Non-Profit U.S. Postage Paid Waterville, ME 04901 Permit Number 39 CIA Controversy: The Beat Goes On by J anet B oudreau and Chip focus of the discussion was Gavin what he had anticipated. Among those pleased wi th the Who, what, when. evening was Matt Tabor '90, Career information was sparse who circulated the petition at last week's Central Intelli- requiring the CIA to hold the gence Agency forum. But, dis- information session. "I was cussion of the CIA's controver- impressed with the turnout, sial activities at home and good questions, and continued abroad was abundant. interest" in the CIA, said Ta- "Except for Linda Cotter's bor. question, very few questions CIA Public Affairs Represen- touched on the careers avail- tative Arthur S. Hulnick ad- able," said Jim Mclntyre, Di- dressed the crowd of about 80 rector of Career Services, not- people for approximately two ing that this was his "one major hours in Given Auditorium. He disappointment" with the Ca- began by responding to the CIA Representative Arthur Hulnick defends The Company's actions in front of a crowd of eight}/ at reer Services sponsored eve- issues raised in the student/ Colby last week. ning. Yet, he conceded that the continued on page 6 vhoto bv Dave Coleman Cotter Induces Changes In Survey Of Nation!s Best Colleges "I pointed out three major criticisms of the survey, the f irst being a lack of objective data. -Williarri Cotter by Catherine Breen Upon receiving the ballot, the was consequently invited to a ery individual college that he tors perhaps viewed this as too Last week's issue of the Echo president of each school was dinner with the editors of the or she was familiar enough with tedious a task. An additional included a segment on Colby's told to choose the ten schools magazine along with several on a scale of one to four," as change was made in this year's rank of twenty two Sn a U.S. which they classified as the other college representatives. opposed to only selecting the survey so that the ratings are News and World Report article "best", on the basis of reputa- Cotter explained, "I pointed top ten. Both of these recom- now done in conjunction with about the nation's best colleges. tion. Finding fault with this out three major criticisms of mendations were adopted by . the Dean of Admissions, Dean This week, in a follow-up inter- method, President Cotter re- thesurvey, the firstbeinga lack the editors in an effort to up- of Faculty, and selected high view, President Cotter an- fused to participate in the poll. of objective data." He stressed grade the quality of the survey. school guidance counselors, swered questions about his He explained that it was a the necessity of including per- His third idea, however, was instead of only by the Presi- influence on how the survey "foolish" approach because of centiles, ratios, and other fig- not incorporated into the ques- dent. was conducted. the general lack of in-depth ures, in addition to more sub- tionnaire: "To list and describe President Cotter is currently Last year the staff of U.S. News knowledgeaboutother schools, jective data, like reputation. the strengthsof allone hundred working on yet another area sent out questionnaires to one especially those which are not President Cotter stated that his and forty one colleges would for improvement: SAT scores. hundred and forty one of the categorized as a school's im- second suggestion was to "al- create a more fair representa- "Colby", he explained, "is ex- nation's most selective colleges. mediate competition. Cotter low each President to rate ev- tion of each school." The edi- continued on page 15 Theft At Colby Sexual Harrassment byAd joy Moreanvisory Group Formed byJoy Marean taken during the school year, Students, cites Colby students The members of the Sexual sexually harrassed, whether when all of the students are and Waterville residents as the Harrassment Advisory Group physically or verbally. Joan Since the beginning of the back on campus. Day thefts are committers of thefts on cam- (S.H.A.G.) for the 1988-1989 Sanzenbacher, head of the school year, eight thefts have more common than in the eve- pus; students will steal belong- school year met last week to group, states that, "students occurred on the Colby campus. ning hours, as students are in ings from other students, or discuss ways to make their and faculty can contact any These thefts include: two bikes class during the morning and people from downtown will organization known on cam- member of the group to clarify stolen from the Averill base- afternoon. enter campus buildings and pus and to talk about any con- their feelings, ask any ques- ment, backpacks taken from the Personal belongings