JAF CMS - ...just another flat file CMS http://www.stevens.edu/redshift/cgi-bin en-us Copyright 2006 - Red Shift, RSO redshift@stevens.edu Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:56:39 -0500 JAF-CMS engine v4.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Welcome As you enter, the walrus waddling past you growls in greeting. To your left, a pirate is sharpening his sword. On your right some reptilian extra-terrestrial is discussing politics with an unusually garrulous tea-cup. You watch in amazement as a submarine that had been parked on asphault in front of a church, suddenly submerges as the street temporarily transforms into water. You know right away that this is not an ordinary place. In the air, you hear the must beautiful music that has ever fallen upon your ears. This music is a Dreamscape representation of poetry. Whenever a poem is written, the sound becomes all the more pleasant. You see a young boy staring longinly at the sky, so you too look up. The starry night sky is breathtaking in its beauty. You think it must have been designed by an artist, for so it was. Just as the music is the physical manifestation of the spoken word, so to is this vista a physical manefestation of the visual arts. You are in a place of inspiration. You are in a place of dreams. Before you wake, consider what you can do to make this place more intriguing, more thrilling, more beautiful, or more mysterious. The Dreamscape is there for everyone to access. We can all contribute through all of our creative endeavors. Who Are We? Red Shift has been resurrected by a group of creative individuals as an outlet for other creative individuals at Stevens. For more of this organizations brief history, please visit our About Page, which is accessible from the main menu. However, we are more concerned with Red Shift's future. We publish any and all types of creations that translate well to paper. That includes poetry, prose, photography, digital art, traditional art and almost anything else that you can think of. We always welcome your submissions. In fact, we cannot exist without them. For information about our submission policies, please visit our Submissions Page. Other Important Site Features This site has been designed with a tri-fold purpose: First and foremost, it is a compendium of all publicly available information regarding Red Shift. As such, it is our way to to share information with the Stevens community. This information can be found among the pages in our Main Menu Second, it is meant as a hub of communication for our members. Check the Announcements for this month to be informed of important up-comming events. Under Minutes you will find the minutes of all our meetings organized by date. Finally there is a public Forum where anyone, member or not, can offer suggestions or ask questions. All we ask is that if you do post to the Forum, please use just your Pipeline user name as your e-mail address. Third, this website will serve to generate interest in Red Shift. In the Gallery you will find samples of submissions that have been published in previous editions of Red Shift. These are included with the permission of their creators in the hope that they will inspire you to be creative. At the very least, they will serve as proof that science and engineering students can use the right sides of our brains. Also, please note that certain community based activities will be announced under Announcements as well http://www.stevens.edu/redshift/cgi-bin/index.php?show=10-Home Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:49:40 -0500 Submissions Red Shift is currently accepting 2D visual art and writing submissions. To submit material to Red Shift, please send your piece as an email attachment to redshift@stevens.edu . There are no limits on genre. We welcome oil paintings, photographs, sketches, computer generated art, poetry, narrative essays, fiction, and so on provided that the submitted item is an original piece. Red Shift, in the majority of cases, will not to restrict based on content. In the event that there is controversy over content, a final decision will be made by the editor assigned the piece and the editor-in-chief. The deadline for submissions for the Fall 2008 edition of Red Shift is October 13, 2008. http://www.stevens.edu/redshift/cgi-bin/index.php?show=20-Submissions Wed, 21 May 2008 15:13:28 -0400 Contact Information Executive Board Editor-In-Chief:Kyle Yandelljyandell@stevens.edu Publisher:Carl Marceluscmarcelu@stevens.edu Secretary:Frank Riccobonofriccobo@stevens.edu Treasurer:Matt Diemermdiemer@stevens.edu Faculty Advisor:Erin Selbyeselby@stevens.edu Editorial Staff Prose Editor:Elliot Sadlonesadlon@stevens.edu Poetry Editor:Daniel Readydready@stevens.edu Visual Editor:Michelle Attiliomattilio@stevens.edu Publicity:Alina Bayerabayer1@stevens.edu http://www.stevens.edu/redshift/cgi-bin/index.php?show=30-Contact Us Wed, 21 May 2008 14:40:52 -0400 http://www.stevens.edu/redshift/cgi-bin/index.php?show=50-Acknowledgements Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:53:03 -0400 Red Shift Article 1: Name The name of this organization shall be Red Shift. Article 2: Purpose The purpose of Red Shift shall be to publish creative works submitted by the undergraduate students of Stevens Institute of Technology, as part of the greater goal of promoting creativity at Stevens. Article 3: Membership Section 1: Membership All undergraduate