MARY CATHERINE BATESON AT NEW COLLEGE

Volume VI, Issue 12
November 19, 1996
Help! I've fallen and I can't raise my morals!
AN INTERVIEW
WITH JOSH SILVER
OF 'TYPE 0
NEGATIVE '
by Mario Rodriguez
Even the autumn leaves trembled on
the branches of a makeshift forest as Type
0 Negative took center stage at this
year's Guavaween celebration in Tampa.
Under a full moon, green light permeated
the mist sweeping over the imposing figure of Peter Steele, the band's 6'7"
vocalist/bassist.
Steele has used his impressive size
and dark, opinionated demeanor to gain
publicity for Type 0 in sources ranging
from Playgirl to The Jerry Springer
Show. In a summer interview with
Seconds magazine, Steele claimed that
the band's music is predominately his
"baby, which the rest of the band clothes
and feeds, so to speak."
Like the mist, the tones of Josh
Silver's keyboard eemed to rush around
Steele, meshing with and carrying the
singer's deep voice. Impassive before the
camera's eye, seldom quoted in interviews, Silver form part of the supportive
artistic base that propels Type 0 Negative
above and beyond the hype.
Yet Silver's contribution to the music
is anything but an underpinning. In the
October issue of Guitar Shop, a review of
Type O's late t release observed, "true to
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Calendar . ... .. . . .. . ...... . ... .4
Movie Review: Extreme Measures .. 5
Amnesty Int'l Open Mike ......... 6
Editorial .. . ................ . .. 7
Conservation News ... ....... . .. 7
MARY CATHERINE BATESON AT
NEW COLLEGE
In honor of Professor Mary Catherine
Bateson's two day visit to New College, a
student sponsored dinner took place at
Cook Hall on Sunday, November 17th.
The dinner included professors and students, most of whom attended the
workshop which Bateson conducted earlier, "How Might the Insights of
Anthropology Inform Decision Making."
The workshop focused on how everyday actions effect society as a whole.
Tony Lenzo, a student who is concentrating in philosophy and physics said, "I
found it interesting that individual action
effects society on such a large scale.
Most people have a profound ignorance
of the way that their decisions effect the
system . She (Bateson) led me to see that
each person must make provisions for the
consequences of their actions, no matter
how small."
Bateson further remarked on this point
at the dinner as it applied to current trends
in population growth. She stressed that
peopled must consider the ramifications
of having children on natural resources.
"I'm not suggesting that a solution as
draconian as China's birth restrictions
(one child per couple) is right. But,
clearly we should think about the fact that
there are just too many people. As soon
as it is born, an American child consumes
(much) more of the world's resources as
compared to mo t other countries," she
said.
Though Bateson doe not intend torelease another book anytime in the next
year, she eluded to one already in the
planning stages. The proposed topic will
center around present life cycles and how
they will affect future generations. She
commented that increased lifespan should
facilitate increased learning.
Bateson said, "I think the presumption
SEE "BATESON" ON PAGE 3
ANOTHER CONSTRUCTION UPDATE
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by Charles Choi
You might say that New College, in
regards to to its construction contracts,
has come close to "incompletes" or "unsats" quite a number of times.
Construction projects have a hi tory of
budget problems and time delays, while
"temporary" structures such as the Palmer
Buildings have a habit of remaining far
longer than intended.
In the upcoming year, four major construction projects will be in various
phases of completion. Some time and
money will be allotted for a few non-academic projects on the side.
Last month, bids for the new Dallas
and Elizabeth Dart dormitories came in
from prospective contractors, but even the
lowest bid exceeded the budget by about
$400,000. As a result, the workings for
the residence halls are going through
changes in order to bring down the budget
by $200,000; the other $200,000 is expected to come from the efforts of the
New College Foundation. The plan is to
rebid before the end of the year, and if all
goes well the bid should be accepted in
January. Construction of the residence
halls would then start in February, and
ideally the dorms should be ready for occupancy by January of 1998.
The Eisermann Fine Arts Building,
another project in the works, will be built
behind the Caple Fine Arts Building and
will house additional painting studios.
Caples Fine Arts can then be retrofitted
with a photo studio, although funds need
to be secured to purchase equipment. The
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"CONSTRUCTION" FROM PAGE 1
"TYPE
building will also have to be fitted for the
proper disposal of toxic photographic
chemicals. The construction documents
are in the process of completion, and the
building should be ready for use by fall
of 1998.
