29 20 5655 https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/09cdf16a4c5195f69d70885121ac1df4.pdf 1d063ac0cfbc15a533c2c86e68ecec5c PDF Text Text i-- THE THE ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE INVEPENVENT STUVENT WEEKLY VOL. II, ISSUE 21 . <' '),. .· '.:. .- ; • • ' - MAR. 30, 7987 L ' • ,1 I ' I Directories Help Students Find Work l. - - !I i - T Whether you're looking for an internship position to enhance your education and experience or a summer job to increase your bank account, help is now here in the form of two new directories-1981 Internships and 1981 Summer Employment Directory of the U.S. (Writer's Digest Books). Each of these books lists thousands of job opportunities for students and gives complete information on how to get those jobs. 1981 Internships lists more than 15,000 short-term positions which enable students to get onthe-job experience-a valuable addition to any resume-while trying out a career on a tempor~ . basis. These internship pos1t10ns are located throughout the United States and cover a wide range of careers, including those in business and industry communications, the arts, gov~ e_rnment, law, political organizations, social service groups, museums, libraries, and more. Each listing in 1981 Internships is up-tcrdate and packed with information that will help in the selection of the right internship, including: duties of the position; training offered; qualifications; availability of college ~ internship position, including tips on choosing the internship best suited to your needs and on applyi~~ for and interviewing for a position, plus advice from employers and those who have recently held internship positions. .1981 S~mmer Employment Dzrectory hsts more than 50 OOO sum~er. jobs, including ~uch fascmatmg opportunities as teaching French to children on a private island, working as a research assistant for the united States government, and herding cattle on a ranch in Wyoming. There are also thousands of openings listed at camps, resorts, restaurants, parks, summer theaters, commercial attractions and businesses. Whether yo~ choose to work close to home or far away, you'll find all the infor~ation ~ou need to make sure It s the JOb for you, including a description of the work, the number of jobs available, working conditions, hours, salary, contact name and address, and the duration of the job. There's also a "fringe benefits" section which lists any "hidden assets" of the job-everything from travel allowances to homecooked meals. If college credit is available for a job, you'll find credit; length and season of that information, too. In addition internship; pay and fringe bene- to the listings there are helpful fits; housing availability; and articles on applying for a job application contacts, proce- (with sample cover letters and dures, and deadlines. In addition resumes), tips from employers, to the listings there is a series of and information regarding workarticles which deal with various ing for the government. No matter what you're looking -aspects of locating and selecting for-income, travel, a unique experience, or valuable training and a head start up the career ladder-these books have something for everyone. Both of the dircetories are available at your college book --r store, or send $7.95 for 1-gh~ Internships, $6. 95 for 1981 f, Summer Employment. Di,Y,.,A tory plus $1.25 handling, to: Writer's Digelt§' ._ Books, 9933 Alliance Rold, .: Cincinnati, Ohio, 45242 ~ .. :'_ 1 po.._.t._ _ . _ :.- ~ Boston Summer Project · -~ Teaches Students Solar Construction If you are looking for a sum- learning the essential skills of mer experience that is really homebuilding and design. According to Program Direcdifferent, the Homebuilding Resource Center of Cambridge, tor Herb Ziegler, "The skills Mass. may have the answer. It are not that difficult to learn and . offers the opportunity for ... it's an incredibly satisfying students to participate in the experience." Ziegler, aHarvard building of a house this summer. grad turned carpenter and Those enrolled in this prcr builder, believes that having an gram will find themselves exciting, physical, intellectual building foundations, raising and spiritual experience i1 . walls and cutting rafters. " ... practically unavoidable.'; Each of the five three-week Students from all over the country will spend three inten- sessions is limited to 30 stusive weeks together in seminars dents. Prior building experience and small work groups building is not required. For admissions information a passive solar house from scratch in a suburban Boston write: Herb Ziegler, Program Director location. Guided by experienced Homebuilding Resource Center teachers and builders, the Dept. CB3 rigorous program is only for 2 Hancock Place students willing to dedicate Cambridge, MA 02139 themselves for three weeks to or phone: (617) 491-5181. �-2 On The Program ·. Mr Ford K Brown long ago taught that while everyone remembers Lord Acton's first law ("Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.") v e ry few remember the s e cond, which I recalled him saying to be "once you find the truth, seek the counterv a iling truth." While struggling for either side recently I looked high and low for that exact statement and instead found aphorisms making more sense than most of the purported wisdom of the last few centuries: JOHN E. E. DALBERY-ACTON 183,1-1902 Lord Acton had this to say: I shall never :lgain enjoy the opportunity of spe~~in~ my thoughts to ·such :m audience as this. and on so priviiegell an occasion a lecturer may well be tcmptetl to herhink. himself ·whether. he knows of any neglected trud1, any cardinal propositjon, that might sen«:: as his setectcLl t:pigraph, as a last signJ.l, perhaps even as a target. I am not thinking of tho~e shining. precepts which are th<.: - registered property of every sc.'i.ool; that is to s:.iy .Learn as. much by writing as by reading; be not conLent with the best book: seek siJelights from the ochers; have no favorites; keep rne~1 and things apart; guard against the prestige of gre~t names; see that your judgmcncs are · your O'Wn, and do not shrink from disagreer.1cnt; n0 tru:,ting without testing·; be more· se\..ere to ideas than to action,:;; Jo not L1\'t>rlook the s!r~nQ:th of the h :• Ll Glll~e or the weakness ol t l •..: :.;o<xl; nt:\'c-4 bt! mrpri:;t:, t u; ti tc crumbling of an idol or the di~closure of a. si.;.ckton; judge tal..:nt at its best and character at ics worst; suspect power more than Yice. ancl study problems in preference to periods; for jmtance: the derivation of Luther, the sdenrific influence of Bacon. the predecessors of Adam Smith, the mediaeval masters of Rousseau, the consistency of Burke, the identity of. the first Whig. Most of thi_~ • . I suppose, is un<lisputed, and calls for no enlargement. But the weight of op;nion is ag;tinst me when I exhort you ne\·er to debase the moral ·currency or to lower the standard cf rectitude, but to try others by the · final maxim that goYerns your own lives, and to suffer no man· and no cause to esca~1e the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong. The plea in cxtenucition of guilt and mitigation of punishment is perpetual. At every step we ~tre met by arguments which go to excuse, to palliate, to confuunLl right and wrong, and reduce the just man to the le\·el of the reprobate. The men who plot to baffle and resiH us are, first of all, those who made history what it has become. They set up the principle that only a foolish ConservatiYe judges the present tirne with ideas of the Pa~t; that only a foolish Lilr era! judges the Past with ideas of the Present. This is why Albert Schweitzer said: .· "ln my jud~mcnt ol tile situation in which ffi J.nk· 1 fir1ds Itself at present, l arn r>b->imi~tic. I cannot make rnyself b . n · · · · t}1at th e situatwn is r.ot as i )ad as ll seems to be: I am ;nw dl ehev · . . · ar Y con scwus that we are on Lhe road which, If we continue to tread · . . . 1 • 111. Id b ring us rnto t.1e ~' 1c le Ages' of a new .kind . . . And e It, Wl · ·· · f · , . Y t 1 am opum1~tlc . . . l men can be found who revo1t agamst the · · spmt o tl~oughtlessness, and who are strung enough to let the ideals of . . , I eth1. ca I progress ra d iate trom t ·1em as a force, thrre will start an act' . .f i · · } · l ·11 1V1ty o tne sp1nt w uc l w1 i be great enough to rouse a new mental spiritual disposition in mankind . . . To everyone in wh and . ~ atever state of life he finds himself, the ethics of reverence for life do th · . They force him without cessation to be concerned with all the ot~s: human destinies which are going through their life-course aro une, . h Im, and to give himself, as man, to the man who needs a fella man. They will not allow the scholar to live only for his learnin e~en if his le.arning makes ~im ve.ry useful, nor the artist only f his art, even 1f by means of It he gives something to many. They d not allow tl:e busy m=in to think that with his professiona l activ ties he has fulfilled every demand upon him. They demand from al that they devote a portiC?n of t.his life to their fellows." And Mahatma Gandhi: Love i~ the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imacinahle.::in · · . . . \Vho has not se"en stwn!I-bod1cd bullies surrendering helplessly to their mothe~s'? LoYe conquers the brute in th~ son . . . . [\\ie] think it impos~1Me to evoke the hidden powers of the ~oul. \\'ell. I ;im en~a~c-d m trying to show, if I haw 3.TI\' oi these ocw~rs.~ tl;at I am- as'" fr::?.il a IT!Ortal ;.is an\' u:.; aild I neY;:r had anything exhaordinary about.me nor hwe am· now. I chini to b~ a simple individual li:ib1e to err like any other fellow mortal. I own. ho·xever. that I have humflilv enou'.2h in me to confess mv errnrs and to retrace mY steps . f own that I . ha\'e an immo\'able faith in God and His ~oodness and unconSumabk pa~~ion ior truth ~ind 10\ I.!.~ But is that not what eYery person has latent in him? 1f we ::ire to make. progress. we must not repeat hi~tory but make new history. ... If we mav m;:.ike ni:.:w discoveries ~nd in'/entions in the phenomenal world. must we Jccla~e our ban~­ ruptcy in the spiritual domain~' Is it imposs1ble to multiply the exc.:eptions so as to make the:n the rule? Must nnn alwavs be brute first and man after, if at all? 40 of So what is it that these great men have in conunon with the great teachers we have known here like Mr Klein, Mr Brown, Mr Rausch and "The world exhibits the hand of Providence ••• not be being good, but by becoming better, company: not simply mind but spirit. And not by its pe:tfection but. by its improvement." this can be said in praise of them all: ....... :::,,, . .-.·......./:~··/•, ,~ ..... ���-------------------- �persons film of fer if the film Come and see. mors at the The diehards after the films Food. Beer. Parade. Games Guards auction off donor, can contact me, drive out to your house to up stuff. As usual there will be a of the to loosen your Visitors should . This is the weekend visitors will be e a member of the tickets can weekend. The a ticket and, any for the common peace to an inebriated fellow crashed FSK windows and broke also several nasty confrontations. the fallout is that members of the shall guest tickets for visitors. These will soon be available your Collector or Parents are different visitors in all have now received a humble request mails for money to and cause of this amount of go �---------------------- last week the T-Shirt There is a to emblazon up and submit or Joni Cook up this weekend are Benefit Junior and Freshman essays are due and two benefit films. Eh bien. to get is Mr. see them. The Henry Fonda James Cagney s Best Lemmon. This won the award and about four or five others The weekend f i . Gads Shivers up Burgess s directed o does an job most of the time it s worth I end this just another reminder that we need acts for the Think about you finished your essay. I think go start mine Yours William Ney 23rd and March Fort lUl:" f l.:J..Sh your eyes ;:)=_ack anci i j L ik2 a If uYJon tb-. otri-='r r:1~7s flash t1-.em c1 c:, f o;l·, You hci.ve fe 1 1 .~1c- suduen kiss Of t_"e hillsidt: ~nd che h>?aven, ene s of bliss UD the even So you ove the rando:r Of the heaven and the You pass a road To see what co--r:es to Fortune, free and C2lling eve your oT.m, If ycu are at all inc unon a s tr;ne Fort lli'1E:: lL~e on a a ~·ool Peter Gilbert. 82 issues ����--- t---~~~- --=- Sports MEN'S by Bryce Jacobsen Our annual MARATHON is coming up this Saturday. It has become the highlight of the spring social season ••• well, maybe second to the Real Olympics. You only have, a few more days to prepare for it. Softball: Mar. 23 ••• Druids-23, Spartans-8. The Druids looked strong again, and the Spartans looked otherwise. People who scored two or more runs were, for the Druids: Costa, Berkowitz, Dwyer, Stevenson, Warner, Wolf, Brunner and Christensen; and for the Spartans, Hill and Guaspari. Mar. 25 ••• Spartans-8, Guardians-1. The Spartans looked sharp in this game, and the Guardians looked anemic. Mr. Ney's two home runs highlighted the Spartan scoring. The Guardians only batted 23 batters in six innings ••• a very low average, by our standards. 11The Guardian-Hustler game this Thursday will either put the Hustlers well ahead in the league ••• or will put them tied with the Guardians. Should be a good game. SOFTBALL STANDINGS: Won Lost Points Hustlers 3 0 9 Druids 2 2 8 Guardians 1 1 4 Spartans 2 1 s Greenwaves 0 2 2 • THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE: Softball ••• Wed. 4:15 Greenwaves-Spartans Thurs. 4:00 Guardians-Hustlers Marathon ••• Sat. 1:30(Men) 3:30(Women) WOMEN'S 1arch 24 by Lisa Cobb Maenads 13 Nymphs 6 Mar. 26 ••• Hustlers-9, Druids-7. This was probably an important game, and, as usual, the Hustlers managed to win it. They put together a big 3rd. inning, with Messrs. Zolkower, Klipper, Kapakian, Wall, Hartzell and Maddocks all scoring. The Druids kept pecking away, but ultimately fell short. Mar. 28 ••• Hustlers-20, Greenwaves-9. The first five batters of the game(Hustlers) all scored ••• and we suspected we were in for a long afternoon. The scorebook reveals the following data, under "runs total": Vincent-4, Kapikian-3, Maddocks-3, Moynihan-3, Cabral-2, and Ficco-2. The Waves created some excitement in the third inning, pushing across five runs. But the Hustlers already had fifteen, so it didn't mean so much. Mar. 28 ••• Guardians-23, Druids-5. The Druid scoring, per game, has gone 29-23-75. Will this trend continue7 Or is this rock bottom? The Guardians rebounded from their dismal first game with a veritable explosion of runs. Every place in the batting order scored at least once, capped by Mr. Whalen's four runs. It turned out to be a laugher for the Guardians. A RDABLE TREASURES from AFRICA and ASIA *********** WONDERFUL things to WE~I TODO MllMD ....: �· Some of the NICE THINGS et-~~ . BUOOET OINNER SPECIALS FEA't'UReO . - l SNACK. MEM.I VM~E ..,, ..t IN OUR SAR .1 FWE Food I_ OUR N· her first runof the season in the last inning with Miss Gowdy luckily already on second base! ROOM AFTER SEMINARS March 27 ~.!...SERVICE VTMI~ SINCE 19'Z3 .T\YOFORS. IN ClJR COCKTAIL LOLta ~AV-FRIDAY. •-6 PM AHV ORNK ON THE BAR TWO FOR THE PR ICE OF~. <sPECIAL PRICE~ DRAlXiHT> 61-63 Maryland Avenue Annapolis Amazons 13 Maenads 5 After their victory over the Nymphs the Maenads were particularly dissapointed at this unexpected defeat. The outs came too quickly for the runners to get far enough around the bases; however, their fielding isn't bad at all. Miss Hahn is a fine pitcher and Miss Brockway has a strong ann that served her well in putting batters out at first. The Amazons had their best moment in the fourth inning in which a nice string of single hits brought Litwin, Smith, Sach, Nogales and Sandek over the homeplate like clockwork, putting them decisively ahead of the Maenads at 11-4. t busy exc NEXT WEEK'S SCHEDULE: Tuesday Thursday Friday Saturday 51 IUrytMd Avenue ~·.. MmytMd 21«>1 Francia Ketler Phone: ~2088 BaJt: -...a THE GADFLY Non-Prol•I Ora. BULK RATE St. John's College Annapolis, MD 21404 Amazons vs Furies vs Furies vs Nymphs Maenads Amazons Marathone Relay 4:00 2: 30 4:00 3:30 THE GADFLY is an independent student journal published every Monday while school is in session. It is free for students and faculty of the Annapolis campus. For others, the subscription rate for the second semester is $8. Make checks payable to THE GADFLY. Write: THE GADFLY, Box 52, St John's College, Annapolis, MD 21404 DEADLINE: 6 pm Friday Letter limit: 500 words --~------.-, THE GADFLY STAFF U. S. 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II, ISSUE 22 APR • 6 , ·19 8 1 ... with a little help from my friends It has sometimes been said that I have been busy doing the wrong things. What can I say except what Judge Learned Hand said: 1t is all very tr;·i·ig: and yet here ,~·ill I pitch my tent. J;i.mcs Ibrn7 r nhi11'ion mrc1 to s:ry that we rose from the arc b,x=iusc JJ:.c: him we kept "mo11ll\i11~ around," :!h,,1,$ nivldliw'" 1,ith C\~'r .. 1hi11·~ :d)out us". Tr11f', there ic: a dilf~IC'!lCC, lw~ ... '' C, 1~1!101 r}~ :lie a;>c meddles, he for· ''ers, :rnd ·we hav~ lca:!1'2ll. fii:1t t0 m·~~hUc and remember, :inrl thC'n to J:1clldle and rCCt)IC.L But without the 1.1c<.ldli·~·r noth]n·..;- '· o,1ld haYe h:-tp! cne~l o[ a11 that gloriom anay of ad1icn.:m·.11t: b:itr~\. !1i:;1, acroplancc:. iclati\ ity, t 1·c proton, nc~·aon, ~t.!d c> ctron, T .. '.T .. p0ison rr:i ' stdf.•tLi:1Znlr. t!.c r.fti1 \y:•.pl1r1"\', Tl I' Iliad. The ])1-·i•11· Cu:nfd_,., f l(:1:1 ld 1 F,;.:., ', Tit(· C 1 iti.,rnc of Pure Jlci1sc1n, JJ .. s 1':.1;11·1r;,,', the l "(111,r!uition of 1l e l-11itcd 't.itcc;, t: · Con_ ,., ot In '. 1,u i,,l 01 ·~.111i1at iom, Huey Lon.;-. 'tl'(l the_·,_,,, 1k.d .• \11 thL'<.. f:0m j11 t ''mo11k.e/· 1 in~ ~.1011::tl!" ~!, t~~ is i!:> tL.1t .1'1'" nP..,:rn;::-ititw nf c:ocietv 1,!1ich deon ~lie dc:drnr, i1:1111.:~ ~jJ'1i:'): l Jtl:1i11t;1in th:it in su<!1 :i society Li1·cr~,. j, -~,·1 1 l', !J?•!c ;i-; it' rnc111hcrc; rna; know it: tl!:1t the ~\!n.·11:1 of t~ic ii1l;1\'illn.d is too l1i.;h a plice fo.:: a co1lcct:\'c P .. 1:.i.di.~e. P c~,·, · f· . . ,u1d <.:1 ho\,·e\·\.-r showy ]:<; It busy What said t~ i:att; '!'l;.• r.L, 1: 1• !,• i11...:- i•. has sometimes been said that I have been saying and thinking the wrong things. can I say except what Justice Brandeis long ago: l~5G ·11.~i-c 1911 '· !:o ·.·, (;JJ u-:..ir ir:llt·n~nc!c':H c J ,(·~ie··ctl th:it c:.c f;n:il <:nd of t':l' 'i::tc '1.\·.:s :..o :n::J..:e ~1H'11 ire-.' tn <ll'n'!np their f:tc ltl~icc:: :i;,,~ th.it i1~ r:-; go, er.:11~c;1t the d<'liher:tti,·c f 01 U.''i ~houh.1 ·y;>_j] O\'Cl' the arbitrarv. Tt,cv \":llueJ )1Lt:rt\ bc:Lh ,ts an t.ml and as a me.m~: T hcv" believed lzbc1 LY to be the .sec1·et of Jw.ppineJs and cou.rage to be rm. the secret of liberty. 'They belicYcd th:1t freedom to think as you will and to spc=ik as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and sprca·l of politic.al truth; that without free speech and assembly discm.:>ion woul.d be futile; that with them, discus'iion :Jfiorc1s ordinarily adequate protection against the dissemination of noxious doctrine; that the greatest menace to fl cedom is an inert people.; that public discussion is a political d11ty; ancl that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government. Perhaps some wish that we were in Athens-where the ability to have free and easy talk was secured by the labor of slaves as well as elevated by the eidn--but this is America. and I believe people and plants could grow better here. Lord Acton, the originator of the first great books reading list, said: "To develop and perfect and ann conscience is the great achievement of history, the chief business of every life, and the first agent therein is religion or what resembels religion." As my townsman, Langhston Hughes said: I dream a world where man No other man will scorn, Where lo\ e will bless the earth And pe:ice its paths adorn. I dream a world where all '\'ill know sweet frerdom's wav, '\There greed no longer s.tps the soul "Kor a\arite b1ights our day. A world I dream where black or white, �2 Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the earth And every man is free, Where wretchedness will hang ·its head, And joy, like a pearl, Attend the needs of all mankind. Of su ch I dreamOur world! And is it an impossible dream that this place or country or world could be? As he also said: Coming soon in these pages (maybe) : "the str . that broke ... " , Lord Acton on his reading _ t, Sen. Moynihan on Cardinal Wojtyla and Husserl, Mr Barr & Buchanan on the soul, how Messers Kaplan, Scofiel d & Smith were right and Mr Sullivan wro n g about Ivory Towers and Intellectual Ghettos, or "Be a philosopher-king" or "Where did we go wrong?"--catchy titles from las t year's hit musical revival, which for some r eason omitted the theme song of the original. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a soreAnd then run? Docs it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar overlike a syrupy S\\ cet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Gardening notice: Mr Brown said there were freshmen,freshman by nature and freshmen -bynature-willy-nilly. Fill in dirty folks and it applies to diggers and planters: A MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT at 7 & 8;30 to do le out duties. 203 Grow place. More for you and less for me. Let's go. Arthur Kunqle '67 Or does it explode? A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF "THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT": PART II, From Observation (b) through Spirit Indeed, Reason returns to observe itself. Yet, in first discovering laws of thought, it proves empty of truth, a mere abstraction. These laws are in disjunction with the subtance of the World; they are merely formal rules. In observing psychological movement, in hope of laying bare the life of the Spirit, Reason is defeated by two things: the fact that psychological traits can only be understood through the individualizing stimulus of a particular environment, and the corollary fact that the general traits discovered by empirical p ychology possess no inner conceptual unity. The relationship between the individual rational consciousness and its environment must be mediated; consequently, Reason looks toward the body in order to render the disjoint terms intelligible, through the investigations of physiognomy and phrenology. The assumption of uch •sciences" is that the interaction of conaciousneas and the World can be read according to a pre-given typology of the features and akull-contours. However, since not all men act ccording to type, these "sciences" dissolve into a mere presumption of a potentiality (e.g. the man who looks like a murderer, but does not murder, is presumed to be especially capable of murder). Reason understands, consequently, that it is not expressed in the form of a thing (i.e. th body), but through its deeds. All that is xpre sed by the body is the fact of a multitude of independent self-conscious b ing ; but they ar only int lligible through their activities; yet th ir activities tog ther form th Eth cal rld, which i r liz d to b the sub t nee o Reason. The individual, as such, is only an individual; but as participant in the Ethical World he is conscious of himself as the univer sal activity of Reason. Yet the activity of Reason originates from individuals, and the relation of the individual to the substance of national life must become a question. When the individual recognizes the Ethical World as his true, substantial object of inquiry, that world is qiven as the idiosyncratic, customary life of his nation , in which he has been submerged. His recogniti o n of the Ethical World as the substance of Reason amounts to a detachment; he is no longer submerged; but this is tantamount to a negation of the customary morality, and a return to himself as the sole warrant for his actions. As such, he seeks his own pleasure, seeking to objectify the pure individuality of caprice, finding himself in the enjoyment of things which exist fo r him (particularly other people as objects of pleasure) , and realizing himself through these objects. He especially realizes himself throug h the enjoyment of other people; but the satisfaction of desire, in that case, negates his independence. If he stands completely aloof from such interaction, he cannot see himself reflected in another consciousness, and is, thus, thrown back upon a self-consciousness which is aware of itself only through its evanescent appetities. If it engages in extended, self-revealing projects, its caprice is overruled by necessity, both external and internal; since Reason pursues projects, an int rnal division occurs between capricious motive and necessary m ans; and, since the World r ists c rice, nd ev n frustrates it, but �3 is not under~tood, it appears as Fate. Thus, the hedonistic individual is lost· in contradiction. The solution is found in the self-regard of the individual as possessing the law (the Necessary) immediately within himself, so that he expresses, not capricious individuality, but the law of the heart. He regards the World as alien and oppressive, and wishes to express his inner grandeur by establishing the law (originating in him) in the World, for the benefit of mankind. However, if he succeeds, the law is assimilated into the World, and is no longer his self-expression. Further, the obJectified law is not the law of every heart, so that the World fails to reconcile everyone. This inherent contradiction causes the senti.mental individual to pass into the frenzy of selfconcei t, taking the law of his own heart as the universal, and the World as a perversion seeking his doom: in reality, the World is the universal element, and he is the perversion: and he, and the others of his sort, turn the World into a kind of battleground of individuals. But the sentimental consciousness, in order to relieve itself of its contradictions, passes over into the virtuous consciousness, which regards itself as self-sacrificing for a common good implicitly contained within the World, over which it conceives the "battle" of the World to be fought, and for the sake of which it will employ its gifts, adjuring others to do likewise. Much rhetoric is employed in commending this good which, however, cannot be specified. It is implicit in the World, yet not to be found actually: it is that for which the individual sacrifices himself, yet it is conceived to depend on the virtuous individual's action. Finally, this vacuous pomposity collapses, and the individual realizes that the good is actually developing in the World's process, that it does not depend upon the individual's virtue, and that, far from the good demanding the sacrifice of individuality, it is rendered concrete in the self-expression of all individuals. Now, the individual is himself implicitly, and knows himself through action, which objectifies his purposes. Peculiarly, though, action precedes purpose. However, interest precedes action: the individual finds himself in some set of circumstances \-1 hich call forth action, and this produces a fact, revealing a purpose. Thus, the individual existence is perfectly united with the World: yet, the fact is transitory, and the circumstances are fortuitous, so that all that remains of the individual selfrevela tion is the consciousness of purpose revealed through action. However, the purpose ,is merely a reminiscence of general self-expression, its determinateness dissolved because of its contingency. Further, the fact which is produced is social, since it becomes a circumstance calling forth activity from others, yet its meaning is not communicable, since the purpose is not in the fact itself, but in the purely individual activity and self-expression called forth. Thus, the individual can neither render himself conceptually intelligible to himself, nor express himself to others. The initial stage of selfsatisfaction is analogous to sense-certainty, and the further, disappointing stage, is analogous to perception. The stage analogous to understanding is that in which the Reason recognizes social facts to be an expres ion of the ethical substance of the community life, ex- pressed through laws which regulate the activities o! individuals. Thus, individuals intend to rende~ ~heir activities intelligible, universal, and durable, by proposing those laws which belong to the ethical substance. However, those laws are formulated as general maxims, which have neither force to compel obedience, nor actual content (since they lo e their lawful character when tied to specific conditions of action, and lose their actuality when abstracted from those conditions). Thus, Reason decides that it must, rather than legislate, seek to test laws given in the sociey according to the criterion of formal universality. However, this will not suffice to test the content of the terms of the laws, any more than the proof of the formal validity of an indicative proposition can serve as warrant for its substantial truth. The Reason cannot stand beside the ethical substance and judge it; rather, the ethical substance can only be known as it is, so that the rational individual can only reflect upon what has been given him, not set himself to judge what ought to be (insofar as the moral life of the community is concerned) . Thus, it turns out that Spirit is the development of the human community, expressed through individuals: and the law is the will of the Spirit at each of its stages, represented formally. All of the stages which have been previously described are abstractions from Spirit. Consciousness (i.e. sen e-certainty, perception, and understanding) corresponds to the family: historically, it corresponds to the Ori nt 1 World: religiously, it corresponds to Natural Religion. The beginning of self-con ciou ness in the contest which results in Lordship and Bondage is contest of families through the male, resulting in the emergence of infantile civil society (the substance of self-consciousness): historically, it corresponds to the Greek World: religiously, it corresponds to the Religion of Art. The emergence of the Unhappy Consciousness (i.e. Stoicism, Skepticism, and Christianity) takes place when the society comes to by composed, not primarily of families, but of individuals with legal personality: historically, this corresponds to the Roman Empire: religiously, it corresponds to Revealed Religion. Revealed Religion also incorporates the social forms of the Medieval German World, and that of the Reformation, and these forms of Spirit are elaborated in the section "Spirit in SelfEstrangement" through "Belief and Pure Insight." The upshot of all of this is that "History is Sprit clothing itself with the form of events or the immediate actuality of nature," (Philosophy of Right, para. 34b], and the Spirit fulfills itself in the State (which Hegel conceives to be a parliamentary monarchy) in which individuals, pursuing their private ends under the rule of law, are harmoniously united. It is in such a society (the concrete fruition of the Spirit) that Hegel can achieve Absolute Knowledge (that is, knowledge of the philosophic substance of the sciences) . So, gentle reader, if you did not previously know what Hegel was about, perhaps you do now. Perhaps not - but try "The Philosophy of History." It's relatively clear. (By the way, I think that Hegel is wrong). Michael David Blume �-4 Lecture ev1ew TERMINOLOGY A lecture called "Kierkegaard as Antithesis" invites the question, Antithesis to what? (For the freshmen and juniors who were writing their essays Friday, i t also invites the questi9n, Who was Kierkegaard? The answer is, he was a nineteenth-century Danish Protestant theologican.) Rev. Price contended that Kierkegaard has served as an antithesis in modern theology in a precise Hegelian sense. (In Hegel's philosophy an idea (thesis) is transformed into its opposite (antithesis) yet preserved in it; then both combine to be resolved in a higher form of truth (synthesis). Ironically, Kierkegaard execrated Hegel.) Kierkegaard's very life was the opposite of a normal one. He was raised by a gloomy father from his journals we gather that his mother may as well have not existed for him. He never had a job; he lived first on an allowance, then an inheritance from his father. He broke off an engagement, an event that affected him profoundly the rest of his life. He was a weakling who resented his body all his years. Rev Price took too long to relate these facts, but they were interesting in the way that freakish things are, even so. Two points of Kierkegaard's thought have the character of antitheses. The first point is antithetical to Hegelian philosophy. Hegel said that "truth is objectivity," which means, roughly speaking, that i t is independent from human beings, who are subjects. The job of the subject is to understand objectivity. In Hegel's philosophy history is a process whose end is to make men able to understand the Ab- 33 West St. 268-4545 Be.e.Jt N.i.g ht: ivlo viday, 7- 12 All Be.e.Jt: $1 • 25 Wine. Spe.~ Se.l 6- S e.Jtvic.e. Saridwic.hu TEN-FOR-ONE TICKETS WILL BE KEPT AT THE RAM'S HEAV solute Spirit. The final stage is •.. you guesse it, Hegelian philosophy. Kierkegaard objected to Hegel's demotion of the role of religion. He expressed his objection by saying that "truth is subje ctivity." Truth is always truth for somebody; somebody has to advocate i t for i t even to be discussed. Kierkegaard thought that the subje c t 's relation to merely objective truth is uncertain. so he contended that our relationship t o God i~ one of subject to subject. (Our r e l ationship to another human being is one of sub ject to object, in contrast.) Rev Price elaborated how the statement that truth is sub jectivity shows up under many guises in Kierke g a ard's writings. However, he didn't give brief explanations of the terms that Kierkeqa~ra uses in those writings, as he had done with Hegel's terms, so that one felt that one had understood something of Hegel, but not much o f Kierkegaard's criticism of Hegel. (Here are examples of Kierkegaard's terms: "passionate inwardness," "appropriation process," "teleological suspension of the ethical judgement.") The clearest part of Rev Price's elaborat ion was an example of Kierkegaard's that he related to show the importance of an individual's feelings in attaining to truth. The Chri stian who prays to God with a false spirit is l ess close to truth than the idolater who pra y s wholeheartedly to his idol, Kierkegaard says. The second point of Kierkegaard's tho ught • that has the character of antithesis i s antithetical to the established Christion c h urch. Kierkegaard objected to the attempt of the church in his day, and the church in al l ages, to make Christianity appear less diff icult to practice d1an it is. God makes grea t demands on the individual, demands tha t require much suffering. But the church seeks t o give believers comfort and community. The established Christian church is a perversio n of New Testament Christianity as Kierkeg a a rd understands it. Such criticism is powerful stuff. Rev Price contended that Kierkegaard's criti cism was unfair, but it had to be unfair to get attention. Kierkegaard criticized harshly because his expectations for the church were high. But while Kierkegaard spent his l ife writing criticisms, the post-Kierkegaardian . Christian must not stop at merely acknowl edging their power. He must creat a synthesis that enables him to respond to them, but to remain within the church and not be outside i t al l his life, as Kierkegaard was. Kurt Schuler '81 �sAnxiety and Existence Pasc:J.l 's "ir:finitc s~aces" ·,1as an a tt c:71r;t to sho·.1 that the 1 ii:li ts o:· !::no·::led~e i~~ly u need for Christ, for ~od cccor.ie : :::-,n. : :r. /1.. :.feel~es , in GAJFL Y ,·13, f2.iled to i:lcntion that synthetic £ priori judsements have a lir.iited range, and that :~ant's µhi losophy ~s cr"'i tic al because it dcli:1e~t~s their li::iits -the "infinite s"J<:.ces" i-:2nsec is not as ri~orous in t'.'lis rc-;ar:::! '.::3 c::lle i\nti:ionies of Pure Reason, ~ut it 2.:ltroC.uces the notion of Anxict:·, ·.·hi ch re:::; ul ~s ...._-rom the :~ea.son's fai 1 ure to s3.tis::- i tscli ··1ith objective speculc.ticn::> • .'.r:::ict:· -:fear ~\·1here there is no ~articulci.r t:1rr:a-c present- is no r.:erc :10uros i:::; :1or :::; U;)crs ti ti on, as : Ir. ~··ee~:::.es ~as =u~-0stcd, but rather consciousness o: the finitude of nan's ~:no\'Jled::;e. : t i s the fou:-: ~ation o:f fear o:f God and Christic..n r.::i th, :-~!1'1 cw be dialecticall:1 elucidated. One o: the problens with speculation on .:;ad's =~sencc is that it does not ~xplain !10':1 Christ is si~nificant. \Jhen -:=.ad ::ianL-~s ts ~iinself, he does not manifest I:sscnce, ··:.:t rather an actual human exist8nce; a :.";or~al, ter.iporal, existence. The ~~ound f0r u necessary logical consequence :rnst be :l·::?ccssary, but the trnnsi tion :ror:i ~ro~nd to consequence is not the same as the t~2:1sition from ~ossibility to 2ctuali -:::··, from not-existing to ex is tin:, for the !1~c:;s sar:r ahm~rs sir:iply is, and =.l'.;a;:,rs ::~:::..~·s in the sphere of the =:tern::-.1. ~nus, t~:-:; ·.:rans i tion from Eternal God ~c Chris~'s c.ctu~l, historical existence llr-1;-ii -:s o ,, c.. :::aradox. The tronsi ti on can only ~e ~~dcrstood by a leap: a netabasis cis all::> ,....r;nos, lH:e thI transition frc:~ 1co:-::etr:- to nri th;~e"Cic. :~ctuc..l :~::i:::;te:-icc (•:::!nc::r-:eia: "~cin-;­ :l°t-·::or!:") coul ci be thou~l~~ of as 11 li vi:-v'', evc:i a~:;li8d to thin:;s in .ceneral, \!ncn "1 i vin.:=" thin.c;s arc those which con ta in within thewse 1 ves the pos si bi l i ty for chanGe and endurance throush tir:ie. "Life", thus understood, continuall:,r · brin;s itself into differin~ ~odes of existence, or is chan.;ed b:,r accidental occaisions, c.;;. the "li.!:'e" of a thou ht is dianoia, ~hinkin: i~ throu n. Li. existence is eco~ir.~, r. c o 1 a tel71poral dialectic", as =~icr}:e'.;aard puts ~ . '.'.'e can understa"1d ho li::eexistLnce runs in, '::i th, and ar;10n--: the non-lo~ical 1:ind of possibility (duna.Tilis) i.·1ith a 11 ter.i9oral dialectic". i'hcre are t':!o nspects of tii:1e: lengt~s of tir:ie·as a divisiole dimension, and thG c.ctualit:• of the present in contra.st to the past and future. A paradox is involved, .however, in the placin~ of the present in this divisible diwension, for if the present takes up any length on a tiwe line, that length can be divided into past and f'uture parts: so the present r.iust be as a point. Of course, r.iak~n~ the present a point defeats the purpose of locatL~~ actuality on a time line, since an indivisible moment has no duration, and is in fact the negation of duration, and leaves no "o;enness" in time for ~he actu~lity of lifee~:istence. l\u,""ustine resolves this di:ficul t~· by sa:yin: duration is a distention of the r:iind into the past and f'uture. 7his can oe cor.ipared to i:ant 1 S ;JOVC -CO SC.Ve the cndurin~ pre:::er.ce c:f :JCrsonali t:r and pheno::1ena fror.i the consequences of :-Iu":'lc 's ~lacin'3 octuulity in disconnected i~pressions by ?lncin~ ti~Q in the subject's "sensibili t:'" • .:; Of course, you r.1a~r thin!: this difficulty is b~scd on a fiction. 2ut there is a prc:ctical advn.i.-ita;e to co~siccrin~ tine as a divisible dii:l2nsi~~, ~~j the 9rescnt ~s c. point, :o:- thi:J i:::; ho·:; :'h:-/s ics s::nchronizes 1 .·: 268-4832 the Paper Place The Other Books, The Great Records, Magazines & Tapes 57 West Street, Annapolis 3 Blocks West on Calvert from F.S. K �events. Sir.iultaneaty is non-sensical vithout ~his ideal, r.iathematical time. Yet, this mathematization of time conceals our · su~jective apprehension of tir:ic, or in other '•JOrds, the indi visible "nm:1" is certainly not the "seasons" and "times" refered to in Eccelsi<:.stes: a 11 nm·111 cannot be a time to laugh a.'1d a time to \·1 eep. T~e presence of the present we apprehend has indefinite boundaries, and admits of uncertainty in either direction; uncertain, that is, as to how this presence ca.-ne to be and will continue to be. Presence in this sense is not like a proposition, which rests within its lir.ii ts; but more like an aphorism, uhich demands thinking before and after it, if one is to gether its meanin:. Enduring presence demands that the ~ind distend itself into the past and future, i.e. into the uncertainty that attends the concealed possibility from uhich it arises. /\.s Kierke~2nrd puts it: "The immediate impression of a natural phenomenon or of an event is not. the impression of the historical, for the coming into existence involved cannot be sensed immediately, but only the immediate presence. But the presence of the historical includes the process of coming into existence, or else it is not the presence of the historical as such. 11 4 Some of the NICE THINGS at. ·~ BUOOET •• OlNNER .SPECIALS SERVICE IN OUR V1M11«1 ROOM AFTER S~INAR.S BA~ _ FfA1'URfO .. FIE Food f ., t ., ,. .1 SINCE 1923 L .l'NOFORS. IN Cl.JR COCKTAIL LOlHiE ~AV-FRIDAY. 4 -6 PM The fact that the past has happened as it happened does not exclude the pos ibility that it could have happened other\'Jise. The past is ir.imutable, but it did not cone to be so with necessity. In his exposition of the inmutability of the past, Kicr~esaard n~~es n reference to Boethius' argur.ient a2ainst t:1e notion that (~d's foreknowledze :-:-inl;:es the ~uture necessar::,.· , or predeterr.iined. Joethius understood GDd's omniscience as Providence, ot "lookinG forth", :-:m intainin& that God sees all things in all times. "\'fhy, then, do you insist that all that is scanned by the siGht of God becomes necessary? ;.:en see thin.c;s, but this certainly does not make them necessary. And your seeing them doesn't iillpose any necessaity on the things you see present, does it?"5 The necessity of which we are speaking is the kind required in every step of a der.ionstrative syllogism. 3ut since this necessity cannot inhere ·· in the presence of the "historical as such", life-existence caru1ot be a prer:iise in a syllo~istic ar3ur~ent. 'l'he temporal cannot enter into lo~ic unless it is 1.1athematized, but r.iathenatized tine is indifferent to li:e-cxistence. This ~ea~s that, for e:~nr:lple, ·:1e can have 1::nm·rled~e of so~eone's pcrson~lit~ in the fern of a dcscriotion, but the undcrlyin~ subject, or the possibilit::,r out of t1hich he comes into e;~istcnce, is conce2.led for us. :~ ut t1is is ·.:.'hat Tde 1.1ust 1:nm·1 to have co;;iplete '. mm·1lQd-::e o:f his .!ifcexistencc. The endurin~ ~resence is thereby r.iostly concealed for us, as the presence of somethin~ encountered on a fog-shrouded ~oodland path, wonderin~ i~at it is, or nore to the point, ~·:hat it is capable of. \'Je call this state of uncertainty, Anxiety. Applied to the uncertainty involved in how thinss co:-.1e into existence, as opposed to any [-)articular real or imagined threat, it ~i1ht be called Existential An;~iet~r. If .·1e reply to this Anxiety \·!ith reasoned arGuments, we decieve ourselves, since Anxiety relates to a real:n fro~ which the necessity of our argunents is excluded. The proper response is an act of will: either Belief, or the suspense of judgement 1 AJ4Y DRNK ON THE BAR T'M) FOR THE PR ICE OF~. <SPEclAL PRICE.~ DRAUGHT> 81-63 Maryland Avenue Annapolis 4 �•:1hich is called Doubt. To ap~ly this to the paradox of the God coming into existence,. to hold ~his as an historical fact we r.mst first r.iake a resolution against the uncertainty that attends all coming into existence. Then, in Faith, . :.re are given the resolution a~ainst the uncertainty that this historical event can be a point of departure for our eternal happiness. Belier is a sense for the possibility that surrounds particular e:-::istin~ things, and comes out of •::onder. Faith is a sense that for the God, all things are possible, and leads us out of An..'(iety. Both are a ':Ia'.;' into t~-ic concealed possibility that surrounds ir.i~ediate presence, but Fnith reveals the God to b€ the subject that underlies all Existence, and is related to our Life-existence onl:/ in tl-:is ·.1a:.~ . 7hc Cod's essence -that he is, by necccssity - may be presur.ied, ~ut can~ot be construed to have ex is tea~ic:.l siGnificance, unless ·:1e delude ourselves as to the relation of the necessary to existence; 1 Hazen Ha."7lr.iel '81 1. ~.v. Arist. Post. Ana., 75a 2. Confessions, 0ook XI 3. c.:f. Husserl, Phenomenology of Internal Time Consciousness. 4. 1(ierkegaard, Philos. Fragments ,p.100 ~. I3oethius, Consolation of Philosophy, V,6. Was something of the blind spot in the eyes That comes from staring at the sun too Long. You said that what we learn we recollect, That thin~s are hidden so they can be found, And that the better soul will not neglect To search for what can lighten, and unbound, The darkened cave of knowledge, and the clay Of life. You turned around so no to miss The bright beginnings of that fateful day Rise in the window like a mourning fire, And kissed the cup, and winked, asked "Friends, is this The dark encroachment of an old desire?" III .You are too quick to fire to forget The many moments languid in the shade Of memory -- a cave that's just to let The sun into? -- where liquid shadows wade The wall knee deep in doubt or darkness, Obscure to feet we feel but cannot see. You want to see it all and nothing less Will satisfy your search of all that we Most times take just for granted, or make up, Content with what we think we think we know. Your search led to the sunlight in a cup -No chalice, that -- but you drank quickly, so To quicken into knowledge? or just sleep? "This is my .... " Lord, are we to drink as deep? Paul Hartel '82 Buscas en Roma a Roma,joh peregrino!, y en, Roma misma a Roma no la hallas: cadaver son las que ostento'murallas, y tumba de s1 propio el Aventino. Yace donde reinaba el Palatino; y,limadas del tiempo las medallas, mas se ~uestran destrozo a las batallas de las edades que blasO'n latino. s610 el Tiber quedo~ cuya corriente, si ciudad la rego~ ya epoltura la llora con funesto son doliente. iOh Roma! En tu grandeza, en tu hermosura, huyo' lo que era firme, y solamente lo fugitivo permanece y dura. A THREE ATTEMPTS ON THE SAME THEME: A POEM IN PROGRESS SOCRATES: I The night for you was waiting patiently. Your friends came early while you softly slept And chewed their nails, and murmered, while some wept. All prayed that when you woke, why you would see The reasons for escape. You chose to die. Y ou woke from sleep as fresh as a young boy Sent home your wife and told her not to cry, And played with discourse like it was a toy For you to smile at once you made it whirl. The sun rose in the window like a fire That could have been the Phoenix, or the girl ose beauty was enough to make desire B urn like the city that in defeat found fame. The cup flashed in your hands as bright as flame. II read, ·was you were wise little that you kn w RDABLE TREASURES from AFRICA and ASIA *********** WONDERFUL things to WEARI tODO MillD 198 Main StreeL .Annapolis, MD �!2_g2~~-!:!!~2~E~~-!~-~~!-E~!E~ THE You look for Rome in Rome, oh stranger! And in Rome herself you do not find Ro~e: A cadaver is now what were her ostentatious walls, And the Aventine is the graveyard of itself. Here restsl where once it reigned, the Palatine; And the medal ions carved by time, They seem rather than latin emblazonments The remains of battles of long ago. Only the Tiber remains; whose currents once watered her as a city, now as a sepulcher, mourns her with a grievous cry. Oh Rome! of your grandeur, of your bea~ty, What was firm has fled, and only The fugitive remains and endures. This poem reflects a peculiar moment in the life of the great Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645), wnere he chose to be descriptive and not as satirical as we have come to know him. Polity Elections Exam Sa tu to 1 TO THE STUDENT POLITY: Allow me to introduce myself - Joe Ginter. I am currently listed as a candida te for the Polity Treasurer. Presently, I am a freshmen member of St. John's and a prepresentative on the Student Conunittee on Instruction (SCI). At this point, I could glibly announce that I do not want to cut the budget and that I have never met David Stockman. However, I will not do so. Rather, I will simply s t ate that I would like to see the Polity contine to function smoothly and that its activities are suc cessfully funded. I, thus, enlist your vote. 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WAL~lN~ \))SJ. rRor\ CAM.~\J.S THE LAST MATH EXAM The last Algebra/Trigonometry te st of the year will be given Saturday morning, April 11, from 10 to 11:30 in McDowell 24. Passage of this examination is a prerequisite for enrolling as a Junior. Any Sophomore who has not passed the examination and who cannot be present should see Mr. Smith, the Archon of Sophomore Mathematics, to make special arrangements for taking the examination at another time. No The MD, and for ente cian or f thin brea tall writ So �9LAST FRENCH EXAM The final French Reading Knowledge Examination of the year will be given Saturday morning, April 11, from 9:30 to 12:30 in McDowell 31, 32, and 33. I I once The text for the examination will mo re be from de Toqueville's Oemocratie . en Arnerique. Passage of this examination is a prerequisite for being registered as a s enio r. Any junior who has not passed the examination and who cannot be present sh ould see Mr. Wyatt, the Archon of Junior Language, to make special arrangements f o~ taking the examination at another time. .· SPRING COI1IILION NEWS May 2 is the date set for the Spring Cotillion. The plans include a breakfast at 2 am Sunday morning plus the regular waltzes, polkas, and swing music. Several corrunittees are being formed to take care of details. If anyone is interested in working on the Spring Cotillion, please contact Mike Henry irrunedia tely. We need a food committee to set up, c ook, and clean-up breakfast. We have a decoration committee which will be run by Nancy Mease. We also need the regular champagne s ellers and clean-up crew. See me this week if you want to work. We need plenty of help to make the Cotillion a success. Mike Henry Waltz Archon VOLUNTEER ENTERTAINMENT No sob stories, but a need and an opportunity. The Fairfield Adult Day Care Center, Crownsville, MD, takes care of 15-20 physically impaired men and women, 65 and over. The Center is looking for anyone willing to volunteer entertaining enterprises, prepared readings or plays, music ians by the one or half dozen, martial art o r fencing exhibitions (!) or just about anyt hing you'd be willing to take out there to break up the day. Most of the group are ment ally fully functioning (they have a creative writing group. ) Some family and friends would join them for a performance, giving you a small, aware and a ppreciative audience. If you are interested a nd want more information, call Jean Hart at 9 23-6820. They'd like one week advance notice. From t he Collegiums and the Cabarets, I know there's enough organized talent out there. With advance notice the college station wagon would be available. Patty Sowa '82 EALITY AUCTION (spring clea n ing ) auct i o, (a sale by) auger e , to increase. increase (of b i ds ) , The reality a uctio n is held for the purpose of increasing reality. So, please thumb your nose to deep-seated love of materia ~ goods and donate generously when we come to your door. On-campus collection dates are ~uesday, April 7, Friday, April 10 and Tuesday, April 14. Collection times are 7-8 pm. We'll take clothes (unsoiled, if possible), records, collector's items, tango records, gold jewelry, furniture, utensils, traffic signs, musical instruments, old boyfriends, imitative and decorative art, hot (but not too hot) property, hi or low technological soft or hardware, racy love letters, kinky snapshots, anything and everything and tango records! Auction will be held on the Queen's birthday (April 19) midafternoon on the quad. Auctioneers wanted contact Evan Canter. Thank you for helping to increase reality. Moondog '82 MEET SOME BOARD MEMBERS Mr Ernst and Mrs Mitchell, two of the three members of the Visiting Committee of the Board of Visitors and Governors, will be here Friday, April 10, to listen to anyone who might want to speak to them about the College. They will be in the Reception Room of the Charles Carroll, Barrister House, from 4 pm on. Interested persons should sign up (for no more than fifteen minutes each) with Mrs McGuire in the Dean's Office as soon as convenient, but in no case later than noon Tuesday, April 7. THIS WEEK'S LECTURE Mr Apostle is lecturing to us on "Ancient and Modern Definitions of Mathematics" because I recently read an article of his in which he compared Aristotle's definition of mathemat1cs with some of the modern definitions and in which he pointed to sharp and thought provoking contrasts. Because much of what he had to say bears on the topics that come up continually in our tutorial discussion, I thought we might enjoy a stimulating evening with him. Professor Apostle is a professor in the Humanities Division of Grinnell College. Edward G. Sparrow Dean MORE GEOMETRY I am going to give two lectures on the Foundations of the theory of area, a subject which is studied here and there in the mathematics tutorial but perhaps not always perfectly understood. The first lecture, on Wednesday, April 8, at 3:45 in Room 24, will deal with Euclidean areatheory -- Euclid's own theory, and a corresponding modern one. This lecture is for anyone who has read Euclid. The second lecture, on Thursday, April 9, at 12:15 in the same room, will treat Lobachevskian area-theory in a similar way, and provide a suitable context (ex post facto) for the little proof of Gauss's read by seniors. An acquaintance with the elements of Lobachevskian geometry will be expected of the audience. Neither lecture will be long; questions will be welcome. Michael Comenetz TO THE ST . JOHN'S COMMUNITY: The LIBRARY wil: hold its annual Spring Booksal e at 2:30 on Thurs day, Apr!: 23, all proceeds gcing to enrich the Library Book Endowment. �------------------------~ - 10 An unusually large selection of books will be offered this time--everything from Program Authors ta Science Fiction. Prices vill be slightly higher, however, vith most books going for .15, .30, ,75, or 1.00 each. DOING SOME SPRING CLEANING? MOVING? GRADUATING? This is the p rfect time to remember the library and donate to the sale any books you no longer need. A * SPECIAL EVENT * vill be the silent auction. On April 20, certain books will be put on display in the library. Minimum bids have been set for these items which inc!ude: --a fine selection of "high-class" erotica--* *--autographs and first editions--* *--sets--* Seal d bids will be accepted until noon on April 23 and the winners announced at 4:00 on the day of the sale. The Librarians look forward to seeing you on the 23d (or before!), and encourage you to bring your piggy bank and a friend. Mrs. Kinzer Mr . Talley From the Placement Office: Blak£ i l ne, a 1979 graduate, will be here t o talk with students dbout careers in the computer field on Wednesday April 8th at 7:30 p.m. We will meet in McDowell 21. Mr. Kline works with the Computer Sciences Corpo ration at Goddard Space Center. This is an excellent opport unity for seniors to find out about entry-level position, about specific corporatiors, a?out applying for such jobs and prepar ing for interviews. It s also a very good opportunity for students in other classes to get information on how to prepare themselves for this kind of work. This is one of the few fi lds in which it can be guaranteed that there will be jot op nin well into the future. It is also one that has proven 0 be satisfying to a number of St. John's graduates. The Chronicle of Education of March 25th reports that there is a shortage of school teachers in some subjec ts, and they predict that there will bE a critical shortage b 19 The article mentions also that many school districts have difficulty in getting substitute teachers, which may be ot interest to students who want part-time work. St. John's graduates with just the BA are eligib le to teach in private schools. Graduates who wish to broaden their options may wish to consider going into a master -inteaching..program, which in about a year offers a master 's egree and the certification needed to teach in public s choo~ systems. Summer Jobs TO FRESHMEN, SOPHOMOREtS AND JUNIORS composing the ho will be registering as , Junior , and Seniors next fall. The will be composed of students who have confinned their intention to return by depositing $100 in the Treasurer's Office before April 6, except for January Freshmen' for whom the date will be in the middle of July. If, accordingly, you want to return next year, please see to it that appropriate arrangements have been made with the Treasurer before April 6. The Treasurer will refund the deposit in case of withdrawal due to ill health, academic dismissal, or failure to enable. It will not be carried over in case you decide not to enroll next year but to return the year after. Nancy R. Winter, Registrar There are summ r jobs available with the Department of Natural Resourc s of the State of Maryland. They are LOokin for college students with backgrounds heavy in the sciences. To apply, r,o to the Maryland State ~epartment of Emplovnunt on Soloman's Islar.d Road (across from Parole Shopping a It is also a good idea to register at the agency i n Jrder to be notified of other summer jobs that may occur lat e in th pring. They handle private listings as well as gove rnment Students who are interested in drivinb a college - car on trips that are arranged through the Placement Office, p e~se come and talk to me. I need people who are over 21, have good driving records and who will be returning to th e co: ... ege next year. Please return all placement off ice publication< to the "lacement Office. We are suffering from a shortage. Marianne Braun Director of Plac ement Sports MEN'S <(J(ou~mott 's Ctfattcy Ctf11.utts attd C\JegetobQes <tf~e vUa11.'2et 9Jouse ~uapofo:. vUd. 269-094f the • Orange Juice (squeezed fresh daily in the market) • Fruit Baskets (made to order) • Fresh Fruit & Vegetables (d livered daily) • Farm Fresh Eggs • Ori d Fruits & Nuts • J lltt:s and Jams • Cldoi:sr by Bryce Jacobsen fhose incredible people, the ancient Greeks, invented Homeric Poetry, Sophoclean Tragedy, Aristophanic Comedy, Ari stotelian Logic, Platonic Forms, Euclide n Postulational Mathematics, Government by Law ••• AND THE OLYMPICS! Don't miss our Track Meet, coming up this Saturday at 1:30. BE GREEK! The Marathon: After the first lap, Mr. Henry w s one second ahead of Mr. Adams •• • and nobody could ever catch the Guardians there- te Le �after. The Henry Brothers and Messrs. Norton, Schuler, Cree, Campbell, Melli, Whalen, Leizman, Gaspar and others just wore down the opposition, lap by lap. After 10 laps, the Guardians were leading the Hustlers by 19 seconds, after 20 laps they were 46 seconds ahead, and after 30 laps the lead was 1 minute and 22 seconds. At the end, they had almost lapped the Hustlers, the winning margin being 2 minutes and 14 seconds. They finished very strongly, besting the Hustlers in each of the final 8 laps. They had the necessary stamina and endurance, when it counted the most. The Spartans were third, the Oruids were fourth, and the Greenwaves fifth. lt was a · nice day for running, and eighty runners ' participated, which was a very fine turnout. This victory in the Marathon was a big boost to the Guardians. lf they do this well in Track and Fitness, and continue to win in Softball, it may be difficult for the Hustlers to hold on to their lead. Maybe everything will come down to the last softball game of the Spring ••• which is, naturally, Guardians vs. Hustlers! Softball ••• April l. Guardians-7, Hustlers-!. The first batter for the Hustlers, Mr. Kapikian, scored. Then, a little later, the first seven batters for the Guardians all scored ••• Messrs. Leizman, Kessler, Konyha, Whalen, Campbell, McDowell and Henry. And that was the ball game, right there. Nothing else happened, except for a lot of good pitching and fielding on both sides. This win was especially significant for the Guardians, giving them a shot at the softball title ••• provided that they can beat the Hustlers in that final game. The other softball games this week were rained out. Sorry about that. SOFTBALL STANDINGS: Won Lost Points Hustlers 3 1 10 Guardians 2 1 7 Druids 2 2 8 Spartans 1 2 5 G reenwaves 0 2 2 THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE: 'oftball ••• Wed. 4:15 Spartans-Druids Thurs. 