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Student DownloadsWill Not be PolicedREBECCA FOWLER

NEWS EDITOR

The college has no plans tofurther regulate or punish stu-dents for downloading and shar-ing copyrighted songs on its net-work. Despite other Conn, col-leges' actions in response to pres-sure from the Recording IndustryAssociation of America (RIAA)to prohibit pilfering copyrightedmaterial, Trinity does not want tochange its network policies.

"Trinity has been ... veryconcerned about leaving yourrights - to do what you want to do- alone," explained NetworkAdministrator Bryan Adams.

University of Connecticutstudents can now be banned fromthe university's network for a cer-tain length of time if they down-load a copyrighted song.Wesleyan University blockedaccess to programs like Kazaaover two years ago.

Currently, Trinity has nointention of following theseexamples set by peer institutions.That is not to say that the admin-

istration condones downloadingand file sharing of copyrightedmusic, only that it is not theCollege's responsibility to holdstudents accountable.

"We don't stand in your way,but it violates policies you haveagreed to," Adams said.

As it stands, each matriculat-ing student must agree to theguidelines for use of computing,communication and video sys-tems. The regulations requireconsistency with applicable stateand federal law, with a provisionfor file sharing, "Users of theTrinity networks may not 'share'copyrighted material for whichthey do not have the license to'share.' This includes computerprograms, audio files, video files,electronic texts, and all othermedia."

Many of the regulations aregeneral and do not expressly pro-hibit certain programs, likeKazaa, because they would runthe risk of being too specific andoutdated soon after, Adams said.

Even though the College isnot cracking down on those who

SGA AnnouncesStudent Representatives for

Presidential Search Committee

JONATHAN CH£SN£Y

James Nadzieja '04 looksforward to a chance to takepart in Trinity's history.

JONATHAN CHeSNCY

Lydia Potter '05 is ready forthe challenge of bringing anew president to campus.

break the rules, the courts arefinding in favor of the RIAA,and other colleges have beensubpoenaed for names and infor-mation about students linkedwith file sharing. There aremeasures in place to protect stu-dents' anonymity on the Trinitynetwork, but the administration

see NETWORK on page 7

Puppets ComeAlivein German Theater

Tiinfo Connects to CommunitySTEFANIE LOPEZBOY

STAFF WRITER

Children from the LearningCorridor, adults from the sur-rounding community, and Trinitystudents can all convene at asmall Internet cafe that hoversjust off the campus' edge on thecorner of Vernon and Broadstreets. Staffed entirely byTrinity alumni and work-studystudents, this cat'6 provides com-mon ground between the Collegeand the community through anincreasingly prevalent medium:technology.

Carlos Espinosa, a Hartfordnative and Trinity class of 1996alumnus, is the director of theSmart NeighborhoodProject/Trinfo Cafe. Since he andstaff members like LindaMartinez '04 and Victor Gonzalez

JONATHAN CHESNEY

The Trinfo Cafe, corner of Broad and Vernon streets.

INSIDEOpinions, page two, highlightsan argument against euthana-sia using a recent example.

Swing by Features for someinteresting Hartford trivia onpage twelve.

See Arts, page sixteen, for areview of Hairspray, now atthe Bushnell

OpinionsNewsFeaturesArtsAnnouncementsSports

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'01 are all from Hartford, they are •in an advantageous position tofacilitate relations with communi-ty members that come to the cafe.

"The staffing adds a uniqueperspective on the community,"Espinosa said.

The Smart NeighborhoodProject, which fathered the TrinfoCafe, started on the heels of theLearning Corridor six years agowith a mission to further engagethe community with Trinity bybringing them together over a.common ground, technology.Funding was provided by a $2.5million grant from the KelloggFoundation to be spread out ininstallments of $500,000 over thecourse of five years.

Originally located at 70Vernon St., the goal of the Projectwas to break the "digital divide"that plagued many of the organi-zations in the surrounding com-munity and to build up their tech-nological infrastructures. Using

the Kellogg Grant, Trinity wasable to benefit the communityorganizations in several ways.It subsidized the costs of gettingthe organizations connected tohigh-speed Internet and settingup local network access. TheCollege also provided free com-puter and Internet training tomembers of the various commu-nity groups in addition to freeemail and web hosting.

"Trinity students designedover 80 of the organizations"websites. We now have over115 participating groups," saidEspinosa.

Before the project's incep-tion, 90 percent of the organiza-tions in the community did nothave computers or access to theInternet, The project's focus wason these community organiza-tions, including churches andsmall businesses, within a one-mile radius around the College.

see TRINFO on page 11 '•-

BAILEY TRIGGSARTS EDITOR

"If is difficult to arrangeevery phenomenon into its placeand oneself remain un-deranged,"reads German puppeteer MichaelVogel from the diary of composerRobert Schumann, the subject ofFigurentheater Wilde & Vogel'sToccata. It is equally difficult toarrange every aspect ofFigurentheater Wilde & Vogel'sToccata into a cohesive analysiswithout deranging the meaning ofthe piece.

The Austin Arts Centerbrought the German puppetry duoFigurentheater Wilde & Vogel toGoodwin Theater Friday night aspart of the Austin Arts Center'sGuest Artist's SeriesPerformances (GASP!),Figurentheater Wilde & Vogelwas founded by puppeteerMichael Vogel and composerCharlotte Wilde in 1991 and,since its inception, has traveledthroughout the world performingat various festivals.

Toccata is based on the life

and writing of German composerRobert Schumann. WhenSchumann .was young, he hadaspirations to become a poet anda musician. His dream of being apianist was cut short when hebadly injured his hand, an injurythat had possibly resulted fromthe use of a self-made practicingmachine. Schumann also sufferedfrom depression throughout hislife and feared that he wasbecoming mad, He began suffer-ing from headaches and halluci-nations that drove him to a sui-cide attempt in 1854 when hejumped into the Rhine, He waspulled out of the river and put inan asylum for the last two yearsof his life.

Toccata is a performance thatincorporates these events inSchumann's life and turns theminto art by fusing puppetry withlive action, text with music,meaning with madness. In theprogram for the show,Figurentheater Wilde & Vogeldescribe its work as using "the

see GERMAN on page 15

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One of the many Figurentheater puppets.

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ixivdtvEdna D. Guerrasio '05

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

NEWS EDITORSEileen Flynn '05 Rebecca Fowler '05

FEATURES EDITORSJennifer Dunn '05 Eliza Sayward '05

SPORTS EDITORSWilliam Yang '05

PHOTO EDITORJonathan Chcsney '05

BUSINESS MANAGER

Lydia Potter '05

# vLuiipijOAlexander W. A. Gordon '05

MANAGING EDITOR

OPINIONS EDITORSJoe Stramondo '04 Peter Scala '05

ARTS EDITORSGreg Pol in '05 Bailey Triggs '05

ANNOUNCEMENT EDITORSDaniel Scollan '05 Lindsay North '06

ONLINE EDITORSMatt Barison '04 Jim Nadzieja '04

CARTOONIST

Laura Petnick '07

COPY EDITORS

Jamie Calabrese '05 Joanna Hecht '07

TO TMIEDialogue Day Success Brings Optimism

Team/or Shame

The other day when I was making my way through Mather, I found myself staring atthe t-shirt standing in line in front of rne. The saying across the back read, "If I don't remem-ber, It didn't happen." Putting the words together in my head and then remembering the otherfemale pledges I had noticed several hours before walking around in men's shirts, high heels, andboxer shorts, I became speechless. I was horror-stricken that girls on this campus would degradethemselves to re-enact the walk of shame because the "higher power" of an organized socialgroup would command them to do so. Don't get me wrong, I am all in favor of fraternities andsororities on this campus, however, there is a line that needs to be drawn between playful humili-ty and degradation.

"If I don't remember, It didn't happen." When I first came to college I thought thatthe Greek system existed to offer a brotherhood or sisterhood to those who were in search of thattype of bond or relationship. I thought that fraternities and sororities were a haven where stu-, ,dents could unwind over the weekend and perhaps remove their thoughts from the academic rig-or.s of Trinity lite. I know thai in order to build these tight-knit communities those who are|i!(-dpin"- must move their loyalty and trust to the group.

Since when does that entail forfeiting your own self-respect and the respect of all thewomen on this campus?

Sexual assault is a crime. More often then not, it is a crime against women. Whatorganization that is claimed to promote the bonds of "sisterhood" and the pride of being awoman would ask someone to wear a shirt that takes the fight against rape and sexual assaultback 30 years? I thought sororities were supposed to be for the good of the community — Iguess I was wrong.

Not to say that some of the fraternities on this campus don't encourage this type ofbehavior or do anything to inhibit the notion that "No Means Yes," but I think that it is moredisturbing to see a female advertise the idea, jokingly or not, that the results of sexual assault areinconsequential as long as she "doesn't remember."

Although instances of sexual assault are rarely publicized on this campus, they happenevery weekend. I dare the pledge who proudly paraded around in Mather unaware of her ownidiocy to present her message to the female students who suspect that they were sexually assault-ed last year, "but didn't quite remember."

I can take a joke just like anyone else. I can buy into the idea of undergoing self-embarrassment and humiliation to be accepted into a defined group of individuals. Makingpledges attend class decked out in 80's clothes or dressing them in hula skirts and coconut bras atthe biggest party of the year is all in good fun and, in my opinion, adds to the life of this cam-pus. But when you make light of an issue that is serious and detrimental, you are doing nothingbut degrading those around you and belittling your own character for not having better judg-ment.

ff you don't remember you better hope, it didn't happen. My fear is that, for someone who wouldmake light of such a serious problem, it probably already did.

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To the editor:

1 am writing to say how proudI was to be a member of theTrinity College community onSept. 16.

Over 1,500 of us turned out toshare our concerns and our hopes,explore our differences, and cele-brate our commonalities. Thosewho planned the event are siftingthrough the evaluations of the dayand will develop recommenda-tions about the next steps weshould take.

In the meantime, though, wedo not need to wait for another

formal program to act on ourown. Trinity is no different thanany other place in our society, butmaybe we can be different.

The turnout on Sept. 16makes me optimistic. As someonewho watched the day unfold, Iwant to thank the many peoplewho played a part in making theday such a success.

Sincerely,

Sharon HerzbergerVice President for StudentServices and Professor ofPsychology

French MedethicsJOE STRAMONDO

OPINIONS EDITOR

Last week, the mother of atwenty-two year old man fromParis made headlines across theglobe, including The New YorkTimes. Marie Humbert injectedan overdose of sedatives into .herson, Vincent's, intravenous line,sending him into a coma thatresulted in his death after twodays.

The Sept. 26 Times article,"Son's Wish to Die, and Mother'sHelp, Stir French Debate" report-ed, "She acted on the thirdanniversary of the car accidentthat left him paralyzed, mute andblind."

The young man spent histhree years as a person withsevere disability appealing toFrench lawmakers to grant himthe right to die, even writing apersonal letter to Jacques Chirac.Ian addition, yinqent spent histime authoring a book that hitFrench stores this week, I Ask theRight to Die.

Certainly, American politicsand the academic- study of con-temporary medical ethics arefamiliar with euthanasia.However, this case raises someimportant questions that thosewho have thought seriously aboutthis issue may not have yet con-sidered. What makes this caseinteresting is that the argument isnot being made from the premisethat the individual is terminallyill.

Not that I necessarily agreewith the idea that the best optionfor a suffering, terminally illpatient is assisted suicide, but theargument for euthanasia is defi-nitely buttressed when the patientis facing imminent, certain death.This is not to say that the suffer-ing of a non-terminally ill patientis any less horrible, but the "he'sgoing to die anyway" argument

can't be made. The impendingdeath is what usually differenti-ates euthanasia from regular sui-cide.

Without terminal illnessinvolved, what distinguishesVincent's death from a regularsuicide? The obvious answer ishis severe disability. Let's putquality of life issues aside fornow and say the most importantfeature that arises from Vincent'scondition is that he is not able totake his own life'.

Put differently, the differencebetween Vincent and an able-bod-ied person who commits suicideis that Vincent is not able to carryout his own wishes. At first, itseems that we - and every othersociety that rejects euthanasia -are engaging in an almost dis-criminatory practice.

By denying the severely dis-abled a "right to die," are we tak-ing away a right that is enjoyedby everyone else? At the veryleast, it seems to be gruesornelyironic that the severely disabledare not allowed lo die for theexact reasons that they wish todie.

With that said, it seems thatthis may not be the most appro-priate way of looking at things.First of all, it doesn't seem thatable-bodied people have a right todie either.

Perhaps a community has aharder time preventing a personwith the ability to act from doingso, but that doesn't mean that thecommunity accepts that act asappropriate. Clearly, our societycondemns suicide in any form.Perhaps there are not explicit,uncompromising statementsagainst this choice issued on aregular basis, but if there arewarning signs that a person isplanning suicide, it is requiredthat drastic steps are taken to pre-vent it.

See EUTHANASIA on page 5

Psi U Tropical Party? PT is a little annoyed that PT paid $10to stand in a tiny sand box with 1,000 of PT's closest friendsand drink cheap light beer. At least they had a bartender soPT's female friends didn't worry too much about gettingruffled. While the sand was a little annoying, it certainly didbeat the red clay that is normally EVERYWHERE. Whiletropical is a good theme, PT could have gone without the trop-ical storm on Sunday. .

Red Sox TakeWild Card

Exciting for the 90% of Trinityx i Students who live "just outside

Boston." It's too bad things will getbroken once they lose.

Cubs WinDivision

First Time Gubs have won theA * division in 14 years. Still haven't

won a World Series since 1908.

Trinity DAY

We had a FULL week off bothsemesters'in 1999-2000. Now we

T T have one DAY, and we share it withParents Weekend.

Williams College What the hell is an Eph?

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Give Students NewspapersJOANNA HECHT

OPINIONS WRITER

Discussions at the UnitedNations about internationalinvolvement in Iraq progressedthis weekend when the UnitedStates agreed to surrender someof the control it had previouslydemanded in the devastated coun-try. ^

This is a lie. But how manyTrinity College students wouldhave been duped? To be honest, Iprobably would have been.

Life at Trinity is filled withmany things: sports, activities,classes, studying, some fun on theweekends. :

But one thing that is notice-ably absent is a connection withthe outside world.

There have been many refer-ences to places of higher learningas "Ivory Towers," where stu-dents, removed from the concernsof the world, may learn enoughabout the past to one day con-struct the future.

However, we as students

this by providing The New YorkTimes and The Hartford Courantfor its students for free in Mather.While this is a commendableeffort, it is misguided.

First of all, let me address theCourant. This paper has a specif-

section left.Instead, it would seem wise

to, in addition to increasing thenumber of Times available, relo-cate them.

By placing the papers in dormcommon rooms and requesting

Life at Trinity is filled with manythings: sports, activities, classes, study-ing, and some fun on the weekends.

ic purpose, which it serves well:to keep the public of Conn,informed of local, state, national,and global news.

The writing is fair, and thefew national and internationalstories it has are varied and broad.However, the Times, with its pri-mary focus on national and glob-al events, is a much more in depthsource for students who are learn-ing about the world and their rolein it.

Additionally, though it is con-venient to have a newspaper

It would seem wise to, in addition toincreasing the number of Times avail-able, relocate them.

must learn what we are gettingourselves into.

Though we have differentresponsibilities than adults ourown age who choose to enter theworkforce, we are still legally ofage, and thus have obligations toour society that we can not delayfor four years.

The school tries to address

while eating breakfast, there israrely enough time.

So what is a time-pressed stu-dent to do? Bring the paper along,of course. Thus, each paper isonly available to one, or at most,a few students.

By the time one arrives atMather at, say, 9:30 a.m., there israrely more than a stray Metro

that students keep them there, theCollege can ensure that the newsis reaching all students, and thattheir investment in these papers isworthwhile.

It is true that there are manyother sources of news availablefor Trinity's students to use,notably television and theInternet.

In my weeks at Trinity, I havebeen fairly busy, but when I dohave time to turn on the televi-sion, it is invariably to watchsomething a bit more fun than thenews.

In fact, the closest I came towatching anything about currentevents this week was "The WestWing."

When I get a chance to goonline, it is to answer the latestbarrage of email from friends andrelatives.

I often read the Times onlinewhen I do not get to Mather ontime, but there is nothing quitelike the feeling of holding thatfresh, ink-scented paper whileyou relax in a comfortable chairand quickly become inflamedabout the latest action of the Bushadministration, or what have you.

Liberal ParrotingNot CompellingNATE BAKER

OPINIONS WRITER

As probably none of you areaware, last week was my birth-day. Of the many gifts I receivedduring this joyous occasion, per-haps none were as treasured asthat given by Alex Henry, whichcame in the form of the idiocy ofhis overly-verbose Tripod article.

First off, let's be serious:most of Henry's intellectual con-tent sounded an awful Sot like asimple regurgitation of a racismclass — say, Maurice Wade's"Race, Racism, and Philosophy."I guess an original thought is ask-ing too much of some people.

Sure, there are those whomight be impressed and evenintimidated by stuff like quotes

ogy can be said to exist ... Butracism as I conceive it is notmerely an attitude or set ofbeliefs; it also expresses itself inthe practices, institutions, andstructures that a sense of deep dif-ference justifies or validates.Racism, therefore, is more thantheorizing about human differ-ences or thinking badly of a groupover which one has no control (p.5-6)."

To reiterate: "Racism, there-fore, is more than ... thinkingbadly of a group over which onehas no control."

It is pretty universally agreed,from Margaret Pritchard (in the9/15 Tripod) on down, that thereis little opportunity discrimina-tion at Trinity (I'm going toassume that one so informed in

Sure, there are those who might beimpressed and even intimidated by stufflike quotes from Stuart Hall.

from Stuart Hall. Speaking per-sonally, though, I hold more stockin original thinking.

