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Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 1993-1994 Student Newspapers 9-28-1993 College Voice Vol. 17 No. 4 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1993_1994 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "College Voice Vol. 17 No. 4" (1993). 1993-1994. 17. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1993_1994/17 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1993-1994 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. THE COL EVOICE ..;V..;o;,;;1;,;;1I;;m;;e;;.;;;XVI;.;.;~I'l.iN:';';;;1I~m:.;:b::;e~r:.;:,4 ~~~A~d~Fontes Collegial debate focuses on Dean's Term Committee DTCC proceeds without defined role director of continuing education, (:; by Jennifer Levan Editor in Chief replaced Lee Coffin, associate di- ~ rector of admissions as adrninistra- .2 Controversy surrounding the tive consultant to the DTCC. Filer ~ purpose and legitimacy of the is not a member of the committee l: Dean's Term Coordinating Com- either, and said, "My affiliation ~ mittee reached a peak last week as [with the DTCCj really is as a fa- J! faculty and student government cilitator. .. leaders questioned its role and re- According to Marlow, at the mo- The Dean's Term Coordinating Committee held a contact session on Tuesday night to discuss seminars. sponsibilities. ment the committee is loosely The DTCC was formed last linked to the President's office, to teams of two anyway, so this would spring after students had expressed which it makes recommendations. be the best way for us to be involved interest in helping the administra- "We most closely resemble a col- without disrupting what was al- Endowment breaks tion organize a special program for lege committee at this point," said ready happening," Marlow said. students interested in coming back Marlow. Marlow was appointed as Scot! said that bypassing SGA from January break early to take chair by Claire Gaudiani, president could negatively affect both the the $63 million mark part in workshops and extracurricu- of the college. The actual commit- SGA and the DTCC. lar activities. tee voted Marlow chair at a later "If the two groups don't work 1992. The last years have moved us by April Ondis up rapidly in all of these areas." Although Claire Gaudiani, presi- date. together the DTCC misses out on News Editor dent of the college, announced at an Two weeks ago, two SGA mem- the channels between the student Brooks said that he feels most SGA assembly last year that presi- bers were elected to the DTCC to body, the faculty, and the adminis- According to the booklet of Con- comfortable gauging the college dential discretionary funds from a serve as liaisons between the tration already in place as well as the necticut College Strategic Plan In- endowment's performance using grant from the Mellon Foundation DTCC and SGA. The DTCC still' automatic polling of student opin- dicators for 1991-1992, Connecti- the NACUBO ratings. "Basically that's \he on\"jone that raies a\\ \he grant would be utilized for the pro- does not appear to qualify as a stu- ion by the assembly. And at the cut CoHege's endowment has u\\\.ven,\.\\.es and co\~ in '\he gram, Lee Kneerim, administrative dent government committee be- same time SG A. potentially can suf- STQwn \0 $63 m\\\\on. a 31 ~:[ce.f\\ increase since 1990, and has. while country," said Brooks. advisor to the DTCC, said that stu- cause it operates out of the fer if die DTCC doesn't use the not the largest, at least the fastest According to Brooks, the college dent members of the DTCC would President's office. established routes, because then the growing endowment among its . also belongs to thc Cambridge As- research other means of funding The liaisons were added in an faculty can perceive this asa fault of pier schools. sociation which tracks "a smaller and supply that information to the attempt to go through the proper student govemment." . Lynn Brooks, vice president for universe of colleges" of aboul50 or development office. channels and touch more bases in Saveena Dhall, SGA president, finance. said, "We've moved up 60 endowments. "We've placed According to Don Filer, secre- their efforts to make the program said that SGA's involvement with very significantly in the NACUBO, first or second [in this ranking] over tary of the college and assistant to work. According to Marlow, the DTCC would be to "see that (National Association of College the past two years," said Brooks. the president, the Mellon grant was Yvonne Watkins, house senator of things go as smoothly and properly and University Business Officers), Brooks addressed the direction given in 1990 at an original sum of Knowlton, and Amity Simons, as possible." It