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VoL LXXXIX Gambier, Ohio, 13, 1963 March No. 10

Community of Rules Faculty Okays Self-Stud- y Unsatisfactory? Over the past two years this journal has been a profligate of New hyperbolic criticism. Obsessed with Community, we have heaped Language criticism upon blundering administrative decisions and faculty timidi- OPPONENTS CHALLENGE ty; we have chastised compromising reform and those counterfeit Requirements improvements that campus diplomats to take be strides toward The College Faculty last week ciimmunal salvation. In all we PROPOSED GOVERNMENT this have been, as our critics point approved the modifications in the out, anything objective: had we but been really objective the presses language requirement advocated In two open hearings lasting a total of six and a half hours, the Self-Stud- Sub-Committ- would y ee have been shut down long ago. we Self-Stud- Instead took to writing by the y Curriculum on Campus Government and interested windy exaggerated editorials and indecorous headlines, thereby en-nabli- ng Committee. outsiders haggled over the Committee's preliminary proposals to the undeserving to discredit all reconstruct Kenyon we com-mittee-of-the-wh- jurisprudence. that had said against The Faculty, sitting as a ole them on basis of some slip A the trivial in taste. to study cur- small but formidable group of opponents exchanged conflicting What our critics failed to notice was that behind all our "negative" riculum, reached an agreement on ideas with the Committee, headed by Prof. Daniel Finkbeiner, Feb. harping and declamation was a great sentimentality, as optimistic the controversial issue after four 28, on the proposed overhaul of the Publications Board. and sloppy as theirs, for it too was based on the rhetoric of Com- weeks of discussion. There were The present munity. ciency in at least one foreign Publications Our "negative" sentimentality has driven the popular sym- president-- only two dissenting votes. The language before graduation from Board consists of four pathy into the hands of those who are unworthy, committee-of-the-whol- appointed and we have, in e will now the College. The student may faculty mem- self-deceiv- our passion, alienated ourselves from a ed compromising and refer the proposal to the faculty have learned the language through bers, the editors of each publi- community which has time and again chanted to us The for approval. Since the two bodies high school courses, by teaching cation, the manager of WKCO Big Lie while its nobler factions is now ready to at-lar- ge annihilate us for are one and the same, approval it to himself, or by learning it at and two members, one our little ones. of the faculty is a certainty, un- Kenyon. appointed by the Board itself, THOSE OUTRAGED KNIGHTS OF DKE, anxious to marry with less some members prove very the other a Student Council the administration and become the No. 1 guild on this campus, have fickle. President Lund's approval IF THE STUDENT does not appointment. Each Board mem- circulated a petition to abolish this journal. Their goal is a modest is also assured. have the proficiency in language ber may vote. 200 signatures and no doubt they'll get it. But in thinking that The recommendation requires when he enters the College, he The new Board would retain popular disfavor is proof against us they prove instead their students to demonstrate profi- - (Cont. on page 6, Col. 3) the four faculty members, but own sentimentality. We never intended a journal of "popular" here the similarity ends. Stu- know-nothing-is- opinion, an insipid, democratic sampling of student m dent Council would select three and fraternity timidity. Had we attained the adoration of stu- student members. The Council dents en masse we should have failed and we should have compro- appointees and faculty mem-

self-appoint- mized ourselves. Those ed custodians of the Dean's office bers could vote, but the publi- and keepers of Community chastity have claimed in their abolition cations and radio heads would petition that a clique masterminds the Collegian and that we are be allowed only to voice opin- given to unfair reporting. This is of course true. But what is unfair ion. about our reporting is not the occasional misquote or the indecorous FORMER Collegian editor Fred -- .In slant, we obvious righteousness but that have attacked their self and i III! I B . ill Kluge raised strong objection to we have questioned the very order they should like to marry into the proposed changes, envisioning and manipulate. No doubt this will be construed as an ad hominem a stricter control of editorial island-journ- attack. This is of course true: for whenever an al attacks policy that might eventually lead COLLEGE BOWL LINEUP (1. to r.) John Gerlach, Michael Under-wood- . an institution or proposal it also attacks those delicate political egos to outright censorship. Perry Lentz, Neal Mayer. behind the institution or proposal. We should flatter DKE unnecessar- - Kluge and some others felt the ilv if wp rlpirr1 t1? thv rrtnnonnli'o ?t'ic enrt nf rnrnlajrit icrpinct "uLlitdLiuiia Buaid revisions were the essentially against us Collegian. All those who are forthright College Bowl Team Set made in light of the now-famo- criticism, who are disturbed by obvious and unyielding dissent, Hika incident of last spring, which should like to shut us up in the name of any number of slogans: brought the literary magazine Community, Communications, Ungentlemanliness, Undemocracy To Contest Forest editors to the stand for "lapse of pick anyone you like; anyone you pick will do at a committee Wake good taste" and irresponsibility. meeting. One tradition of liberal educa Gerlach, and Mike Underwood, Backed by Dean Frank Bailey, tion holds that the learned man will face the highly touted group Finkbeiner assured "no one wants WHILE THE COMMUNITY OF RULES, as envisioned in the new will forget his lessons, but always from Wake Forest between 5:30 censorship," and added that the Campus proposals makes for automatic yea-sayin- g and Government ask good questions. Kenyon has and 6 p.m., on CBS television in Hika affair did influence dis-sentio- not the 'intelligent" conformity, journal, given to nay-sayin- g and n, this a tradition of its very own; that New York. thinking of the Committee. for community embarrassment by pricking hyper- makes of national anonymity. Next Sun- COMMITTEE member and Stu- sensitive political egos who would now eliminate all our nastiness by CHOSEN FROM elimination day our college will reverse those dent Council President Sam Sug-de- n "objective" proposals. In this, DKE, for all its exams on campus together they conjuring up modern traditions by sending a team of suggested that the publica- self-pit- y, itself more forthright answered 80 per cent of writ- vindictiveness and political has shown four learned men to the College the tions editors and radio manager Group for DKE calls for ten questions they have mixed than the Campus Government Study Bowl where they will give the keep their right to vote, and that Group merely wishes to "ob- feelings about the contest which abolition outright while the Study answers. the student body members be giv- votes or, as could net Kenyon scholarship jectify" the Publications Board by eliminating editors' en voice but no vote. The sugges- is all-facul- ty pro- The team, composed of Perry funds anywhere from $500 to now rumored, by having an board. These last tion seemed satisfactory to Kluge downy bed Lentz, captain, Neal Mayer, John $9000. posals, if taken seriously, will rest the paper in the and the present Collegian editors. of consanguinous marriage will appear Community and out of the Most enthusiastic is history Council Treasurer Bob Goldman which affront students some idiot sheet, twin to all the idiot sheets Mayer, a Prize advised the Student Council more PETITION ASKS expert Senior that and country. There are, you know, g faculty throughout the Scholar and honors candidate in treasurer be given non-votin- "muck-rakers- ." Witness the discreet ways of avoiding the Collegian history. He feels that "with two membership on the Board to help its doors on reporters, Interfratemity Council which has slammed COLLEGIAN END defeats we still think we can win." handle financial problems. Fink- not for of