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Mandala Be$ns Today in AACKARL BAKER

ARTS EDITOR

A very special event was heldinitiating a beautiful spiritual andartistic process on Friday Jan. 28.The grand opening of the 'Circleof Compassion, Circle of Peace'Tibetan Mandala Project wasboth broadly educational andentertaining in a multifacetedway. The purpose of the eventwas to officially exchange gifts,give gratitude and celebrate theeight nuns from the KeydongNunnery who have come toTrinity to share a unique experi-ence with our community. Thebeginning of the event featured aspeech by Laura Harrington, aProfessor of Religion who shareda fraction of her expansiveknowledge on the subject with astrong wit. That knowledge, shedeclared, is not much to considerwhen compared to the depth ofknowledge that the Tibetan nunsand monks have accumulatedthrough practice and study overmany lifetimes. She may dismissher experience with the Buddhistpractice of creating a mandala,but Ngawang Tendol, the leaderand translator for the nuns, saidthat Harrington did a very good

Noa Landes

The school is presented with an ornamental statue.

job explaining the purpose andpractice of mandala making.

Harrington said, "Mandalasare best understood as objects ofmeditation whose purpose is totransform and purify our ordinaryperception of the world and our-selves." The creation of a man-dala serves as a means for the

New Islamic ChaplainArrives at the Chapel

practitioner to meditate upon adeity or many deities. In this casethe central deity isAvalokiteshvara, the deity ofcompassion. The nuns will focuson being the image of the deityAvolokiteshvara or becomingcompassion itself as they createthe Mandala of Compassion frommemory.

After the lecture participants

see MANDALA on page 17

Administration Closes$3.5 Mil. Spending GapDAVID PIETROCOLA

NEWS EDITOR

Halfway through the currentfiscal year. College administra-tors have cut $3.5 million fromoperating costs across mostdepartments in hopes of finishingthe year with a balanced budget.President James F. Jones Jr.called for immediate action uponhearing of the budget overrun inDecember and is signaling for arevamp of the spending attitudeon campus without harming theCollege's core educational mis-sion.

The spending cuts, whichonly impact the current $110.9million operating budget endingJune 30, are a reaction to an over-spending build-up that hasplagued Trinity annually for thebetter part of a decade.

Over the course of winterbreak in December, budget lead-ers and the College's vice-presi-dents got together for a series ofweekly meetings in order tomake up the gap without takingmoney from academic programs.

Within the non-salary aca-demic operating budget ofapproximately $7 million,$690,000 was removed,Associate Dean of the Faculty

Steve Peterson said. The cutsinclude $190,000 from academicadministrative budgets, $173,500from "various academic pro-grams and services," $100,000from Information Technologybudgets, $70,000 from depart-ments with significantly restrict-ed funds, and $70,000 frominstructional departments.

Athletics and the library made upthe rest of the cuts.

"None of these reductions iseasy or without repercussions,"said Stevenson, "but none willcause irreparable damage to thequality of education over the bal-ance of this semester."

Interim Dean of the FacultyFrank Kirkpatrick added that "theshort term cuts we made betweenmid-December and now couldnot, given the urgency withwhich we were confronted,involve, as they should haveunder a longer-time period, asmuch consultation with the facul-ty and those most immediatelyaffected, as [we] would havewished."

Dean of Students Frederick

Alford commented that for the

rest of the semester, "administra-

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STEFANIE LOPEZBOYSTAFF WRITER

With the promise of culturaldiversity and understanding inmind, Trinity hired its firstMuslim Chaplain this spring on apart time basis to provide reli-gious support to the Muslim stu-dents on campus. The effort tohire Sohaib Sultan was spear-headed by freshman ShahzadAhmed last semester. Ahmed

The Hartford Courant

Sohaib Sultan, 24, has already published abook: The Koran for Dummies.

Ahmed, along with ReverendHeischman, turned to theHartford seminary for help.Reverend Heischman has con-nections with the MuslimChaplain recently hired atWesleyan, Abdullah Antepli, andhe recommended looking into thetraining program for someoneand mentioned Sohaib by name.Heischman notes, "Most of ourpeer institutions have Muslimgroups on campus, many with

advisors, fewerwith actual chap-lains. We have thefortunate situationof being close toHartford Seminary,which houses theonly program forM u s l i mChaplaincy in thecountry, trainingpeople for hospital,military, and edu-cational chaplaincyfor Muslims."

The Muslim

Trinity Reaches Beyond its BordersStudent Organizations Respond Swiftly to Tsunami Disaster Needs

approached Father Heischman inthe fall looking for a way to gath-er Muslim students together andprovide them with cultural andreligious guidance. Ahmed says,"When I got on campus I waslooking for opportunities forMuslim students, and I discov-ered there weren't any."

population at Trinity is verysmall, about 20 self-identifiedMuslim students, according tothe article about Sohaib in theChristian Science monitor onJan. 18. "The amount of Muslimstudents is actually beneficial,"

see NEW on page 9

LISA SAN PASCUALFEATURES EDITOR

On December 26, 2004, wehere in the Northeast ambled intoour living rooms in post-eggnoggrog and pumpkin-pie paunch,red and green giftwrap litteredacross our bedroom floors, boxesfrom Macys and Bloomie'sspilling out cashmere and fur withtags still attached. It was onlywhen we flicked on our televi-sions or car radios that we learnedthat on the other end of the world,many families were greeted byvery different reality.

Tsunami. A word that normal-ly appeared only in high schoolgeography textbooks, is nowuttered solemnly from podiumsand across dinner tables, flashingon CNN and scrawled on postersurging donations, / i id it's heretoo, on Trinity's campus, in apressing and powerful way.

Efforts began with the AsianAmerican Student's Association.For three days, AASA memberssat at a table outside of Mather,urging students to donate moneyfor Tsunami aid in exchange for aHershey's kiss. Three days oftabling raised over $350 dollars.Cans placed in the Gallows

Bookstore and the CampusBookstore yielded $30 in relief.

The students' individual auto-matic responses to so willinglygive of themselves was the mostcompelling of all. "I saw studentswho I know don't have campusjobs just whip out their wallets todonate," said AASA president,Priya Kalyan-Masih, '05. "Therewas just so much generosity."

Although Mather tabling is

over, AASA efforts continue withan "Asian Bazaar," slated forMarch in the Washington Room.The bazaar will read somethinglike 'A Taste of Hartford,' where$5 admission gets you a samplingof gourmet cuisine. Besides cele-brating various Asian cultures,the bazaar will funnel its moneyinto Tsunami disaster relief funds.

see RELIEF on page 12

I N S I D E

Read about the vigilheld in honor ofAndrew Clancy, aTrinity student whodied tragically over thewinter break on page 6.

Find out how Trinity professorsresponded to comments byHarvard's President on Page 6.

A senior reacts to student vio-lence on campus on page 2 inOpinions.

Turn to page 11 to discover what,fashion trends to avoid and whichto wear this winter.

Get a sneak preview of what'sahead for music in 200S on page16.

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Eliza K. Sayward '05EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

NEWS EDITORSEvin Norris '06 Dave Pietrocola'08

FEATURES EDITORSLisa San Pascual '06 Ashley Bell 'OS

SPORTS EDITORSEamonn Brown '05 Jon Simonian '07

PHOTO EDITORAbi Moldover '05

CrtpoirWilliam C. Yang '06

MANAGING EDITOR

OPINIONS EDITORSMaggie Downing '05 Joanna Hecht '07

ARTS EDITORSKail Baker '07 Eric Dancher '07

ANNOUNCEMENTSColin Raelson '07

ONLINE EDITORScott Baumgartner '07

BUSINESS MANAGERS

Jane Li '05 Dm Scollan '05

CARTOONIST

Liz Welsh '05

SENIOR EDITORS

Jonathan Chesney '05 Jenny Dunn '05 Eileen Flynn '05 Rebecca Fowler '05Alexander Gordon '05 Edna Guerrasio '05 Hannah Hurwitz '05 Greg Polin '05

Peter Scala '05

STAFF WRITERS

Emma. Bayer '07 Adrienne Gaffney '07 Stefanie Lopez-Boy '05

Trinity has a long and cherished history of valuing and maintaining itsmany traditions. Upon arrival on campus, students are quickly ushered off tolearn about and participate in events marking their official status as members ofthis institution. These traditions yield important and lasting memories and pro-vide an important initial way of fostering a sense of connection with past, presentand future generations of the Trinity community.

In addition to upholding tradition, the bonds of the Trinity communityare also strengthened through experiencing together the creation of new tradi-tions and supporting each other during times of transition, change and loss. Itis often the friendship, support and new connections made resulting from theseexperiences that make Trinity a home for many students, rather than a temporaryresidence.

Last week, Trinity students and faculty returned to campus to once againcome together and lend support to one another in a time of loss and transition.Over the break we were deeply saddened to learn of the death of one of our peersand just a day later were again stunned by news of the tsunami.Trinity students were also informed over break of new budget cuts and adjust-ments taking affect as a result of President Jones' plan to improve the college'sfinancial situation.

The process of adjusting to new administrative plans and policies is onefamiliar to Trinity, having experienced many changes in its administrative lineupin the past five years.

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Campus ViolenceCannot Be ToleratedJAMES STEVENSOPINIONS CONTRIBUTOR

Last semester I was threat-ened by fellow students at leastfive times. I don't think I'm anexception or a target for drunkenharassment, so I'm going toassume that if you go out on theweekends or attempt to calmdown destructive drunks, you'veprobably been threatened too.

they removed the girl from cam-pus. She was gone the same daythe incidents had been reportedand was not allowed back for theremainder of the semester or thenext.

These events, in form, aresimilar. Both students harmedthemselves or others and threat-ened to do it again. One wasremoved and the other was not.

Students here are capable of great vio-lence, something that has been proventime and time again.

Now, the fact that there are somany jerks walking around cam-pus trying to pick Fights on week-ends is bad enough, but the schooldoesn't do much to combat theproblem, either.

At the very end of last semes-ter I witnessed a male studentyelling at five others as theyapproached Elton. The studentthreatened them and pushed oneof the kids into the doorframe ofthe dorm's entrance, slammingthe door shut behind him. Iapproached the student a fewmoments afterwards and suggest-ed that he calm down. Of course,as soon as I spoke to him, Ibecame the target and he proceed-ed to get in my face and ask me ifI wanted to fight. Well, he endedup getting written up and, in theprocess, revealed that he was

Both students should have leftcampus immediately after theincidents. Because the first onedid not, other students were put atrisk and further incidentsoccurred. It's irresponsible forthe Trinity administration to letstudents that have been known toassault others remain on campusbefore serving their punishments.

I spoke to President Jones atone point about this very prob-lem. Why is it, I asked, that stu-dents who assault other studentsare allowed to remain on campusor to return to campus after ashort suspension? Why aren'tthey removed from the collegepermanently? His first responsewas that he wasn't afraid to expelpeople. This is good,~hut whenpushed further he admitted that hedidn't think two drunk guys fight-

Maybe we should again be asking whythreats to students by students aren'treported... but threats by non-students are.

already getting suspended forfighting. It turns out he'd alreadypunched a kid in the face and thecollege found it appropriate toremove him the next semester. Hewas obviously still a threat to stu-dent safety, so why wasn't heremoved immediately after thefirst assault?

I think it's valuable to juxta-pose this incident with one that Iwas involved with a few yearsago. I was an RA at the time andI discovered that a resident was athreat to herself and to thosearound her. She'd harmed herselfin front of others and had threat-ened her friends when they triedto calm her down. As soon as theDeans heard about the situation,

ing warranted expulsion. It does-n't seem like this sort of leniencyis combating a very real problemat Trinity: that dangerous studentsare allowed to remain on campus.Maybe we should again be askingwhy threats to students by stu-dents aren't reported to the cam-pus but threats by non-studentsare, especially when the student-made threats are far more preva-lent. We need to stop sticking ourheads in the sand.

Students here are capable ofgreat violence, something that hasbeen proven time and tune again.Students who have assaultedother students in any way, shapeor form should be immediatelyremoved from campus.

I IL. IL © W - T AThe spring semester began with a blizzard. FT confused manyadults back at home by calling it "spring." For now, PT will curlup under a blanket and dream of Spring Weekend.

OSA, formerly OSACGs,joined forces with ORL toform OCL.

With their powers combined,* T can they take over the world?

Yale Women's Squashemerges victorious.

PT wonders if their enor- •if if mous supply of grapes gave

them super powers.

The tomatoes axe back atMather and the Cave.

PT is worried that peoplewill no longer have a targetfor their anger.

Heat wave hits campus. l i Thirty-five degrees! Woo-hoo!Slushy goodness!

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Anti-Bush, Not Anti-AmericanNegative Foreign Attitudes Directed at Government, Not PeopleTIM COUGHLJN

OPINIONS WRITER

After seeing Gene Kellysinging and dancing through thestreets of Montmartre in AnAmerican in Paris, I was nearlysure that my arrival in Pariswould be greeted by smiling,singing Parisians eager to makemy acquaintance. Then I glancedat the newspaper, and was quick-ly reminded of the drastic chasmcurrently dividing France andAmerica. The topic wouldundoubtedly be a recurring oneduring my coming semester inParis.

As all good study abroad stu-dents should, after arriving, my

agreement was not always wel-comed.

The history of Franco-American relations has alwaysbeen a series of ups and downs.The truth is that Americans havenot always had the warmest wel-

are far different from ourselves.What is crucial to understand,

and I believe to begin the healingprocess, is that it is not a cam-paign against the people of eitherthe United States or againstFrance. It is true, a good deal of

Ribbons WronglyClaim "Support"

With the widespread media coverage ofthe European-American... divide, it is easyto assume that 'the others' are far diflferent...

come. Some of mainstreamAmerica is inclined to quicklymake reference to French depend-ence upon the Allies during theWorld Wars.

This somehow entitles us to

... the glinting steel of the guillotinereminded me that ideological disagree-ment was not always welcomed.

classmates and I promptly wan-dered into a focal establishment.Michel, a cheerful bartender whospoke rough French and evenworse English, greeted mycohorts and me.

Realizing we wereAmericans, he excitedly sat downand asked, "Bush ...you like?"Taken aback by his question, Ihesitated before responding. Irecalled the name of the bar, LaGuillotine, and noticed the guillo-tine in the far corner for which theestablishment bears its name. Ithought it best to carefully choosemy words.

Paris has long been a city ofwanderers and outsiders. Even so,the glinting steel of the guillotinereminded me that ideological dis-

their endorsement and support;they owe us. It is very easy (andoften convenient) to forgetFrance's role as America's firstsupporter and ally. America,which prides itself on ideological

the Parisians I have talked withdo not like George Bush. This hadabsolutely no effect on howMichel, the affable bar-owner,treated us as Americans.

"The reality," according toJoe Ray of The Star Ledger writ-ing from Paris, "is that in France,ire tends to be more focused onPresident Bush than theAmericans (red state or blue) whomake it to these shores." If youdon't agree with President Chirac,be wary of quickly concluding,"I don't know Harry, the Frenchare jerks."

Sarah Feeley, after graduatingfrom the University of Rhode

America, which prides itself on ideologi-cal diversity and freedom, should... be ableto look beyond cliches and stereotypes ...

diversity and freedom, should atleast be able to look beyondcliches and stereotypes to see thatjust like the U.S., France is anation of diversity.

With the widespread mediacoverage of the European-American ideological divide, it iseasy to assume that 'the others'

Island in 2002 with a BP.A. inacting and a B.FI. in French,accepted a position in Paris.Having studied in Paris as a stu-dent, she decided it would be theperfect place to begin a career.

Contrary to her earliest per-

see FRENCH on page 5

MAGGIE DOWNINGOPINIONS EDITOR

There was a time when a yel-low ribbon tied around a treemeant you were waiting for a sol-dier to come back home.

The contemporary equivalentseems to be a yellow ribbon mag-net stating one's support of ourtroops, found on car bumperseverywhere. Unfortunately, himany cases none of the profitsgenerated from the sale of thesemagnets goes to the troops, ortheir families, or any other wor-thy cause.

After all, they are simply follow-ing orders and doing their job,despite their personal beliefsabout the war.

The soldiers who most needsupport are the ones hi combatright now, not those who arehome, driving around and seeingthese ribbons. So if the desire is toactually support the military thenpeople should be sending carepackages, or getting involvedpolitically.

It would undoubtedly makeany military person proud to see

Unfortunately, in many cases none ofthe profits generated... goes to the troopsor their families, or any other worthy cause.

This is not true in every case,but the slogan is misleading. Thepackaging of these magnets isminimal and in most cases doesnot have any explanation of thecompany or any involvementwith supporting the troops. So theunassuming consumer who seesthese at the cash register picksone up because it seems like agood thing to do, and a smallprice to pay to declare one's sup-port while helping out.

But the help is what is lack-ing, and the consumer is left hithe dark. After all, the words"support our troops" do implymore than moral support frommiles away.

While I do not support thewar in Iraq I understand the desireto support the troops, whichseems to be a common sentiment.

that so many citizens wish toshow their support, but those hithe military know better than any-one that soldiers in combat needto know that they are safe andwell provided for. This is what theproceeds from these ribbonsshould be going towards.

When I Googled "support ourtroops ribbons" one of the firstsites listed was www.usamagnet-sandmore.com, a veritable ware-house of ribbon magnets hi everyvariety imaginable, ranging fromthe more traditional ones to"Keep my Daddy Safe" and"Freedom isn't Free."

And alongside these were rib-bons for cancer and diabetes, andfurther down the page were bas-ketball, tennis ball and bowling

see CAR on page 5

Better Profs, NotMore ConservativeALEX ZOLANOPINIONS CONTRIBUTOR

The Student GovernmentAssociation will soon vote onwhether or not to provide fundingfor Students for Academic

Neither President of the SGAIsaac Goldstein nor ExecutiveVice President Evan Norris thinkso. Both have expressed theiropinion that funding should bedenied because of SAF's alleged"clandestine activities" and the

like many single-issue pressure groups,its official mission is vague, ambiguous,and hard to disagree with...

Freedom, a group whose statedgoal is to restore "academic free-dom and educational values toAmerica's institutions of higherlearning." Like many single-issue pressure groups, its officialmission is vague, ambiguous, andhard to disagree with—but is thisorganization really as benign as itpurports to be?

"great lengths" the organizationwill go "to reduce the amount ofdiscussion" on campus. So whatis the hidden agenda of the SAF,and to what "great lengths" arethey willing to go?

Apparently the organization,founded by conservative colum-

see SAF on page 5

Hope for peace

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Inauguration Protesters Kept from ParticipatingBush is Hypocritical in Preaching Democracy, Keeping Spectators at Bay During Inaugural Ceremony

MEREDITH MCCORMACKOPINIONS CONTRIBUTOR

As a Washingtonian I take mycivic duties very seriously. Andon Jan. 20,1 marched down to thefront lines and showed my true

George Bush claims to bespreading democracy throughoutthe world, and yet it could noteven be found that day, in the citythat supposedly symbolizesAmerican democracy. This year

George Bush claims to be spreadingdemocracy throughout the world, and yetit could not even be found that day ...

colors. My true blue colors thatis.

As the 52nd president wassworn into office I was marchingdown 16th street with fellowflaming liberals to help representthe 57 million Americans whovoted against the Texan. I wasinvolved in just one of a dozenprotests that went on that day.There were thousands who camefrom all over the country to showtheir support. One group I talkedwith drove all the way down fromMaine.

Protesters waved homemadesigns such as "Jesus was a liber-al," "Draft the twins," and "Holdsomeone accountable." It wasdemocracy in action, but it did notlast long.

the presidential inauguration hadan unprecedented amount ofsecurity, with a hundred blocksclosed to traffic and public busesblocking the streets. The citylooked as if it were preparing fora war to break out in the streets.

The inauguration is consid-

To enter the parade route youneeded to have a ticket, whichyou could only come by throughyour congressional office. So thelow-lifes not wearing fur coatswere forced to wait hi long linesin one of only four publicentrances.

Many protesters were tooimpatient to stand in the line andinstead proceeded to rattle thefence and harass the riot cops.People in line and along the fencewere chanting, "Let us in. Takedown these fences, Bush. Theseare our streets too." Later theybegan ripping down the fence inprotest.

The police responded byspraying the group with pepper-

female officer who proceeded topat me down. Let me remind youonce again that this is supposed tobe a public event, and yet I was

Democracy: The Power ofFreedom to Overcome Tyrannyand Terror. He has invited theauthor to speak and has recom-

... I was being searched as if I were acriminal. I guess that democracy comeswith a hefty price tag.

The inauguration is considered a publicevent; however, with all the security youwould never know it.

ered a public event; however,with all the security you wouldnever know it. The entire lengthof the parade route was fenced offand heavily guarded by 13,000soldiers and police officers in riotgear.

spray. Those of us in line werenot too thrilled be standing down-wind of the spray that causes yourlungs to tighten and sets off acoughing attack. After an hour ofwaiting in line we finally enteredthe tent, I was ushered off to a

being searched as if I were acriminal. I guess that democracycomes with a hefty price tag.

When we entered the paraderoute, it was already covered withprotesters. Due to the massivestands there was not much to see.We booed when the president waspassing and the crowed wavedtheir signs and chanted.

Once I was on the other side ofthe fence it felt really strange, as ifI were in a cage. I was looking outtowards all the people lining thefence and the police in riot gearand sitting on motorcycles readyfor action. Later, it took just aslong to get out of the maze of peo-ple and fences as it did to get in.

In a recent Washington Postarticle, Bush was reported as high-ly praising Natan Sharansky'sbook titled The Case for

mended it to many colleges andfriends. The book outlines whatis called the "town square test,"meaning that a country is not freeif its citizens cannot go to a pub-lic place and express dissent fromthe ruling power without fear ofreprisal. This is certainly not thecase with this administration.Take Jeremiah Jenkins, theHarvard Divinity Student whobooed during the President'sinaugural speech and was quicklywhisked off by secret service,arrested, held overnight, andfined 25 dollars. Where isdemocracy, President Bush?

President Bush, I applaud youfor spreading democracy aroundthe world when there is none tobe found at home. I guess I willjust have to wait for the great dateof Nov. 4,2008.

Wrong Place forPromoting AgendaSCOTT BAUMGARTNER

ONLINE EDITOR

I could not find it in me to speak atAndrew Clancy's vigil last Tuesday. I wasafraid that by sharing just a few minisculeand isolated memories of the first person Imet on campus, I would not be, as MikeLanza eloquently said, doing the total manjustice.

I did not have it in me to tell a smallgroup of people about how Andrew cameto me one day with complete seriousness inbis eyes to ask me whether it would be

stating that he and Andrew shared an inter-est in Buddhist thought, which was tameenough. But my stomach began to turn ashe recounted to us the incredibly unfortu-nate and uncharacteristic details surround-ing the death of our friend in order to speakout in favor of non-violence.

Non-violence is assuredly a worthycause and I might have been interested inwhat the activist had to say if he were notusing a tragic event to promote an agenda.No matter what side of the issue that one ison, taking advantage of the volatile emo-

Along tne J^ong Walk...

da you thutk edout

... taking advantage of the volatile emotions of agroup of people is intolerable and unacceptable.

improper to walk the short distance fromhis bedroom to the bathroom in just hisboxers.

I made the right decision in not vocal-izing my memories of Drew. While wewere always in the same group of friends,the friends who spoke at his vigil knew himbetter and their words, I feel, made a biggerimpact than mine could have made. Thewords, and the memories attached to them,made me smite in remembrance. I onlywish that others had also refrained fromspeaking.

Despite the aims of the vigil, the kindwords of Andrew's friends and the atten-dance of not only his close friends but alsoteachers, administrators and the President,some words that were spoken left me fum-ing with anger and smarting from reopenedwounds.

In the past, I have railed against theapathetic and irresponsible, but this week Iturn my aim to an overzealous activist, whowill remain nameless simply for the reasonthat I don't know his name. This man wasone of the last to speak, and he started by

tions of a group of people is intolerable andunacceptable.

I feel that the memory of Andrew wascheated just a little bit when this man spokelast Tuesday. I know that I wasn't the onlyone who left the vigil with a bad taste in mymouth.

For me, all the progress that had beenmade, from the story of the evolution ofAndrew's nickname "The Fridge" to thesymbolism of Homer Simpson, was voidedwhen the activist ended his speech byannouncing that he would be stickingaround if anybody wished to speak withhim about his message.

The selfishness of this man still grateson me, nearly a week later. The activisttook a night focused on the memory ofAndrew Clancy and unethically and tact-lessly portrayed Andrew as nothing morethan an animal, debasing him to a meretalking point.

I sometimes wonder when the abjectprofiteering of this world will stop and itscares me to think that I maybe should beasking "if'ratherthan "when."

I didn t even know it was online.

~ Matt Phinney '08

xt s convenient, it was annoying" to naveto run around oelore.

— Ashley Brennan o5

I thought it was annoying', I had some

trouble with it.

~ Tom jirmeg-an 06

" I think it s a lot better, it s less work forthe Registrar s Office.

— Christina Chavez oj

I think it s great. I t s more efficient, itsaves paper, you don't have to wait forthe office hours for the Registrar."

— Jesse Co 00

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Car Magnet PoliticsLacking Real Impact

continued from page 3ball stickers. The strangest ofthem all was definitely the stonetablet magnet with the TenCommandments. I began to doubtthe validity of this company.

Nowhere on the site is anyindication that any of the pro-ceeds from any of these magnetsgoes to help any of the causesthey "support."

The presence of other prod-ucts that have no connection to acause makes me think even morethat profit is this company's first

enough. But the average con-sumer will not go to all the workI did to find a worthy group,instead they will be struck by theribbon when they see it in a storeand will have contributed nothingto the troops other than a gesturethat may make a family memberfeel better but will do nothing tobring loved ones home safe anysooner.

Just as important is that rib-bons that claim to support a dis-ease are actually contributingtowards research for a cure. The

So if the desire is to actually support themilitary, then people should be sending carepackages or getting involved politically.

and only goal. It is bad enoughthat there are no proceeds goingto the troops, because perhapspeople do not always buy thesemagnets for that purpose but justwish to make a statement, butwhen a magnet claims to supportan illness it should be doing justthat and. anything less is trickerydesigned to prey on the emotionsof the consumer for profit.

same situation exists in that thereare some reputable companiesand others that are not, and it isnot necessarily an easy task todetermine which the best is.

All the awareness in the worldwon't find a cure for cancer orAIDS until the research can bedone, and medical research costsmoney, money that won't comefrom greedy corporations that

... the average consumer will... havecontributed nothing to the troops otherthan a gesture...

Another site I found,www.yellowribbonamerica.com,offered free ribbons, as well asinformation on how to getinvolved by making a donation tosupport a military family. The"store" is nothing more than aplace to make donations in anydenomination, and they encour-age people to "Please show yoursupport not just with words butwith your deeds."

Sites like this one seem tounderstand the yellow ribbon as asymbolic gesture, and also thefact that that gesture is not

care only about making their ownprofit and not about truth in sales.

I hope those who want toshow their support will take thetime to find legitimate companiesthat really do help such aswww .y ello wribbonamerica .comor www.gearthatgives.com (forBreast Cancer among other caus-es).

But if you really want to sup-port the troops be more pro-activethan simply putting a magnet onyour bumper, get involved in anyway possible to bring them homeand out of harm's way.

SAF Misses Important FocusPolitical Bias is a Reflection of Professors' Teaching, Not Politics

continued from page 3nist David Horowitz, has a masterplan to force universities and col-leges to have equal numbers ofideologicajlj conservative andliberal professors. Members areencouraged to find out the politi-cal affiliation of professors,record lectures, and collect^eliminating syllabi. Membersare then to put pressure on theadministration and the studentgovernment to approve legisla-tion that could modify a school'shiring decisions.

The fact that professors areideologically biased creates twoserious problems according toSAF: one is that students are notexposed to the full range of opin-ions on various topics, and thesecond is that students with views

problem of bias in individualclassrooms.

I think the biggest problemwith SAF's strategy is their con-centration on ideology at all,especially based on membership

think that the type of person will-ing to forgo earning the biggerpaychecks available outside aca-demia is more likely to be ideo-logically liberal than conserva-tive.

I know it is more important to me, atleast, that my professors are intelligent anddemanding... than that they agree with me

in a political party. Being a reg-istered Democrat is a weak sign,at best, that a person is liberal.Membership in a political party isnot as black and white as we tendto think after such a polarizedelection.

It seems to me that the twoproblems with academia diag-nosed by SAF would be better

... the biggest problem with SAP's strat-egy is their concentration on ideology atall, especially based on... a political party.

other than those espoused by theirprofessor fear speaking theirmind due to the perceived threatof grade retribution.

I don't doubt that academia islargely a stronghold of the left,although I would note that wholedepartments, such as economicsand business, are just as oftenthought of as strongholds of theright.

I also agree that exposure to afull range of opinions and an openforum to discuss them should be agoal of academia. But I can't bepersuaded that the way to solveeither one of these problems is tohire more ideologically diverseprofessors.

An ideologically conservativeprofessor is just as likely to omitviewpoints and intimidate dis-senters as an ideologically liberalprofessor. Also, a more ideolog-ically diverse set of professorsmay solve the general problem ofliberal-bias across the faculty, butit would not solve the very real

solved not by hiring a more ideo-logicaL crowd, but a better crowd.

Any professor who omitsviewpoints, intentionally or unin-tentionally, is not being as intel-lectually rigorous as should beexpected in a college setting.Any professor who intimidatesstudents, intentionally or uninten-tionally, is not fostering the typeof environment most conducive;to learning. -i'-"' I Think it may be that the lib-eral bias of professors and thequality of professorship arelinked, but I doubt one causes theother. More likely, the academiclife attracts people who care moreabout rigorous study, discussion,and critique than earning money(I think it is no secret that whilebeing a professor certainly carriessome benefits, like vacations,nobody is getting rich). I also

In fact, I think many ideolog-ical liberals tend to imagine aca-demia as the very ivory tower it isstereotypically portrayed as, andglory in the possibility of beingpart of that club.

As many qualified ideologicalconservatives (those who wouldbe great professors) find employ-ment outside academia, there issimply more room for bad profes-sors, and most of the candidatesare liberal.

