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E ven when in black and white, a
blooming flower, branches twisted
in snow and water crashing
against rocks can look real enough to
reach out and touch — when seen in
close view.
Ansel Adams, one of the century’s
most popular and influential photogra
phers, follows such a philosophy in his
exhibit, “Inti-
"Adams is more famous for
his heroic landscapes, but this
is another facet of his work."
—Catherine Hastedt
curator of the Stark Gallery
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The exhibit will be on display for the rest of the semester.
mate Nature:
Ansel Adams
and the Close
View,” which is
now on display
at the J. Wayne
Stark University
Center Galleries
in the MSC.
Catherine Hastedt, curator of the
Stark Gallery, said most people are not
familiar with this side of the artist’s
work.
“Adams is more famous for his heroic
landscapes, but this is another facet of
his work,” Hastedt said.
Adams’ heroic landscapes include
such well-known photos as “Clearing
Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park,
1944,” “Moonrise, Hernandez, New
Mexico, 1941” and “Half Dome,
Yosemite Valley, Ca., 1956.”
Hastedt said the close-view pho
tographs of natural elements were taken
during Adam’s mural period, when he
was commissioned by the government to
photograph national parks. Although
his landscape pictures from this project
brought him fame, Hastedt said the pho
tos on exhibit offer viewers a challenge,
as well as pleasure.
“They are lessons in design,” she said.
“They’re beautiful, but at the same time,
they are interesting as design prob
lems.”
John Watts, a senior accounting ma
jor, said he was familiar with Adams’
work, but did not realize he also did
close-view photography.
Watts said the close-view pho-
tographs add a new
perspective to ordi
nary elements of na
ture.
“It’s amazing
what you can do with
still life,” he said.
“[The photos] bring
out things people
don’t notice about everyday life.”
Close-view photography can bring
many of the images to life, Watts said.
“Some of them bring out sense and
provoke images and sounds,” he said.
“Intimate Nature: Ansel Adams and
the Close View” is on loan from the Cen
ter for Creative Photography at the Uni
versity of Arizona at Tucson. Most of the
copyrights for his work are held by the
center, to which Adams bequeathed
many of his prints.
The exhibit will run through Decem
ber and is free. Hastedt said Ansel
Adam’s name alone has been enough to
draw people inside the gallery.
“We had people coming by when we
were setting up the exhibit wanting to
see it,” she said. “He is a familiar name,
so we figure it will be a popular exhibit.”
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Ansel Adams took still-life, close-view pictures while work
ing on projects that called for landscape scenes.
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A fter four or more years of
attending other teachers’
lectures, some A&M stu
dents get to turn the tables and
teach.
Dr. Cathleen Loving, director
of field experience in the educa
tion curriculum instruction de
partment, said student teaching
is the final experience in teach
ing education.
“The student teaching se
mester is the culminating expe
rience,” she said. “It’s a full
time experience with a mentor
teacher. They’re out there all
day, everyday. They observe
and slowly move to full respon
sibility.”
The mentor teacher aids the
student teacher in developing
their own teaching philosophy
and style. The mentor teacher
may also determine whether the
semester will be a positive or
negative one.
Melissa Klutz, a senior ele
mentary education major, said
she was fortunate to get a sup
portive teacher.
“Your teacher can make or
break it,” Klutz said. “You have to
have one who is supportive. This
is where you make up your mind.”
Facing a room full of students
for the first time can be an in
timidating experience. The stu
dents know the student teacher
is just that — a student.
Laurie Mounce, a senior spe
cial education major, said she
has proven she deserves respect
and does not feel intimidated.
“I showed I could handle it,”
Mounce said. “The teacher saw
my ideas would work even
though I’m a student teacher. I
felt very comfortable expressing
my opinion.”
A classroom full of students
with diverse backgrounds can be
an enlightening experience.
Amy Bubela, a senior biology
major, said interacting with the
students opened her eyes to a
whole other world.
“The kids are very di
verse,” Bubela said. “You
grow up in this perfect
world, and theirs is differ
ent. The things they are
going through are devas-
tating. I’ve realized the
town I was brought up in is very
different.”
Although student teachers
are sent all over Texas, over half
of the A&M student teachers
prefer to teach locally.
Bubela said teaching locally is
her only option.
“Most people go home and live
with their parents,” Bubela said.
"I can’t do that, and I can’t break
my lease. I didn’t want to look
Robyn Calloway, The Battalion
a senior elementary education major, instructs a
Brittany Rankin,
second grade math class as part of her student teaching duties at
Navarro Elementary school.
for another town, because this is
now my hometown.”
Student teachers pay 12
hours of tuition. Local student
teachers pay regular fees, and
"I felt very comfortable ex
pressing my opinion."
— Laurie Mounce
senior special education major
distant students pay reduced
fees. Loving said this is because
students are required to pay fees
regardless of whether their in
struction is on or off campus.
Klutz said student teachers
should be payed like co-ops and
interns.
