David Axel Kurtz

david axel kurtz (2006 - 2010), known also as Daxel or Daxelkurtz, was, in every way, a Hampshire student.

Biography


Having little or no money in his purse and nothing whatsoever to interest him in a traditional undergraduate education, David headed off to Hampshire. He was lured here by the promise of motivated peers, creative faculty, independent studies, and, not least of all, a snugly-heated single to call his own.

David remained at Hampshire due to the generosity of the College's financial aid rewards. (Bet you don't hear that very often, do you?)

David's collegiate life has been described as a four-way danse macabre between Charlotte Simmons, Zuleika Dobson, Casmir Radon and Verdant Green. Refereed by Bill Buckley, Lord Byron the commentator. And Henry Adams as the pretzel guy.


 * Date of Birth : 02 December 1986
 * Place of Birth : New York Hospital, New York, New York
 * Date of Death : TBA

Metaspace Coordinates

 * eMail : [mailto:dak06@hampshire.edu dak06@hampshire.edu]
 * wobsite : davekov.com
 * blag : warspite.wordpress.com

Meatspace Coordinates
Academic Years:
 * 06-07 : Dakin G3
 * 07-08 : Greenwich Mod 33
 * 08-09 : Prescott Mod 92
 * 09-10 : Off-Campus

Figures



 * Time of Entry : Fall 2006
 * Time of Exit : Spring 2010
 * Current Division : IV

Facts

 * Div I Advisor: Ralph Hexter
 * Div II Concentration : Conspicuous Presumption: Fiction and its Uses in Influencing Fact
 * Div II Committee : Brown Kennedy, Chair; Will Ryan, Member
 * Div II Shadow Committee : Rachel Rubinstein, Polina Barskova, and Lynn Miller
 * Div III Concentration : For Great Justice '''
 * Div III Committee : Will Ryan and Bob Meagher, Co-Chairs; Chelvanaya Gabriel, Member
 * Div III Shadow Committee: Donna Cohn and Don Dupuis

Formalities

 * Official Transcript (short form):  [[File:Dak06.transcript.fullsize.pdf]]

Independent Studies




Unaccredited Course-Equivalents
each being at least of equal weight to an accredited Hampshire course, as accepted by his Division II Committee

The Humanities

 * Paratext: A History of Criticism
 * The Pax Academia: a Pragmatic Analysis of Postmodernism
 * Understanding Literary Management
 * The Art of Being Heard: Oration and Declamation
 * Rhetoric: The Art of Response
 * Occasional Pieces: Journalism
 * Occasional Pieces: Fiction
 * Occasional Pieces: Nonfiction
 * Occasional Pieces: Poetry
 * Occasional Pieces: Epistolatory



The Social Sciences

 * Macro, Micro, Phyto: A History of Economic Theories in their Contexts
 * Numinous Numismatics: A History of Coin and Currency
 * Wealth Held and Hoarded: The Collector and the Collected
 * The Predator's Ball: Economic Psychology and History, 1975-1987
 * The Street: A History of Manhattan Mercantile Culture
 * The Life and Death of the Banker
 * SS as MBA: The Economics of the Holocaust and the Third Reich
 * GP and Beyond: Virtual Economies
 * Globalization and its Malcontents: A Survey
 * The Wine-Trade: 5000 Years of Barter and Barrels
 * Expensive Habits: the Economics of Taste
 * Rational Exuberance: Business Cycles and Speculative Bubbles
 * Conspicuous Consumption: Towards an Anthropology of Luxury
 * Many Horsemen: Plague, Pestilence and the Plight of Sub-Saharan Africa
 * The Bequests of Court: A History of Jurisprudence

History and Historiography

 * 731: War-Time Medical Experimentation
 * al-Kimiya: Islamic Science and Medicine
 * Demonology: Towards a Compendium Maleficarum
 * Heroes and Hero-Worship: Historical Perspectives on Greatness
 * Mao and the Chinese Revolution




