1981-82

This Timeline is based on a portion of Tim Shary's A History of Student Activities and Achievements at Hampshire College. Anything not otherwise cited comes from this source.

Documents

 * Long Range-Planning Committee Full Report: [[File:Hampshire college long range planning committee report 1982 r1.pdf]]

September
Sep 1


 * The Hampshire day-care center is opening in response to a large number of faculty and staff members who expressed a need for child care service. [Apostrophe: September 23, 1982]

Sep 5


 * The academic year starts with a housing shortage that forces 14 new students to live in lounges; many returning students, given no housing at all, resort to camping on campus and crashing in mods. [Apostrophe: October 8, 1981]

October
Oct 4


 * Shirestyle, the Hampshire Freestyle Frisbee team, breaks two of its own world records, the multiple chestroll (15 chests) and the multiple co-op (40 players), while students John Dwork and Jason Salkey win their second New England Freestyle Championship. [Apostrophe: November 6, 1981]

Oct 8


 * Second-year student Kathryn Baptista and her staff of student editors, Nancy Gover, Sue Gilman, Lars Pranger, Patrick Alvarez, and Steve Keller, publish the first issue of the second student newspaper, Apostrophe. [Apostrophe: October 8, 1981]

Oct 21


 * After a series of reports that suspicious men have been walking into unlocked rooms, a Dakin resident tips off security to a man selling drugs in the building, leading to a four hour chase across three towns until the suspect is apprehended in Granby. [Apostrophe: October 23, 1981]

November
Nov 6


 * First-year student Marcela Goldsmith has helped form an action team with other students to mobilize support for the upcoming vote to approve the Equal Rights Amendment. [Apostrophe: November 6, 1981]

Nov 27


 * Over the Thanksgiving break a rash of thefts are discovered in Dakin House, apparently the result of an inside job; student Keith Baker begins a petition drive to gain support for improved security; the thief or thieves remain at large. [Apostrophe: December 10, 1981]

December
Dec 10


 * Treasurer of the College, Allen Torrey, has announced that a $50 surcharge is being added to students' bills for the spring semester to pay for over-consumption of electricity during the year. [Apostrophe: December 10, 1981]
 * An all-community meeting is held to discuss Hampshire's potential divestment from companies involved in the development of nuclear weapons and power, as well as in human rights-violating countries; it is lead by students Chuck Collins and Tom Stoner. [Apostrophe: February 25, 1982]
 * The Third World Organization has redefined itself as SOURCE, Students of Under-Represented Cultures, citing the ambiguity and subordination implied by the term, "Third World". [Apostrophe: December 10, 1981]

January
Jan 10


 * Three students, backed with a petition of 300 student and faculty signatures, propose to the Trustees' Committee on Investment Responsibility a policy against investments in the nation's top 100 defense contractors; the Trustees reject it as "too broad". [Apostrophe: February 11, 1982]

Jan 29


 * An unidentified driver runs over three dogs near Enfield while two students are walking them; no suspect is found. [Apostrophe: February 11, 1982]

February
Feb 5


 * Student Clay Craigmyle begins raising the U.S. flag each morning on the college flagpole; a week later, student Warren Goldstein steals the flag; even though it is recovered, a controversy ensues as Goldstein insists the Whole Earth Flag fly instead. [Apostrophe: February 25, 1982]

Feb 9


 * A small fire in the Merrill C1 short bathroom is extinguished by student Styxx Fallows on his third attempt; the two extinguishers first used were found to be empty, revealing a dangerous problem with numerous needlessly discharged extinguishers. [Apostrophe: February 25, 1982]

Feb 25


 * An unprecedented barrage of articles floods into the Apostrophe office, responding to student Gittemor Segal's editorial in the previous issue, in which she cited the on-going sexist atmosphere of the RCC weight room. [Apostrophe: February 25, 1982]

March
Mar 11


 * The ubiquitous Cavellini stickers are still being found all over campus as students continue to write to the artist asking for more; an opposition group, the Anti-Cavellinis, have begun placing round black stickers over the Cavellini stickers. [Apostrophe: March 11, 1982]

Mar 13


 * 120 students show up at the scheduled CHOIR meeting (7:30 a.m. on a Saturday) to support a motion calling for divesting the college's funds in the top 75 American weapons contractors; by a vote of 6 to 2, the committee moves to divest. [Apostrophe Extra: March 15, 1982]

April
Apr 1


 * Led by handicapped student Pablo Halpern, Action for the Disabled invites students and administrators to participate in a day-long experiment in which they are confined to a wheelchair in order to show the drastic need for access on campus. [Apostrophe: April 8, 1982]

Apr 20


 * A female student walking from the RCC to Enfield is kidnapped, raped, and beaten by a stranger; despite pressure by students over the past months, the administration still refuses to fund a Counselor Advocates coordinator position. [Apostrophe: March 3, 1983]

Apr 22


 * The Admissions Office has hired the firm of Krukowski and Associates to investigate why the student applicant pool has dropped; preliminary recommendations from Krukowski state that "Hampshire should be aiming at potential Ivy League students." [Apostrophe: April 22, 1982]

May
May 13


 * Students Charles Harris and Cathy Hearn, and alum Cathy Sisk, have been named members of the United States Whitewater Team for 1982 after three races held in New England over the past month by the American Canoe Association. [Apostrophe: May 13, 1982]

May 17


 * After the Board of Trustees' Finance Committee rejects the CHOIR vote to divest from nuclear-weapons related companies, a group of over 30 students calling themselves Students for a Responsible Institution take over Cole Science Center. [Hampshire College Press Release: May 17, 1982]

May 18


 * An administrative order forces the closing of Central Records due to the occupation, despite the request of Students for a Responsible Institution that it remain open. [Community memo from Adele Simmons: May 18, 1982]

'May 20 The administration and Students for a Responsible Institution agree to a list of demands after four days of negotiations; results include promised commitments by the administration to financial aid, affirmative action, and active work against oppression. [Community Council Misc.: 82S-Z22 &amp; Z23]