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Kurt Vonnegut Addresses an Array of Topics Non-Profil Org. US. Postage PAID Bronx, NY 10458 I'crmil No. 7608 P.O. Box B ROSE HILL CAMPUS, BRONX, NEW YORK 1-ordham Univ. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY LINCOLN CENTER, NEW YORK NEW YORK Bronx, NY 10458 Volume 73, Number 10 Serving Campus and Community Since 1918 - Celebrating Fordham University's 150th Year Thursday, April 4,1991 | Kurt Vonnegut addresses an array of topics Presents views from warj&jvriting "I myself prefer to laugh because By Jennifer Gaultieri there is less cleaning up to do," he said. STAFF WRITER Talking about his occupation, this writer with a master's degree in an- thropology claimed, "There is no such Novelist Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., lec- profession as mine. There are only tured on politics, current events and about 300 storytellers ... Essentially, writing on Tuesday, March 26, in the my profession does not exist." McGinley Ballroom. Vonnegut is the Vonnegut said he chose writing as author of several books, including a career because, "I had to get out of Slaughter House 5 and Cat's Cradle. anthropology. I just thought primative The 68-year-old writer criticized " God was supposed people were too stupid. I can't stand the United States' recent invasions to be the apocalypse. them." of Panama and Kuwait. He said he Most stories, according to Vonnegut, supported the troops in Suadia Ara- Now we're saving have basically one of four basic plots. bia by tying a yellow ribbon around He calls Ihese plots "man in hole," "boy an old crab apple tree in front of him the trouble. meets girl," "the Cinderella story" and house, but he thought the war to be We're the "miserable man turns into cockroach." a costly mistake that needlessly Vonnegut summarized the "man in destroyed many lives. apocalypse... This hole" plot as "There is somebody who "God was supposed to be the is the age of gets into trouble and gets out of it apocalypse," Vonnegut proclaimed. again." He described the "boy meets "Now we're saving him the trouble. utter humoriessness. girl" plot in which something good We're the apocalypse." I myself prefer to happens out of the blue, something bad The New Yorker still considers happens, then something good happens himself to be from Indiana, his na- laugh because again. Vonnegut said that in these two tive state, and not from New York, there is less plots and "the Cinderella story" the though he has resided here a long protagonist must always be at a higher time. cleaning up to do." point than at the beginning of the story. "Indiana gave the United States Using Shakespeare's Hamlet as an me and also Dan Quayle," Vonnegut example, Vonnegut also described --Kurt Vonnegut another type of story, one in which He then went on to call Vice Presi- dent Quayle "a nitwit." Author F things ihappen but the reader is not certain! Whether thiiehivefilS ar|»golBdj Vonnegftit also spoke about cen- or bad. He illustrated this plot as a sorship. He professed, "Censorship straight horizontal line. is a disease which has been around Vonnegut called such stories mas- for a long time.... but only recently terpieces because they portray the truth. recognized as a disease." "The truth is we don't know what Speaking about the current limes, the good news or bad news is," he said. Photo by Erica Roos/STAFF Vonnegut exclaimed, "This is the age One word of advice from Vonnegut: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. explaining points to the Fordham of utter humoriessness." He claimed "Lives aren't supposed to be stories. community that laughter and tears both relieve Only stories are supposed to be sto- Annual Suarez lecture on "Literary Imagination" Inside ception of political economy only. This By Peter Sedlarcik mentality emphasizes fact, objectivity STAFF WBfTER and mathematical calculation rather than subjective impressions and quali- tative distinctions. Nussbaum maintained that the four Martha Nussbaum, professor of main aspects of the economic utilitar- Philosophy, Classics and Comparative Features: Interview ian mind are presented in Dickens' Literature at Brown University, ad- dressed the Fordham community at the novel. First, an attempt is made to annual Suarez Lecture on Monday "We are accustomed reduce all qualitative description down with a witch pg. 7 March 25. The event was sponsored by now to think of to precise quantitative figures. Beyond by the Philosophy Department. this, the significance of the social unit literature as optional. as a whole is stressed over the value Entitled "Literary Imagination in of the individual. Additionally, clear Public Life," the lecture dealt with the It's great... but and precise solutions are sought for conflict between the power and sig- nificance1 of literary imagination and something that exists complex human problems. Finally, Arts: "West Side the realities of polities and econom- off to one side of human beings are characterized as ics. Citing Charles