OBSERVER Vol. 102 No. 8 November 2, 1994

Page 1 Hope and Survival Holocaust survivors tell how they were saved by Oscar Shindler Jeana C. Breton Page 2 Conference Call The existence and future of north America Michael Poirier False Alarms Security reminds students of safe procedures Pedro Rodriguez Classifieds and personals Page 3 And Jesus and Mary Chain too… in concert Noah Mullette-Gillman Wes Craven’s New Nightmare Freddy’s back, or is he? Noah Mullette-Gillman Page 4 Faces at Bard [Amber Boehm] Jeane C. Breton [Noah Mullette-Gillman] Jeane C. Breton Page 5 Aid for Cuba Bard student joins caravan Eric Schwartz Cooking Column Jeane C. Breton Page 6 The Autumn of Bard Sports Fall Varsity sports wrap up some successful seasons Joshua Ledwell Cartoon Page 7 Linguistics Comes to Bard Lara M. Taylor Page 8` Calendar Place ftnt dUI · ltainp here. Reaular rate $0.!2. lnternaUonal · JUbKrlptwna may vary • .o Volume 102 Number 8 Bard College, Annandale-·on-Hudson, NY 12504 · ·November 2, 1994

"A half truth i~ a whole lie.'~ -- Yiddish Proverb Contents

··~ North America : Conference Classifieds ·and Personals Fire. safety rules

'. ·. ~ .. Mazzy Star. . -:·.··· ~: ~-:.:·.:.. Wes Craven.'s.· New Nightmare .. · ~ Faces of Bard Kuba Beck addressing a p~cked Olin Auditorium last Wednesd~y. Cphot~: ~ha~ Ehrlich) - . . §

. • . Student aid for Cub.;l · Ho_pe and survival . Cooking Column· ·Holocaust survivors tell how they were saved by Oscar Shindler ciD . ~· .· r.tyou can sur­ that the ~"'Nazis started giVing us [the Jews] a members asking hiS family, ''Why don't I join s·ports. Jeana C. vive thirty days with­ lot of trouble... (we) were made to wear ann- you and go with you and we'll be together?'' out food,. and three bands and... were harassed whenever oppor- They7 however, declined so that he could re­ Breton days without water, tunity arose." :Mr. Beck's family consisted of ·main and help other Jews {by smuggling food " Smoke fuckin' Editor-in- · butyoucannotsurvive himseH,hisparentsand two brothers(] older, into the ghetto, etc. with the help of his non­ heroin" Chief even three minutes lyounger)whotogetherownedandoperated Jewish friends). His family was slaughtered, without hope." This a paint and hardw~ store, but in 1940 their and he was not .. eliminated' because he had a II w~told to HelenBeck, business was taken overby the Nazis. In 1941, machinist's work permit. a victim and survivor a closed ghetto was established nnd all the In 1943, a conce!ltration camp was con­ Holocaust survivors of the holocaust, by a Jewish woman who Jews were forced to move there, including the structed over a Jewish grave site, and Mr. Beck knew medicine, and she agrees that if it Beck family. In 1942, the Nazis decided the was forced to move there. Among other thi!tgs ·· ·· article continued were not 1'for hope and faith, we would not ghetto was overcrowded (there had bee,n.34 11thatareeven unpleasant to talkabout" (that the be here." Helen Beck and her husband, families residing together, in miserable con- Nazis did during this move), they also wiped Linguistics Program Ktiba Seck, shared their experiences ofhow · ditions, in each apartment~ and began an out hospital nurseries where babies were born, . they made it through W\'VII alive as Jews elimination pr~ ''much like the one de- and all bodie;s were _61lr:i~ in. a ~__ grave. at Bard 11 (with the help of Oscar Schindler) last picted in the movie Schindler's List. • Conditions~ this ca!J:lp were horrible,~~ he said. ·Wednesday in Olin Auditorium. Their 'The people really believed (at the time} Everyone wa.sforced to work 12hours (or more) Natural Chill~~s Comic· presence was sponsored by the Bald Jewish that they were going to be resettled into a a day. For b~ast. th~ prisoners were given Students' Organization, and an entire audi­ forced labor camp,'' but only a few days later · coffee, for lunch they were given soup uthatwas torium .full of people showed up to hear · the ·tran5p(>rt that had carried. the 'extra, ~ostlywater''andfordinnertherewasoneloaf *Deadline for Next Week'slssue is this them speak. - deemed useless' Jews out of the ghetto was of bread per six people. The corriadant was also Friday. All submissions welcome •. discovered to have gone to an ~elimination ~'a bloOd thirsty man'" who enjoyed killingpri~ 1 Kuba Beck began with his story. He - Just drop in campus mail.