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Bursting the Johnnie Bubble 03
Intramural Draft Review 04
A Meeting with Mr. May 09
Berry Good Advice 10
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The student newspaper
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editors in chief
DANNY KRAFT
GRACE TYSON
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HAYDEN PENDERGRASS
business manager
HONORE HODGSON
Photographer
HENLEY MOORE
Contributors
CHARLES ZUG
IAN TUTTLE
TOM MAY
DREW MENZER
JON BARONE
PAT BEEBY
ROBERT MALKA
TOMMY BERRY
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What Would [YOUR SEMINAR CHARACTER] Do
Think you know your seminar reading? Prove it. Each week The Gad
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us how a character or the author would respond. Send in your wittiest
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A character from your seminar is building a blanket fort in Gilliam
basement when the hurricane raging outside knocks the power out.
Bursting the
Johnnie Bubble
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Ye Olde Drafte Analysise
Well folks, it’s a new year. You should all know what that means, and if you don’t know what that means,
you should. That’s right; it’s the start of the intramural season. The seniors have graduated, and unless
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weekly sports rundown for you lovely folks, whether you’re interested in athletics or just bored.
by Jon Barone !"A‘13
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nyways, to kick this year off, I thought I’d start with a good
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old analysis of the Sophomore Draft and predictions for Frisbee looks to be their strongest sport, with Popov, Schmid,
the year. So without further ado, here’s a (relatively) unbiased and Linus Feder handling. And despite the loss of a few A Team
rundown of the teams:
basketball players, Tommy Bonn stands tall as a leader on the
court. While other sports look slightly more questionable, the
Spartans In the draft: After the departure of Paul Barysas to D@$'!-$%1(1""#(*&(3$6"(9&'*-;"!(*3"-'(7"$.%"11"1(&9(?"1*"'?"$'F(
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Santa Fe, there was really no question as to whom the Spartans No questions, the Guardians look like the team to beat.
would pick. Ian Tuttle, who has shown his prowess and ball
handling skills on the basketball court, has also emerged as far Druids In the draft: Despite having the fourth pick, the Druids
andaway the best soccer goalie in the school. Armed with a classy arguably had the most success in the sophomore draft. Not only
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Spartans in just about every sport. The men in blue also picked they also acquired multiple picks each round due to outstanding
up Hayden Pendergrass as their second pick, adding another trades. Hunter is the best soccer player in the Junior class, and his
consistent player to a team which struggled with numbers last year. leadership abilities are second to none. Furthermore, the Druids
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last year, but I wouldn’t count them out. With Tuttle in goal and whose skills and presence are quite prominent in the sport of
captain Honore Hodgson sweeping, the
basketball.
Spartans’ soccer defense will be an iron
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stronghold. But aside from that, they
draft, the Druids will hopefully be able
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court. If the Spartans can rebuild from
doubtful, but the Druids appear to be
last year and work together as a team,
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they could be a real dark horse for the
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overall championship.
Greenwaves In the draft: The reigning
Hustlers In the draft: With Tuttle gone,
champs, mindful of their virtue and
the Hustlers turned to Jordan Stearns.
winning smiles, decided to take Casey
After a powerful soccer season which
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netted him a few sick goals, Stearns
and consistent, Casey proved himself
is ready to strike again. With a steady
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presence and good vision of the basketball court, Stearns looks to has emerged as a true dark horse. As a solid team player, Casey
be a solid foundation for years to come.
will certainly bolster the Greenwaves in every sport. Second pick
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big question mark and truancy problems all around, there’s no
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question that they need participation if they’re to be any presence. win last year’s championship, it’s uncertain as to whether the
They’ll have a powerful handball team with Luke Wakeen in goal, Greenwaves can repeat their victory. They still remain favorites
but their other sports still lie in doubt. However, with a strong in handball, and with soccer and basketball anchored respectively
freshmen presence, the Hustlers could be very formidable.
by veterans Chris Krueger and Jerry Januszewski, the Greenwaves
don’t have many glaring weaknesses. Arguments can be made
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hopes of a dynasty for a oneshot season at the championship. can deny that they are a forced to be reckoned with.
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Schmid, they could be hard strapped for players in a couple years.
So, there you have it. Of course, these predictions are something
On the other hand, Schmid is an allstar player: whether handling of a crapshoot anyways, since it’s really the newcomers that make
in frisbee or playing forward on the court, Schmid is a constant or break the championship. That is to say: Freshmen, you have
threat. He’ll bolster an already impressive basketball team and the power to decide your team’s fate. So come out; you might
might actually help the Guardians win a Reason Ball game.
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CROQUET:
A Philosopher’s
Path to Glory
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s many of you freshmen, and certain
ly all of the upperclassmen, know,
croquet is kind of a big deal here at St.
John’s. As our (literally) immortal ath
letic director, Mr. Leo Pickens, said, “We
are to croquet as John Wooden and UCLA
are to men’s basketball.” Since I know
most of you didn’t come here because you
know sports trivia, I’ll spell out the anal
ogy: we’re really good.
You might ask, “How do I join this
Former Imperial Wicket Blake Myers en
joys the taste of victory with Andrew Peak
elite group of superior athletes and gentle
men?” and the answer is quite simple: play at the annual JohnnieMidshipmen Croquet
a lot of croquet. There are no tryouts, but Tournament. photo by Roger Robertson, Jr.
if you play enough croquet and get good
enough then the Imperial Wicket (captain to really get the feel of the game. It is not
of the croquet team) will pick you to be an inconvenience at all to teach people,
on the team, much like Leonidas did with because the more people we have playing
his 300 Spartans. [Editor’s Note: make croquet, the better our team will be.
sure I’m not confusing Herodotus with
In years past, freshmen have started
300.] It’s that simple; you spend enough playing in the fall shortly after school starts
time playing an awesome lawn game, and and continue to play throughout their stay
you will get to play that lawn game for here at St. John’s, but in the last two years
your personal glory and the glory of your a disturbing pattern has emerged. In my
school.
freshman year, no one seriously played
Despite the simplicity of the situation, I croquet until late in the spring and last
can’t tell you how
year; there were
many people have
freshman at
All you have to do is go down no that showed
told me they want
all
to the front lawn when some interest in play
to play croquet,
but for some rea
ing. This short
people are playing croquet
son, can’t. It of
age of upcoming
and ask them to help you get players means
ten comes down
to people saying
one thing: if you
started...
that they don’t
really want to,
feel comfortable
you have a very
playing croquet while the team is there, good chance of getting on the team this
but let me assure you, we want you to year.
play croquet. All you have to do is go
For you upperclassmen who still
down to the front lawn when some people haven’t joined, you still can get on the
are playing croquet and ask them to help team and play. For the sophomores who
you get started, and unless you’re unlucky had such a disappointing turnout last year,
enough to have asked Eric Shlifer, they’ll this is your chance; I didn’t start playing
help you set up and get started. Or, if you seriously until my sophomore year. And
!"#$$%&'#()&)*&$"#!(+&,(-&.*/"*("&*(&)0"& for the freshmen, this is your chance to
croquet team (and don’t say you don’t quickly join and excel at the greatest of
know anyone on the team, I am on it, so St. John’s traditions. Because after all, we
send me an email if you want to play) are not the St. John’s of basketball fame,
and have them play a full game with you we are the St. John’s of croquet fame.
05
ON PERMANENCE
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reshmen: Hey, hello, welcome, etc.
A new beginning is a thrilling thing.
Savor, cherish—be immersed. No matter
where you’re coming from, the place
you’ve arrived is unlike it.
As a freshman I would have been
annoyed and mildly offended to be told
that St. John’s would help me realize what
aspects of myself I wanted to shed. But that
is what I want to say to you. People say this
all the time—about St. John’s and about
college generally—but they usually put
it a different way: St. John’s college will
change you. This is true, but it’s a cliché,
and the deceptive thing about clichés is that
you are so sure you know what they mean
that you don’t pay all that much attention to
what they are saying. If St. John’s is going
to change you, and that’s supposed to be a
good thing, then there must be something
defective about you—something that ought
to be changed.
But this is not quite what I mean. I do not
mean that you are stupid and St. John’s will
make you smarter, that you are lazy and
St. John’s will make you work harder, that
you are vicious and St. John’s will make
you virtuous. I mean that you are a human
being with qualities, opinions, and habits.
And if you not only attend St. John’s, but
immerse yourself in it, you are likely to
gain a fuller understanding of what those
are and which ones you’d like to keep and
which you’d like to leave behind.
Why? I think St. John’s demands this
selfexamination and selfconscious
metamorphosis both because of the way in
which it is a general thing and the way in
which it is a thing unique. Whether you’re
coming from high school or another college
or somewhere else, coming to a new school
is a fundamental paradigm shift. New
people, new setting, new experiences.
You will make a million tiny choices, each
boiling down to: adapt or abide; change or
remain. In the classroom, the Program will
demand that you confront your prejudices
and preconceptions.
You will change and you will not. The
person you will become is important, but
more important is how the changes you
undergo will reveal to you what it is that
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from what you think to whom you love.
Consider this new beginning a step toward
fully knowing what it is about yourself you
want to persist, what makes up the core of
you. Hold on to that. And be excited to see
what becomes of the rest of you.
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ne of the great things about the Annapolis campus of St.
John’s is that it’s situated right in the heart of the downtown
area. This gives us access to some truly delicious—though often
depressingly expensive—places to eat and drink. Each restaurant
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A tutor for over 30 years, former Freshman Chorus leader, and a native Marylander
with a passion for history and architecture shares his thoughts with @&(#A!3>56
How did you come to be a tutor?
most egregiously leaving out the
I came here as a tutor in fall 1979,
very center of the poem, Books VI
having taught medieval and early
and VII, which tell of the Battle of
modern philosophy, ethics and aes
Heaven (Milton’s Iliad) and the Cre
thetics full time for six years at what
ation. This is tantamount to leaving
is now Loyola University of Mary
out the principal battle books from
land, and during two of those years
the Iliad, or Odysseus’ journey to the
also teaching a philosophy class each
Underworld from the Odyssey.
term at Goucher College. I greatly
enjoyed my classes and my students
What is your least favorite semi
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tends to ask questions more broadly
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than the conventions of departmen
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be condescending and intrusive, and
ceived as trespassing regularly on
I cordially dislike Dorothea Brooke,
the turf of the art department or the
Casaubon, Tertius Lydgate, Rosa
music department or the lit depart
mond, etc. This is not meant to be
ment, etc.. Then a colleague of mine
sensational but merely honest; my
at Loyola told me that he had no
family told me that to evade this
ticed that St. John’s had openings for
question would be as “wussy” as
new tutors, so I applied; I’ve been
President Obama.
here ever since and have never looked back. Also new that year
were Ms. Higuera, Mr. Tuck, and Mr. Lenkowski, a great group What is your favorite nonprogram book?
of colleagues.
My favorite nonprogram work is Boethius’ Consolation of Phi
losophy, a book set like Plato’s Crito in prison, calling upon phi
What classes are you teaching this year?
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I am leading three freshman classes: language, laboratory, and unjustly condemned to death. I used always to read this with the
seminar, the last with Ms Silver.
philosophical survey classes I taught at Loyola and Goucher. Ra
belais’ Gargantua used to be in the program but has been dropped,
What was the biggest adventure you’ve ever had?
perhaps to appease the prudish; many of us would like to see it
My biggest recent adventure was climbing the scaffolding of the restored.
Maryland State House all the way up to the golden acorn holding a
Franklin lightning rod at its apex (181 dizzying feet above Annap What is your biggest pet peeve (that students do) in class?
olis). I’m a native Marylander with a passion for American history My biggest frustration is students who are not engaged with the
and architecture, and was invited to make this ascent by a friend work that we are doing, whether it is benchwork in the laboratory,
who is a conservator consultant on the dome restoration project.
discussion in all our classes, or singing in chorus. To stand apart
purposely is to discourage the common endeavor and to miss the
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like to give to freshmen (or upperclassmen)?
and never bring a handkerchief.)
Strive for balance and consistency in all things here; studies, phys
ical exercise/sport, and extracurricular activities. Do not neglect What is your favorite St. John’s tradition?
the people and things you most love, especially your longtime My favorite tradition is the relatively new one of closing the Se
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cervus, Mozart’s Ave verum and Gluck’s Chorus of Furies.
What is your favorite seminar book?
My favorite book, period, is John Milton’s Paradise Lost, cer
tainly the greatest epic in the English language and possibly any
language. Despite this, here at Saint John’s we do ourselves and
this great work an enormous disservice in reading it only in part,
What is your favorite class to be a tutor for?
Freshman Chorus; it is where the freshmen truly become a class
through the mysterious communion effected by singing together.
There is no other college, not even any musical conservatory, that
does anything like this with all of its students.
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Berry Good
Advice with
Tommy Berry
Junior Santa Fe transfer
and advice columnist gives
his advice on any of life’s
many problems. Send your
maladies, predicaments, or
conundrums to:
thomas_berry@earthlink.net
Dear Tommy,
We are two roommates who normally
get along quite well, but lately we’ve
been having a dispute, and we decided
to let you settle it. Through a long and
complicated series of events, we have
come into the possession of a foosball
table. The problem is, we can’t decide
which side of the room to put it in.
One of us had to do a lot of bad things
to get this foosball table, and feels like
he deserves to have it, but his side of
the room is already crowded, and his
roommate feels like it would be more
practical for everybody if the table was
put in his own, larger space. Can you
settle this?
Sincerely,
2 Guys, 1 Table
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Dear 2 Guys,
Let me tell you a story about a situation
very much like yours. There were once
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of a baby, and these women came to a
king named Solomon and asked what
they should do. He replied that the
only fair thing to do would be to cut
the baby in half. Now, I don’t know if
you’re familiar with the phrase “wisdom
of Solomon,” but he was a pretty smart
dude. Solomon was trying to teach all
of us a lesson, one that applies even
today: Chop that sucker in half. It’s the
only possibly fair solution. Everything
else would be idiotic. Half a baby is still
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half a foosball table is perfect for hours
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Dear Tommy,
I’ve been feeling horrible lately. Nothing
in my life is going right. I’d give you the
details, but what could you do to help?
You’re just a pathetic, wannabe advice
columnist who’ll never make it big. You
disgust me.
Sincerely,
Yourself, Tommy Berry
!
Dear Me,
Uh oh, looks like someone wrote
himself an email while he had a case of
The Saddies. Now, what did I tell myself
about mixing “Computer Time” and
“Crying Time?” Never a good idea. My
advice to me is keep that rage less public;
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Dear Tommy,
Lately I’ve gotten into the bad habit of
showing up late to everything. Late to
class, late to events, late to study groups.
Do you have any tips or tricks for how I
can be more punctual?
Sincerely,
JohnnyComeLately
!
Dear Lately,
Time is a funny thing. I recently came
to the realization that it’s completely
irrelevant what time it is now, what
matters is what time it will be when
I arrive where I’m going. If I’m in my
dorm room and it takes 2.5 minutes to
walk to class, I set my watch 2.5 minutes
ahead. But the problem is that sometimes
I’m going to the creek, and then I have to
set my watch 6 minutes ahead, or maybe
I’m taking the bus to the mall and I have
to set it 20 minutes ahead. I thought I had
found a solution to this problem when
a kindly old gypsy woman offered to
enchant my watch so it always showed
exactly when I’m going to reach where
I’m going. But wouldn’t you know it,
there’s a typical gypsywoman twist, and
now my watch is forever frozen in place
on the exact moment when I’m going to
die, which frankly creeps the Bejeesus
out of me, and I rarely wear it anymore.
So I would, as a rule, say you should
avoid buying gypsy timepieces.
On “Art of
Our Time”
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ne of the themes common to many
of the works in “Art Of Our Time,”
the Mitchell Gallery’s current exhibit, is
transition: transition in epoch and style
through struggle from old to new.
Two portraits, together straddling a
corner of the gallery, immediately caught
my eye as examples of this theme. I
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Frank Duvenek, because of its coldness.
The subject, a woman, is dressed in once
stylish clothing that, even in the context of
the painting, seems outmoded, dark, and
drained of vitality. The woman’s skin and
countenance that appear most drained; her
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painting also seems devoid of anything
organic; her eyes lack any glint of clarity,
and the background is a hideous shade of
green, without robustness or detail. And
because the background is so shallow and
dim, we are not drawn into the painting;
instead we are feel a certain shallowness;
our eyes stop immediately at the surface.
In contrast, the second portrait represents
ascending vitality: it is “Gregorita With
The Santa Clara Bowl,” by artist Robert
Henri. Immediately, one is struck by the
work’s richness and honesty. The girl sits
for a portrait, but there is much more at
which to wonder. A brief conversation with
the artistic director, Lucinda Edinberg,
revealed to me that Henri’s use of the
Native American subject was a very new,
very bold artistic move. Before Henri’s
time, Native Americans were deemed
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portraiture. But when he chose to paint this
portrait, Henri breathed new vitality into
the genre. Instead of the jaded, impersonal
gaze of the bourgeoisie, we experience the
innocence and freshness of the subject.
There is no shallowness to “Gregorita.”
Everything is whole and round, and the
pallet is rich in its golden earthiness. With
Henri we are drawn to honesty, warmth,
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“New World”. Both artists fully explore
their subjects; old forms feel the chill of
dusk, and new forms feel the warmth and
pregnancy of day.
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REFLECTIONS
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regime by the Libyan rebel forces, China
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free from previous rule. Yet not rapid stabilization in Libya and a
all are content with that result.
swift course towards reconciliation
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now proclaiming unequivocal success Foreign Minister Jiechi in a ministry
in Libya, China laments the recent release.
decentralization of power. Revealing
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plenty of insecurity, China’s media Beijing in several ways. It manages
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forms of government as strong, yet again, which they cannot afford
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unimultipolar system,
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stability in Libya, with determined to the United States has
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fall. Xinhua, a Chinese on Libya
provides them a cheaper
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energy source.
the reconstruction effort
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as an opportune time for the west for all of its cognizance of a power
to swoop in and steal yet another vacuum—may fail to make up for
country from everybody else.
its original attitude towards the
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mark on Libya. In addition to the condescension (as China seems wont
already ambitious job of reunifying +2& !2=A& 1+& $1((& ,2$& 5#7)& +2& $2"@&
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U.N.
temporarily defer to the United States
China is “willing to work alongside to get what it wants.
ately I have noticed a certain question lurking
behind me. I bump into it on a plane ride, in
a checkout line, at home. It rarely approaches me
in the same mask, but it always drives at the same
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question thrusts itself on me every chance it gets,
so it was not surprising that it was on my mind one
hot July day last summer. I had been working on
a farm in Sabetha, Kansas, doing odd jobs. That
day I had been cutting trees, repairing machinery,
and mowing the lawn. I had discovered that
several hours I spent on the mower were eased
by headphones tucked under big earmuffs and
playing Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, The Avett
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doing my job well, an appreciation independent
of the job’s prestige or salary. Instead it comes out
of competence and success in the task at hand.
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UPCOMING
EVENTS
Tuesday (9/6):
SJC Orchestra Rehearsal, 4 PM
Great Hall
Kunai Soccer, 46 PM
Back Campus
Mental Health Support Group
6:307:30 PM
Mellon Hodson Room
Dance Lessons, 89 PM
Great Hall
Wednesday (9/7):
Ultimate Frisbee, 4 PM
S vs. G
W vs. D
Back Campus
St. John’s Chorus, 7 PM
Great Hall
Friday (9/9):
Kunai Soccer, 46 PM
Back Campus
Lecture 8:15 PM
Prof. Paolo Palmieri on
Galileo’s Inclined Plane
Experiment
FSK Auditorium
Saturday (9/10):
Ultimate Frisbee, 2 PM
D vs. H
W vs. G
Back Campus
Sock Hop Waltz Party, 10 PM
Great Hall
Sunday (9/11):
Soccer
H vs. G, 1:30 PM
S vs. W, 3:30 PM
Mabel the Swimming Wonder
Monkey, 8 PM
Spector Media Center
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on the weekly schedule, please
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by Danny Kraft !"EIC"!"A‘13
I
spend too much time on Facebook, but Facebook relationships are the opposite:
this hardly makes me unique—a recent through no risk and no effort, I can foster
study found that 48% of 18 to 34 year old “friendships” with hundreds of people, but
Americans check Facebook as soon as they I gain nothing substantial from doing so.
wake up, and the average user spends at
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hallmarks of human experience. How many
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of us, especially once we’re accustomed both physical and spiritual, and loneliness
to
seriously
is one of the
e x a m i n i n g A wall post, a “like,” or an
most
powerful
ourselves, have
hungers I’ve ever
occasional chat conversation
not at some point
experienced. But
become painfully does not constitute a friendship. Facebook offers
aware of our own I often have to remind myself
nothing substantial
solitude?
that, as connected as I feel to so enough to satisfy
This sense of
l o n e l i n e s s ;
alienation has been many people, this connection is it provides a
a powerful and in many ways an illusion.
hollow imitation
pervasive presence
of
friendship,
in my life, and
not
meaningful
though it’s rarely discussed I’m convinced enough to provide sustenance, but tempting
that nearly everyone experiences it. But enough to distract us from how lonely we
loneliness is unpleasant, so it’s only natural really are.
that we avoid it at all costs. We have all
I don’t deny that Facebook can be a
sorts of mundane ways of doing this, and good thing. There are people I care about
we employ most of them without realizing, scattered all over the world, from my many
but I’m convinced that Facebook is the friends in the Middle East to the girl who
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in love with her. I’m happy that I have an
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greeted with the illusion of companionship, how in touch am I really? A wall post, a
and how easy it is to forget that it really is “like,” or an occasional chat conversation
an illusion. Most of my Facebook “friends” does not constitute a friendship. I often
aren’t my friends at all; friendship is rare have to remind myself that, as connected
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the push of a button to create. Meaningful is in many ways an illusion. I’m still sitting
relationships are risky and frightening, but alone, staring in silence at a little glowing
with this risk comes a tremendous reward. screen.
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THE
GADFLY
Freshmen’s First Perspectives 04
9/11: Ten Years Later 05
The GIUndergrad Divide 07
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The student newspaper
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Facebook Has a Function:
A Response to “Facebook and Loneliness”
by John Farrell A’13
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it were well taken, I cannot in good imitation of friendship.” It provides
conscience say that they were perfectly well something entirely separate: new ways to
thought out. Facebook serves a legitimate connect and communicate with other people
purpose in our new society, and this that never existed before. Never have
purpose is one that can only be understood we been able to say simple things, share
within its proper context. Its users are (or pictures, and disseminate our thoughts to
at least should be) aware that its scope any of the people we have connctions to
and powers are limited. Although it can across the entire world with such ease.
provide little in the way of actual human No, Facebook is not “substantial enough
connection, what we must remember is that to satisfy loneliness,” but it isn’t supposed
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that we make use
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of it. I know that
candy is not food, human connection.
otherwise never be
and this is something
able to connect to.
of which I am well
In truth, I am
informed when choosing how best to make speaking more about globalization as a
my meals.
whole than this simple social network.
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though a common phenomenon, is not the we can learn a great deal. It is a good thing
technology’s fault. Rather, it is a misuse #56#(/$(567$(.%$6#$%8(16'#$%8()*%$($1,9-$"#(
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of Facebook is largely that we craft our is often out of context, but we as users are
experience ourselves. Facebook is a device aware of this fact, and are not worsened for
that follows the orders and input of its it, because of the totality of our knowledge
users. If most of your online friends are and our persistent willingness to learn and
people you rarely interact with, how is that experience. Facebook is not good or bad.
something you can blame on anyone but It is a tool with growing and unexplored
yourself?
uses, a tool that we all have a part in using
Ultimately, the point of the technology for good things.
CAMPUS MAIL
Accupuncture Returns
Dear Polity,
Niall Sheehan, acupuncturist, will
be returning to campus by popular
demand. Just come to the Harrison
Health Center on October 5 between
9 AM and 1 PM and enjoy the
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use of this great service. Donations
are requested to support his continued
work.
Bernadette Zorio
Counselor
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the anniversary of September 11, 2001 and
the decade that followed, noting the impor
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eptember 11th again. Hohum. It seems to roll around each want to relive it—the pain, the chaos, the fear. But on September
year without any particular fanfare. Perhaps we gather, in 11, it is not enough simply to bring those events to mind. To re
town squares or churches. Maybe we pray. At the least, we take member is to return to the day and feel, again, the vulnerability of
brief note of the date: “September 11th—tragic.” It brings to mind a country attacked, the moral outrage, the unity of a nation reeling
images of the World Trade Center pouring smoke, ashcovered as one.
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American soldiers overseas, spilled blood and treasure. With worked not against a particular political party or electoral caucus
the tenth anniversary and the dedication of the 9/11 Memorial at but against the United States of America as a whole. We remember
Ground Zero, this year certainly saw more than the usual coverage. that, on that day, every individual death left a gulf in the nation,
But it did not change the fact that, for most of us, many of whom not just in isolated families or cities. We remember why we com
were still in elementary school in September 2001, the events of mitted ourselves to rooting out those responsible and ensuring that
that day are distant, detached, over there somewhere. And that nations like Iraq and Afghanistan would no longer protect those
sense of separation only increases with the years.
conspiring against American lives.
Even so, we have not forgotten. If any event is shared in our
September 11th awakened the West to a new cultural fault line,
nation’s memory, it is the attacks of September 11. So why are we no longer an Iron Curtain patrolled by blackbooted infantrymen,
continually told to remember?
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Are we remembering the 2,977 dead? Their families and friends tions, so that weapons to maim and murder are now assembled
remember them everyday; they don’t need
in basements instead of munitions fac
a special day each year to feel the chasm of If any event is shared in our
tories. And it awakened the West to a
death. Are we remembering the patriotism
nation’s memory, it is the attacks new type of ideological warfare, no
that swept the United States in the days
longer the tiptoeing diplomatic dance
of September 11. So why are we of SovietAmerican relations, or the
that followed? Sure, but we harbor no de
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silverscreen size they were that day—the way that they deserve
There are major policy questions that will determine the future
to be remembered. The acuteness of the memories of September of America’s presence in the war against terror. What is to be done
11th has been dulled by the fatigue of two wars, bitter political di with Pakistan? Will the Arab Spring promote or deter the growth
visions, and staggering economic challenges. What remembering of AlQaeda in the Middle East? What about the new cells break
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something of a drone, the sights missing a dimension, color, some like the Fort Hood massacre, the attempted Christmas Day 2009
thing.
airline bombing in Detroit, or the foiled 2010 Times Square car
We “remember.” But it’s distant. Remembering is losing its bomb?
potency.
These questions are vital, but they are the daytoday territory
So we must mean something different when we say, “We re of White House brains, congressional leaders, and the intelligence
member.” We do not intend to remember that day like we remem community. The duty of those with 9to5 lives is smaller, quiet,
ber what we ate for breakfast or what we wore yesterday or a con and personal—though perhaps not any easier.
versation with a friend last week. It is stronger. This is a different
It is to remember. We are not obligated to agree with every
kind of memory. On September 11 to remember means to relive. political or military decision; we are only bound to remember that,
That suggestion might seem macabre. September 11th remains for one decade ago, an America at peace was, without provocation,
the nation, and for so many individuals, an open wound. We don’t struck and awoken to a new, active evil in the world. When we re
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last name. People talk about him on campus and it frustrates me each
time I hear my name that this other guy has. What am I supposed to
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Dear Heathryn,
Boy, that sure sounds awful. I can hardly imagine anything worse than
that. Oh wait, I can think of one thing: arriving on an unfamiliar campus
as a freshfaced and wellmeaning newcomer, trying your best to adjust
and make friends, and then suddenly being accused of theft by someone
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steal your name without you ever catching a glimpse of me. I suppose
that makes me quite the cat burglar, doesn’t it, Heathryn? Well, I’ve got
news for you. Unless you were born before March 15, 1989, I’ve had
this name longer than you have.
Since your charge of theft has now been thoroughly discredited,
here’s an alternate theory: You’ve had two years to grow complacent
and secure in your role as the only Berry on campus, and now a little
competition has suddenly made you more nervous than a cranberry on
Thanksgiving. But that’s the funny thing about Berries: the more of
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would you have me do, call my column “Tommy Good Advice”? As it
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its existence, but then I realized that “Berry Good Advice” had been
staring me in the face the whole time, and that “Tommy Good Advice”
was stupid and made no sense. So I’m not going back to that.
I have to say, Heathryn, that I’m not upset as much by your spurious
accusations as I am by your ingratitude. I’ve made your name famous,
and this is the thanks I get? My advice to you is to stop feeling like
such a blue Berry, and make the best of your currant situation. Sharing
a name with a famous advice columnist is something you should be
proud of. Not everyone can be Ann Landers. Sometimes, you have to
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through the vestibule into the congregation area, one
realizes immediately that dark, heavylooking wood
predominates at eye level and below. This is perfectly
acceptable; however, the wood ensemble continues all
the way from the pews into the high altar, which is itself
entirely wrapped in the darkness of wood. The awesome
Christ image itself – which ought to gather attention
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to the rafters in order to see that St. Anne’s sojourn into
the age of Henry ended before it even began. The ceiling
itself is an absolutely beautiful shade of blue, outlined
by lovely white moldings, and above the high altar is
painted a wonderful sky scene of clouds and stars. The
stained glass windows are delicate and pristine, intricate
and tasteful, and in the afternoon sunlight they are tinged
with a mellow green hue. The small buttresses that line
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everything below heavy and brown, which made me
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design.
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war, it is important to note that this is not an abstract question. In 1945
the Naval Academy made a proposal to buy our campus, and the Senate
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60 College Avenue
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Assistant Editors
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UPCOMING DEMOCRACY AT ST. JOHN’S
EVENTS
Tuesday (9/20)
SJC Orchestra Rehearsal
Great Hall, 45:30 PM
Kunai Soccer
Back Campus, 46 PM
Americans in the Autumn
General Hartle Room
7:309:30 PM
Dance Lessons
Great Hall, 89 PM
Gaming Club
Coffee Shop, 8:3011 PM
Wednesday (9/21)
Ultimate Frisbee
Back Campus, 4 PM
D vs. G and S vs. H
St. John’s Chorus
Great Hall, 7 PM
Friday (9/23)
Alumni Soccer Game
Back Campus, 4 PM
W & K vs. Alum.
Lecture
FSK Auditorium, 8:15 PM
Bill Charlap Jazz Trio Concert
Saturday (9/24)
Homecoming Waltz Party
Great Hall, 9:30 PM
Mental Health Support Group
BBC Room 109,10:3011:30 AM
Sunday (9/25)
Soccer
S vs. H, 1:30 PM
D vs. G, 3:30 PM
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Lower Level BBC, 7 PM
Mabel the Swimming Wonder
Monkey, 8 PM
Spector Media Center
If you would like to see your event
on the weekly schedule, please
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As one of America’s longstanding institutions, St. John’s has sup
ported and discussed democracy as part of its curriculum. However,
many students don’t know about their own form of democracy and
selfgovernance: The Delegate Council.
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n light of the SCI’s newest seminar women are permitted to use the common
series, Americans in the Autumn, I’d like rooms together in Campbell, Humphreys,
to take this chance to talk about our own and Pinkney between 10 AM and curfew,
little piece of America: St. John’s.
and in the dormitories between 12:30 PM
One of the primary concerns of a "+#& 247<(83& E4F1(2)& )6& <47)9(7& .(,*0.")*6+>&
St. John’s education is citizenship. )9(&0(26+#&$667&6<&G"+#"..&09"..&F(&2.60(#&
From Pericles’ Funeral Oration to the to men.” While we may not be able to
Constitution of this great country, we learn identify with these exact circumstances,
about what it means to be a citizen and a it’s important to realize that a law such as
patriot. To me, citizenship is not simply the one quoted above was the result of one
being labeled a member of a group, but group of students seeking protection under
actually and actively participating in the Polity Law. In this case, women needed a
governance (in this case, the descision guarantee of privacy, so the Polity made a
making) of that group. Putting aside the law to ensure this. (Interestingly, the sleep/
lack of political discourse at this college, study law was in the original set of Polity
I would like to call our attention to the Laws and will have its 52nd anniversary this
lack of citizenship at St. John’s. How do May.)
we, who consider ourselves to be Johnnies
Every day, all around campus, students
and therefore citizens of this great college, talk about issues that arise in their lives.
govern ourselves?
Each year, complaints are heard about our
The answer: poorly. It
dining services. My freshman
is clear to me that we all We have a Delegate year, there was a big stir about
take pride in the Program. Council not simply the campus internet. This
Whether or not we take pride to disburse funds to year, printing charges and
in ourselves and our student
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body remains unclear. Why student clubs, but
are the big changes that
is it that when there is a call also to help govern students are uncomfortable
for representation, almost our student body.
with. Has anyone thought
no one answers it? Do we
to solicit the student body’s
think that there is no need
collective opinion on these
for a student government at St. John’s issues? Has there been any effort on the part
College? Do we not care enough about the of the student body to voice their concerns
state of our Polity to affect change from in a collective manner? No, there has not.
within it?
And I would like to know why.
I recently had the pleasure of peering
We have a Delegate Council not simply
into the archives of one of St. Johns’ most to disburse funds to student clubs, but also
storied tutors, Ms. Barbara Leonard. (Ms. to help govern our student body. Whether
5(6+"7#&8"0&)9(&:70)&;("+&6<&=6-(+>&+68& this means representing their interests
known as the Assistant Dean, and a winter to the administration and to the outside
holiday party is named in her honor.) world or helping to maintain order through
?-6+,0)&9(7&)9*+,0>&@&<64+#&)9(&A(7%&:70)& Polity Law, the D.C. has the power to be
Polity Constitution of St. John’s College in the most effective tool for ending campus
Annapolis, penned in 1960. In many ways, complaints and actualizing what we want
the Constitution of 1960 is quite similar to to happen. So next time you see something
647&2477(+)&A(70*6+3&B9(&0*,+*:2"+2(&6<&)9*0& that as a student (and citizen) of this
historical document, however, lies in its college you would like to address, talk to
differences from our modern one. The Polity your Delegates as well as your friends! We
of 1960 was one that saw the usefulness want to help represent your interests, but
of an autonomous student body. This was we cannot do this unless you, the citizens
+6)& .6+,& "<)(7& 86-(+& 8(7(& :70)& "#-*))(#& of St. John’s, help us.
to the college, and issues were starting to
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arise between the sexes. Accompanying ourselves. Talk to your class Delegates and
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A Response to Mr. Dudik 04
Who is Speedo Man? 05
Scylla and Charybdis 10
The Speed of Sound in Seminar 12
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“I was attached to this city by
the god—though it seems a
ridiculous thing to say—as upon
a great and noble horse which
was somewhat sluggish be
cause of its size and needed to
be stirred up by a kind of
.
It is to fulfill some such function
that I believe the god has placed
me in the city. I never cease to
rouse each and every one of
you, to persuade and reproach
you all day long and everywhere
I find myself in your company.”
Plato, The Apology
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02
Let’s Go for a Spin.
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Ultimate Frisbee game.
The student newspaper
of St. John’s College.
60 College Avenue
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
gadfly@sjca.edu
editors in chief
DANNY KRAFT
GRACE TYSON
Assistant Editors
NATHAN GOLDMAN
IAN TUTTLE
Layout Editor
HAYDEN PENDERGRASS
business manager
HONORE HODGSON
Photographer
HENLEY MOORE
Contributors
CHARLES ZUG
LUCY FERRIER
TOMMY BERRY
BONNIE BRUMBAUGH
JON BARONE
CAMERON PELTZ
JOSH SNYDER
BOETHIUS FONTAINE
PAINTER BOB
ROBERT MALKA
JONATHAN WHITCOMB -DIXON
CATHERINE HOISINGTON
Founded in 1980, The Gadfly is the
student newspaper distributed to over
600 students, faculty, and staff of the
Annapolis campus.
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responsibility of the author(s). The Gadfly reserves the right to accept, reject,
and edit submissions in any way necessary to publish the most professional,
informative, and thought-provoking
newspaper which circumstances at St.
John’s College permit.
Articles submitted will be edited for
grammar, punctuation, and spelling in
most cases. The Gadfly is not obligated
to publish all submissions except under
special circumstances.
The Gadfly meets every Sunday at 7 PM
in the lower level of the Barr-Buchanan
Center.
Articles should be submitted by Friday
at 11:59 PM to Gadfly@sjca.edu.
letter from
the editors
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or every issue of !"#$ %&'(), the is antiphilosophical, and threatens the
editorial staff makes countless foundations of the St. John’s program. If
decisions, but no decision can please we’re unwilling to respond rationally to
everyone. It’s never our intent to upset our those we disagree with, how can we hold a
fellow polity members, but sometimes a successful seminar?
little upsetting is inevitable.
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political content we’ve published in the last 8*$ )'55$ ,.0%'0-*$ %.$ <-+5'(&$ (-,&$ "4%',5*(>$
two issues. Students have approached us on to do otherwise would be a betrayal of
the Quad and sent us angry
the legacy of !"#$ %&'()*+
emails, all to express their If you have a
namesake. It would be a
“disappointment”
that complaint against
betrayal of our purpose to
!"#$ %&'()$ is publishing
spur the polity into action,
perspectives that some !"#$%&'(), we
or at the very least, into
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did you print the article
If you have a complaint
if you opposed its views
against !"#$ %&'(), we
so much, and if you knew so many others would like to hear it. However, we stand
would too?” we’ve been asked.
by our decisions to print controversial
This is ridiculous. Do you want us to articles, regardless of our own views on the
be tyrants, only publishing material with subject at hand. In this issue, you will even
which we wholeheartedly agree? Do you 102$ ?2'%.4$ @"0'*5$ A4"/%B($ 4*(<.0(*$ %.$ C"0$
want us to refuse to print anything unless Tuttle’s most recent column, in which he
the majority of the polity will share its disagrees with Mr. Tuttle’s stance.
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how we want to run !"#$%&'().
views about the articles we publish. If you
Our college is intellectually diverse, don’t like something in !"#$ %&'(), the
and this is one of the best things about best thing to do is to write your own article,
'%6$ 8*$ (&.-52$ (":.4$ <*4(<*,%':*($ %&"%$ )*$ send a letter to the editor, or come to our
oppose, and use them as opportunities meetings, which are every Sunday at 7 PM
to start conversation—to do otherwise in the lower level of the BBC.
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03
What Would [YOUR SEMINAR CHARACTER] Do
Last week, we shockingly had no responses to this feature. Want to try
again? Once again, this is how it works: !"#$%&'() staff comes up
with a scenario; using a recent seminar text, tell us how a character or
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25 words or less. Next week’s scenario is:
Your seminar character is asked to dance by an
overzealous alum at Homecoming. Their response?
Relive and Remember; Don’t Forgive and Forget
A Vindication for “Bursting the Johnnie Bubble” and 9/11 Remembrance
by Hayden Pendergrass A’14
A
t St. John’s we are always urged to think deeper about what that day (and perhaps the past decade) doesn’t bring the same tears
we read: Is there more to Plato’s Republic than ancient to our eyes. This problem, I believe, is what Mr. Tuttle’s article
communism and cave dwelling? Is Ptolemy’s Almagest something intended to expose and what Mr. Schum’s aimed to excuse. Mr.
different from an outdated nincompoop doodling with contrived Schum’s message is not to relive and remember; it is to forgive
circles? Essentially, we are asked to consider whether there is and forget.
more than meets the eye about the content that we read day in and
So when faced with the implications of the last decade, namely
day out as part of the Program.
the growth of domestic and international terrorism aimed at
But this consideration many times escapes us when we peer American citizens and the citizens of the world, we must ask
outside of our “Johnnie Bubble.” When faced with a world full ourselves, as Americans, how we are to recognize the importance
of Glenn Beck’s (or is it Mr. Tuttle’s) “blatant
of three thousand lives lost in a single day
fearmongering” and “tired rhetoric,” as Mr. To address Mr. Schum’s
and the several thousand lives, civilian and
Schum suggested last week, we Johnnies many arguments directly,
military, lost over ten brief years. To address
times abandon our precepts about how to read terrorism and despotism
Mr. Schum’s arguments directly, terrorism and
a Great Book and turn to the tunnel vision that
despotism are the new evils in the world in the
are the new evils in the
has, in some sense, caused the “bitter political
same way fascism and communism were the
divisions” (to use Mr. Tuttle’s words) of the world in the same way
evils of yesteryear. The implications of this
modern day. In my opinion, this abandonment fascism and communism
fact point to why Pakistan is a problem (it has
of our academic principles in facing the were the evils of yesteryear. become an international source of terrorist
opinions and stories of the world outside of the
activity), why the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
bubble is the source of Mr. Schum’s frustration
are being waged, and, ultimately, why there is
about Mr. Tuttle’s view on the events of September 11, 2001, and a problem with the motivations of individuals like Umar Farouk
the decade that has followed.
and Faizal Shahzad, who seek to kill and maim citizens of the
For example, let’s look at one of the main objections that Mr. United States and its allies.
Schum points out: Mr. Tuttle’s call to relive that day. In Homer’s
Maybe next time, instead of asking the same old question of who
Odyssey, in Book VIII, the blind bard Demodokos sings about knows more about the ways to defeat terrorism, Mr. Schum, as a
the tragic events that occurred at Troy. In response to hearing Johnnie and a world citizen, should take a moment to remember
his own story and, again, about the struggle of his comrades, that the ultimate way to degrade human life is to end it. September
Odysseus cannot help but weep, hiding himself from his hosts, 11, 2001, is a testament to that fact and a glaring memorial to the
at the remembrance of the ultimate struggle and loss of life that importance of stopping those who would seek to terrorize others.
took place on the shores of Troy in the Danaans’ decade of strife. Hopefully, its full impact will be felt in another decade. That will
Odysseus’ response points at our own issue, an issue Mr. Tuttle depend on whether America and the world decide there is more
pointed out: that the memory of the tragic events that occurred on than meets the eye about the way others should be treated.
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CAMPUS MAIL
Untitled
by Bonnie Brumbaugh A’13
Hast thou ever beheld
A mirror so polished, so pristine
The most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen?
Did your eyes widen
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PartTime Job
by Cameron Peltz A’14
Ours is not to reason why
Ours is but to do and die
Doesn’t mean we cannot try
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Well goodbye
Who is You?
by Boethius Fontaine
You is the most popular person in
the world. People wish You a happy
birthday everyday all over the world.
Who is this You? You is the one
everybody loves at some point in their
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In response to Matthew Dudik’s “On Sobri
ety and Community,” senior Logan Dwyer
retells his experience of rising through the
ranks as a Johnnie, addressing the question
of “Johnnie Initiation.”
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�THE GADFLY
What is Apocalyptic?
05
by Charles Zug A’15
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Another viewing of “Art of Our Time”
was disappointed when I looked at the painting
“Apocalyptic Landscape” by George Grosz – not
by the painting itself, but instead by the writeup that
immediately described the painting as being associ
ated closely with war.
Why would one be given to think of this work as
a war scene? What about it says war? I found the
painting to be far more organic than warlike. There is
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and sand and water – all things that occur sovereign
of man’s doing. Certainly there is a bleakness in the
work that seeks to elicit an emotional response from
us, but who is to say that melancholy must necessar
ily be associated with war? Where is the violence,
the destruction, and the human presence? Where are
the opposing forces?
After staring at the work for a time, I told myself
this: look at it, and forget about war. Forget about
the Germans and the French and the English, about
trench foot and shell shock. What is purely apoca
lyptic about this work?
The apocalypse is about transformation on a
grand scale, about replacing the old with the new.
Such is what I eventually saw in “Apocalyptic Land
scape.” The scene can either be one of before or after
– that is, either one of primordial rawness, or one
of a wasteland of destruction. Time passes slowly in
this scene; nothing has happened for a long time, and
nothing will happen for a while. Fires burn slowly
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air as a chilling silence pervades. Clear streams wan
der about the ash, carving through the sandcaked
landscape. Land and sky become as one, and all ele
ments become inseparable. At any moment, new life
could spring forth – but for now, we must wait.
But why is this landscape apocalyptic, and not
warlike? Because war is not the only instance in
which catharsis occurs by means of destruction.
While looking at this work, I was brought to con
sider how the world around us (and by no means just
the physical world) contains apocalyptic elements.
Everything must pass through some kind of judg
ment, and ultimately must atone for having come
into existence at all.
While I am intrigued by the idea of war, particu
larly twentieth century warfare, as being apocalyp
tic, I am more intrigued by the idea that apocalyp
tic catharsis occurs everywhere around us, often in
a most organic fashion. I suggest that viewers of
“Apocalyptic Landscape” keep in mind every aspect
of the “apocalyptic” while considering this work,
and not merely those warlike aspects that the twen
tieth century has taught us to associate with the idea
of “apocalypse”.
by Josh Snyder GI
didn’t want to get up the morning
I met a legend.
I woke up early, around 7:30. It
was meant to be an off day. I should
have slept in to make up for the
hours I’d been missing. Instead, I
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engrained in the mythology of St.
John’s College: Speedo Man
Does he have a real name?
Nobody can say for certain.
Regardless, the man is infamous for
running past the school and across
the bridge spanning College Creek
every day, wearing nothing save
for a navy blue speedo. We don’t
know who he is, and we don’t know
where he comes from. Perhaps most
pressing of all, we don’t know why
he insists on exercising so perilously
close to the buff.
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to my questions, though, I had to
catch him. I dragged myself out of
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the front door. Fog shrouded the
distance, encasing homes several
blocks away in a hazy mist. The
world seemed poised for something
strange, perhaps even unreal to
happen. Halfawake, I stumbled
into my car, a hailbattered Chevy
Cavalier, and drove to the bridge.
The city was well on its way to
waking up by the time I arrived.
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alleys, their engines revving and
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Joggers scurried along the sidewalk;
none matched the description of my
intended target. My stomach was
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minutes to buy a donut, or maybe
just a cup of coffee. There wasn’t
time for that, though; sustenance
would just have to wait.
My plan was embarrassingly
simple: walk to the bridge and wait
for Speedo Man. I would give him
half an hour before calling it quits
and returning home. I didn’t expect
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later than I expected to.
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Within minutes, however, I
caught sight of him: a speedoclad,
roughly middleaged man, racing
toward me. As he neared I fumbled
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a blank page. I tried to wave him
down, but though he acknowledged
me, the man continued to run. I
found myself swept up, jogging
alongside the myth.
“How’s it going?” I started. I
couldn’t think of how else to begin.
What could anyone say to a living
legend? Finally, I explained that I
was with the college paper and that
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get his email address to set up an
interview?
“I know it’s a bit ridiculous,”
I admitted, trying not to sound
winded (note to self: get in better
shape, dammit).
He nodded, then spoke. For a
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sounded ordinary — his voice didn’t
boom, the earth wasn’t shaking with
his every word, and not once did
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is a bit silly,” he said of my request,
without slowing. “No thanks.”
With that, Speedo Man cut
through the student parking lot and
disappeared. I got back in my car
and drove home. What else was
there to do?
On the drive back, halflistening
to the news as it droned in the
background, I wondered if things
would ever be the same. I might
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to Speedo Man, let alone run with
him. I knew this was ridiculous,
but the thought chipped away at
me anyway. Would he be back
tomorrow? Or did my attempts at
making a connection, of uncovering
the truth about a piece of our
tradition, drive away the Speedo
Man, leaving nothing but the myth
of his existence?
As jubilant shouts from the creek
proved the next day, the legend, it
seems, lives on.
�THE GADFLY
06
A Letter to the Polity
by Lucy Ferrier A’12
O
n Thursday word circulated among the freshman class that
tonight, everybody should prepare for seminar by drinking.
This should not have happened. It is a mistake for students to drink
before seminar. Although we often crack irreverent jokes about the
great authors and their books, we should not trivialize the work we
are doing at this school. Serious students recognize the gravity of
the ideas we discuss in seminar. Our conversations have the power
to shape our ideas about truth, God, and the relation between men
and women, and demand that we ask what, if anything, we can
truly know. It is only in light, insubstantial minds that these ideas
make no impression.
Do not misinterpret this letter as a tirade against high spirits.
Good discussions require joy and enthusiasm, and without the
ability to laugh at ourselves our conversations would become dour,
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for the sake of a joke. Out of respect for the other students, the
tutors, and the books, don’t get drunk before seminar. You are hurt
ing your classmates and demeaning yourself.
Untitled
by Painter Bob
I hardly have an inkling how a bird song sings so sweet
when not one jot of ink gets penned upon a noted sheet
nor have I come to fathom, how a millipede accords
to navigate each step it takes to harmonize the hordes
nor do I fully see the sense, when my myriad legg’d friend
is by that song bird, made a meal, to meet his fateful end
and yet, an intuition, like some solitary sea
attuned to be the many, in one single symphony
plays upon my reason
Which, I’ve come to understand
calls the tune, invisible, to turn the world at hand
leads across a bridge of time, in this eternal land
where paradox, meets metaphor
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in every answer
questioned by
the likes of me and you.
Jocks of the Week
Ms. Ferrier & Mr. “Pancakes” Denci
Drew Menzer: Superman?
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hopes that he will one day destroy him. photo by Jon Barone
A DISENABLEMENT REQUEST:
HUNTER COX
W
by Drew Menzer A’13
hile the faculty generally takes charge of the disenable
ment process, people will occasionally slip through
the cracks and survive through to the junior year. One such
“student” is Hunter Cox. There evidently was some mix up
between the Annapolis campus and Santa Fe (where Mr. Cox
“studied” during his “freshman year”) which allowed him to
not get removed from this school. Regardless of how he got
here, I feel the obligation to inform the polity about why he
needs to get gone.
First of all, he lives off campus, which wouldn’t be a prob
lem except for the fact that he doesn’t live with any other
Johnnies. How can you trust someone like that? Do you
know any other commuter students? Yeah, me neither. Then,
when he does leave his sketchy hideout, he spends all of his
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intramural team and not miss any games, but Mr. Cox has
gone to every game. He clearly doesn’t know that we’re not
Brazil; we don’t play soccer all the time. We are in America,
where we eat fried chicken and read ancient works of philoso
phy. He clearly doesn’t know where his priorities belong. I
don’t care if his lithe, gazellelike body functions as a mean,
soccerplaying machine; if he cares that much about soccer,
he doesn’t belong here.
When he does show up to class (which is about two days
a week) he is completely unprepared, and in fact, often brags
about the fact. His classmates often describe him as “awful”,
“detrimental to the class in every way”, “an ass”, and “Hunter
who?” I have also heard from his former tutors that he is ac
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of words that may or may not all be direct quotations from
Wikipedia’s philosophy article.
He is, in a word, really bad.
�THE GADFLY
Conflict and Complexity
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!"#$%&'"()*+'("%,)-)'-#./-0).,#)%#-/,#'%# but listening to that interview changed
simple as Ian Tuttle seems to think. In my mind. “My daughters,” Dr. Abuelaish
his column last week, he began with the sobbed, barely coherent, “they killed my
story of Wafa Biss, a Palestinian woman 7'6A!,"&%FG#>!"#$%&'"()#2)(),'&9#./-3&2"7#
who attempted a suicide bombing at the that they had attacked the house, but
Israeli hospital which had treated her for offered no explanation. This kind of attack
lifethreatening burns. Mr. Tuttle is right against civilians is terrorism, and deserves
to condemn this as a sick and depraved to be condemned as vehemently as any
act, but wrong to cite it as evidence of “a Palestinian suicide bombing does; this is
culture sick at its roots.” The implication not part of a just campaign against terror.
of Mr. Tuttle’s article is that Palestinian And unfortunately, such Israeli terrorism
culture is uniformly violent and depraved, )%# -/,# ":."5,)/-'(H# ,!"# IJ# 1'.,# 3-7)-A#
trapped in irrational and hateful opposition 2)%%)/-#/-#,!"#B'C'#./-0).,#.),"7#KL#.'%"%#
to the presence of Jews in the
of direct Israeli attacks on
Middle East. But the reality ...the Israeli
civilian targets.
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But according to Mr.
is not a simple
ambiguous.
Tuttle, it is the Palestinians
The story of Wafa Biss, for -./&)0$&1$$().++2) who maintain a violent
example, does not end with "(2)$3'#4
“culture of hate,” and the
her attempted terrorist attack.
Israelis who are honestly
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, the
seeking peace. He mentioned
3&%,# +'("%,)-)'-# ,/# &".")4"# '# %,'11# 5/%),)/-# that “since 2000, there have been 29 suicide
at an Israeli hospital, wrote an oped in the attacks carried out by Palestinians under
Israeli media condemning the attempted the age of 18, [and] 40 other attempts have
bombing and expressing his commitment failed.” This should be condemned in the
to peace. If the Palestinians are “a people strongest possible terms, but the violence
6-)3"7#89#,!"#5"&4"&%"#7"%)&"#,/#":,"&2)-',"# is not onesided. During the same period of
another culture,” where does Dr. Abuelaish ,)2"E# ,!"# $%&'"()# 2)(),'&9# !'%# ?)(("7# MEKNO#
3,# )-;# <&=# >6,,("# '.?-/@("7A"7# ,!"# Palestinian minors, according to the Israeli
existence of peaceseeking Palestinians human rights organization B’Tselem.
before discounting them because “theirs are
The war in which Dr. Abuelaish’s
not the voices sounding from the political children were murdered was ostensibly an
parties, schools, and mosques,” but this is Israeli attempt to end Palestinian terrorism
untrue. Dr. Abuelaish is one of countless based in the Gaza Strip, and throughout the
Palestinians who has renounced violence war Palestinian militants killed three Israeli
and is outspoken in his desire for peace.
civilians. It is unclear, however, how many
Mr. Tuttle wrote that the Israelis have Palestinian civilians the Israeli military
consistently worked for peace and are killed. Israel’s military itself puts the
engaged in a just battle against Palestinian number at 295, while the Palestinian Center
terrorism. The truth, as seen in Dr. for Human Rights claims 929. Even if the
Abuelaish’s story, is not so simple. On lowest estimate is true, the disproportion
January 16, 2009, one of the last days of between Israeli and Palestinian civilian
the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, Dr. casualties should convince anyone that this
Abuelaish was preparing for an interview )%# -/,# '# .("'&*.6,# ./-0).,# 8",@""-# $%&'"()#
with a Hebrew television program when an freedom and Palestinian terrorism.
Israeli tank attacked his home. His niece
I say this not to justify or excuse Palestinian
and three daughters were killed, but Dr. terrorism, which is reprehensible, and
Abuelaish held the interview and exposed not simply to condemn Israeli terrorism,
his grief to the Israeli public.
which is also reprehensible, but to show
I was living in Israel at the time, teaching ,!',#,!"#$%&'"()*+'("%,)-)'-#./-0).,#)%#-/,#'#
English in an Arab community near %)25("#3A!,#8",@""-#A//7#'-7#"4)(=#>!"&"#
Beersheba, and I heard Dr. Abuelaish’s is no clear good guy or bad guy; this is a
anguished interview. I had supported ./-0).,#)-#@!).!#"'.!#%)7"#!'%#./22),,"7#
#
Israel’s military operation against the %)A-)3.'-,#4)/("-."E#'-7#)-#@!).!#"'.!#%)7"#
B'C'# D,&)5E# ,!)-?)-A# ),# '# ("A),)2',"# 3A!,E# has valid grievances.
07
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n Mr. Dudik’s article “On Sobriety
and Community,” he writes that
“the real problem is not the drinking.”
I agree, and would posit further that
drinking is not the problem, but is, in
fact, the solution. Plato wrote, “he
was a wise man who invented beer.” I
should confess at this point that I have
never actually gotten drunk, or gone
to this mysterious event which seems
to happen every Wednesday night.
When people ask me why, I always
tell them that it is a personal choice,
that I just have no real desire to do
so. This is, however, a complete lie.
I am attempting to cover up my deep
seated desire to get extremely drunk
just like everyone else.
Every Wednesday night, I sit in the
Chase Stone basement, eating cookies
and drinking milk, and pretending
to be interested in the stories that
everyone there reads. My happiness
at storytellers is merely feigned. In
reality, between the hours of 10PM
and midnight, I have always thought
that there is something missing from
my life. It is not until recently that I
realized exactly what this is. Thanks
to Mr. Dudik’s article, I now know.
It is the “humorous, social side of
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anywhere. I have unfortunately
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completely plastered on Wednesday
nights.
At this point, it is too late for me.
I am now an archon of storytellers,
and must spend my Wednesday
nights in total sadness and dejection.
O fellow students, it is not too
late for you! I must apologize for
advertising storytellers before now,
and for encouraging you all to join
me in my despair. So, please, don’t
come to storytellers. Go get as drunk
as possible, so that you will be, as
Mr. Dudik said, “drunk enough” to
welcome the freshmen.
�THE GADFLY
08
An Interview with an Alum
Liam Wallace, a member of Ex Libris, the student career club at St. John’s, set up an interview with Dr. Stephen
J Forman, A’70, to discuss his career and how St. John’s led him there. Dr. Forman is the Chair of the Depart
ment of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and the Director of the T Cell Immunotherapy
Research Laboratory at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in Los Angeles, and is on the St. John’s
Board of Visitors and Governors. He was presented with the Alumni Association Award of Merit in 2010. This
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Do you have a favorite book on the program? It can be one of
your favorites, it doesn’t have to be absolute!
That is a very tough opening question! The Odyssey, for sure,
War & Peace, and The Brothers Karamazov. I actually enjoyed
Kant as it resonated with me. I didn’t have a clue about Hegel and
relied upon my classmates in seminars to explain it. I doubt I said
a word in those seminars.
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allows one to pose the right question to understand the nature of
disease and treatment, responses to treatment, how people get well,
and why they don’t. Coming to medical school from St. John’s,
one is at a bit of a disadvantage at the beginning because many
students enter already having a working knowledge of the material
you are just beginning to learn. But I think that disadvantage
vanishes relatively quickly.
Could you describe your career?
As you may know, I provide support to the college for students
After graduation from the college, I went to the University of to have summer fellowships in any aspect of biology or medicine
Southern California School of Medicine after having spent two that they choose. In talking to the students who have come to City
summers catching up on all the premed courses I needed. During of Hope for the summer program, and then reading the reports of
postgraduate training I became interested in oncology and the the others and what they did, it is very impressive to me that the St.
challenge of caring for and treating people suffering with various John’s student could be dropped into a setting in which they really
types of cancer. That led me to clinical and research fellowship "('$,*$7(0=6)*+,'$*)$41#0-%0$1)#1()(!-*,>$(,'$'*$(4$3#&&$(4$!"#9$
training in hematology and oncology, and in those days it was the did. It takes a unique kind of courage and I believe that Johnnies
very beginning of exploring the use of stem cell transplantation as a often display that trait. This past summer, we had a St. John’s
way to treat cancer, especially leukemia. I entered
student who had received one of these fellowships
!"#$ %#&'$ ()*+,'$ !"(!$ !-.#$ (,'$ (/!#)$ 0*.1&#!-*,$ Over the last thirty and spent the summer here at City of Hope. She
of training, I began working with a group at City ):$(.$4%+,(8(24:$(
worked in a very basic immunology laboratory, and
*/$2*1#$!"(!$3(4$*,#$*/$!"#$%)4!$4-5$1)*6)(.4$-,$
within a few weeks she was very conversant with
the US to successfully utilize the therapy to cure pursued a career
what she was doing, did excellent work and presented
leukemia. We helped develop that treatment as in cancer care and
her work eloquently at the summer student research
*,#$!"(!$0*+&'$7#$0+)(!-8#$/*)$($4-6,-%0(,!$,+.7#)$ cancer research.
forum. Like her, the students who have received the
of people with a variety of cancers that could not
summer internships have impressed me with how
7#$0+)#'$-,$(,9$*!"#)$3(9:$;8#)$!"#$&(4!$!"-)!9<%8#$
well they’ve done; I really couldn’t tell them from
years, I have pursued a career in cancer care and cancer research.
any other student who might have been a biochemistry major at
My time is spent between seeing patients with various types of another university.
cancer, mostly acute and chronic leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s
disease, myeloma and breast cancer, directing a research laboratory 6-7$'2"&3( 89:$( 5$$&( 2$4%"&3( 4( *-'( 45-/'( "+( '2$( !"#);/*'.( "&(
that does cancer immunology research, while overseeing a large making the transition between St. John’s and anything else.
clinical and research program, with other physicians and scientists You said you did two years afterwards?
focused on the understanding and curing of hematologic cancer. I
No. I did two summers’ work, one before junior and then senior
often talk about this with students and parents, as one of the things year. Now, what most students who want to go to medical school
that St. John’s has really helped in my work is facilitating being able are doing is attending postbaccalaureate programs, and there are
to study something somewhat unique or new and develop at least some very good ones back east that contain the courses that medical
a working knowledge, to make one conversant. There are some 40"**&4$)#@+-)#:$A"#4#$1)*6)(.4$3#)#,B!$-,!#,'#'$41#0-%0(&&9$/*)$
6#,#)(&$1)-,0-1$*/$40-#,!-%0$.#!"*'$!"(!$(11&9$(0)*44$'-//#)#,!$ St. John’s students, as they were designed for people wanting to
aspects of human biology and medicine, regardless of the nature switch careers, but this has worked out well for St. John’s students.
of the research or inquiry. In the clinical part of the program, there That’s how most people seem to be doing it as medical schools
are many physicians and nurses who are caring for a large number are still relatively rigid about their course requirements prior to
of people, often very ill, undergoing complex treatment programs entry. My advice to St. John’s College students is, at some point,
and, ultimately, I’m responsible for that too. The week is divided either during the interview process for medical school or in the
between taking care of patients, doing laboratory research, writing submitted written material that you have to provide, to carefully
and editing manuscripts and grants, and doing the administrative articulate the contribution of their St. John’s education to this
work to make this possible.
goal, the choice they made, and how it prepared one for pursuing a
career in medicine or medical research, as a way of distinguishing
Medical science has a vast amount of information. How do you yourself from the thousands of other people applying to medical
synthesize that? Do you have a working knowledge of many school, who all look very similar. I encourage students not to be
!"##$%$&'()$*!+,(+-(.-/(0&-1(12-('-(3-('-,(4*-&3(1"'2(5$"&3(4( shy about relating their undergraduate educational experience at
specialist in your own area?
the college with their career goals and hope the interviewers and
Ultimately, that’s often what happens. Everyone with whom I the school will understand and also recognize the qualities that
work is in the same situation, i.e. having to master to some degree such an education instills in the student.
�THE GADFLY
09
Pomegranate Good
Advice with Lentils
von Pomegranate
Send your maladies, predic
aments, or conundrums to:
thomas_berry@earthlink.net
Dear Lentils,
I’ve heard that college students don’t
realize how much sleep they need, and
often short themselves. I myself often
feel tired, but I simply don’t have enough
time to lengthen my sleep schedule, or
take naps during the day. Do you have
any suggestions?
Sincerely,
A Napless Johnny
!
Dear Napless,
I had a similar problem as yourself,
until I heard about a method called
polyphasic sleep, which essentially
trains the body to enter deep REM sleep
instantly upon falling asleep. Using this
method, I successfully trained myself
"#$%&''($)*('+,'-./0'1"&*2$314$5$+'46/'4$
the number of sleephours I needed per
day to only 3.5. However, I still felt
like this was wasting too much time,
and I wanted to take it a step further.
Now, I have trained myself to such an
extent that every time I blink, I actually
engage in an imperceptibly small REM
cycle, losing consciousness for only
the fraction of a second that my eyes
are closed. The aggregate of all those
tiny instances is enough to keep me
completely rested over a 24hour period,
eliminating the need for any kind of
bedhours whatsoever. Of course, there
is an obvious downside to this, since I
effectively black out multiple times per
minute, and perceive the world in short
ribbons of continuity, stitched together
imperfectly, as if by the inexpert hand
of a weary seamstress. The concept
of time has become something like an
hourglass that is cracked at the bottom
and perpetually leaking; I fear that for
every grain of sand I catch, two more
slip away forever. As I gradually lose
any recollection of what it was like to be
asleep, I wonder whether I have also lost
the knowledge of what it is to be awake.
On the plus side, I have more time for
extracurricular activities.
Dear Lentils,
Not a lot has gone right for me in my
life. I’ve never had the best jobs or the
best luck with women. I wasn’t captain
of the football team or Valedictorian. I’m
never going to be rich, I’m never going
to be famous, and if you passed me on
the street, you probably wouldn’t give
me a second glance. You might think
I’m writing to complain about all this,
but I’m not. I’ve always believed that
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thing no matter how small that makes
you special. Until recently, I had that one
thing, and it made up for all the other
setbacks life threw at me. I knew that
no matter how bad things got, I could
still say something about myself that no
one else in the world could say. I had the
world’s least common name. Now, you
have taken that from me, the one thing I
truly owned, the one thing in my life that
was beautiful. I hate you.
Sincerely,
Lentils Rumpkin von Pomegranate IV
!
Dear Lentils,
Whoa, somebody’s gonna have to lend
me a dolly, because things just got a
little heavy. Truth be told, this whole
namechange thing was nothing but a
publicity stunt to boost interest in the
column. Despite the photoop you may
have seen down at the courthouse, my
agent assures me that none of the formal
paperwork was allowed to complete its
course through the legal system, and in
the end, the only thing we did was waste
the time of a lot of notaries public. I hope
that once this column goes back to being
“Berry Good Advice,” your life will be
able to go back to being “Berry Good At
Denying How Pathetic It Is.”
FAITH IN THE
FREE MARKET
by Robert Malka A’15
G
od, for some, pervades every aspect of
life, including everyone else’s: a Bay
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Americans believes that God’s invisible
hand is nudging the market forward.
The traditional idea of the “Invisible
Hand” (courtesy of The Wealth of Na
tions) is pretty fundamental: we do things
because we’re selfinterested, and this ben
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charitable that we work; most of us have
bills to pay.
