4 20 5666 https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/d95170659c04c6b4bc70d7889d44eaea.jpg f2385b49bcb357691baee542c116099c Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photograph Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource President J. Walter Sterling at the Friends and Family Weekend opening reception at the Hunt House, St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico Description An account of the resource photograph : color Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lange, Kevin Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2024 Type The nature or genre of the resource still image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpeg Subject The topic of the resource Sterling, J. Walter Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Sterling, J. W. 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Walter Sterling holding books on Meem Library porch, St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico Description An account of the resource photograph : color Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lange, Kevin Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2024 Type The nature or genre of the resource still image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpeg Subject The topic of the resource Sterling, J. Walter Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Sterling, J. W. 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Walter Sterling in his office with books, St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico Description An account of the resource photograph : color Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2024 Type The nature or genre of the resource still image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpeg Subject The topic of the resource Sterling, J. Walter Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Sterling, J. W. office Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lange, Kevin Presidents https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/f432eb4cba1fb227f734d5873439415b.mp3 2217aef14ea18476168a1c08bc3c41a2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. John's College Lecture Recordings—Santa Fe Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Meem Library Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data M4A Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 01:04:52 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Paul's Letter to the Romans and the Problem of Original Sin Description An account of the resource Audio recording of a lecture given by Erik Dempsey on November 14, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “This talk offers a close reading of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, focusing on the discussion of the economy of salvation in chapters 5-8. It looks especially at the relationship between the Mosaic Law and the New Covenant, what Paul means by ‘sin,’ and how his view of the sinful condition of human beings grounds his understanding of their relationship to God and Jesus Christ. The Epistle to the Romans is one of the most disputed texts ever written. There are full, line-by-line commentaries about it by at least four authors who often appear on the St. John’s program, St. Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Calvin and (perhaps surprisingly) John Locke, and extended discussions by several others. While the subject of this talk is Romans, it looks to the readings and reflections of other program authors to try to make sense of Paul’s thoughts and to explain some key alternatives to it.” Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dempsey, Erik Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2025-11-14 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Meem Library has been given permission to make this item available online. Type The nature or genre of the resource sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource mp3 Subject The topic of the resource Bible. Romans Sin, Original Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SF_DempseyE_St._Paul's_Letter_to_the_Romans_and_the_Problem_of_Original_Sin_2025-11-14 Friday night lecture Worrell lecture Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource Items in this collection are part of a series of lectures given every year at St. John's College. During the Fall and Spring semesters, lectures are given on Friday nights. Items include audio and video recordings and typescripts. For more information, and a schedule of upcoming lectures, please visit the <a href="http://www.sjc.edu/programs-and-events/annapolis/formal-lecture-series/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">St. John's College website</a>. Click on <a title="Formal Lecture Series" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=5&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&sort_dir=d">Items in the St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis Collection</a> to view and sort all items in the collection. A growing number of lecture recordings are also available on the St. John's College (Annapolis) Lectures podcast. Visit <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/st-johns-college-annapolis-lectures/id1695157772">Apple Podcasts</a> or <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6GDsIRqC8SWZ28AY72BsYM?si=f2ecfa9e247a456f" title="Spotify">Spotify</a> to listen and subscribe. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Title A name given to the resource St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context formallectureseriesannapolis Hyperlink A link, or reference, to another resource on the Internet. URL <a href="https://youtu.be/sZUIy9oR8QE?si=-HN3Ldl_VaP9Ijks">https://youtu.be/sZUIy9oR8QE?si=-HN3Ldl_VaP9Ijks</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <a href="https://youtu.be/sZUIy9oR8QE?si=-HN3Ldl_VaP9Ijks">Platonic Thumos and Rousseauan Amour-propre</a> Description An account of the resource Video recording of a lecture delivered on October 24, 2025, by Professor Mark Shiffman, as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Mark Shiffman (A89) is Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy at Saint Patrick’s Seminary in California and Director of the Institute for Philosophy, Technology, and Politics. He is the author of What is Ideology, with scholarly work spanning the fields of ancient philosophy, political theory, and the Catholic tradition. Professor Shiffman offers the following introduction to his lecture: "Ambition, competition, dignity, and pride are phenomena central to an adequate political psychology. Plato calls the root source of these passions thumos and Rousseau calls it amour-propre. Can both the commonalities and the differences between what the two authors mean by these words help illuminate the political developments of our time?" Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Shiffman, Mark Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2025-10-24 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource moving image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource YouTube video Subject The topic of the resource Political psychology Thymos (The Greek word) Plato Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LEC_Shiffman_Mark_2025-10-24 Alumni Friday night lecture Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource Items in this collection are part of a series of lectures given every year at St. John's College. During the Fall and Spring semesters, lectures are given on Friday nights. Items include audio and video recordings and typescripts. For more information, and a schedule of upcoming lectures, please visit the <a href="http://www.sjc.edu/programs-and-events/annapolis/formal-lecture-series/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">St. John's College website</a>. Click on <a title="Formal Lecture Series" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=5&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&sort_dir=d">Items in the St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis Collection</a> to view and sort all items in the collection. A growing number of lecture recordings are also available on the St. John's College (Annapolis) Lectures podcast. Visit <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/st-johns-college-annapolis-lectures/id1695157772">Apple Podcasts</a> or <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6GDsIRqC8SWZ28AY72BsYM?si=f2ecfa9e247a456f" title="Spotify">Spotify</a> to listen and subscribe. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Title A name given to the resource St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context formallectureseriesannapolis Hyperlink A link, or reference, to another resource on the Internet. URL <a href="https://youtu.be/0c_RLKHU7L8?si=UlpuI97hJ8ZN4G7N">https://youtu.be/0c_RLKHU7L8?si=UlpuI97hJ8ZN4G7N</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <a href="https://youtu.be/0c_RLKHU7L8?si=UlpuI97hJ8ZN4G7N">‘Foams Forth to Him His Infinity': The Puzzle of Phenomenology's Ending</a> Description An account of the resource Video recording of a lecture delivered on October 10, 2025, by Annapolis tutor Khafiz Kerimov, as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Mr. Kerimov offers the following description: The final lines of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit are not his own. Hegel ends the book with a quotation from Friedrich Schiller’s poem "Friendship" ("Freundschaft")—and misquotes it in a number of ways. Hegel's closing gesture invites a range of questions: why conclude with a quotation at all? Why a poetic one, and why Schiller’s "Friendship" in particular? Why misquote Schiller's poem? While I will touch on all of these questions in my lecture, my chief goal is to examine how this misquotation operates as the culminating moment of the Phenomenology and how it fulfills the book’s overarching project. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kerimov, Khafiz Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2025-10-10 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource moving image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource YouTube video Subject The topic of the resource Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805. Poems. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. Phänomenologie des Geistes Phenomenology Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LEC_Kerimov_Khafiz_2025-10-10 Friday night lecture Tutors Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource Items in this collection are part of a series of lectures given every year at St. John's College. During the Fall and Spring semesters, lectures are given on Friday nights. Items include audio and video recordings and typescripts. For more information, and a schedule of upcoming lectures, please visit the <a href="http://www.sjc.edu/programs-and-events/annapolis/formal-lecture-series/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">St. John's College website</a>. Click on <a title="Formal Lecture Series" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=5&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&sort_dir=d">Items in the St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis Collection</a> to view and sort all items in the collection. A growing number of lecture recordings are also available on the St. John's College (Annapolis) Lectures podcast. Visit <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/st-johns-college-annapolis-lectures/id1695157772">Apple Podcasts</a> or <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6GDsIRqC8SWZ28AY72BsYM?si=f2ecfa9e247a456f" title="Spotify">Spotify</a> to listen and subscribe. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Title A name given to the resource St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context formallectureseriesannapolis Hyperlink A link, or reference, to another resource on the Internet. URL <a href="https://youtu.be/_mCcruLVxCk?si=VQ3Yb9QwQodj_A3-">https://youtu.be/_mCcruLVxCk?si=VQ3Yb9QwQodj_A3-</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <a href="https://youtu.be/_mCcruLVxCk?si=Iso0N6mhZnRioH42">Between the Book of Nature and the Phenomena: Regarding the Origins of Galileo’s Natural Philosophy</a> Description An account of the resource Video recording of a lecture delivered on September 26, 2025, by Annapolis Dean Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Mr. Macfarland offers the following description: "According to Galileo, the grand book of the universe standing before our eyes is written in the language of mathematics, in the characters of geometrical figures. On account of this conception of nature as fundamentally mathematical, he is taken to be a sort of founder of modern science and philosophy. By one account, the subsequent rapid progress of mathematical methods entails a forgetfulness of, or distrust of, mere appearances. The things known objectively, that is, mathematically, are not what they seem. This way of thinking seems fitting to the replacement of the Ptolemaic system by the Copernican one. The lecture will consider a few examples of how Galileo takes in what is before his eyes and thinks about it, and it will consider some limits to his efforts to account for phenomena mathematically. These characteristics of his natural philosophy will be viewed within the context of his attempt to secure a freedom to philosophize. The lecture will focus on his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, with attention to his letter to Christina of Lorraine. No familiarity with either text will be presupposed." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Macfarland, Joseph C. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2025-09-26 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource moving image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource YouTube video Subject The topic of the resource Physics Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642. Dialogo dei massimi sistemi Christine, of Lorraine, Grand Duchess, consort of Ferdinand I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1565-1636 Mathematics in nature Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LEC_Macfarland,_Joe_2025-09-26 Deans Friday night lecture Tutors Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource Items in this collection are part of a series of lectures given every year at St. John's College. During the Fall and Spring semesters, lectures are given on Friday nights. Items include audio and video recordings and typescripts. For more information, and a schedule of upcoming lectures, please visit the <a href="http://www.sjc.edu/programs-and-events/annapolis/formal-lecture-series/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">St. John's College website</a>. Click on <a title="Formal Lecture Series" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=5&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&sort_dir=d">Items in the St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis Collection</a> to view and sort all items in the collection. A growing number of lecture recordings are also available on the St. John's College (Annapolis) Lectures podcast. Visit <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/st-johns-college-annapolis-lectures/id1695157772">Apple Podcasts</a> or <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6GDsIRqC8SWZ28AY72BsYM?si=f2ecfa9e247a456f" title="Spotify">Spotify</a> to listen and subscribe. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Title A name given to the resource St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context formallectureseriesannapolis Hyperlink A link, or reference, to another resource on the Internet. URL <a href="https://youtu.be/6JtMriQmN-Y?si=WvQd7tkOMI_sOzcL">https://youtu.be/6JtMriQmN-Y?si=WvQd7tkOMI_sOzcL</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <a href="https://youtu.be/6JtMriQmN-Y?si=g2ssUx9SZrHF-d_T" title="A Timely Untimely Education">A Timely Untimely Education</a> Description An account of the resource Video recording of a lecture delivered on September 19, 2025, by Santa Fe Dean Sarah Davis. Ms. Davis offers the following description: "I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.” Nietzsche opens The Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life with this quote from Goethe. It appropriately frames Nietzsche’s own meditation, which does not just walk us through different ways to relate to the past, giving us a schema for making sense of history, but invigorates and leads to a quickening within us. But how? This lecture investigates Nietzsche's claim that the "excess of history" in modern times compromises the health and vitality of human life. It then considers The Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life itself as presenting an alternative way to relate to history. Finally, it asks how, if at all, this alternative informs a St. John's education." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Davis, Sarah Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2025-09-19 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource moving image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource YouTube video Subject The topic of the resource Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben History--Philosophy Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LEC_Davis_Sarah_2025-09-19 Deans Friday night lecture Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource Items in this collection are part of a series of lectures given every year at St. John's College. During the Fall and Spring semesters, lectures are given on Friday nights. Items include audio and video recordings and typescripts. For more information, and a schedule of upcoming lectures, please visit the <a href="http://www.sjc.edu/programs-and-events/annapolis/formal-lecture-series/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">St. John's College website</a>. Click on <a title="Formal Lecture Series" href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=5&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate&sort_dir=d">Items in the St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis Collection</a> to view and sort all items in the collection. A growing number of lecture recordings are also available on the St. John's College (Annapolis) Lectures podcast. Visit <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/st-johns-college-annapolis-lectures/id1695157772">Apple Podcasts</a> or <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6GDsIRqC8SWZ28AY72BsYM?si=f2ecfa9e247a456f" title="Spotify">Spotify</a> to listen and subscribe. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Title A name given to the resource St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context formallectureseriesannapolis Hyperlink A link, or reference, to another resource on the Internet. URL <a href="https://youtu.be/dcxOD61TXK8?si=JcqrX2VOcjlB9BqQ">https://youtu.be/dcxOD61TXK8?si=JcqrX2VOcjlB9BqQ</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <a href="https://youtu.be/dcxOD61TXK8?si=JcqrX2VOcjlB9BqQ" target="_blank" title="The Womb of Time: Drama as Pregnancy in Shakespeare and Elsewhere" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Womb of Time: Drama as Pregnancy in Shakespeare and Elsewhere</a> Description An account of the resource Video recording of a lecture delivered on September 12, 2025, by Annapolis tutor Nicholas Bellinson as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Mr. Bellinson offers the following description of his lecture: "What kind of relationship to time underlies the urge to attend the theater? Shakespeare points to this question in various plays through the metaphor of time's pregnancy. Over and over, his characters stage this very relationship to time, as we will see in four plays: Othello, Hamlet, As You Like It, and Love's Labour's Lost. We will then ask what philosophical attitudes arise when we consider time to have or not to have the metaphorical capacity for pregnancy." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bellinson, Nicholas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2025-09-12 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource moving image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource YouTube video Subject The topic of the resource Pregnancy in literature Time in literature Time--Philosophy Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. As you like it Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Love's labour's lost Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LEC_Bellinson_Nicholas_2025-09-12 Friday night lecture Tutors https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/5dd8dc83e9a777238378ff3be1111d61.mp3 a2eee11b3ecfc5a97b4eb10db661db18 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. John's College Lecture Recordings—Santa Fe Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Meem Library Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data M4A Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 00:57:18 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource What the Heck is Hell? Divine Judgment in the Gospel of Matthew. Description An account of the resource Audio recording of a lecture given by Annapolis Assistant Dean Ron Haflidson on November 7, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “In this lecture, I explore the largely neglected and perhaps totally wrong possibility that when Jesus spoke about “hell”, he wasn’t talking about the afterlife. The inquiry proceeds by focusing on Jesus’ words in the Gospel of Matthew, which is the New Testament text with by far the most references to hell.” Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Haflidson, Ron Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2025-11-07 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Meem Library has been given permission to make this item available online. Type The nature or genre of the resource sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource mp3 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Hell. Subject The topic of the resource Bible. Matthew. Hell. 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The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “In the summer of 1965, Austrian-American composer Ernst Krenek returned to his native country to deliver and address at the unveiling of a memorial plaque in honor of Anton Webern in Mittersill, the village in the Austrian Alps where Webern had been shot and killed by an American soldier twenty years earlier. In the summer of 1968, Krenek’s Instant Remembered for soprano, narrator, orchestra, and tape, a work inspired by his time in Mittersill three years earlier, was premiered at the Fourth International Webern Festival in Hanover, New Hampshire. This talk considers Krenek’s two elegies for Webern as a means of exploring his experiences as an émigré composer, the evolving relationship between Austrian music culture and musical modernism pre- and post-World War II, and the interplay between artistic expression and polemics. A broader theme connecting all of these topics is music’s power to reshape time and memory, reordering the past in order to imagine different futures, as well as the limits of that power.” Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Miller, David H. (Musicologist) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2025-10-24 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Meem Library has been given permission to make this item available online. Type The nature or genre of the resource sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource mp3 Subject The topic of the resource Krenek, Ernst, 1900-1991. Webern, Anton, 1883-1945. Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SF_MillerD_Time_Memory_and_a_Sense_of_Home_2025-10-24 Friday night lecture https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/43fb1f1e509c5887b31f7ab68dfb7b57.pdf 8e6ec5a5509c7b159f2535e9a04cd5da PDF Text Text Thursday, February 20, 2025 The St. John’s Collegian A Gadfly Publication From the polity A Blooming Garden of Johnnie-Flowers Ah yes, mid-February. That liminal state between Valentine’s Day and spring break, where red heart stickers decorating shirts and hats alike are blown away by ferocious winds sweeping in from College Creek. Boreas, who spread a crisp white blanket of snow one last time over red bricks and faded green fields, now reluctantly makes way for tender Zephyrus. With keen eyes, you may spot his first darling snowdrops lifting their delicate petals above ground. Birdsong, too, will soon return along with warm spring sunbeams breaking triumphantly through the clouds above. Spring whispers the promise of rebirth, rejuvenation, and new possibilities formerly hidden under cover of frost. So, too, do the seniors look toward the promise of the future as they one by one, eyes sparkling with excitement and trepidation, enter the King William Room for their oral examinations. After four short years and an hour-long conversation, they each emerge from the cave into the light of new understanding. Each Johnnie contains great potential within them, their own unique flower seed to be nurtured while both on and off campus. Just like the snowdrops blooming in the harshest snows, the difficulty of the Program makes the beautiful bloom of the Johnnieflower that much more splendid. Underclassmen, heed my words. Do allow yourself to be-at-work-staying-yourself through your wonderful potential for being. You have inquisitive minds aplenty; wonder, explore, laugh, cry, read, sing, love, live! To my beloved seniors: Let us guide the underclassmen with open arms and wisdom as we approach our final few months in this remarkable place. Let us instill curiosity about the magic and mystery of SJC in the years below us. They are our legacy, the ones gracefully stepping into the leadership roles we now hold, the ones to whom we can pass down our secrets. The Underquad, the burnt popcorn of Humphreys, the Paca tub room – these are our true legends to be kept alive by the next generation. Let us spring forward into this new season together, seniors and underclassmen alike, and cultivate even more beautifully unique Johnnie-flowers as we all bask in the glorious sunshine of knowledge. Herschel Reuben Vol. II Issue XIII Printed Thursdays in Annapolis Federal, State Policy Threatens College Affordability & Financial Stability The College often sees itself as insulated from national political circumstances. A more thoughtful tone of political discourse and an absence of student protest culture can lead to a sense that political conversation at the college remains within a sort of bubble, detached from any obligation towards action in local or national politics. However, with the current dismantling of many key federal services and the state budgetary crisis, this much wider political world may very soon have dramatic effects on our College, and the lives of all students who attend it. This article will feature information about federal policy impacts for the College, while next week an article will examine the impacts of state legislation. On a federal level, the Annapolis campus does not directly receive grants from the federal government for programming, and thus has not been affected by the Trump administration’s attempts to freeze federal grants. However, students are direct beneficiaries of numerous federal programs, and the upcoming congressional budget may dramatically increase the cost of attendance at the College, and bar communities who currently form important parts of the College from attending. “When I think of federal money, I actually think first of federal money that supports students directly,” explained Nora Demleitner, Annapolis president. “Loan programs, work studies, the supplemental opportunity fund, that we’re getting from the Department of Education.” As of the 2021-22 academic year, the most recent year that statistics were available from, this federal department, which Donald Trump has proposed to eliminate, provided loans to 46% percent of Johnnies, as well as Pell Grants for 19% of the student body. While the recent, now rescinded, grant freezes were eventually clarified to not include work-study and Pell Grants, and the current nominee for Secretary of Education, WWE executive and failed political candidate Linda McMahon, has clarified Pell Grants are not at risk, the futures of loans and loan forgiveness programs are much less clear. Additionally, the federal government has direct power over immigration, meaning that it may become much harder for students to get visas to study at St. John’s. Our college, which derives great benefit from a wide variety of international experiences, and receives a good deal of funding from Davis Scholars, as well as other international students, stands to lose both a part of its vibrant intellectual community and financial security if the number of international students is severely curtailed. Demleitner said that there are already reports “of more rejections for people from certain countries,” indicating that future classes may be more restricted in countries of origin. Most challenges to these programs come not from the executive branch, from which most changes to spending would be unconstitutional, and thus challenged in the courts, but instead from Congress. The Budget Reconciliation process has just begun, and a wide variety of proposals are currently on the table to be included. In the FY2025 House Budget Resolution submitted by House Republicans, $880 billion are to be cut from areas under the responsibility of the House Committee on Education and Workforce, some of which will likely impact higher education. “There’s a whole host of proposals,” explained Demleitner, “and they range from cutting Pell Grants to expanding programs, not in terms of the dollar