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CATALYST NOVEMBER 13, 2019 VOLUME XXXIX ISSUE IX
New College of Florida's student-run newspaper
New College commemorates fall of Berlin Wall BY CHRIS MARIE DE FELIPE On Nov. 8, students took sledgehammers to the on-campus replica of the Berlin Wall that was erected in Koski Plaza as part of Professor of German Studies Lauren Hansen’s Berlin Wall in German Literature and Film course. The destruction of the replica honored the 30-year anniversary of the Iron Curtain splitting East and West Berlin being lifted. Hansen’s class focused on the media impact of the Berlin Wall; the research manifesting in a 7-week art installation “The Berlin Wall,” to serve as an educational platform for the campus and what it meant to the people it stopped. Throughout the past few weeks, students tagged the wall with a colorful coalescence of public expression, honoring Berlin’s troubles with division, power, and obedience. The replica was 8 feet tall and 16 feet wide, and was tactfully placed to have the plain gray side face east and the spray-painted side face west. It
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d’etat in Turkey left him unemployed and with little choice but to stay in the U.S. Not being one to sit around, Temizer applied for a job at a construction company and worked his way up to the role of supervisor, until eventually in 1971 he landed a job at the International Monetary Fund
Randy Harrell was out of the business. He and his wife bought an RV and were making their way across the United States with their cat and dog. They went through 19 states in the eight month stretch of his retirement, until he got a call. He was wanted for one last job: to be the interim dean of student affairs for New College. “I went online, I looked at New College,” Harrell, as he sat in his mostly-empty office in HCL 1, said. “And I thought, ‘This looks like an incredibly interesting place.’” Harrell grew up in ‘60s California and New College harkened him back to those days-gone-by. On Oct. 30, he came to campus, taking on the interim position as administration began to search for a permanent hire. Ten days into his term, Harrell already felt at home at the campus, even as he still learned its intricacies. “I was talking to my younger son,” Harrell said. “And I was telling him about the place. And he said, ‘Dad, you’re really happy, aren’t you?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, Jordan, I’m really happy. I’m really happy to be here.’” Harrell brings nearly four decades of experience with higher education to New College. At California State University Fullerton, a commuter university that grew from 18,000 to over 26,000 in during his six years there, he worked with traditional student and adult students. In 1987, he moved to California State University San Bernardino. The student population was 7,000 students, which grew to
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Anna Lynn Winfrey/Catalyst Students took turns striking the west side of the wall with sledgehammers.
reflected the heavily-restricted East Berlin suffering from heavy censorship over artistic and intellectual expression and how, in contrast, West Berlin channeled art as a means of protesting the divide. The theatre and literature scene of East Berlin through the German Democratic Republic’s existence was vibrant, but many creatives had their projects and livelihoods rejected on
the basis of treason. “That’s why on the west side you could walk right up and graffiti it,” Hansen said. “We’re kind of adhering to cardinal directions.” In addition to exploring the state of Berlin in the 1950s and 1980s, the Berlin Wall in German Literature and Film course investigates how the continued on p. 10
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Honoring education advocate Akgun Temizer Education plays an important role in society. It allows people to expand their knowledge and pursue their dream professions. However, finances can often be a limiting factor for students everywhere and often the privileges of an American education can be overlooked. Akgun Temizer, a Turkish born man, saw the benefits of an American education and took it upon himself to help out students from his home country of Turkey in pursuing higher goals. Temizer opened a scholarship fund for New College in 2014 to bring in students from his old high school in Ankara, Turkey. The Temizer scholarship has benefitted three students, who otherwise would not have had the same opportunities. Temizer passed away on Thursday, Oct. 31, leaving behind an inspiring legacy of
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Photo courtesy of Elba Viruet “His last wish was to see me graduate and I am thankful to God that he was able to do it,” Gokdemir said.
generosity, kindness and hope. Temizer was born in Konya, Turkey and went on to grow up in the capital city of Ankara. Having not been wealthy in his youth, Temizer valued the free public education he received, a belief he would carry throughout his life. Temizer would go on to work in the Turkish embassy in Washington D.C., until a coup
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