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THE _....-.~~ I MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2011 NEW LONDON, mNNEGICUT VOLUME pI" ISSUE 16 ~ College to throw Cro President Higdon Grows Dance-Therned Cro One Inch o INCH 1 Dance this Saturday Anonymous Health Center Representative Confirms Growth \ Last Tuesday, Assistant to the President Wendy Mahon entered the office of Leo 1. Higdon, Jr. and noticed an immediate differ- ence. Her boss was sitting at his desk in his Herman Miller chair, as usual. His medallion was still sitting safely in its case. The Lich- tenstein print behind his head had not moved, and the photographs of him grinning next to a'camel mas- cot were intact. As sbe put a stack of headshots on his desk to be au- tographed, she looked down and z realized wbat was different: both ~ of his feet were planted firmly on z a: the ground. the President's measurements each inches." w <D This growth was confirmed by year to update the NESCAC Presi- Latest updates on this issue can a Health Center staffer who de- dential Database," she said. "This be found on the President's twitter, "w clined to be identified. "We take year, I am happy tn say, President HigletlOO, which Mahon person- " Higdon has reached five foot, three ally runs .• The campus' newest student men's cross country team, who organization, The Student Ac- plan to attend as a pack offresh- tivities Council for Program- man girls, were seen huddled Hipster Lacrosse Bro Faces Moral ming Activities (SA CPA), has over a table in Cro coordinating been allocated a total of seven- their outfits. teen dollars by SGA's Finance' Said one fresbrnan, "Iplan to Dilemma, Collapses from Social Committee, They plan to spend lie on the floor and be vomit." every cent. Other planned costumes in- The group, which consists of clude sweat, cleavage, regretful Anxiety an all-star panel of esteemed decisions and a lost North Face In a recovery room at Lawrence former J-Board chairs, will kick jacket. & Memorial Hospital last Satur- off the rest of the year with a Students will grind the night day, Brent 0' Connell ' 12 sat up Cro Dance- Themed Cro Dance. away to DJ YZ@E: A DJ in bed and turned over the pre- Several members of the E@ZYTribute Band. release Godspeed You! Black Em- peror EP on the turntable next to his bed. He leaned back, sighed, g and resumed listlessly tossing a D Office of Student W lacrosse ball between his bands. o "I was so bummed 1 coulan't Z make it to the Brooklyn Masonic ~ Engagement ana. -c Temple last week 'cause of try- outs," O'Connell said of a recent z" -c Leadership Education performance in GY!BE's current a: "w tour. "This girl I've been hooking I up with went and she said it was "'Z Stages Hostile I totally Kafkaesque." ,a O'Connell was hospitalized last Takeover of Cro Thursday after collapsing in the a three-season athlete and, accord- can Spirit, took one long, thought- team locker room while attempt- ing to his sister, a "literally, rabid" ful drag, and added, "I thought my ing to remove his super-skinny fan of Radiohead. social versatility would be an as- acid-wash jeans. A teammate of "It's like I have to be two peo- set." This past weekend, the Col- his primary accomplice, Jea- his commented, "I saw him reach ple, you know? Like, when I'm When asked about his return to lege Center at Crozier- Wil- nette Williams, attempted to for bis pinny, then Itumed around with my boys they don't want to Connecticut College, O'Connell liams was the site of a standoff communicate their demands again and he was just down." listen to Neutral Milk Hotel, or winced, reached for his black between the Office of Student using CollegiateLink, but no Close friends and family say his talk about that documentary about Moleskine notebook, and said, Engagement and Leadership one was able to log in and collapse may have had something Helvetica, they always want to lis- "I'm just taking some 'me' time Education and the student read the ransom note Wil- to do with the social pressure ten to house and ki1l30s of Natty." for now." • body. Scott McEver, Direc- liams had pinned to the vir- O'Connell has been under, as both O'Connell lit an Organic Ameri- tor of Student Activities at the tual bulletin board. Office of Student Engagement McEver and Williams were and Leadership Education, removed from the