College Voice Vol.14 No.10

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THE CO E VOICE / Volume XIV, Number 10 Ad Fontes I November 6. 1990 Phone Statements Elicit Discontent computing and information by Jon Flnnlmou services, Sam Stewart, controller of Associate News Editor the college, and Claire Gaudiani, A crowd of over fifty students '66, president of the college, later attended an emergency Student this week. There, he hopes to Government Association meeting "present all these concerns and get Sunday afternoon to voice their answers one way or another." complaints and concerns regarding The majority of student telephone usage awareness complaints stemmed from what statements and the campus they perceived to be a lack of telecommunications system. attention to their needs and John Maggiore, '91, president of requests. Some examples of tris SGA, defined the meeting as a were the annual phone fee, the chance to "weed out some of the unexplained special features, a lack SGA Assembly at the emergency telecommunications meeting legitimate problems." Some of the of input into the choice to have a goals he outlined included new phone system, not having a identifying complaints about choice oflong distance companies, Students Dispute Focus of phone bills, determining student and the late arrival of the phone requests, and dispelling statements. College Celebration misconceptions about the system. Many students at the meeting had He plans to have a group problems with their phone bills. new telecommunications system. Future, not Phones," comprised of members of the Apparently, charges for calls that by Rebecca Flynn The press conferencewas to be The College Voice The students were outside the Telecommunications Committee never went through or received a the arena in which officials from Ernst Common room to draw atten- and SGA executive board meet busy signal, which are recorded as A group of nine students gave a Connecticut College, AT&T, and tion to grievances they have with with Tom Makofske, director of See1'llooesp.9 new focus to Thursday's college SNET Systems would formally the amount of publicity surround- press conference to mark the cele- announce the designation of the ing the implementation of the new bration of Connecticut College's college as a "Campus of the Fu- telecommuniations system, as well ture," because of the implementa- as with the degree of communica- tion of the new fiberoptic telecom- tion between the administration munications system. and the students in general. Index A representative from SNET An example of this lack of com- outlined the four goals of the sys- munication is the group's beliefs Features pp. 4-5 tem: to change the nature of com- that the students were not asked be- munications, to create an extensive forehand if they wanted the tele- he magic and mystery and flexible access channel, to communications system. to be in- place concrete emphasis on work- stalled. of Halloween station and to provide central re- Jeff Reynolds, '93, was explain- sources. ing this when he was corrected by Before the presentation, a group Lenny Bellet, '93, who said the t. View pp. 6-7 of nine students lined the door, implementation of the system was handing out xeroxed sheets to all put to an SGA Assembly vote last Seniors unite to help who entered, year. community The students were part of a new Reynolds said that fact was not campus group that formed on widely known and could be exem- Monday, called the Administrative plary of the kind of miscommuni- Comics p.lO Accountability Association. Their cation he was describing. flyer was headed by a large procla- The SGA Assembly did approve , I~ \ \,;v =-'. mation that read, "People are the See Proteston p.9 ::s:::. "'". _ ! ~.' ~. ~ Scientist Gould Stresses ,A&E pp. 12-13 Evolution of Learning Gould said, "Those who claim to be Darwini- Progress is all we know," said Gould. by Rebe«a Flynn ans really have no idea what Darwinism really The answer to the last riddle encompassed the The College Voke means, what Darwin is really saying." main focus of Gould's lecture. It was not the Stephen Jay Gould, Alexander Agassiz pro- Gould built his lecture around three riddles he idea of evolution, but of the radical philosophy of natural selection of which Darwin was afraid. fessor of zoology at Harvard University and au- posed before the audience. To show bow long Darwin waited to publish thor of The Mismeasure of Man, addressed the The first was "Who was the official naturalist his idea, Gould offered this anecdote on what -" issue of evolution at Thursday's Frederick aboard the RM.S. Beagle?" The second, "Why did Darwin not use the Darwin did during this time. "If you have the Henry Sykes Memorial Lecture. greatest idea in biology