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P•• $ • e '$.4$$ $ $ e • 4 e 5 f§IIII NEW LONDON, CONNEGICUT TUESDAY,FEBRUARY9, 2010 VOLUME 34· ISSUE11 IAm Camel, Hear Me Roar College begins campaign for fiercer, more intimidating athletic camel JAZMINE HUGHES the camel and strengthen the in the country to share the cam- NEWS EDITOR school's overall athletic identity, el mascot, and any resemblance Go on a tour of Connecticut including its varsity letter", ac- ' to Camel cigarettes. Work- College, and you're bound to cording to a news story on the ing from the results garnered run into the same question ev- College's homepage. The new from a campuswide survey, ery time: "...Why is your mascot camel mascot was envisioned Rickabaugh kept the campus' a camel, out of all things?" primarily for athletic teams, and preferences in mind. Overall, Connecticut College students will initially be used.according- Connecticut College wants a often wonder the same thing. ly. The current mascot, which camel that looks proud, strong, With stories ranging from is about ten years old, didn't and dignified, and is collegiate, camel-obsessed presidents fit the athletic department's classic, traditional. CCwas most to camels, kept as pets, in the desires for a stronger-looking, opposed to a cartoonish or rooms of former Conn Coli more intimidating camel. silly-looking camel, as even our students, the camel mascot was Gleaned from surveys and current camel, as one student established in 1969, the same opinions, Rickabaugh Graph- put it, "looks too friendly." year the College went cooed. ics identified the faults of the Rickabaugh Graphics is work- Mike Shinault, head of the current camel: the verticai logo ing with four main options, aim- print shop and newly-instated is difficult in horizontal layouts; ing to unveil them on April Sth, basketball coach, named the the camel looks rather static, the College's ssth anniversary CCteam after a Pakistani team and the athletes would prefer . and the beginning of events that he'd seen during his time in a camel in motion; it doesn't will culminate on the College's the Navy. Quickly embraced work on dark or complex back- centennial. In several focus by the college community, the grounds; and, most importantly, groups, including a presenta- mascot inspired a camel caU"':"- the connection to Connecticut tion to SGA,Rickabaugh Graph- "HUUUUUUUUUMP!"-shouted College is somewhat unclear ics showed the four options at every game by enthusiastic without a CClogo attached. The to groups of students, chart- Camel fans. company also aimed to have the ing their opinions and saving With such a whimsical mas- mascot stand out when juxta- them for future tweaking. The cot, criticism abounds. Known posed with the other NESCAC various camels featured angular to be a fairly docile animal, fa- logos, also proposing to change jawlines, tuffs of hail; pointed mous for obnoxiously chewing the College's trademark royal ears, blankets, and flattened its cud, students, particularly blue color to a darker navy. noses-none of which the focus athletes, dislike the image of a Rickabaugh Graphics faced groups fully embraced. Wanting camel for its passive demeanor a challenge-first, making the, to combine elements from all of and slow movement. camel fiercer, attractive, and the camels Taking this tnto.accoum, appear to be in motion, and the College hired Rickabaugh subsequentlyavoiding both rep- SEE CAMEL, PAGE 2 . Graphics, whose owner Eric licating the mascot of Campbell Conn's soon-ta-be replaced athletic logo. Rickabaugh will "redesign University, the only other school New Race and Ethnicity Surveys Spark Concern Is the college's new race and ethnicity survey appropriate? ANDREW CRIMER since 1997. Since the Elemen- each student as African-Ameri- college only reports the six said, "We use the data to let STAFF WRITER tary and Secondary Education can, Hispanic, or Caucasian. required categories to the De- people know about opportuni- Act of 1965, American schools In addition to the Department partment of Education, and that ties they might find interest- Over winter break, a sopho- have been required to collect of Education's required system the other 28 are exclusively for ing. For example, the Hispanic more who declined to be named Studies Department asks every (let's call her Anna Z) logged year for a list of all the Hispanic into Banner Self-Service, and , Whet Ie this person'. rICe? Mark one ormore box... students on campus:' the website greeted her with a Nugent stressed that the col- complicated question divided a White lege doesn't require a response. into neat checkboxes. Connecti- I I BlICk, African Am" or Negro "It's not 'tell us or else," he said, cut College wanted to know if Amtl1can Indian or Aluka Natlve- FIInflWlltdtNCltdotpttlclpt/fIk "but we try to let people know she was Hispanic or Latina, and o 'i that there are implications if how she would describe the you opt out." rest of her ethnic heritage. I Still, in responses to such col- It was an essay question dis- . I I III lege search publications as the guised as multiple-choice. "My o Allan Indian 0 Japan-. 