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The Record
May 6, 1993
Arts & Entertainment
Read then Recycle
Sexton Commons to be made 'student accessible'
By Tom Dudley
Staff Writer
With the projected opening of the new multi-million dollar Sexton Commons tentatively scheduled for October 1, administration, faculty and several student organizations are working in an effort to make the complex meet the educational and social needs of both campuses. ^
Judy Karasch, Director of Academic and Cultural Programming; Roxane Molinari, Joint Director of Student Activities; and members of the JEC, SAB, and SJS are actively involved in contributing a variety of ideas which will make Sexton Commons accessible to all students.
Next week, Karasch and a selected committee will meet to discuss alternative means of student entertainment and activities. Karasch hopes to obtain student ideas for the events from a diverse cross-section of the student body. She hopes to gather ideas which will be representative of the entire student body.
"Everyone has some idea of what they want at the student center," said Karasch. "There
just needs tobe some coherency and organization of ideas at this point."
The tentative plans for the campus center include a variety of afternoon coffeehouses, student "speak-outs", nightly special events and the presentation of student art in the student lounge areas.
"I expect that the new campus center will serve not only as a new source of entertainment for the student body, but more importantly, as a gathering [place] where students can meet, talk, eat and socialize," said Terry Flynn, SJS president.
Hoping to provide quality entertainment and a healthy social environment which will facilitate student use, Karasch and other committee members recognize the need for a diversity in student input. Under the direction of the Vice-President of Student Affairs, Gar Kellom, a student "governance" council will be assembled for the 1993-94 school year. The council's primary responsibility will be to oversee that activities at the campus center will be in the interest of the entire student body.
Additionally, Kellom and SJU are working
THE ULTIMATE FINGERTIP
TOM DUDLEY
Staff Columnist
Somewhere, perhaps high in the heavens or high in the clouds, there exists a scroll of rich, creamy-white paper. And on this scroll are the names of all of the people who are currently living and moving on this physical earth. The names were written down longbeforethebirthsofeach of these people, and as these people grow older and experience more of "life", strange things begin to happen. These people begin to perceive, interpret, react, love, hate, admire and respect. These people, whether they like it or not, live in different spheres of the same world, and sooner or later, regardless of how separate the spheres are, they will come together and the people interact.
There are the people on television in the morning and in the afternoon and late at night who talk about the most scandalous, pornographic, s«xually oriented stories they can contrive. There are the stories about the parents who murder their children or the children who murder their parents or the boyfriend who slept with his girlfriend's mother. Or there is the afternoon decision of the judge or the flaming romance which leaves you hanging throughout the commercial break, ftiere is the afternoon dating game or the re-run you have seen for the sixth time or the glamour-band and the singer with long blonde hair screaming and crooning about life and love. And each day, there are the people who sit in front of their television sets, taking it all in.
There is the woman sitting on the bench in the park or the young child sitting in the back seat of the car which passes quickly by you as you are crossing the street; the child's eyes might catch yours, or yours might catch his, or perhaps your eyes won't meet
to create a Dean of Campus Life administrative position. The position/expected to be filled by September, will direct and organize the various activities at the campus center.
"[We have an] obligation to pull students together in small, informal, organizational groups," Karasch said. Working in cooperation with the dining service, Molinari and the Dean of Campus Life, student ideas and concerns will be addressed.
Among present student concern is the fate of the Butcher Shoppe. Several students, upon learning of its replacement by the new Sexton Pub, were skeptical. Many believe that the new pub will not provide the same relaxed, social environment as the Butcher Shoppe.
In an attempt to alleviate this concern, SJS member and pub co-manager Joe Hoelz is looking to bring a diversity of entertainment to the pub.
"As far as the pub staff goes, we're more than open to any type of entertainment that the students would like to see," Hoelz said. "Obviously our main focus will be on bands
and DJ.'s, but we are also planning on having comedians and speakers."
Also working in the favor of the pub are student-accessible, extended hours.
"We will be open from roughly noon until 1 a.m.," explained Hoelz. "This provides a real opportunity for a diversity in programming. One specific thing we are looking at is having student entertainment [such as coffeehouses] during the lunch hour."
Another idea, expressed by Karasch, included afternoon student "teasers" which will provide students a preview of the scheduled entertainment for that night. Also, weekly specials such as pool and dart tournaments are tentatively being scheduled.
In an effort to keep students better informed of the activities which will be taking place in the campus center, special bulletin boards and a staffed information desk will be added.
If things go as expected, the Sexton Commons bookstore will be open on Sept. 1 for returning students, and the remaining sections will be open for student use on Oct. 1.
And then there are those...
at all.
One person lies awake in bed for countless hours each night, thinking about all of the things he has experienced in his life. He thinks aboutmoney, his family, his grades; he thinks about the people who are starving and dying of disease in Africa or the war in the Gulf or how the cut in his mouth is cancerous and will kill him in the next two months. He thinks about the girl who sits across from him in his management or government or economics or psychology or biology class and he wonders if she knows he thinks she is the most beautiful girl in the world, knowing himself that he will never have the courage to tell her so. And there is the girl who sits silently in front of him and wonders if there is something "wrong" with her because the boy behind her doesn't speak to her.
There is the smoke in the air or the guitars which were playing that you liked the sound of or the fantastic, colored lights which were too bright to look at. There is the music which was too loud or the music which was notloud enough, as well as the music you simply couldn't understand.
One person found what she was looking for in a book or an essay or a poem or a song. Another found it with friends or in the bar or his dorm room or in the person he spent the night with. And still another found it walking through the woods late one evening or early in the morning.
There is the person who used his binoculars to look at distant birds and another who used them to look through distant windows.
There are the night-long thunderstorms which soak the ground, drowningthe worms who are forced to crawl out onto the sidewalks and the pavement. And there is the little girl with bright red hair and bright green eyes who races through the park, stooping low to save the worms from the emerging
sun by throwing them onto the grass. As she does so, she repeats over and over to herself, "It's simply a horribly, awful day for the worms!"
There is the girl who wonders if she should have that last drink or the last cigarette and the boy who wishes he had not had either.
There is the person you hugged out of love or the person you hugged out of courtesy. There is the person you met, shook his hand and said, "It's nice to meet you" when you could actually care less.
There are the tears you cried or the tears you wiped, and somehow in the end it seems like you cried as many as you wiped.
There are the laughs you let out loudly and the ones you kept silent at the appropriate times.
There is the boy who sits on the wall behind St. Benet Hall, smoking cigarettes and thinking about how much work he has to do by the morning, and another who talks to his best friend about nothing in particular.
One boy stands at the edge of Lake Sagatagan and shouts at the top of his voice, simply to hear the sound of it while another girl throws stones into the water just to see the silver-white splash and hear the "pi oink!"
There are treasures sitting beneath the trees of enchanted forests.
There is the journal or diary you kept so that your thoughts could be remembered forever and not just for the moment; or maybe it kept the thoughts not worth re-
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Students show all
Senior art shows opened Sunday at both the Alice B. Rogers Gallery and at the BAC Gallery and Gallery Lounge. Above is a piece by Paul Wegner .(Photo by Ken Barlage)
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