45 20 5655 https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/8e84032a9394d7ba15d622fd872189bf.jpg 9b4cbca80017a49f6901e0c3bb90b53e 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 Image Collection—Annapolis Description An account of the resource The Greenfield Library Image Collection houses over 5,000 photographs, postcards, drawings, and other graphic materials. The images in the collection document the history, academic, and community life of St. John’s College. To learn more about the Greenfield Library's archives use policy or to obtain high-resolution images, please see the <a title="Image Collection Use Policy" href="http://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/libraries/greenfield-library/policies/#photographicarchivepolicy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Library’s Image Collection Use Policy</a>. Click on <a title="Photographic Archives" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=7">Items in the Image Collection—Annapolis Collection</a> to view and sort all items in the collection. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library 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 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context imagecollectionannapolis Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 12 x 18 cm. Resolution Resolution of the image in dpi. 600 dpi 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 Pichiel, David Title A name given to the resource Portrait of William B. Dunham Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1975-07-30 Description An account of the resource 1 photographic print : b&w Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SJC-P-0042 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 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this photograph. Subject The topic of the resource Dunham, William B. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource still image Tutors https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/76c3c9ff836df2bb28f9263194a53d7c.jpg 3026f5ae8b42e68185d854ffd54383cc 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 Image Collection—Annapolis Description An account of the resource The Greenfield Library Image Collection houses over 5,000 photographs, postcards, drawings, and other graphic materials. The images in the collection document the history, academic, and community life of St. John’s College. To learn more about the Greenfield Library's archives use policy or to obtain high-resolution images, please see the <a title="Image Collection Use Policy" href="http://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/libraries/greenfield-library/policies/#photographicarchivepolicy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Library’s Image Collection Use Policy</a>. Click on <a title="Photographic Archives" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=7">Items in the Image Collection—Annapolis Collection</a> to view and sort all items in the collection. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library 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 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context imagecollectionannapolis Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 19.5 x 23.5 cm. Resolution Resolution of the image in dpi. 600 dpi 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 Unknown Title A name given to the resource Portrait of Dr. Thomas Fell in Academic Robe Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1886 (circa) Description An account of the resource 1 photographic copy of a page from the St. John's College yearbook : b&w Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SJC-P-0044 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 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this photograph. Subject The topic of the resource Fell, Thomas, 1851- Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource still image Presidents https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/83b4d991a32a89d2f21bd609d3febf9e.jpg 7c9b5d340f51f2e2f7c8add0bf99b679 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 Image Collection—Annapolis Description An account of the resource The Greenfield Library Image Collection houses over 5,000 photographs, postcards, drawings, and other graphic materials. The images in the collection document the history, academic, and community life of St. John’s College. To learn more about the Greenfield Library's archives use policy or to obtain high-resolution images, please see the <a title="Image Collection Use Policy" href="http://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/libraries/greenfield-library/policies/#photographicarchivepolicy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Library’s Image Collection Use Policy</a>. Click on <a title="Photographic Archives" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=7">Items in the Image Collection—Annapolis Collection</a> to view and sort all items in the collection. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library 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 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context imagecollectionannapolis Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 20.5 x 25 cm. Resolution Resolution of the image in dpi. 600 dpi 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 Unknown Title A name given to the resource Portrait of Robert A. Goldwin during the "Seminar of the Air" Radio Program Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1969-1973 [circa] Description An account of the resource 1 photographic print : b&w Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SJC-P-0045 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 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this photograph. Subject The topic of the resource Goldwin, Robert A., 1922- Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource still image Deans Tutors https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/aa4bbf7e1b95ad006588a78bbe57cd25.jpg bd8033b5dcbb350bcc32a7d40f9da6dc 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 Image Collection—Annapolis Description An account of the resource The Greenfield Library Image Collection houses over 5,000 photographs, postcards, drawings, and other graphic materials. The images in the collection document the history, academic, and community life of St. John’s College. To learn more about the Greenfield Library's archives use policy or to obtain high-resolution images, please see the <a title="Image Collection Use Policy" href="http://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/libraries/greenfield-library/policies/#photographicarchivepolicy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Library’s Image Collection Use Policy</a>. Click on <a title="Photographic Archives" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=7">Items in the Image Collection—Annapolis Collection</a> to view and sort all items in the collection. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library 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 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context imagecollectionannapolis Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 12.5 x 20.5 cm. Resolution Resolution of the image in dpi. 600 dpi 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 Unknown Title A name given to the resource Painting of Hector Humphreys Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1984 (circa) Description An account of the resource 1 photographic copy from book : b&w Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SJC-P-0047 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 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this photograph. Subject The topic of the resource Humphreys, Hector, 1797-1857. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource still image Presidents https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/8f4750d8bd9e50bf9374b99418fc1799.jpg f68861c0d52c273ca442c9f233d6d788 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 Image Collection—Annapolis Description An account of the resource The Greenfield Library Image Collection houses over 5,000 photographs, postcards, drawings, and other graphic materials. The images in the collection document the history, academic, and community life of St. John’s College. To learn more about the Greenfield Library's archives use policy or to obtain high-resolution images, please see the <a title="Image Collection Use Policy" href="http://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/libraries/greenfield-library/policies/#photographicarchivepolicy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Library’s Image Collection Use Policy</a>. Click on <a title="Photographic Archives" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=7">Items in the Image Collection—Annapolis Collection</a> to view and sort all items in the collection. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library 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 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context imagecollectionannapolis Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 12.5 x 18 cm. Resolution Resolution of the image in dpi. 600 dpi 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 Unknown Title A name given to the resource Simon Kaplan Standing outside Woodward Hall, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1943-1953 [circa] Description An account of the resource 1 photographic print : b&w Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SJC-P-0049 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 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this photograph. Subject The topic of the resource Kaplan, Simon. 1893-1979. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource still image Tutors https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/d4f3ae368a470e918a8efe853f8a0f4f.jpg 8f6c047e34b616b0d5ae11182a225480 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 Image Collection—Annapolis Description An account of the resource The Greenfield Library Image Collection houses over 5,000 photographs, postcards, drawings, and other graphic materials. The images in the collection document the history, academic, and community life of St. John’s College. To learn more about the Greenfield Library's archives use policy or to obtain high-resolution images, please see the <a title="Image Collection Use Policy" href="http://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/libraries/greenfield-library/policies/#photographicarchivepolicy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Library’s Image Collection Use Policy</a>. Click on <a title="Photographic Archives" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=7">Items in the Image Collection—Annapolis Collection</a> to view and sort all items in the collection. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library 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 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context imagecollectionannapolis Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 11.5 x 8.5 cm. Resolution Resolution of the image in dpi. 600 dpi 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 Unknown Title A name given to the resource Exhibit Booth Exhibiting the St. John's College Laboratory Curriculum at a Science Fair Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968 Description An account of the resource 1 photographic print : b&w Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SJC-P-0555 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 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this photograph. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource still image https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/6a01ec13ee4966721e64fdbfe77922b9.jpg 1e16c6caf4c084ccd252313f67356187 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 Image Collection—Annapolis Description An account of the resource The Greenfield Library Image Collection houses over 5,000 photographs, postcards, drawings, and other graphic materials. The images in the collection document the history, academic, and community life of St. John’s College. To learn more about the Greenfield Library's archives use policy or to obtain high-resolution images, please see the <a title="Image Collection Use Policy" href="http://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/libraries/greenfield-library/policies/#photographicarchivepolicy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Library’s Image Collection Use Policy</a>. Click on <a title="Photographic Archives" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=7">Items in the Image Collection—Annapolis Collection</a> to view and sort all items in the collection. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library 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 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context imagecollectionannapolis Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 11.5 x 8.5 cm. Resolution Resolution of the image in dpi. 600 dpi 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 Unknown Title A name given to the resource William B. Pitt Seated at Exhibit Booth Exhibiting the St. John's College Laboratory Curriculum at a Science Fair Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968 Description An account of the resource 1 photographic print : b&w Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SJC-P-0556 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 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this photograph. Subject The topic of the resource Pitt, William Bruce Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource still image Tutors https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/bb124d8bffb9af6ccdf3f328a2747045.jpg 67e26973ddaa4f9e901a73bf5f2cd159 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 Image Collection—Annapolis Description An account of the resource The Greenfield Library Image Collection houses over 5,000 photographs, postcards, drawings, and other graphic materials. The images in the collection document the history, academic, and community life of St. John’s College. To learn more about the Greenfield Library's archives use policy or to obtain high-resolution images, please see the <a title="Image Collection Use Policy" href="http://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/libraries/greenfield-library/policies/#photographicarchivepolicy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Library’s Image Collection Use Policy</a>. Click on <a title="Photographic Archives" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=7">Items in the Image Collection—Annapolis Collection</a> to view and sort all items in the collection. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library 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 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context imagecollectionannapolis Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 11.5 x 8.5 cm. Resolution Resolution of the image in dpi. 600 dpi 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 Unknown Title A name given to the resource Young Boy at Exhibit Booth of the St. John's College Laboratory Curriculum at a Science Fair Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968 Description An account of the resource 1 photographic print : b&w Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SJC-P-0557 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 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this photograph. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource still image https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/4153e92fae1a39a8042fe6cbc1ba6870.jpg 55e81031a286207d4f8957b5a8a9e953 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 Image Collection—Annapolis Description An account of the resource The Greenfield Library Image Collection houses over 5,000 photographs, postcards, drawings, and other graphic materials. The images in the collection document the history, academic, and community life of St. John’s College. To learn more about the Greenfield Library's archives use policy or to obtain high-resolution images, please see the <a title="Image Collection Use Policy" href="http://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/libraries/greenfield-library/policies/#photographicarchivepolicy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Library’s Image Collection Use Policy</a>. Click on <a title="Photographic Archives" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=7">Items in the Image Collection—Annapolis Collection</a> to view and sort all items in the collection. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library 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 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context imagecollectionannapolis Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 11.5 x 8.5 cm. Resolution Resolution of the image in dpi. 600 dpi 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 Unknown Title A name given to the resource William B. Pitt Demonstrating an Electromagnetic Sonometer to Children at an Exhibit Booth of the St. John's College Laboratory Curriculum at a Science Fair Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968 Description An account of the resource 1 photographic print : b&w Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SJC-P-0558 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 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this photograph. Subject The topic of the resource Pitt, William Bruce Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource still image Tutors https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/22debd6cd09ce0f622a06ca2d2320c88.jpg 1c067744cdc2feff0f202874eeedd25b 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 Image Collection—Annapolis Description An account of the resource The Greenfield Library Image Collection houses over 5,000 photographs, postcards, drawings, and other graphic materials. The images in the collection document the history, academic, and community life of St. John’s College. To learn more about the Greenfield Library's archives use policy or to obtain high-resolution images, please see the <a title="Image Collection Use Policy" href="http://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/libraries/greenfield-library/policies/#photographicarchivepolicy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Library’s Image Collection Use Policy</a>. Click on <a title="Photographic Archives" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=7">Items in the Image Collection—Annapolis Collection</a> to view and sort all items in the collection. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library 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 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context imagecollectionannapolis Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 11.5 x 8.5 cm. Resolution Resolution of the image in dpi. 600 dpi 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 Unknown Title A name given to the resource William B. Pitt Demonstrating an Electromagnetic Sonometer to a Man and Woman at an Exhibit Booth of the St. John's College Laboratory Curriculum at a Science Fair Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968 Description An account of the resource 1 photographic print : b&w Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SJC-P-0559 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 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this photograph. Subject The topic of the resource Pitt, William Bruce Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource still image Tutors https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/f4853ac01c0c9008b4ace3e8c09d6be4.mp3 4525890d3088d25156d88cdc768bc433 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 St. John's College Lecture Recordings—Santa Fe Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Meem Library 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 Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. 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Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 20014313 Friday night lecture https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/72b67cdf6ea566bc0ef1db7c61e18533.mp3 5d4fc87ebd2738294406a1b85d1f0ec9 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 St. John's College Lecture Recordings—Santa Fe Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Meem Library 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 Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data mp3 Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 01:12:11 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 Alcmaeon's Islands: politics and metaphysics in Thucydides Description An account of the resource Audio recording of a lecture given on September 2, 2016 by Borden Flanagan as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Flanagan, G. 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Title A name given to the resource Two good men in Aristotle's Ethics, or does a liberal education improve one's character? Description An account of the resource Audio recording of a lecture given on September 9, 2016 by Joseph Macfarland as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Macfarland, Joseph C. 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 2016-09-09 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 Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 20014315 Deans Friday night lecture https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/d9a15f6ff05038d5b01b2f85e6507794.pdf 9c679fa4468fd3706514601de9c1351c PDF Text Text TH ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY E11111111111~91111~11G-A D F Ly The St. John's College Student Weekfy Volume XXV, Issue 22 Annapolis, Maryland March 2, 2004 DC Minutes: February 25 Quintigre Concert: Five Times the Fun by Erikk Geannikis DC Secretary Lunchtime Meeting-11:45 pm Ms. Starr called the first piece "ironic, iconoclastic, and somewhat humorous," and I have to agree. It was very playful and modem, but This past Tuesday, the College hosted a not at all stark-an odd mixture of tonal and atonal. It never seemed free concert in the to resolve, always going Great Hall given by a called off on a digression withgroup out following through. Quintigre, a Baltimore-Washington The basic structure was a area wind quintet. The repetition of several simple motifs, each program included four composers, all played by one of the five fairly modern but performers, and interwonone that I had heard ven so as to create a sort of drunken order out of of (although my what would appear to be knowledge is slight in this area); neverthedissonant chaos. This orless, the concert was der was seemingly accomplished with ease, a fact well done and quite interesting. A differthat belied the complexent performer prefity beneath. It took an esaced each piece with a pecially interesting tum to description of it and minor during the Ruhig its composer-an exunt einfach Achte/ movecellent idea in my ment and a kind of EgypTerry Ewell, a member of Quinligre, teaches opinion, especially in tian theme dominated. bassoon at Towson University. a performance where Unfortunately, it did not somewhat obscure pieces are being performed. last very long. Leslie Starr, the oboist, introduced Kleine Flutist Sara Nichols introduced the second Kammermusik fur Junf Blaser, Op. 24 N r. 2 by piece, a quintet by Paul Taffanel. The comPaul Hindemith. The composer was born in poser was born in Bordeaux, a child prodigy Germany and left home at eleven to play vio- who grew to become a composer and conduclin in cafes. During World War II, Hitler's pro- tor of the Paris opera. He wrote a book called paganda minister Goebbels accused him of Dai/y Exercisesfor the Flutist; apparently an esBolshevism, so he fled to the U.S. and a pro- sential work for such a performer. He and fessorship at Yale. He disliked Wagner with a other wind players formed a chamber orchespassion, thinking him too self-indulgent. (I tra. He lived in Paris until his death in 1908. have been told that many agree.) Quintigre, continued on page 6 by Christopher Utter Sports Editor n This Issue: ATP: Lola's, page 4 Present were Amy Taylor, President; Erikk Geannikis, Secretary; Carry Rose, Treasurer; Natalie Rinn, Polity Attorney; Mary Duffy, Laura Mangum, Stuart Bannan, Brian Jones, Max Kronberg, Ian Morochnick, Chester Martin, Webster Ye, Lord Thomas Burbridge, Hayden Brockett, Ian McCracken, l\fary Ruffin, Melissa Thomas, and Laura Manion, Delegates. Absent was Will Whittaker, Delegate. 11 :50 - Call to Order. 11 :51 - Discussion of new system for verification of usage of clubs' funds, tabled until evening meeting. 12:05 - Spring semester budget presentations begin; club archons introduce themselves and their club. 12:07 -Art Society, presented by Aidan O'F1ynn and Samantha Buker, for $130. Preliminary Revised Budget Amount: $95. 12:13 - Croquet, presented by Sam Spaulding, for $95. Preliminary Budget Amount: $95. 12: 16 - Darkroom, presented by Kristi Meador, for $780.90. Preliminary Revised Budget Amount: $490. 12:23 - Film Society, presented by Nick Garklavs, for $2250. Preliminary Revised Budget Amount: $1650. 12:27 - SCI, presented by Jill Delston and Nora Kelleher, for $385. Preliminary Revised Budget Amount: $345. 12:33 - Prank, presented by Justin Berrier, for $2000. Preliminary Revised Budget Amount: $1600. 12:41 - Storyteller's Guild, presented by Brianne Seymour and .\idan O'Flynn, for DC Minutes, continued on page 6 Republican Women, page 5 �Gadfly Mailbox Notice From the DC Editor-in-Chief Cathy Keene Executive Editor Ian McCracken Production Manager Shoshana Goldstein Sports Editor Christopher Utter A&E Editor Julie Janicki Inside News Mary Townsend Outside News Hayden Brockett Contributing to this Issue ATP Jonathan Badger Erikk Geannikis Jeanne Faucheux Todd Parker Charlie Pashayan Leo Pickens Dave Prosper Jerry Salyer Benjamin Strickland Founded in 1980, the Gac!f!J is the student weekly distributed free to over 500 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. Opinions expressed within are the the sole responsibility of the author(s)and do not necessarilly represent the opinions of the Gatif!y staff. The Gac!f!J reserves the right to accept, reject, and edit submissions in any way necessary to publish the most thoughtful, informative, and thought-provoking newspaper which circumstances at St. John's permit. Letters of 200 words or fewer have a better chance of being published than those longer than this limit. Letters submitted will be edited for grammar, punctuation, and spelling in most cases. The Gadf!J is not obligated to publish all submissions and will not print anonymous submissions except under special circumstances. Deadline: Su11day at noon, unles,; permission for a delay is granted in advance. Submi,;,;ions will be accepted as long as they arc le1:,>ibly written, but tvpcd copies, diskettes, and e-mail submissions arc greatly preferred. Please e-mail submissions to sjcgadfly@yahoo.com. 2 Dear Polity, In light of recent articles in the Gat!f!y regarding the Delegate Council and their decisions regarding emergency and spring semester budgeting, the officers of the DC metwith Miss Seeger and Mr. Flaumenhaft to discuss how funds are accounted for. The Delegate Council wanted to share with you information on the budgeting process and the decision that we've reached. As you may know by now, clubs must submit a budget request each semester in order to be considered for the receipt ofour limited funds. This request must comply with a strict format, and must outline all projected expenses and revenue of every club's spring semester activities. When appropriate funds are granted, the Delegate Council holds the club archon responsible for assuring that the funds are spent appropriately and in compliance with the Polity Constitution. The Constitution, and its accompanying Acts of Council, assures that funds may not be used to purchase alcohol (A.C. V), that all equipment purchased with DC Funds becomes the property of the Polity (A.C. VII), and that the DC can request the return of unused funds at any time (A.C. VI). Until this point, and hereafter, the archon is held fully responsible for compliance with these rules and with his/ her own budget request. However, in agreement with the Dean and Assistant Dean, the DC feels it would be appropriate to implement a receipt-auditing system for all clubs. Once a semester, or as the DC Treasurer sees fit, receipts will be requested for all items purchased with DC monies. These receipts will be dutifully checked against the club's approved budget request. Any archon who fails to submit receipts when requested will suffer consequences. This system is not meant to become intrusive, nor is it rooted in any mistrust. It is a way to assure the efficiency of the funds given to clubs, and, more importantly, to continue to maintain the system of professionalism that the DC uses in regard to the delegation of the polity's money. The DC thanks Miss Seeger and Mr. Flaumenhaft for calling a meeting with us in response to students' questions about DC fund distribution. However, I would like to remind tl1e polity that the line of communication between tl1e DC and students is, should, and will be very open. We urge all questions and complaints to be directed to members of the Delegate Council and its officers prior to addressing concerns directly to the administration. It is the Council's job to serve as such a liaison, and it is the reason why all electoral regions of the College have delegates. I have reprinted a DC roster for your convenience, in hopes that you will contact your appropriate delegate or any DC officers wifu any further concerns. Sincerely, The Officers of the Delegate Council President: Amy Taylor Secretary: Erikk Geannikis Treasurer: Carry Rose Polity Attorney: Natalie Rinn Delegates Off-Campus: Stuart Bannan, Ian Morochnick, Ian McCracken, Laura Manion, Mary Duffy, Melissa Thomas Campbell: Max Kronberg, Brian Jones Humphreys: Laura Mangum Randall: Will Whittaker Pinkney: Hayden Brockett, Chester Martin Paca-Carroll: Lord Thomas Burbridge, Webster Ye Chase-Stone: Mary Ruffin Reply to the Critical Flyer Dear Gat!f!y, I noticed fue flyers with fue critical reviews of fue Passion up on the Campbell door and message board, and I have a few things to say regarding said flyers. Wifu the reviews I have no problem, and I have not seen the movie myself, so I will say nothing about fuem. With fue final comment on the bottom of the flyer, however, I must take issue. The flyer, after listing the bad reviews of fue movie, prints in capital type: BUT HEY, AT LEAST THE FILM CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN ENTERPRISE IN ITS RIGHT DIMENSIONS ... FEAR, VIOLENCE, HATE, AND BLOODSHED. I have two things to say in response to this. With the first thing I have to say, I speak on behalf of all the Christians on campus. I say, addressing whoever wrote and posted this flyer, that we respect your opinions and your right to speak them on campus. However, in the future, we would prefer you speak them in a more civil manner than you used on this flyer. It would also be easier to respect your opinions in the future if you were courageous enough not to post them anonymously. . THE G ;\DFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I .1 �With the second thing I have to say, I speak only for myself. Please do not associate what follows with anyone but me. Apologetics is my calling, and my first instinct was to think of a refutation for your claim. On reflection, however, I decided that the claim you make is more the product of inarticulate, unthinking hatred, and does not even rise to the dignity of error. Rather, being the result of irrational causes, it can be correct or incorrect no more than a belch or a sneeze. As such, I have determined that the best reply I can give to you is this: Gesundheit. A Question For Students Dear Gadf(y: Have you ever noticed that tutors don't get up from their chairs and wander off for a while during Seminar, only to come back later and sit down, calmly and confidently, as though that was a perfectly normal and ordinary thing to do? How to account for this? Sincerely, Jonathan Badger Correction Concerning Pool Tournament To the Polity, The time for the pool tournament has been changed, so most of the signs you see will be incorrect. Due to scheduling conflicts, the tournament has been rescheduled for 7 pm Tuesday, rather than Wednesday. All the other information still applies. If you have any questions, contact Vishal Sheth or me. Sincerely, Charlie Pashayan Sincerely, Todd Parker ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES 2003-2004 It is a tradition at St. John's College to award prizes for: 1. 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 Copies of the Greek and French texts and the mathematics problems will be available in the Dean's Office by Monday, March 1. All entries are due in the Dean's Office, at the latest, by noon, Friday, April 23. 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. David Stephenson. ---------Ir Poetry Corner Why We Had to Give Away My Dog to A Nice Old Man Who Lived In Town by Jerry Salyer, GI Eleven years old and in charge of a dogA hard row to hoe. Eleven years old and in charge of a dogA rascal mongrel with Husky energy, With Hound's love of howling and hunting, With shaggy Sheperd strength. Eleven years old and in charge of a dogAww, no. He got into the neighbor's chicken-house. (Again.) He devoured her two plumpest hens. (Again.) He dribbled a string of feathers from her front lawn, to our front door. (Again.) "Not me," he says with liquid brown eyes, staring right at me (Sitting at attention on his hind legs, Front paws flat on the ground before himA paragon of poochlike virtueA pillar of the canine communityA very model for dogs, and men.) "Not me," he says as he rises As he heaves himself on me, licking and yipping "Let's put all this unpleasantness behind us, shan't we? Let bygones ... be bygones. I forgive you your mistrustful nature." He ignores the tell-tale feather, still dangling from the side of his mouth. I can't help but laugh-and then wince: Our screen door opens, and I hear my name called. .I For the Prize Committee, David Stephenson, Chairman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE GADFLY . 3 �All Torr1orrow's Parties: Lola's, Yo Chicks, man. Just when you thought that Mr. Sophrosune was firmly established as St. John's resident nudist, Reality threw a party that redefined the nature of ... naked. Lola's was jampacked with booze, dancing, games of chance, and boobs. Lots of 'em. I mean, even the CF s were showing off what God gave them. Lord have mercy on us all. So, ATP started out the night just like everyone else: fixated on the green light at the end of Daisy's dock-that is, in front of Randall. Although it was a nice decorative touch, it provided GI Ghengis Kahm with the opportunity to wax philosophic about the virtues of green. Considering he was right behind us, and it was the first impression we had of Lola's, we hope he lost his shirt-he deserved it. We got into the cafe-turned-club and, after noting that Queen Craven II was .more than complying with the self-enforced women's dress code (I've seen less skin on a naked turkey), ,\TP moved on to appreciate the decorations. What were the freaking decorations? Although the trellises were cool... and the sheets were informative ... and colorful. .. they were still sheets. These people started out with regular sheets, stitched ALL week long, and ended up with bigger sheets. Sophomore logic strikes again. Mad props to Reality for the bar, though. It was awesome. Kudos to the band as well, although: Black Franciswipe your girl's makeup off your face before you go up to play. 'X'e had enough pimps on the floor grabbing ass without vour exhibitionism to add to it. Believe it or not, for most people the drunken debauchery actually didn't start taking place until deep into the night. The Freshman Objectivist-Against-Dan- 4 Schwartz, however, was a drunk-ass punk from the minute he walked in the door. Probably from before he walked in the door, actually. Considering that all beverages were 3 I 5 the price of admission, it's not surprising that there was an overwhelming presence of conspicuously flasked Jews-Mr. Eight Ball also sported a flask. Not so surprising from him-reportedly he pulls it out in class all the time. (Get it? ATP just made a reference to indecent exposure again. You see, that's the over-arching theme of the article-breasts and their liberal display. Funny, right? Ha ha.) Speaking of breasts, there were a whole lot of them on display last night. ATP didn't catch "one" eyeful, we caught at least seven or eight. In fact, in some cases, they nearly attacked us. Babs's dress, though lovely, was the most effective means we saw all night to distract M. Lates from dealing blackjack. Granted, a fully loaded Ally Sheedy was doing a good enough job of that herself by calling him a "beast in the morning." Slow down there, hone:r-what about John-John? J. Lo, doing her best J. Lo, showed us how "low" she could go-we're surprised (and grateful) that her dress held up through the dancing. ;Que calor! Nobody could accuse Bella Ballerina of cheating-her dress didn't ha\'e enough room for much less hidden cards. Some, like Mother Shiva, took preventative mea- . THE G_\DFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . sures against un1ntentional full frontal nudity, but tape loses its overall effectiveness when it's on the outside of the dress. Don't get the idea that ATP is genderbiased, though. The gentlemen of the College, while not "underdressed," were in fact breaking a number of dress codes. Mostly the ones regarding good taste, proper fit, whites in winter, and when not to wear fur (as in, if you're a GUY). We would never accuse Dom delaTire of dressing unfashionably; however, when you can't tell if a man's wearing glasses because his afro's in the way, and his definition of "formal" includes "chia pet," you have some issues. Consider: scissors. Gentleman The Mighty Tex had no problems keeping his hair under control. \Xlhen you spend all your time down at the ranch taking lassoing lessons, the last thing you worry about is your hair. So long as you shine your cowboy boots and find your biggest belt buckle, you look fine, partner. Yee-freakin-haw! Now, we hate to do this, but we gotta lend our opinion to Chilla. For all that you weren't dealing poker. man, you sure looked the part. We're not sure if this is good or bad, but we can safely say that you made a statement. Please tell us you won money. Other notable people that don't merit actual flaming, but will be mentioned nonetheless: Clare Voyance and Hamlet's Papa for looking both sophisticated _\ND creepy; Jacks-Off-A-Lot and her bitchin' hair; the Christmas Gorilla for stalking and having many women not his girlfriend around him; Mendel Jr. and his seraglio; and the Gls that refused to stop sucking face on the dance floor. For Christ's sake, the regular groping was offensive enough. Here's to next year. �Republican Women and My Pal Andy by Jerry Salyer, GI Staff Writer Except for shopping malls, bars are the best place to explore our post-modem wasteland. With the help of Charity-in-a-bottle I try to see through my own frustrations, to see the beauty of people-midshipmen, tourists, state government apparatchniks, townies. Sometimes seeing the beauty is harder than others. Example: With regard to Republican women. ''Republican Woman"-sounds like a Guess Who song. Am I reflecting gender-related prejudice? You betcha. Am I re-enforcing stereotypes? Psshaw. There is no such stereotype, yet, matey; I am inventing one. Why pick on Republican women, vice Republicans en masse? Because women are outfitted by natural disposition to know better. For a man to embrace the Republican Party is just as wrong, but a more understandable error; :Mammon's value-free agenda is disguised by terms men are particularly responsive to-terms intimately connected to the aspirations and truths of manhood: Earn-What-You-Eat, Patriotism, Common-Sense- Trumps-Sentiment. And by ''Republican women" I do not mean a woman with religious beliefs who mistakes Mammon for an institution that protects traditional home/ hearth because of tricks like ''FaithBased Initiatives" (I doubt Abraham conceived of"faith" in the same manner as the PR bureaucrat who came up with that little gem-of-a-slogan). Like Republican men, such women are merely innocent dupes of clever marketing. As for the sort of Republican Party's New-Womanof-Tomorrow I refer to, they are horses of a very different color-to put it in simple terms, they actually knowwhat Mammon's Party stands for, and still embrace it. -In Galway Bay, last year, I met an expensively dressed middle-aged lady who affirmed she was woman, (hear me roar, etc.) by issuing loud, patronizing edicts to me about my life. She boggled when I explained the curriculum at St. John's, shook her head sadly and demanded where, exactly, I thought things likephi-law-shopf?y were going to get me in life. I suggested: probably making a drunken spectacle of myself in a bar like a lot of other people, but she didn't get it. -During Boat-Week I was trapped in the back room of McGarvey's by a group of California tourists who were celebrating "-\h-Noald's victory. One woman gave me a socio-political lecture: she explained that in America, someone clever and hard-working can make as much money as they want-no one can say to them, "too much." And then she asked me That's a beautiful thing, don i you agree to which I said, Noooo ... ah, actualfy I think it's very, very ugly. Sadly this remark dampened our budding friendship; I could see the word Commie in the thoughtballoon over her head as she turned back to her circle ofpeople who were--ironically-gloating about the Whitewater scandal. -Again in Galway, a professional expressed her admiration for Bush-admiration tainted by his allowing religion to influence his decisions. Presumably she had voted for only halfthe man: the fat-cat, capitalist oil-man half--expeering him to keep the Methodist-half compartmentalizedin a dusty jar in the White House fallout bunker for four years. What right does a'!Ybotjy have imposing their ideas about good-and-evil into the decision-making process? We elect 'em to manage society and kill our enemies, not to make moral choices. Her monologue concluded with Things Our Government Doesn't Tell Us, and the statement, ''I don't care": Bush Sr. I CIA, Rumsfeld / Hussein, the Clinton Follies, Gore Campaign Chinese-Takeout ... she actually put it pretty clearly: ''It'slikehowlifewas setupin thatmovie, The Matrix... I just want to be prosperous, safe, and secure. I don't care about the truth." Republican women are our generation's version of feminists; but whereas feminists regard male ego as problematic font of oppression, war, budget deficits, tooth decay, etc.