The Pitzer College Magazine Fall 1977 1

The Pitzer College Magazine Fall 1977 1 The Participant is planned around themes of current and broad interest, and features articles by the Pitzer Col lege faculty, staff, and alumni, with occasional contributions by outside writers. The magazine also brings to its readers accounts of the faculty's re Itinerant Thoughts on Place search, writing and other profes Pau I 5 hepard sional activities in their respective 3 fields. Pitzer College admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic Political Style and the Search origin to all the rights, privileges, for Black Power in Los Angeles: programs, and activities generally ac Frederick Roberts and Tom Bradley corded or made available to students 10 at the College. It does not discriminate Michael Goldstein on the basis of race, color: national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions Celldom . Bullets . Sunny Side Up policies, scholarship and loan pro Adrienne Turcotte grams, and athletic and other 15 College-administered programs. VOL. 11, No.3, Fall 1977 The Welfare Crisis in the United States: The Pitzer Participant is published The Burden of Responsibility quarterly by Pitzer College, 1050 No. 17 Kirsten Gr!/lnbjerg Mills Ave., Claremont, Ca. 91711. Second class permit granted I;>y Claremont, Ca. 91711 . 26 Community Notes Designed and edited by Virginia Rauch 2 OUR CONTRIBUTORS . Adrienne F. Turcotte's life is .. When pressed, Paul Shepard calls marked by a variety of professional ac himself a student of metaphorical tivities. A graduate of the Pitzer class cynegetics and the relation of on of '74, he is now at the dissertation togeny to ecology. He has just finished stage of his Ph .D. at UCLA in the study a new book on animals as the instru of child development. He is a consult ments of human thought, to be pub ant to the Music Research Division of lished as Thinking Animals by Viking in ASI Market Research, Inc.; a probation February. He has taught ideosyncratic officer with Los Angeles County; and courses on the relationship of man and publisher with Pygmalion Press, of nature at Pitzer and the Claremont textbooks and poetry. His poetry, Graduate School since 1973, as Avery which is reprinted here with permis Professor of Natural Philosophy. He sion, appears in a limi ted edi tion enti has been a senior Fulbright research tled Silver Dllst. scholar, a Guggenheim Fellow in writ ing, and he was recently designated a Rockefeller Fellow in the humanities to .. Michael Goldstein is an assistant do research on the place of nature in professor of Political Studies. His American culture. teaching and writing have been con cerned with race and minority politics in both the American and comparative .. Kirsten A. Grenhjerg arrived at contexts. From 1973 to 1975 he was Pitzer C0IIege in 1965 as a foreign ex co-director of the Cleveland Metropoli change student from Denmark and ma tan Survey which focused upon the at jored in sociology. In her letter to the titudinal effects of a Black Mayor in editor she says, "After graduating Cleveland. His most recent publica from Pitzer in 1968 I went to graduate tion appeared in the January issue of School in sociology at the University of the Journal of Ne:.;;ro History and analy Chicago from where I got my Ph.D. in zes the rise of Booker T. Washington to 1974 (Thesis: Mass Society and the Ex a national political status. tension of Welfare). Since 1971 I have been teaching on a continuing basis, first for two years in a part-time posi tion at Hofstra University in Hemp stead, L.l., then for three years as as Adrienne Turcotte sistant professor at State University of New York at Stony Brook. Since last summer we have been back in Chicago, where I am teaching at Loyola University and my husband at the University of Chicago. "A joint book with David Street, my husband Gerald Suttles, and myself (Poverty and Social Change) has been accepted for publication with the Uni versity of Chicago Press and is scheduled for the summer of 1978. The Mass Society book has been selected for a special authors' forum at the Ameri can Public Welfare Association's Na tional Roundtable Conference in De cember in Washington. I will be there Michael Goldstein to discuss the book." Paul Shepard 3 Itinerant Thoughts on Place I It is not surprising that indi inspired the notion of genius loci religious impulse away from that vidual developmental processes had not meant pictures at all but a place. The bishops who consecra that comprise that sense of self tutelar divinity, a guardian spirit. ted them and the liturgy they fol often called "identify formation" It had been the same among the lowed referred to a Holy Land are generally regarded by modem Greeks., whose temples were ex elsewhere and a heaven and hell scholars as given wholly by the pressions of the character of par that were nowhere and human part of the environment: ticular goddesses in whose laps the everywhere. " Nature" is that tiny human ani structures were placed. The sub In his widely read book on Th e mal rescued and shaped by "cul tlety with which their architecture Sacred and the Profane, Mircea ture". Not surprising because of was accommodated to the terrain Eliade has instructed a whole gen the mockery made of the nonhu included even the configuration of eration on the making of sacred man by turning it into scenery, the the horizon; the temple passages places: the rites and ceremonies way picturesqueness reduces eve were designed to guide ritual that "cosmosize" a hearth or an al rything it touches to surfaces. processions whose central themes tar. But there is for him no real From the moment the grand were a dialogue between the peo chthonic, no real spirits, only tourists invented modem tourism, ple and the earth. human beliefs. Although at pains the gentility went about Italy However much they admired to insist on the religious man's speaking of the genius loci as the old arts, the neo-classicists loyalty to the heterogeneity of though it were a landscape paint more than a millenium later could space, he sees it only as something ing. Then it was hitched to con feel little of the old pagan interior made by men. The indigenous sumer recreation. The admirers of sense in which these sacred places qualities of the spring or cave or I landscape were never the oppo- were experienced as part of them mountain are for him little more nents of the Promethian hubris, selves. The Jews and Christians than markers. There is not the only the disguised and sometimes had methodically sought out the slightest hint that the spiritual en unconscious handmaidens of it. old shrines and covered them with tities which pre-classical Romans, The old Romans, whose poetry churches in order to redirect the Greeks or other so-called primi- 4 of the Paleolithic caves of Southern of memory enabled him to re Europe often use the erosional member everything and anything: forms of the rock as the basis of the all the words in all the paragraphs animal figure. This synthesis of in all the pages he ever saw; a man what is there and what is created who could repeat the names of a externalizes an inextricable rela hundred spices or a hundred flow tionship between the artist and his ers in order, regardless of how materials, between ourselves and much time had elapsed since he our bodies, man and nature. The saw the list. To Luria's question, artist affirms and formalizes that "How do you do it?" the man re tension which is the core of the plied that he could visually recall maturing self-consciousness of the book pages and that when he everyone. Art, says Modell, is al was given a list he took an imagi tives conceived as indwelling were ways a love-affair with the world. nary walk in a landscape, placing anything but cultural assertions. It was this search for self that was each object in view along the path. One always called in the forces not solely defined by acts of tran To recall them he had only to pic from a centralized heaven the way scendence and domination that ture that place again and his walk one dials a long-distance operator. moved the 19th century romantic through it. Of course he was ab Of course the Christians did not imagination, feelings for which normal. Most of us have the bless invent this making of place by will the Augustan humanist and mod ing of remembering trivia only in and designation. The ancient em highway-pipeline-parking-Iot the unconscious, if at all. But his civilizations of the Middle East are builder cannot conceal their scorn. anomaly was a clue to a strange speckled with temples built where Between the natural and human, and necessary relationship be they would be convenient to the given and made, the other and the tween place and mind. bureaucracy, the keepers of the self - what the romantics, like grain and the army barracks. The children, sought was "a place in shift of attention away from the which to discover a self." This apt Cobb's study was a search for uniqueness of habitat began long phrase of Edith Cobb's describes a the genesis of thought and creativ before the Church fathers declared childhood process by which the ity by studying the lives of the that all places on this earth are pret terrain and its natural things be gifted.

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