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The Profile
AGNES
The Independent Student Newspaper of Agnes Scott College
SCOTT
Friday, September 14, 1990 Volume 77, Issue
COLLEGE
Rotten branch falls out of tree, crushing student's car
by Michelle Roberts Alison says her parents were
"pretty cool about it" when she
Nowhere is it stated that the called them. "They were shocked
penalty for parking in the but they had to laugh because it
president's parking space is the seems like my years always start
cmshing of the violating car by a out badly."
giant tree limb. She has faith that "if the year
Actually, Junior Courtney starts out this way, it can only get
Alison had parked her car at 7:30 better" and that she will be -
in the evening, when students are treated fairly by the school.
free to park in staff parking. Agnes Scott is paying for a
Students on the third floor of rental car while Alison waits for
Main were preparing for a hall the appraiser to look at her car.
meeting on August 28 when The remains of the rotten
suddenly they mshed to the win¬ branch were removed on the
dows facing the loop to find out same evening of the accident.
what had caused the "loud, The ringing of chainsaws kept
crashing" noise outside. Main residents awake until "at
Alison describes the sound as least three in the morning,"
being "like somebody dropped a according to a junior living in
load of tin planks." Main over the kxip.
They found that a rotted Meanwhile, a crew has been
branch had fallen onto Alison's working since the incident
1988 Nissan Sentra, cmshing the occurred to cut down similarly
hcxxl, denting the door, scratch¬ threatening trees.
ing the paint, cracking the Betsy Johnson,, the R.A. in
windshield, and breaking the air Main, states that it was "ex¬
conditioner. tremely odd for rhe branch to fall;
Public Safety was notified, and there was absolutely no breeze
Courtney Alison looks skyward for more fallen brances as Gerald Whittington inspects the damage already done. several administrators arrived to blowing at the time." Although
inspect the damage. The metal there was a stonn that night, it
campus map in front of Main was had not yet struck campus when
Students victimized by Volkswagen thefts also crushed. the branch fell.
by Kathleen Hill
found close to the scene. This gives from Dekalb County police officer
you an idea of the type of thieves R.C. Key.
Public Satery otlicials are
you're dealing with, because if they "He said that we're in a very
investij;atinj,' the disappearance of were professional, rhe car wouldn't bad area. A huge number of cars
two Volkswagens from the be found," Drew added. are stolen every month," Johnson
Winship parking lot. The thefts The cars were eventually found said.
took place early on Septemher 2.
approximately five miles south of While these two incidents
"We approximate that the cars campus, outside the Decaturcity have been the only criminal
were stolen between the hours of
limits. activity of this magnitude on the
three and five Sunday morning,"
The thieves stripped the two campus so tar this semester, the
said Russ Drew, director of Public vehicles of steering wheels, stick city of Decatur reported 86 cars
Safety. Officers from the Georgia shifts, stereos, radar detectors, stolen during the first six months
Bureau of Investigation recovered
wheels, and hubcaps, according to of BWO.
both vehicles later the same
freshman Kim Johnson. Her "Tire way to catch [these
morning.
Cabriolet was one of the stolen cars. criminals] is to maintain continu¬
"We checked the immediate Johnson first learned of the theft ous surveillance," Drew said.
area because many stolen cars are when she was awakened by a call [drew explained why
Volkswagens are of particular
interest to car thieves.
Inside "Basically, it comes down to a
design factor. Most other car
Editorials companies have taken the design
precaution to conceal the locking
Pam Allen Addresses Prejudice
mechanism. They have also
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switched from [the Volkswagen's]
plastic covering to a metal
Features covering of the steering column.
And then once inside the
Freshman Offers First Impressions
covering,a VW's wiring is such
Page 8 that it is easy for the criminals [to
start the car]."
A non-professional can open a
Arts
kxtked Volkswagen in seven
Sinead O'Connor Rocks Chastain
minutes, according to freshman
Page 11 Marianna Markwalter, the other As it crushed Courtney's car, the rotten branch mutilated the directory map in
car theft victim. front of Main.
News
Friday, September 14, 1990 'The Prohle • Page 2 *
A little freshman comes a long way
by Bethany Blankenship questions. What it my room is
infested with roaches bigger than
I know God put me here for a my dog? What it my roommate
reason, hut I'm not exactly sure is from the planet Zircon and we
what He wanted me to learn don't get along? What it I can't
here at Agnes Scott—whether it watch "The Simpsons" because
was to leam humility by sharing none of the televisions here have
a bathroom with eleven other cable capability?
people or to leam patience and With these thoughts in mind,
tolerance with a new roommate. I took a deep breath and pushed
Either way, I've learned a little of open the door to my new home.
both while I've been here. Not had, I thought. Not had at
I staggered into Agnes Scott all. The closet wasn't larger than
on a crisp Saturday morning. My the room, which 1 took as a good
watch read 8:17 a.m. How sign. My dad carted my ten tons
depressing. I usually slept on of junk into my room, load after
Saturday mornings until my eyes load. (I had never before realized
magically popped open. Oh, my capability for accumulating
well. I guess it was kind of such a mass of stuff.)
important to be here early on the After settling in, I went to my
first day of orientation. (If first of many meetings. I'm sure 1
anything to heat my roommate thought at the beginning that it
to the room to get the better was important to attend these
bed.) meetings in order to get my
As I received my room disoriented mind on the right
assignment I could feel the track of getting used to the
tension building inside of me and college atmosphere. I soon
my mind was filled with many Kco ntinued on /xige 8)
Freshmen Emily Horfiak, Martha Daniel and Perrin Cothran hang on to reminders of home.
Activating military reserves could affect up to 187,000 collegians
College Press Service when they return or if the tuition U.S. Anny Reserves, estimated number of students and staffers tially have a modest impact" on
money they paid will be wasted. that 61 percent of his group's leaving mid-semester to serve. state funding.
As many as 187,000 college "I don't know what frame of 579,000 members are full- or Course sections could lose their However, Huie added, '"any
students across the country had mind I'll be in for my studies," part-time college students. instructors. School finances change in enrollment doesn't
their fall term plans cast into said Junior Waldron, an Anny The other branches of the could he dismpted if fewer show up (in tenns of funding) for
doubt August 22, when President reservist who is a sophomore military do not keep figures on students were around to pay two years. We're not talking
George Bush said he would soon engineering major at the how many of their reservists are tuition and donn fees. Students about a sufficient number of
call up military reservists to Polytechnic Institute in New students. themselves could have their students" to cause funding
support and replace troops York. Colleges themselves typically studies interrupted, without a problems.
already sent to the Middle East. No one knows exactly how don't know how many of their guarantee of being able to Smaller schools said they would
If and when the call comes, many of the reservists subject to students are subject to the resume them when they deal with the situation on a case-
the students would have to leave being called to active military military call-up. returned to civilian life. by-case basis.
school abruptly, sometimes duty are college students. To find out, Drexel University Although there is a federal "If any (students) were called
unsure if they will have a place Joe Hanley, spokesman for the in Pennsylvania set up a hotline law that protects the jobs of up, we would do all we could to
August 23 for any students or workers who are called to duty, make their re-entry after serving
staff who would he affected by the there is no law protecting their country as easy as possible,"
Middle East crisis, but received students, Hanley said. said Edward Macias, provost at
just four calls—only one from a To ease uncertainty among Washington University in
r'(ty/fedicine student reservist—during its first student reservists, Purdue Missouri.
week of operation, reported Vice University published a detailed Meanwhile the student
Shoppe President for Student Affairs letter assuring students they reservists and their families try to
Richard Woodring. would get their fees refunded prepare for what may lie ahead.
When Iraq invaded Kuwait, its and earn a certain amount of Andy Wilson, a senior political
small but oil-rich neighbor, credit, depending on when they science major at Purdue and a
Brad M. Cherson, R.Ph. August 2, life became uncertain withdraw. student reservist, "wouldn't
for both students and their "The department of personnel hesitate at all if a call went out."
schools. services was getting a lot of calls, However, while Wilson would
215 Clairemont Road
Soon after, President Bush sent and student services was getting have no regrets about leaving
Decatur, Ga. 30030 40,000 U.S. troops to Saudi calls as well," said Tim Newton, school, he admitted it would be
Arabia to defend against a an editor for Purdue's news hard to leave Kathleen, his wife of
• Call in orders available possible Iraqi invasion of that service. a month and a half.
country. Newton said the school didn't Being married "doesn't make it
• Fast, Personal Service Originally Pentagon officials know how many of its students any easier," Wilson said.
