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TRINrTY COLLEGE LIBRARY RECEIVED FEB 1 6 2004 HARTFORD, CONN. VOL. IC No. 14 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TRINITY COLLEGE SINCE 1904 FEBRUARY 10, 2004 Human Rights Funds Trinity Names New President EDNA GUERRASIO Cause Student Unrest EDITOR-IN-CHIEF SARAH SPIEGEL and a minor, has attracted stu- By a unanimous vote on dents of all types to the school. Saturday, Feb. 5, the Board of STAFF WRITER Offering a lecture series that Trustees elected James F. Jones, The fate of the human rights brings major speakers in the field Jr., President of Kalamazoo program as it currently stands of human rights to Trinity's cam- College, Kalamazoo, Mich.,. as remains undecided as funding pus, the program allows students the 20th President of the College. issues continue to be debated. to have a chance to connect with After an expedited six month The first program of its kind in experts of all areas, sometimes "in search due to the abrupt resigna- the country, Trinity's Human groups as small as fifteen students tion of former President Richard 1 Rights program, both as a major to one speaker. The series this Hersh, the presidential search '4-. 4- semester includes topics such as committee presented Jones as the "Art as a forum for Political best qualified candidate with t Expression" and "Impact of the prior experience as a college pres- Arms Industry on the Promotion ident, an academic and a leader of of Human Rights," as well as sev- capital campaigns. Chairman of Chuck Pratt eral others. Students also take the Board of Trustees Paul Jones was named the 20th President on Saturday, Feb. 5. advantage of a human rights film Raether announced Jones' accept- Community and members of the Southern Methodist University, series, art exhibits, campaigns ance of the position early local press in his acceptance Columbia University and and conferences. The Web site for Saturday afternoon at.a press con- speech. He noted the accom- Woodward Academy. the program which can be found ference in Downes Memorial. plishments and qualifications that "Recognizing Trinity as a from Trinity's homepage, states, Jones followed the announcement brought him to the position as classic liberal arts college with a "As a leader in undergraduate with a brief statement and a ques- well as some brief information strong urban and civic identity," human rights education Trinity's tion/answer session where he was about his background and history. Jones believes his experience at Human Rights program regularly probed about issues concerning A husband and father of three, Kalamazoo, a prestigious liberal advises and facilitates networking Hartford, alcohol, curriculum Jones graduated with a Bachelor arts college located in a city with among peer institutions." review, and safety. Jones' term as of Arts degree from the many of the problems that plague The aspect of the program president at Trinity will begin University of Virginia, before Hartford, makes him a qualified . receiving a Master of Arts from leader to help Trinity "enhance vvww.trincQll.edu that remains in question is effective July 1, Emory University, and a student life and learning" both on . A decline in funds questions whether or not the school will "This is the greatest single have the funding to be able to honor of my career" opened Jones Doctorate and a Master of campus and in the Hartford area. Elahi's future as Director. Philosophy from Columbia ^<^*^«rfMSH*r**'>^*%"M**(*H«M,»^?'"y,HnN on page 9^ as he addressed the Trinity "As far as 1 know, Trinity is 'iMwttttyV'*f9«ttt*-<wa», elected* Ae-»enly premier liberal arts col- President of Kalamazoo College, lege in a metropolitan area, which a small liberal arts institution sim- . serves as its greatest gift," noted Thesis Performance Edifying ilar to Trinity in 1996 after a long Jones. He continued on to say academic career at institutions However, this was not at all the Uninteresting music I don't fully that past presidents worked hard GREG POLIN such as Washington University, case. The play opened with a remember invaded the space dur- see DR. JONES on page 7 ARTS EDITOR bare stage except for a white ing this exercise lending the This past weekend senior screen which provided a reflec- scene the feel of a circus. Theatre/Dance major, John tion for the different colored Unfortunately, the cast was McCormick presented his thesis lights, and an area to walk behind extremely unsure of their abili- Juno, Chaucer, and performance at two showings in to make the space more dynamic. ties and could not rotate around Garmany Auditorium. Entitled Then John came out, balanc- the space very smoothly or effec- Tambourine/Dingo, the project ing a bamboo rod on his hand. tively. The bamboo