4:00 Greenwaves-Guardians Mon.(13th) 4:00 Greenwaves-Guardi ns 11 wow 'S Tuesda rch 31 Amazons 14, Nymphs 11 The Nymphs are getting better and actually tied up the game at the top of the fourth inning, 11-11, but they never got any further. They need to develop one really strong pitcher. Misses Krafft, Goodwin and Kenyon all pitched today and did well but the Amazon pitcher, Miss Litwin, is more experienced and thus more consistent. The Nymphs also need to tighten up their fielding; they made too many clumsy mistakes, half of which could have been eliminated by remembering which bases the play was at. But Miss Abrams did well at first base, catching a pop fly and stretching for a grounder without losing her toe-hold on the base. Also, Miss Goodwin made a beautiful home run in the fourth inning that brought Miss Krafft and Miss Minerva home. The Amazons had some nice batting, particularly by Miss Nelson, but their fielding is what kept them ahead. Miss Litwin, the pitcher, and Miss Smith, at first base,work well together. Miss Sandek, their little catcher, was really on the ball today. She caught a foul ball for one quick out and almost got another out at home, except that the ball she caught was slower than the runner. Thursday April 2 Furies 6, Maenads 5 This was the quickest softball game I've ever seen. Three up - three down was the general rule, and that explains the low score. An unusual amount of outs were popups. Miss Hahn of the Maenads certainly caught her share. And Miss Coffee at shortstop and Miss Oosterhaut at second caught at least five popups between them. But some of the Maenads did manage to hit beyond the infield. Misses Randall, Brockway, Hahn and Polk all have strong swings that would get them further than first or second base against a team less nimble than the Furies. 263-2571 HOUR : MONDAY THRU FRIDAY 9: 00 A.M. TO 5: 00 P.M. SATURDAY 9 TO I MCNELLY OPTICAL COMPANY, INC. Q>'ltsetiption lJ plicians EVELYN H. DUFFY, PRESIDENT 0,.,.ICl:s 703 GIDDI A • l :30 by Lisa Cobb N GS AVENU D 214 LI , �Friday April 3 Furies 5, Amazons 4 Another three up - three down game, but '!he Amazons started i t with Miss Nelson tagging Miss Leonard out at second and quickly throwing to third, giving Miss Sack the opportunity of putting Miss Valentine out. The Furies were Thu~ sday . Apr~ 1 23 not to be outdone, though, so in the very next inning, Miss Alers proudly tagged Miss Smith on her way to second and with time to spare Friday got·the ball to Miss Farrell to catch Miss April 24 Trent at first. And this was not the first time that Miss Alers provided a little excitement to the game - on her first ups at bat she hit a respectable single and then proceeded to run like hell. She counted on the Ma.enads overthrows and her own speed and almost made i t home but the Maenads finally Saturday got her out at third. April 25 Parents' Weekend w.i th two (yes, two!) double plays. MARATHON RESULTS Furies Maenads Nymphs Amazons April 23-25, 1981 9 - 5 Registration in the CarrollBarrister House. Classes open to parents. 8 pm Seminars open to the parents 9 - 5 Registration in the CarrollBarrister House. Classes open to parents 8:15 Lecture: A Case Study of Eastern Iran by Professor Oleg Grabar Place: Auditorium 11:15 Film: Dog Day Afternoon Place: Auditorium 10-12 Parent-student seminar Reading: Plato's Republic Book 1 Place: By assignment 12:30 30:04 31:46 32:03 32:31 3:00 Collegium Musicum Student Music Recital Place: Great Hall 4:30-5:30 Thur Fri Sun 4:00 2:30 4:00 4:00 Reception for parents Place: FSK Lobby 8:15 Nymphs vs Ma.en ads Nymphs vs Furies Amazons vs Maenads Furies vs Amazons "E¥erfthlng For The Smoker'' ~ ~Md Avenue An~lta, MmryfMd 21_,1 Play: Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw Place: FSK Auditorium 10:15 ., Franc11 K.. ,., Phone: :z&l-2088 Bait : 25-ee42 THE GADFLY Non ProfH 0•1 St. John's College Annapolis, MD 21404 DA: Picnic - Parents are invited to attend. Place: Quadrangle NEXT WEEK'S SCHEDULE: Tues LF: Waltz Party Place: FSK Lobby THE GADFLY is an independent student journal published every Monday while school is in session. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 02 #22 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/f868004d03e9e01bfc96d144c55af46e.pdf ae03d5c5d202f5440b5298f2b6900dc2 PDF Text Text THE VOL. II, ISSUE 23 THE ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE INVEPENVENT STUVENT WEEKLY AN INTERVIEW WITH FORMER POLITY APR. 13, 79 81 PRESIDENT DAVID AUERBACH by Lisa Ferrington LF: So, what's your favorite TV show? DA: Well, my current favorite is Petticoat Junction. My all time favorites are Beaver, Bullwinkle - Love Boat has kind of gone out of favor with me. For about three months earlier this year - and last su.nuner, I guess more than three months - six months, maybe a year - two or three ..• however long it was, I don't like it anymore. I'm getting tired of it. It's really great, though, because it comes on at 11:00 on channel 7 and all the time I was writing my essay I would wake up at 11:00 o'clock. And I couldn't possible read a book before lunch. So, well, on channel S they show Medical Center which is so goddam taxing you have to wide awake to watch - it's really great for 9:00 o'clock at night but it's really terrible when you've just woken up. But Love Boat is really good when you're just half awake. You just watch it with one eye, then fall asleep and wake up and hear the same joke again. LF: Are you really going to write to Channel 45 on behalf of the polity telling them to put Bullwinkle back on weekday mornings? DA: Yea, Bullwinkle's another one that's really good to wake up to. I used to wake up to it last year. And I want to write to Channel 45 because they keep chopping up - everything I guess - but Petticoat Junction is most noticeable. One thing they show at home that they really ought to show here is Lassie. Not the old ones with June Lockhart - Lassie and Tinuny - those are the ones I remember. It's this guy named Jeff. He's really hip. LF: Is it still sponsored by the Campbell Soup Twins? OFFICIAL ELECTION RESULTS Congratulations to Polity President John Schiavo, Polity Secretary Jeanne Connors, Polity Treasurer Drew Parker, and Polity Justices Ann Haskins, Debbie Sack and Monika Viola. A total of 252 students voted. The vote count was as follows: President John Schiavo Scott Buchanan Others Abstentions Treasurer Drew Parker !Joe Ginter Rick Ross Others Abstentions 127 105 3 17 137 52 16 9 38 Secretary Jeanne Connors Steve Reynolds Others Abstentions Justice Monika Viola Debbie Sack Ann Haskins Others Abstentions 108 33 14 37 DA: No, not anymore. When I was little I had a spoon with the Campbell soup twins on it and I had a doll, that it turns out is a girl, and I always thought it was a boy because it had a nage boy haircut. My sister used to play Lassie and Timmy with our old dog that died - it was a beagle not a bit like Lassie - but we were kids, what could we do? The power of imagination. Oh, say Lisa, did you know (I can't remember who told me this) that Jay Ward who originated and produced Bullwinkle is alleged to be a St. John's graduate? In fact, Scott Buchanan's nickname was Bucky or something and Bullwinkle is supposed to be him. And I think Stringfellow Barr is supposed to be Rocky. Strange I don't know what they looked like It's one of those rumors that persists. For the record - do you know what Dudley Do-Right's horse' name was? LF: I don't remember. DA: Horse. Doesn't have a name It's like the dog named "Boy." 177 155 140 28 27 Linda L. Mahler Elections Committee Chairman LF: just horse. That's on Petticoat Junction isn't it? DA: It sure is. LF: What ever happened to the 'New Constitution'? DA: Last year that was Martin Miller's big thing. They wrote this new constitution and then had an election, but somehow they messed up the election. Ms Bowser, the chief justice then, declared the election null and void. Mr Miller was going to have another one in the fall, but he didn't. He gave all the papers to me and asked what I wanted to do. There were a lot of things in it that �would have been good, but a lot of people were upset with having the President elected by the Delegate Council from the Council. It is a strange sort of way to think because usually only one person runs for delegate in a dorm and the people who run for delegate want to be a delegate. They are the sort of people who get things done - like getting refridgerators fixed. I think that it's right for someone to run for President who maybe would never run for delegate. Being President has a lot more responsibility. They have to deal with the administration. Then there's always the image part of it. Like Micheal Coss, James DiMartini or me for that matter - the so called 'joke administrators'. I think people like to have the oddball kind of person for president. There were some other things in the Constitution, for instanc~ fixing up the Polity Court. Though there aren't too many problems that can't be solved ad hoc. I know that's reactionary government. In a samll scholl the main problem is dealing with the administration. For instance the Party Law this year. The administration said, "We have a problem," a-.nd .the council said, "Oh, nol We'll solve it." They immediately jumped to help the administration instead of thinking, "What's reasonable?" or "What's a long term solution that's going to do any good?" They should have just solved the short term problem and forgot it. It was the same way with the Polity Stereo. They made it so that you have to put down a deposit for it. Now, however, people have ways to get around it, by writing Iou•s and such, and nobody cares, but it still works. LF: How has Wednesday afternoon "Visit with the President" been going? DA: Really terrible. No one's come by. The first Wednesday wa~ when the febbies had just arrived and I invited a few over. It was ok, we had good bread and whiskey and after that no one came by. And reading people to sleep has been depressing. For a week it was really hot and then people stopped calling. So now I'm about a fifth of the way through Anna Karenina and one chapter into Wind in the Willows. It's dreadful. LF: In the upcoming election, do you think there will be any issues? DA: I don't think that there are ever any real issues here, except immediate things. I think that to be president you need to have a strong personality, and of course the eccentric factor. I think the best president would be a freshman or sophomore woman who's a real go-getter. Someone who can handle the administration and upperclassmen telling them that they can't do what they want to. What we really need is someone who has an idea of what they want to do and does it. I can't off-hand think of anyone. I think it would be neat to have a woman as President, but it would have to be someone with a lot of punch. The polity is going to get by no matter who is president. I can't think of any who have really done any harm. I think it has more to do with the image. I remember when Mike Coss was president, and James too, how people were proud to say that he was our president.· I think that there's a certain amount of pleasure people feel knowing that they go to a school where this oddball is president. There really aren't issues, except when people create them. Sometimes council meetings are like that. There won't be anything to discuss and someone will. say, "let's talk about this," and we do • . .•.. The a~vice that I'd like to pass on to my successor ~s that you have to learn to deal with th administration. They're all nice people and I e like them all well enough but it's strange. Lik the Dean seems a little bit uncomfortable, espec: ially at the meetings where the DC meets the administration, in fact he's left a whole bunch of them. He's a nice man, though, I don't mean to h~rt his ~eeli~gs. It seems to me that he doesn't like dealing with students as an administrator And Miss Leonard, I suppose because she's been. here so long, always gets things done her way. That's the way her job is. There's no sense in students trying to cross her. And Mr Milner is so intensely reasonable. I've gotten to like him a lot as.my math tutor. He was a good tutor. As a group, if they ~ant to do something it gets done. It's sort of incumbent on the president to tell them what they want to hear. Not to concede to everything they say. although almost everything they say is exceedingly reasonable, but to talk about it and try to get what the students want. The Court is really funny, too. I was on the court and could have been Chief Justice, but I didn't run for re-election. I get to appoint two new people before I leave office. There's going to be a whole new court and, of course, the old court (as far as I know) has never met. So the two 'old-hands' have never done anything. r suppose that the court could do more. If the attorney and the court perceived that there was a problem, like noise they could set up new policy. One last thing. I was talking to Mike Coss and I said that no one has told me that I've been doing a good job and that makes me feel bad - as though I haven't been a good president. But Mike said that it was the same way when he was President, and I know that he was one of the best the school has had. I wish that people would tell me what they want done and whether or not they like what I'm doing. Oh yeah, and I think the CALYPSAN sucks, I'm just doing this tause your my friend. TO THE POLITY: First I'd like to say thank you for your support in Tuesday's election. I am honored to be your ?resident . Mr Auerbach's act will be a tough one to follow, so if you will bear with me I will do my very best. I am looking forward to my term in office, hopeful that it will be satisfying for both you and me. Finally, I would like to remind you all that the student government was formed by the Polity as a tool to protect the Polity's best interests. Use it. Let your voice be heard. Feel free to bend my ear or come to the D.C. meetings. Caring is what makes a conununity. Your humble servant, John Schiavo ... . •, p w a c s w c s 1 t m s t h w i a a i p �Polity Fool Conversation with~ Succubus In sleep, man finds shelter from the world and its inclemencies, its enmities and adversities, its sufferings, perplexities, and calamities, from naggings of Conscience and of Spouse, and from all the thousand lapidations which Life daily administers to his head, by descending into the salubrious waters of his in-most self. There, objects leave aside their mundane logic and put on garments of mutability: maieutic, weightless images pass as through a liquid medium, on tides of contemplation, in rivers of self-awareness. Dreams are the soul's katharsis: their transience testifies to its eternity. What happiness soever a man may seek in the world, what solace and reward, is as nothing in comparison to that bliss which is open to all men at all times, merel~ by their shutting their eyes and nodding off. But the other night the author's sleep was interrupted by a knock at the door. He arose, put on a bathrobe, turned on the light, looked at the clock, and went to the door to see who it was. Outside, in the hall's fluorescent light, he discovered a handsome young lady, dressed in black grogram, with strange incendiary eyes and hair of an almost luminous red, standing in a corner holding a bouquet of dandelions. For some reason the word "succubus" crossed his mind. "Yes?" he said. The lady came forward and extended her bouquet into proximity with the author's nose. "I desire conversation with you," she said. Outside a cat began to screech. "A conversation?" the author echoed, his head still cloudy with sleep. "Why, what's on your mind? Who are you, where do you come from, and why do you visit my chamber at this hour of the night?" "I have neither name nor home," said the succubus. "It is my peculiar fate to walk the earth and have conversation with men at night, while they sleep." "Well," said the author, thinking, "if you're looking for a Great Conversation, you have certainly come to the right place, for this is St. John's College, which, as you may or may not know, is the home of the Great Books of the Western World, or. at least, is the one school in the country, perhaps in the entire sublunary world, where they are considerately studied and given that laborious attention which their difficulty and excellence commands : though one must add that since the 1960's the Annapolis campus has not been alone, but by institutional mitosis has spawned a sister St. John's College in ~a~ta Fe, New Mexico, which I myself have never visited, though people tell me it's got very beautiful skies, very huge and breathtaking: I know lots of people, Sophomores particularly, who'll be t:ansferring there this coming year, provided their money holds out: which for many of them is.becoming a remoter possibility you know, what w~th Ronnie's closed-fistedness: of course, I didn't want to see the man get shot at, even if I do have misgivings·about his policies: he is seventy years old, you know, and it's a miracle"""'"'fie's alive today: to say nothing of Brady. But what do you think?" "Oh I don't know about politics," said the succubus: in a voice that blended hauntingly with the sudden crescendo of the wind, sighing continuously in the night. "Have you ever read anything by --- Plato?" "Plato? Why, yes. Yes, we read lots of Plato here. He is possibly the most read ~f any- body on the program. Why, what have you read by Plato?" Reaching into the confines of her chemise, the succubus extracted a small paperback volume of the Phaedrus, and presented it. "Oh, the Penguin translation. . . . Well, one thing I'll say for Penguin Books: they've always got such nice pictures on the cover. But I think I read the Loeb. Class-copies." "Then you have read this?" "Yes, of course. In fact, I' 11 be reading it again in the near future." "Again!" She seemed intrigued, even fascinated. "Yes, we read the Phaedrus twice here, once in Freshman year and once when we're Seniors. I suppose this is so we get a second crack at it, or possibly, so that the four years of the Program and our lives here might be seen as some kind of whole, a circle -returning upon itself, a perfect sphere, an essence rare, or something." "Yes! It's remarkable: I have often had the same thought, that life is a circle, a selfrevolving wheel, an essence rare, and that we are forever cast back upon our beginnings, absorbed into the unconscious primeval whole, like drops of water filtering backwards to the sea. . You seem to penetrate my mind!" "Come now, .really ---" "Yes! Oh there are sublime spaces in my head, sir, where, like Zephyrus in a cave, the thought of ancient sages swirls and whispers, where the pleasant breath of Plato burns with sweet fires and words of divine madness, and I sit alone, transfixed, enlightened, smelling the flowers, the roses of knowledge, the violets of wisdom, the goldenrod of truth, the white lilies of virtue . . . . But you, you have plucked up my flowers!" "No no, Madam, I assure you---'' "Yes, you have! O, for my flowers1 o, for my departed virtue! Alas, alas, I am undone, sir, deflowered; you have torn off the covers of my soul, have flipped through the pages of my heart: ~ou have r,erused me, sir, like . . . like . . . like . . . "Like a book?" suggested the author. "Yes!" cried the succubus, and immediately fell into the author's arms in a swoon. After several attempts to revive her proved unsuccessful, the author decided that the safest and most sane and humanitarian course would be to leave the succubus outside in the hall, and to go back to bed. So that is what he did: having deposited her in the corner, and covered her with an old motley quilt from his bed so that she might not catch a chill in the draft, he repaired to his room, closed the door behind him, locked it, replaced his robe on its hanger, and went back to bed. The next thing the author knew, there was sunlight streaming through the window, the clock was ringing, it was time to get up, time to start another day. He arose to turn off the alarm, and was contemplating putting on some socks --- and then he remembered the succubus. He rushed to the door and opened it --- the corner was empty. He recalled the quilt: there it was on his bed, just where it had always been, just as though nothing had happened. "So it was all a dream," he said to himself. He went to the dresser to procure a pair of socks. Something was at the back of his mind; something that ~e couldn't quite place, a feeling as of.something lost, some hope perhaps, distTacted him and made the ritual act of selecting his socks an impossible dilemma, an irritating and irreconcilable choice between shades of gray and blue. And then he noticed the dandelions. Peter Gilbert '81 �M REALITY AUCTION GLORY! Putting out THE GADFLY is a complicated business that requires a pretty large staff. We have a problem: half the staff will graduate come May. You have the solution: join the staff and learn the ropes from them now. We need a lecture review editor, a concert review editor, proofreaders, typists, adver.tising, layout and mailing staff, and plain folks with ideas or articles. If you're even remotely interested in these glamorous positions, talk to anyone on the staff (see the staff box on the last page), especially Rick Campbell, or drop Rick a note through campus mail (Box 52). Don't delay, act today. The take has been pretty good, so far. We even got an autographed World Series baseball! Thanks to those who have already donated. But we need more quality stuff and that in quantity. Last scheduled oncampus collection date is Tuesday, April 14 (from 7-8 p.m.). Off-campus students may deposit their donations in the cardboard box stationed near the fireplace in the coffee shop. If you have a donation that cannot conveniently be carried to school then get in touch with Bill Ney, who will then get in touch with his car. Auction begins around 3 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21. Try to keep the afternoon free for drinking beer and bartering. ST. JOHN'S AND THE REAL WORLD: The Other and the Same WHO IS MR BIG? What pernicious, perfidious forces have invaded the sanctity of our ivory tower? Are there no places left that are safe from the machinations of maleficents? Must we return to the state of nature, and be reduced to a life that is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short? Yes, gentle reader, it is true: we are in the midst of an outbreak of cold war. Assignments are, at this very moment, being received by students of the senior class, transforming them instantly into agents of the same or agents of the other. There have already been five casualties, nameless atrocities committed within the hallowed grounds of McDowell. Shall we stand by and watch passively as our entire senior class is washed off the face of the earth ? I answer with a resounding No: We must seek out the source of this insidious terrorism, the virulent Mr Big, and destroy him. Underclassmen of St John's, unite! Indignantly submitted by, Elizabeth R. Stuck '82 263-257, HOURS: MONDAY THRU FRIDAY 9: 00 A.M. TO 15: 00 P.M. SATURDAY 9 TO 1 ,. MCNELLY OPTICAL COMPANY, INC. fPttsctiption () pticians EVELYN H. DUF'F'Y, PRESIDENT OP'P'ICl:1 703 GllDDINGS AVENUE ANNAPOLIS, MD, 21.tOI Behind Acme Market Formerly on Maryland Ave 0 r r w w e 0 T b Moondog '82 Letters 1 0 t HE A woman gets held up at gunpoint on Prince George; a robber breaks into a store on Maryland Avenue and has a shoot-out with the police; (the President's secretary is mugged in the Campbell parking lot) . The amount of crime has been on the increase in this town; we in the confines of this ivory tower have been blissfully unaware of this increase. As a child should not be shielded by its parents from the harsh reality of life, neither should we be shielded from violence on our city streets . It is only right that included in our education at this estimable institution is the first hand experience of violence. So I say, "Bully that David Nau got shot last Monday night in seminar." So what if he missed math class the next day; he has not suffered any lasting injury, and we are all the more ennobled for having seen the effects caused by passion. Socrates was wrong: the men most suited for judging other men are those who have seen and felt the depths to which the human heart can sink. And who would deny that the suppression of aggression, caused by conformity to the laws of society and this college, leads to alcoholism, drug addiction, and rude remarks made in seminar? Oh, aggression is the human passion; it is Nietzche's 'will to power' that seduces us and frightens us at the same time. I myself have of ten wanted to shoot people in seminar but have remained silent instead. And then I go home and smash eggs against the wall. Now that someone has shown me the way, I too will march down to the toy store and arm myself. The senior class is split into the forces of the same and of the other, but this split illuminates a unity, that of life at St John's and of life outside, on the streets. I applaud this unity; I demand that the administration issue water pistols to each and every student; and I say, "Shoot the bastards!" Kathie Heed '81 �sMEETING WITH THE ADMINISTRATION 4/9/81 plumbing and heating problems appear insurmountable. In any case, the Development Committee will be consulted. 1. The topic for the day was student morale. 6. Mr. Milner has donated an old 5 horseour new President, John Schiavo, plans to use power motor to be used for rescuing sailthe o.c. to raise student spirit at St. John's. boats. 7. Momentary ardor for the pool table has This is going to require a renewed awareness been cooled because of a disagreement over on the part of the dorm delegates of t~eir the drinking policy in the pool room. responsibilities. These are similar to the responsibilities of the residential heads, Yours, who are there to help the students in every Jeanne Connors way possible. It seems these days that when the dorm delegates meet they are less than fully informed about the needs of the people JUST WHAT WE NEED - ANOTHER BAR they represent. The o.c. does not exist simply to dole out There is a bar a little ways out West money. President Schiavo feels that its more st. (just past the bus station) officially essential pur[X>Se is to reaffirm the ideals known as "222" but commonly called "The of this community and invigorate its spirit. Happy Buzzard". They serve drinks at The D.C. exists to help us from getting reasonable prices (I think - I get mine bogged down in disputes over sleep/study free), food, and entertainment in various disturbances, noise, party schedules and the forms, such as backgammon tables, l i 'J-e like. It is there to constantly encourage music, and a fascinating assortment of us to treat each other with due respect, "regulars". The live music often involves both as students and fellow human beings. Johnnies such as Nigel Hinshelwood and 2. Let's consider the early morning fire Steve Paul (Santa Fe graduates), our own drill in Campbell held on April 3. The freshman Tom Pierce, and myself. On rnost results were dismal: On every floor people · of the nights I've played there, there's forgot to awaken their fire buddies and been a sizeable group of Johnnies and the the whole basement floor remained sound whole evening has been a blast. asleep! Those who got out took a full seOn Tuesday nights a St. John's I.D. will ven minutes to do so. At this rate we are get you 25¢ off on alcoholic bevera9es. going to have to have fire drills every Contrary to popular belief, firearms are night for the rest of the year. Holy Crow, not necessary, though you shouldn't walk is that an alarming situation! So come on, out there alone. It's a fine place to cut fol~find out who your fire buddies are and loose and make noise with your friends. be prepared to move when that bell rings. Singing along with the performer is enI8n't the thought that someone would forcouraged. get about you enough to make you burn up. 3. Mr. Sparrow told us that the promised Submitted by Rob Crutchfield weekend excursion wagon is soon to materialize. Mrs. Braun is the keeper of the keys and permission for its use is to be obtained from the D.C. 4. Mr. Milner announced that unless there is an immediate stop to the misuse of the laundry ticket machines, these conveniences will be removed, and it will be 33 West St. necessary to purchase the tickets at the Business Office. Will the rip-off artists 268-4545 who are causing this problem please show a little consideration for the rest of us, please. (Warning: Many an irate person, not ab·le to do his laundry, have free tickets Be.e.Jt Night: ivlon.day, 7-12 Aft Be.ell: $7.25 Win.e. Spec.{.~ Set6-SeAv,Cc.e. Sandwic.heA for one way rides you aren't gonna like.) 5.-Mr. Parker renewed the perennial suggestion TEN-FOR-ONE TICKETS WILL BE KEPT AT THE of converting the upstairs of the boathouse R 'S HEAD AM into a year-round activities cente r, b u t �.u Lecture Review L'ESPRIT DE GEOMETRIE Professor Apostle's lecture was intended to show the superiority of Aristotle's definition of mathematics over the modern ones. Mathematics has made progress, he said, only despite the efforts of modern mathematical philosophers, who, in neglecting to study the great thinkers of the past (i.e. Aristotle), are doomed to repeat the great mistakes of the past. The three dominant schools in modern mathematical philosophy are the logistic, the intuitionist, and the formalist. Bertrand Russell, who represents the logistic school, defined mathematics .as "the class of all propositions of the form "P implies Q," where P and Qare themselves propositions whose terms represent classes. Russell was also quoted saying that mathematics "is a science in which we do not know what we are talking about, or whether it is true." But Russell's definition excludes single propositions and it is the same as the definition of logic, which is used in all the sciences. Russell fails to name the specific difference which makes mathematics mathematics and not some other science. Mr. Apostle also objected that to understand a simple mathematical statement, such as 2+3=5, one does not need all these Some of the NICE THINGS at .. ~ BUVGET OINNER SPECIALS FEATUREV . ' i SNACK MEM.l 4V~ILAB~E IN OUR BAR .. " cl asses. One o n ly needs to have the numbers 2,3 , .and 5 "from various instances," and their interconnection can be established in a proposition whose terms are individuals, not classes. The intui t ionist school says that mathematics is founded on the possibility of constructing in thought the series of natural numbers, and that it is a dynamic science, always in process, always subject to revision. But this makes mathematics a science of discrete quantities, excluding the continuou.s (and both the rational and the real number systems presuppose continuity, i.e., a unit potentially divisible into infinity). That it is always growing is merely accidental, which is clear because mathematics is not the only science which grows. Finally, it is contradictory to say that it is "subject to revision." Only false propositions are subject to revision. The formalist school defines mathematics as "a science of the formal structure of symbols," which, Mr. Apostle said, means a science of chalk marks. But all sciences use symbols; and all sciences are not mathematics. Therefore, mathematics is not a science of symbols. Moreover, all meaning is excluded from mathematics by this understanding. How does the symbol refer to the thing symbolized? Are their structures the same? But in the statement, John has a fever, John is to the left of fever, which is not true of the object, John, and his attribute, fever. Mr. Apostle objected to non-Euclidean geometries, saying that they were contra,.. BAR SERVICE IN O UR VIN ING ROOM AFTER SEMINARS 268-4832 the Paper Place I .'I .• .1 FINE Food The Other Books, The Great Records, Magazines & Tapes SINCE 1923 "TWOfORS. IN OUR COCKTAIL LOUNGE MONDAY-FRIDAY. 4 -6 PM n. OZ4 A.HY DRINK ON THE BAR "°.,,. ,...e.. TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE . <SPECIAL PRICE.00 DRAUGHT> 61- 63 Maryland Avenue Annapolis .... . '. ,. , .,., . ' ..... . . :~%;_";Ji,-~ 57 West Street, Annapolis - 3 Blocks Weston Calvert from FS. K. ~ �---~~~~----------~-----7., dietary, becasue they call curved lines straight. He noted two facts which, he believes, discredit such geometries: that they always use Euclidean models, and that there are no non-Euclidean instruments for the investigation of a non-Euclidean world. Aristotle's definition of mathematics is "a theoretical science of the nature and properties of essential quantities, considered generically, specifically, and analogically." A "science" is a universal knowledge of things of one genus, which begins with certain axioms and premises assumed to be true. A "theoretical" science is one whose aim is not application but simply knowledge. The genus with which mathematics deals is "essential quantity," or natural numbers and magnitudes as such. "Property" is an attribute of greatest generality which does not belong to other genera. Since the specific kinds of magnituctes and mathematical functions may be infinite in number, the field of mathematical inquiry is not closed by this definition. Finally, "analogical" are such laws as "equals added to equals yield equals," or the corrunutative law. Mr. Apostle briefly discussed the possible objection to this definition: thaL it neglects various of the number systems used in modern mathematics. But it is only the modern names which are absent in Aristotle's understanding of mathematics. Zero is "a principle of direction" (an origin on the number line); positive and negative are positions in a continuum (hence negative numbers); the real number system, analogous to points on a line, is a two-directional '1' 2 ~ OrEN N lGtiTLY 11U- \ 2:oo fOOD·DP.JNl<S·Ll\JE MUSIC f>Ad<G-A~e>N ti. C..r\E5S continuous quantity; and imaginary numbers "have been reduced to other principles." This definition covers at least 90% of moc ern mathematical research, according to Professor Apostle, and, unlike the modern definitions, it succeeds in distinguishing mathematics from the other sciences by naming the fundamental property of its subject: essential quantity. Mr. Apostle's presentation of his views, which was mainly polemical, displayed all of the vices of scholastic dogmatism and few of the virtues of Aristotle's own vigorous thinking. The modern understanding of mathematics arose in response to specific problems; aside from this context the definitions become meaningless. Mr. Apostle never attempted to explain why modern thinkers hold such views (other than their failure to study Aristotle sufficiently) • So his responses were mere contentions and scarcely enlightening. Towards the end of the question period he did show a willingness to criticize and question Aristotle; al though his cri.ti.cism was mainly restricted to Aristotle's empirica observations, this proved more sericus than one would have expected, since Mr. Apostle considers Aristotle himself to be merel ·· an empiricist-a position which supris~d not a few of us. All in all, I think that neith Mr. Apostle's defenses nor his criticisms did justice to the Philosopher. Anderson Weekes 'h~ AFFORDABLE TREASURES from AFRICA and ASIA E'Jf.RY TVE..Sl>A\ Nl~T l.S. WONDERFUL S\. "JOHN'S N\Gt-\T things to C' 25 ~OFF oN ALL ~NK> (w'i.Dj WEAR! TODO 01'£.N Tf\LE..NT E'4'E.R.Y WE.~.~Tu~ . MUND 222 WE-SI ST. WAL\'\N(i- Dtsl. f"~ CAM.~u.s 198 Main StreeL An7iapolis, MD �-8 is very nice. But what do you think? It's a lot of money that could be spent elsewhere. REALITY BENEFIT CONCERT "Slim Pickens" will be in FSK Saturday night, after the movie. I am not referring to that potbellied, baggied-eyed bully from numerous westerns, and so, neither do I speak of the gonzo B-52 pilot who rides an A-Bomb into glorious oblivion in Dr Strangelove. You now know that I certainly do not have in mind the hapless hick from The FlimFlam Man who gets taken for a ride in the old Lost Wallet con. It is equally apparent that one should not confuse the ••• yes, well. Slim Pickens is a bluegrass band from Baltimore. They have a nice following, and if you ask around, you'll probably find a student with a good word for them. They will begin playing their music at about 10:30 or so Saturday night. We will be selling beer and munchies of some sort, and the door will probably be 75¢ for students and members of the connnunity. Come out and listen to something different and enjoy yourself. There may be· a dance marathon afterwards. What do you all think of the idea? There would be a small entry fee, and a prize. The band will probably wind up around 1:30 or so, so the dance would start about then. We'll see. The Harbor Queen. Problems. The school last chartered this lovely little boat in 1979. Since then the owner has bought a liquor license. The Queen is now a float·ing bar, like any other bar in town. We can, therefore, no longer supply our own beer. If we do rent it out, and if we drink, it will be at the unaffordable price of $1.00/can of Bud. Options: 1) Go anyway, and let each student buy and pay for as many beers as he wants. Reality might be able to subsidize the beer somewhat, but its a three-hour trip, with 300 people. The numbers get very large, very fast. 2) Tell the Queen people not to set up their bar at all, and go dry. We can, in any case, bring our own muchies on board, and non-alcoholic drinks. 3) Forget the Harbor Queen. I really would like to have the ship, but the rental alone is over $700, and whatever else we pay for alcohol will be ••• more. This is an entirely new item on the Real budget, and we would probably have to sell $1 tickets just to cover the rental anyway . .What does everybody think. I would not mind taking the cruise at $1, and maybe drinking one or two of their beers. The cruise itself ANMOUMCING •.• lftnic;i ®r?®oo ©(?)®a=uoa=u@ W. Ney '82 STUDENT GETS COUNTERFEIT LOAN PAYMENT CHAMPAIGN, IL (CPS) -- Ray Jorgen sen thinks he might have discovered the true wo rth o f a Guaranteed Student Loan in these troubl ed economic times. Jorgensen, a freshman at the Univers ity of Illinois, picked up $525 in cash from the Office of Business Affairs as part of his Guaranteed Student Loan Jan 15. After stopping at the campus store to purchase books and supplies, Jorgensen took the bills to the First National Bank in Champaign for deposit. That was when the bank manager discovered $50 of the loan was a counterfeit bill. Although the Secret Service, called in on the case by the bank, cleared Jorgensen, the freshman has yet to be reinbursed for the phoney currency. A plea to the administration yielded sympathy, but no money. "We all feel sympathy, we all believe him, but ... he cannot prove he got the bill here," says Ray Sanden, manager of student loans and accounts receivable. Jorgensen says he understands the unive rsity's postion, though not the school's l ack of cooperation in the episode. "You'd th i nk they'd have more compassion for a student," he Jaments. "They're going at it as a big institution, and the little guy gets screwed . " ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1981, ALL ELECTRICAL POWER WILL BE TURNED OFF BEGINNING AT 8:00 AM UNTIL APPROXIMATELY 12:00 NOON. THIS IS BEING DONE SO THAT ELECTRICAL WIRING CAN BE INSTALLED IN PACECARROLL URGENT!! I have lost freshman lab manual, selections from Lavoisier, and lab notes and preports; also with these, a copy of sophomore essay by Jim Bailey. Please return to Jim Heyssel. Thank you. ~000 A UNIQUE COLLECTION OF DISTINCTIVE FOOTWEAR FOR MEN AND WOMEN ~~~E~T IN CELEDRATION Of l:l!PGRANO OPENING,., THIS ANNOUNCEMENT & RECEIVE FIVE DOLLARS TOWARDS ANY PURCHASE. GLllO RAGS Vintage Clothes Thu-Sun 12-5 Fleet Street, Annapolis 267-8810 ON THE SECOND FLOOR �9- Sports MEN'S by Bryce Jacobsen FITNESS TEST ALERT: Monday, April 20, is the fina~adline for passing the 1~ mile run, and the 50 yard dash. Don't forget to finish the test! Even the Guardians were smitten with this Greenwave contagion, allowing three unearnec runs in the final inning, before mercifully ending i t all. The opponents of the Waves have scored 90 runs in four games ••• or 22~ per six inning game ••• or almost 34 per nine inning game! Holy Smokes! TRACK MEET ••• April 11. SOFTBALL: There was a good turnout, with lots of in· terest and rivalry, especially among the April 6 ••• spartans-20, Greenwaves-4. Guardians and Hustlers. After three events The Spartans fattened their batting averthe Guardians were leading the Hustlers by ages ••• and the Waves lowered their fielding five points. But Mr. Wise picked up his averages, which was not so easy to do. Ethree firsts in the next four events, catavery Spartan except Mr. Guaspari scored in pulting the Hustlers to a six point lead. the second inning. Then Mr. Henry edged Mr. Wise in the Long The Waves had their big inning in their Jump, and the Guardians were third, and the last "at bats", scoring twice. Hustlers were fourth in the Shot Put. April 8 ••• Druids-9, Spartans-8. The So the Hustler lead had shrunk to two Spartans were leading 8-3 in the fourth points for the final event, the Mile Relay. inning, and feeling pretty good about it And here it was Guardian depth and stamina all ••• but then Messrs. Warner, Stevenson, that carried the day, their two teams plaCosta and fwigg scored. In the fifth inncing first and third, with the Hustlers seing, the Spartans went down 1-2-3, but Mr. cond. The final scores were Guardians-39, Preston converted a walk into a run, tieing Hustlers-37, Spartans-28, Druids-15 and the score. Greenwaves-2. Hr. Henry and Mr. Wisf· were ln the last inning, the Spartans once atops in indi vidua 1 points with 36 eaL! ". . bain went down 1-2-3 ••• the Druids were play- followed by Messrs. van Beuren, Adams, ing some good defense in the last two innCampbell, Spector, Dwyer, Cormier and Moyings. Then Mr. Stevenson hit a ball that nihan. Mr. Spector, an All-Star center fielder, In summary, the Guardians won the 440(Henwould normally have caught ••• but he didn't. ry), the lOO(Campbell), the Long Jum · tienryJ And horror of horrors, it got by him! Mr. and the Mile Relay(Rutherford, Schuler, NorStevenson, meanwhile, was flying(well, lumton, Henry). The Hustlers won the Discus bering) around the bases. The relay to the (Wise), the High Jump(Wise) and the 220<Wise plate from Mr. Guaspari, an All-Star shortTI1e Spartans won the Softball Throw(Spector) stop, was a trifle low, so the catcher the 880(v8'11 Beuren) and the Mile(van Beuren) couldn't handle it ••• and that incipient The Druids won the Shot Put(Dwyer). close play at home plate never occured. This was yet another shot in the arm for Thus the game ended. 'Twas a 11 very exthe Guardians, in their quest to overtake citing ••• a nice comeback by the Dru~ds ••• the Hustlers. Looks like it might all come but extremely frustrating for the Spartans, down to the final ball game, as predicted. whose bats and gloves and arms deserted SOFTBALL STANDINGS: them at the end. Won Lost Points April 9 ••• Guardians-21, Greenwaves-6. Up Hustlers 10 3 1 to the top of the fifth inning, the Waves 3 1 10 Guardians were not doing badly, only trailing by 7-3. 2 Druids 3 11 But when the Guardians batted in the fifth, 2 9 Spartans 3 things, in general, fell apart ••• 19(!) 4 Greenwaves 4 0 Guardians came to bat, 14(!) going all the THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE: way around the bases. They got a lot of help from the Greenwave fielders, who were Softball ••• Wed. 4:15 Spartans-Hustlers not catching the ball so well, and who were Thurs. 4:00 Greenwaves-Druids throwing it with reckless imprudence and Fitness Deadline ••• Monday(20th) inaccuracy. .. . �- NoW A~ tbO l(No.i,,"'~"~ rfoT v.At:TL\' Mf°'"Ll!alS --tEt..E, ... t-1"- t>o M.UE 1{_ 1,.a • OC.UILT" f~<"..l.S" flt f'"'E ACIJS.H:SfU\"N £E.ll>~f.. •. , Aitb \,tf..t. Ncjf Ab - MF-.. WI Z..l'.RD ~ Wt ~ N01 n,.. 1'•1E ~~F..f>I ro1.1ut-, tit l-" us. 1J ,,..,.. wl. l.11\e. EJ< - Mr c_l\lL To • r~AJr1s:,~ rs~ ~a..n. "fo "Ll1'"TU. 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Miss Hahn hit a triple, Miss Bro <"-;kway and Miss Randall both got themselves to second, and Miss Benedict and Miss IX>uville made respectable singles. With seven runs and only two outs the Maenads were then forced to take the field again. This process was pretty much repeated in the third inning, with the Nyprnhs scoring one run and the Maenads scoring five. Then the game fizzled out, neither team scoring more than one run an inning. The Nymphs had some good moments, though, for instance when Miss Bowser made a beautiful double by putting the ball far into right field. Also, Miss Krafft made a double play, catching Miss Swinford's pop fly and throwing to third to put Miss Douville out. Firday April 10 Amazons 9, Maenads 5 Now it was the Maenad's turn to suffer. The first inning did them in. They scored one run with Miss Swinford, while the Amazons put seven runs in, mostly with respectable singles. The exception was Miss Nelson who twice today hit triples. The Amazons never got more than one run an inning after that, but they didn't need to, with the lead they had. NEXT WEEK'S SCHEDULE: Tues. Thurs. Fri. Sat. Amazons vs. Nymphs Furies vs. Maenads Furies vs. Amazons Track Meet 4:00 2:30 4:00 .1 :30 �11 . . THIS WEEK'S LECTURE Announcements THE ST. JOHN'S CO-OP will have its last ordering meeting of the school year this Tuesday, April 14. Themeeting will be as usual, in Room 145 at 4:30 pm. The ·pick-up will be the following Saturday, April 18. Please bring calculators and checkbooks to the ordering meeting. Our peanut butter, spices, and maple syrup are still the best deal in town, and our dried fruits, apricots, figs and raisins are the best quality. Order for yourself and friends. The list is in the coffee shop. The Co-op mark-up is still 5%1! FROM THE HEALTH CENTER From time to time I hear about students going to the Emergency Room for some service that the Health Center could provide. The minimal charge for a visit to the Emergency Room is $65.00, it's worth it if there is an emergency and then your insurance company will probably even pay for it; but for colds, rashes, toothaches and such it is an expenss that can be avoided. How can you reach the the nurse after the regular health center hours? This is explained on pages 9-10-11 of the Student Manual but basically the procedure is to call ext 53 , if there is no answer call the switchboard and the operator will help you locate the nurse. The nurse on call isn't always sitting by the phone, especially in this great weather, we JOg, garden shop etc., but we do call back to the switchboard hourly if we have been away fromour phone. If the services of a physician are needed the nurse can get in touch with a physician at any time. Another way to cut health care costs is to care for yourself. There are many guidebooks written to help you make the decision of seeing a physician, clinic or going to the Emergency Room. I have Taking Care of Yourself: The consumers guide to Medical Care by Ors. Vickery and Fries. The Paper Place has carried this book and the price is $6 or $7. If it would save only one office visit @ $20 t o the-sky-is-limit, you have paid for the book and avoided a time consuming trip, and not _ jeopardized your health. The CPR Course was on March 21st and was taught by Red Cross Volunteers Spence Higgins and Joe Smith. There was a movie, lecture/discussion and practice sessions on the dummies. We (there were 14 of us) learned the one person CPR, two person CPR for adults and infants. The Heimlich maneuver was also taught. If there are 15 people interested in this course I'll schedule another in Sept or Oct. Professor Quirk is a graduate of Princeton Col· lege and in 1959, of the University of Virginia Law Scbool. He has divided his career between private practice, government service and teachin• From 1959 to 1966 he engaged in private practice in New York City. In 1966 he joined the Lindsay Administration first as General Counsel to the Department of Buildings and then as Assistant Corporation Counsel. In 1970 he became an Assoc iate Professor at the School of Law, University of South Carolina and became a Professor there in 1973. He teaches Federal Taxation and writes often for The New Republic on financial matters. The title of Professor Quirk's lecture is "Is the United States Seriously Thinking of Going Ba on the Gold Standard?" Edward G. Sparrow FROM THE PLACEMENT OFFICE I have received a letter from the Monumental LifE Insurance Company, of Baltimore asking to be not· if ied of any May graduates who are interested in an actuarial career with their company. A representative of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is interested in visiting for the purpose of interviewing seniors. The tentative date set for this visit is Thursday mering, Apri: 30th, depending on whether at least five people are interested and have signed up. I'll put a sign-up sheet on the McDowell front hall bulleti1 board later in the month. I have some information on very good, but unfortunately, unpaid, internships at the Smithsonian As these are part-time, perhaps anyone who is se1 iously interested in gaining this kind of experie1 could combine it with paid work in the Washingtor area. Marianne Braun LISTENING PERIODS FOR DON GIOVANNI AND ST PASSION DON GIOVANNI April 14 (Tues): ACT 1 •.... 1 ACT 1 .•.•• 7 ACT 11 •••• 7 April 15 (Wed) ACT 11. ... 1 ACT 1 ..•.• 7 ACT 11. ..• 7 - - - - 5 pm •••• rm 146 10 put •••• rm 145 10 pill •••• rm 139 5 pill •••• rm 146 10 pill •••• rm 145 10 pit\ •••• rm 146 April 16 (Thurs) : ACTS 1 & 11. .1-5 pnt •••• rm 146 NOTE: Please turn in your copies of DON GIOVANNl they will immediately after the seminar be needed for other classes. - ST MATTHEW PASSION April 18 (Sat) PARTS I April 19 (Sun) Marilyn Mylander MATTHE~ PARTS PART PART PART April 20 (MON) & II. .1-5 pill •••• rm 146 I & II •. 1-5 pm .••. rm II. ..... 1-3 pm •..• rm I. ...•.• 7-10 pm ••• rm II. ..••. 7-10 pm ••• rm PARTS I & II. .1-5 pm ..•. rm 146 145 146 145 146 Other news from the MUSIC LIBRARY PRACTICE ROOM SCHEDULES: Rooms 135,136, and 137 will be open: "Everything For The Smoker' 51 Maryland Avenue AnMPC>lla, Mwyland 2U01 Francia Ketler ?hone: ~2088 Bait · 299-8M2 WEEKDAYS ---- 7 am - 10 pm SATURDAYS --- 7 am - 5 pill SUNDAYS ----- 7 am - 10 pm Rooms 134, 145, and 146 may be used BY PERMISSION during library hours only. Tina Davidson �• • ' \ • V I II • \ ~~ ~ •' • • ~':/ I' ... • • ' I • LOST AND FOUND (in the Ass't Deans' Office) 1 pr black shoes 1 pr brown shoes 1 red/blue plaid Pendleton jacket (with empty contact case) 2 black wool coats (1 with hood) 1 black tuxedo jacket red/white/blue wool scarf 1 black stoking cap 1 gray cravat 1 tan woolen knitted hood 1 black dress 1 brown boot 1 cream umbrella 1 russ cap 1 navy blue purse (child's) 1 off-white rain coat 1 white cotten sheet l blue/violet prin~ guaze blouse l short sleeve sweatshirt with "Swinging England" on front 1 red vinyl jacket l brown suede glove l black leather glove l pair sunglasses l pair regular glasses various spiral notebooks l brown leather tote bag on rollers l watch •' '\ ,"':{"" .;: Thursday Apr.i:l 23 l • • I 9 - :.., ,: +~ f r ' 1 ' 5 Registration in the CarrollBarrister House. Classes open to parents. 5 Registration in the CarrollBarrister House. Classes open to parents 8 pm Friday April 24 9 - 8:15 Seminars open to the parents Lecture: A Case Study of Eastern Iran by Professor Oleg Grabar Place: Auditorium 11:15 Saturday April 25 Film: Dog Day Afternoon Place: Auditorium 10-12 Parent-student seminar Reading: Plato's Republic Book 1 Place: By assignment H Picnic - Parents are invited to attend. Place: Quadrangle p 12:30 NEED TUITION MONEY? ,. High earnings plus -college tuiti on program. Cash prizes for students . Company respected nationwide. No experience necessary. Flex. hrs. part time. Car helpful . CALL 263-2622 21404 ':,.' April 23-25, 1981 Classified Ads Annapolis, MD I Parents' Weekend GREEK CHORAL METER GROUP To last fall's Greek Choral Meter group and anyone else interested: I would like to have two or three Tuesday night meetings this semester for the purpose of translating and studying a few odes of Sappho and Pindar. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/37a6ec37d07b0c39df9111526a73290f.pdf 7d1ef87f2fa26b0f43c8f7349090aad9 PDF Text Text THE VOL. II, ISSUE 24 THE ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE INVEPENVENT STUVENT WEEKLY APR. 20, 1981 THE POWERS OF A MAN Reason, Emotion and the Computer The following is a conversation between Harris Wofford and Scott Buchanan on August 29, 1966. It is printed in the book EMBERS OF THE WORLD. This selection is the first part of the chapter entitled THE POWERS OF A MAN. The second part will appear next week. There's the other side of life-the emotional, the non-intellectual side-that some of your critics say you and your education ignore. Maybe what they mean by your being dangerous is that running the intellectual side so high is hard for people to handle if they are not understanding or coping with the other side. BUCHANAN: This reflects the deep difference between the ancient and the modern view of the intellect. Over a period of perhaps two hundred years. beginning with the British empiricists in philosophy. we have tended to accept the eighteenth century use of the word '"intellect." The old psychology divided up human faculties into reasoning, sense-perception. \vill. emotion. and so forth. These came from Aristotle's distinctions. The powers of the mind are the powers of the man. really. but we've tended to see them as separate agencies. So when you apply them to education you're training this or that faculty. Anstotle, however, was very much concerned with what now wciuld be called ••the whole man." He. with"Plato before him, went on to try to find out how vou deal wllh the whole man. What is the whole man? When you define man as a rational animal you are giving a substantial form for the whole man. The ··rat~nar' and the .. animal" are related in that the rational includes the animal. This means that no matter what a man does the rational permeates his whole being. Our digestion is different because we have a . rational soul. Our emotions are under the reason and so are other things, like perception.· ~o if you want to deal with the whole man you WOFFORD: must deal with him rationally. We feel this very much in the way we now are treate by the medical profession. They've specialized enougi so that they deal separately with your liver or you hormones or what have you, and we tend tO go tt specialists to be treated for this or that thing-quit• separately from other functions. We resent this, no quite knowing why-we resent the doctor not treatin us as reasonable people, as whole men. This happens not only in medicine but in many othe things in our modem life. We treat each other as ani mals or, lower than that. as things to be pushed arounc managed, and so forth, and we forget this Aristotelia· notion that if you're dealing between man and ma you'd better be reasonable-which would mean takin into account his whole being. The fact that the rational has been connected w~f books and languages and mathematics seems to hav brought forth this strange idea that if you're readmg book you're not dealing with a man's emotions, or tht after you get through reading a book you'd better tur, around and say to the author, "How do you feel?," i you want to know about his emotions. This phras comes out so often now in public discussions. The pol: tician, the teacher, everybody says ''I feel Vietnam i wrong" or something like that. That is a sign of th1 whole thing-our artificial separation of the reason an the emotions. and of the fear of the intellect, as well. Bt a thing like mathematics is a highly emotional exercis of the mind. The emotions mav be cool in one sense bt they run very high. This is a kind of ecstasy that is to b found in any form of intellectual work. The rational soul is leading and controlling-not the sense of disc iplining but in the sense of realizi1 completely what the whole nature of man is. So if you~ educating anybody the channel. the medium, by whic you do this will be rational. And you'll have as a resu �-2 a refining of emotion. Perhaps even-this is more doubtful-you will have a better physiology in general because you've had this rational exercise. WOFFORD: Freudian psychoanalysis should be rational in that sense? BUCHANAN: Yes, Freud is very classical on this. He didn't give quite enough play to the reason, perhaps because he thought of it as a sort of super-ego, a kind of conscience or something moral. woF.FORD: But ultimately the fUrpose is to get down to a deep understanding of one's self. He also suggests that these deep layers in the human being need to be understood before the reasoning process is going to be .very good. Does this mean if you go as far in the world of ideas as you propose,· you need psychoanalysis? BUCHANAN: This brings up a problem that's fascinated me for years. It came to a sort of crisis when I was abroad doing work on George Boole. At the same time I was seeing followers of Mrs. Boole, who had anticipated some of Freud's p0ints in connection with mathematics. I was also concerned about the history of the liberal arts. I used to state the problem this way: If a person were a real liberal artist. if he'd had a real liberal education, why couldn't he psychoanalyze himselr? This has been a problem psychoanalysts have been interested in. Why is it necessary to have someone outside you do this for you? Can't you work through your reason, through your subconscious? Then. later. a friend of mine. Erik Erickson. who is a Freudian and trained by Freud himself for a time. pointed out that Freud psychoanalyzed himself and this was the discovery of psychoanalysis. It is \'ery interesting but not a solution because this is still a mysterious thing that Freud did to himself. But it makes a point: Freud had very much the Aristotelian view. The fact that people get sick and have to have a doctor doesn't change this very much. Put it another way: perhaps dialectic is a necessary part of this. This would mean that someone else has to play the reasoning game with you, perhaps on the level of the couch in the clinical office. As you were saying, the psychoanalytic technique is a rational technique; ·it's trying to understand yourself. WOFFORD: The story of your education is in large part one of self-dialectic. and yet you prescribe as the center of the learning process, generally, the seminar. What about T Groups sponsored by the National Training Laboratory people? They are sort of applying the seminar approach to the Freudian field. BUCHANAN: It's a puzzle, what the group therapy people are doing. It's a special u~e of the rational part of the soul and the mutual understanding is a part of the internal process itself. Plato makes this point that after you've learned the dialectical arts they become internal- ized and you do this with yourself. But ifs only after you've done it externally that it becomes internalized . STRINGFELLOW BARR: Could I interrupt? BU c HANAN: Plea~e. You 're always welcome. BARR: I don't want to throw you off this track but I thought when Harris asked you about the accusation that this intellectual education somehow produces rationalism in the b:id sense. a disjunction with the emotional life. you replied that the intellect is tied to the emotions. I was sorry you d iJn 't go one step further- a step perhaps implicit ;n the word "tied"'-and say the intellect frees the c;:rn()tinns. ~ BUCHANAN: I mt:ant that by the word ··reLuc.>J_., BARR: And rhey get tangled if they 're not fre~J. BUCHANAN: This is no different from having the ratio nal part get tangled. which is very common. That is. the whole Socratic business is a ~traightrnint: out vf the rational powers. And this means tha~ ..is you str..iighten out the rational powas you release em\nion nwre fully than before. The rational powers are the medi ums through which the emotions ~xpres~ them~d \'es. WOFFORD: Jack Seeley would say the revase is a lso true: if you can understand or orda your l. .H"es ,.rnd hates this will fo~e reason for clear communication. BUCHANA1': He's given away his C:b~ wh-:n he says ···understand.'' If you understand :··•rnr i.:mritiotb yn u do it with reason and t:i.at is whJt stratght~rb tht:m uu t. WOFFORD: But his .irgument is th3t a semir.ar of id eJ.s doesn't by itself d,) the whole job 0f helping yo u to understand ec.10uons. BUCHAN A~: We 11. of course. the seminar is n0t a panacea. The seminar is in a context. Even at St. John' s, we had the context of the other .jisciplincs. <.tnd also the context of 3 very lively commun~ry of human bei ngs who were going through all sorts of dung:s. There is nothing quite a" cxtr..iorJin:.iry as .i genuine '.iber~l educati1)n making u\.er yl)ungsters. 1ltl.'re·:, .1 ~rc..it ch:in g·: not merely in ··ch~.rac.:ter" as they u~cd LL- ~-<" in th '" old days but in th~ whole psyclwlugical rn<lkeup o f a person. These are the signs that educ.lliL'l1 hJs t ~ k en place. AnJ there may be explo.,ions l'f the'.: c:motwns. with people taking pains to turn around and analyze them. too. as Jack Seeley wants done. I think the q uestion now about education is whether we have to tu rn to this whollv for a time, because we're so disordered. One could h;ve predicted that our education was le·ading to something like this. It may be we just have to turn ourselves into therapeutic communities at present, and see what we can do about this disorder we're involved in. WOFFORD: Another way some students are putting it. when they lose their cool. is that man is a loving ani mal as well as a learning animal. and that love has dried up< real BAR ide' BlJ( tha incl Di\ log tal · wh kin an rat rec WO m m~ ty hi �------------~--~ - �s as much as sell. as it may the third evil is the mores and of trust in accompanies inflation. history of money United States dwelling the preme court decision backed during question Madison's notes of the tion show that the Founding Fathers were exunbacked money although the pressly the Constitution Congress clause to regulate the value a moral at the end of his of our government that ingold guarantee people are 33 West St. 268-4545 �Jiii ����Cocks are Grass Oxen lowing Melodies rds are s Flowers Budding To the trees Children Lovers s Old man pray On his knees Pe Gi ��11-/ on Tuesday, April 28, at 7:30 in the Conversation Room, Mr. Robert Goldwin will give a talk entitled "The Federalist and the Bill of Rights." Mr. Goldwin-Ts a former dean of St. John's College. He currently heads a study group on the Constitution at the American Enterprise Institution in Washington. His talk should span a variety of current political questions as well as constitutional ones. Juniors especially should be interested in attending this lecture. The Political Forum Sports MEN'S Guardians Druids Spartans Greenwaves TEAM SHIRTS: We are in the last days of our annual call-in. If you want to avoid that $3.50 charge, return yours. SOFTBALL: Apr 13 ... Guardians-ll, Greenwaves-7. A few days ago the Guardians devastated the Waves, 21-6. But the Waves improved significantly, only allowing the Guardians one really "Big" inning. Otherwise, they were getting people out fairly regularly, and exhibiting some new-found fielding competency. It was even closer than the score show. In their last bats the Waves had loaded the bases, and the Tieing Run(!) was at the plate, before they finally succumbed. The Guardians were getting rather nervous, to say the least. Some postgame comments overheard: 1) A Guardian: "How could the Waves, THE WAVES(!) have almost sabatoged our final stretch run?" 2) A Guardian: "Sure glad we don't have to play those clowns again." 3) A Wave: "We gained some respectability." 4) A Wave: "We' re about to make our move." Apr 15 ... Hustlers-9, Spartans-8. For the Spartans, this must have seemed like an eerie case of "Deja Vu." Consider these comparisons with their loss of a week ago: 1) In both, they lost by 9-8. 2) In both, they were leading earlier, by 8-3. 3) In both, their bats and gloves deserted them in the final innings. 4) In both, the winning run scored on a fielding miscue. For the Hustlers, it was a game that t.hey had to win, and they did, albeit with a little help from their opponents. Things still seem to be moving along relentlessly to that final HustlerGuardian game. If all this continues. The Softball Title and the yearly championship will be determined in the last game of the season, and the year. Who makes up these schedules? Apr 16 ... Druids-16, Greenwaves-7. For 3 1/2 innings the "New" Waves were polishing their new image, and leading by 5-4, matter of fact. But long-entrenched sinful habits are hard to root out, and they "backslid" into their old ways •.. a succession of errors and walks produced 9 runs for the Druids in the 4th. Other than that dreadful inning, the game was a toss-up. The Druids still have a shot at the title, but they must beat the Hustlers and Guardians this week ••. something they didn't do the first time around. SOFTBALL STANDINGS: Won 4 Lost 1 Points 13 1 2 4 6 13 14 10 6 THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE Softball: Wed Thu Sat WOMEN'S April 14 by Bryce Jacobsen 4 4 2 0 4:15 4:00 1:30 3:00 Greenwaves-Hustlers Guardians-Druids Guardians-Spartans Hustlers-Druids by Lisa Cobb Arqazons 8 Nymphs 6 At the bottom of the sixth inning the Nymphs were losing 8-0 and it looked like the end was near. But no! The amazing Misses Collingwood, Braswell and Goodwin got on base and Miss "better late than never" Krafft hit a homerun! Now there was only one out and Harvey and Kamensky had gotten on base. Well, they got those two runs they were counting on but in the process two more outs came at first base. That's what you call a sacrifice. So the Amazons went home feeling lucky but I guess, all-in-all, the Nymphs went home feeling luckier. April 16 Maenads 4 Furies 2 Attention please! Miss Katherine Berry is a star! Yes, in the sixth inning one of the Furies' toughest hitters, Miss Walton hit a looong pop fly to left field and Miss Berry, with no trouble at all, caught it. Miss Berry was pleased. Miss Walton was not. But the biggest surprise in this game was that the Furies lost it. The Maenads were up today and they kept themselves busy getting those Furies out. Hahn kept catching pops or throwing grounders to Polk at first. Brocknay was catching pop f lys too and then there was Benedict who kept tagging people out on their way to second· base. April 17 Furies 13 Amazons 2 This was a depressing game for the Amazons. They were badly outnumbered and Miss Litwin, having caught a ball in her eye socket during µre-game practice, was having trouble pitching. So the Furies piled u~ runs while the Amazons 4 str,uggled through the first 4 innings scoreless. Their two runs came in the 5th from Misses Sandek and Litwin. Miss Alers of the Furies amused us once again with one of her desperate runs that put her out at third.. Of the more cautious Furies, Miss Leonard made numerous plays to Farrell at first for those quick outs and Miss Richardson threw a beautiful one to first, all the way from third for another out. Also, Miss Farell made a double play by catching Twyford's pop fly and tagging Trent out. The Track Meet: The turn-out for the Maenads and Furies was great, for the Nymphs and Amazons--not so good. However, Gowdy's runnings helped the Nymphs to enough points to put them in a solid third place. The only competition Gowdy had was Desimone of the Maenads and Stuck of the Furies. So these three shared the glory for all the running events. Miss Stuck also did well with the discus throw. We were all impressed by her style and grace and assumed that she would take first in the shotput as well. But cheeky Miss Alers made an amazing throw that took first place easily. • �The jumpinq events were much closer. Half an inch separated Hahn and Abrams in the long jump. And in the high jump it came down to a tie breaker between Amazon Wilson and Maenad Cote. After three attempts, though, Miss Wilson brought the· Amazons their first and last victory. When it came down to· the last event, the mile relay, the Amazons, with 12 points, gave up. The Nymphs had a good 29 points but not enough people. That left the Furies and Maenads seemingly tied at 32 points. (Later it was discovered that because the Maenad's first place softball throw by Miss Cote had not been added in, the Maenads were actually ahead.) But at the time it seemed that the mile relay would decide the track meet. The Furies put up two teams that came in 2nd and 3rd and the Maenads put up 1 and 3/4 of a team. Their 3/4 team had to be disqualified but Desimone helped to bring the other Maenad team to first place. This meant that the Maenads and Furies still seemed to be tied, but now that we know the Ma.enads really won: Congratulations, Maenads! NEXT WEEK'S SCHEDULE: Tuesday 4:00 Nymphs vs. Maenads Thursday 2:30 Nymphs vs. Furies Friday 4:00 Amazon• vs. Maenads Sunday 2:30 Furies vs. Nymphs Monday 4:00 Furiea vs. Amazons HELP WANTED: We will need a replacement for Miss Cobb for next year. You should be well disciplined, well organized, well acquainted with the athletic program ••• and well-liked. This is not a student aid job ••• anyone is eligible. If interested, see me. April 23-25, 1981 Thursday Apr.i:l 23 9 - "Everything For The Smoker" Franc11 Ketler Phone· 2e3-20ee Bait: 291MMM2 5 8 pm Friday April 24 9 - 8:15 11:15 Saturday April 25 10-12 12:30 3:00 4:30-5:30 8:15 10:15 Bryce Jacobaen 51 Mrttend Awenue AnMPOll•, ...-ytend 21«>1 Parents' \Veekend 5 Registration in the CarrollBarrister House. Classes open to parents. Seminars open to the parents Registration in the CarrollBarrister House. Classes open to parents Lecture: A Case Study of Eastern Iran by Professor Oleg Grabar Place: Auditorium Film: Dog Day Afternoon Place: Auditorium Parent-student seminar Reading: Plato's Republic Book 1 Place: By assignment Picnic - Parents are invited to attend. Place: Quadrangle Collegium Musicum Student Music Recital Place: Great Hall Reception for parents Place: FSK Lobby Play: Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw Place: FSK Auditorium Waltz Party Place: FSK Lobby ye ca sa th th th THE GADFLY is an independent student journal published every Monday while school is in session. It is free for students and faculty of the Annapolis campus. For others, the subscription rate for the second semester is $8. Make checks payable to THE GADFLY. 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JOHN'S COLLEGE INVEPENVENT STLJVENT WEEKLY APR.- 27, 1981 THE POWERS OF A MAN ·.The Weight of Experience Perhaps there is a difference between a seminar laid down in the midst of conventional education. which catches the students somewhere in sixteen years of constant classroom education. in the ··endless catacombs of formal education" as Kingman Brewster said, a seminar for people who have not been out in the world, who may not have even had time to catch their breath enough to love anybody · or much of anything, a seminar for people who've had so little experience; and the Socratic dialogues we're talking about, where the people are walking in from a battle. or from the marketplace, or from a love affair. The student rebellion in this country is asking whether academia doesn't need to join with them out in the world. A seminar with people who come in from the civil rights front or from the Peace Corps might come alive much more easily than a seminar of freshmen who have been in classrooms for twelve o·r fourteen years. BUCHANAN: My experience with the seminar illustrates this point in another way. While I was at the People's Institute Mortimer Adler suggested we take the Columbia Honors Course, which was run on the seminar plan. and do it for adults. We did it in New York public libraries. This experience with adults was my first real introduction to the more svstematic of the dialectical forms. I realized there was something very slow about adult seminars, very much slower than with the young students I had had before. This was a bit puzzling. You thought, "These people aren't able to learn." Those were the days when psychologists were trying to find out if people could still learn anything when they were forty years old. Of course, they found they could learn much more than they do when they're young. Then I realized-and rather fully and vividly-that when you're doing an adult seminar you are pulling big weights of experience with every word you use. It's a massive thing that's taking place with adults, whereas with youngsters it's light and gay and ktnQ of wonder~ul. •. . WOFFORD: Puppyish. Adults seldom will do this; unless you get people that are slightly schizophrenic or something. It's nice to have one or two of those in a seminar, as a matter of fact. I did a seminar at the Riggs· Clinic at Stockbridge, Massachusetts for one year in which they were all schizophrenics. It was a wonderful experience, absolutely wonderful-but quite different from what I was doing at the same time with some adults in Pittsfield, people of middle age, and bourgeois. Oh, God, that was a tough business. But when you'd done it, you had done a remarkable thing. That is, you had made the rational (if you want to use that · word · here about it) penetrate a whole depth of life and these people were much more educated than youngsters are. BARR: Shouldn't you postscript that though? You were not only pulling a heavy weight of experience which turned out to be worth pulling; you were also up against some frozen, vested interests that the kids didn't have. And while it was eminently worthwhile helping them get rid of those vested interests that kept them from thinking, some of the excitement of the kids was that they had fewer of those dragging at them. I think the fact the adult had suffered certain things gave him the superiority you imply he had over the kid. But he had also sometimes declined to suffer, and closed doors the kid hadn't yet closed. WOFFORD: I wasn't proposing postponement of higher education till middle age. The Socratic model often consisted of young men. Bot they were seminars that took place in the midst of life, in the midst of action, and this is part of what the student movement is now saying to higher education: join us or let us construct our own seminars on the firing line-wherever it is, . overseas or at home. Or let us go out and try the world, and then come in ready for a Socratic seminar. _ BUCHANAN: Yo:t:I're rigl!t. We forget.it s9metimes~:· Soc· --: ·. rates went ·tc? . Ui~·~.- mark.etplace .to_ do this~ the _gyril1:_la•_; BARR: BUCHANAN: . .. -· -- �siums, and everywhere else. BARR: I'm always moved by his going to the marketplace; but I'm also moved by what sounds to me-in his proposal for the education of the guardians-like getting enough time and enough seclusion to really reflect. It seems to me that Socrates is saying that the marketplace experience helps you to think if you do the right thing with it. But I think Socrates would be alarmed by how much marketplace there is in the life - of an American. It's a funny marketplace, not quite the Athenian marketplace. There are an awful lot of commercial plugs in the American's heart and I'm not sure how much they help him. BUCHANAN: But you remember how ,much of a city man he was. Remember how unhappy he was when he went outside the city walls? BARR: Yes, but this is an old quarrel between you and me. Socrates thought that five thousand was the right population for a city. You put him in Manhattan and see what he says. WOFFORD: Earlier you saw a sequence of Man, God, and the World in history. The Greeks were focusing on Man, the Middle Ages on God, and now we were coming to the World. BUCHANAN: You've got this out of order. My history is incompetent-I can do this because I don't know much history-but I put it the other way: the ancient world, up to the Middle Ages, philosophically and culturally, was concerned about God. WOFFORD: Including Socrates? BUCHANAN: Yes. The upward dialectic was very strong. That is, they were seeking. the top of this. This was even true of the Romans, and certainly of the medievals. But at the time of the Renaissance the concern shifted to man, and that's been going on now for about three hundred years. The proper study of man has been ---- mankind. And now-this is my strong hunch- we are concerned about comprehending the world. We're only -beginning to do it, and it's upsetting us pretty badly. As a matter of fact, the Renai~sance was pretty badly upset when it began studying man. It found a volcano . there. Well, we've found pandemonium, an unman~-- ageable chaos almost, when we try to think of the world. This is on all sorts of levels-political, economic, reli+ __ gious. Man is being exploded into a thousand fragments. Existentialism shows this. But the world is what we're working at. We haven't got very far with it-don't know •-- what to do with it. WOFFORD: Is the existentialist view-which I think is the predominant view among the young people we've . been talking about-stretching for the world? Or does it seek justification of everything in terms of man-to- man relations, direct encounter with another human being, an act that is immediately justifiable: feeding a child, tending a sick person. BUCHANAN: It's a little puzzling here. The other day the young staff member who wrote a paper on the Civilization of the Dialogue opened our discussion with a quotation from Pico della Mirandola's essay called "The Dignity of Man." It's what we used to call at St. John's a small great book. The paragraph was very existential. It was saying man can choose to be anything, and he can partake in, become a part of, anything he wants to-he can go and become a beast; he can become a god; he can do anything. Sartre. Camus and the people like that are saying this but it was a curious thing to read because there it was in the Renaissance. Here it was, out of the sixteenth century or thereabouts as if it had been written yesterday by an existentialist. Of course there was a Renaissance style to it. BARR: It was a beautiful thing. BUCHANAN: Yes. The existentialists, it seems to me, are reporting (I'm prejudiced here when I say this, but this is what I think about it) the kind of ragged end of the study of man. They're saying there's nothing left of him. Della Mirandola was saying there's everything left of him. The existentialists are reporting the explosion of the object of their central attention, and rm saying that the world is taking over as the object. You won't find the existentialists saying this. They will tell you, "Yes, man will build his own world,·· but they're not emphasizing the word "world" there. It's in politics. economics and the great topics that you get the scheme of the world coming through. The youngsters are talking about this when they talk about cross-cultural experiences_..:..as they do in the Peace Corps. BARR: Yes, but when Harris listed their concerns there was one missing: Vietnam. Or isn't this one? I keep hearing it is. WOFFORO: Certainly. BUCHANAN: Vietnam is a curious. fumbling. feeble attempt to get ahold of the world, because everybody knows that Vietnam is in some sense enmeshed deeply in the whole world. There isn't any solution short of some kind of a world order. I think everybody knows this. BARR: On the other hand, in justice to Harris's account on behalf of these kids, Vietnam is added to the list not so much as an interesting case of statecraft; it's more: "I saw a baby crying." BUCHANAN: Yes. BARR: "And I'm against it!" WOFFORD: The other recognition coming from a lot of people is that you find the world everywhere. You don't have to find the world far away. Take a prob- lem a st Hai fro oth on wh 1 int< to : BA ev ��in his two and the about Louka would -- Tony tarnish dream. Suddenly it occurred grass were brick-red and the were green Annapolis would rather the crown of a All the tourists, the middies , all the merchants, the rednecks and the high school kids taking shelter in its leaves are as unaware of the nature of their home as insects in a pineapple. Perhaps Baltimore and DC are pineapples too, growing on the same tree, populating a garden too vast for our eyes to perceive. Arthur tells us we must love the plants and one another, but I , we must love the plants one another. For my vision is true, we are gardens, composed of gardens living As far up as look, , and as ourselves as look we always pineapples. Andiamo, divertirci. '8 LECTURE 00 pm in the Conversaremarkable event be delivered In fact, few a �worth of In short must says Perl's fact, one book to one �One extreme of on each ceramic Institution a variety of as well as constiespecially should be inthis lecture The Political Forum Positive extremes of the formal Negative extremes are shown by the absence of positive formal qualities. The extremes appear in every combination no circular bands with tural e g. wa infinite ar decorate a a circle? the ways are and SI or a~ of Ceramic the 8-9 century northeast Iran that three forth the range There units filled with filled no limit to the variations found in and each found to be to Prof that the 10th and 11th century the earlier centuries in which the ceramics in produced and used It seems that each a1 iJ �There is direct correlation the visual aspects 9th century ceramics and the 11th century social and idea~ values the fact of their similar structure is an one i.e. that both of social dimensions and visual forms existed in the same at different times.) are meant to exdecorati ve art in 7th century northeastern Iran. Previous artifacts show no decoration of ceramics and little use of techniques For centuries pottery in the area was either dull blue The Islamic conquest caused the na-i-t ••ra.an surfaces. Great wealth area as a result of the influence Prof Grabar asserted in the his responses and aesthetic that he expects to find like about taste sider historical value or usefulness Grabar of a the Parthenon where the historical the edifice is not carried the of both other relevance an one: of art reflect the lecturer remains how does the appearance who like it? Rebecca Krafft May 2 a an article Be Re-Tried is in the coffee agree me that the author has gone a bit overboard I the at . If so then write a letter to them at 22 First St. SE Wash. DC 20003. Submitted understand real not to us 80 Sanders. �2 Be-Beep Toys 98 President Schiavo has declared that the DC faces a financial emergency. are only $150 freeze on all spending is club presidents expecting to repromised this year must come to Tuesday, April 28 to discuss This crisis has its root mishaps. First it was thought last spring that DC to be $5600. It was apparently $ Pres. Elzey to let the the unused portion r a allow the Film keep d c c �themselves serious student ceive the same attention PRESENT: Sparrow, Milner, Schmidt, Schiavo, Parker VISITING Dempster Registrar 1. President Schiavo urgently requested help with the DC finances for the remainder of the year. formal appeal be set before Milner. was 2. The tentative plan for to the discussed. Mr seemed idea of having the college and thinks that ditions there. 3. Parker about the not asked to .s. �members al �11were leadin.g by 3-0, Messrs. Bower find, Elliott and Costa having scored. But Messrs. Cree, Kessler and Konyha tied it up, and then Messrs. Henry, Mulholland and Higgins put the Guardians up by 6-3. In their last bats, the Druids were troublesome, getting runs from Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Bowerfind, and putting the tieing run on second, and the winning run on first. But then the bubble burst. It was quite a near thing ••• and very scary for the Guardians, who were looking disaster straight in the eye. 1 April 25 ••• Guardians-3, Spartans-2. This was our lowest scoring game of the season. That the winners only made three runs is most unusual. To hold the Spartans to only two runs is quite a tribute to their fielding and pitching. The Spartans had their chances in the early innings, loading the bases with none out in the first, and with one out in the second. But all that they could get out of this was one run. In the last inning they had the tieing run on base ••• but alas! He was picked off! Messrs. Nau, Spector, Leizman, Henry and Higgins did the scoring. This Guardian win put pressure on the Hustlers, to do likewise ••• or perish. So the Hustlers came through in the next game, thusly: Hustlers-9, Druids-7. The Hustlers were leading by 9-5 when the Druids had their last bats. Quickly there were two outs. But then Mr. Twigg singled, Mr. Elliott walked, Mr. Warner singled and Mr. Wolf singled. Now it was 9-7, with the tieing run on base. But the runners tried to advance on a passed bal l ••• and the leAd runner was thrown out at third! And so another bubble burst. Poor Mr. Ahrens was left standing at the plate, deprived of his chance to knock in the tieing run. Well, as everybody must know by now, these victories by the Guardians and Hustlers mean that the softball title, and the yearly title will be settled this Thursday, when they play each other in our final game. You won't want to miss this one. Bring a friend. On May 8, 1980, in The Gadfly, I wrote, " ••• it looks like another Hustler-Guardian race, down ·to the wire." Thanks to all of you who participate in '.:our program, this turned out to be a pretty good prognostication. STANDINGS: Won Lost Hustlers 6 1 Guardians 6 1 Druids 4 4 Spartans 2 5 Greenwaves 0 7 S0Fl'B~LL Points 19 19 16 11 7 THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE: Softball ••• Wed. 4:15 Spartans-Greenwaves Thurs. 4:00 Hustlers-Guardians WOMEN'S by Lisa Cobb Tuesday April 21 Nymphs 14 . th Terry ah W1 H n . Maenads 13 THe very first inning proved to be a portent of things to come. Miss Kamensky, the first batter, hit a triple and was soon home via a nice hit by Miss Goodwin. And before three outs were made Miss Goodwin was home too. It's unusual for the Nymphs to get two runs right off. But in the next three innings they had six runs before the Maenads even had one. I think it was their fielding that did it. Whereas the Maenads were sloppy today, Miss Krafft was real quick and Miss Minerva caught at least three pop flies in short left field. The Nymphs' batting record was better, too. Cathy Nelson made two home runs, Miss Kamensky one home run and Miss Barham got a triple out of a perfect right field hit that went right down the foul line. The fifth inning went better for the Maenads. Miss Brockwa~ scored a home run that brought in two other runners. But at the bottom of the sixth the Nymphs were ahead, 14-6, and although the Maenads had one more chance at bat the Nymphs were confident that they had won their first softball game. It almost didn't work out that way , though, because the Maenads made a · spec tacular last stand. Miss Benedict hit a home run bringing Misses Polk, Bonilla and Davidson in. And after Misses Brockway, Hahn and Swinford made it home the score was suddenly 14-13 I i <- "Everytttlno For TM Smoeiet'' Francia K•• 51 M9ty1Md Avenue AnftllPOlla. JMrylmnd 21«>1 Pttone: ~2088 Bait: 2ll-4IM2 I �with only one out. However to the Nymphs' relief, the next two outs came quickly. So it was an exciting game and _ robably a record p setter . for homeruns. Thursday April. _ 23 Furies. 14 Nymphs 12 The.Furies · were winning -hands down, 14~5, until th·e - top' O.f··-the · sixth inning. But in the sixth inning the Nymphs were able to convert their dis-tres_ _,concerning the score s i~to -hits. Miss --Minerva · and Miss Gowdy each got s-ingl~s .. T_ben -~iss Bowser hit one to· the -second -baseman. The baseman was covering - her base, but the ball trickied. p~s~ - her, which put Miss Bowser on s~cond · ~ith _ two RBI '- - and no outs! s The _Nympijs ·-hit -so·l idly a-fter that, but the outs piled Uf? _ -a~d it was over. Final score:_ Furies -14; Nymphs 12. Fo.r tlie f\lries.,. Mis-s Coffee and Miss Alers hit homeruns - Miss Alers crossed . home p-la-te -£ou:r . times • .Miss Mease got out fr~ · Pehind - home plate and played at third ba~e -. And if you were a Fury and hit a siqqle you were almost always batted in, at least in this game. And last but. not least, Miss Leonard managed mak,e it -around all the bases for the first time --all year ! to 21J-ZIS7t HOURS: MONDAY THRU FRIDAY t: 00 A.M. TO 15100 P.M. SATURDAY I TO t MCNELLY· DPTrCAL COMPANY, INC. fP,esctiptiott : lJ pticians EVELYN H. OUF'F'Y, PRESIDENT D"-IDE1 ·7fl GiDDING8 A _ VEN _ UE . AN.NAPOLI., MQ. UA-Ot Behind Acme Market Formerly on Maryland Ave Friday April 24 Maenads 9 Amazons 7 The·Amazons were ahead until the last inning when a nice string. of hits brought six Maenads over home plate. Miss Hahn and Miss Brockway were particularly helpful in this matter, as they both hit doubles. The Amazons did very well, considering they had only seven players. They consistently made one or two runs every inning and kept the Maenads behind by keeping their batting time limited • . The outs· came quickly. Miss Nelson made a nice double·. play in the second inning, catching Miss Brockway' s ·pop fly and throwing to Miss Smith at- fi:rst to .get Miss Douville out. Next Week' s Schedule: Tuesday Thursday 4:00 2:30 Amazons vs Nymphs Furies vs Maenads Classified. Ad NEED TUITION MONEY? High earnings plus -college tuition program. Cash prizes for students. Company respected ~ationwide. No experience necessary. Flex. hrs. part time. Car helpful. CALL 263-2622 THE GADFLY is an independent student journal published every Monday while school is in session. It is free for students and faculty of the Annapolis campus. For others, the subscription rate for the second semester is $8. Make checks payable to THE GADFLY. Write: THE GADFLY, Box 52, St John's College, Annapolis, MD 21404 DEADLINE: 6 pm Friday Letter limit: 500 words THE GADFLY · St. John~ ·s . Colleg~ Ann&Poiis, MD 21404 . Noll ·Proht Ora. BULK RATE U. S. POSTAGE THE GADFLY STAFF I-' A ID PERMIT No. 120 ANNAPOLIS. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Campbell, Rick (Editor) Title A name given to the resource The Gadfly, Vol. II, Issue 25 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1981-04-27 Description An account of the resource Volume II, Issue 25 of The Gadfly. Published April 27, 1981. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 02 #25 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/a7900174334e77ab9f732ad61ad4644a.pdf b7c492a90c3a26b8d5f54ba4b3af3654 PDF Text Text THE VOL. II, ISSUE 26 THE ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE INVEPENVENT STUVENT WEEKLY MAY 4, 1981 Onward & Upward in the Garden Which is E.B. White's happy title for the compendium of his beloved Katherine's essays in the New Yorker, but which is also a more general call to all of us. Previously promised was Lord Acton's justification for the first great books reading list (from a letter to Mary Gladstone (the P.M.'s daughter), from La Madeleine, March 31, 1883): The real answer to your remark 1 about that list 2 is that which Johnson gave about fetlock. 3 I have nothing to say about physical science that is not a reminiscence of conversations with Owen or Hooker, Paget or Tyndall ; and it would be important to put down all the decisive works in those branches. I have tried to know the books on the history and method of discovery, the laws of scientific progress, and the tests of truth and error; and I find that this is a matter which very few scientific men take any interest in. If I must defend my list, this is the sort of sophism I would employ: We all know some twenty or thirty predominant currents of thought or attitudes of mind, or systembearing principles, which jointly or severally weave the web of human history and constitute the civilised opinion of th~ age. All these, I imagine, a serious / man ought to understand, in whatever strength or · weakness they possess, in their causes and effects, and I in their relations to each other. The majority of them are either religious or substitutes for religion. 1 The predominance of books on religion and the few on science. The list of the hundred books given by Lord Acton to his correspondent. s." Ignorance, madam, sheer ignorance.,, 1 ~ For instance, Lutheran, Puritan, Anglican, Ultramontane, Socinian, Congregational, Mystic, Rationalist, Utilitarian, Pantheist, Positivist, Pessimist, Materialist, and so on. All understanding of history depends on one's understandi'ng the forces that make it, of which religious forces are the most active, and the most definite. We cannot follow all the variations of a human mind, but when we know the religious motive, that the man was an Anabaptist, an Arminian, a Deist or a Jansenist, we have the master key: we stand on known ground, we are working a sum that has been, at least partially, worked out for us, we follow a computed course, and get rid of guesses and accidents. Thirdly (I am thinking, kt us ;;,ay, of my own son), we are not considering what will c;uit an untutored savage or an illit~rate peasant woman who would never come to an end of the Imitation or the Serious Call. Her religion may be enough for heaven, without other study. Not so-with a man living in the world, in constant friction with adversaries, in constant contemplation of religious changes, sensible of the power which is exerted by strange doctrines over minds more perfect, characters that are stronger, lives that are purer than his own. He is bound to know the reason why. First, because, if he does not, his faith runs a risk of sudden ruin. Secondly, for a reason which I cannot explain without saying what you may think bad psychology or bad dogma - I think that faith implies sincerity, that it is a gift that does not dwell in dishonest minds. To be sincere a man must battle with the causes of error that beset every mind. He must pour constant streams of electric light into the deep recesses where prejudice dwells, and passion, hasty judgments, and wilful blindness deem themselves unseen. He must �continually grub up the stumps planted by all man. ner of unrevised influence. The subtlest of all such influences is not family, or college, or country, or dass, or party, but religious antagonism. There is much more danger for a high-principl~d man of doing injustice to the adherent of false doctrine, of judging with undeserved sympathy the conspicuous adherent of true doctrine, than of hating a Frenchman or loving a member of Brooks's. Many a man who thinks the one disgraceful is ready to think the other more than blameless. To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history, the chief business of every life, and the first agent therein is religion or what resembles religion. That is my sophism, beyond Dr. Johnson. But I think I represent Anglicanism by only one book, or two at most. Others, such as books on Church and State, cover much secular ground. Luckily, the paper limit stops me in the middle of a long prose. How does this tie in with Mr Barr and Buchanan on the soul? Last week~s Gadfly found them saying that all people have the capability to reflect (and even do it) and not just a select few. This coincides with Mr Klein's comment that all men speak the truth, the only question is how much? And so we can see a certain harmony in what they were saying. The critical distinctions to make are these: many years ago while reading Hegel I told Mr William Kyle Smith that I was going crazy doing it, and he said "Don't worry, it is not you." Some years later, returning from Texas and Operation Lazarus, I encountered Mr Kaplan and complained that Hegel in The Introduction to the Philosophy of History had deliberately misused 2nd Isaiah and the wisdom tradition of the Bible by claiming that men had the power to know all things (particularly purpose in history} and this justified the actions of those who did (than which a better justification for dictatorships I have never heard} , whereupon Mr Kaplan, with the broadest smile I had ever seen, patted me on the shoulder and said,"Not to worry, he is only talking about the philosopher's god." And perhaps that applies to the Greeks & Co. too, so that western thought might be divided between those who think they can think like a god and those who believe that at least part of that power may be reserved to someone ,J\ other than man. What does this have to do with good old St John's, its all embracing program, and my recent quibbling ,which is part & parcel of the "Arthur problem": 100 years ago last week Lord Acton also said, "The answer is that you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs--that politics are not made up of artifices only, but of truths, and that truths have to be told." (Of course he also said that if ever told the truth no one would believe him or ever speak to him again and then he wouldn't be able to take care of his family and his children's education. Probably so, but maybe if he had fought Hegelianism abroad and joined the Salvation Army at home he could have helped to prevent some of the worst that Europe has had to offer since his death in 1902.) Why should foundations or the Board support SJC if the alumni don't don't? And why don't they? I answer that it is because they were either trained to be (as an unlamented former vegetable said) effete intellectual snobs with no sense of obligation to anyone other than themselves or else they are jaded by what they went through or saw here and figure that their disillusionment with another imperfect human undertaking absolves them of the responsibility to support it. This is false. Support is owed because while kids were students here they were supported by a place provided by generations of helping hands: alumni, faculty staff, board & friends of St John's. Moreover this raises the question: what kind of people does SJC produce? And should it? Thinkers or doers? Or both? (Somewhere it says ... but more later when Buchanan, Gandhi, Sen Moynihan & Cardinal Wojtyla ride again, and together.) P.S. You might like to see Excaliber in Eastport before the secret is revealed at the Liberty Tree's tulip time. Arthur Kungle Jr. '67 JUST A NOTE: Reality is almost upon us! Start thinking about what you will wear for the Reality Parade, you have less than a week. The parade starts at 10:30 from the docks and ends up in back campus. Transportation from here to the docks will be provided. Just to make S1Jre you're all awake Bloody Marys will be served at Breakfast. Miles Beckwith Parade Poobah . • - -·-~------.-...w..:,~ • ...... ' .. ON We ar to al ev tyl inc to to tu: an wi lo st go Co ta pr to OU fo ca pl ar 1) jo hi lo 2) th on 3) p 4) th ag 5) Lo se ro �r �of a for forms of me that ve made a big mistake in abortion for in effect we are claiming does exist a · of human life that is expendable that of so little that its termination is pro-abortionists I barely have the that abortion a life of . If a woman feels love �����Jeanne Connors .c. ��Sports ·MEN'S by Bryce Jacobsen u a Softball ••• April 30 Hustlers-10, Guardians-9. The game that we had all been talking about for many weeks cer·tainly lived up to its advanced billing. What excitement! What drama! What a fantastic, come-from-behind victory for the Hustlers! And what a crushing disappointment for the Guardians, to have come this far, and then lose ••• and by this far we mean that they were leading by 9-4 in the last inning! Never in the annals of modern St. john's athletics was a defeat so agonizing, or a victory so thrilling. It all came about like this. Mr. Henry started the game with a triple, and then stole home while the Hustlers were napping! Mr. Kessler then scored. Then in the third, Messrs . Kessler, Konyha, Whalen, McDowell and Higgins all scored, making it 7-0. The Hustlers finally got runs from Mr. Newlin and Mr. Parker. In the fourth, Mr. Leizman scored ••• and Mr. Sorenson and Mr. Klipper. Now it was 8-4. In the fifth Mr. Konyha again scored 'on his third hit. So we came to the bottom of the last inning, with the Guardians ahead by 9-4. But then the Guardian world started to fall apart, step by step, like this. Mr. Hartzell singled, Mr. Sorenson doubled, and Mr. Klipper grounded out, scoring Mr. Hartzell. Mr. · Vincent walked and Mr. Maddocks doubled, scoring Mr. Sorenson and Mr. Vin1 t was now 9-7. Mr . Cabral walked and Mr. Zolkower singled, scoring Mr. Maddocks, making it 9-8. Mr. Coss hit a hardto-handle ground ball that wasn't handled, scoring Mr. Cabral ••• and leaving Mr. Zolkower at third and Mr. Coss at second. Mr. Wall was then walked intentionally. Mr. Parker now strode to the plate, no doubt thinking about glorious deeds that he was going to perform. But in a final ironic twist, Mr. Parker didn't even get a chance to swing at the ball. Mr. Yamamura 's pitch to Mr. Mulholland was too wide, and too low, and glanced off of the catcher's mitt ••• and rolled out of bounds! Mr. Z-olkower, who specializes in successful baserunning, trotted home uncontested, with the winning run. What a game! What an ending! So the Hustlers finally won Softball, and the Yearly Championship, something that they have accomplished many times before. Congratulations, Hustlers, for winning four out of the five league titles, and for holding on to your championship. But let us also give credit to a very fine and very game Guardian team. They didn't win a single league title, but they were always close by ••• and they swept the Spring events ••• and they almost took all the marbles. My goodness, but it was close! Next week, if I can find my Crystal Ball, I will come forth with my Annual FearlesE Forecast. SOFfBALL STANDINGS: Won Lost Hustlers Guardians Druids Spartans Greenwaves 7 6 4 2 0 Points 1 22 2 4 5 7 20 16 11 7 THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE: Softball ••• Tues. 4:00 Spartans-Greenwaves llE . "E""fthlng For The Smoker" Francia Ketler 51 IMryt•ui Avenue Annaipoll1, Mwyi8nd 21401 Phone: 283-2088 Bait:~ ., ··- �I WOMEN'S Apcil 26 April 27 ·s April 28 by Lisa Cobb Nymphs 11 Amazons 4 Furies 9 Furies 2 Both of these make-up games brought unexpected defeat for the Furies. Miss Leaonard's presence was sorely missed, although Miss Walton handled with ease the bulk of the pitching, and Miss Alers helped for a few innings with a super fastball. Miss Coffee, at shortstop, made numerous throws to Miss Farrell at first that almost always beat the runner for an easy out. Miss 'Richardson hits a homerun every game now. Miss Alers also made a hamerun_ this time; Miss Farrell and Miss Walton came close. But twice in a row the Fttries lost by two runs. In the game with the Nymphs well-timed homeruns by Miss Kamensky and Miss Krafft brought in other runs. Miss Conlon and Miss Nelson were quick to catch Furies pop-ups in left field; in fact, they kept tripping over each other in their haste. The game with the Amazons was low scoring (no homeruns for them), but the Amazons managed four runs on single hits and fast running. The Amazon fielders were good, especially Miss Tive, who made some nice throws from left field and caught quite a few pop-ups. ~ E Amazons 17 Nymphs s This was a sad game for the Nymphs. The 1\maz.ons scored by virtue of poor Nymph fielding (man~, many overthrows) as much as by decent batting. In the second inning the Amazons got seven runs (some on a beautiful triple by Miss Nelson) and with one out were forced to return t~ the field. In the fourth inning the Nymphs finally got fo~r runs (Miss Goodwin hitting a homer) but tney never got any further. April 30 Maenads 13 Furies 10 ~h~ Maenads started with five people and dismal spirits and got what they expected those first two innings: quick outs and no runs. The Furies got three runs from a homerun by Miss Alers and a triple by Miss Richardson. Then the Maenads got lucky. They pulled seven runs in with only two outs! Miss Brocknay scored a homerun! (The Furies were ma~ing ~ve~throws and dropping popups). In the fifth inning the Maenads made six more runs, leaving the Furies way behind. So when the Furies had their last ups at the top of the sixth, they were desperate for runs, too desperate. After two outs and two runs Miss Coffee hit a nice triple, but tried to make a homerun out of it, and was tagged out by Miss Swinford, the Maenad catcher. The most incredible play of the game came when a hard wais~-high drive hit by Miss Farrell was caught by Miss Hahn on the pitcher's mound as she was turning _ around to the outfield. They tell me she catcnes speeding bullets with mirrors in her spare time. FINAL STANDINGS: Amazons Furies Maenads Nymphs Softball 21 19 19 13 Total 102 116 111 80 Congratulations, Furies! You've come a long way in the last four years. THE GADFLY is an independent student journal published every Monday while school is in session. 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MAY GOOD WIN OUT IN THE END his year the que~:;tion of whether or not Kungle should be at St John's has isen. This question has a lot to do with. atmo sphere at St John's. There is a of dissatisfaction here. The adminiation thinks by providing the students h cars and field trips and various other sements that then the students will stop ing, no, demanding that the tutors justify ir existence here. Well it is not going work. We, the students, demand dedication quality from the tutors. We don't get Arthur fulfills that role at the cole that the tutors should be filling and ink they are filling but don't. This ool by its very nature needs a Socrates. tutors think that by being Platonists t they fulfill the place of the Socrates t St John's needs. The only problem with t is that they are disciples of Plato not rates, and that only part-time. Arthur the soul and conscience of St John's, preely because he does not have a position the faculty or staff. Socrates was only fective because he did not pretend to speak m authority. He realized that the minute did his effectiveness was at an end. What have we, the people who care about is program, been trying to do all year? t the goddarn tutors to listen to us. It esn't work. It hasn't worked. Will it er work? I despair of ever making one them listen. We are leaving here with great deal of frustration. Why has the nior class been so impotent this year in ying to get their points of view across? cause we are tired of beating our heads ainst the wall. Who listens to us here? Certainly not e faculty. Who really listens and is lling to spend the time listening? The ly one I know of is Arthur. And the culty, being jealous of the trust that e students give Arthur because they don't get it - they wouldn't accept it anyway, want to kick Arthur off campus. TheFe is a lot of dissappointment here and a few baubles and bangles are not going to solve the problem. The problem is that the tutors don't care about the students. Or, at least, they haven't shown that they care. The tutors don't dislike the student~, r:ot like they dislike Arthur, because they know we're here for a short time then we're gone. The tutcrs even like some students. Especially those who practice rhetoric, sophistry and flattery. Oh yes, we listened and heard what you said last year in yv"- ··~d.iity presentation. I hoped you list' . •o ours. •rhe time is drawing near wl.