OBSERVER Vol. 1 No. 1 September 1, 1995 Page 1 Observer to Undergo Major Changes in the Coming Weeks Newspaper aims to change the way the Bard students are informed Pedro Rodriguez New Faculty Members Bring Diversity and Experience Linnea Knollmueller Page 2 Bard Students Commended for Heroic Vermont Rescue Delegates Reflect on Nicaragua Students share in local customs and culture Dead Squirrels Baffle Local Man Page 3 Official Documents Page 4 Entertainment Committee Gears Up for a Productive Semester Joel Hunt Page 5 New Recreation Director Makes Effort to Increase Activities at Bard Dave Hyde and Meeka Bhattacharya Inside the Game Strong Like Bull, Sexy Like Woman Tonya Giarnella Page 6 Is There Any Safety in Numbers? Matt Johnson The Somnambulist We Work Hard for the Money So You Better Treat Us Right Pedro Rodriguez Page 7 No Comment X Marks the Scam Shawnee Barnes Health Services Undergoes Many Changes Over the Summer Break Karen Lee Hansen Page 8 [Calendar of Events] 111111111111 II I I IIIII I I I 111111111111111111111 111111 9 1111 1 II II I Ulllll SPOUTS • P.Ual~ :: Is there a director in the house? What's inside ... Interested in sports and fitness? You Letters to the Editor/ Editorials have might want to get to know the new moved to the front ofthe paper. OBSERVER Check them out on page 2. BARD an gym director. The Observer has Volume 1, Issue 1 September 1, 1995 interview with him inside. Observer to undergo major changes in the coming weeks Newspaper aims to change the way the Bard students are informed Beginning this issue, the paper is Richard Stern. Working with published work will be unedited. Menage.) Pedro ROdriguez will be put together by an almor.t him as .Associate Editor is Joshua See page 2 for more information. There are also more colum­ Editor-9n-Chief entirely new staff. There are two Bell. Sports has been e}tpandcd ro nists. The Observer has sought and hold outs: Linnea Knollmueller Last, but not least, is Lillian Sports and Leisure to include a will continue to seck mol"c Bard (now as News Editor) and me. Robinson, our loquacious Copy opinion writers. TI1e paper is a he Bttrd Observer, if that is Returning to the staff as the Editor/Caricaturist who may be great place for public debate. eginning this issue, the its reai name, is getting over­ new Sports Editor is David Hyde, writing for us-maybe not. Finally, rhe Observer) is spon­ hauled. The Observer has paper will be put T who was a mere· sports writer last The Obsewer will also be together by an almost soring a name change contest. For worn many suits over its thirty­ semester. You may remember him sporting new sections. entirely new staff." details, turn to page . some year history, looking at times from his coverage of spring 1995 Courtesy of Literary Editor Whar you hold in your hand is like everything from .a Hterary intramural softball. Larry Bortman, each future issue essentially a new Bard ncwsp.tpcr. magazine to the New York Times. The new Managing Editor," will have a section devoted to liter­ greater variety of stories. (Look for Any and aH comments are appreci- Things are changing again. responsible for much of the layout, ature (poetry and short stories). AB an article on the fate of the ated. · ~hat's our new nam~. The staff of the Bard Obseroer is starting fresh, that means that we need a new name. Something with flair, charm, or just raw sex appeal. We don't care. Only one catch1 the students have to pick it. We'll accept ideas delivered to the Bard Obsen,er office, vote, and pick one of your suggestions two weeks from today. In next week's issue... • Interviews with new faculty members • Complete coverage of the budget forum • All new school calendar 2 The Hard O~sener • Lftten .' Barel students_ commended for heroic .Vermont rescue the hillside while he went for help. Three called for and willingly give~. It ~asn't easy. Letter to· the Dean ·"young men, having completed their own I'm fine· now, just impatient to be mobile hike, were just pulling away from the trail again, and I have th~m among others to The following letter 'was sent to the head when he arrived. They drove him to thank. Observer from tke, Dean of Students Offic~. the nearest house where he phoned tbe res- Things were confused, but my husband - · ··cue squad and waited for it. They returned managed to write down one name-Roger T9 the Dean: ., to the trail, hiked in at top speed, and found Y erburgh. The other two students were This may or may no~ be _of ~ignificance me. They couldn'J have