While many of us might be stunned by
the inclusion of God in Economics, un
doubtedly some individuals on this campus
believe this is true. To those people—and
to all readers—I sincerely inquire: is this a
method of applying God to a generally ac
cepted economic theory, or is it something
much deeper, one that may, in the near fu
ture, have graphs and formulas centered
around Him pushing the market forward?
More questions plague me: is this a
small version of the Second Awakening,
a reaction to the newer values of gay mar
riage, singleparent family structures and
comparatively loose moral characters? Is
it grounded in a fundamental distrust of
people—which, in this case, also means
government and its machinations—so that
there is now only one Being to whom to
turn? (Americans believe that the federal
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dollar, after all.)
More fundamentally, is it right to in
clude God in daily world operations? Is it
right to integrate faith at all? I expect pro
test because of my value statements, but
I think they’re valuable questions—how
deep should God be in our lives? Can we
be compelled to see science through God?
That this paradigm is prominent in
twenty percent of individuals in the Unit
ed States grants it plenty of gravitas. Cer
tainly, if we grant that it is a complete set
of ideals, we might ask questions like why
God caused the recession of 2008, or why
God compels economic misfortune to oc
cur. It’s not the intention of this article to
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not to question a faithbased framework for
looking at human behavior. I hope only to
spark thought and conversation among the
polity about a modern issue.
�THE GADFLY
Prospie Ponderings
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by Honore Hodgson A’12
A
fter three years at St. John’s of the class, consequently miring the
you pick up a few things: you conversation down in trivial contra
expect the dining hall conveyer to dictions and heady condescension.
break every other day, you can tell
The other danger, perhaps better
which tutors will be awkward to talk hidden due to its enthusiasm, is the
to outside of class, and you realize %.!+/+0!-$1!$2'0!$+!$/3#$0((/$4%%5$
that you get more out of listening to take every author at his word; it
to classmates than talking at them /3#$(6(,$0((/$!"3!$!"+0$+0$!"($5(2
like a constantly updating Facebook nition of an open mind. Their blind
status. Some of these facts of polity assent, however, to what they read
life are things that we just have to threatens to end in a simple surface
live with; others, however, are wor understanding of the work and a
!"#$%&$'()(*!+%,defensive response to any “threat”
In the Odyssey, Odysseus is they perceive to the text. When
warned about the unavoidable dan unable to defend every aspect of
ger of two monsters, the repulsive every book, they resort to phrases
Scylla and the regurgitating Charyb like, “but what he’s doing is just
dis. Both were destructive, night so cool”, “but isn’t it beautiful”, or
marish creatures that killed several my personal favorite, “it just feels
of Odysseus’ crew
right to me.” These
and left the son of These aren’t the
aren’t the reasoned
Laertes stranded at reasoned arguments
arguments that rig
sea. This episode that rigorous dialectic orous dialectic de
reminds me of the demands, but the
mands, but the pe
seemingly unavoid
pedantic mumblings dantic mumblings
able dangers we, as
of a simpleton.
students, often face of a simpleton.
Like Odysseus,
in class: the pure
we are endangered
optimist and the absolute cynic. on both sides. First, by Scylla, the
On the continuum of “openmind optimist who grows another villain
edness,” or the degree to which we ous head for every book he reads,
should embrace or adopt the things and secondly by Charybdis, the
we read here, the extreme optimist cynic who swallows the worth of
and cynic are the poles.
every text only to regurgitate his
The easier case to see as destruc negative opinions of it. These per
tive in class is the cynic. The cynic sonalities are, unfortunately, some
is the premier example of a student thing that I have come to expect in
who either questions the text to the my classes. While I do not think
point of inanity, or simply “knows that they are hopeless, I fear that
better” than the author. One illustra they lack the awareness and drive
tion of the cynic’s insidious touch required to change. This is a school
is the attitude that some students 7"%0($.'+,*+.38$6+'!9($+0$'()(*!+%,-$
cop in relation to Ptolemy: instead But like any virtue, it requires work
of exploring the way Ptolemy in and perseverance to achieve in any
teracts with and interprets the uni measurable degree. This is what
verse, cynics choose to see him as our Don Rags try to stimulate in us,
simply incorrect in his hypothesis and what our time in class aims to
and therefore useless. This attitude encourage. Advice at this juncture
applies to philosophy as well, where seems pointless, since the Scyllas
having previously read Hegel or Ni and Charybdises don’t recognize
etzsche, the cynic rejects any worth themselves as such (perhaps I my
in Plato and Descartes. The worst self am one), so all I can say to the
cynics go further and attempt to rest of the students reading this is
force their closed views on the rest good luck and happy sailing.
�THE GADFLY
Bursting the Johnnie Bubble
In another contentious installment
of his column, Ian Tuttle examines
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Action. Do you agree or disagree
with Mr. Tuttle’s opinions? Send your
responses to ?%"06X.A$%:!"#:+
by Ian Tuttle A’14
I
11
Freshmen move into their dorms for the start of their St. John’s educa
tion.
n 2008, Abigail Fisher sued the University of TexasAustin !N='3%&'()+"%&!:++P/%&+%2-34%&'5!+%$&'()+=(*'$'!.+2($#.+.&3'$&*6+()+
when her application into the undergraduate program was re 3%$!+ 5!3'-!.+ &/%&+ &/'.+ '.<+ ')+ 2%$&<+ .(:+ +Q2-34%&'5!+ %$&'()+ =(*'$'!.+
jected. Fisher, who graduated in the top 12% of her class, claims /%5!+,!!)+=!3=!&#%&!"+)(&+2(3+!"#$%&'()%*+,!)!-&+,#&+%.+%+4!%).+(2+
that the school rejected her application because she was white, ad atonement for the centurieslong oppression of minorities within
mitting, instead, minority students with less impressive résumés. America.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld the university’s
C%$!+$(33!*%&!.+&(+%$%"!4'$+=!32(34%)$!<+,#&+&/!+3!*%&'()./'=+
admissions policy, but the case is likely to end up before the Su '.+)(&+$%#.%*8+'&+'.+%$$'"!)&%*:++R(3!+'4=(3&%)&+'.+.($'(!$()(4'$+
preme Court, possibly in their upcoming term.
status. And while it is true that blacks and Hispanics tend to be in
Fisher v. University of Texas returns the court to a 2003 deci lower socioeconomic classes, it is not because of their skin color.
sion, Grutter v. Bollinger, in which a 54 majority declared that If it were, there would be no explanation for the stunning success
colleges have the right to a “narrowly tailored use of race in ad of AsianAmericans, who comprise America’s besteducated and
missions decisions to further a compelling interest in obtaining the /'?/!.&S!%3)')?+3%$'%*+?3(#=+FQ.'%)SQ4!3'$%).+$(4=3'.!+T:JU+(2+
!"#$%&'()%*+,!)!-&.+&/%&+0(1+23(4+%+"'5!3.!+.&#"!)&+,("678+%)"+ Texas’ population but 20% of the student body at UTAustin). So
the University of Michigan Law School, in that
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case, had a compelling interest in achieving So here is the question: host of other issues, mostly socioeconomic: poverty,
%+ 9$3'&'$%*+ 4%..7+ (2+ 4')(3'&6+ .&#"!)&.:+ + ;/%&+ Why is socioeconomic singleparent households, high crime rates, etc. And
$(#)&!"+%.+%+9$3'&'$%*+4%..7+1%.+#)$*!%3<+.')$!+ status—which is the
unlike skin color, these allow for change. How
the law school admitted different numbers of actual correlative
ever, because of the racial guilt that has been per
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,!)!-&.+&/%&+0(1+23(4+%+"'5!3.!+.&#"!)&+,("67+ not race—not the
the 1960s, and the false notion that racial diversity
&3#4=!"+&/(.!+&/%&+0(1+23(4<+.%6<+%+9$(4=!
equals intellectual diversity, race has become the de
decisive factor?
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terminant when it is nothing more than an incidental
But the poorly considered decision of Grut
piece of data in a much more complex, and much
&!3+ 5:+ >(**')?!3+ '.+ )(&/')?+ )!1:+ + @&+ '.+ A#.&+ &/!+ 3!%2-34%&'()+ (2+ %+ less politically manipulable, reality.
)!1+ $#*%*+ 3'&!B+ &/!+ .%$3'-$'%*+ .*%#?/&!3+ (2+ C!%.()+ ()+ &/!+ %*&%3+
M(+/!3!+'.+&/!+V#!.&'()B+;/6+'.+.($'(!$()(4'$+.&%&#.O1/'$/+
of Diversity.
is the actual correlative factor with education, not race—not the
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persons all the colors of the rainbow sitting handinhand singing plicant’s actual background but, instead, using race as a substitute,
in multicultural harmony. It is the subject of novellalength ad instinctively assuming that all whites are healthy, goodlooking,
4'..'().+(2-$!+,((E*!&.+F$2:+G3')$!&()H.+D!-)')?+D'5!3.'&6<+IJK+ and born with Lacoste memberships and all blacks have lived lives
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site. But it is an elusive target.
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Diversity purports to be about cultural interaction or sharing in =()!)&.+#.!+3%$'.4<+?'5!)+%+=(*'&'$%**6+=%*%&%,*!+)%4!<+&(+-?/&+3%$
an intellectual journey with those from different backgrounds. But ism. Moreover, employing the language of diversity, they promote
for nearly half a century, colleges and universities have used racial the idea that race is more important to the intellectual community
preferences to facilitate more diverse student bodies—all the while of a college than the minds of the students. The policies are con
$*%'4')?+&/%&+&/!6+1%)&+%+9$(*(3,*')"7+.($'!&6:++M(+&!4=(3%36+3%$ descending for minorities, who are admitted under the assumption
ism is permissible if, ultimately, we create a society without rac that they need the special assistance to succeed, and offensive to
ism?
students in the majority, who are implicitly accused of clinging to
Some will claim, though, that it is not racist to give preference racist attitudes.
&(+4')(3'&'!.8+%2&!3+%**<+/%5!+&/!6+)(&+.#22!3!"+$!)'!.+(2+(==3!.
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sion? Are we not simply offering a modicum of relief, some small that that time has ended. But there was never any time when
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UPCOMING THE SPEED OF SOUND
Jon Barone discusses the pace of discussion
EVENTS
at St. John’s and its effect on academic life.
Tuesday (9/27)
SJC Orchestra Rehearsal
Great Hall, 45:30 PM
Kunai Soccer
Back Campus, 46 PM
Americans in the Autumn
General Hartle Room
7:309:30 PM
Dance Lessons
Great Hall, 89 PM
Gaming Club
Coffee Shop, 8:3011 PM
Wednesday (9/28)
Ultimate Frisbee
Back Campus, 4 PM
D vs. H and W vs. G
St. John’s Chorus
Great Hall, 7 PM
Friday (9/30)
Kunai Soccer
Back Campus, 46 PM
Steiner Lecture
Mr. Barry Mazur, Harvard
University: “What is the
Surface Area of a Hedgehog?”
FSK Auditorium, 8:15 PM
Sunday (10/2)
Soccer
H vs. W, 1:30 PM
D vs. S, 3:30 PM
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Lower Level BBC, 7 PM
Mabel the Swimming Wonder
Monkey, 8 PM
Spector Media Center
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event on the weekly schedule,
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turn, someone else responds on the tail end seminar is about unearthing truth in these
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Responding to Alan Schwarz 04
In Defense of “Occupy” 05
The Beauty of Boredom 10
Sarah Meggison on Home 12
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<< Cover: Eric Fricke (A’14) on Halloween.
>> The Man, The Legend: Tommy Bonn
(A’13), pictured with his ever-present water
bottle and clad in his favorite “pi” shirt.
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> Hunter Cox A’13
D
earest Polity,
me in class.” Well, I’d like to tell Mr. and
I would like to apologize for my Ms. Polity that the powers-that-be have
recent article directed towards junior decided to keep me at this school, so I’ll
Drew Menzer. It should come to your keep pleading my case.
greatest relief that, after reading Mr.
In the meantime, I would like to direct
Menzer’s article in The Gadfly, I no everyone’s attention to one Mr. Bonn. It
longer have any of those harsh feelings has long been a poorly guarded secret
towards him. To say it
that Mr. Bonn is St.
simply: Stay here, Drew
I would like to direct John’s only Athletic
Menzer. (I also want to
Scholarship and that
everyone’s attention he has now been a
assure you that it did
to one Mr. Bonn.
not take me a month
junior for four years
to read his article, just
running. A source in
a month to remember to write about it.) the Registrar’s Office who asked me not
Now, onto more important topics: to use his name for security purposes
ME. Some questions have been raised told me that Mr. Bonn’s grades have been
by others about my own academic fabricated to maintain his eligibility,
character. I would like to let you all and that they post his grades alongside
know that I am aware of these issues. a series of fake names to make him feel
I know facts like, I “don’t live with better about going to a “real college.” I
Johnnies” and I “can’t actually read.” recently found him in the Coffee Shop
Along with these well-known facts, I looking at The Gadfly UPSIDE DOWN!
want to address some others. Some Which brings me to this conclusion: He
people may say that I “don’t go to can’t even read. So I ask you, members
seminar,” or that I’ve “never had a Don of the polity: Is this the kind of person
Rag” and that I “don’t know how that you want ruining your seminar? Or will
works”; some might say I “don’t know you join me in saying: Tommy Bonn—get
who Mr. Sachs is” or that they “don’t see gone! !
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Epictetus
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Benito Cereno
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them. Bring it.
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but make it two-on-two,
and I call Babo.
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> Anonymous
> Gadfly staff
> Honore Hodgson
NEXT WEEK
How did your seminar character dress up for Halloween?
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> Melissa Gerace A’15
hirty days and nights of literary
abandon,” advertises the website
for National Novel Writing Month, or, as
it is better known, NaNoWriMo. But the
truth is, writing a novel in a month isn’t
so much literary abandon as it is literary
insanity: to write 50,000 words (roughly
150 pages) over the month of November
does not take creativity alone—the
writer must also possess large degrees of
dedication, perseverance, and enormous
amounts of pure crazy. Luckily, pure
crazy is something most (if not all)
fiction writers are very much used to.
Who but a writer could live in a land
of their own creation, care so deeply
about people who do not exist, and still
function (semi-)normally in reality?
I am not making wild assumptions
about writers, or, more specifically,
about those who take part in
NaNoWriMo. I have lived this pure
craziness myself, dragged through
sleepless Novembers and ingested so
much coffee that my friends notified me,
whenever they hugged me, that I was
actually quivering. I spent my nights in
a dream-world of writing, yawning over
my keyboard as the clock ticked into the
earliest hours of morning. I spent my
days in a daze of school and homework,
using every free period my high school
offered to finish what work I had so
that I could have more time to write. I
never quite managed to get to 50,000
words—the closest I ever came was
33,920. Somehow, writing 1,000 words
per day seems easy, until you try to do
it, until you realize that even though this
month is exciting and special, you’ll still
have schoolwork and jobs to take care
of, as well as somehow punching out
just over 1,000 words a day—sometimes,
the worst 1,000 words you’ve ever
written. The best thing to remember
is that NaNoWriMo is all about writing
a set number of words within a limited
amount of time. They don’t have to be
great words; they don’t even have to
Somehow, writing
1,000 words per day
seems easy, until
you try to do it.
be good words. One of the best parts of
NaNoWriMo is tracking back through
your work when the month is finished,
salvaging the good parts and laughing
at the silly, sometimes bizarre, scraps of
panicked word-count writing.
So, how will these crazy writers
spend November? Schoolwork, writing,
and probably very little else. Sleep will
be sacrificed. Necks will cramp as they
bend over keyboards and paper. Hands
will be stained with ink or perpetually
drumming with the need to type. Eyes
will glaze over mid-conversation as the
surge of a story idea takes over. Thirty
days and nights of reckless literary
abandon will ensue, leading to some
of the best and worst writing times of
the writers’ lives. Do you want to join
in, but don’t want to embark on this
potentially dangerous voyage on your
own? Never fear—the NaNoWriMo
club meets Saturday evenings in the
Chasement and plans to conduct writing
activities to boost word count and
morale as November wears on. Aspiring
novelists, get ready: NaNoWriMo is
fast approaching. It’s going to be a
wonderful, difficult month. !
�The Gadfly
04
An Alternate Response
to Alan Schwarz
> Honore Hodgson A’12
Dear Polity,
It has been drawn to our attention
that there was a typographical error on
the last Ministry poster. In the sixth
line of the poster, “violations of causation” should have been “violations of
causality.” The Ministry are beginning
an inquiry to find out exactly what a
violation of causation might entail,
but at the moment the phrase appears
to be meaningless. We commend the
sharp eyes of the polity members who
pointed out our error, and recommend
the rest to similar vigilance.
~ The Minister of Propaganda
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> Cinar Doruk A’13
For me It waits, the lidless eye
Spares not the minute divergence
From the unnamed path It runs
To the darkest corners of my mind.
There It broods over the unforgotten
To hatch my end.
There It waits, not ever sleeping,
Nor scarred but empowered
By my futile, pompous spear
Dreams within dreams It spawns.
Thus so gently It touches unawares
To be my last breath.
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> Painter Bob
I rise to go and make myself each day
I, as a blind fool fall along the way
You pull me on, though bruised to black
and blue
For like a poem, we’re somehow, taylor
made
By deeds that bond our lives.. however
weighed
Become the joy that binds one through
the grave
For all and all, what’s made.. it is a
friend
That is the poem who’s faithful to no end.
W
hat kind of community are we?
What kind of community do we
want to be? We cannot change the students who will come after us, just as we
cannot change those who came before.
Each year we are a different community,
with the incoming freshmen and absent
seniors changing the social dynamic significantly.
Perhaps the greatest virtue of our
school is the opportunity for self-reflection. We spend hours in class discussing
what it means to be human and lead a
good life. Sometimes those discussions
do not carry over into daily life. We still
make mistakes, whether they are personal ones, such as not finishing essays
because we choose to partake in nightly
debauchery, or ones that affect the community, like the constant gossip we are
all guilty of. These mistakes become
truly monstrous when we add to their
depravity by falling into a trap peculiar
to Johnnies.
At this school, we have a propensity
to feel entitled. Not to anything like
money, but to respect, position, and title
in the world of education. Because we
participate in the seminar conversation,
many of us feel superior to other college
students around the country who sit in
stuffy lecture halls day after day. We go
as far as to take pride in the way our liberal arts background is seemingly useless in the job market after graduation. I
merely wish to say that it is one thing to
be proud of one’s community, and quite
another to place it on a pedestal to the
derision of other communities and institutions.
St. John’s is a special place; of that
there is no doubt. But it is not the buildings or the curriculum that defines St.
John’s. No, that tremendous and often
precarious responsibility falls to us, the
students: particularly the current students. And despite our training in seminar, we often miss the mark in our selfreflection, or it becomes meaningless
when we leave seminar and forget it.
This is one of the reasons why reflection
from outside our immediate community
is important.
I of course refer to the recent New
York Times article and the way our community responded to it. The article itself
had its problems to be sure; our floors
are not plywood, and in my few interactions with our president I have never
known him to smile sadistically. But
does that excuse us for throwing a tantrum? In seminar we often read opposing views which can sometimes misrep-
resent each other, and yet we read each
work critically and let the author make
their case. This is not how we treated
the NYT article.
We act as if an outsider visiting our
school has to be initiated into secret
mysteries of the college to understand it.
We embrace the notion that there is always something new to learn—this is as
true of our school as it is of justice—but
even freshmen who had yet to finish the
Republic or even make it through their
first Don Rag were up in arms over the
inadequacies of the article, offended at
the crude ponderings of a man whose
understanding of St. John’s paled in
comparison to their own extensive experience.
If we dislike the way we were represented in the article, at least part of the
blame resides in us. Did Mr. Schwarz
read a little too much into the conversations he was privy to? Undoubtedly. But
if his worst offenses were poor choices
in poetic license and general ignorance,
then we are to blame for far more than
being rude. Rather than taking our cue
from Socrates, who welcomed ignorance
and strove with his interlocutors to discover truth, we flooded Mr. Schwarz
with angry emails and shamed him for
mistakes he made trying to understand
and write about something that is extremely difficult even for us to grapple
with.
I was angry the first time I read the
article, as many of my classmates were.
When my excited parents told me about
how much they liked the article, I was
shocked. I have heard that this happened to many other students; their
friends and family were excited to see
the obscure college their kids go to in
the news. The inaccuracies that agitated us into a mob wielding torches and
pitchforks were celebrated by our parents and alumni who were delighted to
see St. John’s get some positive, if not
wholly error-free, recognition.
Mr. Schwarz’s article was to be the
first of a two-part project. I’m sure some
of you reading this will be happy to hear
that, due to our response, he has chosen
not to write the conclusion. But I wonder if we should be proud to have alienated ourselves from someone who wanted to tell the world about us, especially
when we are all aware of the financial
difficulties we face. I personally feel sorry that rather than opening a dialogue
with Mr. Schwarz, something that our
community prides itself in being able to
do, we mocked him, rejected his article,
and slammed the door in his face. !
�The Gadfly
Introduction to a
General Response
to the Critics of
Occupy Wall Street
> Wolfe Nelson A’14
05
Photo courtesy of Occupy Wall Street
O
ne of the more common criticisms I've heard lobbed at
Theoretically, this should be better for us. After all, with
Occupy Wall Street finds them guilty of choosing the val- fewer taxes business can be stronger. Yet, American business
ues of the French Revolution over the values of the Greatest gain doesn't appear to translate to the average citizen's gain.
Generation. Ignoring the fact that comparing an explicitly The economy has doubled since 1980, yet workers experinonviolent protest to the Reign of Terror is hilariously hyper- enced a 1% raise in wages during that period. The top 1% of
bolic, it is my contention that calling for a return to the values earners, however, saw their income shoot up 40% and their
of “The Greatest Generation” reveals something about these taxes plummet. During the Greatest Generation, tax on the
critics they don't know about themselves. They agree with the wealthiest Americans was well over 70%, and it didn't seem
protesters. When I realized this, I found myself writing less to hurt them or their businesses. Now the median is 23.5%.
an editorial than a reiteration of the holy Delphic injunction:! But that's beside the point. Taxation is only a minor issue that
"#$%&!'()*+,#-!Know Thyself. The values of the Greatest Gen- many assume is the root of the protest. The wealthiest 1% of
eration, “work hard, earn a fair share from it,” are precisely Americans pay 40% of the bill, the critics claim, as if it were
what Occupy Wall Street is about. So why are these critics not from their beneficence. Actually, if the Wall Street protests are
marching with them?
about anything, it's about the massive inequality that allows
As much as we wish to ignore it, a whole lot has changed such a marginal fraction to have that much acquired wealth
since the Greatest Generation. There are fewer jobs, and the (this 1% owns about 40% of the wealth in America), while the
jobs that do exist frequently lack the benefits, income, and sta- bottom 99% of the country has seen barely an improvement
bility the Greatest Generation expected. A common proposal in life.
is to cut taxes on business as a solution to the financial crisis.
The Greatest Generation defined American values as we
The assumption is widespread: what is
now know them, but the world has
good for business is good for the people.
changed around these values. Wealth is
Occupy Wall Street is not
All the corporations complain about taxrelative; in 1965 the average CEO made
es, and surely they couldn't have ulterior
24 times the average worker. In 2005,
a movement demanding
motives. To reply, we need merely look to
that number had swelled to 262. By CIA
handouts. It is a movehistory. In the booming '50s, top corpoment that wants a steady and UN estimate, income inequality in
rate tax was 47%. Compare this to the 35%
America is worse than the notoriously
job that can support a
top tax we have now. Or don't, because
plutocratic post-soviet Russia. Yet the
family to exist as an option real anger of the movement comes not
it's a theoretical number that no corporation, especially the largest, will ever pay.
from the fact that the institutions that
for all American citizens.
American corporate taxes are difficult to
ruined the economy and lost millions of
average precisely, because they tend to vary by industry. The their jobs were given $700 billion in bailout money from the
highest, retail, is about 31%, and the lowest, mining, is 6%. Of pockets of the very same people they ruined. It doesn't even
course, there are a good many companies that simply don't pay come from their decision to spend this money on private jets
anything. Through a mix of lobbyists, tax shelters (frequently and CEO bonuses, while they already enjoyed tax cuts for bedesigned by their own employees), and loopholes, these cor- ing too poor to “stay competitive.” No, the real anger of the
porations do not “pay their share.” GE made around $5.1 bil- movement is that these events are so commonplace they elicit
lion domestically in 2010. If they paid the cited top rate, they barely a response from the very people who are being ruined.
would owe around $1.8 billion. Actually, they claimed a tax
Is the movement disorganized? Yes. But the accusation that
benefit of $3.2 billion. There are explanations for this, but that the protest has no coherency is a blatant denial of reality. We
would require a longer and more vitriolic article. The point must understand that this movement is still a young one. All
is, America's tax rate is neither the highest in the world (that young protests sound disparate. The broader themes are hard
goes to Japan), nor are these rates enforced effectively. In a to piece together from the seemingly cacophonous demands.
country where more money means more political power, it The sole unity is a feeling that something is desperately wrong;
doesn't take much to imagine the businesses using this power manifestos on how to change that come later. The civil rights
to lower taxes. Or to imagine that an obvious consequence of movement came together under the belief that racial inequalcorporate tax cuts is more power (it's because they have more
Continued on Pg. 08
money).
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�The Gadfly
To the Critics of Occupy Wall
Street, continued from Pg. 05
-ity is an ill; amongst the participants
were radical differences in opinion on
how to change that. Only with time,
and frequent dialogue between participants and outsiders, could something like the Civil Rights Act emerge
as a definite possibility. Yet it could
not have passed without the disorganized passion that carried it to the
forefront. Similarly has the Tea Party
united, seeking to end the nebulous
phrase “big government.” Each participant has his own particular concern: gun regulation, over-taxation,
etc…but all see them as symptoms of
the “big government” illness. In order to demonstrate their unity, they
never needed to produce a pamphlet
contending that the president’s arms
are three or four inches too long. The
greatest achievement these embryonic protests can boast of is to get people
talking, get them asking question they
otherwise wouldn’t. So, has Occupy
Wall Street succeeded in this? Well,
yes. Our school practically boasts of
its reluctance to “burst the Johnny
bubble,” and yet here we are bursting
it.
Occupy Wall Street is not a movement demanding handouts. It is a
movement that wants a steady job
that can support a family to exist as
an option for all American citizens.
It is a movement that, noting policies increasingly favorable to business at the expense of the people,
would like to see a more democratic,
and less plutocratic, political system.
It is a movement that wants the most
powerful members of society to play
by the same values they preach. To
assume the wealthy will not use that
power to define policies favorable to
them is painfully naïve. To assume a
lawmaker is immune to corruption,
by virtue of being American, is ridiculous. Finally, to assume the heads
of corporations care about their employee’s standards of living more than
their own paychecks is, to borrow a
phrase, to refuse to confront reality.
Your enemies are not those marching,
but those who have convinced you to
fight against your own beliefs!" #$%&'"
()*+,-$!"!
08
!"#"$%&$!"!"#$%&'()&*
A group of dastardly freshmen enjoy the condiments they’ve brought to their table.
> Wyatt Hope A’15
W
hat is wrong with you people? last one, and you're only allowing that
This behavior is bordering on to happen sooner. Not only that, you are
the sociopathic, and it makes me feel ill. encouraging and enabling him. He sees
There are only so many bottles of Srira- only one bottle left there and thinks, “If
cha in the dining hall and not a single all the other bottles have been taken, I
person at this school, student or tutor, suppose I'm allowed to take this one
is important enough to justify bringing too.”
a third of the entire dining hall's spicy
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
goodness to his own table. You plan on You might have no idea that what you
sharing with everyone at your table? Not are doing is wrong. It could be that you
an excuse. You can
don't understand
choose instead to
that you are coming
share with the rest
between a man and
You might have no idea
of the dining hall by
the basic human
that what you are doing
leaving the bottle
right to flavor his
is wrong. It could be that
where it belongs.
food. Forgive me
you don’t understand that for bursting your
The condiments
you are coming between a bubble of blissare placed on the
table at the enman and the basic human ful ignorance (or
trance of the dining
don't forgive me, I
right to flavor his food.
hall for a reason: it's
really don’t care),
fucking convenient.
but when someone
When your food is on your plate and the comes around to your table and asks,
chili sauce is there on the table, what is “Are you done with this sauce?” know
stopping you from using it right there that what he means to say is, “Have you
and leaving it? If your hands are too full no decency?”
to comfortably maneuver the bottle,
This isn't just about Sriracha. It perput down your plate and leave the bot- tains to the ketchup, the steak sauce,
tle where you left it so the next person mustard, and Tabasco. These are all
doesn't have to search for it.
things that we need, and we each have
You might not feel guilty for taking a an equal stake in them. Surely, absolute
bottle to your table while another still control of our favorite condiment is a
remains with the condiments. You might luxury we all want, but it is one we can
reason that the only wrongdoer is the not share. Have you forgotten about Lycone who takes the last bottle, but this urgus? Have you forgotten that we dine
isn't true and you should understand together as equals, and that no man is
why. You know someone will take the privileged over another? !
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Jocks of the Week
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Come see Shakespeare's Titus
Andronicus, as presented by the
King William's Players!
The performances take place on
Friday, November 4 – 4:15 PM
Saturday, November 5 – 6:15 PM
Sunday, November 6 – 6:15 PM
Mr. Reese
All of the performances will take
place at the French Monument
near the boathouse. As the play
will be performed outside, please
dress warmly, and feel free to
bring blankets!
Complimentary hot chocolate
and coffee will be provided. Bring
your friends and family, and
come enjoy one of Shakespeare's
bloodiest plays.
Ms. Moon
!"#$%&'()*+,,-')."/)01+,1'2!The Art of American Illustration
Mitchell Art Gallery, October 27 - December 15, 2011
> Daniell Lobo Dias A’12
T
N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945), Bruce on the Beach, 1921. Oil
on canvas. Kelly Collection of American Illustration
he colors of the butter-textured oil paint indulged my eyes. Immediately, I recognized the plot and was drawn into the drama of the characters: the shining eyes of the adventurous hero, the nightmarish slump
of the villain, or the sly smile of the seductress.... This was my experience
when seeing the works of the Mitchell Gallery’s newest exhibit: Knights,
Crooks and Heroes: The Art of American Illustration.
The golden age of American illustration flourished in the late 19th century. Due to improvements in printing technology, book illustrations were
mass-produced to satisfy the demand for literature from the growing educated population. Though illustrators struggled to be recognized as true
artists at the time, the poetry of their works undeniably flows out to the
viewer. Among the represented stories, we have Captain Blood, A Voice in
the Rice, Les Misérables, and The Count of Monte Cristo, as created by wellknown illustrators such as Frank Schoonover, Jessie Willcox Smith, and
N.C. Wyeth.
The exhibit, curated by the Gallery’s own Art Educator, Lucinda Edinberg, is a collection of privately-owned pieces. So make sure to not miss this
opportunity to be enchanted.
Check out some of the Gallery’s events through the St. John’s website
or Facebook, including tours led by Lucinda Edinberg herself on 11/13 and
12/7. !
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subject altogether because personalizing the question makes
it terrifying. If I sense emptiness in me, what does that say
about who I am?
The creeping specter of our own meaninglessness, suggested by hyper-boredom, is uncomfortable enough that we
regularly blunt it through agreeable distractions. This might
be a reasonable solution for simple boredom; simply fend off
> Jerry Januszewski
tedium with novelty. But the experience of hyper-boredom is
’ll never forget my father’s reaction when he found me read- deeper, chronic and not dependent on external factors. Hying the magnificent How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler. per-boredom is largely metaphysical; experienced apart from
“You’re reading a book about reading a book?” he asked in dis- sensory events. Seeking better distractions, more inventive
belief. “Diane!” he called to my mother. “Why did we ever take and original experiences, may be sufficient to reduce simple
boredom, but only expands our capacity for aching hyperhim out of Catholic school?”
I can forgive anyone for having the same dubious reaction boredom.
This sheds light on why the pursuit of pleasure for pleaas my father when I say one of the most exciting books I ever
read is about boredom. Boredom, Self and Culture by Seán Des- sure’s sake invariably results in boredom. We want the pleamond Healy helped me consolidate thoughts I’d had for years sure that thrills to continue thrilling indefinitely. But our response to the pleasure adapts, tolerance increases, what was
about the paradoxical devastation and beauty of boredom.
Most people trivialize the experience of boredom. Healy novel becomes ordinary; the thrill is gone and we are left even
writes, “This supposedly commonplace perception of [bore- more susceptible to hyper-boredom than before we started. If
dom] as a virtual unavoidable occupational hazard, disagree- you like to drink, you might find that it now takes four beers
able but harmless, possessed even as it might be of redeem- to accomplish the buzz that used to come with two beers. This
ing educational value inasmuch as it prepares its victims for should concern you, not for fear of alcoholism, but for fear
the greater boredom to come—a kind of educational vaccine of your inner life becoming even more vulnerable to hyperstimulating the production of characterological antibodies to boredom.
The redemptive potential of boredom exists in the possibilcontain future onslaughts.”
ity that the discomfort will drive us to devote honest attention
If only it were that benign. In reality, boredom is usually
corrosive and destructive to the human personality. It is a ma- to our souls’ true need: its thirst for meaning, not distraction.
What does my experience of emptiness
jor factor in the self-defeating behavior
reveal about my fears and my needs?
patterns that cause us all so much pain.
The redemptive potential
Our inner unrest is a portal leading to
And yet, within the experience of boreof boredom exists in the
answers to that question and more.
dom resides the potential for self-knowlIn Dante’s Inferno, the lost souls in
possibility that the discomedge leading to deep fulfillment.
Hell rushed to their judgement, desirHealy makes the distinction between
fort will drive us to devote
ing the very thing they feared. If we are
simple boredom and hyper-boredom.
honest attention to our
to lay hold of Beauty begat of Boredom,
Simple boredom comes from tedious
souls’ true need: its thirst for we must confront the same inclination
activity, a reaction to a monotonous irmeaning, not distraction.
in our own souls to rush to the usual diritant. Hyper-boredom is a more serious
versions that perpetuate the hellish hydeep-seated agony, rooted in a perception of inner emptiness. Simple boredom is a response to an per-boredom we fear. Avoiding the confrontation with your
external something. Hyper-boredom is a response to an in- own emptiness leads to a greater, more protracted and painful
ternal nothing. It is this hyper-boredom, the true subject of struggle in the end.
Are you willing to allow your experience of boredom to act
Healy’s book, that I take very seriously.
The experience of hyper-boredom is manifestly intoler- as your guide? Begin by examining yourself: how do I divert
able. Proof of this is found in how quickly, almost desperately, myself when bored? Then make a start by “sitting” with yourwe seek to escape it. We feel bored, that is, empty, and almost self instead of rushing to the diversion. Note the resistance
instantaneously we take evasive action, doing just about any- you feel. What is being resisted? The perception of noththing to divert ourselves: text someone, use the computer, turn ing? Practice waiting it out until something emerges from the
on music, eat, drink or smoke. Even fiddling with a pen will do. nothing, as it will in time.
This is the struggle, resisting the urge to flee to the pleasant
Almost any diverting activity is preferred to the interior perception of emptiness we euphemistically call boredom. The distraction. Try this when you feel nervous in a social situamore keenly felt, the more assiduously avoided. Since hyper- tion. Ask yourself why your discomfort is there, challenge its
boredom is so easily appeased without being truly remedied, validity instead of drinking your way out of it. As we progress,
we learn how enfeebling the distraction was and how invigowe fail to recognize its controlling power.
As Healy notes, the common denominator of all hyper-bore- rating this manner of self-discovery can be.
The perception of inner emptiness, what Healy calls hyperdom is the loss of personal meaning. The idea of life without
boredom, is not a nuisance but an invitation to a radical change
meaningful purpose panics the soul. Many people are reluctant to examine this in a personal way; they may do so only in our approach to life. This inquisitive attitude towards borewith detached philosophic interest. Or they may avoid the dom is counter-intuitive, ironic and yes, exciting. !
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!"#$%&'()*
we lost our
! Have of the sacredunderstanding of beauty? Ian Tuttle’s latest column explores the
place
in the modern age.
> Ian Tuttle A’14
R
omeo Castrucelli’s On the Concept of the Face, Regarding century-long development that has sought to vulgarize the sathe Son of God tells the story of an adult son caring for his cred: Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ, for example, a photograph
aged, incontinent father. Behind the events on stage, which of a small wooden crucifix submerged in the artist’s urine; or
culminate in the declining father despoiling his son’s immacu- Enrique Chagoya’s The Misadventures of the Romantic Canlate bedroom, hangs a blown-up image of Jesus taken from a nibals, which depicts Jesus reaching orgasm while receiving
painting by Antonello da Messina. The play ends with the im- oral sex.
age shredded onstage, revealing the words, “You Are Not My
Perverse modernism has destroyed the distinction between
Shepherd.” The “Not” disappears as another image of Jesus the sacred and the profane. It is the manifestation of an ideolreturns, this time with simulated excrement drizzling from ogy that says that there is nothing to us beyond our corpses, so
his right eye.
there is nothing that need be (or could be) nourished or upThe play, which has been staged in several European cit- lifted; it is, as Bayles says, “anarchistic, nihilistic.”
ies without incident, made headlines this week when a group
When simple obscenity of the human body was no longer
of Parisian Christians interrupted a performance, throwing shocking (indeed, Italian artist Piero Manzoni was canning his
stinkbombs into the audience and decrying “Christianopho- own excrement 50 years ago), artists had to find a new shockbia.” French politicians and artists, as well as the French Ro- inducing subject, and they turned to religious icons. But we
man Catholic bishops’ association, roundly condemned the are seeing that even this vulgarization is losing its ability to
action.
“upset the normal order”; it has become the normal order.
Headlines aside, though, the whole matter has been rather What, then, will be next? When a culture’s most sacred imaghumdrum. Castrucelli’s image has not created global outrage es have lost their transcendent element—when they no longer
(cp. the worldwide death threats that followed a 2005 Danish reveal heights of “emotion or mind or spirit”—how will artists
newspaper cartoon depicting the Prophet
shock us? It seems that, at that point, they
Muhammad wearing a bomb as a turban),
will have to vulgarize the vulgar. That will
nor has it revolutionized modern theatre.
be the era when violent pornography and
Perverse modernism
Guardian drama critic Michael Billingmutilation become performance art. And
has destroyed the dis- what, at that point, will be left to transcend
ton, reviewing the play in April, wrote, “I
tinction between the
found myself mildly bored rather than morand uplift?
ally outraged.” Perhaps, then, what is most
Is there a solution to this trend?
sacred and the profane.
shocking about Castrucelli’s feces-covered
Thoughtful legal parameters may be necChrist is that it is no longer shocking. At
essary, at the very least to protect children
some point over the last century, we became inured to the ob- from the devastating effects of exposure to graphic images.
scene. And we have come to tolerate not simply obscenity but But the nature of the problem precludes solely legal soluobscenity involving that which was previously held sacred.
tions. Necessary is a resurrection of a notion of true beauty,
In an interview on the Mars Hill Audio Journal, author Mar- what generations past may have considered “high culture.” As
tha Bayles characterizes the trajectory of much post-1930s art, author Mark Steyn observes, “popular culture” is a meaningbeginning with Dada, as “perverse modernism,” an under- less phrase; all culture is now popular. Just as we no longer
standing of art not as an object but as a “gesture” that rejects distinguish between the sacred and the profane, we no lonall claims to transcendence, religious or otherwise. Bayles ger distinguish between a high culture of true beauty and a
calls it “a finger in your eye…it’s a way of shocking people; lower culture that is pleasant and enriching if not as exquiit’s a way of upsetting the normal order.” But where the first sitely powerful. Some will argue that calling for a renewal of
Dadaists could shock easily (eg. drawing a mustache on the ideas of beauty and sacredness incorporates passé value judgMona Lisa), nearly a century of shock-centered art has raised ments or, worse, religious imperialism. But it does not take
the standard; we are no longer easily perturbed, and that has religious faith to recognize that a society that celebrates Bach
led to an obsession with obscenity, which Bayles defines as “an and Michelangelo will be much healthier than one that celangle of vision toward our material and physical life…that just ebrates 50 Cent and Paul McCarthy (whose masterpieces inlooks at us as physical, material entities, that removes from clude Shit Face Painting and Penis Brush Painting, Windshield,
your attention the human dimension, the dimension of emo- Black Paint).
tion or mind or spirit.”
Perhaps Castrucelli is saying something profound. Perhaps
This is precisely what Castrucelli’s image does. It forces the the play is a soul-searching commentary on faith or sacrifice
audience to view Jesus strictly as material, no different in sub- or love in the modern age. But it is hard to believe so. It is
stance than the excrement pouring from his eye. And in doing hard to believe that there can be much beautiful in defiling
so, he creates exactly what Bayles says is the effect of obscen- the sacred.
ity: “a kind of deadening of the world, a removal of the things
The question is not whether these artists should be allowed
that are important in life.”
to create this type of art. The question is what we have beBut Castrucelli’s image is only the latest installment in a come when we consider it beautiful. !
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> S. Meggison A’15
Tuesday 11/1
SJC Orchestra Rehearsal
Great Hall, 4-5:30 PM
Kunai Soccer
Back Campus, 4-6 PM
Shakespeare in the Fall
Henry IV, Part II
General Hartle, 7:30-9:30 PM
Open Mic Night
Chasement, 8 PM
Dance Lessons
Great Hall, 8-9 PM
Wednesday 11/2
Athenian Reason Ball
H v D, 3:50 PM
St. John’s Chorus
Great Hall, 7 PM
Thursday 11/3
SCI Forum
Junior and Senior Lab Practica
Private Dining Room, 11:45 PM
Friday 11/4
Kunai Soccer
Back Campus, 4-6 PM
Parent’s Weekend Lecture
Eva Brann:“Talking, Reading
Writing, Listening: A Talk for
Parents and Students”
FSK Auditorium, 8:15 PM
Saturday 11/5
Mental Health Support Group
BBC Room 109, 10:30 AM
Shape Note Singing Group
Mellon Room 133, 1-3 PM
Sunday 11/6
Smith-McDowell Cup, 1:30 PM
Soccer
D v G, 3:30 PM
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f you ask me where I’m from, I’ll tell show was Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for
you North Carolina, but in the back Cutie...fangirl swoon). From there, I disof my mind I’ll be a little unsure if that’s covered the vibrant and vital music and
the correct answer. All my life, I’ve felt culture of the Triangle cities: Raleigh,
a bit homeless. Yes, I grew up in North Durham, and Chapel Hill. It was a gloCarolina from ages 3 to 18, but I don’t rious revelation for me. Over the years
have any real ties there. My parents are I’ve seen several good shows in those
from Connecticut and New York, so I’ve towns. Most significantly, I happened
spent a fair bit of time up there too. I upon a relatively unknown Chapel Hill
was born in Iowa, because my dad was band called I Was Totally Destroying It
in chiropractic school. And now, living (GO LOOK THEM UP RIGHT NOW
in Annapolis, I feel a bit all over the map I BEG OF YOU) that changed my life.
with no base to call my home.
Their music helped me through some
But I love North
personal hard times
Carolina and my heart
and helped me to see
Now that North Caro- that my home state rehas forged her own tie
to it. It wasn’t always
ally does have a lot of
lina and I are taking
like that, though. I
wonderful things to
some time apart, I
hated it when I was
feel like our relation- offer.
younger. I’m from a
And it really is my
ship is changing.
little town called Wilhome state, even if
liamston (population
it’s not quite my home
5,000 and dropping), but I won’t even right now. Without it, I’d be a completetry to tell you where it is geographi- ly different person. I guess the point is
cally, because there isn’t anything that that sometimes a situation can seem
I could reference that you would recog- completely terrible and worthless, but
nize. Suffice it to say, it is located in the even so, there is always something to be
rural northeastern part. Yeah, redneck/ gained from any experience if you look
deer hunting/tobacco chewing/pickup hard enough. Maybe I’ll find myself in
truck/Bible Belt/Bojangles sweet tea Chapel Hill upon graduating from St.
heaven. Not really my thing. But de- John’s, or maybe I won’t, but whatever
spite my personal dissatisfaction with happens, North Carolina will always
the area, it really did help me to become have my heart.
who I am for the better. The contrast
To quote my dear I Was Totally Deprovided me with a context to figure out stroying It’s cover of “In A Big Counwho I am as a person.
try,” “But you can’t stay here with every
Now that North Carolina and I are single hope you have shattered...In a big
taking some time apart, I feel like our re- country dreams stay with you.” And to
lationship is changing. I crave it in this quote their own song “Wake Up,” “Tonew and strange way. I started to actu- bacco Road, that’s my home.” Thus,
ally like NC when I was about 15 and dis- home helps you become who you are,
covered a music club in Carrboro (close but sometimes you have to get out in orto Chapel Hill) called Cat’s Cradle (the der to put those lessons to use. !
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Hooray! For Demarchy! 04
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St. John’s College • 60 College Ave, Annapolis, MD 21401 • Dec. 6, 2011 • Vol. XXXIII • Issue 12
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o the Gadfly:
I want to thank everyone who participated in the Oxfam Fast for a World
Harvest this past month. This is the twenty-second consecutive year the fast
has been held at the Annapolis campus. This year 120 students and 7 faculty
and staff members participated, skipping 287 meals and donating $490 in
cash, in addition to the meal plan money. All these numbers are down significantly from last year. (Well, we already knew that times are tough.) We can
still be proud that so large a proportion of our student population participated, compared to the many other colleges and universities at which Oxfam
fasts are held. Exact figures are not yet available, but the total sum raised for
Oxfam America will probably be in excess of $1000. Special thanks should go
to Bronté Jones, Susan Beyerlein, Pat Burkhardt, and the staff at the Treasurer’s Office; to Ted Canto and the staff at Bon Appétit; to the Print Shop;
and to Aissatou Diagne, Alexandria Hinds, Alex Leone, and Sarah Marx, who
volunteered their time.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Tuck
Tutor !
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<< Cover: Tom Mills (A’12) and Alexander
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ear Editor,
A quick look into the Greek dictionary that is prescribed to all freshmen
at Convocation will reveal the fact that there is no such word as !"#$%. The
feminine plural of !"&#, whose perfectly proper translation is “the bitches,” is
$%''!"#(). The masculine is *%'!"#(), correctly translated as “the dogs.”
There is actually an authority that can erase !"#$% from our sports
vocabulary: the Women’s Athletic Advisory Committee. I can imagine three
reasons for failing to do so: 1. Some people think transgression is creative.
2. Some people think that errors very long entrenched become right usage.
(Certain contemporary dictionaries adopt this principle explicitly.) 3. Some
people delight in Nonbeing.
On my part, I believe that obedience to paradigms is an intellectual virtue.
Sincerely,
Eva Brann
Tutor
P.S. I have a bet with a colleague on the efficacy of this letter. !
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Thucydides
Augustine
Montaigne
Moby Dick
Mr. Cleon unfortunately
is all style and no substance.
> Anonymous
Mr. Hippo does well
in discussions of good
and evil, but all of his
comments tend to be
fruit-related.
> Ian Tuttle
Mr. Montaigne often
fails to stay on topic in
his papers.
> Patrick Beeby
Mr. Ahab seems to latch
onto single ideas to the
exclusion of all else, and
pile upon them the sum
of all the general rage
and hate felt by his whole
race from Adam down.
> Charlie Cargal
NEXT WEEK
How does your seminar character respond to the theft of his favorite possession?
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> Barbara McClay A’12
O
n November 17, the SCI met to discuss the efficacy of the
writing workshop the SCI and writing assistance had put
together, and to discuss writing at St. John’s more generally.
Those who had been at the initial writing workshop agreed
that it had been a success: the attendance had been much better
than expected, and those present had found the advice given
helpful. The subsequent workshops that writing assistance
had been running throughout the year had been productive,
even if more sparsely attended. It was decided that another,
larger writing workshop could be beneficial before essay
writing period.
After this, the conversation turned toward two further
topics: what did the SCI consider the value of writing at St.
John’s to be, and how could it help the student body to write
better?
The main value of
The main value of
writing at St. John’s
writing at St. John’s
was agreed to be that
was agreed to be
it helps students to
that it helps students think more clearly. Or,
to think more clearly. to quote Francis Bacon,
it is true that “reading
maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an
exact man.” Even though St. John’s is a talking school, not a
writing school, writing is still a necessary component of the
classroom conversation. More than one student commented
that the most articulate students are often the best writers.
So what are the common problems with student writing?
One issue raised was that St. John’s papers seem to lack
an audience. Even though tutors were technically the
audience paper, many papers seem uninterested or unable
to communicate a thought. Student papers also are often
rushed—although perhaps sometimes because they are not
“
assigned far enough in advance. Overall, it seemed fair to say
that most student papers were not rigorous, even when it
came to the annual essay or the senior essay.
In addition, some freshmen thought that it is difficult to tell
whether or not their essays are good or bad from the paper
conference alone, and the fact that there is no consistent
faculty position “on” writing complicated things further.
Freshmen also struggled with certain aspects of writing, such
as asking the right questions, and did not feel that they were
getting strong guidance on those issues.
To combat these problems, a few solutions were suggested.
One was that it might be
helpful for tutors to make
The fact that there is
writing a more formally
no consistent faculty
structured
process,
position “on” writing
requiring first drafts and
complicated things
making students start
their papers earlier in the
further.
writing process. Another
suggestion was to find some way of encouraging students
to remain in a “prewriting” state of mind when working on
their homework, so that, when an essay is assigned, it would
be easier for them to sort through their questions and write
a more thoughtful essay. Encouragement of peer-editing was
also discussed. Also important was making sure students
knew that writing assistance was not just for remedial writing
help, but also for helping students work through questions or
structure their essays.
The consensus of all present was that writing is an important
aspect of the St. John’s program, and one in which students
receive too little useful guidance. “We don’t teach people how
to be good writers,” one SCI member commented. “If you’re
an okay writer, nobody will help you get better.” !
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You’re not the kind of person who gives
compliments.
After all, compliments are just words,
right?
Maybe you’re right, I’m too needy.
Why should you have to prop me up that
way?
It makes sense.
What is it that makes me want your
approval?
You have contempt for that.
You’ve always been smarter than me.
Still, I do remember the time you smiled
at me,
As I entered the chapel.
You were praying.
A smile is like a compliment.
No, I don’t remember any other time.
It’s too bad. We would have been very
happy.
But you’re not the kind of person who
gives compliments.
And I’m not the kind of person who can
live without them.
’m not really one to express political people would make lousy decisions and
opinions. I find that I don’t really fit suffer the consequences. I personally
into the current system, and that my think this is awesome, because it means
views aren’t so much controversial as that the character of a country—wise or
they are excessively quaint: they’re foolish, virtuous or vicious, courageous
cute but impractical, and not very often or cowardly—would be reflected by
taken too seriously. This is probably its prosperity. We would get what we
the quaintest thing I believe, but I also deserve, and thus we would be forced
think it’s the most interesting, so I to confront our own characters, as
figured I’d share and see what people individuals and as a nation. If we thrived,
think.
it’d be because we were educated,
Demarchy is a political system in well-informed, and responsible, and
which those who end up in office are if we collapsed, it’d be because of our
selected by random lottery. Those own lack of virtue (contrast this with
people serve for a limited time, serve the current system, which encourages
anonymously, and are kicked out at greed, brown-nosing, manipulation,
the end of an election cycle, replaced and general mediocre sliminess). This
by fellow private citizens. While they would mean lots of serious, intent care
work they are isolated from the rest over the character of others. Things
of the country, free from contact from like getting involved at poorly funded
special interest groups. No one can public schools, for example, would be a
bribe them, and no one can manipulate lot more appealing if you believed that
them in any way. It’s a weird idea, and, the people in that school had a future—
in my opinion, it’s a good idea.
that, in fact, one of them could end
Here’s an example: math class. up part of a group that ran the whole
Apollonius is hard and scary, and I country. Irresponsible parenting would
imagine that some
be more intensely
students would be too
frowned
upon,
We would get what
intimidated by him
education
would
we deserve, and thus become as pressing
to ever learn Conics.
But our math class
an issue as it deserves
we would be forced
randomly
selects
to be, and, altogether,
to confront our own
presenters, and you
we would be much
characters, as individ- more invested in
feel embarrassed and
slow down the class
the character of the
uals and as a nation.
if you don’t know the
country as a whole.
proposition you get called for. Apply
A huge advantage of the system is
that same basic idea to government, that it eliminates the current dearth of
and you’ve got demarchy.
temperament variation among political
There are obviously some pitfalls. figures. Let’s face it: you’d have to be a
For one, you’d need to make the little bit insane to want to be president
government offices pretty big in order in the modern world. It’s an absurd
to assure that the people who end up amount of responsibility, celebrity,
in office form a fair representation of power, and pain to take on as an
what the country believes, while still individual, and you would really need
maintaining randomness. This would a messiah/megalomaniac complex
make for all sorts of group-dynamics in order to actually want it. But in
problems among those who worked demarchy, you’d get very reluctant
within the same branch (one hundred people joining the government. That
little, anonymous presidents trying to allows for a more even distribution
figure out what to do about a given war, of temperaments, a more honest
for example.) Let’s just posit, for the reflection of not only the country, but
moment, that these problems are more humanity in general. It would even
or less accounted for.
allow for the occasional philosopherThe second problem is that there king to have a shot.
would be much, much less separation
Another great aspect of this system
between the character of a country is that it isolates the ideas from the
and the way it acts. This means that a
>> Continued on page 05
country made of ignorant, uninvolved
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<< Hooray! For Demarchy!
continued from page 04
individuals who have them. Instead of a “State of the
Union” address, where its reception depends more than
anything on histrionics and speech-writing, we would
have an anonymous list of policies and their effectiveness.
Ideas themselves would have to survive the acid test of
media scrutiny, not the people behind them. Furthermore,
instead of presidents who got where they are because of
economic connections, charisma, and the ability to write
well and memorize facts—the skills necessary for making
it through the current educational system—we would have
life experience as a means of learning leadership and clear
thinking. It would be altogether much more democratic.
The main impetus of this idea is that a transition to
demarchy would be a primarily social reform. Do you want
to have a prosperous country? Under this system, you’d
need a society composed on the whole of thoughtful, wellinformed people who are willing and able to hear both
sides of an issue and make a compromise. If we can’t do
that, then we don’t deserve the prosperity we have, and the
destruction of it would, in my opinion, be a good thing. The
idea is to create a system where we, as citizens of a whole,
are responsible for what we get, and get what we deserve.
An unwillingness to embrace this idea reveals, I think,
an aversion to this very simple justice; why, then, are we
so determined to claim a right to the unjust privileges we
have?
I think it’s a neat idea. I think that it would make the
whole system more exciting. Instead of two parties, both of
which represent political ideologies that are fundamentally
muddled and unsound—since both need to be a catch-all for
the opinions of millions of people, when getting as many as
a hundred to think seriously and honestly and nonetheless
completely agree is nearly impossible—we would have a
mix of people of every kind of belief system, all working to
do what they believe is best. Would the whole world crash
and burn if it happened? Sure, but that’s what we deserve as
a whole, so I can’t complain. And, who knows, maybe we’re
not as bad as we seem to be; maybe we just need the chance.
Besides, seeing as how your name might be called out on
election night, it would make participation in the system
much, much, much more interesting. Considering how
dysfunctional things are now, perhaps interest is exactly
what we need. !
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Abigail Petrich, daughter of tutor Louis Petrich, gets a head start
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> Abigail Petrich A’28 • First Grade, Jones Elementary
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ecause it is beautiful and it teaches
you a lot of things. It has got parties
and kids have fun. And there is a big park
for the dog to play in. Machines give
you candy. And they also have a field for
playing soccer. And my dad works there.
His chair spins round and round. !
THIS CHRISTMAS,
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GIVE A CUPCAK
The Veg Club is selling Santa Grams for $2 in the Coffee Shop Mon-Fri this week at
lunch. The Grams will get sent through Campus Mail and can be redeemed for a cupcake
of choice after Seminar Monday the 12th.
What a sweet way to show someone you care + support a polity organization!
>> You can also special order a larger batch of cupcakes for a tutorial meeting. Talk to Alexandra Fitzmorris, Veg Club archousa, for more details.
�Senior
>> BRANDON CARNEY
Freshman
>> JORDAN LOVINGER
Visit our Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/sjcagadfly,
where you can find pictures of all the contestants and cast
your vote in our online poll.
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>> ALEX LEONE
Junior
Junior
>> TOMMY BONN
>> DANNY KRAFT
Sophomore
>> HAYDEN PENDERGRASS
Junior
>> JON BARONE
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A Call to Double-Edged Swords: A Vindication of Writing
> Robert Malka A’15
D
ear Reader,
if you have this laundry list of complaints and can’t even really
They say that writing for “fun” is a fulfilling activ- produce anything worthy of note? That, for me, reveals a very
ity that allows you to learn about yourself, the topic at hand personal answer, which I think Mr. Daniel Webster sums up
(which, if you keep up a blog, is probably also yourself ), and is beautifully:
otherwise a therapeutic medium of expression. On the other
hand, writing for a public audience seems to evoke more of a
By running along the line of future time, by contemplatHemingway mindset. He once said, “There is nothing to writing the probable fortunes of those who are coming after
ing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Despite
us, by attempting something which may promote their
Hemingway’s hipster vibe (Typewriter? Really, dude?), he’s
happiness, and leave some not dishonorable memorial of
got a point: I have been bleeding for a solid two months now
ourselves for their regard, when we shall sleep with the
trying to get a half-decent article in ink.
fathers, we protract our own earthly being, and seem to
You would not believe how hard it is for me to write about
crowd whatever is future, as well as all that is past, into
anything insightful for this newspaper. I’ve concocted ideas,
the narrow compass of our earthly existence.
written and re-written and re-re-written introductions, agonized over connotations; I have had seventeen different verIn short, I want not only to leave a piece of myself for the fusions of the same sentence at one point lined up on the same ture to see, but also to leave something that may benefit manpage to see which one is funniest. (I ended up
kind in some way, shape, or form, if only for a
dumping them all in favor of an eighteenth.)
moment, in what is effectively eternity. And
When it comes down that is as difficult as it sounds.
Not only do I end up frequently questioning
the strength of the ideas about which I am
When it comes down to the torturously
to the torturously
writing throughout the whole process, but it
difficult reality of putting pen to paper, the
difficult reality of
is rather easy to agonize over clarity, comedy,
secret is that there are no secrets. It takes
putting pen to paand a stable tone to keep the whole piece in,
an absurd amount of hard work to look at
well, one piece.
per, the secret is that something you have written and rip it apart
But mercilessly critiquing my own work
was
there are no secrets. because it fluffy,disjointed, or directionless,
and sobbing about its sheer inferiority isn’t
or overly
or just, well, bad. And it
even the worst part. The worst part is that
takes a lot of guts to take something that we
somehow everyone else is able to write excellent articles with think might not be an eye-opening, Earth-shattering collecflawless continuity, so it’s not like I get to assuage my bruised tion of insights and post them in a place for all to see. Edna St.
soul with thoughts of, “At least nobody else here can write.”
Vincent Millay wrote, “A person who publishes a book willI mean, some of my peers word-vomit the most delicious fully appears before the populace with his pants down.” We
visual chocolate in fifteen minutes. (That was not supposed to writers, eternal masochists, seem inclined toward public huevoke any actual image of vomited chocolate in your head.) I miliation, all pursuing that moment when we are talked about
am not sure if it is the caffeine or divine inspiration that brings somewhere in time.
about the ability to get to the crux of a question and commuAnd you know what? In its own way, that is an end that is
nicate it so easily, but hearing their keyboards clack away in highly fulfilling to us. As writers who write not for ourselves,
seamless rhythmic glory makes me want to punch an infant. but for you, I like to think that we quietly hope, deep in our
Not a real infant or anything, just the form of infant, you know? hearts, that you are enamored with our contemplations about
It frustrates me, is what I am trying to say.
the future, and that it sticks with you for some time after you
So why do I continue to write, you are most certainly asking, close these pages. !
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�The Gadfly
When Cognitive Science
Fails to Preserve the
Integrity of Morality
09
> Ty Kun GI
O
n Friday, November 11, 2011, a man distinguished in his moral culpability”? If one bases his or her moral decisions on
field came to campus to give a lecture on morality. He a principle like, “With the exception of self-defense, killing
attempted to provide evidence for why cognitive science is a someone is wrong, regardless of whether the ‘consequences’
meaningful study for answering the questions of morality— lead to the saving of more lives,” then Greene’s caricature of
or at least understanding them better than we presently do. morality becomes exposed. By choosing to not kill even one
There are numerous lines of attack against almost everything villager for the sake of all the others, one has acknowledged
this man had to say, but I will focus on what I think is the most that genuine moral responsibility begins and ends with an
important. Underneath most arguments, whether they are individual’s volition.
about ethics, politics, or even epistemology, one can often gain
By reducing all moral considerations to those that involve
a great deal of insight into the author’s ontology. The crux of positive prescriptions—namely, proactive choices to perform,
this man’s argument rested upon an ontological commitment act, or do something to another—Greene has repudiated all
that was never explicitly expressed.
moral theory that suggests it is what you don’t do that makes
Without providing too much background information, I you moral. In addition, how and why have all of Greene’s moral
will recreate his argument and the ontological implications judgments been confined to those involving a reaction against
that must logically fall out from it. The cardinal premise in forces beyond one’s control? The reason is because Greene
his argument is revealed in the “trolley car” scenario. By presupposes that every individual’s action is calculable, or at
introducing this strict utilitarian principle, he has already least explainable, through determinate causes, namely genetic
confined moral considerations to one particular type of ethical and environmental ones.
theory. In the example, there are two dilemmas: the first
Some will ask, “How can we be sure that this man denies
illustrates the impact of the utilitarian maxim, “the greatest free will?” A close examination of Greene’s presentation
good for the greatest number” (with “good” sometimes should reveal the veracity of my claim about his ontology,
replaced with “happiness”), and the
but I would also remind this someone
second introduces the “decision” that
to read the article entitled, “For the
By reducing all moral considan individual must make concerning
Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing
erations to those that involve and Everything” (Greene and Cohen,
whether he should kill one person to
positive prescriptions—
save several. From the onset, the deck
2004), which was sent by Greene
is rigged.
to prompt the pre-lecture seminar.
namely, proactive choices to
What is the trolley car itself supposed
perform, act, or do something Furthermore, you can peruse his
to represent? How did the prospective
website and not only find the aforesaid
to another—Greene has remoral agent become responsible for
article there but access many of his
pudiated all moral theory that other publications as well.
determining who lives and who dies?
suggests its what you don’t do
An original and superior (in my opinion)
In short, the trolley car represents
utilitarian scenario that Joshua
forces that supersede an individual’s
that makes you moral.
Greene avoided involves the following
volition and generates situations that
consideration: You have recently befriended a native group may not be morally relevant. In strict reference to the trolley
of Indians in Central America, and a group of Conquistadors car’s symbolism, I think Greene would be hard-pressed to
enters the village. Its leader gives you an ultimatum: you deny its role as a deterministic one, because the validity of
either kill one of the Indians, and the rest will be saved, or his argument necessitates a commitment to an ontology that
the leader and his gang will murder the entire group. It is denies free will; otherwise, his conclusion could be rather
precisely at this point that one should sense something awry. attractive. If we really didn’t have control over the actions
How did the moral burden get transferred to me? Why am I that result from our biologically determined moral intuition
suddenly responsible for the Indians’ lives? Virtue ethics, (a highly controversial claim, yet it functions as a given in
and many ethical theories other than Greene’s, propose that his argument) or from runaway trolley cars, then it would
each individual is responsible for his or her decision and the seem plausible that our responses to moral dilemmas fit his
actions that follow. Are we automatically supposed to label an model. However, if an action or the eschewal from an action (a
individual immoral if she tells the leader, “Hey, the death of negative prescription) stems from volition that was informed
all these people is on you! You are the one doing the killing by a process of reasoning (and not necessarily Kantian), then
and attempting to make me feel responsible for your own we have a whole new realm of morality to consider. !
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> Wolfe Nelson A’14
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In an ongoing debate on the Occupy movement,
Wolfe Nelson disagrees with Ian Tuttle’s notion
of the “Riot Generation” in the last installment of
“Bursting the Johnnie Bubble.”
8
The Gadfly
et’s talk about violence: In Oakland, Kayvan Sabehgi, a police captain even praised the Occupiers for how helpful
three-tour veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, was so badly and cordial they were during the investigation. Although
beaten by police that his spleen was lacerated. He was unarmed this should go without saying, rape is not anyone’s political
and protesting non-violently. The police then arrested platform. It’s a horrific act that the opposition has been using
him. He called to the guards all night, begging for medical to discredit Occupy, because using a fucking rape victim as a
attention. They did not respond. Though he was bailed out in political tool isn’t callous at all. The fact is, almost all violence
the afternoon, he was in too much pain to walk. They left him in the movement has come directly from the authorities,
there, moaning in a jail cell, until an ambulance was called, and political opposition has been eating it up. As it’s always
finally, at 6 PM. In Seattle, 83-year-old Dorli Rainey was been, opponents to movements cheer while police hospitalize
pepper-sprayed for holding a sign. She appears in a haunting protesters, and condemn protesters as “animals” when they
photograph, her face dripping with pepper-spray and a pain- break a window. Remember Kayvan Sabehgi’s story? I just
easing solution. Two protesters hold her frail form up, her read a blog that faulted him for not going to the hospital soon
eyes puffed with pain and blank with shock.
enough and hinted that it was a plot to
But then, I’m sure the 83-year-old woman
damage the sterling reputation of OPD.