~ll we will leave. And I am so anxious to leave this den of hypocrisy and ass-kissing I can taste it. I talked to a girl who was screwed by this place a few years ago and was very bitter about it. She wants to destroy it. I told her that for all its faults, St John's does provide a service in spite of itself and on that account it should helped. Will I support it? Certainly not if it is going to reject those who care. What does Arthur want? What is he trying to do? Arthur is trying to create that roundtable of brotherhood which encompasses servicE sacrifice, sharing and caring. Arthur understands that Barr and Buchanan only wanted something more and better. What is wrong here? There is no history. The tutors don't know their own history. To paraphrase, those who don't read their histor) are doomed to repeat it. That is something that is certainly happening here. And it is the fault of Jacob Klein. His desire to bury his history is perfectly understandable. His history was one of seeing · him, his family and friends being persecuted. But can we afford to let a man crippled by his history cripple us by telling us that history is useless? Hell no. I've tried �this year to get the tutors to look at themselves in terms of what the program is. They have refused to listen. No one likes to look at their mistakes or admit they are wrong. But to hide your head in the sand is a mark of cowardice. What is the program? It is certainly not the sum of the books. It is first and foremost the community. Not that the closed clique of tutors but the entire community of tutors, students, staff a nd alumni. The r e i s a hell of a lot more to say, but I've tried all ye a r long and I am weary to the bone. So many times I have wanted to give up and go away. Who has kept me here? Arthur. I d o n't regret that. Please excuse the evident hastiness of this letter and its poor punctuation and grammar, but anger knows no rules. Rick Campbell '81 Th is 1s The End -Well, here i t is, the end of the year. No one has submitted any advice, sagacious or otherwise, for those who will remain &ft:~.z;.. the senior graduate. But I guess thal'~ r".')\ be expected. After all, the seniors hati. ~ control, or at least headed, most of the major organizations on campus this year and they were as quiet as a mouse. The SCI, that flaming sword of student wrath which was forged to do battle with the Instruction Committee, kept itself sheathed all year and breathed nary a word of its existence. Then there is the tutor-backed political forum which throws good parties where select students meet select tutors, except the select tutors talk to the other select tutors and the select students talk to themselves, The forum gave a good lecture series this year which the administration funded through the DC budget thereby inserting its hand into the budget-making process of the DC. The administration didn't want to be associated with any views given by the speakers. All they had to do was give a disclaimer: The views of the following speaker is not necessarily those of the school. The forum has dropped its initial plan to have regular meetings at which the world political situation could be analyzed. But who can blame · them? It's much easier to throw a party, and it doesn't take as much time. That's of prime importance, of course, b~cause, after all, our main purpose .here is to read the gr.eat books. At least that's what the tutors would have us believe. But i t ain't true. We are here to ·develop the tools necessary to function as human beings. Therefore, the most important part of the program is not the books, it's the community. Those students who recognize this are thos e People like who lead the social activities. Bill Ney whose work on this year's Reality was truly gargantuan, with the spendid results you all know. What would St. John's be like without Reality? It is an inherent part of the fabric of the scho ol. Yet, there is no grade for Reality Making. In fact, the effort Bill Ney has put into maki ng Reality has certainly detracted from his boo k work. Does tht make Bill a poor "student"? It depends on what the student is learning . Bill Ney and the others like him who understand that St John's is about community, not books, are the one who leave us with memories to reflect on and draw lessons fro m-memories that 1 rt> that rniwh mrv n ,,; vi. -1 th =in books for being ours and shared with the oth ers we grew with. Oh the hell with it. No one listens anyway . Rick Campbell '81 P.S. I didn't kill Mr Middle-Earth. scared him. I onl y P.P.S. WARNING: Lay off Arthur, or else I and alot of other alumni will never support this school. (Meaning the tutors and the life-style to which they have been accustomed .) Some of the NICE THINGS at ... BUDGET DINNER '\PECTALS FEATURED ' . 1 SNACk AENLJ AVAILABLE IN OUR SAR ~ . BAR SERVICE IN OUR :JIN ING ROOM AFTER .\=MINARS .. i I :1 .• ~ · FINE Food 1 SINCE 1923 "TWOFORS" IN OUR COCKTAIL LOUNGE ~DAY-FRIDAY 4-6 PM ANY DRINK ON THE BAR TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE. <SPECIAL PRICE~ DRAt.X;HT> 61- 63 Maryland Avenue Annapolis �May 5 '. 1981 D.C. Minutes Dear Dean Sparrow, At the meeting on April 28, 1981 the Delegate Council passed a motion proposing that the College take over the financial affairs of the Boathouse. The reasons for this motion are: 1) The Boat Club which gives the Delegate Council jurisdiction over the Boathouse no longer exists. 2) The Boathouse is run by college work-study personnel, paid for by the school . 3) The Delegate Council can no longer afford to even maintain the Boathouse , no less put it in a proper condition. The Boathouse and all its equipment are owned by the College and as such is a College facility and should be funded directly by the Co~le~e. The Delegate Council hopes you 8ive this issue the attention it merits and inform us of your decision. As you know, the Delegate Council had some financial difficulty this year . This difficulty, directly or indirectly, has resu l ted in a $600 . 00 cut in usable polity funds . Two hundred dollars of this is a result of a misunderstanding between the Delegate Council and the Treasurer over total funds. Two hundred dollars is unusable , placed in a fund that the College maintains for incidental summer expenses , but for some reason was not planned for in this year's budget. The final two hundred dollars is a direct cut in polity funds . This five hundred dollar cut means we have had to cut back our spending, most notably, our traditional Reality donation. If the Delegate Council is allowed to keep the money budgeted to the Boathouse we will at least be able to maintain the funds the clubs depend on . I hope you will understand our need and allow us to dispense this money as we see fit . Enclosed is a comparison o f this year's budget and next y ear's , passed in council on April 28, 1981 . Thank you very much, John Schiavo, president Delegate Council 1981-'81 $1,300.00 KWP S . O. B. 650.00 Boat Club 600 . 00 400 . 00 S .A.C. Waltz 325.00 Film 200.00 Reality 300.00 Senior Prank 200.00 Jr / Sr C:ocktail 100.00 Dark Room 100.00 M.O.P . E. 100.00 s. c. I. 40.00 S.E . O . 20.00 Small Chorus 40.00 Fencing 20.00 Astronomy 15.00 Poker 20 . 00 Croquet 10.00 Karate -0Bridge 10.00 General Fund 350.00 Summer -0Totals $4,800.00 1981-'82 $1 , 230.00 700.00 500.00 300.00 310.00 200 . 00 -0200 . 00 100.00 100 . 00 100.00 30.00 20.00 - 0- 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 20.00 -0350.00 200 . 00 $4,400.00 April 5, 1981 Schiavo, Berry, Oggins Prese~t: Visiting: Dempster The last D.C. meeting was short and sugar frosted, and confirmed the old adage that no news is good news. President Schiavo reported that he is meditating on his choices for interum dorm delegates for next year, but will require the duration of the summer for the completion of these spiritual excercises. However, despite his silence on this particular matter he has shown no sign of following in the footsteps of master Baba who declared that he would have no message for humanity on the grounds that previous emissaries from above had already conveyed the true ccmmandments so that what humankind needed was not to be told once again what they ought to do. What they needed was simply a silent witness from above to their refusal to do it. The remainder of this short devotional was consecrated to relaying junk mail to file 13 (which stood ready on the floor to receive it). Meeting with the Administration April 7, 1981 Present: Sparrow, Milner, Schiavo, Parker Despite th e ir profuse apologies ~ ~e a dministration was placed on absence pr o bation fu r their failure to attend last week's meetin g with students. Mr. Milner's plea that he understood that the Dean was go ing to att e nd was rejected as insufficient hy both dean and students. While Mr. Milner sh owed a like lack of sympathy for the Dean's e x planation that he thought Mr. Milner was going to attend. With this gaffe clarified an equally short and saccharin meeting took place. President Schiavo expostulated on the above-mentioned meditations. He alluded to a certain perturbation in the celestial sphere between the D.C. wavelength and the wavelength of the GADFLY concentrating itself in a mystical atonality between the puissant personalities leading these two intreped institutions. (The s ec retary was moved herself by these obscure allusions to GADFLY-D.C. dissonance to muse on the un-a~using abridgement of minutes of the last D.C. meeting in the GADFLY.) Jeanne Connors '83 Secretary �-4 Political Forum jected t~ese people for "social and economic" ·reasons, there then came the "Catastrophe for all mankind" . "Approaching Another Holocaust: Testimony and Warning" On Sunday, May 4, the Political Forum presented Dr. William Perl who delivered a lecture entitled "Approaching Another Holocaust - Testimony and Warning". It is unfortunate that this year's highly successful Political Forum had to end with one of its worst lectures. Dr. Perl dece~ved us with the title of his ·1ecture. Expecting some insights on the subject of contemporary anti-semitism and the dangers that might arise from it, we were instead informed that all the Arab nations do not like Israel and want to destroy it. Dr. Pearl then urges us to write our congressmen and tell them not to sell advanced spy-planes to Saudi Arabia. I really appreciate the good doctor's intentions, but couldn't he have saved this for my aunt's senility-ridden Haddasah meeting? So much for the "warning". It was during the "testimony" part of the lecture that Dr. Perl explained the "four front war". From 1937 - 1940 Dr. Perl was a member of ACTION, a Jewish underground organization that with the help ·of hired Greek merchant ships brought 40,000 condemned Jews to Palestine. Perl reports that there were four groups responsible for the "war" which he had to fight. The Nazis were of course considered the first front. However, Perl points out that Germany desired the deportation of all Jews within her bounderies, after the world re- Perl's "second front" was the British. For imperialistic reasons, the British used diplomatic and military force to prevent the immigration of Jewish refugees into Palestine. Surprisingly enough, Perl stated that the "third front" was the Jewish Establishment of the time, namely Zionist organizations, the World Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Congress. In order to gain favor with the British in the hope that their actions would make the British sympathetic to a Jewish state following the completion of the war these organizations refused monetary aid to ' Jewish underground movements such as ACTION and went so far as to collaborate with the British. The "fourth front" was the natural disasters and sickness which took the lives that Perl tried to save. The point that Dr. Perl was trying to make was that the Nazis were not the only ones responsible for the holocaust, "all mankind carries the responsibility and guilt." He makes a very important statement; however, this indictment is widely known. Perl presented us with a mere historical shell. He failed to relate these incidents to the current situation and hence left his audience wondering whether we really are approaching another holocaust. S. Douglas Brower '83 \'t-4 Sl.MIN~ t'\E. Hl\S.NI ~\t> A w~ ... -.l~\"'.S ~AT~ Jl&O, fl\\) U\ IN E l'r~~ •.• ~E. I>\t>N.,.. >~"( \.\I~ CAAL.. J o~ ,-""e.. wa-t o u.. \-\ e, s.t.t.Ms lo AA" E. ASoUi As De~€.. WEJ..1.. A5 i-~E- AVE.RAuE.. t°RE.5H MAN ~ 7 1'1~ \1" IS, \'VE.. GoT \T ':J~l ? • ~S~· @D v.J\o\ t-RE.' t> '? 1 �Letters Dear Mr. White: You said so many things in your last tome in the GADFLY that I hardly know where to start. First, I would like you to consult Aristotle's Categories et.al. Just because something is not a non-being does not make it a full being. I know it's hard to think there are greys in life but there are. I refuse to believe that a zygote has as many and as full rights as I do, an adult woman. You yourself recognize this in your "P.S.". Are the "unborn fetuses" of incestuously raped 12 year olds any less "human" than any fetuses that your mother or I would conceive? Obviously, you have seen the horror that society would force such a child to bear a child. You recognize that one set of rights is balanced against the other, and that those rights of the presently alive outweigh those of "potential life". Perhaps you can now reconsider the inconsistancy in your remarks. The essence of law, human or divine, is this balance, this judging. I personally cannot imagine that creatures which could not live outside my body (fetuses in the 1st trimester) are comensurate with me. I respect my body, but it is not a machine in which the product is more significant at any point than the producer. Secondly, I'll try not to take to heart your musings on Hitler. If anything, it is the anti-choice advocates who tend to resemble fascist ext remists -- female bodies becoming legislated by the state to produce cannon fodder, or whatever Hitler outlawed abortion for Aryan women and forced it on. Jewish women. He was fanatically against Aryan use of birth control . The duty of the woman was to produce as often as possible, as long as they were stateapproved. Thirdly, re: your sermonizing about responsibilitY-and sex. For your information, the only 100% sure method of not getting pregnant while remaining alive is not to have sex at all. All other methodS:-even when practised faithfully at all times, have some risk factor. Also, to be consistant, , wouldn't you advocate the cessation of the IUD which prevents the implantation of the "potential life"; and what of spermicides and condoms which kill your contribution to potential life (i.e. potential-potential life)? ·; Mr. White, if you are against abortion, · fine. As far as I am concerned, you don't ever have to have one. But I am yet to be convinced that a first trimester fetus has the equal or better rights that I have. Accordingly, I will reserve my decision until when I, unlike you, might one day stand before my God and make a very difficult decision. I do not believe that He defines human life the way you do. I refuse to let your decision, which has so many ridiculous and frightening effects, govern my body and possibly twenty years of my life. This is a matter of the most extreme privacy and could be the most hideous muddling of the state in women's lives. I know of a woman who discovered that she was carrying a child with neither brain nor spine, a monster. She was denied an abortion because of the preachings of your ilk abour precious life. She lived with the nightmare within her own body until it was born to die, after laboring with it like you never will for 26 hours. Kindly stop t rying to legislate my womb. Leslie S. Smith '82 AFFORDABLE TREASURES from AFRICA and ASIA WONDERFUL things to WEAR! TODO MUID ' �- Announcements FROM THE PLACEMENT OFFICE: WRITERS! Summer Job - Severn School in Severna Park needs Assistant Groep Leaders for their summer program in teaching wilderness enjoyment skills. Requirements; applicant must be at least 21 years of age, have extensive outdocr ~xperience, experience with youngsters, and have transportation. A CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS !! LETTERS, edited by Nathan Rosen, is holding its next short story writing contest. Entries must be typed double-spaced on plain white 8 1/2 x 11 bond paper. Xerox or other clear, readable photocopies are acceptable. For each submission, please enclose a separate cover sheet that includes the title of your manuscript, your name, address, and phone number. Title your work but do not identify it in any other way. No manuscript can be returned without SASE. Stories may run up to 6000 words. They are looking for stories that are tales told for a reason. First Prize $18 Second Prize $12 Honorable mentions ;They are also looking for some poetry. Winning short stories, graphics, and selected poems will be published in LETTERS #4 this fall. This issue can be ordered now for $1 postpaid. The first three issues of LETTERS are still in print and are available for $1 each or all three for $2.50. The magazine is digest-sized, mailed flat, and prepared with love and care. CONTEST DEADLINE: June 25, 1981. Winners will be notified by mail by July 15, 1981. Address all inquiries and submissions to: LETTERS prose & poetry N. Rosen, Editor St. John's College Annapolis, MD 21404 LOSE A WATCH? Ladies Timex watch, gold metal band. The watch was found in the guest room of the Delattre residence after the weekend. Retrievable from the Office of the Assistant Deans. Permanent Job - A major children's magazine has an opening for an editorial secretary. The duties are varied and the experience vould be verv good for anyone interested in a career in editing~ publishing. The magazine, Highlights for Children is located in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Permanent Job - The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs has several positions in research accounting and clerical areas. Startin g salaries' range from $9,500 to $15,000. Send writing samples and resumes to: Pat Nolan, Room 306 Department of Consumer Affairs 80 Lafayette Street New York, N.Y. 10013 'ID 'lliE SENIOR PRANK PIDPLE Marianne Braun ! ir ector of Placement I'm sure there are a lot of people who will agree that you deserve many thanks, applause and cheers for the fantastic success you made of the prank. Despite all of the bad sports who tried to spoil the surprise and with it all your spirited work, because they couldn't keep a secret, you triumphantly provided a great day for everyone involved. Thanks! T. Polk & others STUDY GROUP IN CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS (1981-2) Provided there is sufficiendt demand, I would enjoy conducting a careful, though minimally mathematical, survey of the key themes underlying the present picture of the physical universe. It would require devoting a few hours per week to the study of lecture materials and 'popular' articles on current research. (The amount of actual 'lecturing' I do though beginning at some unavoidably high level should decrease rapidly with time). The table of contents below provides some idea of what I will cover. (This is on the bulletin board in McDowell) . In order to provide for the necessary xeroxing over the summer, I would appreciate your signature on the sheet in McDowell. P.S. Time will be announced in the fall. R. Raphael 263-2571 HOURS: MONDAY THRU FRIDAY 9: 00 A.M. TO !S : 00 P.M. SATURDAY 9 TO 1 33 West St. 268-4545 MCNELLY OPTICAL COMPANY, INC. ~'ltse.lption lJ pticians EVELYN H. DUFFY, Be.e.Jt Nig h.t.: ivlo n.day, 7- 12 All Be.e.Jt: $ 1. 25 Wine. Spe.c.ia.l-6 Sel.6-Se.Jtvic.e. Sandwic.hu TEN-FOR-ONE TICKETS WILL BE KEPT AT THE RAM'S HEAV PRESIDENT a,-,-ICI:: 70.3 GIDDINGS AVENUE ANNAPOLIS, MD. 21401 Behind Acme Market Formerly on Maryland Ave �RICHARD HILLMAN, THE COLLEGE MAYORAL CAND.IDATE, On Wednesday evening, May 13, at 8:30 in the Conversation Room, Richard Hillman, candidate for Mayor, will discuss the issues in theis election and his plans, if elected, for running-the city goverrunent during the next four years. Mr Hillman particularly wanted the opportunity to meet and talk with the St John's community. ,\ll those who are registered voters or who expect to be living in Annapolis for the ~ext year or more ·should find it worth their while to attend. The General Llection will be the following Tuesday, May 19. Coffee and doughnuts will oe served. Joseph Cohen ATTENTION NEEDLEWORKERS! Copies of patterns used in the St John's quilt are available in the bookstore. Single designs cost $1; designs for the entire quilt $8, and pillow kits containing instructions, material, and ernbroidery--e•1erything but the stuffing--are available for S8 for five of the designs: ~cDowell, the Liberty Tree, Dante, the Iliad, and the Wife of Bath. All proceeds go to the Caritas scholarship fund. Sports MEN'S Final Soft ba 11 Standings: Lost "~on l Hustlers 7 2 Guardians 6 4 4 Druids Spartans 5 3 .j 1_,reenwa ves 0 TO SPEAK AT by Bryce Jacobsen '.Joftball ••• i·1ay 5 Spartans-1~, i.,rc..E:nwaves-14. fhis wos so r t o f a "! r1or a 1 " v i c l o r y f o r th e •~ a v E.: s • ~ot only did they achieve double-ai~it scoring for the first time this sprin~, but they scoreci <J\ ! ) runs in the final inning, and scared the dayli~hts out of the embarassed Spartans. tven Mr. Canter connected for a roundtri pper in his final bats as a Greenwave. ~ot a bad way to exit, was it? The Waves might have won if they had followed my advice of ~ year ago in the Gadfly: 1:-'o in ts 22 20 - 16 14 '~ Awards: The tJ r u c e Co 1 l i er n a t t:... a r th Aw a rd got:: s 11 to hr. Ficco, he havin; spent the most time, in regular intramural games, stretched out flat on the earth." >1r. Campbell made a strong run for it, but i'ir. Hcco's softbal 1 antics tipped the balance in his favor. lt was a rough season out there in the field for Mr. Ficco, who had been safely positioned behind the plate for three years. 0ut at shortstop and center field, the ball was taking funny houncesr •• and after each miscue he would prosLrate himself on ~!other Earth, look towards the Heavens, and implore his 1Jods to help him, somehow. J'h i s di d n ' t he l p hi s f i e 1 ding , bu t i t d~finitely clinched this award. L-0ok Ahead:Uf the Seniors who are active in our program, the various teams stand to lose these numbers; Druids-7, Guardians-5, 1 , us t 1 er s - 4 , S par tans - 3 and Gree nw aves - 2 • i-.ach t('am has b or 7 rising Juniors or : --.<.". niors \iho have l>een active. :'-iot much Lo choose from here. the order of drafting in September will be •reenwaves, par tans, Druids, Cuardians A - -- --- a;-ld 1tustl~rs. !he 1~aves and .::>partans are losing the least, and drafting ahead of the others. .1ith a '.> ood draft, and any luck with their ~reshmen, they could be competitive next year. i.'hc t>ruids are losing the most. They need a lot of help in the Draft, and from the i r Freshmen. l'1-1 e Hus t 1er s and 11 ln the last inning, with your team trailing, do not take unnecessary risks. Uo everythin~ possible to not get put out, and to put the ~run on the bases. Kemember, the only run that matters is the tying run." To have two baserunners called out, in the midst of a last-inning rally, is ••• well, its a mortal baseball sin. Keith and Mr. Sands each scored 3 " EverythlnQ For The Smoker· 58 Marytand Avenue Francia Keller ?hone . 2&3-2088 Annapolis Marylend 21401 Balt~2 c �Guardians will still be tough, but they will have more competition next year. Because of their winning tradition and superior organization, the Hustlers and Guardians wi l l be diff icul t to dislodge from the top posi tions. 1be Wave s and Druids might switch positions next year. However, things could be ~close that we would end up in the spring with three or four teams in contention, right into the · fi na 1 weeks. /l GRADUATION 77 au Sl>"EC IAl Ji ~ [0;';;..171 i!V~Lr;ilf'U i.. ~f.... 0 ·- P.S. If Mike Cresswell returns, move the Waves up another place. JOBS Classified Moving boxes of books at the YWCA. Fri 8:00 - 11:00, Sat 3:30 - 5:00. Need two. Call Ms Dupy after 4 at 757-7180. Washing windows. 757-2335. 2 "), ~ NEED NEE D N1erHTLY 11LL \2:oe : OPE..~ TM-E.~T All ~NKS (w1 .b.) £'IE.RY WE.l:>. ~ll{~ . THE GADFLY St. John's College Annapolis, MD 21404 t>}S). ~ ) lus c-c lleqe t,at.,;..0:1 prc> ;r...=1:1. ~c:.ts h THE GADFLY is an independent student journal published every Monday while school is in session. It is free for students and faculty of the Annapolis campus. For others, the subscription rate for the second semester is $8. Make checks payable to THE GADFLY. Write: THE GADFLY, Box 52, St John's College, Annapolis, MD 21404 222 WE.SI ST. WAL\'\NG- M ONEY? N IGttT 1.S. S\. JOHN'S N\GHT ON T C! ~! l ~ p rizes f o r students. Compar:'f resµecte< nat1 n m·n i.e . ;~o e xpc r·u·r,ce n e cessary. i"lcx. j hrs. s-·a rt t.: :.ie. · u.r- l"-. t-lf-:1 ...: l. i.,-: ALL :.:'. b 3- .Lb 2:L ~Ad<G-A~ON %1. C..tiESS 2.5 ~Off HOUSE PAINTED? 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/3128e828285ec2b631cc85ee303cbae1.pdf 57d3cd90d84701e7653c71164e417553 PDF Text Text THE GA FLY IIIUUIIDIIIIIUIUMMgUIIIIIUU'RIIIIIIIIIIII THE S1 JOHN'S COLLEGE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER The Ins and Outs of Off and On by Hi c.lt Camp be 11 Ib you squi rreJ yourself away in ooscure corners of the library? Do you find yourself walking by your friends without taking notice of them? Do you want to eat alone every now and then? Are you ready to bash in your next door neighbors stereo with a baseball bat? (It's been done). Is your roommate deve l oping weird habits? Perhaps it's time to think about moving off campus. Before trying to find a place to live its a good idea to f igure out your finances. If you're dependent on your parents they' re probably not going to like the idea. And if you can convince them of the vital necessity of m oving off campus (for your mental health of course), they may only allow you the same amount of money it costs to live on campus. This year that's i1800 . That's $200 per month for room and board. A tidy sum. Let's see, $100 per month for rent, don't forget the security deposit . Gas and electric will be between $10 & $25 , depending on whether your heat is g.as or oil. Oi l heat is expensive and don't look for the price to drop. It ranges from $20 to $40. Then there's the telephone. An awfully tempting little device, especially if your friends are scattered around the country. It can be very expensive. I ran up $500 one month. That was a special friend and she was in Tokyo. Figure a minimum of $10 per month. The total cost for a month is,: excepting food: Rent $1 00 Oil 20-40 G&E .. 10-25 Phone Total $140-175 10 - The number of people you live with can make a aifference in your bills, but it can get crowded. Maggie Argent lives wi ~h four other students. H rent is $80 , o1 l er $30, G&E $7, telephone $5, and food $60. Total: $1 82 . Maggie doesn't eat meat, that can add up to 50% to your food bill. The people in Maggie's house cook separately. Randy Linder, on the other hand, lives with two students and they share meals. He spends $40 on f ood a month. Randy doesn:t eat meat either. Food is a big variable 1n a budget. How much you spends depends on your shoppi~, cooking and eating habits. Your food bill can be kept low with the help of coupons, comparison shopping and by using fresh foods rather than prepared. There is a food co-op on campus for basi c foods. For more informati on contact Steph Chmiel. Also, don't forget the 'hidden' costs of moving off campus: cleaning stuff, bathroom supplies and kitchen utensils. They add up. (Light-bulbs). Okay, so you can swing it financially. ·What is i t like living off campus? There is no one te lling you to make your bed , take out the trash, etc. You're independent, sort of- don't forget where the money comes from. Along with your increased independence comes more responsibilities . One is keeping the common areas of the apartment clean. There are various methods for doing this . You can have an agreement where each of you take one common room to clean for a set period . Or, you can agree to pick up after yourselves. Or, you can say the hell wi th it until it gets so disgusting that everyone pitches in and cleans up, about once a month. You may be lucky and have a r oommate who has a fetish about cl eanliness and doesn't mind picking up after everyone . I have ye t to find one vho ( COJr.l'. P. 4 ) ..Bl1 �Editorials and Commentaries 1 ••------------------~-------------­ . • lion d' Etre "Why do you want to put out another paper?" I've been asked that question many times in the past week. I believe there is a need for a newspaper at St. John's. A newspaper whose concern is serYing the entire community, not only a part of it. Serving th& community means providing it with the infor.ation it needs on a timely basis. It means addressing the problems of the community in a responsible and critical manner. There are problems within our community. Sometimes they are brought out, often they are hidden. In the spirit of the free and critical mind our program is to develop, this newspaper will practice those skills we are taught on the best subject possible ourselves. Mr. DeMartini, the polity president, has spoken of the problems within the student body, but that is only one problem. There is also a problem with communication between students and faculty. Some students get along fine with some tutors, but for the majority of us there is something lacking in the relationship. 'Nhat t~t is and how it can be remedied, I don't know. I hope that this newspaper will contribute something towards identifying the problem. The community is primarily the students and faculty. It is also our alumni. THE GADFLY is being sent to local area alumni in hopes of bringing them into a more active participation in the community. They have experience in the 'real world' which THE GADFLY hopes to tap to help our undergraduates with the period after graduation. I also have personal reasons for starting~ GADFLY. It is where I can practice writing, editing and organizing. I am an active person, not metaphysical. THE GADFLY is where I can act and see immediate results. This newspaper is also_ for anyone who is interested in journalism, satire, parody etc. If you have an idea for an article but don't want to write it, or if you want to write but have no ideas, let's get together. For those vho aaked ''why,~· this is it. Narkotic Haze A column in the tradition of the narke by H H Hammel Since editorial changes in the Collegian made possible the existence of this column, I would like to review the two new streams of literature that have also appeared for the first time at this college; namely, the "George Willard" short-story canon, and the unending saga of the Children of the Seventies . By spawning both a newspaper and a literary-quasi-news journal this year, Annapolis has oneupped Santa Fe , which has only a biannual literary magazine (Au Verso)and no newspaper. My only regret is that St. John's East's former claim to fame, the print anything spirit,is no longer with us, since, - along with the new coat of paint covering the graffiti in the McDowell men's room, it signals the end to the days of blithe spontaneity. Enigmatic Willard's most recent, most ambitous, and most flawed attempt to date is the Tale of Gold. My critieisms are (OOift'. P. 8) POLITY MEETING The most important purpose of the Polity Meeting of last month was to hold a convocation of concerned students in order to discuss and make known the present and possible future course of our student polity. Simply put the Polity is in danger of collapse. The original Constitution of over 24 years ago did provide for a polis, or community designed to promote awareness in the student body of its responsibilities to the College, to uphold the College 's reputation t o the scholastic world at large and to help the students realize their new function of "organ of self-government". It also provided for the power of the purse and the student-run organizations which have since become part of life here at St . John's. We have the K.W.P., the film slub, the Waltz Committee and the Society of Bacchus only because we have the Student Polity. (OOJrl'. P. 5, COL. 1) �Reviews and Previews Apocalypse BQ:!: "The Vision and the Riddle 11 As more than one person has said, Vietnaa for most of us was a T.V. show. Well, .let me tell you about t~o episodes in the series that are stuck in my memory. The first was the famous execution of a handcuffed Viet Cong prisoner, blithely performed by a South Vietmamese general using a hand-gun at a distance of six inches. The seer · was the stunning chapter of the AmeL.can journalist who stepped on a landmine, in view of the camera. These two scenes are the Vietnam War for mea a vicious civil conflict, where Americans, even with all their high powered technology, could-not avoid primitive traps. They say that wars used to be fought in a civilized manner. I doubt it. As Shaw said, "The golden rule is that there are no golden rules." Corollarya especially today. Apocalypse Now is very much like the wara expensive, long, gory, fascinating, repellent, crazy, puzzling. I am told that it is a good representation of events; you think a helicopter attack to the tune "?light of the Volkyries" is unreal? I am told of a corporal who who had to patrol the perimeter of his outpost at night in a jeep. He and a buddy purchased a $)00 tape-deck, bolted it to the jeep, and did their patrol while Jimi Hendrix sang "All Along the Watchtower" full blast. And they were tripping too! At first the film seems to be askinga how savage does one have to be to win a war? r1arlon Brande says we are not savage enough; we must be at least as savage as our enemies. Eut in the end, Coppola says that savagery and viciousness are only phenomena. \·!hat matters is not savagery, but a will strong enougn for atrocious acts. The Americans ride high in the sky pushing buttons; the Viet Cong cut children's arms off. One sees his victimes and faces his actions, the other does not. It is not hardware that wins, say Coppola, but men united a~ determined. 3 The Wednesday Night Film Series Eight of the films of Akira Kurosawa will be shown this winter. All the films are FREE and start at 8a15 pm. · I chose to show .these films for several reasons. The first is my admiration for the director. Kurosawa has a unique style of film-making. He is capable not only of superb action sequences, suchaa the final battle in The Seven Samurai, but also he has made many of the most quiet, yet powerfully moving films I have ever seen, such as Ikiru. His work on the. period of events portrayed in his films is flawless, yet the characters are not enigmas from another time. Kurosawa has a , vision of humanity that spans centuries, which leads me to my next reason for showing "a bunch of Japanese films." All ·these films take place in a land and an era that is completely unfamiliar to most of us. Kurosawa's vision however crosses these borders. His ideas are enhanced, rather than enshrouded, by the alien settings he employs (to this . product of Hestern Civilization, anyway!). Above all, his filrr.s are enjoyable, exciting, and touching. He is as much a master of the film medium as he is an intelligent, imaginative, and thoughtful man. Come see a master at work! Jim Sorrentino f . S. Please send any comments you have on the Winter ?11m Series to Ingrid Miller in College Relations . (CONT. P. 5, COL. 2) Unity and determination are precisely what America lacKed in Vietnam. America beat ·Germany, not by sinking to genocide, 'but, because in the ned Gennany was run by a madman who preferred his generals to give him good reports. In the end, .says the film, without~ there is only hallucinatory chaos: Apocalypse Now. Ji.m Sorrentino �didn't eTentually develop a little bit of resentment. Other responsibilities include paying the bills on time, getting the oil tank filled when needed, keeping up with the roaches and taking out the trash, of course. Outside the added responsibilities, there is a difference living off campus. Lisa Cobb, who lives on Charles Street with a graduate and a townie, feels out of touch with the college community. Alf Newlin, who lives as close as the Little Campus, says he doesn't see other students as much. No, Alf doesn't live in the L.C. This is a common complaint. Will Warner doesn't mind that though. He says it's nice being out of the "fish bowl." Lisa Cobb recommends staying on campus freshman year because, "it's good to be part of the school and to meet people before moving off." Randy Linder likes the feeling of independence and not being waited on like a "helpless intellectual." If you want to talk to students living off campus they usually hang out in the coffee shop from lunch until 4 :00 p.m. You've decided to move off campus, and you have the money. It's time to find a place to live. The assistant Dean's office receives calls from people with rooms or apartments to let. Jan Easterday says there is nothing available now. Another source is the Evening Capital. A map is handy for eliminating places too far away. The best source is probably word of mouth. This time of year most students moving off campus take the places of those who move back on or drop out. There is also the bulletin board in the coffee shop. Found a place? Congratulations! But, will you get along with your new house mates? Unless you're filthy rich or work forty hours a week you'll probably be living with at least one other person. If you get along with your present roommate you should be all right. Of course, i f you're getting along with your roommate you probably won't be aoving off campus in the middle of the year. Apartments are not the only places available off campus. Jim Melcher and Shuba.el Bartlett live on the top floor of I'1r . Mark • a home on Prince George Street. They both eat on campus which saves them the fuss. Nick Kennedy rents a room· from a family in the historic district. His only complaint is about the woman who rents the room above his with her child. Nick also eats on campus. Anne Schanche has a novel apartment. She lives in the reconverted church on the corner of East Street and Prince George. The church is now owned by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Anne and her roommates take care of the place for a nominal rent. There are interesting living situations in Annapolis . They are very rarely advertised, word of mouth is the rule for finding them. Good luck and happy hunting. P.S. If you haven't seen much of Adrian Carsiotis lately it's because he'• ott campus. Rumor has it that he lives with three women who take good care of him. There~ alternatives and it sounds like Adrian has found one. ANNOUNCEMENTS REALITY Reality is not just a weekend in May. It is a time when the whole community gets together to celebrate the end of the school year. In recent years Reality has been mainly a studentaffair, with some notable exceptions, such as last year's reversal of roles by Fred Cox and Bryce Jacobsen in a class room situation. This year the Reality Committee is starting early. If you have an idea for a skit spoofing ourselves please contact them. They are Lisa Cobb and Eugene Wise. There will be a Reality Benefit movie Friday at 10:00 PM. It's Rebel Without A Cause with Ja.es Dean. �POLI'l'Y M.D'l'I NG Our Polity is in danger, I feel, because of our a~athy to change and our refusal to take it seriously. Since the original Constitution the student body has more than doubled in size, and one third of the students live off-campus. The Constitution has not been amended to meet the radically new situation, with the present chaotic results. This was the first Polity Meeting in at least seven years. Students are not brcught together as common students except in the separate funded activities. We are now so fragmented that the S. C.I., a very important avenue of communication between the students and the faculty, actually yearns for student input. Many enroll here seeking only a niche in which to read their Great Books, isolated from the polis, the community. I hope, therefore, to reestablish the polis as originally conceived, for it is more than just a sideshow. I have appointed Mr. Van Doren to chair a committee whose purpose shall be to report on the polity and to draft a new constitution. The work of this committee cannot be overemphasized, for without an effective, up-to-date constitution we cannot have an effective Polity. Mr. Van Doren's committee shall be holding public meetings, and student suggestions would be both vital and welcome. I further propose to hold more polity meetings. These meetings should be used as were the Greek Assemblies for common discussion and debate of issues concerning this polis. Most of the Delegate Council minutes are so limited by space as to be uninformative to all except the members. The Polity Meetings are still the most effective means of making us all aware that we are indeed one community. We must realize this by ourselves, and each make up our minds individually; for without our self-initiative, the polis folds. James DeMartini Polity President This Wee;'s Japanese Film The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail is one of Kurosawa's shorter works. It was made during the American occupation of post-WW II Japan. This was a time of severe restrictionsa not only did the Americans specify the subject matter of the films being made, they also placed limits on the running time! The film is based on a folk-tale concerning a retainer who must beat his disguised master in order to get him safely past his enemies. Of course, the retainer feels greatly ashamed. This is a good exploration of the limits 0f yeople's values and is a fine exercise in suspense. (Whether this film "ridicules feudal standards of loyalty while appearing to celebrate them," OR, as this humble one believes, celebrates those values while appearing to ridicule them, is something I leave up tb you). THE SUBSCRIPTION RATE of THE GADFLY for the second semester will be $5. We will print weekly, excepting vacations, until the end of the school year. Due to space, time and printing restrictions we are unable to accept advertisements. We are supported solely by our subscriptions. If you wish to subscribe, please make your checks payable to THE GADFLY, c/o Rick Campbell, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland 21404 THE GADFLY is free for the students and faculty of the Annapolis caapua. �Sports W<!\EN'S ·SPOilTS MEN'S SPORTS VOLLEYBALL Dec. 11th Dec. 5th Guardians 4 - Druids 0 Furies The Guardians looked to be pretty sharp in this, their opening game. They seem to have a solid group, all down the line. Many of Mr. Yamamura ' s serves were not returned successfully. The Druids are still looking for a winning combination. After one week into basketball and volleyball, only the Spartans and Guardians remain unbeaten .•. and this will change very soon, since they play each other in both sports before Christmas. Dec. 6th Hustlers 4 - Greenwaves 0 A week ago, the Hustlers were not looking so good in their loss to the Spartans ••. and the Waves were hopeful, and even euphoric, after edging the Druids. But things have changed for both teams. The Hustlers showed definite improvement ... must be those secret early morning "basketball" practices. Obviously that was a cover ... they've really been working on their volleyball skills! The only consolation for the Waves is that they will play the Druids again this winter. Apparently their first game was not "pivotal". Dec. 12th Guardians by Beth Gordon by Bryce Jacobsen 4 - Spartans 2 Now only the Guardians are left unbeaten this winter. The Spartan B's won a game, and so did their A's. But the Guardians, as mentioned earlier, are pretty solid all down the line. However, the match was closer than the acore indicates. For instance, the Guardian A's scored 42 points, an.d the Spartan A's 37. And that, Dear Readers, i8 pretty close. 42 - Amazons 39 It took them two overtime peri~ds, but the Furies have won their first basketball game, in fact, their first game of the season. 1-lith their strongest turnout so far, they ran the Amazons into the ground, en fin, and took the game away from the blue. Actually, the score remained very close throughout, when, with seconds remaining and the score tied, the Furies Sue Coffee went to the line, but missed. That set up the two overtime periods with the Furies pulling i t out. Amazon coach Eric Roberge was understandably upset, but blamed the loss on the dead soots in the floor. He did promise to play Miss Simonson more in their next game. Fury coach Steph Chmiel (who is also the team's highest scorer) attributed the first win to fine skill, newly blessed on them from various Greek gods. "And," she says, "this is just the beginning." Jan. 3rd Furies 31 - Amazons 28 Those who thought that the first Furies win was a fluke -- surprise, surprise. This win lifts the Furies out of the cellar in basketball and puts the Amazons there. The Amazons could only muster 5 players for the game. That ~o1as their downfall, because Miss HcVadon fouled out at the end of the third quarter. Miss Cobb, the Amazon captain, did her best trying to make up for the loss · of a player by scoring 14 points, the high in the game, but it was not enough. ( COftiiiJB Dl'r P.lGB) �Jan. 5th Hustlers 4 - Druids 3 Druids 7 112 - Waves 64 The Druids won the first three games, and were within three points of takin~ . the match •.• but then things started to fall apart for them. Their game scores, in order, were: 15-15-15-12-7-7-3. Questions for our calculus-type Juniors: What is the next term of this sequence? Does this sequence have zero as a limit? The Hustler's probably should get our special Award for THE COMEBACK GAME OF THE YEAR. The \-laves kept the game close in the first period. In the 2nd, the Druid B's rocked the Waves B's 37-4. David Carnes was the lethal weapon, scoring 18 points. The Waves discussed the matter, figured they had nothing to lose and played Chris Berns, f ormer Wave who is now at Indiana. Of course, they forfeited the game. BASKETBALL It looked like Mr. Spector was going to power the Spartans over the Hustlers in the first period, but the Hustlers came out of it with a 3 pt. lead. The Hustler B's took their period by 8 and the A team took it from there. Dec. 8th Spartans 75 - Guardians 67 Now no teams are unbeaten this winter, and we can all relax. Two things hurt the Guardians badly. They were 16/36 at the foul line, and their B-team was outscored 24-12. Their A's did well enough, with a 55-51 edge over the A's of the Spartans ••. but not well enough to overcome those two handicaps. Mr. Putnam was again high scorer with 27 points. Hr. Gio rdano was "held" to 20 points, but meanwhile, Mr. Spector was confounding the Guardians, and everybody's game plan, by scoring 21! The Guardians didn't quite expect that! Hustlers 91 - Druids 85 This was the opening game for the Druids, and they scored lots of points, many more than any team had scored so far this winter. But, alas, they allowed even more! It was "bombs away", and the Devil take the Hindmost. After two periods, it was deadlocked at 60-60 .•• but in the last period the Hustlers were a little more accurate with their salvo s. The Hustler B's outscored the Druid B's by seven points, which was exactly the margin of victory. Messrs. Kates, Jennings and Dwyer scored a whole mess of points. Things for the teams to worry about in the future: a) Hustlers ••• at the foul line they shot 30%! b) Druids ••• they committed 39 fouls, to leave early! caus 5 Hustlers 75 - Spartans 61 SPORTS STANDINGS MEN VOLLEYBALL WON TIED LOST Guardians Hustlers Greenwaves Spartans Druids 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 BASKETBALL WON TIED LOST Hustlers Spartans \,uardians Druids Greenwaves 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 3 l 2 POINTS 6 7 4 4 3 POINTS 7 7 4 4 2 Jan . 4th Maenads 43 - Nymphs 29 The ~aenads have done it again, and thev really look unstoppable. Unless someone can find a way to prevent Miss Athey from getting under the basket, I'm afraid the chances of beating them are slim. WOMEN BASKETBALL Maenads Nymphs Furies Amazons WON TIED LOST POINTS 6 4 2 0 0 0 0 2 5 18 14 1 11 0 6 9 �• stylistic, leaving the question of content to more interpretive critics. To begin with, only someone with an ear for dialect, for instance, Samuel Clemens:-should attempt to write it. Clemens had firEthand experience with the many variations i n regional speech in his America. To Willard I point out that folks back in Wyoming don't talk with a shit-load of "reckons", neither do they drop t heir auxiliaries("I' ve got" becomes "Aw've got" not "I got"). Ranchers tend to be laconic fellows in my experience, and when you can get them to tell a story it will be short , colorful, and pointed • • • not taa .rambling red~ncy that characterizes Willard's narrator. Repetitiveness is a flaw in writing technique, e.g.a "He stood up and walked over and sat on the ground. He took off his gloves and laid them down. They stayed in the shape of his hands , as if there was still live flesh in them. Funny how old gloves are like that." At this point I am very tired of typing the word "and." Despite this plethora of description, the 'effect stays abstract , general words appearing as mere words, with no variation of verb form or distinctive attributes concerning the action. By choosing less, one says more. Particulars stick in the mind: recall in 0ickens' Christmas Carol Scrooge contemplating his door-knocker. The door-knocker becomes al most a character. In the Tale . of Gold George tries to animate the gloves but the redundancy of "live fl esh" kills them. The above quoted l ines made me wince and sharpened my perceptions to the po intlessmess of countless phrases . I n The Children of the Seventies, Mr . "Auerbach", who I happen to know is from Wyoming, is cer tainly a laconic writer short, colorful , and pointed, "reanwhile, Sally's head was gently tilting from side to s ide, as she polished off the second basket of potato chips,"God, Mr . Callimachos," she said, daintily fill ing the innermost crevices of her mouth, "I love these things, you know? "" Possible bad points include the ihside jokes (incomprehensible borrowings from the back alleys of pop include murder theme from the "Brood", daytime TV, even documentar ies on PCP ) plot and persons in panta re, near portrayals of unwitting student and tutor victims, and the cruel parody of Willard ' s grating tendency to create his mythoi from his personal experience, w ch unfortunat ely for hi us , coincides_factually with our own. That there are peopl e who are willi. + t c axpose their creations to the orr,rnunity is admirable. May it set an example. ~naging TilE GADFLY St. John'• Colle@e Non-Profit Or8. BUL K RATE U.S. POSTAGE PA ID l'llMIT NO. 120 AN>IAPOLIS, MD. Editor Rick Campbell Art Editor Hazen Hammel Lay-out & Design Terry Polk Subscription Steve Edwards Richard Miller Staff Aoi Yamamura Patti Pratt Sara Marcy THE GADFLY is printed by the St. John 's College Press . 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Gadfly 01.01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Press Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/9808d150ac254b27ad3688fa38da4d6c.pdf ea46ca73124f0f8dd5f4a24a2e480e0a PDF Text Text ������, 1 �Letters Rebel Without ! POLITY MEEl1ING Ca.use Lately there has been an excessive amount of yelling, clapping and commenting during the films shown in FSK. I do not mind applause when it is justified, but the yelling and shouting throughout the movie I can do without. It is damned irritating to have other people ruin the pleasure of watching a film. If the film disgusts you to that extent, why don't you get the hell out so other peoplecan enjoy the movie? One other thing: There are some people who love to wave a Confederate flag around campus. This may just be a joke, but I consider it a bad one. There are also many people who carry Confederate flags in their gang fights against blacks. I suggest you stop carrying the flag around like a trophy or defend your viewpoints. Because to me that flag symbolizes racism. R. F. Hoff THE SUBSCRIPI'IOH RATE of THE GADFLY for the second semester will be $5. We will print weekly, excepting vacations, until the end of the school year. Ihe to space, time and printing restrictions we are unable to accept advertisements. We are supported solely by our subscriptions. If you wish to subscribe, please make your checks payable to ~ GADJ'LY, c/o Rick Campbell, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland 21404 !!J! GADFLY is free for the students and faculty of the Anna.polis caapua. Since we have teen told that our polis is in imminent danger of collapse, we should ask what exactly it is that i8 about to fall. The simplest answer that I can think of is that it is a group unified by a common pur:9ose. ~~y next question then is: i s our polis about to disintecrate? And the only answer I can see is a clear no. We have been told that this particular polis was designed. " to promote awareness in the student tody of its responsibilities to the College, to uphold the Colleee's reputation to the scholastic community at large, and to hel1; the students realize their new functi c ~ of 'organ of self-government. '" ApparenlJ y we have not been made aware of our duties, nor have we realized this new f~ncticn. We also have been apathetic and set in our ways: unwilling to change. I think that this is false. Cur Lasis and our unity lies not in the petty trivialities of bureaucratic structure nr responsibilities, rut in the exchange and preservation of ideas. This interchange is geared toward our tetterm en~ and the betterment of our whole world, not toward preserving meaningless reputations, ncr fallacious vi~ws of responsibility. Cf course, we feel our responsirilities toward the College, cut necessarily each member of the community must ce personall, cognizant of them. It is inherent in the nature of our purpost to reco~niz~ our re sponsibilities and act accordingly. There fore, since we are still acting toward ou goal 6f learning, it would seem that our polis is, in fact, ali ve , healthy , a nd growing. - ..3ara Ea r cy Managing Edi to r St John's College Annapolis, MD 2140.t Nwt-Profit o,.._ IULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID Pl&MIT NO. 120 ANNAPOLIS. MD. 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A good artful knowledge of is swer to his startled State sers after he had told never wanted to see any more suggesting giving up Berlin (in the blockade) and had asked "What In answer pens if the Soviets don't (the is told in Forrestal's Truman of the Persians and the the Romans and the Macedonian and so all the great crises of our is not you in do not think any of the .0'1'•1" many of them at any rate-who were adTruman could have made such , that test .C.Vl... address means men die, that you and that you better count I am bothered that in the United remark about That tells, I and embarassment of ��LETTER tact me �Last references in them made this all too necessary-I found it hard at first the that great works Bible can contain and make centuries of and the of whether sound or is sometimes the for this idea as strated literature and the most often as mere poems from his under an overall scheme spy poems his s �yours Leo Raditsa .s the map. son's name An interview with the the upper east side. last �0 Furies J 2 ��in Response to Miss thank Miss for of questions publicly, as as consideration. This letter is an answer to her It is not the idea of the that is in dangerJJ not its bureaucratic organizaton. Simply within the accustomed student Even set of loses of the which it was made. this is what threatens to undermine the Student Polof students tend to of the polis, cons ti- of them. our purpose to recognize our ities and act accordingly " But we, as members of the Student of St. John's College have other responsibilities besides one is for the of the St. John s as opposed to to the bureaucratic structure the purpose behind it feel will our polis and James DeMartini President in, As of this Bureaucratic with the situation. Polk Columnist Hazen Richard Miller Staff Printer Assistant Chris � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The Gadfly</em> Description An account of the resource Founded in 1980, <em>The </em><em>Gadfly</em> is a weekly student publication distributed to over 600 students, faculty, and staff of the Annapolis campus.<br /><br />Click on <strong><a title="The Gadfly" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=16&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&amp;sort_dir=d">Items in the <em>The Gadfly</em> Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context thegadfly Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 8 pages Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Campbell, Rick (Managing Editor) Title A name given to the resource The Gadfly, Vol I Issue 3 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1980-01-23 Description An account of the resource Volume I, Issue 3 of The Gadfly. Published January 23, 1980. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 01 #3 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/fe1996ff3542c2423221a1c2412b708d.pdf 7cdc9219ac20d7397062c4279016e5f2 PDF Text Text THE VOL.1 ISSUE 1 AN THE ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER INTERVIEW I had the following interview with the Reverend Winfree Smith at his house on Sunday afternoon past. Mr. Smith is currently engaged in writing a book about the New Program at St John's. Mr Smith is eminently qualified for such a task: he was a student of both Scott Buchanan and Stringfellow Barr at the University of Virginia, and he became a tutor here four years after the New Program was instituted. I would like to thank Mr Smi th for allowing me this interview. CAMPBELL: What is your book about Mr Smith? SMITH: I began with a brief description of the program, and then I sought to tell the story of how it came to be. I also discussed the thought of Scott Buchanan. As you probabl y know, it was Scott Buchanan more than any other one person who planned the St John's program. CAMPBELL: When do you expect to finish the book? SMITH: I'm supposed to finish the book next summer, and I hope I will. Mr Weigle has told me that if I don't succeed in writing the history of the program from the starting-point to the present, that's all right. It may be that I'll simply tell the story up through the years Barr and Buchanan were with the program. I'd like to get beyond that. C: I hope you do, because that's just the beginning of the story of the program. It seems to have undergone a change, a solidifica tion, since Mr Klein came. S: Yes. C: When did Mr Barr and Mr Buchanan leave? S: Mr. Buchanan left in the middle of '46, and Mr Barr left at the end of that year . C: When did Mr Klein come? S: He came i n ' 38. 3( "'2--~ JAN 1980 C: I've heard there was some friction between Mr Buchanan and Mr Klein concerning the way the program should be. , S: I don't think there was friction between them as far as the program itself was concerned. By that I mean the· program based essentially on the great books and the liberal arts; and after all, Mr Klein didn't really change any formal aspect of the program when he became dean. But I would say that there was some disagreement between Mr Buchanan and Mr· Klein with respect to the way in which they understood the program. C: How were they different? S: Mr. Buchanan, it seems to me, pl~ced.the primary emphasis on the liberal arts and thought of the great books in rel a ti on to the liberal arts. Evidence for that is found both in the Virginia report which antedated the St John's program, and in the second catalogue of the New Program. In that second catalogue the books are divided into three classes: first, books which are expository of the liberal arts; second, books that are models of the liberal arts; and third, books that are material for practice of the liberal arts. I think that the 6lassification of Mr Buchanan indicates what I have said: namely, he was thinking of the great books not so much in terms of their content as in terms of their relation to the liberal arts. Mr Klein, on the other hand, was much more concerned with the content. I believe that if you went through all the seminar reading lists you would discover the amount of reading was greatly reduced during Mr Klein's deanship. Some people think we still have too much reading. CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 ��J �for waaa' t quiu u :1llU!ldu.tin1 &"llnJLwll waa bad. While Prof11uiu1or a liet of th• to his didn't send, diatribute at the Th• eend. lecture, u door, a eet of S or 6 proofs with which began the lectun. With a chance to then in advance, 1M could hair• lbtaued more to hill conclW11iou about th• kinu of 'Mthmntica that tlWlt have 'Dr·ec111uiu1ed d1ec1u1110~ •urround. . luelid'• 1111&thlfllllllltica. in the queetion and an._r period tnted cm hU thoughts about Z.oo md couldn't quite •ti.rely our AiL.Lillll ............. . Euclid It WIUD. 9 t tnublu, ad they ta Q A.. 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Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 8 pages Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Campbell, Rick (Managing Editor) Title A name given to the resource The Gadfly, Vol I Issue 4 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1980-01-31 Description An account of the resource Volume I, Issue 4 of The Gadfly. Published January 31, 1980. (Corrected from Janury 23, 1980) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 01 #4 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/a4cb7adb150e5e3a22182abf1586761c.pdf 52577f12308966eda3ef80983810145c PDF Text Text �������C. Sometimes tutors don• act that way. Sometimes it's the fault e>f the students; there's a certain timidity on their part to push hard questions at the tutors. I've had some tutors who would not answer or would get a little flustered or pset that a student would have the auda c - ty to question them when I pushed them. Sometimes it is very hard to push tutors because they usually do have a greater fa.IB.i iari ty with the books. Is . there something t.:tiat can be done, in your opinion, to impre>ve the studenttutor relationship to bring it closer to a student-student relationsh. - p? S. I don't know what can e done except to make the st\idents and tut o r s aware of this problem. I recall that wn~n students would go to Mr Buchanan to corn ain about their tutors he tended to dismiss their complaints because he felt the tutors weren't very important anyways. C. When I was a Febbie, e had a meeting with the President shortl. Y after we arrived and we were talking abO t life after St John's. He mentioned that he had seen many alumni and they were ve Y successful. I asked him what he meant by a "successful" person. He said he meant one who has good books on the shelf and r ea.ds them, one who engages in good conversation. Do you think that's an adequate definition of a successful Johnnie? S. I think that reading good books and having good conversation a.re two things we would hope would conti ue throughout the lives of our graduates. I suppose I would want to add that the who1 e of life does not consist in reading books ~rid conversing, and so one would hope a St o n's education had something to do with ot. e r things as well. This question of course i s connected with the very big question of" hat the good life is, and whether it's the same for all. THE GADFLY St John's College Annapolis, MD 2140-' o,.. IULIC lATE N9n-l"rofit U.S. POSTAGE PAID '8MIT MO. 120 #91i!Al'OLIS. MO. THE SUBSCRIPTION RATE of THE GADFLY for second _semester is $5. We will print weE excepting vacations, until the end of tl school year. Due to space, time and prii ing restrictions we are unable to accep d · a vertisements. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 01 #5 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/a124159f497153fcad28f9d173dff8f0.pdf 866980decd7053fa030989430e66b626 PDF Text Text 6 E COLLEGE WEE What are you you haven't out R FEB to do this summer? If about it , you may be lot of much your sort need be menus have either this man suffered the marshmellow ex- of carMortimer Adler chalshould look Lecture should last one sentiment is now traditional but Adler has felt that this limthe mention how the at this school makes at a construction site there is a pay the most had a construction at his take last summer was are hard work and been considered to be for are unionized often able to law unions to hire a of women. If you are for softer there seasonal tourist hotels will often to ���I ����Found in the attic of a maiden aunt. VALENTINE'S DAY All that I beg is that my is true That never any woman was a fool To love me as cows love the cud they chew My grain returns as just a coarser evening dress the tailor's art moves me to profess ~·•kv'u's stinging dart. l You disenchant with every dissonant glance Now, and love for me is cold I fear fervor of silky smooth advance But cannot find a in to scold Except· that you should lust me as I But this your frigid virtue doth deny. George 0. Willard Calendar Wed. 2/13- Tues. 2/19 2 THE SUBSCRIPTION second semester is GADFLY for wee end of tt 5' PM Film8: 5 PM Film·· FSK Aud. FSK Aud. THE 8: 5 PM Film- 9:30 PM DC Meeting students and campus. FSK Aud. DEADLINES: Announcements Letters 23 McDowell cannot be Managing Editor Lay-Out and Design Ha.mmel MD 21-'04 Sub11cript.ion Richard Miller Kurt Schuler Staff Patti Pratt Aoi YWUJ!Nr& Will Warner � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The Gadfly</em> Description An account of the resource Founded in 1980, <em>The </em><em>Gadfly</em> is a weekly student publication distributed to over 600 students, faculty, and staff of the Annapolis campus.<br /><br />Click on <strong><a title="The Gadfly" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=16&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&amp;sort_dir=d">Items in the <em>The Gadfly</em> Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context thegadfly Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 8 pages Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Campbell, Rick (Managing Editor) Title A name given to the resource The Gadfly, Vol I Issue 6 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1980-02-13 Description An account of the resource Volume I, Issue 6 of The Gadfly. Published February 13, 1980. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 01 #6 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/60f2a89f5c4d89ba788323324f96e780.pdf 8e88aafa0267cba95d24295dd6513201 PDF Text Text ��a modern nation, lacking experience be overly reckless to her own Europe once overly cautious to �TO THE EDITOR; Upon reading editorial in the February 13th issue of THE , I took it to be an uncommonly attempt at a of satire on the jingoistic everybody up and 's go fight for the empire type of editorial with which we recently have been afflicted as of late. However, much to the of myself and apparently a few others as this was indeed not meant to be a parody of that type of~li terature, but was in meant to be taken as a straight-forward Nevertheless I found it to be amusing and a wonderful release f roro the p~essures of a February in Annapolis. Since you apparently intended to be taken quite seriously, I too am to THE GADFLY, ently in an effort to attempt to dispel go far as and spelling. All are the responsi- Dear Two years ago to China our hosts Russia s means of its Cuban and Vietnamese in Africa and Asia Our Chinese of the Russians and their armies and that unless we would be unable to resist them: that Americans were too wasteful and Elections for President Treasurer three Justices be Petitio.ns the members of the ~ �Review of Mortimer Adler's Lecture on nworld community and Cultural Pluralism" David Stephenson, Tutor most admirable characteristics of his eagerness to attack the greatimmediate problems of today with inherited from other his argument continually not rusty and concerned THIS WEEK S JAPANESE SAN JU RO 8 15 FREE 90 Minutes The further adventures of the hero of the inimitable Toshiro In this film he a filled ��of Mussolini than that c �other Bruce has had countries As a canoein Canada with his parents and also took part in Outward Bound wilderness exHe spent the summer of travaround Western Europe the ical tourist bit For of 76 he �THE LANGUAGE TUTORIAL a the comparaseveral Romance connection via Latin. Maswi th made some them. Our program for mas. It does not a mod- flection upon habits of , but the of written word can indeed be the of poetry in our of fact as sensed, clear what may be vague and violent of such and the love ably learn of best by in the that on with What I mean is that on French or heights without of life in the talk about trivia that one learns it �5 ��.12-------~-------NOTICE! SATURDAY IS IT! The Algebra and Trigonometry and French Reading Knowledge Examinations will be given THIS SATURDAY from 9:30 to 12:30. Anyone who has not yet passed them should take them. The examinations will be distributed in the Dean's Office and can be taken in the classrooms. The examinations are to be returned to the Dean's Office no later than 12:30 pm. CALENDAR Wed 2/20 - Tues 2/26 Wed Feb 20 8:15 PM Winter Film Series: Sanjuro FSK Aud Thur Feb 21 2:15 PM DC meeting with Administration Room 23 Fri Feb 22 8:15 LECTURE -"Who is a Logician and What Does He Do?" Prof. Henry Veatch, Catholic University 11:15 FILM: Casablanca FSK Aud FSK Aud Sat Feb 23 9:30 - 12:30 Algebra & Trig and the Dean's French Reading Knowledge Office Examinations 1:30 & 8:15 FILM: Children of Paradise FSK Aud Great 10:30 Waltz Party Hall Sun Feb 24 11:30 AM Film: Children of Paradise 3:15 PM ALL-COLLEGE SEMINAR Tues Feb 26 7:30 PM St John's Political Forum: Abroad in the Last Year" Mr Leo Raditsa 9:30 Delegate Council Meeting FSK Aud THE SUBSCRIPTION RATE of THE GADFLY for t! second semester is $5. We will print wee~ excepting vacations, until the end of the school year. Due to space, time and print ing restrictions we are unable to accept advertisements. We are supported solely t our subscriptions. If you wish to subscrj please make your checks payable to THE GJ St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland ~ THE GADFLY is free for the students and of the Anna}?Olis campus. DEADLINES: "Events Conv Room 23 Announcements - Tuesdays at . 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Title A name given to the resource <em>The Gadfly</em> Description An account of the resource Founded in 1980, <em>The </em><em>Gadfly</em> is a weekly student publication distributed to over 600 students, faculty, and staff of the Annapolis campus.<br /><br />Click on <strong><a title="The Gadfly" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=16&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&amp;sort_dir=d">Items in the <em>The Gadfly</em> Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context thegadfly Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 12 pages Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Campbell, Rick (Managing Editor) Title A name given to the resource The Gadfly, Vol I Issue 7 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1980-02-20 Description An account of the resource Volume I, Issue 7 of The Gadfly. Published February 20, 1980. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 01 #7 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/c4c7a411c4b4d0a21d14fb8824b569a1.pdf af8adaee71d1e41d2f90d545e6067012 PDF Text Text THE VOL.1 ISSUE 8 THE ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER 27 FEB 1980 Presidential Candidates Speak Out Int rviews by Scott C. Boyd Matt Hartz II Martin Mil I r Next, junior Matt Hartzell, who has left The Gadfly has solicited interviews from his post of Polity Court Chief Justice to the three annoWlced candidates for Polity run for the presidency. Pres ident. The incumbent, President James oeMartini, refused to be interviewed. HowGadfly: Why are you rWlning? ever, we present interviews with the two Hartzell: I think I've seen what goes on in chal lengers. First, junior Martin Miller, who is leaving the Delegate Council and the general reaction of people to it. The main goal of th Presihis post of Polity Treasurer to rWl for the dent is to run the D.C. meetings. That's not pre sidency. being done now. What's going on is a joke. I get a feeling people don't know what they're Gadfly: Why are you running? doin~ on the D.C., or why they're there. Miller: Because the presidency and Delegate Gadfly: What qualifies you to run for presiCouncil are a mess. As Treasurer I've been dent? able to see all the mistakes they made. Gadfly: How do you think Presid nt DeMartini Hartzell: A lot of work, a lot of groundwork. I've worked in every other capacity exhas done? Miller: Nobody takes him serious!¥, although cept president. As a freshman I as a dorm he takes the Delegate CoWlcil seriously. He's delegate, and in the second s mester of my not very forceful. He hasn't molded the Dele- freshman year I became a Justice on the Polity Court, a position I've held ince then. gate CoWlcil--he's a caretaker. His parliamentary procedure is really bothersome. Sara G: It sounds like you don't like the way Matson had a point. He doesn't sense when· an President DeMartini runs the Del g te Council. How would you change it? issue is over an~ goes on asking everyone what th y think. He lacks the sense to see H: I would start with the abolition of any how much time to spend on each issue. parliamentary. procedure--it's ridiculous. Things can be done like a seminar. I don't G: How would you rWl the D.'C. differently? think anything is needed beyond a seminar . M: The real problem isn't running the D.C., it' s just treating people as if thy were ma- spirit with one person rWliling it and making ture and then getting a feel for what they sure that ev ryone is heard. think. I would put a one-hour time limit on G: What new things will you bring as president? D.c. meetings, since after one hour p ople get bored and start thinking of all the home- H: Output from the D.C. There will be effiwork they have to do. I would dispense with ciency and smoothness. This year the D.C. was DeMartini's parliamentary procedure, and at going to buy new refrigerators when several the outset of the meeting ask to find out all usable ones were already available on campus. the issues needing discussion and then disI won't let things like that happen. cuss them. G: Will this "efficiency and smoothness" you G: What are the important issues on campus speak of be a new thing for the D.C.? now? H: Yes, I think it will be new, unfortunately. M: The Polity has a stereo that doesn't ~rk. We must solve this problem before Real- G: What are your major goals ~s presidPnt? _:_ty W kend. CONrINUED ON PAGB �--2 di orial WHY A REPORTER? and Commentaries r----~~~--- by Scott Boyd In such a small community like this where news travels o fast by word of mouth, some may wonder why a news reporter is necessary. THE GADFLY ne d a reporter to keep the student body informed about what's going on in the Polity's qovernment. So far, information of this sort has come from Polity government press releases (such as the DC Minutes) or th t old stand-by, word of mouth. Polity governm nt press releases, :ike all press r leases, are just what someone else writes to tel: you what they want you to hear about themselves. A r porter can give a more objective, independent account of what's going on. Word of mouth as a source of news has two prob1 : fir t, word of mouth partake of rumor and all its inh rent ongoing distortions of th f cts; econd, word of mouth misses many import~nt things going on in the Polity. A reporter solves the first difficulty by being an indep ndent ob rver, who can hopefully give obj ctiv , accurate accounts of things. Furthermore, a reporter gets his facts by interviewing the participants; and through several sourc s piecing tog th r hi story. Th cond difficulty is solved by simply reporting tho important things going on that few are w re of. Some students think that nothing important t all go on in the Polity governm nt, as th widespr ad apathy on this campus attest to. That do sn't mean t t important things don't go on. Most tudent organizations are sanctioned and fundd by the Polity gov rnment. (THE GADFLY is independent~ and n c ssarily so.) All big campus parties are funded by the Polity government. Th sleep/study ru.e i the duty of the Polity gov rnment to enforce. Are none of th s important? One way or anoth r, the Polity gov nment is involv d in very stud nt's life. It does matter. We reported the difficulties at the recent Randall party b cau student acting in their official capaci ti s se d to b involved in questionable actions. Also, the Polity Attorn y being thrown out of th party h wa trying to close, while responding to a noi e complaint, ha serious ramifications for th sl p/study rul . Ther ' o thing going on now that few people to b awar of: campbell Hall is unrepresentin th DC. It h s two regular delegates. One ft th college, and the other doesn't attend ~C tings anymore and wants to resign. No one reprent Campb 11 in the DC to complain about the horribl condition of its kitchen, or to ask why only th 2nd floor lacks a r frigerator. However, no new el tions have been held! The residents all seem to bav b tt r things to do than to hold elections so th y can be represented in the DC. A new Polity Constitution is in the works. The word is that it's a considerable overhaul of the old one, promising less red tape and more effectiv ness. It is supposed to be unveiled soon to the DC, who will decide whether or not to submit it to the Polity for a vote on its adoption. This will affect us all. On March 4, elections will be held for a new President, Secretary, Treasurer, and three Justices. To keep you informed about your government so you can make b tter decisions is the reason that THE GADFLY has a reporter. RKOTIC HAZE bj H H Ha mme1 The Dilemmas of the Draft 1. In one sense, the discussion of the draft iss going on in the student papaers and in private se inappropr~ate for St John's (think of Socrates tr ing to wean young men away from politics toward philosophy) but in another sense (making free men out of childres) it is very important (St John's the "intellectual arsenal of Western Democracy.") With the exception of Tom Dwyer, however, I belie few peopl realiz the depths of these sort of pr lems. 2. The only letter in answer to Mr Campbell in 1 week's is ue that I had any respect for was Chri Baker's. She mak a personal statement. One can· c nistory and toss rhetorical darts all one wants, what matters for our education is our preparation for makinq personal decisions concerning what we individuals owe our country, and how we fit in th future of our country, as free individuals. 3. Like Miss Baker, a dilemma is present to me b tween the rationale for wars and tne ultimate injustice of war ..• original sin vs what men ought t be like, But there actually is war in the world, this country seem hell-bent on reactinq to some small provocation. Thus I conclude that the un)us tifiability of killing is a moot point - it doesn help me make my decisions. "My kingdom is not of tnis world: If my kingdom were of this world, then my s rvants would fight, that I should not be delivered to th j w . John 18:38 If Miss Baker believes that she awakes every mo ing and then goes on to live her life in the King of Heaven, I admire her truth. But it is all-too ~ sent to my mind that I .ive in the USA. 4. "When Homer said that he wished all war wou~d cease" says Herakleitos about some passage in Hom I can't recalll, "He called to recognize that wit out strife, the world would not exist~" But let u :ook to our o~n education for some answere to the questions. When Achilles maons over the death of Patroklos ... this strikes m. One of my friends di serving in the Marines, some of my drinking buddi from this col.ege may meet similar fates. Politic history offers no solace - Homer, the Stoics, and Plato seem to help. 5. Won't any Middie tell you that he is our guard ian, making our intellectual freedom possible? Is there anything like St John's in Russia? 6. Some of us will Join the military, for whatev reason • None of them will be telling themselves that war itself is justice. (I hope.) How will th. folks deal with the violence don to them, first training, then in the horror that the training is there to help you face? I take inspiration from t story of a POW captain who withstood conununi~t ter ror by adopting the Stoicism of Marcus Aurelius (that's what hi manual was written for - not "we scholars.") Whether you read about it in Canada,, or witn s it personally, p ople you love will di sensele s, brutal d aths. What will war game seen arios or pacifi t dogma mean to you then? COlfl'INUED ON PAGE '-t �Letters •To theMrs. Maschler had some reall~ goodo r i a l . 3 . Editor:~ut the Lanquaqe T u t ~ think . •what is to be Done?• To the Ed i9t,of:97 9 Radio Mo~cow ridiculed ~he re1 O~ oec f the west over the Soviet troops in Afacti?n It quoted the former Afghanistanian ghanista~ · fizullah Amin who had dismissed the fuss 1 e~ Prer;; a propaganda" about the "imaginary" troops. as noi 5 Y28 19 79 Premier Hafizullah Amin, the on.De~ - .. head of state, was executed by a Soviet "~e'?iroa 5 euad and was replaced by Babrak Karma!. Mr. fi~i~g ~gim~ had executed more than 3, 000 political Ain7n ~drnts" during his stay in power. Moscow de"di~s~ ~ts intrusion into Afghanistan's affai~s by fenie. g that the Marxist government of Islamic Afcla m~~an was threatened by U.S. backed "counterghan~ t ionary gangs". revo uent diplomatic sources estimate that more than cu~~O soviet troops are in Afghanistan and that lOO~ o f the Afghanistanian troops have defected to mos extent that its army no longer exists. th~ a recent issue of THE GADFLY an editorial ap~ed which essentially claimed that the Soviets peae i nvited into Afghanistan at the request of the ~erwl y established" and "legimate" government of Mr. ~~n i n order to become a force of stability against the tn"atestations of Afghanistanian "terrorists" and "political dissiden~s". . The author of this editorial claimed that he was "more liberal" than the "rightest, conservative, rea·c tionary" editors of T.HE GADFLY, and seemed to belittle the seriousness of the situation, and the struggle of people who do not desire to live under a Marxist form of government which might in fact repeat t he abJect social experiment of Cambodia. His definition of "liberal" seemed to be someone who is ignorant of current international affairs, and sympathetic towards the establishment of governments which diliberately violate the basic rights to life , liberty, and choice. His definition of "rightest, conservative reactionary" seemed to be someone who is aware of current interna tional affairs and concerned about the basic rights of man. Such a position stands exposed in all its deerepitude, and amounts to no more than inane selfrightousness and platitudin .objurgation. In summat ion, . .the arithor has said that "liberals" are good because they are what they are, and that "consevatives" are bad because they have a reaction to Soviet coup d'etats, and Marxist governments in general. We have heard this trite apology before. A word of warning to any would-be "liberal": The proolems of Marxism will not vanish because you wish them away; they will remain in the world as long as they are tolerated by people who think that they can reason withpeople who refuse to be reasonable. President Castro is training young Africaners in revolutionary techniques. These people will become a force in the world a soon as they come of age. . The Chinese will become a force as soon as they find their fangs. And don't you think that the peoPle of Cambodia attempted to reason with the forces of Pol Pot while buried in the dirt up to their neads Just before the fatal blows from the hammers of the Kmer Rouge? And does anyone really think that the world will find peace after all the nations have become one of those extraordinary, socialistic government s deified by Marxist-reactionaries who only t~le:ate adherence to the monolithic party line, and l~quida te all foes, and even sympathizers? You can disbelieve, and correct any of the so called misunderstandings and misapprehensions in my statements. You can even give a more prefeable account ~f ~he si~uation such as:"Come let us say that the oviet Union was invited into this government and that government to assist in the establishment of so . . ~ial isrn, and modernism here and there; and espec~a ly i n the maintenance of internal security(has an~one 7v7r studied the operations of comintern?) n Pac ification of whichever nation, due to the problems of terrorists and reactionaries in some of ° things to say about the language tutorial, and so I wou~d like to add my voice to hers. The distinction between "mastery• and "a modes.t competence" is a very important one, which most students do not make. They assume .that learning to read Greek is only worthwhile if one becomes a master, and therefore don't even try to gain a modest competence in the language. By "modest canpetence" I mean the ability to sight-read Greek, if ra~her slowly, once.give~ the vocabulary. Practically everybody is quite capable of this, they just think they aren't. Here I depart from Mrs. Maschler, whose goals are somewhat lower for the 3t. John's Greek student. But I wouldn't lay it all on the doorstep of the student. The manner in which Greek is taught at St. John's makes it just about impossiole to gain a modest competence without outside help. The student is forced to spend so much time leafing through the lexicon that she or he has no chance to acquire facility with the grammar. A better method would be for the tutor to supply the vocabulary as the class goes alonq, so that the.s~udents could concentrate on acquiring. facility. They would, of course, have a lexicon at their side to resolve any of their own questions about a particular word, but on the whole they would need to trust the tutor to suggest to them appropriate groups of English words for each Greek word in the text. This kind of trust in someone more experienced than oneself is usually necessary to acquire modest competence in any skill. After all, even now we must trust and depend upon the people who wrote the lexicons. A big problem with St. John's in general, I think, is that we don't do enough practice, and when we do practice we do it most inefficently. Now this letter is based on personal experience; I'm not asking anyone to do anything I haven't tested myself. Two and a half years ago, for a full semester I was lucky enough to recieve outside help, help which should have be n given m~ in class but wasn't. This help came in the form of a semester-long class, run by a senior (some of you may remember Don Edwards), in which he supplied the vocabulary and let u work from there. (Actually, he asked us first to try to analyze the granmar without the vocabulary, and then gave us the vocabulary.) This clas was extremely helpful to me, since soon aft rwards I dropped out, forgot about Greek for two years, and then came back in the middle of the sophomore year. I had little trouble picking up the Greek again, and I consider this a tribute to the effectiveness of the litt~e outside class I was in (and not necessarily a tribute to my intelligence, one way or the other}. Please, let's start doing mere practicing at St. John's, and let's start doing it in the right way: efficiently~ Who wants to leaf through the lexicon all the time anyway? Sincerely, Bennet Curtis P.S. I am quite ready to run a small extracurricular Greek class in the format described, and would hope that some other people with a modest competence in Greek would be willing to run other classes. the mountains and foothills which have plagued the international cause: You can say that the-extermination of whole segments of the population are necessary to unify the whole. You can deny the obvious, and not accept what is to be done. Nevertheless, all that I have said will come to pass, and eventually even the ostiches of this world will h;lve their heads forcibly and rudely pulled from the sands. ohn E. Stevenson 1 �-6 TO ALL From the Ca did ates MEMBERS OF THE STUDENT POLITY For the past two terms I have held the off ice of treasurer. During this time I have brought order and balance back to the Students Polity's books. I feel it is time to bring a similar order and balance to the· office of president. My name is Martin. Miller, and I have been nominated as a candidate for President of the Student Polity. The Polity Stereo does not work, nor do most of the dorm refrigerators. Campbell kitchen is in desperate need of repair. The TV's in the heal~h center do not work properly. The DC is responsible for maintaining all of this equipment, yet lacks the money to rep any of it. As treasurer I began investigating ways to finance th repairs on this equipment. As picasident I will be able to put these ways into practice. Big ch ng s ar on the horizon for the oc. Next year the DC will have its own office. I plan to take a few steps now which will help utilize that office pace efficiently. Also, there is a new. constitution in the works. It outlines a DC which runs much differ ntly than the present DC. I plan to run the current DC in a manner analogous to that outlined in the new constitution. This will not only ease the transition should the new constitution be adopted, but it will also afford.us a practical te t to see how th new constitution will work. Finally, as treasur r under two past presidents, I hav witness d first hand all the mistakes they have mad . I will not make these mi take . I will not choke the council with bureaucracy and unnecessary procedures. I will not ignore criticism from the community .. I will not ignore the needs of polity member who live off-campus. I will not alienate the administration. In fact, through the office of treasurer I hav developed very good. relations with mo t memb rs of the administration. Such relations will be n ce ary to secure the college's financial backing for the repair and maintenance of polity equipment. If you do not want to see how much the DC can do for thi school, then do not vote for me. !f you do not want to hear a good sound system during the reality partie , then do not vote for me. For I am going to make it my job as president to see that the DC realizes its full potential, and taking top priority on my list i the purchase of a new sound sy t bc!fore Reality. Sine rely, Martin Miller NARKOTIC HAZE 9. How can we maintain the spirit of morality in ·t his country, the spirit that has in the past made us enter war with great hesitation, seemingly only when provoked? Once at war, how will we be able to maintain a distinction between "nece sary" destruction and actions that are unJustif iable even in w~r­ time. How can a pacifist contribute anything applicaETe to moral questions during war, given his/her dogma.tic stand? Miss Baker, as a representative of the pacifist line, how do you think you will be ~ble to speak to a military leader without him/her th~nk­ ing you are a fool, or at least pretty naive? White: •Every act of violence is unjust." Black: "Whoeve~ this war is responsible for it." The world is a deep pool of grey. I am ashamed of my own shallowness in these matters, but I think I know where the depths lie. Why don't some of you sharp people plumb lo••• th-? ,.--.-----.-_____,_,._j When I ran for election last November, vote? in vain for any traditional campaign pr ises on my part, and so wondered whether or nc anything definite would be accomplished durin~ ~Y.term ?f office. Since then, however, some b itive things have been accomplished which des to be mentioned in this context. A workable refrigerator has finally been in led in Humphrey's; the council has approved s new student clubs and committees, including t faculty-advised Political Forum Committee, wh· is adding yet another dimension of thought to St John's Program; a recent issue concerning l equipment w s settled out of court in an arra ment which emed to please all those involve Delegate Council is enjoying a remarkably goo cord of working with the administr tion; thi shown in the fact that the questions on the of grades at St John's, originally asked in of la t y ar, w r answered a few weeks ago; merely asked for th statement, and it was g with the minimum of negotiations. I do not think that all this can be ascrib happenstance. It is enough to prove that my istration has been neither directionle s nor sastrous, but instead has worked for results an efficient and practical matter, for the go of the conununity. I am up for reelection in March because I ti to continue working for the good of the comm~ My ideals and m~thods are the same as ever now my rem rks can be based on specific point rather than on general statements. ~ooked Thank you, James DeMartini Polity President ENDORSEMENT FOR MARTIN MILLER I would like to offer forth my endorsement of for President of the Student Polity. I lived next door to Martin all year and know hi be a considerate human being, concerned for ot and a man with a sense of humor. In addition t qualities, I have seen his interest in the we of the students in his role as Trea urer and certain that his genuine aptitude for dealing responsibility will be carried over to the hig office of President, if he is elected. Other being his friend, we are not related. Thank you, Richard Miller M~ller plying our contexts to other people's actio~ called ethnocentrism. An all-colleg~ seminai Conrad's Heart of Darkness, or the movie~ Now, might show us that there is a very str9 ethnocentric bias at this college. these sorts of problems. G: It seems in St. John's politics times you.have to be a joke to win. Yo serious, though. M: I'm not a joke. That's my weakness I've shown as Treasurer that I can do �~~---- ME~N-rc·s--~-----' Sport ... by Bryce J cobs n VOLLEYBALL Feb. 20 • •• Spartans-4, Greenwaves-0 Feb. 2 1 ••• Guardians-4, Hustlers-l Thus ended our volleyball, as expected. The Guardians clear ly were tops ••• and the Waves.clearly were bottoms. All the other teams were bunched in the middle at 4-4. BASKETBALL Feb. 23 •• • Guardi ns-85, Druids-71 In the fir t period the ~uardi ns were shooting about and the Druids about 2CJ'~. So the Guardians accumu1 ate d a 15 point lead. Their B s added four to this, hence ef f ectively countermanding any Druid hopes. This dropp d the Jruids behind the ttustlers, who took 055 dvantage of this situation in the next game. sot , Feb. 23 •• • Hustlers-92, Greenwaves-51 The Hustlers relaxed their way into 0 con test, here. the title , finishing the season at 6-2. ttighlights of t a e , selected at random, were: 1) r. Hartzell connected on four field ~oals, out iss d connections on twenty four! Mr. Edwards ended his collegiate basketball career in do ubl figures ••• 10 points. How about that. Mr. Schoen r was strong on th boards, picKing up ~o poi nts ••• but also four fouls. 4 7he W aves took only seven foul shots in the game ••• ut m ad every one! How about that. W tch out for them in our Free Throw Contest. E ~. ROW CONTEST ••• Thurs., Feb. 28, 1:00-6:00 t ea y. Just come to.the ym, and whenever you are rea dy, s hoot 25 fou1 shots. The eight highest scores on each team are counted. rlence there is no way you can hurt our team ••• only he ... p it. l'w'0-0~-TWO ••• Saturday aft,rnoon, March l schedul of play is posted on our bulletin boards. em mb r, player m y pasticipate in one match. 1berefore , th men n ed eight play rs per team, and the women six. As in all of our competitions now, all eligible p1aye rs y compete ••• alumni, staff, family, etc. 'Th LE.AG UE STANDINGS volle yball .uardians ~ ust ers ::>rui ds Spar tans re nwav Won Lost Pts 7 4 4 4 l 1 ... 4 4 .. Basketball Hustlers Druid Guardians Spartans Gre nwav s 22 16 16 16 10 won Lost Pts 6 4 4 3 2 3 20 15 J 15 4 13 l 6 9 SCHEDULE: 11 ••• Thu. Feb. 28 1:00-6:00 Free rhrow Tour. Sat. Mar. l 1:30 rwo-on-two(Wom n) 3:00 Two-on-two(Men) Fitn ss Te st ••• Wed. Har. 6, 6:00- adline Announcemen s - -. . WOIJMl!!EN.'_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ S 7-·- by .deth Gordon VOLLEYBALL Feb 19 ••• Nympbs-3, Furies-2 Once again the Nymphs take it after a furious struggle. Miss Alers showed good form in her overhand serve, and in the fourth game, Miss Paschall came out from nowhere to serve thirteen, or so it se med, and the Furies won that one. Nymph Ambur had a curious propensity to slide under th net, which may be the reason wny it took th Nymphs all five games to edge one game over the Furies. Feb 21 ••• Maenads-3, Furies-2 Ohl They were ~ that they were going to win this onel Somehow, the team that wins the first game always ends up losing. In the second game, the Furies even played to a 17-15 game, though they lost in the final couple of crucial points. F b 22 ••• Amazons-3, Nymphs-2 The two strongest teams, in another battle towards first place, showed that strategy sometimes wins out over sheer strength. Playing with the maximum, nine, opened up more room for mistakes than the Nymphs could deal with. The highlignt of the game was a sneaky Amazon snag between Misses Parks and Welch, to their great surprise. Carry? Despite such unorthodox plays, the Amazons squeezed the necessary three games to win out over the Nymphs. :EAGUE STA@INGS Volleyball Amazons lfIJnphs l4uries Maenads Won 6 4 3 Lost Pts 2 20 16 I+ I+ 2 5 13 11 ':HIS WEEK 1 S" SCHEDULE: Feb 28 Thu 4:00 Free Throw Contest Feb 29 Fri l+:OO Furies-Amazons Mar 1 Sat 1:30-3:00 Two-on-Two Mar I+ Tue l+:OO Maenads-Furies ED " ·re• s:SIT'.:'ER? I will e here during Spring Break and would be happy to take care of your house or apt. : get a:ong ..,ell w1 th plan ts and animals. Please contact Mark Jaehnig at ext '+5 if you are interested. BLOOD! BLOOD! BLOOD! FROM THE HEALTH CENTER ~ ~~e Red Cro ss Blood Mobile will be on campus on arursday, Feb 28 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Donors ise~needed. So far the number of donors scheduled cam.ow, probably due to the nasty virus that his th PUs las t week (and is still claiming victims 1 fors week). If ·you can give, please call ext. 53 an appointment or come to FSK Lobby on Thursday. Marilyn Mylander College Nurse EMPLOYMENT Val rie Uhlig wants someon to teach h r beginning Greek. Call her at 757-261+8. NOTICE Now is the time of year when things start coming out of the ground. Watch where you walk, particularly, but not exclusively, between Chase-Stone and the Health Center. Careful steps tod y mean flowers after sprinq break. �DE E Rf- L.l'i-Vt.. 'Tim GADFLY i ponsoring a debate between the candi t for Polity President. The debat will t e place Sunday, March 2, t 7 p.m. in the Gr at Hall. Mr. M~ller and Mr. Hartzell h ve co itted themselves and Mr. Demartini is still making up his mind. Pe.5sue<e- wt-rtt UN'lo &KtH'S GADFLY DC Report of Feb 26th by Scott c. Boyd The meeting opened with criticism of the absent Seer tary's minutes of last week, termed a "model of sarcasm" by the President. Being th end of hi t rm, Mr DeMartini w s required to nomin te two new Polity Justic s. He nominated freshman Jeanne Connors, who w s unanimously accepted in.a DC vote. Mr DeM rtini nominated Martin Miller as his oth r choice for Justice. This was very interting, since Mr Miller is running against Mr rtini for pre ident. Miller declined the nomination (he wa n't v n asked before the eeting if hew ted the post), since, if he accepted it, he would have to withdraw as a presidenti 1 candidate, and hence, threat to incumbent D Martini. Th r on i that the Justices upervise all 1 ctions, and how can you supervise an election you participate in? DeMartini h d ked two oth r students to CM up, and presumably they w re back-up choices for Ju tice. Neither of them came, and upon questioning, DeMartini revealed that h h dn't asked one if he wanted the post, and other h d already h ld the post for a year. Saturday the DC will meet in special session to choo a new Justice. ~· -.. ~ Y' ·:_. . . . . . . "". - .. , .. St John'• Coll • Annapol 11, MD 21404 N9n-Ptvf11 Ors. IUlK RAil U.S. POSTAGE PAID '9MITNO.UO MeilAPOLIS. MD. ,,. .~' ..~ ~"" . . . 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/5a79e925c83e3fa49f392b6607e294c0.pdf ba5ab7f54f8b7a9c1774418c21ed6970 PDF Text Text 38% of President of the s elections There the Presidents jobs and divides programs has information ahard and soft �debate to proTHE meet the vide the students candidates It didn' that was due to the word 11 debate debate was never meant to be a formal deba te whatever that is. It be and its Hartzell Wise did further undermined of Miller durwas done in He had said his statement - it and a me one of its purposes the bate. I was incenses at ~•v•~~&··~· Our education which was staff the entire It has called editorial of THE GADFLY. . This is the first time I have been in I a as editor of a I have much to learn I am for what an endorsement is I it is useful don take the time to make of the If in open discuss because he is Committee for the sole reas~ in the DC past. terms not endorsed because he was friend of Hartzell and are closer friends than their company continue to them There has been result fr the Randa mistakes the residents It is th other dorms up on. I successful than the debate I don t care whether to embarass THE GADFLY me result was student interest out where the candidates stood. effort so what has been learned from this weeker activities ers respect We have seen the terrorists tages in Teheran. The us, ma· events on the American hosand tl comes to �Dedicated to need to and as much as I did when I wrote and those read in this , i.e. . • • down the the doors delicate body of a song , carever higher in the warm updrafts along the mountain of Dream, wheeling and darting someone in the rocks at of the snows, and was taken the wish to sing for him. Lighting a boulder across the stream from - for it was those mountains, the glaciers treating and clear torrents to valleys - I ting with his back to upon the turned toward me had disturbed his solitude face I wear in the But human self wore strange in dreams a black and tunic with seal the (need I tell seal has seven books and a balencircled clever words latin? for my but self the rocks stones and dust at intervals with stone cairns A tall man app~·oztcl~ed, wearing a minimum of armor and a sword staff and with a smile and him some tea none too The warrior serious laughed the warrior, "You scholars are all singers and dancers fighters and lovers and you you don't dream?" "Oh, " answered unlike yon , our sucks if I may use the words of my It sucks feet like the manure I walked in as a as grandfather's farm, after a smells sweet to a farm boy it he asked. the memory is dear to me, but is a village-dweller . sn•o~>KE~epers and tool-makers, and sons, is dirt ... but I was only to picture it for - well then, the must suffer," added the warrior the musicians them down. But what of the martial I know you students love to duel." "Kind sir, we all grandfather called his called it Brain ... but look." drew his and handed it to in the white student. when I The was lust in his voice, and involuntarily crossed himself. "You do not know what it is like a scholar, sir. Sometimes I come with my books and toss them into to see if can fly. At first as if they take impelled arms and wishes. But are dead and the spirit to me. In my shreds with this before ground said the youth. warrior said "The best swords stay scabbards. enough for you to say," scowled the youth for I can see from dark skin and scars that you ve and fought My in this land have not left my so as it could be, if it matched my soft hands and weak sinews. The warrior sighed, rubbed his eyes and stretched his face, then said, " your own enemy can be a long hard, trod but do ger; that nothing if are now, consider to Again I tell is best saved for its proper not, l e s t "Warrior!" the "Do you I �-·4---•ReV_iews . and Previews EINSTEIN AS BUILDER OF A WORLDVIEW Lecture by Gerald Holton Review by Steve Winters In his Friday night lecture "Einstein as · Builder of a Worldview" Gerald Holton gave an attractive presentation of Einstein as physicist and personality. Holton began by noting that around 1900 the physics community had no idea that they needed an Einstein. Physics at that time offered many exciting new areas of study, such as radioactivity, and there was general agreement about the sort of program of careful research into the new phenomena which should be followed. There was also a common interest in the development of the Maxwellian Theory, and in particular the study of the aether, the supposed carrier of the electromagnetic vibrations. Finally physicists were busy perfecting new and extremely accurate techniques of measurements. The aim of the physicists, as Holton describes it, was to modify the best available theories in order to adjust them in their details and thereby to bring them into agreement with the best new experimental data. H.H. Lorentz's work on the electron theory typified this approach. Einstein, lio.wever, perceived the situation of theoretical physics differently. As Ho'lton sees it, it was in the period from 1901 to 1905, which culminated in his first paper on special relativity, that the young Einstein undertook a reconsideration of the very foundations on which the complacent and self-conf ident work of his contemporaries was ultimately based. This indeed basically agrees with standard appraisals of Einstein's departure from the typical turn of the century style of doing physics. According to Holton, Einstein's consideration of fWldamental issues, such as the very procedures for determining the times at which events take place, and his consequent discovery of the relativity of simultaneity, demonstrate that he was willing to pose questions on a much deeper level than his contemporaries. Another aspect of this same willingness is evident in his interest in "worldviews". Worldviews are comprehensive models or pictures of nature conceived by physicists. There were two main ones under serious consideration in that . period, the mechanical and the electromagnetic worldviews. What impressed Einstein here was the notion that there might be an overriding theoretical framework which would serve to Wlify the several different phenomena of phy- . ~- : ~- .:~ . .. ... .. ·~ ·sical science within one scheme or under one idea. Einstein's 1905 paper presents, in the principle of relativity, a formal principle which is to serve as a regulative principle guiding the formation of such a unified framE work. (Its eventual effect was to bring ordinary mechanics within the same scope as the Maxwellian Theory, by disclosing the applica bility and underlying significance of the Lo entz transformation for both.) Einstein's in terpretation of the meaning of the Lorentz transformation led rapidly to the abandonmen of the interest in ether theories. The pecuU hypotheses and assumptions which had been graf ed artfully onto the theory of the aether a. its interaction with matter now were felt to flow as natural consequences from the two po~ tulates of the 1905 paper and the new concep tion of sp~ce and time they heralded. Many of Holton's interesting remark s must be passed over here. On the whole they seeme' to emphasize that Einstein was a physicist w cultivated philosophical interests and that this was crucial in enabling him to pose fun damental questions. His reflection was cente. ed in basic and longstanding experimental facts: the 1905 paper begins with a consider, tion of the asymmetry in two ways of describ ing inductive . effects . These basic laws of induction, however, had been known from Fara day's .time, 70 years before. Holton suggest' that Einstein's philosophical bent led him b contemplate at least as a possibility even grander unifications in which biological and social phenomena would find their place even tually. Clearly Einstein is Holton's 'idol', as he is the 'idol' of many physicists. Along with the evident interest in Einstein's own psychological development, his early schoolin in the nature of his genius, and so on, I ca only say for my part that I wish there were more reflection on the role that an idealize picture of Einstein plays in the minds of hi highly intelligent followers. I expect that one would perhaps be at a loss to explain this phenomenon itself as a purely rational one! THE ELECTIONS the staff will have a by-line. In this way J hope that any future endorsements or editori will not be taken as lightly as the last en·· dorsement was. And if a staff member doesn't agree with the consensus, his dissenting opinion will be given space. I hope these changes will improve THE GAD~ standin in the eye's of our readers. �Alcohol. FE Correction Linder s Fe campus in the 2nd issue for 450 students informs that there is students. space �c The to vote choices inate two students as end of their tenn. DeMartini session s second Presidents Justices at the in its regs second resolved to s second nominee. the outset of DeMartini for the second that his sec- Because of her election as dorm Smith as ouster as dorm electo St~ Amour s election election because November was . Coss as of donn residents weren t claimed a then. was a gross Secretary blood was given in the of helJ ing the Red Cross gave each something in return fruit juice cookies donors them started immediately replacing their blood. because all elecThe election was of St. ti on such as Coss handled Amour the �letter is submitted leaflets distributed on March certain . These leaf lets contain the that Dan Van Doren his for the of Secretary desires the the purposes ment Mr. seeks no stars wants to serve the needs of the students". The leaf let coneludes with the statement that will serve the students manner be11 concerned about the he could show it and show his opponent the same that his opponent shows him. I wonder bothered check statements? Or is considerations except and his friends have failed to understand is that what is at issue in a political is not the character of the candidates but the the anyare vague empty rheterms which have the intended effect yours Stuart Mr Kaufman your letter. Reasonable critiWe don t know what kind without feed-back. We are this business. It is with and feed-back that we able to im~~~~~- the nature of our comnews reporter is not needed. is? are more than an unsubstantiated attack on his opponent. On top of that distribution of the leaflets did not occur until at least noontime on election thus allowhis opponent no time to make any sort of this tactic is. and unfair. If these leaflets were distributed with Mr and he owes Van Doren and the voters of s; if he is not way for them, he and name tions of a few moronic a of the Elections ��Edward G. Dean of the Freshman and Junior Classes Gentlemen The s Off ice yours Nancy Winters ECONOMIC EXCHANGE CASE CLOSED pe.cson to He 63- to report that my camera has been and one of the tutors �t E March 1 ANNOUNCEMENT 1980 PRIZES 1979-1980 1. To the member of the Senior Class who writes the best 2. To the member of the Junior Class who writes the best* annual essay 3. To the member of the the member senior essay Class who writes the best* annual essay the Freshman Class writes the best* annual essay submits the best* the of either Greek text* poem, 14-70 lines includes the stanza 1st Prize 2nd Prize the Freshman or Class who submits the most the mathematical member the Junior or Senior Class who submits the most solution of the mathematical * 9. 10. To the student who submits the best music brief comment on a • 1 music a.._ To the student who submits the best* #5-10 should be All entries under 5, 1980 Prize Committee on or before Members of the Prize Committee Mrs. Renaut Zeiderman. Mr Kutler of to one of the members of the Chairman . Bolotin Miss �between losing and to this one Jago was back to have affected her in this game but enough thereafter .. These final games of Guardians tied for second the FINAL LEAGUE STANDINGS The Maenads won the second game 15-6 with help of Misses Polk Dornich Craven and others However, to the 22 7 4 4 16 16 16 lost their effectiveness and in the games 15-6 Furies-2 29 Feb. Lost Pts. Volleyball Guardians Hustlers Druids awesome serve. Druids Guardians this one to get the net. Miss server for the" "Bullet" Parks a few of her Simonson backing her W L 2 Amazons 5 Maenads 3 2 P 23 19 5 6 "What s this 14 12 page? cared was not mine. you read it for me? wish.- You will think me foolish It Don t be sad for you must leave me, I want you to fare well. Rewait for you but do not reare happy.' Can you guess shall take cube of glass have good friends it. �costumes of � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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JOHN'S COLLEGE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER AMERICANS Mr. Pedro Sanjuan will speak Tuesday, March twenty-fifth on what American lforeign policy has been and should be toward Latin America. Miss Bulkley and Mr. White took the opportunity to talk with Mr. Sanjuan about his background and his views on several facets of American foreign policy. Mr. Sanjuan's office at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, is covered with paintings and etchings, because, as he insists, he is an artist by profession. Politics is only his hobby. This seems surprising when measured by his twenty years in goverrunent service. But then again,nothing about Mr. San jua n is ordinary. Born in Cuba, he spent most of his early life traveling in Europe, particularly in Spain. He took most of his schooling in the u.s.