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Welcome to the first issue of The Re-gent, the newspaper for students, fac-ulty and staff at all of the Regent’sCollege schools. With the four schoolsunder the Regent’s banner having re-cently been united, we feel that this is
an ideal time to be launching a campus-
wide newspaper. Our aim is to con-tinue building lines of communicationbetween the schools by sharing thenews coming out of each school andthe issues common to us all.This edition has been produced byenthusiastic student and staff con-tributors from RBSL, EBSL and RACL,with contributions from both degreestudents and study abroad studentsfrom our affiliate colleges. The volun-teer writers, photographers and pro-duction staff were assisted by twomembers of the teaching staff. Thefunding for production comes fromStudent Services under the directionof Frank Siegmund.We want to thank our contributorsfor their work and effort: FrancescaBarrow, Dave Bolton, Sarah Dhupar,Katelyn Lemasters, Hayley-Jane Mar-shall, Juan Piccirillo and ElizabethCampbell.We also want to thank Sarah Dhu-par, EBSL Academic Advisor, for pro-duction and editing help and NoemiSadowska, RBSL senior lecturer inGlobal Business and Design Manage-ment , for designing our layout.In this edition you will meet thenew HASS Dean Judith Ackroyd, re-member the tragic loss of studentMartine Vik Magnussen and see thesartorial achievements of two Re-gent’s alumni being modelled by twoof the current crop of students.With many of our contributorsabout to graduate or return to theirhome countries at the end of term, weneed new blood for the next edition,which is scheduled for production inNovember 2008. Ultimately we wantthe paper to be written, edited andproduced by students and adminis-trative staff and hope it will provide avital voice and guide for students in allof our schools.So, if you have a lead for a story oryou think someone should be fea-tured, let us know. Please come andlend your support and have your say.Leslie Viney and Phil Grey
Kensuke Kajitastorms Webbies
members of the team, even the Web-bie itself being brought on to thestage by a succession of attractivegirls. There were students who werenominated for several awards, therewere international guests and therewere people who were unable to at-tend (although there were no video-acceptance speeches). The campushad even found a comedic double actas hosts who attempted to keep theshow flowing and on schedule.The big winners on the night wereJapanese student Kensuke Kajitawho walked away with five awards inAdvertising and Marketing Communi-cations and the Vienna campus whopicked up five awards collectively in
Print Journalism and Video cate-
gories. The rest of the awards werehanded out (unsurprisingly) to stu-dents from the St. Louis campus butthere was no denying the quality of the international entrants.Alexandra Ruths, who repre-sented the Vienna campus, was un-derstandingly pleased as she pickedup two awards for herself (Print Re-view & Studio Production) as well asan accolade for her boyfriend, PaulKrauskopf.
“It’s such an honour to even benominated” she said, “but to win isunexpected”. A sentiment echoed by
Kensuke who, in winning the award asOutstanding SOC Senior, could onlyyour name is not read out and youmentally relocate to the bar.So, upon discovering that I hadbeen nominated for a Webbie for PrintReview Column by the St Louis Schoolof Communication, I was unsure as tohow to react. It was fortunate that I hadalready been invited out by the Dean asthe London representative. But being nominated for an award meant that Iwould have to keep my competitive na-ture – already well known to my UK col-leagues – firmly in check.Once in St Louis, the welcome af-forded to me could not have beenwarmer. My lodgings were comfort-able, my fellow International Student(Alexandra Ruths, from the Viennacampus) was fun to hang out with and
I got to see the famous Arch. We
were made to feel like VIPs by the at-tentive faculty.Even when we arrived at the cere-mony, we were interviewed and filmedon the red carpet by GTV, the campusstation. Then we were ushered into a
front row seat, which is when I re-
alised that I was representing not onlythe London campus but also Englanditself. And, yes, I still wanted to win.The place was decked out withphotos of the nominees and a big screen to show snippets of the nomi-
nated films and projects. It washosted by the self-titled ‘comedicduo’ Larry Baden and Bernie Hayes,
two campus professors. There werethe Larry Girls, female (mainly blonde)students who made me think of theWheel of Fortune. There were 63awards handed out and a short stu-dent film split into digestible chunksthat were distracting enough to calmmy nerves.
