Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 1995-1996 Student Newspapers 10-3-1995 College Voice Vol. 19 No. 5 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1995_1996 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "College Voice Vol. 19 No. 5" (1995). 1995-1996. 15. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1995_1996/15 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1995-1996 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. News: pp. 1-7. A&E: 8-9, 12-17 Sports: 18-20 Abraham Take a tour of Men's Soccer Verghese spoke in Stop & Shop. P beats Salve Dana Hall on 8. Regina. P. 19. Friday night. P. 3. A Connecticut College tradition since 1976 HE COLLEGE Volume XIX, Number 5 Ad Fontes October 3, 1995 Balloons, nostalgia, and praise kick off largest Capital Campaign in Conn history BY JENNIFER GREENFIELD and student activities. Ten mil- poem in honor of Matthews and TIle College Voice lion ?ollar~ will be put towards gave her strap-on angel's wings special prolects, The total for the for the job she had committed Friday afternoon the campus endowment will be 75 million herself to doing. "It is hard to was buzzing with people walk- dollars. There are four areas in say thank you and there is still ing around in suits and dresses the endowment: faculty support, so much work left to do at the with name tags stuck to their scholarships, program support same time," said Gaudiani. shirts. This could only mean one and the unrestricted endow- Gaudiani then went on to in- thing: homecoming. However, ment. FinaUy, 20 miHi.onwill be form the audience of the sad before the homecoming festivi- forcapital projects.Bsposrtoelso news that Joanne lOOI ties began, there was a dinner to Soo;l~L. that the campus win see Cummings. ctess of 1950 and launch the largest capital cam- changes come in mcrernenta. fanner trustee, recently passed paign in Connecticut Conege's SoDleoftheplansfortheDloney aJVay.Sheannounced that Toor history. include renovating residence Cummings left over 3.5 mutton According to Claire Gaudiani, halls, redesigning Hale Lsbore- dollars to Connecticut College. president ofthe college, this cam- tory and New London Hall, com- The college's Center for Interna- pletingtheTansiJ1BlackboxThe- tional Studies and the Liberal First Lieutenant Jeff Carpenter paign is taking place because Connecticut College "must be ater, updating the library and 'Arts(ClSLA)wiJ1nowbenamed classrooms, and maintaining after her. Toor Cummings' en- strong and endure." Five years and enhancing the Arboretum. dowment is a major reason why ago, the board of trustees and the communityworke(l together' Already having raised 62.5 the campaign's goal of 125 mil- Coast Guard million dollars, the campaign is lion dollars will be reached, to come up with a strategic plan. half way to its goal. However, Gaudiani also gave a It was designed to help the "We have a wonderful job great deal of credit to the trust- growth of Connecticut College ahead of us and we're going to ees who ensure large sums of for the future. Due to rising in- doit," id Claire Matthews, vice money each year toward the Academy.mourns flation and future improve- sa president for development. annual fund. The loyal and dedi- ments, the desired goal of the Fridaynight'sdinnermadethe cated alumni and parents were campaign was set at 125 million campaign official. also accredited during the dollars: This sounds like a huge The board oftrustees, parents, evening. Susan Eckert Lynch, chunk of money; however, in faculty members, students and the nationalchair of the board of loss of cadet comparison to competing many others came to the 1%2 trustees and a member of the schools, Connecticut College has was pronounced dead later that room to support and celebrate class of 1962, spoke in the room BY lENNY BARRON actually been underendowed in The CollegeVoice evening. the campaign. Three screens that was a gift from her class. the past. "Tonight we mourn the loss of were set up showing various She cited past gifts and urged The money will be placed into On Monday, a cadet collapsed a shipmate," said Captain pictures from the past. To start the audience to make newones. different areas. Twenty million during a Coast Guard Academy Patrick Stillman as he addressed the evening off, Chaplain Steve "Our college is strong. We owe dollars will go into the annual soccer practice and was later the cadet corps on Wednesday Sc;hmidtsaid a prayer aptly end- it to our leadership:' said Lynch. fund. According