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Re: Ned Cabot on Faculty Accountability

S Lopezhoward — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:24:31 -0000

Thanks for putting this out there Ned! As a Trinity graduate with a major in English and two minors in French and Legal Studies I couldn't agree more. I started off in the Guided Studies program - which I found greatly promoted a lot of the intellectual, outside-the-classroom conversation some of the students you mentioned crave. Guided Studies is I think a great model for an academic program of the ilk you describe - so is the English major for that matter. There are some majors at Trinity that are notorious for being a joke and an easy pass - those should be critically examined and reformed.

Some students, like me, are fortunate to fall into a highly motivated, intellectual group of friends, and some are not. I do think this good fortune had a lot to do with Guided Studies and I can't say enough good things about that particular program.

Re: BBAs or SGAs?

Noreen Huth — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:27:13 -0000

We are looking for people to put on the selection committee. If this anonymous poster would like to be included on the award selection committee, please e-mail me.

Nora Huth
Associate Director of Student Life and Leadership
noreen.huth@trincoll.edu

Re: Should We Separate Ourselves from Hartford? A Letter to the Community

Julia F — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 05:22:39 -0000

Well said!

Re: Student Assaulted on Allen Place

student — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:22:25 -0000

Trinity does not own Cresent St. so Trinity can't close it off.

Re: Open Letter Opposes Gating Off Trinity

Average Student — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:22:42 -0000

HAHAHA! Nice!

Re: Spread The Word To End The Word

Duke of Gloucestor — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:50:10 -0000

I think all movements to ban words are differently abled.

Re: Open Letter Opposes Gating Off Trinity

Trinity Student — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:57:54 -0000

YES.

Like this if you are a Trinity student and agree with the majority of this letter.

Re: Student Assaulted on Allen Place

Trinity student — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:54:39 -0000

No, we have not considered that because it is absurd. I don't think I'm naive in saying that absolutely no one in our trinity community, let alone 6 people in our community, would take part in such a senseless, vicious attack.
"Is it a ''my bad'' sorry Hartford and blacks and hispanics for stereotyping you?"NO ONE has said anything about blacks or hispanics. Stop making this about race and ethnicity. Saying that this attack was made by 6 non-Trinity students does not indicate that.

Also, it's not like Chris Kenny was wandering around. He attempted to make a 20 yard walk home, as many students do who live on allen place...and as pretty much every Trinity/college student in general does between 2-3 on a Saturday night.

Re: Student Assaulted on Allen Place

guest — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:51:50 -0000

Has anyone considered that maybe it was Trinity students who beat Chris Kenny? Obviously the crime on campus makes you think that it was not a member of the Trinity community, and obviously the campus safety measures need to be much much better--but what if this ends up being an incident involving Trinity students on Trinity students? What then? Is it a ''my bad'' sorry Hartford and blacks and hispanics for stereotyping you?

Residents in Hartford don't want to be mugged either, people, no matter who they are, how poor they are, what they do for a living. Trinity students are transplanted into THEIR neighborhood. Most people in Hartford neighborhoods are not out to hurt anyone.

Students need to stop walking around at 2AM drunk or not, with friends or not, in an urban city. That's stupid. Accountability. No matter who assaulted Kenny, the campus safety response was inadequate, but still walking around in the middle of the night puts you at risk no matter who rushes you--black, white or hispanic.

Re: Student Assaulted on Allen Place

student b — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:05:39 -0000

Wow. He isn't showing reverse racism. He's saying that students are to quick to judge.

Further, this is not a forum. It's a comment section on an article. Difference? Yes. I'm not against free speech. This simply isn't the place for the issues being brought up in the article. Of which this is a comments section.

Re: Student Assaulted on Allen Place

Gus — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:00:45 -0000

And he thanked him for responding. So what? Should he not thank someone for commenting because they agree with him? That makes no sense.

Re: Student Assaulted on Allen Place

Gus — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:58:22 -0000

I don't think "Mr.Half a Brain" made violent attacks. He or she was simply refuting the arguments brought up. Although you may not like opinions that are not the same as yours, he or she made logical arguments. What violent comment has he or she made? Get a grip on yourself man.

Re: Student Assaulted on Allen Place

someone who knows the city — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:56:11 -0000

If I started attacking the comments that Jake made in his article, I would no longer be a rational unbiased observer. Instead I would be forced to point out his anti-greek life rhetoric (I have no ties to greek life), and reverse racism with quotes from the article such as "it could very well be that Trinity needs a wall, not only to protect its
students who will be so bitterly hated by a community Trinity has
shunned for years, but also to protect those very people Trinity
students hate."-Jake Pullis, the child who hates the students who he attends school with.

