Student Libel The independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis since 1878 SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2023
VOLUME 144, NO. 19.5
CANINE CONSPIRATORS
Brookie and Bear Blasted for Insurrection Involvement (Scene, pg 3)
BIT.LY/STUDLIBEL
AQUARIUS VIBEZ
MOOD CHECK
YABADOOBAH OLD NAVY. (pg 3)
Check how you are feeling with your daily Martin Moodscope! (pg 4)
SPRING WILD CANCELLED
ELISE HOTTESMAN | STUDENT LIBEL
Zedd at last year’s WILD — the only WILD in a span of seven semesters from Spring 2020 to Spring 2023
Spa opening in Bauer Hall, English Dept. building facing downgrade pre war style” building should entail. The contract clarifies that the pre-war nature of the building refers not to an old-school charm, but instead to a distinct lack of windows and accessibility. “As Sach already noted, we’ve been disillusioned with the harmful rhetoric being thrown at finance majors, and we wanted to show English majors where they are on the neoliberal totem pole,” Morgan said. The new English department building will be half the size of the original one, have lower ceilings, become less accessible for people with physical disabilities to enter and navigate, and boast darker hallways than before. “The darkness was something we really wanted to emphasize in the building of the new English Department building,” Sach said. “Why have beautiful natural lighting now if you won’t be able to afford it later on in life. Don’t get used to what you can’t have.” Morgan added that the spa GRAPHIC BY CMDN MGGRD will have abundant natural light Photo of new English building. Yikes it’s gross. and stained glass windows. “It’s important for people to see what chance to network with one another they lose out on by not leaning into JROB in an environment free of students capitalism and all the glories it can TOP 25 GINGER learning about wealth inequities deliver,” he said. and systemic inequality,” Sach said. Every English and Sociology Starting next Fall, the Olin Sach elaborated on why he major who read Morgan’s quote Business School will begin believes it’s important for this immediately questioned most development on a spa facility facility to be built in the heart of words in that sentence. attached to Bauer Hall, and all campus. A senior member of the English English Department courses will “When I was a student here, department reflected on the coming be housed in a newly developed pre- thirty years ago, there was a sense changes to the English building. war style building. that business majors were more “I mean, for sure, this makes Wealthy alumni involved in important for society than everyone sense,” Jane Ausie said. “Not like Big Oil and Big Milk donated over else,” he said. “I’m worried that sense in the ‘s-e-n-s-e’ meaning of 50 million dollars for a spa and people are beginning to question the word but the ‘c-e-n-t-s’ one.” networking facility replete with five that narrative, and it’s my hope that “Wealthy donors love helping saunas, fifteen massage tables, two the implementation of this spa will the people who plan to follow in indoor pools, and a koi pond. reaffirm the respect that business their footsteps, and most of us in Gold Sach, one of the alumni school students deserve on this the basement of Duncker don’t involved in Big Oil, said that the campus.” plan on pushing money around for facility will be accessible only to The alum involved in Big Milk, a living,” Ausie said. finance majors, and Economics and Stanley Morgan, was a fraternity Student Libel reached out to fifty Strategy majors on a case by case brother of Sach’s and the two of Olin students for this article and all basis. All students with a locked in them worked on the contract to either did not respond or refused to internship at any of the Big Three build the spa on the Danforth give a comment for this piece. consulting firms will also have campus. No one from the administration access to the facility. “My day job might be in mergers was willing to comment to Student Sach spoke to the value he sees and acquisitions, but my heart lies Libel for this piece. A University in the center and why he’s looking in building spaces that bring people spokesperson sent back an email forward to this affinity space for peace and an ability to see their with a link to the jobs that the wealthy people. hard work [sic] pay off,” Morgan University has created in the “It’s important for people who said. surrounding community. will, in the future, be involved in the Their donation of the spa world of Big Something to have a detailed what a “newly developed
Kemper Art Museum to purchase 17 self portraits by Andrew Martin, store in basement archive
GRAPHIC COURTESY OF ANDREW MARTIN
A masterpiece.
HERBIE HANCOCK OFFICE PIANIST The director of the Kemper Art Museum announced last Thursday, March 23, that the museum has plans to purchase 17 self-portraits by Chancellor Andrew Martin, all painted in oil. This purchase will cost the University an expected $2 million. Many of the paintings aim to recreate canonical artworks. These works include recreations of Manet’s “Olympia” and Jaques-Louis David's “The Death of Marat”with Martin as the subject.
In one painting, Martin is shown enjoying a half-and-half with sweet potato fries in the Chancellor’s suite, a decision that he describes as “promoting healthier eating habits” among students. Martin considers this painting an important form of activism, calling it “his finest work” in a statement to Student Libel. Martin’s paintings will arrive on campus in late June and will then be transferred to permanent storage in the basement archive of the museum. The portraits can be viewed by students and the public by special request with an appointment.