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Thursday, January 30, 2014

SLU sets tuition hikes for 2014-15 school year

By WOLF HOWARD News Editor

A summary of SLU’s Fiscal Year 2015 budget was released by Interim President Bill Kauffman last Thursday, announcing a 3.5 percent increase in undergraduate tuition and a 2.2 percent increase in graduate and professional tuition. In addition, the university has committed $137.7 million to financial aid and $5.3 million for faculty and staff salary raises, equating to a 2 percent merit compensation pool according to the letter.

“There was a concerted effort to keep tuition increases as reasonable as possible, while ensuring that we have the necessary financial resources to further enhance the already outstanding quality of a SLU education,” Kauffman said in his letter.

The intended increase will bring SLU’s undergraduate tuition cost to $37,350 per year and marks the smallest increase in tuition since FY 2010, when it was raised two percent, from $30,728 to

Annual Jesuit University Tuition 2008-2014

See “Budget” on Page 2

Students tackle international dispute Gitana puts focus on

Divided only by an ocean and two continents, SLU students are set for a Skype debate with students in Afghanistan on affirmative action and it’s applicability to Afghan culture. The debate aims to honor Black History Month within an international forum, while also bringing a new level of cultural learning and discussion to campus. Both the Cross Cultural Center and the Center for Global Citizenship are hosting the event.

“The basic idea for this unique program is to generate conversation about civil rights and human rights as they relate to Black History Month,” Katie Gauthier Donnelly, Program Manager at the CGC, said.

The debate will focus on America’s history of policies concerning affirmative

action and whether appliThe debate topic provides cation of similar policies in a unique opportunity for inAfghanistan would be practernational and intercultural tical and desirable in Afghan communication on issues society. The concept is taken that aren’t part of the usual from a yearly international public discussion. Carlin debate held during Black noted that there are many History Month by the ODSconflicts in Afghanistan over AO (Open Debating Society women’s rights, specifically of Afghaniconcerning st an-Org aeducational nization), opportuniSeeing [that positive the first ties and the registered role of womthings] happened in debate orgaen in the America... the belief nization in government. is [they] will happen Afghanistan, Cultural rein Afghanistan in conjuncstrictions tion with the on women `-Reshad Farzan, U.S. embassy working and ODSAO co-founder in Afghaniviolence stan. Frozan against Maqsood women have and Reshad Farzan, two of also received more media atthe six founders of ODSAO, tention lately. The debaters worked with their mentor will attempt to demonstrate Diana Carlin, the Associate how American affirmative Vice President for Graduate action policies might or Education and International might not help the country Initiatives, to bring the event resolve such issues. to SLU. “Affirmative action is still

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controversial in this country,” Carlin said, noting that the topic leaves plenty of room for consideration.

Farzan stated that 11 years after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, Afghan citizens are still trying to adjust to the differences between the two cultures. “[People are] trying to adjust to positive U.S. history,” Farzan said. “Seeing that [some things] happened in America and happened well, the belief is [they] will happen in Afghanistan.”

According to Carlin, part of the debate’s purpose is helping students understand the influence of American culture abroad.

“Culture is rather permeable,” Carlin said. “You take a general principle… [and consider] how you make that work with cultural restraints.”

See “Debate” on Page 2

Let Us Introduce You: Carla Gibbs Micah student on Casa program and her passion for people

Jessica Winter/The University News

By JESSICA WINTER Associate News Editor

If the study abroad program ever needs a spokeswoman, they’ll find one in Carla Gibbs. The junior Micah student at Saint Louis University recently participated in a study abroad Casa program, where she spent a life-changing semester in the Philippines experiencing a new culture.

“I love doing service and diving into different cultures,” said Gibbs. She re-

flected that through the Casa program she was able to accomplish both of these things by experiencing the Filipino culture and learning how to accompany the community.

Established in El Salvador

by Santa Clara University, the Casa program is founded on spirituality, simple community living, academic study and accompaniment for those who are suffering.

Gibbs was one of the first of two SLU students to participate in the Casa program in the Philippines. She said that

the program is not as much about doing things as it is about making connections between people of different cultures and building relationships.

“I want to be skilled in working with all kinds of populations,” stated the friendly social work major.

With her love and fascination for people, it’s no surprise that she grew close with her Filipino and Casa families while abroad – despite language barriers. In not knowing the community’s native language, Tagalog,

Gibbs was able to find other ways of connecting with people.

“The language of love and laughter is something, in my opinion, that is so prevalent in poverty stricken communities,” Gibbs said. “They’re very rich in their heart instead of in the material world.”

Besides connecting with her Filipino families, Gibbs has also found family within SLU’s own Micah organization – a faith-based learning program that was a huge selling point for her when deciding on colleges.

“I’m just really thankful for that whole community,” Gibbs stated. “We can have fun but be serious and deep together at the same time.”

Gibbs’ passion for the Micah Program and the Jesuit mission are mirrored in her desire to sometime join either the Peace Corps or the Jesuit Volunteer Corps.

“I want to travel wherever I can in the world,” said Gibbs. She dreams of combining traveling with working with children in thirdworld countries.

“There’s something about [children] that just makes me come alive and feel like the best me that there is.”

community’s youth

future progression efforts.

The program has seen immense growth since its establishment, and in 2008 it introduced St. Louis to an artistic version of a youthoutreach program. Through In 1995, a group of Afthis community arts project, ghan women escaped the Global Education through Taliban and journeyed to the Arts, Gitana promotes America for a better life. It an intercultural competence was here in St. Louis where among the economicallythis group discovered Gitana challenged youth living in Productions – a nonprofit, South St. Louis. multidisciplinary arts and Global Education through education program that utithe Arts is a 16-week afterlizes music, dance and draschool program that gives ma to provide the St. Louis these students the opporcommunity with a healthy tunity to explore St. Louis’s outlet for expression. Gitana artistic side Productions by taking has given fieldtrips these AfI’d have liked to to dance ghan womand musibe a part of a en, as well cal producas numerous comparable protions, radio other racialgram when I was and televily diverse growing up. sion stations, groups, an museums, emotional -Roberto Hernandez, theaters and safe haven Senior festivals. and a chanWith the ulnel through timate goal which to tell of providing team-building, their stories. conflict resolution, cross“While doing outreach cultural communication and with Carpenter Branch Lisocial skills to these youth, brary, I learned of the conthe project engages these flicts and misunderstandethnically diverse kids in the ings that occurred between fields of dance, poetry and African American and Imdrama. migrant Youth, and often Through the program, between different refugee Nadal hoped to discipline groups such as the Bosnians the youth to work as a team and Gypsies,” said Cecilia and bring about cultural acNadal, founder of Gitana ceptance. It provides almost Productions.

8 hours of weekly training in The organization was esdrama, leadership and dance tablished in 1996 as an effort to 100 kids.

by Nadal to bring a global viThe program is free-ofsion of the arts to St. Louis.

Nadal had the idea that a cross-cultural awareness and appreciation for diverSee “Gitana” on Page 2 sity could help St. Louis in

By JACKIE STACHIW Staff Writer and JESSICA WINTER Associate News Editor

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Afghan, American students debate affirmative action

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charge to those students wishing to participate and offers transportation support to those in need, thanks to financial support from various funders, a few being the Missouri Arts Council and Monsanto Fund.

Those participants that successfully complete the 16-week program then have the opportunity to help with one of Gitana’s professional main stage productions. This year’s performance, “Living the Dream: 50 Years and Beyond”, is written by SLU’s own fine and performing arts professor Lee Chiles.