* was born in Poland and was 17 years old camp~ where the Jews were murdered and oners randomly and even had his dalmatians when WWII began. In 1939, Mr. Beck said intended to be made into soap. Mr. Beck re- continued on page 7 Confererice Call The existen~e llfld.future of·North Ameri~a ...... Over American Culture" by David anywhere in the world to take Powers such as China, Japan, Rus­ anti-immigrant sentiment, which Michael the weekend, Rieff. Rieff is a senior fellow at advantage of tax and tariff rates. sia, and India. They may end in will act to stem the tides of un­ Bardhosteda the World Policy Institute in New Countries will soon compete for actual hot wars or in the bank­ wanted peoples. Besides, he as­ Poirier conference York City, and author of Slaugh­ needed jobs much as states in ruptcy of one side in an expensive serted, "I think immigration has News titled "Is terhouse: Bosnia and the Failure America fight to lower taxes to arms race for exotic modern peaked and there will be less le­ There A of the West. An e:xpert on_ the encourage the growth of new weaponry. Lind saw more nations gal and illegal immigration Editor twenty years hence." N o r t h former Yugoslavia, Rieff had re­ industry. in the world-perhaps 220-but America?" turned from Sarajevo only a day Rieff pointed to the muted they would function within inter­ Ideas from the conference have already filtered into Bard Spo nso~ed earlier. national response after the national relations in the same way bytheHenryLuceprofessorsl)ip, Rieff saw a shift underway Tiananmen Square massacre in they do today. academics. Professor B~ruah the seminar took place at the Levy in the power structure of world Bejingasanexampleofthefuture · Lind-also debunked the idea has assigned seminar material Institute and examined the forces politics. "The power behind the power of business interests. Light that increasing immigration would to at least one of his classes, of fragmentatimi. arid integration n-ation-state is being leeched U.S. sanctions were lifted quickly weaken the strength of the nation and other professors may fol­ present in the continent today. away,'~ he said. Special interests when few other countries fol­ state. Right now, he said, we are low suit. So be prepared 11 ·.Discussion during the con- and powerful businesslobbiesare lowed and American business experiencing the first strong reac­ should someone ask you, lS ferencecentered on whetheruni- weakening elective and legisla­ howled at the loss of markets in tions of national populism and there a North America?" rv- fying forces, such as the North tive institutions, while parlia­ China. He said provocatively, American Free Trade Agreement mentary power is weaker in Eu­ "There seems no reason why, in (NAFfA) would dominate the rope. Meanwhile, state bound­ a society with no morals, business Classifieds and perso11als future, or if regional interests in- aries have become porous, ad­ should have morals." side the continent's countries mitting record numbers of im­ Continued Integration Ifyou are interested in getting November 16,1994. Winner gets a would1ead to breakup of Canada, migrants both legal and illegal, Rieff's views, though held involved on the AIDS Committee, free diimer for two at their favorite Mexico, and even. the United which, in Rieffs words, is "de­ by the majority of those at the please contact Professor Lily Red Hook Restaurant. States. stabilizing the nature of national conference, were eloquently Halstead, Professor Jean Churchill Conference attendees came identity." challenged by Michael Lind. At or Dean of Students, Shelley Mor­ !!!BOBBA FETI!!! Thurs­ fromuniversitie~,magazinesand The speaker was quick, the last meeting of the seminar, gan through Campus Mail. The day, Hotel Rhinecliff 10:30 p.m. newspapers, and po1itical parties. however, topointto national elites Lind painted a picture of the fu­ current members are: Lily Halstead Present, among others, were Anne . rather than to displaced persons ture 100 years from now as still (Co-Chair), Jean Churchill (Co- . Ok,I'vebcencelibatetoolong. Legare of Canada's Parti Quebe- as the cause of the changes he dominated by nation-states. Chair), John· Pout, Maureen It's Nov2, for those of you who 11 cois, Michael Lind,. editor of perceives. It is the people who While noting that frag­ Forrestal, Allen Josey, Shelley know what that means. All inter­ Harper's magazine, and New run