Archive for August, 2007

Wireless network delayed due to continued testing

Friday, August 31st, 2007 | Sam Guzik

Although installed over the summer, the residential wireless network has not yet gone live for student use because of continued testing and the implementation of a new network access control system.

“We’ve had a lot of projects going on this summer and the first priority is to make sure that the wired network is up and running so that students get the connectivity they need,” said Jan Weller, assistant vice chancellor for Network Technology Services. “Now we’re working at bringing up the wireless network a few buildings at a time.”

The components of the new network are being brought online in stages in order to help troubleshoot any potential problems.

Specifically, the wireless network will be turned on building-by-building. After the wireless network has been completely activated, the registration system for Internet will be implemented and students will be billed.

“It’s less important to have the bills going out than to have the service up,” said Weller.

Weller stressed that this method of bringing the network online is especially important because of the complexity of the system; there are over 800 access points in the new residential network.

For students beginning their work in the first few days of class, the absence of the network has caused some problems.

“I don’t feel like I should have to get up in the middle of the night and go to Bear’s Den to use wireless,” said freshman Blake McKisick. “I shouldn’t have to go to a public place.”

Other students looked forward to the start of the wireless network so that they could work more closely with their dorm-mates.

“If I go to a friend’s room to do homework and they’re both plugged in, I can’t use [the Internet],” said freshman Nick Abramson. “It’s not a big problem yet, but it could become inconvenient later in the year.”

Despite the frustration over wireless Internet, there have been few complaints to Student Technology Services regarding Internet services. Weller attributes this to the larger bandwidth available for each student this year, a change that results in faster average connection speeds.

The new network access control system, called the Bradford Campus Manager, will allow students to register their computers for wireless Internet access using the unique MAC address that is embedded in every wireless device.

Additionally, once the new system is completely functional, it will be able to provide students with extra protection against viruses by requiring them to have up-to-date virus software before using the network.

“There may be some pain associated with [the process] at first,” said Matt Arthur, director of enterprise networks. “But we want to make sure that when students are on the network, they are as safe as possible.”

Music department forces a cappella to relocate, practice off campus

Friday, August 31st, 2007 | Johann Qua Hiansen

In a controversial move orchestrated by the Washington University Music Department, all a cappella groups and applied music lessons will be relocated to the newly renovated 560 Music Center located on the Delmar Loop.

Groups were formally told on Aug. 22 that they would no longer be able to use the music building, although auditions of over 200 students will be taking place on Sept. 1 and 2.

The Music Department cites high demand for practice space by various musical as reason for the change.

“The acquisition of the new 560 Music Center, in addition to providing a strong University presence on the heart of University City’s cultural district, also relieves some of this pressure on campus facilities,” said Professor and Chair of the Music Department Dolores Pesce. “Music Classroom Building rooms will now be used solely for classroom teaching.”

A cappella groups must now rent practice space, whereas in past years they had free use of rooms in the music building. The new 560 Music Center is managed by Edison Theater and Student Union is currently negotiating with Executive Director of the Edison Theater Charles Robin to defray the costs. Funds would come from the Student Union operating budget and no student group will lose funding.

“There is a rental agreement with Student Union to provide 110 rehearsal hours per week for the a cappella groups, plus 12 weekend performances and eight weekday performances,” said Pesce.

Student Union Treasurer Marius Johnson showed optimism regarding the controversy with the a cappella groups.

“I definitely think there is a solution in sight and Student Union can work as a mediator,” he said.

The concerns of a cappella groups have been aired on a Facebook group titled, “Keep a cappella on campus!,” a group with over 150 members. Likewise, a petition is circulating among students, containing over 110 signatures, asking that the a cappella groups be allowed to practice somewhere on the main campus if not the Music Building.

“We think the frustration in the a cappella community is caused by the fact that we were told on such short notice and because we were told [the decision] was non-negotiable,” said representatives of the a cappella community in a joint statement. “But the first decision reached is rarely the correct one. There must be discussion and there must be compromise.”

The statement also called for the music department to provide a location that was “safer, more convenient, and more accessible than the location on Delmar.”

Off-campus safety stands as a chief concern, especially as groups generally practice from 8:00 p.m. to midnight.

