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NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2009 VOLUME 34 • ISSUE 2 Climate Ride 2009: Conn Students Pedal 300 Miles Toward a New Energy Future MEGAN REBACK College sent over 130 students instead of drivtng?" parents' friends and friends' eager to help out;' and agreed CONTRIBUTOR last spring - as one of the What road did Bigwood and parents, wrote letters, wrote to donate 10 percent of that main factors that compelled Karwatowski take to be just reminder letters, sent e-mails nights' profits - $125 - to On September 26, sopho- her to join Climate Ride. days away from the ride of a and sent reminder e-mails. the cause. more Erik Karwatowski and Alumni Tyler Dunham '09 lifetime? Firstly, all Climate But by the time they arrived Next, Bigwood went door-to- junior Annie Bigwood will and Mike Seager '09 completed Riders are required to raise a to Conn this fall, Bigwood and door In Larrabee and Katha- embark on a five day, 300-mile the ride last year and had a minimum of$2,400 to support Karwatowski were still short of rine Blunt to fund the rest of journey from New York City to very positive experience. the cause. the $2,400 requirement. her trip. Washington, D.C.on bicycles, Bigwood views Climate Ride Thus far, fundraising this On Saturday, September 12, It was "cool to see the en- In an effort to promote the des- thusiasm and support through perate need to combat climate Conn;' and raise $200, she said. change. Climate Ride, a "cli- Finally, every member of mate conference on wheels;' REC sent e-mails to family and provides a diverse group of friends to support Karwatows- so-called 'climate riders' the ki and Bigwood's team. chance to meet and ride with Ultimately, Bigwood raised leaders and speakers focused $3,000 for Climate Ride. on issues of climate change, Now that Bigwood and Kar- renewable energy and environ- wat wski have raised enough mental causes. money, they look forward Karwatowski and Bigwood to joining over 150 people, are Connecticut College stu- including an Olympic skier, a dent leaders from the Renew- masseuse and owners-of small able Energy Club (REC). Both sustainable businesses, in the are global citizens dedicated journey from New York City to to promoting and practicing Washington, D.C. environmental initiatives. Along the way, the Climate Bigwood has been an active Riders will stop at Princeton member of REC since her University, Phoenixville, Pa., freshman year and cites Power Shift - a Washington, D.C.con- SEE CLIMATE RIDE PAGE 4 ference to which Connecticut IN THIS ISSUE Safety Concerns on Campus JAZMINE HUGHES derneath stalls in the women's New floor governor duties: making them friends or foes? NEWS EDITOR bathroom in Cro. Page 3 Walden, who is listed on the •••••••••••••••••••••• Cognizant of our separa- Connecticut Department of ...................... tion from New London, Conn' Public Safety Sex Offender Reg, students often emphasize the Istry, was promptly arrested, Camels Volleyball off to a successful start "bubble" in which our school charged with trespassing, PageS rests comfortably. Contrary to stalking and breach of peace. our larger, city-centered peers, He was previously arrested •••••••••••••••••••••• ..................•.•. Connecticut College's enclosed In South Carolina in 200S on campus creates a sense of charges of voyeurism. safety. While the College included BEATLEMANIA! With recent events, however, the above information in an Page 6 the College's rose-colored email to the campus, it came in •••••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••••••••••••••• glasses have finally been re- a second email, moved. As disclosed in cam- Cookies for breakfast? pus-wide emails from Dean Thomaa Lee Walden, from Page 12 Briddell and Stewart Smith, SEE SAFETY, PAGE 4 Thomas Lee Walden, a man the Connecllcut Depart- hired as a contractor for the ment of Public Safety Sax Edltorl.la 2 I News 3 I Arts + Entertainment 7 I Sports 8 I Opinions 9 college, was found peeking un- Offender Registry -~--- - .