on the shelf and spend .The Hartford Ballet During the lecture, which was augmented by word evolution to describe his theory?" The third, "Why did Darwin, on returning, eight years writing a taxonomy on barnacles, t'delights college the showing of slides, Gould stated !hat Dar- that's displacement activity, folks." win's genius lay in his ability to convinc.e.the delay publishing his results for 10 years?" !community The lecture concluded with a song by Freder- world that evolution had occured. In addiuon, The lecture then proceeded to offer the an- ick J. Bridge, "Happy is the Man that Findeth Darwin proposed the idea of natural selection, swers to these quagmires. Firstly, it was re- vealed that a man named McCormick was the Wisdom." .a theory of evolution. official naturalist, though he did leave before the Gould recited lyrics as the tape played, end- The main point of the lecture centered on Sports pp. 14-16 end of the voyage, when Darwin appropriated ing with a quote from a stanza of the Bible "What was philosophically radical .in that the passage on which !he song was based express- theory [of natural selection] was so difficult [f?r that title. Secondly, Darwin had stated that people were ing his main philosophy. people to grasp]." Gould went on !" exp~m .raIl sports wrap-up an afterthought, an accident, so Darwin would "She [Wisdom] isa treeofbfe to them that lay overbreeding, adaptation, and geneh~s, which not use the word evolution. "The Ladder of hold upon her," he said. !I comprise the theory of natural selection. I VIEWPOINT Ethical Standards Wave Magazine Responds to Across the Board Drug Coverage Controversy fa...-- ..... 1IIirles fill ........ caJIed ...... __ PreoIdeDt Letter to the Voice: zine. The students who faced sus- scoop. _ G......... v'M dua'a prIoriIIet: WItII_ dar ......... to the pension if we ran the drug story In addition, we find the mean- ""lICntJ. et : I .p' n n I....... lIllpIIr:aIIIrcJloe8dlDJJdltralloe NeartheendofSeptember, Wave were already scared and also de- spirited tone of the Voice editorial ...... , 7' it: .. .- Magazine chose not to publish a c1inedcomment. Deprivedofthese astonishing. This is the first men- 1111........ "' .... I " "kJaclp ••t .. II... ""'-G ....... story that a free-lance reporter, Jac- key sources, we believed running tion of Wave Magazine this year in ................".t~....to.... llIftCI_eare.eal queline Soteropoulos, had written an article based on unnamed the Voice, other than in an article SpNIrpr, Tldi8'•• IIt~-...'l!IiIrMClaIIo_""'to""". about a groupof campus drug users. sources and hear-say would be irre- concerning the budget debate. The 1IIt ,.U , , .f.... """TIle She had insisted that running the _ '" Pi " It Is..., GalIlIIaaI sponsible. Soteropoulos delivered Voice did not welcome our first a-..,.. i wItIIoolt piece would lead to the suspension the drug story 10 the Voice and issue with an article noting the ar- ............~.IInt "'.. of two of her student sources, and a agreed to interviews with them, rival of a new campus publication. ' .... 1 ...... ' , Jeaden iItflatIcIB), .1'" t ._u bEhi 1'I... II."' "hhO,_ meeting with them convinced us of which allowed them to write the Nor did they follow-up on or ac- OIlIi.w, 7 Ii _It'i!atle .ai. .ay.WorJ!illliIC1ide ., ....... the potential danger. story that appeared last week. knowledge our Special Report .".11'11 *\1.C_1 • efCcl1!!lPlepI.1l71attre.TIle,-r"""". The College Voice published a We understand our reasoning about the possible danger of cam- ....... "' ClIdlIs", at ............ pIua, version of that story, without our was complicated, but our only con- pus vending machine condoms, .... ,... aullep,1rI to" W tlot. Many_ -..... ate editing, in its last issue. Ina sharply cems were journalistic responsibil- except by printing a cheap shot n. "" 1 tCo_tla" worded editorial, the publisher of ity and the safety of those sources quote from John Maggiore in ''The ceIIIlIe _-ntrItIIlIl ,..,.tu_ pmlepIloatllllltlils ... fN!l17 ....... the Voice also took the opportunity who had been threatened with sus- Camel Heard," which gave us no TIle_IIt ....,.fIIIf .... the~., ... _ to scold Wave Magazine for not pension if the original drug article opportunity to respond. exploring the issues of administra- ran. We can only guess at why the The administration felt the ar- leio, • doDa IiJlIfAlm lias cited at • dtInI .... '" --. SWde7It laot..tt dieAdm/llIlllratlveA_ tive censorship in a follow-up ar- Voice publisher knowingly omitted ticle about !.he suspicious condoms bWtJA~ oniecI.bo7It ahlalstra,..lspultlDalls ticle, Charging that we had "abdi- an explanation of our decision in his was important enough to recom- ..........

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