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The Official Organ of the Students of the University of the South A Legacy of 103 years of Student Journalism OCT. 4, 1994 VOLUME CLXXIV, N03 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH SEWANEE, TN 37383-1000 A Dream Deferred by James Karst
trators and Fine Arts professors selected Now that the Fowler Center has opened, architect Graham Gund to design the new the University is poised to attend to the building. Among Mr. Gund's previous
needs of the one academic department efforts is the new wing of the Boston Mu- deemed by the Administration as having seum of Fine Arts. He visited Sewanee and "unacceptable" facilities: the Fine Arts designed a new structure, situated on the Department. The plans for a new building comer of St. Augustine Avenue and Ala- are in and all that remains is the $6 million bama Avenue, next to Woods Labs. Since tag. price 1 99 1 , the design has been put on the shelf, Fine Arts professors are adamant about while the University capital searches for the The proposed Fine Arts Center, the six million dollar dream. the need for a new building. According to to begin the project. Dr. Pradip Malde, "Since I've been here, The Olin Foundation rejected the Vice- that the Fine Arts Celebrating Sewanee Women it's been recognized Chancellor's proposal three years in a row, Department has very inadequate housing." and Sewanee has turned to the Campaign by Stephanie Shepherd several parties on Friday and Saturday for Carnegie Dr. Gregory Clark agrees that For Sewanee to fund the project. A booklet alumnae. Celebrating Sewanee Women facilities are deficient and specifi- Hall's prepared for the Campaign lists the Depart- The University will soon commemorate will continue through Monday so that a leaking roof, cally cited such problems as ment of Fine Arts Building as the first twenty-five years of the matriculation of alumnae will have an opportunity to attend rotted windows, poor ventilation and a far as are priority, as academics concerned. women at Sewanee on October 7-10. The classes and the Founder's Day Convoca- Clark also pointed general lack ofspace. Dr. However, the University also needs a new weekend, entitled Celebrating Sewanee tion. One of the most interesting aspects of that controls out the 1920's style fuse box dining facility, renovations and endow- Women, will be a chance for Sewanee the weekend will be the Graffiti Wall. Carnegie. the electricity in ment improvements, goals that will cost in alumnae to remember and relive their years Alumnae have been asked to bring photo- insensitive The Administration is not excess of $90 million. Unless another at Sewanee. copies of pictures and memorabilia with to the needs of Sewanee's art students. In benefactor such as the late Robert D. Celebrating Sewanee Women has been them to be place on the wall. The wall will Williamson a 1992 letter, Vice-Chancellor Fowler comes along, the new Fine Arts in the works about a year and the schedule become a tribute to the twenty-five years of remarked, "Sewanee has outstanding building may sit in limbo for several more of events that has been created is more women at Sewanee. teaching facilities in all academic areas years. packed than Freshman Orientation. There Several activities may interest current except in the Department of Fine Arts." Drs. Clark and Malde stress that the will be presentations and discussions female students. On Friday, at 9 a.m., The letter was part of a proposal to the F. need for a new building is urgent, a senti- throughout the weekend, including the alumnae will be available in the Career W. Olin Foundation, which funds similar ment shared by Dr. Williamson, who wrote, Presentation of the Mary Sue Cushman Services Office to discuss careers in theil projects at other universities. Dr. "(This) building is critical to Sewanee's Scholarship and the Honorary Degree Re- professions. Also there will be a panel Williamson added that current facilities future." Since the rejections by the Olin cipients Panel. A silent auction and art discussion, titled Choices We've Made, are "makeshift" and "unacceptable for the Foundation, the future of the new facility show will feature works by Sewanee with women from several different classes proper teaching of fine arts." now depends entirely on the donations alumnae. Also included on the schedule of at9:30a.m.onSaturday. Anyone interested the functions should In 1991, a group of Sewanee adminis- received in the capital campaign. events is the women's field hockey games in attending any of
Norris at extension 1 7 1 8 in as well as the women's soccer games. In contact Cindy Asking the Tough Question the grand Sewanee tradition, there will be order to register. expected programs, female professors are found more coming Sewanee professors, to teach three courses per semester, are paid Is the Price of a Diverse Faculty at Sewanee Too High? frequently on college campuses . "You're a set salary scale. In principle, Dean Keele, "what going to see more women being hired be- according to by Matt Boucher minority, "despite," says is fairly determined to part cause there are more women out there," the administration I think are conscientious efforts on the not con- assistant profes- sustain these requirements "I'm departments to identify available can- says Dr. Corrie Norman, While the College faculty is renowned for of vinced, given the state of the market, that encourage them to apply." sor of religion at Sewanee. diversity of knowledge and personality, didates and its percent- [raising salary and reducing course load lor tend to suggest Dr. Norman attests to a rising simultaneously void of cultural diver- Though the statistics it is Sewanee. Along minority candidates! is necessary," "conscientious efforts" fail to age of female professors at Since the University's founding, un- that these sity. Dean Keele "I am not totally convinced by first with three other women, she was appointed classroom realize the hopes of the Regents, it is ." dergraduates have attended a desirable of the seven available tenure-track any means that it is important to recognize the current politics to one led primarily by an ethnically homogeneous year. Accord- Yet even for those minorities con- minority faculty recruiting. positions in the college this According to figures of aggressive pool of professors. with teaching in a liberal ads en- mi- ing to Dean Keele, women now constitute cerned of the To begin with, the number of eligible from last academic year, only one College remains unattrac- Sewanee approximately twenty-five percent of the vironment, the posi- nority candidates for a position at College's 94 tenure and tenure-track This is due, in part, faculty. tive to many applicants. limited pool. Presently, in gradu- undergraduate racial minority. Yet is itself a tions was filled by a to location. Community, isolation, and a "We've been hiring more women fac- ate school programs of the nation, only the lack of faculty diversity at Sewanee is opportunities are three than probably percentage-wise you spousal employment and small percentage of the students enrolled is ulty not accurately represented by facts major areas of consideration lor interested number of would normally have been doing out of the with no non-white. Consequently, the figures alone. It is a complex issue candidates. For Dr. Norman, life on the pool," says Dr. Williamson, "and in that minorities receiving their doctorates is 'This is a perfect solution. diversifying through Mountain was very attractive: compared to those of sense we have been for a more relatively low when With an increasing demand continue to (continued <>n page 6) 4, gender. .My guess is that will the majority. According to the May multi-cultural approach to education, the The Chronicle of Higher be the case." recognizes the need 1994, issue of present administration current administration's hope of all doctorates It is the exposure Education, only 1 1.8% In this issue... to provide students with enhanced same trend minority students. that minorities will follow the meeting, awarded in 1992 went to minority faculty. At their last attracting to mi- as that of women, but the reality of creates a competitive market for Regents declared diversifica- This Shorts and Picks pg. 2 the Board of minority professors is linked to compen- candidates, thereby reducing the op- - terms of nority tion of the College both in the "star S3(; ; Many universities employ portunity for a diversified Sewanee fac- professors - as a main Point-Counterpoint undergraduates and system" toentice highly sought candidates. overall strategic plan of the ulty. Rush objective in the the resources to offer higher sala- On pg8 supply and demand are simply Having diversity] is a "The institution. "I think [faculty teaching load, other Vice-Chancel lor Samuel ries and a reduced Keele, out ofphase." says very high priority," says Robert provide high incentives for Sports PglO "The demand for black fac- schools can translating Williamson. the College. "[But] in academic Dean of can essentially minority professors interested ulty is so intense that they actual success is the real Sewanee, Natural Born Killers... pg 15 that priority into country." research. The focus for faculty at write their ticket any place in the problem." This approach is scenario was similar however, is teaching. positions In years past, the Indeed, of all the tenure-track by the requirements However, as they are more clearly reflected years, not one for women. available in the past two maintained by the administration. All in- integrated into graduate school by an ethnic rapidly application was even submitted " The Sewanee Purple Oct. 4, 1994 Page 2 NEWS Purple Picks
'What to Do When There's Nothing to Do on the Domain'
•5-8 October. The Grapes of Wrath, extensive range of "folks" (cultures) repre- presented by Theatre/Sewanee (the orga- sented. The OCCU will take vans down for nization formerly called Purple Masque). the day, so check it out at the B.C. front
Frank Galatini 's Tony Award- winning ad- desk. the movie aptation of John Steinbeck's novel out- •October 14. Pulp Fiction, nation-wide. lines the Joad family's desperate move to starring John Travolta, opens sunny southern California during the Great The John Tarantino film won a Palme d' Or this summer, Depression. The cast is unusually large, so at the Cannes Film Festival which is un- you are sure to know someone on stage. and it is set in the 1970s... Guerry Auditorium, 8:00. canny timing for the Delts and PKEs who •10 October. Madeline L'Engle will host the legendary 70s party that evening, of Fall Party Weekend. be speaking at Sewanee. Beloved author of as part 13,14,15. childhood classics such as A Wrinkle in October Homecoming Time, Madeline L'Engle has written a va- Fall Party Weekend. riety of books which appeal to the post- stuff to do on the Domain.) grade school crowd including fiction and (Lotsa need to drive anywhere!! poetry. The bookstore currently stocks No Lawn Party. Kin- many of her best-known works. If you •Friday: TKP-KA acoustic band, at the Phi have never read Madeline L'Engle' s work dred Soul, an House. Tyrone Smith will play at the ATO you must go buy a book and read it. If you guys are cool because they have read her work and YOU MISS HER house. These TALK, YOU WELL ALWAYS REGRET get crazy and wear Superman-like capes. party at the Delt house. Polyester IT. Convocation Hall, 4:30. 70s •Until November 27. Willem de GALORE. •Saturday: Homecoming Parade down Kooning Exhibit, at Atlanta's High Mu- University Avenue. Game in which we seum of Art. Mr. de Kooning is a living trounce Rhodes, kick-off is at 1:00, so monument to the Abstract Impressionist Sleepless in Sewanee around 2:00. After the movement. The exhibit should include half-time should be opened Cafe Arcadia, a Seattle- Students aren't sleeping very well since Shenanigan's Theta Pi and SAE are hosting a some of the powerful, even violent images game, latte, and all those other jittery style coffee house serving espresso, cappuchino, party where Noble Free of women de Kooning for which is known. BYOB cocktail remodelled room at the back of the familiar potions. The cafe is located in a newly an acoustic band, will perform. The More than fifty of the artist's works are on Land, has a wood-topped bar and natural- building. The refreshingly clean, spare room Club, an 80s cover band, is at loan from the Hirschorn Museum. Call Breakfast Brant ley (pictured above) is the master finished Scandanavian furniture. Owner Britt House (a decade theme, perhaps?). (404) 703-4400 for more information. the Delt Arcadia is open from 8 until 1 in of coffee and conversation most mornings. Cafe 1 Bus will be at the Lodge. •October 8 and 9. Chattanooga Folk Purple School but reopens at 3 and stays open until the morning. It closes during the lunch rush, plays the basic Allman-Phish- Festival, the nation' s oldest multi-cultural This band midnight Photo by Christian Cutler. Dave-Dead repetoire, BUT they drive a folk fest is at the foot of the Mountain. It is purple school bus, so they get the official the basic folk art thing down by the Fraternity Pledges/Associates Fall 1994 of The Sewanee Purple. 'Quarium and HunterMuseum, but with an endorsement Galimore Robert Dewitt Johnston Allpha Tau Omega Alfred Nash Lea Richmond IV Thomas Campbell Bourland Walter Henry Clay McKay John Jackson Southerland George Cameron Drennan Neill Davidson Prewitt David Byron Harker Turner Paul Emery Noah Sange Shaffer Courtland Carter Eyrick Preston Brent Simrell Jr Phi Gamma Delta Brian Wheeler Field Spencer Davenport White Thomas Haughton Clough Paul David Greene Jonathon Colby Woodlee Matthew Henry Davis Charles Percival Merrick IV Johnalhan Michael Joseph Douglas
