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The College of Wooster Open Works The oV ice: 2001-2011 "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection 4-4-2008 The oW oster Voice (Wooster, OH), 2008-04-04 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), 2008-04-04" (2008). The Voice: 2001-2011. 191. https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice2001-2011/191 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 [email protected]. Wooster Voice Vol. CXXVlll, Issue XXII A STUDENT PUBLICATION SINCE 1883 Friday, april 4, 20O8 "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." Douglas Adams Avenue overhaul on schedu Pat Hughes dated renovation of the city's sewers thought it looked kind of cool, but confrontations between students and addition of bicycle lanes, safer cross- has Senior Staff Writer rapidly transformed into an $11 since then I really haven't heard any- some of the drivers, and we know we ings for pedestrians, decorative lights million complete beautification of thing else about it," said David have a beautification issue. The plan and poles that will be similar to the Pick-u- p trucks emblazoned with one of Wooster's most traveled Boardman '08. "I just hope that it's we've got I think addresses all three . ones found downtown on .Liberty logos from various local construction streets, $4.3 million of which was not going to cause ...u too much of those," said Holmes. "Dividing it Street, the reduction of curb cuts and companies have become a common contributed by the College. extra traffic while they're --working makes it hard for conflicts to come driveways for a safer and reduced sight of late around The College of Considering the magnitude of the on it." from someone shooting down the traffic flow and a landscaped median Wooster. Contractors have begun school's financial participation, some According to Dean of Students street and someone trying to get with controlled crossings in the visiting the campus to survey the sec- students are confused about what the Kurt Holmes, the College's main rea- across to the other side." College area. tion of Beall Avenue flows that actual project entails, and have begun soning behind the substantial contri- , The eventual scale of the construc- Joel Montgomery, engineering through the heart of campus in an to wonder how the renovations to bution was the safety of the students tion on Beall Avenue will include: division manager for the city of effort to submit the winning bid to Beall Avenue are going to affect their as well as the aesthetic results it will new curbs, sidewalks, and street Wooster and listed contact for the much-anticipat- the ed Beall Avenue lives at Wooster. provide. paving, the separation of storm and project, said that currently every- Streetscape project, which is sched- "I heard about it sometime last "We. know that there are issues sanitary sewers, a new storm thing is going according to schedule uled to begin sometime in early July. semester when I saw a picture of with the speed of the cars on drainage system, removal of and that the project should be com- What started out as an EPA-ma- n- what they were planning to do, and I Beall. We know there have been head utility lines and wood poles, the plete by the fall of 2009. Museum showcases campus art Homeless plight explored 1 1 i 1 1 ii. mi i i 1 1 n r u i 1 1 1 1 1 1 Justine McCullough ""tttthh i ii . i mini nrirriri nir n i um ninj mi mi. nuiniiniiawuwg Chandra Asar anonymously submit stories about their Managing Edjtor News Editor personal experiences of hunger and homelessness. These were read out For the remainder of the semester, To increase awareness of the grow- loud on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. at the The College of Wooster Art Museum ing problem of homelessness in the labyrinth outside the Ebert Art Center. will feature work s done by members of United States, Peace by Peace are spon- "By having these personal M the campus community. Currently, the soring Hunger and Homelessness week experiences that people have sent in, galleries host art by Doug McGlumphy, ' from March 31 to April s. In particu- that really shows that ...3 people who museum preparawr at the College; and lar, Ryan LeBlanc '10 is even sleeping have been homeless are going to col- r- works by members of Wooster's studio -l outside for a week lege, and they are just sitting next to art faculty, Walter Zurko, Marina "I figured it'd be a fairly good way to you in class," said Ham. ! , Mangubi, Bridget Murphy Milligan A get people's attention," said LeBlanc. Afterwards, there were more read- and Kathy Gorrell Harlan. "Often, people know that homeless peo- ings of speeches and poems, a group According to Director of Museums ple do exist in the world, but they don't jam session by students who brought Kitty McManus Zurko, "these three - I see it. Much less do they consider guitars and drums to- the vigil, and a exhibitions area unique opportunity for that it would happen" to College of performance by the COW Belles, a the campus community to experience Wooster students." . female a - student cappella group. exceptional art" produced by fellow He said he has some clothes, a jacket, More green ribbons were handed out members of the campus. The third possibly some shirts or sweatshirts for a on Thursday afternoon at Soup and ' exhibit will open Friday, April 25 in the makeshift pillow, a pad to sleep on and a Bread from 1 1 a.m. to 1 p.m. Peace by Sussel Gallery, featuring Independent cardboard box. "I usually look around Peace also sponsored a postcard and Study projects by 2008 senior studio art for a ... spot that looks comfortable, ter-writi- ng campaign directed at local . : majors. show is Zurko added that this sometimes a place that looks warm." senators and congressmen. i ( . part of the College's Independent He described that grassy areas or areas Peace by Peace will hold a movie . ..... Study Moveable Feast of near dorms that blow heat from the' night for Its last event this Saturday ' Undergraduate Research and the pres- i dryers are good options: The first film to be shown will be a doc- idential inauguration celebration. "It's different every night, and I try umentary by Anna Lemler '10 on " ' -- - r'4" the Sussel .- '''""!:" and make locations homelessness Currently, Gallery hosts i ". it different where in Chicago. McGlumphy's "Regular Guy I'll be visible while I'm asleep." Afterwards, they may show a docu- - --.f- - -- . r.' : -v ;r Monuments." The show consists of ? r Other awareness initiatives are being mentary on StreetWise, a newspaper four monumental sculptures that pay held each day of the week. On Monday, publication that many homeless sell to homage to the common citizen. Shaped Peace by Peace held "Street Shivers," in make extra money. The last movie will like obelisks, a form that McGlumphy which they handed out green ribbons relate to issues of homelessness as a says he borrowed from history due to printed with homelessness statistics temporary state for many people who "its association with government, outside Lbwry from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. have previously had jobs and homes. power and stabi lity," the forms consist "Green ribbons are for hunger," said Ham explained that the videos are of salvaged materials ranging from Stephani Ham '10, co-presi- dent of partially to help dispel stereotypes brick shingles ;ind linoleum to. light- Peace by Peace. through which many view the home- ning rods. On Tuesday, they conducted the food less. "There's an image ...3 of what a In the mid 1990s, McGlumphy's scrape and weigh-i- n from 5 to 7:30 p.m. homeless person is, of what a homeless sculptural artwork ranged in scale, yet at Lowry, in which they collected and person looks like," she said. "It's true Doug McGlumphy's "Regular Guy Monuments" obelisk-shape- d was grounded in architectural influ- are measured the food that people have for some, but not true for a lot." ence. Many of his works involved sal- structures made out of salvaged materials. Pictured thrown away. The results for this will "I think a lot of people find t hard vaging an archi tectural element, such as above is "Resourceful," which is made of colorful linoleum from be averaged with results from another to place, in their own daily context a column, and housing it in a reliquary the 1940s through 1970s (Photo by Karin Johnson). food scrape that will occur on ... that it happens to a lot of peo- form, thus "presenting architecture, as a Thursday. ple," said Ham. "Homelessness is way of preserv ing it," he explained. As he explains in his artist's state- plishments C D little attention is Also, throughout the week Peace by just a temporary thing that happens to Then, in 2006, McGlumphy visited ment, "It seemed to me that today's made to the contribution of the regular Peace has been calling for students to a lot of people." Washington, D.C., and the multiple politicians absorb the associative bene- giiy on a daily basis." monuments honoring national leaders fits of our nation's heroes, often with- presented him with a new idea.