Kassman responds to off-campus concerns. See page 8.
CCC calls for rally Epithet, swastika inspire action Pugh Center Celebrates BY ERIN M. DUGGAN In an official notice sent to stu- Editor-in-Chief dents Friday morning, Cotter said Grand Opening he and the undersigned student ebration on Friday, President Wil- Taking control of what Presi- and faculty were "outraged to liam Cotter spoke of the Pugh Cen- dent William Cotter deemed a think this incident has occurred ter as a further step in making Colby "teachable moment" for Colby, on our campus when the Colby an increasingly diverse college the Campus Community Commit- community at large is united on community. tee (CCC) has called for a rally to the need to fight racism and to "Our work is not done at the be held Friday as a forum for stu- honor diversity." college," said Cotter. "This is a sym- dent reaction to racist and anti- At the end of the notice, Cotter bol of our challenges - a day of Semitic incidents reported last asked anyone having information renewal of commitment." week. about the incident to speak to a Cotter said the Center is just At its first meeting on member of the Harassment Advi- one answer to the general question Wednesday morning, the CCC sory Committee. It was after this "How can we be supportive of our reviewed last week's discoveries, letter that a student living in increasingly diverse student of a racial epithet and a swastika Woodman reported a swastika body?" in the first-floor Woodman hall- had been drawn on her message Josh Woodfork '97, president of way. The committee discussed board the same morning the the Student Association (Stu-A), possible ways of dealing with con- poster was found, according to a and also one of the students origi- cerns recently expressed by stu- second letter from Cotter. nally involved in the petition for dents and agreed a rally similar Colby's harassment policy was this multicultural addition in 1994, to the one held in the spring of revised in the spring of 1994 in an spoke to the crowd on the power of 1994 (after a dozen swastikas were effort to ensure freedom of speech the day. "This is a tangible, visible found) would be most effective. while prohibiting harassment based commitment in the center of the The racial epithet was found on race, color, sex, sexual orienta- Echo photo by Jennifer Atwood campus," said Woodfork. last Tuesday morning by an HR tion, religion, national or ethnic ori- President Cotter gives Stu-A President Josh Woodfork '97 a Now that Colby has taken this in Woodman, on a "milk mus- gin, or disability, according to the piece of the ribbon from the opening ' cereniony. step and built the Pugh Center, tache" poster of Student Activi- current Student Handbook. though, Woodfork raised the im- ties President Josh Woodfork '97 In his letter last Friday, Cotter BY RENEE LAJEUNESSE campus discussions about the need portant questions of how the Col- and President Cotter. The word said the poster incident appears News Editor for a multicultural venue, initiated lege is going to use it, what it is "nigger" was scrawled in marker to violate that policy. Although by the requests of the Students of going to become and what it will over Woodfork's photo, accord- the State Attorney General's Of- The new Pugh Center addition Color United for Change in the represent. He stressed the need to ing to Dean of the College Earl fice was called Friday morning to to the Student Union was teaming Spring of 1994. The Trustee Com- fight the belief that the Pugh Cen- Smith. investigate, according to Dean of with activity on Friday, September mission on Multicultural and Spe- ter is only for "special multicultural "What that word represents," Students Janice Kassman, there are 20. The Grand Opening celebra- cial Interest Housing, specially students," for, as he said, "I'm not said Woodfork, "is me hanging no leads so far. tion, highly attended by students, formed to study this request, rec- sure who 'they' are." from the Pierce balcony or the Tomorrow at noon the Colby faculty and community members ommended the construction of Lawrence Pugh, a member of flagpole not so long ago in this community will congregate in alike, lacked off at 12:30 p.m. in the what is now the Pugh Center as an Colby's Class of 1956 and chair of country. I'm not physically fear- front of Miller Library. All stu- common room. alternative to a multicultural resi- the college's Board of Trustees, pro- ing for my life, but the reality is dents, faculty and staff are en- The new 7000 square foot addi- dence hall. ceeded to address the crowd after someone feels this way about me." couraged to attend.Q tion to Colby was a direct result of Addressing the crowd at the cel- See PUGH on page 3 Hammering away at America's racial violence Civil rights lawyer Morris Dees draws huge crowd f orSpotligh t Lecture
BY BENJAMIN JOHNSTON he said, create a high level of frus- beaten to death with by a group of Contributing Writer tration within the black community skin heads who had just attended and only work to widen the racial a meeting with the vice president Under the protective eye of at lines dividing the country today. of WAR. Dees was able to prove least two, FBI agents, Morris Dees, After co-founding the Law Cen- that this violence was incited by founder of the Southern Poverty ter in 1971, Dees has become one of the greater organization and was Law Center, entered the Student the most famous, and to some the not a random act by select hate Union last Thursday to deliver most hated, trial lawyers in history. group members. Colby's second Spotlight Lecture of His work at the Law Center has Dees stressed the theme of love the fall semester. centered around civil-rights viola- between the common man, point- In his lecture at Colby, Dees de- tions and racially motivated "hate ing out how much we have in com- scribed the United States as a coun- crimes," and has lead the Ku Klux mon, but also raised a question try "deeply divided along many Klan to name him "an enemy of the which has plagued America since lines," the deepest of these lines people." its birth: "If America is really great being racial. In 1981, Dees won a $7 million because of its diversity, than why "We've got to have love to pull lawsuit against the United Clans of can't we get along?" us together," said Dees. While quot- America (UCA), a while suprema- This is one question with which ing Pete Seager's "If I had a Ham- cist group affiliated with the KKK America will continue to grapple , mer," Dees spoke of the need for "a for their role in sparking an incident but Dees said he has seen an im- love between the brothers and the in Mobile, Ala. According to Dees, provement. Today the South is sisters that we can share." this was the first time a hate group much more tolerant than it used to Dees spoke of the many glass had beervbrought to trail for the acts be and many of the church ceilings that still exist in corporate of its members. burnings which have been mak- America and how blacks with the Dees later brought the White ing headlines lately are not actu- same credit history as their white Ayran Resistance (WAR), a west ally racially motivated, he said. Echo photo hy Tanya Scnwls counterparts are turned down for coast white supremacist group, to Still, "we have a long way to go in Morris Dees delivered the second Spotlight Lecture of the loans at twice the rate. These facts, trial when an Ethiopian man was this country/'Q semester last Thursday. " - ' -J U ^ ^ HHaaMla HNaal a |M |a \ HMa |H || H | M|M |taa B HB Welcome back to Cotter: mmmmmT ?5* ^ v^ SS^ ^^^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ¦ ^ ^ /Af¦ - jO ^ ^^ - ^^ v. A ' * Students return from studying abroad Ijilpws Briefe - BY KRISTEN NORTH Contributing Writer sentiments. Karina Schoultz '97 returning students of several re- spent a semester in Sevilla, Spain. entry" opportunities the Dean of The Dean of Students Office Although she summed \ip her Students Office has organized to Wideman speaking today and the Office of Off-Campus time abroad as "fantastic" allow students to share their expe- Author John Edgar Wideman will deliver today's Spotlight Lecture Studies co-sponsored a dinner on Schoultz added that "Some people riences and utilize the skills they in the Page Commons Room of the Student Union. Wideman, two-time Wednesday, September 18, in an feel isolated when they get back. learned during their time away winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, will be reading from his latest effort to help returning students It will be interesting to share ex- from Colby. As well as the dinner, novel, The Cattle Killing, a book about love and family, ancestors and get reacquainted with Colby and periences [with other students]." Denney informed them of a "Big inheritance, salvery and freedom and the bonds separating black and their peers after spending a se- "The dinner will help me catch Sib" program which matches stu- white. Wideman has been termed "our most powerful and accom- mester or year abroad. up witheveryon e," said Amanda dents that studied outside the plished artist of the urban black world," by the Los Angeles Times Book Martha J. Denney, assistant Magary '97, who spent a semester United States with new interna- Review. (RL) dean for international affairs, co- in Oxford, England. "Everyone tional students. Denney also told ordinated the "Welcome Back Din- has changed a lot." them of her intent to help organize Dean Minutti gone ner." This was Denney's first year Denney wanted the dinner to an International Careers Workshop Assistant Director of Residential Life Carol Minutti has vacated her office organizing the dinner, but she was help the students resolve some con- at the beginning of the second se- and her apartment in Dana. Sources close to the administration say that she involved in efforts to get students cerns expressed by Magary and mester, to provide answers and was asked to leave last Friday and had vacated her office and apartment by interested last year. Schoultz. She hoped that they suggestions on how to put together Sunday. Dean of Students Janice Kassman, Associate Dean of Students for "The dinner is a way for every- would feel "reconnected to Colby an international resume, how to Residential life Rob LaFleur, Dean of the College Earl Smith, President one to come together after their and have people to talk about their look for a job overseas and other Cotter and Student Association President Josh Woodfork '97 all declined to time away," said Denney. experiences with." ways to use the knowledge gained comment on any aspect of Minutti's dismissal. The Echo has learned that the Many of the students who at- In her invitational letter to all from spending time abroad.Q discharge came following a complaint regarding the defaced poster of tended the dinner shared the same eligible students, Denney informed Woodfork found in the first floor hallway of Woodman which was received by Minutti last Tuesday morning but not followed up until Thursday afternoon.Sources say that the dismissal was not entirely based on this issue, but rather it was the latest in a series of misunderstandings with between Presidents' Council kicks Minutti and other administrators. Minutti was unavailable for comment. Minutti came to Colby this summer to begin her job as the Assistant Director of Residential Life, a positions created this year. Soon after her off a new school year selection, the former Associate Dean of Students for Residential Life Jan Arminio left Colby and was replaced by Professor of East Asian Studies Rob BY MELISSA GERBI trekking around campus to explain soon to gauge student response. LaFleur. LaFleur and Minutti had both been working to redefine the Staff Writer the ramifications of the new rules to Last year Presidents' Council Residential life program on campus and foster a closer relationship between dorms in individual meetings. This voted 9-to-7 against a proposal to students, faculty and the administration said LaFleur in an interview earlier The new 1996-1997 Presidents' will start within the next two weeks. install cable television service to in- this fall. (KH) Council proved that they had re- President of Stu-A Josh dividual dorm rooms. One third of ceived some necessary lessons in Woodfork '97 addressed many the voting hall presidents, as well as SHOC looking for student Parliamentary procedure at their Council issues in his report, but one then-Stu-A President Tom Ryan '96 September 19 meeting. Their bi- of particular concern was the hazing were all absent from the March 13th health educator weekly meetings began with the tra- which appears to be occurring on meeting. The vote was based on a ditional Dean's Report by Dean of sports teams. First-year students student opinion poll conducted last Last year, in response to a need on campus for student health Students Janice Kassman, and cov- have expressed concern about "team March. The poll, which had a very education, the Garrison-Foster Health Center and Student Health on ered the Commons news and the bonding" rituals that are occurring low turnout, showed that just over Campus (SHOC) created the position of student-health educator. This reports by the executive board of the illegally,especiall y those that involve half of the students who responded position was successfully filled last year by Suzy DeLea '96 and is open Student Association. The evening excessive consumption of alcohol. were against installing cable TV into again for this academic year. was rounded out by various hall Woodfork later met with the coaches the dorm rooms. All dorms which According to Lydia Bolduc-Marden, Nurse Practitioner and health presidents bringing up issues of con- of all sports teams to address the have been wired for Ethernet service educator, the student-health educator is responsible for both passive cern to themselves or the campus issue directly. recently have had coaxial television and active education. "The job includes lots of publicity, an active role community at large. Two proposals were brought up cable installed, although it remains in SHOC and contact with people in the [health ] field ," according to the inactive. official job description. "Prevention through education can do every- Kol Harvey '99, president of thing from maintaining one's good health to saving lives." Drummond, also brought up two Applications are available in the Health Center and due September issues. The first was to open the 30. Interviews will begin October 4. (KED) library at 8 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday mornings in addition to the normal hours. Students need some place to study in the mornings, Hallstaff reviews first Harvey said, and dorms are not suf- ficient. The motion was passed by the Presidents' Council and should week of duty be followed up by the Library Com- Returning Head Resident Jenny BY KATIE mittee under the execution of Higgins '97, of Mary Low, said the Woodfork. QUACKENBUSH