October 1,1987
THE LANCE
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Poet, Translator,
Wallace Fowlie to Read
by Communications & Marketing
Wallace Fowlie, retired profes
sor, distinguished translator, scholar of
Dante, Proust, French Symbolist poets,
and literary critic will be the guest
reader tonight at the St. Andrews Writers
Forum.
Fowlie has recently completed
his third memoir, published by Duke
University Press in January of 1987.
Sites: A Third Memoir is an
inventory of things that have surrounded
Fowlie throughout his life. At the age of
78, Fowlie’s story does not include his
childhood nor any dark secrets, but he
chooses to write about events that leave
recurring impressions with him.
Critics have praised Sites for
its joy and vibrancy. The fact that Fowlie
has studied works of Rousseau, St Au
gustine, Thoreau, Dickens, Joyce and
Proust is evident in his style of autobiog
raphy. The people and places of
Fowlie’s life; Harvard University, Taft
School, Yale, Truman Capote, William
Goyen, Jim Morrison and others, are all
remembered in his third autobiography.
A retired professor of Ro
mance Languages, Fowlie continues to
teach at Duke University. As a distin
guished professor, he cites his greatest
achievement as having read Proust with
1,500 students. Fowlie is known as a pro
fessor who is very in touch with the
tmies, dedicated to the Roman Catholic
Church and to the spirit of rebellion.
During his lifetime, Fowlie has
had some unique experiences - like the
time William Butler Yeats attended a
Wednesday afternoon tea at Harvard. As
a French scholar and translator, Fowlie
translated the original works of French
poet Arthur Rimbaud, and he still saves
the thank you note from the Doors’ lead
singer Jim Morrison. Morrison wrote,’!
needed the translation because I don’t
read French that easily. Rimbaud means
a great deal to me.”
University of North Carolina
at Greensboro professor Fred Chappell
names Fowlie as one of the greatest
literary critics of our time. Translations
of Mallarme, Artaud and interpreta
tions of Lautreamont are nearly all cred
ited to the work of Fowlie.
Wallace Fowlie will begin his
reading of “Rimbaud & Jim Morrison;
the Hero as Rebel,” based upran his
correspondence with Morrison, at the St
Andrews Writer’s Forum at 8 p.m. The
forum will be held in the main lounge of
W.H. Belk College Center on the St.
Andrews campus. The event is free and
the public is invited to attend.
AIDS Scare Hurts Victims
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crimination laws as well, the results
could be disastrous for persons who test
positive—even when there are no symp
toms of the disease.
“Given the public hysteria
over AIDS, even a positive antibodies
test, without symptoms, would be seen
by many as a death sentence,” White
says. “Since we have no cure for AIDS,
and no way to prevent exposure to the
virus from developing into the disease,
there are only indirect values in testing
Persons who test positive, for example,
might decide not to have children,
thereby preventing the infection of off
spring; or they might decide to practice
only ‘safe sex’ to protect their spouse or
lover; or they might develop lifestyles
that stress nutritional values, eliminate
stress, and maintain a healthy immune
system as long as possible, hoping to
forestall the development of AIDS.
These would, indeed, be public health
gains. Such voluntary testing, at gov
ernment expense, including counseling
with strict measures to protect confiden
tiality should be actively fostered.
“But mandating testing is an
other issue. We have a sordid history of
mandated testing in this country (sickle
cell, for example), the overwhelming
impact of mandated testing at this time
could only be disastrous. It would be
sharply counter-productive. We must
resist the public clamor to ‘do some
thing,’ however ineffective, to protect
us from AIDS. We must be clear on
what testing can do, and what it cannot
do, as a public health measure. Right
now voluntary testing atpublic expense,
with the provision of adequate counsel
ing, strict rules of confidentiality, and
tough anti-discrimination statutes—^all
this would be of genuine value to us.
“Short of this,” White said,
“the only effective weapon we have to
protect the public health—and to save
our lives—is education. Such education
must be designed not only to give infor
mation, but also to influence behaviors.
We need to give explicit attention in
concrete terms to the behaviors that put
us at risk—and to quite specific ways, if
we persist in such behaviors, to lower
the risk of infection.
“Such an effort requires en
ergy and funding analogous to the ef
forts in medicine and in science to care
for patients and to develop effective
treatments and preventions.
“We need to target specific age
and ethnic groups, and employ the same
effective market-based techniques used
to sell other behaviors in our society.
Nothing short of such a full-fledged
educational war can protect us from
AIDS,” White said.
New Instructor Enthusiastic
by Bill Boston
With a doctorate degree in
Psychology from Cornell, an approxi
mate total of 35-40 published articles
and chapters, and a speciality in Experi
mental Psychology, the newest member
to the Psychology department- Patrick
Cabe, has plenty to offer to his students.
Schooled in the University of
Akron, Ohio and Cornell University
Cabe has a long and impressive list of
experience, both in the field of teaching
and in psychology. His qualifications
consist of teaching a year of visual per
ception at the Rhode Island School of
Design, to doing full-time research in
the National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences, conducting experi
ments in the Laboratory of Behavior
and Neurological Toxicology, to serv
ing on administrative positions in
Piedmont Technological College.
In addition, he has served as
a specialist in the field of perception,
doing work in such subjects as the
development of perception, the indi
vidual differences of perception, and
in the comparitive psychology of per
ception.
Cabe seems enthusiastic
about teaching in a small college such as
St. Andrews. “I’ve been at big schools,
and I’ve been at small schools, and I
think you develop a much closer rela
tionship not only with your colleagues
but with your students as well when
teaching in a small school,” he said.
‘There’s more of a sense of a commu
nity at a smaller institution than at a
larger one.”
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