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Hilltop Views
Volume 14, Issue 8
St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas
January 29,1999
Elaine Garrison
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scorer. The Austin Bowie High
School graduate leads the team in
steals with 26 and is third in rebounds
(4.4) and assists (2.4) per game.
Filmmaking/Animation/
Screenwriting/Acting
My Visits With MGM
(My Grandmother Marta)
Season kicks off February 2 against
Houston Baptist University at St.
Ed’s. Game starts at noon.
Time to get sick and twisted!
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Spike and Mike are back!
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team’s success. His 13.3 points war-
With one game remaining in rant him the title of second highest
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ference play, both St. Edward’s bas-
ketball teams feel good about their
chances sitting high in the conference
standings.
Both the men and women’s
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conference title.
Junior Nicole Wiatrek and
senior Kendra Harrell have been the
drivingn force behind the Lady
Hilltoppers’ success. The duo is
ranked second and third in the con-
ference in scoring with 16.6 and 16.4
points a game. Wiatrek, a Fall City
native, leads the conference in re-
bounding. Harrell, an Austin native,
is fourth in the conference in re-
Want to have some input about the
new St. Edward’s ID card’s
appearance? Just go to the St.
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vote on your favorite card. You
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designs.
Nine days of insane films hosted by
Quentin at the Alamo Draft House.
February 19-27
Call 867-1839 for more informa-
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In a touching bilingual comedy,
playwright Edit Villareal focuses on
how two sisters took a leap of faith
during the Mexican Revolution.
The story later follows a
grandaughter who finds comfort in
the memories of her grandmother’s
bravery.
January 22-February 13
Tickets: $12
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The Lady Hilltoppers are The Hilltoppers and Lady Both teams look to so-
receiving solid play from senior Lisa Hilltoppers had their chance against lidify the season s success with
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ference records at 3-1. The men’s mances against Texas Lutheran and
team sits on top of the standing shar- Houston Baptist two weeks ago.
ing it with Incarnate Word. The Lady Freshman Brad Burdick is third on
Hilltoppers, who are 23rd in the lat- 1116 team in scoring and leads the team
est NAIA National Ratings, are tied in 3-point percentages. Sophomore
with St. Mary’s University forb sec- transfer Lachlan Teasdale leads the
ond place and a game behind Incar- team in rebounds and field goal per-
nate Word. centages.
It’s supposed to be a re- 1116 Lady Hilltopper’s sea-
building year for the Hilltoppers with son has been close to expectations,
a new coach, new staff and only five They began the season ranked 19th
players returning. But new head in the NAIA National Preseason
coach Mike Jones has the team play- Rankings. Though a tough schedule
ing beyond their means in mastering has played into several losses, they
up the 3-1 conference record. They are in a position to come away with a
bounding, field goal percentages and and third in scoring. A big surprise jumped out early in the first-half,
free throw percentages. Both Harrell has been freshman Carol Hamilton, only to fall to a stifling defense by
and Wiatrek have received HOT Con- Hamilton, an Austin native, leads the the Lady
ference Player of the Week honors for team in 3-point percentages and is Rattlers in the second-half to lose 62-
their performances this season, fourth on the team in scoring. The re- 65 at home before a huge crowd. The
Harrell took home two awards for her turn of junior Shelly Duffey in the Hilltoppers started off the same with
work in the second and sixth week point-guard position is a boost for the a first-half surge, only to relinquish
of the season, while Wiatrek took Lady Hilltoppers. Duffey, who is the lead in the second-half. They
coming back from a season-ending were able to push the game into over-
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Poems: 1974-1994” in- 1975-1994" in his poetry
eludes “Local Time,” which writing workshop. “In class
won him the National Poetry and after class,” he says,
Series in 1986. The most “year after year, most of my
recent addition to his poetry students have consistently
collection repertoire, “Loos- preferred Dunn’s poetry photograph by Robin Hiteshew
estrife,” was a finalist for the over all the other poets I’ve ------------------------------------------------------------
1996 National Book Critics had them read. I know they nonetheless perfectly acces- him.”
Circle Award. Dunn is also like his humor, but I also sible. He’s the only poet I’ve Laurie Drummond,
known for his prose collec- think they appreciate his had several students ask me assistant professor of En-
tions, Walking Light: Essays ability to achieve insights in to invite to read here, and glish Writing who runs the
and Memoirs, and “Riffs beautiful language that is I’m glad we were able to get Visiting Poets and Writers
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The School of Hu- Other honors Dunn I
manities Visiting Writers Se- has received include an
ries is proud to announce Academy Award in Litera-
their spring guest poet. “We ture from the American
are excited to have one of Academy of Arts and Litera-
America’s finest contempo- ture, the Theodore Roethke
rary poets as part of this se- Prize from “Poetry
ries,” says Alan Altimont, St. Northwest,”The James
Edward’s associate professor Wright Prize from“Mid-
ofEnglish. “StephenDunn’s American Review,”
poems are accessible, funny, Guggenheim and Rockefeller
poignant, and often ring true Foundation fellowships, |
as our oldest, wisest say- three NEA Creative Writing
ings.” Dunn will read from fellowships, and a Distin- i
his ten poetry collections on guished Artist Fellowship
Wednesday, February 3 at from the New Jersey State I
8:00 p.m. in the Maloney Council on the Arts. Cur- l
Room of the Main Building, rently Dunn lives in New Jer- I
This free reading will be sey and is a Trustee Fellow I
open to the public and in the Arts and a Professor |
signed for the hearing im- of Creative Writing at Rich-
paired. Dunn will also be ard Stockton College of New
available at a free, informal jersey.
session on Wednesday, Feb- Altimont has been a
ruary 3 from 3:00 to 4:30 Dunn fan since he started
and Thursday, February 4 grad school about twenty
from 1:00 to 3:00 in room years ago. For years
110 of the Main Building. Altimont has taught Dunn’s
“New and Selected “New and Selected Poems:
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Series with Altimont,
shares in the excitement
for Dunn’s visit as well.
“In fact,” she says, “I’ve
been contacted by
alumni who are ecstatic
he’ll be here and they
plan on taking off work
and school to attend the
sessions and readings.”
Altimont and
Drummond’s Visiting Po-
ets and Writers Series was
founded in 1994 with the
generosity of an anony-
mous benefactor who re-
served the
funds for touring poets
and writers. The benefac-
tor funded it until 1996
and was succeeded by the
much appreciated dona-
tions of the Formby Foun-
dation and Humanities
Advisory Board member,
Manuel Zuniga. The Vis-
iting Poets and Writers
Series would like to thank
the benefactors for mak-
ing this most exciting
event possible.
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were predicted to finish fifth in the
conference just ahead of Concordia
University, but surprising wins over
Texas Lutheran University and Texas
Wesleyan University in early confer-
ence play has the Hilltoppers mak-
ing a run for the HOT Conference
title.
The team is led by sopho-
more guard Ben Lyman. The Austin
native is second in the conference in
scoring with 17.3 points a game. He
is second on the team in steals. His
performances the week of January 4-
10 against Concordia and Texas
Wesleyan earned him HOT Confer-
ence Player of the Week honor. Jun-
ior Rhonney Greene’s performance
has also contributed greatly to the
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