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Volume CXXVI, Number 2 ESTABLISHED 1856 Thursday, September 10, 1998 College puts plans to build on hold

BY ASHLEY GRABLE been voiced by residents of the Vil- DePascuale, who is a resident on News Editor 'There is no design, no budget. We seek lage of Gambier, professors, and Ward Street. The proposed 75 car students. An open house has been parking lot, which will have an During the final Kenyon Col- community input at the open house.' scheduled to provide members of entrance on Ward Street, has lege faculty meeting of the 1997-199- 8 the community with an opportu- caused DePascuale and others to schoolyear, Vice President Vice President for Finance Joseph Nelson nity to discuss their concerns with raise questions of safety, traffic for Finance Joseph Nelson an- faculty members and administra- flow, and aesthetics. nounced a proposal to build two tors. Sketches of the proposed "Ward Street is an active residential-styl- e buildings and a would be located between the Affairs Center, which would be buildings and parking lot will be thoroughfare for walkers, joggers, parking lot at the north end of cam- CDC and Snowden Multi-Cultur- al more convenient for students. The on display at the open house, and children playing in the pus. The proposal is the result of Center, would house College building at 207 Chase Avenue which will be held Wednesday at street," he said. "With the build- efforts to relocate business offices Relations, which is located to the would potentially serve as offices 4 p.m. in the Norton Room of Ran- ing of a lot which will have more currently at the center of campus south of the post office on Chase for visiting professors. som Hall. parking spaces than the lots of com- in order to provide an expanded Avenue. Plans to go forward with the . Among the concerned mem- Norton, Lewis, and Watson and more central location for aca- By moving these offices to a building project are on hold at bers of the community is Associ- bined, Kenyon will cease to be a demic offices. more peripheral location, the col- present because opposition has ate Professor of Philosophy Juan see PROPOSAL page two The suggested relocation of lege would be able to devote offices would include moving Hu- Walton House to offices and class- man Resources, Finance and Ac- rooms for the English department, T TW counting from Walton House to a creative writing, and The Kenyon - KP3!;. building that would be situated Review. According to Kenyon between Canon-Watso- n Dormi- President Robert A. Oden Jr., a re- tory and 207 Chase Avenue, the arrangement of the offices on r i a i . it t 'i il location of the Career Develop- Chase and Gaskin Avenues might ment Center. ' then enable the CDC to move to The second building, which the current location of the Student ARAMARK contract negotiations look up . ; ,

BY ZACHARY TURNER their situation. Prior to the nego- Staff Reporter tiations, Gund employee Del Beltz stated, "We are going to strike if ARAMARK, the food service we don't get what we want." for Kenyon College, has been ex- After the meeting, an anony- periencing difficulties with its first mous union member left the ne- contract renegotiations. After eight gotiations saying, "We're smiling, and a half hours, meetings con- aren't we?" cluded at ten o'clock Wednesday New concerns will focus less Megan Buhr night. dis- on employee relations and more Tentative plans were Two members of the Class of 2002 catch the last rays of summer in the Freshman Quad earlier this week. cussed of a 35 cent hourly increase. on budget reforms. John ARA began serving Kenyon 's Darmstadt, director of food ser- nutritional needs in 1981 after the vices for ARA at Kenyon, said, previous food service's contract "this past year was the first in eight was lost due to employee strikes. years that we made the budget." Freshman class upholds standards The union and its employees He stated that last year must agree upon a new contract Kenyon spent roughly $7.90 per BY DEAN SIMAKIS class holds the record for the larg- third highest SAT verbal and every three years. Since the last student each day. As the student Staff Reporter est percentage of students to come math mean scores in the school's contract expired on July 1, 1998, population rises, the cost per per- from the top 1 of their graduat- history. The mean verbal score many employees have voiced con- son declines, and funds are spent Sporting lofty test scores, ing high school class. With 33 Na- was 658, down four points from cerns about how they felt ARA was as such: 70 to labor costs, ARA, solid academic records, and diverse tional Merit Scholars enrolled, the last year and five points from the treating them, and many were an- taxes, and overhead, and only 30 cultural backgrounds similar to class of 2002 is only one behind year before. The mean math score ticipating results unfavorable to for the actual meal ingredients. those of previous years, Kenyon the Kenyon record set in 1996. was 627, down just one point College's large incoming class of According to Anderson, they are from the previous two years. 2002 follows the high standards set "definitely in the top ten and prob- Comprised of 458 students,

1 ably the five" liberal arts col- the class 2002 is one of the Friday: Sunny. High 82, low 6 . Sunday: Partly cloudy. High 83, by the classes of 2001 and 2000 top of low 58. before it. lege freshman classes in the nation largest enrolled at Kenyon in re- "We were very pleased with in that category. cent years (compared to 441 in Saturday: Sunny. High 86, low Monday: Partly cloudy. High the outcome this year," said John Just slightly behind the aver- 1997 and 424 in 1996). 64. 80, low 58. Anderson, Dean of Admissions, ages of the previous two classes, According to the Fortnightly, who stated that this year's freshman the freshmen also racked up the see FIRST-YEAR- S page two

-- . iiJ" ...... SPORTS: Volleyball finishes NEWS: Music professor OPED: Is kenyon too big? FEATURES: Remembering A&E: Music you shouldn't n n n THIRD IN KENYON INVITATIONAL RUBENSTEIN RESIGNS P. 2 P. 6-- 7 PROFESSOR CHURCH. P. 9 MISS. P. 12n 2 The Kenton Collegian NEWS Thursday, September 10 1998 Professor Church passes away, Rubenstein

BY MAGGIE BAVA 'I'm going to miss teaching, especially at Staff Reporter - 'i Kenyon. I really enjoyed working with the After teaching at Kenyon Col- students and my colleagues.' lege for 14 years, Associate Pro- fessor of Music Micah Rubenstein has resigned in order to become the Micah Rubenstein Director of Media at Verlag der Stiftung Gralsbotschaft. The 111 ' Stiftung is a nonprofit publishing f ' - company based in Stuttgart, Ger- Ji many, which publishes books in 17 languages and distributes them to 85 different countries. Rubenstein will create and produce television and radio programs as well as educational and I f commercial web sites, focusing on PhilSa English-speakin- g countries. He will do a great deal of traveling, BY BRAD GOODSON Chapel Hill, North Carolina; his but Gambier, Ohio, will still be his Staff Reporter grandsons, Carl Philip and Evan home base. James Kolosna, of Chapel Hill; his "I'm going to miss teaching, Philip Dake Church, poet, edi- sister, Elizabeth Kline of Young-stow- n, especially at Kenyon," he said. "I tor, and professor of English at Ohio; and his brother, Wil- V really enjoyed working with the Kenyon College since 1963, died liam Church of Holmes Beach, students and my colleagues." In at his home June 17, 1 998. He was Florida.

addition to teaching, Rubenstein sixty-thre- e. A memorial service will be also composed music at Kenyon. Church is survived by his held in the Church of the Holy When asked about the reasons wife, Barbara Bientum Church of Spirit Saturday, November 14, at for his resignation, he said, "Two Gambier, Ohio; his daughters, Su- 1 1 am. The entire Kenyon commu- of the valuable lessons I gained san Elizabeth Church of Gambier nity is invited to attend. from my liberal arts education at and Brooke Church Kolosna of see also page nine Brown University were that learning is life-lon- g and that life isn't static; everything grows and Proposal: Concerns

changes, and hopefully we change 1 CONTINUED FROM PAGE dence Kluge noted in a mass e-m- ail with it." residential community walking sent last week. "There is a John Scavolt campus." sense that the hill we occupy is full First-ye- In addition to concerns of and that shoe-hornin- g in additional ar class: Largest in recent history safety for community members, structures will only debase the DePascuale noted that place. We should not burn. ..or CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 23 percent from the Mid-Atlant- ic .foreign countries. homeowners might be faced with pave. ..or bloat the village in order Kenyon's Public Affairs Newslet- states, 19 percent from New En- Minority students complete 1 1 issues of proper water drainage to save it." ter, 35 percent of the incoming stu- gland, 12 percent from the South, percent of the freshman class, from the parking lot. "The resi- Kluge also expelled the un- dents come from the Midwest, ( 1 8 ten percent from the Southwest and 56 percent are women. dents of Ward Street, who have put founded idea that the South end of percent of whom are from Ohio), and West, and one percent from Anderson reports hearing only positive feedback from the hundreds of thousands of dollars campus is somehow more essen- into their al- effi- college faculty regarding the in- remodeling homes, tial to the atmosphere and ready have problems with water ciency of Kenyon than the North an undergraduate study coming class throughout the early weeks of this semester. "They seem run-o- ff from the street," he said. end. "The current plan is as trou- abroad program in Classical, to be a fun bunch," he said. The proposal's aesthetics are bling as designating, say, the lawn Byzantine and "You put your letters out and also an issue of concern among between Ascension and Ransom as Modern Greek studies kind of hold your breath," Ander- members of the Kenyon commu- a building site," he said. son laughed. "It feels different this nity, including Ward Street resi- Joshua Carrick '99, co-cha- ir year; I have to say it feels better." dent P. F. Kluge. "I think this is a of Students and Faculty United for bad plan, ad hoc and piecemeal, a Green Kenyon, agrees. "The BEAVER COLLEGE ugly and unwise," Writer-in-Res- i- beauty of this campus is an important factor that draws many stu- MWMtMKM 'Ml im;ih flirt fttljgfr dents to this fine academic insti- STUDY IN GREECE BusinessAdvertising Manager: Jason White tution," he said. "Essential to this Advertisers should contact the BusinessAdvertising Manager for current rates and beauty are the open spaces further information at (614) 427-533- 8 or 5339. All materials should be sent to: Adver- Beaver College Study in Greece program is designed to pro- The tising Manager, The Kenyon Collegian, P.O. Box 832, Gambier, OH, 43022. throughout campus. To replace a a academic e-m- vide North American students with comprehensive and( The BusinessAdvertising Manager may also be reached via ail at field on the north side of campus including opportunities to undertake accredit- cultural experience collegiankenyon.edu. with a large well-l- it parking lot and division college courses in Classical, Byzantine and ed upper Yearly subscriptions to The Kenyon Collegian are available for $30. Checks should two buildings would radically al- Greek studies. Our program features: Modern be made payable to The Kenyon Collegian and sent to the BusinessAdvertising ter the look of the college on one Manager. of the main entrance roads." leadership and teaching by recognized scholars While a number of alterna- intensive use of local resources for field study tives to the proposed building required study of modern Greek MONDAY thru SATURDAY project have been discussed by student apartments in a local neighborhood JODY'S 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. 8 members of the community, the field-stud- y trips SUNDAY a.m. to 3 a.m. options are limited, according to progrjn-arrange- d cultural and social activities 109 S. MAIN $3 DELIVERY CHARGE TO President Oden. "We've spent two MOUNT VERNON KENYON years thinking about other places," Our program emphasizes experiential learning and uses the coun- 397-957- MONDAY try and its people as an extension of the classroom. Students enjoy 3 thru FRIDAY he said, "and we don't think there individualized attention and can enroll in a semester or a full-year 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. is one. Many options proposed are offer in areas as various as Classical not available because of zoning." program with courses on SATURDAY BREAKFAST BUFFET Languages and Literature,. Modem Greek Politics, the Byzantine Currently "there is no design, 7 a.m. to 2 Tradition and Mediterranean Ecology. p.m. no budget," Vice President Nelson Speak to your study abroad advisor about Beaver College programs said of the plans. "We seek com- SUNDAY BREAKFAST or call for a free catalog today. BUFFET munity input at the open house. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Are we getting more out of this as CALL FOR MORE INFORMATION 1.888.BEAVER-- 9 (1.888.232.8379) Kenyon College than we are los- cea beaver.edu Discover, American Express, Mastercard, and Visa accepted ing? If the answer is no, then of course we won't go ahead with it." Thursday, September 10, 1998 NEWS The Kenyon Collegian 3 lAcross the nation and around the world...