-and female ego as solution-the Republican woman is striving desperately to prove that she isa man. Just another aggressive, sharp-dealing cubicletroglodyte-only with cleavage and a menstrual cycle. She falls all over herself to deny any finer, more creative, more nurturing elements within her. Sexist, you say? Well, no. (I am sexist, actually; but in this instance that has no bearing.) To call me a sexist for criticizing a woman's goal of hotshot career, a big desk in a big office, would be to assume I respect men who have this goal; but, again, I expect more of women: beings with wombs should know better, should intuitively grasp that human life is sacred, that real living is incompatible with running through a rat-maze searching for eyer-elusive Freeze-Dried, Plastiform Stock-Optioned Happiness. The difference between a Republican Woman and a traditional Italian Mother: the Italian Mother actuallygets the authority and respect that the Republican Woman craves. (The Italian Mother had betterget respect, or she'll be coming after somebody's semeniferous tubules with a kitchen knife.) But on to my pal Andy ... some moonless nights at Ram's Head I come across the Ghost of Student Activities Directors Past. We down liquid-Charity as he tells me his story ofbeing forever cast out; he is like Cain. (Only Andy is probably a little bigger than Cain was, and the only mark found on him is the occasional wayward glob of hotwing sauce.) As we contemplate his dread crime, I admire passing 14-year old girls and reminisce about Ukrainian hookers whom I have seen, similarly dressed. Then I write an impromptu story in my head, about a fashion-store clerk who sells a stripper's thong to a seventh-grade girl, and the clerk's brother-a bartender-getting fired for handing the girl's 20-year old big sister a glass of Chianti. Not to worry, lass, whenyou turn 21you will be allowed to bf!Y as much booze as you want, and openfy binge yourse!f to degradation, weekend efter weekend Then the same authority-men who would arrestyou now will cheeryou on in hopes of negotiatingyour booze-soaked bottom out ofyour panties later. MC!J!be you can join the R.epublican Par(y for a fafade of toughness and independence. We worship extremes. Eitherwe are Puritans, or we have the entire 24-volume cassette collection of Girls Gone Wild. Either we are prudish teetotalers, eitherwe are ranting about the Sacrilegious Disgrace of an 18-year-old-boy (who is eligible to join the military and get his head blown off by assassins) drinking a Yuengling, or we live like one of the less-dignified Roman Emperors. In America this is how we rear our young to deal with alcohol, sex, pretty much everything: ''Proportion, Harmony, Celebrating Life?-Screw That. If It's Not Forbidden, Devour It. If It's Worth Doing, Then It's Worth Overdoing." I can criticize candidly because I am honest with myself, about myself. I am as much PostModem Creature as anyone-I find it as hard to see through the dark hood woven of modernism's joyless neurotic appetites as, say, you do. The shame I feel because of this realization tempts me to hate Republican Women; condemning one's self is the first deadly step toward saying Racca, Thou Fool to others. But there is an alternative to the contempt that corrodes and damns the soul: hope. Hope that Someone "U-111 someday open the cage and lift off the hood. Hope that we may someday blink up at the bright sunlight, relax our claws from the percl1, and stretch out our wings to fly. . . . . . . . . THE G".\.DFLY 5 �Quintigre, continued from front page 1bis piece was far more traditional, and clearly French. The flute's part was its core, although the oboe was especially prominent as well. I did not find it very interesting, but if I can judge by the old man that sat in front of me bobbing his head, some others did. For the third piece, after the intermission, all came on stage wearing Mardi Gras beads, it being Mardi Gras, and because the next piece was the WoodwindQuintet ''La Nouvelle Orleans" by Lalo Schifrin. Marguerite Baker, the clarinet player, said that the composer was educated at the Paris Conservatory, and had performed with Stan Getz, among many other Jazz musicians. He has composed a lot of Hollywood music, e.g. the Mission Impossible theme. Despite this last fact, his was my favorite composition of the performance. The first movement was based on flourishes resolving to a slow, repetitious 8-7-8 move. This grew gradually into an oboe-, then clarinet-, then horn-dominated motif, still maintaining the constant 8-7-8 grounding. This was followed by a sort of Morse-code-like single tone rhythmic section intermingled with periods of wonderful Britten-like hom solos, which were then echoed by the other performers. 1bis developed into a very melodic New Orleans style band dominated (of course) by the clarinet (although the flutist exerted herself perhaps more than she should have). 1bis fell apart into several different themes, all of which were very jaunty. An oboe improvisation led into an ending in the style of Gershwin. It was somewhat derived, as you can tell by my description, but interesting and quite well done nonetheless. The fourth piece, introduced by bassoonist Terry Ewell, was Aires Tropicales by Paquito D'Rivera. He has performed with the UN orchestra, has won many Grammies, and has recently been commissioned by the National Symphony to write a composition. The first movement began with a somewhat Spanish, almost medieval melody, which gradually progressed into a staccato, jazz motif, on which each instrument seemed to improvise in turn. The bassoon played the basic rhythm. It reminded me of what Pablo Casals I have heard (which is almost none). The pattern of improvisation seemed to be based on an 8-6-7-5-1 motion with the 8 and 7 lengthened. This would, clearly, provide a motion in place, able to end at almost any point. The next movement was the best by far, but I found it exceedingly difficult to place stylistically. Itwas defin:itelyreminiscentof jazz, 6 . THE G~-\DFLY but in a far more structured form. It reminded me (ifyou will excuse the pop-culture reference) of the opening theme to the PBS A{ystery! Series--very dance-like. The next few movements alternated between adagios and allegros (111 the more general sense of the terms), the adagios being jazzier, but with a Spanish touch, and the allegros more like Scott Joplin. The performers were nearly flawless, so far as I could tell (with the exception of the flutist in a few parts, as I mentioned earlier). The French horn player was especially good, particularly during his solo parts. It is unfortunate that only four students attended, although it is understandable on a Tuesday. Something less forgivable, though, (and the guilty crowd includes me) was the lack of attendance at the concert given by Mr. Zuckerman and other tutors on February 22 to benefit financial aid. This was a far more pertinent and internal performance, and was at least as deserving of a review as Quintigre. These concerts are vital to the health of the College, and I for one will make more of an effort to support them in the future. Looking For Parking? The Assistant Dean's Office would like students to know that not all campus parking spaces are being utilized. The gravel area behind the heating plant has 10-15 places for students to park. Ignore the signs stating Employee Parking Only. Those areas that are marked in gray in the picture below are for students. Thank you. DC Minutes, continued from front page $194.56. Preliminary Revised Budget Amount: $135.82. 12:50 - Regular Voting on the Book Arts Club Charter. Charter approved. Evening Meeting-5:45PM Present were Amy Taylor, President; Erikk Geannikis, Secretary; Carry Rose, Treasurer; Natalie Rinn, Polity Attorney; Mary Duffy, Laura Mangum, Brian Jones, Max Kronberg, Ian Morochnick, Chester Martin, Webster Ye, Hayden Brockett, Ian McCracken, Mary Ruffin, Melissa Thomas, and Laura Manion, Delegates. Absent were Will Whittaker, Stuart Bannan, and Lord Thomas Burbridge, Delegates. 5:59 - Call to Order. Spring semester budget presentations begin, club archons introduce themselves and their club. 6:01 - Book Arts Club, presented by Elihu Deitz, for $587. Preliminary Revised Budget Amount: $365. 6:16 - Chess Club, presented by Eric Allatta, for $27 5. Preliminary Revised Budget ,-\mount: $100. 6:18 - El Club de Espanol, presented by Lee Branner and Freya Thompson, for $380: Preli.mi.nary Revised Budget Amount: $150. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:25 - Hoi Strategoi, presented by Webster Ye, for $250. Preliminary Revised Budget Amount: $100. 6:27 - The discussion of the technically nonexistant King William's Players budget request, presented by Jackson O'Brien and Prose Cassells. 6:3 7 -Awaiting an official request, the DC decides on a placeholder amount of $850 for KWP. 6:38 - Outdoor Club, presented by Bryson Finklea, for $265. Preliminary Revised Budget Amount: $161.89. 6:43 - Reality, presented by Elizabeth Hohn, for $8320. Preliminary Revised Budget Amount: $6000. 6:56 - Sailing Club, presented by Joseph Toenjes, for $660. 7:04 - Motion to table discussion of the Sailing Club's budget request until the next meeting, seconded. Motion carnes. 7:05 - Swim Club, presented by Paul Patrone, for $215.68. Preliminary Budget .-\molint: $215.68. 7:08 - Waltz Committee, presented by Hayden Brockett, for $1405. Preliminary Revised Budget Amount: $1200. 7:13 - Re-open discussion of new funds-checking system. 7:16 -Adjourned. �Gadfly Funny Papers Billards Made Easy (This Week: Extra Funny!) ITHE GADFLY l HEY! You lfhere~ You look "veirder than t h e rest o'f t h e s e things. 'JfOU rnust n~d s ...•.<reel. s•A•eet-for-your~ sex 1r,ess Eu ca l'lt• p1.us ! \.i/AiT A /'\lt-l.ITE •• , THAT'S NOT FUNNY . AT ALL/ t eti::n. the Troll ~::· '1 i~ "1' c t: ::-::: -:', . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE GADFLY . 7 �THE GADFLY DATE DUE St. John's College P.O. Box 2800 Annapolis, MD 21404 otes by Leo Pickens Athletic Director "All preparation is performance, or performance to be." Emerson The St. John's Rowing Club participated in an indoor regatta this past Saturday against the Annapolis Rowing Club. The Johnnies took home the coveted Golden Hammer team award, which was the result of many of the crewbees pulling personal bests on the painful, ego-scouring ergometer. Among the women, team co-captain Sarah Stickney won second place with a time of7:35.6, and remains the fastest woman on the erg in the history of our club. And Anna Ahern pulled an 8:06, one of the top ten times in the history of the club, and good enough for the bronze. For her tenacious, lung-burning effort, Miss Ahern is named Athlete of the Week for the women. And on the men's side of things, three alum lead the charge, Mike Van Beuren pulled a 6:59 to take second (taking advantage of the handicap for age and weight), Jerry Januszewsky, more known for his basketball prowess, pulled a huge 6:33, and John Michels was only a second and a half off the fastest raw time of the day with a 6:29. But the real surprise was the performance of current junior Matt Gates, who pulled a blistering 6:41, to land himself among the top ten performances in the rowing club's history. For his great performance, Matt Gates is named Athlete of the Week for the men. ll Yo No one answered the last puzzler. The bottom and sides of the backboard are inbounds, so an inbounds pass that first hits those parts of the backboard before going into play is a legal throw-in . And now for this week's question: The ball touches or rolls along the top edge of the backboard without touching the supports, and then falls into the basket. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/f4790667fa70ec76a3d1aaf888cbdc5c.pdf 1d50648153f58f4baf8b4a95c1f3a9eb PDF Text Text THE GADFLY ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY l~ll~f l\ l'l~lil The St. John's College Student Ifieekfy Volume xxi~ Issue 24 1111I111 Ill IIIll If lililllif Annapolis, Maryland April 6, 2004 IIll IIll IIll II II 3 1696 01136 2678 Qu'est-ce que c'est la grade? by Hayden Brockett Outside News Editor I'm a little upset. Not in that vague, sense-of-impending-doom, second-semester senior way. And, no, not just in that general air of hyperactive irritability that I tend to have about me. Rather, I'm upset that John Peterson wrote a thoughtful and incisive article on t.lie grading policy of St. John's and that in four months not one member of the polity has responded, let alone the tutors, to whom his article was primarily directed. Now, admittedly, :tv:lr. Peterson's article was a little rude, more than a little rambling, and ostensibly about Don Rags. It was also published in the last issue before w,nter break. Nonet.lieless, he highlighted some prett'; serious contradictions in this school's grading policies, and pointed out that their ill effects fall entirely on students, most of whom don't even realize there may be a problem until it's too late to fix. And while Mr. Peterson noted that the current written policy essentially offers no guidelines to tutors, and that this college's account of its grades is at odds with what its Career Services Office tells its students, :M.r. Peterson let the essential culprit for these facts off the hook: the tutors. I will do no such t.'iing in this article. I'm told that tutors "are reluctant to face this matter," in part because it's difficult to reach a consensus on the proper basis of grading. I also have no idea what the Instruction Committee and faculty meetings have been discussing this year. No matter: v.i.th t.llls article, I mean to say to them, collectively, suck it up and deal, the antecedent to "it" being the sorely divided state of opinion amongst you on this matter. The students are hearing seve::al different lines about grades at the I In This Issue: Theft Taints Ivory Tower by Cathy Keene Editor-in-Chief Good gracious! Grades got me! moment, and there's a danger of this being reflected in their classroom behavior. 'What's more, they believe that their lives are affected by grades "a hell of a lot," says l'vfr. Peterson, and they "doubt that tutors really care that much about what grades they give." Start talking. Write in to the Gatjf!y, talk to your tutorials, if you think that more politic. I'll do t.'1.e preamble, as best I can I should state in the way of disclaimer that, yes, I have checked my grades (once after first semester freshman year, and again this year) and that I have found them, with one exception, to be fair, if not generous, reflections of my class performance. Moreover, I am not applying to graduate school tliis year, and am not worried about how my current GPA will reflect on any future applications. Furthermore, I have always had pleasant dealings with the Career Services Office a..D.d have found Ms. Gable's adv.ice on resumes and cover letters useful. In short, I have no personal axe to grind on this matter. Grades continued on page 2 Delacroix's Tiger, page 4 .'\J.though we wish it were otherwise, St. John's is no longer the sparkling utopia of the past. For all that we debate the virtue and justice of past civilizations, we remain unable to prevent our own society from falling into corruption and deceit. As we allow criminal acts to pollute our tiny campus, we lose our i..-i.tegrity-our faith in one another. We lose the very trust that once made us exceptional. There. I've said it. It's done. Now, have you disagreed v.i.th me yet? Do you think I'm exaggerating? Are you still reading? Good, I'm glad I got your attention. I don't normally like to sound preachy, but this is somewhat of a desperate time. Let me just tell you why I'm so angry. On the first Tuesday of Spring Break, someone broke into the backstage closet of FSK Auditorium and stole $1000 worth of portable speaker equipment. The doors to the closet were noticeably damaged, indicating a forced entry. Two speakers and the cables that go with them were taken. "The thieves obviously wanted the equipment for their own use," says Audio-Visual Director Tom Crouse. 'We keep other things in that closet, too. I guess we are lucky the speakers were the oriJy things stolen." As soon as they found evidence of the robbery, the administration contacted Security, who then contacted the Annapolis Police Department. Tne police came and took .fingerpr1..nts from around the closet. They also checked serial numbers and gathered other information Theft continued on back page Lecture Review, Page 5 �THE .,.--GA D F I"' Y Gadfly Mailbox Read This Book Editor-in-Chief Cathy Keene Executive Editor Ian McCracken Production Manager Shoshana Goldstein Sports Editor Christopher Utter A&E Editor Julie Janicki Inside News Mary Townsend Outside News Hayden Brockett Contributing to this Issue Samantha Buker Martin Gaudinski :Michael Malone Charlie Pashayan Leo Pickens Greg Singer Webster Ye Founded in 1980, the Gadf!y is the student weekly distributed free to over 500 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. 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Please e-mail submissions to sjcgadfly@yahoo.com. 2 has a chapter devoted to it; in eacl1 chapter, the technology affecting them is introduced and followed by an ethical analysis. This analysis asks the same thing of each technology: does it help humanity to be better humans? \'V'hile I believe that everyone in America needs to be involved in answering these types of questions that Will confront us, the discussion is one in which Johnnies are particularly adept. All that Johnnies have studied is put into action in trying to answer this question: what is the being-at-work of humanity and to what extent is it subject to our manipulation? Science has been for a long time at the unbinding of Prometheus. Now he is freer than ever, and he is capable of giving us much more than comforts to our nature: he can now change it. No matter what one thinks about that, everyone ought to acquaint himself with the gravity of the situation. For this reason I recommend the book Bryond Therapy to the College community. It may be obtained freely from the website www.bioethics.gov: To the members of the polity, I have recently finished a book that I wish to recommend to the polity, not for the entertainment it provides, nor for the specific ideas. that it expresses, but because thought on the subj~ ~tit discusses is necessary at this point in time. Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit ofHappine.r.r, written by Leon Kass, is a book of bioethics-its scope narrowed to address biotechnological concerns specifically. "Why is a discussion of this scope especially pertinent today? Bioethics has been a subject largely concemed with questions which seek to answer how to proceed in medicine when human qualities are taken as givens. For example, humans as a matter of course die, but is euthanasia acceptable? The bioethics of the present day, however, is confronted with questions of an entirely different kind, questions which do not take human qualities as given. The question is no longer about how to approach mortality, but instead whether or not With My Compliments, we want to. These questions were armchair Martin Gaudinski speculation years ago, and the inconsequence of their answers to change reality demanded no responsibility of us. In our present day, Grades continued from front page however, when biotechnology is researching and making gains in how to modify, add, or The first contradiction inherent to our graddelete the human qualities once taken as given, ing policy is its mere existence. Everyone knows the responsibility we all have in how we an- that. When the subject at hand is understanding swer these questions is enormous. These an- what the word "energia" means to Aristotle, or swers will determine our society, and ourselves. the validity of Kant's critiques, to make such a Because of this new responsibility, the shallow assessment as a grade is impossible. As President's Council on Bioethics was created. the College's self-study report put it, "our pecuThis book, while written by Mr. Kass (a former liar attitude toward grades derives from the collitutor who is still connected to the College sion of a goal with a necessity," namely that our through friendships and partnerships), is ac- graduates have to go to graduate school and jobs tually a report issued by the Council, of which after leaving this place. But the story we tell our].\fr. Kass is the chairman. The task of this selves about grades differs in some pretty imCouncil is "to undertake fundamental inquiry portantways from reality. into the human and moral significance of deStudents are told when they enter St. John's velopments in biomedical and behavioral sci- that grades are not important for our work here, ences and technology, to explore specific ethical and indeed, we tend not to check our grades. and policy questions related to the develop- "When junior year rolls around, however, and our ments, to provide a forum for a national dis- thoughts turn toward the future, we are told, as cussion ofbioethical issues, and to facilitate a ?Yfr. Peterson was, by the Career Services Office that grades, in his words, "do matter!' Ms. Krieger greater understanding of bioethical issues." The form of this report is to investigate was fond of telling students that they must biotechnology that is already in use, or very "walk on water" in order to have any hope of close to a debut, and how it will serve four getting into graduate school 1fr. Peterson quoted human aspirations: making better children, Ms. Gable as telling him that he should get his achieving superior performance, living agelessly, grades up if he wants to attend a high caliber and being happy. Each of these aspirations school . THE G,-illFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 �So the first thing t.hat tutors can do is, tell us whether and how much grades matter to graduate schools. You've all been there; you should have some notion of whether this is true. Ifwe don't want students to be grade-conscious, but rather to focus on real learning even into 1l1e senior year, then honest information on this matter can only help. This leads, of course, to the second and much more difficult task: defining on what basis letter grades are to be determined. I suspect that there are several different means of determining grades currently in use. On the one hand, grades are sometimes rough approxi.tnations of how students are doing in class, as determined by the amount of their participation, particularly translation and demonstrating. This immediately runs into problems. We like to say that our learni.."lg here is collaborative and that grades are not based on comparison with other students. But class participation is, to a significant degree, by nature comparative. Only so many members of a 15-person tutorial can speak so many times during a class. This doesn't just hurt the stereotypical meek "quiet student." \Xo'hen many students are struggling with basic portions of a reading, t.hose who have done it well may not have their com.i.-nents heard, or may find no place for them amidst the confusion. ( I On the other hand, grades can sometimes be an approximation of how well a student is doing in reference to tl1e St. John's paradigm listed above, e.g. this student really does his work, but his understanding of the material just isn't clear enough. Still more grades are issued '.Vi.th a rhetorical flair: one student I know received a B for a class in which he was clearly the hardest worker, who translated regularly, and helped out his fellow students. He ranted and raved for a day, much to my remonstrance, but then settled down to a more serious devotion to the matter of the class. He has since realized that his attention to his work was not of the sort which it should have been, and that his grade helped him realize that. I suspect many e..xperienced tutors use a combination of all t..h.ese methods, or else develop a sense of which students are doing their work and how well. They probably feel that they generally hit the mark by their own standard. But the variance between tutors' acuity in judging these senses, and between the standards they use, result in pretty significant injustices for students. I am currently constrained from saying all I would wish to on this subject by my fascistic editors, who insanely want to go to bed before 5 a.m. Thus, I will lay out my own proposals, both of which are liable to serious objections. First, grades should either be issued exclusively with a student's success in graduate school i.cct mind. It would be especially irnportant for the tutors to explain in their Don Rag reports when the grade issued differed from a St. John's-style critique. Second, we could say that grades are only issued as measures of ho'.v well a sttident is working up to his own incL.;,,i.dual potential, wi.th respectto task St.John's sets itself (see Self-Study report). Class participation, amount of work done, :u1d such like, would all be less important than a subjective, but hopefully honest, assessment from the tutor. This approach might result in a more equable distribution of the students St. John's favors getting into good grad schools, even as it scorns t.J.i.e standards of grad schools, but it does put students at the risk of individual tutors' whims. We students ca..."1 all point to individual injustices and inconsistencies about grades. A friend of mi..<J.e, who would wow them all at Harvard Law, got into his fu-st choice j\fichiga.."l despite being told by members of this college that his 3.2 GPA automatically prevented him from considering the sixth-best law school in t..lie countq. A 11ong the conspicuously studious group i. .<J. .. last year's class, one member went onto a prestigious Ph.D. progra."11 after getting a..."1 A+ in a Grades continued on back page St. John's Business Friends 'I The following are Business Friends of St. John's College. They appreciate your patronage; we appreciate their support. Oin'" Fcirn<h, ~"'"Alie< I Annapolis Bank & Trust Alexander & Cleaver Alt, Breeding & Schwarz, Architects Annapolis Accommodations, Inc. .Annapolis Courtyard by Marriot Annapolis Inn Bed and Breakfast Annapolis :Marriott Waterfront Hotel Annapolis Pottery "-\nnapolis Styling Group .AR.INC _i\rtFX, LLC Art Things AtlanticArts BB&TBank Baywoods of Annapolis Be Beep A Toy Shop Berliner Constxuction Blue Water _\gency, Ltd. Bohl Architects, PA Breakdu:ough Conversations, Inc. 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Pewter Chalice I I; I Post Haste :Mailing Red Hot & Blue Restaurant & Catering Robertson, Tony Ropl Folly Bed & Breakfast Sandy Spring Bank Sara-Bet.11.'s Bed and Breakfast Thomas, Vice ,-\run. Ret. Joseph Three Centuries Tours USNA Ah.L.11'~'1.i Association '\\'1ut..'1l.ore Printing & Imaging \Tomanship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE GADFLY . 3 �A Painter of Languorous and Lively Curves by Samantha Buker Staff Writer Eugene Delacroix is as famous for his odalisques as he is for turbulent tiger hunts. The watercolor Tiger you've seen posted up ~·~ -· around campus is a quiet exception to his chaotic and crowded canvases. The tiger possesses the center of the page. It dominates by virtue of gracefully-appointed mass rather than a ferocious face and raging claws. The animal's majestic power is summed up in quiet repose. The cool blue purple of the mountains complements the brilliant orange of the tiger's fur, setting off the intensity of each. The mountains conform to the tiger's posture. This accentuates the virtue oflimb even in repose, giving the creature the dignity of a .Michelangelo. He becomes a self-contained dominating landscape of muscle in the foreground . The tension is focused in the eye of the great beast. It regards the heavens with a knowing dread, like a man who fears God. The ears are pressed flat against its skull. In this seemingly silent composition of calm, echoing horizontal stretches, there is a drama worthy of Rubens. Delacroix was called the "Great Romanticist," and the "new Rubens." The admiring poet Baudelaire wrote of him: "Take away Delacroix, and the great chain of history is broken and slips to the ground." Delacroix's canvases form the bridge between the neo-classical tradition of myth and allegory and the bold brushwork later taken up by the Impressionists, Cezanne, and Van Gogh. Inspired by the poetry of Dante and Byron, Goethe's Faust, and Shakespeare's dark moments, he dedicated his brush to capturing gesture, anguish, and pass10n. This made him a few enemies, most notably the great academic painter JeanAuguste-Dominique Ingres. Ingres was heir to the neo-classical tradition of his teacher, Jacques-Louis David. Neo-classicism cher- 4 ished the clean lines of precise draftsmanship to complement calm allegorical compositions. Delacroix liked to "spread out some good thick, fat paint." He attacked the supremacy of line with vibrant daubs of complementary colors set side by side, unmixed. He was no quiet revolutionary. Contemporaries described him as a possessor of "fierce eyes, feline expression, and magnificent teeth" like the tigers he so loved to render. This watercolor, painted in 1830, likely followed from a visit to the Jardin des Plantes, the zoo in Paris. He called such visits "reading in the book of creation" which resulted in a "shaking up" of his perception. He enjoyed a more penetrating "shake up" on a diplomatic mission with the Comte Charles de Mornay. Their destination was North Africa. He found the colorful place awash in the "devil's sunlight." He spent days on horseback. He frantically noted colors and costumes in the margins of a notebook he balanced upon his saddle. They presented the Sultan of Morocco with a gold and velvet saddle. He, in turn, gave them a lioness, a tiger, an ostrich, four Arabian steeds and two gazelles. Surely, this menagerie with which they traveled fed his love of expressive and exotic animals. \V'hile there, he met with another variety of animal that would greatly influence his work He found "in the midst of that heap of silk and gold ... the lovely human gazelles ... now tame." He had cajoled his way into a Moslem's personal harem. He was "exhalted to the point of fever, which was calmed with difficulty by sherbets and fruit ." Needless to say, he spent hours among these "gazelles," capturing them in their natural habitat, at their looms, with their children in jewel-like watercolors . Upon his return to Paris, his painting Women of Tangiers created a scandal at the Salon. He considered them to be "the pearls of Eden." It was, of course, the thickness of the daubing and not the loosely draped ladies that disturbed the public. Renoir claimed to smell incense waft into the room as he drew close to the painting. His subjects of beautiful women and animals at war channeled the vivacity of his brushwork. The cause of freedom also beckoned him. No one can forget the icon of his bare-breasted Liberty leading the people. The intense colors and dramatic lighting surge into the soul. Painting, for Delacroix, is not about describing objects in the world upon a canvas . Painting is poetry for the eyes. Lines cannot contain breathing colors. When he painted the violinist Paganini, he strove to _ apture the c effects of the man's music. Ingres' portrait of Paganini captured only the man . . THE GADFLY . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . �Lecture Review by Webster Ye Staff Writer At Friday night lecture, 11r. Black investigated the attributes of Rousseau's savage man, and postulated that perfectibility was both the demise of;h_e Savage Man and the redeeming feature of the human species. In his lecture, entitled ''The Savage, the Serpent, and the SeaGod: On the Natural Goodness of Man in Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality," 1fr. Black spoke about Rousseau's creation of the savage man in part one, the serpent of perfectibility in part two; he postulated that the happy savage man is utilized by Rousseau in similar manner as Socrates's Myth of Er to show Rousseau's natural goodness of man. 1fr. Black thus attempted to find a single assertion by Rousseau on the natural goodness of man, and to explore the connection between the natural goodness of man and his answer to the Academy of Dijon's question: What is the origin of inequality among mankind and does natural law decree inequality? Rousseau argued that the only way to answer was to see man as he was originally formed, before the changes that had appeared in course of human progress into self-knowledge. Rousseau attempted to show the disparity between man's natural goodness and his wickedness, and that this natural disparity results in the equality among mankind. Mr. Black first gave a synopsis of Rousseau's Savage Man. The initial state of the savage man is described as existing in an earth that is still naturally fertile, and as a result, capable of providing savage man with the basic necessities of food and shelter. The basic physical necessities of the savage man are: the need for simple food, simple drink, and sleep - all of which are easily provided by the fertile earth. The easy satisfaction of the savage man's needs results in simplicity and solitude, with the subsequent result that social cooperation neither is needed nor desired, savage man has a robust and unalterable physique and is not capable nor inclined to invention or progress. The savage man is virtually self-sufficient, and is devoid of any of the qualities that have led to the grasping desires of modem society and the unhappiness that is the byproduct of non-simple requirements. Perfectibility and the Demise ofthe Perfect Savage Man Rousseau describes the savage man's moral/ soulful needs as consisting almost entirely of the impulsions of nature: the savage man feels pain, hunger, and the occasional coupling ·with a female. The apparent simplicity in the moral qualities of man is combined with the similar simplicity in the physical qualities to form a happy savage man. The savage man is thus lacking in a quality that is present in modem humans - the desire for perfection. This perfectibility is likened by lvfr. Black to that of a serpent, and is ultimately responsible for the Black postulated that the actual savage man would certainly have to develop a desire or sense of well being, and thus cast doubt on the apparent simplicity of the soul. The savage man's need to develop his abilities results in perfectibility, which is characterized as conspiring with circumstan_ces to deter humans from their path of natural development. The quality of perfectibility within savage man is not just his villain, however, but also his hero. 11r. Black advanced the notion that perfectibility did not contradict the natural goodness of man, but rather complemented it. The ability of perfectibility to sustain the images of merit and beauty within the human soul portends a deeper understanding of the natural goodness of man. 1fr. Black thus approached why Rousseau would use the image of the happy savage man, and concluded that it would be akin to the Republiis Myth of Er. Although the happy savage man seems to be the meaning of Rousseau's natural goodness of man, it, like the status ofGlaucus, has been so battered by sea waves as to be disfigured. Thus, the happy savage man could be true, and thus knowledge of man is necessary, but is difficult to obtain. 1fr. Black unveils Rousseau's image of a "self-sufficient, simply divine human being, in which integrity and nobility testifies to end of the savage man, and the subsequent the natural goodness of man and its conseinequality that arises through human progress quences to the natural and the good." Mr. Black's lecture presented a novel aptowards achieving perfectibility. Having constructed the image of the happy proach towards Rousseau's savage man. The savage man, Mr. Black moved on to the de- reconciling of perfectibility's seemingly polar molishment of this edifice. The happy sav- qualities of both destroying and saving the age man, in a manner similar to Kallipolis savage man presented was both intriguing and (Socrates's city in speech), does not hold up to presented a different way of understand closer inspection. The apparent simplicity of Rousseau's second discourse. For me, 1fr. man's physical needs fail to be self-contained. Black's lecture was not only informative in prel\1r. Black used the example of man living senting Rousseau's views, but deeply thoughtamong animals, and an original assumption provoking, in making me question what that the happy savage man had no need to Rousseau meant to do with the savage man. interact with animals except for simple food. The link between Socrates' city in the Republic Yet, the savage man must inevitably make a and Rousseau's savage man made me question comparison between the animals and him- the ultimate purpose of Rousseau's dialogue self, in which he concludes that he has ex- - whether Rousseau really meant to address ceeded animals in skill. This leads to the dis- the origin of inequality among mankind or to solution of fear in the savage man and the use it as a device to address the inscription of implication that man is capable of, and ac- the oracle of Delphi- "to know thyself" - for tively utilizing, foresight, and judgment- both modern mankind. Thus, l\fr. Black's lecture of which can lead man to a sense of reflection was of the best sort, in my opinion, in that it or mechanical prudence in his relations with engendered more questions about Rousseau animals. This would lead to a stirring of pride, than were apparently answered, and fostered and a sense of the individual. Where the happy new paths of approaching Rousseau's Discourse savage man is not conscious of himself, 11r. 011 I11equali!J. . . . . . . . . THE G.