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Type The nature or genre of the resource sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource mp3 Language A language of the resource English Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Nelson, Christopher (Introduction) Relation A related resource <a title="Typescript" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/2091">Typescript</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Codevilla_Angelo_2017-04-19 Kristensen lecture series U.S. Naval Academy https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/ede9398cd0cc178fa83cf43ffc5d7394.pdf 8e05543d484b97062124e7b4183653c3 PDF Text Text On the Natural Law Of War And Peace By Angelo M. Codevilla 1.We are here to celebrate the memory of Erik S. Kristensen, a warrior who had graduated from the Naval Academy and who then came to St. Johns College - the closest thing in today's world to Plato's Academy. In his memory, someone comes here each year to explain why the peace on which the practice of philosophy depends requires successful statecraft, including success in war. LCDR Kristensen's life testified to the interdependence of war, peace, and philosophy. 2500 years earlier, Socrates had testified to the same truth by speaking with young men about good and evil after having carried his spear in the Athenian Phalanx. Like Socrates and Erik Kristensen, we are lovers of our country, and of truth - truth with the capital T what is true by nature, and lovers of what America's Founders called "the laws of nature and nature's God." What guidance do these laws give us about war and peace in our time? That question is urgent because Americans have enjoyed peace for only about thirty of the past hundred years. America's armed forces have won essentially all their battles. Winning battles naturally leads to winning wars, and hence to earning peace and security. But already by 1950 George Kennan had noted that the American people's peace and security had diminished. Today, we look at the peace and security of the 1950s much as Kennan looked nostalgically back to 1905. How come? Results so contrary to nature and intentions do not happen because of etTors �in policy. They happen only from mistakes regarding first principles. What are these first principles? There has been no shortage of controversy among American statesmen through the past hundred years about the principles, the laws of nature, concerning peace and war: Woodrow Wilson against Theodore Roosevelt, Dean Acheson and Harry Truman against Robert A. Taft and Douglas MacArthur, Henry Kissinger, Robert McNamara, and Lyndon Johnson against Barry Goldwater, candidate George W. Bush against President George W. Bush. Though they disagreed fundamentally, all believed they were advocating the truly the right way for nations - especially this nation - to behave. In this they have been consistent with America's founders, who meant to establish a great nation on the basis of what is right, simply. 2. Our very civilization is based on understanding that man and nature exist and behave, according to laws that our minds can grasp by observation and study. Only recently has it become customary to distinguish between science and philosophy, between facts and values. Formerly, the study of physics and chemistry as well as of ethics and politics was known as "natural philosophy." The fundamental distinction was between truth and opinion. The people who built America believed that attention to the laws of nature and nature's God was the key to thriving. They believed it because they knew that ignoring or flouting reality does not turn out well, that sanity begins with not banging one's head against reality. 2 �Let us now consider what this thing called natural law is, and what it demands of statesmanship and war. 3.Naturallaw is the complex of the laws by which the world works. Physics and chemistry remind us that natural law is inflexible and self-enforcing, that what we humans imagine about ourselves and the world is irrelevant. You may "identify" as a bird, eat bird food and wear feathers. But if you jump off a cliff chirping and flopping those feathers, Mother Nature's laws regarding mass and motion will punish you. If you want to fly, you had better learn her laws concerning the pressure and speed of fluids. By the same token, no amount of commitment will enable you join two sodium atoms into salt. Plants are just as subject to inflexible laws. Regardless of anybody's opinion, apples and oranges and avocados require different conditions to thrive. That is why judgments about farming have to be right by nature. Not so long ago, following scientific consensus that acquired characteristics are inherited the Soviet government wasted millions of tons of seeds trying to modifying wheat to grow in Siberia. In America today, scientific consensus has it that the globe is warming. And yet, citrus growers are moving their operations southward because the trees happen not to share that consensus. Mother Nature does not care what anybody thinks. Wild animals are, as the saying goes, "hard wired" to survive and thrive. They move and reproduce to take optimal advantage of weather and food sources. They operate by day or night as 3 �best fits the species. They can't help doing the right things for themselves. 4. Human beings, unlike animals, are free to do the wrong things for themselves. But nature is just as clear about what it takes for human beings to thrive and survive as it is about what it takes for any other species to do so. Like horses and wolves, we need food and community to survive. But, to fulfill ourselves, we humans have to do the things that make for the survival and happiness of peculiar creatures that are neither mere animals nor gods. What might these be? The Ten Commandments are the most common and concise compendium of natural law regarding man. But isn't that a set of peculiarly Jewish ideas that draw their authority from the claim that Moses got them from God? Think again. Try reversing each of the Commandments, and ask how humans would fare living by that reversed list: Have many gods and disrespect them all, never stop to rest or to consider whence you came or whither you go, dishonor your father and your mother, kill as you please, take what you can from whomever you can, fornicate with whomever you can. Lie and betray, enry and scheme against those around you. Not even criminal gangs can survive on that basis. Nor could any individual be happy who lived by such counsels. At best, he might become a tyrant. But, having no friends, his choice would be whether to die like Stalin - or like Ceaucescu. Hence we are forced to conclude that the Ten Commandments just happen to be a pretty good summation of what nature requires for human beings to live human lives. 4 �That is true regardless of whether they were jotted at random by a stone-carving monkey, or discerned by Moses, or given by nature's Creator. Moses gives a bunch of other precepts applicable to man in general. They are subject to the same test: how do they relate to human nature? Here is one: "Thou shalt not suffer a sorcerer to live." Is that a Jewish prejudice? Consider. Magic claims that nature is capricious, but that it can be mastered by occult practices. Mother Nature decrees that people who live by magic are stuck in misery. In fact, banning magic is right by nature because all human improvement depends on reading and heeding nature's open book of rules. How about Moses' condemnation of anal intercourse? Is it that another Jewish prejudice? In fact, since whatever else that practice does, it sure does not propagate the species, we may well consider Genesis' story ofSodom's fate as another of Mother Nature's warnings. The point here is not that the Torah is the apex of natural law about man. Aristotle, Cicero, and many others have delved into the subject far more deeply and systematically. Rather, the point is that our civilization is full of pretty accurate descriptions of what happens when humans disregard Mother Nature. 5. How does natural law apply to actions? In fact, all actions can only be understood by their natural consequences. Naturally, all movement aims at some state of rest. We move, walk, speak or shut up, for certain purposes each of which is for the sake of ends that we value even more. A concise illustration of the term "teleology" is the old saying: "not even a dog wags his tail for 5 �nothing." I fix my tractor so I can till the ground, so that I can grow my grapes, so that I can sell them and maintain my household, so that I may fulfill my duties. 6. Human trades or professions are naturally about producing certain things. What is the natural law about them? Yes, all of them also bring advantages to the tradesman. Yet by nature, each is about producing a good peculiar to itself- buildings that stand, ships that float, plumbing that does not leak, shoes that fit and last, medicine that heals. What does Mother Nature do when human activities aim at results other than the ones proper to them? Mother Nature makes humans suffer the violations' consequences. Buildings built badly fall down on you. Bad ships leak or capsize. Bad shoes chafe and fall apart. That is why human activity cannot be understood in terms of power-seeking or pleasure-seeking as ends in themselves. Along with Socrates and Thrasymachus, let us consider the successful tyrant. He can have anything he wants - including all sorts of things that are bad for him. The same goes for very rich people. If they do well, it is not be because they have the power to please themselves, but because they learn what is really good. Dictators and rock stars routinely make themselves powerfully miserable. Powerful men differ from powerless ones only in the number of people they make miserable. 7. Nature obliges soldiers and statesmen to produce certain goods, just as it obliges shoemakers and shipwrights. What are the goods, the natural ends, of the activity known as statesmanship? The Chinese empire's millennia! claim to rule 6 �has been providing tien an men, heavenly peace. Caesar Augustus' claim to the imperial power that replaced Rome's raucous Republic was that he was the Princeps Pacis - the prince of peace. As the Roman Empire was falling, St. Augustine defmed statesmanship for the next thousand years. Its product was to be "the tranquility of order." The temporal ruler was to be the "defensor pacis." Fourteen hundred years later, Lincoln summarized his objective as "peace among ourselves and with all nations." Niccolo' Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes are, if anything, more insistent on judging any exercise of statesmanship on the degree of peace that it produces especially internal peace. Indeed, the incapacity to rest from war really does seem to be the punishment that Mother Nature imposes for incompetent statesmanship. (A caveat is in order here: The above does not apply to Persian civilization or Indian civilization, whose manuals of statesmanship- the Shah Nameh and the Arthrasastra, respectively - do not look beyond struggles for power. It applies to Islamic civilization only insofar as it might after all resistance to Islam had ceased. Nor does it apply to certain primitive tribes.) 8. If peace is so essential to well being, why, so often does it take war to establish it? Simply because, by nature, each of us wants his or her way. We human beings share in Eve's lively appetites and in Adam's irresponsibility. Individually and collectively, we want to be a law unto ourselves. Statecraft is the art of reconciling all sides' claims to their own desires, and perhaps to their own peace. We fight wars so that we may have 7 �peace - our version of peace. That is why Any peace is what one side earns for itself by defeating the other side's attempt to get the peace that it wanted. Still, although war is the most intense of activities, it aims naturally at a state of rest neither more nor less than any other activity. This is why approaching war as anything other than the pursuit of peace is naturally self defeating. Consider how two of history's greatest warriors failed. Napoleon never thought of an end to his string of battlefield victories. Hence, as Charles De Gaulle wrote, Napoleon "broke France's sword by striking it unceasingly." His failure to aim at peace more than nullified his valor as a warrior. During the Second Punic War, Hannibal subordinated strategic logic to operational logic by staying on the offensive even after having failed to force Rome to negotiate. 9. Nature leads the warrior to ask: "When will this end?" The warrior's contact with the enemy presses him to end the fighting, and to do it as fast as possible. Thus did Aristotle note that the warrior's natural objective is victory. By the same token, Aristotle also noted that peace is the natural end of the statesman's art: your victory is what makes possible your peace. Victory, of course, comes in different forms - everything from the enemy's annihilation or enslavement, as was the rule in ancient warfare, to sovereignty over border provinces, as was common in European 18th century warfare. But all forms share a denominator: the vanquished no longer disturbs the winner's enjoyment of his peace. 8 �10. Victory, forcing the enemy to acquiesce to one's enjoyment of one's own peace, naturally presupposes a coherent understanding of that peace. During the past hundred years however, American statecraft has not produced peace because, Progressive statesmen, beginning with such as Woodrow Wilson, Charles Evans Hughes, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin Roosevelt, have pursued concepts of peace that are literally out of the realm of possibility. Indeed, the enemies which these statesmen have designated are purely creatures of the statesman's own minds, respectively: "autocracy," "war itself," "world disorder," "ancient evils, ancient ills." Whom would we have to kill to defeat these enemies? To make war is to destroy or bend the persons and causes that stand in the way of your peace. Victory, comes when none troubles your enjoyment of your peace any longer. If you have made war, killed and destroyed, and yet you cannot enjoy peace, it means that you have killed the wrong people. 11. For century, American blood and treasure has been committed to kill and destroy certain people as if they embodied the abstractions in our statesmen' own minds. But who are the people who whose death would end war itself, bring about world order, establish liberal democracy, end ancient evils, reconcile historic enemies? The conjuring of unreal enemies makes it impossible to ask who might be the persons whose killing or constraint would deliver peace vis a vis the actual, living ones who actually shoot at us. This is a principal the reason why America's military campaigns have been waged without 9 �reasonable plans for achieving a better peace. Moreover, since Korea 1950, the U.S government has explicitly disavowed seeking military victories. Understanding this hundred-year divorce of force from purpose requires attention to the arguments between Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. 12. In a nutshell: TR, the apostle of "the big stick," rejoiced in America's emergence as a great power because he believed that the U.S government could and should use this power to secure Americans' enjoyment of domestic peace and tranquility better than it could in George Washington's time. Like Washington, whom he called "the best of great men and the greatest of good men," TR wanted to mind America's business as "our interest guided by justice shall counsel." TR regarded power as a means of keeping trouble away from America. The enemy was whoever troubled America's peace. War was a temporary measure to secure that peace. By contrast, Woodrow Wilson had started his career denouncing the hurdles that America's founders had placed in the way of forceful human improvement. For him, the enemy at home and abroad was everything and anything that stood in the way of human improvement. For him, America itself existed to defeat such enemies. To improve America, he pushed Prohibition. This started a war at home. To improve the world, he invented the league of Nations. For him, Washington's (and the Gospel's) admonition to mind one's own imperfections looking not for specks in others' eyes was priggishness. Such was his vision of 10 �the peace that his League of Nations would secure that, when senators asked him how this commitment to everlasting peace differed from a commitment to perpetual war, he was unable to answer. in short, Wilson erased the distinction between war and peace. In short, the peace at which TR aimed was America's peace, to be secured by minding America's business, that is, by speaking softly to foreigners, and by carrying a big stick to bash whomever would interfere in America. George Washington, John Quincy Adams, TR, had taken for granted that America's business came first always, and that this business requires jealous attention to squaring ends with means. Words had to be smaller than the stick. Wilson, however, collapsed the distinction between America's business and everybody else's business. Voicing limitless objectives, he gave little if any thought about how America's armed forces could actually achieve them. Yet Wilson won the hearts and minds of the subsequent century's statesmen. Reading Charles Evans Hughes, Herbert Hoover, FDR, Dean Acheson, John F. Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, Bush 41 and 43, and Obama we might imagine that, respectively, the world had united in disarming, in outlawing war, in eliminating "ancient evils, ancient ills" that it was policing the world through the U.N.; that nothing could stand in the way of freedom, that satisfying the USSR had tamed it, that a New World Order was a-borning, that democracy is conquering the Middle East, and that Islam is terrorism's solution. None of this was true. Although most of these statesmen were not shy about sending Americans to fight 11 �abroad, none explained how doing so could materialize the marvelous vistas they sketched. 13. From Washington to TR, American statesmen had worked on the realization that the world is made up of different folks who want incompatible things. That is why the essence of statecraft's craft is jealous attention to what our own power can do to secure our own interests. But because statesmen from Wilson's time to our own have voiced certainty that all civilized peoples share the same objectives for peace and progress, they have felt justified in dispensing with their craft's essence. That is why, far from producing peace, the past hundred years' statecraft resembles less the engineering of sound buildings or seaworthy ships than it does ritual human sacrifices performed to the sound of assumptions recited as if magical incantations. Each of their ventures got us fewer victories, less peace, more war. Each set of statesmen have emphasized one or more aspects of that departure from statesmanship's nature, and earned the penalties that Mother Nature imposes on unnatural behavior. Let us see what truths Mother nature has been trying to teach us. 14. In 1921 Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes brokered the "Washington Treaties," which scrapped more naval tonnage than all of history's wars had ever sunk, and fixed the major powers' ratios of naval power. Japan also agreed to respect China's integrity and sovereignty in exchange for America's promise not to fortify our Pacific bases. Hence America disempowered itself from securing that objective. America's best 12 �and brightest believed that this secured peace because they were sure that all peoples shared their consensus that armaments caused war. Hence, their logic said, limit the means of war and you will limit the will to war. In fact, the natural chain of logic leads in the opposite direction: from ends to means. That is why these Treaties secured not peace but Japan's supremacy in the western Pacific, China's dismemberment, Pearl Harbor, Corregidor, etc. ..... 15. Herbert Hoover believed that, the world had outlawed war by the 1929 Kellogg Briand pact. That was not true. Franklin Roosevelt spent the first seven years of his presidency lecturing America and the world about the need to act as if it were true. His lasting legacy was to fight WWII while trying to persuade the American people that Stalin understood good and evil in the same way as Americans do. Naturally, because untruths necessarily cause confusion, they produced divisions among Americans. They plague us to this day. 16. FDR, and especially Dean Acheson and Harry Truman, fostered a consensus that, finally, the United Nations had brought law and order to international affairs. So precious was that consensus-in-illusion that they sent some fifty-thousand Americans to die in Korea in what they called a "police action" to preserve it. Naturally, that sacrifice resulted in preserving an enemy that now targets nuclear weapons on America. Douglas MacArthur had protested: "in war, there is no substitute for victory." Mother Nature nodded yes. The ruling Consensus thought McArthur was a dinosaur. 13 �17. Under presidents John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon the practice of defeating global evils by committing U.S military forces against foreign enemies without intending to defeat them became explicit. JFK redeemed his promise to "bear any burden" in freedom's defense- presumably against the Soviet Union - by sending Americans to fight in Vietnam. Johnson explained that military victory was impossible there, for anybody, because "the enemy is poverty, ignorance and disease." He and Nixon rotated some twelve million Americans in and out of there in the service of these illusions. Ho Chi Minh and the Soviets had other ideas more in tune with Mother Nature. So did the North Vietnamese soldier who drove his tank through the US embassy gate. 18.The great Consensus spoke through Harvard's Kissinger and Richard Nixon to the effect that nuclear weapons had sobered the Soviet politburo. All America had to do for the Soviets to join in Wilson's dream of world order was to make U.S nuclear forces incapable of targeting the Soviet military or of interfering with Soviet missiles targeted on America. The U.S. government would not use U.S strategic forces because using them would do us no good. The government crafted the forces and Kissinger crafted the treaties that embodied this vision. In 1972 Kissinger, presenting the treaties to the Senate, spoke of having banished nuclear war. Eight years later Jimmy Carter's Defense Secretary, had to tell America that the Soviets were far advanced in preparations to fight, survive, and win a nuclear war. Those who pay attention to natural law, you see, build things to do themselves some good. Not even a dog wags his tail for nothing. 14 �19. As the Soviet monster was croaking of disaffection, Bush 41 tried to save it by massive transfusions of U.S cash in untied loans (never repaid). He also told a crowd in Ukraine's capital that they should be good Soviet citizens. This was the voice of the U.S establishment Consensus, which valued the dream of U.S. Soviet cooperation over the real prospect of undoing a real enemy. Ukrainians shook their heads in disbelief. The same president and Consensus decided that since Saddam Hussein's Iraq had violated World Order by absorbing Kuwait, the U.S government would conduct a police action to reestablish the borders. At the time, Saddam was no enemy of America. A half millennium earlier, Niccolo' Machiavelli had cautioned: "people ought to be caressed or extinguished." Bush 41 just assumed that "a new world order " would follow his bellum interruptus. Instead, by harming Saddam without eliminating him, he helped make him the Middle East's paladin of anti Americanism. The troops which Bush 41 then stationed on Saudi soil to deal with this newly menacing Middle East ended up energizing Muslim Jihad against America. 20. Bush 43 and Barack Obama differed only verbally and quantitatively in their approach to this Jihad. Essentially, both ordered the U.S armed forces to do the same things they had done in Vietnam: hunt down hostile groups and individuals while the rest of the government infuses their societies with economic aid and social reform. They did so eschewing explicitly any plans for ending the conflict, never mind winning it. With various degrees of emphasis, both bent backward to counter suggestions that the Muslims who attack America do so 15 �for reasons related to Islam. In fact, both refused to identify any causes of anti American terrorism. Bush 43's proposal for the Department of homeland Security states that terrorism will be with us indefinitely because "modernity itself' is the cause. Obama's use of the term"violent extremism" moved the problem further into abstraction. But the blood of hundreds of innocents and the fears of millions are not abstract. 21. OrdinaryAmericans' desire to live peacefully is natural. So is resentment of a Consensus that shows no sign of plans for delivering peace. Though the Consensus has become shy of voicing support for more "nation building" or "engagement with moderate local allies," it cannot imagine anything other than what it has been doing. Therefore the question imposes itself: what has it been missing? What has Mother Nature been trying to teach us about how to deal with war so as to obtain peace? 22. The lessons are neither new nor complex. They will startle only those whose intellectual horizon is the Consensus. First, foreign relations involve dealing with foreigners - that is, people whose cultures, priorities, and interests are their own, not ours - above all whose business is their own. The sine qua non of peace is to recognize different people's natural, ineffable, focus on themselves, distinguishing what is our business and what is others' business is. Others may not like what we do in pursuit of our own business. They are less likely to forgive intrusions into theirs. 16 �By nature as well, statesmen are their people's fiduciaries. Minding the business of one's own nation is a task that stretches the capacity of the very finest of statesmen. Just as it is impossible to serve two masters, it is impossible to serve more than one nation at a time. Nor is the attempt to do so legitimate. John Quincy Adams rightly reproved suggestions that the U.S help one side or another in conflicts within or among foreign peoples by asking "who appointed us judges in their causes?" By nature, "they" alone get to decide what they want for themselves. Second, by that very nature, we alone get to decide how important anything is to us and what to do about it. Because we alone are responsible for ourselves, decisions about how to mind such business as we decide is our own come first, while the needs, desires, views, of foreigners are naturally incidental. Like everybody else, we are the only ones on whom we can count to defend "our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor." Hence, alliances are subject to the same rule of nature as bank loans: the more you need them the less they avail you. In short, nature seems to dictate that we must make only such commitments as we can, and intend, to keep with our own resources no matter what. Even questioning whether our own interests should come first is unnatural. Third, earning the respect necessary for living peacefully as we please requires fulfilling commitments, and especially dealing harshly with whomever disrespects us. Respect is the practical meaning of "honor" in international affairs - Hard-earned and easily lost. How precious honor is may be seen in a 1791 memo 17 �from Alexander Hamilton to George Washington on how to respond to Britain's possible movement of troops across U.S territory to attack Spain in New Orleans. Hamilton outlined the ways in which Washington could ignore or color Britain's affront. But he ended by counseling that, were Britain's transit to have violated America's honor, the disasters of war with Britain would have to be suffered for the sake of America's honor. In fact, nations exist only insofar as they are honored. Fourth, while America's armed forces have earned honor arguably more than any in history, American statesmen's failure to draw peace from their victories has drawn down the reservoir of respect for America among foreigners and, most impot1antly, among us Americans as well. The Consensus, from such as Henry Kissinger on down blames the American people for insufficient support of long range policy and for "isolationism." But the discrepancy between the declared objectives, the sacrifices, and the results has been impossible to hide. Woodrow Wilson's promises could not possibly have been fulfilled. Nor could those made on behalf of the United Nations. What is the natural reaction to using forces capable of overwhelming those facing them and yet forbearing to do so? Actions such as in Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East in our time make sense only to those thoroughly trained to suppress the revulsion felt by ordinary human beings. Fifth and finally, our experiences with Mother Nature tell us that those old simpletons, George Washington, John Quincy Adams, Abe Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt were right, along with 18 �Machiavelli and Don Corleone: Don't go looking for trouble and make nice with everybody. But if you have to fight, then fight with all you've got to defeat them as quickly as possible. Partial commitments, "sending signals," shows of force" convey stupidity and invite contempt. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Nelson, Christopher (Introduction) Relation A related resource <a title="Audio recording" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/2080">Audio recording</a> Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Codevilla_Angelo_2017-04-19_Typescript Kristensen lecture series U.S. Naval Academy https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/6cd1f60a0d50b44eef0433aaac820fb0.pdf 9f914055ab8d7308b2bade4f00f570ee PDF Text Text "Low-Tech Studies in a High-Tech World: Teaching the Great Books in Silicon Valley" Lisa Hicks and Elizabeth Coggeshall Stanford University When we were conceptualizing how our paper might fit into a panel on the relationship between the sciences and the liberal arts, Lisa and I realized that there are two opposing sets of assumptions each argument could take. On the one hand, papers could assume an audience of humanists who are perhaps disinclined to include the sciences under the heading “liberal arts” (this was/appeared to be the basic assumption of the first paper). On the other, papers could begin from the opposite point of view: speaking to a culture that emphasizes the STEM fields, how do we, as humanists, justify the pursuit of non-instrumental, non-vocational, non-goal-oriented learning? How do we create a space in which humanistic inquiry can be valued as highly as those fields that have more immediately apparent and measurable outcomes: correct answers, material products, financial gains? Our paper comes from this latter perspective. Lisa and I teach in a voluntary, residential Great Books program for freshmen at Stanford University, along the model of something like Directed Studies at Yale. The major difference between a Directed Studies and our program, called Structured Liberal Education or SLE, is the broader culture in which each program is embedded, and from which the program distinguishes itself. In what follows, we will describe in broad strokes Stanford’s “techie”-dominant culture (I borrow the undergraduates’ term here, “techie” being the opposite of what they call “fuzzy,” in other words, anything tending toward the humanities fields. And I should take a second to point out that “fuzzy” is almost exclusively a pejorative term, as in “I would take that class, but I don’t want them to think that I am a fuzzy or something!”). Second, we will discuss the ways our program sets itself apart from the culture at large, and in doing so, we will present SLE’s answer to the conference question: “What is Liberal Education for?” �I’ll begin with an anecdote. Most often, conversations on the first day of class end with students exchanging email addresses or phone numbers, “friending” one another on Facebook, or making plans to meet in the dining hall or over coffee. But I had a peculiar experience on the first day of an interdisciplinary freshman course I taught at Stanford University in 2013 called “Networks: Ecological, Revolutionary, Digital.” The course had attracted many students from the STEM fields, particularly Computer Science, and on the first day of class I noticed them checking out each other’s profiles not on Facebook, but on LinkedIn. They swapped information about their summer research projects and internships, which were already carefully lined up in March. Over the course of the quarter, their in-class presentations (designed as “lightning talks” on any aspect of network theory that interested them) became elevator pitches for their various start-ups, which dealt with green energy, BitCoin, and big data analysis. The course satisfied the brand new freshman requirement in “Thinking Matters,” inaugurated in the 2012-2013 school year. The “Thinking Matters” courses are designed to encourage free exploration and interdisciplinary experimentation. They replaced the older Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) requirement, which had built such a bad reputation among Stanford undergraduates that first-year students would begin complaining about them during New Student Orientation, before classes had even begun. “I hate my IHUM” became such a refrain that one senior described it to me as a bonding experience for freshmen. Thinking Matters means to quell some of the vitriol that had built up around freshmen requirements, providing students with options like “Networks” which may be closer to their interests but still serve to introduce breadth to the freshman experience. These courses mean to provide a space for free play, in the spirit of the liberal education. Although it is one of the most fascinating courses I have ever been a part of, “Networks” was despised by the students. What we had conceived as a theoretical exploration of network theory from the perspective of a variety of disciplines, students saw as a waste of their time, as we “forced” them to pursue two projects, a biological experiment on ant societies and a historical analysis of social �networks in the Enlightenment. The students were frustrated by the lectures, which were effectively essays that sought to illuminate the connections between three very different disciplinary approaches to network theory: in history, computer science, and biology. Instead, the students wished to focus on satisfying requirements in their majors, developing their research grants, and marketing their startups. The disconnect between our push toward breadth and their desire for depth produced clashes that the section leaders had to mitigate in our small seminars. I use this anecdote as an illustration of the rampant entrepreneurialism that characterizes Stanford undergraduate culture. One of the most striking features of the first-year student at Stanford is her entrepreneurial spirit. This is true of nearly all entering students, pervasive as it is in campus culture, and it continues in certain sectors of the university throughout the students’ college experience. Engendering the entrepreneurial spirit begins with New Student Orientation, where incoming freshmen quickly learn that if they do not sign up for the engineering prerequisites their first quarter, they will effectively be unable to complete the major in four years. Nearly a quarter of Stanford students also pursue a co-terminal degree, which is a combined bachelor’s-master’s degree begun in the student’s senior year. The co-term program also requires a great deal of early specialization and curricular organization, so that students can complete their major requirements (one, two, or even three majors), prerequisites for the co-term, and their general education courses in a timely fashion. Curricular exploration – even if such courses fulfill general education requirements – is seen as at best a luxury and at worst an imposition. The academic mission of the university is explicitly concerned with “usefulness.” This has been true of Stanford since its founding in 1891. Stanford was, in fact, among the first institutions of higher learning in the US to introduce the major system as opposed to a standardized liberal arts curriculum, a move which the first university president David Starr Jordan saw as coming from the university’s commitment to practicality, the fixed curriculum being an “affront” to the student, productive “dim-eyed monk[s]” and “stoop-shouldered grammarian[s]” instead of “leader[s] of �enterprise” (SUES Report, p. 18). Nicholas Thompson, editor of newyorker.com, founder of the Silicon Valley-backed startup The Atavist, and a Stanford alum, raised a series of questions about Stanford’s affiliation with Silicon Valley in three blogposts on the New Yorker’s website in 2013. Provocatively asking where the Valley ends and the University begins, Thompson cited the case of a dozen students who dropped out of school to work on Clinkle, a start-up supported by investments from, among others, their own professors. Two of my students in “Networks” had shared with our class that they were also being encouraged – by one of their professors – to drop out of the university to work on their BitCoin start-up. In September 2013, Stanford announced a new university initiative called StartX, a start-up incubator that will advise current students on their startup projects. The university itself will invest in the most successful of this elite group of startups. The university has a strict policy for dealing with professors entering romantic relationships with their graduate students, but we could probably stand to lay down some policies for investment relationships as well. On a less ethically fraught front, Stanford has opened an office under the supervision of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education for Undergraduate Advising and Research, which boasts that the university invests between $4-5 million annually in undergraduate research projects, overseen by faculty across all departments of the university (SUES Report, p. 56). The obvious ethical issues of professors investing in their students’ start-ups aside, I don’t mean to suggest that an entrepreneurial spirit is somehow bad for the university or for the individual student. On the contrary, it drives Stanford students in all fields to pursue exceptional projects, and to prepare themselves for careers both inside and outside the academy. There are clear benefits to students specializing early, pursuing independent and original research, and cultivating close advising relationships with supervising faculty. But I would like to suggest that this kind of hyperspecialization is antithetical to the goals of the liberal education, which is explorative and meandering, rather than directional. The entrepreneurial drive of Stanford students compels them to acquire a dizzying degree of depth within their majors, but it simultaneously convinces them that �breadth is a distraction, a requirement thrust upon them by the powers-that-be, that may well derail them from the primary projects that will guarantee their success at Stanford and beyond: their startups, their independent research grants, their archival work. One of the primary antidotes to this entrepreneurial thinking at Stanford is the Structured Liberal Education program, of which Lisa and I are here as representatives. As I have already mentioned, Structured Liberal Education (or SLE) is a Great Books program available only to incoming freshmen, who apply to the program after accepting their offers of admission to Stanford. Each year, we consistently receive between 140-150 applications for the 90 spots of the program (this is about 5% of the total incoming freshmen class). The 90 students live in a single residence, and we hold both plenary lectures and discussion sections in the common spaces of their dorm. We use a flexible but fairly consistent curriculum that varies only slightly from year to year. At breakneck speed, students cover the great works of (primarily) Western culture, listening to lectures given by experts from around the university, and then working through the texts in small seminars led by the SLE teaching staff. In the meantime, the students submit papers that are written in multiple drafts, that they discuss extensively in one-on-one meetings with their seminar leaders and a dedicated staff of writing tutors, all of whom are alumni of the program. In the time that remains, Lisa will speak about the ways in which SLE works to disrupt the entrepreneurial paradigm that Stanford has cultivated, and the challenges and rewards faced by the students in our program as a result. ----------Beth has just presented a picture of the overall Stanford undergraduate culture as instrumentalist, entrepreneurial, and more focused on depth than on breadth. But the culture of SLE is different, and the differences sometimes push directly against the dominant trends of the overall culture. �In part, SLE pushes against instrumentalism simply by being Great-Books-based humanities program: reading The Republic and The Inferno are not obvious and necessary steps in most career paths. And, unlike students from the much-hated IHUM classes, SLE students do not seem to want the SLE program to be anything other than what it is. The move from IHUM to Thinking Matters was driven, in part, by students’ desires for general education requirements that felt, to use one of the contemporary education buzzwords, “relevant.” Students who signed up for the “Networks” class that Beth worked in thought that they were signing up for a general education class that was closely related to their career interests, and the elements of the class that they disliked were the elements that didn’t address those career interests. But SLE students sign up for SLE in part because they don’t want a narrowly focused, career-based general education class. Some of our SLE students plan to major in Engineering and Computer Science and other STEM fields, and, when we ask them why they chose SLE, they are nearly unanimous in saying that they wanted something different from their general ed experience: they want the breadth; they want big ideas that have nothing to do with computers; they want serious engagement with texts that lets them develop skills that do not directly link up with their career paths. In short, they want a humanities education that is separate from their career-related studies. And they say that they want this non-career-focused experience at the beginning of their studies. They say things like, “I want to read these books while I still have the chance, before I get overwhelmed with Engineering requirements.” They see their SLE reading as both separate and foundational, as an experience that will shape and change the way that they engage with the rest of their education. Further, this widespread interest in humanistic enquiry as something other than a means to a career-focused end creates different social pressures for SLE students. A lot of Stanford undergraduates who do not take SLE describe the overall student culture as "anti-intellectual." When Stanford was considering the move from IHUM to Thinking Matters, a committee of faculty and staff conducted interviews and surveys with many Stanford students who had gone through the �IHUM program, and one story that they heard over and over was the "IHUM kid" story. Students would say, "If I tried to talk bring up ideas or concepts from my IHUM class in a group of friends, people would tell me to be quiet and call me 'IHUM kid.'" Students were quickly acclimated into a culture in which IHUM ideas were only to be discussed in IHUM class. But SLE students expect their peers to discuss texts and ideas outside of class, and the social dynamics in the SLE dorm tend to reward engagement with texts and ideas. SLE’s class spaces are in the dorm, including several dorm lounges, and, when I hold office hours in a lounge, the conversations that I overhear are often about this week’s texts, or about ways that a key theme from this week’s readings relates to other texts from the course or to books or themes from students’ other courses. (I also hear enough random conversations about movies and roommates and weekend plans to know that these class-related conversations aren’t being performed for the benefit of the teacher in the corner; a lot of the time, the students who are talking about this week’s text haven’t noticed that I’m there.) Further, the student who draws connections between the themes of a SLE text and ideas from other courses tends to draw those connections in a non-instrumentalist way. They tend to frame the connection as, “Here is a cool thing that I noticed, and I’m mentioning it because it’s interesting” rather than as, “Here is a cool thing that I noticed, and it’s interesting because it shows me that this book that I’m reading is relevant to my career interests.” I’m thinking in particular of some students who were taking a political science course during the Spring term, which is when we read Marx in SLE. Whenever those students drew parallels between Marx’s analysis of labor power relations and their PolySci professor’s analysis of the history of power relations in Israel, I always got a sense that they were bringing in the outside material because they thought it was interesting and illuminating in its own right and not because that information made Marx useful to their prospective careers as lawyers or international business executives. I think our students would see talking and thinking about SLE texts in a careerist or instrumentalist way as wrong, as breaking the rules; it wouldn’t fit �with their sense of how SLE is supposed to work. And students who acculturate to this sense of how SLE is supposed to work will not buy into an instrumentalist model that claims that every text and every idea and every class is meant to forward their career goals. The ways that SLE students push against an instrumentalist educational model is closely related to the ways that they do not fit the entrepreneurial mold of the dominant Stanford culture. When Beth and I were working on this paper, we talked a lot about what “entrepreneurial” means, and we figured out that, for us, the difference between “entrepreneurial” and “enterprising” has to do with motivation. You’re entrepreneurial for the sake of the external end that you’re aiming at: if you’re founding a start-up out of an entrepreneurial spirit, then your main concern is the startup. The success of the external end is what motivates you. But if you’re doing something out of an enterprising spirit, maybe your main concern is your own development; you’re more concerned about what the success or failure of the venture says about you and the kind of person you are and the kind of capacities that you have. And the SLE students tend to be much more enterprising than entrepreneurial. They might not frame it in these terms, but they tend to be concerned with selffashioning, with mastering a text or a skill in order to become the sort of person who knows that text or possesses that skill, with becoming multi-faceted. They tend to have a sense that the kind of person that they become is more important than the particular ends that they choose to pursue--and, in particular, more important than the career that they choose. By providing students with a space that emphasizes the process of learning rather than a particular end or product of that learning, SLE gives its students permission to be enterprising rather than entrepreneurial--permission that, for the students, may push against the entrepreneurialist strain in the larger Stanford culture. SLE’s emphasis on the process rather than the product of learning also ties into its focus on breadth--a focus that runs counter to an overall culture that privileges depth and narrow specialization. SLE operates at an exceptionally fast pace, which is one of the perennial complaints of our students. We devote no more than two days to any text, and most texts only get one day, so �we cover no text in depth. The first three weeks of the winter term last year, for example, had students read and discuss Augustine’s Confessions, Aquinas’s Summa, al-Ghazali’s Path to Sufism, and Dante’s Inferno, which they read in its entirety in Week 3. Students often see this as a detriment to real engagement with the text at hand, but we console them by reminding them that SLE’s focus is not depth (which they will enjoy as they pursue their individual majors), but breadth. The benefits of this kind of breadth – while probably obvious to the audience here today – are worth being articulated, not only because they may be obscure to other students who do not opt-in to this sort of program, but because they answer the stated question of this conference: What is Liberal Education For? SLE’s short answer to this question would be breadth. Breadth of material allows the students to focus on skills development over content management. We do not test them on what they retain of their material, but on how they process it, what connections they draw, what debates they foresee. It matters less to programs like SLE that the students can recall information readily available at a tap of their fingers; rather, we would give them as many instances to choose from as they could, and ask them to synthesize a few of those instances to address one of the Great Questions. The depth model, by contrast, asks students to narrow in a question until it is answerable by a single algorithm, by changing a single variable, or by some other means of reducing the problem to its smallest constituent parts. When students disregard breadth, as many Stanford undergraduates do, broad questions are swallowed by narrow ones, or set aside as unanswerable or meaningless, because they appear too big to handle. 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It is hoped by us t!tat this m.odest means of exp1'essing our appreciation will convey, in some manne1', our esteem for this illustri~ ous pe1-son. �FOREWORD E, tlte edito1'S of the 1931 RAT -TAT, have tried in ow- most diligent manne1' to produce a colleae annual, based on colonial life 1:n°Annapolis, which ow- class and school should be proud o.f. We have made eve?')' effort to symbolize ow- school as we thought it should be and to hold up the t?'aditions .fo1' which our college stands. We believe that we have succeeded in the task_ which we set out to accomplish and we sincerel)' hope that ou1' efforts meet with yowap1J?'oval. Howeve1', we are not the ones to f z.t.clge our own effo7'tS, so we hereby submit them to you .for yow- app1'0val. W CONTENTS CoLLEGE-Bladen's Folley CLASSEs- Treaty unde1' the Liberty T1-ee 0RGANlZATLONs- R..eception to Lafayette ATHLETics- A Duel FEA TUREs- Buming of th.e "Peggy Stewart" �THEME EXPLANATION have the 1931 amund Wis Esuggested developed the theme by ow- everyday surthat RAT - TAT 1'oundings, Colonial Annapolis . Annapolis is one of the few towns that ltas preserved much of its original luster , wltich we all appreciate so much, and in speak..ing of Annapolis one cannot miss the relation t!tat exists between St. John's and Colonial Annapolis . Tlte college has played an active role in Annapolis life eve1' since its founding in :r696, as King William 's School, and lik..e the town , has maintained its antiquity. This theme underlies ow- ''annu al' ' and we hope that it will tend to mak..e us appreciate more the value of the things we have so close at hand Colonial Annapolis . · CULLIEGlE �THE LIBERTY TREE �THE GYMNASIUM HUMPHREYS HALL �McDOWELL HALL THE COLLEGE GREEN �WOODWARD HALL RANDALL HALL �~~l RAT TA Tl~~~~)~~:;l L_ ~'\ "'~ .b~~. -! p~ ST. THE HISTORY OF SAINT JOHN'S COLLEGE JOHN'S COLLEGE is the third oldest college in the United States, Harvard being the first, and William and Mary the second. Its history begins in 1696 with the founding at Annapolis of King William's School, named after William the Third. St. John's was founded by prominent men in the early history of our country and has ever since continued to produce just such men. With such a heritage, it may be truthfully said that St. John's College is a sound and firmly established institution. · In 1664 the Maryland Colonists expressed their desire to establish a free school for the purpose of training our youths in matters of church and state. The legislation of that year provided for a free school to train American youth in "good letters and rnanners." This was to be acconl.plished by donations of tobacco from the various inhabitants of the Maryland Colony, which. proved to be a ready source. The building, which was erected by William Workman , is still standing and is the oldest college building in the United States. King William's prospered until the Revolutionary War, when it was THE CENTRAL WALK The College Green during [he C ivil W a r. S[ . Jo hn's w as closed fo r five years and used as a hospi[al base during [he C ivil W ar period . ~ .1~ £ �~ RAT The Wa lton House, 1 0 Francis Sneet, built by William Workman. This was the origina l home of King William's School, founded in 1696. This is the oldest co llege building still standing in th e United States . As soon as the war was over, the need for an institution of higher learning, in this country, becan'1e apparent . In 1784 a group petitioned the Legislature for a college charter. The charter was granted, and by legislative action King Williarn's School was transferred in its entirety to Sr. John's College. A grant of land was given them by the State, near the State House, on which stood a nunsion, begun in 1774 by Thomas Bladen and later known as Bladen's Folley. The charter read : ''The said college shall be founded and maintained forever upon a most liberal plan, for the benefit of youth of every religious denomination . . . . nor shall any preference be given in the choice of a principal, vice-principal, or other professor, master or tutor in said college, on any account of his particular religious profession." On November 11, 1789, the college again opened irs doors wir~1 much pomp and ceremony as was justified by the occasion. The center building, known as Bladen's Folley, was christened McDowell Hall; after our first president. The new college prospered until the year 18o6 when the Legislature withdrew irs support. However, Sr. John's continued to turn our men of high caliber, prepared to rake part in national and state affairs, until rhe rime of the Civil War . During the period of the Civil War, Sr. John's was closed for five years and used as a Union Army hospital base. At the close of the war Sr. John 's was again opened with Dr. Henry Bernard as president. During his brief administration Three of the fo ur hundred vo.lurnes which Sc. John's inherited from King William's Schoo l. TAT he reorganized the college to meet the changed conditions and starred it on its upward trend. In 1886 the college received a new impetus under the leadership of Dr. Thomas Fell. The college, once more, showed signs of real progress both nurerially and scholastically. Randall Hall, WoodHurnphreys Hall in 1789. ward Hall and the Gymnasium (From an old lithograph.) were erected under his administration. It was during Dr. Fell's term of office that the college became a rnilitary institution, which it rernained until 1923 . The military tradition of the college was admirably upheld during the World War when452 saw service : go per cent were commissioned officers, of whom half held the rank of captain or above. Major Enoch Barton Garey was chosen as a successor to Dr. Fell. Major Garey was a Sr. John's man of the Class of 1903 and a graduate of West Point, but he was satisfied that a military regime was not rhe best one, so he abolished it. St. John's was a class "C" institution when Major Garey took charge and within four years it becan1e a class "A" college under his able guidance. He secured a new staff of professors, with the exception of three, whom he thought measured up to rhe new McDowell Ha ll in 1789 . (From an o ld lith og raph .) standards he had set for Sr. John's. To his new plans of liberal jurisdiction and new staff of professors he added many material blessings: the Hammond -Harwood House, the Brice House, and the Pinkney House. These old colonial houses are to be preserved by Sr. John's and rhus establish us as a true modern institution with a colonial background. In the spring of 1929 Major Garey resigned, realizing Q-3·11 �[L RA~_TAT_~J~~~ ~C ~} cotTlpleted the task he had set out to accomplish; that of RAT TAT Jc~~<G~~ ~} that he had making St. John's a class "A" college. The period 1929-1931 has seen St. John's without a president, but its progress has been steady nevertheless. The creation of the Student Union roon1s, in the basement of McDowell Hall, the conversion of Humphreys Hall from a dormitory into a new science laboratory and auditorium, the restoration of the Great Hall which was formerly the chapel, the acquisition of the Claude House which contains dormitories and the infirmary, faculty offices that were built in the basement of Woodward Hall, and che acquisition of a new biology laboratory are evidences of che progress that has been made. St. John's has always been a small college and always will be because it believes the small college to be the more ideal means of education. However, it has not reached its goal yet, buc must strive to further heights, where every St. John's man would like to see it rest. SPONSOR OF RAT-TAT MISS A VICE ELIZABETH MARKLEY Hackensack, New Jersey The fuwre Sr. John's College. (From an architect's drawing .) �3Jn ;fMetnoriam ROBERT A. ROUSE Baltimore, Maryland 1886 - 1931 WILLIAM C. SEABROOK Westminster, Mary land 1867 - 1931 �President Ex-Officio His Excellency, Albert C. Ritchie, Annapolis Governo1' of Maryland ·chairman Herbert Noble, New York Member, Noble, Mm·gan , Scammell, Attorneys-at-Law Vice-Chairman Walter H. Buck, Baltimore Lemmon and Buch., Lawyers Sec1·etm·y Douglas H . Gordon , Baltin:10re Lawyer, Munsey Building Treasurer James A . Walton, Annapolis P•·esident, Annapolis Ban/zing and T,·ust Co . BY ELECTION Lewis W . Baldwin, St. Louis William Woodward , New York President, Mi ssouri Pacific R_ail,·oad P1·esident, Hanover Nat ional Bank.. Sylvestor W. Labrot, Annapolis Walter I. Dawkins, Baltimore Labrot and Company, Bankers A ssociate Judge, Supreme B ench of B altimore City Amos F . Hutchins, M .D ., Baltimore T. West Claggetc, Annapolis Physician Ma,.ager , Philadelphia a?td R_eading Coal and Iron Company Elmer G . Parsly, Philadelphia Parsly Brothers and Co., Banh.ers Ridgely P. Melvin, Annapolis James Bordley, Jr., M.D., Baltimore Atto1"1tey-at-Law Physicia?t John H . Latane, Baltin1.ore Raymond Pearl, Ph.D., Baltimore Professor of America" History, Johns Hop/zins Univ ersity Professor of Biology, Johns Hop/zins University Frank R. Kent , Baltimore Vice -Presid ent, A. S. Abell Publishi>tg Co.; M ember of Staff, the "Baltimore Sun" J. Vincent Jamison, Jr. , Baltimore Edwin Warfield, Jr ., Baltimore. HIS EXCELLENCY, ALBERT C. RITCHIE Govemo1- of Ma1-yland Editor Charles Gillet, Baltimore President and General Manager , J amison Cold Storage Door Company C. C. Marbury, M.D ., Washington M ember of Gillet and Co., B an/zers R . T. H . Halsey, Annapolis T,·ustee, MetroJ;olita?t Mus eum of Art Physician William H. Srayton, Washington John Hays Hammond, Washington l>tvestme?tt Building, Wa shington Mi>ting Engineer Copyright Pick er ing S tudios-Reproduction p rohibited. [ 25] [ 24] �HERBERT NOBLE Chainnan of the Boa1-d of Visito?'S and GovernO ?'S RICHARD T. H. HALSEY R...esident Member of the Boa1-d of Visito?'S and Gove?'nors Copyright Pickering Studios- Reproduction prohibited . ~-....~P:O\'D~~v~l· Q · 3 ·1 ~ [ 26] ti[l· g. 3 ·1~ [ 27 ] �ROBERT E. BACON EDWIN H . CROUCH D ean Comptroller [ 28 ] [ 29 ] �RAT TAT ~-~/:~~§1 !!. DR. AMOS F. HUTCHINS President, St. ]oltn's Alumni Association T. H uGH WEsT CLA GGETT F. N ELSON Con-esponding Sec7-eta7"Y Sec7"etary- T1-easure1" Headquarters of tbe Association 4 05-4 0 7 Calvert Building , Balcim.o re , Mary land CLASSIES [ 30] �SENIORS �~ 10 ROBf~T McLMl(E CLASS OffiCCRS SPONSOR OF SENIOR CLASS MISS ELIZABETH RIDGELY Annapolis, Maryland VIILLIAM T. AllMACO~T S11MUCL P. WEW JQ. s~l'>q ·e.t·Arms Hie!oria». [ 32 ] [ 33 ] �R 11 T TAT 'i~4;~~# ~1-· r---------------------.---~.---------~ ~~ .....""'-='----~-----------=....,_- )\f~p~~~~ ~_;.-I ~ JOSEPH V. ANTHONY M R. ANTHONY is the collegiate prototype or the wise old owl who , fables tell us, confines his ever-increasing knowledge behind a silent from . Joe entered St. John 's with the rest of his classmates in the fall of 1927, and independent of everyone else began his life as a student. His interests lay, and still lie, in the field of Biology, and most of his time has been given to honor work toward his degree. He was one of the original members of the Osler Pre-Medical Club as well as the Erlenmeyer Club . Then in his sophomore year he became interested in Junior Varsity Football , but after that he sacrificed an athletic career for studies. The summer following his junior year was spent at a school of marine life preparing for his honor work . Joe does not show everyone the intricacies of his personal life, but we are led, as everyone is, tO respect and revere the quiet austerity which clings tO him like a shadow. Osler Club 2, 3, 4; Erlenmeyer Club 2, 3, 4; French Club 3 , 4 ; Junior Vm·sity Football 3· WILLIAM TRACY ARMACOST '' W EE WILLIE ARMACOST " is, perhaps, a bit misleading as a descriptive nickname for the heaviest bulk of a good fellow in the whole class. Aside from captaining our very successful football team this year , Willie numbers in his accomplishments the tide of most popular man on the campus. One has ta infer that Willie has that tide, because, through his modesty , he never discloses the fact unless he is cornered. Now, here is national fame tO our hero . " Army" was selected as second AllAmerican goal this past year by the Lacrosse Association Committee, and as the first All-Maryland goal by the state committee. Willie assures us that real accomplishment comes through putting oneself wholly, and whenever possible, bodily, squarely in the middle of things and " doing it." And in accord , we find that "Army" is one of the " hard hittingest" backs our Alma Mater has enjoyed for several years past-that means, as long as we can rememberand then some. It was a real pleasure tO see him-you could hear him at timesplunging through Hopkins line to help with the late victory in football. We might repeat over and over again that Willie is the best natured and most popular man on the campus; it is the undisputed concession to the Sergeant-at-Arms of '31. K appa Alpha; Sergeant-at-Arms of Class 4; Football I , 2, 3 , Captain 4 ; B aseball I ; Lacrosse 1. , 2 , 3 , 4 , Second All-American 3, All-Mar yland 3 ; P1·esident Candle Club 3 · ~~;:.(Aa~~~lr 1 g · 3 ·1 ~,~~~~--=--=~ [34 ] ~. . .