Don Weir G I adders Beta Theta Pi Kappa Alpha Woodbridge Atwood Ryan Hart Harrigan Todd Landon Earl Walts Charles Edward Norman Boehm Jr. Collin Pearce Husbands Ferguson Russell Glenn Marsh Chi Psi Andrew Dorsey Garzon Jr. George Kirby May William Alan Baker IV George Harold Wells Grubbs Robert Kirk Phillips Scott Griffith Evans Harrison Jones Williams Jordan Patty Robert William Hamillion Robin Houston Randall Keith Matthew Scott Robinson Blake Justin Haney Theodore Courtney Michau Peter Andrew Schmidt James Bacon McGregor Jr. James Corey Matthew Passman Craig James Polanich Potter Radiff Sigma Alpha Epsilon Wayne Eugene Ripley III James Smith Julian Lee Bibb IV in the Sewanee sun. Photo by Lyn Michael Todd Sansbury Shepley Procter The Parental Units enjoy a weekend offun Lofton Sturtevant Darian Blylhe Busbee Christian Josef-Benedi Setter Andrew Hutchinson. Tugman Roger Paulson Hailes Jr. Matthew Watkins Stiles John Charles Robert Craig Hoover of '69 The Women "Happily this void has been filled with a Reginald Norris Ramsey Jr. Epsilon Lam da Chi Alpha Delta Kappa (cxccrplcd '">"> lh« Sewanee Purple, StpL 26, 1969) courageous women, veritable Adam B. Reynolds bevy of Robert Aiken Seth Alan Eaker Christopher iron courage, Samuel Donnell Gwin Robbins 111 magnolia buds with sepals of Matthew Edward Calhey Warren Michael Holt another metaphor. Gentle, Kennedy Jr. Kenneth Hart Williford to pulverize William Morrison Christie III David Shorter feminine flutings charm the misty atmo- Thomas Charles Elsworth John Ramsey Moss Jr. Sigma Nu Hall with its artful grills Kevin Edwin Green Ronald Oman sphere. Benedict III William Gaillard Austin system has Christopher Nathan Hammond Frank Graham Pratt and reassuring "inner calm" William Robert Claycombe Thomas Mahlon Hulto been victimized by Destiny for housing Phi Delta Theta John William Cline Roy Johnson McCraw III purposes. Despite the sneers of chrome and Stewart Paterson Armbrecht Jarecl Pamell Culley Eric Jacob Steinmehl tile lovers, quaint Hoffman Hall is gener- Broyles William Bryan Glover Darian Christopher Thomas Patrick Nelson ously filling the role of Sewanee's first co- Edward Austin Chapman Matthew Patrick Horak ed dormitory. A beaverboard partition and Joseph Earl Currie Murray David Kraft Delta Tau Delta not Samuel Clark Ligon Jr. cleverly foraged shower curtains have Thomas Linn Brackelt David Revere Dansby Eager John Andrew Markham discouraged amiable relations between Jason Oliver Cobb Allen Hall "Sewanee finalized its integration Lingle Evans Richard Hafford Nash III Quote: in Hoffman. [These additions] may Jason Lamar Walton Comer Craig genders Brian Price program by admitting women to the college. of Thomas Alan Dykstra Rob Ferguson Jason partially account for the rapid increase Goldsmith Winthrop Middlelon Short Judy Ward was the first girl to registerfor Jason Andrew Emery Richard Thomas nymphs in Manigault Park." III Joshua H. Mil ledge White David Gray Farnham John Irving Houseal classes. -i--i NEWS Backdraft: The Contraversial Ban on Tapestries by Tania Samman
Gerald Smith, does not have a problem ceilings is blatant, the Deans of Students do destruction caused by fire. Open flame
It is hard to believe that the University with tapestries flat against the wall. He not make the distinction. Dr. Smith sug- devices, such as candles, are his main con-
would complain about fabric on the walls states that "They are a different magnitude gests that in rule enforcement, it is easier to cern. These occur much more frequently
when most of the school is covered with altogether from ones hanging away from ban a whole category than to make distinc- than his second concern, flammable liq- burlap wallpaper. Yet as of September 19, the wall... admittedly clothes are more of a tions between specifics. A sophomore re- uids. Third on his list is smoking materials. fabric wall and ceiling hangings of all types There have been many more fires from were prohibited from dormitory rooms in cigarettes than from tapestries, and Dr. the interest of fire safety. The controversy Smith has generated a plan for smoke-free accord. that stemmed from this order was com- dorms, which has not reached He hope to phase in non-smoking dorms, pletely unexpected, yet in line, it seems, as does response to student requests. tapestries are less of a risk in case of fire WHB£ AK YOUR as a His next concern involves extension than the clothes in our closets. &A$gTAnsimt cords and the general appliance load on were The Misconception electrical circuits. Since our buildings first erected, the world has changed. Our There is no question that with its old rooms provide two or three electrical out- buildings and wiring, Sewanee has a high lets, yet the average dorm room has twenty risk of fire. Yet some feel it is unfair to plugs. The buildings were not designed to address the wrong issues and make un- handle this load, and more thoughtful ar- founded claims against tapestries when chitectural design is necessary to reduce they are a low order priority in dealing with the burden on electrical circuits, fire safety. Tapestries are considered to be Housekeeping and tapestries together a threat to student safety as they add to the arc a fifth-level priority. Bad housekeep- fuel load in a room and could increase the ing includes cluttered rooms, storage of magnitude and range of a fire. However a boxes, and garbage containers left full and distinction needs to be made between the uncovered. Several fires have occurred in tapestries that are hazardous and the tap- trash cans uncovered and left in hallways. estries flat against the walls of dorm rooms. So why is there a new the locus on Tapestries that diffuse, interrupt, or tapestries? The memo distributed through delay the smoke flow to detectors are fire the SPOconceming dormitory regulations hazards. The attack on tapestries began in was misleading in its prioritizing of con- opposition to tapestries hung on ceilings cerns. Tapestries were first on the list, in over smoke detectors. Some students try to students- we can bold print, along with the threat of a $25 tapestries." sponds, "We are college their tapestries risk than " create "mood effects" with concern, candles, followed differentiate between a ceiling and a wall fine. A major lire by hanging them away from the wall and behind in second, and so on Dr Smith . Sacrificing Comfort for Convenience behind them. This is a seri- putting lamps responding to these regulations, does not for fire safety, Dr. Smith The Real Hazards the major In concerns ous fire hazard as it combines are a fire haz- suggests a move on several know why concrete blocks admitted that tapestries are not at the top; Dr. Smith elements of danger: high fuel load, heat, have never been a rather than on tapestries. He has his ard, and states that lofts they are just a current focus. And while the fronts and an optimum configuration of oxygen. protect the school from big issue at Sewanee distinction between tapestries on walls and own concerns to However Sewanee' s fire marshal, Dr. Hot off the Press: The 1994 U.S. News Rankings
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Nor I might faculty of the College and the School ily positive applications." and explained in an interview with the minority Hedrick Director of Minority add to a Northern student but Director of Admissions of Theology, and the not working from a writ- Assistant Purple. "We are Dean Robert Keele serves students have particular historical stereo- Jones described this part of the Student Affairs; working with quotas, but we Camelia Jones. ten policy or University established types associated with the South," said "Everyone in the ad- as chairman. The programs that together admissions process: do have a number of recommendations Hedrick explained that several factors responsible for recruit- the committee upon the commitment to di- missions office is equal an institutional Af- hampered minority student recruitment: country. of the 1989 Task Force on Minority ing in a particular region of the versity," said Hedrick. "In the competitive education market, we Each of the admission staff has a particular fairs. Sewanee students represent a wide students who choose to go to The Sewanee Summer Scholars Pro- lose minority region and within that region we make a range of economic backgrounds. Hedrick institutions." He added gram, which also grew out of the work of other more visible gen- special effort to find minority students." attributed this diversity to Sewanee' s "opt to stay in their Force on Minority Affairs, worked that many students Jones went on to describe other spe- the Task erous financial aid program: "Our strong black students students from the Franklin home towns" and that many help to promote diver- with 35 minority program helps us achieve cific programs that financial aid high schools "choose to go to predominantly black uni- Admissions Office runs the Mi- County and Chattanooga City socio-economic diversity." He added that sity: The every year since 1991 prepare them for versities." need-blind nority Prospective Week every March, to the University is "emphatically "To an urban-oriented minority stu- and sometimes His- college level work. process. The admissions which mainly black in the admissions sophomores. dent, [Sewanee's] rural setting may not be Participants sit Students apply as rising data when panic students are invited. committee sees no financial said Hedrick. "We are not Participants came to Sewanee for four appealing," in on classes, stay in dormitories, and meet considering applicants." population center and this during the next three summers and located in a large students and faculty. weeks The University "can gain diversity attracting minority in English, math, and adds to the challenge of Office is associated received instruction institutional visibility," The Admissions from heightened prospects; also, there are not large numbers Service for science. Students also attended workshops public relations with the National Scholarship the Director said. On the students within the Episcopal on the college admissions process. During of minority schools Negro Students, which runs college fairs side. Sewanee is "in contact with staff keep church and alumni components of our con- Sewanee partici- the regular school year, S.S.S.P. Hedrick also credited the throughout the country; nation-wide." stituency." in touch with participants through monthly alumni with pro- pates in those held in the Southeast. Episcopal Church and Hedrick maintained that the meetings and workshops. However, contacts across The office also participates in the Consor- viding the University with range of other small, Nearly 100% of student participating University is "within Episcopal tium for a Strong Minority Presence at the country : "Attention from the four- or two- selective liberal arts schools in terms of According to Jones. in the S.S.S.P. have gone on to across the country helps Liberal Arts Colleges. Church and alumni percentage of minority students." He names and addresses of year colleges or technical schools. How- [it's] maintain geographic diversity." "Sewanee gets the to also noted the University's good retention students ever, the program is being phased out this Admissions Office also maintains hundreds of potential prospective The record, saying, "We have had good reten- the U.S." year after the Budget Priorities Committee and policies designed in the U.S. and territories of a number of programs in recent years." costly to maintain. tion of minority students through the Consortium. determined it to to enhance the ethnic diversity of students. Separation of Church and State
