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WHEELING – The first weekend in January has developed into a very exciting one around the Merrick household.
The family of basketball junkies – led by Dr. Gregory Merrick – settles in at Wheeling Jesuit University to watch some of the best basketball talent the United States has to offer at the annual Cancer Research Classic, which was Merrick's brainchild six years ago.
The sixth annual event, which got under way Friday evening, was an extra special one, however.
Malik – a freshman at Linsly and Dr. Merrick's oldest son – saw minutes for the Cadets in their loss to Seton LaSalle.
"It was great to see my son play in the event," Dr. Merrick said. "Malik's had a tough year so far with injuries and sickness, but he's a great kid and I know his game will expand as the year goes on."
Malik played just a few minutes, but just getting onto the court at Wheeling Jesuit was a memory he won't soon forget.
"It's just amazing to play in such a great tournament that I've gotten to watch since I was a kid," Malik said. "To be able to watch the CRC evolve the way that it has is just incredible. Having such great players come through here every year is amazing."
While Dr. Merrick was obviously busy with everything that goes into running a major event, he did make sure he took time to watch Malik and the Cadets.
"I would never miss him playing," Dr. Merrick said. "I was there to see him play, but I was still running around crazy. No matter what I have to do, when my kids are playing I'll be there."
Through his dad's love and passion for hoops, Malik has followed in his footsteps … almost.
Malik wouldn't go as far as to say he's as big a hoops junkie as his dad, but he's definitely passionate for the sport.
"I follow it, but I try to stay up on my own game rather than other people's games," Malik said.
Don't think for a minute that Malik isn't paying attention to every word his dad says when he's rattling off information, stats and numbers about CRC teams and teams from throughout the nation.
"Coming home and my dad will be like, 'I talked to so and so today and then so and so tomorrow,' is awesome," Malik said. "Hearing all of the teams that are coming each year (to the CRC) is especially exciting."
It's been a tough go for Malik at times during this young season. He's battled some injuries and was dealing with an illness on Friday night. However, he feels as if he's coming along.
"It was kind of hard at the beginning, but it's getting better," Malik said.
There will probably come a time when Merrick's other son takes part. Milo – a sixth grader in the Ohio County School system – doesn't miss a CRC game either. He was also at the tipoff banquet with his dad on Thursday.
The Cancer Research Classic never disappoints.
It doesn't matter what part of the event you examine, Merrick and his basketball-crazed team delivers.
Whether it's the big-name teams or players, officiating or even the crowds, the CRC is firmly established as one of the premier basketball showcase events in the United States.
And judging by Friday night's action and crowds at Wheeling Jesuit University's McDonough Center there's a chance that Merrick's brainchild could eventually outgrow the only home it's ever known as a standing-room crowd shoehorned its way for a quartet of games.
This was the first year for the truly expanded Friday card and there should be no doubt that it'll remain a part of future events.
The best part Merrick did was line up two area teams – Linsly and Wheeling Central – in the opening night card, which drew out the casual fan along with the basketball fans, who just can't get enough roundball.
In talking to Merrick a few times Friday night, he was absolutely thrilled with the crowds.
Another full slate of five games is on top for this afternoon with the first tipping off at 12:30 and the final member of the Wheeling trio – Wheeling Park – will take on St. Joseph's Prep, which features Steve Vasturia, who is heading to Notre Dame next year.
Like we've written in the past, there's no reason for a basketball fan – or a sports fan in general – to be sitting on his or couch today.
The premier game of the evening was Prime Prep against Huntington Prep in a battle of unbeatens.
Prime Prep came out and played a zone much of the first half and the Huntington Prep didn't shoot well from the field, meshing just 3-of-20 from behind the arc and it struggled early to get the ball to the Class of 2013's top-ranked player in Andrew Wiggins.
Prime Prep features Class of 2014 standout Emmanuel Mudiay, who has a laundry list of schools seeking his services at the next level.
On top of Mudiay, the Truth got exceptional play on the block from Jordan Mickey and Karviar Shepherd.
Prime Prep led by as many as 17 in the second half, but Huntington Prep finally got Wiggins, who scored 18 points, going. They cut the lead to 10 in the latter stages of the fourth and Prime didn't help its cause by missing three consecutive front ends of bonus situations.
"I thought the two biggest keys of the game were early when their post players scored on consecutive possessions against us and late when we had a chance, but we couldn't capitalize on their missed foul shots," said Huntington Prep coach Rob Fulford. "We didn't shoot it well from the outside and that zone really hurt us."
Other scores from the opening day of the CRC were: Seton LaSalle 63, Linsly 44; Mercersburg Academy 58, Wheeling Central 41 and Lower Merion, Pa. 71, St. Raymond 44.
Mercersburg Academy's Dre Willis put on an absolute show, scoring 26 points, including three dunks.
Lower Merion, which is also known as Kobe Bryant's alma mater, received a strong game from Yohanny Dalembert, who is the younger brother of Milwaukee Bucks' center Samuel Dalembert.
Long-time Ohio Valley official Don Cash worked the opening game of the Cancer Research Classic, which saw Linsly fall to Seton LaSalle.
He promptly changed clothes and headed to work the varsity game of Bellaire at Martins Ferry.
We ran into him between games in the lobby. He said he'd never miss working the CRC, as long as it would have him, because his father passed away after a bout with cancer, so the cause of the event is extremely important to him.
KENTUCKY head coach John Calipari was sitting at press row for the Huntington Prep vs. Prime Prep game. He was welcomed to a modest applause when he was recognized on the public address system. From there, he was besieged by autograph and photograph seekers and signed willingly when there was a stop in play.
THE OFFICIATING during the first day was top-shelf. Doug Costain – one of the area's most highly regarded officials – assigns the games for the weekend. He blends area officials with a lot of college officials and it's worked brilliantly. The officials let the players play, which is what the fans want to see.