Let’s ignore any political
was quite a threat. Considering she’s
But I’m guessing this is going to fall on
affiliation we may have. deaf ears. Mr. Tuttle’s commentary on the
obviously a member of this riot generation,
police couldn’t have known what she was
Occupy movement has revealed him to
Because perhaps the
capable of. And in Oakland, again, we have
be viciously uninformed. Comparing the
most immediate, the
a veteran of Afghanistan, again, whose skull
most obvious, response Occupy movement and the Penn protests
was fractured by a tear gas canister for
isn’t just insulting; it’s flat out juvenile. To
I can give Mr. Tuttle is:
peacefully protesting, again. Let me narrate
take two things so radically different, but
There wasn’t a riot.
the leaked video: the fleeing Scott Olsen
liken them because they are “protests” is
goes down, obviously seriously injured. A
like saying, “The GOP and the Nazis were
group of protesters run back to help, shrieking, “Medic!” Mind both conservative; they must be the same.” It does nothing
you, they aren’t preventing the police from arresting him. The but show your ignorance and ineptitude to deal with actual
cops stand still, glaring down at the motionless Olsen. Once arguments. If your opponents need to be cartoons before you
the protesters surround the wounded veteran, a riot cop can reply, it might be because you’re too politically shaky to
lobs a flash-bang grenade directly into the middle of them. deal with their actual opinions. Actually, this drivel only turns
Right next to Olsen’s already-fractured skull. This happened you into a cartoon yourself—a caricature of everything that’s
October 25th. Scott Olsen still has difficulty speaking and is wrong with partisan politics. We cannot stand as a republic
confined to an ICU.
if the right to protest, the right to speak freely and publicly,
Let’s pretend that the Occupy movement doesn’t cross is taken. Our political opponent’s access to that right is as
every age barrier, information readily available to anyone with integral as our ally’s. We seem to live in a time that ignores
a computer and sixth-grade literacy skills. Let’s ignore the fact this, that these rights need cooperation to remain. Whenever
that our supposed riot generation took two months of peaceful a protester invokes their First and the authorities meet them
protesting to reach a point Mr. Tuttle can finally dub violent with brutality, the rights of us all are threatened. Yet you only
(Didn’t he say we respond “immediately” with riots?). Let’s recite the old partisan lies, assume the protesters deserved it.
ignore any political affiliation we may have. Because perhaps Or, worse, cheer while their rights, and yours by extension, are
the most immediate, the most obvious, response I can give ignored and cast aside. And why? Because you disagree with
Mr. Tuttle is: There wasn’t a riot. While I don’t claim to know them? As if law only applied to those you agree with. A veteran
precisely how Mr. Tuttle is using that word, I can say that I’m who fought to protect these rights had his skull fractured
relatively sure not one of us would call this a riot: three or four three weeks ago. It might be you stand with those who would
people breaking windows out of seven thousand who scream eradicate our rights by claiming he “deserved” it, but are too
at them: “Non-violent protest! Stay non-violent!”
craven to admit this to yourself. Or you don’t stand with them
No? That’s not a riot? Funny, because that’s what happened but are unwilling to examine the political opinions you are
in Oakland. There were several small moments of aggression, fed. Ridiculously partisan journalism is like a mother bird.
but these were so marginal it takes willful manipulation to You’re not getting the substance; you’re just getting whatever
proclaim this a “riot.” Which, of course, is exactly what is passed through her system and back up again. I’m sure it’s
happening. Mr. Tuttle brings up “sexual assault” as an example more comforting to keep feeding from the parent, but anyone
of the corruption at the heart of the Occupy movement. Yes, outside the nest can tell you’re just taking in puke. Frankly, I
there have been incidents. What he doesn’t say is how swiftly don’t care what you think. But you should care. And when you
the camps themselves dealt with this. In Cleveland, the know, please tell me: did the 83 year-old deserve it, or not? !
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> Ian Tuttle A’14
I
f there is such a thing as a “rock star” of classical scholar- of other transgressions.
ship, Victor Davis Hanson might be it. Currently a Senior
As Hanson points out, this is both decidedly un-Periclean
Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, he is a National and un-American:
Humanities Medal reicipient and the author of more than a
dozen books on ancient Greek history. Hanson’s signature
The unabashed confidence of Pericles in his own civilization
achievement, however, may be his effectiveness in linking deand national ethos, and the eloquence by which he conveyed
velopments in the modern West to the ancient world.
it, were once gold standards for unapologetic Western demoThat was the aim of his October 2011 article in The New
cratic rhetoricians. Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill
Criterion, entitled, “Is America Periclean?” The fascinating
both emulated the speech’s reverence for ancestry, tradition,
essay asks of Pericles’ famous Funeral Oration, “What can this
and cultural exceptionalism as a way of explaining why a confitutorial about national greatness…teach us about the Amerident America or Britain, in extremis, deserved its influence and
can experience in our present age of uncertainty?”
should express it openly beyond its borders.
“It would be hard to imagine,” writes Hanson, “an oration
more disturbing to the modern American elite’s sensibilities
That eloquent expression of deserved exceptionalism has
than Pericles’ majestic funeral oration delivered in the win- been systematically expunged from most mainstream poter of 431/30 B.C.”—because, Hanson argues, the “majestic” litical discourse. Forget that American military intervention
speech is a blistering defense of Athenian “exceptionalism,” saved Europe in both world wars; that America’s unique pothe notion of the virtually wholesale superiority of Athens, at litical and economic structures crushed Soviet communism’s
its peak, to every culture—both of its own day
dreams of empire; forget the unique comand prior ages. For modern critics, for whom
mitment to equality under the law embodexceptionalism is “misplaced imperialism…
ied in the founding documents, for which
Would America’s
sexism, xenophobia, militarism, and cultural
Commander-in-Chief the nation shed kindred blood between 1861
triumphalism,” Pericles’ words are nationand 1865; forget the magnitude of Ameritoday ever utter sen- can contributions to the arts and sciences,
alist podium-pounding. Yet, says Hanson,
Pericles was not concerned with the polititiments comparable particularly in medicine, where American
cal ramifications of his declaration; he said it
physicians have offered hope to the afflicted
to Pericles’?
because it was true.
worldwide. For many, looking through a
Pericles’ lauds virtually every aspect of
distorted lens, America has always been—
Athenian society: Athens’ democratic government and egali- and remains—irredeemably violent, cruel, and oppressive.
tarianism, its economic prosperity and development of leiPericles, says Hanson, offers a shattering indictment of this
sure, its openness to foreigners, and, ultimately, its cultivation schizophrenic self-loathing, wherein critics can enjoy Amerof “a unique individual who is multi-talented and innately ica’s abundant fruits, sowed by previous generations, meanmagnanimous” (Hanson’s words). Athens’ noble institutions while condemning and disparaging. “The real lesson of the
and principles shaped men who sustained and improved Periclean Oration,” he concludes,
those institutions, whether on the battlefield, in the marketplace, or in the assembly.
is not merely that some Athenian values should be our own, but
And for Pericles, maintaining Athens’ exceptional place in
that in our place, according to our station, we too might have
the world began by recognizing the inheritance, bequeathed
the imagination to articulate the singularity of our culture and
by previous generations, that had enabled the development
the bravery to proclaim it without apology or qualification. To
of an Aegean-wide empire. For Hanson, “The mark of a great
do otherwise, is to enjoy the unmatched bounty and freedom of
leader and an even greater people is precisely such reverence
the United States without gratitude to those of the past who befor the past—not a vague past, but one of real people who
queathed it, and without present awareness that what we enjoy
lived, suffered, achieved, and died for others.”
makes us blessed beyond the comprehension of most of the six
Fast-forward 2400 years. Would America’s Commanderbillion others on the planet.
in-Chief today, Hanson wonders, ever utter sentiments comparable to Pericles’? In 2009, President Obama averred, “I
Hanson’s essay is thought-provoking in the extreme, and I
believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the would encourage all to read it. It is available at www.newcriBrits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe terion.com.
in Greek exceptionalism.” Most of the American political elite
has eschewed any notion of America’s unique place in history
Briefly: On page 12 of this week’s Gadfly, Miss Waggaman
or in the world today as a repulsively arrogant, hideously un- (A’14) has voiced a qualm about the continued labeling of
enlightened sentiment reeking of imperial inclinations and “Bursting the Johnnie Bubble” as a “current event column.” I
jingoism. They would prefer that America do infinite pen- would like to assuage her anxiety by noting that, in fact, I have
ance for its multitude of unforgiveable sins—subjecting blacks never advertised this feature as a “current event column.” I
to slavery, destroying Native American populations, invading would refer Miss Waggaman to my first column (6 Sept 2011)
rich reserves of natural resources, et cetera, et cetera, ad infi- in which I wrote that this space would comprise “varied musnitum. This was exactly the intent of President Obama’s 2009 ings on an assortment of topics…heavy with my own thoughts
“apology tour” (so named by critics), when, over the course of and questions, pretentious, confused, occasionally ranting.” I
100 days, he apologized to audiences in France, Prague, Lon- would like to think I have upheld my commitment rather well
don, and Latin America for American “arrogance” and a bevy with regard to those adjectives.
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A Response to
> Sassy Placanica
“Bursting the
Johnnie Bubble” R
> Maggie Waggaman A’14
I
am writing in response to Mr. Tuttle’s most
recent column, in which he states his opinion
about violence in our generation. While I do not
have any objections to the subject matter, or even
his opinion (we are at St. John’s, after all, and
should be open to everyone’s opinion), I do find
it questionable that Mr. Tuttle continues to use
the title “Bursting the Johnnie Bubble” to head
columns that are really just conservative agendas
disguised as current events. I would expect Mr.
Tuttle and the Gadfly editors to seriously reconsider what they want to release to the community
as a “current event column,” and if Mr. Tuttle’s
work might be better suited in another area of the
publication. Otherwise, I would graciously ask
that Mr. Tuttle keep his own political views out of
his reports. When he references the Occupy protests and puts the term economic justice in quotation marks as if it were a silly thing to ask for,
and when he plunks an “understandably” in after
saying that the demands have not been met, that is
not true journalism. Things such as this simply do
not have any place in a current events column. I
think that Mr. Tuttle needs to understand that his
views are just as important as anyone else’s, but no
more so than that. I urge the Gadfly staff to look
into this further, and place Mr. Tuttle’s work under a different heading or request that he abide by
journalism etiquette by removing his own biases
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Seabird Cruelty Poems
> Sarah Pearlman A’12
Bored sailors peeling back the smooth blue of the sea
Often amuse themselves by watching seagulls,
Noisy heralds of every vessel, disappear
Into the sky and the sea, and the white-red puffs
Of feathers. The white tablets mark their end.
Made to help sailors keep down their rations,
They instead trouble the storm-cloud white birds
From their very insides, the pressure churning.
Such is the poet, calling to the town
Inscribing his sharp sonnets to the air and the deep
So too is he drowned, their comfort his folly
Their bitter amusement, his final exhalation !
alph Macchio (1961-2043 or so): Actor known for boyish good looks
and “sweeping the leg”; played Johnny in The Outsiders, Daniel-san
in The Karate Kid I, II, & III, and Bill in My Cousin Vinny. At one time the
most famous American Catholic since JFK (see also: Lady Gaga).
Synonyms: Scott Baio, Tony Danza, Justin Long
Antonyms: Samuel L. Jackson, probably
The song that holds up best from the Karate Kid soundtrack is “You’re
the Best” by Joe Esposito (surprisingly, the best-surviving song is not
the Flirts’ “(Bop Bop) On the Beach”). I made a reference to that song
during Greek class last week and was thoroughly disgusted by the response I got:
Me: (something like) “...it’s like that song from Karate Kid.”
Classmates: “Oh, that movie is great and defined my ongoing childhood
and all!”
Me: “Yeah, Ralph Macchio was pretty good in that movie.”
Classmates: “What are Macchio?”
The poor young-bloods thought Will Smith’s kid was the only Karate
Kid. DEAR GOD, AMERICA IS SCREWED. Now, not all of the people
in my class were totally clueless about Ralph Macchio’s existence—it’s
even possible that just one was. If I were to be honest with myself and
with you about that, though, my outrage at such ignorance would seem
even more overblown and unjustified than it is now. I reserve the right
to ignore certain facts for the sake of anger preservation. This anger
has spurred me towards exposing what is TRULY outside the Johnnie
Bubble—American pop culture from the time between Faulkner’s Go
Down Moses and the invention of the Internet. As a freshman born before SpongeBob SquarePants ruined everything, am I obliged to inform
my classmates of the nuggets of popular wisdom they missed in the
years between our respective birthdates? NO. I’m not going to hold your
hands because THAT CRAP IS FOR CROSSING GUARDS AND BABYSITTERS. I will point the way by bringing up certain subjects with
people, but it’s the responsibility of the curious to find the path to their
favorite shows’ and movies’ antecedents.
Look, I know Karate Kid is not a very good movie. Neither are Purple
Rain, Red Dawn, or Dead Poets’ Society (no matter how much you and
your fellow long-hairs want St. John’s to be Robin Williams’ School).
The quality of the movie isn’t necessarily what keeps it in the pantheon
of American classics. The reading of certain Western works is required
for a person to be considered educated, and likewise the viewings of
certain movies, television shows, and music videos figure into the popculture awareness of the educated person. They serve as models for the
shows that follow them. When it comes to watching this stuff, though, I
can’t make you sit down and watch it with me—for Pete and Pete’s sake,
I’ve seen them already, anyway. Why don’t you use your precious INTERNET and get them from that Pirate Old Bay you kids love so much?
(And since I’ve got you here, why the HELL won’t you take your hats off
indoors? Surely you can’t ALL be construction workers.) Ugh. GET OFF
MY LAWN already. !
(submitted by Terence Washington A’15)
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The Polity Art Show 04
Freshman Chorus 05
Sports Roundup 06-07
A Discourse on Love 09
St. John’s College • 60 College Ave, Annapolis, MD 21401 • Dec. 13, 2011 • Vol. XXXIII • Issue 13
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<< Cover: Aalin Bellinger’s (A’12) artwork is
displayed at the Fall Polity Art Show.
>> And the Winner is: Brandon Carney
(A’12) is the official beard champion of the
No Shave November Contest.
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Contributors
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> Charlie Cargal A’12
I
’m not the first person to voice distaste in absolute terms. Finally, “occasionally
for Mr. Tuttle’s writings, and I can ranting” receives a mixed grade. There is
only hope that I’ll be the last. He took up plenty of ranting, but it is not occasional.
two and a half pages of The Gadfly last
Mr. Tuttle, allow me to re-adjectivize
week (a full three if “Ms. Placanica’s” you. I say that “Bursting the Johnnie
article was intended as a response), and Bubble” is, in fact, “Repeated
rather more since the start of the year. descriptions of my opinions on
It’s getting tiresome. I’m not going to be predictable topics heavy with my own
as polite as Ms. Waggaman or as topical thoughts, pretentious and ranting.”
as Mr. Nelson, and I’m going to leave
And frankly, I don’t care to read that,
disagreement with his ideas for people or the ever-expanding response section
less lazy.
(he said with an awareness of the irony).
I’m just going to talk about his Having opinions is fine (see Mr. Kun’s
adjectives (and nouns). He writes scathing invective against Mr. Greene’s
that his column is
lecture), “fine” here
“varied musings on
meaning appropriate
an assortment of
to The Gadfly. Having
Mr. Tuttle is not contopics...heavy
with
opinions I disagree
fused. He knows pre[his] own thoughts
with is fine (see
cisely what he thinks
and
questions,
Mr. Sabella’s very
pretentious, confused,
interesting musings
and expresses it in
occasionally ranting”;
on
Demarchy).
absolute terms.
so I’ll talk about how
Even having strong
his column stacks up
political
opinions
to those (particularly his most recent that I don’t fully agree with is interesting
article, because, again, lazy).
in moderation (I take a middle stance
“Varied...assortment”—definitely on the Occupy Movement and found
not; every article so far has been a Mr. Nelson’s article a good look into
conservative stance on a current political the arguments of his side, albeit
issue. “Musings...questions” gets a fail as unsurprisingly one-sided). Continually
well, as those imply an uncertainty that filling The Gadfly with repetitive
Mr. Tuttle certainly does not possess. I’ll polemic begins to tire. You’ve made your
give him “topics”—no argument about point. We’ve heard your ideas, very loud
that one.
and very clear, but you’re starting to be
“Heavy with my own thoughts”— That Guy in class who chimes in every
absolutely. “Pretentious,” again, is other comment to reassert his point.
definitely descriptive of this column. Please, Mr. Tuttle, retire, or please,
“Confused” runs into the same problem Gadfly, remove him, before we need to
as “musings...questions” above: Mr. start a new 12-page weekly publication,
Tuttle is not confused. He knows “Ian Tuttle and the people who dislike
precisely what he thinks and expresses it him.” !
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Summa Theologica
Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas
Alcibiades’ wine is
stolen. In his sobriety,
he is forced to resort to
heterosexuality.
Aquinas waddles hopelessly after the Hamburglar.
Aquinas waddles hopelessly after his intellect,
relying only upon his
will.
A possession can be considered stolen in three
ways. Objection!
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> Barbara McClay A’12
T
his Thursday, December 8, the SCI met to consider the expected to learn Greek and learn how to write at the same
purpose of the freshman language tutorial. The language time in the same tutorial. There is not enough time.
tutorial is commonly considered to have two purposes:
While this problem was recognized as a serious one, it was
learning Greek, and learning how to write. How are these also true that—for instance—the freshman language tutor is
two goals balanced? Could they be better balanced, or is the supposed to assist freshmen with their annual essays, and
current way the language tutorial works satisfactory?
that the essays assigned for the language tutorial in general
Several students mentioned that the language tutorial could were more like the annual essays than those assigned for other
be very useful for a greater understanding of the English classes. With these concerns in mind, the question became
language. Learning how to use participles, understanding how to deal with writing in a way that did not drag down the
the subjunctive, and clearly distinguishing different kinds of other purpose of the language tutorial: learning Greek.
objects, for instance, were all benefits that could be acquired
One possible solution was essay assignments that forced
from learning Greek. Translating Greek poetry and prose could students to think critically about their writing—whether by
also give students a deeper appreciation of
writing about writing or by writing the
style and make them think more carefully
same essay more than one way. Another
about their own writing.
possibility was introducing the sort of
Ought freshman
On the other hand, some students
critical essays that students might be
language really enfound the link between Greek and English
expected to write as reading material,
compass both learning and encouraging students to consult
poorly explained in the classroom. Some
another language and resources like the prize winning essays
suggestions offered for a way to formalize
the link included a greater focus on
learning how to write? and lectures in the library as examples of
translation as an art, or a more conscious
good writing. Writing handouts, reading
study of Greek rhetoric.
short assignments out loud, setting one
Still, alongside these suggestions, another question was class aside to discuss essay questions—all of these solutions
raised: Ought freshman language really encompass both were proposed. Encouraging students to write after seminar,
learning another language and learning how to write? Couldn’t assigning frequent short papers, and introducing peer-editing
these skills be acquired in any class? Shouldn’t the language on a wider scale was also considered.
tutorial really concentrate on, well, learning a language?
However, all of these solutions seemed to dance around the
After all, any class could impart the kind of skills that make problem that the two purposes of the language tutorial seem ill
someone a “good writer.” The math tutorial ought to impart suited to each other; while both learning another language and
logical thought; the lab tutorial should give students a habit of learning how to write are crucial to the St. John’s experience,
looking closely into seemingly insignificant things. Why place they did not seem very well suited to each other as a whole.
the burden of learning how to write on language? Why make While various possible improvements were suggested, it was
this tutorial—which requires a great deal of work already—do not clear if there was a way to resolve this difficulty, nor was
double duty? One tutor present, Ms. Kronsberg, mentioned there any clear consensus on whether or not the problems
that she avoided assigning written work in the first semester with the current balance were serious enough to merit any
due to precisely this sort of concern: you can’t be reasonably formal solutions. !
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> Painter Bob
From deep within a dark ravine
She looks up to a point unseen
Then, rising to its unknown rim
She turns, looks down, then turns again
The vast expanse ahead spreads wide
She boldly marks her steady stride
Before the vistas jagged edge
Gives view to yield each crag and ledge
Now, coming close, the mountains walls
Give mindful caution, time… to pause
Yet taking hold, she clasps a rock
And climbing so no man can mock
A goddess true rose to the top
Then, looking out upon the range
Each pointed peek… sat oddly strange
With many god sends whom now knew
They all, made up one wholly view.
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From 10 / 21 – 11 / 29, there have been
nine reported incidents of theft and
two reports of vandalism. Two of the
eleven related crimes were accompanied with an alcohol violation.
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> Honore Hodgson A’12
After the heated election of last week,
I am happy to report the results. The
second semester Freshman delegates
will be: Ryan Fleming, Robert Malka,
Ciara Barrick, and Samuel Collins.
Virginia Early will be returning as
Seceratary. Saul Leiken was also
reelected and so will continue as the
polity’s President (although write-in
candidate Master Chief had a surprising 22 votes). And finally, in the only
contested election, Hayden Pendergrass was elected Treasurer.
Drawing by Daniela Lobo Dias A’13
Painting by Jennifer Shumpert A’15
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The Polity Art Show
> Sarah Meggison A’15
L
ining the wall opposite the were asking him questions and the
Fishbowl are student paintings, conversation kept going. It was very
photographs, drawings, and poems much in the spirit of St. John’s.” The
that comprise the Fall Polity Art Show, Art Society reaches out to both students
presented by the Art Society. The Art and tutors, helping to bridge that gap.
Society has been around for a while,
Things like the Art Society’s Polity
originally created by the Mitchell Art Show and Fireside Chats, as well as
Art Gallery, but has
the Chasement Open
lately been dormant.
Mic nights, show the
Thus far, the Art Soci- Polity’s appreciation
Junior
Daniela
Lobo Dias, with the
art
and
ety has offered a great for
help of enthusiastic
community.
Lobo
medium for students
freshmen
Ciara
Dias said that the
to come together to
Barrick and Cora
club resulted out of
pursue their common a lack of opportunity
Davis, decided to get
creative interests.
the club running again
for students to easily
as an easy, accessible
involve themselves
way for St. John’s students and tutors in art on campus. Thus far, the Art
to get involved in art. The Mitchell Society has offered a great medium for
Gallery does host a student exhibition students to come together to pursue
in the spring, but Lobo Dias decided to their common creative interests.
offer a way for students to display their
The next Fireside Chat will be
art in a more casual setting in the fall.
with Ms. Benson, speaking about
The Art Society also hosts receptions Renaissance portraiture, on December
for the Mitchell Gallery, museum visits, 14 in the Coffee Shop. The Art Show
and Fireside Chats in which tutors and will be up outside of the Fishbowl until
students speak about art in some form. the end of the semester. Students and
The first Chat was held November 30 Mr. May will also visit the Walters Art
and featured Mr. Beall speaking about Museum in Baltimore next Wednesday
beauty with about 60 students. Lobo at 1:00 PM to see Archimedes’ Lost
Dias said, “Even afterwards, people Manuals. !
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> Melissa Gerace A’15
A
t 10:20 AM on Wednesday, Decem- began to circle the walkway. Finally, it
ber 07, 2011, the freshman class is was time to begin.
“sitting quietly” (“sitting” and “quietly”
Freshman Chorus is not perfect, as
apparently relative terms) in the Mc- everyone knows – it’s a strange mixture
Dowell Great Hall, waiting for the sing- of trained and untrained voices, people
ing to begin. Amid the rustle of song- who have been singing throughout their
book pages and the chatter, “archons” lives and those who have avoided singof the four voice parts take attendance ing at all costs. Over time, however,
and Ms. Seeger begins to hand out mu- we’ve become compatible with each
sic and program-lists. Eventually, the other, and what we sometimes lack in
entire class settles as Ms. Seeger stands technical skill is more than made up in
on a large wooden box and raises her other areas. We’ve learned to listen to
hand over the heads of even the tallest each other for notes and cues, entrances
freshman in order to get our attention and exits. We’ve learned to wait, to not
and suggests a warm up. We sing “Yon- jump into this musical conversation at
der Come Day,” though it seems that our any given time, but when the time called
souls are the only things seeing sunlight for it. And we’ve learned not to hesitate,
on this grey, rainy day, then listen to a because if your “Psallite” is hesitant, you
run-down of how this concert is going to probably won’t make it back into the
work. Then, just like every Wednesday, song any time soon.
we sing our familiar list of songs.
Ringed by upperclassmen, weeks of
Since August, the Freshman Chorus learning behind us and winter break
has been learning everything from “Go ahead, we finally got to experience
Down, Moses” to “Siwhat most of us had
cut Cervus.” The weeks
been waiting for since
But in much the same Convocation: singing
have been a mixture of
way that “Sicut Cersectional chorus re“Sicut Cervus.” For
hearsals, with the tenme, sitting up on that
vus” helped on Conors and basses meeting
stage while listening
vocation, St. John’s
at 9:00 and the altos
to the gathered stuitself soon alleviated dents sing this beauand sopranos meeting
that homesickness.
at 10:20, and some fulltiful song all together,
group meetings from
and happily, was the
9:00 to 11:30. Each section has found its final thing I needed to let me know I had
own apparent favorite – while the altos made the right choice. Plagued by imand sopranos did not want to go a week pending homesickness and anxiety over
without singing “Beatus Vir,” the basses going to school away from everything
and the tenors seem to favor singing the and everyone I knew, I had been secondnational anthem (very loudly) at the end guessing myself all day and dreading the
of rehearsal.
good-byes that were just around the
Though opinions on Freshman Cho- corner. But “Sicut Cervus,” with all of
rus vary, I know that for myself and its haunting beauty, eased that. If I was
many others, it has been a welcome ad- headed into a school that wound sing
dition to the week. Whatever we sing, that, I knew I’d be all right. The goodand whatever language we sing it in, byes were hard, as I knew they would
there has been joy found in the simple be, and homesickness did strike, those
act of using our voices. After music first weeks, as most freshman experiquizzes, notation classes, and weeks of ence. But in much the same way that “Siamusing or irritating the other classes in cut Cervus” helped on Convocation, St.
McDowell (sometimes it’s hard to tell), John’s itself soon alleviated that homethe time for the concert had finally ar- sickness. And every week, Freshman
rived. After a quick break, the chorus Chorus reminded me of that moment on
returned to their seats and gazed up as move-in day when I realized I had defiupperclassmen, tutors, and some others nitely made the right decision. !
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FALL SPORTS ROUND-UP
>> Jonathan Barone A’13
>> Photos by Henley Moore
W
e’re approaching the halfway mark, which
means one thing and only one thing: the
fall intramural season is over. The Greenwaves
have edged out the Guardians for first place in
overall points, followed by the Druids, Spartans,
and Hustlers. But how did the individual sports
pan out?
We’ll start where the fall season started: Ultimate. The Guardians quickly emerged at the
head of the pack. With ferocious handling by
Alex “Mountain Man” Schmid and Daniel “Popov” Popov, the Guardians utilized their reliable
receivers and rapid transitions to destroy their
opponents. Destroy they did, emerging with
a perfect 8-0 record at the end of the season.
Though no team was able to defeat them, the
Greenwaves and the Druids both fought hard
for second place. Both teams played to their
strengths: the Greenwaves relied strongly on
multiple handlers and long throws to their
receivers, while the Druids focused on short
passes and moving it around the whole team.
Ultimately, neither strategy prevailed outright over
the other, and the two teams tied for second with 5-3
records. The Spartans and the Hustlers, both lacking clear and distinct handlers, both suffered losing
records.
Reason Ball: The Reason Ball tournament was
changed to a four-game season this year in order to
give the teams equivalent playing time and give everyone equal opportunity to exhibit their passion for
the absurd. Before I go any further, I would like to
crown the Druids as the spirit champions of this
year’s season for pushing the boundaries of the game
and for getting the most people involved. From the
self-grabbed flag to the team fumble, they showed the
ingenuity that the sport deserves.
However, that ingenuity did not carry them to the
championship. The battle to victory’s seat was held
under a foreboding sky, the rain steadily changing to
snow as the men in blue challenged the defending
champions. The temperature dropped as the game
went on. Down 20-8 in the fourth quarter, the Greenwaves steeled themselves through the pain and scored
�on two five-down drives. Casey “How Does He Do
It?” Whitney wins the play of the season award with
a reception off a contested tipped pass on a drive
which led to the go-ahead touchdown and extra
point. After stopping a hyper-time run one yard
from the endzone, the Greenwaves repeated as victors of Reason Ball, defeating the Spartans 21-20.
The Hustlers also won their first game of the year
in Reason Ball, with strong quarterbacking and
flag grabbing from Luke Wakeen and a four-point
field goal from alumnus James Russell. The Guardians were unable to pull off a win, despite fielding
a strong team on paper and a desperate hyper-time
almost-comeback.
Soccer: Bearing many similarities to last year’s
basketball season, the fall soccer season was dominated by two teams: the Guardians and the Greenwaves. Boasting impressive rosters, the titans
clashed three times: twice in the regular season,
trading wins, and once in the final. The final match
exemplified their strengths: the Guardians opted
for a fierce attack, placing a combination of Ty Kun,
Dimitar Indzhov, Marin Skokandic, and Linus Feder as strikers or midfielders and left it to the defense
and goalie to blast it upfield, whereas the Green-
waves chose a more defensive tactic, attempting to
control the ball through the defense and midfield
and shutting down the attempts on goal. The fight
was heroic, and despite a push in the last ten minutes by the Guardians, the Greenwaves prevailed
3-2.
Perhaps the greatest absurdity is that the Hustlers only won once and tied once, even though
they boasted a very strong front line and midfield.
However, even with Rookie of the Year Joe Hamd
holding down the fort as sweeper, the Hustlers
weren’t able to convert enough of their tries. The
Spartans and Druids finished third and fourth respectively, in addition to bringing a great deal of
spirit and energy to the field. Anyone who saw the
two teams exchange shirts for the first half of their
last game would have no problem verifying this
statement.
That just about wraps it up for the fall season.
The race for first is still neck and neck, and the
winter season is ripe for upsets. With the Druids
pulling an upset over the Hustlers in the first game
of the Holiday Invitational Tournament and the
Spartans boasting a fortified basketball team, who
knows what the future holds? !
�The Gadfly
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Stephanie Connolly explores the distinctions
between open, closed, and projective verse
through the works of Modern American poet
Charles Olson.
W
> Stephanie Connolly A’12
hen I first encountered the poetry of Charles Olson in an And what results in that listening can be very clearly heard in
anthology of 20th-century American poetry, I thought the reading thereof. One such example, merging poetic form
little of it. At a time when I was trying to discover modern and the nature of a particular surrounding appears in “Maxiand groundbreaking poetry, Olson resembled too closely for mus to Gloucester, Letter 27 [withheld].” At first, the poem
me the so-called “dead white male,” a resemseems to lack much in the way of projective
blance further supported by his poetic alterverse. Olson begins: “I come back to the
It is this breath which geography of it,/ the land falling off to the
ego, named Maximus of Gloucester (Massais heard in each break, left,” recalling early memories of Glouceschusetts).
Although Maximus of Gloucester seemed
ter. But a shift occurs, and Olson writes,
each shifted margin,
to me to be the alias of a stodgy defender
and which unites the defiant: “This, is no bare incoming/ of novel
of English literature and Western culture,
abstract form, this/ . . . Greeks, is the stoppoet and reader in
Olson proves himself to be anything but.
ping/ of the battle.” Here, Maximus asserts
the same voice.
Indeed, he was a scholar of literature and
his identity, suggesting that it is irrevocably
American history. But Olson was also a
tied to the town of Gloucester, for better or
champion of “open” verse, evidenced by his manifesto, called worse. The final lines display especially this identity in the
“Projective Verse.” Here, Olson acknowledged a problem context of projective verse:
present in open verse, one that did not occur in traditional,
I have this sense,
“closed” verse: that of being properly heard. In closed verse,
rhyme and meter lead the ear; in open verse, however, the
that I am one
form or “field” of the poem; that is, its arrangement on the
page itself, dictates how it is heard. Using line breaks, marwith my skin
gins, lengthened spaces, suspended letters or syllables, and
the rejection of traditional syntax and grammar, the poet is
Plus this—plus this:
able to write a verse “as though not the eye but the ear was to
be its measurer . . .” Of supreme importance to Olson is the nothat forever the geography
tion of “breath.” It is this breath which is heard in each break,
each shifted margin, and which unites the poet and reader in
which leans in
the same voice. The great works of poetry, he writes, “could
on me I compell
not issue from men who conceived verse without the full relevance of human voice, without reference to where lines come
backwards I compell Gloucester
from, in the individual who writes.”
Olson’s manifesto plays an important role in The Maximus
to yield, to
Poems, featuring his alter-ego in a town deeply familiar to the
poet. As he writes in “Projective Verse”: “if [the poet] is conchange
tained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force,
he will be able to listen, and his hearing through himself will
Polis
give him secrets objects share.” In these poems, it is evident
that Olson has listened to the nature of himself, of Gloucester.
is this. !
“
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A Discourse on Love
> Tommy Berry A’13
I
n honor of the Freshmen reading the Symposium, here is supports us and makes us more assured as we deal with all the
a discourse on love which I originally wrote and delivered little moments of life—in short, it does everything that I have
on the occasion of my own Freshman class reading the to take a pill to accomplish.
Symposium:
And yet, despite generations of effort, it seems like we still
If I had to choose one word to describe love, which word don’t know the answers to the biggest questions about love: Is
would I choose?
it god’s greatest gift to humanity, like a priceless grandfather
Love.
clock? Or is it God’s “Second-tier Friends” gift to humanity,
Love encompasses everything, like the potpourri category like a nice but not too nice watch? Or is it God’s gag gift to
on Jeopardy. But unlike a failing Jeopardy contestant, I know humanity, the type of present that sucks so much you feel
exactly what the question is. And tonight, the question is, awkward and don’t know what to say upon receiving it, until a
“What can we say about love?”
wry smile from the giver lets you know that he’s in on the joke,
The 1970 film Love Story tells us that “Love means never and the two of you share a good laugh. You know, something
having to say you’re sorry.” Sounds like a plan. I was going to like a Snuggie, or a fish that sings the Macarena.
try to act in ways that show I care about you, while changing
I’d like to quote one of my favorite philosophers in his
my actions appropriately as I discover
attempt to tackle the fundamental question.
mistakes, and so engaging in a continuing
“What is Love? Baby don’t hurt me, don’t
I believe, however,
process of self-correction, but it looks like I
hurt me, no more. I want no other, no other
that there is only one
just got a “get out of jail free” card.
lover, this is your life, our time, when we
The birds and the bees is our best attempt
are together I need you forever… is it love?
way for each of us to
to explain love to children, but I don’t
What is Love?”
answer the question,
understand why kids need to know that
What Haddaway is trying to say here is
“What is love?” We
birds and bees are doin’ it with each-other,
that Love is the question that asks itself,
have to look inside
and thereby inevitably creating falcona sort of cosmic refrain, or “chorus” that
ourselves.
bees, giant screeching bees with the claws
pounds into all of our collective skulls
and eyesight of a falcon, which hold you
until finally we are reduced to that primal
in their inescapable grasp as the life is stabbed out of you by scream, or perhaps it is, even more chillingly, a whimper:
their ice-pick sized stingers. I mean, that hardly seems child- “Baby, don’t hurt me.”
appropriate.
I believe, however, that there is only one way for each of
But what do we know about love? We know that love is us to answer the question, “What is love?” We have to look
a many splendored thing. How splendored is it? Very. I can inside ourselves. With fiber-optic cables. Soon we will have
think of at least 17 ways it can be splendored, and I’m doing the technology to unobtrusively observe tiny highways of love
two of them right now.
particles which flow through our rheumatic system. Until that
But is love helpful? Absolutely. Love makes us happy, it gives day, the only thing we can do is work on making better fiberus a reason to live, a reason to get out of bed in the morning; it optic cables. Thank you. !
“
Athletes of the Week*
*Editor’s Note: This is not to be confused
with Athletic Director Mr. Pickens’ Jocks of
the Week. Due to unforeseen circumstances,
Mr. Pickens was unable to determine Jocks
of the Week during the epic Holiday Invitational Tournament. Thus, The Gadfly
staff was left no choice but to select our own
athletes of merit. The criteria for Athlete of
the Week are (as shown by the Lasell family)
hoops prowess, general cuteness, and a family portrait. This feature will not continue
into next semester, upon Mr. Pickens’ return.
photo by Rachel Ulrich
The Lasell Family
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> Chad Raines A’14
“
I am that gadfly which God has given the state and all Mr. Tuttle’s column acts as the gadfly for St. John’s.
day long and in all places am always fastening upon you,
In reading both Mr. Nelson’s and Ms. Waggaman’s responses
arousing and persuading and reproaching you.” Socrates, to Mr. Tuttle, I felt a great wave of pleasure in the efficacy of
!"#$%!, seems the patron saint of St. John’s, and in homage Mr. Tuttle’s words. His words were inspiring a response from
to this man we have the gadfly as the title of our school the polity and engendering discourse. We need “Bursting the
publication. In Plato’s Apology Socrates calls himself a gadfly, Johnnie Bubble,” because without some source of conflict,
upsetting the status quo and making the Athenians question how can we test our ideas?
themselves in an attempt to improve the citizens. It is my
Imagine a seminar in which one of the tutors made a
fervent belief that Mr. Tuttle’s weekly column serves a similar statement and, unanimously, the students all agreed. No
purpose, and I would like to take this space to offer a defense question, no inquiry, just agreement. How boring we would
and praise of his work.
find such a seminar! Intellectually, we as a polity thrive not
When I joked about a weekly installment to the Gadfly of on agreement but on disagreement. If Mr. Tuttle wrote each
the title “Bursting the Johnnie Bubble,” I imagined it as a week about The Mountain Goats and how they are so great,
way for the events of the outside, things we only hear about or perhaps on why Twilight is to literature as a punch to the
through Facebook and Twitter updates, to
neck is to breathing, we might all nod our
be brought to the attention of the polity and
heads and find ourselves in agreement. No
Imagine a seminar in
discussed. This would have been a current
new thoughts would be inspired by him.
which one of the tuevents column. What Mr. Tuttle authors
No responses would be written, except
tors made a statement perhaps a hipster or two declaring The
for us is, in fact, not such a column. Is it
a column informed, in some way, by the
Mountain Goats (or whichever musical
and, unanimously, the
events of the current day? Certainly, at least
students all agreed. No group you choose, I do not keep up with
insofar as I am capable of seeing. Naturally
that sort of thing) were better when no one
question, no inquiry,
the events are mildly dated (instantaneous
was talking about them. What discussion
just agreement.
Gadfly publication and distribution not yet
would be generated by such an article?
completed [we’re looking at you, Mr. Beall])
Mr. Tuttle provides for us some wall to
but nothing so old as to be obscure. The bubble being pierced, butt our heads against. He gives us the opposition we crave
however, is not that which I had envisioned, the bubble to overcome. Without such a source of conflict, we would
between St. John’s and the world at large. Instead, it appears never crush the bubble between us and come to ideas better
that the membrane Mr. Tuttle is popping is that which forms tempered and tested in the field of intellectual combat. I
between any two Johnnies.
am always happy to read Mr. Tuttle’s column, and I hope he
As Mr. Tuttle once told me, he hoped to embody the spirit continues for the rest of his time at St. John’s. Furthermore,
of the publication—The Gadfly—in his column; to inspire I hope others continue to write in against him. And also
fiery discussion among the polity, to slough off the apathy we furthermore, I hope people continue to write in against those
(!"#$%!) feel towards anything that we either cannot smoke or who write in against Mr. Tuttle. This sort of discussion is
which was not written before the Civil War. Perhaps I took a beautiful, true and incredibly beneficial, at least, I think so—
bit of poetic license there, but the notion remains the same. and I am pleased to witness the existence of it. !
“
�The Gadfly
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> Ian Tuttle A’14
R
hode Island governor Lincoln Chafee has become cline of the West has much to do with the marginalization of
2011’s official Grinch. Chafee angered many when he its central religion. Across the Atlantic, the secularization of
decided to label the 17-foot blue spruce erected in the Europe lies not tangential to, but at the heart of, the maladies
Statehouse a “holiday tree.” The name is in keeping, he says, of those nations—most of them engulfed in economic meltwith recent Rhode Island governors and the state’s history down, demographic decline, and cultural deterioration. It is
of religious freedom, though the state legislature passed a not difficult to connect Great Britain’s devastating youth riresolution in January declaring the yearly ceremonial tree a ots in August, for example, with the decline of a once-vibrant
“Christmas tree.”
Christianity that is now nearly extinct throughout the UK, let
The debate may seem a silly one—considering no other alone Europe at-large.
December holiday is celebrated with a tree, call it what you
The spectacular achievement of the West in guaranteeing
will, everyone knows what has been left unsaid. And if it were political and social freedom is in sharp contrast to the rest of
Chafee only, then perhaps the incident could be disregarded the world, today and throughout history. In several Middle
as the absurd, limelight-starved spectacle of a small-time gov- Eastern nations religious freedom is virtually non-existent—
ernor. But it’s not just Chafee.
in Iran, for example, where the government has sentenced
In Santa Monica, CA, atheists have been allocated most of Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani to death for refusing to recant his
the exhibit space in public Palisades Park, which has, for the Christianity; or in Egypt, where Coptic Christians have sufpast sixty years, been used to display a two-block long nativ- fered government discrimination and been the targets of
ity scene. Some are using the space to display anti-religious mobs during the “Arab Spring.” And the lack of religious freesigns like, “Religions are all alike—founded
dom is accompanied by other human rights
upon fables and mythologies,” a quote from
violations and curtailed political rights.
Thomas Jefferson.
But neither is secularization the answer.
The decline of the
In Athens, TX, the local government has
the twentieth
West has much to do A glance back at and communism,century
been asked by the Wisconsin-based Freeshows that Nazism
explicwith the marginaldom From Religion Foundation to remove a
itly atheistic regimes, have been the most
public nativity scene—displayed for 35 years
ization of its central murderous in history, easily responsible for
without incident—arguing that it violates the
more than 100 million deaths from Cuba to
religion.
First Amendment.
Germany to China.
And other incidents from recent years
The foundational principles of Christicome to mind, from major stores removing Christmas ref- anity are not transferable—either to other religions or to a
erences in advertisements to elementary schools banning strong secular state.
Christmas carols.
Marcello Pera is a philosopher, former president of the ItalThe myriad examples are not unrelated. They reveal a con- ian Senate, and an atheist. However, his most recent book is
certed effort by many, behind the banner of “tolerance,” to Why We Should Call Ourselves Christians: The Religious Roots
marginalize Christmas—no doubt in the hope of expunging of Free Societies, and the unbelieving author argues, like Kirk,
Christianity (or religion in general) from the public square. that the Judeo-Christian tradition of man as a creature “in
For those who desire the radical secularization of American God’s image and likeness…is the religious source of the consociety, public expression of religious faith is, at worst, the cepts of personhood and human dignity, the foundation of the
wellspring of society’s gravest evils and, at best, a parasite on [classical] liberal view that man has primacy over society and
the evolution of free, democratic, pluralistic societies.
the state, and the basis for the doctrine of natural, fundamenThe argument, however, is flawed. Secularists fail to un- tal, individual rights.”
derstand that the only cultures in which true freedom has
Christianity has provided the principles upon which the
ever flourished are Western ones—Christian ones. Christian- freedoms of the West stand. Nations that have repressed
ity is not simply part of the heritage of the West, but one of its Christianity have similarly quashed those freedoms.
linchpins, perhaps even its cornerstone.
Last week I wrote about, to use scholar Victor Davis HanRussell Kirk, in The Roots of American Order (one of the son’s words, the willingness to express unabashedly a “revertwentieth century’s most illuminating—and most neglected— ence for ancestry, tradition, and cultural exceptionalism” that
works), details how “the genius of Christianity” established a characterizes Western civilization. The debate over the place
“moral order [that] works upon the political order,” through of Christmas in the public square is a manifestation of exactly
transformative “concepts of justice, charity, community, and that question: of whether America will continue to defend
duty.” “The worth of the person,” he writes, “the equality of its unique and supremely blessed tradition. Silencing or disall men before the judgment-seat of God, the limitations upon missing Christmas is a means of marginalizing the religion as
all earthly authority—such Christian convictions as these a whole, of pushing it to the sidelines of American politics and
would shape the American Republic.”
culture. But to do so is to rip out the roots that have sustained
A strong, pervasive Christianity has sustained America’s American flourishing.
national character for 230 years—indeed, for the entire West
The potency of the American experiment rests on the conuntil recently. As historian Paul Johnson has written, “Dur- tinued respect given its bedrock institutions. By cherishing
ing these two millennia Christianity has, perhaps, proved those traditions, we uphold the freedoms that have made
more influential in shaping human destiny than any other in- the United States the world’s “last best hope.” Unashamedstitutional philosophy.” The history of Western civilization is, ly, then, do I wish to each and every one of you a very merry
to a great extent, the history of Christianity. Similarly, the de- Christmas. !
“
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!"#$%&'()*
Hubris and Humility in the Program
> Jonathan Whitcomb-Dixon A’15
I
n choosing St. John’s, I decided I didn’t want to have to
The only thing more humbling than finding myself reduced
trust a professor. I didn’t want other people’s ideas. What from a sole seeker to a part of a whole is the realization that
do they know that makes them so much better? Why don’t I all I thought I possessed and could offer, to myself or to those
learn that?
around me, was naught. That there had been true giants in
This attitude really made the great books Program my the world and their dead memories still outshine me at my
only choice. But what I didn’t realize was that the Program best. I knew nothing. I believed I knew but then that man
requires me to rely on others. Now, rather than expert and who couldn’t convince a room full of people not to kill him
qualified professors who spent their whole lives learning what convinced me of my ignorance.
they teach, I get students who know as little as me. Instead
The fact that the man who does this says he knows nothing
of a lifetime of reflection, their ideas are as
just leaves me more distraught. If a man
rashly laid out and poorly considered as my
The enormity of the re- knowing nothing leaves me feeling stupid,
own. There is no reading of published and
where do I fall? I am obviously not the gealization that I both rely nius who needed this special school. So
esteemed criticisms and exploration, but
there is listening to explorations of sudden
am I now that slow child with the special
entirely on the work
inspiration and extremely personal critiand thoughts of others school? But then, the more Plato we read,
cisms. While that can frustrate me a lot, it
the easier it is to see that no one knows
and that they rely on
always teaches me in the most wonderful
anything. Soon it becomes quite simple
mine is so humbling.
way.
to say that Socrates is merely using that
And this led me to realize that the Prostatement as a trick of his argument, but I
gram doesn’t care about me and what I gain. It cares about us, don’t believe myself. I do think he meant he knew nothing; I
the polity. What I may try to make personal is instead wholly just don’t know what that means.
reliant on what the polity has, and that is entirely contingent
What does it mean to know nothing? I have been convinced
on what each of us puts into it.
(though I don’t know if I believe him), and now I need to unThe enormity of the realization that I both rely entirely on derstand what it means. I struggle with the knowledge that I
the work and thoughts of others and that they rely on mine am ignorant, but I also love it. The realization that I can only
is so humbling. In the same way, the Program acquaints me learn here as a part of the polity is not a failing at all. It really
with peoples’ thoughts as much as anything else about them. follows naturally that I require others when I have nothing
This forces me to examine other people as I examine myself. myself. The whole thing is, rather than depressing, one of the
The Program puts them on the plane I had for myself and, per- most exciting discoveries of my life.
haps, a few friends back in high school. Therefore I receive
I, as an ignoramus, am going to discuss, and through that
a swarm of thoughts I never could have known alone, and all learn. I cannot help but be filled with hope in this revelation
I have to do is to release my own into the hive, as well as take of humility. I wish I could say more on all of this so we could
the time to listen. I require the polity, but I require it like my all consider something new; but alas, I know nothing of imcells require my body.
portance (only that). !
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Concerning the Title of Women’s
Athletics at St. John’s:
> Lydia Hovey A’12
O
n behalf of the Women’s Athletics sentimental attachment. The first is
Advisory Committee, I would like that the femininity of ‘!"#&'’ depends
to thank Miss Brann for her challenge upon its article, and we !"#$% are not
to rethink our name and its academic Hell-Dogs who happen to be female; we
merit. When women’s athletics became are Hell-Bitches. That being said, we
an organization at this college, ‘!"#$%’ happily and humbly acknowledge that
was the title given to that organization; ‘!"#$%’ is not a real Greek word. We
as of Tuesday, it is the name we have shall not call it one in the future, but
chosen for ourselves. We did not make simply say that it is a word that has some
the choice lightly; the final vote for Greek in its controversial history. For
‘!"#$%’ over ‘!"#&'’ was 7 to 6 with one the second reason, we thank Mr. May,
abstention. We recognized immediately who taught us all as freshmen (we have
in
our
discussion
no doubt that Ms.
that tradition alone
Seeger now teaches
We recognized imwas not a sufficient
the same to current
mediately in our dis- freshmen) that there is
reason to keep ‘!"#$%’
as our title, and that
cussion that tradition more to consider than
despite popular usage,
intellectual virtue—
alone was not a suf‘!"#$%’ is an incorrect
there is the aesthetic
ficient reason to keep to take into account,
declension
of
the
Greek word, ‘!"(#’.
and the ‘s’ sound at
‘!"#$%’ as our title
We do not embrace
the end of a word or
transgression for its own sake. So we phrase should be minimized as much
were forced either to find a good reason as possible. At the conclusion of every
to keep ‘!"#$%’, or to become ‘!"#&')’ game, we shout our name, and ‘!"#&'’
In our discussion we were reminded of has a singularly unappealing sound in
a speech Miss Brann gave to the !"#$% this context. We tried it, and sounded
of 1994 in which she pointed out the more like a den of hissing vipers than a
error of ‘!"#$%’ written on t-shirts and pack of howling Hell-Bitches.
said that the appropriate response,
So we shall remain !"#$%, but with
should that error be pointed out, is that a better understanding and a new
“we wear this to test the outer world’s appreciation of our title. !
learning.”*
Ultimately though, we have two *Editor’s Note: See Miss Brann’s speech
real reasons to keep ‘!"#$%’ beyond from 1994 on page 3.
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How did your seminar character
spend the holidays?
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Plato
Dante
George Eliot
N/A
Theaetetus perceived a
good time.
> Jonathan WhitcombDixon
Dante spent the Holidays with family; it was
Hell.
> Ian Tuttle
Dorothea and Casaubon
journey to Rome to see
many highly esteemed
works of art. Meanwhile,
Rosamond Vincy is a
soul-sucking bitch.
> Danny Kraft
The seniors get a break
from their serious responsibility of responding to this section of The
Gadfly.
NEXT WEEK
What does your seminar character decide to write about in their Senior Essay?
Miss Brann on Women’s Athletics
The following speech was delivered by Eva Brann at the annual women’s
soccer kickoff in 1994.
T
here is an old Latin saying that is a of friends, and you will play as friends;
special favorite of literate coaches: but you will also play to beat each other;
Mens sana in corpora sano—“a sane mind the invigorating self-contradiction is that
(mens) in a sound body.” When I was an of friendly competition. This school is
undergraduate in Brooklyn College some a community of reflection, and you will
fellow smart-alecks had put graffiti on play as thinking beings, but you will also
the wall: “Men’s and women’s sana in play with your bodies: the exhilarating
corpora sano.” Their Latin was dreadful self-contradiction is that of thoughtful
but their head was screwed on right: physicality. This school is a community
men and women are equally the saner for for questioning everything, and you
playing at sports.
will play as inquirers, but you will also
While I’m at it, your coaches, who play by the rules: the stimulating selfought to know better, aren’t so great at contradiction is that of freely-chosen
Greek either. Those wonderful T-shirts conformity. And finally, this school is
some of you lady-dogs from the world a community of human beings, and
below are wearing have
you will play because
on them perfectly horrible
it is human to play, but
Doing sports at you are also women,
Greek, and though I’ve
St. John’s is an and will play as women
made Mr. Pickens swear to
start every season with a
play: the fascinating selfinterestingly
confession, I bet he doesn’t
self-contradic- contradiction is that of
do it. Please, freshmen:
being a thoroughly human
tory project.
ask your language tutors
woman. These are the
on Monday what the
opportunities out here for
nominative plural of a she-dog (!"#$) testing and stretching and flexing and
might be (!"$%&), so that you can uphold perhaps confirming categories. Make the
the intellectual honor of your school next most of it: then do come to tell me what
time a midshipwoman from across the you’ve learned.
street taunts you with false Greek. You
And by the way, in all Greek literature,
can say: “We wear these to test the outer the plural of the really elegant specialized
world’s learning.”
word for “bitch” (!"$#) never occurs, so
But now a moment of seriousness.
if you want that you will have to invent
Doing sports at St. John’s is an the linguistic paradigm and probably the
interestingly self-contradictory project. living model. Do it with grace, and have a
Here is why: This school is a community great season! !
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(Inspired by Lemma IX)
> Anthony Cole A’13
Sir Isaac Newton drew my eyes
upon a point who wooed his bride;
and that which drew him to her side
was called ultimate ratio.
He sang: “O holy arc is this
which leads the point to his point-ess;
forever more we’ll share in bliss,
for we are in this ratio.
Now go before me, blessed prize
and ever nearer I will fly;
we’ll join at the appointed time
and in this selfsame ratio.
And at that end when we collide,
our every part will coincide;
then we shall vanish intertwined
and always in this ratio.” !
�The Gadfly
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> Nathan Goldman A’14
M
r. Tuttle’s most recent column Tuttle does not connect Point A to Point
left me baffled. I would like to set B. His evidence that freedom requires
aside hsi framing narrative–the ousting Christian principles? A single counterof Christmas from the public square–in example: Iran does not fit Mr. Tuttle’s
which he
stipulations for “truly free,” and it is
conflates “public expression of religious not founded on Christian principles;
faith” (legal) and governmental en- therefore no nation founded on Chrisdorsement of religious faith (question- tian principles can be “truly free.” Usably legal). Of greater interest to me are ing this logic, it is easy to strip America
Mr. Tuttle’s claims that “the only In it he (in Mr. Tuttle’s view, a nation founded
claims that “the only cultures in which on Christian principles) of the “truly
true freedom has ever flourished are free” designation with a single counterWestern ones—Christian ones” and that example: the enslavement of blacks bethe “foundational principles of Christi- fore the Civil War or the internment of
anity are not transferable—either to oth- Japanese-Americans during World War
er religions or to a strong secular state.” II should be sufficient to rule out “politiHis logic runs like this: in order to be cal and social freedom,” or we can take
truly free, a culture must be based upon the post-9/11 abuse of Muslim American
the foundational principles of Christian- citizens to rule out “religious freedom.”
ity; the foundational principles of ChrisHis support for the claim that “true
tianity are not transferables; therefore, freedom” cannot be enjoyed by secuonly Christian states and cultures can be lar states: Nazis and communists killed
truly free.
a lot of people. Never mind the secular
It is difficult to contest the argument, states that have not committed genoor even approach it, because Mr. Tuttle cide, and especially never mind the
leaves his key terms
Christian states that
undefined. I do not
have—the Crusades,
I do not know what
know what he means
after all, left between
he means by “true
by “true freedom” or
1 and 3 million dead,
freedom” or “the
“the foundational prinand if America is in
foundational principles of Christianity.”
fact founded on Chrisciples of Christianity.” tian principles, there
This makes it difficult
to discern whether the
are the 100,000+ dead
former actually does require the latter, Iraqi civilians to account for. And then
and whether these principles actually there’s Mr. Tuttle’s claim that “the secuare non-transferable.
larization of Europe lies not tangential
Though Mr. Tuttle does not adequate- to, but at the heart of, the maladies of
ly define either of the concepts central those nations—most of them engulfed
to his argument, he does allude to the in economic meltdown, demographic
sorts of things they might mean, and decline, and cultural deterioration.” He
from this already his argument collaps- gives zero evidence for the connection
es. He quotes Russell Kirk in saying that and says nothing about what he means
the Christian “concepts of justice, char- by “cultural deterioration,” though I
ity, community, and duty,” as well as “the suspect it’s something like “not being
equality of all men before the judgment- Christian.”
seat of God” shaped America; from MarThere is nothing discursive about Mr.
cello Pera he cites “personhood and hu- Tuttle’s argument. He cloaks his theman dignity” and the “view that man sis in vague terms and supports it with
has primacy over society and the state.” specific counterexamples used to rule
Mr. Tuttle suggests what he may mean out genera, but only when there is a geby “true freedom” when he speaks of the nus he wants ruled out. It is fine for Mr.
“political and social freedom,” as well as Tuttle to be America-centric if that is
“religious freedom” apparently enjoyed his choice. But if he wants to convince
by Western nations alone.
anyone else, it would behoove him to say
But even if we are to (charitably) ac- why—with unambiguous terms and an
cept these nebulous definitions, Mr. argument that follows. !
“
> Tommy Bonn A’13
I
n Issue 13’s edition of “Bursting the
Johnnie Bubble,” Ian Tuttle blames
secularists for attempting to marginalize
Christmas. He is correct that Christmas
deserves, according to law, some representation in the public square. For, as the
ACLU itself rightly maintains, “Congress
shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion,” but there shall be
no government intervention “prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Christmas
is thus free to be celebrated personally,
as it should be—but clearly it is not to be
endorsed by the state.
The radical secularists whom Mr.
Tuttle describes may even go so far as
to wish government would ban worship, while cultural conservatives will
often cry for government recognition of
Christianity’s virtues. Without judging
whether the change each side calls for is
right, I think it safe to call the desired reforms of both parties unconstitutional.
Mr. Tuttle criticizes the radical secularists for attacking Christmas; but their
“attack” is feeble enough not to warrant his alarm. Consider, after all, that
America is still largely a Christian nation. Moreover, many of the remaining
secularists are not radically so--that is to
say, most atheists and agnostics respect
Christian worship on a personal level.
Mr. Tuttle
is right to
...the imporattack raditant conflict is
cal secularnot between
ists, but the
secularists and
important
Christian symconflict
is
not between
pathizers.
secularists
and Christian sympathizers. It is between men, whether of faith or not, who
seek to uphold the Constitution and
those who wish to rewrite it.
For my part, I think that a different
kind of worldliness is Christmas’ real
enemy—a consumer-based materialism
in which both Christians and skeptics
indulge. The spirit of consumption at
Christmastime tends not to enrich the
holiday’s meaning for me, but rather to
sully it. Might we not more profitably
spend Christmas reading the Gospels
with our families, rather than storing up
treasure on earth for them? !
“
�The Gadfly
05
How did you come to
be a tutor at St. John’s?
that keeps popping up is
the Republic.
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I was in graduate school
at the University of Wisconsin, studying history
and the philosophy of
science. I knew I didn’t
want to be a professor,
but that I did want to
teach. I just wasn’t sure
where. I learned abut
the College from a friend
of mine, who bad been a
tutor briefly. He gave me
a copy of the catalogue.
I stayed up all night
reading it, and the next
morning I sent a letter
to the dean, not expecting much. Soon after, I
was asked to come for
an interview, and fell in
love with the College. I
was offered a position,
which surprised me.
What classes are you
teaching this year?
Freshman language, senior language, and a preceptorial on Rousseau’s
Emile.
What was the biggest
adventure you’ve ever
had?
For the most part, I’ve had a very quiet life. The closest thing
I’ve had to an adventure was the first time I went to Greece
to meet family I’d never known. I stayed in a little village on
the island of Lesbos with my aunt and uncle for three months,
totally immersed in village life. Often I wasn’t sure if I was a
family member or an anthropologist. And I went three months
without speaking a word of English!
What is the single most important piece of advice you
would like to give to freshmen (or upperclassmen)?
My advice is for all students: What we do here is precious, and
time is short. You’ll never get these four years back, so throw
yourself into the work of the College. It can be hard to see at
the time how unique this experience is.
What is your favorite seminar book?
I don’t have one, of course. Those that stand out to me are
those I’m unexpectedly learning from time and again—one
What is your least favorite seminar book?
I’ll change the question a
bit: I have not been able
to enjoy or learn from
either
Aristophanes
comedy. I am sure it’s
my own fault, but I don’t
find the plays funny.
What is your favorite
non-program book?
I read a lot. It’s hard to
pick! Today I’ll say Dostoevsky’s Demons and
Rousseau’s Emile. But
I’m perfectly capable of
giving another answer
tomorrow
morning—
and I would fully expect
to.
What is your biggest
pet peeve (that students do) in class?
We all do annoying
things in class every day.
Instead I’ll say this: I
think what really makes
a class go is when everyone brings in his or her
own questions and problems, the things that truly occur to
them and bother them. This goes for tutors too. It is best not to
rely on what are supposed to be the important questions—and
this requires courage—but we’ll never find out if a question is
important unless it is brought up.
What is your favorite St. John’s tradition?
For me, one central thing we take more seriously than anyone
else is the conviction that in liberal education, we are all learners together. What this means practically is that a tutor is a
learner, and all our academic traditions enforce this—our lack
of departments, our de-emphasis on personal expertise. The
absence of authority seems essential to me.
What is your favorite class to be a tutor for?
One of the side benefits of being a tutor is not being required
to do the same class every time. As a result, my favorite class is
the one I get to teach after five years of not teaching it, and my
least favorite is the one I’m in my sixth year of teaching—but
even in that class, great things do happen! !
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Severe drought hit East Africa, causing famine and
resulting in massive numbers of Somali refugees
fleeing to neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia.
Steve Jobs, Apple’s former CEO and founder of
Pixar, passed away after a long battle with pancreatic cancer; the world mourns the early departure
of the visionary.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 hit
screens, marking the end of a generation’s childhood.
Now we’re all grown up, and there’s not much left to live
for.
Prince William and Kate Middleton tied the
knot in Westminster Abbey as millions of
people watched the broadcasted ceremony.
The first electric cars manufactured in
the U.S. were put on the market: the
GM Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf.
The U.S. space shuttle program ended
on July 21 when the space shuttle Atlantis touched down at the Kennedy
Space Center (FL) shortly before 6
A.M.
In December, during his weekly general audience of 3,000 people,
Pope Benedict XVI claimed that the Gospel is “not a doctrine to
learn or an ethical proposal, but is a person to follow.”
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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Bradley Cooper
According to Maxim’s infamous Hot
100 List, Rosie Huntington-Whitely
is 2011’s most attractive woman. She
is a model for Victoria’s Secret, and
starred as Carly Spencer in Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
According to People’s Hotlist for
2011, Bradley Cooper is the champion. Cooper is best known for his role
as a badass teacher in The Hangover.
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Irene Rosenfeld
Beyonce Knowles
Fortune bestowed the title of “Most Powerful Businesswoman” upon a new winner this year: Irene Rosenfeld,
Chairman and CEO of Kraft Foods (not to be confused
or associated with Daniel Kraft).
2011 saw the gestation of Blue Ivy Carter, daughter of
Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z. Carter managed to one-up
her womb-bound fame by being featured on Jay-Z’s
2012 track “Glory,” on which she makes some noises.
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Marie Calloway’s “Adrien Brody”
Pseudonymous young writer Marie Calloway caused a ruckus on the indie lit scene with
her 15,000 word short story “Adrien Brody,” a lightly fictionalized account of her propositioning of an older New York writer (who had a girlfriend) and the subsequent sexual
encounter. The story was originally posted on her personal blog as a non-fiction account
bearing her lover’s real name, and subsequently taken down and republished as fiction on
Muumuu House, the website of fiction auteur Tao Lin. The incident caused much discussion amongst writers about the ethics of memoir, creative nonfiction, and pseudonymous
writing.
Favorite Moves: Those like Mick Jagger
Favorite Bankruptcy: America
Favorite Wedding: Kim Kardashian + Kris Humphries
Favorite Explosives-Related Musical Number: “Grenade” by
Bruno Mars
Favorite Divorce: Kim Kardashian - Kris Humphries
Favorite Death: Osama Bin Laden (As Mark Twain once said,
“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”)
Favorite Irony: Former Congressman Anthony Weiner (NY26), who sent naughty Twitter pictures of his—yep, you guessed
it...
Favorite Day of the Week: Friday. (But only in the front seat.)
Favorite New Drinking Game: Taking one shot whenever
Herman Cain says 9-9-9
Favorite Cranky Old Guy: Ron Paul
Favorite Potentially Drug-Induced Celebrity Meltdown:
Charlie Sheen
Favorite Children’s Book (Sort of): Go the F**k to Sleep by
Adam Mansbach
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> Anonymous
08
Why submit to Energeia?
She came down the hall on a wet November day.
Her friend embraced her and she stepped outside
Into the rain whose drops already had
Made wet her fine brown hair and her gray sweater.
With half-damp eyes she stood at the courtyard door.
Slowly she drew a pack of cigarettes
From her back pocket as she faced the rain,
And fumbled to replace it as she lit one.
I did not see the flash, but only the smoke
Rising to bring closer the dark clouds,
To commensurate, to lift, her pale wet face
To the fine white mist, to the pure cool air,
To make blush the fire of her purple scarf,
The blue heat of her jeans’ full close embrace,
In colors truer than the sun’s rough arms
Could ever win from her in brighter days.
And so I saw that day the face of rain,
Which blushes sweetest at the kiss of pain.
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> Painter Bob
I love to make light, of both photos and waves
While my name goes unspoken on either side of the grave
And yes, rather born in a mister, or miss
I am found in the ground of androgynous bliss
And so, in an atom’s infinitesimal parts
There I lie in each beat of every true heart
And yet, just how large can I grow in a mind
Well, hell, that’s the bomb… Only mad ones will find.
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> Patrick Beeby A’12
Oh I would that I could go west today
And stop beneath the Rockies’ Range a while.
What better time than youthful month of May
To ‘waken souls, to bring to mind a smile.
And thus restored from what I see up there,
I’d make my way to fourteen thousand feet,
Where I could stand up tall and breathe fresh air
And be no more a slave to wall or street.
