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First Year Seminar Papers and Other Creative Work
Featured in this issue of E-clectic are research papers submitted by students in First Year Seminars taught by Professors Atsuko Hirai, Denis Sweet, Richard Wagner, Amy Bradfield, Elizabeth Eames and Marcia Makris. The announced competition drew 12 papers from among which members of the editorial board chose—with considerable difficulty—winners of three cash prizes.
Christine Woll, a student in Professor Hirai’s seminar, FYS 234, The U.S. Relocation Camps in World War II, won first prize of $100 for her paper, “That Damned Fence: Relocation Camp Life through the Eyes of Japanese Alien and Japanese-American Poets.”
Two second prizes of $50 each are awarded to Amanda Millis and Kathryn Moore. Ms. Millis wrote her paper “Getting It Right-Side Up,” for FYS 261, “’Ain’t I a Woman?’ Reading and Writing a Woman’s Life, taught by Professor Makris. Ms. Moore was a student in Professor Eames’s FYS 172 Power and Perception: Cinematic Portraits of Africa. Her paper is “May the Circle Be Unbroken.”
Although reaction papers to the visit of Hungarian film director István Szabó were not submitted to the FYS competition, instructor Katalin Vecsey generously shared these inspiring additions to the zine from her students in FYS 293 Mephisto: Film, Novel and Screenplay.
Professor Francisca López encouraged students in her class on Social Justice in Hispanic Literature to submit poems written for the class, and the zine is very pleased to have its first poems in Spanish, several of which include the students’ translations for non-Spanish speakers.
Music !
For the first time E-clectic includes digitized music of the group “The Minus Scale,” whose bassist is Mark Tobey ’05, and a slide show of drawings by Jo Anne Villarosa ’05, a member of the zine’s editorial board.
In addition, there is fiction by Jonathan Horowitz ’05 and Katy Reedy ’06, both of whom have been published in the previous issues of E-clectic. Katy also has poems in this issue and the evocative poetry of Marian Goddard ’07 appears for the first time.
Under non-fiction, Jon Horowitz winningly re-casts his lot once and for all with the Boston Red Sox. Jim Tierney’s essay, inadvertently omitted from the last zine, appears in this issue. Tierney is a member of the larger Lewiston/Auburn community whose submission was approved by last year’s editorial board.
A New Look
E-clectic has a new look. The bright pink flyer designed by Natalia Tsai ’06, which you may have seen around campus soliciting submissions to the zine, provides much of the background of this issue. The design appears in various incarnations under the technologically skilled hand of Ted Coulombe ’91, who with the able assistance of Yangjerng Hwa ’05, has made this issue of E-clectic what it is, in Ted’s words: “an eclectic assortment.”
And Introducing …
A graduate of Bates, Ted is an intermittent learning associate with the Mellon Learning Associates Program who also will oversee the production of Volume 2, No. 2 of the zine. His prodigious technical skills were a side dish to his full-time work on the circulation desk and as a cataloguer at the Bowdoin College Library for many years. Bowdoin’s loss is Bates’s gain, and the zine is grateful for his willingness to share his expertise.
“I hope more students will get involved with the editorial process and be encouraged to submit their own works—their photography, multimedia or video,” he said. He also noted it’s really exciting to be back here at Bates and was glad of the opportunity to return.
Even as we welcome Ted, the Mellon Learning Associates Program in the Humanities says goodbye to historian Abraham Smith, our first ABD resident learning associate. See the interview with Abraham in this issue.
From The Editorial Board:
Natalia Tsai
Jo Anne Villarosa
Yangjerng Hwa
Judith Robbins, Editorial Advisor
Ted Coulombe, Intermittent Learning Associate/Technical Advisor
*With a special thanks to Trevor Margraf whose spirited contributions to editorial meetings were appreciated.