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Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 1999-2000 Student Newspapers 10-1-1999 College Voice Vol. 23 No. 5 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1999_2000 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "College Voice Vol. 23 No. 5" (1999). 1999-2000. 9. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1999_2000/9 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 1999-2000 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. • DDS a sss •• -- FOLK LITERARY FIELD FESTIVAL MAGAZINE HOCKEY menagerie brings student Dar Williams keeps folk alive Team recovers from tough poetry, short stories to loss. at the Eli Whitney Festival. campus. page 7 page 3 page 3 OLLEGE PUBLlSIIED WEEKLYOICE BY TIlE STUDENTS OF CONNOCTICUT COI.l.cGI.: FRIDAY, OCTOBER I, 1999 VOLUME XXIII· NUMBER 5 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE, NEW LONDON, CT On the Waterfront: New London Looks Towards the Sea for Revitalization Construction Coast Guard Academy Begins on Conference Looks to Bolster Local Shipping Industry $15 Million Bv ROB KNAKE fast ferry service from New London to New York and the availability of managing editor government funds. "We can help you Waterfront John Markowitz had some news build the boats, but it is up to you to for the crowd of New Londoners as- have the shoreline built and the car sembled at the Coast Guard Academy and docking spaces in place before Park last Tuesday: "If you've been stuck any of tbat can happen." in traffic on 1-95 this summer, it is As far as a commercial feeder Bv ROB KNAKE only going to get worse." port, McKeon said that cargo ship- managing editor Markowitz, the Southeastern ping is going to double or triple in Connecticut Enterprise Region Ex- the next 20 years and that "there is With a little help from the NLDC, ecutive Director, had a solution to the no reason why your port can't take the city of New London drove the problem. "What we have to do is fo- advantage of that." first piling for the new $15 million cus on developing barge and cargo Most of the participants agreed waterfront park. services to remove some of the cargo that these options should be exam- "I'm excited," said city resident from our highways." ined. Where to go from there was the Alan Mayer. "It's a long time com- Like most of the other 75-odd question, ing and it's the first sign of something players at the two-day conference on Stakeholders and panelists alike happening in New London for the revitalizing New London's marine referred to the New London Devel- residents," industry, Markowitz saw tremendous opment Corporation's (NLDC) role In his speech to the assembled economic benefits if New London as a "spark-plug" in getting other crowd at the pile driving ceremony, could embrace cargo shipping and major projects off the ground in New New London Development Corpora- high-speed ferry transit. London. However, it was not clear to tion (NLDC) Chief Operating Officer Enter the Harold E. Shear State the participants that the NLDC had David Goebel said that the park was Pier and Port New London. With its or would take on such a role for the not just for the residents but "for, of naturally deep harbor, rail and high- pier. and by the people of New London." way connections, as well as its rela- Connecticut College President The waterfront park, which will tive proximity to the ports of New Claire Gaudiani '66, who spoke at the include a promenade that will extend York and Boston, some say New Lon- conference before the panel discus- from past the railroad station down don is an ideal spot for a feeder or sion, did not focus on the State Pier to the Shaw's Cove inlet, is only one niche port to service the economies or the commercial maritime indus- of several major projects initiated by of Eastern Connecticut and Southern tries. Instead, she emphasized recre- the NLDC since its re-inception un- Rhode Island. arion as well as the attractiveness of der the leadership of College Presi- Local sea captains, the harbor and waterways, and com- dent Claire Gaudiani '66 in 1997. harbormasters, port pilots and other mented on the recent successes New Said Mayor Tim West, "I don't local marine industry workers pre- London has enjoyed. believe this is just a waterfront park; sented this view to a panel of local Speaking of the New London I believe this is an engine that will VIPs and asked them how tho;)' could Walkway Project, which wilt link drive our economy." help. eventually link Connecticut College The park was planned more than State Senator Catherine Cook '73 to downtown New London and be- two years ago in a series of work- was the first panelist to speak. Ex- yond, Gaudiani touted the fact that shops with New London residents. plaining the region's recent economic "you will be able 10 walk, run or push Bruce Hyde, director of the New Lon- troubles, she said, "During the Cold your baby carriage from tbe Arbore- don office of planning and develop- War, we were the most defense-de- tum rigbt to the edge of the Pfizer ment, is very proud of the process. pendent county in the U.S. The property." "We decided to take a different county received $9,000 defense dol- Gaudiani went on to describe the tack for this project. That is, instead lars per capita. 22,000 employees at inspiration that workers at the new of hiring an archi teet to come up with Electric Boat were very rapidly Pftzer Global Development Facility a design, we held workshops to come dropped to 8,000. We came to a need (now under construction) will receive up with what the residents wanted." to do something about the port out of from the 270-degree water views the Seventeen different plans came fear." complex will have. out of that process and were voted on The specifics of what can be done "One day, what I hope i that at a public display at the local high A pile is lowered into place, beginning construction of the New London Waterfront Park. with the port were spelled out by Bob someone at Pfizer will call his spouse school. The final plan was taken to McKeon of the Department of and say honey, I'm not coming home. the architectural firm Sasaki Inc. to want to put money into "boutiques Hyde did note that with the "Historically cities that open up Transportation's Maritime Adminis- Meet me at the boat in Crocker Boat and coffee shops," but New London completion of the waterfront, the ' Hyde was "surprised to find that tration. residents wanted to focus directly on commercial district behind it will SEESHIPPING commercial interests were really SEEWATERFRONT McKeon spoke on developing low." He had expected the residents creating a waterfront park. probably be strengthened. continued on page 4 cOlltillued 011 pages Students React Negatively to Film Strategic Plan Calls for More Diverse Campus "It's not just a recruiting or admissions issue. Bv JEANINE MILLARD We've got a big pool of minority prospects, appli- Society's "Japanese Porn" staff writer cants and accepted [students] who are not coming Senses is the first movie in film soci- s the next decade brings about drastic to Conn." Parish reports that matriculation of ac- Bv ROB KNAKE The film society advertised the movie on posters and in a flyer list- ety history to make a profit." growth among the nation's minority popu cepted minority students is 10 to 15% lower than managing editor ing all the semester's movies. The The two showings drew a total A lations, President Gaudiani '66 plans to for Caucasian acceptees. poster describes it as "Japanese Porn: audience over 150 students. How- imitate this trend by attracting more minority pro- Leslie Williams, Director of Unity House, Last Friday night, the Connecti- agrees that Conn's low number of minority stu- cut College Film Society held two Banned in Japan for 30 years." The ever, estimates provided by Film So- fessors, students, and staff to Connecticut College. dents is not just due to the applicant pool, but to showings of the highly controversial flyer described the movie in detail, ciety members place the number of In the Strategic Plan unveiled last week, Presi- Conn's lack of multiculturalism. Japanese film In the Realm of the saying "You've probably never seen students who left from 25-50. One dent Gaudiani set forth lofty goals for making Conn anything like this in your whole life." scene in particular, according to Ihle, a more diverse community: "Conn College is not perceived as a very di- Senses. verse institution. Students will go places where The movie, set in 1936, Tokyo (Both the poster and flyer indicated caused a host of students to walk out, "By 2005, thirty percent of our students, 20 that the movie carries an NC-17 rat- when the film showed a young boy's percent of the faculty, and 20 percent of the staff they feel multiculturalism is more available." depicts the real life torrid affair of Although Senior Jonathan Musoke, a native ing.) penis being cruelly tugged by his will be non-Caucasian." Currently, only 13% of Saga, a young geisha, and her lover Nigerian living in Unity House, did decide to en- Kiehl.