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College Voice Vol. 96 No. 15 Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 2012-2013 Student Newspapers 4-1-2013 College Voice Vol. 96 No. 15 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_2012_2013 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "College Voice Vol. 96 No. 15" (2013). 2012-2013. 4. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_2012_2013/4 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 2012-2013 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. ,...---.--- ~- - - - - - ------... MONDAY. APRIL 1, 2013 NEW LONDON, CONNEGICUT VOLUME XCVI • ~SlE 15 FISHBO 1..IS·BACKl Administration apologizes, promises to reinstate tradition Just kidding, , Happy April.Fool's Day! IN THIS ISSUE (THE REAL STORIES) On the Real World Artist Kris Grey WCNIRadio NESCAC lionors Magazine \ Outside the Ivory Visits Campus Objectification 1 \ Tower News Editor Helen Rolfe talks Gender queer artist Kris Grey Meet the voices of WCNI DJs. Sixty-six Conn students cho- Criticizing the representation of about maturing at Connecticut comes to campus for a lecture sen for All-Academic in Winter women and men in popular mag- College, and performance. sports. azines. EDITORIALS - 2 NEWS - 3 ARTS - 4 SPORTS - 7 OPINIONS- - 9 EDITORIALS· 2 Editorials APRIL 1,2013 THE COLLEGE VOICE "~~~", Editorial .. ,... THE COLLEGE VOICE "The views and inions expressed in The College Vpice are stric:tly~ose ~f.stu- dent authors. an~ot of Connecticut College. All conte~t and ~~ton~1 dey1S1~tns remain in the hands of the students; neither the College s a~JnlstratlOn nor its On the Real World faculty exercise control over the content. MEREDITH BOYLE Editor in Chief " Outside the Ivory Tower ANNIE MITCHELL AYANOELSON " Managing Editor Creative Director " For awhile now. all of us at the were preoccupied with studying for from professors who know your Voice have been hard at work plan- finals and the approaching winter name and are fond of you as a hu- DAVESHANFIELD ning our upcoming New London break, Anyway, we're just young man being, somebody else takes Assistant Creative Director issue. While I have thoroughly en- adults - we couldn't have done care of all the cooking and clean- '. joyed this expansion of our editorial anything that would actually help ing up, and you have fun with your ., gaze beyond more familiar borders, victims' families in a meaningful friends - most of whom are likely to EDITORIAL STAFF " I'm embarrassed to say l was ini- way. Right? be at least somewhat demographi- NEWS Dana Sorkin, Helen Rolfe tially hard-pressed to come up with While Iknow I've become far cally similar to you. OPINIONS [erell Mays, Ayla Zuraw-Prtedland article ideas. "How can I tell other too apathetic regarding the outside If this analogy holds any truth, ARTS &:ENTERTAINMENT Melanie Thibeault, Mark Ferreira people what to write about New world, I'm also fairly certain I'm maybe we should be trying to grow SPORTS Daniel Moorin, Katie Karlson . London?" I thought. "I don't know not the only one on campus strug- up a little faster than we are at the .. anything about New London!" After gling with complacency about moment. To shamelessly employ just six months of college. J seemed what's happening out there in "the another cliche, our generation is the PHOTO Cecilia Brown, Maia Schoenfelder .: to have already forgotten (or will- real world." But [ refuse to blame (near) future. I'm not suggesting WEB DIRECTOR Ayano Elson fully ignored) the fact that, yes, life the College for what I perceive to we shouldn't enjoy these four years WEB CONTENT Fred McNulty " still goes on outside our arboreal, be our student body's isolationism. - we are incredibly lucky to simul- MULTIMEDIA Peter Herron, Liz Charky " academically inclined bubble, Conn provides plenty of opportu- taneously savor exciting freedom Ishould have noticed my too nities for us to interact with non- and to benefit from quasi-parental ADVERTISING Melissa Fopiano narrow perspective long before: on collegiate life in an impactful way: support. Still, I want to stick a toe December 14 of last year, to be ex- OVCS, the five academic centers, in the deep end as often as pos- DESIGN STAFF " act, when Adam Lanza went on his even our free subscriptions to /The sible before graduation: by studying GRAPHIC Dave Shanfield rampage in Newtown. Connecticut. New York Timesr--. plentiful are abroad, participating in the broader ILLUSTRATORS Zander Asplundh-Smith After all, it takes just an hour and these and other channels through community, discussing thorny is- a half to drive from Conn to Sandy which we can engage the outside sues with someone whose opinions Hook Elementary