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Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 1997-1998 Student Newspapers 2-9-1998 College Voice Vol. 21 No. 13 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1997_1998 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "College Voice Vol. 21 No. 13" (1998). 1997-1998. 10. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1997_1998/10 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 1997-1998 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 COLLEGE Coon swimmers split victory and defeat against rival Brandeis. See page 11. A College Tradition Since 1976 Volume XXI • Number 13 Connecticut College, New London, CT Monday, February 9, 1998 Gender and Orchestra and NET clash over Dana Women's Studies: by Mitchell Polatin nearly 70 campuses across the coun- Michael Adelson, director of the YOll Did Last Summer packed Dana ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR try, feeds the movies to college cam- orchestra, and the actual loss will hall during the fall semester. Ac- from the beginning puses at 9:00 on Tuesday nights. become crystal clear. cording to Scott McEver, director The NET program, which brings The problem is that the orchestra "Essentially," explains Adelson, of student activities, the Net is a by Alyson Day sneak previews of movies and spe- practices from 7:00 to 10:00 on "an academic event has been placed valuable asset to Conn. THE COLLEGE VOICE cial events to Conn, is in the middle Tuesday nights; because of the nec- second fiddle, behind an entertain- "What's nice about Conn," ex- of a stormy conflict surrounding the essary preparations in Dana for ment event. What are the priorities plains Mcgver,' is that we are by Numerous obstacles have been Conn campus. The time tbe NET NET, the orchestra must be done by of the college?" far the smallest school on the NET. overcome in the struggle to achieve program requires to show films 8:30, thereby losing an hour and a The NET service has been an Tbe next school up probably has the Fullerl Maathai Chair in Gender overlaps the Conn orchestra's re- half from their practice time. The overwhelming success at Conn. 7,000 students." and Women's Studies. The first 15 hearsal schedule. hour and a half may not sound like Sneak previews of Oliver Stone's years of the Gender and Women's The program, which runs on a devastating loss, yet talk to U-Turn and the thriller I Know What see NET. page 2 Studies program subsisted on the dedication of faculty members and guest instructors who volunteered Campus safety tightens countless hours for lectures with meager institutional support. Pro- fessor of Classics Joann Silverberg, a past director of the program, ex- the screws on alcohol pressed frustration that Connecticut by Mitchell Polaiin is one of many administrators who College "experienced a certain am- ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR believe more alcohol awareness nesia over the fact that it was a programs may be in order. Miner former women's institution," in its According to Jim Miner, director explains, "awareness is always help- reluctance to support and acknowl- of Campus Safety. there was a trou- ful," yet that leads one to ask where edge the importance of women's bling rise in alcohol-related inci- does awareness end and personal studies. _Silverberg also pointed to dent reports during the fall semes-. responsibility begin? It may be a the changes which arose with co- ter. More specifically, there have gray area, but it is obvious that education, such as the fact that the been numerous instances involving students are taking little responsi- male/ female faculty ratio nearly members of the class of 200 I and bility for their actions. doubled. trips to the infirmary due to alcohol Doug Barnes, crime prevention The program began in t918 when intake. Miner added that he taJked offic'er and co-creator of the x5200 Jane To.rrey, professor emeritus of to the directors of Campus Safety at crime prevention line, explains that Psychology; Alix Deguise, profes- nearby schools Trinity and "recently there have been a lot of ~ sor emeritus of French and Italian, Wesleyan, and both directors re- objects thrown out of windows." and Silverberg launched the idea. ported a remarkable increase in 'al- The number one object concerned The professors applied for a Mellon cohol-related incidents involving is glass bottles. A couple of weeks grant and selected Susan members of the freshman class. At ago a bottle thrown from a window Thistlewaire. a women's studies Conn, the number of incidents in- hit a Campus Safety officer in the scholar. and a minister of the United volving freshmen is nearly twice