Non-Profit U.S. Postage Paid Waterville, ME 04901 Permit #39 Bookstore Conflict Erupts Stu-A Readies denied tenure last year. Nutting admit that Winkler presented them By Lawrence Rocca requested information concerning with a disk and Nutting says he NEWS EDITOR . the books that would be used for initially felt reluctant to use it. academic classes. He claims never But Hartman said, "we don't Jeff Winkler '89 was fired from to have asked Winkler for a print- see that we did anything wrong. If his job in the Colby Bookstore last out or any information on disk. there was anything on that disk Thursday for giving a private list of Nutting maintains that he only that couldn't he accessed publicly, all the text books ordered by the asked Winkler to copy the shelf tags we would have returned it. We were campus bookstore to Peter Nutting, by hand. going to get that information some co-owner of the recently opened Winkler concurs that Nutting way or another." Iron Horse Bookstore, according to did not ask him for a printout, but Barnard believes that there was college officials. he explained that he thought about possibly information on the disk Winkler, at his home in Nashua, it on his own and realized that it that was not readily accessible on New Hampshire, confirms that in would save time to put the list on the -bookstore shelf tags such as July he gave a disk containing a disk. Winkler accessed a private file quantities ordered, publisher or- copy of the booklist to Nutting and in the bookstore's computer system dered from, or recent course enroll- Charlie Hartman, Nutting's busi- containing proprietary information, ment history. ness partner and wife. Winkler said according to Barnard, and copied "It was unethical, it was im- that he also worked at the IronHoise the information onto a disk, which moral, and Fli leave it up to some- for six and a half hours helping set he in turn gave to Nutting. one greater than I to decide if it's up for their opening in late July and Winkler confessed the incident illegal," Barnard said. photo by Bob Lian was paid $50 for his help. to Barnard and Ken Gagnon, direc- Barnard is particularly upset Stu-A PresidentTom Sherry and Vice President Dan Spurgin discuss their A German major who also has a tor of Purchasing and Personnel, about what he sees as an abuse of goals for the coming year. See page- 2. proficiency with Macintosh com- last Thursday, accordingto Barnard, the faculty/student relationship. puters, Winklergraduated last May after Ray Phillips in computer serv- Because Nutting was Winkler's and then remained on campus for ices voiced a suspicion that the Iron advisor, although neither are offi- Colby In China Horse had a copy of the Colby cially connected with the college the summer' as part oi the Summer By Beth Ackroyd scared," remembers Eunson. The Enrichment Program. During this booklist. The grounds for Ray Phil- now, Barnard sees an abuse for CONTRIBUTING WRITER lips' suspicion were not determined. personal gain on the part of Nut- student protestors in Beijing were time, according to Colby Bookstore never sure when the army would Manager Bruce Barnard, Winkler Gagnon banned Winkler from thlS- "It was an amazing thing to take action, and information could was a temporary employee of the campus for 30 days and Winkler At the time the Echo went to watch," said Chris Hobart, one of only be spread amongst the student bookstore's computer department. must get permission from him if press, the Colby Bookstore and the Winkler ever wants to return to Iron Horse had not talked to each the Colby students in China during organizations at night, via posters, His contract was to run out this past , and Public Address systems, campus again. other. Gagnon says he wants the student protests there last spring. flyers week. "It was a sudden realization of just according to sources. During July, Winkler was ap- Nutting and Hartman deny disk back, but Colby has yet to flatly that they paid for a disk with request the disk from the Iron how powerful the people were." Rumors were constantly spread- proached by Nutting, a former and outside of Beijing informa- a booklist on it. The two readily Horse.Q Also at Chinese Universities ing, Colby German professor who was were Sally Armbrecht, Alex Day,' tion was even harder to come by. Stu Eunson, and Ron Thompson. Both Hobart and Eunson had left When the student strikes and Beijing to travel when the massacre I-PLAY Was Low Priority freedom marches gathered steam in occurred, and learned of the vio- April, the Colby students marched lence piece by piece through many "If there had been a committe on Athletic