Instead I will attempt to defend the idea of a forum, the right of people to express their ideas and opinions with the help of logic and fact based research.

Re: Student Assaulted on Allen Place

AConcernedStudent — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:53:18 -0000

I was referring to the fact that he thanked the person for the comment.
And I would argue that you, Mr. Half a Brain have been making some of the most violent attacks on this page.

Re: Student Assaulted on Allen Place

Heroes for America — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:06:11 -0000

I completely agree! I was thinking along the lines of tunnels but a bubble would make much more sense! You could even put solar panels on the outside of the bubble so that we could be an energy producing campus and then sell back extra energy to the city. You should join my new campaign. It's currently called "Tunneling to a brighter tomorrow". It is an initiative to create a network of tunnels so that we won't even have to go outside and that way we would never feel scared in the open because we'd always be indoors.

Re: Student Assaulted on Allen Place

student — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:27:46 -0000

I'd also like to point out that you and concerned parent have only attacked pieces of my argument that are not related to the issues that Jake has brought up.

Re: Student Assaulted on Allen Place

student — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:26:20 -0000

I believe I did not argue with putting up security measures. It was not in this thread, so please correct me if I am wrong. I also did not say Trinity would become an isolated town. I said that if a student wanted to avoid all forms of community violence, it would be better for that student to attend a school in an isolated town.

This is NOT a public forum. This is a comment section on an article published by a student. The parent may express their opinions concerning the article but should not attack a student concerning other matters that they take issue with.

The parent also does not have 35+ years of experience living on campus. The parent also does NOT live in the city, but in the suburbs. The parent stated that he/she drives by the school. That is not experience.

I completely understand the importance of expressing opinions, but this is not the place to do so. The parent should email campus safety, attend the forum on Thursday, attend a campus climate meeting, etc.

Re: Student Assaulted on Allen Place

someone who knows the city — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:29:11 -0000

"Crime rates HAVE been down on campus."- Student

Directly from the Hartford Courant article on the assault; "In recent months, statistics show that the Barry Square neighborhood — which includes Trinity's campus and borders on the Behind the Rocks neighborhood — has seen an uptick in violent crime, defined as murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and auto theft. "

Another direct quote from the article "Though most on- and off-campus crimes have been smash-and-grab car
break-ins, alcohol-related incidents and petty burglaries, 10 robberies
were reported in 2010 as well as six forcible sex offenses, according to
the 2011 Campus Safety Annual Report."

Do some research please.

Re: Student Assaulted on Allen Place

Someone with a full brain — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:21:52 -0000

You're arguing that putting up security measures would isolate the campus. This is not true, if you want to go volunteer off campus, flash your ID badge to the person at the gate, and go through, and flash your ID back at the gate when you want to come back onto campus. Hundreds of colleges have this in place, and it does not reduce their relations with the local community. I suppose the community ONLY BENEFITS the students in your mind, but the stark facts and statistics prove otherwise, and extra security measures will only help the students.
Trinity would not become "an isolated town", go ask someone from BC or Fordham if they feel isolated from the community. A minor inconvenience to you is not worth the safety of the student body as a whole.

This is a public forum, so Concerned Parent is perfectly right in using it to express their opinions.

I also do not care what you say, they have a more relevant and better idea of the city after having lived here for 35+ years, experience is the best teacher.

Did you ever think that when people express their opinions, it puts ideas and pressure on administrates to not simply sit on their asses and discuss ways to improve safety but actually do something productive.

Re: Student Assaulted on Allen Place

student — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:33:49 -0000

I agree.

Re: Student Assaulted on Allen Place

student b — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:20:42 -0000

Let me address your post line by line...

"my apologies, I'll stick to referring to people in your prescribed way from now on. have you met myvery darkly colored friend John and my light-to-medium yellow skinned friend David?"
I didn't know you introduced your friends by color, let alone race. I'm really glad that I don't know you because none of my friends are so... ridiculous.

"trinity students don't arbitrarily assault people. end of story. thats why its appropriate to say chris kenny was assaulted by hartford locals. sorry, i mean "residents of the general geographical area surrounding Trinity""

How do you know that? There have been rapes and knifings on campus by Trinity students. Can you actually verify that no student is capable of murder?

