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VOLUME XXN' NUMBER 21

PUBUSHEO WEEKLY BY THE STUDENTS OF CQNNECfICUT COllEGE

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FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2001 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE. NEW LONDON, CT

East Asian Studies Students, Professors Discuss Future~

Left Reeling with Imminent Departure of Department ChairpersonBy TIM STEVENS

NEWS EDITOR

While the 2001-02 budget willnot be finalized until next week, theEast Asian Studies Department hasalready begun to feel neglected.D'eparting professors have left stu-dents concerned that East AsianStudies may not survive the upcom-ing years of flat budgets.

Professor Hisae Kobayashi wasinterviewing at Conn while trying todecide whether or not to stay anoth-er year at Williams College. Afterdiscussing the strength and supportof the department with thenChairperson Professor TimothyVance, Kobayashi opted not to stayat Williams and instead made themove to Conn two years ago. In thattime, she has seen the support tbatProfessor Vance spoke of abate, duein no small part to the amount ofmajors in the program. "We havepressure from the administration forenrollment.i.Since Japanese is a verychallenging language, the studentswe have are committed, but we can'trecruit 20 or 30 students."

Besides the issue of enrollment,Kobayashi feels that the departure ofprofessors has impacted theJapanese portion of the department.Since her arrival, Professor Vancestepped down as head of the EastAsian Studies department and leftthe college. His replacement,Professor Michael Molasky, is set toleave at the conclusion of this yearfor the University of Minnesota.This leaves both the Japanese andChinese sections of East AsianStudies without any tenured profes-sors. Currently, the Japanese portionof the department does not have anytenure track professors. To fill thevoid left by Molasky's imminent

departure, the College is hiring avisiting professor to teach Japaneseliterature and has appointedProfessor and Associate ProvostWilliam Frasure of the GovernmentDepartment as interim Chair.

Kobayashi expressed her feel-ings to the students, believing that"it is unfair not to tell them."Finding many similar concerns, sheencouraged students to speak: up andexpress their concerns beyond thedepartment. Students did so duringthe open forum portion of an SGAmeeting. According to MeganShropshire '03, a JapaneseLanguage and Literature major,SGA explained that "there will be aprogram next year and they didn'tknow heyond that." This lack ofknowledge. says Shropshire, is theproblem and leaves many frustratedand uneasy.

Another student, who wished toremain nameless, expressed thebelief that actions of the collegehave hurt the department by creatingan environment professors wish toget away from. In particular, she feltthat Molasky certainly would notbeen leaving for the University ofMinnesota if not for internal prob-lems. Kobayashi echoes that idea,explaining that in the case ofProfessor Vance's departure, itseemed "that he might have thoughtit was beyond his ability to protectthe department."

It is a theory that Molasky rejectsin his case. "I think we have a verystrong program here ...I was offeredan opportunity to a build a Ph.D.program and it was something Icould not pass up." Molasky laterexplained that while financial issuesof the college concerned him, theneed for a new challenge was thereason for his departure, not those

Professor vacne receives flo~rs from his students prior to his departure last year.. (Courtesy)

concerns. "It islike the differ-ence between asmall town and abig city. Somepeople like tolive in a smalltown, and I wasready to move tothe big city."

Regardingthe status of thedepartment cur-rently,Shropshire feelsas though she hasbeen watching it"diminish all year." Kobayashi lakesa less hard line stance towards thestrength of the department, explain-ing that she is "not sure if it is reallyweakened, but it certainly has notbeen strengthened."

Despite his departure Molasky

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Guadiani Re-elected to Third NLDC TermBy KATE WOODSOME

STAFF WRlTER

Connecticut College's outgoing President ClaireGaudiani was re-elected president of the New LondonDevelopment Corporation on Monday. A unanimousvote of NLDC members called Gaudiani back to serveher third, one-year term. This move allows her to main-tain influence in New London despite her leaving Conn.Gaudiani promised to use her NLDC re-election to con-tinue revitalizing New London through partnershipbuilding and community harmony.

Although Gaudiani will end her presidency this sum-mer. she will not be without a familiar college face at theNLDC. Chris Riley, Conn's Director of Community andMedia Relations with CC Downtown, has also decidedto resign from the college. He now plans to WOlle fulltime as NLDC's media relations director.

City residents opposed to the NLDC's use of emi-nent domain in the acquisition of properties for the FortTrumbull development project seemed little interested inGaudiani's plan of community harmony. Protesters

stood outside of the Port 'n' Starboard banquet hall dis-tributing pamphlets detailing eminent domain abuses.Despite actions of this nature from the opposition as wellas various controversies that have dogged her for thepast year, Gaudiani is confident in the development andexecution of the building of a hotel/conference center forPfizer's Global Research and Development WorldHeadquarters.

Throughout the next year she also will promoteHouse New London and Employ New London, pro-grams that respectively will increase homeownershipand provide job training and retraining to city residents.

In an announcement made March 28, locals learnedthat House New London plans to renovate or repair 40houses in the downtown area over the next 5 years. TheNLDC-managed program is an expansion of the city'sNeighborhood Improvement Initiative, a project borninl994 through the collaboration of Citizens Bank, thecity, Alderhouse Residential Communities, EasternConnecticut Housing Opportunities, and Hope Inc. New

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remains concerned but opunnsncthat his department will endure. '"would hope that the administratorsand my faculty colleagues outsidethe department would continue theirsupport. ..a college can't claim to betruly international if you only teachEuropean languages."

Institute of Justice.Lawyer Speaks onNLDC's Abuse ofEminent Domain

By JAMIE ROGERS

STAFF WRlTER

As Scott Bullock, a senior attor-ney for the Institute for Justice,walked to the podium in the ErnstCommon Room last Friday, he flip-pantly remarked: "I'm glad to get outof Washington. To me Washington islike Hollywood for ugly people." Inthe College's final Common Ground,Common Hour, entitled "TakingHomes for a Health Club: The Abuseof Eminent Domain in New Londonand throughout the Country," thetopic of discussion again was theinfamous Fort Trumbull Project. Thisland developing venture is beingheaded by the New LondonDevelopment Committee to build ahotel, conference center and healthspa in the current residential andsmail-business neighborhood of FortTrumbull. To redevelop the land, theCity of New London has bestowedthe NLDC with the power ofEminent Domain, giving them fullauthority to effectively remove thecurrent residents of the area.

Over the year the College and theHolleran Center has brought to thetable, according to Jeff Singer of theCenter, "a variety of views on thisissue." The theme for the year, whichwas coincidentally entitled: "theCity," created the perfect forum fordiscussing this volatile issue.

Mr. Bullock and the Institute forJustice, whom Professor JohnSteffian called, "a jolly band of liti-gators," will be representing the peo-ple of Fort Trumbull in court in thenext few months. "We remain rock-solid in our commitment to the Fort

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Alternative Highs MonthReceives Mixed Reviews

By LISETTE PARTELOW

STAFF WRlTER

After an entire month filled witha variety of activities designed topromote "alternative highs." thosehighs that use neither drugs nor alco-hol to achieve them, members ofConnecticut College's campus com-munity seem divided on its accom-plishrnents.

The first complaint of manyConn students was how seriouslyAlternative Highs month was taken.Several students expressed the feel-ing that their friends and often timesthemselves made light of it and itsgoals. Tyler Mills '02, the coordina-tor for the month, differs with thisviewpoint. In his opinion, those stu-dents who chose to attend eventsquickly gained a level of "respect forthe idea."

Another factor that impactedAlternative Highs is one that hasimpacted the campus as a wholecontinuously this year: the budget.Mills noted that because many sawAlternative Highs as spendingmoney in a time when the collegeneeds to be saving, it was not as wel-comed as it would have been duringa time when students' morale, partic-ularly in reference to money issues,was higher.

Finally, both Mills and the gener-al student body agree that the monthof April is a difficult time to coordi-

nate a month long set of eventsbecause of hectic schedules as theyear runs down. However. it shouldalso be mentioned that many of thesmall events that required less timewere well received and consideredan excellent break during a stressfultime.

Of course, Alternative Highsmonth was be no means all badnews. In the first place, some stu-dents may have been attendi.ngevents, such as N20 IConn's ImprovComedy Group I shows or FilmSociety movies, without knowingthat they were considered to beAlternative Higb events.

Additionally, there were someevents that proved to be large suc-cesses, including the pajama partyand the white-water rafting trip.About 150 people participated in thepajama party, which was a largeroutcome than expected. A lot of pos-itive feedback was received frompeople who attended, who felt thatthe "return to chi ldhood" theme wasa nice release.

The white-water rafting trip was,as expected. the highlight of theAlternative Highs. One student whoparticipated in the white-water raft-ing trip, said, "Tyler and studentactivities did a great job planning thetrip. Ireally enjoyed the trip and thechance to meet new peopJe."

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NEWS IN BIUEF

Five new tenured track positions pending Board of Trustees approval.PAGE 6 ' 'J:i

.;(:Commemeraton of Fannng lockout's in '71 and '86 set for this Friday. ,

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Vedat Gashi Discovers Wayto Prolong the MagicElected to Three lear YAT Term

By KAnE HANDWERGER

BUSINESS MANAGER

Vedat Gashi '01 is opposed tograduating, not as an institution, perse, but as a tradition that he has toundergo. Whenever he hears thatthere are only a certain number ofdays left before the school year ends,he tries to tune it out. Given that, it isperhaps unsurprising that Gashi hasfound a way to stay closely connect-ed with Connecticut College follow-ing his graduation in less than amonth. Last week, the members ofthe senior class named him as thisyear's Young Alumni Trustee to siton the Board of Trustees for the nextthree years.

Gashi, an International Relationsmajor born in Kosovo now living inNew York, has been involved in theConnecticut College communityright from the start. During his timehere, he has served as President ofAmnesty International, been a mem-ber of both the Lacrosse and Rugbyteams, and most importantly hasplayed a strong role in student gov-ernment.

Despite multiple student govern-ment positions Gashi always covetedthe role of the trustees in ultimatelymaking decisions for college. As heexpJains it, he was "always sort ofjealous of the fact that these trusteesget the final word." Therefore thelure of running for what "may be thegreatest elected position a studentcan attain at Conn," and gainingsome final words of his own provedattractive indeed.

Interest and victory are two verydifferent things, however, and Gashiwas doubtful of the possibility of his

election. "I truly was skepticalabout my chances of winning; thetwo people I ran against [AdamLarkey and Brooke Kennedy 1 areboth such great people that I won-dered which of them would take it."In spite of this lack of confidence,Gashi was chosen by his classmatesand believes that he can do themproud.

Although he cops to a bit of heroworship, calling the trustees, "someof the best and brightest to come outof Conn; they have been out in thereal world and have establishedthemselves, and still find the time toserve the school they loved," heasserts that he will do an effectivejob. He will be "a tad anxious" butexpects that his tendency to "seldombe the most timid person in theroom" will win out and prove him anactive voice on the board.

Gashi remains hopeful forConn's future despite the admittedlytough times ahead. As long as thestudents continue to have a saythroughout the turmoil, he is confi-dent and expects that the troubleswiJJ work out for the best, leaving astronger school in its wake. He alsohas faith in the administrators of thecollege, including Vice President ofFinance Paul Maroni and the futurePresident, who he is sure will "brio"something new to the school."

So, despite the disheartening:news that he cannot dodge gradua-tion, even by pretending it is no;coming, Gashi has something to-look forward to. service to a place.that he "thinks highly of," a place.where he "truly valnes [his I experi-ences."

In This Issue:A&E

2001 's FLORALIA BANDPREVIEW

NEWS

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Conn College Should Not Let East Asian Studies FlounderThe recent departures of professors in the East Asian standards to accommodate Chinese and Japanese stu-

Studies Department have left the college stuck between dents.a rock and a hard place. Students who have come to Yet while the Japanese and Chinese departments areConn expecting strong international and language pro- in severe danger of collapse, the college is not currentlygrams will have to deal with no long term faculty advi- sponsoring any tenure-track faculty searches. Instead,sors and inadequate instruction in Chinese and Japanese the college has sponsored five tenured searches, whichthat will put the CISLA and SATA programs into an includes Botany, Mathematics/Computer Science,awkward place. Anthropology with a focus on pre-med., Government,

Beginning next year, Government Professor William and Philosophy. The searches have all been concludedFrasure will take over as interim chair of the department, and await trustee approval. While these departments arewhile neither the Japanese or Chinese language depart- in need, they already have tenured faculty. This apathyments will have any tenure or tenure-track professors. In toward the East Asian Departments is frighteninglyaddition to leaving the departments in a tenuous posi- Eurocentric and simply unacceptable.tion, these holes will leave student majors in Chinese The administration must change its attitude towardand Japanese without major advisors who will be avail- East Asian Studies at Connecticut College. Conn is aable to advise students over a continuous time. campus that prides itself on an international student pop-

The CISLA program may be forced to lower their ulation, strong international studies opportunities, andstandards for East Asian language students - who will the chance to leam numerous foreign languages.presumably be unable to meet the minimal fluency Without solid programs in East Asian Studies to compli-requirements to qualify for the program. CISLA will ment other international studies fields, Conn will lose itshardly be an international program if students are unable standing as a school which offers a multitude of uniqueto travel to Asian countries, nor will it be one of the top yet rigorous programs to challenge all students, not justinternational programs in the country if it has to lower its those interested in romance languages.•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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In the April 13 edition of TheCollege Voice you included an edito-rial titled Alternative Highs: Noble,But Overwhelming. After reading(and rereading) the editorial on sev-ew occasions ] finally decided Iwould respond for two reasons: I) toprovide a different assessment of thepurpose of Alternative Highs Monthand 2) to provide a more accuratepicture of the variety of eventsoffered throughout the school year.

I agree with your statement"events on Monday night will notprevent campus alcoholism".However, the events planned forAlternative Highs Month were notdeveloped in an attempt to preventalcoholism on campus. HPRR, theOffice of Student Life, and yourpeers wanted to focus attention onthe wide variety of ways both indi-viduals and groups can experienceeuphoria-via physical challenges,during intellectual conversations, insocial interactions-and througbmany other experiences.. I also agree with your commentregarding April not being the "opti-mal month to provide students withevent options every day of theweek". This year the concept foroffering an Alternative Highs Monthwas developed during the latter partof February. Looking at whichoptions existed for planning themonth left us only two real possibil-ities-March or April. Since springbreak. eliminates two weeks ofMarch, April was the obviouschoice. With more time to plan for

the future of the program we willconsider other months-perhapsoffering an emphasis of programsduring the fall semester rather thenthe spring.

The most troubling content ofyour editorial is that concerningwhat appears to be your lack ofawareness of the year-round effortsmade by students, staff and facultyto provide events which appeal to allmembers of the student body. Youstate that "although the college hasbrought a number of interestingevents to campus in April, this efforthas not been matched in othermonths". Iwholeheartedly disagree.

A quick look back at the calen-dar of events planned by studentclubs and organizations alone chal-lenges your view on this point.Lectures, debates, hypnotists, come-dy performers, theme dinners, cul-tural performances, alcohol freedances, movie showings, studentband concerts and the list could goon and on and on. SAC made a con-scious and concerted effort to offer abroader range of programs this year(adding open mic nights, a culturaldance performance, a benefit con-cert, stand up comics, etc) to themore traditional schedule includingHarvestFest, Winter Formal, andFloralia.

The Office of Student Life hasprovided an ongoing series of eventssince September (including off-campus trips, live music, karaoke, acomedy club et al). Special TakeOver Cro nights were added this

year. Highlights from these pro-grams include a drumming perform-ance, airbrush artists, photo booths,strolling mariachi musicians, aCapoeira demonstration, and thechance to win an expenses- paid tripfor two to isney in Florida. DuringJanuary, College Days featured livejazz and blues music, Latin danceinstruction and an indoor beachparty among other events.

If, in fact, students "frequentlycomplain that there is little ...to do ontraditional weekends other thandrink and go to dances" perhapssome are not really interested inseeking out other opportunities.Other opportunities certainly exist.If students have specific ideas aboutnew events I encourage them tobring those ideas to my attention andwe can investigate ways to worktogether to create additional pro-grams.

