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VOL. C NO. 4 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TRINITY COLLEGE SINCE 1904 FEBRUARY 22, 2005 Naomi Tutu Lectures VP Herzberger Leaves Trinity Fourteenth President to Start Term at California College July 1 On Gender and Race EDNA GUERRASIO SENIOR EDITOR Liz FRITZER the Office of Multicultural After over 24 years of service NEWS WRITER Affairs, the Trinity College to the Trinity community, Dr. In an attempt to bring a Black Women's Organization, Sharon Herzberger, Vice diverse body of students together the Women's Center and other President for Institutional to work on a common project, groups have collaborated to Planning and Administration, will numerous campus organizations bring various speakers to the bid farewell as she prepares to pooled their resources, financial Trinity campus in honor of Black assume her new role as President and otherwise, to bring Naomi and Women's History months. of Whittier College. Selected for Tutu, daughter of Archbishop In the past, notable individu- her academic and professional Desmond Tutu, to speak on gen- als, including Elaine Brown, accomplishments at the collegiate der equality in regards to truth head of the Black Panther Party, level, Herzberger's specific expe- and reconciliation this past and Patricia Williams-, author and rience with student diversity', cap- Thursday in the Washington ital campaigns and resource man- Room. Over the last few years see TUTU on page 8 agement will play an integral role in her position. During her time at Trinity Herzberger has assumed many roles including Chair of the Psychology Department, Assistant to the President for Affirmative Action, Vice President for Student Services, and Vice President for Carol Darr Institutional Planning and Dr. Herzberger acted as Vice President for Institutional Planning. Research. Over the last 25 years, pus education and faculty hiring cess. In 2000 Herzberger took her Herzberger has played an integral practices. Her efforts toward a diversity initiatives to a higher role in the College's campus-wide more diverse culture led level and created the Consortium effort toward diversity. As Herzberger to create a cross-col- of High Achievement and Assistant to the President for lege task force that was designed Success, a collaboration of 36 lib- Affirmative Action, Herzberger to work toward removing the cul- eral arts institutions that work Noa Landes oversaw the College's diversifica- tural, academic and financial Tutu spoke in honor of Black and Women's History Months. tion efforts in policy review, cam- obstacles that hinder student suc- see ADMINISTRATOR on page 7 Tripod Interviews Connecticut Student Poet Will Mines recite lines for me. He always told me, poetry titled Outliving is wonderfully mov- j ELIZA SAYWARD - "they also serve who only stand and wait," ing and excellent. i EDITOR-IN-CHIEF which I didn't fully understand at the time, TT: What teachers have influenced you Recent recipient of the Connecticut but is the ending to John Milton's poem the most in high school and in college? Student Circuit Poet award, Will Hines "On His Blindness." To this day, my WH: In high school, I was aided most '05, gave a poetry reading in Hamlin Hall favorite poem is "The Giving Tree" by Shel by a teacher named Mrs. Palmore. She read on Feb. 15. The Tripod had the opportu- Silverstein. my work and encouraged me to submit my nity to ask Hines about his poetry and TT: Which poets have influenced you poetry to literary magazines. It is because | plans for .the future. the most in high school and in college? of her that I was published during my sen- Trinity Tripod: How long have you WH: My influences have changed as I ior year of high school in a national literary been writing poetry and how did you get have grown older. I began to read and emu- magazine called ArtWord Quarterly. At started? late T.S. Eliot in high school, and continue Trinity, Hugh Ogden has been my mentor Will Hines: The oldest poem I have is to enjoy his work. Currently, I read a lot of and helped me grow as a writer. one framed on my desk at home. I wrote it Sharon Olds and a poet named Bernard Additionally, I owe a lot to Professor when I was 11. I began writing because O'Donoghue, who is a professor at Oxford Rosen, who has read my work and given ",hen I v?.s a child my parents would read [University]. I had the pleasure of seeing criticism. me books of poetry, and my father, who is him read at York Theatre in England while Abi Moidover a doctor but lias an English minor, would I was abroad, and I think his volume of see WILL on page 15 Hines '05 wins Student Poet Award. Trinity Days: Anywhere but Here INSIDE JULIET IZON bly hit you in the face. Multiple lethargic student's spine. That's Learn about three STAFF WRITER times. But fear not, because this right: a whole four days of no innovative one-act upcoming weekend represents horrendous econ homework, get- plays that recently- If you're like most other stu- Trinity's greatest gift to its stu- ting away from your roommate's played at Hartford's dents on this campus, the full dents: Trinity Days. The very grating techno, and lots and lots force of the semester has proba- name can send shivers down a of glorious sleep. With so many Bushnell Theater on options for your mini-vacay, page 14. what's a Bantam to do? Since you don't want to get overwhelmed Find out how ConnPIRG's latest Awkwardness: our favorite social and end up doing absolutely noth- campaign affects Hartford resi- disease. All people awkward, turn ing, it's best to make at least ten- dents on page 6. to page 10. tative plans for this weekend. That's right, I said it, make plans. Read about First Amendment Ever see a funny animation or infringements by the SGA on video on-line? Check out an As I'm sure most of you have page 3. media arts article on page 13. found, once you enter college, advance planning means deciding Opinions page 2 Arts page 13 you want to go to the Cave and News page 6 Announcements page 16 Features page 10 Sports page 20 www.google.com not Mather as you enter the build- It's only a two-and-a-haSf hour drive from Trin to the Big Apple. see TRINITY on page 11 www.trinitytripod.com PAGE 2 OPINIONS THE TRINITY TRIPOD - FEBRUARY 22, 2005 Critics of Leaders Crinttp Crtpob Should be Proactive
Eliza K. Sayward '05 WMam C. Yang '06 EMILY COOPERMAN selection of food at Mather, the OPINIONS CONTRIBUTOR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MANAGING EDITOR Cave and the Bistro has increased As Sophomore Class Senator significantly throughout the year. I would like to respond to the Students may have noticed alter- NEWS EDITORS OPINIONS EDITORS Opinions piece written by native combo options in the Cave Evan Norris '06 David Pietrocola'OS Maggie Downing '05 Joanna Hecht '07 Meagan Miller in the Feb. 8 issue and the Bistro, and new juice of the Tripod. Miller expressed machines at Mather. No school FEATURES EDITORS ARTS EDITORS several concerns she had about has perfect food. If any student Lisa San Pascual '06 Ashley Bell 'OS Karl Baker '07 Eric Daucher '06 life on campus and complained has complaints, she should post that the Student Government them on the Beef Board in Mather SPORTS EDITORS ANNOUNCEMENTS EDITOR Association, particularly the or go to a meeting of the auxiliary Eamonn Brown '05 Jon Simonian '07 Colin Raelson '07 Senators-at-Large, were not services, one of which occurred at doing enough to ameliorate these the end of last semester. PHOTO EDITOR ONLINE EDITOR issues. First-year dorms are a sore Abi Moldover '05 Scott Baumgartner '07 I would first like to encourage point for many first-year students, students who have such concerns but the problem is often caused BUSINESS MANAGERS Jane Li '05 Dan Scollan '05 Every student has... things that they would improve... being proactive is the SENIOR EDITORS Jonathan Chesney '05 Jenny Dunn '05 Eileen Flynn '05 Rebecca Fowler '05 only way to accomplish one's goals. Alexander Gordon '05 Edna Guerrasio '05 Hannah Hurwitz '05 Greg Polin '05 Peter Seals '05 to consider running for Senator- by the students themselves. At-Large since students of all Miller mentioned the condition of class years may run. While some the furniture and cleanliness, but STAFF WRITER of Miller's concerns are not under first-years, new to college, often Stefanie Lopez-Boy '05 Emma Bayer '07 Adrienne Gaffney '07 JuEet Izon'07 the realm of the powers of the drink too much on weekends and SGA, joining a policy-making trash their own dorms and bath- Next Monday and Tuesday are Trinity Days, two days that the college sets aside each body such as Student rooms or those of their friends. semester to allow students to catch up on work and prepare for upcoming midterms. Classes Government would accomplish This can be solved by students are not held but the college remains in session and professors are allowed to schedule field more than lamenting in a school taking control of their dorms and trips or special events. newspaper. the guests they allow inside. This may sound clear and well defined, but the objectives and actual use of Trinity Miller expressed concerns Many dorms have instituted a Days have remained a hotly debated topic for years. Many feel that Trinity Days should once ranging from extending the locked door policy, which also helps. I understand concerns again be a full week, as they have been in past years, while others argue that they are not used Add/Drop period, to the prices of books in the bookstore, to the about the quality of the furniture, appropriately and should be done away with completely. condition of freshmen dorms. The and I believe that the fold-out In this week's issue of the Tripod an article is being run in the Features section con- SGA is already working to extend style desk that some first-years cerning what to do over Trinity Days. Not surprisingly, it highlights potential travel destina- the Add/Drop period and hopeful- must use (including myself last tions students should consider when they plan their activities for these four days. This article ly by next semester a new policy year) are being phased out. I can topic may not sit well with those who feel that vacationing is a waste of this time given to stu- will be put in place. assure any first-year frustrated dents to allow them to catch up on their work. It is a valid and useful article however, because The SGA has also looked into with his or her dorms that living so many students use these two days to travel. the reason why books are priced situations will improve each year. A major reason contributing to the large number of students vacationing over Trinity so high and found that the book- If anyone with concerns and Days is that many undergraduates who live in New England or close by are able to use the long store does not make much of a ideas would like to come voice weekend to go home. Those that cannot make the trip home because it is too far, expensive or profit. The books are expensive to his or her concerns" to the-SGA, begin with coming from the pub- meetings are held Monday nights inconvenient are left with options of staying on campus without most or any of their friends, lishers. In same issue of the at 9 p.m. in the Alumni Lounge in or taking a trip. . Tripod that Miller's article is pub- Mather. Meetings are open and This is not to say that there aren't students who choose to devote these two days to lished in, there was a front page non-SGA members are always staying on campus to get work done or who must remain to attend mandatory events or field article about the prices of text- welcome. It is only through hear- trips. This last option is very rare, as many students don't enjoy feeling lonely on campus, books and the reasons for them. ing directly from the students that especially with the knowledge that their friends are either home or having a fun vacation. The SGA is working on several we can be sure to address their Among the minority of students who remain on campus includes those who have fallen far initiatives to bring down the price concerns and hear then" ideas. behind on their work and spend the weekend frantically studying, which is neither enjoyable of books in the future. Every student has complaints nor an effective way of studying. Miller also addressed the and things that they would One way to entice students to remain on campus would be for professors and issue of the overripe fruit at improve at this school. The good Mather. I don't know where she thing about Trinity is that there Administrators to schedule activities that are uniquely educational and fun over Trinity Days. got the idea that the SGA has con- are so many people willing to lis- Examples of this could include extra credit study sessions, extended office hours, or events trol over when fruit is harvested ten and hear the concerns of stu- that bring students and faculty together socially such as midnight breakfast or a lunch togeth- and sliced, but maybe she should dents. I urge Miller to run for the er in Mather or the Faculty Club. If Trinity wishes to continue this tradition, they should try cereal or eggs and toast. There SGA or join another student either accept that students use this time to visit home or travel and extend it to the previous are many healthy alternatives organization next year and to do week-long break or, if they truly wish for students to remain on campus, they should structure served by Chartwells, and if a stu- something about the issues that it with academic and social activities to attract students to stay. dent does not know what consti- she has with Trinity. After all, tutes "healthy," there is a dietician being proactive is the only way to The Trinity Tripod is published every Tuesday, excluding vacations, by the students of Trinity available for appointments. The accomplish one's goals. College in Hartford, Conn. The Tripod office is located in the basement of Jackson Dormitory. Address all correspondence to: The Trinity Tripod, Trinity College #702582, ]L :iL £3>: W :; f 1. 