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SGA Passes Proposal Haiti Relief Efforts Restructuring Exec Board CLAIRE S_GOULD AcadenticAffairs, Chair of SAC, ' President, Vice Presideut, Parlia- Lack Participation EDITOR-iN-CHIEF Chair of Residential Affairs and mentarian, Presidential Associate Chair of Diversity and Equity - are and Vice President of Public Rela- andjivin' in Cro. The SGA assembly recently TESSA ENGEL required to deal also with the ev- tions would sit on the Operations Unfortunately, few attended. passed a resolution that will affect & JAZMINE HUGHES eryday operations of SGA like ta- Council while the President, Vice After months of planning and the structure of future SGA as- CONTRIBUTOR & bling blood drive siguups, creating President and Chairs would sit on publicity, the white plastic folding semblies. NEWS EDITOR the weekly agenda and organizing the President's Council. chairs in the 1%2 room outnum- The Comntission on SGA Describe Connecticut College SGA-sponsored events. This will allow executive board bered guests at least two to one. Restructuring allowed a group students in one word: if you're This may distract members from members to better fccus on their All of the proceeds from the of SGA members, advisor Dean the website, we're "diverse." If the unique roles and responsibili- specific duties while also provid- "vents will go directly to the Briddell and a student-at-large to you're a professor, we are "bright" ties of their individual position. ing a forum to discuss and col- International Alliance for the Ad- closely examine the Constitution or "engaged." If you're a student, "We have looked at how the laborate with each other on larger vancement of Children, an on-the- and Bylaws (C-Book) and current however. who wants to actively executive board currently has campus concerns. ground organization that provides structure of SGA and to recom- recruit other students to partici- two functions. One is to deal with The Environmental Representa- nutrition, education, and training mend changes to improve its "ef- pate in an important cause, we're everyday things and serving the tive, currently on the same level to thirteen children whose parents ficiency and effectiveness." "apathetic. " campus, while the other is to deal as senators and class presidents perished in the disaster. SGA-fulsid.ent Peter; Friedrichs In an email to the OSLA with campuswide issues," said has been elevated to an executive Speaking to the audience last '10, along with students from students, Mary Devins. Associate Friedrichs. bound position: Chair of Environ- Friday, Ghislane Georges thanked the sophomore, junior and senior Director of the Toor Cummings To resolve this problem and ment Affairs. He or she will head Connecticut College commurtity classes, spent the past semester Center for International Studies better serve students, the Com- the House Environmental Repre- members for their work, express- researching and discussing the and the Liberal Arts, encouraged mission has decided to divide the sentatives. ing that the charity efforts like the current structure of SGA and how students to dispute the dispassion executive board into two branches; Friedrichs said, "Environmental- College's give voice to the Haitian assembly members and their com- that we are known for. "Some the Operations Council which will ism is one of Conn's core values people, and that it is through ef- mittees work with different areas folks have said we could not suc- organize day-to-day operations, and one central to shared gover- forts like these that their stories are of the college. ceed, too much apathy at Con- create agendas and plan events, nance. It seemed appropriate to spread. Over the years, executive boards necticut College. Please please and the President's Council, which add the position to its rightful posi- But where were the Conn stu- have discussed how a ten-member prove them wrong and get behind will discuss campuswide concerns. tion on the executive board, dents? hoard is ungainly and members SEE SGA, PAGE 4 this. It is important to all of us in In this new configuratory, 'The overall turnout was very like the Chair of J-Board, Chair of OSLA and more importantly to disappointing," said one of the these orphaned children." chairs of the Response Commit- This past weekend, a series of tee. "I thought that considering the Best Buddies Program Forms lectures and performances orga- circumstances with this horrific nized principally hy our peers disaster, students would have dis- . Lasting Bonds . comprised the "Hope for Haiti" played a greater sense of concern benefit. On Friday afternoon, there and support, and seen this as an were seven brief lectures and on opportunity to help people who Friday and Saturday nights, there aren't as fortunate as we are and a: were N20 improv, a cappella, who are fighting for their lives." g Dance Team and individual student o Admission to the Hope for Haiti w performances. The event culminat- events was contingent on the pur ed with Haitian-hom, NYC-based ~ Erol Josue and his band groovin' SEE HAITI, PAGE 3 ~ W oJ: (J The Isms and Outs of Blanche > ~ DONALD BUDGE Sntith in her article for the Village w , COLUMNIST Voice, and her Endowed Chair '" Lecture. When I sat down for my first SAMANTHA HERNDON . Professor Boyd identifies her- Seymour de Oliveira. De Oliveira The Best Buddies chapter at creative writing class, Idid not NEWS EDITOR self with the generation of Tom recently began a position as Col- Conn was started in 2006 by expect my sixty two year old pro- Wolfe's New Journalism, which lege Program Manager for Best Peggy McQuaid' 10 with the fessor's former name to have been Walk, bike or meander past Cro she now dubs "Narrative Nonfic- Buddies in Connecticut. He helps help of Rebecca McCue, As- Rain when she was part of a radi- late on a Sunday morning, and tion," where many journalists the various chapters in the state to sociate Director of the I IoUeran cal lesbian commune; or for her to you're likely to see the sntiling include their own experiences facilitate friendships and gather- Center. Then, it bad five pairings walk into class with dried blood all faces of party of buddies. The as part of the story and use fic- ings, at colleges and universities of college students and buddies, over her knuckles, only to tell'us: band of friends ntight be playing tion techniques. The lecture was and off-campus. and met twice a month. T04ay, "My doctor said I should probably with a rainbow-hued parachute, Blanche's crash course in narrative Students involved speak of the' the program has grown, and the stop fighting ... but Ican't." tossing footballs, or creating non-fiction, which she believed to relationships they develop with dynantics have shifted. After handing in a story with a art with sidewalk chalk. These have been pioneered after Vietnam. the buddies. "The great beauty Sarah Holland ' II, a psycholo- few punctuation errors, she began aren't just any buddies, but are "After seeing children on fire with in fact the Best Buddies: part of about Best Buddies is that people gy-based human relations major slamming my paper on the desk, napalm while eating dinner, what with intellectual disabilities love and dance minor who is working yelling to the class ''Do I look like an international organization that was I going to. make up that would you for who you are as a human toward certification in elementary a word janitor to you? Am Ihere to pairs people up to form meaning- match the truth? Nothing." being they don't love you because education, now serves as the Col- clean up after you? No. Then don't ful connections. Fifteen years ago, Blanche wrote On Sunday Aprill 11, the Bud- you're famous or because you lege Buddy Director. hand me your garbage." To under- an in-depth investigative report have a fancy car," said Anthony "It's been a transition year," she stand that Ineeded to be tom down dies held a movement workshop for the Village Voice on the case of Kennedy Shriver, founder and said of the club. Best Buddies bas first, and then cared for, is just one on Larrabee green, inspired by Susan Smith, a complex story of a Heidi Henderson's popular Ex- chairman of Best Buddies, in a recently moved from having older of many times Blanche was able mother drowning her own children perimental Dance class. promotional video. Buddies paired with the College to see into a person deeply, doing while they were in the backseat of "The main goal of Best Buddies "I think that's something that's Buddies to having Buddies ages what she thonght was right with her car, and then telling the police is to have one-on-one friendships really special about this organiza- 18 to 24.