‘ae. sfJAZZ PP 6-7 longer than a year, to earn more money. (This is the only respect in which the Santa THE THIEF'S WIFE’S LOVER'S COOK Fe work-study program would become more OPENING QUESTIONS like the Annapolis program, Chenoweth says.) Also, the proposed changes may CARTOONS PP 8-9 allow students to work more hours per week. Dean Van Luchene says the number of hours LETTERS, ANNAPOLIS NEWS PPlOll would not be increased to more than 12 2 NOOMOON Interview: The Computer Lab’s Dilemma: A talk with Security Chief Need for Greater Financial Support —Brian Parkinson Ray Benavidez —^Jeremiah Dixon When I arrived at his office last November to interview Ray This school year, technology took St. John’s College by storm. Benavidez, he was taking a break with another officer. I sat around and Not only were phones introduced into the dorm rooms, but Internet joked with them for quite awhile before I actually started taping. They access became a reality in the computer lab. Now, in addition to also discussed the more serious problem of trying to find a new security e-mail, students have access to databases around the world through officer. Ray was disappointed with most of the appUcations that he had the World Wide Web (WWW). Despite these recent advancements, gotten, and he was tired of having problems with newly hired officers. such progress has been very slow. The financial strains under Ray likes to keep things light-hearted, and he can be very funny at which St. John’s currently suffers hinder such extra-curricular times. He was direct and to the point throughout the interview, and I was impressed with his honesty. I have never met a police officer with as funding as funding for the computer lab. The main problem is that, much respect for the people under his protection as Ray had, and as the even at St. John’s, keeping up with technology is becoming interview progressed I thought to myself, “Ray would make a horrible important, yet there are scarce funds to aid this endeavor. politician.” The lab is equipped with five Macintoshes and an IBM 486, having lost one IBM and a Macintosh Color Classic last year. J: What is your history and experience as a law enforcement official? There are plans, depending on the availability of funds, for acquiring R: r ve been a law enforcement official most of my life. I worked for a IBM 386 in the future. This would be a sufficient number of four years as a correctional officer for the state penitentiary, four years computers if it were not for essay writing periods. At these times as a deputy sheriff in Las Cruces, four years as a private investigator in of the year, at least eighty students are working on major papers. Las Cruces, two and a half years as a narcotic agent for the police While many students have their own computers, enough of them department in Las Cruces, and eleven years at St. John’s. must use the lab’s facilities so that there often are long waiting J: Could you tell me a little about your fife when you’re not on duty? R: I stay home. If I go somewhere I always carry my pager with me lines. in case I get a call. I’m on call 24 hours a day on my days off from St. According to the computer lab’s supervisor, Patrick Emerson, John’s. the school appropriates $200 for repairs and $1200 for supplies, J: Next I’d like to ask some questions concerning the recent surge of such as printing paper, each year. Maintaining the computers on assaults on campus. such a limited budget is becoming another problem. Since many R; Assaults? What kind of assaults on campus? of them are relatively old they are starting to become more prone J: The assaults up at the suites, the prowlers; I mean assaults in the to serious break downs. This past year the lab lost a Macintosh general sense of the word. Color Classic and one of two IBM’s due to prohibitive repair costs. R: We haven’t had any assaults at all. The rape that was reported to However, funds are sufficient to cover most repairs and there are Mr. Cook, it wasn’t really confirmed if it was a rape or not. In fact, the plans to convert an IBM 286 to a 386 that is windows compatible. girl took a long time to report it. Mostly victims do take some time, but Funds for new computers come mostly from gifts. In the past in this case I don’t know; there’s like a fifty-fifty chance to believe it or not. We carmot take it for granted. It is my feeUng that she knows who few years benefactors of the college and Student Polity have did it and is covering for somebody, if in fact the rape happened, because contributed generously to the purchase of new computers. Most we haven’t had any other reports of assaults hke that on campus at all. computers bought in this manner are Macintoshes since contribu­ J: What about the prowlers? tors usually indicate this as their wish. This has led to an imbalance R: We haven’t encountered any prowlers at all. What I think it was, between the number of IBMs and Macintoshes that are available. was that the reports happened at the same time that the “Killers” game Mr. Emerson has no plans to purchase any new equipment, IBM or was going on, eind maybe people got confused because students were otherwise, but this could change very quickly if an appropriate going around with their faces covered up. As far as the other prowler contribution is made. who was reported in the shower, we found out that he was the guest of In a few years the Capital campaign, a fund raiser for both one of our students. In fact that kid was accepted to be a freshman in the campuses, will have ended. Some of the money gained through this future. effort might be diverted to the lab. The difficulty lies in convincing J: How is crime on campus as compared to past years? R: Most of the crimes we have are vandahsms. There haven’t been the administration of the lab’s importance. As mentioned above, the too many thefts this year. In the past we had a lot of thefts, but that was number of computers available for use is less than adequate and more among the students. Other than that it is a safe campus. should be purchased soon if at all possible. The computers available J: Now I’m going to ask some more general questions about the St. now are starting to break down and the need for replacements will John’s security force. What do you spend most of your time doing as only become more pressing. While there are more obvious concerns, security officers? such as building an actual gym on the Santa Fe campus, the need for R: We do foot patrols and vehicle patrols. We lock doors and unlock computers with which to access a growing wealth of information doors, and we escort kids who ask for escorts. through the internet and, more importantly, to write papers, should J: How much training and experience is required for someone to get not be lost in the shuffle. The loss of almost 1/3 of available a job as a security officer? computers in 1994 indicates a growing problem. We need to address continued on page 9 this problem through funding in the near future if bigger shortages and biggei piubltuis aie lu be avuidtid. N 0 0 M 0 0 N 3 Lecture Reviews On Time and Memory in the Confessions of

