9.11.01: Ten Years Later Jury Still out on Print Quota

Crawfordsville, Indiana | September 9, 2011 | Volume 104, Issue 2 CRAWFORDSVILLE RESTAURANTS 9.11.01: Ten Years Later PETER ROBBINS ‘12 EDITOR IN CHIEF forming after such a traumatic event. “I remember talking with Jim On Sunday, the country will Amidon and Sean Gallagher [news commemorate the tenth anniversary editor] on the mall about who we of the most significant national event should call,” Pactor said. “We ended of most of our lives. It is safe to assume that almost every member of up just asking Wabash alumni in the Wabash community remembers New York to send us anything they where they were when they heard could and telling them we hoped the news of the terrorist attacks of they were alright. We wanted to get September 11th, 2001. The Bachelor as many perspectives as possible covered the event in their September to get people as close to the event 13th, 2001 issue. without obviously being there.” One such alumnus, as mentioned, “I was in Peter Frederick’s TODD VOGEL| WABASH ‘03 History 102 class in Baxter 101,” was David Patel ’97, who told his Bill Hecker ‘05 watches the news coverage of the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001. 2001-2002 Bachelor Editor in Chief story in The Bachelor in 2001 (see Jacob Pactor said. “I saw a huge to the right). The issue also featured The account below appeared in the September 13, 2001 issue crowd congregating in the lounge in insight from several other New York of The Bachelor. Baxter Hall. I joined them just in alumni. They include Reid Embrey the Wabash community, many of time to see the second tower get hit.” ’98, who described the silence in whom did the exact same thing as Pactor explained how The Times Square as shocked New Hecker is shown doing that morning. Bachelor staff had already planned Yorkers watched the events unfold “I remember sitting in the living its issue for that week when on giant screens; Bill Wheeler ’83, room of theta delta chi after coming Tuesday, September 11th happened, who at the time was the CFO at back from class and seeing the first and the events of that day made MetLife Insurance and explained tower on fire,” Hecker said. “And th them scramble to completely change how on September 12 , he had to the image that I will never forget is that week’s paper. begin estimating the number of life the second plane. I will never forget “The whole focus of the insurance policies MetLife would that image as long as I live. I saw newspaper changed,” Pactor said. have to pay since many companies the second plane hit the other tower. Despite the logistical difficulties in the WTC provided policies I can’t even really say what was the staff encountered, The through MetLife; Dave Marshall going through my head. I don’t think Bachelor’s coverage of the events of ’83, who mentioned his escape to I could really comprehend it at that that fateful day were important for New Jersey across the Hudson and time. When the towers finally fell, the staff from a journalistic point of how he had learned that a friend and it was probably the worst moment view. his son were on one of the flight’s I will ever see in my life. Honestly, “That year was the first year we from Boston; and John M. Olivieri I couldn’t tell you anything about competed in competition,” Pactor ’91, who wrote about being denied the rest of the day or week. I wish I said. “And that issue let us know to give blood because more people could get that entire day out of my that we could be a real newspaper. than the blood bank’s staff could head.” It was real reporting that people manage were already trying to do What that issue of The Bachelor actually read.” the same, and also about how he ate did, and of course in more general The most compelling elements dinner with another Wabash alumnus terms what the attacks of September of the September 13th, 2001 issue that night. 11, 2001 did, was to make people were: a recounting by David Patel On the front page of the issue was realize how small the world is. New ’97, who worked in the World Trade a picture of a freshman, Bill Hecker York is by any measure very far Center and lived in New York during ’05, whose incredulous expression in from Crawfordsville, yet in less than the attacks, and a staff editorial front of the TV that morning surely two days members of the Wabash which encouraged the Wabash contributed to the empathy felt by Community were sharing their very community to stay strong and refrain other members of direct and vivid experiences of, for from rash opinion- some, the most traumatic experience of their lives. Jury Still out on Print Quota JOHN DYKSTRA ‘13 more monographs, but then it would cost CAVELIFE EDITOR more to buy a text book. Also take into consideration that modern history has Printing fees have been the subject of a yet to be published in paper. So, the PDF hot debate within the Wabash community. documents we use are important for our Having completed about two weeks of students’ education.” classes, students and faculty expressed President of the Student Body their opinions about the printing situation. Steve Henke ‘12 has met with the Many have understood both sides of the administration about printing prices. situation, but the new system has called He said there are not any plans to alter for more adjustments than just printing the prices. At five cents for a single- habits. sided print, Wabash printing rates have Student Anton Crepinsek ’13 said been cheaper than most other liberal art he was frustrated with the new printing system because students do not know how schools. A single-sided print at DePauw to use printers. costs ten cents. “I understand where the system is “My understanding is that we are coming from because I do agree that getting the prices as they come to the we need to not waste paper, but it is College,” Henke said. “Personally, I like frustrating that no one seems to know the idea of the system because it forces how exactly to use all the printers,” the students to pay attention to the amount Crepinsek said. “The network doesn’t of paper they are using. Last year alone, seem to be functioning right. I can’t print JOHN DYKSTRA | WABASH ‘13 we printed off 1.1 million copies. It is off things to the printer I need to print Anton Crepinsek ‘13 waits for a document to print at the Lilly Library. staggering and that is something students from – it’s the only printer that does do not realize.” double-sided printing – and I can’t use Rhoades said. “Now, of course, that Professors have also been concerned Henke said the administration should it. That’s a problem. I understand the makes the quota look really low and have a feel for how efficient the quota is about the new printing system. Dr. really bad because you have to print off system, but it is not running smoothly.” around mid-semester. Michelle Rhoades, Jane and Frederic all these things.” Rhetoric major Nick Hurt ’13 said he “They spent a lot of time on the understands where the administration Hadley in History, said the printing Rhoades said she hopes the quota quotas, but those may or may not be is coming from, but finds the quota system has caused students some doesn’t encourage students to not do their accurate, and there is really no way of irritating. problems because faculty are used to reading or print off several drafts for their “I have two classes right now that using PDFs. papers. She was confident that faculty will knowing that yet,” he said. “We just need I am going to have to print off seven “There is a tradition here, so far, that make an adjustment, but that adjustment to see how the numbers come in. So, I hundred pages just for the class, and that I think is bumping up against the quota comes with another cost. think by mid-semester, this should be is not including papers,” Hurt said. “I do right now and that is that I think many “This year might be a period of a process of looking at numbers, and if understand that that is going to be cheaper of the faculty have gotten used to using adjustment, but we will all figure out the numbers they said are correct – that in the long run rather than buying a book. PDFs or recommending students to read something,” Rhoades said. “I think eighty percent of the students do not So, I do see both sides of it, but I feel like articles – that was before the quota,” professors will probably assign less exceed their quotas – then we should be it’s more of a nuisance right now.” PDFs, fewer photocopies, and look for fine.” Page 2 The Bachelor | September 9, 2011 Bachelor 301 W. Wabash Ave. Crawfordsville, IN Brown Happy To Be Back 47933 PETER ROBBINS ‘12 want to be a place where EDITOR IN CHIEF Peter Robbins EDITOR IN CHIEF other organizations on cam- [email protected] pus, like Unidos Por Sangre, MANAGING EDITOR In his second tour of Muslim Students Society, Brandan Alford duty at Wabash, Dr. Michael ‘shOUT, etc. can come and [email protected] Brown, the new Director we can be in discussion.” LAYOUT EDITOR of the Malcolm X Institute, Brown was a religion Yangnan “Paul” Liu [email protected] has the challenge of balanc- professor at Wabash from ing the two functions of the 1995-1999.

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