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Ye Olde Drafte Analysise Well folks, it’s a new year. You should all know what that means, and if you don’t know what that means, you should. That’s right; it’s the start of the intramural season. The seniors have graduated, and unless !"#$%&#'()*+,'-'.)/'0+'!"#'+#-1/$'-1#-2'0!%3'-'+#4'56-$0+7'8#6,9'':$'+-;#%3'<)+'=-1)+#2'-+,'>%66'/#',)0+7'!"#' weekly sports rundown for you lovely folks, whether you’re interested in athletics or just bored. by Jon Barone !"A‘13
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nyways, to kick this year off, I thought I’d start with a good :%(*3"(;",!<(=3"(D@$'!-$%1($'"(1"'-&@1()&%*"%!"'1(-%($%?(18&'*F(( old analysis of the Sophomore Draft and predictions for Frisbee looks to be their strongest sport, with Popov, Schmid, the year. So without further ado, here’s a (relatively) unbiased and Linus Feder handling. And despite the loss of a few A Team rundown of the teams: basketball players, Tommy Bonn stands tall as a leader on the court. While other sports look slightly more questionable, the Spartans In the draft: After the departure of Paul Barysas to D@$'!-$%1(1""#(*&(3$6"(9&'*-;"!(*3"-'(7"$.%"11"1(&9(?"1*"'?"$'F(( Santa Fe, there was really no question as to whom the Spartans No questions, the Guardians look like the team to beat. would pick. Ian Tuttle, who has shown his prowess and ball handling skills on the basketball court, has also emerged as far Druids In the draft: Despite having the fourth pick, the Druids andaway the best soccer goalie in the school. Armed with a classy arguably had the most success in the sophomore draft. Not only !"#"$%&'( $%!( )$*+,-."( '"/"0"12( 3"4,,( 5"( $( 6-*$,( 7"$8&%( 9&'( *3"( !-!(*3"?(8-).(@8(*3"(#@)3(!"1-'"!(%&7+)$8*$-%(A@%*"'(G&02(5@*( Spartans in just about every sport. The men in blue also picked they also acquired multiple picks each round due to outstanding up Hayden Pendergrass as their second pick, adding another trades. Hunter is the best soccer player in the Junior class, and his consistent player to a team which struggled with numbers last year. leadership abilities are second to none. Furthermore, the Druids :%( *3"( ;",!<( ( =3"( >8$'*$%1( #$?( 3$6"( ;%-13"!( -%( ,$1*( 8,$)"( also picked up crowd favorite Dong Lim in the second round, last year, but I wouldn’t count them out. With Tuttle in goal and whose skills and presence are quite prominent in the sport of captain Honore Hodgson sweeping, the basketball. Spartans’ soccer defense will be an iron :%( *3"( ;",!<( H-*3( *3"-'( 1@))"119@,( stronghold. But aside from that, they draft, the Druids will hopefully be able ,$).( $( 1*$%!&@*( 8,$?"'( &%( *3"( ;",!( $%!( *&( ;",!( $( 9@,,( *"$#F( ( I$1."*5$,,( ,&&.1( court. If the Spartans can rebuild from doubtful, but the Druids appear to be last year and work together as a team, 1*'&%C("%&@C3(-%(*3"-'(;",!(18&'*1(*&(1*$?( they could be a real dark horse for the -%(*3"(;C3*F overall championship. Greenwaves In the draft: The reigning Hustlers In the draft: With Tuttle gone, champs, mindful of their virtue and the Hustlers turned to Jordan Stearns. winning smiles, decided to take Casey After a powerful soccer season which H3-*%"?( $1( *3"-'( ;'1*( 8-).F( ( >*"$!9$1*( Mr. Neal Ms. Berggren netted him a few sick goals, Stearns and consistent, Casey proved himself is ready to strike again. With a steady #@,*-8,"(*-#"1(&%(*3"(;",!(&9(5$**,"($%!( presence and good vision of the basketball court, Stearns looks to has emerged as a true dark horse. As a solid team player, Casey be a solid foundation for years to come. will certainly bolster the Greenwaves in every sport. Second pick :%(*3"(;",!<(=3"'"41(%&(*7&(7$?1($5&@*(-*(+(*3"(A@1*,"'1(%""!( J-%)"%*(K""1"(-1($,1&("08")*"!(*&(#$."($(1*'&%C(13&7-%C(7-*3(3-1( people. With the Russells and alumni presence of last year a 8&1-*-6"($**-*@!"($%!("08,&1-6"(*3@#&1F big question mark and truancy problems all around, there’s no :%(*3"(;",!<(H-*3(*3"(,&11(&9(*3"(%@#"'&@1(9'"13#"%(73&(3",8"!( question that they need participation if they’re to be any presence. win last year’s championship, it’s uncertain as to whether the They’ll have a powerful handball team with Luke Wakeen in goal, Greenwaves can repeat their victory. They still remain favorites but their other sports still lie in doubt. However, with a strong in handball, and with soccer and basketball anchored respectively freshmen presence, the Hustlers could be very formidable. by veterans Chris Krueger and Jerry Januszewski, the Greenwaves don’t have many glaring weaknesses. Arguments can be made Guardians In the draft: The Guardians decided to trade away "-*3"'(7$?