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LAWRENCE U N IV ER SITY ’S ST U D E N T NEWSPAPER SINCE 1884
Prominent scholar joins trustees
C harley S haw
Renowned public intellectual,
scholar and teacher at Harvard
University, Henry Louis Gates
Jr., was recently elected to the
Lawrence University board of
trustees.
Gates, who is H arvard’s
W.E.B DuBois Professor of the
Humanities and chair of the
Afro-American Studies depart­
ment, will join the trustees as a
member of the trustee class of
2000. His participation as a
“term” trustee will include serv­
ing on the Committee on
by
Academic Affairs.
A frequent
visitor
to
Lawrence during 1997, Gates
presented a convocation address
in January and spoke at com­
mencement.
Lawrence President Richard
Warch expressed optimism over
Gates’ future role as a trustee.
“[His] perspective on academ­
ic affairs will enrich and enliven
the work of the Committee on
Academic Affairs and hence the
academic program of the college,”
said Warch.
Gates, who is currently nar­
rating a film in Ethiopia, began
Students celebrate Kwanzaa
by
S am antha S tevenson
This
year,
Lawrence
University’s Black Organization
of Students organized their 6th
annual Kwanzaa celebration,
which focuses on the sense of
community and heritage of the
African-American community.
The celebration this year was a
week long, with each day having
a particular theme.
Beginning on Jan. 11,
Kwanzaa celebrations of unity
kicked-off with the grand open­
ing of the Diversity Center in
conjunction
with
the
Multicultural Affairs Comittee,
BGLASS, and DFC. There was
an open-house celebrating the
effort put into creating the space,
which contains meeting areas for
all four groups.
On Jan. 12 BOS presented a
movie entitled “Sankofa” at
Wriston Auditorium, to empha­
size the theme of self-determina­
tion.
BOS recognized the value of
creative work and responsibility
on Jan. 13. They sponsored a
clothing drive, the proceeds of
which went to the Appleton
Homeless Shelter and Battered
Women’s Shelter. The clothing
drive began at Downer Commons
at 11 a.m. and continued until
the end of the week.
LUCC elections contested
N eal R iemer
Michael Reese, who lost the
traveling in Africa during 19701971 on a Carnegie Foundation LUCC vice-presidential race in
Fellowship. His knowledge of the elections last week, plans to
African culture increased while formally contest the election, said
he worked on his masters and current LUCC President Rebecca
doctoral degrees at Cambridge Hoelter last night.
According to LUCC by-laws,
University where he studied with
candidates
have up to three days
author Wole Soyinka.
As he moved through the to enter a written protest alleging
ranks of academia, Gates con­ violations of campaigning or vot­
tributed prolifically to Afro- ing procedures. The by-laws do
not state specifically that the
American scholarship.
Gates has devoted much of protest must be handed in three
his scholarly efforts to the field of days after the election, which
literary
criticism.
Gates’ ended Jan. 16.
The LUCC General Council
approach to literary criticism has
been defined as “centrist.” He will vote in its next meeting, to be
rejects extremist positions, which held Jan. 27, on the validity of
Reese’s protest.
Hoelter and Vice-President
co n tin u ed G A T E S ; p age 2
Rajesh Shahani have interpreted
Harvard Afro-American studies chair to serve on academic affairs committee
On Jan. 14 there was a live
jazz
performance at the
Coffeehouse. BOS sold baked
goods at this event in an effort to
recognize and perhaps spread
the ideology of cooperative eco­
nomics.
Jan. 15 was Martin Luther
King, Jr.’s Birthday, and the
theme of the day was purpose. It
was recognized by the ringing of
the Main Hall bell at noon. There
was also a candlelight vigil at 8
p.m. in the Coffeehouse where
students and community shared
their thoughts on the past and
the continuing importance of
Martin Luther King Jr.
In celebration of creativity,
LU students presented a short
play by George Wolfe entitled
“The Colored Museum” on Jan.
16 at the Coffeehouse.
Finally, the week culminated
in a feast and celebration on Jan.
17. The event included entertain­
ment such as the Sambistas,
Kane Mathis playing the kora, a
lively dance performance, and
J anuary 2 2 .1 9 9 8
by
LUCC President Elect Rob Reff is lifted by Mike Ritzenthaler in joyful cel­
ebration of his decisive victory in last week’s LUCC presidential election.
Photo by Sara Schlarman
the three-day clause to mean
three days after the candidates
were officially informed of the
election results. On the evening of
Jan. 19, Hoelter said, she handdelivered letters reporting the
results to the candidates. The let­
ters stated that the candidates
had three days from that date to
protest the elections.
Hoelter and Shahani said that
Reese had not yet submitted his
grounds for protest. According to
their interpretation of the threeday clause, candidates have until
this evening to submit their writ­
ten allegations of any violations
of campaining or voting proce­
dures. Hoelter said that Reese
was expected to present his for­
mal protest in the general council
meeting on Jan. 27.
Reese would not comment.
Junior Robert Reff ran uncon­
tested for the presidency and
sophomore Jennifer Mallory ran
against sophomore Michael Reese
for the vice-presidency.
In recent years, Lawrence has
seen a low voter turn-out for
LUCC elections, but this year’s
showing was remarkably poor. Of
the 144 votes cast, 142 were stu­
dent votes and two were faculty
votes.
Last year, said Jesse Corry,
head of the Polling, Elections,
and
Leadership
(PEL)
Committee, which handles all
LUCC elections, between 375 and
450 people voted. Corry empha­
sized that the trend towards few
voters was a very recent one, say­
ing that in previous years, as
many as 700 or 800 students
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Learning from the masters:
soio vocal performances by a few L U J E ’s jazz repertory c o n c e rt will feature visiting com poser
Lawrence students. Onlookers
enjoyed both the entertainment
and the African and AfricanAmerican cuisine. It seemed a
fitting end to the week of celebra­
tions when the whole congrega­
tion sang the Black National
Anthem.
Assistant Professor of French Lifongo Vetinde (right) prepares for the cel­
ebration on January 17. Festivities that night included a feast and enter­
tainment by many Lawrence students.
Photo by June Erwin
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Ken Schaphorst, director of
by M a tt P ickett
jazz studies, sees this study as a
On Jan. 24, the Lawrence great way to gain a “first-hand,
University Jazz Ensemble will concrete perspective on what the
perform a Jazz Repertory con­ jazz musicians of the past have
cert consisting of transcribed done. ... It’s always good to look
jazz solos. The concert also fea­ back and reflect on the history of
tures the works of visiting com­ anything.” He also stresses the
poser William Russo.
importance of balancing the
A jazz repertory concert con­ study of what has been with an
sists of note-for-note transcrip­ exploration of what can be. It is
tions of recorded jazz classics. In just one part of the process of
order to prepare for this concert, developing one’s own voice.
the students have spent much
Pat Brush, a sophomore
time listening and re-listening trum pet student, has been
to compositions in order to learn working for weeks on the tran ­
the notes, from the melody to scription
of
the
tune
the solos, of some of the most “Cornbread” by the great jazz
incredible recorded jazz ever trum peter Lee Morgan. To
produced.
Brush, there is great importance
The concept of transcription in studying the m asters. He
has its detractors. Because jazz feels th at “the first stage of
as an art form is so dependent improvisation is learning what
on personal input and improvi­ masters know, and then person­
sation, critics say simply copy­ alizing it and applying it.” For
ing the masters misses the point Brush, it is “not just important,
of jazz entirely; it takes away but crucial.”
the soul. Such detractors believe
Many of the supporters of
th a t
the Jazz
Repertory this movement would agree with
Movement turns these great Brush in that it is one of the best
recordings into paltry “museum ways to really hear what the
pieces.”
musicians were playing.
Others see great value in
“Just like anything having to
studying the masters so intently. do with learning, it expands
,
your horizons, said Brush. He
summed it up by saying th at a
lot of “students have put a lot of
hard work into this. ... It’s going
to be a most enjoyable show.”
