cmm Environmentalist Perrin Speaks at Beck Lecture Series By VALERIE KENNEY 15 this book Perrin said was that it books and other titled dictionaries and eventually stumbles across a Subscriptions Director Perrin opened up the evening could be interpreted four different and thesauri set that is over 350 years old and by talking about his stay in ways the childs view the lit- American Heritage is one of has been in print for over a decade On Thursday Dec 5 at 8 PM Granville Its a lucky place he eral viewpoint the global politics the most peasant and one of the Perrin concluded his lecture by Denison University hosted Noel said slate roofs brick streets and view and a feminine reversal of most useful dictionary I have ever discussing when the golden age of errin essayist and environmena- no McDonalds It is luckier still masculine logic Each interpreta- read stated Perrin reading actually took place When list as part of the Beck Lecture to have Denison filled with all the tion has its own merit according Some of the characteristics that did everyone read Perrin asked series lovely stone and very little con- to Perrin made Perrin feel this way were the Starting with the Victorian Age Perrin is a professor ofenviron- crete The only 400 word histories Perrin worked his way up through mental studies at Dartmouth Col- thing its lack- found throughout the years until he reached the ege as well as a part- time farmer ing is a decent the book and the present where he felt the golden a New Hampshire and the author book store Dont trust the dictionaries 500 usage notes age was and still is if many books including First The Denison which he found When he was in high school Person Rural Giving Up the Gun book store he on computers They lack all very entertaining English and literature were taught apans Reversion to the Sword commented Perrin con- from one large textbook filled with sdA Readers Delight seemed stronger this extra stuff cluded his talk on snippets fragments and excerpts His latest bookLife with an in T- shirts than dictionaries and of books and essays in books The electric Car was published by Noel Perrin thesauri with a Students read real books now Sierra Club Books in 1994 The T- shirts have Environmentalist word of warning to said Perrin He continued by say- Boston Globe declares of this book writing on them Denison students ing that students today are expected Noel Perrins beguiling saga of virtually a book Even if your com- to buy 6 or 7 books for a literature ros- scountry wayfaring in an elecr- you can wear puter dictionary course ic car has the grass- roots zest of though I must confess not enough Read the book Youll want to claims to be an American Heri- The advent of paperback books jlue Highways and the clairvoy- words to constitute a pen- full kiss me for recommending it to tage it is not he said Dont trust and books on tape are wonderful ice of Jules Verne stated Perrin you well maybe not that much but the dictionaries on computers things Books on tape in particu- I thought about driving my The first book he discussed was youll be glad They lack all this extra stuff lar strike Perrin with hope ectric car to Denison but then I Jean Merylls The Pushcart War The next books Perrin discussed The last book Perrin discussed Thanks to books on tape books emembered it would take 1 1 Perrin considers the book one of were the American Heritage Dic- was A Courtship in 1653 The are invading cars where none has jays stated Perrin at his lecture the best childrens books he has tionary and Thesaurus These book takes place in modern day gone before Soon they books on Perrin has been writing essays come across books Perrin said have come to America far away from where the tapes will turn DJs into LJs or almost 40 years His essays The book details the history of play an interesting role in our lives title suggests It is about a boy who lonely jockeys ave appeared in The New Yorker a war fought in New York City They are a visible sign of a high finds stacks of old letters in his The future is bright stated iarpers and The New York Times between the pushcarts and the school graduate stated Perrin attic shortly after his father s death Perrin I can not think of a better lis newest essay A Childs De- trucks Perrin compared it to a Perrin discussed the differences After reading the love letters time to be a reader or lover of gif Unknown but Glorious is struggle between a big country and between the American Heritage the boy searches for more letters books than right now ue to be published in the Wash- a little country with tragic results igton Post on Sunday December One of the great things about Kimmerling Discusses Rainforest as Winter Arrives Part of Environmental Convocation By HOLLY PENDELL ments of Latin America and