this world who have changed mentation and integration are Mo.rgan, Stacey Meadow, Jennifer ested please apply in person. - . YorkerwriterMarkDanner. Pro- this thing, not the immigrants," both potenti~ea~~ Lind ridiculed Shykula, and Jennifer Lewenson. Steph C. . . fessor James Chace and Janet . Rieff insisted. · the conventional wisdom that the Kettler ran the seminar,and Bard He predicts that multina­ United States, the continent, and FOR SALE: Dot Matrix. Printer Do you know a really nice · was further represented by Pro- tionaI corporations will assume the world are at a great turning $30 Box 1295. guywhogoesto DutchessCC, who fessors San jib Baruah, Gloria power unheard of in the days of point after the end of the Cold used to go to Bard, with long dark · Chun, Jonathan Kahn, and Mark the Cold War. Moving factories War. "We can berelativelysecure FOR SALE BESSLER Dichro wavy hair and glasses? We met at .Lytle. to exploit cheap labor will con- about American identity," he 675 Color Head 67CP Enlarger Upstate Films, during ttCiao An Uncertain Future tinue, but Rieff says this is noth- said. $125.00 Hardly Used Perfect Con­ Professore, .. and forgottopickeach The conference kicked off ingnew. Withnewcom:nlunica- Lind envisioned several dition Contact: Kristen Hall 758- other up. He'll remember me. Box · with a dinn.er and a speech, tion technologies, business can future Cold Wars, among pos- 7530. 669. . 11 American Communities, now ''virtually" base themselves sible new, non-Western Great A Contest! SON. Broadway is Blue: A lot needs salvaging, about to become a Bed-n-Breakfast, but you can't help. I don't know False alarins butitdoesn'thaveanameyet.Send who you are, nor canJ learn right your suggestion on a post. card to now. Sony. -Oftblue Security reminds students of safe procedures Bed and Breakfast Contest SO North Broadway Red Hook, NY 12571 by Hey Rabbitr ahradalafala... In an in­ Squillace said that many st&. time they hm- the a1ann. stuc~er:ts Pedro terview Mon­ dents go back inside once trey h:ar may be fined $50 by the College if day Imming, the alarm turn off. However, she they aremughtfailing to respond to Rodriguez Director of warned residents that a hazardous a fire drill. Staff Safety and Se­ condition may still exist inside the Squillace went on to say that of the a1anns are in re­ ~·~~~ lVriter curity Kim donn even after the guanl deacti­ many fire Squillace vatesthealann."Studentssrouldwait sp:>nse to students' attempt at 009k­ FOUR SEASONS TRAVEL until the guard says it's okay before .ing. Whenstudentsare not carefully spoke about invites you to our agency for student re­ they go back in," she concluded. watchirgtrefoodtbeyareprq:ming. ski packages • lowest airfares • best buy vacations : sponses to fire alarms in their donni­ As for students not leaving itcan bum and the smoke will setoff free ticket delivery •amtrack and eurorail passes tmies. .when they hear a fire alarm go off_,. the fire a1ann. In addition, items left charters and Consolidators "We have twoa:mcerns here," Squillace admitted that there have onstovebumersposeafirehazardas 11 and said S:p.tillace.. 'Students eitlu are beena1ann malfunctions'' incertain well. Squillace wges students "to notleaving,oraregoingbackintothe dormsaroundannpus.Sheaffinned watch what they are rooking!' passport photo service coming soont ·donn roo soon." that Security will place an a1ann on Inrelated fuesafetyrews,. As,. FOUR SEASONS TRAVEL Squillace explainOO that when ''Slent mode" if it rontinually mal­ sistant to the Director of Safety and ROUTE 9 • Red Hook . a Security offirer responds to. afii'e functions. Thatwaythealannwillnot Security Jim Lawlor is conducting · alam\. the. officer enters the building disturbtheresidmts,~tSecuritywill fireextinguisher demonstrations for andtums theaJanntriitsSilentmxte. know when it goes off and will re­ interestOO.donnitories.Conlactyour Then the officer must investigate the spond each tiJre pea-munselorifyouwouldlikeyour donn to take put in such a demon- {A bui1ding to determine what caused Nevet:tl dess,Squillacesaidthat t14·:li thealann studentssh:>uldknvetheirdonneach sbation.. 'J' -=~ - M azzy Star And Jesus and Mary Chain too... in concert ~ · " I t ' s fully lit before turning off. that the drummer from Mazzy told us that he was the biggest !