Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 2006-2007 Student Newspapers 11-17-2006 College Voice Vol. 31 No .9 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_2006_2007 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "College Voice Vol. 31 No .9" (2006). 2006-2007. 14. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_2006_2007/14 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in 2006-2007 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. First Class • U.S. Postage PAID Permit #35 . New London,IT ,. o e e :~ Olee Pt;BUSHED WEEKL Y BY THE STUDENTS OF CONNECTICUT COllEGE ~0LUME XXXI • NUMBER 9 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2006 :! CONNECTICUT COLLEGE, NEW loNDON, CT :: ,. Students, Faculty Discuss Campus Culture At Conn SPPHIE MATHEWSON SGA had ordered were filled," ication habits, including fighting added Harris. "My colleagues and I and sexual misconduct. On a less were running around and taking serious note, Hopkins Gross " News Editor chairs from Cro's Nest. We realized quipped, "Our students do come Reports of vandalism; bigotry, how big of an event this was going very well trained in playing drink- hospitalizations and other inci- to be." ing games." dents-largely related to alcohol- Armando Bengochea, Dean of Though the rool? was able to have been circulating around cam- the College Community, was the share laughs, there were also issues pus for weeks. On Wednesday, first to speak, and clarified the tone raised much more grave in nature. N~vember 15th, the hearsay culmi- of the administration's perspective. Over the now infamous alumni nated in an SGA-organized campus- "I'm too much of a realist to feel weekend this year, for example, a wide summit in the 1941 Room to outrage about drinking," he said, visiting student with a blood alcohol discuss campus culture. pointing out the distinction between level of .35 stopped breathing in the "About two months ago, SGA outrage and his "grave concern and ambulance on the way to the hospi- began to realize that the drinking disappointment." tal. John Bitters of Counseling culture on OUf campus was reaching Anne Hopkins Gross, Interim Services informed the crowd that a a critical mass and that actions Dean of Student Life, spoke next blood alcohol level of .4 would needed to be taken," said Zakaree while presenting a slide show abun- induce a coma. This fall, there have M. Harris '07, SGA's Chair of dant in statistics. While it is neither been 13 hospital transports. Diversity and Equity, who helped to new nor shocking that college stu- With all the evidence laid out, plan last year's similarly formatted dents engage in binge drinking and both visible and statistical, students Diversity Summit. the unfortunate associated behaviors and faculty alike acknowledged that •Before the various administra- that can result from it.what students something needed to be done to tive and student speakers began, stu- may have found surprising was the change our culture. Students in dents were split into different tables, staggering increase in many of these attendance emphasized' building with the objective of having peers behaviors between 2004 and 2006. community and raising awareness- come together in mixed groups Both suspensions and expulsions a feat, students are learning, more Director of 'Residential Life & Housing Shelly Metivier Scott engages in a discussion with students at the Culture Summit Wednestkl)' (Mitcbell). rather than just sitting with friends. have increased in the past two years, easily said than done. (The Summit's most immediate sign as have other various violations. Some were also curious if the stances, become a dry campus. Students gently reminded others Freeman, who recently hosted a of success may have been the lack Drunk driving is, as always, a seri- administration would ever respond Despite some feelings of accusa- what we may be taking for granted Dessert & Dialogue also dedicated ofseating-an estimated 225 people ous issue on campus. Hopkins Gross to the transgressions of the student tion and disapproval (some athletes in the midst of so much blatant dis- showed up, and many stood or sat also discussed a survey given to the body with more punitive measures. felt as though they were being tar- respect. SEESUMMIT around the perimeter. ' Class of '10 prior to coming to Multiple speakers emphasized that geted for much of the behavior), the "College is a privilege," said Continued on page six "At 7:55 all of the chairs that Conn. Students reported their intox- Conn would not, under any circum- tone was generally optimistic. Sarah Chandler '07, Housefellow of Collegiate Runners Left Itching For Answers Umoja, Feminist Majority New England Cross Country Teams Feel Effects