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Jones: *We Do Not | Trinity Celebrates Hip-HopHave a Budget Crisis'

ByBILLCOSGROVENEWS EDITOR

In two separate addresses to thecampus community lastWednesday, President JimmyJones spoke on the financial healthof the College and laid out whatneeds to be done to solve Trinity'slong-term financial challenges.

The president explained thatbecause there is "no elasticity inthe budget whatsoever," Trinityhas been forced to "curtail expens-es and raise more money from ourAnnual Fund" in order to "handleour challenges and to head offwhat will indeed be an institution-al crisis if we do not act." He alsosaid that the College has yet to facethe "systemic problems lying with-in inside the operating budget."

Despite a 22 percent increasein health benefit costs, a $2 millionincrease in utility costs, $77 mil-lion in deferred maintenance costs,

and the discovery of many unfund-ed programs at the College, Jonesrejected the notion that Trinity is ina financial crisis. He did, however,caution that failure to confront themany fiscal problems the Collegeis facing will likely result in a cri-sis. "Trinity does not have a budg-et crisis like those faced at some ofour other sister institutions ... ButI cannot deny that we have seriousissues to confront."

The president presented aseries of initiatives he hopes willfix the systemic problems lyinginside the operating budget of theCollege. "We have, for the mostpart, been using band-aids - someof them tourniquet size - toaddress our financial challenges,"explained Jones. "We have nochoice but to find thoughtful, per-manent solutions."

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Lysistrata ShocksCrowd with Satire

Edwin C. Pratt

La Bruja, a rapper and singer from Puerto Rico, performs Saturday night at the Vernon Social Center as part of the TrinityInternational Hip-Hop Festival. The Festival, organized by Trinity students Magee Mcllvaine '06 and Jason Azevedo '08,attracted dozens of hip hop performers and speakers from all over the world, including rappers coming from as far awayas Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. See GLOBAL on page 15 for further coverage, and see page 18 for more photo-graphs from the events. \

Campus Reclaims the NightBy JOE TARZI

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Turandot - featuring but one low-

Following the warm receptionof last year's Turandot directed byTrinity's husband and wife directingteam Michael Preston and BarbaraKarger, the Trinity theatre commu-nity has eagerly been awaiting theirmost recent show. The directors,digging a little deeper into the wellfor this production (about 2500years deeper) chose the playLysistrata by Aristophanes. Theplay, which takes place and waswritten during the PeloponnesianWar between Athens and Sparta, isan anti-war satire. In it, title charac-ter Lysistrata convinces her fellowwomen to withhold consensual sexfrom their husbands and to seize theAthenian treasury on the Acropolis,her logic being no money plus nosex equals no war.

To start off with, this year's playwas more minimalist in design than

of props. The play, of course, wasnot designed for multiple setchanges, having been written in 411B.C. For a major production, how-ever, the show was noticeably short,clocking in at only about an hourand fifteen minutes with no inter-mission; due to this the audiencehad difficulty keeping track of themore minor characters some ofwhom, due to the play's length, hada lack of stage time.

It was, however, a stunninglywell-written, if controversial, play.Some of the humor was changedfrom Aristophanes' original play (Idoubt Aristophanes wrote of a per-fume that "smells like Mather") butI think that the audience would besurprised to find out just how muchof the original humor was present inthe play.

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Coley Parry '06 and Laura King '06 star in Aristophanes' comedy Lysistrata.

By ALEX HOB1] M.

A crowd of students gathered onthe Cave Patio for the annual rallyTake Back the Night, hosted onceagain this year by the TrinityWomen's Center this past Thursday,April 20. This is the sixth time thatTrinity has held a Take Back theNight rally on campus, and it hasbecome a well-known and respectedevent. This year, students gathered,some wearing shirts that bore themessage: Take Back the Night.

This year, Trinity's Take Backthe Night rally was sponsored bythe Women's Center, the SexualAssault Task Force (SATF), ZetaOmega Eta, the Trinity CollegeBlack Women's Organization, theSexual Assault Response Team, andthe Inter-Greek Council. Whileeach of these college sponsoredorganizations has a different focus,they combined efforts for the TakeBack the Night initiative, and pro-duced last Thursday night's rally.Hillary Bennett '07, the SATF coor-dinator said, "This year we workedwith the Greeks and the IGC tomake Take Back the Night officiallypart of Greek week. In the past therehas been tension between theWomen's Center and the Greeks, interms of people looking for a scape-goat and hoping to find it in a Greekorganization. But the fact of thematter is the problem of rape andsexual assault is not because of spe-

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cific. Greek organizations, it'sWMMMpMHHMIilliMacceptable and a larger problem ofpatriarchy and a misogynistic cul-ture."

Take Back the Night is an inter-nationally organized rally andmarch which thousands of commu-nities participate in every year. Alsoknown as "Reclaim the Night," theidea began in Belgium in 1976, dur-ing the International Tribunal on

Crimes Against Women, when*%»fi«f>fearcBe*tffthrough the citywith lit candles. While this firstTake Back the Night march wasfocused on protesting violencetowards women, the rallies haveexpanded to become a protestagainst violence to children andfamilies as well.

Other early Take Back the Night

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An Impressive number of Trinity students participated in Taking Back the Night.

Fred Pfeil MemorialProfessors and students of theTrinity community attended aPoetry Reading last week in

honor of the late Professor FredPfeil.

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Post Office CrisisStudent workers got laid-off at the

campus post office last weekbecause of an overflow of hours

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THE TRINITY TRIPOD E D I T O R I A L APRIL 25, 2006

tKrtnttpAshley Bell '08

EDITOR-IN-CHIEFDavid Pietrocola '08

MANAGING EDITOR

NEWS EDITORSAdnenne Gaffney '07

Bill Cosgrove '08

FEATURES EDITORSJenny Moor '08Lizzie Brown '09

SPORTS EDITORSGeoff Schneider '06Jason Acunzo '08

PHOTO EDITORSLiz Johnson'07

Sam Lin '07

OPINIONS EDITORSJoeTarzi'08

Ed Walters'08

ARTS EDITORSKatyNolin'08

John Rendeiro '09

ANNOUNCEMENTS EDITORLauren Turlik '09

COPY EDITORSChase Anderson '07Gwen Hopkins '08Jackie Sparks '09

ONLINE EDITOR

Mike Bojko '08

BUSINESS MANAGERSNikunj OH '08Clay Smith '08

DESIGN EDITORChelsea Naftelberg '09

CARTOONIST

Chelsea Naftelberg '09

STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Edwin Pratt '07

STAFF WRITERS

Kate Grelle '07, San-Eon Lan '09

SENIOR EDITORS

EricDaucher '06, Ben Leong '06, Lindsay North '06, Lisa San Pascual '06, Will Yang '06

Hip-Hop A Positive DirectionThe Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival

held this weekend attracted a diverse and eclec-tic group of artists and spectators from aroundthe world. From lectures on the genre's politicalmovement in Africa to inspiring and thought-provoking performances by talented lyricistsacross three days, the event is a model for stu-dents with a motivation to make something hap-pen on tliis campus.

Amid the political bureaucracy and the rhet-oric that plagues our government from gettinganything meaningful done, the festival illustrat-ed the serious potential and message of hip-hopin a global sense.

Listening to Oke describe his work atHarvard as an undergraduate and travels toNigeria, or Dola's socially conscious lyrics fromTanzania, one could gather a sense of the trueaura of hip-hop as a cultural movement outsidethe United States, In Senegal, one of the morestable African nations in recent history, rappershelped lead the latest president to victory whilecontinuing to hold him accountable for his cam-paign promises in their works well after electionday. Hip-hop as an art form has taken off to

become one of the hottest sources of poetic tal-ent and its effect on society and culture deservesthe attention that Trinity has now spearheaded inAmerica.

Trinity can serve as a point of renaissance forHartford, a city that currently sees little in theway of live music but has a great deal of poten-tial in the talent that resides within its musicalcommunity, especially the hip-hop community.Hopefully, events like this will help people seeTrinity in a new light and will encourage theadministration to dedicate more attention to thearts on campus and within the community.

Perhaps hip-hop is the class and racial bridgesociety needs. However, it will be up to eventslike the festival to pierce through the negative,capitalist-driven image now tagged to the hip-hop genre. With this first step, students herehave begun working on the crucial element ofspreading hip-hop outside urban ghetto neigh-borhoods. Of course, the other side of the equa-tion calls for consumers to stop purchasing the50 Cent, "gangsta"-fueled products. Only thenwill a greater part of society begin to recognizethe messages of the hip-hop movement.

Corrections- The track photo on page 25 of last week's issue was misattributed. The credit shouldhave gone to Sam Lin.- In last week's issue, the crew story on page 28 incorrectly presented the national rankof the men's team. The men are actually ranked tenth among all schools in the country.- Joe Tarzi's opinions piece on page 9 of last week's issue should have clarified thesource of the spring weekend budget to be the student activities fund.

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Letters to the EditorMany Obstacles to Diversity at Trinity

To the Editor:

Trinity's proverbial multicultural budget for inclusiveness andtolerance is in the red. Take for example the recent emphasis on"scholarships to support minority students," which multiculturalstudents are unfortunately portrayed as being "anxious about."Multicultural students are not the only students that are on finan-cial aid, though this illusion is propagated. The only promisingfact about the emphasis is that at least "the administration and fac-ulty [are not] so afraid of the majority" on this one. At Trinity,less than 40 percent of students are able to pay over $42,000 ayear in tuitions and fees and the risk for elitism and the class-ismis second to few "peer institutions." The Trinity Tripod's execu-tive board had it right in their editorial entitled "UnbiasedReligious Tolerance."

The administration knows that I respect them and it is withthis respect in mind that I submit that the current "spaceship" par-adigm is both disconcerting and disheartening to many in the mul-ticultural community; it provokes fear and distress on a campusthat is as open about the predominance of Greek life (which I fullysupport for its relational and transformative potential,) as it is totalk about the sense of marginalization that a seeming minority,though actual majority, feel during their four years on Trinity'scampus. Trinity was doing a better job to maintain underrepre-serited students, but few "tools" have survived to allow these stu-dents to thrive and transform our "spaceship." The administrationis reactive and not proactive in shaping Trinity's cultural and intel-lectual climate.

As one student has duly noted, the trail of lost opportunitiesbegins at pre-orientation and continues throughout the first-yearprogram. First, the cost of pre-orientation precludes many fromattending. Second, the rigorous orientation schedule does notproperly facilitate meaningful dialogue on critical and uncomfort-able topics. Third, the only other required means through whichto reach all first-year students and cultivate a sense of ownership,the First-Year program, is not structured in such a way as to allowthe continuation of dialogue, critical thinking about communitybuilding, presentations or even lectures that will propel Trinityaway from the status quo.

President Jones offered up the one and best recommendationI have heard from the administration this year. During a futurelunch in Mather, while no one is questioning why some of the ath-letes, some of the international students, and "WASP." students sittogether, he could stand up with a bullhorn and instruct all stu-dents to mix together. For a school noted in report after report forits lack of inteir6tiltuta£l atfdiriter-grtfup interaction this would be amilestone. While President Jones cannot comment on the "actualconstruction of the [Broad Street] fence because he was not atTrinity when it was built," (drug and gang activities in the 1980sthat no longer exist), this administration can oversee the system-atic dismantling of the physical fence and the invisible fence thatseparates students from students.

The problematic ethos of Trinity College is further displayednot only in the loss of community-based learning initiatives, aplan with hard money for reinstating and expansion that no onehas seen, but also with the signage that directs the campus guestaround our neighborhood. We must end going around our com-munity; pur reality is that we live, work, and play in a city. Wemust discontinue use of such terms as "Hartford local" and"neighborhood youths," not because there is anything inherentlyderogatory about these terms, but rather since they are often usedto ends that are dehumanizing, demeaning, and degrade our rela-tionship to our neighbors. It is true that we "need to have a broad-er outreach to the Hartford community," however is not because"many misconceptions about the city's residents leads to miscon-ceptions about minority students on campus." It is because welive in their community and market their every lives for our ownintellectual engagement, research, and recruiting. I make noexcuse for our neighbors that come onto campus and harm mem-bers of our college community, while I acknowledge the harmfulimages and stereotypes that we project onto "those people." Afirst-year student has noted that the disproportionate number of"Campus Safety Advisory" emails greatly influences and in somecases perpetuates the culture of fear on this campus. Guess whois the nearest target for release of this fear through glares and gos-sip? Members of our community - yes, multicultural students,especially those who look or dress like "those people."

Trinity, simply put, needs accountability. The current budgetcrunch is the quantitative equivalent of a history of poor steward-ship. Trinity can do more to recruit a more diverse faculty andstudent body not only in terms of comparable numbers, unlessbeing just up to par with our peer schools displays our leadershipin the area, but also in diversity of ideas, life experiences, andsecondary schools. At the end of the day, diversity has the follow-ing allies: the Office of the Chaplain, the Advancement Offices,our bottom line is the same, the Athletics Department, which isbecoming a model for training and mentoring to foster authenticand substantive community, the Community Service Office, andthe Women's Center. A recent Tripod article is inadvertentlyindicative of the current state of diversity on-campus; "TrinityCollege, and its minority students, still have a long way to go inthe quest" to become, simply, Trinity College.

ANTHONY L. RILEYSGA VT FOR MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS COUNCIL

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Student Workers Lose JobsTHE TRINITY TRIPOD APRIL 25, 2006

By ALEC MacCOLLNEWS WRITER

Student workers in the Collegepost office arrived at work lastMonday to see this message tapednext to their time cards: "Due torecent budget concerns, all studentshave been temporarily laid off untilfurther notice."

Earlier in the day, Charles Tartt,the office manager, received a callinforming him that $1,100remained in his budget to pay stu-dent workers for the rest the fiscalyear, which ends June 30. However,the confusion was not a result ofany reduction in the post office'soperating budget, but attributedinstead to an emphasis on fiscalresponsibility by the administration.

Since Monday, Tartt has gradu-ally hired back as many of those 24workers as possible, but with limit-ed hours. Whereas most studentspreviously worked between fiveand eight hours per week in the post

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office, Tartt now allows all studentsa maximum of three, trying to havethree students in the office each day.

"I've got some great kids," saysTartt. "Since this happened I'm justtrying to give everyone their fairshare."

The situation became immedi-ately frustrating for studentemployees, many of whom areinternational students (whose visasdon't allow them to work off-cam-pus) or to hold work-study jobs, anddepend on each pay check for billsor school expenses. "I find it outra-geous that we had to be laid off,"says post office employee NatashaRosa '08. "The majority of the stu-dents at the post office are minori-ties who don't really have any otherplace on campus to get a job ...working at the post office basicallyhelps me get by."

"Students who are on work-study depend on their earnings tohelp sustain them financially whilein college," says fellow employee

Lindsay Diaz '08. "What are wesupposed to do now? I would hopethat Trinity College wouldrearrange the budgets of otherdepartments so that student workerscan continue to work for their hardearned money."

The decision left many studentswondering why the school cannotcome up with the money to main-tain current work hours for the fewweeks remaining in the school year."I work only a couple of hours aday but that money makes a big dif-ference to my budget," says TinaNikolova '08. "I am not sure howmuch $60 or $70 per week meansfor the college, but it means a lot tome."

Student workers and theirsupervisor, Tartt, recognize that thesituation is uncomfortable foreveryone. "Some kids got mad atme when this happened," Tartt says."But I try to tell them it's not my

SGA ExecutiveBoard Elected

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, Will CyphersStudent workers who arrived at the post office last week were notified that they had been temporarily laid off.

By GABE HORNUNGNEWS WRITER

SGA President elect DevinRomanul '07 WOE office onWednesday in a close race defeatingZachary Contreras-Goukl '07, andWhitney Hart '09.

In addition, the SGA also heldelections for other positions onWednesday. The other electionresults are as follows: LuveanMeyers '07, SGA-Executive VP;Cory Edmonds '08, SGA - ExecutiveVP-MAC; Brittany English '08,SGA - Executive VP - Finance; and,Stephen Gretz Jr. '09, JacquelineMaye '08, Christina Ramsay '09,Casey Savage '09 and MatthewWrzesniewsky '09 all won their at-large senatorial races.

Out of 2,253 possible voters 925participated, representing 41 percentof the student body.

Romanul is excited by thechance to lead the SGA and work forTrinity College's student body. Hismain goal is to try and create bettercommunication between the admin-istration and the students, and holdthe administration accountable forany academic changes that are madein the coming years, he said. "We(Trinity College students) should nothave to sacrifice one bit of our edu-cation. I understand we are in tighttimes but a Trinity College educationcannot be sacrificed."

This idea serves as the basis forRomanul's agenda: He hopes to hold

directly; and, he wants to bring stu-dent and administrative leaderstogether to discuss issues aroundcampus.

Luvean Myers, the Executive VP- Elect, shares Romanul's excite-ment. "I would like to bring aboutmore involvement within the studentbody and encourage more participa-

tion. I have heard a lot of people wit!great ideas and opinions talk abouwhat should happen at Trinity and !want to give those people a voiceThe administration really does cartabout what the students have to sajso I want to relay our ideas to thenthrough SGA and the other organiza-tions on campus," she said.

Myers also stresses the importance of the student body becomingmore actively involved in the SGA"I would like to make students feelike they actually have a voice. Man}Trinity students are unsure of who tcgo to with their problems and as ;result end up complaining that the)have no power to change anything,'said Myers, who believes that SGJ4

provides students with an outlet tcvoice their concerns. "SGA has thtreputation of not having that muclpower. I am not going to tell student!that we can change eveiy problerrwhich is brought before us, buunless you tell us what is wrong wittyour college experience, we wilnever be able to change it."

In response to the President'.1

State of the College address orWednesday (see front page)Romanul expressed concern abouthe number of adjunct professor posi- .tions that the College wiIJ: be termi- ;

nating because of monetary constraints. He hopes to address this b)suggesting alternative ways for thtCollege to save money, such as cut-ting down on energy spending"Students can help here to. If we car

none efficient and use less energyWmW-'io-save sdrm

money that we can use in otheiways."

Myers shares the President-Elect's concern. Referring to the supposed 48 classes that will be cut nexsemester, Myers commented"Budget cuts are something tha

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Dinner CelebratesTrinityMen of Color

By ADRIENNE GAFFNEYNEWS EDITOR

Members of the Trinity commu-nity gathered for the Men of ColorAssociation's Men's AppreciationDinner on Friday evening. Theevent, which was planned by thewomen of MOCA and TrinityCollege Black Women'sOrganization, was meant to honor allthe work that the men of MOCAhave done throughout this year. Atthe same time, it marked the visionof a new year for the organization.

The dinner featured guest speak-er Michel Benitez Jr., the Director ofIntercultural Development atLafayette College. In his speechBenitez spoke of the role of men ofcolor on college campuses. Hespoke out about the desire of stu-dents to move to campuses likeHoward University where there aremore minorities but he urged againstthat, saying that black leaders areneeded much more at places wherethere are fewer of them. Whenspeaking of his upbringing in NewYork City's Washington Heights hesaid that the hardest thing for manystudents is leaving their homes, fam-ilies and communities to come to

college. He stressed that it is crucialto move forward but also to return tocommunities and he urged others to"step up to the plate."

After his speech, Benitez spokeabout how pleased he was to havebeen invited to speak and howimpressed he had been by the stu-dents he had met. "From what I amseeing Trinity is a wonderful place.Hartford is a beautiful city and it's anacademic haven. It's really nice to bein communities like this, as every-thing is at your fingertips. The stu-dents here are inspirational. I seethem as a box of hope. They makeme feel that at the end of the dayeverything is going to be okay."

Dean of Multicultural AffairsKarla Spurlock-Evans commented,"I was very pleased that Benitezspoke from his heart, encouragingthe young men of Trinity to recon-nect with those heroic figures whohave led the struggle for equality andfreedom and who have paved theway for this generation. Headdressed the difficult question ofthe need to remain in relationshipwith one's community of originwhile staying open to change and

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Sit-in Held in Raether LibraryBy SAN-EOU LAN

STAFF WRITER

The Student GovernmentAssociation's Student LifeCommittee hosted a sit-in protest inan effort to object to the library'shours last Wednesday night. The ideafor a sit-in protest originated at thebeginning of the year, when studentsfelt that the library needed to compro-mise for the students.