transition has gone very well and Harvey's second proposal con- Contributing Writer that HRs have done a great job in cerned keeping one dining hall open stepping up to meet the increased between the hours of 2 p.m. and 5 On Monday, September 16, hall responsibility. p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. staff gathered for their weekly "All 40 [HRs] are very strong," Weekend schedules tend to be quite meeting in the Student Union. Ac- Higgins said. random, Harvey argued, and this cording to Associate Dean of Stu- New Head Resident of Coburn schedule would allow more stu- dents Rob LaFleur, the central fo- Michele Machalani '99 said she was Echo photo hy Michele Weher At their f irst meeting, the President' s Council in the Page dents the opportunity to use their cus of this meeting was to review not accustomed to working with Commons Room three credits on the meal plan. Also, the previous system, but finds the the first week of duty. Dean Kassman started off the by Ian Silverthorne '99, president of if students had more of a chance to new system well organized. Hall staff meetings serve to give night by praising the student body Averill. One included changing the eat and get food in their stomachs, information on upcoming events Machalani referred to the exten- for the impressive turnout at the first newly instituted withdrawal policy fewer students would become sick and make pertinent announce- sive support network formed by Spotlight lecture, the State of the for the class of 1999 and subsequent when drinking, he said. ments. LaFleur described the meet- her fellow HRs as beneficial and College Address. Kassman went on classes. The current policy, accord- The proposal is being sent to ings being a forum for both lecture noted that their assistance relieves to clarify an issue which is of great ing to Silverthorne "throws personal Dining Services for a cost analysis. pressure. and discussion. some of the concern to the students — dorm responsibility out the window." The Dining Services will report back to "I see this group... this is like the According to LaFleur, hall staff parly rules. Dorms, according to the issue was tabled at the meeting, how- Presidents' Council on or before Oc- 100 level classes I used to teach," have planned some wonderful ac- new Trustee Report on Alcohol, are ever, due to a lack of concrete infor- tober 9 and discussion will continue tivities for the said LaFleur. "There is great give year. Coffee and only allowed to hold one party a mation about the exact terms of the on the issue following that report. and take. pastry study breaks are being de- " weekend and are responsible for de- policy. Af terresearcl ling exactly how Hall presidents will be contacting The new arrangement of hall signed for Coburn as well as other ciding which night will be their party the policy went into effect, the issue students in their dorms to obtain staff on campus has presented onl international programming. y night. Chem-free events are allowed will be reconsidered by the Council. residents views on the proposal. ins said that the hall staff have minor challenges in the transitions, Higg to takeplacemultiple limesperweek- Silverthorne introduced a motion The orientation schedule for this LaFleur said. discussed such activities as apple end . Kassman said that to explain to offer cable television in individual fall proved useful, as the meeting picking, cooking nig One major difference this year hts, Irish the new report in full, groups of ad- dorm rooms to the Council. Although ran very smooth ly. Assistant Dean r noted is that all hall movie nights and community ser- which LaFleu ministrators who served on the com- the sludei .tbody voted the idea down of Students and Director of Student staff are on equal footing due to the vice activities. LaFleur stressed thai- mission, plus two student represen- in an opinion poll last spring, Activities Ben Jorgensen told the (HRs) presence of Head Residents he and the hall staff are trying to tatives well versed in the new rules, Silverthorne believes there is suffi- Council that it was "one of the best only. He stressed that these situa- foster low-key student/faculty in- Stu-A Social Chair Chris Sullivan '97 cient interest to warrant a new vote. meetings he had attended... and I classroom.Q tions are not negative, only new. teraction outside the and Steve Papagiotas '97, will be A student opinion poll will occur have been doing this since 1991."q gg|BMHHH8HH ^^^^ H_-H--M-M---_------_-KIB-H______M m *rrj» ¦ ^, "v^ w ¦: - • • . • ¦ -• ' ' • : .: -PUGH ,continued frompage 1 J ¦ ' : . ' ij ' - . \ ^ j Woodfork. Pugh, and his wife Jean - Van Curan Pugh '55, contributed l/fprla News the leading gift for the new building and then urged other Colby trust- ees to provide additional financial Confusio n Still Looms in TWA Flight 800 support. Other Pugh family mem- bers and supporters of the Center officials disclosed that they FBI have yet to find the cause of the were also present at Friday's cer- losion of TWA Fli July exp ght 800. They did, however, discover that emony. month prior to the losion the aircraft had been utilized one July exp , "I think this college can set a training bomb-sniffing for dogs. This could explain the traces of the terrific example of what diversity is PETN found in the plane, ori inall leading officials to chemical g y all about," said Pugh, who said he a bomb as the cause. Now, suspect investigators are focusing on the was extremely proud of the build- of a mechanical failure, particularl possibility y because a majority of ing that holds his name and what it aircraft's interior was recovered intact, including pilot who the the represents. remained strapped in his seat. The wreckage, as well as the 213 After Mr. Pugh concluded, the Echo photo by Kate Dunlop bodies that have been recovered, have provided clues, but no con- cornerstone box ceremony took Micheal Win field of Cabildo taught a percussion workshop. , crete answers to the cause of the crash. Una bom Suspect Admits to Mailing Bombs Nizar Al-Bassam '97j, of the Muslim Students, contributed a A vital piece of evidence in the case against Theodore J. Kaczynski, book of prayers for all occasions. the alleged /Unabomber/, was recently recovered in his Lincoln, "[The book of prayers] definitely Mont, cabin. Personal journalsdetailing each of the sixteen bombings meant a lot to me and I'd definitely will provide the "backbone" for the case. According to a federal like to have it at Colby," said Al- prosecutor, Kaczynski wrote "I mailed the bomb. I sent the bomb." Bassam, referring in the dedication to the fact that Colby has had so More U.S. Troop s Arrive in Kuwait few Muslims on campus. Last Friday, 800 more United States soldiers arrived in Kuwait, Woodfork contributed the docu- increasing the total number of troops in the region to near 30,000. ments and history of the Pugh Cen- They are preparing to retaliate against Iraq, should Iraqi forces again ter, while the Asian Cultural Soci- cross the border into Kuwait, as they did on August 31, trying to ety was temporarily unable to con- intervene between two disputing Kuwaiti factions. US forces are tribute. armed with equipment to detect chemical or biological warfare, as it After the ribbon-cutting cer- is believed Iraq still has chemical capabilities. emony, each group was able to leave with a piece of the multicol- Governor Releases Castrated Rapist ored fabric. Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee wants to free a convicted Later in the day, Michael rapist and kidnapper, Wayne Dumond. While awaiting trial in 1984, Echo photo by Jennifer Atioood Wingfield, director of the Afro- two masked men tied up Dumond and castrated him with a fishing Lawrence Pugh '56 and President Cotter both spoke at the Caribbean percussion group line. At the time, an appeal to grant clemency was made to then- opening Cabildo, presented a hands-on Governor Bill Clinton, who knew the rape victim's mother. Clinton place. The cornerstone box, which that this center will bring the cam- percussion workshop outside of denied it, stating that the criminal had not yet served enough time. reads "1996," signifying the year of pus together, " said Sarah Olbrich the Pugh Center from 3-5 p.m. to Although his sentence was later reduced to 39 and one half years, construction, will hold memorabilia '97. introduce participants to his in- Governor Huckabee says the inmate's mutilation and guilt was of the people who were working on Both the International Club and struments, rhythms and songs of enough. the building. At Friday's celebra- SOBHU, Students Organized for the African new world. Leftists Invoke Terror tion, each of the fourteen groups Black and Hispanic Unity, contrib- "Drumming is a language... to housed in the Center contributed uted globes, signifying unity. The retain knowledge, to retain his- Two rebel groups, the National Liberation Army and the Revolu- something of significance to this Women's Group, in showing how tory," said Wingfield. Participants tionary Armed Forces, who specialize in kidnappings and economic time capsule. feminism means something differ- were taught how to play the Conga sabotage, have used hit-and-run attacks, air strikes and arsons in an Amnesty International contrib- ent for all individuals, gave a drums, as Wingfield explained the attempt to topple the Colombian government. Twenty-two guerrillas uted a candle wrapped in barbed framed picture of themselves. way in which African songs and and over 100 security force members are already dead; over 60 wire, a logo which represents pris- SOAR, Students Organized religion have flourished and re- soldiers remain missing. oners of conscious who are denied Against Racism, presented a song mained throughout so many freedom today. The Asian Ameri- by Janet Jackson which they be- changes in history. Compiled by Rebecca Pollard from the September 22 -25 Boston Globe. can Student Association presented lieved conveyed their message, Cabildo also presented an Afro- a friendship ring which, according while the Newman Council con- Latin Jazz Dance Celebration later to Jill Momeau '99, president of the tributed a meditation which they that night in the Page Commons group, "is symbolic of the mainte- read aloud. Room at 9 p.m.Q nance of ourselves as Asian-Ameri- Metric Motors, Inc cans as well as Colby students." .J The Bridge, Colby's gay, lesbian and bi-sexual organization, gave a rainbow flag, the traditional gay Waterville , Maine 's pride symbol, and a Maine shaped pin with a pink triangle in the cen- ter, once a symbol of degradation iMercec!es4-ieoi F$ffi«ssfei Audi. Saaio now turned into one of pride. The Colby Christian Fellowship Foreig n Car Service contributed a three stranded chord, representing their "hope that we ~~ ^^*~ can work together to be a chord of ** *">*s 130 Drummond Avenue ^ \ three strands that is not broken." MGtriC MCrtO rs Inc N Waterville , ME 04901 { Jf es, > The Four Winds, the Native V XX foreign car service / ^ (207) 873-1924 American group on campus, con- tributed a piece of bead work and a Echo photo by Kate Dunlop braid of sweet grass, while Hillel The Pugh Center opening brough t many members Get off the Hill for a home-cooke d breakfast at gave a yamulke to show "our faith together to celebrate. -DRUGS , continued from page 9 BONNIE'SBonnie 's Famous Homemade CoffeeDINER Cake- $1,25 ages. (Hint: poison), pushers Of this clause. If one pusher Columbia instead of all So where is this moral high takes a stroll through downtown these nasty sanctions. After all, Colby Special ground we are supposedly re- Beijing, one is surrounded by if there's money to be made in 2 eggs home fries fusing to abandon? This coun- monstrous billboards of Joe it, let's go for it! Why continue >. Il try is not only producing the Camel and his friend the persecuting those poor sugar- mjy\' \ bacon toast addictive and potentially lethal Marlboro Man. If the U.S. is suf- cane farmers who are just try- JHKf \ \ coffee 2 pancak es drug nicotine, it is forcing it fering half a million casualties a ing to merely survive in the hills upon other nations, especially year in tobacco related deaths, of Columbia? If they could grow those in Asia. Part of the deal in imagine the toll it will take on tobacco, they would, but the cli- our trade with China is that the Chinese, with over 10 times as mate just isn't suited for it. We $4*95 their tobacco market is pried many people as the U.S. But hey, wouldn' t want to put tobacco [872-7712 1 open. In fact , Mr. Dole (not to it's sixty BILLION dollars! farmers out of work, so why mention your friend and mine If we're that enthusiastic about should we put cocaine farmers Open SEVEN days a week fro m 5:30 a.m.—2:00 p.m. North Carolina Senator Jesse tobacco, we might as well share out of work? Isn't that right Mr, Benton Avenue , Winslow Helms) is one of the leading the wealth with our fellow Dole?Q JBear left at the Winslow brid ge-then 3 miles on the left New dean already a COOT expert coming to Colby,Moore also had a gradu- Moxy Bald, Rainbow Bald, etc., Moore " BY KAKEN SCHLEIN ate assistantship at Babson College. did a lot of studying and even put to- Staff Writer As the Assistant Director of Student gether her own "COOT Bible." She re- *_ Activities, Moore serves as the coordina- vealed that she will be working with the SusanMoore,thenewassistantdirector tor of the COOT program, off-campus COOT committee on some new ideas that of student activities, said she "had a good student advisor, advisor to campus stu- she has up her sleeve for next year. feeling about Colby" during her interview dent groups and as the faculty resident in Although Assistant Dean of Students and since then has been enthusiastic about Small. In addition, Moore's "current big and Director of Student Activities Ben her position. project" is National Collegiate Alcohol Jorgensen is the official advisor to the A 1993 graduate of the University of Awareness Week, scheduled to take place Student Association (Stu-A), Moore has Maine at Orono, Moore majored in Child October 20-26. She is working with a com- worked closely with the commons lead- Development and Family Studies. Moore mittee of students, faculty and staff which ers, whom she calls "great students." She said she was "active as an undergrad on is trying to make the event more success- is very impressed with Stu-A and said campus [and] liked working with thedeans, ful than in past years. that she has been making an effort to professors and other students/' Following Moore said that she especially enjoyed attend their events. graduation Moore took a year off and working with Brian Golden '97,this year 's "I' ve been trying to get out to a lot of worked at a residential treatment facility student COOT coordinator, to plan the different events so that my face is shown for adolescent girls. From there, she at- 1996 COOTs. Moore said she "believes in and so that people can get to know me," tended graduate school at Northeastern the philosophy behind COOT" and called said Moore. She added that her faculty University where she received her degree residence in Small has made her involve- the trips a "good experience." She added Echo photo by Jennie Record in College Student Development Counsel- that coming to Colby as an outsider made ment easier since she has had more time to Susan Moore is the new Assistant ing. She spent a yearof her rimeat North- it more challenging for her to learn about meet students and attend their social Director of Student Activities and eastern completing a practicum at the specific trips. events. "Living on campus definitely adds coordinates COOT, as well. Wheelock College in admissions. Before To overcome the confusion between a different dynamic."Q [ EMMA ^ PG Starts Friday—Nightly at 5 7:15,9:30 ^PtBr H -^—x. Jtmrn ^. ___Dr _f______T __H _M__E_. __B_ __b_t ______^_fe_____k ______k __¦ ___Bflb______^__ _fi^______B_L . Hfe. Imm% &m)^m\ *JL\\ ' U » fb Also Sat/Sun at 12:30, 2:45