I’d stand alone, athwart the Great Divide
And feel my left unto Pacific flow,
My right, Atlantic bound. But to decide
Is much too hard, so North, I think, I’ll go.
Away from all the ticks and tocks of clocks
I see the timeless raindrops on riverrocks.
Photo from Energeia cover Spring 2010
T
his year, Energeia has experienced a dearth in community
submissions. This in itself isn’t so surprising; many people
tend to put off submitting until the last moment, and since the
deadline is usually in December, it’s easy to forget to submit at all.
This year, however, the number of submissions was significantly
lower, for reasons unknown to me. Since the magazine is only
published once a year, I realize that it seems to play a less active role on this campus, and that members of the polity may have
misperceptions regarding Energeia, or perhaps may not even realize that it exists.
As the only literary magazine on campus, Energeia is dedicated
to publishing the best artwork and writing of the St. John’s community every year. Thus, the strength of each publication depends entirely on community involvement; without a satisfactory
number of submissions, we cannot print the magazine in a timely
manner. Additionally, as a sizeable and high-quality publication,
the editing, layout, and printing of Energeia can be an extremely
time-consuming process, which means that extending deadlines
prolongs printing even further.
Since we rely so heavily on you, the polity, for the work that we
do, I’d like to clarify some misconceptions about Energeia. Firstly,
the magazine does not print solely artwork and creative writing.
Essays and translations compose a large part of the magazine, and
we pride ourselves especially on publishing other works, such as
mathematical proofs and musical scores. Secondly, the magazine
is not strictly an undergraduate publication; GIs, faculty, and staff
members are all encouraged to submit as well. Lastly, a piece
need not be perfectly edited and polished before submitting; the
staff members read and edit every piece carefully before the magazine goes to print, and we always contact our contributors about
stylistic issues.
I’d also like to add that having a piece published in Energeia
does not go unnoticed, and for that reason, I consider it one of
the best ways to share one’s work with the college community.
Moreover, I believe, as a community that encourages thoughtful
and open discussion, that we all have an obligation to share our
creative endeavors with one another, and to foster an informed
dialogue about art, about the role it plays in our community, and
its value to our individual experiences. I hope that you will consider sharing your work with us this year.
Thank you,
Stephanie Connolly, Editor
P. S. Please remember, this year’s deadline is at the end of Monday, January 23. There is no limit on size or number of submissions. !
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> Kallista Pappas A’15
I
t is difficult to be one of the few who is no longer searching thought of whether there might be more to what we perceive.
for the Truth at this school. Because of my Absolute, Christ,
If you talk to any senior here, who has been storm-tossed
my reasoning is highly deductive and seemingly incompatible by every argument blown his way, you are most apt to find a
with the basic inductive reasoning we adopt at St. John’s. I’ve MISOLOGIST, one who is against the Logos itself. There is no
always reasoned deductively, I realize now. In some ways I good argument, there is no good, there is no truth. Too many
feel limited by it. My head is in a different kingdom. I don’t people believe too many things. Everything is relative.
judge after the flesh. And I can’t escape this constant worship
It is said that people graduate from St. John’s either severely
of Christ. When I see him in a text, I freak out. I can’t control depressed alcoholics, or as Christians.
my elation. My seminar tutors say this joy is pervasive in class.
I wrestled with this for the whole of the latter half of the
I bring life and light.
semester. I still am. I’m trying to reconcile how man’s ability to
Why do I feel limited by it, though? Well, my head’s in the reason fits into his (presupposed) longing and search for God.
clouds, and I have already found the truth. Ask anyone here, I still have a lot of books to study before I come to any concluand they will tell you everyone hates people like me in semi- sion on this matter. I’m a freshman, for goodness sake...and as
nar. But I am careful. I have never demany say: I shouldn’t ask this question
railed a conversation. I assure you, I
until sophomore year.
The word for “Word” is Logos,
never will. But I’m always at the risk of
So it was really refreshing to sit with
exploding, shouting, DON’T YOU SEE
Acacia in the dining hall that day. She’s
which has so many other
IT!? Of course, that’s why. I expect othbeen through it all, come out with her
meanings! Speech. Account.
ers to see what I see. I haven’t thought it
faith intact, and she’s back. Sharing
Reason. Opinion. Order. Reck- something I never fathomed to share
all through. I’ve exercised my spirit, but
oning. Thought. Etc. My hunch at this point on my St. John’s journey.
less my intellect. This is the first time I
is that this is where Jesus was She said, “Consider this example: I am
am faced with opposing arguments. It is
sharpening me, making me adaptable to
trying to connect with the in- a Christian, so my Absolute is, ‘Jesus
this world and the people in it.
Christ is Lord.’ All things sort of branch
tellectual and rational world.
My sister Acacia (A’11) and I were sitout from this Absolute. But because my
ting in the dining hall together on the
God, also called the Hebrew God, is a
eve of break. She was visiting for a day from Bowie. I was going Living God, he is constantly moving, and all things adapt to
about my normal dead-week routine. Seminar was later that his movement. The truth is in constant flux. Thought cannot
day. We were talking with one of my classmates, Will, about be inert in Him. Other Absolutes out there aren’t living. Adthe importance of holding onto an Absolute while studying hering to these becomes a form of legalism, and it can be conhere at this school. I, of course, argue for it. Why?
stricting when exploring truth.”
At the beginning of first semester, during orientation, they
This blew my mind. Will reacted with a nod, and then I
split the freshmen up into groups and sent us to different fac- don’t remember what he said, because I was in pieces.
ulty to discuss life at St. John’s. The most memorable part was
The Logos became Flesh.
the talk given by one of the counselors. He argued this same
There is a reason that John said, “In the beginning was the
point. It is important, he said, to have a mountaintop to refer Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
to while traveling in the storm that this education may seem The word for “Word” is Logos, which has so many other meanto be. You see, here we explore many different arguments. The ings! Speech. Account. Reason. Opinion. Order. Reckoning.
freshman is enamored by the program because we study Plato, Thought. Etc. My hunch is that this is where Jesus was trying
Aristotle, and Euclid. Plato had his theory of Forms, Aristo- to connect with the intellectual and rational world. He came
tle his ethics, Euclid the divine world of geometry. On these that there would be life in the argument, and full life at that.
things all of philosophy is built. Why are the freshmen so exMy questions are different because I’ve already found what
cited? Well, beside the fact that it is their first year of college, it is everyone else is looking for. The hard part about this edit is also the first Logos that they have come across. And it is ucation is understanding what it is I am still searching for. I
very convincing. Also, it is incredibly beautiful to live in the am allowed to think and question things because I’m free in
world of the ideal.
Christ. I am not limited in my thinking. There are still so many
But the scary thing is that every other argument met after mysteries of the Logos, of Christ, of the world. The Cross althat first semester is just as convincing, just as plausible. This lowed freedom in all places. As Paul declared, we are all things
is where the “Everything is relative” paradigm comes from. to all people, so that they could be saved through us. This inWe don’t really know the truth. We are just trying to find the cludes the misologist, the relativist, the atheist, and the legalbest that fits us personally, as individuals, selfishly, with no ist. !
“
�The Gadfly
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> Gordon Greer A’13
O sähst du, voller Mondenshein,
Zum letztenmal auf meine Pein,
Den ich so manche Mitternacht
An diesem Pult herangewacht:
Dann über Büchern und Papier,
Trübsel’ger Freund, erschienst du mir!
Ach! könnt’ ich doch auf Berges-Höh’n,
In deinem lieben Lichte gehn,
Um Bergeshöle mit Geistern schweben,
Auf Wiesen in deinem Dämmer weben,
Von allem Wissensqualm entladen,
In deinem Thau gesund mich baden!
O that you would look, full moonlight,
Upon my pain for the last time,
You for whom on so many midnights
At this desk I have waited, awake.
Then upon books and papers,
Gloomy friend, were you given to me!
Oh! Could I but on the peaks of the Alps
Travel in your lovely light,
Floating about their caves with spirits,
Weaving in meadows in your twilight:
Freed from all Learning’s miasma,
Bathing myself to health in your dew!
Weh! steck’ ich in dem Kerker noch?
Verfluchtes, dumpfes Mauerloch!
Wo selbst das liebe Himmelslicht
Trüb’ durch gemahlte Schieben bricht.
Beschränkt mit diesem Bücherhauf,
Den Würme nagen, Staub bedeckt,
Den, bis an’s hohe Gewölb’ hinauf,
Ein angeraucht Papier umsteckt;
Mit Gläsern, Büchsen rings umstellt,
Mit Instrumenten vollgepfropft, [36]
Urväter Hausrath drein gestopft –
Das ist deine Welt! das heißt eine Welt!
Woe! Am I stuck still in this dungeon?
This damned, dull cell,
Where even Heaven’s splendid light
Breaks murkily though painted panes!
Bound by this book heap,
Their gnawing worms, dust bedecked,
Then, in up to the high vaults
Stuffed with sooty papers,
With glasses, cans
Crammed full with instruments,
Olden furniture packed around oneselfThat is your world! That’s called a world!
Und fragst du noch, warum dein Herz
Sich bang’ in deinem Busen klemmt?
Warum ein unerklärter Schmerz
Dir alle Lebensregung hemmt?
Statt der lebendigen Natur,
Da Gott die Menschen schuf hinein,
Umgiebt in Rauch und Moder nur
Dich Thiergeripp’ und Todtenbein.
Flieh! auf! hinaus ins weite Land!
And you question still, why your heart
Holds itself anxiously in your breast?
Why an unaccounted pain
Represses all desire to live in you?
Instead of lively Nature
Where God created man within,
You have here, in smoke and mold alone,
Beasts’ skeletons and dead men’s bone!
Fly! Up, away into the wide world!
Faust. Der Tragödie, erster Teil [35-36]
The Tragedy of Faust, Part One [35-36]
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Mr. Warczinsky
Ms. Alexander
On Afghanistan
> Alvaro E. Duran GI
C
learing his throat about the video
that shows Marines urinating on
Taliban corpses, Florida Representative
Allen West of Florida wrote, in a letter
to the Weekly Standard, “The Marines
were wrong.” After a bit of soft fanfare,
he continued, “As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban,
shut your mouth, war is hell.” I have no
idea whether West has ever been shot at
by the Taliban, but it was certainly not
while wearing a United States military
uniform. He had been softly shown the
door out of the Army for conducting a
botched interrogation in the early years
of the Iraq War.
I’ve never set foot between the Oxus
and the Durand Line myself, though I
was around in Iraq to receive sporadic
mortar fire from some hapless individual. We have begun hearing in past days
about the Pentagon’s plan to review the
training these Marines received—presumably to see whether they understood
that urinating on corpses, enemy or
friendly, was the wrong thing to do. This
should only depress us further, as the
military has not seemed to understand
that sadists and psychotics are immune
to efforts to try and “re-educate” them.
War crimes will happen—many preventable, many not. Even so, we can punish
the violators while celebrating the honorable. Just as we can forget pathetic
apologists like West and instead recall
Orwell’s “Revenge is Sour,” where he
notes that humiliating an enemy brings
no real satisfaction. !
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> Ian Tuttle A’14
“T
here is nothing new under the sun,” proclaims the au- tainable, and those same people—and their spoiled progeny—
thor of Ecclesiastes (tragically absent from the Pro- no longer have the will or resources to support themselves.
gram). His ancient dictum seems particularly timely with the Hence the garment-rending of the Occupy protesters and
arrival of the new year. The abyss below us looks strikingly European rioters, who are under the collective delusion that
similar to the abyss above us.
owning a plasma-screen television is a basic human right.
The February 2012 cover of Mad Magazine subtitles 2011
And, of course, those problems have consequences abroad.
“The Year We Ran Out of Money!” That about sums it up. In In the Middle East, Iran is beating the drum as it accelerates
2011, the United States went broke. Consider these numbers: work on its nuclear program, staging war games near the
The United States’ explicit federal debt is $15 trillion. That is, Strait of Hormuz and upping its already-stratospheric rhetothe United States has $15 trillion on its credit cards for things ric. Last week, another Iranian nuclear scientist was assaswe have already purchased with a Treasury-approved IOU. sinated by masked motorcycle assailants. Western powers
This summer, that number surpassed America’s annual Gross determined to make sure Iran cannot threaten Tel-Aviv, LonDomestic Product (GDP). The United States now owes more don, or New York City—or provide weapons to nutters who
money than it makes in one year. But that is
will—are waging a covert war. But they will
simply the debt we have already accrued; it
not receive assistance in the region. A region
does not include the purchases promised by
of predictable dictators has given way to the inThe twentieththe government. Kevin Williamson points
stability of the so-called “Arab Spring.” Egypt’s
century welfare
out that the United States has (in addition
December elections handed 40 of 50 contested
state has reached legislative seats to the radical Muslim Brotherto the $15 trillion above) more than $100
trillion in unfunded liabilities, promises the
hood and the even-more-radical Salafists, both
a tipping point.
United States government has made withbent on implementing Sharia law and destroyout the money to follow through. The chief
ing the “Zionist occupier.” But rather than condrivers of unfunded liabilities? Social Security, Medicare, and fronting the true source of our economic woes (entitlements),
Medicaid. Williamson puts the amount between $130 and the Obama administration is making drastic defense budget
$140 trillion—and his estimate is on the low end. Want to put cuts and planning a smaller military—just when the Middle
that number in perspective?
East is becoming more volatile.
This question should dominate America’s attention over
That figure is, literally [Williamson writes], more than all the next ten months. But the need for substantial reform is
the money in the world—more than every piece of cur- likely to get lost in what may be the most vicious election in
rency in any denomination issued by any government, recent memory. Attorney General Eric Holder has declared
along with all of the money in the world’s checking and that accusations against his Justice Department in the Operasavings accounts, certificates of deposit, money-market tion Fast and Furious scandal (where DOJ weapons trafficked
funds, and other forms of ready money. About twice that, into Mexico were used in the death of a Border Patrol agent)
in fact. It is more than twice the annual economic output are motivated by his and President Obama’s skin color, and the
of human civilization.
White House will undoubtedly try to stoke class hostilities,
attempting to blame “corporate jet-owners” and “the 1%” for
And that is just the United States. Also gone-broke this its own financial malfeasance. Republicans will be once more
year: Greece, Portugal, Ireland; teetering on the brink: Italy, paradoxically tagged as the party of white Wall Street fat cats
Spain, Belgium. The experiment to unite Europe against the and backwoods Holy Spirit freaks disturbingly out-of-touch
political and economic hegemony of the United States has with the zeitgeist—all to deflect attention from 2012’s central
proven untenable, with the Euro verging on collapse and the problem: the unsustainable future of the United States under
EU’s bankrupt nations seeking bailouts from the EU’s soon- the current model of, “Don’t worry. Be happy. Washington
to-be-bankrupt nations. Author Mark Steyn summarizes the will take care of it.” The crucial task for the GOP nominee
problem: “Broke nations are being bailed out by a broke trans- will be crafting a viable alternative to the policies and prinnational organization [the International Monetary Fund] ciples of the last three years and communicating them clearly
bankrolled by a broke superpower in order to save a broke to an electorate whose dissatisfaction is palpable but whose
currency. Good luck with that.”
electoral whims are eternally unpredictable.
The twentieth-century welfare state has reached a tipping
In a December Associated Press-Gfk poll, a majority of
point. Mid-twentieth-century progressivism (think FDR’s Americans expressed optimism for the coming year, both
New Deal and Johnson’s “Great Society,” and the soft social- personally and for the country. Good. We greatly need a reism of postwar Europe) concocted government programs that alistic optimism and a cheerful perseverance. But a firm grip
would purportedly ensure the financial security and health on reality remains the key. Albert Einstein defined insanity as
of the largest generations in modern history. However, what “doing the same thing over and over again expecting differthey created, instead, were multiple generations utterly de- ent results.” The United States has been doing the same thing
pendent upon the government for their well-being, who will- for 50 years and earned the predicted results: bankruptcy, a
ingly relinquished economic and personal liberties for the crushing government apparatus, and cultural exhaustion.
comfort of government assurances. Now the government is 2012 may be a new year, but we face the same old problems.
broke, the system of cradle-to-grave entitlements is unsus- It’s time for new solutions. !
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Tuesday 1/17
SJC Orchestra Rehearsal
Great Hall, 4-5:30 PM
I would like to draw attention to an article that Mr. Menzer wrote last semester regarding the !"#$%&program which as Ms. Brann pointed out is really
$%&!"#'(. You may remember that the main argument was something along
the lines of it was unfair that the women at St. John’s had their own intramural
program. I want to take this point and say that I completely disagree. There is
absolutely no reason that the women should not have their own program and
in fact I think that the college should institute more programs for women only.
It is time to continue the fight for women’s rights. In case you forget, it started
with allowing them to speak, followed by allowing them to vote; later we allowed them to go to lesser universities, and the culmination so far has been
allowing women to go to college with men. However, it is now our time to carry
the torch further. This means that we need more separate programs for women.
I think that they should have separate extra seminars, women only. There
should be a women-only Library and Computer Lab. Women should have a
separate time when they can eat in the dining hall so that they do not have to
worry about how they look as they eat, and they should have their own separate
mailroom, where they can open their mail in a relaxed environment. By doing
all this we could ensure that the women at our college have all the options of
being relaxed, having fun, and learning the fundamentals of typing, reading,
eating, and opening mail without other pressures dragging them down. At the
very least I think it’s time we take a lesson from our sister campus in Santa Fe:
over there they have a tradition of a women-only dance party. I think this is an
absolutely wonderful tradition, and cannot wait until it comes into its own in
Annapolis. The reason for this change is that I want the women at St. John’s to
be more relaxed and to be completely happy. After all more is better, and in this
case it is necessary that there are more opportunities for women.
Kunai Basketball
DC v F, 4:00 PM
M v A, 5:15 PM
Open Mic Night
Chasement, 8 PM
Dance Lessons
Great Hall, 8-9 PM
Wednesday 1/18
Handball
D v H, 4:15 PM
Basketball
W v G, 7:30 PM
St. John’s Chorus
Great Hall, 7 PM
Friday 1/20
Kunai Basketball
DC v A, 4:00 PM
M v F, 5:15 PM
Lecture
“The Story of Jonah”
Ms. Mera Flaumenhaft, Tutor
FSK Auditorium, 8:15 PM
Saturday 1/21
Mental Health Support Group
BBC Room 109, 10:30 AM
Basketball
D v S, 1:30 PM
G v H, 3:30 PM
Sunday 1/22
Volleyball Tournament
All Teams, 2-4 PM
Mabel the Swimming Wonder
Monkey presents “C Me Dance”
Spector Media Room, 8:00 PM
If you would like to see your
event on the weekly schedule,
please email Gadfly@sjca.edu
A Response to Drew Menzer’s “Letter to the Polity” from November 15
D
earest Polity,
Hunter Cox A’13 !
Pink Triangle Society
H
ey Sexy,
As most of you probably know, we’re the ones who run the gay club on campus. However, it’s important to remember that The Pink Triangle Society isn’t
just “the gay club on campus,” regardless of how much we support LGBTQ*
people and issues. In fact, a large percentage of our members aren’t gay—Pink
Triangle isn’t big on exclusion. What the club is big on is attempting to take
all of those questions we grapple with (or steer away from) in class and apply
them to the messy, even naughty, bits of Johnnie life. What is love, and how
can I find it in the dining hall? How can one be honorable? Can I be Quixote in
the bedroom? Who the heck gets to decide what it means to be a girl or a guy?
Perhaps most pressing, what is with all of the flying phalluses in the Phaedrus?
With this letter, we want to introduce not only The Pink Triangle Society, but
also what we hope will become a semi-regular column in The Gadfly: Queeries.
In it we plan to break the discussions out of our meetings, so in the coming
months various club members will give you their take on those and many other
questions. This column’s purpose is not merely to advertise Pink Triangle,** but
also, perhaps, to bring some conversations from the classroom into the dorm
room; to bring them down from their ivory tower to soak in the mire of college
life for awhile.
Affectionately,
Joe Wood A’12 and Tessa Nelson A’12
The Pink Triangle Society Archons
*An acronym which stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning
**Wednesday, at dinner, in the Randall Private Dining Room !
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Why are Flowers Beautiful? 06-07
Responses to Ms. Pappas 10-11
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<< Cover: Quailman (Ryan Eberlein, A’14)
and his posse caught partying on Friday
night. Photo by Henley Moore (A’13).
>> Basketball: Johnnie Fleming (A’12)
drives to the hoop against Jerry Januszewski (Counselor) in a game last winter. Photos
courtesy of Rachel Ulrich (A’11).
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> Chris Krueger A’07, SRA
W
hile reading Miss Brann’s 1994 perfect friendship involves men who are
speech concerning Women’s “good, alike in virtue and wish well alike
Athletics, I was surprised at my to each other...” (bk. VIII, ch. 3, 1156b7).
reaction to the thought that there is a
Considering these two reference
contradiction in the notion of “friendly points, it occurs to me that in our
competition.” Although I am certainly friendly athletic program, we are
accustomed to seeing tension between presented with a great and truly
friends in competition with each other, invigorating opportunity. Because, as
my surprise centered around this Miss Brann notes in her speech, this
tension being described as inherently school is a community of reflection, we
contradictory. Intrigued, I consulted two might approach our athletic endeavors
sources: Aristotle’s
bearing in mind
Nicomachean Ethics
that
competition
and the College’s
striving
The notion of striving af- requires
online subscription
t o g e t h e r .
ter something together
to oed.com.
Furthermore,
and being sufficient for bearing in mind that
The
etymology
of “competition” is
a perfect friendship
something reminded
brief and refers to
is a greater thing
me of Book Eight of
the verb “compete.”
than a friendship
Nicomachean Ethics.
The etymology of
of associates, we
the more current
can come together
entry for “compete” indicates that the in athletic competition not just as
word comes from the Latin compet-ĕre, associates striving for mere victory,
in its post-Classical, active sense, “to but instead as perfect friends striving
strive after (something) in company or together and encouraging one another
together, < com- together + petĕre to aim toward virtue.
at, go toward, try to reach...” and also
One final thought. As if foreseeing the
cites the modern French competer: “to peculiar convergence of our friendly,
be sufficient for, suitable with, agreeable thoughtful, and athletic endeavors at
unto.” The notion of striving after St. John’s College, Aristotle notes that
something together and being sufficient opportunities for perfect friendships are
for something reminded me of Book infrequent and references a proverb that
Eight of Nicomachean Ethics. There, I states that men cannot know each other
found that Aristotle notes that every until they have “eaten salt together.”
form of friendship involves association (bk. VIII, ch. 3, 1156b24). Sweat is salty.
(bk. VIII, ch. 9, 1159b29), and that the Coincidence? I think not. !
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Dante
Hume
N/A
The stranger writes
about writing essays.
First, there are two
kinds...
> Sebastian Abella
Dante was going to write
about God, but then
he thought He was too
beautiful to describe.
> Jonathan Barone
Hume’s essay consists of
excerpts from his diary,
entitled “A Treatise on
Hume and Nature.”
> Tommy Berry
The seniors get a break
from their serious responsibility of responding to this section of The
Gadfly.
NEXT WEEK
If a movie was made about your seminar character, which actor would play him?
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Stephanie Connolly reflects on the experience of
grief, expressed in the poetry of Anne Sexton.
A
> Stephanie Connolly A’12
t the beginning of the new year, I learned that the mother she feels, and her inability to face her pain. Here Sexton is
of a high school friend had died in a tragic accident. I contemplative, philosophical, contrasting the passive actions
let my friend know that my thoughts were with her and her of those living in grief with the almost-active absoluteness of
family but never had the opportunity to offer my condolences death. The living watch, emotionless, as “the sea swings in
in person. However, had I been given the opportunity, what like an iron gate/ and we touch. In another country people
could I have said to her? Grieved though I was
die.” In the final stanza, she turns her focus to
by her mother’s sudden death, the loss belonged
the dead. Here her language is equally passive,
I believe that
to my friend, not to me. Outside of offering
yet her subjects are powerful, rich in feeling.
my sympathies, any other words I could give
“And what of the dead?” she writes. What of
our language
seemed to me vain and self-serving, as though I
them? “They are more like stone/ than the
fails us most
could presume to understand her pain.
sea would be if it stopped. They refuse/ to be
when we are
Indeed, I believe that our language fails us
blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.”
most when we are faced with grief; we draw
Sexton’s poetry also serves as an example that
faced with grief.
it out into dramas and elegies, trying to reach
our grief is not constant, but instead changes
the root and reason of our pain. Aristotle wrote that the from tragedy to tragedy. Though it reflects a large portion
tragedy of Oedipus could be clearly understood even in its of her work, Sexton does not restrict herself to the passive
most succinct form, but rarely do we contain ourselves to such weariness she expresses at her parents’ deaths. Her poem
brief descriptions. Perhaps in doing so we wish to comfort about Sylvia Plath’s suicide (“Sylvia’s Death”), for example, is
ourselves, to convince ourselves that our pain has some rhyme long, meandering, and furious with grief. “Oh Sylvia, Sylvia,”
or reason on a greater scale.
she echoes, calling her friend back to her, expressing a pain
The American poet Anne Sexton faced many tragedies—the too raw and heavy to ignore:
deaths, three months apart, of her parents; the suicide of her
friend, Sylvia Plath; and her own suicidal tendencies—and she
what did you stand by,
wrote about them honestly. But most poignant in Sexton’s
just how did you lie down into?
poetry is her ability to convey grief plainly, without attempting
to justify or adorn it with lofty sentiment. A poem about
Thief!—
her parents’ deaths, “The Truth the Dead Know,” succinctly
how did you crawl into,
demonstrates this quality of Sexton’s in the first stanza: “It is
June. I am tired of being brave.” Here, Sexton imparts much of
crawl down alone
her grief: its discord with the summer climate, the exhaustion
into the death I wanted so badly and for so long, . . . !
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PRIVACY
04
The two most recent internet regulations proposed by Congress, the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act,
have received criticism from companies like Wikipedia and Google. Exploring the relationship between coporations
and the future of American activism, Alvaro Duran focuses on our role in this conflict.
> Alvaro E. Duran GI
M
any years ago, while using a friend’s copy of Windows XP, pushing their provisions one at a time through Capitol Hill
an aggravating little software called Windows Genuine or more regional governing bodies, hoping we won’t be
Advantage installed itself and began informing me that maybe bothered. Or perhaps they’ll seek compensation through the
this copy of Windows wasn’t totally legitimate. Unable to stop judiciary, one lone downloader at a time. Don’t be fooled—it’s
its pestering, I researched instructions to disable it and did already happening. Jammie Thomas, a single mother living in
so within a few minutes. How foolish, I thought then, that Brainerd, Minnesota, has been hounded through three appeals
Microsoft had bothered to waste so many programming hours by Capitol Records (another SOPA supporter) for millions in
on something that could be bypassed in minutes. I knew then damages stemming from twenty-four songs she downloaded.
what corporations and governments have yet to understand: Capitol Records is a subsidiary of EMI which is itself owned by
whatever technologies and legislations are put in place to try Citigroup—a multinational we taxpayers bailed out. Citigroup
and bar our human greed, that
reported a net income of ten billion
very greed impels us to circumvent
dollars last year. The median household
But we may feel that though the income in Brainerd is $29,297.
them.
companies remain financially
This week we’ve been treated
Other factions have chosen to battle
to a steaming pile under the
this unashamed greed through arcane
unfazed, we have triumphed
titles SOPA and PIPA. While I’d
backchannels of electronic espionage
by taking our fight to the legisbeen familiar with the pending
and disruption. The most prominent
lature. Perhaps. Or perhaps the
legislation since last year, it only
organization dedicated to this cybernext time a corporation tries to
sparked the outrage we saw this
warfare is the amorphous Anonymous.
pass legislation, they’ll perform
past week after a number of
Late last week, after the FBI shut down
websites barred their doors in
a popular website for alleged copyright
more stealthily, pushing their
anger and demanded that their
provisions one at a time through violation, Anonymous shut down
users protest the legislation.
the Department of Justice website.
Capitol Hill...hoping we won’t be Anonymous and similar groups are
Looking at the latest headlines
bothered.
announcing
SOPA’s—at
least
viewed with romantic admiration
temporary—derailment, the public
in many liberal circles for their
seems to have come out ahead. And yet, while so many people unconventional means of protest and underdog struggle. It
toast their own “activism” this week, our cyber escapade has always perplexes me why modern liberals applaud tactics and
revealed a strange duality of priorities and the pathetic state of groups that inevitably harm the middle and lower classes. In
modern political involvement.
response to the controversial Arizona immigration law, a hacker
The list of corporations that support SOPA is easily found. group related to Anonymous released the personal details of a
Has there been any real effort to boycott these institutions? number of Arizona state police. Various corporations have had
Certainly not. People could only be bothered to pick up their employees’ personal data exposed. Is this how the left
their phones or fire off a hastily written email after being has decided to reply to the injustices it sees? If so, why?
inconvenienced by another long list of corporations. We might
Life has become too comfortable for many to be bothered
laugh at being made pawns in this great commercial chess with making the true efforts necessary to correct the moral
match, but the real joke is on us. I suppose I should come injustices we face. A downed website or an overextended
out now and say that I too didn’t pick up a phone to call my corporate hand may spurn us to react, but when the problems
congressman until Wednesday’s internet blackout. And I get don’t affect us directly, we shake our heads upon hearing
my internet access through Comcast, which openly supports them, but then continue to indulge in their produce. We grit
this legislation. Comcast, by the way, has made excellent our teeth at multinational profits and ask how a company can
market gains this past month.
get so large or why a company cannot pay a bit more in taxes.
But we may feel that though the companies remain We attend our “Occupy” rallies garbed in the very robes we
financially unfazed, we have triumphed by taking our fight to howlingly protest. Then we celebrate the muscle-flexing of a
the legislature. Perhaps. Or perhaps the next time a corporation new cyber-mafia that violates the very privacy we supposedly
tries to pass legislation, they’ll perform more stealthily, fight to preserve. Welcome to the future. !
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�The Gadfly
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A Hell of a Time with Mr. Higuera
How did you come to be a tutor at St. John’s?
What is your biggest pet peeve (that students do) in class?
Allan Bloom told me about St. John’s. I had never heard of it,
and when I was applying for jobs, he told me I should apply
here, too. I objected that they had not advertised any openings, and he informed me that St. John’s was not like anyplace
else, that they would just hire you if they felt like it, and that
I should get hold of a catalogue and read it carefully and tailor my application to it. “Tailor my application to a catalogue? What are you talking
about, Mr. Bloom?” He just
said, read the catalogue, and
you’ll understand. Well, I sort
of did, and the rest is history.
Not paying attention when a student is doing a proposition at
the board. Not that any of my current Sophomores are ever
guilty of this. Right, guys?
What is your favorite St. John’s tradition and why?
Does Primum Mobile count as a tradition? If so, Primum Mobile. If not, then the way upperclassmen sometimes sing
“Sicut Cervus” in the Gallery
over Freshman Chorus.
What is your favorite class
to be a tutor for and why?
What classes are you teaching this year?
I don’t have “favorite classes,” exactly. I have classes
that I get deeply invested
in and then pull away from.
The tutorial that I have been
most invested in, all in all,
over my 29 years here, is
Junior Lab. I’ve thought
very hard about both the
technical sides of it and the
deeper issues it deals with.
Twenty years ago I was obsessed with Junior Seminar
because of Locke and Rousseau, on the one hand, and
Hume and Kant, on the other. (Don’t ask why.) !
Sophomore Seminar, Sophomore Math, Senior Language.
What was the biggest adventure you’ve ever had?
Probably going to Barcelona
for a year and tooling around
Spain, France, and Italy while
“researching” my dissertation.
What is the single most important piece of advice you
would like to give to freshmen (or upperclassmen)?
It’s not advice, it’s an aspiration for them, or maybe just a sermon: open yourself up to these great books. They will help
save you from making snap judgments about complex and difficult aspects of human life and the world.
What is your favorite seminar book and why?
Plato’s Republic. It depicts both the claims of society and the
pull of philosophy with great power. Slowly and subtly, tensions appear between loyalty to your country and loving the
truth in a way which I find both sobering and exhilarating.
What is your least favorite seminar book and why?
“Now you’re trying to get me to say something stupid.” That’s
a quote from Allan Bloom but it is à propos here.
What is your favorite non-program book and why?
Probably Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. Incredibly penetrating depictions of both happiness and unhappiness in human life.
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> Painter Bob
Philosophy fiddles to a mind’s inner needs
While poetry paints of a soul’s deepest seed
And while words, may convey, either way, what is wise
I’ll leave it to those who have opened their eyes
To see that a poet’s true soul never dies
While the thinkers, who wrestle the ephemeral facts
Lie ever in wanting to cover their tracts
And yet, in the one, might the other confide
To discover the good does in each so abide
When a lover of life shares them both in good stride
Then, folks such as me, whose souls are like reeds
Can call for the tune of the wise to be freed
Of my ignorant want, which, I’ve learned to call... greed. !
�> Photo by Igor Martinovic
Why are flowers
beautiful?
by Michael Janakis A’12
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.1145' This might be one of the reasons I insist on
travel by train: it gives me time to think. The night before I left, I was watching a program featuring home
movies taken shortly before the fall of Berlin in 1945,
when German civilians knew that they were about to
lose the war, and hard times were ahead. I was amazed
at how similar these events were to those described by
Thucydides almost 2,500 years before. This put me in
a rather melancholy, reflective mood, and I began to
reminisce about my days at St. John’s and, in particular, my yearly essay topics.
Like Thucydides, the subjects of my essays were
often reflective of my experiences and feelings at the
time of composition. I began to consider whether
there had been a common theme throughout my four
essays and what insight this could give me about myself and my time spent here. I write and share these
thoughts with you now, because, in speaking to other
seniors and asking about their four topics, my inquiries were met with much enthusiasm and a desire for an
article on the topic. I will share with you my insights
into my own life, but I must first make my apology.
In sharing my story of the past few years, I have been
met with polarized reactions. Most people seem to be
moved by my story, while others disagree with my decision to share such personal experiences and feelings (perhaps they feel it is an effort to elicit sympathy from them). Rest assured, I have no such desire. I desire empathy from my brothers and sisters and to empathize
with them about their own experiences. I share these things with you so that you will have hope and comfort in the future, because in the
course of my struggles, I have at times lost hope. Of course, I also share them now so as to best illustrate my choice of essay topics and
what insight your own topics may be able to provide into your own self. I do hope you find this enjoyable, and I invite current and future
seniors to attempt such an exercise for themselves.
Let me begin by listing my topics. Freshman: “What is practical wisdom?” based on Book VI of Aristotle’s Ethics and Thucydides’ account of Pericles. Sophomore: “What is Suffering?” Book of Job. Junior: “How do we bridge the infinitely infinite gap between mind and
charity (agape)? How does man participate in agape?” Pascal’s Pensees. Senior: “Why are flowers beautiful?” Goethe’s Metamorphosis of
Plants. I will break this down year by year for you.
Freshman year, believe it or not, was very difficult for me. My grandfather reposed shortly before I left, and I left home for a strange
and very white, upper-class town. I came from a predominantly black, lower-middle class town. The transition was hard. On top of that,
I was very shy and very bitter. My parents were separated, I had no father figure, and I had been a few years into dealing with Marfan’s
Syndrome, a lifelong genetic disorder caused by a defect in the gene that codes for fibrillin, the building block of connective tissue. The
main symptom from this is that over time, connective tissue loses its elasticity and stretches, like elastic on old gym shorts. The aorta
of the heart is mostly connective tissue, and because of the immense internal pressure, over time in Marfan’s patients it dilates and rips
open, causing a quick, painful death. Additionally, the retina of the eye is held in place by connective tissue, so a subluxation of the lens,
leading to blindness, is common. There are quite a few other problems, but these are the most troubling, and confronting these things as a
seventh grader, and continuing through high school without a stable home, father figure, or any empathy from anyone my age, was almost
�impossible to bear. Oh, and my sternum was sunken and twisted
from birth (from Marfan’s Syndrome), pinning my heart (known
as “pectus excavatum"), making it impossible for me to breathe
deeply or exercise, and causing me great physical and mental
distress. All of this, and coming from a place where violence in
school was relatively common, made the transition to Annapolis
quite difficult. Most days were a struggle. I was officially, definitively diagnosed with Marfan’s syndrome in February of freshman
year thanks to recently developed genetic testing. I was mostly silent in class, and when I did speak, I was arrogant, because I felt
I had an edge in the “real world” above my classmates (a false
assumption). But what did that even mean? Besides, I
felt, these people cannot relate to me, and what I have
gone through. No one else had ever been able to relate,
so why would they be any different? What exactly the
real world was and how to live in it was a topic my best
friend Jon-Marc and I eagerly discussed (we’re roommates
now). What good was wisdom if you could not use it? Did it
not have to be practical? Well, lo and behold, Aristotle spoke
of such things. I dove into my topic, trying to figure out just
what it meant to have “a reasoned and true state of capacity
to act with regard to human goods.” It turns out that this is
almost impossible, and I recall my tutor saying at the end
of my oral, “Maybe practical wisdom doesn’t even exist."
Freshman year ended, and on June 1, 2009, I received
my long awaited Nuss procedure: surgery to correct my
pectus excavatum. For two years and fifteen days I would
have a stainless steel bar underneath my ribs to hold my chest
out until my bones would hold the shape. The pain was excruciating. I was kept in the hospital for ten days, double the normal five,
because of very painful complications (funny story, actually). I
was told recovery would be three months. It took eight. I returned
to St. John’s sophomore year loaded up on oxycontin, muscle relaxers, and anti-inflammatories, but at least I was able to breathe.
Sophomore year started well but quickly went downhill. In
hindsight, I ought not have returned so soon from surgery. I was
a full-time student recovering from major reconstructive surgery, but nevertheless, I returned. The pressures of reading Holy
Scripture in such an odd setting, the pain, the comparatively large
amount of free time in sophomore year, and the psychological
trauma of my past became too much for me. I began to break
down. I was misdiagnosed bipolar (which did not help my stress
level). I chose to write my sophomore essay on Job and tried to
address what suffering is. Fortunately or not, I poured too much of
myself into the essay, ignoring my tutor’s advice to let Job shoulder
some of the burden. Regardless, it was an important essay for me
to write. The process was sickening, though. I was fully in mental
breakdown. I developed panic attacks. I hardly ate. Essay writing
week, I spent a week on some friends’ couch (for which I am still
grateful), eating maybe one full meal’s worth of food in an entire
week. At the end of the week, I made them take me to the ER from
physical exhaustion. I felt I had nothing and no one (although this
was not true, for people came to my aid, as best they could). I related to Job; I lived Job. My oral was okay, but I had been gifted to
see a sad truth: I must take hold of my life and find healing.
The summer after sophomore year was spent dealing with the
trauma of my experiences. I took the difficult path of reestablishing my relationship with my estranged parents and learning to express the feelings and fears from my confrontations with mortality
which I could never express (and still rightly can’t, but I’m quite
happy these days). At the end of the summer, I was given the news
that, upon examination and consideration, my heart and eyes were
fine, and would always be fine (Marfan’s is a variable-presentation
syndrome), and I could exercise and do whatever I wanted. I was
quite healthy. There was nothing wrong with me. Glory to God! I
was given my life which I had never had. I had much growing to
do, because despite being given my life, I still had to learn how to
live it well, in a practical wisdom sort of way. I left for St. John’s
again with the words of my psychologist, mentor, and boss in
my head: “You will be surprised at what love can do."
Junior year began, and with it I began to do all those
things which I had never been able to do. I played
sports as often and as best I could. I went to parties,
spoke of the things which were important to me (I
spoke in class even!). Anything which before had
been blocked to me, I made a point of confronting. My experiences and conclusions from Job transitioned me perfectly to Orthodox Christianity through
the great patience and love of our own Father Robert,
and prepared me for the necessities of spiritual warfare. I
began to become reacquainted with the supreme agape
of God, which I had forgotten from my Catholic upbringing because of my sorrow. Leibniz and Pascal enthralled me. In such a sad year, here were men so joyous!
I chose for my essay to focus on pensee 308 (Penguin), and
to think about love, lowliness, and the infinitely infinite distance between knowing God through the mind and knowing
him through the eyes of the heart (can you tell I am a Roman
Catholic convert to Eastern Orthodoxy?). I was given such joy in
writing that essay, because despite renewed intense pain from torn
scar tissue near my steel bar, I was learning a practical wisdom. I
was learning about wisdom which I could apply to every part of
my life, and which offered the chance to become truly free from
the things which had before destroyed me (although, to be honest,
my Jobian sufferings and upbringing were a great gift, which I am
quite grateful for).
This past summer, on June 15, 2011, my bar was removed. I interned for my mentor, helping him write a case study on treatment
of a PTSD patient, passing the healing on from my own healing.
My parents moved back in together (whoever heard of such a
thing? Thank God!), and they are working, however tentatively, on
improving their marriage. See how all things are made new again!
So, this year, I chose to write on Goethe’s Metamorphosis of
Plants, attempting to address the question, “Why are flowers beautiful?” Through my own sufferings, near-death experiences, and
return to life (for I do not lie when I say that I was nearly dead
when I came here as a freshman), I have developed a patience and
appreciation for being able to focus my entire being completely on
a subject, as I was able to in my youth, before such terrible things
befell me. I have developed a great love for poetry, and seek to
express the inexpressible movements of the heart and mind. With
the help of St. John’s College, Father Robert, modern psychology,
extensive surgery (haha!), and the healing of our Great God and
Savior Jesus Christ, I have been able to examine and find practical
wisdom, know and be grateful for suffering, and appreciate my
own insignificance and wretchedness when it comes to my ability
to love (and yet, what great love I have received!). Now, I am able
to sit before a delicate flower, pencil and paper in hand, and ask it,
however humbly, “Why are you beautiful?" for the Lord blessed
my latter end more than my beginning. !
�The Gadfly
08
Media and Presidential Elections
> Robert Malka A’15
“G
iven the fact that there’s no state that wants to ban and then Rick Perry, and Herman Cain, and so on. Yet there
[contraception], and I don’t know of any candidates is clearly no true attachment to any of these characters. It
that want to do so…I mean, the fact that you’re putting seems fair to me to say that a priority on policies should leave
this forward seems a little silly, I think.” So commented people attached to particular characters, as long as they
Mitt Romney in a New Hampshire debate where we were haven’t sexually harassed as many women as Herman Cain
subjected to a painful half-hour of inflammatory discussion on has.
contraception. And when the candidates think the question
The truth is, sympathies lying with certain characters are
is ridiculous—especially when observed in the larger context created mostly, if not entirely, by the Media, and the only
of the economy, foreign policy and healthcare—you know reason that this is a necessary thing to do is because all of
there are some deeper structural problems with how this the candidates have effectively the same policies, with the
election is going.
exception of Ron Paul and possibly Mitt Romney. Even then,
This absurd question based on a warped understanding however, the only reason that there is attachment to Romney
of Santorum’s views (he has never discussed banning is because he is the establishment favorite and the one most
contraception) reveals that the Mainstream Media aims likely to beat Obama. It is thus fair to say that the only real
on maintaining viewership by keeping
candidate who has people celebrating
viewer tension, and it seeks to do that by
around him due to his policies (and is
...there is nothing the otherwise a cult-favorite) is Ron Paul.
being anti-sophistication and complexity.
Media enjoys more
That’s not to say that contraception does
Obviously, it’s a pretty weak field.
not have complex and nuanced elements to
It is amazing to realize that they have
than pretending that
it, by the way; it was asked because it was
been managing to keep this campaign
their influence is non- running for an almost farcical amount of
never going to be presented as a complex,
existent.
nuanced issue. It is a topic that too easily
time with such candidates. Remember
lends itself to us-versus-them rhetoric and
Donald Trump? For a while, that was
calls to pathos; and in this case it was a key way to portray the actually serious business. Oh, and Sarah Palin, and how she
Republicans as extremist and distracted. (Note: before you rode around the country in a giant bus with her name on it,
call me partisan, this kind of thing happens equally with both only to… not run. And all of those speculations about Paul
parties. The media picks favorites.)
Ryan and Chris Christie? I’m pretty sure that they’re going
This is duplicity bordering on the malicious, for there is to run in 2016, though this horse-race narrative may be much
nothing the Media enjoys more than pretending that their worse then.
influence is non-existent. Cries of “Objective” and “Fair and
Or will it be? My hope is that, in bringing the pattern of
Balanced” abound. When the media is considered from this this 24/7, eighteen-month absurdity to everyone’s attention,
angle, it becomes clear that reporters and commentators we will be capable of ignoring the daily bombardment of
hide the importance of their role, pretending that they have useless, manipulative discussion about who is the most
almost no impact in influencing the public’s choices. But the “American,” and instead go the harder route and force
idea that the Media is a neutral communications channel ourselves to do research on who is best capable of fixing
between candidates and voters is fiction. They play every America (presuming it needs to be fixed at all). The internet,
role in our decision. Their biases towards surprise and while ultimately a form of communication that has caused
clichéd sentimental backstories are so painfully apparent the most polarizing characters to be more polarizing, also
in the current GOP nomination process that it has become has all of the necessary information on it to make the right
something akin to a reality show.
decision. Doing so would force the news to instead publish
Indeed, have you noticed that there are certain periods things of substance, since that would have to be their new
where the Media publishes more stories about one candidate model to continue to generate revenue. For the sake of this
than any other? Bachmann got her time in the limelight, country, I hope we manage to do just that. !
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Mr. Washington A’15
Ms. Crabbe (Public Safety)
�The Gadfly
09
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Notes on the Painting “La
Mére” by Lois Mailou Jones
> Charles Zug A’15
W
Dear Tommy,
How did you come up with this
column, and what led you to a life of
advice-giving?
Sincerely,
A Loyal fan
Dear Fan,
•
Although people may think of me
as the creator of Berry Good Advice,
I am not actually its first writer.
The column has actually been in
continuous existence since 1862, when
it was founded by my great-greatgrandfather, Jedediah Windermere
Berry. It was an army rag back then,
and every week an eager public would
hungrily snatch up the latest issue,
which always consisted of a new,
equally implausible and elaborate cure
for syphilis. The focus of Berry Good
Advice soon broadened, however, and
by 1865 every venereal disease under
the sun had its place in Berry Good
Advice, all referred to by their polite
euphemisms of the day, from “Briny
Cucumbers” to “Weeping Willows,”
from “The Silence of the Gams” to
“Honey nuts, Cheerio,” and from
“Hungry Hungry Hips...Oh” to “Green
Eggs and Balls.” Sadly, Jedediah passed
away in 1868 soon after he himself,
ironically, contracted Green Eggs and
Balls. Rather than allowing his column
to die, however, his thirteen sons
agreed that it should live on, and that,
each generation, the family would
come together in conclave and secretly
elect one of their own to carry on the
family tradition.
And so three more Berrys took the
mantle in turn, each advising a confused
and listless nation with a firm and
steady hand, from the famous “Stock—I
don’t see a downside” column of 1929
to the “Hitler—I don’t see a downside”
column of 1941. This was the system
from thereafter, until a terrible period
in the 1960’s when an ill-fated attempt
was made at running multiple Berry’s
Good Advice by multiple family
members simultaneously, under the
frustrated hope that, “somebody’s got
to be right.” The confusion of having
multiple Berry’s Good Advice was too
much for a world already shaken by
assassination and war, and the public
outcry soon led to Berry Good Advice
being taken off the presses altogether.
Realizing their terrible mistake, an
emergency conclave was held, and
an extraordinary decision was made.
The youngest Berry, a barely yearold seedling, was designated as the
man in whom someday Berry Good
Advice would be reincarnated, at a
time when the world was ready for it.
But, so that he would live a life free
from the pressures and distractions
of his destiny, and unburdened by the
terrible mistakes of his fathers, he
was placed on a small boat and floated
down the Mississipi to live with his
distant relatives in Chile, Las Bayas.
It was here that he grew into a
tall and handsome man, known as
the fairest judge in all the affairs of
his village, which mainly involved
cows. One day, an old man came to
his village and told him who he really
was. And so the young man, who
was my father, came to America, and
wrote Berry Good Advice, but never
quite got clear on the concept of an
advice column, and mainly just used
it to write letters back to his friends
in Chile and ask about their cows.
Nonetheless, circulation boomed,
and Berry Good Advice became more
successful and profitable than it had
ever been before. However, all of the
money and fame never much mattered
to my father. Last year, he decided to
do the one thing that he always knew
would make him truly happy. He went
back to live in that little town in Chile,
and he bought every last building, cow
and human being. And in doing so,
he left me, the youngest Berry in the
history of Berry Good Advice, to carry
its proud mantelpiece into the third
millennium. !
hen looking at the painting “La
Mére” by Lois Mailou Jones,
and considering the title, we must ask
ourselves to what extent the painting is
about the mother.
The work is organized in a manner
that directs our immediate attention
toward the child. Our eyes follow the
light colored table-edge that behaves
orthogonally by moving from the
bottom-right corner, toward the child.
Standing in contrast to the firm, crisp
outline of the table and the light-mellow
roundness of the child, is the drooping
void that occupies the bottom-left where
the mother’s dark dress trails off outside
the confines of the scene. Above this void
lies the child cradled in the arms of its
mother. Yet, we notice that the mother
does not cradle her child, but rather
holds it upon her lap so as to prevent it
from tumbling into the dark void that,
we presume, ends at the floor. On the
left side of the canvas, a corner of walland-floor also points to the child. The
mother herself appears to gaze down at
the child’s round face. Yet she is turned
away from us, and so leaves us to assume
the direction of her gaze. And in the very
center of the canvas is the child’s round
fist, blocking our view of the child’s
mouth. Indeed, we know the complete
facial expressions of neither the mother
nor her child; the brush strokes prevent
our knowing of some refined details, and
because of this, we stare at a scene that
appears devoid of harshness, though
certainly not devoid of contrast between
lightness and darkness. The child, set
against the mother’s dark dress, seems
to glow with roundness and vitality. But
the back wall seems flat and without
depth, as if its only purpose were to
contain the scene.
Toward what does the scene direct
our attention? Aught we look at the
mother, who illusively directs her
countenance away from us? Aught we
consider the child? The artist gives
up neither of these easily. Yet it seems
as though we ought to consider the
relationship between child and mother,
around which the human world seems
to orient itself.
The exhibition of Lois Mailou Jones’s
artwork shows in the Mitchell Gallery
until February 12. !
�The Gadfly
10
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Religious Limitations To Kallista
> Sarah Pearlman A’12
> Adam Maraschky A’13
A
I
s excited as Ms. Pappas is to be in love
with Jesus, I have to agree with her initial worry that it can be limiting in discussion, in class or out. The joke about Johnnies either leaving as depressed alcoholics
or as Christians is particularly off-putting.
Is that how Christians see non-Christians?
In a true conversation, both sides hear
each other out, and each must be willing
to admit that what they begin with is only
what seems true to them. They must enter the discussion willing, nay, intending,
to have their opinions challenged and, if
found to be unsupported, changed. Religion can sometimes hold people back in an
intellectual environment. If one believes
one has already found The Answer, the result is often a stolid refusal to truly engage
in conversation, or to challenge oneself. As
a senior, I’ve been through the texts, been
moved and inspired and challenged, and
have reasoned my way into thinking that
there is no Answer, no Good, and no Truth;
relative solutions must be considered over
universal principles that are too prone to
contradiction and collapse.
But I’m not a “Misologist,” and I’m not
miserable. I’m happier than at any other
point in my life, and it only gets better from
here. So far this idea stands pretty strongly, but I will happily continue to challenge
even this conclusion; I will seek out contradictions in it, and with relish. But while
I will gladly engage with anyone about our
ideals and lifestyles, I will never stoop to
pushing mine on people. That would disrespect their ability to think for themselves.
By claiming that there is a Truth and they
already have the keys to it, Christians and
anyone else who subscribes to a doctrine
cut themselves off from true intellectual
discussion. Talk to me, challenge me, and
I will take your challenges seriously and
always with gratitude and never offense,
as long as my fellow interlocutors do the
same. You might change your mind, but it’s
also possible that I will, or that we’ll find
we are both wrong. Let’s go. !"
’d first like to praise Ms. Pappas for here ought to struggle.
her courage to submit such a per3. I came to St. John’s with very
sonal and sincere piece to The Gadfly. different opinions than I now hold. I
It raised a number of good questions don’t mean to suggest that you should
about how to approach learning here change all of yours, but at least examwith faith. While I promise no answer ine them rigorously, give an account,
to these questions, I
and understand what
But knowing the limitations they bring.
would like to share
some thoughts.
Despite my faith and
proper criterion
1. The math tutofor truth itself is a what I hold to be true,
rial here is primarI find something to
difficult thing...
ily deductive. Propolearn from every ausitions are necessary consequences thor and nearly every conversation. In
drawn from assumed first principles. recognizing my weakness as a man, I
Euclid’s Elements is the paradigm of become more of a man—more aware
demonstrative reasoning. Induction of myself and the world. If I stopped
is reasoning, usually from particular learning, I think I would reduce myto general, which does not necessar- self to a machine. “All human beings
ily follow from the premises. We use by nature yearn to learn” (Metaphysics
each kind of reasoning to learn in dif- 980a21). I think this is similar to when
ferent ways. I would
Ms. Pappas wrote of
suggest not limiting
Despite my faith and Christ, “He came
yourself to either.
that there would be
what I hold to be
There is plenty to
true, I find something life in the argument,
be learned by exand full life at that.”
to learn from every
perience. How else
I’m not sure what
author and nearly
would you know
was meant, but if it
every conversation.
how to behave in
were as I suspect,
class?
that the good life
2. I’m not sure I agree with Aca- requires examination, then I am for
cia that the truth is in constant flux. it. But if this is to suggest that one
Perhaps I don’t understand what she should come to St. John’s a Christian,
meant, but I find myself persuaded by leave a Christian, and be unaffected as
Socrates’ speech: “For true opinions, a thinker, then I disagree. It’s not that
as long as they endure, are a beautiful I think it of Ms. Pappas, but I mean to
thing and all they do is good, although blame anyone as stubborn as Meno.
they are not willing to endure for long, As I told her one night, I came to St.
but they run away from the soul of a John’s an atheist with radical politiman, as they are not worth much un- cal beliefs. If I had supposed I already
til one binds them with an account of knew the truth then and stuck to it as
the cause” (Meno 98a). I feel assured an absolute, I wouldn’t have learned
that the mathematical knowledge like as much. In fact, I don’t think I would
Euclid will never change. I can always have benefitted from the education
remind myself of the reasons for its I’ve received. A little skepticism can
truth, based on the axioms. The lo- be very healthy. I think Augustine
gos ties down the true. But knowing found that asking questions brought
the proper criterion for truth itself is him closer to God, but I’m pretty sure
a difficult thing with which everyone it made him restless. !
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In Defense of ‘Capital T’ Truth
> Nathaniel D. Torrey A’12
L
et me begin by saying that I am grateful for Ms. Pappas’ Good, but of the merely-pleasing-to-us. The Program, rather
contribution to the last issue of The Gadfly – “Questions than the beginning point to true wisdom, is instead a kind of
are Different When One’s Perspective is Standing in the Sky.” shopping mall for whatever swollen ideology fits our lifestyle.
It is a true blessing to have something written by one of our To say that taste is how we come to make choices in our befellow students that has struck such a nerve in the polity as to liefs, and that they should not be measured against Truth, is to
inspire dialogue outside the classroom.
deny reason the power of reason as well. How could we posI write to defend the notion we can know absolute truth(s), sibly come at a reasoned argument in matters of taste? I might
or by another name ‘capital T’ Truth, against its detractors, as well argue that red is better than blue because I happen to
with whom I’ve had several discussions. Please forgive me if I like red better. We are left to misology, the hatred of reason,
misrepresent what I see as the main argument against it.
because it is aimed at something that supposedly does not exI believe the main objection to Ms. Pappas’ claim to know- ist, the uncovering of Truth, to the discussion of whim, sensiing the Truth is that it comes off as arrogant, pretentious, or bility, and fancy.
at worst entirely antithetical to a philosophic life. It is seen
In closing I have two more things, an exhortation and someas an impediment to free inquiry or “keeping an open mind.” thing to ponder. The exhortation comes from Socrates, who, in
From this position, the paragon of wisdom is one who neither the Phaedo, has this to say about misology:
affirms or denies anything that comes his way but must always
remain open to possibilities, never being content with any an“Then first of all,” he said, “let’s be on our guard against
swer to life’s great questions. His life is one of constant questhis condition and not admit into the soul that the realm
tioning and searching without cease.
of arguments risks having nothing sound in it. Instead
However, implicit in this claim is that Truth is unobtainable.
let’s far rather admit that we’re not yet sound but must act
For if one could come to a True statement about the soul or
like men and put our hearts into being sound—you and
human nature through reason, wouldn’t one stop searching
the others for the sake of your whole life hereafter, and I
once he had found it? Is the life of constantly searching but
for the sake of death itself.” – Phaedo. Brann, Kalkavage,
never accepting any answer really the philosophic life?
Salem. 90e.
To say that a philosophic life is necessarily a roving one
means that we can never be inert having found Truth. It must
I do not pretend that the obtaining of objective truth is easy,
be unobtainable, if the philosophic life as defined by this ar- or that I have obtained it. But unless we want to deny that reagument is to have any shred of seriousness.
son has any force in human affairs, we canBecause if Truth is even in theory a possinot deny the possibility of knowing things
The Program, rather
bility, it would make the most sense to stop
unmolested by time, place, and mere opinthan the beginning
searching once one had found it. If a man
ion. That being said, the issue I have been
point to true wisdom,
found his car keys, it would be foolish to readdressing mainly is the possibility of true
is instead a kind of
main “open-minded” about where his keys
knowledge with unaided human reason.
shopping mall for
were and believe there was some nobility
Ms. Pappas, on the other hand, is speakin his errancy.
whatever swollen ide- ing of a different sort: wisdom as a result
That is exactly the problem with this
of revelation. I leave this statement for the
ology fits our lifestyle.
view of the philosophic life. If Truth is unreader to ponder: Implicit in the belief of
obtainable, there is little point in its pursuit. If we don’t believe the possibility of ‘capital T’ Truth is the possibility that the
in the possibility of discovering Truth in the form of reasoned totality of wisdom may not be obtainable through human eninquiry or discourse, it’s hard to say we could seriously love deavors. Just because not all Truth is obtainable through huwisdom, as the word implies. If the criterion of Truth is not man reason does not deny its existence. We must not commit
a reason for accepting and applying what we learn from our the two excesses that Pascal warns against, “to exclude reaclassroom discussion of Great Books, the only alternative I see son, to admit nothing but reason” (Pensées. 183, 253). That is,
is taste. Therefore education is no longer a learning to love the at least, if we want to keep an open mind about it. !
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Tuesday 1/24
SJC Orchestra Rehearsal
Great Hall, 4-5:30 PM
Kunai Basketball
M v DC, 4:00 PM
F v A, 5:15 PM
Dance Lessons
Great Hall, 8-9 PM
Wednesday 1/25
CSL Forum on Club Comm.
BBC Hartle Rm., 2:30-3:30 PM
Handball
W v G, 4:15 PM
Basketball
H v D, 7:30 PM
St. John’s Chorus
Great Hall, 7 PM
Friday 1/27
Kunai Basketball
M v A, 4:00 PM
DC v F, 5:15 PM
Lecture
A Poetry Reading from Train
Dance, Mr. Jonathan Wells
FSK Auditorium, 8:15 PM
Saturday 1/28
Mental Health Support Group
BBC Rm. 109, 10:30 AM
Basketball
W v S, 1:30 PM
D v G, 3:30 PM
Sunday 1/29
Volleyball Tournament
All Teams, 2-4 PM
Mabel the Swimming Wonder
Monkey presents “Evil Bong”
Spector Media Room, 8:00 PM
If you would like to see your
event on the weekly schedule,
please email Gadfly@sjca.edu
n a recent article (“Why Submit to Energeia?”) Stephanie Connolly claimed that
Energeia is “the only literary magazine on campus.” I am perfectly aware that this
is an error and not a slight to The Swarm, the other literary magazine on campus,
and thus no irateness is necessary. Nonetheless, I feel that this is a good opportunity
to ask the same question about my publication that she asks about hers: Why submit
to The Swarm? Why does the campus need two separate literary magazines?
First off, I will clear up a common misconception. The pulp look and design of The
Swarm is purely a gimmick. It means nothing about what kinds of stories we accept,
don’t accept, or prefer. The Swarm is meant to provide two main services, one to the
readers and one to the writers.
I think that Ms. Connolly’s description of Energeia helps to elaborate the service
that we provide to writers. She says that it is dedicated “to publishing the best artwork and writing of the St. John’s community.” She also lists the things that student’s stories will be published next to: mathematical proofs, essays, translations,
and the work of faculty and G.I.’s. In short, there is, intentionally or not, a good deal
of pressure on anything that is published in Energeia. There is no such pressure at
The Swarm. We will publish any of the thoughts that you wish to share with the polity, without requiring you to dress them up any further than you wish them to be. I,
for one, know that I would never have submitted a noir detective story composed
of puns to Energeia, and yet, having a forum for it has been wonderful. And I like to
think I can and have provided the same for others.
To readers, we provide a more
constant presence on campus
than Energeia. We publish multiple small installments rather
than one large one. Also, both in
appearance and in content we
provide a feel open to simple
amusement rather than deep appreciation of beauty. Amidst all
the seriousness of St. John’s and
all the great works that we deal
with, sometimes it’s nice to have
something that’s just fun. And of
course, we let readers see the genius of some of the slightly nervous authors on campus.
So if you want all of the things
that Energeia provides so beautifully and officially, I urge you to
submit to it. Our two magazines
are absolutely not in competition.
But if you also like light comedy,
slightly experimental pieces, robotic hookers, or anything else
Cover page featuring “Thomas Aquinas: Private
you want to publish, I urge you to
Eye!”—this second issue of The Swarm was its first
submit to and read The Swarm.
full printing.
-Leonard Franks A’13 !
From the Editors: Due to a large number of submissions, particularly in response to Ms. Pappas, there is no “Bursting the Johnnie Bubble” this week. We were still unable to publish all of the
responses; to see the rest of them, go to facebook.com/sjcagadfly.
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To The President 02
Bursting the Johnnie Bubble 03
Upcoming Events 04
Reports from Winter Break 04
St. John’s College • 60 College Ave, Annapolis, MD 21401 • Jan. 31, 2012 • Vol. XXXIII • Issue 16
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<< Cover: Guardian Mr. Macfarland, Tutor,
puts up a shot against the Druids in a game
on Saturday. Photo by Henley Moore (A’13).
>> Jocks of the Week: From the ashes of
the volleyball finals rose two heroes, one
Druid, and one Green Wave.
<< Leah Creamer, A’12
The student newspaper
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60 College Avenue
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
gadfly@sjca.edu
Editors-in-Chief
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Assistant Layout Editors
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Staff
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Business Manager
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Contributors
The Junior Class
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Articles submitted will be edited for grammar, punctuation, spelling, and length in
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special circumstances.
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Articles should be submitted by Friday at
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o the President of the College:
It has recently come to our attention that President Nelson hosted a dinner at his
estate for the freshman class. Upon further inquiry, the current sophomores also
share fond memories of their own freshman class dinner, but we juniors have no
such memories to share. Indeed, we were never invited to a dinner at the President’s
house. This tradition seems to have started one year too late for us, and this, fellow
polity members, is an outrage. Now, in the cold, barren winter of junior year, we find
ourselves disappointingly devoid of heartwarming memories of dining with tutors
and administrators in the comforting glow of President Nelson’s hearth. How can
the administration expect us to be successful contributing members of this college
community without such an experience? We call on President Nelson to rectify this
grave injustice by inviting the junior class to our own class dinner.
Sincerely,
The Junior Class !
From Your Editors: You’re probably wondering why this Gadfly is so thin.
Technical problems prevented us from receiving any emails this week, but
we’ll try our best to fit the submissions we missed into the next issue which,
due to long weekend, will come out on Tuesday, February 13. Two timesensitive articles, Mr. Pihas’s “I’ll Spend This Summer in Rome, and You?”
and this week’s SCI minutes, will be posted online at facebook.com/sjcagadfly.
As always, we’d like to thank everyone who submitted to The Gadfly, and we
apologize for any inconvenience our technical troubles have caused.
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> Ian Tuttle, A’14
Some Thoughts on the Passing Scene:
•Whatever one may think of him, as person or policymaker,
Newt Gingrich is unbelievable. His long-shot campaign has
been declared dead—twice—by both conservative and liberal
media, and he is now the most likely GOP alternative to Mitt
Romney. Gingrich’s rollercoaster campaign testifies to the
urgency many GOP voters feel about the 2012 presidential
election. They believe America will choose either salvation
or disaster, and Romney’s robotic cool is antithetical to the
seriousness of this election. They want a fire-eater.
•Numerous commentators have played with this interesting
point: you support Gingrich if you think Obama is evil and/or
out to ruin America; you support Romney if you think Obama
is a nice guy in over his head. I am inclined to agree with the
Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto: Obama is not Vlad the
Impaler, but he is not as harmlessly bumbling as many would
have us believe.
•Former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan has called the
Romney-Gingrich battle a “fight for the soul of the [Republican] party.” The 2012 election could aptly be described
as a fight for the soul of America—that is, a battle to decide
whether America continues down the path of untenable government spending, increasing government restriction of personal liberties, diminished power abroad, and declining living
standards (and its concomitant problems) at home, or whether America will temper its spending, shrink the expanding
government bureaucracy weaseling its way into citizens’ everyday lives, and reassert itself as a global force.
