OBSERVER Vol. 101 No. 17 March 16, 1994 Page 1 All Talk, No Action An Evening of Open Discussion With the Student Forum Michael Poirier Page 2 Hit and Run Slew of Parking Lot Accidents Michael Poirier Classifieds and Personals Page 3 Experiments and Vision Professor Lectures on Avant-garde Film Linnea Knollmueller This Year’s John Bard Lecture Nathan Sivin, Expert on Chinese Culture and the History of Science Anne Miller Page 4 Faces of Bard Stephanie Chasteen Jeana C. Breton Rob Cutler Jeana C. Breton Page 5 News From Larreynaga [Sister Cities Program] Straight From the Stars Shameless Filler Matthew Gilman Page 6 In the Absence of Light Michael Sylvester Page 7 Faculty Responds to Student Participation Menage ‘94 Erotic and Romantic Readings Tonight! Page 8 Who Needs a Hotline? Mary Lindsey “A Subjective View” Josh Ledwell Page 9 Leary! Snipes! Movie Review! Sugar Hill and The Ref, Two Strange Films in March Shawn Taylor Page 10 Bard Life? Jeana C. Breton Senior Class Column Page 11 Bitter? Me Too. T.W. Page 12 Calendar rt.:eflmtcW. .tamp ...Jar Dtta-52. la!lasultJonaliU'bKdptlou-- JaafVUJ• The BARD ~~ . - - - ~ - ~ - V 0 L U-~- E 1 0 1 * N U M B E-R -1 7 B A R D C 0 L L E C E * A N N A N D A L E • 0 N • H. U D 5 0 N * N Y 1 2 5 0 4 MA R C H~- 1 6.. * 1 9 9 ~ ..... ~ . "Jam a foJAk, J·will stick n }!OLA J -SoJAel'l Kiel"keeaaJAd as a child The Student Forum conducted its second this issue. Those favorQfshortenb_:lglnter-·. perspective on the issue. come when meetfug of the semester last Wedne5day. session discussed_ the di~culty of securing . the administration is claiJI:!ing to be ~-cting in . Featured o~ the ~genda were open discus- summer internships or jobs because classes our [students'] interests, they are not really - · sions concerning· the end in May, much later than most other workingWithus?... }ustbecauseBarqdoesn't length of the interses- colleges'. Furt~rmore, &!me ~~d~ts, par- help us much with fin~ing in~mshlps does sion, and ideas of wl\at ticularly international students, ·do not not mean we should get rid of lntersession; should be included· in hav~ ~he ·money to return home over the we should be looking for ways to· improve the upcoming new Stu- break and must spend the six weeks of In- it." - · · dent Center.· Since no t~rces~ion at a lonely, frozen campus.' Dean of Students Shelley Morgan re­ constitutive. a~tfons or· .. ~those' ~pposed to changing intersession sponded that the w~ole point of the discus­ decisions were expected· po1ntedoutthattheextra timeisinvaluable sion was that student opinion will greatly or achieved, these dis- for Jariuaty internships, and seniors will affecttheBoard'sdecision. 'W~wo~ldn'tbe cussiqns were intended lose _the extra two weeks to work on their here if it didn't matter,~~ she said. as a preliminary sampling of student opin- project. As Educational Policies Committee Turning to the imminent StudenfCenter, ion. · Chc!ir Renee Cramer argu~, "I like that t~e Forum discussed the ideas provided by Apparentiy, the College's Board of Trust- seniors get to hand in their projects, then. last semester's Student Center Co~ttee, ees is planning to consider shortening the relax and have fun for those final weeks." and those initiated by this semester's new length of the January break by two weeks. Cramer confirmed that. a formal poll of committee. A committee representative Two years ago this week, the Forum passed student opinion is going to be conducted to stated that the College may ·begin breaking ·a resolution requesting the administration determine wheth~r the student body ap- ground this fall. to "reevaluate" the academic calendar. provesordisapprovesofchanginglnterses- Possible locations for the Center are ncar Twenty-four months later, the Board is £1: sion.Shealsoexplained thatthefacultyhas Sottery,onthefieldbetweenKl~neCommons nally responding. ~- not reached a consensus decision either. and thelibrary,orinfrontoftheRavines. The ~tudent opinion was ~ghly divided over - Brent . Armendinger offered a different issue of how centrally located tl}e Center ' ' • ·- " , conti7n~e~ on PQge 2 THE BARD OBSERVER March 16 1994 "2 · · News · · \. · .· ·~ ..... ;:~. · ~ ··- .~ . ~ ~ '"' ~... /·,, ··~ ·-i·': ~:--;.... :_" ...'.. ... ··e~c.~.. : S~SUBLETS Hey Rabbit! Me, myself or I did C.T.B.B. Tortureisgoingtoloose The Graduate school of Envi­ not pen the personal above, as it's charm real fast if you don't ronmental Studies is lqoking for perhaps you might have thunk. appease me soon! Boldly Yours, student housing for this summer Sweet pea, I will only wear a cow­ "Innocent little ole me." . According to Kim Squillace, tre another car," said Squillare 'This is -mid June through mid August. boy hat if you lead me' to the DiredorofSafevandSecurityat Bard just a case of people being irrespon­ Ifyou wish to sublet or rent, please promised land - or at least Wis­ The International Student Or­ College, ~has been a dramatic sible.11 sre reportOO that JroSt of the call 758-7483 or see BetteinSottery consin... -from your Cheesehead. ganization organizes its annual iin'ease in the incidents result in repair bills. 