The Harbinger

February 12, 2007

Poet George Bilgere to read from his work
Tuesday, February 13, 12:30 p.m. in the Pritchard Room

 
Janitorial
by George Bilgere

All morning he drifts the spacious lawns
Like a gleaner, picking up this and that,
The summer clouds immense and building
Toward afternoon, when the heat drives him
Under the shade of the oak trees in the quad
And then along cool corriders inside
To pull down last term’s flyers


For the chamber recital, the poetry reading,
The lecture on the ethics of cloning,
The dinner with some ambassador,
The debate between Kant and Heidegger,
The frat party, the sorority party, the kegger,
The weekend Bergman festival, the Wednesday
Screening of Dumb and Dumber. He says
Hello to fine young ladies, and tries
Not to dwell on their halter tops,
Their tanned thighs, shorts up to here.


At five he climbs into an old, dumpster-colored
Olds, lights up and heads home
Across the barge-ridden river in its servitude
To East St. Louis, where you know
This poem—glib, well-meaning, trivial—
Grows tongue-tied, and cannot follow.

 

Want more poetry? Come to the reading. It’s even better live.

 This event is coordinated by the Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature.

 

Gay marriage and religion: A respectful, guided discussion


PRYSM and the chaplain’s office are hosting a panel discussion on gay marriage and religion. The discussion will be led by clergy members representing various faith traditions and perspectives and will be moderated by Foote Chair in Ethics and Professor of Religious Studies Jonathan Moody.

Participants will include: 

  • a graduate of Hiram College
  • a staff person from the United Church of Christ
  • Hiram College Chaplain Jason Bricker-Thompson (an ordained Disciples of Christ minister)
  • a Dominican Priest
  • and a staff person from the Catholic Diocese office of family and marriage. 

All Hiram students, staff, and faculty are welcome to participate. The conversation begins on Tuesday, February 13, 2007, at 7 p.m. in Fenton Lounge in Booth/Centennial Hall.

Simeon Ilesanmi to lead 2007 ethics symposium

Simeon Ilesanmi will be the guest speaker at the 2007 ethics symposium at Hiram College scheduled for February 26 and 27. Ilesanmi is an associate professor in the Department of Religion at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. His fields of expertise include comparative ethics (Christian, Islamic, and philosophical), African studies, religion and law, just war theory, and international human rights.

The symposium will feature informal conversations with Ilesanmi on February 26. He will deliver a convocation on Tuesday, February 27 in the Kennedy Center Ballroom. The convocation will begin at 12:30 p.m.


This symposium is coordinated by Foote Chair in Ethics and Professor of Religious Studies Jonathan Moody.

Book from Hiram’s Center for Literature and Medicine series wins award

The Poetry of Nursing, edited by Judy Schaefer, has won the book of the year award from the American Journal of Nursing. The book, published by Kent State University Press as part of the Center for Literature and Medicine’s book series, received the award in the category of public interest and creative works.

The Poetry of Nursing contains works by 14 nurse poets from around the United States and England who use prose and poetry to share, dissect, and analyze the life and death experiences and ethical dilemmas faced by working nurses. In the award announcement, the work was cited as an “unusually rich poetry anthology [that] gives life to varying experiences of patients and nurses.”

 

Seniors: Get your passports to graduation in the KC

 
Attention graduating seniors: it won’t get any easier than this. Come over to the Kennedy Center and prepare for your post-Hiram journey. Refreshments will be served to fortify your efforts.

Thursday, February 15 from 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. OR
Friday, February 16 from 11:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Wrap up details with these campus departments/offices/ groups:

  • Bookstore: Cap & gown, announcements, and class ring (bookstore)
  • Career Center:   Don’t leave Hiram without three critical things
  • Office of Special Events: Commencement information
  • Campus Involvement: Senior Week itinerary
  • Registrar’s Office: Verify your information (name, hometown, academic major) for the Commencement program
  • Financial Aid: Complete your MANDATORY exit interviews for loan repayment
  • Alumni Relations and Annual Giving: Learn how to stay connected to Hiram
  • Senior Gift Committee : Make your first gift to Hiram
  • Yearbook: Last chance for picture retakes (Friday, February l6)
  • Parking Services
  • Residence and Commuter Education
  • International Student Services
  • Ethnic Diversity Affairs

Hope to see you there.

