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The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. • FirSIClass U.S. Postage PAID Permit #35 New London, cr PUBUSHED WEEKLY BYTHE STUDENTS OF CONNECl1CUT COUEGE VOLUMEXXV· NUMBER 8 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2001 CONNBCTIClff COUJJGE, NEW LONDON, CT INSIDE: CAMELY1\1PICS 2001 Fainstein Inauguration to Move Floralia Weekend . Group Art Attack sponsors a night of one-act plays. By BRAD KIUlrr President Norman Fainstein's inauguration will be moving Floralia this year from its traditional date. Fainstein's inauguration, sched- uled for Saturday, May 4, conflicts with the planned dates for F1oralia. Floralia, Conn's annual outdoor spring music festival, is now tenta- tively set for Saturday, April 27. The two events can be held simultaneously, because both require significant college personnel and Riding in Cars With Boys resources. lacks focus but not saddness Finding a date for Fainstein's inauguration was difficult, because the members of the Board of Trustees will be flying in for the cel- ebration. The May 4 weekend is also the weekend of the spring Trustee, meeting. "That is the only weekend that many key people will be available," said Dean of Student Life Catherine WoodBrooks. TheMarshall FloorHockey Squad poses before beginningplay at Camelympics on Friday night. Pictured are [back row] from left, The weekend of Fainstein's inau- Chris Parks, Jay Breidis, Matt "Presto" Preston, Ryan "Woody" Woodward and [center] Will Tollefson. TheMarshall team was elimi- guration will require additional work nated in its second game by Freeman. Freeman Dormitory won the gold medal at this year's Camelympics competition, while from campus safety, physical plant SPORTS Windham won silver and Katherine Blunt took the bronze. Camelympics is an annual competition that pits dorms against each - including both grounds and cusro- other in a series of athletic and intellectual events. Competitoin began on Friday evening with a long distance race and ended dial services - and dinmg services. The season comes to a close "We'll have many outdoor events for the Field Hockey Team Saturday afternoon with the completion of the soccer competition. The GoldMedal Dance was held Saturday night to announce [for Fainstein's inauguration}:' the winners of the competiion and to celebrate the acheivements of all the participants. continued on page 7 tudy Abroad Students Relocated Over Conflict in Afghanistan By KAl~ WooDSOME abroad, left the decision to stay in Barnard is one of four • STAFF WRITER • Morocco or move to England up to Connecticut College juniors whose Connecticut College junior students and their families. Still, study abroad plans were altered by Lindsay Barnard spent only a month Barnard believes the college's strong the United States' military aggres- Jiving with her host family in Rabat, encouragement to relocate was pre- sion against Osama bin Laden, the Morocco before moving to a self- mature. leader of the AI Qaeda terrorist net- atering residential hall at the "I personally felt that the recom- work allegedly responsible for the niversity of Exeter in England. mendation by Vassar was more' a bombings of the World Trade Center Fear of anti-American sentiment result of the sensationalism and fears and Pentagon. Lindsay Berg, Sara rompted by the September 11th ter- that were beginning to circulate in Lathrop, and Ezra Rashkow, study- orist attacks and subsequent US the US," she said, "rather than any ing in Northern India with the retaliation in Afghanistan caused real threat within the Northwest School for International Training, arnard's parents to demand a African continent or, more specifi- were moved to Bangalore, a city ~ge. cally, Morocco." I located in the country's southern '""Our concern was not knowing Barnard finally agreed to relo- region. wllat, if any factions of Muslims [in cate to England in order to avoid Since northern India borders Morocco], agreed with the Taliban academic and financial pitfalls. Pakistan, tremendous uncertainty regime," said Pamela Barnard, "I think the ultimate question in about the region's security made it Lindsay's mother. my own mind was not one of politi- prudent to continue the next month Vassar College, the institute cal security, but academic security," through which Bamard is studying she said. continued on page 7 Pat McGee Concert to Benefit National Reduced Rounds Give Housefellows Less Work Pancreas Foundation Campus Divisions Altered from Four Zones to Two By JAIMIE