https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=07wsf&feedformat=atomWillipedia - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T18:21:45ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.32.1https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Combo_Za&diff=13291Combo Za2006-10-27T07:07:38Z<p>07wsf: </p>
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== Combo Za presents Zalloween ==<br />
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'''Friday October 27th 10pm at the Log''' <br />
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Hell shall be unleashed. Beer will be sold. Improv Comedy will happen. People might die.<br />
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----<br />
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People could '''die'''. That's ''real''. Then they could come back. That isn't real, but it is scary.<br />
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It is vis-a-vis worth noting that Combo Za cannot be killed, as it grows stronger with [[auditions|the addition of new members every fall]].<br />
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It is heretofore worth noting that new members will be put in a lottery... a death lottery.<br />
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Combo Za is currently:<br />
(07) Spike Friedman, <br />
Miles Klee,<br />
Annie Smith,<br />
Greta Wilson,<br />
(08) Sara Carian,<br />
Peter Schmidt,<br />
(09) Ruth Aronoff,<br />
Kaveh Landsverk,<br />
Zach Safford, <br />
(010) Jesse Gordon<br />
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Combo Za has been:<br />
(06) Brendan, Lavonna, Travis, Cece, Sam, and John<br />
(05) Colin, and Ricardo<br />
(04) Sam...<br />
and other people goin back to 85<br />
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It is posthumously worth noting that [[arachnobat|Colin hates]] you</div>07wsfhttps://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Combo_Za&diff=13260Combo Za2006-10-23T02:29:02Z<p>07wsf: </p>
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== Combo Za presents Zalloween ==<br />
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'''Friday October 27th 10pm at the Log''' <br />
<br />
Hell shall be unleashed. Beer will be sold. Improv Comedy will happen. People might die.<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
People could '''die'''. That's ''real''. Then they could come back. That isn't real, but it is scary.<br />
<br />
It is vis-a-vis worth noting that Combo Za cannot be killed, as it grows stronger with [[auditions|the addition of new members every fall]].<br />
<br />
It is heretofore worth noting that new members will be put in a lottery... a death lottery.<br />
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Combo Za is currently:<br />
(07) Spike Friedman, <br />
Miles Klee,<br />
Annie Smith,<br />
Greta Wilson,<br />
(08) Sara Carian,<br />
Peter Schmidt,<br />
(09) Ruth Aronoff,<br />
Kaveh Landsverk,<br />
Zach Safford, <br />
(010) Jesse Gordon<br />
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Combo Za has been:<br />
(06) Brendan, Lavonna, Travis, Cece, Sam, and John<br />
(05) Colin, and Ricardo<br />
(04) Sam...<br />
and other people goin back to 85<br />
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It is posthumously worth noting that [[arachnobat|Colin hates]] you.</div>07wsfhttps://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Combo_Za&diff=12655Combo Za2006-05-24T20:17:18Z<p>07wsf: </p>
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A bunch of atheistic anarchists masquerading as "improv comedians", whose sole true purpose for existence is Bolshevik agitation and the dissemination of irreligious propoganda in the from of [[arachnobat|fugly bat-spider]] posters. Join me and John Birch in our courageous defence of the American Way by tearing down all such handbills on sight and recycling them.<br />
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It is also worth noting that Combo Za is not funny. At all.<br />
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It is further worth noting that we don't do that shit no more.<br />
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It is henceforth worth noting that someone should BURN THEM! OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!<br />
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It is vis-a-vis worth noting that Combo Za cannot be killed, as it grows stronger with the addition of new members every fall.<br />
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It is heretofore worth noting that new members will be put in a lottery... a death lottery.<br />
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It is finally worth noting that seriously, we don't do that shit no more.<br />
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It is posthumously worth noting that Colin hates you.</div>07wsfhttps://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Summer_2006&diff=10351Summer 20062006-05-02T17:59:07Z<p>07wsf: </p>
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<div>Many people choose to spend their [[summer in Williamstown]]. Here are those in the Valley for the summer of 2006. Click on "Name," "year," or "job" to sort the list by that entry (alphabetically or numerically).<br />
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{| class="sortable" id="summer06-table" <br />
! Name||year||job<br />
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|Ben Sykes||2008||Econ research<br />
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|Ronit Bhattacharyya||2007||WIT Student Manager<br />
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|Noemi Fernandez||2009||WIT<br />
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|Sarah Riskind||2009||WIT<br />
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|Liz Kantack||2009||envi research asst.<br />
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|Matthew Lincoln||2009||Media Studios Staff<br />
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|Julie Esteves||2006||Admissions, Tour Guide<br />
|-<br />
|Edgardo G. Costas-Bracero||2007||Admissions, Tour Guide<br />
|-<br />
|Jack Nelson||2007||Admissions, Tour Guide, Woolf<br />
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|Miles Klee||2007||Admissions, Tour Guide, and wishing I was a baller<br />
|-<br />
|Ren McDermott||2007||Conference Office<br />
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|Anna Merritt||2008||Conference Office<br />