St. Augustine by WJ. Torrance Kirby —Meri Gots

In his lecture of January 20th, W.J. Torrance Kirby wrestled with ness is a natural reaction to public speaking but it directly affects the the paradox of speaking with and moving towards an infinite God listeners’ comprehension. Mr. Kirby had quite a mouthfull to say from a temporal world. St. Augustine, in his Confessions, asks God and, in my opinion, it was all worthwhile. However, it was not until for his help to transcend the hmited realm of time in order that his I read the lecture that I gained a full understanding of his topic. soul might find peace in the unity of its origin. Through his All lecturers who come to speak at St. John’s presumably have exploration, Mr. Kirby unraveled the mystery of Augustine’s something to say. Those who speak with confidence and those who Confessions. Mr. Kirby’s insights managed to explain how confes­ speak in nervousness alike have a point. However, meaning is too sions to God and motion toward Him are possible. A bonus awaited often lost in shuffles and “urn’s” and excessive perspiration. Mr. the careful listener: how St. Augustine could write his Confessions Kirby’s best moments during this lecture were when he hit an area without contradicting himself. that excited him. He became more poised, self-assured, and his Man’s creation was a division. Not a division of God, as all is excitement was contageous. He had reason to be excited: the topic one in him, but the start of time. Time being the activities of many was fascinating and his analysis thorough. My only hope would be things in relation to one another, time was established (though not that when one has so much to say and so many insights to share, invented) when God created the world. This being so, how can man, anxiety could be overcome with a recognition of mutual respect and who was spawned from many, return to or even conceive of eternal interest. When listening to a nervous lecturer, one feels as though unity? Theanswerbeginswiththis very question. According to the the speaker is responding to a crowd of executioners. Pleading his lecturer, “It is the simpUcity of this principle which is so difficult for case pending judgement, he offers what he has and hopes for mercy. the mind of man to grasp.” Mr. Kirby found the path from I should hope that instead of a court room, the Great Hall could feel Augustine, citing creation itself as the place one must first look to like a lecture hall: a place where people gather to hear the thoughts find God. The Word, in its singularity and omnipresence, begat of their respected colleagues and mentors. souls and should begin the soul’s path back to its natural resting Mr. Kirby ’ s lecture was far from incomprehensible but some of placeGod. its subtleties were lost in its reading. It is frustrating to see such At the lecture’s conclusion, one finds the problems of man’s worthy brilhance clouded by shyness when intelligent insights time-limited rational mind overcome. The once hypocritical nature should inspire confidence. of Augustine’s confessions (in words) to God is reconciled. The words formed by man are not divided, but pieces strung to­ gether to form a comprehen­ sible whole. Thus, by using Where is Greece? by Radoslav Datchev our powers given by God, we “Where is Greece?” was the title of this past Friday’s lecture by AnnapoUs tutor Radoslav Datchev. may confess to him without It was a historical examination of the development of philosophy in ancient Greece, tracing this the contradiction of time. development back to the geographical situation of the region. As Greece was an area surrounded for the Unfortunately, in order for most part by water, the main means of colonization for the Greeks was, not surprisingly, by water. Because words to convey their power­ of this, Greek colonists often found themselves surrounded by “barbarians” with whom they lived on more ful and whole meaning, they or less equal terms. This all changed, however, when an ambitious Persian named Xerxes decided to must flow as one. As Mr. invade Greece in order to obtain “a token of land and water” from the Athenians. Instead of simply rolling Kirby pointed out, psalms flow over and giving Xerxes this token of land and water, the Athenians took to the seas, allowing Athens to from their written unity and bum. The people surrounding the Greek colonists, on the other hand, simply gave Xerxes what he wanted, from the singer’s knowledge and that was the end of it. The result of this was that, in the end, when Xerxes was finally defeated, these and anticipation of them. This neighboring people came to be viewed as very much inferior to the Greeks. Thus, the barbarians were held does not always apply to lec­ to be “slaves by nature,” while the Greeks had discovered freedom. tures, however. I must confess, This freedom expressed itself in the daily life of the Greeks. A certain man named Thales, Datchev since the Confessons is the went on to explain, was the first man to prove a theorem; he proved that water is the beginning of all things. topic of this review, that the His student, Anaxemander, disagreeing with Thales, proved that infinity was the beginning of all things. subtlties of many lectures Anaxemander demanded proof from his teacher, and finding this proof unsatisfactory, went on to adopt elude recognition due to the a different theory. This cycle repeated itself until Pythagoras discovered that number was the beginning lecturer’s deUvery. of all things, and that under no circumstances should one eat, or even touch, beans. It seems that Pythagoras When sitting in a lecture took this doctrine so seriously that he burned to death after certain “evil men” set fire to his house and audience, one can feel the covered the surrounding ground with beans. Before long, the philosophers became so engrossed in lecturer’s discomfort or ease meddling in city affairs that they were being invited from far away to rewrite city constitutions. (Aristotle without difficulty. Nervous­ 4 NOOMOON Contradiction Equals Complementarity: Bell Returns to Heraclitus —Travis Dunn

