The Harbinger
October 2, 2006
Meet Steven Bognar, award-winning independent filmmaker
Steven Bognar (pictured left), an award-winning independent
filmmaker of documentaries and dramatic films, will participate in a series of
campus events today and tomorrow to discuss his body of work. Main events
include a screening of short clips from his films this evening at 7 in Frohring Art
5 and convocation tomorrow at 12:30 p.m.
also in Frohring Art 5, as well as several class visits.
Personal Belongings (1996), the story of his father’s
Hungarian roots, was named one of the year’s top ten films by the Columbus
Dispatch. His most recent film, A Lion in the House, tells the story of five
cancer-stricken children and their families as they contend with the disease
and medical treatment over the course of several years. The film debuted at the
Sundance Film Festival this year to rave reviews and aired on PBS in June.
Bognar is a native of Ohio. He
lives in Yellow Springs.
Campus events with Steven Bognar will include:
Monday, October 2
- 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.:
Class visit to Writing 313: Teaching and Supervising Writing
Hinsdale 217
- 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.:
Lunch with students interested in filmmaking
By invitation
- 7 p.m.: Public
film screening: “The Independent Films of Steven Bognar”
Frohring Art 5
Tuesday, October 3
- 9:40 to 11:40 a.m.:
Class visit to Art 346: Advanced Photography
Frohring Art 2
- 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.:
Convocation: “A Lion in the House: The Perils, Ethics, and Challenges of
Documentary Filmmaking”
Frohring Art 5
- 2 to 3 p.m.: Class
visit to Writing 220: Introduction to Creative Writing
Hinsdale 217
- 3 to 4 p.m.: Class
visit to Communication 243: Photojournalism
Hinsdale 110
Steven Bognar’s visit is sponsored by the Lindsay-Crane
Center for Writing and Literature
and is funded by the Hiram Community Trust.
Wednesday: Connie Schultz on the campaign trail at Hiram
Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz will visit Hiram
College on Wednesday, October 4, at
12:30 p.m. A Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist, Schultz has taken a temporary leave of absence from her column to
assist full-time with husband U.S. Representative Sherrod Brown’s (D-Ohio)
campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Congressman Brown is vying against
Republican incumbent Mike DeWine in the 2006 elections.
Join her on the first floor of the Kennedy
Center as she discusses the
campaign.
Connie Schultz’s visit to Hiram is sponsored by the Hiram College Democrats.
Professor Emeritus Robert Sawyer to speak at
Ohio Academy
of History meeting
The annual fall meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will
take place at Hiram College
on Friday, October 6, and will feature an address on James A. Garfield
by Professor Emeritus of Classics Robert Sawyer. Professor Sawyer's
address is titled “Cincinnatus of the Western Reserve:
Garfield and the Classics.” The
talk will begin at 7 p.m.
in the Alumni Heritage Room. The talk is free and open to the public.
Prior to Professor Sawyer’s talk, the Ohio Academy of History will conduct its business meeting, to be followed by dinner. Hiram College Associate Professor of History Vivien Sandlund is President of the Ohio Academy of History, and she will chair the meeting.
Service in celebration of the life of Nicole Pantaleano
Members of the campus community are invited to
a memorial service to celebrate the life of Hiram College alumna Nicole
Pantaleano. The service will take place on Saturday, October 7, at 2
p.m. in the Fisher All-Faith Chapel. Nicky
Pantaleano graduated from Hiram College
in 2003 with a B.A. in history and a minor in art. She passed away on
June 7, 2006. Her husband, Adam M. Smith, has been charged with her
murder. Nicky
loved art, and she loved to travel. She went on the study
abroad trip to Cambridge, England,
in her junior year. Nicky had many dear friends at Hiram, and
she is remembered for her enthusiasm and her love of
life. Come share your memories as we celebrate her life.
Ragged Obsessions, solo gallery show by Professor Emeritus
of Art George Schroeder
Ragged Obsessions, a solo exhibition of collages by veteran
artist and Professor Emeritus of Art George Schroeder, will open at the
Downtown Gallery in Kent
on Wednesday, October 4.
This exhibition will include some two dozen pieces made from a variety of found materials, including fragments of printed papers, often torn or distressed, cloth, medical x-rays, blueprints, wood veneer, plastic signage, photographic negatives, and remnants of painted canvas, which the artist combines in layers and complex patterns.
Schroeder has exhibited paintings, drawings, and collages
regionally, nationally, and internationally during the past six decades. This
exhibition will be his twenty-eighth one man show. Highlights of his exhibition
activity include solo shows at the Maison de la Culture d’Orleans in Orleans,
France in 1983, and at
the Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn,
New York, in 1999. At that time the Kentler
stated that “Schroeder, in a slow motion blend of deadpan intelligence and well
tempered wit, creates a new, richer, and often capricious context, a
‘one-time-only syntax’ of found elements turned into art.”
This “one-time-only syntax” can be observed in the 2006 collage called untitled (jasper), pictured at left, named after an image fragment of a classicizing Wedgwood jasperware vase. This collage contains rhyming, curving edges which lead the eye on a rhythmic chase from the vase itself through bits of fine china, an automobile grille, lacy lingerie, and some sensuous contours of several female bodies. The collage is typical of the work in this show - evocative, ambiguous, and perhaps confounding, a constructed reality which combines the elegant and the tawdry.
Schroeder received both his Bachelor of Fine Arts and his Master of Fine Arts degrees from Kent State. He taught art and art history at Hiram College between 1962 and 2006, serving for many years as chairman of the art department. He intends to dedicate this exhibition to the memory of his graduate advisor and mentor, Robert Morrow, Professor of Art at Kent State, who Schroeder says, “taught me to pay attention to everything.”
Ragged Obsessions will remain on view through November 4, 2006. A reception is scheduled from 5:00 - 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 5.
The Kent State University, School of Art, Downtown Gallery is located at 223 North Water Street in Kent, Ohio. The gallery’s website is www.kent.edu/art. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Photograph exhibit explores HIV in America
A touring photograph and text exhibit titled “Focus on
Living: Portraits of Americans with HIV and AIDS” will be available to the Hiram
College community beginning
Thursday, October 5, and continuing through October 12.
The exhibit will be located in the Hinsdale Arch
(second-floor walkway).
“Focus on Living” showcases 16 Americans living with HIV and AIDS. It is the work of acclaimed photographer/writer Roslyn Banish, author of four books exploring human issues by combining text and photos. The exhibit is based on a book by the same title, Focus on Living (U. Mass Press), with an introduction by Paul A. Volberding, M.D., vice chair of the department of medicine of the University of California, San Francisco.
The subjects of “Focus on Living” speak candidly about their lives, relationships, and how they have come to terms with the presence of a chronic and potentially fatal disease.
For more information, visit www.focusonliving.org.
Free, anonymous HIV testing
Free, anonymous HIV testing will be available in the Health
Center on Thursday, October 26, from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Testing will be done by Jim Chillemi from CAN
(Community Aids Network). The test is administered by mouth swab. Call the Health
Center at x5418 and make your
appointment by birth date. Jim will be back the following Thursday, November 2,
with test results.
Get your flu shot/flumist at the Health
Center
Beginning October 16, flu shots will be available at the Health
Center. Cost of the shot is $20. (Students
may put this charge on their student bill.) Shots will be given by appointment
only, so please call the Health Center
at x5418 to make an appointment. Flumist
also will be available for those who do not like needles. Flumist can be used
only by adults between the ages of 18 and 49 who have no history of asthma or
reactive airway disease. The charge for Flumist will be $30.
Professor of Computer Science Ellen Walker, students present work at Midwest Conferences
On September 29 and 30, Professor of Computer Science Ellen
Walker attended the Consortium for Computing Science in Colleges Midwest
Conference (CCSC-MW) at DePauw University
in Greencastle, Indiana.
Walker presented a paper titled,
“Integrated Research Components: A Practical and Effective Alternative to
Senior Projects.” The paper, which was co-authored by Professor of Computer
Science Obie Slotterbeck, explores the unique approach Hiram’s computer science
department takes with the capstone project.
Hiram College
senior Cody Baker also attended the conference and presented a poster titled,
“Automatically Calculating Genetic Relevance.” Baker conducted the research for
his poster project while at DePauw during a summer research experience
sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Admission to the research program
was highly selective; only ten undergraduates were admitted to the program from
a national pool of applicants.
At another conference, the Midwest Celebration of Women in
Computing, which was co-located with the CCSC-MW at DePauw, Walker presented a
paper that she co-authored with Hiram alumna Shannon Steinfadt ’00. The title of
that paper was, “Don’t Panic! Friendly Advice for Teaching Your First Course as
a Graduate Assistant.”
Steinfadt, who is a Ph.D. candidate at Kent
State University,
also presented a talk at the conference titled, “Five Internships in Five
Minutes: Interning at NASA for Fun and Profit.” The talk described her
internship experiences that began the summer after her freshman year at Hiram
and continued through her first year in graduate school at Kent
State University.
Library Forum this Wednesday
Dr. Michael Gumert will present the next Library Forum at 4:15 p.m.
on Wednesday, October 4, 2006. Dr. Gumert will speak on “Grooming
for Gains: Social Markets in Indonesian Long-Tailed Macaques.” The
program will
be held in the Pritchard Room of the Library and refreshments will be
served.
