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Salute to the New Year
A Salute to the New Year
Michele Tolela Myers
Musical Interlude
Hilda Harris, Music Faculty
Accompaniment: Jean Wentworth, Music Faculty
"Climb Every Mountain" Rogers and Hammerstein
"He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" Margaret Bond
Student Welcome
Tracey Bey '99
Keynote Address "Campus Diversity in a New Key"
Edgar Beckham, Jr., Ford Foundation
Opening the College
Judith Searfini-Sauli, Italian Faculty
A Salute to the New Year
Michele Tolela Myers, President
Sarah Lawrence College
September 1, 1998
Good afternoon and welcome. I am delighted to be the official greeter on our opening day of school. For those of us whose first year at Sarah Lawrence this is, it is a special moment indeed. We have finally begun in earnest what we have long waited for. Speaking for myself, I must ell you I am happy to be here, eager to know all of you, ready to work.
First days are always exciting. They speak of new beginnings and hope. This year, we will get organized, turn in assignments on time, meet publishers' deadlines, make new friends and love our old friends better, and yes we will take advantage of everything Sarah Lawrence has to offer: concerts, plays, dance performances, the sports center, lectures, readings, art shows, field trips, long conversations with dons. We might even get some sleep and eat right or write the novel that will get the attention of the literary community! That's what I love about first days. Everything is still possible.
I am also delighted to welcome on this stage a long time friend, Ed Beckham, whose wisdom and thoughtful leadership I have come to know well and to appreciate. It is fitting that we should concern ourselves with the central issue of building community in a place that values the individual so much and has always nurtured individual differences. It is precisely because we value each person for what he or she is, that we are particularly well prepared to work on issues of diversity and differences. It is not enough simply to bring people to our campus who are different form one another. We must work, play, interact, engage ourselves with one another to appreciate the "other" fully and understand the contributions we each make to the fabric of our collective life. The challenge is enormous because it is all too easy to remain among small groups of friends who generally share our interests and are often more like than different from us.
I challenge us to make the Sarah Lawrence community true to its fundamental value of cherishing the creative spirit in all of us, because it is that creative spirit that will inspire us to create and recreate a community where decency, integrity, and respect for all truly speak of who we are.
Welcome to Sarah Lawrence.
Campus Diversity in a New Key
Edgar F. Beckham
Sarah Lawrence College
September 1, 1998
President Myers, honored guests, greetings.
It is a particular pleasure for me to share this special occasion with you, and for several reasons. First, it's the beginning of the academic year, always a propitious time, full of ambition and prospect, hope and expectation, and just enough apprehension to enhance the excitement. It was always my favorite time at Wesleyan, and I used to delight in exclaiming to the assembled parents of first year students, "Your children are in good hands, their own!" A subdued murmur would ripple through the auditorium as parents realized that I was describing a reality they both wanted and dreaded.
My second reason is that this is my second visit to Sarah Lawrence College and the anticipation of it has brought back fond, though somewhat embarrassing memories of my first, almost a half century ago, when as an entering freshman at Wesleyan I embarked with two classmates on a two-day New York adventure called a "freshman quest." Our fraternity brothers had assigned us a series of silly tasks, including releasing a live chicken from the balcony of Grand Central Station and arranging an early morning game of chug-a-lug with some Sarah Lawrence students, using orange juice of course. Both were significant intercultural experiences. My classmates, both white, had no idea how to find a live chicken in Manhattan. I suggested that we take a subway to Harlem and walk down a few side streets. Since it was Saturday night, we were certain to find live chickens. And we did.
Sarah Lawrence was much more daunting, interculturally, because it involved an encounter with girls. Had I known then that Sarah Lawrence students were women, not girls, it would have been a relief, for women reminded me of my mother, and I was much more comfortable with them than with girls. At any rate, my classmates and I survived both adventures, and I have had pleasant memories of Sarah Lawrence ever since.
The third source of my pleasure has been the opportunity to see my friend and associate Michele Myers, and to wish her well as she undertakes to lead this illustrious college into a bright future. I offer her and Sarah Lawrence my hearty congratulations on having chosen each other.
And finally, my fourth reason gets closer to my theme. For the last eight years I've been directing a grant-making initiative at the Ford Foundation called the Campus Diversity Initiative. We've made grants totaling about $20 million to advance the notion that diversity in higher education should be valued as an educational asset and employed as an educational resource. The initiative is about to close, and I am about to retire, so this convocation provides me with a welcome opportunity to reflect on what the initiative has done, and what that might mean for higher education in this country.
In entitling my talk "Campus Diversity in a New Key," I am leaning deliberately on a book I read many years ago, Suzanne Langer's Philosophy in a New Key, which was first published over fifty years ago. The book startled me, because it was so accessible, so readable, and because as I read it, I began to hear intimations of how philosophers think, how they frame questions and reflect on the relationship between the framings and the modes of thinking on which the framings rest. The book shook me loose from some pre-conceived notions about the nature of reality, and prepared me to be more receptive to newer suggestions that reality was constructed out of complex sets of historical associations and that our knowledge of it (and therefore of ourselves) was necessarily relative to the locations of those constructions in the flux of social time.
I invoke Suzanne Langer and her way of thinking about knowing, to signal my intention to talk about diversity in higher education in a way that is new to me, and may be of some interest to you. I also invoke her as a reminder that just as she presented a new way of looking at old things, I too want to suggest an alternative way of looking at a familiar social phenomenon, for our diversity has been with us for a very long time.
Perhaps the most important accomplishment of the Campus Diversity Initiative has been its influence in transforming "campus diversity" into a new field of practice in higher education. The faculty and administrators who participate in it often call themselves "diversity practitioners," and for them "campus diversity" is more than a desirable condition to be achieved, more than a mere characteristic of a campus. It is a field of action. It is what diversity practitioners do! The Campus Diversity Initiative didn't create this field of practice, but it had a catalytic influence on its growth and on the development of its self-understanding.
But, what is the field? What are its values? With what other fields of interest does it compete for attention and resources? What does it or might it contribute to productive institutional change?
In order to answer these questions, we need to be mindful that as Carol Geary Schneider and Robert Shoenberg have recently observed, "American higher education is in a period of transformative change" that sometimes feels like "a badly organized stampede."