After showing three entire cycles of his Symbolic History of seem in a certain sense to contradict one another,” said Bell. Sight and Sound series over the peist few years, Santa Fe tutor Bell gives the example of Plato’s Meno, in which the characters emeritus Charles Bell has decided to take time off from presenting debate the question whether virtue is taught or innate. Bell said Plato his weekly multimedia shows (which he’s been working on since his and other philosophers saw that the answer to this question is days as a Rhodes Scholar in the late 1930s) in order to compile a book contradictory, but they were so afraid of contradiction that they of philosophy. Bell said the impetus for his system of philosophy stood back and wondered at this paradox. Bell said he doesn’t stand came from his reading about the dual particle-wave nature of Ught back and wonder: he affirms the paradox and says virtue is both as a 13-year-old. “But I’ve worked it out since then,” he said. ‘The taught and innate. first essay I published making it all very clear was in 1945 in the Bell gives another example of two axioms being “simulta­ Philosophy of Science magazine... [My philosophy] is still as valid neously true.” He takes the Euclidian axiom that a whole is equal to now as it was then.” Bell said he’s been working on this book all his the some of its parts and says this axiom only applies to conceptual life, but he still needs to compile his thoughts. He said he needs to things—such as the geometric figures that Euclid treats. Bell said follow the process he used in writing his novels (The Married Land, the converse is true of organized things, such as harpsichords or The Half Gods): he wrote sketches over a number of years, then took human beings. For if parts are separated from these wholes, the a year off to work solely on one of the books, memorized the various harpsichords or students are destroyed. But both of these statements sketches, then put the parts together. are true, and instead of seeing the propositions “the whole is equal “My philosophy starts with the intention—the behef—that one to its parts” and “the whole is not equal to its parts” as contradictory, can reconstitute what has been the axiomatic of philosophy,” said as Aristotle would. Bell sees these propositions as complementary. Bell. He thinks that previous philosophers have had a confused “If I come upon the possibility of an axiomatic complementarity,” notion of causality—and this is what he seeks to correct in his book. said Bell, “then I say, since the axioms are complementary, then both Ancient philosophers find one effect and seek one cause. Bell said are true—true over the condition of contradiction... Whenever you this method fails when one takes into account modem scientific precipitate one of these axioms you have to see that put into the fabric knowledge. “The old one-way-value truth will not hold with regard of reality—of actuahty—those are complementary axioms... So to organic reality—organized reality,” he said. what [I’m] doing is taking what...was formerly seen to be the In a way. Bell’s philosophy is a return to Heraclitus. Bell, hke shipwreck of reason.. .and saying that’s the principle of reason,” said Heraclitus, said contradictory axioms are true simultaneously. Bell. “Whenever I look for axioms I find complementary axioms which “I see that causality can be emergent... [Today] we don’t know of any purely primal causality,” as the ancients thought they did, he said. For example, Beethoven spent 20 years revising the chorale of hisNinth Symphony—“that’sthe way an emergent causaUty works— - Joshua Goldberg like an evolution,” said Bell. alone reportedly wrote over 150.) This was part of a realization that Bell is uncertain how his book will eventually find its way to all laws, even divine laws, can be improved. It was something taken publication, since all of the publishers who accepted his previous very seriously. Laws were viewed as something that must be works “have died off.” followed for their own sake. This was taken so seriously that Solon, Though he said he’s “taking time off’ to work on his book, the author of the Athenian constitution, left the city immediately Charles Bell seems unable to limit himself to doing only one thing after drafting it, assuming that his laws, if they were good laws, at one time. Besides his “big project”—his book of philosophy— would be adopted because they were good, and not due to any love he’s also working on a little book on translation. The book will include an anthology of poetic translations that he’s made himself or fear of their author. Finally, Datchev stiid, none of this would have been possible had for Symbolic History and an essay explaining his method of trans­ the Greeks been viewed as so superior to the surrounding peoples lation. Bell still plans to present his Symbolic History shows as well, that these people actually competed with one another to become though less frequently and out-of-order. When he does present a Greek slaves, thus allowing the Greeks large amounts of leisure time show, he said he’ll choose one that has relevance to a seminar in which to pursue philosophy, geometry, and the like. This was so reading that a class is doing. He also needs to bring his Symbolic true that the police force in Athens was made up entirely of slaves. History to completion by typing up the rest of the scripts to the show When the Greeks went off to fight wars (based upon principles, not and transferring all his material to a permanent format—CD ROM. monetary or geographic gain) all of the men left the city to fight, Mr. Bell plans to present his philosophy to students, tutors, and leaving the women and children behind with the slaves. townspeople every Tuesday night in February from 8-10 p.m. in the Although somewhat of a black-and-white representation of the Junior Common Room. Bell will start out this exploration with a development of Greek philosophy and politics (Datchev himself symboUc history show entitled. Nature: The Perceptive Ground (A said this many times in the course of the Q&A period), I found this Heraclitean Celebration of the Organizing Universe). On the fol­ lecture to be very interesting and insightful, with the Q&A period lowing Tuesday nights. Bell will give lectures on his philosophy, distribute pertinent texts “from the pre-Socratics down,” and hold being even more so. discussion periods. NOOMOON 5 Soul Shoutin’ It is encouraging to see a resur­ are all the classics such as the aforementioned ‘My Girl,’ ‘Just My All gence in diva vocals, both in the Imagination,’ and ‘Papa Was A Rolling Stone.’ There are also mainstream soul scene, and amongst some fantastic forgotten grooves, that are guaranteed to keep you the more groove oriented dance hall going. The best release of last year, and probably any year for that jazz scene as well. Two noteworthy matter. With the birth of Contemporary Urban Adult Music, aka. This discs have come my way recently. Soul Oldies on the radio, it is about time the Temptations stood as The first is the solo release from the the important forces in music that they are. All your pop albums ex- Young Disciple Carleen Ander­ are influenced by them. son. She certainly has the hip creden­ While there has not been much organ music coming from the tials, being the daughter of Bobby recent jazz scene, two excellent reissues have come out, highlight­ Jazz Byrd, the James Brown alumnus, and ing major, if little known, jazz organists from the sixties. The James Lunt her album True Spirit (Virgin) puts earlier and better of the two is ‘Stop and Listen’ by Baby Face herin good standing. Carleen Ander­ Willette, reissued on the Blue Note Connoisseur line. Recorded in son has a remarkable range, and goes 1961, it was the third session Baby Face recorded with Grant Green through a myriad of styles on this in a trio setting. From the sounds of this, it is a true pity that their album quite deftly. There is some uneven fair, as she seems to first two meetings are out of print. This is true urban blues, grooves completely lose control of her canary-like voice at the end of made for dancing and drinking. While the whole set is truly ‘Ain’t Givin’ Up On You,’ and resorts to a dreadful, if funky flawless, ‘Jumpin’ Jupiter’ is the most dancible, and his version of musical pun all throughout ‘Nervous Breakdown.’ There is also ‘Willow Weep For Me’ is a prefect song for what Guru called some excellent fair here. The remarkable pickup group, consisting “Loungin.”’ Recorded two years later by Shirley Scott and her of Mick Talbot, Marco Nelson, Crispin Taylor and Brenden husband of the time, Stanley Turrentine, ‘Soul Shoutin’ is a twofer Lynch, found on ‘Let It Last,’ seems to inspire her most subtle and including the title l.p. and ‘The Soul Is Willing.’ More slick than prefect performance in the vocal soul realm. The rest of the Baby Face, Shirley Scott provides a tasteful collection of sets. instrumentation is provided by Ian Green. All in all a very good Eleven songs and clocking in at nearly seventy three minutes long, album. it is a great deal. There are very few fast numbers, as Shirley Scott Far more mainstream, and a little less appealing is Dionne seems to be more of a moaner than a screamer, as far as blues Farris’s album Wild Seed—Wild Flower. Dionne Farris came to stylists go, and the second-to-last track, the scorching ‘Deep Down fame singing on Arrested Development’s single ‘Tennessee’ as Soul,’ is one of the very greatest soul instrumentals ever recorded. the sticker on her album plastered directly on the jewel box is At nine and a half minutes long, it could keep the forward-thinking quick to point out. Dionne prefers a more live approach as seen DJ and his happy couples on the dance floor quite content indeed. on the first single off the album, ‘I Know. ’ It is startlingly catchy, Back to the present: Ubiquity Records has finally unveiled its but rather tedious. The guitars are very heavy, and at times she stunning sixth release. After the fantastic sampling of Local West seems to struggle to be heard over the metal riffings of Lenny Coast talent in their flawless Cookin’ trilogy (Home Cookin ’, Mo ’ Kravitz and the like. This is a real pity, because she has a deep full Cookin ’ and Still Cookin ’.) Label owners Michael and Jody McFadin voice as heard on the album’s highlight, a beautiful, bluesy cover have collected some of the best grooves from around the world on of ‘Blackbird’ by The Beatles (as opposed to Donald Byrd). All Explorations into Dance floor Jazz Volume 1. The Greyboy All told, an interesting release, much better than AD’s recent output. Stars step in with a smashing cover of Gene Ammos ‘Jungle Strut’, The end of last year came with many a reissue of great worth. The and the German group Kruder and Dormeister check in with a piece most exciting had to have been The Temptations ‘Emperors of called ‘High Noon’ which stretches the boundaries between acid Soul’ Boxed set, the latest of the Motown Master Series. The jazz and trance music. Other Highlights include the wonderful two Temptations have not been able to hold on to the respect that label stepper ‘Say Yeah’ by Izit from Britain, and Cunnie Williams' mate Marvin Gaye has gotten over the last year or so, and a lot of sweet soul send up ‘The World Keeps Failin’ which comes on like that could have to do with the fact that they are still going today. Stevie Wonder from his Innervision days. The liner Notes mention Yet, The Temptations could well be the most flexible band in the that Cunnie (pronounced "Q-Knee") Williams has an album coming history of pop music, as Emperors of Soul clearly shows. From out on the German label Yo Mama. A wondrous tune from a man the doo-wop days, to the heady success of ‘My Girl’ on to who is residing in Hamburg Germany, via South Central Los psychedelic soul, that stands as some of the best music produced Angeles. With the surprising success of dance floor jazz in Europe, in the sixties, and deserves to stand alongside any British Invasion with Galliano and Paul Weller topping the charts, one wonders if groove. On to funk, and unfortunately, the elevator music sound a mass exodus of Ex patriot jazz men will occur again, as it did in of the recent soul groups. While the last disc seems longer than the thirties through the sixties. Frightening thought. the rest, there is enough unreleased and out-of-print recordings on this collection to put you in the groove and keep you there. There