Of The Enigmatic NESCAC Rash Sponsor "Women In BY SOPHIE MATHEWSON Black" Vigil than two weeks later, many of the could not collect the snails responsi- Many of the male runners also runners are still trying to rid them- News Editor ble for the contamination for testing developed the rash, but the women's BY DASHA LAVRENNIKOV wide network of women committed selves of the unfortunate memento due to the unusual weather condi- cases seem to be worse-something to peace with justice and actively Staff Writer On October 28th, NESCAC they unknowingly took from their lions. However, she said that that may be attributed to the worsen- opposed to injustice, war, militarism coo.ss.,cuUll1r¥teams ccmpered.injhe championship race. Professor Loomis of the Biology ing conditions through the course of and other forms of violence. annual conference championships at Initially, the.rash was a bit of an department, as well as another the day (the men ran first} as well as On Monday, November 13, According to the Women in Black nearby Harkness Memorial State enigma among the campus health marine biologist, had been consulted the' fact that girls shaving their legs between 30 and 35 women in black New York website, "[Women in Park. With torrential rain, 50 mph centers. Insect bites were ruled out, and the consensus was that the rash might have further irritated the 'skin. stood together at a vigil in era Black] stand in silent vigil to protest winds, and flooding that produced and an environmental health official undoubtedly came from the parasite. Though everyone's rashes origi- mourning the deaths that have war, rape as a tool of war, ethnic thigh-deep water at certain parts of as well as a botanist scoured the trail When the parasite burrows under nated from the same source-the occurred recently in Afghanistan, the cleansing and human rights abuses the course, the setting was far from and found no traces of poison ivy. human skin, it causes Cercaria! der- contaminated marsh waters that Congo Republic, Darfur, Iraq, Israel, allover the world. We are siJeiit idyllic. But the real problems began So what turned out to be the culprit? matitis' commonly known as flooded the course- the rashes are Lebanon, Palestine and Sri Lanka, as because mere words cannot expre long after everyone had crossed the The parasite cercariae, released into Swimmer's Itch. of varying degrees and types: photo- well as deaths in the U.S. from 9/11, the tragedy that wars and hal¢<! finish line, when approximately the overflowing waters by infected "It was miserable," said Conn graphs show a range of small, dot- Hurricane Katrina, domestic vio- bring. We refuse to add to the 60% of all the runners developed an snails. Captain Laura Bernardi '07, one of like bumps to a more spread out dis- lence, gang violence, and other cacophony of empty statements that uncomfortable, itchy skin condition On November 16th, Cate the team members who started coloration resembling a bad burn. crimes and natural disasters. They are spoken with the best intentions that covered their bodies-a phe- Moffett, APRN, Conn's Director of noticing red bumps on her body the Some unfortunate runners have also were students, faculty, staff, and a yet may be erased or go unheard nomenon that is now notoriously Student Health Services, reported night of the race. "The itching wa~ developed an infection. few women from Quaker Hill. They under the sound of a passing ambu- known among the New England that the Ledgelight Health so painful that some girls were cry- "It's disgusting," said Bernardi, stood in silence in the lobby of Cro lance or a bomb exploding nearby; schools as the NESCAC Rash. More Sanitarian investigating the waters ing." who also joked, "We're all calling it for 75 minutes. Some people were OUf silence is visible. We wear black the "NESclap." present for the entire time, while as a symbol of sorrow for all victims The infamous rash has been others came and went as their class of war, for the destruction of people, written about in most of the or work schedules allowed. Nearly nature and the fabric of life. Women NESCAC school newspapers, as 200 copies of a "Women in Black" in Black is an international peace well as in various personal blogs. handout were passed out explaining network, a means of mobilization What has surprised many of the run- the purpose of the vigil. and a formula for action." ners is how much attention their The vigil at Connecticut College Tbe Women in Black vigils were bumps have received. According to was organized by Joan Chrisler and started in Israel in 1988 by women Moffett, word got all the way to co-sponsored by UMOJA and protesting against lsradl's Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell, Feminist Majority.