~~~~[1 g. 3 ·1 ~ ~~--~--------~~ [35] �RAT TAT ~- CHARLES ATHEY GEORGE LE WIS BENEZE HARLIE is best known co every Sr. Jo hnny for the past two years as the m anager of our champion Lacrosse t eam . Throug h his consistemly efficient work as assistam , he was made manager in the spring of 193 1 and was such a success that the Athletic Association asked him to repeat his duties another year. May we say here that the Association very seldom asks such a thing. Coincidemal with his lacrosse work, Charlie has becorn.e the schoo l's a mhori ty on lacrosse mauers. Athey accorn.plishes g reat thin gs. EORGE BENEZE , gentlem.en 1 Suave m ember of '3 1. It is the bland quality and the aggressive personality w hich gives this m an 's acquaintances the impression that George 's life is just a chain of glaring, felicicous successes. It is a bit of a puzzle t o determine whether the name Beneze qualifies success or w hether success qualifies the name Beneze . One of his m ost recent successes was the managing of the business department of the 1930 RAT-T AT. His life at Sr. John 's is unity in this fortunate way . George has dabbled in football to so m e extent and in lacrosse co a considerably greater ex tent . He was one of " Dinty" Moore's most reliable defense reserves last year on the National Championship lacrosse t eam and will continue co be this year. This year George is one of the prominent figures on the Student Council , being secretary of the body and a comn'littee chairman . Among his other feats are his social activities. His social prominence is deserved , however, in view of his excellem manners, his cultured temperament, and best of all a pleasing personality which m any m ore than his circle of friends enjoy. It is also worthy of note that the name of Beneze is frequently associated with the Dean 's List of honor students. C Those who have occasion co see Charlie now and then on the campus are usually impressed by his quiet, alm.ost ariscocratic manner which never fails co suggest distinction . And justifiably, coo . Our authority in lacrosse does not ha ve a singlecracked mind . H e is, if not an " A" student , then very nearly one. The answer is that Charlie is one of the minority who ca me co college for an education by study, and coward that end he has fitted hirn.self env iably for life by majoring in economics. He has confided co us that he has plans m ade for a business career. And we are confiding to you that Charlie is going co be an ideal success if we m ay judge from his characteristic precision in all rn.atters , large or small . Kappa Alpha; Vice -President Cla ss r; Economics Club I , 2; Footb all, Assistant Manage,• 2; Lacrosse, Manager 's Staff I, 2, Manager 3, 4· [ 36 ] G Phi Delta Sigma, Sec,·etM)' 3; Secretary of Class 4; Student Council 4; Clrairman Student Conduct Committee 4; R AT-TAT Staff, Assistant Business Manage1· 2, Business Manager 3; Business Manager D ramatics Club 4; Football 1, 2; Lacrosse I, 2, 3 , 4 · �RATTAT_~J TILGHMAN BRICE PHILIP IRVIN BOWMAN P HIL has the dist inction of being , among other things, one of the Senior Fellows at Sr. John 's. This irnmediately suggests that Phil is somew hat of a "bookworm. " T o the contrary, Phil leads one of the m ost varied lives of anyone on the campus. Phil is a chemistry majo r and has spent a great part of his time in the laboratories. But in his m ore leisure hours he has started the New Book Club, has been a dynamic force to the Erlenmeyer Club, and has been house manager of his fraternity, Delta Psi On1.ega . For t wo years he was a member of the student council , his work on the st aff of the Collegian and his position as Organization Editor of the RAT-TAT of '3 0 helped him to membership in the King William Honorary Society . Until his studies claimed so much of his time, he was the so lo clarinetist of the symphony orchestra and a member of the band . But there is more yet. Phil is very fond of the outdoors and of outdoor sports. H e is a commissioned officer in the cavalry unit of the Officers ' Reserve Corps at Fort Myer. And he has t a ught riding at a camp in Pennsylvania. More than this, he is an expert skater and swimmer . He has a hobby, too, of building miniatures in wood of stage coaches and ornamental ships . And now can anyone think of a m ore varied life than that of Phil 's? There is hardly a man who knows Phil who isn't impressed by his good nature, far-fetched yarns, and his willingness to help anyone at anything. D elta Psi Omega, House M anager 3, 4; Delta Kappa Phi; Erlenmeyer Club 2 , 3 , 4; King William Honorary Societ)•; Student Council3; 01·ganiz ation Editor of RAT - T AT 3; B and L, 2, 3, 4; 01·chestra 1., 2 , 3 ; Senior Fellow; Collegian Staff. g. 3·1 [38] I N keeping with the Colonial spirit of Annapolis and the RAT-T AT of 1931 , we are hap py to honor with grad uation a member of one of the oldest families in Ma ryland , that center of colonial aristocracy. That representative is Tilghman Brice and lacks none of the fine characteristics inherent in the best sons of Maryland. His subd ued temperament and his ai r of anticipation seems to imply the man who is accustomed to respect on every hand . And he does enjoy that token of friendl y esteem from all of his acquaintances. H e has played a large if limited part in o ur school life. W e say limited because Til is a resident of Anne Arundel Co unt y several miles outside of Annapolis, and his campus life is necessarily limited . His longest stride at St. Jo hn's has been taken on the st aff of last year's RAT-T AT on which he was a very success ful assist ant to the Business Manager. H e was a member of the Cotillion Club in his first and second years and it was only because that club no longer exists that he is not a social club m em ber. His socia l activities have not ceased, though , since his second year ; far from it , T il is a regular attendant at all the co llege social functions and in addition may be seen many times at the town's largest successes. Til is Theta Psi , of which he has been an o fficer in one way or another for the past three years . Theta Psi, Secretary 2; RAT- TAT Staff, A ssistant Business Manager 3; Cotillion Club g. 3 ·1_ [ 39 ] L , 2 . �RAT TAT WILLIAM PARSONS CAMPBELL I F we were writing for a well -known m agazine's Hall of Fam e, we should like co suggest the name of William Parsons Campbel l. H e has not had honors heaped upon him, he has never been ca lled upon co fill an office infinitely vi tal co o ur scudem body , and he bas never been overl y ambi tious coward such things . But he has become o ne of o ur school's dignitaries. Bill , it seems, chose che hard way co success. H e came co us from Hagerscown (Md .) High School with aca demic and athletic honors ; he had played varsity football there for cwo years . When he emered our portals, thoug h, he dropped the athletic activities in favor of m ore imellectual pursuits. He chose chemistry as a maj or and spem che grea ter pare of his time in the coilings usually associated with rhe science labo racories. He emerged ac the end of his junior year with honor standing in chemistry , and was chen elected co the scholastic ho norary societ y, Delta Kappa Phi. This, if yo u are noc aware, is an achievem.ent worthy of so me noce. Unlike the many ho nor science studem s, Bill is a man of no srnall social prestige. Although his first yea r w ith us was , for the mosc pare , unevemful , except chat he was che roommate of Willie Armacost , of w ho m we have already spoken, he beca m e in his sophom.ore yea r, a member of che Cotillion Club. His fraternity, rea lizing his value, made bin1 secretary and eben v ice-presidem, and sene him for cwo years co che !mer-fraternity Co uncil. The Erlenmeyer added cheir cribuce chis year by asking him co be cheir Presidem, and Bill was more chan pleased co be wich che science group. He intends co extend his chemistry ed ucation by studying for a Ph.D . degree . SAMUEL PEACO CHEW, JR. H ERE , gemlemen, is the "ocher Fellow." Samuel has always suggested to our minds the acme of scholastic attainments. Coming co Sc. Jo hn 's in the fall of 1927 from West River, Md ., he fell imo che ranks of the scholarl y few immediately. Along with his freshman class office of Sergeam-at-Arms, Sam found himself leading his class in ex cel lence of academic pursuits . And co make the scary shore be has continued at the head of his class and the entire student body ever since then . So ic was no m ore chan his due chat cbe college asked him co be ics guest as one of che two Senior Fellows chis year. Accordingly , Sam is g uaranteed a diploma and graduates with high honors. Mr. Chew is a member of Delta Psi Omega Fraternity of which he was a charter member and a member of che Delca K appa Phi H onorary Fraternity in virtue of his scholarship record for che first three years of his career ac Sc. Jo hn 's. In accordance with whac bas already been said in honor of chis m an, his class has elected him co w rite its histor y for che past two years. D elta Psi Omega; D elta K a ppa Phi; Se1·geant-at-Arms of Cla ss Phi D elta Sigma, See~·etary .3 , V ice-President 4; Delta K appa Phi; Inte,·- F,·aternity Cou nci l .3 , 4; Erlenmeyer Club , President 4; Cotillion Club 2, 3; G ennan Club 2. . [40 ] ~ [ 41 J ·1 _ ___:""""' L, H istorian 3 ; Senior Fellow. �RAT TAT HENRY ALLEN CZELUSNIAK ALFRED COCKSHOTT I T is against the principles of chis book ro "smear" our pages with a great many beautiful words. But no matter how hard we cry ro keep fronl. it there are some men of every class who just seem ro draw them from us . If we are ro use the scrict definition of the word affable, we can find no one courteous and gracious at all times, some may chink, to extremes, who is a gentleman in all respects . It is a well-known fact chat Alfred can get along with anyone, and despite the fact that Alfred admits chat he is interested in nothing but studies, his friends are many and appreciate his abstaining from class activities . In accordance with chis he has been on the Dean's Lise- an ho nor student-since his entering St. John's in 1927 . His greatest interests are in his major subject, Physics, and his hobby, Spanish. There is nothing more to say- there need be no more. .. W E are pleased to present here one of our most polished and most well-rounded collegians. Henry has been favored in life by being one of chose happy individuals who must cry his hand at everything and must succeed, ro his own satisfaction, in everything he cries. Some may call it Face and ochers stars, but whether fate or stars , Henry makes success a habit. And what a modest habit with him I When Henry came to us from Chicopee, Mass ., he brought an enviable record in athletics, a fine one in scholarship, and a reputation for social activities. Since his entrance here, we have seen him not one mite less active. He discounts the theory that st udy, real deep study , is the life and soul of a student. It is doubtful whether H enry has ever strained himself for the sake of learning . But from all appearances he doesn't need to strain, for he has kept up very consistent grades which keep him in the higher groups of the Dean 's Lise. Athletics keep him busy in many of his spare moments. In his freshman year he was a very promising candidate for the baseball team, but since the passing of that sport he has been forced into ocher channels. Thus, in the three remaining years of his residence here, Henry has been one of che most accountable basket-ball men , though not a Hashing scar. But his star has twinkled. Last fall, he was crowned T ennts Champion of the College after he had defeated the best players in the school. As. cha~rman of the Student Union Committee, Henry has made a most valuable comnbuuon to Sc. John's in inaugurating the committee which has provided so well for the student welfare. Phi S~f:ba Kappa; Student Union Committee Chairman 1 g. 3 ·1_ [ 42 ] ' 2 • 3, 4 , B aseba llr; Bask,et-Ball 2, 2, 3, 4; Inter~Fratemit): Council 4; German 3, 4; Student CounCll3; Tennts C!tampwn 4 · ~~~~~[1 Q·3·1 ~ [43] �~ RAT TAT ~j AYMERIC DE FARAMOND RANCE sent co us this year with the help o f the J usserand Fellowship, Aymeric_de Faramond. Aymeric is rather pleasantly conspicuous co us as our onl y fore1gn exchange studem ; but except for his slig ht European accent , he doesn't bring much of an air foreign t o us at St. John 's. In considering this son of France, we are t empted very strongly co think in comparison of our fo rmer exchange students. Aymeric, although quiet and of few words, is as well liked by all w ho have bad the pleasure of contact with him, as any of his previous compatriots . F Contrary co our type opinion of Frenchmen , M onsieur de Faramond is not a small , dapper , hi gh-strung individual; be is a large man- just abom six feet-quiet and reserved in manner, and bas a quite engaging m.anner if one takes the trouble co make his acquaintance. H e has , in the short year that he has been a part of us, a readiness co make fast friends, thoug h not w idely spread . It is sincerel y hoped that we may have the pleasure in the future of seeing m ore o f Aymeric or som e of his countrymen w ho resem ble him in the way we have known him . French Club; Fencing Squ ad. JOSEPH D EMELLO I N this, another so n of Massachusetts, we have the diminutive but very capable , Joseph D eMello . Although he stands just a bit over five feet, he represents co us a fu ll five fee t of ho nest endeavor and unn1.ist akable accomplishment . His size leads many co believe that his life is limited to rather narrow channels. But Jo lives the heartiest of lives . H e is fond of the outdoors and athletics in genera l. Thus we notice that his intra-mural program is q uite extensive, being regularl y draFted for his hall teams. In the fa ll of 1929 , he stret ched a point and m ade the junior varsit y football team . Quite a co nsiderable fea t for such a man 1 This yo ung m an 's chief interest is in w hat he hopes w ill be his fu ture profession, medicine. A nd, consequentl y, m ost of his time at St. John 's has been confined co the pursuits in Bio logy and related sciences . H e was o ne of the "pillars" of the Osler Club. As a tribute to the progressiveness of Jo , he was the first of o ur Co llegia ns to be accepted into a m ed ica l schoo l this year. We might continue enumerating the conquest s of our sm all fr iend for several pages, but those w ho know him have learned co expect big things fro m him and those who do no t know him soon learn to wonder. German Club [ 44 ] 1., 2, 3, 4; Eden meyer Club 2, 3 , 4; Junior Varsity Football [ 45] 2; Osle,- Club 2, 3, 4· �: RAT TAT JOSHUA LEMUEL DRYDEN ALFRED DOWD URING his residence at St. John's , Dowd has been consistent in avoiding the limelight which in due time seems to seek out even some inconspicuous members of the class. And so consistent has he he been, that it seems fitting here to spare him. the glare of enhanced publicity. There are comparatively few who call themselves intimates of his, and a corresponding number are apparently uninformed of the versatile capabilities of this man . D He is probably best known at St. John's in the field of his hobby , wireless telegraphy. Mr. Dowd is a licensed telegraph operator; he has his own station here at St. John 's through which he works . He is a pioneer in this field at St. John's. Early in his college career he established connections with the Collegian . past year he filled the vacancy of proofreader. This Rumor has it that this young man's ambition in life is to be an adventure while being a telegraph operator on a tramp steamer . Unique as always in his undergraduate days, those afterward have the same unique potent. I N a word, Lem Dryden is the Eastern Shore 's, more particularly Salisbury's , gift to St. John's . Rumor has it that way back in high school days Lem used his long legs and slim six feet in proving himself an athlete of no small repute. His particular event was what might be expected- the high-jump. But when Lem came to St. John 's he put away his athletic career and proceeded to become a principal in our social organization . He was one of the select few members of the Colonial Club . At the same time he was a prominent n1.ember of the Social Committee and the !mer-Fraternity Dance Comrrtittee. His attendance at the school dances has become a matter of course. For the benefit of his Fraternity, Kappa Alpha, he has established himself in intramural circles as a player of volley-ball , basket- ball, soccer and baseball. He was first baseman on Kappa Alpha's championship team last year. W e wo nder if there is anyone who is not drawn at once by his peculiar supine rn agnetism or , w put it cruddy , just his winning w ays . K appa Alpha; Cotillion Club L, 2; Colonia l Club 2 , 3 , 4; Social Committ ee 3 . Collegian Staff 2, 3 , 4· ~~.,:xp,;~~~YJi_l Q · 3 .1 ~ ~~--~------------ [46] ~~~~~ [ 1·9·3·1~ [47 ] �WILBUR REGINALD DULIN HARRY STANLEY EMRICH, JR . W ILBUR DULIN is St. Jo hn's idea l of virility. He lives the kind of a life chat we read about or see in mo ving pictures. At school his forte is football . A fine beginning , yo u see . Duly has been a regular on the squad for all o f his four years w ith us . Although not as call as we might imag ine che t ype, he is not sn1.all . H e and Willie Armacost alternate in caking the hard-hitting honors in the backfield . Now, enter role number cwo. For some years Duly h as been one of the town 's dependable fire-fighters . But this is no m ore chan is expected , since the department is made up of voluntary servers and Duly has a craving for strong excitement. During the summer m onths, Wilbur co mpletes our picture of the ideal man in the role of lifeg uard at one of the exclusive bathing clubs on the Severn. And to top it all off- in v iew of what we are going to say chat may so und like a bon m otDul y has a lack of a certain crowning glory , which fact has gained him the nickname of Hairless from his fri ends. Duly and all his fraternity of Theca Psi consider the condition a m ark of his distinct io n, as it really is. Seriously, Duly is a favorite with all who know him , no do ubt because of his simple, direct way of doing things , together with his frank friendliness to ochers. Th et a Psi , President 4; Footba ll 1, 2 , 3 , 4; Baseba ll 1; Inter -Fraternity Council 2, 3, 4· I N Harry we have a most surprisingly active individual. Most probably it is in modesty chat Harry bears himself without much outward evidence of his importance to St. Jo hn 's in the field of extra-curricular activ ities. M ay we be pardoned if we say that H arry is ambitious without reserve . But bea r in mind chat chis means chat he has come into all his honor and all his distinction through his own m erit. Harry began his activities career by slav ing as assistant m anager of football in his freshman year and kept it up until he was full manager in just cwo years later. That sa m e year he began a most prodigious career in journalism by attaining the positions of sports editor on first the Collegian staff and chen on the R AT-TAT st aff. Ic is evident chat Harry is well acquainted with his sports world. The followin g year he was chosen as one of the three associate editors of the Collegian . Theca Psi is his fraternity and is a fa vorice with him if we may judge fro m his activity for the organization . H e has m anaged their intra-mural program with no little success, helping them receive the annual cup for general excell ence in chat division of athletics . But Harry has ambitions in social realms , too. Is there any doubt as to his possible success in chat? Th eta P si , S e•·geant-at-Anns 3 ; RAT-TAT Spo1·ts Editor 3 ; Collegian S taff 2, Sports Editor 3, A ssociate Editor 4 ; Football A ssistant Mana ge•· 1 , 2, Manager 3 ; G erman Club 1 , 2; E1·lenmeyer Club 1, 2 ; Cotillion Club 1 , 2; B aseba ll 1. 0· 3 ·1 [ 48 ] [ 49 ] ~ �RAT TAT MATTHEW STROHM EVANS M ATTHEW EVANS is noc a residem of che cam. pus, buc in spice of che face he manages w spend quice a bic of his cime wich us . Unlike many of our so-called wwn swdems, Pudge , as he is beuer known , enjoys a huge popularicy wich everyone . There is nmhing flashy or pompous abom him; he merely has a habic w make and keep friends. Pudge is one of our boys who carrte w college primarily for che educacion and he has swck w ic , buc noc wo scricdy. He has succeeded in rounding off very nicely a career of pure scholascics by dabbling in achlecics and fracernicy affairs . Kappa Alpha claimed him early in his career and he has been mosc valuable w chem all wichouc much hope of honor abroad w himself. He served for cwo years as an officer of his fracernicy , which shows in a small way che esceem his fracernicy holds for him . Pudge is also one of che mosc emhusiascic of imra-mural achleces. He has come imo a large share of real discinccion in che emire field of che imra-mural program , having played on all of Kappa Alpha 's ceams including her chan1.pionship baseball ceam. Fudge's greacesc popularicy, wichouc a doubc, is gained chrough his own personalicy. Everyone is snuck, as if by comagion, by his nawral good humor and a nonchalance which is all his own. One has only w see him to feel something of his manner, which seems w radiace from him in waves of good feeling . K a·pjJa Alpha. FERDINAND FADER H ERE 'S Hom 1 He is known w che sponing world and w che newspaper world ac large as Ferdinand Fader-or jusc plain Ferdie. The greac among us carry themselves in many differem ways according w their respective degrees of modescy, and one way-which has been made popular by Ferdis one of quiec reservation , and Ferd does ic w perfeccion. He is cruly greac, this is no foolish yarn wid w make everyone feel in good spiric. lc has been said many times chat if che Stace were w follow the practice of commending a player in any branch of spores as being che mosc valuable w his ceam, Ferd deserves due honor in relation w basket-ball . He is wichout doubt one of che besc guards in the Scace of Maryland, and ic is not unusual w see his name as che headline of an heroic game. The cricics have said all of this for che pasc cwo seasons. Ferd is chac consiscem . Mr. Fader was elected w che scudem council chis pasc fall, which marks his firsc appearance, seriously , in our scudent govermnem. He has tnany serious momems, chough , one of which is che Osler Club in which he cakes an accive pan . Ferdie goes from us as one of che few men w have combined premedical studies and athletics successfully. V arsity Bask.et-B all 2, 3, 4; Football ~, 3; Lacrosse 4; B aseball [51 ] 2; Monogram Club; Osler Club . �WINSON GILBERT GOTT LOUIS JEFFERSON FIELDS S Q UAD, halt! Sergeant Fields faces about and executes a snappy salute. This gendeman is Sergeant Jefferson Fields- soon to be Lieutenant- of the United States National Guard. Leadership is Jeff's for t e. Before he was chosen President of the Sigma T au Omicron Fraternity, he was awarded the President 's Key from chis fraternity for being considered the most valuable man in his fraternit y. There are some people who can calk for hours and say practically nothing . Jeff- it is rumored- can calk for ho urs and , in m any cases, has a great n.1.any worthwhile things to say. But w ith all his effusion , Jeff is one of o ur best bets. H e has a fine. athletic record in football and lacrosse. , being one of T ody Riggs' tTlOSt acco untable linesrn.en . In addition he is an intra-mural athlete of no small rank , championing the teams of his fraternity through many v ictories . Jeff is one of o ur most congenial collegians, having a good wo rd and a srnile for anybody and everybody. And with it all Fields has a racing on che scholastic honor roll which is no m.ea n feat for a fraternity president and an achlece. T HIS young man came to us after cwo years of stud y at the Universi ty of Maryland . And in the respect chat he has spe.m only che. last t wo years of his college. career at St. John 's , and in due respect alo ne, Gil 's history is a short o ne.. But a two-year record of congeniality can seem like. two decades. Coming into our midst lace., he. lose no time in adjusting himself in our good graces. He. expected to give. friendship to everyone. and to accept friendship from all; and he. did just chat . He is easy going, one might say, for he seem s to accept life as it is , findin g chat most of it is a great thing if we treat it right. Phi Delta Sigma claimed Gil almost immediately upon his entrance.; they have not been sel fish with him. Although few know it , he is a rather clever banjo player, having been a m ember of the. University's jazz orchestra . Since. his residence here., thoug h, he has abandoned music in favor of lacrosse.. Gil expects to stud y law next year, and at the sarne. time further his interests in Spanish. Phi D elta Sigma; Lacrosse , Junior Var sity, 3. Sigma Tau Omicron , P1·esident 4 , Vice-President 3, Treasw ·er 2 , Sec1·etary- Treasw·e1· ~ ; P1·esident' s Key Award 3 ; Football I, 2, 3 , 4 ; Baseball I ; Lac1·oss e 2; Box ing 3, 4 ; Inter -Fraternity Council I , 2, 3 , 4 ; Social Committee 2 , 3; G ennan Club 3 ; Chess Clu b I; Sergeant-at-Arms of Class 3; Student Conduct Committee 4; Senior Committeeman 4· ~~~~~~~~·\n[ 1 Q · 3 ·1 _ g. 3 1 ~ ~,~~~~--~~~~ [ 52 ] [ 53 ] �RAT TAT:~ LOUIS HARWOOD GREEN I N 1927, Wheeling, W.Va. , sem this blond son to Annapolis so that St. John 's might help him shape his destiny . The result is a full-fashioned man who has profited by a liberal education offered by the school and the town . Harwood formed the foundation of his popularity in his Freshman year when he turned his attemion to baseball . His favorite sport, however, was abandoned the following year in favor of lacrosse, and Harwood sought new fields for enjoying baseball . Then, though his main imerests were in the town, he remained a leader in imra-mural baseball umil graduation. In the latter part of his career, aside from maintaining a scholastic record well above the average, he found time to engage in the activities of the local Ford agency. And from all appearances, the engagement was to mutual advantage. His ready flow of wit and a refreshing personality leaves us wich no doubt at all of the cause of his successes. . Phi Delta Sigma; Baseball r. RALPHS GUTH W HEN we asked Ralph SOtTJ.e time ago what he had to say for himself, he replied that we could say he was just another one of the boys . And had he been president of the Student Governmem he would have said the same thing . But we have learned chat we can find him just where most people wouldn't look for him.. If your memory is working very well, you n1.ay recall chat on one occasion when Professor Hatfield was at St. John 's and was invited to be Master of Ceremonies at che Circus , the same professor made his debut accompanied by two "little boys." One of the " boys ," dressed in rompers and waist, with sox and an all-day sucker was our friend Mr. Guch. But it was all in fun. For Ralph grew up many years ago and has been taking life , liberty and a pursuit of education rather seriously, in spice of protest now and chen. In his Freshman year he fiddled for the symp hony orchestra but gave chat up later for more imense activity. So in the next year he became a member of the Collegian Scaff. Even chis was put away after a year and Ralph surrendered to higher education, emerging chis year a finished produce, worthy of the best that the world has 111 store for him . Phi Delta Sigma; Symphony Orchestra ~~~~~~~~~~1 Q·3·1~ Q:~--~--------~~ [54 ] [55 ] 1; Collegian Staff 2. �EDWARD BURGESS HINES CAL YIN HARRINGTON , JR. AL YIN HARRINGTON com es fro m a fine Maryland stack which has presented the state with a governor ; and Cal has upheld co St. John's and the rest of the world the best that the stack presents in tradition and accomplishment . C Cal has a quiet way of doing things w hich has a habit of covering up his modesty. But the truth w ill out. Cal's best stride was in concentration of his energies. His achievements have been for the most part in publication work. In his Junior year he was appointed co the position of associat e editor of the RAT-T AT, which was a great credit t o the whole st aff. The same year he was the managing ediror for the Collegian and continued in that service until the end of his college career. As a result of his fine work he was elected co the King William H onorary Society . Cal also has a few avocations in which he has disting uished hirnself. He chased wild baseballs w hile on the manager's st aff of the Varsity squad , but with m any others had co forego further activ ity in later years. And then Cal is a musician ; a saxophonist in the bargain . H e gave excellent serv ice in the band for three consecutive years , being one of the ina uguratOrs of the organization . K appa Alpha; A ssistant Manage•· B aseball I; A ssociate Editor RAT-TAT 3; Managing Editor Collegian 3, 4; B and .I , 2, 3 ; King William H onorary Society. O NCE upo n a time in R andall Hall there lived a yo ung man w ho, among other yo ung men of his 'c ontemporary period, had a very active imagination actively thinking of things tO do tO occupy his spare time and the spare time of the administration. Such was the man Edward B. Hines. Many rumors have been confirmed that Ebbie was a very active spirit in his freshman year, and was given co som e very funny little habits like starting fires , though he has st ated that such an incident was · merel y accidental. We are happy tO not e that Ebbie has continued in his fiery ways, but not with fires . Those who have seen Ebbie, eit her in action or at rest , are impressed immediately with his air of intense activity when matters are interesting, or his complete relaxa t ion if matters are otherwise. Ebbie is a D ean 's List m an which may surprise one w hen we tell of his other not ab le achievements. Probably his best record has been made in lacrosse . Ebbie st arted his career with the stickmen in his freshman year and was so persistent in his endeavors that in his junior year he was placed on the second All-Maryland team as third attack and was given honorable m ention on the All-American team . He started a football record in his sopho more year but was forced co give that up when he suffered a broken collar bone. Since then his off-seasons have been spent in the boxing ring , w here he has proved himself one of the most valuable in the lightweight class. Kappa Alpha Fraternity has claimed this rnan 's services as Treasurer and as VicePresident . K appa Alpha, Treasw·e•· 3, Vice-Presid ent 4; Sophomm·e Council 2; Se>tior Committeema>~; Lac,·osse I , 2, 3 , 4, All-Mm·yla>td 3, H onorable Mmtio>t All-Anw-ica>t 3; Football 2; B oxi>tg 3, 4· 1~ [56 ] g. 3 ·1 [57] ~ �EDWARD ANDREW KIMPEL, JR . SNOWDEN HOFF, JR. H EN we. aske.~ Brozz w~ac he. was ~1osc inte.~e.ste.d in at St. John:s he. a~swe.re.d, "Sle.e.ping, e.aung, scudymg, achle.ucs; and m the. order me.nuone.d 1 Thus modestly he. cells his own story . And much more modestly than we. arc going co tell it. Contrary co che impression that he. is apt to convey co us by his remark , Brozz is one. of the. most vibrant personalities on the. campus. He reminds us in many respects of che. small but dynamic Emperor Napoleon. Both are. small, vigorous, and clever, and exhibit exception generalship at vital moments. W For four years Brozz has been one. of the. mainstays at the scoring end of the. basket ball ce.am; and it is in chis capacity chat St. John's lauds him most. His cle.ve.r playing and spe.e.d have. never failed to register on the. minds of both players and gallery who have. watched this dangerous little. forward in action. Idleness ne.ve.r contents him. When he. is not occupied with basket-ball and studies, his attention is directed to lacrosse.. Because. of the. passing of baseball in his sophomore. ye.ar, he. became. a candidate. for the. stick squad nwre. for che. fun of it than anything else-if lacrosse. is fun . And in the. few years of his playing he. has developed into one. of Ointy Moore's scoring ace.s. It is with some. regret that we. say, "So long 1" to Brozz. Kappa Alpha, Secretary 3, 4; Baseball I; Lacrosse 2, 3, 4 ; Bask_et-Ball Q·3·1_ [58] I, 2, 3, 4· A SLIGHT acquaintance. with Edward Kimpel might never serve. co reveal the accomplishments that this young man has co his credit. Our only clue. to his attainments was the. King William Award that he. wears on his watch chain. Ed re.ce.ive.d this for his services on the. Student Union Committee., but his work has be.e.n meritorious in several other fields. Ed has always be.e.n ime.re.ste.d in things German. He. was ele.cce.d Vice-President of the. German Club in his second and third years here. and in the. fourth was chosen president of the organization. Ic was learned through that source. that Ed has traveled extensively through Europe. and especially through Germany. The. European trip evidently put Ed in a sporting mood, for in his junior year he. won the. Singles Tennis Championship and Singles Handball Championship. Paired with Williamson, he. also won the. doubles in tennis. He. was awarded at the. end of the. ye.ar the. intramural high point trophy. This past year he. continued by winning the. doubles in both tennis and handball . He. was also instrumental in starting an inter-collegiate. program for the. tennis team , of which he. was chosen captain. Ed has some. very serious thoughts. He. was assistant business manager of the. RAT-TAT and, following chat, served as production manager of the. Collegian. Theta Psi; German Club Vice-President 2, 3, President 4; Production Manager Collegian 4; Assistant Business Manager RAT-TAT 3; Student Union Committee 3, 4; King William Honorary Society; Football, Junior Varsity 2, 3; Tennis, Varsit)• Captain 4; Singles and D oubles Tennis Champion 3, doubles 4; Handball Singles Cham1>ion 3, doubles 4; Intra-mural High-Point Trophy 3. ~~~~~~~1 [ 1 g. 3 1_ ~~--~~--------~~ [59] �· RJlT TAT JAMES KING WILLIAM J . KLUG, JR . IM is our social leader. And there is hardly another r:1ore sui~ed ~o the posit.ion . In short, Jim looks the part, acts the part , and finally 1s the thmg 1tself. Offinall y he is the chairman of the Social Committee . A review of Jim 's record for his whole college career shows a list of social activities surpassed by none. He began, as many important collegians do , in his freshman year by working on the Social Committee and with the Cotillion Club. He continued with the Cotillion Club until its passing in his junior year, and in the m ea ntime he had continued service on the Social Committee . When that body convened to elect its chairman for the ensuing year, Jim was chosen without a dissenting voice. The Colonial Club , quick to recognize a promising leader, elected Jim to membership while he was still a junior. But socia l successes alone have not satisfied Jim. For three years of toil and sweat as an assistant to the manager of the football squad, he was rewarded finally by the position of manager. That in a nutshell is his whole athletic history. The story does not stop here, however, for Mr. King has been a shining light in class and school affairs. The King William Honorary Society elected him to membership for his work as photographic editor of the RAT-TAT of 193 0, as well as work on the Soci:J.l C ommiuee. He bas also extended his endeavors in the directions of the committees of class rings, the dining hall , and of student conduct, and served for his fraternity on the Inter-Fraternity Council. Jim is Kappa Alpha, and they are proud enoug h of him to have chosen him president. J Kappa Alpha , President 4; King Willi am Hon01·ar)• Society; Social Committee RAT-TAT Photographic Editor 3; Junior l(ing Committee 3; Cotillion Club~, 2, " I RISE to a point of order 1'_' and the Patrick Henry of the Class of 31 for a tirade on our governmental affaus. That Patrick Henry is Bill Klug, impetuous but sincere . In most people impetuosities are faults, but with Willie they are accepted virtues. For he is more willing to laug h at them over and over again than retain them as personal grievances. This is no doubt due to the fact that humor or a good laugh is Willie 's life and so ul. The labor of Willie 's college career has been in the fields of chemistry, which he plans to make his life work . His play is in most everything else that he does . Thus we find him at most of the college dances , lending his lusty voice at all the games at home or abroad, and in any other place where there is liable to be fun or crowds of people. Bill has been a m ainstay in the life of the Erlenmeyer Club. For four years he has been one of the most active members, lecturing several tin1es each year, a pursuit to which he is well suited. · Erlenme)•er Club~. ~, 2, 3, Chairman 4; 3; Colonial Club 3, 4; Student Conduct Committee; lnt•·a -Frate1·nity Council; Dining Hall Committee; Football A ssistant Manage•· ~, 2 , 3, Manager 4· [60 ] [ 61 J 2, 3, 4· �RAT EDWIN LOTZ PRESTON SHIPLEY LEONARD E HEN we suggested the name of Preston Leonard to chis year's staff, stories were recounted about Si- everyone calls him Si- and his reign of terror when we were Freshmen and Si was on the Sophomore Council. But we all recall how relieved we felt to find chat Si was not the terrorizing mogul we had met at first , instead he turned out to be one of the best-hearted friends we had . One would hardly realize chat chis domineering Sophomore was the good-natured who sang love songs in the showers . We are going to hate to part with chat mellow voice of Si's. · W We have been deprived of seeing Si n.1.any hours of the week because of his work. It is surprising co know chat aside from serving as a class committeeman and rnaintaining the best of scholastic records , he has been working ten hours a day, six days a week, for about three years. That 's real accon1.plishment 1 Si was, as we said before, a prominent member of che Sophomore Council and Iacer was chairman of the Class Ring Comminee. Si cakes with him our best wishes for che best in life. D came to St. Jo.hn 's as just a big country boy with capabilities beyond measure. He leaves us ch1s year as one of our most widely honored athletes. Ed seems .to b~ a natural athlete; whatever he attempts in that category, he usually attempts Wlt~1 v1gor and his v.;hole self and as a consequence is usually a howling su~cess. He 1s one of St. Johns own scars in that his development has reached its he1ght here at the college. Ed started his athletic career here by entering football basket-ball and baseball in his freshman year. The nex t year he played football and lacrosse and has kept at these two ever since. And as a reward he has been named on se~eral all-state football teams and- highest of honors- was named All-American pmm by the Lacrosse Association last year. Ed is known in intra-mural athletics as a member of the boxing team. "Merel keeping up the tradition in the family," he t ells us . His brother is a ~ghter. But, just like Tunney, Ed has more refined interests. His scho lastic record 1s exceptwnal for an athlete. He is one of the pillars of the Theta Psi Fraternity of w h1ch he has been President. Locz is one of the most well-liked m en on our campus; he has a smile and a cheerful word for everyone he meets. well-know~ Sophomore Council 2; Class 1\.ing Committee Cha·i nnan. Theta Psi, President 4 , S ecretary .3 ; S tudent Conduct Committee 4 ; M ess Hall Committee 2 ; G erman Club 2; E..Zenmeye1 Club~; Footba.l l ~. 2, .3 , 4 , All-M ar )> · lancl 4 ; B asl{et-Ball ~;Lacrosse 2 , .3, 4 , All-Amen can 3 , All-Ma.·)•land 3 ; Box ing 3 , 4· 0 . .3 ·1 [62 ] �R.ATTAT~ i R . ELLIS MITCHELL ROBERT MAcCARTEE HE name of MacCartee has righdy becom e a u aditio n a ~ Sc John's. For .four years Bob has been a prominem can1.pus figure. H e has nsen to stellar he1ghts on the gridi ro n, basket -ball court , and lacrosse field . But it is unnecessary to recoum here the feats and prowess of MacCartee as an athlete . Suffice it is to say that MacCartee has been a varsity football man for fo ur years ; a varsit y basket-ball man for a like period , twice captain of the quint ; a varsity baseball man in his Freshman year ; and a varsity lacrosse m an in his last three years. MacCartee's m ost outstanding individual achievement was probably his almost single-handed v ictory over Hopkins in football in 1929. T It is probable, however, chat MacCartee 's fa me as an athlet e has eclipsed his m any ocher good qualities . He is blessed with the most valuable of assets requisite t o genuine leadership~cool - headed ness. H e is ever calm, shrewd , calculating, thoughtfu l. His leadership has been recognized by his classmates and teammates, thrice being president of his class. Besides being an athlet e and a leader, Bob also received consistendy good grades, maj oring in Economics although devoting considerable time to ro unding out his educatio n in the field of the m ore libera l arts. President of Class ~. 2 , 4 ; Football ~ , 2, 3 , 4; B ash.et-B a ll ~, 2, Captain 3, 4; Baseball ~; Lacrosse 2, .3, 4; Kappa Alpha; At!tletic Council 4; A ward f or doing most fo 1· College 3. R ELLIS MITCHELL confirms the old adage abo ut the best things coming in little packages. Mitch is small but exuemely active , in as many ways as he knows how. His main interests at St. John 's, aside from those in science, have been athletic in general. He has had a steady rise to fame in each of the branches of sport in which he indulges until his activities are unfo rtunately halted by injuries. Mitch began an excellent career in baseball in his Freshman year which continued until bis second year and eben baseball went o ut of the life of St . Jo hn 's. But it didn 't go from the life of Ellis . He continued baseball at every opportunity and when a professional baseball t eam came to Annapolis for its sprin g t raining, Mitch was spotted and offered a contract as a cat cher. In his second and third years, he was a candidate fo r the football squad and it was here that his injury was received and becam e his Nemesis. Last year he began to show much promise as one of Dinty Moore 's scoring stickmen until the old knee again m ade its presence felc A nd again this year , w itb much more promise, Ellis was forced to give up a potential lacrosse career in favor of the erring joint. H e accepts the misfortune without a murmur as a good sportsman w ill, but he is evidentl y having a hard time keeping down the desire to be in every bit of batd e chat the t eam ex periences. If we may predict , Mitchell's energies and his love of activity are not going to be wasted . T heta Psi; Baseball1., 2; Football 2, 3 ; Lacrosse 3 , 4; B asltet- B all , Junior Varsity Q·3·1_ [64 ] [65 ] 2, 3 ; Traclz ~ , 2 . �. ~~~~· RAT TAT -..LJ~~~4 . .~,. ~" ~ ~~--------------------~= LAWRENCE LUTHER MONNETT N the life of every studem body, at times , there is one man among them who stands head and shoulders above the rest in his achievemems, his character, his scholarship, and the respect and admiration of his fellow studems. To chis one man, usually, is accorded without dispute, leadership in his every undertaking ; and to this man go the highest honors and distinctions the institution can bestow. Sr. John's College is this year graduating just such a man- Lawrence Luther Monnett. Monny's name came to our Alma Mater's Hall of Fame first in his sophomore year when, prematurely, it might seen1., he took over the reins of the Collegian. It was through his efforts that the school paper was tenderly coaxed, fondled, and reared to be the literary organ of the school. The following year, it was only fitting that he be elected Editor of the RAT-T AT . His Senior record is most worthy of noce and definitely establishes the name of Monnett in our H onor Hall . He was the first man to be elected by the whole scudem body to fill the office of Studem Presidem . His other honors consist of membership in Delta Kappa Phi, Delta Omicron and King William Honorary Societies. A glance at his list of activities will convince, too, that he deserved the. Activities Trophy Award. Bur more valuable than anything else, Monny is liked and respected by all who know him . I ALBERT HUTT MOORE ['\ L came to St. John 's from Baltimore City College and , because of his unas- .fl_ suming manner, was practically unnoticed for his first half year. In the second half of his first year he. was pledged Phi Sigma Kappa and has played an importam part in this organization ever since.. A l's activities, however , were not purely of a fraternal nature as he was very active both on the RAT-TAT and the Collegian, becoming Business Manager of the. latter in his Junior year. As Business Manager he introduced a thoroughness into the management of chis paper chat it had lacked before . He. was also an active m ember of the Cotillion Club and Dance Committee, showing a real interest in these organizations . Everything AI participated in seemed bound to be. a success, consequently he was very well liked by all the studem body, and we all know char his vacancy in the College 's life. will be hard to fill. Phi Sigma Kappa President 4, Vice-President 3, Treasw·e•· 2; Business Manager Collegian 3, 4; RAT-TAT Organization Edito•· .3; Cotillion 1, 2, 3 ; Dance Committee .3· Kappa Alpha , President 3; Delta Omiaon; Delta Kappa Phi; Lac•·osse Squad 1; Debating Team L; Secretary- Treasurer of Class 1 , 2 , 3; Class Histm·ian 1; Feature Editor Collegian r ; Editm·-in-Chief Collegian 2 , 3; Associate Editor 4; SotJhomore Edito•· RAT-TAT 2; Editm·-in-Chief 3; Inter-F,·aternity Council 2, 3, Seo·etary .3; P•·ince William and King William Honorary Societies; Activities T.-oph)' Award, 193 0. ~~~~~)II[ 1 g. 3 1 g. 3 1 ~ ~~--~--------~~ [66] \: [67 ] �RAT !~ RAT TAT TAT~.!/_ ROBERT BOSMAN POOL ELMER RAYMOND NOYER F ROM New Bedford, Mass. , Elmer Noyer journeyed in the fall of 192 7 co seek his education at Sc. John 's. He has succeeded admirably well. His efforts while here at Sc. John 's have noc been directed coward conspicuousness or glory . But he has learned the secret of nuking his college: life: the best years of his youth . There: is hardly a pastime, hardly a pleasure that we: humans know that has escape:d our friend. But his personal ple:asure: includes scholastic interests, too. A revie:w of his re:cords show his se:riousne:ss coward his colle:ge life which is hardly surpassable. Thinking of Elme:r strike:s a chord in our minds which suggests le:isure: and a carefree: spirit but couple:d, as it should be:, with purposeful endeavor. His only tie: on the ca rrtpus has been in the form of one: of his hobbie:s . He: was a me:m.ber of the Fre:nch Club for two years and in the latte:r was chosen secretary of the: club . French Club 1 , Secretary 2. B y this time:, surely, most of us are: acquainted with the brilliant star of the: championship lacrosse: te:am.. Bobby Pool found himse:lf drifting into the tide: of fast friendships and a wide reputation in his first ye:ar at Sr. John 's. Those: of us who are: fortunate: e:nough to have: intimate: contact with Bob know him co be: one: of the most congenial , smooth-spirited, dignitaries e:ver co grace our fair campus. He: doe:s grace: our campus for a fact; Sc. John's is proud of her son, who, in addition to gaining an accre:ditable: scholastic re:cord, has he:lpe:d co link he:r name: with the nation's be:st in sport . Although Bob has me:mbe:rship in none: of the: various organizations on the campus, he: has e:njoye:d the: adm.iration and re:spe:ct of the e:ntire: stude:nt body . He: has be:e:n e:le:cte:d to se:rve as the pre:sidem of his class, and i~ that capacity was in a position co act as the pre:sidem of the: te:rnporary Stude:nt Council which inaugurated our pre:se:m systern. of stude:m governme:m. Those: me:n who have: playe:d lacrosse: as his teammates for the: past thre:e: years have: had an opportunity co enjoy his clean sportsmanship and his ke:en ze:st for vigor. Sm.all wonde:r that his te:ammate:s wame:d him co lead the:m. this ye:ar. And what a fitting tribute: co the: fine: type of sportsrn.an that he: is I President of Cla ss 3; Sophomore Council 2; Lacrosse ~.....,_~~~~~Yli 1 g • 3 ·1- ~~----------------~~ [68 ] 1, 2 , 3, Captain 4· �RAT TAT _).J_ WILLIAM TATE ROBINSON, JR . JOHN SCHRIVER PRICE . J SCHRIVER happily turned to St. John's to complete his education which he started with two years at Lehigh University . At Lehigh we are told he was a very prominent figure especially on the RiHe T ean1. He was a valuable member of that body for both years of his residence there . Unfortunately, when he came to us, he was forced for a time to forego this form of recreation , but not for long . He organized a riHe team here, which used the armory of the State Militia as its range. His interests since he has been here have diverged into other fields, however . He has shown great promise, or shall we say achievement, with the fencing squad. Perhaps in keeping with that he is quite a French student and is a member of the French Club. J . Schriver as we know him is every bit a gentleman; one may distinguish him by his reserve and such other marks which are generally associated with the genus. French Club 3, 4; Fencing Club 3, 4; l{ifle T ea m (L ehigh L and 2) 3 . T ATE Robinso n, a native of Honolulu , came first to Harvard University for his undergraduate career, and after a year there came to finish at St . John's. In that St. John 's has benefited in more ways than one. The greatest of Tate's interests in extra-curricular activities was in dramatics in which he was one of the best of performers. The Dramatics Club a few years ago was engaged in giving a m ystery play every Christmas. When Tate came he was set to work coaching the players, who were all men , at the same time taking the most difficult part, that of the Virgin Mary , himself. It was principally through his efforts that the adminisuarion recognized the possibilities of the players and secured a coach which relieved Tare of rhis end of the work so that he could give his best to playing. Elsewhere in this volume is found the story of rhe advancement of this club through Tate 's efforts. He is indeed worthy of every commendation that may come to him through such a huge accomplishment. If we should say no more about this man, we should have told enough to prove his value to us. But, with all of his responsibilities, he has always had his smile ready for everyone. He has made himself many a friend, who holds him in rhe greatest esteem possible from one man to another. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Massachusetts Gamma; Dramatics ,.,._~~.;M~~~~.w,r 1 g · 3 ·t [70] [71 ] 2, 3, 4. �- RAT TAT ,. J ~-"'~:~1~ H1P~~~~ q I -~ RUDOLPH SCHMICK I T is said that a small town farmer boy who makes good in the big city makes excellent copy for "Success Stories," and, if such is the case, the Preston (Md.) papers will be obliged to copy many of the items which are bound to be published about her native son, Rudolph Schmick. Rudy was the star athlete at Preston High , but since entering the realm of college life at St. John's, anything from managing a varsity team to directing a jazz band has been tackled by this blond shareman. The first year found him. on che football field being a capable parmer for the tackling dummy , in the glee club tendering his tenor voice, in the basket-ball storeroom digging out equipment, and on the lacrosse field chasing loose balls for the regulars. With such a display of versatility when only a mere freshman, Rudy promised to be one of the leaders on the campus later on in his collegiate career. And such has been the case, but not exactly along the lines he followed during his freshman year. One season was enough for the Glee Club; two years on the gridiron proved to be sufficient; three springs were quite enough for che stick game; but a nujor letter was his reward for lasting four years as the fondling nurse for the basketball team . Rudy is Theca Psi and has been Vice-President for two years. He has also been Vice-President of ' 31 for the past two years. Vice-Presidencies are his forte, it seems. Theta Psi, Vice-President 2, 3; Vice-President of Class 3, 4; B asket-Ball , Junior Varsit)• Manage•· 3, Varsity M anager 4; Footballz, 2; L acmsse I, 2, 3; Tracl;_ I; Band I, 2, 3; Inter- Fraternit)•Council3, 4; Glee Club z; H ead Waiter 4; Manage•· of St. John 's Collegians 4· ~~~~~~"*""'l'iY [ 1 g . 3 ·1 _ ~~---=~------~~ [72 J ANTHONY JOSEPH SCIBELLI "WHAT a beatin ' 1" and a brunette man, short but handsome, makes his way out of the mess hall. That, friends, was Buck Scibelli. One need ionly to glance at the picture above to see the wiriness and cleverness that fairly shines and radiates from the countenance of Buck. Here is another exan1.ple of our engaging pre-medical students who confine themselves and their talents to their respective college quarters. It is very seldom chat the students of our fair college are given the privilege of hearing Buck play his harmonicas. His lase public performance, if our records are not in error, was two years ago at one of our famous smokers. At chis time Buck startled and very agreeably surprised his audience by presenting a delightful, entertaining program of popular music. Buck became popular with the new men immediately but no fi.mher public entertainment was forthcoming. He doesn't need anything further to perpetuate himself in our minds chan his harmonica and his famous "What a beacin' !" The name Scibelli is frequently to be found on the Dean 's List as well as on the line-ups of Randall Hall's teams . If you know Buck, you know he's the spirit of the game, and he has done much for any success Randall has had in intra-mural athletics . Osler Club 2, 3, 4; Intra-mural Manager, l(andall Hall; German Club 3, 4- g. 3 ·1 [73] �RAT TAT ~J~~~~l·~~ RAT 1~ t JESS ARNOLD SCOTT OR m any years past the blue g rass of Kentucky has been sending us men of sterling quality, able in body and in mind, and possessing that bit of Southern reserve which distinguishes the sons of the Confederacy from the. impulsive m en of other soil. This year we are t o see. another graduate, Jess Scott , lacking no ne of the qualification save, perhaps , one of extreme stature. . F Jess has been living his life quietly but very surel y and st eadil y since he came. to us in 1927. His name frequently is to be found in the. appro priate. sectio n of the ·D ean 's List- although not an excellent student , certainly far from a fa ilure.. Jess has always been an athletic enthusiast althoug h he. has not been as active as we know some athletically inclined men to be.. Jess did make. an enviab le record in lacrosse.. Hav ing begun his career in that sport while here. at St. John's he developed in such a hurry that he was given a berth on the varsit y squad the first year of thei r great glory. Jess is Sigma T au Omicron , but his circle of friends are wide. and of huge variet y. If we haven't already stated it , we are. strong for the t ype that Jess represents. ANTONIO HIRAM SUSONI I N 1928, " Tony '' Susoni came to St. John 's to finish his pre-medical studies. In his three years of residence he has established our respect for himself a nd his home, Porto R ico. We are as proud of Tony as Porto Rico herself, for his record as a scientist is one of the. best. In his m oments of diversion his interests have been centered in athletics. In his Freshman year he was a candidate for the fencing squad. H e dropped the ca ndidacy the fo llowing year in favor of the o utdoors and cross-co untry w hich had just made. its appearance o n the intra-mural program. Since then T an y has been a strong supporter of the. "hoofers." In addition , he. has surrendered to a desire. tO be a boxer and has been trai ning for som e time.. But Tony 's greatest desire is co be a D octor of Medicine when he. ca n return co Porto R ico with his family . We take this opportunity tO wish hirn the best. Fencing 1; Cross Country Sigma Tau Omicron; French Club~. 2; Chess Club ~ ; Junior Varsity B ask._et-Ball 1; Lacrosse, Junior Varsity 2; Varsit y 3. [ 74 ] [75 ] 2, 3 ; Boxing 3· �GLENN HARRISON WARNER JAMES EDWIN TORBET, JR. F ROiv'l ouc of the mountains came Jim Tarbet , not the fighter but a man that is known even berter to the students of St. John' s. Jim., unlike the fighter, is known for his quiescent nature . While he did not excel in his studies, he was always as good or better than the average. He just seerned to drift along serenely , interfering with no o ne and always minding his own business. Jim's greatest interest was in the field of chemistry, where he was quite active in both rhe Osler Pre-Medical and Erlenmeyer Clubs; he was also a member of the Ring Committee of his class. Jim 's activities, however, do not give o ne the true story of his life while in co llege, for Jim was active in all things, which cannot be listed under any particular heading, consequently one does nor get the picture he should get of this man . lf one is to judge from past experiences, however , one might be safe in saying rhar Jim will be a great chemist som e da y and the school will be proud to admit he was a son of Sr. John 's. Sigma Tau Omicron; Osler Club; Erlenmeyer Club; R._ing Committee . M AY we be pardoned, please, for indulging in personalities just long enough to call at tention to the handsome gentleman pictured above . And we are proud to say rhar Glenn hasn't allowed this quality to dominate him . Glenn is one of our most pron1.inent and most well-liked social leaders. Surprisingly enough, he is interested in sociology and human nature , which makes social life for him a matter both of duty and of pleasure . On rhe side, he is interested in the stock marker, bur he was careful to explain that interest was not active. Bur then there is always hope. Glenn is a firm advocate of physical exercises, as is most evident if you have occasion to visit the gymnasium any afternoon after classes . Though not a brilliant varsity athlete, Glenn became a candidate for the football sq uad in his second year, but gave that up later in favor of his favorite gymnasium work . But in his Freshman year we find that he was quite a track star. W e are going to miss his spirited bit of repartee, of which he always seemed to have a ready supply for every occasion. Sigma Tau Omicron; Football z ; Track I; Cotillion Club I, z ; French Club [76] [ 77 J 1. �STEPHEN WOLANSKE ALBERT JOSHUA ZIMMERMAN ENTLEMEN' This is "Doc" Wolanske. For cwo years now, Steve has been dispensing Doccor Murphy 's famous pills. But Steve hopes due in che not coo discam future he will be prescribing his own medicines. Y chis cirne Albert Joshua Zimmerman, having waited for che emire class to pass in review , will be rather bored co hear the same old "last but far from least'' thrown up at him again. Ic is no joke this time, though. Zimmerman is one of che most in1portam figures in the Class of 31 . In a word he is one of the cwo who have che honor of Delta Omicron chis year, which is not a liule distinction. When Alben emered imo college life here, he plunged immediately into the field in which he has since proven himself so apdy fitted. He started as a reporter for the Collegian . Realizing his possibilities, the Ediror promoted him w Feawre Ediror the following year. He was not satisfied; so with more patience and more labor he was appointed Associate Edicor in his Junior year. In chis capacity he served only a half year; he was elected Edicor-in-Chief in February that year. His efforts were turned at once co making the publication a periodical in reality and w establishing the prestige of the paper far beyond the limits of che student body. This accomplishment is Al's crown .' His middle name, Josh , for short , was not in vain. Ic is rumored chat he and a famous humorist named Rogers have little jousts every now and then. More seriously, Al started the original funnybone articles that we enjoy so much in the biweekly paper. Contrary co che opinion chat some have due humor columnists are quiet, Al , though surely not boisterous , is a very refreshing person to calk to , if one likes his stead y flow of wit. Buc don't lee us paint him wichouc a serious touch: he is most industrious and conscientious as might be gathered from the honors he has · received . G Sceve is che ocher pre-medical swdem who has won his varsity leccer. He has been practicing conscamly since he was a Freshman co play varsity basket- ball; but he was rewarded very early by being che "handy" man on che team. Ic did not cake him long, though , co prove hin"lSelf real varsity material and in his chird year he was playing regularly . And now when Steve scares co "gee loose," Sc. John 's scores. Although basket-ball is Steve 's bobbie, he showed real spirit by playing a fine game as goalie for Dimy Moore 's championship stick ceam. Our "Doc" is certainly versatile. When he could spare his cin1e fron1 che infirmary , Steve played a crumpet in both che orchestra and che band. Incidemally , Sceve plays a nice UUITlpec in a surnmer jazz orchestra. Finally, lee us not forget chat Sceve was che force chat reorganized che Osler Club and gave che push which sec chat club once more on its scams as one of che school's best clubs. He was the club's first pres idem under its new organization. Sigma Tau Omicron S eo·etary 4 ; O sler Club 2 , 3 , Preside nt 4; y ennan Club 3; Band 1, Orchestra 1 , 2 ; B ask,_et -B all 1, 2 , 3 , 4 ; Lacrosse 2 , 3, 4 ; S enio1· M edical A ssistant. ~~..,.,..~~~~~'II[ 2, 3, 4 ; B Delta P s£ Omega Presid ent 4 , Secretary 3 ; D elta Omic1·on; Collegian R._ejJorter 1, Feature Editor , News Edtt01· 2 , A ssociate E dit01· 3, Editor-in-Chief 4; Class Editor RAT-TAT 3; D ebating Club 2 ; G lee Club r ; G erman Club 3; Symposium 3 · 1 g . 3 ·1 - ~,~~~~~=-~~ [78] [79 ] �f &-~~~'"f~ . ~ ~fit~;~ - - R.AT TAT ., --...J \ ,_ JUNIORS THE HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 193 r T HE Class of 1931 emered Sc. John 's in a happy hour. The College was in a period of growch, of renaissance. The faculcy was being enlarged and improved. The library was growing . The achlecic deparcmem was making greac scrides forward. The adminiscracion was im.proving. The College was increasing che nurnber of ics buildings. A new regime, asking only a co-operacive scudem body, was in mocion. The Class of 1931 has provided chis co-operacion. lc has supplied leaders in every line of endeavor. Monnecc and Zimmerman have developed publicacions worchy of a sane , healchy college. Ed Locz, Morris, Arn1,acosc, Pool, Hoff, and MacCarcee have raised che plane of Sc. John's achlecics. Led by Bowman and Chew, Senior Fellows, che class has made a real scholascic fracernicy of che Delca Kappa Phi. The class has mec che needs of che College and supplied che men needed for ics policy of expansion. Whecher che class has helped Sc. John's or noc, Sc. John's has cercainly helped che class. lc has given che fnquiring minds four years for scudy and improvement; ic has given che uninquiring rninds four years of congenial pleasure, and ic has given us all che abilicy co laugh more ofcen and more imelligemly chan we could four years ago. This year's class officers are: Roberc MacCarcee presidem , Rudolph Schmick vice- presidem , George Beneze secrecary-creasurer, Samuel Chew hiscorian and William Armacosc sergeanc-ac-arms. ~~~~~~~~~r t o·3·1 i [80] �LAWDENC[ L. CAPDfNit:~ p,qsidenl JAMES F. CAMflllf.LL V'lce-Pres. CLb.SS OffiCCDS SAMUCL JJOOTll'lATO Sec· Tre,.s. SPONSOR JUNIOR CLASS MISS GYNETH PREW Foxboro, Massachusetts fOCD[UiCK G.VE~~S ~~"',.::.(RJ~~~~VIi_l . g . 3 ·11 [ 82] JOUN JOU Historit.t1. ~rpl·Amos ·~~i\.~Hah.2~~~ [83 ] �R t,..~~"'il.~~~rr, _ m At ~ ~{f3.~~2Pc....J. 11 J-::1. T TA -=---)~~~c:~~..:..-~k\.. tf-~"4 ~,~~ --1- . w~~m~ Calvin H arringt on, Jr. ..... . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . ... .. . . .. .. .... . Cambridge . . Bernard Adolph Heller, Jr. . .... . . . . _ ... . ... . . . .. .. . . . ........ . .. Baltimore William Crowley Hoddinott ... .. ...... . ... . .. . .. .. .. .. . . .... .... Baltimore ... . . . ... . . .... . .. . .. ... Baltimore James King .... . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . . .. . .... . ..... Ellicott City Philip Lee Lotz ..... . ... . . .. . . . . . Tilghman McCabe .. . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ocean City . .. . ... Brooklyn, New York Sanford Arthur Menczer .. . ... . . . .. .. . .. . Charles Howard Miles ... . ....... .. . . . . . . . ... _ . .. . . . . .. ... Baltimore James Deal Morris . ... .. .... . . . _ .. . . .. . . .... . ... . .. . . .. .. .. .. . Baltimore Walter Charles My lander, Jr. ......... . .. .. . . . . .. .. .. ... ....... Cockeysville Frederick Joel Nassauer . . .. .. . . . . -... . .. . . ... . .. .. . .... . ..... . .... Pikesville Isaac Allen Newton, Jr. . . Robert Maxwell Noblett JUNIORS . ..... .. . . . . .. . .. ... . . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ... .. . .. . . . . . .. .. .... . ... Hackensack, New Jersey Milton Alex ander Noon , Jr. . . . . . . . .. . .. . ... . ..... .. . .. .. . . . ... Millersville Hugh Frazier Parker, Jr. ...... .. . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. .. .... . .... . . .. . . Baltimore Lewis Deford Patton. . . . . . . . . CLASS OF 1932 Joseph Victor Anchony ....... ... .. . . ... . ..... . ..... Waterbury, Connecticut William Bernard Athey ... .... ... . ..... ..... .... . . . . . ... ... ... . . Baltin1.ore John Sigmund Austerlitz .. ..... ........ .. .......... . .... . ..... .. Baltimore Edward Samuel Balles . . ....... .. . . .... . . . . . . . . . ... . .. Paterson, ,New Jersey William French Blake .... ... ...... .. . .. . .. . .. .... . .. . .... . ..... Baltimore Richard Ferdinand Blaul . . ... . ... . ..... . ... . . . . . . . . ; .. .. .. .... Cumberland Scott Amos Broadbent . ..... . .. ... . .. . . . . . . . .. . . .. . ..... . ~ .. .. . Baltimore . . . ... ... .. ... . .... . Momclair , New Jersey Richard H eber Pembroke, Jr. .... . . ... _ .... .. . .... ..... . .. ... .... Park Hall George Durward Adams Selby . .. . ...... .. . . . . .. . . .. .. . .. . . .... . Baltimore Henry Soladay Shryock, Jr. . .. .. . . .. . . _ ........ . . .... . .. . . . . . ... . Baldmore Frederick William Skaling . _ . .... . . .. . . . .. ..... New London, Connecticut Cameron ~ourtney Stearns . ..... . .. . . . .. . . . .... . . . . .. .......... . ... Bel Air Albert Cramer Seidman . ... .. . .. . ...... , . . . .. .. . . .......... Owing 's Mills Antonio H iram Susoni ..... . .. . . . ... . . . . ... . .. . . ... . ... Arecibo, Porto Rico Allison Crusnach T racier . ... . .. . .. . .. .. .. ... . . . . . .. . . . ..... .. Revell Station Robert Lemmon Burwell, Jr. . . . . . . .... . .... . .. . . . . . . . . .. . ... .... Annapolis William Lee Waller .. .. . . ..... . .. . . .... . . ..... .. . . . . . .... . .... Annapolis James Fromhardt Campbell .. . . . ... . _ ... . .. . . ...... .. . ......... Lonaconing Edward John Ward Paul Edmund Casassa . .. ..... ... .... . .. . .... . . .. .. . .. .. . Washington, D.C. Glenn Harrison Warner . ... . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. .. .. . . . . Deposit, New York Douglas Arnett Cole .......... . . . . .. ... . .... . . . ...... . ... . .. ... Baltimore Milton Edward Weaver, Jr. Vladimir Frantisek Ctibor Charles Vernon Williamson .. . .... . .. . .... . ... . . . ... . . . ..... . .. Catonsville ........... .. ...... . .. . . . . Ridgewood, New Jersey .... . .. _ .. .. . . .. . . . . ..... . ... Salisbury . . .... .. .. . ..... . . . . . . .... Perkasie, Pennsylvania . .... . . . .... ..... . ... .... . ... . . . Jacksonville, Florida Walter Staup Dorsey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. Westminster Fred Gerker Yerkes, Jr. Alfred Dowd ... ....... . . . . .......... . .... .......... . Hillside, New Jersey David Burns Zarr . . .. . . .. .. .... . .. ... . .. . . . . . . . ... Nancicoke, Pennsylvania ~~~Yit_l Q·3·1 [ 84] [85] - ~~ -~ �SOPHOMORES CLASS HISTORY OF 1932 I N che year of our Lord, 1928 , there entered into chis venerable insticucion some one hundred and twenty new men, all raring to go. However, the Sophomore Class soon showed us chac there were a few things to learn about respect , and it was not until the class rush chat we were able to show the respect chat we had, for so long , held in check. After this great skirmish, things seeded down and we became " true St. Johnnies ." Upon arrival back at school the following fall we found, much to our delight, chat we could torture the new men as we were tortured the previous year, so we proceeded to do so . By this time quite a few men in our class had distinguished themselves in athletics, the more prominent of which were Willis and Bob Lynch, Paul Casassa, Noblett, Carpenter and Job . The time for the rush came, but it was not held as the memory of our previous rush, when Bob Lynch was seriously hurt, was still fresh in our minds . As Juniors we feel that we have safely weathered the storm and are now on the safe side of the line. We now look back with much delight and smile when we think of our Fresbman days, how our thoughts ran on various subjects then and how they run now . It is a miracle what two years can do to men . We started out one hundred and twenty strong but have gradually dwindled down until we are but fifty . We miss those that have left our midst and consequendy feel so much closer to those we have left. Our class officers are: Carpenter president, Campbell vice-president, Fortunato secretary-treasurer , Yerkes historian , and Joh sergeant-atarms . ~~'iH~~~~\1' r: 1 g . .3 . 1 ~ [ 86] �RAT TAT]~J,~~~~ Mm"h"''"' William S«ph<n Ecamo ... . . . .. . ....... ... . . . . . .... Pimfidd, John Hannon Finn .. Pittsfield, Massachusetts Emslie Nicholson Gault ..... .. Ru x ton James Wesley Gray Hampton .. Princess Anne Daniel Horton Hancock, Jr. .. . ... ... Stockton Arthur Hebb , Jr. ........... Baltimore Donald Bruce Hebb . ... . . . Baltimore Charles Gilbert Hill , Jr. .. .. ........ Annapolis Walter Henry Hoffrneister ... Baltimore . .... . . Baltim.ore Jo hn Sebald Hofmeister, Jr . Thomas Carter Ross Hughlett , Jr . .. Ca mbridge Baltimore James Knox Insley, Jr. . . . .... .. . Law rence Gallatin Jefferds .. Edgewood, Rhode Island John Adam Joh . ......... . .. Baltimore George Dugan Johnson . . . . . Severna Park James Herbert Fielding Jukes . Quantico Edward Marion Kenly ..... Claiborne Norman Kleiman. . . . . . . . . .... Baltimore Ellsworth Charles Knight, Jr ... Baltim.ore John Genso Laferty . . . . . . . .. Baltimore Ulysses Dav id Limauro .. Lynn , Massachusetts Joseph Leon Lingo . . . ..... Milton, Delaware Robert Clare Lynch .. Alvon, West Virginia Willis Keyes Lynch ... . .. Alvon , West Virginia Carl Edmund Maffeo ... Newark , New Jersey John Joseph Mason, Jr. ... Birrn.ingharn, Alabama Henry George Miller . . .. . . .. Baltimore William Ballou Miller . West Barnstable, Massachusetts Jan1.es Henry Moore ..... Suffolk, Virginia Leonard Joseph Murphy ... ..... Oakland Chris Peter Palivas . . . . . . . . Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts ... Newark, New Je;sey Genesio Nicholas Pannullo James Barnett Parks ........ Drexel Park, Pennsylvania William Algernon Percy, Jr. . . . ... Vienna Lincoln Coles Pettit ..... . .. Baldwin, New York Tilghman Beverly Price .... . Baltimore David Hampton Pugh , Jr. . ..... Poolesville William Thomas Daniel Pumphrey . . Glenburnie Francis Kenneth Ratcliff . . . . . . . . .. Washington, D .C. George Griffin Rudolph ..... Baltimore William Christian Sandbrock . . Baltimore Kenneth Sheldon . . . . . .. Newton, Massachusetts Everett Irving Smith. . . . .... Oradell, New Jersey John Boak Smith .... .. . . Iglehart Dav id Reisinger Steele .... Baltimore John Williams T racier .. .. Revell Station Urban Chester Ullman .. Perth Amboy, New Jersey John Fisher Wager , Jr . . .. Upper Darby, Pennsylvania George Jones Weems .. . . Stoakley Chestertown Joseph Wright White . .... . .. Edward George Williams ..... Hasbro uck Heights , New Jersey Robert Garner Woodman . Tenafly, New Jersey Joseph Kennard Wright . . . ... Baltimore William Allen Ziegler . . 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Eager, expecram, hopeful faces , that was us. We went through the usual raning, not roo harsh, not too easy, that was to make good Sr. Johnnies of us. It worked about as well with us as any class before w; . Late in October, the somewhat disillusioned members of our class gathered together to elect our officers. Bill Carter was elected presidem, John Smith vice-president , Lincoln Magee secretarytreasurer , Homer· Todd was chosen to represem us in the Studem Council, and Daniel Ward was named sergeam-at-arms. We did our part in athletics and social affairs and spent much of our time thinking of nex t year's rats and the fun we were sure to have with them . We learned to gripe in the true St . Johnnie manner about the food, the beds, the Profs , and sundry orher triaes . September, 1930 1 Back again; this time we walked across the campus greeting last year's friends and looking with curious stares at new , eager, expectant, and hopeful faces. We effected uner boredom with college and last year in loud , important voices. You see we were Sophomores and you know what Sophomores are . We held the traditional rat meeting , bur somehow the expectant kick was lacking. Our emhusiasm wore our in a short time and the rules went the way of all rules, to the dogs . We reorgani:z;ed this year and Jim Parks became president, William Ziegler vice-president , Ralph Baynard secretary-treasurer , John Winslow sergeant-at-arms, and Kenly historian . [92 ] �-> 19 WILLIAM B.MATTUEWS CLASS OfffCCQS Q!CUADD S. OLMSTEAD Sec· 'lf~. s, • SPONSOR OF FRESHMAN CLASS MISS IONA CAREY Baltimore, Maryland fVfi)(~!CK M. MUlLEM Bf.UNMD J. CAlASSA Serq- ~t·Arms . Hisle riM [94 ] [ 95 J �~ RAT TAT FRESHMEN CLASS OF 1934 Kenneth Henry Adams . . . . .. . .. . . ... . . .. . .... . ... . . .... Homer, New York Charles Woodhull Baldwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Scarborough, New York Jesse Baptista ..... . .... . . .. . .... . .. . . . . . . . . . . . New Bedford, Massachusetts Ralph Calloway Baynard, Jr. ....... . . .. .. .... . . ... . . . . ... . Centreville Robert Joseph Beckerman . . .......... . .· . . . Cleveland Heights , Ohio Warren Benjamin Bezanson . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. W est Hartford , Connecticut Ralph Hampton Blackisrone ..... . . . ... . ....... . . .. . .. River Springs John Richard Bossert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Annapolis George Ridgely Boyd . . .. . .... . . . . . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . ..... . .. ..... . Barstow John Kinsey Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... . .... . ... Ventnor , New Jersey Charles Samuel Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . ..... .. . Severna Park Lawrence Palmer Crawford Brown ... .. . . . . . .. . ... Mohegan Lake, New Y ark Edward Whalley Buckley .. . .... .. . . . ... . .. .. .. . New Bedford, Massachusetts Bernard Joseph Casassa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . Washington, D .C. Charles Patton Clark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... Summit, New Jersey Harold Way Conn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Philadelphia , Pennsyl v ania Frank William Conner, Jr. .. . . . ... . . . . . . ..... . . . . .... . . Wayne, Pennsylvania Henry Merryman Cooper , Jr. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .... ... . ....... .. Baltimore William Whitson Crabb, Jr . . . . . . . . . ... .. . .. . . .. .. . . . ... Orange, New Jersey Robert Clifford Crawford ........... . ....... ... .... ........ . . ... Baltimore Edwin Pountney Davis .. .. . . . . ... . . . . . .. . .. . .. . . . . . .. Westfield, New Jersey John Dudley Digges ... . .. . . .... . . . ... .. . .. . . . . . .. . .. .... . . ...... La Plata John Alexander Dinsm ore ..... . . ...... . .. . . . . . . . ..... . .. Orange, New Jersey Eugene Joseph Dionne . .. ... . . ... . . ... . . . .. . .. . . New Bedford, M assachusetts San.1.uel Busey Dove, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... .. .... ... . Annapolis Victor Joseph Dragin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baltimore Paul Charles Dunleav y ... . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .... .. .. . .... . ... Annapolis Harriso n G olshan Dyar . . . .. . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. .. Washington , D .C. . ~· ··~ ) Harry Edgar D yer, Jr. ..... . .. . ..... . . . ........ . . . . ..... . . . Havre de Grace Charles Joseph Eastman . .. .... . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . ... . .. . .. . ......... Laurel Jo hn Dixon Edinger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .. . ..... Allenhurst , New Jersey John Herman Engel, Jr. . . . . . . ...... . .. . .. . . . . . . . . . ... . . .... . ... Baltimore Harry Ferguson . . ....... ... . . . .. . .. . . . . . ... . . . . .. .. H artford , Connecticut H erbert Joseph Florestano . . .......... . ...... . ...... Annapolis Joseph Michael Florestano . ................ . .... .... .. Annapolis Fiorino Peter Froio . . . . . . . ....... . ... Pittsfield , Massachusetts Emil Alfred G athmann , Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... .. Catonsville William Thomas German ... ... . ...... . .. .... . . .. . ..... . .... .. . . . Towson R ay mond Mewshaw Glann . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . . .. . Baltimore Jerome Daniel Goodman . . .......... . . .. . . . . .. . .. ... Annapolis Edward Edgecomb Gray . . ....... . .. .. ..... . . . . . ... Annapolis John Pawling Green . . . . . ....... . ... Collingswood , New Jersey Lewis Herbert Griffith , Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . .. . . . Easton William Ernst Haberland · ....... . . . . . . . P assatc, N ew J ersey Richard Tremaine Hall . . . . . . . . .. Pittsfield , Massachusetts Bryan Hancock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Indian Head Earl Durand Hartman, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... . ..... Ruxton Campbell V ernon Helfrich , Jr. . .. ... Catonsville Josiah H erman Hillegas, Jr. ....... . Pottsville , Pennsylvania Otto George Hitchcock , Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . Erie , Pennsylvania John Penfield H odgson . . . ........ . .... . .... Berlin, Connecticut Frank Shawn Hoffecker , Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sparrows Point William Joseph Hoffman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hastings-on-Hudson, New York Robert Edwin Howe . . . . ....... . . . .. . ... Annapolis Harry Riall Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Baltimore Charles Edmund Jenkins, Jr . ............ . . . .. . Baltimore Clarence Leatherbury Johnson ....... . .. ... Annapolis George Francis Jump . . . . . . . . . . .. . ... .. . .. . . . ... . . . ... . .... Queen Anne Karl Franklin Jund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dayton, Oi'lio Joseph Katcef . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . .. . .......... . Annapolis Robert Francis Kehs ... . .. . . . . . . . .. . .. . . .... . . .. . . . . . . . . .... .... Balt imore James Edward Kiernan .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . ... Newark , New Jersey John Harold Kilmore . . . . . ..... . .. ........ . . . .... ... . .. . . . Baltimore Truman Paul Lambert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . .. ... ... .. New Windsor Angus Lamond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Washington , D .C. Francis Gibbs LaMotte , Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .... Baltimore Howard Archibald Legg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stevensville James Frederick Leslie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . Towson William Thetford Le Viness ... . .... . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . .... . . ........ Sa lisbury James Frederick Lummis ................ . Bridgeton, New Jersey John Garrett Lumpkin . . . . ..... . . . . . . . ...... . ...... . .. .. . . Baltimore . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . ... . .. .. . . ...... Indian Head Ernest Carl Lyon . . . . . . . . . . Samuel Joseph Macaluso . . . ............... . . .... . . . Annapolis Carl Charles MacCartee. . . ........ .... . .... Washington, D .C. Donald Harpetzen Mace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .. .. . Stemmer 's Run Lincoln Joseph Magee . . . . ........... . . . Orange, M assachusetts John Girdwood Magness . . ...... Towson William Bernard M atthews, Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. ... ... . .. . Baltimore Vincent Edward Mayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rockv ille Centre, New York Jethro Johnson McCullough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . ... Baltimore Anthony Frank Milero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . ... . . . Annapolis Frank Joseph Minnick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Springboro, Pennsylvania Robert Wood Minnick . ....... . Great Neck , New York Roland Richard Most ........................ . .... Annapolis g. 3·1 [96] [97 ] �RAT TAT~""~~~£~i'·\..y~ Frederick Mig nerey Mullen . . .. . . . . . . . .. . Great Barringwn, Massachusetts Richard Seymour Oln1.sted . ....... . .... East Hartford , Connecticut Robert Leutze Orvis . . . . . . Baldwinsville, New York James Andrew Phillips ........... . .. . .. Quantico Edward Harrison Powley, Jr .. Maplewood , New Jersey Anhur Baer Price, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . Baltimore William Selby Purnell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... Berlin Jesse Oliver Purvis, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . ... . . . . .. Annapolis John Douglas R am say ........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baltimore . .. .. .. Hudson , New H ampshire Jo hn Anthony Raudonis . . . . . . . . . . William Evans R eese . ....... . . . Baltimore Albert Plo yan Rist . . . ....... . . . . Pasadena Joseph Crandell Russell . . . . . . . . . . ....... . . . . Annapolis N o ble Jefferson Russell ........ . . . . .. . Anna polis R o bert H erman Sander, Jr. .. . Rutherford , N ew Jersey D ensil Hutchinso n Sanford . .. . ... . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . Branchland , W est Virginia Michael Jo hn Scelsi .... Pittsfield , M assachusetts Lewis Emil Scheffenacker ..................... . .. .. Baltimore ............. . . . . Baltimore John Howard Shea . . . .. Baltimore Ro bert All iso n Sindall , Jr. G ust Skordas . . . . . ....... . . A nnapo lis H enr y Cla y Smith , Jr. ....... . . . . Catonsville . . . White Plains, N ew York W illiam Locke Sterling .. .... . .. . . . . . .. . . .. W inchester, M assachusetts H arr y W ellingwn Stevens, Jr. N orman V eitch Stevens . . ........ . .. W ashington, D .C. Edward M a urice Sullivan . . .. . . . . . . ... .. Hartford , Connecticut Clifford LeV erne T almadge . . . . .. . .. .. So uthingwn, Co nnecticut E nrico Joseph T arantino .. Annapolis Lero y Samuel Taylor ........... . . .. . Chester R o bert R edmond Taylor ......... . .. Annapolis Carl Strohm Thomas. . . ....................... . Annapolis William Thaddeus Thomas ....... ............. . . Centreville ....... ....... . ... . .. Baltimore H om er Ulric T odd , Jr. . . . William Edw ards Tomlinso n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Salem , Massachusetts Albert Lewis Vigilante . . . . .. . .. O ssining, N ew York Pa ul Edward W atson , Jr . .................. . . . .. Salisbury Richard Andrew W atson . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . Baltimore .................. . ... Baltimore R owland G osnell Weber E dmund Parker W ells . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . .. M o unt Verno n, N ew York ........ . . Lex ingwn , Kentucky H enry Martin White . . . . . . . . . Walter Miller White . . ........... . . . . . . . . . .. . Salisbury . . Chelmsford , Massachusetts Ben M cLean Whiting. . . . ......... . . . ........ Baltimore J o bn Lie per Wins!ow , Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . Austin Willia m Winswn . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. ...... .. W ashingwn, D .C. H o race William Witman . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . .... . .. . ... . . . ... . Rising Sun Jo hn Gus tav W oltereck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ..... Baltimore Allan Sheldon Woodle, 3rd . . ... . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Ridley Park, Pennsylv ania Milwn Joseph Xambopo ulos .. . . . ..... . . ... . Bridgeport , Connecticut H enry Allen Zaj ac . ......... . ... . . . . . .. .. . . Monson, M assachusetts SPECIAL STUDENTS Edmund Leo n Anderson . . . . . . .. .. . ...... . .. . ... . ... . New York, N ew York Eugene Paul Belcher. . . . . . .. .. . . .. . . .. . . . .. . .. . .... .. . . . . ... .. Annapolis John Alwn Fromhart ... .. .. . . . . . .... .. .. . . . ... . ... ... Rochest er, New York . .. . Baltimore G eorge Robert Gallagher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Walter William Vogelmann . . . . .. . . . . .. . .. . .. .. . . .. . . .. . . . . .. .. Annapolis ~ ()lRGANifLlATI() NS �L eft to right , s tandin g: Ri st, Carter, Jackson. Sea ted: Cole, W . A they, M onnett, Beneze, Carver. THE STUDENT COUNCIL T HE opening of rhe college yea r saw Sr. John 's wirhour a srudem council due ro rhe resignation of rhe old council ar rhe end of lasr year. N o provision had been made for rhe election of a new council so rhis year proceeded umil November w irhour a governing body ro supervise srudem conduce. The Dean and a couple members of rhe swdem bod y gor rogerher and drew up a new consrirurion and rnade preparations for rhe election which rook place and resulted in rhe reorganization of rhe swdem council. The new council presemed rhe new consrirurion, wirh amendmems, ro rhe swdem body ar a convocation for rheir ratification . lr · was adopted and once more rhe srudem council functioned in irs usual manner. The srudem council meers every Tuesday, ar one o 'clock, for rhe purpose of discussing swdem problems and suggesting remedies. Ar rhis rime all infringem.ems of srudem rules are dealr wirb and any orher business which is perrinem ro the swdem body . This organization bas proven (Q have been one of rhe n 10S( active on rhe campus and surely one of rhe mosr needed. Under the new constitution , ir seems evidem, the srudem council will prosper and advance as ir never has before. ~~~~~[1 g. 3 1 [99 ] �RAT TAT_;.!) L eft to righ t , .stan di ng: M essrs. C ro uch, Smith , Bacon, R iggs, A rnaud , S t ro meyer. Front row: M essrs. C laggett , Hutc hins, Halsey, Ridgely. T op row: Williamson, Mur phy, Buckley, Zarr, C rawfo rd , Olmstead. . . Second row : Goodman , K enl y, Anderson, Patten, S tev ens, McForlin , Smith , Flo restano, Bnck, D 10nne. First row: Yerkes, Selby, Whi te, Connor, Lummi s, Helfri ch, Sandrock, Baptista, Eramo, Steele, Zajac. THE ATHLETIC COUNCIL THE BAND T HE band is a comparatively new organization in' St . John 's College but it is, by far , one of the most active and most appreciated organizations we have . Organizing, just a year ago , with Professor Adolph Torovsky as instructor , it has 8ourished and may well be said to be one of the best college bands in the state. The band is quite active and plays in all parades and at nujor sport events where it lends color, which the college lacked before its organization. It not only lends color but supplies inspiration to the various athletic teams which they could not get without the band . It is a true St. John's organization. The spirit shown by the band is the best that might be expected since they have everything to discourage them , but they keep on just the same. The rest of the students complain because the band members practice in the dormitories and they take every opportunity to ridicule any mistake the band might make. In spite of all these hindrances the band has grown and is fast gaining the respect it deserves . g. 3 1 [100 ] T H E Athletic Council is composed of representatives from the faculty, administration, athletic staff, the alumni, and one member of the student body , elected by the student body. This Council, while liule heard of, performs a very important function in our college life ; that of awarding monograms to men recommended by their coach and recommending awards for , as well as planning , intra-mural sports. The Council abolished Junior Varsity sports and replaced them with Freshmen sports and at the same time adopted the Freshmen Rule , which prohibits a Freshman from participating in Varsity competition. This ruling, it is felt, will raise the athletic standards of the college and place it in the highest rating possible. The intra-mural sports are also thriving and becoming more popular every year. These sports prov ide a means for all men who do not participate in major sports to participate in sorne t ype of athletic activity. Awards are given to the teams that win in the various sports which include baseball, basket-ball, soccer , tennis, handball , and volley-ball; consequently there is a feeling of high-spirited competition in every game. Each year the college has improved on the athletic program, in an effort to make it the best possible , and in this way has kept step with the college, which has improved in a like manner. ~~~~~~~~l[l 9·3·1] ~~----------------- [ 101 ] �Top row standin g, left to right: Bowman , Price, Yerkes, Cobb, Shryock. Second row standing: jukes, 1-larrington, Percy, Burwell , Vigilante, Newton. Sea ted: Pumphrey, Kimple, Moore, Zimmerm an, Emrich , E . Lo tz, P . Lotz . Left to right . standing : Carte r, Wood man , Ju kes. Seated: Pum phrey, McCabe, Nob lett, Cole, P . Lotz, Ward, Finn . THE RAT-TAT THE COLLEGIAN D . A. COLE Edit01·-in-Chiej G. D . A. SELBY Associate Editor P. L. LOTz Sports Edit01· P . CASASSA Art Editor E.J.WARD Photo Editor R. C. WooDMAN Activities W . T . D . PuMPHREY Features J. H. FINN Features E . M . KENLY Sophomore Assistant R . M. NoBLETT Business Manager w. J . CARTER ]. H. F . Ju KES Soplwmo1·e Assistant Soplwmon Assistant T . McCABE Assistant ~~..,:x~~~~~'f~r 1 g · 3 ·1 ~~----~----------~~ [102 J T HE COLLEGIAN is a weekly paper published by the students of St. John's College. For some time, previous to 1929, there was little interest in the paper, for it was gotten out in a haphazard manner and contained little news of any importance. It took Monnett to bring it up to the standard it should keep. Under his guidance the paper becan"le a real interest to the students and was enjoyed by everyone. Zimmerman succeeded Monnett as editor of the Collegian and the paper continued to prosper as it was of real interest to the student body and it was thought by everyone that we should continue to have an interesting paper, now that it had proven it could be so . Blaul succeeded Zimmerman as editor and the paper has continued to hold its high point of interest but not for the same reason it previously did. Blaul is a man with very decided opinions, which he emphasizes in his writings. For this reason he is not as popular as the past two editors, but the paper is just as popular as ever. The · Collegian is a good medium for all the students to "air" their opinions and read the opinion of others on subjects we are all interested in . In this manner we all get the "stuff" that is worrying us "off our chests" and proceed to get action on the question we want settled. We think the Collegian is a splendid paper and we all sincerely hope that it will prosper in the future as it has in the past two years. ~~~-~~.:>r..i.~~~'\F[ 1 g . 3 ·1 ~=-----= [103] �Left to right , .standing : Carter, Ba y nard . Sea ted: McCabe, Campbell , King, Finn , Wager . L eft to r ight , standing: McFarlin , Zarr, Buckley , C ra wford , Ctibor, Hi ll. Sealed: Stevens, G reen, Goodman , T orovosky, Greengo ld , F lo restano, Selby . THE SOCIAL COMMITTEE F THE CONCERT ORCHESTRA OR a long time , prior co 192 7, there was felt, the need of a cornmittee co handle the college 's social functions in a manner which would be a credit to the college. However, this committee was not forrned until 1927 , when it was elected by the student body. One member was elected from each class with the Senior member acting as chairman. This comn1.ittee , while it was an improvemem in conditions , proved to be coo small to handle the job , so in 1929 it was completely reorganized. The new committee was co ha ve nine men : one Senior as chairn1.an , three Juniors, and five Sophomores; Freshmen were to be encouraged to help in order that they might be eligible for the committee the following year. ROM a small beginning , a few years ago , the Co.nce~t Orchesua has grown into what might be called a well-establtshed orgamzatton. A few students met and played together because they appreciated music of the finer type , and it was from this group that the present Concert Orchestra has grown . The interest has been keen, for all students connected with the Concert Orchesua are there because of a sincere love for good music and no t for a reward, as is the case in some organizations. Last year the Concert Orchestra received a new impetus under the direction of Professor Adolf T orovsky and has since prospered under his supervision. The Social Committee has been limited this yea r to the holding of informal dances and smokers as the formal affairs in the past years have proved financially unsatisfactory. This year 's functions have been very good, but it is felt, by the school , that all too few of them are given , however, the committee has done its share but the schoo l has fallen down on its part. If the studem body would support these affairs, then we could have more of them and the committee would be able to function in the proper manner. The orchestra planned and gave concerts both in Baltimore and the college; in both cases they were received very favorably . The success o f these concerts proved more than was anticipated , by the Concert Orchesua , since their limited number of instruments prevented them playing concerts in the manner which they had hoped to play them . However, their success spurred them on and this year the college has again enjoyed their concerts and will continue to enjoy them as long as they are given, as will the townspeople of Annapolis who responded so enthusiastically to all concerts given by the orchesua . F g. 3 ·1 . [ 104 J [105] �RAT TAT-=~:.~~~ ~} y_, L eft to rig ht : Kim pel, Cole, Czelusniak , Nassau er, Z immerman. S tanding, le/ llo righ t: Selby, E ramo, Wolanske, Todd, Scibell i, Barti s. Sealed: D eMello , Ctibor, Fader, F ortunato, Anthony . THE OSLER STUDENT UNION COMMITTEE HE Student Union Committee was organized last year upon the inauguration of the Student Union Rooms by the college. This union consists of card , pool, lounging, and quiet rooms for the students' use. The Student Union Committee was appointed by the Student Council to take care of and administer discipline in T these rooms . This committee has functioned well and has succeeded in fulfilling the students' desires in both the lines of amusement and literature. Now that we have these things it is the duty of every student to protect them against damage and it is the Student Union Committee's duty to see that the students do their duty . [ 106 J PRE~MEDICAL CLUB A LARGE portion of the members of the Osler Pre-Medical Club have shown a decided interest in the activities of their organization this year . The club found new strength in repealing the rule of the two preceding years by voting to admit Freshmen; this proved a wise and efficient stimulant to the club . President Wolanske and the Secretary and Treasurer, Mr . Torbet, have found the meetings of the club so well attended that they have enterprised to make engagements for informal lectures by prominent men in the Maryland medical circles. �L eft Lo right , standing : D yar, Davis , Woodle. Seated: Smith , Cobb, Zimmerman. B laul , Vigi lante, Mace, Brown. Top row sta ndin g, left to right: Adams, Kiu g, Chew, Burwell , Anthon y , Green, W o ltereck . Secon d row stan di ng: P em bro ke, Shryock, Bennett , Sandrock, Gray, Mu r phy , Wage r. Sea ted: All en, MacFarlin, Ha berl and, Cam p bell , Selby, Yerkes, Bernhardt. THE SYMPOSIUM ERLENMEYER CLUB HE Erlenmeyer Club was named after Professor Erlenmeyer , who the students of chemisuy admire so much . This club has been one of the most active on the campus ever since its founding. Chemisuy students found that they could nm cram a lm of work, which they would like w do, into the few hours they had in class and laborawry, so they formed this club w accomplish chat purpose. Lectures were given, followed by discussion , uips were taken for practical study of industrial chemisuy, and every effort was made w provide a means for acquiring a broader knowledge of the subject they were so interested in. T This club has never been in want for active members and has prospered ever since its founding . One might ask why , and the answer would be that the club really has a definite aim and accomplishes it. E ARLY in November the student body were made aware of plans for bringing w life once again that provocative and liberal organization, the St. John 's Symposium. Started last year with about six regular members, it has ex panded w an average attendance of twenty-five . Its purpose is w furnish an oudet for smoldering intellectual energy , campus griping, and rhewrical brilliance ; at all times guided and theoretically worthwhile. Before each meeting the subject for discussion is prepared and whipped up w the best advantage . One of the most enjoyable meetings of the year, as an example of club activity , centered about "What I Believe." The session was bmh amusingly and instructively interesting. Religion was discovered w be a far from dead subject. There are no requirements for membership . Only those students attend who are interested. Only those students ren1ain who stay interested . The Symposium is recommended w all aspiring law students, bond salesmen, and clergymen . A definite opportunity exists for the development of effective speech, and an attitude of liberal wlerance which will prove of value certain! y among the first two vocations, and possibly in the third . The society is nm one primarily for the exercise of debating skill , but as a means or clearing house of antique and worthwhile notions. The president of the club , Richard F. Blaul, is in active communication with the different liberal clubs throughout the East , and turns over to the club for their consideration the latest tendencies in regard w free-thought and initiative action among the American student body. The Symposium has remained an independent organization . ~~~HJ.j~~~~>"i'fl[ 1 g .3 1~ Q:~---=~------~~ [108 ] [109 ] �RAT TAT RAT TAT L eft to right: . Anderson, Noyer, D eFarmond, Price, Parker. Left to right , s tanding: Greengold , Weem s, P embrock , Haberland , H offmeister. S eated: Hill , Weaver, Kim pel, Campbell , Woodle . THE GERMAN CLUB T HOUGH of co mparatively recent origin , the G erman Club is one of the most THE FRENCH CLUB active, extra -curricular , student activ ities on the campus. The club has approximately twenty active m embers who meet every two weeks and have a formal monthly meeting w hich is addressed by some outside personality. T Thanks to Dr. Richard Kuehnenmnd , of the German department, and the great time the club has been growing st eadily. For the past two years the m eetings have interest that he has taken in the organization, speakers of more than usual importance been held in the Quiet Room, and only English is now spoken in order to allow a to discuss current problems in Germany, especia ll y those pertaining t o student life, have been obtained for these occasions. HE first meetings of the French Club took place in 192 7 in Professo r Arnaud 's room. Talks were given on French literature and poetry was read . Since that greater number of students to attend . This yea r the purpose of the club has been to The group is composed not onl y of students of the German lang uage, but also n1.en interested in international affairs and politics. This causes an air of cosmo- politanism to prevail which adds zest to the meetings and creates stimulating thought. This diversity of interests, this discussing of current problems make the German Club describe the modern French Civilization in it s social and educational aspect s. The club m eet s o nce a month and has been for the past three years under the presidency of the French student at St. John's . This yea r the club has been a worthwhile enterprise because of the interest shown in its liberal policy under Aymeric de Faramond. one o f the most interesting and best supported student o rganizatio ns on the campus. ~~'-'"" Rr;~~~Yl[ 1 g . 3 .1 ~~----------------~-- [ 110 ] . 3 ·1 [ 111 J �R.A.T TAT Lef t. to r ight : Zimmerman, Blau l, Lal\lfotte. L eft to right , third row: Jukes, Wo ltereck, Mayer, Cole, W oodman , Baldwin , Cobb, B eneze. Second row : Lyons, Weems, Minn ick , Anderson, Burwell , Yerkes, 1--Iatl , Rh odonis . Front row : Dia n , Parker, Vigilante, Radcliff, Davi s, T odd , Brown. THE DEBATING TEAM DRAMATIC CLL[B T HIS year has seen real progress in the Dramatic Club . They have the largest membership they ever had and have been very active all year. Three produccions were given: The Miracle Play , The Youngest , and three one-act plays, directed and acted by the students. The first two of these productions were under the direction of Mrs. Hensel, who had charge of dramatics at St. John 's this year. All of the plays were a great success and were a credit to the college, the only criticism being , there was not enough of them.. Mrs . Hensel worked hard with the staff and was responsible, to a large extent , for the increased interest in dramatics at St. John's this year. The students, however, must not be left out of it for it was due to them that the plays were as successful as they were. The students and coach deserve much credit for the trouble the y have gone to and the time they have spent on these productions to make them the success they were. The college only hopes they will go on in the future as they have in the past. ~~'"n'f~~~~VI~ 1 g . 3 ·1 i -=~--~--------~~ [ 112 J O NCE more the budding and would be Demotheneses of the school were invited to try their luck with a trio of the faculty. Few tried and few were chosen. Professor Joseph B. Kingsbur y looked at the results, however, and appeared pleased. Blaul was chosen for manager and captain ; Ballou Miller as fellow team-mate. Things started with a more than usual bang- a two -man team from Harvard University sauntered down, talked things over on the Hydro-Electric question, and left successful. The a udience , we must rnention , had their say. There w as applause, congratulations, and much stumbling of feet down the Humphrey 's stairway . Try-o uts were held for another team . The N o. 2 selection resulted in Blaul, Captain, Zimmerman, and Freshman LaMotte. Early in December, after much preparation, they were entertained by Western Maryland College at Westminster. The subject was, " R esolved, That the Nation Should Adopt a Policy of Free Trade." The judges, in spite of an eloquent and wordy St. John 's affirmative , upheld the status quo and their fellow citizens in Westminster. All in all, the season was unconventionally energetic and promising. Debating, with continued encouragement, may emerge finally as son1.ething worthy of student attention. Perhaps they should be combined with basket-ball or ping-pong rest periods ; the athletic appeal on the part of an enlightened student body is not to be denied . The debaters express their deep gratitude to Professor Kingsbury for his assistance, and to Professors Brown and Starr who joined with him in the selection and coaching of the different teams . g. 3 ·1 [ 113 J �FRATERNITIES L eft to right , standing : Wall er, McFarlin . Sea led : J ohnson , Schmick , Rusteberg . SAINT JOHN'S COLLEGIANS T HE St. John 's Collegians, reorganized again this year by Rudy Schmick, have been delighting audiences frequently during the past year with their jazzy rhythms. The Collegians made their debut last fall at Queenstown, on the Eastern Sho', and have been in great demand in that section ever since, playing at Washington College Proms and Cambridge and Easton hops. Their popularity has spread all over the state and all who have heard them are generous in their praise. Their style is more reminiscent of Red Nickols and his Five Pennies than of Vallee or Lombardo. What more flattering complimem can be given? Rudy Schmick, Manager . .. .......... . . ... Drums Bill Waller ... . . . ...... .... ... T rumbone and Bass Razz Johnson ..... . ... .... . ..... . .. . . . . .. Banjo Irving Rusteberg .... . . .. ... . .... . .. . ... ... Reeds George McFarlin ..... . ... . . .. ....... . .. Trumpet ~~~~~[1 Q·3·1: [ 114 ] �PHI SIGMA KAPPA HOUSE KAPPA F1'aternity founded AMHERs T CoLLEGE, 1873 ALPHA HOUSE Fraternity founded - AsH l NGToN w Chapter founded MAY 1865 Chapter founded 16, 1903 Calm's StLVER AND Flowers Colors MAGENTA CRIMSON AND GoLD ~~;KAd~~~~r 1 . AND L EE UNiVERsiTY, g. 3 ·t ~ [116] MAGNOLIA AND RED RosE g · 3 -11 [117 ] �PHI DELTA SIGMA HOUSE THETA PSI HOUSE F1·aternity founded Fraternity founded } ANUARY 7, 1928 NovEMBER 10, 1926 Colors Col01·s Flower PuRPLE AND GoLD VIOLET BLUE AND WHITE ~~~~~::wl[t· g. 3 ·1] [ 118 ] ·~~~~~~~~lrt·Q·3·tl [ 119] �SIGMA TAU OMICRON HOUSE DELTA PSI F1-aternity founded FTateTnit')' founded D ECEMBER MARCH 1, 1928 Colors Flower GARN ET AND GREEN EvERGREEN ~~~~~~~~~y,r OMEGA HOUSE 7. Colors Flower BLUE AND SILVER TmsTLE t . g. 3 ·t1 [ 120 J 1928 [121] �~ RAT RAT TAT TAT~.-~ Left to right , fo urth row: Casassa , Moore, \V a rd . Third row: Morris, Thomas. Bean. Gallagher. Carpenter, Gordy. Second row: W . A the y. Noblett , Dryden . Zi egler, C. At hey. MacCartee , Armacos t . Front row: Evans, M o nnett, Hines, King, Harrington , H off, McCabe . L eft to right , stand in g: Ca rver , Stearns, j o h , Sa ll is, Czeluzniak , Bruno. Sea led: L ynch , Cole, M oore. Pumphrey, Mille r. KAPPA ALPHA ORDER PHI SIGMA KAPPA BETA MU CHAPTER SIGMA CHAPTER Frat1·es in Collegia John Joh Willis K. Lynch Henry Miller Albert H . Moore William T. D . Purnphrey Edward Balles Louis Bruno John Carver Douglas A. Cole Henry Czeluzniak Pledges Ralph Blackstone Edward Capell William Carter Charles Clark John Finn William German Otto Hitchcock Edward Williams Frate1· in Facultae George A. Bingley g. 3 ·1 [ 122] Robert Lynch Lincoln Magee Fredrick Mullens Roland Orvis Edward H . Powelly , Jr. Cameron Courtney Stearns Edmond Wells William T. Armacost Charles E . Athey William B. Athey Joseph L. Bean Lawrence L. Carpenter Paul E. Casassa J . Lemuel Dryden Matthew S. Evans F1·atres in Collegia George R. Gallagher Lee A. Gordy Calvin Harrington, Jr . Edward B. Hines Snowden Hoff, Jr . James King Robert MacCartee Bernard Casassa William W . Crabb John A. Fromhart Emil A. Gathman Durand Hartman H. Rial! Jackson Clarence L. Johnson Pledges John A . Kilmore Angus Lamond F. Gibbes LaMotte Carl MacCartee William B. Matthews J. Oliver Purvis William E. Reese J. Fratres in F acultae Reginald H. Ridgley Joseph Murphy ~~--~~~~~v.~r 1 o ·3 [ 123 ] ·t Tilghman McCabe Lawrence L. Monnett, Jr. James H . Moore James D. Morris Robert M . Noblett Carl S. Thomas Edward J. Ward William A. Ziegler Alben P. Rist Noble J. Russell Densil H . Sanford Louis Scheffnecker John Shea William L. Sterling Richard A. Warson William F. Stromeyer �Lef t to right, top r.ow: D o rsey, Cullum . Second row, standing : Rob inson , Knight, W a ll er, Lum pkin, Mylander, Gott. Seated: Green , Guth , Radcliff, J. Campbell , W . Campbell, Beneze, Hughlett . Left to right, top row : Bossert, J . Trader, H ebb, Brice, Rud olf, Wager, Selb y . Second row, standing: A. Trader, W right, H elfrich , Bennett, P. Lotz , Winslow , H ampton , Schmick, Kim ple, H o ffme is ter. Sea ted : Steele, Skaling, Parks, Dulin, Laffe rty, E . Lo tz, E mrich, Weaver, Percy, Mitchell, Digges. THETA PSI PHI DELTA SIGMA Frat1·es in Coll egia Carter Hughleu, Jr . Ellsworth C. Knight , Jr . John G . Lumpkin Charles H. Miles Walter C. Mylander, Jr. F. Kenneth Ratcliff George J. Weems George L. Beneze, Jr . James F. Campbell William Campbell William F. Cullom, Jr . W . Gilbert Gmt Harwood Green Ralph S. GU(h Pledges Ernest Carl Lyon Samuel Macaluso Frederick ]. Nassauer Norman V . Stevens William L. Waller Edward W . Buckley Vicwr]. Dragin John H . Engel, Jr. Paul Lambert James Lummis Faculty Advisor Tate Robinson John Brick Henry Cooper FTateT in Affiliate Ford K. Brown Ronald J. Benneu Amos Scott Broadbent Tilghman J. Brice John Bossert Dudley J. Digges Wilbur Dulin Harry Emerich John Hampwn Donald Hebb Campbell V . Hel frich FTateTs in Collegia W a leer Hoffmeister Edward Kimple John Laferry Edwin Lotz Philip Lotz Ellis R. Mitchel James G. Parks William A. Percy George G. Rudolf George D . Selby Pledges Henry Griffith D ouglas Ramsey Robert Taylor Paul Watson Faculty Adviso1·s Vertrees J. Wyckoff Frederick W. Appel ~~~~~~[1 1~g~-3~-1~1~~~~~~ [ 124 J Rudolf Schmick Fredrick W. Skaling David R. Steele Albert C. Trader John W. Trader John A. Wager Milwn E. Weaver John L. Winslow Vernon C. Williamson Joseph K . Wright [125 ] �RAT TAT Top row, sla n.cling lef t to right : Scott, Bau man n , Boss, \Voodrnan, \Vhi ti ng, Zarr, H offman Second row, standing: Warner, Wolanske , H oddinott, Sandrock. Todd, T orbet, Bayna rd , Whi te. Sea ted: Arna ud , MacFarlin , Li ngo, Fields, Smith, Jund , A llen . Left to righ t , standing: Cobb, Price, Miller, Hancock, jukes. Seated: Burwell , Shryock , C hew, Zimmerman, Bowman , B la ul , Pembrock . SIGMA TAU OMICRON DELTA PSI OMEGA F,·atres in Collegia Edward C. Bauman Ralph C. Baynard James G . Boss L. Jefferson Fields W illiarn C. H oddinott William J. H offman Karl F. Jund Joseph L. Lingo William. C. Sandrock E . Irving Srnith H omer U . T odd, Jr. James J . Torbet Glenn H . Warner Joseph W . White Ben F. Whiting Stephen W olanske Robert G . Woodman David B. Zarr Frat1·es in A ffiliate Richard F. Blaul Philip I. Bowman Robert L. Burwell , Jr. Samuel P. Chew, Jr. R oger B. Cobb Lyman M . Darling Lawrence G . Jefferds C. Woodman Baldwin George E . Bliven Pledges Vincent E . Mayer Robert W . Minnick Robert Beckerman Charles E. Jenkins, Jr. ]. Arnold Scott Leonard E. Arnaud F,·at?·es in Collegia Fratres in Facultae Paul Allen [ 126 J George H . McFarlin Daniel H . Hancock ]. H. Fielding Jukes Richard H . Pernbroke, Jr H enry S. Shryock Albert J. Zimmerman Pledges Edwin P. Davis Charles ]. Eastman Edward E . Gray John P. Green Frank S. H offecker, Jr. Tilghman Beverly Pr:ice Robert N . Sander, Jr. Henry Clay Smith Albert L. Vigilante [ 127 J �Left to ri ghl : Zimmerman, Monnett. L eft to right stand ing: Bowman . C hew . Sea ted: M onnett, Campbell. DELTA OMICRON L\N early article in the constitution of Delta Omicron states: ' 'The purpose of £""\.. Delta Omicron shall be to promote interest and to reward achievement in chose activities that are extra-curricular and non-athletic. " The present constitution of Delta Omicron was devised during the year 1929-30. It represented a contrast to all previous efforts to bring extra - curricular activities at St. John's to a position of honor cornparable with chat attained by the varsity letter in athletics. The early years of Delta Omicron, beginning with its organization in 1923 , show only the most desultory progress. Without a reputable constitution, the members of the organization selected themselves and each other upon a system that would fit those to be included and would be an effectual barrier to any who were not wanted . With only the most minor changes, the constitution devised last year is still in effect and it is planned to maintain the present system indefinitely . The system, as stabil,ized by the constitution and an election based upon its provisions , includes a graduated point system on the merit basis. The points awarded for specific accomplishments vary from one-fourth of a point for a silent part in a dramatic production to five points for the editorship of either the RAT-TAT or the CoLLEGIAN . Freshmen who have won at least three points in their first year are elected to Prince William Society. Upper classmen are elected to King William Society after they have won seven points, and to Delta Omicron after they have won twelve points. An attractive award is given the Delta Omicron candidate as he achieves each successive group . DELTA KAPPA PHI D ELTA KAPPA PHI is now in its third year of existence as the local, honorary , scholastic fraternity . The progress of this organization has been exceptional ; not only have they raised the standards to those of the highest and initiated a member of Phi Beta Kappa as an affiliated member but they have also petitioned Phi Beta Kappa. Delta Kappa Phi, because of its high standards and unique position in the St. John's student body, should in a short time be successful in their petition. This group 's aspirations are worthy ones, requiring students to do their upmost so that they they might enjoy the distinction of being associated with this group. There are now four members of this organization and three pledges . All of these men are either Juniors or Seniors since this is one of the requirements for nomination. The other requirements being of a scholastic and extra-curricular nature; exceptions are sometimes made when marks are not quite up to the standard due to extracurricular activities because, it is felt, these men are working under a handicap. The college is proud of this group of students, for any advancement made by this group will be a real advancement in the college. g. 3 ·1 [128 ] [129 ] �Left to rig ht., sta nding: C ullum , Schmi ck , Cam pbell. S eated : Bruno, C zelusniak , Smit h , M o nn ett, Fi elds, Kin g , Dulin. PAN" HELLENIC COUNCIL O R a period of twel ve years, 190 3 - 1915 , there was onl y one frate rnity o n the campus, Phi Sigma Kappa , and then came another, Kappa Alpha . As soon as there were two rival fraternities the need fo r an adm inistrative council was felt , so the Pan-H ellenic Council was fo rmed. The Co unci l to be fo rmed of two representat ives from each gro up it represents, w ith the dean acting as chairnun . Eleven m.ore years elapsed and another fraternity was formed w hich was known as Phi D elta Sigma . The Council admitted this gro up as a new m ember as it did Thet a Psi, forrned in 1928 , and Sigm a T au Omicron , fo rmed the sam e year . The C o uncil was then com posed of five groups and st ill remains so. A nother group has been formed but as yet has been denied adminance , for it is felt that there are eno ugh fra ternities on the campus now, corrtpared to the num.ber of students in the college. F The function of the Pan-Hellenic Council is t o settle disputes between the fra ternities and between the administration and the fra t ernities and co nsequently rush season finds the Council most active, for it is during this week , if at any t im e, rules are broken and disputes arise. [ 130 ] A TD LlETII C S �SPONSOR OF ATHLETICS MISS MARY BRUCE H ARVEY Clifton Forge, Virginia [ 131 J �FOOTBALL L eft to right: Sand e rs, F o rtunato , Price. SONGS AND YELLS ST. JOHN 'S MARCH St. John 's forever, Her fame shall never die, We'll fight for her colors, We'll raise them w the skyEach loya l son pledges her his heart and hand, For her united we as brothers stand . SPELLING YELL S-A-I-N-T-J-0 -H -N -S St. John's, St. John's, St. John 's, T eam, Team, Team' (Or name of player) ST. JOHNNY'S IN TOWN St. Johnny's in wwn, St. Johnny 's m town , Oh, H opkins, Oh, H opkins, we're all around . We will score and everything, We will throw a lot of forward passes, And then we'll go around your ends, Gaining by tens , then we will go right through your line, Confidentially saying, there's no use in playing. For old St. Johnny's in wwn 1 FIGHT ST . JOHN'S ST. JOHN 'S RAH YELL St. John's Rah, Rah! St. John's Rah, Rah' Hoorah! Hoorah' St. John 's Rah! Rah' Rah' Rah' Rah 1 S-a-i-n-t J-0 -H -N -'S' Fight, St. John 's; Fight, St. John 's, The ball is on the ten-yard line, We can rush it through damn fine, Fight, St. John's; Fight, St. John 's, H oke 'em! Poke 'em! Slam 'em' Soak 'em' FIGHT, ST . JOHN 'S! [ 132] �RAT TAT Left to right, bach row: Kni gh t, Stearns, Bean, E. Lotz, Ba lles, Tara ntino. Seco nd row, stan din g: R iggs, K ing, W . Lynch, R. L ynch, Weaver , P . Lotz, Ziegler, Fader, M oore, Lentz. Seated: Morris, Na ussaer, Casassa, Ho ffmeister, D uli n, Armacost, Parks, j oh, Fields, Bruno, MacCartee. Top row standing, '!eft to right: Russell , Ri st , Capell , B lack istone, Conn , Wi llia ms, Ma tthews, Purvis, J o hnson, Stevens, McCullo ugh , Ste rlin g. Second row: Sullivan , Fromhart, Casassa, P owley, Wood le, Reese, Scheffnecker, MacCartee, Hi ligas, D ragin , Jackson , Woodman, Sanford . Sea ted: Daugherty, LaMond , Scorda ss, Ga t h mann , Watson , Shea, Ki lmore, Minnick, Ramsay, Smith, Tay lo r, Strohmeyer. SEASON RESULTS SEASON RESULTS Sc. John 's 13 Franklin-M arshall o Sc. John 's o Virginia Military Institute 6 Sc. John 's- Freshmen 6 W estern Maryland- Freshmen 17 Sc. John 's o Wes tern M aryla nd 1S St. John's- Freshrnen 9 William and Mary- Freshmen 13 Sc. John 's 13 University of M aryland St . John's-Freshmen 20 Catholic University- Freshmen 7 Sc. John 's 7 W ashingwn and Lee o St . John 's- Freshmen 20 G eo rge Washington- Freshmen o Sc. John 's 59 A m erican University 6 Sc. John 's 26 Johns H opkins 6 Sc. John 's 33 Hampden-Sydney o [ 134 J 2 1 Manage,-, Boyd Coach , Strohrneyer [ 135 ] �SAINT JOHN'S VS. VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE SAINT JOHN 'S VS. FRANKLIN-MARSHALL T HE Johnnies opened the 1930 season with a 13-o victory over a strong Fr<\nklinMarshall team at Lancaster, Pa. The Franklin-Marshall team held the Johnnies scoreless in the first half although the play was constantly in their terriwry . Dulin and Paul Casassa were the outstanding players in the backfield. Dulin made many nice gains in addition to interfering very well for the other backs. Casassa reeled off several long runs which kept the Johnnies in scoring 'territory for most of the game. On the line Ed Lotz, Parks and Joh played wonderful games and the FranklinMarshall team could not get their running anack started . When they resorted w passing , Noblen, Willis Lynch and Armacost broke up every pass thrown. The first score came early in the first period and was largely the result of several long runs by MacCartee, who started the second half in place of Casassa. Willis Lynch took the . ball over from the two-yard line; MacCartee place-kicked the point. The final score came late in rhe fourth quarter after a sustained drive from midfield, Armacost finally taking the ball over. This was the last score although the Johnnies carried the play deep into Franklin-Marshall territory , only to be held for downs or to lose the ball on fumbles. The score was kept low by many penalties, Saint John's alone being penalized one hundred and forty-five yards . Coach Riggs had a chance to use every man and all played creditable football. ~~~~~~[1 9·3·1 [136 J T H E Johnnies invaded Lexington , Va., for the second gameandlostatoughgame to the cadets from the Virginia Military Institute by the score 6- o. With a few more breaks Saint John's might easily have won. The worst break came when Ziegler dropped a pass over the goal line which seemed to be a sure touchdown. Later in the game MacCartee caught a pass over the head of the V. M . I. safety men but stumbled when he caught it and was tackled from behind on the cadet's twentyyard line. The only score of the game came in the quarter when a thirty-yard pass was thrown to a cadet end , who raced thirty-five rn.ore for a touchdown . Ed Lotz blocked the kick for extra point. The Johnnie backs did not seem to be able to gain through the strong V . M . I. line and the passing anack was not consistent. The cadets gained most of their ground on sweeping runs with fine interference ahead of the ball. Lack of competent reserves hurt the Johnnie team in no small degree . Ed Lotz and Ziegler played fine defensive games on the line while Willis and Bob Lynch and Captain Armacost stood out among the backs. The laner was the most consistent ground gainer and also caught several passes thrown by Willis Lynch. The high spot of the game was the way in which the Johnnie line held when the goal line was threatened . Twice during the garn.e the ball was on the Johnnie four -yard strip and twice the line threw back the attempts of the Southerners w put the ball across. This was a remarkable performance as the cadets supposedly had the best bucking back in Virginia. This bucker, Dunn, was the fullback and had been selected as all-state full back . the previous season. g. 3 ·1 ~ r137 J �( SAINT JOHN'S VS. WESTERN MARYLAND HARD fighting and a scrappy Saine John's team lost their second straight game of the season co Western Maryland College in a night game at Oriole Park. The Johnnies played one of their best games against the Green Terrors and only wene down fighting in the last half after they had been physically worn ouc and no capable substirutes were co be had . The final score was 18-o, wich all the couchdowns coming in che lase half. Koppe, giane fullback of che Terrors , was che difference between che two teams and the Johnnie line seemed unable co hold at crucial cimes . One couchdown was scored on a blocked kick which was not che faulc of anyone. The man who blocked che kick was Pincura and he was missed because Dulin, the halfback on due side of the line was hurc and barely able to walk, much less block a tackle.' The other couchdowns w ere really earned and ic cook Koppe four cries co take the ball over from the three-yard line for the lase score. A The Johnnie line played a wonderful game beginning wich Ziegler on left end co Phil Lotz on the right end. Ed Lotz and Parks were probably outstanding, if anyone is co be called thac. Capcain Armacost, Casassa, Bob Lynch and .Willis Lynch played fine games in the backfield . The Johnnies were in scoring distance twice buc both times a passing accack, which was very successful for che mosc part , was broken up by Terror backs or passes were grounded over che goal line. Phil Lotz, Bill Armacost and Ferdie Fader caught several passes, each for nice gains , but could noc connect when the gains were most needed . SAINT JOHN 'S VS. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND T HE fourch game was played againsc an unusually strong football team from the University of Maryland. The game being played ac College Park, Maryland's home field. The Johnnies met unusual misfortune when Willis Lynch turned his ankle and was forced co leave the game on the first play. The absence of Dulin from the line was also noticeable and all che remainder of the team were well worn out from the game of the previous week with Wescern Maryland. The line lacked ics cuscomary dash and fighc and che deceptive Maryland attack had both linemen and backs baffled. Maryland scored in each of the first three quarters and the Johnnies gained both of their touchdowns in the lase period. MacCartee was the besc back w show for the Johnnies and it was due co his fine running and judgmene that two scores were made . He assisted materially in scoring che first, reeling off cwo long gains co bring the ball co the fourceen-yard line and caking ic over on the very nex t play. The second Saine John's score was the result of several completed passes. The firsc was chrown co Nassaeur from the forcy -yard scrip and he cook the ball in midfield and ran co the Maryland thirty-eight-yard line. Another pass from Bob Lynch tO Armacost was completed and chen MacCartee cook the ball tO the twelve-yard line on an off-tackle play. MacCartee chen faked an end run and cossed the ball across the goal line co Phil Locz, who was chen ten yards from the nearest Maryland player. The game ended just as MacCartee kicked the excra poinc. ~~~~)JJ[l Q·3·1_ [138 ] [ 139 J �SAINT JOHN 'S VS . WASHINGTON AND LEE HE Johnnies continued their winning streak against Washington and Lee although the Virginians were favored to have an easy game, according to the expert dopesters. The Johnnies completely outplayed the Generals in every department of the game. The final score was 7-o, which does not represent the relative strength of the two teams . The Johnnies were within the Gep.erals' ten-yard line on at least seven occasions but could not put the ball across . At the end of the first half the score was o-o, but the tie was broken early in the second half, after the ball had been advanced w the seven-yard line. Two tries at the center of the line netted only a yard gain, but on the next play MacCanee tossed a pass to Phil Lotz, who was standing open in the end zone with no one near him. MacCartee kicked the extra point. T SAINT JOHN'S VS. AMERICAN UNIVERSITY 1\. FTER dropping three straight games, the Johnnies came back with a rush and ..fl.. swamped American University to the tune of 59- 6. This was the only game played at Annapolis during the whole season and the score indicates that the boys were really showing their power before the home crowd. Captain Armacost led the scorers with four touchdowns and also assisted the other backs with splendid interference. Bob Lynch and Dulin each scored twice and MacCartee made the final rouchdown near the end of the game when the Johnnies were coasting along. Ed Lotz led the Johnnie line on both the defense and offense. Parks, Morris and Ziegler ably assisted the other backs with fine blocking . Tarantino, who started in his first college football game, in place of Noblett, played a fine game both defensively and offensively. Ed and Phil Lotz held the Generals' star end, Williams, in check all afternoon and also played fine football themselves. Johnnie Joh played a wonderful game on the defense, as did Parks and Ziegler, who flanked him on both sides. Nassaeur played a fine game in the backfield and it was due to his running and kicking , as well as the passing of Willis Lynch , that confined the play to Washington and Lee territory . The alertness of all the Johnnie backs is shown by the fact that the Generals did not complete a single pass and the line held the Generals to four first downs , while our own backs were running and passing for a total of thirteen, gaining over five hundred yards during the game. This was the second major victory of the season and the first game that the Johnnies have won in Virginia in two years. The Johnnies had a 26-o lead at the half and coach Riggs started his reserves in the second half. American University scored at this stage of the game, using a sweeping end run combined with passes which were effective. The try for extra point was missed and on the following kickoff the reserves made up for their temporary lapse and scored after a sustained drive from their own forty -yard line. When the regulars returned to the game, it became a very one-sided affair and for the last ten minutes of the game they kicked on first downs and were contented to hold the WashingtOnians from scoring. [ 140] [ 141 ] �SAINT JOHN 'S VS. JOHNS HOPKINS W HAT is now regarded as one of the greatest football teams to ever play for Saint John's decisively defeated Hopkins for the third consecutive year on a rnuddy and sloppy field at Homewood on Friday night, November the fifteenth. This was the first time that this game has been played at night and this, combined with bad weather, kept the attendance low. Armacost led the Johnnies to the attack, scoring three touchdowns, one of which was the result of a sixty-five -yard run . This was probably the best garne of Armacost's whole career at Saint John's and he could not have picked a more appropriate time . When the final whistle blew, the score was 26- 6 in favor of the Johnnies. The Johnnies scored early in the first quarter when Armacost broke through Hopkins' line and side-stepped two backs on his sixty-five-yard run . The Johnnies scored twice more in the second period, once a neatly executed pass from MacCartee to Carpenter and another on a buck by Armacost. The last Johnnie score came in rhe last quarter after the ball had been carried to rhe five-yard line by Dulin and Casassa , and Armacost carried it over from the five-yard line. SAINT JOHN 'S VS. HAMPDEN-SYDNEY T HE last game. of rhe season was played a?ainst Hampden-Sydney in Washington on Thanksgtvlng Day . The Johnmes easdy outclassed the weak Virginia eleven and ran roughshod over their defense to score 39 points while holding the Tigers scoreless . Paul Casassa and Bob MacCanee, both Washington boys, endeavored to show the home folks what they could do and their performance was worthy of any praise they might receive . Paul made rwo touchdowns and many other nice gains. Bob, although he only scored once, made the longest run of rhe gatTle, which was around end and netted thirty-seven yards . He also kicked three points after touchdown . Hampden-Sydney kicked off and in three minutes' time the Johnnies had the ball across the goal line. From then on the game was a walkover and five touchdowns were scored in the first half. Dulin aided the other backs with fine interference. Bob Lynch and Armacost hit the line for nice gains while Willis Lynch calmy directed the attack against the Tigers ' goal line. Two touchdowns were scored in the second half; one coming in rhe third quarter with Bob Lynch taking the ball over and the other was rhe result of a sustained drive for eighty yards when Captain Armacost carried the ball the final two yards. The final score was 39-o and it might bave been worse had coach Riggs allowed his first ream to play the whole game. Hopkins scored on a pass from Turnbull to Lang, the latter eluding the grasp of rhe Johnnie safety man. This was their only threat, excepting the run that Turnbull made after intercepting a pass. He ran sixty yards before Bob Lynch caught him from behind with a tremendous burst of speed . All the Johnnie players saw action and all played good football. Several men cinched their places on the ALL-MARYLAND team by their performance in this game. The victory made the Johnnies one victory ahead on the win column. This game closed a very successful season for the Johnnies and is thought by everyone, in the college, to be another step towards a better Saint John's athletic program. If the teams continue to improve as they have in rhe past three years , it should not be long before Saint John 's will be recognized as one of rhe best reams in rhe country. [ 142 J [ 143 1 �R.AT TAT __._; FRESHMEN FOOTBALL F OR the first time in its history St. John's was represented on the gridiron by a Freshmen football team and the results were very gratifying to say the least. THE 1930 FOOTBALL SEASON T HE end of the 193 0 football season saw the passing of what is probably the best football team ever to represent Saint John's on the gridiron . The team won five of the eight scheduled contests and with a little more luck might easily have won two which went down in records as defeats. Hopkins was decisively beaten The Frosh only played four games and they won two of these . The chief result of the schedule was to prepare men for the varsity for the coming season. Several very good prospects were developed under Coach Strohmeyer's and Doc Daugherty's tutelage. MacCartee, Kilmore and Watson seem tO be fine backfield prospects along with Scheffnecker, whose tackling at fullback was of the highest order. On the line Ed Williams at end, Reds Capell at tackle and Jack Shea at guard seem to be the best prospects for the coming year. Williams in particular is a pretty finished football player for a Freshman and he will give the varsity ends a run for their money next season if he returns . -----------~~~ ----------- for the third straight year and this alone almost makes a successful season. The boys were not satisfied with just beating the Blue Jays but they defeated Franklin and ST. JOHN 'S FROSH 6 WESTERN MARYLAND FROSH 18 Marshall, Washington and Lee, Hampden-Sydney and American University. The Johnnies not only functioned well as a team but they had several outstanding individuals, who through their ability earned for themselves places on various ALLMARYLAND selections. These men are Willis Lynch, who was picked on the Baltimore Sun's team, Jim Parks who was selected by the Baltimore News, John Joh who was selected by the Baltimore Post, and Ed Lotz who was chosen on both Tlte Sun and News all-state devens. Ed is one of the greatest tackles that Saint John's has ever had and his right to . All-State honors is unquestioned. The squad was limited again this year and the team suffered from the lack of After playing several practice games with Severn , the Frosh opened the season against the Western Maryland youngsters, who proved to be too strong for the Johnnies . The Johnnies seemed to lack a smart quarterback, which incidentally was the chief fault of the team. throughout the season. Led by McNally, the Westminster boys soundly trounced the Johnnies, but only after a hard fight as the young Johnnies were game tO the last. The only score for the local lads came as a result of a pass tO Watson from MacCartee who as a combination worked well all season. Kilmore and Shea were the outstanding players, the former handling punts in approved fashion while Shea at guard turned back every attempt of the Green Terror youngsters at his part of the line. really first-class reserves, particularly in the Western Maryland game. Bill Armacost proved to be a fine leader and he led the Johnnie scorers with sixty points to his credit. -----------~~~ ----------- Willis Lynch was selected as captain for the 1931 campaign and everyone may rest assured that he will make as fine a leader as the captains that have preceded ST. JOHN'S FROSH 9 WILLIAM AND MARY FROSH 13 The young Johnnies lost their second game of the season to the William and Mary Frosh at Williamsburg by the score of 13- 9. The Johnnies played a great game and had the ball in scoring territory many times but could not muster the punch w cross the goal line. him. The Johnnies scored on a pass to Watson from Kilmore and again when LaMonde blocked a punt and a William and Mary man fell on it behind the goal line for a safety. LaMonde played a fine defensive game and opened up nice holes for the Johnnie backs. Scheffnecker was the best back tO show for the Johnnies and his fine defensive work was the highlight of the game. g . 3 ·1 [ 144] [ 145 J �ST. JOHN'S FROSH 20 CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY FROSH 7 The Johnnies won their first game at the expense of che Catholic University Freshrn.en at Annapolis by che score of 2 0-7. The Frosh functioned better as a team in chis game chan they had all year and although they were outweighed they made . up for their lack of weight by fight. Watson and MacCartee were the best backs for the Johnnies and connected for two long passes for two of che scores while MacCarcee scored the final tally after intercepting a pass intended for a Catholic University end. On the line Williams and Jackson at che ends played very good games, particularly on che defense. Both worked well down che field under punts and their cackling was first class. Williams grabbed several passes for nice gains at opportune times. Reese at guard played a nice offensive game and gave promise of being a fine guard with a little more polishing. ------~~~ ----------- ST. JOHN'S FROSH 20 GEORGE WASHINGTON FROSH 0 The final game of the season was won from che George Washington University Freshmen in a rather slow game played at Anm.polis on a wee field. This was che easiest game chat che Frosh had all season and Coach Strohmeyer gave all his reserves a chance to show their wares in chis lase game. Gachmann, Shea, McCullough and Capell played nice defensive garnes and opened up nice holes for their backs. Scheffnacker and Johnsoh were che best backs to show for che Johnnies and they were outstanding on the defense. The Johnnie scores were the result of line smashes and passes and Scheffnecker and Kilmore did che scoring. This ended che first season under the three-year rule. The supporting of a Freshmen team gave Coaches Riggs and Lentz a minimum amount of material for che varsity, but the men developed under Bill Strohmeyer and Doc Daugherty should be mainstays of che team in the coming year. [ 146 J BASKET-BALL �Rcf!T TAT_:~~~a~~ ST. JOHN 'S 24 WASHINGTON AND LEE 26 T H E Johnnies opened the seaso n by losing a cough ga me to Washington and Lee on the Generals' own court by the score of 26-24. The game was a close one throughout with the Generals having a sl ight lead at the hal f period and near the end of the game. The Johnnies tied the score a few minutes before t he w histle blew for the end of the gan1.e. Phil Lot z scored the four points that tied the game and an extra period had to be played . In the extra period the Washington and Lee boys scored fo ur points while the Johnnies could onl y m ake t wo , this one coming from a long shot by Hoff who along with MacCartee and Carpenter were the leading scorers for the Johnnies. ST. JOHN 'S 28 The second game of the southern trip was won by the Johnnies over the Cadets from V .M .I. The Johnnies played fine ball and the final score was 28- 2 3. Clever passing and opportune cutting won the game for Sr. John 's and MacCartee and Fader lead the scorers. Bos Left to righ t, standing: Schmick , Mi ller, Czelu sniak , Ball is, Trade r, Ward, Ju nd, Athey, Len tz . Seated : P. Lotz, Fader, MacCartee, H o ff. Carpenter, Ziegler. ST. JoHN's Sr. John 's St . John's St. John 's St . John 's Sr. John 's Sr. John 's Sr. John 's Sr. John 's Sr. John 's St. John's St. John's St. John 's St. John 's St. John 's St. John 's St. John 's St. John 's 24- 26 28- 23 23- 21 27- 23 23- 30 31- 24 35- 31 34- 36 24-25 24- 36 25- 23 27-32 26- 30 31- 28 25- 33 17- 16 IS- 26 OPPONENT ScoRE W ashingwn and Lee Virginia Military Academy University of Virgin ia Gallaudet Sr. Francis Western Maryland E lon University Lebanon Valley Johns Hopkins St. John 's of Brookl yn St. Francis University of Maryland George W ashingwn Western Maryland George Washington American University Johns Hopkins MAc CARTEE The Cadets cook the lead earl y in the game and held it throughout the first half and at the end of period had a four-point lead . The second half was all St. John 's and goa ls by Fader and Carpenter tied the score. MacCartee put the Johnnies ahead on a nice outside shot and after that they were never headed . ST. JOHN 'S 23 VIRGINIA 2 1 The third game of the so uthern trip was another victory for the Johnnies although the game was very close throughout. The Johnnies got off tO a flying start and it was not long before they had an eight-point lead . The Virginians began scoring at this point and the first hal f saw the score 14- 11 in favor of the Johnnies. The seco nd half was very close and Bruzz H off who was hurt in the initial period proved tO be a big factO r after getting back inw the game . He scored two baskets a nd assisted in several ochers besides playing a nice defensive gam e. Fader really won the game for the Johnnies w hen he rossed an under-the-basket shot in after t aking a pass from W olanske w ho held the ball out of bounds. Previous tO this basket the score was tied at twenty-one all and the final whistle blew just after Fader sank his sensational shot. . "5 ·1 [ 148 J V.M .I. 23 [149 ] ~} �RAT TAT ST. JOHN'S 27 ST. JOHN 'S 35 GALLAUDET 23 The Johnnies won their sixth straight game at Annapolis against Elon University of North Carolina . The v isitors brought a well-balanced team and the game was very hard fought with the Johnnies winning out near che end when Ziegler and Carpenter sa nk field goa ls to give the Jo hnnies a four-point lead which they held until the end of the ga me . The Johnnies won their third straight game from Gallaudet at Annapolis, chis being the first home appearance of the St. John 's team. The Johnnies were off in their shooting and only the playing of a tight defensive game won the victory. MacCartee was high point scorer with eight points and Carpenter and Fader each caged three field goals to give them six points apiece. Fader also played a nice defensive game and made several nice assists which resulted in baskets for the Johnnies . MacCartee and H off were the outstanding players of the game, while Ziegler handled the center posicion in approved fashion, not only controlling the tap b.ur assisting materiall y by fine passes and nice defensive work. Although superior co the N orth Carolina boys, the Johnnies played ragged basketball in spots but always recovered when hard pressed by the visitors. This game showed very clearly that the Johnnies had not yet adapted themselves to the new style of play and they were also tired from the strenuo us southern trip . ST. JOHN 'S 34 ST. JOHN 'S 23 MacCarcee was the big g un in the Johnnie attack , scoring fourteen points, most of which came in the second half. Fader and Larry Carpenter both went scoreless, which is rather unusual, while Hoff accounted for four of the Johnnie points, while Ziegler and W olanske scored the rest between them . ST. JOHN 'S 31 WESTERN MARYLAND 24 In their first meeting of the season, the Johnnies defeated Western Maryland at Westminster in a game which was very close for three quarters but which resulted in an easy Jo hnnie victory in the last quarter. The Westminster bo ys played a smashing sort of basket-ball and in the first half the Johnnies could not adapt themselves to the st yle of play. This and the presence of Brown, Terror forward, who m ade several spectacular shoes in the first half, gave the Western Maryland team a small margin at the half. LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE 36 The Johnnies' winning streak was rather abrupdy and surprisingly broken by Lebanon Valley College on the latter 's own court. The game was played on a very small floor and the Johnnie attack suffered as a result. ST. FRANCIS 20 The Johnnies seemed a much improved team in scoring their fourth straight win over St. Francis College on the Johnnies' court. The game was very fast and very well played. LARRY CARPENTER Nice passing and close guarding was the feature of the game and over-anxiousness cost the visitors the game as three points were scored on fouls in the last few minutes of the game. ELON UNIVERSITY 31 WoLA~SKE Heller, giant center for Lebanon , proved to be a thorn in the Johnnies' side. He scored sixteen points, making good ten fouls out of thirteen attempted . Stewart, forward for Lebanon, also played well and scored fourteen points. Captain MacCarcee was again high point scorer for the Johnnies , with twelve points. Fader played a fine game and popped four field goals. Poor, foul shooting could be blamed for the loss of the game as the Johnnies made only five out of sixteen attempted. The Johnnies were nine points behind at the end of the first half and they made a fine comeback but fell short by · two points. The winning basket was scored by Heller from the middle of the Boor. STEVE HOPKINS 25 ST. JOHN 'S 24 It is bad enough to lose any basket-ball game but it is worse or tougher still for · a St. John's team to lose to a Hopkins team, and when the margin of victory is only one point, it really is cough. However, the Jays were not chinking of chat and they defeated the Johnnies by one point on Loyola 's basket-ball court. In the second period, Fader and MacCarcee began to find themselves and playing cool basket-ball put the Johnnies ahead. Near the middle of the second period, the Johnnies had a three-point lead and they increased this to a seven-point lead with about four minutes co play and held chis advantage for the rest of the game. The Johnnies played one of their best games of the season against the Green Terrors and deserved the hard-won victory. The margin of victory came on foul shooting and the Jays shot thirteen out of twenty-one attempted. The Jo hnnies outscored the opposition from the floor, shooting nine double-deckers while Hopkins caged only six. Kelly , young guard of the Jays , was the big m an · for Hopkins and he scored thirteen points, m aking nine foul shoes. MacCarcee was high point scorer for the Johnnies with a total of twelve points. He shoe another basket a split seco nd after the whisde had blown which did not count but which would have won the ga me . The whole Johnnie team played nice basketball but they fouled too frequendy and chis in the end proved to be the margin of victory. [150 ] [151 ] �ST. JOHN'S 24 ST. JOHN'S OF BROOKLYN 36 The Johnnies dropped their third straight game to St. John 's of Brooklyn. The Brooklyn boys had a little too much class for the Johnnies although they were forced to rnove at top speed to win. The first half was a walkover for the Brooklynites and at the end of the period the score was 21- 5. The second half was much closer and although the Brooklynites coach started his second team, he soon removed them and sent the regulars back into the game. The remainder of the battle was almost even with Fader and MacCartee leading the way for the Johnnies. Bob was high point scorer with eleven points, while Fader scored seven. Carpenter played a nice defensive game, holding Posnak, Captain of the Brooklyn team, scoreless. It must be said that the winners had a great basket-ball team. Their passing and cutting was beautiful to watch and although they did not attempt many outside shoes, the ones which they shot usually went through the basket. ST. JOHN 'S 26 Bauzz HoFF ST. JOHN'S 31 In a game featured by spotty refereeing and roughness, the Johnnies defeated St. Francis at Brooklyn by the small margin of two points. Fader was the star of the game, scoring twelve points and assisting the other players with nice passes. This was the Johnnies second victory over the St. Francis team . St. Francis lead throughout most of the game and at one time had a seven-point lead. At the half time they had a three-point lead.