The Journal of the Core Curriculum Editor-in-Chief Robyn Fialkow Editorial Staff Lauren Becker Wesley Furste Mollie Bergeron Sarah Hartshorne Matt Colangelo Juliana Jackson Jerrod Dolenz Jerome Turnbull Laura Wipf Managing Editor Zachary Bos Designer Amiel Bowers Poetry and Translation Editor Matthew Kelsey Advisor Professor Sassan Tabatabai Director of the Core Curriculum Dean James Johnson PUBLISHED IN MAY 2007 AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY The Journal of the Core Curriculum Editor’s Note When I think of the Core Curriculum, the first things that come to mind are family, intellectual discussion and bad jokes (but most- ly family and intellectual discussion). The Core is unlike anything else offered at such a large university; it fosters a welcoming com- munity of students and professors who are able to connect on both an academic and personal level. The professors act as mentors, as Plato is to Aristotle; guides, as Virgil is to Dante; and loyal com- panions, as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are to each other. Throughout our journey together, we have fallen with Milton and climbed with Petrarch, theorized with Hawking and sailed with Malinowski. In the brief time since our matriculation, we have explored two millennia of the most profound and inspira- tional literature, art and music, which are reflected in this volume of the Journal. Special thanks to my incredibly helpful and humorous staff, Zachary for his endless contributions to the Core (words cannot express my gratitude), Professor Tabatabai for his guidance, and Dean Johnson, who has served as the father of our family for these past two years. Robyn Fialkow Editor-in-Chief COPYRIGHT MMVII BY THE TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY Reproduction of material contained herein without the written consent of the authors is forbidden. 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Front cover photograph by Wesley Furste; rear cover photograph by Robyn Fialkow; cover design by Zachary Bos. 2 Vol. XVI Spring 2007 Table of Contents Staff and Contributors 5 Delhi Raga 8 BY DANIEL HUDON Brooklyn Bridge 9 PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREW BISDALE What Juno Doesn’t Say 11 BY MICAH SHAPIRO Stuck in the Middle 16 BY JEROME TURNBULL Five Classical Poses 18 ILLUSTRATION BY MEG SNEERINGER La Manzana 24 BY JULIE ANN MEJIA ARES Conceptions of the Self 26 BY AMIEL BOWERS Un Molino 30 PHOTOGRAPH BY JANE LOSAW A Noble Insanity 31 BY ANDREW PECKHAM New York City 38 PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHANIE FEINERMAN Street Talk 39 BY JERROD DOLENZ Analects of the Core: First Year 40 Pebble Beach 42 PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHANIE FEINERMAN Judas 43 BY KATHERINE HANNULA HILL Byrne’s Inferno 46 ILLUSTRATION BY ERIC BYRNE 3 The Journal of the Core Curriculum Dante’s Forgotten Canto: XXXVI1/2 47 BY SPENCER BATES Dante in the Garden of Eden 51 MUSIC BY SARAH WEAS Lysístrata 52 BY BRIAN JORGENSEN Self-Portraiture and Honesty 54 BY MATT COLANGELO The Journey to the End of the World 60 PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID GREEN L’accent grave 64 TRANSLATION BY AMIEL BOWERS Piano Fingers 68 ILLUSTRATION BY DEBORA PEREZ Dido 69 BY RACHEL ROSE-SANDOW Analects of the Core: Second Year 70 S’Cores: Musical Analects 72 The Blood Brothers Await 74 BY ETHAN RUBIN Killing Death 77 BY JEROME TURNBULL Staircase 84 ILLUSTRATION BY DEBORA PEREZ Puree 85 BY JULIE ANN MEJIA ARES South Street Seaport 88 PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREW BISDALE The Indifference of Eurudi&kh 89 BY ZACHARY BOS Penelope Waiting 92 BY SASSAN TABATABAI 4 Staff and Contributors avid exploring European parents. Staff and She hopes eventually to sell her Contributors soul to law school and travel the world. She has thoroughly enjoyed SPENCER BATES (CAS ‘09) is an her frazzled tenure as Designer. English major with minors in Art ERIC BYRNE (CAS/COM ‘08) is pursu- History and Visual Arts. He comes ing a collaborative degree in from Manhattan Beach, California. International Relations and LAUREN BECKER (CAS ‘09) is an Communications. He shares the view English major. Her hobbies and of Henry Kaiser in that when your interests include: basket weaving, work speaks for itself, you should moonlit walks, lukewarm summer not interrupt. evenings, and clothes fresh out of MATTHEW COLANGELO (CAS ‘09) is the dryer. an avid writer and an English MOLLIE BERGERON (CAS ‘10), a major. A New England native, he Rhode Island native, is a hopeful credits the cold winters for keep- English major; and the sole fresh- ing him inside the house and inter- men representation on this year’s ested in literature. Journal crew. She enjoys good JERROD DOLENZ (CAS ‘09) is an music and great