The Natural Sciences Building that
wi11 replace the "temporary" Hanson and
Selby Buildings is in its advanced design
phase, and should be ready for use by faJI
of 1998. Campus architect Rick Lyttle
sent the lab layout to the faculty the
week before last, and construction should
start next spring.
On the other hand, funds for the
Marine Sciences building was received
only recently. No architect has yet been
selected.
Four constuction projects will be
funded by the Capital Improvement Trust
(CIT), a financial trust which supports
non-academic endeavors on campus.
These are the building of the Coffeehouse
in the Barn, a house for the Sailing Club
at Caples Hall , the renovation of the
Teaching Auditorium, and Hamilton
Center renovations that include the Mac
Lab, the Publications Office, and the
Student Government office.
Luckily, contract renegotiation has
managed to get New College some extenions, if only for a little while. Don't you
wish you had control over your academic
contract like that?
the progressive genre, keyboards have a
dominant role in the music." The review
described the album as "atmospheric ...
slowish, dense, gothic-sounding."
"It's a more linear album. It's more of
a mood kind of album," said Silver in a
telephone interview, contra ting the new
opus, October Rust, with the band's 1993
release, Bloody Kisses, which went gold
last year.
Beyond the media blitzkrieg, the success of Bloody Kisses (their third album)
can be attributed to cxtensi ve touring.
Type 0 Negative spent 18 months on the
road, although they were initially reluctant to tour, with artists ranging from
Nine Inch Nails to Ozzy Osborne.
According to a June interview with Steele
in huh, October Rust was written predominantly "in the back of the bus over the
past couple of years."
The material covered on October
Rust, however, draws from more than a
year and a half on the road. In Silver's
opinion, a band is a "combination of a lot
of different areas," including Black
Sabbath's macabre, driving sound, A
Clockwork Orange and an affinity for
70's B-horror movies, (i.e. the band members' formative years.)
But more than that, Silver also feels
that Type 0 Negative's music is comprised of themes which "take on their
own character after a while." Pervaded by
a morose sarcasm which Silver attributes
to growing up in Brooklyn, October Rust
deals with themes ranging from lost love
to nature worship, echoed in such pagan
songs as "Green Man."
"Worship or respect," he said.
"Certainly to me God is a pretty useless
entity and just a great story. The only
thing I will give respect to is nature."
Whereas Silver may wholeheartedly
sympathize with goats, donkeys must
scatter when Type 0 Negative shows up
on the White House lawn this Halloween .
The band calls for the reclamation of the
United States by Vikings in "The
Glorious Liberation of the People 's
Technocratic Republic of Vinnland by the
Combined Forces of the United
Territories of Europa." This track off
October Rust is just the kind of inflammatory statement Silver feels the media tries
to elicit from Type 0.
"I think the press loves to exaggerate
and completely encourages that," he said,
but noted that real life is always shocking
in and of itself. Silver said October Rust
takes from reality, but "there's nothing
wrong with some science fiction as well,"
which might account for songs like "Wolf
Moon," "Haunted," and the band's goth
image.
Not so. Silver claims the media plays
the gothic portrayal up significantly.
Really, he said, their music is just the net
result of being "depressed your whole life
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"BATESON" FROM PAGE 1
that people just stop at 65 is absurd when
an increasing portion of the population is
reaching the age of 90 or more. Just because one is old does not mean that one is
wise. If you live a long time and things
keep changing, you can't just reach a
plateau in learning."
Bateson seemed impressed with the
New College atmosphere and laughingly
mused about the "dangerous" thinking of
college students. Bateson planned to attend an anthropology convention in San
Francisco after her visit to New College.
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10/28/96 2:20 p.m. Five signs and four
signposts stolen from Caples Fine Arts
building. Grand theft, value $377.
10/31/96 8:12p.m. Live band in Palm
Court, performance terminated, as
classes still in session in HCLs.
11/2/96 8:10p.m. Sudakoff exceeds 600
person capacity, closed off, during
Tibetan Monk show.
11/3/96 2:10a.m. Off-campus noise
complaint, PCP volume lowered .
11/3/96 2: II a.m. Report of a live
grenade. Grenade impounded, later returned to owner: it was a dummy.
11/3/96 3:55 Two students found in pool
area, given verbal warning .
11/9/96 3:55 a.m. Criminal mischief:
graffiti on SE corner of Library.