In their discussion paper Contemporary Understandings of Liberal Education, recently published by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Schneider and Shoenberg summarize the somewhat chaotic reexamination of higher education understandings and practices, and attempt to order the chaos in the hope that the process might be made more efficient. They examine barriers to change, such as over-reliance on disciplines and departments, courses and credits, and on the image of the faculty member as the "sage on the stage." They also identify promising new understandings of learning modes and styles that encourage learning that is collaborative, multidisciplinary and integrative, experiential, and intercultural. They attach the greatest significance and the most promise to the shift from what they call an "instructional paradigm" to a "learning paradigm," from defining educational effectiveness primarily in terms of instructional inputs to defining it more in terms of learning outcomes.
The important point is that they are seeking reform in higher education that will lead to better education. They want quality. They want excellence. Their arguments represent what I have come to call the "quality forum" within the higher education community.
Most often, the quality forum views itself in competition with the diversity forum. They compete for resources, for attention, even for language. They present themselves as having different goals and intentions that may be incompatible. How often have we heard advocates of quality suggest that diversity will erode quality? Our problem is that we can easily talk about quality without talking about diversity. And of course we can focus on diversity, on who the learners are and where they come from, without attending to what and how they learn. Neither approach makes much sense, since they separate means from ends, the reality of our social situation from our abstract objectives.
Fortunately, the quality forum and the diversity forum have begun to talk to each other and to perceive overlapping interests. For example, Schneider and Shoenberg associate diversity with the achievement of specific learning goals, such as self-understanding and the ability "to move productively among diverse subjects, contexts, communities, cultures, and nations."
I want to emphasize further the similarities, indeed the mutualities of these two forums within the movement for higher education reform, and suggest that an alliance between them is long overdue.
First of all, let's be clear that advocacy for campus diversity is also advocacy for academic change, and that the promotion of campus diversity aims precisely at change that is related to educational effectiveness, to quality, to the achievement of excellence.
Second, the implications of both of these inflections of educational reform ramify into every domain of institutional life. That may explain why they sometimes make each other anxious. Keep in mind that even advocates for change fear change, especially change authored by others. If I haven't bought into your use of language completely, I may fear that the change to which you aspire may be inimical to my needs and interests. So I try to persuade you to use my language, which generates anxiety in you. Because the change we both want is comprehensive, because it affects mission, governance, financing, the distribution of resources, personnel decisions, all our systems and structures, it creates barriers to the collaboration that could help us achieve our shared goals. That's more than an irony. It has the makings of a tragedy.
A third similarity between the two forums is that there are multiple motivations and intentions associated with their advocacy. Schneider and Shoenberg list the following: public questioning of institutional priorities, the financing of education, the advent of information technology, the shift from a teaching to a learning paradigm, increasing engagement with the local and global community, competition from the for-profit sector, and reconsideration of tenure. Diversity advocates have their own set: social justice, demographics, the work force, marketing, and diversity considerations related to building and sustaining a democratic society.
One of the problems with diversity as a focus of attention in higher education is that it tends to represent these several motivations and intentions in isolation from each other. Those who are in pursuit of social justice call attention to the oppressions and exclusions of the past, to the need for redress, especially as it relates to access.
Demographers tell us that the composition and complexion of the workforce is changing and that we need to reflect the changes in our patterns of education and training in order to keep our workforce globally competitive. They also tell us that the market in which we purvey our educational services is changing, and that our institutions need to make themselves attractive to new constituencies if they are to thrive. High school students today want diversity in their prospective colleges because they sense that engagement of diversity, learning to deal with it more effectively, is good for them. So even the most selective institutions need to pay attention to diversity in order to keep their competitive edge.
As for the connection between diversity and democracy, I would suggest that they have always gone hand in hand, albeit sometimes uneasily, and that a hallmark of American higher education's evolution has been its response to the growing diversity of the country.
According to historian Jürgen Herbst, it all started with a "culture war" among Protestants in the seventeenth century over which denomination would control Harvard College. The Congregationalists wanted to protect their cultural hegemony against incursions by other Protestant groups, and opposed receiving a charter for Harvard from the King of England because it might permit Anglicans and Baptists to gain ex officio seats on the governing board.
Higher education's engagement of diversity has had many manifestations since then, including the proliferation of sectarian institutions, the education of women both in single-sex and coeducational settings, the development of a dual system of education for blacks and whites in the South, and the establishment of tribal colleges. The engagement of diversity has also included the creation of land-grant colleges and universities, which, according to the original legislation in the nineteenth century, were established to provide educational opportunity not merely for meritorious individuals, but for "the industrial classes."
Certainly it included the founding of the City College of New York in 1847 for the purpose of educating "the children of the whole people." The whole people was of course being redefined at that time to include the waves of immigrants from Europe. It also included the founding of Antioch College 145 years ago, the first college to admit women on an equal footing with men, and one of the first historically white institutions to admit African Americans. And we should not forget the GI Bill and the development of community colleges after the Second World War, which opened educational opportunity to students from much more diverse backgrounds.
It is clear that these manifestations of diversity in our colleges and universities have involved mixed motivations, some honorable, some based on ignoble prejudice. But in every case, the developments have given Americans greater access to higher education.
I would maintain that when the story of this engagement is fully told, it will be seen as a success story, and that it will show us how profoundly the engagement of diversity has influenced educational reform.
The importance of the linkage between diversity and democracy was brought home to me most powerfully at the first in a series of international seminars on campus diversity sponsored by the Ford Foundation in India early in 1997. There were participants from India, South Africa, and the United States. What became clear during three days of intensive discussion of diversity issues in higher education in the respective countries was that the notion of diversity was transformed when it was embedded in a democratic context. Outside the context, it seemed to mean merely difference. But located in the context of democracy, diversity aspired to the twin realizations of difference and unity. The whole point was to use diversity to achieve unity.
These multiple strands of diversity concerns - social justice, democracy, the future workforce, and the marketing of higher education - are an obvious challenge.
The adherents to each of these strands critiques the academy for its shortcomings, its failure to redress the wrongful exclusions of both people and subject matter, its failure to prepare a workforce adequate to the needs of the global economy, its failure to prepare students for effective participation in a pluralist democracy, and indeed its failure to perceive its own vested interest in understanding the diverse markets in which it must sell its own services. But fortunately, the campus diversity movement has begun to make some progress in bringing these strands together. First, there is growing consensus regarding the list of motivations and intentions associated with the work of diversity, and a determination to avoid the trap of making binary choices among them or arraying them hierarchically. They are all included and they are all important. Second, the movement has endorsed the linkage between diversity and democracy, seeing in it a way to persuade potential allies that the pursuit of diversity empowers everyone, that it is not a zero-sum game.