to Craig pronounced dead at Lawrence night. The evening was gray and ing with the campaign's theme, "You and I, today, [are] not wait- Esposito, director of planned and Memorial Hospital. Prelimi- misty as Carpenter's brother "Now is a time to lead." ing for others to setlhe example, and major gifts, this fund is the nary findings from the State Of- First Lieutenant [eff Carpenter, Gaudiani gave special thanks [we] are taking responsibility for most critical because it can be fice of the Chief Medical Exam- a Marine from North Carolina, to her colleague Claire Mat- the future of Connecticut Col- used immediately for such needs iner indicate that Third Class was presented with the memo- as salaries, electrici ,athletics, thews. Gaudiani even read a le e." Cadet Kevin Reid Carpenter rial flag. died of natural causes, specifi- "You became a surrogate fam- cally, ischemic cardio myopa thy ily," [eff Carpenter told the as- leading to a heart attack. sembled cadets. "When you're Carpenter, 19,collapsedon the three thousand miles away it's soccer field during a routine hard to get by without someone practice after gelling hit on the else to lean on, And Ijust wantto head by a soccer ball. But, this say, thank you so much." was determined not to be re- Cadet Carpenter, a California lated to Carpenter's death. The native, joined the Corps of Ca- cadet was having difficulty dets in 1994. He was the captain brea thing and Academy athletic of the junior varsity soccer team trainers were called to the scene and a management major. The to administer CPR. Fifteen min- cadet enjoyed singing and was utes after Carpenter collapsed, very active in the church, an ambulance rushed him to particuarly the choir and Officer Lawrence and Memorial Hospi- Christian Fellowship at the tal in New London, where he Academy. October 3. 1995 Page 2 On Call: Conn professor: ' An eyewitness account of ohnKing leaves a tragedy at the Coast Guard smoothest I've ever seen. ark just by living BY JASON SALTU Unfortunately, the best doc- Tht CoIkg< Vmu ton; and medical staff in the . eed H served on numer- help us meet death with grace, in n mittees spending hours He knew he lived with grace" world could not have saved that ouscomnu , id P , boys life. From the training staff . d in everything pos- sal roetor. BVYUNGKrM of lime 0 g Ki f ht ff hi f on the field all the way through . k this school better. ng oug 0 is llstcancer Fttltures Editor ~k~mae . 973b . until theend,all people involved "H . the kind of person every in 1 ,ut It returned this past "Here is a man most im- edlS . institution needs," year. He fought it again val- did everything possible. No one aca anuc I . .. could ask for more. perfect: full of great and said Bob Proctor, provost and iantly, but this time was not as All I could think about is that small passions, ambitious, f fortunate. He left gradually but dean 0f theaculty . ' unimaginable call to his parents. vain, thirsting for love, frag- He made a career of studying remained co~tantly upbeat de- It's the type of call you hope ile, jealous, difficult, rest- and teaching German, but he spite the.. painful treatment he never to receive in your lifetime.' less, excessive, without s nt his life as a wann indi- was receiving. I feel for his family, loved ones hold, now overbearing, pe Througheverythmghekeptit and friends. It's not easy to lose now miserable, naive and all in, and was able to stay the someone. It was hard enough overly refined, fleeing the same. "John worked for the stu- for me to watch a young boy world whileyetinlovewith dents as a friend, an advisor, that Ididn't know pass away. it, full of longing, weak, a and a guide. He was private, he The atmosphere at the hospi- blade in the wind, half clair- never complained, and he stayed tal was quiet, reserved and pen- voyant, half dumb and optimistic. He said that the doc- sive after he died. Everyone kept blind, a child, a fool, a poet, tors were cautiously optimistic to themselves, no doubt think- yet painfully entwined in so he said he might as well," ing about their loved ones. Even will and illusion, but en- said Mary Devins, associate di- the EMTs I was with said that it dowed with the one virtue rector of CISLA. was the youngest and hardest of being yours with all his When people think of John call they had ever taken. heart. " King, the words kind, humor- Television, movies and the -Letter by Thomas Mann ous, and giving keep being re- news have made us immune to to Pa ul Ehrenberg peated.