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VOLUME III, ISSUE 16 THE ST. JOHN'S COLIBGE INDEPENDENT STUDENT WEEKLY FEB. 8, 1982
A Serious Question
I have recently heard someone say that To The Polity: there are no modern heroes. It i-s-· On Wednesday night, January 27, at corrunon to say "som~thing is good" but about 7 p.m., while Juniors and January how often, in 1982, do we exclaim Freshmen were having dinner together in "he or she is noble!" In Homer, in-old the Dining Hall, a group of students fashioned war, noble passions filled began jumping up and down on the second the lives of the young with the incen floor of Randall, in order apparently to tive to be noble. But now our wars make a disturbance by way of welcoming and our culture are very different. the newly arrived students. A distur When are you filled by a sense of bance it was. The chandeliers swayed noble passion? Where is it today? ominously, and a number of acoustic tiles came loose from the ceiling and fell down onto tables and floor. Luckily, DH.. Weinstein, ' 82 no one was hurt. Observers in the Dining Hall have described the event as "scary" .. This "welcome", we are informed, is a , a year and a week old. We must add: it is a stupid, pointless tra dition, with no saving feature, and is / dangerous and destructive as well. ·we
I demand that the "tradition" be terminated I forthwith.. \-./e promise that students in a a future year seeking to repeat a "welcome" of this sort will face stiff fines or suspension or expulsion from the College. In othe.r \lords: :::;to~> .:i.t.
3arbara H. Leonard Curtis ~,Jilson Assistant Deans
Campus Mail will be distributed twice on Sunday, Feb. 14: once at.1 .L2 I Noon; and once at 7pm. ~ *WEEKLY CALENDAR* --2------...1------~Monday, February 8 - Sunday, February 14, 1982 Lecture Rev,iew
Monday, Feb. 8 Student Aid time sheets due Financial Aid Of :ti by Janet Durholz Tuesday, Feb. 9 In Mr. Dark.ey' s lecture, "The Dark _4:00-6:00 Faculty Study Group - Mr. Zeiderman McDowell 24 ling Singer," he read and commented on three poems that share the image of a 4:15-5:15 Study Group - Mr. Raphael Conversation Room The Wednesday bird singing in the dark--and if you 7:00-9:30 Painting Class Mellon 207 possible (and didn't know that that was what 'dark 7:30 p.m. New Testament Class - J.W. Smith McDowell 36 st. John's, continues this week with ling' meant, you weren't at the lecture. _9:00 p.m. Delega.t~ Council Meeting McDowell 21 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, dir The first selection was the opening .. -~. W,~es~a:r, Feb, 10 ected by John Huston, and starring Walter of Book III of Paradise Lost, Milton's .00 ,6.0Q. Firecider Cof;fee Shop· Huston and Tim Holt. Walter is, of famous invocation of light. Mr. Darkey '4:00-6:00 Wittgenstein Study Group - Mr. McKinley Rare Book Room course, John's father, and his excellent 4:00-6:00 Faculty Study Group - Mr. Zeiderman McDowell 24 spoke of Milton's loss of sight, and told performance won him an Oscar for Best how he composed his poetry at night as he 7:00 p.m. Small Chorus - Mr. Zuckerman Great Hall supporting Actor. The story is an en 7:00-10:00 Ceramics Class Mellon 207 lay awake, memorizing the verses, to be grossing study of the depths to which dictated during the day. Thus the poet 7:15-10:15 Life Drawing Class Mellon 207 greed can drive men: Bogart, Huston, and 8:00 p.m. ·study Group: Aristotle's Politics - Mr. Berns McDowell 32 writes, "as the wakeful Bird/Sings Holt play three men who set out pros darkling, 11 summoning the invisible 8:15 p.m. Humphrey Bogart Film Series: John Huston's Treasure FSK Auditorium pecting for gold in the mountains of Mex~ of Sierr·a Madre 1948 Walter Huston, Tim Holt beauties of creation in song. ico, and the changes in their personali Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" owes ties brought on by their mutual suspi Thursday, Feb. 11 something to Milton's bird, although it cions power the film to its ironic con calls the poet in a different direction: 2: 15 _p. m. Delegate Council_ Meeting with Deans and Treasurer McDowell 23 clusion. (John Huston plays the American "Darkling I listen; and for many a time/ tourist and Robert (Baretta) Blake plays 10.:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Blood Drive F.S.K. Lobby I have been half in love with easeful LONG WEEKEND BEGINS AFTER SEMINAR the little kid at the beginning of the Death ••• " Keats had just lost a brother movie.) 8:15 Wednesday at 8:15, free! Friday, Feb. 12 so to him the nightingale's song spoke of mortality. 