Room draw process begins April 6 Karen Buckley ECHO News Editor represents the lowest number The Room Draw Committee of freshmen wishing to remain with Housing Coordinator Paul in their commons, which was Johnston have finalized the Mary Low Commons. In room draw process which is Lovejoy Commons 72 percent due to begin immediately after expressed a desire to retain spring break. The new room their commons, while in draw procedure includes an Johnson and Chaplin, the all-campus draw for juniors numbers were 87 percent and 90 and seniors and commons percent, respectively. retention for sophomores. The The Room Draw calendar of events is as follows: Committee has provided a APRIL 6- Lottery numbers leeway rule for the Senior class. will be distributed through Should the class quota be nearly student mailboxes. Numbers full in any Residence Hall, there will not be given to students will be a one person leeway. who have not paid their $200 For example, if a hall has room room draw deposit by April 1. for 2 senior women and 3 want APRIL 7-9: Sign up for to get a triple, they will.now be students interested in off- able to do so. It should be noted campus, Mary Low Cooper- that this applies only to the ative, Quiet halls, co-ed suites, Senior Class. "In all cases and Dana room squatting. except for seniors, the quotas APRIL 14-15: Selection for will be stuck to strictly," said all of the above. Johnson. APRIL 20: Senior Room Johnston stressed that Selection. students should be sure they APRIL 22: Junior . Room have paid their room draw Selection. deposit before leaving for APRIL 27: Sophomore Com- spring break as the deadline mons retention falls on Wednesday April 1st. Squeeze will rock Colby APRIL 30: Sophomore All "In years past, students could Campus selection pay the bill the day before it With all but one of their Squeeze broke up in late 1982, themselves missing Squeeze. was due if necessary, but this original players, hot British blaming conflicts between ail After a three-year break they According to Housing year they won't be here." rock band Squeeze will test the the band members. Drummer began rehearsing in January of Coordinator Paul Johnston, 60 Students who do not pay their Fieldhouse . fire-regulations Gilson Davis was quoted 1985, and later that year percent of the -sophomore attendence deposit by April 1 capacity when they play out saying, "It's such a claus- recorded Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti . rooms in each commons will be will be placed on a waiting list part of their East Coast tour trophobicj atmosphere to be in a Tickets will go on sale to reserved for Commons below sophomores who are here on April 23rd at 8:00 p.m. band with five strong individ- Colby Students the morning of retention. This percentage waiting listed for rooms. Promoting their soon-to-be- uals; it's hard to maintain April 6 for $10; sales will open released eighth, album, the band equilibrium." to the public the afternoon of is promising new material, While they all took off to join April 7, for $12. Contact the widened in scope with fattened and form new bands, they Stu-A office for more infor- and dramatized sound. stayed in touch and found mation, "Nuclear Winter Reappraised" by Patricio Silva popular conception of the reappraisal of the "nuclear theory which Carl Sagan, one winter" hypothesis at the of the authors of the TTAPS National Center for Atmos- Stephen H. Schneider, an study, presented in discussions pheric Reasearch. atmospheric chemist and the and articles. The theory of The results of their evaluation second IBM Distinguished "nuclear winter" had political indicated variations in temp- Lecturer of the year, spoke on ramifications as supporters and erature decreases as a function Monday to an audience of some critics of nuclear weapons of the season, a nuclear war in two hundred students and sought to adapt the results ot the summer months would faculty. His lecture, "Nuclear the theory to their points of have a different impact than Winter Reappraised," was a view. conflict occurring in the winter synopsis of a controversial Meanwhile, the scientific months. Patterns of percip- article that he wrote for the community was scrutinizing the itation would be severely 1986 summer of Foreign atmospheric models involved disrupted, particularly the Affairs. and found that the analysis was monsoon storm season in Schneider recounted the dependent upon too many Southeast Asia which provides origins of the theory of nuclear altogether disparate variables. much of the annual rainfall for Winter, the original TTAPS It was in the w.prds of the region. The press coverage study whose ca lculations Schneider, "A one dimensional of the results misrepresented demonstrated