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Volume CXXV, Number 16 ESTABLISHED 1856 Thursday, Feb. 12, 1998 Trustees to meet in New York this weekend BY DAVID SHARGEL "These are the most important in the history of the college the News Editor are the additions to the facilities in the budget for financial aid will be 'These most important additions to past 100 years," said Oden. larger than the compensation bud- The Kenyon College Board of the facilities in the past 100 years.' For the science facilities, con- get, which includes salaries for Trustees will convene in New York struction is scheduled to begin in college employees, said Oden. City this weekend for their annual President Oden the spring of 1999, with a pro- The board will also be asked winter meeting. The meeting's jected completion in May or June to approve the final goal for the agenda will be filled mostly with would be impossible. Hall and renovation and construc- of 2000. college's capital campaign. issues concerning the budget and the Another reason for the tion of science facilities. In doing The music facilities are ex- The campaign, which remains future of Kenyon's physical plant. meeting's New York location is a so, the board will also be approv- pected to be complete in Septem- private, has already raised $45 mil- While the winter meeting has benefit show tonight of Ragtime, ing the allocation of $32 million ber 1999. lion of the ultimate $100 million been at Kenyon in the recent past, based on the novel by the same for these projects. The second major task for the goal. "Frankly, that's very good. it is being conducted in New York name by Kenyon graduate E.L. Though actual numbers re- board is the approval of next year's I'm quite confident that when the for a number of reasons, said Presi- Doctorow '52. The show will raise main confidential, Oden said that operating budget. board sees the $45 million figure dent Robert A. Oden Jr. money for The Kenyon Review, a significant portion of this cost Oden will be recommending they'll give the go ahead for the Graham Gund '63 will be which is attempting to build an has already been raised. to the board a 3.5 percent increase public $100 million campaign," making a presentation to the board endowment. If the board does grant their in tuition and fees, which is the said Oden. concerning the new music and sci- After Gund's presentation the approval, the site preparations for lowest in 25 years. Finally, the board will be dis- ence facilities. Making this presen- board will be asked to approve renovations and additions to Rosse If next year's operating bud- cussing honorary degrees for next tation in Gambier, said Oden, plans for a renovation of Rosse Hall will begin in Anril get is aDDroved, for the first time year's graduation. Senate approves election reform SHORT BY MATILDA BODE 'This takes a serious Senior Staff Reporter toll on the work Last Wednesday, Feb. 4, the Campus Senate approved the first which can be done change to the election process in during the first se- it more than 15 years, when passed mester.' 0 the Student Life Committee's pro- posal to change the election sched- - Hilary Lowbridge ule. The proposal states that un- der the new schedule "every posi- until mid-Octob- er. "This takes a foto h" tion, apart from first year positions serious toll on the work which can and committee membership, will be done during the first semester," be elected at the end of the school Lowbridge added. Sophomores Laura Marx, Josh Mason and Mark Wilson sing the theme from "Ghostbusters" in last year." Associate Dean of Students, Friday night's Karaoke contest. Kenyon's ghosts proved too much for the group, who were "gonged" "The current schedule for stu- Cheryl Steele agreed that fall elec- out of the show. dent government elections is inef- tions hamper some groups abili- ficient," said Vice President of Stu- ties to reach goals during the first dent Life Hilary Lowbridge '99. semester due to a late start. "I have Peoples Bank increases fees She explained that the election had the opportunity to observe the been estimated at close to $1 While Jones said that the in- schedule, as it is now, wastes a elections process for a number of BY JAMES RAY million. crease was not for capital improve- great deal of the first semester. In years and the fall elections have Senior Staff Reporter "Whether we had gone ments of any kind, bank official fact, Student Council cannot be- caused the groups to be.limited in The Peoples Bank of Gam- ahead with the new building or Margaret Kunkel noted that service gin meeting until the end of Sep- what they can accomplish by not bier recently dispatched a letter not, this plan was in the works," charges had not been raised for tember, committees cannot be getting started until early October, notifying customers of an in- bank official Joan Jones said. To more than three years. "And we formed or meet until October, and and perhaps limiting what they crease in non-sufficie- nt fund cite a comparable fee, Jones said didn't raise all of them," she see SENATE page two the Senate cannot begin meeting service charges from $7 to $10. The pur- that she had spoken to a National pointed out. "I believe our I : pose of the increase is to cover Citibank customer whose non-sufficie- nt charges are less than most." ' the cost of bank operation due fund charge was $25. The bank did raise its service !, to inflation. "Our goal is to remain a low cost charges, but it also added new ser- Friday: Partly sunny. H 40s n It is in no way connected to provider of banking services, vices and features (unconnected ) L30s. with the charge). An ATM machine r, the purchase of new property and benefitting the student and the f, Saturday: Dry. H 30s-40- s construction of the new bank, commercial customer. Our will be installed in the new build- " which are both covered by a charge has just come a little ing, which was not viable on the J L20s. Sunday: Dry. H 30s L 20s. i ferment plan to be payed off over closer to that of the competi- old property due to disability laws Monday: Dry. H 40s. L 25 several decades, bank officials tion to cover the cost of living concerning room for ramp :- -: said. The cost of the venture has and operating." iti

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' 1 . The Kenton Collegian 2 NEWS Thursday, February 12, 1998 Community policing helps maintain a safe campus Three separate incidents show the need for community awareness in stopping crime at Kenyon