• Monday-Friday 9:30-6:00 thought only 100,000 soldiers are reservists. Rensselaer's Waldron, on the
would he needed, hut raised the "I think it's a pretty small other hand, joined the Army
• Saturday 10:00-1:00 figure to 250,000 a week later. percentage," Newton said. "At Reserves "more to pay for college"
On August 22, Bush said he this point we don't know." than to fight a war. When he
• Sunday closed
would activate 40,000 reservists Whatever the number, enlisted, he didn't think he might
to support and replace the troops financial impact on campuses he sent to battle.
he had already sent to the Persian probably would he minimal, However, Dean of Students
378-6415 Gulf region. It was the first time added John Huie, Pardue's vice Eddie Knowles assured Waldron
reservists had been called to president for state relations. If he would get an automatic leave
Delivery Available active duty since the Tet students were missing from of absence if he is called to active
Offensive in Vietnam in 1968. sch(x)l when the state surveys duty in the middle of the semester.
STUDENT DISCOUNTS
Suddenly campuses were the campus to determine its "If I get called, I can just pick
forced to ponder a significant appropriation, "it could poten¬ up where I left off," Waldron said.
News
Friday, September 14, 1990 •The Profile • Page 3
Incident in Winship
highlights problems
with dorm safety
BY JOSIE HOILMAN rized individuals.
v
All residence halls are appar¬
Many Winship residents en¬ ently experiencing similar
countered a potentially dangerous problems with security. Signs
situation one afternoon last week. reminding students to check locks
Representatives from a local are rapidly appearing on numer¬
cosmetics company, which has ous domnitory doors.
since been banned from campus, Developing responsible safety
attempted to vend their products habits is a necessity of resident
door-to-door through the halls of hall life. Two especially con¬
the dorm. cerned persons reflected this ideal
The quick and decisive actions in their comments.Public Safety-
of dorm secretary Barbara Stitt Officer Charlotte York remarked,
forced the intruders out of the "Freshmen in a new environment
building. may not realize the necessity for
The situation, although cooperating with one another to
concluded without incident, did keep the campus safe."
bring tip the issue of how donu Stitt noted, "Safety depends
safety is jeopardized by the lack of upon everyone. If just one
concern for safety guidelines, student neglects to check a door,
resulting in the endangerment of others cannot be certain that the
all resident students. recent Gainesville massacre will
Lobby doors present the most not he repeated here-. Agnes
outstanding area for carelessness. Scott is not an oasis away from
These doors, as well as others, crime. The Honor Code cannot
often remain unlocked through¬ protect the campus from outside
out the late evening hours, cre¬ endangennent."
ating ideal entries for unautho¬
Dra/t registration up 67 percent since Iraqi invasion
College Press Service spokeswoman Barbie Richard¬ reasons for the dramatic increase,
son. Richardson said, such as students
Voluntary registration for the There are no current proposals finishing up tasks before heading
military draft has skyrocketed to reinstate the draft, which off to school.
since the August 2 Iraqi invasion would happen only if Congress Federal law, although haphaz¬
of Kuwait, the Selective Service were to order it. ardly enforced, requires young men
System reports. "Historically," Richardson to register within 30 days ot their
The number of men signing up said, "there have been hikes 18th birthday. Additionally,
has increased 67 percent over the before conflicts" such as the students have to certify they've
amount who registered before the recent U.S. invasion of Panama. registered before they can receive
invasion, said Selective Service There could he any number of any federal college aid.
Campuses braced for conflicts between
Arab and American Students
Lold a piece of tape For this woman it's poor eyesight,
up to your eyes, dim the lights for someone else it might be College Press Service students," said John Greisberger, anticipate much fighting among
and try to fill out your taxes. arthritis or maybe they just can't program director for Interna¬ Middle Eastern and American
cope. The fact is, last year 4
Hoping to avoid fights and tional Students and Scholars. students on U.S. campuses
Now you're seeing things from million Americans got the help they violence between Middle Eastern It's happened before. during this round of tension,
needed from IRS Volunteer
her point of view.
Assistance Programs. and American collegians here at In the 1970s, before Shah mostly because of the difference
If you have the desire to help home, Iowa State University Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was in population.
and a basic aptitude for math, you (ISU) said it would set up a ousted by the Ayatollah In the late 1970s, more than
could become a part of the IRS
forum to let students vent their Ruhollah Khomeini's revolution, 50,000 Iranian students were
Volunteer Assistance Programs.
The programs are year-round emotions about the United supporters and opponents of the enrolled at U.S. colleges. In the
and open to any company, States' confrontation with Iraq Shah regularly battled, often early 1980s, students from oil-
organization or individual that peacefully. violently, on U.S. campuses. producing countries still made up
would like to give something back
"Human nature being what it After Khomeini took power more than a third of all foreign
to their community. The training is
is, there will be patriotic and seized 52 American embassy students registered here.
free and the rewards are enriching.
So volunteer and call 1800 424-1040. overtures on both sides," said employees in Teheran as "It's not like in 1980, when we
Beginning October 1,1990, please Tom Thielen, ISU's vice hostages in November 1979, had a large group of Iranian
call 1800 829-1040. president for student affairs. anti-Iranian demonstrations students," Carroll said.
Volunteer and help make
"We're not looking for anything rocked American campuses. Based on figures from the New
someone's taxes less taxing.
of a severe nature, but we think Pro-Khomeini Iranians also held York-based Institute of Interna¬
AT Phuisb Picu WSecravtcoen o&t PI RISenevtreevrnniucaeel I11 thiOnghsi ow iSllt ahtaep Upenniv."e rsity officials draisllriuesp,t ewdh bicyh A wmeerer iocaftne ns tudents. stitoundaeln Etsd wuceraeti oennr, o7l7le0d Ioranq i
are also braced. But Bill Carroll of the American campuses in 1989-90.
"It is inevitable that there will National Association for Foreign The number of Kuwaiti students
be some problems of harassment Student Affairs, based in was 2280.
towards the Middle Eastern Washington, D.C., doesn't
Editorials
Friday, September 14, 1990 "The Prohle • Page 4
Public Safety News
The Prohle
S Friday, September 14, 1990 Volume 77, Issue 1 by Officer Charlotte York Spanish for police officers; law parking areas and engaged in
AGNES enforcement instructor training; stake-outs of certain target lots,
Greetings to all new and return¬ and fireanns instructor training. we have been developing
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Managing Editor Copy Editor munity. The Department of Public MARTA police departments as sible parties, and we have been
Laura Shaeffer Kristin Lemmerman Safety wishes you a safe and suc¬ well as the Fulton County Public considering measures for the
cessful year. We look forward to Safety Training Center. protection of target vehicles.
News Editors Tonya Smith, Josie Hoilman
working with you In a residence hal, a
Features Editor Angie Tacker this year and we are
I student reported missing
Arts Editor Sandee McGlaun pleased to he at your her Rolex watch, which
Arts Calendar Editor Rita Ganey service. Campus safety is a
she placed on her desk
Photography Editor Barbie Still During the
before going to the
Circulation Manager Mary Mathewes summer months responsibility shared by
shower.