UBLIN, Ireland (A.P.) - Irish police said Sunday they have intercepted a consignment of prime cocaine PESHAWAR, Pakistan (A.P.) Dozens of Pakistani policemen line up (valued at around 100 million pounds from a Spanish-registere- d yacht, the largest seizure of drugs in the Irish behind razor-shar- p barbed wire and rows of concrete blocks pretecting Republic. the U.S. Consulate in this Pakistani outpost on the road to Afghanistan. Police seized more than 650 pounds of the drug from the catamaran Gemeos, which put into the Horns scream angrily as traffic police, their hands slapping the fume-choke- d southwestlrish port of Kinsale last week. A British man and an Irishman who were aboard have been held for air, direct cars and buses away from the area. Questioning, but a third man escaped. It wasn't always likw this. There was a time in the 1980s when the "The tests have shown the street value, said a police spokesman, speakin on condition of anonymity. U.S. Consulate was a popular meeting place from Pakistanis and Af- Police said the yacht had come from the Caribbean, but they believe the drugs originated in Columbia. ghans. Leaders of the Islamic resistance, waging a bitter battle to oust News reports said they suspect much of the stash was destined for sale in Britain. the invading Soviet Army, made regular visits to the U.S. Consulate. America was a friend to the Afghan freedom fighters. The COld War was at its peak, and Pakistan was the front-lin-e state against the Islamabad, Pakistan(AP)-- A Taliban, which controls most of visible destruction of all the spread of communism and the staging arena for the Muslim insurgency. S. missile barrage aimed at sus- - Afghanistan, heaped fragments of camps," said Yousfzai. Afghan resistance leaders visited Ronald Reagan at the White House, and lected terrorist training camps in U. S. missiles up in three camps He said a mosque was de- the former U.S. president embraced them as freedom fighters. Afghanistan's mountains did so along with copies of the Islamic stroyed, two mud huts were badly That was then. ittle damage that war-harden- ed holy book, the Koran, that were damaged and one missile fell a few Now, those same Afghan leaders are harboring the man Washing- illagers mocked America's weap-- damaged in the raid, said meters short of the camp's main ton has declared enemy No. 1, Osama bin Laden, the Saudi billionaire the first journalist allowed Yousfzai, who is the same Pashtun building. Other reports said four believed to be behind last month's bombings of U.S. embassies in East (ns, lto the region said Saturday. ethnic group as most of the mosques in all were destroyed. He Africa. The United States fired about Taliban. was told six men were killed at that It was bin Laden's training camps that U.S. Tomahawk missiles hiity tomahawk missiles at camps Around the camps goats, camp. tried to destroy on Aug. 20. The camps were located near Khost in east- it Washington says were used to cows and poultry wandering The journalist said other sights ern Afghanistan, the headquarters of Jalaluddin Haqqani, once key re- rain radical Muslums as terrorists, freely and farmers chopped grass, suffered less damage. He said one sistance leader and a clase friend of Washington's. the United States says the camps appearing unconcerned when hut in the camp called Zhavara, on U.S. President Bill CLinton now calls the camps near Khost one of ere run by Saudi dissident Osama asked if they feared new strikes, the Pakistan border, was destroyed, the most active training grounds in the world, where Arab, Pakistani, linladen, the man it blames for he said. and that villagers said that three and Afghan Islamic militants learn the art of terror. inancing the bombing of two U. "One old man told me, 'I am women, a child and an elderly man Western analysts still are trying to figure out why the United States embassies in East Africa last not frightened because I have seen were killed. went from friend to foe. honth. what the American weapons do,'" Yousfzai said an elderly vil- Some blame the Central Intelligence Agency, saying it let Pakistan's "Death to Rahimullah Yousfzai, a re- - said Yousfzai, 45. lager started shouting dictator Zia-u- l Haq and his intelligence agents run Afghan War. pected Pakistani journalist es- - Immediately after the strike, America!" at the sight of the re- He peitioned Muslims everywhere to come to Afghanistan to par- torted into the area this week by the Talibans sealed off the area to porter. ticipate in a holy war against the former Soviet Union. Afghanistan's hard line Taliban outsiders. The alleged training "He was very bitter against the "From day one, the Americans' biggest mistake was that they didn't my, said the August 20 missile base includes scattered small Americans. He said the Americans really care about Afghans," he said. "American support was never based trike mainly destroyed simple camps amid five villages that are would have to get better weapons on strategy to make a political system for Afghans to live in peace." nud huts and mosques, killing home to roughly 1,000 people. and a better strategy if they wanted The Afghan resistance parties, Abdul Haq, a former Afghan rebel

mini-governme- ibout a dozen people. The base starts about 150 kilome- to accomplish anything. He said all commander said, each acted as nts with their own prime "These are very primitive ters (90 miles) southest of Kabul, they managed to kill was one of his ministers, ministers and armies. It was a formula for disaster should tamps, with no roads but paths, the Afghan capital. hens." peace come to Afghanistan.' pey are very rudimentary, with Yousfzai said he was allowed But the reporter said villagers Thousands of Arab militants arrived in Pakistan, and an assembly tittle to damage," he said. to visit the sites for five hours on were hard enough for missile line was created, Haq said. The United States, or more particularly the However, he said, the strikes Thursday after weeks of trying. strikes and air raids during the CIA, got supplies to Pakistan, then the Pakistani army and intelligence appear to have driven out the sus There have been conflicting re- 1979-8- 9 Soviet invasion and at- agency moved weapons and ammunition to Afghanistan and the pected terrorists, who are mainly ports about damage and deaths, so tacks during the continuing war mujahedeen or holy warriors moved it inside Afghanistan. from outside Afghanistan. Yousfzai convinced the Taliban to between the Taliban and its north- For the Saudi royal family, he said, Afghanistan was an ideal place to send "All of the area, and the camps let him see for himself. ern based opponents. Villagers were Islamic dissidents because it kept them from making trouble back home. ire now Taliban bases," he told the He said most damage was using the meter-dee- p craters dug by But Haqsaid the Arab fighters were building their own cadre of

Al-Ba- Associated Press by telephone that the hr camp, which al- U. S. missiles as water basins for supporters, choosing Afghan fighers who envisioned spreading Islam from Peshawar, a Pakistani town legedly mainly housed the radi- washing. worldwide. Still today, he said, "they need a place where they can train, on the Afghan border. cal Harakat ul-An- sar group. "Life seemed normal," said store equipment, hide their people... their numbers are growingThere The religious warriors of the "It has received about eleven Yousfzai. aremore and more people unhappy in Islamic countries," he said. (missile) hits and also the most

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i 2 Thursday, September 10, 1998 Kenyon The Collegian -- 5 (2 ampus DIVERSIONS Dance a weekly listing of local and regional events FRIDAY - 7P.M. GUND LOUNGE Sept. 10 - Sept. 16 At kenyon Off the Hill EVENTS EVENTS Tonight Art Opening Slide Presentation by Kristy Deetz. 7 p.m. Olin Aud. While the weather's still warm, check out these local amusement parks: Friday AH Campus Dance. 7 p.m. Gund Lounge Cedar Point, Sandusky, OH. Selected dates and hours through Oct. 1 1 . Thrill rides

Glass-beadmaki- ng 1 Saturday 2 Center 419-627-235- with Rosanne MeGovern. p.m. Craft include the Magnum and Raptor, water park and more. For more information call 0. Saturday Kokosing River Canoe Trip (Pre-registration required). 1 p.m. Meet at bridge on Laymon Rd. King's Island, Cincinnati, OH. Weekends only through Oct. More adventure rides Saturday Global Cafe. 6 p.m. SMC than you can shake a stick at including The Outer Limits and Water Works water park.

1-- Sunday Senior CDC Orientation Meeting. 7 p.m. Ascension 220 (Also offered Tues- 71 at King's Island Drive, Cincinnati. day, Common Hour). Sea World, Cleveland OH. Weekends only through Oct. Activities include Shamu Monday Lecture: "Family Violence: Evolution of a Movement," by Anson Shupe, Adventure, Ski Spectacular and Dolphin Cove. For more information call professor of Sociology, Indiana University-Purdu- e University. 7 p.m. HigleyAud. Tuesday Common Hour: "Clergy Malfeasance," by Anson Shupe. 1 1 :50 a.m. Peirce Lounge.

Tuesday Lecture: "A Counter-flo- w of Imperialism: Indians in Britain, 1750s - 1850s," by Michael H. Fisher, professor of history, Olberlin College. 7:30 p.m. HigleyAud. Wednesday Hip Hop Education. 10 p.m. Olin Aud. FILMS The following movies are playing at Colonial Cinemas in Mount Vernon. Call 393-354- 2 for more information.

THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY After an embarassing turn of events be- FILMS fore his high school prom, a man goes on the quest to find his true love. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN Steven Speilberg's blockbuster hit about WWII experi- Friday Wallace and Gromit. 8 p.m. HigleyAud. ences. Saturday Crumb. 8 p.m. Higley Aud. MADELINE French girls and their experiences in Catholic School. Wednesday The Big Sleep. 10:15 p.m. HigleyAud. Sept. 18 Ferris Bueller's Day Off. 8 p.m. Ransom Lawn The following movies are opening elsewhere: Sept. 19 The Treasure ofthe Sierra Madre. 8 p.m. HigleyAud.

