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i^5&; THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY - FOUNDED IN 1911 Vol. GXNo. 19 Friday, April 1* 2005 • www.thehillnews.com Canton, New York Photo by Tara Freeman The women's hockey team poses with the third place trophy. Viking Artifacts Discovered on Campus Jessi Burg Columnist This past week, during con- struction for the new science center, workers uncovered a bit more than they intended to when they stumbled across a thousand year old Norwegian penny and a soapstone spindle whorl, thought tp be of Viking origin. St. Lawrence immediately began researching into past ac- tivity in and around the St, Lawrence campus in an attempt to. determine how these items arrived in the area. The Norwegian penny, dated I - tb 1065 CE, has a cross and the letters GRVMALMONETA on one side, and three interlocking leaves, along with the- words HARALDR EXNO on the other. Joe Smith, a local coin expert, did the preliminary identifica- tion on the coin, common in Norway in the early to mid elev- enth century: The origin of the coin was then confirmed with a comparison to other coins dat- ing from the around the same time. The spindle whorl is also of Viking origin,, and archeologists have discovered similar objects in parts of Eastern Canada, as far nonh as Baffin Island, and as far south as Maine. The spindle whorl was made of soap- stone, and members of the Ge- ology Department have identi- fied this soapstone as a type of talc, common around Gpuverneur. Construction workers discov- ered the penny while breaking ground for the science center and immediately called over theirtoss, John Clayton. \I immediately knew that this was no coin I'd ever seen before, and thought I'd better let the Mr. Filoni know about it right away,\ stated Mr. Clayton. Mr. Filoni, the head architect of the project, then took the coin to Tom. Coakley, Vice President of Administrative Operations. Construction was halted.for a day or so while the administra- tion debated about what to do about the coin. After much de- liberation, and some consulta- tion with Dr. John Barthelme and Dr. Shinu Abraham of the anthropology department, the administration decided that dig- ging would proceed, but at a slower pace, in case there were more artifacts. Two days later, construction workers uncovered the soap- stone spindle whorl, and digging was halted while the adminis- tration debated. It was decided . that all construction would stop for two weeks so that the An- thropology Department, in con- junction with Clarkson Univer- sity, SUNY Potsdam and SUNY Canton, could conduct an exca- vation of the area. This excava- tion, currently in progress, has- not yielded anything so far, but according to. President Sullivan, .\hopes are high.\ The University has begun the preliminary planning, stages, of a Viking Heritage and Research Center, although many people feel that this may be a bit hasty. See Ancient - Page 5 Parking Policy Undergoes Change Kathryh Brooks Contributing Writer The Department of Safety and Security announced earlier this week that the parking policy will be altered drastically, effective Friday, April 1, 2005! Director of Safety and Security Patrick Gagnoh commented, \After sev- eral months on the new park- ing plan, it was clear that there were many flaws in the system, so I asked Jarrod [Caprbw, Transportation Coordinator] to look at what changes should be made. I am satisfied with the new plan he has created.\ The drastically revised park- ing policy that started last fall, featuring assigned parking lots based on residence, heard many Complaints from various sec- tions of the student body. \It was clear that students were not happy with the new plans,\ Caprow reported. So, after much analysis and debate, Caprow and the rest of Safety and Secu- rity are ready to start anew. \Basically the new rules are that there are no rules,\ Caprow explained, \Anyone can park wherever they want. This in- cludes handicap spaces, the grass, driveways,.and we will no longer tow you for; parking there.\ : , The significantly reduced chances of towing cars raises, the question of how Johnson's Towing, the company St. Lawrence uses for all towing, will survive with the drastic cut in business. Caprow. and Gagiion both expressed concern about this issue, but reminded students that Johnson's will still be used for jumping cars or helping them get out of the snowbanks. Hopefully this does not mean the end of another North Country small business. When asked why the policy was starting so quickly, Caprow responded that the outrage from the student body was just too much to hold the changes off until next fall. \I do not under- stand why I thought it was okay to make students do something they did not want to do. I have learned not to make that mis- take again.\ Any questions should be directed to Caprow at x5139. Author Reception Held for English Professor Dan Leonidas Columnist The stories of people's lives, if told well, also tell the stories of their times, Associate Professor \ of English Natalia Singer said at an author reception last Thursday, Singer read from her book, Scraping by in the Big Eight- ies, and discussed it witlTaudi- ence members at the reception, which was held in the Josephine Young Room of the Owen D. Young Library. Though touted as a memoir, Singer said, that her book is ac- tually a combination of memoir, travelogue, and national history. She explained that by chroni- cling her experiences traveling - around the United States, and Mexico in the 1980s, the book illustrates how the economic policies of the Reagan adminis- tration made the nation's rich richer and poor poorer. \The book explores what citi- zenship means when the people in charge aren't on your side,\ Singer said. In the 1980s, she^ added, the Reagan administra- tion was not on the side of the^ poor- While she was working on the book from 1996 to 1999, Singer said-r'she did not think it would be politically relevant when it came put. However, with the election of George W. Bush in 2000, Singer said she got an ee- rie feeling of <deja vu. In the book's afterword—titled \Dej a Voodoo\—which Singer wrote in 2001, she draws connections between the economic policies of the Reagan administration and the current Bush administra- tion. Singer said that when she wrote the first draft, of Scraping By in the Big Eighties in 1996, it was about 25 percent longer than it ended up being in the final draft. \I cut all the chapters that didn't have anything to do with economics in some way, whether it be Reaganomics or me managing to scrape by,\ Singer said. She noted that having this thread of economic and political disillusionment running through the entire book gave it a sense of focus that it originally lacked. - Some kind of politics under- lies all art, Singer said. She cited George Orwell as one of her major political-literary in- fluences, using a quote from his essay \Why I Write\ as one of the book's epigraphs: \The opin- ion that art should have noth- ing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.\ \All of Orwell's essays from 1936 on were devoted to mar- rying.politics and aestheticism,\ Singer said. Like Orwell, Singer added, she wanted to use her art—her writing—to em- body and express her politics. The excerpts Singer read at the reception came from the early part of her book, which starts just after she graduated college in 1979 and moved to Seattle, Wash., with her boy- friend, Joe. She worked at an HMO called Group Health— which Singer referred to as \Group Death\—writing com- puter manuals (despite, she said, having never seen a real computer).. Her plan, as the book jacket says, \was to get laid off. go on unemployment, and become laid back.\ Singer got her wish and was downsized, which al- lowed her to go on unemploy- ment and write. Throughout the book. Singer said, she tried to remain as faithful as possible to the truth. She said that she was willing to embarrass herself, but not others, so she asked as many of the people she wrote about as See Singer Page 5 In This Week ; s Edition New Party Resolution,Passes * Sullivan to Hold OM;ea|As Flamenco Guitaryj^Bfet^M -• Patre 4 Page 6 Page - 1 Page 8