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Finally, the right What do you give to that student who has everything? The Dining Services. "And this time therefore, parts were hard to come parts came in and a new system College of DuPage has an idea. According to The Chronicle of should be the last." ¦by. was installed. Hopefully, it'll be Higher Educatio n,DuPage offers "Tuition Gift Certificates/' which According to Roy, the belt was "The belt would break and a permanent fix."(AG) can be used up to three years after purchase and cost $29 each, the average price of one credit-hour at the college. So far this year, over 200 certificates have been sold, according to D. Richard Petrizzo, vice president for external affairs at DuPage. Colby s young Republicans "We were looking for ways to invite people to give the gift of education to members of their family or to their friends," said BY MOLLY FRAZIER Petrizzo. Gift certificates are available year-round, but, according Staff Writer to Petrizzo, have been most popular at Christmas time. Though small in number, the Penn State University Colby Republicans boast strong University Park , Pennsylvania support on what group president Marc Fairbrother '97 calls "a pre- As part of an effort to keep in touch with students, Penn State dominantly Democratic and lib- University President Graham Spanier spent Orientation Week- eral campus." Their primary ob- end living in dorms, sharing a room with a resident advisor. jectives, however, transcend po- According to the Pennsylvania Daily Collegian, the 48-year-old litical boundaries. Spanier asked simply to be called "Graham" while attending "Our main goal this year is to various freshman orientation activities, eating in the dining halls promote political awareness," and learning about being a member of the Class of 2000 — through said Fairbrother, stressing the in- one orientation activity, Spanier even learned how to do the creased importance of political Macarena. Much of Spanier's objective was to talk with new awareness this election year. students and learn which aspects of dorm li£e needed review, According to Fairbrother, according to the Collegian. After the weekend, Spanier said that other focuses for the Colby Re- the first thing he planned on having changed in the dorms was the publicans throughout the 1996- quality of the bathrooms and showers. Come on over to the row, 97 academic year will be directed President Cotter... towards increasing political open- mindedness and knowledge Bates College about current political issues. To Lewiston, Maine accomplish this, said Fairbrother, the group hopes to host speakers Colby students who are upset by the drastic cuts in the number and objectively provide the vot- of seniors allowed to live off-campus next fall should consider ing and political records of this themselves lucky — at least according to students at Bates, where year's Maine state congressional Echo photo by Kristina Smith some were left without any place to live at all. According to the candidates. Also on the horizon Marc Fairbrother "97 heads the Colby Republicans Bates Student,the Class of 2000 is the largest in Bates' history, the for the Republicans is a campus- Bates housing office underestimated first-year enrollment and, as wide journal to provide additional Club meetings will include in- myself less of a Republican be- a result, had no rooms for almost 100 sophomores. Improvisation political information. formed discussion on government cause of it. The [GOP] has become was the next step — the former house of the Chaplain, student "We plan to have campus ac- policies, the political campaigns more open and accepting of many lounges and. college-owned apartments were transformed into tivities to generate greater stu- and other current political issues. different views." temporary sophomore housing and students were crammed into dent interest and support," "Our main goal is not to fun- Colby Republicans have a full force triples and quads. In a final effort, the Bates housing office Fairbrother said. "We would like damentally change anyone's year ahead of them and encour- issued a "plea" for students to move off-campus. After about 50 to do more activities involving opinions, but really just inform age student support. More infor- students agreed to move, said the Student, Bates was finally able the campus as a whole." He also people so that they can make a mation concerning this year's to say that all of their students had a place to live. said that his intentions as presi- better vote," said member Dan Colby Republicans can be found dent of the Republicans include Noyes '98. "We're hoping to get on their web page located at: http: more students to vote — there are www.colby.edu/republicans. Voice your opinion! Send letters to the Echo: "mak[ing] the Colby Republicans / / as open as possible to support all some really good Republican can- Fairbrother encourages any and [political] viewpoints," to help didates [in the upcoming eleo all interested students to look into [email protected] combat lack of support by Colby tions]." Noyes added that the the group. letters are due by Monday at 8pm students. Colby Republicans will sponsor "Colby Republicans are not just at least two upcoming debates and a bunch of crazed conservatives," are looking into the possibility of said Fairbrother. 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DUGGAN students and two faculty members, those who come before them "feel discussing the details of individual only expect that they will step down if Editor-iii-Chief gives students being charged with an morecoinfortableexplainingtheirside cases, it is sometimes difficult to iuv they feel it will affect the case." offeiiseatColbyatrialbyajuryoftheir of the story," derstand the different sentences. The'1996-97 Judicial Board will Most students at Colby know the peers, according to Associate Dean of Sanctions issued over the past de- "J-Board is not strictly a legal sys- haveitefirsthearingthisSiandaynight. penalty for violating the "open con- Students Mark Serdjenian. The board cade reflect J-Board's policy to take tem," Serdjeniansaid. "If smorea^om- Details of the case are not available, tainer" law — get caught, pay a $50 deals with students on a case-by-case intoaccountmorethanwhathappehed mon sense, quasi-legal system." and Serdjenian said a commitment to fine. But what about assaulting an- basis, taking into consideration back- at the time of the offense — one stu- Serdejenian said students at a confidentiality has lead J-Board to re- other student, urinating in public or ground ofthe offense and each dent was suspended for a semester small school can recieve an unbi- serve the right to close hearings at any verbally harassing a Dean? Colby's student's disdplinary history. and put on Permanent Disciplinary ased hearing. Justices are given the time, at either party's request. After Judicial Board was established to hear "Students understand what hap Probation (PDP) forblindsiding a stu- option to step down from a case if they hearings, names are kept confidential, such cases, renderverdicts when there pens on this campus," said J-Board's dent with a single punch while an- feel they can not be impartial, said although verdicts and sanctions are is a dispute and recommend appro- Chief Justice Kate Charbonnier '97. other wasonl y suspended for Jan Plan Serdjenian. A quorum for a hearing available in the Dean of Students Of- priate sanctions to the Dean of Stu- Charbonnier said the students on the and put on PDP for punching a stu- consists of eight voting members. fice and monthly reports will be com- dents, who can accept or reject them. board can judge offensesin thecontext dent and rendering him unconscious. "Alotof peoplerecognizestudents piled by Serdjenian.Q
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Advance copies of The Cattle Killing are available in the Bookstore -FOOTBALL, continued from page 16 -DESIMONE,icontinued frorfipage 16 aged only 15 net yards against 41-24 in last year's game. In six tradition." possible career at the Division I her a career point total of 29, which Williams. "We will be focusing of the last nine years, however, Fortunately, Jenna was able to level. "I knew I wanted to play at places her 11th on the Colby all- on our assignments in our run- games between the two teams do quite a bit more during her Division III," she says. "I never time career scoring list- ning game. We had very poor have been decided by five points high school career than simply had any coaches knocking on my It. is Jenna's feel for the game execution/' said Austin. or less. The Panthers squeaked earn a spot on the squad. As cap- door. I basically wanted a small and the experience of playing in Colby takes on Middlebury by Bowdoin last week, 34-28, af- tain of Winchester High team dur- liberal arts school. I did the nor- such a competitive atmosphere in this Saturday in its home opener. ter amassing a 21-7 halftime ing the 1993 season, she was named mal touring of a lot of different high school that has enabled her to The Mules march onto Seaverns lead. to the Boston Globe All-Scholastic schools but when I met some of successfully switch from the of- field ready to play, having con- "They are a typical and All-New England teams. She the other players on my trip to fensive mindset of center half to structed an 11 game winning Middlebury team," said Austin. also earned Middlesex League Colby, I knew it was where I the defensive approach required streak at home over the last three "They are well coached and they MVP honors in leading Winches- wanted to be." of the sweeper. "I won't wow you seasons. Their last loss came come to play. They fly around ter to a top ten finish in the During her first two years as with skills or athletic ability, but I against Williams in the 1993 and hit people...We have some women's soccer high school na- Colby's center half-back, Jenna have a pretty good sense of the opener. good tools we really need to tional rankings. amassed some impressive offen- game and I've been taught well," Middlebury crushed Colby sharpen and we'll be fine."Q Despite her extraordinary sive statistics. She netted a total of she says. "I feel like the experience achievements at the high school eleven goals while assisting on an of coming from a successful pro- level, Jenna knew what she wanted additional six. Already this sea- gram into another successful one in regards to colleges. She refused son, she has added another assist has helped. I have very high ex- Al Corey Music Center to be influenced by the luster of a from her sweeper position, giving pectations for our level of play.Q "Everything Music STRINGS.continued from page 12 ^\ in " merit progressed, it showed glimpses youngest members ever of the presti- with an ottbeat emphasis and a dra- of lightness and greater energy and gious Chicago Symphony and also matic build up to the end of a piece that quickness. The viola and the cello of- founded therenownedFineArtsQuin- was almost an hour long. ten lead the melodic line. In the Molto tet. As they are known to do, the Quar- wi 99 Main Street, Waterville vivace, the two violins took over the Sopkin played beautifully on their tet played with poise and profession- g melody. The Lento e molto cantabile final piece, "Cello Quintet in C major alism, and their concert was surely a W Telephone 872-5622 featured a slowerromanticsound, and Op. 163" by Franz Schubert. Schubert pleasure for good crowd of students, thefinalmovementAllegronontanto, is another composer who was robbed faculty arid area residents. It is indeed had a clever mix of tempos and a of his potential b a privilege to have such an undoubt- pay y an early death, dy- Why more and hassle with downtown traffic? number of lines with the violins an- ing at only thirty-one. edly excellent group as Colby's artists- swering each other. Like the others, the Schubert num- in residence. After a short intermission, the ber was played with exactitude and Tlie next scheduled performance Quartet became a quintet with the subtlety. The third movement had for the Music at Colby Concert Series is additionof guestcellistGeorgeSopkin. perhaps the strongest chords and full- Cheryl Tschanz on October 5 at 8 p.m. b |^ Sopkin, who has lived in Maine for the est sounds, but the fourth and final in the Given AuditoriumQ 215A College Ave. Waterville, ME 04901 past twenty years, was one of the movement had a number of rhythms *We deliver kegs and cases* ]VfD 20/20 $" 1 99 > DIDLEY continued from page 11 *Please have IDs ready* " ' A ++ terfully combine some otherwise After "Coatimundi," the last here are because the album flows 7S(J mi distinctive and sometimes dis- two songs on the album seem to *We welcome returnables* well and each song seems in its BigCCfilia $^99 junctive styles. The funkiest track retreat to the earlier sound of the place. 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• The Co\by Echo is n weekly newspaper published by the students of Colby College on Thursday of each week the College is in session, The Echo encourages letters from its renders, especially those within the immediate Don't shoot the messeng er community. Letters should not exceed 400 words and must pertain to a current issue or topic nt Colby. Letters are due by 8 p.m. Monday for publication the same week. Letters BY MATT APUZZO may, or may not have needed to get for Modem Port instead of Ethernet. If, should be typed and must be signed and include an address or phone number. If possible, your IP address (not to please also submit letters on a 3.5 inch Macintosh disk in Microsoft Word format. You may Contributing Writer be confused however, you are using a modem to also submit letters via e-mail to "[email protected]". with your Ethernet address and defi- connect to the Colby LAN, then adjust The Echo reserves the right to edit all submissions. 