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Revolutionary Webster president remembered Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, 85, dies in her Florida home She became executive vice president and eventually president.

Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor Prof. Joe Schuster wrote in an unpublished history of Webster Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, University that Wexler, “was, for former Webster University presi- many, the personiication of Webdent, died in her Florida home ster College.”

Perhaps the most notable and hursday, Jan. 19. She was 85 years revolutionary change Wexler old.

Born Jean Marie Grennan in brought to Webster College was a small Illinois town, Wexler and the transition from a Catholic her three siblings grew up on a institution to a secular, lay board farm. Her parents worked hard school. Webster was the irst Cathto educate both male and female olic college in America to break children, an uncommon choice in from the Church.

Schuster wrote that Wexler the 1930s. wanted to expand general educa“She was very tion requirements proud of being a and said in a 1965 farm girl,” her son, speech that, “If we Wayne Wexler, said. are to educate stu“She said, ‘I’m from dents whose power Sterling, Ill. My dad and drive to search was a farmer and he within a discipline tailed gas during the both liberates and depression to get us compels them to through school.’ She search within other was very proud of ields, we must crethese things.” ate opening courses Ater being the which are, indeed, irst girl to take a open-ended, strucscience class instead WEXLER tured to induce a of home economics growing and deepin her high school, ening curiosity,” Wexler went on to graduate Webster College in 1948 with degrees rather than restrict students with strict theological course requirein English and mathematics.

Wexler joined the Sisters of ments. “hat was critical to the colLoretto in 1949, taking the name “Jacqueline” in honor of her de- lege’s future,” Wayne Wexler said. ceased brother, Jack. She became “he bishops and what not of a teacher, eventually instructing St. Louis made it very hard on students at Nerinx Hall, right next her. She had enormous support door to her alma mater. She fol- from the Sisters of Loretto to get lowed Sister Francetta Barberis through that.”

It was this transition from the back to Webster when Barberis Catholic Church that allowed was appointed president in 1958.

Wexler served as the face of Webster to continue as a thriving Webster College from 1965-69.

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Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, Webster College president from 1965-1969, died in her Florida home on Thurdsday, Jan. 19. She was 85 years old. Wexler irst came to Webster in the 1940s to major in English and mathematics. One year later, she joined the Sisters of Loretto. She took the name Jacqueline to honor her late brother, Jack. Wexler returned to her high school alma mater, Nerinx Hall, to teach. Before taking the position as Webster’s president, she irst served as vice president. During her four years as Webster’s president, Wexler helped turn the university from a Catholic institution into a secular school. Webster was the irst college to do so in America.

MOVING IN

GALE WHITEHEAD /he Journal

Webster University’s Board of Trustees announced the purchase of a $935,000 residence in the Webster Park neighborhood to serve as home for President Elizabeth Stroble. The home is located at 102 Mason Avenue.

Neighbor expresses concern over presidential home BY aNdRea sisNeY Editor-in-Chief

EVAN MUELLER /he Journal

UPFRONT

Construction is nearly complete on Webster University’s East Academic Building, located across the street from Garden Park Plaza on campus. The building will be the irst new structure to house classrooms on the home campus since the 1980s. George Herbert Walker School of Business Dean Benjamin Akande and other business faculty moved into the building over winter break. The building will oicially open for classes in the spring semester’s second term.

Kendall Kaul, who has lived in Webster Groves his entire life, isn’t pleased about his new neighbor. In December, the Webster University Board of Trustees announced the purchase of a $935,000 university residence at 102 Mason Ave., across the street from Kaul and his family.

“I’ve seen how (the university) has kind of taken over neighborhoods,” said Kaul, who has lived on Mason Avenue for the past six years. his Wednesday, President Beth Stroble will meet with Kaul and other Webster Park residents

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to discuss their concerns.

Kaul and his wife, who graduated from Webster approximately 10 years ago with an MBA, became aware of the university’s purchase through Webster Today.

Kaul said he believes Webster didn’t announce that they would be moving into the Webster Park neighborhood in hopes that they could move in quietly to avoid upsetting residents. “(Now) it seems they are starting to show concern to what the neighborhood thinks,” Kaul said. he main concerns Kaul has about the university purchasing a home center around his children.

He said he doesn’t want a traic problem that could put his kids in

danger.

“Now (Webster University) is expanding north,” Kaul said.

“Will they want more houses?

Fraternity houses? President’s houses are oten used for events.

How oten (will Stroble host guests)?”

Kaul and his wife received a letter from Webster inviting them to attend a lunch on Jan. 25 to discuss concerns ater they, along with other members of the Webster park neighborhood, called the university with complaints.

Doug Nissing, president of the Webster Park Association, and Maggie Sowash, a member of See President’s Home

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Gorloks get by Greenville, but fall to Fontbonne in up-and-down week.

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NeWs BRieFs WINS gains partnership with Northeastern University Northeastern University has been added as a partner to the Webster International Network of Schools (WINS) program. It is the most recent ailiate institution of 25 connected with the WINS program. he program allows other universities to send their students abroad through Webster’s international campuses.

Already sending some students to Webster’s various locations, Northeastern University is one of the institutions promoting the WINS program partnerships. he program holds an annual conference for partner schools and interested schools to attend the function. he next conference will be held at the Webster hailand campus in Cha-am.

SOC Dean search update he job description for the position of dean of the School of Communications (SOC) was inalized this week. he SOC Dean Search committee, along with consultants at the executive search irm Witt/Kiefer, Webster Human Resources and Webster Academic Afairs provided input. he search committee also received input from students in the SOC via an open forum held on Dec. 1.

According to Susan Kerth, a university spokeswoman, Webster plans to advertise the position in print and online. hey will be posting the job listing in he Chronicle of Higher Education. he job posting is not yet on Webster’s job opportunities page.

“Mostly I’m concerned that there is a good process for hiring a dean that is even close to how good Debby Carpenter is,” said Linda Holtzman, communications professor. “It seems like there are some really good people involved in the search and we’ve all been asked for criteria and things that are important to us.” he job description on Witt/ Kiefer’s website states:“Review of candidates will begin immediately and continue until the position is illed.”

Ater taking a sabbatical in the fall, Debra Carpenter, current SOC dean, will return to teaching PR courses in January 2013. Carpenter became dean of the SOC in 1996.

To read the full job description, visit websterjournal.com

Community Music School receives new conductor David Commanday was announced as the new conductor of the Community Music School’s Young People Symphonic Orchestra on Monday, Jan. 23.

Commanday has held many prestigious positions for orchestras all around the world.

Some of those include the Boston Ballet’s music director, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s associate director, Peoria Symphony Orchestra’s music director and most recently, New Jersey Youth Symphony’s artistic director.

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BRITTANY RUESS / he Journal Courtney Turner, sophmore advertising and marketing major, is sworn in as SGA president on Jan. 24 in the Sunnen Lounge.

Courtney Turner takes role as SGA president, ater Raymundo resigns

BY BRiTTaNY RUess Managing Editor

Justin Raymundo resigned as Student Government Association (SGA) president ater holding the position for two-and-ahalf years. He was the irst student in SGA history to win the presidency three times.

Courtney Turner, sophomore advertising and marketing major, was sworn in as president at a SGA meeting on Jan. 24.

Turner was irst informed of Raymundo’s resignation during her shift at Applebee’s after missing a call from SGA advisor John Ginsburg.

“It was a Friday night,” Turner said. “It was out of the blue.”

Raymundo resigned ater accepting a full-time position at Monsanto as

Wexler:

school. he move helped fund a inancially struggling institution, and opened opportunities for students that had been previously closed.

Diane Gartland, whose time at Webster College coincided with Wexler’s presidency, saw the change manifest on campus when the nuns stopped wearing their habits.

“I remember seeing a couple of the sisters, and I can’t remember where but it couldn’t have been on campus. It was some place where they were socializing, having cocktails,” Gartland, class of 1969, said. “We were all of age and all that, but I don’t think the younger women were appalled by it, they were just amazed.”

Gradually, she said, the entire institution began to change. Students were given more freedom to select their classes. As a freshman, Gartland said she was required to take theology and religion classes — traditional to a Catholic education. By her senior year, Gartland was taking a class called Black and White Civilization. In the course, the professor and students spent several classes discussing the democratic convention and the

riots during it.

“We discussed, in class, if you want to get people’s attention you can’t dress like a hippie — you have to dress in business wear so that when the cops come to beat you up, it will look bad on the television,” Gartland said. “his was the type of stuf they were teaching us in the classroom. To us, this was very radical.”

At Gartland’s 1969 graduation, she and her fellow classmates walked to a nun playing the “Pomp and Circumstance” on the organ. Suddenly, the organ was disconnected and the music of Simon and Garfunkel played. he students danced their way to their seats. “hat really said it all,” Gartland said. “We started at Webster in a very traditional way, and we ended up in a very kind of expanded, open-minded, anything goes kind of way.”

Around this time, Wexler also asked to be dispensed from her vows. She explained the decision to remove both herself and Webster from the Church in an interview with Barbara Walters on the Today Show.

“It was not breaking with the Church,” Jacqueline Wexler said.

“It was opening doors beyond that.”

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said. “And, we don’t need igureheads at Webster, we don’t need images – we need actual people to make solid decisions and I never want to be remembered as an image...So, it’s great that people think of me as someone who brought a new light and enthusiasm and energy to the position of student body president. But I think what Courtney Turner will be able to do more than me is really do the job and be a hard worker and make the decisions and not be swallowed by the image.”

Turner said as SGA Vice-President, she knew there was the possibility for her to step up into the presidency.

“I’m not afraid to take on a challenge,” Turner said. “I’m excited. With my student government behind me, they’re such great people, I couldn’t be more excited.”

In her four years at Oakville High School in South St. Louis County, Turner worked her way up to president of Oakville’s student council. When running for SGA in her irst year of college, Turner said she contemplated eventually taking the presidential seat.

“I made my way up the chain in high school and it’s awesome to see that I made it up the chain here too,” Turner said.

Turner said she knows she has big shoes to ill succeeding Raymundo, but is enthusiastic about the future.

“It’s not one of those jobs in which you stick to the side,” Turner said. “It’s one of those jobs where your work shows through it and people are relying on you and you want to make a good impression on everybody, and stay on top of things.”

