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CC Professor speaks Al Franken is an Cycling club goes A new CC sport: at National Book internet star to Aspen Tae Kwon Do Festival AMUSEMENTS SPORTS page 10 SPORTS page 11 NEWS page 4 page 6 the Sept 19 2001 Issue 2 Colorado College Student Newspaper Volume 47 Looking forward to Homecoming KRISTEN SMITH 34!&& 72)4%2 a.m. with the Tiger Walk from the Alumni Hope those rooms are clean because Plaza to Shove Chapel. This is basically a parents weekend/Homecoming is just parade with reunion classes from the 1940s around the corner. That’s right, expect to 1998. There are also some astonishing those parents to start showing up on Friday, gamelan dancers to lead the parade. This October 10. So what exciting events can is definitely an event that you don’t want to we expect for Homecoming? miss! By now, I am sure you will be hungry, Friday, October 10, will bring lots of so head on down to the Armstrong Quad excitement and fellowship with the commu- for the all-campus picnic at 12:00p.m.. For nity service project and bonfire. From 12: only $10 you get outstanding food with and President Celeste to reveal 00p.m. – 3:00p.m., everyone is welcome to an amazing time. This is also a great way the Worner Center for a fun afternoon of to get energized for the dance. ‘plan of action’ for College helping adorable kids decorate book bags. So what about this dance that you keep LAURA PARISI 34!&& 72)4%2 Though it is not necessarily a fund- Also, Mrs. Jacklyn Celeste and her son Sam hearing about? Well, it is on Saturday, raising campaign, says Celeste, “It will Colorado College may be will be reading the book they wrote together October 11 from 9:30p.m. to 1:00am. take a lot of money.” And it is also not set a radically different place in 7 years. On entitled Mouse in Roosevelt’s House. Later Tickets are on sale at the Worner Desk in stone: “It will constantly be a work in Monday, President Celeste will reveal an on that night, at 10:00p.m. come on down until 12:30 a.m. on Saturday night/Sunday progress. It will be my work for as long as “action plan” that could drastically trans- to the Armstrong Quad for the bonfire to morning. This is definitely not any ordinary the trustees will let me be here,” he says. form our school and campus. relax with friends while listening to some dance. It’s more like a club hopping experi- This has been a project of his ever Celeste says he cannot give out any awesome music. For those of you with ence since it has three locations. There since the mapping of the mission state- information right now, but he promises parents here, it could also be when you cel- is the tent on the quad, Gates in upstairs ment last year. “The mission statement is that the plan will “be exciting. It’ll chal- ebrate making it through the first night while Palmer, and the lobby/common area of the starting point for all of this,” explains lenge the students.” also looking forward to the events to come. Armstrong. With so many locations to Celeste. The action plan will map the develop- Saturday, October 12 starts with the choose from, how could you not come! President Celeste will be disclosing ment of the Colorado College community. Tiger Classic 5K Race at 7:00 a.m.. There There is, of course, home games for the details to the student body on Monday, “It’s a plan for how to take the College are prizes for a male and female in each almost all the fall sports, including the first Oct. 6 in Bemis Great Hall from 4 to 5 from 2003 into 2010,” he says. category, divided by age groups, so why not hockey game of the season. So don’t miss p.m. All students are invited to come. get your day off to a great early start with out on an opportunity to cheer on your a nice little run and try to win that prize! school and your friends! Not convinced? 7:00 a.m. just too early Beer, Progress, and no matter what? Well, that’s okay because some real entertainment will start at 10:30 political parties win big but did Greeks lose? PETER RICE When the dust settled, Budget Com- 34!