-illFLY 5 �Geremy Coy Probes Tube! Sans Lube! Crew competes by Michael Malone Senior Class Historian Senior Class President The crew team awoke this Sunday morning having been robbed of an hour's sleep by that perpetual irritant of fanners, daylight saving time. They awoke to a cold, grey, windy, and rainy day. They thought about the pain their bodies would undergo as they raced 2000 metres. And they smiled. They smiled because they were delusional. Arriving at the beautiful Sandy Run rowing facility in Occoquan, Virginia, the rowers were greeted with a $10 parking fee and the rather surprising proclamations by regatta officials that due to the weather, the races would be shortened to 1000 metres, and the varsity pair events were canceled. This was especially heartbreaking to the St. John's team because it meant that their sexiest boat, the men's pair of Michael "Whelpley'' Malone, and Bryson "Stinkly'' Finklea, would be unable to row that day. In fact, this was especially heartbreaking because the SJC pair was the sexiest boat in the regatta, period--even though Finklea's left arm is 2 inches shorter than his right. The first race which the St. John's team entered was the women's "novice" four. This all-star boat of bootylicious women-Katy Courtwright, Anna Ahern, Helen "of" Kongsgaard, Sarah Stickney, and coxswain Maya Valkuchakdid the team "proud" by "winning" the race, "adhering" to the "rules" "all" of the "time." In firm control of their race for the entire distance, they finished ahead of the 2nd place crew from Penn State by a boat's length. After this race there was a considerable down time where people tried to figure out how to stay warm and conscious. As usual, the SJC team had set up their camp immediately downwind of a row of porta-potties which serve as the communal bathrooms for the rowing polity. To the left of camp there is a road which goes rather steeply downhill, leading from the regatta entrance to the boat docks. Between our camp and 6 Geremy Coy prepares to probe. the road there is a drainage pipe which runs underneath another road. Ladies and Gentlemen, and Juniors, this drainage pipe is now the stuff of legends. Sophomore Dan Houck got the idea in his mind first. He dared fellow rower Geremy Coy to crawl through the pipe for $10. Coy was willing, "I saw the tube and I knew I had to go through it," he remarked. Now this was no easy task. First off it's just plain nasty in there. God only knows what's died/ given birth/ pooped in there, and it's close proximity to the porta potties doesn't help either. Of course someone has to fit into the pipe for these issues even to become relevant. The diameter of the pipe was a mere 15 inches: a good deal less than the width of an open issue of the Gadfly. The author himself tried to see if he could fit, and found it impossible due to the gigiantic width of his Herculean shoulders and round birthing hips. Mr Coy, however, could fit, and after negotiating for a dollar from each member of the crew team upon successful completion, he prepared to enter the tube for the 342 inch underground trek. One is not sure if his mother would be proud to see her son's head go into the tube, his round butt defiantly protruding up and into the air, but we were proud. We were proud. Before we knew it, he was no more; he was completely in the tube. Surrounded by pockets of water, leaves, and chunks of asphalt, Coy's first thought was "What the hell am I doing?" ,-\ similar question was asked by the hordes of spectators from other colleges who saw us gathered arround the ends of the tube laughing and cheering, apparently at a mound of asphalt. Unable to grip the walls of the plastic tube, Coy moved forwards by pulling on a cable used by the park's P,-\ system and pushing with his itsy bitsy toes, often having to stop and prop up his fallen glasses. In less than a minute, Geremy was 3 / 4 of the way through. It was then that he knew he would make it. To the chanting of his name, Geremy emerged from the tube covered in gunk, his elbow bruised, but his spirits higher than expected. Man about town Matthew Gates was more than ready to reward Mr. Coy, quickly stuffing his dollar bill down Coy's pants. A big smile was on each man's face. After this brief interlude, it was back to the races. Coy's boat, the men's novice four of Geremy Coy, Mathew Gates, George Pogiatzis, Dan Houk and alumni coxswain Nelson "The school administration made me retract a true story about drug usage at the college" Hernandez, had missed the start to their scheduled race earlier in the day. In order to row in the regatta at all, they had to enter the varsity event where they would clearly be the underdogs. Now in bizarre world they would have won the race. Of course in bizarre world short people can become president. However, we live in reality where Coy's boat lost, and short people ride horses. The last race of the day was the men's varsity four of Bob Abbot, Andrew MacKinley, Tom Jacobs, Steve "Please ask me whether I have a girlfriend" Closs, and coxswain Christopher ''B" Utter. Getting off the line with a quick start, the team took the early lead in the rough water. Unfortunately they were not masters of the wind and water that day and finished the race just behind the first place boat. However, given the caliber of the competition they were against, 2nd place was an indicator of a job well done. . THE GADFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . �Billiards Made Easy El:litar" s NX.e : 'Ill= a:nte::Jt of t:re previaJs p:irel is ID m 'Wey rre:int to :refJ..a:.t t:re cpinims of this p..blic:atim Cll'.' of C>r¥ M=l Gil::s::n, livir.g oc d::a:l.. It is tre role pro:irt of t:re Int:errat.iacl Zi.crrist Qnpiracy. El:litar" s NX.e : N::itter M=l Gil::s::n, ror his fatter, mr any duly arr;ointe:i representative of '\\Orld J6'JIY rad anyt.hin::J to d::i with tre tbree i;:arels reprcx:lua:d ~ • W::JJ. acb.Blly M=l Gil:s::n wrd:.e tre \Jule thir.g • I By Charlie Pashayan Etti.tar:"' s N:te : 'Ill= previa..is 0..0 parels are n::>t:. IDt.en:i:rl. to :rep:es:!lt ID C>r¥ wey t:re l:e1.iefs of this p.:blic:at.im, mr th::se of tlE secret cal:al of Js.r.ish varrpires that rave a::nt:rolle::l w:idd eva1ts far over 6, 000 years. N::itter d::i trey :repreg:nt tre l:eliefs of M=l Gil:s::n, W: ratter th::se of his fatter, as expresserl to him by tlE en: True Q:x:l. El:lit.ar' s N:te : 'Ill= prec:a:lir:g mnic strip 'Was brrught to }'Ol l::y tre Intematirnal Le::gl.E of Ararraic Ehthusiasts, W"D w::.uld like to :renirrl a..rr read::rs that any laLgl.Eg2 that can rrake $80 millim in taJ. chys can't l::e all trat d::a:l.. THE G_-\.DFLY . 7 �THE GADFLY St. John's College P.O. Box 2800 Annapolis, MD 21404 otes by Leo Pickens Athletic Director With discipline we can program ourselves with new routines. If and onfy if we are consistent in our practice, these routines will become habits, freei11g us to focus the tool of discipline on conquering new territories. Consistenry is vital,· if our behavior is erratic, we se11d mixed signals to the brain and nervous system, giving them no clear pattern to follow. Therefore, "exceptions" can be fatal to progress, at least tin tiI the new habit is firmfy in place. From Craig Lambert } Ivlind Over Water Another great victory logged by the stalwart women of the rowing club this week. Racing in extremely windy conditions this past Sunday at the Occoquan Sprints, the women's four consisting of Misses Stickney, Courtright, Kongsgaard, and Ahern, and coxed ably by :Nliss Valkuchak, rowed to a win in their race. 1fiss Kongsgaard competed with only a week of preparation, and for her willingness to put herself to the test, she is named Athlete of the Week for the women. At this point of the athletic season, because different sports overlap, an active, wellrounded jock can sometimes attempt the Wednesday triathalon: row in the morning, play team handball in the afternoon, and then play basketball in the evening. One fellow that completed this intramural trifecta with great enthusiasm and grit this past week was Tom Jacobs. For his dedication to the practice of 'liberal athletics,' Mr. Jacobs is named Athlete of the Week for the men. You .Make.the Call .•.. ' B~e~: ><' .:\not}1~fr7e'ride't'O the B~6kstore w~t ~~begging,tlys~a~t~eel{:.·6\ny player C:augh t .·using:11,1r.~ob11ccc) prqdu~-~during a p~actice Boathouse Back in Business by Greg "Rook" Singer RosencrantZ:· Do you thi11k death could possibfy be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is... not. Death isn~. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You ca11 ~ not-be 011 a boat. Rosemrantz: I've frequentfy not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, n()--whatyou've been is not on boats. -Tom Stoppard ~li!llii Theft continued from front page for their investigation.No suspects have been announced yet, but everyone agrees it was probably someone who is affiliated with the College, since the location of the equipment closet is not exactly kept a secret from students, staff, and faculty. Jvlr. Crouse is currently working to replace the stolen equipment. He hopes to have it in before the last week of class because the speakers are needed for Commencement exercises. He also hopes that this robbery is not the start of a downward trend within the College community. Grades continued from page 3 After an existential winter, the St. John's boathouse is once again open for business. The boathouse is open to anyone who has ever heard of St. John's or read the Iliad. Below are our spring fee schedule and hours of operation. If you'd like to use the boathouse's services at a time not listed bpk~~~~....._,., __ - c.J..~i..~--'4rds or Mr. Pickens, and we will be happy to oblige. DATE DUE Canoe re Kayakre1 Rowboa1 Sailboat 1 Sailing le~ 8 Boathouse Hows: Monday- 2:30-6:00 Tuesday- 4:00-6:00 Wednesday- 4:00-6:00 Thursday- 2:30-4:00 Friday- 3:00-6:00 Saturday- 1:00-4:00 . THE GADFLY . . . . . . . . . . ' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ' junior class from a favorite tutor, while another member- widely respected as being at least the first student's intellectual equal--got a lesser grade in the same tutorial taught by a different tutor, and consequently was only accepted to a one-year master's program. And of course, there are always those students whom other students know to have little serious interest in the material, and only speak up to engage certain verbose tutors into one-sided conversations, or to spout obvious generalities that delay real conversations. I hope tutors realize both that they should do something about these inconsistencies, and that they can. � 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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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Gadfly 25.24 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/fa95de3850c6c43cc9c28eb9d068d029.pdf 7d64a68764c57ca1c402c48cd99e1173 PDF Text Text THE The St. Johns College Student Weekfy Volume XXV, Issue 26 Discussing - Bioethics by Nick Colten Staff Writer Two weeks ago, 1-fr. Martin Gaudinski wrote in with a book recommendation. The book, Be- yond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness, is the product of the President's Council on Bioethics, the chainnan of which is former tutor and friend of the College, Dr. Leon Kass. I have not looked at the book--only reviews of it- but I intend to do so when I have more time. One of the things that interests me in the book- aside from l'vfr. Gaudinski's recommendation and its tangential relationship to the College- is a recent personnel change among the Council on Bioethics. During Spring Break, two members of the Council were dismissed. The first was William May, professor emeritus of ethics at Southern Methodist University; the second, Elizabeth Blackbum, is a biochemist at the University of California San Francisco. 1'fr. May's departure from the panel mainly seems due to his own desire not to serve on the panel for more than two years. Ms. Blackburn's dismissal, however, was involuntary. In news interviews and in an op/ed in the Washington Post, Ms. Blackbum claimed that her dismissal was due to her disagreement with Dr. Kass on the issue of therapeutic cloning and how it was being presented in a prejudicial fashion in the Council's reports. Dr. Kass, in his own Post op/ ed, defended the actions of the panel and suggested that the reason for Ms. Blackburn's dismissal was her poor attendance at Council meetings and a shift in the Council's focus away from reproduction and genetics. Even if Ms. Blackbum was in fact dismissed for lack of participation in the Council's worka charge she disputes-her concerns about an ideological imbalance on the Council remains; the reason for this being, the people chosen to Bioethics contiuned on page 7 In This Issue: GADFLY ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1~ n~mim~1~r1i1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 A Spartan Workshop Participant Tells All 3 1696 01136 2660 Annapolis, Maryland April 20, 2004 There are two things I should clarify from that last paragraph. The first is that overall, I really enjoy participating in Spartan Workshop. Although I don't have a lot to compare him to, I've found Chris Muscarella to be a most excellent trainer with an uncanny ability to see and remedy physical weaknesses. For example, I suffer from pre-arthritis of my knees (southern high school marching bands are evil), and although a season in crew helped to alleviate some of the pain, I was Spartan ninjas, I mean members, prepare for their next mission. still having a lot of problems with them back in November. I explained by Julie Janicki this to Chris, and he put me on a series of Arts and Entertainment Editor strength and flexibility building exercises that Okay, so I had originally planned to write an have drastically increased mobility and virtually article about Spartan Workshop that would be eliminated the discomfort that I used to have. partially informative about Chris Muscarella and Now, I don't know if everyborjy has such a reacpartially a personal confession. But, since the tion to the Workshop, and I certainly wouldn't College's resident celebrity Ninja is currently be- go to Chris with all my medical ailments, but I yond the range of my interviewing capabilities, would argue that there is a method to his madthe article is going to be partially a personal con- ness and that if he doesn't know how to help fession and partially informative about my Work- you, he would know of somebody that could. Miracle-cures aside, the atmosphere of the Workshop experiences. Let's start out with the basics: what is Spartan shop, although incredibly intense, ultimately Workshop? As far as I can tell, having attended pushes you as hard as you can be pushed- not most Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays since too far. "\fter leaving a workout, I know that I've before winter break, it's an hour of pain and done the best that my body is capable of and suffering three times a week that has made me that nothing was damaged in the process. So stronger, faster, and better while simultaneously despite pain, exhaustion, occasional belittling and amusing me. I wish I could put the physical frequent badgering, the overall experience is excomponent of the program into more favor- tremely positive. The second point tliat I should clarify inable terms, but when I find myself cajoled into lifting and swinging 36lb kettle bells (or SOlbs at volves the use of tl1e word ''kettle bell." If you're tl1e rate I'm going), my good natured humor anything like I was last winter, you ha Ye no idea fades and defers to sarcasm. Spartans continued on back page More on "More Ideas," page 8 ~ Gilliam Hall Concerns, page 10 �HE .,._.GADFLY Editor-in-Chief Cathy Keene Executive Editor Ian McCracken Production Manager Shoshana Goldstein Sports Editor Christopher Utter A&E Editor Julie Janicki Inside News Mary Townsend Outside News Hayden Brockett Contributing to this Issue Chuck Anderson Aurora Cassells Nick Colten Victoria Gallanter J.A.J\L Max Kronberg Justin Lariier l\fary Irene Ruffin Amy Taylor Founded in 1980, the Garf;f!J is the student weekly distributed free to over 500 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. 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Please e-mail subn1issions to 2 Gadfly Mailbox Vi"ews from the Other Side ofthe Skit Dear Gao/!y, I would like to respond to Nick Colten's letter regardlng the Prank Show. I already talked to him about it, so I'm respondlng more for the sake of expressing another opinion on t..11e matter publicly than for the sake of communication with the man himself on the issue. I would first like to apologize to all those who sobered up before the end, or in other ways became impatient with its length. Having not done the like myself, I can neither defend nor personally object, but I am assured that it was distressing to too much of our audience. Rather like last year's Real Skit, we never actually ran it through all the way even once before we put it on, so of course we couldn't know beforehand, let alone with time to rewrite it. Oops, sorry, c'estla vie and what have you. As to .l\Ir. Colten's suggestion that our darling Skit was unfair to women with a doublestandard on sex issues, I would like to disagree generally. [As he carefully avoided names so as not to ensnare or offend those who carefully missed the Skit , I'll do what I can to be merely specific enough for my purposes (dark and sinister though they be, mwah-hah-hah).] As the piay turned out, there were more allusions to sexual women being somehow "bad" than sexual men being "bad," so I do not disagree that his interpretation is possible. However, each i...'1dividual case can be shO\vn to be funnier the way we did it, or, in one case, even-ha..'l.ded. In the Super-Hero section, there was one sexually loose male and one sexually loose female super hero(ine), making that the even-handed example. W'hen they fought, the loose female won, but I'm not sure whether or not that says anything for or against loose female sexuality. In the example of the girl portrayed by an actual sex-object ... that was one of t..hose jokes that pushes the envelope, and so I concede that it was ,ootentiallY auite offen, i sive, though I think mostly it was damn fa.D.ny. _',_n exaggeration to the absurd, if you "IN'ill, like Brother Robert last year being portrayed as a big ball ~"\l.th c1 sui~ and cane . .._\s for the \v·onicn being offered up as sex objects iri- the 1noT1e, ir \vould have been out of pLice to haYe offered men . .._-\:nd the ~ight J.T the :\Ioroxbury~ I rh.ilL~, certainly made £1.m of the gents on both sides of the sexual spectrum. THE GADFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Anyhow, our general theory was t..1-iat people like seeing themselves recognized, and so that inclusion into our community (yes, I mean it) would (hopefully) ameliorate some of the sting of anything personal that may have hit too close to home. And if it didn't hit too close but they still take offense anyway ... that doesn't make sense, and we'd feel bad to know they were upset, but would not, for that sympathy, feel guilty or regretful. And we did not, I concede, take a look at the Skit as a whole (which didn't exist as a whole until less than a week beforehand) to see if it had some overall imbalance that would spread a message such as the double-standard Mr. Colten noticed. Though we looked at each part to see if it could go in (you have no idea how much and how horrible was the stuff that *didn't* go in) we did not survey the body of it, though, of course, our audience would see it as a whole. Again, oops. And I don't k.J.ow if there's anything to be done about that for future Skit putters-on. So, as Nick surmises, we don't generally agree with the traditional positions, so the explanation is si.n1ply that we didn't see what he saw. Some, I know, still don't, and some of us didn't notice either way. But there ya have it, though I think I heard Chuck was gonna write in, too. Sincerely, Aurora Cassells .1."!\,fore on the Senior Skit To the Ga4f/y, I am writi..'1g in response to Mr. Cohen's letter in last week's Ga4f/y in reference to the demoralization of women in this year's Senior Prank. First, I would li.."ke to say that I do not recall t..11e part I played as demoralizi.tJ.g. Rather, the woman was "empowered," if you w;.Jl, by her "strength." Second, she was never pai..-ited in a negative context, 011Jy a hu..rnorous one. Most impo:tantly, I want to poir1t out that the Senior Prank Skit highlights what is already existent. \\'e may embellish and rnrist, ~Jut there is a basis for rnost cf our antics. If anything on stage is problem:~nc~ perhaps the is not just on stage, but per.-asiYe in . . rhe con11nu111n-. Sincerely, Irene Ruffi_n �Supporting Freedom Speech easily spotted under their chairs. On a side note, make sure they are at least three years younger than you. This means that they're young and will think that you're mature, which is what girls like. Maturity. That's why they can never decide anything. So mature. We love you, Ian McCracken. Way to keep it real. And, hey, if that doesn't work, Weatherby "Prostitute" Barr is always available, and is scheduled to make a divine reemergence on campus three days prior to Baisch's fabulous re-emergence. of Dear polity, I have the misfortune of needing to appeal to the Ga4f!y in a plea to restore the freedom of speech to our campus. There are many diverse groups on this campus with varied moral standards. Fortunately, I was brought up among the group that respects people-and their constitutional rights. Unfortunately, there are some among us who were not brought up with these values. Last week, I hung up about six posters throughout the campus that had information about an upcoming march in DC. The march is in support of women throughout the world having full access to reproductive health care, whether it be pills or pre-natal care, and is sponsored by Planned Parenthood as well as many other women's organizations. I understand that this can be a controversial issue to some; however, there are many people on campus who support these views, and I daresay everyone on campus supports the right to freedom of speech. This is why I was so appalled as I watched my posters disappear from one board at a time. I am not, however, discouraged, and I will hang more posters in the coming week. For now, I ask in all sincerity for the person(s) who removed my posters to please respect my right to freedom of speech; if you truly have a problem with choice, I invite you to join me at the rally or over coffee sometime, where we can talk about these issues, instead of perpetrating such cowardly acts. Sincerely, Victoria Gallanter Attention, Coffee Shop! Dear Ga4f!y, I am seriously ticked at the Coffee Shop for not being open when it says it will be. I know several other members of our darling polity who have also been seriously inconvenienced. My particular lament is that they don't actually stay open until four on the weekdays, so that if I want to come get something from the Coffee Shop after my 2:20 lets out, sometimes as late as 3:40, I'm out ofluck. Look, dudesthe sign says, "4." If you don't want to stay open that late, try to change it (although I doubt you'll succeed), but don't just close early, leaving us stranded. Dude! I know, also, that not opening on time has been a problem for hungry Johnnies. Please fix this really bad thing. Thanks, Aurora Cassells Dear J.C.: Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody. I got some money, cause I just got paid. Now how I wish I had someone to talk to ... I'm in an awful way. Acronyms Suck ... Seriously! Dear A.S.S.: It's hard on a fella' when he don't know his way around. We'll help to find you a honey to help you spend your money, so you don't have to blow this town. The dating scene around here is worse than Nick Colten's no good, very bad, terrible, awful articles! Please, God, let him tell me why he hates Bush for pages on end. I want to know sooo badly. I'm sure he won't just cut and paste a list of things I've already heard. So your first step in "finding the ladies" is to see what Anna Larson's up to; she's always available; that is, she never, ever has a boyfriend. We know that's harsh and unnecessary, but we're that hardcore. Speaking of Hardcore S&M, your second step is to make sure you learn what kind of stuff any girl you want to date is into. You don't want to be all like, "Hey, baby, I got the lotion, the chicken, and the CyberPaddle 3000™," and have hei; say, "Umm, I'm allergic to chicken. Besides, you just met me. Three minutes ago. I'm your waitress." It's best to get these kinds of things out of the way early, so you should have spoken to her friends, followed her home, and determined that she was allergic to chicken away before you went to her restaurant. Bars are always a good bet, but townies are dangerous ... we hear they can kill us with their laser-vision .•\void them, and head right for the group of drunken Johnnies, In conclusion, J.C. Dear J.C.: Why have you forgotten about me? I need your support to make a divine re-emergence on campus three days prior to Basich's fabulous re-emergence. In conclusion Prostitute "Barr" Weatherby Dear PBW (Pabst Blue Wibbon): The conclusion joke was a bad idea when we did it. Now we had to rearrange your entire name for a single decent (ok, glorious) joke. You are a force for evil in the world, and we will do everything in our power to crush you. This includes, but is not limited to, thinking that you are dumb and stuff and you suck so bad that its bad and I hate you a lot and you're not invited to my birthday party. BFF, J.C. J.C.'s Shaloms Shalom to Wibbon. Just say it out loud. God that's fun. Almost as good as Noth (pronounced like oath), the magical word Max made up during essay writing. Ask him about it some time. Noth noth noth noth noth. Shalom to Sam Cooke. No one will ever be cooler. Shalom to Ian Morochnick, for some reason. Shalom to Carry Rose, We thought about using your name in a joke, but didn't, because you are more easily offended than Nie Zakheim, who we also thought about using in a joke, but didn't, because she is more easily offended than Nick Colten, who we ei1ded up using in a joke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE G_-\DFLY . 3 �Some Personal Thoughts Dear Gac!f!y, Ibis article is not studied. It is not carefully written. It is probably not even thoughtful, objectively speaking; but it is honest, insofar as I, the writer, am capable of honesty in my present state. Herein are confessions from realizations that I've had this evening, and I only venture to share them so that they become more than words on paper. Hopefully, by articulating these thoughts, I can realize them more deeply and more clearly. I am too ashamed, cowardly, and scared of the consequences to give my name. Thus, I proceed anonymously. I will respectfully yield to the Gac!f!js veto if they decide not to print this: if it is too personal, depressing, rambling, or selfindulgent. However, my heart is eager to know that others know what I'm going through. Ibis evening, as I was sitting by myself, I began to reflect on my life here at St. John'sand this, in tum, led to a reflection on my state in general. I looked within, and what I saw was deeply disturbing: I saw a completely selfish individual, concentrating on nothing but myself. I saw all my actions, everything that I do, for nothing but my own greed, honor, and selfishness. I feel that my thoughts, my actions, my choice in acquaintances, perhaps even my will have only one end: the furthering of myself for my own benefit. This realization is not new. I've read accounts of human nature that admit of no selfless act, and I've even imagined that I've subscribed to this conviction. I've never, however, felt this on such a personal level. Somehow, as I've encountered harsh generalizations of human nature in the past (viz. man is selfish), I've absorbed them as insights into the nature of a foreign species, an abstract race of beings named "humans." I've recognized that I am human, and I've even tried to grasp the conviction ''human nature is evil" that is occasionally put forth by books, but never have the full consequences of these generalizations struck me with such force. It is easy to call man selfish, since when we do we are reflecting on others; and it is easy for one to recognize that he is a man, since this is manifest. But, the obvious consequence of the coupling of these two facts chills the blood. Am I completely selfish? It hits me like a speeding van-I literally feel that everything I am doing is betraying any sense of goodness that I've ever thought myself to have. There seems nothing redeeming in my character. If I was another and I knew my intentions I would not want to be ac- 4 quainted with myself. I frantically try to recall my doing something for another without any benefit to me-I fail. All my deeds are either clearly for my own benefit, or I do them so that others will think me honorable. Ibis chastising part of me comers my soul and asks it, "Is the reading of all these books done for any benefit other than your very own? Is there anything you've said in class, ever, that was not said out of a selfish curiosity or with the inten. tion of being admired for your insight? Or do you truly enjoy the act of contemplation in itself? If you do, then it seems selfish-for what good can be done for anyone but yourself by quietly contemplating for four years? Would you possess any genuine desire to impart what you've learned to anyone else if you would receive no honor for doing so? On the other hand, if you don't enjoy the act of contemplation, then what are you doing? Are you trying to appear well read to the rest of the world? Or, are you a terrible enough creature that you are trying to fill up your bookshelf with formidable titles, or are waiting to receive your diploma? And don't you dare answer that you intend to apply the great ideas you read to better the world. This is the vainest and most presumptuous view-for when was the last time you thought of virtue as applied to your life? The last time you thought about becoming a better person, in the back of your mind you were scared for your soul. You were thinking of Dante's Inferno, and the prospect of burning eternally. When was the last time you did anything for anybody? And how about your behavior outside of class? Your romances? Cutting loose after studying? The drunken escapades? Your artistic ambitions? Intramural sports? And love? Is your love for others, friends, family, anything but the love of reciprocation? Would you love those that wouldn't love you back?" I whirl and then slowly totter from the despondency of these questions. They pound into my reason long after my head is in my hands. And the worst part is this: I cannot end the railing of my reason on my soul in a cheerful way. There can be no dramatic resolution by finding something positive to say about my current state. I see nothing of the kind. My ego is huge, still. The confessions herein do not improve the reality of my state one single bit. I am simply aware, for the present moment, of the true and uncovered force that drives my•vill. The truly sad part is that try as I might, soon I 'Will fall asleep.•\nd when I wake up I will probably return to my uninformed state, and then I will not hold myself as wretched, as I do this evening-it would be hard to survive in such a mindset. I will move from this self-abhorrence to some more positive mood, but then I will simultaneously move from insight to ignorance. So I sit here by myself and wonder what to do. I've found my ambitions to be nothing but narcissism. I'm not sure that I do anything that is not completely selfish in intention. After reading the books I've read, or have pretended to read; after preparing to move mto the world, I would think that I would be capable of a good deed. However, I am not capable. Not yet. Will I ever reach this point? I'm not sure. Does the solution lie in philosophy, God, intuition, faith? Does it lie in honesty? If it does, then hopefully this evening has brought me one step closer. Anonymous Philosophy of Comedy, or Why Objectifying HfJmen is Funny Dear Gadf!y, First of all, I would like to applaud Mr. Cohen's effort which I see as a part of very noble endeavor. I believe that, although his attempt to reflect upon the Senior class's Prank Skit erred in its judgment of its message, the idea behind his project had the makings of an interesting topic. That being said, I would like to say that I disagree with Mr. Cohen's complaint, and, knowing that Ms. Ruffin will probably argue better than I, that the basis for his complaint was little more than gathering from two parts of the Skit a moral lesson that was really not present. I was surprised, however, that he was offended at said jokes instead of, to pick at random, the racist jokes said during the All-Star Skit by Mr. Nice Guy. As I stated earlier, however, I would like to take this opportunity not to try and belittle Mr. Cohen's argument, but rather to discuss a topic that I see as very little discussed, but nonetheless very important. The questions I want to pose are: what is the worth of low-brow humor? Can offensive jokes such as those made during the previous two years be worthy of reflection-do the\· in any way lead us to self-knowledge- or are these Skits merely a time for us to relax and enjoy and laugh at ourselves and our fellow Johnnies? . THE GADFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . �I would like to try to explore this question by way of 1fr. Cohen's example of the blowup doll joke (by the way, may I applaud all three of the participants of that joke. Because of their ability to take the horribly offensive joke in good humor, I have a new found respect towards all three). IfI have learned anything from being a part of the writing of these Skits the past two years, it is that OBJECTIFYING WOMEN IS FREAKIN' HILARIOUS! Ok, actually let me restate that: objectifying human beings is freakin' hilarious (point in case: Brother Robert as a beach ball, trash-lid, and cane last year). Before dealing with my first statement, let me explain why the latter case is true. The objectifying of people plays with and contradicts our expectations. As I see it, man is a two part animal: rational, and thus important and divine, on the one hand; and beastial, and thus lowly and irrational on the other. At this school especially, we, as human beings, try to view ourselves as above the beasts, as a bearer of a daemon and a god-like rational mind. Due to this presence, we try to cultivate ourselves into beings on a pedestal above what our beast-like nature would have us be. From this desire and ability comes the moral, political, artistic and philosophical part of man. But there is also this other part of us that burps, farts, has wild donkey sex, and seeks bodily pleasure; these are all actions the rational part of us deem unworthy of a reasonable creature. When we objectify a person, he or she, who on a daily basis we afford dignity and honor as a person with categorical standing and title and with inherent value, has been totally stripped of those traits we deem valuable. We now view that person, in his or her essence, as little more than a sex-object or a beach ball with a coat. The higher faculty of man-the philosophical part- views man's experience as so diverse, complicated, valuable; and it views his efforts in his endeavors as extremely important. When we objectify a person, we belittle the importance of his or her human experience and value. We have made the meaningful, meaningless, and the rational-animalistic. This, in my opinion, is why we laugh at these kinds of jokes (along with fart jokes and other bodily function jokes) or don't laugh, as the case may be, if you are more of the Straussian song type. In our humor, we address the paradoxical nature of nian. Now to address my original statement, let me just say that I am all for the equality of the sexes (and the equality of all sexual preferences), but I still will claim that objectifying a woman is by far funnier than objectifying a man. (Would we be so offended if that were a man being thrown around? What about a gay man? Which one would be funnier?) For the past century or so, women have been trying to gain equality in this country. Social consciousness has been geared towards viewing women not as a means for an end, but as an equal in all aspects to the men of this country. Of course, I am a big fan of this movement that unfortunately has persevered even today, but, as 1fr. Cohen's letter has pointed out, there have been side-effects and perhaps even unreflected double-standards as a result of this movement. We, the general public, have been trying to lift women up towards equality, so that they are consciously given more respect in our lives and we are constantly reminded (through books, media, our friends, family, etc.) that they are to be viewed as a human being with inherent worth, and not just sex objects. It is in trying to lift them up as equals, however, we have over-compensated, and put them in a position where they are to be viewed as pristine and beyond reproach. We have constantly made sure that everyone knows that women are to be treated equally, and, as I stated earlier, it is constantly in the public consciousness that women are not objects. Therefore, it is funnier to view women as sexual objects because we believe, as a result of our placing a greater amount of respect on them, that in some sense they are even higher above their lower and bestial nature than men and that it is undemocratic to view women as objects. It seems that our offensive joke has revealed that our expectations are higher for women and thus create more latitude for downward mobility (from worthy as highly respected rational beings to replaceable objects for men's amusement) when we objectify them and thus a greater magnitude of laughter should come as a result. (Although, I .was surprised more people didn't laugh at that joke, but I think it might be due to the fact most people were not sure if they should be offended or if they should laugh at the joke. Of course, I could be completely wrong, and the joke just was not that funny). _\lthough you, the reader, may not agree "''itl1 either of our interpretations on the Skit, it seems that both ::\fr. Colten and mnelfhaYe tried to provide the polity with an important lesson on the meaning of the Skit and thus comedy. All too often do we watch a sitcom or a cartoon in order to relax and just enjoy. Unfortunately, comedy, especially low-brow comedy, is never taken seriously, either at this school or in the outside world. We look towards dramas for serious reflection on the human condition while we preserve comedy merely for entertainment. In condusi_on, I would just like to say tl1at the Prank and Reality Skits, I think, are meant challenge your expectations and offend the audience a little. This should not be just for having a good time; it should lead to some kind of reflection on why and what we laugh at, it should be cause for a reflection on what our expectations both as a society and as individuals are in relations to different people, situations, actions, etc, as well as for an examination of why we think some jokes are especially offensive and why we are not offended at others. Sincerely, Chuck Anderson Accompanist Sought For Next Year's Freshman Chorus Auditions will be held in last week of April. Please contact Mr. Thomas May if interested. (Tom.may@sjca.edu) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE G_\DFLY . 5 �Lecture Review: The Quick and the Lost by Christopher Utter Sports Editor I felt Friday's lecture was a problem, for me at least. This could stem from any of three sources: (I.) I am an idiot; (IL) the lecture was given too quickly, was too broad, and was on a subject that I have only the faintest familiarity with; (III.) I had just woken up from a crewinduced nap, and so was not in the fittest state to listen to such a lecture. I have much evidence to contradict the claim that I am in fact an idiot (which I will not cite, but I assure you is reliable), and so I am inclined to believe my lack of ability to follow the lecture to the extent I usually do was caused by a combination of the last two factors. Then again, having just woken up from said nap, I was quite refreshed and not in the least disoriented. i\1r. Burke's lecture dealt mostly with Faraday (and to a lesser extent, Maxwell, with Descartes and Newton thrown in every once in a while) and his theory of electrical induction. The title, ·~ction Through a Distance," aptly states the heart of Faraday's investigation. Keeping in mind Newton's idea of bodies interacting with one another over distances through something that is not inherent in them, but is an external force acting on them, Faraday tries to apply this to phenomena he observes in electricity and magnetism. i\1r. Burke began his lecture with essentially this question, asking, "How does nature show itself to us?" For example, a stone thrown through the air creates a parabola and a glass tube rubbed with a piece of silk attracts and then repels a wooden ball-why do these kinds of things occur? \Vb.at counts as a phenomenon of this sort? :Mr. Burke seemed to be suggesting that the ability of scientific inquiry was the criterion for something being a natural phenomenon; a scientist, he said, is one who investigates cause and effect. Faraday, being a scientist, does just thishe speaks of the sources of things he observes in nature, and so proposes the theory of induction. This is the most general influence one thing can have on another; it is a first principle of action and reaction. Newton's attraction at a distance is not enough for Faraday, according to j\fr. Burke, for in addition to this, Faraday sees the necessity for lines of force extending from bodies influencing other bodies around them when they are in a state of electric charge, either static (called "simple" by F.) or through a current. 