King of Clu bs The Pugh Center has become the source of deba te on club f unding, privileges By DREW BUSH low as four students. STAFF WRITER One club, for example, that has come under question is the Four Winds, which is Over the years since its construction, the devoted to expanding understanding on Pugh Center has become known as the Eitz campus about Native American cultural Carleton of club offices. Clubs that receive diversity, history, and contemporary issues. looms in the Pugh Center find themselves The club has been criticized because some in well-furnished offices that come with a students feel that last year it was relatively phone and computer. inactive. This year, the dub is not even According to Student Government funded by SGA. Yet, no other dubs were Treasurer Rob Painter '01, many other clubs ever moved into its office space. have to pay a monthly fee to have a phone However, Jeffrey Anderson, Assistant in their office and do not have computers Professor of Anthropology and advisor to provided for them. In addition, Pugh Four Winds reports that this year there are Center clubs are located squarely in the 10 students involved with the dub and they center of campus while most other offices have "already helped to sponsor two major are located in dorms. Many student leaders ECHO FILE PHOTO ECHO FILE PHOTO REBECCA SOLOMON speakers, Charlene Teters and L.J. Foley." question this inequity between how clubs "The myth about Four Winds inactivity in the Pugh Center are treated compared to from last year was based only on the fact other clubs. that the officers were remiss in reporting "I think it is a problem," said Painter. their activities as required at the end of the "By default of being a club in the Pugh year," he said. Center you get all this great stuff while In addition, Anderson continued that he dubs located in other places have a hard supposes "the counter-argument would be time getting the proper resources." that more students would be served by Clubs are funded in accordance with reallocating the Pugh Center office current- how many activities or programs they ly assigned to Four Winds." sponsored in the preceding year. However, "On the basis of the prindpal of utility, this equality of funding doesn't change the or what serves the good of the greatest fact that clubs located within the Pugh number, American Indian lands were Center have an inherent advantage in terms taken, Africans were enslaved, and other of resources and location. minorities have had their humanity set aside," he said. For example, according to Painter, per- "provide a hub and a common ground for "We don't delibera tely intend to give our office because this is only our second "It is really a bad prindpal forming arts dub Powder and Wig has had activities that promote understanding in an more support to certain clubs," said SGA year," said Mark Paustenbach '01, editor of when it services only to numbers." trouble attaining the computer it requested. inc reasingly diverse community." President Benjamin Humphreys '00. the Political Affairs Reader. " So it 's difficult According to Humphreys, the fact "If some clubs have the ability to have In addition, the Pugh Center was While Painter added that he doesn't feel to pay just the costs of printing and running remains that there are clubs that are still rel- free access to a phone and computer, I think designed to hold spaces specifically for the that other clubs should be simply moved our magazine." ativ ely inactive. Naturally, this criticism all clubs should," said Powder and Wig Asian American Student Association, Asian into the Pugh Center, because it would take Recently, the Pugh Center has also come begs the question of whether these inactive Vice President Jordan Raphael '02. "We Cultural Soriety, Hillel, The Bridge, Colby tlie center a step away from its goals, he under criticism because some of the clubs clubs should have their placement in the h Center reconsidered, never really had an office and I'm glad that Christian Fellowhip, Colby International feels other clubs have the right to phones have not been very active. According to Pug The situation we got one this year." Club, Muslim. Group, Newman Council, and computers paid for by the college. In Humphreys, many of the clubs located in becomes even more complicated when it is Part of the explanation for this inequali- Students Organized Against Racism, addition , he has tried to make sure that all the Pugh Center do a good job organizing also taken into consideration that there are ty has to do with the mission of the Pugh SOBHU, the Woman's Group, and Student clubs wanting an office space have one this activities related to multicultural under- many,more active dubs. Center since its inception. Lisa Plume Government Association. Two additional year. standing; however, there are some