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The Causality of Casualness in the Translations of World Poetry: Jorie Graham vs Mary Oliver in Italy
No full textThe essay explores the impact of poetry translation on the circulation of the works of American poets in Italy. The research is conducted by means of a double approach: in the first place, the aesthetic and cultural value of the poetry of two American women poets (Jorie Graham and Mary Oliver) is assessed, whose work has received a radically different reception. Secondly, the reasons for this disparity of treatment are sought in the interrelation between the practices and activity of poetry translation and of publication, as they are customarily led in Italy. These are inferred from sample interviews with professionals in both fields. The results of the investigation highlight a combination of the casual and the causal, the causing factor being the occasional encounter of a poet with a translator, who then chooses his/her author, texts, and translating strategies according to his/her personal aesthetic, and sometimes ideological, judgment. Il saggio offre un’analisi dell’influenza delle traduzioni sulla circolazione della poesia americana contemporanea in Italia. La ricerca si articola in due momenti: in primo luogo viene fornita una valutazione estetica e culturale dell’opera di due poetesse americane, Jorie Graham e Mary Oliver, la cui ricezione in Italia è particolarmente significativa perché sta conoscendo fortune opposte; in secondo luogo viene condotta un’indagine dei motivi di questa disparità di trattamento nell’interazione tra le pratiche di traduzione e le dinamiche di pubblicazione in atto in Italia. Queste sono state dedotte da alcune interviste campione con professionisti dei due campi. I risultati hanno evidenziato una combinazione di fattori casuali e causali, nella quale l’incontro personale e a volte fortuito tra un poeta e un traduttore mette in moto strategie di selezione e di traduzione motivate da ragioni estetiche e a volte ideologiche. The essay explores the impact of poetry translation on the circulation of the works of American poets in Italy. The research is conducted by means of a double approach: in the first place, the aesthetic and cultural value of the poetry of two American women poets (Jorie Graham and Mary Oliver) is assessed, whose work has received a radically different reception. Secondly, the reasons for this disparity of treatment are sought in the interrelation between the practices and activity of poetry translation and of publication, as they are customarily led in Italy. These are inferred from sample interviews with professionals in both fields. The results of the investigation highlight a combination of the casual and the causal, the causing factor being the occasional encounter of a poet with a translator, who then chooses his/her author, texts, and translating strategies according to his/her personal aesthetic, and sometimes ideological, judgment. Il saggio offre un’analisi dell’influenza delle traduzioni sulla circolazione della poesia americana contemporanea in Italia. La ricerca si articola in due momenti: in primo luogo viene fornita una valutazione estetica e culturale dell’opera di due poetesse americane, Jorie Graham e Mary Oliver, la cui ricezione in Italia è particolarmente significativa perché sta conoscendo fortune opposte; in secondo luogo viene condotta un’indagine dei motivi di questa disparità di trattamento nell’interazione tra le pratiche di traduzione e le dinamiche di pubblicazione in atto in Italia. Queste sono state dedotte da alcune interviste campione con professionisti dei due campi. I risultati hanno evidenziato una combinazione di fattori casuali e causali, nella quale l’incontro personale e a volte fortuito tra un poeta e un traduttore mette in moto strategie di selezione e di traduzione motivate da ragioni estetiche e a volte ideologiche. The essay explores the impact of poetry translation on the circulation of the works of American poets in Italy. The research is conducted by means of a double approach: in the first place, the aesthetic and cultural value of the poetry of two American women poets (Jorie Graham and Mary Oliver) is assessed, whose work has received a radically different reception. Secondly, the reasons for this disparity of treatment are sought in the interrelation between the practices and activity of poetry translation and of publication, as they are customarily led in Italy. These are inferred from sample interviews with professionals in both fields. The results of the investigation highlight a combination of the casual and the causal, the causing factor being the occasional encounter of a poet with a translator, who then chooses his/her author, texts, and translating strategies according to his/her personal aesthetic, and sometimes ideological, judgment. Il saggio offre un’analisi dell’influenza delle traduzioni sulla circolazione della poesia americana contemporanea in Italia. La ricerca si articola in due momenti: in primo luogo viene fornita una valutazione estetica e culturale dell’opera di due poetesse americane, Jorie Graham e Mary Oliver, la cui ricezione in Italia è particolarmente significativa perché sta conoscendo fortune opposte; in secondo luogo viene condotta un’indagine dei motivi di questa disparità di trattamento nell’interazione tra le pratiche di traduzione e le dinamiche di pubblicazione in atto in Italia. Queste sono state dedotte da alcune interviste campione con professionisti dei due campi. I risultati hanno evidenziato una combinazione di fattori casuali e causali, nella quale l’incontro personale e a volte fortuito tra un poeta e un traduttore mette in moto strategie di selezione e di traduzione motivate da ragioni estetiche e a volte ideologiche. The essay explores the impact of poetry translation on the circulation of the works of American poets in Italy. The research is conducted by means of a double approach: in the first place, the aesthetic and cultural value of the poetry of two American women poets (Jorie Graham and Mary Oliver) is assessed, whose work has received a radically different reception. Secondly, the reasons for this disparity of treatment are sought in the interrelation between the practices and activity of poetry translation and of publication, as they are customarily led in Italy. These are inferred from sample interviews with professionals in both fields. The results of the investigation highlight a combination of the casual and the causal, the causing factor being the occasional encounter of a poet with a translator, who then chooses his/her author, texts, and translating strategies according to his/her personal aesthetic, and sometimes ideological, judgment. Il saggio offre un’analisi dell’influenza delle traduzioni sulla circolazione della poesia americana contemporanea in Italia. La ricerca si articola in due momenti: in primo luogo viene fornita una valutazione estetica e culturale dell’opera di due poetesse americane, Jorie Graham e Mary Oliver, la cui ricezione in Italia è particolarmente significativa perché sta conoscendo fortune opposte; in secondo luogo viene condotta un’indagine dei motivi di questa disparità di trattamento nell’interazione tra le pratiche di traduzione e le dinamiche di pubblicazione in atto in Italia. Queste sono state dedotte da alcune interviste campione con professionisti dei due campi. I risultati hanno evidenziato una combinazione di fattori casuali e causali, nella quale l’incontro personale e a volte fortuito tra un poeta e un traduttore mette in moto strategie di selezione e di traduzione motivate da ragioni estetiche e a volte ideologiche.
