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If you are a student living on campus at Otterbein University, tiny critters in dorms could cause big problems.
I turn down my freewheeling friends on a fairly consistent basis, each of whom helplessly hopes that after three and a half years, I might finally be done studying.
So, OK, some areas of Columbus can be a little scary in the not-so-Halloween, trick-or-treat sort of way, but the Brewery District?
As a kid, I always felt like James Bond when I’d open an automatic umbrella that first time; then of course by the third open-close in a minute it’d surely break, dramatically so, and I’d feel much less like a spy and more like myself again, but, you know, in more pain — either from a gouged eye, a nearly amputated hand or whatever other injury I had inflicted upon myself or others in that short span of time.
At some point, over the better half of the decade, Wilco managed to outgrow their once fitting reputation as the best band you’ve never heard of. Through their steadily inadvertent progression en route for larger-scale popularity, Wilco have made acquaintances with more soon to be fans and critics that were probably asking “What’s a Wilco?” not too long ago; and in the meantime, continued to remind the folks that had been around for a while, why they remain so consistently interesting.
My phone is, for lack of a better word, dumb. It’s not the most apt; its app-less, in fact.
Uptown Westerville's latest dining option is built on a recipe, one that's homemade and familiar: wings, sports, cold beer and a jukebox. Since the restaurant's opening on St. Patrick's Day, Clucker's House of Wings has provided an alternative for local wing-lovers hoping to steer clear of Polaris Parkway for a night. Co-owner John Lambillotte said he is pleased with the feedback in the first month of business. "We've really been getting people out, and we've been getting more and more Otterbein students in here lately, which is great," he said. Located on 8 E. Main St. in Uptown Westerville next to Pizza Primo, this local business provides a decor as lively as can be expected of any self-respecting sports bar, with Otterbein golf bags, Buckeye regalia and B.C. Rich guitars decorating every wall and crevice. The menu features 10 specialty sauces, including classic buffalo, spicy buffalo garlic, the house specialty Clucker's cayenne and a death-defying tearjerker, Clucker's habanero, which is advertised with a warning in bold font: "This is the boldest of the bold. Not for the faint of heart." "And we can do hotter," Lambillotte said. Scary-high numbers on the Scoville scale (the measurement of the spicy heat, or piquance, of a chili pepper) proves to be no boundary for Lambillotte, his local business or the quality of his wings. Buffalo Wild Wings' now iconic Blazin' sauce is among the hottest sauces in the chain eatery market, allegedly recorded at 200,000 to 350,000 Scoville units. In comparison, Lambillotte claims that his wings can easily surpass this number upon request, priding himself on tweaking ingredients to the customer's preference, whether this means heating them up, cooling them down or fine tuning flavors. Clucker's also offers a chicken tender wrap, Philly cheesesteak and one-half and one-fourth pound Angus burgers, plus sides, desserts and a Little Clucker's menu for kids. Carry out is also available if you can't dine in.
Freshman art major Emily Rose Hirtle has something not many other freshman art majors have: a gallery showing. Gallery 202, a nonprofit arts organization in Uptown, is displaying Hirtle's artwork, starting today, until April 30. Hirtle, with a drawing concentration, said she hadn't even considered an art major before her fall enrollment. "I never did art in high school," said Hirtle, whose birth name is Emily Sammons. "When I was accepted at Otterbein, I was hoping to be accepted in theatre, but I wasn't accepted into the program. Then I thought, ‘Well, what else should I do?'" After briefly considering a broadcasting focus, an Otterbein admissions counselor suggested Emily go a different route. "Teri Devlin said I should try for the Otterbein art scholarship, and I said OK." Hirtle got the scholarship. Since then, she has also designed banners for Serendipity Ice Cream & Coffee House. "I love to keep busy," Hirtle said. "I love to work. I like to put myself and my ideas out there. I'm not the kind of person to just sit around." Hirtle prides herself on wearing her inspirations on her sleeve, citing van Gogh, the macabre works of Edward Gorey and Charles Addams as major influences to her own stylistic, hand-drawn works. But what is "stylistic" exactly? "Well, it's not abstract, nor is it representational," Hirtle said. "You know what it is, but it's not realistic. I want people to see this distinction visually." Those who attend the gallery, which will be located in the loft establishment of Amish Originals, can expect to see 12 of Hirtle's "stylistic" hand-drawn pieces, all black-and-white illustrations. The gallery is open to the public with no cover charge, and students are welcome to arrive at any time between 7 and 9 p.m. for the reception, today. "I'm curious to see what people will think about my work now that it's starting to get out there," she said.