|-<br />
|Uzaib Saya||2008||Admissions Office, Tour Guide, Anthropology Research<br />
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|Zack Brewer||2007||Chemistry Research, Woolf<br />
|-<br />
|Noah Lindquist||2008||Chemistry Research<br />
|-<br />
|Eduardo Lizarraga||2008||Chemistry Research<br />
|-<br />
|Tommy Gill||2008||Chemistry Research<br />
|-<br />
|Aashish Adhikari||2007||Chemistry Research<br />
|-<br />
|Ryan Gerrity||2007||Chemistry Research<br />
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|jordan landers||2009||Chemistry Research<br />
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|sunmi yang||2008||Chemistry Research<br />
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|Claudia Lord||2009||Chemistry Research<br />
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|Nadira Ramkhelawan||2009||Chemistry Research<br />
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|Will McClain||2009||Chemistry Research<br />
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|Shea Chen||2007||SMALL<br />
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|Dave Senft||2007||SMALL<br />
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|Doug Hammond||2007||SMALL<br />
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|Thomas Kindred||2007||SMALL<br />
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|Conor Quinn||2007||SMALL<br />
|-<br />
|Alex Tanton||2007||BIG<br />
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|Dave Kleinschmidt||2009||Psychology Research<br />
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|Joanna Korman||2007||Psychology Research<br />
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|Priyanka Bangard||2007||WCURF Fellow--Psyc<br />
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|Megan Bruck||2007||Astrophysics Research<br />
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|Daniel Sussman||2007||Physics research<br />
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|Jared Strait||2007||Physics<br />
|-<br />
|Sarah Willey||2009||Bio-Chem Research<br />
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|Jack Kling||2009||Neuroscience Research<br />
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|Auyon Mukharji||2007||Bio Research<br />
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|Salvador Lopez||2009||Bio Research<br />
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|Norman Scott||2009||Bio Research<br />
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|Helen Hood||2009||Bio research<br />
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|Kimberly Elicker||2009||Bio Research<br />
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|Katy Dieber| |2007| |Bio Research<br />
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|Kate Scheider||2007||Geo Research, CES Research<br />
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|Tucker Sawin||2007||History Research Assistant<br />
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|Jason Kohn||2008||ArtH Research<br />
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|Andrew Wang||2008||Political Science Research<br />
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|Aston Gonzalez||2008||Mellon Fellow<br />
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|Haydee Lindo||2008||WCURF, math<br />
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|Amy Steele||2008||WCURF, astronomy<br />
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|Jenn Sit||2008||Community Scholars Program: Coordinator for Conte Summer Tutoring Program & WES Summer Camp<br />
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|Thomas Miller||2008||Community Scholars Program: Coordinator for Conte Summer Tutoring Program<br />
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|Ana Correa||2007||Sawyer Reference Desk<br />
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|Christopher Paci||2008||Chapin Rare Books Library<br />
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|Shane Bobrycki||2007||Chapin Rare Books<br />
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|Anna Edmonds||2007||Sheep Hill<br />
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|P.J. Bonavitacola||2006||Hopkins Forest Caretaker<br />
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|Alexander Matthews||2007||Grassroots Activism, waiter at MezzeI know, Right?, and Baller<br />
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|Victoria Williams||2009||TA for Summer Humanities and Social Sciences<br />
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|Lyndsay Lau||2009||Summer Science Tutor<br />
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|Scott Tamura||2009||Summer Science Tutor<br />
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|Sergio Marte||2008||Summer Science Tutor<br />
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|Bob O'Loughlin||2007||Economics Research Assistant<br />
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|John Vu||2009||development research/beach vacation @MBL, back in willytown final 2 weeks<br />
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|Rachel Shalev||2007||August - Admissions<br />
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|Emily Behrman||2009||Bio research at MBL, so I'll be in Williamstown for the last 2 weeks<br />
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|Louisa Hong||2008||Bio-Chem Research<br />
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|Emma Davenport||2009||Lissack Projects Assistant/ Comp. Lit Research Assistant<br />
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|Spike Friedman||2007||Summer Theatre Institute<br />
|-</div>07wsfhttps://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Anchor_housing&diff=8246Anchor housing2006-03-08T22:59:33Z<p>07wsf: /* History */</p>
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Anchor Housing, also known as ''Cluster Housing'', the ''Williams House System'', or ''Neighborhood Housing'', is the new upperclass housing system to be implemented in fall 2006. The CUL refers to the system by its latest name, ''neighborhood'', but students most commonly call the system ''anchor'' or ''cluster'' housing, the original names.<br />
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==Description==<br />
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[[Image:clusterMap.jpg|right|thumbnail|Map of the four clusters.]]<br />
