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Established 1856 Volume CXXXVII, Number 22 www.kenyoncollegian.com THE KENYON COLLEGIAN Gambier, Ohio Thursday, April 22, 2010 12 Pages ECO Hosts Week of Sustainability Activities Suspicious Persons Posters Hung in Peirce Designed to provide information BY AUGust SteiGmeYER ing with Hooper on Thursday. News Editor On Monday, April 21, Presi- dent S. Georgia Nugent said she A series of Campus Safety was not aware of the posters. On watch posters depicting suspicious Wednesday, she told the Collegian persons who have been sighted in that the intention of the post- Gambier were placed on a wall in ers was to urge students to be Peirce Dining Hall on Monday, alert and to provide students with April 21, and were taken down by information. “I take it that this Tuesday. was done in response to requests Director of Campus Safety from students for information,” Bob Hooper declined to comment she said. and referred questions to Chief Kohlman said the purpose of Business Officer Mark Kohlman, the posters was to “make people who said that the decision to post aware of safety issues on campus. the pictures and information was This is the time of year when we see AUGUST SteIGMEYer made “through Campus Safety and a real spike in theft, people entering ECO’s “Trash on the Lawn Day” displays Kenyon’s waste on Ransom Lawn. discussions with the Safety and campus and going into buildings BY AUGust SteiGmeYER sues at Kenyon, like where energy and understanding, we begin to Security Committee.” where they’re not supposed to be News Editor comes from and what happens act on an individual level to col- However, Michelle Bahan ’10, just because of the weather and the when we don’t recycle.” lectively incite change on a larger chair of the Safety and Security end of the year,” he said. Kenyon College’s Environ- “We must recognize our re- level.” Committee, said that her commit- All of the people on the list mental Campus Organization sponsibility as global citizens to The week is “primarily a tee was not notified of the decision had either had some actual criminal (ECO) kicked off its fourth an- serve not only the best interests culmination of things we do or involved in the process. She said charges brought against them or nual Week of Sustainability with of others but those of ourselves, throughout the year in ECO,” she was “surprised” to see the signs had been reported for behavior on “Trash on the Lawn Day” on on the individual and community Wardell said. “I think there’s a in Peirce. Bahan told the Collegian campus that caused Campus Safety April 19. It was the first of several levels,” ECO Coordinator Dan lot of energy on campus when the that she did not wish to comment to list them as “people of concern,” events that ECO Coordinator Tebes ’12 said. “By embracing an weather gets warm, so it’s really on the posting until she had all the according to Kohlman. Abby Wardell ’10 said she hopes ethic of sustainability, or a code good and really effective to have facts but intends to ask about the Monday was a major visit day will “draw attention to major is- rooted in mutual responsibility see ECO, page 3 situation during her weekly meet- see POSTERS, page 2 Sophomores Get Senior Student-Run Garden to Supply Fresh Herbs to Peirce Housing in “Weird” Lottery BY AUGust SteiGmeYER rooms and Caples Residential News Editor Hall suites were reserved. Dugas said Old Kenyon may have filled New Apartments, which are up quickly because of all the usually reserved for seniors or renovations being done on the juniors with high lottery numbers, building this summer, which will went to rising sophomores this include new hallway carpets, room year after “weird things” happened carpets, beds, mattresses, desks, in the Housing Lottery, accord- desk chairs, closets, dressers and a ing to Alicia Dugas, assistant fresh coat of paint. The fact that dean of students for housing and senior-only space had not been residential life. In addition, no claimed in the New Apts., which Joshua Gross ’11 tends the herb garden. LILI MartINEZ students received summer hous- are usually full after the senior lot- ing, she said. tery, was harder to explain. bread, all thanks to one intrepid said. “Ever since I’ve been here at BY Lili MARtiNEZ After the rising senior class There was a price increase class project. Kenyon, I’ve been wondering why Staff Writer f i n i s h e d s e l e c t i n g overall for room rates, so maybe Sarah Bush ’12 began thinking there aren’t more of them on cam- housing, most of the financial issues had something to Something is growing behind about a campus garden last semes- pus and why students aren’t more Old Ke- nyon Resi- do with it,” Dugas said. Peirce Hall. Stone by stone, day ter for her final project in “Sus- involved with gardening.” d e n c e H a l l When rising juniors arrived by day, Kenyon College’s brand- tainable Agriculture,” a 200-level After talking with Damon at the Housing Lottery at 1:00 new herb garden is slowly being Environmental Studies course. “I Remillard, resident director of p.m., Dugas made an announce- constructed by a few dedicated knew from the beginning that I re- AVI Foodsystems at Kenyon, Bush ment that a certain number of students. Soon we’ll be dining on ally wanted to do a garden because decided to plan an herb garden. fresh basil and rosemary-scented I’ve always loved gardening,” Bush see LOTTERY, page 2 see GARDEN, page 3 IN THIS ISSUE Brother Ali Turns “Me” Into “Us” at Pub “Party” PAGE 7 Notes from Gambier: Students Explore What Ohio Has to Offer PAGE 5 Senior Abby Wardell on Campus Communication and Progress PAGE 6 News The Kenyon Collegian Thursday, April 22, 2010 Thursday, April 22, 2010 The Kenyon Collegian News Construction: Four New Houses to Be Complete by Fall Student Council April 18, 010 • Judicial Affairs Coordinator Samantha Hughes and Student Council reviewed the College’s judicial process. They worked to clarify the regulations of the Judicial Board to separate complaints the College makes versus complaints students make. Hughes also said attorneys may not represent students in Judicial Board hearings, but students can have advisors from the College faculty or staff. • The Housing and Dining Committee, AVI and Environmental Campus Organization (ECO) are coordinating to discuss the future of Trayless Tuesdays. They will likely try to promote trayless days with posters that show how much money a trayless day saves and where that money goes. • The Housing and Dining Committee discussed this year’s Housing Lottery and the way in which students claimed apartments much later than they usually do. Many members of Student Council said they thought this change was due to increased room rates. • Student Council began planning for the upcoming Board of Trustees meeting, which will begin on Thursday, April 22. Student Council plans to discuss the possibility of the Athletics Department gaining control of club sports, a follow-up with Environmental Campus Organization (ECO), an update on Division Housing and the College’s response to Nick Griffin’s planned visit and its eventual cancelation. • The Building and Grounds Committee proposed adjustments to the AUGUST STEIGMEYER campus parking policy. The Manning and Leonard parking lots will close in The concrete has been poured for the first floor of the new art history building, according to the fall of 2010 as a result of zoning issues. The Caples lot will also close due Director of Facilities Planning Tom Lepley. Next week, crews will begin to put up steel erectors to construction. According to the proposal, the Lewis, Norton and Watson for the second floor. Concrete for that floor will be poured about a month later. Roof trusses are parking lots will all become visitor parking. The College will make up for most of the parking spaces it will lose by opening the new South Park Lot, currently being built in Cleveland and will be put in place following the completion of the second which will have approximately 230 spaces. Student Council discussed the floor. possibility of limiting the number of first years allowed parking spaces to the The goal, according to Lepley, is to have the building closed up by next winter so finishing work number of spaces in the McBride Field Lot, which has 43 spaces. Because can be done on the inside. Within the next few weeks, crews will be working on a water line from this lot is where visitors park for football games, students who park in this lot the building towards Middle Path. Work on the mechanical and electrical aspects of the building, will likely have to move their cars to faculty parking spaces on game days. The Building and Grounds Committee hopes to eventually re-open the Watson such as heating and plumbing, will continue in the basement.