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Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 1979-1980 Student Newspapers 11-8-1979 College Voice Vol. 3 No. 8 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1979_1980 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "College Voice Vol. 3 No. 8" (1979). 1979-1980. 8. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1979_1980/8 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 1979-1980 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. A.~ INSIDE: Mark W. Hall looks at redevelopment in New London Off The Track. poker with the boys Connecticut College's Weekly Newsmagazine VOL. Ill, NO. 8 NOVEMBER 8, 1178 COASTIES THE "STARR" GLOBAL HUNGER AND OF NEW LONDON FOCUS OF CONN'S CONNIES COMMUNICATE "PERSPECTIVES" By STERLING NORTH By Bill Kavanaugh Another chapter in the on-going The Harkness Chapel Board and chron~cle of give and take between Survival, Conn. 's environmental Coasties and 'Connies' (as cadets action group, are co-sponsoring the would have it) was completed last second year of "Perspectives on we~~ ~ith Social Board's Hunger," a series of educational ~atIflcatlOn of the policy- events upcoming this month on Implementing concern-notifying Third World development and letter to be sent to the Coast Guard hunger. Academy upon the customary The series of events marks what approval of college administrators its sponsors hope will be an annual The le;ter is the product of Sociai and ongoing look at pressing Board s month and a half long develooment issues. conditions in endeavor to assimilate campus 'Third Wor\d nations, hun&eT ana. social concerns and the college's food issues. and' tb.e 1:'e\a:\:i.~\9 0\ unique relationship with the Coast the U.S. and the delreloped llatims Guard Academy. It is largely the by Andrew K. McMurray shape because of the high quality to these concerns. work of Social Board's Coast materials originally used in the' "Perspectives on HungerU was Guard Action Committee, presided Starr Street, in downtown New 19th century. born last year under the spon- London, is a survi vor of the Vic- over by Robin Brown (82) and sorship of the Chapel Board. It was torian Age. The oldest Starr Street The rejuvenated houses are a Eddy Cesare (82), which wished to mixture of the old and the new. conceived as a broadening of residence was built in 1835, two personalize all-campus party at- Most of the roofing, floors and Conn. 's long-standing involvement years before Victoria's ascension tendance policy with regard to the walls are being replaced. The with Oxfam-America's annual to the throne. The youngest house free atmosphere of social contractors intend to preserve the "Fast for a World Harvest." The was built in 1895, six years before interaction between Conn and the old fireplaces and the intricate board designed events around the Academy. The letter reads as her death. carved railings and woodwork that fast to raise consciousness on Victorian New London was a give the houses character. campus of food and economic follows: booming and prosperous whaling Gentlemen, issues at the root of the global city. The mid-1800's was also the In addition to the contractors' In reviewing the policies and hunger crisis. heyday of Starr Street. Two Starr work, the City of New London is practices of the College with Street buildings were owned by chipping in over $300,000to remove regard to major social functions agents in the whaling business and the unsightly power lines, to install this year, we have recognized several others were occupied by underground utilities, and to lay that some difficulties have sea captains, ship-builders, and the granite cobblestone road-bed. arisen. The economic instability downtown merchants. Much of the city's work is com- of the pastfew years has made it A soap factory owned by the pleted and Starr Street shows increasingly difficult to fund our Starr family stood on the corner of definite improvement for their social events. In the past it has efforts. been our policy to allow all Washington and Starr Streets until The program continues this fail, Who is renovating Starr Street comers; that is to say. Conn. 1886. At the other end of the street opened by a Chapel service this was a marble yard that operated and why? Tn1977, the Savings Bank students, their guests, and Coast Sunday, centered on the hunger of New London (the city's largest) Guard Cadets, to enter a party until 1879. There were also crisis. Monday, November 12, numerous shops in the homes of the was looking for a community for the same price. This}despite Perspectives ... " continues with a project to be part of the bank's the fact that the great majority of residents. film documentary, S... MlIllon and 150th anniversary celebration. The functions are made possible only Several years ago John Ellis of ODe, a moving presentation of Bank's president, Richard through the Student Activities the Texas Rangers considered cultural conflicts engendered by Fee which is taken from tuition. purchasing ten Starr Street houses Creviston, knew of just the thing. development in the family lives of We are forced by the realities of for restoration. The proposal was On Tilley St. downtown were some Indian villagers. The film places rising liquor and entertainment dropped, however, and the city old dilapidated houses; Creviston strong focus on women's issues in costs to reevaluate the funding of began to mark many of the thought perhaps the bank should development. Slet MlIllon and One all-campus parties, and it is with decayed buildings for demolition. buy. one for restoration. will be shown in Oliva Hall at 8. Robin Hennis, the bank's vice- On Tuesday, November 13, some regret that in the future the Now, in 1979, Starr Street is once admission price for all guests and president and investment officer "Perspectives on Hunger" again the scene of bustling activity. recalls that fateful day, January presents Roger Flather, the Coast Guard Cadets will be 50 Instead of soap factories and sea cents above that charged 13, 1978 - a Friday. director of International Human captains one encounters masons students with a Conn College 1.0. Assistance Programs, In a lecture laying the Intricate brick sidewalk "Mr. Creviston and 1 took a walk A second problem we have down Green Street to Tilley St. to presentation and discussion on and carpenters replacing the worn found is increasing attendance of development issues. Mr. Flather is clap-board siding. Starr Street is look at a house - I remember the functions held in an area of irony of the date." a former director of Oxfam- getting a face lift. America, and has served as a limited capacity. Since the As the bank officers passed by Providence College fire of 1977! Before the contractors Nicholas- Peace Corps volunteer. Flather Starr St. "something clicked" will speak in Bill 106 at 8 p.m , and in particular this year, the Craft (Stonington) and Watrous & with the realization that the bank Wednesday, November 14 the Fire Marshall has informed Lozier (Ledyard) could begin re- had the potential to buy the entire program will sponsor a fa~ulty- Social Board that he will be en- construction, city crews gutted the street. Suddenly they weren't student discussion development forcing fire regulations during buildings. As the layers of siding talking about restoring one house; on campus parties; and well he and wall-corlng were stripped, the they were discussing the issues, focusing on the com- should for the safety of all con- decayed fireplaces and rotted munity's role as citizens and rehabilitation of the ugliest street academics in these concerns. The cerned. In lieu of this en- woodwork became evident. The in downtown New London. forcement it behooves us to contractors, however. felt that the location of the discussion has yet to CONTINUED ON PAGE. assure all Conn. students that houses were in surprisingly good be set. CONTINUED ON PAGE S CONTINUED ON PAGE & THE COLLEGE VOICE, NOVEMBER 8, 1979 2 A career in law- without lawschool. WORLD NEWS BRIEFS After just three months of study at The Institute for bY SETH STONE Paralegal Training in exciting Philadelphia, you can have a building. operating and monitoring Brother. 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