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SEPTEMBER 30, 1 992 VOLUME XV, ISSUE 1 CITIZEN w ACHTEL, FALL FASHION PREVIEW, STu's BooK, BASHING BILLY, AND MoRE ... THE OTHER SIDE Table of Contents Editor's Desk Manacin&' Editors: IJcwr Stolbu and CAMPAIGN '92 PITZER NEWS As editors of a college paper, we're guaranteed to have a full &th Winnick mailbox at the beginning of each year. Not with letters from loyal and hecu.tive Editor.: John 11rac.Un and Bashing Billy Boy Student Senate avid readers, but from syndication £inns who want to sell us articles, JmnySpitz 16 by Jenny Murphy 8 by Justin Rood comics, etc. And we're not so hip on the latest trends in Modernism. Production Editor: Heidi Schunum we're not all that interested. What do these two seemingly unrelated Creative Arta Editor: 7im SJwrp That's ProgTessive? Global Conscience topics have in common, you ask? We are interested in what's going on Sport. Editor: Andrrw Starbin by John Bracken by Alfie Alschuler here at Pitzer. Whether the writing in the magazine would substan­ 18 9 Entertainment Ed: Christin.a Cuppin.s tially improve, whether the design ideas would blow our current Senior Photocrapber: Whit Preston Family Values standards away, it's a Pitzer magazine, and what it's about is giving Sports Pitzer students the opportunity to write about issues, or submit Arti.sta: Tay Suh and 26 by Pieter Judson 10 by Jason Aufdemberg creative work, that represent us. Whether Pitzer is or is not a commu­ JontJthtm Duran Mark Taylor nity, it still isn't easy to keep up with all the current issues on campus, Writers: 7im.AMm and to actually get all the angles on these issues requires more leg Al/U Alsclw.J~r I'm Freaking Out! work then most of us are prepared to do on our own. The Other Side Jason Au{tkmberg INTERVIEWS 12 by Tim Ahern hopes to fill this need. Seth Bridli.n Over the past few years, The Other Side has undergone a Jua~~ Delara Stuart McConnell Alumni Comer transformation which has seen it rise to its position as the best paper JoanntJ Gor(ein 4 by Andrew Starbin 28 by Jenny Spitz on the five campuses. The level of aesthetic and literary quality is /Um Gilnwn unmatched among the Oaremont papers. This is due in great part to Bill Kramer Cesar Vallejo the journalistic freedom extended to the devoted writers, editors, and Jenny Murphy by N'tongela Masilela faculty contributors. The Other Side is unique in that its articles are not 14 simply short, fill in the blank updates of a standard format. While the MottNat.Jumson new editorial staff of the paper hopes to maintain this standard of Rcsemary Robinson Citizen Wachtel quality, or at least try and catch up in future issues, we understand Justin Rood 20 by Travis Wright that it would be impossible to duplicate the format the paper has Adrian ShqJhod REVIEWS adopted under its previous leadership. We can't be them as well as Billy Spri1f8U they can, so we're not going to try. Mark Taylor " Singles" Singles Instead we will attempt to move to a format that will foster TrovisWrigiU 29 by Matt Nathanson investigative journalism on issues affecting the ·~tzer Community," Copy Editinc Aasistant: Heathu Porlru allow for greater freedom to contribute creatively, and will hopefully Production Aasistant: David Sperry CREATIVE ARTS Rock the Vote encourage more involvement from the students and faculty. When Faculty Advisor: Joclti.e Leuering­ Comics 30 by Juan Delara Pitzer can boast many of the best Oaremont athletes, bands, and Rosemary Robinson culturally diverse students and faculty, there is no shame in admitting SuUU;an 34 by that we are more interested in seeing some of these issues covered in Tay Suh Movies The Other Side. What it comes down to is that The Other Side is a Pitzer 32 by Billy Springer paper, so we're going to cover what's going on here. Poetry Adrian Shepherd Lastly, as we say good-bye to the Old Side, we want to say 36 by Tim Sharp Joanna Garfein good-bye to some of the people who are leaving as well. While I've already acknowledged the contributions they've made to the paper, we just want to say that they've been good friends along the way. They've influenced the people here at The Other Side as well. They worked hell hard on this paper, how hard we didn't know until just recently, and Mter reading The Other Side Magazine is a publication of the students of Pitzer they made it fun. They will be missed here and in many areas of Pitzer Cover[5gn: College. The editors reserve the right to edit or refuse any material College, we wish them the best of luck always. The Other Side, submitted,although it doesn't happen often. Address any inquiries or Jooathan Duran letters to The Other Side, c/ o Pitzer College, Box 857, Claremont, CA, 91711. please recycle The opinions expressed in this magazine do not necessarily reflect the Untitkrl, 92 opinions of the editorial staff, or even in some cases the writers. 