bigger problem.
I don’t know how many times I have to tell you. And I have come to believe that people will do whatever they please when they’re alone, but when they aren’t, those tendencies still slip out. It’s not hard to omit the word, it’s just not easy, and that fact is too much for some people. So to who-ever needs to hear this: Say something else! Be aware of your surroundings! And please, just omit the word from the song.
Why I didn’t want to go to WILD this yearDAKOTAH JENNIFERSTAFF WRITER
One of the pri-mary purposes of institutional-ized education
is to create productive members of our civic soci-ety. And part of being a functioning member is being engaged in the politi-cal process by exercising the right to vote. Civics is probably the most impor-tant subject in which every individual should be well informed. Not everyone will need to know how to do cal-culus, but everyone needs to know why they should vote and how to make informed political decisions.
About a year ago, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation pub-lished the results of a survey that tested American’s knowledge of basic U.S. history and the functions of the government using
questions taken from the U.S. Citizenship Test. The results were striking: only 36% of those surveyed were able to get a passing grade of over 60% on the test.
Of the missed questions, some of the common trends were pretty egregious. 60% didn’t know which countries the U.S. fought in WWII, 57% didn’t know how many Supreme Court justices there are and 37% believed Benjamin Franklin invented the lightbulb. There also existed a massive age gap in the results. Of those over the age of 65, 74% passed, while only 19% of those under the age of 45 passed.
There’s nothing good to say about this; these results are unacceptable. According to this study, if every American were required to take the Citizenship Test, only a third would actually qualify for citizenship. And the age disparity is par-ticularly concerning given
that as the baby boomers age out of public service, the younger generations, a majority of whom do not have a baseline understand-ing of U.S. history and government, will have to take their place. If we want to make sure that the next generations don’t follow this same trend, we should begin requiring students at every level to take a basic U.S. history and govern-ment class.
Most won’t take it upon themselves to become edu-cated on these topics. Most public schools offer basic U.S. history courses which focus on dates and memo-rization of facts rather than synthesis. Rarely in these courses are functions of government ever spoken about in any significant detail. The mere existence of major programs in colleges and universities keeps most students not in a political science or history
department from ever tak-ing a class focusing on U.S. history or civics.
If institutions like Wash. U. want to achieve the goal of producing graduates who are not only qualified to work in their respec-tive fields, but will also be productive and engaged citizens of the U.S., students should be required to take a basic U.S. history and civics class. This doesn’t have to be a super in-depth class that works through complex political theory, analysis of government function or meticulous historical detail. It would just need to look at overarching historical topics and trends and explain the necessary details of our government and how it operates.
Making space in the vari-ous school curriculums for a three-credit graduation requirement seems fea-sible. In the College of Arts and Sciences, students are
required to take a basic col-lege writing class because the institution feels that learning to write properly is a neces-sary enough skill to require all students to learn. I would argue that universal suffrage and the overarching impact that government has on all people means that civics should be treated the same.
Teaching history is par-ticularly important because our perceptions of it shape how we view the current state of the world. I have always felt that the way his-tory is taught—by chapters that begin and end—is much of the reason as to why many have skewed views of social politics. The way that American slavery and the Civil Rights move-ments are taught, with little consideration to the linger-ing racial tensions that have continued to exist, leads people to believe that racism in America can be marked with specific end dates. A
history class at Wash. U. could help to correct false accounts of history that are commonly taught (like that Native Americans “agreed” to move off their land and onto reservations or that the Civil War was fought over “states’ rights”) that warp perceptions of historical context.
It really concerns me that for all the money students pay to go to Wash. U. and similar institutions, very few will graduate having learned anything about the government they live under, the one that affects their everyday life functions. Civics should be a priority for all students in order to be well versed enough to vote and participate in poli-tics confidently. If you’re paying for an education, no matter the field, part of that should be on how to be an active and engaged par-ticipant in the democratic process.
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Most of the crowd in front of me were jerks. Charlie, my friend and ex-roommate, arrived at 4:30 p.m. to get a close spot. Around 50 people were in line at that point. Two hours later, as we filed into Graham Chapel, nearly three times that number entered before we did. I am not exempt from the jerks part of the crowd; I arrived at 5:40 p.m., got a ticket, then mean-dered to the front of the line to stand with Charlie. But the excitement was understand-able. We were there to see the immaculate, the absurd: Eric Andre.