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If a somewhat intelligent look on their submitting nn article, lease call'(207) 872-3349 (x3349 on campus). p that you attempted to negotiate a con- you run into problems, it may be be- faces. Finally, there are tlie elite few nection using PPP. In any case, you cause your AppleTalk settings are set See TECHIES on on page 10 Op inions _-^j ^MI ___ -_-_------W----B------»-«B-«--«------_-B--^ Keepin' it real — Black students may be happier at HBCU college or university (HBCU). Ulti- college blatantly assigns the title themselvesasking if the diploma they Unfortunately Colby does not require BY KIM PARKER mately, these students of color ALANA to its students of color with- hold in their hand at graduation is as much from majority students who Contributing Writer should be encouraged to attend a out their approval or consultation. worththesacrifice of themselvesmade never have to walk a step in the shoes Black school, much like Howard Referred to as an "in-house" term, this by every stupid question asked, every of a student of color. These people Another minority weekend University in Washington, D.C. label simply serves to further divide ignorant comment or action. never haveto compromise or attempt looms for the Colby communityin a At a HBCU, Black students are the campus. How can we be a well- Howard fosters empowerment to find common ground, something few weeks, and students are sup- not required to be the representatives functiorang Colby community when and self-fortification. It encourages Black students in particular are con- posed to be overtly friendly while of their race that Colby makes them. the students the label ALANA repre- confrontationanddiscussionbetween stantly trying to do. It is impossible to portraying Colby as the next an- Howard recognizes the multitude of sentsarenotcomfortableusingitthem- faculty and students. Where it differs enjoy an experience here while strug- swer to America's melting pot. This differences comprising its student selves. fromColby,however,isagainin valu- gling simply to be respected as a per- prospective Bunche Scholars Week- body, does not lump them into one Obviously the College neither re- ing every student as an individual, son, not categorized by a color. end allows the Dean of Students title: ALANA, minority, student of spects nor values the voice of its stu- each with their own perspective. Of- UntilColbycanrectifytheproblem Office and Admissions to invite stu- color. It values variety and realizes no dents of color, further evidence of ten in Colby classes, students of color of creating an environment on campus dents of color to visit the campus single person can be die spokesperson marginaJ___ationwhich , sadly, comes are pinpointed as examples for pov- that allows growth both in the class- while participating in discussions for their race, as Colby requires of from the very top. How are current erty, violence and other ghetto-isms. roomand outside as well (social, physi- and activities focused upon them.Moreimportantly,Howarddoes students supposed to portray Colby Perhaps the greatest thing Howard cal and mental) for all students and not multicultural life in a small, pre- not expect students to come forward as a Utopia to prospective students of does is allow its students of color a selective number, students of color dominantly white, liberal arts envi- on such issues as growing up Black in color (excellent support services, no simply to be students, an impossible should be adamantly encouraged to ronment. Resembling recruitment America, affirmative action and why problems with financial aid, an ad- task here at Colby. attend an institution like Howard.Too efforts for high-profile athletes in Black athletes dominate some sports. ministration that can successfully co- The price of a Colby education is many students of color have learned many respects, the question arises Surely Colby revamps the entire idea ordinate an exchange program)ifthese measured for a student of color not in the meaning of a selective education. whether these students should at- of representin' oftenheard whilewalk- fulfillments are not met? Invariably dollars and cents but in how much By attending a HBCU, perhaps some tend an institution like Colby or ing down a city street! integrity and self-worth get lost in the integrity, individualism and sense of other lucky student will not have to consider instead a historically Black It is very disconcerting when the translation and students of color find self remain after four grueling years. learn as much.Q Diversity begins with you Drugs: fun and A promising suggestion for change at Colby BY STEPHEN MURPHY "hockey player" or "the prettiest way to positively change the lives of profitable Contributing Writer damn thing you've ever seen," but others and decrease the effects of as individuals with many special racism is to start by realizing the America can't kick the habit This article is not about student distinctions and qualities. It means importance of our everyday inter- apathy towards issues of racism and seeing our fellow students as more action with individuals and taking BY MIKE TRUMAN actions pay for the rehab? Isn't intolerance at Colby. Actually, you human. It means taking risks. a risk by adjusting our behavior. Opinions Editor this what a new bill in Congress might find it quite hopeful. I'm go- The sort of change I am talking It was inspiring to see this lesson is advocating the tobacco indus- ing to present a simple (though defi- about starts with yourself and grows reiterated last week in the messages "No. No. No," was Bob Dole's try do to avoid excessive regula- nitely not easy) suggestion on how out of self-reflection . Do I make an of both Mollis Dees and President response to the amount of drug tion? we (yes, every single one of us!) can Cotter. Dees asserted that the most use he'd tolerate. Zero. Nada. Yeah, that's it. We'll pretend change our lives here for the better. Do I even re ally effective way to combat racism and Zip. Of course if he thinks he can it's tobacco. Like it or not, the U.S. My optimism stems from the in- break down stereotypes is to start achieve that goal, he must be on is one of the world's leading drug spiring events I took part in last make an effort to with the way you communicate on a something too. The drug war just traffickers. Countless tons (not week which have lead me to believe meet new people? day-to-day, one-on-one basis with hasn't worked out as well as quite true — $60 billion worth) of that tolerance and even the encour- How do I categorize people. In his speech at the Pugh Nancy Reagan had hoped. While cigarettes are bought, sold and ex- agement of diversity are achievable Center . opening ceremony, Cotter Bob Dole's got that "Just Say No" ported each year. Nicotine is adrug. on this campus. people when I walk stressed that the multicultural build- mantra down, the numbers on Say it again - NICOTINE IS A The first of these experiences was past them? ing is designed to inspire dialogue U.S. drug use say otherwise. DRUG.- But it's a United States the S.O.A.R. meeting last Wednes- among all Colby students onissues of Once again it's time to rethink drug, therefore it's not so bad. So day night, which focused on defin- effort to look beyond limiting ste- race, sexual orientation, gender, reli- the problem. Since it doesn't what if it accounts for 425,000 U.S. ing racism here at Colby. Attracted reotypes when I meet new people? gion and our general well-being on seem that we can beat it, we might deaths a year, more than the rest of by signs around campus asking Do I even really make an effort to campus. It is crucial to realize that the as well profit off of it as much as the currently illegal drugs com- "Why do students of color always meet new people? Do I always sit goals which inspired the construc- we can. bined. sit together at the dining hall?," con- with the same people every time I tion of the Pugh Center have not been First of all, it's time to legal- Tobacco is not only legal, if s cerned peers discussed the subtle- go to a meal? Why? How do I cat- met.Thesehopes of toleranceand the ize and regulate such old time not even regulated! Potato chip ties of racism and intolerance at this egorize people when I walk past appreciation of diversity within a favorites as cocaine, heroin and rhakers, candy bar producers, even school (which is usually not as easy them? unified student body can only be marijuana. They are in the coun- companies that bottle water need to spot as a defaced poster). The Questioning ourselves and achieved by challenging ourselves try; they are being bought and to have a nutrition grid on their message I took away from this meet- evaluating the way we communi- everyday of our lives to see the com- sold. As this is such, the govern- products. Yet cigarettes, home of ing was the need to change the way cate with others is the only way to plete humanness of our peers. ment might as well tax it. Other- 48 carcinogens, have nothing but we perceive and interact with each become more tolerant and under- When you think about racism or wise, it's a total loss. We're the Surgeon General's Warning to other on campus. It means not see- standing of the people we share this intolerance on this campus, think of spending money for drug treat- indicate whafs inside those pack ing people as just "black" or . a tampus with. Moreover, the only yourself.Q ment, why not let the drug trans- See DRUGS on page 3 How can we combat ignor ance at Colby?
"Open our minds and eyes." "Free your mind, so your ass -Elizabeth Train '97 will follow." - Dave Barr '97
"Public speakers like Morris Dees, who have first hand knowl- "I think we've taken a lot oi good steps just by edge of ignorance, can help people increasing awareness, and that is something that needs understand better how it affects our to be continued year long." world." - Sean Foley '99 and Lissa Baur '99 - Laurel Genetti '00 Echo photos by Jennifer Atwood :__ -—_____ ,;—:—: ;—:— -, „ v ]______M Op inions College: Elizabeth Dole vs. Hillary Clinton shock of BY AMY MONTEMERLO cal images, these women's speeches speech, despite its absurdity, suc- address its gender problem. Staff Writer were radically different. Hillary cessfully accomplished this task. In contrast with Dole's style, Clinton's speech was far superior to Dole claimed to "break tradi- Hillary Clinton's speech had sub- the system Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Elizabeth Dole's. tion" by delivering a non-conven- stance. Clinton emphasized family BY MEGHANN FOYE Dole have much in common. Sur- Elizabeth Dole has been de- tional campaign speech. She aban- values and the joy and hardships of Contributing Writer prised? Despite the fact that they doned the platform and opted to raising children. She also addressed represent distinctly different politi- [Dole] did not step deliver her speech in a talk-show the importance of health care for L While sitting around my cal parties and ideologies; both format. This approach was accept- the poor, as well as longer hospital neighbor's room, wewere alerted that Clinton and Dole are politically forward with any able, and a refreshing change from stays for new mothers. Clinton's the keg of Natural light had been powerful, intelligent and feminist maj or political issues , conventional overpowering speak- speech could be regarded as more tapped in the basement and that the women. These women are excellent nor did she forc e the ing positions. Dole's image was appealing to working women and weekend had arrived. After finishing role models for present and future polished, her speech well-prepared mothers. In her speech, the First the first few in the room, we slowly- generations of politically active GOP to address its and obviously well-rehearsed. Lady established herself to voters made our way downstairs for more. women. Clinton and Dole also both gender problem . However, the content of Dole s as a professional wife and mother. As I was just about to enter my first have husbands who are running for speech was at best mediocre — an She is a successful woman who is college party, I took in all that was the office of President of the United abridged biography of her taking an active role in her scribed as a strong public speaker, around me. In first few glimpses, States and both women have taken husband's life chronicling his husband's campaign and an inde- my and a potentially phenomenal first I saw the hoards of college ht- an active role in their husbands' achievements. Dole introduced pendent stand on various political, kids fig lady. She might continue the trans- ing their way in line for the keg while political campaigns for president. many people in the audience as social and gender issues. Her formation of the office of first lady, the three bottles of soda sitting This summer, the Democratic "chapters" in her husband's life. speech clearly demonstrated this. above despite her non-traditional decision the fireplace were left untouched. The and Republican National Conven- Despite the sentimentality of her It was more substantial and im- tions were held in Chicago and San to return to her position as Presi- speech, she came across as an em- pressive than that Elizabeth Dole. music was blasting and everyone dent of the Red Cross if her husband looked as if they were enjoying them- Diego, respectively. Elizabeth Dole bodiment of the traditional, old The political impact of Hillary is elected president. One of Dole's selves. I, on the other hand, felt more and Hillary Clinton both partici- fashioned role of an adoring and Clinton's speech can only benefit tasks in her husband's campaign alone than I ever had before in my life. pated in the conventions, each dutiful wife. She did not step for- the Clinton presidential campaign. has been to emphasize herself as a Although I did know a few le in speaking on behalf of their hus- ward with any major political is- It was clearly an intelligent and peop supportive spouse. Her convention the room, our conversations mainly bands. Despite their similar politi- sues, nor did she force the GOP to rational campaign decision.Q consisted of "Hi, how's it going?" or "Having a fun time?" Although these Salvage logging not environmentally justified questions were always met with a BY JASON ST. CLAIR "yes" and a smile, inside I really knew - "salvage" logging may be conducted American should reel at the fiscal bill contains the following clause - I wasn't enjoying myself. Contributing Writer in every national forest ,in America irresponsibility of this legislation. A "cost considerations: salvage timber My first weekend of college was without complying with the Clean Congressional Research Service re- sales undertaken pursuant to thissec- not a total disappointment, but rather No one doubts that in the middle Water Act, National Environmental port on forest fires and forest health tion shall not be precluded because a