•Whichever side triumphs, Americans would do well to remember a crucial point: political saviors do not exist. That
was the myth so many Americans believed in 2008. The United States has many good men and women, some excellent politicians, and even a few statesmen. Rather than wait for the
oriflamme and white horse, Republicans ought to spend time
refining and improving their policies and message.
the public imagination for two reasons: first, the irony of the
capsized “unsinkable” ship; second, the elegant heroism demonstrated by so many—from the officers who saved countless lives to the gentlemen who dressed in their finery and
went down with the ship to the strains of “Nearer, My God,
to Thee.” On the Titanic, men who attempted to cut in front
of women were rebuffed and beaten. When history evaluates
the Costa Concordia disaster, it will note how only 100 years
separated heroes and cowards, and that the Costa Concordia
exhibited yet again the West’s shameful moral decay.
•Salman Rushdie, whose Satanic Verses earned him a 1989
fatwa from Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, may not be in hiding
anymore, but he is still persona non grata in various locations
across the globe. Earlier this month Rushdie canceled an inperson visit to the Jaipur (India) Literature Festival, citing
police information that assassins had been hired to kill him.
Instead, he negotiated an appearance via videolink from London. But, three hours before the broadcast, a large number
of Muslim protestors flooded into the festival and gathered
outside, declaring, “We will not allow Rushdie to speak here
in any form. There will be violent protests if he speaks.” One
told a Times of India reporter, “Rivers of blood will flow here
if they show Rushdie.” Minutes before Rushdie’s scheduled
appearance the owner of the festival venue canceled the
broadcast for fear of harm to civilians, particularly the many
schoolchildren and elderly in attendance.
The situation is nothing new in pseudo-democratic India,
where a sizable, often violent, Muslim population is routinely
courted by Indian politicians. Both Muslim and Hindu leaders, moreover, have forced prominent artists and thinkers out
of the country and banished their works (it remains a crime
to import Satanic Verses). And it has occurred with no inconsiderable bloodshed. India’s repeated refusal to support
the principles of free expression against religious extremists
is the mark of a spineless nation uncommitted to liberty.
•A new Lifetime movie about actress Liz Taylor, who passed
away last year, is in casting, and Lindsay Lohan is in talks for
the role (Megan Fox has denied rumors that she, too, is in
•During last week’s Fatah celebrations in Lebanon, Palestin- consideration). There is something decidedly incongruous—
ian activists saluted each other with the “Sieg
maybe even vulgar—about the idea of Lohan
Heil.” Fatah is a Palestinian political party
portraying Taylor, even on the small screen.
founded by Nobel Peace Prize-winner Yasser
Taylor and husband Richard Burton, among
The 2012 elecArafat. It is considered the “moderate” alterothers, have come to represent a “golden age”
tion could aptly
native to Hamas.
of cinema that matched silver-screen stardom
be described as a with a unique social grace and elegance. Hol•The sinking of the Titanic has become a clifight for the soul lywood today has fallen far from that standard.
ché: businesses, sports teams, politicians—perIt is now a haven of self-congratulation for the
of America...
haps no single historical event lends itself so
fabulously wealthy who, rather than creating
neatly to metaphors of disaster. The sinking
lasting works of art, prostitute themselves to
of the Costa Concordia earlier this month may never achieve the latest political cause du jour—typically while declaring
quite the same pop culture status, but I suspect that it will their solidarity with the “working class.” And Lohan is the
become, in its own right, a metaphor, most likely for the star- standard-bearer for its soulless side typified by days-long partling deterioration of social norms so many on deck exhibited ties, clashes with paparazzi, and repeat visits to rehab. Sure,
off the coast of Tuscany. Not only did the captain of the cruise that’s always been there. But there was a reason we called
liner flee; grown men shoved aside women and children to Taylor and her ilk “stars.” Many of today’s Hollywood elite
reach the lifeboats. The sinking of the Titanic has captivated are only bright under the tanning lamps. !
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SJC Orchestra Rehearsal
Great Hall, 4-5:30 PM
Open Mic Night
Chasement, 8 PM
Kunai Basketball
M v DC, 4:00 PM
DC v A, 5:15 PM
Dance Lessons
Great Hall, 8-9 PM
Wednesday 2/1
CSL Forum on Club Comm.
BBC Hartle Rm., 2:30-3:30 PM
Handball
S v H, 4:15 PM
Basketball
W v D, 7:30 PM
St. John’s Chorus
Great Hall, 7 PM
Saturday 2/4
Mental Health Support Group
BBC Rm. 109, 10:30 AM
Senior Essay Party
Coffeeshop, 11 PM-2 AM
Senior Snack
Randall Dining Hall
Tuesday 1/31, 10 - 12 PM
Wednesday 2/1, 10 - 12 PM
Thursday 2/2, 10:30 PM - 12:30
Friday 2/3, 10 - 12 PM
Long Weekend begins after
seminar on Thursday, February 2.
Classes resume with seminar on
Monday, February 6.
If you would like to see your
event on the weekly schedule,
please email Gadfly@sjca.edu
04
Reports from Winter Break
> Sarah Meggison, A’15
I
t makes sense that being at St. John’s for a significant amount of time might
change your perspective on the world you’ve temporarily left behind. You might
start to analyze popular media and non-Program books in a different way. And then
there’s that moment in your life when you realize that your favorite indie rock band
reminds you of the philosophy you’ve been reading at St. John’s. The band is I Was
Totally Destroying It of Chapel Hill, NC. And I’ve always had a tendency to read into
things in a philosophical-ish way, sure, but the similarity between what the band’s
lyrics make me think about and what Plato makes me think about are strikingly similar.
Let me be direct: I love this band on such a personal level. When I listen to the
things Rachel Hirsh and John Booker write and sing about, I feel as if I could have
written them myself. Songs like “The Witch Riding Your Back” or “Control” describe my experience with anxiety so well: “Paralyzing fear, feel it push me down
again, so sincere / Devoid of all sensation, sinking again into the quick, no never
again,” and “I can feel the earth below start to crease, start to bend and bow / Close
the shutters, draw the drapes, there’s trouble ‘round the bend, the house will start
to pitch and shake, but I want to join right in.” It’s comforting to think that maybe
someone else feels the same way I do.
But their words also encourage me and give me a kick in the ass when I need it.
Their music is largely loud and jumpy and energetic, serving as a vehicle for the energy in their words. “In a lifetime, there’s always time, to get it right now, you won’t
be undercut” goes the classic “Hey Alright!” The anthemic and glorious “Come Out,
Come Out” is a gem: “I want to get out, and be a ship without the anchor,” and “I
want to be young, and I will scream at the top of my lungs, to go out, to wake up, and
to break this fucking cycle.”
I was able to see them play a show over break, which was the greatest thing ever
(EVER) because I got to talk to them and let them know in person how much they
mean to me. See, I’ve been listening to them for about four years now, and, thanks to
the magic of social networking, I have actually had some internet correspondence
with them. I also sent them this gushy fangirl letter this summer, and both the guitarist Curtis Armstead and bassist Joe Mazzitelli told me that at the time they were
in a bit of a musical rut, and my letter made them feel better about things. That was
incredible to hear. It reminded me of the importance of conversation.
Many things that IWTDI’s songs make me think about have been showing up in
my seminar readings as well. Like, the general gist I’ve been getting with Plato is
that there may or may not be ideal forms of things, and if there are, we as humans
won’t be able to understand them fully, so the best we can do is try. This train of
thought often evokes my tendency toward nihilism: why do I have to think about
forms and truth if I’ll never understand them in themselves? But the point is not the
end result. It’s the things you pick up along the way, the unexpected things you run
into, that add up and make the difference. And mistakes are important. Sometimes I
feel the things I do don’t exactly match up to what I claim to believe, but I think that
you have to live through things like that in order to test your beliefs. The IWTDI
song “Turn My Grave” goes, “I believe that what you do will be the light that sets
you free, and not what you believe.” When I heard this song at the show, it felt like
an almost religious moment.
I got caught in a bit of a rut upon entering St. John’s. I had finally escaped the
terrible world of high school, but that’s not the end of it. I realized my life isn’t going to suddenly get amazing just because I left home; it requires more active work
than that. In the song “Me + All My Friends,” Booker sings, “You’re not moving on
to nothing, you’re getting wrapped up in the running away.” This, I realize, is what
I have been doing and must avoid. To some degree I’ve felt like I’ve mostly lost that
person I used to be before St. John’s. But I still hold on to vestiges of my former life,
good and bad. I’m still the same person, basically, but I’m taking the next three and
a half years (you know, presumably) to develop and improve that person. I’ll hold on
to things like I Was Totally Destroying It to remind me of where I’ve been and where
I’m going. More lyrics: “In my dreams I live so wildly, but only I can take control.”
(Control) Alright, second semester. BRING IT. !
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Couples on Campus 06-07
On Sarcasm 08
Reviewing Brahms 10
Increase the Trust 12
St. John’s College • 60 College Ave, Annapolis, MD 21401 • Feb. 14, 2012 • Vol. XXXIII • Issue 17
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etter to the Editor:
We would like to congratulate the winners of the Greenfield Library book
collecting contest: Justin Horm (first prize), Eric Fricke (second prize), and Micaela
MacDougall (honorable mention). Contestants were judged on the creativity and
thoughtfulness in developing their collection, cohesion of the collection, and the
significance of the collection to the owner. The library is exhibiting books from each
of the collections in the Lillian Vanous Nutt room until March 26. The winners’
essays are also available to read.
While checking out the book collections, students should “Kiss and Tell.” All this
week, students can pick up a paper heart at the Library’s circulation desk and “tell”
others why you love the Library. All participants will receive a Hershey’s Kiss and
the paper hearts will be posted on the Library’s basement wall. Come out and tell us
what you love about the Library!
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etter to the Polity on A New Vocal Medium:
Discussion is a fundamental part of our curriculum at St. John’s, yet there is no
way to reach the polity with a single message in audio form outside of word-ofmouth. Thinking about this for a long time, we decided that we wanted to try to
supplement our written media on-campus with a different kind of forum: Polity
Radio.
So why radio? Radio speaks. It captures the unscripted passion that cannot be
entirely conveyed through the written word (of course excellent in its own right).
The improvisation and immediacy of radio makes it a bold and unique way to access
the polity. We seek not to replace the written medium so prominent at St. John’s but
to complement, and even supplement, it.
We have a lot in the works. Edgar Allan Poe readings with great voices. Talk shows
about hot-button issues. Impromptu interviews with eager tutors. Minutes from
important forums. Satirical advertisements. Obscure music.
We want your voice and whatever else you can bring to the table. Keep an eye out
for word of our upcoming interest meeting, then bring all the ideas you can muster.
We want to hear your voice!
Sincerely,
Jessica Kjellberg (Archon, A’14) and Robert Malka (Vice Archon, A’15)
[Polity Radio is a DC-Chartered club that will release pre-recorded shows on a bimonthly basis. We are looking for regular contributors, as well as people interested
in contributing one-time segments. All are welcome to participate. Keep an eye out
for posters and an email regarding the upcoming interest meeting. Contact Jessica
Kjellberg at jkjellberg@sjca.edu with questions.] !
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Critique of Pure Reason
Beyond Good & Evil
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Woody Allen.
Nietzsche would be
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> Sarah Meggison, A’15
I remember this time when I was in third grade and we thinking about lately.
studied poetry. I had this weird conviction that I needed to
I had this discussion with my language tutor about how a
love it, which probably led to me really disliking the stuff for word in Greek can have several different meanings, and it’s
years. I found the rhymes and meters and supposed rules not until you put a word in a larger context of a sentence that
of poetry constricting and confusing and contrived. Prose you can specify what you want it to mean. So a word is kind
has historically felt more natural to me. Until now, the only of a whole thing unto itself, but it takes on new significance
poem I’ve really loved was Allen Ginsberg’s “America.” But when it becomes part of a complete thought. And the same
things changed when my friend sent me Charles Bukowski’s for sentences into paragraphs into books and so on. I began
collection Slouching Toward Nirvana for
to think of people in the same way. We are
my birthday last November. I’m in love.
whole humans on our own, but then we
I’ve come to realize that poetry is not quite
We are whole humans take on greater significance when in the
what I thought it was.
larger context of society. Simultaneously
on our own, but then
Last semester, I even wrote a paper for
whole and part.
we take on greater
my language tutorial called “In Defense
I sat in the Conversation Room for
significance when in
of Poetry,” where I looked at Book X of
about an hour before my question for Mr.
the larger context of
the Republic and Phaedo to sort out what
Wells presented itself. I wondered why
Socrates’ position on poetry, as an imitative
we even have a compulsion to share our
society.
art, really is. I decided that poetry, as well
writing. I’ve always thought of writing as
as other forms of art, is a way in which we attempt to interact a very personal process where I can work out things floating
and make sense of our world. It is a personal way to search for around in my own head. But I also like people to read what
truth and meaning.
I’ve written. I asked this more concisely with something like,
My relationship with and philosophy about poetry shifted “When you’ve written something, what makes you want to
and grew when I attended Jonathan Wells’ poetry reading publish it?” Mr. Wells’s striking and raw response: “To see if it
on Friday, January 27. I’m not the biggest fan of Friday Night meant anything to anyone but me. To see, is it alive enough?”
Lecture, and, admittedly, I don’t really remember what his
So I think writing is a cathartic and revealing thing when
poems were about, but the reading was enjoyable enough done for oneself. When I’ve written something I like, that
anyway. But things got more interesting when I went to the expresses something, I feel some sense of satisfaction. It is
Question and Answer period afterwards. As others asked an end unto itself, but it’s not done. I share it with others,
about more mechanical things about poetry, like how a poet hopefully creating a conversation and a connection. Its worth
knows when a poem is finished, I started considering poetry is validated. It is a whole and a part. I am a whole and a part.
as it relates to all this parts and wholes stuff St. John’s has me Am I alive enough? !
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> Stephanie Connolly, A’12
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In this installment, the inquiries of Karl Marx and
the poetry of George Seferis, a twentieth-century
Greek poet, come together in the consideration of
ancient beauty and art.
n his Grundrisse, Karl Marx speculates on the nature of art formed Greek art and culture for so long. Other landscapes
and the conditions that produce it, focusing especially on revealed the same sensation, and I felt that the country and
the art of the Ancient Greeks in comparison
its mythology—and therefore, the art of
with that of more modern societies. Taking
its ancients—were inextricably linked,
The beauty that this art
Greek mythology as the basis of all Greek art,
enduring in spite of modernity.
holds for us lies in its rarMarx writes that “Greek art presupposed
This can be seen in the works of
Greek mythology, in other words that natuity and its obsolescence; George Seferis, a twentieth-century
ral and social phenomena are already assimif we ourselves could cre- Greek poet. When he received the Nobel
ilated in an unintentionally artistic manner
Prize for Literature, in 1963, Seferis said
ate it, perhaps it would
by the imagination of the people.” But Marx
of his country, “It has nothing to distinnotes that the force of mythology does not
guish it but the efforts of its people, the
not seem so beautiful.
endure in a society; inevitably, technological
sea, and the light of the sun. It is a small
advancement and industrial development supplant it. Marx country, but its tradition is immense and has been handed
then poses the crucial question:
down through the centuries without interruption.” This tra. . . is Achilles possible when powder and shot have been
dition perhaps no longer takes the form of great epics and
invented? And is the Iliad possible at all when the printdramas, yet it is quite apparent in the language and content of
ing press and even printing machine exist? Is it not inSeferis’ poetry.
evitable that with the emergence of the press, the singing
In his “Letter of Mathios Paskalis,” Seferis captures elegantand the telling and the muse cease—that is, the conditions
ly the mythical nature of the land itself, “ . . . with the Attic
necessary for epic poetry disappear?
skies and the intellectuals clambering up their own heads/
Whatever the answer, Marx’s question is compelling. That and the landscapes reduced by drought and hunger to posing
the ability to create such an art might have been lost to time . . .” This image of ancient countryside, transformed into the
seems like the great loss of our modern art; are we consigned relic of another time, appears constantly throughout Seferis’
forever to admire the great epics, without ever producing our works. In particular, this image converges with Greek mytholown? Yet Marx concludes that it is precisely this loss that al- ogy and modern art in “The King of Asini,” about a fragment
lows us to admire Greek art: “Why should not the historical from the Iliad, set in the ruins of an ancient monument. While
childhood of humanity, where it attained its most beautiful musing on a search for this king, who is “unknown, forgotten
form, exert an eternal charm because it is a stage that will nev- by all, even by Homer,” Seferis considers the artist who will
er recur?” he asks. The beauty that this art holds for us lies in walk among these ruins, and who will perhaps search among
its rarity and its obsolescence; if we ourselves could create it, them for the record of the artists who first built them, so long
perhaps it would not seem so beautiful.
ago:
Having witnessed very little in today’s artwork that resemAnd the poet lingers, looking at the stones, and asks himself
bles that of the ancients, I’m compelled to agree with Marx.
does there really exist
But several years ago I had the opportunity to visit Greece,
among these ruined lines, edges, points, hollows and curves
and the experience greatly altered my opinion of the factors
does there really exist
that shape peoples and their cultures. On my first day in that
here where one meets the path of rain, wind and ruin
country, after traveling by plane and bus, wholly in the moddoes there exist the movement of the face, shape of the
ern world, I stood beside the Temple of Poseidon and looked
tenderness
out on the waters and the islands of the Aegean. The view of
of those who’ve waned so strangely in our lives,
the blue sea, the blue sky, and the pale mist hovering in bethose who remained the shadow of waves and thoughts
tween, gave me a very real sense of the mythology that inwith the sea’s boundlessness !
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!"#$%!&'#(!$)*++,!!##$*($,(%!-&)!,*(.!Freshman Lab
Lab in the early days. Photo courtesy of sjca.edu.
> Barbara McClay, A’12
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his Thursday, February 9, the SCI met to discuss freshman harder for students to confront how little they actually know
lab. We considered what we, as students, had gotten out or see, and thus harder to begin the process of learning.
of lab, and how we might improve the experience for students
Whether or not freshman lab ought to be given a narrative
who come after us. With this end in mind, we asked the was a more divisive question. Some students preferred the
following questions: What is freshman lab trying to achieve? lack of a narrative, commenting that when there was a clear
Is biology the appropriate place to open freshman lab? Is it narrative present (such as in the second semester of junior lab),
problematic that freshman lab has no narrative?
early readings tended to be disregarded or blown off. Others
Freshman lab was considered by most students present thought that, since there was no narrative, the first semester of
to be vital in helping students to reconsider their opinions freshman lab forced students to bring their own questions to
and enter into a new way of learning. Lab, under this view, the text, rather than relying on a narrative structure to create
constituted a retraining of a student’s vision and habits of their questions for them.
thought. Sketching a magnolia tree or dissecting a fish forced
Arguments for introducing a narrative into freshman lab
students to see what was really in front of them, rather than included the problem of silence in freshman lab, which might
what they might have assumed they would see.
indicate that students either did not take the class seriously
So, in addition to the actual business of learning about or did not have a good way of approaching the subject matter.
living organisms, freshman lab constituted an important way Under this view, having a narrative structure to explain why
of re-educating students and helping them to set aside their the school chose to begin with biology, or simply to provide
preconceptions—a skill which is, of course,
a beginning place for questions, would
vital elsewhere in the Program. “Lab,” said
be helpful to the struggling student. In
...freshman lab conone student, “is a crash course in learning
addition, justifying the choice to begin
stituted an important
how to stick to the text.” This re-learning
with biology rather than some other
way of re-educating
of how to see also serves the student well in
science might also help link the first and
students and helping
the second semester of freshman lab, where
second semesters of lab together.
questions of how to set up an experiment
Related to the question of narrative was
them to set aside their
or how to prove something are considered.
another concern raised in the meeting:
preconceptions...
The variety of approaches toward a single
did students who had ethical objections
subject was also mentioned as a strong point of freshman lab. to dissection feel comfortable voicing such objections in lab?
From Theophrastus and Aristotle to Harvey, Driesch, and Ought there be a reading included somewhere in the manual
Spemann, the examination of life could be explored from about the ethical questions raised by experiments such as
several different angles.
dissecting a living embryo?
Starting with biology—rather than, say, geology—seemed
Ultimately, while all agreed that such questions were
like a good decision to most of the students present. As living absolutely appropriate to the classroom, and should not be
beings, there is a sense in which we may be expected to be discouraged, many also thought that to make a deliberate
more interested in the study of life than in other sciences. space for them seemed unnecessary. There was, however, no
There also seemed to be a way in which life was self-evidently clear consensus on this topic.
inexhaustible and complex that helped to make it a fitting way
Among the practical suggestions made by students were: a
to begin the laboratory program.
greater variety of animals to dissect (as opposed to simply fish),
In that vein, the fact that biology presented easier providing a better temporal transition into the embryology
opportunities for immediate, hands-on exploration also section, splitting lab into three classes a week instead of two,
appeared to be a strength of the first semester of freshman lab. not holding long lab without a practicum, and reopening the
If freshman lab began with chemistry, for instance, it would be question of sophomore lab. !
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Saying what you don’t mean
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> Josh Snyder, GI
“I
did this once before for a day, and it hurt. A lot. So...I’m out.
thinking about trying it for a week.”
Sarcasm, as I see it, is a method of connecting with people.
This isn’t just how I pitch stories to The Gadfly; apparently, Yes, it’s convoluted, and it’s certainly twisted on multiple
it’s how I pitch ideas to my life.
levels, but I believe the statement holds true. When I run
What is “this,” exactly? Abstention. Abstention from into others who rely on sarcasm, something akin to a hybrid
something I’m fairly certain gives meaning to my life and of poetry and boxing occurs. As we test defenses with quick
allows me to make it from day to day without suffering severe jabs and dry remarks, there’s a subtle understanding that
emotional
breakdowns.
Abstention—
we’re playing at something special.
friends, enemies, and disinterested
Other people may not understand it, but
Reflecting on these
readers—from sarcasm.
we do. Sarcasm in these situations is not
matters forced me to
When I first told the world at large that
about hurting the other person; it’s about
I was going a week without sarcasm, I
arrive at uncomfortable secret communication, getting across
equated my actions to those of someone
the ideas we don’t dare express directly.
conclusions: telling
trying to give up smoking, heavy drinking,
“You may not say what you mean, but
people what I really
or crack cocaine; people were supposed to
I get what you mean anyway,” we say to
band together to support me in this trying
each other. “I read you loud and clear.”
think stresses me out.
time, I thought. If they’d even given me
Oftentimes what is meant, regardless
nothing more than pity I wouldn’t have turned it down—who of what our kind may say, is something along the lines of, “I
am I to reject the gifts of others? Unfortunately, I received think you’re a good person, and I like you enough that I want
even less than that from most people.
to have a reason for us talking. I don’t know how to tell you
“Wow, really?” a coworker exclaimed to me in mock these things, so for the moment this banter will have to do.
admiration when I told him about my decision. His voice Sorry.”
rose and fell like the emotions of an elephant seal. “That’s so
As soon as I gave up sarcasm I noticed that socializing
awesome! Isn’t that great of him?”
started to bore me; conversations became tedious. As a
“Yeah,” his partner-in-cruelty replied. “These are the result, a sense of detachment from the people around me
times I’ve been living for.”
grew. Establishing reasonable connections became difficult.
As the pair flaunted over me the use of the very thing
Reflecting on these matters forced me to arrive at
I missed the most, pain and loss surged through me. I uncomfortable conclusions: telling people what I really
anticipated understanding. Instead, I received a dose of my think stresses me out. Not to the level of bribing a doctor for
own medicine. My expectations clearly needed work.
a lifetime supply of Xanax, mind you, but the feeling is miles
But why cling to sarcasm anyway? As others see it, the away from pleasant. I suspect I’m not the only one who feels
action is mean-spirited, cynical, and nasty. What could there this way. I wonder if, just as many of us procrastinate out
possibly be to enjoy in something like that—apart from the of fear of failure, we behave sarcastically because we fear
fact that it’s mean-spirited, cynical and nasty? After roughly rejection by the people we value most. The prospect of being
five days without sarcasm, I still don’t have a complete
>> Continued on Page 09
answer, but I may have come several steps closer to finding
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<< Sarcasm, continued
from Page 08
turned away after revealing
our true selves can be
terrifying.
Through
sarcasm,
the
anxiety
dissipates and expression
is achieved. It allows us, in
an only somewhat awkward
fashion, to show affection
and
draw
meaningful
connections with others.
These connections, though,
come at a certain cost.
Just as sarcasm allows
us to have satisfying
relationships, this approach
constructs a boundary
between us and others. We
allow people to get only a
hint of what we really think;
they can’t see the full image
for themselves. As long as
this wall exists, there are
many ideas we may never be
able to express, no matter
how much we wish to.
So sarcasm can be useful,
but as Aristotle might claim,
it can be distressingly easy
to miss the mean. In going
overboard in our reliance,
we build something up
that separates us from
the whole of society. A
senator from my home
state, Arizona, is infamous
for his call to “complete
the danged fence.” That’s
not right, I don’t think. At
least, not for people like us.
Maybe it’s time to start to
take down the fence, this
wall we’ve built around
ourselves. Moderation, as
usual, appears key. It will be
difficult, but it can be done.
As I finish this I’m only
hours away from the end
of my commitment. Just
two more hours of sincerity
and pleasant behavior and
I can go back to being the
dry, hard-to-read bastard
I’ve always felt comfortable
as. Will I ever go back
to the way I was for that
one sickly genuine winter
week? Tomorrow is a good
day to start. Or maybe the
day after. Or the day after
that. Someday, definitely.
Someday. !
Dear Tommy,
I’ve been having trouble writing papers all
year, and I feel like I have no sense of how
to fall into a functional routine. Considering
your job, I assume you must be able to share
some methods that will help me write papers
on time and on topic.
Sincerely,
Writing Wrongs
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Dear Writing,
To give you a sense of how difficult it is
to write, think about this: one method to
produce a nine-page Plato paper would
obviously be to set an infinite number of
blabbering monkeys at an infinite number of
typewriters for an infinite amount of time.
Now, in order to produce the same paper
with either less time or fewer monkeys, the
intelligence of each individual monkey would
necessarily have to increase reciprocally, so
that the equation [M x T x IQ = P] remains
constant. Thus one could, rather than using
an infinite number of blabbering monkeys,
use five trillion monkeys who are illiterate
yet street smart, or 100 billion monkeys who
were raised as human babies by eccentric
elderly widows, or 600 million monkeys who
went to community college. As IQ continues
to increase reciprocally, the hypothetical case
of a single monkey being given only a single
week to write a paper would necessarily
require the highest possible level of
intelligence in the monkey. Therefore, when
you are asked to write a paper under those
parameters, you are effectively being asked
to match the writing abilities of a Monkey
of Infinite Smartness. This is a pretty tall
order, and it’s no wonder that a lot of us have
difficulty with it, myself included.
Despite the daunting nature of the task,
my first piece of advice is not to give in
to the reckless temptation to “borrow”
certain substances that you may not have
a prescription for. Besides being illegal, it
is also totally unnecessary, because there’s
one “productivity drug” we all know about
that is just as effective, completely legal, and
available in every vending machine in the
country: Funyuns. I discovered the incredible
properties of Funyuns by accident, when
I happened to start writing a paper while I
was already in the process of eating a bag of
Funyuns for different, personal reasons. Soon,
the MSG which naturally occurs in Funyuns
had constricted my chest to the extent that I
found it impossible to think about anything
but my own physical existence, centered
around my dangerously palpitating heart.
Out of this focus, I suddenly emerged into
a state in which I was compelled to start
writing, and the ideas came to my head so
fast that my hands never had time to leave
the keyboard: my body had found a defense
mechanism to get me to stop eating Funyuns.
Soon after that, my standard pre-writing
routine was to make sure I had a notepad at
my right hand and a bag of Funyuns at my left.
And then, a little after that, I had successfully
taught myself to write left-handed, so that I
could periodically switch hands and slowdown the abrasion of my left fingertips due
to Funyun-rot.
There is one other aspect of my
writing routine that I discovered through
serendipitous circumstances, and that is
its location. Although most people simply
write in their own rooms on their laptops, I
have been legally prevented from owning a
computer by court order ever since the month
where I abandoned my human life and spent
every waking moment refining my avatar in
an online Korean RPG fantasy game. Thus, I
have no choice but to write in the computer
lab, which unfortunately is inhabited almost
entirely by gruff and shiftless vagrants. I say
“unfortunately” not because I don’t enjoy
the company of this troupe of hobos—in
fact I count them among the best friends I
have. Rather, it is an inconvenience for me
simply because even they can’t stand the
smell of Funyuns. Therefore, I now tend to
write in the solitude of the night, which isn’t
a problem since I no longer require sleep as
traditionally defined (See September 27, 2011,
edition of “Berry Good Advice”). So that’s
where you’ll find me most nights, mostly
working, but occasionally giving myself a
chance to unwind by playing the “Is the
security camera on?” game (answer: no). !
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Brahms: From Struggle to Salvation
> Charles Zug, A’15
Editor’s Note: On February 17-18, the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra will perform
Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 in E-minor.
B
rahms’ E-minor symphony, his last in the symphonic
genre, is neither characteristic of the tenets of late Romanticism, nor characteristic of Brahms’ own musical-philosophical style. In a technical sense it is entirely Brahmsian,
and a work of staggering polyphonic sophistication. But in a
philosophical sense, one will find it somewhat idiomatic.
The calling-and-responding first four notes of the opening
Allegro non troppo in E-minor establish both the harmonic
theme of the first movement and the mood of the entire piece.
Melancholy, compact, restrained: the exposition’s first theme
communicates with superb Brahmsian economy feelings of
both resignation and agitation. Absent is grandeur or unnecessary boldness. The winds take up the delicate second theme,
whose transition into the development section we might be
tempted to call triumphant—indeed, apart from the coda, it is
the only section of the first movement that features timpani
strokes—but we will find any heroism dually confronted and
torn asunder by the sometimes fitful, sometimes dreamlike development. It is the opening of the recapitulation that evokes
the remembrance and sad nostalgia that essentially define the
second movement. Similarly does the furious coda establish
the precedent for the fourth movement.
The Andante moderato opens brusquely, like many of
Brahms’ slow movements. We find the main theme to be innocent and the second theme to be tender, but the climax of the
movement throws out these feelings and ushers us into a state
of turbulent dissatisfaction, to which the movement’s solemn
conclusion provides no balm of consolation.
The impertinent vitality of the Allegro giocoso arrives as a
welcome relief from the misanthropy of the first two movements. Indeed, it appears to be the opposite of everything that
precedes it: jubilant, march-like, rustic in the open-air style. Is
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> Emma Hannah Gold, A’12
we do not live our life in time; an hour
exists in memory alone; a day
is just a pile of hours; a year, far worse,
a pile of piles, a veritable heap. so?
there is no cataclysm lying long
in wait; the heft of epoch-making sentiment, a phantom millstone ‘round the neck.
what greatness lurks behind the scenes, then? none.
it possible, then, that the third movement is a hair too gay to be
entirely legitimate and not the slightest bit ironic? Is there not
something forced about its regality and grandeur?
The titanic edifice that is the final Allegro energico e passionato confirms every bit of discontent to which the rest of
the symphony has alluded. Variations on a Bach passacaglia
compose the entire movement. The opening sequence, played
as a brass fanfare, is a chilling reminder of the true nature of
the symphony as a whole. All of the third movement’s celebratory energy seems to crumple and evaporate in the face of the
fourth movement’s opening chords. Were we to characterize
the fourth movement with one word, that word would certainly be reality. For it is in this movement that, from our nervous sleep, we awaken into the world and all of its harshness.
On a movement-to-movement level, the E-minor symphony
is characteristic of both Brahms and Romanticism. But taken
as a whole, the journey within the symphony is profoundly
nihilistic. In most of his other works, Brahms follows in the
Romantic tradition of Beethoven; that is, every piece of music
is a journey from struggle to salvation. The path of the music is one of tragic deliverance; we pass from the snares of the
world into the glory of the after (whatever that after might be).
But the E-minor symphony is a completely different animal.
While the first three movements tend toward melancholy,
they also evoke nostalgia: they are dream-like and backwardlooking, because they are not yet awake to the real. The severity of the fourth movement, then, seems to confirm every
restless portent of the first three. Instead of delivering us from
life’s temporal struggle into the after’s noble serenity and unity (as in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony), Brahms awakens us
from our dream-world and forces us into full, painful, dreadful
consciousness. !
the doctrine of the moment wordlessly
confronts, confounds abstractions, rendering
their gauzy ghosts of meaning into naught
but scraps, but tatters fluttering aloft—
the doctrine of the moment tears apart
the stuff of thought, unsentimental as
it passes, leaving only sand and void
in its callous, reckless, unceasing wake—
Editor’s Note: Remember—The Gadfly is an available forum
for sharing your poetic creativity with the Polity. Thank you
for your submissions. Send them to gadfly@sjca.edu.
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> Ian Tuttle, A’14
R
ev. Paul Scalia, a parish priest in McLean, VA, tells the stoFacts like these are beside the point for the Obama adminry of a couple who visited, requesting their two children istration, for which religious liberty is an explicit threat to the
be baptized at his church. The parents were neither married creation of an omnipotent federal government whose power,
nor Catholic, and he explained to them that their request was if it could only be freely wielded by handsome, secular-mindnot permissible by Catholic doctrine. “Come on, Father,” re- ed Ivy Leaguers, would cure every ill, right every injustice,
plied the woman. “It’s the 90s!”
and bring us dancing into the Promised Land. Except the
That response is remarkably similar to the one the Obama hymns sung there would be to the glory of the administraadministration has tried to send with the Department of tion. Because, as numerous commentators have observed, for
Health and Human Services mandate (part of the ObamaCare uncompromising left-wingers like the president, the sole pijuggernaut) that has finally come to public attention. The ety is to state. And this administration has worked furiously
mandate requires religious employers to supply contracep- over the past three years to make itself a religion. It has its
tives, sterilizers, and abortifacient (abortion-inducing) drugs Scriptures (Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals), its houses of
in employee health insurance packages. Exemptions will be worship (welfare offices, the Department of Health and Humade for those employers who can prove they a) hire primar- man Services), its sacraments (abortion, stimulus packages),
ily people of their own faith, b) serve primarily people of their its high priests (HHS Secretary Kathleen Sibelius), and now
own faith, and c) have the inculcation of religious values as it even has a holy war (referring to the mandate at an NARAL
their purpose.
Pro-Choice America fundraiser, Sibelius declared: “We are in
As the administration should have known, that has not a war.”). And the messiah, of course, has always been Obama
stood well with most of the United States’ 75 million Catho- (remember his declaration that history would remember his
lics, whose response, spearheaded by the US
nomination as “the moment when the rise of
Catholic Conference of Bishops, has been unthe oceans began to slow and our planet began
flaggingly critical. Under the guidelines, the
to heal”?). Now the administration has set out
The debate is
vast majority of religious schools and universito eliminate the heretics.
about whether
ties, hospitals, charities, etc. will not qualify for
Last month, the administration argued bethe federal
exemptions, so those employers will be forced
fore the Supreme Court that the government
to pay for insurance coverage provisions that
government can has the right to interfere in the hiring and
violate their religious beliefs. As one critic
firing of ministers in the nation’s houses of
force Americans worship. The Supreme Court unanimously
pointed out, under the mandate’s exemption
guidelines, even Jesus and the Twelve Disrejected the government’s position. For three
to violate their
ciples would not qualify. Organizations that
years the Obama administration has quietly
consciences.
refuse to comply with the mandate will be pusought to curtail any religious faith that renitively fined, potentially millions of dollars
fuses to accept the absolute supremacy of the
(Catholic Charities USA, the country’s second-largest social government. Only now has that battle finally come into the
service provider with 70,000 employees, would incur a fine of limelight.
$140 million the first year alone).
For many of the institutions affected by this rule, shutting
Not only Catholics are voicing dissent. Other religious or- down their operations will be the only way to avoid violatganizations are protesting the order, Republican leaders have ing their religious beliefs—and the result will be millions of
expressed unanimous opposition (two bills have been intro- people left with few, if any, charities to turn to for help. They
duced in the House and one in the Senate to counteract the will be left helplessly dependent on the federal government.
mandate), and even a significant portion of the president’s And that is what this administration wants: more Americans
own party have come out against the regulation, from Sen. Joe penitent before the left-wing social project. Consider it their
Manchin (D-WV) to Obama-groupies like MSNBC’s Chris evangelization strategy.
Matthews.
The debate here is not about contraception or abortion.
But for most far-left secular progressives, for whom abor- The debate is about whether the federal government can
tion on-demand and free libidinal play mark the pinnacle of force Americans to violate their consciences. Religious and
societal maturity, the notion that a significant portion of the non-religious citizens alike should see that allowing the govpopulation might hold to more traditional religious tenets is ernment that right would fundamentally alter the character
not simply shocking—it is dangerous. For radical feminists, of this country.
abortifacient drugs are akin to a woman’s Emancipation Proclamation, and for the Greenpeaceniks, free contraception is
the only remedy for impending global doom—overpopulation,
Briefly: The last known WWI veteran, Florence Green, a
famine, and the decimation of already-fragile northern spot- non-combatant member of the Women’s Royal Air Force, died
ted owl populations. But none of the special interest groups last week. With her death, WWI passes from living memory
that believe a right to free contraception is constitutionally into history, as does an entire generation of courageous men
protected would care to mention that contraceptives are avail- and women, the first witnesses to the horrors of modern warable at little or no cost at your friendly neighborhood “family fare. Some would once more brave death when, only twenty
planning center,” abortifacient drugs can be had for $50 over years later, the world again convulsed. We should hope that
the Walgreens counter, and that even if the mandate is reject- their stories were recorded for future generations. The reed, these drugs will be as available as they have always been.
sponsibility of preserving their memory now falls to us. !
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Great Hall, 4-5:30 PM
Kunai Basketball
A v DC, 4:00 PM
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Dance Lessons
Great Hall, 8-9 PM
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Chasement, 8:00 PM
Wednesday 2/15
CSL Forum on Dining Services
Conversation Room, 2:30-3:30
Handball
S v D, 4:15 PM
Basketball
W v G, 7:30 PM
St. John’s Chorus
Great Hall, 7 PM
Friday 2/17
Kunai Basketball
M v DC, 4:00 PM
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Lecture
Stendhal’s Prophecy for Liberal
Democracy: Thoughts on The
Red and the Black, Mr. Jeffrey
Smith, FSK Auditorium, 8:15
Saturday 2/18
Mental Health Support Group
McDowell 32, 2:00 PM
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D v W, 1:30 PM
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> Jerry Januszewski, Counselor
T
his is a very modest proposal for a
A simple greeting can accomplish a
small but significant change in the kind of emotional leveling as well. A
way we treat each other at St. John’s momentary well-wishing between two
College.
human beings is a surprisingly potent
Picture yourself walking along a path way to momentarily bridge the isolation
leading to the College. Up ahead you see gap, to impart appreciation and sow the
another Johnnie walking in your direc- seeds of trust in a community. We betion, someone with whom you’re not hold the face of another and we commuacquainted. You feel mildly conflicted; a nicate with intention, however briefly.
normal inclination to offer a polite hello The implicit message of a greeting is, “I
is hindered by felt shyness, a natural in- value you and I wish you well.” That’s
troversion or an understandable wari- a lot of good will packed into a simple
ness of potential predators. “Be cool, hello. Over time its positive effects really
be cool,” you tell yourself as you affect a add up.
nonchalant manner. You may or may not
In Book VII of Aristotle’s Politics, he
say hello; the other may or may not re- contends that the integrity of a state
spond in kind. For such a commonplace depends on its citizens having a certain
awkward experience, it’s curious that level of familiarity with each other. Aristhere are no standard, explicit instruc- totle advocates a limit of the total poputions about it in the accepted rules of lation for that reason. Likewise, the curconduct for our culture.
rent protectors of the St. John’s College
If this tendency towards shyness, community have wisely preserved the
privacy, or suspicion pervades smaller small size of this Polity, currently less
communities, whose cultural health is than 500 students.
dependent on a netTherefore, my very
work of trusting permodest proposal is
sonal relationships,
for all of us to take
A momentary wellthen an isolating chill
better advantage of
wishing between two our ideal community
can settle upon human interactions in
human beings is a sur- size and act to inthose communities.
crease the trust: let’s
prisingly potent way
An experience as unvoluntarily greet one
to momentarily bridge another when we
exceptional as saying hello to a fellow
have the opportunity
the isolation gap...
solitary walker and
to do so, instead of
receiving no reply can
passing by in silence.
produce an acute feeling of disconnect.
A simple hello is all it takes.
A study published in the Journal of
I don’t wish to create any guilt around
Affective Disorders followed more than this for anyone. An individual may righta thousand students through their col- ly maintain silence for their own valid
lege years. The researchers determined privacy concerns. Neither do I envione of the most reliable predictors of sion wearying anyone with perfunctory
suicidal thoughts related to a lack of so- greetings carried out in the same way in
cial support: feeling unappreciated and the same places every day.
isolated from family and friends.
A personal greeting exchanged with
The persistent feeling of isolation the warmth we really feel over our
cited by many college students may shared humanity and our common love
seem surprising, considering potential of the College is a great equalizer and
friendships are just outside the dorm is consistent with the civil, egalitarroom door. But the path to true inti- ian spirit of the Program. Even a small
macy in friendships is not as clear-cut increase in face-to-face connectedness
as one might assume. Individuals within could make a positive difference.
a polity almost unconsciously seek to
Will an increase of simple greetings in
overcome isolation through communal Polity life end all estrangement, loneliemotional experiences. These are tra- ness, and suicidal leanings? Doubtful.
ditions and group activities where ev- This is why I call this idea a very moderyone feels the same thing at the same est proposal. But in its modesty lies its
time, for example, spectating at sporting unassuming beauty: the power of small,
events. One could argue that the culture incremental change. Increasing the trust
of drinking attempts to create commu- benefits everyone, because we are all
nal emotions. Shared mood-altering ex- nurtured by small reminders that we beperiences may level the emotional play- long to this Polity and that we matter to
ing field, in a sense.
others in it. !
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Message from BVG Reps 04
The Tyranny of Self 08
Alumni Interview 10
Free Speech & Secret Service 12
St. John’s College • 60 College Ave, Annapolis, MD 21401 • Mar. 27, 2012 • Vol. XXXIII • Issue 19
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<< Cover: Brian Warczinsky (A’13) and Kip
Waite (A’15) jump for the tip-off at the Red
v. Gold March Madness game.
>> Play the Release: Players prepare to
rebound as Tommy Bonn (A’13) releases a
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Letter to Mr. Tuttle
> Jennifer Shumpert, A’15
M
r. Tuttle,
The issue that you’ve addressed in the latest rendition of your column is a
grave one. However, I’m astonished that anyone could look at this problem and somehow
conclude that the concern is the method with which the crimes are committed rather
than that which causes the societies to view women as all but worthless. Not only have
you erroneously decided that the problem here is abortion, but you imply that the
issue is “affordable, medically induced abortion,” as if this would not
be a problem but for those pesky legal abortions. Women have been
terminating their pregnancies at the very latest since the Ebers Papyrus, which
contains the first written reference to an abortion, was written (1550 BCE), and
they continue to do so, regardless of how safe, legal, affordable, or accessible it is.
Restrictive abortion legislation only contributes to a higher rate of abortions, and
ones that are much more dangerous than they have any cause to be. Abortion is not
going away, and it will continue to be a necessary procedure sought by billions of
people worldwide whether it coincides with your personal opinions or not. The only
difference you can make is whether they’re performed by qualified medical
professionals or on a friend’s kitchen table.
Even if you were to successfully eliminate abortion from this world, it would
do nothing to address the misogyny that causes the selective abortion of female
fetuses. Your refusal to address the underlying social issues at work here and yourdesire
to address instead the tool used belies your real concern—not women, but fetuses.
The “great irony” here is not radical feminism, a topic upon which you’re clearly
tragically misinformed, but your exploitation of women in the name of your politics,
whilst attempting to pass it off as concern for our gender.
Facts in this article accredited to The Guttmacher Institute.
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_IAW.html !
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Aristotle’s Physics
Machiavelli
Rousseau
Federalist Papers
In the void, at no time
(because you cannot
divide time).
Slapping Fortune
around.
Rousseau see woman.
Rousseau exchange no
words. Rousseau sleep
with woman. Rousseau
never see woman again.
The Fourth of July.
> Nathan Goldman
> Anonymous
> Henley Moore
> Danny Kraft
NEXT WEEK
What prank does your seminar character play on April Fool’s Day?
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> Barbara McClay, A’12
T
his Thursday, March 22, the SCI convened to discuss clear consensus on any of these points. Students’ experiences
the upperclassman language tutorial. What, we asked with the rigor of their language classes varied, as did their
ourselves, was the purpose of studying French for a year and opinions on the value of the works being translated.
a half, as opposed to a different language (such as German) or
It was, however, agreed that perhaps the amount of
two years of English? What new insight into language did we continuous time spent on some authors might be excessive
gain from studying French that we might not gain from the and tedious. Some solutions were proposed to fix this problem,
study of Greek?
such as breaking up the translation of one work with the
It was agreed that the relative easiness of studying French study of another (such as alternating Phèdre and Rousseau’s
meant that students could gain a greater appreciation of Confessions), shortening the time spent on these works (in
different styles and authors in a foreign language more quickly particular Baudelaire), or familiarizing the class with the
and with greater depth than was possible in the year and a half whole work or a greater section of the work in translation
spent studying Greek. The strength of French, then, was that before detailed discussion took place.
it allowed students to quickly pass from learning a language
The final part of the discussion focused on one alternative
to a kind of fluency that might allow them to appreciate the to studying French. Should the time spent studying French
poetry of Phèdre on a higher level than that
be spent focusing on English grammar and
of Antigone. Some students even suggested
composition? Writing had, after all, been
Did students treat
that it might be better to diversify the
a concern of the SCI this year. Wouldn’t
French as essentially a upperclassmen be better served by a class
reading list for junior and senior language
funny sort of English? that prepared them for writing their senior
by including authors such as Descartes
as standard translation assignments, thus
essay?
highlighting this aspect of the language tutorial.
There was no clear conception of what a rigorous study of
In addition, the ability to cover a wider range of works in the English for two years might be like, and some students voiced
upperclassman language tutorial meant that students could the concern that English language works were not really read
get a grasp on how French changed over time, by translating or discussed with an eye toward language or composition.
works that covered a fairly wide temporal scope.
It was suggested that the place for the study of English
However, some present at the meeting were concerned composition was the paper conference, and that tutors ought
that the perceived “easiness” of French meant that class to focus on assigning a variety of writing assignments (several
participation and preparedness suffered. Did students treat short papers, one long paper, differently styled papers, etc.)
French as essentially a funny sort of English? Were the classes in order to help students develop the skills needed to write
sufficiently rigorous? And were the works translated from longer, more seriously developed essays.
French, such as Phèdre, really at the same level as the kind of
Ultimately, while the pros and cons of studying French
works being read in freshman and sophomore language?
were much discussed, no consensus was reached on whether
While it was agreed that students often did assume that or not we could be studying French better or if we should be
French was “easy” when perhaps they ought not, there was no studying it at all. !
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A Message from Your
BVG Representatives
> Grace Tyson, EIC, A’13
H
ello! My name is Grace Tyson, and I am one of your student representatives to the Board of Visitors and Governors (BVG). You may recall reading an article by Ms. Emily
Ezell (A’13) last semester, in which she reported on the October BVG meetings held here in Annapolis. This semester, it’s
my turn to report on the BVG meetings held February 17-18 on
our sister campus in Santa Fe.
“
The College does have legitimate
concerns, however, about enrollment.
Accepted applications are down 11%
from last year at this time, and the
Annapolis campus anticipates 135145 freshmen for next year, which
falls short of our goal of 155-160.
“What,” you may ask, “does a BVG representative do?”
Mostly, we listen. We attend the meetings of the Board, take
notes, and report back to the Delegate Council and the polity
about what we have learned. In that sense, we represent the
BVG to the polity. There is, however, also an opportunity for
us to represent the polity to the BVG, and we are able to share
with the Board members many of the student body’s concerns,
ideas, and questions.
The overall message that the Board hoped we would take
away from the financial discussions is that “we are doing fine.”
The College has remained roughly on-budget, has not had to
take any money out of the endowment, and has found many
ways to reduce operating costs. As students, we can expect
to see a few changes to buildings and grounds over the next
semester as construction of the Hodson House commences,
water damage is repaired in Randall Hall and the BBC, and
renovations to the Carroll-Barrister House are completed.
The College does have legitimate concerns, however, about
enrollment. Accepted applications are down 11% from last
year at this time, and the Annapolis campus anticipates 135145 freshmen for next year, which falls short of our goal of 155160. In taking steps to increase enrollment, the College has decided to adopt an application deadline. The Board has found
that students respond well to deadlines, and often decide not
to apply because they put off completing the St. John’s application and end up accepting another college’s offer.
The Santa Fe campus has suffered far worse from a lack of
enrollment: they expect to have fewer than 350 students enrolled next fall. To further address the problem of decreasing enrollment numbers, the College is working with a firm
that will conduct quantitative survey research of prospective
students, in order to determine what aspects of our current
tuition, financial aid methods, and the Program are potential
obstacles to students attending St. John’s.
Regarding academics at the College, tutors and faculty on
the Annapolis campus are conducting a series of workshops
to thoroughly review the math and science portions of the
Program. These workshops aim to answer questions about
whether the curriculum sufficiently prepares students to
complete the math and lab tutorials in junior and senior year.
Finally, a major area of interest throughout the BVG meetings was philanthropy. Approximately one-third of the operating budget of the College comes from philanthropy, and
there is no reason why this should not be a significantly higher
amount. The Board is working seriously to implement measures that will instill a spirit of philanthropy in alumni and to
gather research about the current state of gifts to our school.
I want to note that the Board members are a group of people
who truly love and care about our College, and who believe
sincerely in the mission of St. John’s. For this, we owe them
our sincere gratitude. At all times, they have the best interests
of our school in mind. Yet it is important to remember that a
college is a business, and it is the Board’s job to see it as such.
They care deeply about the students—that is why they do what
they do—yet they view the College from a different angle than
students usually do.
“
Approximately one-third of the operating budget of the College comes from
philanthropy, and there is no reason
why this should not be a significantly
higher amount. My hope is that the
spirit of philanthropy can start with us,
the current students.
It is important that we, too, remember that St. John’s is a
business. The College needs money to function, and there is
nothing ignoble or base about that reality. My hope is that the
spirit of philanthropy can start with us, the current students.
At the February meetings, Ms. Ezell and I asked one of the
Board members: “What can students do to help?” He gave us
a great deal of insight into this question, and I will finish this
article by listing a few of the things he said (and I encourage
you to collaborate with Ms. Ezell and me to make these things
happen, as it is truly vital to our school’s prosperity): spread
the word on campus about the importance of giving back to
the college; remember to give back after graduating; reach out
to “prospies” in a positive way, and share your experience with
them; and finally, please help us with our upcoming phonathon on April 17. Email me at graceanntyson@gmail.com if you
are able to participate. !
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> Tommy Berry, A’13
T
he headline from the BVG report is without question
Besides the current issue of the drop in Santa Fe’s
the dropping enrollment in Santa Fe. One of the theories enrollment, I think it is safe to say that increasing applications
proposed for why that campus is less popular than Annapolis to the College should always be a goal, even when times are
is that it has a worse system of student-run clubs. While it is relatively good. One of the suggestions raised by the BVG to
true, in my experience, that Santa Fe does have fewer clubs increase applications is to consider offering merit scholarships
than Annapolis, I would attribute this not to any difference (currently, only need-based financial aid is given). This
in the culture of the campuses, but simply to the difference proposal raises a much larger philosophical question: whether
in population. Santa Fe has about 30% fewer students than the College wants to go in the direction of competing with the
Annapolis, and it felt to me like it had about 30% fewer clubs in top-ranked liberal arts colleges for the academic stars among
total, and 30% fewer well-established clubs. It appears to me the high-school ranks. We offer no merit aid because we have a
that Santa Fe is in an unfortunate spiral:
philosophy that every accepted student
as it loses more students, the campus
capable of contributing to
I think, first of all, St. John’s is equally don’t allow ourselves to be
becomes less attractive to prospective
class. We
needs to start making the ranked by U.S. News, because we say
students, in several ways. Fewer students
means fewer clubs, fewer activities, a
that students should pick a college
case not just for a liberal
more precarious financial situation for
because it’s the best fit for them, not
arts education in general,
the campus (because of fewer tuition
because it’s the highest ranked one
but for our liberal arts edu- they could get into. We say that our
payers) and thus fewer and less-wellpaid (and therefore less happy) tutors.
70% acceptance rate is not a problem,
cation in particular.
As to what originally caused this spiral to
because applications to St. John’s are
begin, I am again skeptical that it has anything to do with the self-selected. Nonetheless, the fact is that there is a huge
permanent and inherent differences between the campuses pool of academically gifted, ambitious students who would
(Santa Fe is farther from any major cities, the campus itself undoubtedly make a great contribution to our classrooms,
is inconvenient to downtown, etc.). These differences have and who would greatly boost our total enrollment if even a
existed since the founding of the Santa Fe campus, but the fraction of them applied, but who bypass St. John’s because
current extreme disparity in enrollment started quite recently. they simply don’t consider a school that isn’t ranked in the top
To my mind, the most likely explanation is quite simple: most 40, that doesn’t offer them a scholarship, and that has a 70%
people in California, if they are going to go to St. John’s, are acceptance rate to be in the running for top students. I think,
going to go to Santa Fe. The recent recession hit California first of all, St. John’s needs to start making the case not just
disproportionately hard, compared to the rest of the country, for a liberal arts education in general, but for our liberal arts
because so many of the suburban homes whose prices soared education in particular: telling those successful high-school
and then crashed in the housing bubble were in California. students who are planning to go to Amherst or Williams that
Rather than gloating about how all this finally proves the our education is just as difficult and far more coherent than
objective superiority of the Annapolis campus, students here the one offered by the so-called “elite” college. Secondly, we
should be a little more humble. If the next recession stems have to consider the unfortunate fact that, as long as we stick
from a crash in the New England crab market instead of the to our philosophical guns, the profile we offer at first glance to
California housing market, Annapolis will be in just as much a student trying to decide amongst several liberal arts colleges
trouble as Santa Fe is now.
is one of a third-tier school with a first-tier tuition rate. !
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Those familiar pagan gods we loved,
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The darkness that we crave.
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Breathe with your sultry kiss
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Over Spring Break, Danny and Grace, EICs, were relaxing at their respective homes, trying
not to work on their annual essays (Junior Essays don’t matter, right?). As Grace lounged
poolside in Florida, and Danny hiked the treacherous terrain of Baltimore, they both received
a mysterious package at their home addresses. But what does it mean? And why was it sent
to them? The Editorial Staff of The Gadfly feels compelled to share this strange discovery
with the Polity. Perhaps you can help us unravel the mystery.
HAPPINESS
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The following guidance was enclosed with the bracket:
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1. It is the superior/dominant idea of the two,
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3. It answers a question implied by the opposition of the two,
4. It has some absurd/comical/pithy connection to the two,
5. Reasons unknown to Boethius Fontaine.
TRUTH
(And the winner is: THE FIGHTING IRISH OF NOTRE DAME)
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Bringing together philosopher Leo
Strauss and comedian Larry David,
Michael Lacy tackles the flimsiness
of moral conventions.
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> Michael Lacy, A’12
t the ballet this weekend I was thinking about social conventions and how flimsy they really are. The show was a
dance interpretation of The Scarlet Letter. I haven’t read the
book, but the ballet telegraphed the plot pretty well: some lady
committed the “A” word with a priest, was forced to do some
wicked-good embroidery on all her old-timey shirts, and all
this caused the townsfolk to deboulé their disappointment
all over the stage for forty-five minutes. Moral conventions in
the “modern world,” I thought to myself, are never so rigid,
demanding, or choreographed anymore. Not everyone thinks
this is a good thing.
The Enlightenment birthed our modern world, wherein
people generally agree that the open society is designed as
a space where individuals are capable of fully “coming into
themselves,” in whatever way they see fit, so long as it does not
harm the “coming into themselves” of others. The aim of the
state is commonly held to be the utilitarian telos of maximizing the greatest happiness for the greatest possible number.
We do not aim, as modern people, to unite ourselves against
a common enemy and draw our identity and solidarity from
opposing that enemy. Unlike the closed society of Puritan Boston, we are not negatively unified against sin, but, rather (the
democratic idealist hopes), we are unified positively towards
freedom and comprehending our preexistent natural equality.
Leo Strauss often wrote about his doubts that an “open society” could exist without becoming nihilistic (see “On German
Nihilism,” 1941). Say what you will against Puritanical Boston,
but they damn well knew what they hated, and they could
point to a revelation that validated their hatred. “The end of
philosophy,” Strauss cries out like a voice in the wilderness in
his essay Liberal Education and Philosophy, “is now no longer
what one may call disinterested contemplation of the eternal,
but the relief of man’s estate.”
The man who is not privileged by wealth and education,
who wishes for agency in his life and self-determination for
his psyche, feels empowered by the Enlightenment and its
democratic promises. “The enlightenment was destined to
become universal education,” Strauss continues. “It appeared
that the difference of natural gifts did not have the importance
which the tradition had ascribed to it.” There was nothing different about the “great minds” in the Enlightenment, except
perhaps a higher degree of cleverness, and this gave all men a
sense of ontological equality, albeit not utter equality of skills.
“Great minds” are now without the ontological “otherness”
previously attributed to the philosopher or the prophet, and
some believe that convention and greatness are doomed by
this ontological equality.
I picked out a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode at random to
show that Strauss is not the only one who is confronting the
flimsiness of convention. Larry David, in the third episode of
season five, is again waging his ceaseless battle against the
forces of conventional entropy. Los Angeles is about the most
open a society can get, and the upper-crust that Larry begrudgingly belongs to is “enlightened” in precisely the modern
sense. Larry is consistently looking for the transcendent etiquette in every situation, and when someone uses the wrong
bathroom stall or calls another’s home phone after “the cutoff
hour,” he is the first to reproach their unsociability. Besides
being very vulgar and Jewish, he’d really sort of fit in in Hawthorne’s 17th-century, rule-obsessed Boston.
“Why is it,” Larry asks his Catholic father-in-law in this episode, “you don’t do the cross thing before a snack? You do it
before meals, but not before a snack.” David is, of course, the
creator of Seinfeld, and his propensity to question convention,
to pick it apart (not to doubt its importance but to highlight its
vagaries in search of definite rules of engagement), has fully
entered the modern consciousness. We’ve all become increasingly Larry David-like, questioning the current convention
and searching for the true one, and that is true progress; that is
almost true democracy at work. Yet the characters on Seinfeld
sought this true etiquette for themselves, to make their lives
freer of hassles, and thus they were “about nothing.”
Larry continues to prod Cheryl’s dad: “Is there like a maximum number of times you can cross yourself in a day? You
think there’s a record for that?” Convention doesn’t come from
religion for Larry, and, as for most of us, it is his religion. This
religion is personal, and, Strauss might argue, therefore relative. For George and Elaine, who define themselves narrowly,
it is highly relative. My reading of Strauss is that he is afraid of
humanity losing the metaphysical belief in convention, which
he fears was the only thing keeping us united, and a reassertion of the revelatory source of convention is crucial for society’s survival, whether this source is “God,” “forefathers,” or
“transcendent reason.”
While certain thinkers think up schemes to reintroduce revelation to the democratic man, a ground war is being fought by
men like Larry David every day against relativistic “etiquette.”
David alludes to “etiquette” like it is a secret transcendent
truth that we all know, yet still he hardly has an interaction on
an elevator that is not intolerably awkward. Until a messiah
of convention comes, a positivistic Jerry Seinfeld that is not
“about nothing,” Larry is forced to concede that his etiquette
is just as flimsy as everyone else’s in L.A., but that doesn’t stop
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> Andrew Donders, A’12
What is your current job?
I work with an experimental weather satellite that is the
first to carry radar that can take 3D “cat scans” of hurricanes
and other storms. I work with the group at NASA in Greenbelt, Maryland, that processes the data that comes off the
satellite so that scientists and disaster managers around the
world can use the data. I have also done some research into
how hurricanes intensify, which has led to several articles in
scientific journals.
What other schools did you attend after St. John’s?
During the summers after my sophomore and junior years
at St. John’s I took several math classes at the University of
Maryland, College Park. The fall after graduation, I started a
Master’s Degree in Applied Physics at George Mason University. After finishing that degree I worked at NASA for several
years, then returned to school part-time for a Ph.D. in Computational Science, which is a combination of computer science
and physics.
Did you know what you wanted to do while attending St.
John’s? If not, how did you get into physics?
Yes, back in high school I knew I wanted to be a computer
programmer, engineer, or scientist, but I wasn’t sure how to
make that happen.
Did St. John’s help prepare you for work in the field?
Absolutely. At St. John’s I stopped being a shy person, and I
became comfortable talking with people about things I didn’t
understand but wanted to understand.
What didn’t St. John’s prepare you for?
Well, the Great Books Program doesn’t teach you how to
program computers, do multi-variable calculus, solve differential equations, or manipulate linear algebra expressions.
That didn’t stop me, though.
How did you feel you compared, in grad school and early
jobs, to people from different educational backgrounds,
especially physics majors from more traditional schools?
I was worried about dropping out of grad school at the beginning, because I had difficulty with the mathematical problem sets we had to do. But my St. John’s education prompted
me to ask questions in class and after class when I was confused. My classmates didn’t need to ask questions in class because graduate school was so similar to their undergraduate
classes, and they were annoyed by my speaking up. It interrupted their half-asleep note-taking during class. The professors were actually happy to have me participate, because
it made class less boring for them. After a few years, I had
almost caught up with my classmates, plus I had made friends
with the faculty, who gave me career advice and advice on
navigating the bureaucracy at the university.
Can you describe a general track someone from St. John’s
might take to get into a career in physics?
I studied hard for the general GRE exam. I remember
studying on the top floor of McDowell Hall the night of senior
prank. About the Physics GRE subject test—I didn’t take it
at all! Without an undergraduate degree in physics, I would
have gotten a very bad grade, so I saw no need to actually take
it. This is a risky thing to do, so I’m not sure I’d recommend
it. I highly recommend, before applying to a graduate physics program, that you take the full three-semester sequence
of calculus, a differential equations course, and a linear algebra course. I did an internship in which I learned to program
computers, another good idea before entering a physics program.
The trick was, during the interview with the graduate
school, I convinced them to give me a chance. They agreed to
provisionally admit me to the program provided that I took
the senior year undergraduate physics courses during my first
year of graduate school.
Any general advice, especially for a senior who is interested in physics but is not quite sure what to do?
The problem with physics is that it’s a small sub-discipline
with few job opportunities. Most people I know with physics
degrees are working in another field, like computer programming, engineering, business consulting, etc. It would be best
to try out options using internships or entry-level jobs before
committing to physics or a related field for your masters or
Ph.D. degree. And please don’t get caught in the trap of feeling like a failure if your job is unrelated to your graduate degree. Life takes sudden turns.
What did you write your senior essay on?
Dean Brann gave me special permission to write off-Program: My senior essay contrasted the concept of civil disobedience in Henry David Thoreau and in Mahatma Gandhi’s
autobiography.
What is your favorite book on the Program?
No book is my favorite. What I have is a collection of favorite passages, which have each filled me with delight. Isn’t
it that way for all of us? There are pages in Plato, Hegel, the
Federalist Papers, and Rousseau, for example, that knocked
me out when I first read them and that can still knock me out
now when I read them again.
Do you find that you lead a philosophical life?
Like my St. John’s friends, I want to believe that I have led
a philosophical life since I graduated. What it means to lead
a philosophical life is different for each of us. I know that I’m
only content when I feel I’m learning something new in my
work or personal life, so I’m careful to make sure that always
happens.!!
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> Ian Tuttle, A’14
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bamaCare celebrated its second birthday this month, but deciding on whether this law abides by the Constitution and
there was a noticeable lack of celebration at 1600 Penn- the limits it places on the power of the federal government as
sylvania Avenue. The party hats were in short supply for the envisioned by the framers.
anniversary of the legislation the President once touted as his
Fundamentally at issue is whether the federal governsignature achievement. Perhaps that is because two out of ment can force an individual to purchase a good for no other
every three Americans oppose the law. Or perhaps it is be- reason than because that person exists. ObamaCare breaks
cause the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office reported down the barriers between the federal government and the
earlier this month that ObamaCare will cost $1.76 trillion by individual. The founders intended a federal government with
2022—not including $115 billion in implementation costs or “few and defined” powers, in the words of James Madison, so
the separate $4.3 trillion burden that will fall on individuals, that states and the people would retain most control. They
businesses, and state governments. Or perhaps it is because also believed society best served by ample intervening inof the uproar over the HHS mandate that quashes the First stitutions—churches, guilds, civic organizations—that stood
Amendment freedoms of religious employers by requiring between individuals and all levels of government, thus formthem to supply insurance coverage for contraception, steril- ing several layers of associations through which government
ization, and abortion-inducing drugs against their religious power was disseminated, protecting the bottommost actors
beliefs.
in the hierarchy: individuals. The HHS mandate coercing
Or perhaps it is because this week, the Supreme Court will religious employers exposed ObamaCare as a law directly
hear arguments for the constitutionality of ObamaCare in five- opposed to this original intent. The HHS mandate reveals
and-a-half hours of oral argument spread over three days, the ObamaCare’s Leviathan hope to obliterate the institutions
longest time set aside for arguments in a single case in nearly that stand between individuals and the direct power of the
half a century. Twenty-eight states have filed suit against the federal government. This is the same design motivating the
federal government, claiming the law’s individual mandate individual mandate: nothing should be able to stand between
requiring citizens to purchase health insurance whether they the individual and the power of the federal government. But
wish to or not—and face a penalty if they refuse—is an un- that power is rarely beneficent. The individual mandate is
constitutional expansion of the federal government’s power not about individuals; it is about the government. It is about
under the Commerce Clause, which gives the federal govern- government power and government schemes. It does not emment limited power to regulate interstate commerce. Court power the individual; it strips the individual of his ability to
watchers, legal scholars, and the appellate courts are split make his own decisions about how he spends his own money.
predicting how the Court will decide (the opinion will not be
The controversy over ObamaCare is about the principle
released until the summer), and there are several complicat- of power in this country: Who should have it? The federal
ing issues, for example, the question of severability, that is, government and its ever-expanding bureaucratic complex of
whether the Court can uphold certain parts of the law and agencies, sub-agencies, regulators, and red tape? Or do lostrike down others, or whether, if the individual mandate is cal and state governments, voluntary associations, and indistruck down, the rest of the law must be
viduals hold the power—to make their own
struck down as well. At the end of the day,
purchasing decisions, to enter voluntarily
...the Court must
as columnist Charles Krauthammer points
into contracts, to decide what is best for
reaffirm, or radically
out, the ruling depends on which side of the
them free from the coercion of a board of
bed Justice Anthony Kennedy, the constant
redefine, the founding “experts” in Washington?
swing vote, gets out of.