I appreciate the Voice includingan article about Alternative HighsMonth earlier this semester. As anew venture the month ran smoothlyand was generalIy well received by alarge number of students. I hopeyou will consider this letter for whatit is- a chance to broaden the discus-sion of issues related to our campus'culture and our individual and col-lective health and well-being.

w. Scott McEverDirector of Student Activities

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II EDITORS- IN-CHIEFI

MATTHEW B. KEsSLER

j NEWS EDITOR BRADLEY KREIT SPORTS EDITOR

TIM STEVENS ADAM ROGOWINMANAGING EDITOR

AsSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR JESSIE VANGROFSKY PHOTO EDITOR

LAUREN SMITH JAMIE THOMSONHEAD COpy EDITOR

A&E EDITOR DEVON MCHUGH OPJNION EDITOR

MAUREEN MIESMER iAN ABRAMsBUSINESS MANAGER

ASSOc. A&E EDITORKATIE HANDWERGER LAYOUT EDITOR

JESSE ERDHEIM SAUL SLOWIKONLJNE EDITOR

" OWEN O'CONNt.R-AOKI

We would like to set the recordstraight for the events that occurredon April 8, 200 I in front of Cro,Much has been written and saidabout this incident over the past fewweeks and we feel that our voicesare important and deserve to beheard.

In our opinions, tbe bad publici-ty that has accompanied the rumorsand over-shadowed the success ofthe weekend is extremely unfortu-nate. Eclipse Weekend is an impor-tant part of community building andwe respect and support the idealsand intent of all Eclipse Weekendactivities and traditions. It is unfor-tunate, however, that our communitycontinues to neglect the actual causebehind the violence, and instead haschosen to blame one student whounintentionally provoked the vio-lence.

Due to the magnitude of the situ-ation and the impact that vague lan-guage may have on the images ofthose Conn students who wereinvolved, we would like to clarifythe context under which this unfor-tunate incident took place. No onedisputes the sequence of events thatensued; they occurred as follows:

• One Conn student decided todance on the roof of his car in therain

• After becoming soaked, thestudent removed his clothing

• Students and attendees of theEclipse Dance joined the smallcrowd that was already standingunder the overhang in front of era

• Glass bottles were thrown atthe student dancing on his car, andone struck him in the back

• Those throwing the, bottleswere asked to leave by a concernedstudent, who was subsequently spatupon and punched in the forehead

• Those throwing the bottlesthen proceeded to vacate from underthe over-hang and walk towardsLarrabee Green

• Passing the car of the studentdancing on his car, two members ofthe group of approximately 12-15"bottle throwers," decided to grabthe nude dancer's legs and pull tbemout from underneath him

• The student dancing on his carcrashed down, Shattering his sunroofand cutting his buttocks

* An altercation ensued, at whichtime one female Conn student wasspat upon and pushed; two other stu-dents sustained multiple blows to thehead; one student was knocked outand then violently kicked whilelying in an unconscious state; andanother student had his jaw brokenwhile he attempted to protect theunconscious victim from receivingfurther punishment

It is unfortunate that some mem-bers of "our community," (and whenwe say community we are referringto those people who inhabit collegegrounds on a daily basi s and areidentifiable via the campus directo-ry) have mistakenly placed moreblame on the individual who wasdancing naked, with no harmfulintent, than on the individuals whoresponded to his actions with theviolent act of throwing bottles. Itdoes not seem right that all blameshould be placed upon the nudedancer simply because the bottlethrowers are not identifiable and the

administration refuses to takeresponsibility for the absence of anycampus safety officers following theconclusion of Eclipse Dance and theclosing of the Cro Bar. Jn our opin-ions, campus safety should havebeen present somewhere in thevicinity of the Cro foyer given thesize of the crowd that had assembledthere, both for Eclipse Weekend, aswell as the usual number of studentswho frequent the student center atnight during the weekend. For anyindividual to think otherwise wouldbe naive, and down right irresponsi-ble.

We are in agreement that thecommunity must uphold certainstandards of proper behavior, andacknowledge that public nuditydeserves an appropriate response.However, we feel that the communi-ty has failed to properly address thebottle throwers' violence as well asthe lack of Campus Safety presenceand/or response. Let it be knownthat Campus Safety was not onlyabsent, but also had to be summonedby a student who drove from Cro tothe gatehouse after the suspects hadfled the scene. Finally, we wouldlike to express our alarm at the tardi-ness of their arrival and accuratelycharacterize their response using itslegal name: negligence.

David Fyrberg '0 IJessica Nowlin '01Jillian Smith '0 IJade C. Dalton '0 IKathryn Baloga '02Timothy J. McRae'02

Environmental Coordinator Disputes Voice Earth Day CoverageI tend to stand up for "The

College Voice" when people doubtthe validity and merits of the articlesit publishes. I think that it is quiteremarkable that a small, Liberal ArtsCollege of 1,700 students has agroup of people dedicated to bring-ing news and facts to the collegecampus. Well, throw all of that in thegarbage: Iwas wrong.

On Friday. 27 April, ''The Voice"featured an article covering theevents of SoutheasternConnecticut's Earth Day 2001Festival written by Cat Campbell, astaff writer. It's good to know that animportant event like Earth Day willreceive press at this college; howev-er, it should be noted that I, alongwith several other people who wereinvolved with the planning of thefestival, were so disappointed andsickened by the write-up of the dayand how misinformed the authorwas.

First, I was so confused by a typoin the 21st line of the article (well,J'm guessing that it was spellingmistake), I can only assume that theword "art" should have been theword "Earth", and I guess thatMicrosoft's spell checker misinter-preted that one. But we all makemistakes.

Second, Dr. Henry Kelly did not

go back to Earth House later thatnight to discuss the link betweenuninformed shopping and the deple-tion of the rain forest. It was TimKeating from Rain Forest Reliefwho came back and gave us a slideshow presentation. Tim's late-nightappearance in Earth House wasadvertised at least three times duringthe day and in no way could it havebeen confused with the whereaboutsof Dr. Kelly (who was probablyalready in Washington DC by thetime Tim came down to EarthHouse).

Third, nowhere in the article didit mention Tim Keating's presenta-tion during the festival. Tim gave avery stirring lecture on the misap-propriation of power to corporationsand how we as citizens can take backthat power.

Fourth, The Gordon Stone Banddid not come directly after TomCallinan, as the article would leadyou to believe. Tim Keating cameafter Tom Callinan.

Fifth, the day began with morn-ing yoga led by Marya and it wasMarya's theater group, The MysticPaper Beasts, which roamed aroundthe Green dressed as animalsthroughout the day. The article stat-ed that it was the Sufi dancers whodid this when, in fact, that is just

wrong. There was only one personleading the Sufi Dancing (ZubinBenoit), and she did so at the end ofthe day during the drum circle, wellafter the Paper Beasts left campus.

Sixth, Sachem Walking Fox didnot close the day with a "movingrendition of Chief Seattle's tribute tothe Earth." Anybody who was therewould know that Jerry Ziegler per-formed the reading while his stu-dents drummed.

So what I want 10 know iswhether or not the author of the arti-cle actually attended the festival or ifshe just got the gist of it from afriend whose roommate's brother'scousin was there? Honestly, if youare going to do a write-up of anevent, at least try to attend, and limitthe amount of misinformation toonly one item at best. I do not wantto come down on the author person-ally, I'd just like to think that beforea periodical publishes a work, theyknow that all I~e facts are there.That article was an insult to all of uswho worked so hard to bring a dayof fun to Knowlton Green. Please,next time, get it right.

Daniel LeptuckEnvironmental Coordinator

AN ODE To OUR LETTER WRITERSIAN C. ABRAMS· DELUSIONS OF CANDOR

There mayor not be a letter to the editor.If there is, it mayor not gripe about coverage.

If it does, it mayor may not trifle.If it trifles, it could well ground its trifling in matters of

Little consequence.

This mayor may not upset me.If it does, then it upsets me more

Or lessThan the rest of the letters to the editors

DoWhen they gripe about our coverage.

Because, honestly,Accidents do happen. Things

Are covered poorly sometimes,And other times

Not for the whole eight hoursThat the things(that go on)

Goon.

Earth Day was good.We rubbed our bellies and laughed.

Not rubbed our angry belliesAnd booed

When we made little small mistakes.Boooooo.

Race un buen verano.,

Ian

. e THE COLLEGE VOiCE. MAY 4, 20011 3

OPINION

A BRADLEY KREIT COLUMN:BURN HARVARD, BURNBRAD KREIT • LEFT OF MARx

"No one's more underpaid andunder-appreciated than the people whowork in the American motion pictureindustry." I'm sure I'm not the onlyODe who hears that everywhere hegoes. Especially the screenwriter, whosuffers through unlivable conditionsand pay. I'll depend on you the readerto pause and lament the unbearableplight of the screenwriter.

Done? Good.. Because while we can all whole-

heartedly back the screenwriter's liberation movement, there'san even more dangerous specter on the horizon, looming atone Harvard University, where a group of students has barri-s~~edthemselves inside a building for nearly two weeks,demanding what they call a "living wage" for all employees,rpis movement, if successful, will dole out large cash sums totlJ'l most undeserving, least diligent employees imaginable:fT}Qstlycustodians, line cooks - indeed, the people who do thePJPst enjoyable, least usefuJ jobs.

)0 depth, the differences between the screenwriter and the'f.a/Se laborer at Harvard are even more striking." \. The Screenwriters Guild has magnanimously declined awalk out, despite the fact that their contract officially expiredon.Thursday, May 2, at midnight.

.• The custodians at Harvard have a contract which runswi'll into 2002 - students have taken over this building, sup-posedly in support of the workers, to demand this ridiculouswage that they are requesting.{f • The demands of screenwriters are frighteningly simple:increased royalties when movies are aired on cable and the "afilm by" credit which directors receive. I think that we all wantour name on everything as much as possible, so that peopleknow that, for example, BRADLEY KREIT wrote this col-umn. We need the death of the author about as much as weneed custodians!

• Speaking of custodians, these student representatives aremaking demands like a first-born two-year-old, and they don'teven know what exactly they're asking for. They're calling fora "living wage" for all employees of Harvard University, yetthey are demanding $10.25 an hour! Quick. math will tell youthat this, about twenty thousand pre-tax dollars a year, is not aliving wage for a family of four in a city. Find a family that canlive comfortably on that type of paycheck, and, like WernerHerzog, I'll eat my shoe. These students should find a betterterm than "living wage" before they go around demanding$10.25 an hour.

• In Los Angeles, our beloved screenwriters staged a tran-quil candlelight vigil to show support for the screenwriters lib-eration movement. It's a good thing that screenwriters havefinally recognized that they belong in the same category asother typical recipients of candlelight vigils: rape, murder,AIDS, and death penalty victims. Yes, this is how we all viewthe screenwriter. ~I suppose all that's left is for me to call upon you, the civic

citizen, to start your own sympathy support efforts for thegood people at Harvard who should maintain their $19 billionendowment rather than pay such exorbitant wages to suchinsignificant employees, and {or the poor screenwriter whoneeds America's help. Buy buttons, hang signs, stage walkoutsfor the screenwriter. And let his cheer echo through the streetsof Los Angeles: "I am a screenwriter" I shall not fail!"•••

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With that said, I would like to wish everyone a happy sum-mer, graduation, or whatever else it is that you're doing in thefuture. I'm looking forward to going back home to Oakland,and will part with this nugget of wisdom gleaned from someof my favorite Oaklanders, Digital Underground. "To all theladies, peace and humptiness forever."

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·THINGS CHANGESARA KELLEY-MUDIE • DEJA-VUING

College, I had determined beforearriving, was going to be different, andI was going to be a different person. Iwas going to have much differentfriends, I was going to party all thetime, and I was going like it. I was, ofcourse, even more wrong about all ofthat than I was about the idea that justbecause people in college are olderthey must be more mature.

I started out my freshman year hell-bent on fulfilling the aforementioned

assertions, but gave up my pursuit of the TNE life pretty quick-ly. I tried squeezing myself into black pants and gomg outdrinking every weekend with people who were, it seemed atthe time, infinitely more worldly than the people I knew mIligh school. Instead of making me happy, however, It left mewith the sort of empty feeling you have after realizing yousigned up for an 8:30 class that meets on Fndays.

So I stopped doing that. I tried to make myself a complete-ly different person than who I really was. Tllings change, butnot that much.

I met one of my closest friends the very first day of orien-tation, and he is one of the few people I met first semester. th~tI am still friends with. The persistence of our frtendsllip ISmost definitely the exception to the ruJe. Somewhere aroundthe middle of first semester] came to the uncomfortable real-ization that while my friends were all very ruce. people, thefeelings I had for them were in no way proportIOnal to theamount of deeply personal information we shared beforeknowing each other's names with any degree of cert~nty:

So I met new people. My best frie~ds ?OW are, lfontc~llyenough, a lot like the good friends I had m hIgh school-werrd,a little neurotic, and funny as all get out. AgalO, things change,but not that much.

O hi, th t I did know for sure when I entered collegenetnga .'h I ted to teach Somewhere m the llliddle of theo-was t at wan .

I d GE requirements however, I forgot why, and Irycassesan. ' .d Iy close to losing my passIOn. But once I setcame angerous, . "

, . I om tllis semester It all came back to me. J feltloot 10 a c assro .like I'd finaIJy figured out what I'd been domg for four years,d hat I wanted to be doing for a long time.

an S':; I will. Some tllings don't change that much. .N . I ss than a month, I Will graduate, and once agamnW,m e . f th .

I h t bll'shed a set of expectatIOns or e next step 10 myave es a ali' d I'n I'd rk to think that they're a little more re sllc, an a tt-

Ite. Is~ted to my personality this time, but I guess I won't

t e more "1 I th I'll bknow with any degree of certalOty unll get ere. WI pro-bl h nge my mind, once agam, about who and what I want:bkC

';he only thiAg I really know for certain lit tllis point isthat things change. But not that much.

RANDOM MUSINGS ON NESSIE AND UNACHIEVABLE DREAMS OF THE PASTTIM STEVENS' COMPLAINT OF THE WEEK

In a mystical land calledScotland, some three timezones to our east, a search hasbegun. Armed with the newestin echolocation and sonartechnologies a dedicatedgroup of scientists are huntingthe depths of a lake in searchof an ancient being. Opposingthem is a coven of whitewitches who seek to preventthe scientists' discovery

through spells. Alas, this is not a poor movie plot, butrather the reality of now. The ancient being, of course,is the Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie to his (her, its?)friends.

Normally, I would point out the sheer ridiculous-ness of this situation. However, I think I have prettywell illuminated that particular nuance in the previousparagraph. Go ahead, read it over a couple of times. Ithink you will see what I mean.

In any case, this time] plan to make a labored, ten-uous connection between this news oddity and mylife. Hey, other columnists do it, why the heck can't I?

A friend of mine, well, he is my best friend actu-ally, though I loathe that term. It has always soundedso ...second grade to me. Ob well, the failings of lan-guage I suppose. Anyway, my best friend has begun todraw closer and closer to something that has been agoal of his since seventh grade: the dating of his idealgirl.

LEAVING ON A IETPLANE

For those of you unfamiliar with such a conceptfrom your Own life, remember all those teen movies?Remember the nice, but not popular, guy? Rememberthe really popular, artractive girl that he has alwayswanted? Yeah, well that guy is my friend and the real-ly popular, attractive girl is his ideal.

And yes, in the movies, our hero would live nextdoor the girl he was truly meant for. However, this isreality so my friend lives across the street from me,next to an Indian kid our age who we believe watchesour every move from computer monitors in his base-ment (a different story for a different time), and anoth-er kid our age who wears sunglasses at all times anddrives a car with the license plate 2PHAST. Slim pick-ings, regardless of one's sexual orientation.

Anyway, that digression for the movie folksbehind us, my friend and his ideal have begun "talk-ing" or whatever it is one wishes to call it. It doesn'tmean anything yet, but it just might.