DEION SANDERS, who is one of the top supporters of Prime Prep, which is located near Dallas, often times makes the trips with the Truth's basketball team. However, he wasn't in Wheeling Friday night.
TONIGHT'S FINAL two games – Simeon vs. Montverde and D.C. Gonzaga vs. Salesian – will be broadcast on ESPN2 and ESPN-U, respectively at 6 and 8.
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Compact high- filters based on one-dimensional photonic crystals containing single-negative materials98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1949273View Description Hide Description
A mechanism to design compact high- filters is proposed in this paper, based on the properties of a defect mode in a one-dimensional (1D) photonic crystal composed of alternating layers of negative-permeability material and negative-permittivity material. The eigenfrequency equation for the defect mode is derived by means of the transfer-matrix method, and then, the dependence of the eigenfrequency on the thicknesses of the two host layers and the defect layer is calculated. In contrast to the case for a filter based on a conventional 1D photonic crystal (with positive refractive indices), we find that the quality factor of the filter involved in this paper can be boosted noticeably while the volume of the filter decreases.
A robust design against comb electrode spacing variations for in-plane switching mode thin-film transistor liquid-crystal displays98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1949277View Description Hide Description
A method to reduce the transmittance nonuniformity caused by comb electrode spacing variations of in-plane switching mode thin-film transistorliquid-crystal displays is proposed. The method is based on the compensation of the effect of the comb electrode spacing variations with effective driving voltage variation via feed-through voltage in the thin-film transistor addressing. The conditions for this compensation were analyzed theoretically taking into account gate delay (recharging) effects. It was observed that the common dc driving was superior to the common inversion driving in terms of compensation efficiency. An alternative driving method was proposed to enhance the compensation in common inversion driving.
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Kaylah has been named to the White House Internship Program for Fall 2015. The program seeks "to make the White House accessible to future leaders around the nation and to prepare those devoted to public service for future leadership opportunities." Interns work in one of several White House departments. Their responsibilities and tasks vary by department, but all interns are united through weekly events, including a weekly speaker series with senior staff members and small group meetings that explore different policy aspects of the Executive Office of the President through speakers, discussion and off-site field trips. Most importantly, the internship experience includes an emphasis on service, and interns participate in regularly scheduled service projects at schools and non-profit organizations in Washington, D.C. Kaylah is a junior at K majoring in theatre arts. She also is earning a minor in business and working on a concentration in media studies.
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Scott is one of only 158 nominees nationwide for the 2015 Allstate/National Association of Basketball Coaches Good Works Team. The award recognizes men's college basketball players for their charitable achievements and community involvement. Scott is a senior captain of the Hornet men's basketball team. He carries a 3.9 grade point average and is majoring in economics and mathematics. He does significant volunteer work for Kalamazoo Loaves and Fishes, an organization dedicated to food security and food justice. He also helps coach Special Olympics teams and serves as a recess assistant at Woodward Elementary School. The 10 award winners will be announced this month. If Scott is in that group he will be flown to the Final Four tournament in April, recognized for his service, and he will participate in a community service project in the host city of Indianapolis.
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". . . we go to poetry … so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which we live them, and that if we more fully inhabit these things, we might be less apt to destroy both." – Christian Wiman, poet
Amy Newday plants seeds in soil (she runs her own farm), and she plants seeds in students (she directs K's Writing Center and teaches classes in the English department). Some seeds grow green crops. Others grow green poetry.
Newday recently completed a winter term course called "Ecopoetry," and is currently teaching a spring term senior Capstone class called "CSA (community-supported agriculture) and Sustainability." The two courses are an integral part of Kalamazoo College's ongoing creation of a Center for Environmental Stewardship, teaching students about the impact of human life on their world.
"I feel a strong call to be of service to the earth and the non-human beings we share it with," says Newday. "As I get older and get to know myself better and as our ecological crises worsen, this call becomes stronger. What I was curious to explore with my students in the ecopoetry course was—what does poetry have to do with ecological crises? Can poetry be a vehicle for transforming our relationships with the ecosystems in which we dwell?"
A farmer and a poet, Newday grew up on dairy farm in Shelbyville, Michigan. Her "Ecopoetry" course drew thirteen students, all of whom participated in a reading on campus to draw their class to a close. Each student read a poem from the textbook that had especially moved or inspired them.
Emily Sklar '15 was one of those students, a biology major with an interest in ecological issues. "I love biology, although I'm not quite sure yet what I will do with it," Sklar says. "I also love being outdoors, and I'm concerned about the environment, so I've been wondering how to combine all that. Science comes short on the ethical and moral aspect of ecological issues, so that's why I took the poetry course. Poetry gives me another way to understand what's around me, and the course has given me a blend of language that builds collaboration between scientists and poets."
"Ecopoetry" is a relatively new term, if not quite a genre in its own right, Newday explains. "Writing about daffodils is no longer enough. Critics beat up poets like Mary Oliver for being what they call a 'nature poet,' writing about birds and trees. Writing about birds and trees is important, but ecopoetry includes the bulldozer that knocks the tree down and destroys the bird."
Three main groupings of poetry compose the new genre, Newday says. As defined by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura Gray-Street, the editors Newday's class textbook, The Ecopoetry Anthology, poetry that explores nature and the meaning of life falls into the first group. A second group includes environmental poetry with a more political slant that may address social justice issues and is often related to specific events. The third group includes poetry about ecology, often in more experimental forms.
"In this course we explored how the language of poetry has shaped and reflected changing perceptions of nature, ecology, and humanity over the past two centuries," Newday says. "We looked at what poetry can contribute to current cultural and cross-cultural conversations about environmental justice and sustainability."
Students at the reading in March read favorite poets they had studied, such as, yes, Mary Oliver, and also Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Ralph Black, G. E. Patterson, Deborah Miranda, Tony Hoagland, Robert Duncan, Lucille Clifton, Lola Haskins, Sandra Beasley, and Linda Hogan. Some students also read their own work.