12:00 noon Annapolis Area Alumni Luncheon Dining Hall Because it's long weekend and lots of The title of Thomas Hardy's poem, people like to go away, (including pro "The Darkling Thrush," admits his in Saturday, Feb. 13 jectionists) there will be no Ascent of debtedness to both Keats and Milton. 9:00-12:00 Sculpture Class Mellon 207 Man or Friday late movie this week. For It was written on the last day of the 8:15 p.m. Film: Blake Edwards' The Great Race 1965 FSK Auditorium those of you who find it hard to break nineteenth century, when Hardy, at the Tony Curti?, Natalie Wood, Jack.Lemmon, Peter Falk the habit, though, we will lower the age of sixty, had already written his screen and turn on the projector for an last novel. ("The tangled bine-stems Sunday, Feb. 14 hour andr a half at 11: 15. Admission will 3:15 p.m. scored the sky/ Like strings of broken Film: Blake Edwards' The Great Race 1965 FSK Auditorium only be 75¢. lyres .. ") The darkness of this poem is Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, Pe~er Falk 6: 30 p.m. Pottery Class Mellon 207 For those who don't go awav, the film on Saturday at 8:15 and Sunday at 3;15 The second French Reading Knowledge The second Algebra/Trigonomet:ry Test will be The Great Race directed bv Examination will be given on Saturday morning, will be given on Saturday morning, Blake Edwards, and starring Tony Cur February 20 at 9:30 a.m. in McDowell 31. February 20 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in tis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon and Peter The test is to provide· a readable translation Room 24. Falk. The story is set near the turn of in English that gives accurately the sense An account of the kind of problems • Permanent Centers open clays, • Opportunity to make up mined the century and concerns a great auto evenin1s and weekends. lessons. of the French original. appearing on the test and how to solve • Low hourly cost. Dedlc11ted full· • Voluminous home-study m~terl1l111 rrobile race from New York to Paris. time stiff. constantly updated by r1u1rch· them is given in a short manual available • Complete TEST·n·TAPESl
Ail1 acts of capital punishment are abortions. * They would probably prefer to replace "right" with "permissible." These persons would undoubtedly be among those members who would resist the Surely, this is a doubtful proposition, for, until recent years, not all enlargement of CeR to KeR and hence would avoid self-contradiction. legal executions were performed in utero. But the members of Group I must However, they place themselves in the somewhat awkward position of somehow be persuaded to embrace it if they are to be correctly charged with having to maintain that it is never permissible to execute a criminal self-contradiction. but sometimes permissible to kill an innocent human being. (Members Let us turn briefly to another group, those who oppose capital punishment of Group I, on the other hand, can comfortably maintain that it is and support abortion (hereafter referred to as Group II).* They assert sometimes right to take a guilty life but never right to take an inno cent life.) * I overlook those who oppose both practices and those who support both practices, as I am not aware that anyone has charged them with self- Robert Williamson contradiction. · 8------SEEING REDS and surprisingly, the film the trouble Reed had upon re-entering country - Reds is a film whose assets and liabili while the film shows Reed having his papers and STUIJEHTS OF ST. JOHN'S CCLLEG E;: ties are-so intertwined that it's impossible notes confiscated, they neglect to mention that to discuss them separately. It has a lot he was strip-searched and held for questioning is going for it - good performances and breath for hours) .. Ladies and Gentlemen, liy C.T... llal~ taking cinematography among them, but it also 5) Has Louise in Chicago for the factional From time to time the College makes has a choppy narrative and several striking quarrel with the Socialist Party and the organ available some of its facilities to This week both Venus and Mercury will errors of fact. ization of the Communist Labor Party (she achieve station point.c. in the morning First some background: the film is about wasn't there). "outside" groups, principally the Lobby the life of John Reed, the legendary American 6) Has Gregory Zinoviev changing a phrase of the Francis Scott Key Audi tori um. sky, Wednesday and Friday, respectively. journalist who wrote the classic ~ Days ~ in Reed's speech at the Baku Congress from From this point both of the planets begin shook the World. In his brief life (he