Raymundo and Turner have continuously talked to help Turner transition into her role.

“He wants to make sure student government goes really well and I don’t blame him,” Turner said. “He’s been in the position for two-and-a-half years. He wants what he’s done in student government to carry on and I plan to do that.”

Turner said she plans to meet with President Beth Stroble in the near future to develop her working relationship with the administration — something Raymundo worked steadily on during his presidency.

“I feel like our administration is so extremely friendly that it’s one of those things in which I’m going to feel really comfortable working with them and I feel like a lot will get done between us,” Turner said.

“Once I get the relationship going, I can see it progressing quickly.”

Before advocating for certain issues, Turner said she would like to focus on creating more orderly SGA meetings and strengthening the relationships between SGA members.

“If the student government body themselves doesn’t feel comfortable working together, we won’t feel comfortable working with the students,” Turner said. “So I want to improve our relationships and make us a stronger group of student government leaders so we can serve the students better.

Once I accomplish that, then I can move onto the people.”

Turner added that she will see how this semester goes, but could see herself running for SGA president at the end of the academic year.

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manager of corporate responsibility in which he will collect data and information for Monsanto’s sustainability report.

He irst interned at Monsanto in June 2010. He stayed on as an intern until earning a part time position in Jan. 2011 and maintained the position under Maureen Mazurek, director of Corporate Responsibility. Monsanto ofered Raymundo a fulltime job during the inal week of the fall semester. He started the job on Jan. 3.

“I knew that it was the right opportunity to take to ill the position (Maureen) wanted me to and fulill this full-time role, really get serious about where I wanted to be ater Webster,” Raymundo said. “I looked at my schedule for the (spring) semester and I knew that if I wanted to graduate on time, if I wanted to survive a full-time academic load and a full-time job like many

non-traditional students do, I had to give something up.”

He then chose to leave SGA. Raymundo met with University Center (UC) director John Ginsburg, then Dean of Students Ted Hoef to resign as SGA president, writing an informal resignation letter on legal pad.

“I was walking out of the (UC) and it was the last time I was in the UC as not just the student body president, but also as a traditional undergraduate student because, obviously, I work full-time and am not on campus as much anymore,” Raymundo said. “My college life is efectively over and it hit me, and it was sad.”

As SGA president, Raymundo worked to strengthen the Delegate’s Agenda. Raymundo created a relationship between Delegate’s Agenda and SGA through encouraging SGA executives to research and present issues to the administration.

“Delegate’s Agenda not only advances those causes by virtue of just facilitating the Delegate’s Agenda, but also by sinking SGA with those,” Hoef said. “hat always hasn’t been the case. SGA, in the past, sometimes said, ‘Here are our goals and there’s Delegate’s Agenda.’ I think Justin did a nice job of having those all be on the same page which I think helped advance (those causes) more.”

Raymundo is not the only veteran SGA executive to resign. Seniors Abby Bandelow and Erin King, former public relations and sergeant-at-arms respectively, stepped down. Junior Nicole King, former secretary also let SGA before 2012. he positions were illed as follows: —Courtney Turner, President, sophomore advertising and marketing major —Michael Grosch, Vice-President, sophomore international relations and public relations major —Katie Maxwell, secretary, sophomore sociology and mathematics major —Chris Venable, sergeant-at-arms, junior secondary education and mathematics major Ginsburg, who advises SGA, feels that although the timing may be earlier than expected for these young leaders to take on higher SGA positions, they are ready for the responsibilities.

“I think the people who let did a good job at grooming the younger folks to be able to step up,” Ginsburg said. “It may sound strange to say so, but I think the timing was really good because it was a good thing for Justin and it was a good time for other leaders to step up.”

When Raymundo ran for the third time in spring 2011, Ginsburg said he saw Raymundo approach younger students and encouraged them to join SGA. “I think the conversation a year ago when I said, ‘Justin, if you run for a third term, when you leave there could be this power vacuum.’ I think he took that to heart to make sure that when he did graduate there would be younger members involved,” Ginsburg said. “I think Michael (Grosch) is a good example. He’s someone Justin reached out to and expressed interest in further roles on SGA since Michael got started.”

Raymundo said he hopes Turner will be not only respected as SGA president, but also for what she does in that position.

“Sadly, at times I really lead as a igurehead as opposed to a leader, as an individual, as a strong decision maker,” Raymundo

First woman appointed to the United Technologies Corp. board of directors.

Participant in an advisory panel on research and development in education held by President John F. Kennedy.

Oversaw the development of the Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program and the Veterans Accelerated Urban Learning for Teaching program.

Convinced hotel magnate Conrad Hilton to donate $1.5 million to the university to create the LorettoHilton Center.

Served as President of the World Organization of Christians and Jews.

Wexler only occupied the presidency for four years, choosing to leave in 1969 to marry Paul Wexler, a Jewish businessman from New York. hey married on June 11 that year.

“He (Paul) loved her,” Wayne Wexler said. “None of us will ever recover from this loss, but he more than anybody. hey were life-long friends, and husband and wife.”

When she met Paul Wexler, she also met his two children, Wendy and Wayne. In the early 1970s, she adopted the two children.

“She became mom right away,” Wayne Wexler said. “She was my mother much longer than my natural mom. She was always mom.”

She went on to serve as president of Hunter College for almost 10 years. At Hunter, Wexler

opened admissions to all high school students in the area and began charging tuition. he new tuition caused students to riot and the campus was eventually closed at one point, Wayne Wexler said.

“She was under enormous stress,” Wayne Wexler said. “She walked into that and she was really magniicent and strong and forth right. She was battling with the academics — the professors, the students and the press. But, it was the right thing to do. She was a terriic administrator and was able to work the politics out so it was a success story.”

Jacqueline Wexler helped expand the Hunter campus with new buildings like a library, which was named in her honor. Wayne Wexler’s son is currently a senior at Hunter College.

Wayne Wexler said he misses

the fun, laughter and camaraderie he shared with his mother. He misses their true mother-son relationship.

“I’ll miss that forever,” Wayne Wexler said. “It’s way too soon.”

A funeral service will be held for Wexler Saturday, Jan. 28 in Rockfalls, Ill. Webster Today announced Friday that a memorial service would take place on Webster’s campus in the near future.

No date has been announced.

Background information on Jacqueline Wexler was contributed

by Joe Schuster from an unpublished chapter in a history of the university.

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Muny forms partnership with Conservatory BY sTePHaNie LeFLeR Staf Writer

Webster’s Conservatory of heatre Arts has maintained its longterm partnerships with he Rep and Opera heatre of Saint Louis, and has just added a third partnership to its list. he Muny and Conservatory are teaming up to enhance the opportunities and experiences for both organizations.

According to Webster Today, through the collaboration of both the Muny and Webster’s Conservatory, students will have the opportunity to audition for Muny productions, intern at the Muny and take classes ofered by the Muny’s choreographers and directors. Students will also help with developing processes for the Muny’s future.

“I am thrilled,” Audrey McHale, senior musical theater major, said. “I think there will be an exciting inlux of Webster students auditioning and being seen from now on. I am excited to see where these relations will go in the future.”

Students can now audition and perform in Muny shows, and the 2013 Muny season will reserve two positions in at least one musical for both a male and female.

For many native St. Louis Conservatory students, performing at the Muny is a desirable goal. Jordan Parente, a junior musical theater major feels no diferent.

Parente grew up in St. Louis and performed on the Muny stage as a Muny Teen.

“When we found out, everyone was so excited — even kids who had never been to the Muny,” Parente said. “It means a lot, especially from growing up in St. Louis and doing Muny.”

Lara Teeter, head of Webster’s musical theater department, is no stranger to performing at the Muny.

Teeter said when a student performs on the Muny stage, they receive their Equity card. his is a labor union that represents thousands of performers in the United States.

“To graduate and already have an Equity card is a big deal,” Teeter said.

Along with a chance to perform, there will be several kinds of internships ofered to Conservatory production students.

Starting in January, those selected will help prepare for the Muny’s 2012 season. Webster Today cited those who are selected are able to help with the Muny season planning and casting process, scenic and costume design, and other parts of production.

“To know that we will be able to share the Muny stage with students is great,” Teeter said. “Our students could be involved in the process of an evolving show.”

Teeter said Mike Isaacson, the Muny’s new executive producer, is the driving force behind this

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SEAN SANDEFUR / he Journal A bright sign welcomes visitors into The Muny in Forest Park, one of the nations oldest and largest outdoor theaters.

Webster University and The Muny are partnering up, a irst for both institutions, to train staf and students to help promote performing arts in St. Louis.

partnership. “he Muny experience has always involved Broadway professionals working with inspiring newcomers,” Isaacson said. “It’s exciting and rewarding, and terriic energy to have around. he students from Webster will be bringing their talents and skills to assist the Muny with all aspects of the 2012 production process.

But, along with their skills, they’re sharing who they are.”

As part of the partnership, Isaacson will also attend Conser vatory auditions and portfo-

lio reviews to further assist in collaboration.

According to Isaacson, through their experiences and learned skills, Conservatory students will have some of the most advanced job portfolios for musical theater students in the country when they graduate.

While the Muny is the largest and oldest outdoor musical theatre in the nation, Isaacson says Webster is the only school that has ever had this kind of partnership with he Muny. “he Muny has always had

deep civic roots; the ability to serve and work with our community is one of the reasons we exist,” Isaacson said. “My hope is that through this partnership, the Webster program increases in reputation and caliber of students.”

Auditions for Muny productions will be held in February he Loretto-Hilton Center.

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First Active House in the U.S. to be built in Webster Groves Environmentally conscience couple plans to construct sustainable home

BY MeGaN FaviGNaNO Copy-Editor

Ater living in his dad’s childhood home in Brentwood for eight years, David Smith is moving back to Webster Groves — two blocks from where he grew up — with his wife huy Smith and 4-year-old daughter Cameron. he Smiths’ new home, on South Gray Avenue, will be an “active house,” an environmentally-conscience building approach. Architects involved with the project say the home will be the irst active house in the United States.

According to he Active House Alliance’s website, an active house is a “green” building technique that started in Denmark and has since been used throughout Europe. he Active House Alliance was established in Copenhagen in 2010 to support the active house building concept.

