Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 1980-1981 Student Newspapers 3-27-1981 College Voice Vol. 4 No. 14 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1980_1981 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "College Voice Vol. 4 No. 14" (1981). 1980-1981. 11. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1980_1981/11 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 1980-1981 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. March 27, 1981 VoI.IV,No.14 Connecticut College's Weekly Newspaper Troubles in the Oval Office By STEWART GAMBLE room, housefellows get an faculty, the administration, During the recent Spring even bigger room, and they and the students. Connecticut vacation I was with a friend get to talk to the deans and College still has no ConnPirg. who graduated from ConJI more! What do house Connecticut College no longer last year. I mentioned that I presidents get? Grief, and a has' course evaluations. I was writing an article about lot of paper in their ha ve yet to hear any house presidents. She said, mailboxes. (I'm not significant number of people "What are you going to say? suggesting that residence or . agree to why. Ask five people, They don't do anything, do housetellowing is all cake, and you will probably get as ....... they? ," or something to that don't get me wrong. And many answers. effect. I wanted to say besides, I did get a per- So - enough "un bounding "Maybe so last year, but this sonalized "do it in the dark" eloquence:' There are some year it's different," and to a button from Sue Jacobsen problems with the office of certain extent it's true, but I herself! ) the house president. Yes, we wonder, and so do a lot of More importantly, this "do something" - but we are people. Including some house committee might look into limited. Some of the solutions presidents I have talked to. improving house presidents are I think relatively simple. "Sound stair," a musl~al stairway created by Christopher The house president is that by helping them. figure out (I) Prepare the house . Janney. megalomaniac who wants what the office entails ana presidents. Have someone badly enough to sit through how to cope with it. It's knowledgeable explain all those boring SGA March now, and we have all Parliamentary Procedure meetings. Besides that, he- but flung Parliamentary and how to make it work. she desperately wants to go to Procedure to the wtnd Maybe have some workshops law school, arid, hey, it sure because we can't seem to dealing with dorm meetings. looks good on the transcript, make it work. What we have (2) Set up a framework for right? The prerequisites figured out we have done by helpina h..~ p~e.icleuw include lacoste shirts and trial and error. (Can we look work a. aiP'lIlIP. send 'em all unbounding eloquence. that one up, Dan?) More often out berry-picking for. a Collaborations One While all this has the ring of than not, chaos reigns. weekend or something. I the familiar, it is' not Anyone who has been to an know we're all busy, but even altogether true. There are SGA meeting will concur. We a day-long "retreat" would some house presidents, a just don't work too well as a help a lot. A group that can By BUDDY HARRIS various mediums, which is number of them, I think, who unit. I·don't even know the ffmction as such is infinitely To label Collaborations One not normally understood," have the desire, however names of most of m>, fellow more effective. as merely a celebration of the says Ms. Brtninger. pointed, to co-operate ..with house presidents, and if they There is one, however, arts would be like labelling Collaborations of artists in the faculty and ad- know mine, it's because I talk other' problem that no the Super· Bowl as just different fields have been ministration when they can, a lot. Housefellows get seminar or retreat is going to another football game. going on for ages, but and to try to change what together at the beginning of solve. The most effective The five-day festival of Collaborations One is they think needs changing. the, year to get to know one group of house presidents will performances,' workshops, providing the opportunity to And are willing to put up with another. They get .together only be as effective as the panel discussions, focus on this unique.art form. all those bor-ing meetings to . frequently to talk about adm inistration of Connecticut exhibitions, and lecture's The workshops and panel do so. problems. We all met once College allows-it to be. We can featuring choreographers, discussions will provide the It's easy to be a house this fall to "get to know" each send proposals to the faculty, directors, designers, per- opportunity to meet and talk president. All you have to do other. We meet every Wed- the administration, and-or formers, architects, painters. with the- professionals. and is hold a dorm meeting, raise nesday, but Parliamentary the trustees of this school urban planners, writers, and artists while preformances a few issues, take a few v.otes, Procedure doesn't lend itself until our faces are blue, but sculptors will most likely and exhibitions will display then go to SGA on Wednesday to informal discussion. only with their cooperation cross the boundaries of what actual collaborative works. and vote as your constituents But back to my originai can we realize our goals a. a is normally considered art. Except. for several per- have indicated you should. question. Does the house school. , Collaborations One will begin formances, the events are The house president is the president do anything? Does There is an alternative. on March 31 and continue free of charge. voice of the dorm, so to speak. SGA accomplish anything? Were the student body able through April 5. The technology involved There are, however, just a Should people come to those and willing to cooperate, "This is not your. typical with much of the art will few problems. (I) Often, we dorm meetings because- things could be accomplished Mona Lisa sitting on the wall hopefully attract a crowd that are faced with an issue on something is really going to the way they were in the. exhibit," Betsy says has never paid much at- Wednesday night, and have to happen? I suspect that quite a sixties - regardless of the Brininger '75, administrative tention to art says Prof. vote on 'it on the spot. We are number of people would say wishes of the administration. assistant 'for Collaborations Smalley. One of the highlights uninformed, and unable to no. Yes, we have a whole list But this is not the sixties, and One. The event is expected to will be a musical stairway bring the issue before our of things that we have ac- all with good reason. be covered by "The New called •'Soundstair." It was dorms. (This does not, I complished. But to what I contend that the faculty, York Times," Time, and created by Christopher inight add, in any way .irn- extent ar~ we simply being administration, and trustees Newsweek. Janney, a Fellow of the pede the flow of eloquence - placated by the faculty and of Connecticut College are Collaborations One was Center for Advanced Visual .rather-, in most cases, it adds administration? unwilling to cooperate with organized by a committee of Studies at M.I.T. to it.) I feel strongly that we .. Let me ask the question in the house presidents-SGA. 10 to 15 faculty. members and Janney arranges photocell ha ve on many occasions the positive: to what extent This means that they are humanists under the trigg.ers on stairways and voted on issues that we were are we able to cooperate with unwilling to consider the guidance of project directors interfaces movement and not sufficiently informed the faculty and the ad- concerns of the student body. Linda Herr, chairman of the sound by means of a about to vote on. (2) When we ministration? (That is, it I'm not sure why, but one microprocessor. •'Sound- theater department" and do have a chance to have seems to me, the role of the thing does occur to me: if sculptor David Smalley, stair" can utilize informal dorm meetings, it's hard to house presidents and SGA. Or students at Connecticut professor of art. Thomas movement pa tt.erns or get enough people together to should be.) I mentioned that College care to have any say choreographed dances and Stoner, chairman of the reach quorum. (I am told that we are often ill-informed; it is in the changes taking place - music department,· and both aspects will be shown a keg of decent beer helps.) not always because we no evaluations, a forthcoming _ Martha Myers, chairman of during the. day-long There is, at present, a haven't sought information, it language requirement - and the dance department were presentation. Janney's in- committee looking into how to is often because' information in the school's attitudes - also highly influential in the vention makes possible the improve the house president. is 'hard to obtain. Two Why no ConnPirg after an .organization of the project. collaboration _ of music, The first question they might examples that come to mind eight to one student vote in The events are intended to dance, and architecture.