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Thursday
January 18
2024
The St. John’s Collegian
A Gadfly Publication
Vol. II Issue 2
Printed Thursdays in Annapolis
Editorial
All college seminar held on
do the right thing
Against the New Housing
Price System
Seminar Scheduled to Commemorate Martin Luther King
Day, Saw High Tutor Attendance
Often, it seems as if a new policy decision by the
College administration is well intentioned but was not
properly thought through, particularly in the impact it
might have on the student body. The new housing
price tier system, recently unveiled by the College, is a
perfect example of this. It has the potential to cause
much harm to our campus community, while also does
not seem to have any actual benefit besides increasing
College housing revenue.
There is a principle of common experience at the
College that I worry the new pricing system endangers.
With the requirement to live on campus for our first
two years here, a community is created of people who
not only read the same books, but who live in the same
buildings, and eat the same food. A special kind of
unity is created, one that really brings together our
small, close-knit community, and which is so solid that
it is kept together even after people begin to move off
campus Junior year. As of now, the differing quality of
dorms does not hinder this campus cohesion: if
someone complains about rats in a dorm, there is
sympathy, as anyone could have ended up there.
Likewise, jealousy over good dorm conditions in the
suburbs only goes so far; it is simply taken as a privilege
of having spent more years on campus, and as a sign of
luck in the housing lottery.
However, with the change from flat rates for housing
to ones based on income, I worry that this cohesion
could be damaged. If someone’s housing condition is
determined by how much they are able to pay for a
dorm, there is not a sense that everyone is on the same
boat: on the contrary, there is a sense some paid for a
much nicer educational experience than others. The
argument that the difference in prices is too small to
cause this kind of socio-economic stratification is
ridiculous: if someone already has difficulty affording
college, which many Johnnies do, every dollar counts,
including the $400 between a Chase double and a
Gilliam split double, without even mentioning the
$2,550 that will divide some residents of Paca.
Students already sometimes go to ridiculous lengths to
save a few dollars on expenses, it is perfectly reasonable
to presume they would do the same if they needed to
on housing, and the divide between those that do need
to save, and those that don’t, would grow much more
visible.
There are also many issues that are (Cont. on Page 2)
This semester’s first All-College seminar was unusual
in two ways. First, it was not hosted by the SCI, who
has traditionally hosted such events, with organization
instead being lead by Assistant Dean Robert Abbott.
Secondly, the seminar was on a film, a medium which
has not been discussed before at an All-College
seminar. The movie, Spike Lee’s 1989 Do the Right
Thing, shown at 4 pm on January 12th, the day of the
seminar, with the actual conversation occurring at
7:30, in the place of a lecture.
The screening, which was attended by several dozen
students, as well as a handful of tutors, was slightly
delayed by audio problems in the FSK, but after
moving to the Hodson Room, the remainder Lee’s
beautiful, chaotic, poignant and thought-provoking
work was shown. The seminar itself was slightly better
attended, although many students who came to watch
the movie did not come to the seminar. Instead, a large
number of tutors turned out for the discussion. There
were enough people to split the participants into three
groups, led by Abbott, tutor George Russel and tutor
emeritus Jonathan Tuck.
Russel began by asking an opening question that
informed the conversation for all the groups, focused
around the statement made by da Mayor which gives
the movie its name: What does it mean to do the right
thing? Groups then split off, with each seminar leader
asking another opening question. The seminar ran for
an hour and a half, with participants congregating over
coffee, tea and snacks afterwards to continue
discussing the film.
Abbott explained that this seminar was intended to
commemorate, and spark discussion about Martin
Luther King Jr. Day, which took place the following
Monday. “In the past few years, the dean has ended up
asking the SCI to have their second semester all-college
seminar on texts that had something to do with slavery
or the civil rights movement. This seemed like an
uncomfortable arrangement since the SCI should be
able to have two all-college seminars every year on
whatever they decide. Also, last year, the president
formed a committee of staff, faculty, and students to
plan an event around MLK day. I volunteered for this
committee and my contribution was to hold a Tuesday
night seminar on a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks, 'The
Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock, Fall
1957,' but only a few students attended. The then-
dean and I talked this over and decided to have a
separate all-college seminar on a Friday to give the event
more prominence.”
The College does not commemorate Martin Luther
King Jr. Day, a holiday created to honor civil rights
leader Martin Luther King Jr. shortly after his
assassination, as part of a general policy not to respect
religious or civil holidays. ““We don’t recognize any of
the holidays, it just so happens that long weekend often
coincides with a holiday. I just really value that. I feel
like at the college should honor any individual’s
practices, and as an institution, we should be pretty
careful to remain open and neutral… I think about this
in terms of Herodotus. Particular cultures are
important, because they’re a way to understand what’s
universal… I want people to be able to be themselves in
the classroom and out at the college, but we also need
to say, this place would come apart at the seams if we’re
improperly recognizing some individuals and not
others,” explained Abbott. “At the same time, we have
found ways to use the occasion to do something that is
good, that is harmonious or consonant with what we’re
doing at the college anyway.”
The choice of seminar subject was proposed by Xena
Hitz, a tutor. “Ms. Hitz suggested discussing the film,
Do the Right Thing,” said Abbott. “I thought this was
an excellent suggestion for many reasons. The film
speaks to everyone; it asks the viewer difficult, pressing
questions about race, community, history, and
violence, without giving easy answers; it puts Martin
Luther King Jr. in conversation with Malcolm X.
There are a number of reasons I thought it would be
good for a seminar. And for all those same reasons, I
saw this all-college seminar as continuous with
conversations that develop out of reading works on the
program e.g. by Tocqueville, Twain, Melville, Conrad,
Lincoln, Douglas, Washington, and Du Bois, among
others…Human freedom is at stake; I can think of few
things as serious.”
Holding a conversation on a film posed a new
challenge, but one that was successfully met by most
participants in the seminars. In the seminar that I
participated in, the conversation hovered in generalities
at first, before plunging straight into a thorough and
interesting analysis of cinematographic choices, of the
role of characters, and of the (Cont. on page 2)
This Week in Seminar
Upcoming Events:
Freshman:
1/18: Thucydides: Peloponnesian War, VII; VIII, 1–6, 45–end
1/22: Thucydides: Peloponnesian War, IV, 75–end; V, 1–26, 84–116; VI
Sophomores:
1/18: Dante: Divine Comedy, Purgatorio XIX–XXXIII
1/22: Dante: Divine Comedy, Paradiso I–XVII
Juniors:
1/18: Hume: Treatise of Human Nature (see official list for selections)
1/22: Hume: Treatise of Human Nature (see official list for selections)
Seniors:
Essay writing Period
Friday 1/19
5 p.m., Mitchell Museum: Sampling a
Sampler Sampling Exhibit opening
Saturday 1/20
11 a.m., Studio Theater: Careers in Law
Alumni Panel
9 p.m., Boathouse: Pajama Waltz
9 p.m., McDowell Great Hall: Pangaea
Lunar New Years Party
Wednesday 1/24
2:30 p.m., Hodson room: Hodson
Internship info session
- 4 p.m., Conversation Room: Eams Power of
Ten film discussion.
Friday Night Lecture:
Concert by New York Polyphony, 8 p.m. in the FSK
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�Thursday January 18, 2024
St. John’s Collegian
Vol. II. Issue 2
First measurable snow in two years covers
campus: Two Hour Delay Implemented
By the time this writer exited Mellon for the first time
On Monday, January 15th at 11:30, he saw the snow
which had started in the morning had picked up once
more, and a thin layer was beginning to accumulate
on the grass, although not yet in paved areas. By the
time he returned to campus around 2:15, the snow
had not stopped, and it began sticking even to warmer
brick and asphalt. Speculation began, buzzing around
campus from eager freshmen to weary Juniors: will
they cancel seminar? Do they ever even do that?
When classes ended for the day, the snow was finally
great deal of frolicking going on, and a few snowballs
being tossed around. After receiving a tip-off that a
big scoop might be found on back campus, your
writer continued down towards the creek to find
Johnnies whizzing down the hill on sleds, trash can
lids, cardboard, garbage bags, and their own backs.
The enthusiasm of a child before a snow-day in 3rd
grade was in the air, and everyone was feeling it.
Walking along, this writer crossed paths with a very
enthusiastic Johnnie who perfectly summed this up:
“It’s snowing, it’s snowing!” he repeatedly declared,
while giving energetic hugs to all who went by.
By the 7:30 seminar time, there was no news about
any delays or cancellations, although the snow
continued to fall as the campus made its way towards
Mellon and McDowell. During seminar, however, an
Housing (Cont. from Page 1)
less obvious, but likely to cause problems likely not
foreseen by the College administration. For
example, this new pricing system would make
housing selection far more fraught. If there is
higher demand for the cheaper dorms, as I suspect
there will be, there may be less affordable housing
available for people lower on the list, who may be
penalized and have to pay more, perhaps even
more than they can afford. What happens if
someone can only afford a Group B double, but
when they get their chance to pick there are only
Group A doubles and split doubles left?
Likewise, this causes a problem for dorms set aside
for specific purposes. In the past, Spector has been
designated as a quiet dorm, and one floor has been
set aside as an alcohol-free floor. Would people
who prefer quiet, or to be further away from
alcohol, have to pay extra for that? It is wonderful
that the college tries to accommodate these needs,
but it would be a shameful undermining of what
they seem to be trying to accomplish to have access
to them determined by price.
The reasoning given for this change in housing
pricing is that people “have been asking for it.” I
would like to ask who these people are. I have not
met a single student who speaks in favor of this
system for reallocating housing. The argument
that many other institutions price dorms this way
is also a bad one, since many small liberal arts
colleges do not, and that something being done by
other institutions has never been a reason in itself
for St. John’s to do something.
I suspect the true motivation for this change is not
to respond to some swell of student requests for
this system, but a desire to raise housing prices
without upsetting people as much. At some level,
I understand this; prices need to be adjusted for
inflation, even though they are already very high.
However, if this way of raising prices is likely to
cause harm to our Polity, I think the decision to
implement this system should be reconsidered.
email was sent out by Aly Gontang, Vice-President of
Finance and Operations: “The Annapolis Campus
will be opening at 10:30 am on Tuesday, January 16,
2024, to allow facilities staff time to clear parking lots
and walkways – and to allow time for staff, students,
and faculty to travel safely to campus.”
Gontang explained that this decision was made
according to set College policies. “When we are
experiencing or expecting inclement weather, we
usually coordinate early in the morning to determine
road conditions, how long it may take to clear parking
lots and walkways, and if there are any other
operational challenges to opening on time. We try to
coordinate between 4:30am-5am to have facilities or
public safety staff check on campus conditions – so
we can post a notification no later than 6am by
campus alert, email, and website update. In the case
of [Monday’s] weather, with the extremely poor
conditions we monitored into the evening last night
(some of us were driving home late after work after
8pm) – and with the forecast of alternating freezing
rain and snow combined with low temperatures
during the ‘rush hour’ when most are driving into
campus – we posted the notice last night following
many of the county schools and agencies.
When we expect inclement conditions – just to also
call out the wonderful dedication and care of the Bon
Seminar (Cont. from Page 1)
between the events on the screen and pressing
concerns about communities relevant in our own
lives.
Abbott said that in his seminar, he also found success
in the challenge of discussing a movie. “I really love
film. Scott Buchanan, one of the founders of the
program, thought film was going to have a place in the
cannon. One of my worries about this seminar is that
we would treat the film simply as a text, and only
discuss ideas. I feel like my seminar didn’t fall into
that, which was nice… it was much more about the
way ideas were represented through the film and the
character who speak about them. It was much closer
to a discussion of the film as a film.”
Coming away from these seminars, and into the
discussions over coffee and tea, many participants
expressed a wide range of thoughts sparked by the
movie. By providing a space to reflect on race,
discrimination, representation, identity, violence and
resistance, and community, the seminar provided a
place to touch on many matters that often don’t come
up in day-to-day classes. The conversations begun
that night, however, are still very much alive as this
paper is going to print, at least amongst those who
attended that seminar.
Appetit staff - the dining service staff will oftentimes
nearby accommodations or even stay overnight find
in available residence rooms, that are separated from
students, to ensure food service remains on time.”
This delay, however, did not mean that classes were
canceled. While operations delays are determined by
the Gontang, academic delays are decided by the
Assistant Dean, who instead sent out an email saying
that class cancellations would be determined by
individual tutors, who could best determine whether
they could safely reach campus.
The possibility of classes, however, did not stop
students from celebrating the snow with Johnnie
passion. A massive, all-campus snowball fight
developed on the quad after seminar, with this
reporter being targeted for repeated pelting by a
frequent Gadfly and Collegian contributor who
often goes by his somewhat vulgar initials. After this
spirited combat, this writer set off on a walk with
someone rather special into an Annapolis
transformed into a silent, white mirror of itself. While
the following morning, classes resumed as usual,
(albeit with some confusion as to whether they would
begin at 10:30), the spell cast by the snow on this
campus will be fondly remembered for years to come.
El’ad Nichols-Kaufman
About the St.
John’s
Collegian
The St. John’s Collegian is the weekly newspaper of
St. John’s College Annapolis. We work to bring quick
and timely coverage of important events going on, to
help develop a more informed student body. If you’re
searching for more in-depth investigations and
reporting, as well as essays, art and culture, check out
the Gadfly, our affiliated publication, which is
published once every three weeks.
Want to submit an article? We always need more
writers, whether for opinion or reporting!
Submissions for news articles should be between 400600 words, while opinion should be kept short at 350
words. Just email eanicholskaufman@sjc.edu with
your article, and we will work to get it in print!
Longer form articles and more in-depth exploration
of ideas should go to the Gadfly, which accepts
submissions at lbriner@sjc.edu.
Contributors for this issue:
El’ad Nichols-Kaufman, Editor
El’ad Nichols-Kaufman
An interview for this article was conducted by Meliha
Anthony for the Communications office. We would
like to thank Communications for helping us with our
reporting, and Anthony for supporting journalism on
the Annapolis campus.
Aphorism of the Week:
"Does it make sense?" Says an American. "Does it
become a word?" Says a Korean.
I am clearly the one who is making sense, but who is
the one making the word?
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You may have noticed this edition only has one
contributor. This, to put it mildly, is a problem. Not
only is it better for the College to have a diversity of
view represented instead of just my ramblings, but it
is also not sustainable for me: I cannot write a full
edition of the Collegian every week. If you want to see
this paper continue to exist, and to continue to bring
up to date news reporting to the Polity, please send in
some submissions! You can write about anything:
enrollment trends, tutor retention, crazy moments in
your seminar, intramural games. Just write. The
Polity needs everyone to pitch in if we are to remain
engaged and well informed.
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Thursday
January 11 2024
The St. John’s Collegian
A Gadfly Publication
Vol. II Issue 1
Printed Thursdays in Annapolis
From the
polity
College releases plans for new
housing price structure
For the Improvement of
Collegium
Tiered Housing Price System to go into Effect Fall 2024,
Campus Dorms to See Price Increase
Collegium is one of the most wonderful institutions
we have on this campus. It is an excellent way to end
the semester, getting to hear the beautiful result of the
hard work campus musical groups have done, and
seeing the wide variety of campus talent, while also
gathering one last time as a whole Polity. However,
this beautiful moment of community togetherness is
often marred by simply having it run too long. Four
hours is too much for any performance, even if all the
performers are very skilled. With this length, people
get antsy, you have large numbers leave the hall before
it is finished, and few people stay for the other great
campus traditions like caroling.
The good news is that this can be easily remedied. The
students running Collegium are good at what they
do, and with a few changes, could help remedy the
problem of excessive length. While I recognize that
actively screening performances for quality is off the
table, I would like to propose five easy improvements
in the form of rules for performers, which would
reduce the number of acts, and thus overall length:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
No group should be allowed to perform
more than one piece.
No person may be in more than one solo,
duet or trio: we should try to give as many
people the chance to perform as possible.
Solos should be discouraged. While many of
our solo performers are incredibly skilled,
Collegium should be a space where campus
groups share with the polity, it is not a
private recital. A possible exception to this
should be poetry and writing.
No group should perform with backing
tracks: while some of these performances are
quite good, the focus of Collegium should
be on our campus’ artists.
The program should be adhered to, and
organizers should avoid having new groups
added in who were not originally registered.
