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First Class U.S. Postage PAID Permit #35 New London, cr PfJBUSHED WEEKLY BY THE STUDENTS OF CONNECfICUT COUEGE VOLUME XXVI • NUMEER 18 - FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2003 CONNECTICUT COllEGE, NEW LONDON, CT I:NSIDE: CICS Rally Draws Support In Hartford Bv USMAN SIIEIKII MANAGING EDlTO' COmmittee leaders clarified the protocol for dealing with biased Sarah Tillotson, a member of Class of 2006 along witb Aaron incidents on campus .. Bayer, Secretary of the College, rep- resented Conn at a rally last Wednesday that was held at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford to show support for the Connecticut Independent College Student (CICS) grant program. The rally was attended by CICS recipi- ents, parents, student leaders and col- lege and university officials from all over Connecticut to oppose Governor Rowland's recent proposal A&E to slash financial aid grants by 24 percent, taking the funding for the Vox Carneli and The Williams program down to $12.1 million. Street, Mix join Kinsey Sicks in "It was not your typical rally:' Drag Ball fun. pointed out Tillotson '06 "but rather Youthfor Justice members and other concerned students braved the cold and rain this week for nightly vigils outiside of Harris in protest of the Warin Iraq (Rogers). an opportunity for groups of students from several independent colleges and universities in Connecticut, to Students Hold Vigil to Pray for Peace take a stand out of concern about the potential of losing a substantial amount of financial aid. We had the Bv JAMIE ROGERS warm their hands. "We're doing this vigils and to organize a fasting chain opportunity to speak with a number NL'WS EDITOR to let people know that not everyone until the war ends. They currently of legislators, particularly those rep- is giving up," said one girl. have a list of twenty-five people, resenting in our hometown districts." Every evening between 5:00 and The vigils began Tuesday, March which includes staff members, who Currently, 144 Connecticut 7 :00' approximately ten students 25 after Youth for Justice (YFJ), an will fast in the coming weeks. College students receive a total of SPORTS solemnly congregate outside of activist coalition on campus, held an "A lot of people were welcom- f $440,000 in CICS grants, based on Harris. They gather, gloaming emergency meeting the night before. iug. A lot said thanks:' said Andy Camels Men's Lacrosse starts off students' financial need. The pro- around each other in protest of Members of YFJ and other students Debergalis '04. "There is a huge posed cuts come at a particularly season with a string of victories. Operation Iraqi Freedom with can- who called themselves "freelance majority for this." Overall the pro- damaging time as the college is in dIes that illunainate their faces and operatives" agreed to hold nightly testers felt that community support continued on page 11 continued on page 11 Tuition Increases Next Academic Year McIntosh Packs '41 Room, Unpacks • • • ByJULIA LE'KOWITL will place the College in the naiddle of this list. According to the adnainistration, in order to provide Assocers NEWS EDITOR Knapsack of White Privilege in Lecture a quality of education comparable to the College's com- This February at its. annual meeting, the Board of petitors, .an increase in tuition was necessary, There are Bv JAMIE RUGERS Trgstees set the tuition at $37,900 for the 2003 - 2004 several other reasons that accounted for this specific academic year, This marks a 6.4% increase from the change, most of which are related to recent economic NEWS EDITOR present academic year. The decision to increase the recession and the conflict with Iraq. In one of the most widely publi- tuition was influenced by many significant factors. The admitted class' demand for financial aid is cized lectures of the semester, Peggy In the past five years, the college's tuition has greater than that of past years. This can be attributed McIntosh, Associate Director of the increased at an accelerated rate. From 1999-2000, largely to the recessing economy. Wellesley College Center for tuition increased 3.8% from the previous academic year, The comprehensive fee does not cover the cost of Research on Women, spoke to a from 2001-2002, 4.5%, from 2001-2002, 5%, and from student's education: it'covers less than eighty percent of large gathering of students and fac- 2002-2003, 6%. this charge. Endowments, gifts and grants to the College ulty. The lecture was given on Despite these increases, the percentage increase in are