William Russo, whose works
will be featured Saturday, began
his trek through the jazz scene
as a trombonist with the Stan
Kenton Orchestra (an influen­
tial post-swing big band). Soon
after joining, Russo began writ­
ing compositions for the group.
By 1954 he was the chief
composer-arranger for the Stan
Kenton Orchestra. In the 44
years since, he has founded
numerous im portant bands,
written books on composition
and jazz, and collaborated with
5 variety of music giants, from
Leonard Bernstein and Seiji
Ozawa to Maynard Ferguson
and Wynton Marsalis. In 1990
he was honored for his achieve­
ments by the National Academy
of Recording Arts and Sciences
with a Lifetime Achievement
Award.
The Jazz Repertory Concert
will be held in the Lawrence
University Chapel. The doors
open at 8 p.m. This event is free
and open to the public.
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T h ursday, J a n . 22
Faculty Recital
Patrice Michaels Bedi, sopra­
no, and guest fortepianist David
Schrader will perform a recital at
8 p.m. in Harper Hall of the
Music-Drama Center.
Friday, J a n . 23
Film Series
OM presents “Cape Fear” and
“Goodfellas” at 7:15 and 9:45
p.m. in Wriston Auditorium.
Admission is free to all Lawrence
students and $2 for the general
public.
Guest Composer Recital
The compositions of William
Russo will be performed at 8 p.m.
in Harper Hall of the MusicDrama Center.
Trivia Weekend
The annual trivia contest
begins on WLFM 91.1 at 10 p.m.
and continues until midnight
Jan.
25.
See
http://www.lawrence.edu/~krollb/
or call grand trivia master Matt
Kuchtqa at 832-7241 for informa­
tion.
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K olkay places third in regional com petition
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The accolades continue to
roll in for bassoonist Peter
Kolkay. Kolkay, a senior from
Naperville, Illinois, took third
place overall in the Womens’
Association of the Minnesota
Symphony
O rchestra
(WAMSO) competition held
this
past
weekend
in
Minneapolis.
For his third place Finish,
Kolkay received one thousand
dollars. Kolkay was also
awarded the M atilda Heck
award for being the highest
placing woodwind competitor,
as well as an award from the
m usician’s union, the American
Federation of M usicians, for
being a performer who is likely
to be active in the union as a
symphonic perform er in the
future. Both additional prizes
were worth a thousand dollars
each.
Kolkay was also given free
tuition to attend the Aspen
Fine A rts Camp in Aspen,
Colorado, where he studied two
summers ago.
The competition was won
overall by a violinist who was
awarded a cash prize of $2,750
and a taped recital to be played
over a New York radio station.
The second place finisher, a
violist, was given $1,500 and a
similar taped recital.
In preparation for the
WAMSO competition, Kolkay
was required to prepare pieces
from the Baroque period,
Classical period, Romantic
period, a tw entieth-century
American work, and a French
contest piece for the finals. He
chose, in chronological order,
Vivaldi’s e-minor concerto,
Mozart’s first bassoon concerto
in B-flat, the Saint-Saens bas­
soon sonata, and the American
composer Alvin E tler’s bassoon
sonata.
The competition divided the
competitors into six categories:
low strings, high strings,
piano, brass and percussion,
woodwinds, and flutes. For the
first round, Kolkay competed
in the woodwind category, and
advanced to the second round
in which 19 people from the six
categories performed. Six peo­
ple, including a pianist, cellist,
and french horn player, in
addition to the top three con­
testants, played in the finals.
The finals were held in
O rchestra Hall, where the
M inneapolis
Symphony
Orchestra plays.
Kolkay has received awards
for national accomplishments
before, first as a member of the
Shattuck Wind Quintet (which
won the Carmel Chamber
Music Competition in 1997)
and then here at Lawrence,
where he was the 1996 winner
of the Lawrence Conservatory
Comcerto Competition.
Kolkay is in the studio of
Monte Perkins, and plans to
study bassoon performance at
the graduate level after grad­
uation.
Senior bassoon player Peter Kolkey placed third overall and was the top
woodwind at the WAMSO competition on Jan. 18.
Photo by Sara Schlarman
Talk aimed to dispel complacency about H IV
J esse G ilbert
Conventional wisdom says
th at students do not contract
HIV from fellow students attend­
S atu rd ay, J a n . 24
ing small colleges in tiny
Midwest towns. Last Tuesday, a
group of Lawrence University
Hockey G a m e
The Lawrence Hockey teams students faced the ugly possibili­
plays Marquette at 2:30 p.m. in ty that conventional wisdom can
be wrong.
the Tri-County Ice Arena.
On Jan. 20, two HIV educa­
tors addressed a crowd of
Film Series
approximately 70 Lawrence stu­
“Cape Fear” and “Goodfellas”, dents. The talk at Stansbury
7:15 and 9:45 p.m. See Jan. 23.
Theatre consisted of three parts.
In the first two parts each speak­
Conservatory Concert
er gave a short speech. The third
A Jazz Repertory concert will part was a short question and
be performed at 8 p.m. in answer session.
The first speaker, Jan Talbot,
Memorial Chapel.
spoke about her experiences edu­
cating audiences about HIV and
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how her job has changed over the
past six years. She said the HIV
awareness of the general com­
Football
munity had greatly increased
The Superbowl has been can­ since 1992, but that her job has
celled because San Diego broke evolved into a platform for edu­
off from the rest of the nation and cation on very specific preventa­
sank into the ocean. See your tive measures for high risk
local Fox network for details.
groups in the community.
Laura, the second speaker,
declined to give her last name.
by
GATES
exclude opposing points of view,
whether they be staunch advo­
cates from the right or the left.
His contributions to litera­
ture and literary criticism
include his “The Signifying
Monkey: Towards a Theory of
Afro-American
Literary
Criticism” (1988) and as the gen­
eral editor of The Norton
Anthology of Afro-American
Literature.
As a public intellectual who
regularly contributes to the New
Yorker, Gates has written widely
on race, gender, class, culture
and politics well beyond the
sphere of literature.
The journal “Contemporary
Authors” says that Gates has
written about the “fluid, indeed
porous, relationship” between
black and white culture. His
career has been devoted toward
T
developing an appreciation of
culture while refusing to favor
one in particular.
Perhaps the most central of
Gates’ endeavors in relation to
Lawrence academic life is found
in his 1992 book of essays enti­
tled “Loose Canons: Notes on the
Culture Wars.” Here, Gates sur­
veys American arts and letters
She spoke about her experience
as an HIV-positive mother who
has an HIV-positive two-year old,
Jacob.
Laura was infected by a fel­
low student at the University of
South Dakota. The university is
slightly larger than Lawrence
and located in Vermillion, South
Dakota, a city which is smaller
than Appleton.
Laura attributes her infec­
tion both to unprotected sex and
sexual encounters where her
partners did not know how to use
a condom properly. “Some men
are afraid to put on a condom
because they think their erec­
tions will go away. Well erections
don’t disappear forever and you
don’t exactly need a compass to
find them again,” said Talbot.
Laura said th at she also
attributed many of her problems
to her abuse of alcohol. Both
speakers urged students not to
mix sex with alcohol.
“People can’t use a condom
when they are blasted,” said
Talbot, who suggested that men
and women should practice using
condoms properly before an
opportunity to have sex actually
arises. “Guys, lock your door. You
don’t want anyone busting in on
you while you do this. But you
need to practice,” said Talbot.
Talbot also elaborated on meth­
ods of safe sex which are often
brushed aside.
After a great deal of discus­
sion about condom use, she was
asked about the details of safe
woman-to-woman sex. Some les­
bians worry about contracting
HIV by swallowing vaginal flu­
ids. Talbot said that braver souls
can obtain dental dampers by
simply asking a dentist for a
package. She said the dampers
can also be obtained from a den­
tal supply store. Talbot also sug­
gested using non-microwavable
Saran Wrap if a dental damper is
not available. She emphasized
that people do contract HIV from
vaginal fluid, as well as blood
and semen.
