HOUGHTON LIBRARY , PERIODICALS DEPT. HOUGHTON, NY 14744 the Houghton STA Vol. 94.6 f Wednesday October 21, 1998 Published by students at Houghton College TheReal Storv Alumni Exhibit J "0 Art David Johnson Lindsav Ackerman This is not an article about soccer players. Nor is than an article It is easy to overlook the art gallery in about Christians. This is an article Wesley Chapel. However, it is worthwhile to about people. 1 am not going to quote make an extra effort to visit the gallery and see scripture or spout deep introspective what is on display. babble or tell everyone in the world This month the Young Alumni Artist how to live life. What I will do is tell Invitational is being featured in the art gallery. you the facts. This exhibit displays the work of eleven artists A couple of weeks back who graduated from Houghton College be- several student athletes were caught tween 1991 and 1997. Many of these artists participating in behavior specifically have gone on to receive a Master's ofFine Arts forbidden by the college. Names are since graduating from Houghton, and are now not needed, nor are details. The participating in various aspects of the work powers that be discovered and force. discipline was issued. Most of the artists featured are work- And then the facet of the Big as professional artists or as art teachers. disciplinary action taken by the school David Huth, who is displaying examples of became the hot topic. People photo by Dan Mund multi-media digital imagery at the show, and questioned the severity of the Jeff Babbitt. who is displaying four oil paint- punishment and began screaming "preferential be harder on inter-collegiate athletes as they ings. are both employed here at Houghton Col- treatement." The question arises: "Do are in the limelight and financially supported lege. Huth works in the Public Relations Of- members of athletic teams receive preferential by the college." fice as a graphic artist. and Babbitt is currently treatment from the college?" Dean Danner continued to cite an admissions counselor. 1 asked this question directly to Robert examples of past disciplines taken with athletes. The works being exhibited are diverse . Danner, vice-presient for student affairs. His some resulting in expulsion. When I mentioned in medium. A variety ofdifferent types of paint- ' reply was simple: "No," he said. "On the that a majority of students at Houghton believe ings are being shown as well as samples of contrary, we probably bend over backwards to stained-glass. weaving, photography, and even continued on P.3 an interactive computer program. The Young Alumni Artist Invitational PACE Honors Chamberlain will remain in the art gallery until the end of October, when it will be replaced by a travel- Emilv Beach recipient is to have given through time, talents ling Christians in Visual Arts exhibit entitled and resources. "Scribes of Hope." CuratorTimothy Botts from During the Founder's Day dinner on Home- This description definitely fits Mrs. Cham- Chicago will be here on November 5 for the berlain. She has been a member of the coming weekend, the 10th annual Houghton opening of the exhibit, as well as to make a College President's Advisory Council on Ex- Houghton Wesleyan Church's mission commit- presentation to the art department. tee and its choir. She has been involved with cellence (PACE) Award was presented to Mrs. The final show of this semester will Joyce Chamberlain. Anna Houghton Daughters, and was recently a be a watercolor exhibition by artist Chet Swier PACE is an independently funded group that member of the She-Boppers, an intramural vol- which will run throughout the month of De- meets twice a year. They advise the President leyball team composed of faculty, staff and cember. Next semseter we can look forward and have implemented projects like remodel- community women. She also does a good deal to work by painter Chas Davis. sculpture and ing the snack shop and building the President's of behind-the-scenes work, including provid- painting by Ted and Catherine Prescott. and an house. They also provide an award each year ing free transportation to international students exhibition of work by two of Houghton's art to a member of Houghton who has been faith- to and from airports, and has coordinated meals faculty professors John Rhett and Scot Bennett. ful in serving the college and community. The for families with newboms, or for the sick or continued on p. 3 Sue Crider's Things to Vigilantes of Wedding Do in Love \NG(177:30 PX Western WEDNESDAY·TOWNHALL * New York page 6 pages 4&5 page 3 i EDITORIAL Letter from the true. How is it I had a nine year Thorns and and Paula Jones. Yet there is re- old boy take apart a bunk bed to vival of talks about the possibility Editor Thistles: remove an iron nail to be used of an out ofcourt settlement. How Darid Johnson against his bunkmates? How about The Power of the Dollar much of the dollar power will it the boy who chased down a take for Paula Jones to drop her suit against the President? She has chipmunk and killed it with his bare John Osae-Kwapong Last Wednesday, I had the hands? raised the stakes to $2 million- distinct pleasure of making a Call it naivete' if you want and this time there is no demand special appearance to the first but all of it was shocking. Maybe When she first became a house- for an apology. She claims that the grade class of Wellsville I would like to close my eyes and hold name in the U.S. it was be- President's admission of what he Elementary School as Johnny pretend to live in a world filled with cause of what I call media mad- did with Monica is enough to vin- Appleseed. Yeah, gleeful children ness. According to a story pub- dicate the charges she brought you heard me. skipping to the tune lished in 1993, Paula Jones had against him. On the President's So there of "We Are the agreed to be the President's regu- part, his offer has not changed- I was in the halls World." Not going to lar girlfriend after a brief encoun- $700,000 as of this writing. of WelIsville /19/1 happen. Not in this ter in an Arkan- Defenders of Elementary. clad existence. sas hotel room Bill Clinton have al- in overalls. a red But. those kids at details of which ways contended this flannel. no shoes Wellsville were only Bill and case has been about and the finishing great. Seeing their Paula know. nothing more than touch--a strainer faces light up when I Paula's account dollar power. Well, on my head. walked into the room is a serious case there is the fight for Passing staff pushed all the bad I of alleged justice aspect of it. members eyed me as if I was a had seen over the summer and all sexual harass- But now that Paula mental escapee. and I nodded the doubts I had entering the ment by the has raised the stakes back. 1 hadabigjob ahead of me. classroom into the back of my President. -9 one is tempted to I honestly didn't know mind. 1 wowed them with stories Before the buy the argument what to expect from these kids, of "my" encounters with injured judge had the from Bill's side. Kelly Gurnow and Becky Reese wolves, bear cubs, and pioneer opportunity to A The question is how can vouch. 1 was nervous! Why families. throw out the much of the dollar is the heck was I nervous? These I walked out of that class case in a ruling sufficient enough to were first-graders, not the refreshed. I know not all those kids on April Ist, give up the fight for members of the annual Harley- lead merry little lives, but for a brief both parties had tried to reach an justice? After all these years, will Davidson convention. It probably second, I forgot all that. I forgot out of court settlement. The final Paula just walk away with the has something to do with what I about the kids I had to restrain at offer from the President was American people having to guess dealt with over the summer. camp, the shifty looking parents I $700,000. This offer was unac- what actually happened? , Working as a Chief had to meet, and the stories of child ceptable to the Jones team since it If Bill Clinton is found guilty, Counselor in an outreach summer abuse I had to hear. For that brief fell short of one other criteria; an should this case go to trial, the camp is an experience. I moment, when I was Johnny explicit apology. That was the only most the court can ask him to pay encountered kids the same age as Appleseed. and the children were way Paula Jones would drop her is $700,000. But then there seems the first-graders from Wellsville children, I saw the wide-eyed charges and move on. The Presi- to be a political and legal calcula- who went through more garbage innocence, the pure gazes of dent would not apologize for tion in an attempt by Clinton to in their first seven years on the wistfulness stenciled on their faces. something he claimed not to do. settle the case., planet than most adults all their And those fleeting seconds of And so to this day, because of an With the search forjustice life.