The TRINITY TRIPOD Vol. LXXXIII, Issue 2 TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT September 18, 1984 Freshman Enrollment Causes Overcrowding 'by William Hatch Doonesbury where the Spanish, Italian, and French floors are lo- Overcrowding has occurred be- cated will be moved first. Priority fore at Trinity. In 1979 Funston is given to these residents because was supposed to be completed by the bathrooms are overcrowded, opening day. A la Mather it was there is a lack of phone jacks and not finished on schedule and Kris- door locks, and the temporarily tina B. Dow, Director of Residen- housed students do not speak the tial Services, had to temporarily respective languages, thus detract- house ninety-five students. Hous- ing from the educational value of ing was in such short supply that the floors. The students housed she was asking anyone with a liv- with RA's or in housing meant for ing room to house an extra per- administrators on call also have son. high priority for permanent hous- Once again this year there is a ing. housing shortage, although it is Dow said that if people are not as bad. The housing shortage moved every effort will be made has primarily been caused by a to keep freshmen in freshmen large Freshman class. From 1983's areas and friends together. statistics the Office of Admissions Those living in converted expected that approximatly 465 lounges and other faculty apart- accepted applicants would choose ments will be moved according to Trinity. Everyone was surprised the waiting list. These moves will guard when 515 accepted appli- probably take place between se- photo by John KaJI cants decided to attend Trinity. mesters. Those not moved by the A member of the Class of '88 signs his name as part of the traditional Matriculation Ceremonv This, combined with a larger de- second semester have little chance mand for housing by lipperclass- of being be moved at all. Partial men has caused the shortage. refunds of $14 per week are given JEhef e are now 75 students in tem- to those who are temporarily hou- Innovations At Hallden " porary housing and 14 students sed. who live in the Greater Hartford While Dow has no control over by Chris Barry equipment and revised some of its will be installed in Hallden very area that are communting. the room ratings she feels that the policies regarding the use of com- soon, The Rainbows will be made available to faculty and students Relief is coming however. Dur- SGA Advisory Committee on Starting, this falLa number of. puter facilities and the character for word processing, graphics ing the first two weeks of the se- Housing will take into considera- changes at Hallden Engineering and distribution of software doc- programming, and database man- mester 20-40 rooms are usually tion that those who lived in tem- Laboratory are evident. In re- umentation. :. agement applications. The Com- vacated. These vacancies will be porary housing did so with a sponse to an anticipated increased Significantly, Hallden has pur- puting Center Staff, in an effort filled according to priority waiting demand for word-processing and chased an additional VAX-11/75.0 to reduce the amount of text proc- lists. Those temporarily housed in computing resources, the Com- mini-computer; this acquisition continued on page 4 essing done on the VAX, intends puting Center has- acquired new will have an impact on the amount of computer power available to to encourage the use of these PC's students and faculty. In former for word processing and, as an Tolliver Addresses Racism years one VAX was used for com- incentive, will assess Rainbow piling students' programs, doing users no charge. Furthermore, in by Christine Quinn During these breaks, Tolliver and they are black. word processing, and responding exchange for a valid Trinity ID the audience brought out various Tolliver also noted that al- to users' interactive commands. card, the User Services Depart- Last Wednesday Assistant Dean aspects of racism, including af- though most people believe that This year, however, the workload ment will furnish . software dis- of Students Joseph Tolliver spoke firmative action and admissions blacks hold about 12% of the will be distributed between two kette packages and documentation at an FAS discussion on racism at quotas. white collar jobs in'the United VAX computers: VAX1 and to those interested in using the Trinity. Tolliver showed a video- In bringing the discussion States, the actual figure is no- VAX2. These computers will be Rainbow computers, around to a local focus, Tolliver where near that. Tolliver believes tape of the "Phil Donahue Show" able to communicate with one an- With respect to policies regard- pointed out that although the which featured Dr. Charles King, that many people are under the other via ETHERNET, an inter- ing security in Hallden, the use of Black population in the United director of the Urban Crisis Cen- impression that blacks have face that, by virtue of its large the VAX computer for word States is 11.