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THE COLBY ECHO Academic Life for Students, and If We the Cultural Events Committee Lates Was the Major Reason for His Being Medical Center Trustees app rove staff ing increase f orsecurity and Title DC Doghead damage By KATIE HAMM for those developments come from the said the SAC did, however, discuss "Dining Services got a very good ing hall in the summer of 2005 were costs to be distributed FEATURES EDITOR capital budget, Terp said, and over the making the alcohol policy more report. There were a" few suggestions discussed and plans were made for next few months the College will "user-friendly." about better use of the Spa and con- structural and fundamental maintenance determine their priorities concerning "We want to extract the alcohol pol- cerns with catering, such as how we to be performed on the Miller Library across student body At their meetings this past week- these projects. icy from the student handbook, "because staff catering since they're doing a tower this summer, Adams said. end, the Board of Trustees endorsed "They thought that the types of it's buried in there," Kassman said. lot," Kassman said. "The Student The Development Committee heard By KATIE HAMM the security proposals and faculty things and direction we're proposing "We're planning to do that, without a review of the campaign, which has . FEATURES EDITOR adjustments to correspond with the looks appropriate," Terp said. changing the policy." . raised about $62 million in document- Title IX settlement through the Also included in the budget are ftinds The SAC also considered some pro- [The decision ] ed commitments, Adams said. approval of the 2004-2005 operating for staffing increases over the next few grams to educate students about alco- "This is a substantial increase from At the April 19 Presidents' Council budget, among other issues discussed. years to implement the Title IX settle- hol, particularly ones that are authorizes us to the last report, which was in January," meeting, the Student Government The security recommendations made ment, Adams said. conducted on the Internet, have a higher Adams said. "We're on track." Association voted in favor of spread- by Kroll Security were at the top of the Additionally, the group also "Students come to us with a lot of On Saturday the Trustees joined ing the costs of the damages resulting agenda for the Student Affairs approved the start of a search for a knowledge about alcohol, but do they level of security Adams and others for the ground from the cancellation of Doghead Committee, said Vice President for new women's ice hockey coach, as really think about the effects—damage, than we've had breaking of the new Schair-Swenson- equally across the student body. Student Affairs and Dean of Students next year current coach Jennifer noise and other , more serious effects, Watson Alumni Center. Schair, a The motion states that individuals Janice Kassman. Holsten will remain the women's soc- such as sexual assault. There are also in the past. graduate of the class of '67, is a mem- identified as responsible for specific "The Board was very thoughtful, cer coach and become the assistant ice negative consequences front an acade- ber of the Board and a "leader in mak- acts will be held financially account- curious and testing [about security]," hockey coach, Adams said. mic standpoint," Kassman said. Douglas Terp ing the center a reality," said Vice able and subject to other disciplinary said President William D. Adams. While no major decisions were Kassman updated the Trustees in .Associate Vice President for President for College Relations Richard actions, where relevant. If the remain- -,. .. Administrati on "They seemed to understand what we made by the SAC, dialogue housing the SAC about the destruction of Ammons. der of the costs cannot he assigned to were saying." and the alcohol policy were discussed. campus on the second weekend of Schair made the naming gift with a specific individual, the entire student Funding was allotted for 1.25 fullr Kassman updated the committee March, resulting from the cancella- Services Overseers were pleased with his roommates from Colby in honor of body will assume the burden fully and time equivalent security officers, on the feelings on campus about dia- tion of Doghead. the organizational structure," Kassman their friendship. The Board also in equal portions. which equals two bodies, Adams said. logue housing, noting that they would . "They were dismayed to think there said, referring to the hiring of a new approved the budget for the center. There was no discussion of the The budget also contains extra money not be ready to vote until next fall or would be that level of damage, and they Dean of Students. "They were pleased The fitness center was named for issue at the meeting, as Presidents' for student patrols and Jitney drivers. possibly January. were eager to understand why there that we're acting