being misquoted but for fear of having their ignorance fear The following petition has been He adds, "We are out to win not beiner said he and the Committee and splashed across our pages. purposelessness circulating the campus. It calls only to uphold the reputation of would take the recommendations Self-Stud- y, for lack of It would be a shameful consolation if the College, we, I at least, am "into consideration." of for diversion of Collegian funds to the but anything to do and after a year's meetings and thousands 4, 5) (Cont. on page 6, Col. 1) better a "more worthy" end. Presumably (Cont. on page Col. dollars spent, had as its most revolutionary proposal the smothering this would mean doing away with of a robust press. In accordance with our general negativeness ... the Collegian : and this does not mean we are uncaring here are a few nega Trustees Jack Tuition $100; tive suggestions, put forth, we admit, to avert certain trends in We, the undersigned, feel that "positive thinking:" the present condition of the Ken- 1) Do not, in the name of Community or any other chivalric or yon Collegian is such that it is not Three Sign Teaching Pacts only dissent that exists per copy technical slogan, banish the deviation and worth the thirty cents The Board of Trustees, at its physics and psychology. Two of at "objective" Board. Let the paper to Kenyon through an Publications which we, students, are forced March 2 meeting, voted to raise the three have been hired. go we to bed on its own. pay for it. Furthermore, feel the yearly tuition rate from $1300 Dr. Lund referred to a tuition 2) Community of Rules in the form clique con- Avoid sentimentalizing the that the small which to $1400 effective next September. survey of the members of the of Faculty-Stude- nt by ordeal went out a Judicial Board. Trial trols the newspaper is so far out "No one welcomes tuition in- Great Lakes College Association. to humiliate both opin- awhile ago and the Drooosed Board can only serve of touch with actual student creases," said President F. Edward Although Kenyon's is the highest - Accordingly, avoid student offenders and their teacher inquisitors. ion as to make the masthead a Lund in an interview with the tuition rate of the 12 colleges self-conscio- us and creating any board whose main purpose is to flout mochery. Therefore we respectful- Collegian last week. "The best listed (Oberlin and Antioch were the most naive pretentious moral standards. This will make even ly request that those funds from that can be said for them is that second at $1350), it was pointed punished order that he sup- offender feel as though he were being in our student activities which this support is needed for faculty out that tuition is being raised at short, this sort Opin- pos- might serve as a guide for all possible offenders. In port this "Journal of Student salaries and for improved instruc- six of the colleges and may of or examples of to thinking transforms individuals into instances ion" be diverted a more worthy tion. The worst that can be said sibly be raised at three more. argue, as some have, that Community Rules; and finally, do not end. is that "everyone is doing it" and ALREADY signed to contracts as having allows no protec Anthony G. the Dean's office serve as Chief Justice lor Inside sources claim to have al- that we merely maintain a com- English teachers are tion man is a tyrant, we all know it Bing, against personal tyranny. If a ready obtained 80 signatures with petitive position." Bing and Norman N. Feltes. we Haver-for- d rather auicklv and. if we have any sense at all, fire him. many more in sight. The group Of approximately $62,500 that circa 28, took his A.B. from 3) fraternity system. We fear, above 1957, graduated Avoid sentimentalizing the has no plans at the moment other will be raised from the tuition CoUege in all, now might provide them wun Michigan and on to Christ that attacking fraternities right than to get signatures. Other hike, $25,000 will go into salary to U. of a death. And U. He is present- cause (or "enemy") and so prolong their natural sources have it that the petition increases, $5000 into scholarships, Church, Oxford "rjositively" to Community. They keep English at fraternities dn contribute the was conceived in West Wing. Stu and most of the balance will be ly teaching freshman the making adminisration's job he completed Commimitv nf Rules intact bv the dents interested in signing are ad used to pay the salaries of an ad- Michigan, where camouflage for countless bland indi his doctorate last eful vised to contact a member of that ditional faculty member for each course work for virinoio-- ,.,v, anH Hpsnnir if left on their own. With on page 4, Col. 5) "MO YVI1U VVUU1U liuiuiuvifl,,nrW i group. of the departments of English, (Cont. (Cont. on page 3, Col. 4) MARCH 13, 1963 PAGE TWO KENTON COLLEGIAN

Kenyon Collegian LETTERS TO Til EDITOR Since 1856 here, but there are others who There has been continued pres- A BI-WEEK- LY Kellogg Sees Kenyon are distinctly annoyed. Some sure as well for increased athletic manage to immerse themselves in prowess, until we are now in the F. Black half-jocke- Editors John J. Camper, Thomas the honest booze and fratemality useless state of being d. I .on Associate Editor Dixie D. 'A Very Sick Place' which have made our real name, It is in one final area, however, Frederic D. Farrar News Editor thus minimizing the sheer bore- that our progress has been most Alan R. Vogeler, Jr. To the Editors: Feature Editor dom of classes, texts, and grades. astounding. There we are making Sports Editor Richard J. Scheidenhelm The opulent sterility of eastern has become increasingly heroic efforts to justify our social Copy Editor David L. Burch education is supported by an al- This of late with the sudden and academic pretensions. Business Manager John C. Nelson most divine reputation. His ego difficult of a new breed. The The fruit of this labor is the Circulation Manager John Buckley sufficiently bolstered, the idle stu- dominance College is indeed self-style- d self -- study program, and Cartoonist Tom Novinson dent of the eastern school turns face of the ivy leaguers the fraternity reform Staff: Mike Burr, John Cocks, Ashby Denoon, John Gable, Robin Goldsmith, to more serious concerns, centered changed. Frustrated movement. Dave Langston, Ford Tucker. realistically around personal have decided to push Kenyon into We do not know yet the proposals Advisory Editors P. Frederick Kluge, Stephen C. Herbst greed. the ranks of the "great" eastern of the academic committees, but we can rest there is A journalist can't hope to do much good unless he gets a good deal hated; Our little hill, on the other leaders. assured that very of significant that's the way he knows how his work goes on. Henrietta Stackpole. hand, is really a very sick place. Lacking finances, a building little chance (Portrait of a Lady Henry James) What justification could there be program has been launched a-gai- nst change. The names and numbers may for such isolation? Evidently the supreme odds (squeezing of courses be changed, but concern -- justification founders nursed a real intense 13 people into the space once oc- such for self public image be interest in the problems and cate- cupied by seven is a striking ex- and can never Community of Love to or gories of knowledge and culture. ample of our sacrifices). reconciled originality revolu- at Kenyon College, one Self-Stud- y tion. However, our new plan for The major problem that the This refuge must have provided Also, in the last six years, there campus government has been re- is unlikely to discover, is that everyone here, or almost fertile challenge for their interest. has been the gradual tightening vealed, and if we look closely everyone, wants to be loved in one way or another to be But now we have become an over- of administrative power. The new perhaps we can see something well-thoug- flow the prestige eastern coddled, commended, or ht of. The college hierarchy from policy of strict enforcement and schools, with a certain resentment important. is on its way to dissolving into a saccharine democracy in interpretation has turned the added to our indulgent apathy. campus in midwest (a Since most of our students can and in amiably freest the which students, faculty, administration unite This is