Advertising Manager Sara DiGiusto the Department of
The Profile is published bi-weekly throughout the acadcemic year. Letters to the' editor and guest all members of the Campus safety is a
Public Safety-
editorials are always woelcomed and should be typed or on disk using Microsoft Word. Names responsibility shared by
cannot be withheld. Vicu's expressed on the eidtorial pages do not nt'CCSsanK1 reflect those of engaged in a
all members of the
anyone affiliated with the College other than the author. Agnes Scott community.
comprehensive
Agnes Scott commu¬
training session
nity. We ask that you
covering topics
join us in securing the
such as report writing, search and Please join us in welcoming campus by paying particular
Lagrdappe seizure, vehicle pullovers, race Officers Michael Gaston and attention to keeping residence
relations, and standard first aid Ricky Bigby to Agnes Scott. halls and other secure locations
by Michelle Roberts and CPR certification. Both officers bring years of law locked properly. As you enter a
The training sessions included enforcement experience and are building, please be sure that the
In his hcxik, Otib L An Inside Account of Life in the First Year at Harvard classroom as well as practical anxious to serve you. door has closed properly and
Law SchtxtL Scott Tyrow describes his first day there: "I do not have the exercises simulating actual law This school year opened to a locks behind you.
time to read a novel or a magazine, and I am so far removed from the news enforcement situations. The small rash of car thefts. All three During the semester we will be
of world events that I often feel as if I've fallen off the dark side of the planet. instruction has enhanced our of the incidents (2 thefts, 1 offering seminars on topics of
I am distracted at most times and have difficulty keeping up a knowledge and effectiveness in attempt) involved Volkswagen value and interest to you. Flyers
conversation....At random instants, I am likely to he stricken with acute these areas. vehicles. The two stolen vehicles concerning these programs will
feelings of panic, depression, indefinite need, and the pep talks and irony I Additional topics covered in have been recovered. A suspect be posted in conspicuous
practice on myself only make it worse." optional training classes included has been arrested in connection locations around campus. We
Although the first year at Agnes Scott College is not Harvard Law, the recent legal developments, with the entering auto incident. strongly encourage your partici¬
anxiety and uneasiness Turow describes are feelings drat all new students covering newly passed legislation In response to these incidents pation in these programs. Again,
experience. So much occurs so quickly, and while the changes can he life- affecting law enforcement; basic we have increased patrols of the have a good year!
alteringly positive, they can he scary at the same time.
I must have been the most naive freshman to hit this campus in a while.
1 did know how to do my own laundry and maneuver around the city, hut I
was completely ignorant about college life itself. For instance, 1 had no idea Time Traveler
that an answering machine was essential to one's everyday functioning. I
by Elizabeth Peryam
was terrified of paffessors, and 1 fell up the stairs in Buttrick on the first day.
1 also had misconceptions about feminism, a vague idea about die
amount of studying required to make the kind of grades I was accustomed to
Why a college education?
making, and a strange difficulty finding friends, among other problems.
The most serious culture shock I experienced at college was homesick¬ This summer, Time Traveler for her prince, but most of it has behind as he galloped through
ness. It hits an otherwise independent young woman hard to discover that
stood before the Vice President to be learned the hard way and a their lives. They could really use
she longs for home. Homesickness is just something we all have to deal
and Legal Counsel of a major lot of it you don't really want to that extra $10,000 in salary I was
with, and we must realize that some of it is self-pity; when stress levels get
international corporation and know. offered this summer.
high, the thought of home's comforts can become overwhelming.
delivered a very important and Perhaps the dream of a prince The woman lucky enough to
Being homesick does not necessarily "go away" after the first year. I cried
convoluted message. Instead of on a fine horse is universal keep her husband home had
this year, my senior year, when I left my mother.
the patronizing pat on the head among women. He will whisk us better hope that his most
Many students are ecstatic to leave home and do not even return home
Time Traveler would have away from all this to a castle in eloquent expression of emotion
for summer breaks. I have infinite respect and admiration for international
received in her old "dumb the clouds where we will live is not a fist in her face. More
students who often cannot tell you when they will see their families again.
blonde" days, the esteemed happily ever after. women are killed every year by
I find myself living for any opportunity to go home. A strange phenom¬
gentleman inquired as to her There are still sweet princes their spouses than die in car
enon occurs for students who, like myself, are from Alabama. Even if we
availability for full-time, perma¬ left, but the ones I've found are wrecks, rapes and muggings
never liked Lynytd Skynyrd before in our lives, 'Sweet Home Alabama"
nent employment at a salary invariably married to somebody combined. Uneducated women
suddenly brings teats to our eyes and fills our hearts with pride.
$10,000 higher than she ever else. Or maybe the prince is don't have the resources to
Another realization that comes to every first year student is utter
made before. "Thank you," she always sweeter on the other side escape and many don't escape
disillusionment over the fact that she is no longer "the best." Everyone else
said, "but I have to go back to of the picket fence. except under the most desperate
is as smart if not smarter than you are at a selective college such as this one.
school in August." Let's get real. These days a of circumstances.
At the same time, due to its small size, there are many opportunities to
Time Traveler thought about sensible woman should plan for Then, on a global level, we
distinguish youiself. The most important thing you can do at Agnes Scott
that. The message as delivered raising her children by herself. women have to take our power
to feel as if you are truly a part of things—and to make friends—is to get
was well organized, clearly stated Fifty percent of all marriages end back. For tcxi long we have been
involved in something you enjoy. I, in my naive state, remember feeling a
and spoken with aplomb, all a in divorce. In Georgia, only limited to changing dirty diapers
bit intimidated in my first year to do much. Do not be. If you are feeling direct result of her education here three out of ten of the children while the men who run the
like you don't fit in, give it time.
at Agnes Scott College. That job are awarded child support, and government and monster
Letty Russell writes in Inheriting Our Mothers' Gardens about the benefits
offer was only one of three, all in only one receives it. The State corporations have dirtied the
of feeling, at least temporarily, like a "misfit": "Sometimes this being on the
the same salary range. of Georgia attempted to collect diapers of the earth almost to the
margin can give you the freedom to breathe, even freedom to maintain a
The disciplines we go through approximately $200,000,000 point of no return. In order to
self <ntiail stance toward tire use of your own inheritance, if indeed this is a
to get gtxxl grades create a clarity (yes, ma'am, two hundred clean up this planet, we must be
place where you find it worthwhile to continue the struggle."
of thought and provide knowl¬ million dollars) in unpaid child freed of our menial tasks and
Above all, use dtis time to develop and grow. It has taken me three
edge invaluable as a foundation support in 1989, and they were leam to speak the language of
entire years to feel as thixigh I've found a "niche" for myself and to recognize
for our best becoming. only able to get $100,000,000. power. Here in schcxil is where
that I belong here. 1 m not insinuating that Agnes Scott is for everyone, but
After living almost half a That means a lot of mamas are we leam that language. And a
for tbute who find it worthwhile to continue the struggle and who survive,
century upon this earth, I've out there working two jobs trying women's college provides the
the opportunities both inside and outside the classnxim are invaluable.
found that one can learn a lot out to feed and clothe those babies best forum for us to practice and
there in the "real world" looking their handsome prince left perfect it.
Editorials
Friday, September 14, 1990 'The Profile • Page 5
Is Agnes Scott College
REALLY committed to
diversity in hiring?
I guess 1 should let you all know commitment to diversity?
right now that I am NOT an of¬ Okay, let's suppose that Agnes
ficial spokesperson for the Afri¬ Scott College is committed to
can-American students on finding qualified minority pro¬
campus. 1 am a student who, like fessors and administrators. How
yourselves, gets outraged at the did it happen that a woman was
inconsistencies of people and replaced by a man in the Sociology
institutions. 1, unlike most of you, Department? That was a per-fect
write about what frustrates me. opportunity for Agnes Scott to put
Do not take it personally unless 1 her money where her mouth is and
use your name. hire a minority professor.
Yours truly, We may find out that the
Michele A. Barard President's Committee on
Diversity is working secretly to get
Opening Convocation II dem¬ some world-renowned minority
onstrated .once again that Agnes woman to come to Agnes Scott
Scott College has only a partial College for a special project which
commitment to diversity in includes teaching classes. I doubt
hiring. it, but it could happen.