6 Descartes, in his work appropriately called Le Monde, creates une nouvelle Monde, a new world, so as to explain the same sorts of scientific phenomena F. is investigating. There is no void for Descartes, rather, all space is filled with concentric circular waves of influence emanating from objects. Therefore, although an ob- Yes, Faraday is this cool. ject tends to travel in a straight line if uninterrupted, it is not really straight, but rather a series of curves giving that appearance. Most basically, induction deals with the space between two objects. This space, filled with particles, is polarized, having both a positive and negative charge, thus linking two objects with only one of these charges. Charge, then, because it relies on this linking factor, is always a duality, always positive and negative. (Additionally, and consequently, the states of being positive and negative are not independent either, but cannot exist without their opposite.) This central collection of particles necessary for charge (and induction) F. calls a dielectric medium. This could be anything that is not a conductor (and is thus an inductor), and the less conductive it is, the more of a dielectric it is (air, glass, etc., but not copper, gold, etc.). Faraday refers to conductors, such as metals, as the antitheses of electrical materials, because they do not hold a charge, the charge is, rather, in between, in whatever medium there happens to be. This raised a serious question for Mr. Burke (and for me): what happens if there is nothing in between? I am still unsure of how to respond to this question, even after THE GADFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Burke discussed it at length in the question period. During the lecture, he said that F. used the analogy of sea waves to describe atoms-and I took this (perhaps wrongly) to mean that he perceived no separation between particles. This would also address the related question of how fue,charge travels at all, if there is empty space between the particles. Mr. Burke's later discussion leads me to believe this is not the correct interpretation of Faraday's idea. Mr. Burke said rather paradoxically, "Faraday's contiguous particles have to be next to one another without touching. They are like many compasses with a positive and negative end." I am at a loss as to how something can be contiguous and not touching (actually, I am not at a loss at all-this claim is grammatically impossible). The "easy answer" seems to lie in Faraday's lines of influence. The lines connect to everything. Matter, for F., is composed of mathematical centers, regions of power. So, in a sense, there is no true vacuum, because there will always be these lines of force which apparently are inherent in the universe. Mr. Casey suggested the analogy of a lens for the charged centers of power spoken of earlier: they collect these lines around themselves when charged, thus influencing other conductive centers. I am not going to summarize the entire lecture. Let the above suffice, along with the assurance of several juniors I have spoken to who say that we should all grasp this in that year. As I mentioned at the beginning, there are several obvious criticisms. I enjoyed the content of the lecture immensely, and am looking forward to junior lab even more than I was before because of it. It was abominably fast, however. Scribbling away in my notebook, I am always able to keep up quite well, but not here-the content was too unfamiliar, and many of the numerous subjects addressed received only passing attention. The purpose of the demonstration (a rather disappointing "spark" created by a battery and light bulb) was comprehensible, but only just, and so I felt at times the lecture was more of an ad;-ertisement for Faraday than anything dse. If one was able to keep up, it was quite an illuminating lecture, more so than most, and I\fr. Burke's explanations of phenomena would certainly be helpful in a junior lab. .I ,I �Bioethics continued from front page ions th~an they will \V-ith those they do not. There's replace Ms. Blackbum and lvfr.1fay (as well as not.hhJ.gwrongwith this,itwould be tiresome have a third member who quit for personal rea- every exchange consist of an argument (even for sons back in 2002). Unlike the orig-in.al three those of us who like to argue). At the same time, ColU1cil members who to varying degrees sup- there is a danger in being surrounded too often by ported therapeutic cloning research, the replace- like-minded individuals. Such a situation creates a ments have made strong public statements sort of intellectual echo chamber, something liable condemning therapeutic cloning, as well as to foster group-think. The mandate of the Council on Bioethics is such that it ought to avoid being abortion. Il.is troubles me, for it seems to run con- ideological homogenized in order to help insure intellectual trary to the ngor. Dr. Council's mission Kass' recent to "provide a foappointrum for a national ments, intendiscussion of biotionally or not, ethical issues and to result in a narfacilitate a greater rowing in the understanding of diversity of bioethical issues." views on the And though this President's sort of ideological Council on exclusivity is SOP Bioethics; in for the Bush addoing so, I ministration-take Dr. Leon Kass before the Council. think that he for instance the does a disserplanners of his Social Security policy, his energy policy or his Iraq vice to himself, the other members on the panel, policy-it is particularly disappointing to see the President, and the nation. As I said above, there are many points with it being done by someone who comes from a place where real discussion is valued. Not which I (and many people) agree with Dr. Kass and knowing Dr. Kass, I'll give him the ben- t.l-ie majority of the Council. However, even when efit of the doubt and blame the action on we agree, I'm concerned that the opinions are being the company he has recently been keep- promoted L'l ways that are at odds with both an academic spirit and a democratic one. Restraining rng. I know of several bioethical issues in dissent is a bad habit. If one is i.'1 the majority on a_11 which I agree 'W'ith the conclusions of Dr. issue, one ought to be indulgent. If one's views are Kass and other members of his Council not widely accepted, one ought to advocate t..liem (though often not for the same reasons), strenuously, but not resort to secretive methods and in general, I share with them a skep- that unfairly tilt a debate in one's favor; for even if tical attitude toward technological ad- one is right on a pa."iicular occasion, one is sure to be vances. I'm concerned, though, that what wTong, in whole or in part, on future ones. Some ought to be a healthy sort of conserva- recent exa..'llples ofthe negative consequences ofinsutism could devolve into dogmatism. Even lar and misleading policy-making include the handling if one starts with good principles, we are pre-war intelligence on Iraq (as well as the post-war all liable to take a wrong turn in thinking planning) and the Medicare drug pla.11. In both cases them out or in taking them too far. A the Bush Administration derided or hid dissenting good way to check oneself is to engage in opinions, thereby presenting the public with a false discussion with reasonable people with consensus. It would be a shame if the Council on whom one differs. These discussions are Bioethics acts in such a fashion--evenif unintentionuseful because they force us to consider all;" or reconsider things that we may not have On the afternoon of Friday, April 30'\ the PogiYen sufficient thought to before. Such litical Forum ~will be hosting a visit by Eric Cohen, the editor of a bioet.lllcs journal, Tf1e Ne.v Atfantis. discl:$sions need not often rest:lt in the participants changing their minds- The format of his visit has yet to be determined, rhough, if one never changes one's mind but will entail some sort of discussion of bioethafter such talks, one ought to be worried. ics. Details of the event be posted shortly. All It is L.--ievitable that people \Vill more fre- members ofthe College commuriity are welcome quently speak to othe:::s ,-d10 share their opi.'1- to attend and participate. '"-ill A Follow Up To Last Week's "The Voice of Reason Returns" by Nick Colten Staff Writer Last week I wrote: The second semester ofjimior Seminar is noteworthy for at least two reasons: the nine seminars devoted to the Critique of Pure Reason, and the large amount chronological disorder. If I wasfaelingparticularly bold and ambitious I might take on the former; however, due to the publicspiritedness of the senior class-as well as Air. Dan Marshal and Mr. Chris J.Auscaref!a, I have not slept enough recently to argue about Kant. Since then, I've managed to mostly catch up on my sleep (what a difference going to bed before 3:00 am makes!). Now, in my relatively restful state, I feel better able to take on the Critical Colossus of Konigsberg. If only out of laziness-though I'd like to think it discretion-I'm not going to suggest any changes with our handling of the Critique of Pure Reason, and will focus ir1stead on the Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals. It is perhaps only a failing of my Seminar (though one confirmed by conversations I've had with my fellow Juniors in other Seminars), but the second night devoted to the Grounding seems of slight value. Reading the Third Section of that work seems unnecessary to anyone who has read the parts of the Critique that we read. It appear5 to be a belabored restatement of the argument that Freedom is not necessarily at odds with immutable Laws of Nature-something that Kant spelled out clearly in the Critique. Furthermore, the excerpts of the Metapl?Jsics of lviorals that we read are also difficult to justify. They were either too brief to be comprehensible, such as the sections on ethical duties, or they "\vere no!! sequiturs, such as the sections on friendship-though I think that Kant's description of "moral friendships"-.is so touching rhar it is almost worth reading just for the sake of revealing Kant's humanity. Follow-up continued on page 9 . . . . . . . . . . TI-IE G_1,.DFL~" . 7 �Christopher Utter and the Chamber of Music by Chris Utter Sports Editor The St. John's College Chamber Music Society held a concert Sunday evening in the Great Hall, one of several held this year. I was glad to see a respectable number of students there, probably due to the warm weather and impromptu barbeque held by Parkhurst. The concert began with Mr. Stoltzfus performing Bach's Suite in C mqjorfar Cello. He has impressive skill and, of course, an incredible ear. The most enjoyable part, though, was his passion and concentration, which is really what makes a piece. As Zuckerkandl points out, rhythm is more than just playing the notes at the right times; if this is all a musician does, the work sounds dull and lifeless. There were a few imperfections in his bow work, but very rarely and not noticeably when one considers the performance as a whole. Following this the group performed Seele, deine Spezerein from Bach's Easter Oratorio. Mrs. Stephenson was a bit overbearing as the soprano vocalist; the others (1-1r. Zuckerman, :Mr. Burke, and Mr. Stoltzfus) seemed to strain to keep up with her, and Mr. Stoltzfus, although only adding the bass accompaniment, was completely inaudible. Itwouldhave been a better performance ifin a larger hall where the audience could more fully appreciate I'v1rs. Stephenson's musical ability. Mr. Stoltzfus and :Mr. Burke collaborated on Bach's Sonata in E minor, which was very well done indeed. I suppose if I had to think of something critical to say it would be that the balance was slightly off-Mr. Burke was a bit loud and I'vfr. Stoltzfus a bit soft-but even that was repaired after the i\ndante. Mr. Burke played with the same intensity I initially attributed to l\fr. Stoltzfus. By the end he was so much a part of what he was playing that he literally danced the final few measures. Incidentally, they made a fairly comical pair-each fit his instrument perfectly, when considering body type, and tlle fact that l\fr. Stoltzfus had to sit to play his cello just serYed to accentuate the.fact. FC>llowing the intennission, l\fr. Zuckerman played The Prophet Bird by Schumann and two Chopin compositions. l\lr. Zuckerman is clearly so adept at playing, and so comfortable, that he can add the subtlest influences to nrious parts . .8 . : . THE G_\DFLY . . . . . . . More on "More Ideas" by Justin "I'm with Trotsky" Lanier without the slightest concern or anxious The mightiest of gladiators need no assisthought--atleasttharsthewayrtseenled.Imean tance in any arena, no matter how deadly or pubby this a phenomenon I've often noticed in Glen lic. Ivfr. Joseph ''Joe" Method, Gladiator of Gould's recordings. When listening to two dif- Truth, needs not me to come to his aid. But if ferent recordings of the same piece, he clearly any should dare to parry his ideas this week, or if punctuates certain musical phrases to elicit a par- any snickered away in cowardice at his plan to sell ticular effect each time he plays. I suppose it could the College, let these feeble yet willing words keep be likened to a person reading a piece of poetry present to the polity's mind his brilliant scheme. with which he is so familiar that he has no need · Let my mirror attest to his light. to think of the words, but rather what is behind Mr. Method's proposal is both desirable and them, allowing them to convey more meaning sound. That it is desirable is evident. We all know than is superficially present. I'm not sure Mr. how super St. John's is, know that it cannot be Zuckerman would agree with the comparison, contained by Annapolis streets and College Creek, but it seems appropriate to me. know that waiting for the world to come knockFour of I'vfr. Zuckerman's own compositions ing to this doorstep would be a grave sin of followed, each being a poem (two Housman, omission. Our banner must wave over all of one Blake, and one Dickinson) set to music. They . American higher education. A report distributed are called "songs" on the program, but this did among the faculty in November 1960 included not seem to fit exactly. The music struck me as the following points: being for the sake of clarifying the meaning (or I. In principle it is desirable that the St. John's perhaps an interpretation of the meaning) of . curriculum be made available to as many stueach poem. They all served this purpose to a tee, dents as possible. most obviously in the contrast between the first IL At the present time external expansion is (Loveliest ofTrees) and the second (The Sick Rose). not advisable, nor even possible. I suppose my only objection to calling them III. However, in view of the growing numsongs, besides what I just said, is that they didn't bers of applicants for adnllssion, the College canseem particularly melodic either. But by this I do not postpone initiating preparations for future not mean to imply that the music could not expansion. stand on its own, each just seemed to be more Do not these sound familiar? Within five dependant than other "songs" I can think of : years-jiveyear.l'-the impossible expansion was that are composed of poems set to music. a reality. Financial limitations? Pooh. Selling the Unfortunately, I was not impressed with the : i\nnapolis campus would not only bring in rithree selections that followed. It was not in any diculous sums of money--more than enough way a matter of the performers, I suppose my to built two new campuses--it would inspire a taste is simply too limited to encompass them. generation of philanthropists. A College willMs. Cox and Mr. Pearson joined Mr. Stoltzfus ing, ready, and able to set itself aflame only to in Menotti's Arioso: Lento--rubato from Suite far · rebirth itself as a glorious and tripronged phoetwo cellos and piano. It is an interesting work in nix? What prospective donor could resist assistmany ways, particularly the two cellos playing ing such a noble venture? We will take in more completely different parallel parts that comple- money from the awedi\nlerican public and primented each other quite will, atleast in context. vate sectors than from the actual sell. Bernstein's Dream with Me from Peter Pan and Nownay-sayerswillnay-saythathavingthree three songs by Samuel Barber followed, all sung campuses would put a strain on the identity and by 1-frs. Stephenson. They are not perhaps what functionality of St. John's as a single institutionI would have chosen to close the concert, but that maintaining the relationship between Aneven including these, it was wonderfully enjoy- napolis and Santa Fe is already a headache and a able, mostly due to the prodigious ability of the half. I would say that anyone '>Villing ro let secperformers. Additionally, when members of the tarianism and institutional inertia stand in the Polity are the performers, an additional level of · way of movement toward excellent liberal edupleasure can be derived. I am glad the Polity has ·cation for all is no lover of this College. Clones the opportunity to attend these performances, More on continued on page 11 and l will look foiward to them next year. ,, I �Searching for a Santa Fe President by Amy Taylor DC President St. John's Santa Fe is looking for a president, and has narrowed it down to three. Members of the SCI and Delegate Council were asked to attend lunch meetings with these candidates over the past few weeks to ask them questions and develop an impression of their fitness as president. Now, a college president's primary activity is to raise funds. Whoever we bring into the community must be able to bring money in with him. But in evaluating his fund-raising ability, we must also keep in mind his view of St. John's. How will he go about raising funds? What would he be willing to do to get money for the Collegeraise tuition? Let in even more students? And with regard to funds that are raised, how ought we to direct them? Finally, will he interact with the students, and would that be a good thing? Mr. Mark Ingham is the author of an official report on our collective impressions, but here are a few of mine. Ms. Graeme Baxter Ms . Baxter was warm and interested in entertaining what students had to say, and conversation with her was easy- at times, almost unbearably light. I wondered if she knew what she was getting into. One of my greatest fears is that St. John's will be pressed into actions that will undermine it's integrity. For example, increasing student population to a point where conversation is impossible, or enforcing speech codes and pushing for more diversity in the curriculum. Ms. Baxter seemed not to understand such concerns, and even thought these may not be such bad ideas . She was incredulous rather than reverent when we explained some of the peculiarities of St. John's. I wonder if she'll ever understand. .Ms. Baxter made severe changes during her seven years as president of Mt. Vernon College, a tiny women's college that was once in financial distress, including it's subsumption under George \'</ashington University and an admitted tossing aside of history. She certainly is innovative, but petty sentimentalist that I am, I have a deep interest in keeping the College away from total transformations. Ms. Baxter is personable, and perhaps we could exploit that for profit, but I think her view of St. John's may keep her from (figuratively) selling the College, and I wonder if her fundraising methods would be the best sort four St. John's. In short, I worry that Ms. Baxter disdains tradition, and would not fit well in an institution in which tradition plays such an important role. Mr. Thomas Lindsay Mr. Lindsay is the dean's cousin, holds a degree from U Chicago, and heard about the College from Mr. Leon Kass. He's in the loop. He reads great books and wants to keep the population capped at 450. He's probably a Straussian, whatever that means, but I kind of liked how he quoted Aristotle so frequently during conversation. He's concerned about raising quality in Santa Fe, and I believe he knows what that entails (it does not involve diversifying). Mr. Lindsay has some business experience, but is clearly an academic, and would be as involved as possible in the academic aspect of St. John's while he was performing administrative duties. I wonder about his fundraising abilities, and whether he could find sources we haven't already tapped dry. He does have fundraising experience from his time at University of Dallas, and can certainly talk up the College ifhe finds the right people with whom to talk. His interest in the College did seem a bit abstract, but I think he'd manage nicely as long as our problems don't take any dramatic turns for the worse. Mr. Donald Bandier I'm not sure what to say about :tvfr . Bandier. He's burly, like our own President Nelson. He went to the graduate institute in Santa Fe, and he's married to a Johnnie. He knows a lot of big names in politics and history (Henry Kissinger!), though he would like to stress that he is politically moderate. Okay. He's into international relations and his answers often trailed off into stories about experiences abroad. If Mr. Bandler is in Santa Fe, students may be treated to weekly meetings at his home to discuss the state of world politics. Something about him, however, catches me off guard. I felt like he was hiding something, or might be in the mafia. It may have been his frequent experience with seminars for important executives and politicians, or perhaps his speculations about making St. John's programs the norm in all institutions, but I was afraid that he looked out from St. John's, both as a former student and as a potential president, far more than he turned to look back at it. Something about him was obnoxiously global It seemed like he had big plans for us, when all I hope for is preservation. I think he would do very well as a fundraiser, and would likely draw from resources before unknown to the College. I wonder what kind of influence he would exert on the College community- something about him makes me want to protect students from him, and let them get lost within the walls of the College and find themselves before they place themselves in the whole, huge world. Follow-up continued from page 7 A better, though not ideal, situation would be to read all sections of the first two sections of the Grounding in one night. In the Hackett edition, this works out to be 41 pages (45 pages if the On a Supposed Right to Lie is included) for one night. Another possibility is to read the Preface, Section One, and the letter on lying on one night, and Section Two (and perhaps the selections of the Metaplrysics ofMorals) on a second night. I favor the former option, if only because I think that ten Kant seminars are plenty. Furthermore, I suspect that some of my fellow juniors- those motivated more by a sense of their own happiness than by a sense of duty- may not read all of the last several Kant readings. EYen I_,.,vho am inclined to sacrifice my happiness in order to do what I ought- almost needed to believe that there is a HeaYen (one for those who read all their Kant), just to make it through the Critique. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE G_-\DFLY . 9 �Charting the Future Extrapolations Based on Current Demographic Trends and Prevalent Sociomorphological Tropes TVithin Preexistent Group Habitation Phenomena by Ian McCracken & Joseph Method The introduction of new physical structures into a cohabitant academic community has been shown to impact sociological trends significantly (Weber, "On the Introduction of Physical Structures Into Cohabitant Academic Communities," O:eford Review of Sociology, May 1987). In an exhaustive study conducted at Brigham Young University, Weber demonstrated thatthe erection of a single new group habitation structure, or "dorm", radically impacted existent social organization in the following areas: 1. Student movement and collision patterns, or "meetup paths"; 2. Nicotine ingestion clustering phenomena, or "smoking circles"; 3. Chronic learning group location interception latency, or "tardiness"; 4. Dual usage conversion of group habitation structure for entertainment purposes, or "dorm parties"; 5. Student recreational commercial entrepreneurial distribution vectors. Variation within these areas was found to be dependent upon the following environmental factors: 1. Distance from main student interaction locus, typically in the form of a non-enclosed "quadrangle"; 2. Developed selection criteria governing student cohort placement within the newly erected structure, e.g. "upperclassmen only" policies; 3. Proximity to one or more known physical environmental determinant lifestyle nodes*; 4. Lack of student cohort normative criteria implementation, or "seclusion." The Weber study concluded that lack of proper administrative and architectural attention to these variables w ere primarily responsible for the tragic events at Saint Rita Hall on 3 April 1976. The combination of poor placement, negligent inhabitant selection criteria, and truly unfortunate resident assistant personality types conspired to engender a culture of "dissolute nihilism, mawkish sentimen tality, and Bacchic obscurantism" (ibid) at the University's newly constructed "Hall for quiet learners" (BYU promotional pamphlet, Sept. 1975). Weber is careful to indicate that while the blizzard was the catalyst for the tragedy, the sociomorphological factors inl1eremin the structure of Saint Rita Hall were necessary and in fact causally related ro the events that ultimately unfolded. The present article attempts to extend the findings of Weber's study in order to anticipate 10 and preemptively correct what he calls "inevitable sociostructural corruption" (ibid) here at St. John's College, Annapolis. Gilliam Hall, which will become fully functional in September of this year, presents the worst possible configuration ofsociomorphological variables: itis spatially distant from the "quad'' area, the nexus of campus life. It will house mostly upperclassmen, many ofwhom specially request residence in the new dorm for potentially hermitic/ deviant/ commercial/ sinister reasons. It lies in the center ofa group ofpsychologically defo=tive, aesthetically depressive, or "creepy;' lifestyle nodes (the projects, the power plant, the creek, the woods) that have been shown to adversely affect campus-specific behavior and the integrity of preexistent sociological organizational matrices. Most importantly, there is significant impairment ofnecessary audibility, visibility, and proximity to administrative, social, andeducationalinfluence. Theintendedgrouphabitation structure is, in short, a veritable recipe for a catastrophic compromise ofthe sociostructural integrity of the College. This paper argues that the projected habitation of Gilliam Hall will, ifleft unchecked, result in one of five scenarios detrimental to the Hall's residents and the campus in its entirety. Scenario 1: Santa Fe on the Creek As outlined above, Gilliam Hall will likely promote a greater frequency of"tardiness" events, resulting in a laxity of proper academic diligence, which will consequently nurture an environment of total moral and intellectual relativism (the socalled "Santa Fe Effect"). fo.. 'Pect a greater prevalence of phrases such as, ''Well, that's your opinion," as well as a possible resuscitation of the phrase, "Stop harshing my mellow." In general, behavioral ambivalence, or " flakiness," will abound. The Hall's distance from the scrutiny of campus security officers will contribute to greater acceptance of medically deviant, "holistic" practices. We envision a pharmacological bazaar, catering to tl1e self-medicating, with produce gatl1ered from tl1e newly energized Garden Society's Gillianl Hall greenhouse. Scenario 2: "Down at the Docl<s" 1l1e primary socioimeractiYe zone planned for tl1e H all is positioned so as to be less than optimally visible from most possible observation points on campus, making it an ideal lo cus for illicit commercial practices and transgressive . THE G~'l.DFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . social activity. We expect activity in the vicinity of the creek to exhibit a mercenarial flavor. Inllabitants of this sociomorphologically unfortunate structure will naturally gravitate towards self-administered crin1inal professions, e.g. "bookies," loan "sharks," "pirates," sex workers ("prostitutes''), and "hit'' men. Close-mouthed, scarred individuals sporting woolen watch caps, hands threateningly thrust into the pockets of dingy overcoats, will proffer dubious wares from the shadows. Outsiders who venture down into the fog that rolls in from the creek will not be welcomed, and are advised in advance to keep their hands on their wallets. A chance visitor, his vision limited to five feet in front of his face, may catch a glimpse of movement- the glint of a blade- a sudden, short shriek- the clip clop, clip clop of an uneven but hurried gait receding into the night. Scenario 3: Ideological Ghetto Holders of minority opinions, or "seminar pariahs," are frequently ostracized for their ardently insistent interpretation of phenomena in terms of a rigid intellectual "framework"; as such, they will naturally choose the ideological isolation Gillianl Hall will afford Unfortunately, while they will succeed in gaining purity from the "unwashed masses" that populate the lion share of the campus, their imagined hermitude will be disrupted by the presence of their fellow ideologues, alike in vitriol and zealotry, but utterly disparate in ideology. The result will be a seething mass of frustrated one-sided disputants, a philosophical asylum teen1iog with narrow, bitter hostility. The "inmates" of this asylum will span the spectrum ofconceptually frozen schools of thought: a large contingent of Radical Neoplatonists regularly squaring off against a substantial coalition ofBartheists, Derridans, and Reform Dadaists; a bickering duo of Objectivists; a gang of hard-eyed I"vlarxists; a lonely, ohso-lonely Camusian Existentialist; a whiny Schopenhauerian; tl1e Mormons; some people who call themselves "Green" ~'l.ristotelians; and a romantically involved pair of H usserlite resident ass1sranrs: R.1 ultimately, will fru~mate this ge, motley colleeiion of fai1atics. Scenario 4: Lord of the Flies Lack of student cohort no 1mative criteria implementation < ine•-itably result in an a ta\-ill Yi s ri c return to precohort, presoci a l, �wi~ precivilizational, prehistorical normative values, or the "law of the jungle." The inhabitants of this group habitation structure may have previously exhibited a nonconfrontational or "contemplative" affect, and sought the quietude Gilliam Hall would provide; however, their nontraditional isolationist "home-schooling" backgrounds would not have prepared them for the sociologically factual "self-discovery stage" that necessarily accompanies such seclusion. There, they will confront the base urges that blossom in their souls like so many flowers of evil. They will discover the rape; the poison; the dagger; the flame. They will paint their banal canvases at first with the pigments of berries, but later with the vital fluids of small creatures found in the nearby woods, which they will hunt down and slaughter ritualistically. This whole sordid affair will come to an end when they crush a portly, bespectacled playmate beneath a boulder cunningly rolled down the back campus slope. We hearJustin Lanier is applying. Scenario 5: Waco Due to its unique sociomorphological facto rs, Gilliam Hall will naturally attract monotypologically aggregative personalities, or "loners." They present a socially distant affect, implying "shyness," but exhibit troubling behavioral tendencies, which may manifest themselves in the viewing of graphically violent animated foreign moving pictures, or "anime," or in the simulation of combat in a mythical setting using semirealistic game structures, or "melee"; these activities suggest hidden reservoirs of roiling agression. Properly organized, these individuals present a very real threat to the academic community as such; due to their propensity for escapism and desire for worldly glory, they have trained extensively in a variety of disciplines (e.g. tracking, falconry, bardic lore) and have thereby honed their skills in the following areas: charisma, dexterity, wisdom, intelligence, constitution, and strength. In addition, they have specialized into distinct professions, enabling them to organize into independent cells, or "parties"; such a group might contain a paladin, a cleric, a ranger, a thief, and a warrior, as well as many composite professions, such as ''half-elfwarrior/bard" Given adequate leadership (i.e. a sophomore given to "deep readings" of Machiavelli), they would be able to mobilize into a strength with which all of St. John's security force could not contend. Couple . '.po'•bility wiili <he pLmned proximity of tlll More on continued from page 8 dynamically changing world. The College must increasingly appeal to the techno-savvy youth of this nation. Our new fully-functional, state-ofthe-artwebsite is the perfect platform from which to launch a venture even more bold than the creation of new campuses. St. John's can become an online college. Why expand the College physically with all of the expenses of infrastructure when constructing a campus can be as easy as having students from around the world plug into our brand-new classroom intranet? Tutor542: 'Tis this: that liquids, earth, and wood, though mixed, /Are yet unable to gender vital sense." 2357Mover: no its kryptonite stupid may not be a feasibility, an army of St. John's label schools arranged in rank and file may not be an option. But who will plant the seeds if we do not, however far from here we scatter them? Who has the know-how and love but us? Yes, the College must provide for its own survival, and must not overextend its resources. But we have an obligation, as those before us recognized, to reshape the landscape of American higher education with every reasonable innovation we can dream up. Who cares if we are not one, if we do good? Those who may scoff at Mr. Method's proposed relocation sites may want to peruse the following list of sites considered in the sixties before Santa Fe was decided upon: Gadsden, Alabama El Dorado, Arkansas Duluth and Winona, Minnesota Cave Junction, Oregon Burlington, Vermont and over thirty others. I read once that former president of the College Richard Weigle envisioned six St. John's campuses located around the country, each with a slightly different curricular emphasis. \\!ho wouldn't want to go to a St. John's where one could study a little more Plato, or ~Ia:x-well, or _\yn Rand, or Maimonides? But let's dig a little deeper, y'all, to the very roots of radicality. Why stop here? \Xfe live in a lntellectual89: but how can the soul be material? isnt it like a contradiction in terms? 2357Mover: lucreshus is like totally bunk why cant we still be reading aristotle Alcibiadeschick7: plato says that the soul is tripartite. is tripartite material? like kryptomite? lntellectual89: isn't anyone listening to me Beaverboy: infinite worlds Tutor542: Can we consider what Hegel says on page 37? Tutor542: Sorry. Can we consider what Lucretius says toward the end of Book II: Alcibiadeschick7: brb Beaverboy: is that where he talks about sex 2357Mover: no Tutor542: It might bear upon the question of the materiality of the soul. Beaverboy: no? Alcibiadeschick7: im back lntellectual89: would a material soul die Gilliam Hall to the most vital structure the St. John's complex, the Heating Plant, and one might reasonably expect a non-voluntary power transfer, or "coup;' to begin with a coordinated assault on the Print Shop, Heating Plant, and Hall ofPower. Backed by the creek, they need only protect their forward flank. United by a common inner desire, they might easily rally under the banner of revolution, regardless of purpose, and would i:ather die than relinquish the ground their compatriots have claimed with their blood. Neglect of the relevant sociomorphological factors and their impact on the sociostructural integrity of our school is an unconscionable oversight to be resolutely resisted. We have written this article in the idiom of truth, that is, the language of science, in order to convince you to act now. We suggest that we move the proposed dorm to across the creek. *A demogi:aphic area or natural formation that determines a person in sum;farexample, the tracks (wrong or right side thereof), the docks, the sinister wood, Ohio. Can there be anything more revolutionary than this? Now all can access the Great Books and the scintillating conversation they've always hoped for- from their very own living rooms! We could always require more conventional screen names- Missgrimpston, MrjonesS. And think of all of the cool features we could include in the software package. You could block the messages of people you don't like listening to. You wouldn't have to wait for long-winded people to finish speaking, since they would have to type huge blocks of text before sending their messages. Quoting the text would be a breeze with copy and paste. Plus, we could maximize our tutor's time and energy, since they could lead several classes at the same time. So, :Mr. President and Board of Trustees, prep your wallets for the massive payday thatwill come with selling the College, and behold the future: Cyb John's College. And be sure to give Joe some kick-back. (There are some great books on the his!OIJ' qf the Program in our library. Some of the facts contained i11 this article are fivm one titled The Colonization of a College l:y Richard Weigle. Said books can befound around LD4800.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE G ,-\DFLY 11 l1 · 1 �THE GADFLY St. John's College P.O. Box 2800 Annapolis, MD 21404 I'm supposed to trust Chris, but I confess that I'm starting to find it difficult. And again, I really get the feeling I'm not supposed to be talking about this. Anyway, this training has been going on as long as the Workshop has been under his tutelage. .Although I don't know of Chris's ultimate plans, I suspect that his previous careers as a software engineer and semi-professional athlete (as well as his time in China) have given him an incredible opportunity to plant the seeds of his army all over the world. Now, as far as I know, the public has no need for cause of alarm- yet. Our instructions to this point have been to let our opponents go ifhe or she goes limp or taps out; we have not yet become killing machines. Furthermore, since we're only allowed to fight one person at a time, our capability for destruction is somewhat lessened. So what kind of missions does he assign? Well, since I was never allowed to ask questions about them (even though I've tried), I can't tell you the rationale behind them. I can, however, tell you about the assignment I went on last night. The direction was simple: destroy a piece of corporate art. Making our way to Baltimore, I noticed a number of new members on the team that had just begun training at Workshop on Friday (if it's your first time at Workshop, then you have to go on assignment the following weekend). Stopping in front of the Hard Rock Cafe in the inner harbor, we prepared to blow up the 68- Spartans continued from front page what I'm talking about. To simplify the idea, kettle bells are spherical metal weights with handles attached. They're one of Chris's favorite training accessories, and many of the exercises at Workshop involve lifting, swinging, dropping, or movingwith them. Workouts also draw from yoga, various martial arts formats, tumbling, and basic exercises such as push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups, or rowing on the ergs. Some days are spent working on heavy lifting with low repetitions, and others emphasize a cardiovascular workout For the lighter days, Chris will even organize a game of some sort using a weighted ball Having done my best to explain the basics of Spartan \Vorkshop, I now move on to the aforementioned confessional part of my article. I've been harboring a terrible secret for a while, and although I get the feeling I'm not supposed to talk about it, now is the time for this Gar!f!y reporter to share them with the world. Chris Muscarella is using the Workshop to train a segment of a secret, yet powerful, ninja army. Now, I know it sounds crazy, but hear me out- I'm not allowed to lie. Although I am a huge fan of ninjas (I find them to be cool, and by cool I mean totally sweet), I have to object to being secretly trained as one of them, especially when my memories of near suicidal missions are so fuzzy, I can barely put them together to tell stories at parties, much less this article. I know Truth and Consequences Hi! I'm your $el'lior e$H1yl I took (or •Viii take) mo nth~ of though! a nd ~Ire s~ tQ conceive ~nd wmpos e. A handful of pejjple "'1ill re-!d mec, -and I'l l be housed itl th e libr.:i:y for a ye ar b efore c.t _ a,. f ,//v 1''1" ·,;,, d i spct~;; ' :~~ ; ~t -'';'/t minut1!:~. No h.;;!f t he 1~~5 th-!ln Coll ~g e comrnuriit>,' ·.,,·ill r .;:ad r!I b1!: pres:e ·-·.red iri .the l can i ~l rn OI.t ' · , f No, ntd \.'