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SGA Silences Student Voice Fraternities Need ROB FLYNN tence. Well, not without a fight. respect to alternate, minority OPINIONS CONTRIBUTOR What is Students for viewpoints. Mutual Support People need to understand Academic Freedom all about? No matter what Goldstein SCOTT BAUMGARTNER something that happened very The group is a reaction to the lib- says, we do not approve black- matter what I write, someone will ONLINE EDITOR recently at this school. On Feb. 1, eral bias in education that exists lists, looking up voting records, link my own personal opinion to the First Amendment rights of at almost every college in the quota systems, videotaping class- Frankly, I'm a little sick of the . that of the brotherhood, whether every single student at this school United States. It is an attempt for rooms, or universal -syllabi. Alpha Delta Phi controversy that or not the fraternity has made a were eroded by Isaac Goldstein educators to realize the spectrum We don't want professors has been carried out on campus statement about what I am writing fired, we don't want to storm the and in the Opinion pages of the (Pike has made no comment ... the First Amendment rights of every gates of liberal intelligentsia. Tripod. What went on with cer- regarding Parry's accusation in single student at this school were eroded We want to work respectfully tain AD pledges last semester is, last week's article, "Alpha Delta with professors in order to get and should be, last semester's Phi Defends Actions"). by... the majority of the [SGA]. classroom and overall teaching news. A punishment was handed Therefore, in everything that I environments more inclusive and down, Alpha Delta Phi has pub- write and do on campus, I am rep- and the majority of the Student of political beliefs and give fair. licly accepted the Inter-Greek resenting Pike and other organi- Government Association. respect to the major viewpoints On a grassroots level, this Council's findings and I should zations that I am involved in. A strong claim indeed, but on that spectrum. work has already begun, and I completely warranted. That night We are looking to change the have been personally surprised by ... I must now realize that no matter what the SGA voted, under the strong day-to-day struggles that many how helpful and considerate fac- direction of President Isaac students at this school suffer with: ulty I have spoken to have been. I write, someone will link my own personal Goldstein and Senior Class fear of voicing an opinion in Feb. 1 the SGA voted to not opinion to that of the brotherhood... President Jason Gallant, to deny a class, being antagonized by peers allow my group school funding. I group funding that I founded ear- no longer feel the need to write It makes me somewhat red- lier this semester, Students for ... we do not approve blacklists, looking about it. faced to admit that while I was Academic Freedom. They did so up voting records, quota systems, video- Unfortunately, I have begun writing about blaming an organi- using the rhetoric and reasoning writing this article about the zation for the unfortunate acts of that anyone uses when flouting taping classrooms, or universal syllabi. uproar surrounding last semes- a few of its members, I was the First Amendment rights of ter's fire extinguisher fun. I hope unable to see that my words were another: it was for the good of the for political beliefs, professors went into the meeting, defended this is the last time that I have to also representing an organization people. My group would be too characterizing the conservative my group and brought up many of do so. I want badly to bury this that I am a part of. antagonistic, too radical and too viewpoint as foolish, ignorant, the points that are in this article. I issue. So let's go with the idea that fanatical to be supported by and cruel. This happens every day attempted to explain that my Originally, I was infuriated at something or somebody is repre- group falls under the by-laws of AD's defense in the Tripod last sented in every action of an indi- [SAF] is an attempt for educators to Trinity College; written into my week. I wondered how Coley vidual. With this presumption, chapter's constitution is a provi- Parry could so baldly accuse "a the following can be gathered: realize the spectrum of political beliefe and sion saying I must abide by all the certain non-recognized off-cam- The reputation of AD has become give respect to the major viewpoints... rules and regulations of the col- pus organization" of having an tarnished by the actions of some lege. I tried to explain that my agenda to rid the campus of AD. of its members. The reputation of group is relatively autonomous In expressing my incredulity, I the school has been tarnished by Trinity College. throughout the College, yet peo- and that we receive hardly any was told by a certain voice of rea- the actions of one of its most Yet, when one looks at what ple say nothing. Students bow to leadership from the national son with whom I was eating that I prominent organizations. The my group is actually about and the authority of the professor and group. I also explained that the was no longer simply a freelance reputation of the Greek system what we are really trying to do, it the College rather than taking a Supreme Court ruled on this issue Opinions writer. While I am has also been tarnished by the becomes apparent that the only stand for what they believe. proud to be a brother of Pi Kappa thing antagonistic about my Students for Academic see SEPARATE on page 5 Alpha, I must now realize that no see GREEKS on page 5 group is that it is conservative. Freedom wants to fundamentally And for that, the SGA has decid- change the political climate at this ed that it deserves a death sen- school in order to give more Left Hypocritical In Defending Life
MIKE LANZA sex couples. OPINIONS CONTRIBUTOR After the general shellacking If the election of 2004 has they received in virtually every taught us anything, it's that the race, in all levels of government, Democratic Party has lost touch you'd think the Left would begin with the values of mainstream coming to its senses. America. Those of us on the Right see After the general shellacking they received in virtually every race... you'd think the Left would begin coming to its senses.
In a country where voters gladly that this is not the case. consider "moral values" to be the The most recent evidence comes highest priority in their decision from my beloved home state of making, the Democrats ran on a Connecticut where leftist platform of unrestricted abortion, attornies and human rights groups abandonment of the Iraqi people, have successfully postponed the and most infamously, the redefin- ition of marriage to include same- see DEMOCRATS on page 4 PAGE 4 OPINIONS THE TRINITY TRIPOD - FEBRUARY 22, 2005 Democrats Should Traveling Students Weigh Value of Life Cheated by College Views on Abortion and Death Penalty Do Not Mesh continued from page 3 am deeply torn about the death penalty. ERIKA SAFIR ___ least you have all of tomorrow to find execution of convicted serial killer Michael Unlike the Democrats however, who have a OPINIONS CONTRIBUTOR someone with a car or nice parents to take Ross. national agenda to make abortion as acces- After a long night of packing, saying you to Wal-Mart, Bed Bath and Beyond Attornies for the state's chief public sible as possible, my concern over human farewell to friends, family, and the last and all those other places that are con- defender have worked around the clock to life doesn't end with convicted murderers. home cooked meal for at least four months, ducive to moving in. At least you have postpone Ross's execution, claiming that The Left would argue that a fetus is not a you wake up at 4:30 a.m. to make the 7 tomorrow to pick up your storage boxes the 45-year-old Cornell University gradu- human being, and therefore doesn't a.m. plane; the first fright in the long day of and time to unpack them. It's one day, and ate is mentally incompetent. For those of deserve the same protection as alleged travel ahead of you on your journey back to its rushed, but at least you have it. you unfamiliar with the case, allow me to human Michael Ross. Trinity College. Finally, two flights, a total Or not. Maybe classes start tomorrow. briefly review the details. I cannot accurately say where life of four hours of layover and three hours of Maybe Trinity expects you to be ready to Ross confessed to butchering eight begins, but I am confident that there is far time change later, you make it to the bag- dive in, even though you haven't moved in, gage claim. You don't know what time it or given your body a chance to adjust to the Some lawmakers, concerned that one day justice still is, but its dark out, and you search the time zone, or haven't eaten because the sweatshirts around the carousel, hoping to dining hall, Cave and Bistro are not yet on might be carried out, are even talking about banning find another one that matches yours. Of regular hours. the death penalty in the next legislative session. course you find about 15, as every flight to And Trinity does expect you to be
\ounp v/o-ucii '.n eastern Connecticut and more humanity in an undeveloped fetus ... Trinity expects you to be ready to dive in, even New York otafe in the early 1980s. After than there is in Ross. though you haven't moved in, or given your body a spending several years on death row, Ross In every unborn life there is incredible decided t. - .1 ly further appeals that potential, perhaps even hope, that the next chance to adjust to the time zone ... might spare his life. generation of Americans will be a greater Two .••--:*>>des after committing his and more merciful people. Hartford on a day before Trinity is back in ready. The fall move-in of 2005 is going to crimes, Ross What has session carries at least that number. Your be just that. Dorms will be open for upper- agrees that it's Ross offered luggage emerges, thank goodness, and you classmen on Thursday, Sept. 1, and classes time to acceler- the world? He haul your life outside to the taxi line. will begin on Friday, Sept. 2. The Fly-In ate this difficult strangled the Piling into the cab, along with two kids are expected to arrive sometime on process and life from eight other Trin kids to split the $30 cost, you Thursday and be ready and alert for classes spare the fami- girls. One of his look forward to reaching your dorm and on Friday. For the last few years, the lies of his vic- younger vic- collapsing on your mattress. You won't dorms have opened on the Saturday before tims any further tims, a four- have sheets tonight, as they are in storage; classes, and even that isn't truly enough turmoil. Any teen-year-old, you won't be able to take a shower either, time to get situated. rational, politi- was raped and because your towels are in storage too. The Trinity holds pride in its geographical- cally mainstream murdered in storage company might be on campus American would front of her tomorrow, but only if they feel like it. At see FLY-INS on page 5 consider this bound and transaction a gagged friend. done deal. The And what of system has worked, justice has been the friend you ask? Let me say regretfully, Along tne -Long Vv alk... served, and most importantly, the countless that she isn't around to debate the morality men and women who mourn Ross's victims of Ross's execution. will finally have closure. My argument is not directed at the da yact tfonk Me turn '& I cannot accurately say where life begins, but I am team cuiiC do? confident that there is far more humanity in an undevel- oped fetus than there is in [Michael] Ross.