Many students feel the libraryhours are insufficient, and rank thelowest in the NESCAC. IsabelGottlieb '09, one of the organizers,feels students are being deprived ofthe library's resources. "Our library isa valuable resource that needs to bemore available for students to use; itprovides us with journals, books,computer resources, printers, and agood study environment. If theseresources are unavailable to the stu-dents, how are we supposed to utilizethem?" She went on to explain thatthe 24 hour zone lacked the resourcesof the main library, such as the bookcollections. Participants believe thatcommunication between students andthe administration were not produc-tive. Gottlieb explained, "The lack ofaction and response of the adminis-tration has led us to turn to civil dis-obedience."

Although library hours wereextended at the beginning of the year,

many students feel that it is stillinsufficient. The SGA was able tomeet with the head librarian, RichardRoss, obtaining publicity for thecause, eventually garnering the sup-port of President Jones. Zach L.Contreras-Gould '07 stated, "For theinitial hours to be extended, we metwith the head of the library, got pub-licity for the cause and eventuallyPresident Jimmy Jones felt that it wasan issue students felt strongly aboutso he extended the weekend hoursfrom a 12 p.m. opening on Saturdayand Sunday to a 10 a.m. opening."Compared to other schools in the

NESCAC, Trinity is still the last forthe amount of Ebrary hours, and theextra four hours a week did notimprove the rating. Contreras-Gouldwent on to explain, "By keeping thelibrary open till 2:30 a.m. fromSunday to Tuesday, we will place inthe top middle of the NESCAC forhaving most available library hours."

The protest began at 1 a.m. inthe Englehart reading room, whenthe library officially closed. Thelibrary staff, having heard about theevent prior to last week, did not take

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In protest of the library's hours, students remained in the library's Englehartroom all night long.

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President Jones Addresses Financial Situationcontinued from page 1

Endowment:One of the most important

things Trinity needs to do isincrease the endowment so that it ismore comparable to the institutionsthat the College competes againstfor applicants each year. Jones saidthat Bates College is the only col-lege ranked higher than Trinity onthe U.S. News and World Reportsurvey of national liberal arts insti-tutions that has a smaller endow-ment per student than Trinity. Inorder to "ensure the financial healthand institutional excellence" of theCollege, the endowment must grow.

In the past, Trinity has relied onfunds taken from the endowment topay for "costly one-time initia-tives," like the Learning Corridor,the Chapel renovations and theCommunity Sports Complex.Additionally, the College has beenusing about 6.5 percent of endow-ment funds each year, while mostcompetitor schools spend closer tofive percent of endowment funds.Taking significant funds from theendowment each year has had theeffect on the College of "living farbeyond its means in the presentwhile borrowing from the futureyear after year," said Jones. In aneffort to better manage endowmentfunds, the spending rate willdecline to 5.8 percent next year, andthe Trustees aim to reduce it to fivepercent to allow the endowment togrow.

Tuition:The president classified Trinity

as "especially tuition dependent"and noted that 71 percent of theCollege's revemie comes fromtuition. Compared to some of thetop liberal arts institutions in thecountry, that is rather high. AtWilliams, for example, only 43 per-cent of its operating budget comesfrom tuition. While most schools donot have tuition dependence that isas low as Williams's is, Jones wasadamant that "We must see ourdependency on tuition diminish."

Despite Trinity's tuition beingamong the nation's highest, tuitionand fees will rise next year by 4.5percent ($1,885 per student), a fig-ure that Jones said "is not out of linewith those increases at our sisterschools."

Financial Aid:Next year's budget for financial

aid will increase by $900,000; how-ever, only 36 percent of the class of2010 will receive financial aid. 46and 36 percent of the members ofthe classes of 2008 and 2009,respectively, receive some form offinancial aid at Trinity. Jones notedthat most peer schools have 45 oreven 50 percent of its students onfinancial aid and that the 36 percentat Trinity "puts us at a real compet-itive disadvantage in overall studentrecruitment and diversity recruit-ment efforts ... We must worktowards increasing the percentageof students on financial aid." Theadministration has reinstatedadmissions marketing funds thathad been cut in this past year'sbudget. The College hopes anincreased mailing and recruitmentcampaign will help attract increas-ingly diverse and talented classes inthe future.

Debt:Significant debt is another real-

ity that Trinity must face. TheCollege has budgeted debt serviceof $11.5 million to next year's $99.8million operating budget. The $11.5

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President Jimmy Jones gave the State of the College address last Wednesdayin McCook Auditorium.

million is 12 percent of the operat-ing budget, which Jones said "ismore than twice the debt serviceallocation of most of our peers."With $135 million in gross longterm debt, however, the Collegehad no choice but to begin payingdebt off to alleviate the strain itputs on the annual operating budg-et.

Academic Cuts:The President explained that in

Phase I of the budget cuts, "webasically took cuts everywhereelse rather than in the academiclines." When the administrationmoved onto Phase II as they con-sidered the 2007budget, "[We]had to look at theacademic budgetbecause it is thelargest singleunit within theoperating budg-et." With that inmind, InterimDean of theFaculty FrankKirkpatrick hasannounced thefollowing: 48.5fewer teachingunits and areduction of 24part-time, tempo-rary faculty"who would oth-erwise be hiredas adjunct pro-fessors to teach those courses notnormally taught by tenured,tenure-track, or long-term contractfaculty"; the freezing of vacantsalary lines; the temporary suspen-sion of Tutorial College; a$250,000 reduction in the athleticbudget; reductions in the library'sbudget; and some smaller reduc-tions "elsewhere within supportdollars." Jones said that "DeanKirkpatrick had little choice aboutwhere to take cuts in the academicbudget," and explained that theonly place "we can prune is withinthe adjunct faculty lines."

Some faculty members presentat the address expressed concernthat the reductions of adjunct fac-ulty would translate into a lack ofcourse offerings and bigger classsizes. When asked about facultymorale, Kirkpatrick said "It's notthe best," and noted that anytimecourses are cut the faculty will notbe happy. The Dean also explainedthat the courses that were cut werecourses that departments hadrequested as extras, or "coursesthat they would love to have." Healso pointed out that the Collegewill pick up 15 courses from theprofessors who would normally beteaching in Tutorial College.

Community SportsComplex:

The Trinity CollegeCommunity Sports Complex,which is slated to open this fall,will cost $385,000 to operate. Icetime will not be available for rentuntil 2008. Jones said that he hasbeen asked by many people whyTrinity is spending money on ahockey rink when it is being forcedto cut courses and teaching posi-tions.

He explained that the Collegecommitted to building theComplex long before the currentfinancial difficulties were discov-ered and that to abandon the proj-

Key Facts

- Tuition and Fees will rise by 4.5percent ($1, 885 per student)-Faculty and staff compensationwill increase by three percent-There will be a $2 millionincrease in utility costs in 2007-48.5 fewer teaching units will beoffered next year-Health benefit costs willincrease by 22 percent

ect in the middle of constructionwould have potentially souredrelations between Trinity and thecity of Hartford. Furthermore, thepresident said that unforeseencosts such as the rising price ofsteel have made the Complex proj-ect more expensive than originallythought. "If the College had knownin the late 1990s what we knowtoday ... the Complex never wouldhave been built," said Jones.

Faculty and Staff Salaries:Trinity was able to close the

books in fiscal year 2005 with abalanced budget in no small partbecause faculty and staff werewilling to forgo compensationincreases in fiscal year 2006,which ends on June 30.

Next year, faculty and staff willbe offered a three percent compen-sation increase across the board.The Financial Affairs Committeemade this recommendation to thepresident, which he said he willaccept. In the future, Jones"intends to find appropriate waysto institute proper evaluation pro-cedures ... so that Trinity canmove to a merit-based compensa-tion increase model going for-ward."

Health Care and Hamlin Hall:Despite health benefit costs to

Trinity rising by 22 percent, theCollege will take on 75 percent of thetotal cost in health care benefits forfiscal year 2007. "We felt it wasunfair to pass the bulk of those costsdirectly to all who work here," saidJones. The increase in health benefitcosts means premiums and co-pay-ments will be slight higher.

In order to help fund the increasein health benefit costs, Hamlin Hallwill no longer be open at lunch forfaculty and staff, hi the past, theCollege has subsidized lunch atHamlin for $4 per person, when (heactual cost was $10 per person,resulting hi an annual loss of morethan $200,000. The $200,000 thatTrinity saves from closing Hanilinwill be redistributed to pay for someof the health care increase. The facul-ty club will remain open. Jonesannounced that the College willunderwrite lunch at a nominal costfor faculty and staff who wish to havelunch with students in Mather Hall,the Cave or the Bistro.

Unfunded Programs:One might ask, what are the rea-

sons behind the current fiscal prob-lems at Trinity? "The simple greatestcause of our present financial dis-comfort lies in the simple fact that forover ten years, Trinity has added andadded and has never subtracted any-thing," explained Jones. He pointed

to Tutorial College,the Human RightsProgram, aQuadrennial LeaveProgram for faculty,and a SupplementalHealth BenefitProgram for retireesas examples of initia-tives that wereapproved and institut-ed without funding."Each program hasadvocates, each pro-gram is noteworthy,but each programbegan unfunded andremains unfunded tothis day," said thepresident. Lackingpermanent funding,these programs wereadded to the operating

budget year after year without any-thing else being subtracted to financethem. When the supplemental healthbenefit for retirees and their spouseswas enacted several years ago, forexample, no funds were set aside forlong-term payments. The programnow costs the operating budget$600,000 annually. "Our budgetaryassumptions on funding these sorts ofinitiatives, however honorable, werejust wrong: no school can add andadd to the expense side of the operat-ing budget without permanent, dedi-cated income sources or without eversubtracting something from thebudgetary mix," remarked Jones."Our systemic budgetary problemsits squarely there."

Urban Relations:Many students and faculty who

attended the speech were concernedthat budget cuts would affect the rela-tionship between Trinity andHartford. The president said theCollege will continue to supportTrinfo Cafe and reported that Trinityhas been asked to present a seven fig-ure proposal to a foundation thatwould support urban initiatives. Fiftypercent of any money the Collegereceives would be set aside in a per-manent endowment to support urbanoutreach programs.

Annual Fund:In fiscal year 2005, the Annual

Fund exceeded its goal by nearly$500,000, which helped balance thebudget. This year, the Annual Fund isexpected to exceed its goal again byanother $500,000 and may attract arecord alumni participation rate.However, the Annual Fund must con-tinue to grow in order to provide flex-ibility within the budget and increasefinancial resources.

Jones concluded his speech byasking everyone present to "Help usadvocate for the College and its abun-dant virtues" with regards to theAdmissions Office's attempts toattract more students; the AnnualFund; and the Dean's SearchCommittee and their efforts to find a"first-class academic leader."

The president took questions andcomments for an hour after hisaddress. In that time he said that theformer CPTV building will be usedas "swing space" over the next 20years. When construction begins onSeabury in May 2007, faculty officeswill be moved to the CPTV building.Dean of Students Fred Alford saidthat when Jarvis is under construc-tion, the College will do everything inits power to "locate every bed oncampus" and find good housing asciose to campus as possible in orderto house the 160 students displacedby the construction. He alsoexplained that there will most likelybe a relaxing of the off-campus hous-ing policy for seniors. It will cost $10million to repair the roof of Jarvis,and construction is expected to lastfor 15 months. Seabury constructionmay take even longer

"These are challenging times atTrinity, but Trinity is up to those chal-lenges," said Jones. "All of us need topass to our successors an evenstronger institution than Trinity istoday. Nothing short of this should,and indeed must, be our goal." Hewent on to say that solutions willcome "the old fashioned way: smartanalysis; considered decisions; inclu-,siveness hi that decision-making;effective communication; and advo-cacy for Trinity in the broadest way-we know how."

Lastly, Jones was optimistic thatTrinity will be a better institutionafter tackling these financial chal-lenges. "Our financial challengescannot be ignored; but this is \anexciting time to be at Trinity as wemake decisions that will help ourexcellence shine even more brightlyin the next several years. We have tofind ways to make a Trinity educationtruly distinctive within the communi-ty of liberal arts colleges in (his coun-try."

News in BriefPresident Jones to Host Town Hall

Meeting on May 4President Jimmy Jones, along with Dean of Students Fred Alford andInterim Dean of the Faculty Frank Kirkpatrick, will host a town hallmeeting on Thursday, May 4 at 6:30 p.m. hi the Washington Room.The meeting is open to the entire campus community. The Presidentsaid this meeting will give students a forum to voice any questionsand/or concerns they may have about Trinity's financial situation.

THE TRINITY TRIPOD N E W S APRIL 25, 2006

Students Protest5

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any direct action against the students.There were, however, two campussecurity guards, ensuring that proper-ty would not be damaged. One of themore pertinent concerns studentsheld was the counterproductivenature of the 24-hour zones, whichstudents feel are too small and over-crowded. The organizers hope to fur-ther extend the library hours to 2:30a.m., after which the'24-hoiir zonewould still remain open. Accordingto Contreras-Gould, "If the hours areextended to 2:30 a.m., than therewould be fewer people crowding the24-hour zones, creating a more pro-ductive environment." The students,such as Daniel McElligott '09, agreedwith the proposed extension. "I feelthat extending library hours to 2:30a.m. would be reasonable."

Charles Rua, the library'sEvening Circulation .Manager, waspresent at the protest to comment onthe growing concerns of the students."I don't really see what [the protest]is going to accomplish," he said. Hewent on to address the impracticalityof extending library hours, bringingup various issues. "To extend thelibrary hours to 2:30 a.m., we willhave to hire an additional shift, whichwould be difficult in our currentfinancial situation." Rua also showedconcern with property damage, aconstant anxiety of many librarians."Stuff disappears all the time.Students sometimes just walk outwith books, even going as far to stealcomputers."

Protest organizer Andrew Aydin'06 argued that other schools havemade such a compromise for the stu-dents. "All the scboojjs^ip.., theNESCAC, such as "Williams,Amherst, Middlebury, have all com-promised to extend their library forthe students." He went on to addressthe library's concerns with security."If the [library administration] is con-cerned with security and propertydamage ... but there are just as manysecurity guards as 4 p.m. as there areat 1:00 a.m." Contreras-Gould adds,"We all know how to take care of. thislibrary. Using fear of property dam-age as defense is not a good enoughexcuse." The SGA hopes to use theevent to reach out to the higher eche-lons of power in the college. Aydin

. explains, "The security guards herewill complain to their supervisors,

who will complain to their supervi-sors, creating a chain reaction whichwill force the administration toaddress the problem. We're also hop-ing the Board of Trustees, upon hear-ing of this, will be sympathetictowards ourcause."

The group of students, with pil-lows and laptops in hand, were readyto study in protest.of the unfair hours.Whitney Merrill '09, a casual patronof the library, felt the hours wereunfair, especially during examinationperiods. "During finals or midterms, Icome to the library more frequently,

• and the 24-hour zones are toocramped, and I can't get any workdone." The noise, however, is not theresult of the students' themselves."The space is just so small that stu-dents are crowded together, thereforeit tends to become very noisy," statesContreras-Gould.

Other students, such as LauraPomeroy '09 are regular patrons ofthe library, practically living in thelibrary.."I come to the library almosteveryday, spending at least a goodeight hours each day. If I arrive at 8p.m. and leave at around 3 a.m., Iwould consider that a good day." Forsuch dedicated students, the libraryhours are even more unfair. "If hoursare extended to 2:30 a.m., I feel moststudents will have already left thelibrary, leaving the 24-hour zonequiet enough for students who reallyneed to study, to study."

Even though there were studentswho were less than avid visitors tothe library, they still felt it was impor-tant for students to have their right tolibrary resources. Josh Gaston '09reasoned, "I feel that it's importantthat every student should have everyopportunity to a better education.Extending library hours would facili-tate that."

Several of the organizers felt thatstudents would leave after the hourswent by. However, a dedicated num-ber of students remained into the weehours of the morning. By 4 a.m., 24students had decided to stay thenight. The SGA and the Student LifeCommittee felt the protest was agreat success and Gottlieb states thatin tight of the accomplishment, "TheStudent Life Committee and the SGAwould like to thank air those whoattended Wednesday night's sit-in fora terrific turnout and for supportingour goal of higher academics atTrinity College."

SGA Minutes - Apr 24I. Approval of Last Week's MinutesII. Approval of the AgendaIII. President Report

a. U-Passi. Renewal approved

IV. Vice President Reportsa. Will

i. Greek Week last week, event on cave patioii. Hip-Hop festival was successful

b. Robi. Approved budgets for WRTC, TCERT, and TCAC

c.Anthonyi. This Saturday l-3pm, Leadership exchange, bring

old and new executive board membersV. Committee Reports

a.ERCi. Elections, 41 percent turnout, Devin elected

b. Campus Lifei. Protest in the Library

c. Campus Infrastructurei. Sent another email to Sally Katz regarding flooded

area on campus, won't have answers until early summer, want to con-tinue into next year

d. Academic AffairsVI. Old Business

a. Recycling Bins .b. Constitution ;

.'.••. i. Constitution approved

Post Office Lays Off Workerscontinued from page 3

fault, the decision came fromabove."

The "decision" is not as cut anddry as it may seem. The budgetoffice allotted the post office$40,000 for student wages for thefiscal year, which runs from July2005 to June 2006. The post office

mail, stuff mailboxes, work thefront desk and deliver mail tooffices across Trinity's 100 plusacre campus.

"I need kids here all the time,"says Tartt. "If the FedEx guy comesand dumps off a load of 300 pack-ages, they need to be dealt withright away." It's also important, hesays, to have a balance of men and

"Sure we have guys that workhere, but we're like the peanut but-ter and they're like the jelly."

-Charles Tartt, Post OfficeManager

took on 24 workers, most all ofthem returning from the previousyear, to work five to eight hours aweek at the minimum pay level.The post office also employs fournon-student employees who make aslightly higher salary.

If the post office were to divideits budget by the number of paycycles in the year, and then spendthat amount per cycle up until themost recent one ended last Monday,April 17, it would have spentapproximately $33,000 at thispoint. Of the $40,000 budget, how-ever, $38,900 has been spent todate, leading Tartt to slam on thebrakes for the remainder of the year.

Tartt says every year the postoffice is aware of its budget, butthat it's his job to hire enough per-sonnel to keep the post office func-tioning, which is a big job. Theoffice handles 25,000 to 30,000pieces of mail each month, includ-ing 3,000 to 4,000 packages.Student workers sort incoming

women. "We take packages aroundto departments in the Gator, andthe girls keep telling me they can'toperate that thing 'cause they'llbreak their nails and can't lift thepackages and stuff, so I need guysaround to do that," he says.

Tartt points out several factorsthat have caused his spending to goup this year. "This seems like basiccommon sense to me," he pointsout. "The number of students keepsgoing up, which means more mail,so I need more people to help with

, it. And then the minimum wagegoes up in the middle of the year,and suddenly I need to pay the stu-dents $7.40 an hour, and the [non-student workers] $8.40. •

"In past years, when I neededsome extra kids and I'd go over alittle bit there wasn't a problem,"said Tartt. "This is the first yearthey've brought in on the budgetthis much."

Preventing these runovers andwork stoppages is part of the fiscal

responsibility President Jones istrying to promote. "Each budgelcenter has to live within the con-fines of the approved amounts [intheir budget]. Once that allocationis gone, the money no longeiexists, in a very real way, to bespent," Jones explained.

The swimming pool, and FerrisAthletic Center in general, faces asimilar budget situation as the postoffice. Ferris is one of the College'slargest employers of work studystudents. Says Athletic DirectoiRick Hazelton, "In our departmentI have drastically cut hours o1work-study students. I have a verysmall pocket of funds to handlemuch reduced hours for two moreweeks."