no problem for our jocks clean honest freedom that is gone find no challenging issues in the congratulating each other on their mutual failures. and hicks, who feel themselves forever) into a campus full of adult world, they must build a EVERYONE WANTS TO BE LOVED even to discuss rather blessed by their attendance timid, infantile perverts. crutch code to justify their man- the problem, if you take it as such, is risky, for it is a personal hood. This code must be as vague into Kenyon Pie, the new Gentlemen's Agreement assures and nebulous as possible, since problem, and to discuss personal problems is inevitably to still more bland and palatable ingredients. they refuse to be pinned down to commit that greatest of Gambier Bugaboos, an (ugh) ad any particular superstition. Consider idea hominem attack. But let us, at least, attempt such a discussion. the Gentlemen's Agreement the very in the name of the fraternity, not of self, because At a time when fraternities, mustering Plato, Matthew that, the THREE WIN WILSONS is not of Arnold, and other pillars of Western culture, are legislating fraternity threatened, because intrinsic worth, do Seniors Steve Herbst, Charles to become gentlemen (presumably, independents can make we legislate morality, agree to be good. "Oh, it was sad, Williams and Seth Kellogg Lord, sad, the great ship went down!" were recently awarded Wood-ro- w to hell own steam), at a time when Self-Stud- y when it under their the Wilson scholarships for faculty-involve- d In essence, the Gentlemen's Agreement, on a fraternity is fighting for the constitution of a graduate studies leading to- judicial board, we can begin to announce the birthday of THE level, reflects the failure to create gentlemen on a personal wards careers in college teach- COMMUNITY OF LOVE, and to grasp for the fragments of level, and, further, indicates the surrender of such an effort ing. The scholarships carry a its future. to the fraternity. In the name of Mother Kenyon, Alpha $1500 stipend for living ex- penses and also cover tuition LET'S TALK ABOUT this new faculty-chairmane- d, half Beta Zeta, and the Great God Publicity, we agree to be what and fees. faculty-staffe- d, we are not. To be sure, may be Judicial Board. Abandoning the idea of a otherwise it necessary that Herbst, Collegian advisory Juvenile Jury, the administration yields three seats pre- the fraternities reach an understanding with the adminis- editor and a philosophy major, viously occupied by juveniles to professional scholars. Which tration . . . but need this understanding comprise a new phil- plans to study philosophy at Is Progress. Taking time out from their correspondence and osophic manifesto ... is this an agreement between gentle- Cornell University. Kellogg, a research in the community of scholars, somehow wresting a men, or is it an agreement to manufacture them? German major, will study com- parative literature at the Un- few moments from the diligent and considered preparation CONSTRUCTIVE ADVICE Let us practice this maxim: iversity of Toronto. Williams of daily lectures, our solons will chastise the school's recreant to mind our own business. Let student, faculty, and admin- majors in French and intends libidos. istration play their full parts, keep ther own souls intact, to study that language at What will it be like will it be the fatherly, "We were and separate. Princeton University. young once too . . . youthful pecadilloes, heh, heh, heh!" For teachers this would mean avoiding as much as pos- This provides a fashion, or can we look forward to the inquisitorial tone: "Are sible, ententes cordiale with student government (except the basis for very sick and phony community. sorry? know you've been you sorry? Are you really Oh, we where it has campus wide impact.) It definitely means stay- Because it is the frustrated faculty pounding your head on the floor, begging, crying. But are ing off that Judicial Board. and administration which spon- you really sorry?" For administration it means assuming control over all sor this code, it is more deceptive a purely one. Ex- Is this what the faculty is here for . . . Isn't this what the judicial functions. Exclusive control. No faculty judges, no than student perienced more Dean is here for? Are our teachers to judge our Saturday student judges. Just an administration to adults are always willing walk in cunning about these things. nights? Do they belong on the Judicial Board? This writer, its own light, and take the blessings and the inevitable The dominant theme of the new to off for one, would prefer to think that they'd like stay it, pastings. proposals is increased communica- leaving disciplinary action to the administration under whose For students it means steering clear of these legislated tions. A very reasonable idea in- who aegis it properly belongs. harmonies with faculty, administration, and wing-war- d deed. In other words, those NOW, AT ONE TIME or another, we all believed in the leaders; avoiding dropping in frivolously on Ascension Hall have entrusted themselves with the job of reshaping fair face idea of student-facult- y intimacy we paid lip-servi- ce to this offices; the recognition the that faculty and students each have of College able we the will now be happy vision. As prefreshmen relished it Debates their own lives to lead. Why bother who's eating at Cromwell to control every facet of commun- About God late in the night in the Professor's kitchen, while House or whether President Lund knows your name? Does al life, especially in the areas his blonde, cute little two-ye- ar old daughter learned to call it matter? Why bother that you're not eating at your favorite where there is balking. All this you uncle and hs wife was offering your Denison sweetheart professor's house every night. He has his own life to lead in the name of a phony commun- ity based on yearnings a rent-fre- e ivy thatched cottage in the garden out back and so, presumably, do you. thwarted for east. (which you weed now and then). the help IF THE COLLEGIAN'S sarcasm insults, or its righteous- Bluntly, gentlemen, the whole of . . Well there's enough this ... as much of it as you want ness offends . forgive. We have our own vision of a life big deal is a farce and a fake. now . . . it's fine when its informal, accidental, and entirely at Kenyon which we value very highly. Mostly, it involves Everyone goes around patting each on but voluntary. But in the new COMMUNITY OF LOVE, whose sitting in our room, smoking cigars, eating Limburger cheese, other the back, birth we are now witnessing, such things are no longer and reading books. Presumably, secretly hoping to find some scape- teachers have a vision of goat to purge from the commun- . . . intelligence, accidental intimacy not becomes the too. self-righteo- duly their own Something that goes beyond committees. It ity, thereby proclaiming his us constituted center of academic life. would be a pity if, in the name of any bogus harmony, or purity. The Judicial Board is only a dangerous example of a campus solidarity, the two would interfere with each other. Meanwhile many of the outdated traditions of the old Kenyon are greater process. This happy "public morality," this legislated If there is an active administration, forthright and, occasion- union of faculty and student will eventually mean that the ally, callous, it need not. (Cont. on page 3, Col. 3) teacher's function will not be to instruct the educable, but to We would argue that before the three elements of campus The Collegian welcomes all console the incurable. A conversation from the future: life unite, or consider -- us unification, they attempt functioning non pornographic, non-libelo- "That's O.K. Billy don't fret that D the fact that effectively alone. A castrated administration, harried faculty, letters. you've a book, spell, piece a Except in special cases, the never read can't can't together and obsequiously cooperative student body ought not be com- literate English sentence, can't think for yourself it's pounded, in the name of love, publicity, or Collegian imposes a 500-wo- rd .... fraternity. limit on letters. They should O.K. . . . it'll turn out all right. (Patting him on the head). Rather than any massive, legislated double-space- involvement of the be typed, d. You'll do on King Lear. . . . Now better what are you doing faculty in our lives, or we in theirs; rather than the hideous No unsigned letters will be for supper tonight? By way, the ... the it's almost Valentine's specter of our intellectual mentors pondering our weekend accepted, but the editors will Day . . . for your request if have you voted favorite faculty wife yet?" pecadilloes; rather than the obliteration of individual student withhold names on THE DESTRUCTION OF personal initiative and inde- conscience in Gentlemen's Agreements, sufficient cause is shown. let us agree, instead, The right pendent effort, their replacement by corporate action and on polite editors reserve the detachment, genial distance, creative tension, above to excerpt letters for reasons mentality is not only reflected in the new Judicial Board. all, separate and personal competence as the only barricades of space. Space permitting, all student-faculty-administrati- If the Judicial Board blends on against THE COMMUNITY OF LOVE. P f K letters will be printed. MARCH 13, 1963 KENYON COLLEGIAN PAGE THREE