Hopefully, by adopting some of these
recommendations, or other rules, the organizers of
Collegium will be able to make the event more
enjoyable for us all. If you disagree with me on these
recommendations, or have ideas of your own, please
write a letter in response, we need more opinion
articles!
El’ad Nichols-Kaufman
Shortly before winter break, an all-campus email was
sent out notifying the Polity of a major change to the
pricing system for dormitories on Campus. The
change was first announced at an earlier Committee
on Student Life Forum, but the full details were only
sent out on December 7th. This email announced
implementation of a system widely used in other
institutions of higher education at St. John’s, with
pricing for each dorm adjusted for the quality of each
type of room and the building that they are in.
“Since I’ve been here for four years, every year, I have
received a couple questions, as have my colleagues Ms.
Lico and Ms. Waters, from students themselves, as
well as parents, about why every room is the same
price when clearly some rooms are much newer than
others,” explained Jen Cline, Coordinator of Student
Services. In response to these concerns, the College
administration looked into the issue, and decided to
implement a new pricing policy, aimed at making sure
students pay for the quality they receive. “The
difference between some of the dorm rooms and their
prices just helps some of the prices be more equitable
across campus,” continued Cline.
Many students on campus, however, have raised
concerns that changing the pricing structure will
actually lead to more inequity on campus, with an
unhealthy social dynamic developing between
students who can afford more expensive, nicer dorms,
and those who cannot. Up to this point, the divide in
dorm
quality
has
mostly
been
an
underclassman/upperclassman divide, and a change
from that to a potentially more economically based
divide concerns some. When asked about this, Cline
responded that the price differences are not
significant enough to cause problems with social
dynamics. “I don’t think it will make much of a
difference than how singles are more expensive than
doubles. I’ve rarely ever seen a student choose a
double just to save a couple extra hundred dollars.”
The new system divides the dorms into eight tiers:
four tiers of singles, three tiers of doubles, and quads.
The most expensive dorm rooms will be a special
category of singles, which will be in what are now the
lofted doubles in Paca-Carroll. These four dorm
rooms will be rearranged to allow for a divided living
and sleeping space, and will cost $10,000 per year, or
$5,000 a semester, although Cline noted that the way
This Week in Seminar
Freshman:
- 1/11: Thucydides: Peloponnesian War, II, 55–78; III, 1–87; IV, 1–74
- 1/15: Thucydides: Peloponnesian War, IV, 75–end; V, 1–26, 84–116; VI
Sophomores:
- 1/11: Dante: Divine Comedy, Inferno XVIII–XXXIV
- 1/15: Dante: Divine Comedy, Purgatorio I–XVIII
Juniors:
- 1/11: George Eliot: Middlemarch
- 1/15: George Eliot: Middlemarch
Seniors:
- Essay writing Period
Friday Night Lecture:
All College Seminar on Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, Great Hall, 7:30 pm
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the rooms are laid out means that they can be reverted
to doubles should any trouble arise, or if there should
be demand for them as doubles from students.
The next tier of singles, in Gilliam, Spector, Campbell,
Fielding and Pinkney 1, will cost $8,550 per year,
while tier C, in Chase, Pinkney 2-4, and Paca will cost
$8,300. Split doubles in Gilliam and Spector Halls will
cost $7,850, while doubles in Gilliam, Spector,
Campbell, Fielding and Pinkney 1 will cost $7,600.
Doubles in Chase, Pinkney 2-4, and Paca will be
$7,450. Quads, which include the Paca loft and new
rooms in Campbell, will cost $7,670. The current
price of a single on campus is $8,054, and the current
price of a double is $7,340, meaning all housing prices
will be increased by between $246 and $510.
For upperclassmen, the process of selecting rooms will
be the same as in previous years, with selection taking
place first for Seniors, then Juniors and finally
Sophomores, with the order of selection chosen
through a lottery. Cline explained that the system for
freshmen room assignments will also not be changed
drastically. “The prices will be made clear, and if they
have a preference, they can do what is already an
option, which is to request a specific dorm in the
housing questionnaire, which every student fills out to
be paired as roommates… That could be how they
would request a hall if they wanted one that is less
expensive than another.” Freshmen will continue to
be in Humphreys, Fielding and Paca Halls, while the
newly renovated Campbell Hall will primarily be for
upperclassmen.
The renovations in Campbell are on track for
completion by the beginning of the Summer, with
drywall already being installed before winter break.
“The rooms will definitely be done by the end of the
semester,” said Cline. “The rooms are the first
priority.” The basement area, featuring the
Coffeeshop and bookstore, is also important for the
project, but the completion of the rooms will be
prioritized. With the addition of the rooms in
Campbell, and the return of some rooms that are
currently triples to their previous status as doubles,
there will be a total of 390 beds available on campus, a
much higher number than previously, which should
allow for more upperclassmen to stay on campus if
they choose.
El’ad Nichols-Kaufman
Upcoming Events:
Tuesday 1/16
- 3:45 pm, Hodson Room: Career
Services Wayfinding Workshop
It’s a quiet second week back on campus!
Look out for next issue for more information
on upcoming events in Annapolis as the
semester continues to pick up steam.
�Thursday January 11, 2024
St. John’s collegian
Vol. II. Issue 1
Cowards, Every Last One of You, All
Cowards: Or: A Better Gadfly
Dearest cowards,
On the street, in the hallways, at parties, people say
to me: “Hey I liked your articles in the Gadfly. Have
you ever thought about writing on [topic which
clearly interests them and not me]?” Any time
anything even remotely funny happens in one of my
classes, I’ll get a knowing look from someone across
the table inevitably followed by: “You should write
about that in the Gadfly.” Woe is me! Constantly
getting good ideas for articles! (My own fault really: I
write three god damn articles for every single issue. It
gets to the point where even tutors tease me for
using our college newspaper as my own personal
playground.) And you know for a fact that I am a
megalomaniacal narcissist who loves the attention
being solely on me, but my f*cking editors won’t let
me write even more articles per issue.
So let me ask something of you, sweet cowards: write
for the Gadfly. Don’t do it for the sake of school
spirit or civic duty or art. Do it for all the wrong
reasons: do it for your own ego (I know half the
bitches at this school want to be writers); do it
because you’re tired of reading Bennett Scott, Luke
The yellow
coffee shop
I have been sitting in the coffee shop for a few
hours now. I am not sure how many, but I am
alone. It is a rare treat to get the whole place to
myself, but I am starting to get a little nervous.
Though I really have no reason to be. It is nice to
be in the coffee shop alone. With it being so dark
and wet outside, and I am fairly sure I caught a
cold on the way home from break, it is nice to be
somewhere quiet and warm. The lighting is very
warm here. A comforting amber, not really
fluorescent at all. I think it has something to do
with the new paint job. All the previously white
and sterile walls are now a soft yellow color. It is
soothing. I like looking at it. Yet, the more I look
at it, the more nervous I feel. The light casts these
odd shadows on the wall now. Especially around
the fireplace. If I let my eyes focus on one place
for too long it almost seems like the bricks are
moving. Swirling around into hypnotic whorls.
The white of the baseboards seems like it is
bleeding up into the walls, and the chalk dust on
the floor is flowing about as if blown by an unfelt
wind. I have been sitting in the coffee shop for
many hours now. The walls feel like they are
pressing in, and out. Undulating like the stomach
of some great beast. The light is still playing tricks
on my eyes. The shadows are moving across the
lemony walls, they almost look like human
figures. I think that they might be. I'm almost
sure of it actually. There is someone in the yellow
walls of the coffee shop. They are trying to get
out, to escape the canary-colored bars of their
prison. I approach the wall. Scrabbling at the
paint with my fingers, I need to release them. The
light keeps shifting and I keep scratching. I break
through the paint, a layer of drywall, I push past
the studs of McDowell. I emerge out of the
darkness into the light on the other side of the
yellow yellow walls. I am sitting in the coffee
shop.
Briner, Bennett Scott, Luker Briner; do it because if
you don’t this entire publication will succumb to the
inevitable sludge of boring mediocrity that
inevitably consumes all such uncontested empires.
6.
7.
8.
Look, I know you’re worried about how long it’ll
take (a good article takes thirty minutes drunk and
one hour sober, no more) and about not having
anything decent to write on, so I’ll make it easy;
here’s a baker’s dozen of article ideas that people
have pitched around me that someone needs to
write:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
An advice column (multiple people have
said they will. No one has.)
An admonishment of the seniors for not
getting in relationships.
A series of out-of-pocket quotes from
tutors (a game where you have to match
quote to tutor?)
Actual investigative journalism into the
power structures of the college.
A Joseph Smith-esc series of found tablets
telling the real story of the New Program’s
founding.
A little New
year’s sonnet
Like snowflakes falling light upon the ground,
the year in silent rolling passes o’er,
turning over days without a sound
and, sighing, turning hours all the more.
Like drops which drip with sopping coat of rain,
the times with weight of ages slip in rule
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
Dear Incels of the College.
A meta-Johnnie typology (every semester
we get typologies/taxonomies of Johnnies:
why not a taxonomy of taxonomies?)
A declaration of the rights of students
(anyone should be able to get up to the
board during any class. Even during
Spinoza seminars. Fight me on it.)
A dialogue between Socrates and Bad
Bunny.
Interviews with SJC legends like the
PubSafe staff and the Dining Hall workers.
The Classiflieds (Classifieds with an SJC
twist).
A stream of consciousness story from the
POV of a middie entering an SJC Waltz for
the first time.
An analysis of which St. John we are
named after.
I have a dozen more article ideas of my own
which you can come accost me for in person. Just
write one, cowards. Cause I may be your one but I
do not want to be your only.
B.S.
About the St.
John’s
Collegian
The St. John’s Collegian is the weekly newspaper of
St. John’s College Annapolis. We work to bring
quick and timely coverage of important events going
on, to help develop a more informed student body.
If you’re searching for more in-depth investigations
and reporting, as well as essays, art and culture, check
out the Gadfly, our affiliated publication, which is
published once every three weeks.
in bright mosaic when the fire is fierce,
Want to submit an article? We always need more
writers, whether for opinion or reporting!
Submissions for news articles should be between
400-600 words, while opinion should be kept short
at 350 words. Just email eanicholskaufman@sjc.edu
with your article, and we will work to get it in print!
Longer form articles and more in-depth exploration
of ideas should go to the Gadfly, which accepts
submissions at lbriner@sjc.edu.
the ticks and sequent tocks of clocks suspend
Contributors for this issue:
the brazen bells that morn and even pierce—
El’ad Nichols-Kaufman, Editor
and puddle bigly in successive train
and under bearded shadows rise to pool.
Like sunlit leaves how off the bough descend
The thrush and wren together sing their round
like snowflakes falling light upon the ground.
B.S.
Andy Manne
Tarik Mahmud
Tarik Mahmud
Aphorism of the Week:
Ashes are the best fertilizer for new plants.
Are corpses the best fertilizer for new men?
A.M.
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Thursday
December 7
2023
The St. John’s Collegian
A Gadfly Publication
Vol. I
Issue 9
Printed Thursdays in Annapolis
From the
polity
Fall 2023: the Collegian’s
inaugural Semester in review
A Message from the Randall
Worms
Looking Back on the First Three Months of the St. Jon’s
Collegian, and Looking Forward to the Paper’s Future
To the Polity:
It has come to our attention that there has been an
attempt from residents of Randall Hall 2 to suppress
the reality of our plight under the guise of “privacy.”
Let the story be set straight. We are the worms.
We are the native inhabitants of the Randall 2 showers
and refuse to be ignored any longer.
In mid-August of this year our modest homes became
overrun with human beings who have incited violence
towards us. We have been wiped away and flushed
down drains. We have been smashed. We have been
bleach-bombed. We have had the higher powers of
Buildings & Grounds called on us, all in a desperate
attempt to eradicate us from our rightful place in the
showers.
We understand we are not the most beautiful
creatures. But if you think it’s traumatic to shower
with us, imagine how we feel. Somehow, we are the
invaders, not you all, the ones entering our homes—
naked, mind you—and attempting to wash us away or
crush us underfoot. There are families who have been
living on these tiles for generations. Childhood friends
have been mutilated by your cruel tactics, and we have
had enough. No longer will we suffer in silence.
This message is for the aggressors of Randall 2: we
won’t be gotten rid of that easily. We have and will
continue to survive your assassination attempts and
will be exacting our revenge shortly.
Stay vigilant.
Sincerely,
The worms
Editor’s Note: This letter was submitted anonymously,
and as a publication we cannot speak to whether or not
any worms do actually reside in the Randall Two
showers, and as to whether or not they can write in
English. However, if there were worms, and if they
could write in English, a letter from them would be so
remarkable, it would be worth publishing here merely
on the chance that it may really be written by worms.
When I first decided to start the Collegian, it seemed
like the task ahead of me was particularly daunting. I
recognized the need for a more frequent campus
publication, but also saw that with our small student
body, it would be difficult to find enough writers to
keep up the kind of regular reporting I was hoping for.
More than that, I saw the task of keeping myself on a
weekly schedule as a challenging one, and a difficult
one to enforce for Johnnies, who are notoriously bad
at deadlines.
The task ahead of me seemed large, and it did turn out
to be so. For some issues, such as this one, I did struggle
to get enough contributors, not for lack of occurrences
on campus, but for the nearly universal lack of time
that all Johnnies, including myself, suffer from.
Likewise, I often found myself cutting precariously
close to my own deadlines, although fortunately
almost all of the paper’s other contributors were far
more punctual than I was. However, despite all these
difficulties, the paper took off, and largely successfully.
Certainly, there were no ends of spelling, grammar,
and printing errors (largely due to my editorial
procrastination), but news was reported on, opinions
were presented, and miscellaneous bits of commentary
and cryptic aphorisms were spread amongst the Polity.
Most of this success is due to the paper’s hard-working
team of contributors. We had, in the nine issues since
the beginning of publication in September, sixteen
different contributors, including, in order of the first
publication their articles appeared in, Caleb Briggs,
Lainey Rendelman, William Marchman, Augustus
Pananas, Georgia Green, Natalie Goldman, Semyon
Andruschenko, Louis Rosenberg, Ron Haflidson,
Andy Manne, Jack Huntley, Susan Paalman, and
Molly Sprout, not to mention the anonymous antismoking crusader, their rival J.S., and the Randall
Worms. I must sincerely thank each and every one of
these people for their contributions- without them, the
Collegian could not exist. In particular, I would like to
thank Briggs, Goldman and Manne, who all
contributed more than once and helped keep the paper
running.
In total, the paper had 36 articles this semester: eleven
opinion pieces, in the form of letters to the editor,
editorials or just very short, opinionated essay about
assorted nonsense; nineteen news articles, ranging
from reporting on the College Creek Connector to a
student attending two seminars, four arts features, on
the Mitchell Museum or KWP shows, and then
whatever this article and the first introductory piece in
the first issue could be classified as.
With all this, the newspaper covered important stories.
Looking back on the semester’s headlines serves as a
sort of summary of the year: September gives us the
summer BVG meeting and the College Creek
Connector, DC Budgeting, and, most importantly, the
incessant ringing of bells during seminar. In October,
dialogue on the bells continued alongside the official
reopening of Mellon and Public Safety’s Cleary
Report, the Polka and Limbo competitions and the
DC Budget Omnibus Bill. November continued to be
just as busy, with another BVG meeting, a tutor
walkout over pay, a suspicious item leading to Mellon
being evacuated, and the College Historical Taskforce.
In different ways, each and every one of these stories is
important to the Polity, and many of them, such as the
BVG meetings or the College Creek Connector, might
never have gotten any notice had there not been articles
written about them. To me with all the challenges the
Collegian has faced, the fact that at the end of the day
the Polity has become, even just a little, better informed
thanks to the work of the Collegian, makes me
motivated enough to keep this paper going to next
semester, next year, and hopefully further into the
future.
However, this will not be possible without other
people’s help. If you are interested in covering
anything, whether it be local Annapolis politics,
College administrative decisions, Intramurals, campus
music and art scenes, or anything at all, please send in
articles! The more regular contributors we have, the
better we can keep up the timely, efficient and
informative publication of the Collegian, and the more
interesting we can make this paper.
Save the Polity from having to read any more “year in
review” summaries from me- find a topic, and just
write! It doesn’t have to be long, it doesn’t have to be
complicated, all we need here are articles on things
people care about, and I know that things like that are
not at all rare on this passionate, busy campus.