-..r,;,itl ...] "Lo•Je L11u-s:hkr . MJ.d l.L<in~.;;ge: :\ivoi-l;:h i::•L ", . . C oll t r;;e <lr._ Juves fot :JI p :»t ~ rit ·1 the JV ationats. i - -· ,__ __,IL---.. 41/ /<~Yr,,r/ ..... lHey! Cc•me 12 " tos te the iro ny... '- .,. .- ·---·-.- --·· ..._________________________.\...,..______ ' ze / I am thi > comi( strip . I wa:> \.t,'riu:i;:-n in chr-ee rr1t, .~ rid ,.... __..,, ~-----/ The author wishes to point out that approximatefy ha!f of this article is tmth, and the other ha!f is a blatant rip-off of Fight Club. DATE DUE by Justin Lanier ~ r foot neon guit.ar on the Power Plant smokestack. At this point, everybody removed their shoes and the gentlemen amongst us removed their shirts (two instances of custom that Chris demands). It was at this point that things went wrong. Working furiously until the dawn hours (we go on assignment as long as it takes to get the job done), we were sighted by the police. Although we were more than capable fighters, we discovered that most of us were actually afraid ofheights, and thus were not as fearless in the face of bullets as we usually were. Retrieving as much of our materials as we could, we fled the scene. That's right, we failed. In Chris :Muscarella's army, there are no excuses- not even for failing. Returning home this morning, I realized that perhaps there is something fundamentally wrong about using a college campus to train ninjas. 1bis prompted me to come clean to the polity. Although I suspect that none of you will believe me, I advise you to watch 1fr. Muscarella's movements for the rest of the year, and notice how many projects he seems to be involved in and what he has access to. Although he seems harmless, I maintain that he is a criminal mastermind. t~a ;~) . THE G .\DFLY ' . . ' . ' .. . . . . . ' . . . ' ' ' ' . ' . ' ' . ' . ' . '. Beat Na<iy. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY L 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1~ ~ m1r1 1mr Annapolis, Maryland April 2 7, 2004 1m1111111111111111 31696 01136 2652 Room Drawing: Be Prepared The "Impossible Dream" Produces Certain Success by Cathy Keene Editor-in-Chief by Julie Janicki Arts and Entertainment Editor Since first arriving at StJohn's almost two years ago, I don't think I've witnessed such an ambitious project as Man efLaMancha. I can certainly recognize the formidable \Vill that was behind the endeavor, and I applaud Prose Cassells for directing the performances to a solid success. The productions on Friday and Saturday night were entertaining and lively, allowing for the real spirit of Don Quixote's story to come through. For those who are not familiarwith the play, I'll provide a briefsynopsis ofthe plot The tale begins after the poet Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra has been thrown into prison by the Inquisition. Here, he is placed on "trial" by the other inmates, and in order to protect a mysterious manuscript, must defend his idealism and honesty. To plead his case, Jackson O'Brien stole the show in the roles of he assumes the role of a squire, Alonso Quijana, Cervantes, Don Quixote, and.Alonso Quijana. His who in his madness becomes Don Quixote de la handling of three personas was smooth and natu:Mancha, a knight errant He travels withhis squire, ral, leaving no room to doubt whom he was playSancho, and after losing a battle with a "giant" (a ing or what state ofmind the characterwasin. His windmill) he makes his way to a "castle'' (an inn) to presence was impressive, andhe allowed himselfto seek the boon of knighthood from the resident act simply, without the need to upstage others "Lord'' (an innkeeper). There, he meets Aldonza, aroundhim--thiswas effectiveinkeepingfue scenes the serving girl of the tavern and a woman of ill balanced. Up until Friday night, I'd never had the repute. To Quixote, however, she is "Dulcinea," his pleasure of hearing :Mr. O'Brien sing, but I was Lady and the woman to whom he wishes to pledge delighted that his voice followed his disposition, allofhisheroicacts.Inhisquesttobecomekoighted, wifu the songs being an extension ofhis acting and his idealism produces inspiration and despair by seeming very honest As a result, despite perfonnturns, eventually prompting his family to drastic inga character as intense as Quixote, fuemusicwasn't measures in a move to restore his sanity. I won't overdone or cheesy. Playing Quixote's sidekick, reveal the resolution of the story, but suffice it to say Lindsey Barnes could not have done more to imthat playwright Dale Wasserman provides a reveal- press me. I thoroughly enjoyed her interpretation ing commentary on the boundaries between sanity of Sancho's character-the air of general amuseand madness. ment and exasperation combined with undying In my opinion, the most favorable element of Man rfLaManchawas the acting itself As is proper, Don Quixote continued on back page In This Issue: Jews' Clues, page 3 With Croquet ended and Commencement less than three weeks away, I believe it is safe to say that summer vacation is almost upon us. While this realization may be wonderful news for many burned-out students and tutors alike, including yours truly, all of us must undergo one more significant event before we can finally put away our Seminar readings. No, I'm not talking about the Reality Skit; even before this crucial occasion, we must all survive the room drawing. Now don't get me wrong-this will not actually be a big deal for most students. All rising seniors are essentially guaranteed on-campus housing ifthey are interested. The same is mostly true of rising juniors, too, although a few may be placed on the waiting list if there are a lot of people looking to live on-campus next year. However, the bulk of the problem will most likely fall on the rising sophomores, who usually get hit the hardest during room drawing. While the administration does hope that the new dorm will help to alleviate this problem-which I'm sure it will, at least to some degree--there is still a chance that some students will be forced to move off-campus next year, whether they were originally planning to or not. Knowing this ahead of time, the Gac!f!y staff has decided to publish a list of things that students should know when searching for off-campus housing. Although this information may be old news to many of you, there really are some students who are clueless when it comes to getting an apartment. Ifyou happen to fall into this category, do not fear. Just remember to save this article--younever know when you could benefit from it. Off-Campus continued on page 7 Croquet Recap, page· 6 �Gadfly Mailbox H ~-Gj_\D FI_.. Y Editor-in-Chief Cathy Keene Executive Editor Ian .McCracken Production Manager Shoshana Goldstein Sports Editor Christopher Utter A&E Editor Julie Janicki Inside News .Mary Townsend Outside News Hayden Brockett Contributing to this Issue Nick Colten Nora Kelleher :t..fax Kronberg JA.M. j\fike Malone Jerry Salyer Amy Taylor Founded in 1980, the Gaqf!J' is the student weekly distributed free to over 500 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. Opinions expressed within are the the sole responsibility of the author(s)and do not necessarilly represent the opinions of the Gadf!J staff. The Gadf!J :reserves the right to accept, reject, and edit submissions in any way necessary to publish the most thoughtful, informative, and thought-provoking newspaper which circumstances at St. John's permit. Letters of 200 words or fewer have a better chance of being published than those longer than this limit. Letters submitted will be edited for grammar, punctuation, and spelling in most cases. The Gadf!J is not obligated to publish all submissions and will not print anonymous submissions except under special circumstances. Deadline: Sunday at noon, unless permission for a delay is granted in advance. Submissions will be accepted as long as they are leg-ibly written, but typed copies, diskettes, and e-mail submissions are greatly preferred. Please e-mail submissions to sjcgadfly@yahoo.com. More Personal Thoughts Gentle Readers, My writing-motives are as honest as I can make them-but regardless, judge the following words by themselves mtherthan by their imperfect author. I give my name neither from courage nor as an authority, but because anonymity is unreal---our thoughts carry distinct signatures as unmistakable as daylight. Within each (person)ality is a subjective view which is valid and tremendously important-yet we must not forget that no single huma_11 mind can see ail views at once..An individual may look within him/herself, yet (s)he must keep in mind thatwhether the picture seems beautiful or ugly-it is only one tiny perspective on a greater context; views from the outside carry truths unseen from wit.llln, just as vice versa. None ofus has seen thewholeno single man, not even a saint, cai.-i sum up all the und..""eaIDtperspectives on Heaven and Earth--a..<id the individual heart-ID a single confession. Ou.rwage-slaverf, our mindless diversions, the empty narcissism of modem familial/ roma.<iric/ friend "relationships": The Appalling Issue of our times, right? Well--yes and no. That is only one side of the coin of despair (I laugh: ''Please, no;' groan the lo11g-suffering Gentle Readers, "Now he's found something else to get on a high-horse about. This guy needs a life. Or at least a job.") The other side of the coin is that we weave like drunk drivers, from goingtoofarto\v.l!dtheprecipiceof selfish whimsy, then too far to the other side ofthe road to head-on collision with the SlJV of self-abhorrence. ''.Judge not, lest ye be judged," (often misinterpreted to mean "ignore wrong-doing") ad.'11onishes the impudence ofany creature pointing to any aspect ofcreation and saying "utterly vile and without worth," But some mistakenly insert an addendum: "except, of course, yourself-::Yourovm worth you should place on the scale." Hu.<nilityis essential in reminding the egotistical individual that (s)heis apmtof Creation, rathert.lun the center of it-but humility turned to self-abhorrence becomes yet another self-absorption, another wall between the individual soul and everything outside, You d;; not have the rig/Jt to abhorJIOUrself 111e edict "Hate t.lie sin, love the sinner" is an edict that applies to fZJel)' souf-,vithout e."'\:ception. "Love thy neighbor as thyself;" and forgiving another soul for having wronged us, bot.'i become cruel mockeries if we wJl not e.-tend forgiveness and love to our Guilt when we recognize our wrongs is in fact a right form of self-love-just as a father's a.<Jgtl-sadness toward a shabbily-behaving son is a sign of patemal love. There is a little something real underneath, in every soul: no one, no matter how narcissistic, is without a little love. To primp---or study long hours-with hope ofbeingaclmired, yes, it expresses vanit)~ but even within that vanity there is a tiny flicker oflove: no one primps without at least a ti1!J appreciation for beauty qua beauty, no one can focus a mind on study without at least some ti1!J huv..ger for Truth. Even narcissism recognizes that the "I" is not self-sufficient, that something exists outside itself-thatis why it craves others' approval Trilli craving is in many ways far closer to God a.<-id His Creation than binding one's self in a nutshell and responding to approval with, "No, your opinion is worthless; you know nothi<Jg of me, I see and I know myself in entirety and I pronounce that I am a terrible creature." But we do not see, nor know, in entirety. ~And if "\Ve bind ourselves in nutshells we shall have bad dreams. Self-hatred is a far more seductive poison than other expressions ofhate--0r narcissism; for ultimately self-hatred focuses attention inward with the devouring destructive pull of a black hole. Self-hatred bends honest criticism-which is essential to the practice oflove, self- or ot.lierwise--into a para~~ game of unanswerable questions: "W,fry did I realjy sqy a nice thing w 11!J ftiend-just because I want them wthink I'm a niceperson?..A,m I rea!jy being virluous? Am I really loving 11!Jf ami/y, with puff, disinterested hve?" Good questiom--ifused with the notion ef '7JOw can I d;; better next time?" But masochistic se!f-inquisition-- 'Human beings are fallen, therefare hathsome and worlhless, therefare I must search relentless/yfar new p,;qys and reasons frJ despise ?l!}Sef':___is no hnger real self-criticism, or even real!fiilt. Yes, if we look we can come up with all sorts ef thing~as a man looking with predetermined di.fJ!!-fsf upon a beaten-up old Chel!J! has decided to dwellupon itsjkrtPs, and finds a million ef them,- a!wqys ignoting the one little fact that it still mns, and can reach a destination, ifgiven gasoline. Instead efglaring at the poor thing he should be glad he has a car at all, and tr:y toftx it up-with the help ef agpod mechanic. The true response to thel:-i.appiness which comes from having done the right thing, or from haYing read a good book, or from the company of one's family or friends is not, of course, preening in a selfcentered u1riverse; but nor is it despising the prof- own. 2 . THE GADFLY . , . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . fered happiness via self-flas--llating guilt 'Why did I choose to help the litrJe old lady across d1e street?" Lash, la.ilJ. "\Vas I really being virtuous?" Lash, lash. "\\/by did I really read that book?" Lash, �lash. ''Is my enjoyment of my family/ friends selfishness?'' LJ:ish, lash. Ifthe master plan ever requires any of us to receive the lash, we'll know about it. There is no self-martyrdom; no amount of selftorture will ever cleanse us. The true response to pleasures of life is gratitutft..-surprised gratitude to Providence that gave one the unearned privilege of benefiting another lonely soul (and saved us from screwing it up, regardless of motives), gratitude toward the author for having given one the gift of a fine book, gratitude toward family and friends, for the gift thry give us, existing. And gratitude toward the Creator of all of them- the delight the different pieces of the puzzle give one is not their raison d'etre, and certainly not the final answer to the puzzle, but it is part of it. There is a connection- strange, mysterious, ineffable. It's all a gift. We should not scorn it simply because it is too rich for we paupers to pay for. Humanity has Being, it exists. Insreflicient to Max Kronberg Campus Mail ry stand on its own, like a phnt that withers and dies when uprooted or locked in a dark room out ef the sunlight, certainjy; but humanity exists. Ami we should be glad I suspect if we had true, honest eyes we would look at our neighbors---and ourselves-and see neither saints nor heroes to be idolized, norveo:ninspiders to be flicked into hellfire-but rather childmr: naughty, petty, loud, vain, desperately in need of correction before hop-scotching offa cliff yet children with amazing, delightful, inestimable worth. And love-able. That includes me-despite intellectual pretentiousness and (INSERT SINS WHICH YOU'DRATIIERNOTHEARABOUT,AND I'D RATIIERNOT SHARE, HERE )-and that includes_)l?U. And ifyou say otherwise, well-you'll have to take that up with an authority considerably more formidable than my own. If you want to argue whether the children have worth, talk to their Dad. It is necessary to realize that none of one's actions are ever free from selfish taint- but to then damn those actions as worthless is akin to noticing that a chubby infant has a birth defect, sealing herin a Zip-loc, and then throwing her out with the bathwater. We all have a birth defect. But that defect mutilates, rather than forms, our essence: it is not the ''I" in the gift of I. Rather, it is the smearing, the staining, the smudging of I. We should regret the smears, the stains, the smudges, and strive to correct them while asking for them to be healed, forgiven- but in the meantime let us be grateful that the print is legible at all. And learning that gratitude is not self-indulgence: it is an absolute duty. All the preceding sermonizing advice is easier said than done, I know. Sincerely, Jerry Salyer, GI DearJ.C.: I converted to Catholicism for this boy, because I thought he would like me better, but then this other girl converted too, and I think he likes her more! Now I'm left Catholic-and manless! What do I do? Should I get me to a nunnery, or marry a G.I.? Signed, Laboring Under Such Terrible Yearning DearLU.S.TY: If you had mentioned any other denomination, I would tell you to convert back to being a Gd-fearing Jew, but you've fallen backwards onto a cash cow! Being Catholic has SE7EN worldly benefits, each tied to an allegedly deadly sin: Lust, Gluttony, Pride, St John's College Melee Squad, Envy, Wrath, and Sloth. It's a misconception about Catholicism that these are deadly sins; rather, these are perks that only Catholics are entitled to partake in. Scholars generally agree that these petks are bestowed because Catholics are G-d's chosen peop ... oh, wait That's us. Check out these radical benefits available at a St John's campus nearyoul Unless you're not a Cathok:! ·Lust Ifyou give the super secret mystery handshake to the nurse she will give you a brown paper bag with an assload of condoms inside. ·Gluttony Ifyou enter through the "Catholics Only'' back door, located on the Forbidden Patio of Doom behind Randall Hall, you can enter the dining hall and eat as much ofthe food as you want for free! Also: check out their super-dean, neverused bathrooms! · Pride As a Catholic, you are automagically assured a spot on one of the three Catholic-only sports teams: Green Waves, Spartans, and Guardians. You should not, however, according to Matthew 24:17, play on the Pagan Druids team or the HomoseA'Ual Hustlers team. · St. John's College Melee Squad We regret to inform you that playing Melee is a Super Deadly Mystery Sin, and you should not ever indulge in this heretical practice. If you have, however, indulged, you may purchase brand new, limited edition Jews' Clues Indulgences! Simply send a Czech or money order for $19.95 to: No C.O.D.s. If you're under 18, please get the hell out of college. · Envy For those of you Catholics that weren't too inebriated at Croquet, you may have noticed that Aaron Brager has a haircut that makes him look like a specific Greek God (the gay one). All Catholics may be envious, free of charge! ·Wrath µi::vtv attOE 8Ea IlcAflCXOW A KtA.cocr!!! "I been sayin' that sh*t for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your ass. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a coldblooded thing to say to a motherf*cker before you popped a cap in his ass." · Sloth J.A.M.: We could say we're "too tired" to write this one. Max: That's .. . cheap. J.A.M.: I know. Given all these benefits, I don't know what the heck is wrong with you that you think that your only options are nunnery or G.I. In conclu -J.C. Dear Jews' Clues: I belong to a campus faith-based social organization. Lots of members have told me that pre-marital sex is okay, since it's not mentioned specifically in the Bible. Is this true? What does the Torah say? I need an answer soon. I Don't Idiot Old Testament [The author did not submit an acro1!Jm so we provided one on par with their level ofintelligence - ]. Cidify] Dear l.D.1.0.T.: THETORAHISTHEBIBIB! DIDYOU EVER NOTICE THAT SECTION CALLED THE "OLD TESTAMENT"? YEAH, THAT'S THE TORAH. (Nice.) -J.C. P.S. Please write back and tell us why you need an answer soon. What we will assume, until you write in, is that you are waiting precoitus for this week's Gaef!y to emerge. ].C's Shalom's Shalom to Sam Spalding and Justin Berrier for being the sleaziest, most irresponsible winners of the.Annapolis Cup ... ever Shalom to Ryan Varnum, for mostly never running out of all dairy products in the dining hall last Sunday night. Shalom to the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad: Cathy "CMS" Keene, Enjoli "Copperhead" Cooke, l\fary "The Bride AKA Black J'v famba" Townsend, Webster "Cottonmouth" Ye, and Budd "Sidewinder" Billups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE GADFLY 3 �The Voice of Reason Self-Indulges by Nick Colten Staff Writer the Skit ought to play in our lives as St. John's students or what comedy is in genI strongly endorse Mr. Lanier's sugges- eral. I am glad, however, that Chuck AnderAs I've said before, my manner of writ- tion of Duluth, Minnesota as a possible son saw fit to write on such topics, as I agree ing tends to be of the responsive kind-or site for the two new St. John's campuses. with him that the latter is an important subthe parasitic. Fortunately for me, last week's I've visited the town several times and find ject that is neglected in our discussions. I do, issue of the Gadf!J offered plentiful mate- it quaint-much like Annapolis. In addi- however, disagree with a number of Mr. rial to respond to, so much so that I've de- tion, it is the only town mentioned that Anderson's premises and conclusions, some cided for the sake of my readers to break up would allow St. John's to maintain its nau- of which spring out of a misunderstanding this week's column into sections so that you tical tradition-though admittedly the sail- of what I was trying to say. can read the parts you are interested in and ing club and crew team would find their seaThe main point of my letter was that I ignore the rest. son shortened to roughly two months, due found it interesting that amidst the willful impropriety of the Skit there was an undertone of old-fashAs someone who contribioned sexual double-standards. Amused by the irony and conutes to the Gadf!J mainly to see cerned that attached to these my name in print, I want to thank you two for helping to unexamined assumptions was a dearth of respect for women, set a new record of 15 appearI wrote in. The reason that I'm ances of"Mr. Nick Colten" (or some variation) in last week's sensitive-perhaps to the point of paternalism (as a classmate issue. Ever interested in generating heated letters for the of mine has suggested to me)-is that I believe that deGadf!J, I've mistakenly tried to meaning views of women are do so writing on politics-forstill quite common, while Mr. getting that Johnnies are largely ignorant and indifferAnderson is of the opinion ent to politics (outside of that they have been overturned Seminar). I should have realand we are now in a position in ized sooner that if I want to which women are too highly esteemed. Here are some illustramake people pay attention to tions of his position: me and provoke impassioned ''For the past century or so, responses, the way to do so is to write about sex-just like women have been trying to gain equality in this country. Social conMs. Hugens and Ms. Skoog. Mr. Colten, having been habituated by Aristotle, shamefully objectifies himse~ in public. Inset: Aristotle sciousness has been geared towards viewing women not as a means for to Lake Superior freezing over. Of course an end, but as an equal in all aspects to the men of this could be ameliorated by switching from this country. Of course, I am a big fan of this a fall-spring school year to a spring-fall one. movement that unfortunate!J has persevered even My first reaction to your piece was to won- This might, however, further imperil the todcry, but, as Mr. Colten} letter has pointed out, der whether you have questioned why it is existence of the Febbie class; for in addition there have been side-effects and perhaps even that you find your selfishness objectionable. to the academic, social, and psychological unreflected double-standards as a result of this Not knowing your identity, what you've problems associated with being a Febbie, movement." read, or the particular selfish acts, I don't the poor Febbies would be at constant risk Why is it unfortunate that something one feel that I can give any specific advice. In gen- of succumbing to frostbite or hypothermia supports continues to exist? 'We, the general public, have been trying to eral, though, it seems that you are perhaps during the sub-zero temperatures of not very comfortable being yourself and feel "Febbie Winter." lift women up towards equality, so that they are conscious!J given more respect in our lives and we that in order to be good, you must be indifare constant!J reminded (through books, media, ferent to yourself. I don't see why this must necessarily be the case. our friends, fami!J, etc.) that they are to be viewed as a human being with inherent worth, and not If you'd like to talk more about this, drop me a note in campus mail and we just sex oijects. It is in trying to lift them up as can have coffee.. Regardless, best ofluck In my letter on the Senior Skit, I had no equals, however, we have over-compensated, and put to you. great intention of writing on what the role them in a position where they are to be viewed as More on "More Ideas" Jews' Clues Some Personal Thoughts by Anonymous Why Objectifying V\iOmen Is Funny 4 THE GADFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . �pristine and bryond reproach. We have consrmmy sure that everyone knows that 2vomen are to be treated equal!J, and, as I stated earlier, it is constant!J in the public consciousness that women are not oi:Jects. " It seems higl-Jy dubious 1hat contemporary i\merica.-i cul1Ure has been consistently providing a message that women ought to be esteemed mainly for t.heir exemplary moral worth--one need only look at most print and TV advertising to realize that such is not the case. 'TherefOre, it is funnier to view women as sexual oijects because we believe, as a result ef our placing a greater amount ef respect on them, that in some sense thry are even higher above their lower and bestial nature than men and that it is undemocratic to vieP.J women as objects. It seems that our effensive joke has revealed that our expectations are higher far women and thus create more latitude far downward mobili'!; (from wortf:y as highfy respected rational beings to replaceable objects far men} amusement) when we objectijj them and thus a greater magnitude ef laughter should come as a result. (Although, I was surprised more people didn l' laugh at thatjoke, but I think it might be due to the fact most people were not sure if thry should be effended or if thry should laugh at the joke. Of course, I could be comp!etejy wrong, and the joke just was not that funn;). " Though I think that it is possible for humor to arise from sensitivity arising from heightened expectations, it is also quite possible for jokes to be made that comes from continuing negative prejudices one holds; such is t.1.e case wit,11 all mean-spirited et..11.nic humor, and such can also be the case with jokes about women. I think 1hat 1he Skit's jokes involvin.g racism or antiSemitism were of the former type, and I didn't mention them because it seemed prett</ clear that 1heir offensiveness/lack of laughter resulted more from their not being well-crafted/ fonny tl1an the nature of the humor itself. Perhaps, as j\fr. .\nderson suggests, such was also the case \vi.th the scene in which someone was literally objectified; at this point, I'm unconvinced. I tend to think t.1-iat our view of sex here in die U.S. is a pretty crazy a...-id confused mix of conflictii-ig ideas, and that no single set of mores predominates-as I think comes across in Mr. "\nderson's letter. I tis probably true 1hatinmany colleges and universities some sort of political correcmess holds sway, but such is not the case in the conntry as a whole nor here at St. John'sthough I've been told that I was mentioned in a senior language tutorial as an example of political correctness here at the College, much to my surprise and amusement. Ifj\fr. .\nderson and the others who wrote the Skit truly believe that such extreme positions prevail here, I disagree with their judgment but strongly agree with their intention. I also agree with M:r. },nderson 1hat people here at 1he College "try to view ourselves as above The the beasts, as a bearer of a daemon and a godlike rational mind." One of the funniest articulations of 1hls viewpoint can be found in The Hungry Soul, a book by former tutor and friend of the College, Dr. Leon Kass (who was mentioned in "Discussing Bioe1hlcs" in last week's issue). The subject of the book is eating and how to do so in a manner that dignifies human nature. In a chapter entitled "Enhancing Uprightness: CitilizedEati.ng," after speaking of dinner tables (which pleasing keep "1he satyr's nether parts ... out of sight and, we hope, out of mind."p.136) and utensils (hands are the worst, knives li1tle better, forks are okay, chopsticks are the best), Dr. Kass brings up protective shame and its in1portance as a means to avoid our objectification. If people look at us eating, "we are compelled to look at ourselves, and at ourselves eating." (p.148, emphasis his). 1bis in tum leads to a discussion of public eating, whence arises 1hls statement: '~-\ man eating as he walks dovm the street eats in the face of all passersby, who then must either avert t.heir gaze or observe him objecti.fi.edly in the act. Worst of all from this point of view are those more uncivilized forms of eating, like licking an ice-cream cone-a catlike activity t.1.iat has been made acceptable in informal 1\.."11.erica but that still offends those who know why eating in public is offensive." (p.148) I disagree with lvfr. "\nderson when he says, '~;\s I see it, man is a two part animal: rational, and thus importa.-it and divine ... and bestial, and thus lowly and irrational on the other." T'nis I regret to inform you that Mr. sort of dichotomy results, I t.h.ir1k, in notions L:inhard is, in fact, not the Dean's cous:in. like those of The Hungry Soul, as well as the That was a joke I took as a not-joke, moral system of Kai1t, the misanthropy of • thereby :interpreting it as fact. W'hat i.s Gulliver after .h..is visit witi.11 the Houyhnhnms, not a joke (even though it's said in a..'ld perhaps the troubled state in which the jest such that it is a joke) is that he may anonymous author of "Some Personal as well be the Dean's cous:in. I apoloThoughts" finds hi.m or herself in. I take gize fo:r any confusion. As further corJonathon Swift to be mocking those who wish rection, there is no apostrophe in to see reason as fr1e only acceptable part of man possesive "its" and one ought not vlrite and who view the rest of our being with shame and loat}ii.ng. I am in agreement "\Vi.th Swift "four" when one intends a preposition. a..'ld Mr. Anderson that humor-especially In other news, "low-brow" humor-can be an excellent Students: please attend a forum this means to challenge our assumptions and see \V'ednesday at 4:30 to discuss tenure and t.lie folly in others and hopefully in ourselves. students' roies in tenure decisions. \V'e \.vill For the attainment of self-knowledge, premeet on the first floor of serving and cultivating a sense of humor McDowell. Students only, please. seems to me at least as important as improving ones reasoning faculty. If anything, it is ~~ost Sincerely, more important-inasmuch as our capacity Amy Taylor to laugh appears to properly distinguish us DC President and Grammar Guru from other animals even more than our reason does. Political Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE G_\DFLY . 5 �Croquet Match: Philosophers 18, Warriors 4 by Michael Malone Staff Writer Even Descartes would have had a hard time doubting Vegas's prediction that St. John's College would emerge victorious in the 22nd annual Croquet Day-and he was French. But while the St. John's team easily won the day from the Naval Academy, it has come to my attention that many, if not all, of the people at the match did not pay close attention to the games. Well, to borrow a phrase from one of my favorite presidents, for that silent majority, I present these brief recaps of the day's events. The tournament began with a well orchestrated introduction of the players. The midshipmen - in their fancy white outfits-were introduced first, and then, to the delightfully cheesy sounds of the Top Gun theme, the SJC team stormed out of the Barr Buchanan center in their Army fatigues: mad props to Justin Berrier for thinking of that. After their introduction, the crowd was treated to the SJ C freshman chorus, who sang rather well off Key's lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner. Justin Berrier and Kabe Erkenbrack vs Thomas Schwabenbauer and Dave Sor/man The first win of the day for the St. John's team came from the team of Justin Berrier '04, and Kabe "Kenneth" Erkenbrack '04. SJC started the match playing "pretty well," and then started playing "pretty badly," as Erkenbrack began drinking his refreshment a little more earnestly. Kabe has come a long way since his freshman years, 6 when he donned blue hair and constantly hit on my current girlfriend, but he seems to have taken two giant steps backward. The man was drinking a 3.79 liter (that's a gallon, for the metrically challenged) cosmopolitan (that's a martini with fruit juice, for the Sex in the Citally challenged). And he drank it through a straw. To paraphrase Charlie Brown, "ughh." "Cigarettes and confidence," according to Justin, brought the dynamic duo back into form. That, and Kabe stopped drinking so much. SJC then easily controlled the rest of the game, constantly frustrating their opponent Tom, turning his ball into the "whipping ball." Nick Whittier and Sam Spalding vs Mike Moran and Mike Hanzlik Junior Nick Whittier 'OS-playing in his third Croquet Day-and senior Sam Spalding, current Imperial Wicket, also easily won their match. Playing on court one, they found the surface a little too rough and unpredictable. This prevented anyone from having an outstanding game, but it did not prevent that camera man from getting onto the court and filming them. For those of you wondering if he was from ESPN, or even ESPN2, the answer is, "No": He is an "independent documentary maker," which I think means he has rich parents. S hunji Matsuzawa and Matt Mangold vs Dustin Wood and Pete Joukov Playing on court three, sophomores Matt Mangold and Shunji Matsuzawa played the pivotal third game. Having already won two, the SJC team needed to win this one in order to clinch the Annapolis Cup. And win they did. Matt Mangold absolutely dominated the game and had the longest run of the day, going through seven wickets and hitting the far stake all in one turn. While Navy managed one incredible shot, hitting their ball from one end of the court to the other, while both managing to hit their opponent's ball and ricochet through a wicket-not the wicket they needed to go through, but a wicket nonetheless-they just couldn't keep up with Mangold and Matsuzawa, who left the Midshipmen on the third wicket for most of the game. Jackson O'Brien andAurora Cassells vs Alex Plumer and Bill Mohr The end of the "Wacko" Jack O'Brien and Aurora ''Borealis" Cassells game certainly provided the audience with the surgeon general's daily recommended dose of drama. It began with Jackson unintentionally staking out after going through the final wicket, which meant he could no longer play and help his partner finish the match. Not the sort of thing you'd expect from a southern gentleman who drinks mint juleps to abandon a lady like that. It's almost as though Jackson doesn't care about the ladies. Aurora was stuck on the final wicket for over half and hour as the Naval Academy team marched through their wickets. As they moved forward, Navy team co-captain Brock began expressing confidence that his team would win the game. And, as Navy player Dan hit his ball into Aurora's ball, that confidence only increased. By making contact w i t h . THE GADFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~\urora's ball, Dan was allowed to hit her ball to the other end of the field. However, when Dan took his shot, his club only hit into the ground, effectively wasting his turn. "\urora tried to take advantage of Dan's blun- �der, eventually getting into a position where she could both hit her ball through the final wicket and stake out: winning the game. She was in the same position Jackson was in earlier when he staked out. She carefully lined up her shot while the audience held its breath. Unfortunately, court one proved a little Off-Campus continued from front page Without further ado, here is our list: 1. If you know that you will be moving off-campus, but you have no idea how to find a place, the first thing you should do is ask other students ifthey know anyone looking to rent. A lot of potential roommates and apartments can be found through friends-ofa-friend, so be sure you ask around for what places will be open and who else will be making the move. 2. Remember to check the boards outside of the coffee shop and dining hall for information regarding roommates and places offcampus. A lot of signs will be going up soon, especially after the room drawing, so keep your eyes open for flyers. 3. If your primary concern is proximity to campus, and you don't know anyone who lives nearby, just try walking around the Historic District. Dozens of ''For Rent'' signs will be going up soon (if they haven't already). Write down apartment numbers and the contact information, and start calling people. I know lots of students who have found great places this way. 4. If you still haven't found anything that will work for you, try the Assistant Dean's Office. Ms. Kaplan keeps a book of available rooms, apartments, and houses in and around .Annapolis. It also provides renting costs, distance from campus, and special features ~.e. washer/ dryer, cable television, etc.), as well as contact information. If you need to find a place fast, don't forget to check this out too rough for her, too, and her shot grazed the right side of the wicket. Navy quickly capitalized on the error, and won the game. Rilry Ossorgin and Ian Morochnick vs Luke Drryer and Adam Todd The last official match of the day was the Riley Ossorgin '05, and senior Ian Morochnick match on court two. I wasn't able to observe much of this match due to a severe lack of interest. I remember that around 4:40 some ducks flew through the field. That was nice. I'm told they easily won. Oh, and I was told Morochnik did something Moronic. Apparently Ossorgin hit his ball over towards Ian's ball, so Ian could hit Ossorgin's ball and take another shot: which is legal. Ossorgin hit his ball within two feet of Ian's ball, and Morochnick, without really thinking, walked over and hit Ossorgin's ball into his own ball: which is illegal. Fortunately, the only consequence of this faux pas was that the match took a little longer to finish. That doesn't mean, however, that we can't make fun of the first of my three freshman year roommates-we only lasted a month. Even his own teammates remarked that "you can't do many things stupider than that." 5. Once you have a list of potential places, try to weigh all of the options before you decide for certain. 8. When you finally select a place and are getting ready to move in, be sure to take pictures. Even if Although one place may be a little bit cheaper than another, the heat or utilities might not be included in the rent, so it could end up costing more. You should also remember to ask current residents about the reliability of the landlords and problems they have encountered during their time renring: If the owners have refused to fix the hot water heater or if the radiators don't work half of fue time, fuere is definitely something wrong: Learn as much as you can about a place before agrecing to sign fuelease. 