State Flags Removed From AH Saint's Chapel
by Ken Williford Assistant Layout Editor church. "If anybody touches or moves things inside a holy space, people get up- For the past thirty or forty years there has set," commented Mr. Ward on the subject been a debate raging, sometimes quietly, conservatism at Sewanee. and sometimes not so quietly under the of religious The issue of acoustics at All Saints' surface at Sewanee. The state flags that, has also been an important one recently. until last May. occupied the nave of All ceiling of the chapel was sealed last Saints' Chapel were, and are. the subject of The year which has produced appreciable re- this contention. sults, according to Mr. Ward, in the quality It has been noted that, before the chapel music at services. The placement of was completed in 1958. there have been of the the state flags was detrimental to acoustics, flags of the states that contain the owning Ward claimed, since they tended to dioceses of Sewanee hanging in All Saints' Mr. amounts of sound from their Chapel. Before commencement in May of absorb large position in the center of the chapel. For this last year, however, the chapel staff and the new diocesan flags will be hung other executive members of the Sewanee reason, bays, away from areas of high hierarchy made a decision to remove the in the side concentration. from the chapel, and to eventually sound Chapel flags Above: All Saint's Chapel after removal of the state flags. Below: All Saint's contention over the flags and their replace them with diocesan flags that will The before their removal. Photo by Christian Cutler. removal that has been going on for so long hang in the side bays. of frustration for Mr. Ward, as According to Mr. Tom Ward, Univer- is a source Hallelujah Pottery believes that the existence of flags in the sity Chaplain, the reasons for the removal he is somewhat of a moot point. "We of the flags were two: the flags are detri- chapel have to ask ourselves," said Mr. Ward, Open mental to the acoustics in the chapel, and, "What is the chapel, and what is it not? It 9am - 5pm more importantly , the dioceses themselves worship either the states or the - own Sewanee, not their respective states. is not to Tues. Sat. dioceses. It is to worship the God who The latter has been the subject of conten- Jesus from the dead." Thus, in Mr. tion for as long as Mr. Ward can remember raised Ward's opinion, whether or not the flags at Sewanee, while the former is a relatively Pottery Classes Offered
stay in thechapel is a matter of little signifi- - new issue. Saturdays 10am Noon cance when one regards the issue from a The separation of church and state is. Session I: Sept. 10 -Oct. 29 standpoint. Concluding this ar- of course, a large and difficult issue. In religious Session U: Nov. 5 - Dec. 24 gument, Mr. Ward continued, "I'm not Sewanee's case, however, the issue is quite Call 598- 0141 for information sorry to see the flags go... Things like that self-explanatory. What is difficult for some are a distraction from the real focus." to accept, it seems, is change inside a i rtt oewunvt: ruruiv
Community Council Passes New Dog Policy
by Angela Ward ties need laws to control animals. I have a Dean Pearigen, as well, feels that in tees all people with or without disabilities dog myself, but obviously there's a law order for Sewanee to comply with the access to public facilities, the community At its meeting on Monday, September 26, which must be enforced." American Disabilities Act, which guaran- must enforce the new Dog Control Policy. the Community Council passed its final He says, "Dogs hinder people's access to revision of the new Dog Control Policy, public facilities. I'm an animal lover with which will come into effect on December a particular affection for dogs, and I will
1, 1994. This new policy, which is essen- miss their constant presence on campus, tially a leash law, requires that all dogs be but I can understand why the University under the control of their owners at all has to go this route." times while on the Domain. Any dog that Carolyn Hatchett, a member of the years, is not under its owner' s control is subject to Sewanee community for the past 26 pick up by the Sewanee Police Depart- says that the Sewanee dogs are a "sweet ment. and charming" aspect of the community. While many members of the commu- "However," she says, "there have been incidents in the past." nity feel that the enforcement of the new some bad with dogs his leg as Dog Control Policy will bring a sad end to She recalls a man losing to a dog, daughter being bitten. a long-standing Sewanee tradition, most well as her own Hatchett points out that the dogs are a members nevertheless agree that new policy Mrs. particular hazard for those individuals with is a necessary measure to preserve the guide dogs and elderly residents of the safety of the community in general, as well community. She feels that the new policy as to keep the community's laws up to -par is also in the best interests of the dogs. She with state and federal statutes. According says, "I understand that owners do not want to Dr. Tom Kepple, Vice President of Busi- to confine their dogs, but if people care for ness and Community Relations, Sewanee their dogs, they will not let them run loose. law enforcement has in the past more or There are a lot more cars in Sewanee these less ignored the state leash law and tried Who's going to eat all days." "Now", Mrs. Hatchett says, "some focusing on individual "problem makers," Will Sewanee really be the same with the new leash policy? will protest to the policy, but good grief, rather enforcing a community-wide policy. of the extra ice cream from Gailor? we'll survive." "However," Dr. Kepple says, "communi-
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hiking, and dancing, and takes ballet classes women's True here at Sewanee. She is part of a Come that meets on the Mountain, and, like Wellness A Dean group New buff. She lives outing program, and discipline. "Stu- many students, is a movie by Ariel E. Bennett the Winthrop, whom she says she dent directors are the heart and soul of with her cat, Line in Gailor: part "I really enjoy spoils "like a son." Still, her favorite Lee Bradford Guerry, J.D., the new Asso- student life," she said. friends, Alternative to Salad with them." Every week, she of Sewanee life is talking with old An ciate Dean of Students, asked the first working proctors and with the meeting new people, and working with question of her interview herself. "Does meets with the head working with students," of police to discuss problems and students. "I love the Purple really want to do an article on chief at work on the she said. "Even the discipline part of my by Emily Zoghby meV ideas, and is currently hard Women coming job is all right because I get to know so Ofcourse. Since Mary Sue Cushman's Celebration of Sewanee the infamous "freshman October. At that celebration, they many people." Fighting retirement at the end of last semester, there up in then, only one ques- fifteen" has become somewhat present a gift to the University in the There remains, has been a great deal of interest, as well as will of the named for Mary Sue tion: is she related to Charlotte Guerry, for easier with the addition new many questions, concerning the vacancy at form of a scholarship is named? Yes: Wellness Bar in Gailor. Added at In a way, this will bring Ms. whom Guerry Auditorium the Dean of Students' office. Dean Cushman. , Charlotte' s husband and for the semester by full circle, for it was Dean Alexander Guerry the beginning Cushman left quite a legacy behind her, Guerry example which inspired her to Vice-Chancellor in the 1940's, was her 1993 Sewanee graduate Lisa Mills, and with the celebration of 25 years of Cushman's great-uncle. However, she hopes that people i t offers hoten trees, vegetables, and Sewanee women right around the corner, return to Sewanee. — her connections "I desserts that are low in calories, fat, all Ms. Guerry' s time is won't think of her by was some pressure to fill the job with Of course, not there sodium. her job. She loves swimming, want people to think of me as me." cholesterol, and the right person. taken up by "I remember how hard it was Ms. Guerry fits the bill. She herself to try to eat healthy as a student," attended Sewanee, earning a bachelor's said Mills who noticed last spring degree in political science before attending that many students, especially girls, law school at the University of Virginia. would completely pass up the en- From there, she joined a law firm, and after trees and head for the salad bar a year moved on to the trust department at hoping to find healthier fare. "I'm a bank in Washington, D.C, where she not a salad person, and I knew that worked for nine years. However, when she students wanting to eat healthy heard that Dean Cushman was retiring, she couldn't be satisfied with salads," took the opportunity without hesitation. saidMs. Mills. "When I was at Sewanee," she said, "I Offering two entrees, two veg- always wanted to do this job. I wanted, etables, a starch, and a dessert for someday, to move into counseling so I lunch and dinner, the Wellness Bar could work with students. Being here is is considerably healthier than the kind of a dream come true." norm cafeteria food. A complete Her job certainly allows her to work meal from the Wellness Bar (con- closely with students, and do a good bit of sisting of an entree, two vegetables, counseling as well. As Associate Dean, a starch, and a dessert) has no more Ms. Guerry is in charge of student affairs; than 550 calories, 18 grams of fat, she supervises student activities, housing, Dean Lee Guerry processsing with Dean Rob Pearigan. Photo by Lyn Hutchinson. 125 mg of cholestrol, and 650 mg of Diversity, continued — sodium. the administration have to check yourself as an ing, efforts on the part of many students feel that place where my husband and I felt that we "You do While Williamson is sure that you're not have been unsuccessful. Dr. Bar is a great idea, it is would be joining a community as well as institution and make the Wellness Founda- into thinking that you're presently trying to devote Brown in a rudimental state. Since the coming to the school." Though appealing fooling yourself still faculty exchange of ideas but only tion money toward hiring a minority just began this fall, the to many native Southerners like Dr. about a free program and that's member for the '95-'96 academic year, but has not Norman, however, the campus community among people of a certain kind, nutrititional information I've never there are no promises. displayed as Ms. Mills does not pretend to be ethnically multi- a hard thing to do... however, been as well very well in In a 1963 address to American Uni- also has been some faceted. Sewanee' s inability to provide the seen [the star system] work hoped. There star in an versity, President Kennedy remarked, "If food is African American, Hispanic, Asian schools. If you are an isolated confusion between what burn out we cannot end now our differences, at least Line and what American, or Native American candidate otherwise dull planet, you either part of the Wellness we can help make the world safe for diver- with the cultural and ethnic diversity that is or you fly off." isn't. the counter-produc- sity." While differences off the Mountain idea of the Wellness available in most urban university settings While aware of "I think the of faculty Provost Fred Croom are a dime a dozen, the price I do feel that it has been a major deterrent for minority tivity of the star system. Bar is great, but to the possibility. diversity on the Mountain may just be too student imput. recruitment in the past. is not completely closed could use more say 'We want high. a suggestion With all of these factors working "If the students were to Possibly, setting up and we don't care what it for comments about the against its efforts, how can the Adminis- minority faculty box make a be helpful," tration possibly integrate a more ethnically takes to get them,' then that would Wellness Bar would difference." r said Katrina Nelson. diverse faculty into the College? How can \ undergraduates The Cinema Guild runner who has Sewanee become a more attractive place Yet the feeling among Jason