Farewell until next semester,
El’ad Nichols-Kaufman
This Week in Seminar
Upcoming Events:
Friday Night Lecture:
- 7 pm, Great Hall: Summerfield Live
Tuesday 12/12
- 7 pm, Great Hall: Collegium and
Assistant Dean’s Winter Party
Freshman:
- 12/7: Euripides: Medea
- 12/11: Plato: Symposium, Beginning–198A
Sophomores:
- 12/7: Christian Creeds, see official list; Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae,
Prologue; Prima Pars (First Part), see official list
- 12/11: Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars (First Part), see official list
Juniors and Seniors:
- Preceptorials
KWP’s production of the Importance of Being Earnest
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Friday 12/8
- 7:30 pm, FSK: The Importance of Being
Earnest
Saturday, 12/9
7:30 pm, FSK: The Importance of
Being Earnest
- 10 pm, Great Hall: Pangaea Just Dance
Party
Sunday 12/10
�Thursday December 7, 2023
St. John’s Collegian
Vol. I. Issue 9
Delegate Council semester ends, Shawamreh
elected Dc president
End of the Year for Delegate Council Featured Much Legislative Action, Planning for
Future Budgeting, and Contested Officer Elections
The end of the fall 2023 session was a busy end of the
year for the Delegate Council, which in the past has
slowed down at the end of budgeting season. This
year, however, the council shifted towards working
on legislation aimed at improving its budgeting
process and better representing student voice to the
College administration.
Two committees were formed for this purpose: the
archives committee and the budgeting committee.
The archives committee, which this writer headed in
his capacity as DC Secretary, reviewed current acts of
council, and looked to find ways to improve them
both through amendments and by writing new acts.
The archives committee brought forward three pieces
of legislation: an amendment to the archives act, to
make DC proceedings more accessible to the Polity,
as well as two new acts. The first of these, the
succession act, outlines what happens if both the
President and Secretary are unable to lead a meeting.
The second was the new Club Responsibility Act,
which formalizes the DC’s recommendation that
new clubs receive $500 in their first budget and
requires them to submit an official request do so, as
well as have the budget passed by a 2/3 majority of the
DC.
allocation process and give the Treasurer discretion as
to decide when budgets should be heard, to allow for
more urgent budgets to be heard faster; an
amendment to the Budget Role Clarification Act, to
help distinguish between emergency and
supplemental budgets; and a new act of council, the
High-Budget Sports Club act, which provides new
guidelines for clubs like Polo or Jiu-Jitsu.
The budgeting committee, headed by treasurer
Grace Jang, looked to address problems that have
arisen from the Council’s often confusing budgeting
rules, and pass acts of council resolving them.
Amendments provided by this committee included a
reworking of the Agora Act, which creates a fund any
student project for the benefit of the whole Polity can
request money from; amendments to the Allocations
Procedure Codification Act, to streamline check
Elections were also held for the officers and freshman
delegates. The Secretary and Polity Herald’s races
were uncontested, with incumbents El’ad NicholsKaufman and Rylee Bain being reelected, while in the
Treasurer election, Alexander Paden won in a race
against Rachel Rozsa, and in the Presidential election,
Ali Shawamreh won, running against Lainey
Rendelman.
El’ad Nichols-Kaufman
Behind All that Gadfly BS
A Psychological Analysis of Mr. Bennett Scott
[Note: Mr. Scott has forbidden this article from being
printed, but we shall not be silenced.]
Is he a madman, a prophet of modern decay, or
simply the weird roommate of Ben Maier who makes
those videos? Who really is B.S.? Bennett Scott, man
of many wiles, is known around the St. John’s College
campus as the archon of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, A Senior,
and turtleneck aficionado; lately, he has emerged in
the polity consciousness as the sole pursuer of what
he deems “SJC Mysteries.” His main output,
however, is satire, always signed with his initials: B.S.
Bennett Scott...B.S....Based on what he writes, it’s
enough to make any good wannabe psychologist
wonder whether Mr. Scott would do what he does if
his initials didn’t stand for bullshit. It’s almost too
perfect. Of course the man who writes about the “Bro
Scogan Experience,” the first “Intercollegiate World
National Chopsticks Championship,” and who
allegedly received a cease and desist from the college
for breaking and entering (something he wouldn’t be
so stupid to record himself doing) would write under
those initials. The be B.S. might not just be a tongue
in cheek acknowledgement: it might well be his
deepest insecurity.
The question is then one reminiscent of the chicken
and the egg. What came first? The antics, or the
signature? Did Mr. Scott realize the potential of his
name and begin playing into it, or was he always like
this, sufferer of nominal determinism, the years
passing and proving all too apparent how accurate his
initials are? The answer to this question was provided
by the man himself (in an off the record interview
that he has tried to hide, destroy, and block from
being published). In his wayward youth, Mr. Scott
was a member of Mr. Breck’s sixth grade algebra class.
In this class was also the much smarter, kinder, more
likable Bennie Surketz. As a result, he explained with
clear rage in his voice, his teacher referred to him as
“B.S. 2.” Mr. Scott lambasted Mr. Breck as “the worst
person [he] ever met,” his face turning red, his hands
shaking, muttering the quadratic equation under his
breath.
Not only did the title come first, it’s a name which
represents all of Bennett’s deepest insecurities. To
have to bear such worthless initials and be reminded
that you are only secondary in such worthlessness!?
No wonder Mr. Scott resorts to cheap absurdist
comedy and video podcasting. What respectable
outlet could be left for a man with so little faith in his
abilities that he signs every work with the very
moniker that has blighted and shadowed him since
childhood? Truly, he should be pitied, or at the very
least given a low-level writing job at GQ. Every article
in the Gadfly, every YouTube video, each and every
one is a desperate cry for help. Each inked B.S.
represents the burning soul of a tortured man (just
factor the damn equation Bennett!), a man searching
for answers in the mysteries of his little world, leaving
no cryptic stone unturned or cellar un-rummaged
through, searching for the way to overcome his own
feelings of inadequacy. Pushed aside even in his
weakness, he now presents every sign of narcissism
and “pick-me” syndromes, left in the most absurd of
fights: he tears at himself in search of the angst to
prove that he too is a starving artist. To be B.S, Mr.
Scott needs to do what he does, but to do what he
does, Mr. Scott must truly be B.S.
—A.M. (Assuredly Magnificent, not Ass Magnet)
Pensée of the Week
If religion is the opium of the masses, then revolution is
the crack cocaine of the masses.
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About the St.
John’s
Collegian
The St. John’s Collegian is the weekly
newspaper of St. John’s College Annapolis.
We work to bring quick and timely coverage
of important events going on, to help
develop a more informed student body. If
you’re searching for more in-depth
investigations and reporting, as well as
essays, art and culture, check out the Gadfly,
our affiliated publication, which is
published once every three weeks.
Want to submit an article? We always need
more writers, whether for opinion or
reporting! Submissions for news articles
should be between 400-600 words, while
opinion should be kept short at 350 words.
Just email eanicholskaufman@sjc.edu with
your article, and we will work to get it in
print! Longer form articles and more indepth exploration of ideas should go to the
Gadfly, which accepts submissions at
lbriner@sjc.edu.
Contributors for this issue:
El’ad Nichols-Kaufman, Editor
Andy Manne
The Worms
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Thursday
November 16
2023
The St. John’s Collegian
A Gadfly Publication
From the
polity
Vol. I Issue 8
Printed Thursdays in Annapolis
College Historical taskforce
organizes panel on key
It’s a Road! It’s a Way! It’s a… Taskforce, Created to Examine College History and Examine
Desire Path?
the College’s Responsibility Today, Hopes to Spark Dialogue
Chances are you’ve seen them around and barely
noticed them: short dirt paths eroding away well-kept
sod. Have you ever wondered how they got there? The
answer is base human instinct.
Desire paths are created by humans taking the shortest
route between two points and typically occur when the
paved/planned path takes a longer or more-circuitous
one. In some places, desire paths are actively studied by
landscapers and engineers to learn from the wisdom of
the herd and pave accordingly. In others, they are
roped off to prevent further soil erosion.
In the U.S., due to our lack of pedestrian
infrastructure, desire paths can be found where the
sidewalk ends, along the sides of roads, and between car
parks and stores. Another place is on college campuses
since they are some of the few pedestrianized areas in
the country. Poor planning and hurried students
combine to create desire paths on many campuses
around the world.
In a place like St. John’s, we have few desire paths. 300
years of constant habitation have allowed many of our
naturally-created paths to be paved over in an orderlyangled array of bricks. There are a few left, however,
where the aversion to paving over everything has us
keeping some grassy plots. The Quad may be the most
glaring example, as many different desire paths crisscross the grass square and turn it into a mud patch. A
more classic example would be the one next to ChaseStone, leading to the East side of Pinkney .
Some see desire paths as a nuisance and an eyesore.
Others laud them as they fly in the face of the rigid lines
of modern landscaping. There’s even a whole
subreddit (r/desirepath) dedicated to them. Love them
or hate them, they’re sticking around until we can
always predict the movements of a crowd. And even
then, we may still surprise our landscapers.
Caleb Briggs
Editor’s Note: this is not a typical From the Polity
article, but I did not have any submissions of opinion
this week. I know all of you have opinions, please send
them to me. The Collegian needs them!
St. John’s College has seen much in its 240 years of
history, from its founding in the tumultuous days
immediately following the American Revolution to its
slow and quiet decline throughout the last half of the
19th century and beginning of the 20th, and into the
new program that has defined the past 87 years. This
history is inseparable from the state of the College
today; every aspect of life in the Polity is shaped by it,
with an even greater impact on the relationship of the
College with the wider world. However, much of this
history, especially that which predates the New
Program, is forgotten or unacknowledged, outside of a
few anecdotes about Humphreys Hall having been a
morgue, or McDowell burning down.
We pay lip service to our history, claiming the
distinguished 1696 founding date (a myth that I hope
to dispel in a future article), and displaying pride in our
19th century architecture, but we rarely pause to think
about how the College’s history, and particularly
history of discrimination and slavery, has made the
Polity we have today. While it might be nice to imagine
the New Program as its own isolated bubble, a
Republic in Speech brought forth by the sheer
intellectual will of its founders, it is not. Because of this
reluctance to look back practically, there has long been
a need to reckon with the historical legacy of the
College.
In the summer of 2020, a group arose hoping to do
exactly that. “It was the summer of George Floyd’s
murder,” explained Adrian Trevisan, Chair of the
College Historical Taskforce. “Roughly the same time,
there were two open letters from alumni to the college,
and a webinar.” These events, all calling on the college
to address systemic racism, and to make concrete
changes in the day-to-day operations of the College,
and which lead to the creation of the campus Diversity,
Equity and Inclusion Taskforce inspired Trevisan to
think. “Well, let's look at our Annapolis campus that's
built in the 1700s for a bunch of white kids in
Maryland. So there's got to be slavery in there. And we
really ought to be doing something to research our
history and to figure out some way to acknowledge it.”
Trevisan, who is a board member, reached out to the
then Board of Visitors and Governos chair Ron
Fielding, who agreed that this was an important
project. Trevisan expected that Fielding would then
pass the task to someone else, but instead found
himself responsible for putting his idea into action. By
This Week in Seminar
the Fall of 2020, Trevisan had put together a group of
tutors, students, board members, staff members and
historians to begin examining the College’s history.
Since then, they have been researching, discussing, and
seeking ways to get funding to do more detailed work
on the history of the College.
Central to the work of the task force was the question
of what it means to address the College’s history. Many
other institutions have been struggling with similar
questions, with particular focus on who gets to be
commemorated by names of buildings, or how the
institution’s impact on the community may be built on
legacies of discrimination. In Annapolis, there is a long
history of slavery that is irrevocably tied up with the
founding of the College, but hard to document, as well
as later tensions between St. John’s and the
neighboring Clay Street community. The way we
remember important Annapolis figures is also caught
up in this history: Samuel Chase, William Paca,
Thomas Stone, and Charles Carrol all held slaves, while
the College’s most famous alumnus and the namesake
of the FSK auditorium, Francis Scott Key, had a
complex history as a slaveholder, as well as a lawyer for
Black people suing for their freedom. How to address
these issues remains a major topic of discussion.
At St. John’s, there are additional complications
created by the unique position of the College’s campus
in Santa Fe, which, being created in the middle of the
twentieth century, sometimes seems to have a level of
distance from many of the injustices in New Mexico’s
history. Salomon Cordova, a former student
representative from Santa Fe, argued otherwise.
Beyond the responsibility anyone who purchases land
in New Mexico has to address its theft from indigenous
people, he said, “St. John’s kind of triggered the
beginning of gentrification in Santa Fe, they started to
bring in mostly white facing individuals who are
intellectuals… and they came with money… I think
addressing that requires a bit more nuance and more
work to be done by the College.”
“Knowing history gives people a better, a more
complete sense of what it means to be a Johnnie,”
explained Trevisan. “Slavery, that's part of it… you
need to know about it and then you need to figure out
what you're going to do about it.” For now, the
taskforce has begun by commissioning a series of
Cont. on page 2
Upcoming Events:
Freshman:
- 11/16: Plato: Phaedo, 57A–84B
- 11/29: Plato: Phaedo, 84B–118B
Sophomores:
- 11/16: Plotinus: see official list for selections
- 11/20: Augustine: Confessions, I–V
Juniors and Seniors:
- Preceptorials
Friday Night Lecture:
Marcel Proust's Turning of the Table, Rebecca Goldner
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Thursday 11/16
- 3 pm, Mitchell Art Museum: 20
minute tour of exhibitions
Friday 11/17
- Noon, Private Dining Room:
Montessori International info session
Saturday 11/18
- 7 pm, FSK Auditorium: Duchess of
Malfi
Sunday 11/19
- 7 pm, FSK Auditorium: Duchess of
Malfi
�Thursday November 16, 2023
St. John’s collegian
Duchess of malfi:
Play Showing this Weekend
Exclusive Interview of Director Jack Domanski about
The play, The Duchess of Malfi, is set to be performed
this weekend in the FSK. To get a better idea of the
dramaturgical delights that await us, I accosted the
director, Mr. Jack Domanski, on a dark Quad.
through the means of their spy Daniel de Bosola who
is a mercenary who served the Cardinal for several
years as a galley slave. What unfolds from this is a
series of death and tragedy.
Question: Without using the phrase “a Jacobean
Revenge tragedy” give a brief summary of the play.
Q. Does it end well?
Answer: It revolves around the Duchess of Malfi who
is recently widowed who has two brothers, Duke
Ferdinand and the Cardinal and they are both jealous
over her domestic life and encourage her not to marry
again–
Q. What comprises her domestic life?
A. Her domestic life is one– she decides to marry her
steward, Antonio, in secret, against the wishes of her
brothers and they lead a secret life with three children
for several years until their brothers find out
Time is of the
essence
New Exhibit at Mitchell
Museum Shows Video Art
The combination of different sounds from different
places in the room is striking. Screens and projected
videos line the walls, and the floor plan is open, so all
of the audio mingles to create a single backdrop.
Nonstop speech collides with the sound of a person
imitating a wolf howl, and it takes a moment to realize
that the majority of the pieces don’t have audio at all,
but are silent by design. The performance art
movement of the early 1960s gradually turned to film
and video as new mediums through which to express
their art. The Mitchell Art Museum’s current
exhibition, which runs until December 10, highlights
seven pieces of film and video art from the late 1960s
and 1970s in the United States. It’s important to note
that the only information written on the labels on the
walls next to the pieces are the artist’s name and the
duration of the video. One piece features a cat eating
out of a bowl while a person circles it slowly (15:37
min), and one shows the artist putting on makeup
and getting dressed for the day (38 min). Don’t
worry, the names of the pieces and the years they were
created are still displayed on the wall near the door of
the exhibit, but it’s important to this exhibition to
focus the most on the element of time. Some of the
videos are more flashy and less mundane, but even
these ones are made fascinating by their durations.
How much time to spend with each piece of art is up
to the viewer, but seeing the exact amount of time the
artist intended for the piece to take up can compel the
audience to stick around to see the whole thing. It’s
illuminating to find out which pieces are worth the
wait.
Natalie Goldman
Pensée of the Week
Dish washers are the prime example of modern
capitalism. We put dirty things in a closed box and
hope someone else would take care of them
Vol. I. Issue 8
A. I think you could well infer from “death and
tragedy” that it does not end well but–
Q. Very good, next question: What part of the play
are you most excited about?