($1(*&(73"'"(*3"(H$6"1(7-,,($)*@$,,?(;%-132(5@*(%&(&%"( hopes of a dynasty for a oneshot season at the championship. can deny that they are a forced to be reckoned with. B9*"'(,&1-%C(*3"-'(1")&%!(8-).($%!(!'$9*-%C(1")&%!(?"$'(DE(B,"0( Schmid, they could be hard strapped for players in a couple years. So, there you have it. Of course, these predictions are something On the other hand, Schmid is an allstar player: whether handling of a crapshoot anyways, since it’s really the newcomers that make in frisbee or playing forward on the court, Schmid is a constant or break the championship. That is to say: Freshmen, you have threat. He’ll bolster an already impressive basketball team and the power to decide your team’s fate. So come out; you might might actually help the Guardians win a Reason Ball game. 1@'8'-1"(?&@'1",9F((=3$*41($,,(9&'(%&7F((>""(?&@(&%(*3"(5$**,";",!L
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s many of you freshmen, and certain ly all of the upperclassmen, know, croquet is kind of a big deal here at St. John’s. As our (literally) immortal ath letic director, Mr. Leo Pickens, said, “We are to croquet as John Wooden and UCLA are to men’s basketball.” Since I know most of you didn’t come here because you know sports trivia, I’ll spell out the anal ogy: we’re really good. You might ask, “How do I join this Former Imperial Wicket Blake Myers en joys the taste of victory with Andrew Peak elite group of superior athletes and gentle men?” and the answer is quite simple: play at the annual JohnnieMidshipmen Croquet a lot of croquet. There are no tryouts, but Tournament. photo by Roger Robertson, Jr. if you play enough croquet and get good enough then the Imperial Wicket (captain to really get the feel of the game. It is not of the croquet team) will pick you to be an inconvenience at all to teach people, on the team, much like Leonidas did with because the more people we have playing his 300 Spartans. [Editor’s Note: make croquet, the better our team will be. sure I’m not confusing Herodotus with In years past, freshmen have started 300.] It’s that simple; you spend enough playing in the fall shortly after school starts time playing an awesome lawn game, and and continue to play throughout their stay you will get to play that lawn game for here at St. John’s, but in the last two years your personal glory and the glory of your a disturbing pattern has emerged. In my school. freshman year, no one seriously played Despite the simplicity of the situation, I croquet until late in the spring and last can’t tell you how year; there were many people have freshman at All you have to do is go down no told me they want all that showed to the front lawn when some interest in play to play croquet, but for some rea ing. This short people are playing croquet son, can’t. It of age of upcoming and ask them to help you get players means ten comes down to people saying one thing: if you started... that they don’t really want to, feel comfortable you have a very playing croquet while the team is there, good chance of getting on the team this but let me assure you, we want you to year. play croquet. All you have to do is go For you upperclassmen who still down to the front lawn when some people haven’t joined, you still can get on the are playing croquet and ask them to help team and play. For the sophomores who you get started, and unless you’re unlucky had such a disappointing turnout last year, enough to have asked Eric Shlifer, they’ll this is your chance; I didn’t start playing help you set up and get started. Or, if you seriously until my sophomore year. And !"#$$%&'#()&)*&$"#!(+&,(-&.*/"*("&*(&)0"& for the freshmen, this is your chance to croquet team (and don’t say you don’t quickly join and excel at the greatest of know anyone on the team, I am on it, so St. John’s traditions. Because after all, we send me an email if you want to play) are not the St. John’s of basketball fame, and have them play a full game with you we are the St. John’s of croquet fame.