Not quite. many decent Americans who, for religious "I don t keep up with squash but I tear A week after his death warrant expired, or political reasons, hold deep reservations they're pretty good." Ross still walks among the living. about the death penalty. The point howev- — Alfonso Bui *o8 Democrats, expressing true compassion for~ er, is one of priority. human life, couldn't be happier. Some law- If you expect me to show mercy for a makers, concerned that one day justice still man such as Michael Ross, a brutal and might be carried out, are even talking about vicious butcher, you're going to have to "I think they've got it on lock. I think banning the death penalty in the next leg- extend just a little compassion for the inno- islative session. cent unborn. they re going- to take it all the way. One such voice is Rep. Michael I am reminded of Rep. Lawlor's state- — Lauren Bland o5 Lawlor, the far-Left co-chair of the state ment, warning that Southern morality Judiciary Committee. "This is might creep its way into the sophisticated Connecticut," argues the East Haven legis- and liberal world of Connecticut politics. They re going to win. They re going to lator. "This is not Texas, Mississippi or one "This is Connecticut," lamented the state of those other places. I don't think people representative, "we compassionate liberals keep up the streak and not lose for a want to see it start up here." I, for one, can appreciate human life, not like those igno- while. rest easier knowing that liberal rant southerners." The hypocrisy is almost Northeastern values are being represented o verwhelming. - Anthony ^Michetti '07 I am reminded of Rep. Lawiofs statement, warning that Southern morality might creep its way into the I think they re going to be fantastic, as sophisticated and liberal world of Connecticut poEtics. they always have. — .Najeda Jratolo 08 at the capital. I like to think that in 1973, days before Let me cut to the chase. Democrats like the Supreme Court handed down its deci- Lawlor who have spoken out against sion on Roe v. Wade, a politician in "Texas Ross's execution are all hardline social lib- or Mississippi or one of those places" had They'll be flawless.' erals. That's right, they're all pro-abortion, very similar sentiments. "This is Texas," he — Ian V^onnett ojr and like the rest of Connecticut's legisla- probably thought, just before abortion ture they will do anything to stop laws became the law of the land, "not" aimed at protecting the unborn. Connecticut or Massachusetts or one of Compiled by Maggie Downing For the record I, like most Americans, those other places." Photos by Abi Moldover FEBRUARY 22, 2005 - THE TRINITY TRIPOD OPINIONS PAGE 5 Dear Jimmy... Separate Politics from Funding continued from page 3 sity, what happened on Feb. 1 dent government that obeys the Questions and Queries for President fones. inBoard of Regents of University would be unconstitutional. I want laws of the United States, not of Wisconsin System v. to repeat that, because it is very because they have to, but because Question: How will budget Southworth. The unanimous rul- important. If Trinity was not a pri- they want to? That may be the cuts affect student life? ! ing states that any program by vate school, Goldstein would be student government we want, but i which activity fee funds are made defying the Constitution of the it isn't the one we have. On Friday. Feb. J8. the Chairman ot I Why did I say that the First tue Boaid ot Tiuslees, PJUI Raethcr o&, j Viewpoint neutrality means that funding Amendment rights of everyone at and I rcleist'd a long and detailed state- j decisions cannot be based upon an organi- this school were eroded on Feb. ment on the budget situation to date to i 1? Because the SGA has now set zation's political or ideological stance ... a precedent in which the rights of 1 is Johnson all members of the faculty and start' In it, vie reviewed seieial important issues pertaining to individual students are flouted in the budget. First, we outlined how 'lnnity College hits come to face available to student groups must United States. Trinity is a private the face of personal political this financial dilemma that is now taking so much lime on the part be carried out with viewpoint college; therefore I am not pro- beliefs. A part of every student's of the members of the Budget Council. neutrality. Viewpoint neutrality tected under the First Amendment tuition goes into student funds. Second, we outlined the pi ogress that has been made so far. that means that funding decisions can- as a student of a private college. The SGA should be representing the Budget Council has identified some $3 5 million worth of pos- not be based upon an organiza- sible cuts thai would enable the College to end fiscal 2005 jn the tion's political or ideological ... the SGA has now set a precedent in black on June 30 Third, we set our College's finanunl challenges stance, or views they promote. which the rights of individual students are within a broader, national context in which nearly all school* are Decisions must be based on crite- having to examine their financial resources so us to serve their mi* ria such as educational value, flouted in the face of personal political beliefe. sions appropnalel) existence of similar program- In the Feb. IK statement, .students will find little that will liave ming, availability of other fund- The SGA can technically do the whole of the student body, not a direct impact on how the College intends to remain steadfast to ing sources, population served, et whatever they want, but shouldn't just the students they don't have our mission: that of providing a superior education in the liberal cetera. they act with a little bit more def- personal political disagreements arts within a residential college setting Throughout the scores of If Trinity was a public univer- erence? Shouldn't we have a stu- with. hours of discussion on the pan of the members of the Budget Council, repeatedly, we have kept our students and theii lives here at Trinity at the center of our discussions This dedication to pro- Greeks Should WrakTogetber tecting the learning experiences for our students, explains whj no funds were cut from those controlled by the Student tio\ eminent 1 Association." - • Individuals Actions Determine Reputations of College and Frats The most pionounced. immediate otlect will be on those stu continued from page 3 the Greek System should not be Society, Alpha Chi Rho, Zeta dent groups who iel> on donations from other offices to hejp sup actions of one of its member in competition with each other. Omega Eta, Cleo of Alpha Chi, port their pioprams My office icceives these requests daily and organizations. These are truths There are no awards given-out for and Sigma Nu. We should also be oiten foi wonderful progiarus that would sene to ciuich the life ol which we must accept. It is obvi- "safest house," "best treatment of Vernon Street and Allen Place. the College, but we are hating to tell the pctilioneis that we cannot ous in Parry's article that AD is women," or "courteous pledges." This back-and-forth bickering contribute funds we do not now have I working to repair their image. It i There are only reputations based between the members of organi- \V"e still face challenges as we look ahead to Suture budgets ami | is obvious, that by supporting the on these standards, which we zations has obviously accom- I: rinuld be impossible to piodiet every i lunge that m.n emergi. in i IGC's decision, the College is should all want to uphold and plished nothing except drive a i1:' ;:L:;:niiig process 1 can easily imagine that some emplo} ment doing the same. The Greek sys- want to help each other uphold. wedge between those "who must •lp" miinities for students will disappear J.S offices cuituil expons work together to make the north" i •.. i>ni I can JISO see others aiisiny where students could help This back-and-foith bickering between side of campus safe. To defame •.':": JC_S dm ing their peak work periods It i> possible that there are the members of organizations has obvious- each other based on supposed .Teas where we duplicate services oi where the demand does nol stances or rumored practices ji'Miiv Ihe expense. ly accomplished nothing... makes us all look stupid and I^ati Allord's1 staff infoinis me thai the current Internship immature. si-1 «V piogiam. for example, is an aiea where we maj need to tem, by punishing AD, is also try- On weekends, we take the Let's quit the weekly bicker- :n.'';e adjustments ior these ieasons A piesidcnt taniioi. nor ing; but why would Pike, a Greek lives of Trinity's students into our ing and instead engage in a civi- .jiuiiki uol, oversea eveij detail of each department's budget It is organization, want to undermine hands. On weekends, we should lized exchange of thought to :»•) |ob to set the course, to insure that the process is fair, and to the betterment of the image of the not be just Pike, AD, St. strive towards building a better, make certain that the community is informed. Toward that end. 1 Greeks as a whole? Anthony's Hall, Psi Upsilon, safer, and more reputable Greek have resolved that we will have balanced budgets, asked the I would submit that my Kappa Kappa Gamma, The Ivy system. Student Government Association to appoint three icpresenlative.s to actions, and I suppose Pike's if •IK' planning process, and will continue to send updates to the cam- the brotherhood is inextricably pus tied to everything I write, have fly-Ins Need Better 1; ,> also difficult (o piedkt economic events beyond our con- been grossly misunderstood. It •!• • Glumly, our students now- traveling dbioad are going to e\pe- makes no sense whatsoever to nerve radically difierent financial situations than did, foi example, have infighting amongst the 1 System of Support then peeis four yeais ago. Again an example three years aco the Greeks. It is true that different L"\Ji:inj:t- rate foi the dollai versus the Eiuo (the c-uncuc.} foi tlie fraternities and sororities attract continued from page 4 ber of rooms in each dorm to be iinio'.t\ of EWS FEBRUARY 22* 200^ Computing Center Installs New Plasma Screen Displays Newly Mounted Displays Intends to Facilitate Group Work and an Understanding of Computer Technology help desk, stresses the fact that ADRIENNE GAFFNEY no technological expertise is STAFF WRITER needed to utilize the area, which The Raether Library and is only steps away from the help Computing Center has taken desk. steps to update technology on With Trinity's financial sta- campus and to foster the concept tus being so compromised, many of group work. Within the last are questioning where the week the library has installed money for this is coming from. two 36" plasma screen displays The new screens came out of the located directly outside of the"B- funding for the Dagres floor computer labs. Technology Center on the B- They are designed to be used Floor, which includes an by students with laptops who allowance for equipment. This may request VGA cables from funding was provided by Todd the help desk to connect to the Dagres '82, who is a General screens. Tables and adequate Partner in Battery Ventures, a seating make for a comfortable venture capital group in atmosphere. This will allow Wellesley, Mass, and an Adjunct students to gather around the Professor at MIT's Sloan School tables beneath the screens and of Business. work on group projects together. The computing staff is very The screens should prove to enthusiastic about the new be very helpful to students, equipment, the idea for which Abi Moldover according to the computing cen- was hatched from within the The new displays are set up opposite the computer labs on the B-floor of the library. ter. They join the group-orient- Trinity community. can help tremendously with library is something that allows not used, they lose their purpose. ed study spaces within the They believe that it will group learning in a different and Trinity to stand out among other Porter stresses the impor- Dibenedetto Reading Room. enable collaboration and group hopefully fun manner." highly-ranked liberal arts col- tance of students to be aware of Student Computing Manager work amongst students and an Initial reaction to the news leges." the screens existence so that Jason Luis explained that "the appreciation for computers. was positive amongst students. Activity around the screens they can be fully utilized. This area also contains internet "Depending on the success and Hamza Chaudary '06 is excited has been limited so far, likely is an important occasion to high- access directly at the tables you use of these areas," stated Luis, about what this will add to the due to the fact that so few stu- light all the opportunities and work at which allows yet anoth- "it may lead to other spots school:' "It's a nice feature to use dents are aware that they are advantages that the Computing er facet to the types of research around campus containing simi- to show off the new technology there. It is crucial that the word Center and the library in general that can be done." lar equipment. I personally think center for prospective students gets out to students, according to have to offer to everyone at The area will soon have data that these screens will be an on tours. The addition to the Porter, since if these items are Trinity. and power ports for student use. excellent way for students to David Porter, of the computing work together on projects and ConnPIRG Campaign Draws SGA Minutes - Feb. 21 I. Approval H' LLLSI Week's a. Constitutional Coaimiller Attention to Homelessness Mi iiifi os i. Makeup dJ the Committee: EMMA BAYER pantries and 66 percent of shel- even more funding from pro- a. Minutes Apnro\ed Am> Lauieuza, James Muiph>, STAFF WRITER ters have faced increased need, grams that help low-income peo- U. ApnrmaJ til" the Ajicndn JoiJan Fischer. Shun l.'rbas, ConnPIRG's Student while 70 percent have seen fund- ple. It doesn't add up." a. Ajiuida Approved I'lederick Scliiuinm. Will Servos. ing decrease or stay the same. HI. (.'oinmiluv Reports \diic.niie CuilTney Campaign Against Hunger and With funding cuts and inade- .-.. Unm/a ii. Shon is chair: aeiini: as p:n iiji- Homelessness released the Communities in Crisis urges quate resources, charitable agen- 1. Kickhyll (March 12thi; It--.HH menlariiiK and a member ot results of their national study of the Bush administration to cies are unable to help everyone ihiiil i.-> u-i). ]>iuiii'iji Career Sendees has announced the following metro-area events for next week's Trinity Days. Participating students are expected to provide transportation to and from the events. - Boston: Engineering alum Mike Solomita '87 is hosting a roundtable luncheon for students interested in the technology field. 