INSIDE The Shannon Matt:iace .... .. 3 New Computer Lab . .• . , .4 PCP . ... .. ... .. .....6 ,7 Ani Difranco .... ... .....9 Announcements ..... ... 12 Volume VII, Issue 15 girls can't shoot. February 17, 1998 Dean Search Committee by Sara Foley A shot of espresso was just makes what the New College student needed to banish the glazed ap­ Headway athy from their eyes, if only for a night. By 9:00, about fifty by Hugh R. "Hugo" Brown people were crammed in the One of the major campus events dimly lit bam beside the of the past semester was not a PCP Anthropology Lab. or any type of performance. It was Though the cafe was offi­ the creation of the new Dean's posi­ cially open only to the USF and tion and the placement of New College communities, appropriate advertisement. The friends from the surroundina1:> Dean Search Committee, co-chaired community and some parents f'h,f.i:.,"':;::r.;:.,l } by Deans Langston and Schenck, were mingling with the crowd. g and comprised of representatives Outside, groups stood in clumps ~ from both New College and USF in the chilly air talking and try­ ~ ~ worked to the result of producing a ing to make their way inside. pool of applicants to the position. Even before John Cooper and ~~~--~~~----------~-~--.---------~~ All applications for the position Dave Doherty opened the stage The g_lorious voices of the Slavic Vocal Ensemble got the coffeehouse of Dean of the Sarasota/Manatee last Friday, there was standing I rollmg. Other performances included Robert Knight and BORT Campus and W arden of New room only inside the Fou r • 1 e. o , line of January 30 has passed, the scattered chairs drinking exotic double C8J!'P.i~,iJii~; Dean Search Committee has gels (steamed milk with flavored syrup). switched into the mode of process­ while munching on scones and homemade cookies. ing the applications. According to Torn Barnard, a New building gives Fine Arts Program a lift New College Student mensional Fine Arts Program. Professor of Fine Arts Gail Representative to the Dean Search by Paul 'Cheech' Chretien Mead, who teaches in the buildings, New College has grown again, Features of the new Isermann build­ Committee, about 120 applications has plenty of uses for the new and this time it's the Fine Arts pro­ ing include two 40 by 60 foot were received by the end of studios, an additional office, a space. She states: "In the past I've January, and then pared down to the gram which will benefit. The Betty had to turn away far too many stu­ 90s according to the requirements Isermann Fine Arts Building, which dents who wanted to study et forth in the job advertisement. was under construction throughout painting and drawing simply be­ Another job advertisement, writ­ the Fall, is finally complete, giving cause we didn't have the room to ten by the students of New College the Fine Arts Program some badly accommodate large classes." was also attempted to be published. needed space. Other plans for the near future However, this ad was not accepted Construction of the new include converting the former becau e, according to Margaret lsermann building was made possi­ drawing studio into a photography Hughes, a New College Student ble by a gift of $350,000 from the lab which will double" as a dark­ Isermann family, in the name of Representative to the Committee, room and projection area." As Betty Isermann, which was supple­ t.::;:::::.:::=:::;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;.;:::.....------- "the VChronicle of Higher Mead puts it, "the school has mented with a government photo by th<gh Brown Education v- doe n 't accept ads that conference room, lacked a serious photography pro­ aren't for the hiring institution." It matching grant. Mrs. lserrnann, who lounge area, and gallery space in the gram for a long time ... recently was Hughes' impression of faculty is an accomplished watercolor artist walkway between the two buildings. we've been forced to borrow space which whom she spoke that a stu­ and recent One of the new studios now from the bookstore for our dark­ dent ad would not have had much winner of a first-place award from serves as the painting studio while room." of an impact,at best, upon the appli- the Visual Arts Center, wanted to Plans to build more painting support New Co11ege's Fine Arts the other is for drawing. Former stu­ cant pool. racks which couldn't be accommo­ Program, and specifically named the dios in the Felsmann building are Barnard, however, expressed dated in the construction budget are two-dimensional arts [painting and now being converted into working disappointment that the ad was not also in the works. drawing) as the recipients of the areas for students working in the accepted