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THE CO E VOICE May 2, 1989 Volume XII, Number 24 Ad Fontes Peppard and Dejesus Honor Code Win Teaching Awards Revisions Disputed .~ represent most of the committee: by Alexandra Silets ~ said Mach Arom, '89, student News Edilor • . by Craig TImberg The College Voke member of the planning team. ------------------------~ In the area of academic honor, At the Connecticut College Awards ceremony last Thursday night, ~ A draft report from the Ethical the report cites a campus-wide the first Student Government Association Excellence in Teaching Award ~ questionnaire that indicates a wide- was presented. Donald Peppard, Jr., professor of economics and Karl <3 Choices Strategic Planning Team questioning the effectiveness of spread problem with cheating at the DeJesus, visiting associate professor of chemistry were the first recipi- ~ ents. E--.L,,--~~~7-_,,___;,_''--_: the Honor Code has drawn a sting- college. Economics Professor Don Peppard "Many ing reply The prize is presented to those professors who have distinguished believe from stu- themselves as out standing instructors who are "excellent in classroom cheating dent lead- ..,.,.CW.€. teaching as well as outside the class ...who have made an overall contribu- I.~ is ram- ers and serw., 1M ~ tion to students," said Dave Grann, '89, the presenter of the awards. ~o,,- p ant, .. may not DeJesus was recognized as having an "uncanny ability to teach the ~oJ·~.·,,- the re- even rep- intricacies of zoology and chemistry" by the many nomination forms #Oll1'tlglng stiulelfls (and oth- port says. resent the submitted by his students. "Conse- views of ers) to tIIIce nsponsibilitJ for "I am very, very honored," said DeJesus. He is a first year visiting 0 quently, the plan- professor from Oregon State University who "thought [tonight] was just :. their m:titnll' the ning team a recognition ...I was really surprised," he said. Ho nor Peppard, on the other hand, has been at the College for thirteen years, itself. Code seems to be honored more in served on many committees. and has been chair of the economics The report calls forrevisions to the breach than in practice, espe- department. the Honor Code and recommends cially in the case of self-scheduled "It is a great honor to receive this award and an enormous comple- the reformation of The College examinations ." ment," Peppard added. Council to maintain "civillity" on "Thecommitteeagrees that the Both professors Peppard and DeJesus received a standing ovation campus. from the capacity crowd in Dana auditorium. "I would say that it doesn't See Honor Code p.6 Condom Machines to be Installed this Summer mitories, Features p.3 by Craig T\mberg The compromise is a scaled downed version of the Student Govern- The College Voice ment Association (SGA) Assembly proposal by John Maggiore, '91, Connecticut College First house senator of Lazrus, which called for the installation of eight rna- Annual Minority Students' Condom machines will be installed in three dormitories and two chines this semester, with the remaining dormitories each receiving one Summer Program Previewed campus bathrooms over the summer. according sometime next year. to a compromise reached between student lead- ,----------------f "It doesn't come out to what I think is nee- N.L. Focus p.7 ers and the administration last week. 'We've taken the first essary,' said Maggiore, who, along with Sam During the pilot phase of the installation pro- step...[but] they're still not Bonum, '89, president of SGA, and Carla Mun- gram, a machine will be placed in one dormitory roe, '90, president-elect of SGA, negotiated the in each of three geographical areas on campus: accessible enough' compromise with Robert Hampton, dean of the north, south, and central. college. Machines will also be located in one male • • John Maggiore, '91 Maggiore described the plan as "a foothold and one female bathroom in Crozier-Williams into getting more machines in dorms." Student Center. "We've taken the first step," he said, but Other machines may later be installed after an evaluation of the pilot then added, "they're still not accessible enough." program. There is no timetable for installation of machines in other dor- See Machines p.4 South African Divestment Series; Anson Author Supports American PIONEERS Exhihit ODens at the Centro; Discusses Hispanic Women's Companies in South Africa Struggles in the 1980s to look at scenes in which blacks Examined Racism on • ~ by Stephanie Lutz were beaten and shot. • The College Voice Arts & Leisure p.8 College