 

Wednesday: Professor Lisa Safford to present Library Forum

Professor of Art History Lisa Safford will present the next Library Forum on Wednesday, February 14 at 4:15 p.m. in the Pritchard Room of the Library. She will speak about “Christo’s 2005 New York Gates: The Japanese Connection.” Refreshments will be served. All are welcome!

 

Thursday: Habitat auction @ Bread & Soup

An auction to support the Habitat for Humanity spring break trip will be held at Bread and Soup this Thursday, February 15. All proceeds from the auction will fund the cost of food, gas, transportation fees, lodging, and a donation to purchase supplies for the students’ trip to High Point, North Carolina, March 5 – 11.

Bread and Soup begins at 5 p.m. in Dix Dining Hall. Cost is $4.50 for guests; meal swipe for students.

Experimental filmmaker Richard Myers will be artist-in-residence

Avant-garde filmmaker Richard Myers, whose film Akran Chicago movie critic Roger Ebert termed “so radically original, it is beyond our previous experience,” will spend a week in residency at Hiram College, teaching and discussing his work.

Myers will be on campus February 20 – 23 and will participate in three campus-wide events. They are:

  • Convocation, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m., Frohring Art 5: Myers, who taught art at Kent State University prior to his retirement, will discuss his background – he has lived all his life in Massillon and Kent – the history of experimental film, and how he developed his independent films using dreams and autobiography.

  • Screening of Akran, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m., Frohring Art 5: Amos Vogel in his book titled Film as a Subversive Art, said Myers’ 1969 film “creates a Joyce-like, dense and somber mosaic of memory and sensory impressions, a texture instead of a plot, a dream-like flow of visually induced associations.”

  • Open Studio, Thursday, Feb. 22, 6 p.m. – 10 p.m., Frohring Art 5: Screening and discussion of Jungle Girl, Thursday, Feb. 22. Jungle Girl is Myers’ tribute to Frances Gifford and Republic Studios’ 1940s serial genre in which Gifford played the title role. In the Los Angeles Times, Sheila Benson said the film is “a gentle work of haunting beauty, and as original as Cocteau.”

 An independent filmmaker since 1960, Myers taught film in the Kent State University art department before his retirement. Two of his films are part of the Kent State Department of Special Collections and Archives, including Confrontation at Kent State, a documentary about the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent, and Allison, a memorial film about Allison Krause, one of the four killed by Ohio National Guard gunfire.

Myers’ films have been exhibited at film festivals in San Francisco, Chicago, Richmond, Virginia, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Bowling Green, Ohio, and elsewhere. He has presented shows at more than 100 colleges and universities in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

The filmmaker’s work also has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and he has received grants from the Guggenheim Fellowship for Filmmaking (1969, 1971), the American Film Institute (1970, 1982, 1984), the National Endowment (1975, 1982), and the Ohio Arts Council (1975, 1979, 1982, 1985).

Myers’ visit is funded by Building Community through the Arts, a local grants organization.

 

Professor Dennis Taylor to discuss Cuyahoga River cleanup as environmental model
Event hosted by Friends of the Hiram College Library 


In 1969, the Cuyahoga River was so heavily polluted by debris and industrial waste that a portion of it caught fire. That fire was not the first on the river, and that river was not the only one in the nation to catch fire during the twentieth century. Yet, the Cuyahoga became a symbol of environmental degradation caused by industrial pollutants. The attention paid to the state of the river signaled a philosophical shift in the importance of water quality in the mind of the American public.

On Sunday, February 25, Professor of Biology Dennis Taylor will discuss the effect the Cuyahoga River had on the state and national environmental movement. He will deliver a presentation titled, “Streams of Clean Water, Streams of Flowing Knowledge – Ohio’s Undervalued Contributions that Improve the Lives of Citizens of the Globe.”

Taylor’s presentation will explore how, contrary to perception, the clean water movement in Ohio is a bellwether for the rest of the world.