Third, the diversity movement has discovered its external public, the members of the non-academic community that have an interest in higher education and a need to understand how colleges and universities are serving the interests of the larger society. This discovery has enormous potential, primarily because it is motivating the proponents of campus diversity to find a common language that the public is prepared to understand.
But perhaps the most promising achievement of these diversity practitioners has been their discovery of the educational value of diversity. If I had to attempt a definition of campus diversity as a movement within American higher education at this juncture, I would use the words I've already spoken, emphasizing the utilization of diversity as an educational resource. Campus diversity as a practice promotes education by giving us new learners, new things to learn, and new ways of knowing. It also enhances the learning environment for the learners who have traditionally been there, enriches our understanding of traditional subject matter, and extends the range of our traditional modes of inquiry. Shakespeare is not abandoned in favor of Toni Morrison. Indeed, the advent of Toni Morrison creates a new pathway to Shakespeare. Diversity practitioners are discovering that the educational value of diversity provides the common link to all its other intentions.
Does this suggest a commonality between the two fragmented forums under discussion, the one in pursuit of quality, the other in pursuit of diversity? I think it does. First, in the formulations with which I'm comfortable, diversity doesn't just produce quality, it means quality. And quality without diversity has no social meaning.
But where's the hook? How can we bring these two vital interests of higher education together? I think it's through students, that is, through our careful identification of who our students are.
In most cases, diversity practitioners, whether their ultimate aim is to right past wrongs or prepare for a projected future, begin with students, just as do those who advocate academic change in pursuit of academic excellence.
But there's a difference. Educational reformers tend to define students in terms of function, that is, as learners; whereas diversity practitioners are more likely to define them in historical terms, that is, in terms of the dimensions of their personal identity, those characteristics of person, character, and culture that simultaneously distinguish them from others and that they share with others. These characteristics include all the dimensions of diversity that we usually talk about: gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, and the like.
The advocates of excellence may suggest that whoever our students are, they are all learners, so we can begin with that common identity and define them all in terms of it. Diversity practitioners, on the other hand, are likely to suggest that whoever our students are, who they are makes a difference to what they learn, how they learn it, and also to the learning environment in which they are immersed. So we cannot begin with the commonality of function, for if we do, we are likely to construct it in terms that are not responsive to the reality of our students, but rather to imported and imposed norms that probably fit some of our students much better than others. Isn't it ironic that the diversity advocates learned this from the quality forum?
Let me say at this point that while I think there is a real difference in starting points between the two forums, I also think that the gap is eminently bridgeable, and that we need to bridge it for two reasons. First, we'll end up thinking smarter about education and its goals. Second, we'll create a stronger collaboration, better equipped intellectually and politically, to influence academic change.
Let me conclude with a final reminder that campus diversity is what diversity practitioners do. It is action, action designed to achieve better educational outcomes for all students. It operates in recruitment of students from groups previously disadvantaged. It pays attention to retention and campus climate. It is concerned about the curriculum and pedagogy and who the teachers are, and it wants to integrate all these concerns into a new understanding of institutional mission.
Diversity practitioners in higher education seek to deploy and manage diversity as a resource that will enhance teaching and learning for all. That makes all of you here –students, faculty, administrators and staff– potential diversity practitioners. You are, after all, your diversity. Welcome to the practice.
Opening of the College
Judith Serafini-Sauli
Sarah Lawrence College
September 1, 1998
At convocation we "call together" our community to begin a new year, so convocation is about beginnings. As it turns out, at Sarah Lawrence we have only beginnings, because in May we end the year with a ceremony called Commencement.
To begin this year, I wanted to share with you an old text I found about beginnings - the mother of beginnings, you might say.
In the beginning God created the heaven and earth. And the earth was without form, and void - so she created Sarah Lawrence, which was also without form... but certainly not void. And God said, let there be light: and there was light... and even some heat, but irregularly - and virtually no air conditioning.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness she called Night. Alternatively, they could have been called A week and B week, but that would just confuse matters and create order out of Chaos. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters - and conferences every other week...or maybe every week, or once a month, or...what exactly is a conference anyway? And let them be for 45 minutes, or 30 minutes, or a quick phone call, or a lifeline for all your days. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And on the dry land appeared a Sports Center, with water in it; and a new Pub, a science building, and flowers, and gardens, and occasional works of art that were often inscrutable. And the evening and the morning were the third day.
And God said, Let the lights of the firmament be for signs, and for seasons and for days, and years. And while they're at it, let them mark Titsworth from Dudley Lawrence, with arrows and images - and let them be called signage, so we can finally figure out where we are going around here!
And God also said, said she, Let there be registration. And let it be an incomprehensible process, with all the creatures of the earth scampering around trying to have serious conversations and make deep impressions, creating such a stir that it will take the invention of a computer to straighten it all out. And God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day...followed by alternate registration.
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life... and she raised the tuition to meet expenses. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind; and it was so; and God saw that it was good, except there wasn't enough housing for everybody, so they rented apartments.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness... all the while respecting a certain unique individuality. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And then created gender studies, and saw that it was good.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply - using the proper precautions - and replenish the earth, and subdue it - without being oppressive imperialists - and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth... but honor vegetarians and animal rights movements. And God saw every thing that she had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Thus the heavens and the earth and Sarah Lawrence were finished, and all the host of them. And God said, Behold, I have given you a special place to grow and flourish, and you should follow my example... be creative!
And on the seventh day God ended his work which she had made, and in a state of total exhaustion gave the job to someone with more energy - Michele Myers. So welcome to Michele Tolela Myers, the 9th president of Sarah Lawrence College. And welcome to all who are joining our special place for the first time, and all who are returning. Let us begin a new set of miracles and a new year.


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The Original Maternity Countdown Tee
The perfect countdown to your new arrival! I designed and created the Maternity Countdown Tee shirt when I was pregnant with my second little boy in 2010. Every couple weeks I took photos documenting the growing baby bump and watched the progress as we got closer to meeting him!
This grey and white striped American Apparel tunic is soft and stretchy. They are long enough to fit comfortably throughout pregnancy and cover that belly to the end. I recommend to order one size up from your pre-pregnancy size and it will grow with you. See size chart.
The shirt also comes complete with a red fabric pen for crossing off those weeks as they fly by.
Congratulations and good luck!!