Currently, Williams upperclass housing is a "[[Free agency|free agent]]" system. Students form groups of 4 and are assigned lottery numbers within their class. They then choose rooms on campus in order of lottery number.<br />
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Anchor housing restricts the room draw to a small cluster of dorms. Houses on campus will be divided into four clusters, each containing approximately six houses and one "anchor" house chosen to serve as the social hub of the cluster. Rising sophomores will form groups of six, and each group will be randomly assigned to a cluster. Upperclassmen will choose rooms in a lottery exclusive to their own cluster. Students remain in the same cluster throughout their time at Williams.<br />
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The housing system was formed with the following goals in mind, as presented by the CUL at two informational forums in 2004:<br />
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* '''More autonomous social life''': more local control, funding, and energy; less dependence on ACE; more variety - parties, big weekend traditions, intramurals, faculty interaction<br />
* '''More active residential integration''': not merely desegregation, but genuine and lively communities<br />
* '''Improved sophomore experience''': deeper connections to other class years<br />
* '''Ability to live with friends, and have options within the system'''<br />
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There are ideas for a "House Cup" and House IM teams, informal faculty dinners, designated bulletin boards in the new Baxter, and cluster outings, but plans are not definite yet. Some students (and CUL members) have joked about whether the clusters will be named after the houses in the Harry Potter books.<br />
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The anchor houses and their associated dorms are:<br />
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* '''Currier''': Fitch, Prospect, East, Fayerweather<br />
* '''Dodd''': Hubbell, Goodrich, Parsons, Sewall, Tyler, Tyler Annex, Thompson, Lehman<br />
* '''Spencer''': Morgan, West, Brooks, Bryant, Mark Hopkins<br />
* '''Wood''': Perry, Garfield, Agard, Gladden, Carter<br />
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The houses Chadbourne, Doughty, Lambert, Milham, Poker Flats, Rectory, Susie Hopkins, and Woodbridge will remain (or become) [[co-ops]].<br />
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Dodd Annex will become Econ. Faculty Offices.<br />
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For the CUL's complete description of anchor housing, see the [http://www.williams.edu/resources/committees/cul/reports/2005.pdf full proposal]. It is fairly detailed and includes a history of housing at Williams, though it perpetuates the misconception that the change from House Affiliation to Free Agency was driven by the administration and was "accidental." In fact, students were freely swapping rooms well before the official switch to Free Agency, thus a de facto free agency system existed at the end of the House Affiliation period.<br />
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==History==<br />
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Anchor housing was first proposed by the 1999-2000 [[Committee on Undergraduate Life]] (CUL) under the leadership of Professor Charles Dew, a Williams alum from the time when College housing was based around fraternities. The proposed system was abandoned by the 2002 CUL in favor of making discrete changes to room draw procedures: decreasing the size of pick groups from 7 to 4, implementing a blind room draw, and instituting gender caps on individual houses. There are a number of reasons given for this change: 2005 CUL members claimed that the Committee of 2000 wanted to give their changes time to work, and allow time to see how the new [[House Coordinator]] system was faring; students who were on campus in 1999-2000 suggest that the student body protested the idea of anchor housing strongly enough to convince the CUL to back down; and some student members of the 2000 CUL claim that it was their objections to anchor housing that kept the system from being implemented in spring 2003.<br />
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In Winter Study 2004, news was leaked to the Williams ''[http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?view=article&section=news&id=6225 Record]'' that the 2004-2005 CUL (led by Professor Will Dudley, an alum from the days when students were affiliated with one house throughout their upperclass years) was going to propose the system again. The proposed system involved creating six clusters, with houses in each cluster scattered across campus but united by a centrally located [[anchor house]]. Each Freshman [[entry]] would be associated with a cluster, and rising sophomores would join the cluster of their entry. In the [http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?view=article&section=news&id=6308 second article] breaking the story, [[Morton Schapiro|Morty]] was quoted as saying, "It’s in the interests of the students, ultimately. The challenge is to explain why."<br />
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Shortly thereafter, commentary surfaced in the ''Record'', saturated [[WSO Blogs]], and continued for some time after the initial announcement. Most of the commentary from students was very critical of the proposed change. A group of students dedicated to preventing the implementation of anchor housing and maintaining free agency housing formed the group [[Anchors Away]]. These students conducted surveys of students (in one case, they collected written opinions from almost 200 Williams students opposed to anchor housing), wrote letters to the CUL, ''Record'', and [[Trustees]], and compiled documents detailing student objections to the anchor housing proposal. Their efforts culminated in a failed campaign for the [[College Council]] co-presidency by two of their founding members.<br />
