University of Puget Sound Sound Ideas Arches University Publications Fall 2016 Vol. 44, No. 1, Arches Fall 2016 University of Puget Sound Follow this and additional works at: https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/arches Recommended Citation University of Puget Sound, "Vol. 44, No. 1, Arches Fall 2016" (2016). Arches. 32. https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/arches/32 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at Sound Ideas. It has been accepted for inclusion in Arches by an authorized administrator of Sound Ideas. For more information, please contact [email protected]. the university of puget sound people and ideas for autumn 2016 President Isiaah Crawford, an introduction PLUS: 75 years of life in Kittredge • Rare bird: the creations of Lara Webster ’17 photojournal by Ross Mulhausen MOONLIGHTING September 2: LogJam this year concludes with an outdoor showing of Zootopia. Careful observers of campus geography will note that the film is projected here on the backside of Warner Gym, and viewers are sitting where Hugh Wallace Memorial Pool had been since 1956. The white-painted outline of the old pool building’s interior north wall makes a fine, if temporary, movie screen. (The brick facade will be restored this fall.) For a look at the new Wallace Pool, turn the page. autumn 2016 arches 1 photojournal 2 arches autumn 2016 JUST ADD WATER October 22: Fun times and fast laps at the 33rd annual Don Duncan Alumni Swim Meet, during Homecoming weekend. Current varsity swim team members vs. alumni. The alumni won—like they always do. The pool was dedicated the previous night, and Don Duncan, the godfather of Puget Sound swimming, was there. It retains the name of the original 1956 structure: Hugh Wallace Memorial Pool. photojournal SWING TIME Seen late in the spring semester in the West Woods (near where the old A-frames used to be), when the weather at last turned warm and sunny after the seemingly interminable winter of 2016. In hand: James Watson’s The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. HANG TIME September 14: Here’s Katherine Gieseke ’19 at the grand opening for the new climbing wall, part of the renovations to the athletics center. The wall was built by Ryan Spence ’99, who as a student built the college’s first climbing wall in a disused racketball court in 1996. Ryan has been building climbing walls professionally ever since. autumn 2016 arches 5 the quad Four pages of thoughts, news, trends, and phenomena NEW FACULTY BOOKS The Master, in context Designed for those unversed in composition or music theory, Professor of Music Geoffrey Block’s Experiencing Beethoven presents Beethoven’s compositions within the changing context of his life and times. The book paints a portrait of Beethoven’s childhood and adolescence in Bonn, his early triumphs and artistic maturation in Vienna, and, despite the A FEW FACTS ABOUT THE CLASS OF 2020 challenges posed by his • Students have come from as near • A quarter are students of color. • The most common first name music to contemporaries, as Tacoma and as far as China. Sixteen percent are the first in their in the class is Emma. The most the recognition he received States best represented: California, families to attend college. common last name is Johnson. Washington, Oregon, Colorado, There are no Emma Johnsons. during his lifetime as the Minnesota, Hawai’i, in that order. • High school senior classes ranged • They are the most accomplished most acclaimed composer There are just as many students from as large as 1,000 students to as class in terms of both GPA and from Wisconsin as from Wyoming. small as one student. of his era. Professor Block standardized test scores. conveys the range and scope of Beethoven’s achievement, from his heroic style to his lyricism, grappling throughout READERS RESPOND with Beethoven’s power to communicate his idealistic The Carillon musical vision to listeners, and About the “From the Archives” story it explains why Beethoven’s on the history of the campus carillon, music continues to enjoy an in the summer 2016 Arches: “I played unwavering appeal in an age the Sunday afternoon carillon concerts crowded by other musical for about two years, from 1961 to competitors. 