amount going up per student, but in the types of programs that could benefit… more workforce programs, short term certificate-type programs that are not currently funded by Pell Grants.” Further injury to students may come from proposals to tax all scholarships, ending public loan forgiveness, which many Johnnies pursuing careers in education or public service benefit from, and, critically for a college with such a large international population, an end to F1 visas for non-STEM majors. Demleitner said that these changes may have long term impacts on college attendance in general, driving people away from liberal arts programs such as St. John’s, where cost is high relative to salary after College, and for the future careers, discouraging necessary professions like teaching or the job of public defenders, which have a high cost of education for low pay. “If any of these proposals were to be implemented, then obviously, there will be long term ramifications about who even wants to go to college, and what type of college.” So called “culture war” issues may have little direct impact on the College, but increased scrutiny from the federal government against any program that they label “DEI” may nationally dampen dialogue, and bring a culture of government repression of academic speech which may, through the students who come to the College, affect the tenor of conversation on campus. In general, the chaos created by the federal government in dismantling many of the systems that support higher Continued on page 2. This Week in Seminar Upcoming Events: Freshman: Thursday, February 20th: Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics; Books VI, VII Monday, February 24th: Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics; Books VIII, IX Sophomores: Thursday, February 20th: Shakespeare: As You Like It Monday, February 24th: Montaigne: Essays (selections) Juniors: Thursday, February 20th: Kant: Critique of Pure Reason; (selections) Monday, February 24th: Locke: Second Treatise of Government; Chapters I–IX Seniors: Thursday, February 20th: Conrad: Heart of Darkness Monday, February 24th: Freud: “Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through”, “Mourning and Melancholia” Friday, February 21 Book signing: Joshua Rogers reads from Psychedelic Psalms, Edensword Bookstore, 5pm Wednesday, February 26 Seminar Discussion on Smithson Essay, "Sedimentation of the Mind", Conversation Room, 5:30pm Friday Night Lecture: Cancelled :( Page 1 �St. John’s Collegian Thursday, February 20, 2025 Federal, State Policy... (continued) Open Letter to the Board Dear Ladies and Gentlemen of the Board, This weekend, you will vote on a proposed revision of the Polity. Such an integral document, instituted by our founders Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan, bears much consideration. I write this letter to make one single request: please, allow students to see these amendments. I have been told that my College is amending its Constitution, and St. John’s has taught me that good citizens inform themselves on public matters such as this. I have dutifully attempted to see these changes; but to my surprise, we students have been forbidden to see what is happening. I hope the Board will understand that this blindness, and on such an important subject, has left me both concerned and confused. How are we to be good citizens of our Johnnie “polity” if we are blinded to such an important facet of its governance? I make this request not for my own personal access, but so that the broader student polity may see these amendments in full. The most likely reason that I can think of to not release these amendments to the student body may be quoted directly from Aristotle. His Nicomachean Ethics tells us that “of the political art, a young person is not an appropriate student, for he is inexperienced in the actions pertaining to life, and the arguments are based on these actions and concern them.” However, this is also a college that immediately follows Aristotle’s Ethics on the freshman reading list with his Politics. St John’s faith in the young political student is implicit in our very list of readings. If the student body cannot think critically and rationally, if we are not capable of approaching a text with intelligence if my mind is not free - then I do not know what we do here. St. John's, above all other institutions, believes in intelligent and rational discourse among its students. Such has been repeatedly emphasized by official speeches and letters to the student body, which have praised students’ dedication to this value. I added my name to the College register at Convocation because I believe that it has found success in that endeavor, and I know that you have joined the Board because you wish to uphold that success. Yet despite being praised as students who engage in intelligent discourse, we have been barred from it regarding this vote. If we share this value between us, I humbly ask that we share in our efforts to uphold it. My thoughts on this are also strongly informed by my own work. Next semester the student Delegate Council will hold its regular constitutional review, in which our own Review Committee will write and propose amendments to the entire polity for a vote. The student body has designed a constitution that not only allows but requires those under it to see what is happening, because the Program has taught us that we must become good citizens of our polity. I do not advocate for students to have a significant vote in your review process, for reasons amply provided by Aristotle. I believe at least one correspondent of mine has thought that I am demanding a formal student committee to provide feedback to the Board, like the Faculty has. In reality, my request is far more simple. If our College’s motto is true - if these books and this balance are engaged in making me a free adult - then I wish the Board to trust the freedom they wish me to learn and allow me to see that which is set to govern my education. All I ask is to not be blind. I hope this letter is received well. I truly mean it with the utmost respect; I value what you do, and it is your efforts that make it possible for my College to exist. I confess that it frightens me when we are forbidden to see these changes. It is too late now to have any effect on the current process, but I request that for future Polity reviews the details may be publicized before the vote is held. If our College is to produce free minds, it must set them free in practice as well as in principle. Trust the education that you impart to me, and I promise that you will find it to be a valuable education indeed. Reagan Bottomley Aphorism of the Week ὅ τι βούλομαι ἐνθάδε ἂν γάφοιμι, τῶν δὲ πολλῶν ἂν λάθοι, καὶ ἁμαρτήματά περ εἰ ποιοῖμι. Tarik Mahmud A Plea And the Lord God shall be to thee as thou art to thy janitors. (One of the gospels, probably) With that verse in mind, here are some virtues that I'd like to add to the whole faith, hope, and love business: 1. If your paper towel misses the trash can, pick it up and try again. Take as much time as you need. A poem 2. Clean up your table and put your chairs back once you're done eating at the dining hall. Sometimes 3. Bus your dishes like you're the one who's going to have to wash them. Think Tetris. A little bag of oranges A little plate of limes A little conversation A little wasted time Salad with tomatoes Vinegar and salt Sometimes things are lonely Sometimes not at all. Vol. II. Issue xiii If you aren't a direct cause of any of these problems, congrats! But don't celebrate for too long--maybe it's time to step up your game and clean up for others. education leads to fears that the greatest damage to the College may come in a still unexpected way. Demleitner recounted a meeting with Maryland’s Congressional delegation’s staff, in which a Republican’s staffer, “literally said to us… if you hear something [about action against colleges and universities], call me.” Demleitner said that this, “was, to me, the single scariest comment… You’re in the building; why would I hear about this long before you?” St. John’s receives far more funding from the State of Maryland, which is also at risk due to a state budgetary crisis. In the next issue, I will provide coverage of the impact state legislation will have on the College. El’ad Nichols Kaufman Liza love’s Beat of the Week: Sandy Toes - Linda Perhacs If the weather be a sign, Ms. Nature is feeling those February blues. It’s a time for introspection and creature comforts, but we won’t let that get us down. Linda Perhacs’ “Sandy Toes” from her 1970 album Parallelograms is a warm beam of sunshine through stratus and pine. A sweet psychedelic-folk track to carry you to the weekend’s approaching shoreline. Ride the wave, dear friends. LL 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 sjca.collegian@gmail.com 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 eanicholskaufman@sjc.edu. Contributors for this issue: Helen Wagner, Editor and Writer Jacob Sharpe, Editor These things matter. How you do anything is how you do everything. Reagan Bottomley, Writer El’ad Nichols Kaufman, Writer Anonymous Liza Love, Writer Helen Wagner Rumor has it that Mr. Freeman will be personally renovating the BBC this summer. Further details are unknown. – A different Anonymous Page 2 Herschel Reuben, Writer Reagan Bottomley, Writer Tarik Mahmud, Greek Aphorism � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The St. John's Collegian Description An account of the resource A student newspaper of St. John's College. The St. John's Collegian began publication in 2023 and is affiliated with <a href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/collections/show/16">The Gadfly</a>. 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Underclassmen dream fitfully of Kant and Aquinas, or sigh themselves to sleep in the flattering belief that they would never fall prey to the Sophist’s argument. All is quiet. That is, except for the frantic scratching of pen on paper and the furious click-clack of keyboards under shaking hands. In the words of graduated senior Chloe Steer, who endured the whirlwind of last year’s writing period, “Your RA is but a shell of a woman. If you see her, give her a hug.” Hope for a normal sleep schedule having vanished from view, the seniors subsist on 3am ramen, tea, coffee, and manna—I mean, Oreos and surprise pizza deliveries. The writing lounge is a sacred place, a sanctuary for those losing their minds in pursuit of essay satisfaction. Without the structure of classes, a variety of readings, and ordinary social activities, the seniors enter into a state of writing intoxication. They gorge themselves on their chosen text, linking their souls to the generations of former Johnnies who have taken up this quest for knowledge. Poring over Plato, obsessing over Ovid, agonizing over Austen, and haggling with Hegel, the seniors reminisce and ruminate on their years exercising intelligence. Just a few more days remain for their time in limbo, caught between the land of the living and the world of their writing. They will not join the Humphreys ghosts, but will rather rise above the whirlwind of writing period through obtaining a better sense of their own selves. Read your books, tell your stories, and find reassurance in your contribution to the tomes of human memory through your very existence. Let yourself live on in legend. Herschel Reuben Vol. II Issue XII Printed Thursdays in Annapolis Cathlodoxy and SJC student government How does one communicate an experience to someone who wasn’t there? How can you defend a memory, when your hearer has only the faintest image of what you are recounting? I attended Divine Liturgy at Holy Archangels’ Orthodox Church for the first time in November to celebrate the feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I piled in the school van along with the usual crowd of Orthodox Johnnies, and we drove out across the Bay Bridge to Fr. Robert Miclean’s farm on the eastern shore. Since losing a rental property in downtown Annapolis, the parish has been relocated to a corrugated steel barn on Fr. Robert’s property, a stone’s throw from his family’s house. Altar, iconostasis, and dozens of icons have transformed the inside of this large garage into a place of beauty—a sanctuary, a holy place. As I entered (genuflecting from Catholic habit), the rich, deep base of Eastern psalmchanting wafted to my ears like incense. At the front of the nave, kneeling before the icon of Christ on the iconostasis to the right of the holy doors, a friend was confessing his sins to Fr. Robert, and receiving absolution. Reader, if you have never attended the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, you will not understand the solemnity and beauty and fierce vitality which animates Eastern Christianity. You have not heard the singing—ah, the singing! Don’t say that you have listened to recordings of Orthodox chant—that is not what I am talking about. You have not been taken up into the music, been almost possessed by it, found yourself singing it, wanting nearly to shout it. One almost wishes one could sing ‘Lord have mercy!’ again and again until the very return of Christ. The beauty of Holy Archangels’ is not limited to its liturgy. The parish really is a family business. At the altar, Fr. Robert led worship, while Matushka (his wife) directed the choir. The priest’s children were everywhere—two boys wearing vestments assisting their father, a little girl sleeping in the arms of my friend, Adora, and a handful of others, all finding different ways—reverent or rambunctious—of being adorable. After the final blessing, we all crossed the gravel driveway to Fr. Robert’s house, where Matushka This Week in Seminar Freshman: Thursday, February 6 : Plato: Timaeus; Beginning-57 Monday, February 10: Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Book I Sophomores: Thursday, February 6: Chaucer: Canterbury Tales; General Prologue, Knight’s Tale Monday, February 10: Chaucer: Canterbury Tales; Miller’s Prologue and Tale, Reeve’s Prologue and Tale Juniors: Thursday, February 6: Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections) Monday, February 10: Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections) Seniors: Thursday, February 6: Nietzsche: Use and Disadvantage of History for Life Monday, February 10: Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil; Preface, Books 1, 2, 3 Friday Night Lecture: "On Written Speech" - Mary Elizabeth Halper Page 1 had prepared a feast. We ate and drank and laughed together—simple, hearty pleasures. I found the family piano, and the children and I took turns playing pieces we knew. When the festivities were come to an end, we piled back in the school van, and drove home to St. John’s. My poor powers of expression prevent me from doing justice to what I experienced. That beautiful, holy evening lives in my memory; but I cannot give you my memory, only a crude sketch in words. Why do I write this? Recently there was a kerfuffle in the Delegate Council regarding the OCF budget. Two freshman delegates, especially, objected to OCF’s request for gas-money to drive to Holy Archangels’. As I sat in the second budget hearing, last week, I felt as if I was about to burst. It made me so angry listening to Theodora and Lukas being grilled on why they had to attend a church so far away. If you had only been there… Afterwards, I reflected: what made me so angry? Of course, someone who’s never been there can’t possibly understand what this parish means to so many Johnnies—it’s unfair to expect them to. Even so, I hope that moving forward, the DC will give more deference to its constituents’ lived experience. As I said in the meeting last week, some things are not just about dollars and cents, but are about human beings and community. Fortunately, the St. John’s polity is small enough that prioritizing human relationships over cold, rigid legalism is actually possible. I write this with a selfish motive: as the archon of the Catholic Student Fellowship, I have requested $825 from the DC for four Sunday feasts this semester, including our biggest of the year, Easter. If you have ever enjoyed good food or drink, joyful friendship and rich community at a Catholic Student Fellowship brunch, I encourage you to come to our budget hearing to show your support (the date for the hearing is still TBD). Thank you all, and may God bless you. Benedictum Nomen Jesu. Jackson Green Upcoming Events: Tuesday, February 11 SJC Supplemental Coursework Funding Program Information Session, Hodson Conference Room, 4:30 PM �St. John’s Collegian Thursday, February 6, 2025 Vol. II. Issue XII Reflections On Delegate Council Here is a theoretical scenario to consider. Imagine you are the captain of a small ship, placed in the middle of the ocean. You had two air-inflated supports along the side of your vessel, but they both popped, and now the ship is beginning to sink. You have in your company, among others, an Orthodox Christian, a gamer, and a play director. The weight must be reduced, somehow, or people will die. If you cannot decide on what to do in order to stave off the impending disaster, the people will become restless and decide to throw others overboard in order to save themselves at the last minute. As the captain, you are the only person who knows how to control the boat. You must calm these pressures, and make the hard decisions in order to get everyone safely home. You have in your ear an intercom system. People from the mainland are invested in the crisis, and some of their friends are on the boat. “Save the Orthodox Christian!” one of them pleads through the speaker. “She is a good, spiritual person!” It’s true. She is a good and spiritual person. But is the gamer thereby bad and unspiritual? Should you kill the gamer? Should you throw him overboard? There is one option to save everyone, but it isn’t easy. It is to reduce the possessions of the people onboard. The Orthodox Christian must give up one of her shoes. It will be harder to walk, but she will at least live to walk. The gamer must give up his new video games. He will miss them, but there are video games he can play back home. The play director must toss out another actor’s wig from her knapsack, even though she’s already sacrificed far more than that. There are so many people on the boat, and they should each be given a chance to live. If the captain is weak, people will die, but he may avoid the resentment associated with compelling people to give up their possessions (including their food). If the captain is strong, everyone will live, and hopefully - despite the passions of the moment - at the end of the day, the passengers must agree that it was better to live in a reduced state than to perish under the waves. The requested club funding amount currently exceeds the available finances by $17k+. The Delegate Council is not nearly on track to get that excess under control, and people are already feeling pressed. To that end: Every single club that has had their budget approved this semester received more money than is sustainable. The pain of this is not felt yet, but if we do not gather our commitment to avoiding the worst fate possible, some people will have to drown. Unless someone has started a “Murder Club,” a “Fentanyl Club,” or a “Tax-Evasion Club,” I do not think we will find an easy way out of this. Will Pickering Really, we are not even close. This is a matter of economy, just as the analogy of the boat is a matter of physics. We cannot pull money out of thin air, just as the captain cannot generate a floatation device from behind his ear. No matter how people feel, it does not change the reality, and I want to communicate that this is a challenge that the entire community is facing. It is not in any sense personal. It is a matter of inevitability. Aphorism of the Week Οὔτοι ἀληθῶς οἴει ὅτι, ἐάν πως τοῦ φωτὸς ἡ στιγμὴ ἔν τινι ἢ τοῦ κάλλους ἢ τοῦ βάθους εὑρετέα, σφόδρα χρή σε τοῦτο λαβεῖν ὁλώτατον καὶ μεγίστῳ ζήλῳ οὔτε λῦσαι; Tarik Mahmud ”Burning Notes for Senior Papers in Common Room Fireplace” From SJC Digital Archives SCI Updates Questions after Successful Death Forum Last week’s lunchtime forum drew an unusually large crowd when the Student Committee on Instruction posed the question, “how does the program prepare us for death?” Senior Representative Mr Domanski, asking the question, was his usual smiley and chatty self, while the conversation as a whole was unusually somber. 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. Many students were eager to get their voices heard: Mr Green, a senior, opened up the conversation, saying, “All I see is death. I walk into the fishbowl and I see death. The dining hall is a mausoleum and Humphreys is a morgue.” Mr Zitler, a junior, got right to the heart of the matter, asking questions like, “Where did Grandpa go? They said he was sleeping, but it’s been years. Where is he now? Can I see him?” About the St. John’s Collegian “Tutor and Students Seated at Seminar Table” From St. John’s College Archives Pleased with the attendance and engagement, the SCI has decided to update some of their questions to maintain high engagement. The polity can look forward to upcoming forums addressing pressing program matters like, “Why are mom and dad fighting?” and, “Does the program inspire us to wait for Chuckie’s pasta bar even when the line is long?” 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 sjca.collegian@gmail.com 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 eanicholskaufman@sjc.edu. Contributors for this issue: Helen Wagner, Editor Jacob Sharpe, Editor Nate Burke, Writer Jackson Green, Writer Will Pickering, Writer Herschel Reuben, Writer Tarik Mahmud, Greek Aphorism We hope to see you all there! 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It was also an important opportunity for students to put names and faces to the suspicious Huron Consulting and their Strategic Visioning Plan that has been spoken of with unease and mistrust for so many months. The consultants asked us a series of basic yet important questions about St. John’s, hoping to hear personal and honest accounts of what we love most about our college, what drew us here in the first place, and what changes would improve our experience. Though many students initially seemed wary, it was not long before we were all giving earnest accounts of our own experiences. The consultants seemed genuinely interested in our stories and were constantly asking us to elaborate further so that they might better understand each of our unique St. John’s experiences. Though the idea of an outside consulting firm becoming involved in our small, intimate college is uncomfortable to us all, the people running this project seem to be intent upon preserving what we love about St. John’s and ensuring that we have a long, bright future ahead of us. I spoke personally with one of the consultants, and when I asked him what the goals of their project were and how the forum would prove useful, he said that their goal was to help the school attain financial stability for the sake of ensuring the long-term survival and success of our Program. It is impossible that one short forum can fully calm our worries about what kinds of changes Huron will suggest, or what the future might bring for St. John’s as we struggle to maintain an unconventional program and survive in the modern world. But I can say that, on first impressions alone, the Huron consultants displayed real curiosity and interest in getting to know students and becoming familiar with everything that makes our life and education here so important to us. It is up to us students to build strong relationships with the people that will decide our future, and to remember to use our voices in times of change, in order to ensure that our future properly reflects who we are. Vol. II Issue XI Printed Thursdays in Annapolis A Well-Examined life: Memorial Service Honors the Legacy of the Late Ms. Brann Saturday, January 18, 2025, was a day marked by somber skies and slippery roads. Temperatures in the thirties did little to deter the steady stream of attendees arriving to honor Ms. Eva Brann, who passed away on October 28, 2024. By 2 p.m., the Great Hall was alight with warmth and conversation. Among those present were Grace Cavalieri, Maryland’s 10th poet laureate, and former Santa Fe president Mike Peters. At the right side of the podium stood a portrait of Ms. Brann, in front of an impressive bookshelf, holding her book Feeling Our Feelings: What Philosophers Think and People Know. Her wise, warm smile seemed to embrace all who had come to celebrate her extraordinary life. Ms. Brann always maintained that she was not a refugee. In the US, she had not found refuge, she had found paradise. Where else would a college like St. John’s be possible? President Demleitner opened the program with a heartfelt welcome. She spoke of Ms. Brann’s immense contributions to the college, emphasizing that her legacy would endure not just in the institution’s history but in the lives she had touched. The formal tributes began with Tutor Joan Silver, who had assembled the program. Other tutors delivered tributes, including former president Christopher Nelson, Eric Salem, David Carl (Santa Fe, in absentia), Steven Crockett (in absentia), and Janet Dougherty. Former students, alumni, and friends Robin Tzannes, Paul Dry, Sharon Bishop, Barry and Gretchen Mazur, and Kimo Mackey delivered the remaining remarks, painting a colorful picture of Ms. Brann as an educator and friend. Tributes from friends and colleagues revealed her singular impact as a teacher and mentor. When Ms. Brann began her tenure at St. John’s, there were only four women on campus. She became the college’s first female dean in the 1990s. She had to keep her address a secret because otherwise students would just show up to discuss the books. Born into a Jewish family in Berlin, her father, a doctor, introduced her to Kant on their walks in the park when she was five. Her early years were marked by a duality: though she grew up in Nazi Germany, her childhood was remarkably protected. In 1939, Ms. Brann’s father was attending a conference in the US when the pogroms of the Reichskristallnacht took place. The family told him not to return to Germany. In 1941, at 12 years old, she left Germany for Portugal alongside her mother and 9-year-old brother Wolfgang. Their destination was the United States, where they would finally be reunited with Ms. Brann’s father. Despite traumatizing experiences—including the suicide of her younger brother, a veteran of the Korea War, who she viewed as “the gifted one”— people described her as a woman without grief. In fact, some even called her the least angst-ridden person, i.e. the complete opposite of Achilles. She returned to Germany once. This one trip revealed to her that she was in fact an American. She recognized that if the Nazis had not come to power, she would been doomed to become a professor which would have forced her to specialize and would have brought about her tyrannical side. Ms. Brann loved her new country— especially the Southwest—and described the United States as a “country growing upwards.” She did not aim to be an expert at the seminar table, but rather an expert in conversation. This approach resonated deeply with students and colleagues alike. Tutor Janet Dougherty recalled Ms. Brann’s practice of “governing through conversation.” Musical interludes during the service provided pauses for reflection. Tutor Chester Burke (flute) and alumnus James Siranovich (piano) performed the first movement of Bach’s Flute Sonata in B minor. Later, a group of students, staff, and tutors, conducted by Ms. Paalman, delivered a rendition of Dona Nobis Pacem from Bach’s B Minor Mass. Especially to current students, Ms. Brann can appear a larger-than-life figure, but tributaries were able to develop a three-dimensional vision of the person that Ms. Brann had been. Surprising facts about her were part of this. Here is a selection that elicited chuckles from the audience: she had fondness for McDonald’s, cowboy novels, sailing trips, and children— which explains her desire to open a day care on campus. There were also allusions to Ms. Brann’s unique sense of humor. Apparently, when she said after lunch that she was going to “go and read the Bible,” this was a code word for her taking a nap. Ms. Brann received the National Medal of Humanities twice. Thus, she met Continued on Page 2 Catherine Greer This Week in Seminar Freshman: Thursday, January 30: Plato, Sophist, beginning – 242B Monday, February 3: Plato, Sophist, 242C – end Sophomores: Thursday, January 30: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, selections Monday, February 3: Christian Creeds and Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, selections Juniors: Thursday, January 30: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, selections Monday, February 3: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, selections Seniors: Thursday, January 30: Writing Period! Monday, February 3: Melville, Benito Cereno Friday Night Lecture: No Lecture (Long Weekend) Page 1 Upcoming Events: Friday, January 31: Long Weekend begins Saturday, February 1: Senior Essays Due at Midnight (Bell Ringing at McDowell Hall)! Sunday, February 2: Groundhog Day Monday, February 3: Long Weekend ends with seminars at 7:30pm �St. John’s Collegian Thursday, January 30, 2025 Vol. X. Issue XI Annapolis Receives Solar Energy Grant For anyone attending the Board of Visitors and Governors meeting in October, a certain measure of jealousy was undoubtedly directed towards Santa Fe. Not only did attendees have to hear about how the energy costs for our campus are a whopping $700,000 per year compared to their paltry $140,000, but it was revealed that much of their energy is now supplied by a shiny new solar panel installation on their campus. Their