clubs "My main point is that I want the CVC Hallen, Director of Student Activities, vacant offices were filled by Amnesty "If s hard for us to afford the hone in that don't do such a good job. He cited, for p See CLUBS, continued on page-4 explained that the Pugh Center was built to International and Four Winds. example, clubs that have a membership as Journalists to lead panel Friday COLBY GETS SCREWED SATURDAY By JON SILBERSTEIN-LOEB p.m., William. Raspberry, a Pulitzer sion who continues the Lovejoy her- ASST. NEWS EDITOR Prize winning columnist will be itage of fearlessness and freedom. awarded the 47th Lovejoy award for The recipient of the award is to As part of the daylong activities journalism. The convocation will be be a member of the journalism com- leading up to Colby's annual held in Lorimer Chapel. munity who has, in the opinion of Lovejoy Convocation, leading The Lovejoy award is named the judges, contributed to the newspaper editors from around the after Elijah Parish Lovejoy, who nation's journalistic achievement. country will convene Friday after- graduated from Colby in 1826. The selection committee reviews the noon to discuss "The Fourth Estate Lovejoy, an abolitionist, was the edi- integrity, craftsmanship, character, in the Third Millennium: Politics tor of several publications who used intelligence and courage of the and the Future of the News Media." his paper to criticize the institution nominees to make a decision. Last The panel includes distinguished of slavery. year, the award was given to Ellen members of the Lovejoy selection Despite constant attacks from Goodman, columnist and associate committee—William Hilliard, for- slave owners, Lovejoy continued to editor of The Boston Globe. mer executive editor of The publish anti-slavery editorials. Tlie award serves to honor the Oregonian; Ann Marie Lipinski of "I cannot surrender my princi- memory of Elijah Parish Lovejoy, to the Chicago Tribune; Rena Pederson ples, though the whole world would reinforce the values Lovejoy prac- of the Dallas Morning News; and vote them down," the abolitionist ticed and "to promote a sense of Matthew V. Storin, of The Boston wrote in a famous editorial. "I can mutual responsibility and coopera- Globe. make no compromise between truth tion between a journalistic world "It's a wonderful tradition that and error, even though my life be devoted to freedom of the press and enables us to bring some of the real the alternative." a liberal arts college devoted to aca- leaders in the press to Colby and get On the night of Nov. 7, 1837, a demic freedom." a marvelous address at the same mob attacked his newspaper office, Missing from this year's convo- time," said Colby President William set fire to the building, and killed cation will be Bill Kovach, chair of R, Cotter, a former officio member Lovejoy. He was buried America's the Nieman Foundation at Harvard of the committee. first martyr to freedom of the press. University and a member of the mvilt 1 |iU IM\/ 1JM Tlie event will be held at 1:15 The Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award selection committee for eight year lllb VL^ UUl JW p.m. in the Robins Room in Roberts of Colby, established in 1952, honors and Jane Healy, managing editor of Dancers at the annual Screw 'Hour Roommate gala cut a ntg in their semi-formal finery. Union. Later in the evening, at 8 a member of the newspaper profes- the Orlando Sentinel. ¦_^__^__^._KOTiT irB5lTiETf tT5^i_^i_^BHumphreys discusses stance on multicultural committees ¦ ¦ Humphreys, In an effort to remind students said Humphreys. I KEG-A-RATO R: Hy ^ ~] SGA President gives In the on-nir interview with that other multicultural issues were Humphreys' main message radio in terviewto "Nocturnal Emissions" DJs Daniel being overlooked, Humphreys pro- addressed tlie need to take proactive Read the story*/ of the ¦__^__ ^^^T^__HP ¦ t< , _^_^_Hir v_H__^__^l Morris '00, and Bil Snnford '00, posed a plan for the MAC with an i^- measures on multiculturalism rather Senior Apartments' _^H __¦ explain veto and new Humphreys explained the origins of interlocking committee component H__ the debate over the committees. structure of six additional commit- than reactive ones. _^__H'#'^ H!' __H ' ' newest resident. __^_a_^__^_kH' proposal According to Humphreys, tees, SGA, he said, needs to find See page 2. President William R, Cotter gave a In his interview Humphreys "proactive ways in which we can' _^H_^_^_H_H_^^< recommendation in a memo in the posited the benefits of such a struc- -^-^-^ ¦_i^-^-^-^-^-^--B_^-^-^-i_lnr_^-^ ' ' > V^' make students of every background ; ' ' ture, He claimed that the current pro- By MEGHANN FOYE spring of 1999 to form a standing feel comfortable" • NEWS EDITOR committee on multicultural issues, posol overlooks other Issues of mul- but no such committee was formed.