11/10/96 2:13 a.m . Student given notice
to appear in court for civil infraction:
smoking in gameroon.
11/11/96 1:10 a.m. Criminal mischief:
new mirror on overpass stolen.
11112/96 3:10 a.m. Tampa and Sarasota
computers borken into electronically, including virtu accounts. USF student
harrassed with information gained from
her account.
11/12/96 6:05 p.m. Criminal mischief:
muddy student jumped in hot tub after
mudwrestling. Mud broke the hot tub.
Referred to student affairs.
11/18/96 8:45 a.m. Three trees stolen
from Physical Plant, value $183.
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IVORY TOWER
International
About 500,000 refugees have returned
home to Rwanda but the International
Red Cross says that there are still more
wandering in eastern Zaire and that the
crisis is not over. Hundreds of thousands
of regugees remain missing. The recent
return of refugees has led the international
community to hint it may drop plans for
military humanitarian aid.
Pope John Paul will hold a conference
with Cuban President Fidel Castro on
Tuesday. The Pope will receive Castro,
who is in Rome for the World Food
Summit. The meeting could pave the way
for the Pope's first visit to Cuba.
For the first time, a robot programmed
another robot without human intervention.
A robot in Reading University, England
used the Internet to teach another robot at
the State University of New York how to
determine its position relative to other ob·ects using its ultrasound en ors.
24-year-old Suresh Kumar set himself
on fire on Thursday, in protest of India
hosting the Miss World beauty pageant.
More than 20 organizations are against
the event on grounds of sexist commercialization and contamination of Indian
culture . The Forum For Awakening
Women has threatened a wave of self-immolations, and the Farmers' Association
has threatened to torch the cricket ground
where the pageant is to be held.
National
CIA director John Deutsch was booed
when he told angry residents of South
Central Los Angeles that there was no evidence of CIA ties to drug trafficking.
The Friday meeting followed a series of
articles in the San Jose Mercury News in
August that suggested that the CIA had financed the Contras through revenues that
came from smuggling crack cocaine into
L.A.
State
A second night of destruction and
racial tension returned to St. Petersburg
last Wednesday hours after a grand jury
ruled that Officer Jim Knight was justified
when he shot and kjJled black motorist
Tyron Lewis last month. The crowd was
angered by the jury's decision that race
was not a factor in Knight's decision to
shoot after he and his partner Sandy
Minor stopped Lewis' car for a speeding
violation. 1\vo police officers were shot
and crowds lit fires and threw bottles and
rocks at police.
The First Assembly of God Church
denied work to Randell Penn, a 33 yearold volunteer in the churc hes food pantry
because he was infected with HIV. The
church confirmed that applications for
volunteers asks if the applicant is infected
with HIV and if the applicant is homosexual. The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention said no cases of a food service
worker transmitting HIV to a customer
have been recorded and that resturant
workers cannot be fired for having HIV
because it would violate the Americans
with Disabilities Act.
Some of the Miami homeless now
have professionally lettered plastic signs
for panhandling, and to quote the owner
of the sign company that donated the
signs, "While they're out there doing their
thing, they're also advertising my business." The homeless will earn a
percentage of the profits from each new
job generated by the signs. So far the
owner of the company has received two
responses : one from a potential customer
and one from someone scolding him for
helping the homeless.
A Daytona, Florida teenager was
charged on Sunday with spiking his
teacher's drink with LSD. Last
Wednesday, 17-year-old Andrew Lewis
dropped a tab of LSD into a soda bottle
on his teacher's desk while she was out of
the classroom. The teacher was treated at
a local hospital, where she tested positive
for the drug. Lewis currently is staying at
a juvenile detention facility.
Hundreds of angry inmate at a jail
west of Phoenix rioted for almost 3 hours
on Sunday, trapping eight detention oficers. The riot broke out when officers
tried to break up a skirmish between two
inmates. The riot was brought under control by local law enforcement officers and
the National Guard.
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PREVIEW
Wednesday, November 20
Professor Lee Snyder will host the
forum, "Savonarola, Medieval
Prophet or Renaissance Pioneer," on
Wednesday, November 20 at 3:30
p.m. in the Anthropology Lab. All
are invited to attend.
Performance of a one-act play,
There s a Dragon in My Room. 7:00
p.m. in the Teaching Auditorium.
Stone Temple Pilots will perform at
the Ice Palace in Tampa. Show starts
at 7:30p.m
Thursday, November 21
Town Meeting at 5:00 p.m.!