Vinton, a overwhelming opposition to added seen how healthy cafeteria food for minority candidates interested in is an presents candidates. training cen- teaching? "Well," says Dr. Williamson, incentives for ethnic minority can be at the Olymic students, Caryn Chisenhall, a ter, has not been impressed with "that's the tough question." If it is the Like many Baghdad teach- to offer. Administration's opinion that the only an- junior in the College, believes that what the Wellness Bar has ing must come first for Sewanee professors, "Healthy cafeteria food can be swer is to use the star system, the impli- Cafe and a star system could divert the done/' said Mr. Vinton, "but more cations of faculty morale must be consid- The "melting pot" theory is University's fundamental focus from the emphasis needs to be placed on ered. Paying a premium to non-white tested when a German tour- create un- importance of teaching. pasta, chicken, and fish. While I professors could potentially ist (Marianne Sagebrecht) is students of the College also haven't been impressed with what healthy relations between the faculty and Many stranded in the California importance of a diversified the Wellness Bar has to offer, at admini stration as well as inter-departmental question the desert town of Baghdad; with that ethnicity plays a rela- it's a move in the right direc- tensions. faculty, feeling Jack Palance and C.C.H. least role in the classroom. "You will probably have more nega- tively insignificant Pounder. (Color, PG,91 min., tion." include more from the faculty and some of Some undergraduates are not as concerned Future programs tive reaction USA: Percy Adion, 1988) background of professors Jeff Duncan, a new chef the staff you already have that [it] would with the ethnic recipes by are with how they present their for the Wellness Bar, and complete offset any good that bringing in that [mi- as they at the Sewanee the nutritional infor- nority] would achieve," Dr. Williamson material. print-outs of Administration is not questioning mation. Seth Eaker is working on says. "There is a whole lot more to the The Union Theatre in the College, fitness programs in the notion of collegiality." the place of faculty diversity offering ..sturdy notion students how to use Doing her graduate work at Harvard however. "There is a fairly. October 8, 7:30 pm gym to teach part of the liberal and play dif- University where the star system is not that this is an important various equipment Dr. Williamson. Yet .Admission is free. sports like racketball. uncommon, Dr. Norman understands the arts component," says ferent complexity of minority recruit- frustration of efforts to diversify faculty: given the J ' Oct. 1994 4, Tlie Sewanee Purple Page 7 NEWS
The ClaUSe A Report of CPC's Research on Statements of Equal Rights by Greg Bautista mative action policy (for example, by hir- tion. Nor should institutions, I think, be Chairman, Coalition Policy Change for ing more gays and lesbians over the next involved in soliciting people to identify
thirty years in an effort to correct an "im- their sexual orientation." This study was initiated by the CPC to determine the legal feasibility of adopting and balance" among his heterosexual and Affirmative action and nondiscrimi- policy adhering to a cf equal treatment and nondiscrimination, with sexual orientation as nonheterosexual employees) he may have nation policies are clearly distinct in pur- clause to the current nondiscrimination policy a added of the University of the South. to commit himself to keeping statistics on pose. As a result, the sexual orientation Since the question at hand is one of policy, this report would be incomplete without the gender, race or national origin and clause in Dartmouth College's nondis- after analysis first presenting conclusions made an of nondiscrimination policies of sexual orientation of his employees. crimination policy is no more burdensome various liberal arts colleges and universities. These conclusions form the first section of Dr. Childers assured us. though, that to the college than offering PhysEd 318: the report. The second section discusses comments made by Mary M. Childers, Ph.D., no affirmative action laws require institu- Horseback Riding classes. Problems of the Director of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action at Dartmouth College and tions to maintain statistics regarding a legal burden would arise if an educational Joyce D. Miller, the Director for Institutional Diversity at Bryn Mawr College. person's sexual orientation. To understand institution decided to commit itself to an * * * this matter more clearly, it is necessary to affirmative action program for the hiring of
The colleges and universities analyzed closely resemble the University of the South or first understand an important distinction more nonheterosexuals.
are institutions with which the University of the South competes. Many have a religious between the purposes of affirmative action Is a sexual orientation clause in a non- affiliation. They were selected using the following criteria: [I] total undergraduate and nondiscrimination policies. Ms. Miller discrimination policy a legal burden for the
enrollment, [2] entrance difficulty/selectivity and [3] national ranking. Specifically, this and Dr. Childers explained that policies institution? "In my experience." answered
includes institutions [ 1 ] that have a small enrollment*; [2] that are either "very selective" regarding nondiscrimination do not need Ms. Miller, "it is not a legal burden to or "most selective"** and [3] that ranked highly in studies conducted by the Chronicle the support of statistics, whereas policies include sexual orientation in the College's ofHigher Education or VSNews. Factors such as political reputation or association, creed regarding affirmative action do. Specifi- nondiscrimination policy. The College's and current or previous nondiscrimination policies were not used as criteria in the selec- cally, "no federal laws require affirmative policy has been in place for some time and
tion of institutions. The mentioned criteria produced sixty institutions for this study. action o_r nondiscrinunation due to sexual during my seven years, no one has ;idvo- said Miller, cated changing the policy." In fact, stu- Institutions which have not issued official nondiscrimination statements concern- orientation. Therefore," Ms. professors and administrators at Bryn ing sexual orientation: Total: 10 [17% "we have no obligation to keep such records dents, and do not." Mawr regard the policy as a useful tool and
Centre College Rhodes College "Although I strongly favor protecting not a mere compilation of "politically
C of the Holy Cross Union College all people from discrimination on the basis correct" words. The same is true of the University of Richmond Eckerd College of non-performance related factors, such policy at Dartmouth College. Hope College Washington and Lee Univ as sexual orientation," added Dr. Childers, Greater nondiscrimination is not a le- Millsaps College Whitman College "I do not think it makes sense to start gal burden. It is instead a moral commit- including gays and lesbians in affirmative ment: an official declaration that a college Institutions which have issued official nondiscrimination statements concerning recruitment plans. or university accepts an obligation to pro- sexual orientation: Total: 50 [83%] action statistics and Because we cannot tell how many people vide protection, as well as benefits, to all
it impossible the members of its community without Amherst College Grinnell College Ohio Wesleyan Univ are gay and lesbian, would be Barnard College Guilford College Pomona College to identify utilization and under-utiliza- regard to factors that are not relevant. Bates College Gustavus Adolphus Reed College Bowdoin College Hamilton College St. Lawrence University Bryn Mawr College Haverford College Smith College Bucknell University Hobart College Swartmore College Carleton College Hollins College Trinity College (Conn.) Claremont McKenna Kalamazoo College Tulane University Colorado College Kenyon College Univ of Puget Sound Connecticut College Knox College Vanderbilt University Dartmouth College Lafayette College Vassar College Davidson College Lawrence University Wabash College College DePauw University Macalester College Wellesley (Conn.) Dickinson College Middlebury College Wesleyan U William Smith College Duke University Mount Holyoke College College George Washington Univ Oberlin College Williams Gettysburg College Occidental College the Chronicle Higher Education under 5000 as reported in Barron's Annual Survey **according to of
claims of dis- ADVANCED INSTRUCTION PROGRAM WE SPOKE WITH two administrators about or informally investigate crimination in hiring and promotion on the the sexual orientation clauses in each of 5 HOURS DUAL INSTRUCTION basis of sexual orientation." their nondiscrimination policies. Dr. Mary 5 HOURS GROUND INSTRUCTION According to Dr. Childers, affirma- M. Childers, the Director of Equal Oppor- tive action laws require that institutions SEWANEE-FRANKUN COUNTY AIRPORT, TENNESSEE tuni ty and Affirmative Action at Dartmouth about the gender, race Joyce D. Miller, the Director maintain statistics College, and (for Pilots with Private Pilot Certificates or Higher) and national origin of persons employed. for Institutional Diversity at Bryn Mawr given "nu- This way, companies can be This course of advanced Instruction Is aimed at Increasing the pilot's College, answered our questions concern- for attaining what the gov- knowledge of stability and control, airplane performance, airplane stresses, legal ramifi- merical goals" ing nondiscrimination and the operations, limitations, and flutter. Ground Instruction will be given In these ernment considers a racially and sexually cations of a sexual orientation clause. subjects followed by proof of the theory In flight. Special attention will be "balanced" workforce. Theoretically, af- paid to recovery, both visual and hooded, from unusual attitudes resulting The first question we presented was from wake turbulence and other factors. Aerobatics maneuvers may also be firmative action will eventually integrate simple: why would a university decide to done under the hood. men and women of all races into the entire include "sexual orientation" in its nondis- workforce; thus, the effects of over 100 The pilot will be taught to recover from unusual attitudes In the type of crimination policy if no federal laws and plane he will most likely be flying (a slde-by-slde wheel control) and this Is a unfair treatment and discrimina- institu- years of few state laws require educational course Oeslgned to aid him in flying all airplanes more safely. reversed. Affirmative action Miller, tion will be Emphasis will be placed on spin theory and practice of entries and tions to do so? According to Ms. laws are widely criticized by employers, recoveries from Incipient spins and well-developed spins Spin recoveries policy prohibits discrimina- "Bryn Mawr under the hood will be practiced If desired this mandate of statisti- because however, because tion based on sexual orientation problematic. It re- prohibited cal data can be very Sewanee-Franklln County (University of the South) Airport Is located sexual orientation, like other paying an employee to obtain the away from airways and control zones so that there will be no time-wasting provide relevant quires considerations, does not flights to find a "clear" area. data, organize it, record it and keep it information for decision on admission to current In short, the mandate is burdensome 615-598-5318 our educational programs or employment." ori- for the employer. r Childers explained that sexual WILLIAM K. KERSHNER Dr. doing any- Dartmouth Some employers hesitate P.O. Bo, 13M entation can be found in **nn—. TN I717MIM make this process of data because thing that might College's nondiscrimination policy more difficult than it already is, practical collection the clause serves an important, hesitation is certainly not without inclu- and this purpose for the college. "I find the reason. If an employer decides to make our statement sion of sexual orientation in sexual orientation a new factor in his affir- to formally quite necessary in allowing me Purple Oct. 4, 1994 Page 8 The Sewanee OPINIONS
