9 20 5655 https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/644c8fec1e4ab5832801cf402ad8a665.pdf ac4bb317c9de9314292d7960f81ea95a PDF Text Text O' �I) L Notice THE COLLtl.JIAN I am now compiling a list of candidates for next year's Freshman, Junior, and Senior Laboratory Assistantships. About 15 persons will be needed, so we always given may not find enough who are on Student Aide; they of course are chance of being highest precedence. The earliest to apply always have the best Room 112 between the selected (2nd order of precedence). Please come to Mellon 6 and 10 PM for hours of 8 AM and 5 PM any weekday, or Wednesday evening between informal interview (no appoinment necessary). Thank you. .fi~.~~··. Roy A strong Physi Lab. Mane.'· r Mr. Slakey, whose lecture is scheduled for delivery April 6lli, delivered that lecture February 23 because Mr. McDonald was sick that week. Mr. McDonald will deliver his lecture, Some Thoughts on Kant, on April 6. INSIDE KNOW WHAT YOU SEE: Upcoming Art Show (see p.4) *** Know what you say: A Note on Morphology on pp.8-9 *** Know what is Spring: WANTED: BUSH TREKKERS Seeking participants, artists, photog phers, to go on a trek into the bush, to do on-location paintings of ghost towns of the Nevada desert and mountain geogr phy, as well as areas in Oregon, Idaho, Montana and end in Jasper Nat'l Park, Canada through E. Glacier Park, Montana. For details contact: Maurice F. Egan 102 Hill Ave. Watsonville, CA 95076 Spring Rites on pp.10-12 lf;i<cmdafe s~~1:;­ coy~ ~R2 We, t;;~ Md, .$e!t ___, ~3-0377 51~ c,3(,- The student employment office has received a flyer from the Shelter Institu in Bath, Maine. They offer a three-week course in "the principles and practice o ecologic hous.e design and building." Their method is a combination of classr work and on-the-job experience. They s that Shelter-trained people are much in demand by owner-builders. I know someo who was trained by them--they produce W they promise. If you are at all interested in even. tually building your own house, or work in the construction industry, I strongl urge you to check this out. I'll be posting the flyer on the SEO bulletin board, on the first floor of McDowell· --jdf of the SEO TICKETS FOR THE ORESTEIA The following concerns tickets for the two performances of the Oresteia Saturday evening, April 28lli, at 8:00, and Sunday evening, April 29lli, also at 8:00, to be held in FSK (remember, this is Parents Weekend): 1. Tickets are free to St. John students; however, tickets must be picked up at least a week before the performance in the Assistant Deans' office. 2. If you plan to sit with your parents or nonJohnny friends, you must reserve their tickets when you pick your's up. Addit~onal seats are $ 4.oo and should be reserved. 3. St. John students (only) have the 3rd, 51b, and 71b rows - first come, first served. 4. Next week's COLLEGIAN will be limited in size as the staff will be struggling with their essays. NEXT WEEK: THE SHELTER INSTITUTE THE STL'DE1\:T WEEKLY. OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE Pay As You Go seats have been reserved for tutors, and will not be charged for their admission But we do encourage tutors to donate the re$ 4.00 charge in order to help us with our effort to bring the best possible productions to St. John's. 5. All seats are reserved. Tickets will also be available in the Book,store, - Doug Twigg Publicity ~A.rchon (Ed. note: Doug tells me that unless enough tickets are sold the KWP will have to sell the Liberty Tree to cover expenses; so act now.) THE STAFF Under the influence: Alison Athey (snorts oregeno), Ken Ross, (injects bagels), Jeff Harter (swallows .small animals), Mark Fuller (inhales tuna-fish odors), Patti Nogales (reads Gothic novels), Danielle George (waxes poetic), Fred Cox (injects Coca-Cola), Terry Polk (smokes chocolate cigarrettes), Amy Coughlin (does a bowl of cereal), Janet McKenni.s (takes vitamin pills), Sean Ball (Editor), Wendy Tribulski (swallows unfizzed Fizzies), Caroline Allen (defies logic), Jeff Hume (snorts French poetry), Sarah Matson (watches soap operas), Ann Schwartz (eats what she cooks), and Chris Witmer (smears peanut butter all over his body). Cover art William Ney �''BE A TEACHER'' Members of the College Cormnunity Ladies and Gentlemen, ENDS OF WORLD TEACHING is pleased to announce t hundreds of teachers and administrators are still needto fill existing vacancies with overseas American Comnity schools, international, private, church-related, and stry-supported schools and colleges in over 120 counaround the world. FRIENDS OF WORLD TEACHING .supply applicants with updated lists of these schools colleges overseas. Vacancies exist in almost all fields levels. Foreign language knowledge is not required. "fication requirements, salaries, and length of service from school to school, but in most cases are similar those in the U.S. For further information, prospecapplicants should contact: At the recent meeting of the Student Cormnittee on Instruction with the Dean, the question was raised whether the recently formed Board Committee on the College's Public Role would welcome suggestions from students to help it in its work of makingthe~College's Program more prominent in the current debate about undergraduate liberal education. I forwarded this question to Mr. Francis Mason, the Chairman of the Committee, and he was very enthusiastic about it. Mr. Mason will be in Annapolis for the Board meeting Friday and Saturday, April 6 and 7, and he will be very happy to meet with students interested in speaking with him from 2 to 3:45 p.m. on Friday, April 6, in the Dean's Office. ll)dia fasbio11s "ft 111'1 . . . .l fa1h .... 1 Mul._W 60 Welt St.. Annaiiotia. 269-1130 FRIENDS OF WORLD TEACHING P.O. Box 6454 Cleveland, Ohio 44101" Sincerely yours, Edward G. Sparrow Dean WORDS FROM THE WEST ·'Every1hlng For The Smoker" The editor of the literary magazine in Santa Fe would like to solicit articles from Annapolis students for the next issue of A~ Verso. Submissions can take the form of anything from poetry, to math papers, to musical compositions. This could be a good means of developing some communication between the two campuses. Submissions should arrive in Santa Fe no later than mid-April. All those in · terested can mail their articles to Au Verso c/o Jordan Friedman St. John's College Santa Fe, N.M. 87501 58 Maryland Avenue Ann.polla, M.ryland 21401 _ ~doUar/ p~ 10~ I COf'lJ fXl~ 2f,9-1 ?YO a.flub rm. Bait: 269-8642 From the Placement Office: l¥& A camp in Connecticut would like to recruit counselors from st. John's by way of a professor from the Naval Academy, who will conduct interviews here next week. I have their literature. Come in if you are interested. M A second reminder about the Hall of Records internship - this is a very good opp::>rtunity for anyone who wishes to stay in Annapolis for the simmer. We had two interns there last st.Unmer. Come in and talk to me about it. tr~Yfl l:he Nav;ilAt in Wtie farymrU'bf !' Exµrt /yp{,jt ....1Bt1 Selectric ~ Francis Kelter Phone: 263-20ee SmlUlSCf'liW\ l.r\siih OW\ The application period is still open for the jobs at Fort Meade. ~Int crn.c.t.~ - fud e~-: chips - c.t>l\e~ d.o!.t:.-t.JtlklW.S Will anyone who needs help with rtsum*1 writing please come in. ") whab on Art GQller!J i:b d1> · Marianne Braun McDowell 22 �Members of the College Community Ladies and Gentlemen, The members of the Visiting Committee of the Board of Visitors and Governors of the college are coming to the campus for a visit on Thursday, April 5, and they will stay through the Board meeting on Saturday afternoon, April 7. They will visit classes, meet with members of the Faculty, St~ff, and student Polity, and make a report to the Board at the Saturday meeting on th~ state of affairs at the Annapolis campus. " "' · Between 1 ~ 30 and °""' ~'I.JU t.h ey wi 11. be avai' lable as a group in McDowell to listen to individuals and groups who would like to speak with them. The following schedule has been arranged· Thursday, April 5 5:30 p.m. Arrive Dean'·"- Off:l.ce ..6:90 p.m. Dinner with Delegat~ \.:ou;ic.::i.. · ·m,_, on Instruction ir1 niniTlq ~al f .8:00 p.m. Visit Sturtent Comm--..·tt.~" .12:15 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 'f :00 p.m. ;mblicab_on, no EJP.tter hou :.n,U, has 821 obligation bot::. to I ts ders a:id i.ts contribntors to print :.·:r·ections. The readers ':lave A. right to be sure t what they reac1 is true and not sifioc1. t)y ~oor typing; i t f ; vr.J'.'i ters l:nou t>ey ',rill not 1x: nisreprosented. tn.:-::+ 1roe1 • I as:rnd that you print a rrection, ru1d ''Y reqnost uas not i·etod. As'ain, I ask. lino in the last poou I sub- 7 ............ (Ed. note: I apologize to Ms. Gumert for this ommission. Occaissionally I do lose or forget things; if some thing strange happens to your submission, please contact me. It is often helpful to check with me about your submission before publication, say, on Friday afternoon. And it is always possible - and probably desirable - to proofread your work.) L Semi.i.1;;:.. - Friday, ·April 6 9:30 a.m. An~,' But my flowing is as the sea/ and no land can lock it. Not: But my flowing is as the sea/ and as land can lock it. The latter makes no sense, and is even contrary to the orir,inal meaning. Thank you, Lynn Gumert Visits. to Cc•.llege Offl.'-'ts vr.. c:.l<;sses as arranged by Chairman of Committee Lunch with Instruction Cornmittet"> Available to meet with mernben of Students to McDowell 21 .'1 Dean's Office Faculty~ Staff, and Break Available to meet with members of Faculty, Staff, and Students in McDowell 21 If you would like to speak with the members of the Committee, please tell the Dean's Office before no6n, April 3. If it should transpire that more persons wish the Committee to listen to them than this tentative schedule provides time for, the schedule will be altered. It would be most helpful if persons wishing to speak with the Committee would indicate, when they make an appointment, whether they would like more time than the five minutes which have provisionally been allocated to each person. Sincerely yours, ~~l 6. /J.-t{,1~,f/l,,i) Edward G. Sparrow • Palmer, You speak of the draft as an "insidious threat." Threat of what? The threat losing one or more years of your life to service of our country? You can't be selfish as to think the protection of your family, friends, and home is not worth e of your energy? A nation must maintain its military element for its securi om Plutarch we have a description of what a well-disciplined army is like. "I 1 s men) were more peaceable or warlike, more valiant shard to say whether t; they were alike formidable to their enemies and courteous to their allies ful to do wrong, and forward to gain honor. 11 A formidable army decreases the eat of war, as well as increases the chance of a successful defen.se. One c of its allie.s i.s re.spec ted. And along with bei_ng fearful to do wrong and rward to gain honor it is an example, more believable than promises, of our coun' .sand every American's integrity and responsibility. If we deal with our allies norable, hones and loyally, we are more likely to be trusted our enemies, d that will be a s stone to peace. Considering ours is the freest country around, a coun that, for example and aids you to go to a school like St John s, as well as many liberties, I doub you would object to serving her for a fraction your life in repayment and tc insure these liberties for the next la.st generation did), man cannot feel that our c hiir1 these simply because he exists He must expect to help and maintain it some gree. Therefore I suspect you primarily object to the threat of being wasted a so~called "illegal" war. If this is so, direct your energies to those who ve the power to involve our colliltry in one. The military is not to be blamed, t rather those who would use it unjustly. Service to our country, military and is necessary if we expect to enjoy its advantages.~ Our country is not benefactor. It provides advantages only if we sustain and manage it. we make it. It is the people. I, for one, am happy to serve my country, has served me in so many ways already, and will continue to do so, but only recognize our responsibility to maintain it so it is able to. Dean David M. Nau �8 A NOTE ON MORPHOLOGY The English pronoun has three cases: "nominative," "possessive", and "object case." Our Greek manual uses the word "morpho-logy" to refer to the rules of "shape change", to which what might be called "core shapes" (roots) or "zero-state shapes" (words without additions or subtractions or vowel changes) are subjected as they are readied for one rather than another role or nuance. Morphological rules apply, when the word is so used, only to single words :or roots of words) and a single word is what gets written ~ ~ single word. )n this understanding of the word morphology, the paucity of morphological ~ules in English is astounding. Add just a few "rules of euphony" and settle ;ome conventions for presenting the heard visually, and the list below seems to •xhaust the subject: NOUN: Treat singular as zero state shape. Add ~ to form plural Treat singular as core shape, squeeze vowel to form plural (stone--stones); (man--men). Treat singular or plural as "common case" shapes. Add s to form possessive as only contrasting "case." (stone--stone's; stones--stones'; men--men's) RELATIVE PRONOUN: Treat wh- as core. Add -ich to form inanimate, which; Add -o to form animate, who. Treat who as zero-state shape. Add -m to form object cases Add ~ to form possessive cases DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN: Treat th- as core. Add -at to generate index that points yonder. Add -is to poin~lose by. (th-at; th-is) Treat this as zero-state shape. Squeeze vowel to generate plural, these. Treat that as zero-state shape. Squeeze vowel, having dropped dental in favor of sibilan~to generate plural, those. PERSONAL PRONOUN: for possessive, !!1Y.• for object cases, me. Treat you as zero-state shape. Add -r to form the possessive. -Use zero-state shape as "common case," singular and plural. Treat th- as core shape. Add -eir for possessive, their -em for object cases, them -ey for nominative case, they Treat m- as core. Add ::]L Add~ ADJECTIVE: It is because there is a sense in which this is true that you and I are having difficulty in moving back and forth between English and Greek. English overcomes e poverty of its morphological contrasrs by calling on vocabulary resources--vassal rbs and vassal prepositions--to serve as henchmen to its verbs and nouns and prouns. The history of this being pressed into service as as vassals of originally dependent verbs and prepositions is preserved for us by the conventions of writing. 0 11 as a preposition expressing direction might have come to be written as a prefix the zero state shape of the verb. Then we would have had a morphological rule in e English language: "Form infinitive by prefixing to-," and the written page uld have looked like this: "Being too tired tostudy, I dropped off to sleep." Or in: "Havingbeenannoyed to death by my neighbor's hifi, I called the police. 11 The verbs which today we use primarily as vassals (helping verbs) to other verbs ich are their lord (main verbs) were, once upon a time, and occasionally are even w, perfectly respectable verbs in their own right. The chief words of this kind, ted below, deserve a hunting-down in Partridge or the OED. must/must am, are, is/was, were become/became have/had owe/ought will/would shall/should may/might can/could Once the "original" sense of these verbs is retrieved r=ir ~he way in which they're t to work in English to form aspect, Tense, Mood, voice a.L ""on-finite verb distincons is studied, the very best argument against the claim, once very popular, that ot all things can be said" in any one language is thus presented. If the need for distinctions just enumerated is felt sufficiently by the language community, then resources of the language will be pressed to make the wanted distinctions sayable, routinely sayable. -- Chaninah Maschler Form comparative by adding~ to zero-state shape (blue, bluer) Form superlative by adding -st to zero-state shape (blue, bluest) ADVERB: Add -ly to zero-state shape (blue-ly) ORDINAL: VERB: or or Add -tR to zero-state shape (four, fourth) Add -s to"common person zero-state shape" to form 3d person sing. (:;_eap, lea Add dental to "common person zero-state shape" for past tense (leap, leaped) Squeeze vowel to form past tense (run, ran) Add dental and squeeze vowel to form past tense (creep, crept) Add -ing to--;;;;-ommon person zero-state shape" for present participle (creep,c Add -n to "common person zero-state shape" for past participle (flow, flown) Our manual's way of teaching Greek must look just as queer to the Hellene foregoing looks to us. Thus, to a person who comes to English from a language ancient Greek, it seems as though I. The English verb has just two tenses, present and past 1 no future. " " " " no aspects. " rr " " 11 moods. 11 " " " just one non-finite form, the participle--no lll.finitive. no voices. " " " " II. 'I'he English noun has just two cases, "common case" anii "possessive". ~1.! CCochinq ~ ~1..tkstSt. �LI !O ''you know its sprin~ when .....» --{;:rsTl\R~\Nq Kerm'\th Barc.c.:\\l\{ (prcY"jouV"lcEd btir-chil\-e- a.nd A\ebe.x+er 1-\omschnot\-er ~ ____fkerm1tii ~ Alebel".1er 1L Stay off :thi~ sacff6 ~('OtJild \ Trar,npls) E\S'E,wbt:.X~ 1 And donT '/OU ct~~ -h'-j +o s-l:,1; a "":n,t::v-1 v/aik ,;,v-ound - \~- 1\'\°I 'jD<J i ' A_r.2; Sl:c'l ou-1: nKl~:.r\ N\\dd{es e,,\\an5 lor o\- 1 ! ,, /J [[l llJ /7 /0 ,-? / ,7 ? -"" (? .- -'7 ? 0 ·"" \ I ( \ ground orda1 +he 3 en and forb,~s pass.sr byes -to +r~ad u~~" ~+. he ovthouses aYe removed tY--om Ra..nci &\ \ 6Jnd fY)C DowG{/ / ( i unc9' \e ( I I I \ I ( / / I I / I I �12 ,, 13 \./, .A FRESH THOUGHT /OU Behold--a delicate humming bird a blooming flower, What a joyful task, Oh see how he thrives, In the cool spring breeze. 1 f~\ a srir-it 3r-~+ deci.\ o~ v--\3h+ And the sea swells up in earth's full bosom, Clouds milk her to feed nature's children, My how life nurtures on her sweet necter, In the cool spring breeze. C\ci55 now. Alas the Great God who rains the heavens, Knowing the wonders of this invigorating season, Laments a soft weeping for his children's ills, In the cool spring breeze. As a beaver builds a dam, Children pray for man, Nature's uncontrollable child, In the cool spring breeze. Yet the dove knows not war, So the ocean is raped, What is to be done? in the cool spring breeze. - David Hershel Weinstein it began with smoke woven air a half acre of songbirds and trembling I l-\h1 sell Athl?tic Shoc..s. .... Bu.:;Them. f ' i Alhlele's I ~ CP'i- fReS~MAN STO? TALK.ING INTENSEl-)' ABOIJT PLATO. l~ ~~ a..'f"'f_ Guide Groups ~~fOote i first saw her a girl walking cross the street now she is a red hymn febrile religion thud a song that winds my feet back jangling dance + tangled bodies breezes ecstacies i dreamt of you last night half drunk under the stars saying yes ~: i ! l " .... _, ... I 47 WEST STREET ANNAPOLIS, MD 21401 ..'\ .., .\ .., ~ • •! yes let us yes. �14 l.J ;JUMHARY OF LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS CONCERNING THE DRA.F'T Two Spring PoeJM ~ _,-~ ~._, uU..iiiJJ.ctl'j 01 tne draft an.:l registration legislatiorc tl-!at t·J date has been proGentod i.r;. .~ongrecG. I P'int it as .,,._,l:ntial l.c·ormettion for the college: c·Jmmunib'. '" 1 :•n',: · o.i-\' :-.: t._; 'll·~· Nat.a~ 1 nt ;rr0lir;ious :>.;rvtcc ~?.oard t<:,r ·:r;.:;1·.i entiGLL ( [<cr::turs -•• I. Winters were made for Spring, Summers for solemn Fall. Living is a conic thing, Sundry sections following A line forever circling Turning from the all. ._ <.A :·..(~·-·c: -- f'r~r pr,.J 1Iirlin~ c10st : ) f t.h~~ ..-; ·~1.l:urmaLl(lf.t~ r ,. , t.1.::: t ,, ..1. i ;~ :: L y an ::J ad n e rJ s::;""' ~ n f crm at ion. ll2~'le r Jvised 1 r : ~ ~·~ r"}r:' . ( ) II. Rebirth of the earth from grey and cold Behold, behold the clouds unfold the sky is clear. Spring is here. . ~· ~ l f _, T ·1 :<. '.~!~( .'·1 ·:··~ 1 r·~· f~',, ·· : 1 i - ·' j_ ·J.., a.. ) ~' i:r: tne ! \..t.s•.c· it vrould require · r.:::.L: ·~-n not t ;_;t .··-r t r:.:-.:i Uc:t0bcr .1, L::er r'I''.;VJ ~.:.a.Jn ;_av:", amend the ':(~ 3crvice Sy::.:t•;m Le hav~ access _n ti1e records :..; f .:.i.ny school, any 1 r ~ Peter Gilbert .i • ,· ' ., , .1r politicoJ r:>uL1division of any registration." .. i.i. .~:~ctive ~ervicc Jystem part of the · • ·· 1 :qui.. · ('ach person rc~co.--:cJ from acti•;c ··"'''''"' · ·)r -:it least thr•;c- ~T 'ars • J:_··u· · •• i~ffiGD .o ; _.!]. ' .. '. s· i'-6 M-F 11-1 P"' .n,.1.F~inc .:~SMS:.i·J1 1 ~ l ACT 1·: t;ar .: ·;tern part l~ r'<;l~-y ~ if (;J ···.:~r:r·tt'!1"·~··1, j ' \. "· 1 i'\. c:c t _:;_ ·{· ... 'I. · .. l .. ; n· ,. ; ~ - :a)• .:.s:; in troa.uc ~ 1 - '-· .J REMEMBER JTt=:·.-;i._!,~nt n1y, ••• The totality of darkness casts a shadow upon the A. certain tinkling arises Fri From the clanking mast.s among the shins in the bay, Night is drunk with solitude and memorie~, understanding naught of today's world, just yesterday and tomorrow, But this is a night to contemplate, the love hidden of day, and find its niche; For as our world is a reflection of who we are, so does the light of day blind us, from the truth--of beingness, that truth is the palace, where true love dwells. --David Hershel Weinstein ~ram _,_, r: t~~ l As we grow older can see, That knowle rapes e , Don't forsake your noble honor, For destiny what--I wonder? - cc~ l ·:;., , " - - '" r-:·~, n " - _·. i_· r ~: "':; • , .,, . :1 L: ,_ r--l' ' 1"' 3 I . provisi ~xemp~i0n . 'ii Mc ., T ' J: t. r_; r r ~ ~ .:. .~ i (,,.; . .':J. rd f 0 r 1 -J':J.~:i Rep. 1. ) • i:Jontgo!'TI~r~, l inLr()·.·;-,u·~ .•. 'all f'ir ::-egi:::;tre:n1•.!n ~.J.nJ classifi- ~.L,-:: 01 -.vomr]n, 1u1. is o-:Jr::·..::seo n ~K.!';y ol 200,000 fa-rJrs the to combat riut- .,ou~d i.~.-:vise some thE:: deferment an·-' -.:_1''· ... e.Leclive ~ervice J\ct. i~l.l.ltary pay -J. l'herc wouLd be no studcmt .. cf ...;rm~.:mts i ·; ,) !:'key 1 s J l .. r Sl)TI- '1 f. " ~ n, and th~ in~~r~iu~ of 11c,J-' ·H:' ~rmed t'•)r es._ Uion cr;omery 'ra:=::' 'rH>, 1 ··" :_ :;.i.ng •)r in~ ;ign •:: purpc: , 1 -: . '.,). ._ .. · · l' .,. ; a , i. -: ::J a " .. ':_nc -:1rsrJr1 .- ; g 2. '~ t - suspen~in~ ' .. bL. an r : 1 ·: r . · •. -:·.:n -: . ,,r_ i ; : ;_~ ~ · - -- a.n : ~. h - r1 , ... ..,J r~ ·~· -.- r· · -: l s :. r a+-_ ~ -, :: a r '.' '.J.1' - -_: r; i f, '.... r a ~.. ~._ . r~ ~ r. 1 , ' r·.' ;_ ·~ :. 1c r· . f .:./I·il 0L00RY SERVIC2 BILL Jill would require that all Ameri car cc re.ET,ist er 0 �16within 10 days of their 17th birthd~ or, if over 17 and under 21, within six months of the enactment of this legislation. At the ti.Jne d.:E registration young people would receive counseling as to their options, which would include: a) 2 years of military service with educational benefits b) 1 year of civilian service with no benefits c) taking a chance on a military draft an~ime Volunteers and draftees could choose to serve any time between their 18th and 26th birthdays. Tl-:.:..s bill would make it a felony not to register. It would drastically cut military pay. The Rand Cor~ora­ tion has estimated that this bill would cost about $50 billion.yt.Arl~~ D.C. Minutes LEGISLATIVE SCHEDULE NIBSCO estimates that registration legislation will reach the floor of the House and Senate before the appropriations deadline of May ~5. If HR 23 is passed by both Houses, and signed, the Selective Service System budget would be included in the appropriations for the Department of Defence. The House and Senate Armed Services Committee would them reccomend an appropriation for the Selective Service that would provide for the administration of whatever registration that woul~ be required by the bill. CARTER'S SELECTIVE SERVICE BUDGEr REQUEST Carter's fiscal 1980 budget asked Congress to provide 1•7 millio dollars in supplemental funding for Selective Service av.er its $7.045 million budget for FY1979. The President requested $9.8 million for the SSS. . The supplemental funding would finance the expansion of the agen structure in the field from 6 to 10 Readiness Regions and improve the comp~te~ data processing system. The 1980 request, which is almost $3 million more than Congress appropriated in 1979, will provide for continued testing and refinment of the improved data processing system This improved data processing system must be seen as preparation for computer transfer of information from the Social Security System records to the draft registration agency. Some 70 students -- 20 percent of the student body -- showed up for the anti-draft meeting last Wednesday night, despite conflict with several other events. This respoRt&- is extremely encouraging and shows that St. John's students are interested.in the possibility of a compulsory registration, draft, or "National Service." Therefore we will publish as much information as possible in forthcoming issues of the Collegian. Paul Anthony Vander Waerdt March '79 Attending: Coss, Stein, Miller, Ross, Balkcom, Stonesifer, Aurebach, Carsiotis, DeMartini, Shapar Visitin~: VanDoren, Hartzel, Roach, St. Amour, arriving late,) Sanity, 6. THE CAVANAUGH COMPULSORY SERVICE BILL Rep. John Cavanaugh (~NE) would require all Americans to regis before their 18th birthday. After registration, individuals would choose between military or civilian service. There would be educational beriefi ts vri th the military option. Registrants would also choose a six-month period of time between their 18th and 26th birthdays during which they would be required to "expose themselves to selection for servic e. 11 During that.six-month period registrants would receive lottery numbers. Those with low numbers would be chosen for service in either the armed services or civilian agencies. If not chosen after six months a registrant's obligation would dnd. 27 D.C. MJNUTES The current iE.stices on the polity ur~ are Lav::_:: _:..-ierbach, Chris Banta, an Canter, P.att Hartzell (Chief Justice) vid Nau (secretary), Patty Sowa, and drew Steed. In upcoming meetings, the urt's purpose, trial procedure, and the stitution will be carefully reviewand discussed. Members of the comnity are urged to speak with their jusccs if they have any problems or sugstions. Copies of the constitution are ilable from the Assistant Dean's OfStudents sh:uld acquaint themlves with c'..".e l::;ws under which they live ile at St. John's. The court hopes its community-court retior.s due to greater accessibility of e court for the student body. Likewise, is hoped that students will take a re active in':erest in seeing justice thin its community. David Nau The meeting was called to order afte~ a delegate was called to order his attendance, at 9:50. Delegates are reminded that they must attend meetings or resign their posts. The delegates to the the National Student Congress gave their report. They all concurred that, although there were problems, the Congreos was worthwhile. Mr. Cous also announced that he has been made a member of the Board of the N.SC. Mr. Coss renominated Mr. St. Amour as Polity Attorney. The motion to aJ!prove was again short of the necessary 10 votes for approval, with 6 yes, 0 no, 4 abstentions. The motion was reconsidered ctnd the new vote was 9 yes, 0 no, 1 abstention. Mr. st. Amour was then appointed interim Polity Attorney, to serve until a nominee shall get 10 votes, by vote of 6 yes, 0 no, 4 abstention. Mr. Miller then reported that we have spent $3500 this year, which means that if we spend the full amount we have budgeted for the rest of the year, we may be $4oO short. No serious problem is expected to arise from this, however. The D.C. approved $7 .OO for a new Pol:t. ty Notebook for the treasurer; and decided to bill clubs in future for telephone and mimeogra~h expenses they incur All students are urged to turn off lights and other appliances when not in use, to conserve energy. (Remember, watt you use is watt you pay fort) The Beer Pump is lost. If found, return to Nathan Ellis. (Draft Beer, Not People!) Budget writing is coming up! If your club wants money, come to the next meetingl There is no rhyme this week for a very good reason, to wit, essay writing. I ho}'e I will not be debarred for introducing some deversity this week.) David R. Stein Polity 0ecretary �Druids-18, HustlerS-:.4 Greenwaves-10, Spartans-9 1 Huatlers~l?, Guardians -16 The Druids won a laugher, and the Waves a squeaker. For the Hustlers and Guardians~ it was "Do or Die" time, in extra Softball:,: ) ) One toWfare. No ttstrlctions. $310* ·~ip. Finally there's an airline flying out of Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the same low fare for everybody. Our $310 roundtnp fare to Luxembourg is the only fare we have. It goes for any seat on the On any flight. The of course, is $155. Depart Saturday. Return extra we can with ,...-...r.nc.rhnn< be a game-; whereas· with pick-up you hope; 2) the games·will be better competitive in an organized set u p, ' . . while at the same time not being as . serious as the intramural games (so everyone can play); and 3) you seni . . an d Juniors of ' 79, ' 80 will get a or look, perhaps, at the Febbies, and won't be drafting blindfolded. We would ref our own games - Mr J and Mr. W. have been wanting all ;ea; for a free Saturday. We wouldn't pla on the track meet day and Reality Sat day, of course. We could keep the in tramural teams, or set up new team s . JUSt for soccer; it might be fun t play with different people, and aga~ your present team mates. We could co lect 50¢ from each member and have so beer for the victors. Whatever •••• If you are interested, then make a point to mention it to your captains. It would be nice to start now that the weather is right - C. A. s was Pt See your travel age-;:;t'. Or ~e De #G3 9 6, kel;;dic Airlines, llOOCcmnect1cutAve. N.W, Washington, D.C. 20036. Or call (800) 555-1212 for the toll-free num~r in your area. Please send me: § A timetable of lcelandic's flights to Europe. Your brochure on European tours. Information on Alpine Ski Tours. ADDRESS--------------- I I I I I I I L ICELANDIC ICELANOAIR 25 years of low air fares to Europe. : ----~-------------~ *Fare sub,ect to change. SPRING SOCCE~~ (!&~' w-l. Those of us interested in playing soccer on Saturdays this Spring should begin to organize. It wouldn't take much. If you are interested, mention it to your soccer captains and/or Great Men ' and these men can speak to one another and see where we stand. Perhaps the majority would prefer the I • pie k -up I games. If so, then so be it. The advantages of a semi-organized set up seem to be: 1) you know there will the 3 games to 2 over Tuesday night ending a sea.son valry. Miss Katrina played well as sh has all year and Miss Crigler also st out. (By the way, what is her mission The softball season began this week the Maenads overcoming the D.C.'s 17-9 Next time you see her on the softball diamond, ask Miss Oreske~ what NZN st for. Could this be the D.C.'s poor turn outs? In a closer game, the Nymphs 10-6 with Misses Rouse hitting home runs. It's been a long winter and to be per fectly h~nest the level of softball pl has been a bit rusty (subtle?). No do this will improve as the season progre as do brick houses on winding lanes. ( subtle?) (obtuse?) (peaantic and pedestrian?) (perhaps). Think Marathon. In the future: Tues. Thurs. Fri. Sat. April 3 April 5 April 6 April 7 4:00 4:00 4:00 4:00 Nymphs vs. MaenadS Amazons vs. D.C.'S Maenads vs. D.C.'S Marathon Relay (~ innings. The Guardians didn't and died. Mr. Edwards did ••• romping home on a sac-fly by Mr. Kates. The weather is getting nicer for softball. L Pts. Softball Standings: W 6 0 Greenwaves ••••••••• 2 6 0 Druids ••••••••••••••2 4 1 Spartans ••••••••••• 1 2 5 Hustlers ••••••••••• 1 3 3 Guardians •••••••••• 0 MEN'S SPORTS by Bryce Jacobsen The big sports event this of course, our annual maron-relay. This is now firmly estashed as the high water mark of our ingtime competitive flood. Scores ••• , scores ••• of rational animals will ture themselves on the rack of our half course, in the vain hope that suf·ng enables the soul. en the tutors, who are old enough and enough have joined in the agony. t year, to everyone's amazement, we tually "won"! True, some of our laps were foreshortd a little. and when it was all over, was discovered that no tutors name had n listed as having run the 31st and laps! Did we forget to record their s? Or did we forget to run those Surely, it must have been the formell, be that as it may, we are again d ! Our chaps have been faithfully ellating their fulsome frames ••• preing for the Day of Sufferings. n keeping with college tradition, the ulty marath)n committee (Mr. White, • Starr and Myself) has decided that deserve to have a proper sort of name, e the student teams. The ancient one, eidippodes, lives ever in our memories r having run those 26 miles from Marhon to Athens bringing the good tidings the great victory. Unfortunately he immediately died ••• having bly done his duty. Henceforth, we wish h.auwii, 11u cto i,11e facu.l ty-s taff marteam, but as the Pheidippodesians. i., This Week's Schedule Softball Mon. 4:00 Waves-Guardians Wed. 4:00 Hustlers-Spartans Thurs.4:00 Waves-Druids Marathon Sat. 1:30 • •• Men Women 4:00 ... l I Robert de la Viez Wine-~ Fifty-one West Street Annapolis, Maryland 21401 267-8066 • �- 'la.i (" i -Y\() . 6 UJ 3ring up to the Art Gallery-the exercises you have rubberbanded in your closet -the doodles you dash off when you are frustrated -the water colors you did in February 1W:JR:lt5. IN a.JR COCKTAIL~ MNJAY-fRIDAY 4-6PM '.The St John's C:Ommunity Art Show says to the people that see it, "Yeffi- · &:.t.. J'elul 1 s dOea. hctVe. talented people who· love th• ·..u'Ual....arts:t 11 ffilt sqowing your work is also good for you. You get a chance to evaluate your work against other student's work at all stag~s of proficienc,;. You get to hear what other Johnies think of the work you do,. and gather an objective view point of your art that you could never find while it hangs on the wall of your room~ A'll pieces of Art Work must b.e matted rH :;::;:- 61.med or ready for exhibition. The Gallery will supply matt board, matt cutter and know-how (if you need i tJ ... Unulull Slef!ood Delicacies Shrimp Marinato Baked Stuffed Oysters Veal Dominick • Chick-A-Bob OPer'I Mon. thru Sat. 11 AM till midnilht 63 Maryland Ave. 2-..nso 268-7599 Do virtuous deeds: Be a gardener. --Arthur Kungle Bring your stuff up now.. The deadline is the 21 of April (so it can tl:e hangingt; over parent's weekend). Or talk to Tom Dwyer, George Eckerle or Julie Neitzt. THE COLLEGIAN St John's College Annapolis, MD 21404 llJll lA ft u s Kll'J1 "c; 1 PA ID ...... ,..,_,No l;l> ~ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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THE COLLEGIAN THE STUDENT WEEKLY OF ST, JOHN'S j:QLLEGE DON GIOVANNI LISTENING PERIODS 4/17 II II l:OOpm 3:00pm 7:00pm II II 4/18 II II 4/19 l:OOpm 3:30pm 7:00pm l:OOpm 3:00pm 146 music lib. 146 music lib. complete first half first half second half music lib. 146 music lib~ 146 complete first half first half second half 146 music lib. complete second half Go to Lecuture (pP· 6-7) *** ** * Arrange for .better Sunday meals (pp. 10-11) MATrI:IEW PASSION LISTENING PERIODS 4/20 3:00pm music lib. first half 4/21 l:OOpm 146 music lib. first half second half first half second half first half second half II 4/22 l:OOpm " 146 music lib. 4/23 l:OOpm 3:30pm music lib. 146 II Elizabeth Bolo tin Music Librarian ~~Sttu.t­ (~ ~ t:hc~ !A)f, s~ aw:£ ~m---- for the this the was out hunting for eggs. .x-1- 03 77 A listening party for Don Giovanni will be held Wednesday at 7:30 pm in the Campbell Common Room. Bring your own scores! B.Y.O.B.! - Jeanni Oggins (,3(.- 51-a I have occasionally heard complaints about the cost of readings for class. Putting aside the question of the Bookstore's pricing policy, there remains the issue of our attitudes towards the purchase of books. Some consider books as just another expense which should be minumized both by using photocopies whenever possible and by encouraging the Library to maintain large supplies of class copies. I suppose this is thought to be a practical attitude; however, I believe it is inconsistent with the spirit of our school. Co~yright laws make the legal use of photocopies extremely difficult. Books are copyrighted by the date of publication ~ not the date of writing ~ so most are protected by law. As the violation of copyright laws is unjustified, the members of the St. John's community should stop the practice of ignoring these laws. As regards buying books, it should first be noted that St. Johnnies spend less on books th.an at most colleges because we buy so few textbooks. Regardless, some will still say, book costs are a burden. Yet I think our experience at St. John's should argue even for the expense of books. We develop here a great value for books. However, this appreciation has only selfish worth if we do not support it with the substantial commitment of our money. It is right to make free use of an author's ideas, but it is wrong to forget the time and money that make the publication of an author possible. Change of Address Steven Winters (tutor) 191 Prince George St., Apt 1 Annapolis, MD 21401 267-6422 Mark Nordin Carrolton Road Annapolis, MD 21403 269-0507 (after 5 PM) NEXT WEEK: The Last Free Weekend Issue Sean Mulholland to 314 Campbell Attention Students & Tutors: The senior class still has many fine suitcases Lft from their rummage sale• Prices are extremely low & most of the suitcases are in excellent condition. If you would like to purchase one, get in touch with Steve Sharkey or Bruce Babij. Nobody interesting: Alison Athey, Ken Ross, John Lippman, Jeff Harter, Patti Nogales, Danielle George, Fred Cox, Terry Polk, Amy Coughlin, Janet McKennis, Sean Ball, Wendy Tribulski, Carolyn Allen, Jeff Hume, Sara Marcy Mark Fuller, and Steve Holland (?)) l1A.~~A~T S<.~w(c.~ �Notice for the Collegian Professor Werner Dannhauser will give an informal lecture, based upon Nietzsche's On the Future of Our Educational Institutions, at 8 p.m., Wednesday, April 18, in the Great Hall. Professor Dannhauser teaches political theory at Cornell University, and he is the author of Nietzsche's View of Socrates, as well as of numerous articles and essays. On the Future of Our Educational Institutions, written in 1872, is the yourig Nietzsche's first polemic against the democratization of modern universities and their growing forgetfulness of the highest ends of education. Mr. Dannhauser's (brief) lecture will be followed by a question period, during which· he would welcome discussion, annng other topics, of the St. John's Program. Myron Konstantinidis, vho taught last summer on the faculty of the Graduate lnsti~e in Annapolis will conduct a twoweek trip to Greece between May 30 and June 14 which will include a number of St. John's connected persons. The trip will include Epidavros, Mikinai, Delphoi, Meteora, Filip, and the Island of Crete to visit Knosos. Price wi be S?OO. Interested persons sho write James Kakrida, Manager, Na tional Travel Service, 24-26 Ste wa:y Str. LIC, N.Y. 11103. THE GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION of THE SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY, THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA April 20, Friday 2:00 p.m. DAVID BOLITIN St. Jotn's CollegG Annapolis "PLATO'S LYSIS" April ?4, Tuesday 1:00 p.r!!. MARY POLLINGUE 5 "PLATO'S REPUBLIC" The Catholic University of Ar;ierica April 27, Friday 2:00 p.m. MICHAEL DAVIS Sarah Lawrence College "SOCRATES.' PRESOCRATISM: SOME REMARKS ON THE STRUCTURE OF PLATO'S PHAEDO" ALL LECTURES WILL BE GIVEN IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM, BOYS' TOWN CENTER David Bolotin Will all those interested in worki on the stage crew for this spring's duction of the Oresteia please contac Kris Shapar, stage manager, as soon a possible. K. Shapar 301 W.Pinkney x42 Campus Mail or In Person Lecture HOUSE SITTING Ladies and Gentlemen, The lecturer for Friday, April 20 is Dr. Dimitri Conomos, professor at the University of British Columbia. He was formerly a fellow of Harvard's Institute for Byzantine Studies and is a frequent contributor to symposia sponsored by that institution. What he knows in a unique way is the origin of Chant,Byzantine and Gregorian and their roots in earlier forms of music. He has edited manuscripts of early music and has written extensively on how these should be interpreted. He speaks clearly and should be very interesting during the question period. It is to be hoped that questioners will persist if their questions are not.immediately answered. Brother Robert A house is available, weekends only, rent free, May through September. The house is located 10 minutes from Annapolis. A woman student is preferred. You may call Mrs. Evans at 268-5704. APPLICATIONS FOR SENIOR RESIDENT POSITIONS (1979-80) The Assistant Deans are accepting applications for Senior Resident posi tions for the coming year. There are three positions open for women and two positions open for men. Your application should include a description of what you see as the responsibilities of a dormitory resident and a description of your qualifications Ladies and Gentlemen, ~ , C::...-- < Francis Keller P;one: 263-2066 ~Batt:~e642 <-7 -~ 5e Maryland Awenue -.nnlll)Ohl, MarylanO 21401 The final Algebra Examination of the year will be administered on Saturday morning, April 21, from 9:30 to 12:30 in the Dean's Office. Passage of this examination is a prerequisite for enrolling as a Junior. Any Sophomore who has not passed the examination and who cannot be present to take it on April 21 should see Mrs. McGuire to make special arrangements for taking the examination at another time. The final French Reading Knowledge Examination of the year will be administered on Saturday morning, April 21, from 9:30 to 12:30 in the Dean's Office. The text for the French exam will once more be from de Toqueville's Democratie an Amerique. Passage of this examination is a prerequisite for being registered as a senior. Any junior who has not passed the examination and who cannot be present to take it on April 21 should see Mrs. McGuire to make special arrangements for taking the examination at another time. Sincerely yours, Edward G. Sparrow Dean ,,! �6 The Dean I Members of the College Connnunity, Several persons have spoken to me recently about the poor attendance at the Formal Lecture, among them the Chairman of the Board's Visiting_ Committee, several Tutors, and some students. These remarks, and the poor attendance itself, are both of considerable concern to me. A former Dean, characterizing the Formal Lecture and contrasting it with the other academic occasions on which we come together, called it "the Dean's Class". When I first heard this description, I was struck by its aptness. The Formal Lecture is indeed a class. It is a class for the whole community, an occasion for the presentation to all of us, Tutors and students alike of thoughts which can, and often do, reappear, often disguised in many conversations during the weeks to come. ~hat is why it is an integral part of the St. John's Program. The Formal Lecture is furthermore rightly called the Dean's class because it is the Dean who, considering the intellectual welfare of the community, composes the schedule, persenally invites 'the lecturers, and, when they come from outside the College, arranges for their having an instructive and pleasant visit to the campus. Needless to say it is personally very embarassing to me when very few persons show up to attend an occasion which a lecturer has been told is the:only lecture the students hear during the week, one which the whole College is expected to attend, and part of an all-required Program. The College suffers when its reputation suffers. More important, however, is the facE that those who miss the lecture suffer -- either because they do not hear something, whether at the lecture itself, or the question period, and there ~· o'f'&'en a great difference -- very much worth their hearing; Gr because t~ey miss an opportunity to learn the habit of regular and sust.aJ.,ned intelligent listening. It is easy, and, perhaps, even fashionable, to unc:terrate,' the i.rftpertanceof the latter. I do not. In the past the College has tried several methods of seeing to it that a maximum number ofpersons attended the Formal Lecture. We used to assign each student a seat and take attendance. When that practice was abandoned, we went to a voluntary sign-in system. But then many students would either sign-in only to leave immediately or else persuade someone to sign-in for them. It did not seem right to promote hypocrisy , and so now, as you know, we do not take attendance at all. I do not want to return to the days of checking attendance at the Formal Lecture. But not to do so requires that there be a renovation of the spirit of intellectual co-operation and COll'lnitment on the part of all the members of this cormnunity. With that spirit more alive than it is now, the Formal Lecture will again become, as it was many years ago, the proper intellectual climax to the College week. These are months of transition, and in such times traditional elements must be held especially precious. I do my best, following my own judgment and the advice of Tutors and students, to provide a series of lecturers, both fran the College and from the "outside world", who will have important things to say to us about the right things, at the right times, and in the right way. I am ~) not always aucceasful, I am only too well aware. But I try. You must do your best too: you should qo to the Fomal Lecture every Friday, and you should go not because you feel like it, not because yqu have nothing better to do, and not because the lecture "sounds interesting". No. You should go because you are a member of the St. John's College Canm.unity and because the Program at the College is worth doing well if its worth doing at all. Having said this, I also want to say that it is an entirely reasonable hope of many that more information should be available about a lecturer before he delivers his lecture than there is pres~ntly~ In this connection, I have asked the Collegian to be good enough to print,when it seems appropriate, a brief introduction to the Friday evening event. Sincerely yours, Edward G. Sparrow Dean ~r\el\c\~J ... of ~e ~~t .. I Ln~RA~'f LR\1lC.S ? .....,_ ~ i~ ..... ,. ~·& .......... r+F 7 �8 9 -t\-i~l:­ N\Y-. Sj Could j<>U e..xpldin l'°~WI '..1-c. 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I'm just sitting here amid my essay - Daniel and becalmed lions A tall glass of water, a lamp, a page half full In a Late Night Lull. SUBMISSION: to write now, I am going to walk and walk out all false sentiment and walk out all fear of death walk out of my flesh and walk back into it past the seawall, a word: the word of sorrowed mind's concealing past the boatslips, a word: the word of bridges shouting in space past the players rehearsing, past the taverns unpeopling, past the corner drunks caged fingers I am going to walk till every word has found and spared me, is exulting. Caroline Allen �10·.AN APPEAL TO THE READERS OF THE COLLEGIAN · The main purpose which the Collegian has is to entertain andinform me on Sunday morning wile I am eating my eggs. A "fun" issue of the Collegian usually wil.l make me forget that the eggs are cold, that-the orange juice is spilling on my pants, and that my ears glow in the dark ever since I drove by a nuclear reactor. Recently I rare become aware that my eggs, indeed, are cold and that the Collegian is somewhat boring. But it need not be so. There are so many things(well--that's a bit optim:i.stic) which are of interest to all of us that it is a shame-that they are not in the Collegian. It may be that I just miss the courage and the charm it took to originate, for example, the genre of poetry known as the Von Edwards poems. I am willing to do my part (if you will excuse my grawmar) to make you forget, while you are reading the following story, that you are leaning on a serving of butter w?>..ich is o1owly melting~permeating your nice Sundayshirt anuleaving an irregular, butteryellow spot on your sleeve, which leads your neighbor to think that you habitually crush bright-yellow ~tterfiies with your elbow to make them look like butter-spots in order that nobody mistook you for an intellectual• ACKNOWLEDGMENT I sent the following story, Of Pigs, and Men, and Other ThiAf;s~ to Hollywood to compete for "best script" with The Deerhunter. A. kind janitor, who empties the garbage cans there'everyday, has sent it back to me. Many thanks to him. OF PIGS, AND MEN, AND OTHER THINGS It was a big day for the 63lct's Charlie Company. The privates Sirovic and Mendelsohn were back. Generally it was believed that they .had been hung by the division's Commander himself. Their appearance, surely, was a sign of divine intervention. The seeds of the pairs unfortunate absence were sown on the morn,ini:, of the S:!.cil_i_an invasion. I.t was rumoured then that if the tenth corps would make 1' to Messina before the British it would be worth everyone's while. From the moment the men hit the beaches they raced the bearings of their half-tracks off. For weeKs they pushed and pushed. They had little rest and only C-rations to sustain them. The only backup from Division Headquarters were demands for more.speed. After the Germans retreated across the Strait, the tenth corps finally got to Messina, only to find that the British had beat them ~here. At least now, though, they were allowed some well-deserved rest. As usual, the quartermaster was nowhere to be seen, so it was to be more C-rations. Sirovic and Mendelsohn reacted to bleak chow situation by undertaking "reconnaissance missions" to improve . standard of living. It was during their return from a su·acessful sortie that Sirovic and Mendelsohn heard the shrieking of pigs. After sensitive inquiry they learned that the swine had been requisitioned For The War Effort by divisional staff. The pork, that is, was to be the centerpiece of the General forthcoming select-staff-only birthday celebration. To insure that nothing marred this anticipated festivity, the "pork" was being guarded by sinis~er looking MPs. Taking the company into their confidence, Sirovic and Mendelsohn worked out a brilliantly coordinated pig ~lot, which yet has to find its equal. The two were to take off from the company's requisitioned villa under night cover, kill one of the beasts,_ and bring it back on a stretcher which Charlie medics had provided for the purpose. Volunteer, amateur-butchers were in readiness to dispose of the evidence as quickly as possible. All went well. The MPs did not hear or see Sirovic and ~eadelsohn ~.QPre>&Ch the rear of the pig hut. Sneaking inside, they calmly selected the biggest animal, killed it, and rolled their prey onto the waiting stretcher. Then they retraced their steJ:;s. Upon entering the courtyard of the however, Sirovic and Mendelsohn were st tled to see, through the darkness, the division commander and adjutant come d around the corner of the building, hea ing for them. A face-to-face enco:mter was unavoidable. Responding to this danger, Sirovic stabbed the unfortunate again and whipped off his overcoat, throwing it over the stretcher. "What happened, soldier?," the general asked. "Sniper, sir. Right between the eyes!" "Colonel you swore that the area was secure!" "We checked out everything before moving in, sir. I'll send out a patrol right away." While this exchange was going on, Sirovic and Mendelsohn tried to steal away. "Hey, wait a minute there, private-.ot so fast. You say right between the yes?" "Yes, sir." "Why i.s he bleeding from the stomach?!" "Oh, he was standing outside by the indow at the time, sir. The bullet around, and he crashed through e window." With his brow furrowed, the general garded the corpse. HHmrn, he must have been a short fellow. at a way to die just before the end of is historic war. Yes, he died, this n from our soil, for freedom and equalty! Another sad letter to write to an --------cc )\--My long-made decision grates me like a nail. My attention wanders between worthy things and the familiarity of the pain, oh, and the wearily seeking where embedded and what motive struck So dark to me is that distant moment I drove it. ~ 11 American family. Dismi.seed, private it' Sirovic and Mendelsohn were shuggling away when the general accosted them again. "Wait, private. ·I think that I shall write that letter qiyself. Let me see him. Being so close to the front it is my duty to tell his folks that I saw with my own eyes that their son died. painlessly." 11 1 can't do that, sir! He belonged to a small Indian tribe in South Dakota. They believe that a soul will have a safe journey to the happy hunting grounds only if a corpse is covered and remains so. He told me--n6--he begged me to keep him covered." "Nonsense, private. Let me see him. !.I Perhaps Sirovic and Mendelsohn would have fared better, if in the next morning the MPs at the pig hut had not found the note with its brief message, M.I.A. Sirovic and Mendelsohn, the first res~ idents of the Messina stockade, missed the opening of the Italian campaign, and passed the long days trading German medals and other combat souvenirs for cold, leftover pork chops and genuine Kentucky mash bourbon. Hans-Peter S~der I no more than tease at an intent to have the rowel loose, greatly fearing to learn the contour and stink of the woumd when unstopped. Let the word stand. It is healed almost around, and, if no further plucked at, Part of me soon. B. Bowser �DC MINUTES . ·10 April '79 Attending: Coss, Stein, St. Amour, Schuler, Auerbach, Shapar, Ross, Stonesifer, Balkcom, Sharpe Visiting: Warner, Van Doren, Smith, Melcher, Ficco, O'Malley, DeMartini 1) The DC appropriated 1150 for the Reality movie. 2) Will whoever "Borrowed" the Polity Turntable please return it. 3) The DC appointed Mr. Van Doren to the Constitution Committee. 4) The DC unanimously endorsed the SCI's letter to the Dean concernin~ grading policy. 5) Mr. Coss nominated Mr. Ficco as Polity Attorney. The motion failed of approv~ 8-2. the Members of the Student Polity, ••• man does not conquer the earth, but strives to enter into harmonious relation~ ship with i t . Gifford Pinchott 1910 Do your part. Help dig and plant. Care for life. Help nurse young trees. Nourish your soul: take nature's part. Follow the flight of the eagle, so you too can say, "We do our part • " Dear Tender young things, There are all sorts of wise and wonderful things I could say about learning and doing, nurseries of the garden and school varieties, selfishness & destruction, self-interest and education, but the masters said it bette:r. Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste ••• With the disappearance of the forest, all is changed ••• Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his feet, the harmonies of nature are turned to discord. George Perkins Marsh 1865 Truly, the waste, and destruction of our Woods, has been so universal, that I conceive nothing less than an universal Plantation of all sorts of Trees will supply, and encounter the defect. John Evelyn 1665 LI BERTY TREE For the past several weeks, the Delate Council has been trying, quite uccessfully, to elect a Polity torney. In. every case, the vote has en close, but there has never been e two-thir~ majority needed. That not two-thirds af the present but f the seated members of .the Delegate uncil~or 10 votes. But as there ve never been more than 10 dele.gates o could vote at these meetings, it required no more than one dissenter veto the nomination by the President·. ere are the other five delegates? eir absence indicates a marked apathy ncerning the workings of our student vernment and a general disrespect for he student polity at large. In response, I implore both on and ff-campus students to urge your delates to attend the next m.eeting of the C. If your delegates reftise to cl!> so at the very least, someone in their ead, then I suggest that they be relled. If our ~resent delegates have interest in the responsibilities of ir elected cf fices, I am sure there others willing to take their places o do. In general the attitude displayed by e absent delegates concerning the udent polity is deplorable. Tne tuation mu:it be corrected at ·once so .·t the Delegate Council can dispense th the question of the Polity Attorney d so get on to more ~ressing business. Sincerely,· Daniel Van Doren 6) Will all delegates please attend the next meeting or send their alternates? We need you! --David R. Stein Polity Secretary LAURENCE Laurance Ltd. EMPORIUM LTD �An Item-- ••• speech and thought are the tools, the properties, that hold human societies together and allow them to evolve ••• Humanity's problems are monumental and extremely complex, but the lack of thoughtful communication, and ignorance of the resulting void and that void's importance in the formation and maintenance of all manner of destructive processes and organizations is our problem in its most basic and unadulterable form. The cause of many manifest problems is difficult to see because the cause is nonex~ istent. The cause is an emptiness between peoples and nations filled only in times of conflict. ll)dia __ fasl)iDl)S ,._....._ eo w.. 91 .. ex~iting game, which rearranges things in this league. Even the Hustlers, now are talking titlel Druids-34( r), Guarc,ians-10. The lass said about this travesty, the better. PLAY-OF-THE-WEEK: Mr. Schoener's remarkable catch of a towering fly ball in short right field. What with the wind, and his erratic mo-v-ements, it wa.s a minor miracle 'that he and the ball ever got together ••• and stayed together! PEN PALS ~ 211-1830 8MFTBALL STANDINGS: W L MEN'S SPORTS by Bryce Jacobsen Item--You can get the addresses of Soviet citizens who want to correspond with Americans from the Union of Soviet Friendship Societies at the following address: Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries USSR-USA Friendship Society Prospect Kalinina 14 Moscow, 103009, USSR ---James Kuzmak Robert de La Viez Wine and Cheese fifty one Wert Street - AnnllPOiis Spring Fling Form 0897024 Dearest I love you very much. I am looking for a partner in life, to face the many trials and tribulations than can be overcome only with the help of a beloved. There are many fringe benefits to this position. Interviews will be held at any time. Cont~ct me, Campus mail (The above submitted by the St. John's Lonely Heart Club) The Guardians, for the t time ever, I believe, won this t. Mr. Adams ran six laps extremerapidly, Messrs. Cox, Norton and uler ran five laps each ••• ver-y L··ap~ Messrs. Cresswell and Mark ran r laps each ••• rapidly. Mesors. sta, Abrams, Perry and Whalen ran or three solid laps. All of wfuich ultimately produced alf-lap lead over the surprising tlers. The Spartans were third, the Waves fourth. The Druids pped ou:b after eighteen laps, ing run out of runners. The Pheidippodesians, sad to say, ver started •.. not enough runners. , what a comedown ••• after our riou.s victory of last year~ And er such high expectations, and orous training ••• and such extravt boasting!We are chastened ••• mortif:..ed. Hustlers-6, Greenwaves-5. It didn't figure that the Hustlers ld be the first team to beat the eaten Waves. But they conned eve WebeF into coming down from ltimore, to pitch for them. And ey tightened u~ some of their st "loose" fielding ••• holding the Ves to but three runs over the innings. And that is mean feat! Two innings later, Messrs. Hartzell, ss, Kates and Maddocks got together three runs. The Waves then made it iting when Mr. Smith Drove in two s ••• But he, theJtying run, died on Greenwaves Druids Hustlers Spartans Guardians 4 4 2 l 0 Pts. l 1 2 2 5 13 13 8 5 5 'rhis weeks schedule: Softball ••• Mon. 4:00 Waves-Bpartans Wed. 4:00 Hustlers-Druids Thurs.2:30 GuardiansHustlers Sat. 1:30 Women's Track meet) r-------- Athlete's °Q]O~Foot. r I .1 I r On ;-...;iLe 'Naffle Tr.-i;ners V/ith This Ad . 47 WEST STRE£T ANNAPOLIS, MD 21'01 - - L---- --------- 15 �GUIDELINES Crime Loving yourself as you apologize. Taking ere di t for unintended humor. Autobiographical writing for others. Contemplating your stride. Considering sunset a personal communique, Cause of Crime ~ Close families and mirrorso Crime Preventives ~ Pleasurable visits to nuraing homes, Earing tee th at st cangen-L Staring con~inually at a field of unblemished snow. - Rick R U'V'"'~~~ ~~ t>>'1~~ : J1/'T'.£; Jef.i.:l\i~!~IO 8&,~~ St\...! l'i\1!-C c1.-;~s-" ,.' t:.Sl ~~ii\.µ;_ 7i: if- \_.::rt_~- ,i .. &:;t_, (r~ ~.A'l. ( '\ THE C St John 1 a JUuw.polis~ MD 214o4 ~r,r1__; ~; ; i. •"-~ 1,:1 n-· ,~l))~nt � 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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Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 16 pages Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context The Collegian 15 April 1979 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1979-04-15 Title A name given to the resource The Collegian, April 15, 1979 Description An account of the resource [Number 292] of The Collegian. Published on April 15, 1979. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ball, Sean (Editor) 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 Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/5a3f879b86372c158627050fc6ebfb1d.pdf 4f787a3219d112a29311b679c07d30e6 PDF Text Text �2 THE COLLEGIAN INSIDE NOTICE! 3 THE STUDENT WEEKLY OF 5T.JOHN'S COLLEGE EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED IN JUNIORS: A NEWSPAPER: The Junior Senior Cocktail Party is quickly approaching (tenative dateMay 9). So far, very little money has been recieved. If every Junior could contribute their $3 dollars by the end of this ~eek, we would have a much better idea of how much money we'll have to work with. You can give it to either Lisa Simeone or Alison Athey, either in person or by campus mail. Also, any one interested in organizing or helping with the various aspects of the party, please come forward. A party for 230 people can't be done by just a few people! Thanks ••• *** Cartoons on pp. 10-13 *** * ** -A.A. ··-~ ; ~~- ·. _.,t_., -- , - __ .,:t :._::.;:_:~·~, :_'!'.:_,u~ ~- ' I I I As well as Sports, DC news, and announcements you don't read! I ~~ "'->.,, ~·<>. __ , ~~t"'" --t - ... .,_... I I I CAUTION: I AGAMEMNON WEEYl-END . ~~- C.3 7: I AHEAD -Warn your father :i:;;;,,- Si~ Commencement Fee One of the means reluctantly taken to meet the inflationary costs of running the College this year was the institution of a Commencement fee of $25 for graduating Seniors. For many years the College had no such fee, though it was customary at most colleges and universities. It is only right that each of the Seniors know the budgeted items toward which the fee will be applied. The Commencement fee covers the invitations, the diploma, the cap and gown, the printing of the program, the picnic for families of graduates, and the reception following the ceremony. Other extraordinary expenses of the weekend may also be included. As each Senior receives the diploma, a St. John's hood is placed over his or her head. These hoods belong to the College and should be returned to the Registrar right after the ceremony. Any Senior who wishes to purchase the hood may do so by making arrangements in advance with the Registrar. The price of the hood is $21. Hoods which are not returned will be charged against caution fees. I am sorry that this change is policy had to be undertaken. I hope that it will not dampen your enjoyment of the Commencement festivities • ~t~· CO-OP NEWS The last ordering meeting of the year will be on Tuesday, April 24, in the la room at 4:30pm. Pick-up will be on Sat urday May 5, at 5:00pm. Bring checkboo to pick-up. ALL ACCOUNTS WILL BE CLOSE THEN!!! Richard D. President Next Week: We~ Mom & Dad Paper ---Rick Campbell STAFF SUMMER JOB _ weekends only - 9-5 - Saturdays and Sundays - starting May 19. Office work in local real estate office. The pay is $30 per day. as soon as possible if you are interested. Marianne Braun Director of Placement See me Special bit part players in The Oresteia: Alison Athey (the carpet), Ken Ross (carpet cleaner), John Lippman (off stage screams), Patti Nogales (toga mistress), Jeff Harter (libations), Danielle George (personal affairs), Fred Cox (Clytemnestra's understudy), Terry Polle (stage hand and foot), Amy Coughlin Ca greek column), Sean Ball (Editor), Wendy Tribulski (seat covers), Carolyn Allen (fury tutor), Jeff Hume (hair), Sara Marcy Call crowd scenes), Mark Fuller (blood), Ann Schwartz (audience), and Margaret Schwecke Ca spot light). Cover art Rebecca Krafft �-- - - -A JOB! THIS SUMMER! IN THE LIBRARY! (Air-conditioned for your comfort) The Library is now conducting interviews for the position of Summer Library Aide. The position requires on-the-job training in all aspects · of the library operat· ion. You work eleven 30-hour weeks and earn $ 3.50 an hour. To qualify you MUST l . Type WELL. 2. Be returning to St. John's as a student in the fall. 3. Present a reasonable guarantee that you will be on financial aid for the coming academic year and agree to accept a student aide job in the library. If yo_u are interested, see one of the librarians· anytime between 9a.m. and 4p.m. .. ·- Oo~'l' ' I I ~--=-'-·~~~-4 ~~~AWSUGL"Eil-til' S2 Oif On Nike 'Naffle Trainers With This Ad I f I I I I Tt.LL ME t{OT TD SMOKE.! I •7 WEST STRE!T ANNAPOUS, MD 21•01 $/ltOKE ($f,C..f\VSI:. Llf~ IS 6!'.'>1(1ttC.. so B~AT IT· ll)dia fa 5 PARENTS WEEKEND I I I _______ __,I We are pleased to announce that we have 158 individuals signed up for parents Weekend (that's 79 couples) for theFifth Parents '.Veekend. They are represented by 17 states of the Union and 1 foreign country. We are inviting the Parents and their St. John's students to eat in the Dining Hall on Friday night, April 27. To help the Marriott personnel, who are making a special effort to accommodate all the extras, we are asking: 1. If your parents are not coming for the weekend, please go to the Dining Hall between 5-5:45 p.m. on Friday, Apri1·27. 2. If your parents are registered to come, please have them come to the Dining Hall Letween ~:45 and 6:15. We would appreciate your cooperation in this matter, since many of the Marriott helpers must finish their duties prior to lecture time. URGE YOUR PARENTS TO PICK UP THEIR REGISTRA·rION PACKET IN THE C-B HOUSE RECEPTION ROOM (meal tickets are part of the packet). IOl)S ··----so W\t'M 9'. A~ 2119-1130 GOOD, STEADY JOBS! Has the SEO got a couple of peaches for you this week! (They are quite a pear! Get it? Never mind) l) Janice Wheeler needs someone to care for a 7-yr-old on Tuesday evenings and after school occasionally. The catch is that you must provide your own transportation. 