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Things You Learn from Your E-mail
I have scoured the wires, checked the show rundowns, inquired at the Newscast desk, and queried my friends in Digital Media, but I'm sorry to say, there is a news story that has slipped through the cracks. Somehow, these normally reliable newshounds have missed the fact that Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns today appointed Stephen M. Gemperle of Turlock, Calif., to fill a vacancy on the American Egg Board. Gemperle will represent the western states on the board. That's according to a press release that showed up in my e-mail today.
The egg board describes itself as the U.S. egg producer's link to the consumer in communicating the value of the incredible egg.
This exciting development reminded me of a similar message I received last week informing me that Lawrence A. Kern of Irwindale, Calif., and Ronald G. McCormick of Bentonville, Ark., had been appointed to the National Mango Board. Did you know that, according to statistics compiled by the board, Americans on average eat 2.2 pounds of fresh mango per person per year?
Don't think I'm complaining, but my inbox fills up with some strange items. How about yours?
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Also I think his TS was quite good, something like 82 would be fair IMO. But in case anyone agrees with that I think his ACC could come down a point or two. He had quite a few kilos to put into motion.
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Diverse Standouts Emerge From Strong New Directors/New Films Selections
by Howard Feinstein
The 33rd edition of New Directors/New Films, MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center's series that runs today through April 4, offers the finest selections in recent years. Especially not to be missed are a feature from Armenia and a short from Peru -- and these are just two of the standouts. The short is called "Porter" (I prefer the Spanish title, which translates to "Only a Porter"), and it's directed by New York-based Peruvian director Juan Alejandro Ramirez. (It plays with "Kounandi," a nice feature about village jealousy from Burkina Faso.) "Porter" feels like a documentary: A peasant, Chuqui Orozco, who makes his meager living carrying gringos' gear up and down the Andes mountains, tells us in voiceover his observations of those around him of higher rank in such a stratified society, as well as his acceptance of his lowly place in the hierarchy. Ramirez says he was inspired by stories he was told in southern Peru, but for greater veracity, he consolidates them and stages the shoot.
Hiner Saleem is a refugee from Iraqi Kurdistan, now living in France, who shot "Vodka Lemon" in Armenia. Not surprisingly, his protagonist is a Kurd, Hamo, a poor widower living in a snowy village. Two of his sons have moved away in an attempt to further their fortunes; only his drunken son Dilovan and his beloved granddaughter remain. During his daily visits to the cemetery where his wife is buried, Hamo meets, and begins an affair with, an even poorer widow, Nina. Hamo shleps into town to sell old wardrobes and his tv, while Nina sells a drink called vodka lemon in a roadside kiosk. An economic cloud hangs over the entire film, but Saleem's deft use of magical realism -- a bed and a piano glide along the icy road, horses fly through the frame -- adds an enchanting edge.
Three of the finest films have at their center fully-realized females. In fact, two of them are directed by women. Sabiha Sumar, a Pakistani filmmaker residing in Germany, sets her brilliant "Silent Waters" in the Pakistani Punjab in 1979, just as a nation under martial law is on the verge of becoming an Islamic state. Ayesha is a Muslim widow in the village of Charkhi who scrapes by on her husband's pension and earnings from teaching the Koran to young girls. Her 18-year-old son, Saleem, is a nice, well-behaved boy and the apple of her eye. Once he gets involved with some Muslim fundamentalists, however, he rejects his girlfriend and even turns away from his uncomprehending mother. We realize after occasional striking flashbacks that she had suffered somehow during the nasty 1947 partition that carved up India into Muslim-dominated Pakistan and predominantly Hindu India. At the time of the fighting, Sikhs and Muslims were forcing their single women to kill themselves to protect family honor, and those that got away were abducted. When Sikh pilgrims come to Charkhi for their annual pilgrimage, Ayesha's secret surfaces, with tragic consequences.
Given the general state of moviemaking in Western Europe, the Swiss film "Strong Shoulders" by the female director Ursula Meier is a revelation. Although it is formally cinematic, it was, surprisingly, made for television. Meier focuses on Sabine, a 15-year-old obsessive, ambitious runner who attends a special school for athletes. They are preparing for a major track-and-field meet. She does not get along with her coach, because he frustrates her desire to run with the boys. She has no qualms about using anyone, her girlfriends or a young runner named Rudi, to further her ambitions; she is left almost totally alone. Her self-absorption is so extreme that her action at the eagerly awaited event is so unexpected that you are left breathless.
In the Chilean film "B-Happy," 14-year-old Manuela becomes increasingly isolated. Director Gonzalo Justiniano emphasizes the point by surrounding every scene with a slow fade to black, a device that lovingly softens her youthful existential dilemma. That her ne'er-do-well father is in prison makes her the black sheep at her provincial school; only one handsome newcomer shows her any affection, and even that leads to a one-afternoon stand. Her mother dies. Her closeted brother leaves town. She goes to work for the same abusive grocer for whom her mom had worked. It's all too much, and she flees to the city, where she searches for her father and, out of money, becomes a streetwalker.
Some of the most astounding movies take place in the world's flashpoints. Jehane Noujaim's haunting documentary "Control Room," which deals with American control of the media during the invasion of Iraq and offers an inside look at the Arab TV broadcaster Al-Jazeera, has been written about extensively out of Sundance. The others are "Fuse," a fiction film from Bosnia, and "Checkpoint," an Israeli doc.
In "Fuse," director Pjer Zalica concocts a fluid political satire that captures the dark humor and sarcasm that is endemic in the Balkans. It's a given that the postwar mixture of Serbs, Muslims, and Croats is not going smoothly. In the film's Muslim town of Tesanj, the mayor calls for a major overhaul: Bill Clinton will be visiting. Not only does the town leader push what is mostly a fake rapprochement with a neighboring Serb town ("I need Serbs!"), but he also calls for an end to corruption. Smugglers and pimps must hide their wares, or at least turn them into something more palatable. Zalica foregrounds an elderly, deranged, retired police chief, one of whose sons died in the war, and another of his sons, a fireman. When the motorcade arrives, it is the old man who has the last word.