It is a 45-minute performance that features music, drama and dance to bring about a message of nonviolence. The play will be held

throughout the month of February.

Senior SLU student and narrator for the play Roberto Hernandez has worked with some of the students involved and seen the value of the program.

“The kids that I’ve met and worked with are amazing,” said Hernandez. “Coming from similar grade school situations as many of them, I’d have liked to be a part of a comparable program when I was growing up.”

The productions that Gitana performs also serve to bring attention to humanitarian issues. Gitana aims to open St. Louisians’ eyes to things such as the crisis in Darfur, the life of Afghan women in St. Louis and the domestic violence in the South Asian community.

Debate: Skype event honors Black History Month She claimed one of the biggest issues with U.S. foreign policy is a lack of cultural experience amongst congressional leaders, which is something she hopes events like this can help change.

Maqsood also noted that one of the goals of the event is to expose Afghan students to American culture.

She said that her work with Carlin and debate as a whole allowed her to get a scholarship at SLU. Other students involved with ODSAO have been afforded similar opportunities, and she hopes the international competition does its part in giving more students the chance to learn about new cultures.

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ing experience that we have of SLU Law and a former we also want to share the Missouri Supreme Court cultural experiences and Chief Justice, and Richard the changes that debate has Harvey, an associate profesmade in so sor of psymany young chology, will lives in Afsit as the We also want to ghanistan,” American share... the changMaqsood judges. Aces that debate has said. “Knowcording to made in so many ing more Maqsood, about the two neutral young lives in U.S. envijudges have Afghanistan. ronment been invited -Frozan Maqsood, and the to sit with graduate student studying enthe Afghan vironment team, but in schools, their parwe will try to share it back ticipation has yet to be conwith our Afghani students.” firmed.

Four judges will decide The debate will be held the winners based on which in a British parliamentary side can present the most format. Carlin and Farzan practically sound argument. stated that the British form Michael Wolff, the dean is more popular internation-

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ally, and more exciting overall.

The event is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. on Feb. 6 in the CGC with a rebroadcast at 7 p.m. that will include a question and answer session.

John Giebfried, Eric Behna, Sara Rahim, Jonathan Pulphus, Paulina Menichiello and Roger Dale Perkey make up the team of six SLU students in the competition.

The students in Afghanistan will represent ODASO and come from four private universities: Mohammad Dawood Safi attends Kabul University, Abdul Wahab Qurishi comes from Kabul Polytechnic University, Sadia Sayed attends Karwan University and Abdul Khaliqu Sherzai is a student at Kardan University.

tion is not particular to SLU: tuition rates of higher education institutions have $31,342. The MBA program continued to increase across will cost $54,355 per year, the board in recent years. while the medical and law According to the College school tuition will be raised Board’s “2013 Trends in to $49,450 and $37,990, reHigher Education Pricing” spectively. report, private non-profit Undergraduate rates for four year institutions saw a the Madrid Campus are to 3.8 percent increase in tuincrease for four-year stuition on average for the 2013dents by 3.5 percent and for 14 academic year, which was study abroad, visiting and in line with SLU’s 3.9 percent transfer students by 4 perincrease that year. cent, bringing the cost to While Jesuit institutions 9,000 euro and 10,500 euro tend to have higher tuition per semester, respectively. rates than private universiIn an effort to counter risties as a whole, SLU’s rates ing costs, SLU has committed have remained in line with $137.7 million in institutionthe average for Jesuit schools. al financial aid. Additionally, Annual tuition was $35,246 the university’s “Go Further” compared program has to $35,471 pledged to for Jesuit match the This... is a universities $1.5 million challenge that we on average in donaas a university last year actions that community must cording to have been data from made to address.

U.S. News & fund scholWorld Rearships. “Go -Bill Kauffman, port.

Further” is Interim President The last a fundraistwo years ing effort in also saw an which SLU increase in net tuition and pledges to match any qualifees for private non-profit fied scholarship gift of $100 universities, with costs movor more. ing from $11,550 in 2011Kauffman noted in his let12 to an estimated $12,460 ter that a trend of decreasing in 2013-14. The net tuition enrollment in conjunction and fees metric takes in to with a growing faculty and consideration grant aid and staff and increasing compentax benefits students take to sation and general expenses lower the cost of education. stand as a serious concern Kauffman noted that for SLU moving forward. these trends are not expect“This is not a sustainable ed to be short-term issues, situation, and is a challenge which means university adthat we as a University comministrators will have to stay munity must address,” he hard at work over the next wrote. He stated that he has year to find ways to cut costs reached out to Faculty Senand bring in more funding in ate in order to create a proorder to maintain SLU’s pocess by which the university sition as a reasonably affordcan examine its operations. able Jesuit university.

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Super Bowl Storylines This next Sunday in East Rutherford, New Jersey, the (supposedly) best two football teams in all the land: the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos, will battle to become the next Super Bowl champions.

There are a number of important facts that make this particular Super Bowl all the more interesting. The clash between the Broncos and Seahawks will pit the best offence in football (Broncos) against the best defense in football (Seahawks).

In addition, this is only the second time in 20 years that the number one seed in each conference is playing for the Super Bowl, defying the trend of relative underdogs playing in the big game.

This is also the first time in the Super Bowl’s history that the game will be played in a cold weather stadium. Usually the game is held in Florida, California or in a climate-controlled dome. However, the old saying goes: Roger Goodell (the NFL commissioner) loves his money, so the game will be played where he pleases.

This game is also interesting for how much money is at play during this game.

At last year’s Super Bowl, the reportedly cheapest ticket sold for around $1,500 and a 30-person suite would require someone to shell out $325,000!

Commercials are also a big money business during the Super Bowl, as the biggest companies and advertisers constantly at-

tempt to outdo one another with outrageous and attention grabbing 30-second blurbs. At last year’s Super Bowl, the average 30-second advertisement cost $4 million.

The half time show has become a program all itself with some of the most important musicians around performing during half time. At Madonna’s half time show two years ago, more people watched her performance than the Super Bowl itself.

Last year’s performer, Queen Beyoncé, undoubtedly spoiled any other performer’s dreams of having the biggest half time show since JT and Janet. Nonetheless, Bruno Mars will give it a go.

But now, back to the football: this game pits the two most impressive teams of the NFL all year and should hopefully be a game for the ages, one we’ll be able to tell our grandchildren or random passerby on the street many years from now.

The star of the Broncos has irrevocably been the greatest quarterback of all time: Peyton Manning. This 37-year-old NFL player has had a record season, starting it off right with a seven- touchdown performance in the first game of the season and he never really slowed down throughout. Manning finished the regular season with an NFL record 4,577 yards passing and another NFL record 55 touchdown passes. He leads the highest of high-

powered passing attacks, flinging the pigskin around to Pro Bowlers Demaryius Thomas and Julius Thomas, as well as Eric Decker and Wes Welker all with over 60 catches.

To put this offensive juggernaut in perspective, no St. Louis Rams player had 60 catches. The rushing attack was also firing, with Knowshon Moreno rushing for over 1,000 yards during the season followed by St. Louis native Montee Ball, who rushed for 559 more.

This attack will face the best defense and best cornerback in the league, Richard Sherman, who set twitter ablaze with his postgame interview with Erin Andrews, stating: “I’m the best corner in the game” and calling 49ers’ receiver Michael Crabtree a sorry receiver and a sheep.

Many of us on the editorial board actually enjoyed Sherman’s comments, as he had the grounds to make those comments and showed a passion not often seen once the final whistle calls. It will be up to Sherman and the rest of the Seahawks’ defense in stopping, or at least containing the Broncos potent offence in order to give second-year quarterback Russell Wilson a chance to win the biggest game of the year.

No matter what happens in the game, there are enough storylines and enough entertainment to make this a Super Bowl worth watching.

The struggles of super stardom Unless you’ve been living under a rock this past week (gosh wouldn’t that be nice), you would know that superstar Justin Bieber was arrested for driving while intoxicated. Bieber has received castigation and sometimes praise for everything from the act itself to his adorable mug shot.

For people uninterested in the lives of celebrities, this whole incident is something to either quickly scold, snicker or both.

However, for those that follow the lives of superstars, many may be left disappointed by yet another young starlet using his extensive privilege and influence to ill ends. Parents with children that look up to Biebs and his hair will now have to explain how nobody is perfect or even force their children to stop listening to the music of the (still alleged) lawbreaker.

This raises the question, though, how much influence should a 19-year-old superstar really have?

Miley Cyrus is another superstar with a controversial year, which included a hotly debated VMA performance and a video of her riding a wrecking ball in the nude. This editorial board has heard just about every opinion about Miley Cyrus. However, we’d like to note that Miley Cyrus is just as young as most of us (21), and is capable of making mistakes like the rest of us do. The spotlight on her, however, is infinitely greater than most of us SLU students have ever experienced.

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With the spotlight on these two starlets for the past several years (even more for Miley), and showing no signs of abating, perhaps these two stars are just attempting to show how little they care about the world outside the people most immediate to them. Is this selfish? Of course it is, but so is everyone else. These stars, however, are burdened with appealing to a huge fan base, while simultaneously living the life they want which would likely not appeal to their fan base. They’re on a tightrope being pulled on both sides, and the cameras are always on them.

While many young performers have difficulty traversing their late teens and early teens, several stars manage to get through with utter class. One of these stars is Queen Beyoncé. At 33 years, Beyoncé is squarely on top of the world and can pretty much do no wrong at this point, barring some kind of arrest or drug abuse (but honestly, she’s too smart for that).

Not only does the world recognize Beyoncé’s privileged position, she does as well. In her newly released album, she describes how the work she’s done over the years allows her to perform in ways she prefers.

While no other artists can claim the throne that Beyoncé has, it would be nice if we as a society could grant them a little more space to grow as people, so hopefully they can turn out half as cool as Beyoncé.

By Becky Killian, Junior, Urban Affairs major in College of Arts and Sciences Presentations concerning sexual assault frustrate me. The audience at these “dialogues” is always defensive and, at the end, the spoiler that a heavily intoxicated victim cannot give consent always proves to be subject for debate. While this reaction points out significant societal problems, it also necessitates that these “educational tactics” need to be reevaluated.

My problem with sexual assault presentations is that they separate, rather than unite a community.

By presenting a complex, serious problem in a heteronormative, sex-specific fashion in which men are always the perpetrators and women always the victims, we force people into camps where their statements will be recognized as either “anti-woman” or “anti-man,” instead of simply “anti-victim.”

These presentations need to cease being a chance to defend or criminalize a given sex, and instead concern humanizing all people until we do not inflict sexual harm. Our campus needs to understand that cases of sexual assault should not divide men and women, but should be met with joint outrage.

To do this, we need to stop saying, “Think if this happened to your daughter or sister,” and instead say, “Think if this happened to your daughter or son, sister or brother.” Limiting the havoc of sexual victimization to one sex is detrimental to understanding it as a crime on human beings, not just women at the hands of heterosexual men. Rape can be experienced by both men and women, regardless of their sexuality. A rapist is no less a rapist for harming the sexual dignity of a man, and a woman who pushes the sexual boundaries of her boyfriend is no less a rapist than a woman who takes advantage of her girlfriend.

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the U.S. Areas with greater reducible to such simplicity, mobility tend to have five however. To think that such characteristics: less segregaa basic solution exists is to tion, less income inequality, give in to ideological fervor better schools, greater soand deny the humanity incial capital and more stable herent in poverty and low families.” As this excerpt execonomic mobility, and the plains, attributing economic compassion and thoughtfulwoes to income inequality— ness its study thus deserves. and making the solution an

Income inequality, increase in the minimum like many terms in politics, wage—is naïve; levels of is difficult to precisely execonomic mobility involve plain and quantify. a great number of social facFurthermore, while it as tors, only one of which is ina concept can be fodder for come inequality. politicians looking to win

big in the The United game of geStates esneric politiLevels of econompouses itself cal rhetoric, to being a income inic mobility involves country of equality is a a great number of economic fundamensocial factors, only opportunity, tal oversimone of which is but this opplif ic ation portunity is of a comincome inequality not necesplex ecosarily solely nomic phecontingent nomenon: on having u p w a rd near equal levels of income. mobility. In a recent project In her recent NPR report involving Harvard economcalled “The Income Gap: ics professors Raj Chetty and How Much is Too Much?,” Nathaniel Hendren entitled Yuki Noguchi references the “Equality of Opportunity words of Scott Winship, a Project,” the authors attempt fellow at the Manhattan Into explain the complexity stitute, to define this point. of economic mobility in a Noguchi writes: “Winship short introduction on the says policies should aim to project’s website. They write: increase access to opportu“Upward income mobility nities to those on the lower varies substantially within

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Recent political rhetoric, especially the kind surrounding President Obama’s 2 0 1 4 S t a t e of the Union Address, has focused on the nation’s increasing Paul Brunkhorst income g a p — “income inequality.” To many on the left and the right, but more strongly on among the left, who benefit from strong sentiment from the White House, the solution to income inequality has revolved around the minimum wage and whether or not it should be raised. The President and his Democratic allies in Congress and around the country believe that raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour will help reduce the vast discrepancies in income nationwide. But is the problem of income inequality, if it truly is a problem, to be solved so easily? It makes sense on the surface: more wage, more salary, narrower income gap. The problem of income inequality and upward mobility (the two are intimately connected) is not

rungs of the social ladder.

But, he says, narrowing the income gap by…raising the minimum wage is unlikely to have much of an effect on mobility.” This is not to say that the minimum wage should not be raised or that the rich do not enjoy a tremendous social advantage because of their wealth (the certainly do), instead, it means that we should not get caught up in the soaring rhetoric of political pundits.

The way to improve economic mobility is not as easy as some make it sound: raise the minimum wage! A large pool of factors must be considered, like those outlined in the “Equality of Opportunity Project.”

We live in a world of, according to political academics, “complex global economic interdependence,” and we must not forget that the economic world is just that- complex.

To say that simply raising the minimum wage will help increase economic mobility is to deny people their humanity—we are beings of vast complexity whose problems cannot be amounted to being just monetary. Society demands that we look deeper into the problem of economic immobility and adjust for a long term solution.

