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Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 9-10-2009 Kenyon Collegian - September 10, 2009 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - September 10, 2009" (2009). The Kenyon Collegian. 171. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/171 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the College Archives at Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Kenyon Collegian by an authorized administrator of Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Established 1856 Volume CXXXVII, Number 3 www.kenyoncollegian.com THE KENYON COLLEGIAN Gambier, Ohio Thursday, September 10, 2009 8 Pages Student Injured in Car Accident Thefts Cost Bookstore $39,000 BY Lindsay MEans all over central Ohio ... [that thieves News Editor would] probably be able to sell some- where else,” Kohlman said. Remains in Intensive Care Unit More than $39,000 in textbooks “We’ve done several counts of BY SARAH qUELLER was stolen from the Kenyon Book- the books, but we’re still finalizing Editor-in-Chief store in approximately a week at the the exact figure,” Kohlman said. beginning of August, according to Bookstore employees were waiting Kenyon sophomore Joshua Chief Business Officer Mark Kohl- until students had finished buying Stiles, 19, of Chelsea, Mich., was man. College officials and Bookstore their textbooks before making a final struck by a car on Ohio 229 at employees are still finalizing the ex- estimate of the goods stolen. approximately 7:40 p.m. Sunday, act value of the stolen textbooks and According to President S. Geor- Sep. 6. Stiles was taken by ambu- working in col- gia Nugent, “there lance to Knox County Hospital laboration with were not signs of and then airlifted to The Ohio t h e S h e r i f f ’s Authorities are unsure a break-in,” and State University Medical Cen- office, which is of how the crime was authorities are ter in Columbus, according to mana g ing the unsure of how Trooper Todd Carpenter. Stiles investig ation, accomplished. the crime was ac- is currently in the Intensive Care a c c o r d i n g t o complished. Unit, according to Dean of Stu- Kohlman. “We don’t really know how it dents Henry Toutain, who said Before fall 2007, textbooks were happened,” Kohlman said. “We sus- Emergency Medical Services located in the Bookstore’s basement pect that it’s a group of professionals from Gambier and Mount Ver- Textbook Department. “There were who know what they’re looking for non, along with student firefight- pretty elaborate security procedures and go in and out as quickly as they ers, “responded immediately.” [there],” Nugent said. These included can.” Stiles was hit by David Ran- a coat and bag check at the door and Nugent added that the College dall of Mount Vernon. Accord- Students have signed a public get-well card for Stiles. WESLEY KEYSER limited hours. Although the new does not know whether the theft ing to the Mount Vernon News, organization — selling textbooks up- occurred at one time or over several Randall was traveling westbound the road facing west, according to ship Fire Department, said the stairs with the rest of the Bookstore incidents. “[The investigation] is when he hit Stiles, who broke his Carpenter. “Mr. Stiles was lying department abides by doctors’ merchandise — may have increased ongoing, but as far as I know we don’t windshield (“Kenyon Student Se- in front of the car with his face medical regulations and thus convenience, its security may have have any information yet,” she said. riously Injured,” Sep. 8, 2009). to the south,” he said. could not comment on the ac- been compromised. The thefts provoked radical “We believe [Stiles] jumped “The EMTs were there be- cident. “I can’t tell you anything The thieves focused on “high changes in the Bookstore’s security onto another car before this over fore me,” Carpenter said. “They about the run,” he said. volume, high-priced books, like measures, according to Kohlman. on Porter Road,” Carpenter said, were working on him. … He was economics textbooks, that are used see BOOKSTORE, page 3 adding that the incident is cur- injured pretty severely.” Drug involvement rently under investigation. “In looking back at the events Spammers Hijack KFS Account Mount Vernon News reported from Sunday, [the Office of Cam- “Drugs were involved,” said that Ohio 229 was closed “for pus Safety was] an instrumental Carpenter, who added that the BY AUGUst stEigmEYER to “blacklist Kenyon,” Griggs said, nearly two hours while troopers tool in getting