"I'm not a big reader," Sklar admits. "But I fell in love with this poetry. What I had hoped would happen, happened. The facts in science are great, but poetry gives us a way to connect to people who aren't scientists."
The ecopoetry course, Sklar adds, helped her to solidify an idea for her Senior Individualized Project that she'd been mulling over for about a year. Her interest in nature, biology, ecology, and human responses to all three came together in a plan to hike the entire Appalachian Trail. Along with a K alumna, Margaux Reckard '13, Sklar began 2,200-mile adventure a few days after the poetry course concluded (see "Where the TinyTent AT?" in this issue of BeLight).
"Poetry can help us question," Newday says. "We are losing all kinds of diversity in our world, and cultures and languages are being lost along with biodiversity. Languages each give us a unique way to see the world and add perspective. Poetry can help us imagine possibilities … possible solutions to ecological crises."
In her senior Capstone course, "CSA and Sustainability," Newday digs even deeper into building connections between students and the earth. Along with textbooks, she hands them trowels, hoes, shovels and watering cans. She takes her students to her own CSA operation, Harvest of Joy Farm, where she and partner John Edgerton practice sustainable and organic methods of farming.
The Capstone course, Newday says, offers students the opportunity to explore and experience food systems, agriculture, community building, education, economics, business, and food justice as an alternative to the mainstream food economy. If that sounds like it's dealing with a great many topics—it is, and that's the everyday life of a farmer.
Part of the course will take place in the traditional campus classroom, and for at least three hours each week students will work on the farm. They will help plan the CSA business, prepare the soil for planting and then plant a wide assortment of seeds and plants, maintain compost and learn about permaculture, and maintain and harvest the garden. Students will also experience the business aspects of running a CSA, the marketing and selling of vegetables to community members, and the relationships built between farmer and community members.
The course will also involve an ongoing blog of farm activities, and a student-generated on-campus collaborative project. Students will participate in discussions about their experiences and observations working on the farm.
In informational sessions held prior to the beginning of the course, Newday and Edgerton met with students interested in learning more information before making a decision to enroll.
"I was surprised how much I loved running a CSA," Newday says to the students gathered to hear about the course. "The relationships we developed through the CSA were very rewarding. There's an instant gratification when you give good food to people, and you see how excited they are to receive it, taste it, and share it."
The concept of a CSA, Newday tells the students, is not the traditional business model of trading cash for product. "A CSA offers people the opportunity to invest in the kind of world they want to live in."
The Harvest of Joy Farm is in its fourth year. At the beginning of last summer's (2013) growing season, 45 members paid for 28 shares and half-shares in the operation, which provided the funds to cover the costs of farming. In return, shareholders receive vegetables and fruits each week during harvest.
"The course will help students to better understand the economics of farming, especially on a small scale, and to consider how small farms fit into the larger agricultural economy, in the United States and across the world," says Newday. "Along with learning about sustainable agricultural practices, students will learn how to critically consider what it means to make environmentally, socially, and ethically sound food choices."
To learn more about the Kalamazoo College Capstone CSA experience, read student blog entries, and view photos, visit kzoocsa.blogspot.com. To learn more about Harvest of Joy Farm, LLC, visit harvestofjoyfarm.wordpress.com.
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Before first-year students even arrive at Kalamazoo College they are shaping their class into a cohesive educational community. By way of K's Summer Common Reading program, now in its 15th year, incoming first-years read the same book at the same time, connecting not only with their classmates through this common-but-uncommon experience but also with the many faculty and staff and the significant number of current students who also read the book and together share their insights afterwards.
"It gives the students something to talk about, something besides 'where are you from?'" says Dean of the First Year and Advising Zaide Pixley. "It's all part of the teaching moment."
Pixley helped launch and expand the Summer Common Reading program in 1999 and subsequent years. "I love to read," Pixley says. "And I wanted to give students a way to enter the world of ideas." In 2000, with the support of the Provost's office and Student Development, the program became official.
"The first book we chose was Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver," says Pixley. "But we didn't ask the author to come to campus. We soon decided that should be one of the criteria—that the author be here for orientation, meet with the students, and later, if possible, return for that class's commencement."
The book of choice in 2000 was Independence Day by Richard Ford, an author whom then-Provost Greg Mahler knew personally and had invited to attend. Writer-in-residence Diane Seuss, Professor of English Andy Mozina, Mahler, and Pixley were the original members of the committee that chose the books and organized the events. Membership on the committee has changed over time. Associate Professor of English Marin Heinritz was a member for many years and was responsible for bringing to campus journalist David Finkel, the program's first nonfiction writer. Neither she, Seuss, nor Mozina are active members of the committee today, but Pixley's presence has been a constant.
Is the reading experience relevant, even (or especially) when a book's protagonist differs significantly from the predominantly 18-year-old readers?
"Oh my," Seuss chortles, recalling the first-year students meeting the Ford. "A student asked Richard Ford how he expected young people to relate to his middle-aged, white male real estate agent protagonist. His answer: 'Are you a Danish prince? If not, then don't read Hamlet!'"
Mozina nods. "I've seen great discussions happen. I often see the energy grow during the course of the author's time on campus, with students saying that now they understand and like the book a lot better than they thought they would, or did initially. By the time some authors left, the students seemed ready to adopt them."
As the criteria for the book choice developed, Pixley made one point immoveable.
"The author must come to campus," she says. "We look for someone who makes a good guest, who is an engaging speaker and enjoys interacting with students. That's what makes our summer reading program different than the programs at many other schools—the presence of the author."
Committee members meet to discuss new and upcoming authors that fit the bill.