Let me clarify that statement. Even this would raise questions
It is clear that Agnes Scott in my mind. For example: What
College has a commitment to type of full-time ACADEMIC
hiring minorities and interna¬ and/or ADMINISTRATIVE
tionals for every custodial position positions would Agnes Scott
which is available. It is equally College be willing to offer to a
clear that Agnes Scott College is minority person? Who would she
determined not to search for have to be—Alice Walker? Or,
minority and international could she be a qualified graduate One si
professors and administrators. from Spelman, Emory, Oglethorpe,
I wish to state for the record or Agnes Scott who has demon¬
that I have no problems with the strated expertise in her field? by M. Leigh Bennett system is broken. Students have subjects that directly affect our
new hires as individuals. For These questions may never be to push their views on professors, welfare. Conditions would have
heaven's sake, I don't know them answered. However, I offer this All this summer one nagging in their offices, because no other to be made about the procedures
all personally. Furthermore, 1 am challenge to the administrators, little thought has kept coming to option is open. Many professors in sensitive situations, but that is
confident that Agnes Scott the deans, and the President of my mind (yes, I do have one). blithely go on believing they a side issue and should not
College has hired excellent people Agnes Scott College: Stand That thought has been about our know what the students want, but hamper the solution.
to fill the positions which needed behind the commitment you made faculty. I know that we no in truth, they haven't got a damn So, should faculty meetings be
to be filled. to the minority and international longer wish to rehash the plus/ idea. The old patriarchy rears its closed? No! All student meet¬
However, this does not negate students on this campus. Show us minus controversy, but 1 think head. "We know what's best for ings, with the exception of Honor
the obvious: Within the last year that you mean it when you say, that one aspect of that situation you. Giving us an opinion that is Court, are open. Any student,
Agnes Scott College has replaced "Agnes Scott College values must be addressed—the idea of different just shows how wrong faculty, administrator/staff
a woman sociologist with a man. diversity and seeks to foster an closed faculty meetings. (For the you are. Trust me." Aren't we personnel could go to any SGA,
Also, at Convocation we met environment that welcomes and first year student, ask a junior or being taught to think for our¬ Interdorm, or another group's
several white male and female supports contributions from all senior for information.) selves? Practice what you preach, meeting. Some very important
professors and administrators who members of the Agnes Scott Now, I know that many of the dear Agnes Scott. 1 do not take issues have come tip, but 1 have
are new to the campus. Is this College community." (The Agnes faculty will resent my poking my my family's opinions at face value, never heard a student say, "Let's
appropriate hiring practice for a Scott College Student Handbook, nose in their business, but in my so I doubt that I would take yours. keep the faculty out. They don't
women's college which claims a 105.) opinion, this is my business. I Yet, consider the changes this have our optimism, energy, or
have been told, repeatedly, that would cause. I have seen many understanding of the issue to give
faculty meetings are a chance for changes around ASC since my any opinion that is worthwhile.
the faculty to come together and first year here and none of them What do they know? They just
Rep Rap
discuss the workings of the have caused the bell tower to teach here." Change some of the
by Laura Shaeffer College among themselves, collapse. I seriously suspect the words around and you have what
without any students present. tower could hold up to this one. the students have been hearing
As we begin a new year, Rep Council would like to remind everyone, Are not student opinions Many professors will point to for some time now.
especially new students, who we are and what we do on campus. necessary to make a logical, well the fact that at many other Am I sorry I wrote this
According to the student handbook, "The purpose of this body is to thought out, well researched schools, faculty meetings are editorial? No. I believe that I
represent the students to the administration and to be aware of student decision on any of a number of closed. What does that have to have a right to voice my opinion.
concerns and needs." Rep meets every Tuesday at 7:15 in the Student issues? I know that I have asked do with the issue here? I do not The students have been accused
Center Annex and we encourage everyone with interest or concerns to professors' opinions on many believe that we need to look to for years of apathy. This should
join us. issues, not because the professor other schools to justify our get rid of some of that criticism.
To stay in touch with student opinion we hope to continue to sponsor was so much older and wiser actions. "Agnes Scott is the best Do I believe I will receive some
Student Forums which were held last year. This is a good opportunity for than myself, but because that of the best," and we should be able flak, if not a cold shoulder, from
students to voice their opinions on an infonnal basis. person represented another part to make a decision without some of the faculty? Although I
Rep Council's executive board members are Holly Henderson, of the triad at Agnes Scott. It is worrying about how other schools may sometimes look it, I am not
president; Christy Dickert, vice president; Amy Higgins, secretary; my belief that no decision should work. Other schools do not have naive. 1 believe some members of
Robyn Porter, treasurer. be made without considering the dynamics of our campus. the faculty will be downright
The senior reps are Betsy Johnson, Cathy Pitney, Tammy Shirley, and how that decision will affect the Therefore, why should we hostile about this. To them I say
Stephanie Strickland. Junior reps are Janet Johnson, Talin Keyfer, Kara rest of the campus. compare ? that this is only one student's
Russell, and Laura Shaeffer. Sophomore reps are Wendy Allsbrook, The first reaction will be a Also, it is true that in faculty opinion and they may take it or
Mary Frances Kerr, Ellie Porter, and Deborah Watters. swift "No!" from many of the meetings sensitive topics could leave it, but it ain't going to go
The black American rep is Angela Miller and the international rep is faculty. The reason: Change arise. That is understandable. away. In fact, it will probably
Eva Mihlic. RTC reps are Joanie Kimble and Gina Pursell. around Agnes Scott is never seen Students should not be able to only get bigger and louder. You
The new dorm reps are Anika Dyrstad, Winship; Malikah Berry, as good or necessary. The motto listen to problems that have arisen cannot poke your head in the
Walters; Annetta Williams, Main; Kathryn Cullinan, Inman; and is, "Don't fix it; it hasn't broken with other students, but students sand forever; sometime you have
Debbie Miles, Rebekah. yet." The point is that this should be able to know about to come up for air.
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The following is philosophy professor David Behan's response to President Ruth Schmidt's Opening Convocation speech.
Curriculum and Community:
A Reply to President Schmidt
As a member of the Curricu¬ them. The President has time to preserve values for which grams she urges, we shall have to edges frailty and failure. It rejoices
lum Committee, 1 believe it is steadfastly refused to add to the it has stood for a century. But in cut somewhere else. But where in the progress we have made,
necessary to reply to President faculty complement in order to trying to realize all of those are those cuts to be made? Our deplores the progress we have not
Schmidt's remarks at the Open¬ bring about the very programs goods, we are constrained by existing programs are not ade¬ made, and moves on to patient,
ing Convocation on August 31. which, last week, she urged us to limited resources. The hard quately staffed, and those are the loving, and careful deliberation
1 address my reply particularly to implement. These are the pro¬ decisions which the Curriculum programs for which you came about competing goods within a
the students. grams which the" Faculty has Committee and the Faculty face here. I do not believe we can college of limited resources. It
Two features of the College approved either in fact or in are usually not between good and make cuts without violating our respects our trad itional values, it
which President Schmidt has principle. bad proposals but between trust and compromising the searches out and welcomes new
emphasized over her years here I bring these facts to your competing goods. We would like quality of your degree. members to our community, and
are our curriculum and our sense attention because you might to be able to implement all good There is another way of doing it does not demean any single one
of community. In her remarks at easily have been misled by the proposals, but a college of 500 things. This was outlined by a of us. It also seeks the financial
the Opening Convocation, Dr. President's remarks. You were students and 70 faculty members former President of this College, resources to make the curriculum
Schmidt delivered a mandate given to believe that significant has its limitations. Dr. Wallace Alston, when he commensurate both with our
concerning curriculum. The curricular issues had neither been Faced with hard choices quoted Edmund Burke's state¬ community and with the interna¬
mandate was that the Faculty, raised nor discussed. They have between competing goods, we ment that a society is a covenant tional community. I urge you to
and especially the Curriculum been discussed at length and had hoped that the Centennial among generations. This other adopt that way. I urge you to
Committee, take immediate action has been taken on them. Campaign would have made way begins not with a mandate ignore the unfortunate, mis¬
steps to change our curriculum You were given to believe that it significant funds available for just to a faculty likened to rust and leading, and demeaning aspects of
from a "male-dominated is the Faculty which stands in the curriculum additions temtites. It begins not by what we heard last week. 1 urge
Eurocentric" curriculum to one the way of curriculum reform. President Schmidt urged upon us misleading students. Rather, it that this community of scholars
which emphasizes the important That is not the case. The last week. Yet she continues to begins from a genuine sense of work together to preserve and
cultural and intellectual contri¬ Faculty has approved policies freeze the faculty complement community. It begins with trust improve the endangered coven¬
butions of women and people of which would make the curricu¬ and starve the curriculum. If, and respect and hope, and at the ant among generations which is
color. lum more inclusive. It is the then, we are to have the pro¬ same time it honestly acknowl¬ Agnes Scott College.
