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The College of Wooster Open Works The oV ice: 2001-2011 "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection 9-7-2007 The oW oster Voice (Wooster, OH), 2007-09-07 Wooster Voice Editors Follow this and additional works at: https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice2001-2011 Recommended Citation Editors, Wooster Voice, "The oosW ter Voice (Wooster, OH), 2007-09-07" (2007). The Voice: 2001-2011. 171. https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice2001-2011/171 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection at Open Works, a service of The oC llege of Wooster Libraries. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oV ice: 2001-2011 by an authorized administrator of Open Works. For more information, please contact openworks@wooster.edu. 7 . illhe Wooster Voice vol. cxxiv, issue ii A STUDENT PUBLICATION SINCE 1883 Friday, September 7, 2007 . 7, . '"pl li i . r. .laeucnew is never now w gevnew, innovative thoughts into your mind,...but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a build-- - till -- J . .'iJ 1 I-- '. ni . , . - . ... w uteo arcnaic jurniture. Llean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. " Dee Hock, C.E.O of VISA Mw Center supports creative wort Alexandra DeGrandchamp I.S. venture creation fellowship, giv- Center over the summer break. Voice Staff ing students the funding and support Students in a "wide variety of needed to "make I.S. beyond idea and breadth... and disciplines" engaged in into action," states Domike. The fel- entrepreneurial projects and innova- Last spring, Reuben Domike, lowship provides graduates with one tive research. Working closely with Ph.D.. was named the director for year of support and up to $20,000 in faculty advisors, Wooster students Wooster's new Center for Creativity venture funding. Student groups can created a publishing company, an and Innovation (CCI). CCI is part of benefit from the Center's funding by exhibit featuring downtown the Northeast Ohio Collegiate acquiring funds for guest lecturers Wooster, an auditory display of the Entrepreneurship Program support- involved in entrepreneurial activity day's weather for the Ida Sue School ed by grants from the Burton D. or other projects. for children with mental retardation Morgan Foundation and the Ewing and development disabilities and a Marion Kauffman Foundation, "with proposal for enhancing Main Street the mission,", states Domike, "of Wooster. making entrepreneurship a, common Associate Professor of Theatre and accessible education experience" Shirley Huston-Findl- ey is one indi- for liberal arts students.' vidual taking full advantage of the -- "1-1 . During the Center's inaugural year funding and guidance provided Domike hopes "make to people aware Reuben Domike through the Center. This summer of the center and get people engaged she worked alongside Domike and , Director for the Center for in exciting projects." The Center has Creativity and Innovation student fellows Sheldon Masters '09 funds to create course curriculum in and Jamie Morris '09 a (Photo OPI) to develop The courtesy J entrepreneurship. first year business plan for an intergenera-tion- al for-pro- seminars run by Professor of Funding can cover both fit theatre company. A longtime Chemistry Virginia Pett, Professor of and non-pro- fit Huston-Findley- proposals. Domike dream of 's, the tan- A photo display at the Wayne County Library depicting the Theatre Kim Tritt, Adjunct a states that wide variety of individ- gible plan for the company was ini- history of Wooster, OH is one project that has been funded by Instructor of Physics Kristin uals will benefit from the new Center, tially developed through last year's the new Center for Creativity and Innovation (Photo courtesy Domike and Jimmy Meyers, assistant hot just those associated, with the first year seminar, Creafivity and Coffin). editor of the Wooster magazine are Business Economics Department, In Aging, which developed through Sarah actively utilizing its resources. Some an Huston-Findley- non-pro- attempt to increase the Center's 's research in elders Continuing with this summer's "Hopefully... a fit company sections, such as and Domike's awareness on has Huston-Findle- y. Tritt campus, Domike and the arts. This summer the trio progress, Huston-Findle- y hopes' to will then form," said classes,, will be implementing actual made contacts with student groups spent six weeks developing a busi- - create a course within the Her early work with the Center has entrepreneurial plans to hopefully be and other individuals on campus ness plan for the theatre company, Department of Theatre and Dance made her an advocate for its ability continued after the semester, while while advertising specific programs. using weekly or biweekly meetings