“The Music Classroom Building has provided an advantageous location directly adjacent to the South 40, where the presence of other students and WUPD contributes to a general feeling of safety and protection,” said sophomore Kelly Rubin of the Amateurs. “Relocating to the 560 Center still poses security concerns for the many students who will have to take various means of transportation to get to an area where safety is a concern frequently cited by the University. ”

Junior Stephen Harrison of After Dark expressed similar concerns over safety.

“We are very fortunate to have a safe campus but this is not on campus,” he said.

According to Director of Student Activities Julie Thornton, the 560 Music Center will be physically guarded from 4:30 p.m. to midnight and the guard will offer to escort people to their vehicles; in addition, the Center will have electronic card swipe access, CCTV in the building and parking lots, and ample lighting.

“The University definitely is not ignoring what the students are saying,” said Thornton.

According to Director of Vocal Activities John Stewart, another key safety measure is the Green Line Shuttle Service that stops three steps away from the entrance. The shuttle arrives every half hour and will serve Mallinckrodt and the clock tower until one in the morning on weekdays. “It’s safer than walking from Mallinckrodt to the South 40,” said Stewart.

“When I talked to my parents about it, they were already nervous about me walking to the Music building from the South 40. The bus I think is too much,” said sophomore Rachel Yoon of After Dark.

Just the Facts

Friday, August 31st, 2007 | Nathan Everly

Recently, former lecturer Jerome Bauer announced the creation of Cervantes Free University, an experimental college designed to offer low-cost courses to students in the St. Louis area. What are supporters of CFU doing to ensure the school’s long-term survival?

Repeatedly watching the movie “Accepted” as a source of inspiration.

Stealing traffic detour signs and using them to steer unwitting drivers to CFU open house meetings.

Using potluck dinners as the be-all and end-all tactic for recruiting new students.

Offering free courses for life to any student who can find incriminating pictures of Chancellor Wrighton.

Promoting a free giveaway of Dr. Bauer bobblehead dolls to the first 50 students to enroll in classes.

Welcome to the costume party

Friday, August 31st, 2007 | Duncan White

The bridge over Forest Park Parkway spent the whole of last year in what appeared to be an unfinished state. After a few weeks, though, I started to worry that this was it: the chain-link fencing, the cable ties, the industrial floodlights, the sloppy-looking concrete-perhaps all of these constituted a finished design, boldly inept and resolute in its “screw you” attitude towards the hundreds of students who would trudge across its dismal span each day. It seemed implausible, and yet, if it really were still unfinished, why was it that you never once saw anyone working on it? Why did it go the entire year without making any progress?

Today, I visited the bridge for the first time since last May and part of the mystery has been resolved. The bridge had indeed been unfinished: last year was merely an extended pause on the way to an even more offensive finished design. As for the reason for this pause, I imagine that those responsible for the bridge had a delayed crisis of conscience. Perhaps the building crew laid down their equipment and refused to continue. Perhaps the chair of the construction corporation went to seek the spiritual guidance of an Eastern guru.

Whatever the case, construction has resumed, in the worst Wash. U. fashion. As the most recent buildings on campus suggest (except for those of the School of Art and Architecture, which, thank God, is allowed to play by its own rules off in its little corner of campus), Wash. U.’s commitment is to the principle that bad architecture is made good when coated in a candy shell of gothic trinkets. It is often plain horrifying to see how cynical and shallow these gothic treatments can be.

Before the latest phase in the construction of the footbridge, the most succinct statement of the University’s design policy was the parking garage that sits on the north edge of campus, wearing its gothic fa‡ade like a resentful transvestite. Whoever is responsible for that building must have felt that it was a delightfully offbeat gesture. I suppose there is a boundary between “offbeat” and “idiotic and hideous,” but those in charge have no idea where the hell it is. Just ask the Bunny.

Other buildings on campus don’t appear to be playing for laughs, but rather seem to sport their preposterous decals and concrete spires as though, by imitating the style of Princeton imitating Oxford, this would lend the school just the sort of old-world prestige that keeps the alumni donations rolling in. Not quite. Confections like the Psychology laboratories, “The Village,” and the incredibly tacky Liggett-Koenig look prestigious and old fashioned in the same way that a drunken costume party attendee wearing a cardboard mask of Charles Darwin looks prestigious and old fashioned.