I know it is more important tome, at least, that my professorsare intelligent and demanding (aswell as nuanced - often not thestrong-suit of the polarized, ideo-logical crowd), than that theyagree with me. , Higher educationis too expensive to be taught byunder-qualified ideologues of anyflavor.

I am sympathetic to SAP'sstated mission, but-1 think theirdiagnosis that the problem is dueto too many ideologically liberalprofessors is erroneous. I thinkthe problem is that there are toomany bad . professors.Approaching the problem of lib-eral-bias in academia in an ideo-logical way is not going to solvethe two problems highlighted by .SAF.

However the SGA votes, adiscussion about the liberal biasof professors (limited to Trinity'sfaculty) and how to alter it wouldbe interesting and worthwhile.

French Curious, Not Criticalcontinued from page 3

ceptions, after living and work-ing in Paris for the past two years,she has found herself becomingmore 'French' and at the sametime more 'American.'

Working for NYU in France,Feeley has had the opportunity tointeract herself and witness stu-

stereotypes and fallacies are putto rest.

This is not to say that thepolitical divide that has spannedthe Atlantic is not in desperateneed of mending. With the start ofhis second term, President Bushshould heed the warning of bothEuropean and American intellec-

The first necessary step in bridging thegap is for both sides to acknowledge theinaccuracy in many of the perceptions.

dent interactions with the French.In these interactions, PresidentBush is a nearly daily question. Atfirst taken aback by the straight-forward questioning, Feeleyfound that oftentimes it stemsfrom a genuine curiosity ratherthan disdain. It is through thedaily personal interactions that

tuals. Roger Cohen of The NewYork Times cautioned,"Differences of perception will bere-enforced by deep-rooted forcesthat now push European and theUnited States in opposite direc-tions."

With his upcoming trip to theEuropean Union, President Bush

is taking a step towards mendingthe divide, but it is still a delicatesituation. Said poignantly bySimon Serfaty of the Center forStrategic and InternationalStudies, "The president hasdemonstrated his willingness tore-engage with the Europeans -all of them, not one at a time, andthat includes the French. This iscritical. But achieving tangibleresults will not be easy becausebasic positions have notchanged."

The first necessary step inbridging the gap is for both sidesto acknowledge the inaccuracy inmany of the perceptions. Usingthe words of French ForeignMinister Michel Barnier, "In theend, the most inaccurate clichesare obscuring the most obvioustruths. It is time to put a stop toit."

Dear Jimmy. . .

Have a question? A pressing problem? Want

to know the story behind something going on

at Trinity? Wondering about the implications

of a policy change? Ask President Jimmy

Jones, who will be answering questions in a

weekly Tripod column. Any topic is fedr game-

this is your chance to go straight to the horse's

mouth about an issue on campus that's been

getting to you.

Send all questions to:tripod@trincoll.edu

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FEBRUARY I. 2ooq

Practiced VP of Advancementto Lead New Capital CampaignADRIENNE GAFFNEY

STAFF WRITEROn Jan. 19 President James F.

Jones, Jr. announced the appoint-ment of Ronald Joyce, a widelysuccessful fundraiser as Trinity'snew Vice President of CollegeAdvancement in a campus-widee-mail. Joyce is currently SeniorVice President for Developmentat The Children's Hospital ofPhiladelphia and will begin hisnew position in the comingweeks.

The Vice President ofAdvancement plays a critical rolein the school's finances and capi-tal campaigns. There has beensubstantial turnover among theBoard of Trustees' AdvancementCommittee, specifically the recentretirement of capital campaignleader Doug Tansill '61. TheDepartment of Advancement alsohas unfilled positions, whichJoyce will need to quickly fill.

Trinity putforth an exhaustiveinquiry to find the perfect personfor the job. This was led bysearch consultant Tom Molloy,fundraising consultant SueWashburn and Scott Reynolds,Secretary of the College. Theywere impressed with Mr. Joyce'sexperience working at Colgate,Grinell and Bates Colleges. Theyalso believe that he will be able tolead a very effective capital cam-paign that is planned for thefuture, as he has extensive back-ground in that arena including a

$400 million campaign at TheChildren's Hospital. Reynoldsstressed Joyce's stellar credentials

Trinity Press Release

Before coming to Trinity Joyceworked at Colgate and Bates.and suitability for the job:"Relative to the other candidateshe had more experience, moresuccess and he is somebody whocan come here and get startedright away."

"Ron Joyce enjoys a nationalreputation as one of the most gift-ed vice-presidents of collegeadvancement in the United Statesand has structured a number ofhighly successful advancementstaffs as well as a number ofequally successful comprehensivecampaigns," said President Jonesin a press release.

The new Vice President wasdrawn to Trinity for several rea-

SGA Minutes -Jan. 31I I asr «ivk"s ir.ini.ite.->approvedII. Jordan'-, amendment tabledini an indrfuule unioni" ofLimeIII. Week's agenda uppinwdIV. lluni/.d".-. rcpuna SGA t-shirt.\ designedb. Possible relationship pendingwith Independence AirlineV. Student Lilc committeeit. LeUor 10 be published inVI Academic i<imir< ccumnii-Uv,u Lfforts to extend add'dropperiod U> two weeksb. LI foils to extend lihrdr>lunii s to 24 hour.s <i da\c Resolution in support olalmr.dd.blo textbook*VII. Community Developmentcommittee:i. Reforming ihc inletiriry con-uacl tiiioutrii "AcariemicalK

b lnipiovc dnihij:unj of inerole of student YAc and1 illy development C'Vlll Budget ComnulW- RobLyncha. First budget conuuiikc raecL-uig will be Feb. 13th

b Small dccKJ.sc in secondsemester's budgetc, I-irst meeting will be regard-ins: student org.tni/aljont.IX. Multicultural affairsa. FiM meeting took placeb. New member to the coun-cil - the Arabic Clubi" Wednesday, ASSA will hostvigil icgdrdir.g tsunami; to takeplace in RitWnbersi Lounged, Imani will lioat variousevents Juring February. BlackHistory Month.e HilLt, Inteiiailli service next•week Tiilk iiboiu unc-iucidlrelationshipsX. Secretary's hlectiona. Movement lu nominate BethT'razer for soereldr>b Ha/er electedXI Motion to install BnliunyI-nglisli "OS to Aidmis.sions andHikincial Aid Committee-i. Fussed. Senatoi Brili:ui\biighs.li\II Motion 10 accept, the text-book resolution vi tlh thechanges, PASSLD.X1H. Vote to fund Students torAcademic Freedoma. Motion FAILED

sons. He is very eager to return toNew England, the place where heformerly resided. "My first jattraction was the national reputa- jtion," he said, "My second attrac- jtion was President Jones and his ivision and enthusiasm for Trinity i... and third was that I felt there |was a strong core of goodadvancement officers already inplace."

Joyce is especially excitedabout all that he hopes to accom-plish at Trinity. He is especiallyenthusiastic about the

Cornerstones Project, an ongoingoverview of Trinity's financialand administrative policies, whichhe believes will present signifi-cant funding opportunities for theschool.

"The biggest emphasis goingforward is to work to dramaticallyincrease the endowment and theannual fund so that there areenough resources to ensure thatthe key features of theCornerstones materialize," hesaid.

Additionally, Joyce has astrong desire to be a fully func-tioning member of the campusand to take advantage of every-thing that it has to offer. "My wifeand I are also really looking for-ward to joining the Trinity com- jmunity and participate in morethan just advancement. We wantto get to know faculty and lookforward to the sense of communi-

ty-"

Andrew C\cw\cy1985-2004

EVAN NORRISNEWS EDITOR

A vigil was held last Tuesdayin the chapel to honor the life andmemory of Trinity studentAndrew Clancy '07, who wasshot Dec. 25, 2004, by a policeofficer responding to a domesticdispute call! Originally scheduledfor Sunday, the service waspushed back because hazardousdriving conditions over the week-end prevented a large number ofstudents from reaching campus intime.

The vigil was well attended; atestament to the lives Clancy hadtouched in his two years at Trinity.Chairs were arranged in a semicir-cle in the nave to seat friends andmourners. It was soon clear thatthe chairs would not satisfy the

crowd streaming in to the chapelThose eager to honor Clancyfound spots in the empty pews,the raised benches reserved forchoirs and the standing room nearthe entrance. The atmosphere inthe chapel was tense with walls ofsad faces staring anxiously at eachother. Father Daniel Heischman,the College Chaplain, offered abrief introduction setting the gen-eral guidelines for the evening.After he concluded, FatherMichael Dolan gave a short ser-mon.

The floor was then opened toanyone who wished to speak andshare fond memories- of Clancy.The speakers were as varied anddynamic as Clancy's life.

see COMMUNITY on page 7

Trinity Professors Reject HarvardPresident's Controversial CommentsEMMA BAYER

STAFF WRITERTo the great disdain of many,

Harvard President Lawrence H.Summers suggested at a confer-ence in January that the shortageof women in higher level mathe-matics and science isdue to innate differ-ences between theg e n d e r s . D r .Summers pointed tothe fact that boyshave achieved moretop scores in teststhan girls had. Helater apologized forhis remarks andcalled himselfdeeply committed tothe advancement ofwomen in science.Now back on cam-pus, the Trinity com-munity is weighingin on the issue.

"If I was afemale math or sci-ence major at

Harvard, I'd transfer," saidTrinity junior Matt Ross.

"As an economics major, Iwas thoroughly offended by theHarvard President's commentsabout female proficiency in mathand science," says Sosena

Lemma '07.Paula Russo, the Chair of

Trinity College's MathematicsDepartment, called it "irresponsi-ble to be President of Harvard

see COMMENTS on'page 7

Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers hasthe countiy over his comments.

Associated Pressdrawn controversy from across

FEBRUARY l, 2004 - THE TRINITY TRIPOD NEWS PAGE 7

Community RemembersStudent at Chapel Vigil

continued from page 6Through the speeches and eulogies, a spec-tator unfamiliar with Clancy would be ableto identify his hobbies, passions and aspi-rations. The audience learned that Clancyloved sports, namely football and especial-ly the teams affiliated with Boston.Clancy's desire to travel and his pursuit ofa career in law or politics was articulated aswell as his inimitable sense of humor, thecharacteristic of Clancy'sthat was most praised andmost desperately missed.The warm accounts ofClancy's life were punctu-ated by long moments ofreflection and painfulsilence.

The vigil was plannedby Heischman and Dean ofStudents Frederick Alford,who wanted to provide the .Trinity community with an f* "*. j ,"••"-outlet for their grief andbewilderment over the loss

Mass, and that, judging from the storiesfrom his friends at Trinity, "Andrewopened up here and blossomed." ,

It was obvious from the vigil thatClancy had discovered his niche here atTrinity. He joined Cleo, became a memberof Chapel Singers and spent a term on theStudent Government Association duringhis stay here, making countless friendsalong the way. He was pursuing cultural

adventures as well. ARussian language major,Clancy spent time inChina last summer andwas experimenting withBuddhism.

Student groups arealready making plans fora tribute or memorial toClancy, but should theseplans fall through, a lega-cy is already growing inhis name. Because of the

i u r* J violent way in which hejabon Gordon J_uwrruuwuxw^L v,.~* «», ̂ oo t L' JL. • died, there is now a push

of one of its own. "Grief is e t e l * * 07 spent his free time i n L o w e U ; M a s s . t 0 e q u i p

a natural reaction to some- °" the quad playing sports. ^ ^ p o l i c e o f f i c e r s

thing that is both so tragic and confusing," there with non-lethal tasers, so that a simi-said Alford. The Dean envisioned a vigilthat would help the community understandthe different facets of Clancy's life. That is,the testimony of his siblings in Cleo, hisroommates and his friends in ChapelSingers would,"when integrated, create anidentity for Clancy at the vigil, a sumgreater than all its parts. To Alford, thevigil functioned as both catharsis andreminder: "Someone disappeared and weshould stop and take note. It's not healthyto bury sadness."

Doian, who delivered a heartfelt ser-mon at the opening of the vigil, saw thenight's procession as a potential unifier atTrinity. Lamenting the multitude of ele-ments that divide the Trinity community,Dolan went on to say that "tragedy tends tobreak down those walls." He made clearthat Clancy was a significant but quietpresence at his home parish in Lowell,

lar situation can be easily avoided in thefuture.

In the same spirit, Michael Stier '05 hasproposed a student group to honor Clancy'smemory and to decry violence and misdi-rected anger. The group, which wouldfunction as a meditation club, was inspiredby Stier's own experience with the devo-tional exercise and his conversations withClancy. The main thrust of the club,according to Stier, is to "take all that griefand become advocates and activists forpeace and non-violence."

The lessons learned from the Me anddeath of Andrew Clancy have not fullydeveloped on Trinity's campus, but thevigil held last week certainly helped guidea stunned student body and a college com-munity rocked by sadness. "What is themeaning of life?" asked Dolan, 'That's notcovered in the curriculum."

Comments Raise Controversycontinued from page 6

and make any disparaging comment aboutwomen in math and science."

At Trinity, though, women and men areequally represented in the mathematicsand science departments. Twelve out of 23current math majors are women. "For along time, at least 50% of the majors havebeen female," said Russo. In the last 10years, 43% of Trinity's graduates in sci-ence have been female; 53% of the biolo-gy graduates are female; and 61% of neu-roscience graduates are female.

"I feel that, at Trinity, no one is scaredto be smart, regardless of gender," addedLemma.

Faculty positions in the mathematicsand science departments also showimpressive equity. Forty-four percent oftenure-track faculty in the sciences arewomen, compared to only 39 percent of allTrinity faculty. In Biology, 6 of the last 9hires have been women, and the depart-ment is one female faculty member awayfrom a 50-50 ratio.

This is a "dramatic and rapid change,"says Professor Dan Blackburn, the Chairof Trinity's Biology Department, "When Ijoined the faculty [in 1988], there were nowomen." The first female faculty memberat Trinity was hired into the math depart-ment.

"Not that long ago," says Blackburn,"we were looking at gender equity issueswith concern." He points to Trinity's cur-rent statistics, though, as "just what youcan expect when barriers areremoved...We've got powerful evidenceof all kinds that when social and politicalbarriers are removed, women do at least aswell as men."

"Society honors science but denigratesthose who practice it," added Blackburn,"and sociological factors can affect peoplein all kinds of subtle ways."

"It can be difficult for young women tofeel confident with social norms that sayscience is not a good place to go," pointsout Biology Professor Joan Morrison."All your faculty, all the people who runthe professional organizations that youjoin are men. A 'Good Old Boys' networkis a pretty pervasive idea in my field ... itimplies that certain people are not as ableto penetrate the field."

"Female students who are struggling inmath or science are much more likely thanmale students to think that it is their weak-ness. The internalization is perhaps a wayto view your own performance that is asociological difference not just in math,"says Russo. "I can remember being theonly woman in some of my classes, andthat does not happen anj more."

Residential Life and OS A Combineto Form Office of Campus Life

The two departments have merged operations in order to"deliver programs and services to our students m a complementa-ry and efficient way." Amid title changes for current directors, ihcCampus Life Office has recruited Dave Andres as InterimResidential Community Coordinator, His duties will locus onimproving programming within residence hails and assistingResidential Programming Assistants in "promoting educational,social, recreational, and cultural programming on campus/'

Trinity Posts 111% Gain inAfrican-American Enrollment

According to The Journal of Blacks In Higher Education, first-year African-American enrollment at the College increased to 38students in 2004, up from 18 in 2003. This is the highest gainamong all top-ranked liberal arts colleges surveyed by JBHE.Trinity ranks seventh in African-American enrollment increasesover the past decade.

"We believe a good measure of our success can be attributedto the continued sharing of responsibility among all staffmembers for recruiting students of color, increased efforts todevelop productive relationships with national college accessprograms, and our commitment to fully finance a student'sdemonstrated need," said Anthony Berry, associate director ofadmissions and coordinator of multicultural recruitment in the lat-est issue of eQuad.

ConnPIRG and SGA PassResolution in Support of

Affordable TextbooksA resolution based on a survey conducted by the Connecticut

Student Public Interest Group (ConnPIRG) was passed last nightby the Student Government Association. The resolution calls oncollege textbook publishers to "keep the cost of producing text-books as low as possible without sacrificing educational content."

ConnPirg and the SGA also called upon faculty to favor theleast cost textbook option and to join the fight againt exploitativepublishers.

SGA Elections for SenatorScheduled For Tuesday, Feb. 8The SGA will be holding midterm elections next tuesday to fill

vacant spots in the student assembly. Two Senior, spots, threeJunior spots and two Senator-at-Large spots are open. In addi-tion, three Budget Committee seats are available. Those who wishto run can obtain packets at the front desk in the lobby of MatherHall.

Cornerstone Project MakingProgress With Report

Gaining steam since last fall when it was unveiled, theCornerstone project, a massive planning initiative, has produceda preliminary draft of the plan to establish a financial and admin-istrative framework for Trinity College.

The rough draft could impact issues of human and materialresources, as well as larger issues of policy and procedure.

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President Jones Requests Financial Responsibilitycontinued from, page 1

tive offices will not be able tomake donations to help sponsorspeakers or other events that haverelied on those donations in thepast." Instead, he suggested"sometimes we will need to poolresources across departments anddo programs together.Sometimes we will just have tosay we can't afford to do some-thing and sometimes we willneed to find creative alternatives.When you consider the level oftalent and creativity on this cam-pus, we have an embarrassmentof riches."

The Buildings and GroundsDepartment contributed$600,000 to the gap by delayingnonessential projects that do notdeal with safety or security.Trinity's administrative officesabsorbed $400,000 while approx-imately $250,000 came from bigcuts in overtime. In admissions,the college has cut back on mail-ings to profiled high school soph-omores and attendance of specif-ic college fairs in the next sixmonths. The rest of the fundscame from "enhancing revenuestreams" and institutionalaccounts.

However, some administra-tors feel students will not noticethe repercussions of the cuts.

"I think »the reductions inacademic departments will be

only faintly apparent to studentsif they are visible at all. Thiswill be true, not because thereductions are not real, butbecause I think faculty membersand administrators will do every-thing in their power to preservethe integrity and quality ofTrinity's educational program,"said Stevenson.

Contrary to student specula-tion, the recent decision to startcharging $1 for alcohol at school-sponsored functions such as thispast week's Winter Formal doesnot stem from these spendingcuts, stated Alford.

As noted in President Jones'Jan. 24 e-mail to students, theroot cause of these budget gapsstems from Trinity's "livingbeyond its means, adding pro-grams and rarely making harddecisions about taking anythingaway."

"Trinity can not be all thingsto all people and provide everyservice to everyone," added Dean

cation are financially sufferinghas led Trinity to overspend eachyear.

The situation is "not unlike" alot of schools recently, saidBudget Director Allan Sauer.

According to Sauer, the deci-sion to start taking a look at finan-cial responsibility stems from amultitude of strains and increas-ing costs. "Institutions such asTrinity depend on endowment,"said Sauer, adding that it is sec-ond only to tuition in revenue.The college takes a three-yearaverage of the endowment valueand comes up with a maximumvalue that can be borrowed eachyear, usually between 5 and 10percent.

The economic recession at theend of the 1990s and into the 21stcentury has resulted in a reduc-tion in gifts and endowment,which are important in offsettingthe $54,000 per year cost to edu-cate one student. The latest fig-ures put Trinity's endowment at

"None of these reductions is easy or withoutrepercussions."

- Steve Peterson, Associate Dean

Alford.Indeed, the addition of pro-

grams and services without mak-ing cuts during a time whenmany institutions of higher edu-

approximately $380 million, farbehind competing schools such asWilliams, Amherst, andHamilton, with endowments of$1.2 billion, $1 billion, and $486

million, respectively.Nationwide increases in prop-

erty and liability insurance, med-ical costs, and increases in finan-cial aid in order to remain com-

nonessential items that will be thesource of most eliminations orreductions.

According to Secretary of theCollege Scott Reynolds, the

Trinity can not be all things to all peopleand provide every service to everyone."

- Frederick Alford, Dean of Students

petitive have also put pressure onTrinity's costs, causing financialstrains from all sides.

In the past, the college wasable to dip into reserves to coverany gaps over the course of theyear. However, with a new presi-dent and overspending that hasthe potential to deplete reservesand endanger the financial sur-vival of the institution, adminis-trators and the President's BudgetCouncil are gearing up to evalu-ate a variety of avenues to cutspending and increase availablefunds.

In conjunction with officersfrom the Student GovernmentAssociation, the budget councilwill begin taking a careful look atall activities at Trinity, first iden-tifying the core pieces essential tothe educational mission. Any coreactivities as well as their supple-mental supports will not be con-sidered for budget cuts.

Following this initial process,the council will then identify

budget council consists of DeanAlford, Interim Dean Kirkpatrick,Associate Dean Peterson, Vice-President for Strategic PlanningSharon Herzberger, Dean ofMulticultural Affairs KarlaSpurlock-Evans, Dean ofAdmissions Larry Dow,Associate Professor of ChemistryThomas Mitzel andAdministrative Assistant RobinKelly.

The Trinity administration isalso moving to generate new, sus-tainable revenue streams, whichinclude a build up of the endow-ment, long-term fundraising, and

" a search for applicable grants.The college recently hired

Ronald Joyce, a fundraiser with asuccessful track record, to headup newly created fundraisingcampaigns.

The operational budget forfiscal year 2005-2006 is expectedto reach the Board of Trustees fortheir final meeting of the year inMay.

WHAT IS SEXUAL ASSAULT? j

Sexual assault is any non-consensual sexual contact. Rape is non-consensual penetration - vagina or anal -by a penis, finger orother object. On campus, the majority of sexual assaults & rapes most often occur between acquaintances, on "hook-ups." If a

person (male or female) says "no" to sex, or resists in any way, that constitutes a lack of consent. If a person is incapacitated byalcohol or other drugs or by physical restrictions they cannot give consent. Silence does not indicate consent. Having had con-sensual relations with a person in the past does not mean that you have consent for the current situation. It is also important to

remember that consent granted for acts of foreplay does not mean that a partner is consenting to all sexual activities.

IF YOU ARE SEXUALLY ASSAULTED...

Explain what happened to a faculty member, staff person, or student you feel comfortablewith: an Administrator, professor, Residential Fellow or a SART member (see below).

Contact Campus Safety to report the incident (x2222).

Go to the hospital for a post-evidence collection kit ("rape kit"). Campus Safety willarrange transport through TCERT or the Heath Center, and someone will accompany you.Females: please do not shower or douche as that will destroy evidence.

SART (Sexual Assault Response Team) members are available to you for assistance fol-lowing the assault, in the form of counseling, advocacy, medical care, academic interven-tions and referrals.

Reporting the Incident: We encourage you to report the incident, tt is up to you how you dothis. Everyone's first priority will be your well-being. Once assured you know what resourcesare available for your support, the process will begin by helping you to understand whatyour options are for dealing with the situation. The Dean or a SART member can explainyour options. You do not have to give the name of the perpetrator when you report, nor doyou have to list your name. A SART member can take the report, which will go to the Deanof Students, Women's Center and Campus Safety for statistics. You could also file a formalreport with the Dean of Students office, listing your name and the perpetrators'. You couldhave the campus call the Hartford Police, or not, it's up to you.

SART; Campus Safety: x 2222Student Peer Counselors:

Sana Khan:x3123;Lindsey Jordan: x4982;

Will Servos: x5160;Emily Beman: x3544

Dean of Students: x2156Health Center: x2018

Women's Center: x2408Counseling Center: x2415

Chaplain: x2012Office of Residential life: x2305

Ferris Athletic Center: X2059First Year Program: X5375

Student Activities: X2049/2171Hotline: 522-6666 (TTY) Spanish: 1-888-568-

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Ways to Avoid Sexual Assault• Use common sense! Communicate what you want and what you don't. Don't have sex if you or your partner is drunk, keep an eye on yourfriends, and trust your instincts! .

Remember - alcohol is the # 1 "date-rape drug" in the country. The other "date -rape drugs" - rohypnol. Ketamine and GHB - can be eas-ily slipped into your drink, so make sure you know where your drink came from and do not leave it unattended.

Want to help prevent rape? Come to the student-led Sexual Assault Task Force meeting. Call Abi Moldover, x4938, for information.

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Ah, Trinity. A bastion of aca-demic excellence, a safe havenfor America's intellectual elite,and, unfortunately, home to manyfashion faux-pas. Now don't getme wrong, there are many of youout there who could bring a smile—• albeit snide - to AnnaWintour's face, but there are afew glaring errors that I feelshould be pointed out before theyspread to the rest of our otherwisewell-dressed and coiffedBantams.

So, having been inspired byVogue's own Do's and Don'ts listin their January issue, I proudlypresent Trinity College's firstannual collection of fashion com-mandments.

Do: rock the side-pony tail ala Marissa in Tlie OC. A perfectlystraightened, low pony worn tothe side is not only tres chic, butflattering as well. Keep in mind,however; "low" is ffieTkey phrasein that sentence. High side-ponytails make you look like an over-

grown five-year-old. And wealready have plenty of those run-ning around on campus. And forboys, Do: keep it shaggy. If thegirls here liked buzz cuts theywould have gone to West Point.

lored to fit your body, not looklike a hand-me-down from yourgrandpa. That being said,

Do: sport a three-quarterlength coat. For all you boys andgirls, there is no look more ele-

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Finessing fhe art of the popped collar clearly, a Bantam in the making.

Don't: look middle-aged.Now, I know a lot of you areupset about Martha Stewart beingin jail, but that doesn't mean youneed to wear her coat. I am alsoaware that I may be offending afew people by saying this, buthonestly, outerwear should be tai-

Tenbudget Out Ideas

10. The Mather Crawl. It's like a birthdayparty at Chuck E. Cheese where nobody comes.

9. The soggy Mather veggie burgers. Likeleftover meatloaf, just without the meat.

8. Recycling bins. When Joe's Easy Mac getsall over John's beer bottle's, it's time to privatizethe recycling process.

7. The use of the John Deeres all year round.It's not like they'd give us a ride to class anyway.We already asked.

6. Lawn-beautifying power machines allyear long. Even our women don't get as muchattention.

5. Visiting psychics. Because Tripod horo-scopes are all you really need to get by.

4. The food at any Vernon Social Centerevent. The chicken is yummy, but free alcoholwas yummier.

3. ID clips. Fall-semester first-years can dowithout'em.

2.. The search party for the missing yachts.Because people are losing yachts in the firstplace.

1. LSC. Tear it down and let's dissect frogs.onthe quad. Now that's what we call Life Science.

gant than your favorite scarf (andBurberry makes SO many col-ors!) and a well-tailored coat.What teacher wouldn't want togive you an A when you're thebest dressed student in the room?Well maybe not. But at least ifyou get a C you'll still look cute,right?

Don't: wear a print that alsocomes in a size 6x. This one goesalmost without saying, but

see STYLE on pagel4

FEATURES WRITER

Fake Angst — or "fangst" — isthe unfounded feeling of anxietyor uneasiness normally accompa-nied by depression. Perhaps youhave never heard of it, perhapsit's something you think youdon't suffer from ... but in reality,all of us, at some point or another,have experienced feelings offangst while at Trin.

Not to be confused with real,justifiable angst, fangst is the over-analyzing and over-emphasizingof minimal drama or emotion.Although it can sometimes goundiagnosed and even unnoticed,

Radiohead's "Creep" saved asone of your away messages?Have you quoted lines fromGarden State at the bottom ofyour profile? Even worse, areany of the featured phrases orwords italicized, bolded or under-lined? If so, you may have fakeangst.

Yes, even I have to admit thatI have had those moments whenthe only means I had to describemyself was through the lyrics ofTori Amos. I have been throughthose times when life was just tooemo and only a pathetic quotefrom "Dawson's Creek" couldexpress my pain. I am even guilty

I have been through those times whenonly a pathetic quote from "Dawson sGreek" could express my pain.

there are several warning signsthat can lead one to discoveringthat they, too, display the symp-toms of this common "illness."

Warning Sign No. 1: Fangstthrough AIM.

Do you have the lyrics to

of using Google as a tool toobtain these profound selections.

But perhaps you feel the cit-ing of songs, movies, or televi-sion shows in your profile is well

see ANGST-RIDDEN on page 13

Even Wieitei fke^k t t e w i Exf&iratiefiJENNY DUNN

SENIOR EDITOR

I'm fully aware that I'm mak-ing a bold statement when I saythat winter break is just toofreaking long. A vacation is avacation, right? In order to comeup with a satisfactory answer tothis question, it will be necessaryto delve a little deeper.

The first week that I wasback in good old Upstate, I was ahappy camper. Not only did Ifinally get to eat homemadefood, but the holidays werealready in full swing, so I got toeat it all completely guilt-free,knowing that my New Year's res-olution would get rid of the extrapoundage (judging from therecent attendance at Ferris, a fewother people had the same idea).There were also presents to lookforward to, a really depressingChristmas movie tradition, OneMagic Christmas, to watch, and,of course, lots of welcome homepartying with my high schoolfriends, drinking Utica Club.

Enter Week Two. New Year'sEve was an experience too luridfor even the Tripod, although Ishould note, for the future well-being of all readers, that pinkAndre is not designed to bedrunk by the bottle. Let's justsuffice to say that it fulfilled mydrinking quota, if not for the

remainder of the year, at least forthe rest of break.

Sometime during the monthof January, the standard Trinityfamily embarks on a warm-weather pilgrimage - either that,or a ski trip to their second homein Vail.

As our lodge was undergoingsome renovations, this year theDunns opted to go on a RoyalCaribbean cruise. It was a rather

relaxing experience (other thanone near-death experience with aspeedboat excursion off the coastof Cozumel), laying pool-sideand having very polite andappreciative men bring me tequi-la sunrises.

Eventually, though, five-course dinners and towel animalsleft in the room every night got a

see BORED on page 14

Jenny Dunn

Even a towel dog in sunglasses eventually loses its charm.

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Around TrinityEven VerizonCan't Save You NowNew England's recent snowstorms may begreat news to schoolchildren and snowboard-ers, but were not very friendly to various cellphone owners. AT would like to remind itsreaders to keep your cell phones safely tuckedaway; if not, please refrain from engaging incompetitive sports while you tote them, lestwe are greeted by a landscape of defunct cellphones (or beepers, or cameras, or iPods) inthe post-snow Spring.

Formal Still Means CSassyIf Saturday's Black and White formal had hada red carpet, many a Trinity co-ed would havereceived a verbal lashing from the Bantamversion of Joan Rivers. Sinfully (no, really, sin-fully) short black dresses were paired with thever-present white pumps, which apparently

are back in style (please tell AT when thistrend is over). However, many young womendid arrive sporting their usual weekend cou-ture of jeans and the current sale rack ofForever 21. Lastly, as a courtesy to the entireTrinity community, AT would like to remindits readers that "black and white" does notmean sliver of black dress and mounds ofexposed thigh.

People Who Should Never beCarjackersIn the Mather parking lot (shouldn't more ATstories begin like this?), AT witnessed a groupof very jovial seniors piling into a car. Afterfiddling with the machine for nearly twentyminutes, muttering expletives AT does notwish to repeat, the boys realized they had,alas, entered the wrong vehicle. AT would liketo point out that their hour of frustrationcould have been shortened had they paid anyattention to the owner's nameplate andRainbrow Brite figurine dangling daintily fromthe rearview mirror.

The Geek Shall InheritIt is not often we turn on one of our own(actually, it is), but AT was especially puzzledto catch several of its staff membersengrossed in a board game modeled after apopular film saga. Not surprising, only thattwo of the game tokens were made to play alittle kissy-kissy touchy-touchy. The mixtureof geekiness and sexual innovation present inthe room was so staggering as to be awe-inspiring. Rock on, fetishists, and may theForce be with you.

Seeing Tragedy from the Ground UpSUNNY PRASAANFEATURES CONTR1BUTER

I distinctly remember that on26th December, during one of mydaily wanderings on the Internet,I found a news item relating thestory of the Tsunami.

Initially, I confess I did notallocate much of my mindspaceto it, dismissing it as one of thoseevents too remote to affect mycocooned existence. But later, inone of my weekly telephonicconversations with my parentsback home, I came to know abouta group of students from my highschool that was on a holidayexcursion with a few of teachersat Andaman and Nicobar Islands,a group of islands off the eastcoast of India.

These were the same kidswho were juniors when I was asenior at school. I knew most ofthem as close friends, and theirteachers had been my teachers.

For two days, as the death tollgrew and there was still no newsof them (as communication lineswere broken on the island), Icould do nothing as panic grippedme and I began to fear the worst.

Soon enough, with God'sgrace, news came of their mirac-ulous escape and arrival to myhometown. Later, while talkingto one of my friends, I asked himabout his feelings regarding theexperience and he said, "I hadnever realized how easy it is to

die, and how helpless one feelswhen nothing but nature's mercycan save you."

In the following weeks, whenI began to read stories of thebiggest humanitarian effort inhistory, I began to feel that this,more than a catastrophe, was anopportunity for solidarity, whenthe petty boundaries of nationsheld no meaning. Constructs of

ward willingly to donate. A fewpromised to do it during the nextmeal, as they did not have cashon them. Some students hadalready donated via some otheragency.

Overall, I felt there was noone who was unaffected by theevent. It's just that all of us havedifferent mechanisms to dealwith it — there are countless sto-

Constructs of class and race vaporizedto produce the gargantuan relief effort weare still witnessing.

class, race, etc. vaporized to pro-duce the gargantuan relief effortwe are still witnessing. It was butnatural that I felt moved to takepart in it.

The first thought that came tomy mind was the Asian AmericanStudent Organization, whosebody's very existence was worth-less if it could not help in relief.Of course, AASA lived up to myhopes as it came up with a planon the same day when I emailedAASA's president with my ideas.

Sitting at the table at Mather,I admit I felt a certain degree ofshyness asking anyone to donate.Moreover, I felt no one could beprodded into such a voluntaryact. In a matter of one hour, I sawa whole spectrum of reactionsand responses as many came for-

ries of how people have con-tributed to relief. Beggars in acity in India donated a day oftheir earnings, celebrities havegone ahead and adopted devastat-ed villages. Soccer and cricketplayers have played matches forsurvivors' rehabilitation.

In all this, the contribution ofa few conscientious TrinityCollege students may seeminsignificant. But let not this con-tribution be thought of as unim-portant.

I am sure it gives each one ofus a reason to feel proud of our-selves because of the bond thathas been formed with people sofar away. I just hope this bondremains in place even after thecalamity begins to fade from pub-lic memory.

Tsunami Relief Efforts ProvideChance for Solidarity, Action

continued from page 1"We were wondering if peo-

ple were going to show up ordonate," said Priya. "But kidscame together. We had two orthree people at every table, peo-ple who had never come outbefore. And the fact that we got400 dollars ... to kind of have avision and see it's actually takingplace - it's encouraging."

AASA is also plannning avigil for Wednesday night in theRittenberg Lounge, where a lec-turer will speak on sex traffickingin Southeast Asia. It is an issuewhich, along with child traffick-ing, has come to the forefront asa major human rights issue in thewake of the Tsunami disaster.

toothed teenage boys pose for thecamera at a relief site. An oldwoman looks plaintively at noth-ing in particular, perhaps a moth-er who has outlived her children- and grandchildren. One six or

Others on Trinity's campusseemed to share" tfie" same senseof duty. The Office ofCommunity Service and CivicEngagement, ConnPIRG andFACES (Friends Active in Civic

"To have a vision and see it's actuallytaking place - its encourging."

seven year-old girl, face bloodiedand bandaged, clings to a RedCross worker, his blond hairmussed and cheekbones sallow.They stare back at us likereminders of the world beyondour little world, the world beyonda small liberal arts school in New

"These people don't normally even haverunning water. Add the tsunami to thatand what do they have? Nothing."

Additionally, AASA memberMike Borgoaos '08 will be fea-turing a photo collage he createdon Power Point, using imagesfound on web logs. • i

I had the opportunity to pre-view this presentation, and it isdeeply moving. To the dolefulmelody of Sarah McLachlan's "IWill Remember You," photos offlesh-and-blood victims floatacross the screen. Crowds of gap-

England.When I asked Mike what

compelled him to put togetherthis photo collage, he shruggedas if it weren't even a matter ofwhy.

"We're Americans, right?" hesaid. "And we're so fortunate.These people don't normallyeven have running water. Add thetsunami to that and what do theyhave? Nothing."

Engagement and Service) areuniting in a challenge to eachdepartment to raise $100 each byMarch 1st. At the end of themonth of February, the challengeculminates with the ACESAnnual Charity Auction, whichwill take place on Thursday,March 10th. The money raisedwill then go to OxfamInternational, an organizationthat assists with rebuildingefforts and providing clean water.

To be active is encouraging;to sustain activity, however, iscrucial. The bittersweet unity thatfollows large-scale tragedy toooften dissipates with the return ofnormality. But Trinity's persist-ent efforts turn not only outward,but forward, and beyond.

"The nice thing about Trinityrelief efforts is that it's continu-ing after a while," said RamPurushotaman '05. "Becauseafter the cameras fade, it's easy toforget."

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justified. Did your boyfriend just leave youfor your best friend? Did you find out youare actually adopted, that Johnny Depp isyour father, arid that all chances of everhooking up with him have to be forgotten?Did you lose your beloved pet goldfish toan unfortunate pouring-of-beer-into-its-bowl incident?

In these cases, I support 100% the fea-turing of Sarah McLachlan in the profile.In fact, I will even accept the use of the cry-ing-face icon. Still, before you start search-ing for the lyrics to "Afterglow", considerjust writing "Class till 2:30" or "Dinner atMather" before you go idle — or even thinkabout signing off (gasp!). That way you cansave your deepest lines for the momentsthat truly deserve them.

Warniag Sign No. 2: Fangst throughactivity selection.

So you're in anincredibly bad moodbecause the person youthought was your soulmate didn't sit next toyou in class. What doyou choose to do tomake yourself feel bet-ter?

If you immediatelydecide to lock yourselfin your room, turn offthe lights, pull down theshades, jump info bed,and have a good crywhile watching SteelMagnolias, you areeither a member of thefemale sex or just plainfangsty.

We've all had those days when thingsdon't seem to go right and when nothingwould make us happier than to fall asleepand make tomorrow come sooner. But thedifference between the non-fangsty andthose who suffer from fangst can be seenclearly in the choice of "make-me-feel-bet-ter" activity.

Some may choose to rock out to themost depressing music they can find.Others may choose to analyze and re-ana-lyze their day until they learn where it allwent wrong. These are prime examples ofthe symptoms often associated withfangstiness.

Those who don't have fake angst willoften be found enjoying a drink with some

Mends, playing a game of doubles tennis,or taking a cheerful romp through thesnow. It's not that they don't have emo-tions or feelings, it's just that these luckyfew are able to realize that the things wesometimes view as being the biggest dealsever are often quite insignificant.

Warning Sign No. 3: Fangst throughwardrobe.

Less noticeable than other symptoms,changes and variations in one's wardrobecan be directly linked to the identificationof fangst. This sign may be trickier to rec-ognize than others, as there are severalextremes through which one's clothing canexpress their "deep" inner turmoil.

One may choose to rely on their oldblack sweatpants three days in a row, whileothers will refuse to see the point in chang-ing out of pajamas. Some may find they

can best cope with thedrama in their lifethrough jeans, a smallgrey hoodie, and a knee-length scarf — a look Ilike to call "the Emo".

It may shock you tolearn that there are somewho suffer from fangstwho actually dress nicerwhen dealing with theirtrauma. These certainindividuals will attemptto cure feelings ofembarrassment, shock,hurt or anger by makingthemselves look superfly.

I'm your typicalcombination-fangst-

dresser; I tend to mix and match mywardrobe to portray the distinct emotion Ihave. For example, the days when I feellike I am going to die alone, surrounded bymy 67 cats, are the days you may find mewearing my grey sweats paired with myvintage t-shirt and my Gucci heels - a uni-form for those who are diagnosed as "com-bination."

Although no cure for fangst has yetbeen discovered, our best chance yet seemsto be acceptance that things in life are notalways going to happen according to planand that we can't change that. Sometimeswe may get a little sad or angry, and that'sokay — because we'll always have Felicity,My So-Called Life, and Ben and Jerry'sChunky Monkey to get us through it.

S p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2005, Hamlin HallZehra Arat "Gender, Law and Transition in Turkey*O

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7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005, Washington Room,Mather Hall, Naomi Tutu "Truth, Reconciliation,and Building Gender Coalitions across Racial Lines"

5 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2005, Terrace Rm. B,Mather Hall Alex Arriaga ttThe United NationsWomen's Rights Convention: a Strategy for U.S.Ratification"

5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Mar. 8, 2005, Terrace Rm. B,Mather Hall May Oo, Human Rights AdvocacyFellow-in-Residence wThe Trafficking of Women inSouth East Asia"

5 p.m., Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2005, Terrace Rm. B,Mather Hall, Mehrangiz Kar "Violence AgainstWomen in Iran"

Human Rights Program

keeping Resolutions aLToeAh, February: trie month of love, Black history, ground-

ogs, theSuper Bowl and, most importantly, failed New Year'sResolutions. Because your Features editors know just how diffi-ult it is to stick to a New Year's plan all 365 days of the year, we

dug deep into our wellspring of benevolence and looked to thetars to bring to you tips for staying on top of your game for

another eleven months. Or at least until V-Day, when you can goack to your less impressive self.

- PEfclUJAfty 18

You've finaLLy resoLved to get over yourirrational fear of clowns. closed spaces,and Andrew LLoyd Webber musicals, forthe most surgical Way to banish thesephobias, attend a Weekend frosh party,where you can experience a l l three simul-taneously. Think of rt as shcok therapyWith a litt le more Vodka.

Pfsces- MAft.cH 20

-f>adLy. your resolution to get out of debt

and be more frugal lasts only until your

WeekLy trip to Nordstrom's. To balance

your budget try to Limit impulse spending,

aLLoW your accounts to grow interest, and

keep a daily Log of income and.expendi-

tures. If that's too hard, pawn your room-

mate's vinyl collection.

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Your superiority over every other Zodiac

sign is briLLiantLy clear, and for the good of

the Trinity community and humanity in gen-

eral you must stay exactly the same as

you are. Tripod horoscopes is not one to

tinker with perfection.

TAUfUJSAf=>fuc_ 20 - M A X 20

You may beLieve that your superiority overevery other Zodiac sign is briLLiantLy clear,and that for the good of the Trinity com-munity and humanity in generaL you muststay exactly the same as you are. In reaLi-ty, however, consider undertaking at Leastseven (7) of the 12 resolutions Listed hereas a form of community service-

M A Y 2 1 - O U W E 21

You resolved to become a leader, and nowis the time for you to jump on issues,assert your convictions and stir socialchange. This may include Launching an edu-cation reform imperative, raising gLobaLenvironmental awareness, or starting afacebook group called *lv|mm._ cheese" or"PrincipaL E>eLding fan Club"

O U N E 22 - O U L V 22

Your New Years mantra of 'everything inmoderation" must not end at the Ivjatherpie tabLe. You may have exactly one (I)piece of pie. provided it is no more than 2 5inches Wide at its Widest and equal to orless than IS grams of carbohydrates. Youmight also consider chewing more sLowly.{Cancer, We're Watching you.)

LeoOut_y 23 - A U G U S T 22

Unfetterd. unabashed narcissicm is char-acteristic of your sign. You've finallyresolved to be Less egocentric and moreoutward-looking, but the glamour shots ofyourself you've posted on the Long Walkonly feed your narcissistic propensities. Tofoster a sense of humility, draw mus-taches on them.

A U G U S T 23 - SepTEMfcov. 22

Your resolution to nurture your spiritualside is a noble one, but first you mustovercome your obsession with Vill'sfabulous Life C7f. VVe suggest you start

your quest for enlightnment by reading the

entire book of LCorinthians. the JJeart

.5utra in its original Sanskrit and Lyrics by

ALanis Iv)oris5ette.

- OCTO&Eft. 22

Your newfound dedication to finally "get

organized" is noble, but you Won't get Very

far Without the three essentials of organ-

ization: !} a really good shelving unit, 2)

the ability to throw things out, and 3) an

eager underclassman who's really desper-

ate for booze. ' •

OCTO&ER. 23 - Noi/EM&Eft. 21

Your resolution to become more tolerantfaiLed deplorably when you muttered sLurstoward jJartford residents who Were basi-caLLy harmless despite the scythes.Watch Spongebab Squarepants and Writea one-page reflection on the importance oftolerance and diversity. Cue in Tripodoffice noon on Thursday.

NJoVEM&Eft. 22 - £>ECEM6Eft- 21

You may think your greatest flaw is therodent Living in your ear. but rt's actuallyyour inabiLity to open up. A Wise man oncesaid, "Love thyself and otkiers wiLL —WeLL it's a good star t

- oAWUAfo' 19

Your resolution to be Less gullible andmore discerning requires that you takeeverything you hear Wrfch a grain of salt.R.eality television, the "elite LiberaLmedia", organized religion and horoscopesconjured by quack astrologists are partic-ularly suspect (Editor's ntrie: ignore thatLast admonition.)

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IN WSOtfE NEWcontinued from page 11

little old. Well, the five-coursedinners did. The towel animalskept me pretty entertained, espe-cially when they were wearingsunglasses. You have to hand itto those room attendants.

By the time the NorwalkVirus had started to circulatearound the ship and"Quarantine" signs beganappearing on cabin doors up anddown the hallways, I was aboutready to be back on land. I flewback to a winter wonderland withtwo weeks of break remaining.At this point, I really had toexamine my options. Two weeks.No money. I would have to get

playing a marathon game ofScrabble.

I became the default desig-nated driver at night, ensuringthat I would only spend some-where in the vicinity of a dollar,the amount it cost for a draftUtica Club at the local wateringhole, the walls of which are linedwith antlers and has a stuffedwolverine over the bar.

Once my friends went back totheir much more reasonablyvacationed schools, I was leftwith sheer, miserable boredomand a completely irrational irri-tability towards my poor parents.Luckily, a Trinity friend gave mea brief reprieve when she came to

I went to see Coach Carter with a guy Ihad no intention of dating, just to get outof the house.

creative.During the first of these two

weeks, my remaining friendsfrom high school were stillaround, thank goodness. In orderto hang out as cheaply as possi-ble, we went to the "early bird"show at the local movie theater.We went out for coffee andstretched out our time there by

visit for a Brad Paisley concert atthe casino down the road. Butwhen she left, the week aheadlooked even bleaker.

I conned my way into a freetemporary gym membership inan attempt to get going on theNew Year's resolution.

I went to see Coach Carterwith a guy I had no intention of

dating, just to get out of thehouse. I spent a lot of timewatching CMT.

When I woke up on that finalSaturday morning, all packedand ready to go, my father toldme about the impending buzzardand warned me that driving backto school anyway might be amatter of life or death. I told himI could be out of the house intwenty minutes, put my coffee ina to-go cup and jumped in the carwithout showering. I made it tocampus twenty minutes beforethe snow started falling. Big sighof relief.

Maybe it's Trinity's intentionthat we be that eager to get backto school. Maybe, because of thebudget cuts that resulted in therevocation of stapler privilegesin the library, the administrationis trying to keep us off campusfor an extra week because thepresence of students hereinvolves spending money.

But let me just suggest some-thing: instead of relegating us toat least one painful week ofwatching CMT's Top 20 CountryCountdown (okay, maybe that'sjust me) over and over again,why don't you just give us twoweeks of spring break? Who'swith me?

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because I'm feeling particularlycatty, I will elaborate. Whales,dolphins, dancing lizards, balleri-na monkeys, and any other crea-tures that may appear on SesameStreet are not allowed to be wornon your clothing after the age of

to this campus I have come to thefollowing conclusions: it's cute,and if Kanye is doing it, thendamn it, so can I. Plus, the updat-ed preppy-look from the '70s is infull swing in all the collectionsthis spring. And everyone knowsMichael Kors can't be wrong.

The updated preppy-look from the 70sis in full swing this spring.

five. It's not cute and they're ugly.Do: the native thing. I know

there has been a bit of backlashagainst the influx of moccasins,mukluks, and Uggs in the pastfew years, but remember, we AREin Connecticut. It's like -347degrees with wind chill andfrankly, Rainbows, as cherishedas they are, simply won't cut it.So if you have to keep your feetwarm, you might as well do it instyle, and these Native Americanboots are simply to die for.

Don't: wear pastels in thewinter. It may be an antiquatedfashion rule, but you're technical-ly not supposed to wear whiteafter Labor Day. That goes forany summery type color, so storeyour yellow khakis until softballseason starts on the quad.

Do: pop the collar. Yes, yes, asmuch as I am loathe to admit it, Iwas once quite vocal against this.However, after acclimating a bit

Don't: be afraid to expressyour individuality. Now, this maycome as a shock, but we do havea reputation for being ... preppy.But that doesn't equal conformi-ty. I've seen many a great outfitput together by Campers, and weneed more of them! So next timeyou're feeling creative, don't behesitant to try something differ-ent. You could create the nexttrucker hat phenomenon.

Do: inject a bit of color intoyour wardrobe. If it's grey out-side, that doesn't mean your out-fit has to be too. When used spar-ingly, bright colors like orangecan add a large amount of pizzazzwithout looking gauche. Trysomething like a scarf or earringsto dress up an otherwise blackand white palette.

Well, that's all for now kid-dies. Stay tuned next week whenI tell you how to get those peskybeer stains out of party dresses.

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FEBRUARY I. 2005

Indie Music From Underground to ClearChannelGREG POLIN

SENIOR EDITOR

Here is the way it works. An indieband develops an original sound, or morethan likely, perfects the sound several indieacts are attempting to master. That indieband then gets some press, sells a signifi-cant number of records, which for an inde-pendent act is generally 100,000 copies.That act gets signed to a major label.Seeing the success of this one band, a hun-dred others attempt to copy the sound,adding their own distinct flavor.

There is suddenly a cultural under-ground movement based on this one sound.Seeing the trend, other major labels startsnatching up some of the bands. The musicgets on commercial radio. It may becomepopular. If it does, larger commercial actswill copy the sound, first stripping it of anycultural message or social relevance.Hearing this popular though empty soundwill turn new independent acts off, causingthem to rebel by once again attempting tocreate more original music. And so the cir-cle goes... • ' •".? --•--..

I'll give you a couple well-knownexamples. Though it had been around for aconsiderable amount of time already, poppunk grew significantly in popularity in theearly 90's after Green Day got picked up bya major record label. They obviouslybecame successful. Dookie, their majorlabel debut sold over 10,000,000 copies.Other labels started signing other indieacts, such as Offspring and Blinkl82. Asthese bands rose in popularity, cleansed of

any trace of the message of punk music,many independent acts were turned off andmoved on to other pursuits. Another slight-ly lesser example is the story of emo musicand the swift rise and fall of the Used, orthe garage sound and the rise of The Vinesand The White Stripes. Other musicalmovements haven't made it quite so far.Math rock and post punk of the early andmid 90's never quite made it to theClearChannel level, nor did the recent riseof emo-core featuring such now-major-label bands as Thrice, Thursday, TakingBack Sunday, and My Chemical Romance.

In the past year there have been twotrends. About two years ago the PostalService released their album Give Up.Now it's sold well over 300,000 copies.The related Death Cab For Cutie's mostrecent album Transatlantacism sold over500,000 and the band signed to a majorlabel.

Suddenly there was an overflow in col-lege radio of bands using electronic beatsand smooth voices. Some were better thanothers, but all in all there wasn't a greatdeal of variation until last September whenthe Faint released their album Wet FromBirth ushering in a new wave of bands withelectronic beats, but a distinctly 80's sound.Luckily, it didn't quite last long enough tofilter into the majors.

That brings us pretty much up to speed.So what's the next trend? Getting in about50 CDs a week makes it pretty easy to spotsimilarities between bands. If I had toguess, I would say the current trend is all

Sandbox Defines Musicand me of Mark SandmanDAVID STRICOFF

ARTS CONTRIBUTOR

Sandbox: The Music of Mark Sandmanis a breathtaking memorial to a man wholived and sadly died for his music. Thethree disc collection (two CDs and a DVD)is far more than a mere collection of music;Sandbox is a window into the life of one ofthe most talented, yet reticent figures of the90s music scene.

Best known as the two-string slide basswielding front man for Morphine, MarkSandman was the innovator of low rock,"the distinctive blend of sonorous saxo-phone, bass and deep grooves" in which allsounds, including vocals, fall into the samerange. While the guitarless group wasSandman's most commercially successfulendeavor, once topping Billboard'sHeatseekers chart and thrice makingappearances in the Top 200, Sandman wasthe consummate musicians' musician, con-stantly forming new groups and scouringclubs for future collaborators .Included inthe set are recordings by Treat Her Right,Morphine, Candy Bar, Hipnosonics, SuperGroup, Pale Bros., and Treat Her Orangewith contributions from more than thirtymusicians. In the booklet that accompaniesthe set, Ted Drozdowski writes that thethirty-one songs of Sandbox "just scratchesthe surface, not only of the vast body ofMark's previously unveiled work, but of alife richly lived on its own terms and donetoo soon." And it is not an understatement.

Sandman was a prolific songwriter whoinvested in an in-home recording studioand an interview on the DVD revealsshelves crammed with hundreds of tapes.

Virtually every review of Sandboxbegins with Mark Sandman's death. WhileI have consciously avoided this launchingpoint, the facts are worth mentioning.Mark Sandman had a heart attack and diedonstage during the second song ofMorphine's set at Palestrina, Italy's "In theName of Rock" Festival. He was 46 yearsold. I mention this fact simply becausemany will dismiss a posthumous album outof hand when they hear that not one of thethirty-one songs ever appeared on analbum. Conventional wisdom would dic-tate that if an artist did not release a songwhen he was alive that it is not worth hear-ing now. In the case of Sandbox, at least,this is simply not the case. UnlikeNirvana's With the Lights Out, the latestbox set consisting largely of previouslyunreleased material, the quality of therecordings is perfect. There is no filler orthrow-away tracks included for voyeuristiccuriosity. This Sandbox is a treasure trove.

The first disc features songs in the jazz-rock vein of Morphine. In fact, "ImaginarySong," "Wig," and "Good Time LastNight" had all appeared in Morphine setsduring their last tour. Another song, "TheGoddess," dates back to 1993, if not earli-er.

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stemming from The Shins and then: latestrelease, Chutes Too Narrow. The market isbeing flooded with bands self-described as"Beatles-esque," "Brit-pop," or "like anupbeat Elliot Smith," and they all soundsimilar to The Shins. Too many CDs aweek are coming into WRTC-FM withabsolutely no angst, energy, or experimen-tal pizzazz. At the same time, I apologizeto anybody who loves Brit-pop, and I alsohave to apologize for using the word "piz-zazz."

Fortunately or not, it's also becomequite clear the next wave that is going tofollow this emasculated Beatles sound:folky indie rock in the vein of Bright Eyes.The band is the most popular indie act in along time, and a lot musicians look up tothe emo, country, and folk stylings ofBright Eyes lead singer Conor Oberst.

So just wait, it won't be that long until60's style country folk starts playing onClear Channel, lacking any message orsocial relevance of course.

CD Cover for Bright EyesEmo, Country, Folk all mix together in Bright Eyes emasculated Beatles Sound.

Creation of "Circle of Compassion, Circle of Peace"Tuesday, February 1 - Sunday, February 13Austin Arts Center, Garmany Hall

Over a two-week period, seven Buddhist nuns from the Keydong Nunnery inKathmandu, Nepal will create a sacred sand mandala, a graphic representation ofthe perfected environment of an enlightened being: in this case, Avalokiteshvara, theDeity of Compassion. The Keydong nuns, who first came to Trinity in 1998 to cre-ate a sand mandala, are among the first Tibetan Buddhist women monastics to learnthis sacred art practice that was traditionally reserved for monks.

Studio 47 Dance: Sally GrossWednesday, February 2.Seabury Hall, Studio 47,3rd floor

Former Judson choreographer and performer Sally Gross has been called "amaster minimalist" by Jennifer Dunning of the NY Times. She will bring to Trinityan evening of dances that are "straightforward, precise yet unpredictable," revealing

I more than a touch of poetry and concern for humanity.

Imna Arroyo's "Ancestors of the Passage"Thursday, February 3 - Friday, March 11Austin Arts Center, Widener Gallery

At the core of Arroyo's artwork are issues of identity that reflect her African,Caribbean and Taino heritage and culture. Nurtured by personal and collective refer-ences to her culture and ancestry Arroyo's images reflect her physical and spiritualworld. In Ancestors of the Passage: A Healing Journey Through the Middle Passage,she premieres a new installation of collographs and 27 ceramic busts with extendedhands emerging from a sea, reaching out to remind us of the legacy of the MiddlePassage of the African slave trade.

Double Edge Theatre: "The UnPOSSESSED"Friday, February 4 - Saturday, February 5.Austin Arts Center, Goodwin Theater

Based on Miguel de Cervantes' classic novel Don Quixote, The UnPOSSESSEDfuses popular and circus arts, including aerial theater, shadow puppets, stilts andcommedia dell'arte, with live original music. In the face of horror, Quixote choosesto dream another world while pursuing his mad quest for hope amidst a reality spin-ning out of control.

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Music Overview in 2005ERIC DAUCHER

ARTS EDITOR

Looking back on the music of 2004 Ican't help but wonder how most of today'sbands got signed in the first place, or whoexactly it is that buys enough of theirrecords to keep these guys going. As far asoverall quality of music releases goes,2004 was what might generously belabeled as a slow year, but that shouldn'tsuggest that there weren't some noticeablebright spots amid the sea of refuse that isthe music section at your local Best Buy.The few good records that were releasedsimply shine all the brighter in comparisonto their so-called "competition." The factthat a band like Wilco released better mate-rial this year than the likes of AshleeSimpson or Avril Lavigne is about asshocking as the Globetrotters winning theirlatest game, but that doesn't take awayfrom the fact that bands like Wilco aremaking some legitimately good music. Alllamentation about the state of the industryaside, here are what were in my opinion thehighs and lows of music from 2004.

Highs:American Idiot by Green Day. It was

great to see these guys make such aremarkable comeback. Having notreleased anything really new since 1997'sInsomniac, most considered Green Day amid-90 's phenomenon not to be heard fromagain. American Idiot has reestablishedthem as a premier radio band, and hasgiven them credibility, perhaps for the firsttime, as mature musicians.

A Ghost is Born by Wilco. This isn't aneasily accessible album, and even fans ofWilco's prior efforts might have some trou-ble getting used to it, but its more than

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worth the effort. The experimentaliststyle and self-reflective lyrics make forsome great music for the dedicated listen-er, but also ensure that Wilco isn't likelyto gain mass-market appeal any timesoon.

College Dropout by Kanye West.Personally I'm not a fan of either hip-hopor rap, but I like to think that I can still tellthe difference between those that have tal-ent and those who lack it. West's debutalbum, which features seamless rhymes,innovative beats, and occasional flashesof thoughtful insight, demonstrates thathe is one of the haves.

Breakout albums by Modest Mouse,Franz Ferdinand, and Le Tigre. While atface value these three acts might not seemoverly similar, they represent a movement jthat is seeking to bring the dance-friendli-ness back to rock music. With their sud-den rise from obscurity, it's possible thatwe're seeing the start of a new majortrend in mainstream music. The down-side to this is the inevitable horde of less-talented knock-off acts that are sure tospring up in the wake of the success ofthese three.

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bombby U2. Anytime U2 releases an album,it's sure to be big news in the musicworld, but this one in particular is some-thing special. It seems that sometime inthe wake of 2000's All that You Can'tLeave Behind the band got back in touchwith their musical roots, perhaps in partdue to their reunion with their originalproducer Steve Lilly white. The result istheir best album since The Joshua Tree

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LUCA!Play has Promising Elements, but Fails to ExecuteJAMIE CALABRESE

ARTS CONTRIBUTOR

Craig Lucas, acclaimed modernAmerican playwright, brought bis newestwork, Singing Forest, to the Long Wharfin New Haven this month. The play is setin America, Vienna, and France, andtouches on issues of rape, murder, alco-holism, genocide, the thirst for and theescape from fame as a way to find mean-ing in life, Freudian psychoanalysis and

the forest, I'll focus on the parts of thisplay that I found exciting and well exe-cuted.