“It is not an exaggeration,” writes the
vision for the relationBut still, to say, in Vice President Biden’s
Wall Street Journal, “to say that the Suship of the American
eloquent words, that this is “a big f—ing
preme Court’s answers may constitute a
government to the
deal” is massive understatement. The
hinge in the history of American liberty
ObamaCare case marks one of the most
and limited and enumerated government.
American people.
important Supreme Court rulings in recent
The Justices must decide if those princihistory. But not because of the ruling’s inevitable political fall- ples still mean something.” If the Supreme Court decides that
out amid a crucial presidential election cycle. Rather, the case the federal government has the right to force individuals to
marks a watershed moment when the Court must reaffirm, or pay for goods they do not want—and penalize them if they reradically redefine, the founding vision for the relationship of fuse—there is little the government cannot do. “The governthe American government to the American people.
ment is asserting that…it has the power to control the most
Though they provide the grounds for legislative action, basic decisions about how people spend their own money in
the unpopularity of the law and the skyrocketing costs—for a their day-to-day lives.” What is next? Food? Transportation?
country already drowning in $16 trillion of debt—are not at is- Granting the federal government this right leaves individuals
sue. The Court is not deciding on whether the administration unprotected from the heavy hand of the state. That will no
presented accurate budget estimates or whether the law will longer be a government “of the people, by the people, for the
improve or harm the nation’s healthcare system. The Court is people.” It will be government against the people. !
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Kunai Basketball
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G v P, 5:15 PM
Dance Lessons
Great Hall, 8-9 PM
Open Mic Night
Chasement, 8 PM
Wednesday 3/28
Handball
H v G, 4:15 PM
Basketball
March Madness Game 6,
7:30 PM
St. John’s Chorus
Great Hall, 7 PM
Friday 3/30
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Finals TBA
Steiner Lecture
“Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
in Perspective: History, Text,
Music, and Theology”
Professor Christoph Wolff,
Harvard University, FSK
Auditorium, 8:15 PM
Saturday 3/31
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McDowell 32, 2 PM
Basketball
March Madness Game 7,
2 PM
Sunday 4/1
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March Madness Game 8,
7:30 PM
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> Robert Malka, A’15
t started six years ago: Steven Howards this would apply when they are confronting
approached Vice President Cheney to a situation where someone speaks out in a
tell him that U.S. policy for the war in Iraq way that an officer can interpret as threatwas “disgusting,” touching the Vice Presi- ening some act of violence.
dent before walking away. Before he knew
Fortunately, the Supreme Court was
it, he was arrested by the Secret Service for much more focused on the issue of the Se“assaulting” Cheney. Howards, in response, cret Service. While that’s the case, it doesn’t
sued the agents in the name of a free-speech change that the Solicitor General foreshadviolation, claiming that they arrested him owed his covetousness and greed for more
under the guise of harassment, when the power: it is not enough that the Secret Serreal and clear purpose was to prevent more vice will likely have an extra legal shield
controversial speech around our relevant at their disposal outside of the apparently
public officials. This has recently reached defunct excuse of, “It’s a high-stress situthe Supreme Court as Reichle, et al., v. How- ation and sometimes we’re wrong.” They
ards, the technical question being whether shouldn’t have to bow before the people
Secret Service agents have legal immunity they serve at all—us.
when they arrest a citizen in retaliation for
Set aside the Secret Service for a mospeaking out against
ment, and think
government policy if
about the audacity
The worry the Justices had
they had some other
it must have taken
during the hearing was
reason to make the
for the government
arrest anyway.
whether a damages lawsuit to propose before
Note that we’re
the highest court in
would somehow affect the
not even talking
the land, in front of
Secret Service’s ability to
about the quescitizens and media
tion of whether the
watching, the nomake a reasonable judgSecret Service can
tion that the funment on whether to arrest
arrest—that’s long
damental structure
someone. Isn’t that supbeen granted—but
for a tyrannical
whether a citizen of
state should be put
posed to be simple?
the United States is
in place; the deceitgranted access to his right to contend with ful and disgusting desire to delete the major
a perceived injustice through our judicial check-and-balance the United States has to
system. The worry the Justices had during authority: the people and the civil courts.
the hearing was whether a damages lawsuit About these people, Tocqueville speaks
would somehow affect the Secret Service’s most eloquently:
ability to make a reasonable judgment on
What do they lack with regard to remainwhether to arrest someone. Isn’t that suping free? What, indeed? The taste itself
posed to be simple? If the people you’re
for being free. Do not ask me to analyze
defending are under a perceived threat,
this sublime taste, it is necessary to expeyou have little to worry about. How would
rience it. It enters of its own accord into
a lawsuit—in which, might I add, the Secret
the great hearts that God has prepared to
Service can defend itself before a likely symreceive it: it fills them, it inflames them.
pathetic court of law—at all prevent a reaOne must renounce making mediocre
sonable threat from occurring?
souls understand what they have never
This kind of exaggerated hesitancy is
felt.
clearly dangerous, but there is more to this
case than that. By the time the first hearI apologize if this comes off as exaggering was reaching its end, the concern had ated; after all, this argument was just an
evolved into something far more pernicious argument. It wasn’t put in place, and in all
on the government side, a blatant abdication fairness there would be recourse if it ever
of any personal responsibility on the part of were put into place. But my concern comes
the Solicitor General to defend the docu- not from the chance of immediate implement that he solemnly pretends to preserve, mentation but the lack of response to such
protect, and defend: a very serious assertion a terrifying contention.
to extend an immunity like that to police evThese people have forgotten what it
erywhere, no exceptions. More specifically, means to be free. I hope I never do. !
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he full two hours of a seminar on
Monday were devoted entirely to
the attempts of one man to find a “really
pertinent section.” Reports are that the
search commenced almost immediately
upon the tutor’s enunciation of an
opening question, and continued
unabated from thenceforward, quashing
any attempts by the other 18 members
of the seminar to explore alternate
pursuits. With frequent interjections of
“sorry, guys,” and “oh jeez, I thought it
was right here,” the man, who insisted
he had a “visual memory of the passage
being in the lower half of the right page,”
proceeded to turn through every page of
his book with what one student called “a
perfect, almost a hypnotic regularity.”
“After about 45 minutes it started to
get really awkward,” admitted another
student from the seminar. “Some people
even started to wonder whether the
thing he was looking for was really as
important as he said it was, even though
obviously it doesn’t become any less
important even though it’s hard to find.”
“I don’t think he even had a concept of
time,” said one woman who was present.
“It was obvious that finding this passage
had become his whole world. It was his
Moby Dick. We had no right to interfere
in that.” With the clock barely a few
ticks from ten o’clock, the student came
to the realization that the passage he
was looking for was, in fact, the section
which the tutor had read for his opening
question, but in a different translation.
This led to what one student cheerfully
described as “a really fruitful discussion
about how dissimilar two different
translations can be sometimes, and how
that’s really interesting.” #
NNAPOLIS, MD—Last Saturday, March 31st, Security reported that a recently
fired freshman lab assistant, who will remain unnamed, released the Axolotls
from their highly secure tank in Mellon. “The Axolotls are so misunderstood!” the
lab assistant cried while being handcuffed. “They will be free! They will run wild!
No more animal cruelty!”
The Axolotls have since overrun campus, preying on sacrifices of freshmen, and
causing extreme chaos and fear. “The end has come!” said one freshman who was
available for comment at the time. The Axolotls have overtaken the Cupola Room as
their headquarters, and Security advises students to stay far away from McDowell,
and use caution when walking alone at night. !
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early eight months after Hurricane Irene hit Annapolis, many
local residents still have not finished
picking up the pieces. The Rawls family of Prince George Street had, by
their reckoning, six lawn chairs in a
full and upright position before the
storm hit. A cursory glance at their
yard now reveals one of those chairs
still splayed across the grass, a jagged
shard of chaos reverberating across
an otherwise idyllic scene. Said family
patriarch Bill Rawls, “I guess, since it
happened, we’ve never had more than
five people out in the yard at the same
time, so no one’s really had an incentive to pick up that particular chair.”
Countless other stories across the
city are similar, from a fallen, spilling
birdfeeder that “seemed to mostly just
feed squirrels anyway,” to a lawn gnome
that has laid in state for so long it is now
mostly covered with leaves, a sign that
even the earth knows to pay its respects
by burying its dead. It is hard not to find
some sign of a seemingly permanent
change in nearly every home in Annapolis—some sign that, as much as we might
want to believe, it is not so easy to just
go “back to normal.” $
Student Changes Essay Topic One Day Before Deadline With Astounding Results
A
stressed junior, who wishes to remain anonymous, was
surprised by the quality of his annual essay that he had
only started the night before it was due. “I was very pleased
with the final product,” he tells us. “It’s amazing what twelve
Adderall, three cups of coffee, and a smoke break can do for
your creativity.” The essay initially addressed concerns about
Hobbes’s Kingdom of Darkness as presented in The Leviathan, but was changed to a question regarding Kant’s Critique
of Pure Reason and whether or not anything can really be explored outside the realm of time and space. This change was
made after the junior concluded his first idea was “really dif-
ficult” and “going nowhere.” He went on to say that the question he began with seemed really good at first, but later realized
that, “there were too many subsidiary questions that needed to
be answered to come to the conclusion [he] wanted.” His final
draft, which came close to twenty-four pages, was “very structured”, “captured all the thoughts [he] was trying to convey”,
and is expected to be a sharp contender for the junior essay
prize. “It’s a relief to be done,” he said as the interview was
coming to a close. “These are probably the best twenty-three
or so pages I have ever or will ever produce.” Roughly nineteen
pages of his essay were block quotes. "
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here exists not in the English language a more sophisticated form of poetic
expression than the limerick, for no form is both terse in sonority and rich in
underlying poetic content. The sonnet is sickly (Keats was consumptive), the ballad is folksy (bad taste), the villanelle is decadent and complicated (bad form), and
the epic is antiquated (keep in step with the times, old boy). But the limerick is the
summation of good poetic character: witty yet serious, ironic yet honest, truthful yet deceptive, terrible yet excellent, good yet evil, elite yet relatable—for, who
among us cannot relate to this bit of divine poesy:
There was a young hooker from Crewe
Who filled her vagina with glue.
She said with a grin,
“They paid to get in;
They can pay to get out of it, too!”
Socrates would probably have recognized the moral value of this particular limerick. For, is it not the desiring part of the soul that continually places mankind in the
stickiest of situations? But limericks are not confined to the common and relatable;
for those of us who pursue hidden knowledge (and therefore hide our own knowledge), this esoteric limerick certainly has a voice:
There once was a lawyer named Rex,
Who was small in the organ of sex.
When charged with exposure,
He replied with composure:
“De minimum non curat lex!”
The philosophical voice speaks clearly through the limerick in the same way that
bands of sunlight penetrate the clear depths of Lake Lucerne. What is the nature
of this “way”? That which cannot be disclosed; for secret knowledge must remain
secret (though consider checking the Timaeus; it has the answers to everything. In
fact, it’s a wonder the Timaeus was not written as a limerick!) But for those of you
non-Straussians who have no access to the secret truth-knowledge-beauty-goodin-itself of limericks (for it is a well-known fact that Richard Strauss regularly employed the scherzo-like limerick in his operas Salome and Die Rosenklavier), you can
still rest easy with the good old anti-clerical bawdy humor of this classic:
The Anglican dean of Hong-Kong
Has a thing that is twelve inches long.
He thinks that the waiters
Are admiring his gaiters
When he goes to the loo, but he’s wrong! #
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NNAPOLIS, MD—A current sophomore admitted to relying heavily
first semester on the Perseus Digital Library, a website maintained by the Department of Classics at Tufts University,
in order to translate Antigone in his language class. “I felt really guilty about it,”
said the student, who asked to remain
anonymous, “because I know all my fellow students slaved for hours every day
over the declension charts for irregular
verbs.” The student felt he had failed
himself and his class: “I know if I had
just worked at it, the one year of Greek
would totally have prepared me to translate Sophocles, just like a semester was
enough to handle Plato and Aristotle,”
The student reported that he brought
his Introduction to Ancient Greek book
home over the summer, but neglected to
study. “I mostly just used it as a paperweight,” the student admitted. "
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campus about the poor quality of local news outlet, The Gadfly. “It would be
nice if the articles were based on actual
fact,” says one St. John’s student. “I’m
tired of reading someone else’s stuckup opinion.” And this, of course, is just
one of many recorded complaints. The
Gadfly has been attacked for poor editing, biased articles, unsupported claims,
bad grammar, having a muddled layout,
not being funny, having an air of pretentiousness, poor picture quality, and what
seems to be the most common complaint, neglecting to publish submitted
articles. Astonishingly, The Gadfly is not
for want of readers. Being a non-profit
publication, each issue of The Gadfly is
distributed for free. And every week that
a new issue is released, there are hardly
enough to cater to the demand. In any
case, considering the grievances voiced
by the student body, it would seem as
though The Gadfly staff will have to improve the quality of their publication
lest they lose all their readers. !
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unior Tyler Smalls, one of St. John’s
most praised and respected members
of the classroom, has confirmed longstanding rumors that he will be leaving St.
John’s after this year to go professional.
The defection, the latest in an increasing
trend which has seen the lure of big-money contracts tempting students away from
their liberal arts educations, will surely
raise to new prominence the long-standing debate about the role of “amateurs” at
top reading schools such as St. John’s.
Specifically, many have recently questioned whether our “education” really
serves as nothing but a minor league
training ground for readers who have
known since high school that they would
eventually be turning professional. Steven Will, a longtime columnist from the
world of both amateur and professional
reading, was unsurprised at this latest
move. “I mean, let’s not kid ourselves,”
he said, “these young guys know that the
kind of reading that they’re doing, out
on the professional circuit, could easily
be making them $300,000 to $400,000 a
year. The notion that these kids want to
go to a feeder-school like St. John’s just
because they ‘love reading’ or ‘want the
classic college experience’ is absurd.”
Smalls says that he will remain a free
agent for now, and he’ll hold off from
signing any long-term contracts until his
career is more established. According to
his agent, he’s already lined up a short assignment in the Canadian Summer-Reading League, where he’ll be reading The
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reshman Ken James says he is “all too aware” of the countless cases of madness
induced by the constant, unceasing chimes present in many of America’s
quaintest towns, and he has made it a priority to take precautions against them.
“I talked to some alums before coming here, and one guy put it really bluntly:
‘Listen,’ he said, ‘there’s two things you got to watch out for in Annapolis: don’t
get mugged, and don’t let the cold unceasing tolls, which must needs be paid, and
take their due not in money, but in irretrievable and forever-lost segments of your
youth, denominated in quarter-hours, drive you to a fit of melancholy whence you
may never return.’ That really hit home with me. I was like, ‘I’m living outside the
house for the first time, my parents are trusting me to take care of myself. I can’t
let these bells get to me, you know?’ That’s when I started to do my research about
bell-protection.”
Mr. James said he has taken many precautions, from padding his room to
wearing earplugs when out in the town.
“I mean, obviously there’s no problem listening to some bells ringing for a little
bit, so I don’t have to wear them all the time. I mean, people go to concerts or
whatever, and there are bells in those sometimes, and they don’t go crazy, right?
But if I’m out for a while, and then suddenly I catch myself humming the little
rhythm, you know, ‘DA dum DA dum… DUM da DA dum,’ that’s when I’ll be like,
‘Oh, boy, this is where it starts. Better get that out of my life for a little bit.’”
James says he’s tried listening to music on his iPod, but finds that that’s a less
effective technique because “the chimes just combine and swirl and blend into
the music and become even
more irresistible.”
“That’s what’s funny
about the bells,” James
continued, “most things
that are dangerous are
also ugly. But not the bells.
They’re dangerous because
they’re beautiful. So very
beautiful…” #
Left: The most beautifully dangerous bell on campus faces the
camera innocently.
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everal members of the campus
Crossfit club pushed back strongly
today against reports that Crossfit has
“no basis in kinesthetic fact” and “no additional athletic value compared to regular exercise.” Members countered that
Crossfit is, in fact, “totally awesome,”
and also, “Seriously, like extremely awesome. Like, one of the coolest things
ever. It’s like the Matrix, but in real life,
but harder because things are actually
heavy, and we can’t just throw them
around with our minds, but we still
throw them around anyway. We actually
throw a ton of stuff around. It’s pretty
amazing.” When asked how the skills of
Crossfit could be useful in practical life,
one member suggested that any potential firefighter, after attending Crossfit
for only a few short weeks, would be
able to throw “the heaviest of babies”
out of a burning window. Another added that the ability to “quickly transition
from crawling to jumping” is a skill that
is called upon “countless times in everyday life.” A third pointed out that rapidly catching and releasing a ball over
and over “uses exactly the same muscle
movements that we would need to use to
run if the world suddenly turned 90 degrees and our hands became our feet and
our feet became our hands.” Ultimately,
everyone present agreed that “you have
to do Crossfit to get Crossfit,” and that
“you have to get Crossfit to love Crossfit,” and that “you have to love Crossfit
to be worth talking to,” at which point
they all simultaneously high-fived each
other while jumping and removing their
shirts, after which they celebrated with
a frenzied session of throwing balls,
both at other things and each other. "
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arch 27, 6:03 PM—The Admissions Office has released information that indicates a high number of
Santa Fe students will be transferring
to Annapolis in upcoming years. To accommodate for this flux, Buildings and
Grounds has begun planning the construction of new dorms to house former
Santa Fe residents. “These new facilities
are intended to make the transition and
adjustment from Santa Fe more comfortable for our new students,” says an
Admissions Office representative. It is
speculated that the new dorms will try
and capture the natural habitat of a Santa Fe student using accoutrements familiar to our sister campus. Each dorm
room will be equipped with a skylight
for indoor stargazing and a personal art
wing for each resident. The landscape
will also be furnished with flora typical in New Mexico such as Achnatherum hymenoides, or Sandgrass, Nolina
erumpens, a common New Mexico flower, and Cannabis sativa. Rumors suggested that a similar project was said to
be in the works for Annapolis students
heading to the Midwest, but enthusiasm decreased sharply when Annapolis
students found out the closest alcohol
distributor was more than two miles
off campus. The prospective location
and size of these new dorms is still unknown. "
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he last will and testament of recently deceased oil magnate Walter P. Emerson contains a surprise clause which
will hand over $35 million to St. John’s College, an extraordinary gift by any measure, but one made even more unusual,
and some say bittersweet, by the strange and highly specific
stipulations which accompany it. Of the $35 million, $750,000
is required to be spent on the construction of a gigantic glass
cube stationed in the exact geographic center of campus, on
the grass near the playing fields. The remaining money, which
will be given in the form of cash in denominations of $100
upon completion of the cube, must be inserted in this cube
and fanned out in a breathtaking array of wealth, before the
cube is sealed forever, never to be broken under penalty of immediate remittance of the entire fortune back to Mr. Emerson’s estate. The display, dubbed the “Taunt-Cube,” will certainly be an artistic focal point of the campus and a source of
lthough the recent policy of charging students five cents per printed
page in the computer lab may be unpopular, the college has no plans of scrapping it, and is in fact set to roll out a
slew of similar revenue-enhancing fees
next year. Surely the largest and most
controversial change will be in every
bathroom on campus, where toilet paper is set to come with a charge of two
cents per square (three cents for doublepleated), with the college 1card as the
required method of payment, in what is
being marketed by the administration
as the new “swipe-2-wipe” program.
Among other changes, checking books
out of the library will now also come
with a fee. Said Dean Pamela Kraus, “I
mean you don’t expect Blockbuster to
just hand you Moulin Rouge for free,
do you? Why should we be any different? We’re not running a charity here.”
The computer lab will also be rebranded
as an “internet café”, charging $5 per
hour to use the internet ($10 for porn)
and the dining hall will institute a new
“weigh-in, weigh-out” policy, with students charged extra when the scales
determine that they’ve indulged in a
“pig-out meal.” Finally, the largest single
source of revenue is expected to be the
new campus-wide swear jar, which will
operate under the traditional “nickel,
dime, quarter” hierarchy of blasphemy
and which will be enforced by a segment
of our security force, re-trained to serve
as the new “swear police.” #
pride to some, but others are wondering how long it will take
before the sadistic game that Mr. Emerson is clearly playing
with us from beyond the grave ends in a loss of willpower on
the part of the cash-strapped administration. Adding to the
intrigue and mystery of the Taunt-Cube, a strangely-worded
addendum to Mr. Emerson’s will declares that destruction of
the cube will also deliver to Mr. Emerson “the eternal soul of
every last damned one of you, so you can all keep me company
in Hell.” It is not clear how the last clause can be enforced,
but Dean Pamela Kraus called it “certainly a serious threat, if
true” and “not worth taking chances with.” All members of the
administration have preemptively agreed that it is in their own
self interest to not be let near the cube, unless transported by
cart while wrapped in Odysseus-like binds. One potential
concern with this plan, they admit, is President Christopher
Nelson, who recently declared in an interview that “binds of
adamantine strength will not hold me back once I actually see
the damned thing. I’m telling you that right now, I swear to
God. I know myself too well. I know what I’m capable of.” !
�THE BAD FLY
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> Ian Tuttle, A’14
D
on’t mock the nerds, they say; you’ll end up working for
The simple fact is, as study after study has shown, the entire
one. Several universities around the nation are joining higher education system is biased toward the hard-working.
forces to fix that. Public and private universities in 17 states They end up with the highest grades, the most knowledge,
nationwide have formed the “Equality in Education Com- and the best prospects for postgraduate study or employment.
pact” to standardize student performance.
These few students, who are hard-working for no other reaAlan Wheeler reports in the most recent Chronicle of High- son than their universally privileged, generally Caucasian
er Education, in a fascinating essay, “The New Nerd Herd,” backgrounds, acquire too much knowledge. Because there
that recent Department of Education studies reveal that the is a limited quantity of knowledge (and, thus, good grades)
top one percent of students are earning significantly higher available, these students have a monopoly on the university’s
grades than fellow students. To remedy this imbalance, ad- goods. The EEC seeks to break up that monopoly and enministrators, professors, and counselors are redistributing sure that everyone receives the same amount of knowledge
GPA points from the highest-earning students to their lower and the same grades—especially those who do not want to.
counterparts, ensuring that all students earn approximately At the core of this effort is an understanding, by university ofthe same grades.
ficials from coast to coast, that students entering institutions
Pratik Gurumurthy is a junior at the University of Califor- of higher learning do not bear any responsibility for the outnia-San Diego, where he will graduate one
come of their collegiate careers. As long as
year early to pursue medical school. He is a
these students pay, the university should
“College is about
top student in all of his classes, but he says
provide the goods and not allow any actors
‘he supports the policy, which was imple(e.g. the hard-working students) to unduly
exploring: sexually,
mented last semester. “My parents mansway the market (e.g. rob other students of
politically, sexually.
aged to scrape together enough money for
their rightful goods).
And if they do that,
me to come to America from India when I
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
at the end of four or
turned 18. It was always their dream that
provost Janine Furler hopes the proI have an American education that would
gram will continue to grow. “Ideally, we
five years, we will be
set me apart. But I like this new system. It
to
issue grades
thrilled to hand them a would like andstop having to the students
seems fair. It’s not like I or my family have
altogether
simply allow
diploma with highest
worked hard to get where I am.”
to live on campus for four years. We are
Caroline Freeman, a sophomore at
honors, confident that really not even that concerned that they
Wellesley pursuing a degree in civil engicome to class. College is about exploring:
they are prepared for
neering, concurs. She is from a small town
sexually, politically, sexually. And if they
the real world.”
in rural Alabama and was raised by a single
do that, at the end of four or five years, we
mother. “Sure, I study a lot—mornings,
will be thrilled to hand them a diploma
nights, weekends, and I’ve programmed my iTunes to read with highest honors, confident that they are prepared for the
Rabelais in the original while I sleep. But I have friends who real world.”
like to come to class smashed. What’s wrong with that? Why
Fundamentally, this is about justice. In a situation in which
should they be penalized for doing things their own way?”
there are finite prizes to go around, when one student wins,
Wheeler also interviewed several professors from major a lot of other students lose. And the fact that the student
universities to hear their views on the new program. Said who wins had a leg-up from the beginning makes the enKathleen Armstrong, who leads a lecture at Oberlin Universi- tire system intrinsically corrupt. This program starts small,
ty called, “Mixed Up in Mali: Transgender Literature in Post- redistributing grades to compensate for the obvious bias in
colonial Africa,” “I get young scholars who come to class high the system. But over time it will erode the obsolete notion of
or toasted, and my heart just bleeds for them. I don’t want personal responsibility and its assumed “just” order. The orthem to be victimized by the academic superstructure; I want der is not just, the playing field is not even. The colleges that
them to be able to live free lives. If giving them extra points are embarking on this brave new venture recognize that the
will help them do that, I am all for it.”
higher education system has something valuable to offer—a
And, says Leonid Altukhov, who teaches, “Karl in the degree, the qualification for postgraduate success—but that
Kitchen: Marxism and the Modern Woman,” at the University that system has, throughout its history, been predicated on
of Delaware, “The United States is a beacon of egalitarianism. backward, hurtful premises. However, as this system is imLiberté, égalité, fraternité, right? We should be striving daily plemented across more and more institutions, it will graduto achieve those founding ideals.”
ally change these premises. Students will no longer attach
Wheeler commends the effort, and so do I. The “Equality themselves to ideas of earning their success; they will finally
in Education Compact” demonstrates a concerted effort by see that to do so is to trample on their colleagues. The EEC
university personnel at every level—from the administrators puts power back in the hands of those who will use it fairly.
to the professors in the trenches—to right a system of punishAs University of Georgia dean Harold Kakani declared,
ment and reward that has been, for too long, biased, exploit- “They say the tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the
ative, and just plain mean.
lawnmower. Well, we’re John Deere, bitches.” !
“
�The Gadfly
06
The Croquet Team’s Response to Croquet Policies
> John Fleming, A’12
B
efore getting to the new Croquet Weekend policies, yet, just that the point is not to gouge, so they will not be
I’d like to inform the community about Croquet high. I have been told that the money made from the sale of
Nationals. Nationals and the Navy match were booked for alcohol will go to scholarship funding. The administration
the same weekend this year. Since these are our only two recognizes that people don’t want to stand in line to get in
big competitive events, obviously the team was extremely or to buy alcohol, so they will try to minimize the time spent
disappointed, especially as we were looking to reclaim the in line.
National Title. As a team, we decided to participate in the
The team thought it would be a good idea to give our
community event.
perspective on the new policies. We weren’t thrilled by them.
So, what will the event look like this year? I’ve heard a But after speaking with the administration, we recognize
lot of confusion about what the new
that they saw the need to change how
policies actually are. There will be
Croquet was hosted, to make it a more
no outside alcohol allowed at the
moderate event. There has been a lot
But at this point, with
event. Outside food and non-alcoholic
of outrage about
Croquet a month away, communication. Thethe breakdown in
beverages are okay; picnics are still fine
team shares in that.
it is time to focus on
and encouraged. To enforce the policy,
The administration needs to do a better
security will be asking to look in people’s
job in the future communicating with
the event itself. It will
bags. Not rifling through, just looking
the team, with alumni, and particularly
still be fun.
into. To do so, the event will be fenced
with the student body. But at this point,
off this year. The hedge running along
with Croquet a month away, it is time to
College Avenue will be part of it, and there will be a rope focus on the event itself. It will still be fun. Focusing on the
fence on the McDowell side. It will not be right up on the dislike of the new policies will make it less fun. Focusing on
lawn, but up by the flagpole. Alcohol will be sold at the the nice weather (fingers crossed), hilarious horse costumes,
event, in more than single servings. Bottles of champagne time with friends, and making friends will make it lots of
will be available, and the administration seemed open to the fun. The team chose to come party with the community
idea of selling six cups of beer at a time. The alcohol will at Croquet Weekend. So let’s have a party. After all, party
be nice: keg beer. I have not been told what prices will be season is upon us. !
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ear Delegate Council,
I said…things at our last meeting. Things that might
have been hurtful. I am so sorry.
When I said that I had hardly noticed the difference
you made in my life, despite all your efforts and meetings,
that I never read the articles you wrote for The Gadfly,
and that I didn’t even know we had a song, I didn’t mean
to make you feel bad.
It’s not you, it’s me.
It’s me; I am the one who is apathetic, irresponsible,
and neglectful. I have never deserved you, or the attention and care you have given me.
The fact is, I’m just not worthy of you. Now, as we approach the end of our relationship, as I finally realize just
what I had, even as I lose it, I can only ask you for your
forgiveness.
If you can’t give me that, I hope you can at least forget
me quickly, and find someone who will give you the respect and love that you deserve. You probably hate me,
and wish we had never met, but I just want you to know
that no matter how badly I treated you, no matter how
little I deserved you, in my own ignorant, clumsy, stupid
way, I always did, and always will, love you.
Ms. Ferrier, A’12 & Mr. Llinas, A’13
Lucy Ferrier (A’12)
�The Gadfly
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Perspectives on Senior Year
05
> Barbara McClay, A’12
T
his Thursday, March 19, the SCI convened to discuss
questions specific to senior year, particularly those
surrounding the senior essay. The discussion opened with a
consideration of the large number of essays written on offProgram texts this year. Did we find this number to be in
any way problematic? Was the senior essay intended to be
an exploration of anything the student found interesting, or
something else altogether?
It was agreed that some of the choices of texts made by
students this year probably presented an unfair burden to the
faculty and were also probably of little relevance to the greater
community. In view of the extra work given to the tutors, it
was agreed that it might be a good thing if there were stricter
guidance as to what could and could not be written on for the
senior essay. There was, however, some disagreement on this
issue.
However, the secondary consideration—that of the relation
the essay bore to the community—raised the question of
whether or not the senior essay was intended to have any sort
of relevance to the greater community. What, after all, was the
point of writing a senior essay?
Overall, the discussion of the purpose of the senior essay
broke down along two lines. Either the senior essay represented
a culmination of the student’s work at the College—and thus
ought to be relevant to the community at large—or the senior
essay represented an intellectual transition to the outside
world, and thus was a project of purely personal importance.
Some argued that the housing of all the senior essays in
the library, the printing of all their titles on the graduation
bulletin, and the public nature of senior orals all indicated
that the senior essay was intended to relate to the community
in some way. Viewed this way, writing off-Program should
be discouraged unless the student could make a compelling
case for the relevance of his proposed topic to the college
community. In the writing of a senior essay, one student
commented, “Something is owed to the College.”
If, on the other hand, the senior essay represented the
student’s transition from the College into the greater
intellectual world, things looked very different. In that case,
the most important thing would be to enable students to
pursue the questions that interest them regardless of the
relation of that question to the College itself. In fact, from
that perspective, writing off-Program ought to be encouraged
rather than discouraged, since it would indicate the desired
intellectual independence from the Program. Ultimately, no
consensus was reached on this question.
A third, tangential question raised at the meeting was the
question of the greatness of the off-Program works selected by
students. Not all proposed works seemed “great” in the way
the books on the Program are great. But if a student could get
an advisor and a committee together for his proposed work,
should that be a concern?
At that point, after all, the student would have at the very
least proved his interest in the topic and also that it had some
degree of relevance to the community. Suppose, for instance,
someone asked to write on Lord of the Rings. Would we
think that this essay proposal ought to be accepted? If it were
accepted, would we regard that as a good thing?
This question, however, was left unresolved.
It was also considered whether or not the school was right
to discourage students from writing senior essays not on a
particular book or movie, but rather on a particular question.
Many students present disagreed on what such an essay would
really be. There was no clear consensus on this topic.
Setting senior essays aside, the SCI also considered whether
or not to reintroduce the practice of first semester don rags and
orals. While some concern was expressed that the material in
the first semester of senior seminar might be too limited, it
was agreed that many seniors would like to see first semester
orals return. It was also agreed that, even though students
could largely self-evaluate by their senior year, the don rag
still provides valuable information that is difficult to replace
with self-evaluation or even separate conferences with tutors.
Finally, the SCI briefly reviewed the single tutor seminars.
While all the seniors present enjoyed the small size and
informality of the single tutor seminars, they also commented
that the second tutor was most definitely missed and that a
tutor’s personality could more easily dominate a discussion
without another tutor to check it. !
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> Painter Bob
A spotted cat just crossed my path
to greet a speckled dog
they met upon a purple patch
of violets by a bog
an inch worm came to join them
on a silver strand he swung
until he slipped and hit a rock
and woe his bottom stung
but from a little lily pad
a prince amongst the frogs
sprung up into a mossy glen
betwixt two hollow logs
where gently soft as silk is smooth
this song he kindly sung
oh woe is we who have to see our wonder wounded one
who spins the thread that weaves our beds
beneath each setting sun
and so that cat, as too the dog, did join that noble frog
and being three, they all as one
did nurse that worm so well
that up he sprang and spun a strand of glowing gold for fun
while they all danced, and then they laughed
to see the bees go hummm
because that little inch worm, now
a glow worm had become
the fairest friend in all the land
beside himself…with love.
�The Gadfly
04
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Reviewing St. John’s ensemble Klaüs, Moshiko
Hamo (A’12) explores the emotional gravity of
the band’s free jazz styling and the diverse musical landscapes it produces.
Saxiphonist Sam Weinberg (A’14) plays at
Winter Collegium. photo by Henley Moore
> Moshiko Hamo, A’12
K
ommt, ihr Töchter, und listen, for Klaüs hast Komme. ity of a fall from grace, a struggle, and a final redemption, free
With non-traditional forms, Klaüs invites listeners to ex- jazz explores a different kind of order. Klaüs plays with this
plore new musical and emotional territories. It has a curious ironically with the song titled, “Fallen.” The song challenges
aesthetic that is absurdly light, and yet their music is technical- the listener to find the fall, the struggle, and the redemption.
ly demanding to play. Pseudo-Germanic marketing and songs It is debatable to what extent, if at all, these actually appear
like “Bluffin’ with My Muffin” (a cheerful jazz arrangement of in the song. Free jazz is arguably more honest to the experi“The Muffin Man” with thundering drum breaks) might lead ence of living. There is the mixture of serious and silly, comone to think that Klaüs only produces parodies. This, howev- edy and tragedy, anger and laughter. The music proceeds not
er, is belied by the emotional gravity of much of their music with the tension and release of the musical circle, but with the
and the skill necessary to play it. For instance, “wave bye bye alternating tension and release that more closely resembles
to the bureaucrat,” a funny name indeed, uses the challeng- breathing. (It is possible that this is at least partially due to the
ing compound meters 6/4 and 5/4, in addition to the standard fact that the primary songwriter plays alto sax, where breath
4/4. Moreover, Klaüs plays exclusively atonally. Try to find the determines musical capacity.) The music is meditative and yet
“home” pitch, and you will find yourself perpetually lost.
light, dissonant and profound at times, and yet this comes off
Klaüs’ primary songwriter, Sam Weinberg, is strongly in- as honest and penetrating rather than contrived (as opposed
fluenced by Ornette Coleman. Using a theory of improvisa- to some of Schoenberg’s atonal music). The paradox is pleastion developed by Coleman called “harmolodics,” Weinberg ing rather than jarring; it points to what music is at its heart:
balances rhythm, melody, and harmony equally. This stands an emotional exploration.
in sharp contrast to earlier jazz, which even in its improviWhat does this kind of music mean for the College? There
sation is built around harmonic structures. The theory frees are increasingly more bands at St. John’s. However, these
the musician to explore new possibilities that are atonal yet bands grow more remote from the music of the Program. The
still sound natural (as opposed to
Program only studies those forms
the more contrived atonal twelveof music that conform to a clear,
But how to listen to such eclectic
tone music). Of course, Weinberg
overarching narrative. Only music
is able to improvise freely in large
that tells a story—with a libretto for
music? Free jazz is not entirely chapart because of the strength of the
otic, but its order differs from that of a crutch—is studied. How can the
other members. Ugur Kupeli is an
music program take itself seriousany other kind of music. While tonal ly without studying Beethoven’s
exceptional drummer, whose sensibility is organic and knowledge
symphonies (those without chomusic depends on the narrative
of jazz is encyclopedic. At times he
ruses), which are arguably the best
quality of a fall from grace, a strugprovides rhythmic ground for othmusical compositions in history?
gle, and a final redemption, free jazz Perhaps to make it easier on those
erwise chaotic exploration, while
explores a different kind of order.
elsewhere his explosive improvisawho consider themselves less mution is invigorating. The music does
sical, St. John’s ignores these later
not lend itself to dancing due to its strange meters and form, (Romantic) forms of music, even if they may better express the
but there is always a pleasing beat that hypnotizes the listener. essence of music. Perhaps the more logical among us refuse
The expert bass playing of David Lincer magnifies this effect. to acknowledge this, but some of the greatest music is an apLincer has the rare gift of totally absorbing extremely diverse peal only to passion sans reason. This sort of music challenges
musical styles; he plays heavy metal, classic rock, blues, and Zuckerkandl’s assumption (as we should) that music can be
traditional and avant-garde jazz very well and with apparent expressed and known through language. The emotional poease. His improvisations are correspondingly influenced by a tential of music can be manifested as a narrative, but that is
myriad of styles. Lincer’s skill is particularly admirable con- not the only way. The force of free jazz is that it is an appeal to
sidering he plays a fretless bass, which requires much greater other kinds of emotions in an organic way. Feeling is not limattention to pitch, resembling a cello more than a guitar. Klaüs ited to catharsis from redemption. Other feelings can evolve in
has taken the musical instincts of three of the best musicians subtler and in harsher ways. Music, like man, is not restricted
at St. John’s and forged them into surreal and enthralling mu- to a simple, almost naïve, happiness manifested in the major
sic.
key or the sometimes melodramatic, sometimes impotent, and
But how to listen to such eclectic music? Free jazz is not en- rarely true, powerful sadness evoked by the minor key. Life
tirely chaotic, but its order differs from that of any other kind is often a mixture of both happiness and sadness, and Klaüs
of music. While tonal music depends on the narrative qual- skillfully explores these emotional landscapes. !
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Falstaff plays dead.
Odysseus dresses up like
Hercules.
Henry V
Philoctetes
What prank does your seminar
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The Social Contract
> Anonymous
Rousseau wears clothes.
> Anonymous
> Anonymous
NEXT WEEK
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Democracy in
America
Tocqueille votes Robespierre.
> Anonymous
How does your seminar character react to the new Croquet policies?
On Asking & Responsibility
> Jenny Shumpert, A’15
T
he only form of sexual assault that we see in popular fortable, ask. Asking is fun. Asking feels caring and playful and
culture is obviously violent, with people holding victims sexy. Asking means heightening the anticipation and opening
at gunpoint and issuing death threats. It’s something com- both parties up to communication, which generally means
mitted by strangers in dark alleyways on shows like CSI. It’s pretty good sex. It’s fairly difficult not to enjoy yourself when
not something that happens to us, or our friends, and it’s not you’re telling your partner(s) what you like, as long as they’re
something we’re involved in. It’s premeditated and purpose- listening. Asking can mean, “Can I suck you off?” in honeyed
ful, not something that anyone ever does accidentally, and it and beguiling tones, or it can mean a hesitant, “Is it okay if…?”
can only happen when someone says, “No,” or struggles. So partnered with context that’s extraordinarily difficult to miswhat’s happening when someone has
interpret. It doesn’t require you to
the insurmountable feeling that they
have years of experience on a phone
When we have internalized the
simply don’t have a choice, and they
sex line or be sexually adventurous
can’t tell the person they’re with to
message that being unobtrusive or even remotely confident. No matstop? He* isn’t being violent, he’s not
ter how self-conscious you may feel,
and not being rude are more
threatening, and it isn’t an unsafe sitit is infinitely better than finding out
important than being able to
uation, but there’s a feeling of obligathat the other person didn’t want
tion. Women are socialized to never
decide when and with whom we whatever happened, but didn’t feel
be rude, to never tell people, “No,” to
that they could
you to stop. And
have sex, there is something hor- there is no way tell me to express to
ignore their own needs and emotions.
for
rifically wrong.
There’s a constant drone of, “I have to
someone who has never been in this
do this because he has expectations
situation how much more pleasant
(why else am I going back to his room with him?), because the most awkward “Do you want to have sex?” is than somewe’ve been making out and he’s hard, because I don’t want to one jamming their penis inside of you with no warning. So go
be a tease, because I don’t want to insult him by turning him forth, lust after one another, and indulge yourselves in licendown when we’ve gone this far.” There are so many women tious hedonism. But for fuck’s sake, ask.
at St. John’s that I’ve had this conversation with, who are
For anyone interested in reading more about this subject,
otherwise self-assured and unapologetic, but encounter this Pink Triangle Society will be providing copies of the zine
barricade when it comes to telling a guy they don’t want to Learning Good Consent during Sexual Health Awareness week.
have sex. When we have internalized the message that being
unobtrusive and not being rude are more important than being able to decide when and with whom we have sex, there is *I’ve written this article with very gendered language, because
something horrifically wrong.
the issue is predominantly rooted in gender and the way we’re
Until we manage to eliminate that aspect of society, there’s taught to behave according to our genders. I acknowledge that
a practice that I want to see much more often on campus. In- this behavior is present in dynamics other than the one presentstead of assuming that someone will tell you if they’re uncom- ed here. !
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<< In the Fishbowl: An unknown student
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Muses.
>> Essay Season is Upon Us: “Log off
Facebook!” command the Essay Muses. But
to no avail.
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> Alexandria Hinds, Admissions, A’10
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ello Polity!
The Admissions Office will be hosting the annual Accepted Students Day on
Saturday, April 14th. This is a large event which takes place in all major spaces on
campus. It is a wonderful event for the Class of 2016; for some, it is their first experience
on campus, while others are seasoned visitors taking this opportunity to get to know
their potential classmates.
At this point, these students have been bombarded with our stunning new
Admissions Propaganda (worth a look if you were of the brown cover era), they’ve
watched the Virtual Tour videos, and they’ve read the Booklist a thousand times.
They understand the curriculum and our approach to liberal education. They’re on
board with education for education’s sake, and they’re OK answering the question,
“But what do you DO with that?” from well-meaning relatives, neighbors, teachers,
and friends for the next four years. They’re well-read and well-informed about the
academic program.
What they are lacking is exposure to the community that lives and breathes this
program. It is the Polity which makes the Program a reality, and their lack of exposure
to the Polity is precisely what we are trying to address at this event. This exposure is
mutual: while we want the Accepted Students to get a sense of the current Polity, we
want you to get a sense of this class, too. We’d like you to meet these students face to
face, show them around, tell them about your annual essay (which should be done by
then!) and break bread with them. We’d also like to have all the club archons available
for an Information Fair (similar to the All-College Fair in August).
And so, I urge you, comrades and citizens in the Republic, do not let this day’s
distractions become disruptions. Instead, rise up and meet the Class of 2016; welcome
them to the College. Next fall, these students will join you on the quad after seminar,
sing to you at Freshman Chorus concerts, and marvel at the mysteries of the axolotls.
They will inherit The Gadfly and KWP. They will live next door to you, sit next to
you in the All-College Seminar, and come to you for Greek assistance. Don’t wait
until Convocation to feast your eyes upon the inheritors of your legacy. Come to the
Accepted Students Day and help welcome these students and their families on April
14th.
For details, or to volunteer time that day, please contact Alexandria Hinds at 410279-5259, Alexandria.hinds@sjca.edu, or just stop by the Carroll Barrister House. !
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SCI Minutes 04
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Croquet Policies 06
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On Poets & Poetry 03
Winter Sports Round-Up 04
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<< Cover: Senior Prank surprised seminars
Monday night, and led to a day of revelry and
relaxation on back campus.
>> Croquet: You may have seen these flyers
floating around the coffee shop. Are we the
Spartans or the Athenians?
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Grace Tyson
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Layout Editors
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Assistant Layout Editors
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Hau Hoang
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Robert Malka
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Joshua Snyder
Charles Zug
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Calvin
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Lincoln
Aristotle prime moves
the shit out of them.
Calvin knows the policies were predestined
anyway.
It is his duty to go along
with them.
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NEXT WEEK
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Ms. Connolly submitted this piece for publication on March 31, with the
hope that it would be published in our previous issue. Due to space constraints, we were unable to publish it at the time. Ms. Connolly writes in
honor of poet Adrienne Rich, who passed away on Tuesday, March 27.
> Stephanie Connolly, A’12
L
ast Tuesday, Adrienne Rich passed away, at the age of 82. especially with regard to social issues. I learned that details,
When I heard the news of her death, two days after she images, were important to her; the details of her poems are
had passed, I was surprised, not because it was
exquisite and overwhelmingly sensual.
particularly unexpected, but because, to me,
I learned that she thought often about
she was one of those poets whose work was
her role as a woman in a modern and
When I read her
enduring; she seemed as if she had always been
masculine world, that she thought often
poems I felt as
alive and always would be. Because her career
about women in general. Indeed, I learned
spanned the second half of the 20th century,
though I was being that she was an extremely thoughtful
her poetry had a voice that seemed especially
person, given more to contemplation
addressed by a
suited to the present day; though Rich was born
than to passion, less burdened than other
contemporary, or
about sixty years before I was, when I read her
writers of her generation with the troubles
poems I felt as though I was being addressed by
that lead to self-destruction and despair.
even a friend.
a contemporary, or even a friend.
Indeed, while Adrienne Rich’s poetry
As much as I admired her, however, I have to
makes it clear that she often struggled
confess that I know very little about Adrienne Rich’s life. In against a political and social climate that often oppressed
fact, this is the case with many of the writers and artists whom her, it also affirms her confidence in her own skill and ability.
I admire. While biographies can be useful in understanding Indeed, in “Planetarium,” a poem about another woman also
the many factors that shape a poet’s work, I often feel that marginalized by the conditions of her day, Rich seems to be
using the details of a writer’s life to interpret his or her work speaking about herself:
limits our understanding of the work as a whole and presumes
an intimacy with the writer which does not exist. After all,
I have been standing all my life in the
poets do not publish their lives, but their poems.
direct path of a battery of signals
Instead, I prefer to gain insight into the lives of the artists
the most accurately transmitted most
I respect by studying their works and trying to find the
untranslatable language in the universe
techniques and subjects that seem to define their work as a
. . . I am an instrument in the shape
whole. And what did reading Adrienne Rich’s poetry teach me
of a woman trying to translate pulsations
about the woman herself?
into images for the relief of the body
I learned that she was honest and sometimes frustrated,
and the reconstruction of the mind. !
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SJC Orchestra Rehearsal
Great Hall, 4-5:30 PM
Kunai Soccer
Back Campus, 4-6 PM
Dance Lessons
Great Hall, 8-9 PM
Open Mic Night
Chasement, 8 PM
Wednesday 2/15
CSL Forum on Gender Relations
Hodson Room, 2:30-3:30 PM
Handball
D v G, 4 PM
Handball
W v H, 5:15 PM
St. John’s Chorus
Great Hall, 7 PM
Friday 2/17
Kunai Soccer
Back Campus, 4-6 PM
Lecture
Lucretius’ On the Nature of
Things, Ms. Margaret Kirby,
Tutor, FSK Auditorium, 8:15 PM
Saturday 2/18
Mental Health Support Group
McDowell 32, 2-3 PM
Soccer
Popov v Schmid, 2 PM
Moore v Kraft, 3:30 PM
Sunday 2/19
Soccer
TBD, 2 PM
TBD, 3:30 PM
If you would like to see your
event on the weekly schedule,
please email gadfly@sjca.edu.
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A Sports Round-Up, Indeed!
> Jonathan Barone, A’13
W
ell folks, we’re approaching the ing an average season, emerged an absoend of another wonderful year of lutely dominant B-team. Primarily due
intramurals. The overall title is still up to the tenacious defense of Joe Hamd
for grabs, and there’s still a spring hand- and the massive inside presence of Sam
ball season and marathon to decide the Hemmenway, the Hustler B-team was
victor. The Greenwaves are leading the able to rip apart defenses and stop most
pack by a nose, but the Guardians are attacks. Of course, though the Husnot far behind. The Spartans are edging tler B-team might have been the most
the Druids for third, and despite an ex- dominant, the Druid B-team arguably
cellent start to the handball season, the showed the most heart. Though largely
Hustlers look like they’ll get first pick in inexperienced, the Druids fought tothe draft next year.
gether as a team and eventually became
But these mere statistics tell us noth- an army, each player a potential scorer.
ing of the virtue and valor displayed in Shout-outs go to Jack “Slim” Whitman
the venerable temple. Let’s start with and Kip “Bandana Man” Waite for their
the greatest of all intramural sports: Vol- never-say-die attitudes.
leyball. From the start, it looked like the
All in all, the basketball season was
Greenwaves were going to three-peat; marked with a great deal of grit and detheir team showed poise and prowess, termination. All teams showed great
going undefeated in qualifying and lead- improvement and participated in force.
ing the winner’s bracket of the tourna- The intensity of the season was only
ment. Nevertheless, the Druids, with matched by the cheers and excitement
their indomitable freshmen, fought from the team benches.
through the losers’ bracket to face the
The March Madness tournament had
Greenwaves in a best of five series. Even some intensity of its own. Though many
with a strong presence
teams gave valiant
at the net by newcomer
efforts (such as EmGI Jason Poarch and
ily Ezell’s ace shootLet’s start with
sophomore Chang Liu,
ing and Alex Schmid’s
the greatest of all
the Greenwaves lost to
12-point minute), the
intramural sports:
the maroon men and
championship came
Volleyball.
women, who were able
down to the two fato serve with impecvorites, Red and Gold.
cable consistency and
Though crushing Red
composure. Surprising as well was the in the first game, Gold was not able to
Hustlers’ upset for third place, holding overcome Red in the second, losing
strong with three men against the heav- 60-56. Despite Lucy Ferrier’s clutch
ily populated Guardians.
6-pointers, the Red team, thanks to
The Basketball season was a captivat- clutch shots by Emily Sebell, was able to
ing one; the Druids started it off with a claim the victory.
surprise 42-40 victory over the Waves.
Handball—though only a half season
The freshmen and GIs came out in full so far—has held its own share of exciteforce and soon became the stars of the ment. Thanks to a buzzer-beater by Eric
show. Needless to say, this meant the Shlifer, the Greenwaves stand undefeatseason was truly up for grabs. This was ed, but the Hustlers, anchored by goalie
manifest most clearly in the Spartans, Luke Wakeen, trail close behind. The
who after a 0-8 season last year, fought Guardians and the Spartans are on equal
tooth and nail for a victorious season. terms as well, trading games and goals.
With a fully-stocked A-team led by fresh- However, who’s to say how the intramen Sebastian Abella and “Pancakes” mural season will pan out. Ultimately,
Denci, the Spartans edged the Guard- it may all come down to the marathon.
ians out of basketball championship glo- So stay tuned and get excited as another
ry, despite the return of Phil “The One chapter in the Thumocracy comes to a
Man” Army. The Hustlers, despite hav- close! !
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A Constitutional Conundrum 04
Environmental Issues Shout-out 05
Gather Up the Fragments 06-07
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<< Homerathon: Following Accepted Students’ Day, Ben Mishkin (A’14) takes some
time to read the Iliad on the quad.
>> Taking Flight: Anna Szumiesz (A’15) runs
alongside the campus mallard-in-residence.
Photo submitted by Jenny Shumpert (A’15).
The student newspaper
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60 College Avenue
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
gadfly@sjca.edu
Editors-in-Chief
Danny Kraft
Grace Tyson
Assistant Editors
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Ian Tuttle
Layout Editors
Hayden Pendergrass
Amy Stewart
Assistant Layout Editors
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Hau Hoang
Jonathan Whitcomb-Dixon
Staff
Jonathan Barone
Robert Malka
Tommy Berry
Sarah Meggison
Melissa Gerace
Charles Zug
Business Manager
Honore Hodgson
Photographer
Reza Djalal
Henley Moore
Contributors
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Barbara McClay
The CSL
Hayden Pendergrass
Lucinda Edinberg
Hugh Verrier
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From the CSL: An Update and Invite
> The Committee on Student Life
T
he St. John’s Committee on Student Life has held a number of forums this
semester, and we would like to update everyone on our ongoing progress in
improving student life on campus.
First, we held a meeting on club communications. The discussion focused on how
archons could coordinate use of the Polity vans and avoid redundant budget requests.
We’ve given all the archons contact information to help address the first concern. The
Delegate Council has formed a committee to address the organization and availability
of DC documents and, once those changes go into effect, there should be more
information for club archons submitting budgets.
We held a meeting on the relationship between publication and performance
clubs and the administration when a club came to us with a specific concern. We
had a lengthy discussion on whether the output of these clubs should require the
administration’s approval on a case-by-case basis, as is the policy now, or follow rules
for arbitration. Ultimately, Ms. Waters’ answer satisfied the club that had requested
the forum, and the basic process of administrative oversight remains unchanged.
The third forum provided insight into how dorm selection would function this year,
and from there we moved into a general discussion about how to make campus life
more appealing. The Committee has responded by administering a housing survey,
and we are working with the administration to create more spacious, better-equipped
common areas for students.
Our most recent forum was with Theodore Canto, the school’s head chef, about the
dining hall. We addressed the limited kosher options available for students, and we
came to a variety of solutions for that specific problem. We talked about the availability
of coffee, especially at crucial times before those daunting 9 AM’s, and that issue shed
light on the dining service’s tight budget. Mr. Canto agreed to do what he could to
ensure available coffee, but reminded students to take only their fair share. The best
thing that came out of this meeting is that the once-barren comment board has been
moved from its former position to a location better suited for students’ comments,
and given that Mr. Canto is very open to comments and discussion, we hope that any
further concerns the Polity has with the dining hall will be approached by individuals
directly.
We have upcoming forums on tutor-student relations and public safety-student
relations. We hope to see interested Polity members there. !
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St. Matthew Passion
Gulliver’s Travels
Go Down, Moses
Being, Nonbeing, and
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Nothing, Jesus lasted 40
days in the desert.
Sweet tea, cheesy grits,
and whiskey sours.
> Charles Zug
> Matthew Denci
Two pistols, a scimitar, a purse
with nine large pieces of gold,
a knife, a razor, a comb, a silver
snuffbox, a handkerchief, journalbook, his silver pocketwatch, and a
volleyball named Wilson.
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> Jonathan Barone
> Anonymous (feat.
Charles Zug)
Who would your seminar character ask to prom?
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or all of my interest in poetry, I have to confess that I antipoetry is to discover the boundaries of true poetry, rather
thought little about the boundaries that define poetry than to create a new poetic form. Later, in the third lesson, he
as an art until I began reading the antipoems of Nicanor writes, “We must read poems with the same hunger we bring
Parra, a Chilean mathematician and self-declared antipoet. to antipoems.” Antipoetry is, by nature, provocative in its lack
His poems—many of which can be found in an anthology of reverence; its brashness prompts a curiosity that perhaps
charmingly titled Antipoems: how to look better and feel does not always appear when reading traditional poetry. Yet
great—are deceptive: at first glance, they appear to be typical Parra makes the claim that antipoetry itself should not be
modern poems, employing colloquial language and free verse, met with such “hunger” by its readers; in the sixth lesson he
in opposition to the conventions of poetry.
writes, “Often our pleasure in antipoetry
Yet, unlike most modern poets, Parra’s
is impaired by our curiosity: we attempt
unconventional style does not seem to be a
...antipoetry serves as a to understand and dispute when we
testing of the limits of poetry or language,
counterpoint to poetry, shouldn’t do either.” doubtless produces
but an outright rejection of these limits. It
Poetry, as an art,
is not poetry that Parra means to write, but
an aesthetic pleasure; however, this
a contrast that accenits antithesis: antipoetry.
pleasure is bounded by certain limits of
tuates, rather than
If the term “antipoetry” seems irreverent
language and style. On the other hand,
destroys, those aspects antipoetry, for all its irreverence, serves
or even frivolous, Parra’s poems only
support this interpretation. The majority of
as a source of unbounded pleasure. Our
which define poetry.
his writing takes a light-hearted, sarcastic
enjoyment of poetry is contingent upon
tone, and he gleefully pokes fun at his
our understanding of such things as
subjects: philosophy, religion, poets, and even himself. Only meter and meaning, metaphor and form. But our pleasure
rarely do serious contemplations appear, as in the brief poem, in an antipoem requires none of these things. Rather, we are
“A Resounding Zero” (“It all came down to nothing/ & of the free to laugh, to be irreverent with Parra when he writes, in
nothing there is very little left”), and amid Parra’s other poems “Something Like That”:
these thoughtful aphorisms arouse suspicion, as though they
are private jokes made at the expense of the reader.
THE TRUE PROBLEM of philosophy
Yet the thrust of antipoetry is not necessarily contained
is who does the dishes
in the irreverence and unconventionality of Parra’s writing.
Nor does antipoetry stand in direct opposition to traditional
nothing otherworldly
poetry; rather, as Parra’s writing indicates, antipoetry serves
as a counterpoint to poetry, a contrast that accentuates, rather
God
than destroys, those aspects which define poetry. Parra
the truth
himself expresses this distinction in “Note on the Lessons
the passage of time
of Antipoetry,” a list of nine brief lessons. In the first lesson,
Parra claims, “In antipoetry, it is poetry that is sought, not
absolutely
eloquence,” indicating, perhaps, that the purpose of writing
but first, who does the dishes !
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A Constitutional Conundrum;
Or, Exploring the Value of the Polity Constitution
> Hayden Pendergrass, DC Treasurer, A’14
W
hen most Johnnies get to St. John’s as freshmen, they lowed by another that says we as a student body must take it
are given a great variety of important documents wel- upon ourselves to fulfill our responsibility of instructing and
coming them to, and familiarizing them with, the College. maintaining a self-governing body based on “the tradition
Among this pile of documents is a Student Handbook that of self-government to which we are heir.” To me, these two
every Johnnie receives as part of their orientation packet. statements come off as a little presumptuous.
This handbook invariably gets lost, thrown away, or ignored
In the first place, it is a topic of great debate whether writby many St. John’s students despite the wealth of informa- ten constitutions are necessary in the first place (cf. freshman
tion it holds: academic and administrative rules and policies, seminars on the Plutarch’s Lives of Lycurgus and Solon), let
descriptions of the school’s various services and facilities, and alone whether or not they are effective. If we judge the docuthe academic calendar for the year, to name a bit of its con- ment’s effectiveness by the declared purpose, i.e. coming “totent. Thankfully, these things are accessible via the Internet gether for the common purpose of education,” it appears that
and personal contact with the faculty. However, one of the the Delegate Council only does that in its prescribed duties of
many things contained by the Student Handbook that is often appointing members to the Student Committee on Instrucpassed over is the Constitution of the Student Polity.
tion (II.B.1.d). Does the management of funds and the sancSo, on the heels of a recent Delegate Council seminar on tioning and regulation of clubs really assist in “the common
our constitution, I was left with some lingering questions purpose of education”? Does establishing “a criminal code”
about what the document means (as all Johnnies should after known as Polity Law (II.B.1.f )? The purpose and the means
any seminar). How are we to understand this document as a by which this purpose is to be achieved are not nearly as clear
declaration of our self-governance? What strength does this as the one offered by the Founding Fathers in the U.S. Constidocument have to a student body that constantly questions tution.
the importance and meaning of other constitutions? How are
Secondly, the student body’s inheritance of a “tradition of
the Delegate Council’s constituents supposed to understand self-government” is an equally questionable claim. According
the composition of this governto the Delegate Council’s practiing body in relation to their own
cally unwritten and, as a consecomposition? These are all quesquence, oral history, the first real
I hope this examination will prove
tions that this constitution inconstitution that established a
fruitful in provoking a thoughtful
spires and ultimately leaves unself-governing student body was
satisfactorily answered.
consideration of what they feel about established in the early 1960s.
Therefore, I make it my misThis body resembles the current
our constitution as a student “Polity,”
sion to explore this document
Council in a very limited way,
not only in context of the Delsince they had no fiscal responsiand I seriously invite you to open up
egate Council’s predominantly
bilities and instead focused more
your dusty old copy of the Student
understood purposes (chartering
on student representation and
clubs, funding clubs, appointing
Handbook to consider it with me. For Polity Law. In this limited resemvarious committee members and
blance, our current constitution
all too often we become complacent
student representatives), but also
(which dates to the late 1990s)
in context of the responsibilities
has a claim to an inheritable train the way things work until that
and authorities it invites us to
dition. However, the preamble
moment when something happens
consider and implement (estabdoes not continue to reinforce
lishing Polity Law, representing
that causes us to react with an utterly the authority and importance
the College to the outside world,
the supposed source of tradition
visceral sense of injustice and disapestablishing Acts of Council). Adimbues to the constitution. Inditionally, I wish to shed light on
stead, it moves on to describe the
pointment.
the various protocols and pro“powers and authorities” given
cedures the Delegate Council is
to the Council as a “privilege”
required to implement. I hope this examination will prove (not a right) from the Board of Visitors and Governors and
fruitful in provoking a thoughtful consideration of what they the College’s Charter. In fact, the preamble’s citation of the
feel about our constitution as a student “Polity,” and I seri- Charter clearly uses the word “may” and points to the Dean
ously invite you to open up your dusty old copy of the Student as the administrator who “may delegate to the student govHandbook to consider it with me. For all too often we become ernment a share of the responsibility of the general welfare of
complacent in the way things work until that moment when the students and whatever government of the students may
something happens that causes us to react with an utterly vis- be necessary for the greatest possible attainment of the aims
ceral sense of injustice and disappointment.
of the program.” So, not only is the existence of the Delegate
While this exploration will be serialized, we should do Council a privilege, but also the fulfillment of its purpose inwhat Maria von Trapp suggests in The Sound of Music: let’s cludes sharing responsibility with the College in promoting
start from the very beginning, a very good place to start. The the general welfare.
beginning of our Polity constitution starts with a preamble
It’s clear then that our constitution has more problems
of sorts. However, unlike the United States Constitution, than just student neglect and typographical errors. There are
it doesn’t start with a declaration of the people to create “a serious political implications in its introduction that must
more perfect Union” through the establishment of justice, be considered to fully understand the scope of power, purtranquility, common defense, common welfare, and the bless- pose, and authority it attempts to give the Delegate Council.
ings of liberty. Instead, it begins with an observation “that no Regardless, I, as an officer of that Council, gladly take up the
community can long endure without an effective instrument mantle of striving for “the resolution of all questions concernfor the governance of its members.” This observation is fol- ing the interpretation of this constitution (II.B.1.j).” !
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Spring Soccer
Kunai
photo courtesy of Quinn Lyons
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> Hugh Verrier, Environmental Issues Club Archon, A’14
S
Men’s Intramurals
oon, thousands of revelers will flock event, please let them be these: 1) Don’t
to our croquet fields, surprising our go home with strangers, and 2) Only resober sensibilities with an uncharacter- cycle cans, bottles, cardboard, and plasistic scene of sin and debauchery. And tics. We have volunteers to man eight
history has shown that things get messy bins, and we are looking for concerned
when four thousand people start quaff- citizens to help with the ninth. Feel
ing yeasty brew. Last year, the croquet free to get in touch with Vice-Archon
pitch was a sordid image of devasta- Hayden Pendergrass or myself if you are
tion—countless recyclables plagued the willing to help for an hour at Croquet.
lawn, and a burning couch lit the night as Finally, Leo Pickens has promised a
a testament to human folly. (Sources dif- “special treat” (his words) for those who
fer on the actual fieriness of the couch, help clean up after the event.
but I add it both as
Polity members
a metaphor and an
There are two big reasons have done a lot this
artistic embellishyear to improve
we should care. First, it is
ment.) There are
our campus. Stuin our immediate interest dent volunteers
two big reasons we
should care. First,
to keep our campus clean. are currently garit is in our immedidening dozens of
Second, by throwing out
ate interest to keep
oyster spat (barecyclable items, we creour campus clean.
bies) to help clean
Second, by throwCollege
Creek.
ate a strain on the global
ing out recyclable
Each oyster can filenvironment.
items, we create a
ter up to 15 gallons
strain on the global environment.
of water daily. In addition, Bon Appetit
The Environmental Issues Club has has agreed to offer a discount at the cofan exciting plan for reducing the impact fee shop for those using reusable mugs.
of this year’s Croquet Day. The first step Soon, you will be able to purchase 15 oz.
is writing a Gadfly article exhorting the of coffee for only 99 cents, as opposed
Polity to responsible stewardship. (Con- to the original 10% discount. And two
sider yourselves exhorted.) The second tutors have offered to lead a seminar
step is a sign-making event we are hold- on the Sand County Almanac, a famous
ing on Wednesday, April 18, from 3-6 work that argues for conservation based
PM. You are invited to draw signs and on the beauty of nature.
have fun in a relaxed, doughnut-saturatThese are just a few community projed environment, possibly with the dis- ects. With your help, we can also make
traction of bad TV. More on this will be Croquet fun while protecting our envisent by email.
ronment. As Aristotle said, “To say of
There are going to be actual recycling what is that it is not, or of what is not
bins manned during the event. If you that it is, is false, while to say of what is
plan on getting inebriated and expect that it is, and of what is not that it is not,
only to remember two things during the is true.” !