The causality of casualness in the translations of world poetry : Jorie Graham vs Mary Oliver in Italy
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sulla circolazione della poesia americana contemporanea
in Italia. La ricerca si articola in due momenti:
in primo luogo viene fornita una valutazione
estetica e culturale dell’opera di due poetesse americane,
Jorie Graham e Mary Oliver, la cui ricezione
in Italia è particolarmente significativa perché sta conoscendo
fortune opposte; in secondo luogo viene
condotta un’indagine dei motivi di questa disparità
di trattamento nell’interazione tra le pratiche di traduzione
e le dinamiche di pubblicazione in atto in
Italia. Queste sono state dedotte da alcune interviste
campione con professionisti dei due campi. I risultati
hanno evidenziato una combinazione di fattori
casuali e causali, nella quale l’incontro personale e a
volte fortuito tra un poeta e un traduttore mette in
moto strategie di selezione e di traduzione motivate
da ragioni estetiche e a volte ideologiche.The essay explores the impact of poetry translation
on the circulation of the works of American poets
in Italy. The research is conducted by means of
a double approach: in the first place, the aesthetic
and cultural value of the poetry of two American
women poets (Jorie Graham and Mary Oliver) is
assessed, whose work has received a radically different
reception. Secondly, the reasons for this disparity
of treatment are sought in the interrelation
between the practices and activity of poetry translation
and of publication, as they are customarily
led in Italy. These are inferred from sample interviews
with professionals in both fields. The results
of the investigation highlight a combination of the
casual and the causal, the causing factor being the
occasional encounter of a poet with a translator,
who then chooses his/her author, texts, and translating
strategies according to his/her personal aesthetic,
and sometimes ideological, judgment
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Thinking in patterns : representations in the neural basis of theory of mind
No full textThesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 2014.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-179).Social life depends on understanding other people's behavior: why they do the things they do, and what they are likely to do next. These actions are just observable consequences of an unobservable, internal causal structure: the person's intentions, beliefs, and goals. A cornerstone of the human capacity for social cognition is the ability to reason about these invisible causes; having a "theory of mind". A remarkable body of evidence has demonstrated that social cognition reliably and selectively recruits a specific group of brain regions. Yet, we have little insight into how these neural substrates function at a computational level. This thesis lays the groundwork to address that question, both empirically and theoretically, first by demonstrating that functional neuroimaging can find behaviorally relevant features of mental state representation within the cortical regions that support social cognition, and second by proposing a theoretical framework to interpret activity in these brain regions. In Chapter 1, I review the literature of the last 15 years, and argue that a key next step in understanding the neural basis of social cognition is characterizing the neural representations and computations supported by "social" brain regions. In Chapter 2, I demonstrate in four experiments that functional neuroimaging can be used to find neural representations of distinct features of mental states. Specifically, I show that multivoxel pattern analysis (MVPA) can detect features of mental state representations (e.g., intent), and that these neural patterns are behaviorally relevant, including in autism spectrum disorders. In Chapter 3, I demonstrate that these brain regions contain explicit, abstract representations of another feature of others' mental states: perceptual source. I find that these representations persist in the face of drastic changes in developmental history (congenital blindness), providing evidence that these representations emerge even in the absence of relevant first-person experience. In Chapter 4, I demonstrate that these cortical regions contain representations of epistemic and emotional features of others' beliefs, and that these features are represented along continuous, abstract dimensions. Finally, in Chapter 5, I extend a model from vision and neuroeconomics - predictive coding - and explore its application to the neural basis of social cognition. Together, this work provides a key next step to understanding the neural basis of theory of mind, by demonstrating that it is possible to find abstract, behaviorally relevant features of mental state inferences inside cortical regions that support social cognition, and taking a first step in characterizing their content and format.by Jorie Koster-Hale.Ph. D
Henri Temianka Correspondence; (Adams)
Get PDFThis collection contains material pertaining to the life, career, and activities of Henri Temianka, violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher, and author. Materials include correspondence, concert programs and flyers, music scores, photographs, and books.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/temianka_correspondence/3313/thumbnail.jp
Narrating the neurally-disrupted self: brain, self, and society in the attribution of dysregulated anger
No full textWe live in a time of all things “neuro-.” Images of PET-scanned brains grace the pages of popular magazines, terms like neuroplasticity are in common use, and theories of the brain’s central role in everything from relationship difficulties to political identity to crime rates abound. Yet even as neuroscience’s jurisdiction over different facets of our lives expands, we know very little about how we actually relate to our brains in the context of the neurotechnologies and neurodiscourses all around us. To address this, I focused on people who have experienced a sudden change to their brain, followed by distressing emotional changes: a situation in which questions of who one is in relation to one’s brain are forced to the foreground. Through in-depth interviews, a diary study, and analysis of published memoirs, I investigated how people construct a sense of the relationships between brains, bodies, selves, and others in the ways they talk about their brain injury and the emotional disruptions that have followed it. The research supports the hypothesis that brain injury and post-brain-injury anger represent threats to selfhood in our present cultural climate, but it also shows that people have a diverse set of tools for navigating these threats in ways that can protect their own and others’ view of them. Moreover, some people’s ways of asserting their personhood in the midst of this crisis point the way, I argue, toward a new cultural ethos of interdependence as an alternative to the neoliberal imperatives of rationality and self-management encoded in dominant neurodiscourses.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical reference
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2013 Fall Honorable Mention