2 S E PTE M B E R 3 0, I 9 9 2 T HE O THER S IDE 3 Did you feel any pressures during the experience? It was a dissertation to start with, so most of the Interview pressure involved with it was there. Get your degree, get done with it. .. that kind of thing. The book was a pretty natural process- usually dissertations have to be really heavily revised in order to tum them into books. They by practically have to be thrown out and started over again. That wasn't the case with this. Andrew Starbin Why did you focus on this period? The subject matter and why it interests me; as I say in Stuart McConnell, as­ the introduction of the book, I came to it sort of through the back door. I started out being interested in questions of sistant professor of history, community history and local history, and who had local power. I thought, originally, that this would be a good has just published: Glorious window on that you would find some sort of hidden conspiracy theory in which members of the Grand Army Contentment: The Grand ruled local politics and dictated the pecking order of the local business establishments. A quasi-Masonic secret soci­ Army of the Republic, 1865- ety that was the real power; these are the sort of ideas you have when you are twenty-two years old. The more you get 1900. If this subject is unfa­ into the organization, the more you find out that's not what it is really about at all. It is really about nationalism. It's miliar to you, you are prob­ about visions of the nation and memories of the war, taking care of the wounded, questions about what society owes to ably not alone. Professor the poor and the distressed ... Do you talk about the conception of war being changed, McConnell wants to see moving into the era of" modem" warfare, and the effects it has on a society? more interest in History here I have never believed in that "first modem war stuff" about the Civil War. It may be true on some level, but it at Pitzer, and we met with doesn't interest me very much. That is not to say that the attitudes that these guys have toward the Civil War aren' t him to discuss the book, the significantly different from what carne before or what came afterward. But I'm not sure that "modem" is the right way department, and History's to describe it. What I say in the book is that they have a ''Millennia! Republican View'' of the war. They think of role in the college's future. whattheydidasaonetirneonlycrusade. Theyarenotreally comparable with warriors from other wars. If you want an example of how this plays out in real life, you take the veterans of the Revolutionary War, which is probably the Was this your first book, and how long did it take to most significant predecessor. Their veterans organization, complete? the Society of the Cincinnati (they founded the city), is a It was my dissertation for all practical purposes, al­ hereditaryorganization . It's still around because it is passed though a couple of chapters were re-written. If you figure down from fathers to sons. Now you can do that if you I started on it in 1983, I guess it amounts to nine years from conceive of the war that you're fighting as being something the time I first set out to do the GAR (Grand Army of the thatisan "inheritance" to your children. Theothercounter Republic) until the time that the physical product appeared examplewouldbethemodernorganizationsliketheAmeri­ on the market. 1bat exaggerates because the first years can Legion or the V. F.W (Veterans of Foreign Wars); orga­ were mainly research at the Library of Congress; Philadel­ nizations that basically came out of World War I. They're phia; Brocton, Massachusetts; the Boston state house; and still around because they admitted veterans of later wars: Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam. They didn't THE OTHER S I DE 5 THE OTHER SIDE view their own war as being somehow unique; it was one vented Memorial Day. And, most of the early history of the That's not big enough. You can't do a serious coverage of the clusters, and so on.

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