Career Services Turns Eye to Fine Arts
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Crawfordsville, Indiana | February 8, 2013 | Volume 105, Issue 15 Career Services Turns Eye to Fine Arts SCOTT MORRISON ‘14 the arts at Wabash, or at least that is something that I see as kind of Eibert, who is a psychology ma- odist University (SMU). He focuses NEWS EDITOR is what Careers Services Peer Ad- down-played here at Wabash. Even jor and religion and history double on queer autobiographical work and though there is a lot of talent here, minor, has always appreciated the Wabash has over an 80 percent ac- viser Hezekiah Eibert ’15 believes. his “Mo[u]rnin’. After.,” highlights there are not a lot of people who take arts himself and participated in plays ceptance rate to medical school. One That desire to spotlight the arts identity struggle for his ancestors as the time to look at what is going on during high school. He hasn’t tapped in eight Little Giants is President or at Wabash was the inspiration for well as for himself as a gay man. “It in the arts both here at Wabash and into his love of arts since coming Career Services’ Arts events today is a show about grief and the sort of CEO of a company. Many other Wal- in the bigger picture after school.” to Wabash, but he thought his re- magic and ancestral line that is built lies go on to law school after gradu- and tomorrow. “Something that I The weekend kicked off yes- sources at Career Services would in that process,” Mosley said. “It’s ation. With all of these successes, see as a big part of the liberal arts terday with an information session serve perfectly to spotlight those also along the tracks of Oklahoma!, sometimes the campus forgets about is the arts itself,” Eibert said. “That titled “All About THE Arts” aimed who are pursuing the arts at Wabash. at informing current students about “We have brought a lot of other so there are songs and dream ballets career and internship opportunities people like economists, energy trad- and it is hopefully funny as well.” in the field of that arts. Today will be ers, etc. [to Wabash],” Eibert said. Mosley has also led theater work- led off at 12 p.m. in Goodrich Hall “You name it, and we have got con- shops in New York City in addition by Dine and Discuss, an open panel nections or brought people to the to the writing and performing he has discussion with Brigham Mosley, school, but I haven’t really seen done, but this will be his first time an up-and-coming queer writer and anyone here since I started work- leading a workshop at a college or performer; Ashley-Marie Quijano, ing for Career Services my fresh- university. Mosley said his first ex- artistic director of Odradek Theatre man year that deals with the arts so perience with autobiographical work Company in Chicago; and Jonathen this is something that I have felt we came while he was an undergrad. Wikholm executive director of Odradek. could bring better to the college.” “Tim Miller [my mentor] came to Tonight Mosley will perform his Milan Vydareny ’66, the finance SMU, and he taught a workshop latest full-length work, “Mo[u]rnin’. director for Odradek, helped connect about making your own work and tell- After.,” in the Fine Arts Center at 7 Eibert with Mosley and the other event ing your own story and that really set pm. “Mo[u]rnin’. After.,” premiered speakers. Vydareny has not been back at 9th Space in NYC’s lower east to campus in a few decades but saw the course for my career and the work side in February 2012. The weekend this as a good way to give back to Wa- that I am doing now,” Mosley said. “It will conclude with a workshop led by bash and bring something to campus. is exciting to be on the other end of PHOTO BY ERIK CARTER Mosley tomorrow from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Mosley, who will be performing that and to be teaching the skills that Brigham Mosley is a young artist who focuses on autobiographical works. He will in the Fine Arts Center as well. Both and leading the workshop, is a re- I have built. I’m nervous, I’m excit- perform in the Experimental Theater Friday night and lead a workshop Saturday. events are free and open to the public. cent graduate from Southern Meth- ed, and it’s going to be a lot of fun.” Marriage Plans Continue Wabash History PATRICK BRYANT ‘16 after commencement. Kopitzke, who vided a full scholarship for returning STAFF WRITER will be studying abroad this semes- veterans – lived on campus with their ter, said that he intends to go to law wives and, in many cases, children. Nearly any form of marketing school after Wabash. Hawkins, a A 1947 edition of “The Wabash” put out by the Admissions Office member of the class of 2012 at IU- described the living units of the “gov- at Wabash would boast the notion PUI, currently lives in Crawfordsville ernment housing project” as, “two bed- that there are plenty of engaged stu- and works at a hospital in Lafayette. rooms, kitchen living room and bath dents on campus. Although its ref- According to Kopitzke, the Craw- were provided, with two apartments erence may have to do more with fordsville address is a temporary to the unit.” Each apartment boasted engagement in studies, a number one, especially if he decides to go “an oil stove and hot water heater, an of Wabash students, among them to law school which is out of state. icebox, and miscellaneous furniture.” Cory Kopitzke ’14, are taking that Although he won’t face married Having structures like this on col- status to have a dual-meaning. life as a Wabash student, he will be a lege campuses in the 1940s and until In an elaborate scheme that is doc- part of wedding plans as a senior, and the early 1960s were very common umented in a YouTube video posted PHOTO BY IAN BAUMGARDNER | WABASH ‘14 as a student in law school, married throughout the country, Swift said. Cory Kopitzke ’14 proposed to his girlfriend Keri Hawkins earlier this year inside of by Kopitzke, he asked his girlfriend life will add to Kopitzke’s metaphori- This living arrangement created of five years, Keri Hawkins, to go the Chapel. He and other engaged students on campus have joined a long history cal plate. If he had to give advice a campus unlike what many Wa- of engaged and married students Wabash has seen. to the Chapel with him because they though, Kopitzke said that if mar- bash men experience today. One had won the opportunity to have riage is financially and logistically consequence of the arrangement bash student living in Mud Hollow. ding. She said that if the roles were their picture taken by an alumnus. feasible, one should “go for it,” but was the role of fraternity pledge- “We all had a lot in common, in- reversed and she was going to be off The photo op being a hoax put on by it is a decision that must be personal. ship among men who were a part of cluding a meager economic base; to graduate school, she would be will- Kopitzke, he had family and friends “I would say that’s a feeling you fraternities but lived outside of the young children, in most cases; hus- ing to take the step that Kopitzke will. hidden in the Chapel balcony to be have to have,” he said, “and it’s house and with a wife and children. bands working on term papers, the- “It’s like they say, you [can make] a part of his proposal to Hawkins. not something that you do because The reference to children was men- ses or dissertations till all hours plans, but then life happens,” she said. Amongst tears, she accepted. you’re pressured. I have no idea tioned in a number of documents that while wives tried to keep the kids As far as envisioning marriage as a Kopitzke said getting mar- when to get married is a good time talk about Mud Hollow of the mid-20th and the dishes quiet,” she said. part of his law school experience, Ko- ried to Hawkins had been a part for anyone, but if you think it’s fea- century. One reference in the 1947 As a form of a social group, the pitzke said that it was something that of mutual conversation and some- wives on campus formed the Wabash sible, and you both agree, that’s what article called the area “diaper row.” had been “in the back of his mind,” thing he had thought about over I would go with,” Kopitzke said. In a letter he wrote in the 1980s, College Dames Club. In a descrip- but he said he felt if he could treat the past year. He said that without Although marriage in the soon-to- long-time professor Dick Strawn said tion in the 1961 yearbook: “By far the it like a job, just as Hawkins will do sounding clichéd, “it felt right.” be Kopitzke family will take place af- the birth rate could be described as most beautiful group on campus is with hers, his life at “work” and at “I’m a big planner, and that’s ter his Wabash career, marriage used “considerable.” In Strawn’s case, he the Dames Club. Meeting weekly, the why I wanted to do it right,” he said.