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reshmen: Hey, hello, welcome, etc. A new beginning is a thrilling thing. Savor, cherish—be immersed. No matter where you’re coming from, the place you’ve arrived is unlike it. As a freshman I would have been annoyed and mildly offended to be told that St. John’s would help me realize what aspects of myself I wanted to shed. But that is what I want to say to you. People say this all the time—about St. John’s and about college generally—but they usually put it a different way: St. John’s college will change you. This is true, but it’s a cliché, and the deceptive thing about clichés is that you are so sure you know what they mean that you don’t pay all that much attention to what they are saying. If St. John’s is going to change you, and that’s supposed to be a good thing, then there must be something defective about you—something that ought to be changed. But this is not quite what I mean. I do not mean that you are stupid and St. John’s will make you smarter, that you are lazy and St. John’s will make you work harder, that you are vicious and St. John’s will make you virtuous. I mean that you are a human being with qualities, opinions, and habits. And if you not only attend St. John’s, but immerse yourself in it, you are likely to gain a fuller understanding of what those are and which ones you’d like to keep and which you’d like to leave behind. Why? I think St. John’s demands this selfexamination and selfconscious metamorphosis both because of the way in which it is a general thing and the way in which it is a thing unique. Whether you’re coming from high school or another college or somewhere else, coming to a new school is a fundamental paradigm shift. New people, new setting, new experiences. You will make a million tiny choices, each boiling down to: adapt or abide; change or remain. In the classroom, the Program will demand that you confront your prejudices and preconceptions. You will change and you will not. The person you will become is important, but more important is how the changes you undergo will reveal to you what it is that %*:&'#()&)*&.)#%&)0"&.#/";&<(&)=/".&*>&?:@& =)&A#(&1"&-=>,A:$)&)*&B""C&#(%)0=(D&.)"#-%+& from what you think to whom you love. Consider this new beginning a step toward fully knowing what it is about yourself you want to persist, what makes up the core of you. Hold on to that. And be excited to see what becomes of the rest of you.
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ne of the great things about the Annapolis campus of St. John’s is that it’s situated right in the heart of the downtown area. This gives us access to some truly delicious—though often depressingly expensive—places to eat and drink. Each restaurant !"#$ %&&'$ (")&*$ %"#&*$ +'$ ,-&$ +.)$ +/$ ,-&$ !&0")+1%#$ 2+()!3$ +/$ #"4(5,4&$)+$)!&$6+*#7$89!56!$%+'&#$2("::&*$5'$"$*+.%;&$/+;*7<$=&(&$ "(&$"$/&2$+/$)!&$1+#)$:+:.;"($>+!''5&$&")&(5&#7$?@AB$CDEFG$+(H$"#$ the juniors and seniors say: bon appétit!
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A tutor for over 30 years, former Freshman Chorus leader, and a native Marylander with a passion for history and architecture shares his thoughts with @&(#A!3>56 How did you come to be a tutor? most egregiously leaving out the I came here as a tutor in fall 1979, very center of the poem, Books VI having taught medieval and early and VII, which tell of the Battle of modern philosophy, ethics and aes Heaven (Milton’s Iliad) and the Cre thetics full time for six years at what ation. This is tantamount to leaving is now Loyola University of Mary out the principal battle books from land, and during two of those years the Iliad, or Odysseus’ journey to the also teaching a philosophy class each Underworld from the Odyssey. term at Goucher College. I greatly enjoyed my classes and my students What is your least favorite semi !"# $%"&# %'# "&()(# *+(# ),&%%-).# $/"# 0# nar book? found that for someone like me who My least favorite book in the pro tends to ask questions more broadly gram is George Eliot’s Middle than the conventions of departmen march;# 0# *+3# 2")# +!11!"28(# 8%2,(# "%# tal disciplinarity permit, I was per be condescending and intrusive, and ceived as trespassing regularly on I cordially dislike Dorothea Brooke, the turf of the art department or the Casaubon, Tertius Lydgate, Rosa music department or the lit depart mond, etc. This is not meant to be ment, etc.. Then a colleague of mine sensational but merely honest; my at Loyola told me that he had no family told me that to evade this ticed that St. John’s had openings for question would be as “wussy” as new tutors, so I applied; I’ve been President Obama. here ever since and have never looked back. Also new that year were Ms. Higuera, Mr. Tuck, and Mr. Lenkowski, a great group What is your favorite nonprogram book? of colleagues. My favorite nonprogram work is Boethius’ Consolation of Phi losophy, a book set like Plato’s Crito in prison, calling upon phi What classes are you teaching this year? -%)%9&5.