· This lead seesawed back and forth for the remainder of the game and MacCartee shoe the winning basket when there was only about a minute left to play in the game. Ziegler and W olanske played nice games at center and Hoff played fine ball until banished from the contest. WESTERN MARYLAND 28 The Johnnies defeated Western Maryland for the second time in our own gym, but the game was much closer than the first meeting of the two teams had been. The Terror team led throughout most of the game and it was only in the last four minutes that Fader and Hoff came through with the winning points. MacCartee was high point scorer of the game while Fader stood out on the defense and also scored one of the baskets that put the Johnnies ahead of the Terrors. At the end of the first half the score was 15- 14 in favor of St. John's and this one point lead was held until near the end of the game when Wellinger, of Western Maryland, sank a beautiful shot from the middle of the Hoor to give his team a one-point lead. With about two minutes left to play, Hoff and then Fader sank nice outside shots to win the game. MARYLAND 32 STJOHN'S 27 In their annual game with the University of Maryland the Johnnies played their best· basket-ball of the season, but the Old Liners beat them by making a total of twelve foul shots while the Johnnies made only three . The Johnnies scored two more goals from the field than Maryland did but they continually fouled Maryland players who were cutting for the basket. The game was nip and tuck from the start with the Maryland team getting a three-point lead which they held throughout the first half, the score at the end of the period being 14-11 in favor of Maryland. The Old Liners threatened to walk away with the game in the middle of the second period when they staged a nine-point rally and seemingly killed the hopes of the Johnnies. However, Fader made three sensational long shoes while Hoff and Wolanske added a field goal apiece . The Johnnie rally fell short, however, and the game ended with Maryland enjoying a five-point lead. ~~~~~~v~t Inability to form a quick defense and failure to pick up loose men resulted in the Johnnies losing to G . W. in their first meeting of the season. The game was very fast with never more than a few points separating the teams . George Washington gained an early lead and this they held throughOut the first half and the first period ended '"with the score 17-14 against the Johnnies . St. John's staged their usual second half rally and at one time the score was tied, chieffy through the fine work of Fader and Carpenter. However, Burgess, star forward of the Capital boys, managed to keep his team ahead by sensational shots. MacCartee was high point scorer for the Johnnies and Carpenter wi~h nine points was nex t . The number of field goals scored by both teams was exactly even but the Johnnies were off on their foul shooting and made only four out of thirteen attempted . F E RDIE fADER ST. FRANCIS 23 ST. JOHN 'S 25 GEORGE WASHINGTON 30 g-3·1 ~ [ 152 J STJOHN'S 25 GEORGE WASHINGTON 33 George Washington handed the Johnnies a second defeat when the teams met at Annapolis. The St . John's team played without the services of Bruzz Hoff, who was sick, and his absence was felt, although W olanske, shifted from center to forward, was the high point scorer of the game with nine points to his credit. Ziegler and Phil Locz handled the center job in a creditable manner but the visitors were .iust a little bit too good for the Johnnies . At the end of the first half, the Washingtonians had a lead of nine points, the score being 17-8. The Johnnies started a rally early in the second half and at one time the score was 21-19 in favor of G . W . The rally was cut short , however , when Burgess of the visitors shot two field goals. The Johnnies were never able to threaten again and the George Washington boys romped off with the victory . g. 3 ·1 [153] �RAT TAT FRESHMEN BASKET- BALL ST. JOHN'S 25 GILMAN 14 The Freshmen won their opening game very easily from Gilman Country School of Baltimore. After the first few minutes the outcome was never in doubt and MacCartee and Kilmore scored almost twenty points between them . Watson played a nice defensive game and Engel at center playing his first game of basket-ball- did everything that was expected of him . Near the end of the game Coach Lentz used all of his reserves, who also played nice basket-ball. -----------*~~----------- Bu.L ZrEGLER ST. JOHN'S 17 BrLL ATHEY AMERICAN UNIVERSITY 16 In a listless basket-ball game, the Johnnies barely eked out a one-point victory over American University of Washington. The Johnnies did not seem to be clicking and the game was very slow as a result of the freezing tactics used by both teams . Hoff had not recovered as yet and W olanske once more took his place at forward and handled it in approved manner. MacCartee and Fader were tied for scoring honors, while Carpenter and Ziegler played nice defensive games. At the end of the first half, the Johnnies were behind 7-8. The second half produced better basket-ball, but the Johnnies were off in their shooting and although they worked the ball inside many times, they seldom scored. The team seemed to be in good shape for the last Hopkins game and it was felt that the victory over American would help the Johnnies. WESTERN 23 STJOHN'S 22 The young Johnnies lost their second game by the slim margin of one point to Western High School of Washington in a very interesting battle. The Johnnies had a three-point lead near the end of the game, but Western came through with two double deckers to put them one point ahead and despite their best efforts the Freshmen could not head them in the last few minutes of play. Carl MacCartee with nine points was the leading scorer for St. John 's, while Kilmore was close behind him wit_h eight to his credit. Near the end of the game Watson sank a nice outside shot to . gi~e the Johnnies a one-point lead and Kilmore made it three points when he took a pass from Magness and scored. This lead was short-lived and when the whistle blew the Frosh were on the short end of the score. ----------- ~~~----------- ST. JOHN 'S 19 WESTERN MARYLAND 26 HOPKINS 26 ST. JOHN'S 15 Hopkins held the Johnnies to their lowest score of the year and decisively trounced them in their second meeting of the year in our own gym. Hoff had returned to the line-up but the Johnnies played listless basket-ball and were way off in their shooting. For all of that the first half was rather close and the score at half time was 11- 8 in favor of Hopkins. The Johnnies played fair basket-ball for about fifteen minutes of the second half but seemed to lose confidence and from then on the game was all Hopkins. MacCartee and Fader played fine basket-ball in spots but at times seemed to slip up and in general played mediocre basket-ball. The Johnnies probably played their worst game of the season and it was unfortunate that it had to be against our old rival, Hopkins. The Western Maryland Frosh proved to be too big and too tall for the young Johnnies and they lost their second straight game to the Green Terrors at Westminster. Although the Johnnies were outweighed and had to concede much heighth to the Western Maryland boys, they nevertheless put up a great battle. Heighth, however, lost the game, as Western Maryland scored time after time on rebound shots. Watson was high point scorer for St. John's with nine points, while Carl MacCartee had seven to his credit. Kilmore did not figure heavily in the scoring but gave several nice assists with beautiful passes . The final score was 26- 19 against the Frosh. ~~~~~~~rt [ 154 J 9·3·1~ [ 155 J �EMERSON 12 ST. JOHN'S 37 The young Johnnies tore into Emerson High School of Washington and literally swamped them under an avalanche of field goals, defeating them 33- 12. The Washington boys never had a chance from the opening whistle and Coach Lent:z; used all his reserves with good effect as they continued to run up the score while holding the opposition to several baskets. This was the first victory in a string which extended over five games before it was broken. MacCartee and Sanford were high point scorers with Kilmore close behind them. Froio scored several points in addition to playing a fine defensive game. -----------~~®----------- POLY 8 ST. JOHN'S 26 The Johnnie youngsters limited Polytechnic Institute of Baltimore to two field goals in their game played at Annapolis and in the meantime scored twenty-six points to soundly trounce the young engineers. Every Johnnie player saw action and they all played nice basket-ball, featuring with close guarding. Sanford was high point scorer for the Johnnies and the work of Casassa and Engel at center was of the highest order. The score could have been much larger, but the Johnnies preferred to coast along on their lead until the end of the game. -----------~~·~·r---------- ST. JOHN 'S 23 TECH HIGH 21 The Johnnies continued their winning streak over Tech High School of Washington, defeating the Tech boys by a 23-21 score. The game was very close and well played and it was only the keen eye of Kilmore and MacCartee that saved the game for St. John's. Tech started with a rush and at one time had a four-point lead, but Froio and Watson each sank outside shots to tie the score. The half ended with the Johnnies leading 11-10 in favor of St. John 's. The second half was also hard fought and MacCartee and Kilmore kept the Johnnies ahead until the last few minutes of play when freezing tactics kept the Washington boys from gaining possession of the ball. -----------~ ~~· ----------- ST. JOHN'S 19 ----------~~~----------- EASTERN 23 ST. JOHN'S 24 score of 25- 13. The Johnnies easily outclassed their opponents and the outcome was never in doubt. With Kilmore leading the attack with ten points and MacCartee following with six, the Johnnies played with a fight and pep that gave every indication that they knew what they were doing. They passed and cut in approved manner and although their shooting was off, they m.anaged to garner the necessary points at tim.es when they were most needed. The Johnnies won their third straight game from Eastern High School in a game played at Annapolis by a single point, the final score being 24-23. The two teams were nearly evenly matched and although the Johnnies led throughout the game, the Eastern boys kept within a point or two of the victors and at one time led them by two points. This game produced some of the basket-ball that the Frosh had played all year and they seemed to have adapted themselves to the Lent:z; system in approved manner. Froio led the attack against the visitors and Kilmore was close behind him. Froio garnered eight points while Kilmore had seven to his credit. MARYLAND 33 The five-game winning streak was abruptly broken by the Freshman team from the University of Maryland in a game played at College Park. The Maryland boys showed fine team work and this coupled with fine marksmanship enabled rhem to thoroughly trounce the Johnnie youngsters. The Maryland team started with a rush and at half time had an 18- 4 lead. The Johnnies played much better throughout the second half and had it not been for the fact that Kilmore and Watson were removed for fouls, might have won the game. Froio and Carl MacCartee played nice games for St. John 's with MacCartee leading in scoring. Casassa playing center with a bad leg played fine basket-ball and handled the rebounds nicely. ----------- ~~~----------- ----------~·~~----------- HOPKINS 13 ST. JOHN'S 25 In a preliminary game to the varsity's game with the Blue Jays from Hopkins, the young Johnnies decisively defeated the Jay all boys from Homewood by the ST. JOHN'S 28 The Frosh team lost their second game to the Western Maryland youngsters by the score of 29- 28 in a fast and hard fought game played in our own gym. The game was a nip-and-tuck affair throughout and the Green Terrors were able to ~~~~~~[1. [156] WESTERN MARYLAND 29 g. 3 ·ll [ 157 J �win out in the second half with only a few seconds left to play . The score at the end of the first period was 13-12 in favor of the Johnnies, but they could not increase this lead. The second half was also a hard battle with Watson and Kilmorc leading the attack for the Johnnies. Both teams scored alternately and with two minutes left to play, the Johnnies gained a three-point lead. However, goals by the visitors' center and forward put the West minster boys ahead and in the last few minutes they froze the ball and won the game. ------~<$><$>------ ST. JOHN'S 21 CENTRAL 20 The Johnnies took the measure of another Washington High School team when they defeated Eastern High School by the score of 21-20. The Johnnies played without the services of Warson and Kilmorc, who were declared ineligible at midyear. The men filling their positions played fine basket-ball and won the game with only about five minutes left to play . They forged ahead ncar the end of the first half, having a three-point lead at the rest period . The second half was very close with the Johnnies taking the lead and holding off a last minute spurt by Central. Casassa and Dunleavy played the best games for the Johnnies while Sanford and Capell ably assisted these two . ------ ®~<$>------ ST. JOHN'S 24 HOPKINS 20 The Frosh ended their rather successful season by taking another victory from the Hopkins Junior Varsity in a preliminary game. These young Johnnies passed well and played a fine defensive game. They were off in their shooting but managed to nose out the Blue Jays and make it their nimh victory of the season . Carl MacCartee was the high point scorer for the Johnnies with ten points and Froio followed with eight to his credit. Sanford played a fine defensive game at guard and was ably assisted by Skordas. ~~~~~~[1 g-3·1 ~ [ 158] LACROSSE �LACROSSE T. JOHN 'S rose to a new height in Lacrosse circles when the S ,, Left to right , thi rd row: Hines, Scot t , O 'Connor, ) . Trad er, W . L ynch, Thomas, Purdi e, F ade r. S econd row: Gessener, C. Athey, Beneze, C am pbell , J oh , Ziegler, Wola nske, Bean, H off, Moore. Seated: Pool, P . Lotz, Ca rpenter, Morris, Corn brooks, R . MacCa rtee, Bai rd , Arm acost, E . L otz. SEASON RECORD Sr. John's 7 Sr. John 's 13 Oxford-Cambridge 2 W ashingron College o St . John's 17 Randolph-Macon o Sr. John 's 13 C.C.N.Y. Sr. John's 6 Sr. John's 15 Sr. John 's 7 Maryland Sr. John 's 7 Rutgers St. John's 2 Hopkins St. John 's 10 St. John 's 5 Army St. John 's 2 Alumni Union 1 1 rating board of the Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association narn.ed them. official champions of the United States. This was the first time that St. John's had been so honored as the 1 92 9 team were not " official champions," as St . John 's was not in the association at that time . Twelve players and Manager Athey received gold medals from the association. The season was a success in every way . The Johnnies played a difficult twelve-game schedule and lost only one game , this being ro our old rival Johns Hopkins and the score was 3 - 2 against us . St. John 's decisively trounced the combined O x ford -Cambridge team and incidentally were the only team ro beat them by more than one goal. The score of the Johnnie game was 7-2 . Ed Lotz, Captain-elect Bob Pool and Captain Ernie Cornbrooks were named on the official All-American team. These men along with Bill Ziegler , Jim Morris, Bob MacCartee , Bros Hoff, Larry Carpenter, Ebbie Hines and Phil Lotz were also selected on various all-Maryland first or second teams . Walter Baird, Okey O 'Connor and Sam Purdie were the only men lost through graduation and the 1931 seas on should be as successful as the previous season and perhaps another National Championship team may develop . This 1931 team with Bob Pool as captain may be even more formidable than the team of the previous season and it is hoped that they can go through their rough schedule undefeated. Coach, Moore Virginia o Captain , Pool 3 1 3 Swarthmore 1 1 1 ~~~~~~~Ylil Q·3·1= ~~---=--------~~ [ 161 J Manager, Athey �ST. JOHN'S 13 WASHINGTON COLLEGE 0 The Johnnies outclassed W ashingron College in the second game of the season, defeating them by the score of 13-o . Coach Moore used most of his subs in the latter part of the game after the varsity had rolled up seven points early in the second half. ST. JOHN'S 7 OXFORD-CAMBRIDGE 2 The Johnnies opened their season with an easy 7-2 vicrory over the invading English team gathered from Oxford and Cambridge Universities. This team later went out and defeated nearly every college and university of note in this country and rook back the Mann Challenge Cup ro England . They were just another team w the Johnnies, however, and Pool, Hines and MacCartee counted for seven goals between them, while the visirors could only tally twice, one of these coming on a fluke . Pool scored four goals, Hines two and MacCartee accounted for the other Johnnie tally. The Englishmen were small but fast men and while they did not play a systematic game, their tremendous speed made up for what they lacked in team play. Several former American players from Yale and Hopkins played on the visiting team, but their best efforts were sropped by the Johnnie defense with Jim Morris playing the outstanding defensive game. ~~~~~~~~Yi[l g. 3·11 [162 ] John Joh was high point scorer of the game with four goals, all scored after nice dodges. The whole attack was under wraps as scouts from several other colleges were in the stands. Hoff and Willis Lynch each scored two goals . MacCartee, Carpenter and Baird added the other scores for the Johnnies. Pool , although not figuring in the scoring, helped materially with fine passes. --------- ~~~>--------- ST. JOHN'S 17 RANDOLPH-MACON 0 The Johnnies swamped Randolph-Macon 'i n a listless game played at Annapolis by the score of 17- o . Although the Johnnie attack did not force the issue and though subs were used most of the game, the score rolled up until Dinty Moore_gave the signal ro let up. Hines was high point scorer for the Johnnies with four goals and he was closely followed by Pool and MacCartee with three ~~~~~~~~rt·Q·3·11 [ 163 J �Union on the following day and Coach Moore used all of his substitutes and they all played fine lacrosse. ---------~~~--------- UNION 1 ST. JOHN'S 6 each. The Johnnie defense limited the visitors to two shots which Wolanske, substituting for Armacost, easily stopped. ---------~~~ --------- ST. JOHN'S 13 CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK 1 On their first game of the northern trip the Johnnies easily took City College of New Yark into camp in a very rough game by the score of 13- 1 . The Johnnies scored almost at will while the defense held the New Yark boys in check from the start and the only score against them came as a result of a long screen shot. The Johnnies had very little trouble in conquering a fairly strong Union College team led by Finnegan, All-American inhome . The game was played on a wet field, making the footing very uncertain and the play of both teams suffered. Ed Lotz kept Finnegan covered in fine style and limited him to one goal, the result of a defensive shift to an extra man. Larry Carpenter played a fine game, scoring two goals and backing up shots nicely while holding his man in check. Ernie Cornbrooks, Hoff, MacCartee and Pool scored the other goals for the Johnnies and the great work of the Union goalkeeper was the only thing that kept the score fron1 being very high. ---------·~~~--------- ST. JOHN 'S 15 VIRGINIA 0 Pool and MacCartee each scored three goals for the Johnnies while Ziegler and Cornbrooks each dropped two into the netting . This game was a preparation for the expected tough game with The Johnnies scored their second successive shut-out against a weak opponent when they swamped Virginia by a 15- 0 score, [164 ] [ 165 J �on the Old Liners' own field . Bob Pool and Bros Hoff were the high scorers for the Johnnies with two goals each, while MacCartee, Hines and Ziegler each scored one goal. The close defense of the Johnnies, playing almost a perfect defensive game, held the high-powered Maryland attack scoreless in the first half but slipped up in the second half and three goals were scored by the Maryland boys. on the Johnnies' own field . Coach Moore started his second string attack and they rolled up a total of six goals in the first half while the Johnnie defense only allowed the .Cavaliers one shot. Bill Ziegler was high point scorer of the game with four counters scored in less than a half of the game. Pool scored three goals while Joh had two to his credit along with Ernie Cornbrooks. Willis Lynch scored the final goal for the Johnnies and Coach Moore ordered the Johnnie attack to let up and the latter part of the game was a mere passing one. Hines scored first for the Johnnies and was followed in rapid succession by Pool and Hoff, who cut in and took passes from a man feeding from behind the goal and Pool scored the final goal in the first half after a beautiful circle dodge. In the second half the Johnnies scored the same number of goals that Maryland did and the game ended with St. John's holding the ball and Maryland's hopes of a national championship blasted. --------~ ~®--------· RUTGERS 1 STJOHN'S 7 ----------~®®--------- MARYLAND 3 ST. JOHN'S 7 The Johnnies hurdled their first big obstacle to the National Championship when they conquered Maryland by a 7-3 score ----·~ ~~~..l'llr 1 g · 3 ·1 J [166] The Johnnies won their eighth straight victory from a strong Rutgers University team by a score of 7-1. The Johnnies played a nice game in every department although they were held to two goals in the initial period. Walter Baird led the Johnnie scorers with two goals and Ernie Cornbrooks played a fine defensive game and also scored o~e goal. ~~~~~~~[1· g. 3 ·1 ~ [ 167 J �Hopkins goalie kept the score frorn being reversed to a great extenr. The Johnnie defensive was not up ro its usual par and permitted rhe Blue Jays ro score rhree goals against rhem and this was enough ro lose the ball game for rhe Johnnies . Time after time the high-powered Johnnie arrack manuevered imo shooting position, bur each time Ferrarni successively stopped the shots fired ar him. This was rhe first game rhar Rutgers had lost on their own field in five years and rhe Rurgers coach praised Sr. John's as being rhe finest lacrosse ream he had ever seen in acrion . The Johnnie defense played a nice game with Ed Lorz being rhe outstanding player. Larry Carpemer garnered one goal on a long screen shot and held his man in check throughour. ---------~ ~ ~--------- HOPKINS 3 ST. JOHN'S 2 The only sore spot in an otherwise highly successful campaign came unexpectedly at Homewood field when Johns Hopkins defeated the frolicking Johnnies by a score of 3- 2 . The Johnnies played very good lacrosse and only rhe inspired work of a [168] Bob Pool played a great game for rhe Johnnies, scoring one of the goals and assisting in rhe other which was scored by Hoff. Ir was just nor the Johnnies' day and they wem down ro defeat in what is perhaps one of the best lacrosse games ever played in Maryland. --------~ ~~--------- SWARTHMORE 1 STJOHN'S 10 Smarting from the defeat the previous week the Johnnies wem up and decisively trounced Swarthmore on their own grounds. The Pennsylvania lads never had a chance and the terrific riding of the 'Johnnie attack when the Swarthmore defense was carrying the ball our was vicious, beauriful ro watch and very effective. Bob Pool led rhe attack with three goals while MacCartee had two ro his credit along with Captain Ernie Cornbrooks. [169] �This was the fifth game in which the defense, backed up by Wee Willie Armacost, limited the opposition to one goal, which again was the result of a shift caused by an extra man play. ---------4 ~~--------· ALUMNI 1 ST. JOHN'S 2 The Garnet boys managed to score on one play with an extra man, but excepting this, the Johnnie defense played a superb game . ---------~ ~~--------- In a June week celebration program the Johnnies turned back the assault of the Alumni led by Long John Boucher and Clem Spring, to the tune of a 2 - 1 score. The game was played under excellent conditions, but the Alumni were not in condition to play against the Johnnie team and they were forced to take the short end of the score. ARMY 1 ST. JOHN'S 5 In a game replete wirh thrills, stick swinging and rough playing, the Johnnies brought to a close a great lacrosse season. The final score of the game with the Cadets was 5-1, but this does not represent the difference between the two teams. Walt Baird, Okey O'Connor and Buck Purdie were playing their last game under Johnnie colors and they all played fine games with both O'Connor and Baird scoring one goal. Bros Hoff scored a pair of tallies and Hines added the last score near the end of the game. ~~~~~~~~~~rt-g·3·tl [ 170 J ,__....__-.J~};s3~~v,r 1 · g - 3 · 11 [ 171 J �JUNIOR VARSITY LACROSSE T HE Junior Varsity Lacrosse team did not fare so well in the 1930 season, but considering the fact that none of the m.en had played lacrosse before the season was commendable. The best thing that resulted from the season was the developing of several fine prospects for the 1931 season. Porter, Stearns, Hoffmeister, Bruno, Cheezum and Winslow all played fine lacrosse at times and with a little more experience ma y prove valuable to the Johnnies in the near future . The Jay-Vees played two games with Severn to open the season and they lost one of these and won the other. Porter and Hoffmeister proved to be the best men in these games and Stearns at wing attack played fine lacrosse. The third game of the season was played against Polytechnic and the young engineers defeated the Johnnies 8-o in a dull game. The best efforts of the Jay-Vee attack could not produce a goal, while Tech scored at will on the Johnnie defense . The Johnnies won their second game from Donaldson School by the score of 4- 1. Porter played the best game for St. Jolm's , scoring three goals while Stearns scored the other. The defense of the Jay-Vees functioned very well and the only goal scored by the visitors was the result of a fluke. City College took the measure of the Jay-Vees in the last game of the season by the score of 5- 2. Alberts, of City, proved to be the thorn in the Johnnies side, scoring four of the five goals. Cheezum and Collazo accounted for the Jay-Vee scores, one coming in each half. In 1931 there will be no Jay-Vee squad following the adoption of the three-year rule . The Junior Varsity has been used in developing men for the varisty and most of the present luminaries learned their first lacrosse under Bunny Gessner. Hoff, MacCartee, Mitchell and Ed and Phil Lotz are so me of the men who had never played previous to their start on the Jay-Vee t eam. The Freshman team will serve the same purpose and will no doubt be scronger as the outstanding players will not be drafted to the varsity. Coach, Gessner ~".::<<N"':1'7'1f Rt;!~~~v 1 [ Manage?", McCabe 1 g · 3 ·1 _ [ 172] MINO.R SPORTS �RAT TAT S tanding , le/ l to righ t : Newton, Eastman, Novak. Sented: C rabb, M ill ito, H a ll , Mayer, Dun leavy, Gra y, Orvis. T op row standing , left to right: P a li vas, Mur ph y, D o rsey , Philli ps. Second row: Newton , Neyer, Carte r, H ampton, P etti t , G ault , iovak. Sea ted: J ohnson, Coll azo, Hancock , Russell , Dunleavy, S tead ma n, Suson i. VARSITY CROSS COUNTRY H E 1 93 0 Cross Country season was a success in' every way. This was the first year chat Sr. John's has supported a Cross Country ream and under the direnion of coach Joey Novak sacisfacwry results were obt ained. Joe Russell , the captain and omstanding runner of the ream, was ably assisted by Jim Dunleavy , Hancock , Colla:z;o , and Gaulr. T The Johnnie Harriers lost the opening meet to Johns Hopkins by the close score of 28- 2 7 . Russell took the individual honors, covering the course in twenty-two minutes and leading the nearest Hopkins man by two hundred yards. The Johnnies lose the second meet to the University of Virginia by a score of 31-25. Russell lost his only race of che season due, to some extent , that he was sick before the race . The Johnnies lost their next meet to the University of Maryland, 30-25. Russell covered che difficult five-mile course in slightly less chan twenty-eight minutes, taking first place for Sr. John 's. Sr. John 's made their Cross Country season an undoubted success by winning the Middle Atlantic championship in competition against Ursinus College and Westchester State Teachers College, at a meet run over the Westchester State Teachers' course. Captain Russell finished first and the Johnnie team placed five out of the first ten men. In the last meet of the season , the Johnnie team turned in a vicwry over the Catholic University runners with the score of 30-25. ~~~~~~~1[ 1 FRESHMEN CROSS COUNTRY T H E Freshman Cross Country team performed very creditably, although they lost two of their three meets . The Ol.ttstanding Freshmen were Paul Dunleavy and Gray. In their first meet with the University of Virginia Freshmen, the Johnnies were nosed out by one point, the score being 28- 2 7. Paul Dunleavy took first place in this race, with Gray a close second . The Johnnie Freshmen lost their nex t meet with the University of Maryland Freshm.en by the score of 25- 30 . Paul Dunleavy took second place in the three-mile race and Gray finished fifth . The Freshm.an Cross Country team wound up its season with a close victory over Catholic University Freshmen. The final result was Sr. John's Freshmen 23, Catholic University Freshmen 22 . Paul Dunleavy took first place for the second time in the three meers and Gray placed third with Hall, of St. John 's, a close fourth. All the Freshrnen are expected to return next year and several of the youngsters should prove valuable assets to the Varsity team, which has prospects of all of its men returning next year. Coach Novak has scheduled five meets at the present time and arrangements for several others are being completed . g. 3 ·1 ~~---=~------~~ [ 174 ] [ 175 J �R.ATTAT~~~ L eft to r ight , top row, standi n g: Collazo, E . L otz, J oh , Jund, P owle y, Williams, Wea ver. Front row: B ecke rma nn , Kahn , Banard , Susoni , F ields, Hines, Jukes. L eft to right , sta ndin g: Rhodo ni s, Radcliff. P em bro ke, Bu rwell , Cobb, A rnau d , D eLand ri er. F ront row : Vigil an te, P annullo, P rice, \\l hi t in g , D avis, East man , Green . FENCING BOXING Coaclt- Manager- WEAVER DAUGHTERTY T. JOHN'S engaged in the first rwo box ing meers in irs hisrory this year and in S both marches rhe ream made a creditable showing, considering the fact rhar very few of them had ever had any previous experience in rhe ring. The season definitely proved rwo things. One is that Sr. John 's can engage in inter-collegiate boxing and that there is enough interest in rhe sport ro give it a major rating in the next few years . The first meet of the season was· held with Washington and Lee at Lexingron and the Johnnies were able ro win three of rhe matches and nearly won the meer. Louis Collazo, Ed Lotz, and Johnnie Joh were the boxers who won, while Jeff Fields lost a close decision ro his man in the 16o-pound class. The Johnnies met an experienced group of boxers and sluggers in their meet with Catholic University, at Washingron, and lost the n1.eer by the score of 6-1. Five of the fights were lost by knock-outs and one was lost on a decision. The only fighter to win for St. John 's was Ed Lotz, who emerged the vicror after staging a fine ex hibition of boxing skill. [ 176] F OR the first rime Fencing was definitely established at St. John's as a minor sport and five meers were held with other reams . The ream won only two of these marches, but several of the men gave rnuch promise of becoming first-rate swordsmen next year. The whole tearn will return next year and a harder schedule is being arranged by Mr. Riggs, athletic director . This year Sr. John's was represented by Panullo, Whiting and Burwell in the epee and foil events, and Price and Ratcliffe in sabre marches . The Johnnies bad three meers with rhe Y.M .C.A. team of Baltimore and were vicrorious in rwo of rhem and lost the third by rhe close score of 8- g. The scores of both the meers won were 11-6. Whiting was the outstanding performer in rhese meers along with Panullo. In rhe three marches Panullo lost qnly once while Whiting was vicrorious in all bur two of his matches. Ratcliffe and Price divided their victories and losses in rhe sabre event. The first meet of the year was held with Lafayette College and rhe Johnnies were defeated by a score of u - 6 . Panullo and Whiting each won rwo marches while Burwell and Ratcliffe were able to win one of their bouts. The only other inter-collegiate meet was held wirh Sr. John's College of Brooklyn and the score was 8- 5 against our own ream . The score might have been different, bur no marches were fought in rhe sabre division and the best rhar Whiting , Panullo and Burwell could do in rhe epee and foils division was ro win five bouts while losing eight. [ 177] �L eft to right: Di gges, P ercy, H aberl and . Wage r. INTRAMURAL SPORTS NTRAMURAL spores have continued to grow in pop ulari t y under che capable direction of Joey N ovak. H e has planned these sport s to give everybody an oppormnicy to participate in achlecics and his plans have been very successful. Trophies are awarded to che winners in these spores and consequently keen compet ition is quite evident . I The various dormitories, as well as che fraternities on the campus, all compere in these spores and the benefits derived are felc by all. Good sportsmanship is developed as well as mental and physical strength . Thus benefits are derived and students have a means of exercise as wel l as amusement . The fellows like ic and follow it almost as closely as major spores. Mr . N ovak has appointed a scaf:f of four men, known as Intramural managers, to assist him in planning and supervising che spores; these men are Digges , H aberland , Percy and Wager. . . . . . . .... . . ..· ·.. ·. lr=]E AT u·.. IR ~: S . : [178 ] . ; : : : �Left to right, s tanding: Mi sses Ebaugh, L ieb, P erli tz, Strange, R idgely . S~aled : R . Sears, Owens, Smi th, Cole, H . Sea rs. OUR FAIR LADIES N O, this is not a co-ed institution , as one might guess after seeing the beautiful array of feminine charm pictured above, but merely a college for men who cannot get along without a few ladies to help them. One might think these ladies were picked for their beamy, but if one should see them performing their duties, one would quickly say they possessed more than beauty. Miss Kyle, Miss Lieb and Miss Ebaugh ably assist us in the library , while Miss Ridgely and Mrs. Perlitz bother with our troubles in the Student Union . Miss Strange, A.B., is the registrar and secretary to the Dean and has as her assistant Miss Smith. The two Miss Sears, Miss Cole and Miss Owens complete our staff in the Business Office. It may be clearly seen that these fair ladies are useful as well as ornan<ental. [179 ] �ADVERTISEMENTS APPRECIATIONS UR work is done and w~ hope you like it. We have strived hard and spent sleepless nights to complete a year book we should all be proud of. It is true that we were not able to include all the material that we should like to have included , but our financial budget prohibited it. The results of our most sincere efforts are here embodied, hence it will be a real joy to us if you should appreciate our work . O Of course, everyone realizes that we could not have completed this Annual unaided and we therefore fed deeply indebted to all those who have helped us . Our heartiest appreciation is due Captain E. H . Crouch for his invaluable aid in selecting and awarding contracts ; and to Dr. Leonard E . Arnaud for his wise counsel and help . To Jahn and Oilier we owe our indebtedness for the fine engravings found in this Annual ; and to Ned Thomsen, of the Thomsen-Ellis Printing Co ., we owe our most sincere appreciation for his aid in planning and servicing our book; without him we should have been lost. We also fed greatly indebted to our artist, Charles 0. 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Title A name given to the resource Some Socratic aspects of Wittgenstein Description An account of the resource Audio recording of a lecture given on May 1, 2015 by James Conant as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Conant, James Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-05-01 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Meem Library has been given permission to make this item available online. Type The nature or genre of the resource sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource mp3 Subject The topic of the resource Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 20014226 Friday night lecture https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/b4f252cb056e37f0ca0721d64dec8446.pdf 63e46eb105fb47f1ef1faa4378cb9dd9 PDF Text Text �energe1a editors staff faculty advisor Stephanie Connolly Kaitlyn Schuler Genevieve Allen Jerome Dausman Liam Dougherty Nathan Goldman Danielle Nelson Ian Tuttle Fawn Trigg cover by Hannah Pasternak: Pacific Sun<1et �contents Jerome Dausman 7 Noble Lied Nathan Goldman 9 Mu.:1cfe Sarah Marx 15 YomKippur photographs Henley Moore Rainer Maria Rilke 39 40 14 Erika Adam Maraschky Stephanie Connolly 17 Be.:1tpitch Trinity Kathryn Lewis Eva Brann 8 59 38 29 67 Quad Scene Tunnel Vuion Private Cour0 State Circle Hannah Pasternak 16 Journeyc1 Kaitlyn Schuler 46 Flamingo d Repo.:1e AchiLfean Armor and 0dyd.:Jeian Time Summer Sonnet Offering trandlateo by Stephanie Co11110LLy Maggy Barnes 42 Suffocation Liam Wallace 47 The Labyrinth of Quixote and the Dream ofMonte.:1ino.:1 T. Carmi 68 Intimate Matter.:! tra11<1!ateo by Daniel Kraft Vmcent Tavani 78 The Bird who Wait.:1 - hu .:1ong �7 Noble Lies .feronielJaUdnian Is it so noble, that Socratic lie that would, Republic proudly give birth to? Do noble ends the means ennoble by transmuting base-born acts to holy view? What is it in a man that Truth mayn't be enough to draw him out from dismal cave to dwell where sunlight permits all to see that which forbids a man to be a slave? If shadows be the poetry so strong to turn the heart of even a good man would not the poems of free men belong to all that would against the lie withstand? May that division of Socratic line, fall ne'er between the likes of mine and thine. �9 8 Muscle Nathan GorJnian Bedtpitch I Henley Moore Watching the birth of new muscle is like watching the growth of a vine in fast motion. It blooms from the seed and wraps, wraps about the bone, forms a coiled spiral. Moves as if hungry, chasing prey, mounts both widthwise and lengthwise, swells into a creature of substance, bubbles gently until its journey is complete, before it tightens, solidi£es. And then it is a dead thing, and it's hard to remember that what comes next is not grief, but life. "There's a reason this is supposed to happen in the dark," I tell her. Don't think she hears me. She's too busy seeing, gaping, to remember the world outside her line of sight . . The organs come next, sprouting one by one from the tiny black nodes distributed generously around the body, clustered most noticeably in what should become the chest cavity, I think. The heart is a meaty, fleshy thing, and I'd like to say it blossoms like a rose, but it doesn't. It gurgles. Pusses up into an unshapely, unbeating mass, and I find myself wishing hearts really could resemble those simple, symmetrical symbols sandwiched between magnet and metal on refrigerator doors, circumscribed in lace, a tear drop splintered and inverted upon itself. That is a place from which love could arise. But this ... even blood seems too pure. The veins. Arteries. Twisting, trembling see-through tubes, snaking around each other, up �11 10 through the body, constructing a dense network of tangles. "I thought veins were blue," I say to her, accusmg. "Blood is blue," says the attendant. He's young, with hollow cheeks and a well-proportioned nose. Smugness flickers at the corners of his lips, the way it does on young people when they correct someone older. "There's no blood in these. Yet." "Oh," I say. "We're just constructing the shell now. It will be refrigerated while you continue the customization process. Fluids enter last." "Right." It's almost human now. Everything but the skin. That's a terrifying thought. Is this how I would look if you ripped off my skin, drained my fluids? A fleshy labyrinth of organs and tubes. We are such ugly things. "That's it?" Helen says. Her voice is quiet, like a stifled breath. "F or now, yes, "h e atten dant says. "B eauti. t ful, isn't it?" Helen nods dazedly, and I suck back a grimace. Sunsets are beautiful; sons are beautiful. This .... "Dr. Burke will see you now, for your consultation," says the attendant. "If you'll just follow me." Behind the glass, the tube in which the body was grown is drained of fluid. The tube divides at the center and retracts into metal canisters on each end. Two silver, three-pronged mechanical claws grip the body at the shoulder and hips and move it t o t he left, out of sigp.t. "It goes to the refrigerator now?" I ask. "Yes," says the attendant. "With the others. " "Blue," Helen says. "We decided blue." Dr. Burke makes a note on our file. "A popular choice," he says, smiling, looking up at us with rich brown eyes. "Helen's are blue," I say, probably too defensively. "And my mother's were." We haven't lost respect for lineage. Genetic tradition. Helen places her hand on mine, delicately, and runs her index finger around the curve of my wedding band. Sterling silver, cold and smooth. "I don't think Dr. Burke meant to ruffle you, dear," she says, squeezing my hand gently. · "No, no," he says, tapping his pen rhythmically against his ample mustache. "And brown hair, you said. Lovely choices." "Auburn," Helen says. "Of course. Auburn," says Dr. Burke, smiling like a grandfather assuring his granddaughter that yes, of course Santa will like your letter. His eyes turn to me, as if to say, Isn't that cute? I look down. "And how about complexion?" Dr. Burke asks. His pen abandons his mustache to hover near the form once more. "You looked at the samples?" "Yes, yes," Helen says, beginning to rifle through her purse. "They're in here somew her e .... " �13 12 "S eventeen, I say. e wante d num b er seventeen. Right, honey?" I remember a line from the brochure: We're proud to bring you the widest range of shades in complexion. We out color the competition. "Oh, yes, yes, how could I forget?" She restores the contents of her purse and looks at me, eyes adoring, lips slightly puckered. "And that's why I love you." I smile at her, genuinely. She has the palest skin, the reddest lips. "No lipstick?" I asked her, incredulous, when we first moved in together, and I surveyed the makeup she had moved into the bathroom. "Really?" "All natural," she said, smiling so impishly I forgave the cliche and kissed her. Dr. Burke makes another note. "Should go nicely." He nods his sage approval. JJ "TIT vv "I had this dream last night," I tell her driving home, "about a dragon." ''I'm glad we went with blue," she says. "Blue was right, wasn't it? Best option?" "Had this long tail. Coiled, like a snake." "Huh?" "The dragon." "Oh. Well. What color was it?" It was blue. "Red," I say. "Strange color for a dragon," she says. ''I'd have thought green." 7 "' .1.eah , I say. "Blue was right. Right?" "Yes." JJ "And ... auburn?" I wonder what it's like to hope; I imagine it's somewhat warmer a feeling than it is to know. "Of course, dear," I say. "All The Right Choices." END �14 15 Yorn Kippur Sarah Marx Someone had told them that the Book of Life was already bolted, that the only way to wrench it open was to pray. They stared, unmoved for what were words? Transactions, courtesies, a string of curses when the hammer slammed down too hard, missing the nail, · excuses, the sibilant lies of a love song, as many and slight as the grains of sand that chafed their feet; yet, chastened by the warnings and the autumn storms and the wild dogs whose barks lit up the sky they prayed - and prayed - and prayed and after they had vomited up their insides in a hail of guttural sounds, corrosive, sticky, bilious, after they had spewed their words and purged themselves beyond recognition, Erika I Kathryn Lewis all they could do was wash their mouths and hope that the book might reopen, and hope that the night would pass. �17 16 Achillean Armor and Odysseian Time Eva Brann Predented Ma Lecture at Mercer Univerc1ity on October2Ic10 2010 Joarney.1 I Hannah Pasternak Homeric scholars used to worry a lot - perhaps they still do - about the authorship of the two great Greek epics. Do they have an author, or were they pieced together from lays, from folk songs? If there is an author, a final composer, is it the same one for the Iliad and the Odyssey? And was it the Homer of tradition, the one claimed by seven ·cities? A sensible amateur, meaning an aware and loving reader of the poems, might well ask: Does it matter? Well, it really doesn't, except insofar as this pseudo problem might make us actively attentive to factors we would otherwise take in passively: the inner coherence of each poem separately and the comparative character of the poems taken together. I'll make no mystery of my opinion. To me, it's a no brainer. Each poem taken separately, Iliad and Odyssey, offers scores of bits of evidence that it was composed by one acutely aware, fully in control author and, taken comparatively, they give plenty of signs that they have one maker. (You may have heard that the word poet, poietes in Greek, means "maker.") For all I know, the �18 19 poet walked on earth in two bodies with one soul. Maybe his real name was Homer, or maybe Homer 1 and Homer2. It is the comparative aspect I want to talk to you about tonight - to whet your appetite for taking in both poems. But I'll say more about the Odyssey, which you've read recently. Why do I think that comparison shows that both poems have one maker? For the oddest reason: because they are so unlike. Put less oddly - because they are deliberately and thoughtfully antithetical. Obviously the one is relentlessly devoted to war making and its contingencies, while the other depicts the uneasy peace that is war's aftermath and the returns of its veterans. Consequently the venue of the Iliad is static, the beach, the plain of Troy, while the events of the Odyssey move all over the Mediterranean Sea. The dreary long stretches of close combat and the high moments of holy terror of the Iliad are almost hyper realistic, stuffed with repetitive accounts of pierced jugulars and spilled bowels, while the Odyssey is full of swiftly moving, novelly various adventures and magically fantastical places. The poetics of the poems is in accord with these features. The Iliad is full of lovely similes, whole cascades of them; they are needed to relieve the imagination of its concentration on blood and guts. The Odyssey has far less figurative language, and some of it in fact uglifies the proceedings, since the poem is in itself "poetic" and in parts dreamlike. But above all, the chief heroes are quite de- signedly antithetical, each other's precise opposites: Achilles has chosen a short life; he is intense, temperamental, and constitutionally juvenile. Odysseus, on the other hand, is promised a peaceful death in old age; he is patient, controlled and manfully mature. Achilles, it turns out, is an unconscious liar (we can talk about that in the question period), while Odysseus lies consciously, artfully, gloriously. Longinus, the best known art critic of late antiquity, thought that Homer wrote the Odyssey in old age when dramatic intensity gives way to narrative fantasy. I think Homer composed both at the height of his power, but that's speculation. Tonight I want to draw your attention to two preoccupations of Homer, each characteristic of one epic: Armor and Time. Armor is clunky, concrete, and eminently ex terior; in fact, you might call !t the warrior's exoskeleton. Time is fleeting, intangible, eminently interior; you might call it the traveller's inner life line. Armor is Achilleian and time is Odysseian, at least in this talk. That is a way of saying that the two epics claim your whole attention always - but that in reading the Iliad your powers of visualization, of making words into images, are specially called on, while the Odyssey requires particularly a capacity for running complex strands of events together in memory. So first to armor in the Iliad. We are at the climax of the poem, in Book XX, when the moment comes that Hector, having run around the walls of his doomed city trying to escape fleet footed A chilles, gives up and turns to face him. �21 20 Homer makes sure we see what Achilles sees as he examines the figure before him to find a place for his fatal spear. Hector is covered from tip to toe by the armor he has stripped from the corpse of the one friend Achilles loves ardently, Patroclus. Achilles sees the spot near the jugular and thrusts. Visualize it, and it makes your hair stand on end. Hector is inside, but what is visible is Patroclus as Achilles last saw him when he sent him off to enter battle in his stead. And indeed, when Achilles first hears that Patroclus has fallen he cries out in unconscious self accusation: ''I've lost him" which is in Greek homonymous, that is, like sounding, with "I've killed him." But there's more. This armor Patroclus then wore is Achilles's own. And indeed Achilles, the short lived, knows that he must die soon after Hector; in killing him he is fixing his own death. There's yet more. What does it mean to wear another's armor, especially Achilles's? Our freshmen back home read the Iliad before any other book, and I am - happily - with them in seminar this fall. They pointed out to each other that the same thing happens to Patroclus and Hector, as Homer m a kes explicit: They begin to be filled with the raging courage characteristic of Achilles. That enters into them with his outer covering - but not his warrior's competence, his incomparable potency. Their borrowed temper exceeds their unborrowable ability. They go beyond the orders and the advice of their friends and beyond their own powers - and they die. These are the conundrums of bor rowed outfits. W ho hasn't experienced a, perhaps less than heroic, personal case of it? Now to time in the Odyssey. Let me begin with some wild speculation: What did Homer assume about time? The same as you and I, I would guess. His language expressed three main tenses, present, fu ture, and past, as does ours: "things that are, things that will be, and things that are before." And as are we, so was he, guided by them. He surely wondered where the past had gone (or better, he knew) and where the future was to be found (he knew that too). He may not have asked himself how long the present is, nor, since the more closely you analyze it the less viable it gets; just when is it that we are actually there, alive and present? If you wonder how legions of angels can dance on the head of a pin, try living on that knife edge cusp of the time phase called the Now by philosophers! Story tellers, Homer included, rely on the three phases of time that our lndoeuropean language proposes. But each of these phases has its own times: There's an extended present, termed the progressive aspect, which is in grammar what the so called "specious present" is in psychology the practical solution to the evanescence of the instant: "I am talking," - indeterminately, extendedly, but "now" as well. Then, besides the simple past, there is a future of the past and also a past of the past, called the past perfect: "I was going to finish, I had finished my talk." And the same can b e done for the future, and all these tenses (verbal �-23 22 times) and aspects (ways of relating to these phases of time) are thus available for story telling. It is therefore significant that most tale telling takes place in the simple past. By and large stories, to be told, need to have happened; that's their warrant for being tellable. Homer too begins the Odyssey this way: "The man of many shifts - tell me of him, Muse - he who drifted so many ways .... " Story time is "Once upon a time," meaning "at some indefinite time past," in the unfixed time of the imaginary world. The places of this world were never present but always past in the telling -yet present in the imagining. Their ordinary time, for Homer and for us, marches on, continuously and progressively. But in the soul's imagination and in the poet's fiction that time has inversions, repetitions, parallelisms in short discombobulations. Ordinary or r eal time is the measure of the world's most reliably regular motions: the diurnal rotation of the heavens as mirrored in mean time which is visible in our analogue watch dials. It is cyclical, imaging the daily retur ns of the sun, and if the watch has a calendar function, it has a linear component as well, the "marching on" factor. When you compose these you get a spiral, a good model for real world time - upward directed if you believe in progress, otherwise spinning down. The time of fiction, however, issues from that laboratory of experiments with nonbeing, the workshop of the imagination, which, first, in Shakespeare's words, "bodies forth/ The forms of things unknown," whereupon "the poet's pen/ Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing/ A local habitation and a name." And as soon as the imaginatively formed nothing has acquired a local habitation it is fixed in the past permanent, what you might call the mythic tense. This time of the poet's pen is the soul's time, which is anything but linearly sequential. In short, Homer's time can be soberly the same and also imaginatively very differ ent from our daily time. Thus, the Iliad is a temporally quite prosaic tale, while the Odyssey is a time web of fantastic complexity. For the events of the Iliad are deeds and their consequences, and its actors are warriors. They have passionate souls, but, except when they are put out of commission, they live those passions out in action; they themselves don't do much extensive imagining. Consequently, the less than six weeks of the Iliad are told in linear order. Old heroes do, to be sure, go into their memories to tell stories, but the time of the camp goes on while they are back in their youth; the young listeners respectfully conceal their impatience while their elders ramble instructively and invidiously: They in their time were better. If the march is straight on, the pacing of time is, however, very varied. Sometimes it's time out while Homer walks the beach telling who was collected before Troy, and very significantly - just where they were stationed. Sometimes for days and days nothing much happens except that a punitive plague rages or that the warriors incessantly knock out or in each other's eyes, teet h , b reast b ones, innards. Then �25 24 again comes a memorable minute not of knocked about bodies and stricken camps but of agonized souls and human eventfulness, for example that moment when Achilles is about to plunge his spear into a body which is completely covered, face and all, with his own old armor. In short, the story of Troy is told straightforwardly though with greatly varying psychic density. All in all the Iliad goes in, as Longinus noticed, for grandeur, the Odyssey for sophistication, and so with respect to time structure. The less than two weeks of the Odyssey are as temporally complex as a composition can well be. I will say right now what most helps to make that complexity possible: Horner turns over a large part of his epic to Odysseus' imagination, so that all the temporal laminations of the soul- Odysseus' soul of many shifts - are wor ked into the fabr ic of the poem. Consequently there is a multitude of what I will call "time realms" in the Odyssey. (I forego here dwelling on an unabating puzzlement of mine: why the gear of the human world develops in time from simple to complex, while the souls of human beings tend from deeply intricate to reductively simple: why does the psychic appear to go less subtle as the material world gets more intricate?) I discern ten such time realms. 0. I list as zero a ternporality not belonging to the poem itself, the historian's chronological speculations about the reality and dates of the fall of Troy (thought in antiquity to have taken place in 1183 B .C .E.), t he date of H orner and his corn- position (thought to belong to the later eighth century), and, most vexedly, the real time of the times there described (thought to be an amalgam of a historical Mycenaean Greece of the late second millennium with the times of the following Dark · Age, when the Achaean kingdoms had been destroyed). All that, all the speculative "historical" time, has, even were it more certainly known, no great bearing on the epics. It is indeed delightful to learn that many a boar's tusk helmet, such as Odysseus wore on a beastly night of marauding in the plane of Troy, is found depicted in Mycenaean contexts, but it is a dead end delight. There's nowhere to take it; evidently Horner had seen artifacts half a millennium old. Such archaeological evidence is altogether external to the poems; it doesn't even provide their context, did they need one. 1. I'll begin with Homer's time - not the century of his life or of the seven cities t hat claimed him, but his time relation to the poem, which is, as I said, the present. Horner is presently there; his Muse tells him, and he immediately tells us the story, and at rare times he even intervenes, notably when he directly addresses a man he loves, Eurnaius, the faithful swineherd. The story is long past, but the teller is now present, a human channel for the goddess, his Muse. Delicate as he is about introducing himself, to me it seems to matter that the third word of the poem is his imperative -Andra rnoi ennepe, Mousa: Tell me the man, Muse" - a request now, to be realized as the p oet intones: H orner the teller is always there �26 27 (e.g., Iliad XII 176). It is a presence evanescently in my consciousness, and yet it is of some consequence to me that the teller himself is in the "sempiternal," the enduring, present. 2. The Odyssey has its own real world. Its time is indeterminate, because it is probably, as I said, an amalgam of old stories, surviving artifacts and present conditions. Its places are more or less determinate and still in existence. Ithaca has recently been relocated, but is still close to the island even now called Ithaca; Troy was rediscovered by Schliemann in 1871 at Hissarlil{. in Turkey, though that its seventh level is Priam's Troy is speculative. Egypt and its "men of strange speech" is still where returning Menelaus was blown and landed and gathered treasure, and we know where Phoenicia was. This world is a very real world, r inging the "midland" sea, the Mediterranean , which forms the setting for the so called "returns" (nostoi) of the Trojan expedition. Of these Odysseus's took the longest, ten years. It was a world of danger and opportunity for trade and piracy. Since the victors, after a ten year investiture, finally captured a totally impoverished city (Iliad XVIII 290), they also took time getting home, attempting to beg, barter, and rob their way into some semblance of a prosperous venture. This is what Odysseus is up to during part of his travels. His is a mobile world; rumors and real news are rife, but only toward the end do brief sightings of Odysseus come to outlying Ithaca. 3. Ithaca has its own time world, the baseline time. It and neighb oring islands comp rise a tiny island kingdom left bare of fathers, full of rambunctious sons beleaguering a strong and wise queen, Penelope, and her dangerously exposed son, Telemachus. Odysseus, the then young monarch, had left twenty years ago, ten sitting before Troy and ten traveling back. His old father has withdrawn to his farm, his mother has died. Otherwise nothing much happens in this isolated little realm, until seventeen years or so after Odysseus' departure, when the now grown up sons of Odysseus' expeditionary force - a hundred plus of them - begin to make trouble for the queen and the prince about to come of age. The pretense is the wish to marry her, though only two older men are real contenders. They plot Telemachus's death. Ithacan time is a long relegation to stasis, gathering into a crisis. 4. Parallel to the island's isolation runs Odysseus' strange disappearance. At Troy, for ten years, he had been at the center of things; as Homer tells us, his beached ships are literally in the middle of the line up (Iliad VIII 223), but no sooner is Troy taken when he takes off. He nearly reaches Ithaca but is blown off course. For a few years he becomes an adventurer (in the old sense of someone who undertakes hazardous enterprises) and then falls off the earth for seven years, "out of sight and hearing." In the twentieth year of his absence sporadic news of him comes to Ithaca. Then he himself returns. Here's his time, his ten years of oblivion: After some years of doing what adventuring captains do - sacking, stealing, selling - and meeting and (to b e properly vulgar) shack- �29 28 ing up with the lady whores of island ports, he holes up with one of them until he's thoroughly, depressively, sick of her. And then he finds his way home, where he tells a jumble of tales realistically pieced together from the reality of his driftings - real adventures, real experiences, in a real sea world, real, that is, in the world of the Odyssey. As the Muse tells Homer: After sacking Troy, he drifted all over and "saw the cities of men and knew their mind." While he is satisfying his insatiable curiosity, he slowly loses his men, who have neither his endurance nor his self containment. They succumb to drugs in one port, make pigs of themselves in another, transgress the cattle laws of the land, and fall into the ocean, until no one is left. Recall that these are the fathers of the sons who are growing up wild in the kingless Ithacan kingdom. This sea world is the dangerous and opportunity laden venue that history books about the early Aegean world describe - relying heavily on Homer, to be sure. 5. Odysseus is the most steadfast of men and the most vagrant, most genuine and most · lying, most focused and most ambiguous, most rf:!alistic and most imaginative. The time I'm about to delineate, the odyssean time (with a lower case "o") is altogether (as expressly was his time at Troy) under the aegis' of his wife and his boy. He thinks only and always of returning to his queen, but he diverts himself - literally - on his way, particularly with women. Decry that ambiguity who will, to me it Tunnel Vuwn I Adam Maraschky �30 31 makes human sense; we, well, many of us, are capable of such digressions on our way- I won't even add: men especially. That longing for Penelope is the plangent strain behind all the "adventures" whose time I'll describe in a moment. This man is the most adhesive of husbands and the most abandoned of men - a raw and real sea captain who has the soul of a poet. So much so that, as I said, Homer turns the telling of the most wonder filled part of the tale over to him. He tells it twice, both times in deepest privacy; only of Calypso is there ever more than a passing hint in the world at large. Odysseus tells his story first to the Phaeacians, who are, wonder of wonders, themselve~ a part of his magical myth. This lower case odyssey is more involved even than being a story within a story; it is a ring tale, a veritable ouroboros, the snake that swallows its own tale. Odysseus finishes his "myth telling" (his very own word: Odyssey xxii 450) with his arrival on Calypso's island of Ogygia, of which he had told them the day before, since it was the last station before his arrival among the Phaeacians. Thrice, then, we here hear the tale of the Calypso episode, once as Homer sees Odysseus living it out and twice as Odysseus spins it into a tale. The Phaeacians bring him home, and for that Poseidon, the god of the element Odysseus has used and battled, loved and hated, punishes them with isolation: He throws a high wall around them, and that's the end of their magical sea faring in sh ips that h ave the speed of a t h ought su ch as flies instantaneously from here to the bounds of the world. Once properly home, that is to say, in bed with Penelope, Odysseus tells the story again, with discreet omissions. Both tellings are exclusively for his listeners. It is a story of coastal raids and island hopping, of places where dwell formidably mature feminine witches who are eager to seduce him, Circe, Sirens, Calypso - and once a young girl whose shy approaches he wisely suppresses in his account to Penelope. To put it plainly: It is a time in the world of the imagination identifiably parallel to his travels in the world of reality. While the time the army spends investing Troy is, as war time is said to be, an alternation of long stretches of boredom and short squalls ofterror, these ten years, parallel to the merchant pirate's voyages, consist of about three years of vivid eventfulness and seven years out of the sight, out of the mind of men - though never of the woman who holds him, a demi divinity - and then at the end there is a week or so, when he emerges into reality, and everything happens at once, just as it does in life. During the first voyaging y~ars, when the pirate Odysseus is sailing the Aegean sea, the poet Odysseus is seeing his places of call imaginatively: monocular giants, the Cyclopes, who are incarnations of primitivism, and magical islands with aggressively lascivious vamps - very beautiful, very ripe, very dangerous - and in the long run boring. The la st one, C alypso, w hose name means "she �33 32 who covers (or hides)," the one with whom he goes to ground, drives him, as I said, into a deep depression; he feels stuck, surfeited night after night by her incessant desire. These island Edens are isolated and static. Nothing happens, and their mistresses are lonely and at loose ends. The time scheme of these places will - don't balk at the thought - become the great ternporality of Western history, in fact it will give us our chronology that breaks around B. C. and A.D. and that first makes historical time have meaningful epochs: the irruption of a stranger into ongoing but eventless life, a potent man who is godlike. When he leaves the island dwellers, for of course he is only a sojourner in their world, we must imagine that they are bereft and dream of a second corning. In the Odyssey his first corning is merely mythical (though "merely" is a poor term for this work of the paradigm producing imagination), but it is how Odysseus sees himself: as the Event of these spots in the sea, by which its dwellers will reckon before and after. And so he transforms his voyages for himself, for the Phaeacians, and for Penelope. These t ravels ar e munda ne in the literal sense of the word, very practical and worldly, but he makes them into stories that will form the backdrop for all future odysseys. For that is what is meant by myth telling. A myth is a model event that makes sense of many a mere occurrence. This odyssey gives many a subsequent mere t r ip its significant shape: its local habitation and true name. 6. Within this enchanted w orld Odysseus makes an excursion to the extremes of the human world, whose bor der is the flux of Ocean, the out landish water. He sails to what we call the underworld, though it is not so much infernal as outlying. Hades too has its time, or better, it has no marching time, for it has no moving bodies, only gliding shades. It is a place where the newly dead arrive but whence few return, among them Odysseus, as ever the intruder, the live one, whose descent into hell ex cites the shades. Yet even inactual Hades has its time phases: it is full of old news; stories and myths are packed away ther e, a treasure increased by whatever a new arrival can tell. But above all, a visitor ·finds out who has recently died and how. Odysseus learns that his mother has arrived in his absence from home. And toward the end of the poem there is a second visit. Horner himself follows Hermes, the Conductor of Souls, into Hades and, in a grand flash back, supplies a great gap between the Iliad and t he Odyssey: the sacrificial death and overwhelmingly splendid burial of Achilles, that unwilling king of Hades. Hades is the place of the past, wher e dead heroes tell tales which live poets go to learn. 7. The gods on Olympus also have their time. No human gets there in the Odyssey, but Horner knows what goes on through his Muse; indeed it is the glorious enig~a of the epics that he has a direct line to Olympus and tells of men as a man and of the gods as a poet. As in Hades, nothing much happens - only one god, Hephaestus, does any productive work, and one goddess, Athena, shows much real intellig ence; she's quite �34 35 humanly in love with Odysseus because he's such a clever liar - which is indeed an attractive characteristic in him, betokening the sinuous complexity that complements his stubborn endurance. The Olympians are, to be sure, born (though not all as babies), but they cannot die, which means that nothing temporal is serious to them, and that in turn means that they are very excitable, for excitability is a sign of levity. The Odyssey begins with one of their festive gatherings in the halls of Olympus, where some decisions are taken to get things moving, to get Odysseus off Ogygia. Of Olympus one might say that its time is determined by constitutional light mindedness. It is depressurized, weightless time. No heartbeat brings any of its residents closer to death; to them fatal human time is play time (e.g., Iliad XV 362), spectacle time, and they hardly ever, perhaps even never, cause anything the human actors aren't about to do anyhow. Hades' dead hordes endure somberly; Olympus' divine company persist in levity. 8. That initial gathering on Olympus marks the start of the time internal to the poem itself. The action of the Odyssey begins with the last days of Odysseus' stay on Calypso's island and ends with Laertes, Odysseus, Telemachus, three generations of the Ithacan dynasty, making peace with the Ithacan insurgents - perhaps a week or so of active time, within which are comprised twenty years - no, it will turn out, fifty years - of told time. 9. Perhaps the most artful time device of the Odyssey is the temporal disposition of t his last week, the actual time of the epic. For in it, along with flash backs, there is yet another parallelism, a day by day parallelism, and a final convergence, of the father with his son, of Odysseus with Telemachus. Early in the poem Athena, flying into Ithaca in the guise of a stranger, a captain called Mentes, "Minder," who rules ov er the Taphians, the "Burial People," has told Telemachus to make what turns out to be a voyage of coming of age and self discovery. While he is traveling in the real Peloponnesus and returning home, acknowledged by the world of the Trojan generation - meaning mostly Helen - as his father's son, his father is emerging from the world of his imagination into the reality of his disordered realm of Ithaca. It is possible to figure out where, during these last, pre climactic days, each of the two is in their parallel approach, Telemachus in his real itinerary a nd Odysseus in his imagined odyssey. For example, just when Odysseus in Phaeacia meets and is shyly approached by the young princess N ausicaa, the most innocent of all the women in the epic, Telemachus in Sparta meets and is instantly r ecognized as Odysseus' son by Helen, the least innocent of them. And when, in his story of Hades, Odysseus recounts how Agamemnon's shade tells of his own murder by his wife Clytemnestra, Telemachus is told that very tale of horror by Agamemnon's brother, Menelaus. Both accounts cast a raking light on Penelope: Is she above suspicion? Parallelism and convergence are the temporal modes of the last week. Then, together, father and son retak e th eir palace. �r 37 36 10. One final time treatment: As I said, people in the epic often tell remembered events. The time belonging to the place of their telling passes while they take time to recall the past. But there are certain moments, one spectacular one in particular, when Homer himself tells a story, the story of Odysseus's birth some half a century back; then he fast forwards a couple of decades to the time when, at his coming of age, Odysseus acquired the scar by which his old nurse has just recognized him. It is a time chasm, a sudden drop into explanatory depth; the edges of the story's present time close around it; none of it passes while Homer is telling it; he interrupts the main story without taking up its time. This temporal mode, the steep, time exempt opening into the past, is the starkest time disruption of the Odyssey, and it completes my inventory. I'll briefly recapitulate the ten "times" or ways of eventuation of the epic: 1. Homer s own presence in the poem; 2. the real time of the poem, that of all the Aegean sailors and their cities of origin and ports of call; 3. the cut off time of Ithaca, remote from world events and the time of Penelope's waiting; 4 . the years of Odysseus s trips of trading and marauding and the time of his occulting; 5. that very time transformed in Odysseus imagination, a parallel time of wonders marked by his irruption into hidden places and recounted in his cyclical myth telling; 6. the past as the phase of time operative in Hades where heroes and heroines come and deposit their stories; 7. the light time of Olympus, unconstrained by mortality and 1 1 1 inconsequential to the Olympians; 8. the time, a little more than a week, of the poem's action within which the cycles of returns, recollections, reprises, take their place as told tales; 9. that same week unfolding as two coordinated parallel times, those of Odysseus' odyssey and Telemachus' telemachy, ending with a convergence on Ithaca; 10. the time chasms, by which the poet, rather than taking up the time of the action, tears into it to insert a causal tale. Here I'll end. For what conclusion could do justice to such adroit artistry, such complex clarity, such inventive eventfulness? On second thought, one more observation. Generally speaking, comparative readings don't do much for me. It is, after all, the mystifying glory of fictions that they tell universal truth by being uncannily particular, and it is that peculiar particularity of each work that gets lost in reading across several works. Comparing is an iffy enterprise we should engage in only when we are deeply already imbued with the incomparable character of each work. But reading across both Homeric epic strikes me as a possible exception. Perhaps they are, as it were, one work composed in two movements. �39 38 Summer Sonnet Stephanie Connolly You watched my body pressed against the cold of my own winter's making: the chill air which turns the darkening sky into frail snow and strips your bones, like trees denuded, bare. You watched me turn to go, and I who left thought you were gone, and all the world away. Sun withered, summer hid, and I, bereft, was left to winter, held in death's pale sway. But now the world is sick with flowers sweet, and now all brightness and all warmth returns; yet we in all this beauty never meet, and still my heart with yearning's fever burns. Oh, dearest, whom I left behind in spring, come back to me on winter's fleeting wing. Quao Scene I Adam Maraschky �41 40 Offering Opfer Rainer Maria Rilke Tran:Jlated 6y Stephanie ConnoLLy 0 wie bliiht mein Leib aus jeder Ader dufteneder, seitdem ich dich erkenn; sieh, ich gehe schlanker und gerader, und du wartest nur--: wer hist du denn? 0 how my body blooms from every vein more fragrantly, since I have come to know you; see, I go slender now and straighter, and you only wait--: who are you, then? Sieh, ich fiihle, wie ich mich entferne, wie ich Altes, Blatti um Blatt, verlier. Nur dein Lacheln steht wie lauter Sterne iiber dir und bald auch iiber mir. See: I sense how I am disappearing, how I let fall my old life, leaf by leaf. Only your smile towers like brilliant stars over you and soon over me. Alles was <lurch meine Kinderjahre namenlos noch und wie Wasser glanzt, will ich nach dir nennen am Altare, der entziindet ist von deinem Haare und mit deinen Briisten dich bekranzt. All that which, from my childhood, is nameless still and shining just as water, Will I name after you, upon the altar, which is ignited by your hair and garlanded lightly with your breasts. �r 42 43 Suffocation Maggy Barned [Based on Rene Magritte's painting The Lovers] It was only difficult at first. Before we decided on the sacs, we thought about masks. But masks were dangerous, you said. They left our eyes too open and our lips too vulnerable. I was sure you were right. My eyes were exhausted from all the ·things they'd seen. They were getting tired of skimming over your shallow features night after night before I allowed them the easy relief of closing. The burlap sacs were our only option. We knew it would be difficult,......., keeping our heads covered all the time, maybe even when we didn't want to,......., but it was the only way we could hold tight to the fragile bindings of the things that kept us going: our traditions. Our routines. Our marriage. The first step you took, you ran into our coffee table. You let out a shocked burst oflaughter and made some stupid joke like, hey was that table always there? I could tell you were nervous, but I felt better anyway. Your jokes always made me feel better, even if they also made me feel numb and a little tired. And then your hand fumbled to find my face and you traced the crook of my nose, as though convincing yourself I was still there. Of course I was. Where else would I be? So things got easier after that. Well, for starters our electric bill went down right quick, because it's not as if we could have used the lights to see. For weeks we went through the tiring motions of flipping and switching; but soon the novelty wore off, and the distinction between dark and light became too difficult for us to judge. So eventually we unplugged the lamps and lights. Things were simpler that way. With the money we saved, we said we'd buy some music. Maybe an audio book or two. We never did do that, but that's all right. Silence was an easy adjustment to make, and anyway sometimes music strikes chords that make my heart beat too quickly. And if I can't feel your lips when we kiss, well that's all right too. I'm not so certain I liked them all that much. They're chapped, aren't they? Chapped and too thin. Yes, but the burlap, it's allowed us all sorts of freedom--and in my head your lips can be whatever I'd like them to be. Your eyes, too. My memory is hazy, but I think they used to be brown and musty. Well now they're blue and clear. They shine and reflect all the things you know and remember. Beautiful things I can scarcely bear to imagine anymore. (I don't remember my eyes so well either, but it really doesn't matter. They could be grey, couldn't they? Grey and deep and wise? I like the sound of that, and I think it must be true.) Okay, yeah--there's the breathing thing. Burlap, it doesn't circulate so well, and it isn't so easy to get air past our mouths, into our lungs, and back again. So sure, sometimes I have to rest when I'm climbing up the stairs. And of course it's too hot under here. Everything is stifled and stuffy. The moistur e from our b reath collects and �45 44 .I twines itself around the tight weaving of the bags, and it can be almost suffocating. And sometimes you find yourself on our bed and on your back, hyperventilating shallow breath after shallo:w breath. There have been some close calls. Sometimes your breath wheezes and dies into nothing. And then there are long seconds when I cannot feel your chest rise and fall. But it comes back. It always comes b~ck. You've been fine all along. Why shouldn't you be fine forever? These are the types of prices we' re willing to pay. For safety. For security. There are some things more important than air. Hey, can I tell you a secret? Sometimes I lie awake at night, listening to your lungs struggle. It's a comforting sound because I'm afraid. I'm afraid one day you will tire of blindness. You will take off your bag, or maybe you will only cut yourself slits for eyes and lips. You will want to see what has become of our home, or you will want to see what has become of me, or maybe you will even want to see what has become of yourself. That, I think, would be the most dangerous. If you could see, maybe you could even leave. And what would I do then? I would look for you--feel for you against cool walls and dead furniture. I might never know you're gone. Mostly I still trust you. You've always been smart, I think, if I can remember it right. And it was your idea, in the first place. You realize, don't you, that this is the best way? So yes, I trust you. I trust you to not want to know. There are some things better left unseen. And us--you and me-- we' re a part of that. You're still there, aren't you? And you're all right, aren't you? Aren't you? I can't hear you breathing. �46 47 The Labyrinth of Quixote and the Dream of Montesinos Liam Wallace I began this essay from the desire to know what there was to learn from Don Quixote. The aim quickly became to figure out how to learn anything from the novel. Or rather, how to learn anything important, that is, how to learn something from the true author of the novel, Cervantes 1• This is made very difficult by the multitude of narrators and reporters through which the adventures of Don Quixote are relayed. All of these narrators are within the story, and most of them contradict each other. Because of this, it is unclear how one is to approach Don Quixote; it is 1 It is, of course, easy to learn certain things from the novel. Many Flamingo:, Repode I Kaitlyn Schuler different characters give speeches on many subjects: Don Quixote speaks on the golden age, for example, and the erudite canon, at the end of part I, on chivalric novels, plays, and the poetic art. But these speeches often contradict each other. The canon and priest criticize chivalric novels for not being true, but Don Quixote argues that there is nothing truer in the world. This contradiction forces one to realize that the speeches are not wholes. They may seem to be if extracted from the novel, but seeing them placed within it, one is forced to realize them as smaller units of meaning, like words in a sentence. If one is to learn what the author is trying to say, these speeches, these smaller pieces of meaning, must be read in relation to each other, and in relation to the other units of meaning used in the novel: the characters who give the speeches, and their actions. When the novel is seen in this way-as a sentence whose words are its characters, their speeches, and their actions -it is clear that the ideal way to understand Don Quixote would be to hold the entire novel in one's head at once; to take the whole novel, in all its detail, in at a glance. But this is impossible, even for Homer. �49 48 .! difficult to find a voice one can trust. I will first examine the labyrinth of different arguments and opinions expressed by the authors, narrators, reporters, and other characters found in the book, and how the novel the reader receives is tinted by the opinion of its primary source, Cide Hamete Benengeli. I will then examine the uncanniness of the particular arguments of the novel's protagonist. Concluding that Don Quixote is no ordinary madman, I will then point out several similarities between him and the novel's actual author, Cervantes. Because of Don Quixote's uncanniness, and his similarities to the author, it seems that perhaps we can learn what Cervantes wants to tell us by trying to understand Don Quixote's true motives and desires. This leads to the Cave of Montesinos, which seems to hold Don Quixote's attention throughout the second part. I will spend the final part of the paper explaining why I think the cave is important, and provide two interpretation of the nature of the cave, and how it may effect the knight's later actions. I. Cervantes h a s the adventures of Don Quixote relayed to the reader through a sur p risingly long chain of viewpoints. Cide Hamete Benengeli is the primary source for most of the text. The narrator explains this early in part I (chapter ix, 65-69) 2 • Benengeli wrote in Arabic, however, and so the narrator first needs to have it trans2 All q uotations a nd pag e numbers a re from the HarperCollins Edith Grossman translation. lated. He does this by commissioning the first Arabic speaker he finds. These translations are then related to us by the narrator, who is not himself Cervantes. Cervantes is mentioned twice within the novel (in part I, Chapters vi, p . 