The Tripod

Dear Jimmy ...

How is Trinity preparing for a new science facility and will energy alternatives be considered? One common theme in each of the questions I have been asked for the past two plus years is that, coming from Trinity students, none have let me off easily. This is certainly true for this quite rational question about the planning for our future science facilities here at our College.

Blaming Fraternities Puts Damper on Homecoming

By Mike Robinson

It finally happened. They bought into the hype. The overreaction to the impact of the hard partying atmosphere of the college was finally taken seriously because of a few isolated incidents on Halloween weekend, and this incestuously bred some poor decisions.

Activism Making Everything an Issue

By Joe Tarzi

Sometimes I look around this campus and feel like I am the only person who hasn't completely lost his mind. All of a sudden everything seems to be becoming about issues; the gay (sorry, GLBT … umm … Z?) issue, the minority issue, the local food issue, the woman issue and so forth.

Protest Appropriate, But Not Enough

By Fatima Jafri

This past Thursday, the whole college received an email about a bigoted hate crime directed at a black student leader in Elton. Subsequently, students organized a protest march with professors and staff that commenced at Gallows Hill and ended at Mather. While this protest alleviated and mitigated the protestors' anger, it spotlighted only briefly the systemic nature of racism, classism, sexism and heterosexism at Trinity.

Perspective Gained at Patriot Act Talk

By Mike Pontone

As a student of International Studies who has spent three semesters abroad including two in the Middle East (well, technically North Africa), I admit that my judgment towards U.S. domestic and foreign policy is sometimes skewed. These days, no matter how unbiased I try to stay while reading a newspaper or magazine article concerning the United States, I find myself trying to pick out moral and strategic problems with our government.

Kerry's 'Stuck in Iraq' Joke Falls Flat

By Kate Grelle

Like any loyal Democrat, I generally prefer to accentuate the positive (i.e. the second sex scandal in less than a month has dealt a major blow to the Republican prospects for the midterm elections), and minimize the negative (i.e. John Kerry stuck his foot in his mouth so far that he now has a shoe print on the back wall of his cranium.

Cartoon

Psi U Blood Drive a Rousing Success

To The Editor: I am writing this letter to thank the student body and the whole Trinity community for their overwhelming support of Psi U's bi-annual blood drive, held on Tuesday, Oct. 24. It took less than four days of tabling at Mather to fill all available time slots, and more students arrived on the day to see if they could help out.

Double Standards a Problem at Trinity

To the Editor: I read with interest and disbelief the recent letter to the Tripod from James Stevens. He quite properly decried the defacing of chalkings by EROS, while at the same time aggressively defending the defacing - by himself and another person - of chalkings by the College Republicans in 2004.

Dissenting Opinions Should Not Be Shunned

To the Editor: In the Oct. 17, 2006 lead article about the chalking and counter-chalking of campus walkways on Family Weekend, there are two comments which deserve further attention. The first comment charges that those who responded to the original chalkings by adding expressions of opposing viewpoints "were not willing to discuss the matter intellectually.

Praise for IDP Students Welcome and Appropriate

To the Editor: I write to commend contributor Mike Pontone on his perceptive column about IDP students at Trinity. As an IDP alumnus (Class of '06) I can attest to the veracity of Pontone's description of the IDP students and their role in the college community.