that a limited model of a three dimensional their conclusion that while exchange of nuclear weapons world." As more elaborate and "nuclear winter" would not targeted at approximately one detailed models of the lead to human extinction it hundred cities in the Europe, atmosphere were developed would have catastrophic the Soviet Union and the the scenario of nuclear winter consequences for the ecosystem. United States would produce a became more complex with Schneider is depu ty director smoke cloud ' which would variations in such factors as of the Advanced Study Program encircle the earth and plunge geography, seasons, and at the Na ti onal Center for Atmospheric chemist Stephen H. Schneider spoke the planet into several months atmospheric chemistry includ- Atmospheric Research in on Nuclear Winter last Monday, photo bt Britt Moore of winter. At least that was the ed. Schneider directed one such Boulder, Colorado. Senior scholars program "en- The common sentiment ex- "Drugs not only poison the lives "As soon as a child is old of adults and adolescents but courages more than passive pressed by all those in the Inside learning. It gives people the Vietnam Forum was that it was enough to hold a toothbrush, he now/ every day, cripple the should be holding sunblock in minds of children.1'' See p. 5. satisfaction of going indepen- a slow and difficult process dent in their studies." See p. 7. returning to society. Sec p, 9 his other hand." Sec p. 10. * **»* «• A view of another's Homophobia "harmful and problematic in j our society To the Editors: have not seen a similarly people see that there are The responses to last week s letter b Albert threatening letter directed at alternatives in the way people y I have never been so the homosexuals. Yet, the choose to live their lives? When Languet and Andy Levin almost preclude frustrated while reading a homophobic threats abound. will people respect others not comment from the editors; however, in this case letter in the Echo than when Please note the similarities on account of their sexual I couldn't control myself. When I first read the reading last weeks "Another between Languet and Levin's preference (or race or class or letter I thought it was a joke, but a closer reading View" by Albert Languet and own statement, "If they weren't status), but because of their Andy Levin. Their opinions are so blatantly outspoken people hurnanness? It is important that vanquished any sense of humor. I feel most problematic and harmful wouldn't notice them or bother people who harbour similar compelled to ask: Do you really think this way? in our society. I would like to them," and the questionnaire's opinions as Languet and Levin By the letters we have received, I gather that it is point out a few of the "Why do you insist on flaunting understand how limited their narrow- statements in the letter were your heterosexuality? Can't lives are. you who are in the real minority-of expressed out of ignorance or you just be what you are and The Woman's Studies minded bigotry. In my response to you I will try not fully thought out. The letter keep it quiet?" conference this past weekend to spare you any "slanted, unrealistic attempt(s) begins with the remark: "I feel Homosexuals are oppressed. was devoted to showing at sarcasm." the publication of 'A Simple Why do Languet and Levin feel alternatives to people who are That you could make a blanket statement that Questionnaire' in the Echo is a that somehow expressing such disturbed by the limits society blatant statement of pro-homo- oppression "makes them look tries to create. I would like to we have "blatant homosexual tendencies" for sexual tendencies. Colby Col- bad." Any minority should thank Nancy Wanderer Mac- printing the ad doesn't even warrant a response, lege, however, is not composed express itself, especially on a kenzie and Woman's Studies though I could think of few. Your stance as entirely of homosexuals, they college campus where students for the organization of the self-appointed gods passing blind judgement are a minority." The meaning of are participating in a liberal conference. It was a great the questionnaire connotes arts education and trying to success and a great learning on your fellow man is ludicrous. more than Languet and Levin broaden their frames of experience. Yes, you could say I am outraged at the profess - and is a result of the experience. The Simple Ques- stupidity of such a letter. The mere wording of it attitudes of such homophobics. tionnaire is one of the few Sincerely, serves as its most effective rebuttal, because it The phrasing of their second attempts I have seen at Brian K. Axel sentence - with the "however" - educating the Colby community reads as one big contradiction.