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For more information, please contact [email protected]. / / Highlights of Swimming Completes Black History Month Past Successful Weekend Begins with Lecture Literary Weekend of Home Meets by Karenga lC==========7/ kCl/ ========="::::=7 m r if(ruynu QInlhgtau Established /856 News Briefs Kenyon to Hold Complexity of Wartime Censorship Surfaces By Jobn ~oman the information we're given. we're about at ' English, along with brutal pictures of Food Drive the toenail range." American POW's now represent the only There is a food drive going on for the "The first casualty when war comes is While the press has been, to various available information from 8a&hdad. New needy of Knox County and we need your truth," noted Sen. Hiram Johnson in 1917. degrees, enraged at the lack of available in- YoT/( Times executive editor Max Frank.e1 help. We need a1l your help. By donating cne As journalists in the Middle East become formation, the American public as a whole notes in Time that the real story remains can of food to the designated boxes around mired in censorship, the press and the nation has not. The most recent Time magazine behind the lines in Iraq and Kuwait. "That's the campus, you could help immensely. The are becoming increasingly aware of this war survey shows that 88'" of Americans believe the heart of the war, not some Scud missile boxes may be found: casualty. that U.S. censorship is necessary. Even with Censorship and the role of the press during this censorship 791ft believe that they are landing on a correspondent's hotel roof." Outside of Farr Hall wartime is not a new debate. The conflict receiving enouzh information. That story remains, and wiD for some time Inside of Peirce Dining Hall historically has often been as volatile as the Press orpnizations recopize that they are remain, untold. With the exception of the Inside of Guod Dining Hall war it.seJ.f. Press coverage in Vietnam has not completely objective in their reporting. A POW broadcasts, the war more resembles a been widely noted as playing an important spokesman for ABC news admitted that made for TV special than reality. Walter The goal is to gather one can from each role in leading to the conclusion of tbat con- although their organization does not have Shapiro writes that "there is somethinJ member of our community, close to 2,000 fliet. However, coverage of thar war was specific bias, they are accountable to the tawdry about this Top Gun illusion of people. by the weekend of April 26. Summer mostly bottled into two or three stories on the public throuah ratings, and this impacts their military action virtually devoid of unpleasant Send-off. With the help of such campus evening news. The news media, with CNN coverage. While the news may be censored, consequences." organizations as the Interfraternity Council, most notably leadfnt the way, new bom- the public is still seeiltJ a lot 'of what they the Senior Class Committee. the Black Stu- bard the airwaves with continuous coverage want to see. Defense Department rules require dent Union, the Kenyon Observer. and the of the War in the Gulf. With thousands of Censorship amot1I coalition nations and reporters to avoid displaJiDa casuakics. Collegian, we feel that this is an attainable jownalists in the re&ion, spread around the U.S. JOvernment pales beside reporters Responding to criticism from writers like goal. Washington and around the country at key leeway in Israel and Iraq to report the news. Shapiro who belicve that "a aovermncnt that The cans will be donated to both Inter- military bases, snappy lead-in jingles and Israeli military censorship, quickly becomina sanitized such JOlC woukt be contemptible,. church and the Salvation Army in Mount constant telecast interruption now dominate a constant on the TV screen, has come under these media rules of enppmeot may sOoD Vernon. So far, we have contributed 63 cans the television world. attack for screening all news out of Israel, chanae. and hope to continue doins 50 on a bi- While the COVeTqemay now be more in- regardless of its pertinence to the onaoin& Ho......