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A Special Thanks to
the Business Friends
of St. John’s College
Annapolis Accommodations, Inc.
Annapolis Ice Cream Company
Annapolis Inn at Royal Folly
Annapolis Inn, The
Annapolis Styling Group
Annapolis Urban Adventures Tours
Annapolis Volvo
Annebeth’s Ltd.
Aqua Terra of Annapolis
ARINC
Art Things
Board Assets
Bay Ridge Wine & Spirits
Boatyard Bar & Grill
Chez Amis Bed and Breakfast
City Dock Café & Coffee Service
Comcast Telecommunications, Inc.
Doubletree Hotel
Eyes on Main
Fourth St.Design Studio
Frank Gumpert Printing
Fred Fishback, Architect
Gardiner & Appel Group
Geoffrey S. Mitchell, LLC
1747 Georgian House Bed and Breakfast
Gibson Lodgings
Grumps Café
Harry Browne’s Restaurant
Hampton Inn & Suites/Hilton hotels
Historic Inns of Annapolis
Holiday Inn Express and Suites Annapolis
Jessie Sunshine Catering
Katcef Brothers
Ken’s Creative Kitchen
Loews Annapolis Hotel
Maria’s Picture Place & Custom Framing
Merry Walk Antiques
Mullen Sondberg Wimbish&Stone
O’Callaghan Hotel
Orion, Inc.
Paul’s Homewood Café
Pewter Chalice
PNC
Post Haste Mailing
Retirement Planning Services
Rising Tide
Sheraton Annapolis Hotel
Tilghman Jewelers
Watermark Cruises, Tours
Westin Annapolis Hotel
Whitmore Printing
Wine Cellars of Annapolis
Womanship
Wood Ronsaville Harlin, Inc.
Woodsback Marina
Zindorf Heating & A/C Inc.
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Lucinda Edinberg, Art Educator for the Mitchell Gallery, describes the multifaceted lives of the United Society of Believers in Christ, or Shakers, and the reactions
their society drew in the New World.
> Lucinda Dukes Edinburg, Mitchell Gallery Art Educator
T
he Mitchell Gallery’s current exhibition, “Gather Up the Fragments:
The Andrews Shaker Collection,” has provoked interesting conversation and reflection within and beyond the St. John’s College community.
While some visitors have just
peeked from the door with
The Shakers were immiexpressions of “Oh, just old
furniture,” others have gone
grants; thus, they were
beyond the heavy doors to see
regarded suspiciously as
the spiritually inspired works
spies, and since they were
of the Shakers.
advocates of celibacy,
The exhibition, on loan
confession, and passive
from Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, MA, is a colobedience to their elders,
lection of furniture, textiles,
they were accused of being
tools, and medicinal instru“papists.”
ments created or used by the
Shakers, a religious sect that
established itself in parts of New England, Ohio, and Kentucky in the late
18th and early 19th century. Only the community at Sabbathday Lake, ME,
survives from the nineteen communities.
The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, known
as the Shakers, came from England to America just two years before the
Declaration of Independence was signed. The small group of five men
and three women, including its
founder, Mother Ann Lee, had its
The United Society of
share of difficulties in establishing
Believers in Christ’s Sec- the order. Their gospel was revoond Appearing, known
lutionary: “that Christ had made
His second appearance in the peras the Shakers, came
from England to America son of Ann Lee, proclaiming that
the only road to salvation lay in
just two years before the forsaking the ‘sins’ of the flesh—
Declaration of Indepen- concupiscence, marriage, gendence was signed.
eration—for the way of the spirit.”
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Shaker doctrine promoted the
ideal of human brotherhood:
Shaker sisters were accorded
equal standing with the brethren
in leadership, they were pioneers
in the anti-slavery movement,
possessed a strong hatred of war,
and provided impartial relief to
sufferers, shelter for orphans, and
care for the infirm and the elderly.
They embraced celibacy and confessions of sin,
shunned politics and war, lived communally,
and were treated as social and religious outcasts.
The Shakers were immigrants; thus, they were
regarded suspiciously as spies, and since they
were advocates of celibacy, confession, and passive obedience to their elders, they were accused
of being “papists.” Further, they were ridiculed
for their noisy worship, characterized by frenzied dancing, which included shaking, whirling,
shouting, and speaking in tongues. They were
charged with drunkenness and blasphemy, and,
ultimately, they were arrested for disturbing the
peace and profaning the Sabbath.
Shaker doctrine promoted the ideal of human
brotherhood: Shaker sisters were accorded equal
standing with the brethren in leadership, they
were pioneers in the anti-slavery movement,
possessed a strong hatred of war, and provided
impartial relief to sufferers, shelter for orphans,
and care for the infirm and the elderly. Over time
they proved their industriousness through their
agricultural practices and quality of their products, and they gained a solid reputation for integrity as law-abiding citizens with business ethics
beyond question. The Shakers became recognized as a small, integrated culture that was productive, creative, and is still regarded as one of
the best examples of successful American communitarianism.
There is too much to write in this space about
Shaker lifestyle and beliefs, struggles for fundamental constitutional rights for freedom of worship, and their place in 19th century American
spiritualism and culture. It is interesting to read
the various opinions about Shaker life and how
divided those opinions remained through the
nineteenth century. Hawthorne thought they
were “the most singular and bedeviled set of
people that ever existed in a civilized land…the
sooner the sect is extinct the better.” Emerson
and Melville were more understanding and were
admirers of their “model farms,” but Dickens
could find nothing good in their “gloomy, silent
commonwealth.” (But Dickens had an attitude
about Americans anyway). !
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The Mitchell Gallery’s
Basket-making Workshop
photos by Megan Faulkner (A’12)
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*+*',Tuesday 4/17
Kunai Soccer
Back Campus, 4-6 PM
Plato in the Springtime
General Hartle Room, 7:30 PM
SJC Orchestra Concert
Great Hall, 7:30 PM
Open Mic Night
Chasement, 8 PM
Wednesday 4/18
CSL Forum on Public Safety
Relations, Hodson Room,
2:30-3:30 PM
Handball
D v H, 4 PM
W v S, 5:15 PM
St. John’s Chorus
Great Hall, 7 PM
Friday 4/20
Kunai Soccer
Back Campus, 4-6 PM
Lecture
To Meet with Macbeth, Mr.
Louis Petrich, Tutor, FSK
Auditorium, 8:15 PM
Saturday 4/21
St. John’s Chorus Concert
Bach’s Magnificat, Great Hall,
1 PM
Mental Health Support Group
McDowell 32, 2-3 PM
Soccer
Moore v Schmid, 2 PM
Popov v Kraft, 3:30 PM
Sunday 4/22
Soccer
Consolation Game, 2 PM
Championship, 3:30 PM
Primum Mobile Concert
Pendulum Pit, 5 PM
If you would like to see your
event on the weekly schedule,
please email gadfly@sjca.edu.
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Sophomore Mathematics
> Barbara McClay, A’12
T
his Thursday, April 12, the SCI con- tice tests were available in the Assistant
vened to discuss the sophomore Dean’s office. Students who found those
math tutorial, with a focus on the al- resources insufficient could easily find
gebra section of the tutorial. How, we more drills and more tests online. “Stuasked, is the algebra sequence worked dents who want to pass the test,” said
into sophomore math? Could it be im- one senior present, “pass the test.”
proved? And did it leave people with the
Some present criticized the fact that
necessary skills to tackle junior math?
the algebra test took place before the
The discussion began with a consid- formal study of algebra on the Program.
eration of the algebra test. The discus- It was true that everyone who went
sion of the algebra exam was divided through high school ought to know alinto three parts: was the test difficult gebra to some degree, but should the
enough? did the school provide enough Program rely on that fact? Shouldn’t we
resources for students to pass? and was believe that students can (and will) learn
there anything problematic about the algebra from sophomore math?
test’s placement in the Program itself?
This consideration led to bigger quesIt was pointed out that the algebra test, tion about sophomore math itself: do we
as a diagnostic, might not be complete study algebra sophomore year at all?
enough or hard enough. The algebra
Many students reported that studywas so basic, and the standards to pass ing Descartes did not make “the algeso low, that perhaps in its current state it bra revolution” sufficiently clear. Many
might not only fail to impress upon stu- considered Descartes unnecessarily
dents the necessity of knowing algebra (and deliberately) unclear, and digging
for junior math and
through the Geomlab, but also fail to
etry for the math
How, we asked, is the al- itself difficult in a
test whether or not
students really know
gebra sequence worked way that was not esit all. Since having
pecially rewarding.
into sophomore math? In addition, some
basic knowledge of
algebra was argustudents had never
ably of greater importance than knowl- even reached the end of the Geometry in
edge of calculus in the junior and senior their sophomore math tutorials.
years, the possibility that people with
On the other hand, it was near-univerlittle to no knowledge of algebra making sally agreed that Descartes was a visionit to junior year was problematic.
ary genius who ought to form the core of
Some suggestions for improving the the algebra unit. A suggestion to replace
test included: making the test longer, the focus on Descartes with a focus on
timing the test, adding more kinds of Viète, for example, was rejected by most
problems to the test (such as graphing of the students present. Whether the sotrigonometric functions), and raising lution was allotting the Geometry more
the score necessary to pass from a 70 time or developing a Descartes manual
to an 80 or 90. It was also suggested by was unclear. Ultimately, the question
one student that the algebra test could of how the algebra unit could be imbe moved closer to when students might proved—particularly with an eye to juactually be using the algebra, such as the nior math—was left mostly unresolved.
first semester of junior year.
Finally, there was a general considAs to whether or not the school pro- eration of presentations in class, and
vided sufficient resources for students policies about calling on students or acto prepare for and pass the test, opinions cepting volunteers, and whether or not
were divided. Several students held up students could bring notes or books to
the music exam as a model for how the the board. Experience on this subject
algebra test might work: the standards varied widely, with no two students refor passing were higher, but failure ally sharing the same opinion.
meant that the student had the option
However, it was mostly agreed that
of taking a systematic review course. what formed a good math presentation
Shouldn’t such a course be offered by was an ability to articulate and explain
math assistance?
the rhetoric and structure of a proof, in
On the other hand, other students felt addition to being able to go through the
that, since students could consult math steps. It was also suggested that math
assistance already, there was not a great tutorials ought to have an explicit disdeal to be gained through introducing an cussion of standards and goals for prealgebra review course. Drills and prac- sentation at the beginning of the year. !
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St. John’s College • 60 College Ave, Annapolis, MD 21401 • Apr. 24, 2012 • Vol. XXXIII • Issue 24
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<< Music in the Air: Primum Mobile and
the St. John’s Chorus were not the only
musical features on campus this week. Ash
Stanley (A’15) plays his newly acquired
didgeridoo on back campus.
The student newspaper
of St. John’s College
60 College Avenue
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
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Photographer
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Contributors
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Letter from the Editors
I
f you have been lamenting the sparseness of the past few weeks’ Gadflys, we
apologize. The entire staff has been hard at work putting together the special Croquet
issue, which will appear this Saturday. Gadfly staffers will be distributing the issue
on the afternoon of the match, so make sure to grab a copy! It features contributions
from Tommy Berry (A’13), Barbara McClay (A’12), Tutor Peter Kalkavage, and several
others.
In the meantime, an important note: the final issue of the year will appear the last
week of the semester, May 7-11, and we will be dedicating the issue to our graduating
seniors—the 120-plus-member Class of 2012. We will feature profiles, interviews,
and odes from underclassmen. But, most importantly, we would like contributions
from seniors! Reflections on your Annapolis years? Wisdom to pass along? We are
interested in your thoughts. Send your prose to The Gadfly by Saturday, May 5. And,
as always, everyone is welcome to submit! We look forward to highlighting this year’s
graduating class. !
I Feel Now the Future in the Instant
> Josephine LaCosta, A’15
I
t’s a normal Friday night. Knowing Mr. Petrich’s own interpretation of the
that the evening’s lecture subject characters. This interpretation was, of
is Shakespeare’s Macbeth, I think I course, expounded during the analywill attend, though I am not so famil- sis portions of the lecture, but it was
iar with the speaker, Annapolis Tutor clear that the performances were just
Louis Petrich. FSK is not very full, so as crucial for understanding Mr. PetI sit down close to the stage and relax. rich’s point of view.
Mr. Petrich approaches the podium.
Even when he was analyzing, Mr.
The clock strikes 8:15pm, the lights Petrich was acting. His sentences
black out, and then, a clap of thunder.
were poetic, yet concise. His points
Mr. Petrich’s artful and creative were both strong and lively. With this
method of lecturing on Shakespeare is energy at the heart of Mr. Petrich’s
riveting. Stuck to the edge of my seat, style, the lecture was rife with allitI hold my breath and suddenly forgot eration that jumped off the page with
myself while he regusto; bold, terse
cited the Weird Sissentences that cut
This type of vigorous- through the very
ters’ opening lines
of the play with
ly convincing style is center of the argudramatic genius and
ment; and plenty
not experienced dur- of witty, dry humor
a brave (and accurate!) Scottish drawl.
ing most Friday night that kept the audiTo follow this brilence alive.
This
lectures.
liantly bold begintype of vigorously
ning was a curious
convincing style is
mixture of performance and analysis not experienced during most Friday
that I had never before experienced. night lectures. Mr. Petrich shows us
Mr. Petrich presents passages, per- that there is quite a difference beforms them with polished dramatic in- tween writing an essay and reading a
terpretation, then scales back, analyz- lecture. It’s not about simply reading
ing both the characters and the scenes. an essay, but rather writing something
Although I present this sequence as that conveys a point and does it enersuch, Mr. Petrich has a unique talent getically. Mr. Petrich’s drama was not
for smudging the lines between per- only in his tone and body language, but
formance and lecture. When we read also in his words on the page. I told a
drama, the mind allows for ambiguity friend who did not attend the lecture
in the text. But when drama is per- that he would not gain the full experiformed, it can only be interpreted in ence by simply reading it, but that he
one way. The actor must decide how would get a taste.
he wants to portray his character in
Maybe it’s the fact that this was a
any given situation. When Mr. Pet- lecture on Shakespeare that makes the
rich performed, the performance not dramatic aspects of it seem more than
only asked the audience to see each appropriate. All I know is that there
character in action, but also portrayed was not a drowsy eye in sight. !""
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On “Hate Speech” Laws
> Tommy Berry, A’13
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A
t St. John’s College, the student readily ascertainable general principle
handbook defines harassment as exists for stopping short of that result
“verbal or physical conduct that deni- were we to affirm the judgment below.
grates or shows hostility or aversion to- For, while the particular four-letter
ward an individual because of his or her word being litigated here is perhaps
race, color, sex, national origin, religion, more distasteful than most others of its
age, disability or handicap, sexual orien- genre, it is nevertheless often true that
tation, genetic information, or protected one man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric. Inactivity.” Recently a “Hate Speech” law deed, we think it is largely because govwas proposed which would make it a ernmental officials cannot make prinviolation of Polity law to use such lan- cipled distinctions in this area that the
guage in any context, even if not direct- Constitution leaves matters of taste and
ed at anyone. This, I believe, ventures style so largely to the individual.
too far. The current rule reasonably
Additionally, we cannot overlook the
protects people who are the targets of fact, because it is well illustrated by the
discrimination or harassment; a “Hate episode involved here, that much linSpeech” code would be a restriction of guistic expression serves a dual comfree speech on campus. The drafters of municative function: it conveys not
the law assure me that it is not intended only ideas capable of relatively precise,
to eliminate a student’s ability to express detached explication, but otherwise inany opinion, only his ability to use “hate- expressible emotions as well. In fact,
ful” words and phrases, i.e. slurs and ste- words are often chosen as much for
reotypes. I still object for two reasons. their emotive as their cognitive force.
First, many other “hate speech” codes We cannot sanction the view that the
at other colleges, and in other nations Constitution, while solicitous of the cogwhich have no First Amendment, do ban nitive content of individual speech, has
opinions, and setting a precedent of ban- little or no regard for that emotive funcning words runs the
tion which, practically
risk of putting us on a
speaking, may often be
...we cannot inslippery slope to that
the more important elepoint. Second, I bedulge the facile as- ment of the overall meslieve that banning certo be comsumption that one sage sought Indeed, as
tain words is, in itself,
municated.
can forbid particu- Mr. Justice Frankfurter
a restriction of certain
opinions. Rather than
lar words without has said, ‘[o]ne of the
make the case myself, I
prerogatives of Amerialso running a
present the decision by
can citizenship is the
Justice John Marshall
substantial risk of right to criticize public
Harlan II in the Susuppressing ideas men and measures—
preme Court case Coand that means not only
in the process.
hen v. California (1971),
informed and responwhich overturned a
sible criticism, but the
breach-of-the-peace conviction on a freedom to speak foolishly and without
man who wore a jacket saying “F*** the moderation.’
Draft” in a public place:
Finally, and in the same vein, we can“The issue flushed by this case stands not indulge the facile assumption that
out in bold relief. It is whether Califor- one can forbid particular words without
nia can excise, as ‘offensive conduct,’ one also running a substantial risk of supparticular scurrilous epithet from the pressing ideas in the process. Indeed,
public discourse, either upon the theory governments might soon seize upon the
of the court below that its use is inher- censorship of particular words as a conently likely to cause violent reaction or venient guise for banning the expression
upon a more general assertion that the of unpopular views. We have been able,
States, acting as guardians of public mo- as noted above, to discern little social
rality, may properly remove this offen- benefit that might result from running
sive word from the public vocabulary…
the risk of opening the door to such
The principle contended for by the grave results.”
State seems inherently boundless. How
If you agree that the proposed “Hate
is one to distinguish this from any oth- Speech” law runs such a risk, please
er offensive word? Surely the State has contact your Delegate Council Repreno right to cleanse public debate to the sentatives and Officers and tell them
point where it is grammatically palatable how you feel. We vote on the proposed
to the most squeamish among us. Yet no law this Wednesday. !
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60 College Avenue
Annapolis, MD
Saturday, April 28, 2012
1 PM
Rain Date: Sunday, April 29
Bring your picnic baskets,
fancy hats, and dancing
shoes! Food, soft drinks, beer,
wine, and champagne will
be available for cash-only
purchase. To ensure a grand,
family-friendly lawn party,
please note the new ground
rules:
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No outside alcohol permitted on campus.
Food, soft drinks, beer,
wine, and champagne
will be available for
cash-only purchase on
campus.
Grills are not permitted
on campus.
Coolers and bags are
subject to inspection.
There will be six designated entrances to the
match site.
Guests are not permitted
to set up spaces before
8am on the morning of
the match.
Only lawn chairs, blankets, and tables lower
than two feet are permitted in the area around
the match site.
No pets allowed.
We ask guests to kindly
remove all trash from
their spaces and leave in
designated areas.
All personal items must
be removed from the
campus by 8pm or they
become the property of
St. John’s.
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DC Meeting to Discuss Proposed
“Hate Speech” Polity Law,
Hodson Room, 12 PM
CSL Forum on Tutor-Student
Relations, Hodson Room,
3:30-4:30 PM
Kunai Soccer
Back Campus, 4-6 PM
Plato in the Springtime
General Hartle Room, 7:30 PM
Primum Mobile Concert,
Pendulum Pit, 7:30 PM
Wednesday 4/25
CSL Forum on the Health Center,
Hodson Room, 2:30-3:30 PM
Handball
W v G, 4 PM
H v S, 5:15 PM
St. John’s Chorus Concert
Great Hall, 7 PM
Friday 4/27
Kunai Soccer
Back Campus, 4-6 PM
Lecture
KWP presents Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof, FSK Auditorium, 8:15 PM
Saturday 4/28
Croquet, Front Campus, 1 PM
KWP presents Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof, FSK Auditorium, 6:30 PM
Spring Cotillion, Randall Hall,
10 PM
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> Barbara McClay, A’12
T
his Thursday, April 19th, the SCI her lab class, attempts to raise speculaconvened to discuss Genetics and tive discussion, such as a discussion of
Evolution, the new manual for second the distinction between X and Y chrosemester senior lab. How was it working mosomes, often went nowhere. The text
out? What was it trying to achieve? Did often failed to answer the question, and
we think that the manual was successful the group lacked the knowledge to anat achieving its goals?
swer them in more detail.
The discussion opened with a conIn addition, more metaphysical quessideration of the ordering of senior lab, tions, such as “what is life?” tended not
and whether or not the non-chronolog- to come from, or be answered by, the
ical order of the manual hindered the text being discussed. In fact, the discusdiscussion of texts that might rely on sion of such questions often tended to be
the knowledge of, say, chromosomes, hostile toward the text itself.
when the manual would not have introPerhaps one solution would be to betduced chromosomes as a concept. Did ter integrate the senior lab discussion of
the manual require too much outside biology with the discussion of biology
knowledge? Should it
that began in freshman
open with a list of defiDid the manual re- year. If, for instance, it
nitions? On these quesbecame clearer how
quire too much out- certain aspects of setions, experience differed and there was no
nior lab were responsside knowledge?
consensus.
es to or rejections of
Should it open with thinkers like Driesch,
In general, certain
a list of definitions? perhaps it would be
questions about the ordering of the manual
easier to sustain a diswere raised more than once. While the cussion of the different questions differthematic linkings were eventually made ent scientists strive to answer. Even if
clear over the course of the meeting, it the question of biology remains “what is
was also true that they could be made life?” has the intention behind the quesclearer within the lab program itself, tion changed?
whether the duty to make that clear fell
On the other hand, one argument ofto the lab manual or the tutor.
fered in favor of the new program was
Another question raised in the meet- that it allowed students to sift through
ing had more to do with the readings technical arguments and figure out
themselves. Did we find the readings what details were relevant in the quest
easy to discuss? As it currently stands, to form questions and grasp the technithe revised senior lab skips over much of cal aspects of what was going on in each
the original research read previously in paper. The process of putting together a
order to get further than the discovery picture of the world from data and staof DNA. Did the readings summarizing tistics ought to be a rewarding one.
previous discoveries make it harder to
Overall, it seemed clear that the sesustain a speculative discussion? Would mester of lab probably contained some
a program with more original readings room for improvement. As the group
and more practica be better? Did read- considered the pros and cons of the
ings such as the Harper and Clausen more technical readings, one student
readings, with their emphasis on data, commented, “Why aren’t we reading
lend themselves well to discussion?
a textbook?” While many strong arguAs before, experience differed. Some ments were put forward in favor of the
students felt there was no difficulty in way the manual operated, in some ways
discussing these texts. On the other this question remained unanswered. Ulhand, one student commented that in timately there was no consensus. !
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Jocks of the Week
Sunday 4/29
KWP presents Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof, FSK Auditorium,
1 PM & 6:30 PM
If you would like to see your
event on the weekly schedule,
please email gadfly@sjca.edu.
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The student newspaper
of St. John’s College
60 College Avenue
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
sjca.gadfly@gmail.com
Founded in 1980, the Gadfly is the student newsmagazine distributed to over
600 students, faculty, and staff of the Annapolis campus.
Opinions expressed within are the sole
responsibility of the author(s). The Gadfly reserves the right to accept, reject,
and edit submissions in any way necessary to publish a professional, informative, and thought-provoking newsmagazine.
The Gadfly is not obligated to publish all
submissions except under special circumstances.
The Gadfly meets every Sunday at 7 PM
in Room 109 on the first lower level of
the Barr-Buchanan Center.
Articles should be submitted by Friday
at 11:59 PM to sjca.gadfly@gmail.com.
Staff
Nathan Goldman • Editor-in-Chief
Ian Tuttle • Editor-in-Chief
Hayden Pendergrass • Layout Editor
Sasha Welm • Cartoonist
Contributors
Admissions Office
Henley Moore
Jerry Januszewski Chris Nelson
Robert Malka
Suzy Paalman
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e’re excited to be taking the
reins for the Gadfly, and we’re
eager to continue its tradition of
supporting sustained, thoughtful
inquiry at the College. We’d
like to invite all members of the
community—students, staff, faculty,
and administration—to submit.
This issue focuses on those new to
our community. Woven throughout
are bits of advice solicited from the
Polity via Facebook. (Disclaimer:
The persons pictured did not supply
the attached quotes.) We hope the
words for newcomers will not only
serve those who have just arrived,
but every Johnnie-in-development.
In this vein, we asked President
Nelson to share some wisdom. He
offers here an eloquent reminder of
our College’s unique history.
Best wishes in the coming year.
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President Christopher B. Nelson
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SF’70
t. John’s College this year celebrates the 75th anniversary of its New Program,
once called the seedbed of the American revolution in liberal education. As
the perilous times that gave birth to the Program resonate with uncomfortable
familiarity in the wider world today, I thought I might remind us of a slice of our
Origin Story.
This 1937 program of instruction was largely the brainchild of Scott Buchanan
and Stringfellow Barr, who became dean and president of the College, respectively.
The Program was developed between 1934 and 1937 by a series of committees at the
universities of Virginia and Chicago, on which these two men sat, aided by illuminati
such as Mortimer Adler, Mark Van Doren, Robert Maynard Hutchins, and Richard
McKeon. Alexander Meikeljohn and John Erskine expressed encouragement and
support, and gave much-needed credibility to the effort to re-found this little college
in Annapolis.
When the program of instruction devised by the Chicago Committee on Liberal
Education found no home at the University of Chicago, Virginia, or Columbia, it
became a curriculum in search of a college—a curriculum which soon came to the
attention of the trustees of St. John’s College, an institution in deep financial trouble.
Buchanan saw the “low condition of [the college as] an opportunity to do something
in liberal education... [Its] condition looked like a ‘call’ in the Presbyterian sense”
(Charles Nelson, Radical Visions). And so Barr and Buchanan moved to Annapolis
and undertook the reshaping of the College.
In a November, 1937 address on WFBR Baltimore radio, Barr explained what the
Program was not, as a sharper way to describe what he and Buchanan were actually
undertaking:
• The Program “is not a mere list of books, a sort of five-foot shelf.” It is brought
to life through conversation in small classes, lectures, demonstrations, and
experiments.
• The Program “is not for poor little rich boys, who won’t have to earn their living
later. It was designed to liberate the minds of boys who will probably have to
face the economic responsibilities of a breadwinner but who will certainly
have to face the responsibilities of citizenship, of friendship, of making moral
decisions....The bankruptcy of American liberal colleges is contained in the
assumption that, if we did develop a young man’s intellect, if we schooled
him to think clearly, to write forcefully, to grasp problems quickly, he would
promptly starve. This is nonsense.”
• As for the books, they “were not written for geniuses, though they were written
by geniuses. If any geniuses come to St. John’s, they will find the books worth
reading. But so will those who merely have good sense. The educational policy
of American colleges has tended increasingly to protect the minds of their
students from the really great minds of the past….[And] remember that [even]
mediocre boys get more from good reading than from bad reading.”
• The Program is “not an interesting experiment in progressive education.
St. John’s is not trying out liberal education to see if it is a good thing.” The
Founders of our Republic “knew it was a good thing—nay, a necessary thing—if
free men were to remain free.”
• The Program “does not turn away from contemporary America to the dead past
of Europe. It turns to the past to discover the living tradition without which
the contemporary world is unintelligible” (Charles Nelson, Stringfellow Barr, A
Centennial Appreciation of His Life and Work).
From there, the College quickly abolished intercollegiate athletics and fraternities.
It became the first historically white college south of the Mason-Dixon Line to admit
African American students in the late 1940s, and it admitted women in 1951. In
1964, it established a second campus in Santa Fe, and three years later the Graduate
Institute opened. Its Master of Arts in Liberal Arts degree is now available on both
campuses, and a Master’s Program in Eastern Classics has been available in Santa
Fe since the 1990s. Over the years, the Program has undergone steady revision and
periodic change in emphasis.
Yet despite its many changes, the College remains, in its most elemental sense,
every bit what Barr said it was in 1937. It remains today a calling for all those who
embark on its challenges, as it did for Barr, Buchanan, and their first class of liberal
artists 75 years ago. !
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A
whole new kind of journey awaits
you here, but your wandering is
over: You have found your Ithaca.
Throughout high school, you have
sought a college of like-minded people, gentle souls, cohorts in the liberal
arts, seekers of beauty, and lovers of
truth. You have resisted the
standardized tests, and your
spirits have kept loftier goals
than the one-school-fits-all model of the Lotus-Eaters. Perhaps some of
you have escaped the parental winds
of Poseidon, and sailed past the Siren song of so many other
worthy institutions of higher learning. You have navigated the
twin dangers of Scylla and Charybdis and successfully earned
your admission to St. John’s and (in many cases) procured financial aid. Some of you will wander yet, but for many of you,
this will be home for the next four years. Let the Admissions
Office be the first to say: Welcome home.
You have all passed through our office. Some of you have
passed silently and stealthily, like shadows in the night, while
others among you relied upon our advice and experience to
navigate the wine-dark seas. However, we exist neither to
threaten nor coddle those interested in the College. Instead,
like Eumaeus, we welcome the strangers who wash up on our
shores, greet them, house and feed them, and show them the
lay of the land. We inform them of the state and condition of
our community. And here is where my metaphor crumbles.
Instead of showing them a raucous, drunken, and disrespectful community of suitors, clamoring for the attentions of a
wedded woman, we show them a community of settled seafarers—men and women who have given up their geographic
search for a home, and begun a metaphysical search for truth
and wisdom.
Class of 2016, you are now a part of this community, and I
urge you to take time out of your schedule and give the gift of
hospitality to the strangers who will soon begin to flood our
haven. On September 3, the Admissions Office will begin to
tour prospective students and their families, and allow them
to observe tutorials. On September 17, our overnight program
will begin, and the prospective students will spend 24 hours
on campus observing classes, eating and sleeping, and ultimately trying to discern whether or not St. John’s is the college for them. While the Admissions Office employs students
to guide these prospective students, and help maintain their
well-being and safety, it is the Polity as a whole which, for better or worse, will leave a lasting impression.
I encourage you to extend yourself to these visitors—take
the extra time to show them the planetarium, or take them to
your favorite spot on campus. Show them the axolotls. Sit and
talk with them on the Quad. Take a meal with them. Ask them
who they are and where they’re from. Find out what compels
them to St. John’s. Remember that you too were once as they
are—caught up in the college admissions process, striving to
achieve, struggling with mixed feelings about leaving high
school, full of knowledge and self-importance, whole-heartedly seeking a college community to which you could belong.
I challenge you to keep the beauty of St. John’s fresh for yourself by participating in the hospitality so dear to Zeus. I challenge you to share your odyssey.
Sincerely,
Admissions Office
If you would like to learn more about volunteering opportunities
with the Admissions Office, please contact Alexandria Hinds at
Alexandria.Hinds@SJCA.edu or call 410-626-2525.
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W
elcome to (or back to) St. John’s! I hope your
summers were productive yet restful. The campus wasn’t the same without you. To those of you who
are new here, please feel free to ask around if you have a
question about anything. I think you will find that this is a
place where people are happy to get to know you.
You are all here to read books that you haven’t read or
haven’t read here before, to discuss and probe them with
a new set of classes, and to learn. Whatever else learning means, it certainly implies change. If this or any other
change produces difficulty in some way, please meet with
one or more of the many people on campus who are here
to help students. Ms. Waters and I in the Assistant Dean’s
office are here for you, as are your tutors, the counselors,
Public Safety officers, the RAs and Senior Residents, and
your fellow students.
I wish for you all a successful semester.
Sincerely,
Suzy Paalman
Assistant Dean
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Robert Malka
A’15
Dear Freshmen,
Welcome to St. John’s College, Annapolis. You are one
lucky bunch. But you are also super-ignorant, on account of
your freshman status and the fact that as an upperclassman,
I can say things like that. (“Pay him no heed!” squawk the
seniors. “Upperclassmen are as ignorant as you are!”) To that
parenthetical, I say: Shut up, seniors, you’re ruining my word
count.
Intrusive seniors aside, it is an age-old tradition (read:
second year in a row this has been done) to write for freshmen
an article on Johnnie etiquette, so that we may enter your
booger-picking, dog-ear creasing, out-of-tune singing selves
into the vast, engaging intellectual fray that is the St. John’s
Polity. Here are some suggestions that I have personally found
to be helpful and that save everybody lots
of time and
frustration:
• When you schedule to meet with a
tutor at the Coffee Shop, find a table
in the middle of the Coffee Shop. If
those tables are all taken, continue to
walk to the other side and simply wait.
Don’t get up from your seat to see if your
tutor has arrived yet. They’re very likely
getting coffee or getting out of a class a
bit late. There is one exception to this
warning, though: If you are easily distracted by
people
walking in, ask to move to a corner of the Coffee Shop when
you meet. Speaking of which:
• Don’t interrupt a conversation between a tutor and a
student. No, I’m serious. Your tutor, no matter how much s/
he loves you, has specifically set aside time with that student to
discuss class, the books, and life in general. You will want that
same uninhibited attention and respect. Many of us, in such
conversations, will not even make eye contact with you, no
matter how close we are. Being with tutors is that important
to the St. John’s experience.
• Always say hi to your Tutors. Freshmen, sometime in your
four years here, you will meet Mr. Page. Mr. Page wrote an
article a while ago about always saying hi to your tutors when
you see them. I recommend you obey his request, lest he shred
your soul to ribbons with those dominating eyes. Also it’s a
nice thing to do.
• Don’t stare into the Fish Bowl for more than three
seconds as you walk by. And while you’re at it, keep quiet.
This article is hard to write with all of your whining about
Greek. Oh yeah, BTW:
• Don’t whine about Greek. Greek is hard, partly because
it’s not a Romance language and partly because the Greeks
are just insane. We’re all going through it; hearing about how
hard it is gets old to everyone the very first time you say it. Yes,
Herodotus is hard as *&$@, and you’ll be slamming your face
into your lexicon by the time you hit the Republic, but that’s
part of the experience. You’ll be fine. Really.
• If you see someone approaching from a distance, don’t
hold the door open; press the “Handicap” button. I
understand the use of the handicap button at each door, and
think it should be used for its intended purpose, of course.
However, it seems to me that its ability to leave the door open
for longer periods of time (and that it opens automatically)
lends itself to use as a thoughtful gesture.
• Do NOT take the ketchup/mustard/
sriracha/etc. to your table; put on
your damned condiments at the
condiment table. This piece of advice
was spearheaded by a Sophomore last
year by the name of Mr. Hope, who
made very clear his disdain for all people
who even thought to leave the condiment
table without any condiments. Love the
condiments. Respect their home.
• Dress nicely for seminar. There’s a simple reason for
this: We treat seminar differently. It is the only class held
in the evenings, and it is the center of the curriculum here.
Therefore, we need to elevate our presence in a way that’s
more than just calling our peers by their last names: we need
to look the part, also. And it makes a huge difference in the
atmosphere, I promise you.
• Hug Terence Washington. If you can’t hug him at least
twice a day, you are a useless sack of water.
Most importantly, we upperclassmen are absolutely
responsible for making sure that freshmen are given the best
impression of the school and the kind of atmosphere conducive
to the learning we have all dreamt of experiencing. Do not
ever hesitate to ask any of us questions, about the Program or
anything else. Don’t even worry about introducing yourself to
us. We don’t bite. As you will soon find, we are as lost as you
are, and we look forward to the journey towards some kind of
enlightenment. Welcome to St. John’s College. !
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y sister Bonnie and I are only one year apart, but she was
much taller than I was for most of our childhood. Her
size and stature as the eldest sibling meant that I followed her
lead in most things. I wanted to go to kindergarten because
Bonnie went to kindergarten. I wanted to read books because
Bonnie read books. She protected me from neighborhood bullies and gave me tissues for my runny nose. Observing Bonnie
and copying how she did things is how I faced most childhood
challenges.
At times I resisted her directives. We’d fight, but eventually
I’d give in to her way because I was no match for her superior powers of argumentation. A good example of this was the
piggy bank incident.
We were both given plastic piggy banks. I was a more diligent saver than Bonnie, so I accumulated an enviable amount
of change. One day Bonnie said, “Jerry, if we take all the money
in your piggy bank and put it in my piggy bank, we’ll have a lot
more money!” Dazzled by her logic, I spent an entire morning extracting the coins with a butter knife from my piggy
bank; coins which Bonnie immediately deposited into her
bank. How excited I was to shake Bonnie’s piggy bank, to feel
its massive weight and hear the deep, full-bodied resonance of
our combined fortunes.
Days later, when I encountered the soulless shell of what
was my piggy bank and realized I had no money, I became outraged and went to Bonnie demanding my money back. But it
was too late. She had already spent the entire sum on a ceramic
ash tray—a gift for our dear mother for Mother’s Day. Bonnie
was shrewd, but she was also generous. Giving, not taking, was
her ultimate goal. Weeks before, she had noticed the ash tray
in the window of a beauty parlor near our house and devised
her plan to procure it. That plan happened to require the contents of my piggy bank.
As Bonnie explained her motives, I was bewildered. This
was the first time it ever occurred to me that I could or should
do anything sacrificial for my mother, who was there, it seemed
to me, to do things for me. But it wasn’t the first time this idea
occurred to Bonnie. She was always thinking about others
with kindness. True, she tricked me out of my savings, but
Bonnie was a noble trickster. I marvel now at how considerate a person she was at age six. How fortunate I was to have
her example, then and now, for how to live generously in the
world.
Growing up with Bonnie taught me to be suspicious of my
initial reactions, because they often misled me about the higher benefits of a situation. I wanted to stay mad at Bonnie for
filching my cash, but I couldn’t hold a grudge when I saw how
touched my mother was with her present. “It’s from me and
Jerry,” Bonnie was quick to explain. No, I couldn’t stay mad
at Bonnie.
Living generously in the world is a fruit of the well-examined life. It’s a life lived deliberately in service of others: offering gifts instead of demanding payment. In our society of
conspicuous consumption, it would be normal to approach the
college experience with a consumer mentality. One could easily think that since it costs a lot of money to attend St. John’s
College, the primary purpose of the College is to do things for
me. But here a student discovers this is an authentic community that requires a cooperative, generous response to enjoy its
most profound benefits. The education here is not merely a
commodity to be consumed. We are here to contribute something as well, which, in my mind, involves thinking generously
like Bonnie.
What does it mean to live generously in class, in the dining
hall, in the coffee shop, at parties, at the gym? It means at least
thinking ahead: what good is needed in this situation? It means
looking at others’ weaknesses with kindness, not contempt. It
takes patience and a measure of faith to persevere with your
contribution when the benefits are unclear.
It doesn’t mean your contribution has to be spectacular. The
ceramic ash tray Bonnie purchased was not technically beautiful. But it originated from a place of love and sacrificial giving,
and that made it valuable as gold. If you participate in class
with this spirit instead of a competitive one, it’s quite possible
an agreeable sweetness will enter your inner life and you too
won’t be able to stay mad at anyone for very long.
The St. John’s Program is also a noble trickster. Its democratic process invites you to contribute to the larger good, asserting it is profitable for you to do so. Still, you may become
discontent when the benefits of your efforts are not immediately apparent. You may become disgruntled with the authors,
or with the tutors, or even irritated by insincerity you perceive
in your classmates.
But then the higher benefits materialize in unforeseen ways.
Beautiful ideas emerge where you thought there were none.
The unassuming person in class imparts the penetrating insight. Your frustration with this (at times laborious) process
subsides. You get excited and you learn to become suspicious
of your misleading initial reactions. Life changes a little. You
are forming a relationship with the Program, to which you can
say, “I can’t stay mad at you.” !
If you’re quiet, learn to
express. If you’re a talker,
learn to listen.
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Super Smash Brothers?
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!Let’s just get this out of the way, too: I
am not a hard worker.
- Any of you ever read Ulysses (the
Joyce one, I mean)?
- Wait. I thought Joyce was a woman?
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I suggest Xanax.
WHY IS IT SO HARD TO
WRITE A NON CREEPY EMAIL
TO A COMPLETE STRANGER
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This sounds weird, but i was just thinking about this for some reason. How
tall are you guys?
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Just bought a WONDERFUL book by
Jorge Luis Borges “Collected Fictions”,
hardback. I’m freaking out! :O
!If I had a dog, I would name it Synecdoche, so I could tell it, “Synecdoche,
get your ass over here!”
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and respectful of literature and all it has to
offer, but did anyone else get the sudden
urge to stab themselves in the face whilst
reading book 2 of the Illiad?
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Think about St. John’s. Think about
your classes, about your tutors, think about the way
we do what we do. Ask why, and ask often. Ask your peers, ask
your tutors, ask yourself....Reserve judgment, squash self-congratulation.
Temper your romantic convictions and bolster your engagement with each
other and the texts by keeping your eyes open. Keep in mind that sometimes
the terms of an argument are obscured—pay attention to unspoken assumptions.
‘Liberal arts against the world’ is no way to study at St. John’s. Love St. John’s, understand why it’s great, and welcome the wonder that its program inspires, but
never let that keep you from thinking fairly, thinking modestly, and thinking
critically. There’s a time to Believe the Hype and a time to raise an
eyebrow. Know the difference. Enjoy yourself.
Don’t be
afraid to be honest! It’s very
challenging to throw one’s opinion out there,
and so many times it can feel like you’re ‘sending signals into the aether,’ but you just gotta do it. And you’ll feel
like you’re horrible at it, but you’ll get better. Don’t expect to
come to SJC and immediately be as competent (and that everyone else is) as your hopes have been. This is school; it’s learning,
which can be grueling sometimes, but mostly exhilarating.
That said, take the time, as freshman year develops, to start
noticing your limits, and do lots of self-care. The
Program is very personal and emotionally
draining.
The books
won’t begin to speak to you until
you have others to speak with. Become an
authentic part of the Johnnie community by playing
sports, doing study groups, writing for a publication, going
to SCI seminars, and socializing with upperclassmen and
your own class. I’m serious about the last one: build
relationships with your own class. Get to know
everyone, because you can.
Planning
for what to do after St. John’s
is somewhat difficult and mysterious. Take it
seriously, but don’t let it distract too much from your
learning here. You should know that it’s not really true that you
can do whatever you want after graduating, unless you reinforce
the degree with specific, extra-program classes and/or relevant
experiences. You will likely have to do some catching up in order
to go into specialties like medicine or the sciences. Talk with
alumni in order to get an idea of what they had to do to
get where you want to go. They are glad to share
their experiences and give advice!
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A junior reflects on the difficulties of reading the Bible at St. John’s
Nathan Goldman
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hen this piece goes to print, the sophomore class will mean?” is essentially presumptuous. What, then, is the Bible
have already had two seminars on the Book of Genesis. to a St. John’s student, and how one ought to read and discuss
They may already be sensing that this “book” they have be- it in the context of seminar?
gun, the Bible (from the Greek, ta biblia, “the books”—note the
First, it is important to acknowledge the Bible’s multiplicplural), is a different beast than the plays, dialogues, treatises, ity, in one’s own reading if not explicitly in the conversation,
epics, and histories of the freshman year. I submit that it is and to give due consideration to all the things it might be. For
unique among the works we read at the College, not only in believing Christians and Jews there is the opportunity to exits historical impact and influence on our daily modern lives amine one’s faith from new angles; for agnostics, atheists, and
(both possibly true; and it’s the all-time best-seller), but in its followers of other faiths, there is the chance to ask why one
multiplicity.
might find these words holy and true.
The Bible, as Paul says of himself in 1 Corinthians, is all
Next—and this advice will sound foreign to no one at this
things to all people—or nearly so. Depending on who you are school—question everything. But really! Question hard. These
and what you believe, the Bible might be:
texts have long-standing interpretations ingrained deeply in
a) A single work divided into two testaments, Old and New, most of our minds, e.g., the notions of man’s fall and original
that constitutes revealed truth;
sin, neither of which is explicit in the first chapters of Genesis.
b) A collection of three different sorts of holy works (Torah, Do not rest on these. Note the strange and perhaps unexpectNevi’im, and Ketuvim, or the Teaching, the Prophets, and ed—God’s use of the plural “us” to refer to Himself in Genesis
the Writings ), plus an additional collection of works (the 1:26, the casual mention of other apparently existing deities
New Testament) whose nature and aim is unrelated; or
in the stories of the Hebrew patriarchs—and ask about them.
c) A compilation of many types of writings—literature, law,
Interrogate the claim that the Bible is a cohesive work, and
history, myth, philosophy, ethics—spanning ages, written especially interrogate the common notion that for it to be
by many authors, and compiled according to various ca- cohesive it must ultimately provide a single logical and nonnonical traditions.
contradictory worldview. (I humbly submit that St. Thomas
Even this is an oversimplification: the canons vary not just Aquinas and other thinkers smarter than I recklessly presume
between Christianity and Judaism but
this.) Entertain the possibility that the
also according to denomination. This
God of whom the Job poet speaks is not
Interrogate the claim that the the same God who in Genesis creates
leaves aside, too, important questions
about what manuscripts are followed by
Bible is a cohesive work, and man in His image, and ask what it might
different editions and translations.
mean for a monotheistic faith to bear
especially interrogate the
In a St. John’s seminar, we are in the
in mind two unlike visions of its God.
common notion that for it to Ask what a faith is, and what a religion
rare position of encountering the Bible
without any clear guidance on how to
be cohesive it must ultimate- is—and yet, don’t assume that all these
treat it. Seminar is neither church nor
ly provide a single logical and works are, in fact, about those things as
synagogue, neither Bible study (implicmodern Americans understand them.
non-contradictory worldview. Ask not just if these accounts of the
itly devout) nor Bible as literature class
(implicitly agnostic). One more compliworld and humanity and God are true,
cation: the authors of these texts are largely unknown, merely but in what way and for whom they might be true, or what
hypothesized, or a matter of mythic tradition (e.g., King David truth means in these cases.
as the author of the Psalms, King Solomon as the author of
In the end that advice—question everything—is not unique
Proverbs and Song of Songs), and the identity and number of to the Bible. But, in my experience, it can be the Bible that
the editors throughout the ages who assembled these texts is is hardest to keep in mind, whatever your beliefs. These are
generally unavailable to us. While one of the underlying pro- subtle, strange, fascinating works. Do not do yourself the disto-questions of a discussion of the Meno is, “What does Pla- service of reading them already sure of what they say—or what
to mean?”, the question, “What does the author of the Bible they are. !
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An Unexamind Art: Investigating the moving image
Chazaq Llinas
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erhaps as an incoming freshman you have gone on YouTube and watched “The St. John’s Story.” The sophomores can recall seeing an image of a beating heart in freshman lab. Juniors can remember watching the recording of Don
Giovanni or The Magic Flute to assist in their study of musical
composition. Or you may have watched a Shakespeare production in lieu of your seminar reading. Seniors have seen the
recording of the interference of waves. This power of recording a moving image has proved to be an invaluable tool of science to investigate questions microscopic and galactic. But on
the basis that all is subject to inquiry, we must ask ourselves,
what are these flickering images? Do they reveal the truth? Or
do they obscure it?
None of these examples above, though, are your first encounter with the moving image. For the past half-century,
the moving image has dominated as the primary form of mass
communication. And cinema has prevailed as the supreme art
of the century. One cannot deny the immense power the cinematic arts have
had on men. The premiere of D.W.
Griffith’s Civil War epic Birth of a Nation was met with riots in protest of
the film and a murder in Indiana. The
Russian Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin moved Nazi propaganda
minister Joseph Goebbels to
call it “a marvelous film without
equal in the cinema....Anyone
who had no firm political conviction could become a Bolshevik after
seeing the film.” The tragic incident in
Colorado this summer only reinforces the
pressing concern that we must question the moving image and
its ultimate form: the motion picture.
A film is simply a sequence of images. The cinematic arts
culminated in its recognizable form as the motion picture in
the early 20th century. The motion picture brought together
all prior artistic and scientific development. Film needed the
advancements and understanding of the mechanical, electrical, optical, and chemical sciences. The juniors reads the investigation of physics and light by Christiaan Huygens, who
also invented the Magic Lantern, a predecessor of the projector. As Scott Buchanan describes the cinematic laboratory in
his paper “In Search of a Liberal College,” “their laboratories
would present an encyclopedia of modern empirical science.”
What was to be cinema’s content? Thankfully, we have had
over 2000 years of the development of the dramatic arts, with
a readily accessible army of actors to perform from scripts.
The cinematic arts have been able to combine all the forms
of artistic beauty that came before: the visual beauty of painting, musical beauty, kinetic beauty, and the intellectual beauty
of dialogue. The result is not some Frankenstein whose mismatched parts are hastily sewn together. Rather, each part illuminates the other, resulting in a whole and complete film.
The cinematic arts have proven to be the most powerful
of the century, and perhaps of the modern age. The budgets
of motion pictures resemble the budgets of small countries,
global saturation has produced audiences the size of those
same countries’ populations, and film stars have even become
political leaders. “The motion picture theatre is the theatre of
democracy and the motion picture is [democracy’s] most popular poetry,” says Mortimer Adler in Art and Prudence. But due
to this popularity, and in spite of the democratic soul’s disgust
of censorship, the cinematic arts are systemically censored, by
self-censorship, pressure from production companies, and the
MPAA. Why do we permit this censorship?
The cinematic art is a cumulative art that has built its own
form. Cinema is a form of communication, and it has its own
grammar. There are two simple question one can ask oneself
at any point in a film: What am I seeing? and What have I seen
prior to this image? These two simple questions draw attention
to the two basic units of film: the mise-en-scène and the montage. Simply put, the mise-en-scène is what is in the frame—
the image itself—perhaps a close-up of a human face, light,
composition; while the montage is a sequence
of images. The Russians were perhaps the
first to understand the emotional
power of the montage. Consider the Odessa Steps massacre
scene from Potemkin: a shot of
distressed sailors, cut to a shot
of rotting meat crawling with
maggots, cut to a condescending doctor, cut back to sailors.
The symbolic and emotional
power attaches us to the sailors and suggests the rotting
meat as a symbol for sailors’
struggle. We present this as a
simple example of the kind of
analysis that can be applied to film.
The image has a power of its own and
a power derived from its context.
The St. John’s Film Society invites you to our ongoing investigation of the motion picture with our screening of Orson
Welles’ masterpiece Citizen Kane. The SJFS will be working
alongside the rest of the polity to assist in the examination
of the motion picture. Please feel free to contact either coarchon Emily Ezell (emily.ezell@sjca.edu) or myself, Chazaq
Llinas (chazaq.llinas@sjca.edu) with film requests, questions,
or opinions. Come out on Saturday at 7 pm. There will be free
popcorn! !
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n Wednesday evening, the freshmen met with the Instruction Committee. There, they raised questions, concerns, and
criticisms they might have about the Program, as they were expected and encouraged to do. Perhaps some freshmen
were surprised at the answers given: sometimes the tutors disagreed. Sometimes questions were met with great perplexity.
The I.C. never offered a simple, monolithic, or quick response to a thoughtful question.
It is important that we learn to submit to the curriculum and to trust it; to have faith that our labors will ultimately yield
fruit, even if, at times, it can seem like meaningless toil. But this does not mean that we should accept it blindly. There is
room for disagreement. It is not infallible or sacred. Our doubts and questions about the Program can reveal its flaws and
weaknesses.
More often, however, our questions uncover hidden wisdom. To the musically untrained, freshman chorus can seem
like a waste of time at best and torture at worst. A little patience and an open mind can prove this wrong. An S.C.I. forum
on freshman chorus can help you see why a little patience is a good idea. If you have questions about why we do things
the way we do, we want to encourage your spirit of inquiry, and encourage you to attend weekly S.C.I. forums. They are on
Thursdays during lunch in the Private Dining Room. We talk about everything from freshman math to senior lab to grades
and Don Rags. If the discussion confirms a real flaw in the way things are, we pass our suggestions on to the Instruction
Committee, who listen to us seriously. Sometimes the discussion just helps us appreciate how carefully our curriculum is
planned.
Perhaps even more importantly, the S.C.I. also hosts a series of extra-curricular seminars: most famously, Shakespeare in
the Fall, Women in the Winter, and Plato in the Springtime. Everyone is welcome to these. Imitation is a fine way to learn,
so if you ever want to see how an upperclassman behaves in seminar, come to one or all of them.
We look forward to seeing you this year!
Maura McCluskey, A’13 (co-chair)
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19 and counting, XIX
looks better in my mind’s eye than on paper
Better on bare skin than in my thoughts.
Now that’s a thought, and what does it all mean
The numerals not the notion. A day, a year,
more than anything a symbol of mortality or the idea of immortality. Scratched
again and again into paper - now transferred
onto human pavement. The spirit cracks after
the concrete.
I see mountains, but that’s not where I was.
I read a book, but that wasn’t that day.
I met a girl, but the year was already gone.
I like the look of it - of things.
Back to the notion, forget the numerals.
The human canvas is suitable for many things:
why straight line in stark contrast?
Simplicity laughing at man’s complexities?
Self-defacement in an age of bodily decadence?
What temple without adornment? What priest without robes?
Meaning? Aesthetics. Significance? Incommunicable.
So why bother? What drives … ?
My answer? Stencil your mind on your hide
and see if anyone else thinks they understand.
Listen, learn, dismiss all pretenders to your throne.
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Ian Tuttle
11
A’14
Welcome to the newest members of our community, and a
brief word of explanation: If your experience is like mine, you
will soon discover that St. John’s is an unfamiliarly insular
place. As the College has matured, it has sought to cultivate an
atmosphere unburdened, as much as possible, by the grind of the
outside world, so that each member of the Polity can enter deeply into the study of “the best that has been thought and said.”
While I heartily support that endeavor, it can, consequently,
be easy for us to become unmoored—to forget that the questions
we ask and the conclusions we reach have consequences that ex-
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tend far beyond the boundaries of our small campus. “Bursting
the Johnnie Bubble” is a regular column that seeks to remind us
of the world “out there” and stimulate conversation on a variety
of topics that may not arise explicitly around the seminar table,
but with which we must still contend. As readers of the Great
Books, we may hope that we can consider them more thoughtfully and pursue answers with greater clarity.
Your responses to this column are always welcome. My hope
each week is to begin a dialogue that continues both inside and
outside these pages. Best wishes, and welcome to the Bubble!
oliticians say stupid things, but Joe Biden has made a And it’s not necessarily the problem. The problem is the
career out of it. In September 2008 the Democratic vice smallness of the rhetoric in the face of big problems. The Inpresidnetial selection asked wheelchair-bound Missouri ternational Monetary Fund projects that China will become
state senator Chuck Graham to stand up. Ten days later he re- the world’s dominant economic power by 2016. But our silmarked that “When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roos- ver-medal blues will be short-lived. The nonpartisan Conevelt got on television….” Fear not. Three and a half years in gressional Budget Office predicts that the American economy
the White House has made him no less colorful. He recently will shut down by 2027. Meanwhile, the president’s campaign
told an audience that he has “known eight presidents, three of is outraged that the Romney family took a vacation with their
them intimately,” which helps to explain how he could know Irish setter in a dog carrier on the car roof—in 1983.
“the president has a big stick. I promise you,” as he told anothIt’s the small season. But Americans don’t trade in small—
er crowd in April. What is the number-one problem facing the or, at least, they did not used to. America remains the only
middle class, according to Mr. Biden? “A
country successfully founded on ideas, and the
three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs.” As
ideas expressed in the Declaration of IndepenA nation of withessayist Joseph Epstein comments, “He’s a
dence, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address,
fun guy, our vice president.”
&c., are big, muscular, vigorous. But over the past
ered freedoms is
But none compares to the recent zinger
50 years—and perhaps never more intently than
not conducive to
in which America’s second-in-command
during this administration—those ideas have been
the liberal artist.
told a mostly black audience in Danville,
enervated by government largesse and feel-good
Virginia, that Republicans want to “put
philosophies that happily trade off the challenges
y’all back in chains”—replete with mock Southern accent.
of freedom for the ease of state-provided comfort.
Say what you want about the Republican party, it’s light on
A nation of withered freedoms is not conducive to the libplantation owners. But that cannot stop the man “a heartbeat eral artist. St. John’s’ ubiquitous “New Program Logo” reads,
from the Oval Office” from declaring that his political opposi- Facio liberos ex liberis libris libraque: “I make free men of chiltion wants to repeal the Civil War. If memory serves, Republi- dren with books and a balance.” A liberal arts education is a
cans happened to be on the winning side of that fight. But no continued effort to become liberal, that is, liberated. Free.
matter. For Mr. Biden it’s always Republican Party Like It’s
Political rhetoric that seeks to obscure and hoodwink, that
1859. Luckily, as he has recalled, after the first shots at Sumter, seeks to divert attention from true crises to concocted delinPresident Jackson got on YouTube…
quencies, presumes obsequious minds. When the president
It’s easy to make fun of Joe Biden. Perhaps it’s the hair spends stump speeches mocking Mitt Romney’s treatment
plugs. But, consequently, it’s often hard to take him seriously. of his pet, he assumes his audience is foolish enough to beAnd in an election like this one, seriousness is crucial. Our lieve this is a crucial issue—not the stagnant economy or the
problems are serious: 43 straight months of 8 percent unem- rampant unemployment or the approaching fiscal cliff. When
ployment; $16 trillion of debt, much bought up by our fiercest Joe Biden tells a black audience that Republicans want to put
economic competitor across the Pacific; Iran accelerating and them in chains, he assumes they are slaves already—just in a
fortifying its nuclear program.
different way.
But rather than broach these issues, the vice president
The Great Books are removed from the happenings of the
takes to the stump to alert the nation’s blacks to their inevi- campaign trail, Congressional offices, and media studios.
table re-shackling, should enough bigots in this country vote And they should be. We rightly cultivate an atmosphere at St.
(R) in November. It’s not the silly season, which rolls around John’s where we can devote ourselves to these books and to
in every election cycle; it’s the downright absurd season.
the deep, abiding questions they raise. But if we are inclined
And it’s not just the vice president, with his vaguely endear- to hoard the fruits of this education, we have missed someing air of senility. The president’s campaign has accused Mitt thing.
Romney of vampirism, animal cruelty, and felony tax evasion,
Free nations require free thinkers. And vice versa. A people
and when a pro-Obama super PAC ran an ad accusing Rom- that permits intellectual dishonesty in its leaders has not been
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The student newspaper
of St. John’s College
60 College Avenue
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
sjca.gadfly@gmail.com
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www.facebook.com/sjcagadfly
Founded in 1980, the Gadfly is the student newsmagazine distributed to over
600 students, faculty, and staff of the Annapolis campus.
Opinions expressed within are the sole
responsibility of the author(s). The Gadfly reserves the right to accept, reject,
and edit submissions in any way necessary to publish a professional, informative, and thought-provoking newsmagazine.
The Gadfly meets every Sunday at 7 PM
in Mr. Sterling’s apartment on the first
lower level of the Barr-Buchanan Center.
Articles should be submitted by Friday
at 11:59 PM to sjca.gadfly@gmail.com.
Staff
Nathan Goldman • Editor-in-Chief
Ian Tuttle • Editor-in-Chief
Hayden Pendergrass • Layout Editor
Sasha Welm • Cartoonist
Contributors
Jonathan Barone
Jenny Shumpert
Alvaro Duran
Sam Weinberg
Sarah Meggison
Charles Zug
Gabriela Montequin
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elcome back to the pages
of the Gadfly. We hope you
enjoyed our first issue and that you
enjoy this week’s contributions.
As you have no doubt realized, the
Gadfly is an aesthetic masterpiece.
And, like every masterpiece, it
requires love, a keen eye, and its own
particular techne. Not to mention
lots and lots of thumos.
Our current layout staff is
overflowing with thumos—but, alas,
not time. We are currently searching
for potential graphic designers,
photographers, and artists. If you
have experience, fantastic. If not,
we’ll teach you. Anyone interested
in learning more about participating
should contact us at our Gmail
address, listed above.
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ell over twenty years have elapsed since the first Chesapeake Bay Picnic. The
event began when Dr. Allen and Vivian Harquail, in cooperation with St.
John’s College associate Nancy Zimmerman, decided that students of the College
could benefit greatly from a direct encounter with the water and culture of the
Chesapeake Bay. Originally conceived under the leadership of local Annapolis
skipper Arney Gay as a “sailing” rendezvous, the event later came to incorporate
motorized boats. Little else has changed, and the picnic remains a classic event.
Roughly a hundred students and twenty boats depart from the Annapolis City
Dock at noon; luncheon is on board. The flotilla sails and cruises about the various
passages of the Bay. Students tan themselves and swim leisurely (or laboriously)
from boat-to-boat, and a variety of delicacies are available for sampling.
Needless to say, everyone has a right good time. I myself will be participating in
this event, and encourage others to do so as well. !
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he King William Players will be hosting quite the variety of productions this
year, with Bent in November and Fuddy Meers in December. Bent, directed by
Leila Saad, is a story about the art of communication with the ones you love, even
when one is without the normal tools used to communicate, such as speaking and
touching. Fuddy Meers, which I am directing, is a wacky story about a young woman
with amnesia and interesting characters for a family. In this show we will concern
ourselves with the art of comedy, what makes an audience laugh, and why it is so
good for us all. Auditions were held August 31 and September 1. If you would like
to be involved, we are also looking for anyone interested in promotion, light design,
sound, costume design, and set construction. KWP is hoping to create a stronger
unit this year, full of students who are passionate about performing arts and would
like a creative outlet. Look out for flyers and e-mails. We will have monthly meetings, and if you are interested in KWP and would like to know more, contact me at
montequin16@gmail.com. !
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nd, we’re back. This is it, folks. The moment you’ve all
been waiting for: the in-depth scrutinization of the sophomore intramural draft and ludicrous predictions of how the
year in sports will go. Some comments might be Baroneous,
but you’ll have to bear with me. I’m doing the best I can with
the knowledge and wildly pro-green attitude I have. So without further ado, I bring to you, with limited bias, the Intramural Draft Analysis!
Hustlers: In the draft: In acquiring James Cottone via
trade, the Hustlers picked up the greatest natural athlete in
the sophomore class. A physical presence in every single
sport, Cottone excels on the court, bringing a passionate fire to
every basketball and handball game. However, Cottone’s skill
is matched only by his truancy, a downside compensated for
by second round pick Joe Hamd. Besides being a stone- wall
sweeper on the soccer field, he, along
with Will Pack, will bolster an already impressive basketball B-team.
On the field: Though they made a
strong showing in handball last year,
the Hustlers failed to dominate any
one sport. A large part of this was attendance issues, a problem which the
Hustlers failed to address in the draft.
They are strong competitors on paper, especially in soccer, but their players’ mercurial nature
could throw their entire season into doubt.
Spartans: In the draft: The Spartans clearly
looked to reacquire as much of their former
team as they could. In addition to snagging the
talented and virtuous “Pancakes” Denci, they
nabbed Sam “Bootsy” Collins and Graham
“Cracker” Gordon, no doubt in an attempt to
build on their basketball legacy. Pancakes’
skill as a goalie will undoubtedly help them,
as will his universal attacking presence.
On the field: The Spartans have
the spirit to compete at any
and every level. Their focus
on basketball has paid off, and
they’ve got incredible power
in the paint. Their likelihood to repeat as b-ball
champs is strong, but the other sports are much more questionable. The Spartan women are mighty and will supply
depth, but their lack of go-to talent on the field hampers their
vie for the cup.
Druids: In the draft: The Druid Nation is restored in bringing back to maroon two of the strongest sophomores, Dylan
Tyler and Terence Bernard Washington II. Tyler, underrated
as a whole, is one of the greatest overall athletes in the school
and has an innate knack for handball and soccer. Washington
is a one man army with a high arcing shot who carries the true
intramural spirit to every game. With these acquisitions, it’s
hard to say that anyone but the Druids won the draft.
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it’s hard to see any glaring weaknesses in their team; captain
Hunter Cox is a veritable ninja in soccer, and their issues in
goal will likely disappear with their draft acquisitions. With
the exception of Frisbee, it’s difficult to see the Druid Nation
going anywhere but up in standings or in spirit.
Guardians: In the draft: Guardian-at-heart John Neal will
be a steady, rock-like go-to man in every sport. Unassuming
on the whole, Neal is a foundation for the team in years to
come with his speed, endurance, and athletic ability. In addition, Henry Hirsch is a ferocious defender on the court and
a beast at soccer with tremendous upside. Finally, senior Dan
Gilles will complete an already stupidly talented Frisbee team.
On the field: Despite last year’s predictions, the Guardi a n s have not traded away their future. They’re coming
back strong, with Ultimate and Volleyball teams
for the record books. With the loss of Linus
Feder and Ty Kun, their soccer will suffer, but
there’s
no reason why the golden-souled
Tommy Bonn can’t lead his team
to contend for basketball and
handball titles. The overall
championship could conceivably be theirs after two years of
running up.
Greenwaves: In the draft: The future ever on their mind, the Waves picked
up the fiery guard Sebastian Abella and stalwart Rey Mendez. The reacquisition of
Mendez will anchor a howitzer of a soccer
team, while Abella will spark life into a
basketball team approaching senior citizenship and will undoubtedly provide
quick athleticism in all sports for years
to come. The drafting of John Ropoulos
and Corbyn Berryman also shows the
Waves’ desire to end their basketball
title drought.
On the field: The twice championed Greenwaves are clearly
looking to threepeat, but with
the loss of Andrew Mize and Gil Shank, their threat
in Ultimate has been greatly diminished. Their soccer team
is head and shoulders above the rest (especially with their
alumni), and Eric Shlifer’s dominance in handball is hardly
unnoticed. However, the question remains whether their skill
in these sports can outweigh their weaknesses in others and
bring them to be thrice-crowned.
