ANNOUNCERS NEEDED: Public address announcers are needed for home games for the following spring sports - men's lacrosse, women's lacrosse, baseball, and softball. Interested students and part-time WC employees will be compensated for their work; full-time WC employees may fill positions on a volunteer basis. Each announcer will be primarily responsible for one sport and may be asked to fill in for others if possible. Please contact Phil Ticknor, Sports Information Director via e-mail or at x7238 if interested.
Scheduled home events - (If you have a couple conflicts, please contact Ticknor anyway - we can work around those.)
AIKIDO DEMONSTRATION TO BE GIVEN FOR WC MEN AND WOMEN: Interested in learning self-defense? Ever see a Stephen Segal movie? The art he practices is Aikido, a Japanese martial art which focuses on the development of character through disciplined practice in a cooperative environment. A demonstration of this art will be held for students--men and women-- on Thursday, February 21, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Kent Athletic and Wellness Center , 800 High St., Chestertown. An article on Aikido in the December 7, 2001 edition of The Elm quoted Chief Instructor Peter Connell describing the art as one that is not a punching, kicking art, but rather uses the force of an attack against the attacker, with the various techniques ending in throws or pins. Connell has taught Aikido at the Naval Academy and his program here in Chestertown is affiliated with those at the Naval Academy, St. John's College and the University of Maryland. Adult classes are held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings at an authetic Japanese dojo located in the Wellness Center.For further information contact Chief Instructor Peter Connell at 410-639-2019, or just show up for the demonstration. Everyone is welcome!
(From a message prepared by Peter Connell)
SCHOLAR EXPLORES THE MARKETING OF "PRIMITIVE" ARTIFACTS IN THE MODERN WORLD: The Washington College Department of Art and Department of Sociology and Anthropology present "THE POST-PRIMITIVE ARTIFACT: A GLOBAL TALE," a lecture by Shelly Errington, professor of anthropology at University of California-Santa Cruz, on Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 8 p.m. in the College's Hynson Lounge. The event is free and the public is invited to attend.
The recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Prize, Prof. Errington has focused her recent work on the political and semiotic analysis of the status and fates of non-Western artifacts in the late twentieth century. Her lecture will trace how "Authentic Primitive Art" was invented as a category, institutionalized, and had its triumph during the twentieth century. Its hallmark was that it was made anonymously and for ritual purposes, not for the market, but by the turn of the twenty-first century, a category shift had occurred, legitimizing made-for-the-market artifacts. This presentation briefly traces the rise and fall of Authentic Primitive Art and then sketches some new and emerging categories, exemplars, selling venues, and marketing of neo-primitive and post-primitive artifacts in the context of global events.
Prof. Errington's lecture is cosponsored by the Campus Events and Visitors Committee, the Goldstein Program in Public Affairs, the Art History Club, the Anthropology Club, and Lambda Alpha, the National Collegiate Honor Society for Anthropology.
(From a Washington College Press Release)
300 Washington Avenue, Chestertown, Maryland 21620 | 410-778-2800 | 800-422-1782