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NE W S Thursday, October 23. 1997 - Page 9 First year students exposed to horrors of Holocaust Visitors are introduced to the makes me wonder how people BY JENIFER SIRKIS COlllribmingWriler horrors of the ghettos, work camps, could be so cruel as to treat people and death camps where millions of like that," she said. Members of Dr. Bsa's freshman people were put to death. The ex- The atmosphere of the museum seminar course were recently ex- hibition concludes with the libera- was very dark and somber. One ex- posed to the horrors of the Nazi tion of the camps, resistance move- hibition displayed hundreds of regime when they visited the menrs, and the stories of the survi- shoes that belonged to the victims. United Sates Holocaust Memorial vors. "The shoes gave off a terrible, hor- Museum in Washington, D.C. Many students had overwhelm- rible odor," Liu added. "It made me The seminar course, "From the ing feelings about their visit to the feel like I was there, in the camps, Holocaust to German Unification," museum. Sonia Pant felt that her being ordered to remove my cloth- chronicles German history from the visit was very disturbing, saying ing and place it in one of the piles Holocaust to the present day. that "the museum was very dark where prisoners had to put there The visit to the museum, which and cold. It was very disturbing to belongings once they got to the opened in 1993, enabled the fresh- see the exhibition where they concentration camps." men to gain an understanding of showed the medical experiments The last part of the exhibition what happened during this dark that were done on innocent victims. was the Hall of Remembrance, a period of history. They [the Jews] were innocent memorial to all those who perished This understanding was ac- people who did not deserve this in the Holocaust. Candles burn quired through examining the vari- cruel treatment." throughout the day to remember the ous artifacts. movies, and personal During the Holocaust, the Na- victims. Every visitor has the op- accounts that are shown in the ex- zis experimented on their victims. portunity to light a candle in hibits throughout the museum. For example, they injected seawa- memory of them. The story of the Holocaust is .ter into the bloodstreams to test The trip to the Holocaust Mu- told in a permanent exhibition that what would happen to German pi- seum was a large success. Students covers three floors. The exhibition lots who crashed their planes into were given the opportunity to see continues with the systematic the water. These tests were cruel firsthand how the Jewish people elimination of the Jewish people and painful. and other groups were put to death, COURTESVOF and of other groups deemed infe- First year student Libby Liu was and how such an atrocity as the Students pause/or a snapshot on the museum staircase, FOREICN LANCUACEDEPT to designed rior by the Nazis. , also disturbed by what she saw. "It Holocaust occurred. represent the railroad which transported Holocaust victims to the camps. Environmental Construction on effects of science building Task force reexamines reunions construction begins BY NIKKI BELANGER his fiftieth class reunion to Brandy But with ten classes coming Continued from page 1 'Sen;(JrWriur Mulhern who has yet to celebrate back for reunions, will WMC and one. Westminster be able to handle the The following memo was sent new building may not provide During homecoming weekend, After two meetings, members via e-mail to the college commu- space to accommodate them. "You seven classes from Western Mary- decided to focus on two issues: extra people? "It may come down to not hav- nity from Vice President of Admin- can never have enough room," land College will be celebrating redesigning the reunions to appeal ing the facilities to do that," Russell istration and Finance Ethan Seidel. agreed Dr. Louise Paquin, head of their reunions, visiting their old to more alumni and increasing the said. the biology department. However, COllege campus, meeting current portion reunion classes give to the The task force is meeting with A justified concern associated any amount of room is better than students, and catching up with old annual fund. companies, with any major construction project the present conditions where a roommates and friends. After comparing WMC to col- catering and campus hotel manage- to ment, organizers is the environmenta1 impact. I want single lab may be used by three dif- Despite the large turnout at the leges that are similar, administra- and to share with the campus commu- ferent sections. game, attendance and fund raising tors discovered they were not rais- determine can whether the college of the welcome all town nity the steps being taken to coun- Other departments have con- at class reunions have been