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Trinity Tripod, 1975-01-21 -S.--.i- , -.-. -1 .'*• .-v. i.--.'.- January 21, 1975 THE TRINITY Vol. ;fc Issue 14 Trinity College TRIPOD Hartford, Conn. Financing Key Question Mather Hall Expansion Imminent by Steve Kayman expand Mather in the direction of provement within the decade. Riel Associate Dean for Student Ser- missing out on the many at- Reginald Gibson Austin Arts Center because of the Crandall, Director of Buildings and vices, maintained that it is im- tractions that a campus center The Trustee Committee on prohibitive cost. Grounds, pointed out that an im- portant to make Mather a genuine could and should possess. He cited Buildings and Grounds voted last Though this more complete mediate solution was desirable, "campus center," with a complete the fact that many campus centers Friday to recommend expansion of expansion has been ruled out for and that a complete renovation array of service and recreational have such facilities as a music Mather Campus Center by con- the present, the committee might take up to five years to facilities, rather than just the listening room, a bank, com- structing a 77 by 30 foot extension members did not dismiss the finish. "service center" it is at present. fortable lounge chairs and a game west toward Summit Street. The possibility of such a capital im- Nevertheless, David Lee, Lee feels Trinity students are room. proposal was endorsed by the entire Board of Trustees Saturday morning, contingent upon the availability of financing. The extension, Vice-president Thomas Smith said, will be completed over the summer, unless the builders run into rocks or the college runs out of money. Gary Morgans '75, a student member of the B & G Committee, explained that under the existing , plan, approximately $200,000 of the $330,000 allocated will go toward the expansion, while the remaining funds will be used for physical improvements in the present dining facilities. The alterations' within the dining hall, Morgans said, include carpeting the main dining room and relocating the dishline to the present site of the Calendar Office. Other changes, Morgans added, will involve significant improvements in the food preparation facilities, as well as partitioning off the redesigned serving lines. Under the proposed expaasion, Mather Dining Hall will ac- commodate an additional Hi!) ,iseath l'liib addition, members of te committee felt, will largely solve the dining hall's over- crowding problem. The thirty foot extension will also allow for a large Photo by AI Moore expansion of the bookstore. Hungry students form a long line as they take advantage of the new SGA policy, which The Buildings and Grounds gives meal ticket holders credit at the Cave. Committee rejected a multi- million dollar plan to drastically Seeking $12 Million Fund Raising Campaign Underway by Wenda Harris and Adrienne Mally will be used for faculty and for dowment funds, "if Trinity is to endowment income, tuition, and academic effort. academic programs, for continue to remain competitive annual gifts; the chief source being "Trinity's needs are intractable "Campaignpai n for Trinity Values" scholarships, for the library, and with the best educational in- tuition. Endowment allows Trinity needs," Lockwood said, "and we is the slogan of aa national fund- for improvement of the campus. stitutions, and if Trinity is to to maintain high-quality programs must act now to meet them. We draising program seeking $12 Lockwood said that although the continue to make a significant without placing the ?.osl burden believe our goal is realistic in light million in endowments for the school has managed to balance its contribution to society through the beyond the students' reach, he of its importance to trinity and, by College, according to President budget each year and increase its education we provide, it is im- said. implication, to the community at Theodore P. Lockwood. The money, •income yield from existing en- perative that we now increase the Compared to other colleges' large." He said he recognizes that endowment base supporting our endowments, Trinity's $26 million present economic conditions are academic program and faculties." is modest, Lockwood said. He said not conducive for launching the He explained that the College's "The new endowment we seek will campaign, "But, in a real sense, salaries are not fully competitivej put Trinity in a better competitive we have no choice." the library -is- overcrowded, position" with other colleges. The Lockwood explained- that the maintenance costs are ever rising, new finances will enable the college held off as long as possible, and scholarship funds are not college to improve special hoping for a March recovery in the Y*^ v, JULTA r+s sufficient to aid qualified students programs, increase academic economy. However, there will be from lower, and middle economic opportunities, jand pay higher /'no dramatic recovery of the levels. salaries to the faculty. Lockwood market in