the ChaMPLaiN CURRENT Champlain College • Burlington, Vermont Vol. 8, No. 58 • February 2011 NEWS BRIEFS An Overview of the Q by amanda King The very first thing that friendly.” Champlain College Staff Writer needs to be noted about Quarry In addition to being a larger is its size. The building can dorm, Quarry is an apartment SGA Has Important Quarry Hill has become some- accommodate around 90 fresh- building. Students there live Announcements: Monthly Open what infamous around campus. man and transfer students. in individual apartments com- Forum meetings will be held Rumors have spread that it’s This is significantly larger than plete with bedrooms (doubles), starting Monday, February 7th at the “party dorm,” that damage the average dorm on campus a kitchen, living room and 4:30 pm in the Morgan Room of records have been set, and that (Bader for example only holds bathroom. In that sense, it’s a Aiken. The topic will be “Should the freshman there have been 25). At press time, there were 20 lot like Spinner. Each apart- Faculty Evaluations Be Public?” seen on the bus with open bottles empty beds. Having that many ment is larger than any room on Elections are being held of alcohol. It’s a reputation that students, freshman or not, in one campus with the living rooms Monday February 28th – March is not exactly flattering and place is bound to result in a few alone being big enough to house 2nd in the Fireside Lounge. also not exactly accurate. While more write-ups and parties than a few students. They are also Logo Contest submissions are it’s true that Quarry has been the smaller dorms, and it’s not open with large windows and a due Friday, February 7th. known to have parties, gets its because of the undecided fresh- door leading out onto a private fair share of write-ups, and even man. Nicole Baker, an RA at balcony. Each of the bedrooms Student Accounts Reminder: has undergone some damage Quarry, puts it this way: “I think has a private bathroom and its Returning Student Tuition and (in the form of a keyed eleva- it’s the numbers thing. Because Housing Deposits are due in tor door), it’s far from the place there are so many, it’s magnified. See Quarry Photo By StePheN MeaSe March. described. Honestly, everybody is really Page 8 CHAMP Events: Snow Ball is Thursday, February 3rd 9:00 pm – 11:30 pm at the Hilton’s Remembering Wesnide Labissière INSIDE Adirondack Ballroom. Tickets are $5 at the Hub and $10 at the by Kayleigh Blanchette remember her amazing life and to have a tiny chocolate bar from Erica Lynch-Ferrier, a junior door. Transportation provided. Staff Writer influence. her bowl on the table, and sit and study abroad alum from Education Students Attire is semi-formal or formal. “She taught me more than across from her desk and laugh Fall 2011 was at Girl’s Night Serving Community The day I arrived in Montreal about things. So many (we renamed her TJ). “After that BYOBiz Update: Deadline to with my family mini-van packed times I came home night, anything I did when she 2 sign up for The Elevator Pitch full of stuff, I met Wesnide. I was from work in such a was around was “so totally T.J.” Competition is Friday, February the RA, and she was my HR, but good mood because we She thought our fake names 4th. Make sure you’ve attended Wesnide was more than just a had had an hour and a were the funniest things ever. an informational meeting before co-worker. Not more than a day half talk.” It was like a cute little secret all then. Contact Bob Bloch for more into my study abroad experience, Wesnide’s office, the girls had. I’d go up to her and information. Wesnide and I were best friends. with its bright red say something like, “how’s Chloe Wesnide was the most amazing chairs, mural (painted today?” and she’d smile, wink and person to talk to, confide in, and by a study abroad comment about something I did Burlington get advice from. She was always student), and that that was ‘totally T.J.’” Wesnide there to give her honest opinion memorable candy was a chameleon who fit in and Enjoyburlington.com Events: and one of her big hugs. bowl, was the place of adapted effortlessly to her sur- Burlington Winter Festival on I remember one moment with many memories. roundings, and always brought February 5th 10:00 am – 3:30 pm her particularly well. She was Alex Dahl, a senior energy and joy to the group. at Church Street Marketplace, treating me to coffee at her favor- and study abroad alum Wesnide was a study abroad ECHO, and Burlington ite nearby