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Show Campus 9eios Cathouse on Campus dll UBer? dfll i7EGn& G by Dawn Kennally Forum staff writer SBjjgjg) () fp (6E , Yes, its true. Westminster is the first and only college in Utah to actually have a cathouse, and its been around for about seven or eight years. I know youve seen it, or at least passed by it once in your career here at this prestigious private school. Perhaps youve even seen the residents of this cathouse. One goes by the name Baby. You insist you havent seen such a thing? Well, perhaps if you get your mind out of the gutter, you would realize that Im speaking of actual cats a.k.a. Felis domesticus. Who is the madam who started this cathouse? Her name is Claudia Marques, who is in charge of facilities management, and she thinks of herself as the animal control officer for Westminster College. Marques has looked after and found homes for over 50 cats since she started working here, and she is still looking for ' suitable homes for some of the cats that live around campus. Her crusade started when she came across a black and white stray cat about seven years ago. Marques tried to look after the cat by feeding it, and it eventually made a home in the basement of old Ferry Hall. What Marques didntknow was that this particular cat was pregnant. The cat gave birth to a litter of four female calicoes, but one died when it was only two months old. The mother also died shortly after, so Marques trapped the remaining three cats and had them vaccinated and spayed. A lot of people chipped in to pay for the expenses, she said. Then a male clack cat joined the lot, making a total of four cats living in different places on campus. One ' lived in the old boiler building, then under . the old security building and row he lives behind the recycling shed. Another cat lives in Foster Hall, and there are numerous doors which have holes for the cats to come r ; . :' ' in or out. Once, a cat was trapped for nine days in the old boiler building on campus. When . Marques made security open up the door to the place, she expected to find the cat dead due to lack of food or water, but fortunately . it was OK, and Marques made security cut another hole in that door as well. Why does she do this? Why not take them to the shelter or better yet her own It is a social respon. home? Marques said, sibility, and I cant ignore the situation if it is presented. The reason I dont have them in my own home is because I already have 13 cats at home which I have rescued, and they dont stand a chance at the shelter. What does the administration thinkabout this whole business? According to Marques, They have been real supportive and good about it, as long as the cats are taken care of (spayed or neutered), then they dont have a problem with it. Marques says she does have people help out when she may be sick or just cant get to them. I know certain people I can call to check on them if Im not around, but I do worry if something were to happen to me what would happen to the cats? Who would take care of them? People drop off cat food or give her five bucks now and again to help maintain the cats on campus. Marques also has the spe- s 1 d . -- Thrift Gffl (fire Liliiii! i t A GED dOGBEED - & I VA fiSt? vVtffl (a (OMffigftqg (& dfefidbnBUllBSGnl fjOJlfiJIOD 1 G3EHP CihtHfife dOBKO GUP y: v, , v - & ijspvvegIIjM 4 GT Photo by Alex Ferguson Contemporary Music Consortium winter concert is held at Nunemaker Place for. ' by Ann Gambrino ' I r ; , i , Sometimes she feels she should be paid extra for being the animal control officer here on campus. Two of the cats could possibly find homes with a loving, firmly planted individual, meaning one who will not be moving around a lot. The female calico that lives in Foster Hall, named Baby, could make a good pet, provided the new owner would have the patience needed to bring it back tc a domesticated environment instead of a wild one. The rest of the cats are too wild for a regular home, she said. If you feel like helping Marques, she is always accepting cat food, blankets and money at her office in the Jewett Center. (ti 1992-9- 3 cial help of Judy Rogers, a biology teacher who is a veterinarian. She has helped immensely by vaccinating the cats and looking after them if they become sick. I sought her out immediately after I found out she was a vet. She was just what I was looking One thing that Marques wanted to be stressed in this article was the importance of spaying or neutering animals. Its just torture, she saidThere are loo many cats and dogs m this world that go uncared for, and if we would just spay or neuter them like we are supposed to, maybe 1 