"New book and author choices are challenging," Pixley admits. "We have no flexibility on dates. They have to be here when the first-year students come in. We look for books that have been nominated for prizes, books that are being talked about. Although she isn't on the committee this year, Di [Seuss] is very plugged in, she has 2,000 Facebook friends and they are almost all writers. An A list and a B list begins to take shape, and we get student peer leaders involved, too."
Committee members read lots of books and talk about authors who might be an appropriate and feasible guest. Criteria include the content of the book, of course, the way in which it can represent a boundary-crossing for the students, and an author who is willing to be here and participate in person. "We all keep our eyes out for 'the next big one,'" said former committee member Seuss, "often finding the perfect fit with a younger author on the rise, like Chimamanda Adichie, who visited us with her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, and has since won the Orange Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and a MacArthur Fellowship."
Gail Griffin, professor emeritus of English, has been involved with the program since its inception. She adds: "We've often joked about it: either the day before or the day after an author visits, she or he will get a MacArthur award/Pulitzer Prize/National Book Award nomination. The track record is quite amazing; it defies logic."
"It has to be good literature," Pixley states. "We look for something that is engaging to young people and doesn't come with 400 pages of footnotes. Coming of age themes are good, and we want a book that is intercultural in some way, and that doesn't have to mean that the book has to be about different countries. Detroit can have a different culture from Kalamazoo, too. We look for books that can foster intercultural understanding."
The book choice of summer 2014 covers that cultural boundary, in fact. Incoming members of the class of 2018 read We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo. The 2013 debut novel depicts the impossible situation of the person in exile, in this case a child leaving a beloved homeland beset with political turmoil and violence, poverty, starvation, and illness. As she grows to adulthood in a new place she realizes that she is caught between two cultures without being home in either. Bulawayo won the 2014 PEN-Hemingway Award, the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing, and the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature in 2014. The novel was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize.
Anna Gough '15 is a first-year experience coordinator along with Bryan Olert '15. Both experienced the value of bonding over a book that often pushed their comfort zones.
"I still think about the book we read when I was a freshman," Gough says. "In 2011, it was The Good Soldiers by David Finkel. I would never have picked it up on my own."
"It's really the whole idea of liberal arts," Olert, a history major, adds. "The Summer Common Reading program challenges you to read outside of your field, all over the field."
Now seniors, Gough and Olert helped plan all of this year's first-year events, and both consider the reading program their favorite.
"As an English major, it was fun to organize something I enjoyed so much in earlier years," says Gough. "I felt like I was a part of creating the future for the new students."
"And it's great job experience in event planning, networking, organizing," Olert adds.
Beginning to end, the Summer Common Reading program has drawn together not only freshmen, but the entire campus, as older students find themselves picking up the chosen book as well, wanting in on the hot topic of the campus. Faculty and staff are involved, too, teaching to the book or participating as discussion group leaders.
"The program asks a lot of faculty," Pixley admits. "Yet K faculty members are always game. I've been asked—how do I get people to read the book and lead discussion groups? People here are willing to step out, willing to try new things."
"We prepare the peer leaders and discussion leaders, write a lesson plan, host the guest, and do all of the often complex negotiations with agents and publishers to bring the next writer to campus," Seuss says.
"I can tell you that very few people comprehend the work involved," says Griffin. "In choosing the book, in negotiating with the writer to come to Kalamazoo, in organizing the visit and the sub-components of the visit, in turning around the students' submitted questions and consolidating them for the author, in shepherding the author around. That detailed, thoughtful, exhausting work is what has made the program go."
While the committee does prepare a lesson plan and suggested questions for the discussion group leaders, Pixley says that "everyone is free to improvise as they see fit."
Reading contemporary books rather than classics, Pixley says, is another aspect of the program that differentiates Kalamazoo College from other institutions that have started similar programs.
"The National Association of Scholars singled us out as being subversive in our book choices," Pixley smiles. Challenging students to think and question, however, is part of the program's goal.
Says Seuss: "Each book lands differently, and each entering class receives it in its own way. What I love is that the reverberations continue long after the writer has left campus; students live with the book, in one way or another, for the rest of their lives. Students in my first year seminar often refer back to the book or something the author said, and I hear seniors doing the same thing. Maybe the best sign of the program's success is when we witness students struggling to make connections, to approach and understand differences."
"Our student body is more diverse than ever," says Stacy Nowicki, library director at Kalamazoo College's Upjohn Library and a member of this year's committee. "We have students from many different areas in the United States and the world and from different socio-economic backgrounds. The Summer Common Reading book helps students learn to interact with someone different than themselves. It gives them entry to each other. This summer's book is about the immigrant experience, and any student coming to Kalamazoo College may feel like they are immigrating to a new community. Through discussing the book, they can bring up their own issues."
Nowicki joined the committee this year because of her involvement with the Reading Together program. Reading Together is administered by the Kalamazoo Public Library and has much in common with Kalamazoo College's program. In both, an entire community reads the same book, joins in discussion, and meets the author.
"The important thing is for students to feel connected," Nowicki says. "It's a good way for professors and staff to get introduced to the incoming students, too. I'm guessing in that way it helps retention. And the discussion groups help students learn how to express their viewpoints and defend them while listening to the viewpoints of others."
Griffin adds: "If you lined up all the books that have been chosen, they cover an amazing array of contemporary writers and a mighty inclusive list of perspectives and issues of the sort that we want our newest students to begin thinking about: race, economics, global politics, gender, sexuality, nationality, international issues, American issues, immigration, 'home' and leaving home, you name it."
Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of the 2012 Summer Common Reading book, Once Upon a River, offers her perspective as a participating author. "It was a great honor and a thrill to have all the freshmen and many of the upper class folks read Once Upon a River. Kalamazoo College students are conscientious scholars and careful readers, and they had a lot of smart questions to ask. The world I presented in the book was very different from the world of the students, so it was interesting to see how they grappled to understand the choices my protagonist made, which were often so different from what they would have chosen. As an author it is always great fun to be surrounded by smart people who have read your book."