wake-up call; that making friends of what we call "American Politics" Policy Act or the National Forest activities from September of 1994 the cost of such activities are likely to and meeting new people was going to actions are taken that do not necessar- Management Act. "Salvage" is de- stated that "salvage sales often cost exceed the revenues derived from take longer than I had thought. Com- ily agree with the rescission of the fined as dead and dying trees, "asso- more than the revenues they can gen- such activities." Why is our govern- ing from a small town where I have average American. There are a few ciated" trees and "trees lacking the erate because of lower timber quality ment allowing something that hurts had the same best friends for the past cases, however, when the common characteristics of a healthy and viable and higher operating cost for the the environment and costs taxpayers seven years of my life, the feeling that sense of every right-thinking indi- ecosystem." This definition is so un- buyer. Furthermore, the U.S. Trea- what the Wilderness Society has esti- I had basically no connection to any- vidual screams out "WHY?!" Foryour clear that it has been used to log bil- sury Department loses [money] even mated to be at almost $430 million? one around me wasreall y frightening. inspection I present Section 2001 of lions of board feet in 1995 alone. Citi- when the sales are net cash genera- If you also fail to see the logic in Although Stu-A plans many ac- the 1995 Rescissions Act, also called zens cannot appeal salvage sales and tors, because 100 per cent of the re- this, I encourage you to contact your tivities during the first f ew days of the "salvage logging rider." lawsuits cannot be filed more than 15 ceipts are deposited in the Fund for congressional representative and school such as barbecues and COOT This little gem, hidden in a much days after the sale was advertised. Preparing and Administering Future make it clear that America will not to make sure that no one feels com- larger bill, has wreaked havoc on the Aside from the environmental Salvage Sales." tolerate such obvious insults to our pletely friendless, there is really no forests of America. Consider the facts costs of the rider, every tax-paying This helps explain just why the common sense.Q way to escape these lonely feelings at -TECHIES, continued from page 8 times. Don't get me wrong—most of who just read the first paragraph and course, everybody wants their com- coMr the time I feel as though I do have a said to themselves, 'Yeah. Whaf s so puter fixed "right away," so they be- C£tI IT IA 0 # m^s connection here because I have made hard aboutthat?" Thesearethepeople come irritated when they are greeted FlLI I Is J dwL uhpi-k . friends with people from my COOT. who taught their parents how to pro- by a voice mail system. v »V * PR^ ^^Jj M eg , M 8| e^ "" i ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^ ww : MM '" uf^ ; *' * * "''' ' ^''' " *^^ TTr fiTrii—ii ir ¦ i ill ii- VT* -' ~ "*" * ' • ' ' '' friai i. I And while I do have people to go to gram their VCR at the age of three, »mni Some quick arithmetic (no Calcu- 1 .j ^ g. lunch and dinner with, I cannot help and are now hopefully working in lus is needed here) tells us that with but wonder whether I will keep them the Macintosh Help Lab. about 175 problems a day, and eight as life-long friends. A common fear is that now, when people to solve them, the workload of Although thisdiainoftjioughtsdoes we are at our weakest, the guy in the the average technician is almost 22 seem to be a rather grim impression of Mac Lab turns out to be the same kid computer problems per day. Oh yes, my first few weeks here, it might stem who, in fifth grade, wore a pocket Mac Techies have classes too. The ob- from thefacttiiatl'msittinginmyroom protector and ate paste. We fear he vious solution would seem to be to 1 onaSahirdaynight,whilepeopledown remembers that we laughed at him hire more people. However, finding the hall seem to have started tlie festivi- for knowing everything about any- students who are capable of doing the tiesearly. Inacoupleof minuteslwillgo thing electronic, and that he . is seek- job is difficult; finding people willing out with friends from COOT and try to ing vengeance for the time we threw to do the job is even harder. So, the find a large party somewhere on cam- the kickball at his head. So, he is delib- brave eight voyage across campus fix- pus. I do have to admit that every week- erately refusing to fix your machine ing connections, installing software, end when I go to more parties and in hopes it will cause you to fail your debugging programs, and answering dances, I feel as though I know a few courses, drop out of school and end questions. All this is happening at a more people. I am beginning to feel up giving out carnations at airports speed apparently unacceptable to more comfortable as I enter tlie room and highway off-ramps. Thisfearfes- many people. because I am able to spot a few more ters and makes us both afraid and Give the people at the Mac Lab a familiar faces and start interesting con- suspicious about why our service is break.Calls to the Lab for emergency versations. It is still very strangeto me delayed. help turning on your computer or that so many of tlie freshmen feel com- Tlie second assumption is that the work orders filled out that list the pletely comfortable getting dnuik in Mac Technicians are just lazy. In problems as "many" do not help to front of people they have never met theory, it all makes sense. Why fix speed up a difficult process. Also, stop before, bu t I'm beginningto realize that twenty computers when you get the by the Mac Lab at Lovejoy. There are their drunkenness allows diem to feel same pay for fixing two? Here, the numerous handouts that describe hi more secure about themselves. answer to why the phone is alwaysin detail (and in English) how to set up While most of the time I feel that I use is obviously because the Techies your computer. Then, if all else fails, T nmmm ^mimmmmmmmmmmmmmimm i eymmmmmmmemmmm mmmemmm mme\ chose the right school and will be able are on the phone ordering pizza and give the Techies a ring. And if it takes to find my own niche, I do experience purchasing things on the home shop- a day before they can get back to you, \W order -fa cope \A/ 4h ^Tl these little pangs of fear from time to ping network. remember you started as number 22 hihtvrm^ c-uwm irt R^l&NT time. This summer, I received a lot of Both of these ideas are, thank- on someone's list. And then, after \ advice from students who had been at fully, untrue. To date, there are eight you're back on-line, surfing the net, * ~W& fcA)0 college for a few years. Out of all the people working to fix the computer maybe take a lime out and call up j &fc*5-N INSTALLED IN * X) I helpful hints I received, the one that so problenisofthestiideiits.Daily,about good ol' extension 3666, and tell some- DBms o fe'e- . 1 far seems to be the truest' was, "college 140 calls arrive at x3666. On top of 1 "St* ^-f one "thank you." Maybe he'll forget °^ " will be the best time of your life, but this, countless work orders a nd prob- about the fact you threw a kickball at | i n i r i """" -" * —" don't expect too much at first."Q lem sheets are filled out in person. Of his head.Q Eleanor Healy Quartet beats booze and blues BY DEAN HENRY Contributing Writer Sicchitano '99, vice president of ous connections with Colby. Lovejoy Commons, helped orga- Healy, who was born in Ireland, Someone once said that the nize the Lovejoy-sponsored jazz attended UMA where she studied only way to get Colby students to concert. Jazz. After returning home she attend any school event is by With dimmed lights and tables applied for a Green Card in the promising beer. The large crowd covered with white tablecloths, the United States, and hopes to make which turned out for the Eleanor Page Commons Room provided a her mark in the jazz world. Mark Healy Quartet at 9 p.m. last Sat- "coffeehouse" atmosphere. It was Macksoud, the drummer, played urday night disproved that perfect for relaxing, conversing for the Colby Orchestra, while Ben theory. and enjoying the music. The con- Wolff went to the New School for The concert was organized by cert was paid for by chem-free Jazz in New York City and now Adam Pearsall, president of Wil- funds allocated by the Social Life resides in Portland . Doug liams, in conjunction with Lovejoy Programming Board. The board, Morrione (son of Sociology Pro- Commons. Pearsall said "I was composted of student organiza- fessor Thomas Morrione) met very pleased with the quartet's tion leaders, determines funding Healy while studying in Ireland, performance and the attendance. for campus wide chem-free events. and they have been playing to- ... It was estimated at one point The group consisted of five mu- gether ever since. Sobel studies that we had over 150 people there. sicians: Eleanor Healy played bass, some jazz here at Colby and occa- I was delighted to see such excel- Mark Macksoud was on drums, sionally plays with the band . Ph oto coutesy of Eleano r Heal y Doug Morrione layed , The music, which radiated lent attendance for a Student p guitar Eleanor Healy hails from Ireland , but now resides in Maine. Union event that did not involve while both Ben Wolff and Alex through the halls of the Student alcohol." Sobel '98 combined their efforts Union, was surprisingly good. One each musician while the music cen- tet varied from artists like Miles "I am very impressed with the playing saxophone. might have expected a haphaz- tered around the Healy's bass. Davis to Thelonious Monk. turnout considering this is a "The group plays a lot of swing ardly assembled jazz band, when Quick tempos and complicated Colby students in attendance chem-free event," said Ben and blues, and some free jazz," in fact the Eleanor Healy Quartet base lines dominated most of the enjoyed themselves while listen- Langille '99, who also helped or- said quartet leader Healy. "It re- was well organized and well re- quartet's music, while solos were ing to great music, and it is thanks ganize the event. "Most people ally depends on where we are play- hearsed. Any jazz fanatic would artistically passed to each musi- to the funds of Lovejoy Commons won't come unless beer is prom- ing." have appreciated the swing and cian throughout the set. Music and the Social Life Programming ised." Langille, along with Brad The band formed through vari- blues riffs which were played by played by the Eleanor Healy Quar- Board.O Boland brings herself and Ireland to Album reviews Strider BY DENNIS D'ANGELO BY DENNIS D'ANGELO hero status," according to the Irish Times.She Staff Writer Staff Writer currently teaches at Stanford University, and will be leading the creative writing program Never one to shy away from flamboy- Ireland's premier female poet, Eavan there during the school's winter and spring ance, Bo Diddley's latest effort, A Man Boland, visited Colby Monday, participating quarters. Amongst Men , delves deep into different in an upper division creative writing poetry Boland's reading this past Monday show- musical genres and comes up with an album class and delivering a reading at Strider The- cased both lier deep versatility as a writer and that's both fun and different. Diddley's own ater at eight that evening. Douglas Archibald, her blade-sharp precision in crafting a liter- talent is complemented by a number of spe- professor of literature and curator of the Healy ary work. She began by talking briefly on cial guests, ranging from Rolling Stone Keith Special Collections at Colby, introduced the memories, and discussing the wealth of influ- Richards to Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora. poet with one of her poems, in which she ence and inspiration that comes from them. The album's fresh sound comes asa wel- recounted her college years when she never She then read her poem "Love" in which she come addition to anybody'sblues/jazz/funk saw herself as a poet. Archibald went on to recounts the serious illness of her young collection, and if you're already a casual fan give some background surrounding Boland's daughter, and the way she reflects upon her or listener of Diddley's work, this album is life and works. feelings and interactions with her husband at certainly a must. At times comical, at times Eavan Boland was born in Dublin in 1944 the time. She also read "In a Time of Violence" sad but always vivacious, Diddley shows John Primer and resides there today in the southern sec- , a politically charged poem centered around off both a sense of humor and a feel for the tion of the city with her husband Kevin and the troubles in Northern Ireland and the im- music as he blasts through the ten-song al- The Real Deal their two daughters. A student at Trinity in pact on the country and its people as a whole. bum. The Real Deal is certainly that, a bluesy Dublin during the 1960's, her poetry spans "The language of hate is beautiful," Boland collection that John Primer recently put out three decades, with her notoriety growing said, "untilyoufindout whatitreally means." as his latest album. .Long a back-up and significantly in the last ten years. Boland is " ... In her poem she dismantles the rhetoric sur- backstage musician, Primer began a solo a remarkably courageous woman who stood rounding the violence and lays plain the con- career in 1987 and this comes as what Primer up to powerful politics and earned kind of a sequences. hopes will be his breakthrough album. As Among other impressive aspects of such, Primer does deliver a solid blues CD, Boland's poetry is her precise use of lan- with flowing guitar work and an excellent guage. Her imagery is exact, as in her poem voice. The Real Deal delivers what its title "The Women," where she describes the gar- promises — a hard, tough and ultimately den outside: "The air is tea-colored in the rewarding blues experience. garden/ The briar rose is spilled crepe de Primer breaks right into his traditional Chine." Thismastery of languagegives Boland blues album with "Stop Draggin' That Chain the ability to communicate effectively what- Around," a standard blues track with some ever image and situation she wants in a poem. very innovative guitar work. The next few Often writing on feminist themes, Boland songs share the same characteristics—blues combines politics and poetry with talent and lyrics combined with well written guitar ease, and her latest book, Objec t Lessons: The solos and some great vocals from Primer. Life of a Woman Poet in Our Time delves into Bo Didley Towards the end of the album, Primer does what it means both to be an Irish poet and some mellower sounding songs. There's woman, poet in modern times. A Man Amongst Men more feeling in these later tracks, though Boland's reading was well organized and The first song, "Bo Diddley is Crazy," some of the more innovative instrumental she shared a