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Me, Myself and iPhone ered it’d take me four days I noticed how boring it to get a new phone. While was to sit through stoplights the AT&T salesman worked when you can’t check your on the order form I stared text messages in the interblankly at my feet, unsure of im between red and green, how to pass the time without and when I felt awkward at checking my Facebook on a party I had to strap on a my phone. smile because I didn’t have The first few phone-less a screen to scroll through hours were freedom akin to avoid eye contact with to the feeling you get after strangers. In short, I was a breakup when you realize forced to participate in all you don’t have to be faithful the drudgery of reality withto anybody. I didn’t have to out the distractions on read any text messages. I had my phone. an acceptable excuse for not I think my smart phone responding made me to emails. I stupid. Rewas single, ally, I do. alone in the H a v I don’t let my world withing a phone mind roam in the out my 200 makes it so quiet hours before contacts and easy to look delighted by up answers sleep because it’s the idea of that I stop easier to play Tehaving to do asking questris until tiredness something tions. takes me. quaint, like It makes ask a strangit so easy er what time to keep in it is. touch with Then the people that feeling endit’s less imed. In my car I was forced to portant to talk to people you listen to the terrible CDs I’d can touch. made in high school because With the internet in my all my music was on my pockets, what good is it to phone. I went grocery shoptrundle through the cumberping and on the way back, I some pages of an encycloperealized I couldn’t Google dia? If you can text, why talk? how long I could leave milk And it isn’t my phone’s in the car. fault. My phone, like a ham-

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I saw a motto once on a tombstone that said: “It is a fearful thing to love what death c a n touch” and I started to wonder if that’s w h y I love Kate Essig my cell phone so much. After all, its metal guts can be tweaked and tugged into immortality, while every human I know will, at some point, be made into moss.

My cell phone sits on my pillow when I’m sleeping. Its face is the first one I see in the morning, and its screen is the first thing I touch. My phone is the only witness to the fight I had with my mother and the texts I still sometimes exchange with my ex-boyfriend. Without realizing it, my relationship with my cell phone has become the most intimate one in my life.

Last week I left my phone at a bar and it got stolen by someone smart enough to pick up an iPhone instead of abandoning one. Distraught, I went to the store to get a new telephone and discov-

mer or a nail, is a tool. Use that tool for its intended purpose and it’s good, but use that tool to nail someone’s ears to a wall and it’s no good at all.

My phone doesn’t willfully force me to replace tangible things in my life with cheap substitutes. It doesn’t adhere my fingers to its tiny screen and force me to waste time on my twitter feed, but that’s what I choose to do with it.

I avoid awkward conversation by sending long-winded texts. I don’t let my mind roam in the quiet hours before sleep because it’s easier to play tetris until tiredness takes me. I replace nightly prayers with podcasts. A world as wild as ours should not be limited to pockets.

When my new phone arrived I unwrapped the box like it was a short-wave radio to a lifeboat, a link back to the life that I knew before my cell phone went missing.

But as I fingered the cold metal of my new iPhone 5s, it seemed to me cold and lifeless, a hollow box that was undeserving of my secrets and ill-equipped for intimacy.

I contemplated not turning it on. Then, with the slide of two-fingers on a still glass frame, I tapped back in.

Bread and Circuses ratives of our time. At best woeful indifference, at worst I opened the New York blissful ignorance, these Times this morning. And bite-size pieces of news are just like that, I closed it. Sure, what we choose to digest.

C o n Studies have shown that gress is as we consume news, we exabout ercise the part of our brain t o dedicated to skimming and pass a multitasking while ignoring spendthe portion associated with i n g deeper reading and more bill for philosophical thought.

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As you read more news, Y e s , Tony Traina your brain becomes better at Chris skimming, but you become Chrisrestless. After a few pages of tie is blocking bridges and reading a book, you become taking names. Yawn. I need bored, unable to concensomething more. I need trate. something to grab me by the O v e r- s i m p l i f i c a t i o n . seat of my pampered pants That’s what news does; that’s and beg me to pay attention. what our culture values.

Duck Dynasty? Contrived News boils down a complex controversy. Miley Cyrus? story, a complex web of inCome back when you have tertwined ideas, actors, and talent. places, providing a 700-word As long as the NFL is in its narrative that people can feel final weeks, Americans are comfortable digesting. happy. As long as Beyonce Rememis surprisber TED? ing us with With titles new albums, As long as like “How we’re conschools kill tent. As long Beyonce is c re ativ ity ” as Jennifer surprising us with and “How Lawrence is new albums, great leadlooking fabers inspire ulous on the we’re content... a c t i o n ,” red carpet, these little what is there morsels to worry of inspiraabout? Don’t tional talks worry, a new leave listeners feeling, well, season of the Bachelor startinspired. But then, nothing ed last week; Juan Pablo, isn’t happens. he sexy?

Speakers divulge a great Bread and circuses, cirrevelation they had, and cuses and bread. how it can- you guessed itWe don’t need gladiachange the world. They leave tors anymore, the market us with one take away, one provides them for us. They “idea worth spreading,” that come in all shapes and sizcan revolutionize something es too. From pornography and save millions of lives. to pro football, individuals But the world is much more sacrifice their bodies in the complicated than that. name of entertainment, in Remember Kony 2012. the name of profit.

Invisible Children was able Isn’t there something to simplify centuries of cenmore to culture though? tral African politics into Shouldn’t there be somesomething a five-year-old thing more to this society could understand. Konywe call ourselves proud to bad, us- good. It was Harry be a part of? Articles we read Potter versus Voldermort, should delve deeper than “16 played out in the jungles of Random Jelly Bean CombiUganda instead of the halls nations That Totally Work,” of Hogwarts. or “The Way to Reheat PizWhile video killed the raza Is in a Skillet” (Thanks dio star, we were all too busy Buzzfeed and Gawker). watching the television to The news we consume, notice that news killed critifrom Gawker to the Wall cal thinking. It killed creativStreet Journal, Politico to ity. We don’t need to think People, has become a type anymore; the news puts the of drug for our brains. News pieces together for us. stories have come to focus No need to solve probon the dramatic, finding a lems, the news introduces narrative, or even worse, trite and tried solutions. It contriving one, and sticking fills the space in our brain to it. “If it bleeds, it leads,” with empty thoughts, fears as the old newspaper adage of plane crashes and terrorgoes. We hear about highism, what the Kardashians flying CEOs and investment might do next or who Juan bankers, but not underpaid Pablo will let go this week. teachers or nurses. Think We try to focus on the about it. sexy stuff, the nanotechnolSay you’ve read a couple ogy or vaccines that can news stories a day over the change the world, the cures past 12 months. Of those and supercomputers that almost 1,000 articles, can can solve previously unsolvyou point to any that have able problems. changed your life, changed The truth is, the little bits the way you thought about in between- where change the world? Maybe you’re a actually occurs- are hard.

Republican and read a few They’re ugly, they’re ambigsentences of a liberal pundit uous, and they’re certainly singing the praises of the Afnot fun to read about. fordable Care Act to get riled Put down this newspaup. Damn it, Obama! per. Put down that New York Perhaps you read an arTimes. Pick up a book, read ticle or two about civil una quality piece of investigarest in Syria so you could feel tive or long-form journal“informed” or “know what’s ism. It may not be fun, but it going on in the world.” will open your mind back up.

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Taking the plunge: Young team sees success in pool “Again,” junior Justin Pasquesi yelled to his teammates. Instead of being met by looks of resentment and exhaustion, Pasquesi and his 48 teammates push off the wall and begin another set.

Perhaps this drive has been what has propelled the swim team through competition and to their impressive record of 13-2 for the men’s team and 15-4 for the women’s team, as of press time. “[This year] I feel like people are more invested. The team really wants to do well and that’s really developed since freshman year,” Pasquesi said.

“This year has been one of the toughest work-wise. We’ve really been pushing hard, especially past mental barriers.”

Pasquesi is one of the 23 swimmers on the men’s team, which includes no seniors on this year’s roster.

“This is a young, motivated team. In the past, it’s mostly been upperclassmendominated. They haven’t cared as much for the sport.

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“We expect more of ourselves this year. We’ve trained harder and we feel more prepared and ready to go fast,” junior Morgan Peterson said.