ROGERS atic diseases in general. She knew By SARAHGREEN STAFF WRITER wWw.PancreasFoundation.com. that if she and the 80,000 people As a member of the Conn com- as resources." housefellows of those dorms are In 1998 Tom Holt was graduat- AssocIATE NEWS EmToR affected by pancreatitis per year munity, Tom Holt '02 wanted to do Housefellows will go through away. ing high school and on his way to were ever to lead normal lives, some his part to increase awareness of the The way that housefellows con- their dorms every Thursday, Friday, "For example, there are times Connecticut College in the fall. research would have to be done. NPF. He was inspired by last year's duct their rounds is changing. and Saturday night. Each of these when housefellows are allowed time His mother was about to begin Thus in 1998 Jane Holt co- DISPATCH concert, which benefit- Under the old system, the cam- nights, one housefellow for each off throughout the year," said something that would change the founded the National Pancreas ed the World Aids Group, an or~ani- pus was divided into four sections- half of campus will be on call. Campbell. "Picture KB, Smith and Jives people allover the world. Foundation, a non-profit organiza- zation co-founded by Conn gradu- North, South, and Central One and Because there are ten housefellows Blackstone-those three houesfel- Thirteen years ago, Jane Holt tion "dedicated to finding a cure for ates Christof Putzel '0 I and Danny Two, Housefellows were responsi- in south campus and eleven in north lows decide to take a Friday night was diagnosed with chronic pan- all diseases of the pancreas and to Harris '01. To put on a concert ben- ble, on a rotating basis, for monitor- campus, each housefellow will only off to go home and see their parents. creatitis, a severe disease that, if provide information and humanitari- efiting the NPF, Tom Holt worked g weekend activity in one of these have to be on call about once a Then that's where the on-call situa- untreated, causes the destruction an services to those people who ~e with Student Activities Director adrants. month. tion would come in." of the pancreas and leads to dia- suffering." Scott McEver and the Student The campus will now be divided "It's not more work," explained The sight of housefellows carry- betes. Since its inception four years Activities Committee. in half between North and South, Annie Brown, housefellow of ing walkie-talkies on weekend Jane's life changed dramatical- ago, the NPF has raised $220,000 Holt booked the Pat Mcgee . I'd housefellows will only be Windham. "Basically, we're just nights as they trek from one dorm to ly. She endured constant abdomi- ($100,000 raised this year alone), Band, a popular grass-roots group sponsible for making rounds in supposed to go through the dorm another will become a thing of the nal pain, which became so severe 95% of which goes directly to from Richmond, Virginia. Their there own dorms. once before we go out, if we go out, past, due to these procedural that she had to be hospitalized at research grants. Although this has album Shine was If3 on Billboard's "They have now taken over com- just to make sure everything's not changes. Housefellows will also be least four times a year. She was greatly improved awareness, the Top Internet Album Sales Chart and , letely doing the rounds in their too crazy, and then we're supposed on call less of the time, and they will allowed only a minimal amount of Foundation is still a long way from #1 on the Coalition of Independent ouse, which they do every night to go through again before we go to be able to build a better rapport with fat and every night she was con- fulfilling its goals. Music Stores Chart. hyways," explained Conway bed." their own dorms. nected to intravenous tubes willie "We received requests for a total The band, which began touring Campbell, Director of Residential The on-call housefellow is "We all collaborated on this," she slept. of $621,000 so we're not yet where in 1996, claims musical influences Life and Housing. "That's some- responsible for his or her half of the said Angela Simos, Housefellow of Jane Holt realized through her we need to be," said Jane Holt in a from James Taylor to Ray Charles 0 thing they do in their dorms any- campus. On-call housefellows make Jane Adams. "We all worked togeth- treatments that little was known written statement published on the waJ\>to see what's go\tlg on, to serve rounds in (!Jther dorms when the er on this,~o we're happy with it." about her di"ase or about pancre- Foundation's.