575 Mount Carmel Avenue»Kamdea, CT MKJ8-1948 Solomita is the COO and Co-Founder of Lanthorn Technologies. E-mail: Wrdlq»ipk,du RSVP by Thursday. - Boston: Daya Fields '98 will give a tour of WGBH Public TV and Radio as well as host a roundtable luncheon for students inter- CSXKAi i DISPUTE RESOLUTION i FAMIIY I HEALTH 1 ISTEtLECIBSPSOPElty ! TAX ested in earning an MBA, working for a non-profit organization, or working in marketing or broadcasting. RSVP by Wednesday. - Boston: Bryant McBride '88 will host a breakfast for students Seeking Admission to: interested in the sports management field. -Hartford: Melissa Farley "87, Executive Director of External Affairs for the State of Connecticut Judicial Branch, will give a tour of the Capitol, Legislative Office Building and the Conn. Supreme Court for students interested in government. RSVP by Thursday. - Hartford: Students interested in the legal profession can meet Trinity alumni working at law firm Brown Rudnick for a discus- sion and lunch. RSVP by Sunday. - New York City: "The Early Show" Associate Producer Charity Elder '00 and CBS' "The Early Show" anchor Harry Smith will fMTft THt KM MUD. give a tour of the CBS News Broadcast Center for students inter- ested in television, advertising, marketing, or entertainment. PAGE 8 NEWS THE TRINITY TRIPOD - FEBRUARY 22, 2005 Tutu Focuses On Gender and Racial Equality | Funding continued from page 1 established with the intent of not able crimes. approximately one-third of the columnist for liberal publication only preparing refugees for con- With this idea Naomi Tutu Washington Room. Many stu- Cuts , The Nation, among others, have structive roles in freeing South challenged Trinity faculty and dents from various human rights been asked to speak on signifi- Africa but also providing them students to identify issues such classes, however, were in atten- continued from page 6 cant issues in the Trinity commu- economic aid and the skills to be as racism, gender violence, and dance, as well as members of the time. nity. Tutu was one of a few peo- self-dependent. economic disparity on campus sponsoring organizations and The nationwide release was ple these organizations had in Thursday night's presenta- and to implement a truth and rec- some faculty. "I'm really happy carried by "over 150 media out- mind to participate this year, par- tion was not simply an introduc- onciliation plan in order to move that in the end she incorporated lets," said Lemon. "The woman ticularly because she continues tion of Tutu's efforts in South forward. "We have to start some- Trinity; it was a nice gesture," who wrote the report was on the to speak about the situation in Africa; it was a plea to thorough- where. The leadership can come said Annette Iwamoto '08. 'O'Reilly Factor' ... Bill South Africa where she believes ly examine the immediate sur- from you." Adaeze Ekeson '07, a mem- O'Reilly actually did not tell her there is still much to do to elimi- rounding community. The lecture Laura Lockwood, director of ber of the Trinity College Black to shut up," he continued. Trinity's Women's Center, said Women's Organization, summed People have been "very excited "Naomi [Tutu s] words planted seeds to "we have our problems. A truth up the event as "really interesting about the report. It is something and reconciliation plan is impor- and really compelling" and was that hasn't really been done create change." tant to create a more just culture fascinated how "each step taken before - the amount of shelters - Laura Lockwood, Women's Center that accepts all differences. can [help] solve problems." looked at and talked to." Naomi's-words planted seeds to create change." nate a long legacy of racial was a unique combination of two Additionally, Tutu spoke oppression. presentations she has used in the about the gender violence in Born in Krugersdorp, South past: Building Gender Alliances parts of southern Africa and how Africa, Tutu graduated from Across Racial Lines in South issues such as rape became major NESCAC Berea College in Kentucky with Africa, and Truth and concerns. She recalled how a B.A. in French and economics. Reconciliation. women of different social classes Bowdoin: The highly selective Beckman Scholars grant, After graduating, Tutu served as One point, applicable to all, set aside their differences, cultur- offered to only 14 colleges and universities across the a consultant for a private firm was that one's-history cannot be ally, financially, and otherwise to nation, was awarded to Bowdoin College. The Beckman and also did consulting work for separated into the good and the confront these problems. With Scholars grant will fund research fellowships for four South Africa, researching both bad. The fundamental building- this example, she encouraged Bowdoin science students, selected on the basis of a com- educational and professional block of any just society is claim-, women as well as men here at petitive application process during which prospective stu- opportunities for black women. ing all of its parts and accepting Trinity to do the same; to come dents will present a research proposal. The grant, She then went on to teach cours- the truth. "If we don't claim together, identify problems such amounting to $75,000, supports students participating in es on development, gender, and them, they claim us ... and as sexual assault or homophobia full-time research over two summers, and part-time span- education in Africa at the endanger our future." She contin- and propose prescriptions to ning one academic year. . University of Hartford, the ued to say that history has overcome them. Amherst: The Amherst Feminist Alliance held an event University of Connecticut and brought us to where we are Tutu's message, though last week to commemorate the Supreme Court Decision Brevard College. today. South Africa, for example, urgent, was spoken with light- in Roe v. Wade. The AFA not only "wanted to remember the Tutu is the founder of the cannot include Nelson Mandela hearted optimism despite the fact as part of its history without significance of the landmark decision, which made abor- Tutu Foundation for that the turnout was relatively tion legal, but to pause and consider women's rights issues including those who committed Development and Relief in small in comparison to Trinity's that are still prevalent today. Southern Africa, which was rape, torture, and other consider- population: the audience filled (860) 278-4334 24 New Britain Avenue Free Delivery! 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Trying to weed out the com- Kingswood-Oxford rink and he Eliminated Oh, the dilemmas of a Trin panies based on names alone was asked me where that was. Keep in student's Tuesday night. Practice a bit of a challenge, but I thought mind I asked Miss 411 for a taxi- 10. "legit? because overused abbreviations like this are just being cancelled, I was given the I had cracked the code and found cab listing in West Hartford - the opportunity of meeting up with one that could potentially be safe same city the rink is in. Now I plain illegit. my teammates to support our and normal. So I put the number knew how to get to the rink, but male equivalent hockey team. in my cell phone and headed off 0. "Obvi" (and its inbred cousin Obvsss). there was no way I could ever However, as schedules often con- to the game, patting myself on the know the exact address. After ask- 1. Ueiia? No Poubt tried to bring this word to Sife and some- flict, I had a meeting scheduled back for being so efficient. ing a few strangers, in the lobby, I bow only the West Coast caught OR. Which means we on the for the time when the game would I don't think I've ever been finally gave him a street name, he be ending, leaving me no time to more wrong in my. entire life. East" Coast most stop the integration. grunted, and then, as I told him to make it from the rink 15 minutes AJraut 20 minutes before I would "call this number when someone away. Being a freshman sans car need to leave in order to get back 1 "Wicked" (Pisciaisner: Features staff still uses this word; arrives," he hung up on me. with no one apparently willing to to campus on time, I gave the so- this hm applies only to usurping West Coasters.) Thinking that everything was leave early, what's a Bant to do? called "cab company" a call. After going to be semi-okay, I met up 8. "Holla" Uo one but ludaeris can use this and get away with with my teammates again to it. And even hes running on thin ice. Well I can at least count my blessings watch the game for the 15 minutes that Raoul didn't pick up. I had until someone came to pick 5. Anything ending in la" when it should end in "erf me up. I was then informed that I had given him the wrong street, 4. Anything ending in "izzle" When third graders start using In my mind, the answer was sim- the first five rings, I started get- and, not wanting the company to it, you know it's time for it to go. ple: call a taxi. ting a little frustrated that a com- roam around for an hour and a Since, we all go to school in pany could be so unprofessional half, I decided to call them back, 3. "Mad"... cause it makes us angry. this booming metropolis of New as to not pick up their phone. And this time dialing 1-800-TAXI- England's Rising Star, one would then I got a voicemail. An actual CAB directly. 2. AIM speak. Cuz I wean, wtf is w/ everyl usinJK n 101 in think that since Hartford has person's voicemail. As in not the Again, another big mistake. everyday convos? clearly neglected many of its answering machine of a company, Apparently the 411 operator had much-needed improvements, its but rather some guy named Raoul. been more helpful than I thought 1. "Heart" as a substitute for love. 'Cause somehow "Have 1 public transportation would be the And here I thought I had figured and connected me directly to the Told You lately that I Heart You" just doesftt feel right. epitome of traveling. Clearly a out which listings were legiti- West Hartford line of this taxicab transportation representative, mate. Well I can at least count my mecca, which, go figure, is com- along with many others, missed blessings that Raoul didn't pick pletely different than the main the meeting where Hartford «P- " " " "•'• •' line. The-main~iine"sent me to a decided it would "rise." Being quick in the trouble- recorded message, which went Not wanting to be stuck at the shooting department, I decided to something like this: "Hello, you Kingswood-Oxford rink until the keep it simple, so I told them I have reached 1-800-TAXICABS. game clock put Wesleyan out of wanted any taxicab company in If you are calling from a land-lock its misery, I decided to search yel- West Hartford. The extremely phone and you want a taxi in your lowpages.com in hopes of finding helpful, although not very friend- town, press one. If you are calling LISA SAN PASCUAL new. Awkwardness is a phenome- a cab company that wouldn't send ly, employee of 411 said, "Would from a cell phone or you want a FEATURES EDITOR non that dates back to Biblical me to the wrong location with you like 1-800-TAXICAB?" taxi in a different town, press We're all familiar with the times. Remember Judas? He was someone who didn't speak Sounded like a winner to me, and concept of awkwardness. Some the poster boy for awkwardness. English. In Hartford, there are 14 it wasn't a listing on yellow- "If you want a of us may be a little too well- Betraying Jesus with a kiss must different listings under "taxi- pages.com, so this seemed like acquainted; some of us have have been the most awkward kiss cabs." Fourteen. If you're think- the perfect solution. taxi in San Diego, love-hate, codependent, long- in the history of awkwardness. ing that all of those are normal I was quickly connected to press one." term relationships with it. As Even Jesus was awkward. He cab companies, well, you'd be as what I thought would be my "Get much of a nuisance as awkward- knew what was going down. It naive as I was going into this Out of K-O" card, when a man two." That would be my option. ness may be - sort of like that was kind of like a post-breakup process. answered in broken English. At this point I thought that this annoying kid- in Econ who asks handshake, but with Centurions One looked like a residence Within 30 seconds of talking with might be easy. The recording con- way too many questions • but involved. listing'and somehow, I just didn't him my hopes were completely tinued, "If you want a taxi in San whose absences are strangely Even the word awkward is want to end up in the back seat of dashed. I should've hung up the Diego, press one. If you want a gloomy - it can be, on occasion, pretty awkward itself. Just listen taxi in Los Angeles, press two. If pretty endearing. So in honor to it: "awkward." You're proba- you want a taxi in Santa Fe, press (and disgruntlement) of our bly reading the Tripod at Mather three." favorite social malaise, I bring or in the Underground or a public The recording proceeded to you a Dissection of stall right now and you're name six more western cities, Awkwardness:, its history, its mouthing the word "awkward." \ finally instructing me to press causes, and, if you're so inclined, If you're really awkward, you're ksil zero if none of these were my its treatments. actually sounding it out and peo- choice. At which point I'prompt- It could just be me, but it ple are