BY SETH GOLDEN female Kenyon student on His efforts led to the appre- municate any harbored concerns of Staff Reporter Middle Path, might not have hension of one thief by Security safety and security to his depart- 'I appreciate the Phi occured without their efforts. and Safety, and the other by'the ment. Encouraged by recent com- Kapps for what they "They didn't have to do that; Knox County Sheriff's Depart- "If there's something that con- munity participation in the process that was excellent on their part. ment. Again, Werner notes the cerns any student, faculty member, of securing the safety of Kenyon did that night.' They could have seen the car ease with which the maintenance or staff member on this campus College, Director of Safety and Dan Werner driving down Chase Avenue and worker could have justified in- about security, talking to each Security Daniel J. Werner is pro- ignored it. They didn't. They de- action by shunning responsibil- other is okay, but you need to come moting an even in- more active, law-enforcem- vailing trend in ent cided they were going to take ity not spelled out in his con- to us. We're here to have people volved, and responsible commu- throughout the country, as de- some action," said Werner. tract. report things to us. I don't want nity. partments everywhere seek to Werner also points to two Similarly, Werner cites the people to be afraid, or standoffish, In his view, all the spheres extend the effectiveness of their other community members who student responsible for alerting at all about giving us a call. Call within a community will- must reach within communities, is the assisted the community, by work- Safety and Security to the Leonard this office, and let us know," said ingly bear the burden of preserv- promotion and strengthening of ing in conjunction with Security Hall fire earlier this year, as an ex- Werner. ing the security and safety of the community enforcement and and Safety. Earlier in the year, a ample of community enforcement "It's not just students, and community as a whole. involvment. maintenance worker, after witness- at its finest. it's not just security, and it's not For Werner, a shared respon- Werner cites three incidents ing the theft of two bikes, followed While enthusiastic over these just the employees and staff of sibility, by a created cohesive within Gambier this academic year the thieves by car while remaining examples of community enforce- this college, it's everyone work- Kenyon College community, ex- as exemplary of the collective ef- in radio contact with Security and ment, Werner would like to see the ing together to make this place ists as the integral means to the fort desired by law enforcement Safety. community more willing to com- - more safe and secure," he said. important end of a safe and secure nationwide, the most recent being Gambier. the high-spee- d chase of two weeks While he believes Kenyon ago. SENATE: Elections rescheduled fields as good a 1 staff of Safety "The Phi Kapps are the ones CONTINUED FROM PAGE of Student Lectureships and the Class President or Representative and Security Officers col- as any that let us know to let the Sheriff's could do in the course of the Student Council Executive Com- and for Senate. lege in Ohio, Werner notes the Department know about these sus- year." mittee which is made up of the The Student Life Committee inherent limitations his de- of picious people, and I appreciate the The new election schedule Student Council President, the hopes that the new process will partment. Phi Kapps for what they did that will mean the Student Govern- Vice President of Academic Af- give many groups a jump on "We have this cam- entire night," said Werner. ment elections for the 1997-- 8 fairs, the Vice President of Student things at the beginning of next pus, all the buildings, all the After praising the fraternity academic year will be held not Life, the Treasurer and the Chair o year. Steele added, "I will be in- outlying areas the of campus. members for willingly cooperat- long after students return from f Housing and Grounds. The elec- terested in how it works and hope Everything that's college-owne- d ing by giving statements at ap- Spring Break. On March 23, let- tions for these positions will be that the Committee on Student is our responsibility to keep se- proximately 2:30 a.m., Werner ters of intent will be due for the held on April 1. On Monday, April Life will evaluate it next year with cure. We cannot be everywhere," went on to say that the apprehen- Chair of Social Board, the Chair 6, letters of intent will be due for input from the candidates and stu- said Werner. sion of the two youths, respon- - -- of Security and Safety, the Chair any student wanting to run for dents in general." According to Werner, a pre- - sible for harassing an unknown Preliminary Anderson Cup Elections There are 62 nominees for the Anderson Cup, an award Maggie Ahearn '99 Becky Hoyt '99 Brian Nowakowski '99 given each year to the Kenyon student who has done the most for Adrian Amedia '99 Jerrod Jacobs '01 Rea Oberwetter '99 the 1997-98- ). College (during Alicia Baker '98 Matt Jadud '98 Liz Pendleton '98 All students and faculty are eligible to vote in the POLL Steve Berson '99 Devin Johnson '98 Gil Reyes '01 Kathleen Birck '00 Kamille election through Friday. Each person will be allowed to vote for Johnson '99 Stuart Rice '98 . Matilda Bode '99 Melissa Kravetz '99 15 persons the 15 candidates with the highest number of votes Christy Robinson '98 Peter Brandi '01 Owen Lewis '98 Beth Schiller '98 will proceed to the final election the following week (more Esther Cely '98 Laura Lind '99 Karen Scott information on that next week). '98 Vanessa Chan '00 John Lindsey '98 Stephen Scott '99 These are the candidates (in alphabetical order). Please George Ciuca '99 Geoff Loose '99 Torsten Seifert '98 vote. 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American a main target especially since Britain has pledged sup Swimmers Take On I Explaiiu Roots of Responsible ChUenryl threats to destroy Saddam American officials have spoken of port for a strike and Australian Division I Foes j Soviet Occupation Extends Invitation Hussein's power base are likely to the guard, estimated at 60,000 to Prime Minister John Howard face an elaborate Iraqi strategy to 75,000, as the heart of Saddam's added his country's support today. over- power base. The Clinton administration also Kenyon evade the full impact of the . "1 Hie Collegian ' whelming U.S. airpower advan- The government ordered that formally asked for New Zealand's I l' to help today. tage. . plans be drawn up evacuate former President Ford Decries Congressional Power In the past, Iraq has dismantled schools and other government German Chancellor Helmut important parts of its factories to buildings in towns and provinces to Kohl, who had offered the United save them from destruction and kept be used as temporary barracks for Suites political backing and the use in the event of German air bases, received back- elite troops out of harm's way. Ana- , the Republican Guard So- lysts say the government also has of an attack, Iraqi travelers arriving ing today from the opposition guarded against a repetition of the in Amman, Jordan, said Monday. cial Democrat party meaning rebellions that followed the 1991 The Republican Guard is not Germany's role won't get bogged Persian Gulf War. the only element keeping Saddam down in political squabbling. Events Emphasize History, Culture While U.S. officials say they in power the ruling Arab Baath Russia's air force chief, mean- would prefer a diplomatic solution Socialist Party has about one mil- while, warned that Saddam's army to the crisis over U.N. arms inspe- lion members under arms. has Soviet-mad- e fighter planes and ctions, has During the Gulf War, Iraq dis- anti-aircra- ft rocket systems as well KCO Receives Technical Tune-u- p President Clinton warned of a harsh response if Iraq mantled key factories, refineries as missile and artillery brigades persists in barring inspectors from and other institutions to protect the and could inflict serious damage. sites it considers sensitive, like the heart of its infrastructure. No or- Russian President Boris Iraqi president's palaces. ders for such a move have been Yeltsin, on a state visit to Italy, said The United States has about reported, but they are expected. today that he and Prime Minister 20 ships and 450 aircraft deployed Saddam and his government Romano Prodi signed ajoint state- re- in the Persian Gulf. A U.S. attack have exhibited a remarkable abil- ment saying the crisis must be is expected to depend on missiles ity to survive and they are not solved peacefully. Prodi did not a statement, and airpower to strike at military expected to come under anything confirm the signing of a The Collegian, as it appeared on February 1 1, 1988. 'installations and supposed hiding like the pressure they did in the but joined Yeltsin's appeal for Years ago... places for weapons. 1991 war. That lasted 43 days; the diplomatic settlement. 10 years ago, February 10, 1988: Former U.S. President Gerald In the even of an attack, Iraq's United States is talking about four Ford spent the day at Kenyon leading classes, fielding questions elite Republican Guards could be or five days of bombing this time. from students and giving a lecture titled "The White House, Con- dis- gress and the Budget," in Tomsich Arena. Among the issues Credit Card fundraisers Iran-Cont- HELP WANTED cussed with President Ford were U.S. entanglement in the ra processing for fraternities, sororities scandal, Soviet proposals to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and MenWomen earn $375 weekly & groups. Any campus Congressional involvement in the budget process. assembling Medical I.D. 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Discover, American Express, Mastercard, and Visa accepted 4 , The Kenton Collegian NEWS Thursday, February 12, 1998 'Just Say No' goes up in smoke J OSU STUDENTS RETURN HOME AFTER FIRE WASHINGTON (AP) think it should be legalized be- decided it worth When it wasn't it to COLUMBUS (AP) Fire officials estimate an Ohio State Univer- cause it's the most accessible thing smoke," Dnistrian said. "We comes to marijuana, the three sity dormitory sustained $10,000 in damage in a fire that destroyed a freshmen at George Washington out there next to liquor," said Amy burned out giving the message, and fifth-flo- or bedroom. University were solidly in agree- Kim, a freshman at the University the public bumed out on hearing Students were evacuated, but no residents were injured in the of Arizona "It's out there, but it ment, as if considering the merits it" 24-flo- fire late Sunday at the or Morrill Tower. early morning classes or pain-in-the-ne- ck isn't a big deal. If you don't smoke, Keith Stroup, founder and ex- of City firefighters were called to the scene at 11:52 p.m. Sunday, roommates. you just disregard it" ecutive director of NORML, the and contained the fire within about half an hour, said Mark DeVine, Support for marijuana legal- "Cigarettes are worse," said National Organization for the Re- battalion chief. Craig Brooks, 18, of Long Island, ization has grown among college form of Marijuana Laws, believes The school said most residents were able to return to their rooms N.Y. "We all know freshmen from just 16.7 percent in that students' mari- that." familiarity with within about two hours of the fire. Fellow Long Islander 1989 to 35.2 percent in 1997, ac- juana is breeding newfound accep- Ohio State and fire officials did not know how many students Michelle Rubinstein piped up, cording to a study by the Univer- tance of it were evacuated but university spokeswoman Ruth Gerstner said about "We sity of California Los Angeles for "More just don't make an issue of it people are going by 945 students live in the dorm. Marijuana is accepted." the Washington-base- d American their own experiences," he said. Damage was limited to the fourth, fifth and sixth floors. "I think any it is good Council on Education. "For a long time, the government don't of Some students complained that they did not hear a fire alarm, for you," Jake Marijuana use among high put out these Reefer Madness re- added Kaplan,18, of said Bill Hall, assistant vice president for student affairs. Westchester County, N.Y. "But we school seniors also is rising. More ports, and they molded opinions. A main switch that is designed to set off the fire alarms on all hear about the problems with to- than 50 percent of seniors say they But now, when a third of the popu- floors did not work for every floor, he said. Alarms can be activated You have smoked it compared to 33 lation have experience with mari- bacco. don't hear anything floor by floor but were not set off on every floor. like that about marijuana" percent who admitted to its use in juana they don't believe the gov- Contractors were investigating what caused the problem with 1992, according Dr. The consensus reached in the to Lloyd ernment." the main switch. Johnston, author of an annual re- The 1980s saw new laws al- hallway of Thurston Hall, the DeVine estimated the damage at $10,000. university's 1000-be- d freshman port on youth trends involving lowing the forfeiture of property dorm, underscores a growing trend drugs for the National Institute on seized during drug arrests and an among American youth. Drug Abuse. expansion of drug testing for pub- 5,500 ARRESTED IN MlNH ClTY Call it a shift from Reefer Mad- "The perception of risks in lic and private work places in ad- Ho Oil HANOI, Vietnam (AP) Police have arrested ness to Reefer Gladness, as use of smoking marijuana is eroding. dition to first lady Nancy Reagan's more than 5,500 people and confiscated more than 20 tons marijuana rises along with support They don't see it as dangerous," "Just Say No" to drugs campaign. of banned materials over the past two years in a crackdown on social vices in Ho Chi Minh for its legalization, according to re- said Johnston, program director at What's filled the vacuum City, the city's police newspaper reported Tuesday. cent surveys of student attitudes. the University of Michigan Insti- since, Dnistrian said, is tacit ap- The campaign has focused on battling The affinity for marijuana flies tute for Social Research. proval of smoke. drug addiction, prostitu- tion, gambling and "poisonous" cultural items.- - in the face of growing conservatism Steve Dnistrian, senior vice "Musicians started singing its Pornography is illegal, and the government in other areas, according to surveys president of Partnership for a Drug-Fre- e praises openly and then sitcoms also forbids videos, music and publications that promote Western that show today's college freshmen America, said he is disap- treated smoking in a funny way," values. The paper conceded that despite in- are more apt to favor restricting pointed by the survey results but not he said. "Then, marijuana leaves tough measures that include spections of everything from video sellers par- abortion rights and are less accept- surprised. started showing up on hats and to bars and karaoke lors, social evils remain and piracy is rampant. ing of gay relationships than stu- "Wfrhad the media focus. We shirts. And when the media started Since the crackdown began, local police dents in recent years. had the government focus. Kids up with stories about how the drug have detained 1,335 people involved in prostitution, 1,163 for "I'm not surprised students were exposed to the message and war was lost, our message was lost." drug trafficking and nearly 3,000 for gambling. Local authorities uncovered nearly 15,000 violations out of more Professor banned from campus than 32,000 inspections, confisticating 478,000 cassette tapes, 32,000 compact discs and 800 video recorders and TV sets, the paper WHITEWATER, Wis. (AP) A agement filed harassment accusa- nities, said the professor began said. University of Wisconsin profes- tions against her colleague. A harassing her last spring. The let- Police shut down 94 karaoke parlors for serious violations, while sor has been banned from campus judge issued the restraining order ter said the professor invited his more than 500 others were suspended, the paper said. They also un- after a colleague filed a sexual-harassme- nt against the professor Jan. 22, said colleague to Mexico for spring covered 976 violations of publishing laws, confiscating 74,000 books complaint and ob- campus spokesman Walt Ulbricht. break and that he wrote her notes and 56,000 calendars and posters. tained a temporary restraining or- The court order prohibits the and put flowers on her car. The paper said 7,500 illegal billboards have been removed. The der against him. professor from communicating with Barring the professor from government issued limits on billboards of foreign products, saying

50-year-- The old business-manageme- nt the woman. The judge also ordered campus was intended to ensure the the Vietnamese letters must be three times bigger than foreign char- professor was forbid- the professor to turn over guns he safety of the woman and others at acters. This order now is largely ignored. den to set foot on the Whitewater owns to the Dane County Sheriff's the college, Ulbricht said. campus where he works by Chan- Department, Ulbricht said. The professor was assigned to DO YOU HAVE FEEDBACKSUGGESTIONS? cellor H. Gaylon Greenhill. A Dec. 10 letter from the work at home. University officials The action came after a fe- woman to Susan Moss, assistant to would not disclose what type of male assistant professor of man the chancellor for e-m- equal opportu work he is doing. Contact the newspaper through ail at COLLEGIAN. Your input is appreciated. PICTURE Ths Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) and Duke University are V, accepting applications for the Fall 1 998 semester for a field-oriente- d PEACE CORPS science based semester program in Costa Rica. Students abroad We are looking for earn 16 credit hours in tropical ecology, environmental science and policy, field research methods, and Spanish language and culture. students who will graduate in ffiri 1998 for international jobs in ' Credits may be transferred from Duke University. education, environment 'J hands-o- n experiential learning independent field projects agriculture, business, cultural immersion extended stays at remote field sites health, home stays extensive travel to diverse ecosystems French and youth develop- - j Call For brochure and application materials, contact ment today to discuss j , Organization for Tropical Studies, Duke University your qualifications. VL, Tel.: (919) 684-577- 4; Email: naoacpub.duke.edu http:www.ols.duke.edu Application cUadino for 199S Fall mitr it March 20, 1998.

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Feb. 13-1- 4 A Midsummer Night's Dream. 8 p.m. Bolton Theater Today Films of Andy Warhol. 7 p.m. Columbus Museum ofArt.

Feb. 14 Anti-V.- D. 461-138- Safe Sex. 11 p.m. Dance: Gund Commons Lounge Feb. 25 - 26 Moonchildren. Riffe Center Studio 1 Theater. Call 2 EVENTS EVENTS Feb. 14 Anti- - V.D. Dance. 9 p.m.. Gund Commons Lounge Now - Feb. 20 Representing Art History: An Exhibition in Three Chapters. Feb. 14 Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers. 8 p.m. Rosse Hall. Denison University Art Gallery Feb. 15 Jane Hirshfleld Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. Peirce Lounge Feb. 13 - 15 Easy Riders Tenth Annual Bike Invitational. 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Feb. 17 Dessert and Discussion: Culture and Spirituality. 8 p.m. Snowden Feb. 22 Columbus Antique Bottle Show. Ohio Expo Center. 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Multicultural Center Feb. 1 8 Blood Drive. 9 a.m. Gund Commons Lounge Feb. 18 Open Microphone. 9 p.m. Philander's Pub FILMS Feb. 20 Friday Feature: "Bilega" by Melissa Kravetz. 4:15 p.m. Crozier Center

Feb. 20 7 393-354- Kokosingers' Concert. p.m. Rosse Hall The following movies are playing at Colonial Cinemas in Mount Vernon. Call 2 Feb. 21 Global Cafe: "Hillel presents..." 6 p.m. Snowden Multicultural Center for more information. Feb. 24 Mardi Gras Celebration. 10 p.m. Snowden Multicultural Center BLUES BROTHERS 2000 (Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman) Elwood hooks up with an orphan and a strip-joi- nt operator upon his release from prison.

ill-fat- FILMS TITANIC (Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet) Epic romance about ed lovers aboard the luxury liner. Feb. 1 1 Rosewood. 10:15 p.m. Higley Auditorium Feb. 13 Strictly Ballroom. 8 p.m. Higley Auditorium The following movies are opening elsewhere: Feb. 14 Shall We Dance?. 8 p.m. Higley Auditorium Opening tomorrow: Feb. 15 A Holocaust Film. 7 p.m. Olin Auditorium Feb. 18 Say Amen, Somebody. 1 0: 1 5 p.m. Higley Auditorium Feb. 20 Faculty Lectureships Film Festival. 7 p.m. Higley Auditorium 4-in- THE BORROWERS (John Goodman) A family of ch people fight to save the Feb. 22 A Film. 7 p.m. Olin Auditorium Holocaust home they live in with humans. Feb. 24 Common Threads. 7 p.m. Higley Auditorium HURRICANE STREETS (Brendan Sexton, Jr.) A young man involved in a street Feb. 25 Fresh. 10:15 p.m. Higley Auditorium gang is put to the test when he finds love. RIDE (Dr. Dre, Ed Lover) A group of young men from Harlem take a bus trip to Miami to appear as extras in a music video. LECTURES SLIDING DOORS (Gwyneth Paltrow) A woman experiments with love and lifestyles while living two different lives. Feb. 19 for Dinner? Sugar acid metabolism and enteric colonization of "What's SPHERE (Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, Sharon Stone) Scientists are Conway, University. 4:15 Higley Audita E. Coli" by Tyrrell Ohio State p.m. recruited to go on an underwater exploration of an alien spacecraft. rium THE WEDDING SINGER (Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore) A wedding singer EXHIBITS finds love while aspiring to be a greater musician.

