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The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. .. • • INSIDE: A couple of the sights (not sounds) of the Fall Concert, pg. 7 NEWS SPORTS A&E • Professor Eugene Gallagher receives The cross country squads were both Get the full scoop on The Comedy of state recognition for his excellence in in action this week at the New England Errors, a review of the show and the full teaching. Find out more inside. Division ill Championships in Maine. See page 10 to find out how they fared. story behind the challenges the cast had. to overcome along the way. First Class U.S. Postage PAID Permit #35 New London, cr PUBLISHED WEEKLY BYTH£ STUDENTS OF CONNECTICUT COllEGE VOLUME XXVII • NUMBER 11 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 2003 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE, NEW LONDON, C'!' Dan Flynn Sparks Controversy on Conn's Campus Bv SARAH ARMSTRONG ly lives in Boston. Conversation also STAFF WRITER turned toward the atmosphere FIynn should expect upon returning to College Repuhlicans shook up campus. News that several groups the campus this past Monday night had plans to show up, one threaten- when they brought fiery speaker Dan ing a protest, found Flynn unphased. Flynn to the Cro's Nest; his name is For this 2101b, 6' speaker, any dis- not one Connecticut College will gruntled audience at CC would be soon forget. PIynn spoke about his another to add to an impressive list; book Why the Left Hates America, as he later shared with the audience, and provoked acute excitement on Flynn has heen bitten, mooned, campus. The event, which one stu- heckled, and his books have been the; dent described as "World War V" is main element in a "Nazi-styled a landmark in recent Connecticut hook-hurning at Berkeley ...Berkeley College history. With 400 students is like Rome for the Left," packed into Cro's Nest at one point By the time Flynn arrived to in the evening, almost 20% of cam- speak, activity around Cro was pus attended the event. already in full gear. lnside the Nest, Flynn arrived on campus at College Republicans, many sporting approximately 6:00 PM on Monday skirts or ties and jackets, provided and met with several members of the cookies and drinks. To get inside, College Republicans, who treated however, stndents had first to literal- him to dinner at Chili's. Dinner con- ly cross a line of members of versation revealed that Flynn attend- CCLeft, a new student club that is ed UMass Amherst, served in the not officially registered with SGA, Marine Reserves, recently ended his who were wearing t-shirts reading tenure as the executive director for "Ask me why the Left loves President oftbe CCleft Club Daniel Maltzerprotested at renowned author Dan Flynn's speech on Monday. Overfour hundred students were in the audience watching the event. (Pace) Accuracy in Academia, and current- continued on page 6 Cell Phone Tower Still in Limbo Student Support Spurs Exam Vote Bv JUUA LE'KOWITl Bv THoMAS McEvov idea has not yet been approved by whereas the new tower would stand Owen Kloter, Chair of Academic Affairs, said that ~ NEWS EDITOR STAFF WRITER the Facilities and Land Management at one hundred and fifteen feet. was not surprised by the strong support for Option 1 Committee, under whose jurisdic- "A major factor in the decision After the impressive turnout at the Student Open from the SGA Assembly. He noted that because stu- In the past year, several corpo- tion such a change falls. "The con- of whether or not to build the tower Forum on self-scheduled exams, which took place dents at the open forum presented such strong feelings in rate vendors have approached the cept has been in the works for a is aesthetics," Carpenter explained. Wednesday, November 5, the Self-Scheduled favor of self-scheduled exams, it only made sense that College with proposals to construct while: we want to find a solution "Varioustests and surveys have been Examinations Task Force (SSTF) has taken students' the SGA reiterate those views. With regards to this a new cell phone antenna on the that is most conducive to students, created in order to get an idea of how feedback to the SGA for an official vote. At the forum agreement between students and SGA, KIoter stated, '3 school premises. The projected faculty and administrators," Norton the tower would look on campus, students were asked to petition for one of three options found the correlation encouraging, because it means we structure would improve cell phone explained. and how students, facnlty and presented by the SSTF: Option I, to keep self-scheduled are representing student views well on SGA." reception and cater to future The antenna would replace a administration would react to it. exams as they are; Option 2, to allow faculty to decide Director of Public Relations, Alex Schoenfeld, com- advancements in cell phone technol- radio tower that is currently located About a month ago, we conducted a whether they want to administer self-scheduled exams in mented on the SGA's consideration of each option, "I ogy. above Conn's radio station head- balloon test, in which a balloon was their own courses; and Option 3, to remove self-sched- honestly was pleasantly surprised the SGAJook the time A prominent technology compa- quarters, in era. "We were original- placed at what would be the top of uled exams altogether. More than 400 students peti- to consider options other than keeping self-scheduled ny first suggested the concept of an ly approached by a company with the tower. We then documented the tinned to keep self-scheduled exams as they are, while exams as they are now. While not preferable, I think a updated antenna to the College the idea of adding an antenna to the reaction of a group'of people. Photo- only three students opted for Option 2. lot of time and thought went into Option 2, which was about a year ago. Soon afterwards, a tower currently located on route thir- simulations are still in the process of On Thursday, November 13th, the SGA acknowl- impressive to me," Schoenfeld noted that the SGA did slew of competitive vendors submit- ty-two [on campus, behind the print- being created." I edged this data in their official vote on the SSTF's three not discuss Option 3 as much as the other two, ted., similar proposals. The plans ing shop]," stated Carpenter. The proposed tbwer would yield options for the fate of self-scheduled exams. All but two With this vote recorded, the SSTF met with several ila>ce been discussed in monthly "However, we discovered that this several benefits to lhe College. With Assembly members voted for Option I; the two other meetings beld by the College's site was not conducive to the specif- over 50% of students owning cell members voted for Option 2. continued on page 8 Facilities and Land Management ic technology at hand," With its pro- phones and the additional cell phone Committee with additional inpnt posed location at Cro, the antenna usage of faculty a'1d administrators, from Bruce Carpenter, Director of would possess combined potentials a large portion of the community Homeland Security Chief Visits CGA Technical Support, Jim Norton and as a radio and cell tower. The current would profit from improvements in several senior administrators. The radio tower is one hundred feet high, By SARAH AR.M~ONG continued on page 8 STAFF WRITER New Virus Threatens Conn Computers In a closed event this past Friday, Tom Ridge, Secretary of the By JULIA LEFKowrrL. Department of Homeland Security It warns users of some irregularity in their accounts and NEWS EDITOR (DHS) and former governor of directs the users to a web site where' they're asked to Pennsylvania, spoke to cadets at the This past week, a new virus infiltrated the computers enter their credit card numbers. But, the web-site is a Coast Gnard Academy. DHS was of Conn. students. The mechanism is particnlarly con- phony, belonging to criminals who steal the credit card created one month after the terrorist cerning because it possesses the potential to search and numbers. These phishing messages are steadily getting attacks of September II, 2001 by retrieve credit card and social security numbers that are better. The first ones, not that long ago, were semi-liter- President Bush, in one of the largest accessible from a computer's hard-drive. The presence ate ramblings that only a fool would fall for. But the lat- re-organizations of the federal of this virus is a continuation in the steady stream of est versions are good forgeries, borrowing language and bureaucracy in decades. When this malfunctions that have infected computers connected to art from the target company's web site and correspon- happened, the Coast Guard the Conn intranet system since the beginning of this aca- dence." Academy, which had been under the demic year. "This is the second time this year my computer has Department of the Treasury, was Approximately two hundred computers were been infected with a series of viruses where Ibelieve the placed under DHS.