52, as the author of La Galatea; and xl, p. 344, as a fellow prisoner in the captive's tale) and earlier works of his are referenced twice. (both in part I: La Galatea in chapter vi, p. 52; and Numancia in chapter xlviii, p. 416) but in none of these places is he associated with the narrator. So there are at least four layers to the labyrinth: Benengeli, the Arabic translator, the character of the narrator, and Cervantes, the actual author. This difficulty is made worse by the fact that it is often unclear which narrative voice we are listening to. It seems that Benengeli is the main one, and that the narr ator is doing some type of transcribing and paraphrasing to relay his words to us from the text prepared by the Arabic translator. Part I, chapter i, begins, "Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember ... " and at the end of part II (chapter lxxiv, p. 938) the narrator attributes this statement to Hamete, not himself, saying "This was the end of the Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha, whose village Cide Hamete did not wish to name precisely." It is important to try to make this distinction between Hamete and the narrator because they do not see Don Quixote in the same way. The narrator is either heavily sarcastic or he, like Don Quixote and the innkeeper of part I, actually believes chivalric tales to b e true, and Don Quixote �51 50 to be praiseworthy as a true knight. A good example is found in part I, chapter ix (which is also where Benengeli is introduced to us). The narrator believes in wise men that follow knights around and record their adventures: "It seemed impossible" the narrator says, "and completely contrary to all good precedent that so good a knight should have lacked a wise man who would assume the responsibility of recording his neverbefore-seen deeds." He wants to know, "Truly and in its entirety the life and miracles of our famous Spaniard Don Quixote of La Mancha, the model and paragon of Manchegan chivalry, and the first in our age and in these calamitous times to take up the exercise and profession of chivalric arms, righting wrongs, defending widows ... " ( 66). Benengeli, on the other hand, explicitly states his purpose as, "to have people reject and despise the false and nonsensical histories of the books of chivalry" (part II, chapter lxxiv, 94 0), and it seems that he must be the source of the frequent, unattributed narrative comments that, from the beginning, criticize Don Quixote as mad, and chivalric novels as the source of his madness. "His fantasy filled with everything he had read in his books," we are told at the beginning of part I, "enchantments as well as ... other impossible foolishness, and he became so convinced ... of the truth of all the . .. false inventions he read that for him no history in the world was truer" (chapter i, 21). We find these comments throughout the novel, and they are made confusing if we do not distinguish w hich r eporter w e ar e hearing from, the narrator or Benengeli. Whether either the narrator or Benengeli is on to Don Quixote's intentions is unclear One might ask which layer, or narrator, we are closest to. It would seem that we are closest to the narrator of the prologue, and then the main novel's narrator (assuming these are distinct), with Benengeli being the most removed from us, simply because he is farthest from us in the chain of reporting. It is however, Benengeli's opinions that are made most clear to us, followed by those of the narrator of the main novel. The Arabic translator hopefully remains only a minor influence. It is the prologue narrator (of part I) who is more elusive. He calls Don Quixote a "noble" knight (4) but books of chivalry "inane" (9), and wants God to not forget him. Beyond that, we do not know why he is writing. It is not the prologue narrator but his friend who asserts, "This work ... intends only to undermine the authority and wide acceptance that books of chivalry have in the world." Does Cervantes the author agree with the opinions expressed by the narrator of the main novel, or, for 3 This labyrinth has the strange effect of making Don Quixote him- self, Sancho, and most of their adventures, feel more real, as if they were historical. One gets so caught up in when the various narrators are accurately or inaccurately relaying information to the reader, that one forgets that there is not in fact any accurate information relation to relay. One gets into the mindset that there was a historical Don Quixote, and what we are getting in the novel is tales filtered through the ey es of several narrators. But all we have of Don Quixote are the fictional recordings; they are what he is, there is no real Don Quixote who lived behind them. But is there a more real Don Quixote that can be found by reading carefully and reinterpreting his adventures, ta king th e c ha r acter o f t h e various �53 51 that matter, the narrator of the prologue, or the Arabic translator, or Benengeli the historian ?3 The easiest thing would be to simply listen to Benengeli, and accept his purpose for the book, but in Benengeli's insistence on his history mainly being a stumbling block for chivalric novels, it seems that he must surely miss some greater themes found in what he is describing. We are led to most of these themes by the uncanny power of the novel's protagonist, who manages to exert a rhetorical force over the reader equal to that of the narrator and other reporters. It is difficult, moreover, to shake off the feeling that Don Quixote is doing something so subtle or strange that the narrator and Benegeli, along with nearly every character in the book, miss it completely. At the beginning of the book we are told (most likely by Benengeli) that Don Quixote's brains have dried up (part I, chapter i, 21), but this must be conjecture, since Benengeli is not in fact a fantastical wise man, but only a human historian; he cannot actually see into the knight's head. This may mean that Don Quixote is not mad at all, or at least mad in a very different way, or for very different reasons, than the narrator may claim. narrators into account? Don Quixote and Sancho point out in the beginning of the second part several "false" sections in the first part; mistakes by their historian (chapter iv, 481). Yet we get these reports in the second part still through the work of that same historian, Benegeli. This suggests that the entire novel must be read with a very discerning eye; that the reader must try to see through ~he ~istakes of Cervantes' fictional narrators in order to get to the real story. IL The novel is split between Benengeli and Don Quixote. We are drawn to listen to one or the other. But the fact that Don Quixote is so strangely compelling is an indication that Cervantes does not wholly agree with Benengeli. I do not think it is possible to write such an uncanny madman unintentionally. Even if Cervantes himself was not aware of it, there is something more to what Don Quixote says and does than simple madness. It will be beneficial to look at an example of how the words and actions of Don Quixote are elevated above simple madness to something uncanny and compelling. The first good one may be the adventure of the windmills. Sancho tries to point out that they are only windmills, but instead of ignoring him, or simply insisting on the opposite, Don Quixote says that Sancho cannot recognize the giants because he is "not well versed in the matter of adventures" (part I, chapter viii, 58), and implies that he is denying their existence out offear of facing them. Rather than allowing his own reality to be questioned, he brings into question Sancho's. When Don Quixote is tossed from his horse however, he does not continue to insist that the windmills are giants. It seems that Cervantes could have simply had him continue to rave about the windmills being giants; this would have had comedic effect. But instead Don Quixote brings up the concept of enchanters. Yes, he admits, the giants are windmills now, but they were, before, giants. This is a much more subtle and in- �54 55 teresting response, because it merges the two realities; Sancho's (and the reader's) with Don Quixote's. It makes it possible for Don Quixote's reality to exist while explaining why Sancho's seems so different. Don Quixote uses similar arguments when essentially the same thing happens in chapter xviii of part I, where he attacks an army of sheep . He concludes, expanding on the concept of enchanters, "This is how that thieving wise man, who is my enemy, can make things disappear and seem to be what they are not. You should know, Sancho, that it is very easy for those like him to make us see whatever they wish" (131, my emphasis). The knight once again addresses the disparity between Sancho's (and the reader's) perception and his own. And once again, and even more clearly, he calls into question the validity of our own (and Sancho's) perception of reality. This is perhaps one of the most important sentences in the book, because it not only casts doubt on the view of the reader and Sancho, but also that of Benengeli. It gives authority to Don Quixote. If Sancho can be deceived by an evil enchanter, then so could Benengeli, the historian. This would.mean 4 H e explain s th e problem ye t aga in in chap te r xxv of part I, speaking to Sa ncho, " ls it possib le th a t in a ll the time yo u have I rave lled w ith rn eyo u have not no ti ced th a t a ll thin gs hav ing to do w ith kn ig ht s e rra nt appear 10 be chime ri cal. fo olis h, senseless, a nd turn ed in side o ut? i\nd no t because th ey really a re, but because ho rd es of' e ncha nt e rs a lways walk a mo ng us an d a lte r and cha nge eve ryt hing an d turn thi ngs int o w hateve r the.)' please, ac- that, contrary to being mad, Don Quixote is, in fact, the only character in the book who is able to catch full glimpses of reality4 . To summarize his method: First, he points out something no one else can see or understand; giants, fantastical armies or castles. Then he acts on what he sees, attacking what appear to be windmills and sheep. When this brings up a disparity, though ,.........the giants, for example, appear very clearly to be windmills,......... Cervantes' does not simply have him continue to insist on his own world being true. Rather, in all these cases, Don Ouixote manages to blend the two realities ---the one he sees and the one everyone else does.......- so that it is possible for us to conceive of his being real and ours being the illusion. What is important to notice here is that there is no reason why Cervantes had to create such a subtle, uncanny, and elusive madman if the main purpose of the novel was to be a stumbling block for the books of chivalry. There is a reason that we are drawn back to what he says, compelled to listen to him even though it seems to be nonsense and his actions madness. Cervantes has left what the knight says on the edge of believability, and, because of the intricacy required to do this while also having the knight argue such absurd things, it seems Cervantes did this intentionally. This means Benengeli, the main narrative voice, is probably not in fact expressing the senti- cord ing to w heth e r th ey wish to favor us or destroy us; a nd so, w hat see ms to yo u a ba rber 's basin seems to me th e helmet of' Ma mb rino, a nd w ill seem a not her thi ng lo someone else" ( 195). \Ve sho uld be re mi nded of Don that obsc ure the m, and canno t be seen w ith th e s mooth ness a nd colo r of the right s ide" (pa rt 11 , chap ter lxii, Q ui xote's desc ri ption of e nchan ters ca us ing everythin g to be "chimerical. foolis h, se nseless, a nd tu rned inside 873). We sh o ul d remembe r th at D o n Q ui xote has, purp o rt edly, bee n tra nslated fro m Arabic, a nd that w r; tin g o ut '' w hen we read his desc ri p lio n o f lhe effect lh at tra nsla ti o n has on a book . Read ing a tra nsla tio n is lil<e "look· hi sto ry is a lso a l<ind o f' int erp re ta ti o n, o r transla ti o n, w hich ye t again brings th e pict ure Bene ngeli gives us into ing a t Flem ish tapes tries f'ro m the wro ng side, f'o r altho ug h th e fig ures a re visible, they a rc cove reJ by the threaJs q uestion. �r i 57 56 ment of Cervantes, which leads us to Cervantes and Don Quixote, who have some interesting similarities. It is quite apparent that Cervantes knew a great deal about chivalric novels, since Don Quixote knows a great deal about chivalric novels. There is also the matter of the prologue narrator, who seems similar to Cervantes. It is not he but his friend who brings up the book as an attack on books of chivalry, and he (the prologue narrator) describes his wits as "barren and poorly cultivated" and says they begot a child "dry, withered, capricious, and filled with inconstant thoughts never imagined by anyone else." This description echoes that of Don Quixote's own mind being dried up in reading books of chivalry from dusk till dawn (p.a rt I, chapter i, p. 20-22). In the same chapter it is also noted that Don Quixote most likely would have become a writer himself, had he not had greater and more persistent thoughts (p. 20) which draws another connection with the writer Cervantes. Finally, Cervantes is almost certainly the narrator in the the prologue to part II. He tells two stories about madmen, to be relayed to the author of the false Quixote. In the first story, it seems reasonable to say that the madman stands for Cervantes himself. It is about a madman who goes around inflating dogs with air, using a sharpened reed "fit ... into the right place" and then sending them waddling off. He asks the crowd of onlookers at the end of the story, "Now, do your graces think it's an easy job to blow up a dog?" "Now," Cervantes asks the other author, "does your grace think it's an easy job to write a book?" (456). So Don Quixote is called mad, but Cervantes also compares himself and his writing to a madman and the actions of a madman. But most of this seems absurd. -why would Cervantes want to give any credence to Don Quixote's assertions that a world of dragons and giants actually exists? And what is Don Quixote's ...._, intention in playing these strange games with reality? We have established that Don Quixote, using the chivalric idea of enchanters, has argued for a drastically different version of the world than most people see. We could compare it to the systems of Ptolemy and Copernicus. They both provide an explanation for the world; it only depends on where you put the motion, in the earth or in the rest of the universe. Similarly, the events of the novel can be explained in two ways; it only depends on where we are persuaded to put the madness. Do we place it with Don Quixote, or is it the rest of the world that is mad (or, that is, deceived by enchanters)? By bringing up the second possibility Don Quixote snatches some authority in the book, wrestling with Benengeli for it. We have also noted similarities between Don Quixote and Cervantes. It may be helpful now to ask what it is that Don Quixote wants. -what could compel him to do and say the strange things that he does? If we can find this, then we may also be able to find what Cervantes wants to tell us. Don Quixote says he desires eternal fame, and immortality, but everyone wants those. What seems to compel him, specifically, is something about the Cave of Mon- �T I 59 58 tesinos. In chapter xxxii of part II, the duchess says that she understands Dulcinea to be, "the most beautiful creature in the world, and even in all of La Mancha" ( 670) In the strange order of this sentence, La Mancha seems to encompass the world. In the title to chapter xxii, it is said that the Cave of Montesinos "lies in the heart of La Mancha." If La Mancha encompasses the world, it seems that the Cave of Montesinos, for Don Quixote at least, lies at the center of everything. III. What follows is an interpretation of the Cave of Montesinos. I am not wholly convinced of it myself, and am not certain that it is possible to provide a complete interpretation of either the cave or the novel as a whole. At least by setting up an interpretation it is possible to have a somewhat clearly defined starting point, a possible way t o understand the novel, which we can then demolish and move on from, in hopes of finding a more apt interpretation. Don Quixote often thinks back to whatev er it was that happened to him in the Cave of Montesinos. In Chapter xxv of part II, he asks Gines de Pasamonte's monkey, at Sancho's bidding, whether "certain things that had occurred in the Cave of Montesinos were dreamed or true, because it seemed to him that they were both" ( 627). He thinks about the cave before the adventure of the enchanted boat (chapter xxix, 647), and Benegeli conjectures that he believes more of it to be true than false. When the Merlin of the duke and duchess mentions the cav e, Don Quixote is Trinity I Henley Moore �61 60 amazed, because "he could not be certain if what had happened to him in [itJ was true or not" (chapter xxxiv, 688) (This again must be Benengeli guessing at the source of the knight's amazement). After Sancho relates his own strange adventures in the sky, Don Quixote tells him "Just as you want people to believe what you have seen in the sky, I want you to believe what I saw in the Cave of Montesinos. And that is all I have to say" (chapter xli, 727). In chapter lxii, Don Quixote asks the bronze head of Don Antonio, "Was my account of what happened to me in the Cave of Montesinos the truth or a dream?" (870). That is a difficult question to answer. There is also the third option: that Don Quixote is lying. It seems to me most likely that it is a dream. Admitting it is real would require a drastically different interpretation of the w hole nov el, and our w orld, one which takes giants into account. While Don Quixote's rhetorical skills and use of the concept of enchanters leave this possibility open, it seems unlikely. He falls asleep in the cave, and comes out sleeping, and many aspects of his experience have a dreamlike quality. A very interesting interpretation could come from assuming the cave story is a lie of Don Quixote's making; indeed, at the beginning of chapter xxii, in which he goes into the cave, Don Quixote says of certain illusions carried out at the wedding of Camacho, "They cannot and should not be called deceptions since their purpose was virtuous" (597). The statement seems to be in too appropriate a place for its placement to be coincidence. Taking the cave story as a dream, one particular aspect comes to the surface. Like Odysseus and Aeneas before him, Don Quixote gains instruction on what he is to do when he leaves the under-realm he is in. Don Quixote reports of Montesinos: "He .. .told me that over the course of time he would inform me how the spell on him, and Belerma, and Durandarte, as well as all the other s who were there, was to be broken," (612) . But we are never told, and it seems no one else is either, what the instructions are. I had at first as. sumed that Sancho woke him before he could gain the instructions, but Don Quixote never complains of this, and it does not appear to be the case. We can speculate on what Don Quixote was told by looking at what the consequences of breaking Merlin's enchan t m ent would be, and by looking at certain aspects of the cave if it is taken as a dream. Don Quixote is shown the dying Durandarte, "the flower and model of enamored and valiant knights of his time" (609). He is a symbol of everything chivalric. Now, strangely, it seems that Don Quixote's breaking of the spell will mean not freeing Durandarte and his companions into the world, but the death of them all. Montesinos thought Durandarte had died; he was buried, this is what was supposed to have happened to him. It is the enchantment that keeps them all alive (the rest should have died of old age long ago, instead of continuing on like the sickly Lady Belerma) . Since we are assuming this is a dream, everything in t h e Cave of M ontesinos is nothing more than �61 63 Don Quixote's own imagination speaking to him. Benengeli tells us, "His fantasy filled with everything he had read in books, enchantments ... " (part I, chapter i, 21). Don Quixote's mind is the cave or the enchantment that Montesinos and the rest are trapped in. To let them go, to break the curse, Don Ouixote must give up his knightly aspirations. It seems then that when Don Quixote asks things like "Was my account of what happened to me in the Cave of Montesinos the truth or a dream?" what he is trying to get at is, "is what Montesinos told me true, must I give up chivalry, or was it only a dream (not a true one)." At the first inn Don Quixote comes to after the cave, he sees it as an inn, rather than a castle as is his custom. He tries one more adventure of his own, that of the enchanted bark, but no more. After his adventure in the Cave of Montesinos he seems t o no longer have the inclination (whether it is purposeful or from madness) to mistake ordinary objects like windmills and inns for things much more spectacular. By the end of the novel, Don Quixote has given up his chivalric goals. This is what I say Montesinos told him: you must sleep (indeed, it was the need for sleep that drew Don Quixote to the meeting with Montesinos, and the lack of it, according to Benengeli, that drove him to knighthood) and let us go. In chapter lxxiv (935) Don Quixote sleeps for a very long time, and wakes up "sane." I do not know what we are to draw from this. It may be helpful to note that Cervantes did not write any chivalric novels, b ut h e did write a pastoral one, La Galatea, which is mentioned in Don Quixote, and he was planning to publish its sequel after the story of the man from La Mancha. Perhaps Don Quixote had to go through the spectacular madness of knighthood to be able to die sane and good. In this interpretation, it is the chivalric ideas themselves that tell Don Quixote that they must be let go. Maybe Cervantes is trying to tell us that chivalr ic novels and virtues must naturally give way to pastoral ones. This is what Don Quixote's friends are ready to attempt at the end of the novel; they all want to become shepherds, after Don Quixote plants the idea in them. There are problems with this interpretation. Why does Don Quixote say the experience of the cave was pleasurable? When he wakes up he tells Sancho and the cousin "May God forgive you, friends, for you have taken me away from the sweetest life and most pleasant sights that any human being has ever seen or experienced. In truth, now I realize that all the pleasure of this life pass like shadows and dreams" (604). Then when he is recounting the tale, the cousin says "Your grace should continue, Senor Don Quixote, for I am listening to you with the greatest pleasure in the world." He replies, "With no less pleasure do I recount it" ( 606). This should remind us of two other stories told by Don Quixote and the innkeeper, both given as reasons to read chivalric novels (in chapters xxxii, pp. 269-270; and 1, pp. 428-430 of part I). They are about knights plunging into seeming danger and ending up instead in wonderful, enchanted realms, greeted by wise men or maidens. �65 64 Don Quixote and the innkeeper both say that if one reads such tales they go mad·with what seems a very peculiar kind of pleasure. If chivalric novels are nonsense, there is something about them, especially stories and experiences like the Cave of Montesinos, which makes for deeply compelling nonsense. The canon, in his discourse at the end of part I, criticizes chivalric novels, asking, "What beauty .. . can there be in a book or tale in which a boy of sixteen, with one thrust of his sword, fells a giant as big as a tower and splits him in two as if he were marzipan?" yet this and other supposedly absurd examples he gives call to mind not only chivalric novels, but the Bible, in this case, the story of David slaying Goliath. This leads us to ask, is there not more to chivalry in Don Quixote than just learning it must giv e way to the p a storal life? Again, there is something uncanny about the knight's arguments. He seems to be alluding to something just beyond our reach. The best place to examine this would be in Don Quixote's long response to the canon's attack on chivalric novels, in part I, chapters xlix and 1, pages 425 to 430. He h a s several a rguments for why one should read chivalric novels, and they verge on the inane and silly, but never quite tip into it. The key question to ask when reading the speech is what does Don Quixote mean by "true"? It may seem like it sometimes, but I do not think he is talking about historical truth, as the canon is. He may not even be talking about a kind of Aristotelian, poetic probability. I will end with a quotation from the middle of the speech: "That is really good!" responded Don Quixote. "Books that are printed with a royal license and with the approval of those officials to whom they are submitted, and read to widespread delight, and celebrated by great and small, poor and rich, educated and ignorant, lowborn and gentry, in short, by all kinds of persons of every rank and station: can they possibly be a lie, especially when they bear so close a resemblance to the truth and tell us about the father, the mother the nation, the family, the age, the birthplace, and the great deeds, point by point and day by day, of the knight, or knights, in question? Be quiet, your grace, and do not say such blasphemies, and believe me when I tell you what you, as an intelligent man, must do in this matter, which is to read these books, and then you will see the pleasur e you derive from them" (428) . We have learned that Benengeli is not to be completely trusted as a narrator, and that his stated purpose for the book is different from the book's actual purpose. We have also found a possible place to begin to understand the novel, the Cave of Montesinos, and one possible conclusion: that the chivalric novel, and chivalric life, naturally gives way to the pastoral one. But Don Quixote also leaves us with good advice. Just as we must learn mathematics to read the book of nature --- not simply hear about it from others or in translation---- so must we read the books of chivalry ourselves in order to understand what he has found in th em, and what he is after. If we do �66 67 read these books ourselves, and find what Don Quixote may have found, that may require a great change in our understanding of what goes on in the Cave of Montesinos, what it would mean for Don Quixote to break its enchantment, and what actually happens for the rest of the novel after he comes up out of the cave. There are many questions left unresolved that this essay tries to address. They could be picked up directly from where this essay ends, specifically by reexamining the novel in light of the Cave of Montesinos, and with a careful eye on the opinion of the Benengeli versus the truth, since we were able to chip away at the authority of the narrators. Why does Don Quixote use the strange device of enchanters to play with our perception of reality, assuming he is not simply mad? What does Montesinos tell him? What is his experience in the cave, a dream, a lie, or something else? Why or how does he die sane? What does he mean by "truth" when he claims that chivalric novels are true? And why, though he is as intelligent a man as the canon, who is able to resist them, is Don Quixote driven, dawn to dusk and dusk to dawn, to read chivalric novels in the first place? Private Court, State Circle I Adam Maraschky �WWW 69 68 Intimate Matters Intimate Matters Trand!ated 6y Daniel Kraft T. Carmi 1 1 NI7 r.JI7'li1 .J' NI7 .J!J i1J7l'D, i1NDl'D. You untangle all the oaths, all the vows within me. Nn r.J1npn Nn .JI7.J- '7' r.J.J!J i1lJ'1V1I7 i1'1VJ1I7. You erase my handwriting from every old draft. NI7 r.J7.JlI7 Nr.JI7. NI7 r.Jr.J'li1 ,, You speak the truth. You remind me .J' .J; i1N7D .J7r.J that every man is deceptive and there is no truth like mine at this moment. 1N'] Nr.JI1 .JNr.JI7' .Jl..:IJI. NI7 IV1N;I7 N1I7': .Jr.Ji1 rr.J] Jr.JIV7 l..:IJI? You ask me: how long does a moment last? i1ND NI7i1 rDl NI7 .J; i11V,VJJ'D 1Vi1'1 ;7z Do you remember all the clocks you've owned? r.Ji1 i11VJli1 Jl.JIV1? i1ND NI7i1 ;77Ji1 NJ r.JN.J7? What time is it now? Are you owning or losing? NI7 r.J7.JlI7 r.J~l7J' Nn r.Jnr'vi1 .J~11J' You speak from my throat. You clutch my throat .J'7 l.Ji1 .JJ7F7. 111, i1'7 i1rNI7 i1l)?~iJ N1I7' .JNIV IVN'] .Ji1JIY1N'] .Ji1 N!Jl. with a hand like tender wind . 0 h, this hand that kindles me like fire with no wood and no ashes. .J; i1 i2 J.;J. ,r.J m. r.JJl1;D 'JN i1"I1' All who come close must die. Never have I been .Jh ;717.J ;J/.Yr.J'. so close to myself. �70 71 2 2 17.fJ~lD 17rNn, )71JJ NJ' N117.J. N117J This craving to say I love you JlN717 N17 17;/lJV'D .Y7))>D .J.lJ.Yn], to see the wrinkles sink into your forehead JIV1J1JJ N17 ..'.11.!P nnvlV .J.;71.J.J, 17!1n717rl7, )71JJ NJ' N117.J. N117J, to hear my body silent within you this fear to say I love you IVlJN 'IVlJJJ 17)>)17 .. p1) IVN'] )1 177 in case the night hears a voice without an echo IVr;JJ:f 17N1Jl 1JlNl7 in case a mirror says where is your face? N~i) !JJ'7Z 17.fJ~lD 17rNn 17!1n717rl7 J11J] 17'D IVi?.1'7 1171N IV{.], IVlJN 'nl.J. )JJ'J' 1171N IVJ'. ,. T . . this craving this fear to say the sea is clear and it is yours in case I see it dry up and it is mine. �WW 73 72 3 r.J17J> 171)7 un?lf. Jl.JIVJ NJ> n;p .Jt_.Jl7] .0?,J, ND Nn N>J7 rJ.JlnlJil NlJlfl> ;7, .JIVili?l IV?.J .il>il fl!JJIV JN>7 ,1J7h> NI1 lJ~.f1.J~ )nntJ .JIVrJ7 . 3 My memory weakens. Now I depend on your memory. If you do not remember~ what I said to you when your line was busy and how I taught my letter to be signed with your name 11Jil j)JlN>D ;)>)17. IVN>] )J >JD 1il1N ;N )>)17 and what a night is called that has no day and is no night JN>7 .n;1 ilNJn>Jn J/7 .J> !JIVD1.Y1lil and how the letters grew until they renounced their shapes 11Ji11 _y)>) p1;> .JIVNfl lJDil )J Nr] and what the tone of my voice is when your ear is attuned JN>7 .J; IVN)il IV~?J, Jil>?J7 .J> )r:J>lJ] 11Ji11 ilJ777 .Jn77 IVJ,0~ JN>7 Jl?)~!Jj)171n and how all your questions become symbols for me and what wanders in my sleep and how my eyes open N.J; N?)t 17N7n 7.Jl .J> JI?)~] ,JJl>J> JJl>J> .JJ,1?)~1: J/7 .J)Jn .J) illJlNJn ND Nn N>J7 rJ.Jln N>] )> >t; N>] ,, IVD, NJ>qT. but they see nothing because your eyes are in mine and my eyes are in yours until all sights have ended~ if you do not remember then I have no hand, I have no name, my memory is lost. �WW - 74 75 4 NJ 1 rJ!Jn7111J 17. NJ 1 NJlJl )J, NLJ13.i) 11J!Jn71J] /PJD ll.1;)1° IV!JJ1> >JJJJJ 1p1) 1 )N 1 1VlJJI. NJ 1 NJlJl ) ] , NLJ13.i) m!Jn7 rJ1 i11VJJi1 IV..f i) p1) 1 )N 1~ 1 1J 1• NJ 1 NJlJl )], NLJ13.i) m!Jn7 rJ1 i11JJJ IV,_f J°NJ 1 NJJl NIVV N7D rJ!Jn7111J 1 7. 4 I am always afraid. I tell you love and I am afraid of the day when my lips will stir and my voice will not be heard. I tell you love and I am afraid of the hour when my voice will not recognize me. I tell you love and I am afraid of the moment when I say happy is the man who is always afraid. �WW 77 76 5 ':JJ11' ::nl~') Nl7 J/~r.J' N'JJ 1~'17'. ':JJ17' )?;(~) N1Jnl7-~j71 7j;;·i1.v~~ Nl7 l:!lr.J]., '~J.;).[J ~i?JJ~]l? J)N.[jD Ni1 NfJ~J., 17N' IV'.f Jl7~. l:!lr.J~ ill PD, ~~"D JI) ill:JD PlvJ~'D ;~j'r:i l?.n J!J) j/!Jil p)J~ J/l!JJ IV) l:!lnl'l7 r.Jil ):JD J)J? ':JJ17' Jil~'J Nl7 J/~r.J; N';?r/??;< Nr.1117' JJ:, il~'''· 5 I could have saved myself if I had wanted. I could have eaten breakfast and starved you·r name, sat in a concert and deafened you. Of course I could have. Sun, mountain, and sea, gazelles on the ridge attending to the moon, the smell of roast coffee, the fog of dawn --what is for them and for you? I could have saved myself if I hadn't said to you: save me. �78 79 The Bird who Waits - his song Vincent Tavani This is the land promised to all who wait. Thrust these hands into the warm loam, the earth's moist womb with that heavy soil smell of late spring: dirt worked under still-growing fingernails, in creases of my hands. This is the grave where I have been sown along with all that I've saved. The worms like old bathwater against the cold food of skin: they crawl to keep their outside-bodies warm, and their insides in. I, like them, scrawled, if in my head. These are the worms I receive. Flowers I love, but the bouquets I never gave, the name never sung that inside me bloomed when I ought have flown and flung it out like bread on water. Now another nameless molehill mansion, am a ribcage flowerbed; this is the land. Here bones that always craved to be hollow have by time their marrow made blithe and dry, in purer flesh entombed. I've heard that juniper can heal the heart, but like a baby bird, I'd never tried ingesting outside-me, this have-some-heart. - I've often said I've flown: I've often lied Out for a better part, I, a hand with leaves to fill the pretty glass I found, am here dissembled on the ground. They disappear like liquid, these poems disbe lieved, if she - kaleidoscopic broken bottle - can not hold what I already poured her to appear like lilacs. But I after the burning swallow - be bold! - then shining eagle-like to meet her fly. "Here are the feathers that made me fly." Oh OH, you liar! all you have is vomit: poems and sonnets like gin and tonic that make you trip, that strip you dry. Shall these bones sing? Well, poet, heal thyself, if in rhyme you wake alone, tangled in leaf-woven wings, smelling now of now acidic pme. �80 I fear the maddening wines of dirt-moist spring. When in December, the barren Earth was old, cold and proper; but in June, youth blooms and spreads her healthy skirt. And then remember the dirt's sown secrets, am aboveground to be told. For I refrained to try my hand at gardening those stained-glass growing things, not till I re ceived my plot. Now, here is the lot: loveless hopeless marrowless wmgs. �ENERGE!A ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE P.O. BOX 2800 ANNAPOLIS, MD 21401 � 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 Energeia Description An account of the resource Energeia is a non-profit, student magazine, which is published once a year and distributed among students, faculty, alumni, and staff of St. John's College, Annapolis. 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Fogleman Marcel Proust Affirmatwn<1 Mutiny On Variatwn 28 Sefectwn<1 from Du cote de chez Swann faculty advisor trar14fateo by Jacob Garrett Fawn Trigg Aalin Bellinger Sefectwn<1 from ''Heart Breaking Open: An Arc of Sonnet<! 11 Louis Petrich 41 Stooping for Excellence in Iraqi Higher E'ducatwn Robert Schuerman cover by Carlin Felt: Portrait 37 57 O'd'd Enough to he Even A WhoLLy Sonnet �7 Explaining Jokes Wuley Schantz artwork Carlin Felt 8 42 LandcJcape Treed Keeley Pratt 11 Le graffiti dancJ le Metro de Parid 29 DM Hegelhaw in Stuttgart, DeutcJchland Henley Moore 12 Untitled Brendon Lasell 15 19 Figure 1 Figure2 Michael Green 33 Eiffel from the Pont Alexandre Ill Megan Faulkner 47 64 Croquet 1 Croquet Louis Petrich 48 59 Bw!ogyLab A Faculty Picnic Shikshya Adhikari 63 Morning PrayercJ Adam Maraschky 67 Rebecca Hey there, handy clerk, young man, dear brother Nicholas, how is it living alone? Seriocomic heroic stereotype, With the astrology books by your bed For reading young wives' horoscopes, lying To them, for them, with them, bidding husbands Truss themselves in attic bathtubs, awake Below while they wait out the flood asleep~ How is it smarting with the coulter brand? Or was that your intention, bargaining On burning first for the sake of the joke, Buying an indulgence from him later? Would you mind explaining, just between us, Between trysts, how you lived so long ago And still were fooling like we're doing now, And still we're laughing at the resemblance? �9 8 Smoke in the Snow Ciara Barrick le:: ; ·'=""" •·{-: Landscape/ Carlin FeLt We smoked filtered cigarettes in the grey daylight as the snow silently fellfrom it s high precipice. You sniffled quietly, flipping t he collar of your pea coat up to cover your ears. He rubbed his calloused hands together rapidly and rocked from his left suede shoe to his right. The blue smoke drifted straight up above our heads. Watch the smoke drift through the town between the snowflakes, unique in each w ay you can see. Now it belongs to the cigars of three bigbellied, middle-aged Italian men. They lounge with their ankles resting on their knees and their cigars instruments of declaration. "No Giuseppe! He was with my daughter!" A car whizzes by and the smoke flutters further down the street. It's captured by the panting children underdressed on the wintry sidewalks as they exhale, their snot wiped with class along a lime green polyester sleeve. Dick chases Jane through the crowds before the bakery, little lungs expounding little tufts of cold smoke. Now it's flooding out of the bakery window and sirens are heard approaching from far off in the distance. A large woman, whose upper half is mostly chin, chest, and breast, bursts through the back door with a rolling pin r aised above her head and a singed apron. The smoke billows out of the doors, up the street along the apartment building's brick walls. Now it belongs to a twenty-something, mascar aed ex -girlfriend �10 11 who holds a lighter beneath his love letter outside her window in the bitter air. Pieces of his passion float to the cement underworld, leaving only a trail of smoke for her to regret missing. A mustached Mexican pushing a dolly cart of crated crap from the market to his truck kicks up the pieces. A cigarette hangs safe and loose from his lips as his feet scuffle over some forgotten words. The smoke falls over his shoulders and into the espresso cups of three married women seated outside on a day far too cold but wishing to reminisce on days when snow kept them from class, not the carpool. The steam warms their faces but leaves their noses red. We watched from the corner as you nudged me and offered me a light. Le graffiti dans le Metro de Paris/ Keeley Pratt �13 12 On the End of the First Book of Apollonius' Conicd Brenoon La<JeLL Near the beginning of his Conicd, Apollonius cuts cones with planes to generat e three Untitled/ Henley Moore different kinds of conic section: parabolas, hyperbolas, and ellipses. He shows that each of these sections can be understood by means of its relation to two straight lines, which he calls an upright Ji2e and a tranJverde diameter, 1 and an angle (the angle between the ordinated and the diameter) . After completing the initial construction of these conic sections in Proposition 13, he demonstrates the next 37 propositions without referring directly to the cones they come from. Instead, he uses only the upright and transverse sides and the given angle to prove a variety of complicat ed theorems about parabolas, ellipses and hyperbolas. Only then, in Propositions 52 through 58, does he return to the cone. In these propositions near the end of the book he show s that it is always possible to construct a section of a cone with any given upright side and transverse diameter and any given angle between its ordinates and diamet er. Why did Apollonius end Book I in this way? In proving Propositions 52 through 58 he uses many of the propositions between 15 and 51. This might suggest that he needs to work through 1 In a p arabola w e do not strictly speaking have a transverse diameter; we simply have a diameter. �14 15 most of the propositions in Book I to show that for any upright and transverse there is always a conic section. We might then understand the whole first book as intended to show this. But it turns out that he did not have to use any proposition in the Conu.1 beyond 11- 13 to prove 52- 58. He could therefore have shown immediately after Propositions 13 that it is possible to find conic sections with any given upright and transverse side, and never returned to the cone after that. We therefore have to ask again: why did he wait until the end of Book I to prove 52- 58? Perhaps he judged that the constructions he uses in these propositions are better than anything he could have done immediately after Proposition 13. To show that something is true is different from showing why, and the constructions Apollonius uses may be better at showing us why there are conic sections with any given upright and transverse side. In any case, to explore this question it helps to compare the constructions Apollonius gives in Propositions 52- 58 with the ones he might have given immediately after Proposition 13. Here are some constructions that use only Propositions 11- 13. The hyperbola Let there be two bounded straight lines AB and BC perpendicular to each other, let AB be produced to L, and let there be a given angle ABH ; it is required to find in the plane t h rough the lines AB, BC an hyperbola whose diameter will be the A F p Figure 1/ Brendon LtUeLL �16 17 straight line ABL and vertex B, and upright side the straight line BC , an d where the straight lines dropped from the section to BL at the given angle ABH will equal in square the rectangles applied to BC having as breadths the str aight lines cut off by them from Band projecting beyond by a figure similar and similarly situated to the rectangle AB, BC. Let AB be produced to D so that BD is equal to BC . Draw a line BE perpendicular to the line BH and not in the plane ABH. Let AE and DE be joined. Draw line BF from B in the plane through AB and BE such that angle ABF is equal to angle BED (which must be less than angle ABE, by Euclid's Elements I 32) . Extend line BF beyond B to a point G. Draw a parallel GK to BE through G meeting AE extended at K . Let AD, extended if necessary, meet GK at L, and draw FM from F par allel to AD and meeting GK at M. Draw a line PLQ through L parallel to BH. Draw a circle GQK with diameter GK in the plane through PLQ and GK, and let this circle meet PLQ at P and Q. Let a cone be conceived whose vertex is the point F and whose base is the circle GQK. Since the lines PLQ and GK are parallel to the lines BH and BE, respectively, and BH is perpendicular to BE, it follows that the line PLQ is perpendicular to the line GK. Since a cone, whose base is the circle GQK and whose vertex is the point F, has been cut by a plane FGK through its axis, and also by another p lane ABH cutting the base of the cone in a straight line PLQ perpendicular to the b ase GK of the axial triangle FGK, and the diameter BL of the section meets the side FK of the axial triangle at the point A beyond the vertex of the cone, it follows (by Apollonius' Proposition I 12) that the resulting section PBQ of the cone is an hyperbola whose vertex is the point B where a side of the axial triangle meets the cutting plane, whose transverse side is the line AB, and whose ordinates meet the diameter at angle BLP, which is equal to the given angle ABH. Now angle BED is equal to angle ABF, and angleABFis equal to angle GFM. Moreover, because FM is parallel to BD and BE is parallel to GM, angle GMF is equal to angle EBD. Therefore triangle GFM is similar to triangle DEB. Consequently, GM : FM: : BD : BE. Again, triangle ABE is similar to triangle FMK, and therefore MK : FM :: BE :AB. Therefore GM : FM comp . MK : FM :: BD : BE comp. BE: AB :: BD:AB ::BC :AB. But GM : FM comp. MK : FM :: rect.GM, MK : sq.FM. Therefore rect.GM, MK : sq.FM :: BC : AB. But also (by I 12) rect.GM, MK : sq.FM :: upright side : AB. Therefore the line BC is equal to the upright side of the hyperbola PBQ. Q . E. F. �18 19 The ellipse Let there be two bounded straight lines AB and BC perpendicular to each other, and let there be a given angle ABH; it is required to find in the plane through the lines AB, BC an ellipse whose diameter will be the straight line AB and vertex B, and upright side the straight line BC, and where the straight lines dropped from the section to AB at the given angle ABH will equal in square the rectangles applied to BC having as breadths the straight lines cut off by them from B and falling short by a figure similar and similarly situated to the rectangle AB, BC. We again set BD equal to BC, taking Don line AB or AB extended. We proceed as for the hyperbola, drawing some line BE perpendicular to BH, and connecting D and E . We draw BG below B such that angle GBA is equal to angle BED, and extend it above BE until it meets AE extended at F. But in the construction for the ellipse, unlike in the case of the hyperbola, we need to make sure make BE is not too long. For to guarantee that GB extended will meet AE extended above the line BE, we need angle GBA (which is equal to angle BED) to be greater than angle BAE. If BE wer e too long, then angle BED would become too small. To know how long to make BE, we need the following lemma. p Figure 2/Brendon L{l,jeLL �20 21 Lemma: the hyperbola case. Note that there is no need to If break it up into different cases depending on whether BC is greater than or less than AB, as Apollonius does. sq.BE< rect.BD, BA, then J3ED >IBAE. Proof: If angle BED were equal to angle BAE, then triangle BED would be similar to triangle BAE, and so BD : BE :: BE: BA, and therefore rect.BD, BA= sq.BE. If BE were any smaller, then angle BED would be larger and angle BAE would be smaller, so that angle BED would be larger than angle BAE. Q.E.D. So we make sure to construct BE so that the square on BE is less than the rectangle on BD and BA . Note that once we construct the ellipse that the rectangle on BD on BA is the rectangle on the upright and the transverse, and this rectangle is (by I 15) equal to the square on the conjugate diameter. Therefore the condition of the lemma amounts to requiring that the line BE be less than the conjugate diameter of the ellipse we are constructing. This means that there is a limit to the shape of the cone that can provide us with a given ellipse: the cone must in a certain sense be broad enough . The larger the transverse diameter of the ellipse, the broader a cone we have to use. The construction then proceeds just as in The parabola In the case of the parabola, the construction is the same as for the hyperbola, except that we draw FE parallel to the diameter BL. �23 22 Piedra Negra Sobre Una Piedra Blanca Ce.Jar Vallejo Me morire en Paris con aguacero, un dfa del cual tengo ya el recuerdo. Me morire en Paris -y no me corrotal vez un jueves, como es hoy, de otofio. Jueves sera, porque hoy, jueves, que proso estos versos, los humeros me he puesto a la mala y, jamas como hoy, me he vuelto, con todo mi camino, a verme solo. C-esar Vallejo ha muerto, le pegaban todos sin que el les haga nada; le daban duro con un palo y duro tambien con una soga; son testigos los dfas jueves y los huesos humeros, la soledad, la lluvia, los caminos ... Black Stone Upon A White Stone Tran.1/ated 6y Daniel &drigU£z I will die in Paris from t he heaviest rain, a day which I already have to remember. I will die in Paris -I do not run away most likely a Thursday , like today , in N ovember. On a Thursday, for today, Thursday, prosifies these verses, my humerus bones have been put on poorly and, never like t oday, have I become sur prised, with looking down my road, to see my self anon. Cesar Vallejo has died, he was stuck by everyone for doing nothing at all; they beat him hard w ith a stick and toughened Him up with a rope as well; witnesses are the days of Thursdays and all the humerus bones, The loneliness, the heavy rain, all of my roads ... �25 24 Affirmations r M W. Fogleman [fl cJ..;{JJio~JJ.,1 <11.1f' ~ .;.fe...« 1 i ... ~·,._ if> ~f we ~ ~"J furp~ ~ <.<e rt.._ :t ~u..- .Is f,v, fv hi~. WiV """':1 ht. 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K'f naj,..,~ ~1 ~ di> ~uv>i°"J ~ l";)r 1 wJ Hi. ~.:if\j fo CJ"i~ r o" t7 fi.. u.r '? l'Nl - In our childhoods, in interim moments of solitude and silence, we knelt not to pray but to offer affirmations which became and went into the tide pools of the future. We may have forgotten these moments, their sincerity and conviction, but they have not forgotten us; they are the substance of our selves. Have I been true to that little boy ? Is his voice still echoing in the chambers of my soul? Did he have definite dreams or just simply scant sketches which sparkled in his skin? Have I sailed with or against the winds of change? Arn I pacing back and forth across the same soil, again and again, over and over, or am I entering a New World? Will I contract diseases of disturbance, dismay and disillusion, or can I push onwards, into the mist, with only the maps of my making to guide me? 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I+'$ ~6 kt;wt1; .J ~o'fh/- ;,_c!-/ So fi"'-'j/ f1.4 J.o vl t-v Peel vf lt f<> • • • • J c..,,<V.,d ~ ...,.~A ;,.;;Ii, c.., ~II~ «.I'"\ of 1Zhellii,',>jf7 J So 0 l/v...n 5r· .&(., c.A\J. 9;:lf --ev·d .erif CuAJ « V:~v-1 ( VI'\ 1tl-vo~l, . 1~ ,~N'.J· Pi, , 51..-rv. h.vr f-;vJ '( /1 orl-vrl '1~~ ~ ( ooft..ni . t All of my muscles have murmur ed mutiny, for I have ordered them to hold taut endlessly, bearing the weight of my self. I have made it myself, it was only an infant edge of rock w hen I found it unborn and with a hammer and chisel I have carved away what is unnecessary as evidence by the wisdom of the wind which whispers by. I carry it with every motion, with every act, so proud, so glad it's me and not you up there, so vain am I that I reach up to feel if it's still there, like looking for the indulgent confirmation of a mirror, but - but - there is only sand, how can that be? It's so heavy, I thought it so st able and self-evident and yet my fingers run through the sand looking for stone but finding nothing. �28 29 On Variation VARIATION ON A THOUGHT Notes (excerpt) "The eternal silence of these infinite spaces FRIGHTENS ME." This phrase - the force with which it wants to imprint itself upon our souls, and the magnificence of its form has made it one of the most famous utterances ever articulated - it is a Poem and not at all a Thought. For Eternal and Infinite are symbols of the ineffable. Their value is entirely emotional. They act only on a certain sensibility. They provoke: the particular sensation of the impotence of our faculty to imagine . Pascal introduces literature to the use and abuse of these terms which are very good for poetry and nothing else . He composes this sentence with a symmetric arrangement, a sort of formidable image of equilibrium, apart from which he places in opposition (and, as a man is isolated, lost in the heavens, negligible and thinking) the phrase: ... FRIGHTENS ME. Observe how the inhuman which reigns in the heavens is established, represented by this form of grand verse, of which words of the same function are adjacent to each other and reinforce each other in their effects: noun and noun, silence with spaces; epithet with epithet: infinite manifests eternal. This vast verse constitutes the rhetorical form of a system complete in itself, a "UNIVERSE" ... As for what is human, what concerns life, consciousness, terror, this is all held in one rebuttal: ... FRIGHTENS ME. The poem is perfect. - Paul Valery Das Hegelhaus in Stuttgart, Deutschland/ Keeley Pratt �30 31 Valery 1s claim in his brief essay, Variation on a Thought, is that this pensee by Pascal is not a thought, but a poem. Valery must know that this is, in the initial and factual sense, a lie~andyet he presses on. What justifies this claim? How does Valery think, read, and write in relation to Pascal? How should we? In the very title of the essay, we intimate the boldness of his activity: Variation. Valery restates the thought, proceeds to call it a "phrase" and then recasts it as a poem, making use of its words while abandoning their context and their original significance. It is of no importance that Pascal 1s book is entitled Pensees, not Poemes; nor is it worth noting that the Eternal and Infinite have meanings and "values" beyond the "emotional," namely the mathematical and physical, the philosophical and theological. Liberated from factual fetters, Valery reads, hears, and restates in the original thought something new~ he finds a poem. We might call this a beautiful lie. When we read Pascal 1s Pensees, we are readers of thoughts, not hearers of poems. We are good readers when we contemplate the meaning of a thought; we are average readers when we pause to confirm our comprehension; we are mediocre readers when we move on to the next thought, without any pause whatsoever. None of these readers speak the thought out loud, and so they are deaf to euphony. But Valery dwells in Pascal 1s thought like a person infatuated with a poem. He copies the thought down and carries it in his back pocket for peeking at. He cannot help but cele- brate the sounds on his tongue, letting the syllables tickle his throat and thoughts. Here he begins to hear the poem, recognizing emotional symbols, audible equilibrium and opposing imbalance, all knit tight in a careful construction. Valery presses on, unsatisfied with mere appreciation and the passive acts of replication, recitation and memorization. He advances past absorption and reflection int o the unknown by means of regeneration, a rebirth active and entire. The Variation is the child of this re-birth, the means by which Valery 1s process of hearing is reproduced in his reader 1s ear. The thought heard becomes a poem just as its reader becomes a hearer, admitting beauty and emotion, symmetry and symphony, life and breath to what was only ink on the page, black and dead. Two specific attributes of Valery 1s Variation limit our conception of the activity of variation: hearing and attribution. By considering and broadening them, we will come to justify his claim, and appreciate his essay as a prime example of a genre, and perhaps art itself, rather than considering it merely a singularly interesting (or deluded) artifact. First, hearing. We have seen hearing as a means towards interpreting Pascal 1s pensee as a poem, but more generally, hearing is list ening, the basis of speaking and conversation. One does not need to literally hear a thought to list en and respond to it. Nor does the product of list ening, a response, need to be a poem. Second, attribution. This particular thought, this pensee, can only be transformed into �32 33 a poem by an essay like Valery's, which explicitly connects itself to its source before transcending it. But variation itself does not require this attribution, nor does the reader need to make the connection between the variation and it source, for it is often the case that the variation has become a source in itself. One might argue that all thought, all art, all poetry is variation. Milton is a variation on Dante, Virgil, and Homer before him, and each of these men harness voice itself; we cannot imagine Picasso without cave drawings; this pattern is not parasitism but progress, not deviation or defilement but the culmination of dialogue. Variation is creation. In sum, Valery's essay is indeed a variation on Pascal's pensee. Valery understands what Pascal was trying to achieve, but he is not confined by it-it is a provocation. True thought, true creation begins in variation; it is indebted to its predecessors; it accepts and admires them while seeking its own place in humanity's annals. As thinkers, artists, and humans, we look to our ancestors to understand them and to admit their thoughts as the beginnings of our own. It seems we have found answers to our questions about Valery's essay, but this is not our end - it is our beginning. We have been summoned to perform the activity of Variation. Eiffel from the Pont Alexandre UV M ichael Green �34 35 Selections from Du cote de chez Swann Marcel Prowl Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure. Parfois, a peine ma bougie eteinte, mes yeux se fermaient si vite que je n'avais pas le temps de me dire: «Je m'endors.» Et, une demiheure apres, la pensee qu'il etait temps de chercher le sommeil m' eveillait; je voulais poser le volume que je croyais avoir encore dans les mains et souffler ma lumiere; je n'avais pas cesse en dormant de faire des reflexions sur ce que je venais de lire, mais ces reflexions avaient pris un tour un peu particulier; il me semblait que j'etais moimeme ce dont parlait l' ouvrage: une eglise, un quatuor, la rivalite de Franc;ois Ier et de Charles Ouint. Cette croyance survivait pendant quelques secondes a mon reveil; elle ne choquait pas ma raison mais pesait comme des ecailles sur mes yeux et les empechait de se rendre compte que le bougeoir n' etait plus allume. Puis elle commenc;ait a me devenir inintelligible, comme apres la metempsycose les pensees d'une existence anterieure; le sujet du livre se detachait de moi, j'etais libre de m'y appliquer ou non; aussitot je recouvrais la vue et j'etais bien etonne de trouver autour de moi une obscurite, douce et reposante pour mes yeux, mais peutetre plus encore pour mon esprit, a qui elle apparaissait comme une chose sans cause, incomprehensible, comme une chose vraiment obscure. Selections from Swann d Way tran.:Jlated /Jy Jacob Garrett For a long time, I'd lie down to bed at a good hour. Sometimes, scarcely after my candle had been put out, my eyes would shut so quickly that I'd not have the time to say to myself: "I sleep". And, half an hour later, the thought that it was time to search for sleep would awake me; I would want to put down the volume that I believed to have still in my hands, and to blow out my light; I had not ceased in slumber to make reflections upon that which I was reading, but these reflections had taken a turn a a little peculiar ; it seemed to me that I was myself of that which the work spoke: a church, a quartet, the rivalry between Francois I and Charles V. That notion would survive during some seconds of my waking; it did not shock my reason, but weighed like scales upon my eyes and impeded them from realizing that the candle was no longer lit. Then it would begin to become unintelligible to me, like after metempsychosis the thoughts of a previous existence; the subject of the book would detach itself from me, I was free to apply myself to it or not; at once I would recover sight and I would be well surprised to find surrounding me a darkness, sweet and restful for my eyes, but perhaps still more for my mind, to which it appeared like a thing without cause, incomprehensible, like a thing truly darkened. I'd ask myself what hour it could �37 36 Je me demandais quelle heure il pouvait etre; j'entendais le sifflement des trains qui, plus ou mains eloigne, comme le chant d'un oiseau dans une foret, relevant les distances, me decrivait l' etendue de la campagne deserte ou le voyageur se hate vers la station prochaine; et le petit chemin qu'il suit va etre grave dans son souvenir par l'excitation qu'il doit a des lieux nouveaux, a des actes inaccoutumes, a la causerie recente et aux adieux sous la lampe etrangere qui le suivent encore dans le silence de la nuit, a la douceur prochaine du retour. be; I'd"hear the whistling of trains which, further or closer away, like the song of a bird in the forest, noting the distances, would describe to me the expanse of the deserted country where the voyager hastens toward the next station; and the small path that he follows being engraved in his memory by the excitement that goes necessarily with places novel, with acts unaccustomed, with the recent chat and with the farewells bid under a strange lamp that follow still in the silence of the night, with the sweetness of the next return. J'appuyais tendrement mes joues contre les belles joues de l'oreiller qui, pleines et fraiches, sont comme les joues de notre enfance. J e frottais une allumette pour regarder ma montre. Bientot minuit. C'est l'instant OU le malade, qui a ete oblige de partir en voyage et a du coucher dans un hotel inconnu, reveille par une crise, se rejouit en apercevant sous la porte une raie de jour. Quel bonheur c' est deja le matin ! Dans un moment les domestiques seront leves, il pourra sonner, on viendra lui porter secours. L'esperance d'etre soulage lui donne du courage pour souffrir. Justement il a cru entendre des pas; les pas se rapprochent, puis s' eloignent. Et la raie de jour qui etait sous sa porte a disparu. C' est minuit; on vient d' eteindre le gaz; le dernier domestique est parti et il faudra rester toute la nuit a souffrir sans remede. I would rest tenderly my cheeks against the lovely cheeks of the pillow which, plump and fresh, are like the cheeks of our childhood. I would strike a match so to look at my w atch. Nearly midnight. That's the moment when an invalid, who has been obliged to leav e on a voyage and must sleep in an unknown hotel, awoken by a fit, rejoices in making out under the door the rays of the day. What happiness that it's already the morning! In a moment the domestics will rise, he'll be able to ring, one will come to bring him succor. The hope of being relived gives him the courage to suffer. Just then he believ es he hears some steps; the steps approach him, and then move away from him. And the ray of the day which was under his door has disappeared. It is midnight; someone came to put out the gas; the last domestic has left and he must remain all night in suffering without remedy. Je me rendormais, et parfois je n'avais plus que de courts reveils d'un instant, le temps d'entendre les craquements organiques des boiseries, I w ould go back to sleep, and sometimes �38 d' ouvrir les yeux pour fixer le kaleidoscope de l'obscurite, de gouter grace a une lueur momentanee de conscience le sommeil ou etaient plonges les meubles, la chambre, le tout dont je n' etais qu'une petite partie et a l'insensibilite duquel je retournais vite m'unir. Ou bien en dormant j'avais rejoint sans effort un age a jamais revolu de ma vie primitive, retrouve telle de mes t erreurs enfantines comme celle que mon grand-oncle me tirat par mes boucles et qu' avait dissipee le jour, - date pour moi d'une ere nouvelle, - ou on les avait coupees. J'avais oublie cet evenement pendant mon sommeil, j'en retrouvais le souvenir aussitot que j'avais reussi a m'eveiller pour echapper aux mains de mon grand-oncle, mais par mesure de precaution j 'entourais completement ma tete de mon oreiller avant de retourner dans le monde des reves. Quelquefois, comme Eve naquit d 'une cote d'Adam, une femme naissait pendant mon sommeil d'une fausse position de ma cuisse. Formee du plaisir que j'etais sur le point de gouter, je m 'imaginais que c'etait elle qui me l'offrait. Mon corps qui sentait dans le sien ma propr e chaleur voulait s'y rejoindre, je m' eveillais. Le reste des humains m' apparaissait comme bien lointain aupres de cette femme que j 'avais quittee ily avait quelques moments a peine; ma joue etait chaude encore de son baiser, mon corps courbature par le poids de sa taille. Si, comme il arriv ait quelquefois, elle avait les traits d'une femme que j 'avais connue dans la vie, j 'allais me donner tout entier ace b u t : la I'd have wakings no longer than an inst ant, time enough to hear the n atu r al cr eaking of the paneling, to open my ey es so t o stare at the kaleidoscope of the dar kness, t o taste, by the g r ace of a momentary gleam of conscience, the sleep w her ein was plunged the furniture, the room, the w hole of which I was but a small part and to t he insensibility of which I would soon reunite. O r perhaps in sleeping I had rejoined, without effort, a nev er returned t o age of my earlier life, recov er ed such childhood terrors like the one of my great-uncle pulling on my curls that had been d ispelled the d ay, - date of a new era for me, - w her e someone had them cropped. I had forgotten t hat ev ent during my sleep; I recalled the memory as soon as I had succeeded in waking myself so t o escape my great -uncle's hands, but for a measure of precaution, I'd completely wrap my head in my pillow befor e returning to the world of drea m s. Sometimes, just as E v e was born from Adam's rib, a woman w ould be born w h ile I slept from a twisted position of my thigh. F or med from the pleasure that I w a s upon the point of tasting, I imagined to my self that it was she w ho offered it t o me. My body which sensed in her breast my ow n h eat w ould want t o rejoin itself t o h er, I'd wake. The rest of humanity appear ed t o me distant after this woman w hom I had left , w ho w as there barely a few moments; my cheek w as still w ar m from her kiss, my body ached from the w eight of her w aist. If, as it hap p ened sometimes, sh e had the traits of a w oman th at I had know n in \ �40 41 retrouver, comme ceux qui partent en voyage pour voir de leurs yeux une cite desiree et s'imaginent qu'on peut gouter dans une realite le charme du songe. Peu a peu son souvenir s'evanouissait, j'avais oublie la fille demon reve. life, I would give myself wholly to this aim: to find her, like those who leave on a voyage to see in person a long dreamt of city, and imagine to themselves that one can taste in reality the charm of the dream. Little by little her memory would fade away; I had forgotten the girl of my dream. \ 1 �---43 42 Selections from "Heart Breaking Open: An Arc of Sonnets" Aalin Bellinger 2. So, Lord, it is to be by fire and night Your pillar points through pain my faltering feet; My proud eyes blanch blind at the fierce light While flesh shudders at shock of crucible's heat. With heart's high hope dispelled to dwindling dark And fantasy flushed in truth's light cast clear, Burned feet first find this desert rock too stark To taste the hidden medicine trickling here. 0 Lord, have I forgotten how You held me, Through the soul-slapping waves of childhood's day, Strengthening my limbs in the cold sea, While all the time my heart against You lay? Just so, Lord, in this burning desert heat Work out in me a strength of heart more sweet. Trees/ Carlin FeLt �44 45 9. 8. 0 Panegia, teach me to detach My clinging heart from this new desperate love; Send me courage and method to unlatch My miser chest locked in from Grace above. Make me strong and free to let my soul Flow in and out with a relation 's tide, To love my friend so deep and yet be whole When circumstances call her from my side. I wish to be there for her, but my need Inflames my inner sense that gives and takes; So while I yearn to follow close her lead, I must carve my own way for both our sakes. 0 Mother intimate with Christ your son, Guide me how streams of love may rightly run. 0 Panegia, be with my close friend, Whose glance unfathomed cuts me to the heart; Take care of her to whom I'm blind to send Swift healing, comfort, strength to every part. Unguessable the grace that makes us two, So different utterly, create a space Where several harmonies of I and you Blend, resonate, and hold their place . And yet I, ignorant what storms or calm Blow out or breath in peace to her domain, Burn still to feel more keenly what the palm Of her soul only ever could explain. 0 Mother, from my depths receive this prayer, To hold my unseen friend in your wise care . �46 47 14. 