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FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012

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Vol. 78, Iss. 9

LET IT BURN
Following months of planning and several weeks of final negotiations, the 2012 Sunburn Music Festival came to fruition March 10, with three acts taking the stage in the Pamplin Sports Center: Gogol Bordello, GZA and the Thermals.

Students use Mellon Grant to fund Environmental Studies projects

BY MARLY WILLIAMS
Staff Writer

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Lewis & Clarks Mellon Research Grant funds both international and domestic research projects for Environmental Studies students and faculty. The grant is provided by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, which gives a number of substantial grants to both the college and the Environmental Studies Situating the Global Environment (SGE) initiative. ENVS has received three Mellon grants to date; the current grant for $600K follows up on a previous grant for $300K, both of which I obtained on behalf of our ENVS faculty and students, said Jim Proctor, the Mellon Initiative Director and Professor of Environmental Studies. The current grant began in June 2011 and will run until May 2014.

BY JOSH FREEMAN
Staff Writer

We were really just dipping our toes in the water to see what a music festival could be at Lewis & Clark. I think the results are quite notable, said Tim Howe (12), a general manager at KLC. With a high turnout and satisfaction from the majority of the student population, this years Sunburn was a success according to the bodies that organized it, including KLC, President Barry Glassners office and the Campus Activities

Board. However, there were still several incidents the night of the festival that left students unsure of the overall safety of the event. In addition, questions still linger about the finances of the festival, in the face of near-silence on the part of the colleges administration concerning the total amount invested in this years concert. Like most major events with high attendance, there were incidents that infringed upon the experience for some. Ranging from relatively benign misbehavior to criminal activity, the concert saw

its share of problems. An allegation of sexual harassment was the most disturbing event of the evening, as one of the non-student attendees allegedly groped several female students on the dance floor. Campus Safety removed the individual from the venue after calling the police, who arrested the individual upon their arrival. It is important to remember that it was not the Lewis & Clark students that were causing problems; it was the individuals who had entered as guests that were

causing problems, said Supervisor for Campus Safety Mark Nisbett. Several students were urinated on while dancing and the attendees responsible for this behavior were ejected. In total, 22 attendees were ejected from Pamplin for various reasons, the most common being extreme intoxication and misbehavior. According to Coast to Coast Event Services, the security company that worked with Campus Safety, the majority of those individuals ejected from the concert were non-students.

[The grant is]...a great way to apply knowledge from classes to real issues and engage with people outside of the Lewis & Clark community.
Proposals are granted at the beginning of the semester. Each project combines the situated approach to research with a social learning method. The situated approach is a synthetic style of research that addresses environmental issues from a geographical standpoint based on a location, region or network of locations. This roots each students research in a real-world context that is applicable both to specific and general cases. The situated approach strives to cross two major academic and intellectual divides: of nature and culture, and of global and local. The Mellon International Research Grant rewards students with a $1000 or $2500 stipend to enhance their studies abroad, extend their overseas trip or return for further study at a later date. The Mellon Student-Faculty Research Grant provides funds for two Environmental Studies majors or minors and two faculty members for a 10-week summer research project. The international research projects have spanned continents and addressed environmental issues around the globe.

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Student art collaboration combines visual art and dance

BY DREW LENIHAN
Arts Editor

On Tuesday, art aficionados flocked to the Arnold Gallery in Fields to witness an experimental art installation. Extensory: Breath/ Evidence is a collaborative installation envisioned by Abigail McNamara (12) for assistant professor of sculpture Mike Rathbuns special topics course. It is a performative piece using the mixed media of human beings, spandex and metal hooks to create an experience in the gallery that was inviting and gestural. Performing in the piece were dancers Louise Trueheart (12) and Nikima Jagudajev (12), who participated in the installation for their independent study on contemporary dance as a language. The performers wore white body suits and were attached to tan colored strips of spandex, which they connected and disconnected to a series of hooks drilled into the three walls

Student experimental art installation features performance art.

PHOTO BY DREW LENIHAN

of the art space. I wanted to have limbs that extended through space and connected to the walls, said McNamara. The spandex was intended by McNamara to be an extension of the dancers bodies and to create new barriers and modes of movement that were constantly in flux as the hour-long performance

continued. Throughout the performance, the dancers used the tension of the spandex and their own bodies weight to create emerging patterns, movement and barriers. As the prompt for the show said, i do not see [space] according to its exterior envelope; i live it from the inside; i

am immersed in it. Through the release and reattachment of these extensions, the dancers illustrated the ephemeral nature of the human body in a given space and what constructs and deconstructs how we move through these spaces. It blurs the dichotomy between the warmth of the fleshy, active bodies and the cold, static architecture. You are taking an empty white box and injecting movement and warmth and drawing attention to the way space is embodied, said McNamara. The use of spandex reveals how the dancers relate to one another and the functioning balance of muscle and movement. We talked a lot about the way space is perceived and the way your construction of a space is based on how you understand your body and how it relates to other bodies, said McNamara. By extending the dancers bodies through the installation, the project experimented with the potentialities of body relations.

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