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Non-Profit U.S. Postage Paid Waterville , ME 04901 Permit No. 39 Dorm intruder still at large by Rebecca Watts were quite upset , while others said they An unidentified man entered the "weren 't at all scared. " One woman rooms of at least twelve women bet- said she wasn't frightened , but added ween 3 and 6 a.m. Monday. The man , it " certainly was kind of creepy wak- according to the reports, was a Cauca- ing up with someone feeling your sian approximately 5 feet 1G inches tall covers." with close cut, curly dark hair. He was Another similar, although probably wearing jeans and a denim jacket , ac- unrelated , incident occured at 4:30 the cording to reports. same morning when a flasher exposed The man entered unlocked rooms in himself to two girls in the study cubes Pepper, Foss, and the Heights. One of the Hillside. Dean of Students woman in Pepper said she "woke up Janice Seitzinger said that it is unlike- to having someone taking off first the ly that it was the same man because the comforter and then the sheet." When flasher -was dressed differently than the she realized what was happening she man who entered women's rooms. He asked him who he was and what he was was wearing a trench coat and a con- doing. He said his name was "Steve" cealing ski hat. and that he had corne from a party on In response to these incidents, Joyce the third floor of Pepper and was look- McPhetres-Maisel, Associate Dea n of Students, spoke with head residents . >.c ing for "Diane." He eventually left ;< after repeated requests to do so. and issued emergency safety advisories : ~o : <0 on Tuesday warning people to lock I K There were no reports of a party on I, >> f-O third floor Pepper at that time, or of their doors. i O ! o any resident named Diane. McPhetres advised the head r sz i a. Similar events occured in the Heights residents to hold emergency hall Colby's Andy Spirito and Dave Dugan stop Bowdoin's Greg Bahannon for a short gain and Foss, with the man asking for dif- meetings or individually inform Saturday. A Seaverns Field Homecoming crowd of nearly two thousand people watched ferent people, usually "Diane," students of the situation. the Mules loose their season finale. "Cathy," or "Debbie." Some women INTRUDER page 3 Faculty requests acceleration of divestment by Bill Donahue it called for more gradual divestment. Tietenberg s wording, Professor San- majority approval, it did not pass. schedule." A resolution to accelerate Colby's (Bowen called on the Trustees to begin dy Maisel suggested that the faculty While Bowen characterized the The resolution will now be sent to divestment from South Africa passed divestment immediately.) Second, as move the proposed date of divestment Tietenberg resolution as "yet another the Trustees. decisively at last Wednesday's faculty Tietenberg noted, "The tone of (his) from April, 1986 to January, 1986. A compromise," he added , "I perceive Prior to the debate on the divestment meeting. The proposal , which was in- resolution is very different." vote on this amendment resulted in a it as a victory because his resolution is resolution, Dean Bob McArthur in- troduced by Professor Thomas In his resolution, Bowen took a tie and, since amendments must have only five months off my time DIVESTMENT Page 6 Tietenberg, requests the Trustees to more confrontational stance than begin divestment in April, 1986 "unless Tietenberg did and this led many pro- Beer, wine mieht he allo wed in nuh there are positive signs of meaningful fessors to favor Tictenberg's resolu- change in South Africa " before then. tion. For instance, Professor James Teitenberg's document, which pass- Meehan , who co-signed Tictenberg's Board to review BYOB proposal , ed by a margin of 40-15 was a resolution characterized Bowen's by Wendy Dauphinais in the spa. Hard liquor will not be mittee felt that "this type of sharing substitute for a plan Professor Roger resolution as "strident. " Like Miriam Students who have turned 20 by allowed. of alcohol per table will deplete 'one Bowen introduced earlier in the Bennet , who also co-signed the June 1, 1985 might be allowed to bring Baxter said .the committee wished to person 's supply quicker , and reduce 's resolution, it meeting . Like Bowen Tietenberg resolution, Meehan was their own beer and wine into the pub, avoid confining alcohol to certain areas the other person 's source, ultimately applauded the intent of the Trustees' particularly dissatisfied with Bowen's according to a proposal which will be of the spa , because it didn 't want discouraging a hoarding of alcohol." recent decision to begin divestment in characterization of the Trustees as submitted to the senior staff and the exclusion. Drinking will be allowed every day , if the South African