The realities of HIV infection
were driven home by the details
of Laura’s experience. She did
not learn she was HIV positive
until she was seven months
pregnant. “I was not prepared for
the news. [When the doctor told
me], I instantly started scream­
ing, ‘What about the baby! What
about the baby!’ “
and argues for increased diversi­
ty. Without eliminating a struc­
tured curriculum, Gates propos­
es to expand the focus of scholar­
ship.
The title of Gates’ convo. to
Lawrence was entitled “Race and
Class in America.”
During his convo., Gates con­
tinued another of his intellectual
hallmarks-he related events
from his past to his remarks
about American communities
and the need for cultural under­
standing.
Following the convocation,
conversations between Gates and
President Richard Warch and
trustee chairman John Luke, Jr.
established a period of introduc­
tion and then expressed the uni­
versity’s interest in offering
Gates trusteeship.
As a trustee, Gates becomes
one of the board’s 43 members,
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including president Warch. The
trustees are elected by the board
after the recommendation of the
Committee on Trustees of the
board. The board consists of
“term” and “alumni” trustees.
There are
12 “alumni
trustees” who serve four year
terms. Three new “alumni”
trustees are elected when their
predecessors’ terms expire. After
one year, a former alumni trustee
can be elected back onto the
board. Alumni trustees are also
nominated by the Lawrence
University Alumni Association.
“Term trustees” serve three
year terms and may be re-elected
to succeeding terms.
Warch said that the system of
terms makes the board “self-per­
petuating.”
Gates who will be in Ethopia
until February, is currently
unavailable for comment.
Laura had been tested for the
virus during a rumored outbreak
of HIV at her school.
The tests came up negative
and Laura never again enter­
tained the idea that she might be
HIV-positive. When she heard
the news, she was unable to tell
her parents she was infected.
Laura’s anxiety about broaching
the subject with her parents
escalated until she ended up
telling them while she was giv­
ing birth to Jacob. “My father
was throwing things and scream­
ing, ‘how could you not tell me
about this.’ My mother was cry­
ing.”
As Laura described giving
birth, Jacob played on the stage
behind her with a toy truck.
“[Jacob] running around made
everything a lot more present,”
said sophomore Andrew Huss. “I
think they might’ve done it just
to let people watch. When he
started crying she immediately
got up and ran over to him. Like
she said, if he starts bleeding, he
might not stop.” Jacob has had
illnesses which have prevented
his blood from clotting properly.
Students did not really agree
as to whether or not the presen­
tation was effective. Reactions
ranged from those students who
felt the presentation was very
effective to those students who
felt it would have no impact on
the Lawrence campus. Most stu­
dents’ opinions fell somewhere in
the middle of this range.
“It certainly is not going to
completely change how things
work on the Lawrence campus,
but I am sure it was a reality
check for some of the people who
were there,” said freshman
Gianina Contin.
“I think that there were some
parallels between [Laura’s situa­
tion] and the situation on the
Lawrence campus in that binge
drinking complicates both situa­
tions,” said senior Jill Sadler.
“But it will be hard for many of
the people to take what they
heard [at the presentation] out to
other people who weren’t there.”
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Main Hall packed for Povolny lectures on environment
by
T aylor M . H
of the Appleton community,
seemed to affirm Hah’s belief that
the environment is of fundamen­
tal importance. Indeed, the lec­
ture series was devised in such a
manner that made it attractive
across disciplines.
Jackie Gehring, a junior gov­
ernment major, was pleased to
see this integration. “Both of the
speakers were obviously scientifi­
cally based; however, they clearly
made a successful effort to inte­
grate both political science and
the natural sciences in formulat­
ing policy platforms for the twen­
ty-first century,” she said.
This integration was a key
component of Jasanoff’s lecture.
She stressed that even if we have
indisputable scientific research
clearly indicating a need for deci­
sive action, we still need the polit­
ical will to implement such poli­
cies.
Jasanoff warned that the
political environment is worse
now than it was in 1992, during
the Earth Summit in Rio de
Janeiro. She explained that our
governments are more uncertain
and divided over the problems
o ffm an
The first two lectures in the
series entitled, “Environmental
Crisis at Home and Abroad: Myth
or Reality?” brought capacity
crowds to Main Hall 109. Shelia
Jasanoff, professor of science and
technological studies at Cornell
University, opened the series on
Jan. 15 with a lecture entitled,
“Our Uncertain Future: The
Science and Politics of Saving the
Planet.” Allen Hammond, senior
scientist and director of strategic
analysis at the World Resources
Institute, continued the series on
Jan. 19 with “Global Destinies
and Regional Choices: Scenarios
for the 21st Century.”
Professor Chong-do Hah, the
coordinator of the lecture series,
said that he chose the environ­
ment as the topic for this year’s
Mojmir Povolny Lectureship in
International Studies because
the environment is “fundamen­
tally important” to all of us
regardless of our individual areas
of study.
The capacity crowd, composed
of students, faculty and members
ELECTIONS
voted.
The election was in trouble
early on. The original deadline for
petitions for candidacy was Jan.
9, but the deadline came and
went and no one handed in a peti­
tion to run. The deadline was
extended, but as a result there
were only two days between the
candidacy deadline and the actu­
al election on Jan. 15 and 16. A
debate had been scheduled for
Jan. 10, but with no candidates at
the time, the debate was dropped.
Should the council validate
Reese’s protest, the election will
be recalled and rescheduled for
later this term, possibly as late as
fifth or sixth week.
Hoelter said that the next
LUCC meeting would be largely
devoted to last week’s elections.
In addition to deciding on Reese’s
protest, the council will also
begin a general review of the elec­
tion process itself, considering
methods «f reform primarily
aimed at raising the number of
votes cast.
President Hoelter said that
the cabinet has already begun
reviewing procedures and may
propose such reforms as a quo­
rum of student voters to make
elections valid. Other proposed
changes may include pushing
back the election process to any­
where from fourth to eighth week
of second term, to allow more
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and responsibilities of the envi­
ronment. • Jasanoff said that
when governments have different
senses of urgency regarding the
environment, government stan­
dards for the environment tend to
go down.
Hammond’s well-anticipated
lecture analyzed three potential
scenarios for the world in the
next fifty years depending on the
actions of today. The first sce­
nario, “Market World,” is a world
in which the market defines the
politics and economics of the envi­
ronment. The second scenario,
“Fortress World,” is a world in
which an island of great wealth is
surrounded by a sea of social
unrest, poverty and environmen­
tal disasters. His third scenario
is the idyllic and optimistic
“Transformed World” in which
human compassion brings about
a world that is better for all
humankind.
Kathleen
Olvera,
an
International Relations student,
was disappointed that Hammond
seemed to present little new
information; however, she still
considered him a successful
time for candidates to campaign.
Hoelter said that this should
enable candidates’ views to be
featured in the Lawrentian and
would allow more time for debate.
Indeed, the latest election was
marked by a lack of advertising
and campaigning.
Freshman Jennifer Sorenson
said, “I didn’t vote because I did­
n’t know anybody in it.”
Reff also commented on what
he took to be a lack of advertising
for the election. He thought that
Corry took a lot of responsibility
upon himself, but that there were
others who failed to do their part.
“There could probably have been
a better job in advertising,” Reff
said.
speaker because he was an inspi­
ration in helping students think
about what they could do to help
the environment. Olvera was
very pleased to see a woman open
the lecture series. “Jasanoff was
an excellent representation of
women dealing with these issues,
her presentation was very intel­
lectual
and
philosophical,”
Olvera said.
Michael Mutti, a German and
English
major,
felt
that
Hammond’s strength lay in his
presentation. “The organization
of his lecture and his charts
appealed to me—they made the
lecture interesting and easy to
comprehend,” Mutti said.