(Xfjc ^ttezmt purple the University the South Faith the Students of of The Organ of of Defense Official In Established 1892 by Chris Cudabac should be Christian, in this time Church's most characteristic of the University inevi- The Sewanee Purple is owned and operated by the students News Editor and in this place, is, if not qualities is not just a tolerance but directed by the editor in of the South. All editorial and financial matters are table, very likely. I will not dis- a mandate for questioning and consultation with the staff and under the authority granted by the University merits of this broadly doubting exploring. It has I would not go so far as to say that cuss here the and Publications Board. Christian quality, because this is always been my understanding Unsigned editorials represent the opinion of the senior editorial staff. what Mr. West has done is attack necessarily in their faith Signed editorials represent the views of the writer and do not the faith itself, but he does seem to not a proper forum for purely that one who is smug views of The Purple. reflect the editorial have made some remarks to which theological arguments, but rather is far more in peril than one who Vie Letters to the editor are welcomed and should be mailed directly to I prefer to note the particular has grave doubts. What can this I would take objection. would Purple, deposited in Vie Purple's drop box on the University computer net- or benefits of the Episcopal quality curious spirit be besides beneficial work, Or sent via E-mail. The question of whether writer's telephone institution learning? Letters to the editor must be signed with the name, not Sewanee is to be a University of this University. to an of University. Unsigned number, year of graduation or relationship to the I readily acknowledge I curious as to what that is Christian, and more spe- will am The Purple reserves the right to edit letters for letters will not be considered. feels are cifically Episcopal, is moot. The that I am strongly prejudiced when "timely goals" Mr. West language, length, or matters of excessively poor taste. The editor will serve bishops own God's Holy Moun- it comes to the Episcopal Church. obstructed by the Christian nature as final judge of the appropriateness of any submissions. It was, to a great extent, my of the University. Is freedom of Kevin West Editor tain, and they are not about to let nursery, my kindergarten, and my academic inquiry one of these Chris Cudabac News Editor it go. A more useful and relevant a school the seems to Lindsey Delaplaine Layout Editor question is whether or not this elementary school. To goals? Then Church Robbie Griffith Sports Editor Christian, and more particularly that was far more overtly Epis- welcome rather than obstruct it. Living Arts Editor I imperfect in this Jonathan Meiburg Episcopal, quality is a good and copal than Sewanee now is owe The University is Tindall Advertising & Subscriptions Castlen healthy thing for a University. my knowledge of multiplication, freedom, but in many ways it is Business Manager Wendy Watterson and to parse perfect than quite a few. Is a Mr. West seems to feel it is not. I the state capitals, how more Jennie Sutton Campus Events Liasion would disagree. an English verb. I also owe it, to a failure to offer for consideration a Ken Williford Assistant Layout Editor To have a religious quality great extent, a sense of what I am system of values one of these Advisor Dr. John V. Reishman, Faculty the Church ingrained into the fabric of an supposed to be doing here, my "timely goals"? Then Purple is printed bi-weekly; subscriptions are available for The Sewanee forjustice actively obstruct such a institution is a thing of great, if not feelings on striving and does $12 per year.The University of the South essential, worth. The idea of peace and respecting the dignity failure. 735 University Avenue. Sewanee. TN 37383-1000 learning" and "secular of every human being, and on Mr. West seems to place (615) 598-1204 E-mail: [email protected] "secular doing mercy, weight on the fact that the education" is a relatively new one, loving freely and much be and not necessarily a healthy in- and so on. Church is not frequendy to novation. To consider the physi- It is the tendency of the found as an influence in modern Problem Episcopal Church to focus on culture, that "we, as a nation and, Parking A cal nature of the universe without generation, are also considering how one's con- these things, and to give them especially, as a is a good way to calm television by Lindsey Delaplaine exercise ception of the physical universe greater weight than questions surrounded by: MTV, down before a big test, or get out angels dancing sitcoms and dramas, Layout Editor fits into a greater scheme of things, about numbers of network frustration after failing one. Be- the like. To the block-buster movies, glossy is an idea that would have been on pinheads, and
sides, the way the parking situa- it is an radio, Madison Last year it was the dress code, foreign to both Newton and extent that it focuses thus, magazines, top 40 stands now, it is probably campaigns." this year it's parking. As the ma- tion Einstein. This religious quality institution that cannot but improve Avenue advertising quicker to walk considering the It cer- asking if there can jority of the people who live in the serves to provoke wider questions anything that it touches. I would end by
time it takes to drive around lookng credit for an in- "outer dorms" have noticed, and inhibits the tendency to con- tainly has its problems, but few of be anything but for a parking spot. hindrance as the Church that parking in central campus is not sider education to be the acquisi- its problems present a stitution such Another suggestion is counterbalance and of- as easy as it sounds. Unless you tion of discrete bits of fact. to a liberal arts college. strives to o'clock carpooling. Contrary to popular the alternative to all of this. arrive early for an eight That this religious quality Quite the opposite, one of fer an require a sta- class, it is becoming more and belief this does not who taught three classes last se- more difficult to find a parking tion wagon or a mini-van. If you students living next-door mester, about twenty-five space that is closer to campus than and the person You Won't Read two is per class, and gave out only your dorm is. The other parking both have a nine o'clock class it drive A's. That includes A-'s. Sewanee crisis is the Fowler Center. Who absurd for each of you to students aren't dumb, although builds a ninety million dollar fa- into campus. Its even worse when This Column apparently the Administration cility and allows for only twenty you walk out to the parking lot Depression, or Academic Downturn? thinks they should look that way: parking spaces? together and wave as you get into saying is that faculty should there is grade deflation going on. The bad news is that the your own cars. It's not as if cam- by Walter HubbeU tially not give the grades that students Think about the what this situation is only going to get worse pus is so large that someone going deserve. They appear to have means. You bust it in a class. You as the weather turns colder and to Woods Lab could not share a Have you ever gotten the feeling possibility that the study hard, participate in every fewer people make the choice to ride with a student heading to that no matter how hard you work overlooked the the art history department class, but you get a B on your walk from place to place. Since Walsh-EUet. Carpooling also has in a class you just can't seem to reason have a higher average G.P. A. report card because the professor new parking lots are not planned, the added advantage ofbeing good get an "A"? Don't worry; you are may his average class interest is because there was genuine in- knew that if and it is ridiculous to get up at for the enviroment. not alone. In fact, it may terest in the classes, students G.P.A. was above a 3.0, then he eight to find a parking space for The parking situation is only you to know that the University hard, and got the grades might get reprimanded, or, even your ten o'clock class, I've tried going to get worse as the Uni- administration and faculty might worked is worse, passed over for tenure. This its enrollment, It's they deserved. I fail to see what to fi nd a few alternate suggestions versity expands not want you to get A's. a with that. is unjustifiable. It's one thing for to solve the on-campus parking especially since Hodgeson—the scary thought, but in the growing wrong gTade, I spoke with a faculty mem- a professor to give a bad situation. (What to do about the new dorm being renovated to atmosphere of a school where the ber asked to remain anony- it's another for them to be told to Fowler Center is beyond me. handle the housing overflow—is students are being forgotten about, who mous, who informed me that there lower their grades by the admin- Maybe the Adminiatration will also off campus. If the Adminis- it is happening. policy in their particular istration, which is what may have dig up another million for a tration plans on expanding the Take a look at the art history was a to limit the number of happened in the art history de- parking garage). student body, it should also plan department. Why does the sec- department A's because it would give the partment. One suggestion is for those on expanding the student body's ond largest major on the Moun- appearance that the professors If there is a G.P.A policy at who have cars to make the choice facilities. Their lack of forsight tain only have three professors ? I weren't doing theirjob. I'm sorry, Sewanee then the Administration to walk or ride their bikes. Get on this issue does not speak highly spoke with several senior art his- their error and own I thought their job was to educate should admit some excercise after chowingyour of their concern for student wel- tory majors who have the under- sounding the students, not give them lower up to it. At the risk of fifth Marriot chocolate-chip fare. Since Sewanee allows all standing that the department was grades than they deserve. Republican, quotas are bad. A cookie. Sewanee really is a beau- students, including freshman.to passed over two years in a row for in effect, estab- the The average G.P. A at policy that would, tiful campus and that beauty is bring their cars to school, a new professorship because of at an aca- Sewanee is about 2.8. This may lish quotas on grades easier to apprieciate you're walk- Administration should provide a their "high G.P. A" If this is true, institution would be wrong all of not seem low but consider that to demic ing or riding through it; not flying place for the students to park and I bet it is, then it leads me to in every conceivable fashion. It cars. administration has stay at Sewanee you have to retain by it in your climate controlled those believe that the further proof that at a to a 2.0. If the highest G.P. A. is a would be car. Exercise has the extra bonus It should not be closer a policy that encourages low stu- 4.0, then the average should be a school founded to educate of refreshing you in the morning, walk from Gorgas to the Fowler G.P.A.'s. lower than they dents, the students don't seem to than it is to drive and park horrible. 3.0. So grades are making it easier to stay awake Center This is absolutely should be. I know of a professor matter anymore. during an eighto'clockclass. Also there. What the administration is essen- Oct. 4, 1994 The Sewanee Purple Page 9 OPINION Point-Cou^
Should fraternity rush be moved to spring semester? DEFENSE OF THE STATUS QUO ARGUMENT FOR CHANGE Money and Membership What's the Rush? by Patrick Comer by Kevin West
I HAVE NO PROBLEM with the concept will do less on the Mountain. The frater- FALL RUSH IS A high-energy, high-pres- bership. of a second semester rush but after read- nities spend around $65,000 a semester sure, high-stakes system for introducing Spring rush would allow freshmen ing the "Report to the Vice-Chancellor on on campus wide social events. The report incoming freshmen to Sewanee' s fraternity to get an early and focused beginning in
Second Semester Fraternity Rush", I believes $ 1 2,000 worth of two extra Lake system and the upperclass fraternity men. college academics. It would allow them believe that a deferred rush would be Cheston bands will take the place of the Anyone on the Mountain will agree to discover the scope and breadth of
detrimental to Sewanee' s Greek system. lost fraternity parties. If fraternities can't that rush accomplishes its two-fold objec- student life on the Mountain, not just the "What report?!?" has been the over- pay for bands and parties then sororities tive well. From the day that the freshmen one component of the fraternity system.
