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Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 2011-2012 Student Newspapers 11-14-2011 College Voice Vol. 95 No. 7 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_2011_2012 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "College Voice Vol. 95 No. 7" (2011). 2011-2012. 13. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_2011_2012/13 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 2011-2012 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. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14 2011 NEW LONDON, CONNEOICUT VOLUME XCV ' ISSUE 7 ,Honor Council Holds Mock Trial • EMMALINE DEIHL much has been known about it in the wider cam- low students: the Honor Council. works, because it is so unique to Connecticut STAFF WRITER pus community. On Friday, November II, Honor Council put College. Students do ask for more transparency Instituted in 1922, the Honor Code is a de- on a mock trial to demonstrate how a typical in the judicial process, but it is difficult." Because of its confidentiality rules, the Honor fining feature of Connecticut College, allowing hearing works and how Honor Council operates. "Having these mock hearings is a great way Council is often perceived as a mysterious or- students to be personally responsible for their Alicia Cauteruccio '12, Chair of Honor Council, for students to come in and educate themselves ganization, unlike the more transparent SGA, academic and social actions and creating a sense described the purpose of the mock trial, "One of and be able to witness what a hearing is like House Council and various other committees of trust and community among students and fac- the most important things about the judicial pro- without us having to compromise our standards and organizations, Though the Council handles ulty, Students are expected to uphold the Honor cess is that we really do value confidentiality, of confidentiality. Even if you're not anticipat- Honor Code violations, a task that is important Code at all times, but when violations do occur, but, at the same time, students really do need ing ever coming before us, it's always good to to the integrity of the academic community, not those students are judged by a panel of their fel- to be educated about how the judicial process know how the process works." CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 , CAROLINE LAZAR STAFF WRITER stared over at Art with a look later de- crowded the Ernst Common Room to and depicts Jews as mice and Germans (the oversentimentalization and exploi- scribed by Boyd as "groupie-ish," watch him discuss his cartooning career as cats. From the very beginning of the ration of the Holocaust in popular me- J spilled a hot cup of cider on my It was impossible not to stare as with English professors Lina Wilder, panel event, Spiegelman tended to shy dia), Spiegelman made it clear that he sweater when I saw Art Spiegelman Spiegelman relaxed before his after- Jeff Strabane and Boyd, who is also the away from discussing his masterpiece has never been interested in being "the lounging with English professor and noon panel event. I read enough Maus director of Connecticut College's Dan- in favor of talking about his love for the Elie Weisel of comic books," 1-1 is goal Writer in Residence Blanche Boyd out- in school to be in awe of the legend- iel Klagsbrun Symposium 0.0 Creative art and history of comics, which Spie- in creating Marts was never to represent side of Shain last Tuesday, Pulling wet ary cartoonist. There he was, stroking Arts and Moral Vision, which spon- gelman said developed cornpensatorily a population at large and, in downpJay- wool from my skin and maintaining an a salt and pepper beard and smoking sored the event. as a way to counteract having a lack of ing the novel's iconic status, said that air of cool in front of the Pulitzer Prize- his school spirit in the form of a Camel Spiegelman's defining work, Maus, is skill in baseball. Though he gamely re- it "was understandable because when I winning graphic novelist of Maus were cigarette. My admiration for Spiegel- a 1986 graphic novel which tells the sto- sponded to the questions posed by the made Matts, there was no context [for mutually exclusive events. I mopped man was clearly matched by the many ry of his father's life and imprisonment professors addressing the origins of comparison 1." myself off with a fistful of napkins and members of the Conn community who in the Auschwitz concentration camp, Maus and his views on "Holokitsch'' CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 The Best Dorm Rooms on Campus Whitewashing History ETHAN HARFENIST OPINIONS EDITOR The celebrated graffiti KB- smeared over with a coat of I lived in KB my freshman Larrabee tunnel is no more, ugly white paint, rage coursed