&& 72)4%2 mittee candidates Greg Piesco-Putnam The Beer and Progress party now and Nick Hathaway had 150 and 148 votes controls three fifths of CCCA’s Executive respectively. The other winners, Jeremy Council, half of the critical Budget Commit- Denlea and Chris Kempes, pulled down tee, and four of seven regional representa- 133 and 119 votes. Nine other candidates tives. Greek representation on CCCA, once were running, but the leader of that pack overwhelming, has hit a new low. Only the managed only 73 votes. Four candidates president, Matt Synenberg, a Sigma Chi, had tallies under 40. remains. Six members of Sigma Chi went That is a sharp contrast to years past, after the four Budget Committee positions, which have seen mostly independent candi- but all were soundly defeated. dates – many of them Greek – filling the Beer and Progress leaders are jubi- ranks of student government. lant, saying that the election opens a new “CCCA has had a significant number era of populist student government. They of Greeks for as long as I’ve been here,” are promising a host of changes, including said Kristy Payne, a Kappa Kappa Gamma reforming Residential Life, negotiating beer who was Executive Vice President before discounts with local businesses, and, by the graduating last year and starting work as end of block, launching a textbook exchange a Campus Activities Paraprof. “There was website for students. a lot of resentment that a lot of CCCA was The party, started late last year, Greek. People were frustrated that it was ran an untraditional but effective campaign, perhaps an illegitimate representation.” The losses won’t hurt the Greek orga- Scott Reis/Catalyst foregoing the usual fistfuls of posters in favor of personal appeals to friends. The nizations themselves, since they are privately Dr. Nancy Folbre, professor of economics at group sent out dozens of emails and made funded, but it might make it more difficult to the University of Massachussetts speaks of economics, feminist theory, phone calls, ensuring a healthy turnout of get funding for special events. non-market work, and child rearing on Thursday night in Packard Hall. friendly voters at the polls. (continued on page 4) 2 Oct. 3 Whatever, man... and other similar nonsense WILL NAITO majority of the CC community. I’m a fellow can’t you see the greater intrinsic value of information and bad decisions, not because /0).)/.3 %$)4/2 D who is using my public outlet to bash my argument?” it was just wrong. I can remember, on more than one other like-minded individuals who don’t I have thick enough skin, not to Everyone has heard that college is occasion, having a discussion with my peers have all the facts. be bothered by any attack against me a time for idealism. This doesn’t mean, come to an abrupt and unexpected stop. An There are few things that frustrate me personally, and the patience to sit through however, that our idealism should be fed by awkward silence didn’t bring the end, neither more than beginning what could turn into strings of “like, you know, whatever.” What ignorance. I’ve found no shame in admitting did my unintelligible muttering. What was a great exchange of ideas (read: me hosing I have trouble with, is accepting that I am that I don’t know enough about a topic to the cause you ask? Blind-liberalism. you for supporting driver’s licenses for wrong, just because. form an opinion of my own. It’s not as if blind-conservatism is illegal aliens), and then having that potential Some things are articles of faith. God, Let’s all embrace intellectual curiosity! nonexistent. The equally evil twin is just not spontaneously combust when you stonewall if you believe he or she or it exists, for Pick up tomorrow’s NYT, or the Journal. prevalent on this campus, which is a good with a colloquialism. example. That we shouldn’t have invaded Read a section or two, or carry it around thing because I don’t think I could handle I’ve found that such conversations Iraq is not. Don’t get me wrong, I think that tucked under your arm so you’ll look smart. both at the same time. can end in one of three ways: 1.) I hear the Bush administration wanted to distract Recognize the difference between subjects I am not a conservative using my one a statement rebuking some aspect of John Q. from it’s horrible domestic policy that require faith, and those that require public outlet as a tool with which to bash the my morality. 2.) “Whatever” is used to just as much as the next guy. Our most evidence. respond to anything else I might have to recent Iraqi excursion was unjust because it say. 3.) Something to the effect of, “Why was based on a myriad of grossly inaccurate STAFFSTAFF Your RDA of Irony Anne Bean EDITOR IN CHIEF • SHON COOK managing editor • Lizzie Larson OPINIONS EDITOR • WILL NAITO scene editor • Lydia Cayton-Holland SPORTS • SAM BLASIAK news editor • Chrissie Long PHOTO EDITOR • SCOTT REIS amusements • shon cook AD MANAGER • JEFF RACHLIN copy editor • Greishma Singh FEATURES EDITOR • DAYNA DAVIS events editor • tony krupicka France was right, but continues to be stupid CUTLER PUBS.