Colby Cares: Student Volunteers Reach out to Waterville
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The great pub debate* See page 4. Colby Cares: student volunteers Third million-dollar reach out to Waterville dorm donor found had climaxed in early March. BY KATIE According to Vice President BY REBECCA POLLARD QUACKENBTJSH f orDevelopmentand Alumni Re- Staff Writer Staff Writer lations Randy Helm, Colby met the deadline as originally stipu- Last week, the Colby Commu- Therehasbeen some suspense lated with a few days to spare. nity embraced National Volun- surrounding the financing of the Helm said that Mitchell knew teer Week. Students ended the new dorm, currently under con- how important the project was week with a bang on Sunday, struction, to be opened for the fall and therefore decided to become April 20, as they took part in sev- of 1997. The March deadline for the third donor. eral local projects around finding a third million-dollar do- Because the new dorm was Waterville in the first annual nor for the construction project funded with three individual do- Colby Cares Day. Over 200 vol- had been cause for concern among nations, the dorm will be sepa- unteers lent their time and many Colby administrators.In the rated into three linked buildings, muscles to the city of Waterville, nick of time, these worries have each individually named. Stu- individual families and non-profit been put to rest, thanks to a gener- dents will be given the choice of organizations in the true spirit of ous Trustee. living in either the Anthony, generosity. Colby was looking for three Shupf or Mitchell Halls. According to Director of the one-million dollar donors to fund When asked how he felt about Colby Volunteer Center Kelley the new dorm. One gift from the progress of the project, Helm Winchester '97, Student Associa- Trustee Robert Anthony '38 was said, "I think it's going to give tion (Stu-A) President Joshua promised earlier in the year. A Colby one of the most attractive Wood fork -97 approached her with second donation from Paul Shupf, housing options." Helm articu- theidea , in hopes that Stu-A might Trustee and long-time supporter lated a goal to make Colby among collaborate their efforts with the of Colby,was contingent on find- the most attractive small colleges Volunteer Center. "The event had ing a third donor "by March." By by the year 2000. "[Colby] wants been tossed around for a couple of the middle of last month, how- to be preeminent in every area of years, and this year we were able ever, a third donor had still not a small college," he said, explain- to put it into effect," said Winches- been named. The College was at ing that such a goal requires hav- ter. risk of losing Shupf's donation. ing the best faculty, housing, sci- Preparations began in Febru- Within a few days ofthe dead- ence facilities and student facili- ary when the group, led by Win- line, Trustee Edson Mitchell '75, ties among other things. chester, Woodfork, Patrick Doyle Photo by Tanya Semels co-chair of Colby's Capitol Cam- The new dorm is one building '97, Rebecca Solomon '00 and Mor- Nathan Ashton and his brother Zeben, the sons of Ga te paign, offered to fund the remain- block in the College's developing gan Milner '00 first approached Talbot Ashton '80 were proud of their wash and wax job on ing one million dollars needed plan towards excellence. With the the local chapter of the United Way the Waterville Police cruisers. for construction of the new dorm. third donation and the comple- with their idea of a widespread constructed a new floor and built a helping reached Mayflower Hill Mitchell's generous gift has com- tion of the project, Colby takes group oi project ideas for National new deck. In a future weekend, and Waterville for not only one pleted the search for funds and another step toward the level of Volunteer Week. Together with the students will return to continue week in April, but for years to broughtrelief to theanxietywhich prestige that Helm envisionsD Waterville City Council, the group helping Sherrer's dream of a new come.Q organized numerous community home be realized. and service-based projects. Other projects as part of Colby At Colby, week-long awareness Cares Day included raking and activities were planned and fund cleaning at the Maine Children's New dorm brings new questions raising efforts culminated with this Home, the Rape Crisis Associa- major day of service. Throughout tion, the Family Violence Center the week, students could support and Ken-A-Set. Volunteers picked BY ROBYN D. MACO free space. the cause in the Student Center by up trash along the Kennebec River Staff Writer Careful planning has gone into the aesthetics of taking part