These ceremoniesare to reward talent
Comment
By Dave Bolton
“And the winner is ....”.I sit there with my heart pounding,clammy hands, a prayer to a previ-ously ignored deity. Speech prepared,sporting a newly purchased waistcoat,I look like a man who should win anaward for sartorial elegance at thevery least. I know that being nomi-
nated is supposedly enough, but
when you have endured 24 hours of air travel to be there, you want to winsomething for your trouble.I have always found awards cere-monies to be curious events. Theyexist not only to celebrate successand honour the worthy, but also as areminder that not everyone can be awinner. For every five nominees, therewill be four who do not win. The nom-inees will sit there, the eyes of theworld upon them as they politely ap-plaud their own failure. I will always re-member a scene from the US Show‘Friends’ when Joey was nominatedbut didn’t win and was filmed swear-ing and ranting at his companion. Ihappen to think that is a far more re-alistic reaction than nodding sagely as
Photo: Juan Martin Piccirillo
Q&A with the new Dean
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The Webbies – A nominees view!
by Katelyn Lemasters
What accomplishments are youmost proud of?
I am most proud of two things.Firstly, the teaching experiences Ihave had with school and higher ed-ucation students. Secondly, I amproud of my research into acting and role, and the book, Role Re-considered, which was the result. Iam proud of this because it chal-lenged the field’s assumptions andcharted a new way of conceiving ap-plied theatre work, which has nowbecome accepted as the norm.Funny that it seemed so scary at thetime because I was turning upsidedown what so many key writers hadbeen saying. I wondered how theywould react. Now, no one wouldraise it as an issue.
Where do you feel is the bestplace to study and perform theatre?
There are many great places tostudy and perform theatre. It de-pends upon what a student wants
from the course. Some wish tostudy the form, others to learn toperform themselves, many who
chose to study at universities (asopposed to training schools) wish todo a bit of both. Then there aretypes of theatrical form. The worldoffers huge range of different gen-res of theatre, from Nigerian Igbumask to Japan’s Kabuki. New formsare often hybrids which draw frommany forms. Physical theatre de-rived
from ensemble companiesis experiencing significant interest
these days and I am delighted be-cause it challenges fixed notions of what is theatre.Regent’s College already offers
a selection of highly successful
drama courses and we will be de-veloping this portfolio. So, I wouldsay that Regent’s will be the bestplace to study of course!
Best place to perform?
I like to see theatre in unex-pected places. Fiona Shaw read TheWasteland in a performed reading –directed by Deborah Warner –in a
warehouse in New York. That sounds
exciting! I enjoy entering theatrespaces that have disturbed thespace and thus the dynamics of them. A group of my students in-
vited the audience into the hall tofind the seats all gone and a circusring created. They performed Ham-
let as a clown troupe. Another
group filled a small room with peat.The smell on entering was amazing.It was probably a foot deep. Theywere performing an ensemble pieceof physical theatre based on an An-gela Carter short story. I recall sit-ting on the floor very close to oneactor shoving another’s head into abucket to depict a witch hunt. I gotsplashed. It felt so exciting. I recall aperformance piece in a car park. SoI like to be surprised …. though Ialso like to sink into a nice comfyseat at the National!ering her answer carefully before an-swering.“I want the work (of HASS) to berecognised and valued,” she states,but while she isn’t specific about in-corporating any theatre links, she hasnot ruled out the possibility of “using drama to work with staff to developthe Faculty”. As we all have a role toplay at the college, this could be an in-novative approach and Dr Ackroydcould be just the one to show us ex-actly what it is.Just don’t call her Judy.
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HASS’s new deantakes to the stage
move away from Northampton, shefears she will have to take more of abackseat in her contributions to pub-lished work, whilst being unable to ac-cept her many invitations to speakand run workshops abroad.Admitting that she is “painfully be-hind in my reading”, she says it’s asmall price to pay for the new opportu-nity that she has been given here inLondon. I ask her how she will be using her past experiences in the position atRegent’s College. She pauses, consid-mutter the word “awesome” as he wassubmerged under a scrum of well-wish-ers from his adopted campus.Debra Carpenter, Dean of theSchool of Communication, believesthat having international competitionfor the awards will only make the com-petition stronger.“Last year was the first time thatwe invited (international) studentsand we hope that the success thisyear will encourage other campusesto participate.” She added that “Web-ster is an international campus, some-times we forget that there arestudents on other campuses who canbenefit from visiting us and seeing what we have to offer.”
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