Pixley smiles to recall some of the discussion around Campbell's book. "Oh, I'm still hearing complaints about Margo, Bonnie's character in the novel. Why did Margo do this, why did Margo choose that. But Margo had different circumstances in her life, and it was a different time. It's wonderful how invested students can get."
The interaction between author and students, all agree, can be one of the most rewarding parts of the experience.
"So often their first reactions to the texts have been resistant, defiant, because the committee has rightly selected challenging texts at the forefront of current fiction, and that material is often difficult, not easy reads," says Griffin. "And then you watch them come to terms with it, chew on it, hear the author, stand in line for hours to meet the author, and suddenly—the book is theirs. I have seen an incoming class become a class over three days because of this program."
Seuss lists favorite memories of students interacting with authors: "Chang-Rae Lee flying out of New York City and joining us just a few days after September 11, 2001. The students starting a Chimamanda Adichie Adoration Facebook page. Junot Diaz's sass. Vaddey Ratner talking about her childhood as a captive of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the way she greeted people with the namaskara, her beauty."
Heinritz most strongly recalls the moments "students got turned on by what they'd read or something the authors said. Often, years later they would bring up something Junot Diaz or David Finkel had said about writing when they were on campus, and it would become part of the fabric of that day's class discussions."
She also cites the generosity of the authors. "So many of them agree to offer a craft talk for student writers while they are on campus," Heinritz says. "David Finkel got real with journalism students about what the profession requires and where it is headed. Bonnie Jo Campbell gave practical advice to aspiring fiction writers." Finkel even offered to read and critique Heinritz' writing, "which he did and was very helpful," she says. "I consider him a friend. I know Di has also developed this kind of relationship with a couple of the authors, especially Chimamanda."
Pixley nods. She remembers many of those moments, and more. The Summer Common Reading program is her labor of love.
"It's a thrill," she says. "To hear an author reading to the students, and the students are so quiet, listening so carefully, that you can hear the pages turn."
Summer Common Reading Program Books
(1999 Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams)
2000 Richard Ford, Independence Day
2001 Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life
2002 Ha Jin, Waiting
2003 Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
2004 Aleksandar Hemon, Nowhere Man
2005 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
2006 Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
2007 Edward P. Jones, The Known World
2008 Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2009 Rachel Kushner, Telex From Cuba
2010 Colson Whitehead, Sag Harbor
2011 David Finkel, The Good Soldiers
2012 Bonnie Jo Campbell, Once Upon a River
2013 Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan
2014 NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names
New Major Added
Scores of Kalamazoo College students do not usually gather outside Mandelle Hall's Olmsted Room to await word on the fate of a faculty meeting agenda item. But gather they did late last fall, and they greeted one particular vote with applause and celebration.
The matter? At its meeting of November 14, 2014, Kalamazoo College faculty unanimously approved a new major at the school: Critical Ethnic Studies. It is the second major approved in the past two years. In 2013 the faculty voted to create a new major in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Prior to that, the major in Business was approved in 2008.
After the vote for Critical Ethnic Studies, faculty and staff arose in a spontaneous standing ovation, which sparked the applause and cheers of the students quietly waiting in the Olmsted Room's foyer. When the meeting adjourned high fives were shared among all.
"One reason I came to K was because of its commitment to diversity," said Assistant Professor of Political Science Justin Berry at the meeting. "I have many students who are looking forward to this opportunity."
Assistant Professor of Music Beau Bothell added, "I'm very excited to have new critical ethnic studies majors coming into my courses and challenging our assumptions of what and how we will teach."
"Not only does this help K catch up to where other institutions have been for years," said Assistant Professor of English Ryan Fong, "it places K at the forefront of where the discipline is going."
Calls for ethnic studies at K go back more than 40 years, to the late 1960s when the discipline was first born and institutionalized as academic programs at San Francisco State University and the University of California-Berkeley. Periodically, since those early days, the call for ethnic studies at K has been sounded by various faculty, students, and groups, including, among others, the Black Student Organization (1968), the Asian and Pacific Islander Student Association (2007), and the K chapter of the the national Chican@ student organization M.E.Ch.A (2012).
From the field's origin its founding principles were (and remain) four: self-determination, solidarity among American racial minorities, educational relevance, and an interdisciplinary approach. The ethnic studies field provided early models to examine relationships between racism, colonialism, immigration, and slavery in a U.S. context. Its rigorously intellectual approach sought to create curriculum that reflected (and exercised) multiple voices and worldviews derived from knowledges and ways of knowing that have been silenced or made invisible.
At K, the culmination of the field's disciplinary development and the calls for campus movement on the matter began in earnest in late 2013, when K appointed Reid Goméz the College's first professor in ethnic studies. Her position was financed by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In addition to her teaching duties, Goméz worked as part of a Core Curriculum Working Group to write a "Critical Ethnic Studies Major" proposal for faculty consideration. With the approval of the proposal the group will administer the program and serve as the major's core faculty. They are Goméz, the Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor in Ethnic Studies; Espelencia Baptiste, Associate Professor of Anthropology; Shreena Gandhi, Assistant Professor of Religion; Amelia Katanski, Associate Professor of English; Shanna Salinas, Assistant Professor of English; and Babli Sinha, Associate Professor of English.
Ethnic studies questions how knowledge is defined and who gets identified as a thinker. It's less about the study of a specific area, ethnicity, or culture and more about disrupting singular notions of knowledge by ending the suppression and control of multiple knowledges. It's somewhat akin to the fable of the five "scholars" trying to define an elephant based on their singular limited engagement with one portion of the whole. In this tale about blindness, multiple knowledges are excluded; as a result, the elephant is misperceived as a tree, fan, rope, wall, and hose when each "scholar" insists on the hegemony of his "knowledge" of the leg, ear, tail, body, and trunk, respectively.