Everyone involved acknowl-edges that in the future an effortshould be made to prevent such asudden cut off of work for students.Administrators agree that studeniworkers are an integral part of theCollege, functioning the way itdoes. Dean of Students Fred Alfordmentioned to the Tripod thaiWilliam Faulkner worked in themailroom of Ole Miss, and appar-ently barked to a customer that hecouldn't be jumping up every timesomeone wanted to mail a post-card, only to find that the presidentof the university stood at the win-dow. While Tartt will guaranteebetter behavior than Faulkner's althe Trinity post office, he wouldagree with the point that you neveiknow who you're helping along bymaking enough work-study jobs inthe post office a priority for theschool.

"We need all of them," he says."Sure we have us guys that workhere, but we're like the peanut but-ter and they're like the jelly."

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MOCA Members Honored Campus Safety Report

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self-development that can occur innew environments such as one findson a campus like Trinity."

This sentiment was echoed byAssociate Dean of StudentsChristopher Card who was honored

MOCA afforded me in presentingme with the award. And I accept iton behalf of my other colleagueswho are also doing great work inrecruiting and supporting our stu-dents of color. All the students whoreceived recognition at the dinnerdeserve much more, and I am hum-

"We should honor the men in ourown lives as well."

—Lynda Ikejimba '09

with an award for his ContinuousSupport and Guidance to Trinity'sMen of Color. He stressed theimportance of honoring those whohave worked to challenge the statusquo at Trinity. "This is somethingthat we need to do more regularly —support and recognize those who aremaking a difference day after day. Iam grateful for the recognition that

bled to stand in their company."The event also marked the

induction of new MOCA officers,when current chair Femi Faoye '08handed over the reins to GermaineGreene '08.and Alfonso Bui '08.Greene explained that Benitez'swords inspired his vision about thefuture of the organization saying that"its not about me or even my fellow

executive Board members. Its abouttradition and making sure MOCAleaves a good impression on theHartford community. I'm not con-cerned about being a good Co-chairor if my every move shifts MOCAinto the proper direction. As studentsof Trinity College we only get fouryears to leave our mark on this cam-pus. "

Lynda Ikejimba '09 of MOCAwas very confident about the successof the event. "I thought the dinnerwent very, very smoothly. Thingsfell into place well, we got emotion-al, and I truly believe that everyoneenjoyed themselves. It wasn't tooserious, but it was still professional.I felt like the speaker made a goodpoint of honoring our forefathers, theblack men who have helped shapedthis nation, yet still kept the messageclose to home. That is, we shouldhonor the men in our own lives aswell."

Romanul to Serve as Presidentcontinued from page 3

Trinity will have to get used to overthe next few years. That being said,48 classes is a lot of classes andalthough SGA does not have controlover the administration's budget, it isthe voice of the students," saidMyers, who plans on creating" anopen forum consisting of a mixtureof administration and student repre-sentatives to address concerns aboutclasses and future budget cuts. "Ican't promise that it will change any-thing but when the students startshowing an interest in what classesare cut and what happens with thelaige amount of rnjoijey we pay to go

here, the administration will take usseriously."

Although he has never served onthe SGA, Romanul points to other

individual basis. It has given me areal pulse to the campus - being soclose to the students."

Myers, on the other hand, has

"Budget cuts are something thatTrinity will have to get used to

over the next few years."—Executive Vice-President

Luvean Myers '07

experiences for his qualifications,such as being a Resident Assistantfor two years. " It has allowed me towork one on one with students and$ee what people's needs are on an

student government experience. Shehas been an SGA Senator for the lastyear and a half and she has been vicepresident and acting president of theClass of 2007.

The following events tookplace between April 18 andApril 24 on campus:

APRIL 18At 7:18 p.m., Campus Safetyofficers responded to a firealarm in Elton dormitory. Asmoke detector had been acti-vated on the third floor. Uponarrival, officers discoveredstudents who had burnt toast.The Hartford Fire Departmentresponded to the alarm. Theroom was aired out and thealarm was reset. There wereno reports of injuries.

APRIL 19At 7:30 p.m., Campus Safetyreceived a complaint from astudent that stated that whilehe was watching a friendlygame of Softball, he hadplaced his cell phone on abench and minutes later real-ized it was missing. The stu-dent said that he had noticedseveral individuals around thebleacher area but did notobserve anyone taking the cellphone, which was a silverSamsung. A report was madeto Campus Safety and the stu-dent was notified to call theHartford Police Department.

At 6:38 p.m., Campus Safetyreceived a complaint from astudent living in NorfhamTowers that his vehicle hadbeen broken into. A 2001 Fordhad been parked in theSummit Street lot and whenthe student returned to the lotshe found that the front grillpanel was missing from thecar. There was no other dam-age to the vehicle. A com-plaint was filed with theHartford Police Department,which is investigating theincident at this time.

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APRIL 20At 2:40 a.m., Campus Safetyreceived a report of a motorvehicle theft from the rearparking lot at Anadama dor-mitory. Officers were dis-patched and spoke to studentswho stated that the last timethey saw the vehicle was onApril 17 at 7:30 p.m. Thevehicle was a 1990 Acura.The area was checked for thevehicle with negative results.The student was notified tocall the Hartford PoliceDepartment. He registered acomplaint of a stolen vehicle.The Hartford PoliceDepartment is investigatingthe incident.

APRIL 21At 12:21 p.m., Campus Safetyreceived a report of a motorvehicle theft on SummitStreet. A student stated that hehad parked his vehicle in fronton Summit Street in front ofSummit Suites South. Whenhe came out the next day henoticed that the vehicle wasvandalized. Upon closerinspection the student foundthat the passenger side win-dow had been shattered andhis radio was missing. A com-plaint was made with theHartford Police Department.

APRIL 22At 5:42 a.m., Campus Safetyofficers responded to a firealarm at Wneaton dormitory.A shunt had been pulled onthe first floor. The HartfordPolice Department responded,as did the Hartford FireDepartment. Everyone wasasked to leave the building.There was no smoke or fire.The Hartford Fire Departmentreset the alarm.

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OPINIONSTHE TRINITY TRIPOD APRIL 25, 2006

Library ProtestersWere Misguided

By ED WALTERSOPINIONS EDITOR

Early last week, a Facebook invi-tation (if you don't understand whatthis is, ask a friend) flitted across themonitors of countless Trinity students.Entitled the "Secret Student ProtestRally," the event was scheduled tostart on Wednesday, April 19 at 11:45p.m.

I like protests. What would thisone be about? The hockey rink? Themerit scholarships? The Iraq War?Intrigued, I clicked the link and readon:

"Come sit-in in the EnglehartReading Room on Wednesday night,April 19th in a protest of our unaccept-able library hours and our administra-tion's tendency to ignore the studentbody's voice concerning academicaffairs such as library use and TutorialCollege. So come to the library onWednesday night, bring your home-work, bring a pillow, and refuse toleave when they try to kick us out intothe 24-hour zone!"

Maybe it's just me, but whenever Isee exclamation points traipsing out-side the merry realm of dialogue, theyseem either slightly crazy or slightlysilly. The last line of this invitationsuggests a bit of both: "[we'll] refuseto leave when they try to kick us outinto the 24-hour zone!" I read this lineover several times. Did they mean"Kick us out of the 24-hour zone thatwe were going to create through our

are they protesting? Moreover, ifthese people are protesting theAdministration ignoring their voices,why stage a secret student protest?Doesn't that defeat the purpose?Looks like. we're in bat country,friends.

It's tempting to write off the invi-tation, and the ensuing protest, as sim-ply one great big windmill hunt, oreven worse, as one great big ego trip.But as a protest's sole function is tospark discussion and attention to aspecific issue, let's humor the "SecretStudent Protest Rally" and examineboth its stated mission and its execu-tion.

The Student GovernmentAssociation Student Life Committee,the creator of the Facebook protest,accuses the administration of ignoringstudents' requests for longer libraryhours. Yet, on November 7, 2005, abit more than a month into our aca-demic fall terra, and more than fivemonths before this new protest, theInterim Dean of the Faculty ProfessorKirkpatrick wrote to the student body:

"After listening to the concernsexpressed by a number of students andfollowing a careful review of accessneeds based on the research and studyrequirements of our students as well asthe security of students, staff, andlibrary resources, the Raether LITCwill implement a new access policy[in which]... the hours for the 24-hourzone will be extended 24/7 throughoutthe Academic Year. [FurthermoreJthe Library will extend its Sunday andSaturday opening hours."

rCommittee doing if, apparently, thecoEective voice of the student body

orH five months ago and libraryohours were, in fact, exfenttea.'more do they want? The entire libraryopen 24 hours a day? Budget crisisaside, that's neither cost effective nor

sane. Student demand is simply notthat high. In terms of comparisons toother NESCACs, as it stands, we'rethe only school in the entire league -including the larger research universi-ty Tufts - that has a 24-hour zone. Interms of regular library hours being ]extended, only. Williams andWesleyan have longer library hoursthan we do, closing at 2:30'a.m. and 2a.m. respectively. Every other school,from Tufts to Amherst, from Williamsto Middlebury to Bowdoin, closestheir doors at the same time that wedo: 1 a.m.

With several of those schoolsawash in cash, exceptionally motivat-ed students, and in some cases, evengraduate students, you would thinksome would have much longer libraryhours than Trinity does. Yet theydon't.

Probably, these other collegeadministrators came to the same con-clusion reached here: there is notenough demand to make such a policycost effective. And on a slightly morebasic level, at two in the morning, per-haps these administrators expect thatstudents will act like real people anduse their rooms. Or, that students willact like the adults they aspire to be andplan out their day in such a way thatthey don't need to be working in thelibrary at four in the morning. Or, hereat Trinity, students, if they absolutelymust be in the library, will use the 24-hour zone. Speaking from personalexperience, I have never seen the 24-hour zone cpwdod. Ever. Hell, apartfrom exam weeks, I've rarely seen anyportion of the library crowded.

So that's the Student LifeCommittee's first reason for protest-ing. It seems moronic.

In terms of the other stated inten-tion of the sit-in, to protest TutorialCollege being cut, I honestly just don'tunderstand why it's being lumpedtogether with a request for longerlibrary hours. The only substantiveconnection I can think of is the moneythat both things would require. And ofcourse, the relatively small proportionof the student body that would actual-ly benefit from either policy beingchanged.

Now I don't profess to know muchabout Tutorial College, but afterattending both President Jones' speechon the state of Trinity last Wednesdayand reading former Tutorial Collegemember David Calder's article in theTripod last week, there seem to be sev-eral clear reasons why it's being sus-pended next year. Without getting intoa debate over the merits of the pro-gram itself, perhaps the most com-pelling reason why it's being suspend-ed is the simple fact that we're in afinancial hole deeper than theMarianas Trench. And I'm not surehow a super secret "protest rally" inthe library convinces anyone thatTutorial CoEege should stay. Theenergy expended might have beenfocused in a slightly more productiveway.

As things stand, the Student LifeCommittee and the associated protest-ers seems to be protesting absolutelynothing. They are protesting for thesake of protesting. We already haveexcellent library heiKSHad I find jthard to believe that Tutorial CoEegewill be reinstated because of a sit-in.Everyone is entirely too aware of what

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OPINIONS EDITOR

President Jimmy Jones' State ofthe College address on Wednesday,April 19 was an eye-opening eventfor me. It was the first time that Ibecame consciously aware that theadministration had other things toworry about than our (students)needs. President Jones spoke ofissues, for the most part, not of con-sequence to the students but rather tofaculty and staff— those people whoare losing their raises, pensions, and,in some cases, their jobs, because of

KMMNAffairs andKathleen BoeEiouwer invited me tojoin the two News Editors in themeeting.

My view of the administrationwas seriously altered in the lastweek because of these events. Itmay surprise people to find that theadministration is not comprised of abunch of fogies listening to BobbyDarren and The Andrews Sisters(gotta love that Boogie WoogieBugle Boy of Company B). At themeeting, President Jones and DeansAlford and Kirkpatrick actuallyseemed aware of many student con-

President Jones spoke of issues ...not of consequence to the stu-

dents hut rather to faculty andstaff- those people who are los-

ing their raises, pensions, and, insome cases, their jobs

see REBELS on page 8

what Jimmy Jones says is "not a fis-cal crisis."

As I listened to his speech at firstI was understanding; of course hehas to deal with the faculty and staffin his speech first. In many cases,they have more to lose and the issuesthe students are concerned with willbe discussed after. As his speechprogressed, however, it becamemore and more obvious that thepresident was not going to directlyaddress the students in his speech.This prompted me to ask the ques-tion directly following his speech:"Who's talking to the students?" "

Tire answer- actually surprisedme. President Jones seemed gen-uinely unaware that he would haveto address student concerns at the—oor>Vi but informed me that the fol-

lowing day he wouia w

cerns, but were confused as to howto approach and talk to us (a problemthat many student organizations alsoface here at Trinity). After a fruitfuldiscussion, we came to realize thatthe best way for President Jones andthe administration would be for himto stage a town hall meeting, some-thing very similar to the the State ofthe College address except gearedtoward students rather than faculty.

What really struck me is howinvested the administration is in thefuture of Trinity. If one really thinksabout it this makes complete sense,but if you listen to people like thelibrary protesters (see Ed Walters'article) you might believe that thestudents and the administration areon different sides. That is simply nottrue. There is, however, a severegap between the administration and

the students, probably one thatshould be filled by the StudentGovernment Association, but as weall know the SGA is a useless entityin its current form. I personallyapplaud the administration for start-ing to reach out to the studentsdespite the lack of a competent stu-dent organization at the other end todo the same thing.

First, however, the administra-tors need to realize a few things.Despite the fact that many of us areintelligent and concerned aboutTrinity, many of us are also unin-formed, angry and looking for some-one to lash out at because our class-es are being cut. President Jonesneeds to be prepared for attacks fromstudents if he really wants to addressus; the art of diplomacy that the pres-ident practices very well is not yetingrained in- some of us.Additionally, the fact that at ourmeeting when I inquired as to whatCornerstones really was PresidentJones directed me to theCornerstones web site, this was notencouraging. I have the patience togo to the Cornerstones web site andread about the project but many ofyou don't — and really have too muchto do to dig around the web site find-ing out what the Cornerstones proj-ect is up to these days.

The town hall meeting PresidentJones set up is tentatively set up tobe at 6:30 p.m. in the WashingtonRoom on Thursday, May 4.Hopefully most of us will havesobered up by then and hopefully -we - instead of resorting to the"hearsay and rumor" that JimmyJones says that he will not respond to— will ask specific and direct ques-tions so that we don't have toassume, for example, that we arebeing cheated out of library hourswhen we in fact have longer libraryhours than Yale University.

If there are only 20 students atthis town haE meeting, I think thatthe administration should consider ita success, especially on a campuslike Trinity College.

3 THE TRINITY TRIPOD O P I N I O N S APRIL 25, 2006President Jones

AnswersStudents'Questions

"What do you hope studentsgained from your State ofthe College address? Whatis the central, most impor-tant message that you hadhoped to get across?"

Since my wife and I firstarrived at Trinity, it is truethat I have had to grapplewith a fact from which I aspresident could not flinch:that the College had forsome years been spending

more each year than it had in revenue. I often think ofschools in the same manner as I think about families.One can judge a family's true values not by how the fam-ily does when everything goes perfectly (admittedly, arare event) but by how the family reacts when things donot go as one would have either planned or hoped.

hi the last 10 years, remarkable things have occurredon Trinity's campus, as I tried to note in the address lastWednesday, delivered at two times so that as many mem-bers of our community as possible might hear the address'and be able to ask questions or make comments as need-ed. Trinity engaged south Hartford by the LearningCorridor initiative, a stunning building was built foradmissions, financial aid, and career serves. The Summitresidence halls were constructed. The Northam Arch wasconceived. Landscaping was improved. The Chapel,having fallen prey to the decades, had to be shorn up.Programs were added across the board.

No one could argue against repairing the Chapel, orbuilding the buildings, or redoing the plantings, or tryingto improve our offerings. But at the end of the day, eachof us would have to admit, given the financials, thatTrinity overreached and under funded these initiatives.Schools across the country, as the Hartford Courantnoted in its front-page article on Friday morning, have tocope with financial realities. I think of these realities asbudgets hit by unforeseen meteors that just come streak-ing out of the sky and hit home. Two of the biggestfinancial meteors that have hit Trinity's budget are theescaiation of health care benefits for faculty and staff andthe abrupt rise in utility costs. In the first instance,Trinity had to engage a 22 percent increase in health carebenefits for our faculty and staff. This jolt was softenedby five percent by recommendations to me from the fac-ulty's Financial Affairs Committee that would increase,slightly, co-pays and premiums by shifting five percentof the increase to individual members of our community.But that left a staggering 17 percent increase unfunded.We funded the increase in the budget that goes into effecton July 1, 2006 for the next fiscal year because we feltthat doing so was the right thing to do. In the secondinstance, we had no choice but to increase the utilitybudget by two million dollars in order to cover what wenow project would be the actual costs to the College inthe next fiscal year.

As each of us knows in our own families, whenfinances get stretched, choices have to be made. Andsometimes those choices are unavoidable, as is the casehere at this time in Trinity's history. Whatever we do,there will be voices opposed to the decisions. This is asimple reality. Individuals will have different, most oftenopposing, views of what should be cut, by whom, andhow. In the academic budget, by far the largest inside theoperating budget of the College, between five percentand six percent of the courses offered will be loweredbecause of our over-reliance on adjuncts. This decreasemay well mean that departments will have to look care-fully at the full panoply of courses offered our students,but the quality of the undergraduate experience at Trinityshould remain sound.

We now move forward, in what I have taken to call-ing Phase Three, to produce five-year financial forecastswith which we can plan more carefully for Trinity'sfinancial future. The reactions I have had from lastWednesday continue to impress me with the dedicationmy colleagues on the faculty and staff have for this ven-erable College of ours.

President Jones will be holding a speech followed by aQ & A session specifically for student concerns on

Thursday, May 4th, at 6:30 pm in Mather HalL

Please send any questions for President JimmyJonestoiripod@trincoH.edu

A Draft May be NecessaryBy SAN-EOU LAN

STAFF WRITER

The fearful prospect of a nationaldraft is not a novel one. The dread ofconscription has plagued the nationever since its inception. From the draftriots in New York during the CivilWar to the hotly contested draftprotests of the Vietnam War, theUnited States bears the scars of thisfailed convention. America's occupa-tion of Iraq has once again brought upthe issue of conscription. BothDemocrats and Republicans howl inprotest if the issue is ever brought upbecause the failure of the Vietnamdraft is embedded in their minds. Itmust be noted, however, thatAmerican troops are there to stay inIraq. Although the war was carried outin a terrible fashion, the United Statesmust make the commitment to finishthe job the government started.

That being said, it is clear that thefailure of the military in Iraq is relatedto the fact that America has an all-vol-unteer army. The American, army hasdwindled in size over the pastdecades, ever since the fiasco of theVietnam War. America's all-volunteermilitary simply cannot deploy andsustain enough troops to succeed inplaces tike Iraq while still deterringthreats elsewhere in the world. Simplyadding more troops, a solution cur-rently used, may sound like a goodsolution. America does not need a big-ger standing army; it needs a deepbench of trained soldiers held inreserve who can be mobilized to han-dle the unpredictable but inevitablewars and humanitarian interventionsof the future.

A modernized draft, however,would demand that the privileged par-ticipate. Minorities comprise 38 per-cent the military, compared to the 30percent minorities that compose thenation. A draft would ensure that thecurrent situation in Iraq, as well asconflicts in the future, will not be "arich man's war, but a poor man'sfight." A national draft would give allwho serve a choice over how theyserve. It would provide the military,on a "just in time" basis, large num-bers of deployable ground troops.

Before addressing the outline of apotential draft, it must first be arguedwhy the current deployment is insuffi-cient. Although the U.S. military iscomprised of 1.4 million active-dutytroops, 870,900 reservists, and110,000 individual ready reservists, anIraq deployment has never exceeded153,000 ground personnel. First, theentire Navy and Air Force must bededucted from the count; the Iraqoccupation has always been a groundwar, hence an Army and Marine oper-ation. Next, consider that the UnitedStates sends into combat not individ-ual soldiers, but units, complete withunit equipment sets, unit leaders, andan organizational structure. Instead ofcounting individual soldiers — ameaningless exercise -- one must look

at how many units the U.S. could the-oretically put on the ground. With themobilization of every active andreserve soldier, that would roughly be600,000 troops. Given the need towithhold troops for deterrence purpos-es, the Pentagon had perhaps 400,000troops available for the invasion.