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In January 2005, the Committee on Undergraduate Life made a series of substiantial changes to the anchor housing proposal. Entries were detatched from clusters in favor of randomly assigning rising sophomores. Additionally, the CUL determined that larger clusters would be more conducive to forming genuine communities and decreased the number of clusters to five. The cluster boundaries were also redrawn to be geographically localized; each cluster, instead of comprising houses from all areas of campus, would consist of nearby houses. Also, the CUL began to refer to the new housing proposal by the name ''cluster housing'' instead of ''anchor housing'', because they felt that "anchor housing" gave too much of an impression that students would be stuck to something in their residential lives. Finally, the date of implementation was pushed back from fall 2005 to fall 2006. This move was [http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?view=article&section=news&id=6449 highly regarded] by the student body.<br />
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The CUL finally [http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?view=article&section=news&id=6484 submitted] its proposal to the administration under the name "Williams House System" in late February 2005, and recieved the [[Administration|Administration's]] approval. The CUL declared that its mission in the 2005-2006 academic year would consist solely of determining how exactly the transition from free agency to anchor housing would be carried out. Asserting that the decision to move to the new system itself ought still to be at issue, students in [[Anchors Away]] argued that the administration was ignoring dissenting students' opinion.<br />
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In April 2005, College Council submitted a [http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?view=article&section=news&id=6706 letter of opposition] to clusters to the adminsitration. The letter makes explicit the point that anchor housing cannot be successful without support from the students.<br />
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A suggestion by Dean Nancy Roseman took both the CUL and student body by surprise in December 2005. Dean Roseman believed that there might not be enough dedicated students to fill the number of leadership positions needed in a five-cluster system. The new idea reduced the number of clusters to four and changed the distribution of dorms within clusters. In an effort to make each cluster's dorm space more equitable, the new plan turned [[Morgan]], [[Lehman]], [[East]], and [[Fay]] into upper-class (likely sophomore) housing, and moved the freshman entries previously located in those dorms to [[Mission Park]]. The former first-year dorms would recieve renovations to bolster the number of singles and availability of common space. In general, students were encouraged by the reduction in number of clusters, but opinion on the relocation of freshmen was mixed. When students returned from [[Dead Week]] 2006, they recieved letters signed by President Schapiro and Dean Roseman announcing that this four-cluster plan will be adopted in fall 2006.<br />
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Clusterfuck (Military Slang)<br />
A disastrous situation that results from the cumulative errors of several people or groups. In semi-polite company this is referred to as a Charlie Foxtrot<br />
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==Student Opinion==<br />
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The first Wiki entry for Anchor Housing consisted of the single word, "Evilll." A few edits later, a poster had corrected to, ''[Anchor Housing] . . . is actually NOT called anchor housing. It is cluster housing, built in neighborhoods around a central "anchor house.'' To which the following response was added: ''But nonetheless, it is still eeeeeevil, just in case you were confused about that.''<br />
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Williams students are looking forward to some aspects of the new housing system. In particular, students anticipate a better, more varied campus party scene and new campus traditions in the vein of the house affiliation system from the 70's-80's. However, during the debates immediately following the initial announcements about anchor housing in fall 2004, students enumerated a number of strong concerns about the proposed system:<br />
* '''Loss of freedoms and choices.''' Any housing system that restricts the number of houses students can live in restricts students' choices. Given the great variety of dorms on this campus, many students believe it essential that they be at least given a chance to choose from some of the best dorms on campus. Clusters drawn by the CUL have rarely included equal numbers of "desirable" and "undesirable" houses, leaving students wondering whether members of classes after 2009 will find themselves randomly assigned to a "sucky cluster." Students also worry that they will be unable to form a housing pick group with their friends, especially with friends they make after cluster assignments have been made in their freshman spring.<br />
* '''Social engineering.''' The attitude of the CUL and administration has been seen as very paternalistic by many students. Students are wary of attempts to ensure "diversity" in all dorms on campus. The phrase "genuine communities" has been particularly contentious among students, as some believe it suggests that existing communities were judged by the CUL and determined to be "not genuine." <br />
* '''Freshman affiliations.''' The assignment of entries to particular clusters was met with strong disapproval by students worried that new students' housing choices would be determined entirely by their entry assignment, before they even set foot on campus. However, the CUL altered this aspect of the plan.<br />
* '''Loss of "class" living experiences.''' Sophomores will no longer be able to live as a class in [[Mission Park]], and juniors will no longer be able to live together in the [[Greylock Quad]]. Some credit the Mission Park renovations in the summer of 2003 as dramatically improving the Williams sophomore experience, and are concerned that anchor housing will take away the benefits of living as a class with all the people who got to know one another as entrymates during freshman year. The shift of first-year students to Mission Park will restore some of the benefits of the Mission "class living experience."<br />
* '''Disregard of suite affiliations.''' Many Williams students live with the same (or a similar) set of friends in a suite throughout their career. Students believe that the CUL did not take into account strong "suite identity" and the smaller, more tightly knit communities of two or three nearby suites, often composed of good friends who enjoy each others' company.<br />