In demanding that the Faculty President who has not provided
take steps toward an inclusive the funds required to make
curriculum, the President was possible those programs.
calling the attention of the But let me speak not only of
College communiry to issues programs, such as Black Studies, Asum-American Prejudice—A Personal
which have been discussed and which have yet to be, nor pro¬
acted upon in colleges and uni¬ grams such as Women's Studies, by Pamela W. Allen her endeavors. I have picked up use of an Islamic call to prayer as
versities since the first programs which are struggling in place. on her conf idence and assumed a call to denigration.
in Black Studies were imple¬ Let me mention Latin American In the quiet of my Saturday that she moves through life with —Bomb threats were made
mented in the late 1960s and Studies. The program was put in morning, comfortable, safe, and the safety, serenity, and protec¬ against the American Arab
since Women's Studies emerged place when a scholar in Latin serene, snuggled under a blanket tion which I feel within my Anti-Discrimination Committee
in the 1970s. American studies was added to on my screened porch reading screened porch this morning. 1 (AADC) for monitoring
The Faculty of Agnes Scott the Faculty. Now the program in the paper and sipping coffee, 1 am wrong. discrimination acts.
College, and the Curriculum Latin American Studies is being became frightened. My serenity On an evening of fun and —A parody of the Beach Boys
Committee in particular, have phased out because of insuffi¬ was broken by a crush of reality comraderie with her friends at song "Barbara Ann" using the
been well aware of those issues cient funds to support it. Yet, tossed to me in the morning Underground Atlanta, a man lyrics "Bomb-Bomh-Bomb Iraq"
since the time they emerged. while one important addition to paper. The gentle shelter of the turned to Shama and said, "You is being broadcast in Atlanta and
The Faculty has instituted a an inclusive curriculum is being wet leaves vibrating under the fucking bitch! Thanks to you elsewhere.
minor in Women's Studies and phased out, the President man¬ kiss of rain shanged quickly to a our sons are at war!" Alanned This apparent growing
has approved in principle the dates new programs. false and decadent sanctuary and incredulous, she and her prejudice against Asian Ameri¬
possibility of a major in Let me turn to the issue of which had lulled me away from friends moved on, laughing off cans smacks of the prejudice
Women's Studies. The Curricu¬ community. We are a commu¬ harsh prejudices growing in the the incident as an eccentricity of shown Japanese Americans
lum Committee has agreed to nity, and increasingly we are fuel of the Middle East crisis. the area and the interloper as a during World War 11. Shall we
the desirability of a program in such in reaction to the policies Several things came together this weirdo. Deep within she must again incarcerate a whole people
Black Studies and has discussed and practices of the President. morning to fracture my reverie: have been terrified. because of the stupidity of a
with the President ways of The Faculty was wrongly charac¬ a casual conversation several At a local gift shop, a tee-shirt select few? The anger and
implementing it. terized as resisting an inclusive days ago, a product promotion, reads "IRAQNAPHOBIA"—a powerlessness we feel in response
I regret that, in her mandate, curriculum. 1 know that you and an article in the morning parody of Speilberg's popular to Saddam Hussein's acts of
the President did not acknowl¬ have respect for the scholar- paper. film Arachnophobia. Below the aggression must be limited to the
edge any of the steps which have teachers of this faculty, and I I am privileged to be sharing title are figures intended to he source and tempered in response.
been taken in both of those areas believe tht you are deeply my home with a dear friend and spiders covering the rest of the Our tendency is to lash out at a
by the Curriculum Committee offended when they are mislead- ASC graduate who happens to tee-shirt. The spiders have the closer target which represents
and the Faculty. ingly likened to rust in pipes and be of Islamic, Asian background faces of Asian people. The tee- the source of the problem. As a
The Faculty is in general termites in wood. while 1 am Christian, white, and shirt goes on to say, "HELP result, we may cut down the
agreement that a more inclusive The Faculty, and through it U.S. bom. Our ethnic and STOMP THEM OUT." apple tree out of fury against the
curriculum is desirable at Agnes the Curriculum Committee, religious backgrounds have never An article by Cynthia tree for dropping an apple on our
Scott. Recommendations holds in trust the academic been anything but delightful to Durcanin in this morning's head. If we do so, we never
toward that end were sent to all quality of the institution, for each of us. We enrich one Atlanta Journal newspaper (9/1/ again are able to sample the
faculty members by the Curricu¬ which you, your parents, and our another and leam from our 90) focused on threats against sweetness the tree bore. The tree
lum Committee last spring with benefactors over many years differences. I have naively Arab-Americans. Her article will no longer spawn new growth
the specific request that depart¬ have invested their money. We assumed that her ethnicity outlined the growing prejudice, and the ground will no longer
ments report to the Committee hold in trust the quality of the carried little if any discrimina¬ discrimination and violence grow richer from the generation
the steps they have taken and degree for which you pay so tion and that—as any U.S. against Arab-Americans. of fruit it would have
propose to take. However, it much and work so hard. We are, citizen—she was well accepted —A gang of ten young men produced.My porch sanctuary
requires the support of the in an important sense, trustees of by almost all she encountered. armed with a bottle beat a man can become a prison if I use it as
President to bring these changes this College. We want to see Shama is a bright and intelligent who appeared Arabic. a barrier to keep ugliness and
to fruition. New programs do Agnes Scott College grow, we woman. Comfortable with —A Savannah TV station prejudice at bay. This insulation
not come into being unless funds want to see curricular innova¬ herself, she dives into life and sponsored a "Towelhead can allow^me to divest myself
are provided to hire faculty for tion, and we want at the same does not allow prejudice to limit Weekend" with the slanderous from involvement, personal
Craig, use this head lo jump the
Asian'American Prejudice—A Personal Reflection gutter on the article above
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"If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It"
President Ruth Schmidt gave the a danger of fire not only under¬ and other peoples of color, who in
following speech at Opening Day from overloaded scored the need some cases predated and clearly
Convocation on Friday, August 31, circuits, with Probably the most telling challenges to international¬ influenced European culture very
1990. electrical capacity ize the curricu¬ dramatically; yet most of the
to the way that we envision the liberal
in each room for lum, it has given traditional liberal arts curriculum
How many times have yon a lamp and a arts have come, in the last twenty a certain imme¬ begins with a period of European
heard this expression? It seems to radio, but not for diacy to the call dominance. What we have been
he a fairly popular one. I have the hair dryers, years. . . from the ever increasing for a curriculum teaching, according to President
never really heard anyone refute TVs, computers, that is generally Sudarkasa, are the Euro-Ameri-
challenges to our Western-centered
this statement, hut 1 think it stereos, etc. of more inclusive of can-ities instead of the humani¬
should he. Life has taught me today's student and male-centered curriculum. the perspectives, ties, for as she says, "Students need
that a lot of things aren't fit, even living. history and a world view that places the
if they're not broken; that there is I think that contributions of contemporary situation of nations
the possibility of rusting out, those of you who peoples of color." and peoples of the world in the
looking shabby, or maybe even were here pre-Victoria Lambert knew them years ago without And she went on to say "...logi¬ context of the ebb and flow of the
being eaten by tennites, and all and our landscaping improve¬ reconceptualizing them? cally and inevitably, the call for fortunes of different groups over
these may have just as devastating ments, know that the lawns, trees, Probably the most telling internationalizing the curriculum the full span of human history."
an effect on the functioning of and hushes of the campus weren't challenges to the way that we and broadening the humanities She points out that African
something as if it were "broke". "broken", hut they certainly envision the liberal arts have should be one and the same. No contributions through various
One example that 1 can think weren't trimmed properly; there come, in the last twenty years, not advocate of international studies periods of history have not been
of very easily is this: You wouldn't were lots of needy patches and the so much from technological and would maintain that only recognized to the degree of their
have said five years ago that our trees were slowly dying without scientific breakthroughs, although Western nations deserve to be importance. And if you have
residence halls were "broken", being fed or cared for. Unfortu¬ clearly the teaching of mathemat¬ included. It should be obvious listened to National Public Radio
that they couldn't he used any nately, even though we're trying ics and scientific subjects is being that the same case can he made this week, you will have additional
longer, but we did have some to take better care of our campus transformed constantly by new for the humanities. The call for examples.
