The Tears of Things

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I believe that very passionately . . . What theory did the great critics have? Critics like Dr. Samuel Johnson or William Hazlitt? Those who adopt a theory are simply imitating someone else. I believe firmly that, in the end, all useful criticism is based upon experience. An experience of teaching, an experience of reading, one's experience of writing -- and most of all, one's experience of living. Just as wisdom, in the end, is purely personal. There can be no method except the Self.

Students in the Polytechnic campus' Engineering Program have been working with the Hopi Tribe in Northern Arizona to develop wind power on tribal lands. With the goal of providing both energy and economic sustainability to the tribe, a team of engineering students met with the Tribal Energy Council to assess the possibility of installing wind turbines and then installed a 50m tower to collect wind data. The students are also working with the Hopi high school to plan wind activities that will educate students about the uses and benefits of wind energy.

So far as I know, just one, which he's been vamping on for about ten years, by my reckoning. Gregoryland is Gaywasteland, apparently. And even if it wasn't, his motivation inevitably leads to mediocrity. Because really, is his connected, kozykool, covered-by-insurance life a worthy subject for art? The answer is no. Where has he been, what has he done that's different from a hundred thousand other wannabe aesthetes? Nothing that shows. The gay struggle is over, especially in the art world. He's coasting, lah-dee-fuckin-dah. Just as real people should rise above themselves, real art should reach beyond the subjective toward universal human values. We all share the experience of death and, if we're lucky, the experience of love. Gregory Sale shortsells both by acting as if he --this stalled and stunted man-- invented them. But his soul is too shrunken for such swollen notions.

The second-choice alternative to status is . . . money. All of the schools and centers with viable, ongoing engagement programs have shown their commitment through an investment of resources -â?? staffing, cash grants to faculty for course syllabus revision or community-based research, stipends for graduate students, funds to a school or department that applies for support for community partnership projects, reduction or elimination of overhead typically applied to grant funds, facilitated faculty roundtables, or funds to develop proposals for community-based research. Some universities have created recognition programs that include permanent salary step increases as rewards. Programs can be structured to provide incentives for faculty and community groups to develop relationships and plan joint projects prior to application for funds. They can also add academic cachet by designating successful faculty proposers as â??fellowsâ? or â??scholarsâ? and more important by â??buying outâ? the faculty memberâ??s teaching responsibilities to engage in significant community-related work.

In another cultural climate in Phoenix, had we had the support, we would be finishing up by this time our multi-media installation based on the Protocols, which we began in 2002.

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