Though it was reduced to a subplot inthe overall play, I found the plot of ActOne refreshingly unique and appealing tomodern audiences. Jules Ahmad is theson of an unimaginably wealthy Arab andan estranged American, whose motherLoe, a student of Freud, analyzed her inher youth. To protect him from gold-dig-

...sophisticated dialogue and a clever fluiditybetween recollection and reality were obscured by anovergrowth of slapstick humor.

vomit. Yeah, vomit.Singing Forest bulged into some kind

of dense thicket where the beauty of thework's more masterful elements, such assophisticated dialogue and a clever fluid-ity between recollection and reality wereobscured by an overgrowth of slapstickhumor and stereotype acting by support-ing characters.

But overall, this play was about reso-lution. Lead actress Robin Bartlett, whoplayed a charming but metallic Viennesepsychoanalyst and holocaust survivornamed Loe Rieman, opened the play withan AA pamphlet in hand. "I'm very inter-ested on this literature you have on mak-ing amends," she said. So in the spirit ofmaking amends and finding one's way in

ging friends and curious public, Jules hasbeen utterly isolated and only interactswith the outside world through a handfulof highly paid executives sworn to secre-cy. He also sends a poor actor, GrayKorankyi, to carry his dreams to thera-pists for analysis. The actor becomesobsessed with Jules' fame and steals hisidentity to become rich with interviewmoney. The boy quickly realizes the dan-ger of fame when he can no longer safelywalk the streets or have a private life, butremains intrigued by the documented his-tory he took from Jules' apartment.

Considering the optimism that camefrom the play's opening, it was hard to

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The Mandala Of Compassion, The Circle of PeaceContinued From Page 1

got a general understanding ofthe mandala's significance andsome of the intricacies involvedin the practice of Buddhism, wemoved into Garmany Hall, aspace that had been itself trans-formed into something worthy of

capella harmony that by itselfwould have made my Fridayafternoon. The Women of theCross are a particular favorite ofthe nuns who in their last visitsaw them every chance theycould.

Judy Dworin, a chair of the

In the purified Garmany Hall thecrowd reconvened to witness the giving ofa beautiful sacred ornamental statue.

sacred practice. In the purifiedGarmany Hall the crowd recon-vened to witness the giving of abeautiful sacred ornamental stat-ue that the nuns brought toTrinity all the way from theKeydong Thuk-Che-Cho-LingNunnery. Elite Trinity singers,led by Gerry Moshell, sang aTibetan chant mixed with somewestern elements, which made avery nice compilation. AfterTrinity represented its vocal tal-ent, an amazing triumvirate ofladies called the Women of theCross sang two songs in a clean a

Department of Theater andDance, and a key organizer of theevent, then spoke to give thanksto the nuns and to especiallythank Sarah Miller, a local ofWindsor, Conn, who loaned herextensive collection of SacredTibetan Art to Trinity for the'Circle of Compassion' MandalaProject. This collection is thecritical force behind the transfor-mation in Garmany Hall.

The collection is museumworthy and as the mandala pro-ceeds viewers should not forgetabout the great collection. The

Sandman Collectionis Sweet Like Candy

Continued from page 15One could easily choose

twelve songs of the first disc andrank it with the best ofMorphine's work. With eerielooped vocals, "The Phone" isthe only spoken word piece inthe anthology (although"Mona's Sister" was a staple ofMorphine's 'Poetry Time') andeasily rivals "Sharks." Otherstandouts from the first disc are"Patience" ("I spent half myafternoon / sittin at a stop sign /Thinkin bout how good you /look even when you're lyin.")and "Tomorrow" ("I want to tellyou bout a ghostdance / leaksfrom the future / a backwardstrance / like a felt tipped drum-mer / with a cymbal splash /tomorrow is here at last."),which are affirmations of hope

of Mark Sandman's life fromthe typical career retrospective.Aside from live performancevideos from Candy Bar,Hipnosonics, Morphine, andTreat Her Right, the DVD pres-ents a series of rare interviewswhich are a treat. It is one thingto hear of the laconic man witha dry sense of humor, it is acompletely different to see himin action. While hearingSandman toy with a Dutchreporter after their set at thePink Pop festival, by far andaway the best sight to see is aninterview that takes place in acanoe on an indoor recreationalswimming pool.

The DVD also pays homageto his other artistic endeavors.Each of the menu choices fea-ture a bit of Mark Sandman's

Time and again, their success was inex-plicable simply because no one else sound-ed like them.

tempered by Sandman's incisingobservations.

The second disc follows theblues-rock path blazed by TreatHer Right. Often called"swamp-blues," horns, harmon-ica, and internal struggles char-acterize these songs. Snow,which uses harmonica in placeof guitar, is the seminal TreatHer Right song. The relevanceof "Middle East," a song about anewspaper correspondent sentto Beirut to "find out whatthey're fighting for" only tohave his plane hijacked, isuncanny. Songs by theHipnosonics, particularly theethereal "Bathtub," are bothbeautiful and poignant.

While the music is superb,the DVD and linear notes arewhat differentiate a celebration

poetry, the foundation of manyof Sandman's songs and a stapleof Morphine's live shows. Also,a section of.the disc is devotedto Mark Sandman's artwork.After his death, bandmates DanaColley and Billy Conway namedtheir new band the Twinemen,after one of Sandman's comics.

With instruments includingthe tritar and two string bassfeatured, and guitar beingabsent from virtually everysong, describing the band isnearly impossible. Time andagain, their success was inexpli-cable simply because no oneelse sounded like them.Sandbox is the perfect introduc-tion to the Sandman's work forthe unfamiliar and the crowningjewel of any Morphine or TreatHer Right fan's collection.

nuns themselves have not beenable to set many examples ofsacred art in Nepal, because theChinese have destroyed much ofit during the invasion anddestruction of Tibet. This makesthe collection a rare and preciousone. Remember when you visitGarmany Hall that every beinghas the potential to be a Buddha.

As stated by Harrington,"The mandala is both a blueprintof ourselves and the world as wewish it to be, and yet also theworld as it already is — as seenthrough the eyes of an enlight-ened being, a Buddha." In otherwords it is an insight into everybeing's ultimate potential; with-

out question a must see for thewhole family. For the next twoweeks the nuns will be makingthe Mandala of Compassion.

stand the reason behind disman-tling mandalas, but the answerlies in ths roots of Buddhistbeliefs. The dismantling of man-

The mandala is both a blueprint of our-selves and the world as we wish it to be..."

- Laura Harrington, Religion Prof.

The next large event will bethe dismantling of the mandala,begining on Feb. 14 at GarmanyHall at 12 p.m. When the man-dala is dismantled the nuns willtake it to the closest flowingwater in an am and dump it intothe river.

Many people do not under-

dalas is a practice in acknowledg-ing the impermanence of thematerial world. School buseswill be available for studentswithout cars to witness the event.Watch out though, because thereis limited seating that will be dis-tributed on a first come firstserve-basis.

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Tibetan nuns attend the opening ceremony of the Mandaia Project

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dweller's mind: what do you do with all of your amazing powers, when all anyone wantsto see is "normal"? The retired Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl are quietly raising three kidsunder the comic book radar, when they get an S.O.S. from a government worker namedMirage (uh-oh!). Soon they're off and flying, the kids are discovering superpowers of then-own, and Evil with a capital E can no longer count on a free ride. Writer/director Brad Bird- who produced The Simpsons and directed The Iron Giant - is hilarious as Edna, a costu-mier to the superheroes who has a thing or two to say about capes. To quote the nefariousSyndrome, "You've got to admit this is cool!" Best Animated Film, 2004 New York FinnsCritics Circle Award. 121 min.

BIRTH. Feb 4-510:00 p.m. .The second film by Jonathan Glazer, director of the cult hit Sexy Beast, is a brooding

mystery too seriously creepy to make it big at the multiplex. On the evening of a beauti-ful young widow's engagement party in a chic Fifth Avenue apartment, a 10-year-old boyappears, claiming to be the reincarnation of her dead husband. Nicole Kidman is hauntingin a film that has more in common with Hitchcock's Vertigo than the beyond-the-gravelove fest of Ghost. The great Lauren Bacall tosses off lines like "So how is little Mr.Reincarnation? Enjoying his cake?" with the same tart humor that lit up the screen - 60years earlier - in her first film, To Have and Have Not. 100 min.

INFERNAL AFFAIRS Feb 6 - 86 at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. and 7-8 at 7:30 p.m.Don't miss the Hartford Premiere of an elegant policier set in Hong Kong that won

critical kudos at Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films Festival. "Betrayal" is the keyword for the film's ingenious plot: Lau is a young member of a criminal gang who infil-trates the police department, while Chan (played by Tony Leung of In the Mood for Love)is a cop who goes undercover to infiltrate the same gang. Besides having the same assign-ment - to uncover the mole in their respective organizations - the two men also share thesame haunting sense of isolation from being forced to live a lie. 100 min.

KINSEY Feb 9-129-11 at &;30 p.m. and 12 at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.While conservative Christian groups are busy heaping scorn on the man they blame

for ushering in the sexual revolution, Bill Condon's film portrays Alfred C. Kinsey as ascientist who revealed the truth about how Americans were behaving in the bedroom (andelsewhere). The director of Gods and Monsters has written a literate and even-handedscript, showing Kinsey - brilliantly performed by Irishman Liam Neeson - to be a compli-cated man whose repressed childhood shaped him for better and for worse. A perfect re-creation of those superficially Puritan, sex-crazed 1940s and 50s. After all, where do youthink all of the baby boomers came from? 118 min.

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Music in 2005: A Look Ahead2004 was a Dull Year for Music, but 2005 Promises a Few Gems

continued from page 16believe the way Lucas under-mined its potential by quicklyfocusing in on the neurotic inde-cisiveness of Jules' mother (shecarries a brown paper bag tocalm her nerves while trying toorder a coffee) and resorting toflamboyant behavior by two gaytherapists and easy homosexual

day serendipitous reunion offamily and acquaintances in herStaten Island apartment. Like abreeze through branches, thecharacters drift softly from theirhistorical persona to their mod-ern one, with little lightingchange or sharply contrastingmovements to break the scenes.In this way the play achieved a

...characters drift softly from their his-torical persona to their modern one.

jokes that remind me of a badepisode of Will & Grace. Add tothis a clownish race of charac-ters entering the stage withforced sense of purpose andcheap laugh lines, and you'llknow why I almost explored thetheme of vomit just watchingthis play.

I almost forgave the chaos of

great fluidity of time and reality,supporting the theme that forLoe, the gravity of events in herpast vied with the importance ofher life in the present.

Though the body of the playis peppered with language • ofbeing lost and lonely, and withcharacters who are always justmissing each other. Loe, the

continued from page 16and arguably the best all-aroundalbum of 2004.

Lows:American Idol is still on the

air and promoting the worstaspects of popular commercialmusic. Can't play an instrument?Can't write your own music?Want a record contract? Sign onthe dotted line please.

The Chronicles of Life andDeath by Good Charlotte. Whilethe album started out as a nobleattempt to find a more "mature"sound and gain acceptance as areal band, it ended as an abjectfailure that sounded neithermature nor catchy. Their first twoalbums may not have been stag-gering works of musical genius,but at least they were honest andenergetic- Chronicles is neither.

The Ding-Dong Song byGunther. I honestly had a hardtime deciding if this belonged inthe highs or lows category. Themusic and video are beyond terri-ble, but that's what makes themso damn funny. After consultingmy critic's handbook, I realizedthat the video needed to be penal-ized for unnecessary use of an80's Euro mustache and moved itfirmly into the lows column.

That's 2004 at a glance foryou, and I'm sorry to say that in2005 we can probably expectmore of the same: a sea ofgarbage with a few real gemsmixed in. First, Weezer is expect-ed to release their fifth album thisspring, and if the leaked demosare any indication! it should be arival for both the Blue Album andPinkerton. Their first single,

"Beverly Hills," is slated forrelease on March 21st.

Guster is also back in the stu-dio working on album numberfive. According to band mem-bers, this album will be signifi-cantly more live-show friendlythan their last effort, which bodeswell for it. Finally, the Pixieshave been busy recording sincethey started touring again in2004. Rumor has it that they willhave something ready for releasebefore the end of 2005, althoughthe exact details of the project arestill uncertain. With any Suck2005 will be a better year formusic than 2004 was, but that willdepend on just how bored thepublic is with undifferentiatedpop star drivel, and how manynew bands are ready and able totry something new.

...the body of the play is peppered withlanguage of being lost and lonely.

the middle of the work becausethe following act was embossedwith some of the best blockingand on-stage character changes Ihave seen.

Loe is caught between aflashback of her youth in Viennajust before WWII and a present-

central character in The SingingForest, does make amends.Despite all of the play's action,the characters do not make anygreat leaps forward, but each isable to close the play facing theaudience, standing still, and say-ing "okay."

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Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo plays a live show.

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The novel WE, by Yevgeny Zamyatin, was one of thefirst dystopian novels, and a major influence on

OrwelPs 1984. Zamyatin paints a bleak picture of atotaiitarian state 900 years in the future, where individ-uals have been "rationalized" into machine-like drones.Throughout the novel the author makes sophisticateduse of mathematical symbolism, and seems to expect

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Women's Basketball .500 in 2005; 9-8 OverallPATRICIA GLENNON

SPORTS WRITER

Since the winter break, the TrinityWomen's Basketball team has added anoth-er 5 wins and 5 losses to their record. TheBantams started 2005 in the GreatBahamas Goombay Shootout in Nassau,Bahamas where they first defeated Ramapo69-60.

Sophomore Leigh Melanson scored 23points to lead the Bantams to the victory,while senior Becky Bell and sophomoreCat Maher added 14 and 10 respectively.The following day, the women ended a fourgame winning streak with a loss in the tour-nament finals to Marian College, 58-50.Senior Jess Baker scored 19 points in thelosing effort. Meianson and Baker wereboth named to the all tournament team fortheir outstanding play during the tourna-ment.

After returning home from theBahamas, the Bantams next faced the St.

'Joseph.College Blue Jays. After leading33-24 at the half, Trinity's shooting fal-tered. The team only made 20 percent oftheir shots in the second half, dropping thegame, 57-54. The loss pushed Trinity'srecord to 6-5 for the season.

Following the St. Joe's game, thewomen played NESCAC rival Amherst.The game was hotly contested, with thelead being traded back and forth frequentlythroughout the game. The first half endedwith Trinity ahead by two points, 28-26.

The score" stayed extremely closethroughout the second half and with 10 sec-onds left in the game, Trinity tied the scoreat 53.

Amherst then took a timeout and man-aged to steal the ball and make the game

winning lay-up as time ran out. Despitethe loss, three Trinity players ended thegame double digit point totals: Cat Maherwith 12 points, Becky Bell with 11, andMelanson with 10.

The women got back on track in theirnext game against Connecticut College,beating their NESCAC rival, 73 - 70.Melanson scored 24 points to lead theBantams to their seventh win of the seasonwhile sophomore Sarah Cox scored 14points. Cat Maher had 12, and sophomoreMary Lennick added 8 assists and 4 steals.

Although Connecticut College led formost of the first half, Melanson made mul-tiple three-pointers at the end the first stan-za, which ended with the Bantams leading33-30. The second half saw each teamscore 40 points, giving Trinity the win bythree.