But since we're pirating otherpeople's ideas here, let's throw ina quote from the racial theoristGeorge Fredrickson to justifyracism at Trinity.

In his book Racism Freddiestates: "It is when differences thatmight otherwise be consideredethnocultural are regarded asinnate, indelible, and unchange-able that a racist attitude or ideol-

this debate knows what "opportu-nity discrimination" is).

This means that if a bunch ofwhite students are talking trashabout black students (AND VICEVERSA) this is not racism, sincethe former is unable to exert any"real control" over the latter. Ohwell.

I can't deny, though, to beingabsolutely dazzled by Henry'sprecognition in foreseeing somany of my counter-arguments insee WAR OF WORDS on page 4

Voter Participation: Crucial But Severely LackingMARGARET PRRTCHARP

OPINIONS WRITER

Raise your hand if you planon having a job sometime duringyour life; if you plan on havingkids; f you plan on retiring; if youhave student loans to repay.

If you plan on going to thedoctor, putting your kids inschool, returning an item to astore, taking a vacation in anothercountry, driving a car ...

dragged into representative gov-ernment by a hundred years ofrevolutions and in many of them,students stood in front of theguns.

In America, intellectuals andacademics penned treatises exalt-ing the power of the vote, anddecried the sovereignty of a far-away Parliament over theirfuture.

. The English Civil War tookthe head of a King, and gave the

My parents have to pay taxes on mytuition. Another President mightdecide to change that.

Now raise your hand if youvoted in the last three years.

It would be an understate-ment to characterize the 2004Congressional election as "dra-matic" or "important" and yetRock the Vote, an organizationthat mobilizes young voters,reports that less than a third of the28 million eligible 18-24 yearolds voted.

Meanwhile, voters of the"Boomer" generation or olderwere predicted to make up 60 per-cent of the turnout in that electionsays the American Association ofRetired Persons. Predictably, theelection was fought on terms rel-evant to the people that pollsshowed. would ..decide ..it;,..Medicare,. Social Security,..pre-scription drug coverage, etc.

I heard not., a single wordabout making college, tuition tax-deductible, about student loanrepayment, about increasingaccess to higher education. Wewere ignored, and we asked for it.

Modern democracy was bornin a bath of blood. . France was.

House of Commons its first tasteof real power.

We pay lip service to theimportance of these events on his-tory exams, and we intellectuallybelieve that the system we have ispreferable to the one we had, butwhat do we actually do about it?Well, 66 percent of us, apparently,come up with excuses not to vote.

One vote doesn't count.Perhaps. I could quote someelections where that wasn't true(538 Democrats in Florida arekicking themselves right now),but the fact is that this country'smanic focus on individualism ishiding the fact that your vote isnot alone, that what you have to,say counts.

One vote may not count thatmuch, but that's why groups likethe College Democrats and theCollege Republicans exist.That's, what Rock the Vote is for.That's what the Sierra Club isabout.

There " are organizations;whose job is to follow thelissues.and keep you informed, w,ho are;

responsible for uniting groupswith a common interest andempowering them with theknowledge that politicians willpay attention if there are a lot ofyou and if they think you're goingto vote.

The system doesn't representyou. The system has nothing tosay to you. The system is irrele-vant. This argument is so ridicu-lous as to be laughable - if itweren't tragic.

My sister's school uses Social.Studies bookS'that have the USSRand. a, divided. Germany, on the

map. Another governor, anothermayor, might change that.

My parents have to pay taxes

years ago, people thought elect-ing FDR would make a differ-ence.

There are organizations whose job isto follow the issues and keep youinformed...

on my tuition. Another Presidentmight decide to change that.

My grandmother collects. social security checks — because

I can't make up my mind. We,live in an information age, and welive on a college campus. Surely,

' see VOTING on page 5 ... •

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AJournalistic War of Wordscontinued from page 3

his article. "It is entirely possiblethat Baker's response at this pointmight be ..." "Here I can seeBaker arguing that..."

Since he predicted andmatched my rebuttals so well, Iguess I'll have to just move on ...well, actually no.

I'm not really going to takethe time to counter most ofHenry's content, since, as previ-ously mentioned, it is all depend-ent on his rehash of guys like Halland Fredrickson, and, as I'm sureHenry knows from his racismclass, Hall and Fredrickson are

rant, I'm sure he'll remark at thispoint that evolutionists likeStephen Jay Gould urge us tosteer away from this train ofthought, pointing,out that what itmeans to be "superior" is merelya product of environment, andthat, accordingly, the superiororganism changes with environ-ment.

However, even in their urgingevolutionists admit that, whateverthe reason, human beings AREsuperior.

At some point, the environ-ment will change, and the factorsthat determine superiority will

However, I will be "munificent"enough to respond to Heniy s attack onone of my racist examples...

only expressing their definitionsof racism, not absolute ones. (Seeabove quote: "Racism as I con-ceive it...")

However, 1 will be "munifi-cent" enough to respond toHenry's attack on one of myracist examples, since he did putin some original thought to comeup with it.

According to Henry, "Bakeris munificent enough to furnish uswith what he sees as an exampleof acceptable justification forracist beliefs,

'If black people weren't infe-rior, then the imperialistic white

change along with it, and we willall live on the Planet of the Apes.But until then, Man is king of thefood chain.

If Henry doesn't agree thatMan is the superior organism,then I better see him on the quadtomorrow fighting for vegetables'rights because, hey, we're allequals, and every organism's gotjust as much right to live ashumans do.

And since Henry loves to par-rot other people's ideas, I'll eventhrow in a reference here to JaredDiamond's Gun, Germs, andSteel and his argument that

.NATES

colonists wouldn't have been ableto subjugate their continent.'How absurd. Extrapolating fromthis point, one could divine anintricate hierarchy of racial supe-riority.

The light-skinned. Europeanswho subjugated dark-skinnedAfricans were at one point in theirhistory subjugated by olive-skinned Romans, [Really?Maybe I can sue them for repara-tions!]"

Anyway, I'll grant 1 seeHenry's point. Unfortunately, it'sstupid. Just because what itmeans to be superior changesover time doesn't mean that supe-riority and inferiority don't exist.

Take humans. (FYI: in thetradition of Socrates, 1 am usingan analogy. How's that, Dr.West?) Human beings are, cur-rently, considered to be the supe-rior organism on the planet.Since Henry is anything but igno-

whiteAvestem dominance of theworld is a result of environment.Telling, no?

In the end, though, I can'tdeny the ignorance reflected inmy hypothetical example of aracist argument.

My ignorance resulted fromthe fact that I had to come up witha hypothetical example to begin

ARE scholarly books about it outthere).

Otherwise, his stance ondiversity would be one-sided and,well, ignorant.

Henry also asserts that"Every attempt to define racialclassifications using biological,physiological, and genetic datahas been soundly discredited.People are simply too diverse andunique to fit within any overarch-ing framework, let alone onedependent on such superficialtraits."

So we can't put people intocategories, huh? What about col-ors?

As I look around my roomnow, I see a multitude of colorsthat might be called "white." Butwait! A closer examinationreveals that they aren't all theexact same shade! Some are oys-ter, some are hoary, some arevanilla.

So I guess we should justthrow out color categories, too,because every single exampledoesn't fall neatly into place.

On another note, Henry,oddly, is against learning throughdisquieting experience.

To quote: "Certainly theexperience of addressing and van-quishing ignorant views is educa-tional and even enriching - indeedthis is the same with much ofwhat is worst in life, but it doesnot follow that these beliefsshould be tolerated to preservethe experience of confrontingthem."

I seem to recall quite a fewstudents saying last year that for-mer President Hersh should getoff our backs and let us get puk-ing-drunk so that we could makeour own.mistakes and learn fromeach of these experiences.

Perhaps, like formerPresident Hersh, Henry shouldn'tbe attempting to force his morali-ty on other people,

When it's all said and done,though, I can't deny my confu-sion at some of Henry's argu-ment.

Consider the line: "The costof entertaining racism on ourcampus has proven thus far toinvolve great suffering for mem-bers of our community - far toohigh a price to be rationalized bytrite promises of gain throughstruggle, especially coming fromone so apparently unaffected." Idon't know about you, but thatsounded a little bit like an insultto met

What I found SO perturbingabout this is that, for all hisindebtedness to Hall, Henryseems to have forgotten some ofStewie's points.

It sounded an awful lot to melike Henry was saying that, sinceI am not a member of the"oppressed" group, my opinionson the subject don't matter, atleast not as much as those whoare "oppressed." (That doesn'tsound like a formula for creatingone-sided debates, does it?)

But I'm sure I recall Hall say-ing — why, in the context of hisGoldsmith lecture, in fact! — weshould avoid the stance that the

... we should just throw out color cat-egories, too, because every single exam-ple doesn't fall neatly into place.

with: I've never really beenexposed to a detailed racist argu-ment.

I am sure, though, that Henryhas closely examined manydetailed arguments in support ofracism (believe it or not, there

oppressed's view is somehowmore valid than the unop-pressed's if a productive dialogueis to be achieved.

Most important to a produc-tive dialogue, though, is someoriginal thinking..

Suggestions forMore DiversityCHRIS MADISON

OPINIONS WRITER

To me the problem withdiversity at Trinity does not liewithin the whitewashed skintone; to me the problem withTrinity's diversity lies with thelack of communication and inter-action between students of vari-ous backgrounds,and ethnicities.Jokingly, I suggested that forDiversity Day we should lock theentire student body within theParty Barn, throw in some alco-hol and just let everyone get

addressed to the community.I am talking about the "N"

word scribbled onto the board ofa PRIDE leader's door, and theswastika painted onto the tenniscourts.

Until this year I had not heardabout the board incident, andwere it not for a friend of mineon the tennis court I would havenever heard about the swastikagraffiti either.

One of my facilitators pointedout that had either occurred inthe 1970s, the whole campuswould be shut down for a day, and

Instead Trinity waits to fall intoabysmal standards before they make anyeffort to fix it.

together and chill.Obviously this is an over-

simplified solution, but personal-ly I think it is not too far from areasonable one. Below are somemodest suggestions for theAdministration that I'm throwingout to help the Trinity communitybecome more "diverse."

During the Sept. 16 meetings,our facilitators talked about howthe whole purpose of the day wasto foster dialogue amongst thestudents.

Let me point out that theschool itself is in a dialoguewith the students, and that everyaction of the school is a state-ment that it is making towards thestudent body. -

With this in mind, whatcould Trinity as an institutionpossibly be saying when they takeaway a Trinity Day in order toequal out the school calendar?

Sure it is up to the studentsas responsible adults to attend,but if the administration takesaway one of their coveted "daysoff" they'll only act against them.And the fact that they bribedstudents with iPods and otherprizes in order to come to thisevent doesn't help either. "Sure,diversity is important to us, butnot important enough to take afull day off. Oh, and by the wayif you open your mind for a fewhours we'll give you neat prizes."

How often do you see signslike "Peace Rally this afternoon:200th protester will receive freewidescreen TV"?

Something as important asdiversity or peace should besought after for virtue alone, not

a campus wide meeting would becalled immediately.

Instead, Trinity waits to fallinto abysmal standards beforethey make any effort to fix it. Ifeel as though this is like clean-ing out a wound after it hasalready become gangrenous.

Is it possible that our valueshave really regressed that muchsince the 1970s? Have cere-monies like the one that was heldduring Sept. 11.

I think I can speak for allwho attended that day, that we allfelt like a single communityjoined by compassion formankind.

Next time a crime of racialprejudice is committed, hold asimilar vigil; tell the campus thatTrinity is an institution that doesnot accept intolerance in any way,shape or form.

Use the idea of communityas a link to bind us together;you'll be surprised how manystudents show up without theprospect of free MP3 players.

Finally, Hersh had it in hismind that Trinity social life is abad thing; on the contrary Ithink it is one of our strengths.I'm not talking about our abilityto drink five days a week, noram I honoring those who run theberuit table for 10 games in arow.

I am suggesting that beingsocial, going out and talking topeople is in itself integration. Usethe Party Barn as a tool to bringthis already diverse campustogether to mingle.

Trinity students - we canhelp out as well, because the cold

... tell the community that you trulycare for diversity... TAKE MARTINLUTHER KING JR. DAY OEF.

free toys. Again, what message isgiven by bribing students?

Or here's a new one: if youwant to tell the community thatyou truly care for diversity let'sstart simple: TAKE MARTINLUTHER KING JR. DAY OFF.

What kind of message areyou giving by completely ignor-ing a National Holiday that cele-brates one of history's greatestadvocates for diversity and toler-ance?

Not to say that this is theonly holiday we should start cele-brating, but it's a good start.

Another question that per-turbs me is the fact that almostevery prejudice crime on campusis shuffled under the rug and not

hard fact is no matter what theadministration does to fix thingsit's all up to us.

Do notstay in your dorms/frathouses/ethnic houses; Go out andmeet people. Meet people . whoare different from yourself.

Mingle and converse, talkabout your differences and cel-ebrate them.

As Acting President BordenPainter has already pointed out,"there's a richer mix of peoplein this campus than in many ofour communities from whichwe come."

But as nice as that soundswe'll never realize it until we goout and mix-it-up with our fellowstudents.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2003 - THE TRINITY TRIPOD OPINIONS PAGE 5

Admin. Needs Glean HouseJAMES STEVENS

OPINIONS WRITER

I live in North. Some peoplemight say this very fact gives meno right to complain, but I'd liketo think that even the smallest,drunkest first-year student has theright to come back and vomit in adorm free of intolerance, and per-haps, litter.

The faculty and administra-tion are continuously going onabout the intellectual atmosphereon this campus (or lack thereof).I've heard administrators blamealcohol, poor social values andfraternities and sororities for thisproblem.

Last year, our esteemed ex-President Richard Hershinformed the Hartford communi-ty that the faculty was partly at

•fault for ail of the intellectualproblems at Trinity.

In both cases, the faculty andthe administration are ignoringone major policy that makes ithard for an intellectual communi-ty to bloom on campus.

Right now, hypotheticallyspeaking, I could urinate on anR.A.'s door and not even getkicked out of housing. I couldthen get mommy and daddy tostep in the next time I messed upand merely get transferred to anew dorm.

Now, assuming I've reallydecided that I'm the "Party Man"

disconnect between academic andresidential life at Trinity in theway the Administration handlesdaily affairs?

It seems silly to expect thestudents to bridge that gap whenpolicy is clearly geared towardskeeping repeat, serious offenders

when it makes its disciplinarydecisions.

As sad as it might sound,Trinity College, as it operatesright now, will never change thesestudents into respectful membersof the community, it's simply notset up for that purpose. Allowing

Confront bad or repulsive behaviorand chances are others will step up toconfront it with you.

in the Trinity community.Maybe I'm just bigoted.

Sure, I suppose the kid that. smashes windows, uproots plants,pees on people's doors andharasses other students could be avaluable member of a classroomenvironment.

Then again, in some Trinityclassrooms, a baboon could getaway with Cs, so I'm not sure thatsays much.

Some of the people who con-tinuously violate Office ofResidential Life policies thatdirectly harm others or deface thecommunity spaces at this collegeshould not be allowed to attendclasses if they have been kickedout of housing.

I'm sure all of theEnlightenment thinkers are shak-ing their heads and saying, "But,keeping kids in a rigorous aca-

Thc Trinity Administration needs towake up. There is no sense of commu-nity within the larger dorms.

and I do what I want, I'llproba-bly end up getting kicked out ofhousing.

But that's not a problem,because I can live on Allen Placeand I'm still enrolled in theCollege.

Doesn't this seem strange toanyone else? Why is there a huge

demic community will only teachthem good character and respectfor others."

Look, I understand giving astudent a second chance. What Ido not understand is letting whatconstitutes a hate crime slide by,or why the school continues tocave in to outside influences

these students to continue to liveas part of the Trinity communityharms the academic and livingenvironments of others.

No one should be afraid thatsomeone is going to smash theirwindow, should have to pick uptrash that others throw in front ofthe dorm, or tolerate sexism,racism and homophobia; espe-cially not in one's living space.

The Trinity Administrationneeds to wake up. There is nosense of community within thelarger dorms.

There is no sense of responsi-bility for the cleanliness and safe-ty of others.

So, I have a few of solutions:Make the entire campus pay forall vandalism when a violatorcannot be named. Connect theacademic realm to the housingone.

If someone gets kicked out ofhousing for certain offenses, sheor he should not be allowed toparticipate in the academic com-munity at Trinity. Finally,encourage the students to speakout.

Most of the students at thiscollege feel the same way I do,but most of them are also tooafraid or too lazy to do anythingabout it when they see it happen-ing.

Confront bad or repulsivebehavior and chances are otherswill step up to confront it withyou.

Non-terminal Euthanasiacontinued from page 2

These include hospitalizationand intense therapy. So, if themain difference betweeneuthanasia of the non-terminallyill and regular suicide is a matterof ability (in most cases), shouldthere be a difference in how soci-ety reacts?

Some may say that there isanother difference between

clearly not satisfied with his lifeexperience?

There are many serious rea-sons that a person could have forwanting to commit suicide, manyof which are just as permanentand hopeless as a severe disabili-ty-

Somehow, a large faction ofsociety wants to distinguishbetween a disabled person's dis-

Somehow... society wants to distin-guish between a disabled person's dis-satisfaction with life and that of others.

Vincent and your average suicidevictim: the reason for the suicide.An argument could be made thatif a person is disabled as pro-foundly as this French man was,suicide is a justifiable conse^quence. What this argumentimplies is that the quality of lifeof a person who is paralyzed,blind, and mute is so low that anyrational person would make thesame choice to die.

Certainly, these.are not idealconditions under which a personshould have to live his life, andwe definitely need to be deeplycompassionate when thinkingabout this issue.

However, I'm not sure ifVincent's reason for choosingsuicide is profoundly differentfrom anyone else's.

When a person desires to die,can we not assume that he is

satisfaction with life and that ofothers.

Maybe this distinction is notbecause of any actual difference,but rather because of the valuesociety places on a disabled indi-vidual. This is actually twoclaims. First, society fears anddevalues people with disabilities,often concentrating on the "dis"rather than "the ability".

This view of a disabled per-son means that society is very,willing to agree that a life ofsevere disability is, indeed, a lifenot worth living.

Following this line of reason-ing, any depression a disabledperson feels must be legitimate,after all "I'd want to kill myselftoo if I were paralyzed, blind, andmute." ; • • ' ' '

The second claim is that thissocietal outlook not only shapes

many people's view on this issue,but it also is the source of muchof a disabled person's depression.Whether the thought is consciousor not, at some level, a severelydisabled person with enough of acognitive ability to have thedesire to die, also understandsthat society thinks of him as"other" and rejects the meaningand value of his life to its fringes,regardless of the abilities he doeshave.

This effect is even morevicious when the person was oncein average health.

It is not necessarily true thatthese people are in a permanentstate of misery. Rather thangranting them the "right" to dieand end their suffering, why notend their suffering with the samemeans that help most people withsuicidal tendencies? Why notshow them the value of their lifeand every human life? Why notshow them that they need not bemarginalized and helpless, butcan enjoy life?

Before the English translationof Vincent Humbert's bookmakes it's way across theAtlantic, may I suggest that youread another book authored by aEuropean with a severe physicaldisability?

It's called My Left Foot, and itis the autobiography of an Irishnovelist with cerebral palsy whowrote it and several novels andcollections of poetry with theonly part of his body he couldcontrol.

Editor's NotebookGround Zero Raises Question of Censorship

I would like to commend thestudents responsible for puttingtogether Ground Zero and distrib-uting it among student and facul-ty members over the last severaldays. I believe that publicationsencouraging the student voice arean asset to college campuses andI commend them for taking onthe task of creating a new forumthrough which students can voicetheir opinions.

However, as Editor-in-Chiefof the Tripod I am troubled byone of the reasons cited as acause for the creation of "GroundZero."

In the article entitled "WhyGround Zero?" the authors stateas one of the main reasons for thepublication, "We realized we hadall these ideas and opinions aboutTrinity but no way to tell people

administrator.The content of the Tripod is

approved by neither the adminis-tration nor anyone else beforepublication. The Editor-in-Chiefis ultimately makes the decisionsabout the paper's content.

Any censorship that doesoccur in the Tripod is done by on-staff editors. Although the editorstry to keep the content of theTripod as true to the student voiceas possible, they will edit articleswhen they see fit.

Instances of unnecessary vul-garity, defamation of character,attacks on specific individualsand false information or represen-tation of facts would merit cen-sorship.

The Tripod strives to provideaccurate, informative, provoca-tive and entertaining content as

... the Tripod is not in any way editedor otherwise influenced by a "higherpower..."

about them. We figured theTripod wasn't the best avenue.We felt that if we were to write inthe Tripod about how we feltabout these types of issues, wewould have to censor ourselves."

In relation to this statementand other rumors circulatingaround campus like it, I want todispel the rumors about Tripodcensorship.

The Tripod is a publicationput together by students for theTrinity community comprised ofstudents, faculty, staff, adminis-tration, parents, alumni and oth-ers. The Tripod'is rax by-a staffof editors who are overseen bythe Managing Editor and Editor-in-Chief.

I would like to make clear tothe creators of Ground Zero andthe general Trinity populationthat the Tripod is not in any wayedited or otherwise influenced bya "higher power" such as an

effectively as is possible giventhe nature of the paper: a weeklywith limited funds and a part-timestaff.

A quick glance at the Opinionsection demonstrates our commit-ment to functioning as a forumfor all viewpoints held by mem-bers of the Trinity community,whether they be wildly popular orwidely scorned.

We are not an organizationthat shies away from criticism:the location of our office, ourcontact information and thenames of all our staff membersare prominently displayed eachweek. Those with questions,comments or other forms of inputcan use a multitude of avenues toexpress themselves to the paperand/or the rest of the Trinity com-munity.

Edna Guerrasio '05Editor-in-Chief

The Importanceof Voting is Clear

continued from page 3there's somebody you can talk to- a Professor, another student, arelative - who can tell you howthey voted and why. Surely youcan go to whitehouse.gov ormoveon.org and find out what thetwo sides are saying.

Surely you can take AmericanHistory or American NationalGovernment or any number ofPolitical theory courses. Surelyyou can easily pick up a copy ofJohn Stuart Mill or Karl Marx.After all, they're in the library.It's free.

I'll end with an example ofhow organized activism can workon a national level. Earlier this

showed low voter trust. A by-election was called, to till the seatof the deceased MP.

Voters organized to encour-age Labour supporters to switchtheir vote, and others encouragedLabour voters to protest by stay-ing at home. It worked. A minorthird party candidate, SarahTeather, won the seat, and in hervictory speech addressed thePrime Minister, saying, "I hopeyou are listening."

Organized groups of citizenstook control of an election, andmade the head of government situp and take notice.

This election was aboutshowing who was in charge,

Organized groups took control of anelection, and made the head of govern-ment sit-up and take notice.

year, a British Member ofParliament died, a member of theLabour Party, the party currentlyin power.

He'd won his seat with a hugemajority; it was consideredamong the safest Labour seats inthe country. But the governmenthas not been doing well recently,what with the war and the intelli-gence crisis surrounding it.

Focus groups and polls

about giving the men with thetitles a good scare.

The vote is not just used fortearing down and putting upadministrations, but as a tacticalweapon for voicing discontent,approval, confidence, satisfac-tion, or a warning.

Sarah Teather is only twenty-nine years old. And it seems thatthe people in power are starting tolisten.

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Underground Coffeehouse FloodsDue to torrential rains Sunday, the Underground

Coffeehouse was not open for business. The cafe, locaLed inthe basement of Mather Hall and connected to Cook dormi-tory, flooded, soaking the couches and causing a puddle ofstanding water by the front door. Campus Safety decidedthat it was unsafe to open.

Presidential SearchCommittee Picked

The Trustee, Faculty and Student members of thePresidential Search Committee have all been announced, Seepage 8 for their names.

Purse Snatched Near AdmissionsAt 9:40 p.m. a Trinity College student had her purse

snatched by the Admissions Building, She was approachedby two men, one of whom grabbed her purse. Then the menfled toward Zion St> pursued by Campus Safety and HartfordPolice Department. The suspects'were not caught.

Tufts Student Arrested forAttempted Robbery

• A group of Tufts University students attempted to removethe Trinity College sign .from the press box by the fopttJaUfieid. Most of the group fled on foot, but one student wasapprehended and aitested. He was sent to Community Court.

Hartford Residents Arrestedfor Trespassing

Pour Hartford residertfs broke into the press box by thefootball field. They allegedly planned to srooke marijuana.They were arrested for trespassing.'- ' - • . •

First Floor Robberies AboundDue to Open Windows

A Playstation video system, and several of Playstationgames were stolen from a first floor dorm room in Goodwin.The suspects gained access to the dorm through an Open win-dow.

Three non-Trinity College students were seen reachingthrough an open dorm room window on the first floor ofJarvis and taking a magazine from the room. They werestopped by Campus Safety on Vernon Street and placed underarrest for 1st Degree Criminal Trespassing.

Trinity College Banner MissingBetween 5:45 p.m. on Sept, 11 and 10:45 a.m. on Sept. 12

a 45 foot Trinity College sign was stolen from the 2nd floorof Mather Hall. The theft was reported to TCCS by TCAC.

Media Equipment Stolen fromthe L1TC

A DVD Player and a VCR were stolen from Group MediaRoom 113. The items were removed from an audio-visualcart by unknown suspects.

Campus Safely mainlauw u daily log oj sevurily incidents reported to lite department.Anyone may view rite log by viming Campus Safety at 76 Vernon St 24 haw a <l»y, seventluys u week.

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Curric. Review IdentifiesModels of ImprovementJORGE AMARAL

NEWS WRITER

The Curricular Review will move tothe next phase this year when the proposalscreated this summer are submitted to thefaculty for discussion.

Just after Commencement and the

its findings.The proposals of the STF, along with

the July Committee's report on costs, willbe distributed to the entire faculty. Of spe-cial importance will be the distribution tothe standing committees of the faculty. Itwill be the responsibility of these commit-tees to bring the proposals to the faculty for

"... I think we're moving forward at a steady pace,fast enough to gain momentum..."

- Professor Sheila Fisher

close of another academic year last May,the faculty went on a three day retreatfocusing on the curriculum review, whichbegan during the spring term of 2002.

The initial Curricular ReviewCommittee, officially formed March 27,2002, had created a variety of recommen-dations and three models with movablecomponents on how to improve the cur-riculum.

The faculty's retreat in May continuedthis progress and resulted in requests fromthe faculty for work to be done in five spe-cific areas, including: a revamped first yearprogram, an enhanced science requirement,a second language requirement, a review ofthe current distribution requirements, and acloser look at issues of diversity and dis-crimination.

The original idea for Pride andPrejudice Day emerged out of this retreat.In response to these requests, the SummerTask Force was created to issue severalcurricular and co-curricular proposals. TheSTF divided into five sub-committees and

discussion.At this point, the proposals are nothing

more than possibilities. Only after the fac-ulty discusses and votes on them will therebe any chance of the recommendationsbeing put into practice. As KatharinePower, Associate Academic Dean, says, it'snot like something that happens today is

July Committee:Faculty Members

ADAM J. GROSSBGRG

THOMAS M. MITZGLROBCRTV. PR1GOD1CH

DAVID A. RCUMAN

suddenly going to change all the require-ments tomorrow.

However, this is "not to say that theprocess is in any way stalled or stagnating.In fact, as Power states, if things are pro-gressing but not in public view, people just

"[T am] extremely pleased trie faculty is looking athow they can bring considerations of diversity intothe curriculum." - Dean Karla Spurlock-Evans

completed their work when all five reportswere submitted in early July.

After the submission of the reports theJuly Committee was formed to assess thecosts of implementing the subcommitteeproposals and compiled a report based on

assume nothing is happening.She asserts that curricular review

"can't be hurried," but is confident in stat-ing that it is moving at a "deliberate pace."

Sheila Fisher, Associate Professor ofsee CURRICULUM on page 8

Chapel Construction WillBe Completed on Budget

SARAH SPIEGELNEWS WRITER

The construction on the chapel will becompleted on time and on budget, thoughan exact date of completion is not beingnamed.

Since the fall of 2002, Trinity students

have become accustomed to the scaffoldings u r r o u n d i n S t h e campus' highest buildingas well as the grinding construction soundsthat can be heard anywhere on the LongWalk.

The chapel, built in 1931 by the samearchitect that designed the National

see CHAPEL on page 8

Chapel construction remains on schedule.JONATHAN CHESNCY

SEPTEMBER 30, 2003 - THE TRINITY TRIPOD NEWS PAGE 7

>ads Still Individual ResponsibilityStudents' Anonymity Online Protected Until Point of Legal Intervention for Pilfering Copyrighted Music

continued from page 1will promptly comply with theterms of a warrant if that situationpresents itself.

Adams said students are"responsible for what they do."However, names will not bereleased to anyone without propercredentials, because "we owe [thestudents] more than that," Adamsexplained.

The SecretService and locallaw enforcementdo come to cam-pus "a few timesa year." lookingfor certain stu-dents, Adamssaid, but it is notpublic informa-tion at that point.

The networkregulations formalso refers to pastaction from theRIAA thatinvolved Trinitystudents.

provider must aid and notobstruct the process to get a copy-right infringer's identity. Yet theRIAA's lawyers and an ISP mayhave different opinions onwhether or not those conditionshave been met. That discrepancyof interpretation may have to betaken to the courts to be resolved.

Jack Babbit, UConn's manag-

Network GuidelinesUse of the networks' must:l»:Be consistent veith the purposes of the networks.

2. Not interfere with the -work of other users of the net-works,

3. Avoid wasting campus computing resources.

A. Be consistent with applicable state and federal law.

5, Be consistent with all other regulations set forth inthe Trinity College Handbook.

"On several occasions in thepast, Trinity College was official-ly contacted by lawyers from theRecording Industry Associationof America when such copies [ofcopyrighted digital music files]

er of network engineering, citedliability to The Hartford Courantas the motivation behind theUniversity's policy change, "Ifwe did not do it, we might beliable for further legal action."

"Trinity has been ... very concernedabout leaving your rights... alone."

- Bryan Adams, Network Admin.

were traced to our campus," stat-ed Adams.

"[The administration] mustbridge the fine line between obey-ing the law and protectinganonymity," from within theTrinity community and outside,Adams stated. Basically, youranonymity is protected to thepoint of requiring authorized per-sonnel to ask for it, Adams sum-marized.

Liability is the only foresee-able issue that may force theCollege to alter its policy. If theRIAA's lawyers determine it ismore profitable and effective totarget specific colleges and uni-versities for not actively prevent-ing copyright infringement thanfile sharers, Adams says they willhave to change despite theirdesire not to.

Title II of the DigitalMillennium Copyright Act of1998 does limit liability forInternet Service Providers, whichmost colleges can be included in,under certain conditions. One ofthese provisions is that the service

This is in response to recentefforts from the RIAA to crackdown on distributing music fileson peer-to-peer (P2P) networksthat they claim are responsible forthe past four years of decliningrecord sales - revenues are down14 percent from 1999.

As of now, the RIAA is onlytargeting its civil lawsuits at vio-lators of the Digital MillenniumCopyright Act who have folders

"We realized the students weredoing something illegal, but theywere also using up a lot of ourbandwidth," he told the Courant.

The University of Hartford'spolicies are more consistent withTrinity than with UConn andWesleyan. According to theCourant, the University ofHartford does not want to restrict

" a c a d e m i cfreedom" byblocking anysites on theInternet. Yetstudents wereencouraged toattend a recentforum on thelegal dangers offile swapping.

A d a m sclaims that pro-hibiting stu-dents fromdownloadingcopyrightedmaterial wouldbe hard to do,

and that people could find waysaround it. Overall, it would beexpensive and not necessarilyeffective.

However, last year they didmake it more difficult to sharefiles outside of the network byshaping traffic so extras - likeP2P - take a smaller percentageof the 45 megabits of Internetaccess available. This adjustmentwould probably not have anybearing on potential lawsuitsagainst Trinity students, however,Adams clarified. It is only slight-ly less likely that an outsiderwould download from someoneon the network.

As it is, colleges have thefastest networks around, andTrinity has one of the quickestcollege networks.

When large numbers of stu-dents share files the networkslows down significantly. Adams

"It's hard to do any kind of data trans-fer now. It's been very inconvenient."- UConn student Jeffrey Stephenson '05

on their hard drives of music filesavailable to the public. AlthoughAdams also points out that theRIAA is cataloguing usernamesof downloaders as well as filesharers.

Wesleyan spokesman DavidPesci referred to both the law andpracticality as why the universityblocked access to P2P networks.

stated that as many as 60 percentof students have been active onthe Internet serving files to P2Pfile sharing applications at onetime.

To combat this epidemic andmeet the needs of students, therecording industry and onlinemusic retailers are in discussionswith various schools, Trinity

October 21Charles MacCormack and Larry Minear - "EthicalDilemmas for Humanitarian Operations in ConflictZones"

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November 13Peter W. Galbraith - "The Intersection of HumanRights and Ethics with U.S. Foreign Policy Making"

December 8International Human Rights Day- Organized by

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2003 Fall Lecture Series

included, about providing stu-dents legal alternatives to digitalmusic for a fee. Adams says thereare proposals out there, but theyare not that great yet.

Because the publishers con-trol what goes into pay services,

effective the network hasbecome. "The network's per-formance has greatly improvedand is more efficient at servingeveryone's needs.

This is a different sentimentthan what exists at other schools.

"I see no real reason why peopleshould still be downloading songs offKazaa." - Chet Gunha '05

smaller artists students may beinterested in would probably notbe included.

"The college is interested infinding a way to give you theentertainment you desire in a safeway," Adams commented, but heis not sure if cur-rent products areworth it yet.

Chet Cunha'05 agrees withthe policies, yetsaid, "I see noreal reason whypeople shouldstill be download-ing songs offKazaa when thereare reputablealternatives outthere."

Ryan Brodeur'05 said he likedthe College'sreluctance to

Fast Facts-—- OVER 60 MILLION

AMERICANS USE FILE

SHARING SOFTWARE

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BEEN ISSUED BY THE

RIAA TO ISPS FOR CUS-

TOMER INFORMATION

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INFRINGEMENT SUSPECTS

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THAN 2 3 0 MILLION TIMES

UConn student JeffreyStephenson '05 says that since theimplementation of the new poli-cies, "It's hard to do any kind ofdata transfer now. It's been veryinconvenient."

While network policies maybe interferingwith efficiency,students stillfind ways to cir-cumvent ther e g u l a t i o n s .Sources atWesleyan saythat governmentofficials calledthe Universityabout a largenumber of stu-dents sharingmovies on thecampus net-work. Theschool was toldto intervene and

monitor the network for down-loading, because "It is ourresponsibility. I think policingsucks, and the RIAA sucks evenmore,"

Cunha also appreciates how

end the illegal behavior.As of Monday, the recording

industry announced that 52 of the261 lawsuits launched againstalleged file-sharers have been set-tled out of court.

Residential SearchCommittee

Thomas R. DiBenedetto '71MarkA.Leavitt'SoMitchell M. Merin '75Charles It Perrin 67Mary-Margaret Vottdouris Preston '79Margaret JV Young'76Paul E. Raether %&> Chairman of Committee

DinaAnselmi,Associate Professor of Psychology

Daniel Blackburn,Professor of Biology

Joan Hedriek,Charles A. Dana Professor of History

Ralph Morelli,Associate Professor of Computer Science

GailWoldti,Associate Professor of Music

James Nadzieja '04"I am looking forward to this great

opportunity to serve the College and leave alasting mark on Trinity."Lydia Potter '05

"I realize this is a significant point inthe College's history and I am ready to takeon the challenge of helping to find someonewho will work well with the students, facultyand administration."

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SGA CommitteeElection Results

FACULTY COMMITTEES

Admissions and Financial Aid:Andrew Aydin '06. Timothy RijTin '04

Curriculum:Courtney Howard '07, Emily Cooperman '07,

Lydifi Potter '05

Financial Affairs:

Paul Braestrup '06, Natalce Elhart '07

General Education Council:Jennifer Lincoln '06, Stefanic Lopez-Boy '05,

Paul Caideron '07

Library Advisory:Daniel Atwood '04, Elitsa Dancva "04

Campus Safety Advisory Board:Andrew Aydin "06, Paul Braestrup '06, Hugh Livengood

'07. Robert Lynch '06, Grace Kim '05, Jennifer Lincoln '06

•Parking Appeals Board:Harnza Ch.auda.ry '06

Wellness:Emily Cooperman '07

Information-Technology and Education:Andrew Schurr '04

Academic Dishonesty Appeals Board:Ginger Whitaker '06, Brendan XfcGowan '06

Academic Dishottesty Alternates:Mike Lenihan "07, Emily Cooperman '07

Academic Affairs:Will Servos '06, Evan Norris '06, Mike Lenehan '07

College Affairs:Anthony Ribadeneira '04, Hugh Livengood '07, Warren

Redick (IDP), Elitsa Daneva '04

TRUSTEE COMMITTEESAcademic Affairs:

Elliot Kadar '04

Student Affairs:Jennifer Lincoln ;06, Lydia Potter "05,

Alexander Gordon '05

Physical Plant:Frederick Schramm '06

Advancement:Andrew Aydin '06, Stefanie Lopez-Boy '05

INTERNAL COMMITTEE CHAHLS

Academic Affairs:Elliot Kadar '04

Student Life:Elitsa Daneva '04

Elections, Recruitment and Communications:Paul Braesirup '06

Community Development;Jennifer Lincoln '06

Curriculum Review on Its WayReview is Proceeding at 'Deliberate Pace' According to Power

continued from page 6English who served on the STF,agrees. "Curricular review isnever fast, and it's never easy.Indeed, it's not unusual forschools to get mired in theprocess for half a decade," shesaid. She continued, "In compar-ison, I think we're moving for-ward at a steady pace, fast enoughto gather momentum but not sofast as to overlook the manyimportant issues involved in thisundertaking."

Although the process is mov-ing forward and no changes havebeen made yet, opinions amongthe Trinity community arealready being formed.

"[I am] extremely pleased thefaculty is looking at how they canbring considerations of diversityinto the curriculum,." said KarlaSpurlock-Evans, Dean ofMulticultural Affairs

She went on to note theimportance of "looking at differ-ent arrangements to make it pos-sible for students to be betterinformed, and to dialogue aboutissues of diversity both as theyplay out here in the United Statesand in our interactions with peo-ple from abroad."

Sarah Ward '04, agrees, say-ing that "in light of the recentPride and Prejudice Day, it is par-

curriculum. "Diversity is asessential to an education as math

available seats on some of thecommittees, although no one

"Curricular review is never fast, andit's never easy."

- Sheila Fisher

or science," she states. She doeshowever criticize the fact that stu-dents seem to have no place in the

from SGA has contacted her.Other students, like Jonathan

Morales '07, are uneasy about the

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process, and changes appear to bemade "without really consulting"

"I think having more distributionrequirements might be too confining."

- Jonathan Morales 07

ticularly important" that there areplans to include diversity in the

t h e s t u d e n t b o d y . •,••• : ,Power says that there are

possible prospect of revised dis-tribution requirements.

"1 think having more distribu-tion requirements might be tooconfining. I like the requirementsthat we have now," he explains.

Copies of the forthcomingreport will be available in Den ofFaculty, W. Miller Brown's officein Williams Memorial after it isdistributed to the faculty.

Chapel Nears Its Completioncontinued from page 6

Cathedral in Washington, D.C., ishome to a large portion of reli-gious life on campus. The usuallypeaceful atmosphere of the chapelhas been disturbed by the bangingof hammers on the exterior walls,which begs the question, "Whenwill this be finished?"

The answer to the question,is, "On schedule." The estimatemade last fall that the reconstruc-tion would take about eighteenmonths has been adhered toaccording to Vice President ofFinance Michael West.

West also said that the budgetis completely on target. The orig-inal $5 million estimate stillremains accurate. $1.2 million ofthat $5 million was contributedby a Trinity student's family.

"In 1999 the college engagedAnthony Segreti, the Architect onstaff at the National Cathedral in

Washington, D.C., as a knowl-edgeable specialist on ourchapel," said Director ofFacilities Management JohnWoolley.

The damages to the beautifulgothic building included deterio-ration of the roof and stonework,as well as water damage to theinterior. The stones on the exteri-or were cracked as well, causingdamage to spread to a other por-tion of limestone. These crackshave caused hollowing in someareas, which is dangerous for thestructure of the Chapel.

The College hired ErnestPeterson Roofing of Hartford tomake repairs to the roofs andContinental Services of Tolland,Conn, to repair the stained glassand regular windows. Stone isbeing replaced by both new pan-els and carvings that substitute forthe decorative stone. Trinity stu-

dents can look forward to a com-pleted chapel by this summer.

The Chapel construction hasaffected the lives of many stu-dents who are involved withchapel programs.

The oldest group on campus,the Chapel Singers, have weeklypractice in the building, but areinterrupted by the noise. "When Iam singing in the chapel and thereis a jackhammer going off overmy head it can be hard to hearmyself and those around me,"Cara Bertini, '05, commented.

The construction also affectsher job as a tour guide. "It can beembarrassing to apologize toprospective students and theirparents for the noise," Bertinisaid. With the scaffolding off thetower and "the awning of deathgone from over the entrance ofthe chapel" she is positive aboutthe progress, however.

ALEXANDER GORDON

During construction on the tower.JONATHAN CHANCY

After construction on the tower.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2003 - THE TRINITY TRIPOD NEWS PAGE 9

AASA Meeting Identifies Issues From Dialogue DayMELISSA KOTULSKI

NEWS WRITER

The attendees of a weeklyAASA meeting grappled with thechallenges of actively overcom-ing self-segregation and encour-aging students to look beyond dif-ferences in background.

The AASA House; located on

During the round of memberstatements about Dialogue Day,Tico Marambio-Navarro '04 stat-ed that his Sept. 16 group focusedmore on classism than racism.

Marambio-Navarro, a studentfrom Chile, became interested inAASA because he had an interestin the culture, namely theJapanese language. Since he was

'Whatever faculty complain aboutwithin students is worse among them-selves." -Dr . Alcorn

Vernon Street, is designated forthe student organization whosename embodies a multicultural,multinational, multiethnic label:Asian American StudentAssociation.

The President of AASA,Priya Kalyan-Masih '05, took themajority of the Sept. 19 meeting'stime to focus on Dialogue Day,the one-day diversity conferenceof roughly 1500 students, faculty,and administration that took placeSept. 16.

This topic took just over anhour to discuss, and time con-straints did not permit all of the34 attendants, of various ethnicbackgrounds, to speak.

Filling the living room atAASA House, this ethnicallydiverse group did not focus onrace as the central topic. The stu-dents had come to continue theconversations initiated byDialogue Day and to formulate aplan for the next step in makingTrinity a more welcoming cam-pus to minority students. •

a freshman, Navarro has beeninvolved with AASA because thegroup made him feel comfortable,without focusing on what back-ground he came from, heexplained.

According to AASA's web-site, its purpose is to promote"Asian and Asian American cul-tures in [an] attempt to under-stand issues concerning theAsian/Asian-American identityand its place in both Americanand global societies. These goalsare achieved through educationaland social programming providedby the organization in addition toresources available from the col-lege."

AASA tries to break awayfrom a stigma that is attached tothe fraternity parties and offer asocial setting for students who donot want to partake in drinking.

Excessive alcohol abuse is anissue that prevents some AASAmembers from reaching out tofrats. As Marambio-Navarrostates, "We don't sell alcohol at

AASA parties, we do not needalcohol for parties to be success-ful."

Mosammat Fatema, '06, aninternational student fromBangaledesh said, "I have neverseen such a culture. And that wasto me a cultural shock ... A lot ofpeople at Trinity were bingedrinking and acting wild."

There is a tension about thealcohol issue. In order to plan fora successful upcoming event cen-tered on the issue of diversity,Marambio-Navarro stated that theorganizations promoting differentethnic backgrounds and the fra-ternities have to "find a middleground."

The Executive Board ofAASA did not want to be miscon-strued as the only group organiz-ing another event that aims tobridge the gaps. "It's not justAASA." Gulati stated.

A sometime member ofAASA, as well as two other cul-tural houses, Fatema said,"Students could argue that thewhite students were segregatingthemselves. This is where theburden comes from. Why was it

The AASA House sponsorscare," she said.

Gulati continued,"the segre-gation on campus is viewed as theminority students' fault, as self-segregation."

Later that week, Gulatiadded, "There is a lack of com-munication on both sides. In gen-eral, white students are not reach-ing out to us, and we don't go outof our way to talk to them. Thereis self-segregation on both sides."

Of the students who spoke atthe Sept. 19 meeting at AASA,Cyriac George '04, stated, "Thereis no overt racism, the problem ismore subtle."

... the problem is more subtle."- Cyriac George'04

the responsibility that the burdenwas placed on the minority stu-dents that they were self-segre-gating themselves?"

Shikha Gulati '04, VicePresident of AASA, spoke aboutwhat she called the culture ofintolerance vs. the culture ofindifference, "People don't really

Central to his comments wasthat the fundamental problem ofTrinity being an environment thatis more receptive to white stu-dents than any other group, Thecultivation of a primarily white-welcoming atmosphere might beexpected in a community so heav-ily dominated by Caucasians.

JONATHAN CH£SN£Y

alternatives to Greek life.

At Trinity, 75 percent of thepopulation is white, while six per-cent are Asian American.

Dialogue Day began with afilm made from a meeting thattook place last spring in theUmoja House.

A particularly potent momentin the film occurred when NaoganMa, a lecturer in the Chinesedepartment, stood up and spokeof the difficulties that come fromliving day to day as a minorityfaculty.

At the AASA meeting, Dr.Alcorn paraphrased a colleague'sstatement that he called "Skully'sLaw" and said, "Whatever facultycomplain about within students isworse among themselves." Somestudents did not feel that the filmwas as provocative as it shouldhave been. One senior stated thatit didn't live up to hype he wastold to expect.

AASA's Sept. 19 meetingconcluded with the question"What are we going to do aboutit?" posed by George Heanswered this himself, saying,"Get out there and interact."

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Alcohol Now On Sale LongerConn. Blue Laws Relaxed Allowing Alcohol Sales Until 9 p.m.KATIE CHABALKO

NEWS WRITER

Connecticut has been knownas the Blue Law state since thefirst government of a New Havenplantation imposed a set of strictlaws meant to impose morality.However, the existing laws are

ing trend, as Delaware,Pennsylvania, and Oregon haveall decided to allow Sunday sales,

Connecticut may slowly befollowing suit. In mid-August ofthis year, state legislators voted toretax the restrictions on alcoholsales slightly, extending the 8p.m. curfew one hour to 9 p.m.,

The extra hour hasn't made much ofa difference... But 9 o'clock soundsmore reasonable." - Jcnn Bayard '06

being relaxed as the sale of alco-hol is now permitted until 9 p.m.,Monday through Saturday,extending the lime one hour fromthe old laws.

These old regulations werelargely connected to the Church,including voting rights for non-members, and proper behavior onSundays.. Of the many "blue laws"

enacted, many restrictions con-cerning the sale of alcohol stillremain intact today. ManyTrinity students from out-of-statewere surprised to hear that theycannot purchase alcohol after 8p.m. (before the change), or at allon Sundays.

In areas of Conn, closer to theNew York border, local liquorstores are losing business acrossthe state line, as New York recent-ly abolished a similar law ban-ning the sale of alcohol onSundays. This is part of a grow-

while Sunday sales are still pro-hibited.

The curfew was originallyimposed to discourage crimerelated to the purchase of alcoholafter dark, and specifically aseries of killings 40 years ago tar-geting' package stores in theselater hours.

Most Trinity students, how-ever, are not experiencing anygreat effect from this law change.

Many of the local liquorstores are keeping their 8 p.m.closing time, such as the Trinityand Arrow package stores onNew Britain Ave.

The H&L Package Store, onZion Street has decided to extendits closing time to 9 p.m., but theowner noted that they have notexperienced more business, just"the same people coming an hourlater."

Trinity students are used toplanning ahead, at least when it

comes to buying liquor. Moststudents prefer to buy earlier inthe day when it is more conven-ient and "less sketchy."

One senior commented that itwould probably take time for stu-dents to get used to which storeshad extended their hours beforethere would be a noticeableeffect.

Since most local packagestores have not extended theirhours, most students seem to betaking the "better safe than sorry"approach, by not relying on theextended hour for their alcoholpurchase.

The extension has come as apleasant surprise for some who,like one junior, "didn't realizeuntil it 8:30 p.m. that the stockwas low" and was able to make alate run.

While the lengthened periodfor liquor sales by an hour has nothad a profound effect on the livesof most Trinity students, it is pos-sible that it is the beginning offurther changes, such as the endof the ban on Sunday sales.

"That allows for one morehour of drinking while still hav-ing the option of returning to theliquor store for more supplies.Drink it all by 8 p.m. and then goback for more, sounds like a planto me," according to JenO'Donnell '06.

"The extra hour hasn't mademuch of a difference, I didn'tknow they changed anyway. But9 o'clock sounds more reason-able," said Jenn Bayard '06.

Hartford SponsorsSuccessful ParadeEILEEN FLYNN

NEWS EDITORTrinity students were given

the option of participating in the10th Annual African AmericanParade this past Saturday, Sept.27, though none chose to takepart. Jeffrey Coleman, '01, grad-uate assistant of multiculturalaffairs, was in charge of organiz-ing Trinity students participationin the parade.

The Delaware StateUniversity marching band, "TheApproaching Storm" was a high-light for the parade. The celebra-tion of the marching band and the

events and began to charge for itsservices. This year, the paradeorganizers were able to raiseenough money to overcome thiscost and proceed with the event.

The gathering after the paradein Kenny Park was appreciated byall who attended. There werefood booths and other programsat the gathering, such as theHartford Hospital CommunityHealth Education Bus, a stationwhich provided health informa-tion for the attendees.

Supporters of Howard Dean,a Democratic presidential candi-date, were present, staffing a table

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"The Approaching Storm" performs in the parade.

music played throughout thestreets was used to focus attentionon the need for music classes inpublic schools.

The parade returned afterbeing nixed last year due to mon-etary problems. The city changedits policy concerning public

at the gathering. The show ofcommunity support was appreci-ated by organizers and Hartfordresidents.. The parade began inBushnell Park and traveled upMain St. to Albany Ave., turningonto Woodland Street, ending in acelebration in Kenny Park.

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Trinfo Bridges 'Digital Divide5

Internet Cafe Helps to Bring College and Neighborhood Together

ABI MOLDOVCR

Students use the cafe's facilities.

continued from page I"Some of the older executive

directors of these organizationswere more complacent with thestatus quo than the younger ones,who realized technology wastheir future," commentedEspinosa.

With this in mind, the pro-gram set out to sway the youngerexecutive directors and teachthem about technology in order toprovide a trickle-down effect tothe rest of the organization.

'The Trinfo Cafe is the brickand mortar of the SmartNeighborhood Project" Espinosasaid of the building now locatedat 1300 Broad St.

Over 1,800 individuals from

the community have browsed theWeb in its labs. Some of themhave taken repeat workshops andthe average user.comes back atleast five and a half times.

"Like with anything, there are

institute a half-hour per user poli-cy.

The cafe not only providesthe students from the LearningCorridor with self-serve coffee,hot chocolate, and tea, but alsooffers a cozy seating area withprimary-colored comfy couchesand various newspapers. Theambience has none of the tracesof a typical starkly fluorescent-litcomputer lab where computersare lined in rows, but rather ahomey atmosphere that lendsitself to chatting and surfing the'Net. The Compaq computersare among the most ergonomicand newest models on the market.

Even computers that areobsolete or broken are put to use;the basement contains a recyclingcenter where old computersTrinity has donated are used asguinea pigs for students partici-pating in the "ComputerApprenticeship TrainingProgram."

The apprenticeship programis a two-part program that teachesselect high school kids how torepair computer hardware and toadminister a computer network.

"The staffing adds a unique perspec-tive on the community."

- Carlos Espinosa'96

ebbs and flows," Espinosa says.However, from 2:30 to 4:30

p.m. Monday through Friday the,steady flow of criijdjren~jroiri":theif:Learning Corridor is so over-whelming the caf6 has had to

Ten

Places to Hook Upin the library

10. In the old elevator -has too much traffic.

the new one

9. Any of the bathrooms on Level 3.

8. The Media Center "Production"rooms.

7. In the corner of the periodicals, some-where between Cultural Anthropologyand 18th Century Studies.

6. The Boardman Alcove.

5. The Engelhard Reading Room.

4. Group Study - if you're into that.

3. On the copy machine, whiie it's run-ning. Oh, the heat.

2. The Slutsky Alcove.

1. The Head Fireplace Lounge.

Some machines that are still func-tioning are given away.