so quickly." Joe Boulos, a graduate of the class of Council had talked about the options "It authorizes us to have a higher "There's no reason to be transac- would be such frustration," she said. Two academic departments, Jewish '68, in honor of his generosity, and consequences extensively at their level of security than we've had in the tional about it now. This year is really "They were impressed with Bro's dis- Studies and Latin American Studies, Ammons said. previous meeting on April 4. The other past," said Associate Vice President just preliminary," Kassman said. cussion with Presidents' Council , and also received Overseers reports . Vice During their stay on campus, some possibility discussed at that time was for Administration Douglas Terp. Derek Taff '04 said the Trustee pleased that there was that approach." President for Academic Affairs and Trustees held senior exit interviews. to charge the students living in the res- The Trustees did not make any Working Group is still reviewing the Dining Services and Student Dean of Faculty Ed Yeterian could The Environmental Advisory Group idence halls for the damage that took decisions about more extensive pro- College's current alcohol policy and Services received Overseers reports not be reached for comment about gave a presentation to the entire place in their building, as is the stan- jects, such as the card access system there were no changes to the policy at this past weekend, Kassman said, both these reports. Board, which Kassman described as dard policy for dorm damage. and lighting improvement. Funding this weekend's meetings. Kassman receiving very complimentary reports. Plans for renovations to Roberts din- "excellent and well received." "If we focus on residence halls, we ignore the fact that Doghead is a cam- pus issue and that participation and f or damages exceeded what we have in Ex-hostage Terry Waite to Changes looming hosp itals in place to deal with damages," said Mary Low Hall President Todd speak tonight in Page Waterville, consolidation possible Lohsen '06, who proposed the motion. "I think the campus will support it. Ideally the campus will recognize that By LIZ BOMZE By KATE RUSSO it's not a limited problem. Doghead is NEWS EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR an event that really attracts chem-free students, as well as jhe rest of the cam- Terry Waite, a hostage for five years As a result of a decade-long drastic pus, to alcohol." in Beirut, Lebanon, will be speaking decline in the utilization of local health "This damage doesn't have abstract to the Colby community tonight on care facilities, equally radical decisions consequences. It serves as a real detri- "Moral and Ethical Decisions" at 7 are pending to revamp the tri-campus ment to the student body and that's p.m. in the Page Commons Room. MaineGeneral hospital system. what's so unfortunate about it; we're Waite is coming to Colby thanks to As Garrison-Foster Health Center the ones who enabled this to happen," a grant from Gail Gerrish '62 and her Director Melanie Thompson noted said SGA President Derek Taff '04. PHOTO COURTESY OF COMMUNICATIONS husband Allan Gerrish, who advocate Terry Waite will speak tonight. in her "Compromising our health" Taff expects that the cost per person that concepts of moral and ethical column last week, Mid-Maine for the damage will be approximately decision-making be more prevalent in ing to Hammond, were spent in solitary Medical Center, comprised of the $10, but there are no exact figures yet. the Colby curriculum, according to confinement, where Waite was chained Waterville Thayer and Seton Units, "One way or another it would come Associate Dean of Residential Life to a wall with no direct sunlight. as well as Kennebec Valley Medical from something for the students, ways Ron Hammond, who was instrumental Waite was captured in Lebanon dur- Center in Augusta, merged in July intended to improve residential life or in the lecture's feasibility. ing wartime, which Hammond specu- 1997, thereby forming MaineGeneral NOAH BALA2S/THE COLBY ECHO academic life for students, and if we The Cultural Events Committee lates was the major reason for his being Medical Center. Expectations that The two MaineGeneral campuses in Waterville could be consolidated. didn 't step up to pay the bill then we screened the names of many possible taken hostage. Hammond suspected, the fusion would be financially ben- remain on the table: maintaining two members of the Board continue to would be deprived in another way," speakers to> come to talk to the com- however, there could be a more fasci- eficial to both communities, howev- campuses—one in Waterville and one mull over the most practical and sat- Taff said. "It's better that we under- munity on the issue of moral and ethi- nating answer as to why Waite, himself, er, have been thwarted by harsh in Augusta—and closing the Seton isfactory solution.
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