* '''Differences in social behavior.''' The drinking culture on this campus appeals to some and not to others. Some of the less party-prone students worried that anchor housing would spread them thinly around campus, sandwiching them between students more interested in trashing common rooms with [[beirut]] refuse than using the common room for a quiet gathering, board game, impromptu poker night, or movie viewing.<br />
* '''The Odd Quad.''' Members of the [[Odd quad | Odd Quad]] (officially known as the Berkshire Quad) community use the dorms Currier and Fitch as a social hub. These students, self-described [[deviants]], are often set apart from the rest of campus culture. Without a physical social base, they worry that their way of life will be severely disrupted. Anchor housing will randomly spread these students around the entire campus, effectively destroying the Odd Quad as a cohesive community. CUL members responded that the Odd Quad is a perfect example of "theme housing" and should not, in fact, exist as a residential community.<br />
* '''Failure of clusters at Middlebury.''' Middlebury College [http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?view=article&section=news&id=6393 recently implemented a cluster-model housing system], and students there have a low opinion of it. In fact, their objections are very similar to Williams students' objections to anchor housing: social engineering, preventing them from living with friends, et cetera.<br />
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In its March 1, 2005 issue, the Williams ''Record'' [http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?view=article&section=news&id=6491 conducted a poll] of student opinion on anchor housing. The following results turned up:<br />
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* 13% of students support anchor housing<br />
* 24% of students tentatively support anchor housing<br />
* 33% of students tentatively oppose anchor housing<br />
* 29% of students oppose anchor housing<br />
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College Council also conducted a poll, which was [http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?view=article&section=news&id=6578 reported] in the ''Record'' on March 15, 2005:<br />
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* 17% of respondants support anchor housing<br />
* 57% oppose anchor housing<br />
* 12% are neutral<br />
* 13% are undecided<br />
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However, the Committee on Undergraduate Life made statements to the effect that a student opinion poll would not affect their decision. The 2005-2006 CUL has dedicated intself to implementing anchor housing in fall 2006.<br />
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== Current Status ==<br />
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The CUL is debating how to accomplish the transition to anchor housing, how houses should be governed, how to evaluate the success or failure of clusters in the future, and how funding should be allocated to clusters.<br />
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Edit [[Stuff the CUL should do]] to provide input to the Committee.<br />
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The [http://www.williams.edu/resources/committees/cul/members.html CUL website] currently contains a member list, links to previous CUL reports, and a feedback form. There are also minutes from some of the subcommittee meetings. In addition, there is a CUL listserv maintained by WSO: <email>cul@wso.williams.edu</email>. Students are encouraged to send feedback, comments, and suggestions to the CUL via the web form or this e-mail address.<br />
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''The CUL also apparently tried to obtain the names of students who had edited this wiki article before logins were required.''</div>07wsfhttps://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Combo_Za&diff=7878Combo Za2006-03-02T02:36:01Z<p>07wsf: </p>
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<div>I heard something about a secret late night show March 4th at midnight in goodrich. Does anyone know anything else?<br />
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A bunch of atheistic anarchists masquerading as "improv comedians", whose sole true purpose for existence is Bolshevik agitation and the dissemination of irreligious propoganda in the from of [[arachnobat|fugly bat-spider]] posters. Join me and John Birch in our courageous defence of the American Way by tearing down all such handbills on sight and recycling them.<br />
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It is also worth noting that Combo Za is not funny. At all.<br />
*Not true. Usually in a half-hour show, there will be one thing that makes you laugh, and/or two that make you smile. Still less funny than almost any webcomic you can find, but there is humor there.<br />
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. . .<br />
We don't do that shit no more.<br />
*A Damn Leftist Lie: They still do that shit, and they always will<br />
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BURN THEM! OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!</div>07wsfhttps://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Stuff_the_CUL_should_do&diff=7260Stuff the CUL should do2006-02-11T18:15:54Z<p>07wsf: </p>
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<div>This is what the CUL is doing. <br />
http://www.williams.edu/resources/committees/cul/members.html<br />
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Stuff it should do. This will all be taken into consideration. Right now the most valuable things are ideas. please edit....<br />
* Delay implementing anchor housing for a year so that all the crucial details can be thought through very carefully. Use this extra time to renovate East, Fayerweather, all of Lehman, etc., so that the sophmore housing choices aren't so grim. <br />
* Not be so fixated on [[Anchor housing]] that it can't consider other ideas...like, for example, that the majority of students on campus don't like the idea of anchors.<br />
* Decrease the number of clusters to four<br />