6 N 0 0 M 0 0 N Kitchen Ghosts asked it what year it died and We said, wow, this 20 year old girl he said 1839... Everything just who went to this college, I wonder if Everyone has heard stories ofhauntings seemed to fit. And with that she died here? So I asked her, I said, and spirits on the campus of St. John’s Col­ one everything was like... all you know, "Did you die here?" All lege: Indian burial grounds, mysterious vi­ the answers were... clear... of a sudden the thing stopped. The sions, witches' covens, and unexplairuible They came fast, you know, whole kitchen was still locked, still coincidences. Many people in our commu­ all the other questions that we black. All the lights were out, and nity enthusiastically exchange stories of the asked the other things, you down by...want me to show you? supernatural. Wie are sceptics, but the sheer know, screwed around for a volume of material and conviction of the little while, you know... This At this point Mike took us back storytellers intrigued us. Thus we decided to thing was answering them just into the kitchen. He showed us the embark on an exploration of the darker side like that (snaps his fingers). table where the Ouija board had of St. John’s. Here is the first of our inter­ Giving good answers, and... been set up, between the sinks and views, made public. Yeah, so it was pretty freaky... the prep area. and then we got a hold of one Mike Zambrano works in the coffee shop. and we were asking it if it was Mike: Soon as I asked, soon as I We heard he had experienced strange things the ghost of the kitchen and it asked that, I heard a loud noise like in the kitchen at night, and we asked him to said yes, and we asked if it someone slamming a plate down speak with us about them. He told us the was a liar and it said yes, and like this... and we stood up real quick following story happened to him in April or then my friend Justin got the and said, what the hell’s going on, May of 1994. stupid idea of asking it if it you know. This door that had been Mike; Usually when I was working the wanted to possess us, and it closed all night was open inward, night shifts, couple semesters ago, there was said yes... and we were just looking at it, say­ always something left on in the kitchen. I David: Well, that was a ing, "What the hell’s going on?" figured it was just an employee or something. good idea. And then after awhile I started to realize there Miake: Ha, ha, yeah, well Mike indicated the door where were things being left on constantly, so one that was real smart. the students put the dirty dishes. night I turned off the warmers on the steam David: Who, who was this tables and um... they were all off, and I came guy you were doing this Mike: Something was right here, back in the coffee shop and I was working, with...there were just two of and it stood up and moved out the locked up the kitchen and nobody else was in you? door, like this. there, came back at the end of the night to Mike: His name was Jus­ David: Now, it moved out the check, and the first one and the last one were tin, yeah. He used to work in door! What did it look like? turned to four, and nobody else was in the the coffee shop with me. Mike: I can’t explain it. It was kitchen the whole night. So that was one of David: Justin... darker than the dark. The only rea­ the first instances. TTien things started hap­ Mike; Connors. Yeah. son I saw it was because of that pening like... ftyers going on, like hearing And um... so then that ghost... I window there. noise, pots and pans back there when I knew said ‘Well you CAN’T pos­ David: So it was a silhouette in nobody was back there, and so I started to get sess us, can you?” And the the window? the idea that there was something going on ghost said no, and then, I swear Mike: Yeah, but it had long hair back there. to God we didn’t ask it a like a girl, so I figured it must have So anyway, this one night I was hanging question and it spelled out been her, you know. And, um... it out with this one student and he said, “Well, die, D-I-E. So we took our was pretty weird. I got up and ran. we should get a Ouij a board and try to chaimel hands off and we said, you David: Yeah, I’ll bet. the spirit of the kitchen.” So we borrowed a know, let’ s...chill out, but we Mike: And I ran out in the hall­ Ouij a board from a student and we went back were kind of curious still, and way over there and I was trying to in the kitchen after work, got off work at one we said let’s try a few more times. We tried figure out what the hell was going on...ran in the morning, and we locked all the doors, it a couple of more times and all of a sudden through the hallway over here, checked to see turned off all the lights and we set up a table we got like another strong one, like the Indian if anybody was messing around, and no one with candles and started playing with the one, and we started asking it questions and we was in the building at all. It was like two in the Ouija board. It wasn’t really working at first. found out she was a twenty year old girl, and morning. Security was in uppers, ‘cause there Then we started getting like some weird stuff her name was Atme... She spelled out her were some students getting drunk. like... an Indian and... couple other people. name for us: A-N-N-E. So she spelled that Tony: Now, we want your solemn oath Tony: You mean you got some people to out and she told us how old she was, we asked that everything you said was trae. say stuff? her if she went to school here, and she said Mike: This is my solemn oath that this is Mike: Yeah. yeah she did. So we were like, wow, so when a trae story. This actually happened. Tony: What did they say? did you go to school here? And that was the Mike: Well, there was like an Indian that only answer that was really weird, 'cause she Believe it or not, it’s up to you. To us, we’d gotten a hold of. Somehow we found went 123454321 and she just kept doing like Mike seemed to be telling what he believed to out that he was a Pueblo Indian. that. be a trae story. As reporters, we will continue David: It was SPELLING WORDS? Dave: Wow. to travel beyond the grave, if necessary, to Mike: Yeah, it was spelling words and we Mike: And so we couldn’t figure it out. bring you the news.