in de- ing as much money as these insti- alumni. teract any damage resulting from cerns with the building. Though cline, especially among young tutions. The college would like re- Another challenge the task the construction of the new labora- space is available for the chemis- alumni. The problem prompted a union classes to give three to five force faces is finding activities to tory building for Biology and try department, physics is left out. recommendation at the Board of times as much as they currently interest all of the alumni, from the Chemistry. This is not a surprise, as physics is Trustees meeting last April to de- give, according to Russell. Their ones celebrating their fifth reunion A total of thirty-two trees in the one of the sma1lest majors on cam- sign a task force to revamp re- goal is to raise 1.25 million dollars. vicinity of the Lewis parking lot pus. In the past, it has had an aver- unions at WMC. So, 22 people be- "We want to emphasize the to those celebrating their fiftieth. Most classes plan their own spe- and Winslow Hall have been re- age of three to four majors. At one gan meeting to create a new and need to give back to the college," cial events. The task force wants to moved to accommodate this time the administration thought of exciting reunion program. Christine Royer, alumni chair, said. make reunions all-inclusive events, project. Three-fourths of these were cutting the major. The field is now "The idea was that a task force "The task force promises to Royer said. evergreens (mostly pines). We were showing an upswing with five to would be formed, meet for a year, come up with a number of creative Another option members will able to relocate two zelkova trees six students majoring in the field. and bring a proposal back to the ways to strengthen and improve the look at is having cluster reunions, from this area to the front of "Big Few people are aware that the April '98 meeting [of the Board of reunion program," said Richard designed by Dartmouth College. Baker" Chapel. physics department will not have Trustees]," said Laura Russell, as- Seaman, vice president for institu- These reunions invite alumni who We will replace the thirty-two space in the new building. As Dr. sociate director for reunion pro- tional advancement and also one of trees that were lost with forty-nine David Guerra, a physics professor, grams and one of the staff to the the staff to the task force. attended the college at the same time, but may not have been in the new trees on site. These consist of stated, "People think we're in- task force. "We feel it's important Class reunions are held during same class. Several alumni have five cypress, four honey locust, eluded but we aren't. It's meant to look at what we're doing and the weekend of homecoming and three white pine, two Korean firs, to be a lab building for the chemis- give it a thorough review to see if during alumni weekend in the already requested this option. the task Any recommendations three spruce, eighteen Yoshino try and biology students." The it fits the best interest of alumni and spring. The task force will look at force makes will probably not af- cherry, six Kousa dogwood, one strong point of the physics depart- the college." whether the college should have fect reunions until 1999, according magnolia, six Kwanzan cherry, and menr. he said, has always been that Because administration wanted one alumni weekend for all re- to Seaman. one holy. due to the small number of majors, representation from the reunion unions as other colleges do. In addition, as part of the refor- , it has been able to focus on the stu- classes, 1940 through 1990, they estation associated with any con- dents. The department views its chose two active alumni from each struction project of this magnitude, small size as something positive. decade to serve on the task force. the College will be adding 131 trees Guerra explained that Physics faces "We made a conscious effort to EXCELLENT to the forested area maintained in the exclusion of the department choose people from different de- EXTRA INCOME NOW! perpetuity at the College owned from the new building as a fact, not cades," Russell said. Members "Singleton-Matthews" farm. as an insult. have strong differing opinions on ENVELOPE STUFFING - $600 - $800 eve" week Whenever it becomes necessary The new building will affect all what is best for reunions and also Free Detail. SASE to toremovetree~becauseofdamage, those housed in Lewis. Some different experiences wi th re- International Inc.. i!lness, or construction. it is the movement should be expected by unions. 137B Coner I... ad A__ College's policy to more than re- everyone. but it is too early to say Members range from Robert BrookIJn.... YorIr. 11230 place them in kind exactly what .bunges will occur. Bcglin who has alrcudv celebrated