and junior years. Aside from While the tunnel itself still through my veins. How could having Coffee Grounds on stands, the spirit that made it someone do that without in- the first floor and being con- such a unique and cool place forming a single person about veniently located across from has been sucked out; it is it? Did it occur to those white- Cro and a Frisbee throwaway a shell of its fanner self, a washing the tunnel that they from Harris, the KB-Larrabee whitewashed, soulless hallway were systematically destroying Tunnel was one of the coolest and nothing else. a piece of Connecticut College things about the dorm. It was When I found out the years of history? Would they even care a mysterious space, a sort of intricate graffiti that decorated if students spoke out against punk time capsule and art gal- the otherwise grim walls were whitewashing the tunnel? lery all at once, Emily Sollars' room in Jane Addams House, CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 NEWS OPINIONS ARTS SPORTS Spring 2012 Course SGA Student Government Artist Profile Women's Voleyball Plays 5 Preview Ambivalence? 6 10 Catherine Monahon 111Middlebury ) 2 ll-IE COLLEGE VOICE ED TO'RIALS / / / LETTERS NOVEMBER 14, 2011 THE COLLEGE VOICE Editorials "The views and opinions expressed in The Co/ltgt Voice are strictly those of stu- In September 2009, editor-in-chief Claire Gould '\0 of the web-only sections of the paper, along with fiction dent authors. and not of ConnecticutCollege. All content and editorial decisions wrote an editorial about the print vs. online newspaper remain in the hands of the students; neither the College's administration nor its and blogs. faculty exercise control over the content:' debate after the removal of free copies of the New York I became the multimedia editor of The College VOIce Times, the Boston Globe, and USA Today from campus. because] believe that the unique capacity of new media Jazmine Hughes Editor·in·Chief Gould's main arguments for print were the experience of to prompt a high degree of interactivity betw.een con- lpek Bakir Managing Editor holding an actual newspaper in your hands and the-clar- tent creators and viewers is extremely beneficial to the objectives of a student newspaper. The ever-increasing Ayano Elson Creative Director ity of knowint which articles the editors deemed most important by layout characteristics that cannot translate popularity of YouTube, particularly the channels that en- to the weh, such as which articles were placed above the courage the participation of their viewers, is a testament News Editors David Liakos fold on the front page of the paper. to the significance of public video content to our media- David Shanfield In response ~oGould's editorial, opinions editor Alfred rich culture. Opinions Editors Ethan Harfenist DeGemmis '10 stressed the ways in which web editions What I aim to accomplish through the multimedia sec- Jerell Mays of the paper 8J;'e similar to print, arguing that an equiva- tion, particularly through its video content, is a contin- Arts & Eotertainment Editors Devin Cohen lent solution should be provided if print copies of the ued emphasis on hearing the voices of the student body Melanie Thibeault paper are unavailable. "The College Voice's website is and the wider campus community. Our first video, "On Sports Editors DanMoorin living proof that articles can be displayed in a way that the Street: The College Voice," is a series of brief in- Jesse Moskowitz gives priority to whatever the editorial staff deems most terviews with students about their views on the paper Photo Editors Tanaha Simon worthy," said DeGemmis. and its website, including their ideas for improvement. Hannah Plishtin Major newspapers around the world are still grappling Ithink this concept introduces the objectives that Iwant Fiction Editors Sarah Fasano with the print vs. online debate. Here at The College the section to promote through each video we produce Alex Soffron Voice, we are working on making both our print and on- in the future: to listen to what students have to say and Head Copy Editor Annie Mitchell line editions of the paper strong mechanisms for spark- to use their comments to change the campus community. Webmaster AyanoElson ing debate and conversation around campus and beyond. For example, we are now in the process of completing a Web Content Editor Emily Rempell The most significant benefit to the website is its ca- video about school spirit to further the current debate on Multimedia Editor Meaghan Kelley pacity for interactivity among editors, writers, students, campus about whether or not our campus pride is Jack- Advertising Manager Sarah Kosofsky faculty, staff, parents, alums and readers outside of ing, specifically in our support of athletics.

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