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1 ' The Kenyon Collegian OPINION Thursday, February 12, 1998, gEfre .SSleripon Collegian

Editors in Chief: Kristen Filipic, Ben Vorb ; News Editor: David Shargel " Features Editor: Grant Schulert Arts & Entertainment Editor: John Sherck Sports Editors: Ashley Grable, Jenny McDevitt Photo Editor: Kate Bennett Opinion Page Coordinator: Ari Rothman Online Editor: Matt Brenner Diversions Editors: Eric Harberson, Gil Reyes A La Mode Editors: Le Lonky, Alexandra Mustonen Layout Assistant: Lea Groesz News Assistant: Jessica Andruss Copy Editors: Shawn Bakken, Daniel Connolly, Rachel Goldberg Online Assistant: Erik Christensen Advisor: Cy Wainscott 1996-9- 7 Advisor of the Year MiiTor diversity Tuesday's colloquium on diversity challenged notions of what a Kenyon education should be An interesting question came out of Tuesday's colloquium on diversity in campus and community life, and thankfully it wasn't the hopelessly general and resigned, "Why isn't Kenyon more diverse?" It was something simpler, something different. Dean Omahan brought it about when he talked about the purpose of a Kenyon education as placing students in a position where it is impossible not to confront something vastly different from their own experience. How many of us think of education in that sense? Not as a Robert Corpuz constant affirmation of our own interests, but as a confrontation with things new, unexpected and very likely uncomfortable? It's the kind of education that places much less emphasis on grades and achievements and much more emphasis on experiences that may Cupid's poison-tippe- d arrows leave us asking questions and wondering why it seems that we're back at square one. That brings us to the question: How many of us have had that BY MOLLY WILLOW kind of Kenyon education? How many of us consider education to be Staff Columnist Somewhere along the line I made the exploring things we can't relate to, as opposed to things we feel transition When I was in third from heartsick grade schooler to comfortable about? More importantly, how many of us actively grade the pursue that education? boy I liked gave me a valentine on what I hope is a cleverly constructed facade of Lately it seems like too many students have been bemoaning a Valentine's Day. He signed it an indifferent young adult. It is a necessary lack of diverse experiences at Kenyon. It might be more accurate to "love." And that's when I knew it bemoan that for all the diverse experiences Kenyon can offer (and was meant to be. My heart swelled, precaution on a day that is designed to take there are many out there just look around), many students are I began to glow and I started debat- each person's worst social and usually resigned to the comfortable. ing whether I wanted peach or insecurities Tuesday' s discussion was lively, and Philomalhesian was nearly purple bridesmaids dresses at our turn them into greeting cards. full with participants. Yet a large number of those participants were wedding. That day after school I there, but faculty and administration members. There were students waited around for my future hus- stand what Valentine's Day can a Midwest thing.) This will be my turnout was poor. Many in proportion to the entire student body the band to make some reference to his mean to a woman, and what it does first Valentine's Day at Kenyon. missing from that discussion were exactly the ones who of the people undying love for me. I looked to her. ThePepto B ismol pink deco- Last year I spent the weekend in needed to hear the question that came out of if What have you gone dreamily into his eyes, hanging on rations seem to send males into Columbus with my mom. Not ex- out of your way to experience at Kenyon lately? every nuance of his behavior. some sort of shock and I don't actly romantic, but she paid for Someone at the colloquium mentioned that diversity at Kenyon I think he said "see you tomor- think they realize how great an dinner. had to start with one person, and that was whoever you saw when row" and left. impact their slightest gesture can I don't really expect this Sat- looking in the mirror. Too often it seems like whenever we look at the These were not, suffice to say, have on smitten females. urday mirror we see perfectly diverse beings who need diversity in the to be much different from the romantic words I'd hoped for. So, somewhere along the line environment we live in but no changes in ourselves. Maybe we need any other Saturday. I know I won't I was never one of those chil- I made the transition from heart- to start looking at the mirror realizing it's not Kenyon that falls short get any little cards with the current dren who bought the bulk pack of sick grade schooler to what I in diversity, but those of us who haven't once stepped outside hope Mattel or Hasbro spokesdolls on My Little Pony or Hot Wheels is a ourselves into something completely different and unusual. Other- cleverly constructed facade of them, but that will also save me the valentines to distribute to wise we project onto Kenyon our own faults, and it sounds so much dutifully an indifferent young adult. It is a aggravation of grabbing the near- each I better when we blame an institution even though all we're really member of the class. didn't necessary precaution on a day that est flower and asking if I'm loved, doing is blaming ourselves. like that giving one valentine meant is designed to take each person's or loved not. giving 28. 1 couldn't stomach the worst social insecurities and turn In an odd sort of way there is thought of giving cards to my sworn them into greeting cards. ("Sorry less pressure on Valentine's Day enemies (future cheerleaders) or to tohear you're all by yourself; some- in college. No parents are here to Office: Chase Tower at the top of Peirce Hall's main stairway someone I actually liked. How do day your heart may come down off Mailing address: The Kenyon Collegian, Student Activities Center, Gambler, OH force you to give a card to the you convince a 11 43022. twelve year old that shelf; or maybe you' be alone smelly kid in the class. It is pos- Business address: P.O. Box 832, Gambier, OH 43022 boy that when you write "will you until you're dead because no one sible to let the day pass you by. E-m- ail address: collegiankenyon.edu be mine?" you mean it in the worst loves you; ha, ha, ha!") It is a day Then, of course, there's the WWW address: http:www.kenyon.edupubscollegian way? designed, in the same way 427-533- other option. Phone numbers: (61 ) 8, 5339 It even im- The opinion page is a space for members of the community to discuss issues relevant wasn't really the cards supermodels were designed to You could take the day as an to the campus and the world at large. The opinions expressed on dus page belong only that mattered. Affection could be ply that all women are fat, to make excuse to wear your heart on your Columns letters to the editors do not reflect the opinions of the Kenyon to the writer. and shown in a much more tangible people feel lonely, desperate and sleeve and carpe yourself some is a Kenyon Collegian Collegian staff. Voice from the Tower used when member of the way. And by this, ofcourse, I mean hopeless. staff wishes to express a personal opinion apart from Uie staff as a whole. All members diem. You could send flowers to of the community are welcome to express opinions through a letter to the editors. The chocolate. Though I'm sure it can be a your crush, or invite them to din- Kenyon Collegian reserves the right to edit all letters submitted fur length and clarity. If you wanted to win someone nice day for some. For florists, ner. You could lake a stroll on the The Collegian cannot accept anonymous or pseudonymous letters. Letters must be over you'd buy a bag of Hershey's jewelers and the folks at Victoria's Kokosing Gap trail. You could take signed by individuals, not organizations, and must be 200 words or less. Letters must kisses and pray they understood Secret it is probably a also be received no later than the Tuesday prior to publication. The Kenyon Collegian second them to the play this weekend, for prints as many letters as possible each week subject tospace, interest and appropriateness. the significance. It's a pity "Ob- Christmas. Restaurants with dark what's more romantic than a play Members of the editorial board reserve the right to reject any submission. The session" is a fragrance and not a mood lighting and candles are where a man gets turned into an ass publishing letters which run considerably beyond 200 Collegian also will consider candy bar; I could have bought in booked, and champagne ischugged and falls in love? words. If such a letter meets the above criteria of space, interest and appropriateness, bulk to drop my hints. while nervous beaux propose. the author will be notified and the letter will be published as a guest column. Or you could spend it like I do; I The Kenyon Collegian is published weekly while the college is in session, except And even then couldn't be At Kenyon you can give some- rehearsing the "pour my heart out during examination and vacation periods. The views expressed in the paper do not certain if they'd be picked up on. I body five bucks to come kazoo in speech," but settling on chocolate necessarily reflect the views of Kenyon College. don't really know if men under- - your sweetheart's face. (I think it's instead. The Kenyon Collegian Thursday, February 12, 1998 OPINION ? good morning. What do polls mean anyway MY NWAE l KENNETH, M I'LL BE YoUR SPEOKL rir rrn TrsrAV BY AMANDA BABER I'm not sure if Kenyon is turning out to be the Staff Columnist 1 liv U rM school the Fiske Guide said it would be. In II IH P" I 1 Over the past few months I've lltrJ made it my mission to devote this 12th grade I memorized The Fiske Guide to column to exciting, intriguing, the Colleges. I can still quote from Kenyon's "cutting-edge- " issues. Issues like boredom, alienation, depression, profile in the Princeton Review. I analyzed the zinc deficiency, and, most impor "U.S. News and World Report 1997 College tant of all, the tragic plight of Women Who Love Too Much. Or Rankings" as if I were dissecting the Talmud. perhaps I am thinking of this afternoon's rerun of "Live with stand a word I said, probably be- number of points as schools like Sally Jessy Raphael." cause I had still had a mouth full of Penn and Bowdoin. But the U.S. No matter. My point is, in ointment. My roommate, assum- News and World Report ranked stead ofturning in the usual column ing I was having another Duke and Penn 3rd and 12th, re- this week that is, instead of seizure-induce- d slathering fit, qui- spectively, among major

typing up a transcript of my last etly summoned Security, who universities, rating Oberlin and I ' primal scream therapy session I carted me off to the Knox County Bowdoin 22nd and eighth among TUE Wr&AlNGToN fUL- 4EWICE UoTEL decided to focus this column on Hospital. And that, children, is how small colleges. Kenyon, mean- climbed two spots to reach Kenyon, or else die trying. come Grandma gets to take them while, 12-1- 8 Last week I finally got a letter little green pills every night. a tie for 3 1st. from Michelle, a high school jun- Anyway, I'm not sure if According to its website, the ior unique among my friends in Kenyon is turning out to be the U.S. NewsandWorldReportns that she is not, to my knowledge, a school the Fiske Guide said it would its system on 81 unspecified "sta- figment of my imagination. Any- be. In 12th grade I memorized The tistical factors." The list is said to criteria: KCTUM-L- EVERYONE IN TUE way, Michelle's letter mentioned Fiske Guide to the Colleges. I can include, among other r Y, that she had just received a shiny still quote from Kenyon's profile matriculation rate, retention rate, RE4TMJRfNT 010 KNoW THE KAM4EUVER. new copy of Kenyon' s 1998 Pro- in the Princeton Review. ("I feel bench press, alumni funding, "that HEIMLICH dewpoint, M-- spectus. like I know everybody here," certain je ne sais quoi," BUT THEY o KNEW YoU U.S. News "What made you decide to go quipped one mid-90- s Kenyon stu- inseam, proximity to WERE l.R.6. KUDlToR... to Kenyon?" she asked. "Do you dent, "from the president of the and World Report Headquarters, like it there? Is it anything like you college right down to my and "overall smoochability." thought it would be?" professor's dog Barney." I often The Princeton Review, on the I wish people would stop ask wonder which priceless childhood other hand, bases its ratings on ing me if I like Kenyon, and if memories my brain had to jettison insider information gleaned from Kenyon likes me, and if Kenyon to save that quote.) I analyzed the its priceless collection of turn-of-the-cent- ury has a sister for them. " U.S. News and WorldReport 1997 Bazooka Joe comic Every morning as I gaze blear-- College Rankings" as if I were strips. And the Fiske Guide came ily into the bathroom mirror, I find dissecting the Talmud. to Samuel Taylor Colridge in a myself wondering the same thing: Of course, every guide holds laudanum-induce- d dream; his "How did I end up here?" I ask every school to a different stan- poem 'The Rime of the Ancient myself. "Did I make the right deci- dard. Mariner" originally concluded with sion? Would I be happier at some For those ofyou keeping score the lines, "University of Kentucky , other school? Why am I brushing at home, the Princeton Review as- three stars quality-of-lif- e rating my teeth with 'Preparation H'?" signs Kenyon a higher "overall 73 percent." s official line around I asked the other people in the academic rating" than both Duke That' the ex- least until Kenyon bathroom why they came to and Oberlin (just to cite two here, anyway, at U.S. News Top 25.. Kenyon, but nobody could under- - amples), awarding us the same cracks the