Mutti continued, “While his
ideas were very interesting, I’m
afraid that some of them weren’t
entirely politically or economical­
ly feasible.” Mutti
noted
Hammond’s idea of abolishing the
income tax and raising the gas
tax to compensate for lost rev­
enue as an example.
“Environmental Crisis at
Home and Abroad: Myth or
Reality?” was funded by Maijorie
Buchanan Kiewit, who estab-
lished the Lt. William Kellogg
Harkins, Jr. Values Program in
memory of her brother and the
Mojmir Povolny Lectureship in
International Relations. Three
more lectures in the series will
follow.
On Jan. 27, Mark Sagoff,
senior research scholar at the
Institute for Philosophy and
Public Policy at the University of
Maryland will present a lecture
entitled,
“Is
There
an
Environment Crisis?”
Feb. 16, Vaclav Smil, profes­
sor of interdisciplinary environ­
mental studies at the University
of Manitoba will give a lecture
entitled, “Is China’s Economic
Dynamism a Global Environmen­
tal Threat?”
The last lecture, “Environ­
mental Policy, Politics, and
Polluted Rivers in Wisconsin:
State and Local Responses, and
the Future of the Fox River” will
be given by George E. Meyer, sec­
retary of the Department of
Natural Resources for the State
of Wisconsin on Feb. 19.
All lectures are in Main Hall,
room 109, at 7 p.m.
Corry said that he felt that
there was “a breakdown in the
system.” He said that student
representatives were asked to go
back to their halls and promote
the election and put up signs, but
that they did not follow-through.
Corry linked this to a general
lack of initiative on the council.
Comparing the current council to
past years, he noted what seemed
to be a lack of proactive represen­
tatives. Corry said that represen­
tatives rarely talk at meetings,
and few real conversations about
issues occur at meetings.
Corry said that past elections
also featured more active candi­
dates who submitted petitions by
the end of first term and cam-
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paigned well in the opening of the
second term.
Reff received about 75% of the
vote in the presidential race. In
the
vice-presidential
race,
Mallory received approximately
65% of the vote, while Reese
earned roughly 20%.
Reff siad that he was very
excited to work with Jen Mallory,
though he did not know her until
after the election results were
announced. Should the LUCC
General Council confirm his vic­
tory, he will take office for three
academic terms, beginning this
spring. His next major task,
should his victory be confirmed,
will be to build a cabinet along
w.ith Mallory.
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Election reform needed at LU
W hether or not last week’s
LUCC election results stand,
there is one clear result: the
election process m ust be
reformed. The eligible voting
population consists of some
1200 students and 120 faculty.
But only 144 votes were cast,
about one tenth of th a t total.
Why were so few votes cast?
While Lawrence has a history
of poor election turnouts, we
attribute the latest failure as
much to LUCC’s current elec­
tion process as to tradition.
LUCC failed to publicize
any stage of the election. It
didn’t publicize the candidacy
stage, and ju st one student
declared for the presidency
and only two for the vice-presidency. How many students
might have been interested,
but didn’t know how to become
candidates? In addition, LUCC
failed to publicize the election
itself. Most of the student body
had no idea the elections were
last week, resulting in the low
turnout previously noted.
Moving the election itself
back two weeks to fourth week
of winter term instead of sec­
ond week would allow the can­
didates tim e to introduce
themselves to the voting popu­
lation and to encourage people
to vote. It would also give the
students and faculty time to
settle into their acedemic rou­
tines and make a thoughtful,
well-informed decision on who
to vote for by the time the elec­
tion was held.
Cats are funny
J oshua N ichols
One day over break I was
driving someplace and listen­
ing to National Public Radio—
standard operating procedure
for me—when I heard some­
thing th at really got me th in k ­
ing. W hat I heard was an
interview with a feline psy­
chologist. Yes, th a t is precisely
what it sounds like—someone
whose job it is to determine
the psychological driving force
behind those crazy things cats
do.
Now perhaps if I were a cat
and had some serious unre­
solved issues with my father, I
would want to go lie down on a
couch and spill my little feline
guts to a shrink, but given th at
this never really happens, I
by
began to wonder w hat the
point really was.
It turns out th a t this psy­
chologist had been part of a
group th a t released a study
dividing cat personalities into
three main traits: playfulness,
sociability, and stability. Their
findings were th a t most “feline
behavioral disorders” could be
explained by excesses or short­
ages of these traits.
My question is, w hat con­
stitu tes a “feline behavioral
disorder,” and why do we feel
qualified, as hum an beings, to
diagnose them? It seems to me
th a t cats are cats and th a t is
that. Of course cats are going
to have different personalities,
but ju st because my cat (Boots)
prefers to lounge around all
day, we shouldn’t call her dys-
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Public statem ents in the
Law rentian presenting the
candidates’ qualifications for
the job as well as their ideas
about stu d en t governm ent
would go a long way toward
introducing the candidates.
Also helpful would be a debate
between candidates, campaign
posters, and general cam ­
paigning in Downer, the
Union, or around campus.
We saw more publicity for
“Hot Lips II,” the lip-sync con­
test which LUCC has created,
sponsored and publicized, than
we did for the ostensibly more
im portant presidential and
vice-presidential
elections.
LUCC recently created a pub­
licity committee, whose sole
job is to publicize LUCC
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STAFF EDITORIAL
events, yet there was virtually
no publicity for the elections.
Why were there more signs for
“Hot Lips II” than for the elec­
tion?
As for the fact th at a mere
144 people voted, perhaps it
would be a good idea to follow
the lead of the honor council.
Extend the voting period, and
establish a quorum. A third of
the voting population seems
reasonable, and given th at this
is a simple majority election
(unlike the honor council elec­
tion, which requires a 2/3
majority) perhaps even a bit
low. But elections at Lawrence
have a long way to go, and
establishing too difficult of a
standard could prove as disas­
trous as having none at all.
A NICHOLS’ WORTH
functional.
Why, as hum ans, do we do
such things? Why do we feel
the need to quantify every­
thing, to explain it all in sim­
ple, concrete term s? Do we
really benefit from assuming
th a t we understand how cats’
m inds work? Or how fire
works? What is better, enjoy­
ing the inert beauty of the
flames, or quantifying the fuel
being spent, the oxygen being
“used up”?
It gets worse though. The
feline psychologist is not ju st
some quack charging old ladies
$200/hr to determ ine why
their cats miss the litter box,
but a professor of feline psy­
chology at a respected school of
veterinary medicine. That is,
people pay a medical school big
bucks to learn how to quantify
k ittens’ behavioral patterns. Is
this really a good way to get
the most out of life, to spend
our days sucking away its
mysteries?
At some point, I believe
th a t people will realize th at
some things are best left out­
side the realm of our under­
standing. Is understanding
really worth it? I guess in the
end it’s hard to tell whether
we’re better off understanding
things or not, but I think it’s
im portant to leave thp spice in
our lives. Sometimes we
should probably ju st let the
cats run into walls and then,
instead of assuming th at ru n ­
ning into walls is unhealthy
and concocting some reason for
the behavior, ju s t laugh a t
them.
Greetings
FROM THE PRESIDENT
Members of the Lawrence
Community,
I would like to offer a spe­
cial thanks to all those who
supported me and aided in my
run for presidency. I was excit­
ed to hear the news and begin
my transition into office. There
is not much time before a cabi­
net m ust be formed and I urge
anyone interested to speak
with me.
I could write fifty things
th a t I wish to accomplish dur­
ing my term, but I would rather
mention one.
Communication on campus
has been a challenge for
S tudent Welfare and other
members of the community. As
chair of Student Welfare, peo­
ple would approach me with
their concerns. However, it was
always an individual, not the
community at large.
We have tried discussion
groups, focus sessions, surveys,
table toppers, email, voicemail,
and other methods of communi­
cation in an attem pt to reach
the entire community. In my
personal opinion, none of these
methods reflect the majority of
the campus.
