INSIDE The Ivory Tower .... ...... ..2 Dance Marathon ...... ...3 Tea Party . ... .. .. .... .4 Lost in Space .... .... .6 sxsw ·. ..... .... .... ..7 Announcements .. ..8 Volume VII, Issue 21 No pity for the majority. April 7, 1998 One down, six to go; Forman visits NC Judge tosses by Alisdair Lee engaging in­ In a statement opening her 'Meet the Candidate' formation in a out Jones' sex forum, prospective dean Susan Forman said she was ex­ critical man­ cited to meet the students of an institution she considers ner, able to suit against "impressive." Regarding the structure of the New handle ambi- College academic program, Forman noted, "this is what guity, Pres. Clinton everyone would like to do ... other institutions have not self-directed been able to promote this kind of program." and engaged By Zoe Roman Forman, a tenured Professor of Psychology for in their learn­ Less than two months before twelve years, had worked for three years as Associate ing." She also the trial date, a federal judge threw Provost at the University of South Carolina and has acknowledged out Paula Jones's sexual harassment most recently worked as Vice President of the impor­ lawsuit against President Bill Undergraduate Education at Rutgers University. As an tance of Clinton, ruling that Jones had no administrator at Rutgers, Forman has worked on "im- adequate "genuine issues" worthy of trial. pro~ing the,,uality of teaching and the quality of the funding. In a 40-page ruling, Judge curnculum. Whtle the Rutgers population dwarfs that "State funded Susan Webber Wright granted of ~ew .co~lege, Forman pointed out that Rutgers institutions Clinton's motion for summary Um":"ers1t~ ~~ . made up of "eighteen degree-granting aca- have not been able to fund Susan Forman seef!Jed excited about the judgement, saying Jones' allega- de~c un~ t s.. The challenge was "how to promote their th kind f prospect of becommg dean at New tions "fall short'' of what was umqu ~ mts~tons~ how to be part of a large undergradu- e ° College, but many students are uncertain re · ed under the law to support ate un1verstty without undermining their missions." of what her p olicies would be should she ~~~~opt htle~t~h~reMe~co~u~n~t~s ..;.a:<:::lg,~a ;;::;in;,;;s'"'t ~th:;;;;e~~""""'"'"""(~Forman stressed the role of faculty in allowin New College to tbrive. New-cottege-•llltlla ,...,r:ce)!lft._ "The plaintiff's allegations fall faculty members, good teachers who are active schol­ tract system. They took the time to explain the short the rigorous standards for es­ ars, interested in teaching in the way that's promoted tablishing a claim of outrage under [here]." Forman understood that students of New !sEE "DEAN" ON PAGE 3 Arkansas law, and the court there­ College should be "interested in being active learners, fore grants the President's motion for summary judgment on this Candidate for physics position pays a visit claim," Wright wrote in her ruling. ment. Other fundamental units of himself, saying that he would be Jones, a former Arkansas state by Mario Rodriguez ~ okay with it if that's what he had to Bill Klipstich, a candidate for measure, such as the volt, the meter employee, claimed then-Governor and the gram-because they are all do to become a physicist. Clinton asked her for oral sex in a a position in experimental physics, "But that's not everything," he meet with Natural Science faculty based on frequency measurement­ Little Rock hotel in 1991. The suit emphasized. "There are a lot of and a handful of students on Friday could be fine tuned if Klipstich 's alleged Clinton's actions amounted project works out, which he is opti­ things I don't know about. If you to sexual harassment, resulted in to discuss his latest project: a approach me with something lJ!ce clock."A clock so accurate it would mistic about. job discrimination against Jones A fast clock could do wonders this, I'm interested." and made her feel "emotional out­ only lose one second in 100 million for the secret transfer of small fre­ Pondering as to why Klipstich rage." Clinton denied any years," he said. would choose to come to New An Amherst graduate who re- quency signals (eyes-only info wrongdoing. College, where he will have to com­ ceived his Ph.D. from the simulcast during "Oprah" on an in­ In February, Clinton's attorney, pete with a large Humanities University of Washington a couple finitesimal frequency Bob Bennett, filed a summary department for funding, 2nd-year of years ago, Klipstich currently your TV is too crude to decipher). judgement motion to have the case physics major Adrian Southard con­ works at the National Institute of The Global Positioning dismissed. "Plaintiff [Jones] has cluded Klipstich is "interested ·in Standards and Technology. System could also make headway: failed to produce evidence showing teaching theory here, exploring." Klipstich walked the audience satellites which can pinpoint your the existence of essential elements If asked to fill the position, through his project-an atomic exact location qn earth at light­ each of her claims. Therefore Klipstich expressed interest in clock which will use six lasers to speed. Klipstich said anyone can President Clinton is entitled to teaching a class on electron spin. He keep time based on the vibration of buy a device that will let them tap judgement as a matter of law," also plans to work on "optical a cesium atom. into this network. Bennett argued. So why does Klipstich want to pumping," an area of experimental Lawyers for Jones responded Just thirty years ago, he said, standards of time were based on the come to New College if he's got an physics important for atomic fre­ March 13, filing 700 pages of legal quency measurements. rotation of the earth. expensive lab setup elsewhere? arguments and evidence that the "I came from an undergraduate According to Klipstich, optical lawsuit should go to trial. In its "Even on the short timescale school~ he said. In fact, observation pumping has potential applications brief, Jones's team claimed the of a week the wind would slow it of physics professors at Amherst in NMRI in the imaging of empty records before the court provided down," he said, "by a time de­ initially turned him on to physics. areas in the human body, like the "good reason to believe the Mr. tectable with atomic clocks." He saw them doing a great deal of lungs, which cannot be otherwise Clinton and those acting on his be- Not merely time stands to gain accuracy as a result of this develop- research, so he delved into research contoured. !sEE "CLINTON" ON PAGE 5 2 The Catalyst News April 7, 1998 Transportation Safety Board is looking into the International collision, but no speculations have been made as State Rebels use phone, still want ransom to the cause of the crash. Weather does not ap­ Consumer space flight coming soon Marxist rebels holding three U.S. hostages in pear to have been a factor. Zegrahm Space Voyages has already sched­ mountains outside Bogota, Colombia telephoned uled twice weekly space-flights starting Dec. 1, a message in to a radio network on Friday nigqt, Released whale lost at sea 2001, pending development and licensing issues. declaring that their captives, seized 12 days ago, Over a year ago, a infant gray whale was A division of the Seattle based company, were not spies as they believed. They are thus no ab~ndoned by its mother. The whale, though left Zegrahm is taking reservations at $98,000 a pop longer under threat of death, though there are for dead, was taken to Sea World of San Diego for seven unforgettable days of training leading now ransom demands. The State Department in­ and placed under medical care. The whale, up to a 2 and 1/2 hour flight with a maximum al­ sists that all the Americans were on a bird­ named JJ., was a week old when she arrived in a titude of 62 miles. From this vantage point, watching trip. The Revolutionary Armed Forces coma. She spent over a year in recovery, and adventurers will see the curvature of earth and of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas seized the grew to 19,000 pounds. J.J.'s status updates were blackness of space as well as experiencing 2 to 3 Americans, along with an Italian and a group of continually posted on the Web. minutes of weightlessness. MSNBC quoted one Columbians, at a rebel roadblock on March 23 After J .J. was released._ scientists realized that Zegrahm official as saying that pioneers of space on a major highway about 35 miles east from the her homing transmitters had fallen off. Both of travel "gave society the promise that one day capital. FARC is Latin America's oldest and the transmitter packages, each containing two everyone will be able to go into space." largest rebel army, and was blamed for kidnap­ radio transmitters washed ashore. Originally, sci­ ping more than 900 people last year in order to entists wanted to track J.J.'s movements to be Animal deaths at new Disney park bankroll its efforts to topple the state with ran­ Disney's newest Orlando theme park Animal som payments. Kingdom is suffering an unnatural stretch of ani­ mal deaths in the weeks leading up to its OUTSIDE opening. The tally of death includes four cheetah National cubs, two rhinoceroses, two hippopotamuses, USDA: livestock mistreated ,.-.-tvoeRY three herd animals, and two West African crown 1Wo U.S. Department of Agriculture employ­ TowER cranes that were run over by a tour bus.