The Sewanee Mountain VOL. XXIV No. 39 Thursday, November 6, 2008 Published as a public service for the Sewanee community since 1985. Community Council Agenda Deadline The Sewanee Community Council will meet on Monday, Nov. 24, at 7 p.m. in the Senior Citizens’ Center. Agenda items are due in the Univer- sity Provost’s office in Walsh-Ellett Hall by noon on Monday, Nov. 17. Davidheiser to Enliven EQB University Professor of German James C. Davidheiser will present the next EQB lead on Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 3:30 p.m. in the Sewanee Inn. The SAS Parents’ Council auction leadership has roped in the most items ever His topic is “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let Police Chief of London Jackie “Tiger” Brown, left, played by senior Drew Zinder, as the Wild Wild West comes to SAS on Saturday night. Pictured (from left) are Down Your Hair: Sex and Violence visits Macheath (“Mack the Knife”), London’s greatest and most notorious Ann Morris, parent volunteer coordinator; Linda Ayers, auction coordinator; in Fairy Tales.” Refreshments will be criminal, played by senior Paul Ashey. MESSENGER photo Brigid Stewart, acquisitions chair, and Beth Rhoton, event chair. served following the presentation. All are welcome. Saddle Up and Join SAS Parents’ Theatre/Sewanee’s “The Threepenny Wild West Auction Saturday Music at Noon Opera” Opens Friday Recital Hour Theatre/Sewanee will present tions are available at 598-3260. On Saturday, Nov. 8, St. Andrew’s- and sports equipment all make great “The Threepenny Opera” on Friday Set in Victorian London, the musi- Sewanee School will go “Wild, Wild Christmas gifts. The next Music at Noon recital hour will be on Thursday, Nov. 13, at and Saturday, Nov. 7 and 8, at 7:30 cal tells the tale of outlaw Mack the West” for its annual auction. To view the online catalog, visit p.m.; Thursday through Saturday, Knife and his disreputable associates. Beginning with silent auction the Wild Wild West website at <http: 12:20 p.m. in St. Luke’s Chapel. Voice students of Susan Rupert and piano Nov. 13–15, at 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, With lyrics by Bertolt Brecht and mu- items at 6:30 p.m., bidders will have //auction.sasweb.org>. Proceeds Nov. 9, at 2 p.m. in the Proctor Hill sic by Kurt Weill, the story is based on the chance to vie for hundreds of from the 17th annual Parents’ Coun- preludes by students in Rupert’s MUSC 261 theory class will be fea- Theatre of the Tennessee Williams John Gay’s 18th-century ballad opera, items. Fabulous trips include a week cil auction are used in projects that Center. Admission is free; reserva- “The Beggars’ Opera.” in Paris; a Telluride, Colo., ski lodge; directly benefit the SAS students, tured. All are invited. a fly fishing trip in Montana, beach including a gift of $15,000 for faculty homes, North Carolina cabins, and professional development. Free Youth Lecture Today on Collusion in many more. Auction items such as For more information or to re- tickets to sports and cultural events, quest a printed catalog call 598-5651 Basketball Clinic Emissions Permit Auctions artwork, unique services, jewelry, or e-mail [email protected]. Saturday The Economics Department wel- price sealed bid auctions and an as- comes Professor Charlie Holt of cending clock auction. The research The University men’s and women’s the University of Virginia, who will tested the ability of subjects to col- Community “Folks at Home” Meeting basketball teams will offer a free present research titled “Collusion in lude tacitly or explicitly to maximize basketball clinic for boys and girls Emissions Permit Auctions and the profits. Members of the Folks at Home ing, the work that has gone on thus in grades 2 through 5, this Saturday, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative” The Kennedy-Owen seminar se- interim board and co-chairs Liz far and the ideas and possibilities Nov. 8, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. The today, Nov. 6, at 4:30 p.m. in Gailor ries this year features three speakers Workman and Meg Binnicker invite being discussed. clinic will be held in the Fowler Center Auditorium. A reception will follow. who address important economic everyone in the Sewanee community, “We also want help in determining and will be staffed by the Sewanee Environmental markets have issues of our time. This is the second particularly those 50 years of age and the next steps by having those pres- coaches and players. No reservations several institutional features that lecture in the series; the final presen- older, to join them on Wednesday, ent at the meeting fill in a survey,” are needed; just come and join in the provide a new context for the use of tation will be