access to green energy has been enough to turn the rest of us green with envy! Fortunately, news has reached your humble journalist that our dear Annapolis is not far away from solar energy itself. St. John’s has recently been approved for a Maryland grant to advance green energy on our campus. The Higher Education Clean Energy Pilot Program has granted us $1.03 million, and finally we shall have solar panels! The plan is to install these on the roof of Mellon and the nearby heating plant. Also included in the grant are funds to create a new master plan for our campus that focuses on promoting green energy, as well as the framework for multiple student internships on campus. Over the next few months the Career Development Office will be working to finalize these internships, which will be offered to the Polity as soon as they are available. The process will begin fully in February, when members of the administration will meet with structural architects from the Kezlo group and solar contractors from Solar Energy Services, including Johnnie alumn Ethan Goddard who is the latter’s VP of Energy Technology. Before solar panels can be directly installed, we must carry out desperately needed repairs on the Mellon roof. The College also has to apply for permission from the Annapolis Historical Society along with the State of Maryland. According to our CFO Ally Gontang-Highfield, “They are primarily trying to ensure that we are taking care to preserve our historic buildings and that the design is acceptable under historic standards for the city of Annapolis.” Once all permits have been secured and the plans have been approved, installation can begin for these solar panels. The administration hopes that work can begin this semester and that we will have a fully functional solar array as soon as this fall, but ultimately the timeline is up to how quickly the city and state will approve the details for the project. The solar installation size is still not firmly planned, but current estimates sit at a 346.9 kW/h (kilo-watts per hour) array on the Mellon roof, and a smaller 64.9 kW/h array on the roof of the heating plant for a total size of 411.8 kW/h. This is smaller than our sister’s newly installed array, but it must be remembered that the Santa Fe campus has much more open space and Southwestern sunshine than we do in our crowded downtown Northeastern campus. Again, estimates are not yet firm, but the expectation is to cut about 5% off our annual utility bill and avoid sourcing a comparable amount of energy from the main power grid. Aphorism of the Week Reagan Bottomley 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. Ms. Brann was well traveled and had friends around the world. She would visit her former student and friend Robin Tzannes on the Greek island of Kythnos. There, she liked to “cook up a storm.” Barry Mazur shared that she was so curious about the world that she asked him to “spy” for her on Mount Athos, where women were prohibited. Helen Felbek Special thanks to CFO Ally Gontang-Highfield, who was instrumental in providing the information for this article. Tarik Mahmoud President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama. When asked to describe these men, she called Bush “very fit,” and Obama “interminably charming.” After the memorial, attendees were invited to the FSK Lobby for light refreshments and conversation. Though the skies remained gray, those who departed did so with a renewed sense of purpose, honoring Ms. Brann’s demand: “we must continue the conversation.” While Santa Fe may still have a leg up in terms of green energy, Annapolitans can be glad to know that we too can soon harness our own piece of sunshine. As the administration works to implement large-scale changes, don’t forget that the student body can have a huge impact on energy consumption! I urge you, student or faculty, to be on the lookout for ways you can cut down on energy uses around campus. As always, don’t forget to turn out the lights! Ἐκτὸς τῆς πόλεως οὐκ εἴσι θύραι. Eva Brann Memorial, cont’d As the program drew to a close, Sharon Bishop’s words lingered in the minds of all present: “We are her legacy.” Ms. Brann’s life was a well-examined one, full of conversations with texts, with students, with the world. Her ability to live without regret, to govern through dialogue, and to inspire others to think deeply and broadly will be remembered. Even those who did not know her personally felt the weight of her absence. In addition, depending on the decision of our current Federal administration, we may be able to apply for annual renewable energy credits to further decrease our energy costs. This will likely be the largest solar installation anywhere in downtown Annapolis, including recent installations by the city. These solar panels are only a piece of our new energy grant. Along with internships that we students can apply for, the College will also be implementing a new master strategy that focuses on green energy. This is not connected to the plans being laid out in conjunction with Huron Consulting, which are primarily focused on fundraising and student enrollment. This master strategy will be a plan for the physical layout of the College, and will replace a severely outdated strategy from several years ago. Tailored to our more modern needs, this plan will ensure that as the College renovates and constructs buildings around campus, it will follow a guide to grow as green as possible. “At the retirement party for Eva Brann, the dean reads with surprise at a galley copy of her newest book, The Past-Present, delivered by tutor Pamela Kraus and designer Adrienne Rogers, 1997,” St. John's College Digital Archives. Editor’s Note: While scouring the college’s digital archives for a photo of Ms. Brann, I discovered scans of the autobiography she wrote when she was 14, titled I Came Across the Ocean. Pieces of it were quoted during her memorial. You can read it if you search the archives! Go to https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu. 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 sjca.collegian@gmail.com 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 eanicholskaufman@sjc.edu. Contributors for this issue: Helen Wagner, Editor “We save up the events of our days to tell our friends, feeling that until our affairs have been told they haven’t quite happened: Thus do our friends confirm our lives.” - Eva Brann, Open Secrets / Inward Prospects: Reflections on World and Soul Page 2 Jacob Sharpe, Editor Reagan Bottomley, Writer Helen Felbek, Writer Catherine Greer, Writer Tarik Mahmoud, Aphorism � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The St. John's Collegian Description An account of the resource A student newspaper of St. John's College. The St. John's Collegian began publication in 2023 and is affiliated with <a href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/collections/show/16">The Gadfly</a>. Published weekly on Thursday, with the exception of weeks The Gadfly is published. 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We ought to treat our public spaces like public spaces and refrain from using them as personal repositories for books, papers, half-drunk and now-cold coffee cups, plant life, gnawn muffins, and shrines to the Blessed Virgin. If these things help you to write, then by all means, bring them; but also remember to take them. The writing period is a wonderful time for us Seniors to take our time with a text we truly love and create our Johnnie magnum opus. This activity can and should be, in the words of our dean, “exhilarating and satisfying” but it needn’t be a selfish one. In fact, I would argue that the writing of a senior essay, while a seemingly-solitary one, is intensely collaborative. The Johnnie essay has been described to me as “a continuation of the conversation.” In any Johnnie essay and especially in the senior essay, we get to collaborate and learn from our peers, our essay advisor, and the authors themselves–from the reading of the text to the drafting, to the editing, and finally, to the public oral. Every step along the way, we are reminded of the thoughts and words of others and the fact that we are not alone in this journey. So, let us put pen to paper and enjoy this month as a privileged and extended conversation. And, as we think of others’ thoughts, let us also think of the other people, and keep our Fishbowl clean. Happy writing. Caleb Briggs A dirty fishbowl. [Credit: r/shittyaquariums] Vol. II Issue X Printed Thursdays in Annapolis At AnnEbeth’s, with AnnEbeth A Casual Interview On a given Tuesday afternoon, around 3:35 pm, you might find me trudging hungrily down Prince George Street in search of an after-school snack. My walk home takes me along Maryland Avenue—an agreeable necessity— and I often can’t resist stopping into Annebeth’s for a sandwich or some focaccia bread. I know I’m not the only one: Annebeth’s is an Annapolis staple—and so is its eponymous owner, Annebeth herself. I recently stopped in for a conversation with her, hoping to get to know the woman behind it all. She’s a familiar face to many, with her dark hair, youthful smile, and friendly disposition. But she manages nevertheless to be somewhat enigmatic. Her shop, in varied forms, has existed for 26 years, longer than most of us can remember (and longer than some of us have been alive). Its steady presence on the corner lends it a mythic aspect, like that of a timeless monument. Whether you’re a frequent customer or a passerby, this feature of the modern Johnnie landscape is as familiar to us as the quad and College Creek. But how did it get here? On Friday, I stood across the counter from Annebeth, eating steak bites and asking her questions between customers. “I moved to Annapolis in the mid 80’s,” she said. “I was a teenager and went to high school around here… my parents lived a couple blocks away. Going to my bus stop for school, I would walk Maryland Avenue in my teens. I just loved that street. My bus stop was right off of Duke of Gloucester.” Her first job was at Dimitri’s, a Greek restaurant on Main Street where Preserve is now. Her coworkers downtown were often Johnnies. “I went abroad to Europe for a while, after college, and when I came back, I wanted to start my own thing,” she continued. So, on Black Friday of 1998, the first Annebeth’s opened— right up the street from its current location. “My background was in hospitality, but I knew I didn’t want to open a restaurant. But I did want to be around food and drink.” Along with food and drink, the first iteration of Annebeth’s was also a movie rental store. “It was kind of a date-night theme,” she recalls, “You could go in and get your movies, snacks, wine, beer. Now everything’s just streamed, so that’s changed.” Here, our conversation diverged to movies: Annebeth’s favorites are classic romances, like My Fair Lady and Roman Holiday. She also mentioned that Patriot Games has scenes filmed in Annapolis. But I digress. 15 years after opening the video store, Annebeth moved down the street to her current location at the This Week in Seminar Freshman: Thursday, January 16th: Thucydides: Peloponnesian War, VII; VIII, 1-6, 45-end Monday, January 20th: Plato: Parmenides, beginning–148D, 166C Sophomores: Thursday, January 16th: Dante: Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, XIX–XXXIII Monday, January 20th: Dante: Divine Comedy, Paradiso, I–XVII Juniors: Thursday, January 16th: Hume: Treatise of Human Nature (selections) Monday, January 20th: Hume: Treatise of Human Nature (selections) Seniors: Thursday, January 16th: Writing Period! Monday, January 20th: Writing Period! Friday All-College Seminar: On Frederick Douglass’ “The Mission of the War.” Page 1 corner of Prince George and Maryland Avenue. She’s been there for the past 11 years. Annebeth’s is integral to the St. John’s community: she has furnished the wine for many a Johnnie soirée, the bread and cheese for springtime picnics, and the kombucha to accompany us in our late summer sunbathing. She also has family connections to the college. Her dad, Gerald Bunker, was a tutor in the ‘60s. Her stepsister’s dad, John Sarkissian, taught here in the 80s. She loves having the college nearby. “I’ve always had at least one Johnnie on staff,” she said. “I only have three employees, so it’s pretty small, but there’s always a Johnnie.” She feels more of a connection to Johnnies than to Middies, but she’s happy to do business with both. “I always get a giggle when I see a mid and a Johnnie dating,” she added. I asked her if she has any advice for future small business owners. “Consistency,” she said. “Make sure you’re open when you say you’re open and closed when you say you’re closed. Follow through.” She certainly exemplifies this herself: it’s her reliability, among other things, which makes her a Maryland Avenue staple. “I love being my own boss,” she said. “Making the decisions. I can’t imagine going back to work for somebody else. And I like the social part of it. If I’m at home too long, I need the outlet. I get energy from seeing people.” People seem to enjoy seeing her, too: at one point we were interrupted by a customer looking for a vegetarian sandwich. Unfortunately, his herbivorous intentions were thwarted by the chicken fajita. As Annebeth closed the transaction, she handed me a caramel candy. “For later,” she said. I put it in my pocket. Helen Wagner Left: “Portrait of Gerald E. Bunker.” SJC Digital Archives Right: Annebeth, photo by Helen Wagner Upcoming Events: Friday, January 17 All-College Seminar, Great Hall, 7:20pm Saturday, January 18 Eva Brann Memorial, Great Hall, 2pm Pajama Waltz, Boathouse, 9pm �Thursday, January 16, 2025 St. John’s Collegian Vol. II. Issue X Next, Winter Comes Softly Reforming Deicing Practices on Campus The return from winter break is an interesting one, where the sudden need to face the bracing cold is met by all, some of whom are not adequately prepared, seniors fight a losing battle writing their essays in the fishbowl, and everyone is sick. Over the past few days, I’ve returned inside from a delightful wintry walk or an adventure sledding down the lower field hill to hear a booming cough reverberate down the hallway. snow day is a thing of joy and wonder that propels even room Johnnies outside to enjoy the outdoors. Salt ruins snow’s texture, stains its pristine color blue, destroys footwear, and makes spaces indoor and outdoor feel chalky and weird. The intentions in which salt is used are certainly noble, but I would argue its use creates other issues that are perhaps even more dangerous. Winter at St. John’s is a time when everything is shared, from barbeque lids used as improvised sleds to chronic pulmonary illnesses. The ingenuity of Johnnies when they see snow never fails to impress. From the aforementioned barbeque lid, which performed surprisingly well and resulted in few injuries, I also witnessed students using undersized cookie sheets stolen from Spector and