2) This same Janice Wheeler needs someone to do some housecleaning one day a week, beginning in September. Apply now, and avoid the rush! 3) The Buttercup Tearoom will be reopening at the end of this month, and they need waiters, waitresses, and dishwashers, from l0-4. This could be an excellent job for someone staying in town over the summer. As usual, the SEO has details. Call ,, or drop a note in campus mail saying 'u're interested. Call now! Operators e standing by! --jeff of the SEO Uechi-Ryu Karate ia taught on Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:00pm, and Saturday at 9:00am, in the gym. Mr. Robert Galleone, a black ~£lt with 16 years' experience, teaches the class, and will continue to teach here this summer. Uechi-Ryu is an unusual style of Ka.ate. Instead of learning a vast array of echniques for maiming someone, the stunt of Uechi-Ryu practices breath and ture control, body-toughening exercis, and kata. A kata is a sequence of tions which one studies in order to arn concentration and control of one's dy. The Uechi-Ryu student spends most Of his time perfecting the katas, for in these lie the ideas of the system. If you like the thought of karate ithout hostility, aggression, or other diocy, get in touch with Mr. Starr or self, or come to the gym when we pracWe're usually in one of the hand --Jim Sorrentino ;f_.M.: Laurance Ltd. EMPORIUM 43 Maryland Avenue Annapolis Md. 301-263-3301 �Lecture Members of the College Cummunity Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Weigle, whose lecture on Lao Tzu is currently scheduled for Friday, April 27, has graciously agreed to postpone it until next year so that we may hear a lecture on the Oresteia of Aeschylus by Professor Herington of the Classics Department of Yale University. This lecture will precede the Parents' seminar on the Agamemnon Saturday morning and the performance of the Oresteia Saturday evening, I am very happy to be able to accept this invitation, both because the occasion sounds as if it should be a very interesting and pleasant one, and because I have long hoped for an opportunity to visit the St. John's campus; I have known several excellent students from there. It should, indeed, be a splendid weekend for all of us. I am very grateful both to Mr. Weigle and to Professor Herington for making this change possible. Sincerely yours, Edward G. Sparrow Dean Atmaporis c~ ~ o251tkst St, In the duet "La ci -darem" (no. 7 in the opera) we come almost to the point of being------eyewitnesses to one of Don Giovanni's infamous seductions. To begin, let us recall Giovanni's preceding recitative, for it shows ;,omething about his technique. Or rather. let us not prejudge him by dismissing expressions as "technique", for he is susceptible and passionate too. This is not inconsistent with being -- as he also is-cold as ice; for the passion that carries him away is his own passion, never another's. 9' p~ ~ 0 v , vi. P I P un al - tra sor - te a brighter for - tune cu_ ran que -J:;'.ll.Q.c.chi bric-con-eel-li, store for those balm-y cheeks of ros-es, Professor Herington writes: 7 Giovanni in Love (a fragment) pro~ is in d rn@u~u d P PP P 4 quei l!J.b-bret-ti si bel-li, quel-le di-tuc- cia where sly Cu-pid re-poses, that s~owy brow where "'':®p m Pr r r m m r o ,~r r# r '1 rv can..di-d~JU>-UO- ro - se; par- mi toe-car giun - ca-ta, e fin - tar ro- se. not a. shadow low.:ers, that pret-ty mouth of cor-al, that breathes of flo"vers. In the passage his melody rises to D by a fourth and falls back by a fourth three times in sequence; then in the fourth phrase, as in a surfeit of desire, he glides stepwise, and only as high as C-natural. The D was his highest note, and three D's seem to be his mark of desire. This is not the exhaustive and energetic passion we saw him share with Donna Anna. He has not exerted himself here or entered into a struggle with an equal as he did with her. With Zerlina -- and with almost all women? -- he conquers first by his capacity to be aroused by them! (Is that because it plays upon the woman's vanity? Can she not resist one who is so susceptible to her? Is that vanity? All this anticipates the duet.) At the opening of the duet proper, Don Giovanni has a simple eightmeasure phrase, balanced about V -- "yes". Zerlina repeats it, but she extends the phrase so that it makes an excursion to § before resting again on l =A. In m.20, Giovanni ur12:es, "Vieni_, mio bel diletto!" .This is a thrust constructed about melodic B-C-B (center E). .Don Giovanni. ~ ~ Zerlina. · . «,.~~IP ~ ~ P-g ( :J v &~ 1~4£ C] 4j~Jl-¥J1 J1 ~Vie - ni,miobel di-. ~.l\Ii ta_ let - to! fa- pie Ma - set- to! Come,dea.rest,leL me("\ guide thee. Ma - set_ to sure will chide me! \', ' . ~ �8 Zerlina' s ·'1nimatec and chromatic phrase that follows can only be interpreted as her response to this strong move· she sings B-A-G (center E). He has hela and staked out B; she falls to G. For a second time Giovanni asserts the figure and now her response is protracted, even pitiable. She fali~ ~o E, but not without repeated reaching for, and clinging to, B. What . s at stake in this passage is not only the pitch but the meaning of the pitch. Is B = 5, that fulcrum of willing tension, a level at which Giovanni will' be cDntent to let her preserve herself? Or is it i!. height from which a fall is inevitable? z~~ J 1 I ' G.j5J=~# y p~ (q2 cor. pent! ~ Vie - ni, Jio bel Come, dearest, let ~ Mi ------... I~rs- @r §! ~r;t I p fa_ ~ Iv pie - ta_ di - let - to! me guide thee, t l\la. - p I set If . 9 pre - l'l r Ill , "'" 'y':•;, » . io can-tie - ro Dan - ger shall ne'er Ah,-- ~ tuo come I Ci.~~~~~~~~ sor- te. lo can_ ie - ro tuo:_ sor - te! Dan-ger shall ne'er com& nigh thee! nigh thee. Pre ~ sto non son_ pi4 for- te, non son piu ~h- that I could de - ny thee, oh, that I - for - te, uon son-piu_ for_ te! ny thee!. could, that I could de._ Giovanni is here aco.ng with physical .strength. The narcissism of the recitative 1.s, so far, disguised or even disciplined. Still we know the real nature oi his passion, and why his desire is insatiable. He does love women; he is an aficionad.::• of them, ne appreciates, catalogues, collects them; but at the bottom ne loves them f()~ ~'11~_!_ the_.L sl_< o him. Well, he is still conquering; let us go on. Don Giovanni. :f') g p 1± Vie .- nil · vie Come then, Come !! . ~ 7 ni! then! IP p@f P1~r· La ci d.a - rem la Give me thy hand, oh ma- no, fair-est! par- tiam,ben mio, da. With joy my life thou'it qui. bless •. may_ _ _ Zerlina's answer to this insistent courtship is quite wonderful. She first recollects her susceptibility which had been expressed in the earlier measures 24ff. Text: "I am sorry for Masetto." Thereby she recollects Masetto. No clearer leaving of him could be imagined than this relegation of Masetto to the past. With Giovanni's next D she is overcome. She falls without hope, restraint, or judgement. Where the measures around 25 had o.pened with rising intervals holding to B, she here falls by thirds at the opening of each measure. Where before her total descent was a fifth, she here falls a seventh -- the melodic interval least related to the starting note. Giovanni sings D once more and then -- what does it mean? -- he gratuitously rises above his own D to the E. Is this rise above the D to be compared to the consummatory falling short of D which we had seen in the recitative? He truly uses force against Zerlina here; in the recitative he was only using her own desirability against her. Zerlina assents in D, and the rhythm changes to 6/8. We know the seduction is achieved. ma _______ Ah,--~~---- We are in measure 27. Giovanni: "Vieni! Vieni!" He strikes the D, the highest note sustained on the strong beat of any measure, just once. Then the first theme is repeated, with Zerlina this time taking up the second half of the phrase. At what would have been the third two-bar unit of the "la ci darem" melody he alters and rises by a fourth to D (m.34). In measure 37 he does it again, and this time more importunately, cutting off Zerlina's words of hesitation. Again in measure 39 is the D, its phrase actually taking over Zerlina's last note. nu an....... re .... There is one moment in the 6/8 section in which Zerlina takes the lead briefly: the rising from a fourth below D, especially on the word "andiam", has become a hallmark of the duet. Zerlina in measure 63 expands this rise to a sixth. It is very striking and pitiable; for she has trusted enough here in her chance to be happy (telice ~ ver, sarei") to make a real effort. This, to me, is Zerlina's moment of worthiness, for she believes and unreservedly puts herself into her faith. Later on we will see her back with Masetto -- a skilful, charming lover who knows her man and perhaps all men. But never again do we see her give herself up to hope. H. Fisher �10 II Z From D.C. 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Iv �14~=~~===~======~ I \ J DD AN AGA/11E~/JO/\f CJ£Ek£/JD 5PEC!l1L: NOMA 01\JESS (or "Henry Higgins Plays Orestes") As Agamemnon, Jim White is the first person to die in the KWP production of The Oresteia. When I heard about this, r-"thought it be a good idea to go out with Jim for some drinks. Johnnies filled up the tables at the Little Campus, so we were driven to the bar. The bar is a dangerous place to sit when interviewing a Greek king because you have to share both pretzels and conversation with anyone who is nearby. Consequently, I'm not sure if Tim said half of what I've quoted him ~s saying. (Tough darts for your reputation, eh Jim?) Jim seized a handful of pretzels and started describing the play. Two townies sitting next to us, afraid that Jim was talking to them, smiled nervously and said, "Excuse us, we'll be leaving soon." And they left. Unperturbed, Jim continued. is "under 3% hours long." So ley's Angels, I pointed out. Okay, he said, the play is 3 hours 20 minutes long. 'l'o make the trilogy such a tidy length each of the original plays was cut by half. Most of these cuts were made in the choruses. Then the remaining chorus parts were given to individuals among the chorus. So one of the unique twists of this particular production is that the chorus will hav characters. Furthermore, the chorus dances and sings, which makes 'The Ores teia the first musical here in years. its not a regular musical, but ••• The play w~s edited by Robert Butman in conjunction with Richard Lattimore (Lattimore was a personal friend of Aeschylus and hence was very helpful). Butman, on sabbatical from Haverford and Bryn Mawr, is also directing the play. Jim says Butman-the-director is "against rational thinking." No wonder he does some teaching at men's college. Naturally I gave Jim a chance plain his ridiculous statement. several quick swallows of beer, Jim 1eaned back in his chair and said, "Do you want another beer?" I felt I was getting the run-around, but I ordered a beer anyway. I'hen Jim respon~ed to my question. He said it was important to get students to act rather than think their characters. There is a certain feeling a play must have that the director alone must orchestrate, and thus the director's foremost need is the cooperation of his cast. Jim, himself a director, admired Butman's pacing of the production and the control he has over such a massive dramatic effort. Will Butman pull the play off? Jim shrugged his shoulders ~ an honest guy. Now, just the idea of doing this play startles me. For perhaps the most interesting question about the KWP's production is why attem·ot Greek drama. Usually the spring fare is light: The Jmporta~ce of Being Earnest last year, and the year before, Picnic. rhe Oresteia, on the other hand, is serious and unconventional. Jim leaped on my plebian understanding of theater. He claimed that the Greek style of dram9 is slowly replacing modern "realistic 11 drama. For proof he gave an im~ressive list of contemporary authors which indicated his depth of knowledge and my lack of interest. However, a3 suspect as I considered the concept of the K~P's production, I am persuaded by Jim that it is wrong to assert "Greek drama should not be performed. 11 The play' s themes are wonderfully alive and beautifully expressed. To dare the performance may be justification in itself. (Still, I almost would prefer to see The Oresteia production of Jim's Jesuit-run high school. Catchingly entitled nThe Fall of the House of Atreus", the play was staged by an all male cast. A sort of Greece travelogue began the show in order to get the audience "in the mood." Then, with the director's yell of "Raise the goddamn · curtain! 11 , the action started. For lack of Greek theater masks the cast wore what Jim termed "war paint." Jim himself was simultaneously cast as a broomstick-toting guard and as an usher. Mercifully, only parents came to the play. Their's was a real tragedy.) . Jim's eyes were at this point swimming in a sea of beer, and the subject gradually changed. Paul Thomson and Robin Hollingshead sat beside us and boorishly read The Evening Capital. I cleverly questioned them about The Oresteia; in turn, they demand;a:-more pretzels. Everybody is a glutton. It was time for random speculation about the play. Jim ventured that "this rnay he the funniest play since The Man For All Seasons." On the cast he notes Tony Cox and Kim Schraf are "the god twins," Julie Boaz is a "golden girl of Ilium," Steve "Clove" Barkhimer "is not a transvestite in this play," Michael Bloom "speaks for himself" (wouldn't touch that line), and Danielle George is once again ••• ah, but he didn't say it. Jim violently denies some of this; but that is drama. It was nearing the fatal hour when the beer ou~rageou8ly ·leaps back to its regular price. After 40¢ glasses 75¢ is manageable by only the most ardent and/or intoxicated drinkers. Robin and Paul, w~ of our interview, started reading The Capital aloud. Do you know somebody stole a toilet from a house on Hanover street? A crapper-napper in An ,:i.polis? ! Next Robin told us how her home town of Kane, Pa., lost its major industry when a strike sent the largest company down South. Kane should never offer resistence. Obviously the interview was finished. Happy hour over, we unhappily left. Jim had to listen to Don Giovanni in the hour before Seminar, and I had to sleep. Dear sleep: following this wild roaming, it is a sweet end to Nomadness. P.S. In Jim's high school Oresteia, the student who played Orestes also played Henry Higgins in !:!;y Fair Lady. Paul thought this ought to prompt 3 good story title; I agree to anything. 15- �16 FROM THE POLITY ATTORNEY: .NEW, IMPROVED NOISE POLICY REAL-ly, They'll Do It ••. The Guards will remove any and all alien beings found on campus during REALITY. To insure the tranquility of your gu~sts, you may obtain special tags from Robert Werner or Lisa Cobb for them to wear prominently ovP-r the Weekend. Money is very helpful in obtaining a tag. Be aware that you are responsible for the conduct of your guests. R.W. for R.W. Here is the new Polity Attorney's policy on noise com~laints and ~rose­ cutions. I have tried to keep it as simple as possible, and yet avoid the that tended to plague my predecessors. The noise complaint procedure set forth below is meant to be the most xpedient method for handling a noise roblem. For the purposes of proseution, a person shall be considered ware that he has violated your right o sleep/study if you have told him so. trange ... The complaint procedure is now as follows: 17 Robert de La Viez Wine and Cheet4e Fifty one West Street - Annapolis Step 1: Go to the person whom you be responsible for disturbing you and politely ask him to be quiet. Step 2: If they will not quiet down, call me (ext. 31) and I will come over and ask them to be quiet. (I may drag t~e dorm delegate along, too.) If that does not work, I'll call a guard. Step 3: If you cannot get ahold of me, call your dorm delegate, who will try to quiet them down. If neither the dorm delegate nor I can be reached, call a guard. Do not call a guard until you have tried to reach me or your dorm delegate. ••• fll ..... If a person refuses to be quiet when informed that he is violating your right to sleep or study, then there are ··grounds for prosecution. If it is a party that is causing the noise, speak to the person who is host of (ie. is responsible for) the party. If it is not a hosted party, or you can find no host, speak to the person at the turntable. The host of a party is the person who asks the dorm delegate or assistant deans for permission to hold the party. The host is responsible for the level of noise at the party. If there is no person hosting the party, then the person running the turntable is responsible. An unhosted common-room party is illegal, by the Way. (See the Student Manual.) Note: Hosts of parties that are past the deadline should be asked to turn off the stereo. If you ask someone to turn down a stereo, make sure that he knows what level is acceptable to you, so as to avoid unnecessary confusion, recriminations, etc. The host of a party continuing after the deadline may be asked to shut down the party. Submitted by Christopher P. Bolle Polity Attorney �dclll-- m in tes 11111 D.C. Minutes 17 April 1979 Attending: Shapar, Holbrook, Ross, Sharpe, Schuler, Silver, Miller, Stein, Stonesifer, Balkcom, Carsiotis, Swinford, Coss Visiting: L. Smith, Hartel, Bolle, Ficco, ~wigg, Van Doren, Schraf, Canter, Berns, Mondlock, Bolduc, De Martini The matter of the Campbell delegation has been resolved. They will have three delegates this year, and two delegates beginning with the interim delegates next year. The D.C. "lent" the Senior Class for its nefarious purposes. $200 was voted down, (5 yes, 5 no, 3 abs.) but $150 wa& appre¥ed (12 yes, 0 no, 1 abs.) The Syndicate of Bacchus was unanimously given $50. Mr. Cantor was reimbursed $15 from the crumpet fund. Mr. Silver asked the D.C. to pay $10 to join the Potomac Alliance, an anti-nuclear group. Mr. Holbrook declaimed with eloquence upon the impropriety of using Polity funds for partisan purposes and _the motion was defeated, (5 yes, 8 no). Small Chorus was given up to $20, (11 yes, 0 no, 3 abs.) The Consitution Revision Commottee reported that it had met and formed subcommittees on the Delegate Council and the Polity Court. There will be a meeting of the full committee at 4:15 pm April 24 in 35 McDowell. The public is invited. Mr. Coss nominated Doug Twigg as P.A. He failed approval 8-4-1. He then renominated Tim Ficco. He failed also, 8-4-1. He finally nominated Kit Bolle, who was at last approved, 11-1-1. The Polity Attorney announced his intent to decide whether to prosecute the pending cases as soon as possible. submitted by David R. Stein, Polity Secretary 19 MEN'S SPORTS by Bryce Jacobsen NORTS SPE.VS by S.R. Okay, Okay-there wasn't any sports ar icle last week! Sue me! Or don't! Are you ready for this:??? beat the Nymphs 10 to 3 with hitting and Miss Frame's home The Am::i.zons defeated the ailing ~.-ie--i.'1ds 7 to 3. In this game Miss Schw3r· .~~ he heroine with 3 home runs and I~ 1 ::.s2s hn and Frame each had one HR apiece. The Nymphs closely defeated the still ct-yet-recovered Maenads 7 to 6. There re no outsta:::-iding prople in this game. The Am':lzons s trugi;led 3gain:.:; t the D. C. 's ut overcame them in the fifth and sixth nnings with the final acore 5 to 2. There as superlative pitching by Miss Leonard or the D.C. 's, but it was not enough to old back some good runs by the dynamic uo of Frame and Hahn. Overall, the whole softball season is still a horse-race with the Am3zons just a length ahead. The Marathon came •• and it went, much to Tr1e Am3.zons took this event followed very closely (on the overbial heels) by the Nymphs, with the aughters of Camilla racing into third ace and the once populated (but now someha t apathetic) maenads coming in 4th (havg only 4 runners participating). The sports season is almost over and the oint spread is still really close. I woner how all of this t1ill turn out. 1 IS WEEK'S SCHEDULE: Sun. (today) April 22 Tues. Thus. Fri. Sat. April April April April 24 26 27 28 4:00 4:00 4:00 3:00 2:30 Maenads vs. D.C. 's 4:00 Nymphs vs. D. G's" Amazons vs. Nymphs Amazons vs. Maenads Nymphs VB. D.C. 's Nymphs vs. Maenads Track Meet: The Druids surprised themselves and everybody else by winning six of the eleven events, and taking the track meet. The Guardians won the remaining five events, mostly from some very fine running by Mr. Adams, who won three races and the relay. Mr. Cox won the high jump (plus' the relay), and placed in four other events. But it was Mr. Jenning's three wins, Mr. Brickley's two, and Mr. Weinstein's one (in the discus) that carved out the Druid victory ••• this, plus Mr. Tripp's two second place finishes in the mile and half mile. The highlight belonged to Mr. Brickley. He put the shot 43'5", which was almost four feet further than anyone had done since 1954. 1954? Yes, he shattered a 25 year old record! Fi tnes's test: The last days to finish this test will be this Monday and Wednesday. The 50 yd. daah and i:;he l'/2 mile run must be completed. Softball: Spartans-8, W:-ives-6 Druids-4, Hustlers-3 Hustlers-19, Guardians-8 The Spartans are trailinc; tt:.c Drui:1.::: by nine points in the yearly stano.ings _ •• but they have played two less softball games. Their :roor showing in the track meet has jeopardized their "catch up" stra tegJ'. They need to pick up some points in the fitness tesi:; ••• and then hope for the best in softball. Hence their win over the Waves this week 'vva.s critic al. 'The Druids almost helped tL~m out by losing to the Hustlers. But Messrs. Dryer, LaFave,. Sherman and Brandon put over two nrns in the last innin;:;, to eke out a 4-3 victory. SOFTBALL STANDINGS Druids Waves Hustlers Spartans Guardians w - L Pts 5 1 16 4 3 2 0 2 3 2 6 14 12 8 6 This Week's Schedule Fitness test Mon 3:00-6:00 Wed 3:00-6:00 Softball Thu 2:30 0partan-Druids Sat 1:30 Waves-Guardians �AND The \&.ridowed ~3oi1 ~~ Pc::i. .:c-chad aI;,d berit A Cl.u:~ious sun~ lie vlas a\,.ra;l ~, ,.. Did you not know him oncei the .Alter He stilled all But Cl.id he? He is me, neither you shall see for we do;_) 1 t s when dark becc>mes He wa~s cor:.fined by ea.rth So forced on him, Never did he know the 1-;orcLs To Freedom 1 s catch.". A tireless race 'I'o know life 11 A;~ ~iii ej;:J tk,r7lt;,'fW:.l ""w@. ·tf:oct:n, tJ";:-L! ~,,al Arrowed by He uttered ••• comprehend Men All no All no h:novl thine tr11e ~lea. kilO\;{ {JCGs'.,.n '? waves ar1d rnerge to 1..Tulie NL'Con Eisenhower t:cue essence and the union. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/f44b9b4d87bb675e02c92ad8658dac96.pdf 2cb3fa7e4f71246e91e00496afd1c760 PDF Text Text _A PARENTS 1 WEEKEND SPECTACULAR \\ ~~~~ No5 29~ Ap ii 29, \979 �2 3 Lost and Found - Apr il 27, 1979 If any of the items listed below belong to you, please claim them before May 14 ! Star of David pendant Necklace & cross small keys broken necklace pocket watch (found in gym) glasses (4 prs) sunglasses calculator (identify to claim) volvo gas cap bulova watch (identify to claim) necklace blue note book carving knife P.R. handbook assorted books (non program) cotton shirt r ed/yellow/blue scarf light brown g loves handsp u n wool cap garr i son cap size 7 1 /4 white acrylic sweater vest (lar ge ) gray hat wool Pendleton cap (red) purple scarf large sweater jacket blue/gray s c a r f b lue lace scarf more non-p r o gram books coffee mu g b lue jeans s hirt b r o wn corduroy shirt be ige pants b lue-brown pants ' Gle n Oa k s ' p laid hat p laid s hirt - f lann el maroon/ gold s k i cap hot water pot Muse of the Lost and Found - you have your work cut o ut for y ou. The Lost and Found is located i n the Assistant De ans' Office. W ASHINGTON ANTI- DRAFT RAiiliY Any one in t erested in at t ending the rall y tomorrow (Monday) should contact Tom Palmer or Paul Anthony Vander Waerd t at extension 31. iLlG.HT~ /'\r. Sha.r\.<t7 wi\\ coM~uc:.t 61'4 e.Y.pu·\tnt"''\ io T'\c.o.~ un ·t\u. src~J o~ hJht th;!> \./.. J. C&1 t rP). l/4 Mtl\oti tt 0.. \ \ • Jndla fq§.6iS?a!.~S 60 WEST STREET, ANNAPOLIS , MARYLAND &st~tion5 cf &autifuC cCctfu in naturaC fabrn1 R~ JE A JL TI 1r Y . 0 0 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Fri day 6 :30 PM Cockt ai l Hour i n FSK Lobby 7 : 30 PM Variety Show in FSK Au di torium 9 : 00 PM -Intermi s sion-wi th a ski t on t he steps of the lobby entitled Brain Damage perf or med by The Arti es Satyr icon Company (a group of alumni from W ashingt on , DC ) 10 : 00 PM Variety Show con t inue s 11 : OO PM Sophis t r y Contes t 11 : 303: 30 AM Dance i n FSK Lobby Satur day 9 : 30 AM M et i n Campbell parking l ot for rides t o Ci ty Dock e 10 : 00 AM REALITY Par ade t hr ough t own 11 : 00 AM Torchli ghting ceremony and M iss Sophr os une c ontest a t t h e Planetari um 12 : 006 : 00 PM Fo od and Beer on Back Campus 1 :00 PM REAL Ol ympi c s 7 : 30 PM REALI TY Movie in FSK Audit or ium 9 : 306 : 00 AM Dance i n FSK Lobby 2 : 00 AM A Paus e for Br eakfas t in t he Dining Hall Sunday Alcohol f or recove ry may be found in Boath ouse all day Take Not e All De btor s LOST AND FOUND A white plat e wi th gol d rim and flowers was left a t Dorsey House on Friday the 20~. The owner may pick it up at the Health Center. --Marilyn Mylander I found a silver-metal ring in the Campbell laundry room. It looks as if it might be a keepsake. If you have lost it, call me and describe i t. --jeff hume Se cond War ni ng REALITY draws near . And our mon ey supp l y i s s till insuffici ent f or the basi c n ecessiti es of t h e weekend . I f you still owe your $ 5 or othe r money to REALITY , please pay now or let u s know when you will be able t o pay . I f n e c es s ary , t he budge t cutting committe e (i . e ., me ) w ill make fina l f i nancial dec i sions t his W ednes day . R W ne r er Any and all s t range rs on campu s ove~ Reality W ekend will be quickly and e effici ently removed unl ess they can display a REALITY tag . The s e tags may be had from me . So remember , get tags n ow fo r y our gues ts and sign t h em in at the switchboard when they arrive . Thanks erner R W REALITY Chairma and Fool Aloha . �4 5 - ASSISTANT DEANS' EMERGENCY LOAR P'tJRD The large number of overdue loans makes it necessary to limit further loans to $5. our ability to loan may be suspended altogether if outstanding loans are not repaid. Sl1e +'-1.l•~ .four~~ Gtl'ld O'rlt Sill' 1\i•~~"d ~ell.(" ~d~o ~ t&.- ~·~~ r,~«Self¥mtO•··...vic) rt'O m~­ ... Six ~1.4s;4tJ o 1-1 .:li-n-tt "Tht i.tr # ~-- 0 0 INDEPENDENT RESEARCH IN BIOLOGY SENIOR FUND-RAISING CONTF.ST We still need a lot of $$$to do the prank up big (we're encasing McDowell in Lucite), so we're running one last fundraiser. It's a variation of the "Guess-how-many-jellybeans-are-in-thejar" game. In this version~ you guess how many bricks there are in Historic Annapolis. This includes the following area: From College Creek down both aides of King George St., across to Market Space, all of the dock area, down Compromise St. to Duke of Gloucester, up »uke of G. (both sides), around Church Circle, down West St. to Calvert, and St. John's St. to the creek. The count of bricks is that of all bricks in the area enclosed, but only those on sidewalks and outsides of buildings. You need not actually go into any houses, even if they have those plaques on the front. Write your guess and your name on a piece of paper and drop it into the box in the Coffee Shop on Thursday, May 3. Each time you enter a guess, it will cost you 50¢. We have a team of voll,Ulteers out counting the bricks now in erder to choose the winner. Prizes will be: l)a week in Bermuda; 2)your pick of the essays we stole from the bel~ tower during the party; 3)your favorite lab assistant to pith; 4) a luncheon for two at Timmy's; 5)a genuine Historic Annapolis Brick. --'!he Python-Trek Coalition for the Fundraising Committee Money is available to provide a summer stipend in biology. The stipend for the ten-week swnmer period will be appro:mi.ma•ely $900 and will be accompanied by a grant of $225 for materials and supplies. Additional compensation in the form of housing may be arranged. Interested students should submit a one-page proposal to the Assistant Deans' Office not later than lO:OOAM Monday 7 May 79. Entries will be judged on originality and practicability. For additional information contact Ms. Leonard, Mr Maistrellis, or Mr. McKinley. All returning St. John's students are eligible and encouraged to apply. --Submitted by Mr. McKinley r Annapoae ~ ~ ~ sir jpm tW-s C~tinr~ ~-1~ .J ~-13 ·· &ft bi~ Sicirt\ 4- s,- B1Ar, ~. arrJ..~.u. ,:is Ufe9t- St. THE FOOD CO-OP will be clearing all members' accounts in the next couple of weeks. !. If you placed an order at the 24 April ordering meeting you will have updated your debts and credits and settled with the amount you gave the co-op then. If there is any new credit due you becau;; the supplier lacked some item for this pick-upf the co-op will give you a check for that amount at Lhe pick-up on May 5. 1f you wish to buy surplus foods at this pick-up you will not be able to charge it so bring a blank check with you. If you are a member who did ~ place order at the 24 April meeting -l. and the co-op records show you are due credit, you will receive a check for that amount in a few days. • and the co-op records show you owe the a-op money, you will receive a bill (if ou have not already done so) and the t~ b~ which this must be paid is Mi:ly 4. t is important we have this money to y th:se to whom the co-op owes money. ote: If you have a back order from a istant monthe but did not convert that o a written credit claim in that dista.;.1 t onth, you have forfeited any claim for refund on this. But this policy seems o have been unclear to some members. It has been in writing the past two onths.) As a result, the co-op will ry to honor properly supported claims of unfilled back ordered food. No oral .claims of money due for unrecieved food 'will be considered. If you have your ack early order sheet with the co-op's ndication the item is to be reordered . ' hat will eotablish your claim. You must onvey this to Rick Campbell _2y Frida-Y:--May, at the latest. On that weekend he co-op will see if it has enough oney to pay all properly •;upported claims. f not, it will pay t;"]E!! ;;ame per'~''nt8.ge f all debt.'.;. Rick Campbell Harry Golding Everythmo For The Smoker·· 56 Maryland Avenue Annapo1t1. Maryland 21401 Francl5 Keller Phone: 263-2068 Ball 26~6642 Notice to All Students Ladies and Gentlemen, As of Monday, April 23rd, we had received ~ entries for any of the prize competitions other than the annual essay! The deadline is Monday, May 7. We hope we don't have to keep all our prizes on the shelf for another year. Thomas J. Slakey Chairman, Prize Committee .on Wednesday, May 2, at 8:00 p.m. in the Great Hall, I shall give a brief informal talk for freshmen concerning Ptolemy's 'crime'. In a recent book entitled. The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy, Robert R. Newton argues that many of the astronomical observations Ptolemy claims to have made were fabricated. Similar charges go back to the 17th and 18th cent~ries, .and are, as I shall attempt to explain, with high probability correct. fjewton s more general conclusions - with regard to Ptolemy's character and what astronomy would have been if he had refrained from fabricating observations - are, so I shall urge, highly implausible. Curtis Wilson �6 7 ' • J. we \ come to st.John's Mr. q.. Mrs. (e..+c)>con+\noe.d .. \'11\SS SULTR)' SENIOR'S TR.liJMPH OVER S Y - - 1-\ey, t-he\"e_- GO TO HELL'.~ w'ne'f\ \S me se1-\\01 pv-anl<? 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Jvst yc0 c..oa.it aY\d seel,\ 1 . �8 Ca) Appropriate End-Use Quality , (E) Appropriate End-Use Quantity. Davina TOWARDS A DURABLE PEACE An ancient procedure for advancing knowledge is to identify problems. Problems generate solutions, answers which should increase our understanding of the world. Today our society is faced with a problem that threatens the stability of our work and well-being: the energy problem. Like a hydra, this problem confronts us in many ways, its supply, its processing, transportation, safety, and even its intrinsic desirability. Three mile island surfaced like a sea-beast for many people, but the problems of nuclear energy Dre hidden only to those unwilling to consider them. This accident will perhaps convince us of the worth of this enterprise, and the ~rgency of understanding our present situation. The hydra of energy problems almost escapes our ability to def:..ne it. We can zero in on a thousand particular troubles, a thousand particular needs. In lieu of precisely viewing the difficulty let us consider out attempts to overcome it. One description says; "ever more remote and fragile places are to be ransacked, at ever greater risk and cost, £or increasingly elusive fuels, which are then to be converted to premium forms -electricity and fluids - in ever more costly, complex, centralized, and gigantic plants. The side effec~s of these efforts become increasingly intolerable even as their output alledgedly becomes ever more essential to our way of life e.nd our very survival." · That is how Amory Lovins, a technician and energy consultant, describes our present path in his book "Soft Energy Paths". Now I agree with thic descri_ption, as I'm sure you do. The trouble is that it's a brutal, unattractive picture. The is itself a problem. And thus Mr. Lovins's book. He w1·ites hie book with the goal of demonstrating the undesirable consequences of our present energy program, and to suggest an elegant alternative. His writing is cogent, thoughtful, and clearly id ntifies what is at stake - the social,political, and economic fabric of our lives. His book has catalyzed my interest and concern in this area, and I would like to discuss it in the hope that it will provoke youl? concern also. If it does, I have requested that the Library order thin book; please ask and see :i.f they have it yet. 'rwo energy systems confront us. They are labeled "hard" and "soft". Let 1 s ta~e up hard energy. This term is meant to denote the characteristics of our present energy system. Hard energyis non-renewable, energy that is inappropriately matched with the needs and desires for which we use it, energy that is centralized and renders us dependent on distant, often exotic and unapproachable technologies. Coal, gas, oil, and most especially, nuclear energy, are examples of this. On the side of efficiency, cost, and appropriatemess our hard aystems look very poor; centralized power systems demand complex "exotic" technology, huge capi twl investments, long lead times from crdering to operati:m, large distribution costs, low effAciency on conversion of primary energy into end-use energy (ie. liquid fuels, electricity, and heat). 'rhis becon es most clear in low-level heating and cooling. Here we seek to create a temperature difference of tens of degrees, yet they are often created "by a flame b::rnr,erature of thousands, or a nuclear reactor 1 t3 temperature equi 'ralen t to trillions". Socia] ly, our "centralized energy systems are inequitable in principle because they ser:erate the energy output from its side effects". Politically it has made us so derendent on the constant function of these huge plant that national security iR ~ften dictated by our energy demands. It has destabilized many of the third world and developing co~ntries, forcing us into relation with immoral and antagonistic nations. This is a system undesirable L1 itself and in its consequences: a world where the use of force becomes increasingly necessary in order to protect energy sources that have become vital to national security. Soft energy, on the other hand, has five characteristics quite opposed to this. (A) Diversity , (B) Renewability , (C) Simplicity and Comiprehensibility , convincingl7 argues that soft energy uae"ridespread or readily learned skills" that i~ is non-Uflationary(we have recently seen how energy ~~Hts can increas; inf~tion-dramaticall~), that it's not politically destabilizing(the success in I~dia of small community methane plants illustrates this fact), and that it will reduce our trade deficit. Lovins makes this argument using the goals and the criteria of the hard energy l~bbyists. This done in order to persuade his opponents with their OWn facts, :igu:es, and val~es(ie. a gluttonous energy-consuming economy where well-being is ~easured in Btus's). He makes it clear however, that his prejudices are somewhat different. Here are three of his biases• 1)"we are more endangered by too much energy too ' soon than by too little too late, for we understand too little the wise use of power" 2)"we know next to nothing anout the carefully designed natur~ syatems and cycles on which we depend", 3)"people are more important than goode"• These ar~ value judgements, decieions about what is most desirable, what is the most rational corse for mankind. So far I haTe not presented a complete argument against, nor a complete argument for either har or soft energy paths. Frankly I feel that beyond my means. What I hope I haTe dene is to engage you in the consideration of the implications of our :iresent energy system. It could well be that no area of our economy so symbolizes the present nature and the pre~ent danger, of our society. It is impossible to thoughtfully acc~pt the ugl~ess_t~t pervade~ our physical and social environment. It is impossible to believe in freedom while enslaving certain regions for our energy needs. The world has ceme scorn our attitude of benign leaders~, can we complain as long as our energy policy destabilizes vast areas of the world and threatens ancient cultures with corruptive, inappropriate technologies. For many years we have been persuaded of the inevitablity of our demands and of our present s~lutioi:is to those demands. There is no manifest destiny in energy, nor any in society. We must realize that there are choiaee to be madethat there_is still time to change to a fitting and elegant design. Not all 1 pa~s.remain open forever, however, it may_well be that we face with an 11rgent decision, before the possibility of erecting a humane and beautiful environment becomes lost for reasons of cost, security and ellT addictive dependency. submitted by Ned Elliott ~.· 1 Op-~,... CCw4 $ua ..T.,,. 9 �II Minutes for the D.C. Meeting not held on 24 April - - --.- Icelandic. The best deal to Europe: . $310* roun4trlP(St55oneWl\Y) Norestrictions. BabintoR~ tol.ux&!mbourg. Attending: Cosimo de Medici's painting as ex officio inspiration. Vis~ting: Nobody, Silence, Sanity The meeting was not chaired by Mr. Coss who did not read his junk mail as {s his custom. Nobody (visiting) was appointed Polity Attorney and failed to fail a:pproval. The financial report was not requested and no funds were allocated. The members -present unanimcu.sly elected Mr. Coss a~. Gcd and declared the new state religion to be atheist. .l.:ie meeting ·,;ac, prorr:.rtly not adjorned and with applause. Submitted by The Not-Folity Secretary &a-Jr seat at the same price. Conronted. reserwtioos. Free~mea1s,cognac. lfligbts~ Sbo'1 to365 daJ's. Punilasetickdsin the US.A. Specia1 connections also available 1hrough New\Otk. ------------ See your travel agent. Or write Dept. # _ _ , Icelandic Airlines, llOOConnect1cutAve., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. Or call toll free 800-223-5190. Please send me: D A timetable of lcelandic's fli8!!_ts from Baltimore/Washington, New York and Chicago. U Your brochure on European Fly/Drive and Fly/Rail Tours. NAME:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ADDRESS'~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Room available for visitors Ms. S.E. Platt has a room available in her house in Hillsmere. She charges $8 per night per person. :as. Platt may be reached at 268-3894. ACCOMODATIONS NEEDED FOR GRADUATION? A small, furnished, two-bedroom house on Duke of Gloucester Street is available for commencement weekend. Students who would like to rent it may call Mrs. Felix Heald, 269-1880, after 5:30 p.m. *Price subject to change after May 14. 1979. Add $12.50 surcharge ••ch way on travel between April 5 and April Z7. we"" A LIW~ 1.#Y ro N'4Q" 5llfl" Yt111 ~ THE ~,¥Hr SllilFI GIRL SCOUTS NEED VOLUNTEERS Girl Scouts in our conununity are looking for adult volunteers -- men and women who care about young people and want to help the~ grow. Some volunteers work directly with girls; others serve with-adults as trainers and administrators. Training is provided for every job. Call Girl Scouts at 987-5885 if you can help. SPORTS by Steph It was the dueling D.C.'s battling the mighty Maenads Friday last at Spearmint Field. The score was close the whole way until ••• Super Schraf stepped up to bat. There was a groan clearly audible, that filled the D.C. outfield, a sigh of relief came from the Maenad bench and the tension was so thick in the peanut gallery you could've cut it with a machete. With visions of Casey and Sugar plums dancing in her head, Schraf strode to the plate with a confidence matched only by Achilles. Leonard was pitching, her nervousness evident to all who witnessed, and as she licked her fingers to prepare for her mecessarily perfect pitches, she was getting ready for "Schraf." "Who is the one we are looking to for a home-run? 'Schraf' ••• Kim Schraf. Oh that girl Schraf is a bad mother -Shut your mouth! -- well it's 'Schraf', Kim Schraf." -(sung to the tune of "Shaft") By the way, the Maenads won 7 to 6. After that, who wants to know anything else? Anyway, the Maenads met with the D.C.'s again and won again with the score of 22 to 18. Then, two other teams played, namely the Nymphs and the Amazons. Had the Nymphs won this game, which they almost did, the Maenads could breath a little easier, but the raoe for the win of the softball season (as well 8S the year) continues. The winning RBI was batted in by Miss Schwartz and as the players left the field, the score was 9 to 8; an Amazon victory. The Maenads happened to win the Fitness Test, and this has helped thsm in the overall point standings. As it is now, the Maenads lead with a short margin over the Amazons and the Nymphs and D.C.'s follow in that order. A race to the finish. Please check the make-up softball schedule in the C-Shop for Sunday's activities. Next Week: Tues. May 1 Thurs. May 3 REALITY ( 4:00 Amazons vs. D.C.'s 4:00 Maenads vs. Nymphs ME:rfS SPORTS by Bryce Jacobsen Fitness: The Druids, after their wipeout 'in the Marathon, rebounded to take the track meet--and the fitness test! Yes, dear readers. The Druids ~ the most physically fit group at the College • •• not withstanding a few notable exceptions. Anyway, by winning the fitness test, they are almost assured of winning the year, unless they stumble badly in their last two softball games. We should know about all this very soon. Softball: Spartans-13, Guardians-12 Mr. Berger kept alive the Spartan hopes by batting in the winning run, in the last inning. This also kept alive the Guardian losing streak, now risen to seven straightJ Guardians--there is one final chance to avoid ignominy. SOFTBALL STANDINGS YI Druids ••••••••• 5 Waves •••••••••• 4 Spa.rtans ••••••• 3 Hustlers ••••••• 3 Guardians •••••• o L 1 Pts 2 2 14 3 7 16 11 12 7 THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE Softball. •• Mon. 4:00 Spartans - Hustlers Wed. 4:00 Waves - Druids Thus. 2:30 Hustlers - Spartans ,... ~ ~~~ .... JJ'U// ~J-Cour 4t·b M·F .[,at¢n@lt~ 11-1,. 'Wkrt tuftts and sfudents ..... meet and 9n!et. .... �now in the art - a co\\ection ittlr a of works by members e .. jl HI TOMI Tne south seas beckoned T'frere was someone--she came from the winds, Sweet whisper--her eyes teeming with life~ Of her a bird sang to me, Teasing my heart~ Oh ••• how soft her lips~ Watching the sun rise in her eyes ••• She was a doll who came to life~ but ••• My dreams have turned to fantasy~ This cruel world, what have you done to my doll? World, you sinner, you have stained this wonderful doll, The island girl is lost ••• forever. --David Hershel Weinstein THE COLLEGIAN St John's College AJL'fl.B.polis, MD 21404 DIRECTORY CHANGES Elizabeth Groff - to 209 Campbell Patricia Cook - to 112 Campbell Nicols Kennedy - 269-1514 ~-~f Of11110!UU\!Mm kibll ft II n'. U 5 KJriAGl PA I . .IBIH N@ !~ ~3.~- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ball, Sean (Editor) 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 Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/df59821d191422ea7ad0c37b54ca37d7.pdf f98568bf4c62272a9d7931402bbdc330 PDF Text Text �2 THE COLLEGIAN · St.l!lday. THE STUDEI"T WEEKLY OF ST. JOHN'S COLLF..GE · Pick-up soccer (cocktails followed by some silly games) 2:00 Tuesday 9:00 Blood Drive (compulsory) Relatively Old Testament Class (McDowell 32) Community seminar: "Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Part III: Moral Aspects" in McDowell 24 (Mr. Comber) 7:30 8:30 Mr. Sean Ball, Editor The Collegian lqdia fasl)iC>l)S ,._..._ IO w..t 91.. __ Dear Sean: Mrs. Weigle and I would like to take this opportunity to say how much we enjoyed having the College on our front lawn on the occasion of the Senior prank. The whole affair was handled beautlfully by the members of the class who arranged it, and we should like to express our special appreciation to them. All of the students left our front lawn looking just as beautiful as when they invaded it earlier in the day. We would be more than happy to sponsor a return engagement next spring if the present Juniors decide that they want to emulate this year's Seniors. ~ 2lt-1UO Wednesday 4:00 Open Food Committee Meeting This week the Committee will open a can of tuna. -A. Shorts 5:00 Blood Drive (compulsory) Life Drawing Class Death Drawing Class 7:30 8:00 ~~~- Thursday 3:30 Richard D. President The Bill Salter Mutual Admiration Society will hold elections in the Great Hall Wei~ Friday ~TURE: (See anouncement) Saturday 3:00 8:00 4:30 FILM: Phil Alardice will create life in his room; afterwards, the Pinkney Players will stage the Battle for Iwo Jima Random blood drive INFORMAL LECTURE: (run) "On Toast" Mr. Sarkissian will give a brief talk on the virtues of toasted wheat bread "The Ghost in the Invisible _ Bikini" (1966) '1A ()(:i\\E GODO. ('Y\0~1~6 \f IT DtON'T (oME So EARL~ -- - ( w~ To /I-SI '{o\J, Su1 "U(EAO't "('ov'~t:: PR\J~" ) . THANK YOU I would like to take this opportunity to speak for 'the college community and thank the Class of 1979 for a superb Prank. Speaking for myself, I found the whole experience delightful and everyom: I talked to seemed to be very pleased as well. Earlier in the day, I recei•r<?d -:: c~.:di tional enablement letter fraught ·.vio.1: provisos. The winning or first 1-'rize was a great uplift for m~I have not won anything since a chocolate angel-food cake in the first grade. So, thanks to the sen:i.ors, 1979 will always be remembered--by me at 1east--as a very good year. Thanks again. 1 --Kevin McKee "The Gambler" In Vino Veritas E~SE.M'£ Of ,. erooO UAFr SI P.S. If I ever get dismissed, there is aly•ys Las Vegas. If I get lucky, I can ~ a ·beefy donation on President Weigle ~d throw hia '!lJ'und for the Eighties" ove!" t-he top. D �5 4 Febbies and anyone else who will be e over the summer and need extra $$$--us know who you are! We have many ple who need housework, yardwork, etc. e--get in touch NOW!!! (We won't be IF YOU'VE BEEN WONDERING ••• ''Reason bears a three-fold office toward revealed truth, and within that province is indeed, supreme, but only three: l) It is the province of Reason to state in terms that the understQding can apprehend what the tru:ths are which Revelation has declared. -2) rt is the province of Reason to state as clearly what revealed truth is E£l; for, .while the Revelation of God is above and beyond Reason, it can never be contrary to it. 3) It is the province of Reason to investigate and test, by every ~rocess which the mind of man can conceive, the .testimony which is borne to the truth of Revelation. The more it tests this t·estimony, whether it be by scientific research, or archaeological investigation, or the study of the mind of man, the more will that testimony stand forth sure and unshaken, the foundation of God 1 the same yesterday, today, and forever! •••••• There is a great deal of unreality in some of the doubt of the time. There are people calling themselves skeptical, who only differ from Christians in having taken for their authoritative teacher some newspaper or review, some man of science, or modern philosopher, or popular preacher, instead of the grand old creeds, and the truths for which martyrs have died, and the unshaken faith of the Catholic Church, They are as much submitt;i.D.g to authority as the little child, only to authority not as reliable." (From James DeKoven's sermon ''fllen of Understanding", 1874) For four years people have been telling me that "science" has made faith impossible or obsolete. I offer to them this man, who like Luther "delights in assertions". Only shallow_theologians have anything to fear from shallow "science". The deep theologians and scientists know this to be true, and regard each other with mutual respect. This, it seems to me, is an attitude that would be t1Pical of the Program. --jeff hume e forever, you know ••• ) A few of our plums: ·ce Wheeler still needs someone .-old on Tues. This is a cont~u.u~ua Lecture. Members of the College Community Ladies and Gentlemen, The lecturer Friday ·r.r.~o.r, has of after 7 Freudian person for are needed. Could be lucrative. Fifty-one West Street Annapolis, Maryland 21401 267-8066 s. Prince needs someone to do yardk by Monday or so. 269-1318 US!!!!! if you get any of ~--~~~--We Psychoanalysis. "'".L""'a"-' ) • Sarkissian needs someone to mow his He is getting desperate. 268-7494 Robert de La Viez Wine and Cheese , Dr. Arnold elected President Association. lecture, Sincere Edward G. Dean would like to share your joy. eff of the SEO THE GERMANS ARE COMING! SPRING BOOK SALE Tuesday May 8, 1979 at 2 p.m. LIBRARY TERRACE We offer an assortment of titles, subjects and authors at bargain prices. Proceeds go to Library Book Endowment. WORDS OF WISDOM "No discipline is ever requisite to force attendance upon lectures which are really worth attending, as it is well known wherever any such lectures are given." --Adam Smith, Wealth of Nation.£ (P. 72.0 in the Modern Library F.d.ition) Submitted b7 H. Golding submit"ted ·Wilson yours �--- --------------------------------------------- 6 NOTICE PltBLIC NOTICE The Constitutional Revision Committee vill be holding its last Public Meeting to study the Proposed Draft Constitution on Tues. May 8Yi, from 4:30-9:00pm (with a break for di..D.ner). Please come with 7our suggestions for improving the old constitution. Copies of the new draft constitution will be available at the meeting. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Please come. --by order of Christopher P. Bolle, Polity Attorney and Ex officio Chairman of the Constitutional Revisionism Committee But the Druids (after dr-0pping out of the marathon!) came on to win the track meet, and the fitness test, and softball. This was more than enough to take the title. So Mr. Kolman and Company go out on a winning note ••• after some frustrating years. Nice going, chaps. Softball Druids-6, Spartans-3 Until this game, the Spartans still had a mathematical chance. But not thereafter. Spartans-14, Hustlers-3 ~t JLittlt Qtampu5 The long war over you escaped punishment because like all good politicians: you knew the right people. Even z·eus <>wed you a favor• Like all gods he was inept, try as he might he could not create a decent man. You were granted the responsibility of trying your hand. You held an ace, or maybe it was the Joker. Clay, even with the pride of the lion~ the cleverness of the fox and the bravery of the bull is still clay. Against orders you gave them desire and Zeus was furiousl' Enraged he hurled you to the highest peak of Caucasus, chained there, where an eagle would feed on your liver. Y ou were asked to repent but like your creations found it hard to forgive injustice •. Time was on your side. You knew what History has proven, eventhough time has seen your coals grow JCbld--t he"dnly myth is irnortality. ::;:vep the gods grow old. 1Jmt iv.a=atS' IN CUR CC:X:::KTAIL LU.N;E M:NJAY-FRIDAY 4-6PM Drmids-17, Waves-9 Until this game, the waves still had a chance for the softball title. But not now. Hustlers-19, Spartans-10 Softball All-Stars Did you notice who won the MVP award? If not, take notice ••• it was Mr. Guaspari! Yes, dear readers, one of our youngest (and best conditioned) tutors received the mobt votes. How about that! Lately, the Seniors have not been doing too well against the faculty in our annual game on Graduation Weekend. And this year, Mr. Guaspari will be playing for us. Seniors, I say to you, you are in big trouble. Unuaml 3-bJd Delic:Kies ');\ftmt> -.uonato BAUd Stulted ~ Vu1 wrurnck • Cht<.k-A-aob QJ:at won. tnru ~I. l l AM loll mt0M1~--I 63 Maryiond Ave. 2~Vl50 268-7J99 STUDEN'r ARr SHOW Now in the St. John's Gallery Everything below is exhibited: SPORI'S by Bryce Jacobsen Well, it's all over now. The Druids, a teaa with a rather undistinguished record in the last 7 or 8 years, finally got their act together. They won the yearly title, beating out tpe Spartans by 151 to 135. After football and soccer they were dead last ••• but things picked up considerably in the.winter, when they almost won basketball. and did win volleyball. Still, the Spartans started the Spriiig with a solid lead. Sculpture Oil paintings Water color Charcoal sketches Pencil drawings Women's Track Meet It was pointed out to me by a nymph (Miss Mandy) that nothing had been mentioned in THE COLLEGIAN about the astonishing nymph triumph in the track meet. We now correct that grievous omission. What was astonishing was that the Nymphs won all the first ten events (everything except the mile relay, where they came in second). Miss Slowinski. took the 440, 880, and mile. Miss Williams won the softball throw, discus, high jump, and shot put. And Miss Mandy (herself) trium~hed in the 100, 200, and long jump. Never in the annals of St. John's trdckdom has there ever been such a lopsided triumph. Good show, Nymphs. Open through May Prediction department Watch out for the Hustlers next year. (Ed. note: With the Hustlers, it's always "Next year". ) 56 Maryland Avenue Annapolla, Marytand 21401 --Paul Hartel Gra~hics Batik Scratch board etching Color crayon pastels Photogra}Jhy 10~ To A Co llsaio.'fl n~< 'jo1..1. ... - Come again! <r L1TiLE EMMA LIN~;· A CAUTIOJ<ARY IAL!; "Everything For The Smoker.. Francis Kell9f Phone: 263-2066 Bait: 2$-6642 ��2 THE COLLEJUN Music Library Bambi kills hiS mother .iJ• 12 MUSIC LIBRARY CALLAIN All scores and records must be returned by ~sday !lay 8. Class copies should be brought in for call-in and special arrangements made with the music librarian for class copies still needed in class. *** Oedi11us kills his father P• 13 --submitted by the music library (all by itself!) The Office of College Relations wishes to 'express its appreciation to all of the College Community and its many helpers for making the Fourth Parents Weekend a Success. Our thanks to you all. The Maryland Ballet Company will perform here on May 12th. Tickets will be available in the Bookstore. The Ballet Company will feature the fa.m::>us Sylvester Campbell in his much acclaimed "Prelude". Matiness time 2:00 Get your tickets now to avoid disappointment. *** Everybody else kills the rest P• 15 't-5~ Stnt.tC ~~~~ We. ~~ and, $t{t',__, You're not taking any of this seriously, are you? 5-4' full el(,3-0377 (,3(,- 51~ I have recently heard that a Presidential. Search Committee has been formed. This is really alarming to a bleating heart liabler like uqself. I don't understand how such a small college could lose its President. I realize Dr. Weigle does a lot of traveling, so I can see where it might be possible to miss him for a few days; but to lose the man all together! That seems very careless. Imagine the consequences of this. Allow me to explain the obvious: !-'eople will say, "Oh, that artsyfartsy little College can't even keep track: of its President.. What a bunch of nit-wits!" Haverford will really talk it up -- they've always hated us. And what about the personal side of this affair? I bet ol' Mrs. Weigle is taking it pretty bard. Has anyone talked to her? Heck, maybe she knows where he is -- did he go to Santa Fe? Is he in China? I mean, has anyone really looked for him? I saw him just the other day. Or maybe that was John Burke ••• The point is this: I remember when everycm-e thought -::Jaul McCartney was dead. Boy, vas that stupid! I nope we aren't making the same mistake~ Next Week: (4J:lyone with information about Dr. Weigl.e's ~ut-s $hould call the Presidential Search Committee hotline, which is 728 - 3362, that's S-A-V-E D-0-C) The Same If you wish to usher for this event(see the performance free) please contact Miss Miller, extension 77 between 10 - 4 on Tuesday, May 8th. ·rne Oresteia: Alison .Athey (the carpet), Ken John Lippman (off stage screaas), Patti l'fogalea (libations), rge personal From the Placement Office: e:~~~$~~s~tu:dly~),~Terry Polk (stage , Sean Ball CF.di tor) SUMMER JOBS - WASHINGTON AREA A publications service needs someone for the following kinds of work typing~ p:oof:eading, paste-up, page make-up and technical art. Experience for ~h7s J~b is not necessary, however the salary will range according to · qualifications. The range will be $3.50-$5.00 per hour. This business is located in the College Park Shopping Center. Se~ me for further details. The manager of the East-Potomac Golf Course will need someone to do hard, healthy outdoor work caring for the grounds. This job will pay approximately $3.50 per hour. Marianne Braun Director of Placement i 'i ' d_ ~~~a.;~1cjJ;l,l.i.J~~'"CSseat covers), Carolyn Allen (fury Jeff crowd scenes), Mark Fuller (bloo , Margaret Schwecke (a spot light). /µf&CT10N Idea~~: Mark Wielga 1 Jim White, Sean Ball lk tail.a: SeaJl Bltll �.4 Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, PLACEMllfT BULI.ErIN Scholarships: The Datson Scholarship ~rovides I 20,000 and a wife to any St. John student who J.iromises to "cre~te ~orld peace! . solve one major world problem, and be very nice. The qualifications include a 4.3 GPA, an ability to be incredibly sincere, and a high tolerance for alcohol. is not often that man will The Rhoda Scholarship provides a small apartment in New York to a student interested in window dressing. Applicants should have a slight athletic background and should have seen a lot of Mary Tyler Moore shows. The Johnny Harris Eternal And Paradoxical Endowment provides money for a likeable student to take half the normal course load, then half that amount of classes, then half again •••• Jobs: Any senior interested in getting a job after graduating ~ould hear this: HA! HA! HA! HA! -Marrying Brawn HEH FEBBY! PAIDBACKYELLOWSPURNEDOUTNESS Any February freshman who has not yet contributed to the Febby-Townie Cocktail Party (to be held at "Pete's Placett) should do so soon! ,------~-- ..... -,.. ... .... --------._ ~ I Tired of being hit in the face with ugly black spikes? Want to avoid painful kicks to the shin? Then you should consider the newest, easiest, and yet most subtle defense art yet developed: the mysterious Asian art of Hai-per-bol. The masters of this art will teach you how to be disarmingly witty, verbally abusive, and sexually naive. For more information, talk to me, Jim Sorrymeno, film buff, Hai~per-bol master, &c. i In lecturei at their aeats. extreme well, ' that extreme, but I can see where there be a few objections. One student asked me, "How do lectures - . c,.1a,, relate the program?" I t o 1 d .h:i.rn +)-- + hiB was a very question and that he should keep to lecture until he could find an answer. That student is now a tutor at St. John's unfortunate~ , he never gees to lecture. If you have any que::otionsi door J_s come see me. and my fireplace is alw ys lit. haps W8 could read some French poems togethei;r; here 1 s a nice one: [Ed • no t e Thank you. Poem omittedl I will save you a seat, Sincerely yours, f lll°:F . I $20ff I On Nike Waffle Trainers ·with This Ad · 11: I I I ' ' I I I 1. 'I I t 47 WEST STllfT ANNAPOLIS, MD I I ',.L - ' ' f I 21401 - --~-------- - ...J Edward G. Sparrow Dean ART GALLERY REVIEW It was not one of the best openings the Art Gallery has had. First, the wine almost gone when I got there. Second, I really abhorred the punch. And, as Fred Bore (art critic) put it, "the crakers and cheese stink." However, some of the works in the gallery were well reflected by the onion dip. Then again, some were best.captured by the nuts. Personally, I found that I most enjoyed the oil paintings after I had smeared some peanut butter on them; but, of course, it's all relative. I mean, some of the stuff is better than some of the other stuff, but that's art, y'know? was Red Sox Nations of Central America" or "How I Summer Vacation 11 Given Mr. Raditsa Mr. Raditsa, who has taught at St. John s College ever since he got here, Will give a charming talk on the above subject(s). Once you have heard this lecture you will never be able to say you haven't. Fellow Students, Are YOU the one who has be ~e&vi, on in the Library l :i.throom·; he one reckless fueling the ? Are YOU the one who of be able to up the john? WELL, WELL, let me tell you a fact or two. We are RUNNING OUT o:f EVERYTHING. Soon there will be nothing left. EVEN LESS. leaving those on. In fact, don't even use them. What's wrong with a shot in the dark? Bathrooms are gross places anyway So get in the SAVING SPIRIT; you all know I'm full of it. Tom Pulmonary Students for a Lavatory Society (SLS) -e I �6. ,.,~~ ~ ~ _,.CW-~ ~--~S'r ~-1~ .J ~ ~-1~ · · &ft ~ Siur~ <f- ei.,-. f.s..,.J Doo4 :ZS~St. -ARTS I drifted slowly back And gazed o'er the men'o'green, Their strong-limbed bodies madly racing. Combat commenced, the spartans surged, Overwhelming the defenders • Dust flew, cries filled the air, Men tumbled to the ground; And when the tide of battle Came to engulf me, I drew back my powerful arm, And heaved the ball for a touchdown. 7 She is like a true-false test: T T T T F ) T F T T I got a "7". - Hersheybar Beerstein Ezra Pound in Tom Wolfing down a Browning Sandburger which T.S. had donne placed till it Fits gerald very marvallously; "Yeats! my aiken foot is pincheoned" he said as he Nabakov-drop: "take me at my wordsworth, pope poe VI, and ••··" byronning away to a frost-covered mount ' he lowelled himself to oh, oh, oh I love the sound of my voice; yea, and beebop-sha-boo. Kate Joshing -Douglas Bard Life is short, times are hard; lemons are bitter, limes are tart. - A.M.C. Up, up, up went the bird, Down, down, down went my heart; Left, left, left I was left Right, right, right from the start. Over, over, over the top, boys, Out, out, out damn spot· If, if, if you're betra~ed Shake, shake, shake what you got. r -Buffo Boozer 01 �9 '" If ST* RR 11'16: G "" t EG\si wood D.C. MINUTES H(;LLO. AS 1.iK (QITOR OF TIM RATHG.~ t..O!J!.'( PAPE.R 1 I FE.CL , IT 1S m'( ()IJT'( To UPO .S£ ·•pflS CAl<,TOOl.J OriCE. MID ~OR /10\rJ WY.,. we;;, H,.,vE (SE.EN OE (f.IV£0 B'l THAI FLAkE. y FRCO 141;,Rc) For< E. '/-l'1f't\ PL£ Is AtE BO TER s £LL.ING. our Pres(id)ent: D.C. MlNUTES .ALL. D.C. MEET ING WITH THE ADMINISTRATION present: The students ~rotested the five fires that have gutted Paca-Caroll in the post week, despite the improvement in the dorm 1 s srnelL The Administration responded with a plan to harness the energy that might be gained from future fires • Students on 4lli floor Ea0t Pinkney that "gang of hoodlums" said one highranking Administration official -- are warned that they should stop shattering the cardboard that has been placed in their windows. The Rifle Club's JJlan<:; to "liven up the Waltz parties" were voted down. ftLL 'TH/H TALk A80VT S'{ WHAi£Vc(( ~ rll)-~/t'(. 1S MO HIS PAk'UlT.S • ., LIES' Coss, Sparrow ~I Coss Meeting apened with a long silence. Then the President opened his mail and read to himself. Four committees were formed: The Student Sub-Life Committee, The Student Plant Life Committee, The Student Committee to Find Out What the Photography Committee is Doing, and The Committee to Re-elect the President. A St. John's Un-Eidetic Activities Committee was discussed. The purpose of the Committee would be rid the campus of non-program activities. By a vote of 8-3-2-6, the matter was turned over to the Rifle Club. Mr. Coss ex~reosed concern about the steep hill leading to the lower field on Back Campus. Mr. Coss is afraid somebody trying to catch a long fly ball may fall down the hill. However, since this is a grading problem, it was turned over to the S.C.I. WOMANLY SPORTS by Stuff KE;Rri\ITH, &O Tc HELL 1 vov i~U< LIKE. \.JH'I ACT LIK'£ FR£0 co'f..) 8vr L£ 1 ME IELL yw) kE.Rm~ BABY, we fXJN r NC:£0 AMOTH£R Fk'£0 cox.' K'E1((v1, /Ylt:U FRE-0 '{ov (o} ) CLINT 010 I 1ct.C:Rf1Tf- 1">-liS SHAM 7 I Amazons - 157, D.C. - This game, which began on Thursday, has yet to get out of the first inning. T~e D.C. 's started with just a pitcher and a left-fielder, so the going has been pretty tough. The left-fielder abandoned the game late Saturday night, which left only Barbara "Babs" Leonard at the mound. l interviewed Babs as four run0 were scoring. .::>he said, "Where the dickens is the rest of my team?!" Sur~rizing person, that Babs. In order to SJJeed up the game, we are considering suspending the rules. Until then, hang in there D.C.! I <:.AST \.)Oo0, .. 6 ~ Softball: HAvC m~ r.:it.AS0/-.15 .. 7 Play-of-the-Week: On Tuesday, Carol ;Katrina popped the ball up, and somebody caught it. Al, ,... 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/253d03ad041e3cb714cdd9de91304940.pdf a70ab423c60ee86939c7d7f089e5be6f PDF Text Text We.I\ - 'rlel\'s 'oel\s. It- OI>' No wonder you•ve been +lie Kev-mith isdt-~raduat-ir:i.3'· way yo1Pve_been \a-\-e\y.onl. So w\-\at are you 9oir~lffi l'\o'N \ Ir.ave 1t a\\ ~5vf""ed out\ ,------111do after you 3rci6\)a.te? '"'-"':.::;_;_:c::.:..;__;_,;_:::....:::..::.:....:...::.:...:..:...:..c==-;:....:..:..;~=-'11 On, 53 ( p vn) . ~a \<.now - mO.stof the i-ll"Yle \ simr\y ca~t be\if:ve I 'VY"\~e \'\- ~'("o~'V-,~y y~V'$ Ql.t ,....,.----.!-:;:::=::-I +his sc.hoc\. T~ L;i:ST fo-x1e have. bee\'\ .sc tT-:Ji"'~ - juSt~fu\\ 0 ~ 1-Y, d.-\s anc!l -h-1w1a..