Check out the new calendar on page 11. —»«—»¦_________ Non-Profit U.S. Postage Paid Waterville , ME 04901 Permit #39 EPC questions weeknight parties function and the alcohol. For smaller events in residenceha_ls,boththeDeanofStudentsC^fice By Ryan Feeley and residence hall members need to approve STAFF WRITER theevent.Items thatmustbeconsideredindude purpose, planning, location, noise levd, and acceptance of hall mates." Weeknight parties and the administration's This policy has been interpreted by the policy on them will be discussed at the next Dean of Students Office to mean one large meeting of the Educational Policy Committee Thursday night party is allowed per month. (E.P.C.). Lovejoy Commons President Jason For September the one party was the Hdghts Pizer '93, raised the issue at the committee's sponsored Reggae party in the Student Center. October 8 meeting. The Heights had also planned a pre-party tobe Weeknightparties are supposed tobeillegal, held that night in the Community Room, but said Joyce McPhetres, associate dean of the party was unable to take place due to the students. one-a-month exception rule; "Therearen'tsupposedtobeany,but Janice There is no current proposal to change the [Seitzinger] has allowed one per month," said policy. McPhetres. This policy is for "larger parties on "It was an issue brought up to beput on the campus,"she said. agenda, we just felt that we needed to think According to the Colby handbook: "On Students partying, but not on a weeknight. photo by Yuhgo Yamagucht about the pros and cons of the policy," said weekday nights other than Tuesday [seminar JasonSoules '93, Student Assodation president. night],theDeanofStudentsOfficemaypermit: A formal proposal to change the policy is Occasional large nonalcoholic events (of still in its early stages, according to Pizer. The Tietenberg presents approximately 100 or more) in nonresidential policy wilibeanissueatthenextE.P.C.meeting areas; Smaller nonalcoholic events either in on Nov. 5. residence halls or elsewhere; Smaller events "Right now there is nothing concrete," said plan to United Nations with alcohol in residence halls with time limits Soules. "Maybe it will change, maybe it imposed as well as careful monitoring of the won't."Q on his own, one on implementation issues and By David Holtzman the other on relevant experience. These are the STAFF WRITER sectionshewill be discussing at the conference. Proposed lecfctae Mock would Bk||«_________-__HIH_____________eK_^i^H-_---B______^^ The delegation he is part of includes alleviate scheduling conflicts Tom Tietenberg, C.A. Johnson representatives from Europe, Asia and Africa Distinguished Teacher and Professor of as well as the United States. The report's main , said Tietenberg By Emily Chapman 4he 8osw$ o* Trustee* and fl»* Student Economics, is in Geneva, Switzerland this week point is ^ ' to suggest that all nations work to limit their STAFFWRI15BR . # Affairs Committee,lis purpose is to create to hdp present a plan at the United Nations for W i w !¦. tt . ii n . im 'm il' M »\\mmmmwm+>mM#iWM *t w ii . ii n . i a one-hour lecture or concert lime slot carbon emissions through a system of quotas. •. v >. s reducingthe threat of global warming. s Every nation would be allocated a required every week when theware «o d&ssefy Tietenberg described his role as principal Jft *» <tffott . 0 «Qva aftige #f**jtet fobs, athfef f c practice*?/ sporting. *v*ti ty author of the "Study level of reductions in emissions, and would receive permits allowing participation in campus tectum, the Alt* club meetings,or any other event onTradeableCarbon College t«ctureCot-tmi«cefe working,<m If the proposal is implemented^ it Emissions Permits," them to emit a certain amount of pollutants. apjrdjposalto<a_ye ottt -i weeW^iiittt^itt.th«. wottldcarve out limefbt twettty^idxevents which is being <i[. lJ<j^4ichedMl«f0*»ia iii)(l^ro^ X*}Ww that mM jp ;tfcvJiow4y hmt- bwa presented before the It is less expensive for a * nation with morepollution or <wac«rivwithno otherpfefrnnod ovont*to scheduled at night in direct conflict with, United Nations interfere, many other events, Conference on Trade to reduce a greater amount - ; of emissions than for a TJhe , tiectai*! ,Onfy»itt«e * _t. ee*<. $ofarir»o decile havebei-nworkedoyt and Development. 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Mnk|th* . p wpj&l !<l0u* bwh ifc*l 4bli&tMtfw io.