New audio
WPSH, the voice of Penn State
Harrisburg, is ready for another year of
bringing the student body great music
and information. According to Terry
Wolf, the station's new general manager,
this year’s "mind-set" is slightly different
from that of previous years.
"We want to be here FOR the student
body. We want to get people involved
by letting them know what is going
on,” Wolf said. "We're going to wage a
war against student apathy, and we don't
like to lose."
WPSH has a new weapon to aid them
in their battle, DJ equipment. The
recently purchased equipment includes
two Yamaha speaker cabinets, two Sony
compact disc players, a 400-watt Peavy
amp, a Sony stereo cassette deck, a
Technics auto turntable, various sound
cords, mikes and accessories.
They will be trying to round up
clubs interested in holding dances as a
means of fund raising. The staff plans
to make things easier on the clubs by
Humanities Gallery bares all with nude photos
Karen M. Putt
Capital Times Staff
Some people quickly glance at them
while others do gawking doubletakes,
but almost everyone blushes when first
viewing James Bostick's collection of
post-modern nude photographs entitled
"Past, Present” on display in the
Humanities Gallery.
The collection of both color and
black and white nudes were photographed
by Bostick for an independent study he
did with Troy Thomas, associate
professor of Humanities and Art last
Class displays art projects on campus
Last April, students in C Art 4990
(Art History and Studio: Twentieth
Century Trends and Issues) were given
the assignment of designing temporary
site specific artworks for our campus.
Under the tutoring of instructors Linda
Ross and Troy Thomas the students were
encouraged to create non-traditional
political or conceptual pieces and to
consider the process as important as the
product.
This awareness included a self
reflection on why a particular theme or
form wgs chosen, the ways the demands
of the altered the initial conception, the
safety factors an artist must consider in
designing art in public places, learning
to to cooperate and unclutter the
framework of the laws of an institution
and dealing with the criticism that
follows the completion of a work.
These projects were undertaken
following a study of recent artworld
trends, including performance art,
conceptual art, environmental art
(earthworks, etc...) and video art.
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Photo by Karen Putt
Teriy Wolf and Andy Zee of WPSH discuss one of the many albums in the
station's collection.
asking for a small percentage of ticket
sales rather than a flat fee.
spring. According to Thomas, the
photos are based on works by
Renaissance artists Michelangelo, Titian
and Raphael.
"Some post-modern art uses art of the
past,” Thomas said. "It's not just using
previous'; art as a . source, but, also *
commenting on it. I think in a sense
he's brought those images up to date and
giving them a new
presence and immediacy."
Attached to some of the photos are
text excerpts Bostick has chosen to
display with his photos, ranging from
Hesiod's "Work?' and Days" to
The purposes of the assignment could
be summarized as follows:
-to give students a chance to
indulge their imagination in the creation
of a non-traditional piece that would be
on public display
-to introduce an element of
surprise into our everyday routine and
environment
-to call attention to the way art
can and does alter one's sense of space
and place
-to raise students' consciousness
about both the artworks' and the artists'
vulnerability when art is created for
public spaces
-to engage the college
community in a dialogue about arl-its
purpose and its relationship to its
immediate environment
-to sensitize the art students to
commonly held assumptions about the
nature of art.
Both the instructors and the
students were surprised to find several of
the projects were vandalized almost as
soon as they were installed.
"We feel this will take some pressure
off the clubs," Wolf said. "They won't
Panofsky's "Pandora's Box."
"The texts play an important part in
helping lo really understand the photos,"
Thomas said v
While Th'bmas feels ihc photos are
"wonderful, just knockouts," others have
problems with displaying nude photos in
an office setting, saying they simply
"don't care for them."
"People don't come into the office
with the mind set to see art,” Thomas
explained, "they come in to sec a
counselor...for whatever reason, and it's
sort of a shock."
Donna Horley, secretary for the
Artwork displayed on Olmsted lawn last spring
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have to worry about selling enough
tickets to pay for the entertainment."
WPSH will be able lo offer a wide
range of musical styles, as well as
diverse DJs to go with them. Their
music repertoire includes everything
from alternative to rap, classic rock to
heavy metal, and according to Wolf,
"even a few styles they haven't named
yet.”
The new WPSH officers for the
1991-92 school year arc Terry Wolf,
general manager; Andy Zee, assistant
station manager; Bob Caton, production
director; Brian Leid, personnel director;
Larry Bates, business manager; Jack
Frank, sales director and Barb Turk,
news director.
Any club or organization interested in
hiring WPSH for a dance should contact
Terry Wolf or Jack Frank by leaving a
letter in the WPSH mailbox in the
student activities office, or by calling the
station.
Humanities office, agreed that the photos
"seem to catch people off-guard when
they get a good look at them."
"They [the color photos] don't stick
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"People really have to look twice to get
a good look at them."
Thomas said Bostick chose the nude
because "he, like other artists, think the
body is beautiful," and secs nude
representation as art.
"Even artists, who were devout
Christians, like Michelangelo, painted
See Nudes, page 10