+\on:s'SovYIE'...1-iWies \ V"e6"1\y +\-o03ht l w~s j0St- 3oi~­ ~ die~~ ' 8 �2 FOOD FOR THOUGJI! & ARGUMaT Last Sunday ail immense crowd gathered before the Capitol to demonstrate against nuclear power plants. Urged by different motivations, people came from all over the country(some 102 buses from New York alone). Some were obviously lured by the presence of entertainers like Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne. However, I do not believe that this was the predominant reason. Yet the Washington Post chose to run a story about a fellow who came just for the music, and though he thought that it was a good cause "it was too bad they had no alternatives".'P•.his is simply not true, alternatives are beginning to pour eut of our ears. I've been reading a little about these alternatives , and I thought that you would enjoy sharing a few facts, as food for thought and argument. facts '!'here are 30,000 dams in the U.S. over 25ft. Fewer than 4oo of these are used to generate electricity. The U.N .. has concluded a study showing tht mass production of photovoltaic cells(sun-.electricity) wou].d make them competitive with nuclear energy. Photo-voltaic cells which cost $100 a bank ten years ago coat $10 a bank today. ' Exxon is beginning mass production of lithium batteries which will neither lose their charge nor wear out. ''l'he motive capacity of U.S. power staiti.Dns is about one-fortieth that of the cars in the U.S., and costs perhaps ten ti.mes as much per kilowatt - due to not being mass produced. If we carefully insulate all buildings constructed in the next twelve years · we could save as much eaergy as is predictel for the Alaskan. reserves. Sumlight has a heat gen.rating capacity of 5800• C;. A new type of coal-burning electric generator has been developed in Sweden, cal.led fluidized bed burning. 'l'hese g ive out little pollution, they burn only . · ">ne half tG two fifths the norma.i..amount of coal, and they can be scaled down to home units while retaining 80% of their efficiency. 3 THE COLLEGIAN THE STUDENT WEEl.LY OF ST.JOHN'S COLU:GE CHART of END-USE ENERGY in theu.s. Heat - 58% Mechanical Motion -above 212°F -below 212°F 25% 32% -vehicles 31% -pipelines 3% -industrial 4% elec. motors Remainder( lighting, electronics, arc ~ welding, telecommunications, electrometallurgy, home appliances,etc. •note- the only energy needs for which electricity is necessary and usefu]_ are the '% for industrial electric motors and the 4% remainder - ie. only 8% of our total end-use energy consumption. ALL I~ ALL) ~OT I hope you find these helpful and interesting. submitted by Ned Elliott We need students to guide the September freshmen on Registration Day (September If you can guide, please notify the Admissions Office. Ext 79. Thanks. The Reality of Eidos We will be silk screening more T-shirts from 1-3 on Tuesday. You may bring your own shirts down to Chase-Stone and we will apply the Reality design or. the Eidos design--at your wish. This costs $2. If you want us to supply the shirt, please get in touch with R Werner or Lisa Cobb before 10 AM on Tuesday. Give us your name, shirt size, and specify which design you want on the shirt. This costs $3.50. No credit this time. ~Next year, REALITY will be run by Lisa Cobb and Eugene Wise. A BAO YcA(\ R Werner Alison Athey Ken Ross John Lippman Jeff Harter Patti Nogales Danielle George Fred Cox Terry Polk Amy Coughlin Sean Ball (Ed.) Wendy Tribulski Carolyn Allen Jeff Hume Sara Marcy Mark Fuller Arm Schwartz Margaret Schwecke NEXT WEEK: The King William Players will present two performances of Samuel Beckett's Endgame this week. The first will be on Wednesday, the 16the, at 8 p.m. This will be followed be an afternoon show on Thurvday, the 17th, at 4 p.m. The play is difficult, but can be understood if listened to carefully. However, a few things may sim~ly make no sense without some sort of explanation. For this rea son, I have decided to ~ublich a few notef prior to the performances. Almost everyone loves Waiting for Godot. l'his play is superior. The author is on record ae saying that ~ was a preliminary stuc leading to Endgame, which he considers his masterpiece. Please come and enjoy -Kevin McKee, Direct.or• - Blame these people: Electric energy production meets 13% of our end-use needs and consumes 28% of our primary energy supplies. ENDGAME The World Concert This Sunday, May 13, at 8:15 in the Great Hall, Helen Stephenson, soprano, and Frank Conlon, piano will give a conce-rt·. Elizabeth Bolotin Music Librarian Mene, mene? :. mene, mene, te~el, .- . upharsin. Aramaic words meaning, literally, "numbered numbered, weighed, divided," which appeared on the wall at Belshazzar ' s ' feast. Daniel 5:25-28. The phrase wa.a interpreted by Daniel to mean that God had doomed Belshazzar's kingdom. Ardennes:. Forest.of Ardennes, a wooded plateau along the Meuse river in N.E. France, S.• E. Belgium and Luxembourg. Sedan: a city in N.E. France on the Meuse river, scene of the disastrous defeat of Napoleon III in the FrancoPrussian War 1870. Lake. Como:. a lake in Nort_hern Italy, 35 miles long near the Swiss border. Spratt's medium: a dog biscuit. Flora: in Roman Mythology, the goddess of fruit trees. Pomona: Roman goddess of flowers. Ceres: an ancient Italian goddess of agricuJLture. Pomeranian: a dog with long, thick, silky hair. v.esta: a short wooden match. heIIO'meter: so cal,led because or:i.ginally used in measuring the suri. 1 s diameter; . an inst:rrum.ent formerly used for measuring the angular distances betwe~n t:vo.stars. anenometer: a gauge for determiIU.ng the force or speed of the wind and sometimes its direction. hygrometer: an instrument that measures atmospheric humidity. �4 Joel (Joel is a guy I met on the Boston commons a few yeari. ag"O• He was stoned out of his head Ol2 mescaline. Most of this.is what he said.) Joel~ where are you coming from? We had paid two bucks for a six pack of time, when ~rou came along wanting to know how to come down. It is better to come down on joy than to have people come down on you. yes and there's no meaning to life; there's no meaning to unlife, there is no meaning to nothU¥r. and the grass is high on being e,-rass; and the wati<'?r is hir:;h on being water. and the moon is moving, and you want to l-':rtow can't we see it? and the earth is moving so fast you can see it. but you are so high above us that 1rn can't reach you. And you are aeeless lil:e Nethuselah and the Moon. You want to shoot up and never come back. For the water is too cold. The world is too cold. And you feel like you're crash landing will you ever level off? and there is a Hr,-ht in our gut in the place where we eet high. And you tell us to Jump up and dmm Sing a round. Oh :veah and to tell it like it is. sticks and stones will break your bones, but our bombers will win the war. but lP.t's tu'T"Il. them into joints. or. maybe butterflies. and that cosmic foot you SRW through the slcy ••• but you can't see us. you see light strings for our f~ces you tell us we are beautiful; that you have a discriminat-i.ng consciousness. And you're turned on by the beauty of Life. But nothing is real. And you can't get high on myths. Joel, are you a myth? You want us to make lllA.gic so you won't be below us tomorrow. You say you've got too much power to fall. .--------------------------------------------..5 LITTLE But Joel, just one word more: Hake it to Venus tonight. It's Hell tomorrow. A [MMAL%N[: CAUT,O>JARY TALE But you won 1 t re 1ember this. - Lynn Gwnert 1 Beauty and the Beast fOe.ltolJ hefe Jdf.le.. fm'YTlo.line, A c.~ild bolh clever o.nd refined~ Her walk was sparkle to my plodding gait As shining overhead and on she flew To all the world like love, but distance He:r ha.if is b1on~e, hef eyes ()If, blue~ She wea<s blcu.k rQ.leJ 1~ s 'hoe~. So sweel +-hi .gnt, So nea.t + c.le.Q'fl A pQf"o.3 OYl is E-m Y'Yla..l:ne,. She did not wear the willow as she went Nor wind its wand with any stir of breath Nor as she passed leave any branch back-bent Nor did she touch the mud though it had rained But passed me going starward on to death. And I could follow slowly though it pained My mind to know my heart was not as true My walk the slower walk of one who knew His love sometimes the darker love of hate. --Paul Hartel Fear is a butterfly trembling i t2 win,o:s among th~ uainf'ull:v bri~ht flowers; covering its vulnerahle body v.Ti_th t 1-;s ti.~ht · '"'"r of ,_ l""lr-i+-· T ; '.-n Tl not An~ s 1 1r,h ""'T'Or it resmiJes hut rn~­ 1. _.-; ~r,t~ a~,..ept th~m. T a;.1 not <>Ven a "ne. are only cri. Tlpled hlacl-· rurv:i.ngs or '1. white pace, Hy i;.r:i T1P"S and no protection at an. -r~ynn Gumert the Qt( ;5 ca-'; El'llmo.l:t1e... 1oe..S o~~ 1:.o Sc~ od.. Ko.Y1la. .f- 'PQpet wa.ve 9oo~b~e AY1d ().)1 pe the ieaf ~v-ofS j'votrl theift-1e5· trA lo~.l.;eY child u.Ja.5 ne.vcx- se.e.Yl ltia.Yl ouf l:Me cla.l'hrt~, tn'ltrlclli'n~. i> lhe /eo..ves a.Ye cri.sp, �6----------------------------------------------- nm -1, I ..---------------------------------------~? . 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Jf!'e.M. 1 ~Jt a~uvqo tn-1• ou ueaq S'l'q * aiaq+ arc Fl NIS ~ oTerload penetrate which is to say that apple still tastes so fucking good no.A ioJ ureaip v +q~1u ~ ~Ulqo11ai +s-e1 dea1s .Am U1 paAom 1 sq+uo111 uaaq svq +1 paua+qgµJ 111"8 1 •.1toplJ1.1t paualJ.rvp ino.A +v gU1lfO<>'I' '111"& aaiq+ +11 1t'e.M. 11 +slJ111g-. dn -pauva1 pvaq All q+1• poo+s I �10 Minutes of the D.C. Meeting, 8 May 1979 .NOTICE The Constitutional Amendment Committee has set a date for the referendum on the adoption of the proposed amendment to the Constitution. That date is to be September 24~, 1979. This is to allow for adequate public debate on the subject. · Submitted by order of the Constitutional Amendment Committee Attending: Shapar, Auerbach, Swinford, Schuler, Stonesifer, Balle, Coss, Stein, Carsiotis, Holbrook, Miller (walked out in a huff), Visiting: Preston, Werner, Van Doren, Hartzell, St. Amour, Bolduc Mr. Werner reported concerning the Polity's stuff, Of problems and troubles we've certainly got more than enough, Broken the Polity's music-box does seem to be, The parts were carelessly dropped, apparently, The way our equipment's handled must be changed, Repayment from those responsible's arranged, Our President moved that we fix the Polity's amp., The Delegate Council, as usual, rubberstamped, Mr. Balle suggested the D.C. might wish to endorse, The new constitution proposed, which will go into force, If approved by the Polity, by a majority vote, The Council did favor it, this I would much like to note, But Miller, who probably felt it should not endorsed be, Walked out, thus thwarting the will of the majority, Due to the fact that the quorum we needed was lost, The meeting was promptly adjourned - by dear Mr. Coss. The Polity Secretary wishes to thank, Those who wrote funny minutes, to fill in the blank, Caused when our meeting was cancelled, because of the play, (I liked them better than my minutes, anyway) submitted by David R. Stein, P.S. To the College CommunityThe new members of the Student Committee on Instruction are Geoffrey Henebry, Kevin Kraus, Daniel Van Doren, Mark Wielga, and David Nau (chairman). Mr. Van Doren will be the next editor of the Democracy Wall. All submissions should be made to him. The community is urged to share its opinions on matters of Committee concern with the members of the Committee. All meetings of th~ SCI will be open to the college community. The next meeting will be Tuesday, May 15, at 7:00 p.m., at which time the Gctober All-College Seminar will be discussed. Submitted by Dave Nau D.C. Minutes May 11, 1979 Mr. Coss nominated Bruce Elliot to be interim delegate for Paca-Carrol, John \ti.lson and. Jenell Balkom for Campbell, James DiMartini for East Pinkney, Kurt Schuler for West Pinkney, Didi Schanke for Humphreys, Jim Brunner for Chase-Stone, Scott Buchannan for Randall, Hazen Hamil and Jim White for offcampus, and Abe Schoener for Dorsey House. All nominations were unanimously approved. A motion was made and passed to disband the concert committee. The budget was passed unanimously. Sorry, no poetic license this time; the poet laureate didn't show up. Next year, vote for Bobby Burns. --Written and.submitted Kit Bolle, Poet Surrogate S.K.R.'s SWliTS SP.EX:;TACULAR In the beginning • • • there was soccer. Even this early in the sports season the rivalry between the Amazons and the Maenads had begun. Through the heat, rain, and cold the four hearty teams dribbled and kicked trying to best their opponents. The Amazons counted their first coup in becoming the soccer champions. The Maenads came in with a close second and a MVP, Miss Groff. Nymphs and D.C.'s trailed, in that order. It was the best of times. It was • • • Basketball. There were the Perry's, the Athey's, the McCullough's and all the others who were so very prevalent in the game of the hoop. We have our own Dr. J'.3 (no lJUn intended), Dovid Jones', Kareem Abdul Jabar's and our own New Orleans Superdome and then we had our own winners; once again it was the Amazons. Once again the Maenads followed close behind. Branching off from the basketball season are the two competitions known as two on two and the free-throw competition. This started a turn around in the overall point spread. The Amazons won the free-throws, but the Maenads won the two on two • The Maenads also won the Badminton season and here is where the real ~oint race began. The nymphs and the D.C.'s generally followed in that order thro11gh all of the events, exce!-'t there was • • • • • • Volleyball. In the end it was not the Amazons who were vying with the Maenads for the first plRce prize • It was the Nymphs. But the Maenads prevailed, and this improved the Maenad's standing and was a definite detriment to the Amazons. During the winter suorts, the fitness test was going on. Although there were not more than a dozen competitors in this event, it turned out to be the turning ~oint in the spring for the Maenads who needed more points after the Amazons winning tl,e Marathon and the Nymphs winning the track meet. What! The Nym!Jhs won the track meet? Boy, does that team have some runners. the nym~hs came in second in the Marathon and really strutted their stuff in the meet. Misses Mandy, Sisson, Alers, Williams and the rest of the maroon crew rPAlly pulled together for a big victory and a pleasant surprise and upset. Then there was • • • Softball. Oh, how u 'the ~prjruz: a;r (a~d rainJ add to the whole ambiance of softball. The Maenads (lacking their wonderful pitcher from last Y' year) pulled together and pur up a tough fight to retain their tenuous lead in the points department. The balls and strikes were !-'itched, the hits anc outs were counted, and the Amazons and Maenads were once again in the play-offs. The Amazons won the Softball season hut the Maenads came in with a close second and a MVP, Miss Groff. Nymphs and D.C. 's trailed, in that order (haven't I heard that somewhere before?) • • ~And so that was the Year. The seaons came and went. The Ma.en.ads won the year, the Amazons were second, Nymphs were nicely third, the diligents D.C.'s were fourth and I was there. What a yea:r it was. Good bye. Much Love~ -sBRYCE JACOBSEN by Sports A few final remarks. For the third·~ straight year, the Maenads have taken the yearly title ••• and for the third straight year, Miss Katrina has won the Outstanding Athlete award. The two are not unrelated! The maenads will sorely miss her next year. The Amazons had a good shot at the title. But coming in next-to-last in volleyball and badminton, and last in track, was too much of a handicap to overcome. Mr. Spector won the Outstanding Athlete award among the men. And let us not forget that Miss Katrina and Mr. Kolman won the special "Burgundy" blazers for their contributions to the athletic program. These are donated by 2 alumni association. The Bruce Collier Flat Earth Award: Each year this award is given to the student who, during regular intramural games, has spent the greatest amount of time stretch~d out, flat on the earth. In recent years Mr. Doremus of the Greenwaves was a shoo-in, with no real competition. But he has deserted the fold for Santa Fe, ieaving this award up for grabs. We think that Miss Chmiel should get it this year. She certainly is the best qualified ••• although not quite up to the high standards set by Mr. Dorenius. Have a good summer, and be ready for socc-er when you come ba.ck •. , �,---'~ Fro:m the PlaceJnent Office~ The Severn School, Severna Park has one c:pen for an assistant group leader in a W:ilde!:'ness Aivareness :must be 21 years or older to See me for and details. You Please return all publications to the placement office. The placement office will be open most of the sunmer~ I look forward to seeing those of you who are in the area~ Marianne Braun Director of Placement � 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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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/60a2f077eb0ad0a6c5357d8dee9b999e.pdf edbe872439e704c3b1f0216ae43c0505 PDF Text Text I - - . - • ~ I~ I'\ \ J �3- 2 HOMECOMING WEEKEND Friday, Sept .. 28 11:00 a.m. 1:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. 8:15 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29 8:15 p.m. Student Aid Payday Dean's Office Meeting with Associates and Presidential Candidate Mr. J. Burchenal Ault McDowell 21 Meeting with Staff and Presidential Candidate Mr. J. Burchenal Ault McDowell 21 Meeting with Instruction Committee and Presidential Candidate Mr. J Burchenal Ault McDowell.24 Meeting with the Faculty and Presidential Candidate Mr. J. Burchenal Ault LECTURE: "Tolstoy and History: A Look at the FSK Auditorium Theorizing in·war·arid Peace" Mr. Jacques Barzun, Charles Scribner's Sons Film: Shoot The Piano Player (free The September issue of The Reporter is now available in the CB-House, 2nd floor Tickets for the HT, Ltd Fashion Show scheduled for October 12th, in the FSK Auditorium are on sale for $5.00 in the College Bookstore until 9/25/79 LOST AND FOUND ) FSK Auditorium ABOUT THE_ MUSIC LIBRARY The Music Librar~ will be open Monday through Friday 12~15 to 5:00 E.M. Tuesday and Wednesday evenings 7:00 to 10:00 P.M~ Saturday and Sunday Jl:OO to 5:00 P.M. Elizabeth Bolotin Music Librariam Books:. French Dictionary liess Than Kin QPtiks A Man For All Seasons Hippolytus Public Relations Handbook The Hiding Place GLASSES - 8 BAIR! MAKE-UP KIT STAPLES 2 BIPES l YELLOW COMB l BANG & OLUFSEN 4 CHANNEL CA.Rl'RIDG 2 UMBRELLAS l LEATHER WATCHBAND l STOPWATCH l SEr OF KEYS 3 NECKLACES 2 WATCHES These items may be claimed in the Assistant Dean's Office. ABOUT THIS ISSUE OF THE COLLEGIAN Most of the preparation of THE COLLEGIAN is now done during the week, whereas it used to be done on the weekends. Changing operations to the weekdays has not been easy, and has resulted in the delay in publication o~ the paper. We are sorry for this inconvenience. From now on, we expect to publish the COLLEGIAN every Sunday. Any submission that has been. omitted or shortened was the victim of our deadline; corrections will be made in our next issue. - The Editor this issue THE COLLEGIAN begins its 10~ year of publication The aims of the paper now are the same as they were at the paper s beginning: 1) to provide a place for writing by members of the communityt and 2) to serve as St John's newspaper To achieve these aims THE COLLEGIAN has always relied on volunteers. Consequently the paper is a reflection of the community s active interest in its own writing and news. This year the College has kindly offered to take on the job of printing and assembling the paper. In past years these tasks had to be performed by students so it considerably lic;htens the load of the staff to be relieved of these production jobs. Accordingly, much more effort can be given to editing. THE COLLEGIAN, however, will still rely on St. Johnnies to supply the ~ontent of the paper. All students and tutors are encouraged to submit any work which they consider suitable for publication. , In order to ~rint and assemble the paper, the College print shop must receive ~HE COLLEGIAN final copy by Friday noon. The deadline for submissions, then, is Wednesday in campus mail (allowing Thursday for editing and copy preparation). All submissions received after Wednesday will be held for the next issue unless arrangements are made with the editor. Furthermore, since t11e paper is put together on Thursday, it is hoped that most writers will submit before Wednesday because it will be impossible to prepare more than a handful of Wednesday submissions. All submissions must be legible and must include the signature of the author. Those interested in typing their own submissions should contact the editor so that a COLLEGIAN typewriter can be made available for their use. THE COLLEGIAN is essentially the property of the St. John's· community. No student has more than a few hours to devote to working for the paper, so the paper requires the assistance of many. If you can help, please do; if you cannot help, please remember that those who are working for the paper are doing the best they can We look forward to a good year. See you Sundays. - THE COLLEGIAN Staff (the usual gang of irregulars) ON THE COVER "Is Doc Dead?" NEXT WEEK The story of the 1980 Presidential race (see pp 7-9) The Best and Worst of Annapolis 2 .I . I �.. ----.... ~--------------------------------------------------------~~------·~~~~~~-------------------------------------------- 5· FOR EPISCOPAL STUDENTSIt used to he that St_ .. John's students were provided.with a space on the form where they indicate a church Rre:f erence, if an:y;-. There was nothing about it-.. In this way a clergyman of a loca] church_ could o.btain from the registrar a list of those interested students who might be of whatever denaminatiom that church belonged t.o.~ About eight or nine yea:rs ago this provision was dropped. Since it is not possible to obtain, a listin this way, I am using this space to invite any Episcopal students who would cara to, to let me have their names, either by putting a note in the college mail., or by telephoni~ me atv 263-901.4.• Winfree Smith NO SCHOOL GYNECOLOO.IST Contrary to earlier announcements there is not a school gynecologist. As yournay know, Dr. Berkowitz was the school gynecologist last yea:r and had planned to return this yeax. However, his professional organization has requested that serve on one of their boards, so he felt it necessary to cut back on his voluntary services. So at present we have no no gynecological ser'f'ices. The Health Service Several boxes that I put in the Senior storage room(Mellon 104) at the beginning of the summer disappeared before I could pick them up. If you took them by mistake please contact me. Thank you. submitted by :Ned Elliott WANTED:~ EDITORIAL A:PP_RENTICE. L am looking for a student, preferably a sophmore, to work as editoriaL. apprentit eventually, if he proves capable, as editorial assistant, of The College. He should know punctuation:., spelling; the wilL consist of preparing cop:y for the printer, reading proof, running ~r~ands crhecking facta and eventually editing articles_.. I.t will take something_ hetweem ~wo t.o five hours a week and on hard weeks as much as twentJu to thirty hours. The chief characteristia:, of the demand on time is that it is. uneven.. For tha J?..eriod of apprenticeship Csix months. to a. yea:r ); pay will be an honorarium. of something like two.. dollars an hour. that_, pay will be the usual hourJ.oc wage for campus emploJJnent. Leo Raditsa Harrison Health Center 1979-1980 A nurse is available at the Health Center during the following walk-in times: 10:30 a .. m. to 12;00 noon MTWThF 3 : 00 p • m. to 4; OC :y. m" 1-ffiffhF I am in my office 9:CO a m., to 4:00 p.m. and can see you then, too~ will be seen at other times. If you need a nurse after off ice hours call ext. 53 before to the Health Center as the door will be locked If there is no answer call the switchboard and the switchboard will locate the ~~ JifilLLINGS METHOD OFFERED AGAIN. .An1Introductory Presentation, of the Billings Ovulation Method of NaturaL. Planning will be presented in a two-hour public lecture on at 4 R ..,M,,,. A class for. those wishing to leaxn the detai1B of the Method will form Wednesday,. October l.Oth at 4 :.30 See next_ weeks "Collegian"' for information:i about the location Lynn Carol Smith The KWP is to the times Last yeax great energy and was shown by the many members of the community who joined together for the sake of drama.. This year that interest seems even stronger so we are changing our coat for a new and brighter one. In two weeks on Saturday morning Sept 29 at 10 am there will be a meeting to map out a season of plays for the entire yeax. This will allow us to have a balanced calendar suited to the interests of the and let us move into each performance with a view towards the next. This should help us to create enough inertia to make this year full of dramatic events But to do this we need everyonews contribution. If axe a student, tutor anyone with a serious interest in drama you should come to this meeting. We discuss every relevant play suggested and we will stay together in room 24 of McDowell until we have come to a consensus agreement on this year's plays, directors, and set designers So pe ~repared to stay for as long as is necessary Once again, all those seriously interested in drama(you do not have to be a KWP member) should come to room ] 4 of .McDowell on Saturday 29 at 10 am submitted by Ned Elliott for the �6 I 0 EGE ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 21404 FOUNDED lb% AS KING WILLIAM\ SCHOOL This week's .lecturer is: JACQUES BARZUN Jacques Barzun, witlely known as a scholar, teacher, and a~thor, wa~ born in Creteil, France on November 30, 1907. He spent h1s youth in Paris where he received his early education. In 1920 he came to the Unite~ States th his father, who had come during the war on a diplomatic misston. In 1923 Mr. Barzun entered Cblumbia College and graduated at the head of his class in 1927. That same year an appointment as a lecturer .in history at Columbia began his career as a teacher. By 1945 he had become a full professor, his special eld being ~he cultural history of the modern period. In 1955 he was named Dean of the Graduate Faculties Columbia University, and in July 1958 inaugurated the new post Dean of Faculties and Provost of the University. In 1960 he was named Seth Low Professor of History and in 1961 received an appointment as Extraordinary Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. These appointments were concurrent with his teaching and administrative duties at Columbia. On June 30, 1967, Mr. Barzun resigned his administrative duties and was named University Professor (the highest honor accorded by ~he University to no more than three men at one time) and Special Adviser on the Arts to the President. Du ng this time he offered two courses· in s fi d of cultural history. Mr. Barzun held these positions until his retirement from the University in the spring of 1975. At present Mr. Barzun is Literary Adviser at Scribners. Mr. Barzun is a member of the lowing organizations: American Historical Association, National Institute of Arts and Letters (President, 1972-75, and 1976-79, following the merger of the Ins tute with the American Academy of Arts and Letters), American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and corresponding member of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Academie Delphinale, Grenoble. Mr. Barzun is a direc r of: Council for Basic Education (Washington); Open Court Publishing Co. (Illinois); Pea . Institute of Music and Art (Baltimore). He is a member of the lowing clubs: The Century (New York), Author 1 s Club; The Athenaeum {London). He is married and lives in New York. · "No, no, no. I will not do it anymore~ Thats it - it's over No, don't '9.sk Please stop it - I'm finished, I'm done with it. My answer is absolutely, 'No, no, no., 1 " With this, President Richard "Dick" Weigle added phlogiston to the fire of rumors that he will not run in the 1980 Presidential campaign These fires have ignited the hopes of some to run for the office; for others the burning desire has always been there. Soon it is· to be ex_1Jected that·the campus will be enflamed with the heat of the race. Indeed ·the Presidential campaign has always been a test of fire@ Already one candidate has withhaving suffered thirddegree burns The first big step of the campaign is the New Hampshire Since only two voting members of the Bored come from New Hampshire the campaigning is very intense But the primary is looked upon as being a significant event As t by Hugh Kidding He goes for long walks on the beaches at his Annapolis home - "the eastern White House. 11 Sometimes a child will run up to him and ask him for a quarter "I m sorry, 11 he' 11 say, "I save all of my money for the College." * man loves this College as this man doesm For 31 years he has been its President. But now he is retiringe Why? Commentators say he has been hounded from office by a variety of circumstances. First there was the incident with the President's brother Billy who when escorting visiting technocrats from M I.T. said, "Greek is for the iguanas 11 Then there is the problem with Amy Clark Weigle, his daughter, who refuses to go to Santa Fe "Where am I going to build a tree house out there? she complains. And, of course his sister Ruth Stapleton Weigle a born-again sophist has been a constant embarassment Rosalyn Weigle her husbands constant supporter through out his career, immediately comes to his defense., "Dicky should stay in there - after all, we need the money.. You know at his other job he was only making peanuts" But she quickly adds "If he wants to pull out I 11 just get back my job at The Little Campus No When in Santa Fe - at the "western White House ~ he 11 go for long walks in the mountains., Seeing a child at , he 11 ask you hope to go to college man?" 11 Yes 11 the will should know that St 11 At heart be the President of St John's �one of the candidates top official's aide s assistant put it 11 New Hampshire is certainly a significant event. We look on it as very significant 1 perhaps even as most significant A..nd that~ in itself, is I think, quite significant, The issues in the campaign are com}'licated. One of the candidates claims he's "for the students." An Ol-Jponent asserts he's "for the tutors." A third says he's "for the Administraticn .. 11 And yet another comJ:-!lains "There's nobody left to be 1 for' • n A crucial 0tep in the campai6n is the interview with the Bored of Visiting Governors Candidates are asked such questions as, "If you died and were born again who would you be?" and "Have you seen my umbrella?" A _t;roblem in the cam_paign is voter apathy. When asked about which }larty he }!referred:, He's from a wealthy New England family of Catholic heritage. He went to Harvard, and then became one of St John's youngest Deans. Des~ite the fact that he hao not declared his candidacy he is clearly the favorite in this campaign .. This is not the first time that Eddy S~arrow has not run for the Presidency. Both in 1972 and 1976 he ran major noncampaigns But this is his biggest non-campaign yet: he has travelled over 30 000 miles to announce his plans not to run for office It is hard to trace the root of S~arrow s Some say it is due to his waltzing ability others point to his charming use of French Most agree, though, that S1-Jarrow's .1:-'romise "make everybody hapl-'ier in every way possible 11 is a decisive influence. Of course, even for the front-runner there are some difficulties. Some 1Jle still question the incident on Col1-ege creek ten years ago. "So what about it," retorts Sparrow,"so the canoe sunk. It was dark and we didn't see the bridge. That doesn't mean anything." And what of his mother? Has she given him ~ermission to run for the Presidency? "nre you kidding? She does not even know that Im the Dean," Spar row chuckled. Others worry that the Pope would run a Sparrow Presidency Sparrow scoffs at this as does his prospective runnig mate Brother Robert. , the Pope never even heard of St. John's 11 No 1-'roblem seems big enough to stop Sparrow however es~ecial1-y now that his interest in the Presidency has increased® ".Sometimes I think being and ncet-being the President are_ the same thing 11 he noted in a statement that only a St Johnnie could get away a student responded, "Where's the other party?" A second interrupted, 11 Arn 1 t you concerned? There is no party not enough money." The main difficulty for the candidates, however, is how to handle the Fund for the 1980 s. So far $ 11 000,000 has been raised; $ 14,ooo,ooo is still needed With one year left in the campaign most observors figure the new president has "no chance in hell" to meet the Fund goal. Fortunately, there are some attractions to the office: Use of Avis One, the College car, to shuttle back and forth between the campuses; An infinite supply of coffee and cookies; •The chance to live in two tourist towns. Who will the next President be? The field right now is wide open; any man with that something extra might show up out of no where and sweep the field. especially if that something extra is ~ 14 000,000 The following are other candidates in the race for the Presidency: LEO RADITSA - Raditsa compares his campaign to the French Revolution. "You know, it s kind of interesting ••• think of monarchy and Bolivar., •• " Raditsa has received the full support of The College Magazine DAVID STEPHENSON - Asked about his plans Ste.f.!henson replied, "Running? Why yes ••• ah, I mean, I was runnin~ yesterday • but what kind of runnin~ do you mean?" "Arf," said Bill, hi.:; campaign advisor. WILLIAM O'GRADY - O~Grady took a year off from teaching in order to organize his campaign.. "Yes, I think the presidency is a wonderful job, and I think it's a wonderful school and I . am not sure that I would make the best President, but let me read you something here that I wrote .... " HOWARp ZEIDERMAN Zeiderman said he would take the job if he can "reconcile it with time and space. 11 He made headlines last year when he flew to Berlin with Linda Rondstat. His biggest drawback so far has been his inability to come up with a slogan under 50 words in length. BARBARA LEONARD - "I m not a token 11 declares Leonard, who is also not black or Spanish Often compared to Jane "Babs" Fonda. Leonards opposition to nuclear power on campus is both endearing and unfounded She considers herself well-trained for ihe job · "There are of seats down front 11 she noted �11 Mr .. CLASS - SEPTEMBER Henry Mr. John James Lea.r , Illinois Merrill Marshall Ahrens Park, Illinois Mr. Allen Jack Fort Worth Texas Mr. James Earl Fairfax, Jr. AL Miss Chris Ann Baker ~~ah1nr·crn, Mr. Howard Jerome Hergenrother Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Miss Kathleen Therese Ocean New Jean New York Mr. Brian F. Hershkowitz New York Mr .. Jonathan Antonio Edelman Massachusetts Mr.. Daniel Greeley Higgins, Malden, Massachusetts Mr. Robert Moore Fra.~kfort, Illinois Mr. William King Hill Fruitland Park, Florida Mr. Daniel James Farrell Miss Mildred Ives Hillstrom Rockville, Maryland Miss Kathleen Rose Farrell Point, Iowa Mr. Kenneth Charles Hiltner Mt. Laurel, New Jersey Mr. Scott Chambers Rockville, Boonsboro Miss Anne Lawson Braswell Hendersonville, North Carolina Coralville Miss Walla John William Fritsch Belleville Illinois M.iss Lisa Michelle Miss Dorothea Nelle Burrow Tennessee Kathleen Flinders Iowa , New York Mr. William John Gavula III · · Mr. Robert Foster Hoff Miss Susan Evelyn Holm Annadale, Virginia Mr. Troy Von Hongsermeier Seal Beach, California Miss Catherine Quincie Hopkins Bel Air, Maryland Mr. Christopher David Junker Wheaton, Maryland Joel Ambler, Miss Cheryl Beth Leitner Signal Mountain, Tennessee tse:rqren, Norway Mr. Mark Richard Huml Barrington, Illinois Mr .. Albert Kaloust Kapikian , Maryland Mr. Stuart Max Kaufman c~srnn1~, New York Kim , Virginia Cornelia Kline Maryland Cox Kullberg Illinois Mr. Leland George Lecuyer New York, New York Miss Deborah Ann Lutterbeck Chicago, Illinois Miss Christine Malinowski Cleveland, Ohio Mr. Hugh Mappin Toronto, Ontario, Canada Miss Lucy Ellen Mayeux Alexandria, Virginia .Miss Molly McDaniel Lynchburg, Virginia Miss Jennifer Lynn Miller Gainesville, Florida Mr. Peter Blaze Miller Santa Fe, New Mexico Mr. Richard Earl Miller Winter Park, Florida Mr. Darrel Frank Moellendorf Pierre, South Dakota Miss Laureen O'Donnell Kemblesville, Pennsylvania Miss Katherine Elizabeth O'Malley Sarasota, Florida Miss Alison Scot Oxford St. Augustine, Florida Mr. Joshua Stephen Parens wyru1~wuuu, Pennsy,lvania Mr. Andrew Parker Providence, Rhode Island Miss Kimber Paschall Tallahasee, Florida �HOME? Bartholomew Tracey, III Massachusetts Jersey One tree in my One roQt in the earth~ An observer is mistified dancers from the sun, Who illuminate this panorama~ Outside my window •• There is a tree But who can see its roots? Laurie Anne Richardson Holbrook Massachusetts Valentine Alan Rolle York Miss Katherine Mac Gregor Walker Mr. John Alexandria, Glendale California Donald Wall Ruth Sack Connecticut Mr. Brian David Shields Denton Texas Miss Marie Walton Columbia, South Carolina John Stephen Shock Baltimore Miss Melissa Gaye Warren Orlando Florida Miss Ann Walton Sieber Houston, Texas Miss Andrea Wasserman Larchmont, New York Miss Ruthann Helen Siegel Nanuet New York Weinstein ON AN ISLAND To escape love, To leave emotion, This way lives in the shell of death ' Cruel inhumani.t]" disposed of alh meaning in life.., Leaving utter indifference, .And this is a state of waiting. Waiting for what? Rain is felt alone, Against the earthen wall of a noncaring world, I which cries for help die, Before they reach ears that listen ••• Sincerity is Reaching out For touching Is to regain .And hope ..... the one hope, to ease the pain of others, another love -David Hershel Weinstein Mr. Vik Matthew Slen St. Paul, Minnesota Mr. David St. John Weitzel ·carlisle Pennsylvania Miss Laurie Rockville, Miss Prospect Thomas Daniel Michael Sullivan Alexandria, Miami Miss Athena Thorsa Swentzell Santa Fe, New Mexico Lakewood Brasfield Welch Kentucky Miss Jeanne Wick Florida William Gordon Wilson Colorado Miss Claire MacLean Rochester New York New York Miss Ann Eleanor Tive Mr. Tonso Indialantic, Florida Minnesota ~~ Why go to Bible Study? As you may have realized, two or three seminars is insufficient time to do an indepth study of any work especially one as important as the Bible. The to leisurely discuss a few verses(usually about ten) is a Welcome relief from trying to corn- prehend eighty pages at a time .. When does it meet? The meetings are at 7:30 PM.Tuesday nights and usually run about ~ hours .. Where does it meet? At the Baptist Student Union, 23 State Circle. w'hat i.s the reading? As of now we our way the to St Mark.. Look 10 for next further questionsZ Talk I live in 206 or Tisha McLaughlin, ext 33,. Better next Tuesday and out for your.self submitted Sam �From tne ·Placement o:f£,ice Sophomores who 11 for leadership have an outstanding m ay be eligible for this generous scholarship Come to the I SPORTS WOMEN'S SPOHTS placement off ice for details .!!~~~§R!:!E.§:!~~~1L..:!:!.±:::.!.. only. offers an editing internship program for College juniors This is a paid internship, with major daily newspapers or wire service for a full slmimer 0 I have request fonns for the application. The deadline for complete applications is Novs 22, 1979. All students: Please plan to attend the discussion of careers held on Saturday, Sept. 29 a t . 1 : 00 in M Dowe 11 21 c · ® A group of alumni will be here to answer questio on a variety of careers. seniors - The members of the Fellowship Committee are: Nicholas Maistrellis, Chn{ Brother Robert Smith, Gisela Berns, Barbara Leonard, Dean Sparrow and Marianne Braun, If there are questions about fellowships, please ask one of these committee members, or come to the Placement Office. Marianne Braun Director of Placement The Student Employment Office is no open for business .. We'll be in 213 Mellon at the following times: Mon.. JO 30 - 7 Tues .. 8 - 6 Wed .. 10 - 4:00 Thurs .. 10:30 - 4:00 Fri. 9 - 2, 3:15 4: Sat 10 - 2 haven't registered with us to let us know - Amazons - 1, D.C.'s - 0 The bulk of exFerienced Amazon strength was greatly reduced by last year's graduation, so they must be hoping for some freshman talent. In this game, though, Miss Cobb kept the spirit going with help from Miss Murphy, Miss Nogales, and Mis,.::i Oreskes. Playing with only eight on the team put great emphasis on each member's part; however, Miss Cobb was only able to find one opportunity to get passed the D.C. goalie for a goal. The sheer number of D.C.'s should have prevented this, or allowed them at least one goal to tie, but I suppose they need to play together for a while. Maenads - 4, Nymphs - 5 This was quite an exciting game, what with the almost continuous scoring of Miss Krafft for the Nymphs (with the fifth by their new talent from Santa Fe, Miss Gina Ironside) and the downpour of rain. Miss Kurs ~layed an exce~tional game as the Nymph goalie with some nice saves on penalty kicks. Miss Groff put one passed her though, and during the same quarter managed to get a well~laced shot in for a second goal. Miss Dornick was the first to score for the Maenads, and with two goals in the third quarter by Miss Groff, managed 3 to the Nymph score of 5. However, the 4lli quarter brought one final goal for the Maenads when Nymph Barham accidentally kicked one in through her:- own goal .. - O, Maenads - 6 I didn't see this game because of my irthday but I hear it quickly turned n favor of the Maenads, with three submitted B.J Sisson als early on. Obviously, the D.C. 's Ver recovered. Of course their game s hampered by a lack of players, but the showing in their first game it apparent that they have no dearth members - just players. Hopefully their next game they'll be able to ste~ up some support. - Beth Gordon I 15 MEN'S SPORTS by Bryce Jacobsen Tennis Alert: Our annual tournament will soon start. You must sign up (in the basement of McDowell) by Monday, Sept. 24 Football: Hustlers-26, Guardians-a Spartans-?, Druids-0 Guardians-34, Waves-14 Hustlers-0, S~artans-0 There were a few highlights in these opening games ••• such as Mr. Adams two great catches for toughdowns in the Hustler victory. (It has been quite a few years since the Hustlers opened the season with a win!) ••• and Mr. Giordano's scoring catch for.the Spartncts ••• and all sorts of Guardians contributing to their solid win over the Waves (especially Mr. Weinstein) .. The scoreless tie lacked any highligtts, although there were plenty of lowlights. OkM, So l MtS£E.0 A SttoT.. , / � 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 Collegian Description An account of the resource The Collegian began as a student newspaper; became a college community literary publication in 1952 and continued until 1969; became a student newspaper again in 1969; discontinued publication from 1980 until 1989 when it again became a student literary publication.<br /><br />Click on <a title="The Collegian" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=26">Items in The Collegian Collection</a> to view and sort all items in the collection. 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 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 15 pages Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context The Collegian 24 September 1979 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1979-09-24 Title A name given to the resource The Collegian, September 24, 1979 Description An account of the resource [Number 297] of The Collegian. Published on September 24, 1979. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ball, Sean (Editor) 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 Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/0cbcbc4c7fe45984c1a5d400eb5ab1b5.pdf 8dd472957649a4f5f7883c4bfce19e34 PDF Text Text TO: All Students The Admissions Office will be happy to send information about St. John's to anyone you like -- friends, counselors, teachers and so forth. Please complete the following form and send it to the Admissions Office via campus mail. Thanks, John Christensen Director of Admissions YOUR NAME: Person(s) to whom information should be sent: (circle one: \\ THE COLLEGIAN St John's College Annapolis, MD 21404 coW1selor teacher relative o �To Those, Thatt Eat- Yn The Dining BhlI;: Last Monday a student W1B.shl11g dishes cut her hand on a broken dish lert on a dinner tray. Fortunately the woun~ was not serious. Ilue to the cleaning system any sharp i terns pose as a1 ua:u.joll,,it:.i.to those cleaning trays. Therefore, to avoid further acts of negligence, whenever a glass is broken do not p~t or al-low any pieces on ~ dinner tray. Dispose of them in a trash container. 3. Help Caritas Help keep Students at SJC Those of you who know about the Caritas Society know that tuey help keep students in school at St. John's College by providing financial support. But what most peo_ple don't know is that over the last ten years they have raised 27,480 dollars for this endeavor. Now they are asking for our help to raise more of those precious dollars that help keep financially troubled students in school. Jchnathan Adame SCHOOL DARKROOM INFORMATION Anyone interested in using the photography darkroom should contact me through campus mail (Box 281) or at extension 70, and I will explain the procedures to you. THE STL'DE'.'IT WHKL Y OF ST. JOHN'S COLU:GE On Saturday, October 13lli Caritas is s_ponsoring a "Greek Feast" which will be their major fund raising event. Many students are needed to volunteer a few hours in the earlj evening for setting up, or serving dnd helping at the reception and dinner. This is on long weekend, but hopefully those of you who 'will be staying can spare some time to help the Caritas Society. They are a generous organization whose sole aim is to aid needy students. Please respond to this need hv sending a note to me, Alison Athey, via ca~pus mail. T~ank. you very much. Sincerely, Alison Athey Gigi Panehal THE COLLEGIAN is slowly getting together; however, it will still be a few weeks before we are completely adjusted to our new week day work schedule. Submissions that did not make it into this issue will be published next week. Please bear with us. * The Editor ON THE COVER; Zeiderman Menace or and cartoons in this issue NEXT vifEEK The Best and Worst of # 3 �ST. JOHN'S KARATE CLUB> The St. John's College Karate Club has resumed its friendly struggles. This band of goodly comrades extends .a cordial hand to welcome hardy souls in search of gymnastic and pugilistic, though never pugnacious, wisdom. The art we nractice is Uechi Ryu KP.iate Do; that is, the way of the empty hand as taught in the school of Uechi.. Uechi Kanbum was an Okinawan martial artist who in the late nineteenth century went to China's Fukien Province where he mastered and began to teach an art called Pangainoon Chuan-Fa; that is, a fighting art which combines and integrates "hard" and Nsoft" elements .. (Let this paraphrase of the Chinese name suffice; surely its meaning is to be found in the practice of the art.) Subsequently Mr. Uechi established this art as one of the most respected styles of karate in Okinawa .. Our workouts consist of the following things: exercises to promote flexbility, strength, resiliency, balance, and co-ordination of mind and body; studies of dancelike patterns of motion called kata, to develop specific selfdefense abilities; and certain further friendly practices in which we help each other to test and advance our ski Our teacher is Robert Galeone, a Nidan (second degree black belt) of some fifteen years experience in the art. Goodly fellow that he is, he asks but small compensation for his inestimably worthy instruction .. He who studies a thing with enthusiasm wishes to share it generosity or Since I do not I dare not exhort you to join even so I may invite you And you, at any rate must know if are interested You are most welcome to join at the gym at seven o clock on Tuesd or Wednesday , or at o on mornings it would be good for you David Starr NOTES FROM THE SCI The Student Committee on Instruction is the student body's link to the Faculty Committee on Instruction. The s duties include a continual effort to improve the quaiity of "The New Pro.gram 11 by investigating its problems, proposing program changes to the FCI, and organizing All-College seminars. * * Until further notice the SCI will meet on Wednesday evenings at 8:15 in room 23 of McDowell. All members of the college community are encouraged to attend .. * FRESHMEN - On Tuesday, October 9~ the Delegate Council will elect a freshman to the SCI. If you are interested in being on the SCI speak to SCI chairman, David Nau, or any other SCI member. Interested freshmen should also try to attend next Wednesda~•s SCI meet- * * * * The SCI has decided,by a unanimous decision, to abandon last year's publication The Democracy Wall. Henceforth the SCI will communicate with the college community through THE COLLIDIAN. Submitted byKevin Kraus, SCI member * College seminars give members of ~e college community the opportunity o discuss literary works of merit, a seminar environment, that are not t of the program. The seminars are mposed of people from all stages of e St. John's program. This year's st All-College seminar will be held a Friday evening in November instead Lecture •.· The SCI has decided that the inar will be on a modern English m. The SCI would like suggestions :suitable poems. from the college Please send suggestions and, ossible copies of the poems to SCI David Nau, via campus mail. * This 1945 film was made in occupied France and set in the theater of 19lli Paris~ much critical acclaim from film scholars the world the film this year, was deemed "the best film in the history of talking pictures in France " by the French Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques.. In addition, "Les Enfants du Paradis" was very well received by the college community when it was shown here two years ago. An All-College film seminar would entail participants viewing the film on at least two occasions,and with the script, which would be available in the bookstore. The SCI would appreciate any feedback on this idea from tutors students, and other members of the community,aa soon as possible,as film rentals must be arranged months in advance. Again, please send comments to David Nau via campus mail. * strongly considering having semester's All- College a film instead of the literary work The tentative s "Les Enfants 11 (Children of Paradise) .. ~ I ILIAD TO BE RE.AD IN GREEK . I am going to give a dramatic., read-:i~g of the ~ Bi>ok I in Greek. It will take place in the Great Hall on Tuesday, October 2nd, at 8 :00 p •.M ... r would like to invite anybody ested to attend I would also like suggest that it should be to the reading using tb,.e Lat and {as they names �7 Here is a sampling of sLudent fee about Austin: COSS: 11 Yea y'know, we oughta get the D.C. to blow up the President or something; I mean, we could get the Rifle Club to do it -- those boys are hot for some action. 11 l;J!AUL GIORDANO: "The kid was tough, and he ha.d a left hook; he could have been e "Excuse me, I've got to go finish seminar reading." SORRENTINO: "He was a real ladies man -- every I saw him, he was with some female • He 1 s my kind of guy. " DEMARTINI: "Agamemnon." BETH GORDON: "One day Austin was wearing a nice little white and black checked outfit, and, mistaking him for a soccer ball, I booted him. We never got 8:.lOl)g after that." The following stories relate to· the above news item. WHAT HAPPENED? bulging backpack. "Austin,' he said firmly, 'where are those cookies?' I thought for a moment, then said, 'Have you checked with Miss Leonard?' He gave me an angry look, so I kicked him and ran away. I haven't been back since ER'r SCHAINBAUM: 'The kid 1 o a bvit 't like anybody But then, I 11 Y KLIPPER: ANSTIN 1 S ACCOUNT: "There ~ was, pounding on a Seletric Typewriter with both fists in the President's Office It seemed to me to be the right thing to do given the circumstances Anyway this big guy comes in and asks me what I was doing I ~aniced I told him I was playing soccer I guess he didn't get the joke because the next thing he said was "I'm sorry you will have to leave -- we re having 'Coffee and Cookies with the President ' It s about then that he noticed the plate of cookies, as well as my "I don't know what you're talking out -- all those rumors are false .. " ADMINISTRA'I'ION S ACCOUNT: 1 "Everyone is aware that in some financial diffic~lty (or Treasurer puts it 'Up to our neck in debt 1 ) It is important then that the College do as much a3 it can to save money Now we all think that little Audrey is a wonderful but the fact matter is that he represents a needless financial burden to the College* do you know how much toilet ~aper a little bugger like that can run through? · Sold him some stuff the other we've bee~ friends ever too exhausting has lost hi:.n my own son own son 11 .no he was E . �10 11 SPORTS Bryce Jacobson ALERT,:. Per.sons who wish to keep the locker that they had last year must pay this year•s rental fee by this Friday Oct. 5. After then, lockers will be cleaned out, and locks switched. SOCCER: Druids-3, Greenwaves-1. For about five minuti::.-s +-1--p ''"'1rn° '·'PY'P , P~ inru l-0 ••• .,and leading the league. ,sine.a this was our fir&t_ game. Hilt the Druids have many talented players this year to help Mr. Edo~ien • • • something the~ didA·.,t, have las.t.. yaar. They drafted Mr. Hart.el and, Mr. Wolf 11 andi then got lucky in the. alloc~ tions, picking up Mr. Carnes from San.t.e Fe, and Mr .. Bailey among_ the Fre:shmen.,. And their former captain, Mir .. Pickens.., haa mov.e.d, back Ju<lU. g_at.'l tcw town.l. How luck~ can. 'lffiIS WEEK "S ~.:;. Thes.a people know how to control the ball, and keep up the pressura. So i.t was just a matter of time_ be-£ore_ Mr. Edozien scored on a penalt;x: kick, anct Mr. Hart..ei added the others.. &ll: the Druida, aft.er one game, be considered the team to They look tough .. From the Placem~nt Office: The Washington PDst offers summer internships for cu:re~t juni~rs, seniors and graduate students who are ~.nterested in car:ers in Journalism .. Photographic and copy editing positions are also available. To request an application, send a self-a~dreseed envelope with your request to: Personnel Department The Washington Post 1150 15th St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20071 Do this promptly .. The new brochures Graduate The purpose of The Rotary Foundation and Journalism a-wards is to contribute to international students uirement.s rest After more than· one thir~ of the_ foot.hall ~n, :Lt. iS hard, t.o dete...c..t any pat.te.:nns... No team is dominant..... The Hu.st.le.r~ are unde.f:amrte~ •• hut. hrui:;a S:U:E.fered two tias..t Every t.eam h~s at least one or more v:ict.Dries., or ties. Looka l.i:::Lke a reaili horse:.. :i:ac.a in. the ailing,. All hets.. are of.:t... Perhaps. aome:: t.eam will hack into tha championahi.£ .. Hustl8r~-l, Guardians-L It only emed. like the Hustlers were dead,tha st.. few years.. Actuall;x:, they are amd almost. we_lL. TheI pla;y;eQ pretty good game, giving up only a.ne al from a. penalty kick (an old Hust-· r nemesis!,),... They scored OA a real at.. pley _perpetrated" hy Mr .. Zenzing_ex d Mr. Maddocks.., in tha.t order .. The Guardians, last 118.,_ look to he respec..table, an.cl gh on defense The;y: laakeCih a little ring_ punch., at least. in this g_ame Guardi.ana-2 Greenwa11.:es..-O. Eootballi. •• Mon- 4,:DQ Greenwcmes.Spa.rt..ans_, Wed ... 4 :.OD Guardiaru:LHustlers. Tb~ 2-:_30, Green~­ Druida Soc.can~ •• &t.. lL!.3.Q. 3,: 00 Spa.ntan:w-Druida <luard.ians:-Gir.eenwa.u:ea. �. I ----___________ (j) ·l)o 1 If L \0 11\f; T\.\E: (~C4 '"NiR· Lftj3, ~ AIOE 1..J\lL c.-1vt; ~o~ A ('o TA 10 Kt.AO'' k1T .•. � 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 Collegian Description An account of the resource The Collegian began as a student newspaper; became a college community literary publication in 1952 and continued until 1969; became a student newspaper again in 1969; discontinued publication from 1980 until 1989 when it again became a student literary publication.<br /><br />Click on <a title="The Collegian" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=26">Items in The Collegian Collection</a> to view and sort all items in the collection. 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 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 12 pages Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context The Collegian 1 October 1979 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1979-10-01 Title A name given to the resource The Collegian, October 01, 1979 Description An account of the resource [Number 298] of The Collegian. Published on October 1, 1979. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ball, Sean (Editor) 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 Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/ce0b23bdbc34dbfd0660e2748fe7efbb.pdf 6125938de39fa4f38ab19930cb5ccf0c PDF Text Text . I ----___________ (j) ·l)o 1 If L \0 11\f; T\.\E: (~C4 '"NiR· Lftj3, ~ AIOE 1..J\lL c.-1vt; ~o~ A ('o TA 10 Kt.AO'' k1T .•. �. 2._·----~---___;,.._______, THE COLLEGIAN THE STl'DPH WEEKLY OF ST.JOHN'S COllf:GE Annapolis Opera The Annapolis Opera Company is offering tickets for their dress rehearsal of "Faust" to.be held on Tuesday, October 16 at 7:30 P·~· at the new Ar\napolis Senior High School on Riva Road. If you are interested~ please.come to the. Assistant Deans' Office and sign up for· tickets. There are a limited number available and I have to order them. for you·. ·- These tickets are for students only, plea~e. Assistant Deans' dffice n-.-.~~td THE NEW, IMPROVED NOISE POLICY t\.ovv old 1 t--.~J. Here is the new Polity Attorney's policy on noise complaints and prosecutions. I have tried to keep it as simple as possible, and yet avoid the vagueness that tended to plague my predecessors. The noise complaint procedure set forth below is meant to be the most expedient method for handling a noise problem. For the purposes of prosecution, a person shall be considered aware that he has violated your right to sleep/study if you have told him so. The complaint procedure is now as follows: Step 1) Go to the person whom you feel to be responsible for disturbing you and politely ask him to be quiet. Step 2) If they will not quiet down, call me _(ext 44~ and I will come over and ask them to be quiet. (I.may drag the dorm delegate along, too.) If that does not work, I'll call a guard. THE ANSWER TA.HILE 11,, 1979,, duTing lunch in the Dining·Hall, the Food Service 1111.nager~ Hr. Jhhm .· Kitzma and ·a representative fro~ · the B:iainesa Offic.e will. be ava~..... able for any questions, constuctive criticism, or suggestions you.may have concerning the food service. Jrf you· have complaints, these are the peopJ.e to complain ta:i. On 'Iharsday, OCtober LECTURES! The Classics department of G~orge . Washington University. is offering. a. . series of ten l'ec tures on the t~pic. ,. :: ''Homer's Iliad.-" _·The lectures wi~l be .·given by Bernard M.W.Knox, the ?irec . , : of the Center.for Hellenic Studies. · :· DATES: Oct. 20; (Introductory Nov. 3 and 10' Dec. l and 8 · Jan. 26 Feb. 9'-and 23 March 1 and 22 Step 3) If you cannot get ahold of me, call your dorm delegate, who will try to quiet them down If neither the dorm delegate nor I can·be reached, call a guard. Do not call a guard until you have tried to reach me or your dorm delegate. If a person refuses to be quiet when informed that he is violating your right to sleep or study, then there are grounds for prosecution. If it is a party that is causing the noise, speak to the person who is host of (i.e. is responsible for) the party. If it is not a hosted party, or you can find no host, speak to the person at the turntable. The host of the party is the person who asks the dorm delegate or assistant deans for permission to hold the party. The host is responsible for the level of noise at the party. If there is no person hosting the party, then the person running the turntable is responsible. An unhosted common-room party is illegal, by the way. (See the Student Manual.) · A1l iectures will be given at 11 in Corcoran Hall (725 2l st St. ,N ...\i• in room 101. The admission is one _d~ per lecture or seven dollars for a ticket. The texts to be used are the.~t: translation of the Iliad and Willch ·Compa.i1ion. Both are available in t University Bo~katore. ·Submi t.ted by.· K.· ·Shapar. be Note: Hosts of parties that are past the deadline should asked the stereo. If you ask someone to turn down a st~reo, make sur--;-that""he knows what level is acceptable to you, to avoid ~n­ necessary confusion, recriminations, etc. The host of a party continuing after the deadline may be asked to shut down the party. to tu~ff ;;-;s -~ Submitted by Christopher P. Bolle Polity Atto~ney �4 . Controversial Method of Family Planning Taught Here AUDITIDN ANNOUNCEKEliT Thia DeQpb&r the King \llilliam HJ.ayers will be presenting a night of one act plays; Aria da Capo by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and .sc.enes from Feiff er' s People by the comic satirist Jules Feiffer. Auditions for Feiffer's People will be held .this Wedneaday night, ()(,t·.10, at 8:30 -I will post where we meet at the beginning of the week. All who are interested are invited to come and audition, this is a fun play to work with and you should not let lack of drama experience keep you from auditioning. In order to provide some sense.of the type of drama we will be presenting I have reprinted a short scene below. The Billings Ovulation Method, a new natural -~ethod of family planning,is a subject of controversy in both theROman. Catholic Church a~d government circles. As a method of ahstinence - abstinence at the right time - it requires the cooperation of both the man and the Wol'n8ll. Since fertility in the man is usually constant and high, the method studies the woman. Her· ovulation is always announced days in advance by the flow of cervical mucus. The Method has awakened much controversy here and abroad because it re_iies on no objective· measure of the woman's fertility - ·only the '.1'foman herself. Studies show its efficiency to be 97 - 98% among those who follow its rules. Clas?es are scheduled for those who want to learn the details of the Method. They will begin Wednesday, October &Olli, at 4:30 p.m., in room 21 of .McDowell. Call 263-3289 for further information. Sincerely, _ Lynn Carol Smith, '71 Director; Ovulation Method Guild of Annap~lis, Maryland Sponsored b~ Harrison Health ·Center WE 1 RE LOOKING FOR A FEW.Goon· MEN and There are a number.· of would-be employers sitting in the'. ·studo.nt Thipl ment Office, just wai t:lng. -foi- s·atisfa tion. If you need some"m.cme·y· ~d som times find yourself si$ting aroun~ ·do nothing, why not check it out? Ring 62 or drop the SEO a l~ri.e: · ip.. thf;' mail We'll send you a registratJ.on form a:n you' 11 be in business. · Hight now the are opportunities for babysitters, ho cleaners, and any_one who occasionaly an odd job. There are also a few re jobs unfilled (shop clerks, waitresse . etc.). · ·· · The procedure goes as follows: people call in with a job. We send 0 .notices to the people we have on file have stated a preference for that type work. The student then calls the empl er and works out the details. Even i! the student doesn't take the job, he still lets the SEO know of that decis' Failure of students to report back is biggest problem. To once and fu±~e ployees, please let us know, yea or All you have to do is write "YES". or on the slip we send you, scribble.out your name on the back of it, write S instead, and then drop it back into mail.· It· is usually pretty easy.to WO ,things out with employers. the SEO in the first place because t like Johnnies, or, at least, they ha an untried but pleasant image of w~a Johnnie is; they are usually very ft' ly.' The. rate of ·pay and the e~ployer work out. Most _jobs seem to pay between 3.00 and 3.50/hr• .Now for some Johnnies, we ;realize, . thj is_peanuts, they being used to a gr reward for their time. For most tho .it is.a.reasonable return;~in additi the money you may enjoy the estaQJ.iS of an 'outside world' friendship;··"- or refreshed by getting off campus eve often, .or benefit from the therapcU effects of work somewhat less cereb than the usual duties here. Give us a call. TWO OLDER MIDDLE AGED WOMEN FATTY. You see what the problem IS, a lot of these NEW countries are colored and they're-you know - very oversensitive. eKINNY. Boy, don't ·r know! You should speak to the girl I have come in on Mondays. FATTY. And I don't have to tell you the way it is - they don't have our wealth of EXPERIENCE - I mean basically they're a very INNOCENT people Imean - THEY'RE not s&phisticated! SKINNY. Well, you're either o~ you're not, I say. FATTY. Then they come to the United Nations in New York and they expect everyb9<1y to be their FRIEND. They don't understand about New York. Nobody's ANYBODY'S friend. SKINNY. Can you IMAGINE? They're very innocent if you ask me. ~ATTY.So if they get treated nasty 1n a restaurant er for instance get shoved in the street they think it's because we don't REsPECT them SK INNY. Well, I've discovered • after a long life that you have EARN respect. ~f you're not in too much of a hurry 1 f yo~ know your pl.. FATTY. But you don't UNDERSTAND! Don't You see _they all have chips on their Shoulder! So now it looks like if we don• t. serve th em nice in our restau. . rants they'll all go communist. SKINNY. COMMUNIST! And I used to think they were all so good-natured. Well, you turn your back on people for a minute andFATTY. So rather than let them go communist I!: suppose it's our duty to help them - but after all it's a hard life for EVERYBODY. I myself don't always get the best service in restaurants. But I'm a good sport. I laugh it off. SKINNY. Africa would be alot bette~ off if it was more like you, Doris. Submitted by Ned Elliott Director for Feiffer's People �6 7 T ·STUDENT COMMITTEE w ON INSTRUCTION E· T R T Again, the SCI wan.t.fFt.o remindi FRESI&Mm. that during TIErS. ~asdayh DC meeting,. the Council will ~.iut ona_ freshman to the SCI. ~ fr&ahmen wh~ wara: unable to attend the SCI "a laat. meating and are int.erested in being on the SCI should immediatel~ contact David. Ni..au, SCI Chairm .. an or any: other SCI. member: Geoffery Henebry, Kevin, Kraua, Dan Van.. Doren and Mark Wie lga, either fu person or via Campus Mail... HAPPIEST HOUR BEST ICE.CREAM SUNDAE The Little Ca~pus Maryland Ave. The Coffee Shop featuring the freeest pretzels in town S~ far the SCI haa received only two }ila:usibla suggestions from the colleg~ community of a modern English poem to . ha read for the November 2nd ALL-COl~ __ llege Seminar. They are Wallace Steven.a'' Sunday Morning, which is rea!Ji :Ln aDDle Sophomore Language. tu:torialay., and ~ Poun~ Canta. 