been neuer. I was named Tim and Jesse (Roth?). I think they · to you. But most sc4ool~ r~<;eive a. dispro- actually distracted somewhat by their com- are ef!tering their second or third year. ·po:hio~ate amount of negative mail about pany and coversation. They did what was Roger and Tim are lit. majors, Jesse is spe­ their'students and I thought I'd change the needed-such as propping the injured leg to cializing in physics. ratio. Two weeks ago I was rescued by three relieve the pressure on the break-and were I think these were already good guys Bard Col.lege students. responsive without being overwhelming. before they got to Bard. But if you think . On a fairly steep mountain path in When the rescue squad arrived and my bus­ anything in the general academic air there is northern Vermont, I took a wrong step and band thanked them and said chey didn't of a nature to strengthen compassion and broke my ankle. It was quite a severe com- need to stay, they stayed. Since I am no response to human_ need, take a bow. It's pound fracture and there waii dearly no way lihtweight and needed to be carried more working. my husbau'd and I could could me down than half a mile down the narrow rocky Yours truly, alone. Reluctantly, he left rl!_e lounging on path, their added strength was definitely Sally T. Margolis Dead Delegates reflect on Nicaragua squirrels Students share in baffle local ·- .. ·~ man local customs and Letter to the Editor Hi, culture When you drive along Rt. 209 to the Uptown Kingston exit or back from that exit, there arc a lot of dead squirrels on the side of the road. r d say there could be as Letter to the Editor many as 50. I've never, however, seen any groups (herds?) of them run out into the road. Can anyone Dear Bard community, explain this? Perhaps some inves­ With the proceeds from the com­ tigative reporting is in order. muinity-supported Sister Cities aucton Sincerely, last semester, three Bard srud~nts were. Matt .Moran able to participate in a cultural exchange with Bard's sister city of Larreynaga, Nicaragua. After the summer to reflect ter, we are planning to sponsor him as a on our delegation, we would like to speaker on campus to share his insight describe ..;hat we were able to learn and accomplish. on grass-roots activism and life after Bard. On June 1, we (Katrina, Kate, and Eric) aarived in Managua, the We invite you to look at our display of our photographs from capital of Nicaragua, and met Jonah Gensler, Bard alumnus and our delegation to Nicaragua outside Kline Commons this week. coordinator of our Sister Cities Project. Next, we travelled to We'll also be raffling off chances for a genuine Nicaraguan ham­ Marreynaga, Bard/Mid-Hudson's siste.- city, with Jonah and mock for only one dollar. Also, on Wednesday, September 20, at Suzanne Hechmer, who spent six months in Nicaragua interning 7pm in the olin Moon Room, we wil1 be holding an introductory with the project. Over the next nine days, we ]ived with families meeting for anyone interested in joining the Bard/Mid-Hudson and spoke with member os this rural Nicaraguan community about Sister Cities Project. Look for articles in .future issues of the religion, politics, economics, domestic lfe, and other social issues. Observer highlighting different aspects 9f qur ~rip. For more imme­ Simultaneously, the three of us experienced first hand the daily liv- diate information about the Sister c;ities P~oject, contact Kate at ing coonditions of the Larreynaga.ns. 752~4121. ,.. _ :- .; . During our stay in Nicaragu~ Jonah Gensler accompanied us Yours truly, .. .· .. : both as translator and teacher. ad a, .res_idept pf the county for three The Bard Sister Cities Project: , . years, he was an invaluable resowce.~ funhe our understanding of Brent Armendinger, Kate Gius~~ Ka?ina- ~jagos, Suzanne the culrurt-. politics, and history of Nicaragua. He will be. in the Hechmer, Diane Lowy, Eric Schwar:tz . United Stares September 18~21. & pan of our activities thi~ se~es- The Bar~ ~bserver • Iews .-· .·. i~~~~t9.!:~~~~~~ 95_ · Amo![nt Requested · Amount Allocated ~.,36.00 $2,000.00 .--~~~~'c-~~f£.~.0~ 3700.00 so.oo· Anthropology Club 400.00 0.00 --.-c--Art C!ub· 1961.00 325.00 -. Art ttistory_ Cl~b __ 1650.00 0.00 ·:·' 'Aiian Film club 1232.00 700.00 380.00 -. ~~~i~~~~- . ~0.9() ·-··-'------Backgammon Club 120.00 0.00 BBSO 3000.00 2100.00 ·Fo_rt:tm .. meeting BiGala 2125.00 1300.90 ·. ·L···: ·sitehes-Wrtti Needl"s 1~.00 -100.00 BJSS 4853.60 2500.00 _ to~ight in Kline CAN/NORML. 10~0.00 .500.Qp .