which were really unsafe because and have planted hundreds of research and discoveries, but from internationalizing the curriculum Because of the various streams
although the electricity continued hushes and trees in the last few the ever increasing challenges to should embrace the call for a more of interest exhibited by our faculty
to come into those buildings and years, we cannot undo the damage our Western-centered and male- inclusive humanities curriculum members, 1 believe that Agnes
students lived in them, there was of recent droughts and the fact centered curriculum. so as to acquaint students with the Scott has the possibility of being a
that much of the foliage is mature, I know that many of you were literature, music, art, philosophy, leader in the blending of the
so we do have quite visible involved in experiences this and other traditions and contribu¬ international stream and the in-
brokenness. summer which have furthered your tions of peoples in the non- clusivity stream to transform the
Tennite damage is really education, fomvally or infonnally. Westem as well as the Western liberal arts and to offer here an
Reflection insidious. A few years ago I We had some great programs on nations being discussed in the educational program suitable for
discovered that those hungry campus (Ford Foundation, more social science-oriented this day and age, and also for the
exploration, and responsibility. I insects had been eating out the Exploring Transfer, Hot Topics.) international studies programs." future.
am then able to say it is someone substance of some areas of the My educational experience was I am very pleased that here at Although it is very important
else's problem at which point I President's house and that that in July, I was privileged to Agnes Scott we have many to continue to transmit the culture
become the CORE of the although the outer appearance attend a conference of the faculty members who are support¬ of western Europe, which is so
problem. Change happens froria continued to be fine, about all International Association of ers of and participants in the basic to much of what we do and
within, not from without. that was left of the woodwork in University Presidents in Global Awareness program and think, perpetuating only certain
Change occurs from the self the basement was the paint still Valladolid, Spain. Two hundred the international aspects of our cultural streams will not be
outward; from ourselves, to our giving it fonn. and fifty presidents and rectors (as curriculum, who are also working adequate for the preparation of
families, to our community, to "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." they call presidents in many parts on the inclusive nature of a students who are already living in
our nation, and to the world. It doesn't sound as if the proponent of the world) attended. The contemporary liberal arts curricu¬ a world very different from that in
does NOT happen the other way of this philosophy would have any theme of the conference was lum. The Curriculum Committee which most of us older folk grew
around. I must, we must, time for "preventive mainte¬ internationalizing the university. has been struggling with these up. Just as our student body is
recognize a fire as it begins and nance", does it? What are the We had a very great sense of the issues as well, and I believe that more diverse and we are seeking to
open our eyes to the ways in possibilities that we have some importance of education in its this year may be significant to make our staff and faculty more
which each of us fuels it. rust or termites in our ways of many facets and fonns as presented Agnes Scott's progress in this area. diverse, so the information about
I hope the reader is outraged doing things at Agnes Scott? by educators from around the In reviewing the responses to the the rich human variety which
at this growing prejudice. I fear 1 believe that every one of you world. Planning Committee question¬ research has opened up in recent
for Shama and my other Asian can think of some examples, not It was gratifying, on hearing naire, we noted that every years must be a part of the
friends at Agnes Scott and necessarily from the physical side various papers, to realize that we category of respondents, faculty, educational experience here. It
elsewhere. I also fear for my hut in the ways we do things, in have been moving for years toward students, staff, trustees, and "ain't broke", but it could stand
children, that they may be swept our administrative patterns and greater internationalization of the alumnae leaders, all believe that some attention.
up in a popular trend of ethnic habits, in outmoded office Agnes Scott educational experi¬ one of the greatest successes in It is an exciting time intellectu¬
prejudice. I fear they will close practices, in traditions whose ence. Many prefer the tenn we use recent years is the establishment ally to be on a college campus and
their eyes to the implication of meaning has long been lost, in here, global awareness, to indicate of the Global Awareness program. I believe that this year can he a
tee-shirts saying, "No one thinks clubs that somebody once thought that national boundaries and even And faculty members also cite particularly significant one for us
this means ALL Asians; it only a good idea, or a curriculum which nation to nation concepts are women's studies and African- at Agnes Scott. It is challenging
refers to Iraq." And I fear for may have been changed so much somewhat outmoded in this day American studies more often than for faculty members as much as for
myself, that 1 may become internally by changes in reading and age of transnational business anything else as areas desirable for students, and also for staff mem¬
complacent in my back porch assignments and the content of and global ecological interdepen¬ Agnes Scott to develop or develop bers who will benefit from the
serenity and allow my apathy to courses that only the external dence. further. academic spill-over of these
fuel the mass slaughter of the shell of the curricular require¬ One particularly telling paper in Returning to my experiences of developments. This is an opportu¬
apple trees. ments remains. What can't we Valladolid was delivered by the the summer, in Spain, one cannot nity to put into practice what we
see because we're part of a system President of Lincoln University in help but be constantly aware of believe about the liberating power
which we who've been around a Pennsylvania, Niara Sudarkasa, a the contributions of non- of the liberal arts which can only
' Join the while take for granted? (New distinguished anthropologist and European peoples to the culture of be liberating to those whose stories
people in the community can friend of President Johnnetta Cole that country. The richness of the are included. I wish all of us a very
Profile Staff.. often help greatly because they of Spelman (who, by the way, will culture of Spain and much of its provocative and enlightening year
don't take the same things for be our speaker on Honor's Day distinctiveness is due to the of further discovery of the rich
just for the granted.) Could it be that Agnes next month.) President Sudarkasa influences on it from Africa and tapestry of human life in the past,
Scott, like many other liberal arts said, and I quote, "The multiplicity the Middle East, and there are in our present circumstances, and
fun of it! colleges, is the victim of its own of nationalities, racial and ethnic many other examples which to the future by our collective
good practices in the past, groups, and socioeconomic classes others will supply of the contribu¬ efforts in learning and teaching.
teaching the liberal arts as we on American college campuses has tions of the Egyptians, the Arabs, All the best to us!
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Minority profile:
Street Beat
by Barbie Stitt Fanny Muriel Jackson Coppin,
The Question: Educator
How do you feel about the situation being played out
BY Michele A. Barard However, Fanny soon realized
presently in the Middle East1 that there was a need for black
Fanny Muriel Jackson Coppin teachers, and that not every
was bom the granddaughter of a person was cut out to he an
fonner slave who saved money to academic scholar. Fanny helped
buy himself and four of his six to start a program to teach the
children out of slavery. Fanny's "three R's" to those students who
grandfather refused to buy her wished to go into the field of
mother because of Fanny's birth. education. Soon these students
However, one of her treed aunts were sought opt for jobs before
did save the $125.00 necessary to they had even completed their
buy Fanny's freedom. course of study.
Fanny developed a strong Fanny also helped to start a
sense of duty to the African- vocational education branch of
American community at an early the institute which developed an
age. She was always determined equally outstanding reputation.
to teach blacks and to experi¬ Fanny dedicated her entire life
ence with them the joy of to education. After working
learning. with numerous religious and
To prepare for her journey educational organizations in the
into the world of education, United States, Fanny went with
Fanny trained at the public her husband, who was appointed
Carrie Noble, Class of 1993: I feel that it is Elena Paras, Class of 1994: The Iraq-Saudi
colored school before entering bishop of the A.M.E. Church in
extremely important for the United States to play situation is an incredibly sensitive one. There are
the Rhode Island Normal 1900, to Cape Town, South
an active role in the Iraq-Saudi situation. There various options which need to be weighed, such as
School. From there, Fanny went Africa. Fanny discussed with
are Third World countries gaining military force the seriousness of Hussein's actions and exactly
on to attend Oberlin College on African women various aspects
and I think it is imperative for world powers such as how far he will go to obtain his goals. Yet, certain
a scholarship in 1860. Oberlin of religion and education and the
the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to reassert their position options should not be open to him. America needs
was the first recognized college to roles of women in these areas.
as a force to he dealt with in any instance. If we do to he strong in the fact that Hussein shall not
admit women and blacks. In 1904, the Coppins returned
not, I believe we will eventually have to deal with invade Saudia Arabia, that he shall return all
Fanny graduated from Oberlin to Philadelphia because of
many power-hungry Third World countries. hostages without hann, and shall withdraw from
in 1865 shortly after the end of Fanny's failing health. During
Kuwait. America should he a strong and
the Civil War. She was hired to her final years, Fanny wrote her
invinicible force over which Hussein shall not
teach black children at the memoirs which are entitled
prevail.