whelming response. Do not be deceived. are S.O.L. Usually we split the cost of a arrive until shake day ends the formal rush Allowing freshmen a semester to meet
The faculty and administration are not party down the middle. If the fraternities period, the new crop of Sewanee men are and soberly know each fraternity can frater- just talking about it, thay are acting on it can't pay their half, then most of those eagerly and enthusiastically courted by only help them determine which without even sending the IFC copies. parties will be "ailing" also. Two extra fraternities. They are at the center of a huge nal organization they wanl to commit
The overall tone of the report is to im- bands cannot take the place of 70's party, outpouring of attention as they are hosted themselves to for the next seven semes- prove the "ailing" freshman orientation Blue Whales, Margaritaville, Western to informal lunches, suppers, and parties ters.
at the fraternities' expense. I cannot Party, Chi Delt, and the countless other and received at numerous official rush Intense competition between ftatet support a second semester rush if cannot named and unnamed parties that the fra- functions at fraternity houses. nities for pledges andthe dirty rush tactics be proven that the membership and social ternities fund each semester. The problem is that rush is too se- associated with n seems ;i consequence at- brief time fraternities and rushees involvement of all fraternities will not Key to the success to each fraternity ductive, too effective at drawing the of the
have to meet each othei Fall rush is decrease. is membership. Second semester rush tention of incoming freshmen. A because Since no pledge dues would exist would decrease numbers of both actives freshman's first weeks and months at high-pressure of the time re an introduction to strictions imposed on it Fraternities first semester, one of the main problems and new pledges. How many fraternity Sewanee should be to the Sewanee fraternity have only a few weeks to outdo their of moving rush is loss of money. In order members are on the edge financially? If Sewanee, not should arrive at Sewanee competitors in ;i high-stakes game Foi to compensate for loss of funds, the report membership dues have to increase due to system. Freshmen with clear eyes and rushee's attention suggests that fraternities cut social events lost funds, then some actives will have to and see the Mountain don' have with a healthy perspective. They come to It may be true that second semester and increase membership dues. Mem- deactivate simply because they t rush college, first and foremost, for an academic rush will make the formal period bers would have to put more money in for to money. One of the common questions because freshmen will is Many education. They choose Sewanee for its seem redundant, less social activities. Kindly, the school that rushees ask how much? of the peculiar and invigorating version of a tra- already know from a semester's woi thol has offered to split the deficit with us by rushees today can't join because shakr I'm how ditional liberal arts education, for its experience who that want to paying half to the fraternities. How many money. If pledge dues increase, principle of a rush period their backs beautiful setting, and for the splendid out- isn't the formal fraternities want hand outs from the uni- many more will have to turn by the amount answer... too doors activities this setting provides. already severely eroded versity just to survive? on the Greek system? The goes The fraternity system at Sewanee is of informal rushing thai on before Secondly, rush will now be a semes- many. is wrong formal rush ever begins ? Freshmen are system permeates all as- central to Sewanee life; however, it ter long as compared to three weeks. The The Greek he rushed not from the beginning of the If membership to think that the fraternity system should amount of money, time, and energy spent pects of Sewanee. formal rush period, but from the moment because of a second semester the center of a student's Sewanee experi- by fraternities will drastically increase crumbles the they set foot on this Mountain everyone will suffer. Some ence. With the present system, during simply because the semester is six times rush, then It he true, again, that if rush first few weeks of a freshman's Sewanee may week period. Our frats may not be able to support them- longer than the three Ireshmen would rush takes center stage. And were second semester. selves. The others will have less money, experience, rush is so competitive that fraternities informally rushed lor the fourteen a fraternity . pledgeship be fewer brothers, and fewer parties. The for those who shake will kill themselves trying to be effective. of fall semester. But perhaps in even more will extend this period of heavy fraternity weeks would argue about the insanity of Greek system will become Here I fourteen weeks, these freshmen would And we all will be one step commitments. the proposed rush rules. However, few exclusive. the op- have the time to know and appreciate the Sewanee a suitcase Freshmen should be allowed report, so few will know closer to making have read the men, not jusl the portunity to establish their own identity, quality of a fraternity's talking about. Trust me... you school. Amen. what I'm quantity of its rush-related parties. priorities, and complex net works of friends would not like them. Mr. Comer is rush chairman ofthe DTD before they are asked to take on the group Frats will do less With less money, fraternity West edits the Sewanee Purple identity that comes with fraternity mem- Mr. on the Mountain. That means all of us
and administra- solution that satisfies all those both the faculty as chief student affairs officer in an abiding interest concerned. In my position as Dean tion, I have Corner the College. Dean's to this place and of Students with a myriad of poly- in and devotion I must confess that I am often particularly its un- centric issues on the platter, [am its people— Opening Remarks disturbed when I hear students One of reminded of Rienhold dergraduate students. maintain that "no one in the ad- often Pearigen intend the columns to become important features of by Rob Niebuhr's search for "proximate the most ministration is listening." To listen Students merely point-counterpoint debates one of the mam Dean of solutions to unsolvable prob- Sewanee and the same as to agree. I, for out in the pages of is not to be carried reasons I returned to the Moun- lems." I acknowledge that the one, listen attentively. I hear and of the Purple. dean is the At my request, the editor the of the issues tain as a teacher and students are saying. best answer to many to make three respect what Sewanee Purple has kindly agreed I would like com- University's tradition of and ca- with their we confront as an academic I do not always agree informational articles preliminary comments in this first cultivating a"citizen- to publish have yet to be found and pacity for I expect that munity deal positions, nor do submit periodically. article. Later articles will ship of the institution"— a citi- which I shall that the search for those best, will always agree with substantive is- students mutual interest in writing these ar- exclusively with con- zenship characterized by My the proximate solutions must mine. I would simply ask col- First, I concede that not all trust, mature ticles for a "Dean's Comer" sues. those of us In respect, genuine from students as they tinue. Thus, as College will same thing purpose. based upon my hope of undergraduates in the make the civility, and common umn is attentive positions of governance the should expect from me: of com- agree with hope in undertaking this establishing better lines always decisions we are called upon to My listening, careful consideration, students administration's policies which I column-writing project for the munication between the and as we review, evaluate, respectful disagreement when make nor will all under- and build informa- and the administration and my shall discuss, and progressively modify the Ptirjile is to help differences of opinion exist. agree with the rationale and better lines of desire toexplain various decisions graduates and procedures which tional bridges Second, some of the policies, policies which provide for those policies. I do as a way of cul- and University policies I need adjustment, we welcome all communication and problems which I shall however, that students will issues, unique sense of primarily effect undergraduates. hope, thoughtful and sincere ideas and tivating that in my column are of honesty, be discussing characterizes that col- recognize the spirit citizenship which Although I recognize my suggestions for improvement not only contentious but are mat- further openness, and sincerity with distinguished and common umns will often result in Finally, as an alumnus of this our undertaking ters about which there is little consideration which I approach this of enterprise. discussion and perfect College and now a member decisions chance of arriving at a not and with which I make about particular topics, I do 1
Page 10 The StmnetjPiirjlLe Oct 4, 1994 SPORTS Tiger Football Drops First Two, Looks to Improve by Robbie Griffith and wins will follow. Sports Editor The team has already displayed an improved offensive unit that has out-yarded Head Coach Alan Logan insists that you their opponent in the air 444 yards to 239 look past the 0-2 record that the football with both quarterbacks (Senior Russ Young team has posted this far into the season and and Freshman John Stroup) completing at Stroup has to look at the unmatched heart and commit- least 45% of their passes. had ment of the players. Logan is really im- step in for Young as injury relief and has pressed with the work ethic of the players done and outstanding job. On the other end who have been "working like crazy" all of ball, wide receivers Louis Caputo (162 season. Even though the record might not yards receiving) and James Spriggs (103 be indicative of that effort, Logan believes yards receiving) have come up big in the the Tigers. The that, as the predominantly young team last couple of games for progresses and grows during the season, running game has done some adjusting as Cravens this the wins will come. the team looks to replace Carl impressed The first game of the 103rd season of season. Coach Logan has been Sewanee football was home against the with the numbers Freshman tailback David versus Rose Hulman Engineers who already had a Donahue has put up in his start Freshman quarterback John Stroup looks donwfield in a game against Rose Hulman. for over 100 yards couple of games under their belt. To Logan Maryville. He rushed Photo by Lyn Hutchinson. and the rest of the coaching staff, this game that game. Senior defensive Tennis Looks to Improve answered a lot of questions about person- With the return of Sewanee with the excellent nel. This years team includes a number of lineman Brad Mall and one time wide receiver, new faces, many of who have never played play of free safety, on Last Year's Accomplishments should football at the college level before. This Kent Underwood, the defense as the September 23rd through September 25th, new style of play may have come as quite steadily increase its effectiveness by Robbie Griffith leads the teams from Trinity, Emory, Averet, Cen- a shock to the new players who were intro- season continues. Sewanee Sports Editor performance tre, Rust, Rhodes, and Sewanee competed. duced to faster, more intense competition conference in special teams national ranking. With Spriggs Tennis Teams (both men's All- American K.C. Home advanced to the and it showed in what Logan called an and boasts a The Sewanee Sewanee advanced five "apprehensiveness of playing." This game and Underwood averaging well over 20 and women's) are in the midst of what is semifinals as 17 which players into the final sixteen in singles provided some bright spots for the future yards per kick-off return and Sprigss' known as the non-traditional season is looking the (Brian Morrow, Stephen Jackson, Wes and showed that there was a lot of work to yards a punt return, Sewanee involves tournament play in Sewanee Regionals. Talman, and Tyler Vaughey). The women's do. lethal on special teams. Invitational and the I.T.A. Rolex team must travel to Emory to compete in The second game of the season against With conference play continuing in After practicing for six weeks this semes- Rolex Regionals over Parents' Maryville on September 24th was com- the coming weeks, Logan looks forward to ter, the teams were ready for some off- the I.T.A. is as Weekend (September 30th through Octo- pletely different than the first. The tigers playing in a conference that as strong campus competition.