I didn’t know what to expect for Andre’s perfor-mance on Monday. I had seen “The Eric Andre Show,” a spoof of talk shows like “Space Ghost Coast to Coast” that was somehow more ridiculous. I would have loved to see a live taping of the show, but he was coming here to do stand-up. The question lingering as I found my seat was whether Eric Andre’s performance would
be more traditional comedy or would it be more like his show. It would wind up being a slightly underwhelming mix of both.
David Gborie, a writer for “The Eric Andre Show,” opened the show and did a great, traditional set of stand-up comedy. Gborie was sharp and did a nice job priming the crowd for more comedy. A couple in front of me really enjoyed his jokes about indie rock music. “The specificity of Fleet Foxes really made that one land,” they said.
However, Gborie’s comedy was not a good primer for Andre. The most excited per-son for Eric Andre to perform was Eric Andre. As soon as the announcer introduced Andre, he was at the front, screaming and high-fiving stu-dents. The first words out of Andre’s mouth were, “Satan is back tonight!” Andre was a ball of chaotic energy, from start to finish. His set was not as tight as Gborie’s was. He told too many jokes about Bill Cosby and Louis C.K.; he did not shy away from racy topics. But he was—undeniably—funny.
In the beginning of his set, it seemed like he was feeling the audience out. He told the audience stories about his drug usage and shouted out ridiculous punchlines to pretty normal premises. At one point, I asked Charlie if Eric Andre was funny or if he was just loud. Later in the show, as he settled down, his strength as a performer and writer shined through periodically.
The best example of this was a bit that he did about police brutality and reggae. The premise was plausible and relatable, the punchline was poignant and hilarious. By the end of it, he had the audience reeling. That section was excellent, but it left me wanting more.
There was a lot of crowd work. Andre asked the crowd if they had ever walked in on their parents having sex and then maintained a conver-sation with an audience member as she talked about walking in on her parents having sex on Father’s Day. The biggest laugh in that sec-tion came when the audience member confirmed that she
was, in fact, “a little faded.”Andre also closed the
show with crowd work. He asked for audience member’s phones and sent their parents messages completed using autocomplete. It was a funny bit, but ultimately the phone was doing more work than Andre. He ended the show by FaceTiming the mother of a student and having her say goodbye to the audience for him.
I stood up to leave and started moving towards the back when the lights dimmed again and the screen flashed “Encore?” I quickly filed back into my seat as Andre came back out and announced a fifth season of “The Eric Andre Show” and that he was starring in a “Jackass” style prank movie next year, of which he showed the crowd a “never-before-seen clip.” The movie seemed like it would
be funny, but it also high-lighted that Andre’s strength is as a writer of sketches and absurd premises as opposed to stand-up comedy.
Leaving the show, I was pleased, but not blown away. A person behind me told his neighbor, “This was better than I thought it would be. I was ready for an hour of Pizza Ball, so this was pretty good.” He hit the nail right on the head.
Eric Andre doesn’t quite disappoint in Fall Comedy ShowDORIAN DEBOSESENIOR EDITOR
Eric Andre delivers a set fllled with provocative jokes and audience participation for the Social Programming Board’s Fall Comedy Show in Graham Chapel on Monday, Oct. 28.
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UDIO HILES: Songs that make me feel like the witch I want to be when I grow up
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When it starts to cool down and the leaves change, the pumpkins and the skel-etons come out. The sounds and vibes of Halloween
are in the air and there’s no better way to celebrate the spookiest of holidays than with a Halloween movie marathon. I’ve picked out some of my Halloween favorites, so sit back, relax with some candy corn and
enjoy a ghost or two.
Anything Tim Burton
I think it goes without saying that Tim Burton has permanently left his mark on Halloween. Whether it’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Frankenweenie,” “The Corpse Bride” or “Beetlejuice,” there’s absolutely no way that you can go wrong. Each of these movies will forever be remembered as Halloween hits. I don’t think I’ve ever gone through a Halloween without watching at least one of these movies.
“Coraline”
Some people don’t like “Coraline,” and that’s understandable, but it’s a fantastic movie. It holds the right amount of fun and the right amount of creepy to be the perfect Halloween movie if you don’t want to be too scared out of your mind, but are still up for
something that might make you jump a little. Plus, the characters have buttons for eyes; what could be cooler?