Josh the help he investigation has included inter- News Editor “so even legitimate mail would get investigated the crash.” needed,” members of Stiles’ fam- views with Stiles’ friends, who blocked. ily, Greg Rebuldela ’12 and Chris- allegedly were doing drugs with Spammers used the Kenyon “We started contacting the Responding to the accident tian Martinez-Canchola ’12 said him. “Mr. Stiles got away from Film Society (KFS) Webmail ac- e-mail service providers saying that in a statement. “People left their them and wandered off and this count to send out about 100,000 we had this situation, [but] it’s now Carpenter said he was the homes that night trying to make was the result,” he said. spam messages on Monday, Aug. resolved,” Griggs said. “The first ones first officer on the scene, but that sense of what was going on and Director of Campus Safety 30. “We identified it and we deac- were the big ones, Gmail and Yahoo, the emergency squad had arrived for that, Josh is still alive.” Bob Hooper confirmed that tivated the account and changed because a lot of mail goes to those before he had. The car that hit Jack Robling ’10, the student drugs were involved in the acci- the password,” Vice President for two and so we were able to get that Stiles was on the north side of in charge at the College Town- see ACCIDENT page 2 Library and Information Services resolved pretty quickly. Sometimes Ron Griggs said. “Then we had to it can take 24 to 48 hours for e-mail delete 60,000 messages in queue and providers to take Kenyon off that Library Improves Student Space that [took] some time.” blacklist. It was not until Wednes- “We’re trying to rearrange the work. “Some students really liked [the “Someone on our staff must day that we saw no messages being BY AUGUst stEigmEYER components of the library so that table] so we’re looking at other types have replied to a spam e-mail,” said rejected from Kenyon.” News Editor there’s more student study space,” of furniture that students might like,” Miles Purinton ’12, president of “I guess helpline could tell there Library staff planning changes Griggs said. Griggs said. KFS. were thousands and thousands of to Olin Library aim to make the “It’s not confusing to students During finals week last semester, “The way it was explained to e-mails going out from what looked building “more amenable to student now that there aren’t two periodi- the library became very crowded and me was that someone hacked into like our e-mail. I didn’t know there work,” according to Vice President cal sections to look through, now noisy, and staff was working to allevi- the account and created a bunch of was a problem until it wouldn’t let for Library and Information Services students can just go to one loca- ate this problem, according to Griggs. fake profiles, so when people got the me access the account, at which Ron Griggs. tion,” said Librarian and Technology “One thing we heard from students e-mail it looked like someone the point I found out I was hacked,” “Kenyon doesn’t have a student Consultant Julia Glynne Warga ’96. last year is that we need better designa- recipients knew when it was really Purinton said. “Helpline tried to union, and in many ways, the library Over the summer, the scientific peri- tion of what areas of the library need the hacker.” figure out how it happened. They’re ser ves many odical section was to be quiet and which parts need to be The spam messages had two still not sure. I didn’t respond to of those func- LBIS is making moved from the noisy,” Griggs said. “We’re working on effects on Webmail accounts. The any messages that looked like spam, tions,” Griggs third floor to the making the third floor a much more spam filled the e-mail queue, delay- so they think it was just a leaky said. “Students changes to “improve basement and quiet area and looking at what other ing other outgoing Kenyon e-mails. password.” do a lot of work placed on com- areas can be a little bit noisier.” Library The large outflow of spam from Ke- “We don’t know by what pro- in the library, so the environment.” pact shelving with staff is drafting a noise policy to be nyon also led other e-mail providers cess they got the password,” Griggs we are making the rest of the pe- presented to Student Council. The see SPAM, page 3 changes to improve the environment. riodicals. This move creates space on library wants the policy to be “livable We worked really hard on getting the the third floor that will be used for for students. If you make a policy that In this issue right kind of furniture.