CLASS MEMBERS
Natasha Breen is officially a junior Spanish major and an unofficial major in twentieth-century art, Art History, and Independent Studies. She is a photojournalist and editor of the Lawrence alternative publication, The Utter.
Reed Haslach is currently in her junior year at Lawrence. She is majoring in Studio Art and seems to be pursuing interests in philosophy and theory as well, through no one's fault but her own. An avid user of passive voice and crusader against binary oppositions, Reed is working to gain control of her own ideas and apply them to the world around her. She has recently been introduced to the World Wide Web and is (passively) excited to become a part of all the sign-of-the-times hysteria. But she would really prefer just to go home, see her cats, and maybe have something to eat.
Born and raised in Grinnell, Iowa, J. P. Mohan is now an English major at Lawrence. His areas of interest include music, literature, Buddhism, religious studies, philosophy, and film. Within literature he enjoys studying the Beat movement and other postmodern literary efforts, deconstruction and post-structuralism, and queer theory. His study of contemporary theory has led him to seek one of the twentieth century's most notoriously difficult theorists, Jacques Derrida. He considers himself a Derridean neophyte, but has already begun incorporating deconstruction into every ensuing lifetime endeavor--academic and otherwise--because Derrida has taught him that it's okay to "break the rules," especially if that means, through playful ambiguity and a penchant for the obtuse, fashioning obnoxiously long and hard-to-follow sentences, statements, treatises, and manifestos, honed and weathered (whether? wither? what? wherefore?) by the politics and foibles of d(i/e)ffer(e/a)nce wedged into the interstices of scholarly discourse and/but (also) prosaic circumstance, which leave one asking, really but rather wholly, how much can we rightly say is constructed by the self and how much is constructed not by the self but by something other than the self, the non-self? the other? an other? another? your mother? Also, JP sometimes hangs out with his friends, but not as often as he used to, for some reason.
Steve Rodgers is a senior at Lawrence, studying English and Music, but not necessarily in that order. In the past seven weeks or so he's become a Derrida aficionado (pulverizing binaries with his bare hands!), but he expects that in time he'll find that there are more things than are dreamt of in Derrida's philosophy and latch onto another critic or philosopher with as much enthusiasm (or obsession?). He likes novels by Kurt Vonnegut, poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, movies by Woody Allen, and music by Stravinsky. He's also into theater, art, composing music, Elie Wiesel, Oliver Sacks, Tom Stoppard, making puppets,... You might say that he (therefore) is not a Music major or an English major. Nevertheless, he plans to go on to grad school in music theory after a year spent waiting tables.
Christopher Schatz is a senior music theory major. His interests also include bassoon and composition.
Joe Tennis is: 1. a Religious Studies major; 2. a junior; 3. from Greencastle, IN; 4. a person who likes lists; 5. interested in studying sacred space
Seth Warren, a junior at Lawrence, is double-majoring in Religious Studies and English, with a very open-ended undecided future. He's en route to India for six months to study hand-percussion and Buddhism.
Julie Wroblewski is a senior, double-majoring in English and Psychology, much to the chagrin of both departments. She is also the fearless leader of the campus feminist council. She has seen every Simpsons episode but two, and her dream is to be arrested for civil disobedience.
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