Cotter Union expansionprojected to begin kite this spring Presidents' Council in what is now the Fishbowl, and there Roberts," Kassman said. hall parking lot. to the second floor of Eustis with the votes to open up By BEN HERBST will be no satellite bookstore as origi- According to Kassman, temporary The Pub, Spa, Stu-A office , and the rest of the Dean of Students office NEWS EDITOR ¦' nally planned. The Pub will take over locations have been arranged for each post office will return to the student staff . .. the space that is currently the Spa. of these items,. Student Activities, union once it is renovated. - "The project is going to be great, it digest to community The Cotter Union Expansion "J. think the project is going to cre- whose second floor office will be ren- No Pugh Center offices will be dis- is very exciting for this to come Committee met Monday, Nov. 21 to ate the student union that we deserve," ovated, wilj be moved to the Dana res- placed during construction, except for together and contemplate a spring discuss the effects of the construction Student Government Association Vice idence hall lounge.The Spa will be the office of Associate Dean of groundbreaking. The trustees are very By STEVEN WEINBERG of the Pulver Pavilion expansion on President and committee member moved to the current coffeehouse, and Students Susan McDougal which is excited about this project, as are we," EDITOR IN CHIEF offices and locations, that are current- Romeo Raugei '06 said. the Student Post Office will be moved becoming a new kitchen to service the Kassman said. "It has been a good ly housed in the union, which includ- After considering expanding this to a trailer in the Mary Low residence building. McDougal is being moved collaboration between the members of The Digest of Civil ed temporarily moving the Marchese' building project to include a new the committee and the architects," Discourse hopes to become Blue Light Pub to the Pottery studio in home for the Colby Bookstore on the Raugei said. more civil after a recent vote in Roberts Union, and to finalize plans south side of the building off of Page At the suggestion of David Pulver Presidents Council/ This past for the renovation. Commons, the committee decided '63, the donor behind the renovation Sunday, Nov. 20, PC concurred The next step in the process is the that project would be a later phase of project, hall staff and Presidents' with a recent recommendation approval of a budget for the project, development. At this time, the only Council members were asked to take from the College Affairs which should take place at the January addition will be that of the Pulver a look at- other school's: student Committee (CAC) to add facul- meeting of the Board of Trustees in Pavilion. Kassman hopes that the sec- unions when they were off campus ty, staff and administrators to Boston. That budget is prepared by ond phase can correlate with the during Thanksgiving break. the listserv's recipients. the Physical Plant Department and upcoming construction , since that Kassman explained that this exercise: For the past three years the Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and would reduce building costs. "We was intended "to find touches or Digest of Civil Discourse has Supervisor of Special Projects/ would like to have it done as soon as nuances they might find particularly been host to students debating Architect Joe Feely. possible. There is some savings by not helpful." She said that these sugges- issues such as the war on tenor "The budget is going to be ready. having all the machinery leave and tions will not alter layout because all Hopefully the groundbreaking will be then come back. If you could start the major parts are already set. in the late spring, and hopefully work phase two right away, then there In the coming years, the psychol- will-begin immediately after," com- would be some cost saving," Kassman ogy department offices and the A resolution mittee member and Dean of Students said. bookstore will be moved from passed by and Vice President for Student Affairs Raugei said that the biggest student Roberts Union to make room for an Janice Kassman said. Construction concern he has heard of has been "is eventual dorm in that building. Presidents' should take about a year, and the new there going to be a Pub?" The Pub will "What we are hoping someday is Council will student union will be opened for the be moved to the Pottery Club studio in that Bobs might become a dormito- fall 2007 semester. the basement of Roberts, and the club ry," Kassman explained, but in order open the The committee finalized locations will be moved to the old bake shop in for that to happen, psychology has to Digest to for different venues within the reno- the PPD building. "The Pub needs move to a new building on the Colby vated union, and the added space of to be in a place with a kitchen, that Green,"and the bookstore has to