ll:r-a- & t tilt ai)tlF ill CI9)8 Wiley Miller dist. by The Washington Poll Wrilcrt Croup com E-m.- www.wileyloon. 'Pretentious' reviews miss mark V Y il: wilefjwileyloon. com Web Site: imaginative litera- I was somewhat annoyed with hadn't gotten the point, namely this "work of not because last week's "Reviews" section. I that Will Hickman is smarter than ture" was selected an interest in it, but thought that Brad Goodson handled all of us. Fouse had ABOUT qowg planning on he, like Hickman, wanted Spice World quite well: he took the Honestly, I'm not because WTO I ob- of us mortals exactly movie at face value but poked a buying Spice World; simply to show all which is smart he is. little fun at it too. However, Will ject to the fact that space how as I would suggest that while Hickman's "review" of the Spice reserved for a review was used Will "self-conscio- us use of World soundtrack was different. a forum for "Classic Books Steele's Have and diction" would draw 'he While he managed to tell me virtu- Hickman May Or May Not idiom away space many an English professor, ally nothing in the first paragraph Read." Ifyou're giving ire of they use of the word "pace" about the album, I did learn that he for people to show how smart Fouse's they I don't know what it means had read Milton's Paradise Lost. I are by writing about whatever (nope, writ- either) would have aggravated one can say will all due solemnity that damn well please (outside of the editor, of the authorities on "bad English," I don't give two expletive about ing sarcastic letters to of Otherwise, Orwell. Again, I suggest whether or not of Will has read of course), sign me up. George review- thing: keep book review- Milt. This was not the first allusion keep yourmusic reviewers the same reviewing books, not to things more Cultural (with a ing music. ers Joseph advertising the size of their IQs. capital "C"): in speedy succession, The same goes for Wagner and T.S. Eliot were Fouse's pretentious treatment of that Zach Nowak '99 dragged in, just in case the readers Danielle Steel. I get the idea

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XEj e &enpon Collegian top, middle cartoons by WILEY; bottom by J.D.Crowe 8 The Kenyon Collegian FEATURES Thursday, February 12, 1998 Kenyon observes Eating Disorders Awareness Week Originally a local event, EDAW has become a national event to educate about a sociological and health problem

BY KATIE SUTTLE StafTWriter 'Images of unhealthyunnatural 'beautiful' are

Eating Disorders Awareness around us constantly and we need to be aware that Week, celebrated at Kenyon Feb. these images aren't real.' 16-2- 0, has come full circle back to Christie Materson '99 Knox County. The now national j 1 , awareness week was the brainchild of Psychology Professor Michael Levine and College Physician cooking demonstration, some who look like that" Tracy Schermer in the early 1 980s. Kenyon students will speak about "What I'm going to be doing The concept for an eating dis- their experiences recovering from is showing a couple of techniques orders awareness week started in eating disorders at Weaver Cot- to digitally enhance and modify 1983 when Levine, searcing for an tage from 8:30 -- 10 p.m. images of people, specifically Jl lean' Camille Collett, college coun- geared toward the marketing of a area of psychology to study, asked - . j sub- selor, will present "Friends Helping product," said Frederick. Schermer hypo thetically what . - w f 6-- " Friends" from 7 p.m. on Wednes- "Fearless Friday" is a day ject he would address in an nett Sarah awareness week. Schermer rec- Postellon '01, Jessica Catanzano '98 and Andrew Shannon ''9":at day, February 18 at the Crozier without dieting. It will be marked ommended eating disorders, which an organizational meeting for EDAW Center. This program focuses on by a candlelight dinner in Peirce then were hardly studied by psy- before the national week, due to Following Levine' s presenta- how to help a friend with an eating and ice cream for sundaes to en- chologists and were considered a Kenyon' s spring break. tion, there will be a pizza party in disorder. courage people to eat when they rare phenomenon. Monday, Levine will present the Pub. Apple Plotnik '00 will On Thursday, ICS Systems are hungry and stop when they are Levine took Schermer's sug- a slide show presentation of "Socio-Cultur- al organize those who wish to par- Manager Dan Frederick and An- full, according to college counse- gestion and, in 1987, the program Factors and EatingBody ticipate in making collages of drew Shannon 99 will give a lor Beth Mansfield, who is co-cha-ir became national and has grown Image Problems" from 7-- 8 p.m. at unhealthy body images found in presentation of how photographers of EDAW with Levine. into Eating Disorders Awareness Higley Auditorium. magazines. For the rest of the digitally manipulate photographs "Images ofunheal thyunnatu- and Prevention, a national, non- "Consider what we do says awareness week, the collages will and use other tricks to achieve the ral 'beautiful' are around us profit organization based in Seattle, about our culture and what are the be displayed around campus. desired look for the model. constantly and we need to be aware of which Levine is currenUy presi- implications of the answeres to Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. "You see pictures of 'Fall's that these images aren't real, and dent. those questions about the causes brings a cooking demonstration in Natural Look,'" said Shannon. even try to get these removed from EDAP is the organization re- of eating disorders for what we the Watson kitchen by Christie "And you don'trealize theclothes our society so that the health of the sponsible for ED AW, which will can to to prevent eating disorders," Masterson '99 and nutriuonist Flo- are taped to the models' shoulders self-conscio- us can stay intact," said be celebrated at Kenyon a week said Levine. rence Schermer. Following the because clothes don't fit people Masterson. Kenyon Seminar series shares Random Moments What have you been doing to enjoy the warm faculty research with campus weather we' ve been having?

BY SARAH COOMBS Kelsey Olds '99 Staff Writer '0ne consideration was that if I was making a I have been enjoying the weather by bringing my Discussion of topics as varied ; r-V:- big fool out of myself, I preferred to find out at .' work outside with me. as witchcraft, humanism and T . I ' ,'v Jonathan Swift can be heard echo- Kenyon before I took it on the road.' ing from Timberlake House when Professor of Political Science Fred Baumann faculty and students meet for the 1 monthly Kenyon Seminar, - Wednesday at 4:15 p.m. This Evan Belgrade and Bill month's presentation will be by build what Crais termed "a com- All of the works discussed are Massde'Ol Associate Professor ofEnglish Jim munity of scholars." in the process of being completed, We like to preform the Carson The seminars, held roughly and many go on to public presenta- 'Bismark,' a tricky and . This forum for the presenta- one Wednesday per month during tion or publication. Crais' paper, sophisticated frisbee ma- tion offaculty ' s works-in-progre- ss the school year, vary in topic and "Modernity's Magic: Pushing Pa- neuver. began seven years ago with the department Professor of Political per and Producing Evil. Or The help of History professor Clifton Science Fred Baumann' s paper on Modern State as Traditional Crais. Each year Crais sends out an the postmodern moral critique of Witch," is part of a book that he Greg Foster and Scott e-m- ail asking the faculty members humanism was the subject of last hopes to finish by next year. Next Keir 98 if they would like to share a paper month's discussion. month's seminar will focus on the Streaking the campus!. or chapter from an upcoming book "I asked permission from Pro- connection he has made between at a seminar. Interested professors fessor Crais to present the paper to South African bureaucracy and submit their work and then a syn- the Kenyon Seminar precisely be- witchcraft. He argues that the mur- opsis of the paper is circulated cause I was venturing into der of bureaucrats is due to the through faculty e-m- ail. Although not-very-well-kn- own ground," rural South African belief that they the seminars are attended prima- Baumann said. rs are not the boring paper-pushe- Megan McLeod and rily by profes.M s, everyone is Not only did he want to know American society considers them Lindsey Yurgine '99 welcome, and the topics of discus- the opinions of his colleagues, but to be, but witches. Crais' paper One word: Naked. sion are printed in each semester's "one consideration was that if I will be discussed on March 25. Calendar of Events. was making a big fool out of my- The seminar scheduled for The uniqueness of the Kenyon self, I preferred to find out at Wednesday will take a less violent Seminar is in its form. It is not a Kenyon before I took it on the avenue ofdiscussion with Carson' s

' -i- - discus- -i i reading of the work, but a road." paper, "Albino Cuna Indians, Car- ill ii -- i tm sion. It is tantamount to a regular Baumann was "very happy" ibbean Slaves, and Swift's Photos by Sara Shea class at Kenyon in that those who with his experience at the seminar. Houyhnhnnis." He hopes to "pro- attend are expected to have pre- He said, "The opportunity that I vide new knowledge" of pared by reading the work got to have such a wide range of eighteenth-centur- y literature by Interested in Writing for Features? beforehand. Copies of the papers colleagues read and think about challenging commonly accepted are available from Crais prior to my work is extraordinarily valu- notions of the political beliefs of each meeting. This system allows able and, until recently, has been Jonathan Swift, author of Email: SCHULERTG both students and professors to very rare." Gulliver's Travels. Thursday, February 12, 1998 FEATURES Tim Kenyon Collegian 9 KCES helps local children learn about nature With a variety of fun and educational activites, Kenyon. students teach kids and themselves