0 Lord, my life lies open in Your hand. You know, I know, my needs for love on earth; Upon You and Your cross I cast my worth, 0 Word by Whom was made all life and land. I lie upon the sunny coats of sand That with each lifting wave find sweet rebirth And in this dance the dying breakers mirth Sparkles I praise I start to understand: The knowledge, Lord, that You are all in all, In each particular and the cycling whole, And the uniqueness of each beating heart Your gift, is safe; mysterious, small, Unfolding slowly in the growing soul, The harmony fulfilling whole and part. Croquet 1/ Megan Faulkner �--· 48 49 Stooping for Excellence in Iraqi Higher Education Louil Petruh Biology Lab!Louid Petrich Much of the talk about liberal education by those of us who wish to promote it at home and abroad tends in the direction of platitudes. Alistener who did not know better from experience might think that liberal education itself were as boring as the promoting of it tends to be. How much worse is the risk of sounding trivial or impertinent when one's audience of initiates has merely to look out the window to see revolution spreading like brush-fires in the desert wind, while determined dictators try to stamp out the fires. Even the most interesting activities of liberal education lose their hold on participants when the local dogs of war are observed to be straining again at their leashes. Here at St. John's College, we do not bother ourselves about the dust of the chalk that our demonstrations of Euclid leave behind in our classrooms. But if we were given to worry about whether the College itself will be reduced to dust before the freshmen graduate, who would be demonstrating Euclid at the board? And what would those demonstrations truly be demonstrating? Last year (2010-2011), at the American University of Iraq in the northeastern Ku rdish city of Sulaimani, I taught freshmen Iraqis (mostly Kurds, some Arabs) to read Euclid, Darwin, �50 51 Galileo and other authors of mathematical and scientific books as part of the two-year core curriculum of liberal arts required of all students. Such a curriculum is unprecedented in Iraq, unless you go back about 1000 years. All of us who taught in the core had to become the defenders and promoters of its ambitious content. Each day that I taught there another layer of that ancient land's dust had to be wiped away from the books so that eyes distracted by the glare from outside events might be persuaded to read them with interest and care. Who could blame one of the Iraqi members of the University Board of Trustees for storming out of a meeting one time, saying, "Not another word about Socr ates!" Even one of my American colleagues, a professor of business management, information technology (and mathematics), ended up using his copy of Euclid's Elements as a door stop to his office, thus to demonstrate that he concluded this g r eat book was good for just this function under those conditions. My office door continually swung open to admit one or more of my sixty or so students. They came to see me in groups of ten to fifteen if they wished to persuade me of something: W e think y our questions a r e too hard. If y ou w ant us to succeed you should ask easier questions. This was their way, as I learned, of negotiating potential conflicts: let one pow er p r esent itself to the other power so that the lesser m ight recognize itself as such and r espectfully defer to the great er. Sometimes I could find w ay s to defer in good conscience to reasonable demands: "I will give you take-hoine exams from now on and y ou m ay consult the books and w ork t ogether t o a n sw er the questions. If y ou still do not succeed, t her e w ill b e opportunities for extra cr edit. " (I do not know how we would hav e gotten by without extra credit. It functioned under my dispensation like grace t o sinners.) At other times I told t hem they should have brought mor e of themselv es into my little office -at w hich t hey exited to und ertake their prescribed dut ies in good humor. The students ast onished me to hav e preserved a sw eetness of temperament through the bitterness of their history. They were quite impossible to cure of the kind of collaboration that we call "cheating" or "plagiarism," and w hich t hey call "friendship" or "using the internet." They possessed a great capacity for honor, accompanied accordingly w ith an acut e sense for wrongs done them. Any w eaknesses of character that t hey could tu rn t o their advantage, they did , and some of my colleagues on the faculty paid a heavy p rice for weakness. It was best to stand while teaching them. You had to know w here to look not t o lose heart at t he ever present prospect and evidence of failure. As they looked out the window s in distraction t o t he affair s of the world, I mad e my horizon the mission of the u n iversity, w hose core w as the liberal arts, and there I looked to measure my success. The streets of S u laimani witnessed daily demonstrations for months against the entrenched party interests, and occasionally the street s become violent. The two major Ku r dish parties ordered their militias to occupy strategic positions �52 53 around the city to maintain order. A Peshmerga raid on an al-Qa'ida haven near our housing compound killed five terrorists, as if to remind the restive people not to overthrow their protectors. (The Peshmerga were once Kurdish mountain fighters who have evolved over the years into the professional military of the autonomous Kurdish region. The word conveys "those who stand before death with a knife clenched in their teeth.") We received daily security reports about what to expect and where not to go. Our contingent of body guards was doubled when Osama bin Laden was killed. They sat in the vans next to us, their AK-47's resting in their laps like the briefcases and ·book bags in ours. One of them was trying to learn some English, so I tried to make small talk. He was shy. We took different routes to the university for our security. My several students from Baghdad found all this boring by comparison to home. Sulaimani to them was like Peoria to someone from Manhattan. No bombs went off. One thing remained constant among students wherever they came from. Pressured by parents, relatives, and their own habits of mind to get the good grades and credentials necessary to become engineers, information technologists, or business managers, they demanded to know why they needed to read (for example) Charles Darwin. We are not going to become doctors or biologists, they knowingly declared. Will Darwin be on the exam? "Yes, you are being examined on this author," I replied. What kind of exam? "You may think of it as multiple choice, but you will supply the choices·." How many questions will we have to answer? "You may choose from among them to answer a few or just one - but do answer it well." There will not be enough time. "If there was enough time to make it possible for this conversation to have issued from species that have evolved from fish, there will be enough time for y ou to reflect on that process in the exam." I learned how to enjoy the students for asking me such questions. As Pascal says somewhere, the golden objects of learning are not always high and out of reach, but rolling around at our feet. It is only necessary to be willing to stoop for them. Yet stooping without picking up a satisfactory answer and having to stoop again and again did not please them as sport. Why are you always asking us about things you don't know? How do you expect us to know? We are the students; you are the professor. (Indeed, the sign on my office door said, "Louis Petrich: Associate Professor in the Core." I shall not sit that high again.) They had a point, so I tried to answer the question they kept asking me, in one form or another, all the time: Why are we reading these books? "We read Charles Darwin not to become biologist s," I professed one day, after giving much thought to the matter, "but to distinguish and appreciate the different paths that life has taken over the course of natural history. For example, there is the life of the social insects in the hive - materially secure, well-ordered, the struggle for existence decided in their favor. The path t hat we Homo sapiens hav e taken to regulate the awfulness oflife-not to be �-· 54 55 defeated by it-is a thing we call 'culture,' which unlike the bee hive is devoted to knowing the geometry of its spaces and to delighting in the beauty of colors and forms even in the face of dangers from all sides. Have you heard how Archimedes is reported to have died? He was so determined to finish the demonstration of one more geometrical theorem as the Roman sword hung over his head at the siege of Syracuse that he did not notice when it made its descent. (Ouod erat demonstrandum, 212 B.C.) His preoccupation with geometry (which provided him the know-how for an occupation as a great engineer) is not merely an eccentricity. Preoccupations ·make us human, different from chimpanzees and rats, who learn to solve puzzles and negotiate mazes to earn their bananas and sweets. The choice that you face as students at this university of liberal learning is not between thinking forever like a biologist or an engineer. Your choice is between learning to think freely and bravely for yourselves, or not to think much at all. In either case, the sword is hanging there, yet for some things it has no edge. Think on those things. Does not Holy Scripture say as much? We are all being examined on the multiple choices we make among the higher, lower, and middle paths of life. The paths that life can take are available for our inspection in literature, philosophy, history, and science. What a pity if your shelves do not hold these books. How will you know the path to take?" I apologize if my professed answer sounds platitudinous. As I said at the beginning, this is hard to avoid. I am, after all, a believer in the answer, and yet I must report that my students continued to believe in pressing the question. And so we contested the matter of their education for a year. You will not read about our contest in the news, but when I hear people speak about the outcome of the war in Iraq, I know that our contest at the American University of Iraq is a part of that whole outcome, a good part. Let me tell you about a young, veiled woman named Ziza, who always sat in the front row of our mathematics class. She never said a word, but paid strict attention to every demonstration and wrote down whatever I said or wrote on the board. At the end of the semester I collected the students' math notebooks, in which they were supposed to practice the art of demonst rating and to ponder its difficulties. Ziza used a ruler, compass, and different colored pencils to draw the diagrams and highlight the steps in the proofs, one after another throughout. Her notebook was a thing of manifest beauty. It was, in fact, a book, whose making had taken many more hours than I had intended, yet without any reckoning to me for credit of those hours, as others reckoned to me for much less reason. As I perused the pages of Ziza's craftsmanship I felt happy, yet without quite knowing why I should, for I could not say that she was learning to think mathematically on her own, rather than reproducing with great care and pa- · tience the thinking of others. When I turned to the first page to write something appr opr iate in �57 56 praise of her work and to encourage her to become more public in her learning, I saw in the center of the page a dedication, written in English and Kurdish in beautifully flowing scripts, and surrounded on the margins by the flourishing of geometrical figures that populate Book I of Euclid. The dedication said simply: To the Glory of God. We often hear it said that liberal education is the pursuit of knowledge and beauty for their own sakes, as goods in themselves. That saying was not good enough for Ziza. I did not write anything on that page. I did not write anything at all in her book. Many of my male students habitually carried prayer beads that they audibly fingered in class and everywhere else. I learned to ignore the sound, or to regard it as part of the exotic, like the call to prayer that loudly issued each day around noon from a mosque a block away from the university. I learned not to go to the washroom at that time~too many men crowding in to clean their hands before prayer. I wondered if the pursuit of knowledge and beauty is also a general calling to be followed by those who hear it and recognize the need to keep something in themselves clean for the purpose of pure learning. One of my male students, Bouwar, a Kurdish nationalist, always dressed in traditional attire (the shrwal), an elegant, trim robe with a scarflike belt around the waist, noble and assertive. He lacked only a scimitar to complete the image of the tribal leader and mountain warrior. (Weapons, by the way, were not allowed past the two entrances througli the concrete blast walls that surrounded the American University of Iraq. The signs proclaimed it, and the Peshmerga were stationed there to strictly enforce the ban. Otherwise, I should have other stories than this one t o tell you.) Bouwar liked to interrupt my professing of the things we now know about nature to ask sharp, impatient questions that felt to me hostile to modern science, particularly to Darwin. What's the evidence for that? How do they know that? Is that a fact or just a theory? Do you believe that, Professor? Are there Moslem scientists who believe that? He also fingered the prayer beads as he questioned me. To my imagination, Bouwar could have been a superbly groomed Spartan, and I an infidel Athenian. Bouwar wrote an essay for his history professor that he gave to me as well, since I had argued that Darwin turned biology into a k ind of history. The title of his essay was: "The Great Deceivers." I instantly imagined that the essay contained an attack on Darwin and other theorists of modern science. By the second sentence I realized that much I had imagined about this y oung man was wrong. His thesis was that the prophets were all deceivers, Mohammed being the greatest deceiver of the lot. I was stupefied and in awe, since these are the kind of thoughts, which uttered, can get you quickly killed in that part of the w orld (and other parts, too, less quickly). As I read the essay I recognized where his pointed questions in class were tending. He was covertly digging for solid evidence to use against the authority of the �58 59 prophets. Concerned for his future well-being, I gave him and the class Galileo's "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina" on how to read Holy Scripture in light of scientific discoveries, so that the oneness of truth manifested in nature and revelation might be maintained by a man of reason and faith. The courage of those who calmly accept the uncertainty of how they will earn their living as students of the liberal arts ought to be all the little courage one needs to follow that calling for a while at the university. Surely this is much less virtue to ask of ourselves than we dare to ask of our Moslem brothers and sisters in the bright ·causes of enlightenment and liberty. A letter that I shall keep among my remembrances of my year in Iraq was written to me by a young man named Bakir, an Arab from Baghdad, which a long time ago was the center of learning and wisdom in the West. But seven y ears ago, Bakir's father and uncle w ere mur dered in Baghdad by a squad of Shiah during their attacks on the Sunni, and from their home the remainder of his family had to flee for their lives to Damascus. (I wonder where they liv e t oday, now that Syria has taken its turn as a place from w hich t o flee.) I should mention that the students at the American University of Iraq all had stor ies to tell of death, torture, exile, imprisonment, or the fear of these things, stories that hav e been told befor e, so typically they did not tell them again , unless one wer e fresh or curious enough to ask. Bakir w anted to return to Baghdad some day to help make it great A Faculty Picnic/Lowd Petrich �60 61 again. That was why he intended to study politics at the American University in Sulaimani, where he could also write for the school newspaper, join the debate club, and without fear give expression to his conspicuous thymos. He could not understand why he - Bakir, the future Sunni politician should be forced to study modern life science, at the center of which he found a godless theory. This angered him. I asked the class to consider the motto above the oracle at Delphi: Know Thyself. Where does this self of ours come from? How shall we come to know it? What is its name? Is it bred into the genes of the only surviving species of the genus Homo, which some scientists speculate may have exterminated the Neanderthals and other related species long ago? Is that the story of who we are and why we are prone to anger and violence? Bakir began to listen to the arguments of life science when he saw the political connections, and so one day late in the semester he wrote me the following letter: As long as you are our professor and are lecturing us for the purpose of a superior education, I would like to have a public debate with you at the university: you are with Darwin's theory and I am against his theory. Then both professor and student will have the opportunity to convince the audience about what we both believe. I don't want-like many students-to have a contradiction within myself. So if you publicly refute me and convince me, I will believe in this theory. I think you can understand my situation when I believe in something and one day an American pro- f essor at school comes to me and tells me that what I believed is wrong. Darwin shocked the world by his theory, and I was shocked to hear you say to me that I am not who I thought I was! And I lived my life with a lie. So, imagine my situation currently. What we are going to decide is very essential, Professor. If this is really a university where students are allowed to have challenging personalities, then I am glad to be one of these students. And I challenge you. His words made me think of a Platonic dialogue and chivalric duel. I declined the format, and instead organized a class debate in teams of students on the question of Darwinism. The things that were said in that debate made an awful mess of Darwin. But one thing stood out from the mess. Bakir and his colleagues were not going to be persuaded of their origin from animals. They did not so much mind the idea of animals evolving from animals, but not human beings, not them. From this stance they would not budge. In some respects they were thinking like the pigeon fanciers in Darwin's opening chapter of The Origin who proudly believed that their fancy, prize-winning pigeons were each a special kind, instead of varieties of one species. I felt that this was closedminded of them and that I had failed as their teacher. But I have thought more about Bakir's challenge and stance in that debate since then. His beloved Baghdad, like Socrates' beloved Athens, had gone down the tubes, so to speak, from much war and tyranny. But his human soul, ,I �63 62 like that of Socrates, did not have to follow his city as it went down. In that messy debate about Darwin, the students did not allow themselves to be distracted from the soul's prizes by the recorded or purported events of natural history. To be free of stamping by the events of history-not to be stamped out by time -may that be a prize of the liberal learning that has begun in Iraq? We must hope so. Or else we must meet the challenge and teach them, as once, long ago, they taught us. That challenge is bigger than you think. An abridged version of this essay was delivered as · an address at a conference on liberal education in Tbilisi, Georgia in June of 2011 . Morning Pray ers !Shilcdhya A'dhilcari �64 65 Odd ·Enough to be Even Rohert Schuerman I hardly have an inkling how a bird song sings so sweet When not one jot of ink gets penned upon a noted sheet Nor have I come to fathom, how a millipede accords To navigate each step it takes to harmonize the hordes Nor do I fully see the sense, when my myriad leggd' friend Is by that song bird, made a meal, to meet his fate ful end Croquet 4/ Megan FauLlcner And yet, an intuition, like some solitary sea Attuned to be the many, in one single symphony Plays upon my reason .. which, I've come to understand Calls the tune, invisible, to turn the world at hand Leads across a bridge of time, in, this eternal land Where paradox, meets metaphor To find an irony In every answer.. questioned by The likes of me .. and you .. �66 67 A Wholly Sonnet I too awoke to see my world as wrong, Like life entire was up and passing by And soi wondered, had I lost the song? Until I sought out somewhere I could cry To tell how real the time is present, now Its story grows while welling up inside My need to pray.. but no, I don 't know how. Though still, my soul, itself, no longer hides Its sound gives sense to all I fail to see For everywhere I look, that's nowhere clear, But, . of a wholly what it means, to Be. While this idea's beyond me, I draw near To heed its call which sojourns with the wind Though too, lies still, in wisdom for to lend. Rebecca/ Adam Mar(Lfchlcy �energeia st. john's college p.o. box 2800 annapolis, md 21401 � 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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Because now I am from last year to talk with Editor, and that means I have to eat, or refused to sleep and breathe The Gadfly. And The latest febbie class has arrived So far I've expanded the staff and gotten through of all the menial new- and it seems editor type of stuff. Now it's time to come them and warn them about their ;~,,.,..,..,,..u together. The febbie classes are make this paper into MY dream. So, guess what? both wel- stereotyped as a The Gadfly as you tense group of know it will be no more. It's time to mten~sting turn it into what it's always been to turn The Gadfly into the MILITANT treated the rest of the student there is an a while. The worst can new faces, it is needless to say that the for it to be! That's right, no more arrival of febbies is a re pres this paper! Well, the mobs will be well-crafted to fit my hard- are beating down the doors of The core feminist agenda. Gadfly office to cringe to think what will be sit- make a coup d' in your mailboxes awaiting your I should introduce the new staff, since the most of the paper. But before I do but I bet you not, 1...1u11...1.iLJ.. like to call to your attention that there are still more closed mind! Now it's all me. I OWN much the same as the one Ms. Catania and of the school. headfirst into the school's social and acedemic the so write. Write and "commission" mean 'Olnut~"no- course, we'll have be yours to listen the cial ~,,, have .... ,,,,. ,.,., ... .,. their spe- ~~.,~"'"'"' would be an understatement to say febbie summer shouldn't have the you're interested. too shy /lazy I apathetic to send your ideas tAnd the staff is: campus mail and we'll get other people to write them. 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The first way in which this becomes ,....,..,..,.....,.,.,,....,+ is that students cram them- going to pick an Assistant Editor. a.d. notes ............................p. 7 Campus Security Foils .................... p. 9 Political forum ..................p. The Buzz ............................ p. a on the ,,,,,.,.,.,f",r•n of that ~~ .. LHAL~i·~- Febbies stand all the stuff. of much open that you, yes you, can take. We still my vision is interest on the the His ;~,,~.,..,...,,,..,,.,. febbie class is 1...1c:1J1...1.1.c. semester without FEMINIST paper I've been dreaming IND auno·ug;n he was of '.:>nun·.,,no- as febbies. mare. Yes, you guessed it, it's time Each week when he or she arrives. He said This class is esbecause of its size: Dear t<etJD1es. I'm afraid if say v'-<,/l~'-L in- students will take their meant to be: it's your worst night- woman-bashing news. Every word someone fi- comment on their I'm not going to let you forget it. old that their loss mc.... c.iu some shelf The doors of both the music liand the lab received -...uutc~J::..' from a screwdriver used to force them. "The need for additional se- The must be " Mr. Stolztfus said of the robberies. He is sorry to see this come about because he has how students the and each other." Now due to the thoughtlessness of someone from outsiale our campus Lv.uu .• , ........... security may end up restricting students. As far as aan intriguing 1ffve~:;t1!2"a tion goes, there is none. The amount of the loss is too little to warrant any serious trouble. 1996 3 �of a no more pure· definition of misery. Some people looked up of us, at some Letters Policy: Letters of 200 words or less have a better chance of being published than those longer. Letters will not be edited for grammar, puncuation, or spelling, and will be printed exactly as submitted. The Gadfly does not print anonymous submissions, exunder circumstances. Please submit all articles and letters on a Macintosh-formatted disk. Dear Editor: At our ~~'"·~~A, it seems to me, we aim to be exact, correct, precise, accurate, and right about things in general. For if seminar someone claims the author made statement and the person does not know where in the there is ususomeone who can cite precisely where that passage is. I have a better example: Mr. Sageng, a dedicated tutor, is one such person who always aims at being accurate, because he, for a long time now, has been letters to the Gadfly, asking our distinguished women soccer team, the infamous K1JVaL, to their name from the now-in-incorrect-Greek form to the form which is exact, coraccurate, and -n"rn'"''" KVVE£. He has given many reasons as to why the name should be but his have been '"'~,,~U.H it in the if these ladies still need one more reason to change the name of their team, how about because dog!) is Socrates' favorite "-1Ai'P::1r1n oath? But I move from this topic now, for it is not the of my letter. I to attend last "Waltz" and to tell the did not hear any waltzes all. Of course that I was for the entire time, but I did ask other people who were there that told me there were a couple of them played. The kind of music which was predominantly played was swing, being followed by polkas, and finally tango. I do admit that I did not count how many of each were played, but I am remembering what made an impression on me for the time I was there other words, I am being as exact as the situation requires me to Now, if these parties are advertised as "Waltz" parties, then, is not waltz the primary type of music being played? So, my is to propose a simple, succinct, and viable solution: To make the name of the conform to the music being played, or viceversa. I hope the Waltz Committee hears my however, that tutors are not even ... never mind. I am Dear Mailroom Patrons: From the first time I entered the St. College Mail and ReComplex, located, as you all on the nether side of the Coffeeshop, I knew I was Somewhere Special. Aside from the obvious benefit of with the lis United States Postal Staff at 6:30 in the morning, I also get to use the Magic Metered Mail a device which has its own beeping-button language and thus the mailroom aide to punch in numbers like 6318, translated, means Admissions, or 152, meaning But speakmore of these gladnesses would be a digression from the more somber of my letter. Which is mail I have observed many digressions from proper behavior from you mail and as some of you may not know better I will instruct you. Jn list no less: 1. Attempts to reach one's box into adjacent boxes by pushing one's arm way in is grounds for having the offending hand whacked with a J. Crew catalog. 2. Putting outgoing mail in one's box and then asking, with a of irritation in one's voice, go out is poor form. the offending (or offended?) mail will there until the penitent in the mail slot. 3. Talking of private matters at one's mailbox is not a good idea, and grates on the delicate gossip-repelling souls of the gentle mailroom staff. Mailboxes and security envelopes mail private, but transmit sound ~~-A~•·'A the selfsame mailroom aides often know more about the loosehpped one than one think. 4. Verily, falsely accusing mailroom staff of going your mailis poor form, We didn't even open tant looking Publishers' Ll12armJ;;hc)w;e $10,000,000 Sweepstakes or"""'1''n"' dressed to "Eva B. Dean." 5. On that special '-'"""'-"'"'HJ)~n--£·emml! a package slip-one should be on one's best behavior; one should not be be? in our from the street with concerned looks on their faces. I felt ~~·,iA·~--J~ . . . ~~--~··~~to a campus security guard for rescue when we have locked ourselves me, a ladder... from somewhere. to officer, sorry to bother you like I have moved off campus, the tradition lives on, as this story I'm about to tell illustrates. So this is pression of much due to our an ex- this ... " the campus I security. It was a Saturday morning during winter break. I was mindlessly taking out the garbage when it happened. The door was locked. I don't have to tell you that it was a bad Sure enough, the security officer and I busted the bulb in the of Grief in a very intense 6 seconds: c'mon ... (sigh). When I accepted the The 23, 1996 room struggling to unwedge the ladWhen we finally ,nL~~·,i~·-·1 the ladder out, looked down at what I was five stages again. The door to the other apartment was open, so I used the there to call a locksmith. Of course, "A'""~'"~~i, sighing, "What we do for students ... where live?" When we none were in. to the we set up the ladder under my window. "Think you can make it?" he asked, as the work ethic of locksmiths 11 he braced the ladder for me. man, "Don't your poor little feet It took me 10 minutes to sidle l N~ca:use Piece o' cake, I said. onto the feel co-ow-ld?" I was wearing scrambled up onto the a stalked out to the edge me that the task was at guard was in uni- so we didn't look like we were breaking into above my bedroom win- and looked down. don't feel ma'am, thank you. At least the someone's house. I to the of the and looked up at the window. Oh boy. I started to feel the definite clothes per- of my flesh again. It told me that I had had enough "You don' look too excited about gettin' up there. Come on down tern Bar & Grill catedly-sometimes very organized. Even though CB stands for cabinet, we would like you to think that they actually stand for something Coffee Be~s or Crate Beta-or something like that. 6. Accusing us of Keeping Your Mail in a Secret Place Instead of Putting it in One's Box just because one has not gotten mail say, five hours is grounds for being told to "get a life" c'mon ... " His jacket looked ' untouched • the elements. The treads of his boots gripped the ledge like rubber molars. The screen-door was like styrofoam in his hands. I I I I I I I With this coupon one breakfast lunch o.r dinner and get the second of or lesser free. goin' in," he All right, I'm as he raised a dramatic. Yep, right where it mat- Does not include beverage, tax, or Valid everday, all day. Expires 2/15/95. L-V.>-U-c;.,;;,_ 11 leg. Then his pants ripped. Nice, loud, ters most. It took me an instant to believe that it happened. I felt bad for :.!Jeer &:.!Jest !Jv[a;!Jan'tas in rzown" this kind man, but I couldn't help it-I was deeelighted. Now which philosopher was it that noted the reaction of continued on page 7 till 2 am ~et._ conintued on page 7 4 I had into some parking lot and picking a ~~A~·~-,,., The 23, 1996 5 �------------------------------------- . 11.lllBllB... . • on the Waves in This is the second week the work needed· to ........ ._._'-'_._.could be done. R USSIAN PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin announced on the evening ofJanuary 18 that the Russian Army had managed to overcome Chechen rebels who had been trapped in a village called Pervomayskoye after taking hostages. In the darkness and snow of early morning on January 18, a group of surviving rebels broke out of the village and united with Chechen reinforcements that had arrived after marching across the frozen Terek River from Chechnya the before. The rebel group attacked a group of Rus- Russian soldiers stand near Chechen dead sian troops encamped in the nearby after the battle over Pervomayskoye of Sovietskoye, attracting a Russian counterattack and causing a general battle to ensue, in which the Russians killed most of the Casualty estimates vary, but the Rusrebels. sians claim that 26 of their soldiers were killed and 93 wounded. go'11er·nn1enLt, which has also say that had killed 153 taken a in world prestige as a Chechens and 30. result of the bungled operation, reports to reports, the leader of the rebel group, that only 16 of the original 120 hostages Salman Raduyev, escaped are missing. This is a.t variance with into the woods and back into Chechnya earlier stories reporting that the from the village, which is a few Chechens had executed all of the hos- miles beyond the Chechen border. N Greece's gov erning Socialist Party elected a moderate reformer, Costas 59, as the country's new prime minister. The election, held by the party's 167 parliamentary deputies, was finalized on a second ballot when Simitis won 86 votes to beat a surge of for Akis Tsohatzopoulos, a 6 The Three Chiao, Daniel T. and Commander Winston E. Scottof the Navy went on two-man space walks on Monday and to tools Women's basketball is start. In this like the Maenads is averag- ~~·~~~-~~--~stressed 76, confined to nosm.ta1bed since November 20, resigned as minister last week, but remains as the leader of the Panhellenic ~~·L-'-""''-'-•-'< 1v1'"'"'' 7Y'H~ni- which he founded 22 years ago. 23, 1996 over the first game. blue are of Mr. Carter and a Mr. Werlin eightysomething), and Gearing (class of And have the freshman bonus Mr. The Guardians have the benefit of the fine skills Fe need for portance of change. the and the irn- Sirnitis is expected to tackle the enormous bureaucracy that has grown over the years. This will prove to be difficult, as the offices are filled by Papandreou supporters, but Simitis' backers are optimistic. ~ tation marks.) 7. mail in with neither postage nor any form of return address is grounds for it up in the Saint Central Mail and Control Center's Box of Pos Shame and · a box sometimes serves as home for addressed to St. John's College or Current 60 Avenue. No refined mail would want his his class, First Class, letter to be in that sort of Class company. Yours Derek The 996 �II The boathouse 8 The Gadfly! The 23, 1996 9 �By Derek Alexander '99 and Marker '97 On Wednesday the 17th, the Political Forum hosted a discussion on the ~ederal budget. The discussion among mterested students ranged in topic from the proper focus of entitlement to the time frame in which to achieve a balanced budget. The conversation drew on historical lessons, opinion, and current news articles, especially those articles and charts that were given as the night's reading. Though the various political leanings of those present was often obvious, a common attempt to listen and to consider each other's oom1Lorts was equally apparent. The Political Forum wishes to be an environment where such consideration and frank speaking is the standard. Why, the Forum asked, should the balanced budget have a seven year time frame, instead of one that is shorter or longer? Would a substantial decrease in federal entitlement spending, like welfare and Medicare be made up for by an increase in charitable aid for the needy? While these specific questions and concerns are now a past topic for the Political continuing to ask questions of this sort about many current political issues is a standing goal There will be this semester: a ski opera, bands on campus, and much more. now you should have received the 1996 activities order form. I've listed those upcomevents as well as other events below. The Student Life Committee has been irnt0l1errlerttir1g new ideas. One of the time you read this article: Two cafes in town-the Moon and The on the committee. vVe want students and tutors to have alternative venues in which to meet, convene, paper con-''-"-'-.. '·'-'--· chat and out without to pay for it. Either a student or a tutor can initiate the outabove per is up to the individuals. More than one tutor or one student is fine too. should be great fun. the Student Life Commit- Both bands are favorites at lege. weekend BWI shuttle you have about see my handout "How to to and from your own" available at week. This is to remind you that it is the not to release the address or number of a curenrolled student to anyone over teJ.eohc•ne unless that student has given the a signed waiver that such information may be disclosed over the telephone. Please refer any inquiries of this nature to the Office of the Registrar. Calls '-'"'·uaJI.•)', into the Switchboard after office hours will have to be waived until Office is ~~-A~r,,.... Thank you. R. Lewis classes with ct--::• ..-h-nrr this PM in Mellon Room 141. If you have any interest in any aspect of ~~·-H''"'' from to Shakes·pe1are come. These classes are free form and open to all who are interested. No with the , Munchies served. The Forum's next event is on Tuesday, February 6 at 7:30 pm when it welcomes William Ney, editor of the New Combat in New York and former student of St. John's. The topic for his lecture and subsequent discussion is "An Eccentric History of the Western Response to the Bosnian War." His onlocation experience, combined with his legal and publishing expertise make him an especially qualified speaker. All are welcome to attend. Also, those interested in meeting and speaking with Mr. Ney over dinner prior to the open forum should contact Derek Alexander immediately, as space for the dinner is quite limited. The 4:00-5:30 4:00-5:30 6:30-8:00 " ,_ . . . . r. The deadline for submissions for this year's is 30. We accept submissions on all in all forms. prose, tutol-'-'-''--'-~-1-1 •papers, and art are all welcome all members of the col~~ li ~ submit anything, please send it through campus c/ o Energeia. Energeia is also looking for people who would like to type submissions onto disk for publication. Typists are paid at a rate of $8 /hr. If you are interested in typing for us get in touch with Chris Anderson campus or at 956-5210. The 23, 1996 �~.C!C. :fllitt11te1'•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Minutes of the Delegate SilvermanandB.Rettig(Campbell),R. Schmidt (Chase Stone). (whichwill,nodoubt,followtheclub budget request format perfectly) in to me by Friday before the meeting you want to present at. tional, promotional, and speakers' expenses, as well as dinners for the speakers and interested students. Iko Buccellati presented a charter for the German Club and a budget request for $20 for copies (of German, presumably). The D.C. now has $3929.95 gentle and meek dollars - soon to be augmented by new crisp, spirited money. If you (you meaning chartered clubs, not. empty-walleted Johnnies) want some of it, get your budget requests Agenda for January 23 ... Council meeting held on Tuesday, January 16, 1996 at 6:30PM Nelson Hernandez, Political Forum in the Conversation Room Archon, asked for $922.10 for operaNew Officers: Now sitting at the prestigious Curved Section of the Conversation Room table are: Steve Urich, President; Derek Alexander, Secretary; Bill Erskine, Treasurer; Lee Hoggard, Polity Attorney. Attendance: President S. Urich, Secretary D. Alexander, Treasurer B. Erskine, Polity Attorney L. Hoggard, L. Dowty (Randall), J. Villasenor and J. Coonce (Pinkney), L. Fitzpatrick (Paca), L. Freeman (off-campus), A. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Coonce, Jennifer (Editor-in-Chief) Title A name given to the resource The Gadfly, Vol XVII Issue 11 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1996-01-23 Description An account of the resource Volume XVII, Issue 11 of The Gadfly. Published January 23, 1996. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 17 #11 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/28fa31884ac1512078472eb79f2015b5.pdf 8f2de71e03d4e8539894fd0bda6023ed PDF Text Text �time. Does matter if a name is not in the strict and literal sense if ,,~~.,,;.,,~~·· rn·,oro112oln the circumstances. lln llmi111 llmmiam : ""'" " s ?% "" Dear Editor: best holds the function and essence of the basement of McDowell Hall. And when I hear the words "Waltz I think of the Great am alone in this ""',....... a,t-h•.,...,.,. that has been our is the words? It's it. after I arrived at St. John's- let's not fix The literal ""·'""' . . ""'·'-''J.l classroom need not everydon' t you think Mr. Villasenor? I remain yours, 1 98 Waltz Committee Archon about two and a half years dents from the other classes. A lot of ,_,~~ ..... .,_ry,.,,_,,,,,,,." introduced themselves to me 0 ~r 1 T'l• rrc to . these were students who had has been to learn the technical that the Calculus manual is the art of Calculus. well-versed ~ ~~"' '~·.,,.,, me as very old and wise. I am a and the senior year are close a for- and math tutorials. Calculus was, until A friend of mine has but were still lost the "freshman year associate with naive newcomers like me. On the and Most seniors intimidated me; Dear Editor: year so strenuous? to meet stu- is the sern.inar year struck love. Alyear is ~i.-. .-~·~A- hand. ana- and in order to understand and discuss these my belief in wisdom is not as unsame. Whether or not the music Waltz Parties should be if we're"',.,..,,,,,..,,.,. precise, accurate and Mr. Villasenor. After see consumed there than "Pizza lacks the must inform readers of the mentioned letter and yes, the traof name "Coffee " I think Coffee and I see tutors and students a freshman. characters of freshman a tu- torial I look around the has been a of debate as of late all remember the All-Waltz Parties thrown by my predecessor). On that I will say only that the Waltz Committee the . . . . ~,..,,.,...,,,,~ ,;,,n-r..,,.., was Sometimes ,..,,..,,~~,~~"" seems to me that the shakable as it was room and realize that "".,..,~,.,_."',.,,,..,.,....,,., is used in and oaths" and is the oath in the accusative case, have and it means says the " as I translated it. these many whom I have been have in classes year, have between. went about years at this school? Shouldn't we have learned how to listen to one one any It's true that the Waltz Committee throws parties that do not ..., ....... ...._.__,,_u.u feature the Waltz. And r~~·~~''" speaking, it should be called the ::,V1,1mj;r- is that cerhold a ,..,,... . . ,..,... n certain amount of tradition. These are should not be lost. I are harmful in any The answer three both of these ques- tions should be "yes." But even more is that should this material matter to this sort of dis- I would chalk up my weather or to my hormones or to my ested who is the books we are was malaise. Her first reaction was to say she and to ask me if that the Dean said she had never noticed a trend among to be disa friend who i n 0 · " " '' 0 ated from St. to is .,...,,,H,,,. 0 to the life. But I I expected the Dean's response/ her suggestion my discontent with should be caused by my sleeping h"""""'""' or disinterand the discussions iJLL'-..JL\.H.AU•CF-, any deficiencies in the Pro- gram. me?" If I were the am one of many the Dean to find out what her was unaware of this Dear Editor: meals made cash do·"'" ..... v.'"''' and as a result a check in the amount of $388.25 is sent from to Oxfam America, for the St. benefit of around the are few and far Middlemarch or seminar discussions and we be able to discussion after "'"'JLl.J!..'c:u. Books like Pastille on my makes me , . lil1111la 1111 lasli111 , those in the who took in the Oxfam Fast for a World Harvest last November. myreckon114 ,,;.,,,,-.l~~.i.,., and staff a kind of that has no b /1 is to for a where everyone has fun - if anyone feels he or she is left out, then there is a solution. Talk to me or to the rec1ue·sts will not be'~·",..,_,,,..,,,-.! 11 year frustrated and was interested in the cause of my disenchantment with the materials. She sugDlSCONTENT continued on page 5 at lunch I hear fellow LEITER continued on p. 12 2 The 1996 The 30, 1996 3 �11 Until you know that aesoan you can't say that there is no such freshman year as we read Euclid and become in the ancients. By the time we reach and ,_._L.._._._,.,,._.u year we think like ancient Greeks or medieval theologians. This under " the counter was ing cells under a microscope as Molecular of my Mr. Pastille out that the social life of a married ... it's the c and at the could not the result I obtained. The prediction LV.._,._._,'-''"'"'C'- ior year can be such a shock to many of us. I also spoke to the Assistant my experiment; one group was made up of cells that had had, as a must absorb is excessive: "It comes on at a very fast rate. It's too much. Too fast." is tedious as well. /Jlt' s like being experiments confirmed that the situation in my exoerm1er1t I had two groups of cells in perrrLeab1l1ZE~d of information a why the outside world often seems at the Lab in the department of sionment." Mr. Pastille also said he believes the amount so alien to gested that the different groups of cells reacted different last summer, I was viewing and count- my fingers. One as wretchedness or junior disillu- after incubation in a solution which caused large pores on the from our analysis also to be in some later experiments. The observation I made in my experiment did not I should have seen. It the the .... ~1-''-''-CULL.1.'-'il of the demanded result. Deans about can teach not to be an- by the little things it will stand you in good stead for the disillusion- ment. Mr. Schoener told me that rest of your sophomore year had been more Schoener and the Dean assured " had not tried to create the results which other group was intact cells. I then stimulated all the cells syndrome. But if you ife." Both Mr. me that senior year would be better. And the Dean had this to say with a needed compare time courses of the two different groups. after incubation in the stimuli solution for 30 what was the per- centage of cells -norrnte:a 10.1.'.u.L~c:u. reactions to the stimuli among cells and intact To be count- ing cells under a HLH.. .Lvo•~U•-''- was not much ·~·~~.~.--. said that students who have year you year do scientific research cal ,.....,,-H<:n·n It is necessary to them. This allows scientists to be aware of actually was not terrible for Mr. the final window. Though Mr. Pastille was never a it was bor- scientists look established. The the mistake I made changes which the cells he did recall self never so frustrated book out of a with a Hume reading that he threw he could ap- -'-'-'-_._~,·~ the difficulties of not the orea1ct:Lon ing and tedious. This particular this to say: I/Come spring of next into my observations. cells would react to stimuli more quickly. To reach a con- me taught all The were psy- that 1 ' The year I happy will that guy anI am still an un- who runs away from cheerful freshmen and bemoans my fate at I am not as devoid of as I once was. Mr. Pastille's words of classes was a experience. classes made me feel like the sucked out of me." As to the malaise is a Mr. Pastille had this rne.'" true and noythe These at You will think to your- but in all that stuff lies the truth." -------------We our under- standing of the outside Southwestern Bar & Grill prediction about the results of my .._,~ 1_,..__._H'"''-' that the faster than the intact cells. By looking at the action which were shown Dr. • of re- the different groups of exist in our minds. When all of these presupposi- noticed the difference. This awareness my observation. The results I obtained fit our .._,..,.._,~L ......... ..,_L .. tions work the truth and lead us to inaccuracy, we call them prejudice. Sometimes people cannot one-sided in their views. It was found from being to me that preju- wrote that I had made a mistake during the experrnne1:1t dice in my mind could be so unnoticeable and that it could Before I had stimulated the group of intact cells, I had incu- have such a huge affect on my scientific research. bated the cells in the solution of the drug I was to In the domain of science, prejudice is fatal. The pur- permeabilize cells. The "intact" cells that I used in my ex- pose of scientific research is to reveal the truth of the world periment were not intact. and come to a better understanding of nature. Prejudice membrane. ' cells would respond to the stimuli were cells with holes on the all the cells I studied were the same. works this It can make a skillful researcher I I I With this coupon I breakfast or dinner and I or lesser I Does not indude beverage, tax, or tip. I Valid everday, all day. Expires 2/30/95. I cofifest !!Jeer I Dock I ________________ _ L 11 1 (Please.) SUNGLASSES continued on p. 9 4 The 1996 The 5 �door on him! the enteris hold- I have four classes. kind of awkward to because there's a lot of rec:i.mng involved." Of course, a schedule of the burden of being a and as weather gets more the workload. summer we're all insane. Chandler sees the side a napolis at the Ira Pinto Riordan's and Griffin's. Ms. the daily to answer interested collector's time member of Caritas. The Caritas in than in other cities across the nation. The Foundation raises funds for students at St. which are zations and charities. ov•ronn its space for of tutor's works as rule. There..-.c.-rt-.:>f"'r chance to see a different of rrn::eE~as form the sale of any of the framed of the "In House Garden" exhibit will be donated to the Caritas Foundation Ms. Pinto. Some of Mr. Raditsa's works be at the annual Caritas Flower Show Fundraiser in order to fulfill the needs students and to And means taken collection House Garden" will be and winter to various views of classic hundredStreet in the center of His- cop wight 6 996 ~rno ! Pinto's group. a prorE~ss:mrta1, an historian with a Ph.D. in ancient He books and many articles on various historical and current issues. He is founder of the St. Review and the Prince Street Press. Raditsa is the American corre- your time!' young the young I have to we now live After see eyes." 1996 �• i..:~,.,¥-~'"'"''""' take on the Hustlers in Volleyball, this week's featured match in the intramural The More on agreed talks in Cario last week to try to increase the influence of American minorities in U.S. elections. Libya's state-run news agency said the two men agreed to "mobilize the minorities to a role in American political life." "Our confrontation with America used to be like a fortress from outside," Colonel Gadhafi told after Farrakhan. "Today we have found a to enter the fortress and confront it from within." Farrakhan was ~,...y,,.....~4-,....-1 "I have met my nel Moammar Gadhafi ... for the sake Arabs, blacks and oppressed communities in America to is oh so sweet. The Druids defeated the Guardians in their hard Brennan, Berkobein would agree Yet more on "In measure a lot of this is about Gadhafi worm his way back into the graces of the " House Press Michael said of the declaration. Farrakhan is "' ...............'-' ... imooterlt and all efforts void. It wastes the investment of and the en- G REECE ANNOUNCED Jan. 26 that it still seeks war reparations from Germany, of a loan Athens was forced to give the occupying Nazis during World War II. The German government a formal request in November for reparations, claiming that the claim years after the war's end was unprecedented. It said Greece was not entitled to more than the $81 million it received 8 The fered as a result of Nazi persecution. because the other side says no every time you it does not mean you asking for what you want," Greek Minister Theodoros YangaH)S said. Greece says as many as 130,000 Greeks were killed and another 300,000 died of starvation the 1941-45 Nazi of Greece. ~ achievements. it affects may let one be narrow-minded and stubborn. of cooperativere1ahonshJi.ps It may create distance between everyone in a community. It may rlPstrnv freedom and <=LI 1u.a.t.LL How can we manage to keep ourselves away from "ContemFriedrich Schiller says, "is the first liberal relation that man establishes with the universe around him." A co1:lte~m1Jlat1 contemremoves its to a distance beyond the reach of prejudice. is like a of sunglasses to our minds, if we see the world .........~.,,~.., pr~21udIC:e, in our vision will have an extra color which does not belong to them. •-'w",.,...,,.,,.... would make our minds comof percepfortable with the tion we ,.,....,,,""''",., The 1996 eyes. We are inclined to our because of less we are able from the c i "'""'''" be cat)able �Gold .Ballet about your '-'""·'-'"•/-'-"'U"''-' should handle them. you know the answer. But case you I'll tell you: a little whine. You and Piano Concert No.1. Gisele Ben-Dor conducts and Tzimon Barto on at the Hall for the Creative Arts. Call the ASO at 263-0907. read he is a stoic and would never call what he does For your information ment, the without some when his stomach is but he likes in number of his suffer the laws of our condition". He goes on to remind us this is the firs lesson "the Mexicans '--'-•.u~.._,_,", so soon as ever thus salute from S53). for details. no r>nnn-nri 4-6 p.m. Harrison Health tice to lament that which has beanyone, which may befall ev- decreed you and you prome, or send a carrier ~'!'-•'"''-'·"· extension 286. ,._..,L........... ..., ..... U ; Waltz Archon -Mid-Winter Ball March 23 -TBA 6-~,Drm 27 Contest up after the last Waltz we necklace made of little beads with a circular cherub If it's yours, or you know its owner, call me. The Waltz Committee meets 1<=>"11-n1·no- Minute The Placement Office is sponsoring a Medical Careers Forum on Wednes31at7:30 p.m. the liam Room of the Invited guests include: Graham l{edgra-1re ('90SF), current medical stu1n1v<=>1·c:itu· Bar- The �2 world. Both these numbers are all-time for thanks are due to John ~~ .... ~.1-o ~ his for their wonderful cooperation; to Bud Billups, Carol Clark and Joyce Alberts of the Treasurer's and to two students, and Ben ... ,. ,. ............. ,.,. . . who volunteered their time to help in this If anyone is interested in geting more information about Oxfam, I have addresses and phone numbers. Tutor ..... ... bara Hum ('87SF), current medical student at Dr. David Krimins College physician specializing in nary /internal medicine and critical care; and Goodall, a local nurse All students in a career in health care, students curious about the field, should attend. This is your chance to learn what to do and what not to do the road to a medical career. by '98 security at St. John's has never been very high. Upperclassmen can tell all kinds of stories about curious townies, homeless vagabonds, or drunken alumni that they've found in dormitories or at their doors in the middle of the night-or that have found them. The strangers usually into the buildings through doors that have been propped open with rugs, of furniture or blocks of wood. Security is ficracking down. and all passive accomplices and benefactors will be fined $100. Students react the news: "It's not an issue for most males." - Andre ~-·~AA~A• "Definitely good. Our security's at stake. People.should carry their cards." - Kristen a card-carrying freshman on Third Randall. "Bad idea! What if you forget your keycard? Me? I'm not afraid. I'm a big boy now." - Ben a fearless and immense Second Campbell junior. "It's a good idea. This is our home, we should tor it for safety and - Kristen the everwatchful First Campbell RA. and a senior. freshman bell. 'T d love to see them catch me. Paca doors are very easkicked open, anyway." .. , Karen Holland Director of Placement Founded in 1980, The Gadfly is a student distributed free to over 600 students, and staff of the campus as well the Board of Visitors and Governors, and Pro·dUicttcm Manager: Jehanne Dubrow Copy Editor: Anne Kniggendorf Ph<>to~~raJ)hV Editor: Mary K. ManaJ;?;er: Jackie Camm Photos: Matt Freitas, Printing by the St. John's College Print Shop St. John's College P.O. Box 2800 Annapolis, MD 21404 to accept, reject, and edit submissions in any way npr·pc:c:;,nr the most informative, ontort,;nn1no-nrr"'"1""'0" n1ew:maoer which circumstances at St. r . . h,r~~·•nhn.nc are available for $35.00. tributions are appreciated. Please make checks Gadfly. For display advertisement prices and information, call 263-2371, ext. 320. Deadline: Friday at 5:30 p.m. Submissions may be submitted in any Macintosh or RTF format on a 31/2" floppy disk along with a typed copy. Typed submissions are no longer acceptable. � 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 The Gadfly Description An account of the resource Founded in 1980, The Gadfly is a weekly student publication distributed to over 600 students, faculty, and staff of the Annapolis campus. Click on <a title="The Gadfly" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=16&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&sort_dir=d">Items in the The Gadfly Collection</a> 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. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 17 #12 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/9467e8cb9e5a4b03c49cd01bd9bdbe98.pdf e336b56790832867be82707a134ccf6b PDF Text Text �---------------swing, what interest could there be in for .,...,,.,.,,..,,.-le of time? The secret to the of those upperclassmen I mentioned was that made their way around the dance floor many times, at death-despeeds. would around themselves while at the same time making a circle around the room. Sophomores may correct me if I am wrong, but I believe this sort of motion bears a striking resemblance to Ptolemy's epicyclical of planetary motion. In other motion is divine. This is felt in the thrill and terror of around the room at speeds trying not to crash into others. I certainly agree with Ms. Lutz that many imprecise names hold a charm that would be lost if the n"\r•r..,rr-n1_ rnr'\u1no-1-2-3 in the same Dear Gadfly: In light of the recent breech of security in the computer lab, I would like to offer the following story, and suggestions. When I went to check my email this evening, I found that the computer lab door was shut, as it should always remain. This was not a problem because I have gotten into the habit of carrying my key-card with me at all times since campus security has become such an issue. As I was reading my mail there was a knock at the door. In times past I would have simply waved my hand so that the motion sensor would unlock the door. It occurred to me, however, that the hacker could be the person on the other side of that door, and that if it was a student who had forgotten their key-card they could run back to their dorm to get it. Someone else in the lab opened the door (they apparently had not heard of the security problem). The person who entered was not a student. Through a short discussion with this rude non-student I learned that he felt he had a right to use the St. John's College student lab. Perhaps it should not be called the student comif we changed the name to the community of Annapolis public cmnputE::r lab he would have had the right to use it. Never the less, it remains the student computer lab and it is maintained by St. John's, and as such it should be reserved for the college community. I do not believe this person had the right to use the computer lab for the following reasons: 1) St. John's pays for the maintenance of the and therefore we students pay for it with our tuition. 2) He was taking a computer away from students who were waiting to use one by saying that he was involved in "legitimate web activities". 3) If he caused any damage to the computer or the lab in general St. John's does not have an easy way to hold him responsible and we would have to pay the bill. 2 The seems fair that the students of this college pay for this non-students computer usage. For all I know this guy was the hacker, and he easily got into the computer lab even after everyone had heard what had happened. I think we should all be much more careful about letting people into the computer lab. I am not saying that we should prevent alumni from coming in from time to time, but we students pay for anything that happens. I personally do not want to pay for someone else to damage our computer lab. Remember the person you let into the computer lab could be the hacker. Dear Readers: Can you me understand this poem Emily Dickenson? 1463 A Route of Evanescence With a revolving WheelA Resonance of EmeraldA Rush of CochinealAnd every Blossom on the Bush Adjusts to its tumbled HeadThe mail from Tunis, ,__.,.,,-..h·::ihln And easy RideIf you have ideas about what it means, please direct them to me through Campus Mail. Patricia Locke Tutor llisillmsilH"IR'llH"ll, IBI Dear Editor: I found Ms. Dubrow' s article on Junior year disillusionment provocative, as I'm sure many other people did. I wonder if the college community is aware that discussions on just that sort of go on every thursday, at 1996 11:30, in the private dining room. I'm referring to the weekly meeting of the Student Committee on Instruction. Besides being worthwile in thE~m~3el,.res our discussions are presented to the faculty's instruction committee, sometimes in the form of proposals. Let anyone hungry for more discussion of the program, the seminar, the ·~·-~~A~A~, or anything else meetings, and share their with other interested members. Sincerely, Matthew Caswell S.C.I. To whom it may concern: Amidst the debate about precision in naming, with its special reference to "Waltz Parties" where few waltzes are played, I I insert the fol1,...."'"no- plea for more waltzing. When I was a -1-...ach1rn,,,..-. was a solid fixture at Waltz Parties. Those who didn't know includwould gaze in admiration at such upperclassmen as Seidman, Nathan etc. as they glided across the dance floor. Are these Gods or men?" we all wondered as flew trying to study their intricate foot patteirns for clues to their divine magic. As the years went by, less and less people were It's not too hard to see why. Most people who were stuck to the center of the room, and did not move around very much. This is and the current method of most St. John's waltzers. Without many exciting moves like between what a "Waltz to and what it does now seems unfortunate. its deft moves and is a great dance, the waltz with its circular motion is divine. Its loss at St. find there able to retrieve account "'"''"""''"~·r1c. the almost 400 users on the system. At around 9 PM. on the of the incident, a student in the lab of Pinkney Hall noticed a file on screen at another terminal. "It was consistent with some one someone else's "exAssistant Dean Abe Schoener. was able to students' "We don't know how many passwords he We know he used at least one," says Schoener. But the of almost 400 OL'-'!J'-L'-'"'LI."' up and internal services were disabled. the software ~~,~~... .-.~1"'"' in the Lab was ,,CJ.TTHH11n1T terminal to be a non-student, and therefore one who should not have any access to the internet via the school's local server. After some m\1est1g:at11)n, ".>n·nc:>rDr't- that a 1"L>r•£Ynl-lu a Seth Milliken said. But he adds that the ramifications the "The program itself and the files it were invisible to normal users, so we had no idea that such a program was installed until this person was seen reading files that looked On Feb. 9, accounts were restored But to the poss1bll1tv of another intrusion. COMPUTER page 10 is a ballroom dance class every See the outside the coffee for the time and /1 Letters Policy: Letters of 200 words or less have a better chance ofbeing published than those longer. Letters will not be edited for grammar, puncuation or spelling, and will be printed exactly as submitted. The Gadfly does not anonymous submissions, except under special circumstances. lels are drawn between Utah's Nation and Thoreau of Walden. can illuminate the L_lL·CTULC!. \..Hc•LLI. ..Jc.HVH on the state of con- gay and queer studThe will be held on the .-"""'-no'"'"" Of February 14 (exact time and will be and all are welcome. Two of Mr. Abelove's .~,~CLL ~L will be left on reserve in the quest1or1s and conversation will not be limited to their subject matter. are, however, interesting examples of work being done in this area of study and will provide a context in which to begin the discussion. One essay explores the evolution of the term and its by a por.. The can, in turn, influence the identities of readers to may not be the first issues we our class discussions here at But these are among the asked and not just in 11 1-"'"""''." studies. ....... ,,.,..,.,,"""rr to pursue an academic career can benefit from encounters with scholars such as Mr. Abelove and his with schol- February 13, 1996 3 �for OD CREATED THE WORLD and ordered it from top bling madly to find a place of re-entry before the teacher to bottom. The Sisters of Mercy, the Daughters of the discovers the miscreant Needless to say, traditional Holy Ghost, and others who teach in Catholic elementary notions of betweenness do not apply nor do formal ones schools understand the divine order, and they know fur- such as Hilbert's. ther that a person's outward appearance, demeanor, and It is natural instinct to allow "cuts in back" but not cuts behavior reflect the degree to which one is aligned with in front." This is true because at least most lines of the Lord. Nothing represents God's organization better people, exist for a reason. People line up to obtain an obthan a nice straight line. A Euclidean line. What other ject of desire which presumably is located at the front of kinds of straight lines are there? Well, there is the so-called the line and is dispensed singly to the people in line. It Italian line, i.e., a bunch of people crowded into a semi- does not take long, however, for the points of a line entercircle around an open window trying to buy soccer tickets. ing school to figure out that if the purpose for being in line And when two lines are necessary, nothing could be more is ultimately unpleasant, then "cuts in back" is more valupleasing to the Lord and representative of His goodness able than cuts in front" since it delays by nanoseconds than parallel lines. These parallels, of course, are Euclid- the anguish of entering school. With and ean, not Lobachevskian parmixed emotions, allels which converge in one and Tony contemplate the direction. words of Jesus as recorded by H. S. Daydream #5041. The Sisters of Mercy et al. Matthew (19:30): "But many along the bear the burden of educating that are first will be last, and children in the ways of the the last first." south. Parallel me, Lord. They must instill in the One line is not McNamara is walking along in the hearts and minds of their There must be two red lane, also headed south. We charges a habitual if not natulines because children come ral love of God's order. There in two sexes. exist in Lobachevskian space, and could be no better way to fuland girls to form riice straight thus the parallel lanes converge as fill this obligation than by lines in order to enter school the children line up. is no task. Far more we proceed the same direction. Thus in Roman Catholic eldifficult, however is to get ementary schools much time the same children to form and energy is devoted to . . ~ ..........,~.,..., lines, proceeding in equally straight lines for dismissal from ._,._L·~~·L, and in line. still in the children the desire Of the various lines formed, the most tain these lines while ,._,.U.U.A•.,..., school ~ .. ,.,.r-..-n·~u ones that need to be absolutely sn·aH~nt:-are to the outside world. Great effort is on getting students to line up both to enter and to leave school. But chil/1 /1 1 ways obey. They tend to mill about like bees. Even after habituation has succeeded in imposing lemming-like order to outward appearances, the unruly heart conspires with the mind to subvert the established order. Specifically, after a line has been formed, the linear constituents proceed to alter the line's internal configuration. This is done by means of "cuts". Let there be a line BOYS. On BOYS let there be at least three points: Kevin McDonough, Karl Stefanski and Tony Donatello. If Kevin McDonough allows Karl Stefanski, who has broken free from the line, to re-enter in front of this is called" cuts in front". If Kevin allows Donatello, who has also broken free, to re-enter behind him, that is called "cuts in back". There is also, of course, the unaccommodating "no cuts," whereby Kevin leaves Karl or scram- 4 The God in the universe, nuns are on1nilpresi~nt fines of the classroom. But God can create a space so vast that even nuns cannot fill it. The wide open spaces of the outdoors exceed the of the teacher to maintain order over her charges as they walk several hundred yards toward their emancipation. Therefore the teacher must enlist helpers, known as monitors, teacher's pets, goons or screws. These helpers usually are older children, eighth graders, whose responsibility is to stand in the middle of the sidewalk, at evenly spaced intervals of approximately 100 feet, in order to enforce straight, parallel linearity. Should a child break rank, the monitor grabs the deviant and returns him to the teacher for further habituation. Should a deviant point escape by running away, the monitor can simply take down his name. All the points have names, sort of like Cartesian addresses. Sooner or later that point will return to school, probably tomorrow at which time rehabilitation will begin. One might expect graduation from elementary and middle school to bring with it certain freedoms and responsiand indeed it does. The maturity associated with being a high school student obviates the need for 1-,..,.,...,...,,...,,.,. lines to enter and exit school. Alas, such maturity also brings oncertain urges that render paramount the importance of keeping the sexes separate. The separation can be achieved through segregation by building, and at the very least classroom. Unfortunately, the simultaneous presence of mature girls and boys in the same corridor or hallway cannot be prevented entirely. Once again, straight lines, Euclidean paraland nice neat norn.on~A·~~.<~A come to the rescue. There are Roman Catholic high schools that have lanes painted on the floor in distinct, helpful colors such as blue, yellow and green. The floor looks like a miniaturized version of New York's Interborough Transit System. For example, the red lane might take you from the building's entrance to French class, the yellow lane from French to and the blue from geometry to chemistry. Intersection of lanes is inevitable, but a good registrar, one who has considerable expenE~nc:e in urban traffic can prevent a boy and a girl from ever arriving at a crossroads at the same time. Such is the divine order in line. School Daydream #5041. I'm vv UH"-'""' along in the blue headed south. Parallel to me, Ellen McNamara is walking along in the red also headed south. We exist in Lobachevskian space, and thus the parallel lanes converge as we proceed in the same direction. Mary Ellen and I are separated by a distance less than any given distance. Get real! Surrogates for the Lord laid down these lanes, and in this universe any line cutting both lanes forms interior angles equal to two right angles. In other words, Mary Ellen McNamara and I never come any closer than six feet apart. Beall, Many of you are probably wondering about the fate of our new observaand conafter all the struction last spring. Some students (Ms. Stubanus, Mr. Bush, Mr. Trares, Mr. Comstock, Mr. Braithwaite and Mr. Haber, among others) and I have been working slowly but diligently to get the observatory operating, this with the help of Charlie Wallace and many of his folks, including Chuck Wallace, Gordon Carleton, Sid Phipps and Jake Hicks. AdditionToft and Otto our two able machinists, have been laboring long and well on adapters to seat the telescopes on the mounting piers. Bud .1.J'-J'"'-''·"""'· our treasurer, and his including Carolyn Schneck, have also been incredibly helpful in the work associated with the NSF grant. Pam McKee has been an essential of all the work we have done to find funding for the telescope project, and Mark Daly's interest and support as Director of Laboratories is also appreciated. Alberts was the architect on the The result is that we now have two new One is a 12" diameter Schmidt-Cassegrain design that is it's much easier to find things in the sky with it, since it "knows" where everything is. The second is a 16" rial-mount reflector. Both are now properly mounted and aligned to the Earth's polar axis. The telescopes rest on two separate, 18" diameter concrete in the Observatory, that tor·mE~rlv strange and ambiguous room at the of the pendulum pit. They are covered by two very large and apparently sturdy sliding doors that open to expose the telescopes to the sky. Additionally, there is a very sensitive CCD (charge-coupled device) camera that we are beginning to work on in order to install it on one of the tele- The scopes. This camera can takes timeelapsed electronic images of, for exmoons. The timeela psed images of the motion of Jupiter's moons can be used to confirm laws, or to measure the of light using Romer's method. These are two of many possible projects that are made easier the new, more effective telescopes. "stargazing" after We will seminars or some other evenings as the weather clears. This must ""'""·~·· sooner or later the of averages, I Notices will be posted. But Ms. Brann a prifirst, I have vate tour! The telescopes are spectacular in the views they give . The mounted telescopes and auxiliary equ11orr1ertt been funded by a tional Science Instrumentation and ._,._."'