in the 2008-200- 9 academic year to become a positive resource on Meyers's students will a fic- create Though Domike's work to pro- with Domike and the advice of for- called The Artist as Entrepreneur, campus. Huston-Findl- ey said, "if you tional situation to simulate entrepre- mote the is programs just beginning, mer President R. Stanton Hales to according to Huston-Findle- y, that have any idea that you see as a possi-- neurial theory. several students were able to take make the intergenerational theatre seeks to "collaborat'e as artists and Funds are also allocated for a post- - advantage of the newly created --- -i - - company- a reality.j- social entrepreneurs." See "CCI," k j page 2 African American artwork on display Residence Life spices Gillian Daniels Voice Staff -- up dormitory lounges The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art, Hugh Brown ... "Works on Paper" and selections from I "We've added new. microwaves to Voice Staff the AT&T Art Collection are currently kitchenettes all across campus and hosted in the Sussel Gallery and As everyone has probably noticed we've also replaced the fridges in Burton D. Morgan Gallery in Ebert that there are many new surprises in Armington and Stevenson." Art Center. the lounges around The College of However, the new improvements "Works on Paper" displays the work Wooster. have not all been met gracefully by of black 'artists from as early as late-19- th The most striking of these returning students. Last weekend, century. changes are the the newly-purchas- ed N ' probably large flat flat screen in This collection of African American V: - 1 screen TV's that have appeared in Kenarden li . Lodge went missing. works includes such artists as Henry J almost dorm "We every on campus. But purposefully didn't chain any- Ossawa Hale Aspacio Woodruff, ict'-be- rg Tyler, that's really just the tip of the thing down," said Bing-Krack- er. "We Ernest T. Crichlow, John Thomas of a broad initiative to improve want to be able to hold students to Biggers, Willie Cole, Elizabeth Catlett the quality of life in the College's the Wooster Ethic." and Romare Bearden. residence halls. The TV that went missing cost The variety of mediums within the The plan is being enacted through $900, and at the moment Residence 70 works is extensive, from watercol-o- r a joint effort between the College's Life is only asking it be returned, no paintings to linoleum print, some in Residence Life offices, facilities crews questions asked. When asked about the form of traditional landscapes and I.T. and department. The 'obvious replacing the set, Residence Life only . cultural pieces and others that make question arises: what else have these gave the assurance that the TV will social and political statements in differ- offices done for the students? be replaced, although' no considera- ent eras of African American history. - "Well, it's not just TV's in the tion has been given to how it should Henry Ossama Tanner is featured lounges. It's new furniture, game be funded. earliest in the collection. tables and other ways we are trying "If the missing television can Born in 1859, the son of a minister, I said V I I to improve the halls," Associate just miraculously show up, that reflects his Tanner religious upbring- Dean of Students and Director of would be great," said Bing-KrSck- er. ' ing through his etching "Christ Residence Life Christie Bing-KrSck- er. Currently, what serves as the best Walking on Water" (1910). model for what will eventually be The White House, under the Clinton The televisions, game tables and done in every lounge across campus administration, purchased one of his furniture represent The College of is in Wagner Hall's basement. There . thc-loung- works in 1996, and he became the first Wooster's desire to bring es is a billiards table, some new plush ' ( f piece African American artist to have i . in the residence halls up to couches, new lighting and a large flat work displayed,there. date and use what the Residence Life . screen in the corner. K , . Another artist within the collection, ' ' office sees as a great misuse of space. "I come down here about once a V :' - ; Hale Woodruff (1900 - 1980), studied So far, the College has allocated over day," said first-ye- ar Omar Atassi '11, - with Tanner in Paris but also in $30,000 to improving public areas in "I can't imagine not having this. I'd Mexico with Diego Rivera. the halls with much more planned for like to see more tables, thodgh. Woodruffs "Sharetropper Boy" (1938) the future. When we study dowh here there stands out as one of the most gorgeous "Most of the game tables realty isn't much." paintings within the collection with its haven't been delivered yet," said Later in the semester, Residence "Jitterbugs II" by William Henry is Johnson one of the pieces -- bright, flowing oils.