premises spearheaded the operation. at II :09 PM and detained in Dining Hall Thefts Escalate As Julie Sizer ' II was taken Nichols House at the South hostage around lOAM on end of Campus. The two de- Students Begin Stealing Chairs, Tables Saturday, and was held un- fended their actions by point- til a Campus Safety Segway ing out that the event bad S.W.A.T. Team was able to been scheduled and the space In the wake of record-high loss- ally quite troubled,". said Mike three students made a thwarted at- negotiate her release, roughly reserved througb Collegiate- es in mugs, knives and flatware, Kroek in an uncharacteristically tempt to steal the gluten-free foods three hours later. Link more than two weeks in Dining Services bas just released emotional interview, "At least refrigerator, Dining Services has Of her ordeal, Sizer had advance. a new report indicating that a third with the mugs, we saw it coming. since offered 'total amnesty' to all to say, "They locked me in "We just wanted students of all eating surfaces and half of all With this, I mean ... even the high students willing tn return pilfered the SOFO office, I didn't to be mnre engaged," Wil- chairs are getting taken." The re- furniture. "No questions asked:' know that door even liams said on behalf of the seats have been covertly removed from Harris Refectory. "We're re- port was issued on the same day promised Kmeck .• opened." Office of Student Engage- McEver ment and Leadership Edu- and cation. Added McEver, "And educated on issues of leadership." • Guilt Ridden Students Turn Selves In by the Hundreds Following Weekend of Brazen Honor Code Violations Over 900 students turned on the basis that they bad knowingly monishing students ringed the themselves in to the violated the nearly century-old Honor perimeter of Fanning. "Dude," ex- Guardhouse this Code that binds social and academic. plained one Sophomore, "I really vio- past Sun- life on campus. "I've never seen any- lated the shOt out of the Honor Code day, thing like it," remarked Campus Safe- last night." His compatriots, some of ty Director Stewart Smith. "It's like them still wearing their clothes from they've all finally realized the error the night before, nodded in agree- of their ways." As the chapel ment. "I drank underage," he contin- bells struck one, snak- ued, "1 had at least fifteen other un- ing lines of bun- derage people in my room, many of gover, self- whom I served alcohol to. When that ad- was done, I disabled my smoke detec- tor, lit incense, and smoked marijuana. It was obscene." J-Board is expect- ed to be in continuous session through the end of the semester .• t 2 THECOLLEGE VOICE ED TORIALS/LETTERS contact@thecollegevoice,org FEBRUARY 7. 2011 THE COLLEGE VOICE Editorials "The views and opinions expressed in The College Voiceare strictly those of student authors, and not of Connecticut Col- In the fall of2008, I took my first course with a New Media and New Media Studies." There is an interdisciplinary ~edia lege. All content and editorial decisions remain in the hands scbolar named Alison de Fren, wbo bad come to Conn for Studies program at Pomona and at Vassar, and a FIlm an of the students; neither the College's administration nor its her post-doctoral fellowship. De Fren taught courses with Media Culture program at Middlebwy. Skidmore also offers faculty exercise control over the content." themes that didn't fit into conventional department genres. interdisciplinary courses in Communications and Media Stud- Lilah Raptopoulos Edltor·ln-Chief To find them, you had to search deep in the College Courses ~. "ft John Sbcrrnan Managing Editor section of the course catalog for names like "New Media and Our generation is expected to leave college as media- uent Julie McMahon Creative Director Digital Art," "Autobiographical Documentary" and "Remix & young adults. Some of the most abundant post-baccalaureate New, Editors Jazmine Hughes Mashup." job openings are in social media and tec!"'ology. Our gen- Meredith Boyle She taught theory and practice. In ber courses, we read eral education requirements tell us what s important for a Opinions EdUor John Dodig Foucault and McLuhan and Vannevar Bush, and discussed well-rounded graduate to draw from: 1iterarn:e~ sCle~ce, Arts & Entertainment Editors Racine Oxtoby Biocybemetic Reproduction and Audio Graffiti.