Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 2010-2011 Student Newspapers 2-7-2011 College Voice Vol. 35 No. 11 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_2010_2011 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "College Voice Vol. 35 No. 11" (2011). 2010-2011. 9. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_2010_2011/9 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 2010-2011 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. MONDAY FEBRUARY 7 2011 VOLUME -J<er l5SUE II the balcony playing cards , Monday. March 3. 1919: "ZZ .• Runty. Jess and I spent all Our time out (J(\ . t \.>as a peach of a day." - Diary of Mildred Howard Meet Connecticut College's first graduating class of 1919. For more stories and photos from our first decade. see page 2. True Grit Women's Basketball fights through off-court issues to claim first NESCACwin in three years MIKE FLINT After starting off the month of SPORTS EDITOR January so well with consecutive On Saturday, women's bas- victories against New York City ketball defeated Wesleyan 49-42 College of Technology, NYU, at home, securing the Camels' Eastern Nazarene College and first NESCAC victory since the Johnson & Wales, by the 22nd 2007 -2008 season. Such an ac- the Camels had officially slipped complishment is something to on the NESCAC ice. Conn had celebrate no matter the circum- lost four games in a row-all to stances, but considering the kind conference opponents-and al- of season-let alone the kind of though the team was playing well, the lack of success in league was CECILIA BROWN I STAFF month-women's hasketball has been having, the win over Wes- growing more and more frustrat- leyan was a well-deserved story- ing by the day. book ending. The Lady Camels bad not won Lee Eisenberg: It's been a crazy winter for a conference game since beating all of us here in New England. Middlebury 68-58 on February Snowstorm after snowstorm has 18, 2008. They had gone 0-9 in Thespian, Writer; Alum definitely made this winter one the NESCAC the last two seasons to remember. But women's bas- and started this one 0-4. Some- JAZMINE HUGHES AND ketball no doubt has had the cra- thing had to give, they had to RACINE OXTOBY ziest winter of all. In a little less catch a break, or it was all going from the alum, For scores of you think, 'Oh, this is really in- NEWS EDITOR. than a month, the Lady Camels to crumble into a wintry mess of English and Film Studies stu- teresting, I could use this. '" ARTS EDITOR have been on top (a four game disappointment. dents, Eisenberg's visit brought Lee Eisenberg '99 was never From his freshman year, win-streak at the beginning of And that's when four play- more than just college pride and Eisenberg knew his future was "a big deal." He lived in Free- January), at the bottom (a seven ers, including the team's top two festive excitement - it brought waiting for him in Los Angeles. man, KB, Hamilton, and JA. game losing-streak. from January scorers, were suspended for the hope that they, too, could make it He was a production assistant for He studied abroad in Paris. He 14-29), at rock bottom (six-game rest of the season for possession in Hollywood. many years - including working vaguely remembers writer Sloane suspensions for four players, end- of marijuana. The athletes were "You can do anything with an Crosley, another notable alum, on the aforementioned Brendan ing each athlete's season) and banned even from attending prac- English degree," said English Fraser film /Bedazzled! ~ before. who graduated a year after him. back up again (two 'straight wins, tices or watching games from professor' said while introducing hitting his first writing gig on the There was no film department including the team's first NES- the bench with their teammates. the event, referring to Eisenberg's hit drama /JAG/. Eisenberg could With six games remaining, five here when he was a student. He CAC victory since the '07-'08 major. "You could be the pro- feel from the beginning that he of which were against conference wrote maybe one article for the season). The only thing missing ducer and writer on /The Office/, was probably going to be fired. "I student newspaper, despite being was a Charlie Sheen cameo. CONTtNUED ON PAGE 11 maybe write a few movies. That didn't know anything about law an English major and growing would be one outcome." or military or military law." into a TV and film writer, and had Eisenberg took multiple classes After leaving JAG, he recon- a radio show about sports. There with Boyd and describes her as nected with his writing partner were also no cell phones and he "very outspoken, really smart, re- Gene Stupnitsky. remembers marveling at sending ally funny," commenting that he Several students chosen out an email to multiple people at used to write down quotes of hers through a lottery system were once. in his notebook - in other words, Yes, he's a notably successful able to dine with Eisenberg, Blanche hasn't changed. "I took where he told the oddly roman- Conn alum and was, at one time, [her] narrative nonfiction class .tic story of his partnership with the head writer for the hit televi- and I remember becoming super Stupnitsky. He described a night sion show /The Office/, but why aware of dialogue in that class in which they were "down at the should we care about what he has because I was interviewing real docks," discussing potential writ- to say? He has Justin Timber- people. As a writer, you develop ing ideas, when Eisenberg grew lake's phone number. an ear for dialogue. As you start cold and Stupnitsky gave him his Less than a week into the 20 II going through it, you ask, what's sweatshirt. Ever since, the two spring semester, Conn kicked off the 'nugget' from it? What's the have been in a strong-and mild- the beginning of SGA's Centen- phrase? And you hear how people ly codependent, as Eisenberg de- nial Speaker Series with a visit talk and you write it down and scribed-writing companionship. CECILIA BROWN I STAFF CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 The snags in campus internet accessability has been giving head- aches to more than just students. The Information Services staff has been working overtime for weeks to get it fixed. Bruce Car- penter, Director of Technical Support, told the Voice last week that The Road to the Oscars initially, one of the multiple systems in our authentication process Cisco was broken, likely Cisco Clean Access, which ensures that a JERELLMAYS I still love the Globes, but the Globes are like one of those honor- computer has the sufficient operating system and antivirus protec- STAFF WRITER Oscars. Despite ary degrees that colleges give to people they once tion to log into the network. This explained why many students the last few de- rejected but are now famous and successful. They could not receive wireless on their personal computers, and why cades of plum- just aren't the same. some library computers did not allow users to log on. meting ratings and uncomfortable hosts (we still With the Oscars coming up in just a few weeks, "The difficult part of this is that there wasn't a logical scheme of love you, Jon Stewart), I still anticipate watching I feel compelled to familiarize myself with the Best who could and who couldn't connect," said Carpenter. "For exam- the annual award ceremony every year. Because re- Picture nominees which this year include Inception, ple, there are four switches in the library, and one was not working. gardless of any faults you or anyone else might have The Social Network, Toy Story 3, Winter's Bone, There really is no explanation why one of four should go bad." with things like the judging system, made up of The Kids Are Alright, The Fighter, Black Swan, 127 A campus email from Vice President for Information Services Hours, The King's Speech and True Grit. 5 500 faceless members of the Academy of Motion Lee Hisle read, "We have been advised that our network router Pictures Arts and Sciences, or the fact that it always !fthis seems like a lot of nominees, that's because must be replaced immediately or we could risk a major failure that runs at least twenty minutes longer than intended the number of films eligible for Best Picture dou- requires a much longer repair time." This was a single hardware due to obligatorily longwinded speeches, or all the bled from five to ten last year. I guess it was because failure that affected computers' connections to college-based web- Best Picture drama and Best Actor and Actress un- of the overwhelming number of monumental films sites like MoodIe, Self Service and the homepage. The network has fairness it's still the only Hollywood award that that came out in 2010 (or something). reached an incredibly high level of complexity, making it difficult really holds any weight. Sure, there's the Golden CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 for engineers to identify and articulate the connection problems Connecticut College has faced. As of now, all systems are working properly.