I am extremely disappointed that The Trinity Tripod took down the article David Kimball-Stanley '09 and Ryan Haney '10 wrote in response to the article Whitney Duprey '09 wrote on the fraternities. If, as the Tripod Web site claims, there had been a personal attack in the article, then why did they agree to publish it in the first place? A lot of the article dealt with issues and ideas that could not even be construed as personal attacks; why, then, did the Tripod not ask to just cut a few sentences? Not to mention the fact that there have been much more offensive personal attacks in the Tripod and on the Tripod Web site, many of them written by anonymous contributors.
13 CommentsLast week David Kimball-Stanley '09 and Ryan Haney '10 wrote a response to an Opinions piece by Whitney Duprey '09, "If You Don't Like the Frats, Don't Go," which was itself a response to an article written by Lucy Schiffman '09 condemning a fraternity's Playboy-themed party as misogynistic and sexist.
17 CommentsThere is a trend I'm noticing in The Trinity Tripod that really bothers me. That trend is that the Tripod's Opinions section has become a platform, not where pertinent opinions are shared, but where some of Trinity's activists and advocates of change can vent their polarized frustrations with an "ever oppressive" campus atmosphere.
0 CommentsIn this, the last issue of The Trinity Tripod in my four years at Trinity, I have decided that it is time to reveal my ultimate opinion on this campus, this newspaper, the administration, the student body, Campus Safety, the football team, academics, arts, Chartwells, the frats, the Fred Pfiel Project, religion, philosophy, metaphysics, and the meaning of life.
0 CommentsThis year's Spring Weekend was, we'll say, different. Instead of the usual hype of the big event on Sunday, this year's concert was extremely disappointing. It was not the fault of Common or Cave Mary, but the result of a poor performance by Trinity College.
0 CommentsOne must admire the Tripod's clever arrangement of information last week; on the one hand they display a lengthy reproduction in full of President Jones and Dean Alford's already e-mailed response to the protest, on the other a "response" from the Editor-in-Chief strategically placed as if it responded to the campus-wide letter thereby to inflate its already bloated sense of grandeur.
0 CommentsWalking down the Lower Long Walk my freshman year, I heard a girl on her cell phone: "Hey mom, I just saw my senior studio space!" I knew immediately what these words meant - if I became a Studio Arts major, my capstone senior experience would include my own personal studio, like a real artist.
4 CommentsIn the April 22 edition of The Trinity Tripod, an Opinions article by Seth Hull '11 lamented the possibility that the Tripod Campus Safety petition would deter potential students from choosing Trinity as their home for the next four years. He declared the petition, and the Tripod in general, to be overly pessimistic and an unfair representation of the College.
1 CommentsAs the year comes to an end, it seems that we should celebrate the many accomplishments that we have achieved as a College, some more noticable than others, but neverthless important. Our athletic teams won several NESCAC titles, our environmental groups helped make our little corner of the world a greener place in which to live, fraternities worked on improving the social atmosphere at Trinity, activists encouraged others to become involved in our nation's political discourse, artists and performers featured their various talents, alums donated millions of dollars to the "Capital Campaign," faculty expanded our cirriculum, and this publication may have made a difference in the Campus Safety Department's visibility.
0 CommentsCarver Diserens: From reading the Tripod the past couple of weeks, an outsider might get the sense that Trinity is falling apart at the seams. All of us here know that this is not the case, so to correct this idea, what sort of good news can you share with us going into the summer? Jimmy Jones: There are so many wonderful things that don't get reported in your newspaper, but that is the way campus newspapers work.
0 CommentsLast week, Andrew Horowitz '06 wrote a piece to The Trinity Tripod criticizing the tone of the discussion on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In doing so, he most strongly condemned Fatima Jafri '08 and Hady Matar '11 for what I thought were finely crafted, intellectual pieces.
3 CommentsJust in case you forgot, Trinity College is a wonderful, world-class institution of higher education. Overall, the student body is engaged, active, thoughtful, sociable, and kind. Our students come from all over the world to grow, learn, and interact with one another.
1 CommentsOn the occasion of Dean Spencer's formal retirement, I would like to thank him for his many years of service to Trinity. Although Ron and I were students at around the same time, I did not get to know him well until I joined the Trinity faculty in 1972. During that time I have worked very closely with Dean Spencer and I often asked myself what would the College do without him? I can't think of a single person at Trinity whose instincts and educational values I respect more.
0 CommentsI am glad to see that the students at Trinity are continuing to push for an increase in campus security. As both an alum and a current parent, I've been extremely concerned about student safety. When I learned about the late March assault, I immediately tried to contact an acquaintance who is on the Board of Trustees.
1 CommentsI heard that there was some pretty vicious commentary on the original article [written by Whitney Duprey '09 in the April 15 issue of The Trinity Tripod] and the follow-up response article [written by Ryan Haney '10 and David-Kimball Stanley '9 in the April 22 issue of the Tripod].
4 CommentsWhat a great job Joe Tarzi '08 and the rest of the Tripod staff did with the April 15 edition. The front page captured the reader's attention immediately, as it should have since this is such a critically important topic. The accompanying editorial is well-written.
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