situa- May, 1987 hanging onto "the naive hope that con- board of trustees for review , said Scott There will be a limit of one six pack from 5 p.m. until 1 a.m. Originally, he , like tion does not improve. Also ditions will change for the better by Baxter , chairman of the spa of beer, or one bottle of wine per table, said , the proposal had included an Bowen's resolution , it expressed some May, 1987." "I don 't think you get committee. at a time. Additional supplies of beer alcohol checker at the door of the spa, regret concerning the decision to what you want by making these stri- The proposal states that anyone who or wine may be placed under the table, however, this idea was quickly rejected postpone divestment. dent statements," Meehan said. has turned twenty as of June 1 1985 he said. because it caused Colby to be directly Tictenberg's document differed Noting that many faculty members will be allowed to bring a limited According to Baxter , the spa com- BYOB Page 4 from Bowen's in two respects. First, suppor ted Bowen 's dates and amount of beer and wine into any area McGrory to be honored Mary McGrory will be honored Board of Trustees, serve as ex officio Page Awards competition, won the tomorrow evening as the thirty-third members of the selection committee. George Polk Memorial Award for na- recipient of Colby's Elijah Parish McGrory, a Boston native, joined tional reporting in 1963, and became Lovejoy Award. A Pulitzer Prize win- the post as a columnist in September a Sigma Delta Chi fellow in 1973. ning Washington Post columnist , 1981. The Lovejoy Award was establish- McGrory will deliver a speech in After a brief stint at the Boston ed by Colby in 1952 to honor jour- Roberts Union 's Smith , Robins, and Herald, she joined the Washington nalists who display integrity and Hurd Rooms at 8pm. The public is in- Star as a book reviewer in 1947. Her courage with regard to freedom of the vited to the speech. debut as a national commentator came press. A private reception and dinner in the spring of 1954 when Newbold It was named for Elijah Parish honoring McGrory will precede the Noyes, the national editor, assigned Lovejoy, speech at 5:15pm in the Jette Art her to the biggest story of the day, the an 1826 graduate of Water- ville College (now Colby), who is con- Museum. Army-McCarthy hearings. sidered to be America s first martyr for McGrory "was chosen for the award Her column h as been syndicated ' by the members of the Lovejoy Selec- since 1 960 and currently appears three freedom of the press. tion Committee: Eugene Patterson, the times per week. Lovejoy was killed in 1 837 at Alton, editor and president of the St. In 1975, McGrory received jour- Illinois , as he tried to defend his press Petersburg (FLA) Times; C.K. nalism's highest honor, the Puli tzer against a mob that was unhappy with McClatchy, editor and president of Prize for commentary. The award's Lovejoy's anti-slavery editorials. California's McClatchy newspapers; citation read ,"for trenchant commen- Past winners of the Lovejoy award Martin F. Nolan, editorial page editor tary spread over more than 20 years ns include Thomas Winship, the former of the Boston Globe; and Lois Wllle, a' reporter ancl columnist in the Na- editor-in-chief of the Boston Globe? the Chicago Tribune's deputy editorial t ion's Capi tol. " Anthony Lewis, award winning New page editor. She holds more than half a dozen York Times columnist; and A.M. Senior Scott Croll was one of 70 runners last Saturday In the race President William Cotter and H. awards from the Washington- Rosenthal, the executive editor of the that earned approximately $3,000 for the fight against multiple KWgeJy, , Mlqck, chairman , , of , ,the Baltimore Newspaper, Guild Front New York Times. sclerosis. See story, p. ¦2. ¦¦ . ' * ' " . ' ' , ' . ' : ' / r~Z' • ' ' ¦' ' • • • . - •, 70 participate in MS run Off the Hill by Ten Scally Seventy runners participated in last weekend's 10K Road Race to benefit Multiple Sclerosis, according to Kelly Chopus, campus chairperson for Students Against Multiple Sclerosis ' Spermbu sters ' busted (S.A.M.S.). Alumni, administration, faculty, The Harvard administration recently shut down a business venture of several students, and members of the Water- students.. The short lived group, calling themselves the "Spermbusters," adver- ville community were represented in tised a condom delivery service in the school paper, with both regular and ex- the race. press service. The group, sporting the slogan, "We'll come before 'you do," The overall winner of the race, with was stopped by the administration who said that since the business ran out of a finishing time of 31 minutes, 26 the dorm , the college could decide whether it favorably represented Harvard.

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