0 THE TRINITY TUESDAY AIMS OCTOBER 9, 1973 TRINITY COLLEGE HARTFORD, CONN. VOL. LXXII ISSUE 5 M TRIPOD 0 W! Ml Student Trustees Lockwood Says Board Opposed By Lindsay Mann George B. Starkey, chairman of the Board the problem is they have the ultimate power of Trustees would not make himself on campus." available for an interview concerning the Lockwood said the Board would be "hard issue. put" to know the College intimately. "It is unrealistic to expect them to become that In the spring of 1972, said Piccirillo, a well informed about the school," he said. member of the SEC sub-committee on They wouldn't perform their function as student trustees, the student body voted by a well if they attempted to know about the three to one margin in favor of seating three whole school, Lockwood added. students with full-voting rights on the Board of Trustees. It would also be "pretty hard" for them to Piccirillo said last spring the SEC sent a get off on issues with the volume that they proposal to Starkey and other members of normally take care of at their meetings, said the administration which said "three Lockwood. " students (should) be elected by the student The Board, Lockwood said, is basically a body to serve as voting members on the review body, whose function is not Board of Trustees until they graduate, at initiatory. He said they expect the initiation which time new elections will be held to fill and emphasis to come from the ad- any vacancies." The proposal also offered ministration, faculty and students. "If the reasons for having students on the Board, he administration, faculty and students think said. something is good, then most likely they will To the disappointment of the sub- think it is good also," Lockwood added. committee and the SEC, Starkey "merely A difficulty) which the Trustees would Photo by Lloyd Wolf Tony Piccirillo, vice-chairperson acknowledged" the proposal, said Piccirillo. face if they were to vote to have full-voting "The Board of Trustees took no action on students on the Board, is that the Charter President Lockwood feels the of the SEC, claims the Board of this issue," he stressed. must be changed to include students on the Trustees are not particularly in Trustees needs students to tie the "What is the student's role in decision- Board, said Lockwood. Presently, he added, favor of adding students to the Board more closely to College life. making?" said Piccirillo, "I feel we should even the faculty itself are not included as Board of Trustees. put student imput where it counts most." full members on the Board. Also, change in This, he said, will give the Board of Trustees the Charter would need to be approved by all students are the ones receiving the benefits a chance to listen to students' views con- the members of the Board, Lockwood said. or the non-benefits of their decisions," he "I have detected no interest from the cerning specific issues. Thus, there will be Lockwood said the Trustees might con- said. Board of Trustees in enlarging the Board to student imput in the final decision, he sider inviting students to sit at their Last week, the SEC confirmed their include students," said President Theodore . stressed. meetings. "The chances for approval are unanimous support for obtaining full-voting D. Lockwood. "The Student Executive far better if the students asked to be invited students on the Board of Trustees, said Committee (SEC)," said junior Tony Pic- to the meetings rather than to be included as PiccirilJo. As a result, he said, the SEC sub- cirillo, vice-chairperson of the SEC, "is Piccirillo said, "the Board sees them- full-voting members," he urged. committee is discussing the issue with definitely interested in enlarging the Board selves as a group of people far removed However, Piccirillo urged that the Board Trustee sub-committee on student life this to include full-voting students." from everyday decision making issues, but needs direct student imput. "After all, the Friday. Noise A Problem Election Winners Library Overcrowded By Bill Doak shortage of study space on campus. She BUDGET COMMITTEE "The library fs no longer a place of noted Wean lounge is open for studying until Tony Piccirillo academic solitude. It has become instead a 2 a.m. social gathering," said sophomore Arlene "It's hard for people who work at the Kanter, one of many students and faculty to library desks. They're just students and voice dissapproval about conditions in the don't want to assert their authority and tell library. fellow students to be quiet." said Kanter. TCC "Over the last five years," said Ralph Every student has to be considerate of his Sheila