\oah kind of Unfortungtely, during the StarwasSittingatthetopofastair Mazzy Star fan in the world, but ~lullette­ s t r a ri g e . song "", their big case from where he had been beyond that didn't give us any Gillman opening for single, Sandoval ran off stage af­ watching the show. I deliberated hints. I think that he didn't really Jestis ·.·and tergivingtheguitaristthefinger as to whether or not security was want us to know who he was Staff Mary cha~n and throwing down her going to stop me from getting to because then we might not have because our tamborine. The band briefly him and decided that I had noth- treated him like a real person, lt'riter :~~~ album is a~ played the melody in the hopes .. ing to lose. So, I ,approached him and· so that he got to believe a tually selling that she would come back, but we and told him that I had really little more that we weren't just better than theirs is right now." I had. no ~uch luck. enjoyed the show. hanging out with him because he was ·told by Kieth Mitchell, the In fact, after her mysterious Keith turned out to be a re­ was famous. We didn't let on that drummer for the ba~d ~azzy disappearance, sandova~ didn't ally nice guy. He even explained we knew. Star, after their show at Vassar even return to do the duet which to me the reason why Sandoval We ended up hanging out this weekend. she recorded w:ith ·Jun. Reid. of hadranoffthestage.Apparently, with Will Reid and Ben from The The. show itself was incred- . · - tthey had planned to do a new Jesus and Mary Chain. All in all~ ible. There was an opening band The}esusand Mary Chain's song on stage that night, one I have to say that none of them which was forgettable enough ~t was also fantastic. The Reid which they had never performed acted how you wouldexpectthem that I've forgotten their name. ·brothers and· friends came on before and Sandoval was having to. Everyone was friendly, they However, Mazzy Star and The covered in smoke, almost in second thoughts. Shedidn'twant asked us questions about our­ JesusandMarjrCha.inwerespee- darkness. The only lights came to do a song as quiet as that one selves, made jokes. I didn'texpeet· tacular. · · · ·· from behind them in such a way was going to be on stage ~a use famous "rock" stars would be Mazzy Star was the second as to make them into blacked-out she didn't think that anyone was such nice guys! act of the evening. They opened silhouettes rather than identifi- going to be into it. The band in­ We never did get to meet with the song 11Flowers" from able people. It was great!!! ....__.ilooiiioio ____ sisted, and so she walked. , but that might their first album, She Hangs Thecrowdduringtheshow Hope Sandoval Later I met Will the violinist have been a bit too m~ch if it had Brightly. Singer Hope Sandoval was great too. One big pile of just from the crowd swelling. from Mazzy Star. Actually he happened. I think that my ability cameoutdressedinblackleather." rollingsweat.Howcananybody Yeah, there was some crowd approached us, and took us out­ to remaincoolamongidolsmight Two candles sat on either side of not love that? During one of the ~t¢ing, and I hate that. ~ing tall side to hangout by the tour buses. have broken down there. But, I her, barely noticeable in the Jesus and MaryChainsrings, the I always get kicked in the head He described Bard as infamous look forward to seeing the bands smoke. Purple lights shone from wooden partition which sepa- when that happens, but happily for being really liberal and free. come back this way again. i'll behindher.Ata~cenfedmoments rate4 those of us up front from it was kept to a minimum. We had a lot of fun with him definately go and see them, and a bright light began to turn on the Security guards was knocked Aft~r the show I was look~ because I don't think that he knew see ifI can get backstage and hane behind her, but never quite got over; not f~m a stage rush, but ing for my friends when I noticed that we knew who he was. He out again. · v- W~~ Craven's New Nightmare Fredfly's back, or is he? LSAT A 1 - named Rex. His job is to sit be­ she has to deal with Freddy, none to be disappointed by this Noah right, alright. neath the blankets, under his other than Robert Englund is the one. Asl'vesaid,Freddyisn't Mullette­ I know as master's feet and to keep the evil one to comfort her (the actor who very funny this time around ~.GRE · .Gillman· well as you man away who is trying to. scratch plays Freddy). We g~t to meet all (what I've always thought do