*tfaru j th« sdaytime w*m<; agreement to reduce irterJtt »W,dfcfetfrvta* tuAhm^Uxtitpxi/"rt \\&*xiet0n university l»yiSSrd>thi;idd^ emissions suspected Europe. The United States would pay those states to Mhmeaotal has a program similar to the:; of causing global ^ i^ P; ^ > $fapo ^ti^mW^ warming. accept its excess ^ ^ ^ Ws ^ w n ^^ PW ^ " requirement. Those o^MI M^^«J j .*^C#w*. oft,*!; mA cflw^rttt tjdwdrtted dMflg Ottife tot *"* ".The Geneva countries would then use rt$#diri„Hwfe*Wtf^- - s T ¦ - - mmMmmhm^t^mmS .^-^^ ¦ ? \s\j hoto b " ¦ ¦ I ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ 1 Katherine Bordwell ¦¦T- ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ V ¦ ¦ 1 i - p y s * ¦ ¦ I .. - > ^ - .1.1 I . I. - *^ srt ^-^ 0 & " ' Conference] is a *\.^y*^" ' .-ovV* v ^ s %^>i^___2___ii_A > v^rt . V Professor Tom Tietenberg. thc money to finance tlieir ^ preparatory no country would want to (CFC) conferencetohdpthe own pollution control. because normally to phase out chlorofluorocarbon use. said Tietenberg. "It's a global amount of reduction we're partidpate. The U.S. is already doing this for Tietcnbergdoesnotforeseemanyproblems one in 1992 along," add rain and other environmental causes, but After giving a speech in Paris last June on talking about/' said Tietenberg. 'The U.S. will with enforcement of the plan. have to take on a fairly heavy responsibility, the Bush administration has said the evidence "Few countries want the atmosphere to global warming to the Organization of for global warming is still too minimal to to Economic Cooperation and Development and that willbeexpensive.Butthetotalamount self-destruct, but there are also pressures (OECD), Tietenberg was asked by Frank faced by the world as a whole will be cheaper warrant something like this." conform," he said. "You try to design systems Tietenberg said that by the time of the 1992 that everybody wants to partidpate in. Joshua, a member of the U.N. Conference on [than if nations fight global warming by " , to help draw up the themselves]." conference the nations of Western Europe will Tietenberg did his doctoral dissertation on Trade and Development probably pressure the United States into this subject when he graduated from the plan being presented today and tommorow in "Even before tradeable emissions permits existed, I was writing about them," he said. It acceding to tougher carbon emissions UniversityofWisconsininl971.Hewillolsobe Geneva. restrictions. It would be similar to the process Tietenberg wrotetwo chapters of the study was in 1975 that the U.S. government first discusslngtheseissueswithhisColbyclasscsJD considered the idea. "Thescheme is of interest by which Europe forced tho U.S. into agreeing Fireworks in Butler On Saturday night, October 20, a series of fire alarms Takaki went off in Butler Hall. The alarms went off "approximately two hours apart," according to John Frechette, acting director of Safety and Security. The cause of the first alarm criticizes Colby was smoke from a firework that was lit in one of the halls. Blues Traveler concert Frechettesaid that a second fire occured when "an unknown person lit a piece of plastic on a student's door. This fire Speech questions falls short of costs burned itself out, but the resulting smoke set off the alarms." (B.S.) multiculturalism on 1300 people showed up for the Blues Traveler concert campus last weekend, said Jon Yormak '93, Student Association social chair. "That's very good considering the fact that Prize-winning only 800 people came when they played at Bowdoin," said Yormak. "There were mentions of the concert on radio and By Marty Hergerl playwright visits Colby COKTRIBUTINa WRITBR TV which helped a lot." Pulitzer Prize-winningplaywrightEd ward Albeespoke The concert brought in aproximately $13,000, resulting at Colby Monday as part of the visiting writers series. in a $3000 loss for Stu-A. "I think we at least made enough Albee, author of 25 plays including Whose Afraid of to cover the cost of the band, though not all the extras," said Virginia Woolf. Zoo Story and The American Dream. Neariyooehuttdted eoplesatitt I^rimerCftapdl Yormak. $> spoke about his craft to a playwriting class, and also read an 2_> io hear £Jr. Ronald Takakl, Professor "Everything went smoothly," said Yormak. "There were Od. of from several of his plays in the Robins Room that the- no problems and I think everyone had a great time. (D.H.) Ethnic Studies At University of California at evening.(A.K.) Berkdy.