Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 1988-1989 Student Newspapers 9-27-1988 College Voice Vol. 12 No. 5 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1988_1989 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "College Voice Vol. 12 No. 5" (1988). 1988-1989. 10. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1988_1989/10 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 1988-1989 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. THE COL E VOICE September 27,1988 Volume XlI, Number 5 Ad Fontes Gaudiani Clarifies Five-Year Plan for College Community "This plan is a nice balance by Usa M. Allegretto between collegiality and The College Yoke decisiveness," said Gaudiani. She On Monday, September 19, also stressed that the plan must be Claire Gaudiani, president of flexible so that it "remains a Connecticut College, presented the document that we can all live with". first draft of the college's strategic The actual drafting of the final five-year plan to the college document will be done by four community. thematic teams and eight According to Gaudiani, she operational teams. The four wanted to begin work on the plan thematic reams include: Diversity immediately so as to utilize this in American Life. year rather than wasting it She Industrialization: The U.S. in a congratulated the college Global Society, Ethical Choices in .. ------ community for the "enormous" a modem World, and Arts •. ~ amount of work that they have done Humanities, Sciences, and Social ~ ~. on the plan so far. Sciences: The Ideal Balance in ~ "Our planning is in support of our Liberal Arts Education and the 8 mission, it's not trying to become Role of Technnlogy. ~ something we haven't been," said The eight operational teams';; Gaudiani. cover the following areas: ~ Gaudiani cited three goals of the Academic Mission, Student Life .!! five year plan: to define the and Development, Faculty and"" ~~~~~~~~~!!~~~~~~~~~~!!!!I!!!!!!II!I college's strengths and Staff Development, Financial Students working on Inrected Macintosh terminals weaknesses, to respond to national Resources, Health and Common agendas, and to look inside to create Welfare, Facilities/Modernization, a powerful college community. Enrolhnent Design and External The president recalled that she Relations. presented the idea of a five-year Each ream will consist of a plan to the Academ ic and chairman, six faculty or staff by A.lexandra SUets gram disk into lhecomj>Uterlab and SCORES was written maliciously members. and three students. The Administrative Cabinets and the The College Voice the machine will "catch" the virus. by a disgruntled Apple employee, Projects, Planning and Budget exception to this is the Academic "Students will take a clean disk according to the September 26 is- Mission ream which will be larger Committee (pPBC) individually so Macintosh computer systems all in to the lab, get it infected, then sue of Time magazine. as to have fresh input. Then each of because it is a larger issue. over the Connecticut College cam- take it back to their machine and The New York Times recently Gaudiani did not, however, specify the three proposed plans were pus have been infected by an invis- infect [their machine]," said reported that Donald Gene Burle- how many would be on the team. merged to create the most effective ible "virus". A "virus" is an extra Makofske. "It really works like an son, a resident of Fort Worth, On September 20, applications and efficient document. piece of programming that attaches extremely contagious virus." Texas, was convicted of 'harmful See Plan p.4 itself to programs so that files are The virus on campus, access to a computer' after having not readable and then regenerates "SCORES", will attach itself only destroyed 168,000 of his former Student-Trustee Liasion Committee itself onto other programs. to system and application or pro- employers' payroll records. Viruses have spread all over the gram software. Data files cannot "We're not sure how it came to Meeting: Goals Laid Down for '88-89 country due to their easy transmis- transmit the virus, but the virus can Connecticut College," said Gregg sion, according to Tom Mokofske, make data files disappear, accord- TeHennepe, academic computing Communication is very important by Michael Borowski director of academic computing. A ing to Makofske. specialist. "Someone probably to the welfare of the stndent body." The College Voice student will take an infected pro- Experts have hypothesized that See 'Virus' p.4 Benjack also noted that "seeing a On Friday, September 23, this plan for Cro [Crozier Williams year's Student-Trustee Liaison Student Center] in concrete" was a Fireside Forum at Abbey House Focuses on Toxic Waste Committee meeting was held in the definite goal for the year. Cavenaugh, and Connecticut The issue of cyanide being Old Cro Bar. The meeting was When Trustee Dick Schneller by Warren