BY KELLY DUKE Estroff said. The children's nature StafTWriter series The kids like it. a lot. consists of two components the The people who work at the Environmental Outreach Field Trip They love being outside Kenyon Center for Environmental Program ad- during the week; and of the classroom. They Study busy themselves by touch- ditional classes and programs on ing the lives of hundreds of Saturdays. The Field Trip Program go back to class and if,. children. One of the main func- has been offered for a year and a continue what we tions of KCES is to plan outdoor half and is designed for preschool, learning activities for area chil- elementary school and middle taught them.' f. dren as a part of their regular school classes. Students from area Samara Estroff '01 r programming. This Children's schools, some from two hours Nature Series has become an im- away, com? to the KCES during portant part of KCES for the last the week. Kenyon student volun- few years. teers lead the field trips. The signed to teach the kids the process These programs are designed curricula for these programs were by which maple sugar is made. On to increase students' knowledge of written by Marcie Steen, KCES March 2 1 , kids will learn to "Build KCES Mount Vernon Middle School students viewing river specimens the environment and to improve co-direct- or, and Inese Sharp, KCES a Bluebird House." science skills. The children are not director. Another program is a cookout h the Ohio Department of Natural the student volunteers and other the only ones" to learn, though; The Saturday programming for children. Volunteers take the Resources to help students get sum- paid staff, is eager to help the KCES through leading the field trips, the incorporates many of the same children on a walk along the trails. mer jobs as naturalists. grow and reach more people. Sharp Kenyon student volunteers learn hands-o- n ideas about learning and They use this hike as an opportu- People who work at the KCES is always working to write more much about the environment them- outdoor exploration and is open to nity to teach them to use a compass, are enthusiastic about its programs. curriculum for the children's pro- selves, as well as gaining teaching any children in the e. community. to mark a trail, and to start a camp-fir- Inese Sharp, Director, says of her grams; "As the center grows, we experience. "A number volun- of These programs are run season- The kids cook their own meal job, "It' s wonderf ul! There' s never want to keep up by adding new teers have gotten good summer ally, with about three or four per as well. This semester's cookout is a dull moment." She, along with activities and programs," she said. jobs because of this," Sharp said. semester. Kenyon student volun- scheduled for April 24. Samara Estroff '01 , one of the teers lead these programs. The summer programming center's 37 student volunteers, One Former NFL star of these activities is a includes several additional Satur- and loves working there. "It's a good photography workshop, taught by day activities. There will be a place to work. It's pretty fulfilling Jason Summers '98, KCES stu- butterfly activity, a weather work- to be outside and work with the dent manager. The participants take shop, and a nature drawing class. Heisman contender to kids. It's a really good program pictures and learn to develop them. The Saturday programs arc and is well run." Summers says of his classes in the generally designed for children, The program encourages kids past, "I've even had a few adults. but there is also a community na- discuss sexual assault to appreciate their environment. Sometimes they're parents, some- ture series which Kenyon students They get to participate in hands-o- n times they're just community are encouraged to attend. Also, the Former Syracuse star Don McPherson to visit Kenyon learning experiences and explore members who want to be around KCES sponsors several events ecosystems in the world around kids." which are exclusively for Kenyon BY JULIE LEMMER them. The kids like it a lot. They Volunteers will also take kids students, including last Sunday's Staff Writer 'We know the issues of love being outside of the class- on a "maple sugar excursion" to a Valentine workshop at the craft On Thursday, As- sexual assault and room. They go back to class and nearby farm. This program is center, a canoe trip on the Kokosing the Sexual sault Task Force will be continue what we taught them," scheduled for Feb. 21. It is de-- and workshops team taught wit-- sponsoring harassment are present Don McPherson, director of Men- tors in Violence Prevention on the campus' Philosophy and saving the program, who will be working with Robert Bunnel, environment students and faculty members, teaching them how to prevent and director of athletics BY MICHELLE SANTANGELO deal with sexual harassment and Senior Staff Writer Tm cautiously optimistic that if we would think assault about it we In college, McPherson played themselves with resources avail- If environmental ethics seems may come up with solutions. I'm football for Syracuse University, able on campuses. like a minefield ofdispute, Denison certain that we it, if don't think about we won't' winning awards such as the Max- At Kenyon, McPherson will University Assistant Professor of well Award, the Davey O'Brien be leading a training program along Philosophy Jonathan Maskit may Denison Professor Jonathan Maskit Award, the Johnny Unitas Award with the Sexual Assault Task Force. defuse some of the confusion em- and was runner up for the Heisman Robert Bunnell, director of physi- bedded in these debates. On egory for thinking about deer is lead to a solution. Trophy. He then went on to the cal education and athletics and a r, February 19 at 4:15 p.m. in Peirce While he has his own opin- 4i 'species,' and that the individual NFL, playing for both the Phila- member of the task force, said, Lounge, will speak on deer matter," ions on ethics, Maskit don't said Maskit. environmental delphia Eagles and the Houston "We will attempt to discuss sexual "What There is and What is to be "I'll be talking about these differ- Maskit avoids them as unfounded Oilers. After the NFL, he went to harassment and assault in an at- - Done: during his lecture. Ontology and Environmen- ent ontological debates." "I'm cautiously Canada and played in their foot- tempt to mitigate problems." tal Problem-solving- ". Ontology is Most heated issues, optimistic that if we would think according ball league. . First, McPherson will be meet- a branch about environmental ofphilosophy concerning to Maskit, do not stem from prob- ontologies Throughout his career, he was ing with administrators from the nature being. lems ethics, but differences in we may come up with solutions. of of active in the communities for which student affairs and students who "The talk is about the impor- ontology. s a debate about what I'm certain that if we think "It' don't he played, organizing and coordi- have been identified as leaders or tance of thinking through how we the world is," he said. about it, we won't," he said. nating programs to encourage holding positions of leadership. view the environment as a prelimi- Citing the differences between Maskit has a definite goal for leadership in athletes. Later in the day, he will specif- his lecture Kenyon College. "I nary to thinking through what environmentalists and loggers, at Currently, McPherson is ically address the athletic environmental policies should be," Maskit said, "What happens when want to get people talking," he working in Northeastern department Wednesday night, he i said Maskit, a specialist in envi- they collide in the real world is that said. "There are philosophical f University's Center for the Study plans to attend the women's bas- questions here that have to be dealt ronmental philosophy and they talk past one another. They of Sport in Society as the Director ketball game and a reception held continental philosophy. have with, and we ignore them at our different ontologies of what a of the Mentors in Violence Pre- afterward which will allow him to ,r, As an ontol- peril. We may end up making some i example of how forest is." vention program. The goal of this meet with the community. ogy very bad choices not just a applies to environmental Even the controversy over it's program is to encourage steps to According to Bunnell, "we ethics, Maskit mentioned the prob- technical problem." abortion results from similar prob- prevent gender violence. Itencour-age- s have identified the problem; we Maskit earned his A .B . in eco- lem of overpopulation in lems. "It's a debate of whether the men to take steps to prevent know the issues of sexual assault white-taile- d deer. Many people fetus is a person," said Maskit. nomics from Vasser and an M.A. violence toward women, to not be and harassment are present on the i advocate dis- and Ph.D. in hunting as a solution; on While most people realize this philosophy from silent and to support campus orga- campus." He said that the second the other side, involved Northwestern. He arid people with crepancy as the heart of the issue, taught there nizations such as Take Back the step will be "to train people to act cen- at the Art Institute Chicago be- animal rights protest this action. Maskit stressed that seeing the of Night. It also encourages women against it and be neither perpetra- "Currently, the underlying cat- - tral problem does not automatically fore going to Denison in 1996. to get involved and to familiarize tor nor victim." Thursday, February 12, 1998 10 The Kenton Collegian STYLE

it.- - i 1 LU FASfflON From Mediterranean Avenue to Park Place, Kenyon showcased a variety of styles at Phling Bright and sloppy grins filled Peirce as we mingled and danced with our friends last Saturday. c liehts.c ' taffeta ' Style at Phling proved to be distinctive and at times comical. Donning an eclectic assortment 0f dresses, the women o smoother of Kenyon shone on the dance floor and 'in the poker room. The Kenyon men looked than ever and some , "committee," and let their true gentleman spirit shine. Effort, time and money allows us to have this unique, annual experience, and for that we give thanks to the of course, the mystery alum who pays for it all. .

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' . "" "" . ...IJ I IIIIIIIWIIIJI.JI II JIJ lll,llIIJJI,1,,MU, BY BROOKE HAUSER Staff Writer What: Albert McNeil In celebration of Black His- G: Q Jubilee Singers tory Month, the Albert McNeil f: Jubilee Singers, a gospelconcert When: Saturday, 8 p.m. choir from Los Angeles, will per- Where: Rosse Hall form at 8 p.m. Saturday in Rosse Hall. in local clubs, attracting the atten- " ) Sivy I A traveling company of about tion of movers-and-shake- rs of the x. O r. 15 singers, the group has toured Beverly Hills music industry. worldwide and received interna- S ince its creation the choir has tional acclaim. traveled to 67 countries, from Egypt The event is being co-sponso-red to Israel. They also were elected by the Gund Concert Series three times to serve the U.S. State fund and the Black Student Union Department and USIS Cultural to spread awareness of gospel cul- Exchange Program in various re- ture. gions of the world, including ;- "I think this choir is important I C9 Germany, Hungary, Romania, Po- u -r bo to Black History Month at land, Czechoslovakia, Iran and The l Kenyon," said Kamille Johnson i United Arab Emirates. . '99, president the Black 'r; of Student "I heard the Albert McNeil Union, "because I feel that it is Singers back in 1985 at a National v j crucial for this isolated commu- Convention and could barely keep nity to be exposed to an aspect of still in my seat," said Associate black culture that has grown to Professor of Music Ben Locke. "I The Albert McNeil Singers become such an integral part of the rarely praise other choral groups, world's African American com- but they are spectacular." musical theater. ertoire ranges through many years to different communities around munity." The Jubilee Singers will per- Featuring muscial styles from of American and African Ameri- the world, the Albert McNeil Jubi- Albert McNeil organized the form traditional spirituals, African the days of slavery and the blues, can history. lee Singers also hope their music choir 28 doo-wo- p, years ago in Los Angeles, and Caribbean folk songs, con- through bebop, soul and In addition to spreading cul- will be a type of homecoming for lining up a series successful gigs African-American- of temporary gospel pieces and current pop music, the group's rep tural appreciation and awareness s. A Midsummer Night's Dream' is 'a tremendous success

BY ALEXJABLONSKI Ijt'Vtlf'uV tion, some stars shone brighter than Nowakowski '99, were strong Whether he was bouncing around Theater Critic others. As Theseus, the Duke of separately but seemed to have dif- the stage as a half-ma- n half-donke- y, What: A Midsummer Athens, Keith Scott 00 calmly ficulty working together. However, or over acting his part in the When performing on a barren Night's Dream strutted around the stage with an Robinson plays the smarmy play within the play, Viccellio kept stage it becomes the duty of the underlying air ofauthority that was Demetrius for some great laughs. the crowd laughing. actors and the art direction to carry When: Tomorrow, not so much acted as it was felt. While these actors did a very There were a few flaws in the the play the cast and crew of A Saturday, 8 p.m. Balancing Scott's stern com- good job, this production was re- production. At times, the actors Midsummer Night's Dream have posure was Rachel Grossman '98 ally a play that showcases senior sped through their lines Where: Bolton Theater without done just that. as Hermia, the frantic object of two Ben Viccellio's talent. Flanked by any feeling, which when perform- Without the diversion of an men's love. She raced around the a group ofvery funny Mechanicals, ing Shakespeare is a crime. Also, elaborate set or ornate props, the ing court of Athens . The ease with stage, rapidly shifting from come-di- c Viccellio's Bottom steals every the inclusion of two intermissions -- audience's attention is focused which one world moved to the next confusion to sympathy scene he is in. Viccellio delivers unnecessarily slowed the piece. solely on the cast, with the lighting indicated how connected these two inspiring sadness and back again. his lines well, and with a strong 1 lowever, these small glitches and costuming subtly changing the seemingly distant places are. Her wooers, played by Matt sense of timing, but it is his physi- cannot overshadow the show's tre- mood. The effect Friday night was After the stage has been set, Robinson '00 and Brian cal comedy that takes flight. mendous success. a success unequaled in Kenyon the job of making a 300-year-o- ld drama thus far this season. play work falls to the actors. In, A strong cast, aided by ambi order for this play to succeed in the BSU pays tribute to blacks in the performing arts tious production design, deftly way Shakespeare designed it to, a BY JOHN SHERCK tell the audience more about these behind them. The chorus is one in acted Shakespeare's comedy of truly competent cast is necessary. A&E Editor two musicians' lives and work. which I try to live my life by." love, magic and the relationship Describing the actors that filled ChondraMitchell '99 will sing Mitchell says the song is about between the two. the Bolton theater with so much Tomorrow evening at 8, Billie Holliday's "God Bless the earning one's place in the world, The play opens with the spir energy this weekend as competent Kenyon's Black StudentUnion will Child" a cappella. as opposed to living off someone its of the forest spreading their would be an understatement Each showcase black actors, dancers, '"God Bless the Child' is one else. "It'saboutsurvivalandGod's well-play- magic across the stage, ushering role was ed from bit parts musicians and writers as "BSU's of Billie Holliday's most remem- blessings which have allowed me the en- audience into a bizarre, of the Forest Spirits to the lead Tribute to Blacks in the Perform- bered songs," said Mitchell. "It's a as an African American to sur- chanted world. The setting quickly roles. ing Arts" takes the Rosse Hall stage. song about truth with no sugar vive. This has been the African convinc- - - changes to to an equally However, as in any produc- Featuring many Kenyon stu- coating." American' s issue for the longest of " 1 dents, "Blacks in the Performing "Billie Holliday has always times: surviving, making it in a Arts" is almost two shows in one. been my favorite female musical society, on a campus, which may The first half is comprised of artist," Mitchell said. "To know not necessarilly expect it to. But it tributes to black performing art- of Billie' s life is to know the his- has been instilled within me since