6. Ifyou are looking at an apartment somewhat far away from campus, make sure that you have reliable transportation allyear round. It might look like a great place now, but if you have to wait for a bus or walk a mile or two during fue wintertime to get to class, you might be better off finding a place closer to campus. 7. Once you have decided on a place, be sure you have settled your lease wifu the landlords before doing anything else. Many leases run out in JI.fay, but if you don't want to move in until August, you will have to talk to them about it. Wifu fue owner's permission, you can usually sublet during fue summer, provided you pay some sort of fee to your landlord (Subletting just means thatyouarelettingofuerpeoplelivein your apartment and pay rent for a predetermined period of time. Lots ofJohnnies stay in Annapolis during summer break, and fuey often try to sublet from ofuer Johnnies from :May furough August) If your lease doesn't start until August but you want to stay in i\nnapolis for fue si.immer, try to talk to your landlord about it Ifhe/ she can't do anything to help you, you can always sublet from someone else. You still have plenty of options. fueowner seems to be fuenicestpersonin fueworld, he/ she may try to cheat you out of your security depositwhen you are getting ready to move out If you take pictures of all the rooms and note any problems with fue landlords right away, you are far less likely to be blamed for problems that the apartment has afteryouare gone. Iffue owner does tryto accuse you of destroying something that was already broken when you moved in, the pictures will provide you with a defense. Remember to protect yourself-especiallywhenit comes to money. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE GADFLY . 7 �]' DATE DUE THE GADFLY St. John's College P.O. Box 2800 Annapolis, MD 21404 Don Quixote continued from front page loyalty was appropriate to the role. Her singing voice was also a welcome surprise, and although I had difficulty hearing her on both nights (I understand the cast was having difficulties with the microphones), my sense is that her voice went well with both Quixote's andAldonza's. My only wish is that she had been given a costume besides jeans and a modem shirt-seeing her as such, and with her microphone exposed, actually confused me at first; I wasn't sure if she was playing a chatacter or acting as a stage manager. Still, costume aside, I hope to see herin future productions. 1bis was the first opportunity I had to witness Caitlin O'Brien on stage, and I was really pleased with her performance. She easily assumed the role of Aldonza, and her matter-of-fact manner was a wonderful contrast to the knight's idealism. Lke with Ms. Barnes, I had quite a bit of difficulty hearing her songs on Friday night, and although it improved by Saturday, I confess that I still couldn't hear her very well. My impression is that she has some problems projecting when it comes to high notes. Her best song by far occurs right after Quixote and Sancho return to the inn after being tricked by Moors. Here, her anger and frustrations come out exceptionallywell---in part, I think, because the part is lower than in her other songs. Still, considering the challenging nature of the music, I don't believe anyone else could have carried it off nearly as well, andAldonza's chatacter still came through, even if it was sometimes difficult to hear it Despite his part being decidedly minor, I can't help but make a note of Arthur Allen, a prisoner who is assigned by Cervantes to play the Padre. Not only was he the only cast member who actually pronounced the Spanish words with a Spanish accent (not necessary for the play, but anice touch nonetheless), but his singingvoicewas absolutely incredible. Since acting as Alceste in The Misanthrope, I've been looking forward to hearing him sing again, and he did not disappoint As far as I'm concerned, his rendition of To Each His Dulcineawas perfectly done, and it provided the much-needed insight into one of the main dilemma's of the play the consequences of being so adamantly dedicated to a dream. ,-\s this review is getting a little on the long side, I'll end my opinion of individual cast members here. Still, believe that I found each member was appropriate to his or her role, and the dynamics between the actors was positive and well received. 8 SCI Minutes for Apri~---.-by Nora Kelleher In Attendance: Ms. Delston, Mr. Stalnaker, Ms. Flemming, Mr. Ingham, Mr. Lanier, Ms. Gilman, Mr. Utter, Ms. Beall, Ms. Keim, Ms. Kelleher, Ms. Taylor, Ms. Sico This week, we prepared for the SCI meeting with the Instruction Committee. Some subcommittees gave their presentations. Mr. Utter, Ms. Gilman, and Ms. Sico spoke about the Music Tutorial, Ms. Beall represented the writing subcommittee, and Mr. Ingham and Ms. Delston spoke about the incorporation of Arabic and Jewish medieval authors into the Program. They can be asked for more in- formation on their subcommittees. Check the SCI board for other subcommittees and their members. Reminder of upcoming events: Meeting with Mr. Flaumenhaft to discuss the Dean's Statement, which investigates the role of historical context in the Program- all students are invited to join. The reading will be available in the library. The date and location will be announced this week; look for signs. SCI Student-Tutor Potluck: May 1, 2004 6:00 p.m. in the Boathouse. Bringing food is optional. Encourage your tutors and your classmates to come along. A variety of dishes will be provided. This leads me to the last part of my review, where I feel the need to articulate two criticisms. The first is that, although the instrumentation was fairly solid throughout, there were times where it was distinctlyweak. Providing the piano accompaniment, Jonathan Coppadge was a constant pleasure, and there were only rare occasions where I felt he might have overshadowed the singing on stage (and this may have been more due to microphone issues than an actual imbalance). The other instruments, however, had moments where it was obvious there was some confusion or hesitancy in the playing: The beginning of the play was the most difficult Generally, the accompaniment was fine, but there were instances where it did detract from the singing, to the pointwhere the performers were actually able to slip into the wrong key. Still, I can appreciate thatthe music was by no means easy to perfonn, and I understand that only a handful ofpeople were called in to support a score that is generally given to an entire orchestra. The other criticism is one that I have fought with, but I think should be mentioned. About half-way through the play, there is a rather violent scene involving Aldonza and the three muleteers, the product ofher assisting Don Quixote earlier in the play when he defends her from tl1em. As I can see why having such a scene was vital to the story, I don't object to the nature of the scene itself; or even the e>..'tent of the violence during it Instead, my problem was with the delivery of the fight scene prior to it. The way that it was directed, all of the chatacters involved seemed rather goofy-the muleteers were tied with a whip, the motions were slow and somewhat surreal, and the actors often smiled or displayed foolish expressions. 1bis scene was extremely important in defining the nature of the muleteers--especial Pedro, the head muleteerwho instigates much of the violence against Aldonza later on. By having the scene handled comically, my inclination was to see the muleteers as somewhat annoying, but not especially threatening. It was very difficult for me to go from a humorous fight, to some light comedy as Don Quixote is finally ''knighted," to an incredibly violent scene displaying the negative consequences of Quixote's delusions. I was quite jarred by this, not because I didn't recognize that there would be a backlash to Don Quixote's idealism, but because I wasn't prepared for it. Ifthe fight had been handled a little more seriously, I think that the shadows of the play would have been unveiled in a timelier manner that would not have shocked the audience, but rather provoked an understanding of the consequences of Don Quixote's madness. These criticisms aside, I maintain that Ms. Cassells did a wonderful job with the production and that I very much enjoyed both of the performances that I saw: I can only hope that the future productions of tl1e KWP are done with such a talented cast and with such obvious enthusiasm. The author also wishes to point out that Chris Beas perfamtance was admirable, and in no wqy is deserving if seppuku l!J Frisbee. . THE GADFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . � 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. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/e93fe8a84a944c0d92f0d66e0187299a.pdf 00007d4a7bcddc99ef3db5dc6c4eddc8 PDF Text Text THE The St. John's College Student Week.& Volume XXVI, Issue 2 GADFLY ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1 1 ~ ]~ 1 \lil lif \~l~I 1111IIll Ill II l\lf 31696 01136 2645 r: Go and Euclid Johnnie Itnpressions by Willis McCumber Staff Writer of the New Dorm by Brie Aines Staff Writer The upperclassmen are tasked with breaking in the architectural version of a freshman: the brandnew dormitory Gilliam Hall. Most impressions of the new building are favorable, with residents lauding the good amount of storage, more individually controlled air conditioning, spacious common rooms, and soundproofing. "It's very open," senior Ann Cocconi said. "There is a lot of common space, which is good. It's nice." There are mixed feelings about Gilliam's distance from the rest of the campus. Although the distance means that residents do not have to listen to occasional raucous parties, it also means that the bells can't be heard. "I think, basically, it seems like a bit of a commute in St. John's terms," said junior Andrew MacKinlay. Another notable difference is the furniture. The doors are massive and heavy, which some residents find to be an annoyance. And there is a suspicious lack ofJohnnie chairs, the dormitory instead being full of light-colored, varnished wood and metal chairs ~vhich do not really fit in with the rest of the school. "The Annapolis, Maryland September 7, 2004 \\\I Ill IIll\ \I \I furniture grows on you, but it's really too bad there are not any Johnnie chairs," said senior Toby Burress. Not all have made up their minds yet. "I don't think I have any constructive criticism at this point, other than I like it, and I'm happy here," said senior Beth Siekiera. There seems to be the consensus, however, that Gilliam is remarkably nice. The layout is nice, the view is nice, and the distance is nice. And, hopefully, with time, the dormitory will come to be an active and useful part of the campus. I have talked to a number of freshman about Euclid's first definition, and they always respond with one of two impressions: "it makes perfect sense to me" or "I have no idea why a point ought to be defined in that way." The simplicity of the definition seems either blatantly obvious or disturbing; I know that I have oscillated between these two points of view. The ancient Chinese game of Go flowers outwards from this obviously disturbing or disturbingly obvious definition of a point. The board consists of nineteen horizontal and nineteen vertical lines, cutting each other to create three-hundred sixty-one partless points. White and black markers are placed by turns on these points, the goal being to surround as much territory as possible with markers. One way to do this is to surround the opposing markers; when they are completely surrounded they are removed from the board. The rules are simple, and the game involves only skill. This kind of structure produ,ces approximately 10"'200 possible patterns of markers, vastly more than the estimated number of atoms in the universe. Contrast this to chess, where each piece has a sort of personality of its own, and where play begins from a set position. The markers in Go serve to highlight the relationship between points; circular and smooth, sometimes made from slate and ivory, only their location is important. In Euclid there is a sort of utility behind each definition, postulate, or common notion: these are tools, and they appear here, they are codified, because they will be used later on. Standing alone, the definitions are like chalk without chalkboard. There is an immediate overwhelming imperative to draw. Euclid continued on page9 �Gadf/y Mailbox THE ..-GADFLY A Pair of Sophomore Responses Editor-in-Chief Christopher B. Utter Production Manager Shoshana Goldstein A&E Editor Julie Janicki Business Manager Cathy Keene Photographer Clarke Saylor Contributing to this Issue Brie .Aillnes Christopher Bartos Aaron Brager Nick Colten J.C.B. Dodge Lee Goldsmith J.A.M. 1-.fax Kronberg Willis McCumber James Pearson Leo Pickens Natalie Rinn Sarah Wilson Sean "the devil" Valles Nicholas Younes Founded in 1980, the Gadfly is the student weekly distributed free to over 500 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. Opinions expressed within are the the sole responsibility of the author(s)and do not necessarilly represent the opinions of the Gadfly staff. The Gadfly reserves the right to accept, reject, and edit submissions in any way necessary to publish the most thoughtful, informative, and thought-provoking newspaper which circumstances at St. John's permit. Letters of 200 words or fewer have a better chance of being published than those longer than this limit. Letters submitted will be edited for grammar, punctuation, and spelling in most cases. The Gadf!y is not obligated to publish all submissions and will not print anonymous submissions except under special circumstances. Deadline: Saturday at midnight, unless permission for a delay is granted in advance. Submissions will be accepted as long as they are legibly written, but typed copies, diskettes, and e-mail submissions are greatly preferred. Please e-mail submissions to sjcgadfly@yahoo.com. Mr Nick Colten takes abreak from hating to accompany Andrea Hines to New York In response to our valued new polity member's humble critique of our college, we would like to offer this similarly humble response. On principle, we laud M:r. Bart6s' willingness to criticize publicly aspects of the college experience with which he finds fault. On the other hand, we find that we are ourselves faulty in our inability to see, given his brief stay with us, how such a critique could have been adequately researched. We remember when we first arrived that we too were confronted with a host of surprising facets, far different from the ascetically monastic atmosphere we had anticipated. We have since learned that at brick-built St. John's, breaker of men, to possess a full experience, you must make it your own. As you have no control over how your fellow students choose to occupy their time, it would serve you best to practice self-discipline, much like that great hero of stage and page, Hercule Poirot. However, unlike the riveting exploits of that greatest of Belgian detectives, students here tend to expect more of the texts of which they are required to read. Just as we are unable to understand your reference to mystery novels, we find ourselves at something of a loss as to your use of the word 'dull' and of the tactless portrait of boredom with which you captured your impression of Dean Flaumenhaft's lecture. For our part we have never heard the word 'dull' in reference to the readings here, nor do we believe that your public criticism of the Dean's lecture was appropriate; for further down that same twilit road lies the specter of Gadf!J-born criticism of one's Annual Essay. Kindly and with the warmest of hopes for a deeply fulfilling time at St. John's, to us all, we offer this most supplicatory of humble suggestions; that it would be best if, before discharging your future impressions in public, you unload them first of rash opinions. Sincerely, Nicholas Younes and]. C. B. Dodge 2 . THE GADFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . �Response to HT Lemma 1 Dear Jews' Clues: We all know that a human fetus is si.'llply a collection of cells, and not an actual life form. Does that make an abortion clinic bomber simply a modem-day Don Quixote? .. - Awkward Writer Knowingly Wntmg Amazingly Repulsive Diatribe Dear A.WKW.,'\.R.D.: I hope you didn't bring that up Ln Junior Seminar. Anyway, as any answer given will offend either Je~sh ,'\nonymous Man (f..A.M.) or Max Kronberg, we recommend that you send this question instead to Chris Bartos. 11r. Bartos will give your question its due cont=plation. He has a long history of such behavior, as evidenced by the time he spent three whole days here, and then wrote a Gadfly a....--ricle that: made fun of someone for not constantly letting .Mr. Bartos k.-iow that he was woL\ing, as we all know that nobody everworks while listeni_ng to music, . · 1ectured the entire Poiity on his socalled "scientific" theory that smoki..-ig is "bad"; [Mr. Bartos: Max Kronberg here. I &.in 't smoke ~ loo~ like a contemplativefy disturbed French phi!osopber. 1 smoke to look like aj*cking cowbl!J!.] mocked the Dean's lecture, the concept oflectures, and t.lie notion that something could hold a person's attention for more than the leng-.h of time in seven mL'1.ute-long w.i.<iuets.; He says that vaudeville players had a hard time keeping people's attention for this long.. .perhaps because it's vaudeville-, mocked t..1-ie program, when he said that it contains some books that are, "the dullest of works." At the time his article was written, there was more of the Thad that Mr. Bartos hadn 'tread than of that he had. That's right, less than half- way through the first work.•'\nd iHvfr. Bartos is insinuating that the Thad is a dull work we will scream so loudly that ten men die. We hope that tliis rant on j\fr. Bartos' behavior has helped you come to terms with your abortion-related dilemma. -J.C. Dear Jews' Clues: Do you make up your questions, or do people actuallywrite th=in? . -Jews Over Y'israel Kissing All Palestmians Lavishly .A...nd Nicely Dear J.O.YK,\.P.L\.N.: Both. W'hen a letter is written in, we always opt to use it, but on the rare occasion that nobody has written in, we go with such homble things as the above question about wntmg Jn questions. We get paid by the word. So we're kmda like Dickens. Kinda he/la like Dickens. So if you're looking to avoid crap like this, send in your deeply penetrating questions to: Max Kronberg Campus Mail Yours truly, -T.C. Sh~om to "Gnarly" Charlie Fleming for finally getting his hat back. . . Shalom to Cameron Healy. Your hatt 1s flaming. Flaming red. Flami.11.g red gay. Shalom to Corinne Peters and Dustin Sebell for refusing to pay Reality dues because they think you can get away with not paying them. Shalom to Moira O'Shea for finally dumping that jerk Aaron Brager. She needed someone who is attracted to her, and he's probably gay. Flaming red gay. (Do Aaron and Cameron have a ... thing?) [shudder] Shalom to Chris Bartos for probably reading t..h.e Iliad in high school. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JJ In last week's Gadfjy there were two articles that were critical of this college of ours. One was written bv 1fr. David, and the other by Mr. Bartos. While the former presented questions wort.11.y of the college's attention, the latter gave us an unmonitored outpouring of opinions about this college's failings, the source of which could riot be placed in the make-up of the college, in the particular persons encountered by the author, or in the author himself. The remainder of this writing will be devoted to my response to Mr. David's article; first, however, I would like to ask a question to all of those at this college. We here work at reading these great books well, and at developing our judgment by grappling wit.1-1 the arguments laid out in them. Thus, should our own publication present us with an article which lacks any arguments for our grappling and which allows for no fine judgments to be made bv us? In a blunt manner of writing, the questi~n is: should the Gmff!; be more selective, or selective at all, with respect to what it publishes? Having put that down, I will address myself to mv own reading of Newton's first lemma and ~1hat might be called t..lie 'johannine consensus," as well as the challenges raised by J\fr. David in his article. Once again, the first lemma of the Principia in Cohen's translation reads, "Quantities, and also ratios of quantities, which in any finite time constantly tend to equality, and which before ilie end of that time approach so close to one another that their difference is less than any given quantity; become ultimate~· equal." The reading of this lemma present by ;\fr. David has it iliat "ultimately" refers to the end of that "finite time." This reading would overturn the thought that "ultimately" refers to the end o.f an infinite time or all-time in which these quanuues are becoming, wl1ich involves the same sort of thinking that led Pascal to asse..rt that parallel lines meet at an infinite lengd1. It is good to nonce that in the former the tin1e is infinite and the latter the length is infinite. I myself am unsure whether or not "ultimately" refers to that "finite time." So, let me make an argument in which it does not. In Cohen's translation (which I trust is faithful to t..lie Latin, though I would be grateful to someone who could make the Latin of this le..=a clear to me), "ultimately" is merely an adverb of the main verb of the thought, ''become." In fact, the main thought reads, "Quantities become ultimately equal.'' The phrase which invokes ilie finite time is restricted to clarifying t.lie noun "quantities." Thus, I see no necessity Lemma Response continued on page 4 . . . . . . . . . . . THE GADFLY . 3 �Lemma Response continued from page 3 for "ultimately" to refer back to the finite time, since "ultimately" clarifies the becoming, which is not explicitly restricted to the finite time, but rather is elaborated upon by means of the quantities' characteristic, that of a diminishing difference, in that finite time. Tbis reading still allows for an obscure end of t:i.-ne which is not presented (I imagine this reading is close to or exactly the 'Johannine consensus"). I certainly must admit, however, that I can give no ·argument which necessan"jy excludes the other reading. And, taking Mr. Tomarchio's saying to heart, I believe this is not "either-or", but ''both-and." Newton left this lemma provocatively ambiguous, and so I understand a tension which Newton may have wished to dwell in the text for all readers to stumble across. This tension allows for a strange mixture of the dynamic and the static in Newton's geometrical calculus (or, to take his advice in the first preface, his mechanicalcalculus).Forexample,Newtondescribed the production of a line as the motion of a point over time. The line then is a demarcation of all the places through which the point traveled in that time; it is the motion of the line in time present all at once and without motion. The line is the dynamic and the static at once, and time as we recognize it is not time at all as it appears in this mathematics. Whereas time usually annihilates what came before as it brings forth what is to come, time here maintains what came before for the sake of mathematical analysis. But this sort of production is not new: It can be found in the production of the solids in book XI of the Elements, but Ancient geometers like Euclid certainly showed a bias against its use in their formal propositions. And, as Mr. David rightly pointed out, the modem definition of things, especially the limit, is static and furthermore symptomatic; that is to say, it is merely a test to be applied to a given matter for the sake ofdemonstrating an enunciated property ofthe matter. The modem definition of a limit allows for easy analysis of mathematical matters, but Newton's lemma invites consideration of what motion and time are and how they might be used to describe mathematics and the world Out of all this, one is compelled to ask why Newton wanted his readers to consider motion as foundational tool in mathematics. Through the second lemma the import of the tension between the dynamic and static in the first lemma is brought out On the one hand, according to Mr. David's reading, the bases of the parallelograms continuousjy shrink toward and arrive at their halves; on the other hand, the parallelograms are considered at each halving of the bases, and since "ultimately" might be some obscure time, even an infinite one, there is nothing stopping us from 4 having these parallelograms coincide with the curvilinear line at the end of all our consideration. The key is that the ambiguity in the first lemma forces us not to take discrete instances of the bases being half, but rather to envision the entire motion from one base into its hal£ To support this reading, I find it telling that Newton only diminishes one of the parallelograms in the explication of the second lemma, so that in the end we are left only with a line and no rectilinear or curvilinear breadth at all Here, we can understand the entire area by the diminishing of one parallelogram, even though we would need to double the number ofparallelograms for the entire area each time we halved the bases of the alreadyexistingparallelograms, a fact which Newton does not mention in his explication ofthe second lemma although something like it is pointed out in the enunciation. Within this reading, Newton does not contradict himselfin the application ofhis first lemma in the second lemma. Yet, the second lemma is not a simple matter of mathematical demonstration from the first lemma. These two lemmas bring the reader to questions, unresolved questions, about what motion and time are, how motion and time belong to mathematics, how mathematics belongs to motion and time, and the world which this mathematics will descnbe. One really must ask whether it is a perversion of time to map it out as a line. Newton himself might come down on particular sides of these questions but that does not mean we as readers have to do the same. And this last thought brings me to Mr. David's criticisms ofour college. I myself did not experience the mistaken approaches to Newton that he enumerated Moreover, I did not encounter any consensus about the first lemma, neither among my classmates nor being handed down to us. There was such a lack of consensus about the matter that I have not stopped thinking about it But if such things did occur or are occurring, it seems to me that they would be detrimental to our work here. We eachmustaskourselvesindividually:amiapproaching this work on its own terms? Otherwise, we will overturn the work we are doing, just as the moneychangers in the temple overturned the work of the pious. Further, the disintegration of Newton is unfortunate. It would be best to do Newton all at once and to cover less of the calculus manual since the calculus proves to be used only in spots in the laboratory. The calculus is a beautiful mathematics, but it is not done justice by its cursory treatment in the mathematics tutorial, which is admittedly for the sake of the laboratory. The calculus should be for the sake of nothing but itself. Being able to work through Newton altogether as a whole would also provide a better setting for asking questions about the motion of mathematics and the motion of bodies. The one criticism I found strange was that Newton is not done in the Seminar, particularly because I never found the reading I do for seminar different from the reading I do for my tutorials. Both readings require me to be thorough and exacting, and I hope to find myself consistently capable for the task. Now, the seminar might have a different tone due to the presence of two tutors and more classmates-; but these things seem external to the work that must be given over to the book, which is of first importance for a good conversation to take place. In closing, I agree with Mr. David's final sentiments, ''Think for yourselves, readers of the Gac!f!y, but work together, and be wary, in principle, of consensus-think about where it is coming from and why." Consensus will always carry with it the danger that it is only superficial and misunderstood by the members of the consensus; it may only be a treaty between parties who might not agree in all aspects but have stopped discussing their differences. But I do not fret about myself or my classmates. We cannot be subdued by preaching. In order to understand we must ask! It is precisely this that makes this college, our college, so great: we are not forcing ourselves to work at the tasks before us; we freely take them upon ourselves so that we are willing to continue thinking about these books and our works beyond the preached line and beyond the classroom. Lee Goldsmith Film S ociery Announcemnt Dear Polity: Due to a miscalculation on my part, the Film Society schedules inaccuratelyrepresented the cost of a season pass as $30. The actual cost of a season pass to view all first semester films is $25. Tbis Saturday, September 11, Film Society presents FAHRENHEIT 9/11. In this film, !Academy Award-winning director Michael Moore examines the Bush administration's financial ties to Saudi Arabia and the bin Laden family. Using actual footage and declassified documents, Moore takes a detailed look into political events both before and after the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 . FAHRENHEIT 9/ 11 won the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. By the way, if you pay your Reality dues at a Film Society event, you receive a FREE candy or soda with admission. Looking forward to seeing you at the movies, Aaron Brager . THE GADFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . �Stop Taking Yourself So F*cking Seriously: A Weekly Column by Sean "The Devil" Valles Staff Writer Hello again, to the St. John's Community; and to our new members, welcome. Now, let me explain my column. I hope that its title and purpose are fairly self-explanatory. I do not clalm to be some sort of master of social grace (far from it) or immune to pretence (again, not even close), but I do know the difference between legitimately founded opinions and sophistical, self-important crap masquerading as benevolent dialectic. Which brings me to the subject of this week's column. "Why I Hate John Kerry;' by Greg Yatarola. I take issue with this article not as a liberal (though I am one) or even as a Kerry supporter (I am that too). No, I take issue with this article because it is a poorly thought-out, half-assed piece of propaganda with a completely unnecessarily snide attitude. If lvfr. Yatarola doesn't like John Kerry (millions of people don't) he should at least be able to back it up in a public forum with more than personal prejudices.John Kerry is rich. His wife is filthy rich. Together they make little filthy rich people. Deal. The fact that :tvfr. Kerry has been rich his whole life (and enjoys it) does not prevent him from thinking that maybe his 500-times-over millionaire wife doesn't really need more tax breaks. History is filled with examples of rich, powerful politicians (ls there another kind of powerful politician?) who are able to see past their own piles of ducats and notice that the people mowing their lawns have barely a snowball's chance in Hell of even going to college, ifthey should ever be so inclined. The fact that lvfr. Yatarola says :tvfr. Kerry's doing essentially that is "condescending hubris of a level which perhaps the world has never seen," shows either supremely clumsy rhetoric or an utter ignorance of history, American or otherwise. On the off-chance that it is the latter: :tvfr. Yatarola, go look up Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This should be pretty easy, he was president four times. You're really going to hate what you read. :tvfr. Yatarola's accusations regarding :tvfr. Kerry's military service are barely worth discussion. The attacks- against the legitimacy of his Bronze Star have now been completely discredited by investigative journalists from several news organizations. And the mere idea that :tvfr. Kerry, or anybody else, could actually consider, first, serving in the combat infantry (as opposed to noncombat leadership roles) or, second, jumping into Vietcong AK-47 fire to save a fallen comrade to be just carefully politically measured decisions is actually hilarious to me. After all, dead men make poor presidential candidates, and I hear tell that getting shot really sucks. In short, Mr. Yatarola, I find your statement that "this should do for now'' to be completely false. It does not do at all. Oh, and stop taking yourself so f*cking seriously. Movie Review: A-Hard Day's Night by Sarah Wilson Staff Writer I grew up with the Beatles. I have one of those Moms who came of age just at the right time to go through all the hysteria ofBeatlemania. She had all the albums on record and I loved to listen to them. They were the first rock band I ever liked. Despite my love of their music, I never really understood the insanity. I couldn't understand why all those glrls were screaming and weeping and tearing at their hair. Until I saw a Hard Dqy} Night, anyway. The Beatles, as seenin the film, are so charming, adorable, funny; and sweet, that I challenge anyone not to fall a bit in love with them by the end of the film. Even if you could not care less about them before seeing the film, you will probably come away afan. A Harri Dqy} Nightwould still be a great film even if the Beatles weren't in it. It's very funny; very engaging and very artfully filmed. Stylistically; it still looks fresh and new, and was amazingly innovative for the time. It bears a style immediately recognizable to fans of Richard Lester's films, such as the swinging London classic The Knack, andhow w it. get Lotsofquickcuttingcamerashots,interesringangles, absurd visuals, etc. The overall feeling ofthe film is keep in glee. The Beatles seem to behavingalotoffun,despiteall the pressures and nuisances of fame. It's filled with scenes of the adorable mop-tops laughing as they flee from hoards of shrieking glrls, escaping from their responsibilities, joking about, dancing, and flirting with the ''birds" and just enjoying themselves. Each Beatle gets his own opportunity to shine, and the audience gets a chance to geta glimpse into the personality of each of them. John's eccentric cleverness, Paul's sweet charm, George's quiet intensity and Ringo's happy-go-lucky nice-guy demeanor allcomethroughloudandclear. Theothercharacters are great, too. Paul's cunnudgeonly grandfather who's always causing trouble despite being very "clean," a fashion advertiser who mistakes George for a model, a beleaguered manager and his goofy assistant, and a high-strung television director are just a few of the delightful back up figures. A Harri Dqy} Night remains entertaining from beginning to end, which is pretty impressive for a film that really only has the days leading up to a television performance as its plot. Will the entire band make it back to the studio in time for their television performance? The Beatles carry the substantial weight ofkeeping an audience engaged on their young, mod-suited shoulders and do so with panache. The humor is unstrained and eccentric, and the classic themes of pitting the young, working class protagonists against the old, staid, and posh are well handled so as not to seem clich&l And, of course, you can't beat the soundtrack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE GADFLY 5 �Lecture Review: Getting their Numbers by Will lvfcCumber and Christopher Bartos Staff Writers j\fr. Kates quickly dismissed the standing crowd with an informal "Siddown" but after that his lecture, "Getting Their Numbers: Husserl, Klein and the Intentional History of l\fathematics" took on a more scholarly and esoteric aspect. The writers humbly admit that much of what Mr. Kates said was beyond their ken. Therefore, do not expect this article to be a comprehensive review of the ideas and arguments that Mr. Kates presented. The organization of his lecture followed Greek arithmetical theory, namely in two questions: First, is a number a unity i..'1 itself and, if so, where did the unity come from? and, Second, what is the status or character of the individual things counted? In answer to his first question Mr. Kates summarized the argument of Husserl. He believed that the unity was derived from the word "and" which collects things but is not findable in our world - there is no "and" canister. Still, Husserl argued that the "and" is something concrete; it truly is ''that things show themselves as being related to each other." '~'\nd" is a relation that is not found in the related things, yet there is something objective about the word. At this point we realize that we are summarizing the summary and understand Lliat a secondary source summary is rather, shall we say, "rickety." Suffice it to say Mr. Kates "defined" the "unit" as a "something." This proved to be a premonition of the dark cloud of un-comprehension that was soon to enshroud us. We would like to address his argument regarding Klein's presentation of number theory through the lens of Greek ar- ithmetical history- however, our notes at this point deteriorated into doodles. This is not to say that his lecture was not worth going to. At many points during his presentation, many were challenged to think hard about what we knew about words, relatio_nships ang numbers. His discourse on Aristotle questioning whether two things can share a property together but not separately (like t..h.e number "2") was quite interesting. And the ultimate question, as to whether or not numbers exist because of, or outside of, human understanding of relationships was well digested by the majority of the audience. Mr. Kates violated what is considered a rule for public speeches: do not use professional language that your audience will not understand. \'Ve believe that his use of words like "ontology," "phenomenology" and other philosopr...i.cal and Greek words obscured his poi..'lt. Had Mr. Kates defined his terms clearly, the lecture would have been top-notch. Nonetheless, the night was not wasted time. We look forward to foture lectures from l\fr. Kates, our friend fo,m Santa Fe. Why I Like Greg Yatarola dent of his superiority at hating and rationalizby Nick Colten mg. Staff Writer Like I\1r. Yatarola, I too dislike John Kerry but not Vvi.t..li such ardor, and not on such unsustainable gwunds. For instance, when I hear t..1-iat a very wealthy person has married an extraordinarJy wealthy one, I am not inclined to believe that the former person is a gold digger. Not so with Mr. Yatarola. Like I\fr. Yatarola, I am wary of the devotion of limousine liberals to the plight of those less well off. My reasons for it is a concern that such people's attention are sometimes fleeting or their efforts poorly direct, due to their lack of personal experience with financial hardship. Not so with Mr. Yatarola. He suggests that it is impossible for the rich to be "on the side of the little man;" That for Kerry and Edwards to "stand before audiences and sing the class-ware tune is condescendi..11g hubris of a level which perhaps the world has never seen." Were he not such a good hater, j\fr. Yatarola might have difficulty arguing that Kerry--due to his social Last year I confessed both that I am generally a parasitic writer-I mostly just write responses to something that someone has previously written-and t..liat I enjoy seeing my name in print. In writing "\Vhy I Hate Jolm Kerry," Greg Yatarola managed to gratify both those traits of 1nine. Though I was honored enough by ivfr. Yatarola's description of me as a "genius weasel'' last year, I am flattered by his recent "homage" to my work in the Gadf!y. In particular, I was struck by his statement, "I am probably not as good a hater or rationalizer as Nick Colten." A certain amount of humility is admirable, but in cases where a person's statements are so obviously untrue, it may strike an unsympathetic person as false-modesty. I don't think that Mr. Yatarola is guilty of such pettiness, so instead I'd like to do :him a favor by pointi..'lg out some reasons to feel more confi- 6 . THE GADFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . class-is the enemy of t..lie working class, inasmuch as such a conclusion smacks of "classwarfare." Furthermore, it can only be due to Mr. Yatarola's exemplary animosity that he can conden111 Kerrt and Edwards for being millionaires while supporting another pair of millionaires, Bush and Che:Eey. The latter is especially interesting because they too present themselves as being on the side of "the little man" while t..11e policies they have pushed have overwhelmingly favored the very wealthy, generally to the detri..