Opening Tomorrow:

CUBE A group of ordinary people are locked in a giant maze of metal boxes from TH COlLXGIAlf which they need to escape in order to survive. LET'S TALK ABOUT. SEX A television talk show host interviews women about life, sex and love. ROUNDERS (Matt Damon, John Turturro) A young man gets himself into trouble Eift:tt,ww.kciiyii.c!u when he returns to the poker table to help bail a friend out of jail. SIMON BURCH (Ashley Judd) The relationship of two boys is tested when one lti!ftcollcciaii accidentally kills the other's mother during a softball game. TOUCH OF EVIL (Charlton Heston, Orson Wells) 40th anniversary re-release of the classic 1958 film noir. A man tries to expose a corrupt cop. WITHOUT LIMITS (Donald Sutherland) Biographical drama based on the life of INTERESTED IN A SUBSCRIPTION Steve Prefontaine, an Oregon runner who set seven American records. TO THE COLLEGIAN? Opening September 18:

ESMERELDA A Spanish woman is charged with bigamy just as she is about to marry her sixth husband. e-m- ail Contact the staff through at MONUMENT AVE. (Dennis Leary) Contemporary drama which focuses on Irish-Americ- an gangs in the suburbs of Boston. collegiankenyon.edu ONE TRUE THING (Meryl Streep) A woman returns home to care for her cancer striken mother. PERMANENT THOUGHT (Elizabeth Hurley, Ben Stiller) Based on the autobi- ography of Jerry Stahl's career as a sitcom writer which was destroyed by his addiction Whjzrjzvjzr to heroin. far. you ar. RUSH HOUR (Jackie Chan) A Los Angeles detective must stop a special operative iar. from joining an investigation surrounding the kidnapping of the Chinese ambassador's daughter. SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER NEVER CRIES (Kris Kristofferson, Barbara Hershey) A novelist recounts his memories of killing a Japanese soldier and then discovering in Diversions the man's wallet pictures of his wife and children. FOR SHOWTIMES AND THEATER INFORMATION CALL:

614-860-82- AMC Theatres Lenox, Eastland, Westerville and Dublin. 62 ?)on't let your Vnt sink. Georgesville Square 16. 614-853-085- 0. fldViz:rtis in iVjzrsions. Movie dates and descriptions courtesy of Entertainment Columbus. The Kenton Collegian OPINION Thursday, September 10, 1998

fyt &enpon Collegian 'vti haU fell" 1 was Editors in Chief: Lauren Johnston, David Shargel' SurMUlrhj 6v News Editor: Ashley Grablb u Features Editor: Lisa Groesz K Arts & Entertainment Editors: Jenny Lawton, John Sherck Sports Editors: Carolyn Hande, Jenny McDevitt entree-- - Photo Editor: Kate Bennett rr&r Opinion Page Coordinator: Grant Schulert Online Editors: Matt Brenner and Jesse Savage Layout Assistant: Ben Vore News Assistant: Jessica Andruss Copy Editors: Daniel Connolly, Erjcka Hivh.y and Jeremy Suhr Advisors: Cy Wainscott P.F. Kluge Size Does Matter

As Kenyon's largest class ever moves in - and 32 students move out, the community must ask whether this is right the College. for I fajToful fie-- Jycli4tti. Many of us who are returning to Kenyon this year might have asked the same question as we arrived on campus last month - "What's happening to our school?" A first year student's education 32 students are living off campus at a college that prides itself on providing housing for the entire duration of a student's college career. BY MOLLY FARRELL At the same time, 458 first-year students arrived here in August, a number that practically guarantees the use of off campus housing in the Staff Columnist 'Forgive us, the class of 2002, for our constant years to come. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea lack of common sense and our bumbling at- With this increased number of incoming students comes a propor maxima culpa. I have never taken often-overrat- tempts to fully participate in the ed tionately high number of cars on campus. Despite suggestions of Latin, but as a freshman I felt it limiting cars, "college-life.- freshman the college would rather keep the cars on necessary to leam different trans- " We are simply taking campus, and send the students off. To accomplish this, administrators lations for apologies because, given ourselves and our situation entirely too see the need for a 70 car parking lot on the north end of campus. (Maybe the amount of times I will need to a 70 person dorm would be more sensible, but this is Kenyon.) use them, I could use the variety. So where are we going with this, those of you in the college' s upper Forgive us, the class of 2002, echelon? When the bulldozers stop rolling and seniors are still living for our constant lack of common back party haven and made Kenyon complexities of this new and un- in McBride doubles while the class sizes continue to grow, will you sense and our bumbling attempts the second (or third ??) most pro- bounded freedom, we have each stop and realize that the small college on top of a quiet hill is gone to fully participate in the often-overrat- ed miscuous school in the nation. watched Animal House at least forever? "college-life.- " We have We are also the little annoying eight times). The parking situation is only the first consequence of Kenyon's just been inundated with academic creatures who whisk by our more And we cannot prostrate our- growth worthy of attention. The ever increasing number of students rhetoric praising the high standards experienced counterparts in the selves enough at the feet of our living off campus will eventually force the College to create more Kenyon sets for its carefully se- morning, mistakenly calculating patient saviors, the computer help- housing. The last construction site was the Woodland Apartments in lected students, and we are simply that it takes twenty minutes to walk line people. More than one 1992, and today dorms like Manning, intended to be used as singles, are taking ourselves and our situation from Mather to Ascension. Unfor- desperate freshman was running almost exclusively doubles. entirely too seriously. tunately, we often shift from this through his residence hall scream- Classroom space, already tight in many departments, could re Timidly scoping out the streets highly over-activ- e state into the ing for help like Jamie Lee Curtis quire the constuction of new academic buildings. The new science of Gambier in herds of fifteen to stationary obstacles in Peirce or in Halloween the night our sched- center will help, but what about already packed departments like twenty, we always seem to stand in Gund, paralyzed by the multitude ules were listed on our e-m- ail Kenyon's prized English department? And Anthropology, and has the path of an upperclassman like of choices of what to eat for lunch. accounts. It has been difficult anyone tried to find a table at Gund during dinner rush? Both campus deer in the line of headlights. Will Unlike a seasoned college enough for us to find our way to the dining facilities are being stretched to their limit. he run us over, disgusted by our veteran's struggles with the man- bathroom, let alone to remember When we talk about why we love Kenyon, words like community lack ofdestination ? Or will he point agement of his classes, the how to log onto the VAX. mean more than simply the town we live in. we continue in the If us to the party? freshman in- usually experiences Once again, on behalf of my . direction we are going, the sense of community we all cherish will Realistically, he will shake his formation overload when forced dazed contemporaries, I apologize disappear, to be replaced with a college where too many people, cars head and keep his distance, sagely to decide between quiche, tacos, to you, the upperclassmen, for our and buildings are sandwiched into our favorite small town. Is that really knowing that security is following salad and ice cream. bothersome ignorance and its in- anyone's vision for Kenyon? us as closely as pizza-starve- d fresh- Occasionally, a thoughtful terference in the peaceful and man follow a Papa John's delivery older student will cordially invite smoothly run life here in Gambier. guy. The fearless force in embroi- one of us tojoin him down South in Thank you for the unavoidable gift

W dered polo shirts are once again a small, friendly get-together. of humility you all so kindly Office: Chase Tower at the lop of Peirce Hall's main stairway conscientiously trying to block the About one hour and fifty freshman granted to us at the Freshman Sing. Mailing address: Hie Kenyon Collegian, Student Activities Center, Ganibier, OH 43022. impressionable first-years from later, he makes amental note never We know we are fools, and all we Business address: P.O. Box 832, Ganibier, OH 43022 self-confide- nt E-m- becoming the week- to treat anyone that is ail address: coIlegiankenyon.edu green as a can ask that you suffice to roll WWW address: http:www.kenyon.edupubscollegian end hedonists that have created fellow rationally thinking adult your eyes and remember that you Phone numbers: (614) 427-533- 8, 5339 this only mildly troublesome, laid- - again. (Preparing diligently for the may have been a freshman once.

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BY BEN VORE Staff Columnist Gambier is coming up to a crossroads right Depending on who you ask, now, and the consensus of many is that the Kenyon is having an identity cri- sis. Kenyon has always prized itself road we're taking is bigger, larger ... better? ( as a small residential college, but Maybe your opinion just depends on the angle I'M MoT with larger and larger incoming ft WILLING ftN classes, as well as students who are you're looking from.

off-camp- forced to live us because of a housing crunch, "small" and "residential" don't mean the same ing in at 458 members. I don' t think it fits into what Kenyon things they meant a few years ago. According to Dean of Admis- is all about." Zipp has no desire to Add to that further plans to de- sions John Anderson in see off-camp-us numbers get big- velop Gambier and you have a Fortnightly, "We came in above ger, but concedes that the issue of community that seems very con- our target goal of 430 students, but off-campus housing will "probably fused about where it's going. the larger number won't cause any not" disappear anytime soon Whether this evolution of difficulties." It's a tricky prcx'ess there are no immediate plans to Kenyon is beneficial depends on to determine a class size that build a new residence hall or apart- er s. r." who you talk to. much can hardly be disputed. But ment complex. Until then, he is NAEDlk According to Ken Leslie "99, how many years can Kenyon af- forced tojuggle too many students CEMETERY

one of 32 students living off-cam-p- us, ford to keep overshooting like this? in too little space. im- the most negative thing about "Next year," he says, "we'll have There are, however, some CM99S Wiley Miner dial, by The Washington Poll Writers Oroup 2-- V ICS E-ma- il: wileyMwikylaons.com Web Site: www.wileytoons.com 9 being off-camp-us is that "I don't to come in right on target or it mediate plans to propose two new rl get things like toilet paper." Which could cause problems with hous- office buildings and a parking lot is to say that Leslie has had a fairly ing." between Watson Hall and Snowden

off-camp- Writer-in-Residen- good us experience so far. According to Jessica Robinson Center. According to ce This is the second year Kenyon has '01, we don't have to wait until and Gambier resident

off-camp- all-camp- permitted students to live us next year for problems with hous- P.F. Kluge in an us e-m- ail You are r m?e you concerned YE6, MY KID4 because, quite simply, there's ing. Robinson, a resident advisor concerning these plans to further what you KT WL ,VBoUT would be CmDrV'4 EPM?M16T not enough room elsewhere. Eight in McBride, and the rest of the RA develop Gambier, "We are losing consume devjv6tkted!

off-camp- movement? r- students were forced us stall" have had to preside over fresh- what we love, in nibbles and bites, in the i- this summer because of a lack of man who aren't always happy with inside and out, here are there." housing options. Leslie feels that cramped living situations. And the Here and there are cramped news.j

off-camp- the mini-exod- us of students us RA stall has almost no flexibility rooms in Mather that should be is not necessarily a bad with roommate conflicts and room lounges and intro bio classes in thing for Kenyon; the consensus of changes because ... well, there upwards of 80 people and the those off the hill, he says, is that aren' t any rooms. Does it make life Registrar's office with more stu- life is good. hard for the RAs? "I'm kind of dents to juggle and RAs with little According to Chris Hall '99, frustrated myself," says Robinson, leverage in housing conflicts and

who was off-camp-us last year but students PEN-IZ- who didn't find out until August who came to a college You E, oU.