great deal of her personality brings with it both amusing lyrics and a work is lost. Throughout it all , Primer keeps with us as she recounted a story involving Air jazzy blues feel, which makes a great opener. his voice on target, and does not disappoint Lingus and four lines of her poetry. It seems Energetic and funny, this sohg epitomizes in the singing area. the airline wanted her to select four lines of the style of the album, going through differ- The Real Deal is not an earth-shattering hers to be woven into the seats of Air Lingus ent beats and rhythmic styles, all of which album, but it is solid blues, and for any fan airplanes, along with the lines of other Irish work well. The next two songs, "Can I Walk of the genre it is a welcome addition. For the writers. She agreed to select four lines and You H ome" and "Hey Baby," have a more most part, Primer is successful in his effort recounted, chuckling, that after signaling her tradi tional blues lyrical feel to them, but lose to combine traditional blues and innova- consent the Air Lingus customer service rep- none of the innovative guitar and drum tions brought in from the jazz and funk resentative said "Mind you, dear, nothing work. Sambora and Billy Boy Arnold add traditions. Though at times the album can about crashing now." varie ty and chemistry to the f eel of both seem to drag, these moments are few and Eavan Boland was genuine in her reading these tracks. far between. The majority of the time he Echo photo by??? and her poetry and prose were superb. Col- The album starts to get f unkier toward quickly moves away from these moments lections of her works include hi the Time of the middle tracks with "He's Got a Key" and with some excellent guitar work. He does a good job in this album, and it could certainly Ea van Boland Violence (1995, W. W. Morton and Co.) and "A Man Amongst Men," which both mas- The Journey and other wems (1987, Carcanet).Q SeeDIDLEYon page 7 be counted as a solid breakthrough CD.Q Bring big appetite to Little Tf s Paltrow makes mischief in BY DAN MACCARONE is not as large of a selection for drinks at T's as A&E Editor there is at G's, but that is sure to change as the Emma, movie appeals to all restaurant grows. BY MEG BELANGER never wants to get married because she has After years of being blessed with Big-G's, "Our crusts are semi-soft with a tender Contributing Writer enoug and status to still be respect- the mammoth sandwich shop in Winslow, the h money surface and we bake our own secret flavorings able without a husband. She wants to make owners decided to give central Maine another right in, says T's menu. " Most people are probably quick to pass everyone else as happy and as satisfied with treat this summer when they opened Little T's, Probabl y the most interesting aspect of the Gwyneth Paltrow off as just Brad Pitf s girl- life as she is, which she does by trying to bring which describes itself as having the "Earth's Little T's menu is their dessert pizza. Made friend . Then again, most people probably joy and love into the lives of those less fortu- best pizza." with homemade sweet crust, and coining in haven't seen Flesh and Bone, Moonli ht and nate than she. Uponbeingintroduced to Harriet Actually, Little T's, which opened June 19, g the small size only, these pizzas give a whole Valentino or The Pallbearer. In Seven she played Smith (Collette), Emma immediately takes the is not far off in their bragging. After recently new meaning to the word pie. The four offer- second fiddle to Pitt and Morgan Freeman and girl under her wing and tries to remodel her. sampling several of their offerings, I tend to ings range from the Applejack (sliced apples, ended up with her head in a box. Emma,how- She brings Harriet into society and introduces agree with the statement. They offer not just brown sugar with cinnamon & nutmeg and ever, gives Paltrow the opportunity to play the her to eligible bachelors of high standing, hop- your standard cheese, pepperoni and veg- raisins) to the Home Alone (sweetened cream title character and show the world she is more ing to make the perfect match for her new etable combinations, but also unique toppings cheese with ricotta, , sliced bananas apples than just a supporting actress. This role, which friend. such as apples, spinach, alfredo sauce, ricotta, walnuts and cinnamon). would usually go to the perfectly accented Emma is a beautiful romantic comedy that retried beans and fettuccine. Though strange Little T's offers free delivery to anywhere Emma Thompsonspftheactingworld,is pulled does justice to the time and place it is set in. is not too strong a word to describe some of within a five mile radius, which allows Colby off fabulously by Paltrow. From Emma's hairbrush to the outside sewing these choices, many of them are quite tasty. students to take advantage of such specials as The supporting cast is wonderful as well: tent, amazing attention is paid to detail in the Much like Big G's, many of the pizzas are Sweet Sunday, where you can get 50 percent Toni Collette, who played Muriel in Muriel 's film. The costumes are elegant and fun and named after famous people, such as the Annette off all dessert pizzas, or Thirsty Thursday, Wedding,p lays Emma's friend Harriet, who is match the story and the character's moods Spinachello (spinach, onions and their cheese where you get a free soda with a small izza or p almost an English version of Muriel. Alan perfectly. When you go to a movie, you may blend with ricotta and parmesan), Dr. two free sodas with a large pizza. Cumming, the lecherous Sean Walsh from not notice all the little details like this, but in Strangepork (turkey, bacon, onions, and their If you are looking to stray away from the Circle of Friends, plays Mr. Elton, a less-than- Emma you will. cheese blend) and SOS (shrimp, onions, sun regular 'za hot spots, then definitely try Little desirable character. Playing Mrs. Bates and Emmais a timeless movie with comedy that dried tomatoes, their cheese blend with swiss T's. You can call them for delivery at 877-0098 Miss Bates are real life mother and daughter is funny throughout the years. If you liked and alfredo sauce). When ordering, you may and they are open Sunday through Thursday Phyliida Law and Sophie Thompson. Jeremy Sense and Sensibility, you will love Emma. And find yourself in deja vu, because it is very from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday Northram played the villainous Jack Devlin in for all you guys who think Emma is just a chick similar to Big G's, where you order your food , from 11 a.rh. until 11 p.m. The restaurant also The Net,but in Emma he plays the gentlemanly flick, you're wrong. If s a film that everyone give your name, and then move over to refrig- offers a variety of calzones and salads apart Mr. Knightley. can enjoy. Sit back and let Emma take you to a eratorsto getyour drinks. Unfortunately,there from their diverse specialty izzas.Q p Emma is an upper class society girl who world far away and long ago.Q Portland String Quartet a weekend success BY LARRY BENESH like Clark who lived a long life but wrote only Staff Writer three major works. Adams explained that Clark's family had disapproved of hep pur- Last Saturday (September 21) the Port- suit of music and she had to leave England for land String Quartet once again gave a strong the United States. performance at the Lorimer Chapel. The Quar- "She lived in a timespan when it was tet, who have been artists-in-residence at difficult for a woman to be a professional ¦ ¦ Colby since 1986, played as part of the Music musician," said Adams. ' ••¦• ¦' at Colby 1996-97 Concert Series. They also The piece was a single movement pastoral teach a popular JanuaryProgram course called elegy that portrays Clark's memories of her Chamber Music Literature. life in England. There were dark sounds and Theaward winning Quartet has been play- almost melodramatic lines; and the tough ing together since 1969 and their experience ending chords were symbolic of Clark's diffi- was heard clearly in their performance of cult pursuit of music; three pieces. Julia Adams, the viola player, Antonin Dvorak's "Quartet in A-flat Ma- introduced the piece "Poem for String Quar- jor, Op. 105" followed Clark's piece. It was tet" by Rebecca Clark which opened the con- much longer and contained four movements cert. She noted that we often mourn great that sounded flawless. The Adagio ma non composers like Mozart who died at a young troppo/Allegro appassionato began with a Echo photo by J aclyn Rollins age and could have written a great deal more, series of slow bursts of sounds. As the move- but sometimes we forget about composers See STRINGS on page 7 Last Saturday the Portland String Quart et played in Lorimer Chapel.
B YOU KNOW Whose Tub is the place to be on H I "Her© at home Tohn Edgar Widerman reads from The Cattle Killing i m ...* Page Commons Room, Sept. 26,11 am, m I Screw Your Roommate Dance Musician Erica Wheeler Open Mic Night Bubba Toba § I Page Commons Room Coffeehouse Coffeehouse Coffeehouse I f hMsday I Sept. 28,9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Sept. 26,8 p.m, Sept, 27, 10 p.m. -12 a.m. Sept. 27,8 p.m.-10 p.m I I ... and down tbe road. 1 NIGHTS 1 Play: Betrayal by Harold Pinter ¦ 1 SENIOR MICROBREWS I I Sept. 26, 27,28, 29 Bowdoin College 8 I Play: No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre I 1 DRINK SPECIALS ON TAP 1 1 Sept. 27, 28.29 Bates College I I FREE PIZZ A SLICES AFT ERlO P.M. I Poetry Reading: Lucie Brock-Broido m 1]I Sept. 26,8 p.m.. Bates College ¦ 1 Cine ma I I Stu-A Film: Spy Hard Trainspotting, Railroad Square Cinema M I Lovejoy 100 Sept. 26 - Oct. 3,9 p.m. i I Sept. 26,27,28 at 7 &9p.m. Sat./Sun. 3 p.m. I
I Emma. Railroad Square Cinema Stonewall. Railraod Square Cinema 9 I Sept. 27 - Oct. 10,7:15 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. Sept. 27 - Oct. 3,5:05 p.m. & 7 p.m. I I • . Weekend Matinees: 12:30 p.m, & 2:45 p .m. Weekend Matinee: 1 p.m. 8 I ... and you thought there was nothing to do this weekend 1 on the Concourse in downtown Waterville tT i) 11 emit 11 11«i et i» hi _u 11 ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ H H * " " ?"" -????*'"' _!_.?.._ 1111 ? _ * __T _*_ ! . . ? *! ?. . !tt '** W " ' ¦ • ¦ . V » . M « « » « if iii iiiiii wiii i ii ii ii ii m'MHii»W¦ M i t n » in . % % i \ ¦ >i ij l ii i i . i i ¦ i W i m i u . i j I. I J. m ¦ ij ¦ i i 1 fti) ? ni?:T- 'ilill' ' - ____< "^t'.'Jii.tl -vl. " - '' " ** ' * ' ff -? ill! ' '^ V___[__! if' " '' " ' l_." " ''" ***" " ' '* " ' *1' " * " * *' *" *£* ' " " ** ** " ' " " p *f" ' ¦'' ^ , 711u t, jj ^ B [Stonewall succeeds overall Blue Lights lack Overly political film falters in places tradition but not talent ~1*Y DENNIS D'ANGELO the same time stay faithful to takes away from the full emotive LaMiranda, who, until the riot, be- experience. Staff Writer ' lieves politicizing the struggle for Despitethese problems, Stonewall BY DAN MACCARONE for them, they've opened for us equal rights to be largely a hopeless does do a good job of portraying Director Nigel Finch never A&E Editor almost every time we have a Spa cause. . some very realistic and heart- Stonewall would be his last concert." thought The lead story here, though in- wrenching situations of love and re- Even as the director lay dying After decades of onl having The group's friendship with film. teresting at times, comes across as pression. The film does not shy away y 0f AIDS, he continued to pour every- two a capella groups on campus, Rosser, however, is not solely thing he had into the film. If s a film Andy Smith '98 decided to form a based on concerts with the that, though full of trouble spots, he group of his own in the fall of Colbyettes. The Blue Lights have could count ultimately as a success, 2 994. His signs promoting his idea also performed several times for achieving its greatest moments on brought many students flocking the Admissions Office. the human level of pathos and emo- to join the new competition for Another advantage the Blue tional struggle. The overtly political the Colby 8. After several rehears- Lights have is that their primary nature of the film, however, tends to als and too many discussions goal of a cappella is fun. They will take away from the human dramas about what to actually call the basically perform anytime and which unfold before us and makes group, The Blue Lights were anywhere, as long as they are Stonewall an average film instead of formed. asked far enough ahead of time. a great one. "I thought we were going to "We've done birthdays — we The film takes place in the weeks get a bunch of guys together and serenade for birthdays," says leading up to the Stonewall riot, the sing for a year, but we figured we Smith. "Parents have called up benchmark of the modern day ho- had a good thing going and it's and sent a check... and we've done mosexual rights movement. The onlv been eettine better." savs a bunch of those. And we do them story centers around the arrival of Matty Dean (Frederick Weller) in New York City, hoping to find a culture more tolerant than the one he Photo courtesy of Strand Releasing (middle) left. On his first night in New York, Duane Boutte plays Bostoniai in Stonewall. however, the gay bar he finds him- overly preachy and sacrifices the; from some very accurate homo- self in is raided by police, andhe gets integrity of the drama for the politi-- sexual loves scenes, which adds to involved defending the drag queens cal message at times. The pseudo-- its realism, while at the same time who are regularly victimized by po- documentary style does not enterr interjecting political monologues lice. At this point that he meets into the story very much after the; which often seem out of character. LaMiranda (Guillermo Diaz), a drag first five minutes, which leave us> Stonewall is one of the very first in queen whom he befriends and later wondering when the narrator will1 what will hopefully be many films gets involved with. Matty,however , re-enter for the rest of the story.. concentrating on the events of that also meets and befriends Ethan There are also moments where the. June night in 1969 when a handful of (Brendan Corbalis), a gay English acting seems to sufferwith the heavyr homosexuals demanded that the teacher who's a member of a far more emphasis on the politics of the situ-- treatment as oppressed and shame- conservative gay rights group. Matty ation. The movie does not do a very7 ful citizens stop. As a film, Stonewall becomes torn between his desire to good job of combining the emotionalI receives an average rating, though it get political (and follow up his initial drama with the politics surround-- cannot be faulted for what it repre- attraction towards Ethan) while at ing the incident, and this problemi sents and hopefully will usher in.Q Colby Alttiff te sem&AMrfilm on campus