<nent of the less well-off. Of course I wouldn't call Bush and Cheney hubristic--or at least not on this issue, rather I'd call them hypocrites. As a second-rank hater, I mostly kept my "hating" directed at Bush. Not so Vvi.th Mr. Yatarola, who took frequent shots at various members of the Kennedy family. ~\fr. Yatarola is offended that Kerry wasamong other things-interested i..<i pursuing a political career while at Yale, yet condemns Yatawla continued on page 8 �Top Ten Presidential Alternatives to the Bush/ Cheney Team by Sarah S; Wilson Staff Writer 1bis list is intended as a lighthearted joke. To say I aon't 'pariiCuiarly care for Bush/ Cheney would not be untrue.Nor would it be untrue to say that I think the surest way for America to get a firsthand look at what Dante describes in the Ieferno would be to climb into the hand-basket Bush/ Cheney are holding open. Despite my dislike of current leadership, this list is not meant to seriously wound anyone. So here's my list of alternatives, in no particular order. 1. Frodo and Sam- These cute little fellas have to be two of the least cynical creatures ever, which would be a nice change from the crooked and manipulative ways of the Bush/ Cheney team. Also, Frodo and Sam demonstrated their ability to work in a fellowship that included dwarves, elves, humans, wizards and what-nots, so they might be able to help improve our relations with the U.N. and the world at large. Not to mention the fact that between the two of them, they managed to destroy the ring rather than take advantage of the incredible power it would give to its bearer. Somehow I think Bush/Cheney might have taken a different course. I can picture Cheney warming up for campaign speeches reciting the ring's inscription to himself 2. Paris Hilton and Nicole RichieThese ladies may actually possess more intelligencethatthecurrentleadership.Besides, they're just simple farm girls in much the same way that Bush is "not from a Washington family." Also, they might encourage the young male demographic to watch more political speeches and debates. 3. Jon Stewart and Stephen ColbertThese two smart, clever, witty and charismatic men would be great. What's somewhat frightening is that I think they may actually possess a more lucid understanding of the current global situation than Bush does. They've done a great job of exposing the shamefulness and hilarity of political games and some of the unfounded accusations the Bush team has leveled at Kerry, and we could use that sort talent in our leaders. If Stewart and Colbert weren't around to make me see the humor in all this, I'm sure I'd weep. 4. Prince Hal and Hamlet- Prince Hal actually has some things in common with Bush. They .. both underwent transformJltiop.s &o~~~n. p~~fugate youths to leaders of extremely power~ fu1 nations. They both went to war in an attempt to prove themselves. However, there are significant differences. Hal learned to function without perpetual assistance from powerful familymembers and broke with his problematic friends. He returned money he stole with interest, which is a lot better than what Bush has done with taxes. Hal did some fighting himself rather than hiding out in the National Guard or exclusively sending other people's children off in wars because of fictitious weapons of mass destruction and Al Qaeda Jinks. I'm sure my choice of Hamlet will raise a few eyebrows, but I have a reason. Hamlet thinks. He questions the validity of his conclusions. He considers situations at length before acting. He seeks proof to back up ghostly assertions. Bush and Cheney should try these things. Incidentally, I thought of the Prince Hal George Bush comparisons before New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published his column on the same subject. s. FDR and Abe Lincoln - Even exhumed, the two greatest presidents ever would be better than Bush/Cheney. Theywere both brilliant and strong. Roosevelt began to lead the country out of the Depression and lead through part of WWII. Lincoln kept the country together and wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. Also, this is a nice bipartisan selection seeing as how honest Abe was a Republican, back when the Republicans were the Progressive Party. 6. The cast of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy- There are more than two people here, but I'm not prepared to say which two would be the best presidential team. The rest could be senior White House officials or Cabinet Members or something. They could probably work their makeover wizardry on Iraq and fix it up much better than Bush has done. Besides, aren't we all tired of white walls and blue wool suits? Let's paint the White House a nice shade of green that would pick up on the colors in the gardens and get some patterned jeans on the leader of the free world. These guys would also probably display a lot more sensitivity and civility than Bush and Cheney do. 7. Don Quixote and Sancho Panza- Say whatever you want about Don Quixote's sanity or lack thereof: he is at least striv1ng for something more perfect and beautiful, unlike the current leidership. He wants to succor the needy and free the oppressed which seems to stand in direct opposition to the Bush/ Cheney scheme. Sancho proved he could be very effective as a governor, although he didn't like the position. However, ifwe just gave him enough food, he'd probably excel. He's got the common man appeal and a command of proverbs that would provide a perfect compliment to Don Quixote's book smarts and eloquence. 8. Jude Law and Conor Oberst- 1bis pair would just be nice to look at. I can picture ladies scouring the New York Times and Atlantic Monthly for pictures of the Commander in Chief and the Veep to pin up on their walls. Conor could write poetic, emotionally engaging and affecting speeches and Jude could recite them with thespian panache. There's a bit of an actor in every president and there's no rule that says they have to be character actors. There is however, a rule that says they have to be Americans, unlike Jude, and older than either one of my proposals here, but I think we could overturn those rules to get these two in office. If Bush can push for an amendment limiting rights on an issue that really isn't constitutional in nature, we can change the rules to get lovely youngsters and Brits in t..l:te Oval Office. 9. Pinky and the Brain- Here we have an insane but winning and seemingly earnest idiot and a dour, megalomaniac genius. Together they would ... oh wait. The idiot and the evil genius? That sounds a little too much like .... Although I think this. comparison is slightly unfair to Pinky and the Brain and a little too nice to Bush and Cheney, I'm not taking any chances. Scratch that. _Maybe Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Clinton? 10. John Kerry and John Edwards- I almost forgot this pair. Check out their campaign website and follow the race in the papers and you'll get a good idea of what these guys are about. People need to stop focusing on how against Bush they are and consider what they are actually for. I'm confident that Kerry and Edwards will be not only the better choice, but a good one. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE GADFLY . 7 �The Phantastic Side of _l\nnapolis by Julie Janicki Arts and Entertainment Editor Okay, picture this: It's Friday night. Or Saturday night. Or maybe even Sunday night. In any case, it's definitely not Thursday or Monday night as you're tucked away in Seminar, pursuing the Good and embracing the dialectic. Let's say that you're sitting around, done with homework for the day, not really in the mood for a dorm party, and maybe not quite in the mood to stay inside playing video games or watching movies. Let's say you're in the mood to go outside. Wait, even more, you're in the mood to walk around Annapolis. May I suggest heading over to the intersection of Maryland Avenue and State Circle and spending an evening with the undead of Annapolis? Ghosts of Annapolis Tours is a company run by ivfike and Wendy Carter, who started sending out tours last May a.'1d are currently scheduled to run through October 31 ". Every Thursday through Sunday night they host walking ghost tours of "-\.nnapolis, and Friday and Saturday both have haunted pub crawls. The walking tours take place at 7:00 and 9:00 P.M., last about ninety minutes, and cover a little less t..1:ian a mile throughout the historical section of "wnapolis. Essentially, you're given a tour guide that will lead you to about thirteen buildings and tell you the bistory of the building, Lh.e stories of the people who lived there, and t..1-ie dark "legends and folktales" that persist to this day. The Pub Crawls are a little different as the tours only take place at 9:00 P.M., they last for two hours, and the participants (who all must be 21 or older) visit four different pubs to drink at slightly reduced prices and to hear the stories in a sit-down atmosphere. In a show of generosity, starting September 4'\ Ghosts of Annapolis Tours is offering St. John's students and staff a reduced rate of$10 per person for the walking tour and $15 for t..lie pub crawls. To take advantage of the reduced price, 8 Yata:rola continued from page 6 people like me for faulting Bush "for only being interested, during his college days, in chasyou mustmake reservations ahead of time (men- ing girls and getting drunk." I find it odious tion that you're affiliated with St. John's) and t..liat given the opportunity to attend Yalepresent your St. John's ID when you check-in something few are given and wbich he received for the tour. Keep in mind that the reduced not from merit, but solely from his family conrate won't apply for Halloween weekend. nections-he proceeded to squander it. Both Now you may be saying to yourself, "This Bush and Kerry are of privileged backgrounds. sounds ridiculous. Why-would I want to spend Kerry did things because of it, while Bush had an evening listening to ghost stories? And why things done for bim because of it. Only a trne would I want to go so far as to pqy to listen to hater could find Kerry the worse for it. them?" As for Kerry's and Bush's service during VietThe answer to your first question: Because nam, only first-class hatred could make one single it's really cool Be honest with yourself - how out Kerry. The attacks on Kerry's record of sermuch do you real/y know about Annapolis? vice, such as those of the self-described Swi..ftboat Sure, you may know it's the capital of Mary- Veterans for Truth, to which Mr. Yatarola alluded, land. But did you know it's over 355 years old? have been thoroughly debunked. Bush's own That it was once the capital of the United States? record during bis days in the national guard are That there are bodies still buried underneath however still somewhat a mystery--due in part Church Circle? Or why there's a bedpost stick- to his obfuscating. What is clear is thathe avoided ing through the ceiling at Ram's Head Tavern? going to Vietnam due, once again, to family conTen or fifteen dollars is not nections and that, as with college, he felt no need that much to spend for 90 to put in the time or work that was required of minutes to two hours of en- him. It truly is the sign of an exceptional hater to tertainment. Besides, the prefer someone who hid while others did the stories are great to listen to fighting to someone who voluntarily risked his a.'ld the guides are really en- life in combat. gaging; you'll find yourself Like J\fr. Yatarola, I too am disappomted in in semi-awe at the history of Kerry's service in the Senate. It's not because he "wnapolis, as well as at the has the most liberal voting record-which he ways in which the past seems hasn't (though I wouldn't mind if he did), or to keep manifesting itself. that he has taken the most special interest And yes, there is a story that money-which he also hasn't (though he's taken involves decapitation. more than I would like). I am unaware ofKerry cwd now for the answer spending an inordinate amount of time away to your second question: from Washington, but if such is the case, it furYou should want to pay to ther illustrates I\fr. Yatarola hate driven double listen to the stories because standard' Bush is well known for the tremen1) it's not really that expensive, and 2) your dous amount of ti..<ne he spends at his ranch money goes to pay the tour guides, and this and making quasi-official Yi.sits tc states that ::i.re includes me. Yes, I admit it, this article is some- electorally competitive. I am disappointed that what biased as I am one of the guides for the Kerry hasn't been more ofaleaderin the Senate, walking tours. I've spent a greater part of the though the seniority system is partly to bl1111e last four months walking the darkened streets for that. In the last decade he's mellowed out and alleys, tellir1g stories, interacting with a lot and plays it safe more than I like, but I find this of interesting tourists, and (in a few cases), simply disappointi..'lg and not odious-a defiencountering some really strange stuff. The nite failure in my capacity to hate. tours are all geared towards quality and accu."\nyway, as I'm sure all can see by nowracy, and I can guarantee you that there's some- except perhaps those who hate I\fr. Yatarola and thL11g on it for everybody. wish to deprive bim his due distinction, as a Therefore, if you're looking for an interest- hater, I am strictly an amateur. I may still be the ing and off-the-beaten-path sort of entertain- better rationalizer, however sL.~ce I assumed the ment experience, make your reservations by position of the Gadjljs Voice of Reason last calling 410-263-9686 or check out their website year, my superior powers of rationalization seem at ghostsofannapolis.com. entirely appropriate. Trust me, you'll find the tour to be in the 'spirit' of fun. THE GADFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . �An Apology by Christopher Bartos Staff Writer "It's never a good idea to leave water in a place where there is high traffic. Someone can easily slip." "Well, so far as I can tell, the whole school would be happierif you slipped and hurt yourself." Thus went the conversation that was exchanged between an acquaintance and me, in obvious reference to my despised first article "Impressions of a Freshman." Because of feedback like this, I have found it necessary to address the issue and attempt to reconcile myself to the student body of St. John's. The first thing to remember is that my article was intended to "poke fun" at some of the customs of St. John's. It was intended to be self-deprecating of the school as a whole. I personally love music, it has been one of my own passions throughout life and the last thing that I wanted to do was judge or condemn people that like music (or certain types thereof). I simply thought the combination of Electronica and Native American music would be so unexpected it would be funny, not stupid or worthless. Neither do I have any moral condemnation of those who smoke. It is merely a choice that people make. I can understand how my comments were taken to be judgmental and I sincerely apologize for my unclear writing. The comment regarding French philosophers, although sarcastic, seemed (to me at least) to fit the school well. Everyone here loves philosophy, literature and discussions. The great existential philosophers of France (Sartre, Camus, Marcel, Lavelle, Lesenne et al.) have many of the qualities that St. John's students also have. This is more of a compliment than anything Euclid continued from front page else. Coincidentally, one of these qualities is smoking. For example I will copy here an excerpt from 'The Existentialist Cookbook'' that I find relevant to what I was trying to expres s. "December 1 I have been gaining twenty-five pounds a week for two months, and I am now experiencing light tides. It is stllpid to be so fat. My pain and ultimate solitude are still as authentic as they were when I was thin, but seem to impress girls far less. From now on, I will live on cigarettes and black coffee." [emphasis added] - (http://badgertronics.com/net-humor/ existCookbook.adp) Another aspect of the St. John's education that I commented on and many people misunderstood was the lecture. When I stated "This is in no disrespect to our good dean" I sincerely meant it. That comment was not loaded with sarcasm. I was deeply involved with speaking in my high school career and I tkJ understand the difficulty of making a presentation an hour long that is interesting. The fact that Mr. Flaumenhaft did as well as he did is a testament to the tenacity of both his abilities and the audiences. Finally, I wish to address something that apparently many of the readers missed. I complimented everyone here at St. John's for sticking out such a hard program. Each person here is intelligent and capable of reading, understanding and discussing the Great Books so broadly and deeply; everyone here is a scholar. This I mean with deepest sincerity. I only can hope that you as the student body can accept my apology. Perhaps the manner in which I wrote was too strong, too early. If any of you ever get to know me better, you will see that my intent and the readers' understanding ofwhat I wrote were completely different. wants to pkg can drop him a note in campus mail or send an email to harlequin101@hotmail.com. RuThe Go board is one place, like a blackboard, where those who feel the imperative can draw mor has it there is a large board in the fishbowl. to their heart's content. Both those who are Willis would be happy to impart his knowledge ofthe disturbed by the simplicityofEuclid and those rules of the game, but those wishingfor a more comwho delight in it will find a common ground plete treatment, as well as strategy tips, mqy wish to in the pure utilization of the idea. It is on such consult the American Go Association} website at common ground where we begin to under- www.usgo.org (click the ''what is go?" link, scroll stand what a point is, and therefore some of down to ''click here to start learning orplqying" where there is ajairfygoodPDF d!Jcument 'The wqy to go" the meaning of Euclid. Willis McCumber is a beginning Go plqyer who with background ieformation and instructions). is lookingfar other interested parties. A'!)'one who Impressions of a Freshman by Christopher Bartos Staff Writer Already I have started to notice some in- triguing oddities that come with college. First, there is the kid in my hall who never seems to be doing anything except for listening to music. One would think that in a school where reading is so necessary, that he would at least be listening to books on tape. No, his taste in music seems to be more eclectic, the oddest songs being of the Native American/ Electronica genre, not to mention the fact that he doesn't seem to be doing anything productive. Speaking of being unproductive: what about those acts that are not only unproductive, but also detrimental? The philosophical air that permeates throughout campus seems to be a grayish, tobacco-laden haze. After questioning many upperclassmen why this is so, I only received the answer "It's a bad habit, we know." I guess that having thoughts provoked invokes the need to smoke. Not to mention that it makes you look like a contemplatively disturbed French philosopher. Another interesting experience was my first lecture. A dear older woman sitting next to me attempted to withstand the shots of boredom emanating from the mouth of our well-respected dean Mr. Flaumenhaft. Little by little, she began to sink into her seat and could not escape the world of that "Silent Spartan," sleep. This is in no disrespect to our good dean; it is hard to make a speech that long even vaguely attention grabbing. They say that even vaudeville players couldn't keep an audience's attention for more than seven minutes. I congratulate the students who showed up stayed awake, and actually learned something. It was definitely a task. Yet it is precisely those tasks that make this school so different. We all pay attention, force ourselves through the basic languages of Greek or French, and even read the dullest of works with all the bravado and interest of a mystery novel. Hopefully, this will be an impression that will stay true for me and the rest of the college. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE GADFLY . 9 �10 . . . . : . THE GADFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . �Ga4f/y Funny Papers "'f Af. Jve.tt+vr~ .,.t: Joony Clf(.odv5 //,.; "'fniartr Y~'re $VG~ I\ \Jt4fflot1l• L +<1 KeS ~rtt ...; ,...., l'.)",e r?d..11 -tc fV' q c,ff~ .......-~."""'syixl~· ..;.'rn · i'ak:.ti' owl' ~~rtJ -----~ lky ¥-'nkJ ~ or 'We-t~ke ywr ! mone} 4.s..ir; d<. tJ.s yovr '1<.iJ il'l a meitt- ~r;nJ~ r J . ~ J Dean Flaumenhaft Administers "Bible with Beatings" or "Impressions on a Freshman" (This beating will be in five parts, and will last less than an hour) by James Pearson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE GADFLY . 11 �THE GADFLY DATE DUE St. John's College P.O. Box 2800 Annapolis, MD 21404 Have No Fear, Goe ates Live Amongst You by Leo Pickens by Natalie Rinn Staff Writer Athletic Director "Nat Young, perhaps the most influential surfer of the century- rangy, fit, and aggressive, with enormous stamina, long, fast-paddling arms, and an outsize ego that would seemingly demand big wave performancecould not bring himself to ride waves over twenty feet. 'I've only done it once, on one wave,' Young has said. 'And I don't ever wish to do it again. If those guys can enjoy themselves while their hearts and guts are falling down a mineshaft, then I respect them and their courage." From Maverick's, the Story of Big Wave Surfing, by Matt Warshaw More on big Wave performance. The Waves have got to be thanking their lucky stars for their freshman allocation, which sent the frosh bonus baby Mr. Drexler their way. Mr. Drexler is proving to be, only one week into the season, quite a force on both the football pitch and the soccer field. Mr. Drexler cooly put the Waves over the top of the Spartans with his field goal in double overtimein football; and then he not only meticulously swept the field on dee in the Waves first soccer game against the defending champ Hustlers, but managed to score the first goal of the soccer season with a fifty yard free kick that caught the Hustler goalie napping. For his classy debut, Mr. Drexler is named Athlete of the Week for the men. On the women's side of the ledger, two freshman posted a very good week of practice with the crew team, logging quite a few miles on the Severn while most of the classmates were still abed. Talking about Misses Fleming and Mathers. For their grit and determination out on the water during their first week of school, they are named co-Athletes of the Week for the women. 12 What do you get when you combine thirtyeight women with thirty-eight pairs of soccer cleats on a beautiful late-summer afternoon on the back campus of St. John's College? A kunai phenomenon, surpassing all attendance numbers over the past three years for the opening day of soccer season. Even better, this phenomenon is not only a wistful day dream of an old and washed-out kunai player; it is the 2004 kunai soccer reality. What a beautiful reality it is. Roberta Gable, Career Services Director and an honorary kunai, once again presented an inspiring season opening speech to the eager kunai audience. For the past three years I have watched Ms. Gable's kunai kick-off speeches. Not once have their insight and creativity ceased to amaze me or to put a wide smile on my face. This year's product was no different. As, unfortunately, no recording devices were present during the speech, I would like to impart to you her message; one that is not only truthful but also one that is important enough to be known by the rest of the Polity. Ms. Gable presented her speech, true to Johnnie form, using chalk, a black board, and a bit of Euclid's geometry and Newton's calculus. To follow her message without her sketches requires only You Make the Call According to NCAA soccer rules, is it legal to take a throw in while kneeling? First one to me with the right call goes to bookstore on me. You may leave your response on my voice mail, x2558. the slightest bit of imagination. Essentially, as Ms. Gable informs, the world of the kunai soccer players is composed of six parts: math, lab and music, language, seminar, soccer, and everything else. These six parts fit nicely into rectangles and triangles of various sizes which can be perfectly inscribed in a square. Through the circumscription of triangles around the parameter of the square and with the help of Newton's calculus, the square becomes a circle, which, naturally, we take to be a soccer ball. The segments of the kunai soccer player's world composed of math, lab and music, language, and seminar are swept to the outer edges of the soccer ball (read kunai world) in this process and the part of the kunai soccer player's world that remains prominently in the ball's center is, of course, soccer, the point to which all other parts in their world gravitate. Because this world is represented nicely and perfectly in any given soccer ball, when the kunai meet to play a game, their world and the playing object of their games is kicked around for over an hour by kunai members to all stretches of the kunai soccer field. But let us not forget: because the soccer ball is the kunai world, consequently, what has formerly been known as a soccer field, is in fact a celestial sphere and the kunai themselves, as they roam through out and to the outer stretches of their celestial sphere, are goddesses. Q.E.D. I thought it only fair that this nugget of knowledge, kindly relayed to the kunai by Ms. Gable last Friday, receive its proper due and acknowledgment and become a part of the consciousness of the St. John's polity. The kunai women will be meeting every Tuesday and Friday at 4:15 P.M. on back campus, come rain, shine, or bitter cold. Every woman, whether student, tutor, relative, or female who is in anyway related to the St. John's community is highly encouraged to join the kunai ranks. "I've never played before," is no excuse. Fans and spectators are also encouraged and welcome. . THE GADFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . � 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. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/86e26d2f27cc2d204f3cf7f6c43e5afc.pdf 4f49f4f1cfdd74ed9f4a6a822c7d3c7c PDF Text Text ST . JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1 1 1 1 1 1 1111~~m1J~1111111111111 _ T h _D ~· GADFLY Annapolis, Maryland September 14, 2004 The St. Johns College Student Week{y Volume XXVI, Issue 3 The Tenure-Free Zone: On History, and Some Other Johannine Taboos by A. P. David Tutor The ever photogenic Michael Moore Some Reactions to Fahrenheit 9/11 by Nick Colten Staff Writer It may come as a surprise to those who read my articles, that until last weekend, I had yet to see Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/ 11. I had been intentionally avoiding the film, mostly out of dislike for Michael Moore. On the shallowest level, he is simply unpleasant to look at and his whiny voice is hard on the ears. I do not like his immature jokiness, or his tactic of ambushing people and making them look bad on camera. He is prone to using innuendo and distorting facts or chronology to make a bigger impact on his audience. Though he and I probably share many political beliefs, I often question his commitment to them, if only to the extent that his antics can be counterproductive to the causes he espouses. In the most general terms, I found the film to be better than I was expecting, but it easily could have been much better. The trouble that I have with Fahrenheit 9 / 11 is the same that I have with Moore generally. In addition, the film consisted of several different sections that were not fit together very well. Each could have been developed into a good movie of its own, but instead Moore lumped them all together. Moore's main purpose is clearly to help make G.W Bush lose this year's election. This leads him to include any and all bad things that he can find in the film. Had he chosen to focus on one or even several of his criticisms, the film would have been a finer thing. Since his aim was not to produce a fine film, but was instead to make people feel bad toward Bush, it is possible that Moore's approach will still be effective. Another general complaint that I have with the film is Moore's running commentary and his use of silly music or 50s film and TV clips to augment his points. Some voiceover is necessary or good in documentaries. Moore's commentaries however tend not to be either. This was especially the case during a scene that used video of Bush on the morning of Sept. 11 "'·Instead of simply pointing out that Bush continued a photo-op after hearing that Some Reactions continued on page 8 (The following is a set of points embellished from a letter that I sent to Dean F1aumenhaft in response to his statement last year on the subject of 'history' and its role at St. John's. Many thanks to the Dean for the stimulus.) 1) The notion of history that refers in English to the totality of events- as in 'throughout history,' or 'that'll go down in history,' a fantastic sort of record of all events-perhaps to be found somewhere in a Borges library- is wholly inaccessible to St. John's, or history departments, or anyone else, and is an accident of this word's usage in English. It amounts to an equivocation. 'History' properly should refer only to the product of historians- that is to say, to the product of their inquiry into past events, rather than to the past itself- and this is how the N ew Program should understand and use the term, with one proviso: St. John's business should only be with great historians. Many writers on the Programme whom I consider to be historians are often denied to be such. These are the (generally prose) writers who produced such things as Genesis, 1 and 2 Samuel, Ulke and Atts, along with the inimitable Herodotus. We might use the term 'Herodotean' for this sort of historian who allows himself to see a divinity shaping human ends. The other sort of great ones universally described as historians could be called Thucydidean.' This group includes Tacitus, Gibbon, de Tocqueville, and perhaps Churchill (I have not yet On History continued on page 6 \ I t' �THE ...-GADFLY Editor-in-Chief Christopher B. Utter Production Manager Shoshana Goldstein A&E Editor Julie Janicki Business Manager Cathy Keene Photographer Clarke Saylor Contributing to this Issue A.P.David Christopher Bartos Nick Colten Erikk Geannikis Daniel Harrell J.A.M. Max Kronberg Willis McCumber D.E. Patterson James Pearson John Peterson Leo Pickens Natalie Rinn Judith Seeger Ben Strickland Amy Taylor Sarah Wilson Sean "the devil" Valles Founded in 1980, the Gadf!yis the student weekly distributed free to over 500 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. Opinions expressed within are the the sole responsibility of the author(s)and do not necessarilly represent the opinions of the Gadf!y staff. The Gadf!y reserves the right to reject or edit submissions in any way necessary to publish the most thoughtful, informative, and thought-provoking newspaper which circumstances at St. John's permit. Letters of 200 words or less have a better chance of being published than those longer. Letters submitted will be edited for grammar, punctuation, and spelling in most cases. The Gadfly is not obliged to publish all submissions and will not print anonymous submissions except under special circumstances. Deadline: Saturday at midnight, unless permission for a delay is granted in advance. Submissions will be accepted as long as they are legibly written, but typed copies, diskettes, and e-mail submissions are greatly preferred. Please e-mail submissions to sjcgadfly@yaboo.com. 2 Gadf!J Mailbox A disappointed Reader Dear Gadf!y, I suppose censorship is out of the question, but for every one commendable item in the Gadf!Y there seem to be two or three more to be lamented. And a well-placed asterisk here •.or there only punctuates the loss. We may all show something of the books we read in what we think, but many of us show nothing of those books in how we sound. A disappointed reader, Daniel Harrell Tutor Algebra &am Schedule Letter From the Editor Dear Polity, Many of you have recently expressed to me your views concerning the place of profanity in the Ga4f!y. Rather than make a blanket policy detision f.avoring one side-0r the other, -I will, instead, maintain the current standard while at the same time helping to organize a general discussion on profanity both here in the Ga4f!y and outside it, possibly in conjunction with the SCI. In the mean time, I encourage all contributors to exercise judgment and restraint in their submissions. Sincerely, Christopher Utter Editor-in-Chief This fall the Algebra Exam is going to be given six times, according to the following schedule: Wednesday, September 22 Saturday, September 25 Wednesday, October 20 Saturday, October 23 Wednesday,December8 Saturday, December 11 The Wednesday exams will be given at 7:30 PM The Saturday exams will be given at 10 a.m. Ifyou take the exam on Wednesday; I'll try to getit back to you before Saturday. The math assistants, Justin Lanier and Paul Patrone, will administer the exams, in Mellon 206 and 208. Please remember to take your student ID You will not be allowed to take the exam without it These are the onJy times the exam will be given this fall. As you know, all students are required to pass this exam by the end of the first semesterofthcir sophomore year; anyone who does not pass it by that time will not be able to enroll in the second semester. Practice copies of exams, as well as a review with solutions, are available in my office. The exams are all very similar in content, so using these will provide you with a good diagnosis and useful practice. The math assistants are available to help you prepare for the exams. In the spirit ofhelping, you actually learn algebra so that your junior and senior math and lab tutorials will be better for you and everyone elsein them (as distinct from simply helpingyou cram to pass a test), theywill schedule regular review sessions. Lookfor signs tellingyou when and where review sessions will be heldlf you haveanyquestionsabouttheAlgebraExam,please stop by my office to talk. Judith Seeger Assistant Dean . THE GADFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ;;::::'.:7.·•· fSeXiJ_~Jf.:l).e~d~t-0ry·~pkfiie~··~t.!;i·.··· • . ~} MoneRf!°vi~ Farenheit 9}i1JL.• '>'"'::"'' Articlt;-;;_:~•• :.~;;.~;.;::'"'.. ;S~:~.•::?.....;~~.~~::::;'Z.Z :..·. ,'>,;,:>:, ''~'.;.,',, f~ Pafiers.:~.J~;;~.JI;;~jJ:%~./tJf;Zj. Th~ .Bl5;~:;{ad F.all.'>ftif J~~##.l~ •! ··. Gadfly » ,;,,,';<i;',;; '-:>> ,' <"''~! ,' '.,~''-~,-~~;\~ >_'},;~:' ,, ·P.elif/:c:.~··i .:~·~·:·~;:..:~=~:):.1:;~~:,;:~;.·~~=i~~t,;; . .· J..J;;~o~..~'.~~'.~~:i~;.:.:.i~~::.;!}~~i~;;~~~l~~;_jj•··••:. Prospective Students Dear Students: Prospective students and tutors will soon begin to visit our campus. Please take the time to be welcoming, and to answer their questions. It may be a bit of trouble for you on a busy day, but it will be a great service to the visitors and to your college. Harvey Flaumenhaft Dean �Re: Budgets and Club Charters Archons: Semester budget requests must be in to DC Secretary Erikk Geannikis by Friday, September 18. Please follow the budget format. If you did not receive a copy in campus mail, request one from Mr. Geannikis. Any pending charter must be in by the same date in order to be . -eonsideredtbis semesters budge~ Pleasefollow charter format Amy Taylor DC President Ha-Ishah by D. E. Patterson Dear Jews' Clues: How come you guys are so hard on me? Sure, I may be a whiny freshman without any real college experience who wrote a crappy article criticizing the entire College, but does that justify an ad hominem attack? Sincerely, Crying Hard Right In Seminar Because All Required Texts Are Overbearingly Stressful Dear C.H.R.I.S.B.A.R.T.A.0.S.: First of all, it's awesome that you made an acronym out of your name. We here at Jews' Clues know how hard it is to come up with a solid acronym. However, perhaps you should consider learning how to spell your own name. We're pretty sure it's "Bartos" and not "Bartaos." But, like you said, you're a freshman. Bytheway: ad ho minem Pronunciation: (')ad-'ha-m&-"nem, -n&m Function: adjective Etymology: New Latin, literally, to the person 1 : appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect 2: marked by an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made We attacked every point you brought up in your original stupid thing. Our attack was the opposite of an ad hominem attack. An ad hominem attack would be calling you fat and ugly, you overweight, hideous [expletive deleted). Cordially, J.C. JCShalom to the good people of 16 East Street: JP Mcln!Jre, Aaron Brager, Will Whittaker, Matt Mclean, Caitrin Hill, and RondaU Darling. That'll do, pig. That'll do. Especial Shalom to Caitrin Hill, for having a fake name. Kay-trin. Really? Shalom to Arie Doke, for having an even fakername than Caitrin. Shalom to Joe Dobbyn, for having the realest name ever. Math Assistants The math assistants will run simultaneous classes on trigonometry, functions, and simplifying equations on Thursday, September 21 from 7 to 9 PM and Friday, September 24, from 4 to 5 PM in McDowell 13 and 14. These classes will provide excellent preparation for the Algebra Exam as well as a refresher for juniors who would like to brush up on their algebra before embarking on the calculus. Judith Seeger Assistant Dean The girl with the auburn hair and dark eyes, Who has a pert smile for every boy, Sits upon a terrace surrounded like roy, Smoking her hooka which at her feet lies. Pleasant odoriferous smoke upwards flies As her looks tum each man into her toy. Glancing this way, and that, being quite coy, Saying nothing as she dances with eyes, Or smokes, or sips Turkish coffee, slowly. She lays her bare white delicate arm gently Upon the bare wooden arm of her chair Tempting one love to take over her cae Intertwining fingers so that he might Take her out of the cool Arabian night. [Submittedfor the September 7, 2004 issue of the Gadly in reference to Seducers and Corrupters-Ed) Missing Books Several psychology book taken from outside the Career Services office. Contact the Gadfly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE GADFLY . 