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' J Orfil ""•""RECEIVED APR 18 1978 HARTFORD, CONN. Vol. 76 THE TRINITY Issue 22 TRIPOD April 18,1978 SGA Alters Council Plan by Barbara Grossman SGA has answered the ad- invited the students to draw up a ministration will be provided with ministration's request for a proposal for a new council, which an excellent means of contacting blueprint for a new Trinity College would insure continuous com- all Trinity students. Council with a different proposal munication between all segments Under the constitution, the which would make greater use of of the Trinity community. SGA steering board, which is existing committee structure. The By the end of vacation, student comprised of government officers, student plan, which is contingent leaders had doubts about the need would be readily available to upon ratification of the new SGA for a new TCC. At an informal discuss emergency matters with the constitution, provides for a strong meeting held in early April, administration. If there was time, Student Government Steering members of SGA and the Tripod the steering board would relay Board which would meet frequently tried to draw up a proposal to information to the government with administrators. present to the full student members, who would in turn bring A unanimous decision in favor government. After much this information to their con- of the proposal was made by a discussion, most were convinced stituents. government newly diminished in that a new committee should not Should there be strong student size. Five delinquent members be formed. feeling on an issue, the process (Tom McGowan, Jeff Qsborn, Lines of Commnnication could work in reverse. Further, the Connor Seabrook, Wendy St. Hill Already Open proposal calls for regular meetings and Joe Troiano) voluntarily The statement, drawn up by, between administration and resigned, thereby reducing the Peter Bain '81, was unanimously steering board members. These number needed for a quorum. The ratified by the government at their meetings would be open to the smaller quorum will enable SGA to weekly meeting. According to the entire Trinity community. complete important business statement, the government feels The statement stresses that it is before the end of the term. that increasing the college's the responsibility of the ad- Avoiding More Red Tape bureaucracy would obstruct rather ministration to use the mechanism Last March, in response to the than facilitate communication. that the students have provided. SGA petition calling for better Unlike the original TCC, the new SGA, as the legitimate communication between students council would have few concrete representative of the students, is and administration, President issues to work with, and no real ready to cooperate with the ad- Lockwood proposed that the jurisdiction. ministration, but can only do so il Trinity College Council be revived. The government claims that student government leaders art The Council, established in the late lines of communication already kept informed. 1960's, included administration, exist. In addition to the Student New Pub Policy Government and its steering board, Recent complaints about "The faculty and students. It was largely LOSS r---pon<jh]e for producing the many college committees have Iron Pony" led SGA to rivive its current Student Handbook. student members- If the new and Pub Committee, which met witii At an open meeting before more representative SGA con- Manager Wayne Asmus last week. Stadento donating Mood at hurt Thursday's Red Cross Blood Drive Spring Break, the administration stitution is ratified, the ad- Cont. on Page 3 In the Washington Room. Student Vandalism Rises to Peak Levels the fun of it." Since the locks are do most of the damage. However, dalism, its secretive nature makes by Karen Wackennan and Diane electric, said Geraci, students as Charlie McCarthy, Dean of apprehension very difficult. It was Hunkeler should not try to force them. He Student Services, explained, "This pointed out that only the Vandalism has become a hopes to install warning buzzers on is not the average Trinity student. cooperation and awareness of all serious problem at Trinity this all locks to inform students that the It's a small group of people who do students and faculty members will semester. Although there have lock is open. this repeatedly and often." effectively reduce vandalism on always been broken exit signs and Administrators believe that it is Although some efforts have campus. shattered windows, the most recent Trinity students, not outsiders, who been made to discourage van- incidents have been far more violent. Last week two mailboxes were ripped out of the post office Fee Increase Compared wall, and the doors to booths in by Andrew Walsh certain bathrooms have