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By and for the students o f H obart and William Smith Colleges “We Can Beat T his, But We Can’t Coast Through It” i By Jennifer Hollander ’10 Advertising Editor VOLUME CXXXI ISSUE 6 _______ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16,2009 GENEVA, NY The financial situation of the anticipated. The reason for this, he Colleges is not entirely pleasant, believes, is that parents are short but President Gearan is optimistic on money and cannot send as many that it will get better. He explained students to college as would like to that endowment for the Colleges attend. has decreased 20 percent; the The second reason is a endowment encompasses 5 percent greater need for financial aid. There of the budget. The Presidents of was a hope for a 9 percent increase local liberal-arts colleges- including of funds for financial aid; in reality HWS, Union, Swarthmore, and there was only a 4 percent increase. Hamilton- recently met to address Gearan further went on to elaborate the growing concerns that students, that he does not believe students in faculty, and staff are having. need of aid should go unaided. He It is President Gearan’s will do anything possible to give belief that, while the situation is not students needing financial aid as pleasant, the Colleges will overcome much as possible, it. There has been a hiring freeze Atotalof$2millionoffinancial for new staff and faculty and tuition aid was added into the financial aid rose 3.4 percent within the last pool as compared to the last fiscal year. However, this is the smallest year. He feels that by doing so, the increase in forty-four years. long term result of having educated In the end, he wants the HWS people is its own reward. Even community to have hope. After all, with the decrease of incoming first- he explained, the Colleges have gone years, he assured the quorums that through two World Wars and Hobart there was a greater influx of transfer went through the Civil War. This is students to the Colleges, not the first time, and it will not be The needs of the students, the last time of financial difficulty for faculty, and staff are extremely Hobart and William Smith Colleges, important to the President and He ' explained two the Board of Trustees. He has dimensions that affected the further made a commitment that financial situation for this fiscal year, the faculty and staff will remain in The first was that the incoming place as they are invaluable assets class of 2013 was smaller than to the Colleges. What was deemed Photo Courtesy Of: www.hws.edu On Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, President Mark Gearan recently presented a realistic-but utlim ately optim is tic- report of the Colleges’ current financial situation at a jo in t meeting of Hobart Student Governm ent and W illiam Sm ith Congress. unnecessary funding was cut so that He mentioned that a task force important needs such as financial ------------------- ;----------------------- aid and student life remain. COAST continued on Page 3 HIV Vaccine Trial Wins Modest Victory By Olivia Carb 11 Herald Contributor m 1#M—— 0 C3 **•10 jm Photo courtesy of: http://fllipspagnoli.filcs.wordpress.com Depicted above is the estimated nurriber o f people in the world living with HIV/AIDS in 2008. Thirty-three million people were living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) at the end of 2007. That same year, 2.7 million individuals became newly infected while 2 million died. September 24, 2009 introduced a glimmer of hope that doon the world will be able to keep HIV infections at bay. Funded by the National Institutes of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, the United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command Institute, the trial was the largest in history. . Costing 105 million dollars, the trials followed 16,402 volunteers (aged 18-30) who were recruited from two provinces in the southeast of Thailand’s capital, Bangkok. For morality purposes, prior to the study, volunteers were given condoms, taught how to avoid infection, and were promised lifelong antiretroviral treatment if they became infected. After combining two genetically engineered vaccines, half ofthe subjects were inoculated with a series of 6 inoculations of ' HIV continued on Page 2 A & E H W S M e d ia C lu b A n n u a l Q u id d itc h Gup T h e H a ir W e W e a r E U L isb o i^ T r e a t y A k r o p o lis D in e r T r e n d o f t h e W e e k D r. B la c k w e ll Zombieland Review DayS of Service Helps the Community Eleanor Blase/ Photographer DayS of Service volunteers help Geneva by participating in the Finger Lakes Institute’s Beach Cleanup on Saturday, Oct. 3. The first DayS of Service event happened on Oct. 3, gathering a total of one-hundred and forty students with fifty of them going to the Special Olympics event alone. DayS of Service is oil its seventeenth year; it has been such an integral part of the campus relations with Geneva and other' . areas. The students who participate are greatly admired by the Geneva Community as the whole event is dedicated to serving Geneva’s needs. Students woke up early in the morning to breakfast on the quad. There, they gathered and met their site leader who helped to guide the group in its site assignment. One site, Trinity church, had students doing repair work, SERVICE continued On Page 2 D e b a t in g the Issues: P u n ish “S e x ilin g ” 'T r u s t e e S h u f f le P e p p le N e e d to B e N ice W o r k in g fo r the W o u n d e d W a r r io r s H o b a r t B a s e b a ll, ciu b E c o - F r ie n d ly E v e n t s