- a<:ceptJno the AmericoD public is monthly basis throughout the rest of the tense, the quality of inforri'lation remains conflict. of censorship, it is unlikdy that • JI'OUDd in- semester. AU campus and non-campus minimal. Since terminating live broadcasts from vasion won't bring with it stark realities. organizations within Gambier are invited to "There is a beast of war out there, an Baghdad, Iraq has utilized remaining Until that time, the pras and the public is join. For information please call PBX 5518. elephant we're trying to describe," said For- reporters as instruments of propqanda. left to beIieve a ID'IiIIns Colin PoweD's cries Thank you for your time and support. rest Sawyer on ABC's Nightline. "Based on Baby Miik Factories, conveniently labeled in of "trust me, trust me." ~~~:m;:n~:;rrc~~:S~:\P!~~~~~~nlca~,~~~ :~~~~~~~ Into B~~~n~: rmdon" awoke Monday morning to find the Coliege In an interview with the Collegian, security allegedly left the note in the bathroom ac- The third annual Freshman Winter Games in the midst of a bomb scare. After security officials were quick to assert that the companied by the device found Monday weekend has arrived once again, culminating cleared the building, and local law enforce- authorities did not over-react to the situe- morning. II is unclear who moved lhe object in an all-day schedule of events. Freshmen ment was summoned, it was quickly dis- tion. One officer noted that "the bomb look-. from the center of the floor to under the sink, organize by hall to compete against each covered that the Caples bombing was nothing ed real" without close examination. where it was discovered. other in such games as football, jousting (in more than a hoax. An escalating series of praetical jokes on the pool on an lnnertube), volleyball, and At 9:28 Monday morning, a member of the the eighth floor of Caples led to the Monday After the officers of tbe bomb ditpoul new 10Ihis year's competition, soccer. Soccer housekeeping staff notified security that a morning incident. In the past week three replaces the luge event of previous years. unit discerned the object'S true nature, tIM! suspicious device had been discovered in a Caples residents allegedly stuffed a plant in sheriff questioned resideats of tM ctat4 These events will last from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. bathroom on the eighth floor of Caples. The the eighth floor toilet of the men's bathroom. this Saturday. floor. After taking statements, two StUdents fire department, sheriff's department and a John Douglass, another resident ctrhe floor, Kate Siddons, coordinator of the event, were taken into custody and tater rtllue4. bomb disposal unit from London, Ohio, were and the alleged owner of said plant, left a The case was transferred to the Knox CountJ was optimistic about the effects of the notified. Se<:uritysounded the fire alann and note on the bathroom's mirror catting for the changes from last year's event. Changes in- prosecutor's office where characs are pend- evacuated the building. perpetrators to have more respect for ing. clude the combination of both halls in Mather At this time, a student who was "familiar" facilities that all residents of the floor had to in order to even out team numbers and College officials are awaiting the readIb or with the incident, approached security and use. The note also allegedly told the three male/female ratios. the sherifrs investiaalion before 0' informed them that the bomb was not, in perpetrators to "grow up." disciplinary action will be considered. Siddons also said that the class was fact, real. Further examination revealed that r---------------------------- ..........~'i, prepared to make the day an all-around suc· the bomb was composed of parts of a hair· cess. "We've shown a lot of enthusiasm this dryer, several pieces of wire, a battery and a Year," she said. gum eraser. When the object was originally Collegian Announcement "'<i;<,,' Other fa«ts of the weekend designed to placed in the bathroom a note accompanied cure February blues and brlna the class it. The note was made from words cut out of together include an all-freshman lunch in Up-. Due to a shonfall in the 1990-91 budget allocation, the K~!',9,,",,~ magazines and aUegedly read "boom, boom, IOIlICF be abie to provide space in the paper for CoUeae"-1WiDnaI per Dempsey on Saturday and an aU· you're dead." It also sllpposedly implied that freshman semi-formal in the Great Hall In nounccments. Ail such announcements will be printed ont,.-. pdf the bomb itself was a joke. However, the be re-run as a public 9Cf'Vic:c as JpICC permits. We NIRt ... Peirce that night. note was not with the object. when it was L... -'-'-....:::.::; PAGE TWO OPINION Feb. 7, 1991 Media Offers Inaccurate View of War THE READERS WRITE The Kenyon Collegian encourages letters to the Editor.