My column/MySpace

Talon Marks adviser Rich Cameron pointed out the irony of the column I wrote in the last issue of the Talon Marks and the fact that the Talon Marks is now on MySpace.

He knew what I was actually saying in the column but maybe not everyone does.

I never wrote anything against MySpace. It's a cool site.

I really like how the Talon Marks is now on MySpace.

The article was about how students are just browsing the Internet in the library when others need those computers to do their schoolwork.

I thought the column was pretty straight-forward but some may see it as a bashing of MySpace I guess.

Photo Department Revisited

I talked to Talon Marks Photo Editor Michael Agudo about the color issue with the photo department.

He said the film-based photo classes don't use color and the chemicals for color in the dark room are too expensive.

Maybe that was Commissioner of Fine Arts Sun-Hee Kim's concern?

Maybe she thinks the Photo Department should get more funding so photo classes can have color.

Now I ask the question, will the photo students learn more if they had the color chemicals?

I learned a lot from when I took a photo class. I can't say I could've learned more if I was working with color.

Is the process essentially the same either way?

I was going to ask Kim these questions but she was a no-show at the Cabinet meeting today.

Concerns about color in the Photo Department?

I don't mean to pick on Sun-Hee Kim, commissioner of fine arts, but I'm questioning whether she's right for the job as the ASCC might think.

This is besides the fact that she's not outspoken and it's extremely difficult, for me at least, to understand what she's saying.

At the cabinet meeting yesterday, she expressed her concerns for the Photo Department.

She said it doesn't have color.

I've taken PHOTO 101. The class, where students shoot, develop and print pictures by themselves, was concentrated on black and white entirely.

So what's the problem?

I haven't had a chance to talk to Talon Marks Photo Editor Michael Agudo, who is closer involved with the Photo Department than I am, about this.

Maybe I'm wrong and there is a photo class that has color as a requirement.

I will talk to Agudo for more information later today.

If there is such a class, are we to think that the class has been doing without? That color is on the syllabus but it's been neglected?