One meet Pasquesi highlighted in particular as a turning point on the season was the Mizzou Invitational, which was Nov. 21-23. “[It was a] prelude to precursor to the rest of the year. Everyone swam really fast. It was a preview of what conferences This is the last hard push and should be like,” we’re exhausted but so ready.

Pasquesi said.

In addition We know we’ve worked hard to team victobut the last couple of weeks ries this seashow what we can do. son, the team has also out-Justin Pasquesi, touched many previous SLU junior swimmer swimmers and has broken sevreally good, some you’re averal school records. erage and some you’re bad.

“I think we’ve already This team has been really broken 16 school records, good or above average. They we’d like to get another 15really haven’t been bad this 20,” Halliburton said. year,” head coach Jim HalliAside from breaking burton said. school records, both the men The women’s roster and women set other team boasts only three seniors, goals, which are displayed in and the team has won seven the locker room throughout of their twelve meets since the start of the season in September.

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Unlike most other SLU sports, the swim team has an unusually long season, running from the middle of September through the middle of February.

“The season is going really well. Usually within a year, you have some days and some practices and some competitions where you’re

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GETTING GRANDER: Grandy Glaze looks down the court in a 77-57 win over Richmond on Jan. 29. Glaze contributed two points and five rebounds on the night.

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After Wednesday night, concerns over No. 19 Saint Louis’ inability to bury its opponents seem like nothing more than a distant memory.

The Billikens won their 13th game in a row, clobbering Richmond 77-57 to improve to 19-2 on the year and 6-0 inside the Atlantic 10.

Jordair Jett led the way for the Billikens with his second consecutive double-

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In the winter storm that hit Atlanta this week, current Braves 1B Freddie Freeman tweeted he’d been stuck in traffic for five hours. Have no fear, here comes Chipper! He rode up on a four-wheeler, driving Freddie home.

double. The senior guard knocked in 8 of 15 shots from the field en route to a 21-point performance and added a career-high 10 rebounds. It was the sixth game in a row with 10 or more points for Jett, who also chipped in an assist, a steal and a block.

“We had a game plan to basically just keep them out of the lane,” Jett said. “We forced them into some bad shots, contested shots.”

Senior Dwayne Evans bounced back from a poor

performance at Duquesne, posting the 22nd doubledouble of his career with 15 points and 10 rebounds.

Rob Loe (10 pts) and Austin McBroom (12 pts) also finished in double-figures for the Billikens, who shot 51.9 percent from the field as a team and hit 4 of 12 3-pointers.

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By TONY TRAINA, Managing Editor WHO TO JEER: UMASS BASKETBALL After starting 16-1 and reaching as high as No. 13 in the AP polls, the Minutemen (17-3, 4-2) have hit a rough patch early in A-10 play. They’ve lost two of three, and after losing to St. Bonaventure on Wednesday, will likely fall out of the top 25. The Billikens close out their A-10 season at UMass in March.

WHO TO FEAR: KEVIN DURANT Is there really another choice for this spot right now? After dismantling the defending champs on Wednesday, he’s scored 30 plus in 12 straight games, and shows no signs of slowing down. And the Thunder have won nine in a row. What more is there to say? He’s the best scorer in the game and continues to take his game higher.

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Women’s basketball wins first game in Atlantic 10.

The women’s basketball team traveled to Rhode Island last Saturday, Jan. 25, to take on the Rams, where they won 58-50, picking up their first conference victory. The Bills had four players in double figures, led by Desirae Ball with 15.

Saint Louis is hosting their annual pink-out game this Saturday, Feb. 1, against La Salle at 4:30.

The win over Rhode Island moved the Bills to 1-5 in the A-10 and 6-13 overall.

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meet to save yourself for conferences,” Peterson said.

With only one meet left for the team in the season this Friday, Jan. 31 against Eastern Illinois, the team is beginning to look ahead to the conference tournament.

The Atlantic 10 championships will be held Feb. 19-22

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“Your focus really does turn to conferences. It’s the last big meet, the last big push. The last three weeks have a big impact on what we do. I don’t know if it’s a change or more of a sharpening of the focus; we start refining,” Pasquesi said.

Better with age: Bills led by senior core It is a point that has been discussed ad nauseam. Defense has served as the cornerstone for No. 19 SLU, the driving force behind the revival of a program that is o n c e Brian Haenchen a g a i n relevant both locally and nationally.

“It’s everything,” senior Mike McCall Jr. said. “That’s what built this program. It is what has us where we are now as basketball players…

It gets our team going.”

The product on the floor may not be as visually stimulating as Mike Anderson’s “Fastest 40 Mintues,” but the value of the Bills’ suffocating defense is quantifiable.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the Billikens were among the national leaders in field goal defense (48.6 percent, 17th nation/ first A-10), 3-point defense (27.5 percent, seventh/first), points allowed per possession (0.86, second/first) and points allowed per game (58 ppg, seventh/first). Naturally, those gaudy defensive statistics are in direct correlation with the number of games won in the past year.

According to Tom Timmermann of the Post-Dispatch, Saint Louis’ 34-4 (.894) record since Jan. 20, 2013 is best in the nation, ranking above Gonzaga (33-4; .891), Memphis (32-6; .842), and Wichita State (35-7; .833).

The Billikens take pride in their defense and their focus on that end of the floor continues to pay dividends.

“Defense is our staple,” senior Jake Barnett said.

“The one thing you can control night in and night out is your effort on defense… when the shots aren’t falling, you have to defend.”

While their defensive efforts have played a significant role in their successes, the composition of the roster has been equally important.

They are among the 60 Division I programs with five or more seniors on their roster, but one of only three that have used an all-senior starting lineup this season.

“Our seniors have been through it,” coach Jim Crews said. “They have good wisdom and poise about themselves. They move on to try to do the next right thing when we screw up or are be-

hind. They’re pretty resilient that way.”

Logical reasoning would suggest the more experienced a team is, the more success it will have. However, the few statistical correlations between experience and its impact on winning suggest otherwise. Of the 60 Division I men’s basketball programs with five or more seniors on their respective rosters, Saint Louis is the only one with a winning percentage north of .800.

Taking it a step further: according to StatSheet’s “Experience Tracker,” SLU has a 3.42 average class year per minutes played, which means—despite the 23 minutes per game for sophomore Austin McBroom and recent increase in playing time for freshman Mike Crawford, upperclassmen log the majority of the team’s minutes.

13 programs have a higher average. Of those, only four have won 14 or more games this season and none have an RPI inside the top 50.

Although the statistics suggest a counter-intuitive line of thinking—that is, the Billikens’ success is more of an anomaly than the norm— their wealth of experience has been one of the main forces behind their current win streak.

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We’ve been through it all and it would be bad to just end on a bad note.

-Rob Loe, senior forward

“[Our experience] has played a huge role,” Barnett explained. “It’s unique and a good opportunity for us.

We’re old and we’re experienced. When we take a hit, we know how to respond. I think that’s played a big role.”

The intangible value of that veteran leadership was manifested on the road against Duquesne. On a night when the A-10’s three remaining undefeated teams (SLU, Massachusetts, La Salle) were put to the test in hostile road environments, Saint Louis was the only one to escape unscathed, rallying past the Dukes late in the game despite an off night by senior Dwayne Evans and a poor defensive performance.

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the season. The goals are both performance and attitude related.

“We normally have four main goals. The first is that swimmers and divers hit their personal best times at a high percentage. The second is to break as many school records as possible. The third is to have a pretty good win-loss record, and last is to place as high as we can at the A-10 Championship.