starting to glance over in jy hung up the phone. seems like awkwardness has such a way as to make it less After waiting 15 minutes, a enjoyed an eruption of .social awkward for you. Too late, very kind friend offered to drive attention as of late. Kind of like though. You're awkward. me to my meeting after seeing the words "random" and "clear- Plus, it has two Ws. Any word that I was flipping out about being ly," the age-old concept of awk- with two Ws is automatically late. About five minutes after we wardness has recently made its awkward to say. And that K in the left the rink I got three calls from way into our colloquiam. This middle just kind of stops you the taxi company. Those are the may be traced to any number of short and gets stuck in your times I thank God for the "Ignore" factors, for example: a growing throat. K is, after all, the most button. But the best part of this appreciation for self-deprecation awkward letter in the English lan- experience was having a dozen or, simply, a growing trend guage. Paired with W it's like an people tell me later tljat week that towards social ineptitude. In the awkward tag team. (Kind of like all you need to do is dial 666- old days, folks loved Cary Grant you and your best friend, no?) But. 6666. Yeah, thanks a lot for the and Clark Gable; now, our movie wedged between two Ws, it's like information now. Moral of the heroes are Napoleon Dynamite an awkward sandwich. vvww.google.com story: first years should'have cars, 'and Gaylord Focker. it could've been worse: it could've been raining and the driv- or upperclassmen should willing- But awkwardness is nothing see AWKWARD on page 11 er could've been speaking German, ly lend theirs out to those in need. THE TRINITY TRIPOD - FEBRUARY 22, 2005 FEATURES PAGE 11 TriBit i; May s *feoRoscopes continued from page 1 French on natives sans the snobby ing. But to really get something out of this Parisian attitude? What could be better? break of yours, it's best to throw caution Old Montreal is really beautiful, with seeing info to the wind and plan your trip, days, great shops and food. And you'll feel like maybe - dare I say it? — even a week in you're spending less money because of Although surprise snowfalls may discourage your advance. the wonderful exchange rate in our favor. warm thoughts of Spring Break, we've broken out the But don't despair, we here at the The club scene is also fantastic and Tripod wouldn't dangle this tantalizing always fun, regardless of the day of the magic snowball to give you hope of steamy things to opportunity without giving you some week. And, as I'm sure you're aware, the come over Trinity Days. Or when the weather finally sense of direction. So here are some of our drinking age is 19. Not that that matters or favorite things you can take advantage of anything. It might be a bit of a trek, but catches up Math your hormones. during your break And no, freshmen girls you can hop on a train from Hartford and Whichever comes first. don't count. be there in a few hours' time. New York: A perennial favorite for Boston: For 95 percent of you, this campers, no words can truly do this city just translates into a trip home. But who justice. Besides the near-religious experi- said that wasn't nice? Besides getting a ence of Bendel's, Bergdorf's and Barney's home-cooked meal and sleeping in your Besides getting a home-cooked meal and sleeping in AOLUAA-IUS Ceo your own bed, Beantown is always a great city to visit. 20 - Pe&ft-UAfty 18 - AUGUST 22 If it seems Like Work and your misceL- Things may not be Working out for you dur- (oh my!) and delicious food, there is own bed, Beantown is always a great city Leneous activies are piLing up, that's ing -Saturday Late-night but don't fear, always so much happening in the capital- to visit. The Museum of Fine Arts has an because they are. Take a break from stalk- you're in Luck. You LL find that sweater ing that girl in your E_con class. Your men- c City, you can never be bored. Christo's excellent and very weird Damien Hirst you're been missing as .WeLL as five bucks' taLity shouldn't be to get in as much when you finaLLy decide to cLean your room. exhibit of the orange gates in Central Park exhibit that is a definite must-see, as well stalking time as possible before the Unfortunately this doesn't change your will still be up this weekend, and hey, as a decadent fashion exhibit with pretty restraining order goes through. That's not luck With the opposite sex. E>ut hey. five most of us will do anything for free. things from the 1800s. proactive, just creepy. bucks is five bucks. If you're willing to spend a little cash, Newberry Street is always a blast, and the revamped MOMA is a must. And don't it seems like everyone is having a sale forget to stop at the new and improved these days, so if you forgot a Valentine's Pfsces F.A.O. Schwartz, because you're never Day present for your honey, this is a way - MAR-CH 20 AUGUST 23 - SEPTEM&ER. 22 too old to play with Barbies and Tonka to make amends. If you can't find a ride If you're receiving anonymous professions of Although you may feeL the need to mix trucks (or look at the $50,000 mini cars). up with someone else, the Greyhound bus Love Via text messages and llv|s, it may be things up in your Life of pLaid and chicken- To get there, just hop on the train, it's, that that leaves from the train station gets you time for a break, from technology. Cjet out- and-cheese-on-Wraps, resist the urge. easy. there in about 3 hours. doors or open up one of those things With Youli end up With trendy clothing that Montreal: Granted, you might not be Providence: If you're not looking for Words on the pages. And don't even try WiLL go out of style faster than you can able to feel your face for a few days after- a city trip this weekend, but want to go thinking that your admirer is your true We say "pashmina" and heartburn from the ward from the ridiculous cold, but if you someplace where there's a vibrant scene, fulfilling your romantic destiny. It's just exotic food choices. Plus youli really miss can't afford the weekend jet-set to Paris, Aquarius sitting behind you in Eron class. that plaid jacket With the collar you can pop. this is your next best bet Practicing your see KEEP on page 12 MAft.cw 21- APRJL 19 SGPTEM&EfL 23 - OCTO&Eft. 22 Things are looking real good for you going With aLL of that time you spend on P52. into Trin Pays. Your true love positively it's time for a new hobby. Try onLine ice ERASMUS PRIZE drools over you. your grades suddenly sky- fishing or invest in some knitting needles rocket and you re an athletic superstar. and start going to town on making those IN THE HUMANITIES Too bad you're only on the Ping-Pong mittens you always Wanted. Or at Least team and your true LoVe b your pet llama. make rt to the gym and introduce yourseLf On WeLL _ good thing you've shocked up on to a treadmill — cause it's sad when only COMPETITION OPEN TO ham. your thumbs are getting a workout ALL JUNIORS AND SENIORS - MAy 20 OCTO&Eft. 23 - NOVEM&EA- 21 You've secretLy had your eye on a certain Youre never too old to rekindle your PRIZE: $1,000 someone for a vMle (were talking a whole youth. R.un outside, set up that train set in Week now), and it's time to make a move. your room that you're hiding in the closet. Don't be ashamed of it but do move slow- Watch the Pbney channel and try throw- ly. If you're not comfortabLe teLling this ing a temper tantrum when you don t get person face-to-face, just teLL one person that paper extension. \ViLL you Look stu- The Erasmus Prize in the Humanities is awarded annually to on campus. Your crush WiLL find out in no pid? EJi. if the shoe fits. Wear rt. It's not the |nnior or Senior judged to have written the best time. Like this isn't your true personality anyway. essay in the Humanities after completion of the Sophomore year. GEMffsJf SAOITTAPJUS MAV 21- OUWE 21 NoVEMGEfi. 22 - 0ECEM&EA. 21 ALL that good Luck that you had over The submission can be in the form of an essay written for a course, -f>ick of snowbaLL fights Leading to nothing but Weird brubes? Want to chalk those Valentine's Day With Pisces and those or adapted from course-work, or one specially written bruises to more challenging fun and Poritos (even though he only had the fun games? Po not fear, that cutie from sized bag) is catching up with you. Things for the competition. downstairs WiLL finaLLy understand the may be looking a L'rttLe aggressive on all relationship you two have — you're on top. fronts, and some alone time With your own and he's dueLess. Pon't Worry, that's how Poritos is in order. Or take some advice Questions? Email to most nslationships are. from Aries and get yourseLf a LLama. kermetLUovdj'[email protected] . OUNE 22 - Oui_y 22 All submissions {three copies) to the office of iiorry Cancer •" when Was the last time • After Lbtening to Cancer whine for so you stopped complaining about your signif- Long, you deserve a break. InduLge in a day Modern Languages and Literature (Seabury 45) icant other for Long enough to Listen to of ice cream. !v]TV, and no class. Is it real- by no later than 3 p.m., someone else? Dump him and do some- ly Worth it to trek across campus to Lis- thing nice for some friends And driving ten to the same girl participate in a voice FRIDAY APRIL 8, 2005 them to the tanning saLon where they just that's Like twisting the knife in the Wound Wart in the Lobby while you fry yourself of an already painful class experience? doesn t count. Trust the magic snowball it's not PAGE 12 FEATURES FEBRUARY 11, 2005 - THE TRINITY TRIPOD Keep Busy on that Awkward? Embrace It! continued from page 10 is awkward, everyone else is bring awkwardness to the fore, Think about all the words we awkward. Awkwardness is defi- you share the awkward experi- have that are close toawkward . nitely a social disease. And while ence, and thus correct it at its Four-day Weekend Like "awry." No one wants to be there is no cure, there are certain- root. Ways to do this are to hold continued from page 11 Newport and ogle at all of the awry. 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K/|E.PIA ARTS CAN A 6TAR. #UT #F ANYB>0PY KARL BAKER An impressive amount of everyone has seen them. It is : ARTS EDITOR amateur work has been spilling common to hear students boast Media.Arts is a new field but into the Internet and in the last few about sites like the technology has been develop- years, sites have been popping up homestarrunner.com "Oh, I knew ing for decades. Media Arts were to support the sharing of these cre- about that before anybody." This previously tied to computer sci- ations. It is quite a genius extreme popularity is actually ence, and now many art schools arrangement. Creators of jugger- quite impressive. It is easy for the have it as a major option. naut sites like media creations to be shared Working with albinoblacksheep.com and new- because anyone with a computer Photo shop, Illustrator, grounds .com have made an outlet and Internet access can see them. Dreamweaver MX and Flash MX, for anybody who wants to share Because it is so easy to access the students learn the craft and the art their spontaneous creativity. Now Internet, on college campuses, a www.bibik.org behind digital flash animation, 3D that the sites have a name for student can check out a sweet animation, web design, and themselves, they simply soak up video or animation any time he or' The Newgrounds Logo rumbles over a pile of debris, gun first film/video shooting and editing. great work and sell advertising she wants. Easy access means you find the edited version that intricate storyline and satiric com- Besides those learning to work in space to game companies as well that whenever someone thinks of will be close by. edy is based around the battle over the realm of Media Arts profes- as merchandise to loyal fans. an Internet media creation, a In the edited version someone an exit-less canyon between the sionally at art schools, there are Some of the videos and ani- friend can easyly see it. Tf the has expertly turned the broom- blue and red forces. hundreds of amateur artist work- mations have become very popu- video or animation entertains that stick into a lightsaber (with Be careful if you decide to try ing and sharing their creations on lar even to the point of being friend, she will in turn tell other sound) and made him look like a to find some good stuff while the Internet. mainstream. By this point, almost friends about it. This process real Jedi by adding computer ani- you're looking around. You will works in the same style as movies mated laser beams. These lasers find a lot of bad creations that and music, but is easier to access are animated to look like they're aren't funny and are poorly made. immediately. Currently, one of the reflecting off of his lightsaber Many video and flash animations most popular online media cre- with the skill of a true master. In are disturbing as well because ations is the Numa Numa song the second video the flailing nerd Media Arts, like any other kind of cover and interpretive dance by makes a transformation from a art, starts with a blank canvas and Gary Brolsma. It can be found on total loser to really awesome. For the results come from the imagi^ many sites and is on the front page those who play or know anything nation of the. artist. People who of albinoblacksheep.com. There about Halo, another awesome cre- want to explore something other is also the Star Wars guy video, ation can be found at than comedy also use media art - which you may have to search bluevsred.com. Bluevsred.com is and the host sites will not hesitate around for because it goes by dif- a site built around the making of to add an artist to the retinue sole- ferent names, but it is a video of a the Blue vs. Red series in which ly because of the subject matter. large guy with a broomstick pre- the original Halo, soldiers are' www.bibik.org tending to be a Jedi. Make sure given voice-overs to draw out an A vesy huffy Homestarrunner looking at the cause of angst see INTERNET on page 15 itey Lone Ehe&emet& CALLAS FOREVER Feb. 21 22 7:30 (Italy/Britain/France, 2004) Twenty-five years after the death of Maria Callas, Franco Mi Zeffirelli has made a touching tribute to his friend and collaborator. The film covers her last year, when she was in mourning for her voice and her errant lover, Aristotle Onassis. Touching Feel Good Movie Shut up in a Paris apartment, she is rescued by an old friend (Joan Plowright) and an opera impresario, played by Jeremy Irons as a stand-in for Zeffirelli. Their project - for Callas to Mathilde Believes That Her Lover is Alive. lip-synch to her younger voice in a film production of Carmen - sadly only exists in the realm of fiction. French actress Fanny Ardant inhabits the singer's dizzying emotional heights and depths, while the soundtrack of incomparable Callas recordings does the rest. JENNY DUNN der if, by some miracle, Manech Winner, Best Film and Audience Award, Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. (Ill min.) SENIOR EDITOR escaped his death sentence. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A Very Tautou is heartbreaking as RAY Feb. 23 7:30 Long Engagement is a beautiful Mathilde, an orphaned girl- film about one woman's faith in woman unique in both the limp (USA, 2004) Jamie Foxx puts on a spectacular performance as Ray Charles in Ray. Ray articulates the Ray Charles story with wonderful intensity. Jamie Foxx studied Ray life and love in the face of one of with which childhood polio has Charles in person to be able to play his part well before his death during the filming. Ray history's greatest affronts to both: left her and her absolute belief in is a touching testiment to his life and tells the story of a man of great accomplishment and World War I. Adapted from the the strength of the love that she equal suffering. The challenge of having a disability becomes painfully clear as Ray strug- 1991 novel of the same title by . shares with Manech. "If Manech gles against prejudice from being a black man and a disabled person. (152 min.) Sebastien Japrisot, the movie fol- were dead, Mathilde would FINDING NEVERLAND Feb. 24-25 at 7:30 and Feb 26 at 2:30 and 7:30 lows 20-year-old Mathilde know," a mysterious omniscient (Audrey Tautou) in her search for narrator tells us, and though she is (UK /USA, 2004) Finding Neverland is a story of the value and power of the imagi- her fiancee, Manech (Gaspard told that he is dead, Mathilde sim- nation and how the ground-breaking story of Neverland changed the strict values of a Ulliel), who has still not returned ply does not feel the truth in this. snooty society. Johnny Depp's character Sir James Matthew Barrie, the writer of the orig- to her a year after the war has In 1920 she receives a letter sum- inal play Neverland, is an eccentric personality who befriends a family of a widow and her three children. Socially ostracized by the community, the family friend struggles sus- ended. moning her to speak with a man pended between a fissure of social pressures and great friendship. (106 min.) What the viewer knows who had met Manech shortly before Mathilde does, is that before his execution. The man DONNIE DARKO Directors Cut Feb. 25 and 26 at 9:45 Manech was one of five men sen- gives her a box of the personal belongings of the five condemned (USA, 2001) Donnie Darko, a junior in highschool, suffers from a mental disorder. tenced to death by the French He is haunted by a giant bunny rabbit named Frank who tells him the world will end with- Army for self-mutilation. During soldiers. This is where Mathilde's in the month. Meeting with Frank one night prevents him from meeting a fatal death when World War I, those accused of investigation begins. a jet engine that crashes through his room, allowing him to live in a tangent universe until injuring themselves in an attempt Jeunet, who also directed that day comes when the world does end. (133 min.) to get sent home were usually 2001's Amelie, expertly provides RAGING BULL Feb. 27 at 2:30 and 7:30 Feb. 28 and March 1 at 7:30 either immediately ordered to the the minute details that give his front lines, or left to be killed in characters depth, life and history. (USA, 1980) Based on the life and career of boxer Jake LaMotta, Raging Bull focus- es on Jake's rage and violence that makes him virtually unstoppable in the ring. The same the "no-man's land" between As in Amelie, nearly every char- trenches, as was the case with anger also drives Jake to beat his wife and his brother Joey, and sends Jake down a self- acter is introduced with a brief destructive spiral of paranoia and rage. (129 min.) Manech. The mystery of Manech's life or death begins narrative spiel. We know that Mathilde's aunt has a dog that with his release into no-man's cinestudio.org land at a trench known as "Bingo farts, to which the aunt, without Crepuscule." It is after this that fail, responds, "Doggie fart, glad- we, and Mathilde, are left to won- see ENGAGEMENT on page 14 PAGE 14 ARTS THE TRINITY TRIPOD - FEBRUARY 22, 2005 Engagement. Love In The Bushnell Shows "Contact" War-Torn World of 1918 "Contact" Brings a Fresh Style to Theater in Hartford continued from page 13 . A Very Long Engagement is as emo- ERIC DAUCHER the stage sparsely decorated. But where dens my heart," and that Mathilde, when tionally moving as it is visually stunning. It ARTS EDITOR "Swinging" lacks dialogue and exudes an thinking of her deceased mother and father, is a film of painful beauty and beautiful atmosphere of carefree contentment, "Did feverishly repeates, "Ashes to ashes, dust pain, full of moments so full of both of This past week, the Bushnell Theater You Move?" is jam-packed with harsh, and to dust." No matter how small or inconse- these things that it is difficult to take it all played host to the national tour of often pointed adversarial language. It quential the detail, every single person that in. Before his release into "no-man's land," "Contact," a relatively new musical. I struck me that every word was carefully Mathilde encounters along the way is fully and almost certain death, Manech tells his walked into the theater without any real chosen to build the tension in the piece. realized, from the comical aunt and uncle fellow soldiers, "I can hear her heart beat- idea of what I should expect; all I had heard After all, in a one act play there isn't any with whom she lives, to the pleasure-lov- ing. It's like Morse code. We're going to be was that it had won wide critical acclaim time for throwaway lines that don't direct- ing, but dedicated Private Investigator married. I'm lucky we got sentenced, we and was very worth seeing. Naturally I ly contribute to the feeling that the story is Germain Pire, and the revenge-seeking won't have to wait until the end of the war. expected a traditional multi-act show, and intended to invoke. prostitute lover of one of the other execut- Now I'll go home after the execution ..." was quite surprised to open up the program The main characters are a Wife, a ed men. The film takes place in a physical The not knowing throughout the entire to discover that it was instead a series of Husband, and a Headwaiter, set in a 1954 world that alternates between a distorted movie whether he is alive or dead is nearly three short one-act plays with no continu- Italian restaurant. While it's never explic- carnival nightmare, and being dazzlingly as maddening for the viewer as it is for ous theme or inter-connecting plotline. itly spelled out, the audience is meant to pastoral. Mathilde, but her hopefulness is conta- The show opens with "Swinging," a pick up on the fact that the Wife married The war scenes are devoid of any color,- gious, and we find ourselves trusting her. short scene inspired by Jean-Honore's into the Mafia, and had no idea what she and a short scene involving .a guillotine At the same time though, there is always painting "The Swing." There are only has gotten herself into. Her husband is execution is in black-and-white as well. doubt lurking in the back of our minds - three characters in the scene, none of apparently abusive, and tells her, "don't Not that Jeunet spares the viewer the pain but what if? whom are ever formally named. For con- talk to the waiter, don't smile at the bus- and violence of World War I - we see, I'm not going to tell you how it ends, venience's sake, the program describes boy...don't freakih' move" when he gets explicitly, the acts of self-mutilation and though I can say that the journey to the end them as a Servant, an Aristocrat, and a Girl murder that come with such territory. In is what matters most. Jeunet conveys per- on a Swing. In my opinion, "Swinging" is. see CONTACT on page 15 contrast to this is Mathilde's own suffering, fectly the range of human emotion, the the most interesting of the three acts. In which takes place not in a colorless world, humor that co-exists with suffering and the addition to having excellent blocking, it but in a gorgeous expanse of fields and combination of these two that keeps us contains a fully fleshed-out storyline, com- rocky coast, unconcerned with her pain. alive, and makes us human. plete with a plot twist, despite there being exactly one line of dialogue (containing only two words) in the entire 15-minute piece. The story centers around a girl on a swing who sends her aristocratic husband (or maybe boyfriend) off to get more wine, and then proceeds to get to know her ser- vant a little more intimately. I won't spoil the plot twist, but suffice it to say that not everything is as it seems. While the show begins on a lightheart- ed and humorous note with "Swinging," it quickly takes a turn towards darker themes UN LONG DIMANCIIE when "Did You Move?" takes over the stage. It is similar to the first act only in the jean-Honore Fragonard DE FlANCAlLLES fact that the characters go unnamed, and The painting that inspired "Swinging." ' www.tccandler.com Viathiide, the much enduring bride-to-be in A Very Long Engagement FLYINC DXCC6PJ FLYING ustin Thursday, February 3,2005 - Friday, March 11,2005 Department of Fine Arts presents: Imna Arroyo's "Ancestors of the Passage" EVAN NORRIS themselves the Hying Daggers, has risen to NEWS EDITOR At the core of Arroyo's artwork are issues of identity thai reflect her African, Caribbean and Taino heritage and topple the corrupt government. Two local culture. Nurtured by personal and collective references to her culture and ancestry Arroyo's images reflect her There is a scene at the end of House of captains, Jin (Takeshi Kaneshiro) and Leo physical and spiritual world. In Ancestors of the Passage: A Healing Journey Through the Middle Passage, she Flying Daggers in which two warriors fight (Andy Lau), are ordered to capture the premieres a new installation of collographs and 27 ceramic busts with extended hands emerging from a sea, reach- ing out to remind us of the legacy of the Middle Passage of the African slave trade. each other in the middle of a snowstorm. rebels' new leader. Their hunt leads them to Born in Guayama, Puerto Rico, Arroyo began her studies at La Escueia de Artes Plasticas del Instituto de Cultura This scene appears in the movie as it was a nearby brothel where, according to in San Juan. She then obtained a BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y., and a MFA from Yale University. She written in the screenplay, with one impor- rumor, the new showgirl Mei is a member is currently Professor of Art at Eastern Connecticut State University. • — — *.