died, '"clus war" to "holy war". (Not true - Zinoviev I'm sure all of you have at one time or in Russia,--at3°3) he covered and was arrested used the phrase in a speech of his own. Con another noticed the use of that area l;y eastward motion, movin~ earlier into the during the Patterson Silk Strike, rode with sidering the big deal the film makes of this, persons from outside the College. morning sky. Friday morninp at G:30, a Pancho Villa in Mexico, was one of the founding it's confusing, to say the least.) half-hour before sunrise, both planets members of the Provincetown Players, was tried * * * * * * * The lobby is not only a lobby, (along with the other .editors of The .Masses) The acting, given the confines of the however. As we all know, it is also a shonld be seen in the eastern sky close to for conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act, script, is excellent (with two exceptions I'll passageway to the classrooms in Nellon the -horizon, Mercury 7° and Venu~ 15° covered most of the important stories of his discuss in a minute). The film is packed with ahove, while the moon will he by a few time and a lot of the trivial ones, and wit well-crafted performances in small parts - Hall, and all of us have frequently used nessed first-hand the Bolshevik Revolution. A Edward Herrman as Max Eastman, George Plimpton it as such, purposefully winding our way degrees northeast of l10th Saturn and Mars man who did so much in so short a life is hard as an editor, Dolph Sweet as I.N.W. leader Big to our destinations amid a sea of strange in the western sky. to encapsulize in a fllm - even a long one. Bill Haywood, Gene Hackman as a friend of Two astronomers we consider p,reat hegan Reds tries, and fails, to have it both ways - Reed's, William Daniels as a leader of the faces. It is the policy of the Colleg~ while only covering the last five years of a Socialist Party, Paul Sorvino as Louis Fraina, to let this happen, to let ourside groups life this week many years aRO, Yicolas Cop remarkably crowded life, it still manages to Maureen Stapleton as Emma Goldman, and novelist use the Lobby subject to its also being ernicus, on the 14th in 1473; and Galileo sprawl. Jerzy Kosinski as Gregory Zinoviev all give The film can be broken down .into three outstanding performances. Like many another as a the Galilei on the 15th in 15~4. To celehrate, used thoroughfare by members of parts; the first is about the relationship be actor-director, Beatty knows how to get the the College. reminisce about the Copernican Revolution tween Reed and Louise Bryant. They met (in most out of his performers - as a result, every Some of us, however, as we have on Sunday, and observe a falling body on Reed's hometown of Portland, where Bryant was person on the screen (almost) is vivid and swiftly swept through the crowded Lobby, married to a dentist), fell in love, and makes an impression, no matter how brief their Monday. Louise left her husband to live with Reed in appearance. have also swiftly swept some of the. food Sunday, the sun enters the constel Greenwich Village, which was at the time in an The two exceptions to this are Jack there displayed. We have either thought lation ~quarius and the moon is at the authentic golden age of Bohemian radicalism. Nicholson as O'Neill and Diane Keaton as Louise They later went to Provincetown, Massachusetts, Bryant. I've discussed some of my reservations it our duty to sample the quality of the last quarter phase. where Louise had an affair with Eugene O'Neill. about Nicholson in a previous article. The refreshments being offered to our guests, The second part of the film concerns whole portrayal of O Neill, in the acript and or we were htmgry and, assuming that the Reed's part (along with Louise, whom he had by Nicholson, I found much too soft:· .as if they ()From: Assistant Deans' Office () married by this time) in the October Revolution were conspiring to show O'Neill in a more flat friends of our friends were also our and the third is about Reed's struggles within Do not use thumbtacks on the doors of tering and unrealistic light. At the time he's friends, and that friends have all things the American Socialist Party, his return to shown in' the film, O'Neill was living in a in common, we have gladly share(l with them McDowell. Tape your messages on the Russia in order to gain recognition from the shack (with a sign on the door saying "Go To window panes or obtain special tape Comintern of the Communist Labor Party, his im Hell") after occupying the hull of a wrecked their food and drink. prisonment in