Kellogg since that is where the ultimate Community of Reform . . . Monell Airs Proposals authority rests. Student editors (Cont. page 2) are a nuisance, anyway; of- Mr. Pittm;in thinks he has put us on the spot with his latest letter. from they For ten have the bad taste to disagree His contention seems to if a not discarded, but modernized or Committee Talk be that wc criticize plan, we must have with us. reformed. The role of Therefore, I propose something with which to replace it. fraternities To the Editor: that positions is an example. The recent hide their on the board Recently, much has been said might be We have ous and pitiful attempt forming better assumed by the no pat answer or easy solution to the problem of de- at extolling communication between faculty, an obviously phony gentlemen's who are older and wiser clining campus morality. But we don't believe that the Gentlemen's various bodies (the arts and the than us code between fraternity presidents students. Maybe the pub- Agreement or any document which we might devise sciences, the students and the fac- lications should be can be the reveals the dangers of inexper- edited by the sought-afte- r ulty and the administration, and faculty, or even panacea. ienced and overambitious students the trustees, who the Maintenance Department with are older and wiser still (they self-justificati- also playing the game of on. Certainly we want "reform and a measure of improvement." We all of these), so it would seem ap- have more power). Even cooper- It was really a very stupid would be pleased to see an end to immoral and propriate to devote a few lines ative students might indecent behavior. blunder, Mr. Lentz. It was good eventually to a brief analysis of this sacred turn against the benign authori- Who wouldn't? We can envision this being effected within the fra- enough to fool your fellow presi- concept, and just how it is appli- ties, so it is better to keep even ternity system, just as the Gentlemen's Agreement would have it. dents (but then one doesn't have cable to that state which everyone them off the publications, as well This best of all possible worlds would be one in which fra- to be very clever to do that). all ten says does not exist between the as the Publications Board. Hav- is a very ternity presidents were held in the highest esteem by their brothers. This sad picture indeed members of our little academic ing the trustees edit the publica- of our little sand castle on These presidents would behave in a way every member of their fra- the family. tions would have the added ad- hill, but I would venture to say The are afraid ternities would try to emulate. Each president would give his fra- fraternities that vantage of ending the embarrass- that there is still hope for a new the student council is trying to ing cries of "Censorship!" ternity a unifying purpose. Reform would come from within, through Since dawn. We must throw off the ursurp the authority that they the only authority over the trus- positive example, rather through negative weight idolatry. than enforcement. of emasculated think they have. About 4148 of tees is their own collective con- and strike out on our own. Get the voting BUT WE FEAR THIS PLAN won't work since most presidents, membership of the science, they could print what- rid of the administration, fire most council is affiliated to divisions, though they might not admit it themselves, are not paradigms of just- ever they wanted to without fear of the faculty, and expell most of the possibility ice and moral virtue. Some just don't command the undying respect but still exists that of reprisal. Kenyon College would the students. Perhaps then we the divisions might which would be required of them in such a situation, and you ursurp the bravely enter into an era of un- can't shall have a core of men with authority from themselves, if legislate respect any more than you can legislate morality. Then that challenged free press. those qualities most needed in our is possible. I suggest that these again, there are too many independently-minde- d fraternity members day humility, honesty, and two groups might try to improve The content of the journals is who just aren't influenced by any example set before them. They have courage. their communications. bound to reflect the improved their own ideas about what is moral and what isn't. Quite possibly tastes of Seth Kellogg II '63 The COLLEGIAN has brazenly the new editors. We a plan similar to the above was considered by the reformers and would no longer have to argue chosen to attack the existing au- deemed unworkable. So what do we have instead? We have the with the editorial views of the Gentlemen's Agreement, which eight of the ten fraternity presidents thorities (IFC, the administration, Pittman Calls For and God's will), not realizing the COLLEGIAN, because they would have signed. be foolhardiness, indeed futility, of the sensible standard to which The Gentlemen's Agreement divides the campus into two groups such action. By doing this they we could conform. The HIKA Collegian Position would not besmirch the escutcheon gentlemen and caitiffs. The new-bor- n gentlemen are the fraternity run counter to the whole tradition of our proud college by attacking presidents, the "few of us left who would like to see (fraternities) stay To the Editors: of Richard Coeur-de-Lio- n, Mach-iavell- i, somebody whose literary excel- here," the men who are without sin and who have written and will Name calling is always good Gregg, and Lentz. Power already self-righteo- lence has been accepted uphold this us (can we call it anything else?) document. sport and as this seems to be is to be respected; that is why it by journals are also These are the gentlemen, the one who have said time and again that open season, I hope you won't is there. Challenging that power other that edited by wise men The pictorial the document concerns them (i.e. the presidents) and no one else. It mind my joining the game. You is a fruitless venture, and it might content of the yearbook could be is they who must keep the caitiffs in line. are a pair of muck-rakin- g, gutter-grovellin- g, even have an adverse effect on microscopically inspected by the fence-sitter- s. I expect, communication. We all know that Un-Colleg-i- who are "willfully CUCA (Committee for ate The caitiffs are those malicious," who are however, that calling you names communication between gentle- any person, by Activities) to "head off at "vulgarly abusive to language, gesture or action," will not get to of men is not a thing for open debate, the the heart the pass" any photograph might who are "neglectful or abusive to a female guest," who are "rude problem at hand. but should be legislated into a that to guest," who or corrupt the young or offend the or mistreat a woman those "offend humiliate" r or the second a row committee system (not one that issue in foundations. The program of women guests, those who "take advantage of (their) date(s), or the Collegian's handling of the contains people like those nasty radio station WKCO could be left deal with her in any way that is either injurious to her mental or fraternity reform efforts seems to editors that might disagree with convict- fairly intact, except periodic physical health, or is