The play Dancing at Lughnasa will
be performed in Sainer Auditorium at
8:00p.m.
The Fishbowl Art Soiree, a forum for
student art work. Hosted by Lizzie
Dobbins and Carolyn Ward.
Friday, November 22
The play Dancing at Lughnasa will
be performed at Sainer Auditorium at
8:00p.m.
Bouncing Souls and Against All
Authority will perform at State
Theatre in St. Petersburg.
The Fishbowl Art Soiree continues in
the Fishbowl.
Saturday, November 24
Paint the mural in Second Court
Lounge today and Sunday, from 12
noon to 6:30 p.m.
Monday, November 25
Women and Spirituality: An open
panel discussion of women in the
current spititual movement. At
Manatee Community College, room
6044, from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Entertainment
November 19, 1996
MOVIE REVIEW: EXTREME MEASURES
by Mario Rodriguez
Most often it's best to see a movie
when you don't expect much from it, because then you can't be disappointed. And
if it actually has a decent cast of actors
and an interesting plot, you may even be
mildly impressed and entertained.
Such is the case with the latest Hugh
Grant movie Extreme Measures.
I was hoping the opening scene would
color the whole film : two naked men running spastically through the streets
swaddled in plastic sheeting.
Unfortunately, Extreme Measures sank
back to some variant of Hollywood normalcy after this, although it took a strange
twist at the end.
All the stuff in between is best characterized as a cross between Chain Reaction
and Coma. Grant is a doctor preparing for
further research in neurology at New York
University. For the time being he is working in an emergency room in New York.
One of the screaming men from the opening scene, a bald Scotsman, ends up in
Grant's care and mysteriously dies of a
major physiological meltdown .
The plot thickens, although predictably, as Grant, trying to get to the
bottom of this man's ailments and his
enigmatic, deathbed reference to
Triphase, is framed by thugs who ransack
his apartment and plant cocaine in his
room .
If you've got $1.50 and time to bum
you might want to check this movie out
just to see Hugh Grant playing the part of
a quadriplegic for a little while. You can
probably guess that after he's kicked out
of the hospital and any possible future in
medicine things really start to go downhill
for him. It's a good thing the Hollywood
community is a little more forgiving of a
criminal record.
Don't get me wrong, though. Hugh
Grant makes the character's downward
spiral very believable. And as the good
doctor simultaneously descends into a
mysterious New York underworld of underclass hierarchies and medical
megalomaniacs, the storyline actually
does take some unanticipated twists.
Extreme Measures is suspenseful, in
spite of Grant's trademark stuttering and
the pouty, school-boyish charm that make
him so popular with the ladies. But
you've got to love him for it; how many
other ac tors can you think of who can
portray the exact same persona in every
role and still rake in the dough?
In any event, Gene Hackman as always graces the screen with dignity and
complexity of character; you empathize
with him yet you want to wring his neck
as the diabolical, but well-meaning neurosurgeon. The actor who played Ed Harris'
right hand man in The Rock, however, a
man forced by blind faith in a valiant
cause and misguided ethics to kill innocent civilians, plays the same character
again in Extreme Measures.
The importance of ethics seems to be
the moral of this film . And without giving
away the rather unnerving ending of this
neuropsychological thriller, let me just
say that the lesson hearkens back to
NASA's use of Nazi experiments to
launch the U.S. Space Program. The epilogue seems to justify this action. Other
than that, Extreme Measures is a stark,
better-than-average Hollywood suspense
film worth some idle hours and a buck
and a half, if you care to go to that extreme.
Extreme Measures is currently playing at
the Parkway 8 Cinema located at the corner of University Parkway and Lockwood
Ridge Road.
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and that's the way it comes out. I think
the band was built around people's unfortunate traits of personality rather than
around what a band is supposed to be."
This from a man whose acknowledgements (usually listed on the CD jacket)
encompassed a blank space in Bloody
Kisses and a Japanese poet's 15th century
death ver e in October Rust: "Had I not
known/that I was dead/already/! would
have mourned my loss of life."
On stage, Silver thrust his tattoo-covered anns into the keyboard, his dead-pan
obscured by a flailing black mane. Over
the phone, his Brooklyn accent rang
through in rumbles of self-deprecation, a
technique he identified as a way to keep
one step ahead of those critical of his
music.
"Beat people to the punch ," he said .
"It's faster that way."
