ASPC Delegation Attends Haverford Student Conference

By Bethany Woodard

ASPC President Richard Park ’00 and Environment Affairs Commissioner Aaron Ginoza ’02 recently attended a student government seminar at Haverford College, joining representatives from the student governments from several other liberal arts colleges such as Wesleyan, Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, Connecticut College, and University of the South at Sewannee. [con't]

President Halts Aramark Inquiry, Briefly

By Will Weinstein

In response to requests by members of the administration, Aramark agreed to place a moratorium on its requests for identification documentation from its employees. This temporary halt is good news to members of the Workers Support Committee (WSC) who demanded that Aramark stop demanding papers until several questions concerning the requests could be clarified.

Two weeks ago, members of the WSC, a committee dedicated to ensuring workers’ rights, were approached by several Aramark employees who expressed concern after they had been approached by their managers to request various documents including their social security numbers, drivers licenses, and birth certificates. [con't]

College Deans Converge at Pomona

By Matthew Preusch

Collegiate administrators of housing, discipline, and academic advising from schools such as Duke, Harvard, and Swarthmore met at Pomona this week for a two-day conference for member schools of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE).

According to Dean of Campus Life Matt Taylor, the group, which has 16 different subgroups, was formed out of schools that have similar student bodies and academic missions. The 30 member schools, said Taylor, are composed mostly of "the Ivies and other elite" colleges in the country. [con't]

Shopping for a New Server

By Krista Seymour

The Office of Information Technologies (OIT), which provides Internet services for Pomona College, is looking for a new Internet server after ongoing student and faculty complaints about the unreliability of the current server. In recent months, Pomona’s VMS-based e-mail server has failed up to once a week, disrupting e-mail services for Pomona faculty and students. OIT hopes to install either a Windows NT or Unix system by spring 2000, finally discarding the server that has been in place since 1989.

Director for OIT Terris Wolf said, "I understand the server is going down; it is my complaint to my staff, but part of the problem is the huge amount of space it’s taking to send MP3s around the system." [con't]

Security Briefs

Thursday, November 11, 12:32 am. Officer heard glass break in Clark 1. Officer spoke to student who said his canoe had slid from its spot and broken a window. [con't]

Senate Briefs

ASPC President Richard Park ’00 commenced the meeting by introducing the new Senate Aide, Grace Kim ’02. He then asked to hear the commissioner reports.

North Campus Senator Robi Ganguly ’00 said that the Budget Committee received three requests that week and had approved them all. Two of the requests were for money from the alcohol fund. The Mod Party was granted $200, and the party in Mudd-Blaisdell was granted $180 for alcohol. The third request was for pizza in the Senior Lounge every week until the end of the semester and was for $200. Ganguly said that there is $4,650 left in the semester’s activities fund and $4,908 in the alcohol fund. [con't]

Matthew Preusch Gradeschoolers line up outside Big Bridges for Thursday’s performance of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat