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Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 1981-1982 Student Newspapers 3-5-1982 College Voice Vol. 5 No. 13 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1981_1982 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "College Voice Vol. 5 No. 13" (1982). 1981-1982. Paper 15. http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1981_1982/15 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1981-1982 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. .• Connecticut College's Weekly Newspaper / March 5, 1982 vet.v. No.~ Conn. College Announces Campaign Drive by College News Service bringing the total for that fund to over New London. Conn., February 26. $900,000. Connecticut College President Oakes Other new endowment resources are Ames announced the start of a major $4 million for student scholarship capital and annual giving campaign support, $1.2 million in unrestricted drive to raise $30 million over the next endowment, and $1.2 million in cash four years for new endowment, addi- reserves. tions and improvements to the physical The unrestricted endowment will plant, and for current operations at the strengthen the permanent endowment four-year coeducational liberal arts resources of the College and will include college. allocations for professional development Target date for raising the new funds of the faculty, wider ranges of extra- is July, 1986, the 75th anniversary of the curricular activities for students, College's founding. acquisition of additional books for the Ames outlined the plans for the use of i library, purchase and maintenance of • the campaign funds as follows: $11.4 .s• the latest scientific equipment for • million for new endowment resources, .• instructional labs and expansion of the > $9.1 million for campus renewal and computer center capacity. The new cash Coffee, craziness, and cash pushed intrepid D.).'s Put Goodwin and Kenny development, and $9.5 million for reserves will function as endowment, Abr~ms to raise funds for their beloved WCN!. The 91.5 hour marathon, con- support of current operations. providing income to meet current cludm~ Monday, March 1st at noon, raised money towards the purchase of a new Currently Connecticut College has an expenses across the board. transmitter. endowment of $14 million and an Of the $9.1 million projected for , annual giving program that brings in campus renewal and development, $3.4 about $1.2 million per year. million will go toward the renovation of According to Ames the increased Palmer Library into a center for the First party in Hamilton endowment will help to continue to humanities, providing classrooms, right above the band, and she said the attract and retain outstanding faculty By Meg McClellan seminars, and faculty offices. $3.9 party was "pretty obnoxious" and her and provide scholarship for larger million will be used to construct a much To an outsider, the spilled beer and room was shaking when the band numbers of students who otherwise needed new athletic center. The arena, scattered coats of last Friday's all- played. could not come to the College. which was an early goal of the cam- campus party wouldn't seem different However, the party seemed to go Thirty-four percent of the College's paign, opened in 1980, and was largely from the spilled beer and scattered coats better than many people had antici- students receive financial aid. This year funded through a gift of Judson '80 and of any other party. But last Friday's pated. The bathrooms on the first floor almost 90 percent of the total income Duncan '81 Dayton and their parents, party was different because it was the weren't trashed, and someone was sent from endowment and annual giving, in Julia' 49 and Kenneth Dayton of first party in the Hamilton basement. to clean them at 7:30 the next morning. addition to Federal and State funds, was Wayzata, Minnesota. The turnout was very good at the party There also wasn't any reported used to maintain the level of financial $1.1 million is targeted to complete given by Park dorm, but the general vandalism to the rest of the dorm. One aid. the renovation to New London Hall, the responses and reactions to the evening person on the second floor said he was Included in the $11.4 million for new College's science building, and $.7 were mixed. upstairs and "didn't really hear endowment resources is $5 million for million will be used for other The use of the Hamilton basement for anything" in the basement. faculty salaries, a goal that has already renovations, including the refurbishing parties has become an important issue One problem that residents of the first been enhanced by three major faculty of Crozier-Williams Student Center. on campus; consequently, the large turn- floor mentioned was the lack of security endowments. The goal for support of current out was not surprising. There was ample on their floor. They said there were A 1979 grant of $1.5 million from the operations is $9.5 million, which room in the low-ceiling, cement room, quite a few "townies" walking around Sherman Fairchild Foundation provides includes $6.5 million to be raised but some people felt it was a "cold their halls and that in the future a $300,000 in faculty endowment each through increased annual giving during atmosphere for a party" and would be security guard should be on the first year for a period of five years. Late in the next four years and the remainder more appropriate for "beer bashes" than floor. 1981, the MacArthur Foundation chose from individuals and from corporate semi-formal affairs. The extent to which the Hamilton Connecticut College as one of 16 and foundation grants. Of principle concern to most people basement will be used for parties in the colleges to receive $300,000 for an "Connecticut College already enjoys a was the reaction of the people in future is yet to be determined. It seems endowed chair for a junior faculty reputation for high academic quality and Hamilton dorm. One person seemed to unfair to make it the new "Cro" if doing member. A bequest in the will of Lucy for being a leader in changing times," sum up the general feelings of the so jeopardizes residents of Hamilton, but Marsh Haskell, a member of the class of Ames said. 'The campaign will help to members of the first floor when she said at the moment there doesn't seem to be 1919, adds to her 1966 establishment of move it to the top of its group of the the party was "pretty damn loud." Jenny another alternative. an endowed "Fund for Faculty Salaries," finest liberal arts colleges in the nation." Laurey ('85) lives in a room that was Hopes For A Labor Movement In South Africa situation. The white Afrikaner minority Africans derive their migrant labor to producer, Mr. Mohomo wanted to close By Steve Lau under the National Party dictates how work in their agricultural and industrial the credibility gap, using the sectors from the Bantusan: the working On February 24th and 25th, Mr. Nana the Blacks shall exist. documentaries as a medium for political conditions and wages are just enough to Mohomo presented two Emmy Award- The movies showed the following: the communication to show what is actually keep them alive. Black labor unions are winning documentary films: "The End of Blacks are ethnically separated and occurring in South Africa. unregistered under the Industrial the Dialogue" and "Last Grave at placed in homelands called Bantusans; Both films showed the political and Conciliation Act and have minimal Dirnbaza" at Dana Hall. Mr. Mohomo, the homelands are supposed to allow socio-economic deprivation of the Black, bargaining power to obtain working the producer of both these films, is a ethnic self-determination and accounts Indian and Asian population in South benefits and wage increases. Black South African who has been living for about 13 percent of the land in Africa. The films captured the South Africa is extremely dependent in exile since his involvement in the South Africa, the rest is set aside for the impoverished living conditions in which on Black labor which provides the Sharpville demonstrations in 1960. He is the majority of the South African whites; the land is economically unviable, possessing insufficient amounts majority of the South Africa's work currently co-ordinator of AFL-CIO population live. Blacks are regarded as a force. Without this source of cheap Program of Action in Support of Black source of cheap labor and are treated as of natural resources to support the population. As a result, the inhabitants labor, the South African economy as Trade Unions in South Africa. subservient second class citizens. They well as foreign multinational These documentaries were created to live in absolute squalor and are prone to possess no substantial political or civil corporations would suffer tremendous inform people of the South African rights and are denied participation in disease, malnutrition, and premature government's racially oppressive government. Therefore, they are politi- adult and infant death. Continued on Page 2 According to the films, white South apartheid policies. As the film's cally helpless in alleviating their �pag'2 -----CAMPUSNEWS,----- .... ~ Dr. Benjamin Pierce ~ Fire in New London "The students here," says Pierce, "are By Maria Wyckoff very dedicated towards their studies . .J Trying to figure out what makes a They are good students who work .~ church offerings collected from Harkness ~ By Sandra Matos good professor is a difficult problem.