David Smith said he and his wife hope to move into their new home by the end of 2012. For approximately one year, the Smiths looked for a new house in the Webster Groves and Brentwood areas. David Smith approached Jef Day, principal architect of Jef Day and Associates, about building a home. Day, who built an addition on the Smiths’ current Brentwood home, suggested the Smiths get involved with the active house project.

Hibbs Homes will build the Smiths’ new house.

“We (when building the active house) give equal weight to the resource eiciency, the indoor environment, the sustainability of the environment, as well as the conservation angle,” Kim Hibbs, of Hibbs Homes, said. he principles of active house focus more on what Hibbs called a, “holistic approach.” He said many green building certiications in the U.S. focus on conservation

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ALEX NASH / he Journal Though the architects for the Active House are still in the preliminary stages of planning, the house will be constructed at this location on South Gray Avenue.

and the building process. he New East Academic Building will be LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certiied. Hibbs said the construction process for the active house is similar to green building certiications such as LEED. “he approach is similar. You’re focusing on many of the same items,” Hibbs said.

Day said they will take their plans to the Webster Groves Architectural Review Board in February for approval. Day hopes to break ground on the project sometime in March.

David and huy Smith have been working with architects to design the home, which is still in the preliminary design stages. “he main idea is smart building and following guidelines to make sure the house is as eicient as possible,” David Smith said.

David Smith said the goal is for the new home to be a zero net energy house. Along with energy eiciency, the active house concept focuses on the indoor climate and environmental efect of the home. As the Smiths and architects plan the layout of the new house, they are considering which time of day each room is most used so the house can utilize natural light. he University of Missouri and Laclede Gas will monitor the house for at least one year to observe how the house performs. hey will monitor the electric consumption and eiciency of the heating and cooling systems. Hibbs said it’s rare to see monitoring of green veriied homes in the U.S. “I’m excited to see exactly how well we build this house to make sure we deliver a good product for our clients,” Hibbs said.

David Smith said building a green home isn’t going to cost a signiicant amount

more than they were planning to spend on a new home. “he most attractive thing is the cost of operation,” David Smith said.

By utilizing reusable sources, such as solar energy, David and huy Smith will have lower monthly costs. Day said he has seen a similar motivation in other clients.

“My clients that are building green homes are doing it because it has a positive impact on their pocket book when they’re not burning all these utilities,” Day said. he Smiths and the architects involved have preliminary drawings for the Smiths’ new home, but don’t yet have an estimated cost of the new house. he Smiths want a traditional style home similar to other homes in the Webster Groves neighborhood. he Smiths’ bought their current home in Brentwood from David Smith’s grandmother. When they move, David Smith will leave his father’s childhood neighborhood for his own. he Smiths plan for their new home to be slightly larger than their current house.

“With our daughter getting a bit older, we are looking for a little more space,” David Smith said.

Matt Belcher, a green construction specialist and consultant at Hibbs Homes, and Hibbs were searching for a client interested in this project. Hibbs is excited to be involved in construction of the irst active house in the U.S. “I would like to see any kind of home that takes into account what many of these green programs take into account,” Hibbs said. “It’s (green buildings) what has to be done in order for us to address the longterm issues (regarding the environment) that we will face.”

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Webster Works campaign reaches $56.5 million BY aLex BRaNdT News Editor

President Elizabeth Stroble announced during convocation on Jan. 13 that the Webster Works campaign exceeded the original goal of $55 million by raising $56.5 million. he Webster Works campaign provided 45 new endowed scholarships. Diana homas, junior public relations major, received one of them — the African American Association Collegians (AAAC) Alumni Scholarship of $3,000.

“I deinitely think it’s great that there’s more money available,” homas said. “An extra $1,500 a semester is great.”

Faith Maddy, vice president of development and alumni programs, said the campaign was originally launched in Jan. 2003, and was publically announced in Sept. 2010

Maddy said three goals were determined – Webster needed more physical facilities, growing endowment and increased operational support.

Maddy said roughly $23 million was invested in facilities, $12.5 million invested in endowment scholarships and nearly $21 million went to Webster’s annual support fund.

“Every single git brings us a step closer (to goals),” Maddy said.

In terms of facilities, the much-needed space for more classrooms, Maddy said, was a driving force behind the campaign. he New Academic building provides much needed classroom space, Maddy said.

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Residents for Webster Groves, both said they were uncomfortable making a comment due to ongoing negotiations between residents and the university. Residents for Webster Groves has previously spoken out in complaint against the university’s expanding master plan, which includes a proposed acquisition of land from Eden Seminary.

University spokeswoman Susan Kerth said in a statement to he Journal that Webster has been discussing the purchase of a residence since 2008, and that having housing for university presidents is standard practice.

Stroble is meant to move in to the house in March 2012 ater renovations, and will use the residence to host events for the school and local community, as well as dignitaries and donors. he purchase will eliminate the housing allowance Stroble formerly received as part of her salary. Kerth said the purchase is an investment expected to save Webster $265,000 over 30 years. In 2011, the taxes on the property were $11,140.

When asked about the Webster Park neighborhood’s reaction to the purchase, Kerth did not comment. he Journal also requested a comment or interview from Stroble, but received no response.

Dennis Golden, president of Fontbonne University, resides in a home on his Clayton campus. Wydown House was purchased when Golden became president in 1995. He said the home has been very beneicial to the work he does. “he irst 15 presidents (of Fontbonne) were all religious women,” Golden said. “here was no presidential house.

When I was hired, they were going to give me a housing allowance, but the board owned a house on Wydown. he university renovated it and it became our home six months in (to his presidency.)”

In 1998, the 2,716-squarefoot Fontbonne home was appraised for $264,000. Wydown House was most recently valued at $293,700 in February 2011 by the St. Louis County Tax Assessor’s oice. Webster’s 3,430-square-foot residence on Mason Avenue was put on the market in May 2011 with an asking price of $1,150,000. he list price was reduced three times before the university’s purchase.

Golden said having a home on campus allows him and his wife to host annual events such as the faculty and staf Christmas party, commencement receptions and open houses for international students. Golden has even taught classes in the Wydown House. He said the home allows him to be visible on campus, as his front door is less than ive minutes away from most campus buildings.

“We’ve become a part of the community,” Golden said. “Our neighbors know us personally.

It can lessen (our image) which, at times, is too institutional.”

When Fontbonne purchased the home 17 years ago, Golden said the neighborhood held a reception. hough the relationship has had ups and downs as both the neighborhood and the university have expanded and changed, Golden feels his presence has helped create a positive relationship between Fontbonne and Clayton.

“I think Dr. Stroble and her family will beneit immensely from having a house owned by your university,” Golden said. “No one is more capable of building a relationship than she is.”

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The Journal weighs in on the issues Albert Pujols leaves the Cardinals for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

St. Louis Rams hire Jef Fisher as new coach.

Costa Concordia sinks.

hirty-four votes determine Iowa Caucus.

Joe Paterno (1926-2012)

Webster buys $935,000 home for President Stroble.

Iraq War end oicially declared.

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Editorials

American Savage Single-celled to single-minded

Your vote counts he 2012 election year kicked of with a surprising result. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania won the Iowa caucus. Sen. Gov. Mitt Romney inished second by 34 votes in the irst race for the Republican nomination. Yes, 34 votes. Not 3,400, but 34. A small number decided the irst major event during an election year. his is something only seen in movies. It’s diicult to fathom an outcome that close, but it happened.

In America, like few other countries, we have the privilege to vote for our leaders. Until the 2008 election, younger voters didn’t punch ballots as oten as their elders. his probably occurred for several reasons — they didn’t agree with any candidate, they didn’t feel the need to register to vote or they were simply apathetic.

Another reason, maybe the main reason one doesn’t vote, is because they feel their vote wouldn’t count. he 2012 Iowa caucus is a prime example of people’s votes

counting. While many Webster University students could not vote in the Iowa caucus and impact that outcome, it doesn’t mean this couldn’t happen in another election. It could happen in any election that would afect a Webster student: an SGA vote, the mayoral vote for Webster Groves, the race for Missouri governor. he Journal wishes to remind all students, faculty and staf that your vote counts in our democracy. Even though elections can be decided by hundreds or thousands of votes, we have seen that just a few can determine an outcome. In a time where some people question their vote’s importance, this month’s Iowa caucus shows you just how important your choice is. he Journal encourages its readers, if they haven’t already, to register to vote and make your choice heard. Because it really can be that close of an election.

Wexler’s legacy Jacqueline Grennan Wexler came to Webster University at a tumultuous time. he school, and the country, were at the crossroads — old world meeting new in a lurry of change. On the cusp of the civil rights movement, political revolution and a radical shit in American ideals, Wexler helped Webster weather the storm.

Wexler was ahead of her time, transforming what began as a small religious institute into a nationally recognized and lauded college. Her charismatic personality and relentless drive drew students and instructors to Webster.

She charmed presidents Kennedy and Johnson, a hotel mogul, and an awarded physicist.

She showed bravery in the face of criticism and adversity for what were seen as controversial decisions. She followed her heart, irst in faith as a Sister of Loretto, then in love when she let the order to marry a Jewish man.

Webster was arguably more changed by Wexler’s inluential four years than any other time in university history. When one

looks at Webster’s groundbreaking programs and global presence that outshines most other institutions, it seems Wexler never let.

In three years, Webster will celebrate its 100th anniversary. he Journal believes those years will be again a time of great change for the university. Some of those transitions are starting now, as Webster seeks to create a new master plan and begins to consider new international campuses. he Webster Works campaign, which raised millions of dollars for university growth and development, is only a start to what looks to be a new era of change.

Today, Webster owes much of its success to Wexler. Friends and family said she was as innovative and dedicated as she was friendly. She built relationships and community. he Journal hopes President Beth Stroble and Webster administrators take a page from Wexler’s book as they move the university forward. Let’s enter the next 100 years in a way itting to Wexler’s lasting legacy.

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Over the break, while we were all enjoying time with family, thinking about the nature of the holidays and drinking to violent excess with our old friends from high school, the Missouri House of Representatives did something rather strange. hey read and introduced something called HB 1227, otherwise known as the “Intelligent Design” bill, and oicially known as the Missouri Standard Science Act. If enacted, the bill would require, “the equal treatment of science instruction regarding evolution and intelligent design.” he bill literally requires an equal amount of time and, “teaching materials,” be devoted to intelligent design wherever evolution is taught. Now, engaging members of the conservative Missouri House on an argument of evolution is like driving very slowly past a group of teenage boys: you’re just asking to be brutally verbally assaulted.

