Hemmingway, Verbow light up· the. stage at Java Jams CoffehoUse Series 2001 Kate Hoyer thing I used ·to daydream STAFF WRITER about in school." Family. Friends. Hugs? Verbow debuted at Java This was not your typical Jams in 2000 as an acoustic rock show. show featuring guitarist The Student and and singer I songwriter Administration Center felt Jason Narducy and cellist less like a soaring cavern Alison Chesley. This year, and more like a cozy living Chesley had to be in New room on March 9, when York, so Narducy was Program Board's annual joined by friends and col­ Java Jams concert series laborators Eddie Carlson on opened with an appearance bass and Sunny Day Real by Verbow with special Estate'.s Greg Suran on elec­ guest Beki Hemingway. tric guitar. Hemingway's strong, Narducy was also joined soulful voice and intimate by his wife, Emily Stedman yet accessible songwriting on flute and nine-year-old made for a great opening daughter Alexa providing set. Harper audiences can't backing vocals on "Sweet Verbow (top) and Beki Hemingway (boHom) perform at Java Jams. seem to get enough of Felicity," a track from have a good story... I just · The combination of music scene. Hemingway, who also Verbow's latest Epic/ 550 made up a word." Narducy's acoustic guitar Soon, he was playing opened for Michael release, "White Out." They caught the atten- and Suran's electric guitar several solo acoustic gigs McDermott and Melissa Verbow was founded in tion of alternative rock pio- filled out the sonic space per week. Ferrick at a previous Java 1997, when Narducy and neer Bob Mould, who·took nicely, particularly on Eventually, he moved to Jams show, and made a tri­ Chesley (originally billed as them on tour and produced "Dying Sun", another track Evanston and befriended umphant opening for last the duo of Jason & Alison) their critically acclaimed from "White Out." Chesley while he was semester's Aimee Mann added bassist Lennie Epic/ 550 debut, "Chroni- The band really let loose working as a dishwasher at concert. Deitsch and drummer des." on the encore set, which the Bean Counter Cafe. "I found out hours Randy Morris. When asked A key component of included "Band on the Chesley, who had been before the show that we about the origins of Verbow's unique sound as Run," the Who's working on a master's were playing," Hemingway Verbow's name, Narducy heard on their debut, "Substitute", and surpris- degree at Northwestern recalls. "It's the kind of smiles and says, "I don't "Chronicles," and the fol- ingly, N'Sync's 1999 hit "I University's School of low-up, "White Out" is Want It That Way." Music, started sitting in on Chesley's cello. At once ele- The latter was meant to Narducy's acoustic gigs, "gant and searing, amplified be a joke, but Narducy and and the duo Jason & Alison with a pickup and effects company managed to give was born. Narducy says, "I pedals, it makes a perfect the song an extra someth.htg feel good when I write partner to Narducy's that made it transcend pre- music, and I don't feel good emphatic voice and plai~- vious perceptions of such at a day job." tive songs. "mainstream" pop fare. Watching Narducy and The interplay between Narducy got his start in his guests on March 9, you Narducy and his special the music business at age might guess that perform­ guests brought a new per- ten by playing at Cubby ing feels pretty good too. spective to Verbow' s reper- Bear with a punk ensemble, The ensemble was elastic toire. Carlson worked with coincidentally named and humorous, warm and him in the early '90s Verboten. familiar. Chicago band known as Later, while attending It was as if this group of On, and helped arrange colleges...in Taos, N.M. and friends and family was jam­ material written for Carlson Baltimore, Md. he started ming in their living room­ and Narducy's 1994 collab- writing songs and joined in this case, a very large liv- PHOTO BY TONY GRAZIOSO oration, "Woodsh~d." the emerging acoustic ing room. ' ' .Catnp11s Views 2 The Harbinger March 26,2001 Math clUb:· a winning .equation Justin Clack deserve special applause In this world where today' s PC environment the anything that opposes ~s ' STAFF WRITER for their performance, truth is considered opinion answer is often so relative can be viewed not as insur­ The Mathematics Club which has increased the and legalistic pundits that it can lack almost any mountable but as conquer­ was founded by Professor prestige of Harper College. denounce anyone who substance. able. Dominic Magno, . and has It is also significant to men­ claims to have found a uni­ It is self-evident that This leads to the next for the past year, flouiished tion the important role that versal, it is a supreme pleas­ 1 + 1=2, but is Checkov' s reason math should not be under the capable hands of the other devoted members ure to find a place where "The Darling" the ultimate viewed as merely a neces­ Krish Revuluri. played. the answer you work out is in femininity or a blasphe­ sary time-saving tool to Since its inception, the Without them, the aver­ the correct one regardless of mous, emotionally leaching work out theoretically the club has performed age scores would not have any opinion to the contrary. whore? practical problems that admirably in competitions been high enough to place You could argue that In order to enjoy mathe­ plague . anything worth­ and events. Harper in eight place. The any cultural activity, like matics, a person must while constructing. 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At the end of the day, if of Two Year Colleges." mon interest in a very spe­ cal formula, free from Because every problem you agree or at least partial­ Keven Hardt came in 25th cial pursuit. human error, is always cor­ is .only an obstacle if it is ly identify with this posi­ place with a score of 24.5, These fine individuals rect. larger than your present tion, the Math Club is the and Keith Schreer came in have found perhaps one of In literature, the correct ability, you have to find a place for you. 32nd place with a score of the most refined forms of answer is interpreted. It is way to overcome it. 24. pleasure there is: where else always influenced by the This stretching expands These gentlemen can you find exact answers? thought of the era, and in your horizons. Suddenly March 26,2001 The Harb~ger 3 Ask Your Wellness Advisor Spring Break is just type of sunburn includes Treatment is initially the around the corner. 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