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ComCil Spill

By Madeline Helser

Suggestions for motions for naptime, a discussion of C.M.s in the summer and working with the new curriculum, talks of the “skeletal crew of people here in the summer” by Bob Devine and the long-term guest policy, are what constituted last Thursday afternoon’s second to last ComCil meeting of this term.

The meeting got off to a slow start, most members being of dreary state, so Chelsea Martens suggested making a motion to have naptime. Unfortunately, it was shut down.

One thing on the agenda was a proposal about Community Government in the new curriculum. This was brought about because “the new student-less summers in the new curriculum present an opportunity to re-center CG on its core mission of providing communication and leadership to the whole of the community, not solely students.”

The four points made in the proposal are as follows: to extend CG’s time in office to the end of May in order to increase the transition time between the new and old CG which would start May of 2007, for CG to assume full responsibility for the planning and implementation of the Fall new student orientation which started last summer according to the survival guide, for CG to assume co-responsibility for co-coordinating pre-orientation programs such as MAKE IT, Bonner, etc. with the existing departments, and for CG to organize orientation sessions for new employees.

The long-term guest policy is about people who the college hosts in the summer. This is to go to Community Meeting for the whole community to discuss. In order to ensure your input in this issue about who gets to stay and doesn’t when we host conventions and such, be at next Tuesday’s community meeting at 3 o’clock!

The open-session of the meeting then promptly ended, marking what Kelsey MacDonald remarked, “felt like the shortest ComCil meeting ever!”

Power Chords and Blast-Beats Pound the Walls of the Union

By the CCNWSS (Jeremie Jordan)

About eight years ago Reversal of Man proclaimed that “internet and indie-rock are killing hard-core.” Certainly Dayton’s own once prolific extreme music scene has since reached a very stark low. With punk rock bars and venues closing their doors, all-ages shows practically ceasing, veteran hipsters moving away or settling down, and the attempt of major labels to cash in on the pseudo-post-heavy watered down trendy music that passes as punk, metal, and hardcore, the younger bands in the local scene that have any ties to, or play any true form of these styles are very far and few between. Once upon a not so distant past, Dayton was synonymous with creative and ground-breaking music. Our city was known for the quantity of quality music that emerged in the nineteen nineties with such gems as Brainiac, The Breeders, Guided By Voices, The Amps, Twenty-third Chapter, and countless others leading the way and bringing much attention to the energetic scene. The past few years, however, have been marred by bad luck, tragedy, and loss of resources. Continue reading Power Chords and Blast-Beats Pound the Walls of the Union

Art-faggery Loves Company

By the CCNWSS (Mariel Traiman)

Last Friday night up and coming visual artist and community member extraordinaire Lauren Hind debuted her first public art opening at the Sidewinder café in Cincinnati. A handful of Antiochians were in attendance, to support Hind and drink free wine. Record photographer Kari Thompson and I were extremely impressed by Hind’s ability to blend fantasy with reality, and past with present to create art which shows reality beyond a single frame. Hind uses gel medium transfer to take images out of context and place them in a constructed reality which comments on the fluidity of perceived social norms. Overall the event was a classy one, to be remembered, and a wonderful coming out for Hind.

After the event and inspired by the enviable artistry, the Antiochians in attendance hit the streets of Cincinnati with gale force attempting to live the art they never see in galleries. Yes, you can still smoke in bars in Cincinnati, but after dancing, enjoying some first class drag and spending too much money we were left wondering why we go out in public if we’re only interested in hitting on each other.

Science & Democracy

By James White

I think that the most iconoclastic revolutionaries of all time were not Lenin, Mao, Bakunin, or Zapata, but rather Galileo, Einstein, Darwin, and Newton. Scientists have repeatedly overturned superstition and fought on the barricades against ignorance. Scientists are a testament to humanism, the belief in man, a belief that is essential for democracy.

Basis

Science is a tired pugilist clinging to the ropes, however. A fundamentalist Christian group Answers in Genesis is building a $20 million museum outside Cincinnati. The museum wants to present a myopic view of history that is contradictory to everything known about physics, geology, biology, and chemistry. The people responsible for this affront to knowledge claim to do so to combat the forces of “secularism” (read: empiric knowledge).
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From The Editors

Luke BrennanDear Community,

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for the chance to serve as the content editor of our newspaper. While The Record has had some ups and downs this term, I hope that I have represented you faithfully and provided you with a quality publication. To those graduating this term, you will be missed, and I wish you all the best of luck in your future. As for the rest of you, I’ll see you next term, and I hope you have a great break. And don’t forget to observe the solstice on the 22nd, I think it’s a good omen that Horus is to be born anew the day we leave this place. Next term will be brighter and better, or so I hope.

Goodnight and Good Luck,

Luke

Foster Neill

Dear Commnuity,

This is the last issue of the Record for the Fall of 2006 and the last issue for me as your layout editor. Earlier today I asked myself whether or not I could keep doing the job if the contract were for a year. “Yes,” I thought to myself, and then, “I am glad this is over.” We’ve had our expected ups and downs, maybe a few unexpected ones as well, but we’ve also made it to the end of the term.

I want to tell everyone that due to Livermore Street’s inability to process submissions, we are holding off with printing until the end of Spring 2007. We hope to have an increased budget as well as to print a longer, higher quality magazine. Those interested in receiving a copy who will be gone in the spring are encouraged to email Livermore Street via our first class account. Currently, the mailbox is full, but we are working on creating space. Thanks to all who submitted.

This being the last issue, I can’t help but to reflect on my work. I’ve been looking through some of our past issues and been impressed and depressed with what I see. I know that I can do a better job than I have done, but I also believe that I have done a good job. I would say that I would like to continue with this type of work and I thank the community for allowing me such an opportunity.

One thing still bothers me though and that is the status of the Record both online and next term. The few days the Record was online were good days. The excitement Luke and I felt from the community was like nothing I’ve ever experienced before. All of a sudden the community grew, broke outside our stupid bubble, ebbed and flowed, flew, alumnus mixing with the campus, voices as diverse as the birds. We need the Record online and I look forward to the day that it happens again, for good. What Luke and I leave behind for the future editors shouldn’t be a sinking boat or couch, chair and movie poster. The support for the Record comes from the community, whether it be in the form of funding, online operations or the creation of content. I have faith in many of my student peers and in much of the faculty and staff that they do both what they think is right and what they can. Luke and I have tried to find common ground with the administration. I can only hope that what divisions exist are but cracks in which seeds might fall to inevitable flourishing.

Yours truly,
Foster Neill
Layout Editor