Sarcasm, he argued, allows the band
to relieve tension, especially when deal ing with issues that hit home a little too
powerfully.
"When you're dealing with the emotional truth . . . you really have to treat it
as a sarcastic joke or you lose your
mind," he said, later pointing out that
"any album i just an expression of some
sort of outburst."
"Sometimes you can alleviate so much
tension no one will talk to you for two
weeks."
Although Silver denies the band's
publicized image as pseudo-goth, he cites
"sarcasm and depression" as sources of
inspiration, and challenges anyone to putdown his ideas more effectively than he
himself does, he values Type 0
Negative's creative aspects, which he attributes to growing up in Brooklyn's
"eclectic" environment.
October Rust, then, according to
Silver, is more uniform than Type O's
previous projects because the band has finally found a sound distinctively their
own, demonstrating a progression in Type
0 Negative's music. Bloody Kisses foreshadows October Rust's catchy
vocalizations (a Ia Paul McCartney), dark
ambience and slow, crushing rhythm. The
new album contrasts their earlier, more
aggressive releases, The Origin of the
Feces and Slow, Deep, Hard.
"We're just going to continue to
evolve or de-evolve" ... What's the point
in just doing the same thing over and
over?'' he said.
"I always want to change things. I
would do another album tomorrow if I
could."
Hey! Bored?
Come see Dancing at Lughnasa this Thursday or
Friday in Sainer Auditorium at 8:00 pm.
It's a play. It's free. It's damn fine entertainment.
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OPEN MIKE INSPIRES ACTIVISM
by Sara Foley
A cold and breeze blew through Palm
Court Saturday night as Helen Matthews
kicked off the Activist Open Mike with a
poem entitled "A Man Walks By with a
Stick of Bread." by Cesar Vallejo. The
reading emphasized activism over intellectualism, and set the tone for the
Amnesty International event. According
to Matthews, who chairs the ew College
chapter, the "open mike was intended to
encourage and give people the means to
live imaginatively, and to identify with
people in distant places who have very
different realities from our own." Some
tudents had very specific agenda - Eric
Piotrowski read a piece by Rebecca
Winters about her experiences with the
children of Ea t Timor, who uffer abuses
under Indonesian occupation.
Handfuls of students huddled against
the trees in a circle of burning candles
and tiki torches. They listened as one by
one, people voiced their frustrations about
human rights violations throughout the
world. Jen Letham's voice wailed with
protests of injustice; others expressed
themselves by reading original poetry and
works by Miguel Pinero, Pablo Neruda,
Maya Angelou, and James Baldwin.
Some students played the blues. Lisa
Pokorski was happy to use her electric violin to show "people there are ways to get
emotions out" and that "you can express
yourself, and people will listen." Students
encouraged each other to abandon apathy
and selfishness. "There's so much emotion when you deal with things that are so
hateful... it's a really good way to express
that emotion," Scott Schuetzler said of the
event.
As the night wore on, the protests be-
came more abstract.The crowd scattered
as messages became more scattershot, and
people stepped up to the mike to perform
non-Amnesty related acts. Kevin
Cunningham felt the event could have
been shorter. "It shouldn't have been
something that went on all night."
Yet despite the late-night disorganization, the crowd seemed appreciative of the
cause. Matthews hopes the open mike will
cause "more people to be active members
of Amnesty" and "become active in
human rights." The international human
rights organization has about 35 members
in the New College chapter, and is growing. Members write letters to leaders of
countries with known human rights violations asking them to correct the abuses.
Amnesty International meets at 8:00 p.m.
on Thursday nights in the Fishbowl. All
are invited to come and write letters.
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was referred to the Town Meeting on Thursday, November 21. She also requested $25
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Kate Leonard requested $310 for props for the Dance Tutorial Performance. She was
allocated $54. The equipment room donated some of her supplies.
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EDITORIAL: RACIAL TENSION IN ST. PETERSBURG
What are we arguing about?
These are the basic facts. On October 24, black
motorist Tyron Lewis was shot by St. Petersburg police
officer Jim Knight during a traffic stop.
Knight claimed self defense. The black community
claimed racism and brutality. Rioting ensued in the
streets and neighborhoods of south St. Pete's black community.
On November 13, a grand jury ruled that Officer
Knight was justified in shooting Lewis and that "race
was not a factor" in Knight's course of action. Rioters
hit the streets once again, shooting two police officers,
setting fires and throwing bottles and rocks.