"Checkpoint," on the other hand, eschews humor. Filmmaker Yoav Shamir, a former Israeli soldier, shoots Israelis on duty at a variety of checkpoints in the Occupied Territories, both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. He also films the Palestinians who are at their mercy. Shamir's access is unbelievable. You see that most of the combatants are very young and very, very bored. Out of ennui, hubris, and racism-this is all in the film-you see them wield their power over the hapless travelers like a sword. "Let them wait," says one soldier. People, cars, and trucks often wait for hours, even in the rain and snow, just to get to their home cities or villages. One young man at the Kalandia-Ramallah main entrance tells Shamir, "All of Ramallah are animals: monkeys, dogs. We are human." Whether these checkpoints serve much of a purpose is arguable. As one waiting Palestinian says on camera, "Terrorists don't come through the roadblocks."


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Oakdale's T.L. Davis Sports Complex was full of nearly 2,000 baseball and softball supporters for the inaugural Oakdale Baseball Softball Association (OBSA) Opening Day ceremonies on Saturday, March 19.
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In their only match of the week the Oakdale varsity Lady Mustangs dismissed visiting Franklin 7-1 on the soccer field. Oakdale used a big offensive first half to pull away from the Yellowjackets. Oakdale (7-2-2) scored five first half goals in the contest.
Wind has to be one of my least favorite conditions to fish in. It's the one environmental factor that often eliminates over half of my tackle box before I even get on the water. Casting and boat positioning seem to be the two greatest challenges when trying to fish in the wind. With the wind to my back, casting is usually not a problem. Facing, or fishing into the wind is another story. The strength of the wind can often create major problems if approached head on with lighter baits. Adding a little weight to your bait, or selecting ...
Thursday, April 7 boys youth basketball tryouts will be held at Oakdale High School's main gym. Oakdale youngsters in fifth and sixth grades are invited to try out for the AAU team. Tryouts will be held from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. For more information contact Drew Kraude via email at email@example.com.
The Oakdale Mustang tennis team remains in the playoff hunt following their 6-3 win over visiting Weston Ranch. Oakdale's match took place under the sun on Friday, March 18 at OHS where the team's doubles came through in the clutch, winning all three matches to help power Oakdale to victory.
In their only game of the week, the Oakdale Lady Mustangs softball squad looked in midseason form in their league opener. Oakdale welcomed Kimball to town on Thursday, March 17 and host Oakdale dominated the Lady Jaguars 15-0 in Valley Oak League (VOL) action.
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As the varsity baseball boys gear up for Valley Oak League (VOL) play beginning Wednesday, the team hit the road for a pair of non-conference games this past week. Oakdale improved to 3-2 on the road this spring following the successful road trip, earning victories over Bear Creek and Gregori.
Nearly 25 Oakdale High School seniors took on a dozen OHS staff members in a mostly friendly game of basketball in the Mustang Arena on March 9. Fans, friends, and family members packed the gym on Wednesday evening to cheer on the participants in the annual Staff vs. Seniors basketball game, where the final scoreboard indicated a 70-70 tie. That was following some tampering by the seniors, however, as the real score was determined to be 70-44 with the staff coming out on top.
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Sixteen teams showed up for the 2016 Oakdale Cup tournament, hosted Monday, March 7 at Oakdale Golf and Country Club. Oakdale's boys golf team finished with a total score of 416 and placed third behind Buhach Colony (401) and first place Gregori (389).
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Luxury Apt on the Beach
Size320 m²
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The apartment is very nice, even if it's very cold outside and wet.
The road to the apartment is very hard to find, especially when it's snowing. As people in the area do not know the street, is also only a small dead-end street, so it is necessary to print or store on the map smartfone around, otherwise you are lost. It is relatively fast by metro in the tourist city center, also very interesting times to know normal corners of Istanbul, where skyscrapers sprout.
Das Apartement ist sehr schön, auch wenn es draußen sehr kalt und nass ist.
Der Weg zu der Wohnung ist sehr schwer zu finden, vor allem bei Schneetreiben. Da die Menschen in der Umgebung die Straße nicht kennen, ist ja auch nur eine kleine Sackgasse, ist es also unbedingt notwendig den Stadtplan der Umgebung auszudrucken oder aufs Smartfone zu speichern, sonst ist man verloren. Man ist relativ schnell per Metro in dem Touristenstadtzentrum, außerdem auch sehr interessant mal normale Ecken von Istanbul kennenzulernen, wo die Hochhäuser sprießen.
When we arrived it was raining heavily and Osman Bey was so helpful from the district pick us Levent. The apartment is just like in the pictures.
Everything was clean
The only Markel are the streets for women with heels hard to walk because the roads are very steep
Otherwise, very centrally located always got away with the Metro
Als wir ankamen hat es sehr stark geregnet und Osman bey war so hilfsbereit uns vom Stadtteil levent abzuholen. Die Wohnung ist genauso wie auf den Bildern.
Alles war sauber
Das einzige Markel sind die Straßen für Frauen mit Absätzen schwer zu laufen,weil die Wege sehr steil sind
Ansonsten sehr zentral gelegen kamen immer gut mit der Metro weg
Very nice and cozy apartment - quiet location - to reach a little tricky, but the hosts are very friendly and its description was 100%.
The metro links are excellent. A shop is near,
The best way to get to know Istanbul.
Sehr schöne und gemütliche Wohnung - ruhig gelegen - etwas knifflig zu erreichen, aber der Gastgeber ist sehr freundlich und seine Beschreibung war 100%ig.
Die U-Bahn-Anbindung ist hervorragend. Auch ein Laden ist in der Nähe,
Die beste Art um Istanbul kennen zu lernen.
There is nothing negative everything top.
Es gibt nichts negatives alles top.
Perfect apartment! I had a great stay in this bright apartment, spacious, consistent with the announcement has all what it takes in. Osman has always been available during the stay. The apartment is located in close to all commerce of all kinds and especially the subway and taxi station which is very handy !! Many restaurants near the metro and pretty little fun shops. I recommend that Osman was very nice !! Superb stay I loved it !!! A big thank you
Appartement parfait ! J'ai passé un excellent séjour dans cet appartement très lumineux, spacieux, conforme a l'annonce avec tous ce qu'il faut dedans. Osman a toujours été disponible pendant le séjour. L'appartement se situe a proximité de tout commerce de tous genre et surtout du métro et de la station taxi ce qui est très pratique !! De nombreux restaurants près du métro, ainsi que de jolies petites boutiques sympa. Je recommande Osman qui a été très gentil!! Superbe séjour j'ai adoré !!! Un grand merci
Very satisfied with the lease. Making available all the impeccable equipment. Very well situated in Istanbul's transport in common. Breakfast available and responsive to any questions. Apartment niquel, very secure building. I highly recommend
Très satisfait de la location. Mise a disposition de tout le matériel impeccable. Très bien situer au niveau d'Istanbul est des transport en communs. Hôtes disponible et qui répond a toute les questions. Appartement niquel, bâtiment très sécuriser. Je vous le recommande vivement
This was a good flat equipped with all basics. We stayed here for 6 weeks with a 1-year old child. For 2 of the weeks, we had a visitor. The flat was comfortable to live in with 3+1 people. We cooked a lot and washed a lot of laundry using the equipment in the flat. The area was calm, and there was little noise in the evenings and nights. There were several supermarkets, boutiques and shopping centers in this area also. Getting around in Istanbul from here was easy using the nearby metro (4. Levent) and bus stations. There was a taxi station close to the metro station as well.