 * Vlad Tepes and the European Reaction to Islam
 * Paracelsus, Faust and the Reach of Reason
 * The Duke of London: Winston Spencer-Churchill
 * The Last Czar: Josef Stalin and the Perpetual Revolution
 * Genghis Khan and the Asian Risorgimento
 * Brichah: The Movement of a People
 * The Holocaust and Holocausts: People, Perpetrators and Perspectives
 * Rolling-Stock and Rolling-Mill: Robber-Barons and the Industrial Revolution
 * Black Gold: A History of the Oil and Petrochemical Industries
 * Krupp: History of a Dynasty
 * Ziz: The English Civil Wars, 1628-1660
 * Tarrasque: The Counter-Reformation and Wars of Religion in Europe
 * Heresiarchs: Reformations and Counter-Reformations
 * Vorlorn Hoop: The History of Guerilla Warfare
 * Fighting in the Shade: Premodern Military History and Tactics
 * Under the Umbrella: Technological Advances and Foreign Relations
 * Diplomacy: The Fine Art of World-Restoring
 * To Flanders Field: The Diplomatic and Technological Approach to the First World War




 * TTG : Jewish Militancy and Migration, 1945-1948

The Arts

 * Galleries, Guildhalls and Gardner's: A Survey of Art History
 * Portrait de la Comtesse de l'Haussonville: Closed and Open Appreciations
 * Durer, Holbein, and the Art of the Reformation
 * Fallout Aesthetics: A Study in Atomic Art
 * History and Appreciation of the Female Portrait
 * A Disease of Red and Gold: A History of the Theater
 * The Manifest Manifesto: An Artist's Philosophy
 * Bibliophilia: A History of the Book
 * Beyond the Perfect Binding: Book Arts and Artists
 * Functional Ceramics
 * Marble Most Mutable
 * Printmaking, Practicum and Theory
 * Assemblage: Cornell-Boxes and Memento Hominum
 * Plating and Sating: the Culinary Arts
 * Foreign Devils: Treasure-Hunters and Art Collectors in their Colonies
 * Beyond The Bold Boldoni: A History of Typography
 * Blacksmithing, Aesthetic and Functional

The Sciences

 * Zymurgy and Experimental Fermentation




 * Oenology: Winemaking from Prehistory to Postmodernism
 * The Chemistry of Conventional Weapons
 * The Physics of Atomic Weapons
 * The Biology of Living Weapons
 * The Biochemistry of Perfume and Aromatherapy
 * The Pharmacokinetics of Psychoactives
 * The Physiology of Taste
 * Health and Human Nutrition: Theorem and Practicum
 * Die Dose Ist Macht: Toxicology and Poisoncraft both Ancient and Modern
 * Western and Alternative Medicine: A Question of Compatibility
 * Cryptographic Mathematics: An Introduction
 * Anatomy: A History of Self-Discovery
 * Alchemy and the Occult History of Chemistry
 * Primitive Astronomy and Navigation
 * Statistics through Econometrics
 * The Personal Computer: Evolution and Exploration
 * HTML and Web Site Creation
 * BASIC and a hatred of FOR X loops
 * Linux and comparative operating systems
 * The Black Metal: Metallurgy, History and Practicum in Blacksmithing

The Physical



 * Introduction to Trapeze
 * Firespinning and the Circus Arts
 * Gymnast's Conditioning
 * Strength Training
 * Beyond Ventoux: Hiking and Wanderjahr

Paid Jobs



 * Coordinator of Institutional Development, Congregation Etz Chaim of Biddeford, ME
 * Financial and Marketing Analyst, GourmetNourishment.com of Jericho, NY
 * Press Relations, Chester Capital LLC of Chester, NJ
 * Consultant to the Wine Trade, freelance
 * Hired Nerd (computer repair and optimization), self-employed
 * Novelist - though this has not thusfar proved the most remunerative of all possible professions

Unpaid Internships

 * Exhibition Curator, The Kennebunk Free Library
 * Deputy Editor for the Arts and Special Correspondent, The Daily Colonial of Washington, D.C.