47. Pl.easa send a:n.y comments on these poems amt ~· other augges.tions to David. Nau, SCI~- via Campu.s_MaiL... . Are you kidding? BEST PLACE FOR INSOMNIAC VEGETARIENS Arnolds (open 24 ho~rs) Main Street Becausa of an enormous amolllllt of enc.ouraging feedback from the College C.ODJUunity, the SCI is-pleased to announce that it has decided. that. the second semester's ALL-Colleg_• Seminar will be on He..r~l Carne' s film "Lea Enfants du P~adia!', if the SCI will. he able t.o com&: with the fund& neG£tSlii:U7 to rent thi.s film. The: SCL is con.sidaring to have this very spe.e.ial.. and e:JCperi.mentaL seminar in Febru':"' a.i:-:t, durillg the middle of Senior Essa~ WORST CHO°ICE OF PROFESSION A tie: •The architect of Mellon Hall The ·architect of Mellon was to design what Milton was to poetry -- blind •Judas writing period and would like f eedi- ••• The SCI. would like ~ interested member of the Col.leg&. Community tQ attencii i ta:; next.. ·meeting on WBd.neadBJ: even:hn&, at.. fr.:J..5 in Ht:Dowell 2,3;•. LAPGEST SUPPLIER OF MEN'S WALTZING bRESSES Lvc..({e.-a l'fN ·~ (ofl\C. s Irish, Scottish, British, ?nd other I?h Imports on Main street BEST WINE SELECTION Mills Subaitted by, Kevin Krau8, SCI Memben look for Jeanie "the big dipper" Oggins BEST DISCO .... back from Se.niora on this ideai. · Al.so, acting URon a auggestion from tl:ta Community, the SCI is trying to locate copies. o.f the film's script ~ Frenc.b.:&nglish transJ.ations will definataJ.Jj be made available. One school of thought claims that Annapolis has only. the "worst", while another school of thought usually agrees. Fortunately,. there is only one school of thought in Annapolis. And as conversations at this school on "What is virtue?" often end up on subjects like "Where can you.buy a good pizza?", we thought we publish the definitive work on the subject. nn Main Street BEST "MEET THE WINE AND CHEESE" PARTIES The receptions for the Presidential candidates in the lobby of FSK I I �8 MOST PRETENTIOUS STORE BEST KOSHER DCGS FOR BIG PEOPLE WITH DEEP VOICES Fash.ion with a passion (,~-'\ ) WORST ASBESTOS . Pete's Place Main Street Britches at the Marketplace The asbestos curtains that prevent the two side stages in FSK from being used , BEST _;WORST EXCUSE FOR A PRICE WORS~D Laurence Ltd. Maryland Ave. The only thing that changed when L'Auberge became LaFaye was the price of a meal But wait for their January sale (LaFayette is on M · Street) ain -~ . WORST LINE AT A ST. JOHN'.S LECTURE ·----............ -~--· ./;"'·---·· To say at __ 9·:30, -"And nnw, Part II... . MOST DESPERATEL.y NAMED ·STORE ( \ \ . The Cupid statue at the entrance of Villa Ramona's (in the MoreGoodies Mall ~treet) ___.._,,,----- Soapy Sails in the MoreGoodies Mall (Main Street) --- ..,.. --. ... _,.,...-· MOST APTLY .NAMED Rookies BEST POT at the Marketplace Annapolis Pottery State Circle ~"' Second place: The Beall· (Ertdall) Funeral Home on West Street =-r--·'""'"" ..... ~,..,....- r 0 BEST MEAT MARKET Fran O'Brians Main Street "Where the legislators meet and cheat" BF.ST MEAL (and one of the Grand Clothing Store on Main Street A_pimp supply store BEST SCENIC LANDFILL. MOST BANKS ON A SHORT STRETCH The Liberty Tree There are 9 banks on Main Str_eet and Church Circle BEST SITE FOR A SCENIC LANDFILL- Where is all the mon~y coming from? La Crepe on Main Street The food is who cares? L\VE. BEST USED BOOKS Circle tJ t Books "'es on West Street Plot inus . "What's on your milld?" IN Pl\"c..A ~ WORST USED BOOK WORST THING TO SAY TO A MIDSHIP Pac a-Carroll )o 1 \J \.J I '{ OV WORST DINING ATMOSPH Riordans at the Marketplace STORE A book that defies use. \,JELL, •'L!vt ,, ISN'l Q.JtT t THt: \.JORO ... �10 dancing ~ WORST FACT TO PASS ON TO A HEART~BROKEN BEST PLACE TO PICK UP A 12-YEAR OLD FRESHMAN Weem's Creek Tavern (about miles from campus out in West Annapolis) is open 24 hours, every day Burger King Main Street 1}' 2 .! 's forgotten .!l pe.nte eating the crazy gelatin candles in the closet the D.iUlY na.nnya gather round dancing 1n .their Jeni t wool skirts holes for their knobby knees · · the family tree is dancing too, with ribbons of ice. ribbons of fire. the birds th.at are s~ on it a.re the same ones singing outside your window · the branch you a.re on: is dancing out your pants ! even you see where the excla.ma.tion point comes in! 0 prick prick the needles a.re the ribbons of ice uh oh, the ribbons of fire are golden haired 11 the sun is singing and dancing and wearing black suspenders he has a long cane that tapS a.round and smashes houses the nannies a.re still dancing and their gelatin 1a foa.ming i .heard a stone laugh1 ng today, 1 heard them loading their guns and 0 all the s teJ?B they've lea.""'11 t by now t-to1 BF.ST HOLE-IN-THE-WALL A:t-l Yellow Cab dispatch o~fice (barely) on ~ain Street A JD($, AO\IE.tHuRE.! ~ LARGEST COLLECTION OF MEANINGLESS MEMORABILIA BEST RECYCLING EFFORT The Dining Hall featuring pre-chewed meat 0 0 c Chic'n'Ruths Main Street If the food.doesn't get you, the decor will *** !ti: ~ At the pa.ra.noic extremity I danced my tears to rain In her white thighs. Her words ran in my pea.d like precision race cars Iarkness is aching + dancing with its prince his tool is black + sa.lty he' pummels the earth and refuses to cli.m.b mountains "it is all a chair,°' he says~ "a cha.1.r for me to lean back and sleep in ••• " the odor grips yr throat • you smolder a.nd a certain furriness ••• there! there! the beast! his flank ls sweat, the sheen his eyes are running cold spit strung against the a.1r one tooth gleems, the moon he is wild and he loves my flesh. Behold him ! A prince in the dust of thought. like plastic cars .on a spiral track from here to heavan and back resiliantela.stic speedexact And tearing down the Girders WORST LITTLE GOURMET SHO ON MARYLAND AVENUE BES T.!JLACE. PUNK FOR WANDERING ROCKERS "Service with a shout'! t will splash again " Guess Robert de la Viez West Street ' .- ' - ·-·* 1;3EST·'THING -TO 00 IN ANNAFOLI Leave WORST THING Try to go mountain-climbing TACKIEST PLACE OF WORSHIP St. Mary's Duke of Gloucester Street Why the pope .didn't come to Annapoli's My head frothing First in t~ t light en in yellow shiny this world ··ONLIEST AuTH'o OF.THIS ARTIC Jim White Sean Ball (my head in the oceans of white love It will splash again Tho it never ha.s before the starfish klssing my toes the moon lfeartng her beauty like age e jungle like a testing ground for bugs !lid all dancing eyes Closed With their names Nailed tight against The shutters. *** * The curta.ina moire restlessly As tho the black breeze h..and of night Mould reach in, Carry me deep inside on her dark pa.l.m. Rocking genily on the springa of my u. t. treas My body sit.a here + the fan spins, MY .m~1 '11111 ,...,~- ........... _ �12 13 yellelder had backickt the kid into nostop feettap territoritalkin while his eyelashes trempendulumend~ ~!i1t1his Whitecresi.ed pointbea.rd.ed elder, Ana crook '·d f-or cane, no cane forks yoll.r palm, Never on two feet,·toes always tri.11 air, Horn curved toenails Yellow as saffron. They would call your eyebrows subtle nests Except your convex targets all too quitewhitexsightnes~s quirvers on s ng out that the climb and there must be a li b . runs under the vallec m witness the clinging would be there be y ~~thout which no mountain see ingmypaganye:rringme besteechingmyagonyebbingwe. All live on the grea er than can be conceived. :r. l<-.'\ e. s . Beechmahagonyebony Sling laughing fire Ward off all comments.· Crushed under the weights of deep buried burdens Or run aground on brickstrewn causeways; the old man in Kesslers would bring ~11 cheese and chocolate milk aa I eat spinning the reel vinyl spinstools having raced my father, fro• the playgrou!d, won. the big boya shot the shit, played chiming pinballs or talked l:e.seba.11, with my father and Kessler, and I'd get restless and run outside: kick the can count the ca.rs eat the breeze smell the shadows Growing while the sun lost its heart The marrow of tomorrow Put the red in the sky Doated green off Kesslers Cadillac, Due to the crease in the roof. Still to pour th~ hazy fluid from the shotglass Or to era.sh the chainlink fence nf dullest lead Are not the brightest alternatiYesa the cats skitter, the wifes smile were known not to suffice; the el trains edited si~nsong the notouch silver flung from the wheels began to gain their grasp again. Arisen vit.h fl.ba.~11&zath of blueshine snowsuits Or the crazy absoluteness of pajamas with feet; at., a.ndsome iJl the laur.droma.t needs quarters st. a.rdsome Jfungry buys chopped chuck meat at. and.some in tweeds and Holmes old Hat at. ardsome Hoping on welfarecheck wednesdays st. a.rrlsome bolt upright wea.thervaning on Househeights How had allowed for nowknown need.as ea.rs you can bounce on .wa.lkingatick fits bitween the mouth in the teeth of the mostf'irst trea.ddread.1ng coruspiratortionists child ( WHO did D.lD hill) Without Light The very breath .she is Is t li7ht upo th e despair of my Goul ' y _ho _n e ·ht ow easily a sha dow might be cast . ' NJ..' g , shall fall again and recast; But will the sun rise?' Is there no end to thi"s flux and game? E t rr o know how my soul dwells in the twilight. Ah my friend tis no end ye seek Ra th er a pleasure un t l . 1 you are ' weak . Th W en for us all I ask, ' here d0 your steps lead to, what task? Answer mr. villain! Plodding upon all that .s i· under your f e t W.h t d . ip ? e ' is L ak · rives you into th· s t ate. ~o in the mirror whom do Tis but flesh and blood you meet ••• And an image of the sam; Recogn · ' Becaus~z~o~: realai:de ytoubhnve no name, 0 • • • · e • • • are the same. David Hershel Weinstein �·14 15 THE HOURS OF THE WEEK The Drifters Monday m.Orning at eight o'clock On that stream that is called.et erni y ••• ~ •t they floated, Before them ••• a reflection, a ripple, I drag out of bed, Grudgingly making my way to the shower I realize I still could have slept for an hour a wave, an unbounded sky tainted by shredded cotton They watched ••• ' a man running, a boy and a girl fishing for crabs, airplanes and cars , a busy, busy world, so many people · and all of them do.; ... g • • • ...r...u Th ey just laughcand smile . . ' soaring in _the cool breeze, and knowing they are alone on the stream, free to reflect, free from time ' ••• just drifting· ••• Tuesday marning at ten fifteen I walk into Greek Wishfully thinking I'll not have to reply The tutor looks at me, a gleam in his eye . Wednesday afternoon one o'clock As I walk to lab Confidence surrounds me as the class begins The final bell rings and Aristotle wins Thursday evening at eight fifteen The seminar starts Listening closely I hear the first question Then calmly I try to make a suggestion ZAP! I'm Hit! David Hershel Weinstein Friday evening at. ten o'clock I head into town Happily finding some friends on the way We somehow get lost until dawn the next day Saturday night at one A.~. I weave to my room Carefully stumbling I fall into a bush The guard picks me up and I swear I was pushed Sunday morning at ten o'clock As my day begins Thoughtfully starting my work for the next day I finish all of it and I'm back on my way To Monday Cindy Walton I LOI£ THlS TIMG Cf" Yfl!R/ LEAV£S 7Wil!IG1 Fau. IN THE JllR ... � 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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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/1b142e7e4ded83e7091d2a07670c5815.pdf 100285a72c21ebb3ace98ff79d201ea5 PDF Text Text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�The Gadfly 02 The student newspaper of St. John’s College 60 College Avenue Annapolis, Maryland 21401 sjca.gadfly@gmail.com Founded in 1980, the Gadfly is the student newsmagazine distributed to over 600 students, faculty, and staff of the Annapolis campus. Opinions expressed within are the sole responsibility of the author(s). The Gadfly reserves the right to accept, reject, and edit submissions in any way necessary to publish a professional, informative, and thought-provoking newsmagazine. The next Gadfly meeting will take place Sunday, Aug 31, at 7 PM in Room 109 on the first lower level of the Barr-Buchanan Center. Articles should be submitted by Friday, Sep 5, at 11:59 PM to sjca.gadfly@gmail. com. Staff Sebastian Barajas • Editor-in-Chief Allison Tretina • Editor-In-Chief Sebastian Abella • Layout Editor Noe Jimenez • Layout Editor Jonathan Gordon • Staff Contributors Jessica Benya Emily Grazier Bryce Jacobsen President Nelson Senior Residents Career Services Jason Yarber !"#$%&'(%)*+&#",- W elcome, Johnnies, to the first issue of the new year! We’re excited to be taking over the reigns for the Gadfly, and we expect that the flow of insipiration and insight will continue to bite at the flank of the Polity, egging it ever onward to glorious wisdom. We’d like to invite all members of the community—students, staff, faculty, and alumni—to contribute these pages. This issue focuses on those new to our community. We hope the words for newcomers will not only serve those who have just arrived, but every Johnnie-in-development. Best wishes in the coming year.   !"#$%&'(%)"(*+,(-&. Christopher Nelson A’70 D ear Freshmen, I took great joy in welcoming you to St. John’s last week. And what a glorious gift of song from our returning students! The energy and enthusiasm in the room were palpable, and I hope they carried forward into your first classes. I still remember my first days as a freshman in Annapolis (nearly 50 years ago!!) I remember the friends I made in my first core group, with whom I still visit or correspond. We studied together a lot that year, practicing our Euclidian propositions together on community black boards and testing outrageous translations of Greek fragments. I imagine that many of you will be doing the same. Our community of learning flourishes because of the enthusiasm of our students, their desire to know, and their commitment to talking with one another, sharing their ideas, seeking help from their fellow students, knowing that this sharing and seeking will be returned over and over again. Of course, it helps encourage such conversation to have good subjects to talk about, and of those we have no lack at St. John’s. There are the books, of course. There too are the protagonists we meet in many of them, those who move the spirit to imitate or reject them as good or bad examples of human character and behavior. And then there are the endless questions, the ones we come back to over and over in each new reading: What does it mean to be human? What kind of world am I living in? What is my place in it, and how can I contribute something to it that is worthy of my humanity? In short, how should I live the one life that I have? The good news is that you have the time here to reflect on these questions before acting on them, and this is important. It takes time to get to know yourself well enough to know what will feed the soul that belongs to you and you alone. And often it will be your friends who know you better than you know yourself, who can take you outside yourself to help you look in and discover the big mystery that is you. All this is a way of saying that we are an intentional community designed to encourage learning, perhaps most particularly self-learning. And we rely on each of our community members to maintain and support that learning. I speak of our tutors, of course, but also of our staff, who are here to provide the services that support your principle undertaking. Then there are your fellow students, including the sophomores, juniors and seniors who have all read the same books that you will be reading and who have struggled with the same questions you will be asking. And finally, there are all those invisible souls among our alumni and friends, governors and donors, who care enough about your learning that they give what they can to help us realize most of our hopes for this community and to help you realize the dreams you will be shaping while you are here. We invite you to share in the spirit of community, to undertake the friendships that will support you in your time here, to allow yourselves the pleasure and release of the club activities that call to you (leaving time for your studies too!), and to provide your own kind of nourishment to this community with the special gifts that are yours to give. Welcome to St. John’s College! We look forward to having you with us for the next four year and for a lifetime thereafter. 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But even if you never Sebastian Barajas A’17 completely live it down, keep in mind that the pages of history are full of great men and women throwing up on one another, and the world has carried on just the same. Realize that the Johnnie Bubble tends to amplify gossip to the point where you think your history of freshman peccadillos is etched on your forehead permanently. And while it’s true that a few obnoxious or spiteful people might gossip about your scandals for a while, most of the school doesn’t care nearly as much or as long as you think they do. They have their own problems. Few, if any, people ever walk the perfect path in life, and especially not as college freshmen. Things will go wrong and explode in your face. People will throw up and be thrown up on. Homework may not get done on time. It’s much more worthwhile to focus on the valuable moments: midnight conversations about Aristotle, rainy afternoons under the McDowell awning, classes where you stop believing in reality for a few minutes and then find it again. !"#$#%&'#()%*+,+--#.-#( The advice I got as a freshman wasn’t wrong, just inverted. I say, focus t the beginning of my freshman year at St. John’s, an upper- on what you want to be and to do, rather than what you don’t. Find creclassman gave us this advice: “Don’t be the guy/girl who…” ative new ways to end the sentence “I’m glad to be the guy/girl who…” The end of this sentence can be filled by a near infinite number of For example: different horrible things. For example, I’m glad to be the guy/girl who… Don’t be the guy/girl who… … saved the pendulum pit from the indignity of being peed on. … threw up on his/her Seminar tutor. … learned to waltz. … peed in the pendulum pit. … started the first yodeling club at St. John’s. … accused his/her Seminar tutor of being complicit with the Nazis. … made vomit and fire proof ponchos for his/her seminar tutors. … threw up in the pendulum pit. … was able to coherently explain Parmenides to his/her Seminar. … lit his/her Seminar tutor on fire. … singlehandedly beat the entire Naval Academy team at croquet. And so on. The field is wide open, fellow Johnnies. ! The advice is good as far as it goes; these certainly should not be anyone’s aspirations. However, I think most incoming freshmen are Jason Yarber A’17 probably more in danger of the opposite: of not being “the guy/girl who” anything—not even “the guy/girl who is amazingly good at I know that feeling. You’ve had it your entire life. Perhaps Greek.” it’s so pervasive that you don’t even know it’s there, but it is. That’s not to say that standing out should mean that all your uniqueness is reducible to a single sentence. There is still a certain pathetic It’s the feeling of spiritual emptiness that comes from not quality in titles like, “the guy with the polka-dotted dreadlocks,” or being swole as hell. But fret not, ladies and gentlemen—St. “the girl who only wears David Bowie outfits.” Not that either polka- John’s has a solution for your body that will ease the sufferdotted dreadlocks or David Bowie fashion is inherently ridiculous, ing in your soul. Come to the temple. Temple Iglehart. but to have them constitute one’s identity would be unfortunate. At Temple Iglehart (officially: Iglehart Hall) you will kneel There is a definite art to standing out in the right ways, especially at the altar of the bench press. You will clasp dumbells in during freshman year. I would say the biggest failures in that art your hands and raise them in praise. You will soar above the come from the following myths: Myth 1: It’s worthwhile to stand out for its own sake. Dressing like basketball court like Hermes as you traverse the elevated and David Bowie just to be noticed may accomplish its goal, but it won’t slightly scary track. While all the college seeks to build your make people respect you. Personally, I would respect someone who mind, only The Temple seeks to build your body, and should dressed like David Bowie if the song Fashion were the soundtrack of you be willing to undergo the task of working out a couple days a week, it will fulfill its sacred and eternal promise to his/her life, and any other clothes felt soul-destroyingly dull. Myth 2: There’s something wrong with you if you don’t stand out. cut fat away and stack lean muscle onto your physique until True uniqueness is usually harder to see than dreadlocks or David you are a force worthy of the Gods!! The gym also has a ping pong table. Bowie clothes. If people don’t see your uniqueness, then it’s most So if you’re like me, and you thirst for the adrenaline of likely because they haven’t looked too closely at you. If you can’t get good exercise or just a good game of soccer or basketball (or someone to look closely at you, then your mom was right: they’re not ping pong), Iglehart Hall is a good place to start. ! worth bothering with. A The Sacred Temple �The Gadfly 04 !""#$%&'($)*$+**&,"-)( Emily Grazier A’16 Dear Freshmen, As much as we all love our dining hall, at times one desires a bit of a change. Also, in case you haven’t heard, it’s important to support the local economy—and there’s no better way to do so than food (at least, that’s one of my favorite lines for condoning all my food purchases). So, here’s my top picks of places to snag something tasty in Annapolis: Dining Out: Lemongrass, the faux-Thai restaurant up on West Street, is always a good dinner pick, and moderately priced. Their drunken noodles are particularly tasty. But if you have the energy to walk up to Lemongrass, muster up a bit more for the few extra blocks to India’s. From chai to tandoor-baked breads, to main dishes (with a healthy dose of vegetarian options) and fantastic desserts For Ice cream: (go for the halwah. Yes, it’s a dessert made with carrots. And yes, Don’t be fooled. Kilwin’s will try to woo you, but their ice cream it’s delicious), India’s has an extensive menu and good service. is vastly inferior to the new Firenze’s Gelato in the Market At the opposite end of the spectrum is Sofi’s Crepes, a bit closer House. Scrumptious, creamy gelato, made with local milk in to campus and an ever-popular Johnnie pick, with quite the unusual flavors—try the lucuma. It’s made with a tropical fruit lineup of sweet and savory crepes. My favorite is the BATS, their that tastes something like butterscotch. The only downside is that take on a California BLT. Plenty of bacon and avocado stuffed the shop is rather pricey for small servings. If you’re after more of into a tender crepe. a bargain, check out the Annapolis Ice Cream Company. They make all their own ice cream on the premises, have tons of flavors, Lemongrass: 167 West St and are open late. They also have an unusually large amount of India’s: 257 West St flavors with oreos, so if you’re enamored of the little sandwich Sofi’s Crepes: 1 Craig St cookie this place has the perfect ice cream for you. Miscellaneous: Market House: 25 Market St I also have to make a pitch for the farmer’s market, down by Annapolis Ice Cream Company: 196 Main St the docks on Sundays at nine-to-noon until November. Fantastic local milk, yogurts, and butter; apples; breads and pastries; For Coffee: cheeses; fresh veggies; meats; and seafood. And of course, I beg of you, please, please, please do not go to either City Dock friendly farmers. If you’re buying produce at Whole Foods, or Hardbean. Unfortunately, I did not figure this out my freshswitch to this venue within walking distance and with equal or man year, and wasted time, money, and tastebuds on some truly lower prices. wretched beverages. Just a hop, skip, and a jump away from campus sits the Annapolis Bookstore, which serves both a Farmer’s Market: Donnor parking lot, Compromise St quirky collection of books (including a section devoted to program works) and some very tasty coffee and espresso shots. Now get out there and eat something! Heaven knows you’ll 49 West also has good espresso, and an excellent and decadent need it—after all, Plato will be looming on seminar’s horizon mocha—as well as being a popular Johnnie brunch spot. before you know it. ! Annapolis Bookstore: 35 Maryland Ave For Bread: Even if you’re not as bread-obsessed as I, Bakers & Co. is worth the moderately long walk into Eastport. When I walked by the first time and saw someone sitting outside waiting for it to open, I figured whatever the shop served had to be delicious. An accurate supposition. I don’t think I’ve had anything I don’t like from them. Fantastic pastries, including scones with seasonally changing flavors, scrumptious croissants, and slightly tangy, chewy naturallevain loaves—which are best eaten immediately after purchasing, ripping off large hunks while seeds and cornmeal fly everywhere. Oh, and they serve great coffee. The Great Harvest Bread Company, in the opposite direction from campus, bakes bread in a completely different style—earthy, more home-baked loaves, but equally delicious. Great Harvest Bread Company: 208 Ridgely Ave Bakers & Co: 618 Chesapeake Ave !""#$%&'$(%&)(*"(* Join Annapolis Skippers on a joy ride of the Chesapeake Bay! No previous sailing experience required with a chance to ride either a sailboat or powerboat. On Saturday, September 20, at 10:00 AM Meet at the foot of Prince George St. at the Annapolis City Dock. Box lunches will be provided by Bon Appetit and charged to your meal plan. Please dress appropriately rain or shine: tennis shoes, jacket/sweater Registration is required by September 8 RSVP to Anna.Perry@sjc.edu �The Gadfly !"#$%&'$"%()*'+,%"-.%/*)+.)0 05 Sebastian Abella A’15 It’s no surprise to hear that a Johnnie is going into And there is the Bloomsbury Square Community teaching. It’s in the very nature of the school to place Center, where every Tuesday afternoon Midshipmen great emphasis in learning and what is actually taking and Johnnies can be found offering their tutoring serplace in the classroom, both as a personal sentiment vices. and as a matter of public policy. It’s these thoughts I can personally attest to how welcoming these that have often motivated students to attend St. John’s, places are and how grateful they are to have the help. and for a significant number of them, to go into teach- And the children really respond to having young coling afterwards. Some of the incoming freshman may lege students spend time with them. To have so many already have these considerations. Others may feel opportunities closer to campus than Main Street is uneasy even thinking about doing such an opportunity I urge anyone with any a thing. “I came to St. John’s to escape Johnnies are in a interest to take advantage of. From my the traditional education system,” they experience, the reality is that it gets unique position difficult to make it a habit to continue may think to themselves. to think deeply Johnnies are in a unique position to attending. I worked at West Annapolis think deeply about the act of learning about the act of my Sophomore year and thought it was and the role of education in their lives learning and the a wonderful learning environment, it and in others’. Freshman year is ripe was difficult to balance my own classes role of education with a morning work schedule. The with readings that raise questions conin their lives and Program can be taxing. In addition to cerning the nature of knowledge, the purpose of education for society, among extra curriculars, work, and having a in others’. many other similarly formulated quessocial life, taking up another responsitions. It’s a curious feature of philosobility, a volunteer one no less may apphy that requires thinking about the pursuit itself. As pear out of the question. similar as one could ask “What is philosophy?” one So what I want to urge anyone interested is to could consider “What is education or learning?” make a modest commitment. Heck, even if you’re But Johnnies are in another very unique position. not interested, go just once with an open mind. TuIt’s easy to voluntary trap yourself into the “Johnnie tor somewhere once a week. Bring a friend. I know Bubble.” If you don’t know what that is yet, just ask how tempting an after class nap can be, but it is litersomeone to your left. It’s fine to do so for a bit—I’d ally one hour out of your week. And I promise that if even argue it’s a part of what makes this sort of edu- it’s something you’d enjoy, you’ll never regret having cation work—but if you’re serious about pursuing the gone. This is a time to interact with the community in questions concerning the nature and purpose of edu- a meaningful way and apply your St. John’s education. cation, you ought to get off campus, because there are You’ll learn what works, what doesn’t. How different many opportunities a walking distance from the cam- kids respond to different teaching approaches is an pus to learn just that. invaluable experience. Don’t worry about the subject To highlight a few, there is West Annapolis Elemen- matter. I worried and then realized that I knew batary, which has an after school tutoring opportunities sic math and reading. So do you. Don’t be shy if you and work study positions available every semester. It have to miss it on occasion because the staffs running is across the bridge over College Creek by back cam- these programs are flexible and understanding. You pus and on a scenic road. may even find out that it’s not the thing for you, but There is the After School Homework Club in the at least you’ve exposed yourself to a new experience Stanton Center from Monday to Thursday that begins and hopefully have a more informed respect for what every year around mid-September through the end teachers do. 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Do you ever wonder what it would be like to have Aristophanes as your Seminar tutor? Instead of getting to poke merciless fun at only a few readings (Republic, Bacchae, Poetics, etc.) you would get to poke merciless fun all year! But let’s face it: a reincarnated Aristophanes would probably not be offered a teaching position at St. John’s, no matter how good his Greek was. So it’s up to us (you and me, polity) to keep a satirical perspective alive all year. And what night more fitting for an unofficial Aristophanes seminar than Wednesday night New Year’s? Starting this year, every issue (or whenever possible) the Gadfly will publish a Wednesday Night Seminar Question in the spirit of Aristophanes. These can be taken seriously, or not, as you prefer. Feel free to send us a question for the next issue, or a short answer to a question from a previous issue! Keeping levity alive, -The Gadfly Team Q: If the Trojans had a cloning machine, would they make another Helen, or would they just make 1000 Hectors to send at the Greeks? ! !"#$%%$&"'("!)*+,$ Jessica Benya A’17 Dear Freshmen, I went around to multiple members of the polity to asking, “what would be the best advice you could give to the freshmen?” I’ve heard to take everything that anyone says with a grain of salt. That’s something most people learned rather early on, some in more harsh circumstances than others. Check your sources. The freshmen winter is incredibly hard. Everyone who lived in the same dorms magically became much closer in the winter. A few close friends are better than a bunch of acquaintances. Saying that, I do not mean to find a few close friends and exclude yourself from the world. Try to reach out to meet new people as well, but finding that friend group of close friends that can support you will help. Friends change, especially in the first year. That’s not a bad thing. Everyone is coming from different places around the world. Maintain friendships that would be healthy for yourself to maintain, be there if someone needs you, but do not be taken advantage of. Reach out to not only your class, but the other three. It’s a small campus, don’t feel confined to people who are in your year. And etcetera. So many great pieces of advice that all came from one thing: experience. Everyone I talked to found out those gems somehow. Some of the best advice I would offer would be to have no regrets. Not to go off the deep end, but being able to go to your next year and gather from what happened in the previous year. It’s all a learning experience. Stick to your morals and people here will learn to respect them. Keep an open mind, and you should be fine. ! 07 !"#$%"&$'"$()$*$+","-$./01)$+)2 Jonathan Gordon A’17 Advice to freshman: “It is not the healthy that need a doctor, but the sick.” I once went to a doctor convinced I had strep throat. I’m not sure why I went. If she had said I had strep, I was right all along. When my doctor said I didn’t, I didn’t believe her. In retrospect, although I was convinced of my diagnosis, some part of me recognized that I had no medical training, and should probably have listened to her. I once went to a college convinced I was educated. I’m not sure why I went. If my college had said I was educated, I was right all along. When she said I wasn’t, I didn’t believe her. In retrospect, although I was convinced of my education, some part of me recognized that I went to college for a reason, and should probably have listened to her. See, your admissions essays probably read something like mine: “Dear St. Johns, I’ve achieved these grades, accomplished those things, and mastered these books; won’t you let me in?” Today, I regret those words. I regret trying to convince the college dedicated to educating me, that I was already educated. I wish I had come to St. Johns not to heal, but to be healed; not to educate, but to be educated. I came to St. Johns thinking that I understood what it meant to be educated. I went to my first seminar with my own opening question. I assumed that I would astound my tutors, and lead my class into a new understanding of the Iliad. I guessed that St. Johns would teach me something—just don’t ask me what exactly “something” was. I now begin to see how learning happens. I didn’t learn much in my first seminars. I couldn’t listen to people except to disprove them. Since I wasn’t willing to be wrong, I regularly learned that I was right. When you’re always right, you begin to wonder why you bother with seminar. Early in the year, one of my tutors changed my perspective. She told me that she learned the most when rather than arguing with people, she worked to see their point from the text. This tutor showed me what she meant over the year. Whenever she spoke, she assumed that the other person had a good point to make. When I argued truly idiotic ideas, she ended her rebuttal with “Mr. Gordon, I’m just not sure I’m understanding you.” My advice to you, freshmen, is to Imitate her in learning from others When I started listening to other people, I began to see new perspectives on the text, and suddenly I began to interact with strange, beautiful ideas. I would leave seminar in happy confusion, wondering about the new perspectives on the text I had seen. I’d talk to the tutors about their opinions on the text, just for the delight of seeing the text put together as a whole. They don’t put me or you in a seminar to teach your classmates, but to learn from them. Come to seminar not to enlighten your peers on the correct interpretation of the Iliad, but to really understand the Iliad, by listening to your peers. If you leave seminar convinced that you were right, what have you learned? But if you leave seminar understanding how wrong you were, you will have stumbled upon new truth. Don’t neglect your own ideas. Do your seminar readings twice so that you have better ideas about the text. Do two drafts of your papers so that you grow better in expressing your ideas. Rather, stop looking at seminar as a battle of who’s right. See the text from each other’s perspective, so that you both can see more of the text. If you must take pride in something, take pride in being wrong, because when you’re wrong, you have learned. Being educated is not being always right: it is being eager to listen and be wrong. Freshmen, join me in being hopelessly wrong. Join me in considering the ideas of others. Join me in the journey of learning together. 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The Gadfly meets in the Hodson House. Please use the front door. Articles should be submitted by Friday at 11:59 PM to sjca.gadfly@gmail.com Staff Sebastian Barajas • Editor-in-Chief Allison Tretina • Editor-in-Chief Sebastian Abella • Layout Editor Noe Jimenez • Layout Editor Kira Anderson • Staff Ryan Gleklin • Staff Jonathan Gordon • Staff Frederick Nesfield • Staff Contributors Leslie Howard President Nelson Roger John Robertson Michael Wolfe Frances Webb !"#$%&'(%)*+&#",- J ohnnies: This issue is filled with a host of features, from a guided tour through the streets of Sarajevo to thoughtful reflections on the recent Summer Academy at St. John’s. Also, on the right, you will find an informative letter from President Nelson on the college’s finances. This weekend is Homecoming Weekend. Make sure to network, meet new people, and take advantage of the many activites happening on campus. In the meantime, happy reading! !"#$%&'(%)"(*+,(-&... President Christopher B. Nelson D SF’70 ear Members of the St. John’s College Polity, I am frequently asked how the College’s operations are financed and how the money is spent. As our financial model has changed considerably since the economy went into its downturn in the fall of 2008, it seems appropriate to address this question broadly to our community. What is the principal change in our model? The need for Financial Aid has climbed significantly in the last 5 years. This has caused us to rely more heavily on philanthropic support than ever before. As we are committed to making this education affordable for all who belong at the College, we have also committed ourselves to reducing costs and seeking alternative funding. This is how it looks today: The Annapolis campus has a budget of nearly $38 million, of which $11 million is used for financial aid to students. Of the remaining $27 million, less than half (@$11million) is funded by tuition actually paid by our students. Nearly $1.4 million comes from Federal and State support of financial aid programs. About $4.7 million comes from auxiliary and other revenue (room, board, and revenue from the book store, print shop, and outreach programs for the community, all of which cover our costs of those operations.) This leaves a balance of $10 million, more than one-third of our operating revenue that comes from gifts and gift income (i.e., distributions from our endowment). Most of those gifts come from grateful alumni who want to help St. John’s continue to offer the education that helped them make happy and fulfilling lives for themselves. So much for the sources of revenue. How is it spent? Eleven million dollars, more than 40% of the $26 million budget, is spent directly on instruction and academic support (tutors, the Dean’s, Assistant Dean’s  and GI offices, laboratory, library and music library). Another $3.6 million is spent on student services (from the offices of career services, student life, health services, and athletics to student clubs and the admissions and financial aid offices). Nearly $6.7 million is spent on institutional support (the business office, public safety, personnel, advancement, alumni relations, corporate and foundation relations, communications, information technology, telephones, office services, and the President’s office). The College spends $1.3 million on debt service to pay down a relatively small amount of debt used to finance some of the building construction and renovation. The remaining $4.2 million supports our auxiliary expenses (dormitories, grounds, food service, book store and print shop.) We are indeed fortunate that the College has the increased philanthropic support we need to maintain our class sizes, lively campus life, and financial aid program in these more demanding times. And this coming weekend, we welcome home our alumni who are most responsible for this gift of life to our College. Please join me in thanking them for all the good they are doing in the interest of our College and our students. Sincerely, Christopher B. Nelson President !"#$%&'()*+,-)#&*.*/0"#(1#1 J(1&$,K&'3(*%(@K%-#G'K*7,""3$&8 9C; 7&,-#(&*7#$0'K#18 CH; J(1&'&,&'3(%= 7,""3$&8*L?; @,A'==%$6 B(&#$"$'1#18*CM; N#5&*7#$0'K#8*?; !"#$%&'()*+,-)#&*.*/#0#(,#1 2,'&'3(*4%'-*56 7&,-#(&18*9:; <#-#$%=*%(-*7&%&# >$%(&18*?; @,A'==%$6 B(&#$"$'1#18*CD; 4$'0%&#*>'E&1*%(B(-3FG#(&18*HI; �The Gadfly 03 !"#$$%"#&'()%*#$&!#+&!"#$*",-+,.( Leslie Howard A’15 “Pets are not permitted on campus.” sity did a study on dogs in the workplace and recorded their findings in the International Journal of Workplace Health This is the saddest thing you’ve heard all week: I never had Management. Some people were allowed to bring their dogs a dog. to work while others were not. They found that, although I never had a dog, but of course that doesn’t mean I never everyone arrived at work with about the same level of stress, wanted one. I remember begging my parents for a puppy. (I fi- the dog-bringers’ stress decreased over the course of the day, nally got a guinea pig. Olivea. The “ea” at the end made a clev- while the dog-non-bringers’ increased. This makes sense to er wordplay with “guinea”. She was great. Looked like a tiny me, but, after all, these were their own dogs they were interEnglish sheepdog. Everybody should get a guinea pig.) Dogs, acting with, not a stranger’s dog. though. I had an imaginary dog for a while. His (dogs were all Other research done by Dr. James Ha of the Department boys back then) name was Woof-Woof—I swear to God. But of Psychology at University of Washington touches on this my dream was to have the real thing! It turns out my mom just point. He researched the use of dogs in courtrooms to soothe isn’t an animal person. (She had a bad experience with a family agitated persons during the stressful proceedings (see www. dog as a child with her mom’s spoiled poodle, Beau-James.) So, courthousedogs.com). He found that the short-term physical I don’t think any number of imaginary dogs would have ever effects of even a strange dog’s presence on a stressed human induced her to indulge me with the real thing. were beneficial: slowed heart rate and decreased blood presAt the end of last spring, as I’m sure most of you rememsure. My favorite part of Dr. Ha’s report (more about dogs ber, the school renewed its dog-less campus policy due to an generally than merely courtroom dogs, and based on an artiunfortunate dog bite accident. For B&G, this policy means not cle by D.L. Wells from the Journal of Social Issues in 2009) is having to pick up ungrateful dog owners’ dog shit. For me, it as follows: “There are also well-documented short-term (and just means not seeing that one townie’s beautiful blue merle long-term) effects on psychological health, including positive Australian shepherd every day anymore. (You know the one effects on social communication and ability to make social I mean.) For some of you, it means leaving Fido alone in your contacts, reduction in feelings of loneliness and isolation, and apartment every weekday and two nights a week while you’re improvements in depression and self-esteem.” in class and having to confine his walks and play to the cruel Now, I know none of us at St. John’s ever struggles with brick-paved sidewalks of Annapolis. But for all of us, unforisolation or making social connections. If we did, I’m contunately, it means restricting our dog interactions on campus vinced removing all dogs from campus was a huge mistake. If to Cadie, the Jack Russell Terror. I mean terrier. The only J.R. we were ever depressed or lonely, I hope the administration terrier I think any of us ever got along with was Wishbone. would care enough about the mental health of the students (Fun fact: the name of the dog that played Wishbone was Soc- to consider rescinding the policy. And if we did ever have low cer. Yes, was. He died in 2001. Not-so-fun fact. I’ll attach the self-esteem, I would probably write an article about the dogcounseling center’s number below.* More on psychological less issue and put it in the school paper. effects later.) As with most new school policies, I got mad. Then later *Counseling Center: (410)626-2552 that day I saw one of those ungrateful dog owners allow his yellow lab to shit next to a pretty tree on campus right in !"#$%&&'('#)*'+,' front of me without picking it up. I almost lost my shit at him. “THIS IS YOUR FAULT. THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT. YOU )++-.%&/01#2-34&-+5#678"7 SHOULDN’T EVEN OWN A DOG YOU MONSTER. YOU DON’T DESERVE TO LIVE YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!” Almost. Wow, it felt really good to write that. But I just decided #####9-:;#%<#=%:/-&#$%++':>/%+0 to glower at him instead. This is my way of saying that I understand B&G’s frustration with the dog shit problem, which, if #####?'.3'00/%+#-+5#9%+'&/+'00 you think about it, is really just a shitty people problem. #####9%@#='&<AB0>''C Speaking of people problems, I have one for you. Stress. Recognize it? It’s a St. John’s student’s most constant companion. And while I do think it’s gross and annoying to have dog shit lying around on campus, an outrageous number of studies ##### have concluded (not surprisingly) that the presence of domesticated dogs is a terrific reliever of stress. It’s therapeutic. A group of researchers from Virginia Commonwealth Univer!"#$%&'()* SIGNATURE !" !"#$%&#'( )*+&##*,-.%/&,( #$#%&'!!$!()(#*+,$* �04 !"##$%&'%(%!)(*+&,*"%-&+. !""#$%&'()""*+,-""+.""/$-$012+ The Gadfly Michael Wolfe A’15 Visiting Sarajevo can be a bizarre experience. I arrive same neighborhood. But the disunity among the differthere on a long, scenic bus ride from Montenegro, just as ent groups is still apparent. The political system must darkness begins to fall. My first night out, I go to dinner be one of the most unusual in the world: three presiwith two girls from my hostel; we find a small unassum- dents—a Bosniak, a Serb, and a Croat—rotate chairmaning restaurant in the Old Town. I order a beer, but the ship every eight months. waiter says to me, “I’m sorry. I can’t serve beer because Occasionally, the ethnic tensions erupt in ways that of Ramadan.” Inexplicably, about twenty minutes later are somewhat comical. Tarik tells us a story about a he is not only serving us beer but buying it for us, too. pro-Serb vandal who spray-painted a message onto the We switch to a table outdoors; he explains that there is front of the city’s main post office. It said: “This is Sera security camera inside, and he doesn’t want his boss bia!” The next day, someone spray-painted a reply just to find out he’d been drinking. We spend below it: “No dumb-ass, this is the over an hour with our new friend as he post office.” The awful shriek discusses with us everything from the inStill, Tarik becomes very emotional famous siege in the ’90s to what kinds of when speaking about the war and the of a mortar shell many ways in which Bosnians have women he prefers. That’s my first taste of modern day Sapassing over my honored and remembered what haprajevo. The next afternoon, I am ready pened. Some may be familiar with the head. . . could to step back in time. Some friends and I famous “Cellist of Sarajevo”, Vedran begin a walking tour in front of a plaque example. Two years thinkably be the Smailović, for of the twenty-year anthat says, “From this place on June 28, ago, in memory 1914 Gavrilo Princip assassinated the niversary of the siege, the city placed best thing to heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne 11,541 empty chairs on Maršala Tita happen on a given (one of its main thoroughfares), Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofia.” Our guide, Tarik (not his real name), a student one for each person who was killed. day. born and raised in Sarajevo, tells us the Smaller chairs represented the chilepic story of the assassination (too long dren who were killed. There is also to explain here but worth reading about). At the end, a a permanent memorial in Sarajevo dedicated to slain Scottish friend wearing a pro-independence pin on his children. shirt asks about Princip, “Is it true he was eating a sandBut perhaps the most frightening aspect of the whole wich when he shot Franz Ferdinand?” Tarik laughs, and experience comes at the end, when I learn about the says, yes, that’s one of many details in the story which Dayton Accords and the present situation in Bosnia. are popular but hard to authenticate. Tarik tells us that although there is now peace, the conUnsurprisingly, the bulk of the tour is focused on the ditions are still ripe for a return to open warfare. Bosnia Bosnian war, and the siege in particular. As we walk is fortunate to have had relative calm for such a long around, it’s impossible not to notice how many bullet time, given the obvious bad blood that still exists. And holes are in the pre-war buildings. Very little has been in some ways, Sarajevo in particular seems like it could repaired. When we stop in front of the city’s Roman be a textbook case of how not to memorialize a traumatCatholic church, Tarik points out what appear to be ic history. On numerous historical markers throughout red splotches of paint on the ground. “This is called a the city, the Serbs are explicitly referred to as criminals. Sarajevo rose,” he says. “There are a number of these This might be understandable from a Bosniak perspecthroughout the city.” tive, but imagine being a young Serb born in the postI have no idea what I’m looking at until we get more war period, walking everyday past a plaque which explanation; it looks like some sort of abstract art proj- reminds you that—despite the current peace—your ethect. Tarik says: “On this spot where you’re standing, nicity as a whole is tied together inexorably with hortwenty-six people were killed by an artillery attack.” rific war crimes committed by people you never met. The red splotches, he explains, are meant to symbolize It’s an impossible quandary because, often in such the blood of the victims. conflicts, what helps one group to integrate its suffering No big deal. Moving on. into a national heritage that always remembers what’s Almost everything related to the siege is horrendous. important about its people and its history, also angers Between such everyday activities as dodging snipers another group. Tarik acknowledges this, and thus talks and starving to death, how could anyone have lived a pessimistically about the future of Bosnia. “Many peonormal life here during the war? I try to imagine it as ple see this as only halftime,” he says, falling into a long, best I can, and at once I seem to hear the awful shriek of thoughtful silence. There is something quite shocking a mortar shell passing over my head, which could think- about his use of a sports metaphor to describe the situably be the best thing to happen on a given day. ation. If war is understood as a kind of sport, then what Of course, Sarajevo is now a beautiful, cosmopolitan kind will it be if it comes to Bosnia again? Will it be a city, just as it was before the war. It’s one of the few plac- spectator sport? ! es in the world where one can find a mosque, a Catholic church, an Orthodox church, and a synagogue all in the “ �The Gadfly 05 !"#$%&'()*+",- !"#$%&'"()&!"*$%+,")&-.// From carpentry to salmon fishing, Roger John Robertson has made a living as a tradesman. In this profile, he describes how and why he has succeeded in his field. What is your current job? Currently I am a carpenter and commercial salmon fisherman. For the first three years after I graduated I was a welder/fabricator. Did you attend other schools after St. John’s? I went to 6 weeks of welding training soon after graduating St. John’s. It was not enough to fully train me as a welder, but it did give me the credentials to get my first job. Did you know what you wanted to do while attending St. John’s? I knew that I wanted to work with my hands, but I wasn’t sure what kind of work I actually wanted to do. I started as a seasonal fisherman immediately after graduating from St. John’s and fell in love with the work and environment of southwest Alaska. The fishing season lasts about 2 months, which has always meant I need to find more work during the year. I’m still trying to find the right job to dovetail with my fishing obligations. Did St. John’s help prepare you for work in the field? In terms of hard skills, no. But my St. John’s education gave me great soft skills. Effective communication, work ethic, and a desire to constantly learn new things have all been valuable tools no matter what kind of work I’ve done. St. John’s taught me how to be a polymath, which has made it much easier to switch between trades and rise quickly in companies. Any specific disadvantages to a St. John’s background? In both of my jobs, having a college degree is relatively uncommon. St. John’s sets the bar very high for intellectual engagement and spiritual fulfilment from your endeavors. Work environments are not designed to give these to people. You will fulfill a role deemed financially valuable to a company, and hopefully find engagement and fulfilment along the way. How did you feel you compared, in graduate school or early jobs, to people from different educational backgrounds, particularly those with field-related degrees? The trade work that I do values paid experience over credentials. Most people that I have worked with have been plying their trade for 5+ years, some upwards of 40. This vast experience can be daunting because it makes very clear that I am the new guy who doesn’t really know what’s going on. The benefit is that it levels the playing field for anyone looking to break in. I did not have to compete with people who had more training; we were all acquiring skills from more experienced people starting at the same baseline. It is more important to set yourself apart as a quick learner and hard worker. Can you describe a general track someone from St. John’s might take to get into a career in this field? If you can make it out to Naknek, AK, you will be able to find work as a commercial fisherman. It is a frontier town, and people are willing to give work off of a firm handshake and a look in the eye. However, be prepared to work 16-20 hours a day and do all the dirty jobs you can think of. I was lucky to meet a woman through my high school online forum who has been a fisherman for 50 years. Networking such as this is invaluable to finding work wherever you choose to go. Welding requires the most training out of the three jobs I’ve had. In order to be considered a well-rounded welder, I believe at least a year of full time training is required. Many community colleges offer these types of programs, depending on where you live. Once you have completed your schooling, the best bet to begin gaining real world experience is a temp agency. I started as a temporary worker at my first welding job, was hired on and eventually promoted to supervise one section of the plant. Construction is very open ended. I’ve found work easily by searching craigslist. This industry does require investing in your own tools. It can be as little as owning a shovel and a pick to be a laborer up to have thousands of dollars invested in power tools as a full carpenter. Again, this field values experience, so I have found that you must start at the bottom and work your way up. Any general advice, especially for an upperclassman who is interested in this field but is not quite sure what to do? Network, network, network. Make it clear that your St. John’s degree does not make you an unfocused student, but rather that you have learned how to communicate effectively in person and on paper. Your broad education speaks to your ability to learn new skills quickly, which all companies desire. How did you market yourself with a St. John’s degree? My chosen work has not taken my St. John’s degree directly into account. It has been something to be discussed at interviews at times, but employers have been more interested in my experience and work ethic, as opposed to my course of study. Having a bachelor’s degree does prove that I stuck with a project for four years and completed it. What was your senior essay topic? I wrote on Heidegger and the relationship between art, technology, and craftsmanship. What is your favorite book on the Program? The first book that comes to mind is Leibniz’s Philosophical Essays. I found his philosophy optimistic and sensitive to the beauty of all aspects of our world. It’s hard to beat monads. Do you find that you lead a philosophical life? Yes. I have tried to merge the rich life of the mind at St. John’s with a life of the body in work. I believe that humans must nourish both parts of themselves. My work has allowed me to experience frontiers, both locations and states of mind, that I never thought I would experience. I would encourage all Johnnies to push themselves to do hard things, find strength in spite of rejection or failure, and strive never to settle for good enough. This life is very much what you make of it. ! �The Gadfly 06 Falsification Square Allison Tretina A’16 In Budapest’s Szabadság tér (“Freedom Square”) stands a controversial monument of an eagle descending upon the Archangel Gabriel. Prime Minister Viktor Orban erected the monument on July 20 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Nazi-German occupation of Hungary. Yet instead of encouraging celebration of the Hungarian people’s liberation from the hands of the Germans, it incited contention. It depicts the nation of Hungary as an innocent victim of Nazi aggression, when in fact Hungary expelled the Jews and supported Germany during World War II. The Hungarian government initially planned to complete the monument on March 31, the same day Germany invaded Hungary in 1944. But the people protested. The Jewish Federation of Hungary, the largest Hungarian organization representing the Jewish community, refused to participate in any of Hungary’s 70th anniversary celebrations that were scheduled to take place over the course of 2014. Protesters, a majority being Jewish, gathered around the designated site of the monument. Construction barriers were torn down more than six times by furious protestors while construction workers continued to replaced the concrete impediments. Protesters also spray-painted objecting messages on the metal walls, pelted eggs at the construction site, and waived inflammatory signs. At the same time, pacifist protesters, again most Jewish, have worked to remind the public of the history the monument fails to recount. Some have given speeches at Freedom Square — including the president of the Jewish Students of France, Sasha Reingewirtz. Others have made their own memorial display by hanging pictures of Hungarian World War II victims on long wire. Underneath the pictures, lighted candles and personal memorabilia have been placed on the ground. Many leading voices, local and abroad, have spoken fervently against the monument. The Budapest Beacon reports that assemblyman Csaba Horvath told the press that the monument is “societal provocation on the part of the [Hungarian] government” that “offends the nation’s memory… [by] grouping the victims together with the perpetrators.” Dr. Agnes Heller, a prominent Hungarian philosopher, told Al Jazeera, “The idea that Hungary suffered under the yolk of Nazi Germany? That’s a historical falsification.” Even the United States Embassy has expressed disapproval and on April 20 openly condemned the memorial as “a shameful event.” After hearing the public’s outcry, Prime Minister Orban postponed the construction until after the national elections on April 6 and cancelled the monument’s un- !"#$%&'()*%$+,)-.#()#()$.+)/&($)0&$#12+)%3)0)&+4520&) 1%2567)3%15(#74)%7)8%2#$#102)07")+1%7%6#1)0330#&() #7)!0($+&7)!5&%8+9 veiling ceremony. Two days after the national elections, construction of the monument began. Instead of an unveiling ceremony, Free Hungary reports that on the night of July 20, 2014, parts of the monument were “smuggled in” under the surveillance and protection of 100 Hungarian police. The monument was erected that night. This is not the first monument that has caused conten- tion in Hungary. As Cara Eckholm, graduate of Woodrow Wilson’s School of Public and International Affairs, insightfully points out in her essay for Failed Architecture, Freedom Square holds an assortment of controversial monuments. The Red Army Memorial, for example, celebrates Soviet take over in Budapest in 1945 when, according to the Hungarian government, the Soviet Union “liberated” Hungary. For many locals this so called “liberation” marked the beginning of decades of imperial subjugation. Locals vandalized the Red Army Memorial repeatedly in 2006 and insisted that the monument be taken down. The Hungarian government, however, had remembered what happened to Estonia when they removed its own Soviet war monument: Russia berated Estonia with an onslaught of informal sanctions. To prevent losing their gas supply and other natural resources, the Hungarian government quelled public demands with Continued On PG. 08 �The Gadfly 07 !"#$%#&'()$$)*+',%--%#&'$.)'()-$' Frances Webb A’16 For those of you who may not know, St John’s runs the tions to the fact they were high school students and Summer Academy for high school students every sum- therefore not very practiced at good discourse. While mer. It is an opportunity for teenagers to read the great there is most likely some truth to that, as I reflected books and have a “Johnnie-style” seminar discussions on my reaction I realized that my feelings about their that they could not find anywhere else. I have had the conversations had more to do with my own negativity privilege of participating both as a student in 2011 (the than the Academy classes themselves. In many ways first year of the Summer Academy) and as a Resident the students were having the right reaction—they were Assistant this past summer. The past 3 inspired by getting to discuss these texts years have brought about many changes, at all. I find that when I evaluate my Reading and both in myself and in the Academy. In the classes during the year I focus on everyfirst year of the Summer Academy, there about them. When I discussing these thing badwhat they thought of ask other were a little over 30 of us for one week, but students class, we this summer around 100 students particicomplain about the great texts is an often justthe opening questionclass dypated over 2 weeks. It was heartwarming namic or being too to see so many teenagers who wanted read amazing vague or about how one student would difficult books and have genuine discusnot let go of an insignificant point. This sions about them. The students had such a experience that habit has caused me to lose sight of what zeal for inquiry and were excited by every I could be getting from my classes. text that was put in front of them. Looking critically at our conversations we should not Watching the Summer Academy students is important because we want to better made me realize how much I had changed waste. our discussions each time, but we should over the last few years. When I attended not miss out on any understanding or the Academy I loved every second of it. I idea that we can receive from class even spent the entire 4 hour car ride home chattering to my if it was not the best discussion for whatever reason. parents about everything that I had discovered in the Reading and discussing these great texts is an amazing week. The classes were filled with wonder and emoexperience that we should not waste. So if you tend to tion for me. This summer I saw my students having be critical like me, I challenge you to always look for the same experience I had, walking out of the classes something positive in every one of your classes, even bursting with ideas. But when I observed their classes if they might not live up to your standards. Especially I was bored and dissatisfied. All I could see were the as the year goes on and habit and routine take over, missed opportunities in the conversations, the strange keep striving to bring wonder and excitement to each interpretations of the texts and all of the questions they conversation. ! should have asked. At first I chalked up these observa- �The Gadfly 08 !"#$%&'() *+*',Tuesday 9/9 Kunai Soccer 4 PM Fencing 6 PM Wednesday 9/10 Ultimate Frisbee W v G, 2:45 PM D v S, 4 PM St. John’s Chorus, Great Hall 7 PM Friday 9/12 Kunai Soccer 4 PM Fencing 6 PM Lecture: On Dostoevsky’s The Brother’s Karamazov by Mr. Chester Burke FSK Auditorium 8 PM *Homecoming Weekend* Saturday 9/13 Ultimate Frisbee S v G, 1 PM D v H, 2:30 PM Sunday 9/14 Soccer G v S, 1 PM D v W, 2:45 PM If you would like to see your event on the weekly schedule, please email sjca.gadfly@ gmail.com. Continued From PG. 06 yet another monument of controversial meaning—a statue of Ronald Reagan. Much is at stake with Freedom’s Square’s reQ: What would you do if you cent installation. Prime came home and found a bunch of Minister Orban’s refusal tiny Greeks eating food out of your to listen to the Hungarkitchen? ! ian people stifles any open and honest conversation about Hungary’s history and relationship with Germany. Hungary and Germany had been economic partners since the 1920’s and become closer partners during former Prime Minister Gyula Gömbös‘s administration of Hungary in … date? By 1940 when Felvidék (southern Slovakia), Kárpatalja (eastern Slovakia, now western Ukraine), and northern Transylvania had returned to Hungary, Hungary was “fatally chained to Germany.” The nation would soon be allied with Germany—as well as with other Axis Powers, Italy and Japan—by signing the Anti-Comintern pact on November 20, 1940. During the prime ministry of Miklos Kallay, conflict again arose. Despite Hungary’s alliance with Germany, Prime Minister Kallay refused to obey German orders regarding Jewish deportation. Surprisingly, Prime Minister Kallay did join the German war efforts against the Soviet Union in 1941, a gesture of significant political support that Germany neither ordered nor expected Hungary to do. Yet even in this, Prime Minister Kallay proved disloyal and frequently negotiated with Allied Powers, promising to surrender to United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union once their armies reached Hungarian borders. By March 19, 1944 Germany occupied Hungary. According to Hungarian historian Laszlo Karsai, however, this was not an invasion. “At best,” he told the Budapest Beacon, “Hungary lost the appearance of sovereignty.” Jewish deportation began in … date? Hungarian officials in support of German occupation followed orders beyond expectations and deported as many as 15,000 Jews in a single day. Altogether, nearly 600,000 Hungarian Jews were sent to their death. “Most of them died following the Nazi occupation of Hungary,” wrote Christopher Adams in the Hungarian Free Press, “but none of these deportations would have been possible without the enthusiastic participation of the Hungarian state.” The only victims of the March 19th invasion were the Jews. Seventy years later, during the year of Hungary’s commemoration, there is no better time for the nation of Hungary to seriously reflect on their sensitive and painful history. Instead of erecting misleading monuments and shifting all of the blame at Germany, the Hungarian government needs to take responsibility for their actions and commemorate the true victims of the Germany’s invasion. ! !"