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NEW LONDON, CONNEGICUT TUESDAy,APRIL27, 2010 VOLUME 34· ISSUE19 Departments in Danger Barbara Kingsolver German and Slavic Studies departments face drastic change Discusses Peter St. John JAZMINE HUGHES and is a "top Fulbright producer" reduce them." NEWS EDITOR is making a move to combine the In this vein, Dean of Faculty Plagiarism Case Slavic Studies and German depart- Roger Brooks is working toward a student newspaper for blowing This past year, the Connecticut ments into one: an agreement to foster «the great- INTERVIEW BY the cover on this story, but disap- College website made a small The proposal to create a new est impact on students and the SAMANTHA HERNDON pointed it wasn't already common but significant change in labels. program called "European Stod- breadth and quality of our course In reaction to last week's article knowledge. This could have been .A tab reading "Study Away" was ies" works to resolve several offerings and majors." "The Revelation of St. John '09", a perfect teaching opportunity for replaced with the term "Global problems the departments may Brooks explained that "Slavic writer Barbara Kingsol ver agreed your student body: an object les- Focus," It leads to a page pro- face: small classes, lack of general Studies and Geonan Stodies are to answer several questions from son incopyright law, temptation claiming, "The world awaits you. student interest, and one of the both small yet vibrant depart- Samantha Herndon' 10. and ethics, the desire to be "amaz- We provide the pathways," which lowest number of enrolled student ments that play an important role ing" weighed against the validity features pictures of Knowlton din- majors, in the College's international Q: What would you consider of honest work. Mistakes that get ing hall and impressive statistics Andrea Lanoux, Chair of the initiatives. On the other hand, to be an appropriate sentence or hidden will be repeated. of our study away programs and Slavic Studies department, says their enrollments are relatively outcome for someone who has When your President informed student population spanning sev- that the proposal was part of the low and there are many compet- committed plagiarism? me of the plagiarized commence- eral countries. annual staffing process. ing requests for faculty resources. A: We don't need to reinvent ment speech, I told him I was sad Still, Connecticut College. "a "[The college] goes through Ibelieve we should consider the wheel here - plagiarism is a that a student chosen to represent this process every year to allocate whether a new unit might achieve highly selective private liberal arts crime. Copyright laws are feder- the college's best and brightest had college," a school that "promotes faculty resources," said Lanoux. synergies that the two units alone ally mandated. Depending on the instead behaved as its dinunest. I an nnderstanding of local, re- "The proposed merger of Slavic have not." circumstances, prosecution can offered my confidence that most and German was acmally designed Lanoux supports this decision. gional, national and international lead to fines and even imprison- Connecticut College students had to maintain faculty resources in "I think. it's positive that the peoples, groups, cultures and ment. I own my copyrighted been educated more successfully. issues through its curriculum," those programs, rather than to SEE DEPARTMENTS, PAGE 3 intellectual property in exactly I wouldn't call that "absolution." the same sense that you own, for Iwas assured the violation was + example, your car. Ican admire considered egregious and would your car. You might take me for be pnnished. Itook this to mean a ride in it. But I don't get to say, the college magazine would run a "Ooh. shiny, mine!" and grab the conspicuous apology for print- keys. You worked to pay for that ing plagiarized material, and that car~ Iwork to craft my words, the plagiarist might not receive a which I possess and sell. They're diploma. In an academic setting, my livelihood. plagiarism generally leads to pre- bation or dismissal. I'm stunned Q: Do you feel that Connecticut to learn the college may still be College handled the plagiarism selling videos of that speech, case well? which is stolen property (does A: Time will tell. I'm proud of SEE KINGSOLVER, PAGE 3 Women's Water Polo: Future Looks Hopeful NICK EDWARDS I CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER HAHNJE sport athletic conference in North CONTRIBUTOR America, decided last year to re- WOVEN: Senior Dancers Weave