The Bantams next faced Wesleyan for atough, evenly matched game. With 2:14left in the game, the score was tied at 58.From there, Wesleyan went on a 9-0 runand won the game 58-67.

Trinity picked up two wins in their nexttwo games against non-league SuffolkUniversity and NESCAC opponent ColbyCollege. Melanson scored 23 pointsagainst Suffolk to lead the women to a 72-65 win at home. She went three for fourfrom behind the three-point arc, and wassuccessful on eight of 12 shots overall.

This past Friday, the Trinity womensoundly defeated Colby by the score of 60-44. Baker scored 16 points in the secondhalf to help Trinity on a 33-4 run. Thewomen shot an impressive 58percent fromthree-point range while holding Colby to amere 12 points in the second half. SarahCox chipped in 15 points, 8 rebounds and 4

assists. The win improved Trinity'sNESCAC record to 2-2 and their overallrecord to 9-7.

On Saturday afternoon, Trinity facedNESCAC foe Bowdoin, who is ranked firstin the league and in the nation. The firsthalf was an action packed, extremely fast -paced game.

Despite Bowdoin's impressive creden-tials, the Bantams kept up with the Bearsfor the first 10 minutes of the first half.

However, as the half wore on, the PolarBears took control and the first half endedwith Bowdoin leading 40-22. Bowdoinalso pulled down almost twice as manyrebounds as Trinity during the course of the

game.Despite an exciting first half, both

teams slowed down in the second half, andBowdoin was able to increase their lead towin the game 75-58. Maher scored 14points to lead the Trinity scoring whileBaker added 11 points of her own. Trinitydropped to 9-8 for the year.

Leigh Melanson has had an amazingpast month. Her scoring average for theseason is 11.1 points per game and she hasimproved her three-point average to anastounding 55.2 percent. She is currentlyranked first in the NESCAC in that catego-ry, beating out her closest competitor by18.5 percent.

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Belichick's System Means Super Bowl VictoryAs Seven-Point Favorites, Will the Patriots Emerge Sunday as the First Great Dynasty of the Free Agent Era?JACK O'DONOHUE

SPORTS WRITERAn old adage in the NFL is

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Head Coach Bill Belichickand VP. of Player Personnel ScottPioli have mastered the draft, freeagency, salary cap, and trade mar-ket.

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Men's Hockey Gets Three Points on Maine TripJON SIMONIAN

SPORTS EDITOR

The Trinity Men's Hockeyteam took their lOth-place rank-ing to Maine this past weekend,where they squared off againsttwo quality NESCAC opponents:the Colby White Mules and theBowdoin Polar Bears. After a 4-2 win on Friday at Colby, theBantams were lucky to escapeBowdoin with a 4-4 tie.

The road trip was Trinity'sfirst since November andarguably one of the hardest roadtrips the Bantams will face allseason.

Trinity went into the weekendtied for first place in the ECACEast/NESCAC division with aleague record of 8-2 and had anoverall record of 12-2.

On Friday against Colby,goalie Doug Kisielius, '05, waspeppered with shots all nightlong, making 41 saves over the 60minutes. The Bantams, on theother hand, struggled to get manyshots of their own off, musteringonly 14 over the contest.

Head coach John Dunhamexplained, "Sometimes the guystry to make too perfect a play andpass up scoringopportunities...but it's a bigadvantage to have a goalie whostops everything he's supposed tostop and also makes some really

good saves too."Despite the lackluster shot

counts, the Bantams still man-aged to find the twine first.Senior left winger KevinHathway scored the first goal ofthe game with 10:58 left in thefirst period on a pass from RyanStevens '05 and Simon Dionne'07. For Hathway, it was hisfourth goal of the season and wasthe only tally in the first periodfor either team.

The second period saw theWhite Mules score twice, once ateven strength and once on apower play.

"As the game wore on, thereferees took the game out of theplayers' hands." Cam Finch '06,commented, 'They set the gameup as a power play game and tookthe flow out."

This shift in pace sets uppoorly for the Bantams becausetheir power play unit is not asstrong as their even strength play.Over the past four games, theBantams are three for 20 on thepower play. Fortunately, thepenalty kill has followed a similarpath, allowing three goals in 24shorthanded chances over thesame stretch.

Much of the success of thepenalty killing unit, as well as theteam in general, can be attributedto Kisielius.

"Doug is our backbone...it'sa testament to him that we cangive up that many shots and stillcome out of there [with a win],"Finch said.

After their victory on Friday,Trinity traveled the short distancefrom Waterville to Brunswick,Maine to face Bowdoin onSaturday.

Bowdoin is shaping up to beone of the main contendersTrinity will have to deal with inorder to win the NESCAC thisyear, so this game would be avery hard fought contest fromboth sides.

The Polar Bears jumped outahead with goals in the first andsecond periods. Trinity, however,was not deterred and came roar-ing back in the late stages of thesecond period, scoring three goalswithin a three minute time frameto take the lead at 3-2 at the end of40 minutes. The goals werescored at 15:50 by Stevens, 17:47by Barrett Wilson-Murphy '06and 18:50 by William Maheras'07.

The third period proved to bea dramatic frame of hockey aswas undoubtedly expected.Bowdoin quickly tied up thegame at 3:38, but with 9:30 left inthe game, Finch got a piece of thepuck in front of the net andslipped it by Bowdoin goalie,

Defenseman Greg Camarco '07

George Papachristopoulos, to putthe Bantams in the lead 4-3.

Bowdoin, however, had nothoughts of bowing out peaceful-ly and while Trinity was on apower play late in the game,Bowdoin co-captain ShannonMcNevan put the puck over the

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shields an opponentblue line to tie the game at four.The goal stunned the Bantamsand narrowly escaped Maine witha third point.

Trinity will next take on geo-graphical rival Wesleyan thisTuesday at the Kingswood-Oxford Rink at 7:30 p.m.

Bantams toBattle withHarvard

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He got number 400 over winter breakagainst the Big Green of Dartmouth.

"I've been around so many great ath-letes in my career...that all this [record]says is that I've been doing this for a verylong time," the Coach commented.

With the Bears behind them, Trinitynow focuses all its attention on the task athand.

The Bantams have been labeled as theunderdogs against Harvard, but the playersare not paying much attention to what peo-ple outside the Trinity program are saying.

"We have nothing to prove [atHarvard]," Samper said. "We are still theNational Champions and we just have todefend out title. They have all the pressureon them."

Coach Assaiante was much more diplo-matic about the subject, stating, "Harvardis the most storied racquet sports school inhistory. Everything that we've done here inthe past six years is measured up againstHarvard so in that sense, we are still under-dogs going in there."

The match against Harvard willundoubtedly be in front of a very large,very hostile crowd in Cambridge.

To overcome that, Assaiante said thatall his players need to stay focused andplay within themselves.

"The history, the past, the future allmean nothing to us. The only thing we areconcerned with is the present."

For the Bantams, the present meansstretching that heroic streak to 114 straightwins.

Trinity StillOptimisticAfter Loss

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influenza by team physicians and was notallowed to leave her room for fear ofinfecting other teammates. This put Trinityat a serious disadvantage because Reddy isthe Bantam's number two player.

"I was hoping that the doctor would atleast let her [Vaidehi] come out and if notplay, at least default so everyone could stayin their proper spots," Bartlett said.

Trinity doctors would have none ofthat, however. Vaidehi's absence forcedeveryone underneath her spot in the rank-ing to play a higher ranked opponent.

Nonetheless, the Bantams are still opti-mistic about their long-term goals.

"We almost expected Yale to be astronger team than us," Leong said, "andwhat we need to do is beat all the otherteams to get a good seed in the NationalChampionships ... if we beat Harvard andPrinceton, we should get the number twoseed."

Following Wednesday's loss, Trinitymade the short drive to Providence, R.I. tosquare off against Brown. The Bearsproved to be no match for the the Bantams,who easily defeated Brown 8-1.

The Bantams will travel up toCambridge, Mass, this Thursday to playHarvard in another critical match for seed-ing in the Howe Cup.

Coach Bartlett summarized the situs-'tion well by saying, "we play very well onthe road and we're still very confident ...the dual matches are played for seeding andwe're still focused on being a one or twoseed in the end."

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back to'tie the game at halftone,"said co-captain Jesse Farrell '05.

"The second half, our startersreally picked it up and wesqueezed out a tight win. Theyhad the momentum going intoovertime but we took completecontrol once it started."

In the overtime, the Bantamsoutscored the White Mules 14-6,giving them the victory.

Co-captain John Halas'05 hita three in the overtime period tobreak a 66-66 tie. He bit the treyjust after Bantam forward Tyler

Rhoten '06 had fouled out,quickly shifting the momentumback to Trinity. Bantam forwardRobert Taylor III '07 hit a lay-upon the next Trinity possession togive the visitors a 71-66 margin.

"One of the good thingsabout our team is we believe wecan win any game," Farrell said."It was a huge win - winning inMaine is always great."

Halas totaled 15 points, ninerebounds, four assists, and foursteals to lead Trinity. Taylor IHfinished with 18 points and 11rebounds, while Rhoten had 15

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The 13-4 Bantams are currently ranked 25th in the nation.

of his 17 points in the secondhalf. Guard Patrick Hasiuk '07had 13 points and six rebounds.

Trinity entered the gameranked number 25 in the nationand improved their record to 13-4 overall and 3-1 in the NESCACwith their third straight win.

The White Mules dropped to10-5 overall and 1-3 in theleague.

The next day the Bantamstook on the Bowdoin Polar Bearsand won fairly easily 93-73.

Trinity jumped out to a 19-6lead in the first six minutes andnever looked back. With thegame tied at four apiece in theearly going, a 15-2 run by theBantams gave the visitors a com-manding lead mid-way throughthe first half. Three straightthree-pointers keyed the Trinityrun, as the Bantams connected onnine three-pointers in the firsthalf alone, including four fromHalas.

Bowdoin closed to within 14points three times in the secondframe, but could draw no closer.

"We came out right away andasserted ourselves as the betterteam in the opening minutes,"said Farrell.

"We built a twenty point leadat halftime and never lookedback. Our outside shooting(especially by John Halas andKino Clark) was the best it hasbeen all year."

Halas scored a team-high 23

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Robert Taylor III '07 had a double-double against Colby.

points to lead the Bantams to thewin.

Rhoten scored 20 points togo with seven boards, whileguard Kino Clarke '07 added 17points and Taylor posted 10points.

Trinity is 14-4 overall, 4-1 inthe NESCAC, and is still ranked25th in the nation.

The Bantams have now wonfour straight. The Polar Bearsdropped to 8-9 overall and 0-5 inthe league.

~ "Overall it was a great week-

end, and we are happy but notcontent with where we are in theNESCAC," stated Farrell. "Nextweekend is a huge weekend forus and this was a big steppingstone."

As always the Bantams arelegitimate national contenders inDivision-Ill hoops. Proving thatthey can win anywhere in thecountry against great strongcompetition, the team must nowfocus on qualifying for theNCAA Division-Ill Tournamentat the end of the season.

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Men's Squash Defeat Yale to Remain UnbeatenJON SIMONIAN

SPORTS EDITOR

Much of the talk this seasonin Men's College Squash hasbeen about two key matches: thefirst when the Trinity Bantamsmeet the Yale Bulldogs and thesecond when Trinity faces the

Harvard Crimson.Trinity, Harvard and Yale

have consitently been the topthree teams all year.

Many doubters of the TrinitySquash program predicted thateither Yale or Harvard would endTrinity's epic 100+ match win-

Chuck PrattTri-captain Bernardo Samper '05 lunges for the drop shot

ning streak this year.The first of those key matches

has come and gone, and the streakis still intact.

This past Wednesday, Trinitysquared off against Yale at theKellner Squash Center, and con-vincingly walloped the numberthree ranked team in the nation 8-1.

The only Bantam to lose hismatch was tri-captain BernardoSamper '05, who got into a holeearly in the match, managed todig himself out but was unable toseize the fifth and deciding game.

Even though the loss wasSamper's first of the season, HeadCoach Paul Assaiante was quickto point out that Samper couldhave won the match, "The secondgame was very physical and whenBernardo won the third game theYale player eased off in the fourthgame so he could get some rest.He had a game to play with."

Excluding Samper, theBantams only lost three games inthe other eight matches.

Fellow tri-captain RegardtSchonborn '05 and sophomoreShaun Johnston each posting

Tri-Captain Regardt Schonbornthree game wins out of the num-ber two and three positions,respectively.

The assertive win against Yaleserved the Bantams in two ways.First, it quelled some of the talkabout the end of Trinity's reign asSquash king and second, it sent aclear message to Harvard thatthey should be ready for a warnext week.

But before Trinity could trav-el to Cambridge, they needed to

Chuck Pratt'05 is on the offensive."

dispose of Brown on Sunday.Coach Assaiante sent the bottomhalf of the ladder, affectionatelynicknamed 'the bomb squad' toplay the Bears and they thorough-ly shelled their opponents to thetune of another easy 8-1 team vic-tory.

The win at Brown was num-ber 402 for Coach Assaiante inhis Collegiate coaching career.

see BANTAMS on page 22.

Women's Squash Falls 7-2 to YaleJON SIMONIAN

SPORTS EDITOR

After three straight wins to begin theirseason, the Trinity Women's Squash teamfaltered against the top ranked team in thecountry, the Yale Bulldogs, this pastWednesday at the Kellner Squash Center.The Bantams were unable to mount muchresistance in front of the home crowd andwere soundly defeated 7-2.

"Yale has a very strong team this year,"Coach Wendy Bartlett said, "but everyonestill gave it their all. We had some reallygood matches."

The two matches that Trinity did pullout were won by senior Lynn Leong, whosoundly beat the number one player in thenation in three games, 10-8, 9-2 and 9-3,and sophomore Fernanda Rocha who wasforced to move up in the ladder to the num-ber five position.

For Leong, the win was a direct resultof forcing her style onto her opponentthroughout the match.

"My strategy was to not let her play hergame. I just wanted to go in there, finish itoff and come off [the court] . I 'm not think-ing about rankings."

The effort that Leong put up was morethan equaled by teammate Rocha whocame away victorious after a grueling fivegame match.

"We've done a lot of conditioning andtraining to prepare for this," Rochaexplained. "We are all fighters and give itour best every match."

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Lynn Leong '05 recorded one of Trinity's only wins in the match against Yale.

Despite the combined effort of all the About an hour before the match,players it was not enough to overcome the Vaidehi Reddy '07, was diagnosed withodds that were dealt to them by Yale and byillness. see TRINITY on page 22

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The men's basketball team traveled toCalifornia over winter break to play twogames. In the first game, the Bantamsdefeated Occidental 74-60 but lost toPomona-Pitzer 48-61 in the second game.

When the team returned toConnecticut, they faced Coast Guard andClark and won both games to put theirrecord at 10-3.

Trinity opened up their league gamesby hosting Amherst on January 15th.Amherst defeated the Bantams by threepoints in a hard-fought and competitivegame. The Bantams were able to win then-next two league games againstConnecticut College and Wesleyan.

This weekend the team traveled up toMaine to take on Colby and Bowdoin.The Bantams played Colby on Fridaynight and pulled off a 78-66 win in anexciting overtime game. Each teamscored 29 points in the first half and 33points in the second half, which forcedovertime.

"We got off to a slow start and gotdown, but we hung in there and battled

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