Gilliam kitchens, garbage bags, and sleds hijacked from townspeople in their efforts to speedily descend the slope. New sledding techniques were developed, one of which involved sitting backwards and was aptly named “gruesome style”. One recent morning, I was going to breakfast, exited Paca, and almost died. Several days prior, salt had been laid on the steps to melt the accumulation of snow, but this watery slush became diluted and refroze in the night. I confidently placed my foot on a smooth glassy round of ice, and, if I had fallen, there would’ve been no snow to cushion my fall. The railings saved me, not the salt. The sledding fun waned, the hill compacted to thinning ice with grass visible in patches. The ice receded from the dock and is merely a distant temptation. Another dusting of snow came again to refresh the landscape. But its boon was limited, and the eternal enemy of salt was to blame. Salt is worthless, good for nothing but to be thrown onto paths and trampled underfoot. It reduces the charming crunch of snow and ice underfoot into a wet slush that fills the shoes and leaves white trails in the hallways. Most of all, it makes me really sad. A This is not a criticism of the school’s actions when it snows, certainly it is a great and meet thing to keep paths clear and accessible, but the issue with salt is that on days below 20° F, any benefit it is able to grant is turned into another obstacle. This is why I propose the school move to other means of deicing the walks and heed my chemical knowledge. Aphorism of the Week ὁ τροφός ἐστί ἀνὴρ σὺν ἀγκιςτρῷ. Jacob Sharpe Walking in a Winter Under Land Breaking news! The Lady of the Underquad was recently spotted frolicking about our winter-kissed campus in the wee hours of the night. Witnesses say frosty fairies danced about as snow surrounded her in its pure white glory, though these visions may very well have simply been clusters of snowflakes falling from the heavens. torch of its knowledge is passed along. The Lady of the Underquad especially implores the newest members of SJC to open their minds to whimsy, mirth, and wonder just as she and many other Johnnies have done before. Therefore, let us join her frolicking and journey through the world of wonder together! Either way, this snowy jubilation indicates the promise of wondrous new beginnings. Far below the frosty blanket wrapping SJC in its glittering splendor lies a realm where fires never deprive the people of comforting warmth, long-forgotten tomes whisper wisdom to those frantically typing up senior essays above ground, and gossip runs rampant about the unknown new successor to the Underquad’s throne. Assured by their Lady that a new heir shall indeed be selected well before the last Ab Major chord has resounded through the halls of Mellon, the Paca gnomes have turned their attention and energy towards preparing for the new ruler’s advent. Goldsmiths are hard at work sketching designs for a new crown, while politicians debate relentlessly over the proper proceedings of the coronation. Herschel Reuben Yet the Underquad’s new ruler must be aware of the lore they will one day pass along to the Polity’s next generation of eager young minds. Therefore I, Herschel Reuben, shall do my best to faithfully convey tales of the lore and life of the Underquad from this day forth until that fateful time when the The humble element of hydrogen is cheap, abundant, and, most importantly, freezes at the nippy low of -434.5°F. Were hydrogen scattered on the paths instead of salt, and were it also soluble in water, our problems would be solved and paths on campus would remain clear and safe. This latter problem, on making hydrogen an amenable solute for water, as well as lowering its vapor pressure so that it might hold a scatterable form in standard atmospheric pressure, is a project I assign to worthier minds than I. Until then, I recommend everyone watch their steps. Godspeed. Jacob Sharpe UPCOMING SCI FORUMS Courtesy of the Student Committee on Instruction Jan 22nd: What do we gain from studying and participating in music? Jan 29th: Does the program prepare us for death, as Socrates suggests in the Phaedo? Feb 5th: Is it wrong to maintain preferences for certain kinds of texts on the program? Feb 12th: How do we cultivate good relationships between students and tutors? Feb 19th: How do we approach the process of planning for and writing our annual essays? Feb 26th: How can we best use our breaks? WEDNESDAYS. 11:45. PRIVATE DINING ROOM. Free lunch for off-campus students! Page 2 A student enjoys the sledding medium of ice-grass amalgam. 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 sjca.collegian@gmail.com 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 eanicholskaufman@sjc.edu. Contributors for this issue: Helen Wagner, Editor and Writer Jacob Sharpe, Editor and Writer Caleb Briggs, Author Herschel Reuben, Author � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf Subject The topic of the resource St. John's College (Annapolis, Md.)--Periodicals Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SJCCollegian_vol_II_issueX_2025-01-16 Student publication The Collegian The Gadfly https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/1d40afdcc2cc287f4b06438beacbfe69.pdf e61c640bacf55de6f084625fc6571d0d PDF Text Text Thursday February 27 2025 The St. John’s Collegian A Gadfly Publication Darkness One thing which has disturbed me since the renovation of Mellon is that the lights in the southern part of the building are automatic—if they’re off, they’ll turn back on if someone is in their range. Aside from this fact that this, like much of the renovation, is slightly out-of-place with the rest of the building, I find such a phenomenon rather disturbing. I understand that automatic lights may be a great convenience, but as someone who is averse to convenience when it strays from beauty, I must say that I don’t appreciate the rudeness of these lights. If any of my readers have been in the rest of Mellon when its lights are out, I hope you have noticed the subdued and quiet nighttime atmosphere that the darkness generates—but in the lobby and fishbowl, this atmosphere is entirely missing at night, since the lights so impolitely assume that you want them turned on. Think further how much better it is to work by lamplight than under overweening ceiling lights. I’m not writing just to complain about a minor situation in Mellon. I am reminded by this of humanity’s improper and grotesque obsession with light. Have you ever seen one of those satellite images of the earth at night? They are very upsetting; our hubristic and decadent insistence* that we have glaring lights wherever we go is an offense to nature. The nighttime is supposed to be dark, and I think we ought to respect that. Even right now, as I write this at midnight with my lights turned out, if I exit my room, my dorm’s hall light will be on: I can even see it under the door (and believe me I have looked all over for a light switch to turn it off)! The impairment of vision at night is, I believe, a very important thing. Don’t even get me started on the Naval Academy’s obscene alumni building, which flies in the face of God, who made the night dark. *This is a necessary rhetorical ellipsis. In truth, it is not only hubristic and decadent, but pleonexic, hedonistic, tasteless, insomniac, selfish, cowardly, brutish, troglodytic, vociferous (don’t even get me started), hypertensive, capitalistic, prideful, pitiful, impatient, democratic to the point of tyranny, oppressive, insolent, bad, etc. Most of these adjectives apply to motorcycles, too, those impudent and phallically compensatory vehicles. Some also apply to airplanes, but at least those are fun to ride in, and when I do feel annoyed, I can just point a laser at them. Tarik Mahmud Vol. II Issue XIV Printed Thursdays in Annapolis Bird Poop and the Joy of the Unplannable Last weekend after Saturday brunch, I sat down in the library to read the Wall Street Journal—one of my many small indulgences. I happened across an article in the travel section which caught my eye: a spotlight piece for the Parador Hotel in Cuenca, Spain. A large, color photograph of the hotel covered nearly half the page. It showed the former convent, old and tileroofed and imposing, crowning a sheer hill-top. One sees such pictures frequently in travel journalism; but this one grabbed my attention because I had been there. When I was thirteen, my family traveled to Spain. We rented a car in Madrid, and over the course of a month, drove south through Toledo, Córdoba, Seville, and Granada, then north-east to Valencia and Barcelona. Near the end of the trip, on our way back to Madrid from Barcelona, we stopped in Cuenca, and stayed at the Parador. The town of Cuenca is small. A deep gorge divides it from the hill the hotel is built on—its old houses built flush to the cliff-face on one side, the repurposed abbey standing isolated on the opposite edge. One can imagine the monks in older times looking out from their cloister windows across this geological divide which separated them from the townsfolk, and pondering its apt, spiritual symbolism. Today there are no monks in the abbey, only tourists; and tourists want to go into town. Thus, a narrow, iron bridge was built some time in the last century, which spans the gorge from one cliffside to the other. I remember walking across this bridge. My father is afraid of heights, and fear is contagious; so each time our family crossed it to or from town was an ordeal. Besides the landscape, I only remember a few things from our days there—an old church, meeting a local American expat. Really, we did not do much. In Granada, my sisters and I had got very sick, and though we had mostly recovered, by this point in our Spanish traipsing we were travel-weary; all of us were happy to take things at a more leisurely pace. One episode which remains distinctly in my memory concerns a visit our family made to an art museum in Cuenca. The collection was small, consisting mostly of modern paintings. For me and my sisters—children of nine, eleven, and thirteen, not yet introduced to the pleasures of ostentatiously touting one’s welldeveloped taste for humbug—some creativity was required to enjoy our time at the gallery. We decided to give a humorous name to each painting based on what we thought it resembled (for most of the pieces, the actual subject was entirely inscrutable). Both of my sisters have a great talent for absurdist humor, so it was tremendous fun. The greatest success regarded a large canvas painted with amorphous blotches of white and grey paint. Previously in Granada, at the Alhambra, a bird had pooped on my shoulder. Upon seeing the white-grey canvas, my sister Blythe cried out, “Look, its Jackson’s shirt with bird poop on it!” We were in stitches. Indeed, we found the joke so uproariously funny that we had to leave the museum—my parents embarrassed at the scene we were making. Why do I recount this? Seeing the picture of the Parador in the Wall Street Journal, and finding my memory flooded with my own personal experiences in Cuenca, I found it curious that my happiest memory there had nothing to do with the striking landscape or the medieval architecture or the food—it was a silly joke about bird poop which I shared with my family. Spontaneous moments of human connection— moments of life—can’t be planned. Everyone has memories like this. I hope, reader, you remember your own such moments, and treasure them. Nearly half a dozen and more come to my mind—singing Disney songs in the car with a friend-of-a-friend I carpooled with once; weeping uncontrollably with my sisters after hearing news of a family tragedy; playing Uno with two pretty Belgian girls in an Oxford hostel; lying, sick as a dog, quarantined in an empty squad bay at Marine officer training, and discovering that the cadet in the rack next to me was a philosophy major; restraining a psychotic Ukrainian man at 3 AM with a prominent Presbyterian theologian; swimming in College Creek on a moonlit summer night with a friend—I savor the recollection of these moments, and so many more. They are the grass which grows up through the cracks in the pavement of life. As I make plans for the future, after I graduate from St. John’s, I wonder what unplanned moments will define the next few years. No matter how well I plan, the best things and the worst things will likely be unexpected. Friendship, love, enmity, loss—such is the stuff of real life which does not acquiesce to our attempts to rigidly plan it out in advance. Sometimes your family spends a great deal of money to stay in a beautiful, historic European town, and the best thing you find there is an opportunity to laugh at a poop joke with people you love. Perhaps in such instances, one misses out on more refined pleasures; but in life, it is better to accept the good moments one is given and enjoy them. What a curse it would be to cultivate such good taste that one forgot how to love simple things! Jackson Green This Week in Seminar Upcoming Events: Freshman: Thursday, February 27th: Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics; Book X Monday, March 17th: Aristotle: Politics (selections) Sophomores: Thursday, February 27th: Montaigne: Essays; “Of Experience” Monday, March 17th: Machiavelli: The Prince Juniors: Thursday, February 27th: Locke: Second Treatise of Government; Chapters X–XIX Monday, March 17th: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Seniors: Thursday, February 27th: Freud: Beyond the Pleasure Principle Monday, March 17th: Dostoevski: The Brothers Karamazov Friday, February 28th Enjoy your Spring Break! Friday Night Lecture: None Page 1 �Thursday, February 27, 2025 St. John’s Collegian The Other Board Meeting On Saturday, February 22, 2025, the Board of Visitors and Governors (BVG) held its plenary session. Among other things, the much-discussed polity review was passed with one opposing vote. But there was another board meeting taking place the same day. After the BVG and all the spectators had left the Conversation Room, another, much smaller group entered: the Alumni Association Board (AAB). The BVG and AAB have some common concerns, including enrollment numbers, state and federal funding and the future of international students. During the four-and-a-half-hour meeting, Dean Paalman was invited to speak to the board. In addition to discussing recent changes on campus, such as the discovery of a military uniform from the War of 1812 and the Greenfield Library’s partnership with BetterWorldBooks, she also covered academic updates, including the college’s new ability to award degrees in December and changes to the reading list (switching the Protestant Reformers). Alumni were eager to learn how they could better support the college and its students. Ms. Paalman emphasized that alumni already provide invaluable support by mentoring students, particularly in career guidance, serving as positive examples, providing