f VOL. IC NO. 5 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TRINITY COLLEGE SINCE 1904 OCTOBER 21, 2003 Homecoming 2003 Princeton Review Lacking Credibility EDNA GUERRASIO homework" said Hartford Mayor ALEX GORDON Eddie Perez when asked about the recent rankings. Perez, a 1996 EDITORIAL STAFF Trinity graduate, and former Many members of the Trinity Director of Community relations community and those familiar at the College, was instrumental with the school feel that The in the creation of the Learning Princeton Review did not perform Corridor. adequate research and misrepre- "The survey is basically a sented the College with their 'scantron sheet'" said Princeton recent rankings. The College pre- Review Editorial Director Robert dicts that the rankings will have Franick. 'There is a five point minimal impact. grid for all of the answer choices In August, The Princeton except the open-ended ques- Review's The Best 351 Colleges tions." According to Franick, ranked Trinity number one in the each student response within the Chuck Pratt categories of "Town-Gown five point grid is given a number Alumni and students enjoy a soccer match on Saturday, Oct 18. See the Relations are Strained" and value. The score of a particular Homecoming photo spread on page 15. "Little Race/Class Interaction." survey is computed based on the "[They] didn't do [their] see RANKINGS on page 9 Poor Song Selection Mooove Over for This Herd JENNY DUNN Mars Musical Revue FEATURES EDITOR If you've been to West 7 — f,' i ''* -'it/ft * Hartford Center since the begin- f EDWARD BAYLOR of musical theatre ridiculousness Brigadoon, then moves through ning of the semester, you've seen ARTS WRITER the decades (with a few unusual them. They're everywhere - Another Annual Musical- choices) to Maury Yeston's 1982 gi\i/in;: in th>: grass, reposing on THeatre Revue has come and musically beautiful Nine, and the sidew^eswvp«miae^O»L at gone, and while I thought about then back again to end with passerby from store windows. opening with some clever pun on Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1943 They are the cows of CowParade the fact that I'm writing a review classic Oklahoma!. West Hartford: The Cows Come of the revue, I can't think of a Oddly, the opening and clos- Home, and, if by some chance good one. ing numbers of the show, and the you've missed them, they will be Opening Thursday with a cast openings and closings of each act, making themselves at home in of 15, the show had a much less were the weakest of what was West Hartford until Dec. 1. tightly organized theme than it's otherwise a well-performed, CowParade is exactly that - had in past years. The revue entertaining evening. Opening a herd of 60 bovine statues lining opens with selections from with hosts Brie Schwartz '06 and the streets, each one uniquely hartford.about.com Learner and Loewe's 1946 slice see HIGHS on page 19 decorated and named according Guida's "Super Cow" soars in CowParade West Hartford. to its design or its sponsor. The fiberglass cow statues are spon- Cow-a-sel of Imagination, a organization. The "parade" has sored in large part by local busi- carousel of cows ridden by lego tramped through cities such as nesses and painted by local men, topped by a cow and con- New York City, London, and artists. On Feb. 7, when the sisting of an inordinate amount of Sydney, Australia. It has also cows of West Hartford will be legos. My own personal favorite "mooooved" to the likes of West auctioned off, the proceeds will is Diamonds Are For Heifer, a Orange, New Jersey; Ventspils, benefit local charities and institu- jewel-studded cow sponsored by Latvia; and the Isle of Man in the tions. Lux Bond and Green jewelers. United Kingdom. According to In West Hartford, the indi- Jane Hoerner '05 had a hard www.cowparade.org, the organi- vidual members of the herd time choosing a favorite. "For zation's official website, the idea range from the Moople Syrup me, it was a great way to exhibit behind CowParade is to be "first Cow, covered with autumn local artists," she said. "Plus, the and foremost a public art exhibit leaves; to the Santa Claus-dis- cows were all really cute," that is accessible to everyone." guised Father Christmoos, spon- CowParade was conceived of The idea may seem strange sored by Westfarms Mall; to the by Jerry Elbaum, a native of West to someWho cares about cows? LEGO Systems, Inc. sponsored Hartford and the President of the see HOLY on page 12 The cast of the October Musical Theater Review. 