--entering Rutgers University a t s ixteen and at nineteen entering Harvard School of Russian Studies (he said with mock-seriousness that at forty-nine he can no longer be considered a prodigy). Aside from his government service, Mr. Sanjuan has also been involved in severalprivate endeavors, particularly as an advisor to the Inter-American Development Bank , an i nternational bank which lends money solely to Latin American countries, and as founder. of "Close-Up," a program which brings high school students to Washington to l earn about the workings of the government. He started his career in government with the Kennedy administration in 1960. As Deputy Chief of Protocol, his area of expertise was the newly independent African nati ons and his duties included insuring t he safety of diplomats from these nations i n the United States. Mr. Sanjuan said , " .•• to remedy the itu t o I a d a tremendous amount of noise-nd I got my picture in all the papers and 24 'MARCH 1980 �Mr. Sanju n OTHERS .SEE US s ctiv s on ican Per Latin O.S. Policy Excerpt from an article by Pedro A. Sanjuan Our for i9n policy is eaaenti 1 purpos on which be ct our pol ic i try to d t rmin ar rec iv d by ult• of our Mid a t policy, or of our r fric or Asia. An qually pertin nt mad by bringing into focu w t con ensu of inform d Latin Am ri can from th L ft, th Center, and th ight, wh con i t ntly l v l critici m at c rt i durabl l nt in our Latin Am rican policy. y Latin Am rican policy" our critic frequ ntly includ th mut tions of a basic policy w hav adh r d for th la t h lf century a a guide in our rel tion towards the egm nt of this h misph r th t lie outh of our borders. On of th princip l critici ms i that all the mutation of our Latin Am rican policy hav n unchanging them : we hav for many d cad sist ntly proclaim d our national virtu by xtol ling th b n vol nt natur of our actions. An nd to gunboat diplomacy was promised by "good neighb F.D.R. Such unnatural restr .int won Roo evelt no mou pr ise nd a reputation as th American pr d nt who was a true humanitarian. The "good neig bar" them became fairly orn out toward the end of Eisenhower's s cond t rm, nd w replac d by the "Alliance for Progr s,• a revitalized nd more aggr siv variation of the previous policy theme, accompanied by an even more laudable stat purpo • It wa an unusual "alliance," actually o what of a one-way street, for we und rstood "pr0qre • only s what the nations down there ne ded to work on, the Americans having alr ady amply de nstrated a consummate ability to look aft r them elve • Although th slogan it lf w allowed to fad into disuse during the benign ne glect of the Nixon and Ford years, the "allianc has not been revitalized recently by the introdu tion of any new slogan. N ither has it been enti ly repeal d, however, for the instruments ~f fin cial assistance still exist by means •f which we continue to implement the now dim objectives of J that "alliance." We continue to act, albeit half heartedly, as if the United States were still a residual trustee charged with seeing to it that progress (or what we understand to be progress) finally materializes throughout the nations of Latin American and whatever colonial remnants lie within the confines of the area. Thus, we st1 maintain the same we-versus-them relationship, bas d on the tacit a sumption that a seemingly eternal bond exist between the irrevocably b ck• ward (developing) nations to th~ south and th7ir great northern neighbor - a nation burdened with a de tiny promising greater wealt~ and better.pr< gre for itself, and also conveying the continu· ing obligation to aid, teach, discipline, and se1 an xample. Many Latin American feel that the most rronec part of this a umption lies in the notion that United States and the culture to the south are I tual neighbors. Geographically, the principal na to the sbuth and the United States are separat d fairly impressive di tanc s, if we exclude our d mon border with Mexico. But geographic distance not the only gap between the two cultur • Histo cally, th catholic, Medit rran n tradition and the north r Europ an, C lvini tic tradition are world• ap rt. Many Latin Am ricans believe these two flow from entially different political b li f , philo ophic 1 outlook , religious vi ws, ad.mini trativ concept , and even legal sy t Th two curr nts have b n t war with ach oth inc th form tion, wh n th struggl b tw th Prot stant north nd th Catholic outh b ubtl i s 'and convolution"'" of that Th atruggl w r gr d lly tr nalat into plifi d, bl ck- nd- hit d-no i thi h i ph r • �~~~~~~~~~~~--~~~--3In spite of all o ur . prote~tations . ·of good faith the conduct of hemispheric relations, of the ~~nro e Doctrine (which was, after . all, a unilateral decla ration of hegemony by the United States), of the la rgely theatrical hemispheric alliances of WW II, and of the pledges ~f the . Rio Treaty, the hemisphere has always remained, in our eyes - when all is said and done - a stage for the enduring struggl e between the positive power of our light and the negative power of their darkness. We in the un ited States generally accept our role as standard bearers of enlightenment. But the socalled Latins, with ever-increasing frequency, reject characterizations imposed upon them as the minions of darkness. This is, of course, a very unjust simplification of a complicated historical relationship. Nevertheless, public opinion in Latin America largely accepts this version of our role in the hemisphere. To many Latin Americans, this.version is not a simplific a tion. To an unfortunate degree, they feel that it is indeed the underlying theme of their historical relationship to the United States. Such a view is not at all what the necessarily hypocritica l language of diplomacy would identify as the lei tmotif of hemispheric relations. But the language of diplomacy has a very small role to play in formulating public opinion and no role to play when we are trying to come to grips with the reality of popular attitudes. The v iews many Latin Americans presently have . concerning certain recent United States policy initiatives are critical to a degree that transcends what might be associated with their different c u l tural point of view. Unfortunately, today a growing segment of Latin American public opinion, reflected by increasing criticism in the Latin pre s s, forcefully and frequently attacks the Unit d States on several grounds. Af 'giving" Latin America the Pana.ma canal a gesture which most Latin Americans consider questionable generosity - we are seen as having begun to treat most of Latin America in the same manner t ha t a conquering nation treats its van~uished foes after the signing of some ignominious treaty. We appear to impose sanctions, li.mitations, and demands as preconditions to the resumption of normal relations. Mexico's economic dile~ i s seen as being dealt with by us through a va7ie t y of clumsy proposals to shut illegal border infiltration. Hemispheric drug traffic, managed largely by syndicated criminals and by millions ~ f middle-class drug users and abusers in th .united . Stat , has been criticized throughout ~tin Americ as the subject of harsh and hypocritical a~c u ations by the Unit d States, directed at countries cert inly no better able than the United State to p7event illegal berger violations. We are also being severely criticized for threatening to de~aul ~ on our assessed contribution to the Organization of American States (OAS) _ an attempt s7en as tan tamount to a treaty violation _ at a t~me when we are simultaniously seeking the support 0 ~he ?ther m mber nations in that regional organization, in order to apply restraining pressures ~~f the g~ vernment of Nicaragua. The threat of U.S. ault is regarded as a "lesson" to the OAS that we mean bus iness in reducing unilaterally the per~7ntage of our assessed contribution by a few mil~ 0 ~rdollars, a.move which, last year, the Sta t e tment promised that the Congress would not e. W have been severely criticized for taking fua ures to pr vent the sale of adv a nced nuclear countt7chnology to Brazil and o th r south Amer ican oun ri li' as part ~f the expr s sed view that a ke th Uni d state cons i der i tsel f to xcell t po it i on to pr ch to "mercurial" 0 :a k Latin Am n governments on the danger of their po s.ibly abilizing the nuclear weapons balance in the wor - whatever that is supposed to be! The feeling is that we are rather insensitive in our recent response to the very real need of ensuring a depe~dable and long-lasting source of energy. Only with such a source as the basis can the future economic development of the industrialized sector of Latin America be predicted. Probably the weakest link in the present nonproliferation policy is the adverse effect it has on U.S. foreign relations, in particular those with the Third World. There does exist, of course, a long-rang~ thre~t to world stability through runaway proliferation - not a very obvious tendency at present, but one which could develop in the future with the most unfortunat consequences. Yet there is still time to cope intelligently with the' tt_>.reat of worldwide nuclear weapons proliferation. Single-minded adherence to the present policy :• threatens to create two new kinds of potential political adversaries for the United States: 1. Friendly Third World countries who blame us for their mounting economic and political woes for.the continued high cost of their energy - for t~ei~ bala~ce of payments drain - for paternalistic attitudes on our part, since we seem to flaunt our belief that only so-called world powers can be trusted with nuclear weapons for what seem to be our efforts to consign them to the political and economic garbage heap by permanently sealing their fate as nonpowers for what they consider to be our efforts to dev~lop a monopoly in advanced nuclear fuel technology. 2. Technologically advanced countries which have also accused us of unfair competition. Public opinion in still friendly countries now increasingly views us as wanting to suppress nuclear weapons proliferation, not for what is to them the unacceptable reason that Third World countries cannot be trusted with the management of their own affairs, but for the more appealing re~son that the United States really wants to keep Third World countries down. This is bound to be viewed as a new form of colonialism. Thus, our present nonproliferation policy actually unwittingly r7casts the nuclear weapon into a very desirable attribute of polit ical power in countries which might not have considered acquiring it before. Sensible Latin American critics wonder why we try ~o pre~ent pr~lif7ration of nuclear terror weapons i~ La.tin America in a manner which obviously is so l i ke ly to pr oduce anything but the desired outc om . The i~evitabl~ resul t of this unilateral policy i , and wi l l c ontinue to be , to create additional pressure within these nations to plan the development of a nuclear weapons capability. Many Latin critics ~lso a~k i f it would not be better to attempt an inclusionary approach, a r eal partnership designed to advance more rapidly towards the solution of a very real energy cr i sis. South America has no large and eco nomically viable untapped resources of energy, as we do in c oal and shale. Certainly, the development of an improved system of regional safegu~rds, arrived at without the imposition by the United States of dogmatic solutions, would have a bet t er chance of heading off the madness of nuclear weapo ns development. w7 sho~ld . begi~ to conceive of a hemisph ric relationsh1p i n whic h certa in nations t o the south might ha ve to b e gran t ed a tatus comparabl to tha~ o~ som~ of o ur second-ra te European a l li s , beginn i ng with s omethin g l ike the re spect w how fo r the sovereign t y of a D nmark or a Lux C rtain ly, that would con t i t ute a d partur our tr ditional policy proba bly dramatic a our �recent diplomatic recogntion of the People's Republic of China. But if we begin to consider our relations with Latin America in the context of our own national self.interest and not in the context of a continuing crusade, we could have a far more stabilizing influence in future hemispheric developments. U.S. NUCLEAR EXPORT POLICY Excerpted from an Article by Pedro Sanjuan in AEI Foreign Policy and Derense Review ~It is becoming clear that our present difficulty with Argentina is linked to our nuclear export restrictions, which are a matter of profound significance for a country with an advanced nuclear industry of its own. The Argentine answer has been to affirm its sovereignty in the most palpable way. This has been done by means of improved Argentine-Soviet relations - a trend recently expressed through renewed cultural ties and the unprecedented visit to Argentina by a Soviet military mission, which was decorated by Argentina's top military in an affair described by Tass, the Soviet news agency, as "a transcendental event." Similarly, u.s.Brazilian relations have been impeded by the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act, with the effect of br i nging Brazil and Argentina closer together in the area of nuclear technology exchanges. The United States should not be surprised or of fended if traditional terms of friendship give way to pragmation in the face of impending energy shortages. Our own national interests are deeply and historically intertwined with Latin America, and that is perhaps reason enough to pay heed. However, one also wonders how long our neighbors will continue to look northward to express their concerns before seeking solutions to their problems elsewhere. Reviews WHAT HAPPENED DOWN THERE A book review by John Lippman There has been much talk of late about American foreign policy. The things said have not been praiseworthy. President Carter is the target of most of the critism, but he inherited as many problems as he created. It is even beginning to look like America has no foreign · policy at all, if the word "policy" is to be understood as meaning a consistent but flexible program by which America conducts her relations abroad. If we are going to move outsid our borders t o make fr i ends and do business, then we should know Where we are going and what the people are like who live there. Theodore Draper'~ book The Dominican Revolt is a case study in American foreign policy. It is a sad book because it shows responsible men in important positions acting out of fear. Although the State Department and the Pentagon may know where the Dominican Republic lies in the Caribbean, in 1965 it knew little of its politics or people. 1965 is the apex of the triangle whose other two points are 1956 and 1962; that is, the Dominican revolt takes its place alongside Fidel Castro corning to power and the Cuban missile crisis. A.fter years of the United States supporting the dictator Trujillo the Dominicans did not look kindly on American foreign policy. Trujillo was assassinated in 1961 and out of the confusion which followed came Juan Bosch, an able leader who desired to see in the Dominican Republic a social democracy endowed with a constitution. President Kennedv finally came out in favor of Bos~h when it appeared in a fair election that he was overwhelmingly the choice of the people. But there were accusations that Bosch was soft on Communism, if not actually a Communist himself, and in September 1963 he was overthrown in a military coup. The tragic part is that this coup was supported by the Pentagon out of fear that Bosch would eventually lead his country into the Communist sphere. Information is the most important criterian for the formulation and solving of foreign policy problems. If the information is not correct, then the solutions are going to be wrong. Draper brings respectability back to the profession of journalism by seeking accurate facts, something which he points out was not a worry to either the American embassy or Bosch's opponents. The story of how Bosch got to be associated with the Communists is complicated and bizarre. Reports of Bosch meeting with Communists and secretly forming policy with them, when traced by Draper, turned out simply not to be true. Nonetheless this was the sort of information that the American embassy and American intelligence were picking up; and every time the information changed the American policy was to back another regime. Although Bosch was taken out of power in September 1963, he still remained in the country. The leader of the new regime was a disaster. This move was the same as Cabral cutting his own throat and in April 1965 the military moved again to seize political power. "The 1965 revolt was basically set in motion by the economic retrogression and political disintegration of the Reid Cabral junta." The revolt was led by pro-Bosch forces, and was seen as such by both those follow- �--~~~~~-==========================-=:J5· it in the Johnson administration ing those witnes ing f rom insi d e th e . . . d ~~minican Republic. For a brief while on that Saturday afternoon on the ~4th of April it looked as t~ough constitutional democracy was going to be restored. But something went wrong. The revolt did not continue along its bloodless course. Events began to turn as others struggling to get hold.of ~he postCabral regime made their pitch. A problem with Bosch and his party ~as t~at it had been accused of consorting with the small Commun· t party in Santo Domingo. There were rumors to the effect that Bosch had even gone so far as to make anti-American, pro-conununist remarks. The truth is, Draper asserts, that Bosch never made any remarks of the kind. The stigma that was to attach itself to Bosch was the Communists' weak and wavering support of him, not his alignment with the Communists. His constitutional government provided the best opportunity for the Communists to to ingratiate themselves with his supporters, who included most of the poor. But the communist threat was not strong or vocal. Still their slight existence was enough to excite General Wessin y wessin, one of the generals in the Cabral junta who saw a Bosch revival as a virtual Communist takeover. Thus Wessin decided the direction the revolt must take was that towards a military junta that would depose Cabral and prevent the return of Bosch. Of course, given the factions into which the Dominican military organization was splitting, Wessin's hopes could not be realized without the help of the United States Marines. Wessin didn't even have to make the effort to persuade the American government, for the American embassy in Santo Domingo was already cabling messages to Washington reporting the reported fears of a Bosch coup. The imaginary threat now real, President Johnson decided to take real action. On 28 April, four days into the revolt, the President ordered 25,000 Marines to the Dominican Republic in order to oversee the evacuation of the 5,000 American civilians living there. At the urging of our Ambassador there, we supplied equipment to bolster the Wessin forces. It didn't take long for the rebel forces to be defeated and the only question remaining was what sort of hand the United States was going to have in the formation of a new government. President Johnson stated he didn't wah~ to take sides, that the events in the Dominican Republic were an internal dispute. Still Wessin would not surrender his forces to a government that might not be in line with something the Americans desired. The following weeks saw th Johnson team groping for a new Dominican pre ident, one who, it was hoped, ould abide by the Bosch constitution of 1963. ohn on and his advisor t arious t' pported four lead r in n qual number of months. Although hey want d a Bosch-type government, Bo ch could not be considered becaus the early rumors of his infectio the Communists. The effect of th nson group playing doctor to wounded Santo Domingo was a series of "political and diplomatic abortions." Finally all parties were able to agree on the former Foreign Minister of the old Bosch regime, Garcia Godoy. Installed as the provisional President, Godoy quickly ran into conflict with General Wessin. However, by September of that year General Wessin no l~nger was t~e American hero: helpful in propagating the stories that the Communists were taking over the Dominican Republic on April 24th, his criticism now refl7cted the proclamations of the John Birch society. Now an embarrassment, Wessin was persuaded to accept a position in the Dominican Consul in Miami, Florida. The Dominican Revolt is an account of the events that took place over a couple of days on an island in the Caribbean fifteen years ago . Most of us would not care to know what happened. Theodore Draper knows the value of a case study, however, and how by looking closely at one event we can learn many things. It has been twelve years since Draper published his study; time has turned it into a history. I have tried here to give a very rough outline of ~ of what he says and to have shown the sense of confusion our foreign policy often displays. DAVID STARR'S LECTURE ON PARMENIDES ABOUT NATURE Review by Abe Schoener The first sign that this would be a very notable lecturewas that Mr Zeiderman arrived on time, notwithstanding the fact that there was a basketball game on television that night. The second sign appeared several minutes into the talk, when Mr Starr equated Dike, the goddess who guards the gates of Night and Day and who seems to give passage to and to greet Parmenides, with Anagke, Fate, Persephone, Venus and a certain equinoctial goddess. The relations, as I no doubt erroneously perceived them, can be represented thus: DIKE = ANAGKE If PERSEPHONE = MOIRA II EQUINOCTIAL GODDESS VENUS It is especially to be noted that not all of these goddeses are Greek. This is explainable because their home is in the eternal (beyond night and day) , where a ·man could easily meet goddesses who are not even worshipped yet. I found this linking of seemingly disparate goddeses very perplexing at the start. However, as Mr Starr proposed such conclusions from the fragments as: "'The thinker and what he thinks are identical' is the result of 'knowing and being are the sam ,'" "Nescience and annihilation are the same," "The act and the end of the thought are the same," and "It is erroneous to separate man and woman nd group one under Good and another under Evil," �l 6 ~I~s~o~o~n~f~o~r~g~o~t~m~y~~p~r~e~v;i~o;u~s:=;c;o;n;f~u~s~i~·o~n~~i~n~====~======:::=::=::==:=::=::=:=::::==:=:==:=::~~:Z:::;::::JE!il.,~1111111 the midst of these trenchant enunciations. I think they all may by understood, to some extent, when seen to flow from Parmenides' freguent propositions that "being and knowing are the same." That is, all of them except the last; I just don't know why, on the one hand, Man isn't on the side of Good, Light and Equality; and,. on the other hand, woman isn't on the side of Evil, Dark and Inequality. That being is the same as knowing has always escaped my comprehension, and thus vexed me. Mr Starr relieved that vexation by finally showing a way to understand them as one. That way, as I understand he proposes Parmenides to expound, is to see being and thinking as an activity of unification. Impossible to ignore at this point is the use of the verb "to be" as a copula - a joiner, and eventually, a unifier. We may see now how the end of thought is to see things as one, that is, to perceive their unity, their being. Mr Starr pointed out that thought, especially in discourse, uses absolutely disparate things to work to their unity: namely words. uverbal formulations," exist to differentiate, keep separate and single out - except when they are joined, synthesized. When their synthesis is effected, disparate objects are unified, notwithstanding their verbally posited difference. Free agent of their synthesis is the copula "to be." There we see how thought unifies, and thus mimics being. When we see their conjoining of the seemingly disparate as the essential function of thought, we begin to see a very interesting relation between the goddesses. Their relation is startlingly clarified by our new understanding of thought. First Mr Starr noted how Eros (possibly a pseudonym for the earlier Venus) perpetually draws the different sexes into unity. Then he rapidly outlined how all the other goddesses are also intimately involved with constraining different and opposed things (things which at least may seem so to us) to act as a unity. This common feature, in fact, is enough to make us see them as one goddess. This relieved my initial perplexity and should put o rest silly debates about just how many goddesses Parmenides encounters in this dark house. In any case, the guides to Parmenides' thought are unified like thought. ' This final emphasis of the oneness of being and thought being in unifying pleased me so much that I heard not another word until I found Mr Starr saying that the science of ontology, the Greek habit of "saving the appearances," and the European philosophic tradition all stemmed from beautiful nonsense. That statement, of course, was the third sign that this was a very notable lecture. niIS WEEKS SCHEDULE: Softball: Wed. Har. 26-4:00 Hustlers-Spartans Thu. Mar. 27-2:30 Greenwaves-Druids Sat. Mar. 29-1:30 Guardians-Spartans 3:00 Hustlers-Druids Hon. Mar. 31-4:00 Spartan5-Druids W d. Apr. 2 -4:00 Gr enwaves-Hustlers Sports WOMEN'S by Beth Gordon Thurs 20 March ... Nymphs-20, Amazons-12 In very unsoftball-°like weather the Nymphs withstood several onslaughts by the Amazons, maintaining a close score throughout the game. With two beautiful double plays by Miss Hillstrom (one being unassisted) , and a few caught flies near second base, the Nymphs started overcoming the Amazons. The Blue pitcher wasn't doing so well: she walked too many of the Nymphs. Hence, the Nymphs pulled ahead, and finally won the first softball game of the season. Fri 21 March ••. Maenads vs Furies Postponed until Monday, 24 March, at 4:00 pm because of inclement weather. Want a good job next year? For pay? We will need a replacement for Miss Gordon. This person ought to be a female ••• a good organizer, who is well liked, respected, and loves athletics, and who can make split second decisions authoritatively. She must be absolutely dependable, must write interesting articles each week for The Gadfly ••• and always meet their deadlines. If interested, please contact me(Mr. J.). MEN'S by Bryce Jacobsen SOFTBALL Mar. 19 ••• Greenwaves-10, Spartans-9. THE WAVES ARE LEADING THE SOFTBALL LEAGUE! Sounds ex· citing, doesn't it? How did they do it? With two big 5-run outbursts. In the second inning, it was Middlebrook, Cresswell, Sullivan, White and Sands who scored. Then in the last inning, trailing by four, it was Schoener, Werner, Macphee, Pugh and Smith. Ten runs ••• ten different scorers. Nice balance there ••• very democratic and egalitarian. The winning run was knocked in by Mr. Duvoisin's triple! Yes, folks, I kid you not ••• Mr. Duvoisin's booming trip le! The Spartans did not do too badly ••• nine runs will win most games. But it was just not in the cards for them. Mr. Ney's screaming line drive should have gone for extra bases, but instead, Stan the Man snagged it with a beautifully timed dive, and That Was All She Wrote. Mar. 20 ••• Hustlers-25, Guardians-8. After one inning, it was 5-2, Hustlers. Each inning after that was more or less like the first. The Hustlers have come up with a new winning pitcher, Mr. Cabral. The Guardians have come up with a new losinR pitcher. Mr. Yamamura. In all fairness to Mr. Yamamura, it should be noted that his fielders had lot of troubl making routin outs, oftentim s failing. A jority of thos 25 runs were utainted". Sometimes, this can be a very tou~h league for pitchers. �d·torials and Commen_~ries--1E YES, W HAVE NO BANANA REPUBLICS Central America is a section of the · stern hemisphere that has been largely ~e ored by the United States for the a last ign . (P twenty years. These countries anam , Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El.Saldor and Guatemala) share geographical ~:atures and climate; general~y they have cool mountainous areas with ho~ coastal lowlands. Ther7 are ~reat differences between them in racia~ composition (ranging f:om a half ~ndi~n and half mixed or white.po?,ulation 7n G~at­ emala to an all-"white population in Costa Rica} and tradition. Honduras has the lowest per capita income, ab~ut $500 per year, while that of Cos~a Ri~a is near $1300. In ~eneral, ~he ~isparity between the conditions of _l ife in rural areas and in urban areas is very great. with the exception of Costa Rica (often called "the Switzerland of Central America") these countries until very recently were governed by r~ght-wing, often military regimes. A relatively small group of rich and powerful people have ruled these countries, for example, the Somoza family in Nicaragua, the thirteen families in El Salvador who have supposedly held power since the tim7 of the ~panish, and Omar Torrijos and his party in Panama. In 1979 I spent close to eight months travelling in these countries. I saw and heard much. I found that the kind of "poverty" one finds in Central America simply does not exist in the United States. The last few years have seen the growth, or in some cases just the beginnings, of their industrial bases. With this is coming a corresponding rise in the urban work force, peasants turned factory workers who are beginning to be aware of what they have and what they do not have. Until recently, the only events that gained much attention in our news media were great natural disasters - the earthquakes in Nicaragua (1972) and Guatamela (1976). In the last two years, we have heard and are hearing more. The focus has moved from Panama and the canal treaties a few years ago to Nicaragua, where revolution and civil war led to Somoza's flight and the victory of the Sandinistas last year and finally today to t~e new . gov rnment in Nicaragua, events in politically unstable El Salvador, and the growing guerilla -movements and general unrest throughout the area. I began my trip with a two month stay in Guatemala. Many of the attitudes I encountered there I later found to be quite common throughout Central America. Most common was a fierce nationalism. Among the poorer and less educated, this attitude bordered on xenophobia towards their Central American neighbors. Among leftists, and even some of the more conservative, thi nationalism was more often than not closely connected with anti-Americanism. A typical situation was this: I would ask fairly straightforward questions about things ranging from the availability of consumer it m to specific government policies or procedur • If my que tions had the light t hint of a comparison to another C ntr 1 Americ n country or th Un t d St t , I wa answ red with empha- tic declarations of the superiority of, say, the Sa vadoreans over the Hondurans, (whether my question concerned political freedom or beer}, or emphatic criticism of the United States. Anything wrong with the government was always so because the government was a puppet of the ~IA or something of that sort. Everything wrong in a country was ultimately because of something connected with the U.S., ac• cording to the leftists. Among the mo~e educated and among the more conservative, this attitude was much less pronounced. There were still many people who would probably prefer living like Americans than anything else - especially among the upper and middle classes - but would never admit it publically. Guatemala, like some of its neighbors, has relatively little freedom of the press, but nothing could hide the terrorism and general unrest throughout the country. In 1979 the newspapers were constantly filled with accounts of assasinations, murders, kidnappings, and incidents reported as accidents that clearly were not. Very few people one year ago appeared disturbed about these things in public. In private, educated and well-to-do (and right wing} people told me when I asked about the left-wing guerilla movement and its strength that things always had been like that in Guatemala. No, it wasn't pleasant, they said, but nothing would really come of it. By mid-March, when the uprising in Nicaragua was turning into full-scale civil war, these people still insisted that nothing like t~at could happen in Guatemala because the Indians (50% of the population) would never take up the left-wing cause. (The Indians in the past have not involved themselves with the politics of the country and are largely ignored.) For a long time I was not really sure who these guerillas were; I was told they were just rural peasants, or left-wing students, or the urban poor. Later on in my trip, a friend I had made took me into his confidence. Carlos, a worker in an urban factory, a soccer referee, was also a guerilla in the "Army of the Poor." I then found that the movement was made up of a surprising collection of students, small farmers, urban factory workers, business owners, professionals and housewives. Together they form a very loose clandestine union. They all seem to believe firmly in the effectiveness of terrorism and violence. ("No voice is heard as clearly as a gun."} The more radical types, those who actually carried out these acts of violence, were loosely connected with other similar groups in .Central America. They want to see the existing government overthrown. Among the members of this group who have thought ahead about the form they want a new government to t ke, the sentiment is antiAmerican, and for some, Marxist-socialist. On thing I found quite striking was that very few could tell me what Marxism, socialism or conununism is, except that the wealth belongs to the people, everything is fair, and land is redistributed. Cuba wa cited a the paradigm of success, although nobody could tell me anything about Cuba except that it' not imperialistic and corrupt like the United States. Although I don't know wh th r I met any ·~ft TN D 0 PAGE -AV �The following repre myself and Brown student I have enjoyed the pleas for many years. He has in the United States. T on March 8, 1980r by Jim Q. We'll start the interview now. So when was the first time you came to the United States? A. The first time ever? Q. Well, how old were you? A. I think I was about thirteen or so, and the first place I went to was either New York or Miami. You know it would make more sense to say Miami, but it would be more, um, more elegant to say New York. Q. So what were your first impressions of this country? A. Well ... Q. Of eourse, you had known many Americans in Panama? A. Many. Q. And gone to school with them? A. In the Canal Zone, and I hated them. I remember the first time I learned English, not learned English, the first time I heard English I cried because it was such an ugly language I thought. And they all 1 had crew cuts and red necks, literally. I found that so really unappealing that I_could not fathom this country, except a country full of ugly people with horrible accents and bald heads. That was my only conception, my first conception, of this country. Look there's Debbie X. She's Jewish. Q. Is she the one on back(of the motorcycle)? A. No, she's the one with the little sweater. Q. Well, is that why you like me then, because I'm so American? A. I wouldn't say that exactly. Q. What would you say? A. (sings Panamanian national anthem) I remember singing that in third grade, no, in kindergarten through the first half of third grade because it was in third grade that I was transferred to the Canal Zone. Actually, it was through third grade. I was starting fourth grade in Panama and then I was transferred to an American school. Q. This is the first time you had heard English? A. No, no, I had heard it when I was younger, probably eight or nine, because I have a cousin, Migui, who is married to an American plumber, the head of the plumbing division in the Canal Zone, George Lopp. I hate them so much. It was to Georgie's, Georgie Jr.'s, party that I went one day to hear Americans talk. I just hated it. My mother had threatened me, or at leastI saw it as a threat, that I would have to go to America, not go to America, but learn English. I could never understand why. That's one thing I hate about, even right now, speaking English: it was taught to me, not in the sense that it was going to help me understand myself better, or anything like that, or that it would have been a good complimentary language to Spanish but, -- are you very 'cold? Q. No. A. The way that I was made to learn English, I felt, forced me to accept this language's superiority, almost, over Spanish. And I really ... Q. I noticed you~ mother speaks English very well. Is that mainly because of business contacts and stuff like that? A. She ~peaks what she would call "business English", which is true. But she even writes "business Spanish", you know: "Querido hijo, como epta.s, yo te incluyo ... ~ But I wouldn"t just say it s business related. She went to a prep school in Jamaica. Q. All girls? A. All girls, of course. There were lots of lesbians. She has alot of lesbian stories about those weird, strange girls. She was only there for a couple of years. She didn't like it very much. You know, so learning English was a traumatic experience for me. Q. Did you have any American friends when you were in third grade, fourth grade, in the Canal Zone and in Panama? I imagine there's a very stronq sort of division between Panamanians and Americans, unless, of course, it comes to American serviceman dating races will meet? business, · (my pare in Panama, a great Even though there at the same time t whatever: not bein Buttering them up? all, you make mone you do have Arneric the Canal Zone. Bu I found their f iel just, oh, really u Q. Of course, I've myself in this cat and negative peopl say that people in but in a certain w of a new land. It sometimes even thi1 America except for in terms of that m or "Dark Passages" That ends up with Bogart tells Laure cafe in Peru, and, in Peru and ten ye they're playing th whole idea that, f the Americans that so much because th want to like about to your brother's want to sit on the to. Q. And I think mentality, a negat country and invent Panamanians, or th one can pay for it one owns the count place to sit, ther that what most peo the political situ and so on and so f that you were frig whatever when you Well, when you men on television that getting shot, in ~ bits of fighting i Because, if .you •• maybe they were co but the streets ax just sort of norma in the streets, wa see these, or you being blown up, 01 cafe, or the place spattered with blc week. I can't sta of that. Then, I avenue and I saw lined up on one and stones on th type, I don't lik Exactly who is t �an 1'nformal interview between . .t -, of Panamanian nati~na 1 i ~· sa id Pan arnanian's friendship . d for the past six years terview was conducted er. n whores. I n vices the ak so but since almost all ~usin~ssmen) , is cond~cted age is do ne with ~ericans .. ome rese ntment a~ai~st Americans, lot of a pple-polishing, e to Ame ricans but .. · Q. ht exac tly. Because after te~er. Q. But getting back, ds there? A. Once I enter t like them particularly. ion opaque, their language , "Like ye ah man, like "'!ow· " 1 1 that, I don't mean tc:> include •nerally t he most stupid ~ expatria tes. You 7an' t lal Zone are expatriates are. A. They're patriots Rhodesia , they could !Vering a ll ties with ilies. Q. I was thinking ;t night(K ing Vidor's "Gilda") you seen that? A. No. Q. ~ sort o f thing. Humphrey ~that t h e y'll meet in a ·se, there 's only one cafe ~r they do me€t there , and 1. or wh atever. But the cans, Latin America, -1 Lati n America like it to. They invent what they go the r e ... A. Are we going r where? Q. Well, do you 1reen? A. Yeah. I'd like ~s a certain sort of rality, to leave your own r country . Of course, the will cat e r to that because Jne starts thinking that that looks like a good enough o f this. I think ld like to hear about is >w tha t the Shah is on Contadora lou me ntioned once before D~ the demonstrations and ~re at Christmastime. A. the piece of documentary the NBC correspondent a, the y also showed little reets. And that's frightening. streQt , they waran't-~well~ to gu erilla-type wa.rf are-unilar in Panama. They're ressed people selling things ound. And you JU.t can't nt to see, these buildings ery fire ruining your favorite you buy your lottery ticket zero- zero plays the next • _r can't stand the sight ving into the central s lined up, and the military the s tudents with sticks A confrontation of that ut of a selfish rea on. Q. of a ll this? If it' not the Shah who is it? Torrijos? A. It's not the Shah. The gove~nment. Q. Exactly what part does Torrijos play in the government right now? He's the head of the army, right? A. Right. He's the head of the country, only not officially. Oh, what would you call it in a corporation? Q. Majority shareholder or something like that? A. Something like that. Somebody who gives consultations but he is also the majority shareholder. The government is just as it always happens if you've read Fanon and other writers of the Third World,-- some underdeveloped countries progress through a structure that seeks liberty (like in 1968 when the government was overthrown by a working class, or whatever; no, not even a working class in Panama, but a lower middle class) but that becomes a perpetuator of the rich class. It even transcends the "nuvuo rich". The military are not nouveau rich, they are just hoarders of money. They have the largest-- Torrijos has large extensive accounts in banks all over. Q. And so it's something like Nicaragua before it changed? A. No, it's not like Nicaragua. Because Somoza was never a "military man". He's always been rich. If he were military, it would be because he'd been trained. He would be one of the elite, as the military commanders are in Argentina or Chile. But Torrijos was a simple lieutenant who would combat guerillas on the border between Costa Rica and Panama. There's a story when Torrijos captured some~ody and they get in a helicopter, and the man had a little gun in his sock and he shoots Torrijos, and Torrijos cries or whatever. (O.K. I am embellishing it.) Q. How did he take over? Why does he have the power that he does now? A. He has the military power and the economic power. Then, not so much as he used to have, he has the social power. People were with him, they did back him, as much as I hate to admit it. Q. Your parents? A. No. My parents could not back him. I belong to another class. He posed a type of threat, in their eyes of communism, but it was just a type of socialism, social reform. They could never have backed that. But when he sirnmered, explained his views, he didn't do more than they had feared,--he's always done more than they could have wished for-- then he was fine. The thing is now that he's stealing money right and left. The country's economy · is is tatters. Nobody is getting contracts for anything, excepting the people that are in government. They get ridiculous things like contracts for putting those flashers in the middle of the road, that gleam down the median. Sure, there is a use for it, but not a use that extends 2,000 miles on those roads in the jungles. Avenida Balboa, which was the boulevard in Panama, was a much frequented spot for people to walk around down at the beach. I could cry now when I see how ugly a city Panama City really is. It's such a defaced, unplanned city. But for me, of course, that is just a luxury. I admit that there are priorities besides urban structuring. That's my main complaint about Panama. I don't complain about food, even though food is quite expensive. My complaint is just that, if you have all that money, why don't you use it just to make things pretty. Somebody else might say, Why don't you use it to feed us?" Q. Feed who? A. The poor people. Q. What sort of middle class is there in Panama? A. We're working on it. �m·l()_i---------~-----------' YES, WE HAVE NO BANANA REPUBLICS Cuban "advisors," there is evidence to support the b lief that they are moving among terrorist groups throughout the region. These groups claim to be popular and Nationalistic, but I wa told many times of the moral, financial, and military upport available from Cuba and guerilla movements in other countries. I was also told that they get most of the money for their activites from extortion and kidnapping. Through my contact with people such as Carlos I also became aware that they were not the only terrorists. In Guatemala especially (and in the other countries as well) there are right-wing groups beleved to be supported by the government. The right-wing terrorists are responsible for at least half, if not more, of the terrorism, according to rebel (that is, left-wing) groups. The right-wing groups the White Hand and the Eye for Eye - are believed to be responsible for more than four thousand mysterious · deaths and disappearances in the last two years alone. In mid-May, I visited Nicaragua briefly. At this point there seemed to be no middle ground. One was either in Somoza's Army (or one's brother or husband was) or one supported the Sandinistas, at least in private. Those were the people who were sticking it out in Nicaragua. There was another group, however: those who were leaving. It seemed as though anybody who could afford to and was not actively involved in the fight was leaving. Two years ago, Nicaragua was a nation of about 2.5 million. By the end of July (after Somoza had fled) , newspapers in neighboring countrie were reporting that up to five hundred thousand Nicaraguans had left. The richest fled to the U.S., but many more went to neighboring Latin American countries. Hondurans claimed to have over fifty thousand. I do . not know if these figures are true, but I do know that I met many more Nicaraguans outside the country than inside it. For the most part, they were not planning to return, at least not for quite a while. Although nobody approved of Somoza, nobody knew what form the new government would take. If there would be socialism or something else that would not coexist with capitalism, they were not going back. Needless to say, those' who could afford to get out were for the most part from the middle and upper classes. Guerillas I spoke with back in Guatemala aft r Somoza had fled and the Sandinistas declared victory said they, too, had gone do to fight (in Nicaragua) for some weeks or even a few days. Some went not just to help fight for the common cause, but also to practice. By some accounts, there was a reunion of sorts in Nicaragua during the last days of Somoza's regime. Gu rilla from all over Central America and South America supposedly came to fight. Co ta Rica, Panama, Venezuela and Cuba were variou ly accused of aiding, harboring and training r 1 groups. Now no one seem quit ure of the itu tion or what the n w junta i doing, or how the country's cono y will be r constructed. The bigg st ff ct of th r volution on other c untries in Central America has been to ·give new hope and confidence to rebel groups, and new fear to the right. In December I again visited Guatemala. People who before had told me that what happened in Nicaragua could happen in their country, but not for twenty years, were now saying two years, five on the outside. Money is leaving the country. In expensive suburbs, houses are privately for sale for much less than they cost to build. In general, people acknowledge the inevitability of something. There is a somewhat more united rebel front now, and there appears to be a slight move away from violence on the part of its constituent groups. In the last few months guerillas have taken to "capturing" their objectives and goals, inviting people to join them, and then racing away from the scene before the army arrives. This has happened in over sixty Indian villages. The rebels often leave behind cassette recordings in the local dialect. (Many Guatemalan Indians do not speak Spanish) . Unrest is growing to new p~oportions, and the rebels speak more confidently. "It will be worth all our funerals, all our wounds .... Someday, like the Sandinistas , we too will have victory." COVY.ENT ARY m~ A REVIEW This letter is about Mr. Guaspari's review of M Veatch's lecture in the February 27 issue of The Gadfly. His review speaks, first, about Mr. Veatc primary contentions: that logic is about discour s not about "things." Second, it addresses Mr . Veat polemic against modern logic. Mr. Guaspari says about the first contention t it left him"confused about the array of Aristote metaphysical, psychological, and epistemological gage which Mr. Veatch requires the logicians to in tow and how those requirements are to be made sistent with the stipulation that logic is not a the world." Mr. Guaspari says about the second that, assum i he has represented it correctly, he can assume t Mr. Veatch's.contention is true, i.e., that modei logic has a "false view of the subject-predicate F positions because it asserts that (the referent G the subject is merely related to (that property is the referent of) the predicate." He says, howe that Mr. Veatch's polemic is nonetheless me ely other way to say 'Hurray for Aristotle.'" For, s a Mr. Guaspari, the "inquiry (I think he means Mr. Veatch's and Aristotle's inquiry into logic) ... i• conducted so as to make sense only in Aristoteli terms, and these are just the terms that can't b taken for granted." Mr. Guaspari tries to express this judgment "i1 another way." Mr. Veatch, he says, has "gone ab~ things backwards." "A theory of logic," says Mr. Guaspari, "is an account of a certain phenomenon the phenomenon that propositions (which through ~ meanings refer to the world) can be verified ind rectly (without looking at the world) through in ence." This account is "responsible to the pheno non, not to particular metaphysical presuppositi This account is also of "the reasonings of mathe ics and science." Mr. Veatch, Mr. Guaspari impl' is not giving such an account in his inquiry. H rather, giving an account which "is responsible particular (Aristotelian?) presuppositions. And this account has the added disability that it " able to account for ••• the r asonings of mathem and cience." L t m say a word about Mr. Gua pari' �wledged confusion and about Mr. Veatch's alleged~ no re trogressive or circular inquiry. More word~ · ~ll follow, I expect, if Mr. Guaspari should cement on these· · . Mr. Guaspari is confused about how ~ogic can ~oth t be "about the world" and yet be tied to an ar~y o f Aristotelian me~aphysic~l, ~sychological, and istemological ... requirements which (presumably) ~ve a great deal to do with th7 w~rld. -r:ny brief nswe r to this apparent contradiction evidently needs a good deal of elaboration. However, Mr. Veatch spoke bit a bout the shape of an answer in the question aeriod when he spoke about the "concept" (his word) as a " formal sign." He meant by this that the "thoug ht" we have about a thing is a "sign" of that thing when we think it; and that.this sign ~s unl~ke all other signs. For all other signs there is a distinct ion between the sign and that of which it is the s ign. Not so the "formal sign." Between it and that of which it is the sign there is no distinction. They a re the same except that the first is entirely of 1 or about, the second. On some such notion could be bas ed the claim that logic is not "about the world" while yet it is profoundly related (because of the identity of its object with "things") to all that is knowable "in the world." Let me also say a word about Mr. Veatch's progressing "backwards." He is allegedly responsible to "particular metaphysical presuppositions" rather than to the "phenomenon" of the indirect verifiability of propos itions. That is not quite so. Aristotle talks in the Organon, and in his other works as well, as if he were responsible to the human experience of ordinary speaking and making of inferences in connect ion with inquiry. His "array of ... baggage" is a vocabu lary that Aristotle partly finds ready to hand, partly refashions, and partly invents for the sake of ill uminating and explaining that ordinary discourse . Aristotle wants to know, for example, how it is tha t (Mr. Veatch's)is a "fruitless inquiry because it is conducted so as to make sense only in Aristotelian terms, and these are just the terms that can't be taken for granted." What is the relation between the cause in fact (or in the world) i.e., Mr. Veatch 's conduct of the inquiry, and the cause in words, i.e., "because it is conducted ... "? "Because," after a ll, means "by-cause." Men draw conclusions about t hings every day in the market place. What makes i t possible for them to do so? And to what must they pay attention if they are to do so well and accurate ly? Aristotle investigates those questions. Mr . Guaspari claims that there is a "theory of logi c" t a t i "an account of a certain ... phenomenon: propositions ... can be verified ... indirectly through inference." That is no doubt so, but Mr. Guaspari should tell us first, in what sense a proposit ion or an act of inference are "phenomena"; and, in the second place, what is the very ground of ·inferenc e itself. What makes inference possible? What makes it possible for one statement to "follow from" others ? I argued several years ago that it was necessary ~or a t hinker to assume the truth of propositions in order to have other propositions follow "logi-cally " from them. I also argued that to assume the ~ of a proposition was to assume the being of what was said in it. This was because to predicate of a p roposition that it was true was redundant. To predicate "true" of a proposition, I maintained, adds nothi ng to it except the speaker's emphasis. Similarly , to predicate "not-true" or "false" of one is rne r 7 1¥ to assert emphatically the contradictory proposi tion. To say that "'Socrates sits' is true" is to say nothing more than "Socrates sits." To say that "'Socrate its' is false", is to . say nothing more th n 'Socrates does not sit." I still think I ~ r igh~ in saying these things. But if that is true 1 • ., f that i o), then logic depends on truth. And some arr y of metaphysical, psychological, and epistemol g~c 1 baggage," enough to ground a theory of truth, impedimenta that Mr. Guaspari wants the logician to be able ~o throw over the rail with a clear conscience, will all appear unceremoniously on his doorstep and demand recognition and entrance. Thinking and being cannot be separa~ed. Ever. That's why we have a college. And that's why Mr. Veatch, despite his modest disclaimer, may have to be called a logician and why Mr. Guaspari, despite a modest claim to be a "mere" logician, may have to renounce even that. Sincerely yours, Edward G. Sparrow Tutor Letters, TO THE EDITOR: It was with no uncertain amount of amusement that I read Chip Melli's letter in a recent issue of THE GADFLY concerning Mr. Hongsermeier's letter of endorsement.