"The ethnic studies field has always been counterhegemonic," said Goméz. During the four decades of the field's development the intellectual inquiry of one branch (called critical ethnic studies) has focused on "the logics of racism, colonialism, white supremacy, capitalism, and hetero-patriarchy" and moved away from the notion that people are oppressed because they are not known or understood.
At K, the Working Group wrote, "Critical ethnic studies [will] interrogate the production of knowledge. The primary project is to theorize from multiple, and simultaneous, narratives of silenced peoples and epistemologies." The major will be an interdisciplinary, intellectual, and collaborative inquiry.
Eight units are required, including three core courses, four electives, and a senior colloquium. The core courses—"Argument With the Given," "Language: The Colonial and Imperial Difference," and "Insurgency, Solidarity, and Coloniality of Power"—define the field's scope and approach to scholarship and provide the necessary practice with key language and theory.
The electives currently number 17 courses in the departments of anthropology and sociology, English, and religion. More courses from other departments will be added to the electives list as professors reshape them to fit the criteria for critical ethnic studies cross-listing, a process that involves the review and assistance of CES core faculty. According to the Working Group, "The core faculty aspires to serve as a campus resource. They intend to engage the campus community in questions of power, epistemology, and discipline, and to participate in a learning community shaped by the intellectual goal of substantive engagement with each other, within and across individual faculty disciplines and areas."
The senior colloquium involves the entire cohort of each year's majors. The majors will meet together in the fall term to decide the form and content of that year's colloquium including assessment guidelines and procedures. "The purpose of the colloquium is to determine an intellectual social-political project that can be carried out over the year and that contributes to the field," wrote the Working Group.
The new major is lauded not only by faculty and students. "We recently received funding for a campaign gift of an endowed professorship," said President Eileen B. Wilson-Oyelaran. "And the donors would be very pleased to have this endowed chair support a professor in critical ethnic studies."
The College will extend Goméz's appointment through the 2015-16 academic year and also will conduct a tenure track search that year. In academic year 2016-17 the funding for the position will transition from the Mellon Foundation grant to the endowed chair support.
"Critical ethnic studies is a process of engagement and shapes the ability to engage content in a variety of fields of study," concluded the Working Group in its report. "The field requires the logic governing the academy to change [and] this change is realized through the relentless pursuit of other ways to engage and through ongoing discussions of additional means of engagement. These processes invert, rethink, and displace universalities. Central to the field is a refusal to consume the other. Critical ethnic studies scholars must go beyond themselves and devise conversations that move past voyeurism and consumption."
Word of the decision spread quickly and far. One academic advisor heard within a day from an advisee on study abroad in Tokyo who expressed his delight and wondered if he'd have time to change his major.
Take a Bite!
Attending your Kalamazoo College class reunion is a nourishing experience: it means a feast of friends and reconnections, and the cornucopia reminds us that we did more in four years so that all of us could do (and are doing) more in a lifetime! As I listened to the class of '74 compare notes last Homecoming, I was inspired to learn how many members do substantial amounts of volunteer work.
Different ages and life circumstances often predict the amount of time we are able to devote to volunteering. A study titled "The Value of Giving a Little Time," (published in 2013 by the Institute for Volunteering Research) noted that organizations that use volunteers are moving to restructure ongoing volunteer assignments. This restructuring encourages "micro-volunteering," inviting new volunteers to take on specific assignments that align well with their lives at the time. Many busy would-be volunteers appreciated the opportunity to give their time for specific, finite events without taking on a long term commitment.
In April 2014, the Alumni Association Executive Board (AAEB), comprised of alumni members spanning four decades of K history, discussed ways to grow and enhance alumni connections to K. We recognized that any amount of time spent connecting with K can be valuable to the College as well as rewarding to the volunteer. Yet it was clear even among ourselves that life circumstances—including age and geography—play a role in our commitment to serve on AAEB.
So the group brainstormed ways to volunteer for K that are both flexible and varied in terms of duration. From the "kitchen" of our ideas emerged Alumni Bites—a one-page "menu" that lists small, medium, and large volunteer "bites," or opportunities, waiting to be "tasted" by K graduates.
Smaller bites may involve only an hour of time (during lunch or nap time for one's children?) and in many cases involve no transportation. From a computer you can conduct a mock interview with a student, or respond to a student on LinkedIn. Going to a SWARM event gives you the chance to talk to admitted students about the pivotal experiences that transform students at K—both on campus and on study abroad. Attending a Hornet Happy Hour to meet fellow alumni in your area could become the start of a new network right around the corner.
Larger bites include, but are not limited to, attending a networking event, becoming an Alumni Blogger, or providing an internship or externship. Sharing your K story can benefit students and lead you to new opportunities!
To view the entire menu, see www.kzoo.edu/alumni/association/alumni-bites.
Deciding which "bite" works for your life right now may even remind you of what it felt like to choose courses at K. Every bite helps the College provide students with the opportunities to accomplish more in four. And, by taking a bite, not only will you be doing more in a lifetime, you also will savor a lifelong connection with this institution. TAKE A BITE!
Memories, Mistakes, and Memos
During summer 2014 rising senior Andrea Johnson completed her third legal internship—this one at the United States Bankruptcy Court in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her reflections on her experience explore the relationship between doubts, misgivings, mistakes, professional and personal growth, and the freedom to fail.
From the very first day at this internship I made mistakes, and mistakes made me—though the truth of that second part took some convincing.
During my initial introduction to my supervisor, Matthew Harte '07, I learned I had parked in the wrong parking lot. I feared I had made an embarrassment of myself as a directionally-challenged intern. It was not the first impression I had hoped to make. Matthew said it was a non-issue, though I felt like I had failed already, and it was only the first day.