We can argue about Knight's judgment and professionalism. We can argue about the justifications of the
rioters in looting their own community. While these
issues should be discussed, the central issue must not be
ignored: the racial tension which has been brewing in
St. Pete for many years and the highly turbulent relationship between St. Pete's black residents and the
police. St. Petersburg cannot afford to ignore the anger
and despair which surrounded not only the riot, but
more importnatly, the history of blacks' fear of police.
These residents have suffered many years of neglect by
a predominantly white city government.
How can this racial divide be healed? To start, residents should be able to recognize their community
police officer. Also, communication between police and
minority political, religious and business leaders must
improve so that te voices of the black residents can be
heard and taken seriously.
South St.Pete residents should feel safe knowing that
the police are patrolling their streets. They should not
feel threatened by this fact.
CONSERVATION NEWS
Contributed by Anne Tazewell
A project is in the works that will link the leftovers scraped
from our cafeteria plates and a community economic development initiative spearheaded by the Florida House Foundation, a
local organization dedicated to creating a "sustainable" future for
Sarasota. As I write this article, the Foundation, under the direction of John Lambie and Dr. Dick Hailer, is orchestrating an
agreement with the City of Sarasota to take derelict land and develop it as an urban agriculture project. A grant has been secured
from the Selby Foundation to offer a course to low-income residents on growing and marketing agricultural products from this
land. The site that is being considered is a 20-acre parcel located
on the south side of Martin Luther King way just west of U.S.
301. Water to irrigate crops could come from recycled waste
water. Currently reclaimed waste water is greening area golf
courses and city landscape projects. A new line for this water is
being planned to run along Martin Luther King Way. There's the
possibility of a $60,000 grant from the EPA as well as local support to develop the urban agriculture initiative. This is a big
project requiring the talent of many people. (Think tutorial and
thesis possibilities here.) Dr. Hailer would like to get more New
College students involved with this multi-faceted endeavor.
Sound interesting? Contact him at the Florida House
Foundation at 927-2020 for more information.
So, what does this far reaching idea have to do with our plate
scrapings? Another grant is in the works that will provide funds
to study the cost effectiveness of composting food waste rather
than throwing it away, as well as $5000 for an invessel composting system. New College has been selected as tbe study site and
since most of our leftover food waste is now going to feed the
homeless in Sarasota, it will be our plate scrapings that will go
into this invessel system. Once composted into sweet soil, it will
go to enrich a demonstration plot for the urban agriculture project. Judging from my crude study of the past two days
collection of plate scrapings we are currently throwing away I 0
gallons of food waste a day. Some of you may have noticed the
two large signs I posted at the bussing area directing food waste
and napkins into one container and all other trash into another.
However, judging from the amount of plastic utensils and
Styrofoam products, many of you did not pay attention to my efforts at a composting study. I even found one ceramic soup bowl
and silverware, as well as several recyclable plastic bottles in the
food waste container. This concerns me! In order for this project
to work, students must be able to scrape their food waste into
one container and trash into another. What do you think? I want
feedback on this.
To continue in the vein of conservation, I want to draw your
attention to the fact that November 21 is the second annual Use
Less Stuff Day and November 29 is Don't Buy Anything Day. It
is important to remember the connection between our actions
and their effects on the greater whole. Although it is unrealistic
to expect that we could function for very long without buying
anything, it is worthwhile to pause and reflect on the things that
we use and purchase with regards to their ecological and social
ramifications. On that note, be sure to check out the vegetarian
thanksgiving dinner at the cafeteria on Thursday, November 21.
Marriott is trying out my recipe for tofu turkey and mashed potatoes with nutritional yeast gravy. I'm making the sweet potato
pie! And by now the C-store should have honey-sweetened iced
Red Zinger tea. Remember, use less stuff: bring your thermo
mug!
Anne Tazewell is the Resource Conservationist for NCIUSF.
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Announcements
Lizzie Dobbins and Carolyn Ward are organizing a
Fishbowl Art Soiree to be held Thursday, November 21
and Friday, November 22. This will be a forum for student artwork of all levels and medias. Artwork is needed
for the student show. Contact Lizzie at Box 339 or Pei
142 or Carolyn at Box 239 or call 359-9425. Show off
your creative spirit!