Yet even that number is not cor-rect, as that figure includes specializedfields that are of little or no use indesert warfare or peacekeeping — off-loading equipment hi sea ports, forinstance. Therefore the figure isdecreased to approximately 250,000to 300,000. In addition, these troopswould consist of the initial force, notthe number that could not have beensustained there for no longer than twoyears. Taking the need for rotationsinto account, then, the U.S. militarycan handle around 80,000 troops inIraq at any one time. Keeping so manytroops, however, would risk loweringmorale, destroying America's all-vol-unteer army. It would have been likeplowing a field with a Ferrari; it couldhave been done, but only once.Therefore, the actual number on theground has averaged 133,286 for thelast two years.

Even with such figures, the mili-tary is still in jeopardy. The militaryhas even necessitated calhng up all 15of the National Guard's enhancedreadiness brigades, as well as poorly-resourced National Guard divisionsthat have not been mobilized en massesince the Korean War. America's armyhas already been stretched to its limits,which will be broken if another majorconflict were to arise, such as animplosion of the North Koreanregime, a Chinese attack on Taiwan,or some other humanitarian night-mare.

Theoretically, America has sever-al options to resolve the military bind,The first option is to convince othercountries to share the burden in Iraq.Even if the security situation in Iraqand the administration elected to sharedecision-making in Iraq, Europeanleaders are wary of supporting a warthey vehemently opposed. A secondsolution would to rely more on mili-tary contractors, usage of which hasexploded in recent years. However, itis one thing to contract truck drivers; itis another to contract security forces,or even worse, interrogation linguists.In addition, is not necessarily cheaperto contract forces than it is to maintainthe military. Many have suggested acomplete overhaul of the armedforces, including a downsizing of theNavy, and redeploying tens of thou-sands of troops into "soldier-centric"units capable of doing everythingfrom humanitarian relief to combatpatrol. Although this would solve thecurrent problem, there will come a daywhen a war arrives which requires allkinds of combat power - from largeland-based formations to ships capa-ble of sailing through the TaiwanStrait to legions of peacekeepers. Themilitary cannot afford to build addi-

tional capability by shifting troopsaround; at some point, the Army mustgenuinely increase in actual troopnumbers. A fourth option, and themost obvious one, would be to simplyincrease the size of the active-dutyforce. With the pool of potential sol-diers drastically declining, and themilitary cutting back on requirementsto join, this is simply not possible.

The United States does not need amassive standing military all the time.What America needs in terms of anarmy is a highly trained professionalforce of a certain size — what we havenow is fine — supported with a mas-sive surge capacity for times of emer-gency. The draft situation of theVietnam War, a lottery with noexemptions for college students, was adisaster, providing the military with aforce of less-than-motivated troops. Abetter solution would be to fix theweaknesses of the all-volunteer forcewithout undermining its strengths.

Instead of a lottery, the federalgovernment should impose a require-ment that no four-year college or uni-versity be allowed to accept a student,male or female, unless that studenthad completed a 12-month to two-year service. Unlike the old-fashioneddraft, this 21st-century servicerequirement would provide the vitalelement of personal choice. Studentscould choose from myriad options,including Americorps (tutoring disad-vantaged children), HomelandSecurity, or the military. Whicheveroption they choose, all who servewould receive stipends and G.I. Bill-type college grants. Those signing upfor longer and riskier duty wouldreceive higher pay and larger collegegrants. Even if only 10 percent of onemillion young people who annuallystart at a higher education institution,

; the „ armed forces would receive100,000 fresh recruits every year.These troops would not be the dis-gruntled soldiers of the Vietnam War.Those who choose to serve in the mil-itary as opposed to the other fieldswould be more motivated, and beingcollege-bound, they would - to agreater extent than your average vol-unteer recruit — the savvy and inclina-tion to pick up foreign languages andother skills needed for peacekeeping.

A 21 st-century draft would have aseries of benefits for society. It wouldinstill a new ethic of service in thatsector of society, the college-bound,most likely to , reap the: fruits .ofAmerican prosperity. It would mobi-lize an army of young people for vitaldomestic missions, such as helpingsenior citizens in their daily tasks. IfAmerica wishes to retain the crown ofglobal leadership, it must develop amilitary structure capable of persever-ing under these circumstances.Although many, including mostTrinity students, will howl at this pro-posal, it is a necessary one, and I forone am willing to suffer the jeers toprovide an alternative to the currentsituation. •

Rebels Without a Cause or Cluecontinued from page 7

illuminate previously unacknowl-edged problems. The only thing thisprotest has done is illuminate all thetime people have on their hands. Andall the time they're willing to waste.

I saw about 50 students at thelibrary this past Wednesday night par-ticipating in the "protest." None ofthem were using the library to study.They were socializing and eatingpizza. By 4 a.m., about five girls wereleft, all asleep, in the morning, librarystaff found condoms, whiskey, andused pizza boxes where the protesthad taken place.

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u anytmng, this only further

undermines this stupid protest's case.If they can budget time for a protest at12 a.m., they can budget for studyingor checking out books before 1 a.m.Through their protest, all that theStudent Life Committee has demon-strated is that they are either severelyuninformed as to library hours andbudgetary considerations, or farworse, that they're attention cravingwhores with no ideological compassand no common sense.

I see no other rational explanation,behind their behavior. There is nomoral urgency and there is certainlvno pragmatism "" i V ' . , '.~J •

..̂ •.u wiinin their complaintsor requests, which is interesting, asthey chose to accompany their

Facebook invitation with a picture ofstudents protesting the Vietnam War.

It is protests of this sort that dam-age, by association, organizations likethe SGA, and other valuable protestsin general. They become viewed as acollection of egotistical blowhardsinstead of a collection of socially andscholastically minded individuals. Ittruly is hard to take anything the SGA -does seriously when it attaches itsname to protests such as these.Particularly when the SGA Presidenthimself, Narin Prum'Ofi =w<—'-~"r':"f^n • :-•—•'" - - , CMOUOSS the

iuuowing inspiring comment to theinvitation:

"I'm bringing poker cards andchips!"

THE TRINITY TRIPOD O P I N I O N SAPRIL 25, 2006

Trin Must Opt out of RankingsBy BEN SCHACHTOPINIONS WRITER

The recent budget crisis hascaused quite a bit of hand wringingover the fate of Trinity's standing inthe U.S. News and World Report col-lege rankings. Already teetering pre-cariously at number 25, Trinity risksdropping precious places as individ-ual budgets are cut across the board.It is conventional wisdom that theU.S. News and World Report rank-ings are extremely influential, play-ing a large role in the talent of eachnew applicant pool, and many areleft wondering what Trinity shoulddo to counteract the potential disas-ter of slipping below number 25.

But surprisingly, the answer ismuch simpler than it may appear:boycott the U.S. News rankings alto-gether. This solution seems outra-geous, I know; however, boycottingthe rankings carries many advan-

"[We should]boycott theU.S. News

Rankings alto-gether."

tages. First, and most importantly,the U.S. News rankings play aninsidious role in socioeconomic dis-crimination in higher education.Second, Trinity could carve out aplace for itself as an alternative col-lege, unwilling to capitulate to thedemands of an unfair and inaccurateratings system.

U.S. News relies overwhelming-ly on SAT scores as an indicator of acollege's worth, and SAT scores aredemonstrably skewed to favor afflu-ent students. The more money a stu-dent's parents earn, the more likely itis the student attends a good highschool and has access to innumer-able SAT preparatory classes andresources. In fact, studies show thatSAT scores correlate more closelywith family income than grades incollege, the category they weredesigned to measure. Because col-leges are heavily invested in theirU.S. News rankings, they recruit stu-dents with higher SAT scores and, inturn, discriminate against studentswith lower ones — students who sim-ply do not come from as muchmoney as others.

Ok, but this is old news, we haveknown that SAT scores are no goodfor a long time, and, despite the timehigh school students spend poringover college rankings, we know thatthe ranking system is bunk too.However, the catch is that the U.S.News rankings take money awayfrom financial aid and put it towardmerit-based scholarships that favormore affluent students. EconomistRobert Kuttner sums it up thus:

"[TJoday's 'merit scholarships'are primarily bait to attract studentswith very high SAT scores who don'tneed the aid. The flip side is less aidavailable to students from less afflu-ent families, who can't attend collegewithout aid, or who must sacrificeacademic work to paid jobs, or whograduate with staggering debtloads."

Moreover, as tuition continues to

rise, lower and middle class studentsare doubly discriminated against:diminished financial aid budgets ontop of higher tuition.

Trinity should stop participatingin such a slanted, discriminatory sys-tem. It is nearly impossible for

"Trinityshould stop

participatingin such a

slanted, dis-criminatory

system."

many to imagine higher educationoutside the familiar world of U.S.News.

At first glance, it may seemimpossible to recruit talented stu-dents without the help of a goodranking. But this does not have to bethe case. Trinity could make a state-ment against the rankings systemand thereby carve out a space as analternative college, willing to take astand and pursue education in a gen-uine way. A well-known college likeTrinity could make big news bymaking such a statement, andundoubtedly this press could giveTrinity the advantage of articulatinga vision for alternative college edu-cation. Lest this seem a mere fanta-sy, for several years now ReedCollege in Oregon has refused tocooperate with U.S. News, and it hasseen anything but failure. Trinityshould follow Reed's example andboycott this sham of a system.

Along the Long WalkWhat did you think of the Hip Hop Festival?

Free Speech notOften Free in China

'I really liked it. It was a good alternate to theusual frat scene."

LAURA KINGCLASS OF 2006

"What I saw was good."PATRICK CAHILL

CLASS OF 2006

"I saw about three different performers. Theywere bad-ass. The social activism in the lyrics

was great and dancing is always fun!"JILLHOCKETT

CLASS OF 2007

'The graffiti was great!"GABEHORNUNG

CLASS OF 2007

By KATE GRELLESTAFF WRITER

Last week, with President Bushat his side, Chinese President HuJintao opened his speech at theWhite House with a few innocuouscomments on the mild weather.However, the bland beginning wasgiven the Emiril Lagasse treatmentwhen a heckler shrieked out inprotest from the media box.According to an April 21 Reutersarticle, Wang Wenyi, a 47 year oldmember of the Falun Gong spiritualmovement, shouted, "President Hu,your days are numbered. PresidentBush, make him stop persecutingFalun Gong." The woman has sincebeen convicted and charged with"harassing, intimidating and threat-ening a foreign official." She facesup to six months in jail for what shedescribed as "an act of conscience."

Despite the repercussionsWenyi faces for her actions, shewas largely successful in bringingattention to the Falun Gong move-ment which, up until now, hadreceived little attention from theAmerican Press. Before going fur-ther, it is important to first shedsome light on the nature of the prac-tice.

Though there is no shortage ofinformation on Falun Gong avail-able on the internet, the veracity ofsuch information is questionable atbest. Advocates characterize FalunGong as a peaceful spiritual move-ment unjustly persecuted by theChinese Communist Party. Criticsargue that the Falun Gong is a cultthat advocates practices which haveproven to be lethal for some of its

'&tl8w$tir*tA troth, neither depic-tion is completely true, nor is eithertotal fabrication.

According to a CongressionalResearch Service (CRS) reportissued January 23, 2004, the prac-tice and beliefs of Falun Gong "arederived from qigong, a set of move-ments that stimulate the flow of qi- vital energies or "life forces" —throughout the body, and Buddhistand Daoist concepts. Falun Gongupholds three main virtues — truth-fulness, compassion, and forbear-ance — and warns against material-ism and "moral degeneration."Thanks to Li Hongzhi, a veritableFalun Gong svengali, the move-ment quickly spread throughoutChina in the early 1990s.

Though seemingly harmless,not all of the tenets of Falun Gongare absent from any negative impli-cations. The Falun Gong shun con-ventional medicine, and this aver-sion has been cited as the cause ofdeath for a number of followersfrom otherwise easily treated ail-ments. The strict adherence to suchdoctrines, combined with the rever-ence of Falun Gong practitionersfor their spiritual leader, LiHongzhi, has led some critics toassess that the movement is a cult.Yet, experts have not reached a con-sensus on the matter, particularlysince the movement advocatespeace rather than violence toachieve their objectives. The CRSnoted that those objectives are"limited in scope ... [adherentsclaim] that they have no politicalagenda beyond protecting the con-stitutional rights of practitionersand'that they receive little directionfrom Master Li."

The danger that the Falun Gongposes to itself pales in comparisonto that posed by the Communistgovernment of the People'sRepublic of China (PRC). Since

1999, the PRC has forbidden thepractice of Falun Gong. As is thecase with any popular ideology out-side of that advocated by the PRC,it posed a "threat" that needed to besuppressed before it could spreadfurther. Among the numerous websites that have been blocked by theParty are sites that provide informa-tion on Falun Gong {includingWikipedia). The censorship is farfrom being the most objectionableaction taken by the Chinese govern-ment. The accusations leveled byfollowers against the governmentare far graver and deeply disturb-ing.

The most horrifying accusa-tions against the PRC includeclaims that the Chinese governmenthas harvested organs from convict-ed Falun Gong followers. The gov-ernment has been accused by FalunGong advocates of throwing thou-sands, if not millions, of convictsinto concentration camps darklyreminiscent of those used by theNazis at Auschwitz and Dachau.While these claims have yet to beverified, it is largely accepted bythe international community,including the United States govern-ment, that the PRC is guilty of anumber of human rights abuses intheir actions against the FalunGong.

In President Hu's defense, thepersecution of the Falun Gong waschiefly an act begun by his prede-cessor, Jiang Zemin. However, Huhas not made any decisive efforts tocall an end to the persecution, andthat inaction is almost as incrimi-nating as calling for the suppressionin the first place. In light of this,tfie paradoxical nature of the UnitedStates' relationship with China isapparent.

Though ideally the President ofthe United States should haveaddressed the Falun Gong issue,unfortunately, the reality of the sit-uation makes doing so challenging,particularly for the diplomaticallyinept. The rate of China's econom-ic growth in recent years has beentruly mind boggling. At the sametime, the Bush Administration hassucceeded in turning our budgetsurplus into a deficit unprecedentedin magnitude. Should China decideto call for repayment on even a por-tion of the money that we owe themat this point, we would be, in aword, screwed. So staying inChina's good graces is definitely inour best interests, both economical-ly and also in light of the paucity ofthe remaining allies we have to sup-port us.

So, then, is the United Statesright to essentially ignore thehuman rights abuses in China?

This is surely not the first timethe Administration has been guiltyof doing so (think Darfur).However, until we have a leader atthe helm who is able to strike a bal-ance between diplomacy andauthority, taking action that wouldrequire such skills would most like-ly .yield disastrous results. In themeantime, hopefully the attentiongarnered by Ms. Wenyi will lead tomore decisive measures by theUnited Nations. And maybe hellwill open its first ice skating rinknext month.

It goes against my deepest con-victions to argue that the UnitedStates should not act more proac-tively to bring this injustice to anend. Yet, to rely on the BushAdministration to do so would be to(no pun intended) release theproverbial bull in the China Shop.

Thou Shall Remember

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Thursday,April 27, 20064:30 p.m.

Trinity College HillelZachs Hillel House74 Vernon StreetHartford, CT

Alvin Corwin served as captain in an anti-aircraft unit during World War IIand was awarded the Bronze Star. He was one of the liberators of the FrodenheinLabor Camp and was the commander of displaced persons camps in Germanyafter the WWII. Corwin is the Executive Director of Investments for Oppenheimerand Co. in New York. He is a past national president of the National Federationof Temple Brotherhoods, a past national chancellor of the Jewish ChautauquaSociety, served as vice-president and Brotherhood president of his synagogue,and has been honored by the United Jewish Appeal.

Free and open to the public.

Reception to follow presentation.

For more information, please call 297-4195.

For driving directions, click on www.trincoll.edu/hillel.

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FEATURESTHE TRINITY TRIPOD APRIL 25, 2006

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An Evening of Poetry in Honor of Beloved Fred PfeilBy KATIE DALLY

FEATURES CONTRIBUTOR

Trinity's Beloved EnglishProfessor Fred Pfeil was honoredwith an evening of poems entitled"Pulling The Head Away From Fire"this past Thursday. Friends, fellowfaculty, and students joined togetherto remember Pfeil's legacy and sharesome of his favorite poems. Uponarrival, every audience member orparticipant received a book of thepoems read that evening — a collec-tion entitled "What They Tell YouTo Forget" -- and clearly over-whelming care and dedication wereput into a memorable evening ofremembering Pfeil.

Trinity English Professor LizLibbey spearheaded the memorialevening along with Pfeil's wife, ElliFindly, of Trinity's ReligionDepartment. In welcoming theaudience and readers, Libbeyexplained how the diverse collectionof 48 poems that would be sharedwas a selection of just some ofPfeil's favorite poems. She saidthat, to Pfeil, "poems were theentrees of choice on the life table ...some are good tasting, or leave abad taste." The myriad of poemsshared reflected this broad spec-trum; both lively springtimeromance poems and darker verseson topics of war and death wereshared Thursday evening.

Findly opened the reading withan invocation, and read the first andlast stanzas from one of Pfeil'sfavorite Buddhist prayers, the Hsin

Hsin Ming. The Hsin Hsin Ming isactually comprised of about 30 stan-zas, and while Findly read only two,she did acknowledge with pride thatPfeil had memorized and couldrecite the prayer in its entirety.

English Professor Lucy Ferrissalso read early in the program, andshared a poem called "The Dream,"which was written by Pfeil, whichshe noted that she had read at his

memorial service. In adding a per-sonal touch to her interpretation ofthe poem, Ferriss said that to her,"after Fred passed away it suddenlybecame clear." Immediately follow-ing Ferris, Poetry Center coordina-tor Pam Nomura read "Asking" byHu'u Thinh. She shared that herselection felt appropriate for theevening, because asking was "some-thing Fred did a lot of, of himself

and us."The poems carried a reflective

mood throughout the evening.Many readers shared poems whichthey personally connected to Pfeil,through shared past experiences.English Professor and poet ClareRossini read one of her own poems,entitled "Man Crossing Street WithEyes Closed," which was aboutPfeil. In the first of two pre-record-

ed segments of the evening, TomMolko and Margaret Gibson's voic-es were heard reading their ownpoems: "Just Missing Fred" and"Transparent." English ProfessorIrene Papoulis also read one oiPfeil's original poems, called"Generations," which was poignantboth in text and in recitation.English Professor and WritingCenter Director Beverly Wall read apoem by Wilfred Owen, "Dulce EtDecorum Est," a fierce condemna-tion of war, which certainly refer-enced Pfeil's dedicated politicalactivism and deep-seeded views onwar.

Late in the program, Ferriss read"Sonnet XXX" by Edna St. VincentMillay, a love poem which Ferrissnoted had been read at her wedding.She did add, however, a note toPfeil: "I wish I could have heard youread it, you would have read itright." With melancholy, she alsostated that it made her regret theconversations she never had withPfeil. Libbey also read a sadness-laced sonnet, Rainer Maria Rilke's"Sonnet XIII". She prefaced thepoem, which directly addressesone's passing, with the highly appro-priate Buddhist proverb that reads:"All things are born of being, beingis bora of non-being."

One of the final readers of theevening, vibrant English ProfessorFrancisco Goldman read "OnAngels" by Czeslaw Milosz and"Jasmine" by Jane Hirschfteld. He

S arii LinProfessor Paul Lauter was one of the late Professor Fred Pfeil's colleagues who shared poetry at the Memorial Reading. see TRINITY on page 13

Psi Chi Inducts its Mtinrifcefeases ikltMade UpNewest Members

By GRIHA SINGLAFEATURES WRITER

Susan Masino, a third-year pro-fessor of both Psychology andNeuroscience, welcomed studentsto the Psi Chi induction ceremonyon Wednesday afternoon. Shebegan by explaining that becominga member of Psi Chi, the nationalhonor society in psychology, is agreat honor and distinction thatwill last a lifetime.