Those are the four goals we set every year and we just try to do the best we can and we are doing pretty well this year,” Halliburton said.

At the meet on Saturday, Jan. 25 at the Simon Rec Center on senior day, both the men’s and women’s teams picked up overall wins in the pool. Both the swim and dive teams for both gender swept every event in the meet. The men faced Western Illinois and won 141-69, and the women dueled both Maryville and Western Illinois, where they defeated both clubs.

“It’s hard in general when you want to do good at a meet and you don’t want to stop trying to rest for the

sponded in that situation,” Barnett admitted. “We were down the whole game until the last couple minutes.

I think we realized that we just had to keep fighting and at some point there was going to be an opportunity and we had to take it.” “ How many teams have been to the NCAA tournament twice and have five seniors?”the Dukes’ coach Jim Ferry commented afterwards.

The Billikens’ age also brings wisdom, an inherent understanding of the dire consequences of looking past a team, especially as the defending champion in a conference as deep as the Atlantic 10. We saw it last season against Dayton following an emotional win over Butler and we’ll see it again Saturday when SLU takes on George Mason (7-13, 0-6)— nothing is taken for granted inside of that locker room.

“Every team is going to give us their best shot,” Barnett said. “You have to come in every single night, because every single night that team is going to bring it.

The intensity’s there. Every team’s been bringing their best shot against us.”

Even as the external noise continues to grow, Saint Louis has remained on point, focused exclusively on its next opponent due in large part to the short-sighted approach its seniors have developed over their careers and are now passing down to the younger players.

“It’s pretty tough just because [the hype] comes at you in different forms,” Evans said. “But we have seniors on this team and guys that are really committed to reaching our potential. Buying into all that stuff isn’t really going to help.”

“When coach Majerus was here, he always made sure that we were very, very prepared,” Jordair Jett said.

“But now I’m older, so I don’t need as much help to know exactly what I’m looking for or exactly what we need to do on offense—I kind of know stuff now.”

For Saint Louis, the even-keeled, well-mannered demeanor of its five battletested seniors belies a ferocious hunger, a conviction to go out on top.

“We’ve come through a lot together, the five of us,” Rob Loe said at the beginning of the season. “We’ve been through it all and it would be bad to just end on a bad note.”

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Halliburton laid out specific things that the team will change and emphasize for the conference championships, which includes changing the number and style of practices.

“We are going to work hard for about two more weeks and then we’ll start to

pack off. We’ll stop morning practice and just do night practice. Then, we’ll stop lifting and just swim,” Halliburton said. “We’re putting all of our energy into the end of the season. The conference championship is a lot more important than the individual meets to us so it’s what we’ve been working towards all season and had that February in mind.”

Rather than qualifying certain swimmers in certain events with times from meets over the season, the A-10 championships are structured with a set roster size per school. SLU can take 25 girls and 23 boys, and then they choose 18 swimmers whose times will be scored. Those 18 swimmers will be chosen right before the meet.

“I’m excited for the end.

This is the last hard push and we’re exhausted but so ready.

We know we’ve worked hard but the last couple of weeks show what we can do,” Pasquesi said. “We have a really good group, a fun group to be with. The fact that we don’t get tired of each other and hang out with each other on the weekends, it takes a special group to do that.”

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JETTING AHEAD: Jordair Jett had a double-double with 19 points and 10 rebounds against Richmond.

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enough time to prepare. We can enjoy it for the night and get back at it tomorrow,” Evans said.

Defensively, SLU registered five blocks and six steals, limiting Richmond to just 31.7 percent shooting from the field and a woeful 5-for-17 from behind the arc. The battle on the glass favored the Bills 43-34 as did points in the paint (36-24).

“They’re a great defensive team,” Richmond coach Chris Mooney said. “That’s not a surprise to anybody.

They’re great at making you work on offense for everything and disrupting everything you do.”

The Billikens set the tone early in the first half, responding to a 3-pointer by Kendall Anthony that pulled the Spiders to within three less than three minutes into the game. A 14-2 surge was capped off by an old-fashioned 3-point play by McBroom to push the score to

20-5 with 11:30 remaining.

A few minutes later, Richmond had an opportunity to chip away at a 16-point lead following a steal by Cedrick Lindsay, but he missed the layup attempt and SLU capitalized, using a 13-7 run to build a 42-21 lead at the break.

The second half told the same story. Every time the Spiders got within 20, the Billikens fired back, relentlessly attacking on both ends of the floor to push the lead out even further.

“We played well and they probably didn’t play well,” SLU coach Jim Crews explained. “I wouldn’t look too deep into it.”

SLU will look to match the longest win streak in school history Saturday afternoon when they take on A-10 newcomer George Mason at Chaifetz Arena. The Billikens have won 14 games in a row twice in school history—most recently in 199394. Tip-off is set for 1:30 p.m.

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January 30, 2014 arts@unewsonline.com Molly Rippinger, Arts Editor Kendra Cruse, Assoc. Arts Editor

Q & A with star of “Mamma Mia!”

Fox: “Mamma Mia!” will be showing just a short walk from SLU Feb. 7-9 with tickets ranging from $30-75.

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Feeding St. Louis’ starving artists Soup dinner to fund community projects

By KENDRA CRUSE Associate Arts Editor

Potential cash for a project you cooked up, a space for a little creative inspiration, and soup. All of these can be found one Sunday evening every month at Sloup, a dinner party designed to fund and promote the ideas of local artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, and organizers. Spectators pay $10 to attend; food, beer, and a ballot are included.

At the end of the night, voters choose one winner to be awarded 100% of the money to support their respective project.

The masterminds behind Sloup are Washington University alumnae Maggie Ginestra and Amelia Colette. Pursuing masters degrees, the two artists were living in St. Louis when they launched the project.

Feb. 21, 2010 marked Sloup #1. Four years and count-

less soups later, more than $21,000 has been raised to support 44 grassroots projects. As the founders moved away to follow their careers, four more young women Zoë Scharf, Tara Pham, Karen Mandelbaum and Becca Moore - took on the venture.

A network of similar soup dinners exist in cities like Detroit and Brooklyn, but St. Louis Sloup is special.

Thanks to donations of food and space, meeting monthly is possible and every dollar raised can go directly to the winner. “Some other cities’ programs, for example, happen only quarterly or take a small fraction of the proceeds to support the program itself,” says Pham, a ‘Sloupie’. “St. Louisans’ generosity and sense of community make Sloup thrive in ways we could have never imagined.”

Sloup provides a unique platform to voice visions and connect with like-minded

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folks. Even those going home without the grand prize have an opportunity to win the crowd’s approval. Participants often find ways to rally support or collaborate with other artists and organizations. Last weekend was one the biggest Sloups yet, drawing a whopping 165 people.

Just steps away from SLU, #41 was one of first events at the new KDHX studios (3524 Washington Avenue).

Upon entry, attendees took their pick of a tomato bisque or shrimp gumbo catered by Triumph Grill, and one of four local brews provided by Schlafly and Urban Chestnut. After some mingling time, each speaker was given a strict two-minute time limit to sell their idea.

This time around, seven ideas were proposed including one from Circus Harmony, a reigning Sloup champion. This group hoped to use winnings to sponsor a trip for a project called Peace

through Pyramids, a longterm partnership they’ve created with a Jewish/Arab Galilee Circus in Israel. The young spokeswoman held her own with the patient personality of a performer and concluded her pitch with a split.

The night’s winner was proposed by organizers of the Take Back St. Louis campaign, which aims to create a more sustainable future for the city by investing taxdollars in distributed development, green jobs and renewable energy. Mark your calendar for April 8 when you can hit the polls for a city-wide election on this initiative.