"a white kid is a white kid, a black kid is a black kid, a hispanic kid is a hispanic kid, an asian kid is an asian kid. doesn't need to be any clearer. 6 thugs who beat an innocent kid into a pulp don't fucking deserve any political correctness, especially not your special, contrived brand of it"

Oh how I hate this. You're an idiot. Plain and simple. Do you know how many countries there are? How many possible origins people can come from? How often they look alike? How often mixed race children are born? How often people are INCORRECTLY identified as one race because of close-minded bigots like you? I'll copy a part of my previous post for your reference: "How can you truly identify an ethnicity? You can't. You can say that a person was of dark coloring or pale. This isn't "politically correct schtick." It's common sense." It's people like you who make me sick that I go to Trinity. Not all white people are pale and have blue eyes.

"a lot of the anger you perceive coming from your peers is a result of the following facts. Hartford is a dangerous city and Trinity's neighborhood is especially bad. the safety and security of Trinity students is an absolute necessity. a harmonious and diverse social scene on campus, absent elitism and "drunk fraternity brothers" spitting racial slurs, is not a necessity - it is an ideal. only once Trinity has adequately provided a safe environment for its students should it begin reevaluating and appropriating resources towards a new social policy."

You're assuming that racial slurs aren't as dangerous as physical beatings? Have you ever seen someone drunk enough to chase after you because what you looked like displeased him? I have. On campus. It's all a matter of safety. Racial slurs are what lead to the Holocaust in case you forgot. Not only do they exist on campus by Trinity students to Trinity students, they exist off campus, when Trinity students attack the locals and stereotype them.

Re: Student Assaulted on Allen Place

sudent b — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:08:36 -0000

-Why shouldn't it matter? If he was drunk, as is known to happen, then he might have shouted a slur or instigated the offenders. He or his friends may not have been able to accurately identify the offenders. I'm again, not saying he deserved it, so please do not put words in my mouth. I wish him well and he's in my thoughts. I'm simply asking what reason could he have for such a lapse in judgement.

-What about those students that are not more affluent? With 40% receiving financial aid, they may not be in the majority but they're pretty close. You are instigating that those who are affluent are different than those who are not, correct? This is what I mean, in regards to your #2 and 3. Although you only mention education here, previously you mentioned speech and clothing. What makes you think that all trinity kids would have the same speech and clothing? This perpetuates the trin-kid stereotype. What makes you think all locals have the same speech and clothing? You say that we're able to differentiate but we're not.

-You have to understand that they will exist, first. The fact is that living in the 41st most dangerous city, as someone pointed out in another post, has it's risks associated with it. There will hardly ever exist a city that ISN'T dangerous. Campus safety is not the best, but they're not the worst either. Crime rates HAVE been down on campus.

Re: Student Assaulted on Allen Place

student — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:58:53 -0000

Wow. You call me shrill for addressing all of the aspects of your post. And you provided me with no response to anything I brought up except for two points, which I will address now.

You are attacking a student right now with your "unresponsive" post. That is why I argued back. Just because you have no other outlet to make your points does not mean that you may do so here. That is not appropriate. You stated earlier that you "ponder" ways that safety can be increased, but that is all any of us will ever do. Ultimately it's left up to the administration, so why don't we discuss the other issues that this incident brought up? Coincidentally, Jake did just that.

Secondly, I don't see the relevance of you volunteering in another CT city. That does not make you understand the city or the school any better, and I was not attacking your character. And let me ask, why does your child continue to volunteer there? Does he/she think he/she benefits? If so, then you're proving my point - the community betters the students.

Re: Student Assaulted on Allen Place

zitro6 — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:13:04 -0000

I am in a class where half of the people are minorities involved in
politics. They have seen the fence on Broad St go up, and they were not
happy about it. They have lived in Hartford their whole lives and they
already feel that Trinity has tried to shut them out when Trinity is in
Hartford. People seem to forget that they are still in Hartford when
they are on campus. In terms of calling residents of Hartford "hartford
locals" it IS a slur and offensive because Trinity students have made
it that way. I have heard first hand someone tell a white female that
although she is from Hartford, she is NOT a Hartford local. I know
everyone wants to think about the safety of students, because it is
important that we feel safe on campus. It is just that the tone of the
conversation alienates students on this campus as well as those from the
community who are involved at Trinity.

Re: Student Assaulted on Allen Place

zitro6 — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:12:52 -0000