Since its creation in 1929, PsiChi hopes to "encourage, stimu-late, and maintain excellence inscholarship of the individual mem-bers in all fields, particularly psy-chology, and to advance the sci-ence of .psychology." Today, the

society welcomes graduate andundergraduate students who arepursuing psychology as one oftheir major interests, even if thestudent is not majoring in the sub-ject of psychology. There are over1,000 Psi Chi chapters in universi-ties and colleges across the UnitedStates and Canada.

In order to qualify for member-ship, undergraduates have to passcertain requirements. Studentsmust have completed at least theirthird semester in college and havefinished nine . classes relatingspecifically to psychology.Students are also required to be inthe top 35 percent of their year and

see PSYCH on page 14

By JENNY MOORFEATURES EDITOR

Sam Lin

Psi Chi inducts Trinity students who are accomplished in psychology.

Since graduating from Trinity in1993, Media awareness activist,Audrey Brashich, has dedicated hercareer to dispelling the detrimentalmessages this industry can promoteamong its female followers.Currently, Brashich is on the boardof directors of Mind on the Media:a non-profit organization that con-sults with national corporations oncreating programs which encouragegirls to cultivate healthy and realis-tic perspectives on beauty and bodyimage, in contrast to those generat-ed by the media. Brashich is alsothe author of a new book for teengirls entitled "All Made Up: AGirl's Guide to Seeing ThroughCelebrity Hype and CelebratingReal Beauty." Last week, Brashichspoke to the Tripod about her expe-riences at Trinity and how theyenabled her post grad professionalpursuits.

Trinity Tripod: Could you give ourreaders a general sense of yourrecent publication, "All Made Up."What is the main focus of the book?What kind of audience are you tar-geting? What issues you are hopingto address?

Audrey Btashich: To start, let mesay that I don't believe that there'sanything inherently wrong withcelebrity, modeling, being a popstar, etc. However, I do think thatthe spotlight needs to be broadenedto include women who've accom-plished more than meeting com-mercially-driven beauty standards,which is something the womenmost frequently celebrated in themedia today have in common. All

Courtesy of Audrey BraschichAudrey Brashich '93 majored in Modem Languages while at Trinity.

Made Up is a media literacy andbody image book for teen girls thatbasically deconstructs the intersec-tion between celebrity worship/sta-tus and contemporary definitions offemale success and beauty. It's notmeant to be a tour of the "dark side"of fame or anything like that. It'smeant to raise questions aboutwhich qualities our pop culture cel-ebrates in women, and how girlscan make changes.

Let me also say that I was a teenduring the height of the SupermodelEra, and it greatly affected me. Iwanted to be a model more thananything else. Those were the

women who everyone knew (on afirst name basis, nonetheless!) andwho reportedly didn't get out of bedfor less than $10,000 a day. Theywere praised and copied, and heldup as ideals. When I was younger, Inever thought much about the factthat the same attention and ink inthe media wasn't given to otheraccomplished women ... and it did-n't bother me. I also didn't spendmuch time wondering about wheremy dreams came from, or what itmeant to want to be famous forbeing thin and pretty when I had a

see AUDREY on page 12

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Audrey Brashich Recalls Trincontinued from page 11

world of opportunities (goodschools, sports, extracurriculars,etc.) being handed to me. I saw thesupermodel lifestyle and I wanted itfor myself.

After college, I started workingat teen magazines like Sassy, YMand Jump, where I was hoping tomake changes from within by pitch-ing really smart articles. I wasamazed by the amount of lettersthat flooded in from all over thecountry from teen girls who weredreaming the same dream as I was.It didn't matter if the return addresson their envelopes revealed thatthey lived in an affluent suburb or arural area or in the inner city. Somany of them sent in their schoolphotos, or pictures snapped of themin their backyards wearing a bikini,with letters that read "Dear YM" or"Dear Jump" etc. "I'm dying to be amodel (or actress or singer). Canyou help me?" And of course, itwasn't that they were actually dyingto help sell clothes, or become leg-ends on Broadway ... but rather thatthey wanted the fame and life thatthey see women in those profes-sions leading. It's because they'dsee women who have the right lookand label enjoy the most unbeliev-able rewards: media attention,astronomically high salaries, glam-our and fame. And all that sends themessage that it pays better and it'smore fun and important to look andact like this than possibly to pursueother opportunities available towomen. What young women needto know is that the media and themanufacturers that hire them have agreat financial stake in definingfemale beauty ai\d success in a waytTaat benefits them. And since theylargely make the decisions of whatgets seen and what doesn't, theypromote a look and a definition thattakes a lot of time, money, servicesand products to achieve. The prob-lem for girls and young womenends up being that from a very earlyage, since these commercially-driv-en definitions are what they're

exposed to, is that it's very easy toget derailed from their own naturaldreams, interests, talents becausethose things aren't rewarded in ourculture.

Tripod: Is this your first book? Howlong did it take you to write/getpublished?

Brashich: All Made Up is my firstbook ... but as you can see the ideashave been kicking around for awhile. The actual writing tookabout a year and a half, but that'sincluding all sorts of delays liketurning in a draft and waiting up tosix weeks, sometimes, for both myeditor and publisher to read it and

"This booknever wouldhave hap-pened if

Trinity hadn'tlet me create aminor around

a topic thatinterested

me."— AudreyBrashich

make comments. So it's tough tosay what the "real time" wouldhave been if I had just sat down towrite it. That's also the differencebetween non-fiction (which cantake more time due to interviews,research, fact checking, etc.) andfiction (which an author might justwrite from her imagination). Theactual time it took to leam to writea nori fiction book proposal, queryliterary agents, get a book deal andwrite the book was more like athree year process all told.

Tripod; Can you tell me a little bitabout your background in publish-ing up until this point?

mm, amCourtesy of Audrey Brashich

Brashich's book,released nationwide on April 18th, has received rave reviews.

Brashich: My publishing back-ground is directly related to mytime at Trinity. As a junior, Idesigned a minor for myself calledTwentieth Century AmericanStudies, which included modernhistory, sociology and a thesis. Thelate Dean of Faculty Jan Cohn andhistory professor Jack Chatfieldwere my advisors. My thesis, whichwas titled "Sassy: Corporate 'Zine"looked at the representations ofwomen in the most popular teenmagazines of the time (Seventeen,YM and Teen) and the paradigms offemininity they set up. Then I com-pared them to Sassy (which wasaround from the late 1980s throughthe mid 1990s ... before the editorswent on to found Jane magazine),and how it broke all the rules of theteen genre by including feministand political content right alongsidecosmetic ads and fashion spreads.Sassy ended up folding, but it washugely influential on teens andwomen's magazines. All the othermagazines (Seventeen, YM, etc.)co-opted its tone and content, andwouldn't be the magazines they aretoday (which in my opinion are amix of content and messages —some quite positive and some not somuch) if Sassy hadn't existed.

After Trinity I worked as anintern for a year at Sassy, where Ilearned about reporting, research-ing, and fact checking. I thenearned a master's degree inAmerican Studies at Brown (whereI did more work on gender and cul-tural theoiy) before becoming aneditor at YM and later Jump. For atime, I freelanced as an editor,going in when magazines needed anextra hand, and worked atSeventeen, Self, Lucky and BonAppetit. Along the way, I alsobecame a freelance writer for teen!sand women's magazines — whichgives me a little more freedom towrite about topics I care about. Mywork has appeared in Elle Girl,Teen People, Health, Ms., Shape,Mademoiselle, Ladies HomeJournal, Elegant Bride and manyothers. So now that's my day job.I'm also working on my first novel.

Tripod: How did your professionalexperiences, both earlier, in model-ing, and post-graduating, in thepublishing industry," impact the cre-ation of this work?

Brashich: Well, I didn't have to domuch modeling to kind of "seethrough" it. For instance, I writeabout an experience in my bookwhere I was working at J. Crew'sfirst store the summer before com-ing to Trinity ... and the managersasked me to do some modeling forthe company that was going toappear in the New York Times. Ijumped at the chance, because atthat time I still really wanted to be amodel. One of the other people inthe shoot was going to be this guywho worked at Abercrombie, whoI'd had a crush on all summer. I'dgotten friends to introduce us, but Ididn't even register on his radaruntil I showed up at the shoot andhe realized I was "model." Afterthat, he pestered me for the rest ofthe summer to go out with him.Stuff like that showed me that it'sthe label and the look that have thestatus ... and I wanted to understandwhy ... plus help other girls fromgetting caught up in it. So I wrote abook about it!

Tripod: You can certainly attributeyour "insider's perspective" to yourprofessional experiences, but I'mcurious if your time at Trinity con-tributed to this perspective as well?

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10. Mimosas in Mather are a totally appropriatebreakfast.

9. Mud wrestling on the LSC quad.

8. Getting lei-ed at the Cave Patio Luau.

7. Hookers and Blow at the Hall... no, really.

6. The one Saturday night of the year non-broth-ers can go to Psi U (at least it's easier for them toget a ticket).

5. Drunk dialing all of your athlete friends whoare in-season and have to be in bed by 8:00 p.m.

4. Getting some natural healing from Guster's"Medicine."

3. Black Star makes a come back with TalibKweli and Mos Def re-united.

2. Being drunk from Friday night until Mondaymorning.

1. What happens on Spring Weekend stays onSpring Weekend!!!

Did ydii see"tne issues addressed'inyour book manifest themselves onthis campus?

Brashich: I sort of hate to say causeit makes me sound old, but thingshave changed so much in the last 10years. Even though I went to schoolduring the supermodel era, therewasn't the same fascination over allwith all things celebrity. And thedemand to look like/act like a starhas intensified so much recentlythat it makes me feel like my erawas pleasantly less concerned withsome of these issues. Looking back,we were pretty naive on these mat-ters.

Tripod: What was your undergradu-ate experience like at Trinity? Whatwas your major? What clubs,organizations, etc. were youinvolved in?

Brashich: I majored in ModernLanguages (French and German) atTrinity ... and I had a lot of smallclasses, which - as I went on in myacademic career — I realized is soimportant. When I was at Brown asa graduate student, I decided not toTA any classes because I wanted tospend my time on my own studiesand I didn't really feel qualified, Yetmy peers -- first year grad students— were doing a lot of teaching. Ithought that was weird because Idefinitely didn't know enough toteach to students just a year or twoyounger than me at that point —specially given the astronomicalcosts of private colleges/universi-ties. Without a doubt, I think thesmall liberal arts college modelworks better ... and I really tookadvantage of that at Trinity. Mysenior year, I actually wrote twotheses -- my American studiespaper on Sassy and comp lit papercomparing two French and German

novels anH'Uarely took any classes.All 1 did was write and meel withmy advisors. I loved it. Actually,being a freelance writer, my sched-ule is pretty much the same now. Iwrite a lot, and talk with my editors.

Tripod: How do you feel your timeat Trinity prepared you for the pro-fessional pursuits you are involvedwith now? For writing this book?

Brashich: This book never wouldhave happened if Trinity hadn't letme create a minor around a topicthat interested me. I am very grate-ful that I was able to formalize myinterests into academic pursuits.Plus, I got amazing academic andemotional support from my advi-sors -- and other professors whowere simply interested in my topic.That helped me to be successfulwith my first big writing projects,which made it seem not so dauntingor impossible to write a book.

Tripod: As an alumni, what advice,insights, etc. would you offer tocurrent Trinity students?

Brashich: I know this sounds hokey,but embrace the Liberal Arts! Allthose courses that seem uselessbecause they don't directly apply towhat you think your profession willbe are not useless. As I've gone intothe professional world, I thinkthere's a huge difference betweenpeople who were trained to thinkand gather information and linkideas and those who followed morepre-professional tracks. And if theyaren't still serving the homemadeglazed donuts in the dining hall atbreakfast, demand that they bringthem back!

For more information aboutBrashich or her book, visit her web-site at www.AudreyBrashich.com.

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Trinity Honors Late ProfessorAPRIL 2006

Horoscopescontinued from page 11

shared with the audience the con-nection he has with "On Angels"and Pfeil, telling the story of a NewYork honorarium for poet Milosz,which Goldman had attended andwhich Pfeil, even late in his illness,had also been able to be present at.Goldman spoke fondly of his sur-prise at seeing Pfeil that night, call-ing him a "wounded war hero," andstating that it was an appropriate,full-circle coming for him to bereading Milosz's poem at this eventfor Pfeil.

The final readings of the nightcame from the lone contributions toa poem donation basket, whichenabled a reader not previously slat-ed for the evening a chance to share.Trinity Communications staff mem-ber Steve Veshosky read two poemsby Raymond Carver, "Gravy" and"Late Fragment."

To conclude the reading, a sec-ond recorded segment was played,which featured Pfeil himself recitinghis most favorite poems. Libbeyprefaced the recording, saying that"it seems right that Fred should havethe last words of the afternoon."Pfeil was heard reciting "SaintFrancis and the Sow," by GalwayKinnel; "Meditation at Lagunitas,"by Robert Haas; and a finalBuddhist prayer, the Metta. Thepowerful effect of hearing Pfeil'svoice travel throughout the room,even despite how present his spirithad been throughout the reading,was the perfect conclusion to abeautiful memorial event to anamazing member of the Trinitycommunity.

Libbey, who helped in pioneer-ing the event, said that this reading

was "an important thing to do, toremember Fred's contributions tocampus life and writing."Proclaiming the evening of poetryan enormous success, she said that"Fred would have really loved this."Findly also praised the effortsinvolved in organizing this reading,sharing in Libbey's interpretation ofPfeil's sentiment, saying, "he wouldhave liked it very much." She alsoadded, "Fred had just started writingpoetry in the last seven to eightyears, so this was meant to be anhonor to the last part of his life."

English Professor Milla Riggio,who was also one of the evening'sreaders, addressed further acknowl-edgments of Pfeil's legacy, and stat-ed that the English Department's

decision to keep the Film Studiesprogram, which Pfeil created, wouldalso serve to provide remembranceof Pfeil. "By sustaining film stud-ies, we're creating a lasting memori-al," she said.

Libbey summarized the trueimpact the reading held, by sharinghow "hearing different voices thatare all the same voice, hearing allthe poems together, I'm hearing a lotof Fred, seeing a lot of Fred." Pfeil'smemory truly shone brilliantlyThursday evening, through thewords of the poems shared by col-leagues and friends, through thesentiments and stories shared, andthrough the indefatigable spiritwhich he has left instilled deepwithin the Trinity Community.

Trinity students and faculty came together to celebrate Fed Pfeil on Thursday.

nnityDon't Worry, Trin Students I See London, I See France, I

are Smart and Safe See...In the wake of the Admission Office's

VIP week, AT would think that our campuswould still be somewhat on its best behav-ior. It is our entire community's duty tomake these prospective students feel wel-come. However, AT does not believe thatthe love glove spotted lying in front of theAdmissions 'driveway was exactly what ouradministration had in mind. True, theAdmissions building is technically the sitedesginated by our campus to showcase stu-dent ... um ... hospitality, but certain acts ofPDA should seriously stay in your dormroom. AT knows that our college is in thethroes of a budget crisis, and that sex sells,but come on!

Good Samaritan Gets(Super) Soaked

AT is familiar with the survivor mental-ity "kill or be killed," but it seems a fewfemale attendants at a primal themed partythis past Saturday took this philosophy toan unneccesary extreme. These girls camearmed with Super Soakers. Upon arrival,one of them proceeded to promptly disgardher weapon on the floor of the frat. Whenan unsuspecting freshman attempted toreturn the water gun to its rightful owner,the aforementioned amazon accepted herweapon and rewarded its restorer by pour-ing a cup of beer over her head. AT isn'tsure of how things work in the animalworld, but in the real one, AT's pretty sure-good deeds are to be praised, not punished.Welcome to the jungle!

It's pretty much a given at Trinity thatgirls plus a Greek-sponsored Saturday nightequal minimal clothing. Most of thesefemales' minimalist approach to their attire isintentional. However, AT witnessed onemember of the sophomore class who clearlydid not consider the repurcussions of herensemble when under the penetrating blazeof a certain jungle themed basement's blacklights. This student's already sheer sundressbecame exponentially more revealing whenthe brutal beams highlighted her underwearthrough the fabric of her outerwear. Let thisbe a lesson to all of you ladies, black lightspick up on ANYTHING that is meant to beseen in the dark ... so dress accordingly.

Housemate not EntirelyHousebroken

AT knows that entertaining visitorsalways presents somewhat of a challenge forthe hosting roommates. Where are theygoing to sleep, how are they going to eat atMather the next morning, etc. However thisweekend, one house guest posed more ofproblem for his host than either could havepredicted. Said host, arriving home stillunder the influence of his Saturday night,proceeded to mistake both his room's trash-can, and the couch his visitor was sleepingon next to it, as an option for his personalport-a-potty. Needless to say, this houseguestwas more than a little surprised when hewoke up soaking wet the next morning. Buthey, at least he didn't have to worry abouthow he was going to shower.

AQUARIUSJanuary 20 - Februaiy IS

Though it was not the best song ever written and has been over-played since its creation, We Didn't Start the Fire is your onetrue love. It's time to proudly share your music on myTuneseven though your taste is slightly ... special. Sharing is caring.Your Guilty Pleasure: Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire

PISCESFebruaiy 19 - March 20

Where else do you get to enjoy giant helpings of turkey, wearlong velvet robes and ogle knights in shining armor? You maynot brag about or want to explain your weekend habits ... but it'stime you came clean. And brought some friends along next time.Your Guilty Pleasure: Renaissance Fairs

ARIESMarch 21 - April 19

As you start to see yourself as more rebellious, your friends arebeginning to view you as a little bit ridiculous . Find the happymedium between marathon keg stands and sipping Miller Litefrom your Solo "flute" through a straw with pursed lips.Your Guilty Pleasure: Sipping beer through a straw

TAURUSApril 20 - May 20

In terms of your fashion selection, you often allow yourself toindulge in a more dangerous items that are not as widely accept-ed as you wish they were. Recruit your friends to approve youroutfits in the mornings - it will really help you.Your Guilty Pleasure: Wearing stripes with prints

GEMINIMay 21 - June 21

Staying up for every Late Night is taking its toll. You zone outwhile studying and take on other tasks like channel-surfing andfridge-raiding. When you find yourself saying, "Hi! I would liketo order the ABslide," you should consider an ealier bedtime.Your Guilty Pleasure: Late Night Infomerciais

CANCERJune 22 - July 22

Though your away message may always read "at the lib —SAVE ME" or the like, you know you love it there. Here's a tipthough: get a hobby. Not every night .needs to be spent in that

WSffibgr r<Am6W'0S'Miyt>'€Gple-watch. anyway.Your Guilty Pleasure: The Library

LEOJuly 23 - August 22

You will drive for hours on end to procure polos and chinos atoutlets. Why? Instead, try dropping your thrifty habits this weekand splurge on a new blazer at Buckland. Expect more people tolike the new, "au currant" you.Your Guilty Pleasure: Outlet Malls

VIRGOAugust 23 - September 22

Yes, some do casually like BSB and the Spice Girls. You, how-ever, have an undying and fiery passion for the tunes of O-Townand 5ive. Turn on MTV and indulge in something a little more.Making the Band and a little less I Love the '90s.Your Guilty Pleasure: '90s Pop

LIBRA. September 23 - October 22

A little exhibitionism can go a long way. While a lack of clothingwill definitely guarantee you entrance to the frat of your choice,it can also earn you a awful rep. Make sure you keep this wildside of yours to yourself (and maybe your liberal roommate too).Your Guilty Pleasure: Dancing around in your birthday suit

SCORPIOOctober 23 - November 21

Your away message may read "Real World" or "Monday NightFootball" but, in reality, you are constantly watching the AnimeChannel. Though some may approve of your habits, your cur-rent friends do not. Either switch channels, or switch posses.Your Guilty Pleasure: Anime

SAGITTARIUSNovember 22 - December 21

You never appear to be idle on AIM. Why? It's not like you havecountless friends to talk to. You're actually a Shopbop slashShop Intuition whore with a weakness for Ebay. Stop, put theplastic away and go outside. Maybe take a trip to Westfarms.Your Guilty Pleasure: Online Shopping

CAPRICORNDecember 22 - January 19

Your reputation for avoiding drama and being the level-headedone is clearly undeserved. You need to tell someone that it wasyou who started a fight between two other girls by slyly trippingone and walking away from the crime scene. And appologize.Your Guilty Pleasure; Cat fights , .