Institute for Colored Youth in Reminiscences of School Life, and
Philadelphia. She took great Hints on Teaching.
pride and delight in the achieve¬ Fanny Coppin died on January
ments of her students. 21, 191 L
Freshman comes a long way
(continued from page 2)'. kept forgeting people's names? I
spoke almost daily for an entire
discarded this theory after the week to a girl whose name 1 had
tenth meeting I had attended in forgotten. Luckily she showed
two days. up in one of my classes and I was
However, I did continue to saved massive emharassemenr by
attend meetings deemed the professor's roll call.
Jennifer Lard, Class of 1993: I'm scared to "mandatory" for fear of the I was tasting the ripe fruits of
death. Anytime the United States government ominous Interdonn member who college life and didn't stop
finds itself in a compromising military position, it might torture me for not going to feasting until I reached the
worries me. I have faith in our ability to perform, April Van Mansfield, Class of 1992: From a the required meeting. inevitable pit. This occurred
hut 1 don't tmst Hussein's ability to react military perspective, if my reserve unit is called I My parents left Sunday when the mutilated hixlies of
rationally. will go. 1 think that Bush needs to pull back a little morning and after a tearful three University of Florida
and try to help the Arabs handle this. There are departure (both on their part and women were found. I was
too many ways that this could become worse than mine), I focused my energies on shocked that someone that
Vietnam. 1 think the public should know that other matters of importance. 1 mentally corrupt was on the
while Bush is saying that no American life is figured if I busied myself with lextse in the seemingly peaceful
expendable, he is sending troops that have less decorating my nxtm, working out town of Gainesville.
than a seven minute life expectancy if and when a class schedule and whatnot, I Of course, that idea cranked
shots get fired. Also, supporting the soldiers is not wouldn't have time to think my mind's wheels into motion
the same thing as supporting the war. Just let them about home and all the old and I couldn't help hut worry
know you want them to come home. familiar places. about my own safety on campus.
(I especially miss The Texas This first week was a long one
Tavem, a greasy burger joint that filled with both happiness and
* 2
served the best chili in town and sadness. I miss my Virginia
still sold RC Colas.) mountains hut I love my
Within the next few days I Elementary Greek .class, not to
Cynthia Richmond, Librarian: I don't met new people, talked to faculty mention the Greek guys at Chi
think we should be sending our troops over advisors, and generally got myself Psi! Ik now I have many more
there. The oil supply is rtot worth the lives acquainted with the campus. So adventures and follies to look
that will be lost if there is a war. what if 1 continualy mixed up forward to hut right now I think
Buttrick and Presser Halls and I I'll take a nap.
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Gershwin kicks off new season for Agnes Scott Arts Series
by Laura Barlament present a program of both classical singers and five instrumentalists of
and modem dance on October 17. the Waverly Consort will present
Agnes Scott College's 1990- Founded in 1970, this group will The Christmas Story in the tradition
1991 College Events Series perform its dances, based in the of medieval church drama and
celebrates in particular the classic choreography of George music. Although its music is not
culture of America by presenting Balanchine, Elisa Monte and Lars part of American culture, the
instrumentalists, singers, dancers, Lubovitch, in fifteen states this Consort itself was founded in 1964
authors and other artists from all season. at New York University and takes
over the country. The company also adds new its name from the Waverly Plaza
The fall semester's offerings works each season created by near NYU's Washington Square
promise to he entertaining and director Salvatore Aiello, who campus.
diverse, as the college hosts started his professional career in , Other performances to look
pianist Leon Bates with soprano the Joffrey Ballet and Canada's fo/ward to this semester will he
Eddye Pierce and baritone Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Aiello given by Agnes Scott's own faculty
Benjamin Matthews, the North has created twelve works for the and students. Faculty recitals
Carolina Dance Theater, author North Carolina Dance Theater include flutist Carol Lyn Butcher
John Updike, and the annually since joining it in 1979. on October 3 and organist Calvert
held program of the Waverly John Updike, author of novels, Johnson on December 6.
Consort. short stories, poems and essays of Two student voice recitals on
Bates, Pierce, and Matthews literary and social merit as well as November 4 and 18 will feature
will present the season opener, great popularity, will lecture and Cathy Pitney and Jennifer Bridges,
"Gerswhin by Request," on read from his own work on respectively. The Agnes Scott
September 22. This program of November 12. Glee Club will hold an open-air
light-hearted piano and vocal The author of over thirty books, concert October 4 and the Agnes
music by one of America's he has received the National and Scott Community Orchestra will
premier composers includes American Book Awards and the perform music from Vivaldi's The
"Eascinatin" Rhythm", "The Man Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Four Seasons November 11; the
I Love", "Strike Up the Band", has been elected to the National two groups will present a joint
the famed "Rhapsody in Blue", Institute of Arts and Letters. Christmas concert on December 9.
and selections from Porgy and His most well-known writings The Agnes Scott Blackfriars fall
Benjamin Mattheivs, Eddye Pierce Young, and Leon Bates perform
Bess. are the novel series about Harry season includes performances of
Gershwin by Request.
These three artists are well- "Rabbit" Angstrom, Rabbit Run, Antigone (October 25-27, Novem¬
qualified for such a presentation; has not only performed exten¬ and Opus Records. Rabbit Redux, and Rabbit is Rich, ber 1-3) and the children's show
Bates has produced a classical sively, hut also teaches at Sarah The North Carolina Dance and collections of short stories SongofGuenevere (December 6-9),
music video of the Gershwin Lawrence and Penn State; and Theater, which works from the entitled Bech: A Book and Bech is while the Agnes Scott Studio
Concerto in F with the Basil Matthews's recording of Porgy and North Carolina School of the Back. Dance Theatre has planned a
Symphony in Switzerland; Pierce Bess has been released on MMG Arts in Winston-Salem, will On November 28, the eight children's show for December 3.
Is summer reading an oxymoron? Four books reviewed
Compiled by Sandee McGlaun carries the reader deep into the hoarding school girl, long-ago power which complements her All kinds of people—powerful
cold hearts of New York City abandoned by her mother and quiet intelligence and intuition. (continued on next page)
"Reading for pleasure" is an and its most dangerous denizens. now supported by an aunt, with
almost unheard-of luxury for Burke's past rises to greet him whom she lives in South Africa
college students. An informal in the forms of childhood while on vacation. Hillela
poll was taken to discover what acquaintances: a cruel hoy who begins to be identified with the
students read in their "spare is now a contract killer, and a girl term in the title in the first DECATL'R CONFERENCE PEAZA
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textbooks and sixteen novels uncovers yet another horror in attractive hut colored hoy causes
screaming "REQUIRED!" at the city that never sleeps. her shameful release from the
them from their bookshelves. Vachss's stark descriptions and Rhodesian boarding school and
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Summer selections included: violent characters shed new light forces her move to the house of
Margaret Atwood's A Hand¬ on urban life and the street her other aunt, in Johannesburg. Starts Off The Season
maid's Tale; Kate Chopin's The people who exist outside the In her late teens, she leaves
Awakening; Pat Conroy's The boundaries of normal society. her aunt's house without With A New Team and Plays!
Water is Wide; J.R.R. Tolkien's The action is hard and fast- finishing school or developing
The Lord of the Rings; Carlos paced; the characters are the social and political awareness
Castenada's A Separate Reality; believable and intriguing. one might expect from living in
John Updike's S; Sam Shepard's a politically dissident household. if—
Fool for Love and Buried Child; Book review by Laura After drifting penniless and - Tuesday
Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club; Barlament aimless for a while, she becomes
and John Steinbeck's The Grapes Before page one of Nadine an invaluable and unusual ,hru Saturday!
of Wrath. Gordimer's recent novel A Sport addition to an ambassador's
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Below follow four reviews of of Nature, Ms. Gordimer quotes household, the wife and widow
other summer readings: Andrew the Oxford English Dictionary's of a black martyr in the fight for & DANCING
Vachss's Hard Candy; Nadine definition of the term which black freedom, an important
Gordimer's A Sport of Nature; makes up the title: "Lusus figure and world traveler for the
Marsha Nonnan's The Fortune naturae—sport of nature. A anti-apartheid movement Listen and Dance To Our New Plays!
Teller; and Arthur Miller's plant, animal, etc., which herself, and finally the wife and
Timebends. exhibits abnormal variation or a most trusted aide to the Presi¬ A Disc Jockey Spinning Records from
departure from the parent stock dent, the leader of a successful
The Big Band To the Big Chill!
Book review by Jennifer or type...a spontaneous mutation; political coup over the white
Garlen a new variety produced in this colonial government of an
In Hard Candy, the fourth way." African nation.
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novel of his tales of the inscru¬ The novel starts with the Hillela's body is a magnet for
table Mr. Burke, Andrew Vachss main character, Hillela, a men, and she has a kind of sexual or our VIP card!
Editorials
Friday, September 14, 1990 'The Profile • Page 10
World mourns loss of blues great Stevie Ray Vaughan
by Claire Lemme more renowned Clapton was on began his recovery from drug and "The Fabulous Thunderbirds." very innovations which separate
a separate flight. alcohol abuse. His comeback This is certainly a significant list the talented from the genius, the
Monday afternoon, August 27, Although he lacked Clapton's album, "In Step," won him of accomplishments for a 35-year sad song from the blues. Don't
1990, music lovers tried to piece mass popularity, Stevie Ray another Grammy last year. old guitar player from Dallas. Yet underestimate the loss of an artist
together bits of news regarding a Vaughan was highly respected The 25th of this month the there is a tendency to equate of whom you have not heard.
helicopter accident which left among his colleagues. His album "Family Style" will be popularity with ability. Be
five people dead. Stevie Ray traditional Texas-style blues released, featuring Stevie Ray reminded, however, that the This article ims aided by informa¬
Vaughan was among those killed band, Double Trouble, gained Vaughan in collaboration with pursuit of mass appeal necessitates tion from The Atlanta Journal and
when a flight from a concert international attention following his brother J immie Vaughan of mainstreaming and distilling those The New York Times.
went down in a thick fog participation in the 1982
northwest of its Chicago Montreux Jazz festival.
destination. Vaughan's skill was particu¬
The guitarist had just finishesj larly appreciated by Jackson The Agnes Scott Department of English present author
a performance with fellow blues Browne, who lent Vaughan his
artists Robert Cray, Buddy Guy studio, and David Bowie, for
CLYDE EDGERTON
and Eric Clapton at the Alpine whom Vaughan played some
Valley Theatre near a Wisconsin lead guitar on Bowie's "Let's
ski resort. Dance" album. reading from his novels in Winter Theatre
The summer tour's last show As Vaughan added more rock
Dana Fine Arts Building
ended late Sunday night with a and jazz to his raw blues, he also
blues/rock jam which included added to his reputation, winning Tuesday, September 18, 1990
Vaughan's characteristiclly fast, a Grammy for the album "Blues
complex style, reminiscent of Expression" in 1985. 8:15 p.m.
JimiHendrix. While Clapton's Vaughan re-emerged into the Free
manager, bodyguard and a tour musical community after a three-
manager rode with Vaughan, the year absence during which he
Books (continued from page 9) completely honest, colorblind, bought on a whim turned out to the title, my guess) and discusses/
self-made woman. be one of the most diverse and describes events in a more
men, influential women, people of between her and her black fascinating books that 1 have comprehensive, associative
passion, children, blacks and husband fascinate Hillela: "She Book review by Courtney ever read. I purchased Arthur fashion: mention of a dining
whites of all nationalities—are examines his body minutely and Alison Miller's Timebends in the early- mom table in a childhood scene
irresistibly attracted to her and without shame, and he wakes to see The Fortune Teller, Marsha spring of 1990, and in typical sparks a memory, and fascinating
feel compelled to help and trust her at it, and smiles without telling her Norman's first novel, is a Agnes Scott too-much-stress tale, of his first Broadway
her though they do not under¬ why: she is the first not to pretend the wonderful trip through suspense, fashion, it remained on the production, The Price (the table
stand her. different colours and textures of their love, feminism, relationships bookshelf behind the "required" was used in the set), staged in
The strength of Ms. Gordimer's being is not an awesome and the supernatural. textbooks and novels for several 1968.
prose, along with her appreciation fascination. ..The laws that have Norman, an Agnes Scott months. Miller allows his story to tell
and understanding of the situation determined the course of life for them aluma, brilliantly captures one When I finally opened the itself, in its natural sequence,
in South Africa, allow her to carry- are made of skin and hair, the relative day in the life of fortune teller book this summer, 1 was met by rather than forcing it to conform
off this ambitious story, and her thickness and thinness of lips and the Fay Morgan in a book which an unusual—and attention- to a traditionally linear struc¬
vocabulary and editorial creativity relative height of the bridge of the kept me spellbound. The plot, getting—opening: "The view ture—appropriate to human life.
make the novel read like poetry. nose.. ..The laivs made of skin and which chronicles the attempts from the floor is of a pair of Miller's story is diverse, truly
The story demands the reader's hair fill the statute books in to recover a group of kidnapped pointy black calf-height shoes, with ' 'something for everyone":
complete attention, for the Pretoria... 'Skin and hair. It has children, touches an assortment one of them twitching restlessly, he discusses his relationships
dialogue blends in naturally with mattered more than anything else in of emotions as well as religious and just above them the plum- with his parents, reveals his
the text through the use of dashes the world." and political ideologies. colored skirt rising from the theories and inspirations in
instead of quotation marks. Although Hillela is brought up If you choose to read this ankles to the blouse." My first regard to writing, and describes
From time to time short in a completely racist society, she incredibly well-written book, be thought was "Huh? I thought his clash with the "Committee
italicized passages are inserted into leams nothing of its prejudice; she prepared to ponder such issues as this was an autobiography., tor Un-American Affairs," and
the action; these passages consist responds to people only through abortion and mother-daughter .what's he talking about.'" the McCarthy era.
of physical descriptions and very- the medium of physical contact relationships, as well as find that Further reading revealed that For theatre buffs he offers
intimate glimpses into Hillela's and personal experience. Seeming you are unable to put it down. Miller was painting a portrait of marvelous accounts of his
private lite and thoughts, and lead completely naive, she nevertheless his mother from his viewpoint as experiences with the early
to commentaries on the rcxits of has knowledge, and she survives Book review by Sandee young child. Although the development of American
the political situation. when others despair of her. In McGlaun opening struck me as a bit self- theatre and such theatre legends
The physical differences Hillela, Ms. Gordimer creates a A $2.98 bargain-table find I conscious (autobiograpies are as Harold Clurman, Lee
inherently so!), the uniqueness Strasberg and Elia Kazan, and,
of the description motivated me yes, he discusses his marriage to
to continue reading. Marilyn Monroe.
Once 1 adjusted to Miller's Though some sections of the
unusual perspective, it became hook seem to get bogged down in
refreshing. He uses the descrip¬ discussions of the politics of the
tions of his "growing" or time, it always picks up again.
"changing" perspective of his Miller's plays are almost always
mother throughout the first social or political statements, as
section of the book as a meta¬ he reveals; therefore his lengthy
sf'■ (\ 1 phor for his growing and treatment of the social ills of his
changing perspectives in other generation.
areas of his life. Miller explores human nature,
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Biographies and autobiogra¬ relationships, politics, the arts
We Look !' 1f 0 w phies are often dry reading, but and any and all combinations of
Forward j 1 \( 'f )i \ / \ Miller's work is anything but these. A portrait of the times as
To Seeing I f dull. He does not follow a well as a portrait of the man,
You U typical, chronological sequence Miller's autobiography is a
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instead he "bends time" (hence too!