And now we have the footbridge, which has just received a cladding of glittery pre-cast panels: a simple operation which, so we are to believe, has transformed a structure of humdrum clunkiness into a venerable emblem of the University’s fine traditions. These panels are made of red pebbles cemented together and textured to look like stone, with borders of zigzagging concrete. Where the span once held up on its own, the panels being affixed to its either side have half-circles cut out of them, as though a majestic arch were actually doing the structural work. You half expect that the building crew’s next move will be to festoon the thing with make-believe suspension cables.

From a great distance, the sham may be more convincing, but it’s doubtful. From close up, which is how we pedestrians are forced to experience it, the cheapness of construction is oppressive. The gluey substance that holds together the pebbles gives the surface a sheen that looks more like rhinestones than any natural material. The panels don’t quite fit together, so that there are gaps at the corners, some nearly two inches wide. In true gothic fashion, these are filled in with silicone sealant. (When I saw this, I had to prod the rubbery seam with an outstretched finger to convince myself that it was true.)

The layer of cladding has also caused the unnecessary piers that poke up on the sides of the bridge to expand in girth. Dopey and swollen, and with a slight trapezoidal tilt, they suggest a Fred Flintstone-inflected Mayan ruin. The lanterns perched on top just look silly. Throughout, the level of intelligence involved in the design is somewhat less than that which goes into the decoration of a fast food franchise. His majesty the Burger King, in all likelihood, has a more sophisticated bridge spanning his moat.

In mandating that all campus constructions adhere to a gothic style, however superficial or clumsy, the University may think that it is giving its campus an air of respectability. With buildings like this bridge, though, the University’s obsession with a clich‚d style of institutional architecture becomes a public embarrassment. Cars passing under it may slow up a little to wonder at the spectacle of a university so undermining its claim to being a serious institution.

This goes beyond “fitting in.” Just because most of the buildings on campus have notches along their roofs so that archers can safely fire arrows down at invading barbarians does not mean that a building without these notches is out of place or is not mindful of its context. Requiring that the University’s hack architect accommodate these archers in all of his commissions does not make for a unified and beautiful campus. It makes for a dull and pretentious one.

If it is prestige that the University is angling for, it ought to try to accomplish it through good design. There are plenty of talented, thoughtful architects out there (some of whom are already employed by the University as professors). But no self-respecting architect wants to work for a committee that has such a narrow idea of what a building should look like, and at the same time is (evidently) so frustratingly without taste or good sense. The gothic policy ensures that no compelling new architecture will ever go up on the Danforth campus.

“It’s like I wrote a joke that doesn’t work, and now I have to tell it for a year.” This is how Mitch Hedberg described signing a contract that he regretted. Similarly, the footbridge is like a publicity slogan gone horribly wrong. “Wash. U.: a top-flight school!” thus comes out “Wash. U.: a fly-by-night establishment engaged in a bit of medieval play-acting!” But the banner is not so easily taken down, and the University is stuck with its unintended slogan for years to come. Architecture, being permanent, is dangerous in this way. So it is disturbing to see evidence of such mindlessness in those who are responsible for putting buildings on our campus.

Duncan is a senior in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].

Sing your feelings

Friday, August 31st, 2007 | Sara Remedios
Scott Bressler

If you’ve never seen “High School Musical,” I am indescribably sad for you. I’m also super jealous, but mostly sad. It’s an experience.

If you’ve never seen “High School Musical 2,” I’m both that much sadder for and jealous of you. As much fun/torture as the first movie is, the second is just. wow.

Before I go on, let me note for the sake of my pride that I did not voluntarily sit through either movie. The first was seen during an unfortunate babysitting incident and the second, oddly enough, is how I spent the night of my 20th birthday. In neither instance was I thrilled with the choice of entertainment, but at the end of the second movie, I could finally see some of the appeal in this latest instance of pop-culture run amuck.

I went into the movie disdainful, sat through it rebelliously and walked away enraptured. I know, complex emotions for a Disney channel movie, but really, how can something that bad be so good?

The plot was predictable and linear, an awkward medley of “Dirty Dancing,” “She’s All That” and that season of “Saved by the Bell” where they moved to the beach. In essence, boy gets job with friends at resort, has ego stroked by basketball coach and acts like a douchebag, is pseudo-stalked by spoiled rich girl and redeems himself by getting staff into end of summer talent show. Oh, the joy. Not particularly gripping, I must say.

