The Tripod

Trinity Campus Culture Encourages Intolerance

Beirut and black-face indicate problems

By Prof. Vijay Prashad

Campus culture has at least three interlocking circles. The first, the one with which I am most familiar, is the culture of the classroom. Dominated by faculty, classroom culture is governed by the curriculum and the faculty's relationship to changes in the various disciplines of knowledge.

With Blair Gone, Japan, India Future U.S. Allies

By Will Mannen

Courage and tragedy are perfectly compatible. Tony Blair proved this last September when giving his final address before the Labour Party. As always, he stressed the need to be America's greatest ally, an issue that has nearly sunk his career. One wonders why Blair went out on a limb for Bush.

'Trinity Joe's' Solutions Unacceptable

By Flysha Padilla

I am highly offended at the views represented in Joe Tarzi's response to the Mather protest last Thursday evening. To be told that we were too "passive" and not aggressive enough is what angered me the most. If we had walked into Mather threatening to "kick the ass" (as Tarzi says) of the person who wrote the racial slur, it would have stirred up more negative feedback than anything else.

Apathy Not Equivalent to Tolerance

By Sarah Gardiner

I am writing this in response to Joe Tarzi's article "Activism Makes Everything an Issue." In the opening paragraph, Tarzi wrote, "I have been informed that this campus is chauvinistic, not a haven for minorities, not a queer friendly campus …" The reason he has been informed of these issues is because all of them are true.

Complacency Poor Response to Slurs

By Scott Baumgartner

When Joe Tarzi wrote last week's article, "Activism Making Everything an Issue," he seemed to forget that he, too, is an activist. If he truly is against being preached to, is truly worried that Trinity is turning into Wesleyan, and truly afraid that activists are taking over campus, he would not have written the article at all, for writing, as I am writing now, is itself a form of activism.

'Snow White' Unbeatable as Connecticut Governor

By Prof. Clyde McKee

What made Snow White, as many have dubbed Jodi Rell, an unbeatable winner in Connecticut's gubernatorial race? Her combination of two concepts: jujitsu and metastasis. Jujitsu is an ancient Japanese martial art based on weakness, gentleness, and weaponless fighting that uses the opponents' own weight to subdue or disable them.

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President Jones Answers Students' Questions

How will the administration respond to the recent charges that it does not do enough to combat racism and intolerance on campus? Of all the questions I have been asked over the course of the past two-plus years, this one is undoubtedly one of the most salient, and most timely, because it speaks to precisely what kind of a community of scholars we intend to be now and in the future.

Intolerance at Trinity Not Limited to Racism

By Emma Bayer

In a recent Letter to the Editor, Gary A. Smith '72 assured us that, don't worry, no one cares if you're gay once you get to the real world (the real world in this case being the aerospace engineering industry). Last week, Joe Tarzi asked us all to get a little perspective - after all, in the real world, people take racial jokes as the jokes that they are meant to be (with the real world mentioned here being Tarzi's high school).

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Student Challenges Chalkers to Verbal Duel

To The Editor: Oh, Snap! Why get all intellectual on chalking? A Nov. 7 letter be dissin' chalkers gettin' ragged by desecraters of their chalking. The man seems to have more of a problem with the chalkers' orientation (pro-GLBT) than anything else.

Disease of Intolerance at Trinity Must be Treated

To The Editor: Recent events on this campus - most notably defacing of chalkings on the Long Walk, racial slurs written on white boards, and cries of racism over Halloween costumes - have served wonderfully to open up a dialogue on the cultural climate at Trinity.