Osman answered all of our pre-booking and pre-trip questions and queries in a fast, clear and friendly manner. During the stay, he also replied fast to SMSs in English. His friendly staff helped, fixed issues in the apartment, and arranged other things in Turkish on-site. On the way from the airport, Osman instructed the taxi driver on the phone for how to get to the apartment. Osman also arranged a bed for our child, and acquired a high chair on our request.
Being informed by Osman, we knew to expect having to carry our baby trolley about two floors of stairs up or down every time we went out or in, as the entrance of the building is down from the street level. From the building entrance, we got easily to the 4th-floor flat using the elevator. We stored the baby trolley at ground floor.
I had forwarded my paper mail to this flat during the trip, and it was delivered without any problems.
I take one star off the 5-star maximum due to the humidity and mold in the bathroom. The bathroom was as well equipped as everything else in the flat, but mold was an issue. Upon arrival, we noticed green fungus in the shower cabin wall, but we just wiped it off. After a couple of days, it was back there, so possibly it came from inside the wall. We didn't mind, as wiping it off once a week and leaving the door open after showering seemed to keep things in order. However, after heavy rainfall, the situation was different. The rain somehow caused a heavy, unhealthy mold smell in the bathroom for two days after it stopped. This happened twice during our stay, and for those times, we had to keep the bathroom door closed in order to have fresh air in the rest of the apartment. During those days, spending even a short while in the bathroom was unpleasant.
Overall, a good stay in a well equipped flat in a peaceful area. Osman and his staff provide great service with a good attitude.
Nice appartment in a quiet residential neighborhood of Istanbul. Within a 10 minute walk you'll find a main subway line to the city centre. Thanks Osman for your help and warm welcome!
Unterm Strich hat uns die Wohnung sehr gut gefallen.
Positiv zu bewerten sind die zentrale Lage, Größe der Wohnung und Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis.
Negativ aufgefallen waren, dass wir über 2 Stunden auf den Check-in warten mussten.
Dennoch würden wir gerne wieder kommen.
Everything was as good as it was before when i hired the flat last summer beside the low water pressure and rapid fluctuations between cold and hot water. The flat was fine and clean with those ordinary utensils u need. Thanks
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Fiscal Year 2011 Agreed-Upon Procedures for Excise Tax Distributions to the Highway Trust Fund
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As requested, this correspondence discusses our findings on whether the net excise tax revenue distributed to the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2011, is supported by the underlying records. The Department of Transportation's Inspector General is responsible for the adequacy of these agreed-upon procedures to meet your objectives, and we make no representation in that respect. The procedures we agreed to perform were related to (1) transactions that represent the underlying basis of amounts distributed from the general fund to the HTF during fiscal year 2011, (2) the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) quarterly HTF excise tax receipt certifications prepared during fiscal year 2011, (3) the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Management Service adjustments to HTF excise tax distributions during fiscal year 2011, (4) the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Tax Analysis's (OTA) estimates of excise tax amounts to be distributed to the HTF for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011, (5) adjustments to the HTF for tax on kerosene used in aviation during fiscal year 2011, and (6) the amount of net excise taxes distributed to the HTF during fiscal year 2011.
We were not engaged to perform, and did not perform, an examination, the objective of which would have been to express an opinion on the amount of net excise taxes distributed to the HTF during fiscal year 2011. Accordingly, we do not express such an opinion. Had we performed additional procedures, other matters might have come to our attention that we would have reported to you. We completed the agreed-upon procedures on October 26, 2011.
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KARACHI, Pakistan, Feb. 4 -- In the latest twist to the already enigmatic case of kidnapped American journalist Daniel Pearl, top police investigators rushed to a hospital in this port city early Monday only to find that a body brought there with a bullet wound in the head was not that of the U.S. reporter.
The body had been dumped in an old quarter of the sprawling, crime-ridden city and was brought to a public hospital, then transferred to a private hospital in the upscale Clifton district.
Summoned to the facility, investigators and close colleagues of Pearl from the Wall Street Journal quickly ruled out the possibility that the body was Pearl's, based on its smaller stature, darker complexion and different teeth, according to Manzoor Mughal, senior superintendent of police in Karachi.
"It wasn't even a close match," U.S. Consulate spokesman Lonnie Kelley said.
The still-unidentified body was believed to be that of a foreign male, possibly an Iranian, Mughal said.
"There was a threat that kidnappers were going to dump (Pearl's) body," said Tariq Jamil, deputy superintendent of police in Karachi. "That's why we take these reports seriously."
The development marked the second time in three days that those closest to the case feared that Pearl, who disappeared here Jan. 23, might be dead. On Friday, Western news organizations received an e-mail -- at the time believed to be from the kidnappers -- declaring that Pearl had been killed and his body dumped in one of the city's graveyards.
As the latest scare passed early Monday, emotionally drained investigators once again returned to the assumption that Pearl remains alive, in a case that has now expanded to other major cities.
Senior law enforcement authorities said Sunday that they have fully discounted the e-mail received Friday, which at first seemed like a credible death announcement.
"We believe Mr. Pearl is alive," said Syed Kamel Shah, inspector general of police for the region that includes Karachi. "We are making headway in our investigation."
Still, after searching hundreds of graveyards in the city three times over, seizing computers and rounding up suspects ranging from an Islamic cleric to teen-age pranksters, authorities remained mystified about the fate of Pearl, the South Asia regional correspondent for the Wall Street Journal.
On Sunday, they expanded their dragnet to the capital, Islamabad, and its environs, where they made several raids and detained suspects for questioning.
A total of 10 people were believed to be in police custody Sunday.
A senior police source in the Islamabad area said that the search had expanded to all of Pakistan, and particularly to the loosely governed areas bordering Afghanistan.
