Qlvinitp VOL.XCVINO.6 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TRINITY COLLEGE SINCE 1904 OCTOBER 28,1997 Trustees Discuss Small Crowd, Big Sound..Rusted Root Plays Trinity Future Of Trinity residential and academic facili- BY PATRICK R. NOONAN ties, and connecting the campus News Writer to the surroundingcommunity. Phase I of the plan extends On Friday and Saturday, Oc- until 2002 and will cost ap- tober 17 and 18, the Board of proximately ninety million dol- Trustees of Trinity College con- lars. It contains several projects vened on campus to discuss a that will take place in the near variety of issues. During these future on campus. One of these meetings, the board made sev- is the creation of a ceremonial eral decisions critical to the entrance to the campus at the college's short and long term fu- corner of Vernon Street and ture. Among the numerous top- Broad Street as well as renova- ics of discussion were the tions to the landscaping of Ver- Master Plan, particularly reno- non Street itself. Other vations to the library and com- renovations to the campus will puting center, a new campus in include the addition of a cen- San Francisco, and plans for trally-located dormitory where Umoja House and the Learning Wiggins now stands, a new ad- Corridor. missions and administration building, and a new studio arts Master Plan building on New Britain Av- After a lengthy presentation enue . by Alex Cooper of Cooper Another of the major changes Rusted Root played to a crowd of about 300 Trinity community members ALEX CUKOR Robertson, the board passed a to the campus are the renova- on Sunday. While TCAC was disappointed by the turnout, the students who motion accepting the campus tions that will move the com- did attend had good things to say about the band. master plan, provided that the puting facilities from MCEC to board oversees all individual the Library. Professor Drew projects as they arise. This plan Hyland, in a statement to the outlines changes to the campus Trustees stated that "it is now Blackout Disrupts The Campus year 2020. Major goal )!'n ffie morning, when tried their best to cope with the complished through this blend of traditional library re- BY OWEN TRIPP the problem had been tempo- lack of electricity. To provide agenda include creating a clear sources and newer, computer News Writer rarily solved, the crew switched light for reading on Wednesday entrance to Trinity, renovating see PLAN on page six the power back on. Almost im- night, people lit candles while At 3:00 in the morning on mediately, one of the remaining others lit small jars of rubbing Wednesday October 22, a mas- transformers overloaded and alcohol to provide heat and Papon Witness sive power surge swept through sent the surge. Electrical fore- light. South Campus, ruining thou- man John Cordone instructed On Wednesday night, the sands of dollars worth of equip- that the power be shut back off. temperatures were near freez- Talks About Vichy ment. Power was not fully At 7:00 that morning, ing and there was absolutely no Nazi crimes against humanity. restored until 12:00 am the fol- Cordone and plant engineer heat in the buildings. BY TIMOTHY SLOTOVER Papon is accused of sending lowing morning when two new Ezra Brown began to search for If the crews couldn't have re- News Editor 1,560 Jews to their deaths at transformers were installed. replacement transformers. stored power by twelve "the Auschwitz. The surge was the result of a They ended up finding two in school would have had to chain of events starting earlier The lecture explained the the stock of Northeastern Utili- evacuate the dorms," according As the trial of Vichy official that night. ties. Maurice Papon was beginning situation in France during the to Sarah Neill, Assistant Dean of in Bordeaux, France, Columbia German occupation of World On Tuesday night at approxi- When the transformers ar- Residen tial Life. "The worst case University Professor and Vichy War Two. "France was the only mately 7:00 pm, the residents of rived, Connecticut Cable Com- scenario," continued Neill, pany engineers worked "would have meant setting up expert Robert Paxton ad- country defeated by Germany the South Campus lost power due to a failure of one of the diligently to install the trans- cots in the Field House." dressed Trinity students, fac- that was allowed to negotiate three transformers in the elec- formers and power was re- ulty, and members of the an armistice," explained Pro- In desperation, the school trical bank located below the turned shortly after midnight community last week in a lec- fessor Paxton, "they had their opened additional facilities to own nominally