BY DAN MACCARONE 12. Currently he is a member of the taken when Webb retraced the Gold A&E Editor Maine Touring Artists, the New Rush Trails and the Oregon Trail by Hampshire Artists in .-ducation Ros- foot, by bicycle and by motor scooter Echo file photo On October 3, Colby will wel- ters and is the director of the Maine from 1955-65. Chris Davis '99 serenades the crowd at the COOT comedy come back alumnus James Coleman Student Film & Video Festival. The soundtrack to the film con- show. 70 for a screening of his latest film, Huey's new film, Honest Visiori, sists of original compositions by jazz Smith of the group's original goals. for free too...but[the money] defi- HonestVision,APortraitofToddWebb, chronicles the career of photogra- musician and Maine native Darmon Their first year definitely did nitely helps out." The cost for a as well as a lecture open to all inter- pher Todd Webb, now 90 years old Meader and an excerpt from a per- not lack chances to perform, as birthday serenade is $75. ested students. and a resident of Bath, Maine. The formance by Colby Artists in Resi- one might think would be the case The group does most of its own Coleman, better known under film interweaves scenes of Webb to- dence, The Portland String Quartet with a musical group attempting arranging, but without one spe- the alias of Huey, has shown his day with his elegant black and white (P.S.Q.). The P.S.Q.'s track is from to establish itself on campus. The cific leader. Though Smith is the films all over the country at institu- photographs that span the last 50 "String Quarter Number 1," written Blue Lights came upon Colby like president, he does not look at the tions such as Harvard University, years. by Ernest Bloch. a storm, opening for both the group as a hierarchy. "The basis Bates College, the Art Institute of "It was a great show... Todd Five Years in the making, Honest Colby 8 and the Colbyettes sev- of our group is to have fun," says ChicagoandtheUniversityofMaine. Webb's wonderful photography Vision had its premiere at the Port- eral times as well as performing Smith. "We try not to take any- His films, as well as the movies made and Huey's masterly documentary land Museum of Art on April 25, for the Best Buddies Program at thing too seriously, except, of in his artist-in-residencies, have won of Webb's personality and artistry," 1996 to two full houses. The film Kent Hills and on WMHB. course, the better we sound the prizes at the Ann Arbor Film Festi- wrote Ann Foote of the American runs 57 minutes and is "a vehicle "It was almost overwhelming, more fun we have. So we're al- val, the American Film Festival, the Journal. that both honors Webb's art and the first year, what we did," says ways looking for a good time." National Film Festival and others. Honest Vision focuses on Webb's examines the creative impulses be- Smith, who will leave the Blue Currently the group is in the Huey has also lead workshops, leer major work: Paris and New York in hind the photography," said Philip Lights for the first time this spring process of recording their first CD, tured and given keynote talks on the 1940s and 1950s, as well as pho- Isaac son of the Maine Sunday when he goes abroad. a follow-up to their lesser-known media arts education in grades K - tographs of the American West Telegram.U After consisting of only f our or demo tape, Blue Light Madness, f ive members throughou t their which the group recorded during first semester together, the group its first year. Recently, as a result grew to a respectable seven people of a national a capella club the by the end of the spring of 1995. group is a member of , the Blue tECHnObabb le Since then the group has remained Lights received a request from Commercial site a high qualit y resource for students steady at 11 singers, gradually Texas for a ctypy oi Madness. The The marketing blitzhas come to Well, as best I can tell, if s com- adding f resh blood when seniors rare tape costs a mere two dollars. BY DANIEL DEITCH college, and if s actually kind of cool.- pletely free to you and me. The only graduated. In addition to Smith, Smith explained that the group On-line Editor The site is a hangout for college stu- people who seem to be paying are the current members are John plans on haying many bake sales — dents of all types, races, religions, the sponsors. Don't worry though, Bolton '98, Jared Fine '98, Dave this semester to supplement their Web marketing has grown a lot creeds and Ramen preferences. If s Flintstone Vitamins are not the Goldman '98, Tate Isgrig '98, Eli modest funds from the Student in the last year or so. All of us have called the University Student Web sponsor, more like USA Today, Cohen '99, Dennis D'Angelo '99, Association as they produce their seen it. When we go to our nearest site (http://www.university. Cliffs Notes and a bunch of other Chris Davis '99, Paul McDermott forthcoming CD. search engine (yahoo.com, toplinks.com), kind of unoriginal,but quality companies. Itseems like this '99, Tielman Van Vleck '99 and "One of the things I like about www.altivista.com, etc) we see ads if s got some good content. is a genuine effort to give us, the Chris Ireland '00. our group is that we are not con- aUoverthepIaceiforbooks^ormaga- TO site has thousands of links plain old American college student, Sherman Rosser, associa te strained to any type of music. We 2anes, for just about any thing.Well , covering national campus issues; the an outlet to connect to outside Of dean of admissions and f aculty do your Billy Joel, your Beatles, ' ¦ the marketing hais coi^e around to environment, career information/ ; .Colby. advisor to the Colbyettes, is a good but we also do barbershop, spiri- us, the college students; The U.k movies; T^/drugs, health, to For some of us who feel out of f riend of the Blue Lights, accord- tual, oldies and contemporary" mail brings all sorts of things to the aid , travel, 8piritoality,8porling;events touch with what goes on outside of ing to Smith. The result has been says Smith.Q dungeon in a close relat ionship between (Roberts Union's home to and even shopping. Waterville or those of us who won- This is the second piece in a the Echo).Some of dteni evc^ find Of course, you knew there had to der if other campuses are arguing the Blue Lights and the Colbyettes. their ' ' "I t' s very convenient to have four piece series highlightin g way into my box an be a catch, right? No site like this can , about the same things we are/take Colby' s a capella groups .yfflng about this one. be f ree, if s got to cost something. a look and see for yourself.? that," says Smith. "We've opened I play, you play, we all play
BY GALEN CARR Colby students find themselves back in business and Colby stu- Sports Editor yearning for after just two weeks dents can now revel in the spirit here in Waterville. I'm not talking of our intramural sports program As the cold autumn air arrives about electric blankets, winter jack- until May, being able to play such on Mayflower Hill and the leaves ets or even tickets to some Pearl Jam things as flag football, soccer, vol- begin to change color, we at Colby concert in Augusta. What I am talk- leyball, campus golf, basketball, are reminded that fall is a time when ing about is deemed by many to be ice hockey and even softball. we are captivated by much of what much more important than the three Now that I-Play is here again, is taking place in the sports world. of those things combined, even in everyone who has signed up to be The football season remains the dead of winter. Thaf s right folks. on some sort of team is now waiting young as it enters its fifth week, What I'm talking about far out- for you to do the same. For those of supplying us with sufficient enter- weighs any Colby necessity in im- us that aren't varsity soccer players, tainment for those inevitably gray portance and any excitement that a or like to play football but don't like Sundays (as well as a good excuse to professional sporting event could wearing all those pads, I-Play offers procrastinate), while baseball shifts create, while at the same time re- a variety of rewards including im- into high gear as its regular season warding the participants in more proved self-esteem, exercise, an im- concludes and the intensity and ways than I care to count. age of yourself as an athlete, new thrill of the playoffs make their pres- Just barely overshadowed by the friends , new enemies and, above ence felt. With both the hockey and lingering excitement created by the all, a t-shirt to whoever wins the basketball seasons knocking on the dedication of the Pugh Center on whole' thing. door, awaiting to take their turn Friday, many Colby students were 1-Play is one of Colby s most Echo photo, by Jenninfer Atwood under the spotlight, one might think treated to something special on valuable assets, as many Colby stu- that the average Colby student's Monday afternoon, something that dents will attest. As more people Kara Patterson 97 appetite for sports would be sati- they had been looking forward to get involved, the quality as well as ated by the variety of choices at since the day they learned of their quantity of competition within our After 18 months of not having raced due to a stress fracture sus- which they might direct their ath- acceptance to this fine institution. It intramural program'increases ex- tained in her hip and a knee injury resulting from being hit by a car, letic interests. Well, despite all the wasn't the first home football game ponentially. I-Play is fun, doesn't Patterson, the women's cross country captain, won the UMass- action in the professional sports that they had been anticipating, or eat up too much time, and once Dartmouth Invitational last Saturday. Patterson/from Falmouth/Maine, world, until this past Monday those chicken finger night in Dana, or even you are privileged enough to don finished first out a field of 150 runners from 27 different schools, appetites were larger than ever. Let just one nice, warm, sunny day on the t-shirt of champions, no one including Division I Brown and a handful of Division II schools. A cross me explain why. Mayflower Hill. No sir. It was some- will ever forget your valuable con- country Ail-American her sophomore year, Patterson's victory this The satisfaction of college foot- thing much more important than tribution to making Colby a better past weekend helped erase lingering doubts that she has the potential ball every Saturday and pro foot- that. place. I-Play wants you. Next time to return to the form that earned her such prestigious accolades just two ball every Sunday, the drama of On Monday afternoon, the your dorm I-Play chair knocks on years ago. baseball's postseason, the anticipa- long awaited 1996 I-Play season your door and asks you to play, tion of hockey and basketball, even was kicked off with a dorm take an hour out of your busy the conclusion of major league league soccer game on Runnals schedule to have good time. Ev- soccer's debut campaign somehow hill field. Yes fans, it's time to eryone, including yourself, will just don't stack up to what many breath a sigh of relief. I-Play is appreciate it.Q The sun also rises Andy Yoipig '98 Young, a forward on the men's soccer team, provided all the scoring BY PAT MCBRIDE miles on a clear day. leader of three COOT expeditions, the Mules needed last Tuesday in Colby's 2-0 shutout win over the Asst. Sports Editor The hike to the top of Bubble so I felt I was in good hands. University of New England. Young, from Medway, Mass., netted a goal Rock, scaling rocks and weaving Little did I know. About three- in each half to propel the Mules to their second win of the season. Being situated in central Maine through the woods was uplifting quarters of the way up the trail, has its definite positives and nega- and whetted our appetites formore. we realized that it was 6:20 and tives. Depending on one's view- We entered the visitors center sunset was two minutes away. Amy Sokotch '00 point, the topic of weather and cli- and, seeking a challenging climb, I More importantly, we would be mate and its place in our lives as asked one of the park rangers what climbing down in darkness. Sokotch, seeded ninth oh the women's tennis team, won both of her Colby students is hotly debated. some of the toughest climbs in It was too late to turn around, singles matches in consecutive meets this past weekend versus MIT Many die-hard outdoorsmen love Acadia were. She told me about a as we knew that we had problems and Tufts, despite the fact that Colby, as a team, was defeated twice. On the pristine area in which we spend spot called Precipice Peak, which is when the sun crept behind the Friday, Sokotch was one of only two players to score victories against nine months of the year, while oth- considered by many to be a very mountains and we were left to MIT. Saturday she won her singles match for tlie second straight day as ers groan at the thought of the first difficult and strenuous trail. face a trek .8 miles down in the the Mules fell to Tufts, 6-3. • snowfall which may be only weeks As physically fit (sort of) Colby dark. We were in trouble. away. students, we decided to give it a There were times, like the one No matter what your take on when I was standing on two rocks, Tom Beedy '97 the weather at Colby, it is an unde- straddling a 40 foot hole with niable fact that Maine has some of nothing supporting me except the Beedy, a tri-captain on the football team, compiled eight unassisted the greatest forests and outdoor right hand of my companion, that tackles from his strong safely position this past weekend in Colby's 20- resort areas on the east coast. I thought we would be among 7 season opening loss to Williams. Beedy, from Livermore, Maine, This past Saturday, I decided to those spoken of on the fatality compiled a team high total of 16 tackles while also forcing a fumble as (experience some of the natural won- sign at the bottom. Because we the Mules defense kept Williams highly touted offense in check for der of Maine, as a friend and I couldn't see the markings on the most of the game. trekked up to Acadia National Park trail we strayed away and made in search of some exercise and fresh the climb even more difficult. We air on the first day of autumn. prodded around on the sides of Acadia National Park on a sunny huge rocks, trying to find a place HH Specializing in Collision Repairs of All H day is one of the most beautiful try. This is where the relaxing day to secure a hand or foot. The rocks En Vehicles, Foreign and Domestic Ka sights around. Over 130 miles of went awry. were slippery and at any moment hiking and walking trails, beauti- My friend and I have never been we could have plunged to our i_r**M | Hl -___M ful beaches and uncountable acres accused of being the sharpest death. of untarnished forest abound. It was knives in the drawer, so we thought When we finally got to the bot- truly exhilarating to walk around it would be a good idea to climb to tom, we found no other signs of in the woods on such a splendid the top of Precipice Peak to see the people, as everyone else had day. sun set, surely a magnificent sight. headed home. Breathing a sigh of What was supposed to be a re- As we entered the climbing area, a relief, we got into the car and laxing, Thoreau-esque day was sign warned us of the deaths that headed back to Colby. What was turning out to be exactly that, As have occurred to people trying to supposed to be a relaxing day mid-afternoon approached , the safe climb to the top. ended in a very traumatic man- hikes around the pond became bor- The ascent to the top was strenu- ner. . DAVID MATHIEU CO. H ing and we decided to climb to the ous, but in no way impossible or Acadia is a beautiful place to If top of Bubble Rock, a spectacular very life-threatening, My. co- visit, but do so in the daylight.Q H AUTO BODY H [3J Established Allen St., Waterville Behind Elm city K l lookout spot where one can see for climber was an "experienced" Discount Beverage 9H 1 928 872-5518 H| $[ep^;sqceer stuffed Women's tennis expediences by Jiimbos, 4-0 weekend to forget in Boston