Work Study Jobs



 * Dissection Specialist for Cynthia Gill
 * Special Laboratory Assistant to Chelvanaya Gabriel

Community Service

 * Volunteer (Event Staff), HONK!
 * Volunteer (Security/Event Staff), Wicked Faire
 * Event Coordinator, Congregation Etz Chaim
 * Educational Performer, Hampshire College Circus
 * Grantwriter, Hampshire College Lemelson Center


 * various positions at Hampshire (see below)



= Writings =

All currently hosted at warspite.wordpress.com





= Checklist =

Things done in the Five Colleges

 * 1) Sit through a thunderstorm in the Camelot Room of the Mount Holyoke Library
 * 2) Open and close the Mount Holyoke Library
 * 3) Open and close the Smith College Library
 * 4) Eat fruit off the vine in the Smith College Botanical Gardens
 * 5) Go for a stroll behind the UMass Renaissance Center
 * 6) Browse the Smith College Museum of Art
 * 7) Browse the Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art
 * 8) Browse the Hood Gallery of Art at Amherst College
 * 9) See pretty construction-paper wonders at the Eric Carle Museum
 * 10) Take in a play at the Yiddish Book Center
 * 11) Score free tickets to a show at the UMass Fine Arts Center
 * 12) Pull an all-nighter in The Omen office
 * 13) Get tied up at the ropes workshop at the Five College Sexuality and Gender Conference
 * 14) Present work at the HCLC Student Invention Showcase

Things done in Western Mass

 * 1) Hike Mt. Norwottuck; visit the Thundercurrent by moonlight
 * 2) Drive through a cornfield to go swimming at the Oxbow
 * 3) Take in afternoon jazz at Tanglewood; do yoga on the green
 * 4) Open and close the Moan and Dove; eat a hundred dollars worth of peanuts
 * 5) Stand silent, with a wild surmise, upon Poet's Seat Tower in Greenfield
 * 6) Go to the Montague Book Mill; buy books you don't need in a place you can't find
 * 7) Wander the antiques fair of Brimfield; pay $10 to park on someone's front lawn
 * 8) Go to the HONK! after-party in Boston; hear 32 full marching bands play "When the Saints Go Marching In"

= Student Group Involvement =

Current
None. HAH.

Former



 * The Blacksmiths' Guild - lurker, outside consultant on things metallic
 * Circus Folk Unite! - staff, spinner, staff-spinner
 * The Omen - Editor, columnist, writer
 * Deathfest - Winner; later, DM
 * Community Council - Council-Member
 * The Climax - Signer, Editor, Columnist and Correspondent; focusing on entertainment, literature, and wine
 * Olfactory Oligarchs - Signer, instructor, workshop leader, guy who smells really really good
 * Dandelion Den - maker of mana potions; mead-improver
 * Local Foods Initiative - om nom nom...
 * Connoisseurs Club - Signer, bringer of cheese
 * Quizbowl - guy who buzzed
 * The Glass-Blower's Collective - I gather, therefore, I am
 * The Hampshire College Society for Creative Anachronism - As if we needed an excuse to be anachronistic
 * The Hampshire College Space Program - We're not squares. We're inverse squares.
 * The Dudes' Austen Troupe - we read Pride and Prejudice... Zombies optional
 * Excalibur - e pluribus nerdum




 * Necronomicon - special people specializing in special effects.
 * Friends of Fermentation - saccharomyces are people too!
 * Primitive Skills Collective - aren't you gonna eat that?
 * Les Bohemes - Signer, fat lady singing
 * IKE - sketchy guy who sketched
 * New Play Fest - writer, mocking-bird
 * Alternative Sexuality Collective - guy on the couch
 * The Reader - Contributor, advanced pain-in-the-ass
 * The Dakin TP - sex advice columnist, poet-at-large
 * The Hot Hot Math-Makers - we'd have threesomes, if only we could solve the three-body problem
 * Is There Poetry at Hampshire? - not really, no.
 * Hampshire College Slam Collective - uta-awase with a white belt
 * Re-Rad - Signed for it, until it died

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