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May 1, 2007
Vol. 10 No. 25
Community News
A big thanks to the WWC community from College Relations
Carla Sutherland and the College Relations staff thanks all those (you know who you are) who helped pull off a very successful week of inauguration activities as we celebrated the College and installed our sixth president, Sandy Pfeiffer. From Work Day to the Triad Dinner and the installation ceremony, we couldn't have done it without you!
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Graduation rehearsal
Thurs., May 17, 6 p.m., Kittredge Theatre. Required for all graduates. You'll get your cap and gown at this time.
Senior Service Awards
Friday, May 18, 2:30-4 p.m., Fellowship Hall. A ceremony to honor and recognize a select group of seniors who have demonstrated substantial commitment to service while at WWC.
Honors and Awards Night - Friday, May 18, 8 p.m., College Chapel.
2006-07 Commencement
Majora Carter, founder and executive director of Sustainable South Bronx (http://www.ssbx.org) will speak at the 2006-07 commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 19, 10 a.m., on Sunderland Lawn. Founded in 2001, Sustainable South Bronx promotes environmental justice through innovative, economically sustainable projects that are informed by the needs of the community. SSB also addresses land-use, energy, transportation, water and waste policy, and education in order to advance the environmental and economic rebirth of the South Bronx to inspire solutions in areas like it across the nation and the globe.
C-SPAN plans to televise Carter’s Commencement Address. The air date and time on the network program schedule have not been determined.
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Attention Gladfelter Diners
Want to make a difference on campus and win cool prizes, too? Join the CLEAN PLATE CLUB. Did you know that according to the EPA only 2.6 percent of the food waste in the United States is composted annually? The rest goes straight to the landfill. Luckily, here at WWC we have the capacity to compost our food from the cafeteria. Unfortunately, not all the food waste thrown into the compost bins is actually composted as you may think. The recycling crew composts as much organic material as possible, but there is such a volume of uneaten food that it often will not all fit into the composting bins. When this occurs, the food goes straight into the trash. There is a way you can help reduce the organic material from WWC that goes to the landfill each month. Join the Clean Plate Club. Look for the Clean Plate table near the compost bins in Gladfelter. If you clean your plate and have nothing left over to compost you will become a Clean Plate Member. As a member you will win a ticket to enter in a raffle to win fun prizes. If we all work together we can reduce the amount of organic waste thrown out at WWC.
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2007-08 Residence Life Staff
RD’s
Patrick Addabbo
Christopher Cleveland
Meghan Evans
Alejandro Garcia
Erin Johnson
Taylor Johnson
Jillian Loury
Aaron Malenke
Ryan Morra
Sarah Murphy
Jane Shuput
Hana Staub
Shay Tippens
Shannon Waldron
RA’s
Able Allen
Zander Aloi
Jenna Anderson
Seanna Bellinger
Kate Bowen
Teshale Byan
Kelly Daniel
Rachael Fairbanks
Ayla Graden
Paige Heron
Kenney Hummell
Julia Mead
Chris Nelson
Jeff Richey
Lindsay Roberts
Josh Rosenberg
Rebecca Sharp
Sara Slaughter
Anthony Sotelo
Emily Standridge
Tally Winquist
Residence Life is still looking for students who are interested in being RA’s in Sunderland and/or Vining. Pick up an application from Student Life (Dodge).
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Matthews, Flynn conclude writers series
The final event in WWC’s Spring 2007 Visiting Writers Series is a reading by poets Sebastian Matthews and Keith Flynn on May 3. The reading begins at 8 p.m. in Canon Lounge. Matthews is the author of a collection of poems, We Generous (Red Hen Press), and a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps (Norton). He coedited, with Stanley Plumly, Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews, a recent finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Matthews teaches part-time at Warren Wilson College and edits Rivendell, a place-based literary journal. He was a recipient of a 2006 North Carolina Artist Grant.
Keith Flynn is the author of four collections of poetry: The Golden Ratio, The Talking Drum (Metropolis Communications), The Book of Monsters (Urthona Press), The Lost Sea (Iris Press) and The Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz & Memory: How to Make Your Poetry Swing. Flynn was twice awarded the Emerging Songwriter Prize from the American Society of Composers, Artists and Publishers (ASCAP). Also twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Flynn is founder and managing editor of Asheville Poetry Review, a biannual literary journal.
More info: 771-3021.
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Natural Science Seminar
Mon., May 7, 4 p.m., Jensen Lecture Hall. Kylie Krauss presents “Dopamine levels in competitive mountain bikers versus non-mountain bikers.” Mentor: Dr. Victoria Collins. At 4:30 p.m., Alexandra Meyer presents an environmental policy guest seminar.
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Warren Wilson Theatre presents “Butoh, Redux…PLUS”
The final production of Warren Wilson Theatre’s current season will be an unusual one: “Butoh, Redux…PLUS,” May 11-12 at 7 p.m. The combination Butoh dance and performance art extravaganza will be performed in and around Bryson Gym, under the direction of Julie Becton Gillum. The production originally was to be titled simply “Butoh, Redux” because it’s the second butoh performance of the season. However, most of pieces that it includes transcend the already avant-garde dance form known as “Butoh” and enter the realm of performance art. Gillum’s students will be joined by a number of Asheville-based performers. Each evening will begin with a Butoh performance in Warren Wilson’s formal garden before the audience moves into Bryson Gym. Other performance elements include movement, spoken word, video and puppetry. Tickets are $10 general admission and $5 for area students, seniors and Warren Wilson staff and alumni. Warren Wilson students are, as always, admitted free of charge. For reservations call (828) 771-3040.
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Registration under way for Archaeology Field School
Registration is under way for the 2007 WWC Archaeology Field School, to be held near Morganton June 18-July 13. Four one-week sessions will be held at the highly significant Berry site, subject of the Smithsonian Magazine article “Spain Makes a Stand” in March 2006. The site along Upper Creek is believed to represent not only an ancestral Catawba Indian town, but also the earliest European settlement in the North American interior.
Two schools will be offered this year – one focusing on excavation methods, the other on laboratory methods. Enrollment is available for one to four weeks for a non-credit participant fee of $300 per week. Although enrollment is limited by number, archaeological experience isn’t necessary.
The 2007 field school will concentrate on a one-acre area where 16th century Spanish artifacts and the remains of five burned buildings have been located. These structures represent the remains of the Spanish compound Fort San Juan. Participants in the school will work to map and excavate the area around one of these burned buildings. While the field school is under way, another crew will be excavating one of the burned buildings as part of a multi-year grant from the National Science Foundation. Field school participants also will also assist in this effort.
For registration forms or more details, contact field school director David Moore, 771-2013, dmoore@warren-wilson.edu . To view images and read about previous field schools at the Berry site, see http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~arch.
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Scholarly Achievements
WWC MFA graduate, former Beebe Fellow and MFA faculty Van Jordan has won a Guggenheim Fellowship. Guggenheim winners are selected on the basis of past achievement and future promise.
Poems from Sebastian Matthews’ recent book, We Generous, will be featured on the “The Writer’s Almanac” May 4 and May 12. Listen in on your local NPR station, or check it out on the Writer’s Almanac online.
Junior Meg Evans is the 2007 recipient of the Austin Wright Scholarship for Leaders.
Senior Pat Addabbo has been awarded this year’s The Doug Orr Merit Scholarship-Internship Program with North Carolina Outward Bound School.
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Hooray for . . .
Warren Wilson runners who competed in the 24 Hours for Africa trail relay race at Camp Rockmont on April 14-15. The WWC team finished third, completing 39 laps of the five-mile course. More than 400 runners competed in the race, raising more than $20,000 for sustainable water programs in Africa. For complete results, visit http://www.runforafrica.org.
Assistant Farm manager Chase Hubbard, who (back by popular demand) recently gave another and more extensive talk about the College Farm grass finishing operation with our beef cattle to a group of cattlemen, rural development professionals, and Ag. Extension personnel in Rutherford County.
Farm manager John Pilson, who was recently appointed by American Whitewater to be the new Streamkeeper for the Green River Narrows. John is one of the public interfaces for AW regarding the Green River and access issues, and has completely rebuilt AW's website for The Narrows -- http://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/River/detail/id/1080/
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Attention event organizers
Be sure to submit events to the new campus events calendar. You can find a link to the calendar and the online submission form at the top of the inside page.
More news
For more WWC news and information, visit the Inside Page – http://www.warren-wilson.edu/internal/index.php.
WWC Emergency Hotline - (828) 258-4521
Vol. 10 No. 25
Community News
A big thanks to the WWC community from College Relations
Carla Sutherland and the College Relations staff thanks all those (you know who you are) who helped pull off a very successful week of inauguration activities as we celebrated the College and installed our sixth president, Sandy Pfeiffer. From Work Day to the Triad Dinner and the installation ceremony, we couldn't have done it without you!
----------
Graduation rehearsal
Thurs., May 17, 6 p.m., Kittredge Theatre. Required for all graduates. You'll get your cap and gown at this time.
Senior Service Awards
Friday, May 18, 2:30-4 p.m., Fellowship Hall. A ceremony to honor and recognize a select group of seniors who have demonstrated substantial commitment to service while at WWC.
Honors and Awards Night - Friday, May 18, 8 p.m., College Chapel.
2006-07 Commencement
Majora Carter, founder and executive director of Sustainable South Bronx (http://www.ssbx.org) will speak at the 2006-07 commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 19, 10 a.m., on Sunderland Lawn. Founded in 2001, Sustainable South Bronx promotes environmental justice through innovative, economically sustainable projects that are informed by the needs of the community. SSB also addresses land-use, energy, transportation, water and waste policy, and education in order to advance the environmental and economic rebirth of the South Bronx to inspire solutions in areas like it across the nation and the globe.
C-SPAN plans to televise Carter’s Commencement Address. The air date and time on the network program schedule have not been determined.
----------
Attention Gladfelter Diners
Want to make a difference on campus and win cool prizes, too? Join the CLEAN PLATE CLUB. Did you know that according to the EPA only 2.6 percent of the food waste in the United States is composted annually? The rest goes straight to the landfill. Luckily, here at WWC we have the capacity to compost our food from the cafeteria. Unfortunately, not all the food waste thrown into the compost bins is actually composted as you may think. The recycling crew composts as much organic material as possible, but there is such a volume of uneaten food that it often will not all fit into the composting bins. When this occurs, the food goes straight into the trash. There is a way you can help reduce the organic material from WWC that goes to the landfill each month. Join the Clean Plate Club. Look for the Clean Plate table near the compost bins in Gladfelter. If you clean your plate and have nothing left over to compost you will become a Clean Plate Member. As a member you will win a ticket to enter in a raffle to win fun prizes. If we all work together we can reduce the amount of organic waste thrown out at WWC.
----------
2007-08 Residence Life Staff
RD’s
Patrick Addabbo
Christopher Cleveland
Meghan Evans
Alejandro Garcia
Erin Johnson
Taylor Johnson
Jillian Loury
Aaron Malenke
Ryan Morra
Sarah Murphy
Jane Shuput
Hana Staub
Shay Tippens
Shannon Waldron
RA’s
Able Allen
Zander Aloi
Jenna Anderson
Seanna Bellinger
Kate Bowen
Teshale Byan
Kelly Daniel
Rachael Fairbanks
Ayla Graden
Paige Heron
Kenney Hummell
Julia Mead
Chris Nelson
Jeff Richey
Lindsay Roberts
Josh Rosenberg
Rebecca Sharp
Sara Slaughter
Anthony Sotelo
Emily Standridge
Tally Winquist
Residence Life is still looking for students who are interested in being RA’s in Sunderland and/or Vining. Pick up an application from Student Life (Dodge).
----------
Matthews, Flynn conclude writers series
The final event in WWC’s Spring 2007 Visiting Writers Series is a reading by poets Sebastian Matthews and Keith Flynn on May 3. The reading begins at 8 p.m. in Canon Lounge. Matthews is the author of a collection of poems, We Generous (Red Hen Press), and a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps (Norton). He coedited, with Stanley Plumly, Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews, a recent finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Matthews teaches part-time at Warren Wilson College and edits Rivendell, a place-based literary journal. He was a recipient of a 2006 North Carolina Artist Grant.
Keith Flynn is the author of four collections of poetry: The Golden Ratio, The Talking Drum (Metropolis Communications), The Book of Monsters (Urthona Press), The Lost Sea (Iris Press) and The Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz & Memory: How to Make Your Poetry Swing. Flynn was twice awarded the Emerging Songwriter Prize from the American Society of Composers, Artists and Publishers (ASCAP). Also twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Flynn is founder and managing editor of Asheville Poetry Review, a biannual literary journal.
More info: 771-3021.
----------
Natural Science Seminar
Mon., May 7, 4 p.m., Jensen Lecture Hall. Kylie Krauss presents “Dopamine levels in competitive mountain bikers versus non-mountain bikers.” Mentor: Dr. Victoria Collins. At 4:30 p.m., Alexandra Meyer presents an environmental policy guest seminar.
----------
Warren Wilson Theatre presents “Butoh, Redux…PLUS”
The final production of Warren Wilson Theatre’s current season will be an unusual one: “Butoh, Redux…PLUS,” May 11-12 at 7 p.m. The combination Butoh dance and performance art extravaganza will be performed in and around Bryson Gym, under the direction of Julie Becton Gillum. The production originally was to be titled simply “Butoh, Redux” because it’s the second butoh performance of the season. However, most of pieces that it includes transcend the already avant-garde dance form known as “Butoh” and enter the realm of performance art. Gillum’s students will be joined by a number of Asheville-based performers. Each evening will begin with a Butoh performance in Warren Wilson’s formal garden before the audience moves into Bryson Gym. Other performance elements include movement, spoken word, video and puppetry. Tickets are $10 general admission and $5 for area students, seniors and Warren Wilson staff and alumni. Warren Wilson students are, as always, admitted free of charge. For reservations call (828) 771-3040.
----------
Registration under way for Archaeology Field School
Registration is under way for the 2007 WWC Archaeology Field School, to be held near Morganton June 18-July 13. Four one-week sessions will be held at the highly significant Berry site, subject of the Smithsonian Magazine article “Spain Makes a Stand” in March 2006. The site along Upper Creek is believed to represent not only an ancestral Catawba Indian town, but also the earliest European settlement in the North American interior.
Two schools will be offered this year – one focusing on excavation methods, the other on laboratory methods. Enrollment is available for one to four weeks for a non-credit participant fee of $300 per week. Although enrollment is limited by number, archaeological experience isn’t necessary.
The 2007 field school will concentrate on a one-acre area where 16th century Spanish artifacts and the remains of five burned buildings have been located. These structures represent the remains of the Spanish compound Fort San Juan. Participants in the school will work to map and excavate the area around one of these burned buildings. While the field school is under way, another crew will be excavating one of the burned buildings as part of a multi-year grant from the National Science Foundation. Field school participants also will also assist in this effort.
For registration forms or more details, contact field school director David Moore, 771-2013, dmoore@warren-wilson.edu . To view images and read about previous field schools at the Berry site, see http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~arch.
----------
Scholarly Achievements
WWC MFA graduate, former Beebe Fellow and MFA faculty Van Jordan has won a Guggenheim Fellowship. Guggenheim winners are selected on the basis of past achievement and future promise.
Poems from Sebastian Matthews’ recent book, We Generous, will be featured on the “The Writer’s Almanac” May 4 and May 12. Listen in on your local NPR station, or check it out on the Writer’s Almanac online.
Junior Meg Evans is the 2007 recipient of the Austin Wright Scholarship for Leaders.
Senior Pat Addabbo has been awarded this year’s The Doug Orr Merit Scholarship-Internship Program with North Carolina Outward Bound School.
----------
Hooray for . . .
Warren Wilson runners who competed in the 24 Hours for Africa trail relay race at Camp Rockmont on April 14-15. The WWC team finished third, completing 39 laps of the five-mile course. More than 400 runners competed in the race, raising more than $20,000 for sustainable water programs in Africa. For complete results, visit http://www.runforafrica.org.
Assistant Farm manager Chase Hubbard, who (back by popular demand) recently gave another and more extensive talk about the College Farm grass finishing operation with our beef cattle to a group of cattlemen, rural development professionals, and Ag. Extension personnel in Rutherford County.
Farm manager John Pilson, who was recently appointed by American Whitewater to be the new Streamkeeper for the Green River Narrows. John is one of the public interfaces for AW regarding the Green River and access issues, and has completely rebuilt AW's website for The Narrows -- http://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/River/detail/id/1080/
----------
Attention event organizers
Be sure to submit events to the new campus events calendar. You can find a link to the calendar and the online submission form at the top of the inside page.
More news
For more WWC news and information, visit the Inside Page – http://www.warren-wilson.edu/internal/index.php.
WWC Emergency Hotline - (828) 258-4521