- either way. If the Invitational took place ber 2nd). played a lot harder and "fired it up." The ever any game could go The Sewanee it here at Coach John Shackleford is most im- game could have easily gone either way as Tigers continue "working like wild men" over September 9th and 10th - University of pressed with the effort of both teams and he Sewanee had an opportunity to win but will pay off for them if not this weekend, Sewanee. Teams from Tech, hopes to build on the teams' successes could not follow through. This game then the next. With the right attitude, as Tennessee at Chattanooga, Tennessee Coach Logan Sewanee competed from last season. (The women finished 7th showed that Sewanee is not a bad ball club Sewanee has demonstrated. David-Lipscomb, and will happen to us This tournament was nationally and the men finished 14th) With and just needs to put in a lot of hard work predicts that "good things in this tournament. play this All-Americans Linnie Wheeless and and time and incorporate that great attitude at some point" the team's first opportunity to year. The men's team put up big numbers Kristen Ialacci away this semester, Sports Update: Women's Volleyball through Ail-American Brian Morrow's Shackleford anticipates a lot ofcompetition winning the number one flight and Wes from the five freshmen women who are looking for the opportunity to play. by Robbie Griffith Talman's winning the number three flight. Freshman With only two players graduating last Sports Editor Both flights were singles. Elizabeth Elizabeth Megordon was the most out- season, freshmen stand-outs like Megordon, and returning All-Americans The Lady Tigers' Volleyball team has standing player for the women's team as number such as Home and Morrow, the Sewanee had a lot of close calls this season. she advanced to the finals of the Tennis Teams really look forward to suc- They seem to be in a position to win one flight. cessful non-traditional and traditional sea- every game, but just can't find that The I.T.A. Rolex Regionals for men ewanee. From sons this school year. last kill to put another game in the also took place here at S ^^^^^__ Ladd said, the win column. As Coach Varsity Schedule team is "looking for consistency" and Date Team O pponent (H/A) Time expects to go on a "roll" after beating Oct. 5 M. Soccer Emory(H) 3:00 Millsaps on the 24th of September. Volleyball Cumberland(H) 6:00 There hasn't been a game yet that the Oct. 7 Field Hockey Sewanee Invitational(H) TBA well. in the team has not played As Equestrian Team Hiawassee College(A) TBA the case of the Cumberland game, Oct. 8 Field Hockey Sewanee Invitational(H) TBA • team "could haveeasily won the game Equestrian Team Hiawassee College(A) TBA 11:00* as have lost it." The skills are there, W. Soccer Savannah(A) 1:00* but there needs to be more consistency M. Soccer Savannah(A) M. Cross Co. Rhodes Invitalional(A) TBA to follow through to the victory. The W. Cross Co. Rhodes Invitational(A) 10:30 team looks to build on this strong Football Guilford(H) 1:30 start and go on to finish the job. Here Oct. 9 Field Hockey Sewanee Invitational(H) TBA scores for the last four games are the W. Soccer Wesleyan(A) 12:00* (as of Sep. 25): Carry Yadon works to place 6:00 Sophomore Oct. 1 Volleyball Fisk(A) 2:00* Sep. 20 the set as sophomore Holly Richardson Oct. 12 W. Soccer Maryville(A) 4:00* Lost to Cumberland 1-3 looks on. The volleyball team hopes to M. Soccer Maryville(A) Southwestem(A) 1:00* (13-15, 16-14, 10-15, 5-15) continue the winning streak that began Oct. 14 Volleyball W. Cross Co. Sewanee Invitational(H) 4:00 Sep. 24 with their defeat of Millsaps. Photo by M. Cross Co. Sewanee Invitational(H) 4:45 Lost to Oglethorpe 1-3 Lyn Hutchinson. Volleyball Rhodes(A) 5:00* (3-15, 14-16, 15-8, 3-15) 10:00 Oct. 15 W. Soccer Centrc(A) Lost to Centre 2-3 FEATURED NEXT ISSUE: Volleyball Trinity(A) 10:00 12:00 (8-15, 8-15, 15-2, 15-13, 12-15) Men's & Women's Cross Country M. Soccer Centrc(H) 1:00 Beat Millsaps 3-1 & the Equestrian Team Football Rhodes(H) Hendrix(A) 2:00* (15-12, 12-15, 15-4, 15-9) Volleyball , 1
The Sewanee Purple Page 1 SPORTS Field Hockey Remains a Strong Contender by David Howard Newcomers to the Tiger team include sophomores, JoAnna Davis and Danielle After a successful weekend of three con- Lanca, who have never played the game secutive shutouts and twenty goals, the before. They are doing very well and are field is hockey team showing itself to be receiving a lot of playing time this season. a force to be reckoned with. The team also has five freshman, four of The Tigers soundly defeated Franklin whom start each game.
(9-0), Berea (8-0) and Transylvania (3-0) Sewanee hopes that play on their own in the home tournament on the weekend turf will help them reach their primary goal of September 24. of being conference champions. Last year, Last year, the only home game played they lost the title to Bellerman, who beat was during Parents' weekend. This sea- them 2-1 in their first game this season. The Sewanee soccer struts their stufffor Parent's Weekend. Photo by Lyn Hutchinson. son, however, the Tigers have four only other conference loss thus far was in the weekends with home games. Co-captain Depauw game. Women's Soccer Optimistic Anne McGinn says, "This really boosts McGinn is confident. "We are working by Clayton Haden both our intensity and level of play." our performance." McGinn continued, out kinks in the game that we lost earlier." Indeed, the Tigers have hung tough in saying that the team has much promise The team's record is 5-4 overall, 3-2 in The Lady Tigers hope to give their parents every match, but need to find a way to score bue to both its older and younger players. the KIT Conference compri sed of Kentucky something to smile about on parents' some goals. Against conference opponents The team has had strong perfor- Indiana, and Tennessee collegiate teams. weekend when coach Behme' s squad takes Mi llsaps and Oglethorpe, the ladies created mances from senior Cameron Graham, a Losses, with the exception of the Roanoke the field in search of its first victory of the numerous scoring opportunities and dis- regional all-star who scored two goals game(2-0) have been within one goal. season. The ladies will lock horns with played periods of dominance However. against Transylvania. Junior Brooke Coach Kern says, "We will be pleased if Agnes .Scott in a game scheduled for a 2:00 they've had trouble capitalizing on their Vaughan, a conference all-star and strong we win conference. Our secondary goal is to Saturday kick-off. chances, while opponents seem to take mid-fielder, has scored four goals and has finish in the top five of our region." The last few weeks have been unkind advantage of every Sewanee miscue, five assists on the season. Berkeley Little, The strong competition in the Great to the Tigers as they have dropped their Undoubtedly there are facets of the another junior, has scored eight goals and Lakes region includes Ohio Wesleyan and first eight matches. Having to play their game that coach Behme hopes to build added one assist so far this season. Kenyon College. last six matches on the road and an injury upon as the season progresses. Alter Maggie Giel and Rachel Reimer pro- Both the regional tournament and the list longer than Tuesday /Thursday lecture, dropping to 0-2 in S.C.A.C action, the vided strong defense and support in goal KIT tournament are played the weekends of the women embarked on their early season women are still optimistic and rightfull) in last weekend's shutout. Oct. 22 and 29. schedule with a huge pile of chips stacked so. In previous years, conlciencc pl.u lias
against them. However, there is something proven to be highly unpredictable and with
to be said for these defeats. When asked key players still recuperating from injurie about the early season disappointment. and a core of talented young players still Bond Dillard replied. "With the exception getting acquainted with one another, the of two games, we've challenged everyone. women's team will have quite a lew wins on is over We just need to take that extra step to lift under then hell heloi evAAN.I.G/^A,
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"Squirrels ArOUnd my HoUSe" An interview with Antonio Momplet
by Michael Cooke Also the system is very different. Most of the students live in their own homes or Dr. Antonio Momplet, a professor of Fine outside the university. Just a little bit of Arts at the University of Madrid, is cur- those one hundred twenty thousand stu- rently visiting Sewanee as a Brown Foun- dents actually live in the university. It is dation Fellow, teaching courses in the and not like here. Here you get twenty four departments of Spanish and Fine Arts. hours, seven days a week university life. This is Dr. Momplet's second stint at That kind of involvement with the univer- Brown Fellow. In this in- Sewanee as a sity in the students life, not only the aca- terview, Dr. talks about the dif- Momplet demic life, the personal life, is so different ferences between Spanish and American that I was definitely attracted to it. I feel students, and the changes he sees taking that the American student has an attitude of place at Sewanee. participation , of eagerness to know more. For the Spaniard that kind of partici-
Q. Why were you interested in teaching pation, that being close to the professor, is Visiting Professor Antonio Momplet poses as a tourist in his own country. abroad? very difficult. They are more distant, less
A. There are different reasons. First of all, involved. The whole system creates a world. I experienced that change in Spain. experiencing new things is, I think, posi- difference in the attitude of the students Q. Have you noticed any changes since I was twenty four years old when Franco tive in practically every single aspect of and the relationship between the students you were here five years ago? died, and that was the beginning of the
life. Definitely for teaching, that is impor- and the professors. That is one of the A. No, not as a whole. It does look very change. Obviously when you open to will tant, teaching different people, in different dissimilarities that first I experienced, much like it did to me five years ago. freedom the whole society there be
I well parts, different systems. second that I enjoy, because I do enjoy this Obviously, I do feel that Sewanee dregs. But the final result, feel so in One of my first jobs was teaching way, much more than the other. progresses, but coming from such a dif- the kind of more open minded free society small tutorial courses to American college Q. Does this different attitude result in a ferent environment it does look to me now that we live in now, that I would encourage
students in Madrid. From then on I have different level of academic achievement? much like it was five years ago. But I do anybody to always attempt that experience. greater always taught one or two courses to A. I think the systems are very different. feel that there is a bunch of people, students I think any kind of move towards for the society or for the individual American students, so I was quite ac- My son at seventeen is starting his college and professors, pushing and encouraging freedom lor humankind. That is quainted with the attitude of American studies. He is starting civil engineering. some changes, especially social, not espe- is an achievement
I is moving under and students. For many years I was looking That means in six years time he will be a cially academic changes. I think there are what am feeling
forward to the chance of working with civil engineer. This early concentration of encouragements in try ing to improve things around Sewanee. American students in their own place. studies, and of disciplines, and of interests and get them to be more on the standards of particular memory of Q. How was teaching American stu- creates really different formulas. Here you what the real world is like. It has turned Q. Does any stay with you when you arc dents different from teaching Spanish are given the possibility to be for four years Sewanee into a better place, not only to Sewanee in Madrid? students? more immature, but in that way maturing study, but to live. back A. Squirrels around my house. It is the A. The attitude in relation to the system. may be better. In that way you are not the last time you pleasure of nature. I don't mean just trees My university, the University of Madrid, going to have to make the final choice of Q. Did you notice this this time? and grass, but people. The whole envi- is a huge university with one hundred your life until you are twenty two. In the were here, or just
