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Deep Springs College Annual Report 2015 DEEP SPRINGS COLLEGE ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Letter from the Student Body William Ehlers DS’14, SB President Terms I & II The 2014-2015 school year at Deep Springs was an exciting one, both for DS’14 and newly arrived DS’15. The second years did their best to introduce the new class of Deep Springers to the various quirks of daily life in the valley. This involved showing the first year class the many places a Student Body meeting can be held. From the top of Chocolate Mountain and the Tortilla in the desert to the BH and its fluorescent lights, SB was held in almost every place imaginable. It also meant experiencing the joy of working together in the blistering heat during weekly labor parties, sharing the pleasure and pain of seven hours long (our record!) SB meetings, and spending three hours a day during our Summer Seminar attempting to understand the texts we had all read the night before. So equipped with the communal experience of Term 1, the SB was ready to change things up for the coming year. Like last year, we had grown tired of meetings lasting routinely until 2:00 am and so we adopted a scheme designed to allow the meetings to end by midnight. Time-caps, more frequent email announcements, and rigorous moderation according to Robert’s Rules were all intended to cut inefficiencies in our SB meetings. Similarly, in labor, too frequent labor parties had disgruntled the SB enough to make optional labor parties the norm throughout the year. The time gained from these measures was used in the many other endeavors Deep Springs has to offer. With the arrival of our new Natural Science and Social Science Chairs, Michelle Lanan and Jennifer Smith, students could invest their newly found time, among many others things, in the study of political science or the fascinating behavior of Eusocial animals, such as ants. Or, for those who wanted to spend their time with philosophy and literature, classes focusing on Plato, Homer, Goethe, or a slew of classic French thinkers were readily available as well. The extra time also went towards the extraordinary amount of extra-three pillar initiatives that cropped up throughout the year. Reading groups flourished. David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, William Carlos William’s poetry, and Hannah Arendt’s Human Condition were among the most popular texts read. Boojies and DSPACs remained an essential part of our monthly routine in the valley and in a leap of ambition, a group of students committed to a musical performance of Les Misérables for Thanksgiving. And so, over the course of year, it became clear that whether it is through labor, academics, self-governance, or the spaces that exist in between them, Deep Springs can offer an infinitely deep experience. How and where to find it, however, every student must discover for himself. Deep Springs Student Body Class of 2014 Rango Peng Class of 2015 Grayson Scott Daping, Chongqing Kingston Springs, TN Pranav Bhatnagar China Martin Dolsky Scarsdale, NY Jihlava, Czech Elliot Setzer Isaac Price-Slade Republic Ottawa, Ontario Harry Choee Northampton, MA Canada Londonderry, NH Kieran Driskell Ethan Reichsman Boulder, CO Sam Shzu William Ehlers Marlboro, VT Plano, TX Augsburg, Bavaria Nikolaj Gavrilov Germany Bryce Snyder Buende, Germany Jacob Sorkin San Rafael, CA Mount Kisco, NY Sebastian Hart Henry Gonzalez Altadena, CA Thomas Thongmee Dumfries, VA Jack Spira Lake Forest Park, WA Holladay, UT Hamza Hassan Tenzin Jamchen Goljanno, Somalia Matthew Zianni El Cerrito, CA Caleb Stevens Gahanna, OH Niles, MI Andrew Kim Jesus Munoz New York, NY Aaron Ziemer Panorama City, CA Thomas Sullivan Williamstown, MA Ipswich, MA Joseph Messer Ikhzaan Saleem Carter Wilkinson Carriere, MS Sapello, NM Bozeman, MT Class of 2015 Back row standing, L-R: Jacob Sorkin, Grayson Scott, Kieran Driskell, Elliot Setzer, Sam Shzu, Ikhzaan Saleem, Henry Gonzalez, Thomas Sullivan, Caleb Stevens, Jack Spira, Jesus Munoz. Front row L-R: Tenzin Jamchen, Nikolaj Gavrilov, Martin Dolsky, Carter Wilkinson. Class of 2014 Back row: Thomas Thongmee, Sebastian Hart, Matthew Zianni, Andrew Kim, Ethan Reichsman, Isaac Price-Slade, Bryce Snyder, William Ehlers, Aaron Ziemer, and Joseph Messer. Front row: Pranav Bhatnagar, Rango Peng, Hamza Hassan, and Harry Choee. Deep Springs College Board (as of publication) DS Corporation (non-profit directors) * LL Nunn Trust # Sally Carlson *# Eric Swanson DS’65 * Managing Partner Carlson Beck Marina Hsieh * Co-founder/Director for Research Marin, CA Professor, Santa Clara University Open Data Watch School of Law Gig Harbor, WA Jake Giessman DS’94 * San Ramon, CA Asst. Principal David Welle DS’80 *# Lyman Moore Middle School Michael Kearney DS’69 *# Producer & Development Director Portland, ME