Stories from the current online edition of The Tripod. en-us http://www.trinitytripod.com Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:14:30 GMT 20 http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/News/Deans.Students.Campus.Safety.Discuss.Ways.To.Decrease.Crime-3887027.shtml On Thursday, March 4, several concerned students joined Campus Safety and the Dean of Students' office to hold an open forum on how to improve campus security. The meeting, held in Vernon Social Center, was well attended by students and faculty alike. Lieutenant Robert C. 1c50c955-daa7-4e02-b281-ea83661148d2 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT News 3/09/10 Alexander White http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/News/ Campus News http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/News/Trinitys.Sam.Adams.Climbs.The.Charts-3887029.shtml Last week, Trinity College's International House held its first International Culture Festival. Running from Wednesday, March 3, to Saturday, March 6, the festival incorporated various cultures through performances, dining options, and presentations. International House members created the festival last semester, and the specifics were finalized earlier this semester. 89967dd2-f8bf-44bb-aaaf-61b439cecc2b Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT News 3/09/10 Allison Pickens News Editor http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper520/thumbs/t_jbc493jo.png http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/News/ Campus News http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/News/International.House.Presents.Festival-3887035.shtml Last week, Trinity College's International House held its first International Culture Festival. Running from Wednesday, March 3, to Saturday, March 6, the festival incorporated various cultures through performances, dining options, and presentations. International House members created the festival last semester, and the specifics were finalized earlier this semester. 429d7817-08ba-4e99-84e5-7f1bd7271c13 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT News 3/09/10 Greg Leitao http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/News/ Campus News http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/News/Trin-Professor.Argues.Laws.Banning.Alcohol.Sales.On.Sunday-3887038.shtml On Sunday, March 7, Visiting Associate Professor of American Business and Economic Enterprise Edward Peter Stringham testified at the Hartford capitol complex, arguing that laws banning alcohol sales in Connecticut should be lifted. Connecticut is one of only three states that mandate a ban on the sale of all kinds alcohol on Sundays. 6f910b08-3014-4d4e-9285-413b0308af18 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT News 3/09/10 Ninna Gaensler-Debs Arts Editor http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper520/thumbs/t_s10umsx6.png http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/News/ Campus News http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/News/Trinity.Hillel.Joins.Forces.With.West.Hartford.Synagogue-3887039.shtml Hillel at Trinity College and Congregation Tikvoh Chadoshoh, a synagogue on the West Hartford line, have formed a partnership in the hopes of improving the lives of Hartford children. The collaboration brings together Tikvoh's Rabbi Stephen Landau and two Trinity students: Abby Himmelrich '12 and Naomi Sobelson '12. 3d7f2e35-6fea-49c0-aacf-0cb334605e01 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT News 3/09/10 Greg Leitao http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/News/ Campus News http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Editorials/The-Mastermind.Behind.Catastrophe-3887625.shtml I have to wonder, sometimes, what exactly we did to the world to make it retaliate so viciously, particularly lately. First, there was the Haiti earthquake in January, which left something like 230,000 people dead, 300,000 wounded, and another million homeless. c6798cc0-fe52-4b22-a52d-009cccd0eaf1 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT Editorials 3/09/10 Elizabeth Agresta Arts Editor http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Editorials/ Opinion/Editorial http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Editorials/The-Pros.And.Cons.Of.The.Internet.Media-3887624.shtml We all know the importance of the Internet and the media in our daily lives. Most of us are constantly tuned into the news via our computers, Blackberries, and iPhones. Facebook updates us on our friends, and various online news sources update us on the world. bc578da7-49f9-4201-a64f-cd94ea875644 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT Editorials 3/09/10 Sarah Harvey http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Editorials/ Opinion/Editorial http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Opinions/Sga-Responds.To.Recent.Criticisms-3886931.shtml The Student Government Association (SGA) is charged with being the voice