against her better judgment or moral have almost masterfully missed the authorities), but a system that that broadcasting of the reassuring ion." The distinction between the two types is, we believe, clearly the point God forbid that you can deal more effectively with our voices of the Guardians would explicit in the Agreement. (All quotes in this paragraph are from should be masterful at anything. problems. bring encouragement to the stu- Mr. Lentz's formal Gentlemen's Agreement.) You seem to imply that you With this in mind, I should like dents by showing them how eff- replied to the "reformers." You to make a few proposals to the BUT SINCE WE don't support the Gentlemen's Agreement, we are iciently administration was us- in fact did not. All you did say Committee on Campus Govern- the therefore considered against any and all fraternal reform, or equally ing the new space that it acquired was Perry Lentz and his ment. I appreciate the motives of bad, apathetic. I myself am a fraternity president and I am con that when it expanded into West Wing. cerned perhaps as much as anyone else, about their future. But the "Gentlemen's Agreement" are the committee in pleading for the removal of editors from After the albatross had been fact that the Collegian criticizes the Gentlemen's Agreement does not generally bad things. Is that the the as voting members (they removed from their necks, the mean that we are obliged to submit a replacement which will en- really the center of the issue? board replaced by coop- editors would be free to gender a spotless and easy morality. No. The central problem is the would be more student need for the improvement which erative students), but this step is settle down to some serious com- In fact one of our reasons for opposing the Agreement is it's be- will see the fraternity system not enough. I propose that we munication. Perhaps they could lief that such a document could lead to a plan (What kind of plan? through on the Kenyon campus. make it an all-facul- ty board, or do this in the jovial, rehabilitating Who knows?) which would eliminate sin from the campus. Such a You couldn't print that. "Could better yet, an all-trust- ee board, (Cont. on page 4, Col. 1) plan can only be created out of religious inspiration. The mystic it be that fraternities are no long- must descend from the Mount with the tablets bearing the Divine er needed?" That too seems far Word. But we have the Ten Commandments, and despite the re- from the point; the fact is that Community of Rules formers' frequent citations of God in their letters, we can't believe are on this cam- there fraternities (Cont. from page 1) they have the inside tract. For chivalric codes, we can look into pus and that there are still a few medieval history. of us left who would like to see no genuine intellectual or social concern to unify them, fraternities stay here. There is also the now turn to composing fatuous moral codes. The new fraternity suggest more obvious solutions. The admissions them We can other point that even the most radical declaration, justifiably scorned throughout these pages, provides us its policies and stop accepting such a de- department could tighten reform movements which have with a good indictment for fraternities in general. No doubt the generate could stop pledging such foul breed. Or the fraternities been suggsted have not pointed declaration will be defended in terms of the decadence it purports people. practice of "injuring" my dates, Mr. Pittman, I'm not in the "rat-on-your-bud- pretentious decadent a to a "home rule" or a dy' to protect us against. In truth, it is as and to sort of amusement, no Gentle are you? And if I were given this system. You couldn't document as we've seen. It should serve as a guide for Student stop me. If fraternity members are as per men's Agreement would print that. Then there is the Deans everywhere. verse as document makes them appear, and if the only way for this distinction which the Dean's office enough to think that the evils which beset the fraternity system to sustain itself is to change their members We are not foolish has made between college rule peculiar to Kenyon. Nor do we think that the other behavior, then there is truly no hope for fraternities. Kenyon are and fraternity responsibility. prestige schools are any better off than Kenyon. But we are foolish OUR POINT IS NOT that the Gentlemen's Agreement will be in- Needless to say, you wouldn't enough to think that Kenyon need not exist to round out the poverty effective. If only this were the case, there would really be little rea print that. But that's unimport- of American education. We have not resigned ourselves to the son to oppose it. But we believe that it can do a positive harm to the ant; it's milk already spilt. "System." This is our final sentimentality. S.C.H. fraternity system. By focusing responsibility upon the president, But the fact that your pages rather than on each individual member, and by placing these 'gentle are still filled with anti-fratern- al men' presidents above the perverse common herd, the Agreement reform literature is important; and Five Week-End- s encourages the caitiffs to remain that way, subject to the approval or the fact that you still duck the It Takes disapproval' of Big Brother. The presidents, by upholding the issue is equally important (as is The College Bowl team leaves this week-en- d for New York City. Gentlemen's Agreement, agree to be good and take on the responsi the fact that you still accept With it goes all the enthusiasm we can muster, and that's surprisingly possible conse- bility for their members' behavior "insofar as it is possible for me to slanderous letters from little men a good deal. In the past we have questioned the "Faintheartedness" control his behavior." The low-lif- e who makes up the membership who are afraid to stand behind quences and inherent morality of the program. But you can will continue to go his degenerate way, provided the president isn't what they say free press?). and "intellectual snobbery" have been posted our way. individual looking. What does the editorial "we" bet come Sunday, we'll be tuned in. Out of interest in the stand for? Does it stand for any team members and in the college itself (which may come as a shock of our proposed reforms, the TV, So. in view of the obvious failure thing? Or is it simply an insidious to the myopic among us), we'll be there, lounging before the reservation, the status quo. Yes, Mr. Collegian supports, without front, radically conceived, and second guessing the panel. we "hard-cor- e conservatives." We're con- Pittman, in this case are masking a hard-cor- e conservativ-ism- ? and regrets. Reservations that by present publications board; and as They go with our reservations servatives in our drive to keep the Do you want reform and a is too precious to lose. With re- reactionaries, we believe attending we lend a dignity that for the judicial board, we are downright for of improvement? Do you fit to try out. to the former measure grets that some students did not see not in keeping the present system, but in reverting abandoned on and want fraternities To those who have worked in this effort Professors Trescott state when the Dean tried all cases. campus? Do you want leth- Cocks, this Sutcliffe Dean Edwards, Barry Mankowitz, Dr. Miller, Jay argy and laissez-faire- ? Or do you Collegian public As "conservatives", we believe that it would be better to have Robin Goldsmith, and innumerable others, the gives want, in fact, anything at all? We things the way they are than to have positively harmful change. If thanks. responsibility, all know that you don't like Perry our natures, the fraternity presidents want to have more fraternal To the team members, good luck, and if it were in Lentz. All right; what do you why don't they advise their members as equals, as they should have Godspeed. on in this prig- like? This reader would like to really been doing all along, instead of looking down them And remember you guys, as someone said last week, it gish, condescending document? After all, "This agreement demands know. New York City. Philip McM. Pittman '63 does take five weekends to get to know no more of us than our consciences would normally demand." J.J.C. MARCH 13, PAGE FOUR KENYON COLLEGIAN 1963