Every endeavor I had undertaken in my life, from athletics to academics, had stressed that failure was not an option, nor could it be accommodated. Failure was a lack—lack of preparation or lack of will power or lack of both. It was the opposite of success in a polarized world—the (very) "wrong" road diametrically opposed to the one-and-only "right" path.
And, I believed, in order to prevent failure, one had to always be anticipating how one's present choices and decisions would impact the future. In that way, one's present and future are inextricably—and linearly— linked. Thus, foresight is essential to forego failure and continue moving forward toward future goals.
So, on this first day, nothing could have been more overwhelming to me than what I was told: mistakes were essential; mistakes were expected. What? It seemed counterintuitive to make mistakes since I wanted to make a good impression. I did not have to reflect long on my first mistake (the parking lot) when I made my second: I got lost returning to my apartment.
The perfectionist in me was rebelling against this notion of mistake-making. I am probably a typical K student in that way. Accepting the notion that failure is necessary is quite difficult for me. Even more challenging is trying to unlearn my constant need to know how every experience will affect my future. Failure is expected? Failure is normal? Were there "right" and "wrong" ways to fail? If so, then I wanted to fail properly.
In the first week, I made my third "mistake": wearing pink in the courtroom. That neutral colors in such a setting is more of an implied rather than explicit rule in no way mitigated my embarrassment. I stood out like a pink jelly bean in a sea of black and grey. Interestingly, this mistake fueled my interest in understanding gendered appearance within the legal field. My Senior Individualized Project—"'Forsake the Self or Forsake the Law:' A Study of Women Lawyers and Subtle Gender Inequity in the Legal Field"—built off of some of my experiences, such as clothing expectations for women lawyers and other observations at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. While none of these small mistakes jeopardized my learning experiences, they forced me to reevaluate my definitions of failure and allow myself more room to grow.
After a few weeks I became accustomed to the basics of bankruptcy law and felt comfortable in my environment. The security guards recognized me by name. Judge Hopkins' staff checked on my progress, and they were always willing to answer my questions. I could find cases and use Westlaw without major problems, and I knew the general schedule of the court. Basically, I felt comfortable enough to make microscopic mistakes.
However, when Matthew handed me a copy of a current case and requested I write a summary memo, I panicked—even though this exercise, like so many other rewarding experiences at the court, gave me the freedom to make mistakes. I could learn without the pressure of a "grade" or judgment. And yet I still didn't feel at ease. Instead I looked for anything that could act as a guide or an example because I did not want to fail or disappoint people I respected. Ironically, the "right" way to do this assignment was to "fail" repeatedly, accept constructive criticism, and correct my mistakes. And, in doing so, I would be introduced to proper legal research, thinking, and judicial decision making.
In the two weeks that I researched and drafted that first memo, I had to confront my own expectations and accept that my first and subsequent drafts were not going to be perfect. After plunging me headfirst into the depths of legal research and writing, Matthew and Judge Hopkins spent a lot of time on the extensive editing process, teaching me the "treading water" phase of legal research and writing. I started to become more comfortable with the discomfort of not having a structured path to follow.
After at least four drafts, my initial memo was hardly my own, but that did not matter because I had completed my assignment and had kept my head above water. About a week later Matthew gave me a new memo assignment for a different judge. This memo became my main project for the remaining three weeks of the internship. Even though the topic was more complicated, the assignment was exponentially easier to complete because I had accepted that I would make mistakes. I crafted a stronger initial draft, one that I was proud to call my own. My final memo assignment taught me more about myself and the law through the countless drafts, checking Westlaw hundreds of times, working constructively with my supervisor and the Judge, and finally reaching a finished product worthy enough to be used as a decision of the court.
Researching and writing legal memos helped me confront my own fear of failure and making mistakes. I also had many other memories that made this internship both professionally and personally rewarding. From Judge Perlman's rendition of "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo," to stimulating conversations with women lawyers interested in my thesis topic, to running for coffee and Grater's Ice Cream with Matthew and discussing our different K experiences, I learned and laughed more in six weeks than I ever thought possible.
By the end of the internship, the city of Cincinnati and the bankruptcy court felt like home. Through this experience, I had come to define "home" as a place where one is challenged, has room to grow and, most importantly, to make mistakes. The people at the court—Patricia Francis, Richard Jones, Matthew Harte and Judge Jeffery Hopkins—made my experience extraordinary because of their instructive and patient explanations and their insights about law and life. They helped make a welcoming and comfortable environment where I could thrive. I made many mistakes at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, and the mistakes made me…more competent, more confident, and "more free" to make more mistakes in the future.
Where the TinyTent AT?
Hundreds of miles in, with thousands more to go—one would think these two women would be nicknamed Blisters and Wails. Instead, Emily Sklar '15 and Margaux Reckard '13 are known along the trail as Giggles and Chuckles, respectively.
The two laughing hikers are at this very moment somewhere along the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail, hiking from Amicalola Falls State Park in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine on an adventure that began on March 24. The adventures of Giggles and Chuckles are being recorded, step by step and with vivid photography, on their blog, Where the tinytent AT?
"My SIP [senior individualized project] is an exploration of the relationship between humans and their natural environment on the Appalachian Trail," wrote Emily, a.k.a. Giggles, in early April, from a point near Springer Mountain, about 164 miles into the hike. She is a biology major with an interest in ecological issues, and she started thinking about hiking the Trail while on her LandSea expedition at the beginning of her freshman year. Her interest in nature, biology, and ecology came together in her SIP plan.
"I am conducting interviews along our hike to discuss individuals' experiences, and what people gain from their experience on the trail," Emily said. "The trip thus far has been really interesting. I've met a lot of people. Everyone has a different story and comes from a different place. Folks come from different geographic regions, levels of fitness, and experience levels."
New friends (and SIP subjects) include hikers with such trail names as The Captain, Grandpa Chops, Roadrunner, Hearsay, LAF and Slim.