and arm of the student body. The seriousness with which we take this charge is responsible for our many successes. Just this week we convinced the Administration to let a student speak at graduation for the first time in Trinity's history, as well as prepared for the implementation of a bike-share program. f15284dd-ec66-4886-a897-cb73589626e3 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT Opinions 3/09/10 Andrew Grubin http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Opinions/ Opinion/Editorial http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Opinions/You-Get.What.You.Pay.For.From.The.Tripod-3886930.shtml On the regrettably rare occasions that I find myself with sufficient time and energy to inform myself of what is happening outside of my own little bubble, I typically pick up a newspaper. I'll read The New York Times for world news most of the time, occasionally switching The Hartford Courant for issues of regional interest. 5cd7cacb-7936-4c34-bd03-e220580bf547 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT Opinions 3/09/10 Meghan McEvoy http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Opinions/ Opinion/Editorial http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Opinions/Tax-Codes.Wide.Stances.And.The.Cookie.Jar-3886928.shtml Last week the then Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee and beloved New York Congressman, Charlie Rangel, got caught with his pants down - at least metaphorically (though given recent patterns in New York leadership, perhaps the metaphor hits too close to home). 1872c16a-2e6b-4bf7-a8ce-3bdf1d6b9084 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT Opinions 3/09/10 Zach Sonenshine '11 http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Opinions/ Opinion/Editorial http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Opinions/Call-For.Campaign.Reform.Support-3886927.shtml If you're like most Americans our age you probably feel largely removed from the significance of federal politics. If you choose to participate in the political process at all (fewer than half of Americans ages 18-24 voted in the 2008 Presidential election) your fledgling political ideology, in all likelihood, hasn't strayed too far from that of your parents, defending yourself in any manner of political debate with less articulate renditions of the arguments your father makes at the dinner table. d622e76f-2821-4ca3-8676-5359d9e7dcb4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT Opinions 3/09/10 Preston Maddock '11 http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Opinions/ Opinion/Editorial http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Opinions/Peering.Through.The.Internet.Blinds-3886933.shtml If I were to ask you the relationship status of your best friend from third grade whom you haven't spoken to since he threw a bowling ball at you at your ninth birthday party, you'd probably say something along the lines of: "Well, he's dating 'so and so.' The last time I spoke to her was when we slow danced at my eighth grade graduation. 7e8f52e5-76d4-4593-a0b8-f968009bbfdf Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT Opinions 3/09/10 Greg Moniz '11 http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Opinions/ Opinion/Editorial http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Arts/Spring.Awakening.Presents.A.Refreshing.Rendition.In.Season-3887642.shtml In a feat of perfect timing, the Trinity College Theater and Dance department put on Spring Awakening just in time for the spring weather to arrive. If you missed all three performances (Thursday, Friday, and Saturday), you missed something special. For those of you that are unfamiliar with the play, it was written by Frank Wedekind in 1891, and was immediately proclaimed "too obscene to perform. 55e382bf-0d3e-4486-a3b3-a2f6094b3e67 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT Arts 3/09/10 Kayla Chadwick http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper520/thumbs/t_72b62nh9.png http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Arts/ Arts/Entertainment http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Arts/Born-Barefoot.Born.Natural.And.Born.To.Run-3887638.shtml Human beings often need boatloads of motivation to make it to the gym. We also like foods that come in plastic wrappers and beverages that taste way too good to contain zero calories and zero sugar. According to Christopher McDougall, human beings are also born to run. 5e297221-f0ba-416c-98aa-ed0306c57bfd Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT Arts 3/09/10 Theadora Curtis Arts Editor http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper520/thumbs/t_q2z85k58.jpg http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Arts/ Arts/Entertainment http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Arts/Muse-Concert.Bemuses.Boston.With.Showmanship.Philosophy-3887632.shtml On Saturday, March 6, British alternative rock band Muse stormed the stage of the Boston, Mass., TD Garden and played a set so phenomenal it almost dared the audience to leave unsatisfied. Judging by the vast number of audience members filing out of the arena after the encore singing bits of the band's more popular singles and raving about the spectacle they'd experienced for the last 90 minutes, I'm sure Muse kept up their end of the bargain. 