Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 2002-2003 Student Newspapers 4-25-2003 College Voice Vol. 26 No. 20 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_2002_2003 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "College Voice Vol. 26 No. 20" (2003). 2002-2003. 10. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_2002_2003/10 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 2002-2003 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. First Class U.S. Postage PAID Permit #35 New London, cr- f !UBUSHED WEEKLY BY THE STUDENTS OF CONNECfICUT COLLEGE III VOLUMEXXVI • NU'MB'nn 20 'I ~.~ ... "" "",:==================:/\:IJIL:'Il::"=Y,:AP.:IJIL~L 2.;'5,;,' 2.00.!j;;.. ~----- ... ------~C:O:'!IN.:'E:cr.~1:CUT~C:O:WJ::GE:,~N.:'EW;:,:LO:N.:'DQ::'!I,~(Jf:. INSIDE: Concerned Students Finalize Diversity Action Plan NEWS BY JAMIE ROGE" NEWS EDITOR Spring Preview, Eclipse and Concerned students and the ad hoc committee on Explore offer unique perspectives leadership and communication finalized the List of to different people. Demands, now called "Our Action Plan," last week, The new document is more extensive and well defined than it predecessor, which was written in wake of the racist incidents that occurred earlier this year. "The essence of the original list is there," said Elli Nagai-Rothe, Chair of Multicultural Affairs for the SGA and a member of the ad hoc committee, "but a lot of us felt that the list needed to be revised and revisit- ed," The major difference between the original list and the new plan is the presentation of the demands. Conn students and New London residents marched along Route 32 Saturday blocking traffic until thepolice forced them onto the sidewalk (WardweO). According to Nagai-Rothe "we said: This is the need, A&E this is why this is a need, and these are specific sug- gestions for how it would be accomplished." Floralia fun awaits one and all in War Protest Halts 32 Traffic The Action Plan now contains suggestions to revise our extra-special pages 3 & 10! the mission statement, creation of a new office of diver- sity and multiculturalism, mandatory diversity work- {nCOLOR! By JAMIE ROGE as war. In a leaflet that he distributed during cational than reactionary. "It was not only shops for faculty, staff and student leaders, increased NEWS EDITOR the protest he urged business leaders and symbolic, but informative." involvement and support of multicultural events, mofe A small band of students and local resi- members of the community to take to the Kepple and around 10 other individuals faculty and staff of color, in particular in the area of dents blocked southbound traffic on Route streets. "When democracy had failed us in planned the protest the week before, each counseling services, increased security and bias inci- 32 for a short while on Saturday April 19 in our government," read the leaflet, "we must with their own agenda but all in opposition dent prevention, as well as amendments to the Honor protest of further military action in lraq. take democracy to the streets." to the war. On Tuesday they demonstrated Code and C-Book, incorporating diversity and multi- The protest began on Harkness Green, In addition to active protest, Kepple and in front of the office of Robert Simmons culturalism. There is also a proposal to make where the College was having its annual co-editor Derek Olsen founded Scope last (R), Congressman for the district. February's Community Building Day, which halted all Earth Day celebration. November, a free news publication that is "It was a collaboration of individuals," campus activities, an annual event. The demonstration was part of "a mass distributed to local libraries and bookstores. said Cassy Waters 'OS, one of the protesters. The revisions were a product of months of work n~nviolent civil disobedience" antiwar Copies are available in the Student Center "There were a lot of different reasons for from the team of eight concerned students. They con- SPORTS campaign led by Chris Kepple, founder and at Crozier Williams. people [to come] out ... Everyone incorpo- ducted interviews and consulted various constituencies editor of Scope magazine. Kepple saw Earth Day as a perfect rated their own message." On the signs on campus to determine the feasibility of the different The women's Lacrosse team hits 'Tin tired of uncivil obedience," said forum for the anti-war protest. "1 saw the were slogans such as "one nation under the actions. "Everyone worked on it," said Julie Chyten- a rough patch while the men con- Kepple, who hoped to further what he day as 'Scorched Earth Day,''' he said and bomb," and "fighting for peace is like Brennan '05, who spearheaded the group and drafted tinue to thrive called "Direct Action" in response to the hoped that the protest would be more edu- continued on page 5 SGAApproves Honor Code Revisions BY JAMIE ROGERS -. a right that was formerly confined to "answer questions about any of the NEWS EDITOR the classroom. .judicial process from the standpoint There was also the addition of of the Complainant or the In a nearly unanimous decision -the right to fair practice in discipli- Respondent." the 'Student Government Association nary matters which ensures that The task force hoped that there informally voted in support of major adjudicated students "will be provid- would be one JPO of each sex, "to revisions of the honor code and ed with full and fair notice of the increase the general comfort level" adjudication process presented by alleged violations and an opportuni- of students seeking advice. Unlike the Judicial Task Force. The changes ty to be heard." the Judiciary Board Chair, or class included six addendums to the stu- Many of the Student representatives, the JPOs will have dent Bill of Rights, a new clause in Responsibilities remain unchanged, "no involvement in the adjudication the Student Code of Conduct per- except for the sections on assault, of any cases," thus enabling them to taining to hate and bias incidents and stalking and "dangerous and serve the general public without clearing up vagaries embedded in unhealthy conditions." "Basically its jeopardizing the integrity of the judi- the-Honor Code. In addition, the task much better defined than previous- cial process. Like J-Board members force proposed creating a new posi- ly;' said Adam Benzing '03, a mem- the JPOs will be committed to a pol- ) ,tiQp., the Judicial Process ber of the task force. icy of strict confidentiality. Oinbudsperson, and including facul- The greatest change, however, Another recommendation made tY.and staff into the quorum of the was the addition and clarification of by the task force was to include two Judicial Board. a student's responsibility to report members of the faculty and two The Bill of Rights, which was incidents of hate and bias. This members of the staff. to sit as voting written in the 1970s, formerly con- change was in response to a list of members on the J-Board, which is tained five major clauses; it will now demands issued by irate students in currently made up entirely of stu- contain as many as twelve. The new February after the campus endured dents. Under the revised policy one student rights will include the right multiple acts of racist graffiti and faculty and one staff member must of individual expression, academic vandalism. be present in hearings for a quorum. pursuit, non-discrimination and The task force also overhauled "This stems from [the] commitment Mob Segrest, Professor of English, and EUi Nagai-Rothe '03, Chair ofMulticulturaJAffairs, discussed white1uJss in a tea;;h-tn Friday (P(J(;e). access to college documents, the the adjudication process, recom- to shared governance," remarked right to a safe environment, as well mending that two Judicial Process as the right to exercise their beliefs, Ombudspersons be appointed to continued on page 5 Professors Grapple with Whiteness est in continuing the conversations BY }ORANNAII ELACKMAN professors who were to lead the teach-in sat at a long table ran paral- that drew her to the teach-in. YATElection Leads to Unexpected Runoff SWFWRlTER lel to the,windows and each issued a Professor Segrest then gave 'her BY JAMIE ROGE as On Friday, April 11, a group of brief statement on the issue of white- statement on whiteness and race in a about 35 brave students, faculty, and ness. These professors were Mab question and response format. She NEWS EDITOR staff coped with the torrential down- Segrest, the acting chair of the traced the question of race back to A little after midnight on Saturday April 12, pour that was gracing the Department of Gender and Woman's the basic theories that were used to Yevgeniy Tsifrinovich '03 walked out of Cro as this Connecticut College campus to Studies, Kamau Birago of the justify discriminatory practices, year's new Young Alumni Trustee (YAT), the Senior attend the first of two teach-ins to be Sociology department, and pointing out that the many different class representative to the Board of Trustees. held on consecutive Fridays. These Professor of English and Writer in accounts of number of distinct races Four days later however, Kurt Brown '03, President teach-ins were scheduled as a Residence Blanche Boyd. Three stu- there actually are demonstrates the of the SGA, realized that there had been a mistake; the response to the Day of Community dents joined these professors: junior nature of race as a social construc- YAT elections were not over yet.