...,h"~A c..."t-r~,'A""" Im.... Program. In addition to the NSF support, an Annapolis company named The First Chesapeake Group, its presiRichard has taken an interest in the astronomical elements of our program. Mr. Tompkins has the College a 4" Celestron, a portable field to remote (dark) sites for viewing the sky. The observatory is also available for special projects which can be part of the work for the Astronomy Prize, an annual $200 prize that is being supported by a grant from the First Chesapeake Group. We also have the 8" SchmidtCassegrain telescope that has served so well for many years that can be used for special projects. Given the nature of the equipment in the observatory, students will need a faculty sponsor in order to use it. I am of course available for such projects, but other tutors' interest is welcome. February 13, 1996 5 �----------------------------------------- by St. John's College takes a position on gay rights that has structed by the college policy to be fair to people of all sexual yet to be fully understood by the college as a whole. Five orientations in their hiring procedures. The student handyears ago the Board of Visitors and Governors made a state- book implies that if a college member were discriminated ment that supplemented the college's Title IX discrimina- against because of his or her sexual orientation, he or she tion policy by expressing a disapproval of all forms of dis- would be barred from presenting the case before the colcrimination having no relevance to academic aims. Since lege Title IX Grievance Committee. The committee hears the statement does not specifically name the prohibited discrimination cases based on only those grounds listed in forms of discrimination, offers no redress for discrimina- the discrimination policy. tion, and is no longer publicized, some college members Some students in favor of the proposal hoped its consefear that the statement is ineffective. The board's decision quences would extend beyond legal battles. Policy sends to adopt the statement rather than an express prohibition messages to all members of the community about such of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation has been things as the political atmosphere of the college and the perhaps the most emotionally divisive and most variously demographics of college social life. The policy as stated in interpreted political act at the college. The intention of the the college catalog might discourage prospective students present policy can be better understood in light of the argu- from applying to or attending the college if they fear disments for and against the more explicit proposal that was crimination that is not prohibited by the policy written there. first considered. Students, staff and faculty may fear to contest sexual orienThe proposal put to a vote on Apr. 17, 1993, would have tation discrimination, or they may feel anxious that they added the words "sexual orientation" to the list of charac- would be unable to contest it if it happened to them, beteristics protected by the college discause the policy omission excrimination policy. According to the presses an unwillingness to hear student handbook, this list includes such contests. St. John's been behind race, sex, physical \.rg;urne11.ts against the American colleges in revising handicap, age and national origin. ranged from practicality to prinSexual harassment is also prohibited ciple. Practically, the phrase would political policies. in accordance with court decisions CT~~ fur we sexual that consider it an act of discriminathe college than those required by orientation from our statement on tion. The Polity Review Committee federal law. Because lawsuits can of 1992 had at first been uninterested be a great financial burden to small in proposing the which liberal arts colleges, board members was suggested to them by a student Ul""'-''-Ul' the would be wise Students persuaded the committee that the to accept no more legal responsibility than necessary. proposal was worthy of consideration. The faculty voted t<urm,enmcire, some board members feared that categoov1erv11hE~lrrungly in support of the proposal. ries of nondiscrimination someday become categoIn favor of the board members suggested that ries of affirmative action. said, "The board since the college does practice nondiscrimination on the did not want to be like 'How basis of sexual orientation, it should without guilt be pre- many gay and students do you have? What have pared to acknowledge its practice publicly. Students and you done to make their life more comfortable here on camfaculty who pushed strongly for the change made it clear pus? What have you done to encourage them to and that the failure of the proposal would violate their confi- to stay?'" dence in the fairness of the college. Discrimination on acSpeaking on Dean Eva Brann said in her letter count of sexual orientation is no more acceptable than dis- to the 20, 1993 Gadfly, "I am troubled by being admoncrimination on the bases listed, some argued, and therefore ished in a document I live by to behave well in a matter in such discrimination merits the same treatment in policy. which neither I nor my colleagues would ever dream of "The college is 300 years old," says Santa Fe junior Jus- sinning." Board members worried that the proposal might tin Dehnert. "We should know better than to expect our appear to be an admission of guilt. To begin protecting spehistory of good faith towards gays to take the place of cial groups rather than individuals, they claimed, would policy." Santa Fe tutor Ms. Silver points out that the col- be an endless task resulting in greater and greater segmenlege has no means of being certain that sexual orientation tation between individuals in the community. Some exdiscrimination has not occurred within it. While she ac- pressed the sentiment that to equate race and sexual orienknowledges that discrimination does not seem to have ex- tation would be a betrayal to the civil rights movement beisted in faculty appointments, she wonders if supervisors cause to do so would be to belittle the oppression that blacks at various levels in the college have been or are now in- suffered historically. 6 The 1996 Some students continue to believe that the college preits present policy in order to please donors who are against gay rights on moral President Agresto denies the knowledge of any such donors. In fact, the board's decision may have negatively affected l-u•u..ucu..:o.u.•,,. Last year the Moon received a letter from alumnus Robert Drake who wrote in response to a college request for donations, It is morally impossible for me to send money to an organization which vocally refuses to extend the same civil rights, protections and opportunities to its gay and lesbian faculty, staff and student body that it so readily grants their heterosexual counterparts." Others contend that the college acted on the private desires of administrators who believe homosexuality is immoral. In the light of this tolerance of homosexuality might make the college appear immoral. However, no one in the administration admitted to such motivation. The Gadfly published a discussion of the c:u.H~}:'.,CUL ''"'"'rY'I'""',..."'' 11 i-u of homosexuality the Annapolis campus Christian Fellowship Archon, Mr. but his discussion was not meant as an ar~~urne11t posal. President Agresto further denies suggestions that the financial burden of paying health benefits to same sex partners influenced the board's decision. The Compensation Committee of the time that the college award the same health benefits to homosexual partners that are awarded to spouses under legal contract. The President says that the board did reject this probut he thinks that the grounds for rejection were not ecosuch benefits would give the college no nomic. more financial responsibility than it has, he says, because, "We have a policy on this campus that we will do what we can to see to it that health insurance does not become or a and staff members]. We will find ways to " Ms. Silver remembers that President Agresto said that he would not implE~mE~nt the committee proposal because to do so w.ould be to suggest that gay relationships were "morally equivalent" to heterosexual marriages. As far as she knows the proposal was never officially taken before the board. She adds, 'Tm not sure that one person's views on ought to determine college policy. It would be dangerous to determine each other's benefits on the basis of personal views of each other's morality." Ms. Silver contends that President Agresto's current informal way of handling the question of health insurance places an undue burden on gay faculty and staff to declare their sexual orientation and to ask for a benefit that is provided as a matter of course for their colleagues: "It is not equal pay for equal work." Santa Fe tutor Mr. Pagano, who headed the Faculty Compensation Committee that wrote the proposal, notes that the faculty voted in favor of award11 ing the benefits. of the arguments against the proposal also stand against the discrimination policy as it has since the Higher Education Act of 1975. All the and staff I spoke with agreed that the intention of the college discrimination policy is to comply with federal regulations, and not to depict college practices. The board's statement upon of the proposal reflects this difference between external and internal statements of policy. The full statement reads, "The Board of Visitors and Governors declares that we will continue our firm policy of nondiscrimination, in full accordance with the proscriptions of federal law. We reaffirm our abhorrence of and opposition to every form of discrimination irrelevant to the educational purposes of St. John's College." President Agresto claims that the statement was intended to reconcile the arguments on both sides and to offer everyone in the college the to contest discrimination not related to academic ends. He says, "The rubric [of the stateis broad to cover all the examples [of discnmrCTat:i0111 you could give and even all the examples you could " Because the board felt its statement was final, the discrimination policy is not likely to be addressed again, either in the current quinquennial review of the or for many years. see Ch•C\,...t"f'Arn1rHlrC ment. "The statement fails to resolve the very it was asked to deter,, says Santa Fe Sarah "namely, that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is irrelevant to the purpose of the college." The absence of the statement in the college polity leads some to question the statement's legal force. Says Santa Fe senior Lawrence Black, "I wish the board would come up with a clearer statement. An expression of abhorrence does not sound like language to me. It feels to me like avoided the issue." co11e12~e rr1enrrbt~rs, especially those who have arrived at the college in the past three years, are unaware that the statement exists. After a appearance in the Gadfly, the statement has been relegated to the archives of administrative offices and to the memories of seniors, older faculty and staff. The Visiting Committee of the board, to whom I spoke before this quarter's plenary session, supported the idea that the statement should appear in the student handbook. Larry Director of Admissions in Santa Fe, said that he would consider the idea along with others for a revision of the college catalog which is currently underway. St. John's has been close behind other American colleges in revising other political policies. The Annapolis campus became the first public or private college in the state of Maryland to desegregate in 1948, and the admittance of women followed in 1951. For this reason, the college might continued on page 8 The February 13, 1996 7 �e page 7 to the ~i ..Ai•io..,u•·A backdrop ~,,.,,,,,,. at federal and state The Supreme Court is hearing the arguments of a case against Colorado's second constitutional amendment, which prohibits any legislation protecting homosexuals. Some states are considering bans on gay marriage. Federal courts have begun to address the "don't ask, don't tell" policy by which the United States military admits gays. As of last May, nine states and the District of Columbia forbid employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation: California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Rhode Is- Vermont,. and Wisconsin. In New Mexico, similar legislation is ,.,,.,..,..<>n't11u tabled at the House of Representatives and may take the floor again the next term. St. John's College was formed, as the college seal to make free men out of children. It is ultimately the books on the program more than the laws in the college polity that gain students the freedom to fight discrimination. Be that as it may, the purpose of the college would be undermined if, while caught up in classroom reflections about moral obligation, the college should neglect to make its policy reflect principles of justice and truth. p OllflCAl F We are about the business of providing pnuucai speakers, current event information, and general citizens' information to the school community, and a to talk about them in. Specifically, we Events Series, on topics like balancing the budget and the State of the Union but is,....,,...,.,.,,...,.., Your able to write this letter earlier cny·w·"'"''""' ootne~s1s that this is what You ask vrn.usea, off I may have into such a state?" You wonder, "Would my friends not have commented on the radical which had come over me?" you when you think about you may become of the fact that what we here isn't too active. It is true state you would not have been able to move to as Pavlov you would be aware of your and of any intellectual stimuli which may have chanced your way. You mentioned that the started ruin your After being here for two years, I must admit that the of McDowell has become of my life. I have been cor1d11:10r1ed to live by the ringing of that wonderful sound; the bell guides my life, telling me when to get up, and more importantly, when my classes are. But something disastrous occurred for the first two weeks of this semeson seminar ter: the bell was off by a day, so it did not .J.l.l.J:,......_,, and what was most bothersome, it ringed on the weekends, thus my beauty sleep. This had .:nu .... ..._...,,.. to ruin my biological clock and coordination. It took and Grounds two work orders that I wrote to fix the so it is thus that I comand whine. Sincerely, For whom the bell used to not toll For Whom the Bell Used to Not conjunction other '" . . "'"~.JC,._, like the Fellowship, Triangle, and Women's Group; occato places and events special political interest, including, in 1997, an opportunity to hear oral arguments at and the Speaker's series, where distinguished political thinkers, like CongressGilchrest, LhJJll~"""' talk the community. The forum also provides information on basic citizens' concerns, like 26 2066 Southwestern Bar & Grill God, you were due to your conditioned response to the bell at .1.'-J:', ....... ~,,i-",,...,,,. the beginnings and ends of your activiwhen the bell stopped in accordance to your ._,,_,_,.i"'"' .. ~-~ .. clock" you called you into a h.,...-..,...,,..,.1-i,,... state. It's to me that you did not write this letter when the bell was out of correct order. This seems to me to suggest that you were in what is known as a state, often produced in cases of sis. Pavlov wrote, in his section of Conditioned Reflexes, "One of the nu...-.nnc11<0 in man is the loss of so-called aeveJ,op1m1::nrof aLUL.U.L~.~ tenance of the to them by external forces .... Aman in a state may we tell realize kind of unnatural posture we have him and may Ll.. .._ OD! tollowznq two letters are from U.S. Army Airborne SpecialR. a St. John's the, ... , ~,,., .. .. With this coupon one entree for breakfast lunch or dinner and get the second of equal or lesser value, "·u•;11u1nu. Contact Archon Nelson Hernande~ or Derek Alexander. you. Does not include beverage, tax, or tip. Valid everday, all day. Expires 2/30/95. City Dock 8 H Daily till 2 am The to go around and this she had "'"'"""·. . a bell in hand. I 0 r1 c11crrro 0;:ot' Address your cornvtamrs to AK c!o 1 "Co!aest 'lJeer & 'lJest !Afa1llan'tas in 'IOwn very not know there is a .,..,.,..,. . h i o r n unless someone alerts them. Ms. Lewis thinks this is a and marks its ineffiShe said in a 1996 u class of 1994. He is currently involved in Operation deavor, the U.S.-led NATO peacekeeping mission in Bosnia. Kevlar helmets and flak vests on whenever we go outdoors. We here and on the wet tarmac, in the fog, and snow. It was but the next we cleared a hardened 23December1995 Tuzla Airfield Zdravo! Yesterday was bright and warm here in northeastern Bosnia, and I sat outside sunning like a lizard for a hour in short sleeves, although we're supposed to have our the aircraft of and eq1mi:::1m1::nt so it felt like we were alone and but the C130s and C17s arc page 16 The 9 �ff as to I. bombing wounds J UST AN HOUR after reports that the Irish Republican Army had abandoned its 17-month-old cease-fire, a bomb exploded in East Longdon in the night of Feb. 9, wounding about 100 people and inflicting serious damage to the Northern Ireland peace effort. The bomb exploded at 7:01 P.M. in a parking lot beneath a train station in London's docklands, near the Canary wharf office complex, badly damaging a six-story building and sending glass from other buildings flying onto people in the street. The police said that thirty-three people had been treated in local hospitals and that two of them were in critical condition. Most of the other reported injuries were minor cuts and bruises. About five minutes before the attack, London police were informed that there was a bomb in the docklands, and the police were beginning to evacuate the area when the bomb exploded. Earlier, a Dublin radio station received a statement, supposedly from the I.R.A., announcing that "the complete cessation of military operations will end at 6 P.M.," because "selfish party political and sectional interests A shattered storefront after the bombing in the London parliament have been placed before the rights of the people of Ireland." In Sep. 1994 the LR.A. called a unilateral halt to its violent to force Britain to withdraw from North"' . . '"'"''""'"' With cease-fire of their own afterwards. Shock and dismay followed the reports of the end of this but many officials from both sides ex1oec:teia it to because of difficulties in the negotiations that have been proceeding very slowly. OSNIAN SERB LEADER Radovan Karadzic has emerged from behind the scenes for the first time since the November Dayton peace accord, staging a daring show of authority and belittling his indictment by the International War Crimes Tribunal, on the grounds that there was no evidence for his guilt. He started his tour, which was covered extensively in the Bosnian national media, in a Serbheld city about ninety miles northwest of Sarajevo. He was interviewed on television, and acted in all respects like a candidate for public office, and was surrounded by bodyguards. His trip was unhindered by NATO forces, which had several opportunities to arrest him but did not do so. Opinion on Karadzic' s return to the political life is mixed; he was originally responsible for much of the slaughter in Bosnia. based on his television interview, he seems more interested in the peace process than the man now directing things for the Bosnian Serbs, General Ratko Mladic. General Mladic had caused the first major crisis in the NATO mission last week when he boycotted communication and cooperation with the NATO force. This was a result of the arrest and imprisonment of two Bosnian Serb officers on suspicion of war crimes. This could cause a return to ...... h'"-'-'"....,. Some U.S. officials hope that Karadzic could defuse this possibility. Assistant Secretary of State Richard ... v,.L' ... VV'-'''"'· who brokered the Bosnian peace accord, was dispatched last Sunday to to resolve the crisis. freshman lab gets out at 2:20. Mr. Cosans makes his frosh lab go on to 3:40. Capozzoli's students make a big ruckus as pass the Cosans classroom, as if to say, our class is way cooler than your class. So Misses Gibbs and Gibson, from the Cosans challenge the lab to a game of basketball where. as you test of one's total co1orr1et>s. in Capozzoli's class say how bout next at say, 2:20ish? Cute huh? the ~~·-~i-Li.,.., their first ever basketball in the Temple, at least to were Mssrs. Moser, .w.u.u.J.LV-'-'"'' and Hernandez. It is also bruited about that Miss Heinz's class wants in on the action. Yes, athletics are to the St. Pro,,..,.....,.._",,,,..,,..""''''° Davidoff. In the recent Mr. Davidoff stole the points, equalling the total score of the entire Hustler Bee team Kinda like a one man wrecking crew. For his great game, Mr. Interview an up with Miss Pamela~~-·,..,~~~· before she started a and abs. She's as as any trainer we have here in the gym. She works out with her Mr. and Mr. Erskine five afternoons a week And then she Aikido several times a week to boot. I've admired her and wanted see what's behind it. a.d.: do you do it? P.B.: Because I was tired of musician. a.d.: P.B. It's a real page 3 current policy in regards to computer lab security states that only members of the college community are permitted to use the computers. Anyone else is required to make arrangements. "We're going to enforce that much more strictly. That's all we can really do is to try and keep people other than members of the community from us- The ing the ''--'Schoener con1mented. Concerned students can also take steps to illicit users out. "While it is not the of students the Lab, they could reduce the risk of intrusion by >".0T,n.1''f"irlO- Cii1C~-,.,,-,.,,-,.,,<' individuals and activities both to me and to Security," /1 HL.L.LUAh-' 1996 Milliken said. He adds that students should carry their key cards with them and refrain from propping open the door to the Computer Lab. "Ideally, they should also refrain from opening the Lab door for others," Milliken said. The 996 �nuclear weapons. Christian Slater turns out believable action hero. be a speeches. of remains and is not Christian Slater's feats of seoara1:e scenes she up both Slater and Travolta. an interview I Woo said that her I first heard of the movie Broken Arrow and the ~ ;:v Cf) -a co > Cf) actors star- "" z en m m that ian and ~ 0 -< Travol a ?< c: y> .......... tion the bad guy. As it turns this is the least of the . . . ,_,...._"'"'-'-H rn 0 0 z ~ ::;; ;:tJ CJ) --t =< '., :n ;:v r::r::i CJ) :r: :---! don't kiss once It turns out to be a better then Christian Bed Roses with Travolta stars as an Air Force officer who turns bad and steals two nuclear weapons -< 0 Slater have much more '--'-''---Llu.ou which we have seen in their hit the Volume. 0 -a --t i3 z > ' 9'> ;:v rn CJ) i3 z 0 m r-- m ~ rD c ~ rn 0 rn ID c =ti ~ U. UJ,,..J, LUl CC.i, ~ i!:: ;:tJ < .......... ;;o rn '-'«U. a Utah. She discovers Slater after (/) ....... taken the movie as a of fine drama and our audible them. ment of the movie had I can't see how the movie could be g_ s· 0 (Q ~ . dered more and more '"'~~•-hr• wasted my money. Broken Arrow is full cliches rn z :-i 0 m > rn ';:v Cf) rn --t Cf) ::!J z > ';:v -a n '.fl 12 r treated as a If ~© -I ~ ~o -< ~ )! ~ t1 0 u••::.u.•.V-'-'"-'-'J''-- ~ inc:wae'S a hilarous scene where Travolta and Slater beat one another The 1996 scene he forces Samantha the buttons which will the nukes. taken serithe movie is As far as entertainment goes, it's a winner. �by Valerie Pawlewicz, Student Activities A van to DC is scheduled for this Saturday (10 AM. pick-up; 3 rePlease call me to sign-up for a spot (x254). President Nelson has a super suggestion for students: Les Miserables is n,,, ..... ,.,.,....,,.,.,.,,,.. at the National Theater in Washington and he gave me savings certificates towards tickets. I cannot sponsor this event due to budget constraints, you can go on your own. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs- Minutes of the Delegate Council Meeting held on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 1996 at 6:30 P.M. in the Conversation Room In attendance were: President S. Urich, Secretary D. Alexander, Treasurer B. Erskine, Polity Attorney L. Hdggard, Delegates J. Coonce and J. Villasenor (Pinkney), L. Freeman (off campus), L. Dowty (Randall),A Silverman and B. Rettig (Campbell), R. Schmidt (Chase Stone), lh>rn:>hoc N. K Forrest (off campus). Rebecca Michael and Dani Schaffelpresented the Dance Club's $264 request for rosin and a gym stereo. The need for a new stereo was discussed; and the item was registered. Ian Kelly presented the Reality '96 $6,000 budget request for Lola's, Croquet food, and Reality Weekend. There was some desire for a more specific budget request. The Delegate Council registered the request as two voting items: a $1,500 Lola's and TShirt item and a $4,500 Croquet and Reality Weekend item. The sending of money to each electoral unit was postponed indefinitely. Jennifer Coonce presented a Women's Group $297 request for a trip to the Washington Women's Expo. It was registered as an Emergency Voting Item. The Delegate Council voted to: give the Political Forum $922.1 O; charter the German 14 The day performances are $45 (down from $67.50) when you use these certificates. Call me if you would like me to send you one, and then thank your President for thinking of you in this way. Johnnie Java, sponsored by the Student Life Committee, seems to be going well. As a reminder, all a student needs in order to get a free cup of coffee from the Grattis Cafe or the Moon Cafe, is a current SJC i.d. and a tutor (or two). Enjoy. Now at switchboard are several brochures. These include a Metro guide, a Metro pass guide, a Smithsonian museums guide, and three Annapolis related brochures ("Recreation," "Restaurants," and "Attractions"). In addition, my guide "How to Get To and From Annapolis" is available as well. As a reminder, all are scheduled to leave when they are scheduled to leave. There has been a problem with people running late and therefore the burden of making up lost time has fallen on the shoulders of the van driver. Not fair for the driver or for everyone else who a bit of money to attend an event or who has a to catch. Please respect your fellow van riders being on time. Club; give the German Club $20; and give the Women's Group $297. The Delegate Council accepted its move to 11:45 AM. in the Private Dining Room. Minutes of the Delegate Council MeetHeld on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 1996 in the Private Room. In attendance were: President S. Urich, Secretary D. Alexander, Treasurer B. Erskine, Polity Attorney L. Hoggard, Delegates J. Coonce and J. Villasenor (Pinkney), H. Maxwell and L. Freeman (off campus), L. The Delegate Council voted to give the Dance Club $264 and give Reality '96 $1,500. The Reality $4,500 request vote was delayed for a more specific budget request. The Delegate Council has $870.45, every penny of which is desiring the ~"'""u' ship the 1996 Treasurer's come soon. Archons are beseeched to send in their budget requests, if they are to make them, as soon as possible. By the everyone is welcome at DelMeetmgs--check the bulletin egate boards for agendas. B. bell), Marjorie Truman (Hurrmhcries~ ternate K. Forrest campus). Matt Johnston presented the Westward Wagons Ho $1,000 request for van rental. The usefulness of the trip versus its cost was discussed. seminars U'V' Yours From the Minute Man, Derek Alexander :,e(:retarv of ~~~ ~~~~ ~~®~~~ ~~~®SS 1996 ~~®m ~~ ~~m~~s Next year the senior seminars will be led by one tutor. We will choose leaders who are experienced in the senior readings, and we will keep the seminars small by adding one extra class to whatever number we would have planned for two leaders. We will also provide for extra . , .., ... "" .. ,, This temporary measure is long-range plan to ensure our financial survival. As you know, colleges are great hardship all over the counWe are dealing with the universal situation prudently and proactively. Most of the instructional burder of this austE~nt:v is being borne the tutors. There are, moreover, these comforts for you. We have an old and successful tradition of occasionally oneleader seminars for seniors. The enhypothesis is that most seniors can the part of second leaders now and then. The fact is that the oneleader seminars have been very successful in the last two years. NeverU•'-·'"'-"''"'· we expect yours to be the last year of one-tutor seminars. So the occasion! If you wish to discuss this .._.._ __ ,_. , _. ,_, _ ,, you are, as very welcome to come to talk to me. Eva T. H. Brann Dean '-'"'A'----'-'"" has informed me that the final algebra examination for the 1995-96 academic year will be in late or May. If you would like to practice for the examination, please come to the Office of the Registrar and pick up an old test. Nancy Lewis a tion fee should be submitted to the is Please note: The studio H.U.LU\C.U.o on tiatm·ctav. open at 9:00 AM. on No exc:eotirn Please Residence your essay. We the sources to be correct on the Schedule that be in the Coffee We shall first week of examinations on Feb. 14. board in the basement of in the and in the Bookstore. The first week's schedule will be on campus mail or at extension 311. We could talk about like when and how often to meet. '98 J-h1rrn·10-r President Nelson in his office in Mellon Hall on Thursday, February 15th, from 2:00 to 3:00 P.M. for coffee and cookies - no agenda, just conversation!! The 1996 15 �St. John's College P. 0. Box 2800 Annapolis, MD 21404 The Gadfly Editor-in-Chief: Jennifer Coonce Layout Editor: Nelson Hernandez Jr. Production Manager: Jehanne Dubrow Copy Editor: Anne Kniggendorf Photography Editor: Mary K. 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That there are innocents here means Bosnia has a future; they are hope and promise embodied. There are beaucoup reporters here, as if something important were at stake. Not many people seem to know what that is. Raymond R. Ames A'94 U.S. Army, Airborne Specialist Ames' second letter follows. A brief mention of a Stars and Stripes 16 The article that was enclosed was omitted: 26 January 1996 Tuzla Zdravo! Ordinarily the effectiveness of the IFOR mission is reported in terms of ceasefire violations and the claims, bluffs, and cries of the opposing factions across the zone of separation... some of the unitended and maybe unwanted consequences of our conduct of the mission here [are] that mission] stresses force protection and impartiality; and strives to avoid mission creep. (We've got plenty of bozos in charge of botchihg missions that are strictly military and .,....,.,-,.h'">h.l'~T ing IFOR' s civilians and the various relief agencies their own slice of the pie.) But it's true that we feel isolated, and some of us have wondered whether we appear to be robocops. We're denied access to all but the crudest gestures of mere friendliness, the simple and spontaneous expressions of humankind-ness. The perof the security requirements as an ignoble obstacle, however, is a testament to the human spirit, which finds such barriers artificial. We've given the neighborhood kids all the pencils and pens we could spare, through the strands of concertina wire on our perimeter. The platoon has snuck crates of oranges and apples and milk across the street to the kindergarten, a big HTC.I'...,,, 1996 no-no if we were to get And when we conduct in the surrounding villages, we exchange greetings, sometimes just a smile and a wave, through a self-imposed screen of heightened awareness, monitoring windows and and terrain features for anything unusual. There is always an artificial barrier, in some form or a zone of set)ar·anon that is nevertheless pierced by the the reach of humanity. Maybe it bodes well for the ZOs. I bought a disposable camera on paand oddly enough it works wonders. You can see akin to in the older generation, especially, that countless faces might be easily forgotten, or never even missed, for that matter, a fear that is assuaged by this small document that they once lived, on this land, in this world, for one smiling instant. Maybe the separation of eternity is pierced in a moment. Addio! I hope the weather back there is letting up. Raymond R. Ames A'94 U.S. Army, Airborne Those who would like to write Specialist Ames should address their letters to: SPC Raymond Ames, C Co. 3/325 ABCT, Operation Joint Endeavor, APO AE 09789. � 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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It was a real come out of nowhere ... a real high, piercing I looked around trying to match the hear this Turns out the same place that serves hamburger- Zack also doubles as a casino. Talk about class! sound I'd been watching my life slip never tell you that he may deny it and say that some days I figured I should go over to one of the tables and with the away from me for the past six or eight years on a runaway he just doesn't wake up in time and forgets to deliver the in for a while. The game was poker. Did I face and train down hill. I was doubting who I was. Sometimes I paper to everyone, not just you. Well, then they never tell know anything about poker? When your trapped ...,....~,,..,"'.,..,.1·u~1 It was a cold winter then it didn't even know where I was. The bottle of whiskey that you that if you don't buy his little lie and instead decide to inside a foxhole during the Great War, waiting for a dawns on I carried in my coat pocket was getting to be my only friend. teach him a lesson. Well, they sure as heck never tell you jag of shrapnel to rip your heart out, there isn't any- me ... Red? The nice thing about whiskey is that it'll never call you A Good For Nu thin' Liar" to your face. You can always count that a Grand Jury is a lot more likely to believe a thing to do but play poker! Yeah... you could say I It was Red was familiar with the game. Turns out there was a alright. I /1 Boy · on whiskey to just sit back and listen. The other thing with Than You! Yeah Boy, they sure don't bother to tell you that one. at my table that served in some told her to whiskey is that you can actually light it on fire. It makes But forget about all that. It was a cold winter night and foreign military. I knew enough to realize he was scram and I was supposed to to take the air horns this real pretty blue fella' -"Reddig"- flame. I imagine if I look into this gam- serious and cocky too. Definitely some kind of spy. He'd throw down two dollars as if he existed in some was ever lost out in bling racket that was future world in which inflation had the effect of with her. some snowy woods going on down the making two dollars comparable to a dime. He was It street. Seems as in his own world all right... three bourbons spread rupted my out in front of him ... chips galore. I was gonna' en- and I needed somethin' to start a though these college fire, Boy! A bottle of fellas thought they whiskey 'ud sure were above the law. save the day. Course I love it when they his bread. First I needed a drink to real fire inter- game so I beat it. Walking me in the mood. This of a cigarette girl came up to me. She across the need some think that! Educated said she was sellin' cigarettes but I coulda' sworn floor I saw matches to the college she was sellin' love. She went by the name of Dowty a fella' whiskey and ... if I nothins. but I just called her "Red." She had that deep rich the name I'd of Nyberg had matches, well... I walked through I could probably just the snow and up to kinda' red hair that makes you weak in the knees. The kind that could turn a hooker into a sinner... or, well, with a bright red velvet jacket. If he was directing traffic I the operation. Pass- like a nun into a gigalo', yeah, somethin' like that. Then I coulda' understood the light some twigs that were lyin' around ... so, then, I wouldn't really need a bottle of whiskey anyway. was going on street. ,.,,... '"'""Iii.·"" these college fellas they were "Aunt but here? I made my way over to the blackjack table and sat Jemima." Right as I 'Zack Smoll dealing blackjack down. There was a dark-skinned walked through the fella' to my right by the name of word: door I saw a table '-' ... !', ... __.......... He sure was a feisty one, but a about the ulcer that'll rage in your belly every live long day. full of chips. OhBoy were they heavy in the dough. I musta' seen people blowin' five, ten, even dollars on chips! Usually takes me a week's worth of pay to come up with that kind of cash. There was a big fella behind a table exchanging chips for cash by the name of Brennan. He was real smily... a little too smily by my book. I made a note to myself to smarten him up by the end of the night. So I went into the gambling hall. Talk about Dames! They never tell ya' that some days the paper boy won't even These broads were on fire. Turns out most of these ladies dening ... at midnight...in the snow? deliver the paper to your house because he hates all feds. don't shave themselves or give two bits about proper hygene Hmmmn. This Polgreen was a They never tell ya' that if you decide to surprise the paper mystery. I left for what looked like a big But you still can deny the fact... a bottle of whiskey will never call you a liar, that's for sure. \. See, I've been a federal agent all my life. It's all I know. Maybe if I'd a known about the life earlier I'd a done somethin' different. But when you sign on at the bureau they never tell ya' what it's gonna' be like. They never tell you that your wife may up and leave you one day out of the blue because she's sick of it all. They never tell you boy from behind the bushes one day and knock him they turn a blind man into a cripple, or... more like a seeing man was, 2 The 1996 how it re- to their face. He'd say stuff like "Ya'all suck. .. an you real moneyknow I'm da' maka at the table ... so scram " I rather enjoyed his strange urban dialect. But he'd had enough ... so he left and said he was taking his "Hoes" with him. Gar- during the regular week. But tonight! Oh, they had feather boas, sparkling dresses, and the kind of cleavage that could off his bike and then shake him up real shooter all the way. He liked to tell Brian T McGuire, Adam Wing, and Cindy Lutz at the roulette table The LOLA'S continued on page 5 1996 3 �Below are some the show: us that we did not have the names of the artists. Aaron Lewis, '96 F. Buckley, conservatism's factotum, has accepted the invitation to deliver this year's William by Each year, The Mitchell Art holds an art exhibihon, which consists of works submitted St. tuyear's exhibit featured many different types of artwork: responded "demand a recount." (Needless to say, his may- choice as possible com- Buckley founded National of "standing history and yelling Stop!" mencement speaker, and, last extended to him the invitation im- mersed in their studies, would love to visit the Mitchell Art Gallery, and view a new aspect of St. John's that is otherwise bate circuit, and his television show, oral campaign was a lost cause: he was beaten badly Lindsay. Buckley their favorite break for all of although always presence on the public lecture and de- one." When asked what would he were he elected, au.ua.u ..... "' seniors. The senior class voted Mr. photos, paintings, drawings, pottery, and even the Johnnies "'~.._ ........... .u,;;, commencement address to tors, or students enrolled in art classes on campus. This The exhibit sounds like a eralism and global communism. ·1-.,..,,,,,..h his his art exhibit was completely accidental; glancing through one of the windows of the gallery on my way to class. non-existent. But that doesn't appear It's a shame that this article has been to be the case. Most of the students written after the fact, and such works as ex-tutor Mr. Zuckerman's two selfand -.,.("1,1'"\l'\AT-n whom I've spoken with either didn't know the art show had come and gone, or hadn't heard about it at all. In fact, Thompson's when I went to the gallery to see the types of works I to J.LQU.U.U.Ul~ n"'ir>t-11"1 never be viewed. bring to your rrr.,:::,g,·.:.,...,"..._,, ...v.u the beauti- my dismay, that the exhibit had ended ful pottery by people such as Senior to speak at their graduation. Buckley, now widely known for his graceful pugnacity in public debate and his Victorian prose style, made his debut as enfant terrible of the right when he his first book, God and Man at Yale, in 1951. argued for a core curriculum that extolled Judaeo-Christianity and free-market .._a 1J.'-'•~u.._.,,.uL, was a best seller, and estab- While many members of Firing Line, Buckley overhauled the conservative movement, ejecting from its corpus the infamous likes of George Wallace and the John Birch Society, and giving it a power and organization that carried Ronald Reagan to the White House in 1980. As anyone might guess about someone who Candy Feit. Junior Jehanne Dubrow displayed a beautiful log-cabin lished Buckley as a power in American political thinking. Soon after the success of God and all been too busy with those ever encroaching essays and extra-curricular which many admired. Sophomore Man at Yale Mr. Buckley founded Na- Lindsay in New York City's Melina and Senior Dimitry Fedetov submitted tional Review, with the intention of ... ~~~·-...,~·i-. athwart history, and yelling Stop!" to the advance of American lib- contest, more or less for the pure heck of a nude woman, one of several of their failed to care. To be honest, the reason I knew about the you to see, we the exhibit back from the past for exhibit be well and it will be until March 30, with a lecture on February 28. For information call 626 - 2556. all game at the roulette were runnin' the ,., Some broads by the 1 ..... , . , . , , , , , . , , names of Coonce, and Gram. Word on the street was this Coonce had a history. Seems she ran some sorta' the women gettin' their rights an' all ... you know, the right to cook a turkey pot pie, the right to serve a turkey pot pie, and the right to reheat and serve ) that turkey pot pie at a later date ... heah eh, all that Hooey. I didn't need it. The crowd at the wheel really grew, like a loaf of bread in the oven with a lot of yeast, I mean a lot of yeast. I'm 996 took osternnbly lost causes. In 1965 he ran against a heavily favored V. of it. When asked by a reporter how speaker and wit-at-large. speak here at St. John's. "We are about this." Nelson "It's not often that the senior class is able to have the speaker of their choice." In senior classes were rarely able to procure a commencement"'!-''-<-<-•'-'-' with as high a as Buckley's. Last year's Commencement speaker, the president of Atlantic Records was bed- ridden with a serious illness and missed the ,.....,.,,,.., ' 1 "',_, r.n ceremony. Buckley will deliver the Commencement address on 19. continued from page 3 underground feminist rag. I was all for The as a College President Chris Nelson noted his pleasure at Buckley's decision to submissions. putou.c12:ea and attended. To tide you over, I can inform you of the next art exhibit. It's entitled 'White Mountain Painters', 4 nonetheless, are admirers of his talents the dismissed as dead as Calvin Coolidge, Buckley often championed and under- the day before and most of the works had been taken down. Perhaps we have activities that we about the art show, or even knew about bur- the senior class disagree with Buckley's political views, many serious. was crawlin' Seemed like the with foreigners, made me edgy. There the hall but these wild. It didn't make sense ... no rhythm ... no style. I got knocked down was this Russkie by the name of Fedetov. He'd been hittin' on this by some happy-go-lucky swinger named Whiz. What kind of a name is Checko-slavakian dame by the name Rosolova. She was payin' more atten- that ... Whiz? I tried to get up but Wham-Boom-Bamm. I was out for the tion to her drink than to the Red. The two seemed like nice people but, when count. I didn't consciousness until sometime the next day when I it comes down to it I'm an American, and a Red's a Red. First gambling, then found myself on a snowy mountain Communists. This was about all I needed to see. The bust was in sight. I only had to call for "The Wagon." I tried crossin' The naked and with a dog sniffin' my vates. Somehow I think the night before was just a dream of some distant place in space and time ... a that eager college students call Lola's. 5 �as one of thirteen "Liberty Trees" for the meetings of their members. It has been said that it is the only LibTree still alive. General Lafayette watched a review of ;::iu.Lu..i·c.io pass the tree in December, 1824. The first Method- group of maniacal youths saved the life of our rotting symbol of Now the tree has become something more than gone. It has been the holder of the memories of a time ist sermon in Annapolis was preached under it in 1772. St. transformed into a beacon hailing man's John's has held commencement exercises under the tree Tree since 1929, and its annual croquet match on the in the battle for lawn for the past twelve years. with a concrete heart? Besides the significance assigned to it because of human over death But is such a victory worth the price if to duck the Reaper's Scythe you must be filled Yet the of immortality is so very powerful. To beat events, the tree is quite an accomplishment, as trees go. Though one professor of wood '97 The Tree is such an interesting mass of twisted wood and swaying leaves. Its groaning and sing with the wind. So many shadow-tales have called it home. Death. To be gods on Earth. To live forever. And who would not want that? For I think in some small way we all estimated it to be less than 400 years old (by W. M. Harlow's calculations, desire to see the Earth as she grows and dies. And I 389 years or less), the Liberty Tree was to be more ine that her swan-song will fill the universe with such sour- to put a plaque on sweet music that the very sun will weep. To see that weep- than 600 by people and Francis Scott Tree, tourists have stared and at the sheer power of the the tree. Regardless of its age, it has endured both natural ing and to hear that song, and then to still live on in some erosion and obnoxious people. In 1840, a few rambunc- way would be the most wondrous kind of magic. But how tious young school So many children have danced beneath its limbs. So many can that magic be suffered- tried to blow up the tree with two heard- if your heart is of gunpowder. Everyone thought had killed bursting into full it, but one year the tree and the Rot and decay had been frozen withi..ri in an embrace of solid rock? explosion actually saved the tree from bacteria. It has sur- haps the song that most desperately need can forever be heard in the of a ...,,. r.-h l-·•..-. ..,.,....,..., .... ,"'..,''h the L'V'"'-'-""'""' vived the loss of branches to heavy but are and the tree still stands. The Liberty and it is Tree is older than both the college and the significant both as a historical landmark and an achievement in itself. At an estimated 389 years, the tree has stood a memories that that tree keeps. To think that the heart of such an ancient monolith is .av•uu... ,i::. but concrete is absurd. But in that absurdity lies the truth. In if the I have heard is even rennotelv based on actual events, then not the termite-infested tree and In 1848, it was accidentally set on an iron fence was dedicated to the tree from chipping off pieces of bark for souvenirs. Before the tree was the limb in a windstorm and the national cham- has the concrete held but also the prank of a struck andin Sometimes I look at the contorted trunk of that tree and see a door to another land- a far away threshold of that gateway, the concrete blocks my poplar in the United States. T. Withers gave the an ant1s~~ot1c wash and filled the tree with tons of concrete reinforced with steel and iron. Gazing at the tree's cement-filled center and cable-supported branches last architect and forester week, Brian McGuire '96 said, "It's more a monument to rmpene1trable coat of armor. So, if the tree had been allowed to die in peace, would then door then be be my Tree. And never somewhere within the trE~ea.on1. my memories lie in some other tree with a differ- ent door. A door that is open to all. In instead of guiding groups to the withered old Tree, the tour guides should lead their man of the pilgrims to back campus that an automatic teller machine would make use of the cement-filled space in the tree. Mr. Schoener sees more natural sits a bow-legged child in his resting near college creek, overalls of sometimes as I peer into the heart of his trunk, a door opens, in the tree. He and I hear the wispy threads of a most wondrous song. says, based on personal observation, that the silhouettes of tulip poplars," don't go toward roundness," like the silhouettes of most other trees. He says that the silhouette of the Tree resembles the silhouette of a human being in the moonlight. He says, "It's an Upright Posture tree." 1996 be bark reside the memories of a young nation se<nchrrag for the January 12 issue of the Gadfly, NathanJongewaard sug- The Could the music I do not know. But I suppose that that tree man than to nature." In an interview with Micah Pharris in 6 an heard? The tree had major corrective surgery in 1907 to repair a which had extended 56 feet up the tree. ~ ............... ...,.__,.. ~,._ flowers, and the ivy on Pinkney. The where per- Tree may be just a source of shade to Though the some croquet spectators, or simply a nice old tree with charand various acter to others, it has withstood weather, adventures with endurance and grace. The 7 �.d. results are in this year's two on two tournament: in sparov beats the machine ORLD CHESS CHAMPION Garry Kasparov and IBM-built supercomputer Blue battled one another in a six-game tournament that drew the attention of world. Kasparov won, with three victories to Deep Blue's one. There were draws in the third and fourth games. Deep Blue's components, 97 percent of which are available in any computer store, allow it to think over 1,000 times faster than any chess-playing computer before it-including its predecessor, Deep Thought-and calculate over fifty billion moves in three minutes. This allows in effect, to see every possible permutation of positions up to fifteen moves ahead. Even with this enormous processing ability, Kasparov "I made a firm decision for myself to take any And even if one day doomed to lose, I it would be absolutely vital for us to play and to fight as long as we can." Though the match was character- BLOODLESS RAID on a threestory ski chalet on Feb. 16 exposed what NATO officials say was a terrorist school where Iranians trained Bosnian government agents. The NATO raiders seized powerful weapons and explosives, booby-trapped toys, and detailed kidnap plans. NATO made a public display of the fL11d, which appeared to show Bosnian authorities in flagrant violation of the troubled peace treaty that NATO troops are trying to enforce. They de- 8 The the women s division, Miss Lyons and Miss Martonffy were the victors; in the division, Mr. Carter and Miss won (was Miss Thadhani on fire or in the men's bee division, Mssrs. Ingram and Speakmon were triumphant; in the the men's the team from Pizza Express, Mssrs. Sears and Wilcox supreme. 1 to pass good defense, too. Miss kinda like the Bill Lambeer of women's bee ball on scored her first v~u-~....... two shots from the stripe. As a matter of now that review the EVERYBODY on the In one of this year's most hard contests, the Guardians esc:ar:iea the new Blue threat in win90-86. Says Mr. Polgreen, "This fairest games ever. It's to see A on A and Bee on Bee. It was sort of of us. The Bees won that game, Let's Kasparov ponders a move in Game 4 ized by many as man versus the scientists who .........,._,.,..,....,,.,.., Blue chose not to look at it that way: "Our for this project was to use chess as a measure of how we can solve with comand learn from them so that we this to solve and .. -.v.._~,,.., least one bucket. This game could be a watershed in the basketball career of Miss Bauman. She dominated the and her shots like rain. She scored 14 in the second half alone. For Baumann is ................. ..... it this way: we up a can whoop-ass." One of the major con- 1996 L. Marshall Kass, indoor soccer .....u.~ ,~, and general totally cool cat: "Because the weather has been tnghttu.l, we will have to cram an entire season of soccer energy into a single <"'- ''-·'-'· ''-"'J'- ,, if you miss this, you better be dead or and then BREAK OUT!!!!" .. tained eleven armed men, inc:lw:tmtg three with Iranian papers. One of the detainees was released because he had a diplomatic passport. In the chalet were discovered over sixty automatic weapons, grenade launchers, and sniper rifles. Explosives and aids were also found. The Bosnian gove1:nrne11t nroi:esited the and claimed that the chaused to train anti-terror units of the Interior Ministo arrest war criminals." team victory for the .u.1.1.... ._.,,u. . . Thadhani, Glc:tssrnan Fremont, Kopar, Cargas, and Schunior. Oops, almost forgot "Her Hugeness," Miss Monberg, who decided to take it to the hole with the auof an assistant dean. She scored in the second half. If this is not true, this would place the Muslim-led Bosnian government in violation of the which requires forces who had fought alongside the Bosnian to leave or become citizens. This is significant because the Serbian faction in Bosnia has already violated the accord breakcontact with NATO forces. This could mediators the advantage need to both sides to comply with the accord. the tributors in the Gold was senior Signor Stromberg. He scored 15 points, ' " ' " ... h ,,.,,.,,,.. his highest total in his career. Says Mr. Stromberg: "Yeah man, what a game. I probably had a double. Playing A on A, and Bee on Bee was great. I congratulate the Spartans on their magnanimity." The move of the game, though, had to go the Febbie Phenom, Mr. Closs with his in the third that electrified the Temple. The 996 �:pl.,.. 0.,. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• §Ill • • • • Placing responsibility where it belongs: Looking "strange people" in the Computer Lab by Ben Speakman, '99 Like most of you, I use the St. John's computer lab with tration. Further compounding this problem is the recent some frequency, usually once a day to check my mail and malfunction of the keycard system. The card reader at the for longer periods to write papers. I am concerned about lab door does not accept my perfectly valid keycard, even the recent security breach. But I'm not so sure as to what though the dorm readers do. Therefore, not every one of we can do about it. The article in last week's Gadfly asked the above legal patrons of the lab has a keycard, and, furus not to allow "strange-looking people" into the computer ther, has one that works in the lab card reader. So we must lab. I don't quite understand the meaning of this phrase; look still elsewhere for our "strange-looking person". what exactly is a "strange-looking person?" So allow me A wholly different problem is how, once this hacker gets to try to pin down what this phrase means. I would ap- into the lab, the average user is supposed to tell that the preciate any that you can provide. culprit is actually hacking into the system? I learned from Is he someone we do not recognize? This certainly seems those more knowledgeable than I in such matters that the obvious at first glance, but it is not too clear. Someone we hacker had a detailed knowledge of UNIX (the system's do not recognize? There are about language) and of six hundred students at St. John's, Macintosh computers. To the avernot to mention tutors, administraage person, UNIX (for that matter, Do we really have the tors, housekeepers, senior resianything outside of WordPerfect or or the responsibility dents, Graduate Institute students, Netscape) might as well be (pardon watch our neighbor's Marriott and Pizza Express employthe expression) Greek. Not everyees, and other such members of the body who possesses this knowlscreen carefully, or are we community. All these, as far as I edge, moreover, is indeed a infringing on his privacy? have to use the St. hacker. Some are engaged in perThe issue is not as simple as John's computer lab, being actively fectly legitimate activities, admitit appears. concerned with the College on a tedly incomprehensible to the day-to-day basis. Now I estimate layman but still wholesome. Crethe total number of persons just ating a separate UNIX mail direcnamed to be around six hundred. he:retcJre six hundred is hard to explain to a neophyte. Furthermore, do persons may use the computer lab any time. Is it reason- we really have the right or responsibility to watch our able to assume that every one of these six hundred per- neighbor's screen or are we infringing on his sons know all othe:r five hund:red and nn-.o•·u- nn-,o I by sight and name? It is therefore possible that the Salem witch trials. Is the Braithwaite/Milliken Insomeone in the computer lab that we do not recognize has quisition next? Again, the issue is not as simple as it first a perfectly legitimate right to be there. appears. So does the phrase then mean someone who is dressed Users themselves also need to take more responsibility strangely? If so, this would mean that persons who have, for their accounts. Please, take care when using passwords. shall we say, creative dress would be prevented from us- Make sure that someone is not staring over your shoulder ing the computer lab. Some persons on campus dress rather as you type, and use passwords that would not be apparunusually, but they of course have a right to use the lab. So ent to someone who knew a little bit about you. this is not satisfactory either. These are a few of the problems that I think need to be Should we then exclude someone without a keycard who solved before we can decide what to do about our comprojust knocks at the door? First of all, not every member of mised security. If you have any ideas, please, for all our the community has a keycard. I think it unlikely that every sakes, run straight to Seth Milliken or Matt Braithwaite and single tutor or other person who does not live on campus tell them. Until then, I suppose we can only change our carries one. Some off-campus dwellers may not see a need passwords every week or so. to plunk down the $5 necessary for one at regis- An exodus of books is here Every book is being moved from Woodward Hall-the old Lihr~1rv.-1·0 the old Hall of Records-the Like ants the students back and forth across the green. Their arms strain against the terrible burden of logos. Their eyes watch for the feared taskmasters: librarians. Thus do they toil, wondering if ever, the picnic shall A small example of what I'm sure will be the lead in every major newsin the land. Well, the will be carrying it This story is soon to be motion Or at least a televised trial. The move is approaching, and CSPAN's cameras won't be there. "The move?" you may ask. the trap is All Resistance is ........ ~,,..,..,..,it looks a mess, the reconstruction of the Hall of Records is nearmade weeks of odd books must be moved from A to B. The shortest distance between two a thus a line is constructed. But this line is not bn::ac1tn1ess, on it may become of in the beginning of On those every book will be taken off the in up by student "volunteers", carried across front campus, taken out of the bags and on their new shelves. What could be It's got to be easier than squinting through a telescope at for hours on end. Ask the Class of '68; are among us. Some of them are tutors. Details of the move-the will be made known as we "'"'.,.....,..'"",.,h closer the certain of the nations take and the schedule for ams must now. things have worked out that the book move should not conflict with any "'-l.Lc:\..u..u.<::u. exam, no one is to carry away Homer in the middle of someone's But the Great is about three months away, and much may go now and then. The is now that any exam that can't be held in the William because of the move, will be held in the Great Hall. We to .,,.,.., '""~ ,,.,.., rr an exam from the "Not one with this blonde Adonis. 1 10 The 1996 tradition of St. classes will be cancelled for a ""''r1• 10 essary. Charles ings and Grounds. He stressed that "but be." In our Chuck is one of the finest around. He is more happy to out When we asked for a comment, he didn't have else a few minutes VL./.1..1.•.•V' .... , The 1996 �s I AK, A few of us have recently observed that almost everything extracurricular done at this school isn't done particularly well. Theatre productions aren't ever good, the Gadfly has never really been very good, the student government and the SCI never really accomplish anything, and the intramural program is a mess. So my question to you is this: Why does everything at St. John's suck? Wanting Answers Wanting Answers, This is a fine thing to say. If you remember, Spinoza says that God revealed himself to the prophets of the the Old Testament in accordance with the prophet's understanding. " ... God has no particular style in speaking, but, according to the learning and capacity of the prophet, is cultivated, compressed, severe, untutored, prolix, or obscure" (Theologico-Political Treatise, Chapter Two). Spinoza gives examples of how God was revealed to each prophet. He wrote, "Isaiah saw God clothed and sitting on a royal throne, Ezekiel saw Him in the likeness of a fire; each doubtless saw God under the form in which he usually imagined Him." Whatl'mheaded to with this is a proportion. Let God be St. John's, let you be a For anyone going to Santa Fe over Spring Break: The acting troupe, Shakespeare in Santa Fe will be presenting the show, Shakespeare's Fools, for free on the St. John's Campus. It's mainly done for younger people, but it may be worth the trouble. Contest Attention college students: Enter the Christophers' Ninth Annual Video prophet. If God reveals himself to the prophets to suit the individual prophet's understanding and preconception, then St. John's reveals itself to the individual student in accordance to the individual student's expectation of what the College is. What's going on with you? I think that you have a bad attitude. Aside from this, though, I want to remind you that we at St. John's are not specialists, do not train to be specialists, nor do we claim to be specialists. Is there any reason we should have a good theatre program when there is no Theatre Department (a department entails specialists, I know you must realize); can we really have whatever it is that you would call a "very good paper when there are no journalism students here? What do you expect the SCI to accomplish? When you say that the intramural program is a "mess" do you mean that the equipment isn't good or that events are poorly organized i_rntermural activites are quite good here, it seems to me. The world sees the intermural activities of playcroquet, and and basketball games and soccer matches, and I think that usually St. John's comes out ''"'"",,.,.,.,,,... pretty good up against other organizations. I asked several people who are associated with the activities you say "suck" what they think about your brazen allegation. I tried to do this 11 Contest and exchange your creativity for cash. The deadline for entries is Friday, 7, 1996. The contest, specifically designed for college students, includes cash awards of $3,000, $2,000 and $1,000 for the top three entries and five honorable mention prizes of $500 each. In addition to the cash prizes, the winning entries will also be featured on the weekly syndicated television program, Closeup." To participate, students must through e-mail and as a result I only got one response. This one response is good, however. I think it was meant to be printed in full. Derek Alexander, Polity Secretary wrote: Though the Delegate Council may draw from the teat of your Student Activities Fee ($100 for the each of you), we do not "suck". That would suggest that either : 1) we had the ability to draw harder-and we don't, the amount is fixed, or 2) we do a bad job of dispensing the money. If the latter, I suggest the complainer speak to his delegate (If he doesn't know who his delegate is, he should see the list in this issue's DC Minutes), and to the officers (also listed)especially me. You see, any single commakes up around 0.25% of the Delegate Council's constituency, so we are bound to respond. We draw money from you/ we draw our authority from you, and then we provide for many of your activities-we draw from your teat, as it were. Should we do a bad job of it, let us know-help us fix the problembut do not whine. I think that Mr. Alexander's last sentence is the one we should focus on here at the close of this response. If a group does a bad job with whatever it's supposed to be doing, let the archon know and help the group fix the problem-don't whine about it. '97 tm:?:ht1en1ng1y close a wife's resembled She once ideal husband is the one who does not take of the power which the law confers upon him." She abhorred the fact that a man could take all of his wife's money and to use as he liked. a time when the term "domestic violence" had not been coined, or even thought of, a husband had every legal right to beat his wife. She also the idea Last Thursday, February 15, the Women's Group celebrated Susan 176th r11nr111,.. with post-seminar punch and cookies in the coffeeshop. The event commemorated Ms. Anthony's 1rn;p1rmtg leadership in America's women's rights movement. Posters with quotes from Susan B. Anthony attempted to raise awareness of her role in United States history apart from her head on a silver dollar. Along with Elizabeth Cady ......" ..... v ... ,, Lucretia Mott and other women's rights activis.ts, Susan B. Anthony led the fight for women's right to vote. She believed that the right to vote is to every other issue in women's struggle for On November 5, 1875, she was arrested for attempting to vote in the Congressional election for the State of New York. The transcript from her court trial shows that her crime involved two factors: that she tried to vote, and that she was a woman. Susan B. Anthony also spoke out on retorrnmtg divorce laws and the institution of marriage, out how men and women. At the women's colleges existed as a sort of substitute for "real" educations at Stanford and Harvard. Susan B. Anbelieved that if men and women coexist in~~,,,~ •.., comay as exist at school. told me once, mean." not reason that men don't want in their colleges is this: are ashamed to be beaten them. As a little AK interprest on film or video, in five minutes or less, the Christopher belief that one person can make a difference. Previous winners have used a variety of techniques such as animation, music video, new report, documentary, comedy, and drama to capture the theme. The competition is sponsored annually by The Christophers, a New Yorkbased international non-profit media organization which produces the synMAILBOX, contind on page 16 I I I I I I I I I I Southwestern Bar & <;rill EE for special ' With this coupon one entree for breakfast lunch or dinner and the second of equal or lesser value, free. member Does not include beverage, tax, or tip. Valid everd.ay, all day. Expires 2/30/95. : 'cofdest :Beer & :Best !Margaritas in 'Town' # ~.;:. ..,<;iq;~ ~ Dock Daily tin 2 am ~ ~~ O~,{',_(Y.:;;,.~ ~ I v~ ~ .$v c0 (j I _______________________ _ 268-6680 11; --~cc~~ L The The 1996 996 �Council narrowly approves $ $ by Leslie Phipps, '99 Last week's Delegate Council meeting dealt with Reality's request for $4,500 from the treasury. In addition to prior donations from the Council, this leaves a total of $7,600 funnelled into Reality this year, exceeding last year's total by $4,800. Questions have been raised regarding the discrepancy between last year's donation-which at the time was the largest ever given-and this year's. Archon Ian Kelly accounts for the difference. "Two years ago, they were allowed to sell alcohol," Kelly said, while currently the alcohol may not be sold for a profit. He also admits that five Reality-funded parties that took place earlier this year have depleted resources, including Reality dues already received by students. The Council vote to honor Reality's request was passed 6-4, with one abstention. Certain members believe the request may have been large because of deficiencies in other means of fund-raising. "I thought $7,600 was a lot of money," says President Steve Urich. "I think it's because they've neglected fund-raising." "It's an outrageous sum," comments Lee would have voted in the event of a tie. "They don't know how much they're going to get from the Assistant Deans," Urich adds. Along with the Assistant Deans' donation, subsidies for Reality come from student dues, Junior Coffee, and Lola's. Archon Ian Kelly reports that he does not know how fund-raising this year compares to last year's, when alcohol was not permitted to be sold, either. He said that Reality costs $10-12,000 to execute. "We basically were aware that the money was there to be had," Kelly said. "You can spend as little as you want to on a party. They wanted to get as much as they could," comments Del- 14 The egate Council Secretary Derek Alexander. Lynnette Dowty, who voted affirmative on the petition, points out that the money proffered by the D.C. can only be used for non-alcoholic activities. Indeed, of the predicted Reality budget, including money from donations and all other fund-raisers, $7,700, $4,550 will be spent on entertainment, and $3,150 on food. No portion has been put aside for the purchase of alcoholic beverages. "It means that Reality can only be better because we'll have more bands and more activities that everyone can enjoy," Dowty said. Kelly said that some students have expressed an interest in having more alternatives to drinking during Reality weekend. "To ~est of our ability, we will try to accomodate them," Kelly said. He points out that drinking is not an integral part of any planned activities. But he makes it clear that neither is sobriety. Reality is an event where people drink, and that's what the campus is expecting. 11 Activities For the second time this year, the Life Committee ...... ,, ...+.........,,, on the stage of FSK on Satur- 1-<01-,..... ,"'.,.~' 24from10 P.M. to A.M. in order to extend the further into the band hits from 1 - 2 A.M. Be prepared for an evening of non-stop dancing. The SLC is the the Chesacve1ciKe P.M. set out biscotti. It would be fun to have you there too in order to make this ~~CLAUH~.LH< .__ .... vu.r. ... , Juan Villasenor (Pinkney) 1996 for members of community to help prepare for llll llAlB Rllll BmUD ' • VOTING NEGATIVE: Jennifer Coonce (Pinkney) Joe Manheim (off-campus) Steve Urich (President) Derek Alexander (Secretary) Chris Gillen has volunteered to a VOTING AFFIRMATIVE: Haakon Maxwell (off-campus) Lori Freeman (off-campus) Lynnette Dowty (Randall) Marjorie Truman (Humphries) Aaron Silverman (Campbell) Bill Erskine (Treasurer) is want for the entire college's me in and biscotti on Satur- day afternoon from 4-6 P.M. in Apt. A, Harrison Health Center. Eat your fill while filling enough trays for others to eat. I promise good coffee. There are still tickets left for All's Well that Ends Well performing this Sunday. In this production the Shakespeare Theatre's traditionally wonderful troupe has added the sharp skills of McGillis. 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Productions must be five minutes or less in length and may be submitted on VHS or 3 I 4 inch cassette. A completed entry form must accompany each submission. Official el)tfy forms are available at the Gadfly office or by writing to The Christophers, College Contest, 12 East 48th Street, New York, NY / 10017; or call 212759-4050. Delta offers Discount Certificates \Begone 'Duff Care! Back for our fourth consecutive year of musical antidotes to the midwinter doldntms ! This time, we 're planning to branch out into a little rock n 'roll, and other festive foolishness. Join us-Judy and Tony Seeger, Chester Burke, George Doskow, Henry Higuera, Michael Littleton and Jon Tuck-- on Saturday, February 24, 2:00 in the Great Hall -- to sing along or just listen. Refr.eshmenrs will be served! The Dean so loves this event tha.t she's buying this advertisement. 16 ~ The Gadfly! February 20, 1996 If you call 1-800-9DELTAO between now and Mar 4, 1996, you can get fares as low as $138 round trip. The fares are $138, $198, and $316, based on zones. They are called "Extra Credit" fares, and are valid for travel up to Mar 31, 1996. Blackout dates are Feb 16, 18, 25, and Mar 3. You will recieve a Student Select Savings Certificate which will enable you to receive the fare. You must provide college name, major, address, and "student identification" number, and you must also produce a student ID at the time of ticketing and travel. Valid while supplies last. We' re back! Come join us! Jriear Mr. Higuera return to his roots. Hear Ms. Seeger return to her gender. Hear Mr. Tuck ... well, you've just got to hear it. And more! Hear the dulcet yet passionate tones of the flute and mandolin (Mr. Burke), the guitar and piano (Mr. Littleton), the fiddle (Mr. Doskow) and the banjo (Mr. Seeger). And much, much more!! Refreshments will be served, courtesy of the Dean. Great Hall I Saturday, February 24 I 2 P.M. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 17 #14 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/fbcce6289e2afea549545b62a4a03e75.pdf 4824580a710b2a1a235b1e36c5037e58 PDF Text Text �This issue is dedicated to Cobalt Blue for all of his contributions to our community over the years. Goodbye, Cobalt Blue. Interview with Cobalt Blue by Lori Freeman, '9 7 A man of two campuses. ' I don't remember exactly when I met him. I can narrow it down to sometime in the spring of my freshman year, when suddenly, miraculously, I had a friend in Cobalt Blue. For those of you who aren't nodding your heads appreciatively (those of us in the know call you "the Lost Ones"), perhaps I should explain a bit about what it means to have Cobalt on your side. Cobalt Blue is what is known as a god among men. Co- Cobalt can fix anything from stage lights to your life using only two feet of wire and a bit of gaff tape. balt can fix anything from stage lights to your life using only two feet of wire and a bit of gaff tape. (Gaff tape is Cobalt's favorite fashion accessory; he's never seen without a roll or two around his wrists. I have a personal theory that they're similar to Wonder Woman's bullet-rep;;ting GOODBYE, continued on page JO Reprinted from the Moonfly, March 28, 1995 by Josh Goldberg, SF '97 I recently had the opportunity to spend some time with Cobalt Blue, assistant director of laboratories in Annapolis for the past three years, graduate of SJC Santa Fe in '92, and campus personality extraordinaire. This is what he had to say: Moonfly: To start with, where were you born? Cobalt Blue: I wasn't so much born, as I was thrown into this universe. MF: How about a short biography? CB: Okay, I first started at Lawrence University in Wisconson, which I found very boring and dreadful. The next year I tried to come to Santa Fe, but because of finances I ended up in Annapolis instead. I got there in the summer, and lived in my '72 Buick with two heroine addicts until the dorms opened. The next year, I came to Santa Fe, where I lived in the stable that once stood where the suites are INTERVIEW, continued on page I 0 Cobalt makes man of the year: Left: Cobalt, on the set of Boys, the "movie" that was filmed on our campus last year. Right: Cobalt at Santa Fe on a trip with other students from the Annapolis Campus. Cobalt Blue. th{ hJrdcst '' orking man in sho" 2 bu~iness ~ The Gadfly! February 27, 1996 Reality Check To the Editor and the Student Body, First, I would like to thank the members of the Delegate Council who supported Reality's most recent budgetary request. Your affirmative vote has reduced much of our stress. Second, I would like to reply to some of the statements and inferences made in the most recent edition of the Gadfly, as I find them misleading and highly prejudicial. l)We are a fundraising entity, and, accordingly, have pursued all options available to us, with varying degrees of success. Although there are upcoming opportunities for us to raise more money, we are right on schedule and have neglected nothing within our reach. 