Pcp Success Despite Cold Weather

© Volume V, Issue 17 February 20, 1996 the other white meat Profile: PCP SUCCESS DESPITE Jeff Raber COLD WEATHER by Michelle Wolper by James Reffell the cold, more than a few were spotted in We sat outside on a beautiful after The Valentine's Day Palm Court Party outfits as scanty as those from previous noon puffing away on Black Russians managed to survive cold weather, noise PCPs. while discussing the benefits of quitting complaints, pulled fire alarms, and a Thanks to a noise permit, the music smoking. He's 6'5", muscular, and sports change in location to become what RA withstood one off-campus noise com an eye patch and two tattoos. He quotes Eric Piotrowski called "a fine evening of plaint at 1:00 a.m., but another at 3:00 Einstein and rides a motorcycle. He is fun and enjoyment." Piotrowski, along a.m. forced the festivities to move to Jeff Raber, New College's most recent with Chuck Arendt, arranged the music, Hamilton Center. While the indoor PCP p addition to the mainte while Tracie Merritt and Cara was a fair bit smaller, "people reacted real nance team. He spoke of Bompignano coordinated the decorations ly well to the noise complaint and the R his life before New and events. move," said Merritt. College (i.e. before last The PCP ran without a hitch until The PCP was finally shut down at 0 week) and of certain well into the morning. The usual around 5:00a.m., due to a repeatedly tasks he performs which aren't stipulated debauchery and raucous behaviour were pulled fire alarm. The flashing emergency as job requirements. only slightly subdued by the chilly weath "People are relying on me. It needs to er. While most people bundled up against SEE "PCP" ON PAGE 3 be done. I'm the prime candidate to see it be done. It's a way of being appreciated," BOTH REFERENDA PASSED he said. Oh, so that's why he disposes of the by Evan Greenlee candidates. dirty dishes left behind in Hamilton Well over 200 students turned out for Second, the Student Affairs Council Center after each meal. last week's New College Student Alliance (now known as the Student Allocations "People scream about styrofoam. I election, roughly 40 percent of the stu Committee) was stripped of some of its understand. But people leave their new dent body. The turnout was similar to that powers that it currently does not execute. dishes out on the tables for them to be of recent elections. These powers dealt mainly with the quali destroyed," he said. It was this belief that The 50/50 referendum changed the ty of student life and were distributed to one day prompted Jeff to collect all the amount of funding the Fitness Center different committees under the jurisdic dirty dishes left behind from a previous receives from New College. Until now, tion of the SAC. Third, a new committee meal and pile them up onto one table, New College paid a little less than half of was formed as a way students could accompanied by a friendly note which the Fitness Center's annual budget; the appeal a SAC appropriation. Fourth, the suggested that students properly dispose remainder came from the University grammar and spelling was corrected to of their dishes. Program. Since New College students use reflect correct English as found in SEE "RABER" ON PAGE 3 the Fitness Center four times more than Webster. UP students, New College students will There was a slight delay in the elec INSIDE now pay exactly half of the funding for tions because Elections Supervisor Jessica the Fitness Center to accommodate the Hickmont was confused about when the Morning Bob .............. ....3 imbalance. results were to be posted. The results were IvoryTower ..... .............3 The constitutional reform changed a posted late Sunday afternoon. lot of things. Primarily, it changed elec Dear Amy ................... .4 tions. By pushing elections a few months RESULTS ARE AS FOLLOWS: Slam! . ..................... .4 back, voters may better determine whom Student Affairs Council they would like to elect. In fall elections, 1st year: Hazen Komraus 121 votes, Pig Roast .................... .5 first-years have made up the majority of Dexter Hadley 102 Silicon Jungle . ...... .. ...... 