If there were ever a time for Otterbein undergrads to consider tacking on a minor, now might be as good a time as any. Starting fall semester, a new minor will be available to students: film studies. The minor consists of four new classes focused on the history, fundamentals and criticism of films. "It's exciting. It'll be just another ascending medium to look at critically," junior Justin McAtee said. A triple major in literary studies, creative writing and psychology, McAtee is one of many students on campus that have taken a liking to the idea of enrollment despite pre-existing academic commitments. "I think it just reflects all of the doors that are opening," he said. "Even though I'll be a senior in this transition, I'm really excited to see what else I can fit in." While the idea of implementing a film-focused curriculum at Otterbein has been around for quite some time, it was the approaching semester change that lifted the notion up off the ground and into the 2011-2012 course catalog. "It seemed like a good time, as we were restructuring the English major, and as all programs were restructuring their requirements, to think about things that were afoot on campus," said English professor Karen Steigman, who will be teaching the two film courses offered next year. "It's clear that film is important and interesting to people on campus. It's also a field unto itself, so we thought it would be meaningful to implement it as a minor. Film has its own disciplinary questions, concerns and importance." Thanks to budding faculty and student interest, an instrumental role from Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences Paul Eisenstein and a general acknowledgement of film's growing popularity in college campuses across the country, all of the necessary procedures were taken to ensure that the minor could be made an academic reality here at Otterbein. English Department Chair Suzanne Ashworth, who will also be teaching film-focused courses, said, "The film studies minor proposal worked its way through the usual institutional pipeline. It moved through the English Department, which houses the minor, the School of Arts & Sciences and our senate." The minor includes four courses totaling 16 hours, with two foundational and two upper-level classes. The introductory course, Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream: American Cinema of the 1970s, will be open-enrollment to help spark student interest. The other foundational course, Film History/Criticism/Theory, will be the first in the catalog to be listed under the FMST prefix that will eventually precede the names of all film studies classes. The 3000-level classes are not yet included in next year's curriculum, but will be by the following year. "I think it's going to be popular, and I think it's going to be rigorous," Steigman said. "A lot of us are already interested in integrating film into our other courses, so it's going to open up opportunities to not only have that kind of integration, but also dedicated courses." Ashworth said, "The minor represents a chance to immerse ourselves in a rich and powerfully relevant field of inquiry. It's an exciting time to teach and learn here." t&c;
It's story time again for Drive-By Truckers fans. "Go-Go Boots," the ninth studio album by the seasoned Southern rockers, serves up the band's latest batch of the same honest sounds and plainspoken lyricism that's done them so well for over a decade of alt-country music making. Co-founders Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood (son of former Muscle Shoals bassist David Hood) have written themselves a healthy 14-track LP, and like any Drive-By Truckers effort, each and every one of them packs a hell of a punch in both form and content. High points include the fist-pumping road-trip starter "I Do Believe," equipped with an energized symphony of distorted electric guitars and freeing lines that evoke the unrestrained sentiments of Tom Petty, the Hold Steady and Ry Cooder. The grungy, dark, sexual and tense title track "Go-Go Boots" kills this buzz with a relentless efficiency, as do other tracks with several emotional ups and downs. The quivering tremolo settings and moans of slide guitars perfectly accommodate an unapologetically dismal story of the local adulterer who also happens to be the town preacher and quite the family man. Other noteworthy moments include the absolutely killer "Used to Be a Cop," one of many first-person narratives on the record. This in particular tells the story of a jumpy ex-cop who can't seem to find any answers. Killer bass grooves in upper-mid tempo provide the album a nice change of pace for seven minutes and a different kind of instrumental activity Drive-By Truckers fans are not used to hearing (in a good way). The album also features three covers of the late Southern soul specialist Eddie Hinton, most effectively in the album's most memorable four-and-a-half minutes, the infectiously catchy "Everybody Needs Love." It's a strong testament to a man with great songs and not nearly enough to show for it. The work is not without a few drawbacks, found largely in tracks featuring Cooley at lead vocal. While nestled into his characteristic secondary vocal role to Hood, Cooley's patented straightforward lyricism lacks the melodic strengths of the other songs featured on "Go-Go Boots," except his final appearance in "Pulaski." "Go-Go Boots" proves to be a fine testament to the works of grown men and women with real problems. Lucky for us they also happen to be excellent songwriters and instrumentalists. t&c;