1) The hiring and promotion of their fiaccidity and indifference. Stetson. It left him in the awk- personnel on the basis of merit They would rather indulge on ward position of refuting a ghost. Monell . . . alone; 2) an end to segregated that fluid of forgetfulness. Had the student or students who Bowl Team... per- (Cont. from page 1) (Cont. from page 3) drinking fountains, restrooms, and Consider the judicial proposals. wrote the letter admitted it, six-ma- money atmosphere of good, healthy com- seating; 3) use of courtesy titles Here again, a n board is haps a discussion with Mr. Stet- hoping that the we will munication that would character-iz- e ("Mrs.," "Miss," and "Mr.") for proposed, so no one is made the son (as he wished) could have win will stimulate Alumni con- the new student-facult- y judi all customers; 4) service on a first scapegoat. Is the committtee been arranged to iron out the tributions." first-serv- Sophomore cial board. Out of this atmos- come, ed basis. afraid of frightening the Dean (or difficulties. Mike Underwood has impressed his teammates phere of administrative selection The boycott, now in its fourth anyone else) with the prospect of Why the writer of the letter and of coach his vast store of gen- a new species of Kenyon Gentle month, has had the overwhelming clearly defined responsibilities concerning the lack heat in with knowledge. is man will evolve. These men will support of the Negro population which would make him shoulder Ascension wanted to stay name- eral He also well sciences. neither despair nor maim their of Jackson for these moderate alone the judicial process? less is hard to imagine. The only versed in the dates (on weekends) but would aims. Nevertheless, opposition In fact, the proposals avoid de- thing I can see from this is that "NURSERY RHYMES annoy me Ger-lac- apply themselves to some serious supported by the White Citizens fining the responsibilities, for it was written by a freshman who inordinately," muttered John h communication. Council, has been bitter. Pickets there are either no brave men to feels that when criticizing the while trying to illustrate the James W. Monell, '63 have been harrased and arrested either assume them or assign faculty or administration it is difficulty of preparing for the an- to a lawsuit has been brought a them. And it avoids admitting common practice to remain literature questions be asked. sports gainst the boycott leaders, one of that students are too timid to be onymous. Mythology, information, Headline Registers their homes has been fired on concerned with their own campus There is another word for name- and a smattering of music are and dynamiting has been threat life. Indeed, the whole proposal less criticism tattling. While Gerlach's other strong points. He Dismay With Treasurer ened. To add to the effectiveness is a study of that very lack of not wishing to debate the moral- also is a Senior Prize Scholar, and of the boycott, an appeal has been fortitude it never adequately ity of this type of communication, an honors candidate in English. To the Editors: made for students throughout the deals with. I would like to reiterate its in- Perry Lentz, captain of the team, It is unfortunate, and dismay country to bring more pressure effectiveness as a means for ac- feels that "we won't be over- ing, to read in an otherwise con- upon those national chain stores Thp too-lat- e petition to put complishing a change. Unless confident, but after having been structive and beneficial article by included in the boycott. Fred Kluge on the College Bowl someone is willing to back a claim, batted around here on campus one defending will us- more bloodthirsty anyway." Mr. Vogeler, the headline: "Col A group of Kenyon students, calls back to us a day about the rebuttal we're unani- ually stand. The southerner is not lege Deficit forces Endowment under the name of the Student month ago when almost articulate to jump To a of totally convincing when he con- Manipulation." This headline Social Action Committee, have mously students voted conclude, in "Journal College Bowl, Opinion" it is nice to fides he is entirely clutched seems to have been selected only organized to support this cam- headlong into the Student that The know what are voicing thought of tele- to attract interest. To choose a paign for human equality. As our without careful consideration. students at the national (it did opinion. A headline merely to attract "inter first step, we are circulating a questioning Kluge editorial an vision. junior honors candidate oppose '63 English, asserts, "We est" is a dubious technique, es petition voicing our concern and raise questions, not tne Bob Cleveland in Lentz will well) was do we will wary pecially when it suggests hanky urging the end of discriminatory bowl if you read it our best; be and students, I panky in the financial office. The practices. ignored, and now frantic resolute." implication of headline is seeing a Dotent Wake Forest team Professor Discovers Faculty coach Paul B. Trescott the During spring vacation a dele suppltmented by the win two consecutive times, are draws high praise from all in- furthermore gation of Kenyon students will a is 'aghast hastily nuttinff together a petition volved with the effort. His work assertion that reader present this petition to the nation Campus Misbehavior deficits, and by a they think will save the in choosing and tempering the at annual later al offices, in New York, of those of that sentence which states that "Since school. Why didn't these eager To the Editors: sterling minds has welded a func- the Jackson stores represented in a dept to be paid, hands dip beavers think of this month question, is ungen-tlemanl- y tioning unit of fair durability. the has this area (i.e., J. C. Penney's and The "What of Kenyon's en- ago when they gleefully voted re- Trescott said of the whole effort, into the coffers Wolworth's, both of Mount Ver conduct," has been dowment fund, reducing by Kenyon into this contest? Stu- cently asked. I I can "If we don't win on the basis of it non). We will report the out think that . . ." dents supporting the petition are the time and effort we've put in, $50,000. come of this action to the student fairly offer two examples, conduct if taking the Bowl seriously, believ per- just too bad." It would have been helpful body following vacation, and base which marred the splendid that's Mr Vogeler had pointed out that ing that a loss will ruin the school's consideration of further action, if formance of the Western Choir so was a rerjutation. This belief is exactly the 'endowment' used any, on it. and the Kenyon Singers: Ford Achievement Grant which why we should have not gone on 1. Talking out loud during the I urge New Faculty . . . permitted its use to pay faculty would all those who have in the first place, tor tne bowi concert, loud enough to disturb any justice 1) salaries. The sum of $45,000 was concern for social and is only a game and if students performers and listeners alike. (Cont. from page two-ye- human dignity to support this Although in- expended over a ar period can't realize this, we shouldn t (Was not Kenyon College doubly month. currently protest against racial discrimin he of improvement, fully authorized play. Let the team now chosen disgraced when a visiting conduc- volved in Shakespeare studies, ation by adding their names to says special is 19th-centur- y by the Board of Trustees from go on they have been working tor had to home au- his interest in petition. rebuke the Funds Functioning as Endowment the hard for weeks on it and if dience for its bad manners?) literature. Frederick L. Houghton '63 well, it was only a Feltes, 31, graduated cum laude not from main endowment they lose 2. Smoking in Rosse Hall dur- a to for the SSAC game, and no reputation was from U. of Notre Dame in 1953, principal. This use of grant ing a public performance, a fla- and proceeded to Oxford U. for a the College thus appears to be a tarnished. grant violation of state fire laws, Mankowitz '66 B.Litt. (English) in 1959. He has lesser sin than envisaged by Mr. Carl insurance regulations, College and lectured at University College, Vogeler. I hope that this inf orma Mankowitz Decries rule, all clearly posted public- and Dublin, Ireland, and is presently tion will remove for the readers ly on many Cleveland