THE TRINITY TRIPOD F E A T U R E APRIL 25, 200614 THE TRINITY TRIPOD tHAL U K K 5 APRIL 25, 2006

Psych Students are Recognized Trin Students Takecontinued from page 11

have a cumulative GPA of at least3.0 in all of their classes.Graduates who wish to be mem-bers of Psi Chi must have an over-all GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.

Once admitted to Psi Chi,members are a part of a nationalcommunity that serves as a net-work, not only for jobs, but for theadvancement of psychology aswell. Psi Chi helps students whoare genuinely interested in the sub-ject of psychology. JoannaConfalone '06 explained, "I tookPsychology 101 my sophomoreyear and loved how you couldlearn about the way people thinkand how to manipulate their behav-iors and attitudes."

Members of Psi Chi are mem-bers for life. Psi Chi offers con-ventions every year, research com-petitions, and certificate recogni-tion programs. Four times a year,Psi Chi publishes a magazinecalled the Eye on Psi Chi which

features members from all over thecountry and their accomplish-ments. For younger members, PsiChi offers a journal of undergradu-ate research where students can bepublished in a prestigious workbefore they graduate. The societyalso gives grants and awards to stu-dents for research, encouragingthem to further their work and helpthe study of psychology itself.

For example, Psi Chi is cur-rently offering four awards to bothundergraduate and graduate stu-dents and chapter presidents with aMay 1 deadline. The four prizes,the Allyn & Bacon PsychologyAward, the Erlbaum Award inCognative Science, the GuilfordUndergraduate Research Awardsand the Kay Wilson LeadershipAward, all offer grants of between$500 to $1,000 to the winners.

Studying psychology at a smallliberal arts school like Trinityallows students to study a widerange of topics while keeping theclasses small and intimate.

Psychology Professor Susan Masino spoke at Wednesday's Psi Chi Reception.

Courses are taught in areas such asanimal behavior, human sexualityand neuropsychopharmacology,and really prepare students for themultifaceted career world.Confalone spoke of her experienceat Trinity, saying, "The psychologyprofessors at Trinity are amazingbecause they all have different per-spectives on certain theories andissues, which makes classes moreinteresting."

Professor Masino, adviser ofTrinity's Psi Chi chapter, played aninfluential role in recruiting thenewest inductees of the honor soci-ety. At the induction ceremony,she welcomed, "1 am the Psi Chiadviser at Trinity, but I am not amember. All of you have one upon me." After speaking to the stu-dents, Masino called each of thenewest Psi Chi members to thefront of the room, handed themcertificates, lapel pins and mem-bership cards. Students whowished could also purchase a cordto wear at graduation.

With this academic honor,Elizabeth Reichert '06 plans to goto graduate school and pursue acareer in psychology. "My nextstep is to do research on ObsessiveCompulsive Disorder atMassachusetts General in Boston,"Reichert explains. "I love every-thing about psychology. I lovelearning about people and why wedo the things we do. It's amazinghow understanding the peoplearound us, our environment, andourselves can help us achievegreater life satisfaction. It is apractical field and just makes senseto me. I like the idea of being ableto help others and the ability tounderstand people on a deeperlevel.". \ .... : - . . . . •

The following 13 were induct-ed: Joanna C. Confalone '06,LeaAnn Fortin-McCue '06,Kxisten A. Geiger '06, Jason A.Gockel '07, Jessica L. Hansen '06,Tina MacDonald '06, Kathryn E.McEachern '07, Molly A.McGuinness '06, Rachel W. Nies'06, Jennifer E. O'Donnell '06,Elizabeth L. Reichert '06, AlyssaP. Shuman '06, and Samara E.Strauss '06.

Back the Nightcontinued from page 1

Other early Take Back the Nightrallies and marches were held by thewomen of West Germany in 1977,who sought the "right to move freelyin their communities at day andnight without harassment and sexualassault." A great number of TakeBack the Night marches and rallieswere held later that year in commu-nities throughout England inresponse to the Ripper Murders, thebrutal killings of a number of youngwomen in Leeds. San Franciscowas the home of the first AmericanTake Back the Night rally andmarch, in which three thousandwomen protesting violence in themedia and in pornography marchedthrough the red-light district of thecity holding up effigies, signs, andcandles.

Many of the Take Back theNight rallies and marches are inten-tionally women-only events, to sig-nify the goal of women being able towalk through the streets at nightwith no threat of violence, harass-ment, or even fear. Now, the ralliesand marches are organized not onlyto protest acts of violence towardswomen, but to serve as a precautionagainst future acts of violence byraising community awareness andvigilance. Take Back the Night hasbecome a rally against fear as wellas violence, and in addition toincluding protests against violenceto all people, Take Back the Nightmarches and rallies also protestdomestic violence and sexual abuse.

College campuses have becomea common location for Take Backtiie Night marches and rallies inrecent years, since the march spreadout of the major cities and metropol-itan areas. The rallies usuallyinvolve speakers or performers, andare followed by a march with can-dles to shine through the dark nightof violence to women.

The goal of the Trinity versionof Take Back the Night is, as adver-tised by posters and flyers all overthe campus, "say ho to sexual vio-

Edwin C. I'M..Hillary Bennett '07 spoke at the event.

lence on campus!" This year, stu-dent performer Anne LouiseMarquis sang Ani DiFranco's song"Gratitude," and Sandra Lawsonended the evening with "Stand byMe," while Lucas Dunlap playedguitar for both songs during theTake Back the Night rally, and thecrowd gathered on the Cave Patiowas substantial. Kelly Howard andKeisha John read poems by MayaAngelou, while James Murphy '08talked about what guys' responsibil-ities are in terms of taking back thenight. Senior Sarah Carter talkedabout female empowerment, andChrist Giacolone talked aboutSART and what people can do interms of alcohol responsibility.

The student response was verypositive and, as intended, proactive."The SART and the Women's Centerdid a great job raising awareness.andbringing problems that are prevalentacross college campuses to light,"said Lauren Murray '08. WhileTrinity is not West Germany, or thered-light district of San Francisco,or the site of brutal murders that tar-get women, it is a campus thatknows the fear of the night, and onethat is thankfully trying to target thisfear with a peaceful Take Back theNight rally and march, in the hopesof banishing not only the fear, butthe violence that causes it.

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Artists Spread Message Eyeball Films LeaveMixed ImpressionsBy JOHN RENDEIRO

ARTS EDITOR

One of the largest gatherings ofinternational hip-hop artists andscholars ever collected in the U.S.descended upon the Trinity campusthis weekend. Organized by JasonAzevedo '08 andMagee Macllvaine'06, the Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival attracted over 25 per-formers from North and SouthAmerica, Africa, Europe, the MiddleEast, Asia and Australia. Spanningacross three afternoons and nights,the performances featured a con-stantly rotating cast of rappers,singers, DJs and instrumentalistsperforming short sets. At the end ofeach night, all of the performersentered the stage and had an infor-mal freestyle session, concludingeach evening with the crowd jump-ing and waving their hands in the air

in enjoyment. The festival was atremendous success for the schooland all those involved in its plan-ning, and will serve as one of themost culturally significant events tohave ever taken place at TrinityCollege.

The festival opened on Fridayafternoon with opening remarksfrom Mayor Eddie Perez, BenHerson, the founder of NomadicWax, a record label dedicated toindependent international hip-hopthat was a main sponsor of the festi-val, Macllvaine and Azevedo. Eachafternoon of the weekend also fea-tured lectures and film presentationsat McCook Auditorium and MatherHall about the global hip-hop.Speakers presented lectures on top-ics such as homosexual rappers, therole of women in hip-hop, and therap movement in Africa.

The performances began at the

Edyvin C, Prattentertains the crowd on Friday night.

Student Art ShowsCreative Talents

By LAUREN TURLIKANNOUNCEMENTS EDITOR

As the final weeks of schoolapproach, it is hard to stay focusedon classes and finals. We let ourminds drift into daydreams filledwith calm memories of the beachand other favorite summer activi-ties. This seems like the case forMargot Koch '06, whose artistic tal-ents were beautifully displayed thispast Thursday through Saturday atthe Broad Street Gallery. Along withKoch, Bridget Reilly '06 exhibitedher creative works, filling the otherhalf of the tiny gallery. The twoartists featured their works as thethird installment of the SeniorThesis Art Exhibit.

Koch's display was titled "InMemoriam" and depicted childhoodrecollections of her family's summervacation at a beach off the coast ofMaine. Four generations of memo-ries have been created at that house,and her exhibit is a tribute to thebeach house and the people whocrafted it. The recent death of hergrandparents caused her to thinkabout the effect that memory andplace have on each other.

Her paintings illustrate familyphotographs that she collected froman album. Many of them are evenself-portraits of the artist as a cutechild. However, Koch made her per-sonal photos into ones her spectatorscould relate to by erasing several ofthe faces, only suggesting the fea-tures. That way the observer couldplace themselves into a similarmemory.

Perhaps the most visually beau-

tiful painting of Koch's was a smallsunset scene. She created a lovelyrainbow of rich shades of browns,yellows and pinks to evoke thewarm and peaceful sensation of asetting sun reflecting off of asmooth sea.

Another excellent piece was onewith two small children, the artistand her cousin, sitting close on achair giggling together. Koch cap-tured the children's energetic emo-tions with an amazing reality.

Although the paintings were allscenes at the beach, Koch made iteasily recognizable that the manydifferent characters were in thesame family. She created subtle con-nections, repeating the image of thehouse, a sailboat, and often times, abathing suit.

On the other side of the BroadStreet Gallery, Reilly exhibited herwork in "Remnants and Rituals."She showed a collection of threetables on which she had painted thetable settings. Three paintings hungon the wall, all of which incorporat-ed food. Reilly explained that "eachplace setting is a portrait of a personand a marking of territory. And eachtable setting tells the story of thevarious people who have sat andshared a meal together." Throughher tabletop art she hopes to blur thelines of function and decoration.

Each table was a memory of afond event: Christmas dessert at hergrandparent's house, a sushi dinnerin West Hartford, a snack at a localdiner with friends. The Christmasdessert table was about two and a

Vernon Social Center (movedindoors because of expectedinclement weather in the comingdays) on Friday night. The perform-ances of Friday and Saturday nightswere hosted by Yesod and LizaGarza. Yesod, a Connecticut-basededucator, poet, and rapper, andGarza, a poet and spoken-word artistfrom Michigan, mixed their ownperformances with introductions forthe other artists, leaving no downtime between the many performanc-es of the two nights.

Friday night featured a series ofperformers from a wide sample ofmusic styles and geographic loca-tions. Highlights included the per-formances as diverse as Australia'sDJ Nos and France's MC Vinocur,Chee Malabar of India, and Dolafrom Tanzania.. Narcy, hailing fromIraq and Montreal, was one of themost amazing performers of thenight, and other standouts includedthe intense, politically-chargedsongs of New York City's Majesty,as well as the soulful music of Silek,from Italy, and El Gambina fromSouth Korea. While the crowdremained relatively quiet throughoutmost of the night, everyone atVernon was brought to life when allof the artists joined the stage afterthe individual performances ended.Passing the microphone to oneanother, each performer freestyledfour bars (accompanied by severalother rappers who didn't even per-form that night), whipping the crowdinto a frenzy, with everyone wavingtheir hands in the air and jumping up

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By KATY NOLINARTS EDITOR

The Second Annual EyeballFilm Festival debuted atCinestudio this past week, andonce again it took place at "4:20 on4/20." Sophomores Russell Adlerand Elsa Crowley were co-organiz-ers yet again, and, as a testament totheir skills as hosts and planners,the Festival saw an increase both inattendance and in talent. Ninefilms were shown, coming fromthree different schools: Trinity,Wesleyan University and NYU'sprestigious Tisch School of theArts. This year's Festival wasdedicated to the memory of the lateValentin Valkov, a member of theclass of 2007, who was the originaland sole fiscal backer of theEyeball.

The first film screened wasLive Poultry, an expose on"Hartford's underground cock-fighting circuit." Luca del Puppo'06 and Pedro Bermudez '06directed the film, which won thecoveted judge's prize (whichamounted to $1,000 in prizemoney). The film centered on ayoung Hispanic boy who was eagerto enter his rooster into his firstfight. After the fight ends, and hisrooster is victorious, the boy is leftto examine the morality of hissport, and his internal dilemma isnever quite resolved. Live Poultry

was both socially conscious andrelevant to Trinity's interactionwith the community.

The second film, Longitude, byGabriel Fries '09 of Wesleyan, wasa music video for the song"Longitude" by the bandCloudkill. The film was poorlydone and amateurish, as both thecamera shots and sound qualitywere fuzzy and unfocused. Also,the storyline behind the video wasconfusing and unrelated to thesong. The video focused on astrange girl wandering through thewoods, who, for some unknownreason, comforted each of the bandmembers.

Due to some technical prob-lems, A Platonic Conversationabout Chairs, the brainchild ofChris Moore '06 and Isaac Kiener'07, came earlier than scheduled.Despite the poor sound quality, thefilm was quite enjoyable - mainlydue to Kiener's natural talent. Thescript, however, did not live up toits potential, and this film couldhave been much better. The film,riding on the popularity of its twostars, won the People's ChoiceAward, though there were severalfilms of equal quality. ..

Robert Lockhart's '08 film,The Last Television, came next,and was clearly a product of theTisch School. Filmed in black andwhite, it featured a film noir-likescript that had great potential for

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CinestudioTHE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADAApril 25, 7:30 p.m.

In the excellent new black comedy starring first-time director Tommy Lee Jones, the borderland between theU.S. and Mexico is a place of great beauty, potent myth, and present danger. The screenplay by GuillermoArriaga {Amoves Perms, 21 Grams) gives us Jones as a Texas ranch foreman whose Mexican ranch hand isbrutally shot down. Unearthing his friend's body not once but twice, Jones sets off on a journey to bury himin his native country. The film was inspired by an 18-year-old Mexican-American who was out tending goatsnear the border and was shot by the Marines on a drug patrol. Winners, Cannes Film Festival: Tommy LeeJones, Best Actor and Guillermo Arriaga, Best Screenplay.

CREMASTER 4&5April 26, 7:30 p.m.

Matthew Barney's amazing five Cremaster film cycle (which began, surprisingly, with Cremaster 4) hasbeen recognized as a major art work that pioneered experimental video and has been exhibited at the Museed'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The cremaster is themuscle that causes testicles to ascend and descend, and much of the film's imagery invokes the polymor-phous sexuality before gender is set in stone. Shot on the Isle of Wight, Cremaster 4 features the TouristTrophy motorcycle race, body transformations and an underwater, tap-dancing goatman. "I've alwaysthought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system ..." - Matthew Barney. The one-nightonly screening of Cremaster 4 is sponsored by E.R.O.S (Encouraging Respect Of Sexualities) at TrinityCollege.

CAPOTEApril 27-28, 7:30 p.m; April 29, 2:30 & 7:30 p.m.

Philip Seymour Hoffman deservedly won a Best Actor Academy Award for his un-showy but quite perfecttransformation into writer and cultural icon Truman Capote. From his cozy vantage point in literaryManhattan, Capote convinced The New Yorker magazine to send him to Kansas to write about the brutal,unsolved murder of a family of four. A fish out of water in the heartland, Capote followed the investigation,interviewed the killers, and explored, in a new kind of non-fiction, the two disparate Americas that collidedin tragedy. "The best movie about journalism since All the President's Men, and one of the best films aboutwriting ever made." - Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press.

NOCHNOIDOZORApril 28-29, 9:45 p.m.Moscow turns out to be a perfect setting for a 21st century vampire movie: a city with lurid nightclubs,gloomy backstreets, claustrophobic apartments and a taste of the apocalypse in the night air. Night Watch(the first in a much-anticipated trilogy) imagines a world where a supernatural race, undetected by humans,is lurching towards a war between its Dark and Light factions. Without giving away too much, we'll say itinvolves a shape-shifting owl, a Seer who can identify the aliens, and a boy who may just change the fate ofthe universe. "Night Watch is quite possibly the coolest vampire movie of the decade." - Staci LayneWilson, horror.com

See www.cinestudio.org for more.

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Greek Comedy Comes to AAC Students ScreenIndependent Filmscontinued from page 1

The first hint that the women'splan was working when Myrrhine(Melissa Matthews '07), one of thewives led by Lysistrata, witnessedher husband returning from the war.Her husband Kinesias (Coley Parry'06), known to the women as "TheTripod," hobbled onto the stagesporting a two foot erection underhis toga and crying out, "Zeus, stopthe throbbing!" Myrrhine, underinstruction from Lysistrata, teasedand tormented her husband who wasso desperate to "get laid" that hethrew his own baby off the stage.

Following this scene, all themen on stage besides the chorusstarted sporting large hard-ons,(which is how the play was original-ly performed), the Spartans ofcourse having the largest and themagistrate having the smallest. Thisled to no shortage of phallic humorand included an instance when themagistrate, believing the Spartansoldiers to be smuggling spearsunder their togas, tried to take a look(prompting one audience member to

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shout out "evvww!"). Another mem-orable scene occurred when theMagistrate gave the Spartan digni-taries a handshake ... you should beable to see where this one is going.

Eventually, the men of Athensand Sparta came to realize that theonly way to relieve themselves oftheir "burdens" would be to end thewar, which they promptly set out todo, much to the delight of bothsexes. With peace finally securedthe play ended with a massive onstage orgy between the male andfemale cast members (not really —but you can imagine the cast partyafter a show like this).

The cast of Lysistrata featuredmany new faces to the GoodwinTheatre stage as well as some veter-ans. Laura King '06, in the titlerole, dominated nearly every sceneshe was in. King portrayedLysistrata as a serious, no-nonsenseleader contrasting with the wiveswho were never incredibly enthusi-astic about giving up sex. TheMagistrate however, as the leader ofthe other side, was portrayed byBryce Snarski-Pierce '09 as beinglittle above a bumbling idiot and theexact opposite of Lysistrata. Manyactors also took on more than onerole in the play, as was the case ofMegan Platts '08 who in addition tobeing in the women's chorus por-trayed Lampito — a Spartan woman.

Considering the relatively smallsize of the cast, there did not seem tobe enough time for each actor toshine. The character of Kalonike,portrayed by Meg Smith '09, wasintroduced in the first scene asLysistrata's playful neighbor andconfidant. The character warmed tothe audience instantly and it seemedobvious she was being set up to be amain character as she was the per-fect contrast to serious Lysistrataand was one of the few characterswith a backstory (albeit a minimal

one). As the play progressed, how-ever, Kalonike seemed to movesomewhat to the background alongwith Lampito who, due to the stom-ach-pain inducing hilarity (whenyou laugh so hard your stomachhurts) of Platts's deliveries (theSpartans all spoke with what I canonly define as a Braveheart accent -- at one point I half expected theSpartan soldiers to start spouting offabout the "sons of Scotland"),should have had a larger role.Unfortunately, whether it was due tothe original script or the short runtime the only characters whoseemed to get their fair share ofstage time were Lysistrata, theMagistrate and the chorus.

Despite, or perhaps because ofthis, the play kept a fairly fast paceand actually seemed shorter than thehour and fifteen minutes it ran.Although many of the funnier minorcharacters were missed whenabsent, when on stage they had theaudience members roaring in theirseats. The final scene wherein thecharacter of Reconciliation (BrianHirono '09 in full drag) appears tofacilitate the final peace betweenAthens and Sparta was a particular-ly hilarious choice on the part of thedirectors (when is cross-dressing nothilarious?) and possibly a consciousmessage to the audience that theplay, when performed in ancientAthens, would have featured an all-male cast.

Aside from minor faults, theshow was excellently executed bythe cast, directors, and stage crew.The cast was excellent all-aroundand the mix of veterans and rookiesto the Trinity stage was quiterefreshing. Finally, directors Kargerand Preston are quickly becomingknown on campus as directing well-produced, humorous plays thatnever fail to keep the audience inter-ested.