Software Consultant Pepin, WI Littleton, MA David Hitz DS’80 (Chair) *# Carter Wilkinson DS’15 *# Rango Peng DS’14 *# Student Trustee Founder & Executive V.P. Student Trustee NetApp Bozeman, MT Chongqing, China Sunnyvale, CA Frank Wu *# F. Ross Peterson *# Tom Hudnut *# Professor & Chancellor President Emeritus & UC Hastings College of Law Educational Consultant Professor of History, Utah State Resource Group 175 San Francisco, CA Logan, UT Los Angeles, CA Legal Counsel Katie Peterson * Christopher Campbell DS’73 Kinch Hoekstra DS’82 # Asst. Professor of English Professor of Law & Political Attorney UC Davis Fresno, CA Science, UC Berkeley Davis, CA Kensington, CA Deep Springs Staff 2014/2015 (academic calendar) Noah Beyeler DS’03 Padraic MacLeish David Welle DS’80 Farm & Maintenance DS’99 Development Director Long-Term Director of Operations/ Kerrie Coborn Amity Wilczek Faculty Mechanic Development Officer Academic Dean Michele Lanan Marc Mora Niki Frishman Valley Cowboys Herbert Reich Chair BH Manager, Chef of the Natural Sciences Bookkeeper / Office Zachary Robinson Manager David Neidorf DS’12 David Neidorf President John Stuart DS’12 President; Philosophy Janice Hunter Ranch Manager Adam Nyborg DS’97 / White Mountain Jenny Smith Ben Munger Cowboys Shelby MacLeish Social Sciences Farm Manager Abdramane Diabate Professor Garden Manager DS’12 Gwen von Klan Isaac Stafstrom DS’11 Amity Wilczek Registrar & Librarian Dean of Faculty; Farm Assistant Genetics, Ecology Lucas Tse DS’12 Visiting Faculty James Falzone Peter Rosenblum DS’77 Kenny Gradert Warren Rosenblum DS’83 Michael Brownstein DS’98 Brian Hanrahan Caroline Schaumann Jim Clayson Tom Miller DS’04 Bryden Sweeny-Taylor DS’98 Katie Peterson Faculty and Academic Calendar 2014/2015 Summer Seminar, 2014 --Introduction to Social Science --Public Speaking --What Went Wrong? David Neidorf & --Human Rights & World Explaining Disaster in the Amity Wilczek History Social Sciences Peter Rosenblum DS’77 & Jenny Smith --Independent Study: Leading a Warren Rosenblum DS’83 Creative Workshop (course instructors) --Jane Austen --The Chemistry of Food Kenny Gradert --Independent Study: Michele Lanan (writing instructor) Investigating the Personal and Political: an Exploration of --Mountains of the Mind Fall, 2014 Feminism and Intersectionality --The Age of Goethe Katie Peterson Caroline Schaumann --Eusociality and the Superorganism --Public Speaking --Independent Study: Studio --Visual Communication of Tom Miller DS’04 Art: Oil Painting Complex Information Michele Lanan Michele Lanan --Weimar Cinema Brian Hanrahan --Vertebrates of the Valley --Directed Study: Heidegger’s Michele Lanan & Being and Time Winter, 2015 Amity Wilczek --Independent Study: Intermediate Ancient Greek --Independent Study: Bovine --Visual Thinking, Visual --Plato’s Republic Paternity and DNA Analysis Modeling Tom Miller DS’04 Janice Hunter, Michele Lanan, Jim Clayson Amity Wilczek --Homer Spring, 2015 Katie Peterson & David Neidorf --Democracy in Comparative Perspective --Growing Food: From the --Independent Study: --Logic Desert to the World Engineering Sound and Music Jenny Smith Amity Wilczek --Directed Study: Practice of Ecological Research --French Thinkers --Music, People, and Places Amity Wilczek --Directed Study: Intermediate James Falzone Greek II Tom Miller DS’04 --Race and Education Bryden Sweeney-Taylor & Michael Brownstein DS’98 Letter from the President David Neidorf All of us living in Deep Springs for those who love this college. educational endeavors Valley would like to thank But students at Deep Springs beginning to spring up based in members of our extended take up its traditions by re- various ways on the Deep community for your interest and founding the Student Body Springs model. support over the past year. As anew each year, and the the college approaches the outcome of each new founding But the view that matters most Centennial Celebration (June is not guaranteed - it’s for this is blocked by these rhetorical 30-July 3, 2017), our thoughts reason that after ninety-nine high points: the educational naturally turn to the remarkable years Deep Springs can still experience, daily, personal, and history of the past century, and describe itself as an particular, that unfolds here to the new century that lies experimental school. This every day for individual ahead. tradition of re-founding a students. It is Deep Springs’ community centered on contribution to the lives, Our ability to look back over the dedication to the complex abilities, and aspirations of the record of one hundred years in project of education within individual students here, and to the valley is greatly helped by academics, labor, self- those who will be here next Jack Newell’s much appreciated governance, inflected by the year, and the year after that, that
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