As you can see, the draft was deep, and only time will tell
who were the true victors. Every team fared well, and competition for the overall victory is sure to be pulse-pounding. Of
course, this whole analysis is a crapshoot, since the freshmen
usually end up deciding the championship. So hear ye, freshmen: all the power lies in your hands. Do it. Come out. Let the
51st annual intramural games begin! !
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hen I was visiting Annapolis this summer, I had lunch cup or a pack of cigarettes brings to mind the damage that
with a former tutor of mine, and we discussed the Johnnies can inflict on their books.” Waller discusses the probroader future of liberal education, outside St. John’s College. cess of restoring books—an important enterprise at a school
What will the future of the Great Books be, we wondered, in that cares so much about these artifacts, however much we
the face of phenomena like iTunes University, where millions may neglect their structural integrity, like Ms. Meade and her
of people can stream a computer programming class from copy of Paradise Lost.
Stanford? Our way of doing things is
I admit that my argument is
at odds with current popular trends.
largely sentimental I, and many
The technology is not intrinsically
At St. John’s we frequently live
other Johnnies, love the “peculiar
harmful—one could prefer that way
anachronistically. Obviously our
of reading over paper and ink—but it sense of community” that we get by
campus has its contingent of iPhone
seeing our friends walking around
seems to conflict with our particular
and laptop users, and students with
with Apollonius tucked under their
type of community. Books are ubiqui- arms, underlining passages from
headphones in their ears as they
tous here because Johnnies still value Theatetus, turning the crinkly pages
walk to class. I belong to all those
groups, and I do not think any of
of a book. In the face of a growing
the book as a sacred object; we apthose things are wholly bad, though
preciate the sensory experience that number of institutions turning to
they may prevent some potential
online education, and people turncomes with reading a bound book.
conversations on the Quad.
ing to iPads and Kindles for their
In fact, the only detrimental technology that I have seen reading needs, books deserve a holdout, a place where their
inching its way onto campus is the electronic reader. The existence is not threatened by these very temporal technolotechnology is not intrinsically harmful—one could prefer that gies. While Ms. Meade’s copy of Paradise Lost might be fallway of reading over paper and ink—but it seems to conflict ing apart before her eyes, at least she can nostalgically look
with our particular type of community. Books are ubiquitous through—and perhaps laugh at—her marginalia, and recall her
here because Johnnies still value the book as a sacred object; hours staying up in the library slaving over that copy of Milwe appreciate the sensory experience that comes with reading ton. That will not be the case for those of us who opt to employ
a bound book.
an e-reader for the purposes of St. John’s. The technology will
In the Fall 2010 issue of The College, St. John’s’ alumni mag- be replaced shortly, and they will be left with nothing but the
azine, Melissa Meade, A’86, fervently argues for the validity dissatisfaction that their convenience was for naught. !
of e-readers at St. John’s. Meade claims that there are good
translations available on the Amazon Kindle store (though she
cites only poetry) and that as long as these e-reader texts have
the line numbers we so often need, then we should embrace
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An accomplished Foreign Service Officer, Lucy
Tamlyn has spent 30 years as a diplomat for
the United States. She is currently stationed
in Portugal.
Over the coming year, the Gadfly will feature
interviews with a variety of distinguished alumni.
If you would like to contact any of our featured
alums, please contact the Career Services Office.
What is your current job?
I am the Deputy Chief of Mission (number two) at the United
States Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal. I’m a career Foreign
Service Officer. I have served at U.S. embassies and missions
abroad in Colombia, Austria, Mozambique, Brazil, Italy,
France, Iraq, and Chad.
Did you attend other schools after St. John’s?
I have a Master’s degree from Columbia’s School of
International Affairs (now called the School of International
Affairs and Public Policy).
Did you know what you wanted to do while at St. John’s?
Not at first. The process of applying to graduate school helped
me become more focused. I finally realized that international
relations was the field for me, as it combined my interests in
political science, current events, foreign languages, and travel.
Did St. John’s help prepare you for work in the field?
Yes. I have to do a lot of reading, listening, group discussions,
and writing. St. John’s helped with all of this. I think that
the St. John’s approach of asking open-ended questions, being
a good listener, and looking for more than easy answers is
very helpful in trying to understand foreign cultures—which
is essential for my work. As a public servant I appreciate St.
John’s’ focus on citizenship.
What didn’t St. John’s prepare you for?
I didn’t know how to translate my background and abilities
into a job search.
Any specific disadvantages to a St. John’s background?
None that I can think of.
How did you feel you compared, in graduate school or early
jobs, to people from different educational backgrounds,
particularly those with field-related degrees?
I realized early on that even people with highly specialized
expertise need someone who can step back and figure out the
big picture, write well, and make connections between ideas.
Lucy Tamlyn, SF’78, speaks at the United Nations in 2005.
Can you describe a general track someone from St. John’s
might take to get into a career in this field?
The Foreign Service exam is the entry point for the Foreign
Service (see www.state.gov for information on exam
schedules). Since the exam tests knowledge in foreign affairs,
economics, etc., these are good topics to know about or to have
studied. Many people come in with a degree in international
affairs, but not all. Prior knowledge of foreign languages is not
required, but you have to have some aptitude for languages.
There are many other international relations career paths.
In the Federal Government, these include Peace Corps and
Federal Government civil service positions with some foreign
component (Washington is full of these, from USDA to
Department of Commerce, and many more).
Any general advice, especially for an upperclassman who
is interested in this field but is not quite sure what to do?
Take the exam and see how you do. Do an internship at
the State Department in Washington, DC, or one of the U.S.
embassies abroad, to see what life in an embassy is like. Travel
overseas and see if it is for you.
How did you market yourself with a St. John’s degree?
Haven’t had to recently (fortunately)!
How would you characterize your field as a whole? Is it
accessible to newcomers or difficult to enter? Stable or
fluid? Etc.
The Foreign Service depends on the federal budget, and that
depends on Congress. The expectation is that the entry-level
intake may be lower for the next couple of years.
What was your senior essay topic?
Something about Achilles!
What is your favorite book on the Program?
The Maxims of La Rochefoucauld.
Do you find that you lead a philosophical life?
I try! !
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o hear the media moan on and on about Clint Eastwood’s optimistic bloom of multiculturalism in a party not known for
creaky and painful speech at the Republican National such an embrace, but the continuous, multi-denominational
Convention—as well as its “aftermath”—is doubly depress- begging to a supreme being only serves to illustrate the undering. First, we’re once again told how important “social media” lying falsity of the entire charade.
statistics are in judging political campaigns. We’re treated to
Listening to the rest of the speakers, one does not feel any
the usual buffet of vacuous vocabulary—“buzz,” “hype,” “pull,” better. One of Mitt Romney’s biggest flaws is his incessant
“spin,” “fired up,” “turned off,” “backlash,” “frenzy”—all to let vagueness regarding foreign policy. He appears consistently
us know how important, inspired, outraged, or emotional we uncomfortable addressing any issues outside of the economy.
should feel. Second, and more importantly, this tsunami of Indeed, his acceptance speech omitted all mention of Iraq,
stupidity has occluded the more sinister and proximate issue: Afghanistan, Libya, and Egypt, and barely mentioned Iran, Isthat we may be two months away from seeing a man elected to rael, and Cuba. Any foreign policy views that reporters have
the office of president of the United States who will say any- managed to squeeze out of him have been vague. With such a
thing (or nothing) for the sake of power. And someone with lack of coherence, what are President Romney’s likely advissuch a hollow sheen and erratic record is all the more suscep- ers going to push for? Marco Rubio, for instance, reveals the
tible to the pitches and swells of his more sinister allies. The absurdity of the fifty-year Cuban embargo in an interview for
interminable focus on Eastwood has prevented any real criti- Human Events:
cism or analysis of Romney’s more untethered companions we
Cubans come to the United States on the basis of the Cuban
saw speaking at the convention.
Adjustment Act, which says that Cubans are exiles. Cubans
Bookending every day of this mawkish carnival was a nonare here because they have no political freedoms. But it’s
stop conga line of holy men invocating assistance from all poshard to argue you’re in exile when a year and a month after
sible angles. Rabbi Meir Soloveichik asked God to “shelter and
you arrive, you’re returning repeatedly to the country you’re
keep” the victims of the ironically named Hurricane Isaac.
exiled from. How do you argue that you’re an exile when exWhy the rabbi didn’t ask God to fling the storm harmlessly out
ile is supposed to be people that can’t return for political
to sea instead of subjecting the already-battered Gulf Coast to
purposes? And after 13 months in the country, you’re travelmore punishment, I will leave to others to decide. Following
ing back? It threatens the exile status of the Cuban commuthis was Reverend Sammy Rodriguez, who asked God to allow
nity. [Italics mine.]
the joining of “Billy Graham’s message with Martin Luther
King’s dream.” I hope the rabbi was long gone before he heard Senator Rubio, then, feels an obligation to keep his fellow Cuthis bizarre plea for combining the sick anti-Semitic rants of ban immigrants from returning to visit their relatives in order
the desiccated Graham with the immortal words of Dr. King. to preserve a greater lie. Remember this whenever some fool
Ishwar Singh, President of the Sikh Society of Central Flor- tells you the Republican Party stands for individual rights over
ida, later offered a polite, if insipid, invocation. The Greek government mandate.
Orthodox Metropolitan Methodios closed
But the most important issue a President
out the penultimate day with yet another
Romney would have to face is the war in
...we may be two months
plea to save the weather-beaten citizens of
Afghanistan. Public support for the war
away from seeing a man
the Cajun Delta. On the last day came the
has seriously flagged and is not likely to
elected to the office of
Mormon Ken Hutchins to offer a Mormonrise again. The issues are many and grave.
president of the United
less boilerplate prayer, indistinguishable
The United States is supporting the bareStates who will say
from any other Christian that came before
ly-disguised thug, Hamid Karzai, whose
him. The whole affair was concluded at last
anything (or nothing) for last “election” remains a serious blotch
by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, signer of the
on our record. Our fellow NATO allies
the sake of power.
ahistorical Manhattan Declaration, which
are stumbling over themselves to leave,
states, among other things, that “after the barbarian tribes while Obama has already set a public date for withdrawal. In
overran Europe, Christian monasteries preserved not only the the meantime, the advances in women’s rights are tenuously
Bible but also the literature and art of Western culture.” This poised over a precipice (if there is a “war on women,” it’s in the
outright lie seeks to polish away the fact that it was the very Afghan/Pakistan region). Mr. Romney’s response to all this
Christian Justinian who closed the Platonic schools, leaving has been unclear and unimpressive. And with no forthcoming
it to the Muslims to translate and preserve the Socratic dia- ideas, as well as a bizarre party base that can’t decide whether
logues and the works of Aristotle that we are fortunate to en- it’s isolationist or interventionist, the next four years may be
joy now. That the Republican National Convention is turning very painful ones for Americans and our fellow totalitarianinto a weird arm of Unitarian Universalism may seem like an resistors. !
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ohn M. Robinson is a mollycoddle. Or a milksop. At least,
And “handicap” as an insult? Bunk. The term first appeared
Theodore Roosevelt would say so.
in 1653 in association with a trading game in which two tradTeddy was known for his arsenal of colorful (and never ers put their hands into a cap and draw them out simultaneprofane) insults, the most insulting of which—in the view of ously. The game? “Handy-capp” or “handicap.”
the big-game hunter, frontier rancher, war hero, and Manhat“Going Dutch” is the only one on which Robinson is even
tan politician—were reserved for effeminate men: lily-livered, close. It was, indeed, a stereotype of the Dutch that dates
gutless, pusillanimous. He would find targets in abundance from competition between Britain and the Netherlands for
in our day.
seventeenth-century trading routes. But, as one site observes,
Robinson is the “chief diversity officer” in the U.S. State De- “Nowadays ‘going Dutch’ is not a derogatory thing at all. In
partment’s Office of Civil Rights. In the latest issue of State fact, the term gained popularity during the second women’s
Magazine, the department’s in-house publication, he has a liberation movement when women were encouraged to pay
piece called, “Wait, What Did You Just Say?” in which he en- their own way and not rely on men to take care of them.” In
lightens his bigoted readers:
the opening lines of his article, Robinson writes, “Language
“How many times have you or a colleague asked if some- is a living, changing and evolving medium.” Yet he rejects the
thing could ‘hold down the fort?’” he inquires. Hopefully not “evolved” understanding of a phrase for its offensive origins.
many: It’s offensive. “To ‘hold down the fort’ originally meant Presumably because it better suits his point.
to watch and protect against the vicious Native American inThe intellectual dishonesty of Robinson’s article is staggertruders.”
ing, and the simple debunking operation above
Ever asked someone to “go Dutch”? Also ofis sufficient to cast serious aspersions on his
fensive. “[It’s] a negative stereotype portraying
“Diversity” has be- reliability. But this does not suffice to explain
the Dutch as cheap.”
come the guise for why Robinson is a mollycoddle.
“Rule of thumb.” “Many women’s rights acIn his new book The Tyranny of Cliches,
a type of ideologi- American Enterprise Institute scholar Jonah
tivists claim this term refers to an antiquated
cal shivving that
law, whereby the width of a husband’s thumb
Goldberg writes, “But at a deeper level, the
was the legal size of a switch or rod allowed to
agenda behind diversity is about power. It is a
seeks to elevate
beat his wife.”
way to give permanent license to social engicertain groups by neers.” Robinson’s article is not in the service
And, finally, the innocuous “handicap”:
cowing others.
“Many disability advocates believe this term is
of enlightenment; it is in the service of power.
rooted in a correlation between a disabled inHe misstates the histories of several otherwise
dividual and a beggar, who had to beg with a cap in his or her innocuous phrases (When was the last time someone balked
hand because of the inability to maintain employment.”
at your use of “rule of thumb”?) not because they will “continWho knew you were such a bigot?
ually improve[e] consciousness and respect for others,” but
John Robinson did. Or, at least, he suggests that you might because he is trying to craft a particular type of consciousbe—because, as it turns out, none of these etymologies is ac- ness.
tually certain, and Robinson admits it: “Much has been writThe diversity agenda, long detached from its morally reten about whether the etymologies below are true or merely spectable roots, has nothing to do with variety of thought and
folklore, but this isn’t about historical validity; instead, it is an opinion. Rather, it seeks to label and divide “oppressor” and
opportunity to remember that our choice of wording affects “oppressed,” based on stereotypes of race and sex: Minorities
our professional environment” (emphasis added).
and women are always victims; whites and men are always
Mr. Robinson is a bit confused about cause and effect. delinquents. “Diversity” has become the guise for a type of
Words certainly affect our professional environment: But ideological shivving that seeks to elevate certain groups by
they are not offensive if they are not true. A quick Google cowing others.
search yields sites galore debunking Robinson’s purported
But, as the saying goes, every bully is a wimp at heart. In
origins for each phrase:
Robinson’s case, he is exactly the pantywaist Roosevelt would
“Holding” a military site has been standard usage since have scorned, because there is a particularly grievous sort of
the Middle Ages, and the phrase “hold the fort” appears in a cowardice in the person who seeks to promote himself or his
nineteenth-century hymn (“‘Hold the fort, for I am coming,’ cause by misrepresenting the facts. His refusal—and that of
Jesus signals still”: sinister stuff.)
too many diversity champions—to engage in honest intellecThere is no evidence that a “rule of thumb” was ever the tual discourse does not cultivate an atmosphere of mutuality;
legal standard for wife-beating in Britain, where the phrase it perpetuates a vicious, close-minded factionalism. The rewas widespread by the seventeenth century, appearing in spect and sensitivity that Robinson purports to seek must be
print in a training manual for aspiring fencers: “What he founded on an honest assessment of the facts.
doth, he doth by rule of Thumb, and not by Art.” The phrase
But for a “chief diversity officer,” there is no need for facts
was not associated with domestic violence until the 1970s, when you have the eternal garment-rending of carefully
when those “women’s rights activists” resurrected a specious crafted victimhood. Yet perhaps that is just as well for us: It
eighteenth-century myth.
exposes Robinson’s hollow suit. !
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A’15
s an often excessively enthusiastic member of this here Polity, I am excited that
you have chosen this little school. Maybe you’ll plow through all four years of
the Program, or maybe somewhere along the way you’ll realize St. John’s isn’t for
you—either is okay. But I hope that whatever interaction you have with this school
and her people brings you good. The Good? Okay, no, nevermind, I’ll try really really
hard not to make Standard Cliché But Still Amusing Johnnie Jokes.
Anyway, here you are, in this new place, on the edge of beginning a new and lifechanging experience. You’re not just starting college, you’re starting St. John’s.
You’re going to be dealing with all the standard College Things (friends, dorm life,
sex, fighting for washing machines, dining hall food), but you’re also going to be
dealing with things that your friends at Normal College will not, things that only St.
John’s will throw at you.
And it’s hard to articulate exactly what these things are, because I believe they are
different for each person. St. John’s will mean something different to each of you. It
will challenge each of you in the way you need to be challenged. And that’s why the
best I can give you (as a seasoned and exceedingly wise sophomore, I KNOW ALL)
is that no one can really give you any advice. I can tell you the lessons I’ve learned
so that maybe you won’t make the mistakes I felt I made last year. But the truth is, I
needed those mistakes, maybe more than I needed my successes.
This is sort of an excessively wordy cop-out. I can’t really give you advice, at least
not anything specific. Or at least, I personally don’t feel qualified to—others seem to
do a pretty good job. I can be general and advise you to make yourself open to the
Program and the people you meet here. Every book, conversation, and experience
has the potential to impact you, possibly quite profoundly. As a freshman, all you
need to do is acknowledge your own limitations and ignorance and the fact that you
don’t have all the answers. Embrace that. Otherwise, you won’t get all that much out
of this school.
As soon as you can, stop worrying about talking in class. Not all of you will have
this problem, but some probably will. I did. Don’t think too too much about it. Just
speak up when you have something to say. I don’t want to tell you how to do class,
because that would be ridiculous. I can only employ my own experience as a generally shy and reserved sort of person. I left freshman year a little bit disappointed in
myself, because I knew I could have participated more in class. However, I am taking that disappointment and funneling it into a fierce desire to make my sophomore
year better.
That’s what I mean. Failure and shortcomings are inevitable. But that’s what
makes this experience (also life) interesting and colorful and beautiful. I do this
thing where I hesitate to do something or anything because I’m afraid of fucking
up. Don’t do that. SMASH YOUR FEAR WITH YOUR MIND VICE LIKE ALEC
BALDWIN. Because usually, once I get past that initial mental block (no easy task, but doable), things just kind of flow
and work. That is the Big Thing I’ve learned in my almost
twenty years thus far. Do with it what you will.
It’s also easy to get lost in a sea of confusion. It’s helpful to remember why it is you chose St. John’s in the first
place. It gets hard sometimes, and maybe it will drive
you to near-insanity (that one time I had an existential crisis after a seminar on Aristotle’s Ethics). But
hopefully you’ll get through the struggle and have
one of those Moments where you realize that what
you’re doing here is worthwhile. If you believe in St.
John’s and in yourself, you will do wonderfully.
Other than that...try out clubs and sports, take naps,
call your mom, have fun, and enjoy the ride. !
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n behalf of the senior class, we would like to express our frustration and disappointment with the size of our classes this year. Our time at St. John’s has
shown us that, for discussion-based classes, a small number of students is crucial
to fostering an engaging and respectful learning environment, one in which every
student has the opportunity to be heard.
We were told when applying to this school that tutorials would have between 12 and
15 students. The College website now says that tutorials and laboratories have 13 to
16 students, but even this does not reflect this year’s senior class sizes. Most senior
tutorials and laboratories have 17 students; this is the size of a small seminar and is
not conducive to the kind of rigorous, fruitful work that the Program is meant to
foster. Such large classes are not what we were promised coming into St. John’s and
are not conducive to the education we expected from our senior year.
Sincerely,
Daniel Kraft
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e appreciate your notifying us on behalf of the seniors about the serious concerns regarding the size of senior tutorials and laboratories. As tutors, we
share the very concerns you express. The increase in class size is not what we ever
would have wanted and we tried hard to avoid it. Let me say briefly what occurred.
We settle the teaching slate usually just after spring break. This year we adjusted
the slate several times after that date because of enrollment uncertainty and only
finalized it in late April, when we thought we had a firm sense of how many sections
of each class we would need. We learned in mid-summer, however, that there were
more returning students than we expected, which shifted the numbers just enough
to make both junior and senior classes larger than we know is best. The size of junior
tutorials was to be most seriously affected. We immediately decided to try to add
more sections for both juniors and seniors. In order to do this, of course, we must
ask tutors on leave to teach. We were able to add another section to junior tutorials
and laboratory, as well as another senior seminar, but we were not able to provide
tutors for additional sections of senior tutorials.
We hope that this outline provides a better sense of how it happens that class sizes
are not always what we wish them to be.
Yours truly,
Pamela Kraus
Dean
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Mr. Carl Page
How did you come to be a tutor at St. John’s?
By the time I finished my Ph.D., I had already heard much
about St. John’s through David Lachterman (R.I.P.)—one
of the two main advisors to my doctoral dissertation and an
alumnus of the College. Some years later, I happened to find
myself in need of a job and had just had the charming good
fortune of meeting Eva Brann in person, who was dean at the
time. She suggested I apply.
What classes are you teaching this year?
Freshman math, Sophomore Language, and Freshman Seminar.
What was the biggest adventure you’ve ever had?
You mean apart from my ongoing journey in this ever-astonishing, constantly intriguing, dappled realm of light and shadow? Memorable co-adventures seem to me many: camping out
for the first time in my life, being eight years old and catching a
three-foot eel, hiking up Mt. Ruapehu, tramping around Lake
Waikaremoana, swimming under the Waitakere falls, earning a living gill-netting on the the Hauraki Gulf, reducing all
my belongings to a single suitcase and heading for the United
States, hiking the Cascades, climbing Mt. St. Helens, canoeing on the Chattahoochee, running my first marathon, singing
Palestrina’s Pope Marcellus Mass one voice to a part, looking
out from the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, sprinting the track
at Olympia, paying my respects at Thermopylae, exploring
the Whirinaki forest, picking wild blueberries and chanterelle
mushrooms in the Dalarna woods of Sweden. I could go on, as
you may already have begun to realize.
What is the single most important piece of advice you
would like to give to freshmen (or upperclassmen)?
It’s not really for me to say whether my own advice is important or not, but one thing I would offer to freshmen: Waste no
time getting as busy as you can making as many mistakes as
you can in front of your peers and tutors; acknowledged error
will drive your learning far, far better than anything else ever
will; silent confusion, as you might already have started to suspect, gets you nowhere. As for upperclassmen, of course, you
should carry on making as many mistakes as you can in front
of your peers etc., etc.
What is your favorite seminar book and why?
Many who know me would probably expect me to answer, the
Republic. But Plato’s Republic is just too damned weird and
forbidding and obscure to count as a favorite. My warmest
responses are to: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, because I’ve
watched it help more young souls than any other great book I
know; Shakespeare’s Richard II, for its stunning blend of deep
political wisdom and gorgeous poetry; and George Eliot’s Middlemarch, not only for its also great art, but for its many generous insights into the modern and, well, the middling.
What is your least favorite seminar book and why?
That’s a toss-up between Calvin’s Institutes and the Enneads
of Plotinus. Why? Because I loathe untestable theory-spinning, and untestable theory-spinning dressed up as spiritual
profundity is even more loathsome. I do, on the other hand,
have to acknowledge that the seminar on Plotinus usually goes
pretty well—providing, that is, you don’t stick too closely to
the text.
What is your favorite non-Program book ?
Adam’s Task by Vicki Hearne (R.I.P.). Who’d have thought a
book ostensibly on animal training written by a poet could
be so full of wisdom-love? It is, though—being, among other
things, an indispensable thesaurus on the nature of thumos
and its centrality in the soul, both animal and therefore also
human. Vicki Hearne once gave a Friday Night Lecture at the
College; I think it’s the only time we’ve ever had a Border Collie do retrieval and scent work on the FSK stage.
And yet for all my enthusiasm, some other, more primordial
voice in me cries out to add that my most beloved non-Program book is Lord of the Rings. Perhaps I could on some other
occasion spell out exactly why I love it so—notwithstanding
all the other, apparently serious, weighty books so many of us
can be so clever about—but I’m afraid the simple declaration
will have to do for now.
What is your biggest pet peeve (that students do) in class?
Saying, “I’m confused,” when what’s really meant is, “I disagree.”
Let me add, though, that peeves are by definition minor and
ought to be concerned—as is the peeve just mentioned—with
things that could easily be otherwise. There are plenty of other
things students do that vex or dispirit me, but, because they’re
mostly to be expected and all but unavoidable, I’m obliged to
work on my own patience and fortitude rather than indulge
my initial and perhaps only grumpy aversions.
What is your favorite St. John’s tradition and why?
Oh, the Freshman Concert. I’m afraid we talk about “community” altogether too much—as if holding up a good and beautiful hope amounted forthwith to its actualization—but once
a semester in the Great Hall, there’s the real thing: sparkling
before our eyes, ringing in our ears, and reverberating through
our very bones.
What is your favorite class to be a tutor for and why?
Sophomore Language. Freshman jitters and pretensions are
on average over with; cynicism, apathy, and disillusion haven’t
yet, for the most part, taken hold. But more important, in
sophomore language we’ve the chance to be at genuine intellectual leisure (scholê) in studying at least a couple of the
truly great among the great books. We get to chew, mull, and
wrestle, instead of just dally and be titillated. Furthermore, the
otherwise varying claims of analysis, sensibility, and judgment
are obliged to find their way together as bearing on a single,
artful whole; there’s even a chance of getting to sense their
subtle, ultimate symphony.
*Let me conclude with a thank-you to the Gadfly staff for its
invitation to play along in its recently established party-game.
There’s something undoubtedly light-hearted about the questions, but not I think light-minded. We rational animals delight in learning—as though uncovering secrets—what serious
others might honestly feel and believe. Occasions to well serve
that natural, and in my view proper, curiosity come in a number of viable guises. !
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! Connor Callahan A’14
True transience is not moments
crashing, falling over one another
careening, slipping through all of our
fingers, running away, fleeting, flying
grains of sand, crumbling brick, rough
approximations of infinitesimally small
numbers, blood beating against the
temple walls.
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he spirit of deep inquiry that permeates this campus is
among its finest qualities. We tend to be insatiably curious
and unimpressed by easy answers. We doubt and we wonder
incessantly—about the works we read, the world we inhabit,
our own thoughts and actions. But it is most difficult to question in earnest those things dearest to us, and the College is
something most of us hold dear. Especially given how the College has chosen to portray itself recently—as a last bastion of
a bygone Golden Age-love of wisdom—it is not uncommon for
students to feel this is “the only college for them.” What a rare
and wonderful thing to find a cohort so invested in and excited
about the project it has set for itself.
And yet. The problem: we might become so invested, so
enamored, that it becomes difficult to apply that same prized
critical inquiry to the very institution that fosters it.
The aim of this irregular column is to examine St. John’s.
I want to ask why we do some of the things we do, to investigate whether the reasoning is sound, and to propose ways in
which we might better accomplish our purposes. What is this
column not? It is not a venue for my own pet quibbles about
minor points on the Program. (If you want to hear why I’d like
to see the Calvin selections changed or why Ptolemy shouldn’t
be split between freshman and sophomore math, find me on
the Quad.) On the other end of the spectrum, it is not a questioning of the Program’s fundamental principles: the value of
reading original texts, discussion classes, or an all-required,
multidisciplinary curriculum. Taking as granted the value of
the Program as an idea—admittedly, one subject to wide-varied interpretation—I mean only to consider and question some
of the ways we go about implementing it. I hope the result will
be at least a better understanding of St. John’s’ virtues and
flaws and why we do what we do. !
Real transience is not the sunset over the bay
the raindrop echoes off the pond, the sweaty
hot passion of an early autumn’s noon, the
death-defying uniform acceleration of a body
hurling itself into cold, black water as the stars
trace out the Cartesian plot of my heart, the scent
of incense as the earth lays dormant and dead,
immune to my power, unfeeling towards my
digging, not caring that only months prior
I cut out a chunk of its best sod in the indian summer—
probably its heart. A giant gash of an x
right over the waste pumped in.
Transience is not, nothing, but not, something, real.
For what does not endure cannot last, and what
cannot stand the test of time is bound up in the past.
Permanence is reserved for those who have no shot
in purgatory. Damned to bliss and blessed with burns.
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rapping up a fairly lettered, if disappointing, speech at cluding lie of his convention speech. Obama does nothing if
the Democratic National Convention, Obama jeered, he doesn’t have a coalition or public support behind him. He
“If the critics are right that I’ve made all my decisions based publicly announced the retreat of American forces from Afon polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.” What ghanistan in 2014—effectively telling the population that had
nonsense, I thought. Is there any evidence that Obama and the bet on the U.S. to win the conflict that they need to fend for
Democratic Party haven’t unfurled their sails to the popular themselves or accept the sinister tyranny of Hamid Karzai. In
winds?
Libya, Obama let Qaddafi’s killing squads operate without reThe president is happy to sit by and watch the annihila- proach until public outcry became too great and he was safely
tion of Syria by a sick dictator without offering anything more backed up by a U.N. resolution. In Iran, Obama barely made a
than a few scraps of support to the opposipeep when the government attacked civiltion. There is certainly no need to embroil
ians protesting the stolen election of 2009.
Is there any evidence
U.S. troops on the ground, but to watch the
In Israel, Obama demanded a complete
that Obama and the
incessant bombardment of civilians play
settlement freeze as a step on his “Road
Democratic Party haven’t Map to Peace.” Israeli prime minister Benout without firing a single warning shot
unfurled their sails to the jamin Netanyahu instead provided a halfor dropping a single bomb marks America
with the stain of impotence and indifferhearted, ten-month moratorium that did
popular winds?
ence. It’s likely the president is reluctant to
not include East Jerusalem, then humilimilitarily engage in Syria due to the fractured state of the op- ated the U.S. by announcing new settlement projects during
position and the multitude of jihadists within. But to ignore a visit from Vice President Biden a few months later. Obama’s
the problem is to ensure that when Assad falls, Syria will be response? He backpedaled, ending the push for a halt to West
open to any and all to fill its void—a country replete with sec- Bank settlements, infuriating the Palestinian allies that had
tarian suicide killings and midnight massacres. Once that hap- placed their trust in the U.S., and vetoing a U.N. resolution
pens, we will have no choice but to involve ourselves. Bartle calling the settlements illegal. All this to placate the RepubliBull of The Weekly Standard makes a compelling argument cans and secure the Jewish vote.
that al-Qaeda may not get the foothold it wants in the country,
This isn’t anything new from the Democratic Party. I was
but our present course of inaction leaves the Syrian people to recently looking over various politicians’ reactions to 9/11.
continue paying in blood for the Iranian- and Russian-backed Congressman Jerrold Nadler of New York, for example, railed
Assad. This nightmare that Obama’s ineptitude is leading us to furiously at the time that “it’s not a question of finding a particis a gruesome gamble of millions of lives.
ular person and putting him on trial. It’s a question of waging
Even as Obama’s campaign turns to post-convention mode, war against those who are waging war on us and making clear
the fighting in Aleppo is intensifying. How exactly, if Hillary to countries that deal with them or harbor them that they are
Clinton has deemed the fall of Assad
not friends of the United States and
“inevitable,” are the rebel fighters supDemocrat politicians have prov- will suffer the consequences.”
posed to defend themselves against
Eleven years later, his website asks,
en again and again that they’ll
gunships and warplanes with the pit“Why should we continue pouring
prostitute themselves and forget billions of dollars into an intractable
tance of support the U.S. has given
whatever promises they once
them? Looking at a map of Syria, you’ll
mess when we should be devoting
see that most of the population is disthose funds to our own economy?”
made in order to get your vote.
tributed in an arch from the western
Democrat Bob Graham said at the
coast toward Aleppo and down into the Euphrates valley. The time that the US was “not going to find the kinds of spies we
Aleppo Governorate, one of Syria’s 14 administrative divisions, need in monasteries.” Fast forward to 2009: What was Mr.
is the keystone of this arch and home to more than 4 million Graham doing? Swearing up and down that he had no knowlpeople—a quarter of the country’s population. Whoever takes edge of any waterboarding. Forget “stay the course”—DemoAleppo splits the country in half. It is this battle, if no other, crat politicians have proven again and again that they’ll prostithat Obama should be focused on winning. Turkey is pushing tute themselves and forget whatever promises they once made
for a no-fly zone at the U.N. The president should enact that in order to get your vote. There lie the past eleven years of
measure even over Russian and Chinese opposition.
doublespeak and opinion poll-adjusting from a rotten, vacuBut President Obama has always been frustratingly hesitant ous party that will embrace anyone and anything—so long as
to do anything “unilaterally.” Thus we come back to the con- the numbers are right. !
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! Erik G. Neave, A’16
One eye towards the rain
Limping home on cobbled stone
Stacked and stretched out
Like the pregnant drops of a cloud.
So much has changed:
The stones
And the home
And the creeping stillness of the rain.
One eye towards the sun
Spiderwebbing through the mist
Frayed and dangling down
Like an unmanned marionette.
So much has changed:
The mist
And the webs
And the splintered magnets of light.
One eye towards myself
Lengthening shadow unmade
Broad bellied and mute.
So much the same:
The surface
And the silence
And the one eye set towards the rain.
St. John’s and the Rankings
Sebastian Abella
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A’15
here may be no real purpose in writing another piece in disapproval
of college rankings and their inherent
subjectivity. Malcolm Gladwell wrote
one for The New Yorker criticizing the
most popular college ranking guide, U.S.
News, and their algorithm for determining the order. You could likely find many
other recent pieces in national publications riffing on the subject. St. John’s’
own website features a brief letter to
U.S. News that summarizes the major
criticisms. And though I know as a good
Johnnie I shouldn’t care, I can’t help but
be curious about the rankings when they
come out every year, particularly about
how St. John’s fares in them.
U.S. News is a bit unfair to St. John’s; it
ranks the College at #139 among Liberal
Arts Colleges, despite the minor detail
that the school does not participate in
the surveys. How can you be ranked if
you don’t play the game? The Washington Monthly, on the other hand, ranks St.
John’s at a respectable nineteenth place
this year. Saying “Top 20 in the Country”
sounds better to your friends, though.
Still, the most entertaining rankings
are those from the Princeton Review,
which does not boast of any quantifiable
data, but rather embraces the subjectivity of student surveys. St. John’s places
in a number of categories, including
“Classroom Discussions Encouraged,”
“Professor’s Get High Marks,” and
“There’s a Game?”
Can we learn anything from these
rankings? Discrepancies between the
two campuses suggest that the rankings are determined arbitrarily. In the
Princeton Review rankings, Santa Fe nudges one
spot ahead of Annapolis
in “Classroom Discussions Encouraged,” yet
makes no appearance in
“Best Classroom Experience,”
where Annapolis is spotted at
eighth.
The incongruity between
the campuses is notably apparent in Newsweek’s list of
“Most Rigorous Colleges”
from 2011, where Santa Fe is
in first place, and Annapolis
is seven spots behind, despite the campus’s nearly identical curriculums. The
2012 edition of the publication fails to
rank either campus in the top 25—possibly due to the fact that the College
dropped any books deemed “too rigorous” for the upcoming year.
Though heavily criticized, college
rankings will not disappear anytime
soon. U.S. News, among many other publications, does better with its “College
Rankings” issue than issues containing
real news. What remains to be asked
is: why the popularity to begin with?
Maybe because rankings offer a simple
answer to a complex question.
Surely Johnnies can relate to this
when friends and family engage them
in small talk about school. Questions of
majors and sports are more challenging to answer from a St. John’s student’s
perspective; the same goes regarding
the question of the College’s perceived
quality compared to other schools. The
appeal of rankings is that they allow one
to casually cite a number, either to boast
or defend one’s decision to attend that
school, both to the inquirer and to oneself.
Like most Johnnies, I’d prefer to think
that my choice to attend St. John’s was
based on the school itself, and not on
outside pseudo-objective ratings. Yet, I
can’t deny that having the “Most Rigorous School in 2011” card up my sleeve
for the next non-Johnnie party I go to
is reassuring. Even if it is on the wrong
campus. !
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A’14
f you are ever passing through Oklahoma City and have a those spaces. But for the national memorial of the attack to
moment to pause at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, emphasize above all that emptiness seems some sort of condo it. It is a powerful place.
fession—that what we remember most about that day is the
In 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a bomb in a Ryder void that opened up, and more than ten years later, we believe
truck parked in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal build- that is how we should remember that day.
ing. The bomb killed 168 people, including 19 children in an
With its selection, the Memorial Jury chose a design that
on-site daycare center.
did not commemorate the lives of the victims, the work of the
At the memorial, which opened five years later, a long, still Center or its thousands of employees, the countless sacrifices,
reflecting pool sits between two massive Gates of Time. The or the heroes. It commemorated the holes in the ground. It
East Gate reads “9:01,” the last moment of morning peace memorialized the emptiness.
before the attack. The West Gate reads “9:03.” Stretched out
In the past, we have defied the emptiness by building. We
beside the pool is the Field of Empty Chairs. 168 chairs repre- construct monuments and shrines. We make statues. We erect
sent each person killed; on the bottom of each chair a name is gravestones. When others have torn down, we have built up.
inscribed. The chairs are arranged in nine rows to represent
The most powerful images from the Murrah Building methe building’s nine floors. There are nineteen smaller chairs morial in Oklahoma City are of survivors hugging the chairs
for the children.
of loved ones. Each chair is a small token of remembrance
It is an affecting place. It’s the chairs. You remember the built up out of the ruins.
chairs.
Not in New York. There is nothing to hold onto. There is
I had the opportunity to visit the recently opened Septem- only the emptiness and that same feeling of being swallowed
ber 11 memorial while I was living in New York City this sum- up that started eleven years ago.
mer. Two massive square waterfalls mark the
Some building has begun again. The spire
footprints of the original Twin Towers. On
of the new One World Trade Center will soar
With its selection,
bronze parapets surrounding the waterfalls
to 1,776 feet when it is complete, surpassthe Memorial Jury... ing the height of the previous World Trade
are etched the names of the victims of the
2001 attacks—including those in Washington,
commemorated the Center complex. But eight years on, the new
D.C., and Pennsylvania—and those of the 1993
holes in the ground. tower is still in construction, and while it is
World Trade Center bombing.
expected to open next year, it is not expected
It memorialized the to be fully occupied until 2019. The last buildIt is a strangely unaffecting place. There is
emptiness.
the initial awe of standing in that space so faing in the World Trade Center complex is not
miliar from television footage, and there is the
expected to be filled until 2037. Compare that
starkness of its cleanliness and order when, in our memory, it to the Empire State Building, which was finished in just 16
is linked to images of chaos and rubble. But after staring into months during the Great Depression.
the pools, and after reading the names arranged at their edgChurchill famously said, “We shape our buildings; thereafes, what is most obvious is not what is there, but what is not.
ter they shape us.” But what ought we to think when we have
Nothing is there. Emptiness. On September 11, 2001, terror- lost the will to build almost entirely?
ists struck two holes into Lower Manhattan. Ten years later,
Yet our rebuilding has not only been slow—it has been cowthe holes remain, only this time with the imprimatur of the ardly. The 1,776-foot tower set to open next year was originalSeptember 11 Memorial Jury and the ornamentation of archi- ly called the “Freedom Tower.” In 2006 the New York/New
tects Michael Arad and Peter Walker.
Jersey Port Authority renamed it, privately citing security
Arad and Walker’s design, “Reflecting Absence,” was se- concerns.
lected from 5,201 proposals from 63 countries submitted to
Perhaps we should have chosen the proposed memorial
a 2003 competition for memorial proposals. From the Jury’s that circulated by email in the months following September
statement on the winning design:
11: a giant middle finger dominating the New York City skyline. Tactful? Maybe not. But it at least captured the right senIn its powerful, yet simple articulation of the footprints of timent: bold, united, defiant.
the Twin Towers, “Reflecting Absence” has made the voids
And that is the sentiment worth consecrating. September
left by the destruction the primary symbols of our loss. By 11, 2001, and the following weeks revealed the strength of
allowing absence to speak for itself, the designers have a nation, demonstrated in acts of compassion, courage, and
made the power of these empty footprints the memorial. selflessness, from first responders who dashed into the flames
At its core, this memorial is anchored deeply in the actual to communities near and far who sent aid, and gathered in
events it commemorates—connecting us to the towers’ de- solidarity and prayer.
struction, and more important, to all the lives lost on that
We ought to have built a grand monument to that spirit. In
day.
Lower Manhattan a towering memorial ought to testify to the
heights of which men are capable, even amid the greatest loss.
Certainly emptiness is fitting: Those who lost loved ones The emptiness of September 11 was real. But it is time to reon September 11 and in the days that followed can never fill build. !
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o Dan Deacon’s got a new album out, immediately presenting the listener
and, like how I imagine most Dan with a sense of conflict and extreme
Deacon fans reacted, I thought, “Oh, tension that remains prevalent until the
nice! That’ll be fun.” Dan Deacon’s one end of “USA.” Meanwhile, several songs
of the most innovative artists in con- eschew consistent beats entirely in fatemporary music, but he hardly inspires vor of a newfound focus on melody; the
the kind of passionate debates and side- piano interlude in “Prettyboy” is one the
drawing that other trend-setters like the most understated sections of music DeaDirty Projectors or Fleet Foxes might. con’s made yet, while “Rail” relies on the
Nor has he ever shown himself to be quiet rhythm of plucked violin and cello
very intellectually stimulating; he writes strings to make a gradual Kraftwerk-like
high-energy dance music that sounds pulse, imitating the gentle lull of an inpractically designed for a cartoon or a terstate train ride.
video game. In short, yours truly didn’t
Above all, there is a predominant
expect much on that front.
sense of seriousness to this album that
But then Mr. Deawas absent from
con released Ameriprevious works. The
While it’s easy to apca, a forty-three minsped-up
cartoon
proach [America] with a
ute album designed
voices may still be
dismissive eye, [Dan Dea- here, but they’re
to encompass the
con] is more serious about inexplicably used
political, geographiit than you might think...
cal, and emotional
to emotional effect;
essence of the United
Deacon’s
lyrics,
States. While it’s easy to approach this meanwhile, reflect upon a claustrophowith a dismissive eye, he’s more serious bic sense of shame and fear, which, he
about it than you might think; the latter seems to argue, is inherent in modern
half is a 21-minute suite entitled “USA,” American culture. This seriousness apsplit into four sections that feature a full plies to the production as well—gone are
orchestra. But instead of merely relying the extreme disparities in volume that
on the blunt sense of ambition here, Dea- Bromst’s cheap dynamics employ, while
con truly shows his burgeoning maturity songs like “The Great American Desert”
as a musical artist. On previous albums feature a near-shoegaze vocal delivery
there was a prevalent sense of wasted that contributes more effectively to a
time and lukewarm material unbefit- sense of atmosphere than any repetiting of a serious album. Spiderman of the tive keyboard line. Above all, America
Rings had hastily constructed sketches suggests that Deacon has gradually inlike “Jimmy Roche” and “Trippy Green creased the quality and scope of his alSkull,” while Bromst
bums since 2007,
The sped-up cartoon
(an album widely
and this is the peak.
called his most maBut can I really
voices may still be here,
ture, no less) had the
call this a “peak”
but they’re inexplicably
bizarre a capella inused to emotional effect... when I’m merely
terlude “Wet Wings.”
comparing it to his
Here, there is not a wasted second. past albums? Dan Deacon’s music has
Dan Deacon had gained notoriety dur- reached a level that demands comparaing the Bromst recordings for his use of tive analysis with other musicians, not
an electric piano, rewired to fit six times just himself. Furthermore, this album’s
as many notes onto one recording; here, sense of magnitude suggests a kind of
he uses more advanced polyrhythms creative output that is hard to consisthat are ultimately more streamlined tently reach. So, to be frank, I’m not enand efficient than any of the adrenaline- tirely sure where he can go from here.
rush beats on previous albums. The But I can declare one statement wholeopening instrumental, “Guilford Avenue heartedly: America is one of the most
Bridge,” uses a frantic cowbell beat to complex, engrossing, and altogether caemphasize its sense of nervous energy, thartic albums of the year thus far. !
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ear student interested in sociology, “mass psychology,” and its “experiments”:
The Gadfly meets in the Hodson House.
Please use the front door.
I spoke to you unjustly in the Question Period Friday night, and I’m sorry. It
was wrong of me to cut off as I did the presentation you wanted to make of the
social science experiments that inform your perspective on the issues being
explored. A speaker who makes much of the rules of fair debate should play by
his own rules. In the enthusiasm of my own opinions, I failed to do this, and
that set a bad example, which was not only wrong but also embarrassing to me.
I take this means of trying to right my wrong, and of asking you to seek me
out so that we can continue our conversation on a more equal footing. I think
we both could learn from doing so.
Articles should be submitted by Friday
at 11:59 PM to sjca.gadfly@gmail.com.
Sincerely,
Staff
Nathan Goldman • Editor-in-Chief
Ian Tuttle • Editor-in-Chief
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Sasha Welm • Cartoonist
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Andrew Kriehn • Staff
Sarah Meggison • Staff
Kevin Morris • Staff
Charles Zug • Staff
Jonathan Barone • Intern
Contributors
William Braithwaite Robert Malka
Connor Callahan
Bryce Northington
Alvaro Duran
Joseph Vallely
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wo notes for our faithful Gadfly
readers:
1) Because of Mr. Duran’s and
Mr. Malka’s sterling political
commentary in this week’s pages,
“Bursting the Johnnie Bubble” is
taking a week off. But fear not—it
will return next week.
2) We are hard at work preparing a
special issue of the Gadfly to appear
the weekend of Homecoming. This
year’s program will include several
events open to students, so make sure
to take a glance at the Homecoming
schedule, to be published in next
week’s issue.
William Braithwaite
Tutor
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edit submissions in any way necessary
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ear sneezy, drippy, hacking student:
While the campus’s population
of firstborn appears to remain intact, you have no doubt realized that
the first wave of Johnnie Plague has
struck. With vengeance.
For the sake of the general welfare (and common defense) of the
Polity, this concerned student politely requests that, as you grapple
with this contagion, you kindly realize the benefits of Germ-X. Should
that remain ineffective, feel free to
boil your hands. In tutorials, please
place a chair, or a sheet of Plexiglass,
between us; in seminar, take to the
corners or the back wall. Or sit in the
hallway. We’ll speak up.
I really do hope you feel better.
But in the meantime, please do not
take offense if I flee from your presence in a Hazmat suit.
Sincerely,
Genial Germaphobe
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As the Albany Bureau Chief of the New York
Times, Danny Hakim has used the skill of considered questioning for many years as a journalist.
In this profile, he outlines a few paths that future
Johnnie journalists can take to enter the field.
Danny Hakim, A’93, Albany Bureau Chief of the NYT.
What is your current job?
I’m the Albany Bureau Chief of the New York Times.
reporting at a top newspaper, and then also experienced shoe
leather reporting on a much more intimate and intense scale.
Did you attend other schools after St. John’s?
Other than two weeks at art school, no.
Any general advice, especially for an upperclassman who
is interested in this field but is not quite sure what to do?
Try to do some freelancing and build up a clip file. Even if
you can’t get a job in the industry after you graduate, getting
freelance work is a lot easier than finding a job. Be prepared to
be frustrated in your job search, but also be persistent. If you
don’t get an answer from an editor you send an email to, call
them, follow up, try to find a balance between being persistent
and being a pest. But remember that reporters are supposed to
be pesky, so don’t be afraid to be.
Did you know what you wanted to do while attending St. John’s?
Yes, I wanted to be a painter, but I got the bug for journalism
not long after I graduated.
Did St. John’s help prepare you for work in the field?
Absolutely. St. John’s taught me how to think, which helps in
just about any field. As a journalist, you obviously always want
to be asking questions, searching for answers and trying to see
things in different ways, and those are all skills you spend a lot
of time learning at St. John’s.
Any specific disadvantages to a St. John’s background?
Obviously, there are some specialized skills you don’t pick up
at St. John’s. In my field, for instance, students who study at
formal journalism programs can learn skills like computer
assisted reporting—the growing field of mining and analyzing
government databases for stories. But those are specific skills
you can learn along the way.
How did you feel you compared, in graduate school or early
jobs, to people from different educational backgrounds,
particularly those with field-related degrees?
I don’t think it really made a big difference—most of journalism
is learning on the job.
Can you describe a general track someone from St. John’s
might take to get into a career in this field?
There are a number of avenues to take, though the economic
climate isn’t all that encouraging for starting out in journalism.
If I was starting out today, I’d apply to small newspapers
around the country, in out of the way places, and see if I could
find some work. Sometimes you need to do an internship or
work as a clerk at a larger paper to build up some credentials
to get a full-time reporting job at a smaller paper. But it’s worth
it. The advantage of working at a smaller paper is that you get
to do a lot of different things, cover a range of different beats
at once, and learn a lot of different skills. Those are lessons
you can build on the rest of your career. I started out as a clerk
at the Washington Post—it took me four interviews over six
months just to get a job in the mailroom. A couple years later,
I got a job at a paper in the Bible Belt covering crime. Both
experiences helped me tremendously. I got a taste for national
How did you market yourself with a St. John’s degree?
I can’t say I really did—I tried to let my work speak for itself.
More people than I expected knew about St. John’s, though,
and for those who did it was always a conversation point.
How would you characterize your field as a whole? Is it
accessible to newcomers or difficult to enter? Stable or
fluid? Etc.
Journalism is going through a rough transformation period,
so I wouldn’t call it stable. It’s not particularly accessible to
newcomers, but people who are really interesting in journalism
always find a way to make a go of it. But it’s competitive.
What was your senior essay topic?
My senior essay was about the meaning of the Mona Lisa. If I
remembered more about it I’d tell you. I didn’t really learn how
to write well until I was paid for it, but it was fun spending a
lot of time deconstructing Da Vinci’s approach to painting.
What is your favorite book on the Program?
I think the Greeks had the greatest impact on me—Plato,
the Iliad, Aristotle, etc.—perhaps because they were the first
things I read as a Johnnie and freshman year was such an eye
opener for me. I went to a traditional Southern private school
where I was lectured at most of the time, so I was never really
excited by learning in high school. Debating the Greeks that
first year was shocking and exciting.
Do you find that you lead a philosophical life?
Definitely not as much as I’d like to. I’m best known in
journalism circles for being one of the lead reporters on the
Times team that broke the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal,
so my job is less about philosophy and more about the here
and now. !
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week and a half ago, the Democratic/Republican Na- quite the flat world Friedman, a modern economist, predicted,
tional Conventions ended, after much unnecessary pomp but countries are nevertheless competing with each other on
and a shrieking news cycle, for an audience that digests these the world stage as they try to improve their and their citizens’
scripted soap operas to reassure themselves that only their livelihoods. This is manifestly not the solution. Let compapeople have the right solutions for America. Sadly, neither nies compete! Let the market regulate itself to give us the best
have it, especially when it comes to the one issue that every products and services. But let us not put our livelihoods on the
poll states is the nation’s supreme prerogative: jobs. We lack table—no country should have to risk its children in the fight
jobs in this country, and everybody knows it. People live their to make itself relevant.
lives around this daunting fact, and the conventions built
So where is this middle ground of which I speak? The late
themselves around it. So for all that political theater, what did Sir James Goldsmith, a business tycoon, not only predicted
the conventions have to offer the American
today’s conflict, but proposed that if counpeople?
Let companies compete! tries implemented tariffs, it would make
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Romney
Let the market regulate economics regional, forcing companies to
preached about his business acumen, and
itself to give us the best care about where they are and what they
even policy wonk President Bill Clinton
do to their consumers and workers. In othproducts and services.
just kept score: “In the last fifty-four years…
er words, we would sell products and serRepublicans [have created] twenty-four
vices made and facilitated by Americans to
million [ jobs]. Democrats: forty-two [million].” And so on. Americans. Yes, prices would go up, but so would wages, and
Distinctly lacking was an honest explanation of the unprec- who knows? We might even be able to have jobs. And with taredented economic times we’re in. Distinctly wanting is an au- iffs set at a proper rate, it wouldn’t exclude international trade.
dience willing to listen.
The economy exists to serve us. It is not our God. And if we
So why are these economic times unprecedented? Let us be- don’t do something soon to put our economy on a leash, we
gin with the transnational corporation (TNC). Never has the might as well embrace now what Steve Jobs said to President
company, in any period in history, been so disconnected from Obama just before his death: “Those jobs aren’t coming back.”
the areas in which it operates. When a TNC finds cheaper And neither is the America we grew up in. Maybe we should
wages anywhere in the world, it races there to set up shop, of- tell those people running for president. !
ten making workers put up with very extreme working conditions. And as wages, prices, and quality of living in that country rise, and the people begin to ask for more, they scramble
to yet another country, to indulge in the same process all over
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he only thing that needs to be known about the boring, need for the government to apologize for the legal acts of its
camp movie trailer, Innocence of Muslims, is that the en- citizens. Even before the Islamist flag was unfurled over our
tire production is rife with cowardice. The pseudonym of its embassy grounds, the cowering inhabitants within were alcreator, “Sam Bacile,” the attribution of the film to a shadowy ready condemning “the continuing efforts by misguided indicabal of Jews, the incessant overdubbing in the dialogue—the viduals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims,” as well as
entire movie is a heap of spineless strata, all piled in an art- the “efforts to offend believers of all religions.” This condemless mess. Let us not, then, compare it to the Jyllands-Posten nation, which came a bit late (the film has been up since early
Muhammad cartoons, which were satiric, openly published, July), apparently did not have the effect its besieged authors
properly attributed, and part of a societal discussion on the anticipated. The grounds were stormed shortly after. After the
intolerances of Islam. Artistry aside, however, the film is prob- mayhem, the embassy once again reaffirmed its criticism of
ably the least important issue regarding the storming of our American citizens before removing the posts completely.
embassies and consulates in the Middle East.
President Obama correctly disavowed the Egyptian emAs many news sources have reported, most “protesters” bassy messages, saying they had not been cleared by him and
have never seen the film and are, instead, fomented to action did not “reflect the views of the United States government.”
by religious zeal and a crude desire for self-expression and The commander-in-chief, however, must have lost control of
self-determination. Jihadist groups that had been forced to his subordinates afterwards. General Martin Dempsey, chairtread in the shadows under dictatorships are now free to vio- man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called the odious pastor, Terry
late diplomatic immunities at will—many
Jones, to convince him to step away from
doubtlessly encouraged by the impotence
In addition, this sad episode the film. What business does a ranking
of local police and the half-hearted disgovernment official have trying to comhas shown the complete
couragements of political leaders. In adpel the choices of one if its citizens? To
ineptitude of the Obama
dition, this sad episode has shown the
try and save lives, you say? It didn’t matadministration, as well as
complete ineptitude of the Obama adminter a whit, as I showed above, that the
istration, as well as the sinister uselessEgyptian embassy openly condemned the
the sinister uselessness of
ness of religion.
filmmakers. The grounds were still overreligion.
Coming on the eleventh anniversary
run and desecrated. And now there are
of al-Qaeda’s greatest victory in the West, why Obama chose rumors that Obama himself called YouTube up to try and presto man a consulate in a newly liberated nation known to be sure them to take the video down. A cosmopolitan president
populated with jihadists with little security is something ev- like Obama should have realized that once something goes
ery citizen should be demanding to know. Likewise, we should viral no one can “take it down.” More chillingly, what is the
be demanding to know why the Egyptian embassy rolled over president doing trying to personally lean on a company that
and allowed American soil (which is what an embassy is) to be hasn’t done anything illegal? What in the world could he have
overflown by an Islamist flag. Should we not have a company been thinking that would have let him believe that was a good
of Marines in every embassy and consulate in the Middle East idea? Any fool who thinks that by silencing citizens at home
liberally armed with rubber bullets to prevent such a gross hu- they can save some abroad has been asleep for at least the last
miliation? And just as liberally armed with live ammunition to eleven years.
prevent the lynchings of our ambassadors?
Mitt Romney shows no more promise in being a compeAnd what of the politicians that have permitted these at- tent war-fighter than Obama, either. While the smoke was
tacks to take place? Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi—a still rising in Cairo and the blood was still fresh on the paveweird and sinister man who has said the U.S. “has never pre- ment in Benghazi, the “caring and compassionate” man we
sented any evidences on the identity of those who committed kept hearing about during the RNC decided this would be the
[9/11]”—made his first remarks on the storming of our embas- perfect time to score some political points. Standing at the
sy not by denouncing the assaults, but instead calling for the podium, he extended his condolences and then proceeded to
prosecution of the filmmakers responsible and directing the smirk through a cheap and ultimately inaccurate attack on a
Egyptian embassy in the U.S. to initiate “all possible legal ac- supposed apology from Obama. He correctly noted that the
tion” against the producers. Morsi received his doctorate de- president is ultimately responsible for the messages that his
gree from the University of Southern California, so he is famil- ambassadors give out, but Romney equated the mistaken coniar with American safeguards on freedom of expression. This demnation by the government of a legal action by a citizen to
cheap demagoguery, therefore, is only to appeal to the most “apologizing for the right of free speech.” This was a twistprovincial and twisted louts in the electorate—many of whom ed overreach—an opportunistic grab for poll numbers—and
were gleefully torching our flag.
it showed, all too painfully, what a charmless Machiavellian
But the most depressing aspect of this tragedy has been the looks like.
spinelessness and opportunistic quality of our current and
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prospective leaders. First is the constant (almost compulsive)
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A Review of Two Heavy-Hitters: Part I
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ocial justice. Racial sensitivity. Gender equality. These more dramatic and blended interpretation of the first symissues matter. But there is another we often forget, that phony as being most convincing. However, I think Dohnanyi
should have a regular presence in our daily lives.
deserves much listening to: Because he calls for more separaThe choice between recordings of Brahms symphonies tion between orchestral sections, he brings to the surface nucan appear daunting. Occupying a “salt of
merous counter-melodies and motifs that
the earth” position within Romantic music,
could easily, in Karajan’s interpretation, go
The choice between
these symphonies have been, and are reguunheard.
recordings of Brahms
larly, recorded by the best orchestras and the
In the second part of this series, I will
symphonies can appear review the second and fourth movements
best conductors. For this reason I have selected two well-known complete recordings
of the second symphony in D major, as well
daunting.
as the subjects of my comparative review.*
as the first movement of the third symphony
From the first bar of the first symphony
in F major. !
and onward, the differences that characterize the styles of
Dohnanyi and Karajan are loud and apparent. Dohnanyi treats *Reviewed:
every section of the orchestra as an individual part: because
> Brahms: Symphonies, Overtures, and Violin Concerto, by
of this, the carefully punctuated timpani-strokes dominate the Christoph von Dohnanyi and the Cleveland Orchestra
introduction of the first symphony. Karajan, in classic form,
> Brahms: The Complete Symphonies, by Herbert von Karablends the timpani with the rest of the ensemble, and with jan and the Berlin Philharmonic
the help of the first violins, makes the tutti sound like a single menacing instrument. Interestingly, even though Karajan
calls for more blended orchestration, he generally pays much
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more attention to individual moments in the piece; that is, he
undertakes a more dramatic reading of the score. So, whereas
It’s disheartening to see the level of stupidity, confusion,
Dohnanyi maintains a solid tempo throughout the introducand ignorance regarding free speech—and I mean in the
tion, Karajan willingly relaxes or exaggerates the tempo acU.S. Hack writers and scholars of all stripes emerged to
cording to the drama of each moment, with mixed results. His
argue about the filmmakers “abusing” the rights of free
handling of the introduction is superb; his handling of the bespeech. This, by the way, is weak, veiled language that
ginning of the exposition is not. The first theme sounds scatinsinuates that the producers exceeded some predetertered and chaotic as it bursts forth from the slow, brooding
mined boundary that lies outside of the protections of the
introduction. Dohnanyi lessens the change in in tempo, and
government. It’s a way to nudge forward the idea of prostherein renders a much more convincing exposition.
ecuting them without going right out and saying it. (Talk
However, Dohnanyi orchestrates the development section
about abusing free speech.) Everywhere, “shouting ‘fire’
much more effectively, by drawing-out and making more apin a crowded theater” was becoming the slogan of the ofparent the dialogue between the strings and the brass: in dofended. This stupid phrase, by the way, was coined by the
ing this, he both heightens the drama, and exposes several
overrated, over-quoted Oliver Wendell Holmes in a Susignificant reoccurring rhythmic and melodic motives that are
preme Court case that upheld the censoring of someone
otherwise indistinguishable in Karajan’s interpretation. Unprotesting the drafting of men for a nationalist war. (Why,
fortunately, Dohnanyi does not maintain his poise throughout
I wonder, do we not marvel over the supposed genius of
the recapitulation: there is one short, yet infinitely important
Holmes when he writes that “it is better for all the world
series of horn calls that he entirely disregards. Here the score
if, instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for
clearly calls for fortissimo:
crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can
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But Dohnanyi blows it, offering a stifled mezzo forte at best.
Karajan, in allowing the horns their proper loudness, clearly
understands the significance this fanfare-like moment that
so obviously foreshadows the mood of the fourth movement.
Because of these as well as other examples, I view Karajan’s
prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing
their kind”?) Either way, the usually competent Christiane
Amanpour cited the “crowded theater” ruling. The absurd
Stephen Prothero, professor of religion at Boston University, did as well. Anthea Butler, another (surprise) professor of religion from the University of Pennsylvania, wrote
that it is “important to remember that other countries and
cultures do not have to understand or respect our right.”
If there is a crowded theater we’re all in, I would consider
these comments to be a certain smoldering. !
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A Review of Tiny Beautiful Things
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Today
I dreamt I filed my nails down to the quick
they bled until the sun turned orange
warm colors burned my brain
while the soft summer rain
came tumbling down
and we drowned
and we were buried
in the sea of forgotten dreams
Cigarettes burned bright and our nails
still bloody
were mirror images
mere images
of our souls
Tried and tired beyond
all belief we strove to grow our garden
trimming it with more delicacy
than we chewed on our nails
It bloomed in the spring
and died in the fall
as all things must
Quickly we harvested what was left
and quietly we let the garden go to seed
allowed it to fallow for the year our hearts
were buried in the mud
rich
dark
full of power
And yet so inconsequential
it’s just dirt
ashes
dust
All becomes one with the sea
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he first Dear Sugar column I read two strangers (most of the letter writwas “How You Get Unstuck,” in ers are, like Sugar, pseudonymous) but
which Sugar consoles a woman devas- in fact shared with anyone with Intertated by a miscarriage. Those who ex- net access—and now anyone with this
pect her to move on gracefully from the book. That Strayed has now gone pubtrauma, Sugar tells her, “live on Planet lic alters but does not diminish this.
Earth. You live on Planet My Baby
So Strayed’s take on the form is inDied.” I was 18 and in my senior year ventive. But her patience and tenderof high school, and I must have read ness distinguish her, too. She is direct
the column three times in fewer days. and sometimes severe, but she never
Overnight I joined the huge following condemns. Her empathy is infectious,
devoted to this then-anonymous advice and it’s needed. Many if not all of us
columnist redefining the form.
are gossips, hungering for others’ stoTiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love ries and secrets. One of the advice coland Life from Dear Sugar collects more umn’s appeals is the promise of nosing
than 50 columns by Sugar, aka novelist/ into someone else’s business, often to
memoirist Cheryl Strayed. It includes gawk and mock and judge. Rather than
a well-curated selection of the pieces nourish that prurient want, Strayed’s
originally published on The Rumpus columns transform it. Removed leering
and a handful of colbecomes involved lisumns, some very brief,
tening. Judgment gives
not previously pubway to compassion.
lished. Steve Almond,
Tiny Beautiful Things
who originally had the
is a collection of these
Sugar gig, contributes
columns and it is more
a tender, exultant forethan that. As a work it
word, and micro interhas an integrity all its
views with Strayed inown. Though organized
troduce each of the five
thematically
rather
themed sections.
than
chronologically,
These columns are
the book has the feel
unusual because many
of an epistolary novel,
are as much about the
or, more appropriately,
adviser as the advisee.
an epistolary memoir.
They’re part advice,
It is a fractured look at
part personal essay. But
Strayed’s life as filtered
Tiny Beautiful Things:
it is not simply Strayed’s
through others’ lives,
Advice on Love and Life
inclusion of her own
so it’s a kind of collabfrom Dear Sugar
stories that makes her
orative memoir, too.
by Cheryl Strayed
singular in her field.
In terms of the advice
Vintage, 2012
Rather, it’s the delicate
itself, though Strayed
368 pages, $14.95
way she interweaves
never exactly repeats
these stories into the
herself, the more you
pieces. She makes it clear not only that read the columns, the more you can
advice and anecdote are not discrete anticipate what she’ll advise. Ethical
components of each column, but also principles emerge as themes reoccur:
that all advice bears in it one’s own sto- Strayed emphasizes honesty (with oneries. When we ask someone, stranger self and others), gratitude, boundary
or friend, “What are my options? What setting, humility, and unreserved emshould I do?”, implicit in the question is pathy. Nothing revolutionary, but much
another: “What has your life taught you that is vital.
about living that might help you to adTiny Beautiful Things ends up being
vise me?” Our lives inform our choices something less systematic and rigorous
and thus our counsel. By writing about than an ethical treatise but far more
herself, Strayed imbues her advice with lyrical than a typical self-help book. It
a rare transparency and an authentic is practical but also meditative, a salve
credibility.
as well as a call to self-examination. It
Strayed’s openness also fosters a po- is an elegant ode to the troubles we face
tent intimacy, if a strange one. It’s an and our luck at not having to face them
intimacy in one sense shared between alone. !
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