thatifl tell him. Sometimes Rex has slash of the regular actors from the Elm was his best trait) and he Staff. you that this marks on him in the morning, but Street series playing themselves isn't especially darker to Writer · review is he is a vety brave guardian. Be­ living their lives as actors. It is at make up for it, despite what about the lat- causeofRex, Freddy doesn't come least an interesting idea, and it's the characters claim. TH.lS est Nightmare out until Nancy is ready to be­ not poorly done. Unlike one , IS NOT THE NEXT GMAT on Elm Streetmoviethatyou•ll stop lieve that he has done it. (And, ·would normally except for a NIGHTMARE ON ELM reading it. That's because, under­ therefore, to fight him.) .- movie like. this, the plot isn't STREET! The correct title of standably, you really don't care This Freddy isn't as funny overly predictable. I wasattimes the movie really is WES anymore. What movie were they as the Freddy that we remember. surprised. A lot of people will CRAVEN's New Nightmare. up to before this? Five or six? And The characters say that he's wantto stay away from this movie The man's name is as much MCAT how many times had they finally darker, but he didn't seem that because horror films as a whole a part of the title as a claim of killed hiin? It-was okay for Jame~ way to me. I would rather use the bother them, and they will be right ownership. _Bond to keep corning back be­ word humorless. It's not that his to. As much as the movie is about Overall, I think that it . cau~ they never pretended that jokes fail. It's that he doesn't make people dealing with playing in a is a good movie. Most they had finally killed hum off. any. horror series, it is also a horror peoples' expectations of the What's more James Bond," is defi­ Which isn't to say that. the movie itself. movie will be very different THE nitely cooler than just about any- movie isn't enjoyable. After one And I can't help but think from what they get, but it PRINCETON one. of Nancy's daydreams in which tha.t some die hard fans are going was worth my six bucks. 'J' But, to the movie at hand. REVIEW It's called Wes Craven's New Nightmare and it really· isn't Workshop for Social Action Nightmare on Elm Street's newest sequel! It's the story of the stars of Today at4pm the Nightmare series who find themselves having to deal with a College Room of Kline ·· 00/2REVIEW Freddy Cruger who wants to join the real world. The Princeton Reveiw ia not llffilliltecl with An are welcome to diseuss and explore socail actioQ becoming part of the academic curriculum. ETS or Princetm Univerati)t The hero is a dinosaur Faces at Bard Amber good to know not everyone is . Her oth~r likes include: "people Jeana C. Boehm is a having a major stress attack." who aren't afraid to act stupid," twenty-one The thing Amber likes least little tiny containers [of candy, Breton year old Se- about Bard is tJ:tat "people here shampoo, etc.], 11 having Ben's car Editor-in­ nior. Litera- think they're so accepting of ev- for three days so I could go do Chief ture is her eryone, but if you're not a liberal~ t]J.ings," and good food (such as major al- etc. that takes on life, then your cheese cake, crab legs and rare though her not accepted." steak). The things that Amber re­ seniorproject This attitude, however, is allydoesnotlikeare:''peoplewho isexclusivelycreative. "It doesn't representativeofonlyonepartof are actually stupid," bad food have a name," but it is about an Amber. She explains that "there (i.e.B

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' .. ' ,. :":Survivors continued continued from front page Oscar Shindler also played a vived the whole world woul4 em­ uniform to fit herand had been pun- that the woman wereabletobreatha trained to tear people apart ''sim­ largeroleinsavingMrs.Beck'slife. brace us with compassion." Mrs. ished severely by one of the female sigh of relief. Later they were de­ ply to entertain himself._ we never Mrs. Beck was born in Poland and Eeckstill strongly believes that "life Nazi soldiers. When the factory was meaned more by men who handed knew from one minute to the next was taken by the Nazis when she without dreams is not worth liv­ liquidated in 1944, "weexperienced outnewclothcs,throwingthewrong what would happen to us." Fortu­ , was onlr,: fifteen and placed in a ing." Hope and dreams, to her, are unbelievable hOrrors," among&>me sized