ists . The first half features the Owl tory of a struggling soul. childhood that God truly does bless Creek singers, a song and dance "She will be recognized for the child that has his own. Billie combo, the Sisters of Nia sorority the beautiful talent that she was, had hers, and I will definitely have performing a choreo-poe- m and the strong woman even in her time mine." other poetry readings by students. . of drug addiction and weakness Ken McNish '01, Pitts, These poems are both by black that she remained, and for the amaz- Danielle Nelson '98 and juniors poets and written especially for ing song bird that people knew her Robert Harvey, Mitchell and Biko this show. as .... There never was and never Moyo will perform a dance to "In "The first part is a little bit of will be any singer able to touch aSentimental Mood," by Ellington everything," explains Dotty Pitts Billie's tunes the way in which she and John Coltrane. Nearly all of '00, who is in charge of the event. did, but I will proudly sing in these students also worked to cho- Sarah Reder The second half will be a trib- rememberance of her and her ac- reograph this dance. Ben Viccellio "98 shines as Bottom while his fellow mechanicals, left to right first year students ute to Duke Ellington and Billie complishments. "This will be a night of edu- James Kinney and Mike Floyd and juniors Till Hickman (back to camera) and Scott Guldia Holliday. The narration will also These lyrics have meaning cating entertainment," said Pitts. Thursday, February 12, 1998 12 The Kenyon Collegian ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Poet Hirshfield gives lesson in poetry Komachi and Izumi Shikibu Women the BY SARAH HART lit vVIH of Ancient Court Japan. In addition to her Senior StaffWriter of What: Jane Hirshfield poetry poetic work, Hirshfield has published abook As Valentine' s Day quickly approaches reading of essays entitled Nine Gates: Entering the Phling still spins in our Mind Poetry. and the aftermath of When: Sunay, 8 p.m. of heads, perhaps what Kenyon students really "Lives ofthe Heart is really beautiful if need is a lesson in poetry. This Sunday at 8 Where: Peirce Lounge anybody is looking for the perfect p.m. in Peirce Lounge, Jane Hirshfield will Valentine's Day gift," said Associate Pro- provide this lesson with selected readings easily through Thanksgiving dinner ... go to fessor of English Jennifer Clarvoe who is from her poetry. bed at a reasonable hour or bend to the responsible for bringing Hirshfield to cam- Her work touches on spirituality, iden- ways of the world. pus. Lives ofthe Heart and many other ofher tity, love and the history of women writers. "Poets need to challenge the given in books are available in the bookstore. After graduating from Princeton Uni- some way. The poet's job is to speak to Hirshfield is coming to Kenyon through versity, Hirshfield spent eight years at a Zen whatever is being neglected in a culture, to the Ohio Poetry Circuit, of which Clarvoe is monastery near Big Sur. Now a professor in speak the truth of their lives. And if they do the head. Involving nine schools in six days, the writing program at the University of San it fully, it will always to some extent be an this is obviously a very strenuous undertak- Francisco she no longer lives the monastic act of rebellion." ing for Hirshfield, but worth it. The Ohio - - life, though she is still a dedicated practitio- Her collections of poetry include The Poetry Circuit allows many schools to expe------i rt- , & Angels, Alaya rience the work of poets who might not Jeny Bauer ner of Zen meditation. October Palace, OfGravity Jane Hirshfield Hirshfield wrote in an essay for the and The Lives of the Heart. She has also otherwise have visited the schools, Clarvoe American Poetry Review that "parents do worked to translate.two works of poetry, said. and Hirshfield were chosen for the same not want their children to become poets Women in Praise ofthe Sacred: 43 centuries During first semester the group was year because they are nearly opposites of each other because they know this ... A savage spirit ofSpiritual Poetry by Women and The Ink of responsible for bringing poet Lyn Hejinian one another. "The complement raging in the dark does not sit lightly and the Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no to campus. Clarvoe is pleased that Hejinian very well," said Clarvoe.

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acclaimed movies of 1 997, Shall We Dance ? BY JAMES SHERIDAN Overworked middle-age- d Japanese busi- Film Critic Take time for 'Tuesdays with Morrie' nessman Shohei Sugiyama (Koji Yakusho) Strictly Ballroom sees a beautiful woman every day from his Friday, 8 p.m. seat on a train. One day, he tries to meet her Mitch Albom's book reminds us to slow down Higley Auditorium and stumbles on a dance studio. The woman, life with 'strangely simple' advice Mai Kishikawa (Tami Kusakara), weighed and appreciate Before directing the wildly frenetic down by a life of sadness, has nothing to Romeo andJuliet, Australian Baz Luhrmann offer him in terms ofa physical relationship. BY MATTHEW BRENNER crafted this 1992 gem Strictly Ballroom. It Rather, she teaches him to dance and both Book Critic concerns a young, champion-calib- er ball- try to bring beauty and order to their troubled room dancer named Scott Hastings (Paul lives. Shohei grapples with hiding the les- Mitch Albom tuesdays with Mercurio) whose recklessly inventive dance sons from his wife and an otherwise Victorian Tuesdays with Morrie 192 pages. moves nearly get him exiled from the rigid Japanese society. Will their dancing lead to New York: Doubleday. rules of the Australian dance contests. He the final round of the Japanese Amateur Morrie meets a gawky beginning dancer named Dance Association Competition? Charming Sometimes during the frantic course Fran (Tara Morice) who is willing to work and moving, Shall We Dance ? won 13 Japa- oflife, inundated with work, appointments, with him. Suddenly, the pair are caught in a nese Academy Awards and was named Best and other events, a simple idea takes root: whirlwind of romance as they attempt to win Foriegn Film by the National Board of Re- why can't we slow life down? Why can't an old man, a young man, the Austalian Pan Pacific Grand Prix Ama- view. Unfortunately, due to a technical we enjoy some of the simple things more? teur Championships. With electrifying oversight, it will not be eligible for the 1998 Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie choreography and excellent cinematogra- Academy Award for Best Foriegn Film. might provide a glimpse at a possible an- and life's greatest lesson phy. Strictly Ballroom is an incredibly swer why not? exciting and crowd-pleasin- g movie which Say Amen, Somebody A sports columnist at the Detroit Free has thrilled audiences for many years. What Wednesday 10.15 pjn. Press, Albom writes a short gem of a book is so striking is the way in which the charac- Higley A udilorium which offers words ofwisdom from Morrie Mitch Albom ters strive to protect the safe insularity of Schwarz, Albom's sociology professor at their world of dancing. Luhrmann brings his Say Amen, Somebody is a 1983 musical Brandeis University. After seeing a story own flair and style to create one of the most documentary directed by George about him on ABC's "Nighdine" and learn- dancing films of all time. Strictly Nierenberg. It is about an attempt to revive Mitch Albom's Tuesdays Witb Morrie popular Lou The cover of ing that Schwartz is suffering from Ballroom is a perfect post-Phlin- g film. the neglected legacy and heritage of gospel Gehrig's disease, Albom flies out to visit music in the United Sates. Through the a him. other. After all, how often do you have Shall We Dance? examination of multiple musicians, this un- listen to What transpires is a series of visits conversation where you really Saturday, 8 p.m. written and unfilmed segment of American thinking about during which Albom and Schwarz talk another person, without Higley Auditorium culture is given the proper respect and ado- something else, without wanting to gain about life. Albom puts together a list of ration. Chicago S un-Tim- es film critic Roger you? topics to discuss death, family, love and something from them, or them from On Valentine's Day, Kenyon Film Ebert calls it "A masterpiece ... a great emotions and money, to name a few and for 14 weeks, While many of these offers you one of the most critically experience." Schwarz shares his experiences and offers ideas have been expressed before, and we advice. A reader cannot help but notice see evidence of them all the time, Schwarz how much enjoyment he gets out of life. points out the difficulties of these simple The advice is strangely simple and ideas. As college students, we often talk HARDCOVER seemingly evasive for many. During a about experiencing the world. But how do mean it as experi- conversation on money, for example, we mean that? Do we 1. Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier, Atlantic Monthly, $24.00, 336 pp Schwarz says, "We' ve got a form of brain- encing big things making money, having 2. in the Garden of Good and Evil, by Berendt washing going on in our country .... They our own living space? Or as experiencing Midnight John repeat something over and over .... Own- small things nature, friendships and ob- Random House, $25.00, 388 pp ing things is good. More money is good. serving our world? Schwarz suggests it 3. Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom, Doubleday, 192 pp More property is good .... More is good. shouldbe more ofthe latter than the former. More is good. We repeat (it) over and over Teaching as only a teacher can, Paperback until nobody bothers to think otherwise." Schwarz's appreciation for life helps all of Yet he argues we should think other- us to appreciate life too. As Schwarz makes 1. A Civil Action, by Jonathan Herr, Vintage us realize, sometimes a day consisting of wise, by getting in touch with emotions 2. A Child Called "It," by Dave Pelzer, $9.95, 184 pp and focusing on people. As we search for just a walk, visiting with friends and a nice extrava-ga- nt Dell, $7.99, 468 more property to make ourselves feel bet- dinner can be better than the most 3. The Partner, by John Grisham, pp ter, SchwaizsaysJwelosetouch trip. Thursday, February 12, 1998 The Kenyon Collegian 13

Sixteen Horsepower: Brimstone Rock Watt stirs up nostalgia

BY CASSIE WAGNER BY CASSIE WAGNER But Contemplating stirs up Music Critic Music Critic more nostalgia than anything else. When the bass-lin- e to the Stories about musicians Mike Watt is a legend in the Minutemen's "Retreat" surfaces at meeting the devil and losing their alternative community, as much the end of "Black Gang Coffee," souls at the crossroads litter for his bass playing in the Minute-me- n the average Minutemen fan wants . ... American musical history. Very Z? and Firehose as for the fact to play their well-wor- n copy of rarely, however, does a band Now, Double Nickels on the Dime, that -- that he has survived. after ;-- . 'W . 'f, sound as ready and willing to s 'I. years as a sideman, Watt has taken band's classic 1984 album. face the prince of darkness as center stage and produced the most Add to this drummer Stephen Sixteen Horsepower. The personal record of his career in Hodges: when he kicks into the group's third album, Low Es- Contemplating the Engine Room. polyrhythmic chorus of tate, bristles with the same dark The album is a song cycle "Topsiders," the spirit of that late spirit and religious ferocity as a comparing Watt's days on the band is nearly recaptured. Flannery O'Connor story and Southern California. punk scene In fact, that is probably the bums its way into the listener's with his father's years in the navy. best thing about Contemplating the consciousness. The tunes are loose and vaguely Engine Room. As good an album Memories of a time when funky and Watt's gruff voice suits as it is, it mainly serves to show salvation was a matter of life and them well. exactly how great the Minutemen death fill the album's 13 tracks, Longtime admirers, however, were and may inspire new listen- owing a debt to lyricist David will be disappointed to find that ers to go back and check out Mike Eugene Edwards' upbringing as Watt's normally athletic bass runs Watt's back pages. It is well worth

fire-and-brim-st- the grandson of a one are at a minimum throughout. 'the trip. preacher. The songs have The cover of Sixteen Horsepower's third album, Low Estate. a timeless quality, as though they while the vocals, low in the mix, Sixteen Horsepower plays Find out more on the web at: http:www.wattage.com exist in a separate reality of their crackle at the edges. Producer John from the heart and, in the pro- own, as Edwards refuses to use Parish gives the music a hazy, far- cess, creates songs that transcend language that would tie the mu- away quality like that of an LP left the rules ofwhat constitutes con- sic to a specific time and place. neglected in a basement. temporary music. They look to New album shows what Musically speaking, it is diffi- The sound of the album may the past for inspiration and pro- cult to realize that Low Estate be mesmerizing, but it is Edwards' duce not another album of was recorded within the last year, words and vocals that lift the mu- reprocessed classics, but one that Green Day is capable of rather than decades ago. sic to another level. His allegories can stand on its own, as immedi- Part that time-capsu- le of on sin, redemption, and salvation ate and striking as those earlier BY BRAD GOODSON demonstrate how Green Day has quality comes from the band's rival and often surpass the work over the last of works. On Low Estate, Sixteen Music Critic matured musically use of vintage instruments. Nick Cave, the most famous ad- Horsepower establish them- couple of years. Building songs on foundations venturer in this realm. He wails selves as a group that could Afterreleasing two indie punk The influence of the Counting of banjo, fiddle, concertina, mournfully across dirges like the change the face of pop music as rock albums in the early 1990s, Crows on "Worry Rock" is evi- drums and guitar, Sixteen Horse- title track, swings through barn we know it and maybe even save Green Day roared onto the major-lab- el dent once the distinct guitar sound power pulls as much of the past dances like the single "Ditch Dig- its soul. scene with Dookie in 1994. of the Crows' hit "Angels of the into the present as possible. The ger" and rants as though a demon The infectious "Longview" could Silences" kicks in. The influence the only decent song on Green Day's (non-pun- k) rock banjo and guitars twine around were after him on breakneck Grade: A have been of each other like fibers in a rope, rambles like "Dead Run." the album, and Dookie still would contemporaries can be heard in the have sold millions of albums. background guitar lines of "Up- But Green Day had much more tight" Even ska creeps into Green to offer than "Longview" alone. Day' s music on "King For a Day," Other hits from Dookie like an amusing song about life as a "Basketcase" followed, and Time drag queen. Pearl Jam evolves with 'Yield' magazine even selected the album The gem of Nimrod is the as the top rock V roll album of album's first single "Good Rid- 1994. dance (Tune of Your Life)." It is BY BRAD GOODSON Yield is versatile enough that it can kill cause in God I trustIt's Green Day' s follow up totheir unlike anything the band has ever Music Critic should be embraced vehemenUy evolution, baby." by anyone who has ever enjoyed a Yield" s faults are few and far first successful album, Insomniac, done, and it is perhaps the best Seven years have passed since song by Pearl Jam. between but merit attention. Upon was largely disappointing to crit- song the band has ever written. In charac- the members of Pearl Jam began Yield rocks out of the gate listening to the album' s first single, ics and fans alike. Singles like contrast with Green Day's recording Ten, an album that, along with "Brain of J," an excellent hard "Given to Fly," listeners may feel "Geek Stink Breath" didn't pos- teristic neopunk tunes, "Time of acoustic with Nirvana's Nevermind, com- rock tune whose drum intro and that they have heard the tune be- sess the witty raw attitude of past Your Life" is a beautiful was incorpo- pletely changed the face of '90s guitar riffs set the perfect tone for fore. efforts. Indeed, Insomniac track which masterfully than the strings into the rock. the rest of the album. In fact, they have: the music closer to pointless noise rates the use of punk rock laced with sar- schema. Ten was immensely popular The album's second track, of "Given to Fly," is a blatant rip-o- ff skillful band's