The Sloup grant will be used to install “idea boards” in vacant lots around St. Louis. On these boards, neighborhood residents can write how they want to use See “Sloup” on Page 6

Courtesy of Sloup Facebook

Sloup: Take Back St. Louis, winners of last week’s Sloup, will be installing more idea boards (like the one pictured left) in vacant lots across the city. On the right, a Sloup group mingles at SUMP Coffee.

A: How do you deal with the difficulties of the show?

H: In the show there is a lot of dancing and that’s not necessarily my strongest point. However, the choreography is amazing and the director, Carly Wielstein, is awesome so she keeps everything running smoothly.

A: What have you enjoyed most about this show?

H: The show is a lot of fun! The wardrobe is incredible and it impresses everyone along with the wonderful scene work.

General tips from Haege: Have good relationships, work hard, and don’t complain because you never know who will end up being your next director or boss.

Persevere and don’t give up. There will be many auditions and you only need one to work out.

Take care of yourself and eat well! Good food, lots of water and sleep help the body and mind.

New album shines light on creativity

By ALEX CUNNINGHAM KSLU External Music Director

features several lyrical allusions to the harmful effects of medication on the creative inclinations of young artists.

“Light Show” is Los This theme frames “Light Angeles-based songwriter Show” as a sort of loose conJohn Webster Johns’ first cept album about the ills of album under the Jack Name correcting what mainstream moniker. Throughout “Light society labels as “disorders.”

Show,” Johns fully indulges The most significant motif the most outré leanings of of the album is “the shadow.” his songwriting sensibiliWithin the world of “Light ties. Clocking in at only half Show,” the shadow acts as an hour, “Light Show” is a the manifestation of one’s brief but affecting journey creative output. The lyrics through the subconscious of on “Light Show” pit individan equally talented and biuals’ shadows against the evil zarre musical personality. “light” with the shadow-deFrom its opening secstroying tool of conformist onds onward, “Light Show” society. The final two tracks, is without a doubt a studio“Out of Sight” and “Killing a driven project. The album’s Shadow,” are the most devproduction techniques and astating illustrations of this effects fill as vital a role as theme. The narrator in “Out any instrument on the reof Sight” warns against the cord. This is heard to the dangers of expressing one’s greatest effect in regards shadow, as to vocals. it draws unJohns’ voice wanted atis pitchtention to shifted in By indulging his ec- those who various ways centricities, Johns wish to supthroughout press and the album, has avoided the u l t i m a t ely giving the light that his album destroy it. listener the warns against, “Killing a closest apkeeping his shadow S h a d o w ” proximadescribes tion posintact in all of its just that: sible of the demented glory. the death of Residents one’s creattempting ative enerto write T. gies as they Rex songs. are finally overcome by the “Do the Shadow” juxtaposes light. While this theme enthese bizarre vocals with compasses nearly all of the 1950s pop fetishism to crematerial on “Light Show,” the ate one of the most unsetalbum’s brevity allows Johns tling, yet musically upbeat to avoid the pompousness moments on the album. Alof traditional rock operas. bum highlight, “Pure Terror,” Instead, Johns has created a feels like the result of leaving lo-fi mini opus about the ill a copy of the “Rocky Horror treatment of those who feel Picture Show” soundtrack more at home on the outout in the sun to allow for skirts of society. maximum vinyl warping With “Light Show,” Johns’ (indeed, the opening line Jack Name project has sucfollows the same melodic cessfully turned a string of pattern as “Science Fiction/ unrelated influences into an Double Feature”). Overall, unmistakably original musi“Light Show” successfully cal statement about followfilters the sounds of clasing one’s muse. By indulging sic glam rock through the his eccentricities, Johns has warped minds of bedroomavoided the light that his alpop stalwarts like R. Stevie bum warns against, keeping Moore and Bobb Trimble, his shadow intact in all of its creating an insular musical demented glory. headspace that few artists Check out Alex’s radio explore. show, “This Is Your Life Now,” Lyrically speaking, “Light on Wednesdays from 9-11 Show” is a meditation on one p.m. central theme. The album

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Image courtesy of “Mamma Mia!” Facebook

Next weekend, the Tony Award-winning “Mamma Mia!” will be hitting the stage at The Fabulous Fox Theatre for five performances. “Mamma Mia!” follows the funny tale of a mother and daughter whom attempt to figure out which of the possible three dads will walk his daughter down the aisle on a Greek island paradise in what could be considered the ultimate love triangle.

Set to the timeless tracks of ABBA, “Mamma Mia!” has become an iconic musical enjoyed by over 54 million people worldwide.

University News staff writer, Melena Abijaoude, had the opportunity to sit down with the leading lady herself, Georgia Kate Haege.

Cast as Donna Sheridan, the Australian actress Haege commands the stage as the former-pop, diva mother who is forced to confront her past loves at the urging

of her daughter, Sofie (Chelauditions. She asked me to sea Williams). During their audition for “Mamma Mia!” conversation, Abijaoude because they still have not and Haege were able to chat found anyone. I sang “The about life on Broadway, her Winner Takes It All,” using role in “Mamma Mia!” and my iPhone for lyrics while also a few tips for aspiring Gabrielle recorded me using actors. her own iPhone and the piaA: How did you get innist used his iPhone to pull volved in up the note “Mamma sheet. With Mia!”?

Have good relation- technology H: I saw helping out ships, work hard, the opporand lots of tunity in and don’t complain luck, I got B a ck s t a g e because you never the part!

Magazine A: What in Decem- know who will end up has been being your next diber of 2012. the hardI wrote to est thing rector or boss.

Gabrielle about this -Georgia Kate Haege, Mirabella show? actress but I was H: The on a tour hardest in Australia so I was asked thing is the intensity. In my to send in a video audition. role there is lots of singing so However, I dropped the ball I have days where I literally and totally forgot about it. don’t speak to help my vocal In early April I walked in chords. Everybody knows I to an audition for the Broaddo no talking on Mondays. way production of “Soul There have also been Doctor.” lots of sacrifices, like I do To my surprise, Gabrinot drink alcohol and try to elle was the one doing the sleep a lot.

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Sloup: Dish up ideas Continued from Page 5

sample idea board at the event included suggestions like community gardens, playgrounds and chicken coups. Projects involving public art and community involvement like the Take Back St. Louis idea boards are a Sloup favorite.

Encouraging a strong local community, Sloup coordinators find creative ways to expose the participants to places and people they may not have encountered otherwise.

Each month, the event is hosted in a different venue and a different neighborhood. Past sites include Upcycle Exchange on South Grand, Black Bear Bakery on Cherokee Street, the Contemporary Art Museum in Grand Center and even someone’s living room.

The intimate atmosphere Sloup has embraced is one of its charming qualities.

As attendance increases, turning to bigger spaces becomes necessary. “For example,” says Pham, “One of my favorite Sloups ever was at Flowers to the People, a

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small florist shop on Cherokee Street, a shop like that is unfortunately much too small to hold a Sloup now.”

Small venues will still be considered, but only during warmer months when stepping outside for some wiggle room is an option.

With no budget for food, venues or marketing, Sloup is entirely dependent on donations. Still, the biggest challenge seems to be getting proposals. The opportunity to share an idea at Sloup is free and open to anyone.

Simply submit a one-page proposal prior to the event describing your project and explaining how the money will be spent.

Students looking to step off campus and explore St. Louis’ creative scene can contact stlsloup@gmail.com for volunteer opportunities.