N 0 0 M 0 0 N 7 The Thiefs Wife's Lover's v-Opening Questions —

Cook Dear AK: —^Jennifer Jackson A day or so ago I was showing my dad around campus. I was going from room to room, building to “Allen Ginsberg said that he saw the greatest building, so you know, I saw a lot of stuff. I’m just a freshman, but I started noticing all sorts of similarities minds of his generation destroyed by madness. in the rooms I visited. The biggest thing was that all the I have see the greatest minds of my generation chairs seem to be the same. I don’t know, though, maybe I just thought I noticed, because I asked my dad go at an Anacin bottle with a ball peen hammer.” about it and he just grunted a little in response. I used -PJ. O’Rourke to be real good at reading his grunts, but I’ve been away from home for about four months now and I must This is not my recipe. In fact, it was published in this paper by be forgetting which grunt is which. So, anyway, am I Eli Castro last year. But I’m busy at work on my senior paper and crazy or what? don’t have time to dream up recipes for y’all, and this has become one of my favorite recipes. I cut it in half because Eli’s recipe Thanks for Checking made enough to feed an army. It’s great when you have a cold, because the chiles will clear your sinuses in seconds. It’s best, Dear Thanks for Checking, though, on those mornings when you’re too hungover to wrestle I don’t think you’re crazy at all. No. I think that’s with the child-proof cap on the aspirin bottle. a wonderful question. Many people take the chairs for granted, or worse, destroy or mock them. There are Hangover Stew only a few chairs on campus that are anything but 3 small or 2 large Red potatoes wood and split rattan, and not even enough of these that 1 small leek you would have been likely to see one in the past semester. 1/2 an onion It just so happens that the chairs in Annapolis are 2 Roma tomatoes (peeled) identical to these, though their varnish is a little darker. about 1/4 cup of frozen green chile (thawed) They are purchased from a manufacturer in one of the 3 cups light broth Carolinas and cost around $170 each (with shipping salt, pepper, and Tabasco sauce to taste and handeling), and about $50 to re-cane a damaged or worn out chair. This campus has never been without this kind of chair, but I’m not exactly sure how long Coarsely chop the potatoes, leek, onion, and tomatoes. Put the they’ve been a part of the Annapolis campus. vegetables and broth in a large pot and bring to a boil. Reduce the These chairs need your help. The lives of the chairs heat to a simmer. After it’s simmered for a bit, add the chile, salt, are threatened by people who don’t understand their pepper, and Tabasco sauce. Simmer for about an hour. beauty and value (the chair’s, not the individual person’s beauty and value). These chairs are destroyed at Cook’s Notes parties. These chairs are stolen by students who move -You should adjust the heat to your individual taste. It should off campus or graduate. These chairs, let us say our make your eyes water a bit, but still be bearable. I suggest adding chairs, are being used for make-shift living room about half the chile at first and then adding more as it cooks. Keep furniture, or worse, they are used as simple, material in mind that the chile will get hotter the longer it cooks. reminders of time spent at St. John’s College. The -Peeling tomatoes sounds like a hassle, but it’s really pretty Buildings and Grounds crew works to restore those easy if you know the trick. Just drop them in boiling water and turn broken, but how much can be done for those without a couple of times until their skin splits. Take them out immedi­ arms... without legs? B and G ean’t work miracles. ately, rinse under cold water and slide the skin off. It takes about And you know what: once someone has stolen a chair, 30 seconds. it’s gone. These chairs, our chairs, can’t speak for —If you're really hungover, then there are a few things you themselves, can’t cry out, “Help me! Someone, please should know about eating. Don't eat fried eggs, cheese, bacon or save me...” a pitiful voice trailing off in a dark, damp, other fried or fatty foods. That Saturday morning omlette may awful foreign place. Let us rise up together and say sound good, but it will just prolong your agony. Try to drink some “NEVER AGAIN!” Please, before they disappear. fruit juice or, if you feel up to it, have an actual piece of fruit. I'm told that cerviche (a Central American dish of raw fish "cooked" —AK in lime juice) is a sure cure for a hangover, but I doubt that you can find sanitary cerviche in Santa Fe. 8 NOOMOON R: Here at St. John’s we require at least students have to park way out there and they protect the property, to protect the students, or one year’s experience in security. After that hve in either uppers or lowers. It takes a lot. to control the students? I provide some more training as far as our J: What do you think the main purpose is R: Our main thing is to protect and serve pohdes that we have to enforce here at St. for St. John’s having its own separate security the people and the community of St. John’s. John’s. I give them about 25-30 hours of force? For some reason or other it’s just that the training before I turn them loose. R: I think that one of the purposes of students have some kind of resentment to­ J: What are the differences between the having an in-house security is the advantage wards the security officers. The pohcies that St. John’s security force and aregular pohce of the administration knowing who they have we enforce are the same pohcies that you have force? and how they work. In the past, before I took in your smdent handbook: noise, parties, ille­ R: In any security agency its more of a over security here, I worked for on-call secu­ gal parties, illegal drinking, and stuff like that. job than a regular pohce officer has, due to rity which was working under contract with J: Does the fact that we are hving on the fact that a security officer has to do a lot the college here, and it was apoor, sloppy job. private land affect our rights? For instance, of walking. We have to check doors and I took over the job by my reports and my does a security officer have to have a warrant windows, check for vandahsm, and check experience while I was working for them up to go into a smdent’s room? for any prowlers. At St. John’s our job is here, because they liked the job that I was R: On private land you don’t have to have completely different from any pohce de­ doing for them at the time. When you have a any search warrant to search. As long as we partment. We patrol the grounds and we private security like that, you’re taking a risk, have probable cause that some crime has been have to do a lot of enforcing of the traffic because you don’t know who they are going to committed or a drug abuse has been commit­ code and the parking situation. Especially bring in. ted, especially in the presence of a security when students try to take advantage of park­ J: I guess the other part of that question officer, those are enough grounds to check. ing closer to the dorms. It’s a drag when the was whether your main purpose here is to continued on page 10 NOOMOON 9 Public Letters Interview continued from page 3