used to make up for the remaining percentage of the Monday in the 1941 Room, and its tuition from 1999-2001 was less than the average com- cost. These contributions haverecently been limited due content endeavored to "Unpack the pared to peer liheral arts colleges (Tufts, Wesleyan, to the condition of the economy. Invisible Knapsack" of White Bowdoin, Trinity, Middlebury, Haverford, Skidmore, In addition Costs of fuel, technology replacement Privilege. Colby, Hamilton, Bates, Vassar, Colgate, and Boston and employee health care have increased, The event was part of the Race College). The corresponding statistics for this coming The tuition hike will make it harder for some current Matters Lecture Series sponsored by year are not yet available. However, for the current full-tuition students to cover the costs. The College the Multicultural and Diversity 2002-2003 academic year, only three of these fourteen already provides Financial Aid for many students on Committee to further the discussions rival schools had lower tuitions than Connecticut generated from the Campus-wide ColJege. It is estimated that the 2003 - 2004 increase continued on page 10 Forum held on February 18th. "During the forum there was a lot of confusion expressed on White Other Colleges Consider Co-Ed Rooming Privilege and what White Privilege is," said Les Williams, Associate BYTHOMASMcEvoy Dean of Multicultural Affairs and STAFF WRITER Co-Chair of the Multicultural and Diversity Committee. "We wanted I~a recent Chronicle of Higher to bring in someone who delivers a Learning article Anne Borrego raises talk in ways that our community can the issue of coed rooming, a new hear in a lot of ways." concept some liberal arts' colleges McIntosh hegan the lecture by have implemented. Among the col- pairing off audience members to dis- leges,' Borrego mentions that cuss the benefits as well as "hard Swarthmore, Haverford and and scary things about looking at Peggy McIntosh presented an interactive lecture on White Privilege to over 100 (Rogers). Wesleyan have given their students White Privilege." She gave those in this option. attendance a minute to discuss their From there she began noting article, seeing White Privilege as Coed living raises many ques- feelings with their partners. "It's an subtle privileges that Whites have "unearned assets which i can count tions and concerns, Borrego notes, autocratic use of time for the democ- over Blacks in daily interactions, cit- on cashing in each day." however, that students choosing coed racy use of time," she said, giving ing instances where Black women at Equating White Privilege to col- rooming have surprised administra- everyone an equal chance to speak. a restaurant are served later than lateral, Mcintosh suggests, is the tors. "It's not that these students She then continued to relate how White women, and even that the best way to solve the problem. don't want to have sex, it's just that she began exploring the concept of National Institute of Health used "White privilege is like a bank they don,t necessarily want to live White Privilege in the 1980s when white male rats to conduct all lab account: you can spend it to help with the people they're having sex she founded the National Seeking experiments. "These instances:' she people. Tum White Privilege into with," Anne Borrego states. Educational Equity and Diversity said "are not about meanness and White Power." She suggested con- A distinction must be made, nev- Project, or SEED, to "bring materi- violence; they're about the up-side fronting waiters, store managers or ertheless, between coed doubles and als on women into college curricu- of discrimination ... You study the policemen who may be discriminat- coed suites. A concern that arises la." down-side but not the exemption ing against a person of color. with a male and female living togeth- She discovered that male profes- from the down-side." She told the audience members er is whether they '''are just Living sors were refusing to incorporate In 1986 Mclntosb published to try not to divest themselves of together or playing house", accord- women's perspectives into introduc- "White Privilege: Unpacking the White Privilege or to feel guilty ing to officials at colleges that offer tory courses. "They said, 'the syl- Invisible Knapsack:' an article that about it. "I think it's really stupid to coed rooming. Therefore, Haverford labus is full," she recalled. Her lists 26 everyday privileges that feel guilty about it. ... Get over it, but , and Swarthmore only allow groups exploration of gender inequality Whites experience.