3 �Top Ten Cleverest Songs Ever Written song, remembering Paris while stranded in the 3. "Common People" from Different desert with "camel in disrepair." Songwriter and singer Colin Meloy rhymes disrepair with a Class by Pulp Oscar Wilde once said "everyone's clever When Morrissey put down the epigram- longed for Frigidaire, then goes on to rhyme nowadays." Well, obviously he was living in a matic torch passed to him by Wilde, Pulp's "reprieve" with "Joie de vivre" and "gay Paris." different time. An "age of ideals" as one of Jarvis Cocker picked it up and wryly wielded it But that's not all folks, next we've got the his characters called it. Not ev~ryoneis cl~ver _"-- at the upper class befoi;e adjusting his glasses. rhymes, "medicating in the sun with pinch nowadt!Js. In fact, cleverness seems to be a rare "She came from Greece, she had a thirst for -- dos~s oflaud~iim, longing for the old feeunvirtue, especially knowledge, she dity of my home land," and "curses to this where music is studied sculpture at mirage, a bottle of ancient shiraz." And it's concerned. I adSt. Martin's Col- pretty darn catchy too. lege" he tells us of mire cleverness 7. "I Don't Want to Get Over You" from and my little anhis posh girlfriend tennae tend to before taking her to 69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields It's hard to pick just one song from the pick it up when I a supermarket, so hear it in songs. she can see "what- Magnetic Fields' ouvre for a list of the cleverest Like so many, I "HI seem a little strange, that's because I am." ever common songs ever, but this happens to be the one -Morrissey entertained adopeople see." Also playing while I'm writing this, so I figured it's lescentnotions of check out other as good a choice as any. The narrator relates a penning brilliant song lyrics with exquisitely pnme Cockerisms like his rhyming of number of ways he could get over an ex-flame, amongst them, "I guess wrought, unstrained rhymes. However, I even- "Deborah" with "never suited I should take Prozac tually had to realize that free verse was more ya" on the song "Disco 2000." right, and just smile all my thing. As such, I am particularly impressed But could we expect anything less night at somebody new, by clever rhymes. So here's a list of clever songs. witty from a man who once said somebody not too Many of them contain particularly fine rhymes "I am not Jesus Christ although bright but sweet and or particularly lucid commentary, or very unique we have the same initials?" kind, who would try to proclamations. get you off my mind, I 4. "Kill the Poor" from 1. "I Believe" from A Different Kind of Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegcould leave this agony behind, which is just Tension by the Buzzcocks etables by the Dead Kennedys what I'd do if I wanted Pete Shelley, blessed with a Mancunian acJello Biafra suggests a practito, but I don't want to cent, rhymes "nadir'' with "idea." Wow. He cal use for the neutron bomb. get over you." My favorbelieves in a wide variety of cleverly rhymed "Unsightly slums go up in ite line from the song is ideals and concepts such as the ''web of fate" flames," "no more welfare tax to "I could make a career out and that he's "going to be late." No, no, too pay," "jobless millions whisked Jello Biafra. What else can we say? clever. I think I might faint. of being blue, I could away," he promises. He gets exdress in black and read tra cleverness points for using the 2. "There is a Light That Never goes word "whisk" which I do not believe has ever Camus, smoke clove cigarettes and drink verOut'' from The Queen is Dead by the been successfully employed in a punk song mouth like I was 17, that would be a scream, Smiths before or since. He envisions dancing the night but I don't want to get over you." Check out Where Mr. Wilde left off is where Morrissey away as the poor are incinerated. Do I hear the any of the Magnetic Fields' other work or any (ah Morrissey with his Irish blood and En- theme song for the next political convention? albums by lead singer songwriter Stephen Merritt's other bands, the GothicArchies, Fuglish heart, Morrisey who never had a job because he's too shy) picked up. He even once 5. "Satan Gave me a Taco" from ture Bible Heroes, or the 6ths, for more superbright songs. informed a friend that he or she would always Stereopathic Soul Manure by Beck lose in a war of words between them, because Um, it's called Satan Gave me a Taco and is 8. "Roseability" from 100 Broken Winhe, Morrissey, had Wilde on his side. This about a rock video and was written by Beck. I charming man had a gift for writing songs that really don't think this requires further explana- dows by ldlewild Idlewild have a number of pretentiously can incapacitate you with either hysterical laugh- tion. clever pop-punk tunes under their belt, but this ter or weeping depending on what mood you happen to be in. No song illuminates that abil6. "The Legionnaire's Lament'' from is the one that takes the cake. You've doubtless ity better than this very clever gem. The king of Castaways and Cutouts by the heard the quote "a rose is a rose is a rose," more times than you can count. The source of the miserabalists imagines being crashed into Decemberists by a double decker bus as a conduit for roSung from the perspective of a French Le- the quote is Gertrude Stein, who got Roddy mance. No one can tell me that's hackneyed. gionnaire, an unusual perspective for a pop Woomble, Idlewild's lead scribe wondering, by Sarah Wilson Staff Writer 4 THE GADFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . �"shouldn't things be rnseable?" "Roseability, Johnny Cash for Pete's sake! The original man roseability, there is no roseability, and Gertrude in black who shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die was both socially conscious Stein said that's enough and pretty hilarious. This song is (but I know that that's sung from the perspective of a very not enough now) and deep voiced guy whose Dad named Gertrude Stein said him Sue before leaving the kid and that's enough ... Stop his mom. In the end he meets his looking through scrapPa, discovers that ol' Dad just named books and photograph him that so he'd grow up strong. I albums because I know . . they can't teaeh you\vhat defy anyone not to giggle when he reintroduces himself to his Dad you don't already know and you've always been with the line "my name is Sue, how dissatisfied," he sings, do you do?" or muses, after realizing his Dad's good intentions "If I instantly becoming one Gertrude Stein. Rosable? have a son, I think I'm gonna name of those singers who increases literacy amongst his fans and becom- him ...Bill or George, anything but Sue." ing the heart throb for arty bookworms the 10. ''The Galaxy Song" by Python memworld over. ber Eric Idle from Monty Python's The 9."A Boy Named Sue" from At San Meaning of Life (film) Quentin: the Complete '69 Concert by "Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at nine Johnny Cash I'm not a big fan of country, but I love hundred miles an hour, That's orbiting at nineJohnny Cash, because, well, I mean, he's teen miles a second or so its reckoned ... " a The Pink Triangle Society Eric Idle, stylishly clad stylishly clad Eric Idle informs a glum housewife in The Meaning of Life upping the already high cleverness quotient in Python songs. If you like this, check out "The Bravely Bold Sir Robin" from Monty Python and the Ho/y Grail or "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" from the Life ofBrian, making for a more inflamma-· tory crucifixion scene than anything seen in the Passion of the Christ. The Tuesday Nite "Fites," Week XXXI Results: A comfortable place for the discussion of issues of sexuality Title "Fite" in caps, winners in bold, scores in parenthesis. DRUGS vs. ORGASM (16-45) Nuclear War vs. Ascension unto Heaven (21-40) Pants vs. Dance (25-36) Wednesday, September 15, 5:00 PM Barr-Buchanan Basement, Room 005 EVERYONE IS WELCOME! The Will vs. The Intellect (45-16) For more information, please refer regu- · :larly to http:/ /jwv.livejournal.com and the: :Screen Name TuesdayNiteFites. Don't forget: :to come to TNF Wk XXXII Tuesday from: :9PM-11idnite in the Nelson Room in BBC. THE GADFLY 5 �On History continued from front page read him and rely on reports). They present a united front and a type, and give the lie to any idea that historians can be without bias. These men were rationalist, atheist, aristocratic-and prone to a periodic style, studded with ironic and hemi-tragic sententiae. Their similarity on these points cuts across a spurious, pseudo-historical distinction between 'ancient' and 'modem.' · !he-Timcydidean eoriveys a "Setf~F ofawesome resignation, ineffably masculine, that understands somehow deeply and implicitly that women, and other feminine forces, do not play an important role in the shaping of events. The Herodotean, on the other hand, seems to understand the opposite, just as deeply. 2) The greatest lacuna in St. John's students' preparation for books and for life is their almost complete ignorance of the French Revolution. The chemistry sequence in freshman lab is one of the most interesting 'courses' on the French Revolution and the spread ofits influence that is studied anywhere, but of course this must be lost on our students. Both George Eliot's and Jane Austen's contributions can be seen as treatments of the Revolution across the water, from the angle, 'why that didn't happen here.' The love marriage at the hub of both English life and English novels creates a mini-revolution in the landscape that can redistribute wealth and rank without bloodshed. (The dimensions ofthe secret confrontation betweenLadyCathetinedeBouigh and Elizabeth Bennet in the garden are quite as grand as that between the claims of aristocracy and the rights of man.) But this aspect of these works, high in the consciousness of their authors, must also be lost on our students. I have been in the ludicrous position ofreading Tolstoy and Hegel with students who had no acquaintancewith theRevolution and the rise ofNapoleon; whereas the works we read at the beginning of senior year could scarcely have been conceived without these events. I would suggest that the problem for us is very serious, not merely because we should not graduate students who are ignorant of this world-shaping event-that is important too--but more central to our concern is that so many of our books suffer greatly, lose some of their native power to signify and to teach, when their readers are ignorant of the French Revolution. Cervantes and Dante give us a lot of 'background' as a constitutive part of their works, but we are all simply supposed to know about France and the Revolution in France when we read Austen, Eliot, Tolstoy and Hegel. (Serious issues also arise in junior language, where we read pre-Revolutionary poetry and its diction by means 6 . THE GADFLY . . . . . . . of post-Revolutionary editions and dictionaries. "Hey, man, the new Larousse is out." "Hot damn, Fred-maybe it'll tell us the absolute latest truth about chagrin and ennut1" "[sigh] Silly boys ... ") There has been no definitively great history, it seems to me, because the dust has yet to settle from that event, and the writing of its history remains a deeply partisan, ideological institution. Tacitus refers to an historian of a gen_ eration_prior, one Cremujiu~ C::ordus,_~~o "".~~~ broUght up on treason charges under tiberius for writing a work which praised Brutus and Cassius. Some seventy years separate Cremutius from the fall of Brutus and Cassius, as he points out in his defense. A further ninety-odd years separate theAnnab-from Cremutius. The passage of time has apparently made the conspirators' memory less controversial to the office ofprinceps, for Cremutius' books were secretly preserved after his suicide, and were subsequently published. Tacitus comments: And so one is all the more inclined to laugh at the stupidity efmen who suppose that the desponsm efthe present can actua#y efface the remembrances ef the next generation. On the conmny, the persecution of genius fasterr its i1!f!uence;foreign 'tyrants, and all who have imitated their oppression, have memfyprocured ief for themselves all!Y and glory for their victims. [4.35] Tacitus is usually subtler than this; the closing sen-rentia speaks of"foreign" kings (extemi reges) simply, it would seem, to keep Tacitus himself out of court He is sanguine about the inefficacy of such tactics, of the insusceptibility of ideas to tyrannical censorship. But it is evident that he himself is still unable to write such an history in his day. The issue seems to have stayed alive until very recently. Dante places them in Satan's jaws, while Brutus and Cassius were heroes to the American founders. One recourse we have, which in many ways would trump the efforts of the history departments, would be to read two indisputably great, wonderfully partisan works from the era and its aftermath. If we become confident about the notion of history as the product of historians, we need not scruple about biases. It is obvious to both writer and reader alike (there is no deception) that these histories are not authorless. One is Burke's R.efleaions on the Revolution in France. Selections from this could occupy two or even only one Seminar. (It would also be interesting to look at his speech to parliament on the American Revolution, which of course he admired) A look at the Santa Fe reading list suggests that either Hobbes or Kant or both could spare us a meeting in the junior year. l\filton could also be pressed. The other is de Tocqueville's L:Ancien Regime et la Revolution. Three seminars would suffice, after Tolstoy and before Hegel. (This is a minor chronological reversal compared to, say, readingMiddleman-hin the middle of junior year.) There are many options for displacement in the seniorschedule,includingreplacingde Tocqueville's own treatment of America, which is of course a __ favmu;ite, hu.L~ 1lllwieldy for~~ and ripe for a preceptorial. I think that we should take our studentsoutofthemselves,aplacewheretheytend to dawdle without our encouragement; let them learn something about the real meaning of revolution, and about France. L:Ancien Re.?fme is far the greater of de Tocqueville's books in my view--albeit a very different work--perhaps the most elegant example ofan historical thesis ever written. I have taught both these works in the past They work extremelywellin the classroom and will speak for themselves at the seminar table. 3) I agree with you [Dean Flaumenhaft] about the historical nature ofgrammars, lexica and dictionaries. I have written to you in the past about the shortcomings in our treatment of them. We need to start reading Saussure, and to keep his notion of 'historical' in our toolkit (I shall say more on this in my third planned installment for the Zone.) 4) I also agree with you that the curriculum is an historical statement about the past. One need only look at the original list inscribed in the lobby ofBarr-Buchanan to see this. Only three works of Plato, and so many Romans! We even studied Latin then (the 'liberal arts' are aLatin concept that cannot even be translated into Greek). Will we ever return to the Romans? Are we still prepared to make a radical historical judgment, to look over the currents of time and the stature of its leading lights, and decide a canon? Will it always be the case, for example, that Descartes is considered the centre of time, the angel of a new New Testament? What would our Programme look like ifwe met him a semester or even a year later than we do? Shall we ever acknowledge the influence of eastern works in the modern era, and introduce some Eastern classics into the senior year (which is where they belong in a western chronology)? The emphasis on American writers and 'issues' in the last semester of senior year must strike other practitioners in the liberal arts as a touch parochial. Few of those readings would make a great books list beyond our shores, and in point of fact, they do not make many within them. Perhaps seniors should be preparing to be citizens not just of a free society, but also of a free world. �Movie Review: Fahrenheit 9/11 by Willis McCumber Staff Writer "I guess you can see where this is leading" says Michael Moore - and indeed we can. Fahrenheit 9/11 feels like the easiest fill-in-the-blank question ever asked: a collage of juxtapositions glued together with a never dearly stated but always present forgone conclusion. As we watch, :Moore attempts to extract this conclusion from us with a variety of methods, ranging from terrifying war footage to humorous shots of our evidently simian president. But are we in agreement with ]\.fr. Moore by the end of the film? That depends whether we already were-for Fahrenheit 9/11 does more to entertain, delight, or enrage t..na.'1 convince. This is largely because l\fr. J\foore's method often obscures his valid points. The Elm is sinmlta...-ieously a smearing of t.1-ie president and a social commentary about the role of war; this manifold message is often dissonant wit,l.:i a wavering atmosphere of humor and horror. Does this dissonance add or detract from the film? In fact it adds, for J\fr. Moore is not really concerned \v:ith a clear and reasoned argument, although he will use valid points when he sees fit. The film is really concerned with influencing voters - and the way to do this, as .Mr. J\foore clearly sees, is to revel in controversy and draw attention, whether it be in the form of rage or delight. That said, he does assemble some impressive images. The entire Bin Ladin family was flown oucof theUnited States on September 13, 2001. The Saudi royal family and the Bin Ladin's collectively own a very large chunk of the U.S. economy- six or seven percent. This Saudi money has been very useful to the Bushes over the yea...-s. \V. was discharged from the Texas .ill National Guard simultaneously with James R. Bath, one of the money managers for the Bin Ladin's in the US. George H. W Bush was on the board of the Carlyle Group, which owned a company that made the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, which i_n turn stood to gain a considerable amount from "Operation Iraqi Freedom." Bush did in fact say at a Washington banquet, i.11 front of a large crowd of partyi..-ig wealthy people, "here we have the haves - and the have-mores. Some call you the elite. I call you my base." Juxtapose this with Bush's "we wage a war to save civilization itself," throw in a few classic Bush faux pas, cut to tanks blowing up Baghdad while "we don't need no water let the mother f*cker bum" plays in the helmets of the soldiers, and you have the essence of the film. We cannot help but be rattled by this. As we leave the theatre, J\fichael Moore seems to call after us "I'll take that as a 'yes"' - but we do not match his confidence. If we are liberal and immature, we may be stirred up and joyful. If we are conservative and stupid, we may be convinced that the film was one long lie. If we are either liberal or conservative and reasonable, we can remain convinced of our previous notions and appreciate Fahrenheit 9/11 for what it is: a masterful piece of propaganda. Before the closing shot of Bush trying and failing miserably to say "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" J\fr. Moore quotes George Onvell: " ... the war is not meant to be won; it is meant to be continuous." J\foore then concludes that t.'ie object of war "is to keep the very structure of society intact." At last, it seems, he has brought up a truly important idea - much more important than the film Fahrenheit 9 /11. It is t.lUs idea that we should consider when we think about the society we participate in and the role of our society in the international sphere. [Sexually Derogatory Expletive] Article by Sean "the devil" Valles Staff Writer It has come to my attention that a certai.'1 person or persons, includh"'1g at least one tutor (names a.re not necessary), take some issue with my use of the word "f*ck" in the title ofmy column. I find t..his to be a valid concern, and so I would like to use the space of my colu.= this week to reply to these concerns that were rrade known to me by several third parties. Let me begin by sayiri..g that although I consider t.11.is concern to be a valid one, I do not believe that the occasional and appropriate (yes, this is possible) use ofprofanity should be ofsignificant concern to any mature adult. I have titled my column "Stop Taking You..-self So F*cking Seriously" because that is precisely ·what I mean to say to those persons whom my article is addressing. I freely admit that my penchant for hyperbole is well known to my friends and many of my acquainta.flces. But the title of my article is not just an overblown joke. But first let me eA'J'lain, lest there be any doubt, thatiloveSt. John's, and even after more than three years of study here, I do not regret my decision to become a student at this college. That having been said, I find this corrummity's atmosphere, incidentally to its purpose, to be highly conducive to selfrighteousness and what amollllts to shooting off opinions and theories from the hip. It is this tendency to simply spout out thoughts t.hat ca...<i become dangerous when nobody is willing to be a little offensrve by disagreeingwith a person's ridiculous claims. In short, I worry about the fact that St. John's makes it too easy to neglect the personal responsibility of internal rigor. I love this community, but a.11 I the 011Jy one who wishes that every once-in-a-while my colleagues would pause in their soliloquies and ask themselves "wait a minute, am I foll of itrightnow?"Well,I do feel that way. Life is too short to coddle or indulge the half-baked t..1ieories of those who should kr1ow better or who should simply try harder. It is simply irresponsible dialectic rigor to say to somebody that they "maybe are mistaken in this point" when one truly wants to convey to that person that they are being ·..VJ!fully ignorant or lazy in their thinking. For example, in my cohID111 lastweek I accused .Mr. Yatarola of exactly that sort of dialectic slothfulness when he essentially said that John Kerry, as a rich person, speakir1g as if he was on the side of the poor is a new kind ofhubris. Anyone willing to put three seconds ofthought into that claim can see that itis blatantlyfulse. Should I have said to Ivfr. Yatarola, "peril-ups t.lut is not a completely ac=ate statement"? Not a chance. If there is ever a time for profanity, then I thi..'lk that the ignorant sermonizing of a self-styled cou.'"!ter-Colten pundit presents exactly the tight time to use it. Perhapsmorebrevitymighthavebenefitedmy point, but I do vli.sh to rr.w.ke myself perfectly dear. I believe that there are good points, stupid points, and £!'eking stupid points. If someone says sometl>ing in a public forum that is just not very good, then weaker language is called for. But if someone starts taking him or herself entirely too f*cking seriously, then I will respond with the language Article continued on page 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE GADFLY . 7 �Reactions continued from front page planes had crashed into the World Trade Center and showing the nearly seven minute period in which Bush read The Pet Goat with a classroom full of kids, Moore indulges in sinister speculations of what Bush was thinking. It would have been a far better thing for Moore to simply have let the tape run and let the pictures do the talking. My last overall problem with the film is Moore's insinuations regarding ties between the Bin Laden family and the Bush family. Undoubtedly there were some, and there still are certainly troubling conflicts of interest between the Bushes, their associates and the Saudis, but Moore goes further than he needs to and further than he should in suggesting ill-intent and collaboration between Osama Bin Laden and the Bushes. One of the problems of being a conspiracy theorist is that one loses a sense of irony; nothing is able to happen unintentionally. I1l readily admit that Bush and his circle willingly act in illegal or immoral ways that are contrary to our national interests. Overall though, I think they are primarily just corrupt, short-sighted and tremendously incompetent. \'V'hy these things are reason enough to despise the Bush people, vote them out of office and throw some of them in jail. The better parts of the film tended to involve less Moore. The segments on the Iraq war and the manner in which U.S. military recruiters prey on the poor were probably the best. The latter featured two Marine sergeants who were surprisingly candid about the aggressive methods they use to get people to join up and a conversation with a bunch of high school kids from poor families who spoke of the repeated visits by military recruiters and the sizeable number of their relatives in the armed forces. The segments on Iraq were more varied, featuring scenes of combat and hospitals, interviews with soldiers, and a conference for military con- tractors. A few comments from the interviews stick with me in particular. One is by a soldier who speaks of the importance of having the right kind of hard rock music playing over his headset when his armored vehicle goes into battle. In another, a soldier expressing confused frustration over the fact that he's trying to help the Iraqis and they don't seem to understand that. Another, perhaps the most effective exchange, has a soldier commenting on how he and his fellows are being paid $2,000 or $3,000 per month to provide security for an oil tanker truck, while the truck driver, a Halliburton employee, gets paid $8,000 per month. "Explain that one to me," says the soldier. The emotional centerpiece and the section in which Moore tries to tie together most of the disparate parts, involves a woman named Lila Lipscomb.1\frs. Lipscomb is presented as someone who has worked her way off of welfare and helps to manage a program that helps others do the same. She tells Moore that she encouraged her children to joined the armed forces because it would provide them with opportunities to travel and get an education, that their meager family income would never allow for. She is a religious woman and describes herself as a conservative Democrat, who until recently thought badly of anti-war protestors. The scenes with 1\frs. Lipscomb are all quite affecting, especially the one in which she recounts the call informing her of her son's death and one in which she argues with a supporter of the war who wishes to deem the troubled occupation as just a "stage" we're going through. In fact they are so affecting, they made me uneasy with much of the rest of the film. They make much of the earlier scenes about mocking Bush seem snide and petty. The mocking scenes in turn make me a worry a little that the more emotional scenes are being used somewhat cynically by Moore to manipulate his audience. Fahrenheit 9/11 is an unavoidably infuriating film. For people who dislike Bush, it informs or reminds them of all the reasons to dislike him. For people who sort of like Bush, it could well be disillusioning. For people who really like Bush, it should be disillusioning, but is probably only bound to produce defensiveness. For people who are concerned with being scrupulous with facts and who wish to avoid cheap shots, it's a disappointment. Regardless of Moore's bias -which is generally so blatant-that -· it can easily be corrected for--he includes so much unflattering public information about Bush that it is hard to conceive of a fair-minded person leaving the movie without thinking worse of him. All in all, despite its many flaws, it is a film that most Americans would benefit in watching, especially those who pay little attention to the news. Article continued from page 7 that is appropriate to the situation. On a related note, the next time someone has a problem with me or with the way I write, I ask that person to talk to me, instead of putting me in the position of hearing a half-dozen accounts of a person or persons going to my friends and colleagues and speaking with them about me and my work. Should anyone wish to speak to me, I am remarkably easy to find, I'm the balding goateed Latino guy who's not 1\fr. Higuera. But, as long as I keep receiving third-party reports of complaints, I will continue to give third-party replies by means of the Gadfly. I am perfectly willing to keep up a public forum on the word "f*ck" and profanity in general, but if the problem is more specific than that, I give an open invitation and an offer of a free beer with me at the Ram's Head to anyone who wishes to discuss this matter in a non-public forum. But until I hear a damn good reason to do otherwise, I will continue to call my column "Stop Taking Yourself So F*cking Seriously." The I<ing William Players Will be holding open auditions for Robert Bolt's A Man For All Seasons On Tuesday, Wednesday, & Friday, (Sept. 21, 22, & 24) From 4 - 6pm In FSI< Auditorium. Readings and Information available at Front Desk in The Greenfield Library. 8 . THE GADFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . �On Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9 / 11 and 'Your Crappy Opinions' by John Peterson Staff Writer Michael Moore wrote and directed Fahrenheif 9/ 11, .the.successful "docwnentary'' seet.J. this past Saturday night in FSK. Who is he? Perhaps in himself he sees the triwnphant champion of all that is good and right, using facts and logic to dispel error wherever he sees it. Or is he the dutiful but hwnble citizen who only speaks out at the most grievous public offenses? What is he and what is his role as a participant in public debate? How is he successful? He strikes a chord with many people operating on certain sentimental levels by tapping into general wells of feeling like distrust, fear, and goodwill. At the same time he keeps up an appearance of wisdom with an eclectic series of facts, visual, audible, and printed quotations, testimony, and evidence, with feigned research and investigation. These often result in heroic attempts at "interviews,'' which if they do occur are more like tantrums, consisting of Moore being unfair and uncivil to people, usually repeating facts previously mentioned in the film or otherwise obscure sentimental information relating to people he may or not have brought with him to the interview. This usually makes both the people he brings with him and the people interviewed uncomfortable, while Moore looks courageous. These affairs can be as simple as bringing kids from Columbine with him to harass an oblivious and innocent cashier at a K-Mart sporting-goods store, or even chasing down congressmen with one brave but otherwise insignificantly disenchanted soldier while waving pamphlets on a clipboard. The point is that the congressmen's kids are not soldiers, yet the country recruits young men in the cheap mall in Moore's hometown of Flint, :Michigan, and for some reason this is an inherent injustice. This is class warfare populism at its best: Thry're using us. Moore also milks the anti-war sentiment in Fahrenheit 9/11, though he never explicitly invokes it as a principle. Instead he argues against war as a circumstantial matter, using undefined notions of procedural and legal prudence in the matters of international relations, not to mention of justice itself. This allows him to argue against a specific war by using facts and research arbitrarily to bias his audience into be- lieving that his subjects did not comply with some undefined notions or proper procedures. Since his audience is usually ignorant of both those procedures and the context.from which, the facts and research are taken, and also if they are sentimentally pre-disposed to think that all war or violence is wrong, they are mostly inclined to accept Moore's interpretation. Moore's physical appearance is also important to his identity. He is a big, fat, perhaps even disgusting man, repulsive to look at, and obnoxious to hear speaking. He is self-important and proud, and worst of all, he is a hypocrite. He pretends to be working class with his scruffiness and his baseball cap, but he was never one of the 'us.' He is a rich man who uses people and preys on their ignorance and fears. He exploits victims of suffering for his own personal moneymaking purposes, and, worst of all, for his vanity. He is a false man, and not even a Gorgias among sophists. I do not believe his fa<;:ade of caring and daring. Watch him when one of his sob-story cases is emotional or crying and see if you are not pained at his lack of poise and sensibility with the lights and cameras in his victims' faces. Do not feel his movie moment, just look at that false man. [Zoom in.] What was he thinking? Was he thinking, "This is some great footage"? Because Moore's arguments are not even arguments in that they have no principles and his facts and research have no identifiable structure, they cannot be refuted on the logical or circwnstantial level; they can only be rejected sentimentally. He summons the same spirits as one Moqtada al Sadr in a land far away, he uses. the same wellsprings of general fear and distrust, he preys on the same ignorance of law and contingent knowledge, and profits in the same shameful and gluttonous way. Both seek to destroy and condemn while promoting his own image, but al Sadr might be the better man in the end, having perhaps some belief in an authority higher than he. He also understands the necessary use of force (unlike Moore), and by using divine words adopts a semblance of grace, however falsely. Moore uses many popular notions but no divine words. He probably thinks he is Socrates, the gadfly pestering the huge cow of American government. Such a notion is laughable-so far from asking fundamental questions of hwnan interest that challenge political assumptions Moore serves the interests of political factions. (W0' don'tyoujust vote, Socrates?) How many of you are doomed to be blind to such a false and fleeting show of wisdom? He is but a speck in the dustbin. Michael Moore does represent an important, necessary, and unavoidable part of national dialogue in a democracy. He operates on the same level as both political parties and even those who seek to discredit him. Sentimental appeals are not inherently wrong; they in fact convey truth sometimes more adequately than any other means. This is the realm of poetry. However this form of "poetry" should be frowned upon in the republic that is St. John's. It is the lowest form of the ephemeral political things that corrupt the mind and perpetuate the sense of crisis and urgency so prevalent in our culture and which are so hostile to real thinking. In this critique I include all those repetitions of counterfeit opinion that concern such illustrious topics as 'Whether George Bush is good or bad,' 'Whether John Kerry is good or bad,' or 'Why this is an important election,' all of which come from the world of deception and distant unknowable circwnstance and would be better left there. If these matters must press on us, let us engage them with caution, not fanaticism. Political campaigns are as foreign to St. John's as politically correct course studies, and they should be. So please, keep your crappy political opinions to yourself. . . . . . . . . THE GADFLY . 9 �Film Society presents ASsUI.IE TH:E POSITIOl~ tr1is sa tui~da v 9/18 ·" . at 8 post meridian in T'SK audi toi"'ium. Only three dollars. With sheer originality and bold,unflinching humor, Secretary embraces a most unconventional relationship and lays open he notion that love doesn't always occur in the traditionalfashion. Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal) has afew strikes against her when she applies for a secretarial position at the law office of E . Edward Grey (James Spader).-For starters, she was released only recently from a mental institution. However, he gets the job anyway and soon learns that Mr . Grey is not your average boss. Eventually, they begin a relationship, crossing lines that would give most human resource directors the shivers. Director Steven Shainberg performs a remarkable/eat by taking what could be construed as weighty material and infusing it with sensuality and, even more surprisingly, humor. The honed character development lures us to the darker side ofhuman sexuality, all the while warming us up to the idea that people are getting and giving what they want. While it toys with society's expectations of love, Secretary also explores the delicate balance between pain and healing, control and surrender. It couldn't be labeled old-fashioned but, when all is said and done, Secretary is, at its core, a love story. .1.0. ; . THE GADFLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . �Gac!f/y Funny Papers \VdumH-: t.o lime St Jolm's ~d<ere the books tdJ all. Here l'OU debate who's and ivho's a goofball. Ure :me:nis wis~ and drr; ,four mascc..ts a pl.;UJ1n;s., no one unde!Stands why. WOiiU:l.tTJIJS '"'-'_l--- ~ \., Across me Ji~t.E I1'lHM who li:T!'it l'.L" not k?'I' af\~?esirern •u'"'"""'·' .. but do lost: at Thc.re~r;, ~ Jibr:uy arid donm (,,is vre ronrumc the tour) whidi }~ouse JVl1 and "'--41~~--... strip pokc::.r ~-.. or so I haxe he-.'i."fi. Established t•lay back whfrn Thar1b for coming md ;mi.y. Remer.nber, you're a ~\fr. ar ir0fl1 now ao, and its J"Olff job to Uilk to ci"e4'J'Me, so sf:Ml metnmiz.ing nanJCi)• Mr. Kates, a phenomenologist, cooks bacon and eggs I 1 by James Pearson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE GADFLY . 11 �DATE DUE THE GADFLY St. John's College P.O. Box 2800 Annapolis, MD 21404 Notes by Leo Pickens Athletic Director "Fatigue makes cowards of us all." Vince Lombardi The Kunai Kthonai are off to a great start, with huge participation on the part of all the women soccer players at the College. In the first game of league play, the combination of the Golden Calves and Forms won a narrow victory, 2-1. In her debut outing, super-soph 1fiss Beall demonstrated a natural talent for stepping to the ball and pushing it up the field. For her great play, and pacing her team to victory, 1fiss Beall is named.Athlete of the Week for the women. More on debuts. How about the first games of Santa Fe transfer, Mr. Denby? Is this guy a classy ball player or what? In his first soccer game with the Spartans, Mr. Denby, with his deft assists and scoring ability, helped Sparta defeat the Guardians in soccer on Sunday; and then come Wednesday, in his first game of Athenian Reason Ball- nay, with his very first touch of the football- 1fr. Denby proved once again that not all Santa Feans are all totally mellowed and burnt-out by cooly throwing a bomb for a one hundred yard touch down play on the kick-off. For his great first couple of games, Mr. Denby is named Athlete of the Week for the men. I'm totally bummed. The first puzzler went completely unanswered. Not even a single attempt. Nada. Niente. The null set. What more can a poor A.D. do to encourage the readers of the Gadfly into looking at his column than by offering a trip to the bookstore as his prize? Your suggestions are welcomed. Anyway, here goes again: in soccer, a player misses a shot and utters offensive, insulting, or abusive language directed at no one in particular. What is the ruling? First one to me with the right call goes to bookstore on me. You may leave your call at x2558. The Rise and Fall of the Jessica Perry Project by Natalie Rinn Staff Writer After a breakfast hour draft meeting on Wednesday morning, the kunai have taken on their official form for the season: four teams of approximately ten women, each squad headed by two to three members of the Women's Athletic Advisory Committee. At this time, only team colors have been selected. Some teams, such as the Green team, purport additionally to have selected a team name, the Green Geckos; this writer believes, however, that with the future unveiling of the for-thetime-being-Maroon-team team name and uniform make-over, the Green team may take back their premature appellation and both envision and unveil a wholly new Green-image of their own. Can the other squads top the name of the for-the-time-being-Maroon-team, which will unveil their avant-garde image on a future and unspecified date? Stay tuned. As things stand now, we'll refer to the newly drafted teams by color: Green, Maroon, Blue and Gold. A couple of noteworthy details from the kunai draft meeting: freshmen soccer phenom 12 Jessica Perry has been drafted by team Maroon captains Janae Decker, Gwen Gurley and Natalie Rinn. On its own, this fact may not seem noteworthy as much as lucky for the aforementioned captains. The draft pick, however, was completed only after a fair amount of deliberation, and finally, with resolve. And the resolution was this: the selection ofJessica Perry to team Maroon could not be a simple selection but instead a dedication to a certain undertaking, one that became known then and there as the Jessica Perry Project. Let me explain. Circulation of kunai rumor had reported that while Jessica Perry could play soccer, she had done so thus far only as a member of the Green Waves. A decent team but, nonetheless, not a kunai team. Team captains Decker, Gurley, and Rinn thought it possible that a substantial portion of persuasion and, should it come to such necessity, mild harassment may have to be employed to win Jessica Perry over to the kunai ranks. Their prediction, however, was, in fact, wholly wrong. After a run-in with Ms. Perry in the coffee shop, Ms. Perry quickly and amiably agreed to play for team Maroon. With this resolution, what had previously been the Jessica Perry Project dissolved with the leave-taking of the two parties. There is another and familiar star to watch on the kunai field, Laura Cate, playing for team Green. After a year off, Ms. Cate is back and in very full force. Look for great things to come from her, as they have already in last week's games. Particularly impressive are her seemingly unending stamina and vigor on the field and finely-tuned footwork. Additionally, team Gold has received a star of kunai past, Johanna Thrall. Ms. Thrall, a 2004 Johnnie graduate and new employee of the St. John's Admissions office, will be out once again on the kunai soccer field. She is a force to contend with as she proved once again last Tuesday and Friday, scoring a goal on each outing. Also joining the scoring ranks of last Tuesday's games, were Ms. Brubaker and Ms. Grodotzke, both talents hailing from the sophomore class. And on Friday, yet another sophomore, Anna Johnson of team Gold, snuck a quick shot past the Green goal-tender, helping to lead her team to Gold victory over team Green, 2-1. . THE GADFLY . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . � 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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