thirigs to the women and nately for Mr. Beck, his skills as a forced labor camp with one of her the source of courage needed to of them being watching innocent laughingaboutit.'Weweretherefor machinist got ~ a job at Oscar sisters. At thelabor camp, "we had survive. people being slaughtered and bod- two weeks," said Mrs. Beck, aoo Schindler'sfactorywherelivingand no one to turn to... you grew up The worst year of \'VWII for ies in mass grnves being burned. It throughthewholewar"thedvillz€d working conditions were better. fu overnight.n Mrs. Beck worked as a was,_ according to Mrs. Beck, iimuch world ~t by in silence." Schindler, theend,ithad beenOscarSchindler third maid in a Nazi household worse than in the movie Schindler's however, wasbusytryingtogetthem "The holocaust 11 whocontributedmostto Mr. HE_>ck1 s while her sisterworkedata factory was . List; Spielberg spared the people by out with his determination and he survival. near the camp until the factory had the most shameful not showing the whole truth, but he succeeded." When they were finally According to Mr. and ·Mrs. to be closed. The Nazis thendecided gave a good taste of what was going returned toSchindler;hesaid to the~ BeCk, Oscar Schindler was born in they wanted uaJl Jews behind crime since men on." Schindler, however, decided to "you don't have to worry anymore;_ Czechoslovakia and came to Po­ barbed wire ... this was ·a rclocatehisfactoryinhishomecoun- yourwithmeagain..'' Atthatll'Ol1'6.'\t, land only to make money. He was nighbnare.. .a ·horror from day to walked on earth." try and requested his original ''hopeentered ourbodies," said Mrs. ''greedy and a womanizer who night; they were treating us less -Helen Beck workers. They were granted to him ~ "the Nazis could lake every­ liked big parties, but was a caring than hurnan... to describe how we because he had done well at serving thing else, but they could never take man." He even bought food on the survived this camp would take a the Nazis. · our hope and our faith." · black market to feed. hiS workers lifetime ... the fear was the worst Mrs. Beck was 1943, she said. In this The horror, for Mrs. Beck, - There was more to Mr. and (consisting of approximately 700 thing... fromdayonethe Nazis tried year the Nazis were shipping out however, clid not end there for Mrs.Beck'sstorics,whichtheyshared men and 300 women) as well as always to degrade and humili­ people "to destruction." She, how­ Schindler's female workers were ac- to help "remind people how the in­ personally saving some Jews lives ate.~.they were not only killing our ever, was alsO taken to Schindler's cidentlysenttoadiffereiltconcentra- different world stood by in silence" through bribes. Mr. Beck said that people withguns;theywere killing factory. tion camp where theY were forcibly while these atrocities took place,and on one occasion a Jew near hun was our people with ~te." Mrs. beck described Oscar stripped and shaved and pushed in hope that no such horror is ever about to be shot when Oscar Mrs. Beck was fortunate be­ Shindler as ua tall man, a very good around by grinning Nazi men, and allowed totakeplaceagain, butthere Schindler came over and said, cause she had her sister with her looking mim ... special...somebody led into a shower room where they is too much to tell in one article, or as '':Listen I will make a deal with you; · the entire time whereas most oth­ human." She said he "greeted us were convinced "Cyclone B £a M~. Beck put it "in one life time." I'llgiveyouabottleofwhiskey~d ers had been completely separated almost like 'it's OK;' we felt like we deathlypoisonousgas) would oome Their stories, however, made many you let the man go." The man was from their families. 'They were "al­ were with somebody who cares/' down and these were the last mo- peopleintheauditoriumcrybecause saved, and OscarSchhi.dlerbecarne ways cold, hungry, and always He in fact cared enough to rescue ments of our lives." Just like in the truth is sad and horrible, but it asourceofhopeinotherwise hope­ afraid;' but they had each other Mrs. Beck from execution once after Spielberg's movie, it was not until needed to be told and Mr. and Mrs. less surroundings. and dreams that "when we sur- an incident where she had cut her watercameoutoftheshowerheads Beck stood ~ng to tell it. 