2) We do not know what, if anything, we will receive from the Assistant Dean's office, because it is a gift, not an entitlement, or a request for which we petition, as in the case of the DC. It would be quite callous for us or anybody else to consider this a calculable part of our budget. 3) You can't spend " as little as you want to on a party," and guarantee that it will be successful in the eyes of the participants, the only true judges. Nearly all of the expenses of our parties are non-negotiable, as we are responding to the expectations of our peers and tradition, and would be amiss if we ignored them. Incidentally, the best gauges of our ability, the attendants of the various Reality events, indicate that we are doing a praiseworthy and consistent job. 4) Ms. Phipps, How does my statement that the campus expects to be able to drink at Reality say anything, one way or the other, about the degree of sobriety over the weekend? If you wish to creatively interpret what I say, please credit yourself, not me, with your conclusions. 5) Reality is not a club, and should not be regarded as such. Almost without exception, we are the only campus-based entity that frequently hosts events in which the entire campus may participate at the same time. Subsequently, any moneys designated for use by Reality are funneled into activities in which the entire campus may participate. Thus, as Ms. Dowty indicated, the more money we have, the better entertained everyone will be. Judging from the feedback we have received, this approach has been highly succesful. 6) Lest anyone forget, the Archons and the students who assist with Reality events work their fingers nearly to the bone, and receive far too little credit already. To be categorized as ineffecient spendthrifts is extremely insulting and highly offensive. We will continue, as we have been doing all year, to attempt to serve the partying needs of the polity, and look forward to the continuing support and attendance of the polity: the people who have made it all worthwhile. was relate your point that sobriety is not integral to the event. As you said, attendants need not be drunk, but they need not be sober. Leslie Phipps, '99 Sincerely, Ian Kelley Reality '96 Archon Author's Response: I would like to point out that my article about the money Reality received from the D.C. [February 13 issue] was not written with any bias.If you look back at the article you will see that both sides of the issue are represented. I would like to address Mr. Kelley's Statement (number 3) concerning Mr. Alexander's comment, "You can spend as little as you want on a party; they wanted to get as much as they couW': I believe Mr. Alexander's comment was a neutral one invoking a hypothetical realm of possibility. He did not say one should spend a small amount on a party, he merely said it was possible to do so. No one will argue with the fact that in any investment there are options which can either increase or reduce the expenditures. Mr. Alexander's comment might be taken to mean that this year's Jund-raising committee wants to make Reality the best it can be. In response to the question addressed to me (number 4)-any license taken with what Mr. Kelley had to say about the importance of inebriation at Reality was negligible. What I was trying to do, Mr. Kelley, In Praise of Druids . Dear Gadfly: We who are part of intramural sports at St. John's should thank the Druids for the example of excellence they have put before us in these last few months. We can all learn from the character they have been displaying on the basketball court, working hard from the beginning to the end of game after game in which they have been badly overmatched. Those who have been playing consistently have shown both courage and the good sense to know what matters when we play. Their captains, Mr. Brennan, Mr. Erskine, and Mr. Bloom, have shown remarkable leadership both in the work they have done to get people to come to their games and in the tone they have set throughout those games. Getting enough people to play all scheduled games matters. Not just because forfeits are ugly, and not just because of the effect they have on the tone of the games that are played. Forfeits attack our intramural program at its reason for being. The intramural program is no mere adornment to college life. It extends and complements the classroom. One of the various ways in which it does so is worth mention here. Much of what we do in classes is rooted in a conviction that knowledge is somehow one. A reflection of that conviction is another: that we can all DRUIDS, continued on page I 2 Letters Policy: Letters of 200 words or less have a better chance of being published than those longer. Letters will not be edited/or grammar, puncuation, or spelling, and will be printed exactly as submitted. The Gadfly does not print anonymous submissions, except under special circumstances. The Gadfly/ February 27, 1996 --....... 3 �. · · ··· ·· ·· ······· ~ ······ ·· · ·· ·· · ·· · · · · · · · ·· · Volunteering . Polity Court proposal gets mixed reviews A personal involvement in volunteer work makes it more rewarding by Felix Leslie, '98 It all started when someone vandal- Court before the D.C. The D.C. disized the pool room. The Assistant cussed the issue, and decided that they Deans had the key; it had been closed wanted to hear more about the idea since the neighboring bathroom was from the administration. They invited demolished a few weeks back, so no- Mr. Pastille and Mr. Schoener as well body should have even been in there.1 as Dean Brann to the D.C. meeting next Regardless, these people, whoever they Wednesday at lunch. were, decided not only to play pool but Secretary Derek Alexander was to break some beer bottles and spread asked to draft a letter to inform the some cigarette butts around the place polity of the impending and important as well as write graffitti on the walls. question and sent out the missive The Assistant Deans, hearing about it from housekeeping, began to debate Should students judge eliminating the facility. They recogother students? Should nized, however, that this would disadthe D.C. members act as vantage the rule-abiding pool players a jury? S-trould the Polity as well as the vandals. Mr. Schoener, Court be reinstated? having been here as a student when there was a Polity Court that used to exist, saw that there were other options. which we all got early last week. This The Assistant Deans realized that this letter was merely meant to outline incident need not cause the entire pol- some possibfe ideas for structure, proity to be inconvenienced if the policy cedure and penalties open to the court. was formally self-regulating. There- Some students misunderstood the fore, they suggested to the Delegate letter's intention and got the impresCouncil that they reinstitute the Polity sion that the Polity Court Act was a Court. Some punishments, they sug- ·.done deal. This misunderstanding has gested, would be banning students caused something of a furor among the from polity activities, fines, or commu- members of the community, and nity service. heated discussions occured. So, Polity Attorney Lee Hoggard There is no consensus of opinion. It and President Steve Urich went down seems that there is a strong feeling that to Executive Alley to speak with the the idea of the polity regulating itself Assistant Deans, and brought Messrs. is a good idea, whilst there is an equal Schoener and Pastille's thoughts on the strength of feeling among certain stu- dents that it is not. "Having students prosecute each other is a divisivf' idea," sophomore Rudy Hernandez said. "The members of the D.C. weren't elected to judge and members of the polity should be able to work things out on their own rather than running to the Assistant Deans or the Polity Court." Those who disagree with the idea cite various reasons: that any student judge in such a school would have a conflict of opinion by dint of the close contact that we have with one another, that students have no authority to judge their peers, and that it is riot the student's role to sit in judgement of his fellow student. There are those who support the proposition, as well. At the D.C. meeting this week where the Act of Council was first presented, several members of the D.C. expressed approval of the idea, saying that students may feel more accountable for their actions if they have to answer to their peers. Delegate Haakon Maxwell cautioned the D.C. that the Court might turn into "us against them," and he told The Gadfly, "Regardless of whence came this idea, or of how the D.C. presents it to the polity, I think they are likely the perceive the Polity Court as a moral disaster wherein we, the holier-thanthou fascists, seek to unjustly persecute POLITY COURT, continued on page 16 Opinion: Polity Attorney Lee Hoggard writes in favor of the Polity Court by Lee J. Hoggard, Polity Attorney The idea of the Polity Court has recently been resurrected and proposed to the Delegate Council. Mr. Alexander has drafted an Act of Council that is similar to what will ultimately be voted on. However, the exact wording of the Act of Council is not important to me right now, that can all be altered by discussion at the Polity and subsequent Delegate Council meetings. Instead I would like to clarify what it is that has been proposed, where the Delegate Council has the power to pass 4 something of this nature, and why it should be passed. The preamble of the Polity Constitution says, no community can long endure without an effective instrumEnt for the governance of its members. We further recognize that the tradition of self-government to which we are heir bids us to take upon ourselves, so far as we are able, the responsibility for the institution and maintenance of such an instrument." We have been given the opportunity to reestablish an instrument which, due to negligence and lack ~ The Gadfly/ February 27, 1996 11 ••• of interest, has fallen from of the hands of the students to the Assistant Deans. If we are to govern ourselves, we must also deal with the infractions against the Polity Law, which are created by the Delegate Council. The power to enact law is given under the Work of the Delegate Council in Article II, "f. the Delegate Council shall establish, if necessary, a criminal code (Polity Law)for the Student Polity." The process for POLJTY ATTORNEY, continued on page 16 by Rebekah fongewaard, '97 EFLECTING ON the volunteer work I have done, I re quire commitments of time and effort that charity does not. member a particular winter the summer after the They require entering into new environments and often mid west was devastated by flooding. A church in Ohio had working with strangers. Volunteering in this way provides sent money to my church in Iowa to buy children in a par- for much more learning and fulfillment than does the doticular family Christmas presents. The family's trailer park nation of money or bought goods. I am thinking of opportunities such as Habitat for Huhome had been destroyed by the overflowing Des Moines manity in which ordinary people get together and renovate River and they were staying with relatives in the same town. An older woman and I were asked to deliver the gifts, so or build houses. Few of those who show up at a work sight on Christmas Eve we drove her Cadillac to their too- small- for a day or a week know how to gut a house or lay siding for- eight- people house. We unpacked the boxes of pre- or hang doors. In seven days, a crew of workers previously sents before the eager eyes of four grubby little kids and unskilled in architecture and carpentry can transform an took pictures of them smiling in front of the gold-tinseled empty lot into the frame and foundation of a house. Not tree, to send back to the church in Ohio. We wished the fam- · only have they begun to build a house, they have probablr ily a Merry Christmas and left, the woman I was with dis- become newly acquainted with each other and all the curious little children of the community who wanted to help. creetly wiping tears form the comers of her eyes. Sending a check in the mail This is one of my saddest exdoes not require that the giver periences with charity. I felt guilty We barged into the home leave his own front yard. Much as we barged into the home of volunteer work allows people to of these people, whose these people, whose names I leave their own comfortable endon't remember, and left just as names I don't remember, vironment to discover a new one. quickly, and nearly as unacThis allows the volunteer to meet and left just as quickly, quainted with the family as we people he may never have othhad come. They seemed vulnerand nearly as erwise come in contact with. It able and apologetic of their own unacquainted with the also allows the volunteer to beliving space. The gesture of givcome part of a new, refreshing family as we had come. ing was kind, but it was not accommunity. I work as a teacher's companied by any sort of sharing aide at Annapolis Elementary of self on the part of those who School. The school is only a ten minute walk from the camgave. We did not have to risk anything as we hurried!~ went in and out of these peoples' lives. The word charity no pus, but in that ten minutes I leave the familiar setting ?f longer reminds most of God's agape love spoken of by college and begin to feel more like a citizen of Annapolis. Dante. Rather, the term conjures up images of busy-body At the school I have worked with volunteers from the Nado-gooders, people like e.e. cummings' Cambridge ladies val Academy, second grade teachers who have never been who, "at the present writing one still finds delighted fin- to St. John's and second graders who think I am anywhere from fourteen to twenty seven years old and do not know gers knitting for the is it Poles?" Under this connotation, charity requires little knowledge that I am myself a student, with a life outside of the second or care about the situations of the people recieving the good- grade. The personal commitment required of volunteer work will. The giver need only sign the check, drop off the uncan lead to a fuller understanding of why it is the work needed canned goods and old clothes, or if she is quite generous, knit socks while surrounded by chattering and needs to be done. Our school offers a tutoring program to equally bored housewives. I don't think there is harm ~ elementary through high school aged students. Rather than this sort of volunteer work. The money from the check will just having a vague notion that kids in public schools often buy several school children polio vaccinations. Canned don't receive the attention they need to learn what they need franks n' beans will nourish some young, hungry stomach. to learn, a tutor learns specifically why this is so. If I hear The warm feet of the Poles or the Bosnians or any other stories on the news that classes are overcrowded and teachmembers of the Persecuted People of the Month Club will ers are underqualified, I might believe it for a minute and not notice that the socks' makers do not care, above their then forget about it. If I have a weekly commitment to meet own reputation or tax deduction, who is wearing the socks. with Sarah, whose first grade class has had no permanent That type of charity does some good, but there are thou- teacher all year and has gone through three substitutes and sands of volunteer activities that accomplish much more, who cannot tell me what sounds the letter "a" makes, I benot only for the people for whom the work is being done, lieve and understand what I have heard. I will also be reVOLUNTEERING, continued on page 3 but for the volunteers themselves. These opportunities re- R The Gadfly! February 27, 1996 -.....p 5 11 0 - 11 I I �a.d. notes "God has ordained me to teach you young men about basketball today." -Vince Lombardi to his team at Fordham in the early 1940's y Nelson Hernandez '99 -<'.Y,.,,.,.,~~•.~..\,..,. ~,,,....,...,~1.t~i.~:::::..,.<"..,,,.... . f<"i~-r'··..,,,....,~~'(~,,..,,("'''7"f"~~·•>"<''~..,,....,_,,.,T:r". Iraqi defectors killed by family T wo SONS-IN-LAW of Saddam Hussein who returned to Iraq last week after defecting to Jordan six months ago have been slain by their relatives, the Iraqi government announced on Feb. 23. An Interior Ministry statement broadcast on a government-con trolled radio station said the two men, Lt. Gen. Hussein Kamel al-Majid and Col. Saddam Kamel al-Majid, Saddam Hussein and his extended family. The who were brothers, had defecting brothers are in the upper left. been killed in a firefight when armed members of their family at the Iraqi border warmly. stormed their residence in Baghdad The al-Majid family members that last Friday. had attacked the defectors sent a teleWhen the two men and their wives, gram to Hussein which was described both daughters of President Hussein, on Iraqi television: "It asked for clemreturned to Baghdad on Tuesday after ency, and said the family's members fleeing the country last Aug. 8, the gov- had to kill the defectors to cleanse their ernment said they would be received honor, which had been tarnished by as ordinary citizens. They were greeted treason," the announcer said. ~ U.S. repays Iranian victims' families T he U.S. will pay the families of Ira nians aboard an Iran Air airliner that was shot down by a U.S. warship in 1988 but will pay no money to the Iranian government, the State Department announced last Thursday. The heavy cruiser, the U.S.S. Vincennes, whose officers said they feared attack by an Iranian fighter, shot down the airliner on Jul. 3, 1988, killing all 290 people aboard, including 248 Iranians. The State Department spokesman, 6 Nicholas Burns, said that with the payment, the two countries had settled Iran's claims, which were filed before the International Court of Jusitice and an Iran-U.S. panel. The State Department said that in line with an offer made by President Reagan, $300,000 would be paid for each wage-earning victim and $150,000 for each non-wage-earning victim. The total amount to be disbursed is $131.8 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. ~ ~ The Gadfly! February 27, 1996 The Hustlers kept their crown as the soccer grinches on campus by winning the indoor soccer tournament. Gym Jeff Travis played great goal, and the following Hustlers played well: Mssrs. Rettig, Larson, Snead, Vansant, Bojaxhi, Nyberg, Soejoto, Sirkin, Mashenko, and Speakmon. The Guardians hung in their until the end, playing 4 straight rounds. The Goldenguy who really distinguished himself, though, was Kit Linton, who showed some real nifty footwork. cal pain, finally stepped up and played to the potential that has aloways been expected of him. He played non-stop from the opening tip-off with absolute ferocity and the power of a freight train. He out-rebounded everyone from both teams. He dove for loose balls, drove to the basket, and went up strong with layups including four offensive rebounds. He passed the ball to teammates and hustled 110% on defense. Most importantly, he remained focused and committed for the entire time that he was on the court." Coming after Spring Break: March Madness!!!! We will be picking 6 new teams in the men's league, and three new teams in the women's league. The rosters will be posted on Thursday, Feb. 29, so check out what team you're on and come on down and play in the grand finale of the basketball season. Now that's some high praise. When I first read Mr. B's note, though, I thought he was talking about huge Tom Donehower. Not only did Mr. Donehower play such a game against the Spartans, he also won the men's bee bracket one on one basketball tournament. For his great efforts, Mr. Donehower is named Athlete of the Week. In what was arguably the best game of the season to date, the Spartans upset the Waves 85-84. Mariott's Mr. Day made a great debut for the Spartans, scoring 17 points, and sinking the game winning basket with just seconds to go. Miss Thadhani played her usual fearless brand of basketball, scoring 14 points for the Blue Bees. Her 9 points in the second bee team period put the Spartans in the lead. Kirk Duncan played well for the Waves. Brian Good, basketball aficionado, had this to say about Duncan's performance: "Kirk, who despite an injured ower back and extreme physi- cent Maenads Furies game. This from the a.d.'s mailbag-a note from Zack Rasmuson, class of '95: "I think of the Temple every day." Mr. Aaron Pease, taking a year off, and passing through town, had this to say as he watched the recent Nymph versus Amazons game: "I've never seen the women play so well. They've really learned how to pass and shoot and play defense." She rowed in the fall. Now she does A.T.P. three mornings a week, and pumps iron with her crew mates twice a week, and comes out plays for the Bluegalz in the women's basketball More on the league to boot. I guess she's just anone on one: other one of those jocks on an athletic Miss Lyons scholarship. won the Talking 'bout women's the freshman bracket, and Justi Schunior, Mr. Closs, won who, for her the men's A persistence bracket. and great attiM i s s tude, is named Milazzo scored Athlete of the her first official Week. basket in the re- St. John's lacrosse returns, with an attitude by Micheal E. Barth, G.I. This spring, lacrosse will be offered as an intramural sport to the entire St. John's community. Unlike the brand of lacrosse played by the national championship teams of St. John's past, this time around it's tribal. The version that we will play has its roots in the game as played by the Muskhogean Indians several hundred years ago to keep their braves in shape for war. No helmets, gloves, pads or rules just sticks and warpaint! Depending on the turnout, co-ed teams will vary in size from 5 to 25 players. Play will range over approximately 200 yards of terrain with no boundaries. To begin the game, the two teams face each other at center field, and the ball is thrown high up between them; normally about a ten minute struggle ensues before anyone is able to put the ball in open play. The face-off melees of old always produced a healthy amount of broken LACROSSE, continued on page 14 The Gadfly! February 27, 1996 --..., 7 �Tutor Sing-A-Long is a success Septet performs "Songs of Flight"for an enthusiastic audience ALL by A. Kniggendorf '97 Without a word from any member of the ensemble, Mr. Burke began playing his flute in the Great Hall concert, 24 Feb. at 2:00. St. John's some of the songs were of that ilk, but rather he meant that the songs were to inspire a feeling of flight in the listeners. The songs did just that, from a song about whaltutors Chester ers who wanted to Burke, Michael go home, to Richie Littleton, Henry Valens' "La Higuera, Jon Bamba" (Mr. Tuck, George Higuera returning Doskow, tutor-into "his roots, one law Tony Seeger, half Mexican, -one and tutor Judy half Cuban"), the Seeger came toaudience was regether to entertain ceptive to singing the St. John's comalong in the most munity with carefree way, and mostly "songs of when Mr. Tuck flight" (so called yelled "once by Tuck). Mr. Tuck said that the more!" the audience's voice septet selected songs of flight to soared with more life than bemake up the bulk of its reperfoire fore. in hopes of alleviating some of Mr. Michael Dink, who sat in the dreariness that accompanies front of me, furnished the five this season of rain, fog and cold. children around him with cookCentered between two winies from the refreshment table in dows which framed blue sky and the back of the Hall, before Mrs. swaying bare trees, the group Seeger began the quintessential cheered its audience of students, flight song. The children thus far tutors, tutors' families and a had been very much enjoying townie or two. Mr. Seeger led the the music; one of the boys comcongregation singing and strummented that an earlier song ming his banjo, in a stirring renwasn't "so much a song as it is a dition of "This Land is Your story." Land, This Land is My Land". This song, which is very a Mr. Higuera managed to fit in a story, some of you may rememcomplicated-sounding bass riff ber hearing at the "Songs of the somewhere around the middle of Civil War" concert before the song which made everyone, Thanksgiving Break. It served as including Mr. Littleton, who was Top: From left to right: Messrs. Burke, Tuck, instructions to slaves on how to Higuera, and Seeger; Mrs. Seeger, and seated on the floor of the apron use the Underground Railroad in Messrs. Doskow and Littleton before the of the stage, laugh freely. the early to mid 1800s in order show. Bottom: In concert. I think that by songs of flight to reach freedom either in the Mr. Tuck did not mean that the songs were to be solely northern States or Canada. Mrs. Seeger's light voice beabout one who wishes to escape an unhappy reality, though SING-A-LONG, continued on page I 5 8 ~ The Gadfly/ February 27, 1996 DOMESTIC CIGAREITES $1.90 + 56 Mary1and Ave. Annapolis, MO TAX ------- MONEY ORDERS OFFICE SUPPLIES COPIES OLIS POST KEYS MADE .__.._.~BOX UPS SHIPPING PHONE CARDS 3 Church Circle, Annapolis, MD 21401 WESTERN UNION r----------------- --- ----~ (ARMADILLO'S) Southwest e rn Bar & (;rill FREE FOOD! : I I . 1 1 2 for 1 special With this coupon buy one entree for breakfast lunch or dinner and get the second of equal or lesser value, free. Does not include beverage, tax, or tip. Valid everday, all day. Expires 2/30/95. 'Cofcfest 'Beer & 'Best Margan·tas in 'Town' The Gadfly/ February 27, 1996 -..,P 9 �GOODBYE, continued from page 2 Amazonian bangles, but that's for another time.) His name is a password in all sorts of circles. When I visited Santa Fe last year, I discovered that people speak of him as a legend there-sometimes with an obvious jealousy that we in Annapolis were graced with his presence. Here, too--if you know Cobalt, everyone from Gordon the electrician to Jeanette the-God, what does she do--honors your requests a little bit faster and a little more seriously. One night, Cobalt gave me his keys so I could get into the FSK lobby restrooms. I was unlocking the door when a security guard shined a flashlight on me and asked, very angrily, what the hell I thought I was doing. I stuttered something like, "I borrowed Cobalt's ... ," and that's as far as I got. His expression changed, he waved his hand, and said, "It's all right. Close the door behind you." I don't think many people know the scope of Cobalt's duties, either. Those who were here last year might have gotten some clues from his series of articles for the Gadfly, but that hardly even begins to uncover it. I'm not sure how many of his days off are actually off, but it can't be many. He's here quite a few weekends, either organizing tech work for the rising young stars (read: brats with too much free time and parents w ith too much money) of the Annapolis Talent Machine, or for the theatrical wonder (read: vacu".' ous hole) that is KWP. H;'spent countless hours assisting (read: directing) the Winona m ovie last year, under pain of the companionship of Hollywood Types, complaining no more than three or four (thousand) times (even gods have their limits). He knows more about laboratories than Marie Curie. He has keys to all sorts of things, and isn't afraid to use them. He fixed Carmita's new fish toys w hen the combined wisdom of a good part of the ad m inistration cou ldn't figure out how to get them out of the box. He's been known to assist and illicit prankster or two ... 'nuff said. Any more might start getting people into trouble. Let it suffice to say that The Man Knows His Stuff. And then some. In fact, he knows a little bit too much. Cobalt once told me that his dream was to get his car running, say his goodbyes, "turn off the school" and leave. I asked him exactly what he meant by that, and he just grinned. Come weekend, though, if you wake up and everything is ou t of control, well...good luck finding him. He's outta here. Bye, Cobalt. I'll miss you. It's crazy-in the middle of a hectic year, you are going to fade out of this place in the same way you faded in ... without presumption, without a to-do. I'm elated that you're breaking free, and frustrated that none of us appreciate you as much as you deserve. Take care of yourself, steer clear of heroin addicts bearing bologna, and write a lot. I think Mexico is nice this time of year... 10 ~ The Gadfly/ February 27, 1996 Excerpts from previously published articles by Cobalt Blue, Resident Cool Guy From the Sep. 13, 1994 issue of The Gadfly, "Making it rain": People have approached me and asked what exactly is it that I do here and I haven't found a good answer yet. My supervisor told me that I was hired to replace the last guy and when I asked what he did the responses ranged from "Nothing" to "Sell Avon". Not particularly helpful information, and if I told you that my job was to turn light switches off and on and maybe turn on an occasional T.V. you probably wouldn't believe me. So from now on when asked what my job is I respond with the cryptical an~ mystical answer of "I make the impossible improbable and the improbable happen." That usually stuns them long enough for me to turn off the lights and get away.... From the October4, 1994 issue of The Gadfly, "You can't come home again": ... So now I'm sitting here thinking about memory and how it feels to be forgotten, and I think of this little-known room in the basement of Mellon where they keep the old furniture and the metal bones of ancient, dinosaur computers. In the corner of this room, amidst the dust and rubble there lies a group of plaques. Some are made of wood, some of metal, but most sconsist of marble. On these plaques are inscribed many fond sentiments such as "In loving memory of... " and " In loving remembrance this tablet is erected to h is classmates." I look at these plaques and they make me wonder. There are those who will be remembered and those who will be forgotten and then there are those who came so close to being remembered but didn't quite make it. Somebody somewhere out there spent the time and money to have somebody's name engraved on a piece of marble, only to have it lie face down, flat in three inches of dust in a dark comder of a locked room in a basement. Yeah, these are the ironic ones. They came so close to being remembered but they just fell short. They fell short by just twenty-four inches. Twenty-four lousy inches- the combined length of the four six-inch screws necessary to fasten their plaques to the wall. And I think to myself that when I go I would rather go forgotten like the last bus silently slipping out of the terminal in the midnight hour than to be remembered by some dumb bastard in a cold, dark basement, staring at my name carved in some stone, smiling and shaking his head at what looks like the eternal sucker punch I've received. INTERVIEW, continued from page 2 MF: What would you say is your basic philosophy of now, with Tony Lagouranis. I'm very sorry to see that stable life? go, it was the finest stable I've known. CB: If you see someone without a smile get the hell out After I graduated in '92, I had no clue what to do. I worked various jobs, including a 7-11, where I learned to do this re- of their way. Don't run with sharp objects. Don't make ally well [raising his arms high into the air] and a job as a repo that face or it will stay that way and those who live in glass houses shouldn't. man. After that, I came back to St. MF: What are your basic ideas on John's where I've had my current job Learn the secret behind economy? for the past three years. Now you have it. CB: Pay when you can, steal when Cobalt's name change MF: What are your goals in life? you must, and never take more than and his desire to make CB: To build an entire house out of you can carry in both arms. Lego's (including the toilets) and to toilets out of Legos. MF: What is the best way to find wear the Winnie-the-Pooh costume at happiness? Disneyland or in the Ice Capades. CB: When the going gets tough, the tough throttle those MF: What are your thoughts on the city of Annapolis? responsible. (It may not make things better, but it sure is CB: There are places on earth where insects live forever satisfying.) and men can't die soon enough. MF: What hobbies do you have? MF: What about Santa Fe? CB: Hitting things with my head and breathing. CB: [Santa Fe is] proof that life can exist in a vacuum. MF: Do you have any favorite toys? MF: Which campus do you prefer? CB: Yeah, Lincoln Logs and matches. CB: Santa Fe. In Annapolis, they work hard to get stuff MF: What about a favorite saying? done, and then they work to have fun. In Santa Fe, they CB: Either "Never once do my fingers leave my hands." work to get stuff done, and they just have fun. or "Officer, I've never seen that girl in my life." MF: Would you happen to have any irrational fears that MF: A favorite luncheon meat? folks might want to know about? CB: Gee, uh, I never really considered that. It's a very CB: Escalators, spontaneous combustion and being desilly question. Certainly not bologna. It's made out of horse voured by sloths. MF: What are your feelings about St. John's in general? eyelids. MF: Did you have a favorite class here? CB: It is the platypus of all colleges. If you took 400 people CB: Senior math with Spike [Venable]. that you would not eat lunch with in high school and MF: Okay, to finish off, I'll ask the question that everycrammed all these lovable misfits into one campus, you'd one on both campuses is dying to know the answer to: Just have St. John's. MF: What do you consider your greatest accomplishment why did you change your name, anyway? CB: Well, I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. in life so far? CB: Being voted most likely to become a solipsist. (Of No, seriously, it is one of two things, I won't say which: course I was the only one running.) [Webster says that a First, have you ever heard of the witness protection program? And second, I used to be a female midget wrestler. solipsist is one who believes that only the self can be known That is, I used to wrestle with female midgets. to exist. -Ed.] ' DR UIDS, continued from page 8 do math, can all read poetry, can all sing, can all learn Greek. Many students come here thinking of themselves as types: capable in certain things, incompetent at others. One way St. John's serves students is to ask them to challenge and overcome such self-imposed limitations. The athletic program plays the same role. People who come thinking of themselves as the type of person who doesn't play sports are encouraged to challenge and to overcome that opinion. This happens most when team captains attack freshmen and sophomores vigorously with continual encouragement. Some people play in our league because they always have played sports; others, because they are badgered into it. For the most part, both groups are glad they do. The one thing that can never be allowed to happenthough it too often has over the years-is for games to be cancelled because of lack of interest. The people who are n ew to sports will not play every time. They might play very rarely at first. But we cannot know when they will make their first trip to Mr. Pickens' Temple, and we must always be sure to be there waiting for them when they do. S. Wedin, A '85 The Gadfly/ February 27, 1996 -...p 11 �Great Weather Brings Johnnies Outside Photos by Mary K. Lynch, '97 Straight from Olympus Tttf NJZZ By Valerie Pawlewicz/Student Activities This weekend the weather was beautiful! The gods mave been repaying us for all of the bad weather we endured this month: Clockwise from Top Left: 1. Students lounge on front campus. 2. Tank tops in February! 3. Under a tree on back campus. 4. Croquet: as soon as the sun comes out. 5. Seeing students on the quad again. Should the the pool rootl?- be turned into a coffee shop? The Gadfly's roving reporter asks Johnnies for their views. by Michael Busch, '99 Due to several acts of vandalism, there has been talk of closing the Pool Room. On Tuesday, February 13, The Del- egate Council passed an act of Council which suggests to the Campus Planning Committee that the Pool Room be turned into a Coffee Shop. "I'm gonna miss the pool room but the coffee shop is neat. I just hope a bunch of dorky townies don't show up thinking it's a new place to hang out." - Ethan Press, '99 "I give the idea two thumbs down. I like to play pool and I think the Coffee Shop serves the same purpose as this would." -Dana Ostrander, '99 "Where are they going to put the pool tables?" -Kate Wilson, '98 'Tm all for it. I never liked pool anyway." -Ben Speakmon, '99 "I think they should put the pool table in the Chase-Stone basement. People will not vandalize it if it's in an open area; there's too much likelihood of people walking in and seeing it." -Kit Linton, '97 12 ~ The Gadfly/ February 27, 1996 "I think it would be a waste of money because some people would go in and do their seminar readings in there and not pay for them." -Heather Richardson, '99 "We already have a coffee shop. A pool room is much more useful." -Jay Henry, '99 "I'd rather have a pool room." -Liz Sudduth, '99 Kudos to the Student Life Committee (SLC) for voting on, funding, and running two extremely successfull parties and one on-going activity this year. Both parties - the XPD's back in January, and Chesapeake last weekend were energetic, fun, and organized. Johnnie Java seems to be slowly turning into a new tradition. So many people helped to make these events work. I'm listing them here to honor their time and energy: Luke Trares, Derek Alexander, Nelson Hernandez, Jen Coonce, Steve Urich, Rebecca Michaels, Pia Thadani, Seth Milliken, Lee Hoggard, Bill Erskine, Abe Schoener, Leo Pickens, Steve Werlin, Kevin Topper, and Sus3an Borden. Many non-committee members have helped make SLC events possible as well: Cobalt Blue, Dara Trout, Domenic C-z, Ian Kelly, Lynette Dowty, Lauren Connelly and Scott Larson. Have a great Spring break. Our Olympian this week was chosen for her everpresent cheery disposition and dedication. She is Mary Hall , one of the goddesses of the Housekeeping Staff. Mary's one of the friendliest people on campus, gracing the likes of Randall and Humphries with her presence. For many freshman women, she is the only smiling face on the way to nine o'clock classes. Annemarie Catania, a junior who used to live on Randall said, "It's always nice to see Mary in the morning." When we asked Mary how long she's been working here it was refreshing to hear her say without a hint of complaint, "Nine years in May". Lynette Dowty, who lived in Randall freshman year and is currently a Randall RA, said to the freshmen on her floor at the beginning of the year, "The only things that will piss me off is if you piss off housekeeping, 'cause Mary is so awesome." When you ask any student who's ever known her to say something about her, they all say, "She's always smiling." VOLUNTEERING, continued from page 5 warded when, after two months, Sarah can read a children's story with me. Volunteer work usually starts with small commitments and grows. The hour that you promised to tutor has become two hours, the stranger who you taught to swing dance is now a friend. A friend of mine went to Costa Rica, planning to guard sea turtle eggs for six weeks. She stayed for nine months. A man I met went to El Salvador in 1984 to help poor farmers for a year or two during the civil war. Eleven years later he was still living there, with his El Salvadoran wife and their two children. This is a risk that volunteering holds; you risk becoming more involved than you ever dreamt. However, it is the nature of volunteering, that this involvement is not a nasty, unwanted entanglement. Rather, it is voluntary. You want to give your time and efforts freely. I'm afraid it sounds like a cliche, but freely giving of your time and energies, of yourself, does more for everybody involved than does rushed charity, much less apathetic inactivity. In volunteering the frustrations and risks are often gre';lter, but so is the richness of learning and growth. 0-VER.:EIE~R.D 'I count my good days by two things: how many times I hear, 'You're right,' and whether I liberated China." -Haakon Maxwell, '97 The Gadfly! February 27, 1996 - . . . . 13 �LACROSSE, continued from page 7 arms and legs because the practice of crippling an opponent was considered fair sportsmanship when done in the name of fun. Although body-checking is illegal in our game, the face-off will still be a wild sight to behold and great name of fun. Although body-checking is illegal in our game, the face-off will still be a wild sight to behold and great fun to be in the middle of. After a team takes possession of the ball, the object is simple: run as fast as you can towards the opponent's goal while being pursued by a stick-wielding mob that doesn't want you to score. A point is scored when the ball, after being passed a designated amount of times ~ke between teammates, is placed on the opponent's goal, after which, possession changes sides. Games often last an hour or more, depending on how fast a team is able to score twenty points. In the old days the losing team would run home as quickly as possible to avoid the humiliating taunts of the victors, especially the captain, who, if caught, would be thrown in a creek or stripped naked and made to roll around in the mud before returning to the village. In the interest of authenticity, we will surely observe the practice of flinging the losing captain in College Creek. Lacrosse season will begin with a £Qepkarit akd tke Q~ape: u4 ~lttQe CWktu Wanting Answers, AK, I formd your response to my question last week most unsatisfactory. First you request that people send you complaints, and then dismiss what I thought to be a very legitimate one as a bad attitude on the part of the one complaining. There was no investigation as to whether or not the problem really exists or what its cause might be. Perhaps, however, you did not understand my perspective; I was not careful to explain it fully. I don't think I have a bad attitude. I not complaining for the vantage point for an outside observer, in fact I have been involved in nearly every activity that I mentioned. I have been in several KWP productions, I was Editor of the Gadfly, I was on the Delegate Council for a year, and I'm a captain of my intramural team. I have worked very hard for a lot of St.John's activities; and yet they continue to suck in many various ways. I submit that it is not the fault of individuals, but rather has something to do with the nature of the school itself. Any ideas on why this might be? I remain, Wanting Answers This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, This senior-junior, giant dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rimes lord of folded arms, The annointed sovereign of sighs and groans, / Liege of all loiters and malcontents (Shakespeare). Gust a little something I thought I'd toss in for the thought.) What are you after? It seems to me that you're just begging to be told the obvious: your participation in each of the above activities is what makes them suck. Is that all you wanted in the first place? I can tell you for certain that from the looks of the way you edited (didn't edit) the above letter, that you are not cut out to be the editor of any paper. I know nothing of the nature of your physique, but for the most part Johnnies aren't exactly burly "team captain" material, are they? I did not dismiss your question. I covered it from both your perspective (that you have a bad attitude) and from the more general angle of the nature of the school (that we're generalists, not specialists). I suggest to you that you reread my response and take the advice given by Derek Alexander at the end of it. AK Address your complaints to AK clo the Gadfly 14 ~ The Gadfly/ February 27, 1996 skills clinic on Sunday, 24 March, at 2 P.M.in the gym. People of all skill levels are encouraged to attend. Sticks will be provided. For more information contact Mr. Pickens or Mr. Barth. *Author's note: Traditionally, on the eves of lacrosse games, there were huge raves where tribes gathered in fellowship to drink and dance around bonfires. Players would drink exclusively of the Black Drink, which they loved. The concoction is peculiar to the Southeast; brewed from the leaves of the holly like yaupon (ilex vomitoria ), it is rumored to taste like strong tea. Drunk hot from large gourds, the liquor was as black as tar. Aside from tripping their gourds off, the tea was also thought to shrive; and to promote all virtues. Each warrior downed a quart of the stuff, and half an hour later would grasp his abdomen with his forearms and deliberately and forcibly regurgitate it. A brave was admired if he could spout eight feet. Lola's didn't make as much this year by Michael Busch, '99 While most of the St. John's community was gambling and looking their finest this past weekend at Lola's, the Reality '96 committee was busy making sure the event ran smoothly. The committee, which organized and hosted the extravaganza, was pleased with the profit Lola's was able to generate. The money made at this year's party, however, could not rival last year's outcome. While the archons of Reality '96 were unable to release any concrete figures, they did say that the profit from Lola's '96 was signifigantly less than that of last year. Reasons for this include the fact that more people cashed their chips in this year than last year. The ban on smoking at Lola's this year may also have had an adverse effect on the profit turned by Reality '96. With nowhere for people to smoke, save the cold outdoors, sales on cigarettes were not as high at this year's gala event. Even so, Reality '96 was able to carry out the party with few problems and make it successful. ANNOUNCEMENTS Prize Awards Field Trip to the American Study in Europe, Cheap One hrmdred students will have the To the student who carries out the Visionary Art Museum Everyone is invited to join a field trip to the AmericanVisionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Sunday, March 31. Visionary art, sometimes called Outsider art, is work made .by people driven by an inner revelation or passion. Working outside of the mainstream, academic art world, the artists shown in this museum present powerful images using humble materials. Fresh, playful and deeply personal paintings and sculptures have been fashioned out of match sticks, carved roots, nuts, embroidery thread, house paint and toothpicks. Unfiltered by historical comparisons or training, it seems more direct and accessible than the normal museum fare. We will leave from the Chase-Stone parking lot at 12:30 P.M. and return by 5:00 P.M., Sunday, March 31. The admission charge will be paid by the College. Please contact Rick Malmgren to register, or if you have any questions, at his home/studio 674-7318. SING-A-LONG, continued from page 8 gan, "Follow the drinking gourd, follow, follow the drinking gourd, for the Old Man's waiting to carry you to freedom, follow the drinking gourd." The audience fast learned the words and began singing along. The most fun the septet seemed to have was when it sang a song which it dedicated to the student Johnnies, "What a Wonderful World it Would Be". I think you know it, "Don't know much about history, don't know much trigonometry... " Mr. Burke whipped out a three-foot long slide rule and sang, "don't know what a slide rule is for". Mr. Seeger said, "There are great books, there are also great songs," and began singing "When the Saints Go Marching In". The concert ended shortly after, everyone had a good time, and there was a bit less weight in each person's step on his/her way out of the Great Hall. opportunity to study in Europe this fall rmder a new, low-cost exchange program. This program offers young Americans the chance to study at a European university for one or two semesters, while living with, and providing child care for a family in England, France, Spain or Germany. The program provides for 10 to 15 hours per week of foreign language, liberal arts, or child psychology courses at a major university, including the Sorbonne in Paris; the College International de Cannes in Cannes, France; the University of Granada, Granada, Spain; Volkshochschule Koln, Cologne, Germany; and Richmond College, the American International University in London. Students provide a maximum of 30 hours per week of child care in exchange for a private room and board, $75 per week spending money, and time off for travel. This program is open to those between the ages of 18 and 26. For more information and application materials, contact U.S. Study Abroad Advisor, or AIFE at 1-800-727-2437, Dept. APIE, AIFS, 102 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, CT 06830. >r ·:::\:.:/ .. -:. -.=.- - . ::::::: :-:::<:··· ·,:::: = +~ .· '. b..· ··· • .·•~··'···:· · n · • .: • ·.h.w. n •.·• t.·• .· • (.i'. .)~ _ . _ _ _ =::>:·-··V:·= =<('. _·::.-~~L-_.:::;/:;_,_ · _ !1_,•. .••.m.·•.'<•i•····i·· . .r. :1.·. •• · ~,;:i:;~:L best project related to astronomy and astronomical observations, a prize of $200. If you are interested in planning such a project, it will be helpful to find a faculty advisor. Please list your project and your advisor with Ms . McGuire in the Dean's office. Students may contact Mr. Beall to discuss possible projects and available equipment. It is tradition at St. John's College to award prizes for: An English translation of (a) the Greek text available in the Dean's office (b) the French text available in the Dean's office 2. An original English poem 3. A solution to mathematical problems available in the Dean's office (a) problem I (b) problem II 4. A laboratory project 5. An essay on a piece of music 6. An original musical composition 7. An astronomy project 1. Copies of the Greek and French texts and the mathematics problems shall be available in the Dean's Office by Friday, February 23. All entries are due in the Dean's Office by noon, Friday, April 12. Prizes will be awarded not simply to the best in each category, but only to those prizeworthy in themselves. Questions should be directed to Mr. Zeiderman. Howard Zeiderman ALL POLITY MEETING to discuss what form, if any, a Polity Court should take, and how it should be decided on. 8:00 P.M. TODAY in the Conversation Room. The Gadfly! February 27, 1996 -...,P 15 �The Gadfly St. John's College P. 0. Box 2800 Annapolis, MD 21404 The Gadfly Editor-in-Chief: Jennifer Coonce Layout Editor: Nelson Hernandez Jr. Production Manager Jehanne Dubrow Copy Editor: Anne Kniggendorf Photography Editor: Mary K. Lynch Circulation Manager: Kristin Woodfin Office Manager: Jackie Camm Photos: Jehanne Dubrow and Mary K. Lynch \ Printing by the St. John's College Print Shop POLITY COURT, continued from page 4 Founded in 1980, The Gadfly is a student weekly distributed free to over 600 students, faculty, and staff of the Annapolis campus as well as tutors emeriti, members of the Board of Visitors and Governors, and the offices at the St. John's Santa Fe Campus. All opinions expressed within are the sole responsibility of the author. The Gadfly reserves the right to accept, reject, and edit all submissions in any way necessary to publish the most professional, informative, entertaining, and thoughtprovoking newspaper which circumstances at St. John's permit. Yearly subscriptions are available for $35.00. Tax-deductible contributions are greatly appreciated. Please make checks payable to The Gadfly. For display advertisement prices and information, call 263-2371, ext. 320. Deadline: Friday at 5:30 P.M. Submissions may be submitted in any Macintosh or RTF format on a 3 1 /2" floppy disk along with a typed copy. Typed submissions are no longer acceptable. POLITY ATTORNEY, continued from page 4 they, the virgin white innocent vic- drawing t'llp a law is laid out in a later tims." section. Unfortunately this alone says However, those who support the nothing about the Court. But in the deCourt are split on various issues. scription of the Polity Attorney's reWhether the D.C. should sit as a jury sponsibilities and authorities it says, "He and if so whether the present D.C., who shall hear complaints from members of were not elected with this role in mind, , the Polity and, in the cases he deems should become the polity court with- worthy, present the Delegate Council out another reelection, and whether with the complaint." With these two there should be a separate elected body statements taken together, and the idea set up whose only job is to handle Pol- of self-government from the preamble, ity Court matters are issues which di- I am certain that the authority to draw vide the supporters of this plan. up the specific Act of Council outlining There used to be an active and some- the proceedings of the Court is nested what successful Polity Court system in the Constitution. By making an Act which ran periodically from the-1960s of Council instead of an Amendment, to the early 1980s. In those days, the we allow a greater flexibility to adapt the D.C. was the Polity Court; the reason procedures to the current need. for the fact that it is still constitutionI have now heard many reasons ally entitled to fulfill this role although why the Court should not be instituted, the constitution could be amended by and I am sure that more will be said at a polity referendum. In fact a referen- the Polity Meeting. Some are happy dum has been increasingly favored by to see the Assistant Deans continue to the polity as a way to decide this issue. do this bit of governance. But we must It has been suggested that this issue is be our own judges and not rely on anytoo important for the D.C. to legislate. one but ourselves. We are now away The strength of the reaction in the from home and cannot run from the obcommunity shows that many people ligation of self-control and discipline. feel that this is an issue of great impor- The Delegate Council is a representatance. Any views that you may have tive body of the entire Polity, and is can and should be aired today at 8:00 therefore uniquely qualified to judge P.M. in the Conversation Room. The in its name. Perhaps this will even Dean and Assistant Deans will be there, have a positive effect in giving a stuas will the members of the Delegate dent pause before he breaks the comCouncil. 16 ~ The Gadfly/ February 27, 1996 mon law and then must face not a figure of authority, but his own peers. Some are not convinced that it will work for long, because it has not in the past. However, that was over a longer period of.time than one Council's reign. We cannot say how it will progress after us, but that is no excuse for putting off taking this obligation. If the Polity takes the Court seriously, then perhaps it will continue. The maintenance of the government has been provided for with impeachments and elections. Many others think that the current Delegate Council was not elected to carry out this task. But I have shown that the Constitution demands this of the D.C.. It does not matter that it was uninformed voters who elected this Council. It is a fact that it is supposed to be more than just the rubberstamp of a large purse. Indeed, I hope that this added dimension to the D.C. will remind the Polity that it is a serious thing to elect the right candidate, and that some real competition for the seats will result. � 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 The Gadfly Description An account of the resource Founded in 1980, The Gadfly is a weekly student publication distributed to over 600 students, faculty, and staff of the Annapolis campus. Click on <a title="The Gadfly" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=16&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&sort_dir=d">Items in the The Gadfly Collection</a> 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. 16 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 Coonce, Jennifer (Editor-in-Chief) Title A name given to the resource The Gadfly, Vol XVII Issue 15 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1996-02-27 Description An account of the resource Volume XVII, Issue 15 of The Gadfly. Published February 27, 1996. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 17 #15 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/a725903bb23dfded16ddccb2e13c1862.pdf 9ea910410e2fe27d57ce8fa027a031a5 PDF Text Text Week of Terror: St. John's Horrified by Recent Spree of Head-Crushings �by Leslie '99 Director breaks out the '"'~~~·~~ waistlines for his newest Sense and Sensibility. It's got English moors, big houses, covered ankles and gobs of propriety. But instead of being grandiose and foreign, Sense and :;yens1 tnlztu has a light air and characters that are both lovable and familiar. This is partly due to the clean screenplay written by Emma Thompson. Thompson took liberties streamthe o;;t()T''ii'-l::lT"lt: Austen's first, and arguably worst novel. She is said to have been persecuted by aficionados for cutting the some of the more quaint episodes. Nevertheless, the plot is all Austen. The Dashwood · family is left penniless when the father dies, been comto will his estate to his son from a 1 sends the ing to a country cottage, but not before Edward Grant) Ferres comes to visit the estate. Good vibes occur between Ferres and the elder daughter, Elinor (Emma AL,.., ...... L~-=•v.1.•, 1 , but must At their new home, sister number two, Marianne (Kate Winslet), encounters a duo of suitors, the ,-.h".,.,,.....,.,..,.,, roguish Willoughby (Greg and the sad but wise Colonel Brandon (Alan Rickman). Many misunderstandings occur as a result, emotion displayed but not discussed\:+he 2 The March learn from and from each other to balance sense and .::ic:JLL.::>1.uu..n in their re1anon:sn1vs. cast as more of a ,.....,L.LL~""V-', was excellent as graceful mannerisms occasionoffset drastic motions to portray the character's outward composure and inward heart ache. Elinor is never so as Hugh Grant's who holds his shoulders at about 60 angles to his neck and blunders .._U',UL.LV.LLL'-A. room conversations. and aggravatWinslet is wonderful as a role very different from the one she in Creatures. Rickman also shows his range as a romantic after his notable perof the bass voice which L<'-''1--''-'-< to make a devilish Sherriff of ·~"-'-'·'!'.'''"'j'J.l works for guy with a costumes and set are cooler than the golden hues that are used in period film. There is a lot of in muted tones-black and white. The overall of the is somewhat faded. camera work is also innovative occasional creative ,.,,,.,.~,.,. .. ~ 1996 As you can see, this issue of The Gadis very small. This is due to the universal stress that has taken over the campus now that the official paper~u.vuL~ have and ,...,A~ ~•"- to panic. But deso.arr. There are still a lot of great ideas that we have to explore, and next week we'll resume running the that don't appear such as the a.d. notes, The and the and str·ai{rht Mr. Barbera's reminiscences about Catholic School lines. You ~~.~ .....~.._, .. wonder what the were u.u.......~u.•i::. over in the red zone six feet away from Mr. Barbara and his friends. Our were much more tnE~Ol~J\2J.ca1 than those of . •A . . that to walk a line was necessary insufficient. No, we learned to process . We were to practice grace as we moved along. If an unfortunate soul her beanie on the way to momshe had to balance a Kleenex her head while a to and I wanted to let you know of some of the ideas we for future articles. As 10 n.o.1> .... · pus. We want more movie . . ..-.""'"'"'~ editorials on national issues, and we're even to start taurant reviews around Please let us know if you have any ideas or if you want to write for us! We also welcome that you have about cover ideas that you have. to The campus mail. We also have in the Office at 6:30 and welcome to come to those. Thank you, I ermiter Coonce Editor overhead shot or zoom out. are not so the irrtor·essJCm of melodrama is avoided. Sense and is a reJtre:shimg variation on the historic chic flick It is done and in keeping with of Austen without a BBC "costume thing". So if you for entertainment that a turn about the room," or wait and rent but virtues in line. We learned permy saddle shoes would wear out and in sneakers I would be ~ ......~- ..·~~· Lori Mancinelli so that would have a conversationalist behind me as well as a basketball in We learned faith: faith in miracles such as Above we learned love: love others who were chosen friends but on a who had more in common as nascent extended in space time. an American .u L~.u.a.n, tined to be the shortest and hence line leader. She led us in and shrine offered flowers at was first to receive sacraments. For years, wracked intermittent a timeandrA•~~•lh1'h~.~ fate of their team. "Alas", I to as I stood on the track watchcould be any forfeits member the Greenwaves tn. ..·t0 1-1-1.,-, their I had a bizarre feeling that there would be five teams out there. The weird is ... I was It was a wonderful there were .,....'"'"'"' 1" ............ ~,,~,.,,to the best of their abilon every team, and it annPan:•d me that everyone was having of was outstanding, and after in for fourteen years I know my football, sorry soccer. There was accurate passthe toretDl1£:~~r on my me of last year, ou.:.r11·n.na' Before knew it I was ,.,.,~,,...h,,,,.,.1ra..,,+i., co1noansor1s in my tween the thrills of indoor soccer and the ... forfeits of Indoor soccer is a game in which everyone can and turn out to be su- Guardians and bien sur Druids came out with a wonderful array of skills and when a goal was "''-'-/.JI.'-'.... , the celebrations were heartfelt and well-deserved. knew what and it was a to were The of this arwatch and The tide is to show the and the Athletic what a marvellous game indoor soccer and how it can unite all moreso I believe So guys, let's not mess back the Indoor Soccer season next year, LOVE THIS GAME. March 26, 1996 �~1 -------------------- I I 1111 Nationalists won a convincing election victory that exceeded all expectations and received a mandate from Taiwan's voters in their first demo, cratic election for president on Mar. 23. After final results were 54 percent of the nearly 11 million Taiwanese who cast their ballots voted for the leader of the out of a field of four candidates. The closest challenger, the pnJ-:una1ep1~nc1er1ce Democratic Progressive Peng Ming-min, received 21 verct:~nt the vote. The New received 15 percent of the vote, and the m1:ie1Je11dents got ten 73 ve1rce1i.t A sense of crisis the election, with mainland China's threatenexerdses off of the coast of Taiwan apparently cant numbers of voters to defect from the pro-independence parties to Lee's more ambiguous v1;;atc)rnl1. Mainland China has taken a very strong interest in the result of the electo tion. In the weeks tested dummy missiles in waters near Taiwanese blockading those cities. massed 150,000 troops and a of their fleet in the province of which is closest to Taiwan, for rrnhr,~...-.:T exercises. When asked, they did not deny that they were doing this to intimidate Taiwanese voters into e1e~ct1ng someone who would not favor indeIn an effort to this 4 The d11:>patc!ted two aircraft carrier battle the area. The mainland Chinese gove1mrne1n.t and press say that the election of Lee is of the Taiwanese desire to at least in name, united with China. Others disagree, but the issue is still unresolved. Lee has never stated a desire for Lee's next moves are seen as critical to the deveJlop1mE~nt of the still-tense .::>iLUU'l..LVlll, 996 5 �rtrr11••i11g ~ ¥ laalla: 0 The P.M. clothes. Get rid of the old and new at The Grand in the rummage, on, and renew themselves with each other's It's fun and it's free. All of my Tallis Scholars tickets are sold. I've started a short wait-list. I ! ¥ I have started a wait-list. Tickets are The van will leave Chase-Stone 6:30 Your commencement invitations are in the Office of the Kee1~;trctr Each packet will contain ten invitacards. There tions and fifteen of tissue. The invitation card "events" card if so go into the small with tissue. The name of the addressee should be written on then the small should be slid into the which can then be addressed for mailIf you would like more irn1itc:aticms, let us know and we to if you are interested in the Naval match this 263 .. 2066 The Office of the is now c01nn os1m12: the lists of students re~nst:enng as sophomores, iors and seniors next fall. The lists be of those of you who have confirmed your intention to return to the 1 you want to return see to it that approan·angeiments have been made 8th. BECAUSE PLANNING FOR NEXT YEAR'S TEACHING MUST BE DONE YOUR NAME WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE CLASS ROSTER FOR THE 1996-97 ACADEMIC YEAR IF THE DEPOSIT IS NOT PAID BY APRIL 8. advanced deposit. For those who have for transfer the Santa Fe campus for the 1996-97 academic year, the balance of the must be received the Treasurer in Santa Fe 8th. ~~··~.,,.,f,~~ with . . . ~-~~,,,~~ Does not include beverage, tax, or Valid en:rda;., all day. Expires 2/3-0/95. on before then because Break takes up so much of the month of March. .u""'--'-'IV'-ll" are on both campuses up to the number on the campus with the fewer Additional will be apnr''""''rl on the campus with the o-r~>:::ih:>? number until the 5% is reached. The Treasurer will refund the dein the case of withdrawal because academic or failure to enable. It will NOT be carried over in case you should decide not to enroll next year but to return the year after. Please come see me if you have quest:1011s or concerns about this matter. 6th: Habitat for Huhomes to allow low-income families decent conditions. Leave Chase Stone lot at 9 A.M. and Lunches eior 27th: Christmas in volunteers from many cities and schools such as the Naval Months of C'r':>t-h<'.1>1""C clean up on houses whose owners are do for themselves because of age, disor lack of funds. We will return Match! up for these events plC1cem~~nt office at ext. H"'"'n... .ar Deutsch or Richard Schmechel. ,_, ..,,.,,.,..~. Politae in this most festive and bachannalian of St. traditions. dues of weeks at lunch for the next the current rates: t'etJ11:nes, $15; All other $25. appearance of this soon. Thank you for your ongoimg sup~~-"-;,~;~~"-~ '96 6 The The March 1996 7 �distributed free Founded campus as well to over 600 students, as tutors emeriti, members Board of Visitors and Governors, and offices at the St. John's Santa Fe All opinions expressed are the sole of the author. The Gadfly reserves the submissions in to prc1tess1011ai, informative, enl:ert:airnnJ2;, n..-r'"'"'i,..;,,,,.,. n1ew~maoer which circumstances at St. sut)sonptioi1s are available for $35.00. aor)re<:1ated. Please make checks Editor-in-Chief: Jennifer Coonce Editor: Nelson Hernandez Freeman and Jeff Travis a.k.a. "Hand of Death" and information, call 263-2371, ext. 320. Printing St. sume, cover notes, as such as definitions of career buzzwords and details on issues/ StudentCenter d.e:script1m1s of more than interactive "calculators" at Sallie II Sallie Mae's site also offers formation search stress. StudentCenter has repayment, and loan consolidation. Borrowers can also learn how borrowers who make their first 48 scheduled 8 StudentCenter offers many interactive services users to . . . . . . . ,.,.,.,,.,,., ,.,,....,,.,.....,,.,.._ tant skills and immediate feedback The trafficked no fun makes for a so there's lots of entertainment to make lets students guess how su1oe1~st<us start, and "The students their future into the hands students and facpe1:ce11t of all Internet users. StudentCenter can be found 24 hours a free on the World Wide Web at: II www.StudentCenter.com ,.,...., .. , , . , , " " 1 +"" � 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 The Gadfly Description An account of the resource Founded in 1980, The Gadfly is a weekly student publication distributed to over 600 students, faculty, and staff of the Annapolis campus. Click on <a title="The Gadfly" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=16&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&sort_dir=d">Items in the The Gadfly Collection</a> 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 Coonce, Jennifer (Editor-in-Chief) Title A name given to the resource The Gadfly, Vol XVII Issue 16 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1996-03-26 Description An account of the resource Volume XVII, Issue 16 of The Gadfly. Published March 26, 1996. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 17 #16 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/5063e5652e31df4f4968843032029f4b.pdf 5cb243464eb50fa9d07f45d3c75f4f4e PDF Text Text �three hundredth year, the Athletic Dewill unveil a five and a half mascot costume at this ....... v·uu.i.u::•"-"'" .... "-'"" t:\Xerc:1sE~s. Mr. Since the intramuprogram has lacked a material of its ,,~,,..,,,,.., r>c:>.,..+n•H=n-.t- mark a new be.gum1ng tradition. To Mr. 1-'1c:kens, a live to with his but too many obstacles Stood in the way of He hesif"'t"~>1A7hP<:><;: the water. This guy doesn't external ears. He s our favorite freak and the St. mascot. 1 he doesn't even and.,.,_,,.., ... ,,,,,, The ""''"'"°~n-.nc along with birds ~~•11 .· ·•;•-~-~~~~~ · ••.~~ B " °"' ~ ""' ~ ·~ !B~Utr1HiUl'Ji B•iliWJl11•J1•~ ii"1ni.C ~ ~" ~=~ :"°""' %2;:¥'." 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"Please ... come " you open the behind and make a wE~lo)m.e-i;es,tu:re with the of your arm that isn't concealed the 6 The were young and so was I... Lisa looks horrified. one." 2, don't know know what "but-" and anI-" and another. You can feel your nostrils ...........L~.,.,. W-c1tcJl.rntg her chew all five pieces you take a of Orange Crush. "I'll have to visit all up the this week. I it will ex.nuas1:1ng," she pretends that it her to be the of so many 1"lrnnHa Times all in one week AK continued on page 8 �distributed free Editor-in-Chief: Jennifer Coonce Editor: Nelson Hernandez Jr. Yro1auctHm Dubrow Fools Issue by ext. 320. St. John's she knows it's of.,,..,,.,.,..._ ,..,,.,. . . . . , stare her sense of abandon. She emits an eery and her auah..-"''"c draw closer She endeavors to the pop-com from she knows that it's not be an easy task. She starts and at her hair. wish you hadn't ruined the in this way, and tears come to your eyes. You're at some dis- I ____ _J her mouth is she can't believe what's You tell her it's time to leave. She doesn't look at you on her way out the door. Do you door-mate relations to be easy? I don't know what you want from me. AK 8 The 2. 996 � 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 The Gadfly Description An account of the resource Founded in 1980, The Gadfly is a weekly student publication distributed to over 600 students, faculty, and staff of the Annapolis campus. Click on <a title="The Gadfly" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=16&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&sort_dir=d">Items in the The Gadfly Collection</a> 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 Coonce, Jennifer (Editor-in-Chief) Title A name given to the resource The Gadfly, Vol XVII Issue 17 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1996-04-02 Description An account of the resource Volume XVII, Issue 17 of The Gadfly. Published April 02, 1996. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 17 #17 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. 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