Mules to host ECAC Basketball Tournament their eighteen game win If we get the crowd I think streak on the line against we might get, it will be a The rush of fans into the Rhode Island College (16-8), great advantage, a Wadsworth Gym will at 9 o'clock. On Saturday the tremendous help to our probably be something a two winners will square-off players." little less dramatic than in a 4 o'clock contest. "This year we have had people trying to get festival An ECAC tournament tremendous support from seating at a Cincinnati Who crown has been as much a fans," continues junior concert. But many people, stumbling block to Dick Nipper McLeod. "It will be a 3500 to be exact, will be able Whitmore and his men as the\ big deciding factor." to see some of the finest NCAA crown was elusive to McLeod also praised the fan Division III hoop action for Dean Smith of Carolina until support at the Mules final $2, or $1 for students. The last year". This will be the regular season contest, a reason? The Colby White Mules' sixth appearance in road trip to Bowdoin. In last Mules put together their the tournament in the last Saturday's 86-80 victory, the finest season record, 18-1, a eleven years, but only twice Mules accomplished the mark that has kept them at has Colby made it past the rather formidable task of the head of the polls and first round. Will there be any beating Bowdoin at their earned them * the honor of extra motivation? "The key home court two years in a hosting the ECAC Tour- thing is to maintain row. "It was one of those up nament. momentum," muses and down type games , " The tournament will be Whitmore. "We've kept explains Whitmore. "We got three games, with Bowdoin everything together and it behind and lost our rhythm. ( third -seed with a 17-6 will require one more We were behind 34-29 at the record ) • playing Trinity weekend of doing it. You half. In the second half we (second seed, 20-2) at 7 always feel that extra in- played a great half. We got o'clock on Friday night. centive, especially in your ahead fairly quickly and Then the home team lays own gym! It better be there. were able to sustain it throughout the game." The game featured an im- Posner speaks pressive free-throw clinic by McLeod, who sunk 13 of 13 in the last ten minutes. ("I just went to the line and sunk the on human rights foul shots," modestly ex- plains the junior guard who by Jeff Moore Human Rights, talked about has a 93 percent accuracy "Human Rights in 1983" and from the line. "For some A "Nuremburg syn- his recent two week visit to reason I didn't even hear the drome" surrounding the El Salvador. The history crowd," which was killing of three American department and Amnesty Bowdoin's largest ever.) nuns and a lay worker in El International sponsored the The team also got a strong Salvador has caused a Feb. 28 lecture. inside game, with Harland Salvadoran national guard Posner said the families of Storey collecting 14 cover-up, according to the four churchwomen killed rebounds, Larry Crowley 12, Michael Posner. in El Salvador contacted the and Bob Patience con- Posner, a board member Lawyers' Committee for tributing 10. Despite foul of Amnesty International Human Rights ten days after trouble, Rick Fusco and a representative of the the murder. Posner was managed to . dish out five Lawyers' Committee for assists to bring his total up to con tinued on p. h 216. As for bad news, Jim Gaudette is sick and will be /SflHMBBBHHHHBHHHHHHHJHHHIBHHnHV Bob Patience (h0) watches hi s shot go in out for the rest of the season, Chip as Bowdoin players 'Wi per (24) and Chris Jerome (15) look on. (Photo by continued on p. 2 Whitney Draper) y BMBrtffllHIHMi ^^^ MBMW g Hauss spo nso rs com puterized stud y by Chris Schmidt the argument about background, campus life, sources which have in- $ Third world class p. 4 fraternities has been going and national issues. formed opinions a bout A group of nine govern- on "with virtually no reliable Group member Scott fraternities. Examples ment students is attempting evidence," Niemann believes it is im- would include fraternity 1 to determine the impact of portant that the survey also presidents, faculty advisors 'Magic review p. 14 fraternities on all aspects of The four part study will include questions' about all to fraternities, the dean's $ college life through a begin with a survey of aspects of campus , life office, and outspoken comprehensive, com- * students to determine because "we are trying to students for and against puterized study. Unlike general perceptions of generate more of an in- fraternities. Women's basketball previous studies, this effort campus life and students' tellectual response rather The third part of the study • will focus less on people's experiences with frater- than emotional one." will be to determine to what p. 17 opinions and more on nities. According