So I find myself in something of a predicament.He's my best friend, so of course I am happy for him,but Ijust can't help but think it is a bad idea. Part of itis jealousy, Iam self-actualized enough to realize that.I mean, how many of us have the chance to realize adream we have bad since seventh grade? Every timesomeone close to me does, Ifeel like my chances havebeen statistically lessened.

That, however, is an ugly, inconsequential portionof who I am. The other part, the bigger one, is thesame part that thinks that searching for Nessie isn't agreat call. (See, I told you I would make the connec-

tion.) Whatever happens, whatever monster the scicntists dredge out of the sea or whatever amazing picmcmy best friend goes on with her, can it ever live up toexpectations?

My unachieved dreams are what have driven me inmy life, including those whose moment passed longago (that whole professional basketball thing). They,in no small measure, have made me who J am today.My question is this, and it is a question because t~listime I really have no answer to offer: is it better to letsome dreams go unrealized for the sheer fact that theywill never be as life-altering as we expect" As a bestfriend it is my job 10 encourage him, but as a bestfriend I don't want to push him towards disappointmerit. Is it sometimes necessary to let some dreamsfall through the cracks?

As I said, I don't pretend to knuw and 1 don'texpect any of you to either. This is a lillie bit of cathar-sis, a cleansing of the palate. Hey, I figure we are allone big Complaint of the Week family ...if I can't haremy soul to you, then whom can I bear it to'

Since this is the last Complaint of the year. Ithought I would bid you all adieu 'til the fall. I hope afew of you enjoy my self-indulgent columns and Ithank all of you who were misguided enough to lakethe time to read them. For those of my friends whedidn't get mentioned, I apologize. Next semester: is anew year, who knows what might happen, you ridiculous publicity hounds. Until next semester, try not tomiss me too much.

COLEY WARD' FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Let me tell you a little something about SATAVietnam. This is not a vacation. This is not a pleasurecruise. This is not Club Med. This is a rigorous, aca-demic experience. This, my friends, is the third world,and it is not for the faint of heart.

So far, we've been run down in the street by motor-bikes. We've been the victims of theft. We've beenarrested and questioned at length under intense scruti-ny. In short, this country bas done little to make uswant to stay.

So am I anxious to go home? Have I gone as longas one can go without potato chips and television? Isthe heavy hand of communism becoming too much formy democratic sensitivities to bear?

Surprisingly, no. And I still haven't figured it out,exactly. Don't get me wrong, I'm anxious to see myfamily and friends back home. I could go for a decentslice of pizza. But I won't be pushing to get to thefront of the line when it comes time to board the plane.

Strangely enough, I'm content here. In a place thatis as foreign to me as almost any place could be, I feelunusually comfortable. Why this is, I can only guess,but I've narrowed it down to two possibilities: eitherit's the place, or the lifestyle. Probably, it's a little ofboth.

Hanoi at first was a "bitof a letdown to me. I cameto Vietnam expecting something oriental, an what ffound was less Zen, and more concrete; less steamedvegetables, more French Fries; less sunshine, moresmog. There were times when I found myself longingfor life back at Conn, where J could be chasing the bigbudget story, or playing club soccer.

ANOTHER SIDE TO SPRING

Then, slowly but surely, Hanoi started to grow onme. I started to become a little more adept at the lan-guage. Suddenly, I could communicate with people,although in a limited fashion. I started to teach English

- to a group of four Vietnamese college students, whowould take me places on the weekends and chat me upabout everything from girls to communism. I gotinvolved in a bi-weekly basketball game featuring theInternational team vs. the Vietnamese team. And ]made friends with a couple of guys from theCambodian dorm next door. We play chess, driak beer,and go out for Cambodian food.

These days I don't worry as much about what I'mmissing back at Conn, because I'm too focused onwhat I'm doing here. All of these things have helpedlend a feeling of home to Hanoi, and none of thesethings would have been possible if I had come toVietnam through any other means besides SATA.

In general, there are three ways to "do" Vietnam.There's the backpacker way, the Metropole way, andthe student way. The backpacker way involves shortstays in various places, living in hostels or cheaphotels, buying pirated CDs during the day and goingto bars at night.

The Metropole way involves staying in the ritzywestern hotels, eating at expensive western restau-rants, going to see the occasional tourist trap, andshopping.

The student way is a combination of these two, anda little bit more. Because I came to Hanoi as a student,I didn't just stay in the city - I lived here. I met people,made friends, and leamed about the place I was visit-

ing. And, yes, I did my fair share of going to bars' an" tsbopping, but I also was allowed 1I,e privilege of Ithumbing my nose at those yuppies who would shoutEnglish at the motorbike drivers, hoping that by rail;'ing their voices they could somehow better comruuui-,cate their point.

Yesterday, when walking back to my room afterlunch, I ran into a friend of mine from the Cambodiandorm, and he asked me if I wanted to go for a ride outinto the countryside with two of his classmates. lsaidsure, and before J knew it, the four of us hopped ontotwo motorbikes and sped off to a village 15 kilometersoutside of the city to a festival celebrating FreedomDay, attended by some 4,000 people. There were a to!of things to do at the festival: games, parades, reenactments. But of all the attractions, the thing thatdrew the most attention was the one white guy whohappened to be in ..attendance. Everywhere f we~ rwas bombarded with "Hello"s and "How arc yoil''',.There was even a man there with a television camerafilming the parade, who felt I deserved some face tim[the second time this semester I've stepped in [rol'\(01the camera, for those counting]. t

Days like yesterday stay with you forever, and lhisemester I've had my share of memorable days.1'\~are a lot of reasons why Hanoi has started to feel Ukhome, but mostly it's because we've been allowedlive here the last 3 months, nor just visit. It's a prJ_'I'd recommend to all my friends, a place I'm goingmiss.

SARAH GREEN' VIEWPOINT

This is not a fun article. AsI write, it is exactly two weeksuntil May J6 and TimothyMcVeigh's execution.Execution is such a dry word.It's the clinical term for pre-approved murder. It is as ster-ile as the catheter that willdeliver McVeigh his poison.

Before we get too into thistopic, I should warn you, this

is not the article] wanted to write. I thought I wouldjust sit down and enjoy the syncopated rhythm of mykeystrokes as I tapped out a fun five hundred words on"Motivation Melts when Left in Sun" or similar. Thereis nothing fun about Timothy McVeigh. There is noth-ing fun about any facet of this situation: the OklahomaCity bombing, the disaster in Waco which inspired it,or the l-hate-to-call-hirn-one human being whoorchestrated it.

On a beautiful day in May I would rather enjoy thebreeze on my arms and the sun in my hair. It is hot andgreen and everything is growing. [ would rather think

Au REVOIR, MES AMIS

about life than death. Yet fine weather was not enoughto distract McVeigh from the 80 Branch Davidianswho died in Waco. Spring does not bring solace to thefamilies oftbe 168 people who died in Oklahoma City.And on May 16, as the trees bloom and we study, onemore will die.

Whether you believe that the death penalty is per-fectly fair or whether you think it is a crime sponsoredand enacted by the state, ask yourself what you expectfrom this execution. What will happen the day after,on May ]7th? The 80 Branch Dividians TimothyMcVeigh "avenged" will still be dead. The J68 peoplesenselessly killed will not come back. TimotbyMcVeigh will die, but for what? Is he to be a martyr tothe cause for which he stands? There is already a cycleof violence in motion. McVeigh could simply be onemore link in the chain. Is his death to be avenged by asecond him?

I do not expect to feel the eagerly anticipated senseof closure. In hopes that 300 of the affected peoplewill feel it, the government has kindly arranged for theexecution to be shown on closed-circuit television. But600 other people were injured April J9, 1995. Why

shouldn't they get to watch? And what about 1ftei,families? And what about everyone who saw it on thnews, who watched it unfold, live, in the classroom :tothe teacher stared wordlessly at the television? Whalabout all of us who remember a piclure of a firemanholding what used to be someone's child?

Some people think that we all deserve to see theexecution. But what will we see? A man, strapped to 8gurney, a catheter in each arm. Four injections andthen, not a man, but a body. Do we really need to see?Is it two sides of the same coin, we wanting to Walchour government kill Timothy Mcveigh, and McVelgnmurdering people as an act against the government?Do both impulses arise from one source? Do we nowhave something in common with this monster?

It's a sparkling spring day and the blood in ourveins rises with the sap in the trees. Balmy nights anddays spent at the beach beckon. But just as I can't evenremember that homework exists, much less what it rs,I cannot forget that in two weeks, one will die, one Tor168, 168 for 80. Asking the first question is like lakIngyour finger out of the hole in the dam - as soon as youdo it, all the water floods out.

ERIC SEVERSON' to. AND JUSTICE FOR ALL

Since this is my last col-umn for the Spring, I'd like totake a moment to express mygratitude toward the Voice andmy fellow Camels for yourencouragement, as well as theopportunity to discuss theConstitution and the issuesthat matter to me. When Ireturn from another summerin my oxygen-free home, Idefinitely intend to continue.

Now, on to this week's subject, which I'm surewill affect many on this campus personally duringsummer break: drug prohibition and its effects uponour liberties. From alcohol prohibition to the counter-culture of the J960's to the Crack Cocaine epidemicand the spread of AIDS to nearly one fourth of chron-ic heroin users today, drug laws and their sociopoliti-cal implications have had a considerable effect uponour society and our freedoms.

Today, two areas of law are most profoundlyeffected by drug prohibition: the first is freedom ofreligion. In J990, the Rehnquist Court held that thefirst amendment's protection did not extend to twoNative American CHlJrch members who used small

doses of Peyote as a religious sacrament.Innumerable fourth amendment controversies are alsoderived from enforcement of drug laws; police offi-cers are invariably given a freer hand when illicit sub-stances are involved. One can reasonably argue thatthese infringements upon onr liberties are justifiablein the face of the immense social cost of drug abuse,but we must take any reduction of Constitutional free-doms with grave concern.

We all know the social costs of drug laws: hun-dreds of thousands of Americans in prison, hundredsof billions spent on a campaign which basic econom·ic theory tells us can't be won. In his wonderfulfarewell to the nation, President Eisenhower warnedus of a "military-industrial complex" created after theSecond World War by military personnel, defensecontractors, and war-hawk politicians. Eisenhowerwarned that this composite structure would eventuallygo beyond serving the defense needs of Americans,and exist to perpetuate itself. This idea certainlyplayed out, and today we seem to have a similar soci-etal structure in terms of drug policy: we now have acomposite of law enforcement agencies, prison indus-tries, and legislators seeking re-election who have aninterest in keeping substances il\egal and prisons full.

I a not trying to concoct any conspiracy tlteories

here. I am simply pointing out that the institution~which control drug policy in this nation are pursuIng;their own interests at the expense of some of our mostimportant liberties. With that said, 1 must also make -itplain that ] do not advocate a revolution of CUlTentpolicies: any time that you contemplate overturntnilong-standing laws, you must proceed with caution. if:..we decriminalize any illegal substance, there is baM':cally no going back. Prohibition in the 1930's made:this reality plain. The truth is, there's no predicting 'he:costs and benefits to a change in our current laws, am!no way to be sure if the potential benefits olltwei,g~the risks.

This is why I believe we should proceed slowly:taking small steps such as legalizing marijuana fOJ:medicinal us-e, reforming mandatory minimun;statutes, and shifting federal funding pri'1rities frnnidrug enforcement to drug treatment. If thc~e reforl11~have their desired effect, then it would be logical to::look at further gradual changes in how we deal witt(substance abuse in our society. Such reforms eml hclJtAmerica toward reaching, one step at a time, it~troC'potential. As FOR said during the Great Depressiun;"We have nothing to fear but fear itself." With thaI;goodbye, and good luck.

4 • MAv4, 2001 • THE COLLEGEVOICE

A&EMusic Fuses With Art for Hendricks

BY DAWNHOPKINS

STAI'FWRJTER

One of the latest exhibits at theLyman Allyn Museum of Art fea-tures the work of ConnecticutCollege Art Professor BarkleyHendricks. The exhibit, entitled'The Barkley L. HendricksExperience," opened on April 13 andwill be on display until June 17, fea-turing a variety of pieces byHendricks, mostly those that show-case his paintings.

To complement the art exhibi-tion, Hendricks recently led an expe-rience into the musical realm at theLyman Allyn on Thursday, April 26.The intimate gathering listened toHendricks' new fusion jazz project,which had a wide variety of bothinstruments and members, and theatmosphere reflected that of a jazzclub with numerous small, roundtables set close together.

There was a wide variety ofmusicians, like the young drummersRed Kerin, April Naples, and JordanWells. Bill Bingham, Guno Leflang,Akita Bailey, and Carlos Cavillon allparticipated in different vocalpieces. Other musicians included'ferry Wells, Dane Rochelle, ChipMiller, and Che Cartafalsa.Hendricks accompanied certain per-formances on a variety of percussioninstruments, a saxophone or a trum-pet.

In the first few sets, Bingham puthis prose to the eclectic music. Thefirst piece was "The Big Bang,"which involved a clever mixing ofscientific terms and references toboth history and various people.Another piece, "What is it that youlVant? Can you really get it?" buildson a base line from John Coltrane'sri Love Supreme. Bingham also~ecited poems with some religious

A Conn srudent contemplates art at "The Barlett)! L. Hendricks Experience" (Godrty)

sentiment, such as "the apocalypticmillennieumistic Armageddonblues."

Bingham's father, a formerambassador, was featured recentlyon HBO for his humanitarianismwork during the Holocaust, andBingham read a poem he composedspecifically for this event, "Nazis inthe Mist," that dealt with racism. Itwas especially interesting and pow-erful when put to the music of thevarious instruments.

The following musical numberswere by Shanty Town, whichLeflang, who both sang and playedthe guitar, led. Bailey accompaniedLeflang vocally with the instrumen-tal talents of six drummers and asecond guitarist. A young boy in theaudience even volunteered to helpthe performance by playing a smallpercussion device.

Hendricks also showcased histalents on the saxophone, playingalong with lyrics such as "Sad to sayI'm on my way/ won't be back for

many a days/ my heart is down, myhead turning roundJ I had to leave aJittle girl in Kingston Town." Theperformers also played the BobMarley original "I Don't Want toWait in Vain."

The lights dimmed as Hendricksplayed an impressive trumpet piece,adding to the jazz-club ambience.Cavill on energized the performancewith his unique vocals that consistedsolely of diverse mouth-madesounds. While some of the pieceshad a blues feeling, there were anumber of songs that incorporatedsuch a variety of music that it couldnot help being upbeat.

By combining art and music,Hendricks succeeded at truly mak-ing a unique and wonderful experi-ence. Even if you missed the musi-cal aspect of the experience, there isalways the opportunity to experiencethe impressive variety of artisticmediums used by Hendricks on thesecond floor of the Lyman AllynMuseum.

1'hird Crow Is Beyond ResurrectionI,

IJThe Crow: Saluario n

• Bv TIM STEVENS

Dunst, as the murdered girlfriend's sister is utterly wast-ed. She has maybe 20 minutes worth of screen time, 2minutes of which are the slightest bit memorable. Thevi1lains are mostly colorless, with the exception of FredWard's evil police captain and his secretary/stooge.Those two get to be annoying cartoons.

The film lacks atmosphere. Music and scenery werekeys to the Crow films and both are useless here. Themusic, mostly conveniently corning out of nearby radio,exists seemingly to pimp the movie soundtrack, not toenhance the film. The city feels like a set piece, all flatand dull.

Crow: Salvation is formulaic in an entirely unsatis-fying way. It threw out all the parts of the formula thatmade the previous films good. There is a reason this filmhas only seen limited release -before being banishedstraight to video. fts production was a waste of the tal-ents' time and its viewing is a waste of yours.