#9(1)%+2*(3#&(1(#!)#!#$(!/"2'/-#<%4!+.#"%#,%4'%1"#!#4!+# I am leading three freshman classes: language, laboratory, and unjustly condemned to death. I used always to read this with the seminar, the last with Ms Silver. philosophical survey classes I taught at Loyola and Goucher. Ra belais’ Gargantua used to be in the program but has been dropped, What was the biggest adventure you’ve ever had? perhaps to appease the prudish; many of us would like to see it My biggest recent adventure was climbing the scaffolding of the restored. Maryland State House all the way up to the golden acorn holding a Franklin lightning rod at its apex (181 dizzying feet above Annap What is your biggest pet peeve (that students do) in class? olis). I’m a native Marylander with a passion for American history My biggest frustration is students who are not engaged with the and architecture, and was invited to make this ascent by a friend work that we are doing, whether it is benchwork in the laboratory, who is a conservator consultant on the dome restoration project. discussion in all our classes, or singing in chorus. To stand apart purposely is to discourage the common endeavor and to miss the What is the single most important piece of advice you would %99%1"/+2"5# %'# !# -2'("24(6# =7-)%# "&%)(# <&%# )+/'>(# "&1%/?&# ,-!))# like to give to freshmen (or upperclassmen)? and never bring a handkerchief.) Strive for balance and consistency in all things here; studies, phys ical exercise/sport, and extracurricular activities. Do not neglect What is your favorite St. John’s tradition? the people and things you most love, especially your longtime My favorite tradition is the relatively new one of closing the Se '12(+3)# !+3# '!42-5.# !+3# 4/)2,# !+3# !1"6#7+3# +(8(1# )/$42"# !# *1)"# nior Dinner with singing some pieces that all freshmen learn: Sicut 31!'"#!)#!#*+!-#9!9(1: cervus, Mozart’s Ave verum and Gluck’s Chorus of Furies. What is your favorite seminar book? My favorite book, period, is John Milton’s Paradise Lost, cer tainly the greatest epic in the English language and possibly any language. Despite this, here at Saint John’s we do ourselves and this great work an enormous disservice in reading it only in part,
What is your favorite class to be a tutor for? Freshman Chorus; it is where the freshmen truly become a class through the mysterious communion effected by singing together. There is no other college, not even any musical conservatory, that does anything like this with all of its students.
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Berry Good Advice with Tommy Berry Junior Santa Fe transfer and advice columnist gives his advice on any of life’s many problems. Send your maladies, predicaments, or conundrums to: thomas_berry@earthlink.net Dear Tommy, We are two roommates who normally get along quite well, but lately we’ve been having a dispute, and we decided to let you settle it. Through a long and complicated series of events, we have come into the possession of a foosball table. The problem is, we can’t decide which side of the room to put it in. One of us had to do a lot of bad things to get this foosball table, and feels like he deserves to have it, but his side of the room is already crowded, and his roommate feels like it would be more practical for everybody if the table was put in his own, larger space. Can you settle this? Sincerely, 2 Guys, 1 Table ! Dear 2 Guys, Let me tell you a story about a situation very much like yours. There were once "#$%#$&'(%)*+",(*%$-'.%"+'%/$00'00,$(% of a baby, and these women came to a king named Solomon and asked what they should do. He replied that the only fair thing to do would be to cut the baby in half. Now, I don’t know if you’re familiar with the phrase “wisdom of Solomon,” but he was a pretty smart dude. Solomon was trying to teach all of us a lesson, one that applies even today: Chop that sucker in half. It’s the only possibly fair solution. Everything else would be idiotic. Half a baby is still /.'""1% 23"'% 4'0/'2,5661% ,(% /.$)6'7% 5(8% half a foosball table is perfect for hours of playingwithyourselfinyourown halfoftheroom enjoyment.