To the College Community: But mainly what we do is just contact the dean, the assistant dean, or the housing director to go Since the distribution of the MOONfly, with us in order to search somebody ’ s room. This is your college and this is your room, and just there have been some misconceptions cir­ because this is private property, that doesn’t mean that we have to abuse the privilege of your culating around campus that I would like to privacy. You do have a privacy and rights to a privacy. We never have gone that far really, to dispell. get a search warrant to search or anything hke that. Its mostly the people that come from town The planning of the MOONfly and all that we catch, especially after midnight; we search ‘em. That’s how we catch our dealers. J: If you search a room does the student have to be present? the articles within was a collaboration by R: Not necessarily, but sometimes. It's up to the dean and the assistant dean to see how they the newspaper staffs of both campuses. are going to conduct a search. Sometimes they do it themselves through some information, an After all the articles were written, the edi­ informant that they have. Sometimes myself, I don’t even know who the informant is or how tors made the decision to print two separate they got the information. editions. The two editions shared the same J: How are student/security officer relations this year as compared to past years? cover and initial pages, then the Annapolis R: The relations have been pretty good. We try our darnedest, but sometimes it’s hard for edition went on to print articles about the them too. The way we look at it, and I tell my officers, this is their house, and Td prefer to see Santa Fe campus and the Santa Fe Edition, them raising hell on campus than to go to the hospital and see somebody over there because they as you saw, printed ariticles about the An­ were raising hell somewhere else and they got caught. Here we deal with the problem internally, napolis campus. This allowed us to stay and we go as soft as we can with them. It’s up to the administration, actually. Like I said before, within our respective budgets while in­ we are here to protect and to serve. This is your house; take care of it. Just go by the rules. J: Are there any problems on campus that you have been focusing your attention on this year? forming the students on one campus about R: Not really. the activites of the other. J: There are no particular problems with the smdents this year? The Annapolis edition will soon be R: Not at all. Just the typical thing with college students: they get dmnk and raise hell. available in the library and campus offices They’re fine, but sometimes they go overboard and overdo it. Then Mr. Cook will handle them. for those of you who are curious to read J: That pretty much wraps it up. Is there anything that you’d hke to say to the students before about our own campus. I apologize for any we finish? misunderstanding, and encourage you to R: Well, all I can tell the kids is to feel confident in us. To have confidence in us that we are check out the Annapolis edition. here to protect them and that we are here for them. It’s like when you are at your house you go by your dad’s rules, and if you don’t hke them he’s going to scold you or spank you, or whatever. Sincerely, But right now the way I see it is the kids have a lot of stress, and sometimes they want to let it Elizabeth Trice out on the weekends and stuff. The problem we have with it is the neighbors over there complain about loud music, and somebody’s yelhng, and somebody’s talking too loud. But I just want the Intercampus Editor kids to know that we’re here for them, and that’s about it.

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10 N 0 0 M 0 0 N Annapolis Students Robbed Reprinted from the Gadfly of January 23, 1995 by Nathan Jongewaard Following the armed robbery of two were being questioned by police at the 7-11 Commodore of Campus Security told The students in the boathouse Wednesday when Corporal Matthews of St. John’s Cam­ Gadfly that there is only one key for student morning, the Annapolis campus is fearing pus Security arrived offering to take them use, and that that key is available at the for its safety. Administrators and students back to campus. The police told Corporal security office. alike are raising questions about the effec­ Matthews to meet them at the boathouse. On the night of the 17th, Miss Lockhart tiveness of our current security procedures. They transported Miss Feld and Mr. Wing checked out the boathouse key from security Campus Security has made various and there themselves. By this time other officers around 10 p.m. The key was returned by contradictory claims of the events that took were on the scene. A search of the area was Miss Feld and Mr. Wing after the robbery place that morning. They have also expressed conducted for the suspect and Mr. Wing’s took place. skepticism about the truth of the victim’s wallet, and the interior of the boathouse was One story heard by the Assistant Deans reports, claiming that they do not match up. dusted for fingerprints. Nothing turned up. suggested that Corporal Matthews believed The reports, however, are identical. Senior Neither Miss Feld nor Mr. Wing was the boathouse key had been returned to the Kate Feld and junior Adam Wing were able to identify the suspect, who is ap­ drop box on the exterior wall of the security robbed at gunpoint in the Beneficial-Hodson proximately 5 feet 9 inches tall of slim build office earlier in the evening, and that he had Boathouse at approximately 3:45 a.m. and was wearing an army jacket and a hood, checked the boathouse between midnight Wednesday. according to the report filed by the Annapo­ and 12:30 a.m. At that time, according to the Miss Feld and Mr. Wing were the last lis Police Department. story, he saw roughly 10 people cleaning up remnants of an informal party thrown by After making their report to the police. from the party, and was told that they would Senior Heather Lockhart as a respite for Miss Feld and Mr. Wing were asked to fill be leaving soon. seniors from their month-long essay-writing out campus security reports. Miss Feld and But Corporal Matthews told The Gadfly period. Miss Lockhart and two other stu­ Mr. Wing stated that they returned the he was supposed to check the boathouse at dents left the boathouse around 3:40 a.m. boathouse key to Corporal Matthews at this midnight but students had called asking per­ Miss Feld and Mr. Wing were given charge time. mission to stay longer. He said that the of the boathouse key. As Miss Feld and Mr. Miss Lockhart reserved the boathouse in students had the key. No one called him to Wing were cleaning up, an unidentified black early-to-mid December for a dinner party she let him know when they left, he said, and he male entered the boathouse from the front was planning to host on the night of January first told us that he went to the boathouse at door. The subject produced an automatic- 17. When plans for the dinner party fell 3 a.m. to lock it, and returned at 4 a.m. type, nickel-plated