“If I even wanted a job, I
couldn’t,” Klutz said. “I’m
drained by the time I get home. I
think you should get paid be
cause you do exactly what the
teacher does, and you take off
some of their responsibility.”
Despite the fact that there is
no pay, studeht teachers say it is
a good transition from college to
the real world.
Mounce said student teaching
has shown her what she will be
up against when she teaches on
her own.
“It gives you hands-on experi
ence for what you’re going to en
counter in the classroom,”
Mounce said. “You don’t know
what you’re going to face until
you’re in the real-life situation.”
Klutz said the students are
what make the semester-long ex
perience worth it.
“I love the kids,” Klutz said.
“Each is so individual and has
their own personality. The key is
discipline and to show that you
love them.”
Inkshed Press provides students
with outlet for poetry and prose
By Katharine Deaton
The Battalion
T hey read it, they write it and they publish
it. Members of the Inkshed Press devote
their time and energy to poetry and prose.
The Inkshed Press branched off from the liter
ary magazine, Witness, which was organized
through the MSC.
“We sort of evolved from Witness because of cen
soring concerns,” said Chad White, a junior English
major and poetry editor of the Inkshed FVess.
The group holds weekly poetry readings, work
shops and publishes a literary magazine, the
Inkshed Press, with the works of A&M students.
“Our primary goal is publication,” White said.
White said that the magazine includes prose
and poetry.
To help students in their writing, weekly read
ings and workshops are held. Poetry workshops
are held every week and prose workshops are
held sporadically.
“The workshops are primarily peer critique,”
White said. “We make multiple copies of people’s
work, and it gets passed around, and people
make comments.”
The poetry readings are simpler. White said.
“We read primarily student work, although
some pre-published authors are read,” he said.
The readings are held at several different
places on campus. White said they are often held
in Rumours in the MSC, and they plan to hold
one in the Flagroom. White said that in the fu
ture, the group hopes to hold readings at Dead
Lazio’s on Northside.
The group also attends off-campus readings and
workshops such as the Austin International Poetry
Festival and the Brazos Writers Conference.
“We encourage the writers to take advantage
of these conferences,” White said. “We’re trying to
get together to go to the Brazos Writers Confer
ence’s free session on Friday.”
Writing poetry and prose is not a requirement
for Inkshed Press, but it is the primary reason
the group exists, White said.
“We’ve had some members not write, but just
work with managing the financial side of Inkshed
Press,” White said. “We attract a diverse group of
students. Just about every major is represented,
but we’d like to have more majors like marketing
and finance to help with our financial side.”
White said the group had financial problems
last year and was unable to publish anything.
“We should be able to punish the magazine
this year, and we’re calling for submissions on
Monday,” he said.
OPLE IN THE
Shoney's looks for
old-fashioned image
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —
Well, shucks. OF Andy Grif
fith’s just a Shoney’s kinda guy.
The Shoney’s chain, with
restaurants in the South and
the Midwest, has selected him
as it spokesman.
“His image on Mayberry and
Matlock is very wholesome,
very down to earth,” Greg Ka
plan, the senior vice president
of marketing for Shoney’s Inc.,
said on Wednesday. “He enjoys
tremendous popularity and re
spect as well as very high
recognition among Shoney’s
customers and non-customers
alike.”
The Boss stops at old
stomping grounds
ASBURY PARK, N.J. (AP) —
The Boss is back in town.
Bruce Springsteen joined his
proteges Joe Grushecky and the
Houserockers for a hard-edged
100-minute set at The Stone
Pony, the club where he started
and where he drops back in oc
casionally, usually unan
nounced.
They performed Springteen’s
“Murder Incorporated’’ and
“Light of Day,” along with Wil
son Pickett’s “Mustang Sally”
and Van Morrison’s “Brown-
Eyed Girl.”
Prince looks to
become frogman
COPENHAGEN, Denmark
(AP) — The prince has turned
into a frogman.
Crown Prince Frederik, 27,
using the nom de guerre Pingo,
is taking part in a military drill
in hopes of becoming a member
of the Danish Navy’s elite Frog
men Corps, roughly comparable
to the U.S. Navy Seals.
Two hundred soldiers will
spend a week trying to capture
WS
Frederik and four other would-
be members of the corps on the
island of Funen, the newspaper
B.T. reported Wednesday.
The five armed frogmen with
camouflage-painted faces
sneaked ashore early Tuesday,
then vanished into the woods.
McCartney's veggie-
burgers recalled
LONDON (AP) — Linda Mc
Cartney’s vegetarian burgers:
fat lot of good they’ll do you.
McCartney’s beefless burgers
were recalled Wednesday after
a TV program analyzed batches
and found a fat content of 20
percent to nearly 23 percent.
The packages say the veg-
gieburger has an 11.2 percent
fat content.
McCartney, a vegetarian
who’s written a veggie cook
book, was “very upset” and in
sisted that the problem be cor
rected immediately, her
spokesman said.