I was shocked to read such news. Ater all, I wasn’t aware our curriculum was up to changes based on preference. But since it is, I must wholeheartedly support this legislation, but only if they make a single addition. he addition? An amendment clarifying that gravity is only a scientiic theory, and that equal time must be given to the “Angel Repellent heory.” You see, gravity, much like evolution, is a “scientiic theory.” he bill has an interesting deinition for scientiic theory: an inferred explanation of incompletely understood phenomena about the physical universe based on limited knowledge, whose components are data, logic and faith-based philosophy.

I don’t know much, but I’m pretty sure that makes gravity a theory. I mean, it’s certainly not consistent. he gravity on other planets in our solar system varies wildly, and space doesn’t even HAVE gravity. I smell something ishy.

Face it — gravity isn’t 100 percent accurate. But hey, those white lab coat fellas have been busy mapping the human genome and all.

Much like the craters of HB 1227, I see the truth in all these so-called “scientiic theories.”

It is all a cheap con — a magic trick pulled by vindictive, agnostic, secular humanists in the scientiic community. hey wanted to cheapen our God and spit on our Jesus, what with their monkey family trees and carbon dating. he Angel Repellent heory makes up for this bizarre “gravity” theory that is so illed with holes. It essentially says angels play an active role in keeping people and objects here on Earth. hey push very hard against anyone trying to get into space, because that’s where heaven is, six blocks past the moon and to the let — you can’t miss it. Now, if you push back hard enough, i.e. space shuttles, ICBMs, you can get past, but then you’ll be in a place without angels at all, and this thing we know as “gravity” will simply evaporate. he angel will let you loat frictionless and whimsically until you freeze in the cold vacuum of space.

And since our country is based entirely on our ability to perceive and know God —or liberty, whatever — it is essential our children are protected from the lies of evolution and gravity, which only remove God from their lives by giving them fact-based answers to faith-based questions.

“How did we get here?” is not an invitation for anyone with a Ph.D. to address the room — it’s an invitation for someone to read from Genesis. As the Greeks and Romans taught us, we need the supernatural world to explain the way our natural world operates. Just as the Greeks knew the Earth did not rotate, but that Mars carried the Sun across the sky in a chariot, so do American Christians know we did not evolve from lesser organisms: we appeared out of thin air ater God said a magic

spell. he journey from single-celled organisms to single-minded organisms was not a trial of billions of organisms advancing toward their potential by mutation and selection: it was a six-day workweek for the local deity.

Normally we could attribute this kind of mind-melting legislation to the heavy drinking in the halls of our Capitol Building. But because this vote was organized and backed almost entirely by shame-based religions that view self-indulgence as a kind of Satanic ritual, that won’t work this time.

You see, this is the kind of unnatural indoctrination of our children that can only really be accomplished if it’s draped in a cruciix or an American lag. Remember: laws that prohibit my deadly weapon or require me to purchase health insurance are infringements on my freedom, but laws requiring a speciic religious creationist theory to be taught to my impressionable children are patriotic.

American Savage is a weekly column written by Journal contributing writer Collin Reischman.

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Get of my intellectual property Recent proposed bills are wrong way to handle copyright On Jan. 18, the Internet participated in a “black out.” Many websites demonstrated how limited the Internet would be if Congress passed the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA).

Images were JOSH censored, Google alCOPPENBARGER lowed users to sign a petition and Wikipedia redirected users to contact their congressmen about the dangers of SOPA. In all, the protest worked. Congress suspended both SOPA and PIPA until further revision was considered. he next day, the FBI efectively seized control of torrent hub Megaupload. All this efort was based of of the principles of copyright.

Copyright serves the purpose of giving the respective rights to an author’s creative work and helps future artists become creative with their own original work.

As an aspiring ilmmaker, it’s important for me to copyright my work to prohibit some random person on the Internet deciding to claim an idea of mine. I can’t imagine how angered I would be to know that my work and my ideas could be claimed by anyone other Web Master Hilary Rallo Photo Editor David Nash Multimedia Editor Evan Mueller Assistant Multimedia Editor Josh Coppenbarger Business Manager Stefanie Clynes journaladmgr@gmail.com

Marketing Manager Paige Lape Advertising Manager Erin Willmann Calendar Editor Hayden Andrews

than me.

Intellectual property is vital to any artist.

Trying to create something original and new may take a long time, and to have the ownership of that idea stripped away wouldn’t be the best feeling. How would it feel to not be credited for your work?

When the U.S. constitution was drated in 1787, the writers believed in this concept and thought to add copyright as a power of Congress. In Article II, Section 8, it states, “he Congress shall have Power … To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” his document we model our government ater even wants us to protect ourselves with our ideas. It’s not just a capital gain.

Both SOPA and PIPA wanted to protect artists and their respective work from other people trying to steal it.

Under SOPA and PIPA, if an Internet user shares an image from one site onto another, such as Reddit, the government could then bar the U.S. population’s Internet browsers from accessing the website and all advertisement and endorsements to the site would be cut of. he copyright law, however, does have a limit on when artists have control over his or her work — it has been changed four times but currently is 70 years ater the artist’s death.

Staf Hayden Andrews Andy Arb Briana Baker Victoria Courtney Victoria Dickson Eric Fuchs Julia Gabbert Akira Komatsu Stephanie Leler Haley Luke Sam Masterson John Pohl Tierre Rhodes Sherrod Tunstall

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hat means Hollywood can’t do a traditional remake of “Star Wars” until 2072 and “Lord of the Rings” won’t be in the public domain until 2050. here have been many cases where artists haven’t had complete control of their work.

In August 2011, many musical artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel and Bob Dylan all reclaimed their work ater an overlook in copyright law. For 35 years, these artists had no complete control of their work because it belonged to the record companies.

In October 2007, J.K. Rowling sued a small Michigan-based publishing company for trying to make a “Harry Potter” encyclopedia.

SOPA and PIPA were made to help the entertainment industry reclaim the money they have lost due to the Internet’s sharing community. Congressmen haven’t gone the right way to combat against the people who violate copyright law.

At least the government’s still protecting what they were sworn to defend — copyright.

Ater all, it’s in the Constitution.

Josh Coppenbarger is a sophomore journalism and ilm production major and assistant multimedia editor for The Journal.

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Webster graduate acts in award-winning ilm project

at home in st. Louis Webster alum returns to St. Louis to shoot latest documentary

Student stars in “My Bride’s Wedding,” ilmmaker wins trip to Hollywood

BY JULia GaBBeRT Staf Writer

Webster graduate Chad Emery sprinted through the streets of Geneva, donning a tousled suit. His bride was waiting at the church they were to be married in, and Emery was running out of time. As he rounded a street corner, Webster Geneva senior Amnah Abudawood shouted, “Cut!” “It’s always kind of a rush,” Emery, 21, said. “Once, ‘action,’ is yelled, it’s all on you and you know the camera is going to catch everything you do. I can’t get enough of it.” hough not an acting major, Emery played the lead role in Abudawood’s ilm project, entitled “My Bride’s Wedding,” when he studied in Geneva in the fall of 2010. Emery graduated from the St. Louis home campus with a degree in media communications

last May. Abudawood, a 22-year-old senior media communications major at Webster’s Geneva campus, made the video as part of a course hosted by Hamilton Watch Company. Film production is not ofered as a major in Geneva, but Hamilton hosts some ilm classes for students interested in ilm production. Abudawood, who said she’s always been interested in ilm, signed up for the course as soon as she saw it was available.

Emery’s former acting teacher, adjunct professor Carrie Houk, said it is important for students involved in ilm to understand all diferent aspects of production, even when it is not the student’s major—like in the cases of both Emery and Abudawood.

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Phillip Andrew Morton stands in front of his childhood home in Spanish Lake, MO. Morton returned from Los Angeles to shoot a documentary.

BY JOsHUa COPPeNBaRGeR Assistant Multimedia Editor

Phillip Andrew Morton has lived in Los Angeles for eight years. he Webster alum returned to his hometown to ilm a documentary about the inevitable, as his hometown slowly crawls to decline since he let.

Morton is inishing editing his recent ilm “Spanish Lake,” a personal documentary about the social and economic downfall of Spanish Lake, the northern St. Louis County community where he grew up.

“Spanish Lake” begins with the story of a once prime example of suburban living — the population consisted of mostly white, middle-class citizens — and its slow decline into poverty. Shits in the economy caused Spanish Lake to slowly lose its good reputation.

Racism, violence and population changes have since deteriorated the image of the community.

Morton saw this decline and felt the need to tell this story to the world.

“When I began investigating, I found some fascinating stories that clued me in to why this sce-

nario was happening,” Morton said. “It was like inding out your heritage — the heritage you grew up in. It takes you by surprise. It opens your eyes to what you were blinded to before.” he early videos of MTV inspired Morton to pursue a career in ilm.

“When I was young, I loved pop music and I loved the combination of dynamic pop songs and the short ilms attached to them,” Morton said. “My imagination was set of by those videos. I wanted to be involved in that process at some level.”

Ater his parents’ divorce, Morton moved with his mother to Kirkwood. here, he discovered Webster University and began his studies in ilm production.

While at Webster, Morton’s advisor and professor Kathy Corley took notice of Morton’s unique talents.

“He had a level of creativity and sensitivity to his subject matter that was outstanding,” Corley said. “It does not surprise me in the least that he is having a successful career as a documentary ilmmaker.”

During his studies, Morton

said he gained experience in collaborating with groups.

“When I made my student ilm at Webster, it was the irst time I worked with a crew,” Morton said.

“I had to learn to take control of those environments and to create your vision. hat was something I never experienced.”

A couple years ater graduating in 2002, Morton moved to LA to pursue his ilmmaking career.

He landed a few jobs in editing, including a position as a production assistant at mOcean — a creative agency — where he organized footage and edited trailers for blockbuster hits such as “Ocean’s hirteen” and “he Prestige.”

In LA, Morton met his friend and future producer of “Spanish Lake,” Matt Smith.