Pearl was last seen en route to what he believed was a meeting with the leader of a shadowy extremist group.
Most vexing to investigators, who now include a group from the FBI, have been a spate of false e-mails and prank telephone calls for ransom that led to at least two arrests over the weekend.
A teen-ager in the northeastern city of Lahore was detained in connection with four of the hoax e-mails and was scheduled to be transferred to authorities in Karachi for further questioning. Two other teens were detained along with their laptop computer in Karachi but were released after extensive questioning and a scanning of the computer's hard drive turned up no evidence of links to the kidnapping, according to Shah.
Another two suspects had been detained in Islamabad in connection with two false ransom calls, according to a local police source.
Investigators are increasingly operating under the assumption that the kidnap group -- which dubbed itself the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty -- had pecuniary, not political, motives, according to an intelligence source.
American investigators have reportedly suggested to their Pakistani counterparts that at least one kidnapper could be from an ethnic group more common to Punjab province, where the capital is located, the source said. That analysis, he said, was based on clothing and body clues gleaned from an e-mailed photograph that showed the man's arm and hand holding a handgun to Pearl's head.
The lack of a new photograph in Friday's e-mailed death announcement led investigators to doubt its authenticity.
The initial rambling and politically tinged messages from the group contained photographs and demands that included the release of Pakistanis detained by U.S. forces in Afghanistan as well as the release of a former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan.
One source close to the investigation in Karachi said authorities were working on the assumption that if Pearl had been killed by hard-line terrorists, they would have been eager to show evidence of their deed, either via a photograph or by more clearly directing authorities toward his body. The only hint in Friday's death note of where the body might be was that it could be found in a graveyard in Karachi. But searches of the city's 300-odd cemeteries late Friday and most of Saturday produced no evidence of Pearl's fate.
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Chapter Report: Cultural and Community Partnerships
Watkins, Christine, American Libraries
If you want to help your members strengthen the cultural and community programming at their libraries, you don't have to do it alone. A number of organizations, program models, and potential partners can transform what seems like one more task you don't have the time or the resources to do into an opportunity to expand your chapter's reach and appeal.
One of the best sources of ideas is ALA's Public Programs Office, which sponsors traveling exhibits, reading and discussion programs, and author appearances at libraries (p. 41-43, this issue). These national demonstration projects offer training, resources, and programming support to libraries that apply and are accepted for participation. Chapters can play an important role in getting the message out to their members, not only by encouraging them to apply for new programs, but by using examples from past programs to build local models.
A Rhyme in Time
For example, Texas librarian Nancy Milnor Smith recently presented a Texas Library Association conference workshop based on her participation in "Poets in Person," a reading-and-discussion program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and produced by ALA's Public Programs. She invited Deb Robertson, director of Public Programs, and Rosellen Brown, a poet who also teaches at the University of Houston, to be copresenters.
The workshop, titled "A Rhyme in Time: Library Programming with Poets and Poetry," was intended to give participants the necessary skills to present their own programs with confidence. The "Poets in Person" model covers how to structure a program, choose a theme and readings, find and work with an author/ scholar/presenter, and promote the program to attract an audience.
"We've helped hundreds of libraries develop reading and discussion programs for adults," says Robertson, "and we've learned a lot. We want to make sure that as many libraries as possible share in that knowledge. A national organization like ALA can develop these demonstration projects, but state-level participation is essential to make these lessons and accomplishments a permanent part of the way libraries do business."
A group of Illinois librarians who had participated in another ALA project, "Writers Live at the Library," decided to share their experience at a recent Illinois Library Association conference. They hosted a panel, describing their experience with this Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest-funded project that brings authors from a national roster into libraries in small and medium-sized communities.
Librarians in your state who have experience with public programs are the best resource for sharing that knowledge with others. Contact ALA's Public Programs Office for a list of libraries and librarians who have participated in national projects and for additional information and opportunities for training and support in cultural programming.
Everybody wins . . .
A number of parallel local and state organizations can serve as cultural program partners for chapters, especially state humanities and arts councils, museum associations, college and university consortia, and local art or writers' groups. The Minnesota Library Association is working with the Minnesota Humanities Commission to develop conference offerings and explore reading programs for both children and adults. The Minnesota Center for the Book and Metronet, a Minnesota collaborative that spans public, school, special, and academic libraries, is bringing together community and cultural groups to support its literacy initiative, "Everybody Wins . …


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Camp Atterbury is getting a new name.
The military installation near Edinburgh in southern Johnson County has been known as Camp Atterbury since it was built in 1941 for World War II.
But the installation soon will be known as Atterbury-Muscatatuck or the Atterbury-Muscatatuck training site, garrison commander Col. Ivan Denton said.
Local military officials want to integrate the post more closely with the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Jennings County, a former state hospital that's been transformed into a city-like setting where soldiers from all over the world come to do realistic urban training, Denton said.
Here's a closer look at Camp Atterbury's shifting mission:
What: The post was activated in 2003 as a mobilization site for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Camp Atterbury has since deployed more than 175,000 service members and civilians.
Troops withdrawals: Camp Atterbury has been mobilizing fewer soldiers after the United States stopped combat operations in Iraq and withdrew forces from Afghanistan. The post once prepared 20,000 soldiers a year for combat, but that number has shrunk to a projected 5,000 this year.
Inactive mobilization site: The post will become an inactive mobilization site next year but could be called upon to mobilize soldiers again in the future.
New mission: The main focus will be on training National Guard units from Indiana, northern Kentucky, western Ohio and eastern Illinois.
Other duties: The post will continue to train defense contractors, State Department employees and Department of Defense employees. Camp Atterbury also will continue to stage large homeland security and NATO-led training exercises, such as one that brought in soldiers and fighter pilots from Germany and other European counties last year.
Growth: The post plans to increase activity in the areas of homeland security, unmanned aerial drones and cyber warfare.
"Our intent is showing Indiana as having a single U.S. Army National Guard site instead of two," he said.
Treating the locations as a single facility could help preserve the amount of federal funding for training, staffing and facilities, Denton said.
The Department of Defense recently created a dozen joint operations by merging nearby military installations as part of its ongoing base realignment and closure initiative. Fort Lewis and the McChord Air Force Base in Washington state, for instance, combined to form Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Camp Atterbury and Muscatatuck already were under the same command and deeply intertwined in their operations, Denton said.