announced occasions. teaching at Loyola College, Mon- of the Collegian, the unhealthy Flaccidity, Timidity Censures (Consider the difficulty of making connotation of word 'manipu treal. His main interest is Victor- the a safe exit from Rosse Hall in a ian literature, and his specialty is lation' which has pejorative con To the Editors: Missive Anonymity sharp emergency. Consider also Matthew Arnold, his doctoral notation in finance and business. the annoyance to the singers you who Marl-he- w I do "Son, fumbled the ball." To the Editors: topic. Feltes is author of To conclude, appreciate were forced to transform that air the interest and effort which Mr. Indeed there has been too much The latest issue of The Collegian Arnold and the Modern ball fumbling and razzle-dazzl- e in into pleasing sound.) Vogeler and the editors have made added to a trend that I dislike Spirit: A Reassessment, which ap- for no one wants to The ac- to discuss the main subject of the backfield, seeing at Kenyon the printing principle behind these peared last fall. The two new- annual operating deficits and the carry the ball if he is going to be of anonymous "Letters to the tions, whether conscious or not, comers are replacements for Profs. Self-Stud- y self-aggrandizeme- The is a case seems to nt, growth of endowment principal. tackled. Editor." me to be Hoyle and Schmidt. point. Shaler Bancroft in One of Walt Disney's characters doing what one wants with- Rhodes Scholar B. Peter Sey- out Treasurer "Principles of corporate respon (I think it was Thumper) said "If regard for the legitimate con- mour, 34, now working toward a sibility of fraternities have yet to you can't say anything nice, don't cerns of others. We all commit Ph.D. at John Hopkins U. on a sorry you interpreted I am have be established," the committee re- say anything at all." I prefer an such acts (mea culpa), but to com- top fellowship, will join" the the headline to have been "selected port says. No, gentlemen, what adage given to me in Sunday mit them publicly is obviously French department as instructor only to attract interest." I intended must be established is individual School, "If you're not proud ungentlemanly behavior. and replacement for Brian Dendle, no "unhealthy connotations" in responsibility. The presidents must enough to admit saying (writing) Prof. Gerrit H. Roelofs (Cont. on page 6, Col. 5) either the headline or the article. really be deluded if they think something, don't say (write) it." Although the word "aghast" ap- that they can buck individual ir- The letter concerning President usage is pears in my article, its responsibility and look after Lund's inaccessability had a great by occur thoroughly validated the drunken brawls, broken windows, deal of merit to it. Many of the SUMMER CLASSES acy with which it describes any well-pu- and girls in rooms. If ever Ken points were t. Unfortun in the one's just reaction to the discov yon boys become men, then the ately, because the author wishes ery of a $38,000 budgeted deficit. need for presidents' agreements to remain anonymous, President ROCKY MOUNTAINS Contrary to your implication, this (as well as the outmoded frater- Lund's reply will probably stand containing Wide selection of courses in word, and the phrase nity system, which is yet another as the final word on the matter. major subjects in "hands dip into the coffers" were self -- aggrandizing establishment) How can the letter be defended the liberal arts curriculum not chosen for their sensationalistic will be no more. when no one will take credit for General studies courses in the Creative Arts overtones or their ability to imply The committee speaks of lack it? Hanya Holm School of Dance "hanky-pank- y in the financial of- of courage. "Whenever individ-- , The "Stetson incident" was ability to ex- Language fice," but for their uals or groups who possess au much more controversial, but I press simple fact. thority are disciplined to accept believe the author was wrong for French Al Vogeler active responsibility, problems are not signing it. Certainly, if he German bound to arise." Instead of recom- was afraid of reprisals it would (German Language House for mending that individuals bear the have been possible to ask others 25 residential students) Equalitarians Band pro- burden of the governmental for help in drafting the letter and Russian cess, they call for all members of then stand together. James Rcid's Spanish Together in New SSAC the Kenyon community to come acknowledgement in this past together ostensibly to exchange Collegian of the "crackers charge," Art and Music To the Editors: views, but really because every shows that there were others who Applied and Theory I would like to bring to the one is afraid to be the bad guy, had similar feelings on the mat Concerts, Lectures, attention of your readers a matter who after assuming responsibility Film Series ter and would have probably been Summer Recreation Program which ought to be of concern to and things go wrong, takes the willing to help. Remaining an- Kenyon students. As many of blame. They know that the more onymous was also unfair to Mr. For details, catalogue, and application form, write: them may already know, integra-tionis- ts they "communicate" (talk, talk, in Jackson, Miss., under talk) the less will be done. Candies the leadership of the North Jack- The complex new organization Gifts COLORADO COLLEGE son NAACP Youth Council, are is attempting to bring the mem- Village Inn Summer Session Office engaged in a mass boycott of bers of "the best classes ever" to LUNCHEON anti-Negr- o Colorado College stores practicing dis- the river of concern to drink. The DINNER crimination. liquid is too strong, it sobers and Colorado Springs, Colorado Pipes Tobacco The objects of the boycott are makes the students too aware of ,ARCH 13, 1963 KENYON COLLEGIAN PAGE FIVE FIVE RECORDS SET WHILE RAIN CONFINES LORD MERMEN TOP CONFERENCE NINE TO INDOOR CATCH by Lou Berney The club's weaknesses lie in its ;U twenty-sixt- h gained the annual Ohio by Tom LaBaugh in the Kenyon's only two freshman hitting and reserve pitching. Last 200-y- Although 1903 swimming ehampion--,ps- , d. Kenyon's baseball inference individual medley with a swimmers, Watkins and Ed Tell- year's team dropped some well 400-y- team doesn't open its season until hosted by Oberlin, Kcnyon's fast 2:14.5 and the d. free- ing, placed. pitched contests Watkins was a mem- April 6, its phase of "spring train- because of its jiniming team swept to victory style medley team of Tim Pierce, lack of hitting. ber of the freestyle relay team and ing" has been Yielding the big- ,r the tenth year in a row. Bill Watkins, Bud under way for Kuppenheimer, placed 100-y- d. gest bat for the Lords year sixth in the free- about three weeks now. Thus far this jooster won the meet in 1953; and Evans. style with a 55.2 will be Cal Ellis, who led clocking. Telling the practice sessions have been the team vtr since then Kenyon has been Mike Claggett erased Pierce's garnered in batting average year. two sixth places, one in confined to Wertheimer Field last He power league. school 200-y- d. 500-y- je dominant in the record in the free- the d. will probably be supported by freestyle (5:51.7) and House because of the weather. style as he placed second 200-y- The team performance this year with a the other in the d. freestyle Klug, who was sidelined by a of While it is difficult to get much ,35 surprisingly strong as the time 1:59.8. (2:03.1). shoulder injury in his accomplished indoors, the team freshman ords piled up 127 points, more GULLION did very well as he year. Hicks and Cree, Southpaw THE has been able to work on its con- -- LOSS to team doubling Wittenberg's won both 100 200-y- d. the this Collins and righty Poole (who l3n total the and ditioning and timing. Coach Skip 1 year of 60 points. The Lord backstroke the senior class marks the has been plagued by a sore arm tankers races and placed a Falkenstine has given his players rec-:d- passing of the second generation stablished five conference s heartbreaking 200-y- d. in the past) must be in top form third in the work in infield practice, situation way victory, of swimmers to keep the winning if the Lords are to improve on on their to the individual medley. Gullion had baseball, batting practice (pitched rec-:- tradition of the team alive. If last years 7-- 13 record. Because of ijve Evans led the pack of i second place in the medley all but by Iron Mike), and pitching. setters with two stellar in- won when, thinking he had next year's squad hopes to main- the six doubleheaders, Adkins tain its winning ways, it will dividual performances (22.6 in the reached the wall for the finish of have The squad will mainly consist won't be able to start as much as 100-y- to come up with to H).yd freestyle; 50.7 in the d. the race, he stopped swimming. the material of returning veterans. The infield usual. 