1963, while studying for my Bachelor of Music degree. The console and automatic player were in a small room on the west side of the second floor of the Music Building. I had to turn off the internal speakers and open the windows so I could hear the sound coming from the library to tell what I was doing. I also had to change the paper rolls in the auto player; we didn’t have much of a variety. I don’t remember anyone complaining, so I guess what I played either way was OK!” — Julie Forsberg Roberts ’63 “After the carillon speakers were installed in the tower of the library, the carillon was set up to chime on the hour. But campus neighbors complained. Near the end of 1954, I think it was, after the complaints, the chimes were discontinued between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. That is until the night that I and an accomplice who had keys to the library tower wired an old 45-RPM phonograph to the speakers in the library. The song we chose to play was “Rock Around the Clock.” The music blared over the speakers for nearly 45 minutes until university staff realized it wasn’t coming from the programming console in the Music Building and instead was somehow coming from the library where the speakers were.” — Charles Waid ’62 6 arches autumn 2016 QUOTE, UNQUOTE THEN AND NOW GREEK LIFE Best-sellers in the Puget “The amount of THC required Sound Bookstore ∆∆∆ would have to be financially Autumn 1986 Tri Delta is back Last of the Breed, Louis L’Amour ludicrous for anyone to do this Wanderlust, Danielle Steel The Phi Zeta chapter of Delta It, Stephen King Delta Delta, which closed in as a practical joke. It’s probably a Whirlwind, James Clavell 1998 due to declining member- His Way, Kitty Kelley ship, will re-establish its chapter false positive from the test kit.” A Day in the Life of America: in spring 2017. Tri Delta national Photographed by 200 of the Executive Director Karen White said Puget Sound was identified — Dan Burgard, associate professor of world’s leading photojournalists on one day, May 2,1986 as a top extension prospect chemistry, in a July 22 article in The Denver due to the sorority’s history in Post about the discovery of the marijuana Autumn 2016 Tacoma, the commitment of ingredient THC in the public water supply The Magicians, Lev Grossman local alumnae, and the caliber of Hugo, Colo. Professor Burgard has The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James of UPS student academic excel- lence and community engage- been studying THC and other drug Brown ment. Tri Delta will become the traces in Washington wastewater. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein fifth National Panhellenic Con- Subsequent testing in Hugo did in fact The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ference organization on campus show that the initial tests were false- In Defense of a Liberal Education, and begin recruiting members positive, The Post reported. Fareed Zakaria in January. THE ‘NET SEEN ATHLETICS Get your two-legged, four- As we were strolling through Does Puget Sound have a fight song? legged, or two-winged fix the Wheelock parking lot during Indeed we do, and the football team chants it after every game. You’re probably familiar with the first week of classes, this It was John O’Connor, director of Puget Sound’s bands in the late 1940s, Humans of New York and possibly window sticker on the car of Zöe who adapted UCLA’s fight song for the Logger faithful. “I made a band (secretly) sites like Daily Dose of Johnson ’20 caught our eye: arrangement out of it, and my wife, Ermajean, wrote the lyrics,” he told Puppies or F*** Yeah Funny Cats Arches in 2005. (we don’t judge), but how about these: Humans of Puget Sound (HOPS), now facebook.com/ HumansofPugetSound Crane Flies of Puget Sound instagram.com/ crane_flys_of_puget_sound Dogs of Puget Sound instagram.com/dogsofpugetsound Cats of UPS now instagram.com/catsofups And, yes, even Crows of Puget Sound instagram.com/crowsofpugetsound autumn 2016 arches 7 the quad KUPS a new mascot. He wanted some- THE FACULTY: Why an alligator? thing that was really fun. He asked WHAT I’M WORKING ON Louise Blake ’13, then the KUPS Every time we go past the Why do some U.S. director of alligators, to design an states welcome KUPS studios, down there in alligator logo. After several iterations immigrants and the no-windows subterranean she came up with the now famous others shun them? reaches of the SUB, we picture of the KUPS alligator wear- wonder about the radio ing shades. They named it Doug, In 2010 Arizona’s legislation station’s logo, rendered the size of a after me, since I taught them about allowing police detention of took this position very seriously. We garbage-can lid and displayed next the importance of keeping alligators people suspected to be in never once saw an alligator in the to the entrance. What’s with the out of the radio station. (The irony!) the country unlawfully stood station! Many subsequent directors alligator? Why not a headphones- in baffling contrast to neigh- of alligators followed in Ryan’s But wait, if alligators aren’t allowed and-hatchet-toting human or boring New Mexico, where footsteps to keep alligators out of in KUPS, why is the mascot an something? We asked Doug Herstad undocumented immigrants KUPS at all times.