VOL.XC NO. 6 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TRINITY COLLEGE SINCE 1904 OCTOBER 29,1991 They Did It Will We? Colby Professor Reveals Complicated Nature Of Fraternity And Sorority Abolition which was formed to discuss educational con- • BY JANE M. REYNOLDS cerns. At the group's final scheduled meeting, News Editor each member was asked to make three sugges- On Tuesday, October 29, a meeting of the tions regarding what could be changed about Faculty Committee on Fraternities and Sororities Colby to improve the academic atmosphere. was held. This is the committee whose charge is Every member of the committee suggested stated as seeking to abolish fraternities at Trinity. some alteration of the fraternity system, which The guest speaker at the meeting was Calvin then sparked a broader discussion of the issue. MacKenzie, a Professor of Political Science at After a further year of discussion and Colby College. observation, a resolution was presented to the Prof. MacKenzie was invited to speak in hew president of Colby College, Bill Cotter. front of the Committee members as well as other The writers of the resolution called for some faculty and administrators. The meeting was significant changes in the fraternity system, closed to students with the exception of repre- with abolition as one of the suggestions. sentatives of SGA, IFC, The Tripod, and The Ob- President Cotter's private response to server. the faculty resolution was "Do Ineed this Prof. MacKenzie spoke on Colby's experi- now?" according to Prof. MacKenzie. His ence with eliminating fraternities. In January of public response was to create a set of guide- 1984, the Board of Trustees of Colby College lines for the Greeks. Standards were set on the voted unanimously to abolish them. The move- physical condition of the houses, which were ment to get rid of fraternities was started by a located in the center of the campus, general group of faculty members, one of whom was behavior, hazing, and GPA's. Trinity's ConnPIRG used the quad the Tuesday before SUZANNE FALLENDER Prof. MacKenzie. Eighteen months later the trustees asked Reading Week to demonstrate the number of toxic Prof. MacKenzie was the president of his the Dean of Students for a report on the com- waste dumps in Connecticut; See story on page 6. fraternity as well as the IFC when a student at pliance to these standards. The report of the Trustees decided that careful scru- all ramifications." Bowdoin College. Up until 1982, he was the Deanwas200 pages of memorandurnbetween tiny of the fraternity sytem was In January of 1984, a report faculty advisor to a fraternity at Colby. Prof. the Dean of Students Office and the Fraterni- necessary. Another year was spent was made to the Trustees which Mackenzie became a member of a group of junior ties. According to Prof. MacKenzie,, reading lookingatthesystem,otherschools recommended the abolition of faculty members called the "Teaching Group" the report "made one sick." The Board of were visited, and they "looked at please turn to page 6 Marimow '69 To Lecture Friday ffl The sparsely attended Alco- hol Awareness Week functions U BY PETER M. FRIEDMAN pointed to a lack of student con- Associate Editor About the writers: cern on the Trinity Campus. Jonathan Neumann, 27, and WilUnm K. Marimow, 29. both aie Some people, however, are con- Ufa rs in the City Hall Tjuraau. reporters in the City Hall Tjuraau. Neumannann, from New York City, is On Friday, November 1, The Trin- a BraJuuaU off CitCity CollagCll e of NeN w vinced the week's message was ity Tripod will bring one of the most York. Ho joined Tlia Inquirer in not in vain. Page 5. Also, the distinguished Bantam alumni to speak grand prize in tha 1076 Charles son of a ditch on the Mather/ Stewart Mutt Awarda Competition in Hamlin Hall. William K. Marimow of the Education Writer* Afwocta- tion. Marimow was bora in Phila- AustinArts Quad indicates that delphia, new up In Havertowu and '69, a two time Pulitzer Prize winner for The homicide files graduated from Trinity College in Connecticut before joining Tho In- the College's 70-year-old heat- his investigative reporting, will give a A four-part series quirer in 1972. Kia amfoui au[gn. menta were In buainesn new* and ing system is once again on the published April 24-27,1977 William K-Mnrimow the lb bt lecture at the College. fritz See News, PageS Bill Marimow, who is familiar to readers of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, currently serves as a special assistant to the publisher of the Inquirer. In addition to his Pulitzer Prizes, Mr. Mfa f ftila&eljrto Sgjln this issue: the first install- t' (mm 71M lu^uirir at April IMif. 3, \9U Marimow has also won awards from the ment of The Showdown at the American Bar Association, the