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FEATURES OP/ED A & E SPORTS Kasper becomes Waz talks Hip-hop finds a Tepper speaks on a Packer fan collaborative writing home in Greenfire school record >> page 5 >> page 7 >> page 9 >> page 11 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2011 THE LAWRENTIAN Vol. CXXVIII, No. 15 Lawrence University's student newspaper since 1884 www.Lawrentian.com Orr to become Provost and Dean of Faculty at Lake Forest Maureen Darras Life. Currently, in addition to teach- Orr decided to spend the year Editor-in-Chief ing, Orr serves as Special Assistant at Macalester College. While at to President Jill Beck. Macalester, his responsibilities An email from President Jill Beck At Lake Forest College, Orr included assisting the President informed the student body Friday, hopes to be able to continue to with long-term strategic and finan- Feb. 4 that Professor of Art History teach. He explained, “As part of cial planning. Michael Orr had been appointed as the appointment, I will become a Throughout this year as Fellow, Provost and Dean of the Faculty at tenured member of the art history Orr was able to observe a variety of Lake Forest College. department. Certainly the practice practices in financial management, For Orr, this appointment fol- in the past has been that the provost as the program included visits to lows over 20 years of teaching, periodically teaches.” 36 additional institutions of higher administrative involvement and However, Orr is eagerly looking education, ranging from liberal arts scholarship at Lawrence University. forward to working in an adminis- and community colleges to major Orr will remain at Lawrence for the trative capacity as well. Though he research universities and for-profit rest of the academic year and will hasn’t laid out explicit plans for the universities. begin his new post this summer. first four years at Lake Forest, he Orr observed, “What that was After completing a doctoral stated, “That doesn’t mean I’m not very useful for was [...] developing a degree, Orr joined the Lawrence aware that there are institutional much better understanding of how faculty in 1989. He recalled, “I issues that the college is facing. But the particular unique attributes of knew very little about what a liberal my view of academic leadership small, residential liberal arts col- arts college was about when I first is that it’s about finding a shared lege, like Lawrence, [...] fit within an started here. There is no equivalent vision, and that shared vision is increasingly competitive landscape to liberal arts colleges in England, based on development of relation- in higher education more broadly.” which is where I did my undergradu- ships, [...] articulating common val- Orr emphasized that the com- ate and graduate work at a major ues [...] and encouraging and sup- parative experience granted him research institution.” porting others.” “[an] understanding not only [of] Orr continued, “My whole com- He continued, “With that as a what other liberal arts colleges are kind of backdrop, I think it’d be doing, but also [an] understanding mitment to and understanding of Photo by Oren Jakobson ridiculous for me as someone who [of] how what we do is either similar the small, residential liberal arts institution.” we’re a tiny, tiny fraction of the college experience has been primar- hasn’t yet lived in that community to, different from or being appropri- to announce, ‘Well, these are the ated by institutions that are very dif- When asked to reflect on his whole.” ily shaped through my experience at relationship with Lawrence, Orr con- As far as the transition to Lake Lawrence.” things I want to accomplish.’ I have ferent from us in size, shape, scope to embed myself in the institutional and mission.” cluded, “I’m incredibly grateful to Forest is concerned, Orr reflected, “I Upon receiving tenure in 1995, the Lawrence institution for the sup- feel like it’s the natural next step at as Orr recollected, “I gradually culture.” Bolstered by this experience, Though he believes Lawrence Orr returned to Appleton and began port it’s given me. [...] I think I have this point in my career. It’s going to began to find I was being asked to a much deeper and broader under- be very hard to leave Lawrence, I’ve do more things, and I enjoyed it.” has prepared him well for the tran- his involvement with strategic and sition, he additionally credits his financial planning at Lawrence. He standing both of the particular been here a long time and I’ve really His responsibilities expanded strengths and opportunities offered enjoyed it. I have a deep loyalty to to include chairing the Department year as an American Council on described his current work, stat- Education Fellow in 2009-2010 as ing, “I’ve been engaging with the by the residential small liberal