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College spent nearly $300,000 on state-
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By Nick Ironside
Curry signed a three-year contract
with the town of Milton in September
2010 to manage the Ulin Skating Rink
for three years. About 13 months later,
Curry has recorded slightly more
than $100,000 in losses, in addition
to spending nearly $200,000 more on
capital improvements to the rink.
e deal requires the college to
essentially donate $185,000 worth
of capital improvements, including
insulation and
other energy-
eciency measures.
In addition, any
potential prots that
the college earns in
managing the rink
must be returned to
the town of Milton.
According to
Curry Chief Financial Ocer Richard
Sullivan, there is no guarantee that
the colleges investment in the hockey
teams home rinknot counting the
capital improvementswill ever
become cash-neutral. Nonetheless,
that remains the goal, he said.
At the end of the day, there are
situations where that might not
happen, Sullivan added.
It doesnt appear promising. But
Sullivan is quick to note that Curry
stepped up to manage the rink on
behalfand at the requestof the town
simply to give back to the community.
e No. 1 reason Curry took over
management of the rink is because
Curry wanted to be a good corporate
citizen, said Sullivan.
Maria Bacigalupo, president of
Currys faculty union and a professor
in the PAL department, declined
to comment on the Ulin Rink deal,
saying she didnt know enough about
it. However, she added that the college
should seek feedback from students
and faculty prior to making any large
nancial investment.
e AAUP
would encourage
students to make
further inquiry of the
college, Bacigalupo
said. Likewise,
in the interest
of transparency,
the AAUP would
encourage the College to provide an
open forum for comments on any major
projects it undertakes.Students and
faculty members have every right and
obligation to ask college administrators
to provide rationale for such decisions.
Miltons town administrator, Kevin
Mearn, said the town has been pleased
with what the college has done thus far
with the rink. I think theyve done a
great job of taking on this responsibility
of managing an asset like the Ulin
Rink, Mearn said. By all accounts,
having talked to residents who use it for
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By Erin Powers
Having to plug a computer into a wall jack to gain
connection to the Internet is a task of the past. For years
now, colleges have provided their students with Wi-Fi
capabilities in dorms and other areas throughout campus.
As of this past summer, Curry is nally with the times.
e college added Wi-Fi capabilities to 886 Brush
Hill, NCRH and SCRH over the summer. ey were the
last residence halls to receive wireless Internet access,
enabling students to use their smart phones and laptops
where they actually live and study. But many students
were le wondering, why did it take so long?
According to Help Desk Supervisor Neil Budden of
the Institutional Technology department, the issue was
with how each building was constructed. He noted
the challenges of snaking cable lines inside walls and
through the ceiling, and said the cost of the project
was high. It required signicant labor expenses, as well
as the price of access points and the network ports to
which they connect.
e bottom line is that this project (Wi-Fi in all
residence halls) was completed over a period of four
years, he said. Due to a combination of the cost
and the time required, it was not possible to do it
quicker. Most of the work could only be done when
the residence halls were unoccupied.
Campus-wide Wi-Fi is a growing imperative on
college campuses throughout the country. It is becoming
more and more common for professors to distribute
homework, grades and even full lectures online. And
prospective students are increasingly apt to seek out
wireless Internet when evaluating a college. In 2005, Intel
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By Andrew Blom
On many college campuses, live music
is everywhere. In dorms. On quads.
Concerts. Its part of everyday life and even
the marketing of some schools; see Currys
Web site, for example.
Jake Walnick, a junior communication
major, and Angus McAvity, a junior
English major, have played together
as the band Heart Failure for two
years. However, they are among the
few musicians on campus who use
opportunities like Open-Mic night,
most recently held Oct. 13 in the Student
Center, to play in front of an audience.
None of the actual musicians are
going to Open-Mic night. But they need
to start, says Walnick, who was one of
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and students, such as senior Natalie Petit, will issue a series of recom-
mendations to foster a more inclusive campus culture.
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public skating, or when Ive talked to people in
youth hockey or at the high school, theyve all
been able to see the tremendous improvements
in the aesthetics of the overall rink, and then
how its managed and maintained.
According to Sullivan, the $190,283 the
college has spent refurbishing the rink, as
of Aug. 31, 2011, has come from working
capital, meaning the school didnt borrow
the funds. Curry earns the vast majority of
its revenue from student tuition, housing and
fees. e three-year contract requires Curry to
spend $145,000 in the rst year, and $20,000 in
both years two and three.
e contract does state that Curry cant lose
more than $550,000 over the three-year term.
e town of Milton will compensate Curry for
any additional losses. If another organization
signs a contract with the town to manage the
rink aer Currys three-year deal ends, the new
contractor will have to reimburse Curry for all
of its negative cash ow.
Although Milton holds a ve-year lease to
operate the state-owned rinkCurrys deal is
for just three years because Milton can only
authorize longer contracts via a town meeting
votethe arrangement could soon be greatly
expanded. e state Senate recently passed a
bill that includes an amendment giving Milton
a 25-year lease to run the rink, at $1 a year. As
of press time, the bill was working through the
Legislature and would then need the governors
signature.
