Trinity Tripod Online -- 11.02.99


At a meeting last Wednesday, food service employees on the committee negotiating with Sodexho-Marriott voted to recommend the last offer put on the table to their co-workers. On Thursday, the Union organizers and members of the committee will review the proposal Marriott gave and the workers will decide whether to accept or reject it. The committee that voted in favor of the latest offer was comprised of respected food service workers from Mather, the Cave, and the Bistro. Union HERE (Hotel Employees Restaurant Employees) Local 217 represented the workers. Full story...

National Conference On Hunger Held at College

This past weekend, Trinity College hosted the twelfth annual conference of the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness (NSCAHH). Approximately 275 students arrived from various colleges and universities across the country to participate in workshops and activities designed to mobilize students in the fight against hunger and homelessness.

The conference commenced last Thursday with the "Hartford Community Service Plunge"; students volunteered at various institutions in the city, including The Asylum Hill Organizing Project and the Boys and Girls Club. After returning to campus, students attended a welcoming event entitled "Mobilizing for the Millennium." Speakers at this event included Trinity College Dean of Faculty W. Miller Brown, Val Ramos , and Joe Barber from Trinity's Community Service Office. Full story...

Learning Corridor on Schedule Despite Setbacks

Across the street on the east side of campus, the construction of the Learning Corridor project is in full swing. The complex, largely financed by Trinity College, will include an elementary school, a middle school, and a magnet high school. It is slated to open for the 2000-2001 academic year.

"The project is on time, and we have a good system in place to make sure the construction runs smoothly," said Eddie Perez, President of SINA (Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance). SINA is leading the construction of the Learning Corridor, with the aid of the College, and neighborhood committees.

With the opening of the Learning Corridor less than a year away, administrators have been hired to head the specific schools. The high school at the Learning Corridor is divided into two parts: a Performing Arts school, and a science and math academy. Mitzi Yates, who heads the existing Academy for the Arts, will continue to head the program at its new location in the Learning Corridor. Today the program exists in an old funeral home on Wethersfield Avenue. Full story...