arts the institution and in that sense no of Art and Art History, as well college, and a much more holistic time is a good time to leave. But I as the Committee on University transformative in his understanding Financial Services Offices with how of the liberal arts experience and to craft those portions of the stra- understanding of where liberal arts think professionally, in terms of my Governance and a special Trustee colleges fit into the higher education interests and what I want to accom- Task Force on Student Residential financial planning. tegic plan that speak to financial As one of 39 selected Fellows, goals and fiscal sustainability of the whole more generally — because plish, it’s a good time.” Mary Jane Jacob addresses collaboration between art and community Laura Streyle daily lives. Jacob explained. Assistant Professor of Art Staff Writer Explained Jacob, “I had a grow- Referring to the Lawrence History Elizabeth Carlson saw the ing discomfort with museums as a Saxophone Quartet’s performance applicability of Jacob’s message In keeping with this year’s space for experiencing art. As time of a piece by Jun Nagao for the for the Lawrence campus in the theme for the 2010-2011 went on, I came to see how the interlude before the address, Jacob possibility of asking these ques- Convocation Series, Innovation museum experience could come to said, “[It was] not the gentlemen tions to the Lawrence campus, and through Collaboration, Mary Jane take over the art experience.” who played so well, but what [their then collaborating through art to Jacob, the third speaker in the Before long, Jacob found an performance] did to you.” further establish our community. series spoke in the Memorial outlet for her desire to explore art Jacob described other projects Jordan Severson ‘11, the cur- Chapel Tuesday, Feb. 7, deliver- outside of the museum by direct- she had initiated and directed, rent student curator of the Campus ing a talk titled “The Collective ing a two-year project in Chicago especially in Charleston, S.C. and Center Gallery, commented, “It is Creative Process.” called “Culture in Action” from Chicago. She explained that she fortunate that we were able to hear Jacob, a professor, indepen- 1992 to 1993. commonly brings together many her perspective as she continues dent curator and executive direc- Among other things, this proj- types of artists to create art. She to contribute to the dialogue that tor of exhibitions at the School ect included the installation of works with researchers, historians, exists in today’s art world.” of the Art Institute of Chicago, temporary monuments to women, traffic engineers, librarians and “As for me,” Severson contin- shared her vision of developing created by a number of artists, many others within a community ued, “I will continue to consider the relationship between art and in the loop area of downtown to create a sense of distinguished her words. But she has definitely social issues through community Chicago. Though these works space in that community, to see impacted the way I am thinking collaboration. were impermanent, lasting only the street as canvas. about the upcoming projects I Though Jacob’s career as a one summer, Jacob commented As she approaches a commu- have been planning in the Campus curator began as a solo practice that the important and lasting art nity she is going to collaborate Center Gallery and in other ven- within the discreet inventive set- occurred in the coming together of with, Jacob explained, she first ues.” ting of a museum, her path quickly communities during that process. poses these questions: What is at led her outside into communi- “Art is both the process and issue, what is the problem, what ties, where people were living their the product, and collaborative is the potential and what is the projects are all about process,” possibility? Photo by Justin Jones MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Hi: 31°F Hi: 35°F Lo: 28°F Lo: 28°F 5-DAY 5-DAY Source: weatherbug.com Mostly cloudy Partly sunny WEATHER FORECAST Partly sunny Mostly sunny Partly sunny THE LAWRENTIAN 2 NEWS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2011 Senior Ruiz conducts Mexican Orchestra in Mexico City Maija Anstine ago, interested in a private con- his debut through the Talentos Staff Writer ducting tutorial. Artisticos: Valores de Baja “I do think that Rodrigo has California, a program offered Senior Rodrigo Ruiz conduct- great potential to grow in the art of through the Cultural Institute ed his orchestral debut with the conducting,” commented Becker, of Baja California. “It is a huge Mexican Orchestra of the Arts calling Ruiz’s time spent studying thrill to work with an orchestra Feb. 6 at a concert in the Sala in Mexico this fall “a most unusual like this, especially in the Sala Nezahualcóyotl in Mexico City.