“He started telling me about his hometown and it sounded so interesting,” Smith said. “He got into the research for the ilm and we started to piece things together.”

Smith recalled how prepared Morton was on the set of “Spanish Lake.”

“He knew exactly what he wanted with everything,” Smith

said. “It’s rare to ind a director who has so much vision. I was impressed by the work he did.”

Ater the completion of “Spanish Lake,” Smith said theatrical distribution has begun to come through. He has high hopes of the ilm’s outcome.

“We would like to see it ride the Oscar train because we feel it’s that powerful,” Smith said.

“We’re shooting high with this ilm. We think we have something amazing here.”

Morton said he wishes to continue in ilmmaking, but wants to pursue feature ilms.

He inished writing a script last year, which he would like to make into a ilm.

“More than anything, I would like more to give back to the people,” he said. “Having light bulbs go of in their heads and make them think and feel. hat’s what ilm was for me. I could relate to the people on the screen and I want to be able to do that to audiences today.”

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Collette Cummings, Associate Dean of Students, lines up a swatch of fabric on what will soon become a large patchwork quilt. Webster students teamed up with the quilting group Thimbles and Threads on Jan. 18 in the Sunnen Lounge to construct the quilt, which will be donated to the charity Angel’s Arms when completed. The event was sponsored by Webster Warmth and was part the MCISA’s Social Movement Week.

Dorm Room Dishes: New Year’s resolutions edition New Year’s resolutions don’t have to mean depriving yourself

BY MeGaN seNseNeY Copy Editor

BRITTANY RUESS/ he Journal

This New Year, staying healthy can be easy with this delicious pizza-pita recipe.

A Recipe for Pita Pizza Try this healthier alternative to the traditional pizza, made with whole-wheat pita bread, low-fat cheese and turkey pepperoni.

To make the pita pictured, you’ll need: 1 whole wheat pita pocket, cut in half 1/2 cup shredded, 2% mozzarella cheese, divided in half 12 slices turkey pepperoni 4 tablespoons pizza sauce, divided in half

Place six slices of pepperoni into each pita half. Add two tablespoons of pizza sauce into each pita half.

Sprinkle equal amounts of shredded mozzarella into each pita half. In the microwave, heat the pita halves for about 90 seconds, or until the cheese is melted.

Variations: Any traditional pizza toppings can be added. Try making a supreme version with pre-cooked sausage, onions and green peppers.

If you made a resolution for the new year, you’re not alone — the beginning of the year is the best kind of fresh start there is. However, for many who start out the new year on a mission to eat well, lose weight and get in shape, the temptation to seek a quick ix oten results in failure to reach one’s goals.

Out of all the Americans who make food-related resolutions, 90 percent of them will break their resolutions within the irst 15 days of the new year, according to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive. he going gets tougher for students, who don’t typically have the biggest food budgets and are already too stressed and tired to even think about working out. To avoid tossing out your resolutions along with that ugly sweater your cousin got you for Christmas, make the most of what’s available to you on campus and try these tips.

• Plan hings Out. If your resolution requires you to set aside time for a speciic activity, like working out, take advantage of the free planners in the

University Center (UC). You’ll be less likely to forget what you planned and more likely to actually hit the gym if you put it in your schedule. You can also write in which date you hope to have accomplished your goals by to hold yourself accountable.

• Make Smaller Changes First . We’ve all been there before — you want to kick a bad habit so you go cold turkey. You start out strong but the cravings soon begin and, before you know it, you’re binging. Instead of remaking your entire diet right away, try starting with small, healthy changes. he next time you grab a sandwich at Blimpie’s, have your normal sandwich on wheat bread instead of white, or try skipping the mayo.

• Do Research. Put your access to free Internet to good use and hit the library to igure out the best ways to accomplish the things you want. Search for new healthy recipes or igure out which workouts will help you reach your goal. You can also look up nutritional information for your favorite WOW Café & Wingery or Blimpie’s meals to see if you can it them into your

regular diet or if they should be eaten sparingly.

• Don’t Be Tempted. Put yourself in situations that will be conducive to reaching your goals. Moreover, try to avoid putting yourself in situations where you know you’ll be tempted to do something you won’t feel good about. If you know you’d regret eating a slice of pizza, try to stay away from the club giving away free slices in Sverdrup that day.

• Hit he Gym. he itness center in the lower level of the UC is available for all students to use, not just athletes. he itness center is open every day of the week and times are posted on the front door; itness center operating hours can also be found at www.webster.edu/uc/ itness. he indoor pool in the UC is also available for students to use. Operating hours for the pool can be found at www. webster.edu/uc/pool.

Before you dive in, though, check the detailed pool schedule online to make sure you won’t be interrupting a practice or class.

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Former Mo. state representative, civil rights activist shares life story

Film award:

Webster Geneva student Webster student Kayla hompson moderates discussion in travels to Hollywood, meets the Sunnen Lounge with grandmother Betty L. hompson Harrison Ford

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Kayla Thompson (right) interviews her grandmother, Betty Thompson in the Sunnen Lounge Thursday night.

Students and staf listened to Betty Thompson as she spoke on everything from her position in the House of Representatives, to her arrest in Washington, D.C., for protesting apartheid in South Africa

BY sHeRROd TUNsTaL Staf Writer

Betty L. hompson sat down with her granddaughter Kayla hompson in the Sunnen Lounge hursday night, as the junior anthropology major asked her grandmother questions about her life.

“My grandmother has always been such an inspiration in my life,” Kayla hompson said.

Former Missouri State Representative Betty L. hompson spoke about her life as a St. Louis civil rights activist at the event “Trials of a Trailblazer: A Discussion with Betty hompson.” he discussion was held at 7 p.m. on Jan. 19 in the Sunnen Lounge as part of the Multicultural Center and International Student Affairs’ (MCISA) Social Movements Week, held in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. “I wanted to share my grandmother’s legacy with Webster because many students are not aware

that we have civil rights leaders in St. Louis,” Kayla hompson said.

“My grandmother has always been such an inspiration in my life. I remember when I was much younger I would be with her at protests, sit-ins and taking trips down to Atlanta, where she was friends with the late Coretta Scott King.”

Betty hompson was born in a small Mississippi town in 1939, as one of 13 children. When she was three months old, her family moved to St. Louis, where she lived in housing projects including Carr Square Village and Pruitt-Igoe. Betty hompson described her childhood as a wonderful time.

“Everyone went to school and played together. It was like one big family,” Betty hompson said.

She described her mother as her biggest inluence.

“My mother was a loving woman. She never drank, smoke, cursed or messed around. And I followed her example,” Betty hompson said.

Betty hompson went to

Vashon and Sumner High School with music legend Tina Turner.

She oten walked with Turner to class.

“At the time, Tina — I knew her as Anna Mae Bullock — was pregnant and not allowed to graduate,” Betty hompson said. “So me and a few students organized and tried to ight for Tina to graduate, but the counselor said no.”

Ater graduating from Sumner in 1958, Betty hompson attended Harris-Stowe State University.

She received a certiicate in business from Hubbard’s Business College and a certiicate in management from Washington University.

Despite her own educational success, Betty hompson said she saw other African-Americans who weren’t treated fairly. When she heard Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak at a local church, she began to organize marches, pickets and sit-ins.

“Dr. King spoke the truth and things needed to change for the African-American community,” Betty hompson said.

But it was her political career that allowed hompson to change how St. Louisans saw AfricanAmericans, especially AfricanAmerican women.

While living in University City, Betty hompson’s husband Jack was in a car accident. With his neck badly injured, doctors advised him to swim to aid his recovery. When Betty hompson went to the City Council to get a permit to build a pool, the council laughed at her. “hey told me that no black person on the north side of University City could aford a swimming pool,” Betty hompson said. “hat fueled me to run for City Council.”

Betty hompson began her campaign without any fundraising. She held a parade in University City, which covered approximately 10 blocks. he parade helped her win the 1980 election against a white engineer. She was the irst African-American to be on University City’s City Council, and served on the board for 18 years.

In 1988, Betty hompson was the irst African-American woman to be arrested in Washington, D.C., for protesting against apartheid in South Africa.

“South Africa was a country that didn’t have rights until 1994, but I believe all people have rights,” Betty hompson said. hroughout her career, Betty hompson won many awards, including the M.L. King Spirit Award from the University City School Board and City Council, and the Gwen Giles Award.

Currently, Betty hompson serves as the director of the Kwame Foundation, which provides career assistance to young African-Americans. She also supports non-violence through her organization he Tyrone hompson Institute for Non-Violence. he organization is a living testament to Betty hompson’s son, Tyrone hompson, who was killed during an attempted robbery in 2010.

Betty hompson closed the evening by ofering a piece of advice. “You can do anything. Just put your mind to it and you can do it.”

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and submitted for judging, Abudawood was hoping for the best but expecting the worst. Her expectations were exceeded though, when she learned almost a year later that her video won the contest.

As a prize, Abudawood was given a free Hamilton watch of her choosing and was lown to Los Angeles to attend the Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards in early November 2011. At the awards she met famous actors and directors, like Harrison Ford, Antonio Banderas and Chris Weitz. “he amazing thing is they actually talked to us,” Abudawood said. “hey didn’t just brush us of because we’re students.”

“In our industry, the more well-rounded you are, the better,” Houk said. “I always encourage (acting) students to take courses in other aspects of ilm, just like it’s really important for anyone involved with producing ilms to understand how diicult it can be for an actor to bring life to a role.” he irst eight weeks of the Hamilton video class were focused on developing a story based on Hamilton’s theme: running out of time. Abudawood, along with fewer than 10 classmates, brainstormed stories, developed a script and began planning a short video. he only criterion for the videos was the inOnce ‘action’ is yelled, it’s all on you clusion of a shot of and you know the camera is going to a Hamilton watch. catch everything you do. he students presented their video ideas to a - Chad Emery, Hamilton repreWebster alum and star of “My Bride’s Wedding” sentative and four students’ ideas were chosen to proceed onto ilming — including Abudawood’s Armed with a winning ilm concept of a groom “running out project for their resumes, Emery of time” to get to his wedding. and Abudawood both hope to “Before actually taking these pursue ilm in the future, either courses and actually knowing a as a hobby or a career. Emery is lot about how to shoot a video, settling in to his new home in Ilyou always say, ‘why are they tak- linois, where he works as an Enging so long to shoot one scene? It’s lish as a Second Language tutor not that hard,’” Abudawood said. at Hartland Community College.