Soldiers who come to Camp Atterbury for training typically hop into humvees and head down Interstate 65 to train at Muscatatuck at some point. The 1,000-acre site has been designed to simulate any city anywhere in the world.
Service members, police officers, emergency responders and homeland security officials can train in about 70 buildings, including a school, a hospital and small factories. The simulated city has homes, underground tunnels and a rail yard with a partly derailed train so they can practice rescues.
The training site has grown and gotten busier in past years, and that is not expected to change, even as mobilization decreases at Camp Atterbury, Denton said.
During large training exercises, military units often will stage at Camp Atterbury and then train at Muscatatuck. The command posts will be at the military installation near Edinburgh, while soldiers will go from room to room hunting for the enemy or rescuing dummies from rubble at the training site near Butlerville.
They sometimes take helicopters from Muscatatuck back to Camp Atterbury during simulated medical evacuations to field hospitals.
"The two are really one and the same, and that's what we're trying to show," said Maj. Lisa Kopczynski, Camp Atterbury's spokeswoman.
For instance, Denton is responsible for commanding Muscatatuck as well as Camp Atterbury.
"The National Guard has been integrating the two, and we want to take it to the next step," he said.
Local military officials have asked the U.S. Army National Guard to change the name of the facilities to Atterbury-Muscatatuck, he said. They're also using that name in their own communications, he said.
"You won't see us changing signs immediately," he said. "But internally, we're already trying to use the Atterbury-Muscatatuck language."
Denton said it was to soon to know what other ways that Atterbury and Muscatatuck would be more closely integrated.


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The United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur today voiced its grave concern after a rebel leader warned that airports in the strife-torn region, as well as the rest of Sudan, have been designated as military targets and could be vulnerable to attacks by his group.
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Soon after Michael Govan took over at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art three years ago, costumes and textiles curator Sharon Takeda stepped into his office with an unlikely proposal.
She suggested acquiring a rare private trove of European clothes: 550 items of women's, men's and children's pieces -- including exquisite, gold-embroidered courtiers' clothing and Queen Victoria's nightie. While the collection was cohesive and substantial, covering clothing from 1700 to 1915, Ms. Takeda wondered if the new museum director -- a specialist in contemporary art -- would put his reputation on the line for fashion.
"It wasn't always fashionable to have costume and textile in a museum," she explains. "For many years, we were the poor cousin even within our own museum. Many of our colleagues weren't sure what to do with it -- or whether it was really art."
The ensuing struggle to secure the collection says a great deal about the increasing value that museums are placing on fashion, which is wildly popular with the public yet costs less to collect than painting and sculpture.
Fashion and costume exhibitions have become big draws for museums, bringing new donors and visitors and generating lavish publicity for star-studded opening galas. Last year, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art drew 576,000 visitors to its "Superheroes" exhibit, says a spokeswoman. A 2005 Chanel exhibit there drew 463,000 visitors. Other notable exhibits include the Philadelphia Museum of Art's exhibition on Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli in 2004; San Francisco's de Young Museum's Yves St. Laurent exhibit; and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art's 2006 "Skin & Bones" exhibition on fashion and architecture.
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What's more, even as prices for painting and sculpture have blown sky-high in recent years, fashion and textiles remained bargain-priced. Mr. Govan muses, "How much would it cost to be No. 1 in European painting? You couldn't do it at any cost."
Mr. Govan sought change for the museum, which lacked the esteem of many of the city's own residents. Indeed, a few days earlier, he had challenged the staff to find significant, "museum-altering" pieces to acquire.
Yet valuing, acquiring and showcasing a significant fashion collection still posed major hurdles. Mr. Govan was not accustomed to working with fashion -- a word that still draws the occasional wince from him because of its frivolous and commercial connotations. "I had not a clue how to raise money for this. All my friends are in contemporary art," says Mr. Govan. "There are not people sitting around waiting to spend millions of dollars on ... costume."
Still, to Ms. Takeda's delight, he joined her in the fall of 2006 to comb through the European collection in a Basel, Switzerland, warehouse. Ellen Michelson, a longtime donor to the museum, accompanied them to watch as Wolfgang Ruf, a co-seller with Martin Kamer, pulled out items such as men's suits embroidered with gold and elaborate dresses designed to display the wealth of the wearers. One delicately embroidered silk petticoat proved that the more things change, the more they stay the same: It was made in China for export to the West.
There was an exuberant knitted men's vest from the time of the French Revolution. On the left collar was knitted a butterfly and a pair of scissors. On the right, the butterfly's wings lay snipped off, like the metaphorical wings of the country's royalists.
Mr. Govan was intrigued. The museum won't reveal the exact price but says it was several million dollars, less than a single sculpture. "A Richard Serra costs $10 million," he says. "This was less."
Yet Mr. Govan remained skeptical as the group awaited return flights at the Zurich airport. Where would the funding for the purchase come from?
At that moment, Ms. Michelson offered to commit one-third of the price -- enough to negotiate the shipment of the collection to Los Angeles on a three-year payment plan.
Still, the drama wasn't over. The value of the dollar plummeted wildly, raising the cost of Swiss francs, the currency of the deal. Credit markets yo-yoed. Fund-raising stalled. The museum was on the brink of losing the collection for lack of funds by the time the third installment payment was due last summer, when Mr. Govan was seated beside Suzanne Saperstein at a private dinner.
A well-known collector of haute couture, Ms. Saperstein had never before supported the museum. But by dessert, she was ready to see the costume collection, still under wraps in a storeroom. Soon, she was bringing friends to see the collection, including layered silk dresses that display the progress of dressmaking from hand-sewing and vegetable dyes and Paul Poiret pieces that show his elimination of the corset. Eventually, she committed more than half the price of the collection, enabling the museum to seal the deal. Ms. Takeda and her staff are cataloging the collection -- whose acquisition was announced last week -- for a 2010 debut exhibition.
The L.A. museum recently formed "Atelier" -- an elite group of patrons who will help expand the museum's textile collection. As a founding member, Ms. Saperstein has her own hopes for the mark the costume collection might make on her city. "L.A. from a fashion point of view has always been looked down on a little bit," she says. "Hopefully, it'll attract a new group of people -- and hopefully a fashion-forward group of people."
Meanwhile, Mr. Govan has a new commitment to fashion's role in the art world. "When you see this collection, not only are the things visually engaging, but you see a map: In all the elements of fashion are all the elements of how ideas are conveyed through society," he says. "Instead of being frivolous, it turns out to be a core artifact."
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