sovereign gov- Gallows's Hill Bookstore. John on Thursday, almost thirty offset the lack of computer ture entitled Revisiting a Pain- hourssince the first disruption. ernment that was in Vichy. It Cordone, the school's electrical spaces in MCEC. Rooms in ful France: Vichy France 1940- foreman alerted the Connecti- would be as if we [the United In the wake of the surge, Mather, LSC, Seabury, Clemens 1944. cut Cable Company who dis- States] were defeated and our Cordone and outside crews and MCEC were opened for stu- Professor Paxton, who is patched a crew from their base government had to move from worked to fix the multitude of dent use. Pizza and other snacks about to publish his latest book in Waterbury. electrical difficulties in the were supplied in Mather until entitled Vichy France: Old Washington to Saratoga Realizing that the situation dorms. 3:00 am. Guard andNewOrder, which Springs." Paxton explained could not be completely solved By the time the problem had Outside, Campus Safety pa- details the extent of French that while the French had to until Trinity could install two been fully solved by Friday trol cars used theirs headlights complicity with the Nazis, is coexist with the Germans, new generators, the crews tried morning, Cordone had slept a to illuminate the dangerously due to testify this week at the they were permitted to decide upon their own internal ad- to rewire the remaining two mere five hours since the explo- dark paths toand from the Aca- war crimes trial of Maurice transformers so that the heat sion of the transformer on Tues- demic Quad, The lack of Papon, the highest-ranking ministration. "Vichy France set out to re- pumps in the dorms would still day evening. heat and light was the least of French official ever to be function. inside the dorms, students see FAILURES on page six charged with complicity in see VTCHY on page nine INSIDE THIS WEEK News ,. 6 Don't know what Field Hockey's Opinion 2 More complaints to be for Hallow- undefefeated. Features 11 about, Hudson een? Check out Bantams face Arts 18 Street. See how resi- the costume ideas Keene State and Announcements 16 dents feel on 2 on 14 Amherst at home Sports..... 20 this week 24 PAGE 2 OPINION THE TRINITY TRIPOD - OCTOBER 28, 1997 Trinty's Blunder Yes, Rape Does Happen at Trinity On Hudson Street This past week was celebrated as "A Week Without Violence." Women and men gathered To the Editor: rarely adhered to — when I was in downtoMi Hartford for a vigil to recognize victims of domestic violence. Rape aware- The students who transferred placed on Hudson Street I was ness programs were held on college campuses across the country. Despite the national at- to Trinity College this year were instantly cut off from Trinity. I tention, little was done on Trinity's campus to help students become more aware of just not made to feel welcome by the am even kept up late by the how prevalent violence towards women is. school community. The admin- noises of a city hospital, includ- Rape is one of the scariest and most traumatic experiences a woman can go through. istrators did not put forth the ing sirens and a helicopter Further, the most common type of rape, date rape, takes place most often on college cam- necessary amount of effort in which continually takes off puses. So why is it that so little is said here, at Trinity, about this type of violence? The making us feel comfortable and lands 250 yards form my Sexual Assault counselors can attest that it is not a lack of incidents that keep people from and/or prepared for Trinity life. window! AH of this has made talking. This fact was made clear to me for quite an unpleasant wel- come into your community. Many women call the counselors to discuss experiences they have had with sexual as- when I found myself, and all sault, but do not officially report the incidents. Some fear they were not really raped be- other transfers, living in the "What else could the school residence hall at 560 Hudson cause alcohol was involved. Others are afraid they somehow caused the rape and therefore do?" many have asked, to which Street against my will. How I respond: a lot! First of all, the cannot press charges. It is often fear of exposure or humiliation which prevents women could the school expect us to school needs to understand that from coming forward. Whatever the reason, there is not enough education on this campus integrate ourselves into Trinity new students are the last ones to inform women of their options. Without information, it is not surprising that women do life when we were isolated as who should be subjected to the not feel comfortable telling authorities about their experiences.