Levine began her speech by ~ Janet Levine spoke in CONN saying she has struggled to change Young Einstein Reviewed Cave last Wednesday as a part of the atrocities of the apartheid sys- ~ New Talent Impresses Campuses the educational series on South tem throughout her life. She com- Audiences. ~ Africa and divestment, She was a pared the South African govern- ment to the Nazi regime and ex- --------- '"~L_.:._ --l liberal politician and journalist in Sports p.12: by Jacqueline Soteropoulos South Africa who was twice plained that she left the country Associate News Editor Robert Anson elected to the Johannesberg City because she didn't want her white be least likely to expect it: it's right Council. son taught to brutalize blacks. ~:- Robert Anson, an award-win- here on college campuses." Since she left South Africa in Levine feels that U.S. compa- ning journalist and author of The According to Anson, 80 per- 1984, she has expressed her opin- nies should not divest from South Education and Killing of Edmund cent of minority college students ions nationally on television and in Africa, unless there are universal Perry, spoke aggressively of the experience some fonn of racism. speeches around the country. She sanctions of South African compa- wide spread racism on American and there is "a rising tide of racial also wrote a book entitled: Inside nies. "When American companies college campuses, of the problems incidents on campus and off." Apartheid: One woman's struggle divest, Japanese and German com- that minority students encounter, He cited incidents involving a in South Africa. panies pick up where they left off. It and led a discussion about racism 'slave auction' of students in black- Before Levine began her is not as if these companies are here at Connecticut College Wed- face and Afro wigs at the University speech, a film was shown depicting burnt down or dissolved." of Wisconsin, Ku Klux Klan nesday night some of the violence of the South She also explained that Ameri- Men's Lax Comes from Anson said "Racism is alive (KKK) regalia at Citadel, and an African government. Some mem- can companies are baving some Behind to Beat Tulls and well in this country where we'd See Rodsm p. 5 bers of the audience could not stand See l.evl .. p.5 �================================================= .. ~ ): VIEWPOINT i============================ ~ The Divestment Issue: S~rious Is an Early Arrival Really Necesary? l Dedsioos That Deserve j ColII,IJIIUIity IBput Letter to the Voice: an attempt to have the minority Unidad, A.S.LA., and UMOJA. ~ On ., 7, 1988 tIl6~.1!¥'i:liait College BoanI of 1'nJsIIeelI Recently at a meeting regarding students meet other minority stu- Several minority students that I spoke with feel that the early arrival .. PIl' "ClIp" on the college' invesImenlS inSouth Africa. next year's freshmen, it was dents and become adjusted or __ would be "no newllllldwes of stoe:t inc:ompa- brought to my auention th31 differ- settled at a predominantly white day for minority freshmen is unnec- essary and will not solve anything . ........ ,. ••,.... inSouth AIl:Iei .~ PI: '1cnI 0IIr.es enrgroupsoffreshmen would bear- college. riving on different days. Two new But this action only created more Presumabel y the aims of Con- AJIIeI JIid dill ibis drdlion itplleStl1lCd a compromise of the segregation, more grouping, and necticut College are to dispose of di~\liewsof"'1loaJd. He said __ new policy \wi provide arrival pians will be put into effect for Orientation '89. All foreign stu- more labeling. It will cause the racial and ethnic biases and segre- bait Z ".diveSlJDellL "The BoanI ofTnistees emphasized dents will arrive two days before minorities to feel more insecure gations, and also to make an effort e. ert.on "'--wlllle dill 1"""1 issue. But!bere was no the scheduled freshman arrival of about their acceptance by the ma- to unite minority and majority stu- ~1Waid imlDedIaIe IDtal dlveslment August 26. This is a good addition jority students. Having minority dents on campus. In a time when all The dhCllDl<mt issueisa c:omp1ica1r4 one. An argument can because it will give foreign students students arrive a day earlier, as a racial and ethnic segregations are be1lllldr:.IltnotdivestlJll. IanetLevioepoinledouton Wednesday time 10 adjust 10 any culture shock, separate group, will cause uneed- trying to be abolished, it is ridicu- lous to have different arrival days dJat AIneriean complllies inSouth Africa provide beneficial5elVz recover from jet lag, and become ded fear and friction between mi- lea to !be blacks in South Africa.