'J' Linguistics cotnes to Bard Bard ered "non-traditional" areas of (Lit 398 with Prof. Grab); Philoso­ matics, language universals, and Bard are rather limited consider­ Lara M. soon will be study may now gain equal status phy of Language (Phil 352 with writing systems will be covered in ingthenumberoflanguages which offering a with "traditional'' disciplines such Prof. Hagberg); History of the En­ the class. The main goal is that, by fall into this category: Chinese, Taylor new aca­ as physics, philosophy, psychol­ glish Language(lit290offered next systematically approaching lan­ Hebrew, Greek or Sanskrit There Staff demic pro­ ogy, etc. In the process of review­ semester with Prof. Lambert); In­ guage, one is able to perceive the is a move to offur Arabic, and there is currently lfriter gram: in lin­ ing these new programs for admit­ troduction to Psycholinguistics ·structures present in languages a proposal before the guistics. A tance into the ranks of the well­ (Psych25lwithProf.Halsted); and with which one is no_t necessarily COV to approve funding, ·etc. meeting was established, the Senate decided to Language Developirellt(Psych211 familiar. Another popular language which held on Mon­ review all programs currently of­ with Prof. Halsted). So, does a linguistics ma­ is notieeably lacking at Bard is day, October 31, in which the cur­ fered at Bard, which has slowed The main requirement for jor really need to know a zillion Japanese; but there iS currently no re:ntstatusof down the whole process. But it is alinguisticsmajorwillbe the course languages? According to Prof. oneundertakingtoimplementsuch the program was dis­ ~ cussed. Professors Lourdes_ expected that these deliberations in Descriptive Linguistics. It will Alvarez (and most graduate pro­ aprogram. · Alvarez and Lily Halsted were will be finished by the end of the be taught for the first time next grams in linguistics), it is good to If students have further present to answer questions, from semester, and therewillbedefinite semester by Prof. Alvarez. This have a background in at least one _questions concerning linguistics, both faculty and students, on what guidelines available next semester has been the one course that has language, but the more, the better. general or specific, they are best linguistics is really all about; .to for those students wanting to been sorely missed by those wish­ Preferably, a student should pick directed to Lourdes Alvarez, whose give informationaboutcoursesof­ moderate in linguistics. ing to study linguistics, as this two languages, either ancient or office hours are Tuesdays,1:30-2:30 fered at Bard which relate to lin­ Linguistics is the study of course covers ali the fundamental modem, one of which should be a p.m., and Thursdays, 9:00- 10:15 guistics; and to give a general idea the structure in language and the tools used by linguists. Areas such language which deals with a non­ a.m. Warning: get there early and of what will be expected of stu­ examination of language as a sys­ as phonetics, phonology, mor­ Romanalphabetorisa ~~non-tradi­ bring a book! Lots of other people dents majoring in linguistics. tem. Itgoes far beyond elementary phology, syntax, semantics, prag- tional" language. The choices at are interested, too! 'J' In the past, students inter­ grammar. The applications of lin­ '()FIJ.."T> Ct>Lt..£6£. ested in languages have had to guistics can be found in psychol­ either moderate into the division ogy, sociology, anthropology, and . ofLanguagesand Uteratureorelse computer science; the theories on createamu1ti-disciplinaryprogram which linguistics is based overlap if they truly wanted to pursue lin­ into philosophy and mathematics. guistics and not literature. This Thus, the linguistics program will may no longer be the case. There maintain a spirit of the m.ulti-disci­ have been several proposals made plinary. In fact, there are already to the Faculty Senate this semester manyooursesofferedatBard which tomakeprogramswhichhavepre­ pertain to linguistics. Some of the viously been multi-disciplinary "core" courses, three of whi~ will. concentrations into actual disci­ be required of linguistics students - - plines at Bard, one of which is lin­ forgraduation,areLanguage,Cul­ guistics. Concentrations which ture and Society (Soc/ Anth 234 have up un~ now been amsid- with Prof. Dominy); Henneneutics AR Brought to you by the De~n of St~den~'s Office November 2 to No.ve11:1ber 8, 1994

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