Spring Break
Trinity College students were inconvenienced last week due to an advisory banning the drinking of tap water on campus. The Trinity community was alerted via e-mail on Wednesday, April 22 of a "boil water notice" issued by the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) and the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) after microorganisms were found in the Hartford public water supply.
On Thursday, April 23, Trinity College received unflattering press attention in the Wall Street Journal. The opening of the article states, "In one previously undisclosed fight, Trinity College in Connecticut is facing government scrutiny for its plan to spend part of a $9 million endowment from Wall Street investing legend Shelby Cullom Davis.
In reaction to Spring Weekend festivities, Dean of Students Frederick Alford sent a campus-wide e-mail scolding students for drinking openly and littering on the main quad. "I write to remind you that College policy, as well as local law, does not permit the open consumption of alcohol in public areas," said Alford.
"The right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizure, shall not be violated " These simple words are expressly stated in the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and have been recognized to represent the government's boundaries in cases of search and seizure since the day the amendments were ratified in 1791.
What school year would be complete without a music recital? The Recital of Chamber Ensembles, Private Lessons and Composer Seminar Students this past Saturday, April 25, was far more entertaining than the end of year recitals I was used to seeing in high school.
"We understand that this can be a confusing process, especially for First-year students who have not yet gone through it before," read the Housing Lottery e-mail sent to students on March 23. Confusing, indeed. A two-day fiasco that begins on Thursday, April 30, and ends (in emotional drainage) on Friday, May 1, the housing lottery brings eddies of ambivalent emotions.