“But just shooting a three minute He said once he gets his feet on video, it took us like, six hours. the ground, he may look for ophe preparation of that took up portunities to get involved with two to three weeks, and then the acting. Abudawood, in her inal editing took two months. It makes semester of school, is searching you appreciate when you watch for jobs involving video producmovies and wonder how they do tion in her home country of Saudi that. It’s really interesting and en- Arabia. She said she hopes to ind tertaining.” a job producing videos for public In the second eight weeks of relations. the video course, students focused on ilming and editing their videos. Abudawood was introduced to Emery by a mutual professor, Contact the writer: and he became the lead in the wujournal@gmail.com ilm.

“It was deinitely my favorite project I’ve been involved in,” Emery said. “Not only did we get to tour the beautiful city of Geneva, but it was a really professional environment — from script writing to ilming.”

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A night at the opera: Webster’s Opera Scenes Students perform scenes from four diferent operas at Heagney heatre

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Christian Hendriks and Devin Vogel-Woodall sing in the Webster University Opera Scenes Sunday, Jan. 22.

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Emma Sorenson, playing the part of Orfeo, plays her irst male role at The Webster University Opera Scenes at Nerinx Hall’s Heagney Theatre.

Jean Huber of the music department hugged Emma Sorenson, junior vocal performance major, outside Nerinx Hall’s Heagney heatre Sunday night.

Sorenson performed in Webster University’s Opera Scenes, which ran Jan. 20-22.

“You sang beautifully,” Huber said.

Music professor Alice Nelson’s opera studio class of 29 students sang in the program. Nelson said the class gives students the opportunity to improve their acting skills while learning practical skills such as working with an orchestra and a conductor. Nelson said students also learn to work well with each other.

“Being a good colleague, that’s so important,” Nelson said. “hey all have really out done themselves with that.”

Sorenson played Orfeo, a poet and musician, in “Orfeo ed Euridice.”

Sorenson said she was excited for the role because it was her irst time playing a male character. She said in opera, women oten play a “trouser role” – a male’s role.

“I had to change all my mannerisms and it’s in a particularly low range for me,” Sorenson said. “hat was challenging.”

Huber said the opera studio is a great opportunity for students.

She enjoyed watching their progress.

“I get to hear the rehearsals. I get to hear it from the beginning,”

Huber said. he program also included six dancers from the dance department and an orchestra of 15 Webster students, faculty and alumni. he production staf was made up of students in the conservatory. he program comprised of scenes from: —“he Medium” by Gian Carlo Menotti, —“Ruddigore” by William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, — “Susannah” by Carlisle Floyd, —“Orfeo ed Euridice” by Christoph Willibald Gluck. .

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SPORTS

Gorloks nip Greenville, fall to Fontbonne

BY JOHN POHL Staf Writer

Webster University’s women’s basketball team sufered its second loss in the past eight games when the Gorloks fell 67-59 to Fontbonne University on Jan. 21 in Clayton. he two teams combined for 47 turnovers in the sloppily-played contest.

“We had been playing as a team and much better until we laid an egg against Fontbonne,” junior guard Maggie Zehner said.

“When we struggled so much early in the season, it really helped us get mentally tough. We’ll come back strong again.”

Despite the loss, Webster coach Jordan Olufson said his team is playing with more focus and now has a solid playing rotation. He said that’s especially the case since the Gorloks’ loss to Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology on Dec. 19. It was the Gorloks’ eighth loss in nine games to start the season.

“We are now getting scoring from four, ive, six and seven players we put on the loor,” Olufson said. “We really focused on following up with our steals with quicker transition play, and our defense has been great.”

Against Fontbonne, Webster played its second consecutive game without leading scorer — junior guard Gwen Williams — who has been suspended indeinitely because her academic standing falls below the Webster athletic department’s eligibility guidelines.

Without Williams, the Gorloks have struggled the last two games. Although they squeezed out a victory at Greenville, 50-46, on Jan. 18, Webster committed 23 turnovers. he Gorloks also had 25 turnovers in the loss to Fontbonne.

“Losing Gwen hurts,” sophomore guard Kaliann Rikard said. “It would be stupid to say it doesn’t.”

Williams is currently the Gorloks’ leading scorer at 9.7 points per game and is third in the SLIAC in steals with 2.7 per game.

“I think not having Gwen is hard on everybody, because she was a big part of our team,” Zehner said. “She could steal the ball like no one else can.”

In the loss to the Griins, freshman forward Cassie Endicott had nine points and 10 rebounds, but played only 18 minutes be-

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Webster University senior guard/forward Megan Willett (32) ires an inbound pass to junior guard Airyn Miller (15). Miller scored a team-high 13 points on 5 of 15 shooting, while Willett scored two points and grabbed ive rebounds, but the Gorloks fell 67-59 to Fontbonne University on Jan. 21 in Clayton.

cause of foul trouble. Junior guard Airyn Miller led the Gorloks with 13 points.

Against Greenville, the score was tied at haltime 23-23. With no team ever leading by more than three points, the Gorloks inally moved ahead for good when senior guard/forward Megan Willett hit a pair of free throws to put Webster up 46-44 with 1:11 let in the contest. Webster hung on for the win despite shooting 26 percent as a team from the ield in the second half.

Zehner led the Gorloks with 13 points and nine rebounds against Greenville. Endicott had 11 points, grabbed six rebounds and blocked four shots in the win.

“We have made good progress since the irst of the year,” Rikard said. “We are inally hitting shots and playing good defense. In fact, our defense has played well all year. Even in the games we lost, our defense kept us close.” he loss to Fontbonne ended

the Gorloks’ three-game win streak and dropped them to fourth place in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference standings. Webster is behind third-place Fontbonne, Eureka College and undefeated Westminster College. he top four teams qualify for the SLIAC post-season tournament.

Webster is 5-3 in the SLIAC and 7-10 on the season. Next, the Gorloks play at winless Blackburn College on Jan. 28. hey complete a four-game stretch on the road with a contest at Westminster on Feb. 1.

“We are now used to playing the other schools in the conference and the team is coming together,” Olufson said. “I’ll tell you, we are doing a lot better than we were in November and December.”

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standings SLIAC Women’s Basketball Westminster Eureka Fontbonne Webster Spalding MacMurray Greenville Principia Blackburn*

Conference

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9-0 7-2 6-2 5-3 5-5 3-5 2-6 2-7 0-9

— 2.0 2.5 3.5 4.5 5.5 6.5 7.0 9.0

15-2 13-3 9-8 7-10 9-8 6-8 5-11 3-13 0-18

0.882 0.812 0.529 0.412 0.529 0.429 0.312 0.188 0.000

Won 9 Won 5 Won 2 Lost 1 Won 1 Won 1 Won 1 Lost 9 Lost 18

*All statistics as of Jan. 24

Iowa Wesleyan College has submitted its application to become a provisional member of the NCAA. If accepted, the school will begin its exploratory year for the 2012-2013 academic year. he application was submitted to NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis on Dec. 16, 2011.

Iowa Wesleyan was an NAIA ailiate, but gave up that status to pursue membership within the NCAA and St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Webster University competes in the SLIAC. Earlier in December, the SLIAC Presidents’ Council, which is comprised of the SLIAC schools’ nine presidents, approved the Iowa Wesleyan Tigers as the conference’s 10th member. Iowa Wesleyan will participate in 10 conferencesponsored sports. It will be the newest school to join the SLIAC since Spalding University in 2009. he speciic numbers of the Presidents’ Council vote have not been revealed. Iowa Wesleyan received a majority vote of three-fourths approval from the Presidents’ Council.

“I was present there, but I have no idea (in regards to the speciic numbers),” said Linda Buchanan, Iowa Wesleyan’s vice president and dean for student life. “hey just welcomed us to the conference.” he NCAA’s deadline for application submittal was Jan. 15. he process for Iowa Wesleyan was “pretty straight forward” and a form was submitted to Indianapolis, Buchanan said. he NCAA will inform Iowa Wesleyan of its decision, but the approximate timeframe for the announcement is not yet known. If Iowa Wesleyan is accepted into the NCAA, the newest SLIAC member will begin conference play in the 2013-2014 academic year.

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SPORTS

Track teams open season at Illinois College meet BY aNdY aRB Staf Writer

he Webster University men’s and women’s track and ield teams began their seasons at the Illinois College Snowbird Open indoor meet on Jan. 21, but much of the team didn’t make the trip. For track and ield coach Dusty Lopez, the meet wasn’t a very high priority.

“We had a couple people who were banged up we didn’t send,” Lopez said. “We had a couple others who had outside commitments. here were a lot of people who didn’t make the trip at all, and for the ones who did it was really just a gloriied workout.”

Webster had eight athletes participate in the meet. Five freshmen saw their irst collegiate track and ield action, including Jason Hickson and Kassandra Ochoa.

Hickson inished 12th out of 18 runners in the one-mile run with a time of 5 minutes, 12.81 seconds. Ochoa inished 13th out of 19 runners in the one-mile run with a time of 6:33.05.

Like several other members of the team, some freshmen are competing in track and ield in the ofseason of another sport they play at Webster.

“We’ve had really good fortune in having athletes from other teams come out and decide to do track, which is awesome,” said Lopez, who also coaches Webster’s men’s and women’s cross-country teams in the fall. “We love the multisport athletes.”

For the women, freshmen Ochoa and Jennifer Scanlon, sophomores Julie Greenough, Heather Heisse, Eroica Stackhouse and junior Jane McKibben join the track team ater participating in cross-country this past fall.

Five of the seven athletes listed on the men’s track team’s roster were also crosscountry runners this past fall – Hickson, juniors Daniel Henkey, David Koppelmann and Aaron Oberneufemann and senior Tony Morales.

Unlike the men’s team, the women’s track team also has several two-sport athletes who didn’t run cross-country. he volleyball team sends four athletes to the track team: freshmen Jenny Howard, Kristen McDowell and Jordan Vehlewald and senior Gretchen Rieger. he women’s basketball team sends junior Tori Fenemor and seniors Amanda Arcangel and Tyeila Gant. he six freshmen on the women’s team and the two freshmen on the men’s team will help both squads as returning athletes like Henkey and McKibben look to improve on great seasons a year ago.