it ronment is friendly. That image which twenty thousand students. As a result, Spanish system you are pushed to do so A. I did notice it then. I still notice now, progressing. Think that comes to mind when I am far from Sewanee classes will have easily one hundred stu- when you are seventeen or eighteen. but I think it is in the last twenty years is the squirrels around my house- li is B dents. The whole relationship between If I had to choose between the two Spain has changed old fashioned, conservative, whole icon that represents my pleasant students and professors is quite different systems, and I would have a tough time from being an quite narrow minded country in many ways feelings while at Sewanee compared to what you can have here with doing it, I think I do prefer, in certain ways, of the most liberal countries in the classes of twenty or thirty. this system. to be one The Angry Raisins We'll give you the boot... and a whole lot more
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Luscious Jackson Luscious Jackson Figgs-LOW-EI AT HIGH to reminisce about the vinyl Overall, The revel in the energy and diversity and with Natural Ingredients return of "dork- culture lost in this digital age (vinyl proves SOCIETY The of their hometown while lament- than hold their of Green records were a staple of both the that they can more rock"! ! ! All the energy ing its darker side. world the scenes in New own in the ever-changing Day, but influenced more by "City Song," a shout out to early punk and rap Jackson is probably best Luscious of pop music. By now nostalgia Talking Heads and Pere Ubu than club kids, bicycle couriers, York). known as the "chick Beastie the bring their for the late '70' s has reached a the Ramones. give life to the Luscious Jackson and while the description and junkies that Boys," mixture level close to critical mass, but Liz Phair-WHIP SMART The scene, has a groove as own brand of feminism (a not entirely inaccurate, there is downtown is Do-It-Yourselfand post- Luscious Jackson has managed to long awaited follow up to Exile in funky as anything George Clinton ofpunk's a lot more to them, as their first incredible . new album Riot Grrrl mentality) to make a distinct and Guyville Phair's or Bootsy Collins ever produced punk' s full-length album Natural Ingre- rap/punk/funk genre rarely album. Using the same building again explores the battle grounds and celebrates the joys of living in the dients proves. Drummer Kate Chili Peppers' blocks found in bands as diverse of sexuality and relationships in ("I just get my friends found on a Red Hot Schellenbach was a Beastie when a big city Boys' album. "Energy as the Black Crowes and Dee- the emotionally turbulent '90' s. together/ And we dance, dance, or Beastie they recorded their first EP Pol- those who would Lite. Luscious Jackson have pro- 7 Year Bitch- VIVA ZAPATA! This city tells me/ What Sucker" blasts Ivwog Stew (she was eventually dance/... of them or duced an album that does not Hard hitting punk rock from these like to live.") "Energy prey on the emotions replaced by King Ad Rock), and it's wallow in conventional, retro north-western Riot Grrrls (think thumping bass and their friends. "Strong Man" warns Luscious Jackson are on the Sucker"'s a blandness. Instead Natural In- L7 or Hole on speed). sung/rapped vocals all would be lovers that "It takes Beastie Boys' Grand Royal sensually a strong gredients sounds as modem as Helmet-tf/r77T On their second swift kick in the crotch to strong man/ To stand by Records. Both bands do draw mask a an equally Douglass Coupland's novels, as full length album, Helmet's roots "soulless" stud who sees woman" and throws out heavily from their New York roots every York itself, and begin to emerge. conquest strong beat just to drive the point funky as New in jazz finally and old school women as only another (hard-core punk albums put home. "Surprise" combines a Led more innovative than Tempos change drastically mid- there. ("You pretend you're grown up rap ). but the similarities end with a out by better publicized bands song, and roaring guitars are That's another lie/ Zeppelin-esque rhythm Luscious Jackson has put out an and satisfied/ Breeders' (Spin Doctors and Arrested De- punctuated by sudden silences; can you give me/ You're melody straight off the album that the Beasties could What declaring "I go velopment immediately come to however, listeners will still walk soulless"). In marked contrast to Last Splash while never match in either melody or mind). Watch out, Beasties! Your feeling like they have been . as away the next track, where no man goes/. . I come maturity. They succeed in "Energy Sucker," criminally prot6g6s may soon become the run over by a Mack truck. bouncily proclaims that I please/. . . I might be seamlessly mixing East Coast rap, "Here," in America. But I don't wear no col- hippest band "I will be the one who keeps you minded/ 70' s funk, and classic rock with disco beat that ors," attacking the machismo of punk ideology into a cohesive around" over a necks. With a not be out of place on a New York's ruff sound all their own. would compila- beat straight off Run-DMC s King More than anything else. Disco Hits of the '70's
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By Jonathan Meiburg two or three seconds (and sometimes much ability to make two or three fast-paced Natural Bom Killers" may be the ulti- Living Editor Arts faster) from standard color stock to grainy hours seem like six or seven tediously fast- mate postmodern film, eschewing plot,
black and white, to home video, to Super- paced hours, and "NBK" is no exception. characters, message, technique for a creep-
Camera 's got them images, 8mm home movie film without any par- The music the film, of course, is con- ing sensation of disgust, Mickey, in one of
Camera 's got them all, ticular reason. It's as if to better illustrate summately cool. Stone makes good use of the film's best sequences, unravels a
Nothing's Shocking. ... the violence of the story. Stone decided to the Cowboy Junkies, Nine Inch Nails, and Mansonesque monologue in which he cat-
perform a senseless act of violence to the Leonard Cohen in particular (try to imag- egorizes murder as 'pure' and accuses in-
Jane's Addiction's "Ted, Just Admit it" terviewer Wayne Gale of making it 'dirty.' appears about twenty minutes into Oliver (Stone follows this with a clip of Gale Stone's saga of sex, sickos and shotguns, covered in blood and dressed as Satan,
and sums up the movie beautifully. "Natu- laughing hysterically.) The problem is
ral Bom Killers" is an all-out assault on the that the audience is left with two choices: audience, the ultimate in media desensiti- allying with a serial killer against the me- zation, technically brilliant, and somewhere dia, or rallying round the flag of tabloid
between a perverse joke and an abject journalism. Neither is an attractive pros-
failure. pect, and the ultimate third option is simply
The film tells the story of two dis- not to care what happens I doubt that this placed, terminally cute young lovers, is what Stone intends - he's already thrown Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory every trick up his sleeve at the audience to (Juliette Lewis), both fleeing abusive and provoke some sort of reaction. Six people
horrible families, who embark on a killing walked out of the showing I attended. spree that cuts a swath of bodies through Would 01 lie have been proud? the desert of the southwest. What sepa- Unfortunately, there is one monkey
rates theirodyssey from that of, say.Thelma wrench thrown into my little critique, and
that's that I loved this film. I'm not even and Louise, is that they become media
why, but alter a while I darlings in the process. Apparently the sure exactly be- came absolutely enthralled with the spec- public can' t get enough of M & M's bloody
Part of it was the escapades, and they end up plastered on the tacle on the screen. performances of the actors, which were cover of magazines from Time to Esquire uniformly marvelous (There are some before their eventual apprehension and in- nice cameos, too - Stephen Wright, for carceration. They are also pursued relent- instance, turns up as a psychiatrist.) But I lessly by Wayne Gale (Robert Downey Jr.) won't let myself off the hook that easily. I the host of a "Hard Copy" - esque television loved the violence. I couldn't wait for show, "American Maniacs." Gale's char- medium. The film contains nearly 3000 ine those three in one room), and other appearances on the soundtrack range from Mickey and Mallory to get away with an- acter is somewhere between Morton images (a normal feature has about 1000) every type of Peter Gabriel to Jello Biafra. But all the other killing, and I cheered when, in a Downey Jr. and Robin Leach - he comes and Stone throws nearly combined with the visual violence, "man-on-the-slreet"* portion of the film, a complete with an Australian accent and a image processing known to man at them. music, produces adistinctlynauseatingeffect, like glazed-eyed, lollapalooza-meat. generation cellular phone. The demons at Mickey and Slow-motion, computer enhancement, "Yeah, I I have, all week's leftovers combined into one X-er proclaimed mean, Mallory's heels also include a hilariously color distortion, even animation reminis- last life and everything, fre- virulent casserole. Who wants to go to the like, respect for human evil cop with a hilariously evil name, cent of "Pink Floyd-The Wall" make be a serial killer. I'd be of stock movies to feel under attack for over two but if I was gonna Scagnetti (author of a book, "Scagnetti on quent appearances, as do clips " The two killers are the most other apart, hours? like them. Scagnetti"), the memory of Mallory's in- footage of animals tearing each The New York Times called "Natural likable characters in the entire film, they cestuous, corpulent father (played to dis- earlier parts of the film, strange apparitions ending. What fun! Even science-fiction Bom Killers" the 'definitive statement of even get a happy gusting perfection by Rodney Dangerfield), covered in blood, 50's never topped "NBK" for pure Oliver Stone violence on film.' But NBK isn't a defini- Eastwood masses of goonlike identical police, and a monsters, commercials, other it cathartic violence. "NBK" isn't so much a the Menendez tive statement on anything at all, and frayed prison director (Tommy Lee Jones) movies, even footage of against our TV culture as it is two Those who pay lacks the meditative quality of other film protest who uses a pair of medical forceps to keep brothers and O.J. Simpson. Driver. One hours of it distilled. And u was fantastic be able to spot a clip essays on violence like Taxi unruly prisoners undercontrol. Apparently careful attention may Thejoke' son Oliver Stone. WhenI walked Chainsaw Massacre." In most has the sense that Oliver Stone is trying, in the society that the killers are fleeing rather from "Texas our media-driven, past the security guards in the lobby of the scenes involving windows, the window is his eyes, to condemn deserves to die. think ahoui was one point, movie theater, all I could projection of some of these violence-saturated culture. (At The method that Stone uses to tell this replaced by a fun it really might he to kill a the message "Too much TV." is actually how much clips, a more effective technique than split- story is by far the most shocking thing killers.) But how? With cop for total bewilderment of the projected onto the about the film, however. The film format screening hours MTV-style mass murder? audience. Oliver Stone has always had the two of used in a scene switches routinely every Market Street Performance Hall 221 Market Street Chattanooga. 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