Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 2010-2011 Student Newspapers 11-15-2010 College Voice Vol. 35 No. 8 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_2010_2011 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "College Voice Vol. 35 No. 8" (2010). 2010-2011. 12. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_2010_2011/12 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 2010-2011 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. Dancers perform at this weekends Fusion: Asian Cultures Exposed,fivm the Connecticut College Asian Students Association. Riding High on the Trestle Meet the cast and crew of Conn's upcoming intimate mainstage play KIEFER ROBERTS The cast is comprised of Ben with a smaller cast, fewer cos- Zacharia '13, Emily Lake 'll, STAFF WRITER tumes and changes, and a much Logan Keeler 'll, Kristin Kerr simpler set. After Our Town ear- 'll and Ben Yahle "l'l , In addi- Last week, while being shocked lier this semester, the same can President Higdon steps out in Freeman on Saturday night. into the slushy-white realization tion, there's director Nancy Hoff- be said of Trestle; with a cast of that winter ·is definitely upon us, man of the Theater Department, five consistent characters and a eight individuals were bracing stage manager Mikey Harris '11 setting as bleak as the description themselves for their last week of and student lighting designer "generic town" can describe, the rehearsal before tech week. In ad- Andy Smith ' 11. Trestle is being play makes sense all the while Digital Signage dition to the stress of midterms produced so quickly due to the maintaining incredibly interest- and the dreaded tests, papers and way that the arts calendar falls ing characters and situations. presentations that come too soon this year. Since the Performing The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek SGAproposes a new way to access after midterms, these individuals Arts departments share many of is a play written by Naomi Wal- have bad the added pressure of the same resources, the calendar lace, and is set in the U.S. in 1936 campus information intensely-focused rehearsals from year is broken down to best ac- in the midst of the Great Depres- 6:30 to 10:30 Monday through commodate all shows and itjust sion. The play follows the lives NORA SWENSON garding the term frequently used Thursday. Think your month has so happened that this year, three and actions of Pace and Dalton, STAFPWRITER to characterize Conn students. been exhausting? Try putting up weeks was all the calendar had to two teenagers engaged in the not- Rather, he believes that in most SGA President Nathan Cornell offer. so-typical angst of growing up cases, it's a lack of awareness a contextually complex, main- '11 is spearheading a proposal stage play in just three weeks. As some will recall from last while dealing with death, loneli- and ineffective distribution of in- for digital signage on campus, year, after putting up a spectacle ness and tragedy, and struggling formation that leads to poorly at- Ladies and Gentlemen, meet along with the support of a Stu- the size and effort (costumes, 'set to find excitement and existential tended events on campus. the cast and crew of The Tres- dent Government Association- design, lighting, energy, etc.) of meaning in a time of greater dif- Cornell proposed that by tle at Pope Lick Creek, Conn's run digital signage task force that Mainstage show premiering this The Tempest, the theater depart- ficulty. streamlining the information in ment opted to follow up with includes Class of 20 II President a captivating way, community Thursday evening. Annie Match, Lambdin Senator the play Doubt, a change of pace CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 awareness and engagement would Breanne Timura '12,and Hark- inevitably increase. Currently, OPINION ness Senator William Hardy' 14. clubs and events utilize plenty of Cornell presented the issue at forms of media to get the word last Thursday's SGA meeting out: the internet (e-rnails, Face- A Letter to the Disappointed Democrats in Ernst Common Room, with book events), physical signage a PowerPoint presentation fol- (posters or slips of paper disttib- SHANNON KEATING Cave, entitled "Generation 0 lowed by questions. bone of the movement, carrying uted to mailboxes), and word of CONTRIBUTOR Faults Obama for Lack of Con- trays of appetizers for Demo- "Digital signage" is the industry mouth. Despite these attempts, tact: Young voters say they feel cratic conventions, manning the term for any use of digital display My Halloween this year start- it's not guaranteed that students abandoned." phones at campaign offices and technology, primarily of LCD, ed on a