handgun and pointed it at through. Miss Lockhart decided to make use However, Corporal Matthews eventually the students. The assailant, who never spoke, of her reservation and invite some friends, admitted that he did not visit the boathouse then made a gesture which the victims as­ mostly seniors, for an informal get-together at all that evening, until after police had ar­ sumed to be a request for money. Mr. Wing that evening. rived on the scene. tossed his wallet, which contained 20 dollars, The original reservation was for 6 p.m. to Sgt. Commodore questions the truth of toward the man who then gestured for the midnight, but she picked up the boathouse key Miss Feld’s and Mr. Wing’s story of the students to stand closer together. at 10 p.m. instead. She agreed she would call robbery. “We don’t think it happened in the “He’s [makingthis gesture], saying, ‘Get security at 11:30 p.m., when the guards’ shifts boathouse,” he told The Gadfly. “We think together, get together,' and that just felt like changed, to alert the incoming officer that that they may have been robbed on the [King an execution to me.” said Mr. Wing. there was a party in progress at the boat­ George Street] bridge” or possibly else­ Mr. Wing states in his report to campus house and to ask for permission to continue where. Sgt. Commodore said that the stu­ security that he “began to move back and the party beyond midnight. dents’ stories do not match up. asked that Kate follow me. As we backed up Despite Miss Lockhart’s prior reserva­ The written statements Miss Feld and we were eventually behind a post in the tion of the boathouse and security’s knowl­ Mr. Wing submitted to security, however, boathouse... so I ran out the back door. We edge of the event. Assistant Dean Anita are identical except in small details. For ran down the stairs and across the docks... Kronsberg described the party as “unautho­ example, Mr. Wing mentions that he “fell onto the road.” Concerned that they might rized” because of Miss Lockhart’s failure to once” as he ran to King George Street and cross paths with their assailant if they at­ file a party authorization form with their of­ Miss Feld mentions that she and Mr. Wing tempted to make it to upper campus, the two fice. Such forms are rarely filed for informal “eventually looked back” at the boathouse ran across the King George St. bridge and parties (such as the event at the boathouse or “but saw no activity.” The principal details continued to the 7-11 store on Taylor Av­ the Wednesday New Year's celebrations), of the reports are the same. enue where they called Campus Security but are frequently used for waltz and coffee “I can’t imagine what they think our and the Annapolis Police. shop parties. motivation would be for lying about where Officer Strickland of the Annapolis Po­ A controversy has developed regarding the robbery took place,” Miss Feld responded lice Department responded to the call and met the key to the boathouse and the stories of the when told about security’s doubts. She was them at the 7-11 at 4:01 a.m. The students events told by Miss Feld and Mr. Wing. Sgt. continued on page 12

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A Women’s Literature Study Group is currently being formed. The first meeting will take place on Tuesday, February 14 at 4:30 p.m. We will be reading the short story Society by Virginia Woolf. If you are interested, please contact Heather Pool (ext. 4240) or Mary Dietsch (ext. 4219). Editor in Chief: Further information, including where the meeting will take place, will be posted soon. Taffeta Elliott St. John’s Fairy Tales, told by Elana Freeland, will take place on Valentine’s Day, February Production Editor: 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Fireside Lounge. Elizabeth Trice Michael Novak, theologian, author, and former U.S. ambassador, will be the third speaker in this year’s Tocqueville Lecture Series. Mr. Novak’s lecture, “The Civil Society Project” will Copy Editor: begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 28, in the Great Hall. Admission is free and open to the Aysha Massell pubUc. Cover Photograph: Copies of the Dean’s Statement of Educational Policy and Program are available in the Benjamin Haller Dean’s office. There will be a meeting in the Junior Common Room on March 8,1995 at 4 p.m. Taste and Judgment: with Mr. Van Luchene and Mr. Agresto for those of you who are interested in discussing it. Gillian Tan Food Commitee Meetings with the Drake management are open to the student body. They Dan Flaumenhaft are held every other Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Private Dining Room. The next one will be Advertising Executive: February 8. Annemarie Catania The NOOMOON is an independent Robbery continued from page II bi-weekly student newspaper of St. unable to think of anything she or Mr. Wing may have said to security that would make them think John's College in Santa Fe, New that the stories did not match up. “I think [security] is trying to cover their ass,” she said. Captain Mexico. All opinions expressed are Larry Adams, head of campus security, was unavailable for comment over the weekend. those of the authors. Issues are The incident at the boathouse has, naturally, raised questions about how secure the campus distributed at no charge to students really is. The Assistant Deans said, “our campus has been invaded, in a way, and we need to see and faculty on the Santa Fe campus. if our current procedures stand up to this assault of them.” According to the pamphlet “Important Yearly subscriptions are available for Safety Information for St. John’s Students,” available in the Assistant Deans office, the adminis­ $35. Tax-deductible contributions are tration tries “to maintain two officers on duty at all times.” This was evidently not the case on the accepted. 17th, however. All contributions are welcome. The A notice was sent in campus mail to all students from the Assistant Deans office on Thursday next deadline for submissions is stressing the importance of extra caution on back-campus.“Please be careful:” it reads, “do not walk Thursday, February 16 at midnight. alone or in small groups at night, and report the presence of anyone you don’t recognize, especially Written work may be submitted in at night, to security.” any Macintosh-based word process­ The Assistant Deans will be holding a meeting early this week with administrators and security ing format on a 3^!" disk, along with personnel to discuss the situation and to make sure that all of the correct procedures were followed. a typed, double-spaced copy and the Some changes will be discussed as well.“There are things we can do to tighten up procedures and author's name and phone number. make sure no small groups of people are out there alone,” they said. Typed, double-spaced submissions are “We are taking the incident very seriously,” commented college president Christopher Nelson. also acceptable. The NOOMOON “We are looking at security, working with police and asking students’ coojieration. Back campus reserves the right to edit or reject any is not a safe place.” submission.

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