6 the voters, though they have had less than two weeks to become acquainted with fall SEE "RESULTS" ON PAGE 3 2 The Catalyst February 20, 1996 "RABER" FROM PAGE 1 that too, so I took his job." "PCP" FROM PAGE 1 Mter his stint in the landscaping busi As for the eye patch, allow your ness, Jeff moved to Colorado, where, for lights, wailing alarms, and eerie voice curiosity to be satisfied. Jeff suffers a brain 10 years, he held an administrative posi intoning, "Walk, do not run to the nearest tumor which has claimed his right eye tion at a home for disabled and handi exit. Do not use the elevators," provided a and has caused partial paralysis in his capped children. But he has an aversion fittingly surreal finish to the night's face. "It scares the s- out of me," he says. to cold weather. "I can't ride my motorcy events. "I'm tall, I have a patch on my eye and cle in the snow," he said. So he returned there are times that I go without shaving. to Sarasota to enjoy a more temperate cli To Sum Up But I'm not threatening." In other words, mate. "All it was was a whole bunch of cold he's a nice guy with a look on his face that As for New College, he said he enjoys people." -Bill Wood says, "I've been there." the environment (and gets free coffee "I don't remember what I did, but I And it's been nothing but experience from Marriott) but is amazed by many of had fun."-Dexter Hadley after experience for Jeff. He was in the the fashion statements students make. "I "It was fabulous when I was out Navy for "two years, nine months, 13 used to walk around with my shoelaces there."-Rachael Stein days, two hours and 56 minutes" doing untied; [people] thought I was sloppy. I what he referred to as "the toughest job wore jeans with holes in them; [people] Reasons Not To Attend possible." Mter catching pneumonia dur thought I was poor. It's amazing that I "The Scarlet Pimpernel was on. I just ing an assignment on the Great Lakes helped start a fashion trend without even couldn't miss that."-Amy Cottrell aboard the Ammunition Oiler, he realized knowing it!" he said. that a career in the Navy was simply not He also has a few words of advice for Strangeness what he wanted. "Einstein said that New College students: "They should real "Some guy walked up to me with a everyone who fails has succeeded in real ize that it's not the textbooks and classes, big f-- cucumber with a bite out of it izing that what they did was wrong," he but rather the friendships and experiences and a condom over it. It took a moment said. "That's how I look at things." that will prepare them for the real world. to register."-Anita Sachariah Mter earning a bachelor's degree, he Einstein said that he would never memo spent the next several years "roaming," as rize anything which he could look up in a The Alarm he calls it. "I worked here and there, paid reference book. I never realized that I was "The fire alarm was strangely in sync rent here and there, got drunk here and actually learning until after I left college." with the Wall tape, and the flashing light there," he said. About two hours into our conversa was a nice effect."-Navadai Caldwell Then it was on to Sarasota, where he tion, our roles suddenly reversed. Jeff "It was kind of strange--we were all learned about landscape design, after lay said, "Okay, Michelle. Now I'm The sitting in the chill-out room when it went ing out the parking lot for the then Catalyst. Tell me about yourself." Seeing off. We just sat there for a minute and brand-new Sarasota Square Mall. "I was the grin on his face, I took out more ciga stared at it. No one said a word, and then digging a ditch one day and there was this rettes from my bag, gave him one, and we we all just stood up and filed out." guy standing over me telling me what to enjoyed the rest of the afternoon. -Catalyst Business Manager Sara Foley do," Jeff said. "I thought that I could do The Catalyst is available on the World Wide Web at Cii'falyst· http:!lwww.sar. usf edul-catalyst/ r----------------------------------------------1 General Editor Direct submissions and inquiries to: Kate Fink The Catalyst Managing Editor 5700 N. Tamiami Tr. Box #75 or [email protected] James Reffell Sarasota, FL 34243 Staff Writers Charles Choi, Evan Greenlee, Aaron Olk, Submissions may also be placed in the Catalyst box marked "Letters to the Editor/Contribu Graham Strouse, Rocky Swift and tions" (in the student government boxes next to Barbara Berggren's office). Letters to the Editor Michelle Wolper should be no more than 250 words. 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