wouldnt have to do this. Not too long ago, Marques came across two kittens just sitting on the front lawn along Blaine Avenue. Some kids were playing with them and they didnt know who they belonged to, Marques said. Then two weeks later, it was raining and Marques saw' the same two kittens just sitting there again. I couldnt ignore them like the whole neighborhood did, she explains, and took them in. The kittens were only five weeks old and were extremely sick. They had intestinal parasites and mites. Marques took them in and nutured them; Now Dorothy Pope in career services is the proud owner of these two survivors. I dont make a lot of money, but I make enough to take care of these cats, Marques said. Fortunately, Marques has developed a good network to find homes for most of the pets that routinely get dropped off to OSD) aiftjE S?GIS(fiEfjQ ggEfflP Baby is one of the campus cats that Director of Facilities Management Claudia Marques takes care of. her. UEttiteK jfeGkaj) Forum staff writer 1 Tne second concert of the 1992-9- 3 Con-- ; temporary Music Consortium (CMC) scries tookplaceonTuesday, Jan. 12,atNuncmakcr Place. Henry Wolking, artistic music director for the CMC and professor of music at the University of Utah, introduced the evening. We tend to be a bit on the informal side. We'want you to experience the CMC in the most relaxed and informal way possible, he said. We feature music by having living, breathing composers in the audience with us at least 99 percent of the time The first musical score, To the Sacred Moon, was composed by the. late Ramiro Cortes. The text was adapted from Theocritus (270B.C.)andtranslatedbyThomasCreech in 1684. Wolking explained that Cortes composition was a world premiere presentation. He also said that Cortes was the leading composer at the University of Utah until his death iii 1984. He left a large body of his work on permanent file in the special collections section at the Marriott Library. Wolking then introduced Nancee Cortes Hathaway, wife of the late composer. Ramiro would be 60 this year, she said. I wish Maurice Abravanel was in the audience tonight so I could give him a big hug and kiss for his 90th birthday. Maurice was like a father to Ramiro. The first memories have of Ramiro, Hathawaj said, were of his singing a solo in our high school Christmas program. He sang tenor, she said, and sang at the piano al ' his life. I find it interesting that the work To the Sacred Moon was completed 1 1 years ago yesterday. Cortes composition was performed on the piano by Jed Moss and accompanied by mezzo soprano Mary Ann Dresher. Wolking introduced Bill Wallace, composer of the second selection, Toccato, in Ten. The piece, also a world premiere, was written for Julia Bogorad, principal flutistof I 1 . . the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Wallace said, This piece pays homage to Prokofiev and is set in 108 meter tocatto, and displays a steady tempo ihroughouL Tha option was performed by flutist Jane Lv.nan and was accompanied by Moss on the piano. One finds few composers who you as a composer can relate to, said Wolking as he introduced John Corigliano. Corigliano explained that the next arrangements. Three Irish Folksong Settings; The Salley Gardens, The Foggy Dew and She Moved Through the Fair, were composed for his good friend, tenor Robert White. He said he took the beautiful, sophisticated, elegant melodics and wrote around them for simple flute. . . . Irespectsimplicity enormously. I only wrote flute the is mine Only part half of it the melody is the best. The folk songs were sung by tenor Larry Whipple and accompanied by Lyman on flute. . Wolking introduced the last arrangement of the evening, Strand Settings: Darker for soprano and electronics. The composition by Mel Powell, dean of music al the California Instituteof Art and Pulitzer Prize winner, is set to the poetry of Mark Strand, a University of Utah professor and past United States poet Laureate. Try not to rcad ihe poems said Strand, just sit back and listen. Dresher, who recently joined thcUiah Opera, performed the intricate piece flawlessly. CMC is sponsored through a grant from the Utah Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. The .next concert of the CMC series will take place on Tuesday April 20, at 8 p.m. in Nunemaker Place. The spring concert will feature the music of composers Samuel Barber, Aaron Kemis, Tully Cathey and George Crumb. Musicians will include Leslie Blackbum-Harloand Lynnette Thredgold on violins, John Eckstein on cello, Marjorie Janovc on piano and Jane Lyman on flute. The concert is open to the public and is free of charge. January 19, 1993 w fomttf Page 5 |