Finland, and his death from from the Assistant Deans' Office that ship at Truro. He was inarguably an alcoholic Alas! Consternation among the hosts! typhus in 1920. (in fact, his hands used to shake so badly that Rightly, too. We had not brought it to will not pull off the paint. If this sounds like it makes for a sprawl he couldn't get his first drink down without mind that those refreshments, that food ing film, it's because it does - the film never spilling half of it) and, for all extents and achieves the kinetic energy which the subject purposes, a derelict. Arguably a misogynist and drink, had not been provided by ~he demands. warren Beatty (who produced, directed, (he had a cute habit, picked up from his College for us but had been provided for and stars as John Reed) wrote the script with Trevor Griffiths, and it has the same flaws, brother, of referring to women as "pigs"), he and by those very guests for their own the same flabby lack of structure as the script was certainly not as Nicholson portrays him - consumption! for Heaven Can Wait, which he co-wrote with and it's a shame, because if.the script had And so we must bring this to mind Buck Henry.---r:Fhe-5C"ript desperately needs a given a better sense of the man, Nicholson Robert Towne to pull it into some shape, and an might have given a performance, instead of the and keep it in mind when we use the Lobby Looney Tunes caricature he was forced into Eisenstein to give it energy and passion - as giving. As it is, he manages to come close at on crowded occasions. We may continue to it is, the movie is less Russian t~an Cali use the Lobby as a thoroughfare while fornian - mellow, laid-back, and.without drive. it is also being used for non-college In addition, the film has a striking num fWlctions, but only if we determine not ber of factual errors. The following are a few of the most obvious: 0 ~~IC.£- S Y to consume--and succeed in not consuming- 1) The film has Louise telling O'Neill 33 West Street that Reed and she are "free" sexually, when in the goodies that tempt us away from the 268-4545 direct pa.th of virtue. fact she lied to him, telling him that Reed . eeeR NITE.S: was impotent due to his kidney trouble • ,· c.e Pen P To the wise, a word is sufficient. MON a""'d "Ttt VRS. 2) Implies that Loise and O'Neill's There are other entrances to the .l'·Tellon 7r,... - Mic:lni+e sexual relations ended with her marriage to Reed (not true). classrooms. 3) Has Louise seeing O'Neill, presumably s Sincerely yours, in New York, after the Oc~bor Revolution Edward G. Sparrow (which not only didn't happen, but O'Neill was married at the time, which the film doesn't Dean mention). 4) Has Louise returning from Russia at the same time as Reed (she arrived before . ·11-
one point - when Louise tells him that she and define the role of the journalist into that of --10------~------.J.------Reed have gotten married, O'Neill tells her, literary insurgent and thereby synthesize the A fund has been established at St. "You're a lying Irish whore from Portland and discrete elements in his own nature. It has John's College in Annapolis in memory of you used me to get Jack Reed to marry you." been a pattern in Reed's life up to that point ~merican Q.Collegiate llorts ~ntbologp It's a tense, angry moment - true to O'Neill, that he would hear about an existent situation the late Ruth Sutphin. It will be called but it doesn't last. Compare it to O'Neill's {whether in Mexico, Patterson, or somewhere ~~ the Ruth Sutphin Memorial Garden Fund and last scene in the film (where he tells Louise else), go there, listen, talk, get involved, International Publications it is planned to have a plaque prepared which that, "You think that if you discuss the re then write the story and spli~. His involve volution with a man before you go to bed with ment was never and never could be more than on will name one of the gardens at the College him, that it'll be missionary work, not sex."). a surface level, no matter how much his sympa in her honor. Although the line invariably gets a laugh thies were engaged: and when it came down to j!ational
DELEGATE COUNCIL ME.CTING t'i'ITH LEANS AND TREASURER visiting: Betor, Buchanan, Ross