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development. The story followeda French woman whose insatiabletelevision addiction threatened todestroy her relationships. Thefilm is quite thought-provoking,and was my favorite by far, as itsubtly commented on the disturb-ing influence of television in ourmodern society.

The next film, Adrian Nieves'sMentaltown of Wesleyan, exam-ined the relationships betweenstrangers and was undoubtedly thebest in the Festival. It focused ona car ride between a college stu-dent (similar to many of oursnooty, sheltered peers) and a tran-sient seeking a ride to his paroleofficer. The film was excellent, asit was both superficially enjoyableand amusing, as well as intellectu-ally deep and psychologically fas-cinating.

Prisoner, a film by Crowley,came next, and was unfortunatelyone of the weakest in the Festival.While the film featured panoramicshots of Hawaii, there seemed tobe no plot or message in the film -except as a video postcard of sorts.Also, all of the shots were takenfrom a car or by air, and thescenery loses much of its breath-taking beauty because of foggy,rain soaked windows.

Wesleyan's Simon O'Reillypresented his film, LaundromatDays, next. Perhaps I missed thepoint of the film, but frankly, itseemed to be simply 16 minutes ofabsolutely nothing. The film cen-tered on various charactersing through Montreal,^natrTe c'was by far the best aspect of thefilm. Student films are often noth-ing more than eternally long por-

traits of a melancholy figure walk-ing, and sadly, O'Reilly's film wasanother example, despite his greatpotential as a director.

The next film came from Tisch,and was a witty portrayal offamous Monty Python skits.Directed by Will Colby, the filmwas enjoyable and well done,although was clearly lacking increativity and originality. Colbypicked two of Monty Python's bestskits - the argument scene and theMinistry of Silly Walks - fromFlying Circus, and the student per-formers mastered both the qualitiesand the accents of the famedBritish actors.

Adler's films, Shamu: The Cat,the Life, The Legend and his 4/:/20Remix, came last, which was per-haps a poor move on the organiz-ers' parts, considering Adler wasthe host for the evening. Thefilms were short portrayals ofAdler's cat, Shamu, and did not gointo much depth or interpretation,but were snippets (featuring a greatscore) of a fascinating cat. The4/:/20 Remix was the same exactcut of the movie, but Adler useddifferent color washes and a technomusic background to spice up theoriginal. By putting the twotogether, Adler made what wouldhave been a rather unusual filminto a hilarious montage.

The Eyeball Student FilmFestival has managed to become akey spring event here at Trinity,and hopefully it will continue to beso after Adler and Crowley gradu-ate in two years. The Festival.ttracted both a wider audience and

selection pool this year,and in the coming years, it shouldbranch out to other schools in theNew England/Tri-state area,

CD/DVD Releases This WeekBACK TO THE WEBOn April 24, Elf Power return with their Rykodisc debut, Back to the Web, a haunting,twisting journey weaving its way through heavy psychedelic haze, to soulful, melodicfolk, to stomping T-Rex-styled rock. Back to the Web is full of the band's signature, love-ly pop melodies, but a distinct progression is evident in the songwriting and the lush, fullproduction. The folkier tunes are laced with strings and the heavier ones scream psyche-delia; influences of Bob Dylan and Wall-era Pink Floyd can be detected. Singer/song-writer Andrew Rieger comments, "I was listening to a lot of middle eastern folk and gypsymusic when I started writing these songs and I tried to emulate some of those sounds bycombining 12 string acoustic guitar with violin and accordion. Our last album was moreof a straight ahead rock record, so in reaction this one came out as more of a dark, orches-trated folk rock album." Formed in Athens, GA in 1994, Elf Power was spawned from thelegendary Elephant 6 collective that also produced Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral MilkHotel, Of Montreal and Apples In Stereo. The band has spent the past 12 years makingalbums and touring the globe, sharing bills with the likes of R.E.M., Dinosaur Jr., Wilcoand Guided By Voices.

DROWATONStarlight Mints's love of archetypal pop and AM radio has provided, over the course oftwo acclaimed albums, a rock-solid foundation for a whole bunch of inspired unusualness,all baked to perfection under the hot OMahoman sun. Their unique brand of instrumental-ly complex, surrealistically worded pop contains a blend of classic string arrangements,cheeky boyish vocals, catchy melody, and ornate surrealism. You might call it bubblegumpsych. Church bells, horns, piano, violin, tambourine, triangle, synths, and sound effectscomplement the usual suspects of guitar, bass, and drums to paint a broad sonic palate.

THE HARDEST WAY TO MAKE AN EASY LIVINGThe new Streets album The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living, out April 25, is a com-pletely autobiographical record that covers everything that has happened to Mike over thepast few years since he's become a well known figure in the UK. There's love, loss, scan-dal, violence, sex, drugs and a whole load of bad behavior and regret. This true storybegins with the first single, "When You Wasn't Famous."

MATCH POINTMatch Point is "a winning combination of sex., mystery, brilliant writing and first-rate act-ing that all adds up to one of the most exotic and exhilarating movies in years." (Maxim).Chris (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is being torn apart by his desire for two very differentwomen. Marrying Chloe (Emily Mortimer) will bring him a life of wealth and success, buthis true passion lies with Ms brother-in-law's fiancee, the stunningly sensuous but unpre-dictable Nola (Scarlett Johansson). Pulsing with tension, Match Point rides the dangerousline between ambition and obsession to an ending as surprising as it is chilling.

AMERICAN DAD, VOL. 1From the delightfully twisted creative minds behind Family Guy comes American Dad,the animated tour de force featuring CIA operative Stan Smith, his outrageous family,and Roger, the alcoholic extra-terrestrial who lives with them. Follow the adventures ofthe Smiths from the California desert where Stan's wife Francine relieves her wild youthat the Burning Man Festival to Saudi Arabia, where the entire family is sentenced todeath by the Vice and Virtue Police. Whether it's rigging elections, erasing memories,chasing sleazy strip clubs, or staging "bum fights," it's all in a day's work for Stan, andit's all here in the side-splittingly hilarious first 13 episodes of American Dad.

ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWSElevator to the Gallows is many things: A tight, delicious crime thriller; the debut ofdirector Louis Malle (Zazie dans le metro, Atlantic City, Au Revoir, Les Enfants, andmany more works of subtle genius); a movie with perhaps the greatest jazz soundtrack ofall time, created improvisationally by trumpeter Miles Davis; but above all, Elevator tothe Gallows is the blooming of Jeanne Moreau to the status of true movie star, launchingher on a career that included Jules & Jim, La notte, and La Femme Nikita. After killinghis lover's husband, Julien (Maurice Ronet, Purple Noon) gets trapped in an elevator,forcing him to miss his rendezvous with Florence (Moreau) and allowing his car to bestolen by a joy-riding young couple. From there, the movie splits into three directions:Julien's efforts to escape; Florence wandering the streets, trying not to believe that Julienhas abandoned her; and the car thieves, who get caught up in a murder of their own. Themovie skillfully fuses Hitchcockian suspense with intimate psychodrama. As she stalksthrough the night, Moreau is a vision of tortured heartbreak, her woeful eyes and lush,sensuous lips illuminated by neon signs and baleful streetlamps. This is pure cinematicpleasure, visual beauty fused with taut, edge-of-your-seat storytelling.

SHOPGIRLBased on Steve Martin's best-selling novella, and starring Golden Globe winner ClaireDanes (Best Actress In A TV Series, My So-Called Life, 1994), Golden Globe nomineeSteve Martin (Best Actor In A Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical, Father of the BridePart II, 1995), and Jason Schwartzman (Bewitched and / Heart Huckabees), Shopgirl isa disarmingly funny love story. Mirabelle, brilliantly played by Danes, is an aspiringartist working behind the glove counter at a Beverly Hills department store when shemeets two very different men - Jeremy (Schwartzman), a socially inept guy who does-n't seem to be going anywhere, and Ray (Martin) a wealthy entrepreneur who has theworld at his feet. Filled with the mixed signals and missteps of a modem romance,Shopgirl is a fresh and witty, warm, and funny romantic comedy with which you can'thelp but fall in love.

See www.amazon.com for more.

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half feet high. Reilly incorporatedfake chocolate bon bons and ciga-rettes with a pile of ashes to add athird dimension. She painted platesand silverware, a delicious lookingchocolate cake, and a red tablecloth.The sushi setting was painted onto alow, traditional Japanese style tablecomplete with California rolls andchopsticks. The diner table was themost fun. The aluminum lined tablestuck out from the wall and featureda greasy snack of club sandwichesand fries. Reilly even painted withketchup to add to the real dinerexperience.

Although not as interesting andunique as the tables, the paintings onthe wall still exhibited Reilly's tal-ents and love of food. Hidden in acomer was the painting that inspiredthe rest of her exhibit: an avocado.The fruit lay half open and half

eaten. Her smooth brush strokesemphasized the rich and creamy del-icacy. Reilly wanted to focus less onthe remains of food and more of theritualized aspect that has become avital part of our daily and socialinteraction.

On the opposite wall was a fan-tastic painting of a crab. The piecebegan as a scene from a magazinead. However, Reilly wanted to makeit more interesting and felt that acrab would accomplish just that.Indeed it did. The bright red crabstares back at its spectator, becom-ing the main focus of the painting.

Both exhibits showed the talentsand creativity of their artist.Hopefully they will continue toincrease their collections andexpand their ideas. The nostalgicscenes of the beach and the fondmemories evoked by food makesummer that much more eagerlyanticipated.

Edwin C. PrattStudents gather for the final Senior Thesis Exhibit at the Broad St. Gallery.

Austin Arts CenterDepartment of Fine Arts presents:Studio Arts Annual ExhibitApril 5-27Austin Arts Center, Widener Gallery — Free Admission

Annual exhibition of artwork by students enrolled in Studio Arts courses.The Widener Gallery is open Sundays through Fridays, 1:00 p.m. - 6:00p.m.

Department of Music presents: • ' . ,Spring Samba CelebrationApril 27, 7:30 p.m.Austin Arts Center, Goodwin Theater — Free Admission

Join the Trinity Samba Ensemble directed by Prof. Eric Galm in celebrat-ing the arrival of spring. The concert will feature various styles of popularBrazilian music, including pagode (informal gathering), samba de enredo(music from Rio's samba schools), and Bahian Axe music. Be prepared formore surprises, and bring your dancing shoes.

Department of Music presents:Chamber Ensembles & Private Lessons RecitalApril 29, 3 p.m.Austin Arts Center, Goodwin Theater - Free Admission

Enjoy an afternoon of music performed by student vocalists and instru-mentalists enrolled in the Trinity Music Department's Chamber Ensemblesand Private Lessons programs.

Department of Music presents:Trinity Jazz NightMay 1, 7:30 p.m.Austin Arts Center, Goodwin Theater - Free Admission

The student big-band directed by Kris Allen performs a diverse selectionof great jazz compositions spanning thpySSTs.

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and down to the beats.Saturday featured an even more

extensive and diverse offering ofperformers. Instead of waiting fordark, the performances started in themid afternoon and continuedthrough the night. Kenya's K-Gopened the afternoon with his reg-gae-influenced singing backed by aband including Luca Del Puppo '06.Hartford's own Self-Suffice fol-lowed, giving the crowd literate,well-crafted rhymes. Next came oneof the most musically diverse groupsof the festival, Anonymous Inc.Fusing hip-hop with elements ofjazz, salsa, and punk. Their talentedsinger amazingly played guitar whilerapping at breakneck speeds.

Several other talented rappersperformed through the afternoon,including Gokh Bi System ofSenegal and Chosan of Sierra Leoneand the United Kingdom. Followinga fashion show presented byAmnesty International and a briefintermission, the music started backup again. Oke, a Harvard studentfrom Nigeria and Washington, DC,performed first, giving some of thestrongest songs out of any rapper atthe festival. Krazy Native of Ugandathen took the stage. Normally per-forming with another rapper underthe name Bataka Squad, his counter-part was denied access to the UnitedStates; also, at the last minute, one ofKrazy Native's sponsors fellthrough, and though he had littlemoney he somehow managed tomake it to Trinity. Despite hisexceedingly bad luck, his perform-ance was not hindered in any way:calling his style "Luga Flow," herapped in his native Ugandan lan-

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along to his catchy hooks. Otherhighlights of the night included theperformances of Brazil's LF and DJLaylo and Haiti's Okai.

The festival marked its conclu-sion on Sunday night at theUnderground Coffeehouse. Despitethe driving rains outside, theUnderground was filled to capacitywith performers and spectators.Majesty and Krazy Native gaveencore performances in the intimatespace, and others such as Haiti'sBennchoumy and Kenya's Attitudeand Bamboo. It was amazing just tosit back and hear all of the languagesbeing spoken, from English, toLUganda, to Haitian Creole.

The performances help prove tothe person that might not be veryeducated about hip-hop that it is aserious, global and influential artform. These artists who gatheredfrom all parts of the world at Trinityreflect some of the most talentedgroups of poets out there in theworld right now. As scholars oftenlament the decline of poetry and tra-ditional literary forms, it is importantto remember that rap and spokenword works are legitimate art formsthat are more lively than traditionalwritten poetry ever was.

Another important aspect of thefestival was that it was yet anotheropportunity for the Trinity commu-nity to reach out to the Hartfordcommunity. Indeed, this was anopportunity to reach out to an evengreater group of people, gatheringthose interested in hip-hop fromother area colleges and from othernearby urban centers. Unfortunately,while the administration put a greatdeal of enthusiasm into the festival,the same cannot be said for a goodportion of the student body. Whilemany ̂ Students did in ./act come.,at

least for portions of the performanc-es, there is no reason why manymore students didn't come. Theymissed one of the most exciting andculturally vibrant events to have evertaken place at Trinity College.

The students that did attend theperformances all had a fantastictime. Most audience members werewaving their hands in the air andshouting responses when promptedfrom the artists. "I think the hip-hopfestival has set a great precedent,"Ben Schacht '08 explained. "A lot ofpeople have talked about how hip-hop — especially global hip-hop — isa fantastic medium for socialchange." In addition to its value as amethod of social awareness, Schachtemphasized its artistic value: "But Ialso think it's important to recognizethat hip-hop is a truly rich and com-plex art form. I'm really glad to seethings like this taking place on ourcampus." Carrie Edwards '08 added,"The festival helped me understandthat the artists are trying to create aninclusive community of activism andsocial change."

Alex Manevitz '09 was alsoimpressed by the musical aspects ofthe performances over the weekend."The festival was important becauseit exposed a lot of people to uniqueforms of hip-hop," he said. "Itopened up a realm of music beyondwhat people hear on mainstream out-lets." James Murphy '08 was equal-ly appreciative of the artists' skills:"The talent of these men and womenblew me away."

The first (hopefully annual)Trinity International Hip-HopFestival proved to be an unparalleledsuccess. The event served as a bea-con of cultural richness that will helpTrinity improve its relations with the

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This past week various Trinity members of The Lion's Club have been encouraging students to donateempty ink cartridges, cell phones and eyeglasses. They will recycle the ink cartridges and collect money, whichthey will give to local charities and shelters. Members will also donate the cell phones and eyeglasses to variousshelters.

The Lion's Club is an international community service organization. Their main focus is to raise and donatemoney for eye care in third world countries. However, they also hold fundraisers to benefit local charities andHurricane Katrina relief efforts.

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2O THE TRINITY TRIPOD S P O R T S APRIL 25, 2006

Softball Beats Lord Men's Lax Falls at MiddleburyJeffs, Loses to Tufts

By CAT MAKERSPORTS WRITER

On Tuesday, the softball teamtraveled to Amherst College to takeon the Lord Jeffs. The Bantamswon 5-4 in a close and excitinggame, improving their record to 17-5 with its first win in three games.The Lord Jeffs dropped to 15-7 withthe loss.

Trailing 1 -0 after one inning, theBantams answered in the third whenUT Ariana Mullin '09 smashed atowering shot to left field to make it3-1 in Trinity's favor. Trinity plateda pair of unearned tallies in the topof the fifth, capitalizing on abotched double-play to take a 5-2lead. Amherst, however, scored anunearned run of their own in the bot-tom of the inning and scored againin the sixth frame on a pinch-hit

triple.Pitcher Sara Dougherty '07

earned the complete-game win,scattering eight hits and striking outfive, and tri-captain catcher LindseyFreeman '06 added two RBIs for theBantams. Mullin led her team bat-ting 2-for-4 in the win.

"Amherst was a really tightgame," said Freeman. "There wererunners in scoring position everyinning. It was a good high-pressuresituation to get us ready for Tufts,and it was a good win for us."

This weekend, the TuftsUniversity Jumbo softball teamclinched the NESCAC EastDivision title with a doubleheadersweep of the visiting Bantams.Trinity is now 17-7 overall and 2-4in the league, while the Jumbos

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Catcher Lindsey Freeman '06 (18) has led the offense for the Bantams this spring.

By JASON ACUNZOSPORTS EDITOR

The men's lacrosse team trav-eled to Middlebury on Saturday,where they slipped further in theNESCAC standings with a 14-3loss. The Bantams fall to 5-6 on theyear and 2-6 in conference play,while the Panthers improve to 8-3overall and 6-1 in the NESCAC.

Trinity faced a double-digitdeficit before they could score a sin-gle goal against the home team.Middlebury sliced through the visit-ing defenders in blue and gold, scor-ing four times in both the first andsecond quarters to build an 8-0 leadat the half. Middlebury continuedits scoring barrage in the secondhalf, scoring with 9:29 left in thethird quarter for a 9-0 lead and againjust 11 seconds later. This secondstrike made the score an ugly 10-0,and the Bantams faced the challengeof climbing out of a double-digithole with under two quartersremaining in the game.

Forced to grind out the rest ofthe blowout, the team did not let up.Attackman Kris Tedeschi '08 putTrinity on the board with 5:44 left inthe third quarter with the first of histeam-high two goals. Middleburyadded another to close out the quar-ter leading 11-2.

"Middlebury was a well-round-ed, consistent team," said Tedeschi."They were tough because they hada lot of depth at all the positions, hadgreat stick skills, and played welltogether."

Midfielder and captain CharlesBurdette '06 scored once for theBantams, who finished the gamewith a meager three scores, thefewest of the season and lowest totalsince scoring four times in a loss to

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Wesleyan at home on April 12."Middlebury is easily the most

talented team we've faced so far,"said Burdette. "They have outstand-ing players who are just as physicalas they are intelligent on the field."

Trinity midfielder . ArtSchweitzer '08 chipped in with twoassists, while attackman CurtisKahn '07 added one of his own inthe losing effort.

For Middlebury, eight different

players scored to tally 14 goals andearn the win. The Panthers domi-nated on the offensive end, getting42 shots on goal to Trinity's 22 andassisting on eight of their 14 goals.

With the loss to Middlebury, theBantams tie Colby, also 2-6 in theconference, for eighth in theNESCAC, one spot out of the post-season tournament. The seventh

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Women Beat Smith, Babsoncontinued from page 24

1-2 puts a lot of pressure on our sin-gles play but we stayed consistentthrough a lot of close matches." Sheand Tramont gave a fabulous dis-play of why they have played at thetop of the lineup this year, bothpowering to perfect wins (6-0, 6-0).Meckler (6-0, 6-3) had a very goodmatch herself, and White (6-2, 6-2)rounded out the victories on the day,with one match left unfinished oncethe overall victory was decided.

The wins ended a four-matchlosing streak, as well as raised theteam's overall record to 5-9. For theyoung squash, the closing success isa potential indicator of the successthat is to come. "We've worked sohard and grown so close over thispast season that it's nice to see somepositive results after a few toughmatches," said Driscoll.

That could translate into imme-diate success in this Friday'sNESCAC Championships atWilliams, as well as into next year'sbright looking season.

While the women rolled along,the men's season ended with more ofa mixed bag. With little doubt, a 12-2 final regular season recordexceeded anyone's expectations, butthe team's 1-2 finish put an unfortu-nate dark spot on a dream season.