Emily added: "I've really enjoyed a lot of the company that we've found at the camps, although the sites very over crowded our first week. There were around 20 tents a night at each campsite. The groups are beginning to thin now because folks either leave the trail or move at different speeds."
The two hikers have at this point hiked through the state of Georgia, and yes, there have been blisters, and rain, and frustrations along with the laughter.
"The biggest frustration that we've met so far has not been the rain," said Emily. "We've felt like we have something to prove, being women out here. A lot of folks in camp haven't taken us too seriously, but as soon as they learn that we're some of the most experienced hikers out here, that changes a bit. All in all, we're happy. We're a little bit sore from the recent increase in mileage, but we're having a lot of fun, making a lot of friends, staying dry (for the most part), and laughing frequently. "
As the weeks go on, the miles accumulate, and the blisters heal into calluses, the two write on their blog that they are feeling stronger. The goal of reaching Katahdin in Maine, wrote Margaux, "feels more and more possible."
Follow their adventures and view the photos of Giggles and Chuckles at Where the tinytent AT?
Being There
There's no business like show business. And Kalamazoo College's Department of Theatre Arts just showed the acting world it means business.
K theatre arts majors Grace Gilmore '15 and Lindsay Worthington '17 recently returned from competing at the 47th annual Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
The pair beat out thousands of other student artists from across the country to present their work at the week-long, all- expenses-paid festival in the nation's capital. Only 125 students were invited to attend.
Gilmore, a theatre arts major and religion minor, was one of only eight students in the country competing for the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship. Worthington, a theatre arts and music double major, traveled to Washington, D.C. to showcase her talents in Sound Design Excellence.
Both categories featured KCACTF students from much larger colleges and universities, several of whom were graduate students enrolled in Masters of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) theatre programs and other specialized acting classes.
"Grace and Lindsay are extraordinary," says Professor of Theatre Arts Lanny Potts. "They are recognized as the best-of-the-best in the nation in their fields. It's rare for students from any small program and liberal arts college to achieve this sort of recognition."
Gilmore spent the week at the Festival immersed in classes that focused on everything from stage combat to situation comedy. She worked alongside professional actors, met with casting directors, and had the opportunity to network with peers from across the nation and in the Washington, D.C. theatre community.
In addition, she went behind the scenes and toured the Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and the world-famous Shakespeare Theatre Company.
"Just being there was so surreal," says Gilmore. "It was an unbelievable experience."
For the 21-year-old, whose first acting role was as a jester in a middle school play, performing on the Kennedy Center stage in front of peers, directors, New York-based casting agents (and even her parents!) was the high point of the week.
Her parents, K alums Sherry (Christy) and Jim Gilmore, class of 1983, were both theatre arts majors.
"You could say theatre is in my blood," Grace says.
Worthington, meanwhile, experienced her own festival highlights. In her master class she worked alongside professional lighting designer (and six-time Tony award nominee) Beverly Emmon as well as award-winning composer, sound designer, and audio artist Obadiah Eaves.
Emmon and Eaves critiqued the students' work, offering their feedback, suggestions, and ideas. And the students got the chance to share meals and free time with the two professionals.
"It really was a once-in-a-lifetime experience," Worthington says. "We were able to ask them questions about their careers and really get to know them."
The Road to Nationals
Started in 1969 by Roger L. Stevens, the Kennedy Center's founding chairman, KCACTF is a national theatre program working to improve the quality of college theatre in the United States. Comprised of 18,000 students from more than 600 academic institutions in eight different regions, KCACTF gives theatre departments and student artists the opportunity to showcase their work and receive outside assessment.
Earlier this year, KCACTF officials visited K and critiqued the work of the students in the theatre department. Gilmore and Worthington, along with 13 others K students, were nominated to attend the KCACTF Region III in Milwaukee. Three additional K students attended as part of their senior class seminar, and two others participated for professional growth and networking. The group joined 2,000 other theatre students from Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin for the weekend competition.
Gilmore, nominated for her performance in Romeo and Juliet, beat out 274 students for the prestigious Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Award. Of the 16 finalists who competed in the final round of the competition, 13 of the 16 were post-undergraduates working on their M.F.A.
"I was absolutely shocked. We went into it clearly as underdogs," Gilmore says. "Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would win. No one from K has ever won. When they said my name, I couldn't believe it."
She received a scholarship and an invitation to attend the National Festival.
Worthington was the only student nominated to attend the regional competition for her work on TWO (!) different entries in sound design. Her submission for Peer Gynt ended up taking top honors in Milwaukee—giving her a ticket to the National Festival, which turned out to also be an unplanned, but very welcome, trip home for this Bethesda, Maryland, native.
Neither Grace nor Lindsay took top honors at the National Festival, but they returned to Kalamazoo with a playbill full of experiences, contacts, job and internship opportunities, and memories to last a lifetime.
"I didn't go into it thinking I would win," says Worthington, who was awarded the Williamstown Theatre Festival Internship for Sound Design. "I don't think I would have enjoyed it as much had I been stressed about the competition. Just being there, to me, felt like winning."


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After a long winter rebuild of my new turbo engine (c20 let) I got it running last night!
On first start up it sounded awful. After 5 secs I had to switch it of. After all it was 11:00 at night!.
Tonight I checked all over and started it again. Still a horrorable noise. At first i put it down to the tappets. On tick over it wasn't to bad but as soon as i revved it it got worse. The noise was coming from the sump though. I took of the sump after a good look around I noticed that on the baffle plate between the cork sump gaskets there was a small mark on the plate.Upon checking where it actually sat it pointed towards one of the rod bolts.
I used ARP bolts supplied to me by SBD. I looked at the old OE bolts and the heads are half the size of ARP's.Im just going to grind that area away.
So ive solved the problem myself but what im asking is has this ever happened to anyone else.
Sorry its so drawn out!


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