Greetings^
Members of the Lawrence
Community,
I would like to introduce
myself as the new LUCC VicePresident elect, and thank
everyone who voted. I plan to
chair the finance commitee as
objectively and efficiently as
possible so as to ensure th at
My primary goal, with the
help of students, faculty, and
staff, is to identify the concerns
of the
campus
through
improved communication with
the Lawrence Community.
It is a great honor and a
privilege to be given the oppor­
tunity to work with the commu­
nity as LUCC President.
In closing, I would like to
thank Rebecca Hoelter, Rajesh
Shahani, Paul Shrode, Dean
Truesdell, LUCC and others for
helping me this last year. I look
forward to a successful term
and the continued support of
the
community.
Jennifer
Mallory and I are excited for
the times ahead.
Sincerely,
Rob Reff
FROM THE VEEP
student funds are utilized in
the best way to serve the com­
munity. If you have any ques­
tions or concerns please feel
free to approach and contact
me. I look forward to my time in
office.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Mallory
Trivia contest
heats up
by B en K roll
It’s time to forget about all of
those silly classes and assign­
ments and tests that you have.
Starting tomorrow at 7 p.m., the
33rd Annual Great Midwest
Trivia Contest will take over
WLFM for the weekend. The fre­
quency is 91.1.
Veteran trivia players proba­
bly already know what to do to
prepare for the contest. However,
for the benefit of new students
and those who haven’t competeed
before, I’d like to offer some
advice for putting together a
team and participating in the
nation’s oldest radio trivia con­
test.
First of all, you don’t need a
huge group of people to have a
successful trivia team. Two or
three friends, a radio, and a
phone are the only things you
need to compete and have fun on
Trivia Weekend.
Reference books and other
sources can be useful during
Trivia Weekend, but they cer­
tainly aren’t necessary.
You should be able to answer
many questions through repeat­
ed guessing or by using random
facts that you and your friends
know. You probably know more
than you realize.
The best piece of advice for
any team, large or small, is that
you need to pace yourself. Fifty
hours is a long time.
Rather than playing until
everyone gets too tired, send
some of the people on your team
to take naps or work on some­
thing else every once in a while.
Tbo many teams stay competitive
for the first twenty four hours or
so and then begin to lose ground
when their players get too tired
to continue.
You can also help out by man­
ning phones in the WLFM stu­
dios
during
the
contest.
Whenever the Trivia Masters are
in need of a few extra phone
answerers, they’ll make an
announcement over the radio.
Just come down to the WLFM
studio and volunteer to spend
some time answering the phones.
As an added bonus, there’s often
food and soda available when you
provide this valuable service.
Finally, there is some general
information for both new and
experienced trivia players. Trivia
Weekend will go on the air at 7
p.m.
on
Friday
evening.
Registration will begin at 7:30,
and this year’s first question will
be read at 10. The first question
for this year’s contest will be:
What are the names and
titles typed under the last four
signatures on page eight of the
September 1970 publication ‘The
Eau Claire County Community
Shelter Plan; Where to go and
What to do in case of Nuclear
Attack?
The answer to this question is:
D.E. Whelan - Eau Claire
Press Company
Harvey Borchers Jr.
Wisconsin Telephone Company
Leonard Drescher - G.S.A.
Hilda
Carter
Plan
Commission
Once the contest gets started,
it will continue uninterrupted
until midnight on Sunday.
If you have any questions
about Trivia Weekend, you can
call this year’s Grand Trivia
Master Matt Kuchta at x7241 or
visit the Trivia Weekend web
page at www.lawrence.edu/~krollb.
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This weekend, Lawrence
will host guest composer
William Russo. Russo is cur­
rently the conductor of the
Chicago Jazz Ensemble and
also the director of the
Contemporary American Music
Program at Columbia College
in Chicago. Russo has been con­
sidered a pioneering composer
in major American musical
idioms and forms for the past
four decades.
Russo has collaborated with
such
tale n t
as
Leonard
B ernstein, Duke Ellington,
Seiji Ozawa, Wynton Marsalis,
M aynard
Ferguson, Dizzy
Gillespie, Stan Getz, and Billie
Holiday. The list goes on.
In the early 1950’s, Russo
was promoted from a trombon­
ist in the Stan Kenton
O rchestra to the position of
chief composer-arranger.
In the 1960’s he founded the
Russo Orchestra of New York,
the London Jazz O rchestra,
and
the
Chicago
Jazz
Ensemble.
In 1975-76 Russo was the
composer-in-residence to the
City and County of San
Francisco. He followed his stint
as composer by directing his
skills towards film scoring in
London, Los Angeles, and San
Francisco.
In 1990, he received a pres­
tigious Lifetime Achievement
Award from the Grammy-sponsoring NARAS.
Russo has achieved success
as a symphonic composer and
has released works on the
Deutsche Gramophone label
which have become historic
best sellers.
His Second Symphony,
TITANS, featured trum pet
great Maynard Ferguson when
it was first performed by the
New York Philharmonic under
Leonard Bernstein. He has also
had orchestral works pre­
miered
by
the
Chicago
Symphony O rchestra under
Seiji Ozawa and the San
Francisco Symphony Orchestra
under Ozawa.
Russo currently has two
CDs made up of works he per-
he
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run the gam ut of musical
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celebrated this weekend when
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night at 8:00pm in Harper Hall,
the Chamber Music of William
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compilations include: “The
English Concerto” for violin
and jazz orchestra, and the
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orchestra, recorded with trum ­
pet legend Dizzy Gillespie.
In 1992, a four CD box set
was reissued which covered the
complete
Stan
Kenton
Orchestra recordings of works
by Russo and Bill Holman.
Fluent in both jazz and clas­
both faculty and students as
well as commentary by the
composer.
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genius,
as
the
Lawrence University Jazz
Ensemble,
led
by Ken
Schaphorst, will perform four
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Chapel at 8:00pm. LUJE will
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Gershwin’s
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“G oodfellas” excellent, but not the best Students should welcom e
“Goodfellas” could handle well- characters through clever anec­
known stars. Conversely, at the dotes. This helps to give the film a
I’ve heard some rule some­ time of filming “The Godfather,” buoyancy and distinct personality, new Briggs sculpture
by
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had
F reeburg
where that states that if a film
doesn’t capture the attention of
the viewer within five minutes, it
is not worth watching to the end
and should be dismissed as uno­
riginal, tiresome, or boring.
Martin Scorsese has no difficulty
following this rule. If there had
been a category for “Most
Engaging Film Within The First
Five Minutes,” I believe that
“Goodfellas” would have won
hands down and James Ivory’s
“Remains of the Day” and E.M.
Forster adaptation “Howards
End” would have, well, never­
mind.
I admit that within the first
five minutes I was very interested,
and happy to be interested, in
“Goodfellas.” In retrospect, per­
haps the violence wasn’t gratu­
itous. When one wants to make
sure someone is dead, one ought to
just keep stabbing and shooting
that someone, right? And if no one
died in this particular film, estab­
lishing a conflict would be tricky.
Despite the fact that I was
engrossed in being grossed-out, I
wouldn’t go so far as to agree with
some of my movie critic colleagues
in saying that “Goodfellas” is “per­
haps the best gangster movie ever
... even better than The God­
father.’ ” Comparing Scorsese’s
“Goodfellas” to Francis Ford
Coppola’s “The Godfather” is like
comparing “Raiders of the Lost
Ark” to “Schindler’s List” because
they both incorporate Nazi
Germany. Certainly, Steven
Spielberg would not appreciate
such comparison, regardless of the
success and quality of both of
these films.