No full textHonorable Mention mentioning Westminster honorables since 2002 Honors students write “poetry for the people” with Westminster Slam Last year, Honors student Willy Palomo started the Westminster Slam Poetry club with the help of Honors Director Richard Badenhausen and English professor Natasha Saje. Although the club is relatively new, it already has a significant presence on campus. The club has nearly a dozen members, over half of which are members of the Honors program. Many of these students were active in the slam poetry community before coming to college, and they wanted to bring their love of the art to Westminster. The slam poetry movement, which began in the mid-1980s, represents a dramatic break from the tradition of subdued poetry recitation in academic and literary circles. This new movement encouraged artists to create poetry about, by, and for the people. This principle of equality influences both the people and procedures involved in slam poetry. Poetry slams are competitions, but the judges are chosen from the audience. According to Westminster Slam founder Willy Palomo, the ideal judge has never even been to a slam before because slam poetry is about “making poetry accessible to everyone.” Westminster Slam carries this ideal forward in the Salt Lake slam community, and together they strive to create a free speech zone in which poets can address a wide range of personal, political, social, and spiritual issues through poetry. The audience is expected to participate in slam performances, snapping to express appreciation and enjoyment or calling out “push” to encourage poets to continue when they seem to be faltering. Hissing and booing are not off-limits, either. As Palomo points out, “the audience is in total control.” Because of this atmosphere of direct engagement, slam poets strive to connect to the audience for which they write. But slam poetry is also an opportunity for the poets to better understand themselves. Senior psychology major Courtney Hammond saw her first slam as a freshman in college and is now an active member of the team. “Participating in Westminster Slam has helped increase my confidence in interpersonal conversation,” she said. Erin Cavender, a sophomore marketing major currently studying in the Honors Principia program in Scotland, has also enjoyed her experience as a member of Westminster Slam. “I joined the slam team because it seemed like a fun way to get involved with other students at Westminster while improving my skills as a writer,” she said. Cavender thinks that being in the Honors program was one of the major reasons she decided to join the team. “I felt that slam complemented my developing writing skills,” she said. “While Humanities taught me precision in language, slam encouraged me to use language to produce emotion. The combination was truly delightful.” Westminster Slam is currently fundraising in order to attend the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI), which will be held in Boulder, Colorado in March. Though most slams are competitions among individuals, CUPSI is a team event in which four poets can compete together. A large portion of the fundraising will be done through Battle at Botanica events at Botanica Coffee House, such as the Haiku Deathmatch held earlier this fall. Additional Battle at Botanica events will be held on the third Saturday of every month. All of these events are free, but attendees are encouraged to offer a donation. The Westminster Slam poets meet on Mondays from 8 to 11 p.m. to workshop their ideas and generate new poems through prompts and improv games. For more on upcoming events and videos of performances, visit Westminster Slam Poetry on Facebook. By: Jorie Page Fall 2013 Honors program undergoes review from national expert Dr. John Zubizarreta and Honors Director Richard Badenhausen hit the slopes after the program review. Review report points to current successes and future opportunities. Over the course of the past academic year, the Honors Council conducted its six-year program review to assess whether Westminster’s Honors program is achieving its learning goals and offering students enriching extracurricular opportunities. The Council began the process by compiling a selfstudy. To gather information for the report, the Council reflected on the program’s current features, solicited feedback from Honors faculty, and examined data on student outcomes. Assistant Director Dave Goldsmith oversaw the development of the report, which was then revised by the Honors Council and sent to an external reviewer, John Zubizarreta. Dr. Zubizarreta is the Honors Director at Columbia College, a former National Collegiate Honors Council President, and the 2010 CASE/Carnegie Outstanding Baccalaureate Colleges Professor of the Year. He compiled an overall assessment and recommendations based on the Honors Council’s report and his on-campus interactions with students and faculty during a two-day visit in March. The program review’s findings show the Honors program to be successful in many respects, both inside and outside the classroom. The curriculum’s focus on critical analysis and communication skills has translated into substantial learning gains as measured through assessments like the Collegiate Learning Assessment exam. Furthermore, the program has very high completion rates: about 70% of students complete the entire program in four years. Finally, the retention of firstyear students is especially noteworthy: over 90% for the past two years. Opportunities to engage in social and academic events, research, and travel also continue to enhance students’ experiences. page 2 Dr. Zubizarreta’s conclusions were enthusiastically positive and highlighted the recognition that the program has gained in the national Honors community. He cited the unique interdisciplinary coursework, leadership opportunities, and strong sense of community among students as some of the features that make this Honors program, according to him, one of the strongest in the country. The Honors Council is now discussing ways to further strengthen the program based on internal findings and Dr. Zubizarreta’s recommendations. Developing ways for transfer students to enter Honors is one such opportunity. The Council will also explore how to make the core Honors curriculum even more creative and interdisciplinary in light of our campus’ increasing support for a revised Liberal Education program. Finally, the program review has identified the importance of expanding diversity in the program. New initiatives to pursue this goal include examining the curriculum and continuing our involvement in the Clemente Program, a mentoring program for underserved students at East High, which includes the support of two current Honors students (Nicole Bedera and Willy Palomo) as teaching fellows. Program Director Richard Badenhausen emphasized the community-wide efforts involved in making the program review a success. “I appreciate both Dave’s leadership in overseeing the compilation of the report and the engagement of other constituencies, including the Honors Council, faculty, and students,” Dr. Badenhausen said. Students will have an opportunity to learn more about the program review and to provide their feedback during an open forum this spring. By: Melanie Long President Brian teaches Honors ‘Law in History’ Though the Honors program has many stimulating classes, its newest offering—a cross-listed history course taught by the president of Westminster College—is especially unique. “Law in History” is a course that examines the interaction of law with culture, economics, individuals, and society. This exploration is guided by none other than Dr. Brian