the near future," he The president said the major cited expansion of the Trinity said, "and waiting another six sources of annual revenue are College Library as central to the (Cortt, on Page.2) SAGA Offers Dining Alternative by George Piligian person has already been added to said. "We at SAGA were looking for a the Cave's staff, while no positions Myers recalled that on Tuesday, way to offer an alternative to have been dropped from the the day before classes started, one crowding and offer more menu positions in the main dining hall. hundred and nine people were in choices," said David Myers, Food The extension of lunch hours, the Cave during dining hours, Service Director at Trinity. As a through the use of the Cave's though some were socializing. On result of a new initiative in meal facilities, should attract people Wednesday, when the dining hall planning, the present meal ticket- previously alienated by the old menu offered roast beef, fifty- punch card system has been put meal plan's restricted hours, seven people were counted in the into effect. According to Myers, the Myers added. Cave during the same dining new meal ticket punch-card It is too early to gauge whether hours, Until now, according to system should attract more sub- the overcrowding at Mather during Myers, ten percent of people scribers to the meal plan and offer peak hours has been substantially subscribing to the meal ticket plan those who'already use meal tickets alleviated, Myers said. He pointed are in the Cave during lunch hours. "more alternatives to dining." out that on days when a choice The price ceiling for eating at the An extraordinary effort The new system presents ad- menu is served there will be less cave with a meal ticket helps to vantages for the food service people eating at the cave and this balance the cost of providing meals management. As one of the ad- will cause confusion in meal to students who might otherwise to sustain the values vantages, Myers mentioned that planning for the food service miss a meal if they could not make the Cave and its employees assume management.- "The economy of the it on time to the Mather Hall. a more active role in the food meal plan is based on a certain Reimbursement for missed meals of a Trinity education service program. One full-time meal-miss percentage," Myers is limited to lunch and dinner. Page 2, THE TRIPOD, January 21, 1975 Trinity to Host Descartes Colloquium foremost, for Trinity's students, addition, a banquet will be held for Prof. Margaret Wilson, of Trinity's own Prof. Richard Lee A two-day colloquium on the is preparing a spirited com- not for professional philosophers. the colloquium participants and philosophy of Rene Descartes will Princeton University, will have as selected guests. On Sunday 3.4 be held on the Trinity campus next her subject Descartes' dualism. mentary on Prof. Danto's paper, "Given the outstanding p.m., a coffee hour, open to the weekend, Jan. 25-26, in Wean Descartes argued that a person is a which Lee will deliver following philsophical talents of those who public, will be held in Wean Lounge. The colloquium, entitled, composite of a mind and a body, Danto's presentation, have been invited, the colloquium Lounge. "Cartesian Coordinates," will which are two different "sub- papers can hardly fail to be of stances", and can thus exist in- The colloquium will finish with a interest to professionals in the include guest speakers from six presentation by Thorsteinn universities. dependently of one another. field," Marlies remarked, "but we Fund Raising Gylfason, who holds a lectureship have gone out of our way to see to it at the University of Iceland. (Cont. from Page l) Saturday's program will begin at Gylfason's paper, "The Beast- that our students here at Trinity Fred Sommers, who is Harry can get a lot out of the papers and months will not make a dif- 10 a.m. with a presentation, by Austryn Wolfson, Professor of Machine", also on Descartes' ference." Prof. William DeAngelis, of Philosophy atBrandeis University, dualistic conception of persons, discussions." Northeastern University, entitled will also speak on Cartesian will begin at 4 p.m. on Sunday. When asked how the campaign "Validating Reason: A Locked- dualism at the evening meeting of Gylfason has studied at Harvard All meetings of the colloquium goal of $12 million was arrived at Room Mystery". DeAngelis will the colloquium, which begins at and Oxford universities. will be held in Wean Lounge. For Lockwood gave two reasons: l) a carefully explain certain im- 7:30 p.m. on Saturday. Sommers' any members of the Trinity somewhat arbitrary analysis of portant points in Descartes' homey examples of "hetero- Prof. Michael Marlies, of community who wish to talk in- need, and 2) a recognition of what Meditations, having to do with the typical" entities include Trinity's philsophy department, formally with colloquium par- is a reasonable expectation for possibility of acquiring knowledge.
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