BY RYAN MAYHUGH The Mules played a "controlled BY JOEL GROSSBARD how to play against their opponents," 8-3 victory over the Jumbos' top Staff Writer the game" against UNE last week, Staff Writer said Silbersher. 'Tthoughttheteamdid doubles squad. according to Dowling, and came playweUthough,despitetheqne-sided At number two, doubles captain It was a real stinker. back to Mayflower Hill with a 2-0 If one could sum. up the results result." Erin Brenner '97 and Heidi Tyng '99 The Colby men's soccer team triumph. Andy Young '98 scored from last weekend's matches for the In exhibition singles, number also teamed up for the first time. made the three and a half hour trip the first of his two goals with time Colby women's tennis team in three seven Anne Cammack '00, won her The pair fought hard for the dura- down to Tufts last Saturday to take running down in the first half, on an words, they would be "a learning match while number nine Amy tion, yet could not emerge with the on the Jumbos in the team's second assist from Chris Heming '99. Ross experience." After starting the sea- Sokotch '00 also was victorious. win and Tufts pulled it out by a NESCAC game of the season. Com- McEwen '99 was awarded the assist son with two victories in their first The following day, the Mules score of 9-7. ing in with high expectations, the on Young's second goal of the after- two matches, the Mules faced the visited Tufts, trying torebound from Cheah and Anderson both won Mules rolled over and played dead noon, coming with nine minutes left harsh truth that there are going to their tough loss the previous day. their singles matches. Cheah won in thus receiving a 4rQ thrashing. in the contest. be good days and bad days. Last "The team regrouped a bit," said three sets, 6-4,4-6,6-2, while Ander- "It was probably the worst I've "UNE was nothing particularly weekend's matches againstMIT and Silbersher. However, the end result son trampled her opponent in ever seen us play in my four years fancy," said Serdjenian. "We played Tufts were by all means forgettable was the same as the Mules dropped straight sets, 6-1, 6-0. here," said captain Brian Dowling our gameand held them at bay from from Colby's standpoint. the match 6-3. Tyng had to retire from her '97. being very threatening." The Mules traveled to MIT last Cheah and Anderson were singles match due to back pain. Sa- "I thought they played very well, Tlie team's performance against Friday to face a squad that Colby united as a team for the first time rah Sweeney '00, also suffering from andwedidn't,andthatwasabout_he Tufts came as a surprise, especially had never seen before. The unfamil- this season in their doubles match a back injury, fell to her opponent essence of it," said Head Coach Mark considering how well Colby had iarity with the MIT team was evi- versus Tufts. "In the past, we wanted despite a valiant effort , according to Serdjenian. pkyedagainstMiddleburyandNor- dent immediately as Colby dropped more balance in our doubles, so Kim Silbersher. TheMuleshadbarelysteppedoff wich in its first two games of the the match 9-0. and Jessie were split up, said The silver lining on the 0-2 week- the bus before Tufts took the early season. "The team was taken aback by Silbersher. "It was time to play them end cloud was Sokotch, who fol- lead. The Jumbos scored within the "We're 2-2 and there are 10 how the other team played," said together and lay the foundation of lowed up her MIT win with a vic- first three minutes to go up 1-0, and games to go. If s time to start over," Head Coach Erica Silbersher. "It was our number one doubles team." tory over Tufts in the ninth spot. shortly thereafter notched their sec- said Serdjenian. "Westillhaveplenty definitely a learning experience." The move seemingly paid off, as The next test for the Mules will ond goal to take a 2-0 advantage. of big opponents on the schedule." "[Kim Cheah'99 and Jessie Ander- they played "decisive tennis," ac- be on Saturday, September 28 at "The first two goals were just ter- Connecticut College is one of son '98]weresurprised and didn'tknow cording to Silbersher, en route to an home against Amherst.U rible defensivelapsesandit was tough those big opponents. The Camels to come back from that," said arrive in Waterville to take on Colby Serdjenian. thisSaturday atll a.m. The last time Women s cross country runners "We didn't come out to play," the two teams met was in a pre- said Dowling. "We came outflatand season scrimmage a year ago, with they ran all over us." the Mules coming out on top. exceed expectations In NESCAC competition this Colby was playing without two BY LARRY BENESH of its starters, marking back and cap- year, Conn. College has dropped hind the top runners from Bates and '99 and Burns will hope to improve Staff Writer their times in the weeks to come. tain David Hall '97 arid center matches to Tufts and Amherst, both MTT. inir , however, is lookinglike midfielder Greg Noblet '98. Hall is by scoresof 1-0. Despite their record, "Kathleen has shown amazing Patterson Kara Patterson '97, the captain of out for three weeks witli a stress the Camels are a strong soccer team, provement," said Aitken. the All-American cross-country run- the women's cross country team made fracture while Noblet sat out due to making it to the NCAA tournament First year runner Beth Haeussler ner that she was her sophomore year. a strong return last weekend after sit- a dental injury he sustained in the a year ago. was also impressive. She took the She has gone to the finals at nationals ting out the last 18 monthswith hip and in both indoor and outdoor track and Mules' game against the University "Last year they went to NCAA's 23rd position. Farrell Burns '98 was kneeinjuries. OnSaturday shefinished 29th, whileSarah Czok '00 followed sheholdstheschooirecordinthelSOOm of New .England ..last .Tuesday. and I'm sure they'll be very good," first overall at the UMass-Dartmouth , finishing rim. Noblet, who broke a front tooth on said Serdjenian. just one second behind in Invitational. performanoe the goalie's knee, is expected back "Ifsdefinitelygoingtobeahuge 30th place. Colby'sstrongoverall "Kara definitdy looks very strong," for Colby's game this weekend game," said Dowling. "We really Colby also fielded a team in the JV so far this year demonstrates that both saidHeadCoachEtebAitken 'Shecontin- against Connecticut College. need to rebound."Q race that placed two first yearrunners the upperclassmen and the first year uesto ama2eme." among the top ten finishers. Jessie runners will be able to contribute a Patterson's win helped propel Mullen '00 and Ann Duncan '00 fin- great deal this season. Field hockey hangs Colby to a second place finish over- ished second and eighth, respectively. "The key right now is keeping ev- all in a field of 27 teams with a total Both had times that would have been eryone healthy," said Aitken. "The of 150 runners competing. The highly competitive in tlie varsity race. return of Liz Fagan would make a tough versus Tufts Mules were the best scoring Divi- Chris Kennedy '98, Medora Lytle '00 huge difference. " sion III team in the meet. They fin- and Kate Scott '00 all finished in tlie top This weekend's upcoming Cod- BY DOUGLAS HEFFER just all over it," said Head Coach ished behind only Brown, a Divi- twenty witlistrong times, according to fish Bowl will present a bigger chal- Contributing Writer Heidi Godomsky. 'We're young and sion I team that used a highly re- Aitken. lenge for the Mules as they face rivals were inconsistent and they were able cruited group of first year runners TheMules' overallperformance was Bowdoin and Tufts. Both competitors Coming off a respectable victory to capitalize." to take the overall win. even more remarkable considering die have looked strong thus far this sea- against Wheaton, the women's field "We just made a few little mis- All of Colby's top five runners fact that their co-captain Liz Fagan '97 son. hockey team had high expectations takes which Tufts took advantage placed within tlie top thirty finishers in was forced to sit out the race with a hip "Tlie Codfish Bowl has a much for thispastSaturday's gameagainst of," said Metcalfe. die meet. Kathleen Thompson '97 fin- injury. more competitive field," said Aitken. Tufts University. Although the team Looking down the road the Mules ished eighth overall, just seconds be- Asfortliefuture,AmyMontemerlo 'It will be a much truer test/'Q felt very confident coming into the face an extremely challenging sched- game, they, knew they were up for ule. Colby faced the University of one of the toughest challenges of the Maine at Farmington yesterday and season. Connecticut College at home on Sat- "We knew Tufts was going to be urday. Connecticut College is a new good," said tri-captain Erika Ayers addition to the schedule and the '98. "They are ranked fourth overall Mules aren't exactly sure what to in the region. We were a bit overcon- expect. fident after our previous victory At press time, the Mules were Thursda y. 9/26 Frida y. 9/27 a gainst Wheaton and we really anxiously awaiting their match up 3:30- Fighting Lemurs v. Colby Buzz 3:30- Grossman v. Marriner/Drummond needed to bear down." with UMF on Wednesday. "We have 4:30- Silver Turkeys v. We Break Legs 4-30- w, Quad v. Williams The Mules came out strong in the an extremely tough schedulebut this fivst half and held the Jumbos to a should be one of our easier games," single goal. "We actually played very said Metcalfe. "We need to work on well in the first half. We played our communicating better and we can t Sunda y. 9/29 game and that's very important," make any more of those little mis- Q 12:00- Heights v, Pierce said tri-captain Betsy Metcalfe '98. takes we made against Tufts." p«*Lu.jtQa*iiwl u.ack -t7y« Q/9g/^o _ . However, the Mules couldn't "(UMF) is definitely not as skilled 1:00 Pierce Vi Go Ho 2:00- E. Quad v. Taylor seem to get many shots on goal and a team as Colby but it's always a CAMPUS GOLF TOURNEY 3:00- Sturtevant v. Averill were forced to play defensively. The battle," said Godomsky. "They have 4:00- Stank Nasty v. Mad Dogs team was outshot by Tufts by a total some skilled athletes." ' of 31-7. "We just weren't settled at By all means the Mules wish their 5:00- The CAPS v. Scream g Chickens fill ," said Ayers. "They were in our record was 3-0 instead of 1-2. De- half the whole time." spite their record however, the Mules Despite an excellent first half, the are showing many signs of improve- 9/3,0 Mules couldn't manage to hold off ment and confidence. Mftnfljiy, Wednesda y. 10/1 3:30- Mary Low v. Peirce the tenacious play of the Tufts of- "I'm very pleased with the way 3:30- Williams v, Grossman 4:30- Vi. Quad v. Marriner/Drummond fense in the second half and were we're playing this season," said 4:30- Go-Ho v. Coburn/Leonard defeated by a final score of 4-0. Metcalfe. "Compared to the past "People got tired and let up and couple of years we're making giant when they made mistakes,Tuf ts was steps toward a successful season."Q HSH * Women' s cross country BajH f inishes2nd out of 27 teams BE_3h see p ageIS mfflM * Men' s soccer stopped by Tufts KM seepage s BfeB * Hey.it' s time to play BuH * see page 14
Women's soccer team Running on empty drops two after an Defense impressive, but rushing game weak in impressive 24) start football' s 20-7 season opening loss to Williams BY RYAN MAYHUGH BY DAVID SCHOETZ back of thenet ," said tri-captain Kara Staff Writer Contributing Writer Marchant, '97 "but really the ball skimmed the bar and curved into the Who would have thought that a Coming off of a strongfirst week upper left hand comer." bunch of Purple Cows could be so of the season, the Colb women's The Mules battled hard for the re- y good at football? soccer team lost both its games last mainder of the game,switchingaverto Th^Colby football team took on week, but not without a fi ht. amoreoffense BY BEN RUSSELL tecting the goalkeeper. Thus, com- the first grade for the town league in Staff Writer plying with her coach's wish, Jenna the soccer hotbed of Winchester, stepped in and fill the vacancy at MA. Winchester High School pos- Sports can be difficult enough sweeper, and excelled considerably. sesses one the finest women's soc- without having to endure the rigors "It's a lot different because last cer programs in the country and, of changing positions. A player can year I was really involved in the growing up, it was a goal of hers to be so accustomed to the duties of a offense (at center half-back)," says become part of the tradition. "My particular position that change can DeSimone. "Now, I'm the last de- town is really into soccer and the be unbearable or, often, impossible. fender before the goalie. It's a differ- high school team is so competitive," Jenna DeSimone '98 was the cen- entframeof mind. I feel a little more she says. "There is a lot of tradition ter half-back for Colby's women's pressure being the last person be- there and the team is really strong soccer team for her first two years cause I can't afford to make a mis- every year. (High school) Coach on Mayflower Hill. The junior take. Lauren really anchored us last (Chris) S'canlon built the program to American Studies major excelled at year and she was a big reason why what it is. He's been there 18 years the' position during the 1994 and we were so respected for our de- and when a coach has been there a 1995 seasons. However, with the fense. Everyone has done a great job long time and built a level of excel- Echo photo by Amy Rzeznikicwicz loss of sweeper Lauren Ianotti '96 to this year to make the switch pos- lence, you want to work hard to get Jenna DeSimone '98 shows some of her hall handling graduation, a void was left within sible." on the team and be a part of the skills while having fun at soccer prac tice this week the last line of defense: the one pro- Jenna began playing soccer in See DESIMONE on page 7