BLOCK PARTY WEDNESDAY 4/29 - LAST DAY OF CLASSES!!!!

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Vernon Street
4 PM - 8 PM

Schedule of events:

Amusements open @ 4 PM
(Mini golf, henna artist, mechanical bull, international tattoos, mega bounce, wrecking ball, gladiator joust, giveaways, live music)

BBQ/Cultural Food @ 5 PM

Trinity Idol Finale @ 6:30 PM

The Mill Concert, featuring Flosstradamus and Cut Off Your Hands @ 8 PM
(Must purchase ticket — http://tcommerce.trincoll.edu)



      

Boil Water Advisory Lifted

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A message from Campus Safety: 

 

The CT Department of Public Health has lifted the “boil water advisory” for all affected regions after recent tests have met water quality standards.

In the near future, officials will be conducting the seasonal flushing of the public water supply system.  As a result of these operations, the water may be cloudy or discolored, but this temporary condition does not pose a health hazard.

For more information, visit www.theMDC.com.

 

Rejoice! I hope this means ice cream in Mather again. 

 –Adam 


Campus Safety Water Alert

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An email from campus safety:
“The CT Department of Public Health has issued a “boil water notice” for the City of Hartford and surrounding towns after microorganisms were found in the public water supply.  These microorganisms are not harmful to humans and do not cause any known health effects in drinking water.  However, as a precautionary measure, officials are advising the following until further notice:

Do not drink water directly from the tap or a water fountain.
Those with access to a kitchen may boil water for one minute before drinking.
Routine water use (such as showering, hand washing, brushing of teeth, and the washing of clothing and dishes) is fine without boiling the water.
Chartwells is aware of this situation and the staff is adjusting their food preparation procedures as necessary.

For more information, visit the CT Public Health website (http://www.ct.gov/dph) and their FACT SHEET (http://www.ct.gov/dph/cwp/view.asp?a=3139&q=438906).”

Check your Trinity email for more updates from Campus Safety on this matter.

–Adam


“Do You Know How Often You Turn Me On?: Tap Water Delivers”

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Earth Week lecture!
Friday, April 24th
5 PM
McCook Auditorium

Where do you get your drinking water? Do you buy it bottled or do you turn on the tap?

Paul Riendeau, CET, CIT, of the New England Water Works Association, will be speaking this Friday, April 24th at 5:00 p.m. in McCook Auditorium about the virtues of tap water v. bottled water.

It should be an interesting and thought-provoking discussion. We look forward to having you join us!


KING CORN Film Screening

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

5 PM, McCook Auditorium


King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the East Coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, nitrogen fertilizers, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most productive, most subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat and how we farm.


No More Budget Committee This Year

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Just to let everyone know, the Budget Committee has allocated all of its funds for this year so we will not be meeting anymore this year.

Also the final ~$1,000,000 SAF budget was approved last night. If anyone has questions about the budget, please contact me via email.


DOES PORN MAKE SEXISM SEXY? Common Hour Event

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Once hidden under mattresses, pornography has become one of the most visible and profitable sectors of the cultural industry in the United States. It is estimated that the porn industry’s annual revenue has reached $13 billion.

This event is an opportunity to hear a wide array of opinions on the subject, “Does Porn Make Sexism Sexy?”

You are invited to attend this panel debate followed by a conversation about the potential impact of porn on Trinity College, and society.

Date: TUESDAY, APRIL 21

Time: 12:15 pm

Place: Washington Room Mather Hall

PIZZA SERVED!

Panelists: Andrea Wise ‘11, Christopher Brown ‘09, Professor Anne Gebelein, Marston Hefner ‘12, Whitney Merril ‘09 , Peter Walters ‘11

*Contact Jocelyn.Schur@trincoll.edu with any questions.


Tripod Story on SGA Elections

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Hey all,

The Tripod covered the SGA Election results on the front page this past Tuesday. Here’s the online version of the Tripod in case you missed the print version:

Grubin Wins Presidency Over Blum

–AK


Take Back The Night - Tomorrow!

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You are invited to attend Trinity’s Annual TAKE BACK THE NIGHT Rally!

Take a stand against sexual violence perpetrated on women and men on campus!


WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15
6-7 PM
CAVE PATIO
(GALLOWS, IF RAIN)


Music, Speakers, Vigil for Victims/Survivors

*First 50 receive free WGRAC T-shirt!

