Campus SECOND ANNUAL DRAG BALL Students jobs: passion win grants versus pay for bus. By LAUREN FIORELU proposals ASST. NEWS EDITOR With hundreds of paid posi- By LORI MERVIN tions existing on campus, it 's not NEWS STAFF difficult to find work on the Hill, and students at the College don't In order to encourage young hesitate to apply. But those entrepreneurship on the Hill, searching for their passion often Mark Johnson *96 and Joe have to overlook compensation Boulous '68 donated $15,000 and put in more time than the toward the College's first En- College will pay for. As students trepreneurial Alliance Busi- discover their working niche on ness Competition, which took campus with a job they are per- place April 9. sonally invested in, balancing be- The competition included tween work and study time can nine student business pro- become more of a struggle. But posals in various stages of the more their work is motivated planning. In order to partake by personal interest, the less they in the competition, students care about the money. were required to participate The College employs more than in a series of entrepreneurial 1,100 students on campus a year, classes offered through the according to the College website's College's Career Center. student employment page. "I al- These classes focused on the » I CJUIUUUUWW UW UHA ways talk on my tours about jobs at Members of the Male Athletes Against Violence (MAAV) group dress up and perform a fashion show as part of the Drag Ball basics of entrepreneurship. Colby and I feel like more than two held in Foss Dining Hall on Friday, April 15. Students from various groups including the Colby Eight, the Megalomaniacs, The topics included finances, thirds of students have jobs here on SGA, BMR, WGSS and more made up the other acts at the Ball. The Ball ended with students pouring onstage and dancing. marketing, how to make an campus," admissions tour guide elevator pitch, how to file a Caitlin Burchill '12 said. "I know patent in addition to basic at some schools it's not a cool thing idea generating sessions. to have jobs and it's just peo- The format of the competi- ple...who need it. Everybody tion involved a first round [here] has a job and it's not weird." College adds cinema studiesminor deliberation by six judges; Payment for campus jobs is di- three were member of the vided into diflFerent levels based on By DAN SUNDERLAND another taking students to the interdisciplinary courses to ex- were involved in getting cinema Board of Trustees, two were a number of distinguishing factors NEWS STAFF Sundance Film Festival. plore the breadth of the field. studies started were in American Colby alumni and one was an including responsibilities involved, Students and departments have The final course is an "advanced studies....Right now it's an ad- overseer. After the first training or experience required and The College has added a new also organized film series in the level course on film theory, the ministrative convenience." round , the students with busi- whether the job Jnvolves supervis- cinema studies minor to the Amer- past on a variety of topics. The topics of which will change from With this field' of academic ness proposals still in the ing or mentoring other students. ican studies department in re- Queer International Film Series is year to year," Wurtzler said. Dur- study beginning as a minor, it is running were called in for a Each level has four steps of 15 cent sponse to overwhelming professor currently hosting showings. Vari- ing the current school year, possible that it may grow into a question and answer session. pay raises within it, which students and student interest. ous academic departments hold j Wurtzler taught Introduction to larger program. Student interest After the final round, the generally achieve after working "Last year, Colby hired [Asso- film series relating to topics Film Studies, Documentary Film will measure the success of the panel announced two winners. 125 hours. Only one step raise is ciate Professor of Cinema Stud- within their areas of study, such as and a seminar entitled "Holly- minor and will determine the The panel awarded $5,000 to permitted per year. ies] Steve Wurtzler...with the the German studies program's wood Blacklist." future of this discipline at the Benjamin Weinberger '11 for his Examples of some level-one express intent of bringing forward German film series. "The faculty voted and ap- College. "One of its strengths is second place idea. Our Home- jobs include information desk at- a curricular program in cinema "My [arrival at the College] proved the minor and the very that it's interdisciplinary, so it grown Collective. Our Home- tendant, mail runner, postal clerk studies," Vice President for Aca- isn't about creating this from next morning there were two