** . . . and make those clusters Prospect House, Greylock Quad, Mission, and [[Dodd]] Quad, into which all students with liberty at their pick number will be free to pick into, or not. All other buildings on campus will remain officially unaffiliated, but free to participate what cluster activities the cluster residents and leaders wish to open to them. <br />
***... Once a year, we can raid the non-Clusterite dorms and pillage their rooms, stealing their young for the random cluster-related odd job, such as clipping my toenails while I read...<br />
***Okay, ''you'' might think that's a good idea, and ''I'' might think that's a good idea, but we both know that the CUL is going to be just as receptive to that notion as the heartfelt, sincere, well-thought-out suggestion that they decrease the number of cluster to ''one''. We are but poor Williams students who know next to nothing about social critical masses, genuine communities, or other vague and meaningless buzzwords.<br />
**Seriously, four is a good number. There are four class years on campus, four traditional dining halls, four houses each in Mission and Greylock. Five clusters make anchor housing even more contrived and artificial than it has to be.<br />
***Five are the books of the... Torah. Five are our half our fingers and five are half our toes, and five are half the commandments that Moses brought... <br />
****Is the CUL becoming a [http://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php/Religion religion]?<br />
*****Is spiritual well-being and connectedness not a vital part of improved campus cohesiveness? What better way to unite us all than to formulate the cluster system through detailed exegesis of the sacred word? If we called CC the council of elders, maybe we would believe in them more...<br />
******Maybe each cluster should have an official [http://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php/Religion religion]. This could play into the [[Peoples and cultures]] requirement, by having them all be non-Western religions.<br />
*Realize that they are the committee on UNDERGRADUATE life and take the opinions, needs, and desires of that constituancy as their guiding light, rather than appeasement of the administration and perpetuation of their own position<br />
**Seconded. Opinion polls all 'round.<br />
*So the transition is going to be accomplished by a coupled room draw / cluster draw, where assigned room pick numbers are inversely related to cluster pick numbers. ''This should be how rising sophomores are assigned to clusters every year from now on.'' That would temper a lot of the awfulness of anchor housing, while still preventing "theme housing" from developing.<br />
**Seconded.<br />
*Be open to the possibility of reverting to a system based on free agency if the evaluation committee determines that anchor housing has failed in the future.<br />
*Implement the cluster over three years. For the purposes of transition, assign sophomores to clusters in 06-07, but maintain the roomdraw for rising juniors and seniors to fill in the housing spaces that are left after the cluster roomdraw. This will prevent seniors and to a lesser degree, juniors, from being thrown into a bath of ice water with respect to clusterization. Then in 07-08, assign new rising sophomores into clusters, keep the rising juniors in their clusters, and allow the seniors to be last (class) pick free agents. Then, in 08-09, your masterpiece will be complete and you'll be glad you didn't rush things.<br />
*Get more statisticians and social psychologists on the CUL.<br />
**<b>Correction:</b> Get statisticians and social psychologists on the CUL, period.<br />
*The only way to improve Tyler House is to move it to a location next to Route 2.<br />
*Fire the CLCs and hire Drew Newman in their place. This will instantly solve any and all problems related to residential life, entertainment, social life, parties, events, etc.<br />
*Pop Collective Collar<br />
*Stop reclassifying the best senior housing as doubles (See Parsons, Goodrich, Sewell... yeah, they thought they could slip that by us)</div>07wsfhttps://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Students_with_automotive_skills&diff=6562Students with automotive skills2005-12-20T05:08:32Z<p>07wsf: /* Get Speeding Tickets */</p>
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<div>Here are students who can do cool stuff with cars. Include good stories to illustrate.<br />
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===Drive Stick Shift===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (maniacally)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dpr Daniel Rooney] (erotically)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06bwd Brendan Dougherty] (smooth as shit out of a duck's ass)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jps Joe Shoer '06] (that's what she said)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07kfm Katie Montgomery] (could drive anything from a '82 Toyota Tercel to a forklift, or so she believes)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (She learned in a week.)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson] (automatics are for women)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jyl Janey Waney Lee] (She doesn't even need to say anything.)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ljw Leah Joy Weintraub] (In her other life, she actually is a race car driver.) (So she has problems making right turns.)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06lc Lucy Cox-Chapman](Best)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09jrc Jay Cox-Chapman](Worst)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07hmh Helena Harnik] (I have two driving licenses, one for each side of the road. Yeah that's right- I can use either hand to shift. That makes me 2x more stick-savvy than everyone else)<br />
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[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]] (Only ever driven stick shift; now I just wish I could drive on the right side of the road)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08amr_2 Anne Royston '08] (can shift from both driver's and passenger's seat; working on backseat)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mse Matthew Earle '07] (Double-clutch downshifts saves wear on synchros, but may have caused the expensive timing chain misalignment he just had fixed)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08nv Nela Vukmirovic '08] (Drives only stick shift. Has driven automatic only once, when she was 14. Doesn't have a driving licence 'cause she never has time to actually do the driver's test (gimme some credit here, getting driving licence in Europe is way harder and more time consuming than you think!). If she gets caught driving w/o one, she'll be in biiig trouble.)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] (Including sketchy old truck clutches)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06chh Clara Hard] (West Coast style)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nsc Nick Colella] (Has to watch out for moose)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07kaj_2 Katie Josephson] (Can drive and teach all her guy friends who, shamefully, ask not to be named)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ppn Phyo Phyu Noe] (is a clutch master)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09dfk Dave Kleinschmidt] (also must watch for moose and road conditions unfavorable to those w/o snow tires)<br />