* Mr. Melli asserts that "Mr. Hongserrneier' s campaign leaflet amounts to nothing more than an unsubstantiated personal attack on his opponent (Mr. Van Doren)." My, Mr. Melli, . what remarkable interpretive skills you have! You would have been of incalculable value in the reading of Delphic oracles. The text of the endorsement contains no "personal attack" on Mr. Van Doren. It merely raises (or, I should say "reraises," for the topic has surfaced before) the issue of an alienated or apathetic polity due to personally overambitious polity officers or candidates. This issue extends far beyond St. John's College, pervading political stages of all shapes and sizes. Having what might be euphemistically termed a consulting role in the composition of Mr. Hongsermeier's endorsement, I am compelled to respond to Mr. · Melli's letter. If, as he suggests, Mr. Van Doren is owed an apology, he most certainly has one. What is more, I congratulate Mr. Van Doren upon his victory. The polity has spoken and their new secretary will undoubtedly serve their interests above his own. As for Mr. Melli's proposal that I give "an apology •.. to the voters whose intelligence is insulted," that responsibility, I am afraid, belongs to none other than Mr. Melli himself. Does he really believe that we, the voters, are so easily misled by such outlandish accusations of slander? Finally, in reference to Mr. Melli's labeling of Mssrs. Tripp, Giordano, and Hartzell, and myself as "moronic buffoons," I say ••. Moronic buffons unite! Robert M. Ewing *-4 ~ o~ ~c.. ~dor~~m~n-+ Cd~ \>c.. ~l.)n.l 6" P9. '"2. �-·~2~·~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--~ 26 F b 1980 DITOR: I am an alumnus ('53) interested in evrythinq including, of course, a continuing cone rn with SJC. My attitude ~oward th colleg is not blindly upportive, but is r ther like that of the man who complained that the crap game he was in was crook d but explained that he still played in it because it was the only one in town. During my time as a student I felt SJC offered principally two things: the great books and community of learning. As for the "great" books, I feel, with Woody Allen, that a bit more humility is called for and on ought rather to speak of the good books. It seems to m that, in that department, SJC has ossified and, as a result, has created a world of selfserving scholars who, like an orderly herd of elephants, hang onto one another's tails (words) and traipse around an endless circle, looking neither left nor right. But that isn't what I want to holler about here. Let me briefly say what the community of learning was as I experienced it. I~ meant everyone knowing everyone on a first name basis (though even two people on a sailboat would lapse into Mr, Miss and Mrs when appropriate to the conversation) , the almost total commingling of tutors and students in every aspect of life, and the profound assumption that after doing a reasonable amount of "ditch-digging" work at your desk, your main mission was to reach out to anyone available for the purpose of learning or teaching anyt~ing from guitar playing to Nietzche. This did not include overweening introspectipn, or endless commiseration or sheer escapism. Of course, some hours (only a few) were expended each week in such activities. Everyone needed om tim to sweat in iolation at the gym or study Middle Engli h on Tuesday night or get drunk (after the party was over) ~n.saturda~ nigh~. But such insular, elitist and isolationist activities were not, it seems to me, the rule in the 'community of learning'. The farthest-out nonsense conversation I can recall having was one with Bert Thoms at a polka and beer party in which w explored the nic ties of stablishing a belly-button lint pillow factory; even so, w pursued the art of conversation well that night. Is there a community of learning at SJC now? In the past two and one-half years I have made it a point to hire students and spend some time on campus in an attempt to become familiar with what is going on. It is hardly a scientific study but, in sum, I am appalled. There is no community of learning. Tutors and students are severely separated, as are seniors and freshmen, quiet p ople .and noisy people, people sleeping together each from anyone else, people who want to pursu the legitimate are of light-hearted, airy conv ration and thos who worship 'punk', and likewi e any who pursue sports, social grac s or art temperat ly from those for whom sport , sociability and the socall d er ativ art are the be-all and nd-all. But wor t of y to be th I"' •• !1,' a that if you attend every cla s nd t ev ry deadline at this great books college, at the end of four years you will be awarded a diploma and be liberally educated. Bullshit; you gotta live it. Some nihilists are passive; they talk so little, so low and so vaguely (even in seminars and classes, I'm told) that you finally give up saying "Huh?" and leave them be. I guess you might say they are more to be pitied than censured. . . . I suppose if I have any beef, it is with the active nihilists. In spite of the fact that they are strict conformists to the national media norm (I've seen more diversity in dress, opinion and behavior in Navy boot camps), they make their.presence very well known to anyone who intrudes on what they call their "space." Cases in point: 1) Last spring at Reality a group produced apparently purposeful noise from an outdoor assemblage of electronic instruments intended to make music while one of the few college officials in attendance apprissed some attending ·alumni parents that their 14-year-old daughter was drawing pitchers of beer from the truck over the besmirched, besotted and bleeding bodies of two ragged students lying in the muck. - All on a nice sunny afternoon. - 2) Later, in an elegant auditorium, there was a punk movie with marvelous cinematography and excellent music which carried a destructive message along with homespun slides and commentary which drew only a bit of painful and strained response from the audience (which audience, by means of established tradition, already excluded 99% of the sur-. rounding community) . 3) The fall alumni beer bust for alumni and seniors was ruined after a half-hour by some students' introduction of a mind-blasting noise level hi-f i set and the turning off of lights in the basement party room, which promptly drove all alumni and some students out into the rain, where they promptly departed. What is to be done if my observations are valid? Most students are supposed to be adults and cannot rightly leave it to parents, faculty and administration to _ solve the problem of regenerating a community of learning or anything else. Since it takes only 5 to 15% of any popul tio to creat anarchy, it follows that it's going to take a lot of effort.to annihilate the nihilist effort. Is it worth a try? F. Warhurst To the Student Polity: All too often at St. John's we have seen Polity positions sought by those who desire those off ices primarily for purposes of their own personal advancement. It is in the interest of abolishing this unfortunate practice that we welcome the candidacy of Troy Von Hongsermeier for the office of Polity Secretary. Mr. Hongsermeier seeks no gold stars; he wants only to s rve the needs of the students. Troy will serve th students' needs by keeping them informed of the DC' proceedings in a mann r befitting th Council's dignity. �spon 50\e:_d, 'o'-1 ~~ Giadfl~ \) ~O<~\Cln~ Inn \)\nnu tor-\wo - wcw--\h S 5 O 2) latn~<Lttl. ~·mntr .\of"Two- w/out qrn:tu\t1 i) 'Iohf\S()ris bi\-tt Ctch~ca\-e. - ~th 1'20 4) \ ~ .ll\)~ Bo\\\\\(ln \Noo\ \\o} - II rt ..-...... . 5) '?<Ly\)'_r-'.5 6\\~t (irt\~\udL - wonh lf>lO .. . -~) Mnnn<\. \), -=t.~O. - \ \C\- \)'2~ \J.l/ +~o ·h>fp'~~ - woci"h-11-:t-S 1-) Ar(\o\~s - Two l.4.-f'h~caks \) .l\,d,~\('.Jfn<l.f\~ .lla.V"\1.0 - wo~lfG, i.YTwo '&iro..~ Sph-ts - wort-h 3.(JJ . ·~$os~h~h u~ I'i\~r~~rls-Tn~h Co-Wee. .Uj-woi\\{L{. q) \h"c~ o.nJ Sons tn\rS-h,\\~t-.1 cu-\- - wo~ S".So ·lO) \.\a.rr~ '2,rowne'..s - 2 d<,nk.s .n)lh(_ s~ou Ovb- \ q«-nu,ncz. . \h-e, ca~t \rn\~on °'\Utn\r'\UW\ ~(.<" IY\\Jef . d\°'W\~ W\,\\ b€... n~ .\~ 5A?-z-5"NYJCn ~\~ 'n-t.\~ A l'n \ 5-t""' Jc\a,h +() b<. P.""i-t.d ~ta. \attr do..+e. ct.--\- ~ fAR.\J'. Cos-\- per +,<-\'.:..e.+ ~c rrc\:~~te- '~ .a'· cm ~\nne__r-s mu~+ be. V>'e~e.n+ ~+ +h~ d..ro.~il UJ\°l+\ +"-~ ~~~~~ �Sine Constitution Revision Committe hairman (and Polity Secretary) Dan Van Doren was ill, John Hiner pre ented the Committee's draft of the new Student 20 March 1980 Polity Con titution to the DC. Hiner started by describing th Comubmitted by Martin Miller mittee's process of pu.Dlic meetings and Attending: Mr Sparrow, Mr Elzy, Mr Schmidt, Miller, private interviews with tudents to reRoach, Fuller, Betor, Cummins search the students' opinion of their government. Visiting: Coss, White, Edelman "The major result of our work," Hiner Mr Elzey introduced the new Administrative announced, "is that the credibility of Assistant, Mr Schmidt. the student government, if it exists at He then gave us some bad news: Someone has been all, i at a low ebb. But in spite of using slugs to obtain tickets dispensed from the skepticism, there is a legitimate and coin machines in the washing machine room. Since compelling need to have a student governthe school can not afford to pay for washing our ment.• clothe , they have warned us that the ticket disHe explained that gaps in the structure pensers will be removed if another slug is found. of the College Polity as a whole are left That will mean everyone will have to buy laundry for the students to fill. Hiner said that tickets from the Business Office (10 at a time) • the student government does for students Mr Elzey then gav_ u some good and bad news: what the college as an institution can't There will be con truction and repairs made do, and that it provides for social interaround the campus during the spring. New smoke action among students. detectors will be installed and tied into the Hiner detailed the reasons for the low alarm system. This will mean workers in the dorms ebb of credibility of the student governmaking extra noise. (They usually start work at ment. The first reason is that the major7:30 m, so "early to bed, early to rise~) Paceity of the student government is "unjustCarroll will be renovated starting this summer ly blamed for inactivity," even if only and continuing through next year. Randall will one or two people are to blame. The remedy start being enlarged next fall. Hiner suggested was a more energetic stuMr Sparrow would like students to comment on dent President. the proposed calendar for next year. If you are Hiner said that credibility also suffers interested see Martin Miller; he has a copy of because "the forms of litigation are preit. tentious ·in a farcical way" because no power is vested in the Polity Court or DC to enforce their de~isions. 19 March 1980 DC Report "This i a good thing, because the solution is a sober realization that no powby Scott c. Boyd er i vested in the Court or Council," rtin Miller ran his first meeting as Hin'"""r remarked. He added that punitive Polity Pr sident. All officers except Dan power isn't appropriate, but that litigaVan Doren (ill) and all delegates (except tion and negotiation are. the one from East Pinkney, which has The third reason Hin r cited for lack neither a regular or alt rnate delegate of credibility in th student government now) w re present. was "instability in the procedures of the Miller opened the meeting by explainstudent government Constitution," which ing his new system of procedure for the Hiner said was re-written an average of meeting, which he hopes will avoid the every four years. Also cited were Polity unweiliness of parliamentary procedure. Court procedures, which change from trial A Polity Attorney must be appointed by to trial. Miller, and he invited anyone wishing the The remedy is a Constitution having "a post to contact him b fore March 25. strong structure to weather changes," James Preston owes the DC $50 for some Hiner said. He added that the Committee tlamaged stereo equipment. This was to be tried to make the new Constitution readpaid by March 6th. able and clear. "I think he had more than ample time The new Constitution has things arranged to pay it," commented Marion Betor. "We in a formula, Hiner explained, and he said ne d a firm deadlin . He's already had that the mechanics of any operation or on firm deadline." problem are covered. Miller aid Preston told hem before "We know this document can deal with spring vacation that h 'd pay his debt everything the former one did," Hiner imm diately after v cation. Miller added stated, "and we are confident that it can that next week his new Polity Attorney deal with more." could handle it. Some major features of the new ConstiTr asurer Joe Roach volunteered to try tution are: and get the $50 from Preston by next week. 1. The office of President will be reMiller announced that there had been placed by a DC chairman, to be elected complaints ·from residents of Paca-Carroll by the DC. and Campbell about the recent dorm elec2. A five-level hierarchy of steps to tion• which made Frank St. Amour (Paceresolve conflict : Carroll) nd David Stein and Leslie Smith a. Private negotiation between the (Campbell) dorm delegate • individuals in conflict Ms r St. Amour nd Stein didn't reb. Informal m di tion by the Dorm pond, but Mis Smith said, "I'm aware 1 gate of the p ople [complaining]. Linda Mahler c. Official m di tion by th Polity talk d to me and was ups t that only David Attorney and I ran and w r 1 ct d." d. Official DC MEETING WITH THE ADMINISTRATION �5 Court 3. 1 ct d twic y ar, in t d of one y ar. 4. Official Stud nt Polity archiv are to b institut • 5. Stud nt Polity officials or th ir policies can b quickly chall g 6. Po er ill r id in the DC 7. Th Polity Court will b given more pri cy and di cration Th DC will di cus th proposed Constitution at its n xt m eting, try to mak copi availabl and rrang for public m tings to di cu s th matt r. 0 IOLE BASEBALL TICKETS The A sistant Deans' Office has student di count cards for purchasing tick ts to th Baltimor Oriole's home ba eball games thi eason. To purcha e thes discount tickets you will have to pre ent your discount card and College ID at Memorial St dium' Gate E- 6 on the d y or night of th gam only, a n hour and a half b for gam t ' e. No tud nt tick t will be v ilabl in advance. For mo t 1980 Oriole hom games, you can purch th upper re rv d eats for $2.25, $1.75 savings. Stud nt will hav th opportunity to purcha e di count tick ts for th Op ning Day Game, Tue day, April 15. Th O's fac th a nsas City Royals at 2:00 p.m., and beginni ng an hour and a half before game tim , stude nts that present their discount cards at Gate E-6 will receive a general admi ss ion seat for $2.25, a savings of 75¢. This pl a n will be in effect on Opening Day only. Members o f the Freslunan, Sophomore and Junior Classes nouncements THE POLITICAL RUM Th St .John' to pr nt as p ak r A. Sanjuan, r id nt fellow and Dir of th H spheric C nter t th rican Ent rpri e In titut for Public Policy Res arch. H will peak on Tu day v ninq, rch 25, at 7:30 pm in th Gr at Hall. Mr S njuan' pr s ntation, •Am rica' Involv m nt in L tin Am rica•, will be about thirty minute long, followed by an open qu tion p riod. ngst Mr Sanjuan' xt nsiv cred ntials ar : detailed from Arm Control and Di armam nt agency to work on th Panama Canal Treati ; a BA from Wofford College; from Harvard Univ rsity, the A.H. R qional Program on th Soviet Union, M.; nd h ha contribut d to n rous anthropology journal , national revi ws, conomic journals and anthologies. Mr Sanjuan has al o r ceived a vari ty of award for his servic including: The Sup rior Honor Award, o partm nt of Stat , 1965; Outstanding P rforma.nc ward, D par nt of D f nee, 1972; d the ACDA M ritorious Award, 1977. Th rem k of Mr Sanjuan ar sure to h d light on an ar a little known to mo t Am rican ; citizen of this country, Unit d Statian , that is. Everyone intert d hould plan to attend. Re pectfully sul:xnitted by the St Johns Political Forum ANNOUNCEMENTS TO ALL SENIORS: Measurements for cap and gowns will be taken in the bookstore April 1st through llth,please make sure that you come in to be fitted during these dates. Ladies and Gentlemen, The Re gistrar's Office is now composing the lists of students who will be registering as Sophomore s, Juniors, and Seniors next fall. The lists will be composed of students who have confirmed their intention to return ·by depositing $100 in the Treasurer's Office before Apri l 7, except for January Freslunen, for whom the date will be in the middle of July. If you want to return next year, accordingly, please make the appropriate arrangements with the Treasurer before April 7. The Treasurer will refund the deposit in =ase o f ithdrawal due to ill health, academ!c dis ·ssal, or failure to enable. It will ot be c rried over in case you decide not to nroll next year but to return the year after. 0 Sincerely yours, Nancy Winter , Registrar PHYSICS LAB ASSISTANTS JOBS Those students who would like to pply for positions as Physics Laboratory Assistants next term (1980-81) should please drop in to Mellon 112 between 8 and 4 any day and get on my list. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 01 #10 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/b5d24647199c4b807ae6e724efc8bb9a.pdf be5eeb07d66a0ffde1aeeb9641c58744 PDF Text Text THE VOL.1 ISSUE 11 THE ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CAMPAIGN '80 COMES TO by Scott c. The 1980 presidential race will come to Maryland May 13, when the Democratic and Re~ publican parties hold state-wide primaries. ai Only voters registered in the Denncratic or Republican Party can vote in their party's 1 ~·' primary. Maryland voters registered as independent or affiliated with a minor party cannot participate in the primary. The deadline for changing party affiliation was January 14. No cross-over voting is allowed, either. That means Republicans can't vote in the Denncratic p rimary and vice versa. The primary serves a dual purpose: it shows which candidate the majority of each party prefers, and apportions delegates to t heir national conventions on the basis of the popular preference vote. Each convention nominate a presidential candidate for the November 4 general election. Each party selects its delegates differently, but both use the eight Maryland Congressional districts as basic units. The Dem:>cratic Party has 59 del gates. Five delegates will be state party officials, 13 a re chosen directly by the Democratic State Central Committee, and the remaining 41 are distributed atoong the eight Congressional districts. . Maryland Democrats will vote for Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy or Jerry Brown. They can also vote as uncomitted. Each candidate or uncomitted is e n t i t led to the same percentage of a Congressional district's delegates that he receives in its popul~ vote. On ~e 7 each Congressional district will hold an open caucua to choose which people I" 2 APR 1980 MARYLAND Boyd will fill the positions of delegates pledged to the different candidat_ es. The . Republicans have 30 delegates available. Six will be chosen by the Republican State Central Commit tee and the remaining 24 are equally divided airx>ng the eight Congressional districts. Maryland Republicans will vote for Ronald Reagan, John Anderson, George Bush or Phil Crane. They can also vote as uncomitted. At a separate place on the ballot they will also · vote for delegates to the national convention. 1 The delegate candidates usually indicate on the ballot who they prefer as presidential candidate. The winner of the popular vote in each district will get the three delegates chosen by that district's voters, even if some of the delegates preferred another c~didate. The winner of the popular vote state-wide will get the six delegates chosen by the Central Committee. To vote in the May 13 Maryland primary you must be 18 by Nov. 4, 1980, be a state resident when you register, and register as a Democrat or Republican in order to vote in that Party's primary. Maryland voters needing absentee ballots must send in an application to the Board of Supervisors of Elections in their county by May 6. Anne Arundel County residents c an get ·· registration application forms at any county public library and mail or return them to the r. elections office in the Arundel Center, at the corner of Calvert and Northwest Streets in Annapolis. 1 �Commentaries NARKOTIC HAZE 18th GODDARD MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM Theme-Commercial Operation• in Space 1980-2000 -by Dan Fuller "Duh,uh •.. is he talking about me?" --Johnny Moron Is there a sense of unity that allows and promotes, at SJC, the sort of discussion that leads to deeper understanding of ourselves and our world a sense of unity that is called a community of lea ing? Since I came here for that sort of discu sio ince I was promised rational discourse, {and not disinterested, dispassionate, "light and airy" sm talk) I •ho.uld c rtainly hope so. It has been sugg ted (in a letter to th edit published in last w ek' p p r, written by on of our distingui hed alumn e) that our community is being threatened by nihilism and polarization of intere ts. Since mere difference of interest can only enrich th college, it seems to me, the Auth of said letter must mean extreme or dogmatic polar zation of interests. Of course, dogmati m i the anathema of rational di cussion, and cannot be tol ated. Thu ,I b lieve s id Author's position reduc to his seeing thi a-called nihili m as a threat the community, as ymptanised by "wor hip of 'punk and the playing of loud mu ic. At fir t glance this seem d to me a laugh idea. Then I recall d th atmosphere t this during Spring of '78, after "punk" rock hit. It's fact, and a strang one at that, that young p opl n d th ir loud dance mu ic o much that they are willing to exchange h at d rh toric and ev n thr of violenc ov r whether said loudnes hould be repetitive thumping or nerv -jangling wrenching. This ha cert inly made partie a weird cene, bu I have h rd tim seeing that a a problem for t community of 1 r ning . It s emed to m th t id Author was sugg ti ng th t rational di cour at cocktail partie , which run contrary to perience--the most ati fying thing I've ver at a cockt il party i th sound of omeon ' shattering on th floor. P rh p I int rpolat but I also det cted a styl of or lizing who sage read : cut your hair, don Pr::IUJP.Y t09s, c t the mix-and-mingl {and don't g t toned fir t), stand th r with a drink in your hand ~nd b nt r your tutor about b lly-button lint. Becau th m ag said quite explicitly that my w y of life is thre t-- a-call d "activ nihili m." I'm o tickl by th id of th now p affect tion threat that I'm afraid I'm going td clarify and expound on it. I ho my fellow tud will forqiv , but I think it might help tutor alumna , and p rents from making th am up rf ic judgem nts that said Author mad --which, to b fai i only to b xp ct d from an out ide ob erv r fr another gen ration. There ar no "nihili ts• at the Colleg , and th ar n't even any "punk rock r .• The true punk band th Clash, Jam, t.al., recorded their mom ntous a bums-i:n-T97r:--and although I'm told ther is uch thing as a "punk rocker• to be found walking the streets of NYC, this isn't the case here. White middl cla s colleg students can't really pull ot being "punks.• But it is true that I have sp nt mc1 of my life having my mind split open (not just my e rdrums) by loud music, and like many others, I' kind of w rped by it. I experience deep inner exa tation playing electric guitar so that it sounds it will break (and occa•ionally does). I was nev very good at team sports, so I play intramural ro and roll, so to speak. I'm proud to say I was a ber of the avant-garde R and B band here, called "Spartans.• Said Author heard la•t year's Reality Jam. A•ide from my dedication to the •so-called c By H.H. Hammel �ve art • (they're a "be-all and end-all" for admit it) I adopt what I'll refer to a the ~ kedaimoni n life-style. Lakedaimon was the capital ~ th Spart n --our word "laconic" comes from the 1 rse habit of speaking of the classic Spartans. ~ 11Nm an •spirit," ~nd L~ke is relate~ to the ~.,." .., , whos meaning include: to ring, rattle, ~ash crack, ahriek, cream, howl, bay, hout, cry 1 u tlo~d, sing, and {in th. New T stament) bur t asunr. In s hort, all th thi~g I love to do--none of sil nc of nihil, nothingness, for me. We someimes ca ll th e activiti s "art-crim ," thos of who ar into th d struction-creation cycle. (If au find thi pretentious, by all mean , laugh at t.) If the" u ic• I play do not live up to that f y •gui t r h ros, • th n n i ther doe my philosophy tand up to Plato' • All that is fair to judge is my ntent, and th d gr e to which I fulfill that inent up to th limit of my admittedly small capaciies. I suppos th re must be something wrong with , that give me this ne d for playing purile games, hese "art-crim ,• but I don't consider myself a hreat-- I wi h I had the power! Like the rest of my enera ti on, I have holes in my soul, and many dang ru toys at my dispo al that in my weakne I am empted to u to fill th s hole , things that eren't around in '53 when s id uthor graduated rom our fair alma m t r, lik 100-watt amplifiers, cid, and ca ual ex. (W re there ev n worn n at the olleqe in '53? No wonder thy t lked about b llyutton lint!) But th thing ar a thr t to indiidu 1 , not th community of 1 rning, de pit what he old mO---liz r with no fir t-h nd xperienc ight t hink--I've d alt with these threat since unior high chool, nd I kno . I've se n minds uct o drug abu and p r onal live eked by tooex . We all have. r are probl s with th q. I f el'"'ali nated from my lt) nd y h bit of tran f rring betwe n campus ak it hard to g t to kno underclas m n and share he Program with th • But I do my be t--that' why write f or THE GAD Y. I hop some tutor nd local lumna c an m k it to THE LY raffle--it'll be azz-Swing at a volum you can talk ov r. The 1 t ord on th Lak daimonian ttitude com from Don Vli t (C pt in Be fh rt): •w may b hungry, ure in't w ird." !--I NOTES OF AN ARMCHAIR NIHILIST, RETIRED (or, Am I Graduating from the Only Crap Game in Town?) rby Jim Sorrentino. • Warhurst must hav been a blast in seminar. Hi l ucid compari on betw en hi own experi nc and what h had heard of the experi nc of thos around hi , coupled with his daring us o f 1 b 1 , mu t have won him the re8 ct of the e ntire 1 arning community of St. John' · Happy the man whom Hr. Warhurst re ched out to, wh th r as learner or teacher! Who among u can b r the wr th of thi man, who ia distraught over the r cent rrival of anti-social 1 nt into his favorit crap-game? I hav heard of such ople as Hr Warhurst who ~tend a college for four years, graduated, and d ·~ •pend the next t n to twenty year• either . : CJr.tinq th ir • alma mat er•, or reminiscing ut the way i t c~pl ininq that ••em everything ha• degenerated.Such people to think that their age and experience in the socalled •real world• give then some unique authority to judge the things. they have left behind. But what about those •active nihilist.a•, those juvenile delinquents, thos alcoholic addicts of •punJt•? Oh, ye , l t's nnihilat th ! Th y're o off naive. If thy n ighbor offend thee, term.in t h • Lif o much ea ier wh n you treat people lik in ct • But thi phenom non of youthful reb llion find no p thy fro Mr. Warhur t, an all-round r gular f llow who n v r r lized that in Am rica, tt nding St. John' c·th chool which by its v ry exist nc thr atens all th foundations of higher due tion in th u.s.•) is itself an ct of re llion, rh pa one of the ore productiv on s, but r b llion all the aam • If anyone i to b pitied more than censured, it is Mr. Warhurst. But I pr fer to laugh at him, for I think uch laughter is not only more pleasant, but more b nefici l to myself and other , and rhaps even to such serious and solemn fools aa Frank W rhur t, who spent four years in a •di honest crap-ga.m • and ha only headful of anak -eye to how for it. I cannot take uch p ople seriou ly, p cially wh n they find d p r meanings in Th ~Horror Pictur Show. And wh n uch people ~about "annihil ting th nihilist effort" (or annihilating anything), I not only l ugh at them, but att mpt to how th ir a inin .stupidity, hoping oth rs will join in th laught r. B tt r to laugh at th se fool r ther th n r pond with--a littl annihil tion of my own! Mr. W rhurst clai th t we hav f 11 n: "Ther i no co unity of learning.• No I w to a high school of ov r 2000 stud nt • Of th 2500 tudents and t acners th r , I had pr cis ly v n whom I c lled my fri nds. I also had ny wo rful learning xp ri nc s when both tud nt and teacher r ach d out to me, usually with a right jab. I chall ng Mr. arhur t to attend ny large Am rican high chool for a year b for he r fl ct on h arsay nd econdhand evidence about a so-call d "l ck of co munity 1 ning", and specialiy b fore h courag the •annihilation of the nihili t fort•, which I tak to b his uphemistic w y of ying, "L t' kick th h 11 out of 11 tho people who, through th ir tastes in mu ic, dre s, or drinking, fail to comform to ~stand rd of decorum." As I recall, deportation w a th first t p in th Final Solution of th h t og n ity of the German community. "Nothing i tru , v rything is rmitt d,• said Ni tzche, and thi i the ba i of nihilism. Th re i no room for uch d stinctiona a "active• and "pa iv •. But l t's e just who Hr. Warhur t wants to annihilat • First, th re e th •pa iv nihilists, who talk littl , o low, and o vaguely, even in classes nd s inars, that you finally giv up aying, 'Huh?', and leav them be. they ar more to be piti than cen ured.• If only Mr. might try com antly, ho v , h ever suffering on nt of doubt bout or hi id as. Many would-be annihilators like that. Culti t , for .instance. Oh, y •!Let's pity tho passive nihilists! I'm aur it will not only benefit th , but the entire St. John'• coaaunity if w treat auch people cont mptably. �- 4-t::========================================~~ · THE CORPORATE MILITARY by Rick Campbell The necessity of the All-Volunteer Army to rely completely on the equitable considerations of the· competitive marketplace has undermined the concept of military service and service is now considered a job. It is admirable to want to extend the free Melvin Laird, former Secretary of Defense market system to give people as much choi ce a under Richard Nixon, tells us that the possible, but freedom is not only having choi failure of the All-Volunteer Army to mainbut also recogizing duty. Duty is not somethi tain troop strength is because the governone is born with; it is something one develop ment does not compete with enough vigor in The military, before the advent of the All-Vo the free market. But this problem only obunteer Army, was a place where duty and re spo scures a deeper flaw in the All-Volunteer sibility for something highter than self was Army/free market concept - the incorpodeveloped. Now the military is part of t he ration of the military. mercenary market place. President Esisenhower warned us to beA country can not afford to have a corporat ware of the military-industrial complex. military. There are no tax breaks in war . An The incorporation of the military began army can not just be written off when its los when the whiz kids of the business schools are heavy. The corporate military has cheapent were brought into the Pentagon as consulthe service by making it only another job . tants. They brought with them corporate The military of this country should be c ommanagement with its cost-effectiveness, the posed of citizens, not citizens who are probottom line and overhead. The military in fessional military but citizens from all walk return gave the corporations their retired of life. The military should be repreeentativ personnel - as consultants. The incorporatof the whole population. One of the hidden ing of the military has been furthered by dangers of an All-Volunteer professional arm the All-Volunteer Army which has spread it is that fewer citizens will taste military into 11 aspects of the military. life which will result in a widening gap beTh All-Volunteer Army is based on being tween military and civil society. The Allcompetitive in the free rket. But being Volunteer Army desires to recruit people who in the free market has made the military bewill make it a career. If the army does beco come more like the corporations it competes largely professional these people will not with. The military is not a private corpoable to serve politically in our society. Th ration where profit is the end, it is more most of our congressmen will have had no mil like a public corporation such as the TVA or tary experience and in defense matters will the PBS where service is the end. Neverthehave to rely on the expertise of the profes less, the military is being incorporated and sional soldier. This will make it more difshould wonder whether this is the kind of ficult for civilian control of the military military best suited for our defense. to be properly exercised. I believe our con The military now has to sell itself to regressmen should be generalists and a stint cruit people. In fiscal year 1980 the military the service would give them some background has spent over 100 million dollars in adverand area that is under civilian control. tising for recruitment. The military is being The military is an important part of our sold as a job. For example, consider this ciety. It is the one place where duty and jingle from a recent Navy ad, "it's more than sponsibility can be cultivated. These qual ' a job, it's an adventure." In only seven short , ~re what make a society strong. Not wealth years since the advent of the All-Volunteer i\fill is what a free society needs to maint Army the idea of military service as a job is itself. A draft army built around a small so ingrained that the job is being sold as an f essional core will allow the greatest n adventure. The ramifications of this change in Jf our people the opportunity to develop attitude toward the service are enormous. A ~ualities of duty and responsibility. Al person who joins the military because of high the draft is Wlpopular, what a person wan wages will quit when the wages don't balance not always what is best. the risks. �Sports MEN'S · by lryc• JocOltten THE MARATHON RELAY is a-coming this Saturday, April S. Last year the Guardians won, with the Hustlers second. The smart money this year is on the Hustlers ••• but the Spartans may surprize people, if they have a good turnout. The Guardians have been training like mad, and will be tough again ••• but they will be hard put to replace Mr. Adams. The Waves and Druids need help from their Freshmen joggers, if there be any. SOFTBALL-Har. 26 ••• Hustlers-ll, Spartans-8 Me srs. Solomon and Hartz 11 each scored three times, and five others contributed. The Spartan total of eight fell short a little,. ag in. Hustler Highlights: l)Mr. Solomon's four hits 2)Mr. Hartzell's three hits 3)Mr. Zolkower's successful completion of a very rare play which is seldom, if ever, seen ••• namely, passing th runner in front of him on the base paths! The base umpire, ever alert to this obscure rule, immediately called him out. Spartan Highlights: l)Mr. Guaspari's home run 2)Last week, it was not "Mr. Ney's screaming line drive" that was caught by Mr. Smith to end the game, but Mr. Blyler's. Sorry about that. And speaking of Mr. Smith, we were reminded by The l1an that we forgot to mention another of 'his notable athletic feats ••• winning the R cquetball Tournament for the third straight year! Mr. Conroy gave him quite sc re this y ar, and came within two points of winning the match. But The Man was equal to the challenge at nitty-gritty time. Mar. 27 ••• Gre nwaves-16, Oruids-6 Holy S okes ••• 16-6! Was this fluke? Or re th Waves this good? Well, in any case, people are starting to notic th Titey re c tching the ball frequently, and getting runners across the plate. With two out in th last inning, and bases empty, they exploded for eight runs ••• including homers by Werner, McPhee and Ficco! Some of the Druid fielding looked like something out of an old silent movie. Also, they couldn't put together any sustained rally. They could get better, though ••• or possibly worse. Mar. 29 ••• Guardians-13, Sp rtans-6 The Gu rdi n had allow d 25 runs in th ir first gam , so this was quite an improv ent for them. Titey didn't xactly overpower the Spartans at the pl te, but they sure r pesky. Of their 16 hit , 15 wer singl s, and the other a double. Tite Spartans are now 0-3 ••• about like the Orioles were last spring after three gam s. M r. 29 ••• Hustlers-14, Oruids-3 Tite Hustlers are still showing a lot of comp t nee, and confidence. Titey ar now 3-0, but have not m t the Waves. Mr. Cabral looked sharp on the mound, and Mr. Hartzell continues to get good aluminum on the ball(3 more hits), and catches almost everything hit out in left fi ld. The ~ruids did not play a good game, again. They were, if anything, possibly worse. Aft r three games, Mr. Zolkower, as a base runner, been called out for: Leaving the base too soon on a pitch Leaving the base too soon when a fly was caught Passing the runner ahead of him on the bases Failing to touch first base on a home run! We all eagerly await the next Hustler game What •lse does Hairbreadth Harry have - in store fo; us? ha 1) 2) 3) 4) SOFTBALL STANDINGS Hustlers Greenwaves Guardians Druids Spartans Won 3 2 l 0 0 Lost 0 0 1 Points 9 6 4 2 2 3 3 IBIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE Softball: Titu •. Non. Wed. Marathon: Sat. Apr. Apr. Apr. Apr. 3-2:30 Guard~ans-Druids 7-4:00 Greenwaves-Guardians 9-4:00 Greenwaves-Spartans 5-1:30 ••• Men 3:30 ••• Women Announceme-nts EST "est" boldly claims "There is only one thing thCl.t' s powerful enough to turn your life around in just 4 days •.• You." And my voice said, "What the hell is this 'est' anyway? Another brainwashing cult organization?" So I went, armored with cynici m, and found out for myself. To my great relief I am still Unyong Kim. It is: a trip to Oz and back, an encounter with Socrates, a Cosmic Joke,--something that defies direct description. The other afternoon I picked up T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" from my bookshelf to see if life had made a~y passages clearer to me. Very suddenly I was struck ~ith so~bing of an intensity I had never exp rienced in my life. I was reading this final passage of the poem: .. . we shall not cease fran exploration And the end of all our xploring Will be to arrive where w started And know the place for th first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longeat river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea. Quick now, here, now, always-A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are infolded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one. I'm writing so that anyone who is wondering or curious about hllis experience called "est" can come and talk to me (Unyong Kim). --Unyonq Kim �THE GADFLY cordially invites you to our raffledrawing party this Saturday night after the film, Beauty and the Beast, directed by Cocteau. The party will be backstage and beer and wine will be available. We are presenting this party as an opportunity for tutors and students to talk familiarly. Conversation is the base of our education. Yet, there is little conversation outside the classroom between tutors and students. Community is a full-time affair. Mr Sparrow has kindly agreed to draw the winning tickets at midnight. For those who wish to dance we will be playing swing music intermittently throughout the evening. M FROM THE BOATHOUSE rs of the Junior Class Ann poli b Ladies and Gentl for ing The final French Reading Knowledge E mination of the year will be given Saturd y morning, pril 19, from 9:30 to 12:30 in the D n's Office. The text for th examination will once more be from de Toqueville's Democratic en Am riqu • P ssag of this examination is a prerequi ite for being registered as a senior. Any Junior ho has not passed th examination an who cannot be present should see Mrs. McGuire to make special arrangements for taking the examination t another time. you. For mor information, talk to Mr. Miln r, J ck Arm trong, Andrew Gazi , Jonathan Edelman, or Jean Connors. --Jeanne Connor Members of the Sophomore Class Ladies and Gentlemen, Sincerely yours, )A'·~ll'_-t~l-<.J ( j/Ot~ .; : .1~ t ,; ·' Edward G. Sparrow Dean CARDS The Bridge Club will meet tonight, April 2, in room 33 at 9:00. Last w ek's Yes We Have No Banana Republics was by Honor Bulkley. The last Algebra/Trigonometry test of the year will be given Saturday morning, April 19, from 9: 30 to 11: 00 in McDowell 24 ~ Passage of this examination is a prerequisit for enrolling as a Junior. 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JOHN'S 10 APR\L 1980 POST by Randy Wilson can a man with a public school education and a fondness for conservative columnist George Will succeed as president of insular, educationally radical St. John's College? All 39 college trustees believe Edwin J. Delattre will not only succeed, but excel. Furthermore, Delattre himself sees no contradiction between his academic background at large universities in Virginia, Texas and Ohio and his new job beginning July 1 at the helm of tiny, private St. John's. I came here because the joy of the work among students, tutors and staff is perceptible," said the 38-Year-old humanities scholar yesterday in an interview. "The two campuses are inspiring places to be." A pipe-smoker with clipped mustache and thick-rimmed eyeglasses, Delattre speaks forcefully and in measured cadence when describing his qualifica t ions and defending St. John's unique "Great Books" curriculum. That same commitment to the liberal arts in education won him the unanimous support of the college's Board of Visitors and Governors last December when it chose Delattre over 200 other candidates to succeed retiring President Richard D. Weigle. "Nobody is more prepared to speak in favor of people learning how to do useful work of all sorts both for rulf illment and economic well-being," he said. "But it is a dreadful sacrifice to relinquish the liberal arts for the sake of such training or preparation." Dela ttre' s own training after graduati_ irtg as a high school valedictorian in Pennsylvania came at the University of Virginia, the alma mater of Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan, who originated the Great Books program at St. John's in 1937. After participating in the honors seminar program at Virginia, Delattre went to the University of Texas to study philosophy under 11 John Silber, now the controversial president of Boston University. "I've never seen a better teacher," De~at­ tre recalled, adding that he remains close friends with Silber and supports his stance on refusing amnesty to campus strikers. "I think resistance to politicization of the university is the proper stance," he said. ~ From Texas, Delattre went to the University.;;. o f Tole<iio as a challenge. "I went because I thought t h ey were l ess ·. likely to pay attention to the libera l arts," Ii; he said. "In some measure, there was a vocational orientation." Teaching philosophy from the same primary sources that make up part of the St. John's curriculum, Delattre c o mbined the rigors of close textual analysis with practical course work. For a course in ethics and law enforcement, for exampl e , he had his students walk the streets of Toledo with police of ficers on their beats. By 1973, Delattre had effected a conversion~ of sorts. Students named him the outstandl ng ~ ' teacher on campus. From Toledo, Delattre joined in 1976 the National humanities Faculty, a program that seeks to implement humanities programs in high schools and community colleges. He travels widely as a fund-raiser and administrator for the program, as well as a leading spokesman for the liberal arts in education. That travel experience will be invaluable in his new role at St. John's, with its two campuses in Annapolis and Santa Fe, N.M. The 390-student Annapolis campus has a healthy endowment of $8.5 million, but the 275-stud e nt Santa Fe complex has only $1.5 million and a negative fund balance of $123,779. "It appears that the needs in Santa Fe-CONTINUED ON ;··· p,tGE :2. �in the short run--may be more pressing," Delattre said adding that he may spend more time with his wife and daughters in New Mexico than he had planned. As for the heal th of the liberal arts in an I era of vocational education, Delattre believes , in the strength of the St. John's curriculum. ; "I don't think you can kill the liberal arts," he said. "But the last part of this century will see them as counter to a broad range of public opinion." Delattre noted that the Great Books program has a permanency, but no "stagnation." And its breadth assures study of math and sciences as well as literature and the arts. "I don't think St. John's should be narrowly perceived," he said. "Cultivating the capacity of discourse and thinking is the major aim of all education." l This article was re· rj nted fror_ THE ~ · vK·r:~G ': :·~r IT.'\L COLLEGE POETRY REVIEW The NATIONAL POETRY PRESS announca The closing date for the submission of manuscripts by College Students is April 15th ANY STUDENT attending eith r Junior or Senior College is eligible to submit his verse. There is no limitations as to form or theme. Shorter works are preferred by the Board of Judges, because of space limitations. Each poem must be TYPED or PRINTED on a separate sheet. and must bear the NAME and PERMANENT HOME ADDRESS of the student, and THE NAME OF THE COLLEGE and the ADDRESS of the STUDENT at SCHOOL as well. Entrants should also submit name ol ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR. MANUSCRIPTS should be sent to the OFFICE OF THE PRESS. NATIONAL POETRY PRESS Box 218 Agoura. Ca. 81301 REVIEW OF MR MAISTRELLIS' LECTURE ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES by Danielle George The audience ros8 en masse as Mr. Maistre lis 3pproacned tne stage in FSK aujitorium last Friday =vening to deliver nis iecture or. Darwin's The ) rioin of Species. Once at ~he lectern, he irnmedi3. tel" exhibited his c:-iara . ::ter ist ic qenerosi ty and : ~ood~humor, setting the audience a~ - ease with a ~uick gesture to the~ to be seated. After adJusting the various rn1cropnones, he oegan his two-part jiscussion of Darwin's contribution to human knowiedge, which I will briefly sumrr.arize. In the first half of the lecture Mr. Maistrelli 8resented the deba~e betweer. Darwin's brand of ;atural history and that of ras forerunners and opponents. He pointed out that ~ne Orioin of Species was essentially a rhetorical, not a deductive, argument designed to persuade a hostile scientific commur.ity that nature was not perfect, that species were not fixed, unchanging forms, that the organs and functions of all forms of life were subJect to modification, and that natural history was not a study of ultimate causes and ends. Mr. Maistrellis said that Darwin did not have a theory of na=~re, but rather only revealed what nature showed him about herself. By relying upon observation alone , Darwin was able to free himself "from the pretension of assJming to prove the inevitable descent of life fo::::-ms." Darwin's notion of the struggle for existence was for him an image of nature; he applied this image to his observatior to reveal nature's hidden meanings. Mr. Maistrellis added that Darwin made use of anotner image to attack Linneus' system of classif : cation as a desperate enterprise which, by looking for the definiteness of species, made just the opposite discovery, the indefiniteness of species. (This remark reminded me of Hegel's account of observation in The Phenomenoloqy of Spirit in whic · he concurs with Darwin's appraisal, in his own peculiar way, of course.) In addition, Darwin clair that naturalists actually had been studying genealogy without knowing it, and proposed the image of a "tree of life" as the secret of class if icatio1 Why should Darwin depend so much upon images? Because he believed that species were not things (definite entities), but phenomena (shifting appeal ances). In other words, species are themselves only images of nature. Darwin's greatest discovery was the spontaneity of variation. Variations show that in nature "anything can happen" and that "there is no leg1slatio1 to natural history," as Mr. Maistrellis put it. Wh; snould spontaneous variations, or mutations, be so significant? It is by virtue of the existence of mutations that nature's supreme mechanism, natural selection, can operate at all. In his discussion of natural selection, Mr. Maistrellis mentioned thi Aristotle viewed nature and art as activities with ends. Darwin used the language of purpose in describing natural selection because the appearances pointed to it, but did not claim that natura . history uncovered nature's purpose nor p::::-oved the existence of any ultimate purpose. In the second half of the lecture Mr. Maistrelli gave a sketch of "Darwin the botanist" as a way of illustrating his second great discovery, "the independence of the power of reproduction", or "the inventiveness of nature." With the help of visua;l aids, Mr. Maistrellis gave a brief course on plant reproduction and showed how Darwifil.discovered that plant's structure contributes to its reproduction, and that the struggle for life occurs not only among different life forms, but also within a single organism. �i-~=======================================~3 Mr Maistrellis explained tnese observations in roug h l y this way: plant: are, by ~~d large, herm~­ pnroditic, or capable or self-fertiliz~tion. Their s~r uture contributes to this. Yet Darwin.found.by e xperimentation tn~t prol~nged self-f~rtilization, or inbreeding, tends to diminish fertility. On the one hand, then, hermaphroditic structures overcome tne problem of distances which separate organisms and make their contact for reproduction difficult, but , on the other ~and, nermaphroditic structures innibit reproductive potency. There is a tension be tween the security of hermaphroditism a~d the de trimental effects of close inbreeding. Darwin fo und that occasional fertilization by distinct i ndividuals (of the same species) was necessary for ~e rpetuation eve~ among organisms capable of self~e2roduction. Mr. Maistrellis concluded his lecture on this point and left as tne auditoriurr. echoed with a hearty applause. The oell heralded the question period after a s hort interrrission. LooKing around the Conversation Roo~, l noticed a preponderance of tutors and an unusual nurr~er of alumni. Indeed, the maJority of questions came from these sour.:::: es. Al though I made a fair:y detailed transcription of the questions asked and cne answers given, for brevi~y's sake I'll lLmit mv account to central issues and describe the convers~tions ~ccord~ng to the topics they concerned, disregarding their chronologica: sequence. 1 The bLlk of questions focused on three principal matters: tne struqgle for existence, Darwin's Jpproach to natu~al nistory, and the teleology uestion. This last issue was the most popular of a_l. Anout the only ~rgent question that arose con~ rni g struggle for existence seemed to be based upon that unfort;.mate perversion of Darwin's notion :nown as "survival of the fittest," an expression Darw~c does not use. With the help of Dean Sparrow's uestion, "Is there any 'fitness' within an :.ndividua.J.?", Mr. Maistrellis managed to show that Darwin made no Judgments about individuals, that ~utal adaptation was all that was in question, and "~hi.en unions are more or less fertLle is a!! that's asKed." Other questions indicated that there was some confusion about Mr. Maistrel:is' claim that Darwin ''had no theory." Mr. · Slakey proposed that the word "tneory" carried the sense of being an explanation in qeneral. Mr. Maistrel:is explained that this was not what he had meant by the term, and that he only wished to draw a distinction between natura: history and physics. He contrasted :::::larwin's "l.Inaaes" with Newton's celestial mechanics, sayinq that the imaaes only organized phenomena, whereas in mechanics th~ Phenomena are given by princLples. He also said , that there was nothing in pnysics which corresponded to biological repr0duction, bu~ Mr. Kutler amended this remark by commenting "except on an atomic level." Mr_. Maistrellis said that the main reason for his n:aK::..r..g a_ distinction between "image" and "theory" was to.snow that Darwin himself distinguished n atura. history from physics. d As I mentioned earlier, tne most compelling issue uri.ng the question period was whether or not nature has an ultimate purpose. The bulk of Mr. Maistrellis' ~ 7spons~s relied upon the notion of "predicability." 11 quickly summarize his main points. J: Chance is Just a word for an unknown cause. Darwin was onl Y in t ereste d in revealing the existence . . . . f 0 mutation and did not concern himself with the s earch for an ultimate cause. .k 2 · One cannot predict what a form was or will be 1 u~.; from mere facts because mutations "just pop 3. Every account of the history of life (except Darwin's) · is a story of "necessary unfolding". Every theory of unfolding holds the claim that nature has an ultimate purpose. But we cannot be certain of this claim because there is such weighty evidence to the contrary, and Darwin shows that there is no need to make this assumption to understand nature's operations. Mr. Maistrellis said: "Most things stay the same for short periods of time, but alter drastically over long periods. The more you look at things, the more imperfect things look ... There is no guarantee that what exists is as good as we can think of ... We can't talk about the lower giving rise to the higher ... We can never know enough to bring natural history and physics together ... Causation is too complicated ... We will never be able to predict which variations will occur ... There are no internal limits to reproduction ... natural history has nothing to say about ultimate things. That's not to say there are no ultimate things, just that it is silent about them." I oelieve that Mr. Maistrellis did a fine job on both his lecture and his responses in the question period. I won't hesitate to say that anyone who missed this event shouldn't have. ,--- - --- ---~\.- . ··.