Levin-Stankevich, a long-time student of law and history, and Westminster’s current president. Several Honors students registered for the class because they hoped it would supplement their Honors experience as well as their majors. “It’ll give my major a little more context for classes I will be taking in the future,” said Jasmine Carlson, a junior majoring in political science, I force myself who also plans to go to continuously to law school. rethink this Senior English major Nicole Holbrook course, and that agrees. “I enjoy the means I need to new perspective it continue to read adds to my literature and learn myself. studies,” she said. Each week, the “Law in History” students discuss a different historical legal system such as Greek, Roman, or Salic law. Quizzes are taken in groups of four, which allows the students to combine their knowledge to get the best grade possible. “The quizzes are kind of difficult,” said sophomore Lauren Waters. But groups that get wrong answers on a quiz are encouraged to defend their responses in true Honors style. A successful defense can earn back the missed points. The class doesn’t just challenge the students. It challenges the president, too. “I force myself to continuously rethink and reconstruct this course and the readings, and that means I need to continue to read and learn myself,” said Dr. Brian. The president is also learning to adjust to the more interactive teaching valued in Honors. “It’s hard to break the habit of talking and the feeling that I need to convey lots of information and analysis,” he said. “That is still a work in progress for me.” And as if the new teaching style weren’t enough to worry about, Dr. Brian has also had to deal with a constant stream of technical difficulties. “He has a fleet of IT technicians that follow him and do his bidding,” joked Carlson. Overall, though, the class experience has been decidedly positive. “I have really enjoyed getting to know Dr. Brian,” said Lauren Waters. “Although he’s still a little intimidating to me, I have loved seeing him get really passionate about things.” Dr. Brian has also enjoyed this new teaching experience and is “quite impressed” with students’ abilities. By: Brianne Sandorf “ ” page 3 Honors students present in New Orleans at National Collegiate Honors Conference This year, a group of four Honors students traveled to New Orleans to present their research at the annual conference of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC), the professional organization that represents the approximately 800 Honors programs in the country. Their presentations before some of the 2,000 conference attendees covered a variety of topics ranging from a Baconian analysis of wildlife documentaries to a study of the best Honors peer mentor practices. In addition to their personal presentations, Katrina England and Nicole Bedera also participated in the Student Fishbowl Session, during which a select group of about eight Honors students from around the country came together to discuss what makes Honors programs work best. Sara McCaskey also participated in an additional presentation titled “What Makes a Winning Honors Newsletter.” In this presentation, McCaskey and the four other judges for the NCHC’s annual newsletter competition reflected on their evaluation process to explain why certain newsletters were more successful than others. The students were accompanied by Honors Director Richard Badenhausen, who was attending his 18th NCHC convention. As always, he kept busy throughout the meeting, presenting on panels about Honors recruiting and the value of Honors site visitors. He co-chaired the meeting of the Publications Board, which oversees all NCHC Publications, co-chaired the Student Interdisciplinary Research Paper strand at the conference, and served in the consultant’s center. But the best part of the meeting occurred when the entire Westminster contingent finished off one of its busy days with a relaxing dinner at local hotspot Cochon, where they were joined by 2011 Honors grad Chris Roundy, who is studying tropical disease and public health at Tulane University. By: Sara McCaskey Courtney Hammond and Nicole Bedera explored the relationships between peer mentors and their mentees in their presentation, “You Can Trust Us: The Benefits of a Two-Step Trust-Building Approach to Peer Mentorship.” Their proposed plan involved a trust-building exercise at orientation and a social, authentic follow-up with mentees during the first semester. Nicole and Courtney used the Westminster Honors program’s “Confidential Q&A” exercise as an example of an opportunity for mentors to become more approachable and trustworthy during orientation. Sara McCaskey discussed the best practices for creating a student-run campus magazine in her Idea Exchange presentation, “Integrating Print and Digital Media: A Campus Magazine Project.” By reflecting on her personal experience creating a campus magazine at Westminster, Sara led a discussion about the value of integrating traditional print journalism practices with modern technology. In addition, her presentation explored practical solutions to the creative and logistical challenges that creators of a new campus publication must address. page 4 Katrina England participated in the Student Independent Research Paper portion of the conference with a presentation titled “No ‘Idols’ in this Cave: Minimizing Baconian Biases and Engaging Wildlife Documentary Viewers in the Scientific Process through ‘Making Of ’ Videos.” In her presentation, Katrina discussed how wildlife documentaries are positioned at the nexus of science broadcasting and fiction. By examining classic cinema’s constructed ‘realism,’ and Francis Bacon’s theory of the “Idols of the Mind,” she argued that wildlife documentaries can and should strip back their façades of objectivity and scientific authority with supplemental ‘making of ’ videos which reveal the crew’s process of creating the film itself. By being intentionally transparent with their production process, wildlife filmmakers could open themselves and their methods up to critique, and allow the genre to be more true to the untidy nature of scientific inquiry. Andre Biscaye conducted breast cancer research with the Huntsman Cancer Institute this summer. Caitlin Himelright had her work featured at the Mod-a-go-go art gallery in October. Nicole Bedera presented at Westminster Thinks Big on college sexual assault report rates. Lauren Carter presented research on mercury distribution in the Great Salt Lake at an EPA Wetlands conference in September. Pratik Raghu worked with the nonprofit Youthlinc this past summer in Kenya. He taught English and helped organize a microenterprise workshop. Christian Swenson’s original play The Box was produced by Warboy Theatre Projects at Echo Theatre in Provo this summer. ! News & Notes Katrina England was selected as an External Reviewer for the International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal, Stance. Alicia Foster walked the Camino de Santiago with a group of Westminster students this May. Pratik Raghu, Jorie Page, and Emma Deloughery earned the first, second, and third place awards respectively in Westminster’s 2013 horror story contest. Sabina Schill worked at Nightmare on 13th, the number-one-rated haunted house in Utah during the 2013 season. Hannah Williams placed second in the design category of Foliotek’s ePortfolio contest. She is also the president of Westminster’s