The Towerlight, March 1, 2012

URG AMENDS ELECTION POLICY Page 7 Adjuncts outside the classroom While they might not have a typical teaching background, adjunct professors bring a real-world perspective to a course you may not find anywhere else. The Towerlight spoke with four adjimct professors from the depart¬ ments of art, electronic media and film, mass communication and com¬ munication studies about the knowledge they gained working in their individual fields. Comment online about the best adjunct professors you’ve had and the life lesson they've taught you. Mat Bainbridge, Electronic Media & Film ALISSA KATZ Senior Editor Mat Bainbridge, an adjunct profes¬ sor in the department of electronic media and film, believes in second chances. Bainbridge finished a film in 2004, but he said it wasn’t as successful as he would have liked. “I borrowed every dime I had, and a lot of dimes I didn’t have, and made a 50 minute short, which had problems, but I was proud of it," he said. Though "Partida” received posi¬ tive feedback, it didn't go anywhere, Bainbridge said. To make it, he had to quit all of his jobs and essentially leave the film business for two years. At that point, Bainbridge was push¬ ing 30 and living on a friend’s couch Sam Lacombe, Art LAUREN SLAVIN Editor-in-Chief Sam Lacombe is an artist who loves to work with non-artists. In the sculpture, figure drawing and painting courses he teaches at Towson, he said some of his favorite students are those without art backgrounds. "I find smart people, even if they’re not artists, can learn to draw,” Lacombe said. "I like to teach non-artists because we can really have fun with it and do adventurous things I wish I could do with my majors." Lacombe has been an adjunct profes¬ sor for six years, teaching fundamental art classes at Towson, University of Maryland, College Park, Hood College, because of the money he put into mak¬ ing his movie. Fortunately and purely by coinci¬ dence, Director John Waters offered Bainbridge work, where he stayed employed for a little more than six years. “I helped coordinate some of his road shows and did research on a cou¬ ple of screenplays that John wrote," he said. The catch was that Waters took off the summer months, which left Bainbridge to find employment else¬ where. He started teaching classes at Towson, and through that and work¬ ing for Waters, Bainbridge dug himself out of debt. See MOVIE, page 18 Stevenson University, Maryland Institute College of Art and Boston University. Lacombe said he teaches his students about branding themselves online and sharing their art through blogging. He urges them to draw everyday. And to practice what he preaches, Lacombe had an idea for a year-long project: a blog where he would do one self-portrait every day. After his second son was bom in 2009, Lacombe had to leave the work space where he used to create large oil paintings, many of which took months to complete. "I had to come up with something I could do with very little space and very little time," he said. See DRAW, page 18 'Undercover Brother' brings laughs Eddie Griffin entertains sold-out crowd Christopher Curry/ The Towerlight Actor and stand-up comedian Eddie Griffin performed in the Campus Activities Boards’ comedy show Wednesday evening in Stephens Hall. Griffin appeared in a Comedy Central special in Feb. 2011. Fraternities? see page 6