Robert F. W&N Corral, a weekly debate Kennedy Foundation and the Trinity forum. This week William College Alumni Achievement Award. The K-9 cases Breckenfeld and Brendan At Trinity Mr. Marimow was an How some police dogs — and their handlers — attacked Campbell discuss the issue of English major, a lacrosse player and a and severely injured unarmed citizens in Philadelphia Gun Control. Page 10. Look member of of Phi Kappa Psi. for words to live by from Eli He did not get his break into the Lake on page 9. Also/we just journalism field until after he had grad u- In 1977, William K. Marimow '69 and his partner Jonathan Neumann unearthed a scandal that rocked Philadelphia and launched them toward a couldn't ignore the Thomas ated and got a job with the Philadelphia hearings SeeW&N,Pagell Evening Bulletin in the fall after his gradu- Pulitzer Prize (top). His second prize came in 1985 for his series on the K- 9 Unit of the Philadelphia Police Department (bottom). Mr. Marimow will ation. Even thoughhis Trinity education speak in Hamlin Hall this Friday in a lecture sponsored by The Tripod. didn't include anything having to do with journalism, Mr. Marimow said that career, as an integral part of his educa- taking over the President's office. The iffil Women's Field Hockey fin- campus was radically anti-Vietnam,, and what he learned at the College has given tion. ished an amazing regular sea- him a solid background in his field. According to Mr. Marimow the there were a host of peace protests." He sonatl2-l. Men's Soccer surged "The real value of my Trinity edu- years that he spent at Trinity were turbu- added that students also put pressure on cation was not so much facts, but rather lent ones. "When I first got here in 1965 the administration to start actively re- in its past four games, improv- the critical thinking and writing skills the students were really quiescent. The cruiting minority students.'" By the time ing its record to 7-3-1 in its quest thatlobtainedhavebeeninvaluable." In atmosphere was akin to the sleepy Fifties that I left Trinity the student body was for its ECAC playoff particular Mr. Marimow cited a course and the Eisenhower era," he said. " By more activist. People were a lot more berth See Sports, Page 20 that he took withProfessor Hugh•Ogden, 1967 you could really tell that the school skeptical than they were when I first got who was then just starting his Trinity was a different place. Students were please turn to page 5 Page 2»THE TRINITY TRIPOD*October 29,1991 OPINION What Have We Learned? Avoid Future Ethnic Slurs To the Editor: dom of speech does not mean that on Ugly ethnic stereotypes are not, must publish every piece of thoughtless, ow that the national charade of the Thomas hearings are over, appropriate subjects for humor, but only tasteless twaddle that comes down the and Judge Clarence Thomas is now, for better or worse, serve to perpetuate bigoted and unthink- pike. ______ Associate Justice Clarence Thomas the 105th man to sit on the ing points of view. "VinnieScorlioneFor Sincerely, upreme Court (out of 106 justices) perhaps we can examine what the President.. .OrElse"by Christopher Gene Mary Guzzardi Curry real issue behind the second set of hearings was: sexual harassment. Morea (Tripod, October 8,1991, p. 15) Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz In a country that hears murmurs of sexual harassment every day, was deeply offensive to the undersigned Linda R. McKinney the problem has now exploded onto the scene with the fury of a members of the Trinity College Library Maureen A. Ahern hurricane. No doubt that hurricane will hit us at Trinity in the near Staff and , we imagine, to many other Mary E. Spellacy future. We don't know for certain, but we would not be shocked if members of the Trinity community. We Rebecca Wondriska some form of sexual harassment (and we're not talking about the hope the editors of the Tripod will exer- Peter J.Knapp obvious, visceral types such as rape, date rape or invasions of the cise better judgment in the future. Free- Patricia J. Bunker physical person) goes on at Trinity with alarming regularity. Hope- fully, the chance of a woman at Trinity coming forward and publiciz- ing her ordeal has grown and when she does we might very well see the negative repercussions of the Thomas caset Attacks On Greenberg Whenever this case does appear it will not be as highly politi- cized as whether or not someone is appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States. But what if it comes up when a professor is up for tenure, or what if a student's continued ability to stay enrolled at Unjustified, Unwarranted' Trinity hangs in the balance? What effect will the Thomas hearings To the Editor: students and Trinity College than she.