101. cultural show. Anyone interested number ci au- cnropnting to over $500, and only My darling best friend Pam: I'll in performing contact t01robilesbeing tarely does tha driver reveal w or The National Library Poetry is love you always, but please stop ANGELINA KOURABAU Box# damaged by himself. · once again holding a contest with freeking me out! Are you sure 964. othercarswhile Squillare stated that Security ~ over $12,000 in prizes. To enter, you don't need a sweet, cuddly parked. on cam- been able 1o rolve a handful of incl.:. send ONE original poem, any Kestral in your life? Or, perhaps Stacie: Thanks for the fish! Love, pus. Theseaai- dents by matching the damage and subject or style, to the National we can find a tan, dashing Centaur Jeana.. P.S.It'snew name is Frenzy. dents have paintremnantsofonecar1oanother~ LibraryofPoetry,11419Cronridge for you instead. Your darling best proved ex- She said that this does· not happen Dr., P.O. Box 704-YF,OwingMills, friend, Aphrodisia. Looking fo:r: a shur-fire cure for tremelycostlyto very often, and even then the perpe­ MD 21117. Limit of 20 lines. In­ da blues? Dye yer hair. Then theaus' owners.. ft.:rrtrer complicated traror only reluctantly admits his or clude name and address on top of Hey! Someone stole my. bathing contact Poe. G. Mahoney via by the fact that the violators usually her guilt. 'Ire driver is usually held the page. Deadline: March 31, suit and a pair of shorts from the campus mail, NYC. And Carrue fail to step forward liabletoplyforanydainagesircurred, 1994. locker room in the gym. The suit on! This past week alone, there have whether or not their insurance is patterned and laces up in the bemtwomJreirridentstoaddtothe ronveredtheinddent lOOs OF MARVEL COMICS front. The shorts say "Harker Help! Need to teach a lesson to growing list of accidents. One vehicle fuonecase,astudentstruckacarin _ FOR SALE, CHEAP! INCLUD­ Academy Staff." If they have a strong-headed Freshman! Please was parked at Cruger Village, the theStevenoon Gyrunasitun parking INGX-MEN,SPIDERMANAND found their way into your closet, send proof that Eddie Vedder does other in the main lot between the lotleftanoteonthecarandrontacted 01HERS. 1 @ .75 OR 2@ $1.00 1000 curses be on your head (un­ not sing for Stone Temple Pilots Computer Center am Buildings and Security.Squillacesaid thattheowner CONTACf JANCY AT 752-7408. less, of course, you return them to to box828. Grounds. Squillace confirmed that ofthecar,alocalreferee, was then able me through campus mail box both of these two parking areas were togetintouchwith~studentthrough To my most beloved wife­ 1255). NOT WANTED: Anything relatively cleared of snow and ice, Security. '1twasgreatthat[thestudent] Moriemurinultae. Sed monamur! ''Charming." Send to box #1029. rerrovingthatexcusefortheincidents. contacted us," she conti:imed, urging Keep your chin up & give th~m At Upstate Films check out The By presstime, no one had claimed anyone who accidentally damages a Hell! -Your sweetheart SnaPf!er, March 25-:-31, or Far Away .Dear Gretchen& wife, A wood­ responsibilityforhittingeitherofthose parked car; or wit:l\e$€S such an ac-- So Close, March 26-29. Call the chuck would chuck if a wood­ parked Cm'S. _ • - cident to report the incident to Secu- S.B.-All I need for happiness is ·th~aterat876-2515formoreinfor­ chuck could chuck wood! Peace, '1t's pretty obvious when you hit rity iinlnxiiately. 'il. you & Garth Brooks. Love, Me· ·mation. Love & Tofu! -Gretchen _- Forum continued Passover Pizzazz - :c -- amtfiiiiiii7fom fiiSt page - committee, Laurie Curry, prom- standardized evaluation forms shouldbewasdebated, takinginto ised that E-mail is soon going to filled out at the end of a course, consideration the need for exten:.. be made available to the student and promised revisions to this 1 will be ~aving a Passover seder for ~ive parking spaces and access to body. (Watch for an article on this evaluation process. · Bard students on the second.night of -- roads. - . development next issue.-ed) SLC - Shealsostatedthatanewround As to what facilities should be member Goldie Cider confinned otCurriculumProposalshasbeen · Passover, Sunday, March 27. If you_will loeated in the new Center, debate that new options for campus re- put forward to the College, which centered on whether current ser- cyclingarebeinginvestigated,and she characterized as a ·"working­ be on campus, and would. like to vices should be moved or new GilAlphonsoaffirmedthatoneof document" for faculty and stu­ participate, or if you have any facilities created. Moving the the Alumni. dorms is going to be dents. Copies of the document health and counseling services established as theme-housing for have been placed on student questions, please contact· was considered, as well as relo- a "test period" of co--ed doubles.