for publication. "I defi­ fine arts. Thesis students now have Gallery space within the new nitely think that the applicant pool gift. building is another feature which This expansion supplements the a private studio, while those with would have been larger and perhaps students and faculty alike feel is Christiane Felsmann Fine Arts majors in the fine arts have an ad­ more diverse," he stated. However, going to enhance fine arts at New Building, which, until recently, vanced projects studio in the former Barnard also noted that, " ... the ap- 1 housed the school's entire two-di- art studio. ~EE "F!NE ARTSt ON PAGE 4 :: I !see ('DUN SEA$C,H" ON P;iGE 8f 2 The Catalyst News February 17, 1998 International wage. The proposed action is to increase mini­ away, Gills grabbed Trump and shot him in the mum wage by $0.50 for the next two years. This upper chest and snapped his collar bone in the Snowboarder disqualification over­ action, plus Clinton's previous increases to mini­ process. Trump was treated briefly at Bayfront turned mum wage, should total a wage of $6 15 per Medical Center and released. After competing and winning the gold medal hour. White House figures say that about 12 mil­ in snowboarding, Canadian Ross Rebagilati lion workers will be effected, and their yearly tested positive for marijuana and was thus dis­ wages would be raided from $10,792 to $12,792. Local qualified. Last Wednesday, Rebagilati's medal Republican resistance was based upon the ex­ was taken away following the results of the post­ pectation that jobs would be lo t in order to pay A man and his gun race urine tests. Canada appealed the fewer workers more money. A Sara ota man who shot his rifle for fun wa International Olympic Committee (IOC) disquali­ arrested early Saturday after a five-hour tandoff fication, and the case was brought before the Storms in California continues with the Sarasota Police Department SWAT team. Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). The ratio­ N letup is in sight for the evere weather that Charles Blake, 49, 2400 block 15th St., was nale for Canada's appeal was the apparent has been plaguing California for the Ia t month. charged with u ing a firearm while intoxicated, disparity between the IOC and International Ski Ten people have already died in the serie of u mg a firearm in public and po ession of a Federation (FIS), which has jurisdiction over storms that are expected to last another 2 months. firearm by a convict. Police closed all roads lead­ snowboarding, regulations regarding banned sub­ U.S. Labor Secretary Alexis Herman announced ing to the neighborhood, including U.S. 41, and stance . The CAS ruled that there wa no legal Saturday a federal emergency grant of $25 mil­ called the Special Weapons and Tactic unit and basis for sanctions again t Rebagilati because the lion to help worker whose job were lost or police negotiator . After five hour of talking, wording of IOC rules and medical codes do not Blake and hi s wife, Tina, . urrendered. No in­ specifically prohibit marijuana, and the FIS indi­ juries were reported. cated, at a December 6 hearing, that marijuana testing would not be needed. The CAS stated that OUTSIDE Shooting in New Town i did not advocate the use of marijuana, but also ~~---1voeRY A four-year-old boy, Stephen Phelps, from asserted that " ports authorities are not entitled to Sara ota' Newtown area is in critical condition exclude athletes fount to use cannabis." It is, as lOWER after being shot in the back Feb. II th while yet, unclear if Rebagilati has violated any of walking to the grocery store with his mother and Japan's drug laws. His hotel room is to be 12-year-old si ter. Two 17-year-old girls with earched. disturbed by the recent floods. Damage from the previous criminal histories have been arrested in torms so far have been estimated at $300 mil­ the shooting. A spokesman for the Sarasota lion, but that figure includes only 22 counties Police Department stated that Kashena Speights National and does not include landslide damage. is being charged with attempted for shooting the boy, while Montice Shawntez Span is Line-item veto unconstitutional being charged as an acces ory after the fact for On Thursday, February 12th, a U.S. district State hiding the gun used by Speight in a mailbox judge ruled that the line-item veto law, which after the shooting. Speight reportedly had been w d in 9 · uncon titut" onal. Thi law Teen ets more than he bargained planning to hoot a woman with whom. he had which gives the president the power to strike in­ for een euding, ut e on y o e inj r · · dividual item from tax and spending measures On Saturday night, a teen driver in Pi nellas cident wa Phelp .