Driscoll Arcari, Chief of reader's services at fellow students, in the dorms as well as in Eric Gibson the library, "Trinity has increased the library, she said. enrollment, but the facilities have stayed Howard Garrell, '77, said "the the same size, with no new classrooms or arrangement of seats in the library could be study areas being built." Even with most better. It would be a good idea to have a SEC Freshmen people sitting on top of one another, he said reading lounge where students could Philip Hewett there are only 400 seats in the building. We socialize as well as study. That way they Yataka Ishizaka should have between 600-700 seats lor a would not bother others." Jeff Sands residential college of this size, he added. "There should be a reading room with soft Steve Batson Arcari said that lack of space has couches where one could just curl up, study, Sam Thayer prohibited staff expansion, hindered their or read," said Mara Bentman, '77. MarkKupferberg reclassification project, and forced them to "constantly shift books around" in an effort to make more space. Mulqueen Says In an effort to cut down on noise, Arcari CONNPIRG mentioned, the college might install a glass Peter Basch partition near the circulation desk as well as Might AidsReady Ben Freeman carpet the entire first floor. "We are By Bob Zelinger Cathy Green discussing the addition of a new wing to the library,, he said however this isn't even in Resident Assistants and Administrators Reggie Martin are officially "on call" every evening, in Peggy Herzog the planning stages yet." As a stop-gap measure, Arcari en- case of emergency, according to Assistant courages students to come to the library Dean Ellen Mulqueen. earlier in the morning or later in the R.A.s can be found in their respective MHBOG evening. The peak hours are from 7-10 p.m. resident' halls most evenings, said Nancy Moore and Sunday afternoons, he said. Students Mulqueen, but since there will be times Richard Feinberg should check the 'B' floor for study space, when they are unavailable, students should Arcari urged. be aware that four R.A.s have official duty "People go to the library because they hours each evening. If you can't locate the can't study in the dorms", commented Ellen Resident Assistant on duty, said Mulqueen, MHBOG Freshmen Mulqueen, associate dean for student ser- call the Front Desk at Mather Campus Sarah Gordon vices. She said peer pressure should be Center. John Childers exerted by the students to stop excess noise. R.A.s on duty who are called away from Peter Wo!k "We're in a small community; people their, raonv temporarily will notify the Larry Golden (write-in) Front Desk of where they can be reached, should be able to confront other people and according to the Dean. tell them to be quiet," she said. (continued to page ID- 1110 Mulqueen also said there is a definite Page % THE TRIPOD, October 9t 1973 Pre-Med Syndrome Students Feel Med School Pangs *•• By Lois Kimmelman The phrase "Babylonian Captivity" in the admitted. The ratio has been more his first two pre-med years he was "more rigorous one", but "I don't think they're history 0/the Roman Catholic Church refers favorable for Trinity students, however; concerned about studies and academics limited that much." He added he didn't see to the period when: last year, out of 29 applicants, 18 students than people." Basch charged that being a anything seriously wrong with the system as (I) there were two claimants for the papal were accepted, according to Robbins. pre-med "ruined my life; I was so worried it is. crown All interviewees agreed the main about grades I made myself sick." A few students, however, voiced (Z) the Pope declared himself a "Prisoner problems in the "pre-med syndrome" stem Iwans used the case of her summer dissatisfaction with the pre-med of the Vatican" from the med schools. They concurred that Organic Chemistry course to demonstrate curriculum. Basch conceded that a (3) the Papacy was resident in Avignon the way med schools are set up now, many the negative aspects of the pre-med knowledge of basic science is useful, but (4) Napoleon took Pope Pius VII prisoner people who desire to become doctors, are curriculum. "You were constantly worried said the pre-mcnl program actually gives rejected, even if they are well-qualified. about every mistake; you had to bo per- "?. ero" preparation for being a "good Anyone who knows the answer to the "Med schools must choose among a lot of fect," she said. "Grades meant doctor." "Knowing how to dissect a rat's above question has a good chance of going to excellent students," said Crawford. He everything," she added.