#$%!"#$%&%'"($")*"+%,- � 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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The Gadfly reserves the right to accept, reject, and edit submissions in any way necessary to publish a professional, informative, and thought-provoking newsmagazine. The Gadfly meets at the Naval Academy. Wear your dress whites. Articles should be submitted by Friday at 11:59 PM to sjca.gadfly@gmail.com. Staff Sebastian Barajas • Editor-in-Chief Allison Tretina • Editor-in-Chief Sebastian Abella • Layout Editor Noe Jimenez • Layout Editor Kira Anderson • Staff Ryan Gleklen • Staff Jonathan Gordon • Staff Jake Israel • Staff Frederick Nesfield • Staff Contributors Lucinda Dukes Edinberg Jerry Januszewski Len Sive, Jr. !"#$%&'(%)*+&#",- W anted: four missing pages of the Gadfly. If you find any thoughtful thoughts, musical musings, or opinionated opinions lying around, please retrurn them to sjca.gadfly@gmail.com; we miss them. Dearly. They were our forefathers’. 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On the other hand, when health care is left up to intheir mobile home. In 2012, while vacationing in Arizona, Donna developed a bad cough; she was advised to surance companies, cases like the McShanes are rife; go to the Western Arizona Regional Medical Center, in for the insurance company’s sole concern is how much Bullhead City, for an examination. Since she had health profit it can make; the health of patients is always of secinsurance from AMA, which is owned by Manulife Fi- ondary importance. This is why health care is one of many aspects of our nancial, both Canadian companies, there was no hesitation in recommending that she enter this regional hos- modern life that the federal government must take complete charge of—contra the Republican party’s no-govpital for tests. During her five-day stay at the Western Arizona Re- ernment-at-all platform—in order to serve the greater gional Medical Center, she underwent some tests, none interests of the nation. Infrastructure, including the of which proved conclusive; and even spent 2 days in development of mass transportation systems and the isolation for fear that she might have tuberculosis. (She repair of thousands of bridges, gas and electricity for didn’t.) After a five-day uneventful stay in the hospital, homes and businesses, the funding of new forms of enshe was released, with only a prescription for steroids ergy, well-maintained streets and highways, conservation, worker health and safety, the establishment of a for her troubles. Her total bill: $105,000! That’s not the worst of it. Her insurance company, livable minimum wage, affordable medications—these are some of the areas in which, for the AMA, obviously not wanting to pay sake of our nation’s health, safety, and this bill, said that they had “found an welfare, the federal government needs error” on the McShane’s insurance application form regarding prescripEither we win and to take control. Corporations, with their eye exclusively fastened on proftion medication, and as a consequence reclaim democracy it, are unfit to control these vital secnullified their policy, making the Mctors of our common life. The CEO of Shanes, who live on $30,000/year, lifor America or we Exxon/Mobil put it memorably when able for the entire amount! This is an lose and become he said, “I don’t care about America, all-too-common trick employed by inI care only about Exxon.” That’s what surance companies to avoid honoring mere slaves of the makes corporations so dangerous! a policy, in which large outlays need to oligarchic Aristotle, in his Nicomachean Ethics, be paid. And, unfortunately, they usuBook 1, Chapter 13, states: “The true ally get away with it. Corporate State. statesman… wants to make his fellowWhat are the notable points here? citizens good ….” That is, or ought to First, a simple mistake on an application, found only after a large outlay was required, was be, the true aim of every politician. Today, however, the used as a pretext for cancelling their policy—although only thing politicians care about is how to make their no such problem had been found so long as the Mc- corporate clients richer, how to extend the corporaShanes were paying into AMA. But as soon as AMA was tion’s power into every crack and crevice of our modern faced with honoring their contract, then suddenly the life—but clearly not how to make citizens “good.” Yet McShane’s application came under the closest scrutiny until and unless we elect men and women who do fully subscribe to Aristotle’s view, such manifest injustice as and—surprise—was found wanting. Secondly, it is nothing short of obscene that after only has struck the McShanes must continue to wreck and five days in a hospital—though not in the ER or ICU, and ruin the lives of countless others—all the while making not involving multiple surgeries, limb replacements, the 1% even richer, more powerful, and more callous. Goodness or profit, democracy or oligarchy: that’s our organ transplants, or other expensive procedures—the hospital could charge her $105,000. Given what Donna modern era’s strict either/or. We are in a fight-to-theMcShane underwent—or perhaps one should say what death. Either we win and reclaim democracy for Amershe didn’t undergo—such a huge bill is simply incom- ica or we lose and become mere slaves of the oligarchic Corporate State. The choice is ours to make. ! prehensible. Years ago I worked in a hospital in the Northwest and became good friends with one of the ER doctors. He was in charge of organizing lectures for the physicians at the hospital. For that year’s lecture, he invited a well-known physician from an Ivy-League medical school who was an expert on hospital pricing. What my friend relayed Q: If virtue is not a swarm to me was unbelievable. The costs of an open-heart surof bees, how do we explain gery were arbitrarily set—“picked out of the air”; in this honey? ! case $5,000 per heart-valve. Not because it really cost that much—it didn’t. None of the costs he mentioned were actually grounded in reality. They were simply arbitrarily decided upon. Let’s examine this $20,000 per day expense more closely. I checked on the Internet. An average overnight stay at a not-for-profit hospital was $2,000 and for a forprofit hospital, $3,170. These prices put into stark relief “ �The Gadfly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ucinda Dukes Edinberg Art Educator, The Mitchell Gallery Whether you are continuing your time at St. John’s or joining the community for the first time—welcome to another academic year! The Mitchell Gallery has opened the season with the exhibition, Annapolis Collects: The Mitchell Gallery Celebrates 25 Years. This special exhibition was curated by four prominent members of the local art community, including Jim Cheevers, Chief Curator of the United States Naval Academy Museum; Tom Dawson, owner of Dawson Gallery; Joni Jones, Director of the Banneker-Douglass Museum; and Nadja Maril, noted local writer. Each of these curators selected artifacts and works of art from local institutions and individuals, across a broad range of time periods, mediums, and styles. There are many objects worth discussing, but I am particularly attracted to a volume by George Smith, titled, The Laboratory; or, School of Arts: Containing a Large Collection of Valuable Secrets, Experiments, and Manual Operations in Arts and Manufactures, Highly Useful to Gilders, Jewelers, Enamellers, Goldsmiths, Dyers, Cutlers, Pewterers, Joiners, Japanners, Book-Binders, Plasters, Artists, and to the Workers in Metals in General; and in Plaster of Paris, Wood, Ivory, Bone, Horn and Other Materials. Admittedly, the title says it all, but the book’s origins and continuing editions are fascinating. The School of Arts was part of a genre of secret recipe books of practical chemistry for the layperson. It was also valuable to artisans and housekeepers, because it included the technology to distill spirits, compound dyes and paints, and to concoct medicines, perfumes and cosmetics. Basically, there was a little something for everyone. Much of the original text has been translated from a German volume of secret recipes, Der Curieusen Kunst-Und Wreck-Schul, which had been published in multiple editions dating from 1696-1782. (Although, having been published, it would not appear to be very secretive.) George Smith, the author and editor of the Laboratory School of the Arts, first printed his recipe book in 1736. It proved so popular that it was updated and reprinted. We have on view the 1775 printing, fourth edition, which includes 6 plates, two of which are folding; a new section on “Artificial Fireworks,” which gave the author much pride; and the first to contain a section on perspective. His book was so revered, its contents and explanations were updated as new methods and discoveries were brought forth, even after Smith’s death. It is worth noting the significant shift in the public’s view towards using chemistry for industrial and recreational use. The book we have on view was owned by William Faris (1728-1804), a noted Annapolis silversmith. Many of Faris’s handwritten notes are neatly inscribed in the book’s margins. Faris had his home, tavern, workshop, and garden at 25 West Street and had an ad in Annapolis’ newspaper, the Capital Gazette, which read, “William Faris, Watch and Clockmaker at the sign of the Crown & Dial near the Church in Annapolis.” When Faris died, the book was purchased at an estate sale by another noted local silversmith, William McParlin (1780-1850). (One of McParlin’s ladles is on view next to one created by Faris). All of these artisans and objects were neatly tied together by marriages and professional relationships. Faris was married to Priscilla Woodward, niece of another silversmith, and McParlin married a niece of Mrs. Faris’s. (By the way, McParlin’s son was a graduate of St. John’s College). Among other associated objects in the exhibition is a silhouette of Priscilla created by Faris and a prominent tall case clock, which was a joint venture between Faris and the equally known Annapolis cabinetmaker, John Shaw (1745-1829). My descriptions here do not begin to reflect the artistry of these craftsmen and artists. Contemporary sculptures and paintings round out the exhibition of antique maps, Francis Scott Key’s Last Will and Testament, an ivory portrait of Key’s brother-in-law and the first songster that included “The Defence of Ft. M’Henry” (“StarSpangled Banner”) published in 1814, as well as a letter from George Washington to St. John’s College President John McDowell regarding his grand step-grandson’s academic future at St. John’s College. The gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. and the hour before Friday night lecture, 6:45 – 7:45 p.m. Find relief from academic pressures and read Smith’s book about aqua fortis, red calcined vitriol (colcothar) and other “ponderables.” ! � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The Gadfly</em> Description An account of the resource Founded in 1980, <em>The </em><em>Gadfly</em> is a weekly student publication distributed to over 600 students, faculty, and staff of the Annapolis campus.<br /><br />Click on <strong><a title="The Gadfly" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=16&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&amp;sort_dir=d">Items in the <em>The Gadfly</em> Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection. 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The Gadfly reserves the right to accept, reject, and edit submissions in any way necessary to publish a professional, informative, and thought-provoking newsmagazine. The Gadfly meets on the Lower Level of the BBC every Sunday at 7pm. Articles should be submitted by Friday at 11:59 PM to sjca.gadfly@gmail.com. Staff Sebastian Barajas • Editor-in-Chief Allison Tretina • Editor-in-Chief Sebastian Abella • Layout Editor Noe Jimenez • Layout Editor Kira Anderson • Staff Jonathan Gordon • Staff Jake Israel • Staff Frederick Nesfield • Staff Jensen Pratt • Staff Contributors Rebecca O’Brian Tobin Herringshaw Leslie Howard Matthew Linck Patricia Locke Leonard Sive, Jr. George Ward Catherine White !"#$%&'(%)*+&#",- T hanks to the glorious efforts of the Polity, the pages missing from our last issue came shooting towards us at incredible speeds in the form of electrons! Although most Johnnies have not had Junior Language, and thus have not learned to read the language of these subatomic particles, we, the Gadfly, have lovingly translated it into English so that even the groggiest Freshmen and Sophomores will be able to understand it. Once again, our thanks for beaming so many wonderful contributions at us! ! !"#$"%#!"#$"%# &'#()*+,'-.#/,0-#1"2#3Catherine White A’16 In his Pensées, Pascal claims that we “never truly live in the present,” but instead we are constantly “wandering around in times that do not belong to us.” It is something that we are all guilty of—using the past and future to excuse ourselves from the present, that as he says, is usually quite painful. Pascal acknowledges the impossibility of living entirely in the present, though in his typical cynical manner he attributes it more to human weakness than any goodness in the actions themselves. Reflection and planning are certainly essential to growth, but here at the college especially it can be difficult to truly detach ourselves from the anxieties of the future and the past. With the often daunting workload and the constant pressure to improve, it’s easy to slip into planning how you’ll divide up the seminar reading during the rare boring moment of math, or to agonize over something dumb said in seminar. Despite the importance of being present in class discussions, it’s often really hard. It’s why, I think, extracurriculars play such an important role in Polity life; everyone needs an escape from thinking about their never ending to-do list, and it’s the reason I’ve stuck with sailing since freshman year. Sailing is a beautiful and delicate coordination of the mind and body, a constant balancing act between simple physical acts like keeping your boat upright or adjusting the sails, and being constantly aware of the conditions around you and factoring them into your strategy. You’re also conveying all of these things to someone else in the boat and trying to communicate a strategy to them without cursing them out (there’s a reason for the phrase “curse like a sailor”), and you’re probably crouching in the bottom of a very small boat to boot. Sounds stressful? It is, but a very different stress from the intellectual rigor brought about by class and homework. There is no future, in a sense; while you hope your strategic decisions will set you up for the rest of the race, your mind is almost entirely focused on the next mark rounding or the finish line. There’s not a lot of room for worrying about homework or how you did in the last race, and it is a wonderfully freeing sensation. To be so intensely intertwined in a moment that, as Pascal says belongs to us, is a rewarding and unique experience. It doesn’t matter that the future is often quite painful (and will leave bruises to remind you), because the present is so urgent and consuming that it demands all of your attention. Obviously, no one can sail all the time. Eventually, we return to dry land, and with it, the responsibilities and strains of normal Johnnie life, but hopefully rested from the diversions. While I’m still not sure if anyone can live life thinking only of the present and experience what Pascal thinks of as happiness, being able to lose yourself in sailing comes pretty darn close. The satisfaction and refreshment tinged with exhaustion that comes after a good practice is indicative of something that is good and right for us as humans. So even if for some bizarre reason you choose not to partake in the pirate’s life that is St. John’s Sailing Club, make sure go to a soccer game or waltz lesson and know that Pascal would probably do the same. !! Q: Would you be roommates with Xerxes for a year if he promised you half of Greece? ! �The Gadfly 03 !"#$%%$&"'&()"*"+,*-".&*/01*2" !"#$%&"$' %("%0$"3(45%6 ! Anonymous Quad Trashcan #3 Trashcan !"##$%&'()&*+&+",-./&)0$&)$1(.*1&$"($( Dear Polity, You use a lot of cans. And recently your trash-producing debauchery has reached such heights that come Thursday morning I find myself wondering if you even know what virtue is. I mean, come on people! I’m no tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, save-theearth kind of guy. I was made in China for crying out loud! But even I am starting to feel little pangs of guilt (the kind you get when you eat the last cookie in the cookie jar) when my recyclable contents are sent off to landfills. I’m sure you’ve seen Wall-E and you know how this ends (if you haven’t, spoiler alert: with rampant obesity and a Death Star style space-ship planet). Nobody wants that (except maybe the Death Star Planet, that would be cool). But seriously—nobody wants that! Polity, it’s gotten to the point where you are left with two options: find a recycling bin or face rampant obesity.* And for my own sake, I urge you to go with the former. 20*/3$%&-$#$"($&40.#$&($1($&)$"($( 5*6$7(&8-$))9&8./):-$&8-*;8)#9&8#$"($( .1&;$"(:-$%&(4"9&)0$&8".1(&$</-$)$% =")$(&8")0&1*)&'<$%&"1%&9$)&;*6$(&>:./3 ?-.6.1@&;")0&;"%$&8"((.*17(&8#$"(:-$&)-./3 A*4$-&-$"#.@1$%&4.)0&$1$-@97(&.1)4.1$&B./3 C"88.1$((&)*&'-$&,-.@0)#9&,:-1.1@&)-"@./( Sincerely, Your Humble Quad Trashcan P.S. While we’re on the topic of trash, I’d like to dispel a rumor. Contrary to what some misguided readings of the freshman lab manual would suggest, a red Solo cup planted in the ground will not in fact produce a tree. The ground does not appreciate your recyclables any more than I do. FIND A RECYLING BIN. *There is no scientific evidence linking failure to recycle to rampant obesity, rather these are the wholly creditable and unquestionably legitimate ideas of Pixar Animation Studios. .,%(&"7/"8(&/$ 20$&("6$%&"&(*:#&"1%&;"%$&"&+-.$1% D9&#*6$&4*1)&()*8&).##&)0$&6$-9&$1% E.;$(&/*1()-".1)(&/"1&3$$8&.)&)0$1 5*6$(&4"-;.1@&@#*4&;*-$&)0"1&+-.$1% F&(*:#(&,$":).+:#&,*1%&).##&.1'1.)9&(8$1%( 5*6$(&+")&8:-($&*+&,$":).+:#&$1%( George Ward A’18 The freshmen of Mr. Braithwaite’s bi-weekly seminar class One student who witnessed these events wished to remain arrived with fire in their hearts and with minds ready to learn. anonymous, but agreed to an interview. “I think Mr. BraithBut when they looked upon the playful visage of their much- waite is a horse as a commentary on Ancient Greek society as revered tutor, so that he could serenade them with his knowl- a whole,” he said, stroking his chin thoughtfully. Our reporter edge and insightful wit, they were shocked to see a face that was enthralled. He stroked his own chin, equally thoughtfully. was not only playful, but equine in nature.  Their eyes met. They stroked their rugged chins thoughtfully. “Hello, class,” Mr. Braithwaite They stroked each other’s rugged chins, The room was full of and as they stared into each other’s eyes, said,   stroking his thick, fluffy beard. “As you can all see, I am now a horse.”  they thought rugged thoughts. A bond silence. The tension The room was full of silence. The tenwas forged. could be cut with a sion could be cut with a knife. Everyone Another witness approached by our reknife. watched Mr. Braithwaite, wondering what porter, however, declined to comment on would happen next. how Mr. Braithwaite is a horse. “My feelSeminar with Mr. Braithwaite continued as normal that day, ings on the issue are...inappropriate,” she said. What a combut our reporter noticed an air of intense uneasiness in the ment! A comment worthy of speculation.  room. “The tutor is a horse,” people whispered. “Why is he a A comment that, like the transformation of Mr. Braithwaite horse? What is happening?” What, our reporter wondered, did itself, demands much speculation indeed. ! it all mean? “ �04 The Gadfly !"#$%&'()*+",- !"#$%&'())$%*+,-./&0123 As a teacher in a 12th grade humanities program, Tobin Herringshaw has used the skill of considered questioning for many years. In this profile, he outlines a few paths that future Johnnie teachers can take to enter the field. (Visit his webiste at http://afterwebseries.com) What is your current job? I currently work, and have done so since graduating SJC seven years ago, at Glenelg Country School, an independent K-12 school in Howard County, Maryland. I teach the 12th grade humanities program, which includes Modern World History and our capstone course, Integrative Seminar. Johnnies would find this class familiar, as I based the current version of it off of much I learned at SJC. The course includes readings and seminars on what it means to be human as well as a five month process of writing a senior thesis. I also teach a digital media course that introduces multiple forms of digital media creation including photography, audio recording, video production, and animation using the Adobe Creative Suite. Did you attend other schools after St. John’s? I am about to graduate with a master’s of science from Full Sail University. The program I am in, called Education Media, Design and Technology, helps teachers develop skills to learn, incorporate, and propagate the emergent technologies including Web 2.0 and multimedia creation. I waited for some time to go back to school, and found Full Sail’s online program suited my life best. Did you know what you wanted to do while attending St. John’s? I had a strong direction. I came to SJC with storytelling in mind. I had a desire to write and direct films, but have dialed back those dreams since then to more independent filmmaking and writing. I teach what I love to do and am quite content with the way things are for now. did not share my intellectual background. It was a period of adjustment before I could sense when and where to “go all Johnnie” during a conversation. Any specific disadvantages to a St. John’s background? I really don’t see any significant disadvantages. Sure, you might need to catch up with some particular science or math when pursuing a professional degree after SJC, but you will be is such a better place to do so having experienced the SJC education. How did you feel you compared, in graduate school or early jobs, to people from different educational backgrounds, particularly those with field-related degrees? At first, as in any job, I felt intimidated by the other teachers. But I quickly learned this was only from a lack of familiarity. Once I got my bearings in the school and with teaching, it became clear that I was more open to ideas, more creative in my assessments, and could discuss and communicate better than some who had been teaching for many years. But what I have come to appreciate about other educational backgrounds is that the good backgrounds share similar skills, even though they might have concentrated on a smaller subject area. And it becomes a two-way street of sharing when I find someone who can offer me a deeper content understanding, while I help them discuss and argue better the points they make. Did St. John’s help prepare you for work in the field? Definitely. When I was hired to teach for Glenelg in May of my senior year, I was told I would be teaching Ancient Greek and Roman periods of history, literature, and art. But a month before school began, I was switched to Western Civilization. While SJC doesn’t always cover context with the texts students read, I felt strong enough with the ideas that I was well prepared to teach the history. I could analyze a text quickly, discuss effectively, and present confidently. These skills are directly attributed to the daily reading, seminars, and tutorials that I experienced at SJC. Can you describe a general track someone from St. John’s might take to get into a career in this field? If you are interested in teaching, you have two main tracks: public or private schools, especially on the east coast. If you are interested in teaching, you should try to get experience with teaching while still in school. Tutor, be placed as an intern in a local school, and work with kids whenever you can. Once you have some resume building, you’d make a strong resume (with the help of the career services at SJC) and join a placement service like Carney Sandoe or Southern Teachers. They will help seek out the jobs and submit your application/ resume on your behalf. If you are interested in public school teaching, you’ll need to seek out more education, particularly a master’s in education, and get certified. What didn’t St. John’s prepare you for? While at SJC, like-minded people are all around you. But in the intellectual world outside of the community of Johnnies, ignorance, close-mindedness, and an inability to argue and persuade are often met. SJC didn’t do the best at helping me understand how to still communicate with people who Any general advice, especially for an upperclassman who is interested in this field but is not quite sure what to do? Get some experience in teaching or similar experiences working with kids while still at SJC. Think about what subject(s) you’d like to teach, and build an excellent resume. Use the Continued On Pg. 5 �The Gadfly Continued From 05 Pg. 4 SJC alumni network to visit teachers in the area to see the job first hand. the job firsthand. How did you market yourself with a St. John’s degree? For my current job, I used my resume and the interview process. My resume was well crafted to inform any reader of the great experience and ability that a SJC graduate comes with and the interview process was a time when I could capitalize on the breadth and depth of my knowledge. Because I applied for a humanities position, it was easy to talk in depth with teachers who were teaching the Iliad or Aristotle. I could also suggest other readings that they might not have considered. Moreover, I’ll never forget that I probably got my job based on my love and ability to expound on interpretations of Virginia Woolfe’s To the Lighthouse. How would you characterize your field as a whole? Is it accessible to newcomers or difficult to enter? Stable or fluid? Etc. This field needs more SJC grads. Too many teachers are closed-minded, single-subject teachers who do not see or want to participate in the future of education as it spreads into integrative, technology-heavy learning. SJC graduates have a distinct advantage in this field because they already have been practicing the core skills intensely for four years. The field is quite welcoming and accessible to newcomers, especially the independent and private schools. What was your senior essay topic? I wrote about transformation (metabole) in Aristotle’s Poetics, finding that the transformation that occurs in the reversal and recognition moment of a story is something akin to the telos of a story. What is your favorite book on the Program? Aristotle’s Poetics. Do you find that you lead a philosophical life? I think it would be hard not to lead a philosophic life after St. John’s College. I still get lost in thought, argue the small points that many no longer care about and generally like to think about almost anything. I find that I look to the Stoics during times of struggle, and still wonder about the author whenever the Iliad or Odyssey is mentioned.! You Did What?! Leslie Howard A’15 A re you interested in exploration and discovery? Have you ever wondered how those scientists did it? Here at St. John’s College, we provide you with six semesters of authentic scientific experiences. We start you off very benignly in the freshman year with the careful observation of the outsides of plants and animals. Things aren’t always how they appear, though, so you will quickly move onto dissection. One of the more exciting practica is the sheep lung dissection. Don’t worry—you will certainly get a full handson experience: gloves are provided (sometimes), but not required. In this practicum, you are encouraged to inflate the sheep lungs by closing your fist around the trachea and blowing into your fist; however, I have seen it done by merely closing the mouth around the trachea, instead. There is no wrong way to do science. Often, freshman laboratory tutors conduct a field trip to the Mellon courtyard during this practicum to show the adverse effects of cigarette smoking on lungs. They encourage one of the smoker students to begin smoking a cigarette, making sure to exhale into the sheep lungs. After about three consecutive cigarettes over the course of just a few minutes, the lungs are very disgusting, and you will have all learned an important lesson. During the second semester of Your parents always freshman laboratory, you will explore used to tell you how the beginnings of chemistry in all its glory. One important thing to remem‘things were different’ ber is that acids taste sour and bases when they were kids. taste soapy; be sure to take advantage of this once in a lifetime opportunity to taste-test all the chemicals in the laboratory. You will also get the chance to burn many substances and observe the colors of their flames. You are discouraged from staring at the combusting magnesium, but, as you will discover, it will be impossible to look away. We provide all of sophomore year laboratory-free so that the rising sophomores can recover from mercury poisoning. First semester of junior laboratory is very tame. You will spend that time mostly crashing hard bodies into other hard bodies and swinging metal balls on strings. Things pick up the pace in second semester, where you will get to play with electricity without knowing what it is or how it works. This will allow you to get a genuine experience like that of the one scientist who got a big electric shock and “thought it was all up” with him. It is in this semester that everyone is encouraged to ground charged bodies by sticking a metal probe into an electrical socket; and it is in this semester that everything your parents taught you as a child crumbles away into dust. Finally, you will arrive at senior year. A word of advice from someone who knows: make sure to wash your hands after the electrodeposition of copper experiment. Cupric sulfate solution is not a pleasant thing to get in your eyes, but you might not know that if the manual does not explicitly tell you, because, after all, you’re only a twenty-something with no background in laboratory safety. You will also conduct an experiment using an ultraviolet lamp. Take a chance! Use this unique opportunity to see what getting skin cancer feels like! A bonus of this practicum is that your eyesight will never be the same. I have not yet embarked on the final semester of laboratory at St. John’s, but I expect no less than the wonders and joys of the previous semesters. Your parents always used to tell you how “things were different” when they were kids. No one cared if they played in the road or climbed big trees. They didn’t worry about toxins or sun damage or strangers. If you attend St. John’s College, you will be able to tell your own kids the wonderful stories about how your lab assistant sucked mercury from a tube, or how you could smell the ozone in your classroom after an exciting afternoon playing with the Wimshurst machine, or how you touched the outside of the Faraday cage just because you were told not to. What other group of Millennials can say that?!! “ �06 I Walk the Line Matthew Linck Tutor The Gadfly Earlier this summer I was fumbling around for a substantial tion might also be about working out a tremendous grief, a subnovel to read. (My waning interest in novels having been rein- ject that is tackled directly.) Instead, we see Mason and Dixon vigorated earlier this year after reading The Brothers Karam- at work and at play, at home and abroad, together and someazov.) After a few misfires, I scanned my shelves for books I times apart. Mostly we hear them talking, with each other and had failed to get through but wanted to revisit. A book I had with a wildly diverse set of characters: sailors, Dutch colonials tried many times to surmount stood out—Thomas Pynchon’s and their slaves, Royal Astronomers, tavern dwellers, Benjamin Mason & Dixon—a book that had been on those shelves for sev- Franklin and George Washington, New York City thugs, Native enteen years and had moved with me to five different homes. Americans, and a panoply of others as Mason and Dixon clear When Mason & Dixon was released in 1997, I was already a the line heading west. confirmed Pynchon fan from reading V. and The Crying of Lot Oh, yeah, I was going to say something about that talking 49 (my failed attempts at getting dog. I don’t want to spoil the fun through Gravity’s Rainbow nottoo much, but will say that while withstanding), and I didn’t know he goes by Learnèd English Dog he Mason & Dixon was going to be reprefers to be called Fang. (He’s a leased until I walked by a favorite Norfolk Terrier.) And, to dwell on bookstore on Washington Square the talking dog would leave no time and saw a hundred copies piled to mention the marvels of the meup in the window. I walked in and chanical duck (and his relationship bought one on the spot. with an exiled French chef ). Or the And of course I started reading it giant vegetables. Or the watch that right away. How far I got that first doesn’t need winding and might be time, I can’t remember, but I made alive. it at least as far as the talking dog. I haven’t yet mentioned that (More on that below.) I recall makMason & Dixon is written in 18th ing another attempt a few years century idiom and spelling and later getting somewhere near to capitalizes most nouns. Or that the the 150th of its 773 pages. Other atbook is narrated by a certain Revtempts have faded from memory. I erend Cherrycoke, and addressed say all of this to indicate that finally to members of his extended family. finishing the book feels like paying Or that the narrative frame has an off an old debt. often uneasy relationship with the Why should you care about any (apparent) main story. I also haven’t of this? No reason in particular, but mentioned that page-for-page the I think it turns out to be a happy acbook is difficult, but the previous cident that my reading of the book sentences might suggest some reawas delayed until now, for many sons why. There are others. But the !"#$%&'&()*$%&+,&-.$/"#&0,%1.$% things that I have learned at St. book is also, sentence-by-sentence, 23%4,&2$56&"%7&8$/9"%,:&;<<= John’s College came in handy while paragraph-by-paragraph, at least navigating Mason & Dixon; princiinteresting, never ordinary, and ofpally, astronomy—one of the main threads through the book— ten beautiful. The following gives some sense of what might be but also electricity and magnetism, and things Newtonian. found in the book’s use of language: You might wonder why some knowledge of these things “’Tis withal a Snowy Owl Year,— the Lemmings having suiwould come in handy in reading Mason & Dixon. The short cided in the North, the Owls are oblig’d to come further South answer is that Pynchon’s book is, in some sense, a true story. in search of Food,— and suddenly white Visitors from afar are Charles Mason was a professional astronomer and Jeremiah ev’rywhere, arriving in a state of Mistrustful Fatigue, going Dixon was a surveyor, and the main actions of the book re- about with that perpetual frown that distinguishes ’em from quire and make constant reference to these practices. The first the more amiably be-Phiz’d white Gyrfalcons. At the peaks of action is Mason and Dixon’s work in observing the transit of Barns, the Tops of girdl’d gray Trees, Gleaners of Voles soaring Venus in 1761, and the second is their surveying of the epony- above the harvested Acres, with none of your ghostly hoo, hoo mous line between 1763 and 1767. (Many obscure references to neither, but low embitter’d Croaking, utter’d in Syllables often things astronomical and magnetic would have been hopelessly at the Verge of Human Speech.” obscure without some familiarity with these matters.) The episodic, set-piece character of Pynchon’s storytelling But, to call these the main actions of the book already pres- can make it difficult to keep up one’s momentum in reading; ents a problem, for it might just as readily be said that the his (deliberately?) bad jokes are no doubt too off-putting for main action of the book is the cultivation of a friendship, or some; his whimsy can strain against what seems serious and the (perhaps ambiguous) emergence of enlightenment in the grave. These are among the reasons that I recently told somemodern world, or the delineation of something called America one that while I enjoyed and admired the book I couldn’t recprior even to the revolution. I think it might be one of the great ommend it. accomplishments of Pynchon’s book that it does all of these But I’ve changed my mind. You should read it. ! things without ever mentioning them as such. (The main ac- �The Gadfly 07 !""#$%&'(")'*'+",Kira Anderson A’18 Money does not grow on trees. Shocking, I know. And everything appealing in the world seems to cost money—nice clothes, books, cars, that one thing online that you check the price of regularly to see if there’s a sale on it yet; all of these require some form of currency to purchase. So, as The Simpsons aptly puts it, “You can use money to acquire goods and services.” So where does money come from, if not trees? Jobs. Unfortunately, we must work. We must slave away. For those of us not absorbed into the corporate body, an introduction may be necessary. To help those who wish to have money, and wish to acquire that money through a job rather than robbery or picking up spare change on the streets, (only when it’s heads up, of course) I have started a list of local places hiring. Annapolis Ice Cream Company is looking for part-time help to work through holidays and weekends. They sound very serious about you being there for holidays, since I looked at the application, and that part was bolded and several fonts larger than the rest. Annapolis Ice Cream Company makes its own frozen cow juice, and is beautifully decorated in penguins and spoon-art created by customers. Enquire inside the store for the application. White House Black Market is looking for an “In-Store Visual” worker who “is primarily responsible for creating and maintaining a visually brand-right boutique,” (whatever that means) according to the job website. If you’ve got the basics (a GED, are over 18, a good worker) and 2 years’ experience in visual merchandising, then this job may be perfect for you! Learn more at jobs.chicos.com/whbm. Wheat, a store that sells children’s clothes, not grains as one might come to expect, is also looking for workers. Outside of this quaint little blue and white painted building, there is a sign in a very bold font, “Help Wanted! Enquire Within.” If you are not offended by the erroneous capitalization in the sign or the fact that a store named Wheat does not, in fact, sell wheat, then take a short walk downtown and enquire within! Joss, a sushi bar and café, a very interesting, fairly priced Japanese restaurant, has hung a sign requesting help for quite some time. Perhaps one of the reasons that the sign is still hanging there is that they are requesting experienced servers, and they are not in great quantity here in Annapolis. In fact, there seems to be an experienced server shortage, if one is to believe the signs strewn across town. Perhaps another reason the position is still unfulfilled is because the advertisement is written in marker on computer paper and tacked to a slanted window which faces another store. Enquire about the job inside, and get a serving of green tea ice cream while you’re there. It’s worth it! If you wish to get in tune with your inner Grecian and bathe in olive oil before slaughtering a hecatomb to some god that will probably kill you anyway, look into a position at “seasons.” The store name is not capitalized. That was not an error. On tap at seasons, you can get innumerable combinations of olive oil and vinegar. This unique store has a finely printed request for part-time help, proclaiming that seasons is “A FUN ENVIRONMENT,” and you can apply within or call Mary at 443-905-0040. Hatley is a store which is painted a very shocking blue. Anyhow, they are hiring a part-time sales associate. On the sign taped to their window, it asks that anyone interested call 410-280-2440 or email Annapolis@Hatley.com. Next to all this information, there is a large butterfly wing. I have yet to understand why this is on the sign, though, since there does not seem to be a butterfly theme within. Perhaps it is meant to show how jovial the store is, so jovial that they can put half a butterfly on a poster asking for help. It is a yellow butterfly, if that sweetens the pot for you. Jimmy John’s is also hiring for multiple positions—drivers, bikers, and sandwich makers. If you have a passion for such things, do apply. Their sandwiches are truly delivered “freaky fast” and are mostly palatable. Particularly if it’s three in the morning and you feel vaguely pained from hunger. And if you decide you don’t want to apply, remember that there is in fact a sign inside offering “free smells,” so simply walk in, take a deep breath, thank the manager on duty, and walk out knowing that you inhaled the hard work of fellow students making minimum wage plus. The Historic Reynolds Tavern, on Church Circle, has cried out for the hero it both deserves and needs right now— a full-time or part-time server. The only stipulation added is that one applying must be 18 years or older. Either apply within or email this mildly suspicious looking address- qjrx94686894129%40job.craigslist.org. McGarveys Saloon and Oyster Bar confusingly put out a request for “Bussers/Barbacks - Weekend Hostess.” I assume that these are meant to be read as three different things, but who knows; we live in a confusing age of dying grammar, which truly began dissolving after the oxford comma was declared “droppable,” and the verb “to Google” was added to the dictionary. Anyways, the listing is on Craigslist and may be viewed there. Also the Saloon has suggested that anyone interested should apply within the building, which is located at McGarveys Saloon, 8 Market Space, Annapolis. This is a very incomplete list, mind you, and there are always papers tacked up around campus with job offers to supplement your ongoing search. May the odds be ever in your favor, students and fellow job-searching beasts of burden. Take this knowledge and use it well, for with great knowledge comes great responsibility. ! �08 The Gadfly How I Spent My Summer Vacation Patricia Locke Tutor If Proust is correct, and we come to know our feelings and experience in retrospect, then it is time for me to puzzle out my summer vacation. It was not actually a vacation, but the title sets in motion the series of things done in summer time, often accounted for in school essays. This past summer, I went to China with several Johnnies to participate in Think Like Socrates seminars. We were in Beijing, under the auspices of the Project for Peace and the support of the Affiliated High School of Peking University. The Davis Foundation bought our plane tickets and paid for food and supplies, while the high school graciously offered dorm accommodations and cafeteria food. Fortunately, I met up with Ms. Chengyaquing Shi (A, ‘16) a couple of times to offset the cafeteria leftovers with Peking duck and traditional banquet food, including a spectacular first course dish of cold mashed yam with blueberry sauce. But I digress… The Think Like Socrates seminars were with a group of mostly Chinese high school and a couple of first year college students, along with Indira Cabrera (SF, ’16), Yue Gong (GI, ’14) and Zachary Thomas (SF, ‘16). Back in Santa Fe, students led by Dongyu Cui (SF, ‘16) came up with the idea, wrote the proposal and backed us non-Chinese speakers throughout. A brand new Johnnie, Lingxiao Zhang, spent the summer before joining the College picking us up at the airport, showing us a magnificent four story bookstore and other big city delights, and interpreting as needed. Their plan fit the Davis Foundation parameters to promote world peace. How? By having classic Johnnie-style seminars on parts of the Meno, Republic, Nichomachean Ethics (books 5 &8) and Sophocles’ plays Antigone (in part) and Oedipus the King (entire). It was the first time in my life that someone quoted Chairman Mao in a Republic seminar, and it felt bracing and new. The students were alive to the text, very articulate in English, and way more informed about injustices committed by America to its own than my out-of-date impressions of China. It was curious that their examples were almost always safely from American history (Civil War, ill treatment of native American Indians), while not one person mentioned the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen Square protests. Their biggest complaints (at least revealed to me) are internet censorship and air pollution. At this point, these students intend to study in American or European universities, and then to return to take on the rapidly changing social and economic world unfolding in contemporary China. So I felt that our thrashing out the questions of justice and friendship helped build the foundations for both the journey out into the wider world, and the return to face the increasing complexity of modern life. I know the questions hit me hard and sounded more provocative in a new context. I also had the opportunity to get lost, really lost, as I haven’t in a while. I got to be swept up in a mass of people in the subway, headed to who knows where, and to trust that I would end up somewhere interesting and intact. Like a Parisian flâneur, I let myself go, without a cell phone, without being able to speak the language, just to see life being lived. What a thrill! People on the street showed me things, fed me, and tried to sell me outrageously priced knock-offs, while little kids pointed to my blue eyes and said, “Welcome to Beijing!” all with similar intonation. But mostly they left me to my own devices, as long as I was walking or doing tai chi in the park. The second I sat down at a café table, an instant companion began to speak English. Each had stories, and many questions. This was the most unexpected gift of the trip. When I was tired, I just spoke the magic words: “Where is the subway?” and my way home appeared. The BJ subway is the best I have encountered: cheap, clean, extensive, and as a bonus, has signs in English. It became my sprawling security blanket in an environment where I honestly did not know what was happening most of the time. After several weeks of Think Like Socrates seminars, I spent a few days in Shanghai and Suzhou, first to see landscape paintings and then to see them come to life in centuries old gardens. It will take me a while to sort and reflect, but I wanted to let you know about it now. This is the perfect time for you to cook up a Project for Peace of your own. What captures your imagination, at home or abroad, as a step to bring people together in ways that overcome the conflicts wrought by misunderstanding, prejudice, injustice, or war? Take a look at the website of the Davis Foundation (www.davisprojectsforpeace.org) and talk out your vague ideas or detailed plans with Jamie Dunn in Career Services. St. John’s College gets to nominate a program proposal for next summer: why not think of a way to make a difference with some of your friends? Even seniors are eligible for the summer after graduation. So put your book learning to work: with Projects for Peace, Johnnies have done health initiatives, helped with infrastructure in remote villages in Nepal, as well as leading seminars on various topics. If I may quote Confucius: “To learn and then have occasion to practice what you have learned—is this not satisfying? To have friends arrive from afar—is this not a joy?” ! �The Gadfly 09 !"#$%"&'()Corporate Capitalism at Its Worst Len Sive Jr. G.I. lieved the annual turnover rate to be This entire incident was so foreign to about 70%. The other two nodded in me. I had just spent six years teaching agreement. English in South Korea and had never But on this I was skeptical. The num- once experienced anything even rebers seemed impossibly high, even for a motely close to this. Now I’m back home I went to a Wal-Mart in Santa Fe, notorious store like Wal-Mart. I thought in the “Land of the Free,” and within a New Mexico, last Saturday. I had grave it best to speak with some other employ- month…. misgivings about doing so, knowing a ees and compare answers. Two female Big Mike, his fierce eyes blazing, was little of its sordid dealings with cities in employees nearby had just sat down for trying to scare me. “You have to leave which it locates and its inhumane treat- a break. I decided to quiz them. the premises now,” he said angrily. But ment of its employees. Still, I decided to So I walked over and introduced my- proud and defiant, I said: “No, I’m not shop there, curious to see if Wal-Mart self. They were very nice and friendly. leaving; I’m waiting here for my shuttle. was better in a liberal, democratic Santa We engaged in small talk for several min- It’s coming to pick me up.” And then I Fe. utes. Then, getting down to business, I turned around to face the parking lot, The staff in this asked them how hoping the shuttle wouldn’t be too late— huge store looked The numbers seemed they liked working and wondering whether a physical conharried and stressed, impossibly high, even at Wal-Mart. The frontation was imminent. and down the rushing this way and young woman on I paced nervously up that, barely stopping my left looked up sidewalk, stopping every few minutes for a notorious store even to answer a at me and, smiling, to search in both directions for the van. like Wal-Mart. customer’s queries. said, “It’s a great And always right there next to me, atNo floor employee place to work.” Her tached to me like a shadow, so they was smiling; only the friend nodded in could watch my every move and hear cashier, who was safely ensconced be- agreement. I then asked each one sev- my every word, were these two scary hind her little fort. The rest of the staff eral more questions about life and work Cyclops. They were like lions skulking seemed out of sorts, anxious and fear- at Wal-Mart. Their responses were all their prey, waiting for the right moment ful, like an army outmanned, about to be positive. What was going on? Were they to pounce. But I took some measure of over-run by the enemy (the customer). telling me the truth? Were things re- comfort in being out in the open, next to I finally finished my shopping, gath- ally that great at Wal-Mart? From two the parking lot, with customers continuered up my bags, and went outside to groups of people I had two completely ally coming and going. “Safety in numa pre-arranged meeting area with the different, mutually exclusive accounts of bers,” I thought. school shuttle, which was to take me life at Wal-Mart: both couldn’t be true. Twenty minutes in the hot sun passed. back to St. John’s College where I’m a It was then that I noticed the girls’ The other “assistant manager” decided first-term graduate student. eyes: they were riveted on something to go back inside, glad, I’m sure, to get It was a sizzling hot Saturday after- behind me. So I turned around to see out of the sun. But not Big Mike—there noon. Where I was waiting, there was what they were looking at—and there was no moving him. He was like a ship precious little shade to shelter oneself stood two huge (and moored at dock. from the stifling heat. Nearby were three I mean big!) security They were like lions He ahad just taken male employees on their break, smoking men, aka “assistant up position leancigarettes, and talking. I decided to ask managers.” They skulking at their prey, ing against a nearby them about life at Wal-Mart, partly to moved in closer and wall. From there waiting for the right he could scrutinize make the time go by faster, but partly out stood right next to of curiosity. me, cheek by jowl. moment to pounce. my every word and They were all very friendly, courteous, The name tag of one movement. and respectful. “How do you like work- of them read “BIG At last the van aring here at Wal-Mart,” I asked them. The MIKE.” He was about twice my size and rived. A door opened; I climbed up and man who spoke up first had nothing but several inches taller. The other “assis- took the last empty seat, by the window. disdain for his employer. “I don’t,” he tant manager” stood on Big Mike’s left. As the van started to pull away from the answered curtly. Here was a classic example of physical curb, I turned around to get one last look “Why not?” I asked. threat and intimidation—right there in at Big Mike. He hadn’t moved an inch. He was very direct and open with the open, too, in front of the entrance to He was still watching me as the van me. “Well,” he started, “as one example: Wal-Mart! But why? Was Wal-Mart con- threaded its way out of the parking lot. Although we work full-time, we’re still cealing a dark secret hitherto unpub- Like a pitbull, he just couldn’t let go. classified as part-timers, so they don’t lished? Or did they perhaps think I was I had gone to Wal-Mart to buy some have to give us benefits.” I recalled that a union organizer—Wal-Mart’s number necessaries for school and dorm, but left Wal-Mart often did that to its employ- one enemy—seeking recruits? with a first-hand understanding of the ees. I asked the other two how they felt “You can’t speak to the employees,” awful power of Corporate America—and about Wal-Mart. They also didn’t like growled Big Mike. The two young wom- feeling, too, now more than ever, how working there. en got up quickly from the bench and grave a threat it was to our historic way I remembered reading years ago that hurried back to the store. I glanced in of life. Wal-Mart had difficulty keeping its em- the men’s direction: they had left, too. One of the most disturbing aspects ployees. So I asked about the turnover That’s how you control people—fear. about all this is that in my research afrate at this store. Wal-Mart had that down to a science. So terwards, I discovered that employees in “Most employees,” one man stated, now it was just the three of us: two burly point of fact “don’t last 3 or 4 months.” Another be- giants aching for a fight—and me. do not have Continued On Pg. 10 “All hope abandon, ye who go through me” —Wal-Mart’s Employee Credo “ “ �The Gadfly 10 !"#$%#&'($)"*$+#,*-. Jensen Pratt A’18 When does the exercise of free speech go too far? Where does the administration draw this line? Due to recent events in the freshman class, we may have an answer to these imperative questions. A couple of weeks ago, a friendly freshman face by the name of George Ward decided to start a Facebook group page after realizing peers had said fascinating and sidesplitting things during tutorials. He titled the page “St. John’s Classroom Discussion Quotes” in hopes that classmates and friends would have a social media page to share respectable points discussed, joke around with each other (all in good fun), and have a place to document these quotes that were simply forgotten from class to class. Shortly after the page was created, the Assistant Dean, Katherine Heines, graciously requested to meet with Ward about said page. When asked what was said during the meeting, Ward said the following, “She asked me if I ran the page. She asked me what was on the page. I showed her what was on the page and she told me, ‘In St. John’s classrooms they (the staff ) value spontaneity, they value the ability to say things so that the conversation can move forward even if each individual thing you say isn’t very smart out of context.’ She said, ‘With that in mind, she thought that it was inappropriate to quote the things that people say because it might make people unwilling to speak.” She brought up a section of the student handbook that said that it was preserve the spontaneity of classroom against the rules even with the consent discussion and keep a good relationship of all tutors and students to film or with the school. Since this change, no record (audio) classes. We (Heines and students have posted a quote from durWard) at the time (during this meeting) ing class time. agreed that my Facebook page was safe Shortly after this, Ward was called from that rule. However the spirit of in for another conference with the that rule suggested that the very act of Assistant Dean and according to him; quoting something someone said might he was “persuaded to remove the violate that same spontaneity they are page completely” and was told, “Your worried about. Facebook page ‘She thinks it’s against She thinks it’s is a place where against the spirit gossip can be the spirit of the law; I of the law; I documented and think it’s a Facebook think it’s a Faceneeds to be taken page and you don’t have down”. Apparently book page and you don’t have amending the jack.’ jack.” page to what it is After this meeting, Ward refused to now was not sufficient for the adminisdeactivate the page but instead changed tration. the page to have alternate stipulations. This entire situation has been heavHe decided to change it because he ily deliberated both in the freshman values his affiliation with the Polity and class and with other classes. Many studoes not wish to distress students or dents believe Ward should take down the administration. He holds firm that the page as the administration has he was not doing anything erroneous justified worries. Other students think by fashioning an amusing and useful this violation of free speech is complete Facebook page, but he acknowledges bullshit. Though both sides hold valid why Heines and others in the adminispoints, where does one draw the line tration would be fearful of a page like between the letter of the law and the this. He changed the title of the page to spirit of the law? Is this a violation of “St. John’s Quotes (NOT EVER FROM free speech and personal social media? CLASSROOM DISCUSSIONS)” and Is this a disgrace to the rules we agree changed the bio of the page as well upon coming to this school? These are as posted on the page clarifying that just some of the questions students have quotes from classrooms cannot be had with no definite answers. As of posted on the page but only quotes from now, Ward has yet to decide whether or outside of class. He did this in order to not to shut down the page. ! “ Continued From Pg. 5 free speech—not at the work-place, and, incredibly, sometimes not even outside the workplace! So where is our vaunted Freedom of Speech, I want to know? Is this what our Founding Fathers envisaged when they wrote the First Amendment? What kind of country have we become—where one may, in many states, legally carry a weapon into a shopping mall, a college, or even a church—and yet be forbidden to engage in a conversation at work on one’s own break-time! Thomas Jefferson is reputed to have said, “The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance.” Clearly, as a nation, we have not been vigilant enough! It is so much easier to criticize the human rights record of other nations, as we so often do, than to ensure that in our own country our commitment to basic human rights is beyond reproach. As a nation we were once famed for our constitutional rights—rights which stirred up envy in the breasts of all those who were struggling and suffering under oppression and tyranny. This is our true history. Let us reclaim it while we still can. Let us pay the full price of Liberty which Jefferson demands, so that our nation may once again deserve, and cherish, the world-historic appellation, desired of so many: The Land of the Free. ! �The Gadfly 11 Lucretius From Outer Space On the Wild Beasts of the Universe Sebastian Barajas A’17 And now I shall address another myth native to ignorant from growing. As a house refuses to allow bricks to be inserted souls: that far away on some distant cloud-wrapped world— into the midst of its walls, so would man’s frame reject new or indeed, in our very woods—lives the cunning beast known bone and sinew. as man. Of all the invented monsters that haunt the nights of It is in the nature of the thoughtless to point at the trees, the dull-witted, man is the most feared. Indeed, it is common and to say that if these upright beings are capable of growth, so practice in the countryside to array ditches and trip-wires to must man. In ignorance, they do not realize that trees utilize topple this beast, as though he might at any moment come tot- their leaves like sails to catch the wind and thus render themtering from the trees. selves weightless, removing the strain on their lower portions, But as I shall demonstrate, man is not only a fictional beast, and allowing new material to insinuate itself into their trunks. but by nature impossible. For he is said to stand erect like a By all accounts, man has no such mechanism. tree, balanced upon his two hind legs, and that this is his natuAs to man’s cleverness, even the dumb beasts of the field ral state. Yet this is plainly absurd. For if indeed such a creature would not be not so foolish as to forget the use of their foredid exist, either it would stand transfixed in the earth with its limbs. While man’s two hind feet carried him about, his foretwo extremities dug in, after the fashion of tree roots, or this feet would by necessity remain idle by his side—for if he excreature would be bound to topple to the ground, where it tended them, they would immediately topple him. could not move itself, save by use of its forelimbs. Further, his neck and jaws—which together constitute a sort This is easily observable in the construction of tripods and of fifth limb—could never be useful to him from such a height. huts and other such artifacts: the minimum number of limbs How could he reach or clutch items between his teeth? How required for a body to be raised above the ground is three. No could he tear and chew his food? Indeed, the jaws could not cooking pot could be hung on two posts, nor roof suspended exert any of their customary forces, or else they would cause over a single wall. Even if such a configutheir master to fall. ration were carefully arranged by a subtle Further, how is man to quench his thirst hand, the first timid wind would send the from so great a height? Even if he were able It is the nature of whole contrivance earthward. And without to subsist off high-growing foliage (much the thoughtless to any mechanism for a fallen man to hoist like the giraffe) water does not pool in the himself up once more to that unnatural high air, or rain down in sufficient concenpoint at the trees, height, he would have no recourse but to tration to slake a thirst. One might suppose and to say that if remain on all fours forever. clever man has contrived to spend his life Further, locomotion would be impossible at the foot of waterfalls, drinking from the these upright befor such a creature. Four-legged creatures, waters that pour down from above, and ings are capable it is plain, proceed by lifting and moving eating of the vines and fish that spawn on one foot at a time, so as to maintain at least of growth, so must that precipice, that he might never stray three legs upon the ground in order to keep far from his only water source. Yet even man. their balance. But for such a two-legged this would be ridiculous, as the sheer force animal to walk, to lift one of his legs would of the falling water would surely topple leave only its twin upon the ground, thus him into the pool where—with only two reducing man to an effectively one-legged animal: a notion so limbs to propel him—he would surely drown. absurd that even fools must reject it. There are those, too, who say that man can use his forelimbs Even if sheer chance afforded a man one—or even two— like teeth to pick up and to manipulate the world and so conlucky strides and allowed him to maintain his ungainly height, trive fantastic machinery. Such ones live deep in delusion. For such unreliable transport would be doomed to fail. Just as we how is man to touch anything with his limbs raised so high? may play at dice and win several rounds before our fortunes For nothing of account exists above the ground. Perhaps from fail, so too must a two-legged creature eventually fall when he his height he might grip the trunks of trees, or plunder the attempts to walk. high nesting places that might otherwise lie beyond an aniFurther, even if two-legged locomotion were enabled by mal’s jaws. But how is he to mine for metals? How is he to till some unknown device of Nature, once a man fell, how could the earth and harvest its low-hanging bounty? He could not, he be righted again? Any of his kindly fellows who stooped to I say. help him to his feet would in turn cause himself to topple over Thus I have shown that man, if he existed, would quickly and be doomed to crawl upon the ground as well. die, or else revert to the four-legged lifestyle which is proper And even if a man never fell by accident, must not all Na- for every land-dwelling animal fashioned by Nature. In either ture’s creatures sleep? For unless she has exempted man from case, the nature of man necessitates its own undoing. And as this deepest necessity, he would be required to fall every night such, the only creatures we need fear are those that walk and as the soft clouds of sleep dimmed his sight. stand upon four legs. No creature that spent its time ogling Neither would man, from his young age, be capable of the high branches of trees and the stars beyond could survive growth. For from the instant of his birth, his own erect body for itself, much less threaten the livelihood of an industrious would press down upon its lower parts, thus preventing it species. ! “ �The Gadfly 12 !"