-12%, there are only ter. King attempted to define rac- reached equal status in the job memory capacity, will allow the processing, and the character and ism and to develop ideas from the 55 black students at Trinity, 3% , market and, therefore, affirma- two computers to exchange huge distribution of software docu- audience on how to eliminate it. of the college population. The As- tive action should be done away amounts of information at a time. mentation, several revisions have Tolliver periodically stopped the sistant Dean tried to dispel the with. He asserted, however, that VAX1 will be responding to users' been made. Effective September tape and asked the audience to myth that Black people can enter this was not true, and stressed that individual commands while VAX2 10, students interested in using the comment on what they had seen. colleges at random simply because continued on page 5 will be in charge of compiling stu- computer facilities on the week- dents' computer programs and end and after 10 pm on weekdays text processing. The Computer will be required to show their Center staff expects that.this al- Trinity ID card to a security guard location of labor "will result in a at the north door of Hallden. This significant improvement in system security measure was deemed nec- performance. essary because of the recent addi- tion of computing equipment to A second upgrade to the Com- Hallden. Engineering Department puter system has been the acqui- staff and faculty are understand- sition of a laser printer. This new ably concerned that the Comput- gadget presents three clear advan- ing Center may be a potential tages over the old Diablo printers. target this year of theft and van- Primarily, the laser printer is fast. dalism. — capable of printing at a speed 15 times greater than the;Diablo. Secondly, the management of Secondly, it offers the flexibility word processing accounts will be of producing fancy manuscripts changed this year. Beginning next with features such as italics and semester, students will be charged bold types that are not available nominal fees of $5.00 for regular on a normal Diablo printer. word processing accounts and Thirdly, the laser printer will be $7.50 for'thesis accounts. These cheaper for the Computing Center charges will be applied because, to maintain than the Diablo; con- according to Peter Sobering, sequently, its use. will be encour- Manager of Academic Computer aged for word processing. The Operations, "the number of ac- printer will be shared among the counis last year tripled from the VAX, the academic PDP-11 com- previous year and we expect they puter, and one Rainbow Personal will double this year. We must Computer, have some way to pay for the cost of word processing supplies." And speaking of Rainbow PCs, the Computing Center has de- • continued on page 5 cided that eight of these machines Assistant Dean of Students Joe Tolliver leads an FAS discussion in High Rise Lounge last Wednesday. Page 2, THE TRINITY TRIPOD, September 18, 1984 Announcements Clnestudlo Trinity Women's Law School Forum- Campus Jobs Tuesday Center New York City Many campus jobs are still avail- Rueben, Reuben (PG) 7:30 able, and students who are not On Sept. 21 and 22, over 100 rep- The Democratic National Com- Work-Study eligible may begin Director: Robert Ellis Miller. Cast: Tom Conti, Kelly McGillis, Roberts resentatives from law schools mittee will hold a "Gender Gap submitting applications to indi- Blossom. Tom Conti is brilliant as a rumpled, boozy not-so-great Scot- across the country will be avail- Regional Conference" in Hart- vidual employers. Below is a list tish poet who uses his gift for fancy language to get by in life. 101 min. able to discuss their school, spe- ford on Sept. 22. For info contact of departments seeking students. cial programs and admissions Susan Lewis, box 1797, 249-4029, Please consult the Financial Aid Bedazzled (PG) 9:25 procedures with interested stu- or the Women's Center, 527-3151, Office bulletin board, and see Ka- dents. The Forum will be held at ext. 459. AH are invited, some thy Mills for a referral. Director: Stanley Donen. Cast: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Raquel the World Trade Center in NYC. complementary tickets are avail- Welch. A modern irreverent satirical version of the Faust legend; the up- Wesleyan Univ. is sending a bus able. to-date devil bargains for the soul of a meek, love-sick hamburger cook to/from the Forum on Fri. and Audio Visual - office assistant/ equipment dispatcher by offering him seven wishes. 107 min.