The Harbinger
March 19, 2007
This week: Bissell Symposium
Harold Hart Crane: Poet & Visionary
Locally-born poet Hart Crane’s short, tempestuous life was
marked by tremendous highs and lows. A few contemporary critics praised his
work; many others pilloried his use of archaic language and obscure references.
Born in Garrettsville in 1899, Crane leapt to his suicide from the deck of an
ocean liner off the coast of Florida
in 1932.
In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in Crane’s creative
work and his life. Learn why from the nation’s leading Crane scholars during
this year’s annual Bissell Symposium.
Schedule of Events
Wednesday, March 21
- 7 p.m., Brian Reed, “‘Porphyro in Akron’: Hart Crane’s Ohio Years”
Pritchard Room, Hiram College Library
Brian Reed, associate professor of English at the University of Washington and author of After His Lights: Hart Crane Reconsidered (2006), will discuss Crane’s formative experiences in Ohio.
Thursday, March 22
- 10 – 11:30 a.m., Walking tour of Garrettsville, visiting
sites associated with the Crane family.
Meet in the lobby of the Kennedy Center
- 12:30 p.m., Langdon Hammer, “Recognizing Hart Crane”
Kennedy Center Ballroom
Langdon Hammer, professor of English at Yale University and author of Hart Crane and Allen Tate: Janus-Faced Modernism (1993), will deliver a presentation about Crane and his poetry.
- 1:30 – 2:45 p.m., Lunch (by reservation only)
Brown Fall Room, Kennedy Center
- 3 – 5 p.m., Presentation by Hart Crane scholars, followed by
an open discussion.
Pritchard Room, Hiram College Library - Vivian Pemberton, “A Scholar Adventures: A Search for Hart Crane”
Vivian Pemberton, professor emerita of English at Kent State University, is a scholar of Hart Crane’s poems, correspondence, and family. - William Tregoning, “Hart Crane,William Sommer, and the Brandywine Group”
William Tregoning, owner/gallerist of Tregoning Fine Art in Chagrin Falls, is an authority on American painter William Sommer, who was a lifelong friend of Crane’s. - Jim Vincent ’65, “Living in the Shadow of Hart Crane”
Jim Vincent, associate professor of communications at Robert Morris University, is a Hart Crane historian who lives in Garrettsville.
As holder of the Howard S. Bissell Chair in Liberal Studies,
Dr. Robert W. Sawyer has the responsibility of selecting an appropriate topic
for the annual Bissell Symposium and organizing its implementation. The
symposium is free and open to the public.
Hart Crane Exhibit in the Archives
From March 19-26, as part of the Seventh Annual Howard S.
Bissell Symposium, the Hiram College Archives is presenting a special exhibit
of Hart Crane memorabilia, including eight letters written by the poet
himself. This material has been made available courtesy of the Kent State
University Library Special Collections and Archives. Hours for the Hiram
College Archives are 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 1 - 5 p.m., Monday through Friday and
after the Symposium presentation on Wednesday, March 21, until 9 p.m.
Juried Student Art Show opens Tuesday, March 20
Hiram College’s annual Juried Student Art Show will open
with a public reception and awards presentation on Tuesday, March 20, from 5 –
7 p.m. in the Frohring
Art Gallery.
This year’s juror will be artist and Assistant Professor of Art at Washington
and Jefferson College Patrick Schmidt. Many works will be for sale, and the
public is invited.
Mountain Top Removal Roadshow returns to Hiram College
After the student gallery show, stick around the Frohring Art Building.
A special presentation about a coal extraction process called Mountain Top
Removal (MTR) will start at 7 p.m. in Frohring Art 5.
The Mountain Top Removal Roadshow is a traveling
presentation that addresses the devastating environmental effects of a blasting
and dumping technique used by coal companies in Appalachia.
The roadshow will feature a screening of a new documentary film about MTR that
explores the cost of coal-powered electricity in terms of human and
environmental health.
Hosts of the presentation are Dave Cooper, a former
mechanical engineer from Lexington, Kentucky, and Larry Gibson, president of the Stanley
Heirs Foundation and a volunteer with the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition,
from Kayford Mountain, West Virginia. Cooper left his job in
industry to travel around the country and educate the public about the
environmental degradation and health risks created by MTR. Gibson’s efforts to
save Kayford Mountain from MTR have been chronicled
by Nightline, 20/20, the BBC, the New York Times, and other media outlets.