Residence Hall Association. Did you do something notable? We want to know! Email your news and notes to Richard at [email protected]. Joey Devine competed in the Ragnar relay race competition. Jordan Larsen (’07) began classes in the MBA program at BYU this fall. Kait Thomas (’10) was interviewed by CNN about her work as a park ranger in Arches National Park. Amanda Anais Ruiz, (’10) graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School this May with magna cum laude honors and the school’s Public Service Award. She also received a commission as an officer in the U.S. Navy to serve as a J.A.G. Corps Lawyer. Ashley Pedersen (‘10) accepted a new job as Director of Education at the Tucson Botanical Gardens. Bryan Craven (’10) and Ali Monjar (’10) were married in September. page 5 A natural fit: Students find love in Honors The recent marriage of Westminster Honors alums Ali Monjar (’10) and Bryan Craven (’10) is just one example of at least a half dozen Honors marriages in the past decade. The couple met during Honors orientation and according to Ali, “we both had instant crushes on each other.” It’s hard to believe that Honors students can find love page 6 in the midst of their busy schedules. Who has the time to think of romance when challenging readings and freshman prompts intrude daily? However, despite the workload, Honors couples are everywhere. Ali and Bryan agree that without Honors there is “a good possibility we wouldn’t have met. And if we did meet, we wouldn’t have gotten to know each other.” In Honors, students get to know each other in a special way. The fact that they’re graded on their critical thinking and analysis skills affects not only their academics, but also their social lives. “The shared experience of completing the Honors core breeds a fellowship which naturally transitions into romance,” Bryan said. As students become more confident with the ‘so what?’ of arguments, the ‘why not?’ of relationships with fellow Honors students seems much less daunting. Juniors Megan Peters and Greg Yerkes are two Honors students who have been dating for over a year. They first met in Humanities, but sparks didn’t fly instantly. In fact, Greg never imagined he would date anyone in Honors because he “thought they were all nerdy!” And Megan thought that “the Honors tendency to date within was just an exaggeration.” Little did they know. While Honors couples could certainly benefit from helping each other academically, Honors students’ competitive nature has the potential to get in the way. “It’s hard not to get competitive when someone does better in class, but we won’t share who does better in our relationship,” said Megan. Having a knowing companion close at hand just makes Honors seminars a little bit easier. Megan explained, “We help each other when one of us has already taken the class.” “But we’ve learned not to edit each other’s papers, because that’s just too much for a relationship to handle,” she joked. As for their theory about why Honors couples just work, Megan and Greg agree that it’s because they “have similar schedules, similar drive, and similar likes.” Not only do Honors students understand each other’s frustrations, they also understand Nick More references. Senior Sara McCaskey and David Luhr (’12) represent yet another example of Honors love. Megan & Greg Sara and David have been dating for about two years, but Sara never believed she would find a match in Honors because the “program is relatively small, so the odds didn’t seem all that great.” However, David wasn’t as surprised. “The Honors program brought me together with my closest friends from college,” he said. “So it follows that I should find my love there, as well.” Sara and David agreed that just being in the Honors program together draws students to one another. “Being in the program gives us all some common ground that makes it easier to build relationships—romantic or not,” Sara said. Other recent Honors marriages include Paula Porter (’10) and Chert Griffith (’09), Jenn Niedfeldt (’09) and Andrew Waterhouse (’08), Anna Hansen (’08) and Greg Bowen (’08), and Sharayah Coleman (’08) and John Cook (‘10). That group will soon be joined by recently engaged Ashley Pedersen (’09) and Ben Rackham (’09). Ashley and Ben met at Honors orientation, and though neither one was interested in dating they quickly realized how much they had in common. The rest is history. “We both realized somewhere between Halloween and winter break that we were, in fact, dating,” said Ben. “Things were going pretty well, so we just kept up with it, and now we’re still together, and engaged, eight years later.” But who better to ask about the phenomenon of Honors couples than the man who witnessed them first-hand? As Director of the Honors program, Richard Badenhausen claims, “Honors students have come together as life partners so often because, like Aristotle, they understand that genuine friendship is based on reciprocal good will. Honors students enjoy spending time together with others of excellent character in situations that allow them to exercise their arête. What could be more natural? Of course the highest form of friendship is based on a mutual horror over the use of passive voice.” Suddenly, Humanities makes sense. By: Anabel Alvarado Favorite date spot in SLC? Park Café because we’re huge breakfast people (our hipster side). Most romantic spot on campus? Bassis is our place to go; we try to meet up between classes for a quick coffee and crossword puzzle. Sara & David Favorite date spot in SLC? We love to go on walks together around the neighborhoods in Sugar House and admire all of the beautiful houses. It’s really fun because all of the houses are so different and I think we get to know each other even better every time we go. Most romantic spot on campus? With its wobbly tables, crumb-filled seating booths, and displays of abandoned dishes, Shaw is an obviously romantic getaway—one particular high table against the windows facing the Commons, to be exact. That’s where we ate lunch when we first started spending time together outside of class, with lots of joking and nervous attempts at flirtation. Ali & Bryan Favorite date spot in SLC? The Broadway Theater is our favorite date spot. It’s where we had our first date to see Man on Wire, and we’ve seen so many great films there since. It’s a great place because it’s local and supports artistic, independent films that sometimes make you reflect more than standard blockbusters. Most romantic spot on campus? Well, we didn’t really interact romantically when we were at school together. As I ment
The solitude room
No full text‘Would somebody start Meditation Rooms, places of silence, so silent you couldn’t help but hear the sound of your page without opening your mouth…’
Lorine Niedecker
Where do poetry and meditation intersect? Both require silence, practice and faith. Krishnamurti once said that ‘meditation is the action of silence’. The same could be said of poetry. Both develop a sense of process, of beginning in emptiness, and commitment, individually and collectively. Both are forms of concentration, attentiveness and illumination.
I propose to discuss a selection of poetry concerning stillness by a range of poets from both secular and spiritual traditions, such as Li Po, Paul Celan, Jorie Graham, Charles Wright, Nina Cassian and Jane Hirshfield. I will consider four categories of solitude: chosen solitude, enforced solitude, magical solitude and frozen solitude.
