NEWS FEATURES ACTIVE LIFESTYLE A&E Meal plan change aimed Student humanitarian CC river rats migrate to BrewHaHa boys take a to help upperclassmen funds Tanzanian non-profi t Chile week for whiskey Brett Bustos 3 Camilla Vogt 5 Claire Jencks 8 Nick Hawks 12 Volume 41 No 16 Read about the THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF COLORADO COLLEGE Fashion Show drama Pages 6 & 7 Student misconduct complicates Carriage House access > February 25, 2011 catalystnewspaper.com Brianna Traxinger Staff Writer hen Friday finally comes around, the Contraceptives Wweekend mindset takes over and stressed out students just want to relax, dance and hang and budget cuts out with their friends. After an exhausting week of classes, however, sometimes the last thing Gordon Matthewson students feel like doing is spending their hard- Staff Writer earned weekend nights fighting the drunken hew. Rough week for Congress. Debat- masses at house parties. Wing about fish, abortion and budget cuts Fortunately, CC’s Morreale Carriage House must have really made our civil servants’ ties has provided a great venue for campus bands to look rumpled after a hard day of work. It’s been perform in an intimate and casual setting. But said that making cuts to a budget is not only recent problems concerning excessive noise and about working hard to make the tough decisions destruction of property may be jeopardizing this about who to give less money to, but to make it creative space. look like it’s really straining on you and that you Located amidst the Language Houses behind are at least somewhat conflicted about the cuts Cascade, the Carriage House is a popular per- you have proposed. I can’t say that I disagree. formance stage and rehearsal building. Student Nobody likes trimming a budget, because groups not only put on shows there but also use inevitably, you have to decide who ends up get- the house at their leisure to practice throughout ting screwed. In this round it seems to be Title the week. X, the country’s family planning service. The Until recently, the system for reserving the House of Representatives voted to cut all $327 space was very straightforward and was man- million from the program, and instead use the aged by the SOCC. To play there, all a group The Carriage House, where students enjoy live music on campus. Photo by Josh Raab. money on noncontroversial methods of family needed to do was log on to SOCC.org and packed full of people and not always the ideal guitar amp, because he trusts that the other planning, such as contraceptives, health counsel- reserve a time slot, check in at the Worner desk place to socialize.” musicians respect each other’s gear even during ing, and cancer screenings. Wait…I don’t get it. to swap an ID card for a key and let themselves Anyone who has experienced both the live Carriage House parties. He said that “this time What’s that changing, exactly? I thought Title X into the house. The SOCC no longer manages music at the Carriage House and the booming last semester, the C house felt like it was becom- provided all of those services… the Carriage House; instead, the administration stereo systems of a Weber residence can attest ing a well run community venue,” and like Hatch, No abortion! $#@% yeah! High fives all has taken over. to the benefits of the Carriage’s opportunity for laments that isolated and repeated incidents around, cigars are lit, Mike Pence (the author Rochelle Mason, Interim Associate Dean of fresh air, original sounds and some breathing concerning noise complaints, cops and smoking of the amendment) invites everyone over to his Students, and Lynnette DiRaddo, Worner Center room. Hatch’s band plays many of their own weed in the House have interfered with every- house off Rock Creek Parkway for a rager. He and Campus Reservations Manager – Student songs; he feels that the venue is an ideal “place one’s freedom to use the space. “That’s what you just got his pool cleaned and there was a special Events, are ultimately in charge. Before, you only for [the] band to get our songs out there and get get for playing dubstep,” he added. on smoked salmon at Price Club. had to sign into a website a few hours before a little exposure to the student body.” So what happened to convert a laid-back This is not about to be a discussion on needing the space. Now, reserving the house Hatch commented that he felt that during rehearsal and performance stage into a hard- abortion, or nature vs. nurture, or any other requires that students fill out an entire facilities first semester the organization of the house was to-book, stressful building? Unfortunately, just cyclical argument. However, family planning and request form, the kind that asks about serving going well and regrets that the “problems that one student, Silas Scheer’s actions are literally contraception cannot be overlooked in terms of food, what equipment is needed, etc, and time have arisen have been from one student’s use of impacting the entire campus. While Rochelle contribution to society, and here’s why. slots must be reserved 10 days in advance. it, and not the rest,” causing everyone, including Mason says that a “number of things” led to the Let’s go back to the early 90s. Vanilla Ice Henry Hatch, a junior who has been utilizing musicians and their fans, to suffer from a single transference of management and new rules of ruled, as did neon, roller blades, and Vanilla Ice’s the house for all three years of his Colorado person’s poor choices. the house, Scheer was recently kicked out of the hairstyle, apparently. I would be perfectly fine College career, says that the new form is “pretty Another student who used to practice there Carriage House on two different occasions for with that god-awful decade being omitted from ridiculous for a three-person band to have to with his band two to three times a week agrees playing dubstep and causing noise complaints American history, but that doesn’t need to be fill out just to practice there.” He feels that the that up until recently his Carriage House experi- from both on-campus and off-campus sources. explained now. We of the student body might house has been a very well-managed and useful ences have been positive. He said that most of Campus Safety, as well as Colorado Springs Po- be a little young to remember the crime wave of venue with nice rooms and bathrooms, space the people who use the space know each other lice Department Liaison officer Jason Newton, the early 90s, but I’m sure we’ve all heard of the for guests to chill out aside from the main stage and he feels comfortable enough to leave his had to be called to these instances. crack epidemic. At that time, crime was room and that the Carriage House is a “great alternative to house parties, which are generally equipment unattended, even his drum kit and continued on page 4 continued on page 6 2 February 25, 2011 News Renowned anti-racism activist lectures at CC Kelsey Bergeson 49 states and on over 600 college campuses, explained, “someone has to take responsi- life - because the white narrative ignores the fact that other racial and ethnic groups were News Editor he’s had time to practice. He had an energetic, bility.” He said that racism is a “mess” we funny and interactive style. He even had the have inherited from the American historical disadvantaged throughout the history of this Wednesday night, students, faculty, staff and house lights brought up so he could continue tradition. Even though individuals today might nation and instead insists that they have been members of the broader Colorado Springs to observe the audience, during his speech. not personally be proponents of racism, they incapable of the kind of success white people community packed Armstrong Theater to Wise has written five books, contributed 25 must actively work to eradicate the residues of can achieve all on their own. hear Tim Wise, anti-racism activist, deliver essays to books, and is featured in the book history that create a racially defined modern Inherited racism, which can be harder to a speech and answer questions about white “White Men Challenging Racism: Thirty-Five world. detect than overt racism of the past, takes privilege, institutionalized racism, and denial of Personal Stories,” according to his website, “People want to believe because this indi- many forms. “Black and brown men are four racial issues in contemporary America. After www.timrice.org. In addition to giving lectures vidual [Obama] was elected, we are post-racial,” times more likely to be searched for drugs, but the first 80 guests received their free copies like the one here on Wednesday at schools said Wise. white men are more likely to be guilty when of Wise’s book “Between Barack and a Hard across the nation, he has taught Masters “We actually love to live in the past...as long searched,” according to Wise. Blacks, Latinos, Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of classes on racism at Smith College School for as it’s a past that venerates us,” said Wise. and Asian Americans are less likely to get a job Obama,” people continued to file in and fill the Social Work. He’s conducted anti-racism train- Wise explained that white privilege is built than a white person with the same qualifica- auditorium almost to capacity.