Stevens students are members of the Red Shift. Section 2: Voting Membership Any member who is marked as a contributor in the previous issue of Red Shift, as defined by any applicable bylaws, shall be considered a voting member. Article 4: Executive Board Section 1: Positions There shall be an executive board, which shall consist of an Editor-in-Chief, Publisher, Treasurer, and Secretary. Section 2: Duties of the Editor-in-Chief The editor-in-chief shall Chair all meetings of Red Shift Act as the official representative of Red Shift in all matters relating to the content of the publication Have the power to call regular and special meetings of Red Shift Carry out any duties specified elsewhere in this constitution or in the bylaws of Red Shift. Section 3: Duties of the Publisher The publisher shall Assume all responsibility of editor-in-chief in the absence of the editor-in-chief; Act as the official representative of Red Shift in all matters relating to the production and distribution of the publication; and Carry out any duties specified elsewhere in this constitution or in the bylaws of Red Shift. Section 4: Duties of the Treasurer The treasurer shall Be responsible for all financial matters of Red Shift; Provide the secretary with accurate records of all financial matters of Red Shift; and Carry out any duties specified elsewhere in this constitution or in the bylaws of Red Shift. Section 5: Duties of the Secretary The secretary shall Be responsible for all records and documents of Red Shift; Provide the library with copies of Red Shift for the purposes of archival; Maintain communication between the executive board and the voting membership on matters relating to the administration of Red Shift; Inform the SGA of any changes to the executive board; and Carry out any duties specified elsewhere in this constitution or in the bylaws of Red Shift. Article 5: Nominations and Elections Section 1: Nominations The period for nominations shall begin with the announcement of Unified Elections by the Chair of the Committee of Student Interests of the SGA and shall last for at least one week. During the period of nominations, any voting member of Red Shift may nominate his or herself, or any other voting member of Red Shift, for any office, by alerting the Secretary. The secretary will then notify the nominee and the voting membership of the status of the nomination. Voting members may be nominated for several positions, but election to a position constitutes withdrawal from other races. Accepting nomination and running for office requires: The nominee must demonstrate his or her status as a voting member of Red Shift; The nominee must disclose all past convictions and confessions of Honor Board violations to the Secretary, who will make them public to the membership, as pursuant to Article 6 of this constitution; and The nominee must write and circulate a brief statement of purpose and qualifications, to educate the voting membership on the nature of the nominee's candidacy. Section 2: Elections Voting in elections shall be by secret ballot; victory is by a simple plurality. Absentee ballots must be submitted in writing no later than one day prior to an election meeting. Votes will be tallied for each position separately, in the following order: Editor-in-Chief, Publisher, Treasurer, Secretary. Nominees for two or more positions will occupy the first office to which he or she is elected, following this order. Votes will be tallied by members of the exiting executive board and at least one voting member of Red Shift not seeking election, who may be a member of the exiting executive board. Section 3: Transitions of Office Following election, the new executive board will take over the powers and responsibility of their positions immediately, or immediately following publication of the current issue of the magazine, if substantial progress has been made on an issue. At no time will an executive board maintain office past the end of a semester in which elections have been held. Article 6: Honor Board Clause Any member of Red Shift who runs for or holds an elected position under the jurisdiction of this constitution shall make public any past Honor Board violations. Article 7: Chaos Clause Procedures not specifically defined in this constitution shall be adapted from the latest publication of Robert’s Rules of Order. Article 8: Bylaws Section 1: Integration The bylaws of this constitution shall be valid for intents and purposes as a part of this constitution, save that they require only a majority vote to pass, suspend, or negate. Section 2: Limitation No bylaw shall supersede or be inconsistent with this constitution. Section 3: Approval All bylaws shall exist within the sufferance of the SGA. If at any time the SGA finds them inappropriate, it may require them to be negated. Article 9: Implementation This constitution shall become effective upon the approval of the SGA. It shall abolish any previously existing constitution for the governance of title and purpose. Immediately after the adoption of the constitution, any student in attendance at the first general body meeting, and any student who contacts Jim Weatherall prior to the meeting with justification of absence, shall be considered a voting member for the period between the implementation of this constitution and the publication of the first Red Shift. The nomination period for the executive board of Red