rods fell a Blood: V-Day Hell consisted of two separate sec- Matthew Bamberg-Johnson '06 number of times making this part tions, connected only by theme came out after him, and stole his of the performance more concep- ences this in his Parliament of and various theoretical ideas. rod. Then the last three actors tually, intriguing then visually LINDSAY NORTH Foules: "For this was sent on Rather than trying to refor- appeared, Jessie Richardson '04, stimulating. What made this a FEATURES EDITOR Seynt Valentyne's day/Whan mulate John's description of his Seth Abramson '04, and Cynthia success was the smile that broke The origins .of Valentine's every foul cometh ther to choose piece, it is more telling to simply Convey '04. across the faces of the cast when Day are somewhat murky. his mate." Thanks to Professor present that description. John The actors stood in a circle, a rod dropped. They obviously Before paganism was banned and Sheila Fisher, I can read Middle wrote, Tambourine/Dingo stems each holding an end of a bamboo weren't taking this specific chal- Christianity became the dominant English. It seems that through an from research done in conjunc- rod in each hand. The cast then lenge very seriously. Therefore religion in the' Roman empire, interesting amalgam of dead tion with my Senior thesis. The attempted to move around the you didn't feel bad for them Feb. 14 was the day of Juno (Hera Christians, medieval peasants, topic of my thesis is the move- space in different directions while when a rod dropped, but merely for students of Greek mythology), horny birds, and Hallmark, we accepted it as inevitable and part ment theory of Jaques Lecoq, a never letting go of either of the the goddess of light, birth, mar- have come to our modern see JOHN on page 19 French theorist whose work is rods in their hands. riage, and women. Interestingly, Valentine's Day. And in case derived from the. traditions of not one but three Christian you're wondering, I didn't make mime, commedia dell' Arte, bouf- Valentines were martyred on Feb, this up; I looked in an encyclope- fon, and pantomime. 14: Emperor Claudius II behead- see CUPID on page 12 The first part of the perform- ed Valentine #1, a Roman priest, ance, Tambourine, will attempt to and buried his body on the INSIDE display the theatrical movement Flaminian Way. Valentine #2, ideas of Lecoq in an improvisa- this one a bishop in Interamna See who would be the Democratic tional setting. (modern day Terni, Italy), was candidate if Trinity Students had The second part of the per- also executed and buried on the their say on page 8. formance, Dingo, will attempt to Flaminian Way. And the third reconcile these ideas in the scope Saint Valentine was killed with a Find out about James Porter's of a scripted work. Dingo is an group of other Christians in thesis performance and see a adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's' Africa. So how, you may ask, review on page 16. Heart of a Dog; and was original- does a day of lovers come out of See a list of some of the very ly intended as an allegory for the beheadings, tortures, and other best films of 2003 from horror Russian Revolution. However, I unnecessarily messy ways of to comedy on page 17. have tried to adapt Heart of a Dog dying? more universally in order to be Now, I call upon knowledge Opinions page 2 able to fully explore the physical imparted to me last semester in News page 6 ramifications of the novel." my Chaucer class. In medieval Features page 11 Given this framework, with- England and France, it was a Arts , page 16 out a background on any of the widely held belief that birds page 20 aforementioned theories, one chose their mates halfway Sports page 24 would assume that the perform- Chuck Pratt through the second month of the www.trinitytripod.com ance would go over my head. McCormick takes part in the first improv game of the night year—Feb. 14. Chaucer refer- PAGE 2 OPINIONS THE TRINITY TRIPOD - FEBRUARY 10, 2004 TO TMIE IEIDITOIR Tent City Petition Shows Wide Support To the Editor: opportunity to celebrate the grad- Crtnttp uation of the Class of 2004 at Tent Last Monday, Feb. 2, students City. kicked off a petition drive to save We, the students, implore Edna D. Guerrasio '05 Eileen T. Flynn '05 Tent City. In a single day, we col- President Painter to reconsider lected 650 student signatures. We his decision to close Tent City at EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MANAGING EDITOR expect to collect 1,000 signatures 5 p.m. for the more reasonable by next Wednesday, Feb. 11. The closing time of 9 p.m. overwhelming majority of stu- NEWS EDITORS OPINIONS EDITORS dents want Tent City to end at 9 Respectfully, Eliza Sayward '05 William Yang '06 Daniel Scollan '05 Joanna Hecht '07 p.m.