Dickens' Hard counters in a mathematical game in Times as a novel which deals with political, economic, which all action is based on self inter- this conflict, Nussbaum asserted the est. According to Nussbaum, mistype Story" pg. 11 importance of recognizing and accept- and legal thought in of thought leaves us with "reductive, ing literary imagination as an integral another university incomplete perceptions" of the reality part of coming to know other human of life. beings and truly understanding the department, ancillary Imagination is the key factor in human experience. rather than understanding the true experience of life. "The novel, in its varied ways of "We are accustomed by now to think Rampage: competitve." speaking to its reader recognizes of literature as optional. It's great... but something that exists off to one - - Martha Nussbaum [imagination] as salient and worthy of side of political, economic and legal attention. This we take for granted, Cartoons pg. 18 thought in another university depart- Professor, Brown since we know what it is to read a novel, ment, ancillary rather than competi- University but we should not take it for granted. tive," Nussbaum stated. The opponent of literary imagination, according to Nussbaum, is the economic utilitarian who concerns himself with the con- SEESUAREZ/PAGE5 CAB CALENDAR Friday, April 5 The Fordham Kiwanis present W.A.C. - Lip Sync - Skellar, 9 p.m. The New York Giants vs. N.Y. Institute for f Special Education Mens Faculty 3 s Lottery Thursday, April 11, 1S*91 8:OOpm Tixat the door or phone 579-2152 Saturday, April 6 Autographs at Half Time Baseball -- Colgate, 12 p.m. This is a charity event and represented here as a public service announcement from C.P.&P Sunday, April 7 and THE RAM Baseball -- Colgate, 12 p.m. Spring Conference for Prospective Freshman --1 p.m. Monday, April 8 Fordham Debate Team -- vs. Oxford - McGinley Ballroom, 8 p.m. Projections Film Series - "The Man Who Knew Too Much" - Rodrigue's, 7:30 p.m. Doubles Lottery Tuesday, April 9 Noontunes -- Student/Faculty Social -- McGinley 234-235,12:30 p.m. Fordham Debate Society--Meeting • Keating 109,12:30 p.m. Parade Around HI— Meeting - Finlay Hall Basement Lounge, 8:30 p.m. Blood Drive -- McGinley Ballroom, 9:30 a.m. - 8:30 p.m. "Fletch"«Keating First, 10:30,$>.m, , -: - ^ Cultural Affairs -- Bus Leaves McGinley Center at 5:15 p.m. Cultural Affairs -- Ticket sales for Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers" - Activity Period Career Planning & Placement -Career Exploration - Dealy 201,12:30 p.m. Career Planning & Placement -- Reumes/Letters of Inquiry - Dealy 203,12:30 p.m. "Civil Rights; An Historical Perspective" -- Sponsored by Pre-Law - Keating First, 12:30 Wednesday, ApritlO Bipod Drive --^IcGinley Ballroom -9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p^m. XO.R -- Ramskellar - 9 p,m. Fordham Debate Society -• Meeting - Keating 109,10:30 a.m. Society<of Professional Journalists -- Forum - Keating First, 7 p.m. Iranian U.N. Mission - Sponsored by Middle Eastern Affairs - McGinley Center 234-235, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 11 "Dances with Wolves" •• Keating First, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m. Career Planning & Placement •• Career Exploration - Dealy 201,10:30 p.m. Career Planning & Placement -- Resumes/Letters of Inquiry - Dealy 203,10:30 a.m. Cultural Affairs - Ticket Sales for Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers" - Activity Period Faculty Forum -- Sponsored by F.U. Students for Life - Music Room, 8 p.m. Submissions to CAB Calendar must be delivered to The Ram in McGinley B-52 or to Box B through campus mail, by the Monday before each issue of The Ram. THE RAM / Thursday. April 4.1991/3 New library computer system unveiled known as WALDO. Circulation li- to each unit. Steve Casale FC '92 finds system was housed in Westehester this library. We are looking into build- By Eileen Byrne the system User Friendly. "It is eas- County, which created problems due ing a larger facility to accomodate all STAFF WRITS! brarian, Edmund Maloney confirmed that 7 units of the WALDO system to communications and computT bread the volumes." The new library is to will remain to continue the interUbraiy The computer itself downs. be built near the Webster Avenue gate The inauguration of the Online Cata- loan exchange that the WALDO sys- Among other improvements bar- within the next five years. Duane li- logue in Duafie library was held on tem provides between Westehester li- can teach the user code system for coding books will be brary will then be converted to a gradu- Monday March 25ih, as the initial step braries and Fordham University. introduced. During the summer the alecenler. O'Hare is pleased with the how to operate the changes. He feels that the DRA sys- of improvements in the library system The DRA system will be more ad- volumes of all the University librar- tem is an "important piece of technol- at Fordham University.
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