The Women's Water polo team structure the women's Division M faced new challenges this year league. This unprecedented event as they stepped out onto the pool marks the first instance ever of an NCAA conference dividing its Stunning Performances deck of Lott Natatorium on Valen- tine's Day for their first practice. competing members by division, despite women's water polo being graduate careers. pieces have little to do with one In the past, the tearn suffered from JOHN SHERMAN a non-divisional NCAA sport. III The concert is titled Woven, and another in form, style,lighting, a lack of both experience and MANAGING EDITOR previous seasons, the lady Camels the thick, orange yam featured on and costuming, but everything to participants, in addition to compet- would compete against heavily- This weekend's senior dance the program, on posters advertis- do with each other in the sense ing against powerhouse Division I recruited Dl teams like Hartwick majors' concert was a stunning ing the event, and decorating the of a collective experience - the teams like Brown University. This College with little contest. Since showcase of student choreography lower lobby of Palmer has become completion of a major in dance. season brought brand new players, the team has played only DlII and performance. Eight women a symbol of the show and of The show was dividied into both experienced and neophytic, teams this season, the women's will graduate this spring as dance the senior dance majors collec- two programs, A and B, which I and a new league-restIucturing that water polo team is a fonoidable majors, and for some of them, this tively. Like squares of a quilt, or attended on Thursday and Friday would toake the lady Camels more competitor in the league wiU, a 5-5 concert marked the last time their sleeves of a sweater, each piece night, respectively. fonoidable. record. work will appear on a Connecticut is a unique and necessary piece The Collegiate Water Polo Asso- SEE WOVEN, PAGE 7 SEE WATER POLO, PAGE 5 College stage during their under- of a comprehensive whole. These ciation (CWPA), the largest singJe- Sports Arts Opinions Editorials FAREWELL, CAMEL ATHLETICS MUSIC TO LOOK FORWARD TO BRO·VERLOAD CHANGING OF THE GUARD The College Voice welcomes its new An overview of Conn sports from 2009-2010 Get hyped for summer releases ranging from Are they social parasites? p. 9 p 5 Kanye to Eminem p. 6 staff p. 12 �-~ ~ �_.. THE COLLEGE VOICE BEEI<EEPING ~ ,.z '",. Ii! lI: ~ ..., 8'" m ~ " (abo!-e) Conn's premiere sports-punk band LAX made its debut at the MOBROC (above and righ~ Spring]am, cranking out gnarly tunes on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Seven Stuart Woronecki bands performed, ranging in style from hardcore punk to pop and from folk to found rhythm in bluesy jam. his life by keeping bees. He not only ROOFTOP RALLY. has hives here in r----..........-..".,.,-- the Sprout gar- den, but at various farms spread across eastern Connecti- cut. His main focus is to keep his bees healthy and happy so that he can get the max amount of honey each harvest- ing season. As a treat to all those in attendance, Woro- necki gave out samples of his deli- cious honey. Between 4 and 11 Pi\! on Friday, Conn bands and one a cappella group united with New London and Wesleyan bands to throw a rooftop benefi t on the Wa- ter Street Parking Garage. The money will help put solar panels on the parking garage. Watch live music at thecollegevoice.org SENIOR ART MINOR EXHIBIT THE COLLEGE VOICE The Senior Art Minor exhibit, on display from April 5 to April 20, featured endorses their tireless works from the likes of (left! Ddne Bjorkland (be/au) Blake McDonald and leader, Claire Gould, for (iigh~Ben Berkowitz. Young Alumni Trustee. h do da' Claire. i Yon do cia.' Claire. Oomedodi~ (abo!-e) The steaming man- holes across campus are the result of a steam leak in the pipes underground, according to Campus Safety Officer Doiron. (left! An underground stream is thought to be the cause of a sinkhole outside of Burdick where the earth has caved in. • as . .. --:-~~'~'C;'~'_••~ _~~.-'"'"7~--''''''~'0'''-~-_. , ..,.........,~.~ ~~ ..~.~.......,....""'.~.~.•~.~ . THE COLLEGE VOICE NEWS Barbara Kingsolver on Peter St. John CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 gray area. Four consecutive words people do it, trusl me. anyone know the verb "fence?") or more taken from another source In the case of Peter St. John's and that the ffender parlayed his must be placed between quotation speech, we are not discussing "in- marks and attributed, period.