was brought to her rankings. This is out of 350 to 400 the college hopes to take with the approximately $200,000. Filer house senator of Smith, were attention by the President's Office different endowments. If you endowment in keeping with the said, "there is a pool of money elected to sit on the DTCC after Jen that communication between the looked at our ten-year performance. Strategic Plan's goal to "increase available, but if [the DTCCj can Scott, SAC chair, suggested that DTCC and SGA could be mutually we ranked 55 out of350, five years significantly the college's endow- find other means of funding, we'll SGA members should be involved beneficial. "[The DTCC] realizes that SGA ago we ranked fourteenth outof350 ment." use that" with the program as links between . five years ago. and we were fourth "The plan isjust to keep on doing Kneerim said that students would important administrators and of- is there for their benefit because we out of that group in performance for what we've been doing. We've not write the grant proposals, but fices. already have important liaisons and the fiscal year that ended June 30, See Brooks. p.ll would "supply Paul [Solyn, direc- "The DTCC is structured in See Student, p.5 tor of corporate and foundation re- :: ::::: :':. ::: :::,r::":":; :':" ::~:;;:',: .:.:.:.,~.:':""::: :":..:,"::~:.:;:'.":"::.::::::"::";,:;. :"::::; :::. :";":.":":.:.,.... ......'..:.....::: :,:":::".>.::::;.::: ,:: ::: :":~:: .... :.:.::". .'." .. ". :: .:' :': ..::'f: .::.:.~.:~::.:::'.:':::: .":' ".. :::: :"".::: :.:.' ".:: :": :"::".,\: :; ."::. :."' .. lations] with a rich description of what the program is." According to Connecticut College jumps three positions in Kneerim, Sol yn will write up the proposals so that the Mellon Grant could be used for other purposes. annual U.S News & World Report rankings "At the moment right now we have all the money we need and then some from the Mellon Grant that the college has," said Chad Marlow, chair of the DTCC. The committee's responsibilities and position within the college's governance system is another source of contention for some fac- ulty and members of SGA. The C- book outlines the two types of com- mittees at the college: administra- tive and SGA standing committees, A&E pp.13-15 and the DTCC does not fit neatly Annette Funicello reap- into these models. pears in the music scene The DTCC does not fit into the with new box set, p. 15 category because administrator Comics pp. 3,4,& 8 does not serve on the actual com- 1tvYJ-- Sports pp. 16-20 mittee and the committee members Preview of men's rowing were not elected or-appointed by the l~L and sailing, p. 20 Student Government Assembly. ~ Kneerim, who retired last year as The College Voice September 28, 1993 Page 1 • VIEWPOINT/ CONNTHOUGHT Bypass of tradition hurts DTCO Editors of Blats respond to CoImectlaat CoIItge Fidesilself QII ~t1. W1IeD devising a five-year SlrllteP: I'Iaa to llIIide 1he coI1ese as It c1bDbed ill tbe naliooal maks, hUDdrtds 1# membfts of the <:ollege _ulli'y jobI~ iD lloeprocess. Erery committee at lblseclllege, aalde from the coverage of faculty art exhibit trusteecommlttees,lsromjlORdofatodeOls,faculty,alldadminlstra. on campus. I found the piece unin- tors. WbeD tbe collegewas lal:ing a $1.5 millinll sbortfaillast year, a Letter to the Voice. that covering the work of a newly formative and uninformed and it tea", eITort made tlttculs achievable and asl'ain~ as possible. N(Ji\'< I am going to refrain from talking arrived member of the faculty by reminded me of the advice my 7th we hIn'e proof or wby Ibis coUegiaf-declsioo maldng process Is 8Q! about things that the Voice printed saying only that, "Wollensack has grade English teacher gave me. important - The Dea!J's Term CoordinatingCOQlmittee. weeks ago and calm myself with the some interesting holographic im- "Write what you know:' If poor The DTCC was tbrown togt:tberInformaDy by1'resldent Gaudlanl know ledge that most people I know ages," might be somewhatless than at tbe end or last semester, and was given the ~ or devising a only read the comics and the liquor adequate. I happen to believe that high school level writing is what the pseudo-January Plan. The Dean's Term, as lloe program was to be' store advertisements. I was unable referring to a visual work of art as Voice feels is the standard of quality caDed, wasiotended to be a one-week program where students couldl to decide whether the September) 4 simply "unusual ... eyecatching ... for the newspaper. then so be it But if "a very clear message is sent to participate in special workshQllll' designed to i~prove sklll". nqtJ article on the faculty art show was interesting ... bold," or "extremely oormaJly de.eloped In the classroom.