Cohen College biology professor Dr. dumped into the river was raised as attended by Student Government asked for suggestions on how to Senolr Editor William Niering were the featured well. Niering said:80 percent of Association (SGA) Executive "improve communication between the material is..insoluable and inac- Board members, Club Members, student groups and trustees," Sam On Thursday night, September speakers. The focus of the presentation tive. The other 20 percent is a con- Young Alumni Trustees, and Bottum, president of SGA, 22, approximately 60 people was to address the potential health cern." Trustees. explained that the Committee must crowded into the Abbey House threats that are caused by McDermott added,"It was le- After introductions, the three "raise awareness that this living room to attend a fireside industries' waste sites inthe area. gal uuder the state D.E.P. [Depart- Young Alumni Trustees, Paul committee exists." forum about the hazards of toxic ''We want to be good neighbors ment of Environmental Protection] Hyde, Ed Castell, and David The SGA Executive Board waste in the New London/Groton with industry and have good standard of2 parts per million. But Benjack, chair of the Student- next announced their goals and environment The forum was designed to relations," said Matthews. it is impossible to measure that Trustee Liasion Committee. projects for the 1988-89 school convey information as a precursor "However in July 1987, Pfizer small an amount and claim its not announced the Committee's goals year. Bottum announced 9 areas of to the public awareness rally spilled 2,000 pounds of toxic waste hazardous." for the 1988-89 school year. concentration that the SGA into the river and didn't tell us until A recurring theme was the Benjack spelled out the Assembly must focus on. These plsnned for Saturday, September January 1988. True, it was legal to need for more care and control over Committee's goal as "offering included Club Support, worlring 23. Four community activists, Dr. do it, but what about having the the disposal of waste materials. The ourselves [Young Student Alumni] with Connecticut College's new Ed McDermott, Dan Curlaod, Wall courtesy to tell us?" See FOI'1Im p.4 as resources and good listeners. See L...... p.4 Matthews and Maureen Page 6 Page 12 == VIEWPOINT OUR COMMUNITY: WHY BOTHER? This pastSawrday, arearesidenlS convened in Groton for an infoona- tiona! demonstration to educate the public about the dangerous toxins ~. that Thames river companies such as Pfizer and Electric Boat are daily M pumping into the air and water. Under the direction of Citizens Against =' Pollution led by Dan Curland and Wall Mathews, the protest was in- tended to rally the community roge!her and ideally to initiate an inves. tIoJNnroiI i-~-,;-.;:.~.-~;~~ tigative program to test the current combined toxin levels of the river- .~ side companies. A1lbough !here was a veritable media blitz on this A t f P Iiti I S b campus(POStefS, table-cards, PAs and news broadcasts on om campus Le~r~th?EdltOr: 0 I lea a otage on Campus ~=,';:~=IesintheVOiCe)theSupponshownbY nx: current .presi~tial ejection has witnessed a record nwnber of attacks. mudslinging and cheapshots by 'the Considering that the issue involved isone ofpersonal and community Republican nommee. Things here at Connecticut College seem to be no different. health; consideringthat infonnation was disseminated on campus about The Young Democrats held their first meeting Monday night in Windham and we plaeed many signs up around campos the rally; and considering !hat this school has an undergraduate enroll- to let people know about our organization and activities. Many of these signs were defaeed or tom down but the most meotofapproximately 1600, this weekend'smrnout(ofatbest 30 Conn disturbing event was a childish practical joke played by most likely an equally childisb (or Quayle like) Republican. On the students) was especially poor. What kind of a reflection is this of our doors ofWmdham do~tory. our: meeting site. someone had hung signs that said the location had been changed to Hamil- College? ton (the furthest location from Windham) when it bad not. Perbaps it is an accurate reflection. Pezbaps the majority of studems Luckily we were able to remove these signs to prevent a potential problem but the memory of the prank still remains. enrolled here are as disinterested as they would have the community One has to won~r why someone has to attempt to sabo~ge our meeting just because they do not agree with our candidates believe. or c~use. Could It he because the College Repoblicans (who did not show up at club night) have yet to hold a meeting and Last spring when a rally was held [0 protest Conn's holdings in South that m the pas' the" only purpose has been to praise a man who cannot rememher if he traded arms to Iran and another man Africa, hardly ten percent of the community showed up.