Features Educating in Tanzania, block four Scene Senior dance majors prepare for this weekend’s exhibition ������������������ ���������� �������������������� CC Junior violently killed in Belizian village, campus grieves Jaimie Stevenson tage of an internship opportu- side of the country. Chaplain News Editor nity in South America. Bruce Coriell, Associate Dean Minard grew up in Brooklyn of Students Ginger Morgan, and Colorado College junior Julia Heights, New York and gradu- Edmonds worked with the col- Armstrong Minard, 20, died of ated in 2003 from the Brearley lege’s administration to make strangulation on Sunday night, School in Manhattan. She was a direct contact with Minard’s November 13 while traveling native of California, but consid- particularly close friends and near Punta Gorda, Belize. ered herself a New Yorker. professors. A Belizian TV station report- At Colorado College, Minard More than 50 friends of Mi- ed that a local man, Agripo Ical, intended to double major in art nard met Wednesday afternoon was taken into custody Monday and comparative literature. “She in Loomis Lounge to discuss the and charged with murder. A fo- was incredibly bright and full of known details of her death, as rensic specialist determined the life. She had a creative side that well as various means of griev- mode of death in an autopsy on came out in everything that she ing and coping. Students, fac- Wednesday, November 16. did,” said Corinne Scheiner, ac- ulty, and staff members shared Minard obtained a leave of ademic advisor to Minard. “She brief stories of time spent with absence from the college, and was fearless.” Minard, and began to discuss was traveling in Guatemala to Minard participated in vari- ��������������������������� the possibility of future events study Spanish and weaving. ous dance classes on campus, in a two-block Spanish summer studying abroad, Director of the and projects to remember and Having left Guatemala with a and was involved with the Arts course taught in Salamanca, Office of Study Abroad Sarah celebrate her. group of non-CC students, Mi- and Crafts Committee. She Spain in 2004, as well as ad- Schultz sent a second email to Minard is survived by a nard was exploring a village aimed to continue her study of vanced Spanish courses taught those students currently off- mother and sister who make on her own at the time of her weaving while in Central Amer- on campus. campus on Wednesday morn- their home in Brooklyn Heights, death. ica, hoping to learn authentic Students learned of Minard’s ing. This email provided con- and who currently wish not to be Minard originally planned Mayan techniques of the art death on Tuesday, November 15 tact information for on-campus contacted by telephone. Condo- to spend a semester studying in form. via email from Dean of Students support resources, offering a lences can be sent to her mother, Florence, Italy, but sent an email Prior to her time spent in Mike Edmonds. While many of support system that students Ms. Elizabeth Bailey, 34 Garden to the college in late May stating Guatemala, Minard participated her close friends were likewise might lack while studying out- Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201. that she planned to take advan- Poor Richard provides: ������������������������������������� Hurricane Katrina evacuees continue to find support from local businessowner �������������������������������������� slope-side houses. endless string of atrocities that “because it allows people to fun- Caroline Bennett Lindsay Gillette Guest Writer After three days of relentless date back 500 years to the Span- Staff Writer nel their energy locally,” Skor- digging and searching through ish conquest, the native Maya man said. “I have never been so the muck with simple hand people of Guatemala have again Despite the impressive results The tiny pink jelly slipper of a proud of this community. Reli- tools and relatively little initial been neglected and deprived of of relief efforts concerning Hur- child, caked in crusted earth, is gious and social battles were set help from the outside, local offi- much-needed attention. Once ricane Katrina victims, support the only sign of life for as far as I aside and people worked side by cials called off the search for the the dominant culture and still is waning and the vast array of can see across the plane of end- side to save lives in some cases, dead and officially declared the formulating over 60% of the needs is overwhelming. less mud that has enveloped the and in other cases to make de- site a mass grave. Most of those nation’s population, the Maya “Katrina is no longer the tiny lakeside village of Panabaj stroyed lives better.” who were lucky enough to es- have remained isolated, con- cause du jour,” explained Rich- in the Santiago Atitlan region The Pikes Peak Disaster Re- cape lost absolutely everything demned, and impoverished in ard Skorman, the proprietor