off-camp- is in Old Kenyon now, living us she would be an RA (an extra one that touts itself as a residential col- oF CoUB4E, IN TUrT CMC, offers "independence and was hired because of the size of the lege but is suddenly becoming ... TUa ONWA I PoNT &IVC 14 k country K RlkU much more space, but there's still incoming class). Robinson's two less residential. rVND NoT K PKTooT... a lot ofbugs that need to be worked cents: "Kenyon might just get too With all these rumblings you'd 4PICE out" One "bug" is the trek to get big for its britches if it keeps doing think the noise would be heard for on campus: "It's a pain in the what it's doing." miles around. But according to ahem! to walk up the hill," he According to Samantha Leslie, life off-camp-us, down the

admits bluntly. Hall is apprehen- Hughes, area coordinator for first-year hill, is "definitely a lot more peace- sive about off-camp-us housing, students and head of the RA ful." despite its advantages. "I don't staff, "I wouldn' tdescribe the hous- Who could have guessed that think it's aprogram Kenyon should ing situation as ideal." She cites a the sound of seams bursting could encourage or continue if we want lack common space (lounges) in be "peaceful"? Gambier is coming II 1 PI99B Wiley Miller dial, by The Washington Post Writers Group of E-mai- W HMM l: wileyfivwileyfoons.com Web Site: www.wileyloons.com ' to maintain a small-community residence halls as a central prob- up to a crossroads right now, and atmosphere," he says. "Maybe we lem. What if next year's class is the consensus of many is that the should stop accepting so many stu- even bigger than this one? "Hon- road we're taking is bigger, larger dents." estly, I don't know," she says. ... better? Maybe your opinion just According to FortnigMy, "The "That's a decision that's bigger depends on the angle you're look- Class of 2002 is larger than its than I am." ing from. According to any map, most recent predecessors." A more According to Doug Zipp, dean Gambier is much smaller both accurate statement would be that of residential housing, the situa- in spirit and stature than some

off-camp- the Class of2002 is "honkin' huge" tion of students living us people may be willing to admit just by Kenyon's cozy standards, clock-- is "not necessarily a bad thing, but yet.

Gonstruction forgets Gambier's families

Dear President Oden, school. And when Mathew and gers and walkers and people who Daniel move back into their home walk their dogs use it too. So there Please Mr. President Oden they will really be in trouble be- is no point in making it into a don't build the giant parking lot cause they always ride their bikes highway with lots of traffic and buildings in front of our house up and down Ward Street, and Thank you very much for not because there will be too much Daniel is almostblind and he won't putting it. traffic and I won't be able to ride be able to see all the cars that will my bike to school. My friends won't be going in and out of your parking Sebastian DePascuale be able to do it either. Jonathan, lot. And then, there is Anthony, 3rd Grade ED DKCoVRC THE oCloLoaCAL who lives on KoKosing, rides his my brother, who just learned how CorfLlQJCE of K RoCK AND K I4XE0 PUCE bike to school. Robert and Roger, to ride a two wheeler. Where is he our new neighbors, also ride to going to practice? f--St OIM Wry MNstr east, by The 1 school. Kaelin, who is living in Ward Street is the safest street WaVsKT K-aaB- atl Joan's house, also rides her bike to in Gambier. Kids use it and jog The Kenton Collegian 8 FEATURES Thursday, September 10, 1998 Construction set1 for a three year period The Construction of Rosse Hall and Philip Mather continues without a hitch LAURA FOLKS for the music department, but for Chemistry Emeritus, said of the campus. Graham Gund, '63, head construction will cause inconve- StaffWriter other campus receptions as well. new laboratories, "Teaching sci- of Graham Gund Architects in niences. Tom Leply, Superinten- "It will get much of music out of ence has changed a lot in the past Cambridge, Massachusetts, is de- dent of Buildings and Grounds, The construction on Rosse Hall a basement and into a setting ap- decade and a half. Our aim is to signing the new buildings. for these projects is handling any is just the beginning of a three year propriate for music," said Oden. get students involved in research. "Many of the trustees and I construction issues which may building project. The new music The construction of the Philip Teachers and students can work were familiar with lots of arise. His primary concern is that building's projected completion is Mather Quadrangle is tentatively together on a series of research Graham's work in New England students and faculty remain out- August or September, 1999. The scheduled to begin in the next few projects in the new laboratories." especially. So that the choice of side of the construction area. He Philip Mather Quadrangle which weeks. The first step will be lay- will offer tours to small groups will include new science buildings, ing foundation for the physics, that want to survey the site. is not expected to be complete until math and chemistry buildings. Lepley is working with the Stu- the fall of 2000. The following year The final step will be to demolish dent B uildings and Grounds Com- will yield renovations on Samuel the existing science facilities and mittee. For information about the Mather and Higley Hall. finish renovation on Sam Mather construction contact the Commit- The addition to Rosse Hall and Higley Hall. The latter will not tee. - will contain: faculty offices, new begin until next year. s Some expected inconve- classrooms, an electronic music The new facilities of Phil niences are few parking spaces laboratory, a student faculty lounge Mather will include two lecture during construction and scheduled area, a new library and a 135-seat rooms for 60 people each, multime- power outages in Hie South end recital hall. Rosse Hall will also be dia facilities and two computer labs dormitories. The students and fac- handicap accessible. designed primarily for teaching. ulty will be informed of these out- President Robert A. Oden Jr. The science complex will also ages before they occur. Kate Bennett stated, "When I saw the plans I contain a study lounge for students. Construction vehicles dominate the site behind Rosse Hall. When speaking of the con- said, 'It feels like a light colored In the center of the Quadrangle struction, Lepley said, "Kenyon violin or guitar.'" there will be an open grassy area. All new facilities, music, one of America's finest architects has always been a close knit com- The renovated Rosse Hall will New laboratories will be included math and sciences, represent the to work here, on a campus he munity. I want everyone to give fulfill two functional needs beyond in each of the new buildings, as need for updated technologies in loves, seemed clearly right to me comments so we can prevent beauty on campus. First, the lobby well as in the existing Sam Mather. these areas of study. Oden hopes many of us," said Oden. mistakes and possibly change in Rosse Hall will be used not only Owen York, professor of the buildings will also beautify our Despite the promised benefits, things next time around." Students share summer intern experiences

I Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, BY SHAYLA MYERS Marks, who is premed, and where she lives, was advertised for StafTWriter working towards a synoptic ma- a full-tim- e position. She in went jor in biomedical ethics, feels that Many re- to see if they were looking for an college students his research has given him an in- 'If I could stress anything, it would be getting intern. turned home during the summer sight about ethics that most geneti- Peterson to earn money for next year's tu- out and meeting people in the field.' spread out her time cists don't have. between the production, layout ition. Some Kenyon students and "A lot of doctors have trouble added a Maureen Tobin circulation departments. new dimension to that understanding their patients. As summer job with the "Working in every depart- help of the a doctor, one should possess a cer- ment, I got to know 90 Career Developmental Center . of the tain awareness about the patient," Instead of flipping burgers or people. I could walk into any de- said Marks. partment and scooping ice cream, they went not feel foreign," "People do internships for out said Peterson. and found jobs working for a variety of reasons. I would newspapers, radio stations and Adam Marks '01, knew the gram," said Kukulan. stress everyone to do one. If I universities. ing, Most importantly, she learned internship he wanted existed, and This past summer, she could stress anything, it would For Nancy Kukulan '02, a helped the skills needed to practice sus- he worked last year to get iL When book guests for the show, includ- be getting out and meeting weeklong stint on the live radio tainable living. his internship with the Ethical Re- ing Alice Walker, Naomi Wolf, people in the field," said direc- variety show, "West Coast Live," and According to Luca, "sustain- search department at Emory Uni- jazz musicians George Winston tor of the Career Development during her junior year in high able people view consuming as to versity in Atlanta, Georgia came and T.S. Monk. "I was introduced Center. school turned into an internship not deplete anything. It's really through, "it was like a dream come to a wide Internships not only pro- that lasted over two summers. variety of musicians and about having the least impact on true," said Marks. authors.lt helped me vide entries on a resume or ap- Eventually she became an assistant be more open the earth posssible." Because she Under the auspices of the to plication, but, as Emily producer. meeting new kinds of people," lived off the land for ten weeks, university and Dr. Kathy Kinlaw, Peterson said, "It's all about said Kukulan. coming back to Kenyon has been Kukulan held one of three Marks surveyed local geneti- experience. You Carina Luca '01, took a dif- can't get a available staff positions. "It was a tough adjustment for her. As she cists about the ethics of their pro- ferent approach to job without experience." really tough, finding funding for a the summer by put it, "I still haven't gotten used fession which have come under working on a Toblin urges students who are show that big. There was the host sustainable living to flush toilets." fire lately, like tissue ownership. farm in Oregon. interested in summer jobs or and the producer, and me, in the Living in a Emily Peterson '01, wanted Marks was surprised at the re- stawbale internships to start looking be- summer. I was in charge of calling dormitory with the other to find a steady job that would sults. "Most geneticists have interns, she fore the semester break, but the guests' managers and getting went to school from leave her weekends free and add little understanding of the impli- 8am-5p- m, stresses taking classes in every- that some internships the details of what they per- something to her resume. The cations of their research," said were have application deadlines in forming. thing from gardening to beer brew Public Opinion, the daily paper in Marks. I'd put together the pro- - October or November. r Random Foments

V 1.4 What is the number one reason V' why you are glad to be back at Kenyon? I, I : A . .