Planning Committee was different accounts. By Tracey Hardman asked to examine the I-PLAY sys- along with their Chineseclassmates, ASST NEWS EDITOR intramurals alone, perhaps that and stayed with them in Tiananmen "As foreigners, we never knew issue would have received more tem at Colby. That sub-committe the body count," Eunson said. "It was comprised of faculty members Square. All were amazed at the A sub-committee comprised of attention, but that wasn't the case," huge numbers of , and their was so frustrating to watch and Michael Marlais, Dick Whitmore, people 11 faculty members and three stu- said Stu-A president Tom Sherry. "incredible development and or- know that the government was Deb Aitken, ParkerBeverage , Gene dents made the proposal to drasti- He conceded that the decision to ganization," according to Th- lying to them." ' DeLorenzo, Dave Firmage, Randy cally restructure Colbys intramu- drastically restructure the system ompson. Although the Colby students Helm, Fred Mosely, Jane Hunter, ral system into a soley commons was made "maybe too rapidly"". When the Colby students first were involved with the protests and Earl Smithy and Sandy Maisel, and based system last spring, according After Roy Dow notified the col- heard Chinese students complain marches,they never really felt as if to committee member Sandy students Andrea Solomita '91, lege last year of his imminent de- about the government, they didn't they were part of the movement, Oyer the summer continued on 4 Maisel. , a group parture, the sub-committee of The page immed iately recognize it as a sign of according to Eunson. of administrators and faculty unrest. The foreign students were "I agreed with what they were members dropped an ammend- segregated from the Chinese in what fi ghting for, but it wasn't my right ment that would have allowed the Colby students interpreted as a to yell at their government," he said. departmental and club teams to government effort to stop the ex- Both Thompson and Hobart participate, and then passed the change of ideas. spoke of the freedoms we take for proposal . It wasn't until March, during his granted, and the huge amount of Professor Michael Marlais, the break from The People's Univer- excess and waste in our culture. chair of the sub-committee that sity, that Day witnessed "the first When he sees people with huge made the I-PLAY proposal, said he taste of what was to come." Trav- amounts of money, for example, had trouble recalling discussion elling Tibet with some friends, he Hobart says wonders, "How do they about changing the intramural sys- to was caught in a civilian uprising deserve it? Are they justified in tem. "It wasn't a big thing on the having it?" committee thatstarted as a non-violentpro test, ," he said. "It went rela- For Day and Thompson articu- tively but turned ugly when police inter- quickly. We didn't spend an lating the changes in themselves it, vened. Entering a nearby house, awful lot of time on " was not easy. "It's hard to say," "I t really was no t discussed very Day saw what he described as "two blood stains in the kitchen whore said Day. "What happened was so much," Maisel agreed. "It was not the people were executed while removed from my experience in the one of our major decisions," making tea. US It's like a dream that I can't That sub-committe was also " But, the protesters eventually connect to anything." responsible for examining whether came to take over Beijing; organiz- And like Thompson added, or not students on academic proba- ing ambulances to help the hunger 'There is so much behind it, so much tion should be permitted to play strike* and running the public about China we don't know. But varsity sports, and the latter issue plwto by Cricket Griven transportation system. God help them in the future, be- took precedence according to , Professor Sandy Maisel was one of the key f actors in the I-PLAY restructuring bed cause it's a questionable one." ? Maisel. "People were going to , Sherr y And Spur gin Set Sights The seedling idea of running for the Common s System has created a office was planted duringthe duos' structure with improved representa- NEWS BRIEFS By Ahsa Attaxdi first year on campus when they tion, however, the abolition of frater- STAFFWRITER roomed together and shared simi- nities left a sodal gap at Colby that COMPILED BY NEWS lar concerns about Colby. still persists. STAFF "Either change it or leave it," Part of Stu-A's role this year will Since the institution of the Spurgin told Sherry back then. Now, be "to create a synthesis of the sodal ConunonsSystem,Colbyhasunder- they're tryingto live that challenge.