What was gripping were the intensely shallow song lyrics and awesomely brilliant/tragic choreography, particularly of the lead male (who, incidentally, is hot enough to make the movie almost worth it purely because you get to stare at him for so long). I would probably have to shoot myself were I forced to listen to the soundtrack on its own, but in the context of the movie and given license to mock freely, there’s a certain kitsch value to the whole thing. The mocking in and of itself is satisfying. Also, what was born of the mockery was, for me, the true substance of the “High School Musical 2” experience.

I was watching with my younger brothers-apparently this movie is the height of cool for those in middle school-and I have to say that nobody can mock things like a middle school boy. There’s some magical mixture of awkwardness, bravado, sarcasm and accidental humor that just makes everything so much funnier.

So, during one particularly ridiculous number in which the lead male realizes his douchebaggery and decides to reform, I commented on the fact that all of the characters seemed to sing their feelings. My baby brother (who is 12) picked up the joke and ran with it. Leaping across the living room and landing on a chair and then sliding dramatically off and to his knees on the carpet, he belted out, “I’m so MMMAAAAAAAAAAAADDDD!” He then popped up and pranced around some more, striking exaggeratingly thoughtful poses and pouting seductively/sarcastically at me, all the while chanting “angry, mad, angry, bad” in the same tone of voice freshman orientation actors use in “Choices.” He pulled my other brother (who is 14) into the routine, the two of them mimicking the romantic scenes with impossible irony, until ultimately collapsing in hysterics. I, of course, was already in fits on the floor.

I’m probably not doing justice to the story, but how do you really capture an event like that in words? You can’t. Which is why I advise everyone who has not already done so to go out and see “High School Musical 2” as soon as possible. As I said before, it’s really just. wow. Inspiring. Just remember not to take it seriously, to open yourself to all the possibilities for mockery and, last but by no means least, to sing your feelings.

Sara is a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences. She can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].

How many licks does it take?

Friday, August 31st, 2007 | Tess Croner

Making your way through college seems (so far) like licking through a Tootsie Roll Pop.

Let me explain. It’s an arduous, tiring process, sure, but it can still be pretty delicious throughout. And the reward for all your hard work is that the second half of the Tootsie Pop (your junior and senior years) promises even more (and even richer) satisfaction than all of the hardened sugar coating that preceded it. You keep licking one layer after another until you get down to the good stuff.

First layer: freshman year. Everything is new and exciting, but (for the most part) you’re still just sucking on the surface. Your classes are entry-level, your major is largely unexplored and your friends are bountiful (pre-packaged courtesy of Wash. U.’s freshman floors). You don’t have to question anything too much. You just have to get through some hard stuff; you survive all the newness and grow up a little.

Next comes sophomore year and, to me, it came as a shock. I spent a good semester mourning the loss of my freshman floor. The social scene had shifted.

We were no longer an amorphous mass of fledgling freshmen, marching boldly forward. Instead, everyone had split off into suites, tightly knit, convenient little groups. To an outsider, these cliques seemed impenetrable and, for the first time at Wash. U., I had to actually work to maintain my relationships. It was really hard, like licking the lollipop and tasting nothing but the stick.

But at the same time, my classes got exponentially more interesting. I was done with general chemistry, calculus and Writing I. For sophomore year, I could take all of the classes I really wanted to take. I started to know things I really wanted to know. Sophomore year was the first time that my education went deep.

Deep enough that now, a week into my junior year, I can almost taste the Tootsie Roll. In a number of ways, I think we’re actually closing in on what we’ve been working toward. My friends are even more spread out than before, but I’m starting to believe that there’s nothing like a little geographical separation to show you who your real friends are (and who you’d like your real friends to be).

The more you go through, work through, and experience, the better you’re able to recognize the friends that matter most and the class/major/career that turns you on. You have to keep going and accept that it takes some time and effort. There’s no crunching down hard and rushing to the prize.

You just have to trust that by the end of four years, you’ll make it to the chewy, chocolatey center of this massive freaking sucker.

Tess is a junior in Arts & Sciences and a Forum editor. She can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].

Here’s to the Class of 1984

Friday, August 31st, 2007 | Altin Sila

This summer, I decided to read George Orwell’s 1984. I know I’m about six years late, but I somehow missed reading it in high school. Anyway, I read the book while I was working my third summer at the office of a major St. Louis company.