are dormitories and take items. cerns and/or problems of any tions, or make arrangements dining halls, laundry removed taken when studentsleave their Al though Seitzinger states that of the group members. for a meeting; any conversa- from the residence halls' laun- things in places such as the theft is the "leading crime" at S.H.A.G., consisting of two tions and/or meetingsbetween dry rooms, and just recently, a library or outside the dining Colby, she says that the rat'e of faculty members, two students, a member of the group and a college-owned V.C.R., with an halls for a period of time. Items theft over the years has re- one administrator, one support student and/or faculty mem- estimated value of $1800, taken are also taken from students' mained the same. sta ff member, and one person ber will be kept confidential." from Lovejoy. rooms when , they leave their Safety and Security takes with counseling experience and The group has developed According to Mark Van doors unlocked while out of immediate action when items training, is available to all guidelines to define the vari- Valkenburgh, Chief of Safety the room. are stolen from students and/ members of the Colby commu- ous forms of sexual harrass- and Security, most items are Janice Seitzinger, Dean of continued on page 15 nity who feel they have been continued on page rs •Alleged Discrimination •CIA Challenged • Major and Minors •Monotony Strikes*. Dorothy Rosenberg defends, Read what Government The Educational Poliqy Brian Murphy talks about her lawsuit against Colby Professor Roger Bowen has Committee voted to add , the ills of boring Studen t College. Turn to find out to say about ways to combat minors to Colby 's Center parties, and adds of INSIDE more on jpage 12. CIA recruitment at Colby on curriculum. Find out more on few ideas of his own. Story page 14. page 2. on page 7 y Major And Minor Miller Library To Install Automated Card Catalog System, Decisions Demonstration Being Held Today addition to the major." The of them being in private offices. - was chosen is because it is by Kaari Busick proposal states that Colby will by Diane Pearce The other half will be distrib- "clear and simple. There is no offer majors, minors, and con- uted in key locations, includ- need to understand complex On Wednesday, October 19 centrations. A minor is "com- Miller Library is stepping up ing each floor of Miller library, computer language to use it," thefacul ty voted on and passed prised of five to seven courses, into the electronic age with the as well as in the Arts and Sci- said Parker. And the hardware two issues proposed by the which any department or pro- installation of an automated ence libraries. Eventually this it runs on, DEC equipment - Educational Policy Commitee: gram may offer, with EPC card catalog system set for automated card catalog will DigitalEquipment Corporation the first states that "during the aproval. (These are currently September, 1989. To give stu- also be accessible on the UNIX -is compatible with the UNIX. spring of the freshman year called Independent Concentra- dents an idea of how this new system, and hopefully termi- The Board of Trustees has ...students must declare a ma- tions/)" This new addition of system works there will be a nals will be added to laborato- decided to fund the first half of jor or report that they are unde- minors, according to demonstration Thursday, Oc- ries, too, so that information this package, the INNOPAQ, cided. A major must be elected MacArthur, is partly becasue tober 27, using the University will be easily accessed from all and that will be debugged by the end of the sophomore "outside of Colby, not many of Maine's current system. This points of campus. during the second semester of year," and the second says that people understand what we system is identical to the IN- There is also a possibility that the 1988-89 school year. Mean- Colby will off er majors, minors, mean by Independent Concen- NOPAQ and JNNOV ACQ soft- on at least one terminal infor- while the library staff will be and concentrations. tration." Thus, "existing pro- ware that Colby will be pur- mation can be downloaded busy bar coding all of the books Dean of Faculty Robert grams in Women's Studies, chasing,and thedemonstration onto a Macintosh disk, so that in each of the three libraries, as MacArthur said that the pro- Black Studies, Public Policy, will take place all day by the bibliographiescartbecompiled well as creating user filesfor all posal to allow students to de- Quantitative Analysis, Educa- reserve desk in the Miller li- and edited quickly. students, faculty, staff , and clare a major at the end of tion, and Science Technology brary.