“I got sick over break, so this last week I was getting back in shape and that’s why I didn’t participate at the meet,” Henkey said.

“As soon as I got better, I’ve been training since then.”

Lopez has high hopes for Henkey ater his breakout year last season. “(He) really kind of broke through as a sophomore and ran some pretty good times,” Lopez said. “He holds a couple of school records already. he big question mark with him is can we keep him healthy.

If we can, he should continue to improve and set new marks.” he whole team will try to keep themselves healthy as well.

“Our main focus this year is to try to maintain healthy shape,” McKibben said.

“As a team, we’re really connected with each other. We tend to have a lot of good

Staf Writer

Ater his alarm sounded at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday Jan. 22, Jim Rodenbush, the advisor for he Daily Collegian, Penn State University’s student-run newspaper, learned about Joe Paterno’s death on Twitter. Paterno, former Penn State football coach, died 65 days ater his son said he had been diagnosed with lung cancer.

Rodenbush and he Daily Collegian staf knew Paterno’s health was deteriorating, so they were prepared for Paterno’s death.

Rodenbush described the past couple months as being, “surreal.”

Rodenbush took his position at he Daily Collegian in the spring of 2011.

Rodenbush, 35, is a 1998 graduate of Webster University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism. He also worked as he Journal’s general manager from August 2009 through December 2010.

When Rodenbush irst started at Penn

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Members of Webster University’s track and ield teams do warm-up drills on the lower level of the University Center. From bottom: Jason Hickson, Eroica Stackhouse and Julie Greenough.

training.”

In the fourth year of the track and ield program, the men look to improve on back-to-back third place inishes while the women will try to improve on their backto-back second place inishes in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference invitational for outdoor track and ield. “he women will continue to be competitive at the top of the conference the way they were the last two years,” Lopez

said. “It’s no guarantee, but I think we’ll be right at the same level if everybody stays healthy.” he men’s and women’s track and ield teams will participate in the Principia College Indoor Relays on Jan. 27 before ending the indoor season with meets at Illinois College on Feb. 4 and 17.

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State, he said he was well “he editors came in and aware of Paterno’s legendknew it was time to reary status at the university, spond to it.” though the two never met Since the news broke face to face. about Paterno’s death, Paterno started to make Rodenbush wanted to keep headlines when the grand the environment in the jury reported on Nov. 5, newsroom professional, 2011, that former Penn State but the emotional connecdefensive coordinator Jerry tion the staf felt with PaSandusky was arrested on terno was to be expected.

“Since the story started, several accounts of sexual it’s still diicult to put into abuse. Paterno was ired as words,” Rodenbush said. head coach on Nov. 9, 2011.

“On the one hand, State he most important JIM RODENBUSH College is now my home thing to him was for his stuand I feel a certain amount dents to tell a fair and objecof sadness for everybody tive story.

Rodenbush said there was no need for involved because this is simply a tragic stohim to tell he Daily Collegian staf how to ry. On the other hand, I’ve been involved with diferent aspects of covering this story.” handle this saga.

What Rodenbush said he will miss “I have a large group of professionals. here’s no telling them,” Rodenbush said. about Paterno is the large body of work

that the all-time winningest football coach in Division I history has accomplished in his 46 years as Penn State’s coach.

“I’m glad to be around it to see it,” Rodenbush said.

Rodenbush will discuss the news stories surrounding Paterno in a beginning reporting class. he Daily Collegian has added a 16page special commemorative edition devoted to Paterno in the Jan. 23 issue.

Rodenbush said the response from the Penn State community was to the efect of having a death in the family. People surrounded Paterno’s statue and put candles and lowers around it in honor of Paterno.

“He is part of the fabric. He is part of the town, the community, the region, the proximity, the interest,” Rodenbush said.

“He is the story.”

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Standout women’s basketball player Gwen Williams suspended indeinitely

BY JOHN POHL

could take a week or longer. he appeal board can look at diferent factors — like if she is close Webster University women’s to a 1.9 GPA — and the diibasketball junior guard Gwen culty of the classes. It’s out of our Williams has been suspended hands.” indeinitely from the team for According to the handbook, academic reasons. She has al- students are provided the opporready missed the last two games tunity to appeal in writing rulagainst Greenville College and ings that afect their eligibility.

Fontbonne University, and it Appeals are read by a committee, is not known if she will be able comprised of Dean of Students to return to the Ted Hoef, Directeam this season. tor of Athletics Williams, a Tom Hart and junior college NCAA faculty transfer from re pre s e nt at i v e St. Louis ComLarry Baden. It is munity Collegeunknown if WilFlorissant Valley, liams has oicialleads the Gorloks ly appealed for in scoring and is reinstatement. among the top “No comdefenders in the ment,” Hart said.

St. Louis Intercol“We have a policy legiate Athletic of not commentConference. She ing on a studid not return dent’s athletic GWEN WILLIAMS phone calls seekeligibility.” ing comment.

Williams was “We really an All-American miss the quickness she gives us junior college player at Florissant with her defensive pressure,” Valley for two years before comassistant coach Jordann Plum- ing to Webster this past fall. mer said. “She is a strong leader.

During a Dec. 4 interview Right now, for the time being, we with he Journal, Williams said have to play without her.” her ultimate goal was to receive Junior guard Maggie Zehner a college education and play bassaid Williams was a key to the ketball. success the Gorloks have had “I am the only one in the this season, and she plays well family who went to college,” Wilboth ofensively and defensively. liams said. “hat includes my “No one is going to ill Gwen’s mother, father, younger brother place,” Zehner said. and two older sisters. My irst he Webster University stu- priority is to get an education dent athlete handbook states the and then basketball, in that orrules for academic eligibility: der.”

“Students must maintain a 2.0 Her father, Edward Williams, grade point average to partici- was unaware of the suspension pate in intercollegiate athletics at and said he would look into it.

Webster University. All students “I was not aware she was not who fall under a 2.0 GPA or are playing,” Edward Williams said. “I on academic probation are ineli- came to see her play at Christmas gible for participation.” and her grades seemed ine. I was According to Plummer, Wil- unaware she was not playing.” liams fell below the guidelines during the fall 2011 semester.

“My understanding is that the rule is a player must maintain a cumulative 2.0 grade point average, and Gwen must have fallen below that,” Plummer said. “She Contact the writer: is in the appeal process, and that wujournal@gmail.com Staf Writer

Just a few hours ater the shocking news that Albert Pujols had signed with the Los Angeles of Anaheim, the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference posted a press release on its website that I found to be nearly as stunning.

On Dec. 8, the SLIAC announced that former National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics member Iowa Wesleyan College had been voted into the SLIAC by the conference’s Presidents’ Council. his news blindsided some of he Journal’s sports writers — including myself — because everything we had heard from sources close to the situation led us to believe that Iowa Wesleyan would not garner enough votes to make it into the SLIAC. But now that Iowa Wesleyan has oicially applied to become a provisional member of the NCAA, it seems inevitable that the university will be joining the SLIAC as its 10th member for the 2013-2014 academic year.

So the question shits from, ‘Will Iowa Wesleyan make it into the SLIAC?’ to, ‘Should Iowa Wesleyan have made it into the SLIAC?’ he answer is yes, and no.

First, the good. SLIAC commissioner Will Wolper has told he Journal several times that the conference wanted to get to 10 members. Doing so provides the SLIAC with stability and makes scheduling a much easier process.

Wolper also said the move puts, “the inal peg in our geographic footprint.” If the conference does explore expansion in the future, it won’t be any further north than Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where Iowa Wesleyan is located.

In its academics, enrollment, athletics budget, campus layout and facilities, Iowa Wesleyan its the SLIAC’s mold. he university’s campus is compact and it certainly has the look and feel of a SLIAC school.

And, like Webster University, the only on-campus athletic facility Iowa Wesleyan has is its gymnasium. A majority of the university’s teams use of-campus, public facilities.

Now for the bad. he SLIAC is already considered one of the worst two or three conferences in the nation, and it certainly didn’t signiicantly improve by adding Iowa Wesleyan.

As an athlete at Webster, I was hoping the SLIAC would bring in a school that could compete with Webster, Greenville, Fontbonne and Westminster for SLIAC supremacy. I don’t think Iowa Wesleyan can.

Instead, Iowa Wesleyan will likely land in the second tier of schools, where Principia College and Spalding University reside. hat’s good news if you’re an athlete who didn’t want additional competition for SLIAC titles. But I would have preferred a school that could have pushed Webster and made its sports teams better.

Granted, it’s not like the SLIAC had a surplus of options. here aren’t many schools located near St. Louis that would it well within the conference.

And it’s true that the Tigers do have a few programs — baseball, men’s and women’s basketball and possibly sotball and volleyball — that could compete for SLIAC championships.

But you have to take into consideration that these programs were successful in part because they were able to ofer athletic scholarships as a member of the NAIA. hat won’t be the case in Division III. And now, Iowa Wesleyan will have massive recruiting competition in the form of the D-III Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Many of the IIAC schools have excellent facilities and strong athletic traditions, so it will be tough treading for the Tigers.

In many ways, Iowa Wesleyan makes sense for the SLIAC. he university its in well with the conference’s other institutions. But I wish the SLIAC could have found a school that stands out.

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Gorloks stay hot, improve to 8-0 in SLIAC play Junior Roman Robinson scores 19 points in conference road wins over Greenville and Fontbonne BY aNdY aRB

standings

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Since heading into winter break with a 1-8 overall record, the Webster University men’s basketball team has turned its season around by going 7-1. he team extended its winning streak to seven games with victories at Greenville College on Jan. 18 and Fontbonne University on Jan. 21. he Gorloks had their sevengame winning streak come to an end in a loss at Lindenwood University on Jan. 23. All seven of Webster’s wins came against St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference opponents.

Webster is 8-0 in the SLIAC and 8-9 overall, with all nine losses coming against nonconference opponents. he diicult nonconference schedule has prepared Webster for SLIAC opponents, junior guard Cody Bradisch said. “he nonconference schedule, as tough as it was and as hard as it was, has made us better so far and it’s paying dividends now,” Bradisch said.