Of course, comparisons of the book to today’s politics and government could be made, but I saw it a different way. Sitting in my lonely cubicle, reading paragraphs of the book between doing menial tasks for supervisors, I picked up on the eerie similarities between Orwell’s vision of a dystopian future and the culture of corporate life of which many of us will soon be a part.

Orwell’s world of 1984 was built upon a central concept of called “doublethink,” the act of holding two contradictory beliefs at the same time and “knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them.” I realized that this doublethink is practiced in the corporate world on a regular basis.

For example, while training for my job, we were repeatedly told to always place our customers as the top priority, serving them in the best way possible. We were also told, however, to save as much money as possible for the company and to make as much money as possible for the company.

These two beliefs inevitably clashed regularly. There were often situations where placing a customer as the highest priority would mean less in revenue for the company and so one of the two beliefs had to be abandoned. (Take a guess which one that was.) Yet somehow, everyone refused to admit that sometimes we didn’t place our customers as the top priority. Somehow, the company was able to believe that the two mindsets were compatible, while knowing full well that they were often contradictory.

As I read about “Newspeak,” the politically correct language of 1984, I was trained in the acceptable vocabulary of the company. Just like 1984, certain words and phrases were considered unacceptable because of their negative connotations, and alternate words and phrases were used to mean the exact same thing; they just didn’t sound as bad. It was called “positive phrasing.” “No” and “can’t” were removed from the company vocabulary and weren’t to be used, even if what the customer wanted or needed was impossible. Instead, we told the customer what we could do, even if, as was the case most of the time, what we could do couldn’t help out at all.

I found that the corporate world parallels the world of 1984 in more general ways too. In the company, there was essentially an “Inner Party,” those higher up in the company who knew things that those lower in the company were kept completely in the dark about. When I was promoted, I was told things that those below me didn’t know about. In fact, trainees were told that certain things were absolutely impossible when in actuality they were entirely possible, just not done very often. And of course, this was all done for their own good.

Finally, and maybe most importantly, the culture of the corporate world is very much the same as the culture of 1984. All employees’ actions are monitored-what Web sites they visit, who they e-mail, what they say on the phone and where they are. And anyone in the company is all-too-quick to turn someone else in for doing something they shouldn’t be in order to get themselves ahead.

So what I realized over the summer is that many if not most of us will be entering that world full-time after we graduate. We will have to believe in contradictory ideas, speak differently and act differently. The good news is that we still have a little time left. So, let’s enjoy our remaining time as students before we graduate and have to enter the Orwellian corporate world-the “real world” of 1984.

Altin is a senior in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].

Editorial Cartoon

Friday, August 31st, 2007 | Staff Editorial
Scott Bressler

University should consider hybrids

Friday, August 31st, 2007 | Staff Editorial

Just this year, Washington University hired Matthew Malten to serve as the assistant vice chancellor for campus sustainability. With the goal of putting the University at the forefront of campus sustainability among national universities, Malten will work towards implementing eco-friendly measures on campus.

To aid in this effort, we recommend that Washington University strongly consider implementing the use of hybrid or otherwise environmentally friendly vehicles in place of some of the service vehicles currently used on campus.

“Any decision we make on anything like that, is going to be a part of a comprehensive transportation policy for the University as a whole,” said Malten.

Under this kind of plan, new hybrids would be purchased with the goal of replacing some of the gas-only service vehicles at Washington University.

Among vehicles to consider “hybridizing” are Bon App‚tit service vehicles, maintenance vehicles and some WUPD patrol cars. Washington University-owned shuttle buses might also be upgraded to run on bio-diesel or natural gas instead of gasoline. This is an ideal way for the University to make their commitment to campus sustainability because the results would be clearly visible.

More eco-friendly vehicles will also be more affordable for Washington University students in the long run. We agree with Assistant Vice Chancellor Malten: “Part of sustainability is economic sustainability as well. That’s the side of it that often gets overlooked.”

Though environmentally friendly vehicles might cost more initially, ultimately the savings from reduced gasoline usage will make up for the higher cost and save students money.

As an example, a 2007 Chevrolet Impala LS, the make of vehicle that WUPD drives, has gas mileage of 18 miles per gallon in the city and 23 miles per gallon on the highway. A comparable vehicle, the 2007 Toyota Camry Hybrid, gets 43 miles per gallon in the city and 37 miles per gallon on the highway. Because campus police will usually be doing city driving, that means that switching vehicles would lead to an approximate increase in gas mileage of 140%-which means a decrease in the harmful effect on the environment and the money spent on gasoline by more than one and one third times.

