The Trinity Did You Get a #3 Trinity Workout Valentine? Stopped by #1 Colby See page 7 See page 3 TRINITY COLLEGE • HARTFORD • CONNECTICUT Amendment Killed Squash Teams Attain #2 National Ranking by Ellen Garrity Phil O'Brien said that the amend- News Editor ment was proposed because cer- tain "things are beyond the Student Activities Fee." The Stu- dent Activities Fee, he said, should Last Tuesday's SGA meeting not be responsible for paying for was highlighted by a lengthy de- academic credit. He pointed out bate on the proposed amendment that students pay their tuition to to Article X Section 6 of the SGA obtain academic credit. Constitution. The motion to amend Steve Gerber noted that aca- the SGA Constitution failed by a demic credit is the responsibility of vote of 21 members in favor of it, the College. The Internship Office 14 against it. Amendments to the is responsible for providing stu- SGA Constitution require a two dents with academic credit for ac- thirds majority vote by the SGA. ademic endeavors outside of the The proposed amendment read: classroom. "Monies from the Student Activi- Steve Norton said that the ties Fee shall not be allocated to amendment's end result was un- any organization,for the purpose(s) fair, The amendment, he said, had of paving a salary for staff and/or been "specifically directed at one advisers'if said staff and/or advis- organization and had been rede- _raph"3 by John Shiffmaii Trinity Women's Squash finished the season second ranked in the nation. Above, Freshman Ellie Pierce rers are employed in the process signed to protect several other or- igoes all out against Harvard. The of getting students academic ganizations which would have been Men's learn, also ranked #2 nationally, is anchored by Senior Bill Doyle (it) The team goes against #1 Harvard today in Cambridge. .ffidiL^ueh portions ye beyond affected." Of the -amendment's tWiJMnte«efeSui'(5eS of fes Stu- sugg«stiofi for' wganizMwns • to dent Activities Pee and as such are seeic funding from the College, Budget Committee decided not to properly left to the College." Norton said, "Just because we ex- pay for ConnPIRG's adviser last At the SGA meeting were rep- pect expenses to be covered by the November. He added that there "is Trinity's Model Budget resentatives from ConnPIRG who College doesn't mean they will." a big difference between academic services anu spraying tor roaches argued that the amendment was Bill Vasil said that the amend- credit and educational experience" and ants. aimed directly at them. ment "reinforces the standard we gained from extra curricular activ- by Bill Haitch Because education is a labor Budget Committee chairman set up with past actions" when the ities. intensive industry the actual edu- continued on page 5 cation of the students is the larg- Special Arts Feature: est of the three general areas of With the cost of spending a year expenditures. However the cost of at Trinity college nearly twelve a student's education is not solely thousand five hundred dollars one comprised of salaries, thus this might wonder how the school man- area is referred to as "educational The Invisible Artists ages all of the money that enables and general expenses". The gen- our home away from home to func- eral expenses are comprised of. tion. by Ken Festa administration salaries and costs The first question that pops such as operating the Registrar's Special to the Tripod into many people's heads is how office and the Bursar's office, and much is Trinity's endowment? The heating, lighting and maintaining During the past two years, there total principal of Trinity's endow- buildings such as the Albert C. Ja- has been a quiet renaissance in ment funds is $57,811,785.15. This cobs Life Sciences Center, Mc- theater productions at Trinity Col- number is the total of hundreds of Cook, and the library. lege. This change has taken place separate funds, stock holdings and not so much on the stage as behind bond holdings among other things. During the 1983-84 school year the scenes. What lam referring to The many funds, established by in- each full time student was ex- here is technical theater. From the dividuals, families, and corpora- pected to contribute seven thou- interviews that I conducted for this tions range from the Trinity sand eight hundred and eighty article, there emerged a consistent College Special Baseball Fund of dollars towards his educational and and clear consensus: three thousand dollars, to be used general expenses, while the actual cost per student was twelve thou- It is easier and more fun to work to help pay. the cost of the anual baseball trip or other appropriate