to group The second part of the extent the charges leveled at measurabledata. member Dieter Weber, the study will be the in- fraternities are true. Professor Chip Hauss, the survey will ask ordinal terviewing of student, group's sponsor, notes that questions about personal faculty, and administration continued on p. 2 Amnesty International member speaks by Steven Nicholas "change in federal attitudes and a permanent com- mitment to human rights," he said. The human rights issue has "taken its place on the That commitment is further reflected by the increased agenda of political discussion," according to Amnesty activity of various international human rights International executive board member Michael Posner. organizations. Thereris a growing trend toward treating Fans out-of-bounds Although the human rights movement is "still in its human rights issues at the/UnitedNations , through their infancy," it has "moved remarkably quickly and ef- Human Rights Commission. THE HARVARD CRIMSON reports that a senior fectively toward making human rights a serious issue in The Organization of American States now has an who beaned a Cornell University hockey goalie with a the Washington political debate," he Said. Interamerican Commission on Human Rights also, beer can has been asked to withdraw for a year. Fans Posner talked about the evolution of the human rights Posner said. In addition, an Interamerican Court on at the Harvard-Cornell game hurled tennis balls, a movement in the United States, and its hopes for future Human Rights, established in the late 1970's, is beginning chicken, and bottles onto the ice during the game. progress at the Guy P. Gannett lecture at Colby College to hear cases. John B. Fox, Dean of Harvard College condemned Monday night. Amnesty International, among the better known human the fan behavior in an advertisement in THE rights groups, is." getting bigger and stronger in terms of CRIMSON: "The College will not tolerate the 'There is now an intern ationa l funds and members," according to Posner. denigration of an athletic event by irresponsible fans The group's primary goal is to "bring attention to whose misguided support of the home team creates human rights violations that occur," by publicizing then}. an atmosphere of violence and hatred." consensus that certain govern ment In addition, the Amnesty International sometimes sends missions to countries in which human rights violations activities are unaccep table. ' occur to "try and make their domestic( legal) procedures move more forcefully. " Posner has participated in Drinks and Greeks Posner, a New York attorney who also serves as Amnesty International missions to the Philippines , executive director of the Lawyers Committee for Inter- Uganda, and most recently, El Salvador. There he THE MIDDLEBURY CAMPUS reports that the national Human Rights, said the movement has evolved represented the families of the four churchwomen who college has been granted liquor and caterer's through the passing of human rights legislation, the were killed in December of 1980. licenses. The college applied for the licenses when establishment of a federal human rights bureaucracy, Progress in human rights is being made, but it is "a long Vermont liquor officials notified the college that the and the activities of various international human rights process," according to Posner. state would begin "enforcing liquor regulations more organizations like Anmesty International. "The human rights issue has not reached the status of strictly on the campus, thus ending the tacit "There is now an international consensus that certain important economic and strategic concerns, and it agreement that the college will police its own par- government activities - arbitrary arrest, torture,, probably never will," he said. "But the issue is on the ties." Large parties where liquor is served are now disappearances - are unacceptable," Posner said. agenda. It now comes into play in virtually every debate legal, though the college must be notified three weeks In this country, there are presently "at least a dozen about military and financial assistance. It is taken in advance. The college must obtain approval from laws" restricting U.S. military and economic assistance seriously as an element of foreign policy in the U.S., the state to transfer the liquor license to the place of to nations whose governments engage in these "gross Europe, and the Third World," he added. "Tha t was not the party from its nominal location, the president's violations of human rights,'' Posner said. the case 10 years ago." dining room inProctor Hall. In addition, the Bureau of Human Rights and "The Reagan administration now realizes that the The faculty at Trinity College has passed a rights issue is not going to go away, resolution to abolish all fraternities and sororities.