Ripon College - Crimson Yearbook (Ripon, WI)

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Artists. . . Artists. . . Artists. . . This year Ripon College has been fortunate enough to have a number of artists show their work both at Rodman and in the Art Gallery located in the library. One of the first was Tseng Kwong Chi, a photographer, whose works showed him in front of various famous spots around the world. Quite different was the work of Anne Waisbrot. Her work is done in brass and other metals in relief representing forms from everyday objects. President William R. Stott, who is an avid ornothologist, presented his drawings of various birds. Jill Frieberg showed her work in mixed media. Her work showed the clothes of women without the bodies representing a feminist perspective in art. Pat Dobrinska, a Greenlake artist, presented her paintings of the Greenlake scenery. Lastly, in a slightly different vein, the Nancy Hauser Dance Company performed a number of modern dance routines. This year gave a variety of different artists for the Ripori College community’s enjoyment. 24

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Forums. . . Forums. . . Forums. . . Ripon College, under the auspices of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, hosted the conference on Free Soil and the Constitution. The conference was divided into two parts. The first section dealt with Free soil and the original intention. Robert Hill discussed, The Northwest Ordinance and the Origins of Free Soil Constitutionalism. Peter Peterson talked about, The limits of necess.ity: The compromise with slavery in the constitution. William Wiecek dis- cussed, What was guaranteed to whom? The Guarantee clause and the Constitutional support of slavery. The second section dealt with Free Soil Constitutionalism and Constitutional Development. Larry Arnhart talked about, Abraham Lincoln and the American Political Syllogism. James Livingston dis- cussed, Revolutionary Politics in the Electoral Arena: The Constitutional Basis of the Republican Appeal. Jeffrey Leigh Sedgwick talked about, Lincoln's Constitu- tional Critique of Abolitionists. And Eric Foner dis- cussed, A New Birth of Freedom? The Civil War Amendments and Constitutional Development. The framers of the Constitution had not explicitly dealt with the explosive issue of the future of slavery. The debate over the constitutional status of slavery in the territories was a debate not only over the principles which informed it and the purposes to which it was di- rected—indeed, it was a debate over the very meaning of liberty and self-rule. The conference hoped to illuminate this deeper meaning of Constitution by ex- ploring the Free-Soil interpretation of it in a variety of contexts and from a variety or perspective. Kim Shankman was the Conference Director. 26