staff, faculty, PHOTO COURTESY OF BOHLIN CVWINSKI JACKSON the new pavilion which will house the is not a dormitory. So, we have An architectural rendering of the f irst-floorp lan for the renovated Cotter. move to a new home attached to and adminis- Joseph Family Spa and a new lounge found a way to place the Pub, for Union,which shows the addition of the Pulver Pavilion to the north. Cotter Union. ; area. The Coffeehouse will be housed one year, in the Pottery Club in trators. Colby's Oak Institute hosts internatiorial JanPlan students to teach and climate of campus toler- ance, to less world-shaking spouts between Red Sox and symposium on torture and human rights Katrina victims in Houston Yankees fans and even the string of haikus by Jack Dairy such violence, has spent the'past five Center for the victims of Torture in St. reach Houston, because Tappan is not '07 last spring.¦Currenflyroiily -By-RAIIUL GUPTA & BYRON years—r€searemr4g-Av^y^_to-xnmoweiEaujJMinn., Bent Sorensen of the By BEN HERBST making the trip. • students and select administra- MEINERTH survivors to seek reparations , and to International Rehabilitation Council ——NEWS-fBrTQR ——— """^Werfrgureihat^tVan^ppoFtuHH^-—Jots, in the Dean of Students CONTRIBUTING WRITERS set up a database of human rights for Torture Victims (IRCT) in and a unique thing to do. It's going office receive the Digest. abuses to be used as a resource for Copenhagen, and Allen Keller M.D. A new JanPlan course will send to allow people to work with kids The resolution to concur •qr— ¦* ¦ : Hyl ¦ Especially poignant because of the those seeking justice. of the Bellevue/NYU Program for the nine students and one professor to first hand and see Katrina up close," with the CAC passed through ongoing trial of Saddam Hussein, the The day was Survivors of Torture Houston next month, to help at the SGA President Donnie O'Callaghan PC by a vote of 17 voting yes Oak Institute at Colby College held a divided into three addressed a larger- newly formed NOW (New Orleans '06 said. and 12 voting no. symposium titled , "Torture and panel discussions, The gap than-expected crowd West) College Prep school for dis- Project organizers held an informa- The debate beforehand was Human Rights: The Challenge of a workshop, and a in Olin 1. Among the placed elementary school students. tion session on Tuesday, Nov. 28 in lengthy, with most speaking Rehabilitation and Redress," on Nov. lunch with between what many suggestions put The course, Education 355j "Urban Lovejoy 100 for perspective appli- Hall Presidents allaying con- 19. The 2005 Oak Fellow Dr. Frances keynote speaker law says and forth -was that by and Multicultural Practicum in cants. About fifteen students attended cerns that the change would cut Lovemore was joined by panelists Beatrice Mterwa, Johnson, who pro- Education," will be taught by the session, and filled out and submit- down on students' willingness - from around the world to discuss an internationally- what happens posed that more focus Professor and Chair of Education ted an application at that meeting. The to express themselves freely on issues ranging from torture rehabilita- acclaimed human practically in torture rehabilita- Mark Tappan and will have both on- application asked about previous the Digest. These Presidents tion for the victims to civil suits as a rights lawyer from tion needs to be placed and off-campus components., experience working with children or stressed that the change would form of compensation , from objec- Zimbabwe. needs to be on forming a con- "This school was a school that had teaching, relevant coursework or add a healthy discretion to tives in transitional justice to the The first panel bridged. stituency for human been abandoned, and other academic postings. Ben Poulos '07, pres- usage of new tactics in human rights discussion, begin- rights networks, not what's happening now is preparation ident of Pierce, said if students advocacy. ning at 9:30 a.m., Carla Ferstman on the intricate legal they have taken this Its going to and why stu- are nervous about having their Lovemore, who runs the was "Torture Director of Redress In London system dealing with school and reused it for dents wanted professors read their position- > Zimbabwe 's Amani Trust, a group that Rehabilitation: torture . He asserted 456 elementary students, allow people to to participate. ing, "they should also be ner- provides community-based care to Medical and that while law is large- all evacuees being work with kids Tappan vous about speaking in class." survivors of torture and organized v io- Psychological Perspectives." Panelists ly a "spectator sport," everyday peo- taught by TFA teachers," guaranteed the Now that the motion has lence as well as documentation of Lovemore, Douglas Johnson of the ple can make a difference through Dean of Students and first hand and tri p to be "eye- passed through the PC, the community-based projects.