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Dear Tommy, I’ve been feeling horrible lately. Nothing in my life is going right. I’d give you the details, but what could you do to help? You’re just a pathetic, wannabe advice columnist who’ll never make it big. You disgust me. Sincerely, Yourself, Tommy Berry ! Dear Me, Uh oh, looks like someone wrote himself an email while he had a case of The Saddies. Now, what did I tell myself about mixing “Computer Time” and “Crying Time?” Never a good idea. My advice to me is keep that rage less public; "+5"% #519% '-'.1$('% "+,(:0% 1$3;.'% )('< Dear Tommy, Lately I’ve gotten into the bad habit of showing up late to everything. Late to class, late to events, late to study groups. Do you have any tips or tricks for how I can be more punctual? Sincerely, JohnnyComeLately ! Dear Lately, Time is a funny thing. I recently came to the realization that it’s completely irrelevant what time it is now, what matters is what time it will be when I arrive where I’m going. If I’m in my dorm room and it takes 2.5 minutes to walk to class, I set my watch 2.5 minutes ahead. But the problem is that sometimes I’m going to the creek, and then I have to set my watch 6 minutes ahead, or maybe I’m taking the bus to the mall and I have to set it 20 minutes ahead. I thought I had found a solution to this problem when a kindly old gypsy woman offered to enchant my watch so it always showed exactly when I’m going to reach where I’m going. But wouldn’t you know it, there’s a typical gypsywoman twist, and now my watch is forever frozen in place on the exact moment when I’m going to die, which frankly creeps the Bejeesus out of me, and I rarely wear it anymore. So I would, as a rule, say you should avoid buying gypsy timepieces.
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ne of the themes common to many of the works in “Art Of Our Time,” the Mitchell Gallery’s current exhibit, is transition: transition in epoch and style through struggle from old to new. Two portraits, together straddling a corner of the gallery, immediately caught my eye as examples of this theme. I 6$$:'8% ).0"% 5"% =>$.".5,"% $?% 5% @581A% B1% Frank Duvenek, because of its coldness. The subject, a woman, is dressed in once stylish clothing that, even in the context of the painting, seems outmoded, dark, and drained of vitality. The woman’s skin and countenance that appear most drained; her C'0+%,0%/50"1%#+,"'%45/5."%?.$&%"#$%0/650+'0% $?%,.$(,25661%B.,*+"%/,(:%,(%+'.%2+'':079%5(8% while her features are beautifully detailed, "+'1%5.'%560$%C5"%5(8%8'-$,8%$?%8'/"+<%D+'% painting also seems devoid of anything organic; her eyes lack any glint of clarity, and the background is a hideous shade of green, without robustness or detail. And because the background is so shallow and dim, we are not drawn into the painting; instead we are feel a certain shallowness; our eyes stop immediately at the surface. In contrast, the second portrait represents ascending vitality: it is “Gregorita With The Santa Clara Bowl,” by artist Robert Henri. Immediately, one is struck by the work’s richness and honesty. The girl sits for a portrait, but there is much more at which to wonder. A brief conversation with the artistic director, Lucinda Edinberg, revealed to me that Henri’s use of the Native American subject was a very new, very bold artistic move. Before Henri’s time, Native Americans were deemed 3()"% 03BE'2"0% ?$.% "+'% 0"16'% $?% F3.$/'5(% portraiture. But when he chose to paint this portrait, Henri breathed new vitality into the genre. Instead of the jaded, impersonal gaze of the bourgeoisie, we experience the innocence and freshness of the subject. There is no shallowness to “Gregorita.” Everything is whole and round, and the pallet is rich in its golden earthiness. With Henri we are drawn to honesty, warmth, 5(8%652:%$?%03/'.)2,56,"1< For me, these two works represent both a coming to pass and a birthing. In one, "+'.'% ,0% "+'% 8'26,('% $?% 03/'.)2,56,"1G% ,(% the other, the unexplored richness of the “New World”. Both artists fully explore their subjects; old forms feel the chill of dusk, and new forms feel the warmth and pregnancy of day.
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UPCOMING EVENTS Tuesday (9/6): SJC Orchestra Rehearsal, 4 PM Great Hall Kunai Soccer, 46 PM Back Campus Mental Health Support Group 6:307:30 PM Mellon Hodson Room Dance Lessons, 89 PM Great Hall Wednesday (9/7): Ultimate Frisbee, 4 PM S vs. G W vs. D Back Campus St. John’s Chorus, 7 PM Great Hall Friday (9/9): Kunai Soccer, 46 PM Back Campus Lecture 8:15 PM Prof. Paolo Palmieri on Galileo’s Inclined Plane Experiment FSK Auditorium Saturday (9/10): Ultimate Frisbee, 2 PM D vs. H W vs. G Back Campus Sock Hop Waltz Party, 10 PM Great Hall Sunday (9/11): Soccer H vs. G, 1:30 PM S vs. W, 3:30 PM Mabel the Swimming Wonder Monkey, 8 PM Spector Media Center If you would like to see your event on the weekly schedule, please !"#$%&'#()*+,-.#/!(0
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