#$%&'() !"#$%&'()%*+%,./0+1#(213%(1#4(!5&+6(704&+43% *+*',Jake Israel A’17 !"#$%&'()*+, !"#$% &'() -#%.#$%&'()*+/ *+,'-./#01'2/.3"14'536$+'7$88 9'() :#;.3<$8'=6>+"36'.#'?..@':'.;' A">8%B01'!"#$#%&'4'C*! DEFG'() !0"1$%&'()*+2 =.#H'I66@6#B'?6H%#1J KG'() 3&4"1%&'()*+)) L6M'2$33.8+.#'*/"++86 N'O) 3".%&'()*+)5 ()*+,')66+%#H4' =.M63'86P68'.;'+/6'??2 9'() :;'Q."'M."8B'8%@6'+.'166'Q."3' 6P6#+'.#'+/6'M66@8Q'1>/6B"864' R86$16'6<$%8'1S>$,H$BTQU H<$%8,>.<, !"##"$%&'(% )*((+,-(#.%/-0*1*2 345671#-0*1*28 "+%%% 9$-&&(*%1+.%!17(0"":%% L.M'$P$%8$V86E'A('28.16'+.'(%>+"36 If you think that jazz and bluegrass cannot be successfully fused, you are mistake. At least that is what guitarists Julian Lage and Chris “Critter” Eldridge proved on Friday night when they performed at St. John’s College in the FSK Auditorium. St. John’s was the first stop for Lage and Eldridge’s promotion tour for their newest album Avalon. During their performance, the duo managed to do much more than give the audience a sneak preview of Avalon. Lage and Eldridge covered many classic bluegrass songs such as Living in the Mississippi Valley and Through the Bottom of the Glass. In addition, some new songs were premiered. Eldridge commented that one song being premiered, titled Rygar, (named after the retro Nintendo video game) was written the day of the performance. Needless to say, the audience was gifted with both brand new material and classic songs. What really made this dynamic duo so special was their original sound. This new genre is unlike any other and was referred to by Lage and Eldridge, as “esoteric acoustic guitar songs,” which Lage stated, “Sounds kind of apologetic.” But there is certainly nothing to be sorry for. This new genre can appeal to multiple musical tastes. The jazz and bluegrass fusion is present, but there is also some pop and heavy blues present as well. What is so impressive about this new genre is how easy it is for people with different musical tastes to enjoy it. Both members of the St. John’s community and the public were incredibly impressed by the performance with or without a strong interest in jazz, bluegrass, or guitar duos. Regardless, there was something in Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge’s music that everyone was able to enjoy. Lage and Eldridge’s four song EP Close to Picture is available for purchase and their newest release Avalon will be available for purchase on October 7. ! � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The Gadfly</em> Description An account of the resource Founded in 1980, <em>The </em><em>Gadfly</em> is a weekly student publication distributed to over 600 students, faculty, and staff of the Annapolis campus.<br /><br />Click on <strong><a title="The Gadfly" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=16&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&amp;sort_dir=d">Items in the <em>The Gadfly</em> Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection. 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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/0e9808b1baaaa51fe10c81a8b9d99518.pdf aeb3b1d818aed116dac351eabcaaab2b PDF Text Text THE BADFLY !"#$%&&'() "*+,$-'-$.%/0-%1'(2 ,3/%'4"#$%&&'(5 '"$6-%$.'#-67'8-6&'(9 !"#$"%&'"(%)*"(+#,&-./(0(1)"&#.)"2&#3445 St. John’s College • 60 College Ave, Annapolis, MD 21401 • October 21, 2014 • Vol. XXXVI • Issue 5 :**+&./".%#'4;'<;/"'=+%/%/ �THE BAD FLY - PAGE 02 !"#$%&!#'&(!%)&(*$&#+,-(.(/%&#$ )0$,!1$2)"&3,$4)**#.# 56$4)**#.#$(7#&8# (&&(9)*%,:$-(';*(&<$=>?6> ,24(1.(<0*;@.-(%*14)Founded in 1772, the Badfly is an internataionl newsmagazine distributed to over 600 students, faculty, and staff of the Annapolis campus. Opinions expressed within are the sole responsibility of the author(s). The Badfly reserves the right to reject, reject, and reject submissions in any way necessary to publish a professional, informative, and thought-provoking newsmagazine. The Badfly meets on the Lower Level of the BBC, once a semester. ! "#$$ Sebastian Barajas • Editor-in-Chief Allison Tretina • Editor-in-Chief Kira Anderson • Managing Editor Jonathan Gordon • Staff Jake Israel • Staff Frederick Nesfield • Staff Jensen Pratt • Staff % &'"()*+"&(! Anthony Cole Henry Whittemore Style !"#$%&'()*++#&,+$)+-).,"#'/)01$)2-3#) 4-")*(51#(+)6"##7)8)!'19$) C urrent freshman Cutch Bassidy returned to his hometown of Bowie Maryland during the long weekend. He hoped to spread his newfound love of Ancient Greek to his high school friends. Upon returning home, Bassidy was shocked to learn that no one cared that he understood an outdated and unspoken language. “My flabber is gasted,” Bassidy stated, “I thought for sure that everyone would be so excited to learn how to translate a language that literally no one speaks anymore.” After being home for about a day, Bassidy visited his childhood friend who joined a fraternity at the University of Maryland. Bassidy’s friend, Charlie McDouche, agreed to speak with the Badfly about seeing his old friend after half of a semester at St. John’s College: “That kid is so annoying! Seriously, a few months at that liberal arts school and he won’t shut up about seeking truth and becoming a philosopher king. You want to know what the first thing he said to me was? ‘What is virtue and can it be taught?’ Who asks things like that? How about ‘hello’ or ‘how are you’?” McDouche continued by saying, “The worst part was when he started talking about Ancient Greek. He spent like 45 minutes trying to parse my fraternity’s motto. Apparently we had a word in the genitive when we should have had it in the dative— whatever that means.” When Bassidy returned to St. John’s College he was clearly distraught. When asked to comment on how he was feeling, Bassidy stated that he was “shocked at how little people care about Ancient Greek. Sure, it plays little to no part in modern affairs and has absolutely no effect on the average person’s day-to-day tasks, but it’s still kind of cool, right?” It was clear that Cutch Bassidy had learned a valuable lesson about life as a Johnnie: St. John’s students aren’t impressed by your knowledge of Ancient Greek, and neither is anyone else. ! !"#$%&'()*+(,+-'./+() ) 0#12'-#3)4/.%) 5'6/')7(/./'./+() In a surprising change of tradition, St. John’s College will no longer host a convocation ceremony for new students. Instead, incoming freshmen will be required to be initiated into a group that is being unofficially referred to as “SJC La Familia.” It is unclear as to what this initiation will entail. But it is speculated that all freshman will be “jumped in” rather than sign in at the registrar. In addition, the student handbook will be rewritten. Some changes include the addition of a new code of conduct. New rules of this code include: no set trippin’, snitches get stitches, money over everything, respect La Familia, and remember the omerta. St. John’s College also replaced their disciplinary procedures with a simple “blood in blood out” policy. Sources refused to elaborate on any details concerning this policy. In an effort to build comradeship between students, all Johnnies will be taught a unique hand signal to greet one another. This hand signal can also help Johnnies express their love for their school and show others what school they represent. Student Services has implemented a new program that will allow current students to help and be of service to their peers. One La Familia member commented that this program, referred to as the “Death Before Dishonor Program,” will allow Johnnies to “hold it down for each other” and “put a clappin’ to fools who step to La Familia.” The changes don’t stop there. Don “The Boss” Nelson, the head of SJC La Familia could not be reached for comment, but Jennifer “Loca” Sandler, a shot caller within La Familia, agreed to comment on some of the recent changes. Sandler stated that St. John’s College will no longer use the Common Application. Instead, prospective students will be required to “put in work” for La Familia to prove their loyalty. Also, SJC will no longer charge students tuition. Instead, students will pay for their schooling by “puttin’ down for La Familia.” Since these changes took effect, the amount of applicants for the college has decreased 98%. The college has also received harsh criticism from organizations such as the FBI, DEA, Interpol, and the Maryland State Department of Education. The Princeton Review is calling these changes “harsh”, “crazy”, and “illegal.” In response to the criticism, one anonymous source in the admissions office stated that “They ain’t gotta like it ‘cause the hood gone love it.” In a recent letter sent to the Badfly with no return address, Don Nelson stated, “Incoming freshmen will still receive their own lexicons. This is a school after all.” ! �THE BAD FLY - PAGE Future News 03 !"#$%&'()*+",- !"##$%&'()*&+,-.&+#)*&/#0'123445 100 Years in the future, alumnus Hussein Chang-Longshanks works as an industrial philosopher on a mining facility in the most dangerous reaches of space. What is your current job? I am currently an industrial philosopher working in the android resources department on an asteroid mine in the Rho-12 belt. I’m essentially available 27/7 (that’s asteroid time) to help our androids adjust to sentience while they extract helium-3 and other raw materials that are needed back on the colonies. How it typically works is, they schedule an appointment and then we sit in my office and talk over the nature of their souls, and in this way I try to help them find answers for themselves. Any general advice, especially for an upperclassman who is interested in this field but is not quite sure what to do? If you have the time, go camping on an asteroid. Try doing all the things you would normally do on Earth. That means showering, eating, making coffee, sleeping, exercising, etc. Try to live as normally as possible. If you survive two days and feel no hint of impending insanity, then this job might be a fit for you. How did you market yourself with a St. John’s degree? Are you kidding? The field is snatching up philosophers like crazy right now. And in case you haven’t noticed, St. John’s is the NASA Did you attend other schools after St. John’s No. Unless you count my six-month Workplace Sensitivity and of philosophy. Space Safety course at the University of Colorado. How would you characterize your field as a whole? Is it Did you know what you wanted to do while attending St. accessible to newcomers or difficult to enter? Stable or fluid? Etc. John’s? Initially, I wanted to be a doctor and run a practice like in the old While the field of industrial philosophy is very accessible to days. But due to my $51,500,000 student debt and pressure from Johnnies (and pays handsomely) this career has a high turnover simply because of—again, I cannot stress this enough—space my parents, I ended up having to get a real job. debris. Planetary atmosphere is never to be taken for granted. Did St. John’s help prepare you for work in the field? In some ways my current environment is a lot like St. John’s. What was your senior essay topic? The androids I work with are a great bunch, very inquisitive and I wrote about Gorgias. I think Socrates drew a beautiful connection eager to learn, even when they struggle with a concept like “rage.” between body and soul by likening the art of philosophy to the Sometimes I’ll read them a passage from the Iliad to try and art of doctoring: a connection that still holds true even though he illustrate what I’m talking about. While it does help on occasion, renounces it in later dialogues. And while this reading was what inspired my initial desire to become a doctor, I suppose being an sometimes it just seems to confuse them. industrial philosopher is a reasonable compromise. St. John’s also prepared me for the fact that there won’t always be an easy answer. This is something non-Johnnies don’t always What is your favorite book on the Program? understand. The guys on the engineering crew hear that I went to While Gorgias is definitely a close second, I’m going to have to St. John’s, and the first thing they ask is, “So what is virtue? And go with Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Because it’s the only program can it be taught?” And when I tell them I don’t know, they scoff at book written for children, it gets at the human condition in a me and mutter about how they’d get fired for giving an answer like way seen nowhere else at St. John’s. With Bilbo, we experience an odyssey from a childlike perspective, in a world that at first that. Poor engineers. They’re underpaid, in my opinion. seems wonderful, but gradually becomes tinged with sadness and loss. It’s especially sobering, considering that this adventure is What didn’t St. John’s prepare you for? Two words: space debris. Back on Earth, you hear a lot about space only the “doorstep” before the Lord of the Rings books (which are debris on the news alongside stories about time-travel conspiracies third, fourth, and fifth on my list, because I feel they drag a bit). and space-yetis, so you don’t think it’s a real thing. But believe me, Do you find that you lead a philosophical life? it’s real. Space can and will kill you. Of course. While sometimes I do get tired of philosophy, and wish I could just eat pizza and play a few rounds of 5D Tetris, I realize Any specific disadvantages to a St. John’s background? Space debris management training. Seriously, we need to deal with that this isn’t really escaping philosophy. I’m still thinking about this stuff before it crashes through both hulls and into the break which blocks to move, I’m still contemplating the taste of the pizza, and later I’ll wonder why I prefer pizza and 5D Tetris to room while I’m taking a shower. sitting at work helping existentially puzzled androids understand love. It is fascinating, is it not, that we can become tired of the most important questions that exist? �THE BAD FLY - PAGE Badness 04 !"#$"%"&'()"'*+,-(.+"/(-$'( !"#"$%"&'$()( *''+(",(-%."/'#(01 0"&1*(-"(23""1("4(56783"+ Aries (March 21 – April 19) I n an enlightening interview, the Badfly learned that current sophomore Zed Leppelin still doesn’t know how to sing Flood of Babylon even after singing it at least once a week for the past year and a half. Badfly reporters caught up with Mr. Leppelin and asked him why he can’t seem to remember how to sing the song. “I don’t know. I just never really paid attention during freshman chorus; I was always either half asleep or hung over. So, no, I don’t remember how to sing ‘Flood of Babel’. Sue me.” Leppelin, a member of the bass section, went on to add, “I mean, I know how to sing the first few measures of the song, but after a while I just start humming and mumbling, hoping that no one notices that I’m not actually singing.” Zed’s fellow sophomores were asked to comment on the issue. Joah Nones, a soprano, had this to say: “I don’t really know what to say. How can you not know how to sing this song? We sang it like 10 times every class. I mean, come on! The entire song is like 3 goddamn sentences. It is not that hard.” Near the end of the interview we asked Mr. Leppelin what he thought of another beloved song: “Sicut Cervus.” Zed rolled his eyes and replied, “Uh, it’s pronounced ‘circuit.’ For a reporter you’re not too bright.” " !91'+-( !-'63*(:;;( 4&"%(2&'*$%6+( <67=(>??@1'+-6A8( B6-?$'*(C$@?D'+ !""#$%%&&&'()()#*+',)-%,!*,./01,2*#134"% An unnamed freshman here at St. John’s, Annapolis, has recently come to me and confessed something so deeply entertaining and disturbing that I must share it with all those who will listen. My anonymous source, whom I will call “E. G. Glives,” came up to me while I was sitting in the Yew tree beside Humphreys. She asked, “Do ya wanna see something cool?” Being the curious soul that I am, I asked her what it was. She then produced a small, yellow chick from beneath her jacket. It had pooped in her hand, but I don’t think that she noticed. She was enamored with the small thing. “I stole it from lab,” she declared, petting it with one finger. “Named him Mufasa. I put him under a lamp in my room and turned him for a while, and then- BAM! He hatched.” She then confessed that she had always wanted to hold a chick, and this was her reason for stealing the creature and saving it from dissection. “Besides,” she chuckled, “This is the only way I could pick up chicks.” I asked her what she planned to do with the animal, but she simply shrugged. “I have no clue,” she responded. “But do any of us really know what to do with anything?” she asked in her innocent freshman daze. As she walked away, I simply stared after her, wordless, wondering how the chicken would survive, how the girl would deal with the fine that she would have to pay if anyone found out, and how in god’s name she managed to sleep with the light in her room on for 24 hours straight for 22 or so days. " You have already met your significant other. August 2nd, 2011. Don’t you remember? No? Well, then. You are destined to live a life of loneliness and heartbreak for eternity. Taurus (April 20 – May 20) Stop. Do not read further in this edition. Misfortune awaits you. Continue reading, and you will become self-aware. Aware of your clothes against your skin, your tongue in your mouth, how your breaths are coming in too slow or too fast. Self-aware. Do not continue to read. Gemini (May 21 – June 21) Remember this phrase: linear and punctual apples. You will need it. Good luck. Cancer (June 22 – July 22) Your subjective, fleeting beauty will start a war. Perhaps in yourself, perhaps in others, perhaps across the universe. Don’t worry. The outcome will be violent and disappointing regardless of who is fighting whom. Leo (July 23 – August 22) The character you most resemble is Xerxes. Learn from his mistakes. Rule yourself. Rule the world. Rule the infinite nothingness that will consume everything at the end of all. Virgo (August 21 – September 22) There is a monster under your bed. It is merely a human child. You must raise it. Accept your new task and embrace the greatest horror of all: responsibility. Libra (September 23 – October 23) Your roommate does not actually exist. Think. Think hard. How do you know your roommate is real? You don’t. Scorpio (October 24 – November 21) Moths. Sagittarius (November 22 – December 21) You feel strangely compelled to write a Gadfly article. Do it. It will be bad. Do it anyway. Embrace your mediocrity. Capricorn (December 22 – January 19) Get back to your roots. Learn about the big bang. Remember your shared nothingness with the rest of the universe. Fear the end and the beginning. Aquarius (January 20 – February 18) Do not make decisions this month. In fact, do not make decisions ever. Or… maybe do. The choice is yours. Live the dream. Or don’t. It’s up to you. Pisces (February 19 – March 20) After months of your Kant-related puns, THere is nothing hEre for you aLl; there is great Pain and Most cannot feEl it. . . but it is still tHerE, Little do People know. ! �THE BAD FLY - PAGE Literature & Fine Arts 05 !"#$%&'(#)'*+, !!"#$%& '((%)(*+,& -./$$0& 1%*.#$+,& 2+3 4%%$5 “This Isn’t Your Ancestor’s, Socrates.” !1$)6+($,& !+$/$/%(& 7+"+8#$+& 9%)(*/"& $%& 9%(,$.)*$&#&1)4:#0&;/(+&<+$:++(&1=+*$%.> -/""/#?@&A+""%(&B#""@&#(6&CD+&E)#65  “It’s just too far to walk.” !"#$ %&'()(*$ +","*-.*"/$ *'"$ 0(*1'"2$3.2"-4 !"#$$%&'()'*%"+),-.'/0'1&2"/. !1$5& F%D(G,& D%"6,& .+H+.+(6)?& $%& ,+*+6+& H.%?&)(/%(5 !F)(/%.&$#I+,&H/.,$&,D%:+.&,/(*+&H.+,D?#(& 0+#. “It wasn’t so bad,” he says. !F)(/%.&1+?/(#.&J#(G$&KL+(: As of 10:34pm, an entire Freshman Seminar has gone missing. Last seen entering Mellon Hall around 8pm. Please contact local authorities if you have information about their whereabouts. !7%(& E)/M%$+& 1/8D$+6& %(& <#*I& 9#?=),5 Reports have been received of a duel with Navy’s Water Tower. 5.647$*'"$ 5.89:/$;<=7$ 3"*/$%)<>. The Ebola crisis in the U. S. took another alarming turn Sunday with word that the first dog has caught the disease: Cady, the St. John’s campus dog. Amid growing concern, President Barack Obama cancelled a campaign trip to address the outbreak and vowed that his administration would respond in a “much more aggressive way.” By late Sunday evening, the U. S. military formed a 30-person “quick-strike team” to evacuate the dog from the college premises. The animal hospital expects to keep the dog detained for at least the next month or so. “We were not ready for this,” one of the doctors told the press. “We never imagined that Ebola could be transmitted from people to animals.” Although two of the four patients in the U.S. appear to be recovering from the disease, it is too early to determine how a dog will recover, if it all. Nationwide people have been extending their sympathies to Cady’s caretaker, a senior resident on campus, as well as her regular walker, Marybeth Beydler. When investigators asked each of them about the incident, Marybeth replied, “I am not very upset that she has Ebola. It is sad. But I am more upset that I no longer have a job.” Cady’s caretaker expressed relief, “I have been taking care of this dog long enough. It is nice to finally have some time off.” ! A !"#$#%&'#(% )*+,-'#./(0+)/1+-$ 3/$%2%$"0/%0/%*%'-*3% 304-%*5$.*3%)'*67 0+,%89%:*%;0+501%<#% =#>-1%?##>%0$%.@1%A"0/% 0/%+#$%=./$%$"-%B*)C9% @.330+,%9#.'%3-,1%D-7 *339E%6#.3)%#+-%#&%./% />-$5"%$"0/F s we all know, the Mitchell Gallery strives to bring about interesting exhibits that both tantalize and amaze students and the citizens of Annapolis. Recently, though, few students have been visiting, so the directors put their heads together and came up with a new concept that would unite everyone in interest: a collection of different art pieces that detail phalluses throughout time. I was privileged to penetrate the sacred hall of art to see what would soon be open to the public. There are some Grecian vases, elaborately painted, with phalluses across them. There are several homoerotic Roman paintings which cling to the walls like lovers at night. The climax of the exhibit comes in the form of a replication of a page from one of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks; on this page are two elaborately drawn pieces of anatomy from the celebrated artist himself. If this peaks your interest, stay tuned. The Mitchell Gallery will soon release more information about when this exhibit will be open to the public. ! !"#$%&'()&#$*(+*,*-(!#./$/'(%0( 122(34"025(1&$#62*' The Columbia Journalism Review, committed to high journalistic standards, has begun a short series on undergraduate newspapers around the country, beginning with the Gadfly. The investigative series revieals that Gadfly editors write seveneighths of their articles themselves, under assumed names. Of the one-eighth not written by the editors, most of the articles come from the Alummni Office and a tutor. The Alumni Office contributes, because it is part of their job. The tutor contributes, because he feels “pity” for the editors. “Most publications large and small are dependent on their staff to produce a majority of their work,” explained an investigative journalist for CJR. “That’s understandable. But never do the publications use student’s names for pseudonyms. That’s absurd!” According to statistics, last spring marked a dramatic decrease in Gadfly submissions. Many of the regular contributors had graduated. This left the publication in dire need of submissions. “The Gadfly has been printing since 1980,” senior editor Sylvestre Pergerzein explained. “We were left with no choice: either write the articles ourselves, or let our paper die.” The ultimate hope was in time, the student body would start to contribute. But that has yet to happen. For such a small publication, as the Gadfly, the CJR’s series is a great way to get recognition from those outside the campus. Looking at the final reports, however, the recognition may not be such a great thing. ! �THE BAD FLY - PAGE 06 Home & Garden !"#$ %&'($ '()$ *&+&+,$ -.// At St. Johns, we do things a little differently. We all have the same classes, we don’t get grades, and we think Herodotus is much funnier than any normal human being would. Our dining hall is no exception. I’ve heard my classmates wondering about rules like the proper way to dispose of dirty dishes, and where you get the trays from. As an employee of the dining hall, I’d like to clear up some of that confusion by adding more confusion, but on a deeper and more lasting spiritual level. Here are some answers to common questions I’ve heard. Q. Is there any limit to how much food we can get at the dining hall? Or is it just an all you can eat buffet? A. The dining hall doesn’t have any hard and fast rules on how much you are allowed to take. Technically, you can take as much food as you can fit inside of your body in one sitting. The average stomach holds about a liter of food, but if you were to hollow out your chest cavity by removing unnecessary organs like a kidney or an appendix, and pack the extra space around your organs with food, it would add another two to three liters of capacity. So, we’ll say about a gallon maximum. Of course, certain foods have special rules for how much you can take. Officially, you’re only allowed three scoops of ice cream per day, and on weekends only 1.5 pieces of pizza. Q. Why do we have to put our plates on trays? A. Unlike a lot of cafeterias, we don’t get trays at the door to put our food on, but we do have to use them to send our dirty dishes down to the kitchen. This is clearly part of a mystic feng shui, and as a bonus trains students to balance a superhuman number of plates and cups in their hands as they carry their food to the table. But why do we need the trays to send our dishes back? The answer to this is less obvious, but as a dishwasher I have learned that the point is to give students a place to properly sort their leftover food scraps. The procedure for this, though few people follow it, is fairly simple. After balancing your plates on top of your cup in the center of the tray, all you have to do is line any bits of food left on your plate around the edge of the tray in alphabetical order. So, a typical tray would have an apple core, crumbs of bread, egg, ketchup, lemon wedge, sauce, and a watermelon rind. Remember, peas go under ‘P’, but chickpeas go under ‘C’! Q. Where do my food scraps go? A. A lot of people who are just starting to use the dining hall aren’t sure if plates should be cleaned off before being sent down to the kitchens or not. While I appreciate people trying to be helpful, It’s important to send all food scraps down to us to collect. This is part of a little tradition we have here at St. Johns, where every night after dinner the kitchen staff sorts out food scraps and brings them to a special council of tutors, who burn them at a brazier in the woods at midnight as an offering to the Greek gods. It’s crucial for St. John’s to maintain support from Zeus Almighty by having plenty of food to offer, so please don’t waste it by throwing it away. In fact, if anyone has any hearts or livers from large mammals they want to contribute to the brazier, please send them down to us on a tray in the usual way. Q. What’s the deal with the conveyor belt breaking? A. The St. Johns dining hall makes an effort to be environmentally friendly by serving humane organic food and by using renewable energy sources whenever possible. Our conveyor belt is no exception. A miracle of German engineering, the PimmelKanu Plate-Lowerer-Downer system is fueled entirely by theta waves. A renewable, green energy source, theta waves are naturally generated by the Old Ones, planet sized spider-squid-things that, according to whispers emanating from campus trash cans on cold winter nights, will one day consume all life in our universe. Thanks to our designated portal to the Outside in Randall basement, we can power most of the appliances in the kitchen off a single ancient hell beast. We like to call her Big Betty. Anyways, sometimes the belt operator forgets the regular sacrifices Big Betty demands, and in her wrath she has a tendency to drive them mad, and then the gibbering lunatic tends to smash up important bits of the belt while screaming something about the unknowable void. You know how it goes. On an unrelated note, if anybody is looking for a work study email Mr. Canto, we have a new opening for a conveyor belt operator. Q. How many teeth? A. This is a question I get a lot, sometimes even from upperclassmen who were here last November and should really know by now. The answer is, of course, at least 97. And don’t forget, watch your hands and feet! Seriously, keep watching them. You can never be too careful! Q. Do you have any suggestions for getting more variety in the dining hall? A. We have a pretty quality dining hall here at St. Johns, but for students on the 21 meal plan it can get a little monotonous. But this lack of variety is partly just a lack of imagination on your part. Next time you’re eating in the dining hall, look around at all the things you can eat. There’s the food on your plate, sure, but you’ve already tried that. How about the food on that girl over there’s plate? With a quick pounce and a few eagle shrieks to distract her, that food too can be yours. Since she got it from the same place you did, though, it’s probably still pretty similar to what you’ve been eating. What else around you is edible? What about the plate itself? Porcelain doesn’t contain very much protein or fiber, but it does have some important vitamins and minerals and can be very filling. If you’re looking for a salad, wood from tables and chairs makes an excellent source of vegetable matter. What about meat? Look to your left. Look to your right. Look across the teeth marked remnants of your table. Unless you’re just the loneliest dork on campus, there’s a person sitting in at least one of those seats. Guess what people are made of? So, you see, it’s not the dining hall that’s restricting the variety in your diet, but your own inhibitions. I hope this little guide has been helpful and informative. There are a lot of questions I haven’t even been able to get to, but if you want to know more about your local dining hall just ask an employee next time you’re in there. Just preface your question by chanting Klaas d’kell, mistkerl oohleh: “I bind you, creature of the Deep, to obey my will and give answer to my questions!” We’ll be happy and physically bound to help. See you all at dinner! ! �THE BAD FLY - PAGE 07 Advanced Neuro-Physics !"#$%&'()*+*,%-.'/0$1&$#'2.'345167/)819$: student, wishing not to be identified, approached Badfly reporters whilst they lay slumbering in their beds, to praise their so-called “Dick-Article.” “It made my day,” said the unnamed Johnnie, “It really did. I was having a rough morning: smashing my head against the wall in Math, and then nursing my swolen head in Greek, and then spending three hours at the Health Center being treated for mild head trauma during my lunch hour. I was stumbling back to my dorm, when someone—as I recall, it was the Lord God of Abraham and the Israelites—pushed this Badfly issue into my hand. I flipped it open, and the first thing I saw was this teriffic picture of two dicks drawn by Leonardo da Vinci. And at that moment, believe it or not, I was cured—not just of the head trauma, but of my confusion about Ptolemy, Aristotle, and every other reading that’s ;5<=)$>$'?,>@'A5%=B.' /B*C$#'&*'2$'4,DE$#' *%'F)*,%#'7'!"#$%&@' !&=)&'G@5%<'/@H&)=.@ W hile previously, students were required to dispose of their cigarette butts in the ashtrays distributed every four and a half feet across campus, a new policy was recently enacted, allowing them to simply deposit their butts anywhere. “The whole campus is basically an ashtray anyway,” a highranking St. John’s official lamented, “We figure, why bother fighting it anymore?” However, this new policy has shown unexpected results. When asked why he walked three feet out of his way in order to dispose of his butt in an ashtray, senior Pratton Spewitt replied, “Because I’m stickin’ it to the man, see? The man don’t respect you if you follow his rules. If I drop a cigarette on the ground, it’s like I’m dropping a cigarette on FREEDOM!!!” The senior then proceeded to put his hand over his heart, and sing the Star-Spangled Banner at the top of his voice. This, in turn has provided another difficulty for the College, which had hoped to pawn the campus ashtrays for in excess $12 each. “We came in there ready to take the things out,” reports Timothy “Torque” Jenkins of Building & Grounds, “There were a bunch of students standing holding hands around the ashtrays singing Cumbaya or some sh*t. Like they were saving a tree.” Whether or not the ashtrays should be forcibly removed has become a controversial issue. Some St. John’s officials argue that the $12 per ashtray could mean the critical difference between another year of Socrates and Chaucer, and bankruptcy for the College. Others point to the new campus pride and the clean walkways, and argue that we are now better-off. However this situation resolves itself, campus smoking culture will never be the same. ! ever given me trouble. ‘Of course,’ I said to myself, ‘Uniform circular motion. I get it. And that which is potentially totally is acted on by what is actually, such that the former and the latter are the same in kind. It all makes sense now. Thanks, Aristotle!’ Of course, people told me I couldn’t have seen the dicks, since this issue hadn’t come out yet. “But I know that this was a sign.” As to what the sign meant, the student would only say, “Read the Old Testament. You’ll figure it out.” In the meantime, the student donated all of his personal wealth—totalling $418.33—to the Badfly for the express purpose of including phallic and otherwise dick-related materials in future issues. The Badfly accepted, with the intention of utilizing the funds for the purchase of 35 pizza combo meals, including cheesey breadsticks and drinks. ! Q: If Thrasymachus had beat up Socrates and made him agree to his definition of Justice, would Thrasymachus be just? ! !"##$%#& A !"#$$%&$'()*+,#-$$.) /0%,,'1)21)3'%$%145) 3216#7'7)8-1. Recently, some vagabond wrote graffiti on the ceiling of Humphrey’s common room. It reads, simply, “Gullible.” Longtime Humphrey’s resident, Cat Baldwin, mentioned this to me, in all earnesty, nearly crying with laughter. She chased me down, her eyes brimming with hysteric tears, and said, “Gullible. It’s written on the ceiling.” She took me by the hand and led me to the Humphrey’s common room. Indeed, upon the ceiling, upon the mold-ridden ceiling, it is written in pencil, and very shakily so. So thank you, Cat Baldwin. Thank you for your service to the community. ! �THE BAD FLY - PAGE 08 !"#$%&'"#&()#!"%&'" Be aware. Be very aware. Quick, look to your left! Nope, that wasn’t fast enough. You need to work on your neck turning skills. You’ll need them this week. There’s something out there. Everyone said they weren’t real, couldn’t be real. But they are. And they’re here. They could be right behind you. Seriously, you need to do that faster. Do some neck exercises. They could be waiting in your closet. Well, not your closet, you’ve got too much shit in there. But someone’s closet. The asexuals. They’re coming for you. Well, we aren’t sure what they’re coming for, but they’re being awfully quiet and mysterious about it, so they’ve got to be up to something. And what’s with the not liking sex? That’s suspicious. Have you ever seen a dick? Everybody likes those. So you’ve got to be aware. Train yourself, watch the shadows. Practice looking behind you quickly in class, to see if you can catch one out of the corner of your eye. They’re fast. With all the time they’ve saved not fucking people, they have trained their bodies and minds, honed their skills until they can fade seamlessly into the night. You won’t even see them until they’re upon you, knives drawn. Or, you know, some less phallic weapon. A garrote maybe? Be ready. Be aware of the asexuals. ! !"#$%&'()*+,-'./+),+0' 12345,'6+'(,"7%89'!/3:/); Metaphysical Botany !"#$%&"'(")"%*"$' +,)-.%,/'0&12",& ! Incoming freshman leaves St. John’s within two weeks. “The website explicitely stated that they have electives,” he explained. “Then, I get here and realize that ‘electives’ really meant studying Wealth of Nations for over a month. I was disappointed.” The student is now enrolled at University of Maryland, studying graphic design. ! SOPHOMORE MUSIC CLASS STUDIES LADY GAGA Sophomores will be “taking a break” from the St. Matthew’s Passion, an anonymous tutor told the Badfly. “Every year we struggle to find a composer who surpasses Bach. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Badfly Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/92dbec08935779b702748c520e84973b.pdf 6f93878091513aaa8f2a64d0d4451587 PDF Text Text !"# $%&'() !"#$%&'()*'+,%$,-.'/'01 23&'24"&'56)%,4&4'/'07 8.9&:,,;'.#$'8.9.$&<'/'0=' >?"$&#?'@,AAB??&&',#'C#<?4"9?B,#'/'0D !"#$%&'()!$*&++,-,$.$/0$*&++,-,$12,3$1((14&+5!3$67$89:09$.$(&2#$0:3$809:$.$2&+#$;;;25$.$5!!<,$0/ *+,-,./0.&123451.%561748 �The Gadfly 02 The student newspaper of St. John’s College 60 College Avenue Annapolis, Maryland 21401 sjca.gadfly@gmail.com www.issuu.com/sjcgadfly www.facebook.com/sjcagadfly Founded in 1980, the Gadfly is the student newsmagazine distributed to over 600 students, faculty, and staff of the Annapolis campus. Opinions expressed within are the sole responsibility of the author(s). The Gadfly reserves the right to accept, reject, and edit submissions in any way necessary to publish a professional, informative, and thought-provoking newsmagazine. The Gadfly meets on the Lower Level of the BBC every Sunday at 7pm. Articles should be submitted by Friday at 11:59 PM to sjca.gadfly@gmail.com. Staff Sebastian Barajas • Editor-in-Chief Allison Tretina • Editor-in-Chief Kira Anderson • Staff Jonathan Gordon • Staff Jake Israel • Staff Frederick Nesfield • Staff Jensen Pratt • Staff Lyra Muerer • Illustrator Contributors John Himes Henry Hirsch Jerry Januszewki Alina Myers Ripley Stroud !"#$%&'()*'+,%$,-. Allison Tretina A’15 The Republic of Moldova is making its first steps to reduce its dependence on Russia. As of late August, a new gas interconnector pipeline was installed between eastern Romanian city Iasi and west Moldovan district Ungheni. Victoria Bucatru, a Moldovan expert of foreign policy, told the press, “The pipeline will allow Moldova to open an alternative supply route and thus avoid any new crisis such as in 2009, when [Russia’s] Gazprom cut off natural gas supplies to many European countries due to its disagreements with Ukraine.” Previous to the installation, Moldova imported all of its gas exclusively from Russia. The 43 km (27 miles) Iasi-Ungheni pipeline will supply 5 percent of Moldova’s gas needs, according to the Balkan Insight reports. 5 percent is a start, but a very small one. If Russia were to cut off their gas supply this winter, Moldova would be in a gridlock. It is a high possibility that Russia will leave Moldova in the cold. Reuters pointed out, “Moldova’s pro-Western prime minister, Iurie Leancă, signed up to closer ties with the EU earlier this year, defying warnings from Russia and joining ex-Soviet peers Ukraine and Georgia in pulling away from Moscow.” In other words, the deliberate act of installing the pipeline will make it more likely that Russia will retaliate. This wouldn’t be the first time this could happen, either. “Russian gas flows to Ukraine have been halted three times in the past decade due to price disputes,” Reuters explained, “and flows to the EU were disrupted in 2006 and 2009 after Ukraine took some of the gas intended for the block to meet its own winter demand.” Looking at Russia’s track record, it is surprising that Moldova, and the other Eastern European countries, have not acted sooner. Emily Stromquist, a Eurasian analyst in London, told Bloomberg, “Until recently the relations with Russia have generally been good, so perhaps there was no feeling of urgency to build quickly.” But three shortages in ten years are not “generally good.” It is never good for a country to be entirely dependent on another country for its energy needs. Had Moldova immediately invested in alternative gas supplies after their third gas shortage in 2009, Moldova may have been ready, or at least more ready, this winter for another possible gas shortage. If the tension between Moscow and Kiev does not subside, and if the OAO Gazprom fails to restart supplying natural gas to its western neighbors, then Moldova better bundle up. It is going to be a cold winter. !! Making Awkward Eye Contact In Seminar Sebastian Barajas A’17 �The Gadfly !"#$%&'()*+",- 03 !"#$%&'(#)%*+,- As an architect, John Bush uses his years of study at St. John’s at his mighty drafting table, where he creates the buildings of tomorrow. What is your current job? I am a staff architect for Virginia Tech. I work in the Office of University Planning, a division of Facilities in the Administrative Services part of the university. We plan for future growth in terms of land use, and we plan for new buildings including siting and programming. In addition, we review building design for aesthetic coordination with campus design guidelines and make submittals to the Board of Visitors and other state agencies like the department of Historic Resources and the Art and Architecture Review Board. I also assist with LEED submittals to the USGBC as Virginia state buildings are mandated by law to be rated LEED silver or higher. In addition, I serve as an official for the Town of Blacksburg. I was elected for my second term in November of 2011. Did you attend other schools after St. John’s? Yes, I attended Virginia Tech from 1988-1992 in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning and received a Masters in Architecture. Did you know what you wanted to do while attending St. John’s? No, I did not. I worked on construction crews during the summers in Santa Fe and, when I moved back east after graduating I continued to work in the housing market as a frame and trim carpenter. After 4 years of this, I decided to pursue a graduate degree and chose Architecture as the profession and field in which to study. It turned out to be a good choice and one I was well suited for. Did St. John’s help prepare you for work in the field? Yes, I believe it did prepare me well for a career in architecture. I was admitted to the Virginia Tech 3 1/2 year graduate program solely on the basis of my St. John’s degree by the then-head of the graduate program. Having studied the “Great Books” and being grounded in western thought gave me a clear advantage in pursuing an education in the visual arts that concentrated on technological and aesthetic preparation with a background in philosophy and math. Architecture is largely a self-motivated discipline and a Johnnie background is good in that regard. You get out of it what you put into it, and the field is very large so there are many paths to take and many interests to pursue. What didn’t St. John’s prepare you for? Right out of school in 1984 it was difficult to find meaningful work and employment. I went back to the construction trades in order to provide for myself and my new family. In some ways, SJC doesn’t prepare you for so called “realworld” situations and for immediate employment that has an immediate relationship to the 4 years reading and discussing the Great Books. You think perhaps naively that people and prospective employers would care about that experience, and when largely they do not, that can be difficult to accept, especially if you need a job as I did. You have to let all that go and realize that the benefits of this kind of education are much longer lasting and far reaching than what might be selfevident as a young twenty-something. But there are people who know about the Program and do appreciate it. Any specific disadvantages to a St. John’s background? This is hard for me to say. I think a broad and general education is best especially for young people. There is plenty of time to learn a specific skill in technology or a trade and to narrow ones choices in graduate school. I have always preferred to be a generalist and fortunately architecture is also a generalist discipline. After SJC, all the tools are there for inquiry at all levels and critical reading and thinking skills can lead in almost any direction professionally. Can you describe a general track someone from St. John’s might take to get into a career in this field? The typical start to becoming a licensed architect is to get a degree from an accredited 5 year undergraduate program or from a 3 ½ year graduate program. The Virginia Tech 3 ½ year Master’s program is unique in the sense that it allows graduate students that have undergraduate degrees in other fields beside architecture join a program that results in a first professional master’s degree. (Some undergraduate architecture students go on to receive a master’s degree as well, but this is not the traditional track.) Most architecture graduates follow school with an internship in an architect’s office learning the rigors of preparing documents for bid that result in buildings getting built. Usually three years of internship with the proper documentation allows one to begin to sit for the Architecture Registration Exam. This exam is actually a series of nine exams which have to be completed in an additional three year window. Once all the exams have been passed one becomes licensed to practice architecture in that particular state. With additional paperwork to the appropriate organizations one can receive reciprocal licenses to practice in other states. Some architecture graduates follow different paths and some of these become licensed and some do not, taking their new way of thinking and experiencing the world in Continued On Pg. 4 �04 Continued From The Gadfly Pg. 3 many varied approaches and opportunities. An education in architecture definitely changes how one sees things. Any general advice, especially for an upperclassman who is interested in this field but is not quite sure what to do? Maybe the best thing to do is to start reading some architecture classics and perhaps keep a notebook and start sketching what you see around you and begin to train yourself to think with your eyes and your pen. If these activities are enjoyable to you maybe look at some firms in your area, maybe your hometown and see if you can intern a summer with them to see how an office runs and to see if the work continues to be interesting. Or perhaps begin working as I did in the construction trades. There are other non-traditional ways of entering the field, like the building trades or in the learning of the properties of different materials, like wood, metal or plastics. Some of the great modernists like Jorn Utzon and Mies Van der Rohe had prior training in boat building and masonry. Computer technology now plays a large role in the traditional architecture office and so interests in communication systems and a technological programs and GIS could also be helpful. Generally though I would say you have to appreciate material and the techne of changing matter into works of art and perhaps even beauty. How did you market yourself with a St. John’s degree? In the beginning it was hard if not impossible to market the SJC degree. It did not immediately help me find work. Where it did come into play is when I applied to graduate school and the professor in charge of Virginia Tech’s graduate program in Architecture at the time knew of St. John’s College and that alone got me an interview and even though I did not have a portfolio of work to show (which is standard in art and architecture programs). I was admitted solely on the basis of my SJC Bachelor’s degree. After Architecture school when I was applying again for an internship the master’s degree along with the SJC degree was very beneficial. 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Chatwin, an agnostic, writes, “No are more apt for describing the human experience. Personal great transcendental faith has ever been born of an Age of insight and awareness often have the same gradual, unfoldReason. Civilization is its own religion.” Chatwin proposes, ing nature that mirrors the action of putting one foot in front however, that the estrangement of physical movement from of the other. Moment to moment we are keenly conscious spiritual growth in civilization contributes to a stagnation about the desire to be somewhere else, to know what we don’t we seek to recapture in focused migrations. The Muslim Hajj know, or to acquire something still outside of our grasp. Far and other pilgrimages endeavor to balance the loss of human from being trite, life as a journey resonates with meaning and movement inherent to civilization. is useful for facing life’s difficulties. Humans respond to the Chatwin came of age in the 1960s. In many ways he emcall for a better life by moving from point A to point B, physibodied the daring and progressive lifestyle that typified those cally, mentally, or spiritually. times. But he was primarily a freethinking intellectual who The impulse to physically wander is inherdidn’t hesitate to call out the posers among ited from our ancient vegetarian ancestors, his contemporaries. Chatwin disdained the and the need to settle down in a base, cave, recreational drug use associated with that den, or tribal territory is characteristic of carfreethinking age, regarding it not as counternivores. So says the legendary explorer Bruce cultural but as counterfeit and still bound by Chatwin in his intriguing collection of essays, middle-class material values. This didn’t enThe Anatomy of Restlessness. The omnivorous dear him to “the cool kids” of his time. He saw design of our teeth and the versatile structure his own generation as profoundly ignorant of of the human body hint at the acceptability of the worth of travel and exploration as purposeboth lifestyles: roaming the land in search of ful activities, ways to test one’s imagination sustenance or staying put in one place to conand develop skills, not as excuses for idlestruct agreeable ways to cook and eat. Even ness and indulgence. But since humans must for many today, nothing says home like a great journey, it didn’t surprise him that people were kitchen and dinner table. susceptible to seeking inferior journeys of the So we have competing desires: the urge to chemical kind. !"#$%&'(%)(*+,$-+,,"+,,(.'(/012+( travel, to move, to be curious, as well as the Chatwin disrupted his society and spurred 34#$56" 7+"816"(/%%9,:(;<<= longing to nest and rest. The moment we anhis own growth by moving his body. He beswer the call to explore we’ve also sown seeds lieved walking was best because, taking his cue for yearning for home. There’s beauty in that tension. To from nature, the best things in life are accomplished slowly wander without a literal or figurative sense of home is to be and deliberately. Writing in 1970 he said, “All our activities are lost, to be pushed without the stabilizing pull. The explorer linked to the idea of journeys.... our brains have an informamay physically go in one direction, but psychologically he tion system giving us our orders for the road, and that here desires a round trip; to come back to his familiar self, but with lie the mainsprings of our restlessness. At an early stage man something new added. There is a heroic departure from the found that he could spill out all this information in one go, by norm and a return, hopefully with new gifts to offer, leading tampering with the chemistry of the brain. He could fly off on to a new and better normal. an illusory journey or an imaginary ascent.... but true wanderHistorically, Chatwin reports, the nomad doesn’t wander ers rarely fell prey to this illusion. Drugs are for people who aimlessly, but follows known paths of migration; the geohave forgotten how to walk.” graphic familiarity perhaps compensating for the absence of The horizon of the inner journey is where Chatwin ultia fixed address. You might say the nomad is uncivilized, if we mately set his sights. His concept of adventure had little to accept Chatwin’s definition of civilized as “living in cities.” do with adrenaline-pumping risks or gawking at the exotic, The true nomad or explorer has something of a disruptive inthough he did take risks and he did witness the exotic. His fluence on civil society. His path goes outside the boundaries, concept of adventure involved responding to restlessness but his motives are constructive. His movement seeks proviwithout surrender to rootlessness. There was boldness and sion or insight or economic gain, not escape. maybe even impulsivity to his adventures. He stepped outside Chatwin cites Herodotus, himself an exile and a traveler of his known territory but not outside of his consciousness. with boundless curiosity. In The History Book IV we find His first and perhaps best-known book, In Patagonia, came a fascinating description of the advantages of nomadic life. about because of a conversation with an elderly friend. The Facing military aggression by the Persian King Darius, the friend said, “I’m too old to go to Patagonia now. Please go nomadic Scythians went on the move. But what appeared for me!” Chatwin answered the call and left immediately, as retreat to Darius was nothing of the sort. The Scythians famously sending this succinct message of resignation to his merely acted in accord with their accustomed lifestyle. In employer: “Have gone to Patagonia.” frustration, Darius sent a message to the Scythian King: “Why If life is a journey then to sojourn well we must be in it for do you always run away?” The Scythian King replied, “I have the long term and be willing to go beyond known territory. never fled for fear of any man, nor do I now flee from you. There will be long stretches where nothing seems to be hapIf you really want a fight, find the graves of our fathers and pening. The true explorer is patient and makes peace with then you’ll see whether we’ll fight. As for your boast that you the step-by-step nature of the process. I admire the abandon are my master, go and cry.” Soon enough Darius was the one with which Bruce Chatwin accepted those facts. retreating. Do you desire to be a lifelong learner? Think of learning as Nomadic traditions are highly spiritual; having given rise a long walk. Better yet, take a long walk and explore. You get to the great world religions. Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Buddha, to know things better when they go by slow. ! �The Gadfly 06 !"#$%&&'( ")*(!"#"*$+ Ripley Stroud A’17 ! While letting my mind rot and be in- to tell people how they ought to think undated with carefully chosen details of of you. I would love to believe that that other people’s lives, I happened upon attractive young man was as deep as his my “About Me” section of Facebook. selected Morrissey lyric would suggest, In a fit of self-obsessed examination, I but the assumption would be based on scrolled through potential edits (how practically nothing. Social media’s request for you to labest can I portray myself?) before noticing a new field—an option to select your bel things beyond the basic attributes of your being and its ability to present you own personal pronoun. I certainly appreciate and understand however you may like demonstrates the the advantages this offers. It must be Western world’s erotic fascination with helpful to provide a clear-cut request consumerism and marketing. Plenty of for the terms that you feel are most ac- citizens find issue with corporations curate for you. It is amazing that society being treated as people, but it seems to has reached a far enough point to accept me that people feeling the need to treat themselves the queer comlike corporamunity, so far I would love to believe tions is what’s that the largest truly sickensocial network that that attractive ing. in the world beyoung man was as I am not a gins to offer asdeep as his selected Luddite by sistance. any means; I That is all Morrissey lyric would adore techwell and good, suggest, but the asnology’s place but it got me sumption would be in my life and thinking about could not realthe section in based on practically ly imagine my general. It is nothing. world without one that I have it. I disagree always strugwith the claim gled with, to be sure. How can one—in a text box with that the modern age does not offer any a word limit—possibly explain them- advantages, but I could not honestly say selves to the public accurately and effi- that there are not numerous, serious efciently, let alone ethically? I typically re- fects that it has on how we interact with frain from snarky comments, and leave one another today. Perhaps this is why there’s been a reit at that, as I think there is something reprehensible about demanding that cent flurry of deactivations from Facebook. I have yet to delete mine. I have people see you a certain way. Unfortunately, it seems that with the too many excuses: I want to keep in conadvent of the Internet in our social in- tact with old friends; to look at pictures teractions comes the ability and desire of Morrissey Boy; to take pride in my to make said demand. It’s standard and sporadic status updates; and gain false appropriate to list your gender, your affirmation in the number of letharginame, your preferred personal pro- cally-given thumbs-ups. But those of sounder mind and greatnoun. These are basic elements of how you interact with your social circles, er reason than I are taking some sort of so it seems to follow that it should be a stand, and that gives me hope for my part of social media. It starts to become generation’s reception of the doublea problem, though, when you are asked edged sword that is social media. ! “ Where’s Waldo? Alina Myers A’17 The doorbell rings and Waldo swirls the last of the Dalwhinnie in the bottom of his scotch glass around before tossing it back and setting it down on the rich mahogany table, which was heavily stained from his inability to locate a coaster. He straightens out his shirt, and grabs his hat, screwing on his friendliest smile like a rusty bolt. Fans rarely stopped by these days. His books simply could not compete with iPods and Xboxes, and he hadn’t had any press since the media gulag two years ago that publicly vivisected his relationship with Carmen.  He didn’t want to answer the door. People came to call less frequently with each passing year. It was quite well-known that Waldo wasn’t too keen on being found these days. He wanted to be left alone. He had no desire to sign autographs or take pictures. He was perfectly content with his life of solitude. And yet, he found himself in the foyer, just a few short feet away from the front door. He starts when the bell rings again. Abruptly, Waldo heads back to his recliner, shaking his head, determined to ignore the chime of the doorbell as it echoes through the forlorn apartment. Eager to return to Judge Judy, he bangs his shin into one of the odd assortment of wooden chairs clustered around his dining table. Waldo swears under his breath, rubbing his leg. He stands back up abruptly, his eyes riveted to the maroon cardigan draped over the chair. Closing his eyes, he fights to exorcise the scent of vanilla with just a hint of raspberry permeating his senses. It was her sweater. The only sign remaining in the dark apartment that indicated she was ever there at all. He really should throw it out.  He will.  Later. The doorbell rings again, pulling him out of this reverie. He glances back at the door and pushes his glasses further up the bridge of his nose, squinting in the gloom. 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JoHN's COLLEGE• 60 COLLEGE AVE, ANNAPOLIS, MD 21401 •Nov. 18, 2014 • VoL. XXXVI • IssuE 07 I Photo by Sebastian Barajas ' �02 THE GADFLY THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE 60 COLLEGE AVENUE ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 21401 The Power of "The Works" Nancy Calabrese Nurse Practitioner SJCA.GADFLY@GMAIL.COM WWW.ISSUU.COM/SJCGADFLY WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/SJCAGADFLY Founded in 1980, the Gadfly is the student newsmagazine distributed to over 600 students, faculty, and staff of the Annapolis campus. Opinions expressed within are the sole responsibility of the author(s). The Gadfly reserves the right to accept, reject, and edit submissions in any way necessary to publish a professional, informative, and thought-provoking newsmagazine. The Gadfly meets on the Lower Level of the BBC every Sunday at 7pm. Articles should be submitted by Friday at ll:59 PM to sjca.gadfly@gmail.com. Having worked at St. John's College for almost 14 years I have seen first-hand the influence of the studied works on the students' lives. As an example I offer the following: During the past summer while collecting mail at the mail room I happen to notice a Dominican Priest sitting at a computer in the adjacent room. I approached him and asked if he was indeed a Dominican priest (he expressed surprise that I recognized the habit) and we began talking. He told me that he had been a Graduate Institute student and at that time had no particular interest in formalized religion per se. HOWEVER the works of Saints Thomas Aquinas and Augustine (as part of the curriculum) particularly "spoke to him" and thus he pursued the study of Catholicism which lead to entering the seminary. He was ordained a Dominican priest in California May 2014 and was encouraged by his order to return to the place of inspiration, St. John's College. During his visit he was able to meet with some tutors and officiate at a Mass at St. Mary's Parish. Suffice it to say "The Works" continue to influence and inspire. + STAFF Sebastian Barajas • Editor-in-Chief Allison Tretina• Editor-in-Chief Kira Anderson • Staff Jonathan Gordon • Staff Jake Israel • Staff Frederick Nesfield • Staff Jensen Pratt• Staff Lyra Meurer • Illustrator Q: Do we really live in fish-heaven?+ contributed to our most recent issue. Both articles, one titled "Facebook and Facades" the other titled "Where's Waldo," went through the same editing process that every article goes through before being printed. First, the article is sent to a copy editor who reviews the piece for spelling and grammatical errors. Before the entire issue is printed, the Gadfly staff as a whole reviews every piece in order to catch any mistakes the first editor may have missed. Finally, the edited issue is read by Taylor Waters before being printed and distributed to the student community. This system is designed for fact-checking and copyediting, so the fact that two writers had the styles of their articles altered goes against the purpose of the editing process. The article "Facebook and Facades" had a sentence that read "I typically resign myself to implying snarky contradictions, and leave it at that" but it was changed to "I typically refrain from Eva Brann Tutor A third delight is stumbling on familI would like our community to know iar items. At one point, Zafar mentions about a book whose 500 pages I drank up, "a lovely little volume called What is so to speak, in one week because it seemed Mathematics." It is Courant and Robwritten for us Johnnies. The novel lives bins' classic by which, in the old days, our under the aegis of Godel's Incompleteness seniors (and myself) were introduced to Theorem, which our seniors study. Here it the calculus. (It must be beloved of East is given a wisdom-interpretation: There are Asians, because it also plays a role in things we feel to be indefeasibly true but Vikram Seth's marvelous novel, A Suitcannot know to be so. Much of the book is able Boy.) Another, human, item is Emily, taken up by an ongoing conversation bethe entirely ungiving upper-class Engtween the Pakistani-American narrator and lishwoman that Zafar falls in love with, his Bangladeshi friend Zafar. Half a thoupast hope and past despair. She is the sand pages of philosophico-personal talk twentieth century avatar of a figure well might seem terminally boring. It's in fact enknown to Juniors, Rosamond Viney of tirely engrossing, like a really good seminar Middlemarch, who is totally centered on a on a deep text in which opinions emerge that self which is a big null and who calculates seem just wrong-headed to me (as in fact do every thing and thinks of nobody. many of the two protagonist's) - still, it's a In the Light is, for all its delights, a common text and a shared enterprise and so In the Light of What novel full of tragedy, the tragedies of time well spent. We Know ethnic rootlessness, of personal beingConversation isn't all there is; the story by Bruce Chatwin out-of-kilter, of mismatched pairings. But intensifies to a really explosive denouement. it has one redeeming moment, to me the All the discussion and action is underwrithigh point. It occurs late in the novel, and by the time you ten by the author's stupendously detailed acquaintance with reach it, you'll have forgotten that I gave it away; anyhow, I big subjects, ranging from high-stakes trading to East Asian can't contain myself. Zafar is history, with a lot of observant visiting Josie, the little daughter local knowledge thrown in. A t's in fact entirely engrossing, of a friend. She is obsessed with reader who likes learning how giraffes, and he has brought her alien types live will love this like a really good seminar on a a toy giraffe. "When she book. deep text in which opinions emerge the toy, this child of fourtook said, Another source of pleasure that seem just wrong-headed to with her soft brown eyes lookis Rahman's deft English. In ing straight into mine and in a my reading experience the me ... voice containing a tiny element contemporary sources of of surprise that almost broke my lovely writing are American heart, You thinked of me." ''You thinked of me" is, I think, the mid-western home-grown and Anglo-Asian emigrant writers - because they're both so staunchly unaffected by the loose, most poignant sentence in a very appealing book. deteriorated lingo of now-speak. + Eva Brann Nancy Calabrese Henry Hirsch Gadfly who felt that the Gadfly editors altered the articles that they In. t:he Light: o£What: We Kn.ow I '' CONTRIBUTORS From the Editors: by two writers Last week, the staff was approached 03 THE GADFLY Cranberry Marsh01allow Crea01 Salad snarky contradictions." The article titled" Where's Waldo?" had the sentence "where in the world was she?" removed from the end of a joke that implied that Waldo was in a relationship with Carmen Sandiego. Because of these concerns, the Gadfly staff is reviewing the editing process in order to assure that every article that gets printed is made up of the writer's own words and style rather than the editors'. The Gadfly staff believes in preserving each writer's own style and word choice in order to accurately portray their thoughts, ideas, and opinions. Any deterioration from this does not fulfill the Gadfly's purpose. The Gadfly staff would like to extend its apologies to the polity and specifically to the two writers whose articles were taken out of their original context. If you are interested in submitting to the Gadfly, and would like to see our changes before we go to print, please tell us this explicitly, and give us at least a week before the deadline so that we can get it back to you. Thank you for your support -The Gadfly Pam Anderson Johnnie Mom 1 lb. fresh or frozen cranberries, ground 1 (20 oz.) can crushed pineapple, drained 1 c. sugar 1 (10 112 oz.) bag mini marshmallows 2 c . heavy cream, whipped Mix together cranberries, pineapple, and sugar in a large bowl. Fold marshmallows into whipped cream. Fold whipped cream mixture into cranberry mixture. Chill until serving time. If you prepare recipe a day or two ahead, chill cream and cranberry mixtures separately. Fold together before serving. Makes 10 cups or 20 (1/2-cup) servings. Photo from http://www.heatherlikesfood.com/ cranberry-ft uff-salad-thanksgi ving-bli tz-9/ �04 UPCOMING EVENTS Tuesday 11/18 Kunai Netball 4PM Fencing 4PM Wednesday 11/19 St. John's Chorus, Great Hall 7PM Storyteller's Guild 9PM Friday 11/20 Kunai Netball 4PM Fencing 6PM Lecture: "On Classical Liberalism and the 'Liberal' Point of View," by Roberto SalinasLeon 8PM Saturday 11/21 Soccer S vs. H, 1:30 PM Sunday 11/22 Masquerade Waltz Party, McDowell Hall 9PM If you would like to see your event on the weekly schedule, please email sjca.gad:fly@ gmail.com. THE GADFLY SCI: First Semester Senior Seminar Henry Hirsch A'15 On Thursday, October 30th, the SCI seminar readings might contribute to held a forum at 11:45 in the Private Din- this by changing the behavior of both ing Hall to discuss the first semester of students and tutors. In addition, several senior seminar. Do the ideas presented students were upset by the way in which in the readings cohere? In what ways their tutors approached the Marx readcould the first semester of senior semi- ings. They felt that theirs tutors didn't nar be improved? take Marx's ideas seriously and made no Many of the seniors who were present attempt to hide their personal opinions at the forum felt that the Hegel readings from their students. This negatively imdid not form a cohesive whole. Notably, pacted their seminars. Hegel's preface to the Phenomenology of Another senior claimed that his semiSpirit is not included in the reading list. nar had suffered because his classmates Much of this book is currently skipped, were not viewing the readings historiand the sections that are read are scat- cally. This raised the question of whethtered throughout. 