Help is needed coordinating and staffing the events, as well as tuning up the website. You could even submit an idea of your own and become the next Sloup victor.

No matter your level of involvement, be sure to come out Feb. 23 and support community arts at Sloup

Photo courtesy of Sloup Facebook page

Sloup: One Sloupie struggles to cast his ballot at the 32nd monthly Sloup hosted by the Contemporary Art Museum.

By MAGGIE NEEDHAM Staff Writer

The newest group on campus venturing into the world of a cappella is Six Eight, a group powered by their passion to combine faith and music.

Six Eight is a collaborative, co-ed effort of a group of dedicated singers that seek to fulfill a niche they found empty in the SLU community.

“It’s a niche of an a cappella group that didn’t exist,” said sophomore physical therapy major Theresa Schafer, one of the singers. “To be a successful a cappella group you need to be unique and have something about you that no other group has.”

Six Eight finds its humble roots in a Christmas caroling group formed last winter by friends in the Micah Program. After performing at a couple of events for Micah, some of the singers were eager to take their momentum and create something new.

This momentum stood the test of a long summer break, and five of the singers returned for the fall semester ready to go.

The group now insists that they do not want to be exclusively Micah in either their membership or their audience. And they aren’t – their membership is now half and half, they say. The singers speak repeatedly about their desire to reach out to a larger community and they seek to assure others that their group is not only for Catholics or Christians.

“We’re an a cappella group that sings Christian songs, not a group of Christians who happen to sing,” said Beau Guedry, a sophomore biology major. Guedry continues to say that the

group is really about singing music and having fun and they want their music to reach out to everyone.

“Our group is pretty diverse already,” adds Schafer.

“It brings an awesome dynamic when we’re choosing songs and a really powerful one when we’re performing.”

Schafer explains that the group experiences the music they’re performing not just as a performance, but also as a form of worship.

“One of the most concrete ways I connect with God is through song and through worship,” she said.

“I think that music has a way of pulling together our thoughts and our emotions at the same time.”

“To me, singing Christian music is at once an act of ministry and worship,” Guedry said.

Their name reflects their dual identity with faith and music. Schafer explained their name: “We were brainstorming ideas, and a friend came up with Six Eight, because of its musical significance – it’s a time signature – and because it’s the reference of a Bible verse which reflects our values as a group.”

The Bible verse it references is from the book of Micah: “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” However, the group does not limit itself to songs that use explicitly Christian or religious lyrics.

“We’re doing everything from classical to Top 40,” said Guedry. The connecting factor of any songs they choose to sing is a sense of spirituality. He says they want songs that have a spiritual relevance, appeal to a Christian perspective, and

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Six Eight: SLU’s newest acapella group sings with a spiritual focus.

“add to the relationship between God and human.”

Guedry and Schafer only hesitantly refer to themselves as co-leaders of the group that prides itself on its collaborative nature. Having only just begun the process of applying to be a Chartered Student Organization, the group does not yet have a clearly defined e-board.

Their ability to work together comes partly from the fact that “we’re all amateurs,” as Schafer puts it. “We’re starting blind, really. There’s no foundation for us to build off of.”

Despite that, the group has been working hard since its inception. As soon as they decided that they wanted to make their group official, they found out how often the other a cappella groups on campus rehearsed and followed suit.

They immediately began meeting together for two hours, twice a week.

“We’ve had an awesome welcome from the other a cappella groups at SLU,” said Schafer. She tells of the times the group has reached out for help or advice; the other groups on campus responded enthusiastically.

Last semester, Astha, SLU’s co-ed fusion a cappella group, invited Six Eight to perform at their concert.

The new group admits that they owe Astha a lot for providing them with their first public performance and the ability to get their name out on campus.

Six Eight’s plans for the spring semester include working on a full set list for their own concert. They will also be singing at Habitat for Humanity’s benefit concert on Feb. 7.

TOP WEEKEND EVENTS Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014 Jan. 31- Feb. 1

Street Fighting Band: A Tribute To The Rolling Stones Jan. 30, 7 p.m.

Check out all of the short films up for awards this season as the Tivoli hosts three programs: animated, live action and documentaries. Fill out a ballot for the Oscar winners and score a Tivoli gift card!

The Pageant will host the best of St. Louis’ own putting their personal spin on the hits of The Rolling Stones. With eleven members, Street Fighting Band will certainly bring an electric energy to The Pageant.

56th annual Grammy Awards Ceremony

By TAELON SMITH Staff Writer

On Sunday, Jan. 26 the 56th annual Grammy Award Ceremony took place at the Los Angeles Staples Center.

The awards were presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to honor achievements in several facets of the music industry. Hosted by rapper/ actor LL Cool J, the ceremony involved not only awards but also musical performances from some of the most popular artists of the year. This year performances included 2013 pop favorite, Lorde, Katy Perry and Robin Thicke.

The night was full of many surprises beginning with the opening perfor-

mance. Pop singer Beyoncé and her husband rapper Jay- Z performed their duet “Drunk in Love” from Beyoncé’s recently released self-titled album. Though the eligibility period for this year’s awards (Oct. 1, 2012 to Sept. 30, 2013) excludes Beyoncé’s album it sets a high standard for next year’s awards. Another surprise of the night happened during rapper Mary Lambert and Macklemore’s performance of his 2013 hit “Same Love” in which several couples of various demographics were wed in the audience. The marriages were presided by rapper/ actress Queen Latifah and ended with Madonna performing “Open Your Heart.”

Surprise winners at this year’s ceremony included Ryan Lewis and Macklemore’s (Thrift Shop, Can’t

Hold Us, Same Love) win for best new artist beating out Lorde and Kendrick Lamar and best R&B album to Alicia Keys for her album “Girl On Fire.” Along with surprises, notable performances included Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Star performing “Queenie Eye,” Metallica and Lang Lang performing “One” and Taylor Swift who impressed several music critics with her performance of “All Too Well” from her Red album. Record and album of the year winners Daft Punk’s dynamic performance of “Get Lucky” featured American favorite Stevie Wonder, guitarist Nile Rodgers and crooner Pharrell Williams. The performance incorporated several songs including Rodger’s “Le Freak” and Wonder’s “Another Star,” giving the performance a major retro feel.

Illphonics Jan. 31, 7 p.m.

The self-proclaimed re-inventors of “hip hop fusion” will be playing a free concert at the Saint Louis Art Museum this Friday night. Don’t miss the band the Riverfront Times named the best hip-hop group of 2011.

Queen Bey and Jay Z are Grammy royalty

Courtesy of Beyonce Facebook

Grammys: Beyoncé and Jay Z kicked off the annual musical awards night with a steamy performance of the hit “Drunk In Love” from her secretly released album last December.

10 SECOND RECAP OF THE 2014 GRAMMYS IN CASE YOU DIDN’T CATCH THE NIGHT’S FUN...

Beyoncé: Woah Daddy...

PHARRELL: TO CAP IT ALL OFF...

The opening act was a power-packed duet by the music industry’s most influencial couple. Not afraid to bare it all, the mother of one belted the lyrics of “Drunk In Love” while straddling a chair on center stage.

After nabbing Producer of the Year, Pharrell rocked a fresh rendition of “Get Lucky” with Stevie Wonder.

Pharrell also had social media talking about his Smokey the Bear head topper.

QUEEN LATIFAH:

BY THE POWER INVESTED IN ME...

The Grammys celebrated a first as Queen Latifah marriaged 33 couples as Macklamore and Ryan Lewis performed “Same Love” followed by Madonna’s “Open Your Heart.”

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