Sarah Hammel '01 '01 Photos by Sara Shea Walmart! For the malt liquor. And I am not living at home The natural liaht ins . I- - . II . r r "' the Pantene Pro-- V. anymore! J J i Thursday, September 10, 1998 FEATURES Tiie Kenyon Collegian 9 Ifenyon hires new Faculty! Bike Registration New faces decorate the front of classrooms across campus Recommended

BY JULIA KOSKA BY MEGAN ANDEREGG owners in cases of loss or theft. Even StaffWriter "Kenyon is serious about undergraduate StaffWriter though bicycle theft has education." not been a serious concern on Kenyon College has dedi- Students on bikes are a famil- Kenyon's campus in recent years, cated itself to the recruitment of Associate Professor William Melick iar sight at Kenyon. Each day, stu- theft does occur. "We haven't had dynamic and knowledgeable fac- dents ride their bicycles to class, a serious problem in the past," said ulty. New faces, William Melick, nomics 11-1- 2, Money in Banking, Watson hopes he can be an athletic practice and meals. Many Direct of Security and Safety, Dan Anthony Watson, and Carolin and will include more courses in effective teacher able to encourage take it for granted that their bikes Wemer. "It's always better to be Hahnemann are some of the new- finance. students to view organic chemis- are safe when they leave them in safe than sorry. Having the regis- est members of this year's teach- Assistant Professor of Chem- try in a more positive light. bike sheds or at bike racks outside tration sticker on the bike may ing faculty. istry, Anthony Watson has spent Associate Professor of Clas- campus buildings. even keep your bike from being Associate Professor of Eco- sics, Carolin - the past four years teaching at Hahnemann became However, as one student . stolen a thief might see the sticker

nomics William Melick earned his Grinell and Cornell Colleges in interested in the classics when she stated in an all campus e-m- ail, and move on to a bike that isn't bachelor's degree from Indiana Iowa. He earned a B.S. from the was ten. She came to the U.S. from 'This is all my fault... I should ve registered, to an easier target." University and both his master's University of Southern California Germany to attain her masters and locked it properly... oh, the brutal How do students feel about and Ph.D. degrees from Ohio State and his Ph.D. from the University Ph.D. from Brown University. She pits ofdespair! My bike. It's gone." bicycle theft? "It's not something University. After eleven years of of California at Berkeley. was interested in American educa- Trust in the safety of Kenyon that keeps me awake at night," said working for the Federal Reserve Watson reports that he has action system and became a profes- may be as misplaced as this poor Emily Andersen '01. "My bike is Board in Washington D.C., Melick quainted himself with his students sor at Bard College. student's bike. The bicycle reg- registered, I keep it in a safe place, taught part-tim- e at Capital and quickly and has been treated well Hahnemann enjoys the sense istration program offered by the and I know security is willing to Maryland Universities. by fellow faculty members. of community here at Kenyon Col- Office of Safety and Security help me if something did happen "Other colleges try to teach all In spare time, Watson has been lege, both in and out of the class- provides help when a bike is to it." levels undergraduate, masters, setting up a research lab. His chemi- room. She teaches Greek classics, mysteriously "borrowed," and Matt Bryant '01, whose bike and Ph.D. studies. However, cal research involves synthetic or- and already has over sixty students may even help to deter would-b- e is not registered, says "I don't Kenyon knew what to do, was se- ganic chemistry, which is linked to enrolled in her mythology course thieves. worry about it. I keep it locked. I rious and provided the resources the pharmaceutical industry. second semester. According to the security and think it's pretty safe." to do it. Kenyon is serious about "Research is a tool for teach- "Books are friends that are all safety clerk, Carole Fiant, there are If your bike is lost or stolen, undergraduate education," said ing. Textbooks teach fundamen- worth knowing. They introduce approximately 218 bikes regis- Werner recommends contacting Melick. tals, but research is more user people to things that will always tered on campus this year. They are the Office of Security and Safety Melick's courses include Eco- - friendly," said Watson. be stable," said Hahneman. simplifying the registration pro- immediately. If the bike is regis- cess and it is now free of charge. tered, they will have all the infor- Students are issued a small decal mation they need on file. Remembering Professor Church to place on the bike's frame, un- "The best way to prevent theft derneath the seat. is to be smart," said Werner "Reg- The decal has a unique num- ister with Security, use a strong . M I in inn J) BY BRAD GOODSON published in 1988. "Furnace Har- ber on it, and that same number is lock, keep it in the lighted bike fol- StaffWriter bor is a remarkable poem," said placed on file in the Security of- sheds, and keep track of it." By McCulloh. fice. Unlike car registration, bi- lowing this advice, students should The Kenyon Community had From 1983 to 1988, Church cycle registration is not mandatory. be able to avoid the "brutal pits of a great loss this summer. On June also served as editor and co-edit- or It however is very strongly encour- despair" and continue biking with 17, 1998, Philip Dake Church, pro- of the prestigious Kenyon Review. aged, as it can only help bicycle out fear. fessor of English at Kenyon for 35 Church's professional and years, passed away at his home in academic achievements were ex- Gambier. ;. tensive. He will be remembered Born in Girard, OH, Church most for how he touched stu- ''4 ( attended Michigan where he re- dents, faculty, and friends per- ceived his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. sonally. Soon after arriving at Kenyon James Sheridan '00, an in 1963, Church became known advisee of Church's, attested to his Kenyon Archives Profes- for an evocative style of teaching. Professor Church kindness. "A week before His students admired him greatly; sor Church died, he went to the they twice selected him to receive volved friend with whom you Financial Aid Office to help me Kenyon's Senior Cup for excel- could immediately become en- out," said Sheridan. "Quite simply, lence in teaching. gaged in conversation. He didn't I would not be at Kenyon for my "He painted pictures with bother with much small talk he third straight year, were it not for words when he spoke that's went right into what he wanted the kindness of Phil Church and his

different from a simple explana- to talk about. He felt strongly and vigor in presenting my case to the ICne Ben ncct tion of what's on the page," said thought deeply about so many Financial Aid Office. That's some- Liz Dunning, '99. "He wanted things," said William McCulloh, thing I can never repay." you to feel where the author was Professor Classics. Philip Church was a great coming from because he be- In addition to teaching, scholar and a great man. Kenyon was the best way for Church was a gifted poet. His writ- College is a richer place because lieved that - Hkrk to Survi- You Sinck 1978 students to learn." ings include: Tlie Fire Round the of the time he spent here. His phi- Church was loved by stu- Garden, Poems 1970-7- 5, and the losophies, his very presence and Specials "Philip long poem Furnace Harbor: A his strength as an honorable man dents and faculty alike. MOMMY Hl You Cm Eat Pea wo Sa in- - was an approachable and Rhapsody of the North Country, are deeply missed. (khouse)5-9p- x ($4.95)

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II I I I Works at Olin Art Gallery show strong II II I III M III ! ! .1 undertones of feminism and mysticism rati ilFffi BY SARAH HART ' ,;1 Senior StafTWriter WmM Wm? 'Wui What: Art opening--"Unveile- d: Kristy Deetz will kick off the Olin Art Texts Gallery's first exhibit of the year with "Un- and Textures" veiled: Texts and Textures." Tonight at 7, When: Tonight, 7 p.m., on the artist will deliver a slide lecture in Olin display through October 17 Auditorium, followed by a reception in the gallery. Where: Olin Art Gallery The exhibit will feature wooden reliefs which Deetz has carved, burned and painted. Using the recurring motif of drapery, she 'Each painting represents an expresses the dynamics of boundaries. The interconnected pattern echo- illusion of exteriors meeting interiors iden- tifies a merging point of cultures, emotions ing through nature, culture and ideas. and our spiritual and intel- "Each painting represents an interconnected pattern echoing through nature, lectual lives.' culture and our spiritual and intellectual - Kristy Deetz lives," Deetz explained in her artistic statement Since 1983, Deetz has exhibited her - "Symbols and metaphors continually work throughout ilk- : 1 the country. She holds a 'Ph r. -- evolve and in recylce my painting. Drapery BFA from Bowling Green State University i on a table top uncovers or reveals objects and an MFA from Ohio State University. WM such as a dying potted plant or tornado, She has since taught at eight colleges and objects that represent death and destruction universities and won numerous awards, death-defyi- or a ng force, depending on their grants and honors.

context," said Deetz. - -- 1 The exhibit will remain in Olin until i v w;' i . f. . I4 .If-- ' I I Using strong undertones of feminism Saturday, October 17. Hours at the Olin and mysticism, Deetz emphasizes connec- Gallery are 8:30 a.m. to midnight, Monday tions between humanity and nature as well through Saturday, and 9:30 a.m. to midnight as the past :M4! and the present on Sunday.

'Gain' shows 'mere virtuosity' V

BY JOSEPH FOUSE Book Critic

Gain Richard Powers Farrar, Straus & Giroux Ouroborus, wood, encoustic and oil paint, by Kristy Deetz Olin An Gallery . fit - , To say that Richard Powers is one of ' " , - si the most talented novelists now writing requires qualification. Certainly he is a master of both the intricacies of prose style he is at once both baroque and large-scal- Will modem and of e architecton- Write for Food ics. " ' "Talent" can, however, carry a sense h of limitation, of mere virtuosity. This is, unfortunately, more true ofhis latestbook than of his work as a whole. If you've ever held the above Gain intertwines the fic- story of the Richard Powers, author of Gain tional Clare Corporation from its sign, have we got a job for you! 19th-century inception with the plight of Pynchon or Don DeLillo, we would an- Laura Bodey, a contemporary divorced ticipate a grand conspiracy or sinister mother who faces ovarian cancer. speculations upon the nature of big busi- Write for Arts and Predictably, Entertainment! the two narratives col- ness. Powers, whose own style of verbal lide; Laura Contact Jenny Lawton begins to suspect Clare's pyrotechnics sets him apart from that or John Sherck

nearby headquarters as cool-head- the source ed of school, is il: more and grounded (e-ma- lawtonj or sherckj) for more information. chemical substances under her kitchen in history. sink. This means, however, that Laura's Do it today - before you starve! What sets Powers' account apart from misfortunes become far less interesting the narrative we might expect is that Clare than the fortunes (literal and figurative) itself is his protagonist The early history of Clare, which is in itself less engaging STOP SURFING THE NET FOR PORN! of the company has its fair share of inter- than Powers' earlier artificial character, esting personalities, but the focus soon the computer Helen from Galatea 2.2. Come visit: shifts to an examination of the organiza- Gain is a pleasing and intelligent tion as an tKlje enpon individual a clever and novel, but it is upon the more successful Collegian extended play upon the legal status of a exploration of humans and technology in corporation. ONLINE The GoUl-Bu- g Variations that Powers' Were this a novel by Thomas reputation, now, for rests. http:www.kenyon.edupubscollegian r

Thursday, September 10, 1998 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Kenyon Collegian 1 1 Kenyon senior hits the professional airwaves

' BY JOHN SHERCK " . " mi mi mil i f (j1 '"""' A&E Editor What: Brad Goodson

If you wanted to hear the reas- 1-- When: Sundays, 7 p.m. suring voice of a Kenyon student FM on the radio, you'd tune toWKCO, Where: 93.7 right? Now you can also hear one tions from the live game to adver- I r--V of Kenyon's own on Mount tisements and back. Vernon's 93Q, as Brad Goodson After less than a month with W Xm '99 spins the discs each Sunday the station, Scott Carson, program- from 1-- 7 p.m. ming director for 93Q, gave Goodson's first radio experi- Goodson a chance to DJ. ence came last semester working Carson cited Goodson's hard on the Kenyon radio station, work behind the scenes at WMVO - y I WKCO. In addition to DJing, and an eagerness to learn as rea- Goodson served on the station's sons for giving Goodson the administrative board. opportunity to DJ on 93Q. At the end of last semester, "My first two hours on 93Q Ron Staats, the Operations Man- were from midnight to 2 a.m. on a ager for Mount Vernon's WMVO Monday morning," Goodson said. radio station suggested to WKCO "At the time, I thought I did a advisor Jameel Adams that a stu- pretty good job. Listening back I dent apply for a summer position know that I had a lot of room for with the station. improvement and still do. Said Goodson, "I submitted a "I was very psyched during Brad Goodson yy.ujing at wy. Kate Bennett tape of one of my WKCO shows that first show because at a time and some clippings of music re- when you would think no one is is scheduled to maintain the posi- pursue as a career either that or "the opportunities for beginners views from the Collegian. I Ie hired listening, I had 16 phone calls off tion for the remainder of the journalism." are drying up. me soon after the interview." the request line." academic year. Goodson may be the station's "I feel a little obligation to Goodson was hired by Knox Carson admitted that "In the He also continues to control first intern from Kenyon. If others help beginners. This is not to say " Broadcasting, which owns three context of the real broadcast world, the Indians' games on WMVO, as have proceeded him, it's out of that the next person who walks in radio stations: WMVO, 93Q and Goodson's first performance was well as broadcasts of Kenyon and anyone's memory," says Carson. and wants to work on the radio, I' 11