"To date, we have given outyatojir 120 c|mpujtefs to; familiesin the neighborhood," saidEspinosa.

The apprenticeship programnot only benefits the students andcommunity members, but alsoprovides an opportunity forTrinity students to build relation-ships with the community sincethey can serve; as mentors andteaching assistants to the program.

"In the future, we hope to cre-ate greater opportunities forinternships, independent studies,and class projects [for Trinity stu-dents]," noted Espinosa.

Among other programs, theTrinfo Cafe offers members of thecommunity computer workshopsin English and Spanish.

"The reality of this communi-ty," said Espinosa "is that it isworking class, so having the flex-ibility to put on programming inthe early morning, afternoon, andevening is key to coordinatingwith people's schedules."

Flexibility of programming ispossible because the staff is com-prised mostly of Trinity students.In the past, Trinity students havehelped develop new curricula,teach workshops in both Englishand Spanish, and translateEnglish curricula into Spanish.

Now that the cafe is wellestablished and the programshave plenty of momentum, it hasbegun to consider how to makethe services it provides profitablein order to recover some of thestart-up capital used to get thecafe up and running.

To do so, the cafe is takingsome of its operations, such ascertain tech support and stafftraining programs, and turningportions of these into paid con-sulting services.

The directors, includingEspinosa, are looking to three

see CAFE on page 13

Around TrinityAside from the riot that AT had to brave inorder to get into Tropical, it wasn't a badweekend for AT. AT would just like to saythank you, Trinity. You get more ridiculousevery day.

Sinking to New Lows.While AT was in Elton on Thursday night, afreshman created a scene when he tried toescape from Campus Safety by jumping out ofhis window. Shortly thereafter AT heardambulances approaching, and was worriedabout the welfare of the jumper until findingout that it was a first floor window. Canomeone get written up for stupidity?

Portable Quarters.On Friday night some frat brothers provedthat they'll party anywhere, anytime. ATcaught them carrying a table around campusand playing Quarters whenever and whereverthe urge came upon them. Bring the table byAT's room next time, okay?

Viciously Puking.Someone hopefully learned her limits onSaturday night, when two stalls of the secondfloor Jackson bathroom took a beating. Allevidence had been removed by Sunday morn-ing, though, so either Buildings and Groundstook care of the mess, or the perpetrator felt-repentant enough to clean it up. AT wants togive a shout out to B & G — thank you!

Quite a Bang.On Friday night a group of students outside ofJackson were disturbed by a firecrackerthrown from a window. A resident of Jacksonwent outside to investigate the bang and was <mistaken for the criminal. The accusing groupchased her to her room, where they insisted onsearching the premises. They left, satisfied, whenall they found was her own inflatable "Cock."

The Proper Use of Bathrooms.AT was a little belligerent on Saturday night.While waiting to use the bathroom at Crow, afreshman girl, who had already taken herturn, pulled the next guy in line into the bath-room with her. AT responded by banging onthe door and yelling, "Bathrooms are for pee-ing, not for making out!" The pair eventuallyemerged, claiming that they "weren't makingout." AT hopes that they weren't peeingeither. Gross.

Is Breaking and Entering Sacreligious?On Friday afternoon, two students who weresupposed to cook dinner for the Newman Clubrealized that their cards didn't work in the doorof the Interfaith House. Desperate, they founda window and stood on garbage cans until theyhad worked it open and crawled in. There'something to talk about in confession.

Pledges Have Dirty Minds.While staying in on Friday night, AT heardinging coming from a nearby window in

Wheaton. While the tune was "Build Me UpButtercup," the words were not as clean-cut.AT can get pretty raunchy, but AT was appalledat some of the things coming out of these girls'mouths. "Build Me Up Buttercup" will never,ever be the same.

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Praxis Reveals Surprising Facts About HartfordSurvey Shows that Student Knowledge of the History and Culture of the City Falls Disappointingly Short

•• less than 10 nercent of the school partici- to Afehanistani, Hartford has a multitude

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NATE WIESSNERFEATURES WRITER

Praxis, the community service residen-cy program on campus, conducted aRediscover Hartford Survey on Tuesday,Wednesday and Thursday of this past

Granted this survey was not conductedunder the most scientifically stringent cir-cumstances but Praxis stills feels as thoughthe results were typical of the general stu-dent population. Overall, the medianscore on the quiz was a 62, pretty pitiful ifyou ask me, a grade that wouldn't even

Like many other inner city school districts,Hartford has a hard time convincing its students tostay in school.

week. The group asked students 10 fairlyeasy questions about what they knew of thecity in which we live.

The results, much as expected, were alittle weak on the part of the student body.

merit the coveted C- for major credit. Ofthe 165 people who were gracious enoughto participate in the survey, there was onlyone person who scored a perfect 10 (I mustadmit, even I only got a nine). Despite

Community Activistof the Week:

Alain Lopez '04(1 '

Alain is being recognized as the Community Activist of the Week for hiswork with organizing both the Multicultural Affairs Council retreat and anew program on campus, Tribute Celebrations. The MAC retreat took placeon the weekend of Sept. 20. A representative from each of the eight cultur-al organizations was sent to discuss the issues of recruiting and retainingmembers, collaboration between clubs and general concerns on campus.The retreat was a great-success in helping to formulate goals for the upcom-ing year. Alain not only put together the retreat but has also been workingon a new club. Tribute Celebrations is a group of mentors and Hartfordyouth that work on writing and performing plays about the lives of history'sheroes. The goal is to help the young students learn first hand about socialand moral issues. The first meeting of prospective mentors was last week,and hopefully the project will take off later this year. We'd like to congratu-late and thank Alain for his hard work and dedication to the Trinity commu-nity and the Hartford youth.

To nominate someone/a group for Community Activist of the Week contactme at x2572.

- Julia Ewart '04

less than 10 percent of the school partici-pating in this survey, we collected somepretty interesting data.

Question 1: True or False: Hartfordwas once the richest city in the UnitedStates? True. Hartford was once, in the19th century, the richest city in the UnitedStates. There was a time when it was upin the air whether Hartford or New YorkCity was going to be the most importantcity on the east coast. Despite the leadingnature of this question, 87 percent of thestudents polled answered it correctly. Thiswas the third most correctly answeredquestion.

Question 2: When did most PuertoRicans arrive in Hartford? Most of thePuerto Ricans who have migrated toHartford arrived during the second WorldWar. Hartford is a city of diversity inwhich many different ethnic groups live.Surprisingly, 40 percent of students knewwhen this important event took place. Iwould encourage everyone to find outmore about the diversity that this cityoffers. From the different ethnic neighbor-hoods to the many ethnic foods that areavailable in the area, we live in an inter-esting and diverse community.

Question 3: What percentage ofHartford high school students graduatefrom high school? The percentage ofHartford High School students that gradu-ate is 50, but the percentage of studentswho got this question correct is only 52.Like many other inner city school districts,Hartford has a hard time convincing its stu-dents to stay in school. It is hard for edu-cation to counteract the attractiveness qfmaking money in the real world. I encour-age Trinity students to consider helpingwith this problem. There are three majorgroups that are working to combat this

to Afghanistani, Hartford has a multitudeof food choices to offer.

Question 7: What is the closestMexican restaurant to campus? As 90percent of you knew, El Sarape is the clos-est Mexican food restaurant to Trinity.Although we are all fond of our Tex-Mex,open-late Taco Bell, you can get far superi-or food at El Sarape or any of the otherrestaurants in the area.

Question 8: What percentage ofHartford students are from non-English

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The Capitol Building.speaking homes? Fifty-six percent ofHartford high school students are raised ina home where English is not the primarylanguage. This partially explains the rea-son why so many students have troublegraduating from high school. Again,through the mentoring and tutoring pro-grams offered in the area, you can help astudent who has difficulty with English to

"There was a time 'wfien it was up in the airwhether Hartford or New York City was going tobe the most important city on the east coast.

issue, the Academic Mentoring Program(AMP), the Vision Academic MentoringProgram(VAMP), and Big Brothers/BigSisters. Members of Praxis are involvedin all three of these groups, and I stronglyencourage all of you to look into this as apossibility for your own lives. Through aminimal commitment you can have animportant impact on the lives of the youthin Hartford.

Question 4: Name one famous personwho lived in and is buried in Hartford?Sixty-five percent of students were able toanswer this question correctly. The twomost popular responses were Mark Twainand Katherine Hepburn. Hartford hasyielded many people who have beenimportant to American society. Youcould help to form the next generation offamous Hartford residents through volun-teering with the groups previously men-

succeed in his/her studies.Question 9: Did you know that

Hartford hung the first woman on chargesof being a witch? This is true. We appre-ciate your honesty, as only 20 percentclaimed to have known this fact! As youknow, the alternative bookstore on campusis named Gallows Hill. This is namedafter the hill on which Mather StudentCenter now stands, where witches werekilled in the 18th century.

Question 10: How many other col-leges and universities are there inHartford? There are 6 universities andcolleges in Hartford, as 38 percent of stu-dents already knew. Hartford is a greatplace to get out and meet people fromother schools. If you go to local culturalevents and bars, you are likely to bumpinto students from five of the otherschools.

... check out what is playing at the WebsterTheater and try to get over to a show. They offersome incredible music and a fun atmosphere.

tioned.Question 5: How far is the Webster

Theater from campus? The Webster is 1mile away from campus. Only 76 percentof students knew that. I am sure that fromtime to time, all of you listen to music. Iimplore you to checjc out what is playing atthe Webster and try to get over to a show.It offers incredible music and a fun atmos-phere.

Question 6: How many good restau-rants are there in Hartford? We havearrived at the most correctly answeredquestion. There are many awesome restau-rants around the area of Trinity. I stronglyencourage you to take that special, or notso special, someone out for a nice dinner atone of the local restaurants. From Italian

On Saturday, Oct 4, Praxis will behelping students and parents, to find theirway to the Rediscover Hartford Day cel-ebration. The celebration will be takingplace throughout the city for the entireday. I hope that you will try to get outinto the city and impress your parentswith how interested you are in things otherthan having fun on campus. You knowthat you will have a difficult time tryingto entertain them for the whole weekend,so take a load off your shoulders and letus help you come up with something todo.

We will be meeting at the Cave toorganize and direct people to the celebra-tion all day. Please come down and takepart in the festivities.

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Cafe Builds Communitycontinued from page 11

models to increase programming for thecafe to enable more people to use theirservices.

The first model involves adding moreprogramming to what the Trinfo Cafe

munity organizations' that were previously setup by the Trinfo Cafe.

One aspiration Espinosa has is to make thecafe more accessible to Trinity students sothey may use it as both an academic resourceand as a venue for community service.

This is really an opportunity to help shatter mis-conceptions." -Carlos Espinosa'96

already offers. The second involves tar-geting students and parents involved in theparent teacher association to increase theirparticipation in cafe functions and pro-grams. A third model would allow forjoint programming, such as keyboard train-ing and other job training skills, by creatingsatellite labs at the sites of individual corn-

Increased use of the cafe by Trinity studentswill continue to build the College's relation-ship with Hartford and enrich the Trinity andlocal communities.

"Part of the community dynamic reallyopens up people's minds. This is really anopportunity to help shatter misconceptions,"said Espinosa.

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How NOT TO PLAN: THCRAPY FOR A COMPULSIYS PLANNERJENNY DUNN

FEATURES EDITOR

Hi, my name is Jenny, and I am a com-pulsive planner.

I'm not saying that I need to be onmedication, or anything - at least not forthat. I, like so many other people, just givea little too much thought to irrelevantdetails about the future, like what I'm hav-ing for breakfast the next day or what I'llwear out next weekend. Will peopleremember that 1 wore these jeans lastSaturday?

Planning can be a good thing, of

course. It's nice, for example, to have anidea about what you'll do after graduation.Or, in the short term, to plan on starting thatterm paper before the night it's due. Thingslike that.

But planning becomes a problem whenit begins to dictate what you do instead ofjust giving you a guideline, especiallywhen it comes to going out. The wholepoint of going out in the first place is tohave fun by escaping from the pressures ofeveryday college life. The last thing that acollege student should be stressing outabout is what they're going to do on Fridaynight.

My freshman year, I would rarely goout without a verified game plan. If I heardthat there wasn't late night, I wouldn't evenstep out of the room. It just didn't seemworth it. My roommates and I would drawup a schedule for the night, and weekendafter weekend I would get frustrated as westrayed further and further away from it.

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Dear Jules,I always considered myself to be on top of the latest fashion

trends; I mean, I've been voted best di'essed since the third grade! Butarriving on campus, 1 felt a little unsure of my status as a fashionista whenI noticed that no one here wears their collar down. Have I been livingunder a rock the past season or is this some sort of a gross aberration otmy beloved Lacoste?- Pining for (Normal) Polos

Never to Fear Pining,Your fashion IQ wotftclose' any points for keeping^oun collar

safely on your shoulders. But such a conundrum has puzzled many afreshman upon setting foot on the Trinity campus. The "popped-collar"iook seems to be some sort of an indigenous custom, similar.to the waysome rural tribes practice ear stretching or multiple body piercings.Although the origins of the "PC" remain unknown, I did some investiga-tive work to see why so many still practice this fashion faux-pas. Onefreshman, let's call her "Muffy," seemed confused when I asked about hercollar, not seeming to understand that there was actually more than oneway to wear one's polo-shirt. Others I interviewed said that they like theflipped-up look because it brings them closer to Elvis, go figure. I'm surethe truth is out there somewhere, but until then, I'd rather look like mehan the King.

Dear Jules,Last weekend I made the mistake of making out with someone in

my dorm. The next day I thought it would work if I just ignored her andpretended that nothing happened. That was an even bigger mistake.We're close friends and I don't want to lose our friendship, but at thesame time I really don 'twant to be anything more than that. How do I fixthings?- Lonely in Little

Dear Lonely,You can start by actually talking to her! You'd be surprised wha

little communication could do, as most people aren't too great at thetelepathic thing, Your friend is probably really confused and hurt; one oher best friends is suddenly giving her the silent treatment and she has nodea why. As much as it may suck, you need to be the pro-active one in

the situation. Go knock on her door (as it can't be too far of a trek) andapologize. Then explain that you value her friendship too much to takethings any farther. If things work out to your advantage, she might feel thesame way. And if not, well, it might take a little longer to patch things upBut if you truly value your friendship with her, don't give up. Next time(and you'd better hope there isn't one, or I'll hunt you down myself)think a little harder before you get yourself involved in such a sticky situ-ation.

If you have a question for Jules, please send it to tripod@trincoll.edu.

with some freshmen, called a number ofpeople whose cell phone numbers weweren't supposed to have, and ended thenight with a large helping of Easy Mac.

While it may not sound like much, thepoint is that we had an awesome time,without ever stepping into a frat or hangingout with people that are the same year as

It isn't a bad idea to go out with a certain order ofevents in mind, but there's also a kind of beauty inthe unplanned night.

It isn't a bad idea to go out with a cer-tain order of events in mind, but there'salso a kind of beauty in the unplannednight. The unplanned night is full of sur-prises, whereas any surprise that occursduring the planned night is unwelcome - itwasn't part of the plan. The unplannednight is also an opportunity to break theroutine mentioned in last week's articlethat, if unbroken, will eventually makecynics out of all of us. ,,T>~

Here's a pretty good K,--*example of an unplanned } > '7,';\i&^.night: £,.*-***'*

A friend and I decid- >ed to go out recently. Wehad plans, but early in thenight they fell throughThis left us with a few ( ^ ,options, We could go •home, get into our jam- -> < * *nies and pop in a Sex in the City DVD, orwe could stay out and see what would hap-pen. We chose the latter.

Throughout the course of the night, thefollowing events took place: we spent agood half-hour on the fire escape of ParkPlace, were terrified by an eight-inch slug(I didn't know that slugs could be plaid) onour way back across campus, played Kings

us. And it was all completely unexpected,which made it that much better. Yearsdown the road, that one unspectacularnight is going to stand out, for the solereason that it was different from the rest.And because of that slug, it was reallygross.

I'm not saying to plan an unplannednight, because obviously that's defeatingthe purpose. I'm just saying that some-

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J4 ruined, to change.';"i „ „ <s courses instead of just* > " - ' ' giving up. And to for-

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The only plan that you really need isthis: I am going to go out, I'm going to for-get about the rules, and I am going to havea good time. Once in a while.you have toleave the rest up to chance. And watch outfor slugs. : •:' • .

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Intricate and Ghostly German Puppets Haunt an Attentive Crowd at Goodwin Theatre on Friday Nightcontinued from page !

technique of collage in its productions andanimates puppets, materials and objectswhich can be freely combined." The pro-gram goes on to explain: "The open play,where the puppeteer is visible on the stage,facilitates a continuous dialogue betweenthe puppeteer and the puppet and stimu-lates the imagination of the audience.

The acoustic level is treated with equalvalue to the visual. Music and language areincluded in the productions as independentforms of art."

1 include so much of FigurctheaterWilde & Vogel's self-description of theperformance in my own descriptionbecause I have found in my experiencewith avant-garde art that many times theartist, rather than the critic, more coherent-ly answes the audience's central question:'what's going on here?'

Watching Toccata, "what's going onhere?" was certainly what was on the audi-ence's mind before, during, and even afterthe performance. It's one thing to flip openyour program and read about "the tech-nique of collage" and "freely combining"objects, but it's quite another to see a mansitting under a table while a clothed figureabove him drums its fingers loudly on thetable while water drips into a filling cup inthe corner.

It's one thing to read about music andlanguage as "independent forms of art;" it'sanother to listen to Wilde playing a manicpiece on the organ sitting on the stage half-masked behind a gauzy piece of cloth,while Vogel breaks the long stretches of hissilence with bursts of German and excerptsfrom Schumann's diary.

Toccata is about the life of Schumann,but not the life you'd expect. It is not thelife of achievements that you see in mostpieces that take up the challenge ofretelling a life on stage. Toccata is aboutthe life Schumann lived in his head. It isabout the depressed man, the hallucina-

tions.Instead of explaining Schumann's

emotional state as a footnote to the greaterstory of his life, Wilde and Vogel focus onthis aspect, endeavoring to put you in hisplace, to show you what he sees throughhis mind's eye and to experience in your

creatures, to butterflies, to a giant horse,but a majority of the puppets are somedegree of human. Each of the human pup-pets has a ghost-like quality about it; manyare draped in thin layers of gauze toenhance that effect.

The most interesting aspect of these

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A puppet holding a flower hams it up in Toccata.own way some of the same emotions thathe feels.

This endeavor is all around fantastical,and so is the piece that results from it.Watching Toccata is like being caught in adream, whether that dream is pleasant ornightmarish is up for debate. The puppetsVogel uses are both frightening and comi-cal.

They range in size from huge (doublingVogel's size when he embodies it), to tinyenough to fit in your hand. The subjects ofthe puppets range from small woodland

puppets is how they are manipulated.When you think 'puppet' you think ofstrings manipulating the puppet's move-ments and the svengali-esque puppeteerhiding in the rafters directing the showfrom behind the scenes. In Toccata, Vogelstands on stage with the puppets, as much apart of the action as they are. The approachVogel takes to puppeteering is much moredirect, and I think all the more effectivebecause of it.

Aside from puppets, Vogel also used a

interesting about the mask was that it wasclearly molded from Vogel's own face.The same was true for one of the puppetson stage.

In reading the brief biography ofSchumann in the program notes, there is asection dedicated to Schumann's use of twopseudonyms: "Florestan" and "Eusebius."1 thought the idea of putting on a mask ofoneself was a very thought-provoking andinteresting way to comment onSchumann's "experiments with identities,masks and doppelgangers."

You might think having the puppeteeron stage with his puppets would distract theviewer's eye away from the puppets andruin the illusion of the puppet'sautonomous movement. In reality, I foundthe opposite to be true. Vogel's own sub-dued movement served as a relief to themajestic movement of the puppets, causingthem to appear more alive than he himselfwas.

I spent a majority of the show with mymouth open, leaning forward in my seat,with my eyes squinted, trying to captureevery minute movement of the puppetsVogel manipulated. Not only did Vogelpull strings and make things move, he oftenbecame the puppet himself; his handbecame the puppet's hand, his head: thepuppet's head. This union of puppeteer andpuppet left you wondering which one of thetwo was really alive; the answer, I believe,is both. The use of a real person bringingobjects to life is an interesting and effectivechoice when trying to describe the life of aman who suffered from hallucinations.

As an audience watching inanimateobjects come to life before our very eyes,Vogel and Wilde succeeded in putting us inour own sort of hallucinatory state wherethe real and the unreal were left up forgrabs. Figurentheater Wilde & Vogel'sdecision to use their performance toexplore the mind of Schumann was ulti-

The Philadelphia Story Sept. 28-30(1940) Cinestudio pays tribute to Hartford's brightest star with a

special three-day screening of Katharine Hepburn in The PhiladelphiaStory. After starring in the original play on Broadway, Hepburn boughtthe film rights and hand picked her director, screenwriter, and co-stars,in hopes of rescuing her Hollywood career. It's due to her guiding handand flawless performance that The Philadelphia Story turned out to bean artistic - and box office — triumph. Hepburn plays a wilful heiresswhose plans for getting married are thrown into an uproar by theappearance of her first husband (Cary Grant) and a nosy reporter(James Stewart, who won the Academy Award® for Best Actor). Awonderful chance to see Hepburn's unique intelligence, beauty anduncompromising spirit on the silver screen.

Finding Nemo Oct. 1-4(2003) In the colorful and warm tropical waters of the Great

Barrier Reef, a Clownfish named Marlin lives safe and secluded in aquiet cul-de-sac with his only son, Nemo. Fearful of the ocean and itsunpredictable risks, he struggles to protect his son. Nemo, like allyoung fish, is eager to explore the mysterious reef. When Nemo isunexpectedly taken far from home and thrust into a dentist's office fishtank, Marlin finds himself the unlikely hero on an epic journey to res-cue his son.

The Italian Job Oct. 3-4(2003) The plan was flawless... the job was executed perfectly...

the escape was clean. The only threat mastermind thief Charlie Croker(Mark Wahlberg) never saw coming was from a member of his owncrew. After pulling off an amazing gold bullion heist from a heavilyguarded palazzo in Venice, Italy, Charlie and his gang — inside manSteve (Edward Norton), computer genius Lyle (Seth Green), wheelmanHandsome Rob (Jason Statham), explosives expert Left-Ear (Mos Def)and veteran safecracker John Bridger (Donald Sutherland) -- can'tbelieve it when one of them turns out to be a double-crosser. Now thejob isn't about the payoff, it's about payback!

Capturing the Friedmans Oct. 5-7(2003) Watching Andrew Jarecki's riveting non-fiction drama is

like watching a slow-motion replay of a multi-car pileup; you know it'sheaded for disaster, but there's no way you can stop watching. On thesurface, the Friedmans were a typical 1980s American family. Livingin Great Neck, Long Island, Arnold was a well-respected teacher,Elaine was a dedicated mother, and their children Seth, Jesse, andDavid were model students. But one Thanksgiving, that happy facadecame to a crashing halt. After the local police discovered Arnold hadengaged in the buying and selling of child pornography, they ques-tioned several students who attended his computer classes in theFriedman basement. What they revealed would shock the community,and destroy the Friedman family forever. Jarecki uses present day :interviews with Elaine,. Jesse, and David, as well as Arnold's brotherHoward, to provide some sort of insight on the situation, but it back-fires, for everyone has a different story to tell; And. then there is actualhome video footage of the family in the midst of the hurricane, whichgives the film an eerie; voyeuristic charge. . • ": ' n '.

mask throughout the piece. What was mately an effective decision.

Skid Row Rocks WebsterSTELLA KIM

ARTS WRITERI was eleven when I saw Skid Row for

the first time. They were on the tour pro-moting their third album, Subhuman Race,and they were still with their former leadsinger, Sebastian Bach. The band played anarena in Seoul, Korea and the arena waspacked with thousands of people singingalong their popular tunes like "I RememberYou" and "Youth Gone Wild." They hadsold millions of records and had a few hit

certainly willing to give them a chance.There were five bands opening for SkidRow that night. Some of them were good,but it probably wasn't the best idea consid-ering the fact that it was Wednesday nightand most people would rather not see open-ing bands for three hours. So, I was ratherexhausted when Skid Row finally went onstage after a grand fanfare. However, assoon as they began to play "Makin' AMess," which was one of the heavier songsin their self-titled debut album, I could feel

... I could feel the energy level of the room riseinstantly.

singles by that time, so it was no surprise.Then I had a chance to see Skid Row

for the second time this Wednesday at theWebster Theater with new singer, JohnnySolinger and new drummer, Phil Varone. 1have to admit I did not expect much fromthe band, as most bands that have gonethrough member changes tend to lose themagic they had earlier on 1 lowcver, I was

the energy level of the room rise instantly.The crowd was already excited.when theywent onto play a couple more songs fromthe debut album, and everybody seemed toknow every word to "18 and Life." It wascertainly nostalgic for most of the crowd,even for me in some ways, but they werecertainly not a nostalgia act. They were still

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Skid Row menacingly poses in leather and makeup.

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Skid Row Rock Sans BachContinued from page 15

as good as ever, and the new lead singer,Johnny Solinger, had no problem taking thespot, hitting all the high notes and being anall-around good frontman. They playedsome of the new material from their latest

unfair that people seem not to notice whena drummer has changed but thinks the bandis finished when the lead singer changes.

This seems to be relatively true forSkid Row. Even though I enjoyed their per-formance, I would still recommend Slave EMILY FORMAN

However, I could not stop feeling that Skid Rowisn't the same without Sebastian Bach.

album, Thickskin as well as their old hits.All in all, they still sounded solid.

However, I could not stop feeling thatSkid Row isn't the same without SebastianBach Sohnger is nonetheless a good singerand frontman, but he is not Bach It is

to the Grind and Subhuman Race ratherthan Thickskin to any of you who might beinterested.

And if anybody still thinks they, are ahair metal band, they can think again afterlistening to Slave to the Grind.

ARTS WRITERI shall begin this review of the musical

Hairspray (now playing at the Bushnelluntil Oct. 5) with two definitions essentialto understanding my point of view. In myown performance art, I am primarily anexpressionist, which simply means that myartwork is motivated by my own feelingsand my desire to express them publicly.While this may sound selfish to the theo-retical non-artist, it is really quite possibleto create quality art in this fashion.

At the present moment, however, Imean only to define expressionism, notdefend it. It is now my solemn task todefine musical theatre.

A musical is a piece of performance art(drama, comedy, or both) that uses music to

of Hairspray makes her professional debutin this show. And true, Bruce Vilanch is acomedy writer, not an actor. But still, I wasexpecting a fire, and all I got was a few wetsticks, which occasionally emitted a spark.

On a general note, as someone who iscurrently in the process of writing a pieceof musical melodrama, I had a little bit oftrouble with the way in which Hairspraywas structured.

As in many musicals that were actuallywritten in the 1960s, the songs were moreof a break from the advancement of the plotthan a means through which the story istold. To cite my earlier example, "LookDown" helps the story of Les Miserablesalong by showing the audience what JeanValjean has endured at the hands of thoselike Inspecteur Javert for 19 years.

To contrast opening numbers, what

... I was expecting a fire, and all I got was a fewwet sticks, which occasionally emitted a spark.

A poster from the hit musical Hairspray/

express the themes and motives of the com-poser or the playwright or the charactersabout which they are writing.

If I could dare to make such a general-ization, I would say that musical theatertends to be expressionist because, quitesimply, when people sing, their true feel-ings about what they are singing tend tomanifest.

In many of my favorite expressionistmusicals, including Les Miserables, suchnumbers as "Look Down" make it implicit-ly clear to the audience member that, forexample, the characters feel desperate andabandoned by their God.

In my educated though still very hum-ble opinion, I think that Les Miserables isone of the best musicals written to date.Why don't I feel this way about Hairsprayl

True, Carly Jibsoii, the 19-year-old star

does "Good Morning Baltimore" really tellus? All the number tells us is that the showtakes place in 1960s Baltimore. Anyonewho was listening to the pre-showannouncement to turn off cell-phones andbeepers because they did not exist in 1960sBaltimore knew this. The colors werevibrant, the hairstyles were fun, but Ialready knew this about the 1960s.

The choreography in the show wasvery clean for an opening night perform-ance, though again.to me it was all justmovements to music. It didn't express any-thing. Or at least, it didn't express anythingthat I, a non-dancer, could decipher.

What specifically was wrong with theshow? Well, to start, its criticism ofAmerican society, yesterday and today, wasnot subtle enough for my taste. Here is an, • see HAIRSPRAY on page 17

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ence Turns' TAe greatest £to/y £ver Wa fyeaP A/buntLatest Album is a Triumphic Work for the Band as They Combine Disparate Sounds into Good Punk RockJOSHUA CERRETTI

ARTS WRITERIt takes an almost daring ambition to

name an album The Greatest Story EverTold, and it seems that only a band likeLawrence Arms, with their blend of honesttales-in-song and lack of self-importancemight achieve this. Though the LawrenceArms fall somewhat short of weaving thegreatest story ever told* what came out wasan impressively accessible album of dirty,but emotional punk rock.

The duality of the Lawrence Arms isperfectly expressed by ihe two quotes sta-tioned on the back of the liner notes. One,from Goethe's Faust, is reflective on thenature of eternity, and the other, fromGhosibusters, is Bill Murray reflecting on acertain man's lack of physical plumbing.These quotes parallel well the personalitiesof Lawrence Arm's two front men, gui-tarist/vocalist Chris McCaughan, andbassist/vocalist, Brendan Kellyi

Chris writes melancholy, slower trackswith lots of clean guitar and a sad sense oflonging like "Raw and Searing Flesh" and"Fireflies." Brendan is straightforwardly

apart by having a third independent song-writer, Dan Hanaway, now of HonorSystem).

The Lawrence Arms are not a flashyband by any means; the music is all straightforward, head-bopping punk rock. There islittle attempt to disguise that they are athree-piece band, with few guitar overdubs,leads, or solos. Brendan's bass is non-dis-tinct and follows un-obtrusively along withthe guitar. Neil Hennessey's drumming issteady and competent, with a rare flash ofan epic fill and some fancy snare work, butoverall, the drumming is mostly simplistic.Such is the nature of the Lawrence Armsmusic; it is mostly a vehicle for the lyricsand stays straightforward rock n' roll for allforty minutes of the album.

The most impressive elements of TheGreatest Story Ever Told are in the layoutand artwork. Everything is based around atheme of a carnival, with side shows, exot-ic animals, and various curiosities. Notonly do the song titles ("On with theShow," "Alert the Audience," "The Marchof the Elephants," "A Wishful Puppeteer,"etc.) stay close to the circus theme but thelyrics are full of vague allusions to the 19th

- The Greatest Story Ever Told is a refreshingalbum in its honesty and attitude.

snotty and fast, loaded with sarcasm andenough profanity to set a sailor ill at ease.His contributions include "On With theShow" and "The Rambling Boys ofPleasure." A real step up for the front menof the Lawrence Arms on The GreatestStory Ever Told is the blurring of the linebetween having the album split betweenBrendan and Chris songs.

"Alert the Audience" stands out as atrack that combines both Chris's mellowregret-laced tunes with Brendan's high-voiced punk-rock anthems. In the contextof their musical careers, rarely have thetwo been able to reconcile their respectivestyles, both in the Lawrence Arms and theirformer band, the Broadways (who wereadditionally saddled and eventually broken

century carnival and how it connects tomodern life.

Now if this seems overly-ambitious fora punk rock band to undertake, you under-estimate the Lawrence Arms. Rarely willyou find an album with annotated refer-ences in their lyrics, but the LawrenceArms pack forty-two endnotes for thelyrics into the already thick booklet. Kafka,South American dream rituals, Lao Tzu,and Mikhail Bulgakov all get their due cita-tions for ideas culled by Brendan andChris.

In all of this heady intellectualism theLawrence Arms manage to avoid preten-sion by their self-deprecation and carelesswit. It also doesn't hurt that both Hot ShotsPart Deux and Insomniac with Dave Attell

Studio 47 Dance: Lesley Farlow7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2003Seabury Hall, Studio 47, 3rd floorTheater and Dance Professor Lesley Farlow performs two original works-in-progress. Exile is based on Euripides' tragic story of Medea (who murdered her chil-dren), and the analogous modern tales of Susan Smith and Andrea Yates. The sec-ond untitled piece, created for Lesley by award-winning video artist and choreogra-pher Wendy Woodson, explores espionage, betrayal and the world in translation.

The Annual Musical-Theater RevueThursday, Oct. 16, 2003 - Sunday, Oct. 19, 2003Check Schedule for Showtimes •Austin Arts Center, Garmany HallThis spirited revue features over a dozen performers in excerpts from Broadwaymusicals of the 1940s through the 1980s, showing the evolution in musical and the-atrical styles over several decades. This student production - celebrating the 27thyear of musical theater at Trinity - is directed by Professor Gerald Moshell ofTrinity's Department of Music.

Seabury 19 Theater: New Work Series4:15 p.m. and 8 p.m., Monday, Oct. 20, 2003Seabury Hall, Studio 19, 3rd floorShowcasing new theatrical approaches by students in the Department of Theater and

Dance.

ReOrientalism8 p.m., Friday, Oct. 24, 2003Austin Arts Center, Goodwin TheaterA provocative multi-lingual "pocket opera" exploring the West's simultaneousromanticization and fear of Islam and "the Orient." ReOrientalism is inspired by thewritings of noted scholar and critic Dr. Edward Said, whose works challenge stereo-types where everyone from the Middle East, it seems, is either Aladdin or a terrorist.This new work was created by Armenian composer and oud virtuoso Alan ShavarshBardezbanian, Palestinian performance poet Suheir Hammad, and Egyptian designerand percussionist Karim Nagi Mohammed. This daring multi-media experienceunfolds through a fusion of traditional and contemporary music, song, dance, poetryand visual imagery (the latter including video "conversations" with human rights , iadvocate Fateh Assam in Cairo and Lebanese cultural activist Walid Zaiter).

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("I'm a drunk with a job, I got the picturesto prove it") receive a nod from Brendanfor their contributions.

Further packing the book is a smallcompilation of live photos of the Lawrence

musicians' credits with no special refer-ence.

Though it may not be the greatest storyever told, The Greatest Story Ever Told is arefreshing album in its honesty and atti-

They make good, open punk rock music forthemselves and anyone who cares to get it.

Arms that aren't of the washed-out, off-speed film type that many bands go forwith their layouts; nor do they stray into therealm of being photographed with their hairdone in strategically pre-determined posesthat try to look candid and serious.

As a final testament to both their dedi-cation to the carnival theme and their indif-ferent attitudes, "the players" on the albumare listed as Gordon Shuway on vibraslap,Ivan Nikolayevich on harp and lyre, andFerdinand Magellan on bassoon. The bandmembers are scattered in the additional

tude. The lyrics and sound are easy to relateto, and the sense of humor is both smartand biting.

The Lawrence Arms are not amazingmusicians, but they simply don't care.They make good, open punk rock music forthemselves and anyone who cares to get it.

Further listening: The Lawrence Armshave three other full lengths and two splitsavailable on Asian Man Records and FatWreck Chords. Members of the LawrenceArms were also in the Broadways, Baxter,Slapstick and Tricky Dick.

The cover of The Lawrence Arms' latest album.

Classic Vofvocontinued from page 16

example of such a line that, while it isexplicit in its social critique, I felt its deliv-ery was effective enough that I was able tooverlook its blunt message: Mrs. Turnblad(played to feminine perfection by Vilanch)tells her daughter Tracy (Jibson) that if shewants to be famous, she should try to dis-

divcrsity relations as well as everythingthat is yet to be achieved. Of course, Linkstarts out the show with the popular girl,and ends up with the heroine. Again, this isall too typical of lighter musical theaterfare.

I admire him, though, because heexhibits growth. Tracy is open-minded

This was probably my favorite line of the showbecause it jabbed at my heart.

cover a way to get blood stains out of carupholstery.

This was probably my favorite line ofthe show because it jabbed at my heart. Iwas bom in Hartford but have lived myentire life in ritzy West Hartford, mostlysafe from direct contact with constantcrime. Vilanch spoke the line naturally, asif he were saying it for the first time and asthough he meant it. This brief moment wasfor me, personally, the highlight ofHairspray.

from the beginning of the show, andfrankly I would find her youthful optimismunrealistic, if it had not been my own a fewyears ago.

I found Austin Miller's portrayal ofTracy realistic but underdeveloped. Iexpect that later on in the tour audienceswill be seeing a very different Link Larkinfrom the one that I saw on opening night atthe Bushnell; Hartford is the second city ofthe tour,

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A poster from the Bushnell production of Hairspray,Another aspect of Hairspray that I

found compelling was Link Larkin and hisargument that every day should be "NegroDay" (the Corny Collins' TV. show has a"Negro Day" once a month but is otherwisesegregated). I hold up Link Larkin as asymbol of everything that our country hasachieved in the area of race and other

feel that this is something that people canrelate to as much or more now, especiallyin a community that has just "experiencedsuch a historic day in the life of the school,i.e., Pride and Prejudice Day. In my per-sonal experience, I am finding more diver-sity among Trinity students and facultythan I had originally expected.

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FINXL XRjriJTIC CREATION: TH6 EPITAPHWhy Do Many People Feel the Need to Leave Their Mark, and What Do People Feel the Need to Write?GREG POLJN

ARTS EDITORHow would you sum up your life in a

single sentence? Would you try to pass onwise words, or scribble down a phrase in afit of emotion?

Browsing any local cemetery youmight discover some interesting epitaphsthat make you laugh, cry, or run away infear. The question, however, is "what's thepoint of this final message from beyond thegrave?"

Certainly there are those who didn'tthink much beyond their own time. Thisset of deceased individuals generally writestheir sentences about their own deaths withthe aim of either instilling guilt or relievingit among their direct relatives.

Out of context, however, these epitaphstake on an air of humor. For example, agrave at St. Vincent Cemetery in Stirling,NJ uses the single phrase, "I told you I wassick." Another stone at an undisclosed NJgraveyard has engraved on its surface,"Don't worry about it."

Now it's certainly possible that thedead who ordered their stones to carry suchmessages simply had a great sense ofhumor right up to their last moments.However, "I told you [ was sick," is a bit-ing and cruel statement to leave with lovedones.

This brings us to an important point: amessage given on ones death bed carriesmeaning and emphasis that such a messagewould never carry at any other time in

one's life. This, combined with the notionthat an individual only gets one chance todo it right, makes the art of writing an epi-taph incredibly magnetizing.

Everything has a deeper meaning whenit is so thoroughly wrapped up in the muteobscurity of death.

Poets can waste their lives awaysearching for those phrases that containsuch heavy and weighted emotion that thepreviously un-artistic can discover in amatter of minutes.

Although, it has to be mentioned thatthe ritual of epitaph writing is not one car-ried on by most. The average graveyardcontains stones, of which less than onethird are inscribed with more than just aname and a pair of dates. There are a mul-titude of reasons for this.

On the one .hand, many people can'tafford such inscriptions (some can't evenafford stones). Therefore, in a sense, a cer-tain amount of wealth is required to leave asemi-eternal message for the world. Asidefrom this, sudden deaths often leave noth-ing to say. If a statement isn't left on one'swill, he or she will often be left without a

Dragula, Boob, Yourstone, Beerman, andChrist. -1 don't believe it's disrespectful tostate that these particular individuals havenames that simply inspire people to stop fora moment and wonder (particularly theChrist).

Nonetheless, it's really rather interest-ing that people do feel the need to leave amessage. Perhaps the deceased believed

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A grave that struck my fancy.

that the wise words he/she left might helpsomebody out 10, 20, 100 years down theline.

Most likely a number of people simplywanted attention. For our entire lives weare raised to treat the famous as gods, andwe are told that we too can eventually

The belief that somethingyou had a hand in cre-ating will remain forever is somehow comforting.

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A rather lengthy and poetic message from beyond the grave.

message. Finally, the thought of writing anepitaph, to many, seems either useless, orfrightening.

Now, for the record, a grave without aninscription, in my opinion, isn't missingsomething. A stone with a name is enough.You know that not very far undergroundlies a body that once bore the name uponthe stone. That is enough to inspire rever-ence.

However, there is a small batch of indi-viduals whose names alone catch one'seye. The following list is a small selectionof names found upon stones at various NJgraveyards; Sowerbutt, Frankenstein,

become famous.However, for most this dream falls

short and the fear of being forgotten soontakes hold. They feel that they must beremembered, that as (a gross simplificationof what) Sartre believed, to disappear fromthe memories and minds of those on earth,is to disappear entirely.

The message becomes a way to copewith death. The belief that something youhad a hand in creating will remain foreveris somehow comforting. I don't personallyunderstand it and I won't pretend to, how-

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Lost In Translation is aDirectorial MasterpieceLYSANDRA OHRSTROM

ARTS WRITERLost in Translation is the story of the

relationship that forms between two peoplewho could not be more disparate. BillMurray plays Bob, a washed up actor whois in Tokyo to complete the dehumanizingtask of being a whiskey spokesperson.Charlotte, played by Scarlett Johansen, is a25-year-old who has just finished graduateschool. She is accompanying her obse-quious, hipster husband, who repeatedlyabandons her in a luxurious but prison-likehotel, to follow around the rock band he'sphotographing.

Despite the huge age gap between thetwo protagonists, the disillusionment andalienation they feel instantly connectsthem. Bob. exudes an aura of resignation

always disappointment and remorse under-neath the humor.

Charlotte also radiates disappointmentand loneliness, but her character is morehopeful because she is too young to havemany regrets. Instead she just seems lost,as the title implies. She is smart, vergingon intellectually imperious, and clearlydoes not want to follow her husbandaround as a glorified groupie anymore. Soshe welcomes the attention Bob bestowsupon her. They meet in the hotel bar, adepressing place inhabited by Japanesebusinessmen, listening to a cheesy loungesinger perform hits of the 1970s.Immediately the sexual tension is apparent.

It is not until they go out to a karaokebar one night that their attraction becomespalpable. The closest they get to physical

The director, Sophia Coppola, assaults her audi-ence with sensory overload.

and regret, and seems intent on makingsure Charlotte doesn't make the same mis-takes he has made.

The third important character in thefilm is the city of Tokyo itself. I have neverbeen there and after seeing this movie haveno desire to go. The city embodies the dis-affection that Bob and Charlotte feel. Thedirector, Sophia Coppola, assaults her audi-ence with sensory overload.

Tokyo is overcrowded with people,lights and technology. Despite the crowdsof people, no one interacts, and the onlyconnection people have is with themachines they play with.

Before Charlotte and Bob meet eachother they either remained cloistered at theoppressively minimalist Hyatt, or theywander through the city aimlessly, unableto digest the materialistic culture that sur-rounds them.

The fact that they are able Id transcendthe isolation they feel culturally and in their

intimacy is when Charlotte falls asleep inBob's bed while they are watching amovie. After they have a conversationwhere she probes him for the secrets of life,they innocently hold hands. Charlottelooks up to Bob and they both miss thefeeling of being appreciated. Bob's wiferemains a voice on the other end of a tele-phone conversation, but their maritalunhappiness is clear.

From the moment he arrives in Tokyo,she attacks him with meaningless questionsabout the office she is refurbishing for him.He pretends to care, but their marriage isclearly an isolated one.

In one scene Bob tries to talk to her ina futile attempt to resurrect their relation-ship, but any non shallow communicationdoes not interest her.

Lost in Translation is a subtle, small,and wonderful movie. Never has a city'satmosphere been so well communicated,'and the theme of western culture and the

... some of the funniest scenes of Murray's career.

relationships is the main theme of themovie.

Despite Translation's somber message,it is very funny. The plot is thin and it isreally about the characters. Bob andCharlotte don't meet until the movie is wellunderway, so the first act is a lot of sceneswhere Bill Murray's character has run-inswith various Japanese people. The comicpossibilities of the cultural divide are cer-tainly exploited.

Bob's vain attempts to communicateare some of the funniest scenes of BillMurray's career, most notable the scenewhere Bob attempts to get rid of an aggres-sive Japanese escort that the hotel has sentto his room as an amenity.

His humor is sarcastic, understated,and sad; a side of him that is not appreciat-ed by many directors, but Coppola clearlyloves her subject. No matter how self con-sciously funny Bob is being, there is

Japanese interpretation of it make greatcomedy.

It is the intersection between Bob,Charlotte, and Tokyo that is the heart of thefilm, because their combination perfectlyembodies alienation and regret. The filmseems to be saying that everybody feelsthese emotions, but Bob and Charlotte con-nect despite their differences because theyaddress the feelings that others in the filmstifle.

However, there is also a sense in themovie that this connection could never

. have happened in either of the character'sreal lives. Together they navigate Tokyo inthe anonymity that being an outsider pro-vides, and in the end the message is hope-ful yet heartbreaking.

While their relationship is regenera-tive, the audience leaves not expectingeither of them to reverse their lives and findthe connection they had with each other.

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Brodeur's Music InspiresJAMIE CALABRESE

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I like to close my eyes when listeningto .live music, Ryan Brodeur's perform-ance in the Underground reminded me

h ' 'Closing my eyes makes me a better lis-

tener. We normally depend so heavily onvisual stimulants to give us informationabout our environment, closing my eyesmakes me more aware of my other senses.Not only do I hear the music better, 1 feelvibrations in the floorboards.

Background elements become part ofthe performance itself; the sound and smellof coffee concoctions brewing in the back-ground add mellow richness to the room,while muffled quips exchanged betweenfriends add percussion to the acoustic gui-tar in the speakers.

Though I don't know everyone in theroom, I know why they are here. Therehere for Ryan-hallmates, classmates, fami-ly, friends. They have come because theylove to hear the simple magic of a vibrating

string, because a sip of'coffee is balm forthe soul, because they can be amongfriends.

We're here to forget we're in collegefor a while. Yet five years from now this i| ;

what we'll remember when we talk abquti:

what it was like to go to Trinity Collegia[•and be a student. •..'"•

I hear strangers in the group sponta-neously introduce themselves and begin ashort conversation, feejing this inherentconnection as I have.

I see listeners nod their heads to therhythm of the guitar, and tap their hands onthe floor to create a beat for Ryan's nextpiece.

Together, we create. Coffee-making.friendship-making, music-making,emotion-making. It's all happening so nat-urally, though the balance seems so deli-cate. I want to write a poem, a lyric. I wantto sketch a landscape. I want to create.

Thank you, Ryan, for making me closemy eyes that night. You reminded me, forone, that the world that exists outside mynormal routine can be beautiful.

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ever, who knows what I'll be thinking fiftyyears down the line (assuming I'm stillaround). There is of course, in the end, theonly resounding truth of the universe, dustto dust. You shall be forgotten. Time willstretch on forever, but a grave will not.Even stone will eventually crack, and col-lapse.

It's actually quite apparent in the oldestof graveyards, back when the stones werecarved from limestone. Years of acid rainhave already permanently worn away themessages from most.

So many thousands are already forgot-ten to the tomb of time forever.

Some who realize the impermanence ofthe gravestone attempt to bypass its pur-pose all together and reach for an everlast-ing memorial in the one place where timedoesn't exist: the internet.

However, in my personal opinion,many stones will outlast cyberspace,although it doesn't really matter. Whatmakes us human is our impermanence.

In my opinion, the purpose of an epi-taph is fulfilled when it instills a smile, atear, wonder, or reflection on anybody whoreads it.

After that it doesn't truly matter any-more. At least that's what I want to believewhen I start writing mine.

ORGANIST PAUL. JACOBS

PHILLIP TRUCKCNBROD

Paul Jacobs.

This season's first Twilight Tuesdayconcert in the Trinity College Chapelbegins with a performance by the celebrat-ed young American organist, Paul Jacobs,on Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 5 p.m.

A graduate of the Curtis Institute andYale, Mr. Jacobs is currently on the organfaculty of the Juilliard School in New York.

Mr. Jacob's performances have beencritically acclaimed from coast to coast. In1998 he won first place in the AlbertSchweitzer National Organ Competition atFirst Church of Christ in Wethersfield andthe Harvard Musical Association's presti-gious Arthur W. Foote Award.

His program will include works byBach, Reger and Messiaen.

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PerformancesStudio 47 Dance: Lesley Farlow

Theater and Dance Professor Lesley

Farlow performs two original works-in-

progress. Exile is based on Euripides'

tragic story of Medea (who murdered her

children), and the analogous modern

tales of Susan Smith and Andrea Yates.

The second untitled piece, created for

Lesley by award-winning video artist and

choreographer Wendy Woodson,

explores espionage, betrayal and the

world in translation. Free admission.

7:30 p.m. - Oct. 8 - Seabury Hall

The Annual Musical-Theater Revue

This revue features over a dozen per-

formers in excerpts from Broadway musi-

cals of the 1940s through the 1980s,

showing the evolution in musical and

theatrical styles over several decades.

This student production is directed by

Gerald Moshell of Trinity's Department of

Music. General admission is $10, $5 for

seniors and non-Trinity students. Free

-With Trinity ID. Information: (860) 297-

j?199 or visit www.AustinArts.org

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2 p.m., - Oct. 19 - Garmany Hall, AAC

LecturesRace, Class, Gender and Sexuality

The Women, Gender, and SexualityProgram in conjunction with theWomen's Center presents Rosa Lee,Yvonne Lee and students from theWomen, Gender, and Sexuality Program,talking on "Race, Class, Gender andSexuality: Student Views on the 2003National Womenv s Studies Associationmeetings in New Orleans.

4:15 p.m. - Sept. 30 - Women's Center

Drug and Prison Reform in the U.S.

Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director ofthe Drug Policy Alliance, will give this lec-ture sponsored by A Better WayFoundation. Described by Rolling Stoneas "the point man" for drug policy reformefforts, Nadelmann is regarded as theleading proponent of drug policy reform.A reception will precede the lecture at 6

. p.m.

7 p.m. - Sept. 30 - Life Science Auditorium

Tuesday - Sept. 30noon - "Special" Second TuesdayLunch4:30 p.m. - Pre-concert reception forTwilight Tuesday5 p.m. - Twilight Tuesday concert withPaul Jacobs9:30 p.m. - Banquet - Main Chapel

Lyrical Landscapes: Poetry & Painting

The Department of Fine Arts presents anexhibition bringing together the work of fiveprominent landscape painters: LennartAnderson, Lois Dodd, Sylvia PlimackMangold, Paul Reskia and Albert York. Theshow, currently on display, runs through Oct.22.

1p.m. - weekdays - Widener Gallery, AAC

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Field Hockey Wins at BatesBantams Suffer Losses to Colby and Williams in Close Bouts

DAVE BUCCOSPORTS WRITER

The Lady Bantams went 1-2in the past week, beating Batesbut losing to Colby and Williams.Freshman forward Jessica Bakerscored a pair of goals againstBates, including the game-tying

lead at intermission. Baker put inher first goal off a shot by fresh-man midfielder LaurenMalinowski.

Baker continued her domi-nance by scoring a backhandedshot from deep in the circle, giv-ing the Bantams a 2-1 lead.

Trinity junior forward

CHUCK PRATT

Senior forward Jennifer Latiff on a breakaway.score. The tie-breaking goal wasalso scored by Baker in the firsthalf, leading Trinity to a 4-2 winover the Bates Bobcats.

The momentum of the gameshifted as Trinity scored threegoals in the final 16 minutes ofthe first half.

The Lady Bants turned aone-goal deficit into a two-goal

Patricia Glennon, who had assist-ed Baker on her second score,netted a goal at the end of the halfto increase Trinity's lead to 3-1.It was a lead they would neverrelinquish.

Forward Caitlin French '06sealed Trinity's scoring for theday by netting a rebound on ashot by Malinowski early in the

second half.Co-captain goalkeeper Gwen

Gillespie '04 also made 13 savesin the winning effort.

At Colby, the Bantams weredealt a 3-1 loss by the WhiteMules.

French provided the onlyoffense for Trinity by scoring anunassisted goal with 21:19 left inthe game.

Gillespie stopped 13 shots inthe losing effort.

This past Saturday againstWilliams, the Lady Bants had anadmirable defeat, losing to theEphs 4-3.

"The Williams game wasdevastating," said senior captainKristen Grabowski, "but we aregoing to continue to play hard andconcentrate on winning our nexttwo games this week."

Williams scored with 2:19remaining on the clock to give theEphs a one goal victory overTrinity.