of of central highland Guatemala. covery Center (the Katrina Cen- from their already scarce mate- Guatemalan society. They have Poor Richards Cragged metal rooftops barely endured with Restaurant and peek over mounds of the sludge amazing resil- Bookstore, who and debris that fills the demol- ience a devas- facilitated much ished houses they cover; an ee- tating civil war of the initial rie film of lime dusts the ground that razed entire hurricane re- for miles, seeking to slow the villages and left lief in Colorado threatening spread of disease over 150,000 Springs. But he and catalyze the decomposition dead; the re- “still receives of the hundreds of bodies that gion’s highest the eight to ten lie unrescued below. levels of poverty, phone calls a The former town reeks of rot- illiteracy, and day from people ting human flesh, of death. malnutrition; who are strand- It has been almost a month blatant depriva- ed, sick, or des- ���������������������������� since powerful mudslides ���������������������������� Richard Skorman has been fundamental in the tion of funding perate.” brought on by Hurricane Stan A Panabaj couple stand afront the remaining struc- Springs’ response to Hurricane Katrina. His efforts and neglect from Skorman es- swept through Guatemala and ture of their home, destroyed in the mudslides. have not waned with the months, as issues for evac- the government; tablished The much of Central America and uees and residents continue to mount and evolve. rial goods, and many lost loved and continual threats to their Richard Skor- Mexico, and swallowed up Pan- ones as entire families were traditional culture and way of man Outreach, which helped ter) became a “one stop shop for abaj. The storm affected more whisked away. life. to organize 450 volunteers and all of the services the victims than 3 million people, killing Weeks later, resources are Because the poor and land- provided food, clothing, trans- needed.” Representatives from hundreds and displacing thou- slim and attention has been se- less have very little choice over portation and emergency hous- Federal Emergency Manage- sands more. According to the verely lacking in the face of di- where they live, natural disas- ing for about 1,000 refugees. “I ment Agency (FEMA), the Sal- National Agency for Disaster saster—all in a place that has ters like Stan invariably do the opened up my storefront think- vation Army, the Urban League, Control in Guatemala City, well long struggled to battle poverty, most damage to indigenously ing that we would help in some the Goodwill, the National As- over 500 bodies were turned discrimination, and a plethora populated areas where people small way. I saw the need and sociation for the Advancement up in Guatemala alone, with of survival challenges to begin have settled in flimsy homes on couldn’t stop helping,” recalled of Colored People, state and an estimated 1,000 or more still with. mountain slopes. The possibilty Skorman. local health departments, and lying deep below the surface of Though exceptionally resil- This kind of grassroots effort Panabaj alone after literally tons ient in overcoming a seemingly is appealing for the volunteers Continued on page 2 of dense mud engulfed its 250 Continued on page 3 What’s Inside Weather Battle of the Bands Basketball brief Remembered: The Friday Bands in this weekend’s As the men’s and women’s sophomore slump 51/29F competition explain teams prepare for their Senior Jack Simons sug- Saturday Sunny all themselves—see inside season openers this week- 50/25F gests that Mathias Hall weekend, with for bios . end, we take a look at what Sunday particularly lends itself to the phenom- 54/28F strong winds on might be in store . ���������������������������� enon . Saturday ����������������������� page 5 page 9 page 11 News ������ THE CATALYST ����������������� The Richard Skorman Outreach falters not EarthSeeds’ Earth-bound agenda Continued from front page Daniel Anthony been in contact with EarthSeeds Graphics Editor and considers its goals compat- school districts came together ible with those of environmen- to provide for people who liter- A local organization is work- tal science. ally came with nothing. ing toward a future in which “Building common ground The Katrina Center also all people can look at the world on which we can all agree is provided a clothing bank and and see unity, and is currently very important. Bridging di- through Renewed Vision, a lo- seeking Colorado College stu- vides and building common cal eyeglasses recycling proj- dents’ help to make this vision ground is something we must ect, 209 people were fitted with a reality. word towards in the world to- glasses. As a result of consoli- The EarthSeeds project, day,” Kummel said. dating these agencies, “we did founded by former park ranger CC students who have something very special here,” Mark Joyous, sees its immedi- worked with EarthSeeds have remarked Skorman.