K-Coun- try. These stations reach weak ... but he is taking the Mt. Vemon football games. For Carson is very open to future give a shot. 12 counties in mid- - and north-centra- l- criticism very well and I hear the company's third station, K-Coun- try, involvement at the station by "Someone' s opportunity to en- Ohio. progress every time he's on the Goodson will broadcast Kenyon students, and sees the ter into broadcasting would be Goodson began in late May, air." Ohio State University football station's willingness to work with dependent upon several things, in- operating the sound board for For the last several weeks, games. beginners as a strong point. cluding our perception of their broadcasts of Cleveland Indians Goodson has served as DJ for his "I learned a heck of a lot about "With all the broadcasting sincerity and willingness to put in games on WMVO. He was own weekly time slot. The only radio this summer," says Goodson. mergers and resultant the hard work it takes to learn this responsibile for making the transi-- local jockey on Sunday, Goodson "It's still something I may want to downsizing," Carson explains, business."

KFS shows claymation, documentary, film classic after the completion adapt Chandler's stunning prose the Oscar nominated Wat's Pig. to deal with the emotional havoc of to marry soon BY JAMES SHERIDAN of filming. to the silver screen. A delight to the More fun than ten of the so-called his life. Not a bad tactic for dealing . Movie Critic twists and the con- ear, this film contains some of the comedies of this decade, Wallace with these twisted thoughts. Cer- The plot tinual killing off of characters best dialogue around and one can Wallace & Gromit and Gromit demand your full at- tainly hot in Crumb's case. makes this one of the keynote ex- immediately see the influence it Friday, 8 p.m. tention. had on such latter day films as The Higley Auditorium The Big Sleep amples of film noir. William Lebowski. Crumb Wednesday, 10:15 p.m. Faulkner is credited with helping Big Director Nick Parks has won Saturday, 8 p.m. Higley Auditorium more Academy Awards than any Higley Auditorium other director in recent memory. One ofthe best American films Park manifests both his talent and R. Crumb, the genius cartoon- of all time, The Big Sleep com- passion in his creations Wallace ist behind Fritz the Cat and Keep bines the talents of actors and Gromit. on Truckin', was the so called "fa- Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Wallace, a slightly odd inven- ther of underground comics." In Bacall with the dynamic direction It Snoopy-esqu- e of auteur Howard Hawks. tor, and Gromit, his director Terry Zwigoffs brilliant ! canine, are clay figures, brought to documentary Crumb, the life of Based on the eminent classic it life Parks and his animators the artist is examined through in- 1939 crime hard-boile- d detective by ' through the painstakingly slow pro- terviews and cartoons. It addresses novel by the great Raymond Chan- i r cess of 24 moves per cinematic such questions as: What part did dler, The Big Sleep centers around second. The result is technically Crumb's childhood in an abusive detective Philip Marlowe, a shrewd unprecedented, in addition to be- 1950's family play in the twisted and wise-cracki- ng man who finds ing downright hilarious. images and misogynistic depic- himself embroiled in a world of CDHB ill: In this collection of Park's tions of women which permeate blackmail and murder. The dying films and works from several other his cartoons? How do his brothers, General Stem wood requests that Marlowe look after his two daugh- . animators, the centerpiece is a 30 his mother, and his late father con- minute short tided "A Close Shave" tinue to direct or explain his life? ters, Carmen and Vivian. Carmen which deals with the duo's battle How does their weirdness outshine is a nymphomaniac; Marlowe re- in my lap against a cyberdog of sorts named his own? . marks "She tried to sit Preston who wrecks havoc with This film won the 1996 DGA before I sat down!" Vivian is more his automatic sheep shearing ma--: Award for Outstanding Directo- appealing to him. chine. Another short, "Creature rial Achievement in Documentary Bogart, in his funniest role . I ' Comforts," provides a fabulously and was the Grand Jury Prize Win- ever, embodies the hard, verbal com- - at dexterity of Marlowe. Bacall smol- inventive look at a zoo full of ner theSundance Film Festival. .: , . ; plaining animals. Ultimately, the film succeeds in ders when she is on screen. This is ) This compilation from showing how a tortured and tor- especially important when one artistic talents siders that Bacall and Bogart were Aardman Animation also includes mented soul used his Park 's day characters Wallace andGromit 1 The Kenyon Collegian 2 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Thursday, September 10, 1998 Ten summer albums no music --lover should miss

BY BEN KEENE AND Beastie Boys Billy Bragg and Wilco CASSIE WAGNER Hello Nasty Mermaid Avenue Music Critics j j A sure-pic- k as a summer hit, And, finally, not to be out- j j J ! Rancid the Beastie Boys' latest, Hello done by a summer wave I of I J I j Life Won't Wait Nasty, achieves in one fell swoop electronica and electric guitars,

" -- " what most recent mainstream rap Billy Bragg and Wilco released C"i i , . fcr -r i lr-- Ska-pun-k heroes Rancid re- has only been able to touch upon: Mermaid Avenue, an album built turned from a three year layoff a blend of pre-tee- n hyperactivity around lyrics written by folk icon with Life Won't Wait, an amaz- and a mastery of sound construc- Woody Guthrie. Alternating be- ingly scattered 22 set of songs, tion. While Puff Daddy and his tween teary-eye- d ballads and i -- from toe-tapping s, k running traditional ska to minions struggle to leave their mark sing-along- the record i: X

straight-u- p Ad-Ro- hardcore to hillbilly with remakes, MCA, ck and breathes life into these fifty-year-o- ld swing and back again. The effect is Mike D compose original hip-ho- p songs while retaining their spirit ' "" I disorienting, but there's a coher- much-neede- --"- with d spunk and wit and charm. Bragg, Wilco and Fr,"" A w I ency of message and attitude that They build tracks from layers of guests like Natalie Merchant let I I holds the whole thing together. Life samples, live instruments and their the simply constructed and hon- Won't Wait isn't the knockout inimitable nasal New Yorker estly sung music of Mermaid r punch that fans were expecting, voices, leaving oilier artists to plan Avenue speak for itself. The result but it's far from being a complete a counterattack. is consistently American in its voice miss. and a fitting tribute to Woody Girls Against Boys Guthrie. Fugazi Freakonica End Hits New Yorkers Girls Against The cover of Girls Against Boys' summer release, Freakonica.. Belying the title of their sixth Boys fill their major label debut and latest album, End Hits, Fugazi with sexy swagger, subliminal refuse to waver in their singular hooks and enough rhythmic punch approach to guitar rock. Picking to knock you Oat. Freakonica up where the previous Red Medi- doesn' t mess around, burning whi te cine left off, End Hits expands the hot right from the start with the New BNL album perhaps their best boundaries of hardcore punk, us- strongest, most immediate songs ing varied tempos and carefully they've ever put together. While 'Stunt' exemplifies band's musically diverse, fun approach layered guitars to communicate its their sound has become more pol- message without beating you over ished, GVS B has survived the indie the head with iL Side-stepping the to major transition unscathed. With

dance-meets-rock-meets-sle- punk ghetto, Fugazi resolve to their trademark aze BY BRAD GOODSON speak softly and carry a big stick. sound, these boys are Music Critic The result is an album that any fan sure to make the scene at any parly. of guitar rock should hear. It's been several years since 1 the Barenaked 1 Smashing Pumpkins Ladies started ake' a dies Liz Phair Adore making music. Back in the early Whitechocolatespaceegg 90s, this zany Canadian group little-know- n full-leng- was a band that de- On their fifth th al- Finally back with anew batch, bum, the Smashing Pumpkins pended on a few radio stations Liz Phair aimed to surpass her ear- move away from the band's char- for airplay and a handful of loyal lier successes with Whitechocolate- acteristic wall of guitar, a underground fans to purchase spaceegg. The songs showcase a prominent feature of their previ- their music and go to their con- newfound maturity, but lack the ous album, Siamese Dream. Adore certs. i spirit ofher first two records. Work- reinforces Billy Corgan's status as How times have changed. ing with both RJE.M. producer one of the best songwriters of the The last few years have been Scott Litt and collabora- kind to the Barenaked Ladies longtime 90s, weaving elements of y " tor Brad Wood, she cooks up an electronica into his songs of lost both in terms of their popularity album more akin to scrambled eggs love. One part tenderarrangements, and the quality of their music. than to a musical omelette. The one part searching lyrics, the record With hits like "If I had best songs here rival those on Exile takes the anger of previous efforts $1,000,000" and "The Old Apartment," in Guyville, even if there are a few and channels it into spacious and people began tak- that seem underdone. The album is soaring melodies. A cohesive ing notice of this group with a funny a welcome return from a challeng- record for a band always moving name. The cover of the Bare naked Lndies' album, Stunt. ing songwriter and poses the in new directions, Adore is another Their 1996 Rock Spectacle gave the Ladies question "where to next?" stepping stone along the path to their biggest ting franticLike S ting, I'm tantrie general: "You get your PhD. success to greatness. date. A live album Like Snickers, guaranteed to sat- How happy you will beWhen highlighting the Jeff Buckley band's best isfy." you get a job at Wendy's and are Sketches tracks from their first for My Sweetheart the Grant Lee Buffalo three al Stunt's sixth track, "Alcohol" honored with Employee of the bums, it spirit-relate- Drunk Jubilee was BNL's first album is the best d tune since Month." to sell over 500,000 copies in Jimmy Buffet's "Margaritaville." As with past albums, Ed