The Bantams had little troubledisposing of conference and region-al rival Bates at home last Thursday.Bates, which was freefalling to theregion's ninth ranking after fourlosses in six matches, was unable toput up much of ajjjght+in a charac-teristic Bp«ai!ff-0 victoiy. "I think

Is [against Middlebury lastweek], coupled by the fact that yes-terday's match was the last homegame for the seniors inspired us to a

... win," noted Gautam Samarth '09.Samarth notched another pair of

personal wins this season, playingwell at singles (6-3, 6-3), and pair-ing with usual partner David Yahng'09 for a doubles win (8-2). Yahngfought hard in an incrediblematchup (1-6, 6-2, 7-6, 10-7), whileMarsden had his own tough battle atthe top (6-4, 3-6, 7-6, 10-5). BrettRamsey '08 (6-3, 6-0) cruised tovictory, while tri-captains JimmieAmes '06 (6-2, 6-1) and Jon Hart '06(2-6, 6-2, 6-2) gave something forthe crowd to cheer about in theirencore home performances.

The success could not be main-tained on the road last Saturdayagainst Williams.

The second ranked team in theregion and fifth overall nationally,Williams showed why Trinity hashad trouble beating them with a 5-1

Bantam loss.Trinity certainly didn't go down

easily, losing two singles matches inthree sets. Hart closed out his regu-lar season career with a three-setwin of his own (4-6, 7-6, 6-4), butno other Bantam was able to tri-umph individually on the day. Withthe day's poor weather and thematch already decided, the teamschose not to play any doublesmatches.

The men close the regular sea-son with a 12-2 overall record, andcurrently posses the tenth overallranking in the nation. Like thewomen, the immediate goal is a vic-tory at the NESCACChampionships, also next Friday atWilliams. Considering the play ofthe team, even in defeat, theBantams have as good a chance asanyone to win in the postseason.

Sam LinTrinity's David Yahng '09 winds up for a serve in action over the weekend

. Power Rankings.The weekly power rankings are based purely on the pastweek's games. Cumulative season results and records arenot taken into consideration.

1. MEN'S CREW

First varsity eight were named the NIRC Crew ofthe Week by the ECAC for their performance twoweeks ago. This week, they supported their No.

12 ranking for all divisions, sweeping Bates,UNH, and WPI.

2. WOMEN'S TENNIS

Beat Smith 8-1 and Babson 5-3 to close theirregular season, finishing with a 4-5 spring

record.

3. WOMEN'S CREW

Despite a 1-3 Saturday, they sit third this weekfor winning the NIRC Crew of the Week awarded

to them this past week.

4. WOMEN'S LACROSSE

Split two NESCAC games, downing Bates beforelosing a close one to No. 13 Tufts in a gamedecided by two goals late in the second half.

5. MEN'S TENNIS

In a week of lopsided outcomes for tennis, themen beat Bates 7-0 before losing to national

power Williams 5-1.

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Yanofsky scored a late goal to makeit 11-9 to round out the scoring.Smith was immense yet again,recording 16 saves total for thegame and keeping the Bantamsclose for the upset. The Bantamsend the week with a record of 5-7overall and 2-5 in the NESCAC,where they are in seventh placebehind Bowdoin and Williams, withMiddlebury and Amherst in firstand second, respectively. Trinityplays Wesleyan on April 25 at homewhere there will be a raffle to bene-

fit the team, while the Bants closeout the regular season at home withColby on April 29. Said Murphy,"This game (Wesleyan) is huge forus, because if we win the game wewould probably make the playoffsand play Amherst in the first round.If we lose, we're out of the playoffs.The game is also important for usbecause we want to win theConnecticut Cup, which is awarded,by the coaches to Wesleyan,Connecticut College, or Trinity,whoever wins the most gamesbetween the three of them. We lostit last year, so we want it back."

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Baseball Sinks Coast Guard, Drops Three to TuftsBy ANDREW BUCHBINDER

SPORTS WRITER

After a dreary New Englandspring weekend, Trinity's baseballteam's overall record stands at 17-11. The Bantams dropped a toughthree game set in Medford, Mass. asthey battled the Tufts UniversityJumbos this past weekend. Despitethe rough end to the week forTrinity, the Bantams started theweek off with a thrilling ninth-inning comeback win against theUnited States Coast Guard AcademyBears on Monday, April 17.

The Bantams fell behind earlyon in the game, and found them-selves facing a 6-1 deficit after thefourth inning. Trinity's one run atthis point had come from a solohomerun that outfielder SteveDilanian '08 hit in the third inning.Dilanian, who hit a huge grand slamlast week, has been hot lately andfinished the game with two hits andtwo RBIs.

Ignoring their slow start to thegame, the Bantams began to battleback in the fifth inning with theirsecond homerun of the game, thistime a two-run blast off the bat of

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Michael Regan 'OS has been a big reason for Trinity's winning season this year.

catcher Sean Killeen '09 making thescore 6-3, and setting the stage forTrinity's exhilarating comeback.

The bottom of the ninth inningstarted with a lead-off double pro-duced by outfielder ChandlerBarnard '08. The Bantams thenexhibited phenomenal patience asthey scored two more runs on threewalks and a passed ball. With thescore at 6-5, shortstop TomDiBenedetto '08 stepped up to theplate.

DiBenedetto came through forhis team with a game-tying RBI sin-gle. Outfielder Brendan Daly '08then scored the game-winning runafter the Bears committed a throw-ing error as they tried to gunDiBenedetto down at second base,and Trinity came away with a 7-6victory over the Coast GuardAcademy.

The Bantams were hoping tokeep the momentum alive as they

' went north to Tufts, but this provednot to be the case as the Jumbos wonthree straight games against Trinity.Friday afternoon's game turned outto be unfortunately ironic for theBantams, who lost 7-6 after leadingthe game 6-1, which is similar to thecomeback they pulled off earlier inthe week. Trinity opened up the sixran lead primarily in the fourth andfifth innings.

The fourth inning started withthe score tied at one apiece. BenSilvanic '07, who got the start atfirst base, broke the stalemate withan RBI double that gave theBantams the lead. -

Silvanic then was able to scoreafter Dilanian; came through with asingle, which was compounded by .aJumbo' ' towing error. Third base-man Guy Gogliettino '08 knockedDilanian in with an RBI single of hisown, and the" Bantam's" left the fourth

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Co-captain Erik Paisley '06 makes an out in a victory over Coast Guard this week.

inning with a 4-1 lead.Barnard, who, in addition to des-

ignated hitting, started the game onthe mound for Trinity, rippedthrough the Jumbos in the bottom ofthe fourth, and the Bantams pickedup right where they left off in thefifth when outfielder Matt Stafford'08 belted a two-run homerun toenhance the lead to 6-1.

Barnard and pitcher GabeRotman '06 both struggled afterthis, and the Jumbos were able tosteal a victory away from theBantams in the first game.of theseries.

The Jumbos came out strong inboth games of Saturday's doxible-

header, and put 20 runs up on theboard by the end of the day. Thefirst game ended up being a rough 8-2 loss for the Bantams, and then theJumbos kept the pressure on with a12-5 victory in the second game ofthe afternoon as well.

The Bantams are hoping torebound and revive their winningways away against EasternConnecticut State University onTuesday evening. The Warriors arecoming into the game with an 18-13record, and are coming off of a winover UMass-Dartmouth, so it shouldbe a good test for the Bantams asthey try to nip the makings of a los-ing streak in the bud.

THE TRINITY TRIPOD S P O R T S APRIL 25, 2006

Sports in Brief

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BASEBALL

Tues., April 25 @ Eastern CT, 7:00Sat., April 29 @ Amherst (DH), 12:00Sun., Apr 30 vs. Brandeis (DH), 1:00

MEN'S AND WOMEN'S CREW

Sat., April 29 @ Holy Cross (Wesleyan, Conn.College, UMass)

MEN'S LACROSSE

Wed., April 26 vs. Eastern CT, 7:00Sat., April 29 vs. Bowdoin, 1:00

WOMEN'S LACROSSE

Tues., April 25 vs. Wesleyan, 5:00Sat., April 29 vs. Colby, 12:00

SOFTBALL

Wed., April 26 vs. Wesleyan (DH), 3:30Thurs., April 27 vs. Western CT (DH), 3:30

Sat., April 29 vs. Bates (DH), 1:00

MEN'S TENNIS

Fri., April 28 - Sun., April 30 NESCAC Championships @ Amherst

WOMEN'S TENNIS

Fri., April 28 - Sun., April 30 NESCACChampionships @ Williams

MEN'S & WOMEN'S TRACK

Sat., April 29 NESCAC Championships @Bowdoin

MEN'S GOLF

Fri., April 29 - Sat., April 30 @ Williams Shootout,TBA

Tournament HopesWaning for Bants

Edwin C. PrattRobert Mountain '09 cradles the ball while being checked in action this week.

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and final postseason seed is current-ly shared by Williams and Conn.College, which sit 1.5 games aheadof Trinity and Colby in the standingswith a 3-4 record.

Middlebury sits atop the stand-ings at 6-1, one game up on Bates,Bowdoin, and Wesleyan (all 5-2),which occupy the second, third, andfourth spots. Filling out the remain-ing seeds with one week remainingin the regular season is Tufts, whichholds the fifth seed with a 4-3 con-ference record.

After playing EasternConnecticut State on Wednesday inHartford, Trinity's final game coulddetermine their postseason fate, asthey face Bowdoin on Saturday athome.

However, earning a postseasonberth may involve some complicat-ed math in the standings, as the finalweek of the season features a flurryof NESCAC games.

The teams the Bantams are chas-ing for the final playoff spot

the season with pivotal conferencematchups. Williams plays atAmherst (1-6, last in the NESCAC)on Saturday, while Conn. Collegefaces Amherst on Tuesday at homebefore traveling to Tufts onSaturday. Colby, tied with theBantams in the standings, plays atWesleyan on Saturday.

"We're definitely still in con-tention for a seat in the playoffs,"said Burdette. "It all comes down tobeating Bowdoin [at Trinity] nextSaturday ... Just like all our otherNESCAC lacrosse games, this onewill be won by whoever comes toplay. Bowdoin's a team that wematch up well with." Trinity lost toBowdoin in last year's contest indouble-overtime and won in 2004.

"Personally, this could be ourlast game as seniors," said Burdette."I plan on making it worthwhile and[it] will hopefully lead our team to avictory."

As the seniors seek to extendtheir lacrosse careers and the Trinitymen's team tries to land a playoffberth, Saturday is primed foT a dia-

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improve to 22-10 overall and 6-0 inthe NESCAC.

"I don't know what to say," stat-ed Freeman, "except that we gotoutplayed. I mean, that's what hap-pened. Sometimes the game comesdown to executing the little things,making the extra stretch for a play,bearing down and getting it done,and we weren't the team on the fieldthat was doing that. Our offense hasquieted down lately and we haven'tfound a way to win with that."

In the first game, Freeman hit asolo homer to account for theBantam run in the fourth inning thattied the score at 1-1. Tufts, howev-er, managed three runs in the fifthagainst Trinity pitcher Dougherty to

make it 4-1. Tufts added anunearned run in the sixth frame.Dougherty gave up three earnedruns and nine hits in six innings forTrinity.

The Tufts pitcher, Sarah Conroy'06, pitched a one-hitter. TheJumbos ended up winning the game5-1.

In the second game, which Tuftsalso won, 5-2, the Jumbo pitcherallowed two hits and two runs in sixinnings.

The Bantams found themselvesdown 2-0 at the end of the firstinning but were able to tie the scorewith single runs in the second andthe third. The Bantams scored with-out a hit in the second on a fielder'schoice by tri-captain outfielderLaura Watson '06, and an RBI sin-

gle by Dougherty in the third.The Tufts first baseman dou-

bled to lead off the third inning andscored on a single to give theJumbos the lead for good at 3-2.They added two runs in the sixthframe off tri-captain pitcher VictoriaMosnier '06, who went the distancein a losing effort for the Bantams.

"We still have hope," Freemansaid, "but it's not really in our handsas much right now. We have to seewhat happens with other teams inthe league and just do our best towin games. It's not over, but it'smore of a waiting game right now."

The Bantams have three double-header home games coming up:Wesleyan on Tuesday, WesternConnecticut on Thursday, and Bateson Saturday.

Thursday, April 27

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The Trinity Softball team has hit a rough stretch the last few weeks, as they've lost two to Bowdoin and Tufts each

Baseball drops three of four on the week, page 22 The race for the final men's lax playoff spot heats up, page 24

porte>THE TRINITY TRIPOD APRIL 25, 2006

Men s Crew Sweeps RegattaBy TARA FINUCANE

SPORTS WRITER

The first varsity eights of themen's and women's rowing teamswere awarded the NfRC Crew of theWeek awards from the ECACthanks to their performances onApril 15 against Holy Cross, MountHolyoke and UMass. The Trinitymen, ranked 12th in the nationacross all divisions of collegiatecrew, finished with a time of 6:09.6,beating Holy Cross by 1.4 secondsand UMass by 17 seconds. Thewomen, ranked first in the nation,finished almost five seconds aheadof eighth-ranked Mount Holyoke inwinning a race that also includedDivision I opponents UNH andHoly Cross, as well as third-rankedSmith.

On Saturday, despite rainyweather, the waters in Worcester,Mass, were calm and ideal for rac-ing for both Trinity rowing teams.Racing at WPI for the second-Straight week, both the women andmen, nationally ranked across alldivisions on the season, facedDivision I UNH, Williams, andBates.

In a performance which mir-rored that of last week, the Trinitymen swept every event in. recordtime. The Bantams finished the var-sity -.;,(Sight with.a time of 5:57.70,while" TOffC Bates, an& ~WPIdragged behind by about 20 sec-onds.

"The [varsity eight] really sepa-

rated from the pack in their race; thereal battle was for second throughfourth," rower Gary Moffat 'OSexplained. Second place went toUNH and third to Bates, while WPIcame in last.

"Despite a week of illnessthroughout the crew, the secondmen's eight showed that they werestill able to get the job done,"Moffat said of their dominating per-formance at WPI, where theBantams defeated WPI by a remark-able 24 seconds.

Even though the varsity eightsput on a good show in their domi-nating races, Moffat said, "The var-sity four race was perhaps the mostexciting of the day. We had twoboats racing. As they came downthe course we realized the two ofour crews were battling for first andsecond in the front of the pack."

Trinity was able to disregard theother contenders; the only true com-petition, in Worcester was wearingblue and gold, as the race became anintrasquad battle. Trinity A finishedahead of Trinity B by about 15 sec-onds.

Both men's freshman eights wontheir races as well, and Moffatpraised the success of his youngerteammates. "These results reallyspeak to the depth that we have inour program," he said.

The women did not experiencequite the Jevel of success which themen enjoyed, winning only the sec-ond varsity eight.

Ashley Hunt '09 said on Saturday'sperformance, "but we have hadsome illnesses on the team. We hadto do some changing-around of theboats, and unfortunately we didn'tend up winning every race."

The women's novice eight lostto Bates by 17 seconds and the var-sity eight placed second, 5.8 sec-onds behind Williams. Despite theout-of-character performance for thetalented women, Hunt stated she isconfident they will be stronger thanever for their races during the nextthree weeks.

Overall, the Trinity men placedfirst of three teams in their races,while the women placed second offour. Both teams race again inWorcester this Saturday, as theBantams row against Conn. College,Wesleyan, and UMass at noon.

Wesleyan will enter the eventwith an impressive record of 8-2 forthe fall and spring 2005-2006 sea-son.

In one of their most recentevents on April 1, Wesleyan, rankedthird in the country at the time, lostto the fourth ranked Williams Ephsby a margin of 1.6 seconds, drop-ping the Cardinals behind the Ephsin the national standings for themen. •. •

They competed against CoastGuard, Mount Holyoke, Williams,and Holy Cross in the meet. Thiswill be a tough matchup for theBantam men, but a fun one in a bat-tle of the three NESCAC schools in

"It was a disappointment," Connecticut.

Men's Tennis Blanks BobcatsBy PETER DACEY

SPORTS WRITER

. This spring, between the twoTrinity tennis teams, it has been themen's team that has posted most ofthe success and headlines. Whilethey have continued to play solidly,and are poised to make some post-season noise, the women stole thespotlight this past rain-washedweekend to close the season, win-ning both their games.

The hard work and practice forthe women paid off when every-thing came together against Smith at

home last Saturday. Right off thebat, the team secured victories intwo of the three doubles matches,behind the play of pairs BrennaDriscoll '08/Melissa White '06 (8-2) and Amanda Tramont '09/SarahGould '09 (9-8, 7-3).

Seemingly charged by the earlylead, the team then swept the singlesmatches for an 8-1 overall win.Driscoll (6-1, 6-3) and White (6-0,6-2) lead the way at the top, Gould(6-1, 6-0) and White (6-4, 6-2) bothplayed very well, and SydneyMeckler '08 (6-2, 2-6, 10-4) andYang Liu '08 (6-2, 6-5, 7-5)

wrapped up the near-perfect day.Things weren't nearly as smooth

the following day, both with thepoor weather and a hard-foughtmatch, but after a number of close,tough losses this season the teampulled out a \yell-deserved 5-3 winover Babson.

This time around, the team wentinto singles play at a disadvantage,with only an 8-4 win by theTramont/Gould pair to show forthree doubles matches. According toDriscoll, "going into singles down

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Women's LacrosseDefeats Bates 13-9

By GEOFF SCHNEIDERSPORTS EDITOR

The Trinity women's lacrosseteam went into this past week's con-tests looking to come away with twowins and pick up momentum for thefinal weeks of the season. AlthoughTrinity lost a hard fought game toTufts, 11-9 at Tufts, they did man-age to stave off a pesky Bates teamat home and win 13-11.

Lauren Malinowski '07 was thedifference against Bates, as her three

exploded in the last four minutes ofthe game, with Murphy finishing thehat-trick and Ryan and Allen addingtheir second goals of the game tostave off Bates, 13-11, with Allengetting the game winner with 3:20left. Michelle Smith '08 made 14saves in the game including severaldifficult ones with the game wind-ing down to preserve the victory.Said Murphy, "This was a greatgame for us. We finally cametogether as a team and it was nice towin after the losses we've had late-

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Gautam Sarnarth '09 of India is one of many talented young players that will anchor men's tennis for years to come.

Edwin C. PrattLauren Malinowski '07 carries the ball down the field against Bates this week.

second-half goals propelled theBantams to the win.

C.J. Yanofsky '08 got theBantams on the board first and cap-tain Meredith Murphy '06 addedtwo more in the first ten minutes asthe Bantams jumped out to a 3-2lead and would take a 5-4 advantageheaded into the second-half.

Emily Allen '08 and captainChristine Ryan '06 also recordedtheir first goals of the game beforethe break to put Trinity on top.

The second-half started outpoorly for Trinity, as Bates scoredthe first three goals in the first fiveminutes of the half to jump out to a7-5 lead. The Bantams began totake control of the game whenMalinowski scored her first goal ofthe day. Courtney Collins '07 andJessica Schultz '09 also addedgoals.

Not to be outdone, Bates hadanswers for the Bantams andjumped out to a 10-8 lead beforeMalinowski scored her final two ofthe game in the last 10 minutes to tiethe game up at 10. After a quickBates goal to take the lead, Trinity

ly."Next up for Trinity was an-away

game at 13th-ranked Tufts where theBantams almost pulled off an upsetbefore falling, 11-9. Trinity cameout tough and took a 3-1 leadhalfway through the first-half ongoals by Ryan, Murphy and AbiArnold '08 before Tufts began tak-ing over the rest of the half, finish-ing with a 5-4 lead headed into thesecond.

Ryan scored the fourth Trinitygoal to tie the game at four before aTufts goal with four seconds left inthe first gave Tufts the lead. Trinitycame out in the second half strongwith Malinowski scoring the tyinggoal two minutes in. For the rest ofthe half Trinity and Tufts tradedgoals, with Malinowski, Allen andYanofsky posting goals to make thegame 9-8 in favor of Tufts with 12minutes left in the game.Unfortunately, Tufts finished strong,scoring two goals in the last tenminutes to take an 11-8 lead, onewhich they would not surrender.

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