been so For families with children in twisted that they are no longer college, The Rites of Spring are Projected Total Fees 1978-79 functional. increasingly marked by mournful As Chief Custodian Robert wailing. Instead of celebrating the Total -a) Total 1 Kelley points out, the cost of 1977-78 increase -b) coining of a gentle season, men, Amhersc S 6 126 $ 400 vandalism is borne by all students women, and children cower in fear. through tuition money, and more Each year at this time colleges Eowdoin 6 030 700 (, 730 vandalism will lead to higher announce increases in tuition and Srown 6 737 500 7 237 tuition. John Wathne, Chief of fees. Colgate 5 854 400 6 254 Building Maintenance, estimates Trinity's annual increase was that each booth door will cost $100 announced last week. Fees wEl Connecticut College 3 950 500 6 450 to repair. Broken windows cost a jump $430 or 8.3 per cent. Dartmouth College 6 675 400 7 075 total of $15-20,000 each year to Although, according to the Hamilton 5 350 600 tent. j 5 950 replace, and recharging fire Chronicle of Higher Education, the extinguishers costs "thousands of 8 per cent jump exceeds the Saverford 6 320 S50 6 870 dollars" every year. national average for private Middlebury 5 750 550 6 300 An even greater problem colleges by 2.2. per cent, the in- caused by vandalism is its threat to crease compares favorably with St. Lawrence 5 413 450 5 863 the safety of Trinity students. An those announced by other well- Mangied exit sign empty fire extinguisher and a known Northeastern institutions. Smith 5 935 700 6 635 photo by John Leisenring j broken exit sign can seriously According to the figures rfesleyan 6 322 550 f. 97: i impede efforts to save students' gathered by College Treasurer Williams 6 089 450 6 539 Last Thursday the American lives in a fire. At least twenty -four Robert Pedimonti, the $430 in- Red Cross held their blood drive outdoor lights have been smashed crease is the smaEest reported by ?°r the spring semester. One in recent months, and the new Trinity 5 800 430 6 2)0 the group of colleges and 5 876 430 6 306 worker reported that, after five and locks on dorm doors are frequently universities listed in the chart at a half hours of work, 207 pints of broken, presenting obvious hazards right. blood were collected from Trinity to security. Pointing out that "we cannot students. The worker said this was Joe Geraci, the college predicate our future on 7-8 per cent a fairly typical yield. Usually locksmith, explained that broken annual increases;" President Lock- -a) Prom 77-78 College Costs Manual published by LIMKA between 150 and 250 pints are locks on dormitory doors are wood has promised to review and f received. In short, he considered usually due to students' Trustration improve the College's planning in -b) Most of increases supplied by Mr. Wertiraer, Hamilton College O-2-78} Thursday "a good day." with them, not to vandalism "for order to hold down costs. Page 2, The Trinity Tripod, April 18,1978 Campus Notes as chairwoman of the Program in New Time/ Space," will deal with Nader Balds "Pilgrims" Progress Politics and Education at Teachers the metaethics of radical feminism. Job Open College, Columbia University, and Daly, associate professor of Ralph Nader, the nation's "A Pilgrim's Progress: Moving visiting professor at the Yale Law religion at Boston College, is the leading consumer advocate, will The Women's Center is seeking '' Towards a National Urban Policy" School, as well as director and author of many articles and two speak at Trinity on Monday, April a part-time Coordinator to organize will be the title of a lecture- treasurer of the Municipal major books: "The Church and the 24 at 8:30 p.m. His topic will be and implement programs for wo- delivered by Donna E. Shalala, Assistance Corporation for the Second Sex" (1968), and "Beyond "Corporate Power and Citizen men in the college community, assistant Secretary for Policy City of New York (Big MAC); God the father: Toward a Action." The event, to be held in Applicants must have a batchelor's Development and Research for director of the Citizen's Union of Philosophy of Women's the Ferris Athletic Center, is degree, organizational skills, and HUD at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, the City of New York, of the Liberation" (1973). sponsored by the Trinity chapter of experience in feminist activities. A April 20 in the Boyer Auditorium, National Municipal League, of the Her lecture will deal with some ConnPIRG. /.•', >• stipend of $3,000 for a 9 month Life Sciences Center. Regional Plan Association, as an of the topics examined in her new With the defeat of the con- year, (August 15 through May IS), Ms. Shalala received her B.A. advisor or consultant to many book "Gyn/Ecology; The sumer agency bill in the House of is offered.