A. I am excited for the Duchess’s final scenes of the
play. I think that Acacia gives a phenomenal
performance and the audience will be quite
astonished by it. I think also the scenes where Ranger
Kasdorf goes wild as Ferdinand will also blow the
audience away. I’m also excited–
Historical Taskforce, Cont.
reports on figures that have buildings named after
them who were important to the College’s founding,
and which should prove helpful for promoting more
informed conversation about their legacies and how
the College can address them. These reports should
be completed this winter, and be distributed
throughout the Polity.
They should also form the starting point for a series
of forums, beginning with one on Key later this year.
The forum, which will feature Annapolis community
members and historians, to help examine who Key
was, what his impact was on the College, and
Annapolis as a whole, and why it matters how we
remember him. In particular, Key’s complex
relationship with slavery, and his close ties with the
College, including his founding of the alumni
association, will be discussed. In part, this
conversation hopes to be a starting point for more
concrete action, whether that may include suggesting
the College rename the hall, work to help mend
legacies of its impact on the Annapolis Community,
or help educate about Key’s complex past.
The task force is not primarily aimed externally,
however. It hopes to encourage conversation and
reflection within the Polity, particularly amongst the
student body, who often have not been very well
informed about College history. “Your years on
campus are the beginning of your life as a Johnnie.
You’ll be a Johnnie all your life, so the history of the
college will matter for you for a long time,” said
Trevisan. “I would hope that in addition to students
studying history for knowledge for its own sake,
students would be interested in reading the histories
that we will have, and tell us if it matters or not. If they
read it and say ‘eh, I don’t have any problems with
that, then that’s as good information as saying that we
have to change things. What we’re asking is, read these
reports, and tell us what you think.”
It is not easy to address so many centuries of history,
but in a way very appropriate to the College, the
taskforce hopes to do so by conversation. Only by
discussion, based on the grounding texts of the stories
of our own past, can we, as a Polity, decide what our
responsibilities are to address our College’s legacy,
and what it really means to be conscientious citizens
of the Polity’s present in light of its past.
El’ad Nichols-Kaufman
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Q. This is a short article; we’re going to move on.
What part of the play has been the most challenging?
Mr. Domanski buried his face in his hands for a
moment before muttering “Jesus.”
A. Almost all of it–
Q. And finally, are you bothered that we look the
same?
A. I am deeply bothered by it.
The Duchess of Malfi, a Jacobean revenge tragedy,
featuring Acacia Burnham, Ranger Kasdorf, Max
Mersmann-Jones, and Khanya Mnisi is coming to the
FSK at 7 p.m. on November 18th and 19th.
Caleb Briggs
About the St.
John’s
Collegian
The St. John’s Collegian is the weekly newspaper of
St. John’s College Annapolis. We work to bring quick
and timely coverage of important events going on, to
help develop a more informed student body. If you’re
searching for more in-depth investigations and
reporting, as well as essays, art and culture, check out
the Gadfly, our affiliated publication, which is
published once every three weeks.
Want to submit an article? We always need more
writers, whether for opinion or reporting!
Submissions for news articles should be between 350450 words, while opinion should be kept short at 300
words. Just email eanicholskaufman@sjc.edu with
your article, and we will work to get it in print!
Longer form articles and more in-depth exploration
of ideas should go to the Gadfly, which accepts
submissions at lbriner@sjc.edu.
Contributors for this issue:
El’ad Nichols-Kaufman, Editor
Caleb Briggs
Natalie Goldman
Notice of Elections
The Delegate Council will be holding elections on
Tuesday, December 5th for four Freshman
Representative positions, as well as the positions of
President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Polity Herald.
People interested in running should contact the
Polity Attorney, Ranna Kisswani, with any questions
about eligibility or election procedure.
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Thursday
November 9
2023
The St. John’s Collegian
A Gadfly Publication
From the
polity
Vol. I Issue 7
Printed Thursdays in Annapolis
calls alleging suspicious items
made, buildings evacuated
Why Smoking is Frickin’ Epic Local and State Police Conducted Check of Campus, Found
No Explosive Objects, Investigation is Ongoing
I hear the concerns of a tragically misguided member
of the polity and raise them the age-old aphorism,
“live and let live,” applicable in the sense that you
should let me live my life of peace, freedom, and
looking damn cool whilst you live your pedantic, nitpicky life of cold unfeeling sobriety.
Big Anti-Tobacco has been in the limelight for far too
long, propounding such fiction as “lung cancer” and
“emphysema,” which has poisoned public nicotine
discourse in the way smoking does not poison the
body. It pains me to see the noble gifts of my good
and unbiased friend, Phillip Morris, so treated with
base contempt. We could speak for hours on the
claim that well over 10 people die of smoking related
illness per annum, but I digress. We have issues closer
to home to discuss, and such arguments are beneath
such esteemed sophists as we. Did Socrates ever decry
the baseness of smoking? I think not.
Moving onto my anonymous friend’s claim that
smoking grants one an unattractive nature and an
unpleasant presence. I’d in fact like to argue the
opposite, that you non-smoking squares and your
whining tires my fellow smokers and I, gives us a
headache, and makes us really need a smoke. When
you think about it, you’re the problem. But my low,
sexy voice and existential joie de vivre allow me to
suffer such blows without complaint. If you insist
upon being so bent out of ideological shape, perhaps
you should consider the good of the whole. Does the
presence of smoking not elevate the mysterious and
pseudo-intellectual atmosphere that the polity aspires
to cultivate here? In standing in opposition to
smoking, you stand against progress, truth, and
freedom. After all, academia is best seen as the process
of peering through the veil—in this case, one of
smoke.
Now, to the author of On the Smoking Policy, I hope
this refutation is not deeply offensive to you, but
rather that it has encouraged you to entertain the
truth, that there exists no art more dear to—nor more
conducive to—the St. John’s spirit and culture of
passionate truth-seeking. Please cease your attacks on
the cornerstones of our college, and our intrinsic,
God given right to smoke on the quad.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need a Lucky Strike. You
know where to find me. That’s all.
–J.S. (Jilted Smoker)
Classes in Mellon on the morning of Thursday,
November 2nd, were interrupted at about 10:40 by the
harsh ringing of the fire alarm. For many students, the
reason for the alarm was unclear at first, with some
speculating that there might be a fire drill that was not
announced, or that there was actually a fire going on
in Mellon. However, the word quickly began
spreading amongst students standing outside of
Mellon, and was confirmed by tutors and staff
nearby, that a suspicious package was reported to be
somewhere in Mellon, and that the Annapolis Police
Department had ordered the building to be
evacuated.
Students who were signed up to the Public Safety
Emergency Alert System received emails and texts
warning them to evacuate Mellon at 10:47, and
students who were in the building at the time were
moved over across the fields of back campus, before
being told to continue down towards the boathouse.
At this time, Fielding Hall, Campbell Hall, Carroll
Barrister House, and the Harrison House were also
evacuated. The buildings remained closed until an all
clear message was sent out to the Polity at 12:44. Due
to this, 1 pm classes were canceled, and the dining hall
was opened from 1-2 pm, with campus operations
returning to normal at the start of 2:20 classes.
The evacuations were triggered in response to a call
made to admissions earlier that morning, in which an
unidentified person suggested he knew that there was
a student in possession of a dangerous object on
campus. “It was Thursday, and I had a 8:30 am to
12:30 pm shift,” explained the student who received
the call, who asked to remain anonymous. “I opened
things up as I usually do, and I was returning calls that
were missed… there was a call that came in at 7:40 am,
which I thought was odd, because admissions doesn’t
open until 9, and why would you call admissions at
7:40?” The student proceeded to call the number
back, and a voice of someone who didn’t sound like a
student responded. “He said, ‘did you know that
there’s a student on your campus that has explosive
material that can bet turned into a weapon?’”
continued the student who answered the phone. “He
said, ‘I don’t want anyone’s arms or legs to be blown
off.’ That is where the call began to feel threatening.”
The student kept the caller on the phone while trying
to transfer him to Public Safety, but was unable to,
This Week in Seminar
and so gave Public Safety’s phone number to the
caller. After the call ended, the student called Public
Safety, and explained what had happened. “They
basically said, please come over right away,” he
continued. After he arrived at the public safety office,
he was given a statement to fill out. “At some point
while I was there, the person actually called public
safety again… as far as I could tell [the Public Safety
Officer] was mostly trying to get his name.”
Upon receiving this call, which specified the
dangerous materials were near a “chemistry
classroom,” the Annapolis Police Department was
notified, and Dean Susan Paalman went around
talking to tutors before 10:20 classes to inform them
of the situation, and to say that they were awaiting the
Police Department for further instructions.
Danielle Lico, Vice President of Student Affairs, who
helped coordinate the response, said in a statement
that “upon [the police department’s] arrival to
campus and after a review of the information
available, the decision was made to evacuate Mellon
Hall… Public Safety continued to work with onsite
law enforcement, including the Annapolis Police
Department, Maryland State Police, Capitol Police K9 Unit, the US Navy Police Department, and the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives,
including explosive detection canine units, to
determine if any explosive materials were present.
After searching multiple locations on-campus, no
explosive materials were found.”
Paalman, in a statement to the Collegian expressed
appreciation that the response was quick, well
organized, and that the first priority was to keep
students safe. “I'm not sure what led someone to
report that there might be a dangerous object on our
campus. It was frustrating to have to leave everything
for a couple of hours. I am grateful that there was, in
fact, no dangerous object and that students, tutors,
and staff were calm and listened to instructions. I'm
grateful for the beautiful day and the extra time many
of us had to enjoy it. I'm grateful for the people who
were not able to enjoy the lovely day, but whose job it
is to respond to emergencies. I especially note the calm
professionalism of Ms. Lico, Mr. Abbott, Ms.
VanNess, Chief Boston, our Public Safety officers,
and others I'm not thinking of at the moment.”
El’ad Nichols-Kaufman
Upcoming Events:
Freshman:
- 11/9: Aristophanes: Clouds
- 11/13: Plato: Apology and Crito
Sophomores:
- 11/9: Bible, First Corinthians
- 11/13: Bible, Romans and James
Juniors and Seniors:
- Preceptorials
Friday Night Lecture:
All College Seminar on Ecclesiastes, Hosted by the SCI
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Saturday 11/11
- Noon, Library Patio: Library Book
Sale
- 9 pm, Great Hall: Masquerade Waltz
Tuesday 11/14
- 3:45 pm, Hodson Room: Internship
Search Workshop
- 4:30 pm, Conversation Room:
Shakespeare in the Fall, Coriolanus
Wednesday 11/15
- 2:30 pm, Hodson Room: Maryland
Public Service Scholars Info Session
�Thursday November 11, 2023
St. John’s collegian
Vol. I. Issue 7
Editorial:
The Gadfly Publication Delays, and Why Both Campus Publication’s
Review by Administration and Independence is Important
For the third time this year, the Gadfly’s publication
has been delayed, with none of the three issues
scheduled to come out to date having been
published on the week they were supposed to. The
first time was purely an internal issue, which has
been resolved, but the remaining two times have
been because of concerns over the Gadfly’s content
during its review by the administration of the
College. The most recent issue, which should have
come out last Thursday, is not yet out at the time of
the Collegian’s publication.
Publications are delayed on campus for two good
reasons. The first is practical: we receive our funding
from the College, and the College cannot have a
publication that operates with its money spreading
disinformation or harmful content without
exposing itself to liability. The second is more
philosophical: these reviews often function as a
check for truth and moral character of the
publication. In one incident that occurred this year,
the Collegian was delayed because I had mis-
recorded some important financial data from the
BVG meeting, and the treasurer wanted to offer a
correction. This kind of fact checking is important
for the publication, and was a good reason for a
delay. Likewise, an article in the Gadfly held up the
second issue because some of it might have seemed
insulting to individuals on campus. The author of
the article had secured the permission of the people
mentioned, but the person doing the reviews did not
know that, and it was very reasonable to make sure
that the paper wasn’t personally attacking or hurting
students on campus.
However, the most recent delay caused by these
reviews is not necessary for ensuring the factual or
moral soundness of the paper, and has continued a
trend of more administrative involvement in the
day-to-day operation of the Gadfly. The Gadfly is
currently being delayed because Ms. Demleitner
wants to publish a response to an interview I
conducted on tutor pay. While I respect that there
may be a need to provide factual corrections,
Balancing our books and
our bodies:
Musings on the Campus Problem of Student Health (or
Utter Lack Thereof)
Recently my friends and I were imagining a Hunger
Games-type situation at St. John’s; a fight to the
death with the entire student body. While
entertaining to think of, and maybe even intriguing
(Reality Club... maybe something to work on?),
there was a thought that came to me: we are all
incredibly weak. And yes, this is ignoring some of
the student body that does really have their shit
together and could probably kill a lot of us with their
bare hands. But for the most part our weakness is
accurate and unavoidable. And this isn’t just due to
the student body comprising mostly of previous
high school nerds, and we can hear why in the
conversations we have outside of class. Does any of
this sound familiar? “I haven’t eaten anything all
day” “I only got three hours of sleep last night” “I’ve
just been drinking coffee and eating the dining hall
fries for the past week” “I had ten (10) shots of Jack
Daniels last night” “I have had bronchitis for eight
weeks but will continue to smoke half a pack a day”
This campus is malnourished, under slept, and sick.
With our college’s motto being “Books and a
Balance” one would think that we would attempt to
execute this. Our failure to do so raises the question
of what kind of balance the student body is seeking.
If it is not the balance of a healthy life with an
immersive study of books, then what exactly is it?
With the obsession with acting thoughtlessly and
unhealthily along with the need for our peer’s eyes, it
seems as though we are seeking the balance of
someone on a tightrope, teetering on the thin line we
have created for ourselves, made for the spectacle of
it. Because it is not that we are just drinking too
much or eating and sleeping too little, but that it is
done alongside perfection in school. It is an attempt
to do the impossible; reduce your body and health to
nothingness while turning in a beautiful essay in on
time. We must be the impossible to everyone we
know! And as glamorous as that sounds, being a
functional alcoholic with a great Don Rag, it is
impossible. We can try to convince ourselves that the
essay we turned in after seventy-two hours of not
sleeping is good, but it really isn’t. Instead of
reaching perfection and self-destruction at the same
time all we have done is hurt our bodies and our
minds without anything to show for it. As much as
we avoid this conclusion it is inevitable, and we can
all see it when we cry to our friends about not being
able to keep going as tired as you are.
To offer a solution for this is to throw a stone in a
glass house. I smoke an incredible amount and
absolutely do not work out. So, really what I have
done is offer up useless critique on a mass problem
of young people in academia. But I will say that each
and every one of you would benefit from drinking a
glass of whole milk and eating some vegetables.
Molly Sprout
holding up the publication of the newspaper to give
a greater voice to the administration is an abuse of
the review power. If Ms. Demleitner really wants to
have her voice heard about tutor pay, she should be
able to either offer an official statement outside the
Gadfly, or wait until the next issue.
Once the paper is ready, the primary aim of the
review should be to get a factually sound Gadfly out
as fast as possible. Otherwise, the Gadfly loses its
relevance as a source of news and information. To
hold up this key part of what a campus publication
is just in order to give more voice to people on
campus who already have many other platforms of
communication seems irresponsible and infringes on
the independence of the Gadfly.
I hope that moving forward, the Gadfly and
administration can work to build better
communication, to ensure that we can find a balance
between publishing an independent, relevant
newspaper, and reasonable review of its content.
About the St.
John’s
Collegian
The St. John’s Collegian is the weekly newspaper of
St. John’s College Annapolis. We work to bring
quick and timely coverage of important events going
on, to help develop a more informed student body.
If you’re searching for more in-depth investigations
and reporting, as well as essays, art and culture, check
out the Gadfly, our affiliated publication, which is
published once every three weeks.
Want to submit an article? We always need more
writers, whether for opinion or reporting!
Submissions for news articles should be between
350-450 words, while opinion should be kept short
at 300 words. Just email eanicholskaufman@sjc.edu
with your article, and we will work to get it in print!
Longer form articles and more in-depth exploration
of ideas should go to the Gadfly, which accepts
submissions at lbriner@sjc.edu.
Contributors for this issue:
Pensée of the Week
The observant reader will note that this is now
classified as the pensée of the week, rather than the
aphorism. This is because a new manuscript,
attributed to the same sage of Gorman Street, was
found by my friend, clarifying that these were in fact
inspired by the scattered philosophical musings of
Pascal. Upon receiving this information, I quickly
corrected the title of this reoccurring feature, as most
of these really don’t make sense as aphorisms to
begin with. Whether they make sense as thoughts in
general is another question, but one I feel more
comfortable to let the reader decide.