My assessment is an obvious
exaggeration, but despite the out­
ward
cosmetic
similarities
between “Goodfellas” and “The
Godfather” (mafia connections,
guns, etc.), there are undeniable
differences. Scorsese’s budget for
Coppola had a relatively low pro­
duction budget, and was working
with relatively unknown hollywood personalities. A1 Pacino was
a beginner in the industry, as was
Diane Keaton. The only affirmed
star on the cast list was Marlon
Brando, and yet the film won
Oscars for Best Picture, Best
Screenplay, and Best Actor.
What “The Godfather” accom­
plished in spite of tremendous
odds is impressive, and quite dif­
ferent from what “Goodfellas”
accomplishes, if in nothing but the
two important elements of mood
and plot.
If you like being entertained in
that low-on-patience pop culture
way, “Goodfellas” will not disap­
point. I’m not trying to imply that
this film is pop culture trash
though. Joe Pesci won an Oscar
for Best Supporting Actor, and
Scorsese is no novice when it
comes to creating quality film
(“The Last Temptation of Christ,”
“Raging Bull,” “Casino,” and most
recently “Kundun”). But, it cer­
tainly will appeal to lovers of gun­
fire and movie-induced hyperten­
sion. Its fast paced, clever narra­
tion and quick tempered charac­
ters are certainly enough to keep
any narcoleptic from dosing,
despite the film’s length (146 min­
utes).
“Goodfellas” cashes in on the
tension created by the violent
mood swings of the characters
Tammy DeVito (Pesci) and Jimmy
Conway (Robert DeNiro). Pesci
and DeNiro are masters at the art
of playing angry, swearing guys
with Queens accents.
Still frames focus the attention
of audience members on impor­
tant events in an interesting way,
similar to a “Dukes of Hazard”
commercial break cliffhanger. The
film even pokes fun at itself dur­
ing various moments and develops
unlike many other modem movie
productions.
“Goodfellas” doesn’t obligate
itself to make wonderful use of
light or dark, or even shadows, to
symbolize some hidden artistic
element in order to make the
movie enthralling. Everything is
in the open for the viewer. Seeing
this film more than once may reaf­
firm your sense of morales, but it
won’t reveal any hidden frames,
messages, or features beyond silly
editing mistakes at certain points,
specifically Prison Pauley’s magi­
cal
disappearing-reappearing
cigar or a set of mysterious chil­
dren’s blocks that only reveal
themselves to certain camera
angles. Maybe someone would call
those mistakes symbolic of the
illusion of the prestige of a “gang­
ster” life with which the main
character Henry Hill (Ray Liotta)
hopes to involve himself. However,
this explanation seems to me to be
a bit far-out. And the anachronis­
tic Adidas World Cup soccer san­
dals that appear in a scene that is
set in the late 60’s/early 70’s are
perhaps just a plug for a sponsor
rather than a foreshadowing of
Henry’s impoverished life ahead
as he grows closer to the age of the
elderly imprisoned inmate wear­
ing the sandals.
Despite a few anachronisms,
“Goodfellas” does a good job of
authenticating the images it tries
to create. It does not try to be dra­
matic and emotionally-charged in
order to be comparable to “The
Godfather.” Rather, it attempts to
draw the audience into the story of
a violent lifestyle, making no con­
cessions to the discomfort of the
viewer. It hopes to educate the
audience, even if it must resort to
over-eager dramatization of how
important seemingly small deci­
sions in life are and how unglamorous the gangster scene can be.
“Cape Fear” is average Scorsese
by
C
arl
P olley
Robert De Niro is always
intimidating, even when he plays a
good guy... wait, has De Niro ever
played a good guy?
In “Cape Fear” he is Max Cady,
a sexually deranged ex-con who
just got out of prison. He has a
grudge against his attorney, Sam
Bowden (Nick Nolte), and is deter­
mined to destroy Sam’s life.
Director Martin Scorsese’s
trademark style of movie making
is psychodramatic, and his excel­
lence at it is the reason for his pop­
ularity.
I don’t usually like suspense
movies because the dialogue and
characters seem right out of a pulp
paperback, but Scorsese breathes
life into every person he films.
Cape Fear is a thriller with real life
people at its heart, and that makes
it even the scarier.
Scorsese makes nearly every­
thing work in this movie. At first I
wondered why the marital prob­
lems between Sam and his wife
Leigh (Jessica Lange) or daughter
Danielle’s (Julliette Lewis) teen
angst played such big roles in the
film.
Scorsese is revisiting the “tor­
tured marriage” theme prevalent
in so many of his movies, and mix­
ing another bad guy in the story
seemed unnecessary. But it works.
Instead of hack-and-slash specta­
cle, we get a window into the
minds of the victims.
If anything detracts from this
movie, it is the half-hearted
Louisiana accents. I can see Nick
Nolte as a lawyer on one of the
coasts, but he’s too uptight to make
a proper drawl. Julliette Lewis
doesn’t even try to sound like she’s
the child of southerners (but
maybe that’s just because her char­
acter watches so much TV). De
Niro and Lange say their lines
credibly, but the other characters
are hit-and-miss.
The casting for this movie
seems to ruin it’s excellent charac­
ter building and better than aver­
age cinematography, but that is
show business, or at least
Hollywood show business.
Even though Scorsese works
with a well-worn plot (the movie
itself is a remake of a black and
white classic), he still keeps it alive
and interesting. His biggest prob­
lem in making “Cape Fear” is sim­
ply his reputation for greatness.
With movies like “Raging Bull,”
‘Taxi Driver,” and “Goodfellas,” we
expect masterpieces every time.
“Cape Fear” is good brain candy but it is still mostly sugar.
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MANITOW ISH
by
B
en
T
il g h m a n
The public sculpture on this
campus is, at best, a mixed bag.
While some works, like Energy
Form in the library, have several
positive aspects, most sculpture
on campus seems to strike the
observer as slightly out of place
and even downright silly - go take
a look at the little statuettes by
the grandfather clock in the Mudd
and you’ll see what I mean.
However, the somewhat sad state
of Lawrence’s public sculpture has
been greatly improved with the
installation at Briggs Hall of the
gift of the Class of 1997, “One
Rabbit Two”, a work in bronze,
iron, and cement by former
Lawrence
professor
Todd
McGrain.
In case you haven’t happened
by Briggs Hall recently, “One
Rabbit Two” is a sculpture group
of two stylized rabbits, one squat­
ting on all fours and one standing
on its haunches.
As a group, the work is very
successful. McGrain has posi­
tioned the two figures so that they
relate from any viewing angle.
This is due in large part to
McGrain’s subtle use of sympa­
thetic curves and forms in the
sculptures, so that the facing sur­
faces of the figures appear to fit
together. The greatest sympathet­
ic form is the way in which both
rabbits’ heads are cocked, which
creates a sort of interlocking ges­
ture, pulling them together. This
successful relationship between
the figures provides the work with
a nice sense of self-containment.
The forms of the sculpture are
fascinating. McGrain has stylized
and reduced the rabbits to almost
essential forms, shedding extra­
neous surface features but main­
taining important basic elements.
The artist has blended the skin,
fur, bone, and musculature of the
rabbits seamlessly, creating a cur­
vaceous surface which hints at all
of these elements. What’s inter­
esting is that if one separates the
individual concrete, bronze, and
iron forms which make up the fig­
ures, they begin to dissolve into
abstractions. Especially in the
standing rabbit, these abstrac­
tions are just as interesting and
pleasing as the complete rabbit
forms.
Owing to these curvaceous
forms, the work is exceedingly
tactile—the work almost begs the
viewer to touch it. Well, it begged
me, at least, so I did.
The varying media of the work
provide different surface textures,
which asserted themselves as I
ran my hands over the work. The
bronze of the squatting rabbit is
wonderfully smooth, contrasting
with coarseness of the slightly
rusting iron of the standing one.
The smooth but pock-marked con­
crete in both provides a nice inter­
mediary between the two oppo­
sites and is another link between
them. The surface is not exclu­
sively tactile, however. McGrain’s
gentle modulations of the colors
and tones keeps it as lively to the
eye as it is to the hand.
