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[[Category:Petitions]]''This page covers the student activism group by this name. See [http://wso.williams.edu/orgs/anchors-away/limerick.html here] for the poem "Anchors, Away!" by [[Seth Brown '01]]'' Anchors Away is a student group formed in the 2004-2005 academic year to oppose the [[CUL]]'s proposed [[Anchor housing]] or (as it was renamed by the CUL in their [[Spring 2005]] report) "Williams House System," now called Neighborhood Housing." Anchors Away was founded mostly by [[Joe Shoer '06]] and [[Brian Hirshman '06]]. It grew to have:

*a [http://wso.williams.edu/orgs/anchors-away web page]

*a [[tabling]] campaign in [[Spring 2005]] that collected over 170 anti-anchor housing comment cards and sent them to the Dean Roseman.

*a run for [[College Council]] co-presidency by [[Brian Hirshman '06]] and [[Amarnath Santhanam '07]]

*a report on Anchors Away's [http://wso.williams.edu/orgs/anchors-away/questions/index.html Questions on Anchor Housing] written in part and organized by [[David Kane '88]].

''The following section was written before Anchor Housing was implemented, and is retained for its historical value.'' If you oppose anchor housing, please add your name to the list below. Also consider sending specific comments, concerns, or suggestions to the CUL. This can be done in one of several ways: #'''E-mail the CUL:''' The committee listserv is [mailto:cul@wso.williams.edu cul@wso.williams.edu].#'''Use the CUL web comment form:''' The CUL maintains an anonymous [http://www.williams.edu/resources/committees/cul/input.html feedback] form on their web site.#'''Contact CUL members:''' Students on the committee include:*Brian Hirshman '06*Megan O'Malley '06*Bevin Blaber '08*Morgan Goodwin '08*Seth Izen '08*Matthew Simonson '08*Nora Wong '09 Anchors Away encourages all students to be as active as possible. If you feel that any aspect of the system is not right for Williams and deserves to be re-thought before being implemented, take advantage of the CUL web form or your e-mail account.

==Signatures==

Currently requesting to be listed as ~~being~~ opposed to anchor housing are:

*Tosin Adeyanju '08

*Thomas Anderson '06

*Mary Beth Anzovino '06

*[[Ronit Bhattacharyya ~~'07~~]]

*Dan Binder '07

*Adam Bloch '06

*Megan Brankley '08

*[[Laurie Brink]] '05

*[[Seth Brown ]] '01]]*[[Emily Button ~~'07~~]]

*Ryan Carollo '05

*[[Sean A. Carollo ]]*Shea Chen '07*Rebecca Corwin '07]]

*Mike Darling '08

*Alison Davies '07*Rachel Davis '06*[[Diana Davis ~~'07~~]]*[[Jono Dowse]]

*Samuel Doyon '05

*[[Laura Effinger-Dean ~~'06~~]]

*Joseph Gangestad '06

*Tim Geoffrion '08

*Andrew Goldston '08

*Natalia Gonzales '09*[[Michael Hagerty ~~'08~~]]

*Toby Hall '08

*[[Brian Hirshman ~~'06~~]]

*Mary Iaculli '06

*Kat Jong '07

*[[David Kane ~~'88~~]]

*Jane Kelly '08

*[[Daniel Klein]]

*Matthew Kugler '05

*[[Jonathan Landsman]] '05

*Angela Lee '07*[[Dave Letzler ~~'06~~]]*[[Jake F. Manley ~~'07~~]]

*Tameika McLean '07

*~~Katie Montgomery~~ Adriann Mintzmyer '0709

*Sara Morrissey '07

*Patricia O'Reilly '07

*Robert O'Loughlin '07

*Ana Pacheco-Navarro '08

*Jonathan Prigoff '08

*Kellie Randall '07

*Amanda Santiago '08

*Amarnath Santhanam '07

*Luciana Suran '01

*Jesse Schenendorf '06

*Geofre Schoradt '06

*Graeme Biervliet Schranz '04

*Rachel Selinsky '06

*Lisetta Shah '06*[[Julianne Shelby ~~'06~~]]

*Joe Shoer '06

*[[Paul N. Stansifer ~~'07~~]]

*Jordan Tacher '09

*Alex Tanton '07

*Alexander Timofeyev '04

*Caroline Toy '06

*Cat Vielma '09*Emilie Voight '09*[[Suzanne C. Walsh ~~'05~~]]*Sam Weinreich '09

*Sunmi Yang '08

*Hanjie Yu '07

Names are alphabetical.

~~==Current Activism==~~

~~''The following has been sent to the Anchors Away listserve. It in no way necessarily reflects the opinions of the aforementioned, nor does it reflect the opinions of the poster of the letter:''~~

~~''The following letter was sent on November 29th, 2005. No response has been received to date.''~~

~~President Schapiro, Dean Roseman, members of the CUL,~~

I am the person who put up the posters around campus quoting members of the administration and of the CUL. I desire to remain anonymous because I am not sure that it is safe to speak up against anchors anymore. (In the interest of protecting the innocent, I should point out that I am not prominently involved in the anchor housing debate.)

The posters are not really about anchor housing, however, but about the way you "grown-ups in Hopkins Hall" think of the student body. You don't think that we are competent to choose what kind of housing plan Williams will have in the future.

~~You don't feel that we are socially skilled enough to form into diverse, close-knit social groups without outside help.~~

~~You don't worry yourselves much about the possibility of a student dying of alcohol poisoning, even though Williams obviously has a serious problem.~~

~~The CUL has, however, worried enough about the name of the new system to change it twice.~~

It doesn't matter what the plan calls for anymore. Do you remember when student involvement was considered essential for its success? The plan is now so contaminated with disrespect for the student body that nothing can save it from its unpopularity. Hopefully, student discontent will tear it apart from the inside quickly, rather than allow it to die a slow, painful, death of apathy and cynicism.

Professor Dudley says, "We don't plan to revisit the big picture issues." In other words, it's too late in the game to change the plan. We students can help work out the little issues. (Not coincidentally, we're with the CUL on the little issues. Increasing the pick size, renovating the dorms that need it, picking our clusters. Having been allowed to participate, the students support

~~these decisions.)~~

But there never was a right time for us to discuss the big picture issues. It was too late from the beginning. If student participation is so vital to success, why weren't we given a chance to weigh in on the big picture at all?

~~I can only speculate, but my guess is that you were afraid that we wouldn't like it. Well, you were right.~~

~~You (any of you) are invited to respond to anonymous.eph@gmail.com. The resulting dialog will be published on the WSO wiki.~~

~~-Anonymous Eph~~

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