from around the country judged a $25,000 Watson Fellowship, a The additions to the faculty dent bodies under 10,000 and the the entries. Winners received a program offering promising col- reflect theNow Is the Time cam- print edition ranked in its cate- cash prize of $500 made possible lege graduates a year of indepen- paign goals, which include ex- gory of four-year weekly student by the Hosokawa endowment. dent exploration and travel out- panding the depth and breadth of newspapers. More than 100 col- The winners of the five cate- side of the united States. She the curriculum by strengthening leges and universities from the gories are as follows: opinion/ defines RAPtivism as a global the faculty. u.S. and Canada entered the ACP Editorial,Rachel Alexander ’13; hip hop project using music that Best of Show contest. Photography,Allison Felt ’14; powerfully resonates with global The Pioneer tops among The website, designed by Feature,Rachel Alexander ’13 efforts for consciousness and sol- college papers at contest Rebecca Fish ’11, earned Best of andShelly Le ’14 (tie); Sports, idarity against injustice. Show awards in 2009 and 2011. Sylvie Luiten ’12; and News, “Music and culture can active- Whitman’s weekly student- Josh Goodman ’12. ly contribute to universal efforts run newspaper, The Pioneer, “Intermezzo” marks end endowment established at lenging apathy, ignorance and in- Show” in its category of schools of an era for Hutson-Fishhas been honored as “Best offor freedom and equality by chal-The contest is part of an Whitman College by David tellectual oppression,” said the at the 28th Annual Associated Idalee Hutson-Fish, adjunct in- and Beverly Hosokawa and the former rhetoric and film major, Collegiate Press (ACP) National structor of dance, will retire after Hosokawa Family Foundation in who minored in French studies Journalism Convention, held in more than 30 years at Whitman. 2000. The endowment, intended and women’s studies. Seattle March 1-4. She presented her last produc- to be a celebration of journalistic Fukushima’s album is available The Pioneer was recognized tion as a faculty member on April excellence, includes the annual at raptivism.bandcamp.com. in two categories this year, rank- 7. The production featured four contest and a lecture. ing No. 2 for its website and No. distinctly different works chore- Whitman welcomes 12 3 in print. The Pioneer website ographed by Hutson-Fish and after Watson experience Before the Class of 2016 ar- award for its print edition. nature and receiving spiritualmatically from communing within four years, but this is the firsttenure-track professorsRaffaele Exiana. They range the-has been recognized three times Alumna makes album Aisha Fukushima ’09re- rives on campus, Whitman will “Whitman is unique out of all guidance to exploring a minimal- cently released an album titled welcome another incoming class the schools that attend ACP in ist landscape of light and dark. “RAPtivism,” which represents to campus and to Walla Walla: 12 that we have no academic jour- Cambria Wethey ’13, who the culmination of her year-long new tenure-track professors. nalism or communications de- took ballet with Hutson-Fish for journey exploring artists who Whitman hired new faculty in partment to train us, and no three years, said choreography is combine rap and activism to pro- 10 departments, including chem- professor telling us what to do,” one of Hutson-Fish’s strengths. mote social justice – what she istry, politics, theatre, biology, Patricia Vanderbilt ’12, editor in “She brings personal expe- calls RAPtivism. art, economics, English, psychol- chief of The Pioneer, said. riences to her choreography. It Fukushima traveled through ogy, art history and visual culture The website was ranked can tell stories about her life and Africa, Europe and Asia thanks to studies, and music. among other schools with stu- yours,” she said. Faculty authors Matthew Fox, adjunct assistant professor of general studies, reports the publication of his new book, a verse translation of Lucan’s Civil War, a Latin epic poem dating to the first century CE. It portrays the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great which ended the roman republic. Fox’s book was released in February as part of the Penguin Classics series, and replaces the prose rendition by robert Graves that Penguin published in the 1950s. In a review of the publication, The New republic wrote that “Fox’s approach renders Lucan’s pithy aphorisms and paradoxes especially well” and that his translation style gives modern readers “a sense of the forward momentum that is such a powerful feature of the original.” Civil War is available for purchase now. Matthew Fox Mary Anne o’neil, professor of foreign languages and literatures – French, is releasing a new book titled “From Babel to Pentecost: The Poetry of Pierre Emmanuel.” scheduled for publication in october, this will be the only book-length study in English of France’s most prolific poet of the mid-20th century. “I wanted to write a book that was comprehensible to a wide audience and that would get people excited to read Emmanuel’s poetry,” o’Neil said. she began working seriously on this project in the spring of 1995, and used every sabbatical to work on the book, which includes original translations of all of Emmanuel’s poetry and prose that is quoted. she decided to translate Emmanuel’s poetry to make the book and the poetry itself accessible to an English- speaking audience. “since I know my poet well, the real challenge in translating his work was to convey what he really meant to my readers,” she says. Celia Weller, emerita professor ofspanish, assisted in the process by reading over the translations: “Although Celia doesn’t read French, she could tell me when my translation didn’t make much sense in English.” Published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in Montreal, the book will be available for purchase oct. 1. Mary Anne O’Neil July 2012 5
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