Shift will begin with the first meeting after the ratification of this document and will extend for at least one week, during which time nominations may be made as dictated in Article 5 of this constitution. After a suitable nomination period, officers will be elected pursuant to this document, and will serve in the period before a new board, elected during the first period of Unified Elections following the ratification of this document, takes office. http://www.stevens.edu/redshift/cgi-bin/index.php?show=95-Constitution Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:59:46 -0400 RED SHIFT by Ted Berrigan Here I am at 8:08 p.m. indefinable ample rhythmic frame The air is biting, February, fierce arabesques         on the way to tree in winter streetscape I drink some American poison liquid air which bubbles         and smoke to have character and to lean In. The streets look for Allen, Frank, or me, Allen         is a movie, Frank disappearing in the air, it's Heavy with that lightness, heavy on me, I heave         through it, them, as The Calvados is being sipped on Long island now         twenty years almost ago, and the man smoking Is looking at the smilingly attentive woman, & telling. Who would have thought that I'd be here, nothing         wrapped up, nothing buried, everything Love, children, hundreds of them, money, marriage-         ethics, a politics of grace, Up in the air, swirling, burning even or still, now         more than ever before? Not that practically a boy, serious in corduroy car coat         eyes penetrating the winter twilight at 6th & Bowery in 1961. Not that pretty girl, nineteen, who was         going to have to go, careening into middle-age so, To burn, & to burn more fiercely than even she could imagine         so to go. Not that painter who from very first meeting I would never & never will leave alone until we both vanish         into the thin air we signed up for & so demanded To breathe & who will never leave me, not for sex, nor politics         nor even for stupid permanent estrangement which is Only our human lot & means nothing. No, not him. There's a song, "California Dreaming", but no, I won't do that I am 43. When will I die? I will never die, I will live To be 110, & I will never go away, & you will never escape from me         who am always & only a ghost, despite this frame, Spirit Who lives only to nag. I'm only pronouns, & I am all of them, & I didn't ask for this         You did I came into your life to change it & it did so & now nothing         will ever change That, and that's that. Alone & crowded, unhappy fate, nevertheless         I slip softly into the air The world's furious song flows through my costume. http://www.stevens.edu/redshift/cgi-bin/index.php?show=99-The Poem Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:45:30 -0500 Frequently Asked Question Will submitted works be censored? No. Are humanities professors aware of the return of Red Shift and willing to help out. Some professors are aware of Red Shift, but no official communications have been made as of yet. Will Red Shift accept only student submissions. Red Shift will accept graduate and faculty submissions as well. The E-Board must consist of only undergraduates. How long will Red Shift be? To be determined based on number of submissions and budgetary concerns. It will most likely be between 32 and 40 pages. How will submission be handled? All submissions should be emailed to redshift@stevens.edu. Our editorial staff will then look at your submission and will contact you shortly afterwards to address any concerns. Will artwork be in color? Yes. http://www.stevens.edu/redshift/cgi-bin/index.php?show=40-FAQ Wed, 21 May 2008 15:12:59 -0400 About Red Shift A "red shift" is the phenomena caused by a light emitting source and an observer moving away from each other. It's a manifestation of the Doppler effect and most commonly used in the context of astronomy. "Red shift" is also the title of a poem written by the late Ted Berrigan, a onetime Stevens professor. I think it's fitting that a creative organization, in a community focused on technology, combines science and art even in its title. There is a beauty in a perfectly executed computer program. There is a rhythm in constructing bridges or mixing chemicals. And the passion that great artists are lauded for lies also in the heart of every maven with a calculator and a vision for the future. The ancient Greeks recognized this, and among their muses for songs, poetry, and history, they worshiped Urania, the muse of astronomy. That is not to say that that this publication is meant to only display creativity focused on the left side of the mind. We'll welcome poetry on the stars or photos of Hawking (certainly, if anyone could get them!) but also work about love, failure, blades of grass and pet fish. Art is good for the engineer or the business major, but above all it is good for the soul. Some years ago a literary magazine of this name was published by Stevens students , but we have almost no information about the group, the magazine, or why it was discontinued. In fall 2006, a group of us got together and decided to bring it back. In spring 2007, the first issue of this new Redshift will be published and we hope to continue for years to come. http://www.stevens.edu/redshift/cgi-bin/index.php?show=90-About Red Shift Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:54:35 -0400