The presentation is free of charge. Donations to defray
travel expenses are gratefully accepted by the presenters.
For more information, please visit www.mountainroadshow.com.
This event is sponsored by: Student Environmental Action
Coalition, Students Against Social Injustice, Outdoors Club, Interfaith Council,
Hiram Christian Outreach, and American Institute of Biological Sciences.
Hiram student does more than talk about activism
Minority Dissertation Fellow Jason Johnson reports that
Senior Joe Overton from Smithville, Tennessee, telephoned last week from the governor’s
office in West Virginia, where he and 75 other
people were staging a sit-in protest on behalf of Marsh
Fork Elementary
School in West
Virginia.
Johnson, in an e-mail to the campus community, explained the
protest with this quote from a West
Virginia newspaper: “An active 1,849-acre mountaintop
removal coal mine surrounds the school area. Marsh Fork Elementary sits just
225 feet from a Massey Energy coal-loading silo that releases high levels of
coal dust and saturates the air in the school. Independent tests have shown
that coal dust is hazardous to the health of school children. And a leaking earthen
dam holding back 2.8 billion gallons of toxic coal-sludge is also located above
the school site. What’s more, Massey Energy wants to build another silo.”
“Joe is by far one of the most passionate and committed activist students on this campus,” Johnson wrote. “Joe and his friends are protesting to have the state build another school, a safer school, for these elementary children. They feel that if the state can give subsidies to businesses to come to West Virginia they can help move these children to a safer place for education.”
Johnson said in his e-mail that he was writing “not simply
as a supporter of rights of children, but in awe and appreciation of the kinds
of students that we produce at Hiram. That this level of dedication – not empty
rhetoric, fashionable radicalism, or romantic extremism – can come from a
student at this college is a testament to all the hard-working staff and
faculty here, regardless of whether we agree with the protest or not.”
Scholastic Book Fair this week
The annual Scholastic Book Fair will be held Monday, March
19 – Friday, March 23, 2007. The fair includes a variety of books for infants,
toddlers, preschoolers, children from kindergarten through high school, and
adults. Teacher education materials will also be for sale, as well as many
items that would make for great gifts.
The book fair is sponsored by Kappa Delta Pi, the Hiram College
education department honorary society, and the Hiram College National
Collegiate Middle Level Association. All profits from this annual service
project are used to support the organizations’ activities and to earn books from
Scholastic which are then donated to area schools and social service agencies.
Cash, check, credit cards, and debit cards can be accepted
for payment.
The fair will be held in the Brown Fall Room, on the second
floor of the Kennedy
Center.
Times are as follows:
- Monday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
- Tuesday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
- Wednesday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
- Thursday, 5 – 7 p.m. (during Bread and Soup)
- Friday, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Communication Senior Seminar presentations
The senior communication majors will be sharing the results
of their year-long research work. All presentations will be held in the
Pritchard Room of the Hiram College Library and will begin at 7 p.m.
Presenters, topics, and dates are:
Tuesday, March 20
- Russ Elek: “Turn Left at Exit 1A: Attempting to Discover a Relationship between Billboards and Agenda-setting Theory”
- Sara Morato: “A Case Study of Bolivia: Evo Morales as the First Indigenous President”
- Jeff Schindler: “Male Stereotypes in the Narratives of Rob & Big, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Fresh Meat”
Tuesday, March 27
-
Matt Saenz: “Sports Common Ground: A Study of
Success and Goals Surrounding Player/Coach Compatibility
- Shane Tonkavich: “Radio Ads: Are They Really More Personal?”
- Colin McCormack: “The Agenda-Setting of Regional and National Newspapers Found in the Coverage of the Columbine High School Shootings”
Thursday, March 29
-
Jahmal Edwards: “The Clash of Two Giants: Broadcasting
and Digital Technology”
- Meghan Urbon: “Anonymity in Computer-Mediated Relationships and the Perceptions of Similarities Leading to Satisfying Relationships”
- Erin Kelly: “Consumer Behavior: Have Men and Women’s Consumer Behaviors Become Androgynous?”
Tuesday, April 3
- Brandon Derr: “Construction of Product Symbolism in Sports Advertising: A Content Analysis of Symbols Used in ESPN Sports Media Advertising”
- Brian Corey: “Talking the Color Line: Determining Racial Social Justice between White and Black People in an Interracial Conversation”
Friday: Fully-staged production of Mozart’s Requiem in Hayden Auditorium
Hiram will host a full-staged production of Mozart’s Requiem
on Friday, March 23. The Mozart Requiem is one of the monumental choral
orchestral works of Western Civilization and was the last piece Mozart composed
before his death. A professional orchestra of 20 players will accompany the
chorus of 80 voices. Soloists will be students in Hiram’s College Choir.