If many poems start in doubt and end of some kind of faith, this paper would address the quiet, still space that is both within a poem and comes after it. As Jorie Graham puts it: ‘If poems are records of true risks (attempts at change) taken by the soul of the speaker, then as much as possible, my steps are towards silence.’ How does the silence in which words fail relate to the teeming silence of the creative flow? Can the solitude that inspired the poem be transmuted to the reader as a restorative act? Through a short, participatory visualisation exercise, the session would allow time to actively and alertly focus on the point where contemplation becomes creativity, where repose enables reinvigoration and clarity.
‘I can be alone,
I know how to be alone.
By tea-light
I write.’
Nina Cassian
[ABSTRACT BY CHERRY SMYTH
2014 Fall Honorable Mention
No full textHonorable Mention mentioning Westminster honorables since 2002 Welcome to the Honors Cohort of 2018 Accomplishments, Community, and Growth Every year, Honors eagerly accepts and welcomes a new group, or cohort, of students into Westminster’s nationally recognized program. Students accepted into Honors have always achieved high levels of success in high school, and the 2014 Honors cohort is no exception. This year’s entering class totals 42 members, who have an average GPA of 3.85 in high school and an average ACT composite score of 29 upon entrance. On top of those impressive numbers, six of these students were the valedictorians of their high schools. Beyond exceptional ACT and GPA averages, the entering group comes from a variety of places— all told, they represent twelve different countries and states with over 44% of the group coming from outside of Utah. Because of these students’ successes and hard work in high school, all entering members of the program received academic scholarships to Westminster. While each student’s achievements in high school helped him or her gain admittance into the program, the entire cohort started its college experience the same way—attending Honors orientation. Over the summer, incoming students prepared for orientation by reading Susan Cain’s Quiet in order to cultivate a better understanding of introversion and extroversion inside (and outside) of the classroom setting. Peer mentor Hannah Zweifel believes that “the common read was an interesting and excellent choice for a group usually comprised primarily of introverts.” The study, she said, “allowed for the often quiet members of the group to feel proud about their introversion.” Each student’s reading comprehension and critical thinking skills were put to the test in small discussion groups at orientation, giving them their first hands-on experience in a seminar style classroom. After finishing the common read discussion about Quiet, freshmen delved even deeper into the rigors of college by participating in a model Honors class led by Dave Goldsmith, Assistant Director of the Honors program. During the model class, new students are usually nervous and tend to stick with safe, low-risk answers; this group, however, broke out of this pattern right away. They pushed against Dr. Goldsmith’s answers, laughed at his jokes, asked difficult questions, and explored best practices in a seminar style classroom, gracefully accepting the rigors of the program and quickly beginning to form a community within Honors. Humanities, the two-semester class sequence that all Honors freshmen take, has already proven to be rigorous and demanding for the Class of 2018. However, the strong sense of Honors community and camaraderie that developed at orientation allows students to eagerly accept the future challenges of both Humanities and college life. Freshman Carissa Uresk commented on her experience at orientation, saying, “When I first got to college I didn’t know my roommates, classmates, or anybody really. I felt like there was nobody around me, but Honors orientation helped me get to know people, feel closer to my peers, and prepare myself for the scary and exciting adventure of college.” Already, this new batch of students has demonstrated on both the group and individual level that they can think deeply, ask questions that matter, and exercise their arête. So welcome to Honors, cohort of 2018—there are great times ahead of you. By James Steur Fall 2014 News&Notes Ray Bradford (’07) released a new telemedicine app, Spruce, with $2M in seed funding from Kleiner Perkins and other investors. Chert Griffith (’09) is the Media Dept. Second Leader at Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake City. Mike Manning (’09) began working as a pilot with SkyWest Airlines this summer. Ben Rackham (’09) and Ashley Pedersen (’09) were married at Westminster on August 9. Among the many guests in attendance were Honors alumni Amanda Ruiz (’10), Cassidy Jones (’11), Andrew (’08) and Jen (’09) Waterhouse, and Mike Manning (’09), as well as Richard Badenhausen. Jillian Hill (’10) has started working on a Masters in Social Work at Utah State University. In between his outdoor adventures around the world, Robin Hill (’10) continues his work as a program manager at Big Sky Youth Empowerment, which offers creative programs that serve at-risk high school youth. Marya Smith (’12) worked one year in Sweden and now teaches English to high school students in France. Jackie Wilson (’12) has started the Masters of Christian Education program at Dallas Theological Seminary. Nicole Bedera (’14) was the recipient of the Trustees’ Character Award at Westminster’s 2014 Commencement ceremony and took a break from her Ph.D. studies this fall at University of Maryland to give the keynote talk at Westminster’s “Not Alone” conference on preventing sexual violence. Pratik Raghu (’15) won the 2014-15 Alpha Chi Region VII Scholarship. Pratik Raghu’s (’15) essay “Paving the Road Not (Yet) Taken: A Critical Analysis of Two Roadmaps for Kashmiri Democracy” was recently published in Student Pulse: The International Student Journal. Sabina Schill (’15) was named a student finalist for the 2014 Utah Women in Tech Awards. Demetri Coombs (’11) was one of only six students in Drexel University’s first-year Medical School class to be recognized for “Exemplary Professionalism” in the Program for Integrated Learning. Sabina Schill (’15) presented her research on nuclear astrophysics at the 4th Joint Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics and the Physical Society of Japan Waikoloa, Hawaii. Jessica Hawks (’11) graduated this past spring from the University of Utah with Masters degrees in Public Health and Social Work and has started a joint doctoral program in Public Health at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego. James Steur (’16) worked as the Assistant Campaign Manager for Patrice Arent’s 2014 Utah State House Campaign. After graduating from Univ. of Penn. Law School, Camber Stoddard (’11) has started working as an attorney in Los Angeles at the international law firm White and Case. Danny Barber (’12) is now a Center for Law and Biomedical Science Research Fellow at the University of Utah. Jacob Winter (’15) was the first author on a paper, recently published in Cytotherapy, entitled: “Long-term effects of cryopreservation on clinically prepared hematopoietic progenitor cell products.” Hannah Frazier (’19) is in Tokyo, Japan on a mission. Did you do something notable? We want to know! Email your news and notes to Richard at [email protected]. Save the Date! Don’t miss these events in the spring: February 12—Adamson Lecture: Adam Segal on