-'_•_,-• . - *' tant exception. As originally planned, the of the underground group. The captains When: Sunday - Friday l-6pm, Where: Austin Arts Center, Widener Gallery, Admission: Free showdown took place in a field on a clear eventually imprison the girl, whom the Tuesday, February 22,2005 day without any precipitation. audience learns is blind, and develop an Department of Theater and Dance presents: Studio 19: Vivien Boronyak Before production, Zhang Yimou, who elaborate plan in which Jin, the more charismatic of the two, will, in disguise, Vivien, a visiting student at Trinity from Hungary, will direct a new performance piece. Her aesthetic is sure to directed Flying Daggers, chose the scenic amaze, as she combines slow-motion stylized movement and charged music to create alarmingly tender moments Ukraine to film many of the film's "rescue" Mei, played by Crouching Tiger, of juxtaposition. Hidden Dragon star Zhang Ziyi. This liber- sequences. Filming proved difficult as the Note: This venue is not handicapped accessible. weather in the Ukraine was especially hard ation and some carefully staged fights When: 8pm, Where: Seabury Hall, Studio 19,3rd floor. Admission: Free to predict. One day, Zhang woke up to find between Jin and his soldiers will, in theory, gain her trust and ultimately lead the offi- Thursday, February 24,2005 -Sunday, February 26,2006 snow covering the ground. Realizing that Department of Theater and Dance presents: Sand' it would take several days for the snow to cers to the Hying Daggers' stronghold. The flight of Jin and Mei is filled with obsta- Sand is an ensemble-based performance piece conceived as a response to the Circle of Compassion, Circle of melt and that once it did the leaves would Peace mandala project. Created and directed by NYC performance artist and Visiting Lecturer Michael Burke, and be knocked from the trees, Zhang decided cles, elaborately choreographed fight developed with Trinity students. Sand juxtaposes spoken text, dance, music, and visual imagery. This moving scenes and a developing romance between piece explores themes of compassion, impermanence and the interconnectedness of all beings, and how these to shoot the climactic fight scene in the relate to our personal histories and world views through the metaphor of sacred sand castles. The theme of sand as snow. The result is one of the most visual- the pair divided by their opposing alle- an element of nature is playfully conveyed by the cast's use of a sandbox and the building of a sandcastle. ly and emotionally stunning scenes in the giances. The performances are free, but TICKETS ARE NECESSARY DUE TO LOOTED SEATING, and are available movie. If Flying Daggers had continued in this by calling the AAC Box Office at 860-297-2199. When: Thurs, 2/24 at 8pm; Fri and Sat, 2/25-26 at 4pm and 8pm It is rare that human beings and nature way, it would certainly have been success- Where: Austin Arts Center, Garmany Hall work together so serendipitously to pro- ful; but, it would sink in a sea of similarly Admission: Free duce great cinema and, if the accidental themed and constructed movies. But the Friday,March 4,2005 -Saturday, March 5,2005 snow was viewed through a superstitious movie sidesteps carbon-copy status and Department of Theater and Dance presents: Dancing From the Inside Out lens, it could reasonably appear that Flying emerges triumphantly as a unique feature Trinity's talented student choreographers offer a variety of delightful, thoughtful and often humorous dances. This Daggers was destined for greatness long in its genre. Flying Daggers is more ambi- annual spring concert features dancers from Trinity and the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts in the premiere before the first camera began rolling. tious and intriguing in terms of vision and of a new work by Hartford choreographer and Trinity faculty member Deborah Goffe. Made as a companion piece to 2002's mood than its predecessors, namely Hero. When: 8pm Hero, Flying Daggers takes place in China Towards the end it takes on an almost Where: Austin Arts Center, Goodwin Theater • in 859 A.D. The Tang Dynasty, which rules Greek tragic tone. Admission: I0/$5 seniors, students & Let's Go cards/FREE with Trinity ID China, has fallen into moral and adminis- 1 austinarts.org trative decline and a rebel army, calling 15' THE TRINITY TRIPOD FEBRUARY - 11, 2005 ARTS PAGE 15 Internet Provides Outlet "Contact" Breaks the Rules for Amateur Artists of Traditional Theater continued from page 14 bles onto a swing-dance club and gets a Online Media Can Reach Any one.with a Computer up from the table in search of rolls that much-needed dose of human contact. At continued from page 13 outlet for one's creativity, having fun doing were never brought by the waiter. the club he meets a Girl in a Yellow Dress, There are, however, ratings on the various it, and making money all wrapped up in the Every time the husband leaves the table who immediately captures his attention, animations and vids. I'm sure that the host- same gig is the best deal I can think of. there is a shift in lighting, and the wife along with that of every other guy in the sites censor and/or reject the most extreme It is great that the sites are able to show leaps up and begins to dance around, place. things that get sent in, but that's reasonable. everyone's work, even if it's an animation cavorting with the other restaurant patrons The plot continues from there, alternat- The Zeus of media arts on the Internet is only a mother could love. It feels good to who seem not to see her. Before long, the ing scenes between bis apartment and the homestarrunner.com. If you haven't seen have something you have made on a huge audience realizes that the shift in lighting club as, over the course of the night, this yet, drop the Tripod and go to the near- site like Newgrounds.com so that anybody signifies a shift into her imagination where Michael struggles to decide which world he est computer. Homestarrunner.com is an can see it. So, if you're looking for an easy it is possible to live as she wants and do as wants to live in. It would be a shame to awesome site with a wide array of crazy way to fame, make a low-quality video of she pleases. spoil the ending, because, just as in act one, characters that will entertain you for at least yourself doing something stupid and spon- While "Did You Move?" is successful there is a solid plot twist near the end of the half a day if you've never been to the site taneous-looking, then send it to a media in building tension, and has an impressive- story that brings some resolution and ties before. The first thing you should go to is archive on the internet like Newgrounds or ly dramatic climax, it still rates as the the act together nicely. Strong Bad e-mails. Even if you don't Albino Black Sheep. Even if you don't get weakest of the three segments. The Wife's The choreography of the third act is one know it yet, that's why you should check famous, you sure are going to have fun try- fantasy scenes (barring the final one) of the standout features of the entire show. out the site. The people who made homes- ing- quickly grow repetitive, and the audience is The rock music of the swing club is also tarrunner.com do not have to work at their I know that I enjoy the animations my forced to just wait them out before the real lively, and is the only music in any of the old jobs anymore. All they do is make friends have made much more then any oth- homestarruner.com. The site is clean of ers just because I know who made them. While "Did You Move?" is successful in building ten- advertisements; they make all of their Media Art is a great creative medium that is money from merchandising! I'm very now becoming open to even more people as sion, and has an impressively dramatic climax, it still impressed by the site because finding an the software becomes more accessible. rates as the weakest of the three segments. Will Hines Shares his action of the story can continue. As a three acts to be something other than an whole, "Did You Move?" lacks both the instrumental. "Contact" is also notable cleverness of the first act, and the brilliant because it represents a synthesis of the Poetry with die •JIIMI unity choreography that is the hallmark of the lightheartedness of act one, and the bleak- third. ness of act two.. It leaves the audience with continued from page 1 in the Connecticut area. They then chose "Contact" is the third act of the show, the message that life should just be lived, TT: What do you plan to do after you me and four others to read on the circuit and takes up the lion's share of the per- and that you have to take the bad with the graduate? during the spring. formance, running slightly longer than the good. WH: I am currently a finalist for a TT: Do you treat the writing process other two acts combined. The main char- Overall, I would highly recommend Princeton University Fellowship in Asia. If as a job, i.e., do you allocate a certain acter (and incidentally the only one that going to see "Contact" if the opportunity I am awarded the fellowship, I will teach in amount of time each day or week to writ- receives an actual name in the entire show) presents itself. While it has already left either Japan, China or Malaysia for the ing, or do you need to feel inspired by a is Michael Wiley, a depressed advertising Hartford, it is in the midst of a full nation- next year or two before I attend law school. person or event in order to write? executive who feels that he has no reason al tour and can probably be seen at some TT: What influences or inspires your WH: Once poetry becomes a job for to continue living. The play begins with point in almost any fair-sized city. While poems? me I will cease to write. That is why I him winning an award, but as his col- act two may not be the most impressive WH: My poetry has certainly grown in have only taken one creative writing class leagues go out to celebrate, he goes home theatrical performance you'll ever see, the my time at Trinity. I have only taken one at Trinity. For me, poetry is about person- to commit suicide. However, after botch- first and third acts definitely pick up the creative writing class, but continue to sub- al affirmation and watching myself grow ing two separate attempts he decides to go slack for it, and make the show well worth mit my work to Hugh Ogden and Mark on the page. I have never been able to out into the city, where he ultimately stum- seeing. Jarman, who is a professor of English at keep a journal, and my writing is the clos- Vanderbilt University. est thing to personal documentation I WH: Almost all of my work is inspired have. I cannot plan a poem, or plan to FtyingDaggers Flies High by or is about my family and those close to write a poem. The work simply comes continued from page 14 trees, hurling bamboo shafts at Jin and Mei. me. My poems tend to focus on tragedy, when it does. The best way to look on Flying Daggers The scene is directed masterfully, framed to personal or otherwise, but there are is as an opera, in the way that Star Wars is a produce a real sense of peril, and infused a fair number of works that counter To My Grandfather on Thanksgiving space opera and Once Upon a Time in the with emotion by the loving cooperation this sentiment with the power of West is a cowboy opera. Images and music between the two renegades. people to help others. You grasp for the seat of your wheelchair, dominate the movie. Plot is relatively unim- House of Flying Daggers must be TT: What is your favorite poem your broad forearm portant, and serves mostly to string along a understood as a feast for the eyes and ears that you have written and your pressing against the sink basin in the bathroom. series of breathtaking set-pieces, and Flying and not as a deeply dramatic effort. Its plot favorite poem by another poet? Your legs are splayed Daggers, has some of the most impressive serves as' a thread from which glorious WH: My favorite poem that I on the linoleum floor in recent memory. action sequences are suspended. Like the have written, is one that is not yet pushing valiantly against the floor boards The opening sequence in the brothel is a MGM musicals of old, the lure of Flying titled. It concerns my time spent in for leverage. beautiful amalgam of costume, dance, Daggers is in its show-stopping numbers. England and is written in the form You have always yelled at grandmother rhythm, and singing steel. A later scene in The musical is all but dead in Hollywood, of a letter. The piece was set to to bring you your food, to mop the floor, but now an open field finds Jin forced to violently but Chinese martial arts cinema is clearly its music by my friend Jonathan you struggle alone defend Mei against the troops of the provin- heir apparent. I am positive that if Gene Timms, who is a Music and don't damage your pride cial general. Arrows, daggers and men fly Kelly were ah've today he would not be beg- Composition major at York by yelling "Frances" and float through the air, defying logic and ging for work at Warner Bros., but rather University in England. and feebly falling to the ground. the laws of physics. A third sequence set in clinging to a bamboo tree, sword in hand, As I stated before, and this a bamboo forest, is particularly impressive his delicate feet gracefully dancing along may be reaching a level of honesty While I watch you, with Imperial troops dancing about the the branches. that borders on stupidity, my i think about the pig tendon favorite poem is "The Giving that was placed in your ankle during surgery, Tree" by Shel Silverstein, although the one you joked about making you bionic. I do have T.S. Eliot's "The But you have never seemed LoveSong of J. Alfred Prufrock" more human to me than now. posted to my wall and the untitled You are no longer the commanding voice above poem I mentioned previously is a the din of laughter at the Thanksgiving table, response to that piece. the man whose harsh taunts . TT: What was the process to feared to face as a child. become one of the Connecticut You are me, Student Poets? but aged and ruined, WH: I became one of the and I have found you on the fioor Connecticut Student Poets after fumbling for your grace. being nominated as Trinity's candi- date. After that point, a selection of by Will Hines poems that I submitted was given movies.yahoo.com to a committee consisting of poets Jin and Mei were played by Takeshi Kaneshiro and Zhang Ziyi. PAGE 16 ANNOUNCEMENTS FEBRUARY 22, 2005 - THE TRINITY TRIPOD 7 p.m. - Feb. 24 Events Shinedown, Theory of a Deadman, No Gov. Ann Richards .... Straight From me Heart Address 7:30 pan. 