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Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 2000-2001 Student Newspapers 11-3-2000 College Voice Vol. 24 No. 8 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_2000_2001 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "College Voice Vol. 24 No. 8" (2000). 2000-2001. 13. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_2000_2001/13 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in 2000-2001 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. oren PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE STUDENTS OF CONNECTICUT COLLEGE VOLUME XXIV· NUMBER 8 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2000 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE, NEW LONDON, CT U.S.S. Cole Staff Go All Out for Halloween Dress Up Incident Leads to Res. Life Sees No "Developement Office Goddesses" Take Home Grand Prize Heightened State Housing Crunch for of Alert at Coast By ERIC SCHUESSEL Guard Academy staff writer Spring 2001 "Curiouser and curiouser ... " Thus spoke Alice as she journeyed Bv DANIEL JARCHO ing are the River Ridge Apartments By TIM STEVENS through the world through the look- located at the southeast corner of staff writer campus near Abbey House. associate news editor ing glass, walking amongst the strange beings and people. After last year's housing crisis, WoodBrooks added, "There are also At the start ofthe week, Connecti- A similar reaction might be elic- which saw many students crammed vacant rooms in each of the dorms cut College students were told via ited by a student unaccustomed to into living rooms, storage rooms and around campus that will be used to Bulletin Broadcast that the Coast seeing adults, normally in positions even janitor's closets, the housing house returning students." Approxi- Guard Academy had entered a state of academic authority and adminis- situation for spring '01 should be mately 100 spaces will be needed to of heightened security. However, trative responsibility, dressing as much more comfortable, as there provide for all the returning students. little information was offered to the dogs, cheering on their respected should be space available to house all Only 184 of the 218 students cur- student body as to why this was oc- colleagues and generally carousing students returning from study abroad rently abroad will return for the curring. in the purest tradition of holiday re- programs. spring semester, and roughly 79 stu- The most prominent theory dis- lease. The housing crunch of the 1999- dents will be departing in the spring. cussed was that the change in status This is the atmosphere of the an- 2000 spring semester was the result However, Aileen Burdick, the college was connected with the terrorist at- nual Faculty and Staft Halloween of the combined factors of larger and registrar, said that "We will not know tack on the U.S.S. Cole while it refu- Party, put on for the last five years larger classes being admitted every exactly how many students will be eled in Yemen waters. The suicide by the Human Resources Depart- year, the renovations of dorms in the off campus until nearthe start of next attack opened a 20-foot by 40-foot ment. According to Joan Hunter, co- Plex, and the huge discrepancy be- semester." hole in the side of the Cole that cost ordinator of the event, the party has tween the number of students who Conway Campbell, Assistant Di- the United States the lives of 17 sail- evolved to include a competition be- return from studying away in the fall rector of Residential Life, agreed with ors and injured 39 others. "A boat tween different departments, both and those who leave in the spring. Burdick and was not as quick to dis- that was involved in mooring would formal and informal. Each group Students temporarily housed in the rmss the possibility of housing not be expected to be a threat," Navy tries to outdo each other by wearing makeshift accommodations were crunch. "We are still trying to figure Adm. Vern Clark, Chief of Naval the silliest, flashiest and most origi- moved to the newly renovated that out. We still haven't gotten the Operations, explained. This, coupled nal costumes. "Everybody got into Lambdin dormitory that was finished numbers yet. I can't say it is going with the fact that the refueling had it," Jaughs Hunter, who says it has ahead of schedule. to be like last spring and I can't say only been decided on four to six hours become "a big secret" who wears Dean of Student Life Katherine that it won't. .. We are definitely go- prior, thus making it difficult for oth- what. WoodBrooks explained the extent of ing to have more students on cam- ers to have had the knowledge, made At first, one might think that aca- the imbalance this year, saying, "The . pus, but whether it is going to be like the attack all the more shocking. demic life has gone to these people's number of students studying away in last spring we just don't know." Lieutenant JG Jen Hall, the heads. Passing students, smiling as the fall is more than twice the num- But WoodBrooks is still confi- Academy's Public Affairs Officer, they took in the sight, were overhead ber of students going away in the dent. "With all the dorms on line for confirmed that the heightened secu- calling the display "disturbed." spring." This faIJ, there are 218 stu- the spring and the availability of al- rity alert was indeed connected to the However, the vast majority of par- dents studying abroad, while 79 stu- ternate housing, we will have enough U.S.S. Cole incident, "All of the De- ticipants were, in fact, staff, the dents have been approved for regu- rooms to house all our students." partment of Defense was asked to do people who keep Connecticut Col- lar abroad programs and SATA in the The extent of the housing situa- so and although we are not part of lege clean and operating. Only one Jeanne Pasqualini of the College Relations Office shows how much her spring. tion will become more clear as the the Department of Defense, we have The unbalanced statistics should faculty member was verifiably in costume looks like the real thing. (Barco) semester comes to a close, and col- decided to act in the same manner," costume: Arlin Mantz, Chair of the not be as mucb of a problem this year. lege officials should know what sort For outsiders, such as the mem- Physics Department, showed up as press any disappointment with the produced marching dog costumes, Renovations in Lambdin are com- of measures will need 10 be taken bers of this campus, this heightened Dipsy the Teletubby. A few other evening. Nothing was provided but dancing to Baha Men's "Who Let pleted, opening up many more avail- before students leave for winter break security does not have a significant faculty wandered in between 12:30 a little food and drink, costume the Dogs Out," and, ultimately, the able rooms. Also available for hous- in December. direct effect. It will mean ID checks, and 1:00, they seemed to only he judges and the opportunity to relax. Grand Prize. the possibility of arrest if they attempt there to observe the costume con- Most simply described the party a~ Also present were the CISLA to get on the Academy's campus test, not to socialize. Do the profes- an immense "release" from the Office "international ghosts," Stamford Mayor Daniel through any means besides the front sors really prefer not to associate stresses of life, an opportunity to which won the ScariestlFunniest entrance, and the need for a new run- outside their own circles? Not nec- worry about little more than enjoy- Group prize, and several people ning route for some. But what of essarily. According to the faculty in- ing themselves. from the Public Relations office Malloy Discusses the those enrolled at the Academy? terviewed they received very little The culmination of the Hallow- dressed as Hershey's Kisses took Coast Guard students wiH be ex- advanced notice of the party. een Party)is the formal costume con- home the Most Creative Group pected to increase the attention they Not all of the staff had an op- test, judged by four students. This honors. Other winners included Problems of Urban Sprawl pay to their surroundings, bot it will portunity to join in the costumed ca- year, nearly all attendants came in the Most Creative Individual, Salad have little effect on their day-to-day rousing of their peers. However, carefully-worked costumes in group Woman; the Funniest Individual, a By STEVE REYNOLDS pose of moving out of them," he said. even those from Dining Services themes. Even the Development Of- Nagging Neighbor; and the Best The idea of the American Dream, who kept tbe buffet stocked and tbe fice, norma\ly a plain-clothes group, Overall Individual, Betsy the Biker staff writer SEE COAST GUARD with everyone owning his own house Human Resources staff who had to dressed as the Development Office Chick a woman who defies all de- and property, has contributed to the page 6 clean up the 1962 Room did not ex- Goddesses, or DOG's. Their group scription. Daniel Malloy, the mayor of decline of cities. With everyone Stamford, Connecticut, visited Con- wanting "their own four walls and a necticut College on Friday, October piece of properly surrounded by a 27, to explain the problems facing our white picket fence," the suburbs have nation's cities.