Cyberwar with China Gore Concert Hall April 30—Annual Honors Banquet Westminster on the Draw May 1—Annual Honors Softball Game Dumke Field May 30—Commencement 2 Nerds Without Borders Students, Faculty and Alumni Compete at UCCD Trivia Competition Honors students compete at the WorldQuest Trivia Competition. The Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy (UCCD) is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting worldwide understanding and respect between those who live in Utah and people in other countries. Coincidentally, UCCD happens to have its offices on the campus of Westminster College due, in part, to the college’s commitment to international education. This year, UCCD hosted Utah’s firstever WorldQuest trivia competition as a fundraiser to support their organization. With over 30 teams of eight competing against one another in six different categories, it is safe to say that Utah’s “brainiest” groups most assuredly attended this event. It should come as no surprise then that Westminster’s Honors program prepared for and participated in the event. This year I had the pleasure of captaining Westminster’s Honors team in the WorldQuest trivia competition. Our group of eight came highly prepared for the trivia tournament, after weeks of studying, organizing, and meticulously planning the best strategies for competing. The students involved in the competition formed a formidable coalition of nerds who chose to meet on their Friday nights and spend their time discussing, debating, and learning about global issues alongside their friends and peers. Contrary to popular belief, these students did not live and breathe Honors readings during those Friday night sessions; they did, however, use them as a foundation for their discussions to learn. While the meetings themselves revealed the diverse interests and passions of the group as a whole, all students shared a genuine interest in global issues. It is this common interest that allowed each team member to work collaboratively and contribute knowledge for the benefit of the group. Is was this sense of community that allowed the many study sessions to feel less like studying and more like a game—complete with fierce competition between players! At the WorldQuest Trivia competition, the group’s hard work (and love of learning) paid off when “Nerds Without Borders” took third place. Dave Goldsmith, an Honors professor and fellow teammate, commented afterwards, “our students are awesome,” and I have to agree. I want to thank all of those who participated and supported us—you all made it possible for us to impress the “brainiest” groups in Utah! By Adia Thornton The Honors program would like to extend a special thanks to Liz Winter, mother of senior Honors student Jake Winter, for giving a wonderful talk in August to our new Honors families at the orientation lunch with President Brian Levin-Stankevich. Liz is an attorney and chief of staff to Dr. Vivian Lee, VP for Health Sciences at the University of Utah. “Nerds Without Borders” brought home the third-place prize. 3 Honors Abroad Imagining a Safe Space for Indian Indigenous Femininity This summer, senior Pratik Raghu travelled to the Mexican state of Oaxaca through an independent research grant from the Honors program. With him were his faculty advisor and professor of political studies, Leonardo Figueroa-Helland (more commonly known as Leo) as well as a few other Honors students. As a starting point for the research, Leo suggested that Pratik begin at the Universidad de la Tierra, or the University of the Earth. This university is unique because it allows students to take control of their studies—a perfect fit for Pratik, who has designed his own customized major at Westminster. According to Pratik, “the university strives to let people reclaim ways of life that are in accordance with the natural rhythms of the earth and that adequately respond to needs that arise in their own communities.” Pratik spent the previous year researching with Leo in order to establish similarities and connections between Latin American and South Asian communities. He wanted to study the beliefs of the adivasis, a group of one hundred indigenous communities in India; however, to avoid generalizing about the adisvasis and their diverse beliefs, he focused on the four largest adivasi communities, which Pratik believes reflect both the successes and challenges of the indigenous people across the country. This previous research informed Pratik’s trip to Oaxaca and motivated his primary purpose of connection: “I went to Oaxaca with the intention to carry out a cross-cultural analysis of how UniTierra as a revolutionary institution could aid the cause of India’s indigenous peoples,” he says. At UniTierra, Pratik and his 4 fellow travelers discussed issues related to the state of Oaxaca and its neighboring areas. The group also learned about the experiences of local people to understand how social and political movements affected them on a personal level. One movement the group learned about was the Zapatista movement in the neighboring state of Chiapas (which actually inspired the foundation of UniTierra). For his independent research, Pratik sought to apply the insights from these discussions to the United States and areas of India. After meeting many local women of Oaxaca who were highly involved in Oaxacan social movements, Pratik developed a connection between UniTierra in Oaxaca and adivasi communities in India. He says, “I became very inspired by the active role women were playing in developing autonomy and fighting against the status quo.” With this in mind, Pratik then developed his final research question: How can UniTierra’s contributions to Oaxacan popular struggles help Indian indigenous women claim, reclaim, and/or build upon agency, autonomy, and empowerment in their communities? Pratik is still working on researching and writing his project, which he says is the “culmination of [his] Honors experience as a whole,” but he gave about 40 members of the Westminster community a vibrant preview of his work at an October lecture in Nunemaker. He is using an interdisciplinary approach to his project and critically analyzing counterarguments, which are skills he learned in the Honors program. After graduating from Westminster with his customized major of Post-Colonial Ethics, he plans to go to graduate school and hopes to one day generate more work related to this project and the issues it encompasses. By Claire Prasad Three Westminster students and their hosts in Oaxaca. From left: Hector, Tori Pfaeffle (‘14), Sra. Margarita Ibarra de Castañeda, Willy Palomo (‘15), Pratik Raghu (‘15). Internships Show how Lessons from Honors Function in the “Real World” Jasmine Carlson (‘15) and Lizzy Donnelly (‘15) interned in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 2014. From Salt Lake City to Washington, D.C., and from mathematics to public health, Honors students participate in a range of internship opportunities in varying fields. However, one thing appears to hold true across the board: these students’ experiences in the Honors program have contributed to success in their internships. Senior Honors students Jasmine Carlson, Lizzy Donnelly, Shibl Gill, Megan Peters, and Greg Yerkes each Jasmine Carlson (‘15) and Montana Senator Jon Tester. did an internship during the last year. As a group, they identified reading, writing, communication, and critical and integrative thinking as the skills— learned primarily in the Honors program—that were most beneficial during their