Que rico! The Spani h Conversation group is having a
potluck on Saturday, November 23 at 7:00 p.m. One of
our themes will be ''My ISP in Latin America." If you
are going to Latin America this ISP, come tell us about
your project. Bring a tasty dish. The potluck will be at
928 Royal Palm Drive (off of Mecca.) Call AnaMaria for
more details or leave a note on Box 283.
Do you want to move off campus next semester? We
are going to London and our apartment is available. It's
perfect for a couple or a thesis student. Ten minutes from
school, comes with a full kitchen, washer/dryer, lanai and
a lease that expires in May. For more information contact
Brant or Rebecca Hassell at Box 162 or call 739-0170.
Would anyone like to stay off-campus in a beautiful,
spacious, and comfortably furnished apartment for
the month of January? The apartment includes a huge
bedroom, a big living room, huge kitchen,and an enormous porch. And the rent is incredibly CHEAP at only
$225 plus 1/2 the utilities (water is included). Give
Amanda a call at 351-1706, or drop a note in Box 324.
Pending approval by the Humanities Division, New
College students will be able to take an Advanced
Acting Course this year in either of two formats : as a
group ISP in January, or as a course in first module of
second semester. On both occasions the course will be
taught by faculty of the Asolo Conservatory. The course
will focus on intensive scene study, primarily in twentieth-century realistic drama and is intended primarily for
students who have taken Introduction to Acting with the
Asolo either this fall or in the past, but students with
equivalent theater training are welcome to apply.
Enrollment will be limited. To apply for the course, send
a note to John McDiarmid, Humanities, by November 22.
The note should indicate the following: contract number
you are in: past theater experience and training; reasons
for wanting to take the course; whether you want to take
the course as an ISP or in second semester (if either
would be acceptable, please indicate); a telephone number at which you can be reached. Enrollment decisions
will be announced before Thanksgiving.
"The Ballad of Johnny Paradise," a new original monologue by David White will be performed Friday (22) and
Saturday (23) of November in the year of our lord 1996
at 8pm. Please call for information: 355-5840 or 3516495 .
November 19, 1996
CAREER CENTER
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Environmental Career Fair Thursday, November 21, 1996 4:00p.m.
-9:00p.m. at Fox Hall, Eckerd College. Employment, Internship, and
Volunteer Opportunties Available. Sponsored by the Tampa Bay
Association of Environmental Professionals.
Quick questions: Wednesday, November 20 from 11 :30 a.m.-12:30
p.m. in Hamilton Center, Karen Patriarca will be available to answer
any career questions you may have.
The Boggy Creek Gang Camp: 1997 Summer position are available
at the Boggy Creek Gang Camp. They are looking for creative and enthusiastic staff members who are willing to share their ideas, and to
invest their time, energy and love for the children in their summer program. Boggy Creek Camp is the first family camping center in Florida
to address the needs of children with chronic illnesses. The camp will
serve children, ages 7-17, who have life-threatening illnesses such as
cancer, asthma, sickle cell anemia, hemophilia, HIV/AIDS and arthritis. Positions available: Cabin Counselors, Activity Counselors, and
Operational Staff.
Harry S. Truman Scholarships: The Foundation awards merit-based
scholarships are for juniors who have outstanding leadership, plan to
pursue careers in government or elsewhere in public service and wish
to attend graduate school. Scholars participate in leader hip development programs and have special opportunities for internships and
employment with the federal government. A Truman Scholarship provides up to $30,000. Anyone interested in applying must see Karen
Patriarca, Coordinator of Career Development, PME-119, about the
nominating process. On campus deadline: December 20,1996.
International Institute of Russian Language and Culture: Tver
InterContact Group, an independent educational and consulting
organization, offers an opportunity to enroll in the Second Annual
Winter School in Tver. International students spend 2-6 weeks.
Weekly program includes: 24 hours of classroom instruction, 8 hours
of area study seminars, and 16 hours of Russian language classes .
Program beings January 6, 1997. The tuition and education material
costs have been waived. The program fees cover accommodations, including half-board (bomestay option), the cultural enrichment program,
excursions and a small administrative fee.
Rosewell Park Cancer Institute: Research Participation Program in
Science -A program for college undergraduates who will benefit from
an intensive pregraduate (Ph.D.) research experience. Program runs
from June 9 to August 15, 1997. Selected participants receive a $2,500
stipend; plus room, board, research, and transportation expenses are
partiallycovered by the grant. Application deadline: February 15,
1997.
For more information stop in the Career Resource Center, PME-1 19.