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===Drive Really Fast In Reverse===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dsf Danny Fischler] once pulled a k-turn, maxing at around 20mph, across the width of a freeway entrance. With [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06rmb Becky frickin' Burditt] in the back seat. Ca-raaaaaazy.<br />
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===Sweet Jumps===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] likes to go as fast as he can when he sees speed bumps and likes to think he gets an inch or two of air in his 2-ton SUV every time.<br />
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===Change a Tire===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez '06] has changed more than his fair share of tires and learned that salt+rust will effectively glue a wheel onto the axle. Solution? Wedge the flat edge of your hubcap-removal tool into the jammed area and whack the crap out of it with a hammer. Eventually, if you're lucky, that wheel will pop right off.<br />
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[[Toby Hall]]<br />
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===Jumpstart a Car===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez '06] has also had his fair share of car jumpstarts and knows not to connect the black plug to red and red plug to black. If you do, you will blow the battery fuse in your fusebox and burn out some expensive component in your car. Through his learning processes, he found just how costly it is to replace the stock amp that powers your stereo.<br />
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[[Jonathan Landsman]] (who's been zapped)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ljw Leah Joy Weintraub] (but only if you ask nicely)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon]<br />
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[[Toby Hall]] can't seem to turn his lights off. 3 Jump starts in the first 2 months of having a car. Once flagged down a Prof. then preformed the feat in under a minute and a half.<br />
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=== Parallel Park ===<br />
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[[Jonathan Landsman]], native New Yorker, has parked in spots so tight that getting in and out depended on using room provided by nudging cars parked in front and behind, counting on the flexibility of their shocks. His record in Williamstown was set when moving into his [[Morgan#East|Morgan East]] room for the [[Summer 2004|Summer of 2004]], when he parked at the top of [[Spring Street]], leaving enough room on either end of the car to fit one finger, but not two.<br />
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And [[Macy Radloff]], native Bostonian, was proud of the three finger park--three in front, zero in the back because she was bumper to bumper with the next car. It seems as though she has been outdone, by one finger. She can, however, parallel park the B&G 12 passenger vans in relatively tight spots, which she still considers an accomplishment.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] is also a native New Yorker and often takes it upon himself to giggle at the non-city folk that have such a tough time parking in huge spots on Spring Street.<br />
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[[Toby Hall]], yet another native New Yorker who never had the luxury of a parking garage. I got three words for you: "Alternate Side Parking"<br />
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===Get Parking Tickets ===<br />
[[Chris St.Cyr]] (5 tickets and the infamous car boot to the front tire in first two months here as a freshman)<br />
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[[Evan Miller]] (6 in as many days, although 4 were successfully appealed.)<br />
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[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] two in three days in Queens, NYC. Both while at the vehicle, one while inside it.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] accidentally left car parked illegally outside of Mission for days to find 4 tickets upon his return.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06lc Lucy Cox-Chapman] forgot that her car was parked at the end of Spring St. for four days and found 3 tickets when she finally remembered.<br />
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[[Charlie Giammattei]], who left his car in front of Bryant House in 2005 for four days, incurring TEN tickets from security. He then claimed to Dave Boyer that the car was broken and he had taken it to Flamingo Motors for repairs. Dave Boyer knew Charlie's car was American-made and Flamingo only deals with foreign-made vehicles... needless to say, Charlie paid the price.<br />
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[[Toby Hall]] 2 tickets at the greylock parking trap, 1 in NYC, from a meter-maid who was waiting by the car until expiration, 1 outside of Weston for being an idiot and parking overnight because he had forgotten where he left his car.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09dfk Dave Kleinschmidt '09] thought it would be cute to part a JA's car as close to Fay as possible, which was inside the then-removed vehicle-blocking metal posts, thus earning a parking ticket upon emerging from the dorm less than 10 minutes later.<br />
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===Get Speeding Tickets===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (2 tickets, 88 in a 55 in Virginia and 91 in a 65 in New Jersey--cut down to 84 by the nice state trooper--within a month) Total fines: 275+170 = $445<br><br />