SPONSORS: SATF, SART, WGRAC, The Fred, Women’s Swimming & Diving Team, Feminists United (FU), The Ivy Society, MOCA, Zeta Omega Eta, Muslim Students Association (MSA), Women’s Volleyball Team, Hillel, Temple of Hip Hop, Planned Parenthood Campus Action Interns, Cleo, Kappa, Football Team, Dischords, and the Underground


Class of 2012 - Ice Cream on Monday!

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Hey fellow 2012 ‘ers,

Eat some Coldstone ICE CREAM with our Class on Monday (tomorrow, 4/13).

Come to the Cave Patio at 6:15 pm, and Bring $1 for the 2012 Bantam Fund Class Gift. Also bring the”first-year dollar” invitation you received in your mailbox.

PRESIDENT JONES WILL BE SPEAKING. 

Thanks to Nikki Lustig, our 2012 Class President, and our class officers for putting together this cool event.

See you there tomorrow!

P.S. If you haven’t gotten a first-year shirt you can get one tomorrow.


Noam Chomsky is coming on Wednesday!

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Hey All,

Krystal’s post about a political science lecture reminded me that Noam Chomsky is coming on Wednesday!

From the Trinity Exchange:

“Noam Chomsky - The Obama Transition; Crises, Challenges, Opportunities
Sponsored by Sociology Department

Date: April 15th, 2009
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Washington Room, Mather Hall

Noam is a professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is well known in the academic and scientific community as the father of modern linguistics and one of the world’s preeminent political dissident intellectuals. Noam is the author of over a 100 books.

Co-Sponsored by: American Studies, Anthropology, Center for Urban and Global Studies, Dean of Faculty, Educational Studies, History, International Studies, Language and Cultural Studies, Multicultural Affairs, Philosophy, Public Policy and Law and Women, Gender and Sexuality Program.”

NOAM CHOMSKY

^^from Noam Chomsky’s wikipedia page.

Don’t miss out, Chomsky is quite the high-profile guest! To sweeten the deal, I will be there too.

–Adam


No Pain Like My Own Ann Plato Lecture

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No Pain Like My Own

Rousseau’s Confessions as Political Theory

Tuesday, April 14

4:15 p.m.

Alumni Lounge (Mather Hall)

Sonali Chakravarti

Ann Plato Fellow in Political Science and Human Rights

A graduate of Swarthmore College, Sonali Chakravarti received her Ph.D. from Yale in 2008. Her dissertation was entitled, “Anger, Resentment, Despair: On the Political Philosophy of Truth Commissions” and her research interests include transitional justice, critical theory, and the role of emotions in politics.

The Ann Plato Post-Doctoral One-Year Diversity Fellowship: The Ann Plato Fellow joins the faculty in one of 30 academic departments or interdisciplinary programs, interacting regularly with colleagues and students on campus, while working on their own research. Post-doctoral fellows teach two courses during the year. The fellowship is named for Ann Plato, a 19th-century author and teacher of African American and Native American descent, who lived and wrote in Hartford. She was the second woman of color in the United States to publish a book, and the first to publish a book of essays and poems (1841).

All are cordially invited to attend the lecture and reception immediately following.


FULL Election Results data

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Full election results data will be available in The Tripod this Tuesday, and on TrinTV on or after Tuesday night.

Interesting results–check them out on Tuesday!

–Adam


“My SGA” Facebook Group

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Hey folks fyi there is now an SGA Facebook group you can check out and join, the full title is “My SGA: A Group for Trinity Students.” Thanks to Malcolm Brown (newly elected VP of MAC) for thinking of this idea and bringing it to the ERC Committee.

Most of the info in the My SGA group actually posts links bringing you back here to the SGA Website. The Facebook group doesn’t replace this website, but supports it. While you can get quick info, RSVP to SGA events, and post on the Wall, these sorts of things can also be done on the Website (e.g. Did you know anyone can post on this Blog? It’s easy!) So, join My SGA but don’t forget that the Website is where all the action is!!

Stay connected, everybody.


Spring 2009 Election Results

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Student Body President
Andrew Grubin

Executive Vice President
Ibrahim Diallo

Vice President of Finance
Krystal Ramirez

Vice President of Multicultural Affairs Council
Malcolm Brown

Vice President of Entertainment
Chase Caillouette

Senators at Large
Adam Katcher
Melissa Litwack
Remy Renault
William Yale
Daniel Zauderer