face. The officer escaped serious Church of Christ, to become the co- that concerning last falJ's freshman injury, yet the danger is completely ordinator of the program. The first class. an unnecessary one for students and "Introduction to Women's Studies" According to Miner, "We're con- faculty to endure. course, held in the fall of 1978, was centrating on the sponsors of par- According to Miner, "broken comprised of a series of interdisci- ties, the people who allow this to glass on the ground is a problem. plinary lectures encompassing a di- happen." These sponsors can vary, One student was injured by broken verse range of subjects. The class from the person who signed out a glass." Miner cites South Campus included such titles as ''The Mascu- line Psychology of Women: Getting living room to the person tending as an area where broken glass is PHOTO BY ERIC LOV£COtlo/THE COLLEGE VOICE bar. prevalent. Pulled fire alarms at par- Out from Under," and "Black Femi- Freshman classes are presented ties are also a problem, according to The Shapeof Culture nism," "Women in a Cross Cultural Perspective: Amazons or Slaves?" the typical "dangers of drinking" the officers. These two pieces are featured in an art exhibit celebrating African- The first year also included a four- seminars during their orientation, "Alarms are pulled during, be- American Awareness Month, now on display in the Unity House yet some believe that those are not fore and after parties," according to PepsiCo Room. Many of the exhibit's works were donated by professor course on women in litera- enough to warn the students of the Miner. "People must show more Connecticut College faculty and staff. ture incorporating Gemi.an, French, possible dangers of drinking. Miner self-responsibility. " Italian, and Hispanic Studies. Deguise recruited guest speakers including Peggy Snyder oftbe U.N. move Fund for Women and Florence Pfizer will 2000 jobs to New London Howe, the director of The Feminist by Dan Tompkins projected to have)300 jobs by 2000 as a part of a greater project that the future for Pfizer." Milne ech- Press. Yet with a small operating NEWS EDITOR and an additional 700 jobs five years New London has undertaken in re- oed this sentiment when he said budget, the coordinators could only later. cent years to "[rebuild] its infra- that "it [the land acquisition] was pay the speakers a minute $30, while A former musket factory site will The project will also include a structure, improve major only a little bit about money, it was the faculty lecturers earned nothing. become the home to 2000 Pfizer biotechnology incubator, renova- gateways ...and build our quality of a lot about what we can contribute Deguise, who served as coordinator jobs by the year 2005, announced tions to Fort Trumbull, reuse of the life througb construction [and] grant to the future." until 1990, called the movement "a the company's Central Research Naval Undersea Warfare Center sponsorship. " Gaudiani and Rowland spent labor of love." She recalled that there president, Jobn Milne. Milne, along space and the development of adja- Rowland feels that the Pfizer ven- much of tbeir time thanking city were a number of opponents in the with Conn President Claire cent retail and residential space. ture should be seen as part of a leaders, including Mayor Lloyd faculty and amongst the students, Gaudiani and Connecticut Gover- The move is being brokered greater commitment by both the Beachy, city manager Ricbard M. but that as the program progressed, nor Jobn Rowland, explained the througb the New London Develop- private and public sectors to New Brown, and Bruce Hyde, director many expressed enlightenment in development project to several hun- ment Corporation (NLDC). The London. He announced several of the Office of Development and viewing issues through the perspec- dred guests aboard the ferry John NLDC is receiving $5.35 million other state initiatives in thecommu- Planning. Tbese city officials tive of gender. "On the first day of H. on Tuesday, February 3. from the State Bond Commission to nity including several million dol- worked in concert with the NLDC class, I asked' Are you a feminist?' Pfizer will build a 400,000 square- acquire and prepare the site for lars for improvement of the city's and state officials to secure the and only two students raised their foot office facility in New London Pfizer. sewer system. deal and move forward on a hands," Deguise remarked. "By the to house part of its global develop- "Many people have worked long Rowland stated that "when timeline that Gaudiani character- end of the course every student's ment team, responsible for demon- and hard to see the events of today Pfizer..