- - ---- _ ..... _----"~--- - --~ ----~--;-. ... THE COLLEGE VOICE EDITORIALS E-mail: [email protected] September 22, 2009 Editor's Voice • In response to last Solving the College's Problems Through Surveillance Therefore, disrespernng week's Editors Voice These facts now clarified, In last week's issue, we ran Oasis staff is a blatant breach an article on the cameras being I would like to state my own There have been several so should we. of our Honor Code, which gives opinion this Issue, which is consequences of the 'Great Again, don't get me wrong. placed In Cro's snack shop. me cause to believe that plac- actually quite complex, When Recession; Including half- There's nothing I love more t have some strong. albeit ing cameras in the snack shop I first heard that a camera hearted attempts at regulating than manhandling a Sunday contllcting opmlons-about this would be placed in Oasis {or demonstrates the administra- our wobbly nnanclal system, Times until it's unrecogntz- topic, but there are a few clan- safety reasons, I Immediately tion's assumption that stu- a dlrncult job market and a able. Butl also love drtvlng a ncations I'd like to make about agreed with the idea I've seen dents will undoubtedly break new Amertcan frugality that car that gets approJdmately the article before Idiscuss plenty of drunken Conn stu- the honor code. the New York Times covers just 18 mpg. Both of these are not them. This nonsensical reaction There will now be one cam- dents on any given Thursday about every day. As part of this necessartly sustainable behav- from the administration would tors, While print news offers era inside the snack shop, by or Saturday night stumbling . new Amertcan frugality, phil- be like: the cashier. It,like the other and sluning their .way through anthropic budgets,.particularly some benefits, we have to look _Students cheat on a test surveillance cameras around the snack shop, and disrespect- the kind that sustain programs forwards at the platforms that We'll put cameras up in class- campus, will be only reviewed ing or verbally assaulting staff at prtvate colleges like Conn, have been developed to give us rooms and academic buildings! if an incident Is reported members. have been severely downsized an expertence that Is as close _Underage students drlnk In In regards tc the quote from "Where's my pizza, b·--- T" is If not eliminated altogether. to print news as possible. their rooms. We'll put cameras website Is Ulysses Hammond which one such expression Iheard Additionally, the Recession The College Voice's up in every residence hall! IMng proof that articles can be claims that SGAsupported first-hand last spring on a par- Injected the prtnt vs. online Where does it end? the Initiative 'one hundred ticularly crazy night in Cro. newspaper debate with a displayed In a way that gives I'm pushing it on this ac- prtonty to whatever the edIto- percent; Hammond and Ben- For staff member's safety, healthy dose of urgency. As the count, lknow, but I really rtal staff deems most worthy. gochea brought the topic of and overall wellbeing. Iagree volume of prtnt advertising want to drive my point home: E-readers like Amazon's Kindle cameras to the SGAexecutive that camera survelllance would plummets - and papers' rev- we need to get to the root of continue to Improve upon the board administrator meet- help to deter some incidents, enues fall In tandem - people the problem (Honor Code) screen-reading expertence so ings durtng training. and SGA and that reviewing film foot- have started getting sertous and look at the bigger picture about nndlng solutions to keep our eyes aren't warped In the President Peter Frtedrtchs age could be useful in Judicial Board hearings as evidence of instead of simply taking the our fourth branch of govern- meantime. and Stewart Smith, Director of easier way out ment a1lve and well. WhIle WhIle we should acl1vely Campus Safety, discussed the misdemeanors. Please note that I'm not com- this was happening, the digital campaign to redirect school topic durtng the flrst SGAas- However, (and this is where pletely against the purchase of revolution has kept on chug- funding towards the IlIXUJ1es sembly meeting. my confliction comes In) not these cameras. As mentioned. ging. developing sophisticated we miss, we need to take It In I could not attend the execu-· everything can be resolved by earlier, I think it's a good idea news platfdims for PCs and strtde and recognize that the tive board meeting with Ham- relying on surveillance. for the wellbeing of Cro staff mobile devices. news Is still there, and not mond since I was at a journal- It's actually a passive way to who are verbally abused. I do It sucks that we've lost the having a prtnt edition is no ism conference, so I cannot maintain order. think, however, that students newspapers due to a tempo- excuse for not maintaining the speak for how the rest of the Instead, the root of the prob- should have had a say in this rary gap in funding here at CC.