hope and increasing students’ self-confidence. Alumni suggested resurrecting an old tradition of senior dinners and proposed new ones such as an Alumni Association-sponsored enablement event. AAB President Katharina Wong shared that the new initiative to combat food insecurity on the Santa Fe campus during winter break was, thanks to local volunteers, a great success. She expressed the board’s intent to expand the program to spring break and potentially to the Annapolis campus, pending campus leadership approval and the availability of local volunteers. The AAB’s career development group provided insights on the restructured Odyssey program, which shifted from a one-on-one mentoring model to a group format based on the eight career pathways developed by Career Development Services (CDS). This year, 88 students and 35 alumni are participating, with the program set to conclude by the end of March. The AAB hopes to survey participants to improve the program and to host additional alumni career panels, offering opportunities for alumni who could not commit to the program but still wish to contribute. Vol. II. Issue xiv Liza love’s Beat of the Week: Eye Know – De La Soul, Otis Redding Spring break is here at long last! Prepare for quad lunch, four square, barefoot frisbee and contracting a bacterial infection from College Creek with hip-hop love song “Eye Know” from De La Soul’s 1989 album 3 Feet High and Rising. It’s an upbeat dance track that samples Otis Redding’s whistles from his 1968 classic, “(Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay.” Mentally, I’m kicking my feet on the field in 70-degree weather, with this in my ears and Shakespeare under my thumbs. L.L. The AAB meeting highlighted that alumni do not only show up once a year for the Annapolis Cup, but that they care deeply about the college and its current students. Alumni are eager to be more involved, but it might not always be clear how this involvement should look like. Helen Felbek Aphorism of the Week Ἕκαστον διᾷδον συνᾴδοντος ἕνι βάσει διαφέρει “Jacob Klein Snowman”, from SJC Digital Archives Tarik Mahmud Threats to Sellinger fund Maryland is one of the few states in the nation that provides substantial funding for private institutions of higher education. St. John’s, along with twelve other private colleges and universities, receives state funding primarily through two programs: capital grants, such as the one that enabled the recent renovations of Mellon, and the Sellinger Program, which provides Colleges with money primarily to give financial aid to students, making private higher education more accessible in the state. In the 2023 fiscal year, the most recent year I was able to procure information from, the College received $1.6 million in Sellinger funding, about $1.4 million of which went to financial aid, with the remainder going to career development and support for a graduate institute program for teachers. This legislative session, this funding is in jeopardy. The state is facing a $300 million deficit this year, as well as a nearly $3 billion deficit in the fiscal year 2026 budget, with billions more projected in the following years, leading legislative leaders to look to make deep cuts in the upcoming budget. Funding for the Sellinger program was already cut in half last session, and a further cut in half is proposed this session. “The governor’s original budget looked like it was keeping us at last year’s funding level, explained Nora Demleitner, Annapolis President, “but a new proposal by the legislative division looks like it would we would look like substantial, and uncertain cuts.” State budget negotiations are shifting rapidly, as this article is being written, with the Senate’s Budget and Taxation Chair Guy Guzzone announcing on Friday, February 21st the potential for up to $500 million more in potential cuts, on top of what would otherwise be necessary to address the deficit. This is because Maryland faces a disproportionately large impact from federal level policy changes, with much state funding depending on pass-through federal funds. State officials fear substantial cuts, or, worse, a federal shutdown later in the spring, leaving a moving budgetary target and uncertainty about the wide variety of cuts to programs and tax proposals currently on the table. As Maryland has a large number of federal workers, large-scale firings of civil servants may also put a permanent dent in Maryland’s revenue, leading to further budget crunches, and thus to the state’s funding for the College. To deal with this uncertainty, the state has pushed back its budgeting deadlines, and proposals have been raised to meet for a special October session. Dangers to the Sellinger fund could be dangerous to scholarship opportunities that enable students to attend the College, as well as funding for the internship and supplemental coursework funding programs (formerly Hodson and Pathways) and other Career Services activities. Additionally, mental health supports and student activities funding might be lost in order to cover cuts on the College’s end. Legislators are still discussing the budget, with various proposals for the Sellinger funding on the table leaving time for Polity members to advocate for the College by contacting their delegates and senators. 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 sjca.collegian@gmail.com 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 eanicholskaufman@sjc.edu. Contributors for this issue: Helen Wagner, Editor Jacob Sharpe, Editor Helen Felbek, Writer Jackson Green, Writer Liza Love, Writer Tarik Mahmud, Writer, Aphorism El’ad Nichols-Kaufman, Writer Page 2 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The St. John's Collegian Description An account of the resource A student newspaper of St. John's College. The St. John's Collegian began publication in 2023 and is affiliated with <a href="https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/collections/show/16">The Gadfly</a>. Published weekly on Thursday, with the exception of weeks The Gadfly is published. 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Title A name given to the resource There's No Place Like Home—in Plato's Republic Description An account of the resource Audio recording of a lecture given by Michael Davis on October 3, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: "Those living in the various versions of the best city described in Plato's Republic are to feel perfectly at home, but none of those present for the description is at home. The education of the philosophers who are to rule in the best of these versions of the city is to include solid geometry although we are told that it has yet to be discovered. We are to read the 'big letters' of justice in the city as a way to read the 'little letters' of justice in the individual. This proves to mean looking at something on the outside so as to see what is on the inside. But if we can see the inside, is it still the inside? Can we ever see the inside of a human being? 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Title A name given to the resource How Can Shun Live Happily Thereafter?: Revisiting the Question of Filial Piety in Mencius 7A35 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lin, Qiu Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2025-09-26 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Meem Library has been given permission to make this item available online. Type The nature or genre of the resource sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource mp3 Description An account of the resource Audio recording of a lecture given by Qiu Lin on September 26, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: "In Mencius 7A35, Tao Ying poses a dilemma to Mencius: Suppose Shun's father had committed murder—what would Shun have done? Mencius famously answers that Shun would have 'cast aside the world (tian-xia) as if discarding a worn shoe. He would have secretly carried the old man on his back and fled to the edge of the Sea, living there happily thereafter and forgetting about the world'. This answer has sparked intense debate among Confucian scholars throughout history. Despite the wide range of views on this issue, however, scholars generally construe this case as a classic conflict of values, where the Mencian Shun would have chosen filial piety over justice. In this talk I offer a different reading of this case, one that emphasizes Shun's transformation as a person—from a widely revered emperor to a fugitive who cut himself off from all but one significant relationship in his life—and asks this question: How is it possible that after undergoing such a change, Shun is still able to live 'happily thereafter'? By shifting our focus, I argue that what Shun would have done is far more morally demanding than simply letting his father face his due punishment. In my view, if Shun had chosen the latter, he would have been a just emperor, but fallen short of being a sage king by Mencius' standards." Subject The topic of the resource Mencius. Mengzi Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SF_LinQ_How_Can_Shun_Live_Happily_Thereafter_2025-09-26 Friday night lecture https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/06faed05ba490437653c23bf1972f60a.mp3 6ef060c07308b192d0b8af9380176df3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. John's College Lecture Recordings—Santa Fe Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Meem Library Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data m4a Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 00:54:09 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Into the Deep: Imaging Supermassive Black Holes Description An account of the resource Audio recording of a lecture given by Daryl Haggard on September 19, 2025 as part of the Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean’s Office has provided this description of the event: “It’s been a fantastic decade for black hole studies, particularly for Sagittarius A (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Multiple Galactic Center research groups, the Event Horizon Telescope, and LIGO/Virgo continue to bring rapid-fire new observations to sharpen our understanding of these exotic objects, research highlighted by the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics and the 2017 and 2020 Nobel Prizes in Physics. In this talk, I will discuss the new Event Horizon Telescope image of Sgr A*. I’ll describe its unique variability and put it in the context of other time domain phenomena in the Galactic Center, traced out over more than 20 years of observations of M87*, the supergiant elliptical galaxy with several trillion stars in the constellation Virgo. I will also briefly explore how we can continue to push the frontiers of black hole research with existing and next-generation observatories.” Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Haggard, Daryl, 1975- Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Santa Fe, NM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2025-09-19 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Meem Library has been given permission to make this item available online. Type The nature or genre of the resource sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource mp3 Subject The topic of the resource Black holes (Astronomy) Astronomy Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SF_HaggardD_Into_the_Deep_2025-09-19 Friday night lecture https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/9d378a70520fbcc4e92ce4812541120e.pdf 221ae341f6bb3168cf3acc695c89b8f0 PDF Text Text MUSIC REVIEiV: Whare It All Began by Lenny Silberatein When I was but a youiijj and tender lad (15 or so) at boarding school (a bizarre experience In and of itself) one of my teachers asked aie olrer to his room after classes and offered me a q.uarter if I‘d.*. Sorry. Wrong story. Anyhow^ at the time I was deeply into my “folk phase"; one could not enter my room without being aux-ally assailed by twanging banjos, ssreeching fiddles, and high-pitched-nasally-dlstortsdmouatalnfolk-poor harmonies emanat ing from my cheap Ja,paziess cassette recorder. One of my teachers (a dif ferent one, mind you>) offered to play ma an album he’d picked up by some fellow of whom I’d never heardv He supposedly played a fixe guitar, but his name was a funny ooinbir.ation of palatal end dental stops. I fol lowed my teacher with an air of in difference, ready to give the usual speech of "Hunhl You call that ’pic kin’? Why, old Blind Deaf Dumb Quadrapleglc Black Louie Schwartsraeysr played better’n that in nineteen-ought-and-twenty-seveziJ’’ I sat down and waited, keeping one eye to wards the door in case he made mention of money. Onos burnedo.. To aiake a long story short (would that, I had done so eax'lier?) he played Leo Kottke’s "Six and Twelve String Guitar" albums otherwise known as "The Armadillo Album". I was flabbergasted. Although his first, this is Kottke's finest alJsjum, a truly masterful set of tunes. Ke playa a guitar called a Bozo, a large, unwieldy device that produces a deep, ringing, stamping tone. His £ingerpicking is Incredibly complex; he uses all five on his right hand with suoh effectiveness that you’d swear two ezpei’ts were duett lag. The songs range from delicate almostclassical pieces such as "The Pish(continued, next column) Issue #5, ! ' , I Editor: Mai’k Middlebrook Assoo. Editor: Lavis Walker Assoc. .Editor (Music): Lenny Silberstelr. Roving Reporter: Lisa Perrlngton Printer? Jonathon Gold Calligraphy: Tim Costello --- ———------------Erom the Quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack ack quack quack quack quack quack k quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack- quack quack hot water bottle hot water bottle mortal immortal immortal mortal quack quack quack quack quack quack Not much. ©Ise to' say. Enjoy thc-day off. Mark Xte Reel’s , Movie Schedule; Saturday 8:15 P.m. Oat Ballou i Simday 2:15 p.m. Lolita Monday 1:15 p.m. Lolita . Wednesday 8;15 p.m. Promo Piims And don't forget the Waltz Party on Sunday evsning (3:15) in the boathouse erman" and "Jesu, Joy of Man's De siring" (a Bach piece) to heavy, grinding, violent ones; "Busted Bic yclo", for example^ or ’'Vaseline Machine Gun" which features his smooth and clean bottleneck style. What- more een I say? It's not 'dancin’ music’', but I've nevei* met .