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The Baltimore Waltz Combines Tragedy,Comedy, and Strange White Rabbits

Bv KRJSTtNHICKS

STAFFWRITER

"Let me know if there are anystrange bunnies in the play." request-ed my roommate, Julia Herrick, as Iheaded off to see the ConnecticutCollege Theater Department's pres-entation' of The Baltimore Waltz. Shewas referring to the ads postedaround campus, showing the EiffelTower with a white rabbit at the top.We jokingly guessed what the playmight be about, but we had no ideawhat I was about to go see.

In fact, there was a strangebunny in The Baltimore Waltz, whoaccompanied the main characters,Anna (Gina Gargone '02) and Carl(Daniel Leary '04), throughout theirjourney to Europe. This rabbit, how-ever, was only one of many oddthings in a play that jumped fromscene to scene with little or no cohe-sion.

The Baltimore WaLtz is the storyof its playwright, Paula Vogel's,powerful dream in which all is notwhat it seems and one must wake upand confront reality in the end.More specifically, it is the tragicstory of siblings who are forced toseparate forever through conse-quences beyond their control.

The ideas behind the play havetheir origins in reality. There reallywas a Carl, a caring brother wholoved his sister dearly and did wantto travel to Europe. He suggestedthe trip to his sister, Vogel, in 1986.Vogel declined, due to financial andtime commitments, certain that theywould have another chance to vaca-tion. Two years later, on January 9,1988, Carl died of pneumonia, a

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complication fromAIDS. Theywould never tourEurope together;instead, theywould see onlyJohns HopkinsHospital, inBaltimore.Maryland. One ofCarl's final lettersto his sister isincluded on theback page of theprogram, so thathe can speak tothe audience longafter his death.However, the firstCarl certainlyshould not be dis-appointed with theactors chosen to tell his- family'sstory at Connecticut College.

The entire cast consisted of fivestudents. Gargone and Leary wereaccompanied by Jefferson C. Post'04, whose character was named"3rd Man," and the hospital atten-dants, Mary Ellen Osborne '03 andBeth Yocam '03. Their roles wereanything but easy. Many of theirlines had to be spoken rapidly, shift-ing from English into foreign lan-guages. Gargone and Leary werevery convincing as siblings enduringthe stress of a serious illness andPost dominated the stage with hisrepresentations of many people thesiblings would encounter. He beganas the doctor who handed down thediagnosis and finished as a differentdoctor, delivering the final bad news.In between, Post played suave youngmen looking to spend a night withAnna, slower-witted men also seek-

ing more than her friendship, hotelemployees, and salesmen on theblack market. He and Leary donned,trench coats and held white stuffedrabbits for one of the most memo-rable scenes in the ninety minuteplay.

With rabbits and trench coatsand doctors and Europe, The.Baltimore Waltz is nothing like otherplays. Its most notable characteris-tic, however, is Vogel's ability towrite a hilarious script about such atouching subject. This play was acomedy, filled with amusing dia-logue, uncommon characters, andgood-humored fun. This portrayalof Carl makes his tragic end farmore powerful, for no one expects it.Paula Vogel's script, Robert Knopf'sdirecting, and the five talented castmembers made The Baltimore Waltzan absolute theatrical success.

It's A Crime to Miss the Senior Art ShowBv BENMORSE

STAFFWRJTER

Walking the halls and streets ofthe Connecticut College campus,you can't help but notice the seem-ingly endless array of posters, ban-ners, and flyers that adorn walls,trees, buildings, and anything elseimaginable. Occasionally an inter-esting picture or a witty catchphrasewill catch your eye, but for the mostpart we simply ignore the informa-tion on the poster and move on;' ifit's an event we're actually interest-ed in attending, we'll either knowabout it through class, by a phonecall, or word of mouth. For a posteror flyer to stand out among theplethora says that there is somethingtruly special about the event and thepeople involved; the poster for theupcoming Senior Art Show is prettyhard to miss.

So we begin with the poster; ifyou haven't seen one, then youhaven't been paying very closeattention the last few weeks. Thepremise is intriguing, the execution,phenomenal. Each poster containsan extremely realistic mugshot fromtwo perspectives of a ConnecticutCollege art major participating in theshow; below the picture is a faux"prisoner identification number" andthe pertinent information about theshow (cleverly billed as being heldin "Cummings CorrectionalFacility"). The pictures were donewith enough attention to detail (withtouches like an actual New LondonP.D. insignia) that the averageonlooker would take the poster to bean actual wanted poster, and natural-ly read with a mix of both concernand curiosity. If you knew any of thestudents, then the posters were nodoubt amusing. Above all the posterswere visually spectacular, a promis-ing promotional campaign for whatwill showcase more than a year ofwork of ten Connecticut Collegeseniors.

The disciplines and styles of theten artists being showcased in thisyears show are greatly varied. Thetraits they do share in common arethat they are all seniors, all artmajors of some kind, and for all ofthem this show represents the culmi-nation of work that bas been build-ing up in some cases for a year, insome cases for four years, and insome cases even longer, Some of thestudents have created pieces of artbased on their feelings, others onopinions, others on memories andpersonal experiences, and others justfor the sake of creating. Each pieceor collection of pieces promises toshowcase a great deal of emotion,dedication and creativity. Each workis the result of hours of tireless laborand commitment to each artist'S

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vision. What follows is a preview offour of the ten featured artists.

Evan Allen describes his work inthe exhibition as "a break from any-thing I've ever done before." Allen,whose concentrations are designstudies and coUage/rnixed medias,has put together one of the moreambitious projects of the show. "Thegoal is to make a multi-sensual proj-ect dealing with displacement intime and physical location,"explained Allen, "Kind of avisual/aural exploration of one's cur-rent location in time and space,inspired by my own displacementover the past year." The "displace.ment over the past year" that Allenspeaks of has found him in NewLondon, New York, MonheganIsland (Maine), Venice, and Hartfordfor short periods, never lastinglonger than four months. Allen's dis-play (which is also his senior artsand technology project) will be ondisplay in Gallery 66 and augmented .by a collection of artist's books. Tosummarize his work, Allen had thisto say: "It should be interestingwhen, and if, it works,"

"I think that the diverse mix ofwork from all the seniors shouldmake for an extremely successfulshow," said Erin Tubridy, "I think we-really did a wonderful job this year,and am very excited for the show toopen." Tubridy describes her work inthe show as stretching over manymediums, from the traditional to thenot-so traditional; from old fash-ioned acrylic paintings to somewhatunorthodox punctured paper piecesthat will hang in the windows of theManwaring Gallery. As far as inspi-ration goes, Tubridy credits ideas forSOmeof her work to a longtime loveof textile and fabric designs, the restto personal feelings and experiences.

John A. Piaquadio boasts one ofthe most widespread portfolios inthe exhibition when it comes to sub-ject matter. "In my imagery I dealwith religion, spirituality, insanity,

intellect, math (the Fibonaccisequence), and other areas," com-ments Piaquadio, "I also have onepainting (abstract-color fields andblack ink splotches taken from psy-chiatric treatments), a set of abstractdrawings, some sculpture, Folk artresearch that I did with LawrenceScholarship money, and a mixedmedia piece about self-censorship."With subject matter as diversified asall that, Piaquadio probably couldhave very easily put on his ownexhibition. Piaquadio's work is justscratching the surface of the wealthof different techniques and subjectmatters used and covered in thisexhibition, which is certainly sayinga great deal.

Perhaps the most personal of theprojects displayed in the exhibitionis that of Molly Ballou Seamans. Indescribing her installation mixedmedia piece, Seamans said, "It is awall covered in collages that I havemade about people in my life. It hasto do with memory, inspiration, andemotions. Though the piece is high-ly personal, I'm hoping that it willbe intriguing to the audience, if notin subject matter, than in its presen-tation." That artists such as Seamansare willing to share such personalaspects of their lives through theirfurther cements the power and beau-ty that this exhibition will present.

In addition to work of Allen,Tubridy, Piaqaudio, and Seamans,the Senior Art Exhibition will alsofeature work by Chri s Eramo, AngieFalstrom, Sarah E. Hartman, TedRidgeway, Eve Uberman, and WakerVon Berg. The show v-ill kick offwith with an opening reception thisFriday, May 4 from 7 to 9 PM atCummings, and will run until May26 in CUmmings. This is a fantasticopportunity for the ConnecticutCollege community to see powerfulart and to admire the efforts of thesestudents with a great show withinwalking distan -.

Rated: RLength: 102 minutesStarring: Eric Mabius, Fred Ward, KirstenDunst, Jodi Lyn O'KeefeDirected by: Bharat NalhuriSummary: A young man framed for the mur-der of his girlfriend returns from beyond rhegrave to avenge her and clear his name

NEWSEDITOR

Confession time. I saw the first Crow in theaters andloved it. I now own it on video. I saw Crow: City ofAngels in an advance screening and though it was basi-cally a watered-down version of the first fi.lm, I enjoyed11 too. With a history like that, Crow: Salvation had iteasy; it would have had to be damn awful for me not tolike. And it managed to do just that.

Eric Mabius plays Alex Corvis, a devoted boyfriendwho is about too be executed for the murder of his girl-~riend (O'Keefe) which he did not commit. No lastm.inutemayoral call is made and the execution is carriedforth. Mere moments later, Corvis is resurrected by amystical crow with invincibility and a mad on to huntdown the "man with the Scar on his arm." I wish I wereJoking., Corvis's hunt takes him through the seedy underbel-ly of the city, into a strip club/online voyeur cameralocation aad onto the trail of dirty cops. It all culminates'JJl the iroruc killing of the man with the scar on hIS arm.: This is the plot, such as it is. Not much more than theprevious two films. What is missing from this one ISpverything that made the first one special. .< The performances are wasted at best and inappropn-ate at worst. Mabius is terrible, simply put. He acts With[10 depth and his tortured hero comes across. as a, kill h . h ti ng Kirsten~oy er, no better than the people e is un I .

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By JESSEERDHEIM

AsSOCIATE A&E EDITOR

Auto-racing is a macho sport, plain and sim-ple. It appeals to the basest masculine desites,including competition, speed, and chauvinism.Bikini-clad women walk up and down the side-lines advertising tire companies and beer. Driverstailgate and fishtail at speeds unimaginable to theaverage person. Cars crash, flip, and spin around.U"s riothtng if not exhilarating.. The new Sylvester Stallone film, Driven,

plunges right into this fast-paced world. It tellsthe story of Joe Tanto (Stallone), a retired race-cardriver who returns to the track to help a flounder-ing rookie sensation, Jimmy Bly (Kip Pardue).Bly's major competitor is Beau Brandenburg (TilSchweiger) whose ex-fiance, Sophia (EstellaWarren), catches Jimmy's eye. Burt Reynoldsplays the handicapped team boss that persuadesTanto to make his comeback.

Fans do not come to these types of movies forplot intricacies or character development: theycome for the action. Chock-full of races, both onthe track and ordinary pavement, Driven does notdisappoint. At Some point, the film might offer

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tw~ mi.nutes of conversation before relapsing intoa kinetic surge of frantic racing, but I'm not sure.

.Director Renny Harlin is no stranger to theaction genre. Being behind the camera on suchblockbusters as Die Hard, Die Harder,Cliffhanger, and Deep Blue Sea, he has definitelyearned his stripes. His film makes quick jumpsamong collisions, the finish line, and those nerve-wracking scenes in which anxious eyes peer outfrom behind a helmet.

While apparently the film. did have a screen-play, written by the Slyster no less, Driven is sofull of music and special effects, I'm unsure thefilmmakers really needed it. Stallone, after all, isthe reason the term "Yo" has become acceptablein Scrabble tournaments. Days of Thunder thismovie is not. But, in Stallone's defense, nobodyever said Kip Pardue was the second coming of

Tom Cruise and Burt Reynolds is certainly noRobert Duvall.

The movie is PG-13 which means that it triesto sell itself as a family film. There are no fights,nobody dies in aoy of the dangerous crasbes, andof course the hero comes to understand who he isat the end of season by looking deep within him-self. All of this plays a little too sentimental and«after school special-like" for the movie's prem-ise. Obviously, the aging process has enabledRambo to come into touch with his feminine side.What an achievement.

Interestingly, every scene has music pumpedup to maximum volume and I contemplatedwhether the filmmakers tried to overpower Sly'strademark muttering and reduce his acting solelyto body language. If Ididn't know any better, I'dthink they were on to something.

Saturday, May 5, 2001

The brotherly duo of Little Horse will grace the main stage on Satllrdayafte,..noon. Erich and Joachim Horsley make up this dynamic duo, with JoachimtZS pianist and und vocalist, and brother Erich also showcasing on th~ pianoand with back-up vocals. Their debt't CD Perils & Thrills is available ontbeit· tvebsitt> LittkHoYj·eMwir.com.

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Ploralia this year alsofeatures guitarist Tim Reynolds, well knownamong the collegecrowdfOr his guest perftrmances with the DaveMatthews Band on each of their CDs. A skilled guitarist,Reynolds has also reteasedmany succesifUlindividunl albums, 3:15pmincluding Nomadic Wavelength in 2001, See Into Your Soul in2000, and 1999l Astral Projection. 1999 alsofeaturedLve AtLuther College, a collaborative production between Reynoldr andDave Matthews Band.

Based in the Atlanta, Georgia, metro area, Ton O'Honey is an original rockband consisting of guitarist Bryan McClenning. guitarist Mark D'Alessio,vocalist JraMalkin, bassistPatrick Pereek (pictured) and drummer Michael"Slick" L,ibawitz. MeClenning, D'Alessio, and Malkin P"t out thefirst TonO'Honey CD injury 1998. Since the edition ofFurtek and leibOWitz in19})2, the band has been working on new material and butldmg their finbase in Atlanta and other Southeast~m vm~s In Nasbuille, TmnesJ(e.Valdosta, Georgia, and Gainesville, Florida.

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April 20-June 17

"The Barkley L. Hendricks Experience" at the LymanAllyn Museum of Art

April 29-May 6

Jewish Film Festival, OlinSunday, May 6: movies at 1:00pm and 7:00pm

May 2-4

Student Production: "Miss Julie"Tansill Black Box Theater, 8:00pm

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FLORALIA WEEKENDFriday, May 4

CoCoBeaux ConcertBarbecue, Volleyball, Water Games

Freshman Anti-Rain Dance

Saturday, May 5Main Stage: Ton O'Honey, Little Horse, 2 Skinny Jays,

Tim Reynolds, Guns 'n Roses cover band

MOBROC Stage: The Lingo, One Man Banned,Normal, Dispatch

Lunch in Cro, dinner catered by Sully's

Sunday, May 6John Rush: fishbowl, midday

beach bus tripmovies and popcorn in the evening

May 7Connecticut College Concert Band, Concert n

"Spring Pops"Evans Hall, 8:00pm

May 9-12"I Have One, Some People Have Two"

Senior Dance ConcertProgram A-- May 9 and May IIProgram B-- May 10 and May 12

May 10Connecticut College Orchestra Concert

Evans Hall, 8:00pm

May 4-26SeniorArt Show

Opening receptionMay 4Cummings Galleries

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Conn Honors AcademicExcellence at Awards Night

Four Finalists Selected to Last Round of Senior SpeakerBv LAUREN SMITH and parents ...the goal is to hit a little bit of every-

one in the audience." Of the other candidates,Anastasia comments. "they're allamazing ...regardless of who wins, everyone willdo a good job ...if I lose I still win cause I get tohear what everyone else has to say,"DeLeon, an International Relations major,

French minor, and CISLA students is passionateabout public speaking. In her four years here atConn, she studied abroad in both Vietnam andParis as well as interned at Ms. Magazine.DeLeon looks forward to her family attendingcommencement and takes great pride in her edu-cation, being onJy the second person in her fami-ly to graduate from college. She believes that thesenior speaker should "say something that mat-ters. they should be someone who doesn't want tobe the senior speaker as much as deliver thespeech." As far as the speech goes, it can be funnyand should definitely be uplifting but should moreserious than anytlting else due the magnitude ofthe event. She believes strongly that "if you havethe opportunity to inspire people you should takeit." Of her competition, not only classmates butfriends, she believes, "any of the four will do agood job."Harris, also an International Relations major

and an Italian minor, has been active within theConnecticut College community over the pastfour years. He has volunteered for the Red Cross,been a Big Brother, ran on the Track Team, servedon the Government Advisory Board and is cur-rently housefellow of Branford. He has also stud-ied abroad in both Prague and Florence. Harrishas seen both the good and bad at Conn but moreimportantly he feels in touch with a lot of hisclassmates. Harris has been thinking about beingsenior speaker for a long time and believes "it's

important that the senior speaker doesn't try togive advice and experiences as if they were 20years everyone's elder." Instead he feels that itimportant that everyone in the audience feels asthough the speech is being catered toward them."I want to take my experiences and relate them toeveryone," says Harris. He, like DeLeon, isthrilled with the 4 final candidates and believesthat any of them would deliver a good speech, "allof us have inside us what we want to say its just amatter of finding the best way to say it."Long, an Anthroplolgy major, has also been

involved in the coUege community during histime here at Conn. He bas served on SGA as ahouse senator in past years and this year as Chairof Multicultural Affairs. Long is an AdmissionsFellow, has written a column for The CollegeVoice and also had the opportunity to studyabroad in Costa Rica. To Long, the senior speechshould ideally be written for everyone at gradua-tion but should center mainly on the graduatingclass because, after all, "it's their day." His peershave been one of the real strengths of Conn andthe friendsbips he has made here have been anenormous plus; Long feels lucky to bave had sucha good experience. It is because of these friend-ships and experiences tbat he feels he could comeup with sometlting amusing to say that is in toucbwith the entire class. The speech, Long feels,should be "entertaining and have some upliftingmessage:'Despite subtle differences in approach it

seems to be the consensus among the 4 remainingcandidates that no matter who delivers it the sen-ior speech will be an inspiring, reflective andquite possibly entertaining addition to com-mencement this year.

ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

With graduation fast approacbing seniorthoughts turn to commencement. One of thebiggest questions on everyone's mind is who willrepresent the class on that special day and be hon-ored as senior speaker.Senior classmates select the senior speaker

through a series of elections. Its purpose is toinspire and entertain as well as reflect on theclass's four-year experience at ConnecticutCollege. This year there were 14 candidates thatwere narrowed down to six in the first election.The second election, designed to further narrowtl:\eJist to a final group of 3. was only able to nar-rowIt down to 4 this year due to a tie. AmyO'Donnell ·01, SGA PR Director, states, "We didnot feel comfortable naming only three." MikeAnastasia '01, Jen Del.eon '01, Danny Harris '01and Coleman Long '0 I will now have two weeksto prepare their speeches so they can present to a, panel of deans and students who will make thefinal decision.Anastasia, a Government major, Philosophy

minor, and currently housefellow of KB hasserved Connecticut College in many ways in pastyears. He was an SA sophomore and junior year,served on the SAC Executive Board, been a tour. guide as well as president of N20, the college'sown comedy group. Despite his experience withcomic relief he believes that, "your peers arechoosing you to say something meaningful" atcommencement. According to Anastasia the sen-ior speaker should try to speak to the wholegroup. There will be other speakers at graduationto speak specifically to the class, the senior speak-er is "there to talk to everybody: faculty, students,

of Academic Affairs, proudly pre-sented the award to GovernmentProfessor Dorothy James. James wasnominated by students and wasselected from among her peer facul-ty members based on her outstand-ing commitment to the overall edu...cation of the student body. Gashi,recalling the comments made by stu,dents concerning Professor James'dedication, noted her undying corn-mitment to teaching and specificallythe extra effort she puts in with stu-dents helping to improve their writ-ing. In Professor James' emotionalacceptance of the award she did hes-itate to give credit to those she feftdeserved it, the students, "Thank youmost of all to my students; my inspi-ration." She later added, "I'vereceived many professional rewardsover the years, but none could possi-bly mean more to me than this trib-ute from students. I hadn't the slight-est idea that my name was evenbeing considered by SGA for thisaward. In fact, I was speechless - amoment my students probablysavored. The citation that was readwith the award spoke of holdinghigh expectations and working hardto help my students achieve them.The award itself is a challenge to nleto keep trying to live up to the teach-ing ideals for which it stands. l amdeeply grateful."After the conclusion of the

awards, students from variousConnecticut College HonorSocieties were asked to stand and berecognized. These students includedmembers of the National PoliticalScience Honor Society (Pi SigmaAlpha), tbe National Honor Societyof Psychology (Psi Chi), theNational Honor Society for Science(Sigma Phi Sigma), and alsoLawrence Scholars and WinthropScholars.

Bv DAN ]ARCHO

STAFFWRITER

Outstanding ConnecticutCollege students were recognizedfor exemplary performance in aca-demics and leadership at the 2000-2001 Honors and Awards night. Theevent, beld in Evans Hall, also hon-ored Government Professor DorothyJames with the Student GovernmentAssociation Excellence in TeachingAward. Alumni and friends of thecollege sponsored the distribution ofthese awards.The evening began with an intro-

duction by Acting President DavidK. Lewis who graciously gavethanks to all the donors of awards.Then, he introduced AssociateProfessor and Acting Chair MichelleDunlap of the Human Developmentdepartment, the event's keynotespeaker. In her very powerful speechentitled "Spoken and UnspokenAwards and their Meanings" Dunlapencouraged the students, "Do honorto your awards. It's not only awardsand bonors that show who you are.Be humble in your smartness.Continue to honor the award in thefuture, and serve in partnership withthe people who made your awardpossible."Following Dunlap's speech,

Lewis, assisted by Dean of theCollege Frances Hoffman, distrib-uted nearly 100 honors and awardsto students wbo have displayedexcellence in different academicdepartments, leadership and commu-nity service. Connecticut Collegealumni and their families providedthe majority of the awards.The final award of the evening

was the Student GovernmentAssociation Excellence in TeachingAward. Vedat Gashi '01, aGovernment major and current Chair

'Alternative Highs Month Receives Mixed Student Reviewscontinued from page 1 a similar athletic contest with a dif-

ferent twist. Students would registertogether as teams, instead of thecampus being divided by dorms. Bythe official start time, only one teamhad registered and Camel Cup waseffectively cancelled. Some of theevents planned for the weekendwere still held, however, includingMini-Golf and Water Sports. LymanSmith, SAC chairperson, remainedoptimistic on the subject. As heexplained, "We [Camel Cup volun-teers] found that the event kind ofmorphed over the course of theweekend into something differ-

ent.i.but we were all very enthusias-tic about the turnout:' In conclusionhe added that Camel Cup was "anevent that will unequivocally contin-ue in the future:' Next year's.Chairof Residential Life Laurie Gogliaechoed Smith's sentiments saying,"We want to make Camel Cup a tra-dition, which will bopefully becomeas big as Camelympics,'Although there are no future

plans for another Alternative HighsMonth, Tyler is planning two morewhite-water rafting trips for nextyear, one in the fall and one in thespring. Scott McEver, the Student

Life Office, and Student ActivitiesCouncil will be responsible for con-tinuing to plan events similar totbose offered during AlternativeHighs Month throughout the yearnext year and it is expected that theywill certainly do so.

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IAlthough several of the otherevents were not as well attended,they were meaningful for studentswho did participate and many stu-dents expressed the wish that theyhad more or made more time to go toother events.Given the successes, it was

unfortunate that the month's finalweekend featured its highest profiledisappointment: Camel Cup.

I Organized by members of SAC,Camel Cup was advertised asCarnelympics II and sought to offer

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Five new tenured track positions have been filled for the 2001-2002 academicyear pending approval by the colleges Board of Trustees during this weekend'sspring meeting. Their approvals have been said to be "a formality." The tenuredtrack positions include new professors in the following departments: ComputerScience/Mathematics, Philosophy, Anthropology with a pre-med. focus,Government with an environmental focus, and Botany.Four of the tenured track position searches that were to take place this year

have been postponed for at least another year. They include positions in the, History, Government, Sociology, and English departments. A new facult~ co~-mittee, chaired by Connecticut College Psychology professor An~ ?ev1m: willexamine which of the eleven currently available tenured track positions WIll goforward with searches next year.

-Matthew B. Kessler

Friday May 4 Connecticut College will commemorate the Fanning HallTakeovers of 197i and 1986 that occurred on May 1 of each year, These will bethe 15th and 30th anniversaries of the Fanning takeovers. The event will celebratethe protest that led to the creation of an African American Studies minor in 198.8,among other things. The event will feature .stu?ent poems and speeches, and ~I~lbe highlighted by a speech from Frank Tuitt 87 at 5:15 pm, one of the partici-pants in the 1986 event. The event was coordinate~ by Lesli~ Diaz '03, and isbeing sponsored by SGA, SOUL, SOAR, La Unidad, I-Pnde, UMOJA, andCCASA,

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Scott Bullock Speaks on Abuse of Eminent Domaincontinued from page 1

Trumbull community," said Bullock.In Friday's discussion Mr. Bullock

began by exploring the historical contextof Eminent Domain. According to Mr.Bullock, Thomas Jefferson described it as"the despotic power of a government," adangerous tool if not regulated. It is forthis reason that "takings" clauses werewritten to prevent the exploitation ofEminent Domain. According to the lawthe government must pay just compensa-tion, or the appraised value, for the landtaken, and that land must be taken for"public use" (i.e.: schools, roads andbridges). In 1954, however, in the case ofBurman vs. Parker, the Supreme Courtinterpreted "public use" to mean "publicpurpose," in hopes to revitalize urbanslums by allocating land to developers

Scott Bullock, d lawy~rftom the Institute of .justice, speaksatCommon Ground, Common Hour (MacDougal)

continued from page 1

to the partnership this year is Lawrence &Memorial Hospital, Pfizer Inc., and Fannie Mae.

Although House has been heralded as a poten-tial saving grace to New London, City CouncilorLloyd Beachy will not support the program. "It isa major mistake in the restoration ofbomes in thedowntown area," he said. Based on his past expe-rience with housing development in the city,Beachy prefers,

to approach the situation, "one house at atime, managing restoration properly and findingfamilies that are appropriate to the project." Thecouncilor argues that House introduces an unnec-essary level of bureaucracy to the process.

Additionally, Beachy predicts that the

NLDC's involvement, as well as management anddistribution of city resources will cause othersmaller local programs with similar aims to fold."I don't think the NLDC should be competitionfor developers," he said. "It should be creatingopportunities." Beachy plans to vote against allHouse measures brought before the council.

It appears that Beachy's opinion is in theminority as plans to move forward with the proj-ect have been bolstered by significant monetarydonations from partnership members. Lawrence& Memorial Hospital will give a $500,000 line ofcredit to enable the partnership to acquire proper-ties targeted for renovation, "The benefit fromthis program, for New London, and by extension,for the hospital, will be improvement to blighteddowntown areas, higher property values,

"for better use:' Though these were "wellintentioned efforts," they neve: lived upto their expectatlOns. To decide whichareas were to be revitalized, state govern-ments established "blight designations,"which could be placed on an area for"economically undesirable land use, lackof planning, or small narrow historicalbuildings." According to Mr. Bullockmajor portions of cities in the US areblighted including the Fort Trumbull area(the Connecticut terminology for blight-ing is "redevelopment area").

What the law effectively said, claimedBullock, was that the "blight had to becleared from this land," which, ifEminent Domain is the removal of peo-ple, would suggest that the people are infact the cause for the "blight."

With the government having thispower, Bullock stated: an "alliance

between the government officials and thebusiness community" developed, and thegovernment effectively became a realestate agent. And what is more frighten-ing is that "there is no end if the govern-ment can do this."

Recently, however, Bullockannounced that communities and courtswere fighting Eminent Domain, and win-ning. In Atlantic City, Pittsburgh, NewRochelle, Baltimore and Bridgeport peo-ple are fighting the "powers that be," inwhat Bullock calls "grass roots rebel-lion."

This same resistance has been hap-pening in Fort Trumbull as the Institute,the neighborhood and many members ofConn's faculty have formed whatProfessor Steffian called: "a rabble rous-ing group."

"I am extremely proud to represent

these people," said Bullock, who admiresthem for having what he calls "the bestattributes of Americans." "It's incrediblethat the City and the NLDC will notembrace these people," whom he believeshave been grossly mistreated in this con-troversy.

In conclusion Bullock stated: "prop-erty doesn't have rights, people haverights."

Whether or not Fort Trumbull willremain a residential community remainsto be seen, but what Bullock believes tobe tragic is that "all of this is entirelyunnecessary," and that the City and theNLDC can work peacefully with thecommunity to not only resolve the dis-pute and allow the residents to remainthere, but accommodate tile developmentas well.

enhanced revenue and greater housing opportuni-ties for a number of people, including, we hope, L& M employees," said William T. Christopher,President and CEO of the hospital.

Citizens' Banks has committed to invest $1million to support the position of a full-time man-ager that will locate potential properties and pos-sible owners. Adding more coins to the pot, Pfizeralso has promised $100,000 to support the cost ofthis administrator. The NLDC currently is consid-ering candidates to fill the program manager posi-tion.

Chris Riley, Conn's Director of Communityand Media Relations with CC Downtown, isresigning from the college to work full time as theNLDC's media relations director.

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I In The Spotlight: Camel Track& Field Sprinters, Jumpers, and Thrower~.. By BONNIEPROKESCH goals I have set for myself. But it is reassur- has been incredible. While also a distance and thrOWingthe 'jav' incredibly. She is also speed and placed high III extremely comp

ing to know that I am still able to accorn- runner, she has concentrated primarily on so supportive of everyone's efforts. She is irive races. Her best performance of the sea-STAFFWRJTER duri td h h b k d t th Newplish some of these goals such as my two the javelin unng ou .o0r, as s e a~ een there for you when you need her to be." son occurred last wee en . a e

personal bests. I look forward to the upcom- unable to run due to injury. Commenung on Bellavance has definitely been there for the England Small College Athletic Conferenceing championship meets as a chance to jump her improvements m throwing, Bellavance team this season, placing in almost every (NESCAC) championship meet. .as well as I can for my own personal stated, "I am throwing better every meet, meet and cheering loudly from the sidelines. Commenting about that meet, Navarolliachievement, and also to help in the team's Though quieter than her javelin throwing enthusiastically exclaimed, "it was a goodsuccess as a whole. r couldn't be happier teammate, hammer shot and discuss throw- heat to run in and I was glad to be runrungwith how my season has been going thus far. er Becca Strauss "03 has also performed against the NESCAC competition in the 400I'm very happy to be finishing up my jump- remarkably well this season. After breaking meters. It really pushed me to run my hard,;ing career on such a positive note!" the school record for throwing the weight 40 est, and I'm happy that I broke 60 seconds .