given on Nov. 13. Nov. 12, at 4:30 p.m. at the Sewanee commented Binnicker. “People who fun. If you have questions, please call auctions that have not been studied Inn. attended the Emeritus meeting in Coach Dickie McCarthy at 598-1193 before. Holt reports on laboratory What is Folks at Home? Its mission September can tell you it is not dif- or Coach Bubba Smith at 598-1298. experiments testing three auction Poetry Readings, statement declares: “Folks at Home is ficult—and we expect what we learn forms: uniform and discriminatory a nonprofit organization developed about the more mature elements of Hughes Book Reception Today for and dedicated to assisting its our community through the survey Debora Greger and William Logan members in continuing a dignified will be invaluable to us as we proceed Signing Nov. 12 Acoustic Jam will read from their work today, Nov. 6, and comfortable lifestyle in their in our work.” The Rev. Dr. Robert D. Hughes at the McGriff Alumni House, at 4:30 homes through services they need There is more to report since the III’s book “Beloved Dust: Tides of Tonight p.m. Book signings and a reception or require during elder or retirement Emeritus meeting two months ago, the Spirit in the Christian Life” has There will be an acoustic music will follow. years.” so mark your calendars and plan to been published. Hughes is the Norma jam tonight, Nov. 6, from 7 to 9 p.m. Greger is the author of eight vol- On Nov. 12 the larger community attend. and Olan Mills Professor of Divinity in the Sewanee Community Center, umes of poetry, most recently “Men, will be introduced to this undertak- at the School of Theology. A book the white frame building behind the Women, and Ghosts.” Logan is the au- signing will be held in the University Sewanee Market. Beginners, experts thor of eight books of poetry, the most Water Plant Costs Continue to Rise Bookstore on Wednesday, Nov. 12, at and all in between are encouraged to recent of which is “Strange Flesh,” and 4:30 p.m. All are invited. attend. If you don’t want to play, come four books of criticism, including The Board of Commissioners of a pump to boost the flow rate, with to listen and watch. After the jam, “The Undiscovered Country,” winner the Sewanee Utility District (SUD) risk of damage to the pipe ($216,000); join the group for refreshments at a of the National Book Critics Circle of Franklin and Marion Counties Option 1A, using a smaller horse- Obama Wins local eatery. For directions or more Award. They live in Cambridge, Eng- met for a working session at 9 a.m., power pump to boost the flow rate, See page 2 information contact <ronn.carpenter land, and Gainesville, Fla., and teach on Oct. 28, and held their regular minimizing the risk of pipe damage, @mac.com>. at the University of Florida. monthly business meeting at 5 p.m. but reducing the water plant’s maxi- that same day. Both meetings took mum production capacity from 1 mil- INSIDE place at the SUD office building on lion gallons per day (gpd) to 800,000 Election results, Veterans’ Day events THE SEWANEE MOUNTAIN Presorted Std. Sherwood Road. gpd ($190,800); Option 2, increasing Deer pre-cull hunt, Letters, Serving.2 MESSENGER U.S. Postage In September, the board learned the size of the pipe, with a severe risk Woman’s Club, Book sale, Sr menus, P.O. Box 296 PAID that the supply pipe running through of compromising the dam’s integ- CAC Thanksgiving, Open Houses.....3 OBITUARIES: Campbell, Haney, Scott; Sewanee, Tennessee 37375 Sewanee, TN the Lake O’Donnell dam was too rity ($595,000); Options 3, 4, and 5, Churches; Centering Prayer...............4 Permit #55 small to deliver water at the flow rate pumping the water over the dam by Meetings.............................................. .5 necessary for the membrane filters various strategies, requiring trench- Honors: Binkley, Physics inductees, at the new water plant to function ing or covering the pipe to avoid Yeatman, Bachman & students.........6 Lectures: Trying Galileo, Cuban Arts; properly. At the Oct. 28 working ses- freezing ($235,000–$460,000). Cape Verde film, Seminary auction..7 sion, the engineering firm overseeing Questioned by Commissioner A&E—SUT, Cowan Christmas parade. construction of the plant, Barge, Rick Sommer, BWSC engineer George Herbarium hike, Fusion sounds, Wagoner, Sumner and Cannon, Garden said that if the board selected Blue Monarch graduate rcptn, Inc. (BWSC), presented the board Option 1A, a future upgrade to one Gallery opening, Arts Guild show.8-9 SCHOOL SCOOP—SES menus, with possible solutions. Discussion million gpd capacity would cost ap- FCHS senior honored, OG inductees, continued at the evening business proximately $50,000. SUD Manager SAS named scholarships............10-11 meeting.