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Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 4-30-1998 Kenyon Collegian - September 10, 1998 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - September 10, 1998" (1998). The Kenyon Collegian. 548. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/548 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College Archives at Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Kenyon Collegian by an authorized administrator of Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Tfl W . $f? p wm mmm m fj 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 pro- grams 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 learn- ing 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.