Of her captain, classmate, and teammate, feet and 4 inches, Strauss was prepared for a Teammate Sarah Morgan '03 offeredLarochelle remarked, "Nate has been jump- Successful outdoor season. The thrower perspective on Navarolli's performance,ing well this season. This past weekend he commented, "Setting the school record in explaining, "Amanda ran incredibly, aftercame within a few inches of breaking the indoor motivated me to work harder in out- shin surgery last summer and being awaytriple jump record he already holds. Due to door. I've been working harder than ever this fall, she came back to have such a greatother activities, he has had a shorter season before and it is paying off. It is so cool to season this spring."than most, as far as meets competed in, but know that I have so many meets to go [after Christy Bassett summarized the per-he has shown that he can still jump almost the regular season has ended] when last year formances of the field athletes and sprintersrecord breaking distances." I didn't make it to any championship meets." last weekend by simply stating, "The sprint-

Nevertheless, one of the most Her teammates have been aware of ers, jumpers and throwers did outstandingrespectable aspects of the captain is his atti- Becca's effort. Danahy remarked, "Becca is jobs at the NESCAC championships. Theytude. As Danahy described, "Nathan is very hard working and strong willed. She is all stepped up and competed well with thealways so supportive of everyone. You can only satisfied when she knows she has done other NESCAC teams."always see him at practice jumping but also the best she can. She strives for that with In total, the 2001 Conn College Trackcheering everyone on. He is very cornpeti- every meet. She has been very successful, and Field tearn has been extremely accom-tive and focused and is constantly looking to and I know she will continue to do so as the plished, and their postseason competition isimprove. He is one of the greatest team play- season progresses." Larochelle agreed, say- not yet complete. While specific individualsers I know. He takes time out for everyone." ing, "Becca is very consistent and seems to have contributed to the total success of the

The jumpers are not the only field ath- improve on past performances almost every tearn, no member should be overlooked.letes who have had a dramatic impact on the Amanda Navarroli '02 will run with the Camels meet." As co-captain Michelle Miller '02 stat-team. The throwers have had a remarkable in the upcoming Championship meet. (Thomson) Of both the throwers and jumpers, ed, "This is the most dedicated and bondedseason over all, largely in part to their phe- sprinter Amanda Navarolli '02 proclaimed, group of athletes that I have ever seen. Withnomenal coach (who they share with the and I was incredibly happy with my throw "I have been really impressed with Karen constant encouragement from coaches andjumpers), DougYsewyn. As javelin special- last weekend. I am looking forward to the and Nate in the jumps this season. Becca fellow teammates, qualifying for champi-ist Kim Bellavance '03 explained, "Doug is championship meets and possibly a chance and Kim B. have looked amazing in the onships meets and being successful in gen-an incredible coach, his jumpers are jump- to qualify for nationals which would be real- throwing events. They all seem to have had eral is a lot easier. You believe in yourselfing PR's and he has me throwing better than lyexciting." great seasons with some outstanding per- when there are others who believe in youI ever have. He really knows how to read his Her enthusiasm for track becomes conta- formances and it's unfortunate that two are and know how hard you work practice afterathletes, and he knows how to get them to gious at meets and practices, and although graduating!" practice."perform the way he knows they can. I attrib- injured, Bellavance aids in increasing team Luckily for the Camels, Navarolli hasute most of my success this season to his morale. Danahy remarked, "Kim's a very one more year. After returning from abroadcoaching." talented athlete, running extremely well and training (though not competing) in the

Bellavance's performance this season .middle distance races and then coming back indoor season, the sprinter has regained her

,, With only three meets left in their post

season championships (excluding nationals,which Maura Danahy '02 and Jennifer Stieg'02 provisionally qualified for in last week-end's meet at Wesleyan), the track and fieldteam is finally getting ready to close its sea-son.

..This spring season has been one inwhich many school records and personalbests were surpassed. Hopes continue formore high goals to be met this weekend inthe New England Division DI championshipmeet.The men's meet will be held at Conn,while' the women will travel to Middleburyto compete. The athletes competing in thesechampionship meets are highly confident,fo~, they have been improving dramaticallyall .~.~son and are in peak condition to per-form.

'While virtually every member of thetearn has been improving, specific athletesdeserve special recognition. This week'sspotlight is devoted to the sprinters, jumpersand throwers adding to team placement andmorale.

Going out with a bang, Karen Larochelle'01 and co-captain Nate Portier '01 havebeen jumping well in their final season atConn.

Reflecting on her performances,Larochelle commented, "I have been havingone of my best outdoor seasons since I havebeen competing at Conn. Injust a short timeI was able to achieve two personal records. rran P personal best time of I2.8sec in the4x 190 relay, and also jumped a personalrecord of 17' 112" in the long jump ntissingthe school record by just a few inches. Onthe whole I have been very happy with myperformances so far this season. As a senior,I a;n running out of time to achieve all of the

Despite Rough Ending to Season in NESCACtournament, Men's Tennis Excited for Next Year-c-

By MATTPRESTON them drew just really really badmatches."

The Camels triumphed onlytwice in the first round, with MikeMarvel '03 joining Peters as the onlyfirst round victors. Marvel, who wasthe tenth seed in the number five sin-gles bracket, beat Colby's RickHarbison 6-4, 6-2 before falling tosecond seed Ben Lamanna, of BatesCollege, by a score of 6-0, 6-1.Peters tacked on the team's secondpoint when he beat Middlebury'sBob Wainwright in the first round 6-4, 7-6, in what he called a surprisevictory. "I won my first match,which was very surprising," saidPeters. "I played well, and it was asolid win for me against a prettytough Middlebury opponent."

Yet, what came as a bigger sur-prise was Peters' early second roundexit, which was a shock for a teamthat had him picked to go far into thenumber six singles draw. "I wentdown 6-1, 6-4, but the score wasn'tindicative of how I played," saidPeters, who left it all on the court.Running down every point, Petersplayed his heart out before losing inone of the Camel's closest matchesof the tourney against the SixDraw's number two seed, AmherstCollege's Rob Feeley. The tearnsother co-captain, Carn Clark '02,was the only other Camel to tastesuccess at Williams when he beat

Hamilton's Ash Pajoohi 5-1 in theConsolation Round.

The NESCAC Tournament isbeing called the perfect end to a"disappointing and forgettable" sea-son for Connecticut College Tennis.Said Peters: "When it came down toit, it was disappointing [performanceat the NESCAC s] because I feellike in a lot of the matches we werein [them]. It was disappointing but itwas a fitting finish to a disappoint-ing season filled with injuries andsetbacks." Even though the seasonwas not very impressive in terms ofthere overall record and charnpi-onship play, the Camels did, howev-er, achieve their goal of using 200 1as a learning experience. In a seasontarnished by injuries, lack of experi-ence, and an inconsistent work ethic,the Camels knew before they evenbegan play in March that this seasonwas one not for challenging for thetitle, but on for rebUilding.

In 2001, the young, raw, scrappyCarnels worked on improving aliareas of their games to become athreat to all NESCAC teams in thenear future.

2002 is set to be a season that islaced with expectations for theConnecticut College Varsity Men'sTennis team. A fresh start, an off-season's worth of healing, the bene-fits from a season of learning andmaturity, and the rumored return of

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:''''It'sbeen a roller coaster of ase.~im, with many ups and downs,"said'varsity men's tennis co-captainDen' Greenblatt '03 when asked todescribe the Connecticut CollegeM",:i Tennis 2001 campaign.:'eamel Tennis closed out their

season April 29, finishing tenth outof the' eleven tearns partaking in the2001 "New England Small CollegeAthletic Conference (NESCAC)Cllat'npionship. Host schoolWlfi'iams College won their ninthstraight NESCAC Title with a totalof '30:0 points last weekend, whileCohn' managed only 2.5 points, win-ning just three matches in the tour-nament, scarcely beating outHimiilton College (2.0 points) forlast place.., Said Greenhlatt: "We were all

seo'dea between nine and eleven inan eleven man draw, thus, we gottou'gh'matches."With a low seeding,wllich came as a result of the team'sinconsistent play during the season,Conn knew that they were not boundto-go deep into the tourney, and anyadVancement to the later roundswould be tough. "Most of the guysweten't expecting to win," saidnumber six singles player ChrisPelers '03, one of the few teamm~mbers to win a match. "Some of

SGA ResultsBy LARAMIZRAK esting. in a sense more challenging but...! think it

will just will be a wonderful privilege to workwith the new president. And to be there at thefounding of that person's career and associationwith our College and to be part of shaping that."

To ensure that disasters like canceling varsityteams never happens again, Baker intends to takeadvantage of the Senator's other interests, "theSenators are all involved as students leaders inmany different areas usually, this is the normamong Senators. So I want to use those connec-tions to our advantage, so to speak. I want toknow which activities each Senator is involved inand make them sort of informal lessons in theirareas of involvement, like in whether they're inclubs or a cappella groups or sports teams and Iwant SGA to be aware of those connections ...thenwe can keep a better eye on things this way."

While Mamun is a freshman, he feelsextremely qualified to be Vice-President. "r havebeen working for this, since I got to the campus Iknew I was going to be on SGA. First I wentabout finding what SGA is all about, finding outabout the structure," he said. Mamun joined theInformation Services, Community Relations, andthe Finance Committees in order to gain experi-ence for his new job.

Among his many goals for next year are toincrease female participation in SGA. The Vice-President explained, "On this campus there are alot of females who have the potential to be a real-ly great leader but...they don't feel that it's theirplace ...! can't do anything to change the Structurebut I can invite people to come in."

Since the Vice-President is the head of theFinance Committee, Mamun's second goal is toreform this Committee. 'We don't have recordsfrom last ears. Like we do a lot but we have a lotof papers so you can't really find out, you have togo through a bunch of papers, okay where is this

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As the year ends, most students have turnedtlieir attention to the completion of their examsand the summer. For the members of the newSOA Executive Board, however, their focus is onnot only these things, hut also on preparing tomake next year memorable. 805 students voted,electing the new President Anne Baker '02, Vice-President Hasan Mamun'04, Chair ofMulticultural Affairs Andrew Musoke '04, Chairof Acadentic Affairs Chris Hensman '03, Chair ofReSidential Life Laurie Goglia '03, and J-BoardChair John Franks '04.

'Ii- B~er, the currentParliamentarian, ran a cam-paign based on experience that she developeddVring her time in SGA. "Themes that I thoughtwere ",importantand also issues that I thoughtneeded to be addressed or that had been addressedon,y partially or that still needed to be addressedjn full next year," explained the mcumbentPjesldent. . .

~TheParliamentarian had been considenng thistJ;~nsition into SGA's highest office since last yearaQd made the final decision this past fall. I~ fact ItWas current President Scott Montemerlo s .cdarn-, th . . d Baker to run for presl ent.paign atlonspue f 1• h be n a popular and success uMontemer 0 as e d dsident Baker has studied his .I?etho s an

,pI¢ d to carry on many of his tradtuons, such asns "h'd a goodlife Co..lenant. She enthused, e s on.e

io'1>and he's an example of a good preSident.;::e'lIre going to carry on many of the tradlu~ns athe~s set in place, obVIOusly the Covenant. ite

Next year poses extra challenges and exC -~nt as the campus waits to welcome the newC$ Ie e president. B er welcomes this venture.S xplained, "I thi that having the neWpres-ident come in will-make the job even more mter-

Assistant Athletic Director KenKline (the coach who lead CamelTennis to the National CollegiateAthletic Association (NCAA)Division III Tournament in 1997),who would be taking over for coachEd Bradley as a result of the schoolsbudget crisis, has Conn ready to put200 I behind them and look forwardto a bright future. Also, new recruitswho are sure to help strengthen thelineup, and the return of HalTabackman '03, who filled in forGreenblatt at the number one singlesposition earlier this season whileDan was out with injuries, has theteam "looking forward to next year,"according to Peters.

Key players for Camel fans towatch for, and the team will be look-ing to for big contributions fromnext year, will be Clark, whoaccording to his co-captain is goingto have "abreakout season his senioryear:' as well as Greenblatt,Tabackman, and Peters. Strong playfrom these four, as well as other keyplayers in the lineup, will have theteam, "right in the competitive mix,"Greenblatt stated confidently. Theteam is set to gear up towards mak-ing a run at breaking Williams'streak and vie for the 2002NESCAC crown.

paper, where is that? So like just to make thingseasier for future, not just me, but Vice-Presidentsof future years, I putting everything on the com-puter:' he said.

Goglia, the current Governor of Mor:n~<:>n,wants to encourage the governors, hold actIVItiesincluding the Camelympics and increase campusinterest. "I want to get in good with the governors,have a great Camelympics, all the other eventsthat we do, keep everyone's spirits up. I want totry to communicate between the students and theStudent Life Office:' she explained.

Musoke the current President of theFreshman Class, is inheriting the position ofChair of Multicultural Affairs which is currentlybeing defined. He explained, "my first plan is totry and create a definition for the actual posmonand really focus it on what the Chair is supposedto do. Right now there is a lot of controversy inthe role between the school, with the unity groupsand the other clubs. First and foremost is to definethe job, define the Diversity Committee, createone, make one up, fill the spots."

Hensman, lhe current Director of PublicRelations for SAC, intents to address budget cutswithin the departments. He said, "my main goalfor next year is in regards to budget cuts anddepartment funding and the status of professors atthis school. I know a lot of people are worriedabout their jobs, a lot of students are worriedabout losing really good professors and so I'mreally going to be looking at which departmentsare at risk, what the students are saying aboutthose departments and trying to preserve the fun-damental purpose of the institution which is foreducation."

All eyes will be watching them in the year tocome to see if the new SGA Executive Board canfollow through on their promises and pllliIs.

The junior class for the 200 1-2002 academic year will be led bynewly elected President KurtBrown.Brown, who recently ran for presi-dent of SGA, has had experiencewith student government at Conn inthe past. The new vice president forthe class of 2003 is Leli Rice. Ricehas been very involved in the cam-pus community during the past twoyears, holding positions such as co-producer of Koine, the college year-book. The J-Board representativesfor the class of 2003 are AdamBenzing and David Gersh. No Acrepresentatives were elected for thejunior class.

The representatives for the classof 2004 are new to student govern-ment at Conn College, but all prom-ise to bring about exciting activitiesand help the college keep movingforward. Class president JasonAllababidi says, "1 think newlyelected members were chosen wise~Iy by our class and deserve to holdthe positions for next year." Headds, "I've held leadership positiollSin the past, so I'm focused and feelI'm moving in the right directiou. Ifeel like r will have a good relation-ship with the administration, faculty,staff, and students. In my interactionwith SGA, I look forward to beiQg,my class' voice and will try my hard-est to get our ideas represented an~taken seriously." Allalabidi will beworking closely with vice presidentJames Palten, along with J-Boardrepresentatives Ronnie LaRocca andToni Ceci, and SAC representativesKelly McCall and Liz Sable. Pallensums up the attitude of the wholestudent government by sayi,ng,"Basically, I am really excited. I amopen-ntinded and energetic about thefuture years to COme here atConnecticut College."

Class Officers LookForward to Bright Future

By DAN]ARCHOSTAFF WRITER

After record numbers of studentswent to the polls for the recent SGAelections, last week's class electionswere no different, with not only avery high percentage of students vot-ing, but also excellent participationin the races for class positions. Withsome new faces and some old ones,the newly elected student govern-ment is poised for a very excitingand eventful year in 200 1-2002.

With some recent complicationsin communication between adminis-tration, faculty and the student body,many candidates spoke of breaking'the barriers between these groups inorder to keep the college as a wholebetter informed about issues on cam-pus. Other concerns shared by manyof the candidates included the poten-tial for additional budget cuts nextyear, an increase in recreationalevents available to students, and alsoenvironmental issues on campus,like renewable energy.

For the position of senior classpresident, Ben Jordan '02 was elect-ed, beating out fellow candidatesKalin Ivanov, Lilia 'Iyrrell, andJonathan Salubeck. Jordan enthusi-astically stated, "I am super excitedthat I got elected. Next year I justwant to make sure that we have a tonof fun events on campus. As far asSGA goes, I just want to make surethat everyone knows what is goingon and that the school is going in theright direction." Matt Thrcotte, whowas elected Vice President, JudiciaryBoard Representatives Phil Stranskyand Ben Voce-Gardner, and SACrepresentatives Josh McGuire andJim O'Rourke, will join lordan asthe class of 2002 student govern-ment.

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THE CoLLEGEVOICE' M,\Y 4, 2001 • 9

Women's Lacrosse Ends Season Earlier than Expected with Loss at AmherstCamels still found themselves down 12-3 with thirtyminutes to go.

"It took us a while to get the ball in their zone," Co-Captain Laura Highmark '0 I said in response to berteam's slow start. "We let them get ahead too early andwere not able to come back."

The Camels, who dropped to 6-9, their worst recordsince the 1988 season, received three goals fromCatherine Clark '04, and one each from Caley Boyd '03and Anna Traftoo '03. Highmark added two assists,while Lauren Luciano '03 also had ooe.

"Amherst just did the little things right," Highmarkadded. 'They have their basics down. These are thethings that we didn't have, which made them the bettertearn out there.

Boyd echoed those words. "We couldn't stop them,"she said. ''They are just on another level. We went inthere as uoderdogs hoping to work our hardest, get someshots in there, and keep them from scoring as manygoals as they did last game."