The loss dropped Trinity to a1-4 record overall and 1-3 in iheNESCAC.

Some bright spots for Trinitywere French netting a goal, aswell as senior forward JenniferLatiff.

Sophomore Jessica Bakeralso contributed with a goal andan assist.

The Bantams play again thisWednesday at Springfield and arehome Oct. 4 against ConnecticutCollege.

The last time both teams metwas last season when the gamewent into overtime.

The game-winning score wasconverted by Caitlin French just18 seconds into the extra period.

M. Soccer LosesMen's Squad Suffers Defeat, Ephs win

continued from page 24Prior to the game Gamble

said, "The Williams game isalways a hard game. I'm surethey're going to be a good oppo-nent. They're always tough but Ifeel this year more than any otheryear we have a chance to beatthem — especially with the waywe've been playing."

Gamble was prophetic in thatthe game was closely competi-tive, but the Bantams fell shortonce again with a 1-0 loss.

Trinity's defense was able tokeep Williams scoreless through-out the entire game giving in dur-ing the final twenty seconds.

•At 89 minutes and 40 sec-onds, Williams' Sky Riggs '05scored a goal to give the Ephs a 1-0 lead and the victory.

Despite the heartbreakingloss, Michael Doherty '07 didextremely well in goal for Trinitywith eleven saves.

The loss brings the Bantamsto a 1 -3-2 record.

The Bantams will be playingat Western New England on Oct.1.

The team will also faceConnecticut College at home onSaturday Oct. 4 in an importantNESCAC game.

"So far this year we've been alittle inconsistent -- we've beenplaying either a great first half ora great second half, Once we getthem both clicking at the sametime we'll succeed," saidGamble. "Our main goal is tomake it to the play offs and I'mconfident we'll get there."

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PAGE 22 SPORTS THE TRINITY TRIPOD - SEPTEMBER 30, 2003

Volleyball Team Wins Football Crushes EphsOne but Drops Three 1 o-o, Improves to 2-0Bants Victorious Over Muhlenburg at Invitational

CAT MAHERSPORTS WRITER

The women's volleyball team defeatedEastern Connecticut State University 3-2on Sept. 24. This exciting match went onfor five games. The Eastern ConnecticutWarriors won the first game 30-26 but theBantams answered back by winning thenext two games 30-24 and 30-26.

Eastern won the next game 30-14 butTrinity won the tie-breaking game 15-9 totake the victory.

Junior co-captain Kate Hunter had 20kills to lead the Bantams while freshmansetter Stacey Hills had 38 assists and soph-omore outside hitter Lucy Hollis addednine kills.

This game brought Trinity to a 2-5

sophomore middle blocker Sarah Carterhad 22 kills.

"We knew that they would come backFriday night ready to put up a good fightagainst us since we had beaten them a fewdays earlier," said outside hitter LucyHollis '06. "And the fact that they did win- it was sort of a disappointment but weplayed tough and that's all that we couldhave done."

The next day, on Sept. 28, the Bantamsplayed Muhlenberg College and won 3-1.They won the first game 30-21 but then lostthe second game 25-30. Trinity answeredback with two straight wins to claim thevictory.

In their last game of the tournamentTrinity played against Middlebury and lost3-0, Despite the loss, the women improved

"It was a tight game and I thought a lot ofthings came together that hadn't been done in priorgames." - Lucy Hollis '06

record and ended a five game losing streak.Unfortunately the Bantams had trouble

in the Amherst Invitational this weekend,winning only one of four matches. Theytraveled up to Amherst College for thetournament but fell short every matchexcept one.

The Bantams played Amherst in thefirst match on Friday and lost 3-0 to the tal-ented Lord Jeffs. The first game they lost23-30 and then began a comeback in thesecond game only to lose 27-30.

The third game showed their fatigue asthey lost 20-30 despite their effort.

In the second match of the day, Trinityfaced Eastern Connecticut State University- the team that they beat on Sept. 24 in aclose match.

As expected, this game was also verycompetitive, but Trinity ended up on thelosing side.

They won the first two games by twopoints each but also lost the third andfourth games by two points apiece. In thedeciding fifth game Trinity lost 15-0.

In Friday night's matches, Hunter tal-lied 36 kills, Hills recorded 87 assists, and

greatly with each game played.The team endured a tough defeat in the

first game, losing 18-30. However in thesecond game they lost 22-30 and in thethird game they lost 28-30 in a much clos-er match.

In the two games on Saturday, Hillstotaled 59 assists and Hollis added 16 killsfor the Bantams.

The Bantams finished the tournamentwith an overall record of 3-9.

"I thought that overall we did verywell," Hollis said of the tournament.

"We worked together as a team despitethe fact that we won only one match andwe came very close to beating Amherst. Itwas a tight game and I thought a lot ofthings came together that hadn't been donein prior games and we're on our way tobeing successful in future matches."

On the rest of the season Hollis stated,"I'm looking forward to playing the otherNESCAC schools. It's a tough league soit'll be interesting to see how ,we do but Ihave confidence that we're going to doreally well."

The team plays at Wesleyan on Oct. 3.

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Forward Kriste Geiger 06 preparescontinues . mm page 24

the game, the Ephs were able to claw theirway to another goal.

Unlike during the first half, when theone goal deficit seemed as difficult to sur-mount as Mount Everest, the Bantams didnot lose momentum or hope with the goal,and came back strong, with many narrowmisses down the stretch, including a shotoff the crossbar and the final drive whichcame just short,

In the end, despite all efforts, the Ephscame away with the victory 2-1.

The team now looks to build oii thegame and come back strong.

"1 think everyone out there showedtremendous effort and the loss has only

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t o c a i t e r t he b a l l .

inspired us to work harder for our upcom-ing games" said another of the senior cap-tains, midfielder Kate Salottolo.

There were bright spots, including thedefensive play, highlighted by juniorBrenna Shields in goal. Despite the twogoals she gave up, it was her play that keptTrinity in the game, evidenced by her tensaves, many of them on tricky shots.

With big match ups against Tufts and'Bowdoin down the road, the Bantams,lookto regain momentum and respect in theirupcoming games, including ones onThursday Oct. 02 against Smith andSaturday Oct. 04 against ..•ConnecticutCollege, both>at.home at 4 p-.m antM l'a.ni:respectively. '. , : . ' • . .

CHUCK PRATT

Trinity s starting defense has not allowed any points this season.continued from page 24

game.Trinity's offensive line created enough

holes for backs Finkeldey and Pierandri togain 140 yards on 17 carries, and 117 yardson 29 rushes.

Finkeldey's 140 yards included a daz-zling 53-yard rush halfway through thethird quarter.

Sophomore quarterbacks Erik Paisley(5-14, 70 yards) and Josh Pitcher (6-14, 63yards) both ran the offense efficiently andfor the second straight week, split quartersclose to evenly.

The defense allowed just 168 yards oftotal offense, including just 97 yards andthree interceptions by last year's NESCACoffensive player of the year, quarterback

Joe Reardon. As a unit, the defense causedfour turnovers and allowed just eight first-downs compared to the Bantam's 16 first-downs.

Time of possession belonged to Trinityall afternoon where the offense had the ballfor more than 35 minutes.

Senior captain inside linebacker GregTanner led the team with 10 tackles, includ-ing two for losses. Mullaney caught twointerceptions and junior strong safetyAaron Goldstein added another in the firsthalf. Collins contributed six tackles andreached the quarterback once for thegame's only sack.

This Saturday, the Bantams stay homeonce again to face the Hamilton CollegeContinentals at 1:30 p.m.

Upcoming Events:Cross Country

10/4 - Bantam Invitational

Football10/4 vs. Hamilton

Golf

10/3 @ Skidmore

Men's Soccer

10/1 @ Western New England

10/4 vs. Connecticut College

Men's Tennis

10/3 @ Babson

Field Hockey

10/1 @ Springfield

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SPORTSSEPTEMBER 30, 2003 - THE TRINITY TRIPOD 3 F U K l i > pAGE 23

Bantams Turn Up Fourth in EquestrianShowEILEEN FLYNN

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Trinity College Equestrian teamtook 4th in their first home intercollegiatehorse show on Saturday, Sept. 27 at AvonValley Show Stables (AVSS). The teamwas founded in 1986, but suffered fromlack of interest until its revival four yearsago. They are coached by Cara Brown whoworks at AVSS.

The Equestrian Team is part of theIntercollegiate Horse Show Association(IHSA) Zone 1, Region 1. The teams thatparticipated in the show were theUniversity of Connecticut, ConnecticutCollege, the University of Rhode Island,Roger Williams University and SalveRegina University, as well as, of course,Trinity.

The show ran into some difficulties, astwo weeks prior the team was told by theregional chair, Janice Callahan, the coachfor UConn, that their judge was disallowed

adequately compete against larger teams,like the University of Connecticut.

The other Intermediate Over Fencesrider, Jamie Calabrese '05, had a good run,but chipped the last fence, causing her totake 4th in her class.

Alexis Morley-Lyons '06, point riderfor Novice Equitation Over Fences, took4th in her class, earning the team threepoints. April Snoparsky '05 placed highestof Trinity riders, getting 2nd in her class.Equestrian Team President BeckyKowalski '05 got 6th, while PatriciaRuggles '04 took 3rd.

Again, Trinity did not ride anyone inthe Open Flat level, forfeiting any chanceof points in so doing.

Mooney was also point rider in theIntermediate Flat level, and again took 1st,really helping Trinity do well at their ownshow.

Calabrese took 1st in her class forNovice Flat, elevating the team's score asshe was point rider for this level. Kowalski

"Because of all our hard work, its clear the eques-trian team is here to stay..."

- Jamie Calabrese '05

because he would be judging the UConnshow in November. In the end, BobCrawford served as the judge for the show.

A large contributing factor to Trinity'splacing was the fact that the team did nothave anyone riding in the Open OverFences classes, and thus could not receiveany points for that level. However,Elizabeth Mooney '06 won her class for theIntermediate Over Fences level, and aspoint rider for that class she earned sevenpoints for the team.

Point rider is the one rider in. each levelfor each team whose points will be talliedas a part ofthe team total, deciding whichteam'^l'ffs the show. This is a leveling fac-tor, allowing smaller teams, like Trinity, to

rode in the same class as Calabrese andtook 6th. Danielle Katz '06, Liz Chubbuck'04 and Marlyse Rudnick '06 all rode in thesame class at this level.

Katz took 2nd, Chubbuck, 3rd andRudnick 4th, all of which contribute totheir own point tally, but do not affect theteam total. Claire Lawlor '06andSnoparsky rode in the same class, withLawlor taking 3rd and Snoparsky 5th.Morley-Lyons also rode at this level andtook 3rd in her class. . . • .

Heather Griffith '06 was point rider inAdvanced Walk-Trot-Canter Equitation onthe Flat and took 6th for her class, earningone point toward the team total.For Walk-Trot Equitation on the Flat, Catherine

Jamie CalabreseCOURTESY OF JAMIC CALABRESE

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Condella '07 took 3rd in her class. AnnaBorchert '07 got 4th in the same class.Maureen Masterson '06 got 4th, earningthree points as point rider for the level.

The real tension of the day came withthe Ride-Off between Mooney and aUConn rider for High Point Rider for theday. Each rider gets a certain number ofpoints for their performance throughout theday.

Mooney and the other rider were tiedfor first and had to execute a series ofmovements similar to those required in alower level dressage test. Mooneyclinched the title when she got her horse topick up the right lead coming down the ring

after having executed a figure eight andstarted off with a left lead. The other riderwas unable to get her horse to pick up thelead.

Many students traveled out to Avon tosupport their friends. Interim PresidentBorden Painter also made the trip to thebarn. The Class of 1963 showed up, hav-ing sponsored the Walk-Trot Equitation onthe Flat level for the team. They will nextcompete at Wesleyan University on Nov. ,8.

"Today marked a significant milestonefor the team and the school. Because of ailour hard work, it's clear the equestrianteam is here to stay, and getting strongerevery year," quoted Calabrese.

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CrtntoThe Trinity Tripod - September 30, 2003

Trinity Shuts Out Williams, Awaits HamiltonDefense Dominates, Ephs Go Home 1-1WILL YANG

SPORTS EDITOR

Saturday Sept. 27 marked thefirst time in six years Trinity foot-ball has defeated the Williams

Reardon completed just two pass-es in the first half.

The Bantam's offense con-trolled the line of scrimmage andkept the Williams defense on thefield for most of the game.

Ephs .The teams1 previous battleshave all been decided by no morethan a few points, and this year'smatch-up was no different.

On a sunny afternoon, Trinityfootball continued in its quest tobe back to back NESCACchamps.

"We're going 8-0, and youcan quote me on that," said defen-sive lineman ChristianMacNamara '05. Trinity, rankedeighth in New England, improvedits record to-2-0 while WiHiams,ranked fifth in New England, fellto 1-1.

Trinity controlled the tempoof the game early on, benefitingfrom what is arguably the fastestdefense in the league. Williams'quarterback, Joe Reardon '04,was under constant pressure fromthe quick Trinity defensive line ,and was sacked once by senioroutside linebacker Derek Collins.

The first half of the gamefound the two offenses strug-gling, as both teams combined forfive first-half turnovers and nopoints. Trinity's defense heldWilliams to 68 yards before half-time and forced Williams intomany three and out situations.

Trinity drove twice into theWilliams red zone early in thethird quarter, but was unable toconvert on two field goalattempts. The first was blocked,and the second sailed wide right.

Finally, after a 40 yard drivefrom their own territory, theBantams' offense got on theboard when freshman backupkicker Brett Sheridan placed his44-yard attempt through theuprights. Trinity was leading 3-0heading into the fourth quarter.

Trinity's defense made amomentous stand when theWilliams offense found itself witha chance to go for a fourth-and-inches run on its own 34-yardline.

Getting the ball back ondowns and in good field position,a 21-yard run by senior runningback Tom Pierandri set up juniorrunning back Nate Finkeldey's24-yard cutback run along the leftsideline for a touchdown.

William's defense had tiredfrom the constant pounding of theBantams' offensive line, andcould only watch as Finkeldeyfound daylight into the end zone.

On the next Williams offen-

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RB Nate Finkeldey 05 found p l e n t y of ho les on Saturday v s . t he Williams Ephs.

sive series, the Ephs marched upthe field into Trinity's red zonebefore stalling.

With less than four minutesleft in the game, Trinity's defenserefused to relinquish the shut-out,and blocked the field goal try thatwould have made it a one touch-down deficit.

The next offensive series byWilliams ended in an interceptionby senior defensive back TimMullaney, effectively sealing the

see FOOTBALL on page 22

Women's SoccerDrops the Ball 2-1Women's Soccer Defeated by Williams

Men's Soccer Falls to EphsTie Game Ends on Last-Second Goal, Also Lose to W. Conn.CAT MAHER

SPORTS WRITER

The Trinity men's soccerteam fell short to WesternConnecticut State University inan extremely competitive gameSept. 24. Neither team couldscore throughout the two halvesof regulation time.

Both the Trinity Bantams andthe Western ConnecticutColonials struggled to convert agoal but the teams held each otherto no scores and the game wasforced into overtime.

During the first overtimestrong defensive play from both

teams prevented any goals frombeing scored.

At last, during the thirteenthminute of the second overtime(and one hundred and thirdminute of the entire game) sopho-more Gustavo Ribeiro of WesternConnecticut scored off an assistby Bradley Fidler '07.

The Bantams did not haveenough time to answer back andended up losing 1-0.

The Bantams made a tremen-dous effort with nine shots ongoal.

Trinity senior goalie MichaelDoherty performed well, makingfive saves. Western Connecticut

senior goalie Mark Pataky madetwo saves to earn a shutout.

This loss causes the Bantamsto fall to a 1-2-2 record.

The Colonials, who areranked number eight in NewEngland, improved to a 7-2-1record as a result of their win.

"It was a tough game, unfa-miliar surface, unlucky to lose,"said senior tri captain JonGamble. "We thought it would bea tie and were disappointed withthe end result."

In the next game on SaturdaySept. 27, the Bantams faced theWilliams College Ephs.

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Co-Captain Rachel Tracy 04 brings the ball up.

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Defender Derrick de Vos 06 rrakes a successful slide tackle against the Ephs. ,

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It's everyone's dream to makea spectacular comeback in thefinal seconds of a game and tie itup. And in the last moments of atight match versus Williams, theTrinity Womens' Soccer teamlooked poised to eliminate theirone goal deficit with a drivedownfield. But the Hollywoodending was not to be, and thecomeback would fall just short.

Last Saturday's match up wascertainly an important one forTrinity.

Coming into the game 4-1,they were looking to establish justhow much of a force they hadbecome this season against theWilliams Ephs, a perennial topteam in the NESCAC conference.

But the game did not startsmoothly for the Bantams. Out ofthe gate they had trouble transi-tioning from offense to defense,oftentimes losing the ball at mid-field, inhibiting them from estab-lishing a strong rhythm.

"They beat us to a lot of 50-50 balls" said forward LindsayAquilina, one of the senior cap-tains.

The Ephs took advantage ofTrinity's slow start, netting thefirst goal of the game after justover 30 minutes. Despite a strongdefense, the transition problemscontinued, and Trinity left thefield at halftime still down 1-0.

The entire game turnedaround when junior defenderKathryn Hurley scored a longand tough shot five minutes afterthe half.

The goal came as some sur-prise to her, "I sort of saw it asbeing in the right place at theright time, and everything else-just clicked," she said.

With the game again tied, themomentum of the game changedcompletely, and Trinity was backin it. Both teams were looking togain the upper hand with a score,and for a while they both hadtrouble.

Ten minutes after Trinity tiedsee SUCCUMBS on page 22