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Exit 34 off 1-91. If Interested call: 860-301-9470 ask for Hal. iched/ beyond/ m&o&ure/. Students, Faculty: Advertise in wonhCp Classifieds. Looking for babysitters or someone to rake your leaves? Want to sell furniture or appliances from your dorm room? Job offerings? Include your ad in our classified sec- tion for just 30 cents a word. E-mail Community Activist of the Week unquiries to [email protected] Deepti Paturi, a co-founder of Students Unite Science and Humanitarian Interests, organized bringing the "Dancing Nature's Art" performance to Trinity on Feb. 22, A professor at the University of Massachusetts inspired iha_da.npe. troop of 14-19 year old high school and college students from Massachusetts to choreograph an interpretive dance, using the classical Bharatanatyam style, through a chemistry les- son on the DNA double helix. The performers will be dressed 7 p.m. in the traditional Bharatanatyam attire, which includes wear- Tuesday, February 22, 2005 ing an elaborately designed sari and ornate body jewelry. Rittenburg Lounge, Mather Halt Raturi has been involved with SUSHI since its inception dur- ing the spring semester of her ireshman year in 2002. Reminiscently Deepti says, "I PUBLIC FORUM ON SOCIAL SECURITY have seen the organization grow over the years, along with my co-founders Jason Galtant 05, Adam Pangilinan 05, and Marion Protano 05." The next SUSHI project on John Larson the horizon is AIDS week, which will occur at the end of March. U. S. Congressman After graduating from Trinity with a degree in biochemistry, Paturi plans to spend one year in India; taking part in India's community-level, non-profit health care field. Paturi Abstract: At the forum, Congressman Larson will dis- states, "I hope to get a first hand perspective of the health, social and political issues surrounding health care of the Indian people. Upon returning from India I will attend cuss President Bush's privatization plan for Social medical school in the States." Security, what those changes could mean for future This senior is also a member in the Asian American Student Association and Trinity retirees and ask for the views and perspectives of the Chemical Society, and works for the Office of Residential Life as a freshman audience on the issue of Social Security privatization. Residential Assistant. When asked which animal best suited her personality, Paturi responded, "A bird, because I can't stay put in one place for very long." If given the The Bush plan would divert money from the Social opportunity to have lunch with any two people, Paturi "would like to meet Gandhi to be Security system and allow workers to invest it in pri- in the presence of such an immeasurable and inspiring figure; and [her] maternal grandfather, who passed away when [her] mother was very young." vate accounts. Twelve other organizations/departments are co-sponsoring the DNA event: Asian American Student Association, Bantam Association of Forensic Scientists, Biology Sponsored by the Public Policy and Law Program, the Club, Campus Life, Community Service Office, Environmental Sciences Department, Political Science Department, the Legislative Interdisciplinary Science Program, Luce Professor of Health and Human Rights, Physics Club, Students to Unite Science and Humanitarian interests, Trinity Chemical Internship Program, and the Chairman of the Society, Tutorial College, Women's Center. Economic Department. FEBRUARY 11, 2005 - THE TRINITY TRIPOD SPORTS PAGE 17 UPCOMING EVENTS Jose Canseco: Steroids FRL, FEB. 25 User and Entrepreneur Men's Squash @ Harvard - NISRA Team JACK O'DONOHUE presented by Jose Canseco, then eighty Championships SPORTS WRITER percent of professional baseball players use Men's and Women's Indoor Track @ You are playing a high stakes poker steroids. Canseco's book includes grue- Boston University - New England game and get caught dealing from the bot- some depictions of Mark McGuire and tom of the deck — caught red handed, Open Championships Canseco injecting each others buttocks cheating. If you get caught cheating in with steroids. Men's Swimming & Diving @ Weselyan - Vegas at a casino, they have special back According to WEEI's John Dennis and NESCAC Championships rooms with no cameras where not-so- Gerry Callahan, Jose Canseco was the guru friendly men teach you never to cheat of steroid use in Major League Baseball for SAT., FEB. 26 again, at a cost of one knee per lesson. several years. Canseco knew the right way You are a Major League Baseball play- Men's Basketball @ Amherst - NESCAC to use steroids, and what steroid mixtures er, and you have been caught cheating by were best for ballplayers. Semifinal way of steroids. What are the conse- According to MLB Commissioner Bud Men's Squash @ Harvard - NISRA Team quences for your actions? A slap on the Selig, part of the steroid problem was a Championships wrist, with a maximum ten-day suspension result of the nasty labor negotiations of Men's and Women's Indoor Track @ for first-time offenders. 1994. There were no rules against the use If you believe the recent allegations Boston University - New England of steroids, and with a lack of hard evi- dence, the players union would never have Open Championships approved of a new policy. Men's Ice Hockey vs. Tufts - NESCAC The words of New York Yankees slug- Quarterfinals (12:00 p.m.) ger, Jason Giambi, best explains the advan- Women's Ice Hockey @ Middiebury - tage of taking steroids: "I wanted to be NESCAC Quarterfinal great. I was a good player coining up through the minor leagues, but I wanted to Men's Swimming & Diving @ Weselyan - be great, and I had friends in the game who NESCAC Championships used the steroids and swore by them. You wake up in the middle of a long road trip SUN., FEB. 27 and instead of being sore and aching all Men's Basketball @ TBD - NESCAC over, you can hit the weights, get stronger, still feel fresh for the games." Finals With regards to Giambi!s admission to Men's Squash @ Harvard - NISRA Team a grand jury that he in fact took steroids, Championships George Steinbrenner said, "Did we think Men's Swimming & Diving @ Weselyan - Giambi might be taking steroids in 2001? Sure, everybody thought that." NESCAC Championships www.canseconet.com Canseco admits he used steroids in "Juiced." see BASEBALL'S on page 18 T Career Services THE BEST WAY TO PilEDICT YOUR FUTURE IS TO CREATE IT... Upcoming Resume Deadlines on Trinity Recruiting! ^On-Campus interviews! Tuesday February 22 Tuesday. March 1 Connecticut Section PGA- Administrative Intern; Program Management Assistant Joan and Sanford I Weill Medical College- Sr. Patient Coordinator -Medicine/ Town of Manchester— Recreation Supervisor Cardiology; Administrative Aide II RASP/KB; Account Representative - Pathology; Research Aid -Psychiatry; Research Tech I -Microbiology and Wednesday. 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Sophomores Mary Sophomores Leigh Melanson Trinity program walked onto the great, the effort they put forth on Basketball team finished its sea- Lennick and Cat Maher each had and Sarah Cox also made the court this time focused and deter- Sunday was nothing short of son this past Saturday with a loss nine points to aid the Trinity overall scoring list, finishing 16 mined whereas the past teams heroic. to Bowdoin in the first round of offense. and 20 respectively. Mary were more scattered and lack- "Beating Princeton 6-3 on the NESCAC tournament, 45-59. Classmate Jasmine Johnson Lennick finishes the season sec- adaisical. Sunday was even more impres- Bowdoin led at the half with a had seven rebounds while ond in the league for assists, aver- In the weeks after the first sive [than the Harvard match]," score of 27-20 despite being held Lennick pulled down five aging just fewer than 4.3 assists Harvard loss and the start of .the Coach Bartlett said. "Most teams to a mere 34 percent shooting rebounds of her own and added per game. Howe Cup, the Bantams worked would have packed up camp after from the field by the Trinity four assists. Senior Becky Bell Cox finished the season at intensively on their mental prepa- a match like Harvard ... but we defense. and Leigh Melanson '07 added ninth in the league for rebound- ration. Faculty advisor Dr. Randy showed a lot of mental toughness eight and seven ing,- averaging seven rebounds Lee, worked with each player to on Sunday." points respectively. per game. Leigh Melanson is develop her pre-match process Once again, similar to the out- Trinity's ranked number-one in the league and find her 'zone' where she is come of the dual season match, strength in the for three-point percentage with 46 ready to play. Trinity held off Princeton to gain game and through- percent shooting. Even more proof that this the third ranking in the final CSA out the season was Sophomore Mary Lennick team is now different from the team polls. its free throw said: "Basically, in the end, we team that played Harvard the first Sunday's match agaisnt shooting, hitting beat ourselves more than any- time comes out in the breakdown Princeton was the last team match 77 percent of its thing. We came out in the first of the nine matches of each date. for Leong, who ended her season attempts from the half and had the intensity we This weekend, Trinity battled for undefeated while playing in stripe. The needed but [after] halftime, we every point and every game and almost every match as Trinity's Bantams _led the weren't able to bring it together. as a result, the matches Trinity number one. league in free Bowdoin's obviously a good team won were decided in three games Even though the team season throw shooting for and we respect them, but we think while the matches that the is over, Leong is still looking the season with an that we didn't help ourselves ... Bantams lost all needed four or toward the Individual impressive 72 per- We had a lot of uncharacteristic more games to decide. Championships where she will cent overall. turnovers and people weren't on, Regardless of the changes in enter the bracket as the number- Senior Jess which hurt us a lot. It was also the Bantams' demeanor and one seed. Baker, despite tough finishing like that, being focus, the Crimson was still the Trinity Women's Squash will being injured and Becky's last game." better team at the Howe Cup and definitely miss her presence at the missing the last However, despite the loss of the Bantams could do nothing top of the ladder, but a promisirlg five games of the the seniors, Lennick says: except try to recharge and reener- group of new recruits will arrive season, finishes "We're a really young team, so gize enough to play Princeton - next season to shoot after the ulti- ninth overall for we're looking forward to the the host team of the tournament - mate goal once again: a national www.trincoll.edu scoring in the future." Trinity finishes the sea- on Sunday. championship. Leigh Melanson '07 finished number-16 in scorir^. NESCAC arid son at 9 - 14. Baseball's Steroid Issue, Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture Who Dropped the Ball? continued from page 17 our own roster were suspected steroid V . And the boss was right. If you look at users. What were we supposed to do — Thomas'Chiiders a picture of Giambi early in his career with wage a one-team fight against steroid the Athletics, and place it next to a shot of users, at a time when steroids weren't Sheldon and Luqr Hackney Professor of History him from 2004 in a Yankee uniform, it is against the rules?" disgustingly obvious that he took steroids. The bottom line is that the integrity of University of Pennsylvania It is like looking at a woman after a breast America's past time has been compro- enhancement, and thinking to yourself, mised, and some fans may never feel the Thursday, March 3 at 5:00 p.m. "those are not real," but you can't say any- same way about baseball again. thing. That's how the owners felt. It was But shouldn't we be equally concerned Rsttenberg Lounge, Mather Campus Center obvious that steroids were a problem across about outrageous accusations intended not baseball, but no one said anything. to save baseball,_but _to simply make Steinbrenner went on to say, "And even money? Sensationalism sells, so let's all though we suspected he took steroids, were remember that only a small percentage of *War and the American Experience: A Tale of we supposed to ignore every player thought what we read is true. Lastly, lets not view to be taking steroids? We could've elimi- Canseco as a whistle-blowing, sterile, hero, World War IF nated a third of the talent pool in the majors but as a man who betrayed the trust of his if we had done that, and some players on teammates for financial gain. A free and open lecfure sponsored by Human Rights Program Phi Bets Koppa Visiting Scholar Program cmd the Department of History 2005 Spring Lecture Series 5 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2005, Terrace Rm. B, deleters' book, Wings of Morning, an absorbing and moving account of the B- Mather Hall Alex Arriaga "The United Nations 24 bomber crew shot down in April 1945 during the final days of the war, Women's Rights Convention: A Strategy for U.S. Professor Chiiders' uncle died on that mission. Tom Chiiders found a box Ratification" full of letters to and from his uncle during the war. This discovery moved him to write this book. It is a weli-researched and lucidly written book 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Mar. 8, 2005, Terrace Rm. B, intended for the general public as weii as academics. The story in thatbook Mather Hall May Oo, Human Rights Advocacy will be central to the public lecture he will give. 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