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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 2010 NEWS thE KENYON COLLEGIAN 1 Established 1856 Volume CXXXVIII, Number 5 www.kenyoncollegian.com THE KENYON COLLEGIAN Gambier, Ohio Thursday, September 23, 2010 8 Pages Kenyon Works to Improve Accessibility Friday Café Attendance Unusually Low: Students with Disabilites Speak About their Kenyon Experiences Managers Struggle to Break Even on Costs WINNIE ANDErsON accounts for between $120 and Klein said she and Turgeon Staff Writer $180 less income each week. put in at least two days of work Every week for the past 31 Although the Harcourt before every Café. When they years, Gambier residents Joyce Parish Episcopal Church lets served raspberry cream rolls, Klein and Peggy Turgeon have them use Parish House free of Klein hand-picked the raspber- hosted Friday Café at the Parish charge, running the Café still re- ries, and most weeks, she said, House and have donated the quires a lot of time and money. getting all the ingredients re- proceeds to charities like Habitat Klein said the weekly cost of food quires shopping at The Village for Humanity. This year, howev- varies from between $200 and Market, stores in Mount Vernon er, attendance has been low, and $300, depending on what they and getting ingredients from lo- their goal has just been to break serve. To accommodate the large cal gardens. even. number of vegetarian students “Even just the shopping Klein said the current low on campus, Klein said they gave takes quite a while because you attendance is especially surpris- up having meat, but “affordable have to go all over the place to get ing because “usually this time of vegetarian lunches are tricky.” stuff,” she said. year, it’s pretty big, and it really Klein and Turgeon also pay Klein said she doesn’t have stays pretty steady.” About 122 eight employees, including their an explanation for the low at- Kenyon paved the first-year quad paths to increase accessibility. DAVID HOYT people attended the last Café, friends and Kenyon students, tendance this year. She said, “I she said. “It’s only down by about $10 an hour, and they make honestly don’t know [why atten- WINNIE ANDErsON be accessible and four of which the 1990 ADA renewal under 20 or 30, but that does make a an annual contribution to the dance is low],” but she thought Staff Writer will be accessible living spaces, as George H.W. Bush. Therefore, difference.” church as thanks for use of the one reason might be scheduling Within his first week at well as improved paths from the she said some of the buildings Admission to the Café is Parish House. conflicts. Kenyon, Gordie Slater ’14 lifted Bexley area to downtown. The were “built to the letter of the $6 per person, so this difference In addition to these costs, see CAFÉ, page 2 himself up the winding flights of estimated cost of the nine houses [1973] law, but just missed the stairs to the top floor ofO ld Ke- is six million dollars. The first spirit of the law.” NORM ORNSTEIN DISCUSSES POLITICS nyon Residence Hall for a party four houses should be completed Salva said that accessibil- in the Alpha Delta Phi Bullseye, by next semester, and the other ity committees are also working while a friend carried his wheel- five by next year. on improving signage, creating chair. Slater said it took him 15 After the nineN orth Cam- more accessible routes of travel, minutes to reach the top. pus buildings are built, there will installing more automatic doors Casey Griffin ’14 was with be enough housing space to move and designing a remodel of the him when he lifted himself up everyone out of Bexley Apart- library. Currently, the library has and watched, after the party, as ments and tear down the current vertical access, but disabled stu- a couple of drunk teenage boys houses. According to Lepley, the dents have to push an intercom carried him back down the stairs plan to build 11 more houses in to enter the library in the area in his chair. “It was terrifying,” she phase two of the rebuild, and the where the elevator is located and said. Board of Trustees will make a de- wait for someone to let them in. Buildings like Old Kenyon cision regarding when the second “In my opinion, [it’s] philosophi- add to the school’s appeal and phase will take place. cally wrong that [most students] helped earn it the number-one According to Salva, most can enter the library by going up ranking on this year’s Forbes list classrooms are accessible, and the stairs independently, whereas of “The World’s Most Beautiful if they are not, classes can be someone who’s using wheels … College Campuses,” but they also moved to alternate locations. can’t walk up the stairs but has to DAVID HOYT make accessibility a challenge. The real problem areas, she said, buzz in,” Salva said. The remodel Erin Salva, coordinator of dis- are the residence halls and other would move the circulation desk Norman J. Ornstein visited campus this Tuesday, Sept. 21 to discuss the increasingly dys- ability services, said, “There really places where students hang out, downstairs and create a universal functional nature of Congress and the dangers of heightened partisan tensions in our politi- aren’t very many students who places she described as “woefully entrance. cal system. Ornstein, a highly-regarded political scientist and resident scholar at the American have been brave enough, in some inaccessible.” Salva believes that it is im- Enterprise Institute, spent 41 years in Washington, D.C. observing politics and life on Capitol respects, to try Kenyon because Salva described Gund portant for the community, when Hill. According to Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science John Fortier, who orches- of the accessibility issues.” Commons, which houses all of considering future changes, to trated the event, “Ornstein works as a scholar, a teacher and a prognosticator on all things politi- The College is constantly the administrative offices, as “a try to understand the challenges cal, especially Congress.” His recent book, The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America working on ways to improve ac- pain in the [rear]” and the the- a disabled person faces, and that and How to Get It Back on Track, explores the increased tension in Congress and the negative cessibility. Last week, the gravel ater as “a mess,” in terms of acces- the student body must use this effects of that tension on the functionality of the political system. path on the first-year quad was sibility. understanding in order to initi- Ornstein’s visit commemorates Constitution Day, a time when Americans across the paved, and nine houses are be- The American Disabili- ate change. “I think it really does country are called to consider the role of the Constitution in the present day. The talk was ing built as part of the North ties Act Accessibility Guide- take people seeing things from presented by the Center for the Study of American Democracy, and was held in Peirce Hall Campus Housing Project. Di- lines for Buildings and Fa- another person’s perspective be- Lounge. Throughout,O rnstein demonstrated his humor, intelligence and, most of all, his deep rector of Facilities Planning Tom cilities (ADAAG) outlines fore change can happen, and we desire to restore the functionality of Congress. Ornstein fears that the now deeply entrenched Lepley said the first requirements for new buildings can’t wheel in [Slater’s] shoes, but partisan divisions in Congress will lead to a dangerously divided America. With midterm elec- phase of the proj- and for renovations beyond a we can certainly get a glimpse of tions quickly approaching, Ornstein’s engaging and thought-provoking discussion of the issues ect includes nine certain dollar amount. Salva said what it might be like to have to in Congress today prompts the Kenyon community to consider what the founders meant for buildings, all some of the buildings on cam- wheel on gravel a quarter-mile Congress and whether Congress serves its intended purpose in government. of which will pus were built right before see ACCESSIBILITY, page 2 —Emma Lewis IN THIS ISSUE Kenyon Students Review Pavement Reunion Concert PAGE 6 Meet Professor Royal ‘Roy’ Rhodes as a FairfieldC ollege Student PAGE 3 Sports Editorial: Rugby Injuries Not Due to Lack of Concern for Safety PAGE 7 2 THE KENYON COLLEGIAN NEWS THURSDAY SEPteMBer 23, 2010 Café: Word-of-Mouth Reaching Few First Years Accessibility: College Discusses Future Plans From page 1 their needs. Slater said that when truest accessibility is the acces- he was looking at colleges, actual sibility of help itself,” Skon said. to and from class a couple times accessibility was not as much of “Difficulty in disabilities can a day,” she said. “I think really it’s a deciding factor as “willingness eventually go nearly unnoticed if students that are going to bring to help, regardless of the present you’re used to it.” about this change.