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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY - FOUNDED IN 1911 Vol. CX No. 17 Friday, March 4, 2005 • www.thehillnews.com Canton, New York Protests Mark Trustees Meeting Chad Burbank Staff Writer Nearly 50 students turned out for a demonstration against the administration's changes to the Acceptable Use Policy outside of the board of trustee's meeting last Saturday morning. Starting at 7:30 a.m., stu- dents began hanging signs and plastering the third floor of the student center in anticipation of the trustee's arrival for the 8:30 a.m. meeting. Soon after, they began distrib- uting information packets, and leaflets detailing the. administration's recent changes to the Acceptable.Use Policy, their employment of cen- sorship, and the lack of commu- nication between the adminis- tration and student body. \This is a good way to promote the further discussion of several major campus issues,\ said Rolando Pintos '07.'- Before the. Trustee meeting, students greeted the Trustees with information detailing the changes, along wifth a section of the Faculty Handbook outlining a clause that states the Presi- dent is required to seek the as- sistance of the Information Technology Advisory Committee (ITAC) before making changes to the Acceptable Use Policy.\ Several trustees spoke to.stu- dents before and after the meet- ing, sharing their positions as well as getting a sense of the student body's reaction to the administration's efforts, of the past months. The Acceptable Use Policy was rewritten by President Dan Sullivan on December 22 nd 2004, five days after the departure of students for Christmas break. The-changes specifically per- tained to privacy rights granted to student e-mail and server space. The section now reads \the University will make every rea- sonable effort to respect a user's privacy. ...in response to a judi- cial order or any other action required by law or permitted by official University policy or as otherwise considered reasonably necessary to protect and/or pro- mote the legitimate interests of the University and the Univer- sity community, the President (or if the President is.unavail- able, the Dean of Academic Af- fairs and Vice President of the University) may authorize the Vice President of Information Technology, or an authorized agent, to access, review, moni- tor and/or disclose computer files Photo B\ Jess: Burg associated with an individual's account.\ Since the changes, the stu- dent body has spoken out against the revisions. Several Sec Students -Page 5 Berger Receives Fellowship at Folger Shakespeare Library Dan Leonidas Columnist Piskor Professor of English Thomas L. Berger has received a Folger-National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fel- lowship from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Wash- ington, DC, where he will spend the 2005-2006 academic year: \I'll be working on what's called paratextual material in English printed, drama,\ Berger said, adding that Sonia Massai of King's College, University of London, will be working with him. Berger explained that some 850 plays were printed in En- gland from 1475 to 1660, in- eluding several collections of Shakespeare's work and the col- lected works of Ben Johnson. He said that, while at the Folger Library, he and Massai will collect and organize all the paratextual material from these plays—the prefaces, pro- logues, letters of dedication, Students Jillian Kay Sherwin Arts and Entertainment Editor • dedicatory poems, and adver- tisements before the plays. \What I'm doing is everything ..before Act one, Scene one,\ Berger said. He added that paratextual material also includes every- thing printed after the plays, such as epilogues and addi- tional advertisements, and he and Massai will collect and or- ganize all of that as well. Berger likened reading the materia.l printed before the plays to entering a department store in the perfume section. \The first thing they do is as- sault yourjiose,\ he said. \And by the ^me you get to where you want to buy something, you haven't got a chance. It's the same way with this stuff.\ Berger said he wanted to fig- - ure out how the plays' opening materials manage to have such a sedating effect on readers. In order to do this, he said, he re- alized he had to get all those opening materials together and organize them. \The goal is to present this material and.get it all in one place, so somebody can look at it all,\ Berger said. \We also want to get it indexed so that we have an index of proper names—an index of the- aters, an index of playing com- panies^ an index of authors and dedicatees.\ According, to.Berger, he and Massai . will- copy the paratextual material from the plays in the Folger Library into Microsoft Word, putting it all in order. After they finish their work, Berger said, Cambridge University Press will publish the organized material in book form.- This will be Berger's first time working at the Folger Shakespeare Library for a full year, he said, although he did- spend a semester there once: In addition, he added, he. spent the first few days of Thanksgiving break and the two weeks between New Year's Day and the beginning of this semester working at the li- brary. Berger said he found out that he had received the fellowship— one of two the library gave out—iii early. February. He explained that the Folger Shakespeare Library's admin- istrators applied to the NEH for • the fellowships and were al- lowed to grant them to anyone they chose. - According, to Berger. other faculty members and people around the community have been supportive and are happy that he has received this oppor- tunity. \Everybody has been fabu- lous,\ he said. \People just come up to me in- the supermarket and say, 'Wow, it's great.\ and I say, 'Yes, it is. I'm really happy—I really want to go down there and play with books.'\ Berger, who just returned last fall from two-and-a-half years of directing St. Lawrence's London program, said he will miss the university's students while he is at the Folger Library. He added that, while in Lon- don,, he got to work with stu- • dents^-thoug-h not with as many as at St. Lawrence-— which he loves. However, he said, he will not have any contact with under- graduates at the Folger Shakespeare Library. . \Students create energy.\ Berger said. \I have to create the energy myself..when stu- dents aren't, around:\ When his work at the Folger Shakespeare Libran io done. Berger said he will return to St. Lawrence, for the Fall 2006 semester. After that, he said, he plans to retire, although he might - .stay through the Spring of 2007. Orice he retires. Berger said. he plans on sticking around Canton for a while. . Eventually, though, he said he might move to Washington.. \I really like it there,\ he said. Plus, he added, he'd be a lot . closer to the Folger Shakespeare Library. ~_ Change President Sullivan recently announced the decision to stop requiring the submission of standardized test scores, such as the SAT's or the ACT's, as part of the admissions process. Prospective students may still choose to do so if they wish, but it will not be required for admis- sion to St: Lawrence. This deci- sion was made based on advice from admissions staff, faculty, and trustees. Many other col- leges and universities areradopt- ing a similar policy due to changing format of the SATs in March. Many students feel that this is a positive move, but it doesn't help those of us who are current students since they al- ready took the tests and paid their dues: Personally, I feel that it is cheapening the entire process. I woke up rather early on a Sat- urday morning, drove for over an hour to a strange school, pre- sented my ID and then pro- ceeded to complete a three hour test under harsh fluorescent lighting with a fidgety guy in front of me constantly bumping into my desk. Now, obviously it wasn't that horrible of an expe- rience; I survived and made it here. It felt like a rite of pas- sage at the time, like taking a road test for a driver's license. It wa# nerve-wracking, sure, but once you took it you felt like you had accomplished some- thing. It felt like you were one step closer to being an adult. -' I realize that this certainly isn't a popular opinion. Most students felt that this would be a positive change and wished that this had been an option when they were applying to col- lege. Students that I spoke with pointed out the benefits of not having^ to take standardized tests. To begin with; prospective students will save probably over one hundred dollars between the SAT's and the ACT's. That might not go a long way towards forty thousand, but every little bit helps. The change will also See Admissions - Page 5 In This Week ^ Edition Pia Barros Speaks on^Sampus Model UN Travels Movie Review: •: Mens Lacr< Page 4 Page 7 Page 8 Page 11