Soloists include: Hiram College Seniors Laura Mateo, Virginia
Mateo, Emily Clark, Dan Klinzing, and Greg Petersen; Juniors Hannah Gardner, Nathan
Yaussy, and Nelly Tobias; Sophomore Rachel Inks; and First-Years Adam Murphy, Tria
Charnas, Michael Campbell, and Brian Klinzing.
This performance is a collaborative effort of the Hiram
College Choir, the Ashtabula County Choral Society Chorale, and the Kent State
University-Ashtabula University Chorus (Kathy Milford, director), as well as
Hiram College adjunct faculty members, and other professional instrumentalists
from Northeastern Ohio. John Drotleff, director of the Hiram College Choir and
adjunct faculty member in Hiram’s Department of Music, will conduct.
The performance will begin at 8 p.m. in Hayden Auditorium.
Funded by the Damaris Peters Pike Fund, the ACCS, and the Ohio Arts Council,
this performance is free and open to the public.
Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, March 27 & 28
Eric J. Heller, professor of physics and chemistry at Harvard
University, is this year’s Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar. On Tuesday, March
27, 2007, he will deliver a public lecture titled, “Picture-Perfect Persuasion:
Politics and Prejudice Surrounding the Scientific Image, 1800-2006.”
The lecture will explore the role played by the scientific
image in enhancing science, the public understanding and funding of science,
scientific theories, and scientists’ careers. Heller also will discuss why some
scientists view scientific images as if they were craven. Using the colorful
history of wave physics, including some of Heller’s own work and images, he
will illustrate how the scientific image convinces and conveys.
Heller has been a member of the physics faculty at Harvard
since 1993 and from 1993 – 98 served as director of Institute for Theoretical,
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics. Since 1998, he has also been a member of Harvard’s chemistry
faculty. Heller previously taught at UCLA and the University of Washington and
was a staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. A fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Physical Society, he is
the recipient of the 2005 American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical
Chemistry. Professor Heller’s current research involves theoretical
investigation of wave behavior, chaos and quantum mechanics, and collision
theory. He is also interested in science-based art as a way to convey insights
about complex subject matter.
The lecture will begin at 8 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Ballroom.
The public is invited and encouraged to attend.
Dyer to speak at Youngstown State and Akron U. about creative nonfiction
Joyce Dyer will be talking with students and faculty at
Youngstown State University about creative nonfiction on Monday afternoon,
March 26. On Thursday afternoon, March
29, she will be doing a reading and a class on creative nonfiction for
University of Akron students in the Ballroom of the student union. Both events
are sponsored by NEOMFA, a program that awards an MFA degree from a consortium
of four state institutions—Youngstown State, Kent State, Cleveland State, and
University of Akron.
Cody Baker presents research at ACM conference
Cody Baker ’07 was invited to present the results of his
research at this year’s Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special
Interest Group on Computer Science Education conference, held in Covington,
Kentucky, on March 8 – 10. Baker presented a poster titled, “Classification of
Email into Folders using Naive Bayesian.” The poster results derived from work Baker
completed in a computer science course on artificial intelligence.
Baker was one of 15 undergraduates chosen in an
international competition to present his work, based on an abstract submitted
last September. He received a $500 travel grant to attend the conference. In
addition, Professor of Computer Science Ellen Walker participated in a panel discussion
titled, “Mechanics of Undergraduate Research at Liberal Arts Colleges – Lessons
Learned.” Professor of Computer Science Obie Slotterbeck also attended the
conference.
Four-Year anniversary of the Iraq war
Monday, March 19, marks the four-year anniversary of the
Iraq war. 1,580 ribbons will be distributed throughout the day in
representation of the number of days of the war. Each time a ribbon is
distributed a prayer will be said for peace. At noon on Monday there will be a
campus-wide moment of silence and meditation at the flagpole, followed by a 9
p.m. candlelight vigil at the Kennedy Center.
Friends of the Library Book Sale
The Friends of the Hiram College Library March book sale is
being held this week. Doors opened at 8 a.m. Monday, March 19, and the hours of
sale are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, March 23. Books are 50 cents
each.