Professor Taylor’s presentation will begin at 2 p.m. in the Pritchard Room of the Hiram College Library. The program is part of a series coordinated by the Friends of the Hiram College Library. For more information, please contact Terri Foy at 330.569.5354.

This program is free and open to the public.

Lunch and Learn

The next Lunch and Learn is set for February 22 at 12:30 p.m. Valerian Anderson will speak about Geographic Information Systems.

 

Don’t Miss: Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues

Two performances of Eve Ensler’s play, The Vagina Monologues signal the annual celebration of V-Day at Hiram College. V-Day is “a global movement to stop violence against women and girls.”

Performances will be held  Friday, February 16, and Saturday, February 17, in Dix Dining Room. Both shows begin at 7 p.m.

Suggested donation at the door is $5 ($2 with a Hiram ID). All proceeds will benefit Safer Futures in Ravenna, an agency that provides support and services to victims of domestic violence.

These performances of The Vagina Monologues are sponsored by GAIA, PRYSM, the Hiram College Theatre Department, and Luna Bars.

 

Students attend music education conference in Columbus

Nine music students attended this year’s Ohio Music Education Association State Music Conference in Columbus, Ohio, with Director of College Band and Jazz Ensemble Jim Bane and Director of College Choir and Madrigal Singers John Drotleff. The conference, which was held February 8 – 10, draws more than 7,000 music educators from Ohio, as well as several thousand student performers.

Conference highlights included information sessions related to music education and the music industry and performances by the All-State Band, All-State Choir, All-State Orchestra, and All-State Jazz Ensemble.

When not attending information sessions or performances, Hiram’s students staffed the College booth in the conference exhibit hall. This is the sixth year that Hiram College has purchased booth space at the conference.

 Student attendees were: Joe Gaither, Liz Over, Lauren Sturdivant, Dan Berman, Adam Pysell, Alyssa Wirkus, Rachel Inks, Tim Florjancic, and Shay Fadzl.

 

Welcome to Hiram!!

Tina Adkins – Front Desk Clerk, Hiram Inn


This Week at Hiram

Monday, February 12

  • Pipe organ demonstration by Tom Trenney
    1:15 p.m., Hayden Auditorium
     
  • Environmental Studies candidate presentation
    4:30 p.m., Bibliographic Instruction Room, Library
     
  • Open Christianity chapel service
    5 p.m., Fisher Chapel 

Tuesday, February 13

  • A reading by Poet George Bilgere
    12:30 p.m., Pritchard Room, Library

  • Gay marriage and religion: A respectful, guided discussion
    7 p.m., Fenton Lounge

Wednesday, February 14

  • Library Forum: Lisa Safford presents, “Christo’s 2005 New York Gates: The Japanese Connection”
    4:15 p.m., Pritchard Room, Library

  • Women’s basketball v. Allegheny College
    6 p.m., Price Gymnasium
     
  • Men’s basketball v. Allegheny College
    8 p.m., Price Gymnasium

Thursday, February 15

  • Passport to Graduation
    9:30 a.m., Kennedy Center
     
  • Clinical psychology candidate presentation
    4:30 p.m., Bibliographic Instruction Room, Library
     
  • Habitat for Humanity fundraising auction @ Bread & Soup (guests: $4.50; students: meal swipe)
    5 p.m., Dix Dining Hall

Friday, February 16
WEEKEND COLLEGE CLASSES MEET

  • Passport to Graduation
    11:30 a.m., Kennedy Center
     
  • Indoor Track & Field @ Greater Cleveland Championships @ Baldwin Wallace
    5 p.m., Berea, Ohio
     
  • The Vagina Monologues
    7 p.m., Dix Dining Room

Saturday, February 17
WEEKEND COLLEGE CLASSES MEET
MASTER’S CLASSES MEET

  • Weekend College information session
    10 a.m., Hinsdale 205
     
  • Women’s basketball @ Kenyon College
    2 p.m., Gambier, Ohio
     
  • Men’s basketball @ Denison University
    3 p.m., Granville, Ohio
     
  • The Vagina Monologues
    7 p.m., Dix Dining Room

Sunday, February 18
WEEKEND COLLEGE CLASSES MEET

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