in-your-f- Compiled from studio the U.S.. ace demos Jubilee, the latest from Grant It rocks out of the gate with Robertson and S teven Page share home-record- and ed tapes, Sketclies Stunt, perhaps their Lee Buffalo is appropriately titled, best al guitar lines that sound both the writing andsinging roles My Sweetheart tlie bum to date with for Drunk casts as the album is no less than a plea- it's eclectic odd at first but succeed in getting on most of the songs in Stunt the late Buckley as an range of songs, reminds Jeff artist sure to listen to. Songwriter Grant the lis the listener to tum up the volume a much to the benefit ofthe listener. stretching in direc- tener what the band is all himself new Lee Phillips pens infectious lyrics about few notches: "Alcohol, my perma- Page's sincere tenor along with tions. From the R&B inflections fun. of and melodies that stick with you. nent accessoryAlcohol, a Robertson's more playful bari- "Everybody Here The album opens with party-tim- e Wants You" to Chiming guitars and crisp drum- its necessity Alcohol, al- tone combine to make the band's the metallic first single "One Week," a won jagged riffs of 'The ming punctuated by lap steel, slide ternative to feeling like yourselfO repertoire especially the songs derfully Sky Landfill" to a bizarre Genesis guitar, and the organ work of the silly song with pop Alcohol, I sail drink to your heal th." on Stunt. references galore and a cover, Buckley's songs sound writ- Wallflowers' Rami Jal'fee provide sound The biggest gem of Stunt, how- Music fans unfamiliar with which combines ten out of time.tapping something the perfect backdrop for Phillips' elements of ever, is "Never Is Enough," an BNL would do best to purchase timeless. two rock and, yes, the Macarena: The discs are represen- engaging vocals. Long overdue, incredibly witty satire on the work- Rock Spectacle before Stunt to tative of his ideas, but not "Like Harrison Ford, I'm gct- - ing world, necessarily the band's straight-forwar- d rock academia, and life in get a feel for the band. Long- his vision the of finished product. As sound was a welcome antidote in a time fans, however, will most such, the record is uneven, but the summer full of reincarnated Find out more on the internet at: certainly appreciate the band's best tracks only underscore what the metal t ests, mopey moon goddesses most recent work. music world lost. ' http:www.bnlmusic.com and legions of swing kids. Grade: A J Thursday, September 10, 1998 SPORTS The Kenyon Collegian 1 3 6 2 McGwire makes baseball history Reactions from around baseball Mark McGwire did not hit the longest The record-settin- g homer came with homer of the game. But he hit the one that two out in the fourth inning and the Cardi- When Mark 2-- McGwire hit his 62nd the noise of fans cheering int he Bullpen will be remembered the longest. nals trailing, 0. Known for his long, high homer, the crowd noise reverberated Sports McGwire hit his 62nd homer, break- home runs, McGwire swatted the first pitch Bar behind right field. 37-year-- throughout baseball. old ing the magical record of Roger from Cubs right-hand- er Steve Trachsel In Philadelphia, Phillies manager Frank Thomas: "It Maris with an uncharacteristic line drive down the line. Although hit hard, the ball gives you goose bumps. Terry Francona home-ru- n left-field could tell from the crowd He's always been the best that barely cleared the fence just was about ten feet fair and barely cleared hitter noise at Veterans S tadium. inside the foul pole. It touched off a the wall. I've ever seen. It's couldn't happen to a "I heard the fa ns making moise and I better person. To hit 62 home runs in one celbration of baseball and triggered a 6-- 3 The homer was just 341 feet, his short- thought it must have happened," he said. season is unheard of. He victory for the St. Louis Cardinals over the est of the season. might be the best "I thought it was kind of neat that so many of all time." Chicago Cubs. "I just think it puts baseball back on the people had radios a nd that they cared about "I'd like to thank all of my teammates for map as a sport," said McGwire. "It's McGwire. It's just great for the game." Players were excited at the attention putting up with the media (lie last couple of America's pastime and you just look at ev- McGwire has drawn to baseball. months and really putting up with me," eryone coming out to the ballpark and you At Fenway Park i ti Boston, both the Yan- McGwire said. "This belongs to you as well as look at all the great players and it has been kees and the Red S ox marveled. it belongs to me and I thank everyone of you." an exciting year." Craig Biggio: "He's made a fan of the world. You can't have an asterisk by his David Cone: "Just an amazing feat, right name. He got the record the quickest (in Most Home Runs In One Season up there with Joe DiMaggio's hitting number of games) of anyone so they can streak." take tha asterisk and do whatever they want Player Team Year with it." HR Pedro Martinez said he wouldn't have Mark McGwire Cardinals 1998 62 minded exhanging places with the Cubs' Jeff Bagwell: "From day one, before day Roger Maris Yankees 1961 61 Steve Trachsel: "If I had to give up 62 that one, Mark McGwire was supposed to get would have been OK. I would batl'e, but this record. That was tremendous pressure Babe Ruth Yankees 1927 60 that would be OK." and !;c hit 15 in 21 days and overcame the Babe Ruth Yankees 1921 59 pressure. To know that everyone wanted At Comiskey Park in Chicago, players him to hit home runs andthen go out and Sammy Sosa Cubs 1998 58 could tell McGwire broke the record from do it, dial's awesome." Mark McGwire AsCubs 1997 58 Hank Greenberg Tigers 1938 58 "This belongs to you as well as it belongs Jimmie Foxx As 1932 58 and I thank Ken Griffey, Jr. Mariners 1997 56 to me every one of you." Hack Wilson Cubs 1930 56 Mark McGwire

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F EXPRESS L ' ' l ft it M I W Oards 14 The Kenton Collegian SPORTS Thursday, September 10, 1998 OFF THE HILL Field hockey falls to Oberlin, 2-- 1, The other baseball enthusiasm remains for season Ladies look record 1998 to DePauw in hopes of snapping losing streak of BY MELISSA DEGAETANO StaffWriter 'We have plenty of time to turn ourselves Yankees strive to break record around The Kenyon field hockey and have an excellent season.' number of wins, currently 116, set team suffered its third loss of the Jenny McDevitt '01 season yesterday, falling to the

2-- Co-capta- by Chicago Cubs in 1906 Oberlin Yeowomen 1. in Carrie Moore 99 scored off a different aspects of our game each '00 and Samara Estroff '01. BY SUHR ESPN's Tom Farrey has pointed penalty corner within the first five JEREMY time and continue to be excited ffor Although these losses suggest StaffWriter out, 1998 is the third consecutive minutes of the game. The Ladies our remaining games. We have shaky beginnings for the 1998 sea- year two players have hit fifty continued to dominate much of the plus plenty of time to turn ourselves son, the team shows much poten- Mark McGwire's record home runs, and this year is action. there a around and have an excellent sea- tial. Yesterday's game was marked 62nd home run Tuesday night is strong possibility that eight Though Kenyon entered the play son," said Jenny McDevitt '01. by quick passes, strong drives, and far and away the most talked ers will reach that plateau. second half of the game 1-- 0, The Ladies dropped two a general positive team attitude. about event in recent sports But even Oberlin retaliated and slowed if McGwire's games last weekend in Tennessee The skills and experience of the commentary. McGwire and record does endure, the Kenyon's first half momentum. mark for losing to the University of the veteran players, combined Sammy Sosa's to surpass Oberlin with the race single season scored again in the clos- 2-- wins can claim South 0 2-- 0. first-ye- and Roanoke College fresh talent of the ar play- Roger Maris' record 61 homers has something the home run ing minutes to take the game from record Despite problems with exces- ers, promise a strong and been imprinted upon the con the Ladies. exciting cannot: Baseball is a team sport sive heat and dehydration, Kenyon season. sciousness of nearly every sports and it is Despite their 0--3 record, the a team All-Tournam- record. While ent landed three players on the The Ladies look ahead to fan in the U.S. Mark McGwire's individual year Ladies continue to improve with team; Sarah DePauw University on Sunday at As amazing and exciting as has been outstanding, every outing. "We have improved his team, Colestock '99, Jessica Goldman 11a.m. on Waite Field. the approach on Maris' near the Sl Louis Cardinals, has had I mythic record has been, there has anything but an outstanding year. been another, much less publi- Individual achievement cized, assault on a baseball record seems to captivate the American this summer. The New York Yan public much more strongly than kees, whose record as of Sept 7 anything else, which helps ex was 100-4-1 are close to match- plain why superstars like Ken ing or surpassing the record num Griffey Jr. and McGwire can play ber for wins in a season. And for sub par teams and not suffer whereas the home run mark dates any great loss in popularity. It back to the sixties, the record for also helps explain the willingness wins goes all the way back to the of the owners to pay their star first decade of the century, when players enormous salaries. , 1 the Chicago Cubs won 116 games Thus, in a sporting era de- i in 1906, ten less than the Yankees fined by its excesses and its ego, V do now. Thus, the Cubs' mark for the Yankees and their accom- winning percentage, an incredible plishment are somewhat .763, remains well out of the refreshing. While the Yankees Yankee's reach. Nontheless, if the certainly do have their share of n Yankees continue playing at their star players, a victory results from current pace, they stand a very the contributions of every player good chance of making history. on the field. The Yankees' ex- To some extent, it is the his traordinary effort and team cohe- tory of a record that makes it sion are responsible for their suc- memorable. Much of the mys cesses and possible place in base- tique and hype that surrounds the ball history. home run record stems from its So baseball fans, as the sea- In a game last year DePauw, history and from the number of son nears its end, turn your atten- against Samara Estroff'Ol fights for possession of the ball. Estroff wasey"' player in the Ladies' pursuits that have fallen just tion away from the home run tournament in Tennessee. short But who knows how long derby every now and then, and McGwire's record will stand? focus instead on the Yankees, Baseball seems to have entered a their pursuit of destiny and the new era of power hilling and as number 116. Interested in sports? The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) and The Collegian is field-oriente- d, ran looking Duke University offer science based for you undergraduate semester abroad and summer &3 programs in Costa Rica. Students earn credit hours in tropical ecology, environmental science and policy, field research methods, and Spanish language and culture. For more information, contact Credits may be transferred from Duke University.

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Allegheny and BY MELISSA HURLEY AND from any other team in the North DANA MONDO Coast Athletic Conference. The top Frostburg State StaffWriters four were a bit more spread out in this race than what we'd hoped for, BY CHARLIE PUGH I ligh hopes and a steep hill set but in later meeLs the main goal for StafTWriter the stage for the Kenyon Lords them is to run within 30 seconds first cross country home meet of of each other." The Kenyon women's cross- the season on Saturday. - - Goal setting and mental country team got off to an excell- Despite a strong race posed by toughness are two priorities for the

ent start Saturday as they cruised the Lords, nationally ranked Lords this season. Co-captain to victories over Allegheny Col- Frostburg State University won a Ryan Snyder said, "I know that this lege and Frostburg State Univer- - decisive victory over both Allegh- team is the best I have been on in I sity. Running on home turf, the eny College (2nd) and Kenyon. my four years at Kenyon College Ladies finished with 26 points, With a blast of the starters gun, and that's saying a lot since we lost ...;t- - followed by Allegheny with 45 and .:y.:.t. 3 the three teams set oil" on the six mile two great runners in Dan Denning Frostburg with 56. course at an ambitious pace, the ('98) and Jason Miles ('98)."