0 Native Hawaiian Princeton Review, the college mother is French, and French ranks racial or ethnic status as Is my first language. Culturally, .n Chin... I J KONan II Guan'llnltn or Chamorro an "Important" decision factor, Idon't know anything about U F1Uplno 0 Vlemll'l'l'" 0 Semoan where "Geographical Resi- my Puerto Rican heritage," she dence" is only "Considered:' other Mlan - PdJtt /IQt, tor Ohr Pacific Mtt explained. "I don't think the . o 0 ,.1Indtr - According to Nugent, the survey had a way to represent mmplt, Hmong, UotMn, ThI& 11Clt, tor ..... Ff/In, rotlflll, college also uses ethnic data in that. Ijust put 'Hispanic' and Pak.tan1, ~,Illd 10 Oft. ¥ Illd 10 on. i the Admissions department. "It 'Caucasian," factors in, but I don't know how What Anna encountered was it does," he explained. "I think the new race and ethnicity sur- L:I I I i 1·1 I I I I I it's much more related to the vey, which the College added to general distribution of ethnic Somt other ... - Print flit». F the website as required by the o diversity among an incoming US Department of Education's class than a decisive factor in modifications to its own cat- I III I I I I IIII I any single applicant:' egories. As the email announc- The survey masquerades as Survey question number 9 from U.S. 2010 Census. ing the survey explained, the a casual and unimportant piece new categories would "bring of everyday information, but recordkeeping ... into line with data, and the mandate was re- of six categories, Connecticut college records. asking someone to tell you their the categories already used by newed with the 2002 No Child College has added 28 more "The data informs public "race" is a thorny question. the US Census Bureau and other Left Behind Act (NCLB) which categories for a fuller picture of 'poltcy such as comparing Over the lasttwo hundred federal agencies:' Unfortunately, received bipartisan Congressio- students' racial backgrounds. graduation rates among ethnic years, identity has been increas- the implications of categorizing nal support. John Nugent of the Office of categories, and drives initia- ingly shaped by social concep- race go far beyond the data col- Under NCLB'soriginal stipu- Institutional Research, who sent tives for affecting what people tions of race, fed by the Euro- lected and the gray three-ring lations, each state could survey out the notice announcing the call 'traditionally underserved a pean communities binders that hold it. and report ethnicity data in a new survey, said that the infor- populations," he said, "but that The new survey's categories manner of its choosing. Texas, mation has implications at the analysis doesn't get broken SEE SURVEY, PAGE 4 are based on nomenclature the for example, decided on a three- national and college level. down into our subcategories." Census Bureau has been using category system, and labeled Nugent explained that the As for college use, Nugent Sports Arts Opinions Editorials PROFESSORS IN ATHLETICS NEW LONDON EXPOSED REACTIONS TO NEW MASCOT ON RETURNING Steve Loomis, Professor of Biology is one of the Hygienic Art Show kicks off the semester with OMG so fierce. p.9 Back from break. Hello Sculling Warthogs. p.8 phalluses, Floaters, an? more. p.7 "real world." p.J 2 I 1IIl... __ ........ """'..:."""""'''''''"' .... Oliil........ _''''''''''''''''' .... ==''''''''''_:IiOI ... ii:iIo~~ ...... " ............ ''''''''''''''''''''"'''''~'''"Ib''>C¥'>¢b .....·>?6>C6 0> • -. ~ t· ••• ££6.·.~.-... February 9, 2010 ) THECDlLEGE VOICE NEWS Shake the Baron performs at FNL last Friday Preserving Conn's Unique Architectural Past JOHN KELLY the building, tacularly,' Van Slyck said. CONTRIBUTOR But to now approacb the But the paint is the least of the building, one quickly sees that a trouble. After enduring years of disuse different attitude has been taken The steel panels which support and weather damage on its lot towards the little house.