sour note, and I blame will show up to any of the events Of course we all remember hanging voter reminders on door- Plasma and LED materials, com- the New York Times. Mini po- hosted in a given week. 2008, back when politics were knobs at 5 AM on that historical municates information to with an tato pancakes at Harris were not A recent survey sent out over cool. President Obama was elect- November morning. We were audience. Though "interactive" enough to assuage the dissatis- e-mail asked students to respond ed into office with 66 percent passionate, we were devoted and signs that permit the use of touch faction curdling in my stomach to a few questions about aware- of the eighteen-to-twenty-nine- we were hopeful. screen, barcode scanning, card regarding an article by Damien ness levels of events on campus, year-old vote. We were the back- CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 swiping and other input devices and whether or not digital signage exist, if digital signage is imple- could improve the current situa- mented at Connecticut College, tion. Of the approximate 400 who it will be of the "non-interactive" responded, 14% felt they were variety, with the primary task of informed of events, while 74% breaking through what Cornell felt somewhat informed, and the suggested to be information over- remaining 12% felt uninformed. load, and engaging an audience in Anonymous comments for the the Connecticut College commu- survey indicated that many stu- nity at large. dents were inundated with too Cornell discussed the Student many e-mails to be able to realis- Government Association's "Is- tically read them all. sues Project" for the 2010-2011 Students said they typi- school year, listing proposed cally refer to posters, the Daily tasks such as inspiring a more ac- CONNtact, Facebook and SGA tive student body, fostering stron- on the Can for information, each ger relationships between faculty, category with 24%, 24%, 23% administration and students and and 22%, respectively. A mere 6% "'- strengthening SGNs role and im- ANDREW NATHANSON I CONTRtBUTOR go to CamelWeb in their quest for age on campus. He elaborated on campus events and only I% ad- Art students take on an eight hour long drawing marathon in Cummings on Saturday. For more the issue of inspiring a more ac- photos of the event, visit thecollegevoice.org mitted to using CollegiateLink for tive student body. "Apathy isn't a the purpose. word I like to hear," he said, re- CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 IN THIS ISSUE NEWS OPINIONS ARTS SPORTS 1-':;~ -, _ ,(:; -"A -...,J5':-F' • Taking the "Huh?" Representing the Garden State' page 6 Last Five Years' page 10 • Out of lVriting Prompts' page 3 'j! Fall Athlete Profiles. page 12 ..• 2----------------- THE COLLEGE VOla EDITORIALS/LETTERS NOVEMBER 15. 2010 contact@thecolle evoice.or THE COLLEGE VOICE Editorial "The views and opinions expressed in The College Voice, as in all student publications, are strictly those of the student authors, and not Last spring I took an Advanced Essay Writing class with eigl of Connecticut College. All content and editorial decisions remain students and Professor John Gordon. Each week, we were asker to write one nonfiction essay and edit three of our peers'. The in the hands of the students; neither the College's administration nor audience was c1ear-Gordon and my classmates-and the es- its faculty exercise control over the content." says were open-ended: memoir, argument, review, et cetera Our writing was read in class. forcing us to face each wore EDITOR·IN·CHlEF choice in public after handing it in. We strove to improve and t( Lilah Raptopoulos impress each other. It was a consuming, self-exposing class that mad- me a better writer. MANAGING EDITOR One day toward the end of the semester, classmate Jazmine Hughe John Sherman called across the table, "Beardface! Will you have us over for dinner?" H looked at us, mystified, as our eyes widened. Ifwe'd had tails, they would EDITORIAL BOARD have wagged. So he agreed, and invited us to his house in Mystic the next week. We drove up in two cars and saw him leaning on the doorframe of his gingerbread house. He gave us News Editors Sports Editors a tour of the first floor, warmly lit and smelling delicious. His wife was in the kitchen among shelves of Jazmine Hughes Nick Woolf spices and jars, moving casserole dishes from the oven to the counter- •• ~ Meredith Boyle Mike Flint top. The floorboards creaked. The boys ducked their ~ heads to enter rooms. Professor Gordon showed us his office, a small shed in the backyard, filled floor-to- A+E Editors Opinions Editor ceiling with books, where he spent evenings writing Racine Oxtoby JohnDodig his Dickens manuscript.