Webster also has new players now comfortable in their roles, and the team is playing its best basketball of the season. he Gorloks displayed that in their 87-86 victory at Greenville (4-4 in SLIAC, 9-7 overall).

Webster was down 77-70 with six minutes let in the fourth quarter. he Gorloks cut the Panthers’ lead to one with 41 seconds let, but Greenville had the ball.

Webster forced a turnover with 17 seconds let. With a chance to win the game, coach Chris Bunch called a timeout.

Bunch drew up a play for sophomore forward Stefan Whit-

SLIAC Men’s Basketball Webster Eureka MacMurray Spalding Westminster Greenville Blackburn Fontbonne Principia

Conference

Overall

Record

Games Back

Record

Win %

Streak

8-0 7-2 5-3 6-4 5-4 4-4 2-7 2-6 0-9

— 1.5 3.0 3.0 3.5 4.0 6.5 6.0 8.5

8-9 10-7 8-8 9-10 9-9 9-7 5-13 3-13 0-16

0.471 0.588 0.500 0.474 0.500 0.562 0.278 0.188 0.000

Lost 1 Won 4 Won 2 Won 1 Won 1 Won 1 Lost 10 Lost 1 Lost 16

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Webster University junior forward Roman Robinson lines up a 3-pointer as Fontbonne University junior guard Bryton Curtis defends. Robinson’s 19 points helped the Gorloks beat Fontbonne 84-69 on Jan. 21 in Clayton.

tingham, who has emerged as one of the team’s go-to players. Whittingham drove to the basket and missed his irst attempt. He got his own rebound and made a layup to give Webster a one-point lead with seven seconds let. “hat was one of those times where they maybe had a little bit of a slower guy on Stefan,” Bunch said. “So instead of putting one of our guards out there that had a quick guard on them, we were able to throw it to Stefan. He was a little bit quicker than the guy who was guarding him. He was able to

get by him and get to the basket.” he Whittingham basket was the game-winner. Greenville missed a shot at the buzzer to preserve the 87-86 victory for Webster.

“Coach Bunch decided to give me the ball on the wing and told me to make a play, and I made the play,” Whittingham said.

Whittingham recorded a double-double against the Panthers with 18 points and 10 rebounds.

Bradisch inished with 18 points and six rebounds and junior forward Roman Robinson scored a

team-high 19 points. “(he win) was big,” Bunch said. “It kind of showed the guys you just got to keep banging away at it for 40 minutes. When we look back at the end of the year, if we win the conference, that’ll be one of the ones we’d say was an important one to have.”

Webster continued its hot streak with an 84-69 win at Fontbonne (2-6 in SLIAC, 3-13 overall). Robinson once again led the team in points with 19. Whittingham had 14 points and nine rebounds. Freshman guard Danny

Zehner scored 12 points in only 13 minutes of the bench.

Lindenwood ended Webster’s seven game-winning streak on Monday night, as the Lions defeated the Gorloks 78-57. Robinson led the Gorloks with 15 points and four steals. Whittingham had 10 points and eight rebounds.

Zehner scored 11 points and grabbed six rebounds.

Webster was able to even its record at .500 ater the victory at Fontbonne, but the loss at Lindenwood drops the Gorloks’ overall record to 8-9. he loss against Lindenwood is Webster’s irst since losing to Austin College on Dec. 11.

“We came back and won the irst couple of games ater the start of the new year,” Bunch said.

“I think that gave them some conidence to realize this is what the tough nonconference games pre-

pared us for.

“I think they’re playing with more conidence now. You got to credit the guys. hey hung in there. It’s tough to do sometimes when you get of to a tough start like that. hey’ve done a good job so far, so hopefully we can just keep it going the second half of the season.” he Gorloks look to remain undefeated in the SLIAC when they travel to Blackburn College (2-7 in SLIAC, 5-13 overall) on Jan. 28. he Gorloks have a game at Westminster College (4-4 in SLIAC, 8-9 overall) on Feb. 1 before returning home to host second-place Eureka College (7-2 in SLIAC, 10-7 overall) on Feb. 4.

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Former star athlete set to enter Webster Hall of Fame Soccer defender Ashley Zeier led the Gorloks to a 65-10-4 record during her outstanding four-year career

BY JOsH seLLMeYeR Sports Editor

It was only appropriate for Webster University senior Amanda Zeier, a four-year member of the women’s soccer team, to have one of the best collegiate games of her career on senior night with her cousin-in-law, Ashley (Everett) Zeier, watching in the stands.

Amanda Zeier scored two goals that night — the 18th and 19th of her career — to help the Gorloks to an emphatic 5-0 home win over Westminster College on Oct. 25, 2011. It turned out to be the last goals Amanda Zeier would score for the Gorloks. It was also the last time she would play in front of her cousin-in-law and mentor.

With Amanda Zeier prepared to graduate from Webster this May with a degree in early childhood education, things have come full circle for her and Ashley Zeier, who will earn a major accomplishment of her own when she is inducted into the Webster Athletics Hall of Fame on Feb. 4.

“It’s been really cool to see (Amanda) play at Webster, and she wore my number all four years — No. 7,” Ashley Zeier said. “hat meant a lot to me, that she was able to go there and do that.

She’s been an awesome part of the program. She’s getting ready to graduate, so it’s been nice to see the legacy that we started live on through her. It makes it a lot closer to home, and just so much more real, being able to see how the program has changed over the last 10 years.”

Ashley Zeier builds Hall of Fame resume Ashley Zeier was a captain on the inaugural Webster women’s soccer team in 1999 and led the Gorloks to a 15-4-1 record that season. It was the irst of four spectacular years for Ashley Zeier, who compiled a 65-10-4 career record, including a 44-2-2 mark in conference play.

She is the only four-year captain in women’s soccer program history, and she led the Gorloks to three straight St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles and NCAA tournament appearances, from 2000-2002. Ashley Zeier was selected to the All-Conference irst team three times and the All-Scholar Central Region team twice. She received the Webster Athletics Presidential Award in 2002.

Ashley Zeier was nominated for the Hall of Fame by Luigi Scire, who started the women’s soccer program and has coached the team in each of its 13 years of existence. For Scire, the nomination

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Former Webster University defender Ashley (Everett) Zeier is the only four-year captain in program history. She will be inducted into the Webster Athletics Hall of Fame on Feb. 4.

was a no-brainer.

“When I look at the criteria, one of the things I look at is how a player from one era comes across in today’s game,” Scire said. “Certain players wash and wear very nicely in 1999 or 2011. Ashley is one of those players.

“It doesn’t matter if she was a part of the 1999 team or the 2011 team. She would be a leader, an anchor on defense, and she would carry us to success … She didn’t have 2,000 goals and 700 assists, but what makes that individual great? And it’s (that) she was an outstanding player, but a better person.”

Because she was a four-year sweeper, Ashley Zeier’s ofensive numbers aren’t eye-popping. For her career, she tallied only one goal and nine assists for 11 points.

But what she helped the Gorloks’ defense accomplish is jaw-dropping. In the 79 games that Ashley Zeier played, Webster allowed 48 goals total. During that same time span, the Gorloks shut out their opponents 49 times.

“Being a defender, you don’t always get a whole lot of recognition,” Ashley Zeier said. “Weeg (Luigi Scire) has always been great about recognizing us. I was somewhat surprised (to be inducted) because of the stats, but Weeg has always been someone who wears his feelings on his sleeve and he always lets you know how special you are to him.

“So, I wasn’t surprised 100 percent when (Director of Athletics) Tom (Hart) called me and told me (I made the Hall of Fame), just because I know Weeg is one of those guys that has your back and pulls for you. If he thinks that’s someplace I belong, I knew he wasn’t going to stop until he got his way.”

Zeier family gets psyched for induction day Ashley Zeier will be inducted into the Hall of Fame during halftime of the men’s basketball game against Eureka College, which is set to tip of at 3 p.m. at Grant Gymnasium. Ashley Zeier will be enshrined along with two other

former Webster athletes — sotball and basketball player Laura (Stuhlman) Peiter and sotball player Jeanne (Zes) Gilbert — who make up the Hall of Fame’s third class.

As proud as Ashley Zeier is of her Hall of Fame accomplishment, which she called “surreal,” she said her parents, Curt and LaVerne Everett, and her twin sister, Amanda Everett, are even prouder. Ashley Zeier said that’s because the trio only missed a handful of games — home or away — during Ashley Zeier’s Webster soccer career.

“Everybody in my family has been completely devoted to my career,” Ashley Zeier said. “My parents are those types; they’re die-hard fans. I think it means more to my parents because it’s almost an accomplishment for them. My sister was a really big supporter, so it was a big deal for her when she heard about this. hey’re just all really, really proud of me. I think I ind it more of an accomplishment because I can see

how much it means to them. So that’s the biggest thing for me.”

Ashley Zeier, a St. Louis native who attended McCluer North High School before enrolling at Webster, said one of the highlights of her soccer career was playing SLIAC rival Principia College in several tight games. She added that “there’s nothing like playing in the NCAA tournament.” Ashley Zeier helped the Gorloks earn one of their two NCAA tournament victories — a 5-1 win over Edgewood College in 2001.

Ashley Zeier graduated from Webster in 2003 with a degree in psychology. She earned a master of business administration from Fontbonne University in 2007.

For the past six and a half years, Ashley Zeier has worked at Pericient, an information technology consulting irm.

Ashley Zeier lives in Florissant with her husband, Eric Zeier. hey have a 3-year-old daughter, Cooper, and an 18-month-old son, Nolan.

Ashley Zeier will be the sec-

ond women’s soccer player to be enshrined into the Hall of Fame. he irst was Niki (Martinez) Tedoni, who was inducted in 2010 and played alongside Zeier from 2000-2002.

“When it comes to the Hall of Fame, you have Ashley and Niki,” Scire said. “As I told everybody, when it comes to the beginning of the program, there it is, there’s your heart and your soul — the two inductees right now. hat’s how I look at those two. Everything from this point on will build on those two setting the tone and foundation for our success. Now I have the heart and soul in the Hall of Fame.”

Check out next week’s issue of he Journal to read about 2012 Hall of Fame inductees Laura (Stuhlman) Peiter and Jeanne (Zes) Gilbert.

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