April 3 convocation to explore insanity plea as legal defense
Phillip Resnick, M.D., has testified as an expert witness regarding the mental state of defendants for a number of high profile jury trials, including the trials of Jeffrey Dahlmer, the Unabomber, and many homicide and rape cases. On Tuesday, April 3, Resnick will deliver a convocation at Hiram College. The topic of his talk is, “The Andrea Yates Case: Insanity on Trial.”
Dr. Resnick is a professor of psychiatry at Case Western
Reserve University. His visit to campus is part of the annual Margaret Clark
Morgan Convocation at Hiram College.
April 6: Concert by United Voices of Hiram College
Hiram’s gospel choir, United Voices of Hiram, invites you to
take a break from preparing for finals and attend a Gospel Celebration. The
concert will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Ballroom on Friday, April
6.
Welcome to Hiram
Amy Turos- Mailroom/Printing Center Attendant, Service Center
This Week at Hiram
Monday, March 19
- Library book sale
8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Library
- Hart Crane exhibit
9 a.m. – 12 p.m., 1 – 5 p.m., Archives, Library
- Scholastic Book Fair
10 a.m. – 6 p.m., Brown Fall Room, Kennedy Center
- Silence and meditation
12 p.m., Flagpole
- Open Christianity chapel service
5 p.m., Fisher Chapel
-
The Price Is Right
7 p.m., Hayden Auditorium
- Candlelight vigil
9 p.m., Kennedy Center
Tuesday, March 20
- Library book sale
8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Library
- Hart Crane exhibit
9 a.m. – 12 p.m., 1 – 5 p.m., Archives, Library
- Scholastic Book Fair
10 a.m. – 6 p.m., Brown Fall Room, Kennedy Center
- Baseball @ Thiel College
3 p.m., Greenville, Pennsylvania
- Softball @ Thiel College
3 p.m., Greenville, Pennsylvania
- Men’s Tennis @ Westminster College
4:30 p.m., New Wilmington, Pennsylvania
- Juried Student Art Show
5 p.m., Frohring Art Gallery
- Mountain Top Removal Roadshow
7 p.m., Frohring Art 5
- Communication Senior Seminar Presentations
7 p.m., Pritchard Room, Library
Wednesday, March 21
- Library book sale
8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Library
- Hart Crane exhibit
9 a.m. – 12 p.m., 1 – 5 p.m., Archives, Library
- Scholastic Book Fair
10 a.m. – 6 p.m., Brown Fall Room, Kennedy Center
- Baseball @ Mount Union College
3:30 p.m., Alliance, Ohio
- Bissell Symposium: Brian Reed presenting, “‘Porphyro in
Akron’: Hart Crane’s Ohio Years”
7 p.m., Pritchard Room, Library
Thursday, March 22
- Library book sale
8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Library
- Hart Crane exhibit
9 a.m. – 12 p.m., 1 – 5 p.m., Archives, Library
- Bissell Symposium: Walking tour of Garrettsville
10 – 11:30 a.m., Meet in the lobby of the Kennedy Center
- Bissell Symposium: Langdon Hammer presenting, “Recognizing
Hart Crane”
12:30 p.m., Kennedy Center Ballroom
- Bissell Symposium Lunch (by reservation only)
1:30 – 2:45 p.m., Brown Fall Room, Kennedy Center
- Bissell Symposium: Presentation by Hart Crane Scholars
3 – 5 p.m., Pritchard Room, Hiram College Library
- Bread & Soup (guests: $4.50; students: meal swipe)
5 p.m., Dix Dining Hall
- Scholastic Book Fair
5 p.m. – 7 p.m., Brown Fall Room, Kennedy Center
Friday, March 23
- Library book sale
8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Library
- Hart Crane exhibit
9 a.m. – 12 p.m., 1 – 5 p.m., Archives, Library
- Scholastic Book Fair
10 a.m. – 3 p.m., Brown Fall Room, Kennedy Center
- Softball v. Lake Erie College (double-header)
3 p.m., Myrtis E. Herndon Field
- Mozart’s Requiem
8 p.m., Hayden Auditorium
Saturday, March 24
- Baseball v. Kenyon College (double-header)
1 p.m., Robert O. Fishel Field
- Women’s Tennis v. Ursuline College
1 p.m., Hiram College Tennis Courts
Sunday, March 25
- Baseball v. Kenyon College (double-header)
1 p.m., Robert O. Fishel Field
- Softball v. Notre Dame College (double-header)
1 p.m., Myrtis E. Herndon Field
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