The Leviathan ruled the wide sea on his majestic
throne. One day, he was sitting on his throne for too
long, and he drowned because he forgot to breathe.
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El’ad Nichols-Kaufman, Editor
J.S.
Molly Sprout
Enjoy intramurals? Want to see more
coverage of games, scores and standings?
The Collegian wants you!
We are looking to provide comprehensive coverage
of College sporting events going forward, and would
like to have a sports writer on staff. If this interests
you, please email El’ad Nichols-Kaufman at the
email listed above, and we can get started on giving
our campus sports the attention they deserve.
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Thursday
October 26
2023
The St. John’s Collegian
A Gadfly Publication
From the
polity
As a response, the college has been undergoing
austerity measures of one sort or another for 15 years.
That has meant a lot of things, including faculty and
staff salaries that are not where they should be. Since
you have asked about tutors, I will focus on that side
of things, not forgetting that many staff are also
facing difficulties.
The base tutor salary is lower than it was in 2008, if
we adjust for inflation. In recent years housing has
become very expensive in Anne Arundel County.
Tutors are finding it hard even to rent close to
campus, let alone to buy a house.
The good news is that we are here, while many
colleges have had to close their doors. The college has
also not gone through layoffs, as others have. More
good news: according to our pay scale, newer and
mid-career faculty, receive “step increases,”
percentage increases to salary, every year. The college
has always preserved these yearly increases in spite of
the difficult circumstances. Also, our benefits package
is quite competitive with what other places offer. Last
year, the college also increased starting salaries and
faculty base pay across the board for the first time in
many years.
It's a complicated situation, as I said above. No one
doubts that salaries are not where we would like them
to be and that housing is hard to find in this area.
Tutors (and staff!) face real difficulties. On the other
hand, we are better off than we might have been, had
the college made different choices.
Cont on Page 2.
Printed Thursdays in Annapolis
Board of Visitors and
governors meets in Santa fe
Statement From the Dean:
On Tutor Pay
Since the recession of 2008, and exacerbated by the
pandemic, the college’s traditional sources of revenue
have changed. In particular, we have been moving
from a more tuition driven financial model to a more
philanthropic model. In making this move, we have,
since 2008, lost about $10 million in student derived
revenue. That is, if we were still getting the kind of
net tuition we were getting before the economy
tanked in 2008, we’d have gotten a total of $10
million more (not inflation adjusted) over these years.
Vol. I Issue 6
Deficit, Tutor Pay, Enrollment and Retention, Tuition
Increases, and Presidential Search Discussed
The College’s Board of Visitors and Governor’s fall
meeting, one of the three annual meetings that rotate
between the two campuses, occurred in Santa Fe this
year. This meeting, the first to be chaired by Warren
Spector, took place from October 19th to 21st. Most of
the meetings took place behind closed doors, as is
usual for the board, but topics discussed at each of the
committees, along with the reports of the Board
Chair, both campus presidents and deans, were
presented at the Plenary Session that was open to the
public. Spector’s report, however, was not able to be
heard, due to a technical malfunction of the meeting’s
livestream.
During this session, different visions of the College
were outlined by its officers. Nora Demleitner,
Annapolis President, presented her vision of the
“student centered college as a framework that informs
the whole college… a pillar that supports the
program.” She emphasized the needs of 21st century
students, and of remembering that “all student
challenges are institutional challenges.” She
emphasized
career-oriented
programs
and
partnerships with other institutions of higher
education as ways to achieve this.
Mark Roosevelt, Santa Fe President, who is serving
his last year in this position, used his address to discuss
the need for the college to resist trends and maintain
its contrarian identity in order to survive. “What does
it mean to be contrarian?” he asked, “It’s not just a
different path to succeeding conventionally.” He
argued that St. John’s cannot try to sell itself as a
college whose graduates will be materially successful,
since it cannot compete with other institutions for
that, and it should not necessarily value that kind of
success. He claimed that the college should not try to
make itself selective, as a fundamental part of St.
John’s is recognizing that students who did not
succeed in high school might be the best Johnnies. He
called on the board to resist adopting the latest trends
in college administration, and to embrace our unique
identity.
A major topic of discussion during the board meeting
was tutor pay, which has been particularly visible on
the Annapolis campus due to the tutor walkouts
covered elsewhere in this issue. Demleitner
This Week in Seminar
announced in her statement that “tutors and staff
work very hard, but we are not in a financial position
to give them what they truly deserve.” She said that
given the budgeting constraints, the college will not be
able to give them regular raises.
Annapolis Dean Susan Paalman raised the issue in her
report, and called on the board to take action. She
noted that base salaries have only been raised twice,
and cut once, since 2008, meaning that adjusted for
inflation, all tutors are making much less then they did
then. Tutor pay is so low that starting tutors in
Annapolis cannot find housing in the city, and
actually qualify for affordable housing in Anne
Arundel County, but cannot receive it because the
wait list is too long. “This is a serious problem for
retention and recruitment of faculty… we are nearing
the point at which we cannot maintain the college like
this.” She closed her statement by looking at the
vibrant academic life on campus in contrast with this
difficult situation for tutors. “How we put together
campus vibrancy with the tutor pay problems, I don’t
know, but it makes me wonder at the love we have for
the college.”
The chief reason given by the board for not raising
tutor pay was the College’s precarious financial
situation, as reflected in its deficit, which was
frequently mentioned during the meeting. Operating
deficits have returned in the fiscal year 2023, although
they can be covered for this year by a onetime grant of
federal funding for employee retention over the
Covid-19 pandemic For fiscal year 2024, the college is
projecting a $5.4m operating deficit – over $1m more
than originally budgeted, but the board hopes to
reduce the total deficit to $3.4m with tax credit
money., but the board hopes to reduce it to $3.4
million with tax credit money. Moving forward, the
college will be running a $5 million deficit in 2025,
and a $6 million deficit in 2026.
Fueling these fiscal pressures is rising inflation, raised
prices of utilities, and IT costs more than expected. In
particular, Buildings and Grounds costs were over
budget due to many unplanned critical maintenance
projects as well as unexpected price hikes in utilities.
Cont. on Page 2.
Upcoming Events:
Freshman:
- 10/26: Plato: Republic, IV 427D–VI 502C
- 10/30: Plato: Republic, VI 502D–VII
Sophomores:
- 10/26: Bible, Matthew
- 10/30: Bible, Luke
Juniors:
- Preceptorials
Seniors:
- Preceptorials
Friday 10/27:
- Johnnie Family & Friends Weekend
begins, see schedule on website for
more details on events taking place
this weekend.
Saturday 10/28:
- 3 pm, Mellon Patio: Fall Festival and
Pie Baking Contest
- 8 pm, Great Hall: Contra Dance
Sunday 10/29:
- 6:45 pm, FSK: Great Conversations
Wednesday 11/1:
- 2:30 pm, Hodson room:
ScribeAmerica info session
Friday Night Lecture:
What the Heck is Hell?
7:30 p.m., FSK Auditorium, by Annapolis Tutor Ron Haflidson
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�Thursday October 26, 2023
St. John’s collegian
Tutor pay (Cont. from Page 1.)
Finally, there are many positive financial signs. Our
recent capital campaign was incredibly successful
and showed the generosity of our supporters. Much
of that money, though, is in pledges or bequests,
which are not immediately available. The board and
the presidents have all recognized the need to
increase salaries. I’m confident that we’ll get to
where we need to be.
Susan Paalman
BVG Meeting (Cont. from Page 1.)
In order to address these budget pressures, the
College is looking at various ways of increasing
revenue. Given the stagnation of tuition revenue, the
College aims to continue to build more on
philanthropy. This year, they received a $35 million
dollar gift from the Hodson Trust for the
endowment, the second largest gift in the College’s
history. It brings the endowment up to about $250
million. The net return on the endowment is also up
at 12.1%, a high amount given the low risk
investments the College’s endowment is invested in.
There are also several large bequests willed to the
College, which it should receive in the coming years.
However, this by itself is not enough to provide the
revenue the College needs, and the Board voted to
raise tuition and fees again by 4% this year, which is
roughly on par with inflation.
Another topic discussed during the meeting was
enrollment, which is looking to be a continuing
challenge as the nation faces a demographic cliff of
declining College-aged population. This year,
enrollment in Santa Fe was below target, at 92
students in the Freshman class, while enrollment in
Annapolis was 140. Applications still remain
relatively strong, however, and the College hopes to
pull new students through innovative application
methods and recruitment of international students.
Retention was also discussed in detail, with the
College looking to find ways to help support
students at the College and keep them until
graduation. Freshman to Sophomore retention has
reached its highest level since 2018, but overall
retention is still below similar institutions in the
small college consortium, causing a drop in tuition
revenue as well as damage to community. One way
Vol. I. Issue 6
the College hopes to address that is by a program
being piloted on the Santa Fe campus called the
expanded freshman year. The program will allow
students to spread the work of freshman year across
two semesters and a summer, meaning they would
take a reduced courseload in the fall, a normal
courseload in the spring, and a few classes over the
summer, to be able to rejoin their classmates for
sophomore year. This program aims to provide
support for students who might otherwise struggle
during their transition into College life. It will be
open to students who chose to take the extended
year from the start, as well as those who struggle at
the beginning of the regular freshman year classes.
The other major topic on the board’s agenda was
selection of a new president for the Santa Fe campus
to replace Roosevelt. The board is committed to
holding an internal and external search. So far, Santa
Fe tutor and former Dean J. Walter Sterling (not to
be confused with Annapolis tutor Walter Sterling)
has been selected as the internal candidate search
finalist, and will undergo further interview processes
before the selection of a new president is made.
El’ad Nichols-Kaufman
Tutors organize walkout to About the St.
advocate for higher pay
John’s
Collegian
Tutors and Students Walked Out of Class Ten Minutes
Early, Stand on the Quad in Protest
An unusual sight filled the quad at 2:00 this past
Friday. While the space enclosed by McDowell and
the pair of colonial dorms is usually thriving after
classes, it generally remains vacant until 3:30, when
classes come to an end. However, this Friday,
hundreds of students and tutors gathered together in
protest of low tutor pay.
The walkout was initiated by a letter written on
October 18th by Annapolis tutors Nicholas Bellinson
and Khafiz Kerimov. This letter, which was
distributed by the morning of the 19th physically in
campus public places and sent digitally to their
students and to the entire Polity by the Delegate
Council Herald, stated that the two of them would
walk out “of tutorials ten minutes early and stand on
the quad in protest of the ongoing neglect of tutor
compensation.”
In the letter, they noted that starting salaries, which
has not been subject to annual increases since 2008,
have effectively dropped by $20,000 adjusted for
inflation. Kerimov and Bellinson argued that this
decrease in compensation has meant that it is more
difficult for tutors to do their jobs, since they are
forced to live further from campus, due to high
housing costs in Annapolis, giving them less time to
do their work and making it harder to be properly
engaged with the Polity. They also noted that lower
compensation makes it much harder to recruit new
tutors, especially ones from underrepresented
backgrounds.The letter called on other members of
the polity to join them in solidarity.
On the day of the walkout, most classes in session at
the time ended ten minutes early, while some classes
that were to begin at 2:20 began ten minutes late.
Students and faculty made their way down to the
quad. Once there, students and tutors milled
around, and Bellinson and Kerimov made brief
comments. Bellinson thanked people for coming out
in support, while Kerimov told the Polity members
present that “What you see here is the kind of place
the College is. We should be proud of ourselves. At
the end of the day, this is about instruction, and
keeping our instruction strong.” They both also
urged students to attend their 2:20 classes, to avoid
interrupting too much class time.
Student responses seemed primarily positive, with a
majority of students in class at the time showing up
in support. “It’s good that this many people turned
up,” said DC President Helen Felbek, noting that it
shows that the student body cares. “The quad is
veritably tumescent,” agreed Junior and SCI
representative Jack Domanski. Freshman Andy
Manne noted that it often feels like tutors are backed
up against a wall. “They can’t leave the College, they
can’t leave our community. This is a place that we all
make some kind of sacrifices for. It makes a lot of
sense, if we are really as one community, that we get
involved. It means a lot that the students and tutors
all care about this.”
After the statements by Kerimov and Bellinson,
people milled around the quad for a while, and the
Sophomore music assistants organized a singing of
Sicut Cervus with the classes they had brought over,
which many other students joined in on. After this,
most people dispersed, heading towards their next
class or back to their dorms, the library or other
gathering places.
Further coverage on this walkout will be found in
the Gadfly coming out next week, which will feature
an interview with Kerimov and Bellinson. The
Collegian has asked the President and Dean for
comment on the issue; the Dean’s comment can be
found in the “From the Polity” section and was
coordinated as a response by the President and
Dean.
. El’ad Nichols-Kaufman
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The St. John’s Collegian is the weekly newspaper of
St. John’s College Annapolis. We work to bring
quick and timely coverage of important events going
on, to help develop a more informed student body.
If you’re searching for more in-depth investigations
and reporting, as well as essays, art and culture, check
out the Gadfly, our affiliated publication, which is
published once every three weeks.
Want to submit an article? We always need more
writers, whether for opinion or reporting!
Submissions for news articles should be between
350-450 words, while opinion should be kept short
at 300 words. Just email eanicholskaufman@sjc.edu
with your article, and we will work to get it in print!
Longer form articles and more in-depth exploration
of ideas should go to the Gadfly, which accepts
submissions at lbriner@sjc.edu.
Contributors for this issue:
El’ad Nichols-Kaufman, Editor
Susan Paalman
Aphorism of the Week
A man who kills one person is a murderer; a
man who kills a hundred people is a murderer;
and a man who kills a million people is still a
murderer, only much worse than the others.
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Thursday
October 19
2023
The St. John’s Collegian
A Gadfly Publication
From the
polity
On the Smoking Policy
I’ve heard the complaint a dozen, if not a hundred
times. “The college is unfairly punishing students for
smoking on the quad.” “They’re hurting low-income
students with the smoking policy.” “They’re trying to
destroy our culture.”
I hear these complaints, and while I understand where
some of them are coming from, I find them mostly
stupid: no one aren’t entitled to some “right to smoke.”
When some are puffing away on the quad after
seminar, the rest of us who don’t want lung cancer
must deal with their foul-smelling smog. There are
many people on this campus who have breathing
problems, who simply cannot be around smoke for
health reasons. They should not have to avoid large
swathes of campus for smokers who refuse to take the
two-minute walk down to the smoking area. It is the
smoker’s responsibility as a polity member to not
endanger their fellow students and move for them.
Even for students who are not more actively
endangered by smoking, they have made a choice not
to smoke to protect their health and wellbeing, and
simply to be more pleasant to be around. To violate
that choice and force them to inhale secondhand
smoke simply due to being too lazy to walk two
minutes is obscene, and just plain inconsiderate.
There are now several smoking areas on campus, and
our campus is small enough that no place is so far away
that you cannot either walk off campus or walk to a
smoking area in a few minutes. There is no effort
required, just a sense of decency and social
responsibility. Just a little bit of effort on the part of
campus smokers could make so many spaces on
campus more friendly and welcoming- maybe I won’t
have to avoid the quad after seminar if people were just
a bit more considerate. It's not difficult, it’s not
complicated, and it doesn’t keep you from your
nicotine. Just have the decency to respect others who
chose not to smoke. That’s all.
Anonymous submission
Vol. I Issue 5
Printed Thursdays in Annapolis
Delegate council passes
budget omnibus
Bill Includes Funding for Campus Clubs, Passed After Weeks
of Hearings
Disclaimer: the Gadfly receives funding from the
Delegate Council, and the author of this article is the
DC Secretary.
At this week’s Delegate Council meeting, the DC
passed the budget omnibus bill, which contains all the
funding for clubs for the entire semester. Each club’s
budget is heard and approved independently, but this
approval is only preliminary, and the budget may still
be amended until the passage of the omnibus bill,
which is contains the formal approval of the budgets
and the authorization for the treasurer to give Archons
money from the Delegate Council’s accounts.
This semester, the total amount approved came to
$39,527.68. This is more than the $36,000 the council
receives annually, but as clubs rarely spend as much as
they request, DC treasurer Grace Jang estimated that
the council could afford to spend as much as $42,000
this semester. Last semester, the budget omnibus bill
totaled $43,199.921. Money remaining in the DC
accounts after the budgeting season can now be spent
through the process outlined in the Agora Act, which
allows individual students to request funding at any
time after budgeting season for projects and events not
affiliated with clubs that would benefit the polity as a
whole.