'Internal Batde' Plagues American Studies INSIDE Econ majors are robots and JORGE AMARAL Walsh, Associate Director of the Studies major by the end of the that as a result of the issues with- religion majors are afraid of Greenberg Center for the Study of spring semester. This year, there in the program, students can be big words: Opinions, page rive. NEWS WRITER Religion in Public Life and cur- are just 17 total declared "left isolated." Although students See Features, page eleven, for The American Studies pro- rent Acting Director of American American Studies majors, which claim not to know the extent of Mary am Elahi's account of her gram has suffered a severe drop Studies said, "American Studies includes six juniors, seven sen- the program's problems, they visit to Iraq last spring. in the number of students choos- used to be a flagship program iors, and four IDP students. This admit to having a feeling for it, here at the College," as it was one number may change after the and use terms such as-"internal ing to major in it, but this may An Arts editor tells of his expe- of two interdisciplinary majors at sophomore class declares at the battle" and "ideological differ- only be a symptom of the greater rience during the New York problems facing the department. Trinity that was acknowledged to end of the academic year. ences" to describe their perspec- tive of the situation. Capavella City blackout on page sixteen: Once considered an impres- be "cutting edge." However, lack of student interest refers to it as "political dissi- sive program, American Studies While the numbers of stu- does not appear to be theprimary Opinions page 2 dence," and claims that politics was established in 1975 by Jim dents majoring in American reason for the decline. News page 6 shouldn't be involved in educa- Miller - now at George Studies were as high as 92 and 95 Appeal cannot be generated if Features page 11 tion but concedes that it is simply Washington University - and Dr. in 1995 and 1996 respectively, the effects of larger problems fil- Arts page 16 a fact in most institutions. In the page 20 Gene Leach. Even after Leach majors have been decreasing ter down to the students. Announcements end, however, the "student suf- page 24 stepped down from his role as steadily every year since. These Christopher Capavella '04 says Sports numbers reflect students who he has had three different advi- fers," he says. director in 1989, the program wwvr.trinitytripod.com continued to thrive. Andrew have declared an American sors in three years, and comments see FACULTY on page 10 PAGE 2 OPINIONS THE TRINITY TRIPOD - OCTOBER 21, 2003 TO THTIE JEl ^ „,,„ .•—„,.,,•— „•„, ,..!•.- —— —— -.11 —.. —.. Writer Apologizes for AIDS Comments To the Editor, support breast cancer awareness, I have caused some division and frmttp again I am sorry. I wholehearted- I submitted an article that was published in the Oct 13, issue of ly support efforts to help AIDS. The Trinity Tripod. My article I have spoken to Jason Edna D. Guerrasio '05 Alexander W. A. Gordon '05 was intended to speak about the Gallant '05 (an active member of EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MANAGING EDITOR importance of supporting efforts SUSHI) and other members of the against breast cancer. Trinity community, who showed Unfortunately 1 made some com- me how wrong my article was. ments about AIDS which were My article was ignorant, arro- inaccurate and incomplete, and gant, and just plain disrespectful. NEWS EDITORS OPINIONS EDITORS Eileen Flynn '05 Rebecca Fowler '05 Joe Stramondo '04 Peter Scala '05 those comments have caused I was acting alone as a student some hurt and pain. 1 did not activist and my article is in no mean to cause any hurt and pain way associated with the Women's . FEATURES EDITORS ARTS EDITORS and I am extremely sorry. Center, The Tripod, or any other Jennifer Dunn '05 Elixa Sayward '05 Greg Polin '05 Bailey Triggs '05 I alone am responsible for my official program at Trinity comments and I offer my apology College. SPORTS EDITORS ANNOUNCEMENT EDITORS to the entire Trinity community. I made a mistake and I am William Yang '06 Daniel Scollan '05 Lindsay North '06 AIDS is a very destructive and sorry. I ask the entire communi- deadly disease and truly deserves ty to please accept my apology. every bit of help, support, and PHOTO EDITOR ONLINE EDITORS Matt Barison '04 Jim Nadzieja '04 research that it gets now and in Sincerely, Jonathan Chcsncy '05 the future. In my efforts to draw the Trinity community together to Kathryn O'Leary '06 BUSINESS MANAGER CARTOONIST Lydia Potter '05 Laura Pctnick '07 Apathy Not Limited to Students of Color To the Editor: pus makes her argument even less COPY EDITORS compelling. Jamie Calabrese '05 Joanna Hecht '07 After reading a recent article Castigating "minority" stu- in the Tripod entitled "Students dents and belittling the cause of Show Search Apathy" written by diversity and community accom- Stefanie Lopez-Boy, I was over- plishes nothing.