Rotaract of Hiram College elects officers
Last Thursday, September 28, members of the Rotaract of
Hiram College (a chartered Rotary Club for college students) elected the
following officers and directors to manage their organization:
- President: Chelsea Arnold
- Vice President: Nicole Trainer
- Secretary: Michelle Morgan
- Treasure: Vernique Callwood
- Director representing community service projects: Jessie Lanterman
- Director representing international projects: Sara Husain
- Director representing club services: Will Dahlberg
- Director representing professional development: Isabelle Tuma
- Director of Finance: Andrea Wohleber
The Rotaract of Hiram College meets in the Brown-Fall Room of the Kennedy Center on Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. The group is involved with domestic and international projects to improve the well-being of homeless children and children with AIDS, as well as projects that support grassroots entrepreneurship. All are welcome! Many new members are needed. For more information, go to home.hiram.edu/Rotoract.
Congrats
Congratulations to Greg Mitchell, who was the first correct
respondent to last week’s Harbinger trivia. Greg knew that men’s soccer and
women’s volleyball were the two Hiram NCAC teams that had only one loss as of
last Monday. He won a sweatshirt from the bookstore.
This Week at Hiram
Monday, October 2
- Steven Bognar visit to Writing 313: Teaching and Supervising
Writing
11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m., Hinsdale 217
- “The Independent Films of Steven Bognar”
7 p.m., Frohring Art 5
Tuesday, October 3
- Steven Bognar visit to Art 346: Advanced Photography
9:40 to 11:40 a.m., Frohring Art 2
- Steven Bognar Convocation: “A Lion in the House: The Perils,
Ethics, and Challenges of Documentary Filmmaking”
12:30 p.m., Frohring Art 5
- Steven Bognar visit to Writing 220: Introduction to Creative
Writing
2 to 3 p.m., Hinsdale 217
- Steven Bognar visit to Communication 243: Photojournalism
3 to 4 p.m., Hinsdale 110
- Women’s Soccer @ Oberlin
4:30 p.m., Oberlin, Ohio
- Cross Country @ Ursuline Invitational
5 p.m., Pepper Pike, Ohio
Wednesday, October 4
-
Ragged Obsessions gallery show opens
12 p.m., Downtown Gallery in Kent
Professor Emeritus of Art George Schroeder’s twenty-eighth solo exhibition
- Connie Schultz on the campaign trail
12:30 p.m., Kennedy Center first floor lounge
- Library Forum
4:15 p.m., Pritchard Room of the Library
Dr. Michael Gumert will speak on “Grooming for Gains: Social Markets in Indonesian Long-Tailed Macaques”
Thursday, October 5
- Photography exhibit: “Focus on Living: Portraits of
Americans with HIV and AIDS”
All day, Hinsdale Second Floor Archway
-
Ragged Obsessions gallery reception
5 p.m., Downtown Gallery in Kent
A reception to celebrate the opening of Professor Emeritus of Art George Schroeder’s twenty-eighth solo exhibition
Friday, October 6
WEEKEND COLLEGE CLASSES MEET
- Photograph exhibit: “Focus on Living: Portraits of Americans
with HIV and AIDS”
All day, Hinsdale second floor archway
- Cross Country @ All-Ohio Invitational @ Ohio
Wesleyan
2:30 p.m., Delaware, Ohio
- Ohio Academy
of History Meeting
7 p.m. Alumni Heritage Room, Teachout-Price Hall
Professor Robert Sawyer will speak on “Cincinnatus of the Western Reserve: Garfield and the Classics”
Saturday, October 7
WEEKEND COLLEGE & MASTER'S CLASSES MEET
- Photograph exhibit: “Focus on Living: Portraits of Americans
with HIV and AIDS”
All day, Hinsdale second floor archway
- Men’s Soccer @ Wabash
11 a.m., Crawfordsville, Indiana
- Football @ Kenyon
1 p.m., Gambier, Ohio
- Volleyball @ Carnegie Mellon Invitational v. Elizabethtown
1 p.m., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Women’s Soccer @ Kenyon
1 p.m., Gambier, Ohio
- Celebration of the Life of Nicole Pantaleano
2 p.m., Fisher All-Faith Chapel
- Volleyball @ Carnegie Mellon Invitational v. Penn
State Altoona
3 p.m., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Volleyball @ Carnegie Mellon Invitational v. Carnegie Mellon
5 p.m., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sunday, October 8
WEEKEND COLLEGE CLASSES MEET
- Photograph exhibit: “Focus on Living: Portraits of Americans
with HIV and AIDS”
All day, Hinsdale second floor archway
- Women’s Golf @ Washington & Jefferson Invitational
TBD, Washington, Pennsylvania
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