sand, twenty five dollars. Thus backstage or in the shop at Austin each student received a subsidy of Arts Center. It's easier and more team needs to the Leonard E. Greenberg Endowment for Judaic four thousand one hundred and fun to take on and tackle greater forty five dollars towards his edu- challenges in technical theater at and Middle Eastern Studies of seven hundred and seventy three cation. This subsidy comes from" Trinity. endowment income, annual giving, The reason for these positive de- thousand dollars. The colleges portfolio of stocks is as varied as and short term interest earned by velopments backstage at the thea- the college, . ter seems equally clear: that the it is impressive: The college holds Despite the fact that each stu- beginning of this welcome trend at eiger stock in Chesebrough Ponds Inc, dent receives such a subsidy Trin- Trinity coincided with the arrival uate program, which is six weeks Walt Disney Productions, Toys R talking about, and I had decided ity is enjoying its fourteenth of Brian Rieger on the Trinity of all kinds of shows, coming in one Us, and K Mart Corporation to that someone who could affect such consecutive year in the black. campus. Brian is the technical di- or two each day.-1 was in Maine name just a few. a radical change in the Trinity . However things weren't always so rector of Austin Arts Center, and for a while, and then they asked theater community deserved the . All of this brings us to how the rosy. During fiscal year 1969 the he began his work during the fall me back again the next summer, chance to tell his own story. Here income Trinity receives is spent. College had a deficit of ninety of the '83-'84 school year. and so then I decided that I didn't it is: Expenditures are divided into thousand dollars, followed by a When I found Brian to talk to Could you tell me about your ex- want to go back to Maine. So, I three basic groups: Mather Hall, applied for this job(technical direc- deficit of a quarter of a million dol- him for this interview, he was periences in theater, how that led Housing, and "educational and lars in fiscal year 1970. This: was working alone backstage on some you to Trinity, and about your tor) one week, and then the next general expenses". SAGA, not.su-. week I was working here. not only bad for the obvious rea- scenery for Yeoman of the Guard. experiences since you've ar- prisingly is another story. Mather sons (which Uncle Sam is finding He spoke carefully at first, almost rived? Anyway, so I got here, and I Hall is a self supporting entity. The out right now) but it curtailed hesitantly, but as the wood began I studied English and theater at didn't know what to expect. My upkeep of the building, and the sa- grants from corporations and to take shape under his ministra- Wesleyan, and I never thought experience at Wesleyan prepared laries of the staff are funded by foundations, and effected dona- tions, and his thoughts began to be ' that I wanted to do theater. Thea- me well, but things were different the general fee paid by the. stu-. tions from friends and alumni of punctuated by the slam of the ter jobs have always just fallen into here. For instance, there's no dents. the colJege. Therefore the College pneumatic staple-gun, he warmed my lap. Wesleyan hired me back to theater department technical fac- Housing is also a self support- created the office of budget man- to his subject, and his thoughts and teach there after I graduated. I ulty here, per se. So my job was ing expenditure. The money col- ager and instituted cost control ideas began to flow quickly. taught lighting design, and one of not onlv to be the technical direc- lected from students for their techniques. This resulted in the As the interviewer, Itriednotto the'basic production courses! Then i*u UJ _.,o ,iuu,..i Arts Center and housing is used entirely for the up- interfere, with this process too they asked me back to be the sum- maintain the performance spaces, keep of the dorms. This includes continued on page 7 much; Brian knew what he was mer technical director of the grad- continued on page 8. heat, water, electricity, janitorial Page 2, THE TRINITY TRIPOD, February 12, 1985 NNOUNCEMENTS Careers BLOOM COUNTY Calendar SORRY I'MAT THIS MORNING, A --betiCRAL HOSPITAL" WAS ON. HOW YA POM', f\re MYMflimess WHILC Recruiting BLOBBO ? We WeRSALL POWNSTAIRS The following recruiting organiza- OH, WftTCHff/6 m HOMOSEXUAL tions will be on-carnpus next week. COULPN'T 2/25: mtbHTROOM. Pratt & Whitney meerreR. Educational Resources Group New York PIRG Tuesday 2/26: Manufacturers Hanover Trust February 12,1985 Prudential Insurance 2/27: Bank of Boston tab*.