The funding was split between 38 clubs, ranging from
$25 for the Yearbook club, who only received money
for snacks, to $4175 for the King Williams Players
who requested funding for two plays and Too Much
Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. Almost all clubs who
requested funding received it, with the exception of
the Rock Climbing Club. funding for two plays and
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. Almost
all clubs who requested funding received it, with the
exception of the Rock Climbing Club.
Approximately half of all the funding went to the five
largest clubs, who each requested more than $3,000:
the King Williams Players, who received $4175, the
This Week in Seminar
Waltz Committee, receiving $3,900, Reality receiving
$3,350.78, the Polo Club, receiving $3191.65, and
Energeia, receiving $3180.96. The money was
distributed between many different types of clubs,
with arts, sports, and party organizing clubs receiving
each about 20% of the budget, publications, affinity
clubs and other miscellaneous clubs each receiving a
little over 10% of the total funding.
Particular attention was given by Delegates this year to
the question of how to approach clubs that serve a
limited number of people for a more specialized
activity, which often cost the DC much more per
participant than other clubs. These clubs, such as
Polo, Rock Climbing and Jiu Jitsu, were each
approached differently, leading to calls for an act of
council outlining the process for this type of club.
Such an act has already been proposed by Delegate
Rosenberg, but has not yet been formally introduced.
Treasure Jang also submitted a statement of purpose
organizing a budgeting committee at this meeting.
Such a committee will consider budgeting standards
and procedures for future years.
At this same meeting, the Delegate Council held
elections for members of the Committee on Student
Life. This committee, which has existed at the college
in the past, is now being revived, in order to give
students a forum to respond and take action on issues
outside of the immediate classroom-related
environment. Jack Huntley was elected chair of this
committee, with the other members elected being
Helen Felbek as Secretary and Tabby Rutledge as
Junior Representative. Further elections will be held
later this semester to fill the remaining vacant
representative positions.
All Delegate Council meetings are open to the public,
and members of the Polity may come and speak
before the DC if they have issues they wish to have
addressed. The council meets weekly at 7:30 in the
General Hartle Room.
El’ad Nichols-Kaufman
Upcoming Events:
Freshman:
- 10/19: Plato: Republic, I–II 367E
- 10/23: Plato: Republic, II 367E–IV 427C
Sophomores:
- 10/19: Tacitus: Annals, III–VI
- 10/23: Epictetus: Handbook
Juniors:
- 10/19: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays, see official list for selections
- 10/23: Leibniz: Principles of Nature and Grace; Monadology; Philosophical Essays, see
official list for selections
Seniors:
- 10/19: Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments, Chapters I–III (including Appendix)
- 10/23: Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments, Chapter IV–end (Moral)
Friday Night Lecture:
Australian Haydn Ensemble
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Saturday 10/20: 9 pm to midnight,
Funkenstein/Brewster concert, outside
the planetarium
Tuesday 10/24: 3:45 pm, Hodson
internship information session, Hodson
room.
Have an event you want to publicize for your
club? Want to send a message to that one Johnnie
you met once on that fateful night but can’t
remember their name? Want to confuse the
polity with a cryptic notice? Write
eanicholskaufman@sjc.edu, and we can get a
notice printed in the Collegian, in our semiclassified advertisement section coming in future
issues!
�Thursday October 19, 2034
St. John’s collegian
Vol. I. Issue 5
Local Limbo Pariah Millie Ransohoff Back in
Good Graces Over Co-Victory: Freakishly Tall Graduate
Student Just Consolation Prize for True Adversary Says Ms. Ransohoff
Tensions were high in the Great Hall last Saturday for
the annual Sock-Hop Limbo Competition.
Beginning with around thirty participants the
numbers quickly dwindled with each lowering of the
bar. Moments of excitement included several people
who successfully limboed in heels, consternation over
the validity of Maddie Minor's back-bend and snap
execution, and the eighth round entry of a pair of
cavalier contenders. But the real thrill came when it
became apparent that there were two competitors
who, in some ways against all odds, were on their way
to the final round. Millie Ransohoff '25, the runnerup from last year, and Weston Wright GI '26, who
gave his express permission to be referred to as
“freakishly tall.” Coming in at five foot five and six
foot four respectively, both Mr. Wright and Ms.
Ransohoff outlasted the rest of the competition.
With both failing to make it past the eleventh round,
they were crowned co-winners, too many cheers of
jubilation and awe from the crowd. I had the pleasure
of speaking to the winners in the wake of the
competition.
Like the true athletes they are, Mr. Wright and Ms.
Ransohoff were already thinking of ways that they
could improve. Going as far as to bemoan their
perceived failings, Mr. Wright said that "they could
have gone further, it was just an issue of needing
momentum." Nodding in agreement Ms. Ransohoff
added that the main reason they won at all, especially
over shorter competitors (at least in Mr. Wright's
case), was one of proportion. She stated that "[we
succeeded] because we have even body proportion of
legs to torso, it helps with the center of gravity."
Though she did add that the whole competition
could have been made fairer if everyone had to go
shoeless. A note to the future waltz committee.
Finally, I addressed the elephant in the room. I asked
Ms. Ransohoff how she felt, in the wake of her loss to
a Midshipman last year, about yet again, coming up
*ahem* short. To which Mr. Wright stooped to say
that he "doesn’t even go here either," further adding
salt to the wound (a note to the reader, the question
CSL Chair calls for Polity Members to Participate
Respected Polity – I should urge you to pay
attention to this, my indubitably important message.
Be made aware of the existence of the newly refounded Committee on Student Life. The
Committee on Student Life intends to fill a niche
left by the previously defunct Committee on
Student Life. There is a clear outlet through which
student concern and opinion might be heard
regarding academic issues at St. John’s College. This
is, of course, the venerable Student Committee on
Instruction. Notably, such recourse is absent when it
comes to Student Life. This is where the Committee
on Student Life comes in. Namely, to represent your
Student Life, if you have one. We will host maybeweekly forums during Wednesday Lunches, and
other, secret and unconfirmed, events. In the
hallowed recesses of the private dining hall, we will
discuss issues of the greatest import to the polity.
The forums and other events of the Committee on
Student Life will be wildly and unprecedentedly
successful, if God be pleased. We will communicate
the priorities and concerns of the polity to the
administration, who will love and respect us.
The Committee on Student Life is, of course, a
talking club. It has no power or on-paper relevance
whatsoever. Whatever relevance to administrative
decision making we acquire we must earn for
ourselves by our arguments and guile. Yet, consider
carefully, consider the twinkle one gains in their eye
by complaining, that comradely pleasure resembling
victory. Consider the strength and determination
that arises, should it be necessary, by collective
grievance. Far from forsaking actual changemaking,
the Committee On Student Life insists on it. Even if,
though, you are cynical that a liaison to the
administration on important issues such as housing
Despite Ms. Ransohoff's feelings of inadequacy, not
all were unhappy with the shared victory. When asked
for comment, Dean Paalman stated that she was
"thrilled by multi-generational bonding between the
undergraduate college and graduate institute." So,
perhaps it is not yet time for Ms. Ransohoff to throw
in the towel. It is indeed something to be part of such
a momentous unity event, and after all, what the
polity really cares about is that no Johnnie was beaten
by a Middie. To that end, Ms. Ransohoff has limboed
her way back into our good graces. And who knows,
maybe next year it will be a Santa Fe transfer that she
shares the laurels with, and by her senior year, Ms.
Ransohoff will win for the college once and for all.
Andy Manne
Committee on Student life
Revived
“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to
fill a man's heart” - Albert Camus
of whether attending the GI counts as "going here" is
best left to another time and place). With what this
intrepid reporter discerned to be signs of tears, and a
distinctive sorrowful sniffle, Ms. Ransohoff replied
that she was "happy with all the results."
will yield any positive change, attend our meetings
anyway. You may be surprised. At the very least, I can
promise that the conversations and events we host
will not be boring. Watch your e-mail.
Jack Huntley, Chair of the CSL
Note from the Editor:
If you’re reading this edition, you’ve probably
noticed the biggest change to the collegian: a smaller
typeface. For this issue, in order to better fit in all the
material that is submitted, and to reflect the large size
at which the paper is printed, the text of the articles
will be in a smaller font. This means the word count
for submissions has gone up, as reflected in the about
the collegian section to the right of this column.
There have also been questions about our publication
schedule which I hope to clear up. The Collegian is
published weekly on Thursdays except on weeks the
Gadfly is supposed to publish. The Gadfly usually
comes out every three weeks, and so the pattern of
Collegian printing is two weeks on, one week off.
This year, the first Gadfly was delayed due to
problems transitioning between layout editors, and
the second one was delayed because of concerns from
the administration about content, but moving
forward they should be published more consistently,
and the campus should see one Gadfly affiliated
publication coming out every Thursday.
Aphorism of the Week
A fool is a better governor than a prince, because he is
less clever but more ridiculous.
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About the St.
John’s
Collegian
The St. John’s Collegian is the weekly newspaper of
St. John’s College Annapolis. We work to bring quick
and timely coverage of important events going on, to
help develop a more informed student body. If you’re
searching for more in-depth investigations and
reporting, as well as essays, art and culture, check out
the Gadfly, our affiliated publication, which is
published once every three weeks.
Want to submit an article? We always need more
writers, whether for opinion or reporting!
Submissions for news articles should be between 350450 words, while opinion should be kept short at 300
words. Just email eanicholskaufman@sjc.edu with
your article, and we will work to get it in print!
Longer form articles and more in-depth exploration
of ideas should go to the Gadfly, which accepts
submissions at lbriner@sjc.edu.
Contributors for this issue:
El’ad Nichols-Kaufman, Editor
Jack Huntley
Andy Manne
Corrections:
An article in the last edition (Mellon Hall
Officially Reopened in Ribbon Cutting
Ceremony) erroneously said that the Mellon
Fishbowl was completed in the 1980s. It
was instead completed in the 2000s.
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Thursday
October 5
2023
The St. John’s Collegian
A Gadfly Publication
Vol. I Issue 4
Printed Thursdays in Annapolis
From the
polity
Mellon Hall officially
reopened with ribbon cutting
Shocking Exposé on the Bells
Ceremony Attended by Local Dignitaries, Campus leaders,
Celebrated Work Done to Improve Campus Spaces
Dear Editors of The St. John’s Collegian,
It is with a heavy heart and strained
conscience that I write to address the mystery
of the bells ("Ding Dongs? Merrily on High?:
Mysterious Ringing Keeps Campus Awake").
Those with discerning ears will have noticed
that the bells have a decidedly Phrygian ring
to them. Recall that Socrates, in Book III of
The Republic, claims that this mode forms
souls to be courageous and moderate. And
now for the shocking truth: our Assistant
Dean, Mr. Abbott, in an intricate and
ingenuous plot, is the one behind those bells.
In brief: he has long been worried about the
influence that years of music in the Ionic and
Lydian modes (e.g.: Tay-tay) has had on so
many of our students—and more than a few
tutors; the mysterious bells have been
designed to counter those effects. Not only
do they ring in the Phrygian mode, but they
do so at the precise times when the circadian
rhythms of Freshmen make their souls most
receptive to the influence of sound. Let me be
clear: I do not doubt Mr. Abbott’s devotion
to the college or his exceedingly admirable
intentions, yet I could no longer remain silent
about this shocking (and tyrannical?) abuse
of power. I also ask all members of the Polity
to assist me in getting to the bottom of a
question that now haunts me: was the
Assistant Dean acting alone?
Your devoted comrade,
Mr. Haflidson
After two years of renovations, the final part
of the renovations of Mellon Hall begun in
the winter of 2021 were finally completed last
week. The patio, which has been under
construction since this summer, was paved
just in time to welcome alumni, donors and
local leaders for a reopening ceremony that
acted as a celebration of all the various sources
of funding and work that made the
renovations possible.
of its original design features, but was made
accessible and received furniture to make it more
welcoming to student use. The Fishbowl,
which was first installed during the
renovation in the 80s, was given a more open
plan, while the conversation room’s ability to
support technology was improved alongside
its atmosphere as a welcoming space to hold
conversations in. New facilities backstage
include a studio theater, although all space
that was usable to build sets and most of the
The idea to renovate Mellon, which had its prop storage space was lost, making the
last major renovation in 1989, was first practical use of the auditorium more difficult
initiated by former college president Pano for campus theater groups.
Kanelos, to attempt to create new public
spaces to form a hub for students, and draw At the reopening ceremony, speakers
them into closer community by making included President Demleitner, Maryland Lt.
spaces like the Mellon Lobby and the Governor Aruna Miller, who spoke about
Fishbowl more welcoming spaces for student the state’s commitment to higher education,
use. The renovations also aimed to increase and State Senator Sarah Elfreth, who spoke
ADA accessibility, allowing both doors into about her role in securing St. John’s a five
the lobby area to be accessible and improving million dollar grant from the state of
accessibility to the backstage areas, as well as Maryland that enabled the construction.
to rebuild the building’s ageing HVAC Maryland is unusual in that it provides
systems. They cost approximately ten million funding for capital projects for private
dollars, and were planned by David M. Colleges, and St. John’s matched this
Schwarz Architects, a firm led by an alumnus funding with fundraising from the college’s
recently completed Freeing Minds capital
of the college.
campaign to cover the costs of the project.
These renovations primarily impacted the Also speaking at the event was William
FSK lobby, the fishbowl, the conversation Rowel, representing Mayor Gavin Buckley
room and the backstage areas behind the who was unable to attend the ceremony, and
auditorium, all of which were substantially Delegate Council President Helen Felbek,
changed. The lobby, which before the who spoke on the student experience using
renovation was one of the only interiors the newly renovated spaces.
designed by midcentury architect Richard
Neutra still intact on the east coast, lost many El’ad Nichols-Kaufman
This Week in Seminar
Upcoming Events:
Freshman:
Thursday, 10/5
- 10/5: Plutarch: Lives, Lycurgus; Solon
- 9:45 pm: Bonfire & Hoe Down,
- 10/9: Herodotus: History, I; II 50–53, 112–120; III 37–38, 66-87
Planetarium
Sophomores:
Friday 10/6
- 10/5: Virgil: Aeneid, V–VIII
- 12:30 pm: Petting zoo, Upper Fields
- 10/9: Virgil: Aeneid, IX–XII
- 9 pm: Selena screening, Mellon
Juniors:
courtyard
- 10/5: Hobbes: Leviathan, Chapters 30–31, 32 (first four paragraphs), 38
- 8:30 pm: Reunion Waltz, Great Hall
(selections), 39, 43, 46–47; A Review and Conclusion (last paragraph)
Saturday, 10/7
- 10/9: Spinoza: Ethics, Book 1 through proposition 29
- 8:30 pm: Rocky Horror Picture
Seniors:
Show screening, Great Hall
- 10/5: Marx and Engels: The German Ideology, Part One; and “Theses on Feuerbach”
Sunday 10/8
- 10/9: Marx and Engels: Capital (see main list for selections)
- 12:00 pm: Tea party and bouquet
making, Quad
There will be no lecture due to the long weekend
Monday 10/9
- 12:30 pm: All-College scavenger
hunt, Quad
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St. John’s collegian
Vol. I. Issue 4
Public Safety office releases annual report
The report includes statistics on crimes committed on campus for the past three years,
from 2020-2022, as well as fire safety reports for the same time.
In this year’s public safety report, which is
required by federal law to be issued every
October, the following crimes were reported
for the calendar year 2022: one burglary,
seven drug related violations and eight liquor
law violations. While for our campus that in
2022 had approximately 453 students and
190 faculty and staff, this may seem
significant, it is indicative of large
improvements from 2021. Officially
reported cases of rape and sexual assault
dropped from 17 in 2021 to none in 2022,
drug violations dropped from 33 cases in
2021, and liquor law violations went down
from 57 violations in 2021. However, it is
always difficult to determine whether these
changes can be attributed to changes in
enforcement, reporting, or in actual The email which was sent out by the public
safety office contained last years report, but
frequency of crimes.
this years report can still be found online in
The report also featured a fire safety section, the Clery Act, Crime Awareness and
which showed that all the residence halls had Campus Security Act of 1990 section of the
sufficient fire safety measures in place in college website, or can be requested as a
2022, including fire alarms, a full sprinkler physical document from the public safety
system, smoke detectors, fire extinguishers, office.
and evacuation plans and diagrams. The fire
alarms on campus went off six times, once Included in the report was detailed
each in Gilliam, Humphreys, Campbell, information on campus safety procedures
Chase-Stone and twice in Spector, all of and policies, with many detailed resources
which were due to unintentional cooking for students, and includes the campus sexual
incidents. Most of them took place in the misconduct policy as an appendix.
afternoon or evening, except for one at 10:52
am. None involved a fire that actually caused El’ad Nichols-Kaufman
any injury or damage.