169a355b-a302-4d36-bddc-c797c514c997 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT Arts 3/09/10 Elizabeth Agresta Arts Editor http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper520/thumbs/t_4vt818t1.jpg http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Arts/ Arts/Entertainment http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Arts/Sculptures.Highlighted.In.Mill.Exhibit-3887647.shtml Last Friday, The Mill gallery opened a new sculpture exhibit: Scumaks by Roxy Paine. The three pieces on display resembled black drips and folds of plastic, nebulous products of an Auto Sculpture Maker (from which the name Scumaks is derived). This unique machine drops heated, low density polyethylene onto a surface below, the resulting shape dictated solely by gravity and the forces of nature. 24976a1e-b8e7-4a96-8431-108fb08ecb09 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT Arts 3/09/10 James Kukstis Senior Editor http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper520/thumbs/t_tx83mnvc.jpg http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Arts/ Arts/Entertainment http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Features/Tales.From.Abroad.Premature.Bingo.Will.Get.You.Spanked-3886942.shtml Trinity, I sit here weeping. Weeping because instead of dining at Mather Hall, I eat Dutch pancakes and stroopwafels by the kilo (remember, it's the metric system here, darlings). Weeping, because instead of running from McCook to the English building with five minutes between classes, I leisurely ride my bike to my three classes a week, and then relax during my four-day weekends, or travel to exotic destinations like Maastricht or Budapest. 8656828b-a807-403a-a090-e1e723bbc14e Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT Features 3/09/10 Ninna Gaensler-Debs Arts Editor http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Features/ Features/Campus Life http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Features/2010-Academy.Awards-3886943.shtml First, as a brief and blunt preface, this writer is very much disenchanted with the Academy Awards: While 2009-2010 presented a variety of films, many of them beautiful works of cinematography and a few mindless endeavors tempting the limits of studio budgets, the 82nd Oscars was charged with identifying those that ennoble the Art. 23dd0be7-6277-47b2-88a7-ad10d9764589 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT Features 3/09/10 Daniel Morgan '13 Breaks Down the Hype Daniel Morgan '13 http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Features/ Features/Campus Life http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Sports/Words.Of.Wisdom.From.Mens.Squash.Coach.Paul.Assaiante-3886861.shtml I write this article, or commentary, if you will, from the position of an educator and as a member of the faculty at Trinity College. Thirty-five years ago I entered the world of coaching because I believed that I had an opportunity to teach young people lessons through sport. b78befbd-e533-4c9b-928f-d6399d28bce0 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT Sports 3/09/10 Paul Assaiante http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper520/thumbs/t_674yd84g.jpg http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Sports/ Sports http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Sports/W.Hockey.Is.Ncaa.Tourney.Bound-3886863.shtml Last weekend, the women's ice hockey team participated in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Final Four, hosted by the tournament's No. 1 seed, the Amherst College Lord Jeffs. The Bantams headed to Amherst as the No. 4 team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III East Region, and No. a154bc9a-8717-47d5-82e2-282483ef3370 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT Sports 3/09/10 Ann Waller Curtis http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper520/thumbs/t_g8p0rxk9.jpg http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Sports/ Sports http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Sports/Young.Bantams.Perform.Admirably.At.Individuals-3886865.shtml Bantam Pamela Hathway '13 came up just short in the championship match of the College Squash Association (CSA) Women's Singles National Championship, losing, 3-2, to Harvard University's Laura Gemmel, this past weekend at Trinity College. Hathway, seeded No. 40875b63-1b63-4497-9c7b-bd49f51ae40b Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT Sports 3/09/10 Alex Fitzgerald Sports Editor http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper520/thumbs/t_dqwha8cr.jpg http://www.trinitytripod.com/news/2010/03/09/Sports/ Sports