stu- could well take the path that grown Collective "starts and and library circulation clerk. Alli- demic Affairs and Dean of Fac- scratch," Wurtzler said. "There dents here who wanted to sign other interdisciplinary pro- maintains vegetable gardens in son Frank * 13 is a circulation clerk ulty Lori Kletzer said. "We had a were all of these people offering up," Wurtzler said. grams have taken and go from a people's yards in the Chicago at Miller Library and worked at really good sense that there was these classes and there was all Though it is officially located minor program to major," Klet- area," and Weinberger plans to the library in her hometown before considerable student interest... this interest among the students in the American studies depart- zer said. "That 's all a question use "feces from...chickens as coming to the College. "At my [which] had built up over a num- that's been out there simmering. ment, cinema studies is an inter- of resources...As we take on well as compost collected from town library at home.. .1 was way ber of years." Bro's decision for creating a fac- disciplinary field. It includes where we want to grow and the customers...as fertilizer for over-paid," Frank said. "It was In previous years, the Eng- ulty line for someone like me technological, economic and where we want to be over the the gardens," according to the awesome, but I was definitely get- lish, history and American was about bringing all of these artistic components, as well as next three to five years, I'm cer- competition's program. Sopho- ting paid more than I deserved, studies departments have in- resources together." the analytical thinking that is tain that there will be really mores Danny Garin '13, Marcus which kind of made it seem like I corporated a diverse selection The cinema studies . minor characteristic of a liberal arts good efforts to...consider re- Josefsson '13 and Noah Van- wasn't getting paid a lot when I of courses in cinema studies as consists of six courses. Students field. Kletzer said that the Col- sources for cinema studies." Valkenburg '13 won $10,000 started last year at [Miller], but 1 a part of their normal curric- begin by taking an introductory lege placed the cinema studies As of April 14, 14 students had along with the first place title for think it's fair.. .especially because ula. Some JanPlan programs course and continuing with minor within the American stud- signed up for the cinema studies their idea, My Fresh Maine, an have explored the discipline, courses on the history of cinema, ies department "because some minor. "That's growing every time See JOBS, Page 2 studying Japanese anime and international cinema and other of the faculty members who I open my email," Wurtzler said. See BUSINESS , Page 3 Investigative reporterto visit Hill THIS WEEK'S ECHO By MICHAEL BROPHY Beckwith for the EDITOR-II^CHIEF 1 963 killing of Evers; Imperial Wizard Sam The 2006 Elijah Parish Love- Bowers for ordering joy Award winner Jerry Mitchell the firebbmbing that will return to the Hill next week as killed the NAACP's a Lovejoy visiting journalist. Vernon Dahmer in On Monday, April 25 Mitchell 1966; Bobby Cherry will deliver a talk titled, "Tales of for the 1963 bombing Justice and Reconciliation in Mis- of a Birmingham sissippi: A reporter's journey into church that killed the Klan and unpunished killings Denise McNair, from the civil rights era." The talk Addie Mae Collins, will take place at 7 p.m. in the Os- Carole Robertson and trove Auditorium. Cynthia Wesley; and Mitchell is an investigative re- Edgar Ray Killen for porter for The Clarion-Ledger in helping orchestrate Jackson, Mississippi. As the title the 1964 killings of PHOTO COURTESY OF WWW MAC FOUND ORG of his talk suggest, Mitchell is Freedom Riders Mitchell, a former Lovejoy Award winner, will return to the Hill next week. most famous for his investigations Michael . Schwemer, into several civil rights era killings James Chaney and by the Ku Klux Klan that led po- Andrew Goodman." Foundation in 2009. Shane of The New York Times ' lice to re-open the murder cases Among the many awards Mitchell is the final in a series Washington Bureau. The Lovejoy and arrest several Klan members. Mitchell has won since he of four Lovejoy visiting journal- Visiting Journalists program is Accordingto the Lovejoy Award began his investigation into the ists this year. The other journalists sponsored by the Goldfarb Center website, "Mitchell *s work has led to Ku Klux Klan in 1989, he was included Alfredo Corchado of The for Public Affairs and Civic En- the trials and convictions of four Ku recently awarded a "genius Dallas Morning Nev.-s, Maureen gagement and is made possible by Klux Klansmen: Byron De La grant" from the MacArthur Orth of Vanity Fair and Scott a grant by the Knight foundation.