The Editorial Board thus encourages Matthew Malten and the rest of the administration to consider, as a part of their comprehensive transportation program, the implementation of hybrid or otherwise sustainable options for vehicles, from those of Bon App‚tit to WUPD to the shuttle buses.

These innovations will not only ultimately lower costs for students but they will make the University stand out as truly committed to environmental sustainability.

Coach says football is ready to bear down

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 | Allie Wieczorek
Scott Bressler

The Washington University football squad is ready to beat last year’s 6-4 record this season. With strong returning seniors and other upperclassmen, as well as a promising new group of freshmen, a UAA championship just might be in the cards.

Head Coach Larry Kindbom, after 18 years at Wash. U., said he has been employing the war philosophies of Sun Tzu with this particular team.

“Champions win the battles,” he said, “and then they go to war.”

According to Kindbom, the Bears are ready for war.

“They’ve been so good at the prep stage that it’s hard to believe they won’t take it to the next level,” he said. “Practices are intense and it takes a lot to get through them.”

With such a large group, competition for playing time is stiff for the new freshmen. Kindbom said they are a “very talented, very spirited group” and a few will contribute early on with special teams. None of them, however, will be starting on offense or defense. While they have shown a lot of talent and promise in practice, the coach said it will be interesting to see how that translates on the field, against other teams. Kindbom said that the freshmen have especially contributed to the team by helping get the older players ready for their younger and faster opponents.

In terms of the transition and the loss of recent graduates, Kindbom chooses not to focus on the past. “Each team develops its own identity, its own chemistry,” he said. “I don’t think there’s a need to look to the past.”

He said that it is enough to have to worry and think about everyone who has not graduated yet.

“I’m just so engrossed in the people that are here right now,” said Kindbom.

Kindbom stressed the fact that every member of the team is a role player in his own way. He suggested that the guy who gets a lot of tackles in a game is just as important as the guy on the sideline cheering.

He spoke specifically about a player who graduated two years ago whose major contribution to the program was his renditions of ‘Nsync songs from the bench. Kindbom said he does not expect any more from all-conference athletes like senior Captain Mike Elliott and senior Tyler McSparin than he does from the rest of the team.

Kindbom will be relying heavily on the talent and spirit of his upperclassmen players, especially the captains. He stressed the importance of having playmakers like offensive lineman and Captain Scott Reigle, defensive backs senior Evan Mayer and junior Tommy Bawden, the defensive line triumvirate of seniors Charlie Machan, Bob Pine and Chris Rhodes, the aforementioned linebackers Elliott and McSparin, and the tight end duo of seniors Jeff Howenstein, a captain, and Dan Liebetreu, a pair Kindbom called “as a good a tandem as we have had here.”

Kindbom certainly sings the praises of captains Elliott, Howenstein and Reigle.

“They are awesome individuals,” he said. “They all add something a little bit different.”

He said they are all outstanding leaders and outstanding football players, the latter of which is especially nice because it is hardly a requisite to be captain. Kindbom also emphasized that all three captains “like to have fun” and “express themselves on the field.”

Although the coach makes it clear that this team has potential to succeed this season, there is one possible downfall.

“We have a lot of talent,” said Kindbom, “but not the experience depth we’ve had in the past.” Still, he acknowledges that the team “ups the practice level every day” and that they are “on track to get where [they] need to be.”

Kindbom predicts that some unexpected people will step up and become role players at the start of the season and the spirit of the freshmen will also work in the team’s favor.

“I hope the young guys will give us an enthusiasm base,” he said. “They have so far, but I hope they will after classes start.”

Kindbom and the rest of the team is looking forward to taking the field this Saturday, September 1, especially because it is a night game.

“I’m hoping we can pack the stadium,” Coach Kindbom said.

The season opener is against Lake Forest College at 6 p.m. on Saturday at Francis Field.

Home schedule

(all games played on Saturdays)

September 1
6 p.m.
vs. Lake Forest College

September 15
Noon
vs. Wheaton College

September 29
1 p.m.
vs. Rhodes College

October 6
1 p.m.
vs. LaGrange College

October 13
Noon
vs. University of Chicago