In short, I really love this
sculpture.
The only problem I have with
it is its placement, a problem
which seems to plague sculpture
at Lawrence (a gripe I won’t get
into just now). Passers-by don’t
even see the sculpture on the
most popular approach to the
building, behind Samson House.
It is inside the main entrance that
the work is first visible to the
average visitor. Moving the view­
ing area inside frontalizes a suc­
cessful work in the round and
erects the visual barriers of win­
dows and windowpanes, which
eliminate any unobstructed view.
The selected viewing area seems
to be on the first landing of the
front staircase (at least, that’s
where the title plaque is), which
brings the viewer’s eye-level to
the base of the sculpture, and fur­
ther constricts movement around
it.
Despite this unfortunate
placement, “One Rabbit Two” is
an excellent sculpture. It is true
that the work is on a special plat­
form which provides plenty of
space for contemplation from any
angle, and having this platform
slightly out of the way invites the
viewer to stay a while. I highly
recommend that you do, and be
sure to reach out and touch it, too.
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T h u r sd a y , J a n u a r y 2 2
T h e L a w r e n t ia n
7
What’s On? in sports
Friday, J a n . 23:
Men’s and Women’s swim­
ming at the Pointer Invite, time
TBA.
Hockey at Marquette, 7:30
p.m.
Wresling: dual at Milwaukee
School of Engineering, time
TBA.
Men’s basketball at Knox,
7:00 p.m.
Women’s basketball at Knox,
5:00 p.m.
The Lawrence University Hockey team celebrates after a first period goal during the game against Northland
College on Jan. 17.
Fencing,
Intercollegiate
Northwestern.
Midwest
meet
at
Photo by Sara Schlarinan
Satu rd ay, J a n . 24:
Lawrence defeats Northland
twice to improve to 10-4
D aniel F reiberg
The Lawrence University
Hockey team took on Northland
College of Ashland last weekend
in a hard-fought battle that saw
two players taken off the ice on
stretchers. The Vikings came out
victorious both times, winning
each game by a 7-6 score.
The last two times the teams
met, the Vikings dominated, win­
ning 10-1 and 8-0 respectively, so
Friday night the Vikings came to
the rink expecting a victory. But
Northland caught the Vikings by
surprise early, outscoring the
Vikes 3-1 in the first 33 minutes.
Lawrence head coach Cal
Husmann said of Northland,
“They played with intensity and
passion and with much better
skill than we saw last time.”
Led by a hat trick from Toby
Kinsler and the outstanding play
of Ben Sezer, the Vikings powered
back into the game. Sezer would
earn one goal and three assists on
the night.
After a slow start, the Vikings
battled Northland to a 3-3 tie to
end the second period. In the
third period, though, both teams
came out firing and racked up 3
more goals apiece before the end
of regulation.
The game ended when, in sudden-death overtime, senior cap­
tain Toby Kinsler gathered a loose
puck and fired it past Northland’s
goalie with 35 seconds remaining.
Husmann said of Kinsler and
Sezer that, “[Toby] is coming
through when we need him. He is
having an exceptional year and
by
Ben is working hard and beating
guys to the puck.”
Kinsler leads the Vikings with
28 goals on the season.
Coach Husmann felt that one
of the lowpoints of the game was
that Lawrence spent so much
time in the penalty box. “It’s frus­
trating because you cannot get a
rhythm going,” Husmann said.
One of the strengths of
Vikings, however, was their
intensity and desire. Junior Ben
Sezer felt that playing with only 2
1/2 lines was an asset to the
Vikings. “We’re at a better fitness
level and have outscored our
opponents in the third period
despite playing only 2 1/2 lines.”
Kinsler felt that the Vikings
“have the work ethic” that makes
a team effective. The Vikings
have outscored their opponents
23-5 in the third period prior to
last weekend’s series.
Saturday’s game was a bit dif­
ferent from Friday evening’s
match. The Vikings scored two
goals in the first seven minutes
and never looked back. Northland
tied the game on several occa­
sions but never took the lead.
Said Kinsler, “We were in con­
trol the whole game.”
Much of that control can be
attributed to senior goalie Eric
Bressler who had an outstanding
series with 36 saves on Friday
and 31 on Saturday.
The Vikings were forced to
play with two defensemen and
sometimes just one. Forward
Emo Csatlos was suspended for a
game due to a spearing penalty
during Friday’s contest and the
Men’s and Women’s indoor
track at the UW-Platteville
Open.
Vikings were forced to move some
defensemen up to play forward.
The team’s next home game is
on Saturday, Jan. 24, at the TriCounty Ice Arena against
Marquette. As far as the rest of
the season goes, Kinsler is look­
ing for the Vikings to finish
strong and “come out [of the sec­
ond half of the season] undefeat­
ed.”
Ben Sezer felt th at their
toughest competition would come
from Marian College, whom the
Vikings will meet on Jan. 30 and
Feb. 3.
Men’s and Women’s swim­
ming at the Pointer Invite, con­
tinued.
Hockey vs. M arquette at
home in the Tri-County Ice
Arena, 2:30 p.m.
Men’s basketball at Illinois
College, 4:00 p.m.
Women’s
basketball
Illinois College, 2:00 p.m.
Fencing:
Midwest
Intercollegiate
meet
at
Northwestern, continued.
W ednesday, J a n . 28:
Men’s basketball versus St.
Norbert College at Alexander
Gym, 7:00 p.m.
Friday, J a n . 30
Hockey at Marion, 7:30 p.m.
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from a twelve point first-half
deficit to tie the Green Knights
with three m inutes left and
outscored St. Norbert in the sec­
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Green Knights, who rem ain
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Sophomore Mindy Rueden
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including a perfect 2-2 from
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Angela Fink and Jubilee
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L a w r e n t i a n _________________________
Behind the plate
by
R e id K a j ik a w a
Alright, so timeliness isn’t
my best trait. But, 1 guess until I
get all the ideas and opinions I
have stored up in my head from
Winter Break and until I begin
developing opinions about more
current sporting events, you’ll
have to read the same old
rehashed junk, except it’ll be my
opinions that you’ll either agree
or disagree with.
College football is great. It’s
huge. It has the kind of
unabashed fervor that makes
you want to stand up and shout
for your alma mater. The press,
on the other hand, showed to me,
once again, how ridiculously
powerful they are by giving
Charles Woodson, a defensive
back from undefeated Michigan,
the Heisman Trophy over Peyton
Manning, the pre-season shooin.
Granted, Woodson support­
ers do have strong arguments for
why he was chosen as the
Heisman Trophy winner, the
First defensive player in history
to do so.
Woodson is definitely a spec­
tacular player. One highlight in
particular that stands out was
an interception in which he was
leaping out of bounds, but some­
how reversed his momentum to
land within the sideline (no joke,
that’s exactly what it looked like
happened, even on replays).
Voters favoring Woodson also
lauded his ability to break
games
open
with
timely
turnovers and his exceptional
coverage on his receiver.
Woodson did play most
downs while the defense was on
the field, and was an important
defensive factor on a Michigan
team that went to the Rose Bowl.
Personally, though, I do not
feel that a predominantly defen­
sive player should receive the
Heisman.
Peyton Manning should have
been presented the award, as he
was arguably the top offensive
player in college football along
with Scott Frost (who led
Nebraska to a share of the
national championship) and
Erich Lief, who led Washington
State to a Pac-10 championship
and passed for 300+ yards in the
Rose Bowl against Woodson and
the Wolverines.
While Woodson helped the
Wolverines to an undefeated sea­
son and received a share of the
national
championship,
Michigan’s offensive scheme and
defensive set would have looked
similar without him. Manning,
1 the other hand, was the rea:■on the Tennessee Volunteers
were ranked or even in con­
tention for the national champi­
onship. Manning was involved in
nearly every offensive scheme
and play and was the heart and
soul of his team.