well-writt- fans of Dookie had come The genius of "Time of Your with the masses, becoming the "Faithfull," is a en song of Led Zeppelin's "Going to casm that in multi-platinu- to enjoy. Life" is that it can be interpreted band's first m hit. which combines discussion of re- California." While "Given to Fly" Nimrod, a fresh, eclec- different ways: either Pearl Jam's second release, Vs. ligion and love, but perhaps the is a decent song in its own right, I Enter two entirely collection pop punk tunes a genuinely nostalgic look at the (1993), was a big hit as well; de- two best tracks on Yield are find it unfortunate that Pearl Jam's tic of as Dookie will enjoy. main title "Good spite the band's refusal to release "Wishlist" and "Do the Evolution." originality hits a temporary dry that any fan of past or as the with "Nice indicates, as a sarcastic any videos for the album's singles, "Wishlist" is a typical Pearl spell in the middle of the album. Nimrod opens Riddance" Last," song that many Vs. sold almost a million copies in Jam ballad, beautiful and poignant The only other negative as- Guys Finish a commentary that the smart-ale- c attitude our high school its first week of release and even- At first listen, the lyrics may seem pect of Yield, however, is that, at epitomizes the "Nimrods" from already lived tually became another a bit trite and the guitar lines too under 45 minutes long, it is too for which lead singer Billie Joe and college pasts have sym- lives. multi-platinu- Green Day have become the happiest years of their m success for the simple. B ut it is this simplicity that short. Any true Pearl Jam fan will and at it, "Time of band. gives the song its power. find himself wanting more. bols: "Nice guys finish lastY ou're Either way you look our sympathy Life" is a truly brilliant tune. Later releases were not so suc- Starkly contrasting "Wishlist" Indeed, Yield is an album in running out of gasY Your behind." So is there anything bad about es will get you left cessful. Despite critical acclaim in style is "Do the Evolution," the every sense of the word: it jos-sess- "Scat- ask? Not if for both Vitalogy (1994) and No best hard rock song that Pearl Jam a skillful blend of rockers The album's fifth track this album, you might its lyrics (which enjoy Green Day's flavor of Code ( 1 996), both albums received has written to date. The song be- and ballads, and the music and tered" is excellent: you relationship), in Dookie, you mostly luke warm attention from gins with Veddcr howling away to lyrics evoke a powerful mood that tell of a troubled pop punk. Ifyou liked with an extremely will most assuredly enjoy Nimrod. marginal and die-har- d fans alike. a catchy guitar background and is maintained through the duration combination in-dicato- rof " capacity is an excellent Eschewing a return to the feel then builds powerfully as Vedder of the album. Chalk up another catchy melody, have the Indeed, Nimrod usually re- this bandis.capable and sound of Ten, Pearl Jam has busts out some wonderfully raw success for Eddie Veddcr and Pearl of evoking emotions what thrown popular opinion to the wind lyrics: "I am aheadI am advanced Jam. served for ballads. of. Songs such as "Worry Rock," and continued making the type of I am the first mammal to wear A Grade: A Grade: "King For a Day" songs that suited them. However, pantsI'm at peaceWith my lustI "Uptight" and 14- - The Kenyon CollegiAn SPORTS Thursday; February 12; 1998 OFF THE HILL . fj V4MTflP(0l,hVkjifl( ( Shout-out- s to top names U.S. back on track in Nagano in Division I basketball Moseley, Street bring home first gold medals for U. S. Coach). Former Ball State coach BY BOB DOLGAN NAGANO, Japan (AP) The It wasn't supposed to be this Majerus has built the Runnin' first run, finished sixth. Staff Columnist oh-for-Nag- Senior ano way in Nagano for the Americans, Utes into a national power in his United States isn't SNOLYMPICS any longer. Finally, the not at all. Four days into the 1994 With the majority of the top decade at the helm in Salt Lake More snow, and even more Games in Americans are on a roll in the. Olympic Liljehammer, G college players already playing in City. Despite Keith Van Horn's on the way. The women's super-- Winter Games and a golden the United States already had two was the NBA this season, men's Di- graduation, Majerus has Utah at postponed by the latest in one at that. golds and one silver, wth good-as-go- ld vision I college basketball No. 5 in the AP poll. Michael a series of storms, and other Five days into the Nagano Bonnie Blair, Dan Jansen were condi- doesn't have the number of rec- Doleac has become an inside events battered by Olympics, Jonny Moseley ended and Cathy Turner still to go. This ognizable names it has had in force and Andre Miller is one of tions athletes criticized. The fore- the U.S. medal drought Wednes- time, the grungers of years past and has lost some of the top guards in the country. cast is for clear but cold weather, by in snowboarding were geared up to its luster. While the Utes can chalk up a lot day winning the gold with a chance of some more freestyle moguls. Then, go gold early in the games before Cynics argue that the college of victories in the relatively soft barely snow by the weekend. an skier Picabo Street the Dream Teams in hockey and basketball regular season is like WAC, the NCAA tournament hour later, ALPINE SKIING pulled off one of the biggest sur- figure skating took to the ice. It that of the NBA in that the games might be a different story. Mario Reiter of Austria led prises the games by winning didn't happen, as all four women sla- are boring until the last two min- Billy Tubbs, Texas Christian of the men's combined after the the women's super-G- , never one slalom snowboarders came crash- utes (provided they're not blow- (Head Coach). your lom portion, nearly two seconds Who's ing down the hill. outs), and so many teams make daddy? (to borrow from of her best races. ahead of Lasse Kjus of Norway. "I "Welcome to my nightmare," the postseason tournament. The Stainboro). Tubbs is the Homed don't believe what I'm Malt Grosjean of Aliso Viejo, seeing," she said, U.S. snowboard coach Peter Foley saturation coverage which ESPN Frogs patriarch and has his squad watching as Calif., was third after the first run the world's best super-- G racers said, talking about the Americans' devotes to college basketball resembling the 1987 Oklahoma but wiped out in the second. first-tim- in e CROSS-COUNTR- unexpectedly failed to match inexplicable wipeout the Y sometimes becomes overwhelm- team mat he took to the NCAA her SKIING early pace. Olympic sport. ing (and this is not to mention championship game. Comprised Larissa Lazutina of Russia

5-kilom- He was talking about the eter cross-count- ry ESPN2, Fox Sports Net or other of juco transfers, No. 23 TCU Before that, it was America won the that was saying same Americans' inexplicable wipeout Win- regional networks). Let's face it, leads the nation in scoring at the thing race, her nation's 100th in the first-tim-e Olympic sport. But midnight games between Weber 101.2 points per contest Tubbs, following four days of medal ter Games gold medal. he could have been speaking for State and Idaho become a little never a bastion of sportsmanship, shutouts for what was expected LUGE be Winter Schultz, who all but promised last old after awhile. has actually ordered his team to to perhaps the best Erin Warren of Winchester, Games ever for the American week that these would be break- Another disparaging argu- fire threes in the final moments Mass., was sixth after the first team. through games for the U.S. two runs in women's singles, ment is that the top-rank- ed of a trouncing so that the Horned pos- 1-- Until Wednesday (Tuesday Figure skating, and the 2. schools are the same; the play- Frogs reach the century mark. with Germans night EST), wherever Americans sible medal-sweepin- g trio of ers' names have just changed. Bonzi Wells, Ball State. Be- NAGANO NUGGET had gone, someone an- Michelle Kwan, Tara Lipinski and The list of the top four teams sides having a great name and wearing Michelle Kwan may be the Nicole Bobek, can't get here fast reads like the participants of the providing this column with two other country's colors was going Olympic favorite in figure skat- faster, higher, enough, though the Americans last 10 or 15 Final Fours: 1. mentions of Ball State, Wells going going longer ing, but she won't be an Olym- and, worse yet, going to the now have gotten back on their pro- North Carolina, 2. Duke, 3. Ari- might be the best player to come pic resident. The U.S. national jected medal pace. Mid-Ameri- medals stand. champion is skipping Ath- zona and 4. Kansas. While it out of the ca Confer- the might seem that nothing has ence since Miami University's The Ukraine had a medal in HE'S JAPAN'S 'HIRO' letes Village to stay in a Nagano Nagano. So Even changed over the last 10 years, Ron Harper. Wells is on target to did Bulgaria. Hiroyasu Shimizu won the hotel. and the same teams are on top, break Harper's career scoring Belgium's one-ma- n Olympic host nation's first medal of the QUOTEBOOK certain teams, players and record. team Belgium! had one. Nagano Games, taking gold in the "Race like the wind." The

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Australia is probably one of the top three ess, but also because of a higher commit- BY JAMES D. RAY sports," he said, citing that this is the sec- ment to athletics. "Division III swimmers Senior Staff Writer ond time in eight years that Perth has hosted care more about swimming than the Divi- While this year's swimming season the world championships. sion I swimmers. They do it not for the love the was in its infancy, Kenyon College's Pedro Monteiro stressed that while he feels scholarships, but because they sport in swimming for Monteiro 98 earned accolades under a flag Brazilian patriotism at any international "We all have pride that: we ofblue, green and yellow. His participation meet, he also is proud to represent Kenyon. Division III, but we look beyond I compare ourselves to Division I swimmers." in the Eighth World Championships for (he "Though I wasn't swimming for Kenyon, on He said that it does not matter where one is, Brazilian national team on Jan. 16 and 18 ' know people back here were checking ' af- as goals are set high. " was his third, and earned him 1 8th place in the Internet to see how I was doing, and so long one's V. Then you can accomplish anything you the 200 yard butterfly with a time of 2:0 1 .4 i r terward professors would ask me about it encouraging." want," he asserted. "I still have higher goals and 22nd in the 100 yard butterfly. His ' That's one than just making the World Championships; speed was in defiance of a semester-lon- g Monteiro's road to Kenyon was of balanced academic and athletic excellence. I've always expected a lot of myself." He shoulder injury. . this is integral to success in a sport "I've been faster than that, but I had He finished high school in Boston, and when said that Kenyon had a strong feeling that like swimming. "You have real limitations. problems all first semester," V Levin O'Connor looking at shoulder Pedro Monteiro '98 in You determine much of where you're go- Monteiro explained, who in last year's academics and athletics were proportion. everything I wanted ing to be with your attitude." world championships had garnered a time of 10 swimmers. "I knew all of them from "I felt I could achieve as excited for Team goals for Monteiro include more of 2:01.2 for an eighth place finish in the other meets in the past. I've trained with a in swimming here. Coach is as when we than even conference and nationals, the 200. "I didn't even expect that time because couple of them, and I see them at every Bra- us when we do well in school pool." former of which will be raced tomorrow. I was training only a fifth of what I nor- zilian nationals." do well in the win swimming well, with good two-tent- Kenyon represented greater opportuni- "We want to mally do." The time was a hs of a He left Brazil with his teammates for De-- c. I make a big- performances." He would rather Kenyon second improvement from his qualifying the championships in Perth, Australia on ties for Monteiro. "I felt could He said that lost nationals but had good personal times performance in August 28, and they stopped both in South Af- ger impact in going to Kenyon." the "There's more to swim- Monteiro was recruited for the World rica and Thailand. He found it difficult to he has improved dramatically since his than opposite. than winning meets! I think ev- University games in August, and in order enjoy the scenery, however, as the team was graduation from high school. "I was good ming just I a top re- erybody on the team would agree with that" to make the Brazilian team had to make a tired from the trip and needed to adjust to out of high school, but wasn't is about com- Monteiro's long-ter- m goal is to return cut time of 2:02.4 for the 200. When he the time change. They arrived in Australia cruit" Improvement he said, to the World Championships in Hong Kong shaved this at 2:01.6, he automatically on Jan. 3, trained, and began racing on Jan. mitment, a good coaching staff and people in 1999 and break the top eight in the 200 qualified for both the 200 and 100 butter- 13th. The swimmers were not the only visi- with whom one enjoys training. gone to a Divi- yard butterfly. "That would be really good flies. tors during that time. Though he could have for Divi- for me," he reflected. "That's the goal," he Though the only Brazilian to swim ei- "There were an average of 8,000 people sion I university, Monteiro opted academic prow said with resolution. ther of these events, Monteiro was on a team a day," Monteiro recalled. "Swimming in sion III not only because of Ladies dominate, Lords fall short at OWU track meet