Earlier in the season, Amherst topped the Camels 13-3 on Harkness Greeo. In Tuesday's contest, the LordJeffs seemed to be a step ahead once again. The Camelstried thwarting their offense with a new zone defense.The lack of preparation time with it may have burtthiogs a bit.Growing accustomed to playing lacrosse well into

May, the program is in a rebuilding stage at the preseottime. The team fortunately will only lose four seniors tograduation.

"Its hard to call this team a rebuilding team," Boyd

said. "I think we had some tough luck in terms ofinjuries. Our whole team was never one-hundred percenthealthy."

Boyd is referring to several players that have spenttime 00 the disabled list this season. Most notably, AnnaHitchner '01, arguably the Camels top defensernan, toreher ACL in the fourth game of the season. Boyd, a seri-. ous offeosive threat, was only able to play in eightgames hecause of a oagging fOOLiojury. In those eightgames she contributed ten goals and three assists.Luciano and Higbmark also spent time nursing injuries.

The Camels had a tough time defendiug their 2000ECAC (Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference) cham-pionship. Inexperience may have been the decidiog fac-tor in the end. Next season, many of the players will heready to step into leadership roles.

Youth is an aspect that the Camels are well packedwith. Clark, only a freshman, led the team in goals (21)and points (26). Another freshman, Emily Stieff, alsosaw an abundance of playing time this season. She fin-ished fourtb on the team with oineteen points. Both willtake ceDter·stage when it comes to finding the necessaryplayers to score goals.

The departure of Co-Captains Highnnark and Pellerwill cause Boyd, Luciano, Anna Trafton '02, and LizaHansel '02 to be relied upon heavily next season. Peller,the quarterback of the offense, leaves behind a seniorseason that included eight goals and thirteen assists.Highrnark finished second on the team in both ground-balls and decision control.

Attempting to fill their void will be Trafton, who fin-

ished second on the team in points with twenty-three(l7g 6a) and Hansel who led the team in groundballswith fifty-two.

Also being lost to graduation are Jamie Atlas '01 andElyana Zachko '0 l. Without Atlas, Someone will needto provide the emotional spark she so perfectly provid-ed. Without her defense, there will be a major hole thatneeds to be filled. The Camels will also need a newgoaltender. Zachko, who provided the team with adependable backbone to work up from, will depart afterstarting in between the pipes for three seasons.

Hitchner should he healed and ready to lead thedefensive charge next March. Kate Machemer '02 willalso be needed to step into a bigger role on the defensiveside of the field."Next year's seniors really stepped up this year,"

Highmark said. "There are a lot of really good playersreturning to this team that are going to help both theoffense and the defense.

The season wasn't a lost cause though. Making leapsand bounds in several areas, there was much to bepleased with during the 200 I campaign. Their midfieldtransition and defensive doubling improved greatly,while several players also felt that the team's skill-levelalso rose.

There is also plenty of room for improvement. Thosesame players also noted that the team will need toimprove their throwing and catching.

"We're only going to get better next season," Boydsaid. ''The pieces are all there, all we need now is tobring everything together. From day one we have to get

E"!ily Stieff'(J4 enjoyed ~ solid rookie season with 19 points. Shewtll be looked at to provide more offinse next spring. (Brown)

Bv ADAM ROGOWIN

SPORTS EOITOR

The women's lacrosse season came to an early closeTuesday at Amherst. In the NESCAC (New EnglandSmall College Athletic Conference) playoff quarterfi-nals.the Cannels fell to the Lord Jeffs 16-5.

Falling down by seven goals to start the game, theCamels were never able to regroup. The Lord Jeffs wonsix consecutive draws during that time frame. Althoughthey mustered three goals before the half ended, the

Crew to Take On NESCAC Championship This Weekend Water Polo ContinuedBy SARAH MALAQUIAS Worcester last weekend, but unfortunately, the ly well and really well together.

STAFFWRlTER turnout was less than successful for each tearn. This Friday afternoon, the Camels derig theirThe men's varsity 8 came in third behind Trinity boats and head up to Worcester once again to bat-

The early wake-up call is bad enough without by about 26 seconds, and behind Wesleyan by 18 tie it out in the New England Championship tour-snow, wind, rain, or fog on your walk down to the seconds, with a time of 6:21.4 in a 2000-meter nament. On Saturday morning, the women's var-boathouse and during a strenuous practice out on race. The men's second varsity 8 placed third sity 8 will start off competing against Colby,the water. Waking up to the sun rising is a far with a time 28.9 seconds behind winner Trinity. Trinity, U-Mass Lowell, Williams, and Worcestermore enjoyable experience when it is 65 degrees On the women's side, the varsity 8 finished third Polytechnic Institute (WPl), while their secondat 5:30 in the morning rather than 30. The end of as well with a time of 7:07.7, only 19 seconds varsity 8 takes 00 Holy Cross, Smith, Trinity,the spring season is when rowing starts to get behind winner Wesleyan, and the women's sec- Wellesley, and Williams. The men's varsity 8 00fun. The hard work that is put into the team is and varsity 8 finished 31 seconds behind Saturday face Bates, Colby, Holy Cross, andnow completed in the sunshine and rewarded Wesleyan and 22 seconds behind Trinity with a Trinity, while their second varsity 8 go up agaiostwith sweat. There are 00 long spaodex and finishing time of 7:37.6. The women's freshman the Coast Guard, Wesleyan, and WPI. There is afleeces, and out on the river is where everyone 8 placed second behind Trinity in the 2000m. final heat in the afternoon, which determines thewants to be. Since the conditions of the water are Last weekend was a tough race for both qualified for the ECAC Championship in Atlanta,so crucial to rowing, a morning's weather can teams. The women entered the weekend very Georgia the following weekend.make or break the success of an outdoor workout. excited to race against two very competitive Women's rowing has especially made greatAnnie Brown '02 claims that the arrival of the teams in Trinity and Wesleyan. Both are improv- progress sioce last year. Both teams have hadnice weather gives her and her teammates an ing as years pass, and the Camels deem them- overall very positive seasoos. Browo commentsextra burst of energy. "The races are so much fun selves to have rowed very well, although once that her teammates are "all on the same page-when it's really nice out," says Brown. "The again, tbe results did not accord with their efforts every day [they] work toward the same goal, andspectators, too, are more likely to be out aod aod integrity, They were able to row at a little bit [they're] all there for the same reason." In finish-cheering instead of huddled inside or under of a higher rating than at past races this season, ing up the rest of the season, juniors Dan Garcia,tents." The motivation is clearly evideot as their which helps get the women ready for their Ryan Horan, Philip Stransky, Benjamio Voce-season comes to a close. The women's team is upcoming New England championship. As it Gardner, and Ricb York take the reigns for theaided by coxswains Lindsey Silken '04, Leslie turns out, they have a smaller team in comparison men's group next year, while juniors AnnieKalka '03, Andrea Jones-Rooy '04, and Danielle this year and a young one, which presents the Brown and Emily Templio will have the women'sMiley '04·. Seth Davis '02, Emily Cuthbertson ultimate challenge for the women during this team under their wings this fall. Tbe rowing'03, and Andrea Lodico do the Same for the men. spring season. They have oot, however, gotten team will suffer the loss of seoiors BrookeTbeir primary concern is the energy Jevel of each discouraged, continuing to row the best they can Kennedy, Stephanie Matthews, and Eliot Pitneyrower in his or her boat. _~_ row while they com~te the races ple~a,s~e",d:..w~ith~-"a~t~th~_e:..:;e~o~d~ofthis ~ri!!& season, but the youj!gBoth the men's and the women's rowing their performance as a team. Brown comments team only has room to flourish as a new year

teams raced against Trinity and Wesleyan in that at last weekend's race, they rowed technical- comes their way.

Smith College. Continuing to playwell in the water, the team dominat-ed Smith resulting in a 15-2 final.Missy Leutz '03, Rachel Rapoport'04, Pelczar, and Bartels each con-tributed two goals apiece. A total ofeleven players scored goals. Onceagain Minnick was sharp in net,securing eleven shots. Three wins in 1a row for a first year varsity team istruly an accomplishment, but theteam was not yet satisfied until theywon their final game of the season.

And win they did. FacingUMASS Dartmouth for a secondtime, the team put on an offensiveand defensive highlight show thatculminated in a [6-1 victory for theCamels. Kratzinger, Dillenbeck,Catherine Servant '03, LucyLindkvist '04, Rachel Grossinger'04, and Jordana Gustafson '01each had two goals during \h~game. Kratzinger asserted, "rhistournament was beneficial to theteam. Freshmen received a lot 9/playing time and every single p,lay-er on the team scored a goal. Wefinally played well in the water and.hopefully this tournament can hi' areference point for next year/~tcarrr":

A first year varsity team is nQtsupposed to finish a season with,four straight wins. A first year '\IaJ:,.~sity team is also not supposed I to-have three Division III Ali-;American considerations in Ann.Kratzinger, Jordana Gustafson.iarid •Corrie Pelczar. Moreover, a first.year varsity team is not supposed tohe ranked 10th in the latest DivisionIIInational poll. But this team neverconceded to "the first year varsityteam" script. They never felt asthough they could not compete witljteams in the water regardless ofdivision or talent.

Coach Ralph and his team have •successfully built the foundations ol'a powerful Division IJJ program.'With fcurteen of the sixteen playersfrom this year's squad returningnext year and three outstanding.recruits committed to the school;the future of the program looksexceptionally bright.

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combat the unique offense of MIT,an offense that gave the team trou-ble in their first meeting.

Focused on the task at band andanxious to avenge their loss to MIT,the team entered the tournamentwith late season optimism quiteuncharacteristic of a first year win-less team. For the first time in theirlong and grueling season, the deter-minatioo and inspired team play ofthe team manifested itself into agreat victory for these dedicatedplayers. Taking a 3-0 lead into half-time, the team was able to maintainit with a 7-6 final, outplaying the5th ranked team in Division IIIwater polo. Corrie Pelczar '02 andCaptain Ann Kratzinger '01 provid-ed the offense. Pelczar netted 5goals and Kratzinger added two ofher own. Margaret Minnick '04 wasstrong in the oet stopping 12 shotsfrom MIT's high caliber offense.Commenting on their first win as avarsity team, Kratzinger wasdelighted. "It was a great feeliog tofinally get that first win against anationally ranked opponent. WeplayeoLo our capabilities and won avery close and tough game."The importance of this first win

over a very good Division ill pro-gram in MIT cannot be overlooked.Having been relieved that they wereno longer a defeated team, the waterpolo team carried the heightenedemotions of excitement and confi-dence with them as they competedin three more matches. They playedone more game 00 April 28thagainst UMASS Dartmouth, a teamthey knew they could successfullycompete against. For lack of a moresuitable word, the water polo teamdestroyed UMASS Dartmouth,winning 14-2. Led by Kratzinger'sthree, the Camels received goalsfrom ten different players includingtwo goals apiece from CarolynDillenbeck '04 and Lisa Bartels'04.Using the momentum built from

consecutive wins the previous day,the team next matched up against

Camels Set for NESCAC Semi-Finals Saturdaysive and defensive middies."At Attack, Burke, Travieso, and Dan

Hawxhurst '03 will need to find a way to figureout Middlebury freshman netminder Eric Kriegerand his solid 8.92 goals agaiost average. Kriegerstopped twelve shots in their earlier meeting.Reviewing the videotape from last game, tbeattackmen feel better prepared this time around.

"Cappy (Assistant coach Chris Capone '97)has been teaching us to make an exira movebefore we shoot," Burke said, discussing theirplan. "We've noticed that he plays a high-arc(comes out of the oet a lot), so mixing up theshots will be key."

The Panthers have proved themselves this sea-son through a tough schedule. They are a teamthat is very aggressive on the defensive side of thefield. Another one of their strengths is their excel-lent transition game.

Come Saturday, the Camels will need to leaveNew London with their "A" games packed. Theywill need to pack the same punch they've beenusing for the past three weeks.''To be successful we're going to need to be

firing on all cylinders," Hasenauer concluded. "Ifwe stick to our systems on offense and play tight'd", things should go our way."

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offenses such as Amherst, Colby, and Williams.Middlebury may he slightly favored in this aspect.

Goaltender Tyler Volpe '02 is arguably theCamel's MVP this season. Facing tbe juggernautPanther offense is something be appears ready todo. Volpe has paced the Camel's current winningstreak giving up an average of only 6.5 goals inthose eight games."fIe's been the key to our team," Kevin Burke

'03 said. "He adds so moch to the game, makingplays that no other goalie in the country does. Artimes he's kept us in games that we shouldn'thave been in."

The match-ups at midfield seem pretty even.Boyd, Rousseau, Matt Gallery '01, Hasenauer,and Childs have all been at the top of their ganneslately. Tbey will come face-to-face with Dunn(3rd on the Panthers in points), Jamie Haire '01,and Greg Carroll '01.The Camel offense is on a tear as of late, scor-

ing double digits in four out of their last fivegames.

"To be honest, I think that we have more tal-ent on the offense," Hasenauer said. "We havebetter all around players and are more educatednow on their individual talent. I have more confi-dence than I've ever had before in both our offen-

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Jay Kasparian '03 is one of the midfielders that bas bene-fiaed ftom tht offinsivt changts. (Brown)

Penn State U. protesters, administrators reach agreementulty members in the African andAfrican American Studies depart-ment by Fall 2003. Black CaucusVice President-elect TakkeemMorgan said this commitment fromthe university is an important resultof the protest.

The protesters had originallyasked that the Vice Provost forEducational Equity be allowed tohold 2 percent of each college'sbudget in escrow until the diversityguidelines set in the Framework toFoster Diversity at Penn State: 1998-2003 were met. Uoder the revisedplan, this "2-percent accountability"clause is not included. Each collegewill still have to submit a reportdetailing its fulfillment of therequirements by December 15,200 I, but the Vice Provost forEducational Equity will be responsi-ble for assessiog these reports. Thisadministrator's feedback will beavailable to the public.

''They were not willing to giveup 2 perceht," Daniel said, adding

that she thought the new system wasa better method of accouotability.

"It puts the onus of responsibili-ty on the university but allows com-munity involvement," Daniel said.

About 100 people gathered onthe ground floor of the HUB for atown meeting after the agreementwas reached to decide what theirnext step should be.

Under the revised plan, theAfrican and African AmericanStudies department will haveautonomous space and staff.Previously, students had been con-cerned that the department'sresources would be combined withthose of the women's studies andlabor and iodusrrial relations depart-ments.

"What has been accomplished isthe lack of respect for the MASdepartment has been reversed. Theempowerment of that departmenthas happened," Morgan said.

Penn State spokesman BillMahon s'ilid the administration

By MAn HYMOWITZ believes the plan is going to have amajor impact on the focus given todiversity issues at this university.

"The students worked reallyhard," he said. "I want to give thema great deal of credit for tbe ideasthey brought to the table."

While many of the issues wereresolved, the students remained con-cerned about security at next week-end's graduation ceremonies.Daniel said a reference to a

bomb at graduation in the letterreceived by Black Caucus PresidentLakeisha Wolf 00 April 20 should betaken seriously."We want to make sure (the

administrators) are going to doeverything tbey can to make gradua-tion safe," Daniel said. She said thevillagers are waiting to find out ifmetal detectors will he provided atthe graduation sites before decidingif they will end their sit-in.

PENNSTATEU.

More than a week after the cre-ation of ''The Village" in the HUB-Robeson Center at PennsylvaniaState University, its occupants cameto an agreement with administratorsWednesday night.

The revised "Plan to EnhanceDiversity at Penn State" establishesan Africana Studies Research Centerin the 2001-02 scbool year and com-mits $900,000 in funding for thecenter during the next five y.ears.The center will be administrativelyaffiliated with the College of LiberalArts and will be interdisciplinary,involving faculty and students fromacross the university.

"We are all going to benefit,"Penn State graduate and formerBlack Caucus member Lurie Dame!said after the agreement wasreached.