There are other arguments,
even for Frost and Lief. However
strong they may be, though, I
believe Manning should have
been awarded the Heisman
because of his sportsmanship,
class, and, mainly, because he
stayed for his senior season.
Many of the best athletes in
NCAA Division I schools consid­
er college athletics an opportuni­
ty not to go to school and earn a
degree but to get a quick look
from the scouts and take their
game to the professional level.
You have to wonder how seri­
ous Jason Kidd (who had to take
the SATs eight times to score the
700 necessary to play according
to NCAA regulations) was about
going to school at UC-Berkeley,
one of the premier public schools
in California. Kidd left after his
sophomore season to play for the
Dallas Mavericks. Did Allen
Iverson really intend to earn a
degree from Georgetown, a pri­
vate university with high acade­
mic standards? It’s when people
like this abuse the college sys­
tem and accept its largesse that
less-talented people are cheated
from an education.
Athletic scholarships are
given to athletes, who play and
draw fans and alumni, who give
money to the school so the school
can award academic scholar­
ships. Why should the money be
doled out to people who do not
intend to make use of their
opportunity to go to college?
For Charles Woodson, the
Heisman Trophy was just the
spark he needed to light a flame
under the seat of his pants and
make him itch for the greener (in
the monetary sense) pastures of
the NFL. The award undoubted­
ly raised his stock among profes­
sional scouts and coaches who
may have been leery of his draft
chances. Winning the Heisman
probably bumped Woodson sev­
eral places up in the draft,
whereas for Manning it would
have capped off a brilliant col­
lege career.
Peyton Manning showed a
great deal of class by turning
down the NFL for one year to
finish his senior season at
Tennessee. He didn’t stay to
raise his draft chances, for per­
sonal gain, or to win specific
awards. He did it for the fans
and his team. Charles Woodson
will go pro with the next NFL
draft, and will likely be a factor
on some team. Manning, though,
was truly the best collegiate foot­
ball player last year.
S P O R T S _______________________
T
hursday,
Ja n u a r y 2 2
Vikes dismantle Beloit
by
Q
u in n
M
u l l ik in
On Feb. 20, the Lawrence
University men’s basketball team
hosted the Buccaneers of Beloit
College. This was an important
game for the Vikings, who
dropped a close game to Ripon
last Saturday.
The cards were stacked
against the Vikings with star
shooter Ben Zagorski out with a
foot injury. Zagorski recently
scored his milestone one thou­
sandth point against Lake Forest.
The game started out slow for
both teams; it was tied at three
after Mike “the Vanilla Gorilla”
McGivern’s free-throw three min­
utes into the first-half. Beloit
came out gunning threes, but met
with little success. Senior Viking
guard Joel DePagter could not
find his mark early and the
Vikings also struggled.
The score was 6-3 after 5 min­
utes, but then DePagter ignited
the Vikings with an incredible
pass to senior standout “Sweet”
Lou Clark.
Beloit was forced to take a
timeout after DePagter made an
unbelievable behind-the-headpass to a streaking Clark. Clark
scored 10 points in a row to gain a
13-8 lead. ~
Incredible athleticism and a
smooth touch allowed Clark to
control the tempo of the first half.
Great backcourt performances by
sophomore sensations Kent
Hayes and Nate Leverence early
on allowed Coach Tharpe to rest
DePagter and Clark during the
first half.
The tandem battled the tal­
ented Beloit backcourt to a 19-19
tie. Clark re-entered the game
and hit a three followed by a lay­
up. McGivern brought the crowd
to its feet with a thunderous dunk
late in the first half.
Leading 32-28 at half-time,
the Vikings came out with a onetwo punch to open the game up.
Clark and McGivern ate up the
Buccaneer defense with sharpshooting.
Clark led the Vikings with 22
points and McGivern added thir­
teen. DePagter, who scored 14,
controlled the remainder of the
second half, hitting 3 of 5 from
behind the arc and scoring his one
thousandth career point on a freethrow with 10:58 left.
The game stopped to com­
memorate his achievement before
Lawrence resumed their task of
dismantling
the
Buccaneer
defense. Lawrence cruised to a
79-65 win. With solid perfor­
mances all around, including out­
standing jobs by freshman point
guard Mike Cogill in his first
start, and sophomore defensive
specialist Mike Zimmerman con­
tributed heavily to the win.
■■■■■■■■I
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Freshman Mike Cogill prepares to shoot a free throw during the men’s basketball game on January 20 against Beloit
College.
Photo by Sara Schlarman
Toby Kinsle becomes Lawrence’s leading scorer
by
A
ndrew
Schm
id t
When Tbby Kinsler takes the
ice, the Lawrence hockey team
rises to a higher level.
In addition to leading the
team in scoring, the senior co­
captain inspires his teammates
with his words and actions.
“He [Kinslerl is the spark
plug and he has been since his
freshman year,” head coach Cal
Husmann said of Toby’s influence
on the team.
Kinsler is the team’s leader on
the ice and has been captain since
his freshman year. “Every night,
he has the confidence, the ability,
the drive, and passion to put
together a good hockey game,”
Husmann said.
After leading the team in
scoring his freshman year,
Kinsler gave the scoring record a
brief thought. It wasn’t until the
beginning of this season that he
realized how close he was to
breaking that record.
He wasted no time in doing
so.
Kinsler broke the all-time
scoring record on the first game of
the season, with three goals and
two assists. He broke the varsity
scoring record in the following
game versus Northland College.
The scoring record was previ­
ously held by Sam Tijan, who
played for Lawrence from 1990 to
1994, racking up 29 career points
on 21 goals and eight assists.
Tijan played on a Lawrence team
whose scheduled included both
varsity and club teams. Next sea­
son, the hockey team will go to an
all-varsity schedule.
Kinsler, majoring in English
and secondary education, started
skating when he was just two
years old, and started playing
hockey when he was four or five.
Tbby’s father and uncle provided
him with his first experiences
with hockey.
Kinsler attributes his success
to his family. He says they have
always been behind him and have
cheered him on throughout his
entire career.
The record-breaking goal
joins other memorable goals in
Kinsler’s career, such as scoring
the game-winner in overtime in
the state quarterfinals tourna­
ment during his sophomore year
in high school.
This year’s record-breaker
with his family in attendance
stands out, as well as the gamewinner in overtime versus MSOE
on Halloween this year, which
coach Husmann says was, “typi­
cal Tbby.” On this occasion he
took the puck from end to end,
needling his way through the
defense and putting the puck
past the goalie to break the dead­
lock.
A lot of athletes are supersti­
tious or go through some kind of
pregame routine as if it were a
Senior hockey player Toby Kinsler broke the all-time scoring record this
season during the Viking’s first game*
Photo by Sara Schlarman
religion. Kinsler is no exception.
He only tapes the last four inches
of the blade of his hockey stick
and always puts his left equip­
ment on before the right. “I figure
because I’m left handed, it’s bet­
ter luck,” he explained.
He also never eats anything
within five hours of game, rituals
th at are from what Kinsler
describes as “a long list” of
pregame superstitions and ritu­
als.
Tbby plans on coaching hock­
ey after college. He opened his
own hockey school this past fall
and hopes to continue it in the
future.
“The sport has been great to
me and has taught me so many
things about life that I’ve got to
pass it on,” Kinsler says.
He also wants to teach
English at the eighth to tenth
grade levels. Toby looks forward
to raising a good family and
enjoying life, “remaining young”
as long as possible.
As for now, Kinsler is still on
the ice, scoring up a storm. He
was named Great Lakes College
Hockey Association player of the
month for November. This past
weekend he recorded back-toback hat tricks in home games
against Northland College. This
raised his point total to 28 goals
and 11 assists through 12 games.
You can watch Kinsler and
the rest of the Viking hockey
team at their next hame at
Marquette on Jan. 23 or look for
them at home against Marquette
on Jan. 24.