200 pages are cur- er some ?books are inherently great in rently skipped between the second-to- themselves, or whether the greatness of last reading and the last reading. In the texts is due to their historical relation latter, the final two pages of the entire to other works. Most of the students book seem to be shoehorned in. present at the forum believed that all of One student complained that while the texts that we read can be viewed as the last reading in having great worth in the Critique of Pure their own right. NevReason provided an ertheless, it is certainly ' ' N:arly all of the opportunity to rebeneficial to relate the seniors present flect upon the book expressed dissatisfaction thoughts of different as a whole, the last authors to one another. with the quality of their reading in the PheMost of the seniors seminars. nomenology of Spirit in attendance at the did not. The stuforum felt that many dents felt that in of the first semester general the Hegel readings are not struc- senior seminar readings are too long, tured as well as the Kant readings. There especially the Marx readings. Some stuseems to be a parallel between the struc- dents suggested shortening the length of ture of the Hegel readings in senior year individual seminar readings by stretchand the structure of the Hume readings ing out the reading schedule to include in junior year. Specific sections of Hume seminars during senior essay writing peare read so that Kant can later respond riod. While it might be beneficial for seto those particular ideas. In the same niors to have this structure during writway, we seem to read particular sections ing period, such a proposition could also of Hegel so that Marx, Kierkegaard, and be problematic. If the first semester seNietzche can later respond to those par- nior seminar readings are meant to form ticular ideas of his. a cohesive whole, it would be detrimenSome students suggested having a tal for the readings in first semester to guide on how to read Hegel available be separated from the readings during that could be optional reading for stu- writing period by more than two months dents. One student advocated having a of preceptorial, Thanksgiving break, and vocabulary list of Hegel's terminology Christmas break. The forum concluded that the first distributed to seniors. Another student noted that her tutors had encouraged semester of senior seminar suffers from her seminar to read the guide to Hegel organizational issues. The ideas presentin the back of the Miller translation of ed in the first semester readings cohere. the Phenomenology of Spirit along with However, the individual reading assignments might benefit from restructuring. the assigned seminar readings. Nearly all of the seniors present ex- The students also concluded that semipressed dissatisfaction with the quality nars would be benefited if both tutors of their seminars. It was suggested that and students reevaluated the manner in the nature of the first semester senior which they approach these texts. + � 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 Vol. 36 #7 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/38c20d5ff2fb18aa704c3650f232b13f.pdf 946b79afa114a5e2ed0ab36d7d6a1104 PDF Text Text Bosnia Responds to Paris Attack • 02 Parker Quartet Reviewed • 03 An Intramural Round-Up • 06 An Unsolved Geometry Problem • 08 ST. JoHN's COLLEGE• 60 COLLEGE AvE, ANNAPOLIS, MD 21401 •JAN. 13, 2014 • VoL. XXXVI • IssuE 08 ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 131 1 1 11696r~ 1 ~101165nr1 1 11193621 1 1 1 1 1 1 1i1· 1i1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 �- - - 02 ------ THE GADFLY THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE 60 COLLEGE AVENUE 21401 ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND Terror in Bosnia Allison Tretina A'16 03 THE GADFLY Concert Review: The Parker Quartet Featuring Pianist Shai Wosner SJCA.GADFLY@GMAIL.COM WWW.ISSUU.COM/SJCGADFLY WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/SJCAGADFLY Founded in 1980, the Gadfly is the student newsmagazine distributed to over 600 students, faculty, and staff of the Annapolis campus. Opinions expressed within are the sole responsibility of the author(s). The Gadfly reserves the right to accept, reject, and edit submissions in any way necessary to publish a professional, informative, and thought-provoking newsmagazine. The Gadfly meets on the Lower Level of the BBC every Sunday at 7pm. Articles should be submitted by Friday at 11:59 PM to sjca.gadfiy@gmail.com. STAFF Sebastian Barajas • Editor-in-Chief Allison Tretina• Editor-in-Chief Kira Anderson • Staff Jonathan Gordon• Staff Jake Israel • Staff Frederick Nesfield • Staff Jensen Pratt • Staff Malori Richards • Staff George Ward • Staff Julia Kulon • Graphic Designer Lyra Muerer • Illustrator CONTRIBUTORS Alumni Office Robyn Bell Samuel Collins Kerrigan Dougherty Erik Neave Yosef Trachtenberg The recent attack on Paris has sent a pang of terror through countries across the world and Bosnia is certainly one of them. With half of the Bosnian population following Islam and a tumultuous history of religious division, Bosnia is taking necessary precautions to prevent uprisings from within their own country. "[The Paris attack] was a hugely important event," Mladen Ivanic, the Serbian chairman of Bosnia's tripartite Presidency, told Radio Free Europe on Thursday, "one which will certainly have consequences like those of the 9-11 or the attacks in London and Madrid." It was only a week ago-and a day before Mladen lvanic's talk with the press- when Bosnian Muslims, on the border between Christendom and the Islamic lands, celebrated the Orthodox Christmas on January 7. Adherence to the Orthodox Christmas, or any celebration of Jesus Christ's birth, is a matter of controversy in Islam. Sunni fundamentalists prohibit the celebration of any prophet's births, Muhammad included, as an "impermis- . sible innovation in religion," according to Stephen Schwartz, the Executive Director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism. Throughout Islamic history, however, some traditional Muslims have disregarded the Sunni fundamentalist's prohibition, offering their non-Muslim neighbors Christmas greeting and adopting their holiday. For Bosnia, participating in the Orthodox Christmas is a great act of goodwill toward their Serbian neighbors. It was only twenty years ago, with the fall of the Yugoslav Republic, that more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were massacred largely by Christian Serbs in the Srebrenica town. Unfortunately, this spirit of goodwill is not present throughout all of Bosnia. Milorad Dodik, the President of Republika Srpska, a primarily Serbian entity of Bosnia, is deeply aware of this truth. ''We dread something eventually happening to us here because the records about people in Bosnia and Herzegovina who promote radical Islam show that there are more of them," he told the Balkan Insight. He estimates that around 3,000 potential Islamist radicals are present in the country, a great deal too many for the weak security structures in Bosnia. Bosnian officials and leaders are doing what they can to secure national security. As of Thursday, securities around the French embassy and other diplomatic premises in Sarajevo have been increased. As the Balkan Insight reports, prominent voices in the Islamic community have been speaking out against the killings in Paris. Grand Mufti Husein Kavazovic, for example, sent a telegram to the French ambassador in Bosnia, Claire Bodonyi, which read: "I express my full solidarity with France and its people in the fight against terrorist violence and the suffering of innocent people, and I condemn in the strongest terms those who plot and carry out terror and spread fear." In addition, Mustafa Ceric, former Bosnian Grand Mufti, joined citizens, journalists, and intellectuals in front of the French embassy in Sarajevo to pay their respects to the victims of the Paris attack. For a country whose history is impaired by regular religious division, the attack on Paris has foremost served as a reminder of this dangerous division; it is a warning of Bosnia's susceptibility for harm. Bosnia can only hope that it is only a reminder and nothing more.+ From the Editors: I t's been awhile, Johnnies, so welcome back to the pages of the Gadfly! We'd like to draw your attention to two new columns starting this week. The very best, Samuel Collins and Joe Kensok, will deliver us a regular scoop on all things intramurals- and, yes, that includes Kunai! Then, highlighting the most intriguing stories from the past two weeks, "Around the U.S." will be sure to deliver overlooked, absurd, and wow moments from around the U.S. Happy reading! Q: Would you trust Socrates to be your real live actual midwife? + Kerrigan Dougherty A'16 The Parker Quartet returned to St. John's to offer yet another close to the stage, I could see precisely what was being done to enchanting program. This year, the group brought together composers bring out the sharp chirps and flutelike sounds. The players used Franz Schubert and Gyorgy Kurtag as well as guest musicians Shai many, if not mostly, harmonics. This is the process of bowing as normal but only lightly touching a finger down on the string, rather Wosner and Thomas Van Dyck. The two hour program, divided at the midpoint by an intermission, than pressing all the way down to the fingerboard. Juniors and on with a keen sense for Laboratory practica was very smartly crafted. At first, we heard will recognize the importance of nodes on a Schubert's Quartettsatz. This one movement vibrating string. Placing a finger either above was composed for an otherwise unfinished ( ( Wosner played a or below the prefect spot will produce a dull string quartet. There is a 40 bar fragment of the Schubert delight and muted sound, but placing the finger in the second movement, which the Parker Quartet and then the Parker precise place of string division will bring out graciously played for a few music classes on an amazing and metallic sound. In the end, Thursday morning. Quartet launched six consecutive sweet Schubert pieces or six Shai Wosner, a well-rounded NYC pianist, into difficult and consecutive challenges from Kurtag would be teamed up with the Parker Quartet, currently too much. However, the alternation between made up of Daniel Chong on violin, Ying Xue on disorienting, but styles and instruments lead to a very exciting violin, Jessica Bodner on viola, and Kee-Hyun extremely exciting, and pleasurable listening experience. Kim on cello. Both the classical powerhouse Most of the musicians from the first portion Schubert and modern, cutting edge, still-living Kurtag returned to the stage to play Schubert's rarely Kurtag adopt the form of moments musicaux performed but very worthy Trout Quintet. for some of their compositions. The harmonic structures and the playing techniques necessary for these two sets of Chong on violin, Bodner on viola, Kim on cello, and Wosner on piano moments differ greatly, but something about the two sets made them march back out. However, they have the young but quite tall Thomas a natural pair. Wosner played the first Schubert moment, marked Van Dyck in tow. He apparently had to drive many hours to come down Moderato, and it was everything a sophomore music student should from Boston, where he plays in the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Just expect: a clear A-B-A structure, understandable tonal centers, and minutes before the performance, he was spotted walking around FSK auditorium with his discernable phrasing and shirt, jacket and shoes in one meter. Then, the Quartet hand, and what looked like immediately launched into an iced latte in the other. He a chaotic and sour sounding seemed to be searching for Kurtag piece. the backstage area! The cello, A classmate remarked on which in a traditional quartet the similarity between the is the foundation and lowest middle of this piece and part sounding, biggest instrument, of Jingle Bells, the holiday was made quite small in this classic. Aside from this, the second segment. piece was fascinating with Van Dyck plays double bass short and dissonant outbursts and was situated right next blended with long and eerie to Kim (cello). I had to giggle soundscapes. Sometimes when looking at the two the players would all bow at instruments. What at first the same moment, but then had seemed like such a large they would slow down and and commanding instrument, each play longer and less the cello, then appeared urgent lines, leading to an quite petite by comparison. unparsable sound. Listening As well, the cello happens to to the piece on a recording, I can no longer tell which sounds come from viola, violin or even be a lighter stained wood with a consistent color. The bass is much cello. This pattern continued: Wosner played a Schubert delight and darker and varied brown and seemed to have bracing on the sides, then the Parker Quartet launched into difficult and disorienting, but only adding to its stature and prominence. This team of five played extremely exciting, Kurtag. Sophomores and older students should the simply lovely Schubert. In the moments musicaux, the piano and recognize the second Schubert moment from many listenings in strings were not played simultaneously. But here, in the final offering, music tutorial. The piece, marked Andantino in Ab major, is featured the players united to put on a great show. The bass added great depth in The Sense of Music in Texture and Structure in the section called as well as warmth. The piano nicely punctuated the music on the strings. A-B-A-B-A. Both guests contributed greatly to the musical presentation and, Also, many listeners remarked on the birdlike sounds of the strings in Kurtag's fifth moment, ... rappel des oiseaux ... Sitting as always, the Parker Quartet did excellent work. + ' lr �04 THE GADFLY Chicago, Illinois "Kale Chips", an 85-pound beagle: One Tail at a Time, a rescue shelter in Chicago, rescued a 85 -pound beagle, well over the 22-25 pound range for a healthy adult male of his breed. They named the dog "Kale Chips", because "that's pretty much what his future looks like," the animal shelter said in a Facebook post last Tuesday. Members of the rescue team had to use a wagon to transport the beagle to his new home at the rescue. Heather Owen, co-founder of One Tail at a Time, told the Huffington Post, that they are testing the dog for medical-related reasons for his obeisity, but she suspects that his obeseity is due to a poor lifestyle. "It's our assumption that the owner wasn't able to walk him or care for him," Owen explained. "His nails were really long and the owner certainly overfed him." 05 THE GADFLY Tiffin, Ohio Around the U.S. Vital tubes pulled: A 69 year old marriage ended when both man and wife died in the hospital only 8 hours apart. Gene and Pat Warrington met in junior high and married while Gene was on leave from boot camp during World War IL After his safe return the couple had been inseparable ever since. After a visit to his wife's hospital room, which revealed her ailing condition, Gene decided to pull his own tubes and cords out telling a son, "It wouldn't be fun without her." This did not come as a surprise to the family who knew the couple to only do things together. The couple has left behind 3 children, 7 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren. Boston, Massachusetts Oldest known time capsule: On January 6, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston conservator Paul Hatchfield opened the nation's oldest known time capsule in the walls of the Massachusetts State House. It was originally buried on July 4, 1795 by none other than midnight-rider Paul Revere and Samuel Adams, who was then Massachusett's governor. Inside the plaster-sealed, corroded box were five neatly folded newspapers, a collection of 23 coins dating as far back as 1652, a medal depicting George Washington, a replica of Colonial records, and a silver plate commemorating the erection of the new State House. The capsule had until last week remained unopened since it was orinally found in 1855 by workers making some repairs on the State House. Los Angeles, California Bullet-proof train: Last week, California began construction on a $68-billion bullet train from San Francisco to Los Angeles, which is predicted to be completed sometime in the 2020s. The train will travel at 220 miles per hour and deliver passengers from one city to the next in three hours. It will be the first high-speed rail system in the United States, CBS News reports. Proponents of the project say it will help with traffic and improve air quality, as well as bring in new jobs, while opponents believe it will destroy neighborhoods by tearing down buildings and blocking streets. Diana Gomez of the High-Speed Rail Authority says the train is good for California, telling CBS News, "Our project is going to transform how we move around in the state." Hartford, Connecticut Colorado Springs, Colorado Forced chemo treatment: Connecticut Supreme Court forced 17 year old cancer patient, Cassandra C., chemo treatment against her and her mother's will. Cassandra was diagnosed with Stage 3 or 4 of Hodgkin's lymphoma in September and immediately underwent a surgery operation to have part of her lymph node removed. Once her treatment shifted to chemo therapy, Cassandra and her mother, Jacki Fortin, left the hospital against the doctor's orders. The hospital reported child abuse and neglect to the Department of Children and Families (DCF), which in turn made Cassandra's case a state Supreme Court issue. The court granted DCF temporary custody of Cassandra, and the hospital went on to perform two chemo treatments-that is, until Cassandra ran away from the hospital for a second time. Cassandra has since been removed from her home and forcibly hospitalized since late December. Terrorist bombing: The FBI is searching for a "person of interest" -described as a balding, white male in his 40's driving an older-model pick-up truck- connected to the small explosion at a building that houses the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) office in Colorado Springs. Nobody was injured by the Monday incident. The homemade device damaged the sidewalk besides the building but did not ignite a canister of gasoline placed next to it. The Denver chapter of the NAACP said that the blast appeared to be a "cowardly" hate crime, the Los Angeles Times reports. "This is proof that racism is still alive," the civil rights groups said in a statement. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Hudson , Florida Baltimore, Maryland Wearing a hoodie illegal: The Republican state senator of Oklah oma, Don Barrington, proposed a new law prohibiting people from concealing their identity in public by "means of a robe, mask, or other disguise." Violators can be fined up to a $500 ticket or could be subject to "imprisonment in the country jail for a period of not exceeding one year." There are, however, a few exceptions to the bill: anyone wearing "religious garments, protections from weather, parades, Halloween celebrations and numerous other circumstances", such as "minstrel troupes" and "sporting events". According to Oklahoma's KOTV, the bill was written, because lawmakers received too many complaints about robberies committed by men wearing hooded sweatshirts. "I have drugs" T-shirt: John Balmer was strolling through his local K-Mart in Florida, wh en h e was arrested while wearing a t-shirt printed with "Who needs drugs. No, seriously, I have drugs." Balmer was standing in the check out line when he saw a deputy walk in. After failing to swiftly hand a bag to the customer behind him, he then placed the bag on the ground and attempted to continue to check out. The cashier told the deputy about the bag, who then asked Balmer if he had drugs. After noticing the t-shirt the deputy found the bag to indeed contain drugs. He will now be charged for possession on two counts, the first for methamphetamine and the second for 20 grams or less of marijuana. Photographic evidence of the shirt can be found on the Pasco County Sheriff's Office official Facebook page. Misdiagnosed uterus: Joyce Ferguson checked into a John's Hopkins h ospital experiencing severe pelvic pain only to be released misdiagnosed. After three trips to the emergency room and no solution, the 59-year-old woman was re-examined after being found unresponsive. Doctors found an infection in her uterus that had hindered her blood circulation enough so that she was cold to the touch. The restricted blood flow resulted in an amputation of both arms and legs. Ferguson has now filed a lawsuit against John Hopkins over the loss of her extremities due to their failed attempts to diagnose the infection sooner. Ferguson's attorney insists that the amputations could have easily been avoided. Brooklyn, New York Turned backs on Mayor de Blasio: At the funeral for Wenjian Liu, one of two New York City police officers killed on December 20 in an ambush by a gunman who had said he was out to avenge the deaths of unarmed black men killed by officers, thousands of police officers and city officials were in attendance. In a eulogy to Liu, Mayor de Blasio took the opportunity to call for reconciliation. But, according to the Gothamist report, hundreds of police officers "turned their backs on de Blasio," whom the officers believed to have stirred up anti-police sentiment. �06 THE GADFLY Intramural Madness Samuel Collins A'15 Welcome back Johnnies! I hope you all had a wonderful break, full of leisurely intellectual inquiries and close examination of your seminar readings and senior essays. Now that we're all back at school we can direct our rested minds towards enlightening and thoughtful conversations, both inside and outside the classroom. But not here. Here, we talk sports. What kind of sports? The best damn sports around ... intramurals. In a new weekly segment, a couple others (looking at you Kensok) and I will explore the wide world of sports at St. John's. We're talking basketball, handball, rowing, croquet, and those other ones that people don't really consider sports (looking at you CrossFit). In this article, I'll be laying down the what's what about the upcoming semester in intramurals: Who's hot, who's cold, who's wearing who. You know, real talk. Without further ado, here we go. First up: Basketball. It's the sport we all came here for. Everyone has had enough of that weird feet and disc stuff; do not even get me started on that weird oblong "ball" that somehow purports reason as its muse. No, this is a real sport, filled with real balls and real rules. Let's talk teams. The Hustlers and Greenwaves dominated last year. Nikos Frank, TJ Schaub, and a whole lot of other men in red exhausted the other A-teams with their athleticism and physical play. If it Expect blood everybody, had not been for expect blood. the Greenwaves, led by the stellar play of Sebastian Abella and Jerry Januszewski, the season would have been case closed early on. Both teams were close all season, up until the final buzzer which coincided with a missed buzzer beater by some Greenwave (source?). Still, graduation, the draft, and other variables make for a different storyline for this year. The Hustlers, losing several key players, reloaded their team with GI Jeremy and brothers Marco and Jordan. All three are stellar players with great court vision. Former MVP Nikos Frank and senior floor general Joe Hamd return to make for another stacked Hustlers A-Team. Unfortunately, the B-Team took a major hit when they lost 1st Team All-Hustle Clayton "Bigsby" Williams to the Colorado School of Mines (Mimes?). However, the two-peat is looking possible. The Greenwaves lost star A-Teamer Brett Lowry to the real world, but still have the stalwarts of their program, Sebastian Abella and JJ, to lead the charge. Both players bring a whole lot of skill and basketball I.Q. to the table, with Abella as the main ballhandler and JJ as THE MAN down low. The B-Team has a lot to offer. Jermaine and the Kims promise a lot of shutdown defense in the 1st and 3rd quarters, hopefully fo llowed by a heap of fast break points. The Waves certainly can threaten for first this year. However, with an ever dwindling stable of alumni and a general animosity towards them, anything can happen. The Spartans return with their Big 3 intact. Matthew Denci, Christopher Zeller, and Graham "Cracker" Gordon all tower over the opposition with the shortest being 6'3. The loss of point guard Ian Tuttle is hard, but I see Zeller taking over that role with ease. On B-Team, they are as stacked as ever: Grace Athanas-Linden, Matt Saburn, Zachary Peyser, SUBHA, etc. The only question is, can they stay calm and not get so angry? My bet is they will be as angry as ever. Expect blood everybody, expect blood. '' To Know the Joy of Leaving +Erik Neave '16 To know the joy of leaving-flesh and blood On flesh and blood-between the murmuring tongues, Before the song is buried in thunder, Takes the gentle burden of tired offspring Filling the cradle of cause and result; Eyelids heavy, set on sleep, mimicking Pizzicato cries and swells of close chords Sound, diminished, down the skeletal hall Emptied of life, a ghost of the future. (When clapped hands might carry grateful bodies Into the cavernous foyer for tea And tan coffee and pleasant, hushed talk And force the ghost to shuffle, wind-like, And slip slow between civilised whispers And into the cold corpse of now... and now...) And now each quivering step on matte ice Sends memory to its mirror image. Like summer rain and white-washed nights converge, Toying with memory. Each season demands absolute regard, A quartet of individual voice THE GADFLY 07 weasly Guardians). Now, both are gone and a lot depends on how well John Neal and TJ Schaub can haridle the scoring load. Will Pack, Mike "Could you please pass the" Mayo and Mr. Burke fill out a solid A-Team. The B-Team is where this team has a chance to win it, with sophomore ballers Josh Mccourt and Thanja Jaygbay going all out each time on the floor. Unlike the Greenwaves, the Guardians' stable (albeit this one of tutors) remains strong-minus the presence oflights out scorer J-Mac due to foreseen sabbatical. Still, the talent in the league this year might be too hot to handle for the cagers in gold. Second: Kunai. Listen, I have a confession. I am a man (boy?) and therefore cannot play Kunai. The strong, virtuous, Amazonian character required to play in the fiercest league at the school has not been endowed to me. All I can do is sit on the sidelines and watch the She-Dogs of the Underworld as they take on every sport imaginable. They do so with a swagger and a level of fun incomprehensible to most people out in the world. The music is blaring, the captains are cheering, the smiles abound on every person who makes the trip to Iglehart to take part in one of the college's best traditions. Whether you are looking to compete, exercise, or have some down time with the best ladies on campus, Kunai is for you. It is such a valuable experience that two years ago a senior male paid around 300 dollars to be able to play sports with these women. No where else in the world do you get the chance to be a part of something like this; the Kunai girls that I have talked to profess that it is truly a unique, powerful, joyful thing to partake in. Tuesdays and Fridays at 4 p.m., whether its snowing or not, Kunai awaits. Third: Handball. Unlike with basketball, most people at the college are probably unfamiliar with this game. In this category, I include myself. I just do not understand how it works. Sure, I have scored some goals, argued with the refs (in fact I have even referred a few games), and gone iso mode before, but what is handball? Is it basketball? Soccer? Baseball? Spin the Bottle? Are weapons allowed? Can one discuss the absurdities oflife and their manifestation in our rational thought at this sport? Can Continued From Pg. 6 we investigate the property and puissance oflanguage while playing? The issue is, no one knows, not even Mike McQuarrie. A couple of days ago I asked him about handball. Here was his response1: "Handball? Honestly, I thought it was a type of macrame..." There you have it folks, its a type of craft reserved for those who probably had trouble learning how to tie their shoes as a kid and people not allowed around sharp objects2. Games are on Wednesdays at 4pm and will Rt~( t \II."'- ll11tt l'\(\1~ continue up to the end of March. Find out if your team is playing and put on your handball hands. Well, that is all I have for you today. There is a lot more to cover, and I'll make sure to get to those in later articles. In the mean time, feel free to ask any of the Intramural and Kunai captains about whatever. Also, do your homework and don't drink on Wednesdays. The latter is a loud and obnoxious thing to do, and I can hear you all from Gilliam. + Legato as the sliding, icy steps. Stones to home and warm, silent midnight-a Squirming torso bending towards the darkness, The haze, or the vague routine of childhood Guiding the dying present to dead past. One hears, at last, the palm-muted ballad Of flesh and blood on flesh and blood leaving Overflowing auditoriums then, For a vacant, translucent stillness now. A stillness that fills the whole unended song with joy. "Fallen" Tyler, and "Jack" John ''.Jack" ''.John" "Jack" Whitman gear up for one last go around. In their 4th year together, chemistry will b e at an all-time high. In addition, they retain stud Florian "Nacho" Ancho. Things are looking good for the Druid A-Team. The B-Team has a lot of athletic talent, the only question is: Can MaryBeth and Jenna put aside their issues with one another. The team has split up into factions, Team Beydler and Team Alton, with former friends Will Kinum, Connor Mccourt, and Corey Kirner all now bitter enemies. As a result, the B-Team offers up a stark contrast to the grooving A-Team. The Guardians ... well they had a good showing in the Holiday Invitational, thanks to now-gone Chris Tracey and his ill-gotten "cousin" Anthony (who is in reality Continued On Pg. 7 a good guy and does not reflect the Student Video Contest: "Why Choose a St. John's Education?" How would you persuade prospective Johnnies to attend St. John's? What kind of buzz could you create about the Great Books? The Alumni Association wants to know how current students would answer this question: "Why Choose a St. John's Education?" We would like to see your answers in video form. It doesn't have to be cinematographic, just creative and compelling, especially to those who might be considering applying to St. John's. Do ai;iything you like--a song, a skit, a poem, an animation, a puppet show, a short documentary. Videos should be no longer than 5 minutes. The contest period begins at 12:00 PM MST on Friday, January 23, 2015 and ends at 12:00 AM MDT on Friday April 24. During that time you can upload your video and try to get as many popular votes as you can. The videos will be showcased to Alumni, film-making professionals and other members of the St. John's Community in June during the Alumni Leadership Forum on the Santa Fe campus. Distinguished judges will choose winners from the top five videos determined by the popular vote. This is a great opportunity to showcase your talents! FIRST PRIZE: $500 SECOND PRIZE: $100 THIRD PRIZE: SJC branded goodies For more information about the contest and to register for the contest, contact the Alumni Office at: anna.perry@sjc.edu or 410-295-5532. Regards, St. John's College Alumni Association �08 UPCOMING EVENTS Tuesday 01/13 Kunai 4PM Fencing 6PM THE GADFLY Geometry ·Problem: For the Math Enthusiast at the College Yosef Trachtenberg A'.15 A geometry problem has come up in an experiment I've been working on, and I thought I'd enlist the help of fellow math enthusiasts at the college in solving it. Seniors might recognize the diagram from the Rutherford lab reading, but the problem presented is just a problem in geometry. Wednesday 01/14 St. John's Chorus, Great Hall 7PM Thursday 01/15 CrossFit 11:40AM Friday 01/16 Fencing 6PM Lecture: "What Does Music Mean?" by Tutor Matthew Caswell FSK Auditorium 8PM Saturday 01/17 New Carrolton Shuttle 9AM Sunday 01/18 Shopping Shuttle 4:30 PM Gadfly Meeting, Lower level of the BBC 7PM If you would like to see your event on the weekly schedule, please email sjca.gadfiy@ gmail.com. Given 2 branches of a hyperbola with foci S, B, center 0, and tangents. Other givens: AC =FD = SN= p FC =DA,= b OS = OB = OC = OF <NOR = cl> <OCA = cl>/2 <COA = <AOR = 9 <SNO = <FDO = <CAO = right angle Let a random point M be taken on the right branch of the hyperbola, and from the focus of the other branch join SM, making <ASM = a . 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Opinions expressed within are the sole responsibility of the author(s). The Gadfly reserves the right to accept, reject, and edit submissions in any way necessary to publish a professional, informative, and thought-provoking newsmagazine. The Gadfly meets on the Lower Level of the BBC every Sunday at 7pm. Articles should be submitted by Friday at 11:59 PM to sjca.gadfly@gmail.com. STAFF Sebastian Barajas •Editor-in-Chief Allison Tretina • Editor-in-Chief Kira Anderson • Staff Jonathan Gordon • Staff Jake Israel• Staff Frederick Nesfield • Staff Jensen Pratt • Staff Malori Richards • Staff Julia Kulon • Graphic Designer Lyra Muerer • Illustrator CONTRIBUTORS Alimni Office Henry Hirsch Joe Kensok Adam Kuester Malori Richards Hank Whittemore On Saturday, January 24, a protest flared up in Pristina, Kosovo: one of the largest since it declared independence in 2008, Reuters reports. Some 7,000 protesters were throwing stones at a government building and attacking police officers, injuring 20. By Saturday evening, police retaliated by firing tear gas to disperse the angry mobs, and a fire broke out on central Mother Theresa Square. The protest comes a few weeks after Minister Jablanovic called Albanian protesters "savages," because they were picketing and throwing ice at Serb pilgrims visiting a church in Gjakova/Djakovica on Orthodox Christmas, January 6. During the Kosovo War, Gjakova/Djakovica was the scene of heavy fighting between the Yugoslav forces and the Kosovo Liberation Army. Jablanovic had since apologized for his statement, claiming that he was unaware of what happened there during the war. But his apology could not quell the anger of the people. For the past few weeks, a wave of protests has broken out all over Kosovo. "Jablanovic offended us. The entire world knows what happened in Kosovo, Jablanovic doesn't know even though he was born here," one protestor, Sagete Pula from Gjakova/Djakovica, told BIRN. Albin Kurti, the head of the nationalist Vetevendosje (Self Determination) opposition party, which organized the protest alongside the Mother's Call NGO, threatened the Kosovo government, ''We will give Prime Minister Isa Mustafa time until 6 pm on Monday to remove Minister Jablanovic from his post. If not, we will protest again on Tuesday at noon." As well as the sacking of Jablanovic, protestors were calling for the Trepca mine complex, the subject of dispute between Pristina and Belgrade, to be taken under Kosovo state control. The complex oflead, zinc, and silver mines that lies in the northeast of Kosovo has long been the subject of political dispute. The mines are split among ethnic lines. In the northern part of the complex ethnic Serbs are employed, and it is run by Belgrade, while the southern part of employs Kosovo Albanian workers and is under the control of Pristina. Kosovo unilaterally declared independence in 2008, but Serbia refuses to recognize its independence. According to the Reuters, the mine complex dispute was postponed on Monday due to pressure from Belgrade and "intense discussions with Western diplomats". Demonstrators blame Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa for giving into Serbia. Driton Caushi, the head of the Vetevendosje branch in Gjakova/Djakovica, told the press, "Finally the people of Kosovo are showing their discontent with the government. They should not be representing these people. Isa Mustafa does not serve the people, he serves Serb fascism." Albanian MPs in the Kosovo parliament also slated the government's decision. It was "a surrender to Serbia and an unacceptable decision;' said Donika Kadaj-Bujupi, the head of the opposition Alliance for the Future of Kosovo in parliament. Protestors held up placards with slogans saying "Either with Jablanovic or with the people", "All of Kosovo supports Trepca", and "Trepca will work, Kosovo will be built." The violent protest is a bold warning to the Kosovo's government officials that any delays in resolving Kosovo's final status could be fatal. + I From the Editors: T hrough the snow. Through the sleet. Through Senior Essay Writing Period. The Gadfly trudges the 457 feet to the BBC. Bring the war. Bring the plague. Bring the celestial missiles that fall from the heavens in such profusion that even the great worms that live far below the earth's crust are crushed to death. The Gadfly cannot be stopped. Remember that, Johnnies. Remember that... Yours in perpetuity, -The Gadfly Q: If Aristotle held a warm gun, would he change his definition of happiness? + 1. John Jane's hair. As was noted in my (lesser) colleague Sam Collins' article, St. John's recently lost a great man to the Colorado School of Mines (Mimes?). Clayton, though he was only at the college for one basketball season, changed the way I looked at the game forever. Whenever a shot would not go into the hoop, he'd reach out his arms for the rebound in the same way a frog would extend its tongue to catch a fly. The intense enthusiasm he played with will forever be in our hearts. Come take a shot for Clayton. The kind you take on a basketball court. 11. Josh Nichols has a beautiful three-pointer. If it were a person, I'd take it out to dinner. It's sexy. There, I said it. Someone had to. 12. The New iPad in the gym. 2. Marybeth Beydler will fight you. One time Will Pack was running his mouth during a basketball game and Marybeth punched him in the face. He cried. It was awesome. Thanks to one of the many recent upgrades that our fearless leader Mike McQuarrie, has made to the facility, we can now listen to some of today's hottest hits while we're playing. You know you want to hear to "It Wasn't Me" by Shaggy while playing volleyball. Or whatever the kids are listening to these days. 3. So you can tell your kids you played on the same court as 13. Matt Saburn's New Haircut Nikos Frank. Nikos is a budding NBA prospect. Nobody in the 300+ year history of the college has gone straight from St. John's to the NBA, but that could easily change when Nikos graduates next spring. If you ask him about it he'll tell you that this claim is simply factually false, but he's just being modest. Don't believe him. 14. Terence Washington's Beautiful Face It won't be around much longer. Catch it while you can. 4. Druid Freshman Soap Opera. So many questions surround the newest members of Druid Nation: Can Tyler "Moses Malone" and his sidekick Robin Lancaster lead the Nation into the promised land? Is Ramsey Mahaffey secretly Santa Claus? Will Joseph Loomis spontaneo.usly combust into a ball of flame that can only speak French? Is Ahce Meyer going to come out to a single game? Will Jack "Shaq" Mooradian dunk by the end of basketball season? The answer to all of these, we all hope, for the sake of the greater glory of St. John's College, is a hard yes. 5. Free pizza at every game*. Who doesn't like pizza? You may have seen it around campus, but you won't see it in its full glory until you've seen it glistening with sweat under Temple Iglehart's bright lights. 15. It's a lot of fun. In all seriousness, we get together and play a few days a week because it's a good time. If you haven't come out before, you should really try it. We don't bite. + *This is completely false. SCI: First Seinester Senior Seininar Henry Hirsch A'15 6. Come hang out with the ladies of2018. Oh wait... Never mind. (Yes, freshmen girls, you have all effectively On Thursday, January 15th, the SCI convened in the private been called out. Come out or face the consequences.) dining hall to discuss the junior mathematics tutorial. This is the first year that juniors are reading Dedekind and Cantor before 7. J oh n Neal's r efer eeing. . Newton. How are students finding the transition from Leibniz It has been described by many, including Chris Zeller, as "a slap m to Dedekind and Cantor to Newton? the face to the very institution of basketball". Enough said. One student at the forum stated that she had struggled to compare Leibniz's treatment of infinitesimals to Newton's be' 8. Spartan Women: The Next Generation. cause her experiences of the two authors were separated by the The Spartans started out as.~ women's only team, and has .main.Dedekind and Cantor readings and by winter break. She also tained a long-standing trad1t10n of strong female leadership. With noted that the inclusion of the Dedekind and Cantor readings at the departures ofMandee Glasgo and Catherine Moon last spring, the end of first semester had forced several classes to skip porthe future of this tradition was in doubt. Captains Sam Collins, tions of the Leibniz for lack of time. Matt Denci, and Joe Roberts restocked the shelves in the draft A tutor who was in attendance was worried that students will with the additions of Grace Athanas-Linden, Claire Racette, and dismiss Newton as an outdated throwback because they have alHaley Ford. All three were key parts of Sparta's dominant volleyready read Dedekind and Cantor. He was especially concerned ball season, and are pretty cool outside'the gym too. Get to know because Cantor is more modern than the other authors. Howthem, and play with them! ever a junior maintained that he had not found this to be the case'. Rather he felt that the Dedekind and Cantor readings had 9. Witness Eke Uche's miraculous comeback. enriched hi~ math tutorial by providing additional alternative When Green Wave senior Eke Uche hurt his knee last semester, perspectives. . . doctors told him he'd never play again. Eke, however, had seen Another junior appreciated the new structure of the Jumor way too many sports movies to believe that, even for a second. mathematics tutorial because the Newton readings are no lonEke immediately started rehabbing harder than anybody had ever ger broken up by winter break. rehabbed before, and should be back on the court/field sooner The forum was unable to resolve whether the new structure rather than later. Come witness this inspirational story of perseof the junior mathematics tutorial is more or less beneficial to verance in person. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll even get a little students.+ exercise. �04 THE GADFLY Augusta, Maine Olyinpia, "V\Tashington A comedian-inspired bill: Thanks to comedian John Oliver, Washington state Senator Cyrus Habib has authored a new bill, SB 5226, which will allow citizens to comment on pending legislation over the Internet rather than in-person at the state Capitol. At the end of 2014, in a Last Week Tonight segment, Oliver exposed "how the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was running roughshod over net neutrality," according to Mic News. "The FCC was seeking public commentary on its proposed net neutrality regulations, helping turn an issue the comedian admitted 'sounds boring even by C-SPAN standards' into a major PR disaster for the FCC." The segment encouraged so many people to comment on the FCC's net neutrality plan that it broke their servers. Inspired by the overwhelming response, Sen. Habib authored SB 5226 with full support from both parties, hoping for a more diverse critique of legislation. Around the U.S. Taxing to cut taxes: In his recent budget plan, Republican Governor Paul LePage included an overhaul of individual, corporate, and sales taxes, which would make Maine the first state to require colleges, hospitals, and local charities go on the property-tax rolls in their municipalities. According to the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Mass., the northeast region relies heavily on property taxes to fund the government and has a particularly high concentration of tax-exempt academic and medical institutions. As the Washington Journal explained, the proposal may result in anything from litigation to nonprofits moving out of the state. It would certainly require that the state law be re-written. IJ "V\Thitteville, North Carolina Innocent man freed over two decades later: On Friday, Joseph Sledge was exonerated from teh 1976 murder of Josephine Davis and her daughter, Aileen Davis, Reuters reports. A 2012 DNA test revealed that the hairs at the crime scene, according to his attorneys, did not belong to Sledge. At a hearing on Friday in Whitteville, the local district apologized to Sledge and vowed to reopen the case to determine the true killer. Sledge is now one of eight inmates exonerated from criminal charges by the North Carolina Innocence Commission. "The state agency, the first of its kind in the United States", Reuters explains, "has investigated hundreds of innocence claims since it was created by North Carolina lawmakers in2006." "V\Testern Oregon Loneliest wolf no longer lonely: Gray wolf OR7, also known as Journey and "the world's loneliest wolf," is no longer alone. Since 2011, Oregon wildlife officials have been monitoring Journey's movements with a location-transmitting collar. Initially intending to track the progression of the wolf's pack in the state, they found that, within a year, Journey had strayed from his pack and left Oregon. After ranging over 500 miles and becoming the first grey wolf in California since the 1920s, Journey has finally returned to Oregon and formed his own pack, consisting of his mate and three offspring, TakePart's Todd Woody reports. Atlanta, Georgia Jim Clancy leaves CNN: After 34-years, Jim Clancy has left CNN after a controversial tweet. On January 7, in a late night feud on Twitter regarding the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebda, Clancy told online adversaries they were ganging upon on him and practicing "hasbara". As the Mondoweiss, a publication about the "war of ideas in the Middle East", explains, "'Hasbara' is the Hebrew word for 'explaining' that describes pro-Israel advocacy often at the behest of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs." Clancy also directly insulted the former journalist for the Jerusalem Post, Oren Kessler: ''You and the Hasbara team need to pick on some cripple on the edge of the herd." Neither Clancy nor his employer explained why Clancy resigned from CNN, but his controversial tweets have caused much speculation. Boise, Idaho 14-year-old's proposal turned down: When 14-year-old Ilah Hickman requested for the giant salamander be named the state amphibian, the House State Affairs Committee voted 10-6 against her plan, reports the Associated Press. This was the fifth time she has attempted this. "I was kind of disappointed, but either way I'm going to come back next year and push it again," Hickman told the Spokesman-Review. Representatives who voted against the bill feared "potential federal overreach" should the salamander become endangered by the state's water litigation. However, according to Rep. Kathy Sims, R-Coeur d'Alene, "It can become protected. There's actually no legal impediment." Chicken, Alaska Chicken was scared: Senator Dan Sullivan CR-Alaska) ha made a new amendment to the Keystone XL Pipeline bill, which bars Environmental Protection Agency officials from carrying guns. According to the Daily Beast, the amendment was inspired after "a raid" was conducted in the tiny gold mining town of Chicken in 2013, says the Daily Beast. In August 2013, Chicken was inhabited with no fewer than 80 miners, all hoping to one day strike it rich. That is, until ten armed "criminal law enforcement officials from the EPA'' visited nine of the miners to investigate possible violations of the Clean Water Act, reported the Daily Beast. "In addition to the guns, they brought military helicopters, wore body armor and donned jackets with the word 'police' on them." Chicken was scared, and others may be if Sullivan's amendment does not pass. 05 THE GADFLY Fort Collins, Colorado Tuscan, Arizona New way of adoption: According to the Arizona Daily Star, earlier this month, Robb and Ladd Keith finalized a step-parent adoption for their kids, Liam, 6, and Rowan, 2. This is big news for the same-sex couple. Even after a recent court ruling overturned the state's gay-marriage ban, Arizona's adoption law only allows husbands and wives to jointly adopt. Local attorneys have circumvented this law with step-parent adoptions. As Emily Bregel explains for the Arizona Daily Star, "If one marriage partner is already the legal parent of a child, their spouse can undertake a second adoption proceeding-the step-parent adoption-to get equal custodial rights." The Keiths' attorney, Heather Strickland, has helped ten same-sex couples adopt since November. "V\Test Palm, Florida Hearing through the tongue: A three-person research team at Colorado State University has found a new way to mitigate significant hearing loss: through the tongue. Fitting onto the tongue, a smart retainer takes in Bluetooth signals from a microphone earpiece and excites somatic nerves in patterns that represent words. The strategy is similar to reading Braille, but there are a couple of differences, JJ Moritz explained to Popular Science, ''We're using sound information instead of symbiotic information." Also, unlike reading Braille, a person has to have parts of their brain re-programmed to help them interpret various sensations of the tongue as certain words. Once the system is complete, it is said to cost around $2,000, a lump sum cheaper than a cochlear implant, which has a cost upwards of $40,000, according to Popular Science. National debate over circumcision: A 4-year-old boy from Florida became the subject of a nationwide debate over whether he should be circumcised or not. When Chase was born, his estranged parents disagreed on his circumcision. "To me, it's not worth it to put my son's life at risk for a cosmetic procedure," Chase's mother, Heather Hironimus, said, according to the Associated Press. But for his father, Dennis Nebus, the procedure is "a normal thing to do." The court ruling has dragged on, and now nearly four years later, on January 16, the Florida Supreme Court ruled for the boy to be circumcised. Chase is now much older than most boys who get cut. "Not everyone is against circumcisions, but I think everyone is against a 4-year-old's circumcision," Jonathan Friedman, who organized a demonstration, told the Associated Press. �03 THE GADFLY Potty Talk Project Politae: Letter of Thanks First-class reporting on the qualiry of SJC bathrooms Malori Richards A'l 8 Randall 3rd The bathroom of Randall 3rd is home to many problems, like moisture that never seems to totally dissipate, hair in the showers, only plastic sheets separating the showers, a leaky shower, no changing area, a roof that started to fall in, bathroom doors that are not quite close enough to the walls, and faulty water temperatures. The only real benefits of the Randall 3rd bathroom are the large storage unit for shower caddies and the working heater. Rating:~§ Randall 2nd The bathroom of Randall 2nd is scary. One can usually find some kind of body fluid in the Randall 2nd bathroom at all times, there is a pervasive bad smell in the bathroom, the showers are covered in hair, there seems to be a constant buildup of gross material on the floor of the showers, the showers often do not work, the sinks are stained an odd brown color like smokers' teeth, and the stalls do not allow for one to step in easily, one has to squeeze into the stalls. The only nice thing about the Randall 2nd bathroom is that the water pressure and temperature is good ... usually. Rating:~ Library Ahh, the bathrooms of the library! Equipped with doors that actually lock, normal water temperatures, a generally good clean smell and clean environment, the library bathrooms are top-notch. If the library bathrooms had showers, I am sure they would be clean, well lit, with perfect water pressure and a Humphreys 2nd Humphrey's 2nd is home to a small nice changing area. Humphrey's bathroom, with a lot of problems. There are a Rating:~~~~~ variety of molds in the Humphrey's 2nd bathroom, ranging from a putrid green to a dark brown color. The mold is not as Gym The gym bathroom is very under-rated. Yes, the locks bad as the smell however, which pervades the air and rivals on some of the stalls do not work that well, they get a little dusty a sour litterbox. The toilets are small, the stalls oddly placed, and sometimes the water temperature is finicky but overall, the they have very small cubbies for their showers and a feeling gym bathrooms are great. The showers and bathroom stalls are of general uncleanliness. A benefit of the Humphrey's 2nd clean, along with the locker room area, the water pressure in bathroom is that the showers are separated by an actual wall the shower is not too strong and there is a changing area right and the water pressure and temperature are relatively good, outside the shower, if one lives in Randall, one should consider although reputedly the water takes a while to warm up. taking showers in the gym bathroom. Rating:~ Rating:~~~~ Humphreys 3rd The bathroom on the third floor of Humphreys is another small Humphrey's bathroom, with an awkwardly placed stall right by the door, faulty locks on the stall doors, unusually small toilets and cubbies, and the sinks counter looks like it could fall down at any time. However, it is usually clean and has nice showers that are separated from one another by an actual wall and has good water pressure. Rating:~~ '' ... the showers often do not work, the sinks are stained an odd brown color like smokers' teeth ... 05 THE GADFLY Spector 1st The first floor of Spector is home to great bathrooms. There are some problems however, like light bulbs that have very short lives, bad ventilation, and one of the showers has warm water, whereas the other shower is a hit-or-miss as to whether or not it has warm water. However, the bathroom is clean, and a single unit- with the shower, sink, and toilet all in the same room, and that room has a door with a working lock so when one needs to use the bathroom, one can have all the privacy in the world. Rating:~~~~ Spector 2nd Another glorious Spector bathroom, clean, private with good water pressure and temperature. This bathroom is on a co-ed floor though, which can make it quite unclean on weekends, it does not have anywhere to store shower caddies in the bathroom and shares the problem of Spector 1st, with short-lived light bulbs. Rating:~~~~ Continued On: Pg. 8 Adam Kuester A'16 Towards the beginning of the school year, Jacob Kilgore approached me with an offer to join Project Polity. Jenna Alton and he were hoping to revamp the club and were looking for some extra help to make sure it succeeded. Yet another, freshman Rebecca O'Brien, soon joined the group. We met- and still do - in the Starbucks at the top of Main Street, 9 AM on Saturday mornings. Together, we pondered how best to motivate the Polity to community service. After a semester more wildly successful than any of us had imagined, we would all like to deliver our sincere thanks to the Polity for helping us to fulfill our service-related dreams. To give a better idea of the dedication the Polity has shown to service, I would like to describe a few of the projects we have been working on. Our most consistent and major project has been tutoring students grades K-8 at the Bloomsbury Square Community Center. Here, 35 Johnnies have offered a total of 131 hours of their time to help underprivileged students succeed in school. At our first annual Trick-or-Treat for Canned Goods, the King William's Players opened their costume closet to let those of us without costumes dress up for a night of lighthearted service. The Druids and the crew team even offered their members for the cause (and, boy, were they enthusiastic). That night, 39 students collected 624.9 lbs of food and $125 in cash to donate to the Light House Shelter. Project Polity then paired up with the Cooking Club for a night of baking cookies. While we happily consumed a few along the way, we sold the rest at the Holiday Agora the following day, raising almost $90 for this semester's Habitat for Humanity trip. Finally, Project Polity hosted two holiday parties for the kids at Bloomsbury Square, one for our Tuesday group, the other for our Wednesday one. Instead of tutoring in math, science, or reading, we spent the day teaching a different lesson. In between the pizza, cookies, and games, we sat down with the kids to write Christmas cards for African children with AIDS. We explained to the kids that some children get sick over the holidays, and some with incurable diseases. What resulted were 100 adorable cards, written mostly in crayon, wishing the sick children a Merry Christmas, talking about what Christmas really means- sharing in the love of family and friends. In total, 72 Johnnies out of the 425 or so undergraduates donated 415.5 hours of their time, putting St. John's on the path to becoming a dependable member of the community in which we live. This semester we have already seen a few fresh faces at tutoring, and we are looking forward to some more new ideas on how to spend our time in valuable commitment to the Greater Annapolis Community. This was a truly astounding semester, surely the greatest Project Polity has seen in years. And those who we have to thank are you. Thanks again, Polity. You've done a real service to yourselves and others. It was greater than anything we could have asked for. + Student Video Contest: "Why Choose a St. John's Education?" How would you persuade prospective Johnnies to attend St. John's? What kind of buzz could you create about the Great Books? The Alumni Association wants to know how current students would answer this question: ''Why Choose a St. John's Education?" We would like to see your answers in video form. It doesn't have to be cinematographic, just creative and compelling, especially to those who might be considering applying to St. John's. Do anything you like--a song, a skit, a poem, an animation, a puppet show, a short documentary. Videos should be no longer than 5 minutes. The contest period begins at 12:00 PM MST on Friday, January 23, 2015 and ends at 12:00 AM MDT on Friday April 24. During that time you can upload your video and try to get as many popular votes as you can. The videos will be showcased to Alumni, film-making ?r?fessionals and other members of the St. John's Community in June during the Alumni Leadership Forum on the Santa Fe campus. D1stmguished judges will choose winners from the top five videos determined by the popular vote. This is a great opportunity to showcase your talents! FIRST PRIZE: $500 SECOND PRIZE: $100 THIRD PRIZE: SJC branded goodies For more information about the contest and to register for the contest, contact the Alumni Office at: anna.perry@sjc.edu or 410-295-5532. Regards, St. John's College Alumni Association �04 THE GADFLY UPCOMING EVENTS Tuesday 1127 Kunai Netball 4PM Fencing 6PM Wednesday 1128 St. John's Chorus, Great Hall 7PM Storyteller's Guild, Chasement 9PM Thursday 1129 Long weekend begins lOPM Friday 1130 Kunai Netball 4PM Fencing 6PM NO LECTURE 8PM Saturday 1131 Shuttle to New Carrolton 9AM Weight training class 5PM If you would like to see your event on the weekly schedule, please email sjca.gadfly@ gmail.com. Classics and .Catalogues Hank Whittemore A'18 St. Johns loves doing things the traditional way, but we can't keep all our information on scrolls and folios. The Greenfield Library has recently added a new set of electronic resources to their collection, including 3,500 classic works of French literature, The Chicago Manual of Style, and over 500 new Greek and Latin texts. They can all be accessed from the library's web page on the SJC website. The Digital Loeb Classical Library is a comprehensive collection of classics from Greek and Roman authors, and includes side by side original and translated versions of almost all the Freshmen readings and a good chunk of the Sophomore readings. These online books are fully searchable in both the Latin and Greek alphabet, making them really useful for tricky translation questions. The entire library can be accessed for free automatically through school computers, or from off campus with your library card number. The Chicago Manual of Style is an incredibly useful tool for writing and editing papers, (just in time to help with our end of term essays) including a searchable grammar Q and A, samples of different types of writing, and a list of proofreading marks to help decipher tutors' corrections and to correct your own drafts. It also has the full text of the regular Chicago Manual, fully searchable and clear to read. The ARTFL Project, short for The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language, has most of the texts you'll need for Junior year in their original French (no translations, unfortunately, but hey, more practice for language class, right?), along with smaller collections like a set of writings by French women from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth century, a large collection of ancient (12th and 13th century) French poetry, and over one hundred ancient French texts from a variety of sources. Possibly most useful, the ARTFL website includes a set of French dictionaries from the seventeenth through the twentieth century. Again, the dictionaries are fully searchable, though you'll have to translate them and have extensive information on the origin of the words and their different meanings and connotations over time. The library has also added new journals on subjects like art, art history, classics, film studies, history, language and literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, and religion to the JSTOR, an online collection of academic journals. So, go to sjc.edu and check out the library's page, or just go down to the Greenfield Library and ask the librarians about the digital catalogues. + Continued From Pg. 6 Spector 3rd The best bathrooms in Spector are located on Spector 3rd. These bathrooms have great water pressure and temperature, are very clean, the lights have longer lives and of course, it is private. Spector 3 bathrooms are the equivalent of the library bathrooms, with showers. Rating:~~~~~ Gilliam 1st The bathrooms on Gilliam 1st are a little messy, and the shower curtains are reputedly ineffective about stopping shower water from running outside the shower, so there is a slight mold problem. However, like the bathrooms in Spector, the Gilliam 1st bathrooms are private units, handicap accessible, with better quality toilet paper than is found in Randall bathrooms and has great water pressure and temperature. Rating:~~~~ Gilliam 2nd One will find a clean, private space when walking into a Gilliam 2nd bathroom. The water pressure and temperature are good, the bathrooms are clean, with no odd smells or mold. The only complaint to be found about these bathrooms is an old one: that last year one of the sinks fell off the wall and remained off the wall for a week. But that historical fact does not mar the clean-tiled face of the Gilliam 2nd bathroorr>~ trvl<>y, which are wonderful. Rating~~~~~ Gilliam 3rd The Gilliam 3rd bathrooms are Gilliam bathrooms, so they are gloriously private and clean, with great adjustable water pressure and temperature and the residents of Gilliam 3rd love them. The showers do have the same problem as the showers on the first floor, however, and can get water all over the floor if one fails to position the plastic curtain correctly. Compared to Randall bathrooms, these are a paradise. Rating:~~~~~ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The Gadfly</em> Description An account of the resource Founded in 1980, <em>The </em><em>Gadfly</em> is a weekly student publication distributed to over 600 students, faculty, and staff of the Annapolis campus.