The plan also stil/.ulates .that theuni'l'ersity will have 1'6 full-l1me fac-

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By ADAMROGOWIN

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SPORTSKessler Exposed Men's Lacrosse to Face Middlebury in NESCAC Semi-Finals

Victory Over Trinity CamelsMatch upPushesWinning Well us.MiddleburyStreak to Eight

I often wonder if our loved ones who have leftthis world look down on us every so often in orderto make sure we are taking advantage of the time wehave been given. I guess I hope they do. If Iwereheading in the wrong direction in the grand schemeof things, whatever that scheme may consist of, Iwould hope those up above that care for me wouldsteer me in the right direction. Iwould hope that thethings I have done so far in life have made themproud of me. After all, if you only live for yourself,do you really live at all?

How does this allrelate to sports? Goodquestion. It doesn't. Iknow this is the sports col-umn in the sports sectionof the paper, but Ifeel as ifI should use the greatopportunity I have earnedto write a weekly columnto attempt to make somesense out of life. Often I

Matthew Kessler use sports as a way ofsharing my views on whatis going on in the world

today. Call it Spring fever, but this column is some-thing totally different. Maybe while you're readingit you will actually learn something about not onlyMatthew B. Kessler, but yourself as well.

I attend college for many reasons, most impor-tantly to become a more knowledgeable citizen.However, all I really want to know is the answer totwo questions. First of all, what is the key to life?Secondly, what is my purpose? I know I have one,I'm.just not sure what it is yet. I would gladly pay$34,000 a year for four years to discover the answerto these two utterly dumbfounding questions.

Unfortunately, it's not that easy. Ican learn all Iwant at college about Shakespeare, the componentsof a cow's brain. the definition of neoclassical syn-thesis Keynesianism, and the history of NorthernAfrica. How much I really care is questionable.How much Ineed to know about these topics to findthe key to life and my purpose within this informa-tion is close to zero. Ican get a nice job once I grad-uate from college with a major in "How to get con-nections" anp a minor in 'The best ways to kiss yourbosses' @$%." I can sit behind a desk for the next45 years of loy life, have a nice retirement partywhere I receive a brand new watch that not only tellstime but is also waterproof up to 600 feet. Ican thenspend the rest of my days paying my ex-wife hermonthly allowance, as ruled by the courts, andwatch reruns of The West Wing. Is this how I envi-sion the rest of my life? Certainly not. Some may beok with this. Others may not have the balls to avoidit. I would rather step into the ring with Mike Tysonand risk losing essential body parts than live thatlife.

So what do I plan to do? I guess my onlyresponse is, not that. I'll serve as a roving scout forthe Anaheim Angels. or write restaurant reviews forthe Chicago Tribune, or maybe get my graduatedegree in masseuseology and take my expertise tothe U.S. Virgin Islands. Whatever it takes to avoid!,;"!pal Tunnel Syndrome and reliving the life of that..rin the movie "Office Space."

-!lut I guess doing any of those things still would-.," !Dswer my question concerning the key to life.QIJlewould say the answer is simple, and only con-

\ . s of one word: happiness; love; money; fame.'f'a!ce your pick. I'm not convinced one word satis-ti~me entirely. Although happiness, love, money,4)me would be nice, none of these things tell me

.ntY1>urposein life, which I hope to find once I dis-cover the key to life. I know, or rather hope, that Iam destined for big things. I only get one chance atthis crazy ride called life, so I figure I better notscrew up. My conscious usually tells me when Iamscrewing up, seemingly on a daily basis.

I "Could've done better on your eeon exam:' ittells me. "You big lug, you should've gone over andtold that fine young woman that just smiled at youthat she has nice eyes!" I've come to conclude youlive and learn.

Many tell me that I shouldn't be so concernedwith the rest of my life just yet. After all, they say,you're only a sophomore in college. You're still ateenager for God's sake! And most of all, you havegreat red hair, so you're already abead of most peo-ple. At least I know the last part is the truth.Anyway, I have come to decide that I have to setgoals for myself and fight like hell to achieve them.Eventually, the key to life and my purpose in it willcome. It may be awhile, but I can afford the wait. Ican't die until one of Philadelphia's four majorsports teams win a championship anyway, and his-tory tells me that could be awhile. I may end up hav-ing to use Viagra after all.

So, this now brings me back to where I started.those I have loved that are somewhere up abovebetter be watching me as I continue on my journeythrough life. I could use all of the help I can get.What has kept me going to this point is that I knewthose around me, past and present, would not let mefail in finding my own key to life. Now that I'haveendured high school and the first two years of col-lege (just about), I have learned something even bet-ten-l now know for certain I won't allow myself tofail in finding my destiny. If everyone else were togive up on me, I would still press on.

The key to life is in sight. I just may have to viewit from New London with an ultra-sensitive tele-scope. After all is said and done, hopefully I willcome to the conclusion that the key to life and mypurpose for being here is not what is most impor-tant. Rather, the challenge of finding those twothings is why I was put here in the first place. If IGould make my loved ones proud of me at the sametime, I win feel like the luckiest man in the world.And I won't have to win an MTV music videoaward to say that.

Matthew B. Kess er is the Editor-In-Chief of TheCdtlege Voice. His column appears weekly.

By RYANWOODWARD

STAFFWRlTER

The Camels just won't stop. On abeautiful New London afternoon lastTuesday, the men's lacrosse team tookcare of business out on Harkness Green inthe first round of the NESCAC (NewEngland Small College AtbleticConference) playoffs. The Camels stuck itto intrastate rival Trinity College beatingthem by a score of 11-7, adding theireighth consecutive win to their now 10-4record on the season.

The Bantams jumped out to an earlylead scoring the first two goals of tbegame. Conn was held off of the board until4:5 I left in the first quarter when seniorcaptain Tim Boyd scored the first of histwo goals on the day. Of Boyd, assistantcoach Chris Capone '97 offered: "Boyd isby far our best player, especially this sea-son where he has sacrificed his individualplay for the good of the team, but stillmanaged 34 points with a long-stick onhim at all times."

Boyd's goal sparked a completelyCamel-dominated second quarter whereConn made the Bantams look as thoughthey were playing with butterfly nets. TheCamels took the lead for good when sen-ior Matt Rousseau, one of the most dan-gerous finishers in the NESCAC, netted apass from Boyd with 4.2 seconds left inthe half, giving the Camels a 5-4 lead atthe break.

Tyler Volpe '02 and the rest of theCamel defense provided security the restof the way. In the third quarter theBantams held an II-2 advantage in shots,but Volpe held his ground adding to his 12save performance. Conn made good use oftheir few opportunities, scoring on both oftheir third quarter shots, including a spec-tacular display of quickness on an unas-sisted goal by shifty sophomore JayKasparian, whicb put the team up 7-4.

Trinity made one more solid run atvictory and the NESCAC semi-finals, butConn held strong with key goals by soph-omores Ryan Childs and Kevin Burke.

Mike Hasenauer '03, who had a goaland two assists on the day, described theafternoon: "It was a huge win. It was greatto beat Trinity out on Harkness [Green].It's what we've been working towards allyear." The win propels the Camels to thisweekend's final four of the NESCAC tour-nament, hosted by Middlebury College inVermont. Joining them at the tournamentwill be Wesleyan University, BowdoinCollege, and the hosting Panthers.

Conn will square off with the PanthersSaturday afternoon and will play the win-ner of the WesleyanIBowdoin game onSunday if they can successfully defeat the#6 team in the nation .

By BRENDANCHISHOLM

The consistency of Camel midfielder Mike Hasenauer '03 is one of the reasonsfir the Camels ~ight-game winning streak. Hasenauer contributed a goal and two assist! against Trinity: (Brown)

Even if things do not work out asplanned this weekend, the season will notbe a complete wash. Providing inspirationthis weekend is the fact that, as Hasenauerstated, "The seniors' careers are now liv-ing from game to game." The team isgraduating seven seniors this season,including an offensive core of RobTravieso (22g, 20a), Boyd (19g, l5a),Rousseau (25g, 3a), and Kevin Bean (lOg,8a), who Capone feels is "one of thesmartest players on the field at all times."Contributing in more defensive roles are,defensive midfielder and tri-captain,Matthew Gallery '01, Joe Cortese '01, andthe tremendously athletic, Aaron Hatfield'01.

When the team began dropping earlyseason games to top 25 foes such asMiddlebury, Wesleyan, Bowdoin, and St.Lawrence, they did not get down on them-selves. Instead, the underclassmen unitedto ensure that the seniors would taste thepost -season one last time before movingon. The junior class stepped up to fill hugedefensive roles, especially goaltenderTyler Volpe, who held an impressive .586goals against average, making him thesecond ranked goaltender in theNESCAC. Capone humorously added,"Even though I am able to light him up inwarm-ups, it would be a travesty if Tydoes not get All-American honors."

Volpe did not have to go at it alone,however, as classmates Dave Boettcher,Nick Marwell, Chris Sullivan, ChrisDelfausse, and the now injured JohnRichardson helped to keep opponents atarm's length.

STAFFWRlTER

Women's Water Polo Ends Inaugural Season on a High Notethey had hoped not to follow. However, the team's col-lective goal of changing the direction of their seasonwas quickly thwarted as they suffered two defeats tonortbeastern water polo powers MIT and Dartmouth.

The script of "the first year varsity team" wouldhave called for the women's water polo team to acceptthe fact that winning in an inaugural season of varsityplay is highly unlikely. But the water polo team never Rit.ill!'-:ii'I\tlIbought into these myths pertaining to newly formedvarsity teams. One last tournament remained on theschedule, and this presented the team with one finalchance·to rewrite the script.

The team knew they would be matching up againstthree other Division III programs in the ConnecticutCollege Invitational on the 28th and 29th of April.They would compete against Smith, UMASSDartmouth, and an MIT team that had defeated theteam 7-3 on April 21st. The coach of the water poloteam, Ken Ralph, understood that MIT would be thebest team in the tournament and thus pose the greatestchallenge to his team's goal of rewriting the precon-ceived notions of a first year team. He decided todevote the team's last week of practice on working to Lucy Lind/wist '04 fires a pass to an Optn Camel teammate this past tmtlr-

md. Tbe Camtls won tht Connecticut Colkge Invitation. (Sultan)continued on page 9

The women's water polo team recently concludedits first season as a varsity team. As the program is inits infant years of development, one may assume theprogram will need many more seasons before the team .becomes an established presence in the Nortbeastregion. And indeed, for most of the season thisassumption proved to be a reasonable one as the teamendured numerous heartbreaking defeats despite deter-mined efforts and an optimistic outlook.

Heading into the Brown Invitational on April 21stthe team was still without a victory, a usual predica-ment that newly-formed varsity programs face in theirinaugural seasons. But this year's water polo team did1;10twant to finish their season in a fashion characteris-tic of a first y~~ varsity team.-- constantly Strugglingto be compcunve agamst their Opponents. The teamdid not want to fall victim to those characteristics thathave come to define "the first year varsity team"inconsistent play, low team morale and frustration. Th~Brown Invitational provided the team with a chance tochange the script of "the first year varsity team" that

While the juniors, along with presea-son All-American Clancy Galgay '03,handled most of the dirty work on D, thesophomores picked up the glory-filledoffensive slack. Led by Burke (27g, 9a),Hasenauer (I Ig, 12.), and Childs (8g, 6a)the sophomores helped to relieve the pres-sure from the senior class.

With everyone out to make their team-mates job easy, the team has developed aclose bond. Even freshmen, such as long-stick defenseman Dave Glasser, have beenable to step in and make a smooth adjust-ment to the college game.

"This team is tons of fun to work with.There is so much experience in these sys-tems, and all the guys are so talented tbatfor me it was a very easy transition,"claims Glasser.

While upperclassmen help to relay anyknowledge possible, the true leaders ofthis Camel squadron are head coach FranShields and assistant coach Capone.Shields, who earned his 150th career winthis season, is the man sternly in charge ofthe program while Capone is the key mid-dleman in relating ideas to the players.Although he is often interested in dis-cussing his glory years ('94-'97), the two-time All-American holds a critical rolewith the team. Of his assistant, Shieldssays, "I'm fortunate to have a person frommy own program who understands ourtype of athlete, knows the NESCAC, [and]bleeds royal-blue and black."

Led by Shields, Capone, and greatteam unity, look for the Camels to poten-tially steal the inaugural NESCAC title.

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SPORTSEDITOR

Middlebury College is to the NESCAC(New England Small College AthleticConference) what the ,New York Yankeesare to Major League Baseball.

But that doesn't scare the Camels."We are not intimidated at all," mid-

fielder Mike Hasenauer said. "We're play-ing with a lot of confidence right now andI think we match up better man for man,We have full confidence in the coachingstaff and ourselves."

Hasenauer and the men's lacrosse teamwill bring their eight game winning streakinto Middlebury, Vermont Saturday, wherethey will face the home-team Panthers inhopes of advancing to the NESCAC M~"'sLacrosse Finals.

The two teams faced off earlier thisseason in late March. The Panthers (8-0NESCAC, 11-1 overall) got the best ofthat one, winning fifteen to nine. Backthen, the Camels were a much differentteam than the one that currently possessesa 10-4 record.

Middlebury held a 9-8 lead at thebeginning of the fourth quarter in thatgame. After that, the Panthers used a six-goal onslaught to take control. Panthermidfielder Matt Dunn '02 scored three ofhis six goals in that fourtb quarter.

Tim Boyd '01 led all Camel scorers inthe game with three goals. Matt Rousseau'01 and Rob Travieso '01 chipped in two.

Under a new, reshaped offense, theCamels are using more players and receiv-ing better production.

"Back then we relied more on oneguy," Ryan Childs '03 said in response tothe old offensive strategy. "Now it's moreof a team game. We're moving the ball tothe open guy, and that has been workingwell."

Childs also stated thai in late Marchonly a few players were appearing in thebox score. Under the "new" offense, "wehave seven or eight guys on the score sheetafter every game," he said.

Camel defensemen wilJ have theirwork cut out for them Saturday.Middlebury has two players that havescored thirty goaJs this year. Traviesoleads the Camels in goals with twenty-'two.

Panther attackman Holt Hopkins 'OJ(30g 18a) and David Seeley '01 (30g 14a)are shoo-ins for first-team NESCAC selec-tions at the end of the month. ZachHerbert '01 (20g lla) is the third memberof a group who possess most of thePanther goals this season.

Camel defenders Clancy Galgay '03,Dave Glasser '04, Chris Sullivan '02, andDave Boettcher '02 will be given the taskto contain the three. Together, the fourhave successfully handcuffed powerhouse

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Men's Lacrosse (10-4)4/28 Conn 15, Tufts 85/1 Conn I J. Trinity 7Next Game 5/5 at Middlebury (NESCACTournament)

Camel ScoreboardMen's Tennis (5-10)Tenth place at NESCAC ChampionshipEnd of Season

Women's Crew4/28 I) Wesleyan 6:48, 2) Trinity 6:52.1,3) Conn7:07.7Next Race 5/5 New England Championship atWorcester, MAMen's Crew

4/28 I) Trinity 5:55.7, 2) Wesleyan 6:03.5, 3) Conn

6:2\.4 I d Ch . hiNext Race 5/5 New Eng an amptons ip atWorcester, MA

Women's Lacrosse (6-9)4/28 Tufts 14, Conn 55/1 Amherst 16, Conn 5End of Season

Men's and Women's Track and Field4/29 Men: Eleventh place at NESCAC Ch . .

W . T' d < S empionshipomen. ie lor eventh place with B doiNESCAC Champion~hip ow om at

Upcoming Meet 5/5 Men: New England D' ..Championship at Co IV'S'on IIIWomen: New England Division 1Il Cha . .Middlebury mplOnsh,p at,

Women's Water Polo (4-11)4/28 Conn 7, MIT 6

Conn 14, Umass Dartmouth 24/29 Conn 14, Smith 2

Conn 16 Umass Dartmouth IEnd of Season

Sailing4/29 Silver Fleet: Conn 4- 14Upcoming Race 5/5-5/6 New E1igland DinghyChampionship at URI

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