Carib- mental movement by The New York Staff Writer bean studies English sociology Times documents and analyzes the environmental and Wednesday social impact of oil de- Dec 4 Denison With environmental pro- velopment in the Ec- welcomed Ama- uadorian Amazon It zon Crude author tection responsibilities the formed the basis of a Judith Kimerling United Nations case Kimerling an at- government has shown little or study presented by the torney and expert Centre of Transnati- onal on the environ- no willingness to comply Corporations to mental and social the UN Commission impact of oil de- on Human Rights velopment in the Environmentalist Judith Much of Amazon basin de- Kimmerling Kimerlings work in livered a lecture in the area of environ the Life Science ment has centered Auditorium anthropology and Honors around Ecuador and its govern- Her topic for the All- College As the author and photogra- ment Convocation was Oil Develop- pher of Amazon Crude Natural Despite the fact that Ecuador- ment in the Rainforest Indigenous Resources Defense Council 1991 ian Constitutional and statutory Culture and the Environment Kimerling has extensive experi- laws recognize the governments The lecture was sponsored by ence working with indigenous or- interest in the countrys environ- Denisons Environmental Studies ganizations in the Amazon basing ment and charges the environment Department with co- sponsors The and in environmental and human with environmental protection re- Vinter arrived Sunday Dec 8 with aflurry of snowlakes Students Goodspeed Lecture Fund The rights litigation sponsibilities the government has lipped their way along chapel walk Academic Lecture Fund The Amazon Crude called The Si- shown little or no willingness to Ronneburg Funds and the depart lent Spring of Ecuadors environ see Kimmerling page 2 FFA Prize Mens Theatre y x Basketball Denison freshman wins Student directs Private national prize for research project Team off to strong start beats Allegheny Wars in Burke Theatre this weekend Gators 82- 76 see page 12 see page 7 see page 8 Page 2 Monday December 9 19fHE De News Denison Professors of English and Husband and Wife Duof Release New Book of Poetry Titled Holding Katherine ju By JENNY NORMAN asthma as an infant and a T 1 to their combined efforts tured in the Winter 1996 issue of I I 1 News Editor Assistant few of the new poems they Baker has recently just Shenandoah As well Townsend i have written reflect the feel- edited with an introduction received a Pushcart Prize for Po Associate Professor David ings and issues they went Meter in English A Criti- etry and a Discovery The Na i Baker and Assistant Professor Ann through while dealing with it 1 cal Engagement and has tion award for poetry 1 Townsend both of the English de- this difficult ordeal authored four books two Townsend s poetry and stories I Re- The partment have just published a Not only do these po- A of which are After the have appeared in The Nation i book of poems called Holding ems deal with Kates as union 1994 and Sweet Southern Review and r Katherine she is called asthma com- Home a compilation and TriQuarterly I The husband and wife duo read plications but as well they secondly Saturday Night Here at Denison Townsend di- 1 some of their works from the re- deal with the joys of par- 1991 rects the John Reynolds Young i cent book to an interested audi- enthood and how fun it is to Both books were pub- Writers Workshop and her cha- ence on Thursday December 5 in look back on the things your lished by the University of pbook Modern Love appeared in The Roost The event was spon- child has done Arkansas Press Baker has 1995 from Bottom Dog Press I sored by the Denison Big Read Baker and Townsend taught at Kenyon College Copies of the Shenandoah fea- 1 Bookstore made a reference to two and the University of turing Townsend s essay are avail- 1 The poems were about their five times when Katherine had Michigan and holds the able for 350 from Granville boo- David Baker Associate Professor of English Ct year old daughter Katherine as eaten insects Both equally Thomas B Fordham Chair ksellers or may be ordered directly well as the trials and tribulations funny but disgusting We of Creative Writing at from Shenandoah Troubadour parents go through while raising had a blast writing this Baker been known to hold readings peri- Denison Theater 2nd Floor Washington I ing s children commented odically on campus As well both Townsend recently wrote an es- and Lee University Lexington stude Baker and Townsend discussed Baker and Townsend have writ- Townsend and Baker have pro- say The Problem of Sincerity The Virginian 24450- 0303 times how Katherine was diagnosed with ten other works together and have duced their own works in adition Lyric Plain Style which