<br /><br />Click on <strong><a title="The Gadfly" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=16&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&amp;sort_dir=d">Items in the <em>The Gadfly</em> Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection. 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The Gadfly reserves the right to accept, reject, and edit submissions in any way necessary to publish a professional, informative, and thought-provoking newsmagazine. The Gadfly meets on the Lower Level of the BBC every Sunday at 7pm. Articles should be submitted by Friday at 11:59 PM to sjca.gadfly@gmail.com. STAFF Sebastian Barajas • Editor-in-Chief Allison Tretina • Editor-in-Chief Kira Anderson • Staff Jonathan Gordon • Staff Frederick Nesfield • Staff Malori Richards • Staff Julia Kulon • Photoshop Extaordinaire Lyra Muerer • Illustrator SCI: Language Tutorials Henry Hirsch A'15 From the Editors: G ive us your voices, Polity. In you resides the potentiality for a euphonious choir, singing the praise of wisdom. In you is the capacity to appreciate, to love, to critique, to complain about the quality of the dining hall food, all in perfect harmony. Will you not contribute? Will you not join our celestial harmony? Give us your voices, Polity. We aim at the Good. -The Gadfly Book Collecting Winners Th e Greenfield Library is pleased to announce the winners of the 4th annual Book Collecting Contest. First Prize Christopher Hutter, Junior (Al6) I Didn't Learn That in High School: Books on Obscure American History Second Prize Brady Lee, (AGI14), Web Specialist, Senior Resident for International Student Services Legos and Greek: Books for My Daughter Read the Prize-Winning Essays here: http://www.sjc.edu/academics/libraries/greenfieldlibrary/exhibits/ Please stop by the Library to view these unique collections. The exhibit will be on display from February 4th through March 30th and is located in the Lillian Vanous Nutt Room on the 1st floor of the Library. + 03 I Dig Your Mirth Jerry Januszewski On Thursday, January 22, the Student Committee on Instruction (SCI) convened in the private dining hall to discuss the language tutorials. The primary goal of the language tutorials, according to the Statement of the St. John's Program, is "training in the ~ means of precise communication." It is also often said that the language tutorials explore the connections between language, thought and experience. Do the language tutorials accomplish these objectives? Do students have any practical concerns regarding the language tutorials? Most of the students at the forum did not feel their language tutorials were training them to communicate more precisely. Several thought that not enough emphasis is put on examining the relationship between language, thought, and experience. They objected to . the amount of time that their classes spent both comparing the technicalities of their translations and discussing the "plot points" of whatever text they were translating. The latter, one student argued, could be mitigated by translating texts that are familiar to students, as is done with Antigone in the sophomore language tutorial. Several others students believed that the language tutorials could better achieve their stated objective by incorporating texts into the curriculum that address the nature of language such as Heidegger's The Ode on Man in Sophocles' Antigone, Nietzsche's The ~irth of Tragedy, and Strunk and White's The Elements ofStyle. One student reported that ~1s class had begun to address the nature of language by translating in reverse (e.g., translatmg a Shakespeare sonnet into Greek). Another student thought that it would be constructive for freshmen to spend some time reviewing English grammar in their language tutorials. The forum concluded that the language tutorials currently fall short of their objectives. Not enough emphasis is put on investigating the connections between language, thought, and experience. This might be rectified by incorporating additional readings into the curriculum and by adjusting which aspects of translation are focused on in class discussion. + CONTRIBUTORS Alimni Office Greenfield Library Henry Hirsch Holly Huey Jerry Januszewski Warren Winiarski THE GADFLY Counselor In the late 1970s, I lived in a rural university town where a significant number of people could have been called hippies. They rejected prevailing bourgeois values and led back-to-the-land lifestyles. I respected their bold, independent ways and imagined myself a kindred spirit, even though I myself was thoroughly bourgeois. One day I was reading a book in the "radical cafe" near the campus when a hippy-man sat down at my table. Sharing tables was common in that cafe, which espoused a more Marxist, communal way of doing things. When I glanced up from my book to acknowledge the man, he started talking. Eventually he explained his philosophy oflife and his solutions for what ailed the human race. One of his big ideas involved bananas. prisoner who escaped a brutal Soviet labor camp described a brief but humorous encounter with the great man: One day as Wallenberg was being treated roughly by his captors he called out, "Taxi! " -much to the amusement of his fellow prisoners who, despite their privations, were heartened by his gutsy gallows humor. A sense of humor in the face of suffering can be a saving grace that strengthens resilience and suggests a spark of hope. When we laugh we are fully present in the moment, if only briefly. The clarity of that present-ness is pleasing despite what other burdens we carry. As they say, laughter is good medicine, but it can also be good food, water, and oxygen. While traveling in India, I lived for a time He said, "Everyone's so depressed and you ' ' in a third floor apartment adjacent to a beautiful knowwhy?"(Ididnot)"Theydon'thaveenough Mirth at its best is a park. I immediately learned that a Hindu potassium, man! If everyone ate bananas they'd shared experience. worship group gathered in the park beneath my get enough potassium and they wouldn't be window every morning at 7AM. Egads! Their depressed. It's all in the bananas!" This made me meetings lasted one hour and always ended with laugh and so we talked for a while, enjoying each laughter yoga. other's company, laughing at each other's jokes. Laughter yoga involves group members When he got up to leave, he paused and with genuine sweetness said, looking directly at each other and forcing laughter, in the belief that "I dig your mirth, man." We shook hands, then he was gone and I feigned laughter is as beneficial to the body and soul as spontaneous never saw him again. But the memory of him and our brief but warm laughter. I noticed it didn't take long for the fake laughter to become encounter still makes me smile and appreciate the connecting power genuine, leaving the whole group cracking up for real. Sometimes I'd of humor. stand at the window and tell jokes at my normal volume and pretend Sometimes humor can penetrate our discouragement when all to enjoy the hysterics of my "audience". What might have been a else has failed. Ten years ago a friend of mine was admitted to an noisy nuisance became a secretly shared mirth that helped me feel inpatient addiction rehab clinic. I sat with him for moral support tenderness towards this group of devotees. while a staff counselor conducted the orientation interview. For my Mirth may be a higher order of humor, a deeper kind of delight. friend, entering rehab was a moment of real defeat-just barely better The poet William Blake said, "Too much fun is of all things most than going to jail. loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than The counselor asked, "Do you smoke mirth." It is reasonable to me that a growing cigarettes?" My friend looked at her with sense of mirth, rather than a growing cynicism, despair, as if this were the final indignity, and is a tremendous asset for a happy life. "Mirth is answered, "I'm trying to quit" -which made better than fun" is a strange sounding phrase all three of us laugh out loud, considering to the modern ear, which distinguishes very where we were. I greatly appreciated his sense little between the two. Contemporary life offers of humor and how it slightly but significantly countless options for mirthless fun, empty mitigated his misery in this situation. entertainment, and banal diversions. Mirth, Mirth at its best is a shared experience on the other hand, is uplifting and informative: that has power to reduce obstacles to it has meaningful content. It brings people intimacy. When I worked with incarcerated together and leaves a person physically and men, laughter was a great therapeutic tool emotionally healthier when concluded. that often eased them closer to each other, In a moment of mirth we've banished the creating bonds and softening the hardened critical voice that brings toxic judgment to edges that men sometimes form around tl{eir ourselves or to others. deep sadness. As one inmate astutely observed, "If I didn't laugh, I'd A mirthful approach to life may be akin to meditation, attending cry, but laughing makes crying feel better." fully to the present moment, the opposite of escapism. I wonder how A shared laugh is a great leveler, a way to feel human together, even much sooner we'd hear whispers of contentment in our souls if we a way to restore dignity. Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat intentionally cultivated a humorous or mirthful filter for the moments in Hungary during WWII who saved tens of thousands of Jews from of our day that might otherwise be irritating or discouraging. Mirth extermination. After the war, he was arrested by his former Soviet enlarges our capacity to take on the poignant struggles of life. For allies and charged with espionage. He was presumably taken to these reasons and others, I dig mirth, too. And with all due respect Siberia, and no one heard from him again. to my long lost hippie friend, I'd say mirth is probably better than Information about Wallenberg in captivity is scant, but one bananas. + �04 THE GADFLY Detroit, Michigan Salem, Oregon Angry Owl Attacks Joggers: Salem officials warn joggers of an angry, hat-snatching owl located in the state capital area. According to Reuters, Keith Keever, the city's parks superintendent, explained that the Salem officials had never heard of case like this before. Brad Hillard, 36, was one of the last two joggers to have lost headgear to the owl. "It was kind of amazing how [the owl] just swooped down and grabbed my hat like that, Brad Hillard told Reuters. "It just pulled it right off like it was nothing!" Signs are now hung around Bush's Pasture Park to warn runners against jogging before dawn. 05 THE GADFLY Around the U.S. Vital tubes pulled: A 69 year old marriage ended when both man and wife died in the hospital only 8 hours apart. Gene and Pat Warrington met in junior high and married while Gene w as on leave from boot camp during World War II. After his safe return the couple had been inseparable ever since. After a visit to his wife's hospital room, which revealed her ailing condition, Gene decided to pull his own tubes and cords out telling a son, "It wouldn't be fun without her." This did not come as a surprise to the family who knew the couple to only do things together. The couple has left behind 3 children, 7 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren. Burlington, Vermont Pinedale,"lllTyoming Sheriff Bans Western Attire: Longtime deputy of Sub- Oldest known time capsule: On January 6, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston conservator Paul Hatchfield opened th e nation's oldest known time capsule in the walls of the Massachusetts State House. It was originally buried on July 4, 1795 by none other than midnight-rider Paul Revere and Samuel Adams, who was then Massachusett's governor. Inside the plaster-sealed, corroded box were five neatly folded newspapers, a collection of 23 coins dating as far back as 1652, a medal depicting George Washington, a replica of Colonial records, and a silver plate commemorating the erection of the new State House. Th e capsule had until last week remained unopened since it was orinally found in 1855 by workers making some repairs on the State House. lette County, Gene Bryson, retired after the new sheriff in town changed the deputies' dress code. Sublette County's deputies are now banned from wearing cowboy hats and cowboy boots and are instead required to wear black trousers, a tan shirt, black boots, and a black ball cap, Associated Press reports. The new deputy, Sheriff Stephen Haskell, 53, told the Star-Tribune the change was for safety reasons and uniformity. But for Gene Bryson a change in uniform is a change in identity. He explained, "I've been h ere for 40-odd years in the sheriff's office, and I'm not going to go out and buy combat boots and throw my vest and hat away and say, 'This is the new me."' Boston, Massachusetts Harvard Just Banned Sex Between Teachers and Students: It's official. Harvard has banned sex between teachers and students. According to Quartz, Harvard announced their revised policy on Monday, February 2. Previously the university only warned against "amorous relationships" between faculty and students or junior colleagues, without ever banning them. The revised policy explicitly states that no faculty member can engage in a romantic or sexual relationship with any undergraduate student. However there is an exception: graduate students. Harvard only prohibits such relationships when the professor is supervising or teaching the student in some way. In those cases, Quartz explains, as long as the supervision has concluded, the final grade has been submitted to the Registrar, "professors and graduate students may enter a romantic relationship." Denver, Colorado Marijuana Makes Taxpayers Money: Colorado's taxpayers are making money off the tax revenue from the legal marijuana sales. Passed in 2012, Amendment 64 from the Tax Payer Bill of Rights, or TABOR, restricts the amount of money Colorado's state treasury can take from tax revenue. As Mic News explains, once the state has estimated how much the state will generate from a new tax, the state treasury must refund however much falls under their projections. For the Centennial State residents, this could mean $50 million in tax cuts in one year. "The only way to fix the refund would be to ask Coloradans to vote yet again, this time on an initiative that would exempt taxes on marijuana from the refund," Mic News reports. Annapolis, Maryland Kermit, Texas Boy Suspended for "Lord of the Rings" referenc: When 9-yearold boy, Aiden Steward, in a playful act of make-believe, told a classmate he could make him disappear with his "one ring to rule them all," Kermit Elementary School called it a threat and suspended the boy. According to the Daily Times, Aiden claimed he could put the ring on his friend's head and make him invisible like Bilbo Baggins, who stole Gollum's "precious" in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy series "The Lord of the Rings". When the boy's father, Jason Steward, heard the school suspended him, he was shocked. "It sounded unbelievable,'' Steward told the Daily Times. He insists his son "didn't mean anything by it." 'Serial' Star Has Been Granted an Appeal: Maryland Court of Special Appeals approved Adnan Syed's application for appeal, the Baltimore Sun reports. Adnan Syed, convicted of strangling his exgirlfriend, Hae Min Lee, was the subject of Serial, a podcast series hosted by Sarah Koenig. "It's th e first step in a pretty long process, but we're extremely happy," Syed's attorney, C. Justin Brown, told the Baltimore Sun. Syed was convicted of his ex-girlfriend's murder in 1998 and sentenced to life imprisonment. Many years after his conviction, Syed's family wrote a letter to journalist Koenig to further evaluate the case. Koenig has since shared her investigative work on what has become the most downloaded podcast in history, Serial. Public pressure pushed the state of Maryland to re-open the case. Syed's appeal is sch eduled to be heard in June. Hunterdon County, New Jersey Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Comcast Turns Customer's Name to "Asshole": When Ricardo Brown's wife, Lisa Brow n, called Comcast and tried to waive a cancellation fee, Ricardo's next billing statement read "Asshole Brown" in place of his real name. Comcast bounced Lisa from a customer representative to a "retention specialist", a member of the army of employees responsible for keeping customers from dropping Comcast, Consumerist reports. Lisa told consumer advocate, Christopher Elliott, that she was never rude and cannot figure out why she was called an asshole. According to Consumerist, Comcast's local offices could not explain the name-calling, and Comcast headquarters has since apologized and refunded the Browns two years of service. Chris Christie Faces Criminal Investigation: Bennett Barlyn, former prosecutor with the Hunterdon County office, may likely have jeopardized Governor Chris Christie's political future as 2016 presidential candidate, the Inquistr reports. Four years ago, the former prosecutor accused Christie for obstructing justice to help some of his political allies. Christie's then-Attorney general, Paula Dow, overturned all 43 of the grand jury's indictments; and, Barlyn was fired soon after. Four years later, the Justice Department is returning to Barlyn's charges. According to the Inquisitr, no formal charges have been leveled. Michael Drewniak, Christie's spokesperson, said, "This is conspiracy theory stuff from someone who is obviously casting a wide net with hopes of coming up with a big fish or something. It's nonsense." �06 THE GADFLY Edward Dickinson Holly Huey A'16 The Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Gallery celebrates the life and work of Edwin Dickinson in its exhibit, A Lineage of America! Perceptual Painters. Gallery guard, Holly Huey,focuses our attention on one of the many fascinating pieces included in the exhibit, An Anniversary. Be sure to stop by the exhibit before it closes on March 1. Gallery hours extend from noon to 5 pm, Tuesday through Sunday. (This piece was originally published on the Mitchell Art Gallery's blog, themitchellgallery.wordpress.com.) For Edwin Dickinson, life and art were talented yet deeply depressed and alcoholic musician. "Burgess was the chief influinextricably joined. As one of his students ence in my entire life," Dickinson once once commented, "Dickinson didn't think stated (Carbone). After Burgess committed independently of his life and what happened on the canvas or the drawing paper suicide-it was Dickinson who found the - they were exactly, identically the same body-Dickinson was awakened to a new thing." (TFAO).His large hauntingly, enigaesthetic of intensely dark and profoundly matic paintings are a piercing look into the psychological symbols. mind of the artist. At the top of the trinity, a male musician (mostly likely symbolizing Dickinson's Dickinson was highly influenced by realist artist and mentor, Charles Webster brother) holds, but does not play, a vioHawthorne. Under Hawthorne's instruclin. Multiple other unplayed instruments tion, Dickinson learned to look for the scatter the scene, and sheets of music score unexpected and to paint without formulas, lie unnoticed by the figures of the painting. to squint to determine value relationships, The fact that neither the instruments nor to establish compositions between "spots" the music score are used seem to suggest of color (Hawthorne, wiki). It is here Burgess' unfilled potential as a musician. in the seemingly strange juxtapositions of The somber gathering of people, all dressed monochromatic forms, dark figures, and in black or dark attire, seem to depict a miscellaneous objects of his paintings that funeral setting. Yet Burgess' presence Dickinson's life emerges in image. within An Anniversary (perhaps an anniversary of Burgess' death or In An Anniversary (1920-21), the dark symbols of Dickinson's funeral) is very much living. Symbolically as a musician dressed in a life are an overwhelming and intimate portrayal of the artist. Anniver- lively red and clearly a major influence of the painting, Dickinson's saries were significant dates for Dickinson, who meticulously record- brother is quite present. In a painting of memories, time blends. Past ed the anniversaries of births and deaths of relatives, dear friends, and present come together in the artist's mind. and individuals he greatly admired-including Beethoven, Bach, and The following year of his brother's suicide, Dickinson's father Proust, as well as Civil War battles and other major events in history remarried to a young woman twenty one years his junior. It is argued (Driscoll, wiki). It is thought that the painting was directly inspired th at perhaps besides Dickinson's broth er (or more so), Dickinson's by Thomas Hardy's poem "An Anniversary," relationship to his stepmother is th e greatest in which anniversaries are "the saddest days ' ' The profound depth of influence and subject of An Anniversary. of the year." Yet Dickinson's An AnniversaHis father's marriage was a deep source ry does not seem to depict a single day of the Dickinson's personally ofresentment for Dickinson, whose taboo year. The crowd of figures, who appear to be dark life are seen and Oedipal conflict with his father caused him unaware of each other, and clutter ofmiscelintensely felt in his much estrangement from society's aclaneous objects strewn across the bottom of ceptable norms (TFAO). The aged father the painting do not contribute to a unified work. (left within the trinity) waves a weak but narrative. Instead, the shadowy forms and admonishing or accusatory finger toward the densely layered composition of the painting viewer. In this moment, the viewer is immeseem to evoke the notion of memories. diately and uncomfortably placed within the disjunct narrative of the At the center of An Anniversary, three brightly toned faces-an painting. Here, the viewer would seem to assume the role of Dickinaged father, musician, and young woman- form a certain composison himself. It is clear Dickinson does not paint his father favorably tional and symbolic trinity of Dickinson's life. nor does his father look back favorably upon the viewer- that is, Several major tragedies deeply affected Dickinson and his work. Dickinson. Yet it is unclear whether the decrepit father truly sees the During his youth, Dickinson was a constant witness to his mother's viewer; his eyes are barely open and given his appearance of extreme protracted tuberculosis and eventual death. After her death, the age, it is possible presbyopia h as altogether claimed his sight. Like his family was sh attered, and relatives drifted away from each other as unawareness to his son's romantic feelings toward his wife, so too is he physically blind. Dickinson's father was unable to hold together the family. Ten years after his mother's devastating death, Dickinson found Continued On Pg. 8 himself living in New York with his brother, Burgess, who was a + 07 THE GADF LY Johnnie of th·e Vine Warren Winiarski is a much celebrated California winemaker. He graduated from St. John's College in A nnapolis, Maryland, in 1952. Winiarski then returned to the University ofChicago to begin graduate work in political theory, as well as spending a year ofstudy in Naples and Florence, Italy. He taught at the University of Chicago for six years while working toward his Ph.D. Winiarski's experience in Italy invited him to be a winemaker. After working for, and learning from, various wineries, including that ofRobert Mondavi, he bought a carefully selected SO-acre prune orchard in 1970, which he turned into a vineyard that he named Stag's L eap Vineyard and W ine Cellars . Six years later, a bottle ofWiniarski's very firs t vintage at the winery (1973) was selected for comparison in the historic Paris Wine Tasting of1976, where it won first place among iconic Bordeaux-classed growths and California Cabernet Sauvignons. A bottle ofhis award-winning 1973 S.L.V. Cabernet Sauvignon wine is on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum ofAmerican History in Washington, D.C. In its November 2013 issue and related book, Smithsonian magazine included this bottle as one of the "101 Objects that Made A merica." The wine bottle was selected from among more than 137 million artifacts, works ofart, and specimens in the collection f or its historic ornia. Other importance in creating awareness and recognition of the quality ofwine being made in Calif items chosen from among the collections for this historic list included Neil Armstrong's space suit, Abraham Lincoln's top hat, Charles Lindberg's Spirit ofSt. Louis, and Lewis and Clark's compass. ~ Winarski played an integral role in the creation of the 1968 Agricultural Preserve A ct in Napa County and was inducted into the California Vintners H all ofFame at The Culinary Institute ofAmerica at Greystone in 2009. Winiarski sold Stag's Leap Wine Cellars in 2007 and continues his passion for greatness in grapes and wine at his Arcadia Vineyard in the Napa Valley. Warren Winiarski A'52 quickly and make up for a late start) an unsleeping need to ask St. John's College's curriculum implies the possibility of a philo"Why?" Now, my teacher in the first, small winery where I was an sophic life. The way the liberal arts are practiced at St. John's is a apprentice was not the kind of man to say each morning "This is path to this life in part because its curriculum has such a strong the lesson for the day." H is winery was a workplace and we had focus on learning about learning, what learning is, and reflecting on jobs to do - so while being a good master, in the sense that he was a what it means to know. But such an education also prepares one to good practitioner of th e craft, his morning ask questions about all sorts of other more greeting was followed by the words "This But such an education practical and non-philosophical things. It prepares you to reflect on the form of your also prepares one to ask is the job for today." Being thrown back on my own resources to understand required questions and thereby to reflect on how questions about all sorts a certain reliance on my training in those your questions relate to the objects or the skills of questioning and reflection that I of other more practical realities you are attempting to understand. h ad learned at St. John's. After awhile I reSt. John's attempts to give you the habits non-philosophical things. alized I was getting good at knowing why of a learning frame of mind, maybe even a step B followed Step A - and that step C learning 'frame of soul'. would be next or else, given the end to be So what is it like learning the habits of achieved, step D might be the alternative. I also began to see that to the soul to become a wine maker and a grape grower? It is, in many achieve a goal, some means would be better than others that were in ways, the "way" of the St. John's liberal arts curriculum - trying general practice at that time in the wineries of the Napa Valley. With to get down to the bottom (or to the top) of each step in a complex the resource provided by this kind of learning, I was enabled, maybe sequence of things that can be described by means of some of the even compelled, to innovate beyond the methods and practices methods students employ in curriculum inquiries. For example, which were, for the most part, current at the time. "what is it," "how is it," "where," "how much or little" and similar modes of pinning things down. Getting to the bottom of the craft of grape growing and wine making also required for me to acquire (since I had to catch up '' + �08 THE GADFLY Continued From UPCOMING EVENTS Tuesday 02/10 Kunai 4PM Fencing 6PM Wednesday 02/11 St. John's Chorus, Great Hall 7PM Thursday 01/15 CrossFit 11:40AM Friday 01116 Fencing 6PM All College Seminar: Heraclitus' Fragment McDowell Hall 7PM Saturday 01/17 New Carrolton Shuttle 9AM Pg. 6 Indeed, only the young woman is startlingly aware of the viewer. Though the trinity of figures lies at the center of the painting, the young woman's face (right within trinity) is most central to An Anniversary. With pursed lips, her Mona Lisa-esque expression makes it unclear of her feelings of the viewer. Yet as the viewer looks upon her, she gazes back with equal attentiveness. Amidst the chaos of dark images, the viewer's gaze natural settles on her enigmatic face. Her face is calm, and as one gazes into her eyes, so too does the viewer become calm. Perhaps An Anniversary the depression Dickinson experienced at his father's marriage to another woman or perhaps the depression experienced when he realized his love for his father's new wife? Perhaps the painting depicts his father's impending death or funeral? The profound depth of Dickinson's personally dark life are seen and intensely felt in his work. Because of the viewer's perspective and painted deliberate relationship with the figures of the painting, the viewer, in a sense, becomes Dickinson himself. The viewer sees and feels as Dickinson does. Yet as much as these images seem to symbolize Dickinson's life, they do not explain his life. Perhaps these symbols do not exist at all. Dickinson generally "avoided explanation except to describe procedures, technical problems, and formal concerns. Even when he mentioned the underlying subject or theme of the painting or identified, he acted mystified abut some of its particulars." (Ward, wiki).Yet in this, Dickinson frees the observer to experience the painting in terms of its mood and formal interplay and its suggestion of memories evoked by the title. The viewer need not experience the dark intensity and sadness of the painting merely as Dickinson's feelings. The viewer feels the intensity and sadness as one's own. + Q: Who would win in a fight, happiness or virtue? + Sunday 01/18 Shopping Shuttle 4:30 PM Gadfly Meeting, Lower level of the BBC 7PM A Question About Johnnies Q: Why do Johnnies check their mail 7-8 times a day when they only ever get, like, one thing a week? Isn't that kind ofsad? If you would like to see your event on the weekly schedule, please email sjca.gadfiy@ gmail.com. -Concerned Citizen A: The checking of the mail is an important ritual in the daily life of a Johnnie. After class, and after meals, the Johnnie feels lethargic, either with a belly uncomfortably full offood, or a mind uncomfortably full of knowledge (or drained ofall knowledge it thought it possessed, as the case may be). In such situations, the Johnnie does not feel like immediately returning to work. However, neither does the Johnnie (usually) feel like sitting around like a bum when there is so much work to do. Therefore, the subconscious says, "Hey, I know! I can check my mail before doing work. That's a thing responsible people do, right? Check their mail? And hey! I can keep hanging out with my friends!" So you see, it is a way ofavoiding work while also pretending to be responsible. Thank you for your question! -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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STAFF Sebastian Barajas • Editor-in-Chief Allison Tretina• Editor-in-Chief Kira Anderson • Staff Frederick Nesfield • Staff Malori Richards • Staff CONTRIBUTORS John Dusenbury Henry Hirsch Madeline Kiss George Ward From the Editors: D earest Johnnies: by the time you read this, we-the crack team of journalism commandos known as the Gadfly Force, (or Gadlfy for short) will have been surprised in a nighttime raid by the nefarious forces of the Badfiy, our hated adversaries. These villains will dress up in our clothes and act in our place for the next issue! We wish we could avoid this terrible fate, but it has been ordained by the oracle we consult in order to update the weekly calendar. Until our triumphant escape, then, Polity! -The Gadfly Force Belarus, a Bismarckian Mode l Allison Tretina A'16 03 THE GADFLY A Letter To the Polity John Dusenbury A'll When tension between Austria and Russia threatened war in Europe, Otto von Bismarck, the first chancellor of the German Empire, refused to take a side. As he told the Reichstag in December 1876, "I am holding two powerful heraldic beasts by their collars, and am keeping them apart for two reasons: first of all, lest they should tear one another to pieces; and secondly, lest they should come to an understanding at our expense." Bismarck's balance of power diplomacy preserved Germany's unity and saved Europe from a tumultuous war. Bismarck's firm stance toward Austria and Russia has become a present day model for Belarus during the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Minsk, Belarus has become a neutral meeting place for many world leaders. Earlier this year, EU and Western officials met in Minsk to discuss the crisis in Ukraine. Just last week, the capital hosted the leaders of France, Germany, Ukraine, and Russia to negotiate a peace deal. While the Russia-Ukraine conflict has afforded Belarus the position of host, it has also challenged Belarus's efforts to sustain neutrality between Russia and the West. As Moscow Times explains, "For a long time [Belarus Prime Minister] Lukashenko has sought to walk a very fine line between Russia and the West, professing loyalty to Moscow and participation in Putin's Eurasian integration project, the Eurasian Economic Union, while at the same time seeking to sustain working diplomatic and economic relationships with the West, in particular with the European Union." Belarus's ties to Russia continue to grow stronger. In March, Belarus expects to finalize the guidelines for its agricultural trade with Russia. They will discuss amounts and finalize their agreements. According to CISTran Finance, in 2014, Russia imported 113,000 tons of beef from Belarus, 20% of Russia's total imported supply. Of Russia's 800,000 tons of cheese consumed, Belarus supplied 15% of it, a total of 120,000 tons. Belarus Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats considers further dealings to be a prosperous venture. In the past, dealings with Russia have not been as successful. In the 2013 global potash market conflict, Belarus accused the top executives at Russian producer OAO Uralkali of a criminal scheme. According to Bloomberg Business, Belarus detained Uralkali Chief Executive Officer Vladislaw Baumertner and charged him for abusing his power in a joint venture with state-owned Belaruskali. Uralkali w as the world's largest potash producer at the time. A few years before the global potash market conflict, Belarus cut off Russia's crude oil imports after the country failed to agree on a price, Bloomberg Business reports. At the same time, Belarus has faced challenges with the West. Five years ago, the EU and the United States sanctioned Belarus for Lukashenka's corrupt presidential election that violated a specific international code. The EU extended the sanctions for another year as of October 30, 2014, according to the Moscow Times. Despite the sanctions on Belarus, the United States's attitude towards the country has improved. For example, when Belarusian Foreign Minister Uladzimir Makei visited Germany the first week in February, the U. S. applauded the Foreign Minister's initiative. W ith Ger many's fede ral auth orities, deputies of Bundest ag, representative of political foundations, and other institutions in attendance, Makei openly discussed long-term goals to cooperate with the EU and improve Belarusian-German relations. Lukashenka's "role in the attempts to resolve the conflict in Ukraine made us look in another way at the leader of Belarus," an official of the European External Action Service told the press. As much as Belarus improves its ties with either Russia or the U. S., Belarus still faces another challenge: the hostility of Russia toward the U. S. When former Belarusian Prime Minister met with U. S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, Russia responded with dismay. According to the Belarus Digest, Nuland is w idely blamed by the Russian regime for the Ukrainian crisis. Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs, Alexei Pushkov, warned that by befriending America Lukashenka might finally face the fate of Milosevich, Qadhafi, and Hussein. The Ukraine-Russia conflict has made neutrality increasingly difficult for countries such as Belarus. It is unclear how long Belarus will be able to uphold a Bismarckian model, but for now, they are succeeding. + Q: Is Antigone girlfriend material?+ lovely garden party inaugurating the arrival of spring in Maryland's Dear Students, capital, is that it is a reiteration of the Peloponnesian War, pitting It is with great sadness that I report to you that four-score and however many days ago (April 12th, 2014)- for the first time in the the philosophical Athenian spirit of St. John's against the disciplined history of the Annapolis Cup of croquet- St. John's College failed Spartan spirit of the Naval Academy. How allegorical one wishes to to reclaim the trophy and bring it back to its proper home in the be when analyzing this sporting event is, of course, a matter of perAlumni Office; after a year spent across the street and over the wall, sonal preference, but it is certainly not forbidden to see the tournahidden somewhere in the depths of the Naval Academy. How could ment as a symbolic war between good and evil. For the past two years, the militaristic Spartan spirit of the MidSt. John's have sunk so low? I have four guesses: shipmen across the street and over the wall has well-marshaled its significant resources to outdo the scholarly Athenian spirit of the NUMBER ONE: Everyone was distracted by the rebranding scandal (which, by the way, was a Naval Academy conspiracy to Johnnies. Perhaps this should come as no surprise, as St. John's is thwart a Johnnie croquet comeback). Fortunately, we've all forgotthe natural underdog. St. John's has approximately a tenth of the ten about that ordeal (and how bureaucracy is steadily sapping the student population as the Naval Academy, is not well known for vitality of American higher education) and we can now focus on athletic achievement, and is not owned and operated by the most what really matters: croquet! powerful government in the world. But this two-year losing streak NUMBER TWO: This generation of croquet players never saw for St. John's is its first losing streak in the history of the Annapolis Micah Beck play. (He graduated in '09) He's walking proof of "the Cup. St. John's is generally the favorite. In 25 out of 32 meetings, the great person theory of history." Not only a scholar and a gentleman, spirit of St. John's outdid the spirit of the Naval Academy. How could this be so? Well, the champions of St. John's have Mr. Beck is also a Viking of a man who can run a three-ball break with one hand tied behind his back. St. John's went undefeated taken their not-so -serious pastime of croquet quite seriously. The while he was a student and remained unAnnapolis Cup is the most attended croquet defeated for as long as the freshman class ( ( Intercollegiate event in the world, and the most attended event of his senior year, i.e., the class of 2012, still of the year at St. John's. It is just about the most athletic competitions public facing St. John's gets. The members of the attended the school. With any luck, another are always, in t he croquet team have taken representing the school Micah Beck is out there somewhere in the wings waiting for the chance to usher in a final account, symbolic seriously because they want the world to know new Golden Age of St. John's Croquet. that a liberal education produces folks capable battles of spirit. NUMBER THREE: The restrictions on of practical mastery, and that St. John's is better drinking have thrown the Johnnies off their than the Naval Academy, and that St. John's is a game. Beginning in 2012, the year before helluva lot more fun. the slump began, the school banned outside alcohol and began fencThat last point is of particular significance. A liberal educaing off front campus from the rest of the world. I have also heard a tion teaches students how to examine their lives so they can freely rumor that the school is capping the amount of beer that the team choose a path in life that makes them happy. Croquet is a game that can consume on the day of the Cup, which is actually to the disadfacilitates happiness and good feeling. It is fun and no stress. For vantage of the Johnnie's because lore has it that Red Stripe is to the some it is little more than an excuse to consume beverages with St. John's croquet player as spinach is to Popeye. At the same time, their friends outside on a nice day. It is in this skill, the skill of enthe restrictions have put a damper on the carnival atmosphere that joying oneself, that I think Johnnies most outshine their neighbors in years past so intoxicated the straight-laced Midshipmen that across the street and over the wall. their prowess on the court was greatly impaired; this gave the St. Croquet is a game that anybody can play. One doesn't have to be John's croquet players, veterans of many a bacchanalia, a significant tall, or strong, or swift of foot when the most physical action a player home field advantage. Until this administrative error is corrected, I must master is how they guide a mallet's swing between their legs. am afraid the champions of St. John's will just have to persevere. It's easier than throwing a Frisbee. Anybody can play. And everyNUMBER FOUR: The croquet team seems to have beeome body at St. John's should play. distracted by another croquet tournament that occurs in a whole So I ask my readers, have you played croquet recently, and if not, 'nother state. The team has been spotted playing on back campus, why not? Do you not wish to help your little school win glory in the perhaps because it's flatter than the front lawn and thus more wider world? Are you more focused on what kind of status you are similar to the courts played on in Pennsylvania. It's even been rugoing to eke out for yourself after graduation? Remember, the Canon mored that the team is traveling large distances to practice a type of will always be there, but your chance to play croquet against Navy croquet that has fewer wickets per court than the nine used in the lasts only so long. In this life, we are all Achilles- we are all asked Annapolis Cup, and while the croquet team used to distinguish itself to choose between a life of glory and a life of comfort (Iliad Book 9, from the croquet club (that every member of the polity is a part of) Lines 410-416). Which one will you choose? only by wearing absurd dress on the day of the match, members of the team can now be seen dressed absurdly over the course of the Go, St. Johns! whole year. You can't miss them. They are decked out in all white -kinda like the stormtroopers in Star Wars. Signed, But of course, these are mere excuses. Intercollegiate athletic John Dusenbury (A'll) competitions are always, in the final account, symbolic battles of spirit. P. S. Sam, don't forget to time the matches this year, and rememThe charm of the Annapolis Cup, aside from the fact that it is a ber the clips! + �04 New Haven, Connecticut Willamette River Valley, Oregon First Fish Taken Off Endangered Species List: Believe it or not, no fish has ever been taken off the endangered species until last week. According to Smithsonian Smart News, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife service announced on Tuesday, February 17, that a tiny minnow in Oregon has recovered from drastically low population numbers, and has been taken off the endangered species list. Thriving in beaver ponds, flooded marshes, and backwater sloughs, the minnows can only be found in western Oregon's Willamette River Valley. When the minnows were first listed as endangered, they numbered 1,000. Now, there are more than 140,000, reports the Pacific Region Fish and Wildlife Service. "This doesn't mean that all of a sudden it's hands off, and we never need to do anything for them," Paul Henson, Oregon director of U.S. Fish and Wildlife, told the Seattle Times. 05 THE GADFLY THE GADFLY Around the U.S. Why Marijuana Makes You Hungry: Researchers at Yale University discovered that marijuana prohibits neurons in the brain from suppressing the appetite. "It fools the brain's central feeding system;' Tamas Horvath, lead author of the marijuana study, said, according to the Washington Post. ''We were surprised to find that the neurons we thought were responsible for shutting down eating were suddenly being activated and promoting hunger, even when you are full." Horvath and his researchers found that instead of suppressing the appetite, cannabinoid receptors actually release endorphins that encourage eating. It is still unclear why people have stronger responses to marijuana than mice, the Washington Post explains. Westminister, Maryland A New Dr. Seuss Book: Random House is publishing a neverbefore-seen book from Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. The hidden treasure is What Pet Should I Get?, a likely sequel to the story One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. According to the New York Times, the manuscript was first uncovered shortly after Dr. Seuss's' death. In 2013, Giesel's widow, Audrey, and his secretary and friend, Claudia Prescott, found it buried in a box along with several other mysterious works. Random House expects to release the new book on July 28, as well as the other works at a later date. Salt Lake City, Utah Utah's Possible Capital Punishment: Utah may bring back execution by firing squad. On Friday, February 13, Utah's House of Representatives passed Bill OOll, which will allow executioners to resort to firing squad when materials for lethal injection are not available. According to Mic News, the bill passed the Republican-dominated chamber with a 39-34 vote. It still has to pass the Senate, but if the Senate shares the views of Representative Paul Ray, passing the bill is highly possible. Ray told the Salt Lake Tribune, "A firing squad is absolutely one of the most humane way to execute someone because it's so quick and, quite honestly, one of the most painless ways." Beston, Virginia (CIA Headquarters) Bentonville, Arizona Wal-Mart Offers a Living Wage: In the last year a number of protests spread across the country and more than 1,600 on Black Friday alone-all concerning Wal-Mart's poor treatment of employees and severely low wage. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, more than half of the company's workers earn less than $25,000 a year. This year things are going to change. Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillan announced that by the end of next year, Wal-Mart will raise its wage-floor to $10 an hour, which is $2.75 higher than the federal minimum wage. ''We are trying to create a meritocracy where you can start somewhere and end up just as high as your hard work and your capacity will enable you to go," McMillan told Associated Press. 1 j That Scary Place on the Internet Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Oklahoma Looks to Ban AP U.S. History: Oklahoma's legislature passed a bill on Monday, February 16, that will ban public schools from teaching Advanced Placement United States History, Newsweek reports. Republican Daniel Fisher, author of the bill, complained that the AP history course focused heavily on "what is bad about America" instead of emphasizing "American exceptionalism," according to Tulsa World. Oklahoma teachers are furious. "My first reaction is that this is totally going to undermine public education in Oklahoma," Matt Holtzen, who has taught 17 years of AP U.S. history teacher in Enid, Oklahoma, told Newsweek. ''We're looking at a $6ll million shortfall in the budget for Oklahoma this year. And AP U.S. is what they target to cut?" That Lonely Place on the Internet Man Creates Dating Site for Himself : Partly joking, partly serious, Brandon Scott Wolf created a dating website, for which he is the only dating option. The site is called DateBrandonScott Wolf. Any woman can become a dating candidate by filling out a profile and writing an essay between 500 and 1,000 words about a specific accomplishment or event that impacted their life, the Huffington Post reports. "People have asked me, 'Are you serious? Is this a joke?' And my only response is, 'I'm not even sure,"' Wolf told Mashable. "There's a part of me that's hoping someone is going to get this 100 percent, and won't catfish me, and then I'll ask them on a date." Anti-Dinosaur Mother Goes Viral: A Christian anti-dinosaur mother started a message board online that has gone viral, according to Mic News. She uses her screen name CADministry (which stands for "Christians Against Dinosaurs Ministry") to protest to the world that dinosaurs are harmful for our children. "Nothing about dinosaurs is suitable for children, from their lack of family values through to their non-existence from any serious scientific point of view," she writes. Dinosaurs, she claims, are invented by "curio-hungry Victorians", but apparently we have Charles Darwin to thank, because he disproved dinosaurs' existence. According to Mic News, when her children received toy dinosaurs for Christmas, she wrote, "My children were delighted because they know that dinosaurs are evil. I am fortunate that my family has been very supportive, and has disowned my children's former aunt." CIA Bought and Destroyed Iraqi Chemical Weapons: According to a new report from the New York Times, the CIA and U.S. military teamed up to find and remove 400 chemical weapons from an undisclosed Iraqi seller. "This was a timely and effective initiative by our national intelligence partners that negated the use of these unique munitions;' Retired Arm Lt. Gen. Richard P. Zahner told the Times. The report, however, revealed that many American service members involved in the operation did not receive the proper care following their exposure to the harmful chemicals. As Aaron Stein, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, said to the Times , "As it became more clear over the course of the war that our troops had been exposed to [chemical compounds], why wasn't more done to protect the guys on the ground?" Daytona, Florida New Bacon-Eating Record: Matt 'Megatoad' Stonie, on e of Major League Eating's top two eaters in the word, set the bacon-eating record by housing 182 slices in five minutes, Huffington Post reports. The sponsors of the Daytona, Florida competition estimates Stonie ate more than six pounds of cooked b,acon and over 28,000 milligrams of sodium. Stonie felt no regret after the event and still somehow had an appetite for bacon. "The bacon was cooked just the way I like it-a little crispy because I don't like having to chew it," Stonie told the Huffington Post after the competition. "I don't feel that bad. I'm used to 10 or 12 minute contests, where I'm eating 10 or 15 pounds of food. I came into this prepared." ' r r �06 THE GADFLY THE GADFLY 07 "The kind of book that Madame Bovary would read" -The Ne}V York Times · Offshore Drilling in the Atlantic "Inexplicably a worldwide phenomenon" -The Washington Post · What is the Smart Choice? "No. My opinion is no.'' -Rebecca O'Brien, St. John's College Delegate Council member Note: these uotes ma not be real This past month, the White House took action to effectively ban thousands of species of marine wildlife in the Gulf and countless oil exploration and drilling in 22 million acres ofland in Alaska. residents and business owners in the effected coastal areas. BP has Great! However, they also opened up the leases for oil drilling off already paid billions of dollars in fees, fines, and claims and is in a the East Coast. This may sound great- it'll be good for the economy, position to pay out a total of upwards of $43 billion once everything right? Or, it may sound like a disaster- it's going to destroy the is settled and done. This spill was a direct result of a badly built and delicate ecosystems of the Atlantic and the East Coast! There's a lot badly regulated rig. The initial explosion killed 11 people, and the going on here, and a lot of possibilities up in the air. What should estimated total amount of oil leaked was around 4 million barrels we think about this decision? In order to figure that out we must ask (the US Government says 4.2 billion, BP claims it was closer to 2.45 ourselves: is it a smart move? billion). This type of disaster could happen again, and it could prove In order to answer this question we must first look at all the conto be even worse. sequences, both good and bad, that could result from big oil comEast Coast states rely heavily on the revenue generated through panies drilling in the Atlantic. To start with the potential benefits: the tourism industry. There are entire towns that live and die with it could result in a growth in state economies along the East Coast, the busiest tourist seasons. If something were to happen to destroy as the oil companies will need to invest in proper infrastructure to their main attractions, the beaches, not only would the state economies be hard hit, but countless people who make their living in this accompany the offshore drills (which are in federally controlled waters) and the increase in oil production could possibly lower gas industry would be devastated. The collective value of the tourism prices. industry for Florida, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Now, let's look at the potentially harmful consequences: possible North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia is $189 billion. In the oil spills destroying coastal eco-systems and painful financial blows event of an environmental disaster, a spill could reach the shores of to the tourism industry for coastal states, deepening our reliance any or all of these states, destroying the livelihoods of millions of on non-sustainable energy sources, and the Americans. definite harm caused by sonic-canons used to In addition to the financial impact a disaster ' ' Will we make short- would have, the environmental consequences survey possible drilling sites to over 100,000 sighted decisions that would be unquantifiable. If another oil spill of sea creatures. put the planet, its ani- the same size were to happen in the Atlantic Yeah, there are more cons than pros... Maybe the significance of the benefits outweigh the mal life, and our future Ocean, the harmful effects would be widenegative consequences? descendants in possible spread and uncontainable. As it is, there are The estimated sum that could be generated already 138,000 sea creatures who are in jeopardy? by offshore drilling is upwards of $10.8 to $60 direct harm's way just from the effects of the billion (that number represents the collective sonic cannon that would be used to survey the total benefits to coastal states from Delaware ocean floor to find suitable drilling areas. Most to Georgia). Additionally, there could be another $2.1 to $11.6 billion marine life relies on sound to communicate, and the cannon could made in tax revenue. Finally, any effect on gas prices wouldn't be cause significant and possibly permanent hearing damage, thereby seen until 2030, fifteen years from now, and it is only estimated to be leaving these dolphins, whales, turtles, crabs and other creatures as a difference of three cents. We can't predict what the geo-political good as dead. landscape in 2030 will look like, so there is no way of guaranteeAll of these possible consequences are just in the event that there ing that the extra oil production would actually result in lower gas is an oil spill-we haven't even looked at the significance of offshore prices. drilling encouraging our country's reliance on unsustainable fossil Fifteen years is a long time to wait to see benefits from a venture fuels. Leaving aside the obvious effects these fuels have on the clithat could end up causing more harm than good. Which brings us to mate, the United States' reliance on oil has been a consistent cause the cons of offshore drilling... for our involvement in contentious political situations, particularly Oil spills happen, and they aren't pretty. The last major one in the Middle East, since the mid-twentieth century. As it is, we rely to effect the United States was the largest one in our history, the on oil to power our economy Continued On Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010, which proved catastrophic for Pg. 7 and our lives- leaving us in George Ward A'.17 Is it tough to imagine a piece of cinema as revolutionary as Fifty Shades of Grey? Yes. Its subject matter? Staggering. Its characters? So fleshed out, it hurts. In all seriousness, this is a film that isn't just groundbreaking, it takes the ground and dismisses it entirely, drilling through it until it's nestled in the spicy hot lava underneath. Christian Grey is the kind of man who makes money almost as fast as he makes his enemies sad. He's the kind of guy who has a house that's so big, even though no house is big enough to contain his piercing gaze. He's the kind of guy who has an unsettlingly strong handshake, like a handshake ghost, maybe. He's the kind of guy who thinks your girlfriend is ugly, but will steal her anyway Continued From because then you will feel lonely like he does all the time. And nobody gets stolen faster than saucy college coed Anastasia Steele. She yearns for him so much, and who can blame her? Christian Grey is the kind of man whose body is like a typhoon! His torso undulates like an ocean warning a peaceful island village of the violence to come. Imagine the peaceful island villagers to be kind of turned on, too. That's how I was the whole movie. I would wreck islanders' villages for Christian Grey. I am not sure what his company does, but maybe it will help. I would wreck them sensually. And nobody gets wrecked more sensually than wide-eyed, virginal twenty-something Anastasia Steele. Sh e takes one look at Christian Grey and alluringly bites herself in the face. Sometimes, she exhales deeply, and sometimes, she bites a pen. All this because of a man. A man so powerful, he has *many* cars. I think I've made my case. Their names may be metallic, but their love is fierce and wild, like a dog and a cat who want to be friends. At one point, they are both naked at the end. Christian looks at her naked body and wants it so much. Anastasia says no, and Christian makes an angry face. The sexual tension is palpable, and as an audience member, I'm sure I'm not alone in being grateful... if you know what I mean!!!! Fifty Shades may not be a fun treat for the whole family. But it's certainly a fun treat if you're on a girls' night out ... and an *especially* fun treat if you're saucy enough to be out with a *boy!* "Laters, babes"! This is George Ward, signing out! + Pg.6 a position w here we find ourselves needing to interfere in messy and costly situations overseas so that we can maintain our energy imports. One could say, "Sure, but that only makes offshore drilling more important! We can become self-reliant!" But this is a foolhardy claim. First off, the oil reaped from these rigs would be controlled and sold by the oil companies leasing the rigs, and more often than not the oil would be shipped overseas to be sold on the world market. Secondly, by saying "yes" to offshore drilling, we are only supporting the unsustainable reliance we have on oil, thereby keeping our nation's interests and assets tied to those of unstable governments overseas. Time and time again we have imposed our influence on regimes and governments of foreign states in order to ensure the stability of our energy supply, but we shouldn't continue to go down this path. To sum it up, any move to continue our reliance on fossil fuels when we could be investing in more sustainable forms of energy is not only a foolish choice when it comes to the environment, but an unwise choice when it comes to foreign policy and national security. The truth is, there is a lot of damage that can result from drilling in the Atlantic off the East Coast. Sure, it may be financially profitable to some of the coastal states, but does that make it the smarter choice? As humans we may feel a sense of control over our environment, to the point that we can manipulate it to our whim at will, but shouldn't we also feel a sense of duty too? We are not alone on this planet and any decision regarding offshore drilling is going to effect the other species we share this environment with. They can't survive on money, and neither can we when it really comes down to it, so right now is the time when we need to choose. Will we make short-sighted decisions that put the planet, its animal life, and our future descendants in possible jeopardy? Or, do we make the wiser choice and act on behalf of our children and this shared environment-a choice that would be even more likely lead to a stronger economy and n ational security down the road? Now, it is time for you to choose: what is the smart choice? + A Poem Inspired By Aristotle's Ethics +Anonymous As two stones are scraped together to be smooth so friends must chip off their faults, mimicking each other to become good people. �08 THE GADFLY Plate I' ll (cont i11J1cd) UPCOMING EVENTS Tuesday 02/23 Crossfit 11:40AM Kunai 4PM ~..:J' · ~.J t' Fencing 7:30 PM Wednesday 02/24 Crossfit 11:40AM St. John's Chorus, Great Hall 7 PM Thursday 02/25 Crossfit 11:40AM Intramural Basketball Championship Game lOPM SPRING BREAK BEGINS lOPM If you would like to see your event on the weekly schedule, please email sjca.gad:fly@ gmail.com. ~-=· ; h= rrr THE STUDENT COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION: Examining Freshman Laboratory Henry Hirsch A'15 and structure of a subject. On Thursday, February 19, the Student A tutor who was present at the forum Committee on Instruction convened in the Private Dining Hall to discuss freshman suggested that a tension exists between the laboratory. What questions does freshman authors who are read in the first and second laboratory (especially in the first semester) semesters of freshman laboratory. Some try to address? What aspects of the laborasecond semester authors (notably Lavoisier) tory can be improved? claim that nothing is created or destroyed. Many of the students who were present Yet, much of the activity of first semester at the forum regarded freshman laboratory involves destroying beings, for example, (particularly in the first semester) as an exdissecting a fish. The idea of w holeness that ercise in learning to see in a variety of ways. permeates the first semester is absent in the They thought that the laboratory encoursecond semester. It is replaced by the idea of ages students to compare the different permeasurement. For instance, one can break a spectives provided by observation of living rock and measure its parts. But one cannot do the same activity with a fish; the fish has organisms and dead organisms, of exteriors and interiors, and of wholes and parts. a wholeness that the rock does not have. In other words, the primary focus of the One freshman was disturbed by what she perceived as the flippancy that is shown laboratory is not the subjects that are being observed, but rather for the lives of the the different ways in organisms dissected which those subjects ' ' Freshman are provided in freshman laboracan be observed, and with almost no guidance tory. She felt that thus understood. One alternatives (such or methodology during as models or videos) student pointed out their practicums; they are should be provided for that this is why freshmen are provided with learning to look for them- students who didn't almost no guidance or want to partake in the selves. dissections. Howmethodology during ever, another student their practicums; they are learning to look for themselves. believed that using these alternatives would undermine the purpose of the practicums by Another student at the forum felt that the most fruitful conversations in freshmen inhibiting students from learning to look for themselves. laboratory occur when students attempt to create theories to explain why the subjects Lastly, one laboratory assistant thought they are observing are the way they are and that the Goethe readings should be moved how they work. He attributed this to the fact later in the curriculum. (This year they that students often generate a diversity of have been scheduled earlier than usual) He thought that these readings were too theothese theories, while they usually come to a general consensus regarding the appearance retical for freshmen to undertake so early. + � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The Gadfly</em> Description An account of the resource Founded in 1980, <em>The </em><em>Gadfly</em> is a weekly student publication distributed to over 600 students, faculty, and staff of the Annapolis campus.<br /><br />Click on <strong><a title="The Gadfly" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=16&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&amp;sort_dir=d">Items in the <em>The Gadfly</em> Collection</a></strong> to view and sort all items in the collection. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context thegadfly Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 8 pages Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Barajas, Sebastian (Editor-in-Chief) Tretina, Allison (Editor-in-Chief) Title A name given to the resource The Gadfly, Vol. XXXVI Issue 11 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-02-24 Description An account of the resource Volume XXXVI, Issue 11 of The Gadfly. Published February 24, 2015. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 36 #11 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Gadfly Student publication