books. English major and a Women’s ANDREW BISDALE (CAS ‘10) intends Studies minor. He was born and to major in Photojournalism in the raised in a small Kansas town. College of Communications. He STEPHANIE FEINERMAN (CAS ‘09) is has had an interest in photography an Art History major and Film since his early high school years, Studies minor from the warm state and is thrilled to be getting his of California. Her art has previously work published. been seen in The Brownstone ZACHARY BOS is the Administrative Journal. She most recently co- Coordinator for the Core Curriculum. directed Stage Troupe’s Kids’ Show He is also the Deputy Editor of the James and the Giant Peach. magazine News from the Republic of ROBYN FIALKOW (CAS ‘09) is major- Letters. He hopes for sea-change in ing in Philosophy and minoring in the 2008 Presidential election, and Judaic Studies (as of now). She for a return of IHOP to Kenmore hopes to emulate Thoreau and one Square. day live in a cabin on a lake—only AMIEL BOWERS (CAS ‘09) is majoring she would bring her dog with her. in Classical Studies. She was born She is a huge fan of music as well as in Tokyo, Japan by coincidence and finger mustaches. 5 The Journal of the Core Curriculum WESLEY FURSTE (CAS ‘09) is from next masthead will be even more Columbus, Ohio and majoring in awesome. Economics and Mathematics. BRIAN JORGENSEN is a Core profes- DAVID GREEN is a Core professor. Dr. sor and member of the Fish Green lived in the Galician region Worship Quintet (founding mem- of Spain for six years and spent bers: Professors Jay Samons and much of his time exploring the James Jackson, contributing mem- countryside there.This is his eighth bers: Professor Michael Silk and year teaching in Core. Edmund Jorgensen), which opened SARAH HARTSHORNE (CAS ‘09) is an for Professor Stephanie Nelson’s English major from the Berkshire 2007 production of Lysístrata. Mountains of western MATTHEW KELSEY (CAS ‘07) is an Massachusetts. She is excited to English major from Glens Falls, wrap up her second year on the New York. He is the Editor-in-Chief Journal staff. Her left elbow is dou- of Pusteblume: Journal of ble-jointed, she’s met Judy Blume, Translation, and will be living in and she believes in ghosts. Portland, Oregon upon graduation. KATHERINE HANNULA HILL (CAS ‘09) JULIE ANN MEJIA ARES (CAS ‘10) is is studying French and Continental majoring in both Political Science European Literatures as well as and International Relations. She Hispanic Language and Literatures. aspires to become a catalyst of She is from Tacoma,Washington. change for society and future pres- DANIEL HUDON, when not teaching in ident of the Dominican Republic. the Natural Sciences, writes and ANDREW PECKHAM (CAS ‘09) is dreams of future far-flung journeys. majoring in Psychology and striv- JULIANA JACKSON (CAS ‘09), a ing to explore the role of the human Political Science major, has thor- mind as a window to understanding oughly enjoyed working on this the social world, both historically year’s Journal—especially since it and in the present. Andrew has gave her a place to indulge her worked at the Admissions obsession with red pens. She Reception Center of Boston thanks the rest of the staff, Zak for University and as a volunteer providing food (and stories about Research Assistant at the Center for lost loves and Chinatown mug- Anxiety and Related Disorders. gings), Core for making her read DEBORA PEREZ (CAS ‘09) is a books that she would have never Psychology major. She has been read otherwise, and hopes that the drawing since age five and work- 6 Staff and Contributors ing with scratchboard for the past and boxer (not necessarilly in that four years. She is from Cape Coral, order). This is his fourth year as Florida, but was born in Faculty Advisor for the The Journal Massachusetts. Her family is from of the Core Curriculum. Ponce and Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. JEROME TURNBULL (CAS ‘09) is an RACHEL ROSE-SANDOW (CAS ‘09) is International Relations and English currently an English major who major from Germany. He loves plans on switching into COM next ideas that toy with him, no matter semester because she likes foun- what medium they pass through, tains. Core taught her how to laugh, and wishes to make such earth- dance, and clap at the end of lec- quakes of his own someday. ture. She is from Pennsylvania. Someday in the future, Jerome will ETHAN RUBIN (CAS ‘10) was raised by actually be able to go by his full wolves in the jungles of name, but until that time, Jerry—his Philadelphia. Having been men- alter ego—will be the one writing tored by such masters as Socrates, his inadequate bios. Bach, Hegel and Tupac, he now SARAH WEAS (CAS ‘09) is from studies Philosophy and Music Rochester, New York and majoring Composition.