Sullivan said the college hasnt yet decided
whether to bid again to continue managing the
rink, assuming the town was granted a long-
term lease.
Despite the nancial cost to the college
in managing Ulin, Sullivan said he believes
Curry is doing the right thing. I agree with the
institutional decision that was made, he said.
We saw it as a win-win situation.
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only four students to perform. Sixty-three students
attended the show, a relatively strong turnout by Curry
standards.
The events here suck, Walnick says. We need
bands because thats funPeople are playing all the time
in their room, but nobodys listening.
Gregory Manly, a sophomore communication major,
agrees. Its very underground, says Manly, who plays
guitar, drums and bass. Music isnt the schools top
priority, but the people that are Ior it are defnitely Ior it.
Some new efforts to bolster the campus music scene
are taking place. For example, professors Doug Koch of
the Fine Arts department and Brecken Chinn Swartz oI
the Communication department have created the Sound
Culture Lab through a First-Year Inquiry course the
two co-teach. The year-old effort has included open-
campus events like drumming circles and a coffee house
in Lombard Halls basement where students can bring
and play their own instruments. The group also hosted a
reggae band on campus.
ere are a lot of great musicians who need space to
jam, says Koch. It makes campus life richer and more
interesting.
Koch says he is already seeing signs that a strong music
community could develop at Currythe college currently
oers only a ve-course minor in music, which includes
the CLAC-required Introduction to Fine Arts, as well as
Music eory and Concert Going in Boston (classical
music)but its largely up to students to make it happen.
Chris Peckbeaton, a senior communication major
and guitar player, has largely given up on the
campus music scene. We literally dont have
anything, he laments. Students want music,
not Open-Mic night. ey want local music
and artists with their name out there, not
just college kids. Peckbeaton says he oen
frequents a spot called e Gulu-Gulu Caf
in Salem to hear live music and to perform
himself.
According to Connell Wise, a junior
management major who has been involved
with the Students Entertainment and Events
(SEE) group, little stops students from
developing a greater music scene. Students
have the opportunity to play on campus, he
says. ey just have to go out and ask the
right people (like SEE) to play.
SEE, a student-run club that organizes
many of the social programs and activities on
campus, has sponsored small, mostly local,
bands to perform on campus. But according
to Sarah Bordeleau, associate director of
student activities, student turnout was quite
poor. To have a successful event with a
band, its going to take enthusiastic students
to take the reins and plan the event, she says.
Moreover, Bordeleau believes it could cost up
to $20,000 to host a decent band.
Chris Dolan, a junior communication major and
multi-instrumental musician, has a radical idea. He wants
to plan what he calls Currystock, a concert involving
students and outside bands. When asked if he thought
there will ever be a strong music scene during his time at
Curry, Dolan eagerly grabbed the aforementioned reins:
Ill have to be responsible for one.
One year after on-campus hate crimes,
Diversity Task Force readies to issue its fnal report
By Alex Proweller
In November 2010, a pair of hate crimes occurred on
campus. The Milton Police Department was called in
to investigate and the college suspended two students.
In response to the events, President Ken Quigley
created a Diversity Task Force. The group was asked
to develop initiatives and establish goals to address
these issues on our campus, according to Quigleys
Curry-wide email announcing the initiative.
Approximately one year later, the Task Force
will soon issue its fnal report, which will include
a series of recommendations to attract and retain
peoplestudents, faculty, staff and administrators
from diverse backgrounds, as well as to improve the
ways those in the Curry community interact with one
another, according to various members of the group.
Senior Natalie Petit, who was named to the Task
Force last year and is currently the president of the
Student Government Association, said the groups
work is moving in a great direction. In the meantime,
however, incidents have continued to occur. In
September of this year, Dean of Students Maryellen
Kiley issued a campus-wide email reminding students
of the colleges harassment policy, following a student
incident involving racial slurs and epithets about sexual
orientation.
Professor Katherine Morrison of the Community, Health
and Wellness department and a member of the Task Force,
said the formation of the group was absolutely needed and
is unprecedented at Curry College. The largest minority
group at Curry, African-Americans, represents only 8
percent of the campus community, she said.
The importance of a diverse community is to allow
people from different backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities
and races to learn and grow from one another. On a
college campus, it creates a richer educational experience,
Morrison explained. The upcoming report will address the
need to recruit more students from diverse backgrounds
and to improve student retention rates, according to Kiley,
who serves on the Task Force. Members of the Task Force
have split up into three different sub-committees and have
focused on developing recommendations to improve
immediate response to incidents, building diversity,
and building an inclusive community.
To date, the Task Force has worked with the Anti-
Defamation League in shaping recommendations and
amended the colleges harassment policy, among other
efforts. The harassment policy now contains a sub-
category labeled Bias-Related Harassment, making it
more explicit that bias-related harassment includes but
is not limited to, conduct, verbal, written, physical bias
towards an individual.
All members of the task force also went through
training sessions around discussing personal values and
beliefs. Professor Michael Miller of the Management
department and a Task Force member, said he hopes the
groups work will raise awareness about key issues on
campus and deal with incidents in the past and present
and increase involvement.