Can’t you dance the Polka?
Oktoberfest Polka Competition features spirited dancing,
fierce rivalry, and much stomping
Two Saturdays ago, the College saw the ‘23
St. John’s College Oktoberfest Polka
Competition. Decked out in dirndls and
lederhosen, members of the polity amassed
to witness the finest endurance test of the
year. With flower crowns secured and sleeves
rolled up, the dancers hit the floor with a
well-timed stomp. Quickly, the crowd was
culled. (The author of this piece and the
editor were cut a very respectable fifth). The
esteemed judges Mr. Dang and Ms. Hile
called out movement changes over the din,
pushing the dancers to new heights—quite
literally, as a dizzying array of aerial moves
were performed—and eliminating pairs left
and right, until only four were left. As the
twenty-five-minute mark was passed the
competition grew fierce. All four pairs
seemed evenly matched. First up, was Millie
Ransohoff, fresh off a victory last year, and
Paolo Medelius. Clearly having fun, they
pranced around the dance floor with an
infectious exuberance and a powerhouse of
side-to-side sashays. Hot on their heels were
Chris Thomas and Charlotte Nicholas, in it
to win it. They maintained an even pace—
focusing on endurance and conservation of
energy—though not without style. Charlie
Mahon and Lainey Rendelman made up the
youngest pair, with Mr. Mahon being the
only freshman to make it to the final four.
They made for a powerful couple, striding
across the floor with an athlete's focus.
Finally, Logan Arendt and Maddie Minor
completed the quartet. Cool as cucumbers
About the St.
John’s
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and with seemingly effortless grace, they
played off the mishap as a shoe flying off
with panache. As time ticked on, something
had to give. The first to go were Mr. Mahon
and Ms. Rendelman, disqualified—
debatably unjustly—for not being able to
hear directions. Next were Ms. Ransohoff
and Mr. Medelius, felled to an unfortunate
stumble. Despite the losses all were in good
spirits, knowing that they had a few more
years to try for the crown. The same could
not be said for the remaining couples, all of
whom were seniors. With the stakes thus
raised the competition headed into its
fortieth minute with neither pair giving any
ground, and the tension rose to a point
unmatched since the Calydonian boar hunt.
Finally, around minute forty-four the judges
called it, awarding—as they sailed through a
final flip and spin—Mr. Thomas and Ms.
Nicholas with their well-deserved laurels.
With that the polka competition ended,
leaving the victors to their spoils and the rest
to rest their feet, and a beloved tradition to
be laid away until next year.
The St. John’s Collegian is the weekly
newspaper of St. John’s College Annapolis.
We work to bring quick and timely coverage
of important events going on, to help
develop a more informed student body. If
you’re searching for more in-depth
investigations and reporting, as well as
essays, art and culture, check out the Gadfly,
our affiliated publication, which is
published once every three weeks.
Andy Manne
Ron Haflidson
Want to submit an article? We always need
more writers, whether for opinion or
reporting! Submissions for news articles
should be between 300-400 words, while
opinion should be kept short at 200 words.
Just email eanicholskaufman@sjc.edu with
your article, and we will work to get it in
print! Longer form articles and more indepth exploration of ideas should go to the
Gadfly, which accepts submissions at
lbriner@sjc.edu.
Contributors for this issue:
El’ad Nichols-Kaufman, Editor
Andy Manne
Aphorism of the Week
Look at the confidence of a chicken. How
blessed are those who know that they don't
know!
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Thursday
September 28
2023
The St. John’s Collegian
A Gadfly Publication
Vol. I
Issue 3
Printed Thursdays in Annapolis
From the
polity
Delegate Council Budgeting
Season update
A Response to On the Honor
Code
DC Hearings Continue, 30 Clubs Funded with Almost a
Dozen Still Awaiting Hearings
Many of us have given thought to Ms.
Paalman's suggestion of establishing an
Honor Code for Johnies in response to the
emergence of Large Language Models. But
while some remained untroubled, others have
embraced the proposition with an
enthusiasm that should not fail to disturb us.
Every time we are to think of our institution
as a πόλις (city-state), we consistently
compare it to Athens (the city of philosophy)
and not to the Media (the kingdom of
Middies). This is because our education here
embraces intellectual freedom. St. John’s
neither cares about grades nor punishes
anyone for a lack of engagement. Indeed,
when one fails to prepare for a class by reading
or produce an original piece of writing, these
actions serve as self-punishment, depriving
oneself of intellectual opportunities. And
should we look within fto uncover the
reasons for such misadventures, we
necessarily discover that the individual is
blinded either directly (through some sort of
ignorance) or indirectly (because of a tragic
life circumstance). The proposal of the code
and all subsequent ideas are necessarily
spoken with an eye on the interests of our
polity. As individuals we also postulate that
one’s freedom finds its limit there where the
other’s start. Yet the exercise of one's freedom
to cheat (oneself) does not compromise
others in their intellectual development.
Hence the interests of the polity are not hurt.
If St. John’s is confident in the dignity of its
Cont. on Page 2
The final day for archons to submit club
budgets for the fall semester was September
7th, and the Delegate Council began hearing
club budgets on September 10th. (While most
DC meetings take place Tuesday evenings,
two weekend hearings were held to make the
process more efficient.) These hearings play a
key role in ensuring that funds are distributed
in a way that benefits the polity. In a policy
newly introduced this year to improve
efficiency for archons and delegates alike, the
DC is aiming to keep debate times to under 8
minutes for most clubs, or under 10 minutes
for clubs that are requesting $1000 or more.
had approved budgets of less than half their
initial request. Not all budgets have been
heard yet, and hearing a budget doesn’t
necessarily mean it will be approved the same
night or at all — at the meeting on the 19th, for
example, a final decision on Polo Club’s
budget was deferred to the following week.
Any polity member who has an interest in the
DC or the budgeting processes is strongly
encouraged to attend the upcoming meetings,
speak to their delegates, and/or read the
minutes from past meetings. Louis Rosenberg
DC Budgeting Statistics:
Amount requested by clubs: $53,654.97
Amount of money received by the DC each
year: approx. $35,000
Amount estimated by the DC treasurer that
can be allocated given club underspending
and surpluses: approx. $42,000
The amount of money initially requested by
clubs ranges from $190 (JSPN and
Storyteller’s Guild, though JSPN ended up
successfully requesting to amend their budget
to include an additional $175 for a rugby
viewing party) to $5855 (Rock Climbing
Club). Approximately 10 clubs requested
more than $2000, while 15 clubs requested KWP: $4,175
less than $500; nearly 40 budgets were Waltz: $3,900
Reality: $3,235
submitted in total.
Energeia: $3,180.96
As expected, larger budgets tended to be Pangaea: $2,305
discussed in more detail than smaller budgets. Jiu-jitsu: $2,120
Some clubs — including Baking Club, Board Cinema: $1,740
Games Club, Insect Farming Club, Folk Life, Futsal: $1,050
and Shammai — had their budgets passed SCI: $1,000
with little to no debate. Other clubs had more HEMA: $887.87
contentious budget hearings, with delegates Darkroom: $800
proposing various amendments. Notably, Board Games: $737.53
Video Games Club (which requested $1445) Peliculemos: $700
and Jiu-Jitsu (which requested $4550) each
Cont. on Page 2
This Week in Seminar
Freshman:
- 9/28: Plato, Gorgias, 447A–481B
- 10/2: Plato, Gorgias, 481B–to end
Sophomores:
- 9/28: Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, IV–VI
- 10/2: Virgil, Aeneid, I–IV
Juniors:
- 9/28: Hobbes, Leviathan, Chapters 12–18
- 10/2: Hobbes: Leviathan, Chapters 19–21, 24–25, 27, 28 (only the very last
paragraph), 29
Seniors:
- 9/28: Tocqueville, Democracy in America (see official list for selections)
- 10/2: Tocqueville, Democracy in America (see main list for selections)
Friday Night Lecture:
Rhetoric and Democracy: Introduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric, Robert Bartlett
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Upcoming Events:
Friday, 9/29:
- 11:30 am: Mellon re-opening
ceremony, Mellon Terrace
Saturday, 9/30
- 2 pm: Extended bookstore hours and
book signing, Bookstore
- 3 pm: Alumni-Student Networking
Event, Hodson room
- 8:30 pm: Reunion Waltz, Great Hall
Sunday, 10/1
- 7 pm: Film Showing, Coco
Tuesday 10/3
- 5:30 pm: Resume Workshop,
Hodson Room
Wednesday 10/4
- 3:30 Naloxone administration
training, Conversation Room
�Thursday, Sep 28 2023
St. John’s Collegian
Vol. I. Issue 3
Skeletons as Satire
Exhibit Ending this Week at the Mitchell Museum Highlights Work of Posada
When I arrived at the Mitchell Art Museum,
I suddenly thanked my past self for sticking
with Spanish for all four years of high school.
All of the text in the exhibit is written in
Spanish, primarily, with English translations
underneath. The first instance of this is
displayed on the wall, right outside the
entrance to the museum. This wall asks each
passerby two questions: “¿ Debe uno ser
serio para ser tomado en serio ?” and “¿ El
arte tiene límites ?” The translations given
are “Must we be serious to be taken
seriously?” and “Does art have bounds?”
José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1915) has
become one of Mexico’s most celebrated
printmakers and satirists, but he did not
Ding Dongs?
Merrily on
High?
Mysterious Ringing Keeps
Campus Awake
For night owls, insomniacs, and light
sleepers on upper campus, you may be aware
that our beloved campus bell has been
exhibiting a curious behavior over the past
few weeks. Administration Officials and
Public Safety Officers are baffled. The bell
has frequently gone off for ten minutes at
precisely midnight on Wednesdays and at
7:30 on Mondays. It also went off at
midnight on Monday of last week, chiming
thrice. The only clue to go off of is that the
bell may be controlled remotely.
What are we to make of this mysterious
malfunction? Is it ghosts, goblins, gnomes?
Seniors with long-overdue essays? Perhaps
the bell has a mind of its own and wishes to
join the revelers on lower campus in their
ushering in of the New Year. The midnight
Monday chimes make less sense, however.
Perhaps a seminar in the Octagon went on a
bit longer than usual–there’s no end to those
things, you know.
The hunt for who or what is causing this
continues, making this lofty mystery a
worthy counterpart to the underquad. The
answer to this riddle, however, is likely
hiding in plain sight.
Caleb Briggs
achieve fame or recognition during his
lifetime. Spending most of his career at the
publishing house of Antonio Vanegas
Arroyo, he created images to be printed in
Arroyo’s chapbooks. The reason the exhibit
asks us its initial questions is that José
Guadalupe Posada was notorious for his
satire. Calaveras , or skeleton figures, are now
well known as symbols of Mexican culture,
but their popularity is in part due to
Posada—he often used them to satirize
current events or public figures. The exhibit
itself doesn’t seem to prioritize seriousness in
the slightest. The word “ ridículo ” is
splashed across the wall in bold capital
letters, and bright primary colors dominate
Honor Code (Cont.)
enterprise as a college, there should be no
question of an honor code. One will thus be
either a Johnie or not (someone who
enrolled at St. John’s by an accident or
blindness). If we are to help the cheating one
with their ignorance or a tragic event, we
must do so sincerely and only from the
position of love and compassion. These two
qualities are not to be found in the realm of
fear and control, but in the realm of joy of
and wonder in the other. And the same is
true for good essays and discussions.
Semyon Andruschenko
DC Funding (Cont.)
Video Games: $620
Alexander Hamilton Society: $540
Bowling: $503
Catholic Fellowship: $500
Christian Fellowship: $500
3D Printing: $495.10
Historia: $480
Purls of Wisdom: $448
Delegate Council: $415
Baking: $386.22
JSPN: $365
Shammai: $356.96
Swimming: $299
Insect Farming: $275
Project Polity: $270
Folk Life: $250
Storyteller’s Guild: $190
Total approved to date: $32,724.64
Aphorism of the week:
Madness is the only way to immortality by
oneself. That is why it is called madness.
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the space. There is even a plastic skeleton
lying prone on a ledge, gazing down upon
unsuspecting museum-goers. At the same
time, the calaveras introduce an underlying
motif of death, and it’s true that Posada
wrestled with very somber ideas in his prints.
One of these was the Mexican Revolution,
which sparked a creative drive in Posada,
though he died before Mexico gained
independence. Death imposes on us a hard
and fast limit to creativity, but that doesn’t
mean that we can’t poke fun at ourselves
while we’re still here. Sometimes, humor is
what reveals the gravest of truths.
Natalie Goldman
About the St.
John’s
Collegian
The St. John’s Collegian is the weekly
newspaper of St. John’s College Annapolis.
We work to bring quick and timely coverage
of important events going on, to help
develop a more informed student body. If
you’re searching for more in-depth
investigations and reporting, as well as
essays, art and culture, check out the Gadfly,
our affiliated publication, which is
published once every three weeks.
Want to submit an article? We always need
more writers, whether for opinion or
reporting! Submissions for news articles
should be between 300-400 words, while
opinion should be kept short at 200 words.
Just email eanicholskaufman@sjc.edu with
your article, and we will work to get it in
print! Longer form articles and more indepth exploration of ideas should go to the
Gadfly, which accepts submissions at
djnathan@sjc.edu.
Contributors for this issue:
El’ad Nichols-Kaufman, Editor
Natalie Goldman
Caleb Briggs
Semyon Andruschenko
Louis Rosenberg
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Thursday
September 14
2023
The St. John’s Collegian
A Gadfly Publication
From the
polity
Opinion: On the Honor
Code
For those who missed it, Annapolis Dean
Susan Paalman has recently announced
plans to implement a student honor code to
combat academic dishonesty. While I am
highly skeptical of any innovation in the
running of the St John's, this one certainly
merits consideration. In an institution
which professes to be not merely a
community, but a true polity, it is
appropriate that students should think of
themselves as citizens with a real stake in the
wellbeing of the College. Since a sense of
personal honor and integrity is vital to
meaningful citizenship, any system which
promotes it should be beneficial to the
health of the polity. There is, of course, the
matter of enforcement. It might well be
asked whether people who are prepared to
cheat on their assignments will be phased
by lying about doing so. To this problem I
propose a two-pronged solution. 1) the
creation of a body whose sole purpose is the
investigation and punishment of honor
code infractions. Since (to my way of
thinking) the reason for the creation of an
honor code is to foster good citizenship and
self-governance, this body would ideally be
composed of students or feature students in
an executive capacity. Self-government is
both an individual and communal exercise.
Cont. on Page 2
Vol. I
Issue 2
Printed Thursdays in Annapolis
City plans to build path on
college creek
College Creek Connector would Link Bike Infrastructure
Across Annapolis, Cross our Campus
Claiming that College Creek is
underutilized, the City of Annapolis seeks to
‘activate’ it. The city’s plan is to connect
King George Street to Calvert Street via a
boardwalk along College Creek, which
would pass under Rowe Blvd and along the
edge of St. Anne’s cemetery and connect to
the trailhead of the West East Express.
On May 9th, Anna Dayton and I spoke with
Andrew Romiti, who heads the Campus
Planning Committee, about this. The city
reached out about 10 years ago, but little
came of it, and only reached out again about
two years ago. The initial proposal given by
Mayor Gavin Buckley and city officials
Special Projects/Arts Coordinator Brian
Cahalan and Chief of Comprehensive
Planning Eric Leshinsky was to cut across
what is currently the gravel road between the
lower field and water, which was rejected by
the College as it would cut the campus in
two and fully invite the outside world to
come in unhindered. The city went back to
the drawing board and in June 2022 came
back with the current proposal to
accommodate the objections of the College:
an elevated boardwalk above the water
which would be separated from the campus
by a gate. This also met opposition from the
College, particularly over concerns about
access to the creek from the boathouse. After
these two rejections,
Mr. Romiti assumed the proposal was dead,
This Week in Seminar
Freshmen:
- 9/14: Homer, Odyssey, XVII–XXIV
- 9/18: Plato, Meno
Sophomores:
- 9/14: Bible, Psalms (See official list for selections)
- 9/18: Bible, Amos; Jonah; Isaiah 40–55
Juniors:
- 9/14 Milton, Paradise Lost, I–III
- 9/18: Paradise Lost, Books IV; V; VI Argument only; VII Argument, 1–39;
VIII
Seniors:
- 9/14: Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit, Unhappy Consciousness; Reason
- 9/18: Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit, Conscience and The Beautiful Soul
Friday Night Lecture:
Vital Exuberance: Goethe on What Plants Want by Daniel Carranza
Page 1
until only about a week before our meeting,
when the city reached out again, showing
renewed interest. Knowing now who was in
charge and wanting to understand their
perspective, we sent emails to Mr. Cahalan
and Mr. Leshinsky, who both responded by
inviting us to a community meeting on
May 30 at the People’s Park on Calvert St.
A notable proposal offered by Mr. Romiti
during these meetings with the City was to
cut around Prince George’s St., but the
Mayor let us know this was rejected as it
would have too much opposition, with
many businesses on Main St. relying on the
parking here.
At the May 30th meeting, we saw this
situated within the City’s broader plan to
make Annapolis less reliant on cars, their
specific goal with the C.C.C is to have it
connect the Baltimore-Annapolis trail to
downtown Annapolis, also planning the
‘West-East Express’, a bike path parallel to
West St.
We had a number of concerns, including
the safety of the ducks, light pollution, loss
of isolated space, the creek becoming unsafe
and the potential inability for freshmen to
collect lab samples, which we weren’t able
to get an in-depth response on from the
City at this meeting, so scheduled a meeting
with Eric Leshinsky, one of the officials in
charge for June 5.
Cont. on page 2
Upcoming Events:
Friday 9/15
- Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset
Saturday 9/16
- 5 a.m. Homerathon, Part II
- 4 p.m. Pan’s Labyrinth showing, Mitchell
Gallery
- 8 p.m. Sailing Under the Stars, Boathouse
- 9 p.m. Gimme Gimme Disco, Great Hall
Tuesday 9/19
- 7:30 p.m. Homer Trivia with Mr. Nelson,
General Hartle Room
Wednesday 9/20
- 4 p.m. Reader’s Theater, Agamemnon,
General Hartle Room
�Thursday, Sep 14 2023
St. John’s Collegian
Vol. I. Issue 1
Honor Code
College Creek
(Cont. from page 1)
(Cont. from page 1)
In order to be truly effective, however, this
formal rules-based system must be
accompanied by an informal relationshipbased system which reinforces it. Therefore,
we would also need: 2) a vigorous culture of
shame regarding academic dishonesty. If the
creation of a polity which values honor and
integrity is to succeed, it needs to be
unpleasant to be dishonorable. It needs to be
costly to lack integrity. While I recognize
that this may be a somewhat controversial
position, a more full-throated defense of the
importance of shame will have to wait for a
sequel.
He gave answers to a number of these
concerns: any lighting would be dark sky
compliant, the College would be able to
close a gate which would give access to the
bridge at any time, and they’ll need
environmental safety certifications for any
plan, but the core of the proposal still has its
inherent tradeoffs, like the loss of a quiet,
isolated space on campus. He estimated that
the City is two years from breaking ground,
so despite having 65% funding, it’s still a
ways off, also shown by our interview with
President Demleitner, who said that the
President’s office hasn’t received any
Rendering of the proposed College Creek
updates in a year.
Connector, provided by the City of Annapolis
William Marchman
Augustus Pananas
Student attends
two seminars in
one night
“Bear in mind, Sancho, that one man is no
more than another, unless he does more than
another.” – Miguel Cervantes, Don Quixote
Mr. Peter Quinn (Junior Undergraduate,
Resident Assistant, Greenwave Captain,
Accomplished Cook, Loyal Friend)
attended his first seminar, which was
scheduled from 4-6, without much fanfare.
After all, attending the first seminar of the
year is nothing remarkable.
DC Update
This week, the St. John’s Delegate Council
met twice, on Sunday and Tuesday. The
council elected the following representatives
to the Student Committee on Instruction:
Sophomores Millie Ransohoff and Ian
O'Donnell, Juniors Jackson Green and Jack
Domanski, and Seniors Hannah Fodor and
Dolan Polglaze. They have also continued to
hear club budgets, which will be detailed in
a budgeting update next issue.
Miscellanea
However, when he sat down with the author
of this short article after his seminar, neither
knew that by the simple act of attending a 46, he had begun a great adventure. The
author informed Mr. Quinn that he was in
fact scheduled to attend her seminar, which
was scheduled from 7:30-9:30. After a quick
check of mysjc, he confirmed this. His
schedule had changed since the morning.
A friend of mine recently sent me a
manuscript he discovered, claiming he had
unearthed it from the depths of the
Underquad. I am always skeptical of such
things, especially since I have yet to see
conclusive proof of the Underquad’s
existence, but having read its contents, I
begrudgingly accepted they may be worthy
of publications. They include a series of
Other students might be compelled to aphorisms, attributed to ‘the Sage of
remedy the mistake in the next Quixote Gorman Street,’ which I shall publish here
seminar on Monday, figuring that they had weekly.
done their due diligence for the day.
However, Mr. Quinn is not like other “The poor turn into a multitude; the rich turn
students. He approached this gamely, one into a magnitude. Either way, there is no
might say with a kind of knightly valor, room for human quality.”
shrugging his shoulders and proclaiming,
…
“Then I guess I’ll just go to two seminars.”
This was submitted anonymously:
And indeed, he did, and participated well in
both of them, a quiet act of heroism that
They walk to the quad,
deserves to be known by the college. If the
quote that this article opens with is true,
And step on the college seal.
then Mr. Quinn may be more than all other
men – all other students – on campus. - They shan’t graduate.
Georgia Green
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About the St.
John’s
Collegian
The St. John’s Collegian is the weekly
newspaper of St. John’s College Annapolis.
We work to bring quick and timely coverage
of important events going on, to help
develop a more informed student body. If
you’re searching for more in-depth
investigations and reporting, as well as
essays, art and culture, check out the Gadfly,
our affiliated publication, which is
published once every three weeks.
Want to submit an article? We always need
more writers, whether for opinion or
reporting! Submissions for news articles
should be between 300-400 words, while
opinion should be kept short at 200 words.
Just email eanicholskaufman@sjc.edu with
your article, and we will work to get it in
print! Longer form articles and more indepth exploration of ideas should go to the
Gadfly, which accepts submissions at
djnathan@sjc.edu.
Contributors for this issue:
El’ad Nichols-Kaufman, Editor
William Marchman
Augustus Pananas
Georgia Green
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Thursday
September 7
2023
The St. John’s Collegian
A Gadfly Publication
Collegial
welcome
This is not because of a lack in the
existing campus publications. The
kind of quick, short and to the point
reporting that I feel the polity needs
to be informed simply does not
belong in the Gadfly. There needed to
be another space for reporting on
campus, ideally one coordinated with
the Gadfly’s extensive resources.
I brought this up to some other
people on the Gadfly staff, and from
our discussions, the Collegian was
born as a weekly newspaper, with
short articles and easy formatting, to
best reach the whole polity.
Informing the polity, however, can
only work with your help. We need
you, dear reader, to help, by
contributing articles for our
publication. It doesn’t take much;
only 200-300 words on a topic you
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Board of Visitors and
Governors Holds Summer
Meeting
Greetings from the
editor of the College’s
newest publication
At the Gadfly, I’ve long worked to
report on the affairs of the college,
from momentous decisions to day-today events. In doing that, I’ve found
that delivering this news in the
necessary timely manner is often a
challenge.
Vol. I
Issue 1
New Leadership, Enrollment, AI and Fundraising Discussed
The Board of Visitors and Governors meeting this
summer was both one of transition and stability. It
was the last board meeting for our dean, Joseph
Macfarland, who will be succeeded by Susan
Paalman, and Associate Dean for the Graduate
Institute, Emily Langston, who will be succeeded
by Brendan Boyle. Additionally, it was the last
meeting for board chair Ron Fielding (A70), who
will be replaced by Warren Spector (A81).
The meeting painted a mixed view of the college’s
financial status. The finance committee reported
that there will be a deficit of around $1.1 million.
Fielding noted that tuition revenue is stagnant,
while the cost of building repairs and upkeep
continues to rise, putting more weight on the
college’s philanthropic efforts. In the past decade,
the college’s tuition revenue has declined by $10
million, only a third of which was covered by
increases to the endowment. In a more positive
light, Nora Demleitner, Annapolis President,
celebrated the completion of the College’s Freeing
Minds campaign, which raised $326 million,
exceeding its initial goals, while noting that “we do
need to focus clearly on the challenges of the
future.” Chief among those is enrollment.
The Annapolis campus is facing what Demleitner
called soft enrollment: “We are meeting targets,
barely,” while Santa Fe is failing to those targets.
“Low enrollment means stagnant class size, which
means stagnant tuition, which means low
compensation for faculty and staff.”
This Week in Seminar
Freshmen:
- 9/7: Homer, Odyssey I-VII
- 9/11: Homer, Odyssey IX-XVI
Sophomores:
- 9/7: Bible, Leviticus 11, 18-20; Deuteronomy
- 9/11: Bible, Samuel I, II; Kings I, 1–4
Juniors:
- 9/7: Pascal: Pensées (See official list for selections)
- 9/11: Pascal: Pensées (See official list for selections)
Seniors:
- 9/7: Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit, The Truth of Self-Certainty (177
only), Lordship and Bondage (178–196)
- 9/11: Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit, Stoicism and Skepticism (197–206)
Friday Night Lecture:
Document Your Optimism: Mexico Writing Humor by Álvaro Enrigue
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Part of this enrollment problem stems from
the national demographic cliff, with there
being less college age students every year in the
US. While there are more international
students applying than ever before, that does
not entirely make up the drop in domestic
students. To recruit a larger share of that
shrinking pool of domestic students,
Demleitner highlighted national surveys of
high school students that said they are
concerned with four things when looking for
a college: prestige, career outcomes, strength
of the academic program and belonging to a
community. She claims that to recruit more
students we must work on building a
meaningful life and a meaningful career for
students by funding internships for every
student, build resources for different career
paths and highlight internships and
scholarships.
Demleitner also emphasized the importance
of data to these efforts. “We need to overcome
our reluctance to… build measurements and
collect data.” The college will be hiring a
Chief Information Officer based in Santa Fe
to do this and help target the four things high
school students are said to care about. An
additional part of this effort is partnerships
with other colleges and universities for joint
degrees and programs, starting with a
partnership with Johns Hopkins. Cont. on
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Upcoming Events:
Saturday 9/9
- 5:30 a.m. Homerathon, front steps of
McDowell
- 11 a.m. Auditions, Importance of Being
Earnest, Studio Theater.
- 3 p.m. Mitchell Museum Workshop:
Making the Front Page of “End of Times.”
Mitchell Museum, RSVP required.
- 8 p.m. Contra Dance, hosted by the Folk
Life club, Great Hall
- 8 p.m. Sailing Under the Stars, hosted by the
sailing team, Boathouse.
Wednesday 9/13:
-2:30 p.m. Career development office open
house, Mellon 124
�Thursday, Sep 7 2023
St. John’s Collegian
Special dispatch:
Vol. I. Issue 1
The Vital Importance of Being Earnest
Announcement from KWP of a new show coming very soon to a campus near you
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial
Comedy for Serious People is coming to the
FSK at the end of this semester. Set in
England at the turn of the century, the three
act comedy centers around John (Jack)
Worthing and his friend and tormentor,
Algernon Moncrieff. Both end up donning
the name “Earnest” in an attempt to win the
affections of their respective love interests.
The lie goes poorly and misunderstandings
ensue. The entire state of affairs is presided
over by the dower and imposing Lady
Bracknell; Miss Prism, an austere and
nervous governess; and the Rev. Canon
Chasuble, a bumbling parish priest.
While there was an audition on Tuesday,
September 5, there is another round of
auditions this coming Saturday, September
9, from 11 A.M. to 4 P.M. Callbacks will be
held in the evening on Sunday, September
10th. All are welcome to audition with no
prior experience nor prior sign-up needed.
Those interested in auditioning should
check their e-mails for further information.
The characters of Algernon and Lady
Bracknell will be gender blind when cast.
While Algernon is not usually genderblindly cast, Lady Bracknell often is.
Playing Lady Bracknell have been such
notables as Sir David Suchet (Poirot),
Geoffrey Rush AC (Pirates of the
Caribbean), and Dame Judi Dench (Cats).
All College Soccer BVG Meeting
game a rousing
Cont. from first page
start to athletic
Beyond the issue of
year
To kick off the school year the college
gathered for an age-old tradition, the Means
Versus Extremes soccer match. The
“Means” team led by Junior intramural
captains destroyed the extremes led by the
Seniors intramural captains in a thrilling 63 victory. Sophomore Beeri scored twice for
the Means and Sophomore Laish scored an
impressive goal from outside the box.
Junior Captain James Reeher (Hustlers)
laced a shot from the right side for another
goal for the Means. Although the Extremes
lost handedly they still managed to put
some points on the board, with the help of
some alumni and some newcomers.
Freshman Charlie made his splash scoring
his first St. John's College goal, in his first
game as a Johnnie. On the flip side Senior
Andrew Selway tapped one in after an assist
from Santa Fe graduate Sam Housley who
also scored a goal of his own. This was
Selway’s first St. John’s College goal. The
Means of the week were Andrew Selway
and Charlie who both scored their first
goals and the Extreme of the week was Peter
Quinn, who held down the fort in the goal.
Overall, the vibes were good and everyone
who came out had a great time.
Lainey Rendelman
recruiting new
students,
the
visiting
committee
highlighted the college’s difficulties
retaining students who are already here, and
ways they are working to address that.
Retention has improved over the past few
years since the pandemic, but the college is
still not on track to meet its own goals. The
primary reasons students leave, however,
are medical and academic, both of which
the college has relatively little control over.
Despite overall low retention rates,
retention rates amongst Pell Grant
recipients are higher than the national
average, indicating that the college’s work
to make itself more accessible to lower
income students has been somewhat
successful.
Additional topics discussed at the meeting
included the extensive construction
occurring on both campuses, including the
renovation of Campbell Hall and the
bathrooms of Pinkney and Chase-Stone in
Annapolis, continuing to further the
college’s partnership with the United
World Colleges, as well as the challenges
posed by AI. Board members noted that
new large language model chatbots are not
yet threatening for the college, as they are
not good at writing the kinds of essays we
are expected to write and cannot be used in
the variety of oral forms of assessment the
college employs.
From the polity:
The play will run for approximately two
and a half hours with an intermission
between Acts Two and Three. The
performances will fill a 7:30 lecture slot on
December 8th with an additional
performance at 7:30 on December 9th.
The play is directed by Mr. Caleb Briggs,
with Ms. Georgia Green as Stage Manager,
Mr. Nichols-Kaufman as Set Designer, Ms.
Keely Schrantz as Technical Director, and
Ms. Magnolia Vandiver as Costume
Designer.
Caleb Briggs
About the St.
John’s
Collegian
The St. John’s Collegian is the weekly
newspaper of St. John’s College Annapolis.
We work to bring quick and timely
coverage of important events going on, to
help develop a more informed student
body. If you’re searching for more in-depth
investigations and reporting, as well as
essays, art and culture, check out the
Gadfly, our affiliated publication, which is
published once every three weeks.
Want to submit an article? We always need
more writers, whether for opinion or
reporting! Submissions for news articles
should be between 300-400 words, while
opinion should be kept short at 200 words.
Just email eanicholskaufman@sjc.edu with
your article, and we will work to get it in
print! Longer form articles and more indepth exploration of ideas should go to the
Gadfly, which accepts submissions at
lbriner@sjc.edu or djnathan89@gmail.com.
Contributors for this issue:
El’ad Nichols-Kaufman, Editor
Lainey Rendelman
Caleb Briggs
Do you have an opinion? We bet you do! You go to St. John’s, after all. Send short opinion pieces, around 200 words to us, and we will
publish them here, anonymously or with your name attached. If you’ve always thought that what this campus needed was another way
for people to voice their opinions loudly and publicly, this is it! Don’t miss your chance!
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