~·~ . :-- . . \. . THE GADFLY Benefit Raffle and Party was a success and we now have adequate funds to print through the semester. We would like to thank all those who supported us by buying tickets and coming to the party. The winners of THE GADFLY Benefit Raffle are: 1. Martin Miller - Dinner for two at the Maryland Inn 2. Dinner for two at the Thomas Mark Lafayette $20 Johnson's Gift 3. Margaret Kemp Certificate 4. Holly Johnson Bolivian Wool Hat from Todo Mundo's - $10 Pepper's Gift 5. Tim Ficco Certificate 6. David Nau - 1 Large Pizza from Marina's 7. Edward Sparrow Midshipmen's Marvel and Two Banana Splits from Arnold's 8. Kim Paschall - Irish Coffee Mug from the Scottish and Irish Import Shop 9. Martha Kearsly 1 Haircut from Vince's 10. Matthew Davis - 2 Drinks from Harry Browne's 11. Eleanor Harvey A genuine imitation cast aluminum pewter mug from The Srroke Shop �DC MEETING Treasurer Joe Roach reported that Jim Prestor ac epted $30 for his turntable. Mr Preston's debt has been paid off and the DC has a turntable. Roach concluded by announcing that the administration is giving the Political Forum group $1400 for their activities next year. 8 April 8b by Scott C. Boyd Polity Secretary Dan Van Doren opened the meeting by apologizing for his minutes of the 1 April 80 meeting, which he said he wrote while very angry. Jonathan Edelman reported on the Nationa l Collegiat e Associat ion convention he, Randy White and Mike Coss a t t ended i n Nas hville. The ir tr i p was partially financed by the DC. Edelman expla ined tha t the 40-50 student s from all over the country got together and debated about current political issues and submitted recommendations to various congressmen. Edleman praised White's and Coss' speaking ability before the convention delegates and termed their trip "quite a success." A motion to have DC meetings not extend over one hour without the consent of the quorum was passed. This was on the agenda for the 1 April meeting, but that meeting was adjourned after two hours, and before this motion could be discussed. Several changes to the proposed new Constitution were made: the election of the at-large delegate representing the whole polity was altered to mandate that a quorum of the student body participate; dorm delegate elections were changed to require that only a majority of the quorum of the dorm are needed for election, not a majority of the whole dorm population; and alternate delegates are to be elected in the same manner as the r e gula r de l e gates. This was the last meeting for the DC to take action on the propose d new Const i tution. Visitor Kit Balle sugges t ed that the DC not s end the new Cons t i tut ion to t he student body for a referendum , opining that the required half of the student body would not vote affirmatively . . Belle advised the DC to act within its powers and vo t e to pass the new Constitution itself, and bypass the student body. After debate, the council rejected Bolle's suggestion and voted 10-1 to send the new Constitution (with tonight's correctionsj to the student body for referendum. A separate 8-3 vote expressed the council's wish to recommend to the students that they vote affirmatively for the new Constitution. The DC voted to accept the charter of the Croquet Club. Delegate Bill Ney remarked that his name was placed on the charter without his knowledge. Leslie Smith objected to the use of "in the year of our Lord" in the text of the charter. HIG HLIGHTS OF DC M I NG 1 APRIL 80 EET by Scot t C. Boy d Jim Preston had offered a turntabl e (val ued at $100) to pay his $50 debt to the Polity . The DC voted to give Preston $30 to compens at~ him for the remaining value of his turntabl e. A heat d debate took place over the off i ce of DC Chairman in the proposed new Constitutio The objections centered around the appearance of the Chairman as representing the entire stu dent body (like the current President) althou~ he is chosen directly by the DC, not the stude polity. A 6-5 vote sent the proposed new Con~ stitution back to the committee to have the off ice of DC chairman revised to meet the objections. The members of that committee who were present objected that they'd not have time to rewrite it, and consequently, it could not be voted on until next year. President Mar Miller said of the vote: "The act this council did was irresponsible." Delegates David Stein and Leslie Smith strot ly objected to President Miller's l ack of par1 mentary procedure in his handling o f t he DC mE ings . A motion by Stein to institut e parl iamer tary procedure was killed by Miller' s refu sal , to a l low a vot e on it. TO ALL CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS SPONSORED BY THE STUDENT POLI TY In a few weeks, I shall prepare a tentativE Student Polity Budget for next year. I need to know how much money should be allotted to each club. I also need to know how much more of this year's allotment each club shall spend. Any club that does not respond by Tuesday, 22 April, may have its charter revoked by the Delegate Council. Thank you Joseph Roach Student Polity Treasurer l I • �NARKOTIC HAZE b1 H H Ham.Ml Did you know that the Co 1 l egian has ha d t o rn ceople to assi s t w ith their typing? I intend no slight against that at~ff, f or this year'.s model looks finer than any tnat have prece ded it -take a look at the collected works in the Library if you don't believe me- and combines 1is para te el ements in a v 1ay that has never been do ne h er~ consistan tl y. I mean to in dict the college com i t y , fo r her e , mun I now admit, is a clear cas e of " passi ve nihi l ism ," though I would pref er to cal l it malignant negl ect . You will find, if you talk t o Jim So r rent ino , that he also feels that th ere is such a proble.::, despite our attemp t t o sho w tha t s o- called punk rockers and peo ple who do n't talk in s eminar well are not the source . From pai nful personal experience I would a f ~irm that · the resnonsibility for the latter situa t ion lies in the verbal diarreha of the folks who jo speak wel:!.., and \'lho are unaware that mere tcC..k is not communing with words. I know because talking, like writing these rhapsodes, is automatic vii th me, as anyone wno has had me in seminar will attest. : •ve been forced to face up to the fact that I can _,1lenc e people with my rhetorical skills. John .• ilson once tried to assuage my guilt feelings by t elling me that "talking can be listening." This \':orrie:J me, because I am a junior and have yet to ~couire this aoility, and it's the only one I think I need to acauire to deserve my BA, as writing up e::::says on time I think I have do ·:m. The exi~tence of two journals on campus proves t nat there is a lot of techne and energy to go arouna, but it's also a bad blow for morale, Just ac tne schiam I wrote about earlier in the year, bet •:een the usual K .,P and the would-be K:iP that ·:as thwarted. :n both instances, I, personally .. ouldn't nave nad it any other way -but it bothers me, as joes the ·.vay in ·.vhich I get along vii th my t utors tnis year. I don't need or want any of them as peers or friends , but is that as it was sunnosed t o be at this college? Negatory, pawdna, but it'bear territory from here to Turauoise-Town. Now out at rurquoise- l.'own • ••-er, ah, ..5anta ?e , I us e d to be f r iends with some of my tutors, and act ually had .:;ome lcng talks with the younger ones. Cf cours e, it isn ' t hard when you r math. tutor i3 ther e a t Junio r ?rank drinking .Schlitz Dark vii th th e guy s and gal 3 and telli ng you stories about .vhat it uas lik e back in ' Han- town in the .:::ixtie.s . I coul d come back an d shar e stories about the crazy stunts we pulled back in '78. SUMMER EMPLOYMENT Several jobs are available for the summer on campus. To be eligible, a student must be on College Work Study. The jobs are as follows: 4 - grounds crew positions 1 - mailroom, noon switchboard, clerical position l - switchboard position - 4-9 pm weekdays - 9 am - 9pm weekends The rate of pay will be $3.75 per hour. interested should contact Mr Elzey. ~; o w might fairly ask me i f it ..vas so great back in 0anta ? e, what am I doing here this year. And I'll tell you that the reason I came back out here is also one of the worst a sp ects of the place: out in 3anta ? e I missed hanging out with my little clique back east. And as much as I like being part of a cli cue I al s o remember ho w av1ful it was in high' akoo wheri I wasn' t a part of a little in-cro wd. :·row when you go t o Chase-3tone pa r ties they look like the hi gh s chool dances back hem e, except here we don't h~ve l ittl e jackets that s ay whi ch high s cho ol we come from. But we might as well ••• I w on' t be so crude as to supply the names fo r th em, bu t it would not be hard . The answers to these problems are definitely beyond me, but as I usually do when the ideas are too general and huge for me to sort out in my tiny brain, I descended into the garden of pomegranates, er for those of you who aren't into mystic symbols, I spun the Tarot cards out on my floor. The first two were so wonderfully apt I've decided to share them with you. The first, "that which covers the si'tuation" (the situation being, in this case, SJC) ·:;as the major card "the Star," which means "Hope , unexpected help, clarity of vision, spiritual insigh If ill-dignified, can mean error of judgement, dreaminess, dissapointment." Not bad for a general description of what the College can be. The second , "that which crosses 11 or goes against tne first, was the ~ueen of :iands, the passive con trolling fore e of .'. ands, which of the four elements represents fire, or natural force • .3he can mean: "a woman of adaptability, persistent energy, calm authority, with great power to attract , calm and generous but impatient of opposition. If ill-dignified, 11 and this position is by definition, "can be ohsti nate, revengeful, domineering, quick to take of fence without good cause." ·rhere were more , but since this Lady reversed so well represents the spirit of non-community that has been bothering me lately , I ·:Jill leave it at that . Mere similes , I suppose , but anyone who has a h andle on it besides me should use their par ti clar skills to tall me about it, and then we can figure ou t v1ha t to do . I would also mention that there are a lot of people out there \'lho have t old me they can "'rite • .:-aying is not doing , telling is not sno··1ing • '~fof said . This is Haze sayin' 'Ne go n e . SPRING COTILLION The Spring Cotillion shall be on May 3. Anyone interested in helping with it should contact me by phone or by campus mail. Thank you, Joseph Roach Waltz Archon, ext 48 �Letters To th e College Community, Several students have told me that they were o ff e n d ed by my DC minutes of last week. In trying to r e lay the full effect of the meeting, I l e t the anger I felt during the session become a part of what turned out to be an unnec e ssarily bitter report. I am sorry if I have hurt any one's feelings. I assure every one th a t I will not let this happen again. Sincerely, Daniel Van Doren Polity Secretary PUBLIC NOTICE OF A COLLEGIAN STAFF MEMBER RESIGNATION To the Editor (Of the Collegian): The very least I can say is that you exercised the poorest possible judgment when you allowed those two treacherous letters which attacked Mr. Curtis with such malice, and as Mr. Joshua Kates so aptly expressed it, with such cruelty, to be printed. Personally, I think you should be sued. As for those unpardonable cowards who deigned to judge a soul quite obviously their superior, because their minds are too narrow even to recognize that there are other opinions besides their own, and who, passing judgment, have not even the courage to sign their true names, I have no compassion, and would warn the community of true evil. This entire episode enrages and disgusts me so that I want to publicly declare that I renounce all association with The Collegian. I hope Mr. Curtis will have confidence that he has friends at St. John's, and that I myself remember him as my classmate in my Sophomore seminar two years ago. I wish him the strength and courage he needs ·to endure human cruelty. Some of us have known too much of it already. Mr. Edozien, a final word to you. Before you judge what is true and what is lie, what is just and what is unjust, look first to your own soul and see if you have sympathy for what you read, hear, or see. I also want to add that if you thought that you could escape reprisal by not putting a copy of The Collegian in my mailbox, clearly, you were mistaken. My disappointment in you is profound. In all sincerity and honesty, Danielle George In every hall of every dorm there lurk s a thing called the Reality Collector. It want s $5 from you. You're not even safe living in town so give up, give in, give and you'll be left alone. There are always some who say "I don't like to drink" or "I don't like to eat" or "I d on't like to have fun--I hate Reality". We can' t cure you of all your prejudices but I can understand wanting to know where your money goes. This is our budget based on last year 's figures and considering the effect of inflation. At this mo~ent we have just over $50 0 in our account. 400 400 1500 500 100 350 125 AUCTION BENEFIT MOVIES STUDENTS' $5 PARENTS ALUMNI T-SHIRTS BENEFIT PARTIES 600 25 50 400 1500 350 100 100 200 3375.00 BEER PARADE & LIQUOR LICENSES PARADE ACCESORIE FRIDAY NIGHT SHO PICNIC & BRF.AKFAST MOVIE GUARDS CLEAN-UP MISCELLANEOUS: ice, tapes, visitors tags equipment for Olympics 3325.00 You can win fame if not fortune, by compo ing the winning design for the Reality Tshirts. Submit your design through campus mail, or give them directly to Honor Bulkley or Lisa Cobb. Proclaim your independence from rnate~ial posessions--give to the Reality Auction! We' be collecting on April . 16 and April 20. Off campus people can arrange to have their thin picked up by calling Lisa at ext. 38. On April 23 you can retract that rash decision at the Auction and begin accurnulatin _ possessions again. �7 Sports MEN'S by lryce Jacc*ten ;1!:.E.":' wil~ be :his ..>:it., at 1:3L. \ll of you l:ke to run, and jump, ana hurl thin;s should come .and have sorre fun • •• 1.. ~{,L.j,. w~o . d!IC. results: mv predictions of last ;;ee were rLh: on the nose. fhe smart-mone~ ~~stlers ~on, t~e surpr1~1n~ Spartans were second, the ;,~ardians were third, followed oy the Druids and .-iaves. rhe Hustlers ;ot six very fast laps out of Mr. Adams, four each from Messrs. ~eber, E.dwards and \ewlin, three each from ~tessrs. wise anci ~ischer ••• and sixteen others from ten other guys. :-he .Spartans got five very fast laps eac!-i, from '!essrs. \an i3e!.lren and rlenry. But other runners c:ontr1buted t::>o rany 3:00-plus laps, and they finishea a full minute ~e­ hind the nustlers. People who ran four or five laos, and who averaged less than 2:50 per lap, were Messrs. ~orton, Kutherford, warner, Jeis, D. Carnes, Ficco and Cresswell. The fastest lap was run by :;r. Van deuren, at 2:19. fhree uruids tied for the slowest lap, at 3:29 ••• ~lessrs. lJwyer, '-:uinn a~d Preston. · The winning time was 106:~b, much faster than last •ears' 111:5~ ..• but well short of our record time of :o2:2u, set b11 the llu.stlers in 1976 • ..)Oi='T0A ... L••• Aor. 2 •••.~us tlers--3, Greenwaves-o.+. ~his was the bi5 one ••• and now only the Hustlers are undeteated. rhey nad a sli~ht edge in hits(lO-o), and .n times at bat~J4-JOJ. ~ut the bi5 difference was in waLks ••• the ~ustlers pickin~ up eight. while Nr. Cabral was giving up none ••• not even on~! .1r. Zoikower discovered yet another way to be put out on the basepaths! He failed to run out an infield fly Dall, which was not caught, no doubt thinking it would ~o foul. 3ut. drat the luck, it was fair! Poor rlarry was still standin3 in the batters box when !"le was thrown out. Hnat an embarassment! 3ut maybe not. It is becoming clear that ~r. Zolkower' s seemingly strange behavior is quite purposeiul ••• he is enga>.ed in a little contest, seeing how many different ways he can be called out, in as few games as possible. He probably has a bet on with someone. Je can, therefore, expect to•see him, in the near future, be called out for: 1) 3tealing first, from second! 2) Obstructing a fi~lder 3) ~etting hit by a batted ball 4) Running into his own batted ball 5) Touching his bat to his own batted ball 6) Leaving the basepaths, to avoid a tag 7) Occupying a base, already occupied 8) Carrying his bat to first base! 9) 3tepping out of the batters box, to hit a ball 10) Batting out of order, in the line-up 11) Leaving his base in order to pick up his glove, mistakenly thinking that there were three outs o doubt there are some other ways to be called out, but l cannot think of them, at the moment. ~pr. 3 ••• Guardians-16, Druids-10. ~he Guardians collected 23 hits, sendin~ their battin~ avera~es way up • .. essrs. Yar.lamura, Konyha and Zenone each had three, and :.r. Campbell had four. ;-1r. Schuler contributed a home run, as did ~lr. Owyer. The Druids garnered enough runs. Ten should win. The trouble Ls, they have allowed 46 ,in three games. The ~ruid fielders need more practice in cat~hing fly balls. rhey are not implementing the twd fundamental principles of this art ••• namely: 1) •-lhen the ball leaves the bat, immediatelv estimate where it will come down, and move guicklv to that spot. 2) Then place the ~love so that the ball will hit secur ly in the pocket ••• not any place else. Really, that's all there is to it. SufTBALL snl;or ;;cs: .ius tlers Greenwaves Guardians Druids Spartans ril~::> Won Lost 0 1 Points 12 7 0 1 3 0 J 4 2 2 7 3 3 ./.E.EK'S SCliEDULE: 3oftball: Thu. Apr. 10. 2:30 Guardians-Hustlers Sun. Apr. 13, 1:30 Spartans-Druids Wed. Apr. 16' 4:00 Spartans-Druids Track meet: Sat. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/901904ca25d0f76167e52718b59a7cbd.pdf ac8b47d9c502ab998dddfd677c78c10a PDF Text Text THE VOL.1 ISSUE 13 THE ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER APRIL 16 1980 WHAT A DAY FOR A DAYDREAM by Horry Zolkower An average, ho-hum Wednesday afternoon last week turned out to be quite interesting as I wolfed down lunch by the docks. An old man, sporting a long biblical beard with staff in hand and a pin striped suit, was walking towards me accompanied by a news crew. The news crew turned out to be from CBS and they we~e following this mysterious man all ov:.. .. tmnq.polis. Wondering who the man was, 1 . .eci<j"etl. up to where he was sitting nu li~~ened intently to the interview. I ~<AJn found out his name was Don Badgel¥ ~n.d he was running for President of the United States. Mr Badgely ("plea.se call me Don") has to be the most unusual presidential candidate in this election campaign. His ideas about politics coincide with his religious beliefs. The teachings of the Scriptures are his political platform. Like St Paul, he believes laws are unnecessary, provided all men have a unified spiritual consciousness. Mr Badgely feels that by running for president he will have the opportunity to expound his beliefs and become the "model" for the rest of mankind to follow. "The young people of today will be the ones who bring about a spiritual revolution," he said over and over. Everywhere we walked young people stopped and asked who he was and what he had to offer. One girl asked if he was Socrates. One guy on West Street inquired if he was Moses. His outward ~ppearance attracts young people and Mr Badgely purposely uses i t as a tool to conununicate to them. He claims to be a Christian, yet he feels St Paul's doctrines stand on shaky ground. The Word of God, he feels, is what we should follow and not one man's interpretation. Mr Badgely pointed out that the gospels of Paul were written before the Apostle's and as a result there was a distortion of the Word. He believes in universal unity by bringing opposites together. As a politician, he feels he can unify the church with the state; as a spiritual model, to bring together all religions into one faith. Organized religion, Mr Badgely says, only throws man further away from the word. The difference between Lord and God was another interpretation he stressed during his stay. When Lord is written in the bible, -. �Notice Concerning tickets to "As it is meant to be understood as the flesh; the "As You Like It", as you may already know nention of God is to be interpreted as the s pirit. will be performed on Parents' · weekend--Satura' Mr Badgely showed two examples of the difference Apr~l 26th at 8:00 P.M.;and again on Sunday,ay, between Lord and God. The first one in in Acts April 27th at 2:15 P.M. Students and Facul ty 9:10 when St Paul has the vision of Jesus on the are (as always) admitted freely; however,they road to Damascus. The Lord is mentioned as speak- are requested to reserve their seats in the ing to him, not God. Mr Badgely feels this is an Assistant Dean's office sometime before Fri . , important difference and he bases his disbelief April 25th. in Paul on that basis. If the voice Paul heard Faculty are especially encouraged to was his flesh, then God did not talk to him like ' make any contributions they may be inclined Paul Believed. to offer. The second example Mr Badgely used was in Genesis when the Lord is mentioned as confusing Parents who plan to come to Parents' the language of man when the tower of Babel was Weekend and have registered have already, in built. He felt this exemplified the distortion many cases, reserved their seats with me. of the Word by man's act of spreading himself In some cases parents have already . reserved too thin by listening to his flesh instead of a seat for their son or daughter. It's all God's Word. very confusing now, but if you know that your Mr Badgely had some thoughts about Jesus as parents are coming and would like to see the well. He felt that Christians idolitrize Jesus play, you may reserve their seat too when you reserve your own. instead of worshipping his teachings. He pointDoug Twigg for K.W.P. ed out that in the gospel of John it is said that "in the beginning was the Word and the THE BRIDGE CLUB will meet tonight, (Wed) at 9 :00 Word was God." The emphasis, he feels, should in McDowell 33. Please come either if you're i nbe the following of the Word and not in practerested in playing tonight or arranging a game ticing idolatry. for a more convenient time. We sat at the bus depot on West Street waitThe only ballot his name has appeared on so far ing for his bus which would take him to Washhas been the Kansas Republican primary, several ington DC. Mr Badgely just repeated over and weeks ago. Badgely quoted unofficial sources which over his religious beliefs and I decided to gave him 272 votes in that primary. Faced with a poor turn-out like that, Badgely was leave. I stood up, shook his hand, and wished asked if he thought the voters were taking him serhim the best of luck on his campaign. His iously. He said they weren't, and blamed it on the last words to me were "may God be with you." major newspapers which refused to cover his campaign ' I headed down West Street towards campus think- effort. Badgely says he's running on the Republican ballot ing what an interesting afternoon I had spent because he thinks change must happen within the majo r with an interesting man. parties. ------------------------------------------------------.,.) The change Badgely seeks may shock and offend some . He attacks the separation of church and state in the I Constitution and Bill of Rights. "Separation [of chur ch • and state] is a sin," commented Badgely, who believe s i by Scott C. Boyd that men should obey the laws of God, not men. He fe els that in our secular society "laws become the idols we "Has the time come to discard the Constilive by." tution of the United States and the Bill Badgely went so far as to say that we shouldn't have of Rights? Isn't it time we started living laws if people will break them. Asked how society wo uld according to the wisdom and understanding protect itself from its more violent criminal member s, which comes by living in the Spirit of God? Badgely responded, "When you live in the Spirit, not hing -Donald Badgely, in his pamphlet is going to happen to you." He also cited the biblical Seasoned With Salt asmonition to forgive Offenders 70x7 times. If elected, Badgely says that as President he would Can a man saying this win the Republican nominbe "setting the example" for how men should live. "What ation for Pre ident of the United States? Is he a I'm trying to do is much greater than being President," candidate or a preacher, or perhaps both? Badgely said of his efforts to lead men to the Word of Donald Badqely, 61, of Poughkeepsie, New York is God. a candidate for the Republican Party, though he Indeed, Badgely seems to see his campaign as more of talks like a preacher and sometimes a revolutionary, a platform to espouse his views on God and how men aa the above quote attests to. Badqely was in Annapolis April 9, and came to eat should live than as a serious bid for the presidency. in the St John's coffee shop after being filmed that He's running because he claims a vision in 1968 told him to. morninq by. CBS-TV.News. "I don't follow Christianity. I follow the Word, Oreaaad in a black pin striped three-piece suit, what Jesus taught. Man made Christianity." said Badqaly looked very presidential, except for his Badgely about his religious views. lonq, qray beard and shepherd's staff which made "I'm planting the Word so your generation will come him look like a man cast as Moses in a biblical and pick it up." movie a ic. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OR PREACHER? I So SU fl on He ~~ di ic if �•mc:===================================:J3THE GALLANT AND THE VALIANT Right before Junior-Freshmen essay week three noble students, putting aside the vain-glory of th ir essays, dared to sall forth to none other than th country music ca l of the world to repre nt our stalwart in tion at the National collegiate A sembly. The ~ ·~ s of this as mbly w to meet, discuss, and com to a con nsus on th political que tion facing our nation. St John's succ ded in in piring aw , . and the w ekend proved to be education l and pleasurabl . The a s mbly began with a disput tious air: this f rvor continued and th conv ntion wa almo t destroyed by it. Thi was largely due to thoughtless and ov rzealous participant who used the assembly as a sounding board for ideali tic and impractical propo als. To solve the urban crises one particip nt suggested "increased spending in every phere." Brown University dominated th committees and was larg ly responsible for the e kind of proposals. Many of the participants w r frustrated by these maneuver , but the imminat thr at of these individuals running our society pulled the or thoughtful and consci ntious student into coalition aimed at thwarting their stanc e are proud to say that St John' was at th forefront of this movement. We w r in trum ntal in voting down a for ign relations propo al that dvocated disbanding the CIA, that cha tized the . S . for it "Impe rialistic" aggres ion and which upport d a position of "suprem d f r nc " toards all third world countri s. N verth le s, emoc racy thriv s on controversy, and this w ppa rent no place more than the op ning ceremonies. W r c ived, after fin cut of teak (a bit e ll done for Mr Cos •ta te), the opportunity of earing two key-note addre s speak rs. To our urpri one wa a Russian pres attache, the other a s United Stat Senator Bid n of O !aware. The Russi n sp aker described the history of Soviet-American relations (1940-1980) from a disi nctly Soviet point of view. He stat that ussia's recent activitie in the Middle and Far ast ha ve been for the purpose of protecting their ec urity and economic stability. He chastized the nited States for the r e cent break of relations. Soviet invo lvement in Afghanistan he attributed to Eoreign i nter f e r e nce. Whe n pressed on the que s tion 'f whether the continued presence of the Soviets in fghanis t an pointed to the fact that there was strong opular res i s tance, he gave a marxist interpretation. e stated that the r e ligious leaders of Afghanistan \ad preache d their faith in order to ?PPress the eop~e and t hat it was the Soviet's responsibility ~o liberat e the m from this predicament. It might , ustly have be e n asked why the Soviet's didn't obect to Khomenie's revolt on the same ground. T~e senator gave a very poor response to the oviet position . Being an American he gained great . uppo~t from the student s, yet his rhetorical :lourishes were i n many ways insulting . He droned In endlessly, and was of t e n rude to the Soviet guests. le spoke of re-evaluating our s elves and our polic i es, iut h7 gave no specific propo sals fo r t he direction ~ whic h we s~ou~d head. He refused questions, but id go out drinking with us. I guess we're all Amercans. Over a ll the conference was a success even f only i n fr ightening us. ' respectfully, M Coss & R White .s. If you ever get to Nashvi l l e don't mi s s the Grand Ole Opry ! .s.s . The third tudent w• ... J onathan Ed !man. REVIE .-:r F MR SACHS ' LECTURE ON ARISTOTLE'S METAPHYSICS by Kurt Schuler I have had two experi nces with Aristotl 's M taphy ic • The first was reading snippets of the book for freshman seminar; it seemed a weird collag of profound and trivial insights. The econd wa reading nearly the whole thing for a prec ptori l; th piece mad s n and didn't contradict ach other, yet I couldn't say precisely how th y formed a whole. Thu I listened to Mr Sach ' 1 cture on "The Outline of the Argument of Ari totle' Metaphy ic " with great inter st. Mr Sachs said that he had mad one hypothesi nd three ·deci ions as equipment for reading the Metaphysic • Th hypothesis was that the book makes--ense as on whole, with an orderly and c plex argument. The first decision wa not to tru t th translation of key word in Ari totle's vocabulary; word that ar ordinary and concrete in Greek becom ob cur and abstract in tran lation of Ari totle. Th econd decision wa to develop a p r pective on the r lation of the Metaphysics to Plato's dialogue • Ari totle agrees with Plato more than with, say, Parm nides or Democritus. For him, th dialogue were the b st existing philosophical t xts, and th enterpri e of the Metaphysics is on t out by Pl to and carried on in a Platonic manner of philo ophizing. · The third decision w s to find out what ousia (USUally translated nSUb tanCe 11 ) i I for Aristotle claims that the central. question of the Metaphysic , What i b ing?, is the sam as, What is ou ia?, a qu tion it first six book and part of~ venth book try to answ r. Plato use ousia to mean property, that is, p rmanent wealth. Aristotle places ou ia in between to on (which m ans simply everything that i , includiilg~ dog, red, small, etc.) and chrem (which mans a thing used up, such as money), for Greek has no exact equivalent to our word "being." Ousia means what remains in something, belonging to all but (a with wealth) i emphatic in some. The primary nae of being is the thinghood of a thing, which is not merely reducible to Aristotle's categories. For example, a dog is not animal and four-legged and keen-nosed and colorblind. Aristotle is looking for the cause of being. It is not self-evident why the world is as it is; Mr Sachs called this "the deepest postulate of Aristotle's philosophizing." "Aristotle's Copernican revolution" was to see everything as at work being itself. This is not a theory, but a way of bringing the world to the questioning intellect, a way ot seeing what is one. In asking what the thinghood of things is, Aristotle narrows being to living being (Bk VII), for even superficially inanimate things such as rocks and air are parts of a living whole, the cosmos. Here his physics, which says that nature is form, merges with his metaphysics, which says that being is form. But physics remains s econd philosophy i nstead of fi rs t philosophy becaus e the rema ining hal f of the Metaphysics goes beyond it by asking what form is. Aristotle's progress is from things known by ua to things knowable by nature. Accordingly, Bk VII, ch 4 to Bk IX discuss being in the sensible world. We perceive distinct things, "thises," and when we ask, with Socrates what it is (to ti esti) , what the cause of its thisness is, Ar"'°"Tstetle replies that it is what it ke pt on being when it was at all (~ ti ~ eina.i) In man that means breathing, twoleqged, sentient, etc. The an wer to, What is form? ia, "Form i mat rial t ork ccording to p r- �-4----~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---------sisting definiteness of time," Mr ~achs said. Bk IX show• that form is not material; indeed, Bks VII IX as a whole show that materiality is a subordinate way of being. Aristotle's question now becomes, What makes each form on ? At the start of Bk X he lists the ways in which a form can be one, and in Bk XII he arrives at a living cause of form, the Prime Mover, who causes motion in the only possible way, i.e. by thinking. (If you're curious what happened to Bk. XI, it is a series of abstracts and extracts from the Ph~sics and Metaphysics.) Far from assuming the intelligibility of things, Aristotle needs twelve books to prove it! The last two books are a mop-up job. The question having now become, What is the definition of the world? Aristotle refutes the views that the Prime Mover is thinking the forms themselves rather than only the conditions for their existence, and that mathematical objects are the elements of things responsible for their being. After that, Aristotle can do no more for us: the ultimate question of the Metaphysics takes us beyond the limits of speech to ncountering the simple things by ourselves. Most of the questions in the question period were about the forms being at work or about Plato's views on being compared with Aristotle's views. Someone asked how thought explains the unity of a form. Mr. Sachs replied that the Metaphysics, Catagories, P~ics and De Anima all bear on that •UbJect, and t while he did not understand some key points in the latter, yet something must hold together a thing's intelligible identity, for its matter cannot. It must be constantly at work, or the thing will dissolve into a heap. One can understand the character of the Prime Mover-' s thinking by considering th t. There were other questions about Plato, Aristotle, and causality. Mr. Sachs at various times said these things: S9crates may not see self-controlled ·and self-preserving "thises" in the world, as Aristotle does. That is why there is a difference between the being of a dog and this particular dog in Plato, whereas for Aristotle they are the same. The latter talks about how caused things come from causes; the former says only that we must face the existence of causes. And in Aristotle's scheme, the good and being are perhaps inseparable because both spring from the Prime Mover, in contrast to Socrates' assertion in the Republic that "the good is beyond being." Another interesting question was what one might learn from reading the Metaphysics. Mr Sachs said that one might be less confused about what wisdom is; more important, one might move to the verge of becoming wise. This lecture was one of the two or three best I've attended all year. Mr. Sachs was clear, ' forceful, and even at times a touch eloquent. He had many, many thought-provoking insights, a few of which I've tried to convey on this necessarily compressed format. I hope the lecture will incite more people here to read this rather neglected work in full. REWARD OFFERED: I have lost a gold bracelet that is very dear to me. I would be delighted to reward amply whomever returns it to me. The bracelet is a squarelinked gold chain with one red coral bead. 0 Thank you. Emi S. Geiger Our lecturer this week Hilail Gildin, is prof ssor of philosophy at Queens College in New York. He is the founder and editor of the journal Interpretation which has been receptive to St. John's_ authors more than any other scholarly journal. He is also the originator and chairman of the Special Program in the Humanities of Queens College, a program similar in aim to the St. John's program. He has published articles on Aristotle's Ethics, Spinoza, Rousseau, John Stewart Mill, and Leo Strauss. During the last few years he has also been working on a book on Rousseau's Social Contract. Uo~u.d G --J/.J/UAc-w C/ _____. Edward G. Sparrow Dean - .. --- YWCA WOMAN'S CENTER SPRING PROGRAM "Assertiveness Training" offered by Pat White is an 8 session course which begins Wednesday, April 16, 7-9 pm. Participants will learn how to have thei r rights respected while respecting the rights of others. The fee is $40. A new course, "Methods for More Effective Living " focuses on a variety of ways for people to help each other through peer counseling. Topics include listening techniques, psychological theory, and counseling witb another. This 8 session series l ed by Esther Geil will begin Saturday, April 19,10 .am 12 noon. The fee is $1+0. Karen Rossow will lead a two-session course entitled "First Aid for Burn-Out." Topics include remedies for fatigue, indecisiveness and lack of motivation. The course is scheduled to begin Monday, April 28, 7-9:30 pm. The fee is $15. CAREER CONC~RNS FOR WOMEN "Employment Trends",. a one session course, will be led by Jon Haggerty, former assistant director of the Career Resource Conter. Topics are long and short term trends in national and local employment with particular emphasis on career patterns fo r women. The course is scheduled for Monday, Apri l 21, 7-9 pm; the cost is $5. Jo Harris is the organizer and moderator of a panel discussion on "Getting a Government Job" to be held Thursday, April 24, 7:30-9:30 pm. Ms Harris has a MA in Public Administration and is a council member of the Maryland Chapter of the American Society of ·Public Administrators. She has extensive experience in state and federal government and is currently staff director of operations for the 1981 Whit e Eouse Conference on Aging. The two panelists are Charlotte Baker, a federal government contractor, and Ka therine LeVeque, who has personal experiences in the di fficulty of getting a government job. Topics will include discrimination, education vs experience, procedures for identifying opportunities and making application. This cost is $8. Pre-registration and YWCA mefubership ·a u.. required for all Woman's Center courses. To register·call 268-4393. The Woman's Center is located· a~ 167 Duke of Gloucester Street. �(ndividual and Community ON THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTION, OR, IS THE PHRASE. 'POLITY FOOL" REDUNDANT? o THE EDITOR: For its April Fool's Day Supplement, THE COLLEGIAN In the 2 April issue of THE GADFLY there were recently r.ublished a clever and complex mystery story lu' ee reactions to my previous letter that I'd like entitled 'The Proposed Constitution of the Student respond to. Polity of St John's College." Though _ usually reI 0 As to J. Sorrentine's letter. I quote a famous view films, I would like to examine this mystery, etter: "Dear Sir, You may be right. Signed, Yrs since it may well acquire theatrical performance L Mencken." We think we've annihilated the smallrights. x virus but, if he is very quick about it and has I was struck by the tombstone-like border that he skills, Mr Sorrentino may be able to run off · to surrounded the piece. Perhaps this symbolizes the t hiopia and culture it back into our lives. , fact that a new Polity Constitution is a dead issue, H H Hanunel's 1000 word instructive and thoughtful or at best, an epitaph. Then there was the appearance rmnentary, responsive to my suggestion of a dia~of the stocky middle-aged man on pages 6 and 12. Is gue has at least ten points I'd like to address lhe perhaps the shadowy Bxecutive Secretary first ment, in compliance to the Editor's sensible limit tioned in Article II, sec • . A2 a2 (page 5), but whose 450 words, I'll hold it down and hope that others character is not made clear till page 9? Or does il l get into the act. I hope that those on campus the stocky man symbolize the reader of this mystery, i ll appreciate that I get my GADFLY 7 days after r·with his look of tired exasperation on page 12? blication. . rI don't know. on page 6, THE GADFLY _ stated the philosophy of But that is the problem with this mystery. There e Jazz/Swing Party. I hope it worked and that is an abundance of red herrings, but an unexcused e re will be published dialogue of what happened. absence of plot and denouement. It is unclear, both note that this philosophy used expressions like lin form and content. Who is this Executive Secretary? ordially', 'familiar talk', and emphasized the What are the strange electoral units? Who will reportance of conversation and community. Wish I move a delegate who breaks Polity law? And Why do d seen it before 5 April. we need this longwinded document? (Not to mention Mr Hammel thinks I am talking about things that lthat proposed fire hazard, the Student Polity Are a threat to the individual not the community." chivesl) This proposed Constitution accomplishes at is an important point, and directly responsive nothing and reveals less in its effort to cope with my original letter. This "old moralist" may, will, the problems of student government. Its authors rtainly fight against self-destruction. But what have y t to learn that great quantities of ink do Hammel speaks of is destructive . and certainly not not act as a solvent. nducive to the community of learning. But then, nobody said that government by mystery An individual who is a threat to himself is a was easy! eat to the comrnuni ty simply because he's taking ·- - - - - - -- _ _ _ __ _;1 ... ............ m..._..s o r r e;.;;n~t.;.;i;;;n:.;;o.;;._________ useful space. Consider the seminar. What is a , MOVIE REVIEW r kable, what is the best, size? Two? Five hundred? : d two or 500 what? Bodies? Or alert minds? There ; a too big and a too little seminar, tutorial, ~O LUCKY MAN rty, dance or what have you. A person who is a eat to themselves may be a contribution to a grou · Sat and Sun Apr 19 & 20 at 8:15 pm sychiatric therapy session but is a deterrent to a unity of learning like St John's. Why is Richard Warner corning from Toronto to see I f he's wiped out on sound or drugs he just isn't this film? Is. it because this film is de p t rth much to anybody in a public context. In a pri. . e ye te contex~ I personally do two thing to wipe out ente~taining' or because it is '.'A musical odyssey a suffusion of pleasure. One, I own the best of the early '70' s? Probably not! . ereo headphones you can buy, and the sound of , SUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at maximum ' volume is un' a lleled. Two, I put my ear in direc;::t contact with O LUCKY MAN is the great direction of Lindsay e warm wood of the soft upper curve of my Weisger- · Anderson, the music of -Alan Price (remember The . r cla ssic guitar and play flamenco to enjoy the . Animals), and the wonderful acting of Malcolm chness and volume of a cathedral pipeorgan while . neig hbor hears hardly a thing. And there's the · McDowel (re!Jlember A Clockwork Orange; forget int, M Hammel; wipe out in private, in a private r Caligula) • Supporting McDowe_ is a small troupe l ace and in a private time. The communtiy is almost f ways a nd almost everywhere, especially for a St , o actors' each -of whom (Peter Sellers style) hn ' s p r ogram. play many different roles. All these things come . I ~g r ee you have dangerous toys Mr Hammel. A few together in an awesome and entertaining threell~gr ams of LSD can mean lifelong (perhaps short er7iful ly) horror. Isn't it a bit blase to say that_ hour film. Richard Warner will be there, make surt ':1 ve s e e n this and "we all have?" But I don• t that you are too! ink you e ven und e rstand enough to be blase about [ass; _ t he 'stoned' person gets no hangover and dis- P.S. O LUCKY MAN cost us $284, and we have only ays no . g ross symptoms, and that's very dangerous raised $255. Please send contributio~s soon to ecause it i s not s e lf-liµliting. Jim White or Paul Thomson. Its worth it!! A responsib le member of a community of learning eds to be first, physically and mentally present ~ ARTMENT TO SUBLET .d prepar e d, and second, demanding of the same from s fell ow members. I-think of the late Scofield in One-bedroom house on Cornhill St. tor sublet months morn ing Greek tutorial who said, when everyone of June, July & August. Two stories with couch in d re ported that they hadn't done their homework, ~ving room that folds out into double bed. Air conny dig you come?". ditioner. Rent is $210 per month plus utilities. Why did you come indeed? F. Warhurst Deposit required. For information contact Jamelia I I I Saied (263-8677). �-6~::::::::::=====:::::=========================~---~__J_J TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE STUDENT POLITY, Currently eight students have not paid the Waltz Committee for champagne bought on credit. These debts date back as far as the beginning of Decembe Because of this poor history, the Waltz Conunittee ill be unable to extend credit to any member of the Student Polity during the Parent's Weekend Waltz and the Spring Cotillion. So, if you want champagne, bring your cash. DC REPORT 15 APRIL 80 b cott c. Boyd Del gates Marion Betor and Leslie Smith reported that the Marriott district manag r suggested that St John's students form a Food Committee to conduct surveys on food preference among students, and to as i t Marriott in menu planning. Fiv to ten stud nt are needed for the committe , and tho e int t d should contact Mi Betor or Smith. ident Martin Miller reported the latest chapin the polity stereo saga. The bad n w he had th t someone stripped the crossover circui t f rom on of the polity speakers. The good news was that Martin Miller member, Waltz Committee Brue Elliott volunteered to make the necessary new ----~~--~--~~~~~~~~~--~~~~~~~~~--~-circuit for the cost of parts. TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY Pet r Griffes, alternate for the ab ent Abe Schoene r report d that Mr Schoener locat d a San ui 40 watt a in N w York costing $159. The DC vot d to ~urchas e The Off ice of College Relations forwards mail to that n eded amp with the remaining money in the M aint nance of Polity Equipm nt Fund. Mr Miller will augthose individuals that have left the campus. nt that fund by revoking th Outdoors Club Ho ever, when someone on campus has mail returned charter and confiscating their d funct $50. unused we must ask that you please place your full name Th DC vot d to r voke th curr nt SOB charter a nd in titute a new on that establish s a "Son of B cchu (not nick-names) and return address properly on n by council to grant authorization for pol the left-hand corner, so your correspondence will chos parti the nd to k ep th polity t reo. The new ity s have the least amount of interruption. SOB charter e tablish s a policy wh reby a $50 de posit mu t b p id to take the stereo out. If the stereo is Your cooperation will assist us in seeing that return d in satisfactory condition, th d posit wi ll your mail is returned to you without delay. be r fund d. 1 o in titued in the new SOB charter is a proviThank you ion whereby a rental fee may b charg d to students for us of the stereo. This was ob) ct d to by De l College Relations gate Noah Blyler on the grounds that sine the po lity own the stereo, its m mbers houldn't have to STUDENT EMPLOYMENT OFFICE pay man y to us it. Mr Miller d f nd d the renta l b cau e of the mon y it would rais to cover Carey Gibson runs a tourist lodging house on Prine f ainten nc , and h d a motion p d anyway to set George St. He needs someone to be on call to watch th rental fee at $0.00, with the und r tanding t hat the place every now and then when he leaves town. an actual rental fee would b charged only when t he This may be occasional afternoons, maybe a weekend. DC decided it was necessary. Mr Miller in ist d on If you're sticking around during the summer, it k eping the stand-by power to charge a rental fee . would ~urn into a summer job. Call at 268-5555. The produce market in The Market Place needs a driver for the summer. This entails loading and unloading. The hours are 9-2, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Drop by. · )(°jU BRBjJ) (ilD EAT IT) I teachin& a one-day vorkshop on the technique ot French bread baking at the YWCA on State Circle on Saturday, May 3. The workshop will run from 11 aa till appron.a_ely i.. pm. The cost is $10 per t person, includinl materials. We will also prepare a whole vb.eat loat and an egg bread. General methods ot bread bakinl and vork1ng with yeast will be disciused. To recister, call me (263-8657) or drop me a note Tia campus mail. The $10 ree must be paid by April 30. Jamelia Saied ntalC THE ASSISTANT DEAN'S OFFICE In th• interest of safety all hall and bathroca llqhta in the dormitories should be left on at n.iCJht. We are aware that a healthy reqard for th• consexvation of energy moves some •tudanta to switch off the lights; but in this e&a•r that i8 probably a poor economy. People need to SH where they are going and to be •ur• th&t no intruders lurk in th ·hallvuy and bathrooms. Benjamin Milner A . . iatant De TRAC th r e Cam p and Ke nr 'it' . a mi B u th i I' ~h e and FROM THE ST JOHN'S POLITICAL FORUM The St John's Political Forum i pleased to present yet another speaker in its continuing attempt to present interesting and informative lectures on political topics. Mr Austin Ranney, whose lecture is entitled: "Are the National Party Conventions Obsolete?", will make a presentation on Wednesday, April 23, at 7:30 pm in the Conversation Room. The brief talk w~ll last approximately 45 minutes followed by an open question period. Hr Ranney is currently a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and is also a professional lecturer for Georgetown University. Hr Ranney has authored and edited several works on political thought as well as contributing to numerous periodicals. He was also a member of the Democratic National Conmittee's Commission on Presidential Nomination and Party Structure. Hr Ranney's remarks are sure to be interesting and will contribute greatly to an awareness of what will be taking place this sunwner and next fall. To vote with knowledge is to understand the process, rather than accept what happens blindly . Corae, and be able to vote wt,» knowledge. THIS SATURDAY IS THE DEADLINE FOR THE REALITY TEE-SHIRT DESIGN CONTEST." GivE YOUR gNTRIES TO LISA COBB OR HONOR BULKLY B-W l 2 C-I t 2 SOF �-----------...-r-----,Sports MEN'S by lryc• J obten CK MEET RESULTS ·: The Guardians won the most events ••• three by Mr. Weinstein, and the 100 yard dash by Mr. ampbell. The Hustlers won three, Mr. Wise taking two, nd Mr. Acfams one. The Spartan took three ••• from Mr. enry, Mr. Brickley and their relay team. The Druids' ~ r. Dwyer set a new record in the Softball Throw with mighty heave of 294 feet! But the Hustlers were strongest in picking up second, third and fourth place finishes ••• 17 in all. However, the Spartans could only accumulate ten in this rea, nd the Guardians merely four. Consequently the Hustlers won the team title, the Spartans were second and the Guardians third. 11 11 So ~r the Hustlers have had a perfect sprin~ ••• hey are 5-0 in Softball, and won the Marathon and the [rack Meet. The Guardian hopes for the team title have uffered a near-fatal blow. OFTBALL: Apr. 7 ••• Greenwaves-20, Guardians-14 Not exactly your classic pitchers duel ••• but lots of itting; lots of errors, lots of runs ••• lots of fun. ut another nail-in-the-coffin for the slipping Guardans. Apr. 9 ••• Spartans-8, Greenwaves-6. The Spartans came p with five runs in the last inning to garner their first in. Mr. Blyler's bases-loaded . bingle caused the most ama~e. Apr. 10 ••• Hustlers-5, Guardians-3. This game, in the g, would have helped out the Guardians considerably in heir stretch duel with the Hustlers ••• but 'twas not to e. The Hustlers were tough in the field. For instance, hey cut down two runners at the plate, with some alert lay. Since they only won by two, those plays loom raher large. Apr. 13 ••• Druids-ll, Spartans-9. Messrs. Tripp, Scott nd Sherman all scored twice. But ome of the games i ghlights were pulled off by Mr. Christensen, with some i fty catches in the field, and a two-RBI triple. Peole should be reminded that he will be playing for our ide in the most important game of the season ••• The~­ ual Faculty-Senior HappeninR at Graduation Weekend. Beware, Seniors, beware! We are loaded with talent. This week's softball lecture wi 11 be on "The Theory of uccessful Baserunning". The fundamental principles are: -With less than two outs l ) On--:;--£l y · ba 11 a) If there is a high probability of gaining the next base after the catch, then £.!,&, .!:!£.• b) If there is a low probability, then go "half way", re dy to advance or retreat. 2 ) On ground ball a) If you ate liable to be forced out at the next base, take off with the crack of the bat. b) If you are not liable to be forced, take a few safe steps off the base, ready to advance or retreat, a conditions suggest. -With two outs 1) On any fly ball, advance rapidly. 2) On a ground ball, advance rapidly ••• unless you are not forced, and by advancing you would put yourself in jeopardy. -In the ~inning, with your team trailing 1) Do not take unnecessary risks. Do everything possible to !!2.E_ get put out, and to put the !.ti:.!!&. run on the bases 2) Remember, the only run that matters is the ~run. OFTBALL STANDINGS: Hustlers Greenwaves Guardians I?ruids Spartans Won 5 3 2 l l Lost 0 2 3 3 4 Points 15 11 9 6 7 l'H IS WEEK'S SCHEDULE: Softball: Thu. Apr. 17, 1:30 Greenwaves-Guardians Wed. Apr. 23, 4:00 Spartans-Hustlers Fitness Teat: Tues. Apr. 22 ••• Final Deadline ' SOFTBALL April 3 •, ' ~ "'~-: .;: '. • I . . - . WOMEN'S by leth Gordon Furies - 2, Maenads - 5 With Miss Leonard pitching for the Furies, there seems to be chance of the gold winning. Right now, she 's the best pitcher in the league. But the Maenad's sh&rp outfield pr vented the Furies from scoring until the last inning1 Misses Rhum and Paschal finding hoaie plate, one after the other. For the Maenads, Misses Groff (2), Farrell., McMahon and Polk, came in. Mis Polk batted a home run to end the second inning. some April 8 Maenads - 11, Nympha - 10 It looked like the Nymphs had the game clinched through the third inning. They started off terrifically, scoring 4 runs. Mias Schanche scored the fourth with, Oh My God t, a home run. But troubles with their pitcher caused the Nymphs to fall behind in the fourth inning, eventual.l.y loainq the game by one. April 10 Nymphs - 12, FU.ries - 10 Scoring eleven out of their twelve runs in the first two inning•, and leading by six, the Nymphs felt pretty sure of winning this game by a big spread. Meanwhile, the Furies ware trying to hold the Nymphs as long as possible. Where ~Miss Leona.rd?? Arriving, but not soon enough, Miss Leonard three some an pitches, striking out a few of the Nymphs. The Nymphs got one run in the third inning, while the Furies started catching up. unfortunately for them, the innings ran out and they were left holding the bag, 12-10 Nymphs. April 11 Maenads - 11, Amazons - 5 The oral went smoothly, thank you, and Mr Wha.1.en reports a smooth game as ll - for the Maenads, anyway. For the first thre innings the Maenad' s kept the Amazons to three hi ts total, no runs scored. Miss Cobb scored one in the fourth inning, Miss Litwin hit a home run in th fifth, and Misses Nogales, Malton and Valentine each scored in the sixth. For the Maenads, Miss Hahn batted a homerun, bringing in Miss Dornich, and nine othere made it to the plate for another Maenad victory. April 13 Amazons - 11, Nymphs - 3 The field was so empty while th Nymphs we.re out there, that it practically screamed for a few homerWls. Miss Litwin was the onl.y one who took advantage, though. Who says pitchers ~·t hit? Somebody gave second-baseman Barham a bloody nose, and Miss Schanche left to play somelxXiy el in somebody else's play, so the field looked even emptier for awhile. Anyway, with little opposition from the Nymphs, the Amazons had an easy day, overcoming the Maroon 11 - 3. SUMMER EMPLOYMENT Spend the summer working at a camp in the Tanglewood area o! Massachusetts! The following positions are open: Kitchen worker - dishwashing and general cleanu~. You can also learn something about cooking 1! you want to. Pay is minimum wage. A.JR•le is preferred unless you're a strong and hearty female with lots or endurance. Counselors are needed in the following areas: drama, music, arts and crafts. This is an allgirls camp and counselors must double as dorm mothers. Thus only females need apply. Must be 21 or older. Pay is (I think) 1500 for the eigbtveek session. .Although these salaries aren't greathroom and '"board is free so you can save practica y all you earn. I! yQu're interested call me (263-8657) or drop me a note via campus mail. J'amelia Saied �INFORMAL NOON-DAY CONCERT 11l 1lavJ J.. rtd ~ St John's has a staff member who is a fine pian.i st and who will give an informal noonday cert for the college ccxnmunity at 12:15 pm Mo day, April 28, in room 145 of Mellon. Frances Cheng, who teaches at the Peabody Preparatory Department and operates our addressograph machine, will perform most of the faculty program she recently presented at Peabody for the benefit of its scholarship fund. Her program will include Bach's Chroma.tic Fantasy &nd Fugue, Beethoven's ThirtyTwo Variations in C Minor, and Chopin's Polonaise in c Sharp Minor and his A Flat Major Ballade. Miss Cheng began her studies at the Shanghai Academy Preparatory Division and continued piano studies in Hong Kong with Miss Tu-Ye Sien. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the Pea.body Conservatory, where she studied with Dr Konrad Wolff and with Leon Fleisher. She ha.s performed for the Hong Kong Radio and Television and accompanied soprano Kiang Hwah in Hong Kong City Hall. She also has performed at Dickinson Colleg • Mor rec ntly Miss Cheng has played for W hington ensembles. She was a member of the master clas conducted by Earl Wilde at Wolf Trap in th s r of 1978. Since 1971 Miss Ch ng has been a member of the faculty of the P a.body Preparatory SChool. Submitted by Becky Smith pM. ~Mn/i d~ 1JlA.ftrrud b~ A,!UU-p~ CA6lal:t ~ D~ita. 'fiJelt. $3.lb AJ11am~ )ab bn~ ~ !>. -s. c. 3vrl~ JUNIOR-SENIOR COCKTAIL PARTY y ars extra gan.za is being run by Honor ulkly and Uthi H d and th y need help. Soph res who are willing to bartend and/or e food should contact them. It will be your turn next y r and tJu.s will be good experience. '!hi .. CALENDAR WED. APR 16- TUES APR 22 Thur. Apr. 17 2:!5p.m. D.C. Meeting with the Administration 23 l'ri. Apr. 18 B:lSp.m. LECTURE: "The Design of Rousseau's FSK Aud. Social Contract", by Hilail Giddin, Liberal Arts Institute, Queen's College. ll:lSp.m. Film: The Blue Angel FSK Aud. and French Tests Lucky Man Sun. Apr. 20 S:lSp.m. Film: O Lucky Man Dean's Ofc. 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