Women score in every event, take first place Men finish fourth, coach pleased with showing dies placed first - Lynn in the 1500m, 2:45 and 2:49, respectively. James Sheridan MCDEVTTT BY CHARLIE PUGH BY JENNY ' 00 ran to fifth place in the 800 m with a Christine Breiner '99 in the 3000m and StaffWriter Sports Editor Neitz in the 500m. Joining their victori- time of 2:05. Wood was Following a promising showing at the ous teammates were Alysoun Johnson '01 The Kenyon College men's indoor Reflecting on the meet, with the team. "The track team this North Coast Athletic Conference Indoor placing seventh in the 1500m, Allison track team gained some experience amid pleased year has a lot of talent The older returning Track and Field Relays, the Kenyon Col- Esposito '00 placing sixth in the 3000m the bumps and bruises on Friday at Ohio runners have a lot of the conference's atten- lege women's indoor track team chased and Melanie Blakeslee '00 placing second Wesleyan University. The Lords made sig- tion on them; they know we can't be taken down the win over Denison, Ohio Wesleyan .in the 500m and third in the 300m. nificant strides, but fell short, finishing lightly." and Otterbein Universities on Saturday. The Other noteworthy performances were fourth out of four teams. Wil- Coach Taylor also seemed pleased with Ladies racked up 77 points, while OWU fell those by Nicole Canfield 98 placing third The loss notwithstanding, coach the performance of the 800m runners in par- behind with 73. Otterbein was held to 46, in the 55m hurdles and Carrie Wiltshire liam Taylor was pleased with the effort that team's ticular. "The 800m guys performed well and Denison accumulated only 38. '98 running to sixth place in the 400m. his team gave, and downplayed his after a rough opening week at relays. John Scoring in every event they entered, the Rimelspach and Canfield paired up for placing at this early meet "I was pleased Jordan '99, Sheridan, Jason Miles '98 and Ladies were off to a good start paced by high ninth and 11th in the 55m, while Shults, with our performance. We don't worry a Keith Peterson '01 all ran well, and I ex- jumpers Heather Atkin '98 and Erica Rail Abby Temple '99 and Mo Salmon '01 lot about where we place as a team this them to continue to improve." v. '01, who placed second and fourth, respec- placed second, fourth and seventh, respec- early in the season." pect y. Sheridan emphasized the positive mood tively.' Maraleen Shields '00 and Monica tively, in the 800m. Katie Temple 99 con- In the field events. Ken McNish '01 ; third-plac- e and attitude present on this team. "I like the ,", Lai '00 secured first and fourth place in the tributed second place in the 1000m, and led the Lords with a finish in attitude we have on this team. At our meet long jump. Emily Geston '01 followed in fourth. the triple jump. Ian Pitkin '01 placed fifth. on Friday, I felt a lot of positive energy and The Ladies formed a triple threat in the Head coach Duane Gomez credited Leading the runners was Dan Denning that just spread to everyone." triple jump, with Shields, Rail and Lai the Ladies with "a very solid team perfor- 198, who won the 1500 m run with a time The Lords' next meet is tomorrow at 6 4', sweeping first through third place for mance," and was "quite pleased" with the of 4:07. Kenyon also dominiated the 1000 Gomez com- m, with Ryan Snyder '99 and Crosby Wood p.m. against the College of Wooster in Kenyon. Other combined successes came effort. Looking to the future, .' 1 mented, "The team showed a great deal of '99 placing first and second with times of Wertheimer Fieldhouse. f. from Dana Mondo '01, Christina " Rimelspach '98, Shields and Erica Neitz '01 competitiveness and enthusiasm through- running to second place in the 4x200m re- out the meet and we're looking for that to lay, while the 4x400m relay team of Mondo, continue in future meets." GAMES fast-pace- UPCOMING HOME Gelsey Lynn '00, Laura Shults '00 and Neitz Hoping to continue their d placed first start, the Ladies take on the College of 'did not escape Wooster on Friday at the indoor track in INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD Individual success t Fieldhouse at 6 1 Kenyon, however, as three additional La Wertheimer pjn. vs. The College of Wooster 1

Tomorrow ,1 'l Wertheimer Fieldhouse, 6 p.m. n

Want to write for sports? i ) WOMEN'S BASKETBALL i ) vs. Case Western vs. Denison Saturday, February 1 4 Wednesday, February 1 8 E-m- ail or MCDEVITTJ GRABLEA Tomsich Arena, 2 p.m. Tomsich Arena, 7:30 p.m. 1 Kenyon Collegian 6 The SPORTS Thursday, February 12, 1998 Lords and Ladies hoops score wins vs. Earlham Women record loss to Bluffton, prepare to host Case, Denison ' -

BY BETH ROCHE StaffWriter

Kenyon College women's NCAC STANDINGS basketball rebounded from three consecutive losses to defeat the Quakers of Earlham College on NCAC OVERALL Saturday. Kenyon Ladies 1. Wittenberg 12-- 1 16-- 4 Stephany Dunmyer '00, Karen Schell '99, Laurie Douglass '98, 2. Denison 9-- 3 13-- 6 Megan Hill '01 and Sandy 3. OhioWesleyan 8-- 4 12-- 8 Isaranucheep '98 started off the ' l . V

- game to gain the lead three min- 4. KENYON 8-- 5 11-- 9 i , j utes into the first half. Kenyon 7-- 11-- 36-3- 5; 6 ended the first half up 2. Allegheny 9 Kenyon maintained its lead 6. Wooster 6-- 7 10-1- 1 throughout the second half and 3-- continued to move further away 7. Earlham 9 8-- 12 from Earlham to end with a Ladies 2-- 8 . Case Western 10 5-- 15 win, 69-5- 4. Douglass, Dunmyer, ' ' ; t and Schell 1-- 4-1- ; . led the team in scoring 9. Oberlin 11 3 Of f. with 12, 11, and 9 points respec- tively. as of Feb. 8 Last night the Ladies traveled to Bluffton College, where they Dunmyer stressed the importance before advancing to the tourna- were handed a loss of 54-7- 2. The of the NCAC tournament and the ment Dunymer noted, "When we final score does not really indicate remaining regular season games. are at the top of our game, we

tri-cap-t- how close the game was," ain She stated, "We are confident know that we can beat any team in Dunmyer said. that we will have the home court the conference. The NCAA bid The team was down by only advantage in the first game of the goes to the team that wins the four points with three minutes left NCAC tournament, and we hope NCAC tournament, and we still in the game, but Bluffton "made to move up in the standings in feel that we deserve the chance to some free throws and blew it open these last few games. The final play in the big tournament as much in the last couple of minutes, she games will be important in our as any other team." ' said. tournament preparation." The Ladies face Case Western Kenycn is ranked fourth in the Kenyon will play Case West- Reserve in the first of their three North Coest Athletic Conference ern Reserve University, second remaining home games on Satur- 1 ' with two wins separating the third ranked Denison University and day in the Tomsich Arena. Game Kassie Schercr through sixth place teams. fifth ranked Allegheny College time is 2 p.m. Shooting for the ladies, Karen Schell '99 maintains Kenyon's lead over

Earlham. The Ladies emerged victorious, 69-5- 4. Lords stopped by Mt. Vernon Nazarene, look to Allegheny

BY MOLLY PREBLE Houston, sank two quick lay depends what team shows up."

- , ..., ------,,., , , StafTWriter r ups at the start of the second half Earlham shot only three free-thro- ws en route to a game high 21 points. in the 40-minu- te game The Kenyon College Lords' J.J. Olszowy '98 added 16, shoot- while Kenyon shot 35. Every basketball team went 1-- 1 this week ing four for eight from the three-poi- nt Earlham man who stepped foot on falling 83-6- 0 to Mount Vernon arc. Kesh Kesic '00, had 15 the Tomsich floor registered at Nazarene College and beating l :-- ! .... J I V' A. while Smart registered 10. least one foul . Kenyon had nine. Earlham College, 80-7- 0. i "We were long overdue for a With two conference games Ranked second nationally in win, and we really wanted to left the Lords are hoping for a solid Division II National Association avenge our early season loss to finish to their somewhat tumultu- for Intercollegiate Athletes, the them," said Nate Luderer '99. ous season. The next and last Nazarene shot 49 percent their of "When we play 40 minutes we can home game is Saturday, Feb. 21 field goals compared to Kenyon's beat anyone in the nation. It all against Allegheny College. 34 percent. Brad Hostasa, Mt. Vernon's scoring leader, registered a game high 22 points. Teammates 17 Ehren Hill added while Adam v , Stevens andTodd Sands each had 13. 1 i f NCAC STANDINGS Mount Vernon's defense proved too strong for the Lords, who had only one player scoring f NCAC OVERALL more than 10 points in the game. Captain Shaka Smart '99, earned 1. Wooster 12-- 1 17-- 4 the highpoint award for the Lords with 11 points. Dave Enright '00 2. Wittenberg 11-- 2 15-- 6 registered eight and an under the Kiss'k Scheicr 3. 9-- 4 15-- weather David Houston '00 had Allegheny 5 Shaka Smart '99 protects the ball from his Wittenberg opponent. seven. 4. Denison 7-- 5 13-- 7 "I thought the team was play- lege men's basketball team met the frazzled Earlham squad who left 6-- 7-- ing well and if we had executed 4-1- 6 Kenyon Lords on Saturday Gambier with their 11th North 5. Ohio Wesleyan 6 13 what we did at the start of the afternoon fans knew it could be Coast Athletic Conference loss of 4-1- 6. KENYON 4-- 9 6 game for the entire 40 minutes, anyone's game. At half time, with the season. 3-- we would have given ourselves the score tied at 33 apiece, flash- "There were a few points in 7. Case Western 9 6-- 14 a great shot at a huge upset," said backs of second-hal- f jitters in the the game where we could have ,8. Earlham 2-1- 0 4-1- 6 Phil Scully 99. Wittenberg, Ohio Wesleyan, Al- gone soft and let them take over,

10-poi- The Lords stayed nt 2-1- 2-1- within a legheny and College of Wooster but we didn't," said Smart "If our Oberlin 0 6 range of the Cougars until the games caused reasonable doubt. team can maintain a certain level end of the first half. But what spectators saw was a con- of toughness and intensity over an 4-- When the 16 Earlham Col- - sistent, firm handling of the entire game, we're tough to beat." as of Feb. 8