School. You'd world, make me livid or just reading the think the sickening carnage would I can't help thinking that the way newspaper. Yes, we attend college WRITERS have hit a little closer to home than we COcoon ourselves inside this safe to learn, but that learning necessar- NEWS Melanie Thibeault, Connor Chan, Molly Bangs it did. In fact, our proximity to the haven on the hill smacks of immatu- ily concerns what goes on outside • site is truly mind-boggling when rity on our part; in some ways, life our arboreal utopia - so why not OPINIONS Andrew Shaw, Dakota Peschel, Ayla Zuraw-Friedland you stop to think how little most at a small, selective college evokes start applying the products of our of us students were affected by the an idealized, warm-and-fuzzy high education now? shooting. Well, it makes sense: we school experience. You take class -Helen A&:E Colin Puth, Matteo Mobilio; Matthew Whiman, Melanie Thibeault, Andrew Marco, Dana Sorkin -i I got lucky this year because my April showcase a more favorable outcome for three years and I look forward to seeing " Fool's issue actually fell on April Fool's Connecticut College teams. what changes they bring to the Voice. SPORTS Katie Karlson Day. Just a bit of clarification, as this Beyond this issue, I must report that While Imay be'on the way out, I still tradition has caused confusion and alarm Ionly have two more weeks left as have big plans for the next two issues. Contact Us in the past, the front and back pages are Editor in Chief. I will be passing the Next week will be the long-anticipated ~ontact@thecol1egevt>ice,brg 270 Mohegan Avenue full of fake stories, ones that the editors torch to Melanie Thibeault, current New London Issue and the following New London, C:r 06320 and I came up with as a team. In addi- Arts Editor, and Dave Shanfield, our week will showcase the theme of shared thecollegevoice.org tion, the power rankings in the sports Assistant Creative Director. Both have governance; ... ~.."j,·,t section may have been tampered with to consistently worked hard over the past \. -Meredith Wed'nesday - 9PJVl- CRO 215 .. " " " '." " .r .' " " 'j " " 'I " .," 'l " '! I 1 " I , Z• NEWS· 3 News & Features APRIL 1.2013 THE COLLEGE VOICE Gender Queer Artist Kris Grey Brings Poetry and Politics to Campus MELANIE THIBEAULT model a non-hierarchical pool. evolution of language. After which was part of my 'Unti- the piece became a poetic, po- During Friday's "Ask a ARTS EDITOR peaking on the use of the showing a video at their lec- tled' piece, is currently in my litical event. I'm excited about Tranny" performance, Kris word "tranny." Kris acknowl- ture, Kris explained that the car right now." Even without doing different workshops and explained that she can never This past week, gender edged that the word is pejora- footage consists of performing studio space, Kris, who has a using that working methodol- speak for anyone else, only queer artist Kris Grey visited tive. and is usually a term used "Ask a Tranny" in different graduate degree in ceramics ogy in different places." herself. campus to give 8 lecture. visit again t transfeminine people. cities over a three-year span. from Ohio University, hasn't As an activist, Kris men- "The visibility for gender classe and talk personally As a transmasculine individu- "I cringe when I hear the given up on objects and using tioned that a lot of social jus- queer people is zero, and when with students and faculty. The al, Kri said that some people way that I talked about myself them in performances. tice issues are intersecting at there is zero representation visit. sponsored by the her- may think that the word is not two and a half years ago. I can "I've been challenged to the moment. "I'm very hope- and only one or two things man Fairchild Foundation, Kris's to use. She said that see the progression - that my make the best work possible in ful about many things chang- present, society assumes that culminated in a performance Project Runway contestant language and my understand- whatever medium possible," ing in the near future. We need those one or two things are on Friday titled "Ask a Tran- Christian Siriano should be ing of myself and my identity Kris said. "I encourage stu- to be vigilant, positive and true of all people [in that par- ny," which Kris has performed credited for bringing the word has evolved right along with dents to grow and change and productive," Kris said, also ticular group]." So Kris left in various cities throughout into mainstream after using my body," Kris said. make choices that would best adding that it's "kind of age- the crowd with a question: the past three years.
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