Guitarist Miguel Cordova's visit will have Otterbein mixing music, poetry and politics. The long-awaited reception of the renowned Chilean composer and musician has students and faculty coming together in a performance that crosses world cultures and several forms of the arts. "The arts are not as divided as we sometimes think, and I think that's part of what's going on here," Terry Hermsen, associate professor of English, said. Thanks to Cordova's unique blend of arts and influences, including collaborations with the celebrated Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, as well as his own experience with the political turmoil of Chile in the early '70s, the perspective Cordova brings to Otterbein should be as impacting as it is diverse. "My music and the music of Chile then was about the retrieval of our culture," Cordova said. "We all banded together creatively." According to Hermsen, "So much of our activities are separated by departments, and now, thanks to the diverse nature of Miguel's work, we have the music department really jumping in head first and saying, ‘OK, we're going to collaborate with English and with Spanish.'" "It's really a nice combination of Spanish, English, political science and music all at the same time," he said. Cordova's visit traces back to a coincidental dinner with Cordova's niece during Hermsen's sabbatical in Chile which set the ball into motion. "He handed me this CD as a parting gift, with his e-mail and address on the back of it," Hermsen said. The CD featured Cordova in collaboration with Neruda, who was the research focus for Hermsen's sabbatical and visit to Chile. Cordova's nationally-celebrated folk band Aparcoa, which was featured on the album, would help give birth to what came to be known as the New Chilean Song movement. "I'm very pleased how everyone here was so willing to put in the time and effort to have this concert," Cordova said. "The students are opening themselves and mixing in new musical styles, instruments and experiences, which is what my music and Chilean art is all about." These mixtures will be put to use in Cordova's campus recital on Thursday night in Battelle. The performance features eight of Cordova's arrangements, which he will be performing on classical guitar with the accompaniment of a select group of student instrumentalists called the Otterbein Players, as well as an open reading of Neruda's poetry from Hermsen himself — all of which will be orchestrated under the direction of conductor and Otterbein music professor Jim Bates. "It's always fun to collaborate like this with new musicians and composers, especially with those of (Miguel's) caliber," Bates said. "The music and Chilean culture is definitely going to be exposed, and it's exciting," Cordova said. t&c;
It was another Wednesday evening at the Chapel: time to throw down those bookbags, gather around a baby grand piano and set the world aside for 45 more minutes. But this rehearsal, like all of their rehearsals, was about much more than praise and worship for the Otterbein Gospel Choir; and even though their annual performance at the Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation Tuesday morning was steadily approaching, preparation never looked like it could be more fun. A blend of work and play was established right from the get-go. "Did I hear a phone?" asked LaJoyce Cain, who has been the director of the choir since it started in 1989. "What did I say about phones? Every rehearsal I have to tell you guys." Then a communal laughter erupted as their beloved director switched the busy phone in her pocket to silent with a beaming smile. It's this combination of a tightly knit group of mostly seniors and their motivating director that forms a kind of chemistry that's hard not to notice. "It's a more casual kind of rehearsal," said senior music major and four-year member Tanya Wilhite. "But we're such a committed group, and that's what makes it so special to all of us." The choir's performance at the 2011 MLK Convocation went off without a hitch. Each song was followed by applause. "It's always nice to get up there every year, but I really thought it was such a nice program," Wilhite said. "All the speeches were nicely put together, especially from the students." Originally formed for the purpose of performing at the 1989 Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation, the choir is now over 20 years in the making. Thanks to an authentically positive atmosphere that has come to define the choir and its members, students keep coming back year after year. "It's a way for students to come together and give honor and praise to God in an uplifting and warm atmosphere," Cain said. "Singing is a way of release, of freeing yourself. Gospel music teaches professionalism, and historically, students involved in choir are more involved. This is their exposure to that connection as well as to a spiritual connection." Just ask the students and this vocal group — pun intended — is quick to fill you in on the advantages of getting involved. "It's like that push in the middle of the week that gets you over the hump," said senior nursing major and executive administrator of the choir Kathryn Livisay. "We have so many types of people, but we all still have so much in common. It's like our little family." t&c;