The “Halloweentown” movies
If you remember watching the Disney Channel Original Movie marathon of all of the “Halloweentown” movies, then you understand why I included the whole fran-chise and not just the titular movie, “Halloweentown.” Once you watch the first movie and fall in love with the story of a teenager learning t s hat she comes from a line of witches, there’s nothing stopping you from watching all four of them.
“Hocus Pocus”
Evil witches, magic cats, threats of immortal-ity—this movie has it all. “Hocus Pocus” is one of the most memorable and perfect Halloween movies
to ever hit the silver screen. It might have something to do with the fact that Kenny Ortega—the man who brought us
“High School Musical”—also directed this stunning classic.
A Halloween lover’s movie guide: Spooky films for a spooky good time
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Do you like wearing black, chanting in dark languages, hanging out with cats and frightening men? Then I have good news for you! Being a witch is always a valid post-grad plan and an even more valid Halloween costume. These songs will help you feel like the witch you’ve wanted to be all along.
“Big God”Florence and the
Machine
If anyone is the Supreme here, it’s Florence Welch. To see some real witch vibes, watch the music video for this song and fall under Welch’s spell. Clocking in at around five minutes, it’s a
masterpiece that leaves the listener with more ques-tions than answers, with its deceptively simple lyrics and lingering outbursts of emo-tion. This song, haunting and guttural, is perfect for letting loose and making all of this fall into the sea. In other words, great for a girls’ night!
“Bottom of the River”
Delta Rae If you’re looking for a
more vengeful witch vibe, this song is perfect for the aforementioned frightening of men. Delta Rae sings as a super scary, super Southern witch who’s been caught in her ritual. It’s loud, brassy and unapologetically chilling. It’s also popular with the a cappella community as a
song to cover, so for some of that, check out Vocal Rush’s cover from “The Sing-Off” or a version from one of the many Wash. U. groups that have covered it over the years!
“NFWMB”Hozier
Honestly any of Hozier’s songs could be sung by someone in love with a witch, but this song has an especially witchy vibe. It was released as a single in tan-dem with his recent album, “Wasteland Baby!” (which I still haven’t gotten over and probably never will). It’s a song about a tragic love—an infatuation with a dangerous woman that might just eat the singer alive. If that isn’t some seriously sinister witch energy, I don’t know what is!
“Nighttime Hunger”Overcoats
This more upbeat and modern song is for those chic city witches going out with their ghoul-friends on a Friday night. “When the darkness comes,” the mem-bers of this cool coven take the town and find their next victim. Electronic and hyp-notic, this is the kind of song that might play at a nightclub exclusively for Halloween monsters.
“Raise Hell”Brandi Carlile
Not every witch is a city-slicker, though. Some prefer a simpler way of doing things, in the country where they can’t be bothered. That’s the
issue for Carlile in this song—when love comes in and seems to threaten the power and independence she holds dear, she has to make a choice. To be honest, I feel her. Cuffing season can be like that sometimes.
“Didn’t Leave Nobody but the Baby”
From the “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” soundtrack
I have to give the final
spot on the playlist to some good old-fashioned witchery. A classic piece of cinema that hits my Southern heart heavily, “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” includes some wonderful Southern Gothic-esque mystical elements, not the least of which are the river witches that play a narrative role as sirens. Honestly, they’re inspiration for all of us aspirants to witchhood.
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The “Twitches” movies
“Twitches” and “Twitches Too” are two Halloween movies that I watched as a kid that I absolutely loved. Starring Tia and Tamera Mowry of the acclaimed TV
series “Sister, Sister,” these two movies showed me that the witches, prin-cesses and heroines I saw on TV didn’t have to be white women; they could look like me. Just two strong black women liv-ing the dream—princess
witches who save the world.
“It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”
There’s nothing that screams “holiday” like a
Charlie Brown special. Naturally, you can’t have Halloween without “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.” The story of the Great Pumpkin is sweet, and the Peanuts gang’s quest to figure out whether or
not the Great Pumpkin is real is the wholesome animation everyone needs on Halloween. It’s a break from the spooky and the scary and pares Halloween down to the simple, good-natured, fun time that it is.
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