in "Jar Wars," a game as well as mapped out potential the new residential hall. There is a color scheme available for individuals to donate environmental hazards along the Now that a final donor has been found, between the three wings, the lounge furniture has a pennies in the jars of their respec- area. Vandalized buildings were contruction on the new dorm is moving on without "home-like" feel to it, and it lacks the institutional tive classes. Though the results of painted, Little League Fields the College worrying about how it will be paid for. nature of the furniture in our current residence halls. the contest were not yet available raked and police vehicles washed The site located behind West Quad has prompted Although Colby could not equip every student at press time, Winchester esti- and waxed. Another project in- curiosity on campus, especially among the juniors with water beds, the beds are going to be loftable mated that over $250 in change volved members of the Colby bas- who will have the opportunity to be the first resi- with an added feature that tools are not necessary filled the jars. ketball and hockey teams dili- dents in the new hall. for moving the platform of the bed into different Proceeds benefited Project gently scraping and painting the The new residence hall has three separate, dis- stages. BUILD, an organization founded swimming pool house on North tinct wings with a corridor that links them together. Contrary to some talk about a small kitchen unit a few years ago by Charles Sherrer, Street in Waterville. Housing 141 students, it consists of 48 singles, 32 in each quad, there are only three kitchens per wing, a man whose house in Starks, Winchester graciously one room doubles, six quads and one five-man. The loca ted on the first floor main lounges. Each kitchen Maine was burned down in a pre- thanked all those who volun- quads have four singles, a living room and a private has an oven, a range, sink and microwave. Dean sumably racially-motivated act. teered, as the week exceeded all bath. Also, each wing is divided into sections in Johnston stressed, "These units are not designed for Later, at an Open House in the expectations. The vast number of which eigh teen students will live. There is one quad anyone to be self sufficient and go off the meal Fishbowl Lounge and Wednesday projects and successes "as- per section, six singles, four doubles, a lounge and plan." in a Brown Bag Luncheon discus- tounded" her. "They all went a bathroom. For many seniors, the ability to cook one's own sion in the Pugh Center, Sherrer wonderfully well, and I'm sure Overlooking Johnson Pond, the community meals is a major factor that drives students to living himself spoke with studentsabout this will become a yearly event," room, located in the basement, will house social off-campus. With the addition of the new residence his own experience and how she said. "We [volunteers] functions for the hall and campus community. Cur- hall, the opportunity to live off-campus has been volunteerism assists so many oth- showed that the notion of Colby rently, decisions regarding a designated space for limited to forty seniors if all enrollment projections ers in similar predicaments. With being a bunch of 'snobs on the chemfree living in the new hall have not been are met for the 1997-1998 schoolyear. a message Winchester regarded as hill' is simply not true." Over 200 reached. According to Dean of Housing Paul "If Colby had a situation where the suites would "super powerf ul," last weekend volunteers and hundreds of ben- Johnston, there would have to be enough demand have self-contained (kitchen) units, maybe people Colby students helped rebuild por- eficiaries of the service would cer- for seniors wanting to live in a designated chem- see NEW DORM on page 4 tions of Sherrer's home, as they tainly agree, as the true spirit of Santiago addresses racial identities BY RENE E LAJEUNESSE l^^sfsrs Briefs - News Editor Roberto Santiago, a Black-Latino award-winning writer and journal- ist, began the April 17 Spotlight Lec- Spotli ght to highlight Ebola ture by explaining that a large vari- ety of issues exist in society which investi gators concern race and race identity. His Thursday, May 1, Colby will host colonels Nancy and Jerry Jaax, as lecture, "Black Skin, Latin Soul: •a part of the Spotlight Lecture series. The husband-and-wife team's Caught Between Two Cultures," work to contain the deadly Ebola viruses has been depicted in the best explored these divisive issues and selling book "The Hot Zone," and the hit movie Outbreak. When the prejudices which exist between Ebola virus broke out among monkeys in a quarantine facility in Res ton, Blacks and Latinos.