Pacing the Ladies to a victory leaders breezing tlirough the first A pre-season poll of NCAC was the 1- -2 finish of juniors mile marker in slightly under five coaches ranks Kenyon fourth in Gelsey Lynn (20:27), and Laura minutes. Track standout and cross the conference, a position that Shults (20:29). Both Lynn and country newcomer Crosby Wood Ryan Snyder disputes. "We have Shults finished ahead of '99 said, "The first mile was quick, younger runners and strong new- Allegheny's Amy Schuchart, an which was fine with me, but unfor- comers to the sport that don't ex- All-Americ- an and NCAC Dist- tunately I wasn't able to hold on." ist in the minds of the other NCAC - ; ance Runner of the Year in 1997. . s . ... , , , . . Placing fourth overall, Wood was coaches," he said. I - . O , Rounding out the top five Kenyon ... Kenyon's top finisher. One of those promising new- runners were Christine Breiner '99 Coach Duane Gomez felt the comers is first-year Cary Snyder.

(21:16) in fifth place, Erica Nietz Kassie Scherer meet went well and was pleased Regarding Snyder, Wood re- '01 (21:33) in eighth place, and Gelsey Lynn '00 and Laura Shults '00 lead the pack in the women's race. with the Lords' effort. 'The men marked "I was definitely im- DanaMondo '01 (21:46) in tenth ran a very aggressive race and gave pressed, although I expected noth- the hill. The team ran very com- Lynn. place. Frostburg and Allegheny a run for ing less of Cary Snyder. He has a petitively, and I think it was an Adding to the feeling of opti- The win over Allegheny and their money," he said. lot and will impressive showing for the first mism and excitement, Shults said, of promise contribute Frostburg contributed to the Ladies Regarding the future, Gomez the pro- meet of the year." "Our first meet of the season was tremedously to running long-goin- g first meet winning predicted, "Our top four runners, gram here at Kenyon." When asked about her perfor- a success. This year's massive streak. The Ladies haven't lost a Wood, Ryan Snyder '99, Cary The Lords take another step mance, Lynn expressed satisfac- team looks promising in that we first meet of the season for the last Snyder '02, and transfer student towards goal earning a tion. "I had a lot of fun running the have many experienced returning their of 15 years. Vince Evener '01, I think, will conference championship on Sept. race. As far as the team goes, I runners as well as hard working When asked about the team's prove to be just as good or even 19 at the Great Colleges think we performed very well freshmen." Lakes performance, Coach Duane better than any top four runners Association Invitational. overall. We also have freshmen ThQ Ladies run again in two Gomez said. "Lynn, Shults and

that have the potential to move up. weeks in the Great Lakes Colleges - - Mondo ran quite impressively up - - f ,.- , It should be a great season!" said Association Meet on Sept, 19. . m c

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Women's Soccer ' ' ' - j A f Saturday, Sept. 12 vs. Thomas More College, 1 p.m. Sept. 16 Muskingum College, 4 p.m. Wednesday, vs. t ' f , ' ' r:" -- v-- . Men's Soccer z: Saturday, Sept. 12 vs. University of Rio Grande, 4 p.m.

p.m. ' Tuesday, Sept. 15 vs. Oberlin College, 4:30 " - " : ; . r' " 1 'X, t Hockey I Field ''. ij f -- . - ; "i Sunday, Sept. 13 vs. DePauw University, 1 1 a.m. r Tuesday, Sept. 22 vs. Ohio Wesleyan University, 4:30 p.m. Volleyball 1 ce p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16 vs. Bald win-Walla- College, 7 .w A J Tuesday, Sept. 22 vs. Muskingum College, 7 p.m. f Football Saturday, Sept. 19 vs. Thiel College, 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26 vs. Ohio Wesleyan University, 1:30 p.m.

Cross Country k4tt Saturday, Sept. 19 GLCA Meet, 1 1 a.m. Kassie Schcrer Crosby Wood '99, Kenyon's top finisher, pulls ahead in the men's race. 16 The Kenyon Collegian SPORTS Thursday, September 10, 19T , Volleyball off to 3-- 2 record after tournament Ladies look to place in NCAC at Baldwin-Wallac- e Tournament

BY IAN SHOWALTER from-behin- d victory in the night- cap against Albion College, defeat- Senior Staff Writer ' '4 ing the Britons 12-1- 5, 9-1- 5, 15-1- 2,

The Kenyon College volley- 15-- 9, 15-1- 1. Erin Wimmers "00 ' ball team Finds itself riding high and Kristi Kose '99 registered 18 " " ' ' with a 3-- 2 record through the first and 13 kills, respectively, as week of the regular season. Fol- Kenyon jumped out to its best sea- lowing a victory over Otterbein son start since 1988. College and a third place finish in Things did not bode as well the Kenyon Invitational tourna- Saturday, as the Ladies fell to Na- ment, the Ladies hope to carry this tional Association of Intercolle- momentum into the Baldwin-Wallac- e giate Athletics powerhouse Mt.

College Invitational this Vemon Nazarene College 3-1- 5, 9-1- 5,

Friday and Saturday. 15-- 9, 3-1- 5, and Ohio Domini-

Despite having only nine can College 9-1- 5, 13-1- 5, 7-1- 5. healthy players, the injury-plague- d Kenyon coach Jennie Bruening Ladies shocked Otterbein with a said, "What was difficult with this

15-1- 0, 15-- 5, 9-1- 5, 15-- 6 victory tournament and will continue to be Sep. 2. This win was the Ladies' difficult for us is having so few third against the Cardinals in their healthy players. We were ex- past 12 meetings, and their first hausted on Saturday when we season-openin- g victory since played the Naz and ODC." 1994. Not only is the Kenyon vol- Kassic Schcrer Kenyon carried this energy leyball squad rather battered, they Co-captain Kristi Kose '99 digs the ball against Albion College in the Kenyon Invitational held last wekend. into its annual tournament, first are also extremely young. Com- defeating Defiance College in an posed of five first-year- s, two captain Kose attributed the Ladies' match no matter how far we are finals occur this weekend at the 11-1- 5, 15-1- 1, 15-- 3, 10-1-5, 15-1- 0 sophomores, three juniors, and one success to the fact that "the chem- down," said Goes. Baldwin-Wallac- e College Invita- ' cliffhanger on Friday afternoon. senior, the Ladies have been mak- istry of this group is amazing. We The Ladies' next steps toward tional, where Kenyon is scheduled The game was highlighted by the ing up for their lack of experience all play as a team, rather than 11 their goals of gaining confidence to face Capital University, Marietta combined 13 aces of Stephanie and healthy ranks with "a great individuals," and to the team's as- in each other and reaching the College and Malone College before Goes '01, Anna Novotny '02 and deal of dedication and ... a lot of tounding tenacity, evidenced by North Coast Athletic Conference playoff rounds begin Saturday. Maka Chang '02. The Ladies then heart," according to sidelined co-captain their Albion victory. "I think as a went on to stage a dramatic come- - Maggie Beeler '00. Co- - team we learned we can win any Women's soccer breaks Defense key in men's soccer reCord to begin season

BY DENYS LAI BY SUSANNA OK coach Scott Thielke. "Instead of StaffWriter StaffWriter staying composed and passing the ball, we just kicked it. We know The Kenyon College men's The Kenyon Ladies soccer now uui wcaK areas and will be- soccer team started its 1998 cam- team opened its 1998 season on gin working on those weaknesses." paign with two wins and a tie over Sept. 2 by capturing a crushing 16-- 0 The Ladies are young and still the past week. The Lords opened victory against the Yellow Jack- learning each others playing style their season Sept. 2 with a tense ets of Defiance University. The and abilities. Led by senior cap- 0-- 0 draw against Baldwin-Wallac- e score set a new Kenyon record for tains Becky Sanford and Kelly College. Over the weekend, the the most goals scored in a game Brando w, the team sports 13 first-years team won the Fred Myers Invita- and the largest margin of victory with only half the team con- tional Tournament at Ohio ever. The first goal was scored by sisting of returnees from last year. Wesleyan University by defeating first-year Holly Asimou within the "This will be a building year Clarkson College 4--1 on Friday and first minute. for us", said first-year transfer Aquinas College 2-- 0 on Saturday. The season's impressive start Kelly Johnson. "We're a young In the season's opening game, Kassic Schcrer turned on Sept. 5, when the Ladies team, so we're just getting used to Kenyon created plenty of scoring Andre Kalufanya '99 keeps the ball in Kenyon's possession. suffered its first defeat against the playing with each other. We have opportunities but failed to convert Clarkson equalized before half-tim- e. '02 knocked in a corner from defending Ohio Association champ really high hopes for the rest of the

any into goals. The Lords outshot Tied at 1- -1 going into half-tim- e, Moyo to secure the victory. Capital University, losing 3-- 0. season." Baldwin-Wallac- e 21-- 6 and con- Kenyon tallied three unan- Moyo had one goal and one "We had five new players The Ladies next game take on trolled possession throughout most swered goals in the second half assist and earned MVP honors. playing in their first real challeng- the Saints of Thomas More Col- of the game. Despite constant pres- leading the Lords to their first vic- Olds, Stephenson, and Eric ing game and we panicked when lege at Mavec Field Saturday, Sept. sure, the Kenyon offense never tory of the season. Kelsey Olds Hakeman '00 also gained selection we had the ball", commented head 12, at 1pm.

All-Tournam- managed to breach the strong '99, Paul Sdnson '00, and Greg to the ent team. Baldwin-Wallac- e defense. Stephenson '00 each scored one Overall, Coach Lawless is Kenyon's defense played solidly, goal. Pecorak recorded five saves pleased with the team's effort; five

limiting the Baldwin-Wallac- e as Kenyon outshot Clarkson 24-- 8. different players have accounted strikers to only four shots. Kenyon "I felt in the first half, certain for the six goals. However, he does INSIDE goalie J.B. Pecorak '00 finished players didn't do their jobs. In the feel the team has room for im- with six saves including a critical second half, we scored three very provement. "We are at about 80, effort in the second overtime to good goals," said Coach Lawless. we are still 20 off our best," Coverage of Season Openers preserve the clean score sheet. On Saturday, Kenyon met Lawless said. "There are going to be games Aquinas College, grinding out a This Saturday, Kenyon faces Upcoming Home Games when you play well and still not 2-- 0 win and the tournament title. University of Rio Grande. Lawless have the ball roll your way," said For the third consecutive game, believes the game will provide a Head Coach Des Lawless. Kenyon dominated play, good indication of the team's Off the Hill In Friday's game, the Lords outshooting Aquinas 26-- 8. Kenyon progress. "It will be a big game," ended their scoreless season with scored twice in the second half. said Lawless. "I know four or five McGwire Breaks Record four goals, beating Clarkson Col- Stephenson headed home a free of the opposing players and they lege 4--1. Kulu Moyo '02 opened kick from Leon Blanche '00 to put are very good. This game will let the scoring in the first half, but the Lords ahead. John Chiavaroli us know where we lie."