internships. Jasmine, a political science major, did a summer internship with U.S. Senator John Tester of Montana in his office at Washington D.C. Her duties as an intern involved issues in two different fields—judiciary and banking—in which she had no prior experience but was still expected to read lengthy summaries and report her findings to the senator. Jasmine said her ability to communicate her findings, in both verbal and written forms, was shaped by the skills she gained in the Honors program, and particularly in the fastpaced discussions in Honors seminars. She felt she was adequately prepared to handle the constant demand for quick, accurate communication better than any of the other student interns. “I probably wrote twenty to thirty memos for him over the course of my internship that he took home and read,” she said. “Being able to translate, clearly and succinctly, all of what I was reading and hearing, and the different perspectives I was taking into account, into a memo that summarized everything relevant and important for him to know in a page was both challenging and something that I excelled at compared to the other interns.” Lizzy, a public health major, did a three-month summer internship in Washington, D.C., as well, for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. During her time there, she gathered signatures on petitions and met with Utah Congressmen Chris Stewart and Jim Matheson, and Senator Hatch’s health legislative assistant to lobby for support on bills. For Lizzy, the most valuable and transferrable skill she learned from the Honors program was the ability to listen well to others’ ideas. As an intern, she interacted frequently with many politicians, and needed to shrewdly pick out the information she wanted to use for her arguments when meeting with representatives. Because she was often competing with lobbyists from tobacco companies, she had to 5 carefully refute the arguments she knew they were making—all of which required attentive listening, active synthesis of multiple competing ideas, and clear communication. Lizzy also said that the reading she did on American Cancer Society policies was easier for her because she had been challenged by the readings in Humanities and other Honors courses. Her writing abilities also stood out to the people she worked with: “I was complimented by my boss on my excellent writing skills.” She added, “That’s all Honors.” Shibl, a mathematics major, was an intern at the state capitol in the Utah Division of Risk Management during spring semester last year. Shibl was the first intern the office had ever had, an opportunity brought to his attention by the Public Service Internship Program run by Roger Livingston. In his internship, Shibl applied his mathematical knowledge to streamline the office’s data systems, build models for data representation, and create a performance evaluation formula for Shibl Gill (‘15) interned in Utah’s state capitol. the department. Like Jasmine and Lizzy, Shibl said the communication skills he learned in Honors classes were important to his success as an intern. “The most important thing that I learned from Honors was the ability to effectively, respectfully, and in a meaningful way communicate my ideas to other people,” he said. “Especially in internships of this nature, where I was working in a government office, you have to be very forthright and you have to be very clear in your ideas.” He credits his Humanities classes in particular for teaching him these skills. Shibl also said the interdisciplinary 6 Greg Yerkes (‘15) and New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan. approach of Honors courses benefitted him as an intern, which he found surprising. He said it gave him “the ability to think of issues in a multi-faceted approach,” combining mathematical concepts with aspects of psychology and sociology for his major project of creating a performance evaluation formula for the department. Megan, a marketing major, did an internship for Freestyle Marketing Group in downtown Salt Lake City during the summer. Like Jasmine and Lizzy, she emphasized that the writing skills she learned in Honors classes were particularly valuable for her internship. “Pretty much everything I’ve done is writing,” she said. One of her jobs was to create a brand standard for one of the clients, which was “all words.” Megan’s writing skills also helped her complete work faster. “Things usually have to go through the copy writer at our agency,” she said, “but whenever I’m working on something, I can just pass it on without having to go through the copy writer.” Megan said that at Freestyle, there is usually a distinction between the “creatives” who generate the ideas and the account team that develops them, but she can do both. “Because I can write, I can do it a lot faster,” she said. Megan said the skills she used in her internship go all the way back to Humanities, particularly the ability to be open to criticism. Greg, an international business major, did a summer internship in the International Trade Resource Center in New Hampshire as part of the requirement for completing his degree. He said the critical thinking skills he learned in the Honors program were Megan Peters (‘15) participated in an “Everyday Carry” photo series at Freestyle Marketing Group. the most important part of his success. “I am better because of Honors at forming my own original thoughts and not having to rely on others’ analysis, and you can put that to good use as an Honors students participated in internships all over the United States in the spring and summer of 2014. intern,” he said. He explained that the combination of Professor Watkins’ economic theory and Professor Popich’s philosophical theory helped him “understand more comprehensively why things are the way they are, and I was able to apply what I learned about economics and international relations from those two different approaches to what I had been doing as an intern, and it really helped me do better in my role.” The benefits of internships go both ways. After their internship experiences, Jasmine, Shibl, and Greg all said they were more invested in their classes. Jasmine said being exposed to the passion and excitement of experts in the many fields that converge in D.C. was “infectious.” “My awareness of other people’s passion and subsequent excitement about class was greatly heightened,” she said. “I’m much more likely to participate or listen with a higher degree of excitement over what the professors are saying.” Shibl said he had more appreciation for the interdisciplinary learning goals of the Honors program and even started working on them more after his internship. “Seeing it work in real life renewed my faith in this system, and I was able to more actively endorse those goals of the Honors program,” he said. Greg also saw his passion for classes increase as a result of understanding how his classes could apply to the world beyond college. “I definitely see that what I’m learning in classes applies to the real world,” he remarked. “That gave me a new perspective on my classes. I’m specifically looking for ways that what I’m learning in class can apply to international trade, international relations, and business in general.” All five students highly recommend that students pursue internships. According to Greg, doing an internship is “an essential part of developing your professional career and your professional life past Westminster.” Shibl also recommends doing
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