^yoae who didnU like the album or wasn’t impressed by the technique. This is the album which no oollectlcn should ba without; if ye have doubts ask me for a cut or two .at the next party. You'll be amazed. �The Calypsan, page 2 CROQUhT COS^iER by Evan demon Prior to this week's dose of Gai ly pso Id Croquet Caia*Tilty, I received a stra^nge omen. I was eating dinner with Messrs, MacPhee and Walker at Chou Kao-Pungs Neo-Chlness Ee3,icatessan (Chou is the son Chick ’a' Ruth seldom talk about), and after wards we received the traditional fortune cookies. Theirs said "The greatest of ail faults is to ba conscious of norie”j and "You can never have too much cf a good thing". Pine thoughts, indeed. My cookie said, "You will win at oroquet tonight, and afterwards write an article about it; one that al;>o gives this place a good review". S6 I was feeling understandably confident as the game commenced« Messrs. MacPhee, Malker, Skinner, and Higgins had God on their side, but I had Confucius on mine; that, plus a double dose of Chou’s "secret Ori ental duck-gravy" (the moss grows thick in Ocllege Creak this time of yeai') had ae racing around the course with inscrutable frenzy, I won the game, but only after a last-gasp barrage from all quarters around the final post. Ahhh, it's lonely at the top. In total fulfillment of ths cook ie’s prophecy, I should say that the food where we ate was excellent, al though the prices were rather of a Himalayan quality (as jji "steep”). So the race for Imperial Wicket continues, and who knows? As the Yogi says, "Race not over until it over.” (which Yogi is that?) TEA TABLE CHATTER "Bow to your lady, bow to,your beau, grab you partner and do-si-do Circle to your right ax?.d now circle back, turn to your partner and give ’em a whack..." » ........................ I- . 1. 1 » Two poems in honor of I "The little frog was colored pink What does the pinkie froggie think? , I’ll tell you what the froggie thunk • He thunk ”Ka-Ohunk! Ka~Chunkl Ka; Chunk!” II (my personal favorite) Roses are red Violets are blue Some poems rhyme But this on® doesn’t By Davis Walker i What was that ? Could it be... Is it..,? Yssp Yes, it is! Huecal Armageddon!{ SQUARE DAKCING AT ST. JOHirSJI! Friday evening kicked off the fir^v Real Hce-Dowii here at the Ivory Tow er, and a high ol’ time it was, too. You dlsoo-dancers and other unsoc iables I'e&lly missed it- Mama Kates and Daddy Whalen sxvlnging their part ners ’round and ’round, Ifea Higgins kick3,ng up his heels, our feerloss leader, E.Z,, do-si-doin^ up a stoxmi. A heart-warming spectacle. Sisewners, the search for tnith went dn. A number of people gatdier- . ed on the boat-house porch to while ' away the hours in Platonic dialogue, as cool breezes gently wafted by. Truly enjoyable. We here at The Calypsan were ha.ppy to gee ^Qw”Vf our tutors put in an appearance. The above mentioned lir. Zucksraan, Mr. Conroy (the Bill Muri'ay of Preshman Greek), and. of i course, Mr. Winters. However,*wq were unhappy to see that the ladies are again slipping in their atten dance. Gome on., girls, we need your support. And what happened to the G.I.’s? Don't be bashful, folks^ we won't bite. Honest. This Friday evening there will be no party, as isuch, due to the holi day (most people seem to have other plans). If enough people are ir.ter- ' sated, thcugh, we will bring the stereo down to Chase-Stone basem^int and play a few tunes (patriotic ones, naturally). Let us know.,.. �Tne Galypsan g page 3 Ttxe Editor’s Party Psrspective: SQUAR2 DARCIKQ MADE EASY To my complete and uttar 3maze~ :aent, we wei's actually able to per form a simple square dance Friday night. Some of "chose who shined es pecially?- brightly were Mi', Sucker man (the cowboy in seer sucker), Dan. ' Higgins (he claims it was his first ; time, but I don’t believe him);, and ' our own Dad (Jamis Whalen). Several ! people expressed interest in trying j a more complicated danse, so a short section of future parties will be de voted to learning some new ones* The basic moves are quite simple, and once you have them learned it's only a matter of learning the parti cular nuance to any given dance. The square looks like thiss *3 Gents, reaemoer that your lady is on yight. Couples number 1 and 3 are referred to as the ’’head, oouplas’* and numbers 2 and 4 are the ’’side j couples”. Here are the basic steps: Partner: 2he person with whom you be- j gin -the dance 1 Coxhier: The person standing next to you who is not your partner (Gent’s corner is the lady to hie left, lad- . y’s comer is the gent to her right) i Bow to your partaar or ccL,raer: Gents j bo-w, ladies curtsy. Circle (loft or right): all .join han5’^S'”’move in a circle in the ind icated direction. Swing; two popular styles ares a)link . right arms and skip around in a circlej b)walk around in a tight circle in the’ "ballroom position" (3ust like waltz ing) Divide the ring: Dancers walk between j the facing couple coupl”e”Fl j walks between the lady and gent of couple ^3) SeperatQ: th® partners split and move in opposite directions (often done after "dividing the ring") (continued, page 4) KSW3 by M.M., from info, by Kiss Lisa Ferrington Yesterday, whilst madly typing The Qalypsaa, T spied a lovely young lass arSSnSor. She purported to have a "hot news flash" for us, so, foroiag aside numerous unmentionable schemes, I bade her "enter*® my humble office, and I listened to her news. Her re port was a surprise to me (my stay at St. John’s has hopelessly and hap pily removed me from newspapers and other such news media; except, of course, for an occasional viewing of "alcoholic news" after "Benny Hill"), so I deemed her repo rt "Calypsanworthy": News of the Week: "From ths halls of Montezuma To the shores of Tx'ipoly We will fight our country’s battles On. land, in air and sea..." Well, men, it’s time to start worry ing again., lrss» Garter has announced that 19 and 20 year old males will be required to register for th© draft beginning in late July. He stresses that this is only a registration, for the purpo.s@ of speedTng up a“5raft in the event iof an emergenoy. Sorry, guys, the ladies got of.f this timeo POD- mmjain KOTi i ■nu BAD ’.r«T^» YOU n—fn COMJSCTUO ihiub.i .h 0& b-ap k«!&'35 Prom PHYSICS, beg.Inning line 193al7 If and also o.f these each in refer ence to the other what itself this co have been so (for instance the one bronze and gold to water, the others bones and timbers to earth, similarly and also at tha others whatsoever), that the nature to be and the being of them* On which acoount firs, but earth, but ai.r, he said, but water, but some of these, but all of these the ■nature to be it of beings. Which for who of the same he took so many, eit her one or more, this and so man;,’ he said to be the all being, but the ot hers all a passive stats of these both and in arrangements, and of these what ever eternal (fcr not to be changed in to themselves out of themselves), the and others to become and to be destroy ed numberless times. �'..uen is a beach not a beach?" here cycliiig advexitures iti A.A. Comity by ?■!. "iddlebrook I should've expected problens. We -iidn't leave until 1:00 Saturday af‘.sreoon, and a late start always cee.-cs to be a harbinger of clamities come, Melissa (my sister), Dena ^nei' friend), and I had decide tc ea i towards southern Aiine Ariind-,1 Jounty; to a spot marked "beache;" on the map. Great idea, I thought; I’ll ride all afternoon without a shirt •ind singe tay back, then toast my front on the beach. But alsj, we were caded for other sorts of fin, We struck out on Forest Lrive, bat tling with poorly tuned and poorly J riven Cadillacs for a few inches of road space, but fortunately ve soon -urz.ed left onto Riva Road a.'.d headtd over the South River, Prom kiva Roud ve took several smaller road;, to Muday Greek Road (rt, 468). These I'oada .hind la arid out of small fams and xooded areas; they were the nicest action of the trip, vVftei* lunch outside a smell groc ery store, we pedalled to tbu end of teals Beach Road to the... t^ach?? .’here before us lay scenic Chesapeake ;ay, with nothing but rocks for a uhoreliae. Extensive search';s for the other "beaches" on the nu.p yield ed more of tha same, sc we pioaptly suowered curses upon the mapmakers and their families, and began to look for a camping spot. After only eight passes up .ind down Deale Beach Road, we finally a•■rced upon a secluded spot twer.ty yards off the street. It didn't look Like rain, but the tarp went up myway; I certainly didn’t expect our uck to hold. It was while we were unracking that we discovered the ticks'em. So there ve were; hot .-»I*eaty, tired in a tick-infested, poison ivy laden clearing. Gee, ain’t 0amping grand, Tired of slapping at t|ie bugs, I oicycled back to the main road to buy our dinner: oatmeal cookies and a six of Molson'e Golden. At least the trip •..'asn’t a total loss. Trying to sleep was a losing proposition- it was Just vO damned hot and humid, and the bugs everywhere. By midnight I re-" •■lized that I would be in no shape to cldc if I lay awake all night, so I (continued, pa»o 5) The Qalypsan, pave A 'continir:! from pa-ge 3) Aicuri ('jRor3) : Used after "soperndnota hoxi maxcy people the danc ers lasj by. ‘ '-rough: Pacing couples (e.g., 1 and'yy wall, forward towards each other and j-Zss light shoulders. When the pass .s c."2:pleted, the couples will be their original position, facing .’Ut, awaiting the next call. Do-3i- ??.: Pacing one anotner, the dan cers /a'Tk to'wards each other, pas^sing ri/l<' shoulders, and then back around, pa-?Ing left shoulders, to the orlgian. positiorx. Frenicaade; a) dancers cross wrists ano held’ Eands, or b)the gent holds the Indy's left hand with his left and /l-Aces his right arm around her shouluey, grasping her right hand. Having )comp.-eted fa) or ( b), the couples ‘"promenade'’ around the ring, Ere/lc: the Inti'oductlon to a dance, Thf/re is also a break at the end, and sojetimes in tie middle. "bedy" ci the dance. The Friday after next (July 11th) ve’ll try a dance called "Porvmx-d Bight and BacK", an interesting figure in which everyono changes partners (swinging at St. John's), Check next week's issue for special instructions. Future Bike Trips; There will be an "early bird" ride on Sunday momlag, July 6th. We will leave fx-om the front of Chase Stone at 700 a.R., unless it's raining. The ride will be about 25 miles at a comfortable (i.e., moderately slow) paca. Bring coms water, and perhaps a candy bar or other saack. Please get in touch with me Friday or Saturday if you plan on Joining us, so I will know for whom to wait. (14ark Middlebrook, ext. 49, ^'302 Chase Stone, box 474) I also have a longer trip in mind for some later -weekend in July. ; I'd like to get over the Bay Bridge arxd explore the eastern shore of the Ghe.‘?apeake Bay, which I've heard is both scenic and relatively sparsely traveled. Lot me know If you're 1';terested. �The Calypsan, page 5 SEMINAR SCRIBBLES And Yet Mora Aristotle: Modern science, for some reason, is more palatable than Aristotle. Void' is an oft-attaoked terms but who has trouble with ‘’configurational space i One can e.rode a stone with only wind and water, but to erode a mind, one needs... absurd arguments? '*I’m not sure what you're trying to get me to admit to, but I said this, «. k sel^omiy used statement; peopie are so unsure of the way they state thin-gs they'll a.dmit that a subtle re-arrangement of their words is what they ''mean'*, especially If the restatement is in better English (or more Latin.-based words). This allows for easier destruotion of arguments for or against anything. Time: a label apllied to the (pur?pointed?) sequentiality of events; "You cannot speak of Time without speaking of its measure" -L.W. One profound consequence of altering the space-time continuum to, say, hal.f rate, would be a bankrupting of Evelyn Woods* schools, "Can we disregard Time for just a mo ment?’ A "moment"? Even in speech we find it difficult to disregard Time I Still Yet Mpj;3 Aristdtle: There was he who described "pure" language in the example of two otone-masons working; one holds out his hand and says * BrickI"p the othe^ gives him one. Sometimes I wish this were the case at all times, for at i.east certain impoertant objects: Substitute "Beerj" ^:GT "Bricks’* in the example, '‘Definltion**fe definition might be the equivalating of one word-sound with others". Of course there are other ways; nouns, verbs, and entire expressions o»y be "defined" in the "show me the Impresgion" fashion. (continued, next column) , t 1 ! *, | j (continued from page 4) ^sked the ladies if they wanted to leave. They were still (understanda-bly) tired and thought they might be able to sleep, so 1 set out on my own {they've had as many, if not raorc> miles of bicycling experience than I, including two long trips in Canada, so I had no fear that they couldn't make it back on their own.) Ky ride back was both frightening and exciting. I had only a small flashlight, but my helmet and reflect-, ors are visible from several hundred yards. The moon Illuminated the road enough to see any obetacles, so I ped alled hard and completed the 23 mile trip in an hour and a half. Words cannot describe the total joy that engulfed me upon my entrance into the air-conditioned room: truly a religious experience. After a muchneeded shower, I was out like a light until 7:)5 a.ra., when Melissa and Dsna arrived back.(that was the shout ing and giggling you heard in C,S. early Sunday morning). Reflecting on the trip, It reminds lae very much of my first boy scout backpacking adventures. Blisters from J.G. Penny boots, burned food cooked over a smoky fix's?, and soaking wet gear from sleeping under a ripped up plastic tarp. Yet somehow I remember ail those trips quite fondly- proof positive is the many hours spent by old boy scouts swapping tales of dis astrous camping ti'ips. This bike trip holds much the same charm for me. Yes, I have perfected the fine art of being miserable and enjoying It. (Giraffe, Smoking. Hit la the face with a shaving-cream/custard pie.) On the other hand, some things c^n^ be reduced to suoh a physical demonstration. (Wara. Love, Knowledgo, or "ksawing" something.) , However-, show me the impress ion** Is th® method that toust be used for the oompiex socio-cultural phenomenon of Puerto Rican Television, "Cau someone help me out with this?" Sure,..If "out" Is a sort of shorthand fox’ "cut the door or window". �Calypsan, page 6 WHV WAIT iW LW& 'fOVK CAWf^AN?...! m | an III* **-:■ **Infinite’'. by Rod Frechette � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Calypsan Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, Md. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Calypsan Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource St. John's College Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Description An account of the resource The Calypsan was a satirical student newspaper that began publication on St. John's College's Annapolis campus in 1980. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In copyright.</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 6 pages Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Calypsan issue #5 (July 3, 1980) Description An account of the resource The Calypsan issue #5. Published July 3, 1980. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Middlebrook, Mark (Editor) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College (Annapolis, Md.) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, Md. 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