Present: Sparrow, Leonard, ~ilson, Elzey, The only decision made at this meeting was Brasacchio, Lord, Lrtle, }eldman, Harris to reimburse Joe Houseal for a new stylus bought last dednesday. . visiting: !Yiyland er, s eigh There will be discussion about the SOB ~d' ~~OP!:; (Son of Bacchus and Maintenance of Polity 1. Miss ~eigh, representing the ried Cross, gave Equipment) Charters at the next meeting. Pres. Brasacchio some propaganda about donating submitted by James Hyder, blood for him to distribute to students. There Jusan Lord '84 will be a blood drive on Thursday, FebA 11 in Polity becretary Never Eat Anything Bigger thaJ2 the lobby of FSK. Everyone is encouraged to Your Head & other Drawings, b'f donate. (You also ·get free. GOOkies and juice.) B. Kliban "" lI •l4...... ,...... ~ ._...... 1s--- Guardians-79, Greenwaves-50. The Wave1 Did 11M e.11t-r wo11tkr wh~ 11~4- Sa.it!. aH of ~ pift,_I were shooting about three per cent in the first period ••• or something like that. The ~\ ~s~J. 1 '!"\1e. w..+..c.1:.. .1~J. (o....J.. ~slca.~J). .. rest of the game was strictly a fun thing, ~f ~frx ~t~ ~11 T~ Tau M£v(11~pou MEN'S by B.ryce Jacobsen and a good time was had by all. Free Throw Tournament: This is it! Our LEAGUE STANDINGS: ~al Tournament of Nerves! As we all know, foul shooting is about 80% mental. VolleI:ball W L Pts Basketball w L Pts Which team has players who can concentrate Guardians 4 1 13 Hustlers 5 1 1& the best? We shall soon know. Greenwaves 4 1 13 Druids 3 2 11 Just come to the gym at the times list Spartans 2 3 9 Guardians 2 3 9 ed ••• and shoot 25 fouls. There's really Hustlers 2 3 9 Greenwaves 2 4 10 nothing to it! A piece of cake! Druids 1 5 8 Spartans 2 4 10 THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE: s: 1Tws irp-..,.,.'-•S, ~ Volleyball: MtvoJy; !Ull tTwf Free Throw Tournament: q-dl"' Feb. 3 ••• Greenwaves-4, Spartans-3. The fT~~\ ~ '(YY~ i Tues. Feb. 9 3:00-4:00 Spartans were ~ close to winning this one s-...... : 1-1-...... •;-c yow. ~...... Wed. Feb. 10 3:00-4:00 that it was ••• well, pitiful. Three times ""~"?~l...... Jg-/t.., Thurs. Feb. 11 1:00•5:30 ....~.C:e "?. in the fifth game they were serving for the match ••• and three times it eluded them! This Volleyball ••• Wed. 4:15 Hustlers-Spartans excrutiating frustration seemed to have ta (No basketball ••• Long Weekend) ken its toll. They lost the last two games by 15-10 and 15-0. WOMEN'S by Terri Hahn Credit the Waves with really hanging tough Volleyball: when it counted, and bringing off the dra matic comeback of the season. Feb. 2 Amazons 3 Nymphs 1 "'tl~~ v l ' , 'ilJ4l UL OU IC Feb. 4 ••• Guardians-4, Druids-0. The Druids (15-11, 15-6, 11-15, 15-11) ~~1" l'ruv. ,1~L, Tn.Jfis "'1"£ reverted to their old ways, losing badly. In the third game Miss Braswell ~ TOl1 ~q-,W ltcll />a. -u rw-m...... tq>x.1sr Basketball: Hustlers-70, Spartans-68. Ave finally got her serve to go over the net. ·:r~ -.,;..r ..._....,-t, She raised the score six points which was "1.1i....+ <11 ; ..s+ic.e? ~ ~ 0 ' ~,... -J a~ bArl.;..., ... " ry exciting, tense and competitive game ••• ·.+....+ ,c.:. , ... ~~1- it six players fouled out! The Spartans start enough to lead the Nymphs to win that game. i~ ..(.. ~.,,1.;.-fs n...... ,il? • ed out strongly, building a 26-12 lead in Welcome to all the newcomers1 the first period. The Hustlers only managed Feb. 4 Maenads 3 Furies 0 to make three field goals in this period, In the second game both teams had but went 6-for-6 at the foul line to stay some very nice volleys. The Maenads proved in sight. that they were better at it and won·that Their B's narrowed the margin by outscor game 15-12. In the third game Miss Polk ing the Spartans 19-13, so it was 39-31 when put in seven consecutive serves to win the the last period started. And now the Hust 'lame .. lers got it all together, closing within two Feb. 5 Nymphs 3 Furies 2 points with a few seconds left ••• and Mr. (17-15, 9-15, 8-15, 15-13, 15-12) Houston at the foul line with two shots co ming. With a casual display of grace under This was the first well-matched game pressure, he sank them both, to force an of the season. It was close all the way to overtime period. the last server. Both teams have their Once again it was Hustler accuracy at fobl serves down and now it's time to start prac shooting that counted, they making 8-for-11 ticing volleys. in the overtime. Foul shooting was the big 1 Next Week: Tues. Feb. 9 difference in this game. The Spartan A s Next Week: Tues. Feb. 9 Amazons/Maenads only made 5-for-19, whereas the Hustlers were 19-for-24! Free Throw Contest-Come shoot free throws This victory moved the Hustlers a lot clo on one of these days! Try not to wait ser to a possible league title, with only until the last day please! two games remaining. Feb •. ~ 3-5: 30 pm All in ali, it was a very frustrating 9 3-4 pm week for the Spartans. ~o 3-4 pm 1-5:30 m /{~~Ae~ Lost and Found Items ~-H~
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