Total amount in fines saved by the purchase of a high-end radar detector: more than you can imagine<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mse Matthew Earle] $605 ($305 ticket + $300 NY State fee for points on license) on I-87 south of Plattsburgh for 88, that they know about, in a 65)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (88 on I-88 in Bainbridge, NY, incurring a reasonable $155 fine.)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08adw Andrew Wang] ($115 on I-80 in Wayne, NJ for doing 88 in a 55...I swear to God I thought it was a 65...)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09cjv Cat Vielma] 4 tickets, over 70 mph in a 45mph speeding zone...it's called Lake Shore Drive, and no one will stop me... not even $115 City of chicago tickets<br />
-especially if daddy pays for the $115 tickets<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06sgs Sarah Steege] 1 ticket, $200ish, at the beach in Wilmington, NC... doing 43 in a poorly marked 25mph school zone (that only applied from 2:00-3:00), ticketed at 2:55 pm.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dsf Danny Fischler] 1 ticket, $239, going 75 on Route 7 N. '''Don't speed in Pownal. Ever.'''<br />
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Cam Henry: 125$ ticket in Harrison, NY reduced to 75$...84 in a 55 on I-287 (do not speed on that road) which was reduced on the spot to a seatbelt violation<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07wsf Spike Friedman]<br />
$270- 99 on the 5 in LA... actually a little more, but I was sober so it was cool... well, except that I was violating two license restrictions... so it wasn't cool<br />
$220- 68 on Rt 7 in VT... Driving up to Middlebury... happened 1 month after I got the first ticket off my insurance record... and there's no traffic school in VT.</div>07wsfhttps://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Climate_Initiative&diff=5535Climate Initiative2005-11-21T17:11:13Z<p>07wsf: /* Signatures */</p>
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<div>== The Williams College Climate Initiative ==<br />
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Climate change is a preeminent challenge of our time. Its effects will be felt throughout the world for generations to come. Williamstown, the state of Massachusetts, and peer institutions have already set targets for greenhouse gas emission reductions. As one of the nation’s foremost institutions of higher learning, Williams College has an obligation to lead by example. '''In signing this petition, we call upon President Schapiro and the Board of Trustees to adopt a Climate Action Plan that would ensure a 10% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2010, and a 20% reduction by 2015.''' The Plan would entail compiling an updated, comprehensive carbon emission inventory, laying out a framework and timeline to achieve our reduction targets, and hiring a Campus Sustainability Coordinator to facilitate the Climate Action Plan and all future sustainability projects.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
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The undersigned.<br />
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'''Background information:'''<br />
* Williams College is responsible for emitting 34,700 tons of carbon dioxide per year, a quarter of Williamstown’s total emissions. This is approximately 11.5 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per person at Williams College.<br />
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* More than 37 colleges and universities have set an example by meeting or beating the Kyoto Protocol agreement for emissions reductions. <br />
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* Williamstown has already adopted a climate action plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 10% percent by 2010. Williams College is a member of this community and an integral part of the town’s plan.<br />
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* Natural variability alone cannot account for the recent changes in global climate. Scientific models can explain climate changes in the last 50 years only by taking into account greenhouse gas emissions attributable to humans. <br />
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* [[Historical Temperature Variations]]<br />
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== Signatures ==<br />
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If you support this initiative, please add your name by clicking the "Edit" link to the right. You must be logged in as yourself for your signature to count (all changes to the page are recorded). Many community members will be tabling in dining halls after Thanksgiving, so you will also have the opportunity to sign then. If you are interested in helping to table, email 06enl.<br />
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* Matt Britton<br />
* Emily Russell-Roy<br />
* Robin Stewart<br />
* Justin Bates<br />
* Keith McWhorter<br />
* Marcus Duyzend<br />
* Sarah Gardner<br />
* John Kleiner<br />
* Ashlee Martinez<br />
* Carolyn Reuman<br />
* Donald Mitchell<br />
* Megan O'Malley<br />
* Betsy Chang<br />
* Alan Cordova<br />
* Chris Ellis-Ferrara<br />
* Alison Davies<br />
* Aston Gonzalez<br />
* Alex Tanton<br />
* Nika Engberg<br />
* Elise Leduc<br />
* Alexis Saba<br />
* Margaret Pigman<br />
* Katherine Montgomery<br />
* Katherine Majzoub<br />
* Jason Ren<br />
* Anne E. Smith<br />
* Abby McBride<br />
* Jonathan Dowse<br />
* Jennifer Messier<br />
* Benjamin Wood<br />
* Ward Schaefer<br />
* Sunmi Yang<br />
* David Weimer<br />
* Morgan Goodwin<br />
* David Letzler<br />
* Lisetta Shah<br />
* Sam Sterling<br />
* Anne Louise Ennis<br />
* Kendell Newman<br />
* Julia Sendor<br />
* Reed Harrison<br />
* Noah Smith-Drelich<br />
* Carol Rosenberg<br />
* Erin Chong<br />
* Matt Simonson<br />
* Becky Davies<br />
* Emily Olsen<br />
* Liz Gleason<br />
* Caroline Plitt<br />
* Elizabeth Atkinson<br />
* Michael Gallagher<br />
* Lucy Cox-Chapman<br />
* Jay Cox-Chapman<br />
* Elissa Brown<br />
* Hannah Gray<br />
* Alex Ambros<br />
* Cary Bearn<br />
* Brenna Baccaro<br />
* Rachel Schneebaum<br />
* David C Schwab<br />
* John Kling<br />
* Chris Carrier<br />
* Daniel Perez<br />
* Carynne McIver<br />
* Allison Seyferth<br />
* Sara Beach<br />
* Clara Hard<br />
* Spike Friedman</div>07wsf