café, Café Imagination. from Spring 2010, said, student’s guiding light in Waterfront. Admission to ECHO There, Wesnide gave me advice “I remember always Montreal, a city she knew like is $2. Snow Carving Competition, that I will cherish forever. She leaving her office feel- the back of her hand. She was Photo ProVided By JohN StrouP Ice Walk, Vermont Special told me, “don’t say you can’t do ing better than when always there to give directions, Olympic Penguin Plunge, and something because it’s too hard; I had entered, and I speak French, or recommend an more. there are always ways of reaching know she had the same outing. your goals.” I plan to live my life effect on everyone. She “Wesnide took her relation- Martin Luther King Knights of Columbus Robbed: by this now more than ever, if not taught me not to take ship with us students above Play Packs House South Burlington charity from just to carry on the inspirational Photo By Noé Sardet life too seriously, but and beyond her school responsi- the Knights of Columbus hall legacy Wesnide left behind. just get the most out of bilities,” said David Tabaruka, a 5 were robbed of about $4,000 that According to Champlain just how to survive French it that you can.” Champlain graduate and study had been set aside for several College Provost Robin Abramson, class,” Cara Salvatore, a junior Wesnide was a completely abroad alum from fall of 2008. local charities including the “On December 28, 2010, after and Fall 2010 study abroad alum selfless individual. She always “I told her that I loved going to Ronald McDonald House and celebrating Christmas with said. “She taught me to have put her friends and students church every Sunday, so this one Camp Ta-Kum-Ta, a camp for her family, Wesnide passed confidence in everything I do. I first. One night, Wesnide and I day she invited me to her church. children suffering from cancer. away unexpectedly in her sleep. will always remember her say- planned to get the seven girls in The service was way too long [so] Wesnide was 37 years old, and ing, ‘Cara, sit there, take a deep Montreal (a minority among the that I was falling asleep. She Magic Hat Brewery Produces was about to celebrate her 38th breath, focus...you can do it!’” 23 students) to hang out together. looked at me (smiling) then said, Energy: Eric Fitch, founder and birthday this January. Wesnide’s Wesnide was full of words of She invited us to her apartment ‘this is unusual. I promise next CEO of Massachusetts-based family still commemorated the wisdom. Shona Watt, Montreal’s for Girl’s Night to have snacks time it won’t be so long.’ From PurposeEnergy, Inc., patented occasion.” new campus coordinator, said, and gossip under the condition that day we became good friends. an anaerobic digester that Learning that Wesnide had “She was incredibly helpful that no boys were allowed. We I introduced her to my family. takes leftover grain that would passed away was shocking and when I first started and always ate and laughed for hours. At one She became a very best friend to otherwise be discarded and painful for so many people. gave me good advice. Whenever point, we thought it would be fun my mother and my sisters to the breaks it down into methane to Study abroad alums, coworkers I wasn’t sure about something to come up with new names for be used to power the brewery’s and friends of Wesnide’s came at work, I would trek the two each other. We renamed Wesnide See Wesnide boiler and other systems that together on her Facebook page to flights up the stairs to her office “Chloe.” Page 8 Photo By StePheN MeaSe run on natural gas. National Fáilte Ireland Arrival in South Africa Boston Woman sentenced for by rachel Salois in Burlington, I thought that Opens Opportunities U.S. Military Sales to China: and elizabeth Crawford biking to North Beach was a big Massachusetts electronics Dublin Correspondents accomplishment for a weekend. by Melissa Sheketoff what I was about to do. Before company manager was sentenced Last Saturday, I woke up at South Africa Correspondent and even after I arrived in Cape to three years in prison for Rachel – 10 after a night of dancing; went Town, it still didn’t seem like a conspiring over 10 years to As far as foreign countries go, to see 800 year old mummies at After a 17-hour flight, I finally reality. It seemed like something export U.S. military equipment Ireland isn’t too different from the Saint Michan’s Church at 11; landed in Cape Town, South I continuously told people I was China.