400-y- do so. past two years oestyle) and helped the d. Actually, he had two yards to go The have should have Dave Kearney at first, Baseball Schedule Gul-;o- seen a great outflow of strong 6, redley relay team of Dave n, and, before he could recover, Ken Klug at second, Cal Ellis at April Sat Heidelberg (2) - H swimmers which two -- Jim Young, and Lynn Hayes Boyd of Ohio Wesleyan touched the last short, and Paul Crawley at the April 9, Tues Akron A freshman classes have not ade- Lynn, April 11, Thurs Muskingum - A B a new conference record of him out. Gullion's time was still hot corner. John Hubie quately replenished. The stock is April 13, - ;jS.O. Evans' times were also a very commendable 2:16.5. Hicks, and Curt Cree are in the Sat Oberlin (2) H dwindling and it could be that the with April 16, Tues Otterbein - H ;ood for Kenyon varsity marks. Other swimmers to place for outfield, Gene Little around years to come won't find Kenyon duty. April 18, Thurs Wittenberg - A Kenyon were: Hayes - for reserve Fred Schladen JOHN MILLER, third man in fourth in on top any longer. April 20, Sat (2) - H 200-y- and Alex McNamara backed up Denison both the 100 and d. butterfly, je breast stroke all year long, by freshman Jim Kaplan, are bat- April 25, Thurs Wooster - A LaBaugh - sixth in the 100-y- d. Kenyon swimming, however, is siddenly swam to the front of the tling for the catching job. The April 27, Sat B-- W (2) - H 200-y- butterfly and second and in such a fine tradition in this tradi- -- third ack in the d. breast stroke Lords' hill corp is led by Joe April 30, Tues Marietta - A the breast events, Kuppen- tionally apathetic island that ob- sbeat the field with a conference stroke May 3, Fri Wooster - H 50-y- Adkins, Tom Collins, and Hank heimer - third in the d. free- servers here hope that the Admis- aid college record time of 2:28.2. Poole, with Crawley, Lynn, and May 8, Wed Capital - A style, Young - second in 200-y- d. sions Department will bless the Miller's effort gave evidence of the May 11, Sat Denison (2) - A half-doze- Cree on hand for relief duty. breast stroke, Claggett - fourth campus with the n good incredible improvement; just one May 15, Wed O. Wesleyan -- A 500-y- in the d. freestyle, Pierce -- swimmers needed to field a sound reek before the conference meet Good looking freshmen at this May 18, Sat Capital (2) - H third in the 100 and fifth in the team. stage of practice are Lou Martone, his best time for the same event 500-y- d. 100-y- freestyle. outfield; Dave Carter, 3rd base; vas 2:35.0. In the d breast stop; stroke, Miller placed third. Jon Kooiker, short and Track Team Finishes NETTERS BEGIN PRACTICE Kaplan. Jim Young, a member of the STICKMEN TO Seventh At Denison 400-y- re-ia- THE STALWART of the team record setting d. medley y ON BASKETBALL COURT is senior has been Kenyon's track team took sev- ce Adkins. The team, went after his own con-sren- All-St- ar enth place at Conference in- - HEAD EAST selected to the conference the mark of 1:07.1 in the 100- In case you haven't noticed, the door meet held at Granville, Ken-yon- team for the past two seasons. yd. breast stroke and nipped Coach Norm Dubiel 's takes tennis team has begun practice. According to Coach Falkenstine, March 9. Ace dashman Bill 310th of a second off this time lacrosse team east in two Workouts have been confined to the big righthander is a definite Sweeney sustained a dislocated in the preliminaries. Young later weeks of preparatory action a-gai- nst by major league prospect. He has a toe in a preliminary heat and the vent on to win the race in the some of best collegiate times and places not utilized the good curve, a jumping fastball subsequent loss of points in trials a Twenty-fiv- e baseball teams; with 1:07.4 effort. teams in the nation. the lacrosse and 300-y- d. and fine control. the dash dropped the Other first place finishes were players, of which nine are return- one may go down to the field-hous- e Lords at least three places. Mt. ing lcttermen, will compete a-gai- nst at almost any time and find Union swept the meet with a total Maryland, Students Rsponsible awesome the Coach Bob Harrison and the ten- W0RTMAN PLACES FOURTH of 46 points. University of Massachusetts, Tow-so- n For Holiday Damage? Prospective players run The Lords won no first places. State, Williams and Delaware. nis team. IN HIRAM COMPETITION laps where the water isn't, Three seniors, however, managed To the Editor: their Dubiel is quite optimistic about Kenyon's wrestling team ended seconds. Phil Bissell took a sec- The following is a copy of a practice where brawling boys with team's chances for a good its season on a sour note at the ond in the 440-y- d. dash, Dave letter the shoulder-pad- s I have sent to Mr. Lord, sticks and aren't 55-y- season. Great things are expected conference meet at Hiram, March Shevitz was runner-u- p in the d. Business Manager. of senior defenseman Mike Kol-czu- n. the tennis team, as a result, is 2. Only captain Rick Wortman dash, and Jim Monell was Before Christmas vacation, a Senior Jon Hobrock, who beginning to develope an infer- was at all successful; he won three edged in the mile. notice from the Office of the Busin- matches and lost two to finish was injured last year, should beef iority complex. THE CINDERMEN squeezed ess Manager requested that mid- fourth in the 157 lb. division. up the Lords' attack. Senior out a 70-6- 7 victory over a strong rooms be left in a condition cond- a complex really nec- fielders John Colwell and Steve Such isn't Ken- ucive to cleaning. Sure enough, Coach Art Lave commented that Wooster team on March 2. Fischman, and sophomore attack-ma- n essary however, because Kenyon's yon places, an- the rooms were gone over, and "we were lucky on the draws, won six first tied Bill Hylton, who made hon- tennis team figures to be up there of our other, and set one varsity record 've found property missing and but didn't take advantage mention on the All Mid-We- st damaged. orable with the best of them this year. luck. The meet was one of up- in the process. team a year ago, should give In an extreme case, one stu- Wittenberg and Oberlin are the sets." Unfortunately, the Lords A team of John Schweppe, Steve the team poise and balance. of dent asked the college take conference; were on the wrong end almost Spring, Bissell and Mieure won that The primary cause of Dubiel's teams to beat in the care of damage: his answer all of them. the mile relay in a record time of the optimism, however, is the return the return and addition of key was a quotation from the Student y. 3:36.3, cinching the victory points. of junior midfielder Chuck Ver-der- men could boost the Lords into a The final season record for Ken- Handbook: "Kenyon College is not He received All-Americ- an yon - two victories, two ties, and responsible loss or theft of, or contending spot. for (honorable mention) honors last seven setbacks, is the best since lor damage to, any student's Bob Cleveland, who has season and led the team in many Senior 1958, however, and with only one WHAT'S property." hampered for the past two departments, including scoring. been wrestler lost through graduation, Now it seems right to assume years with a knee injury, will be Coach Lave feels his team will do NEW that the College cannot take the permitted to play doubles. Fresh- much better next season. IN THE MARCH blame for student negligence, Mt Vernon Plaza man Dick Cantine could contri- kleptomania, or carelessness. bute greatly to the team's chances. Dave Langston, are back. Rapidly ATLANTIC? Rooms have locks, and we have BARBER SHOP Five lettermen, juniors George improving senior Jim Scherer and Evelyn Waugh reminisces about his keys or Scheiden-hel- m freshman Dusty Wees and Don for them; anything stolen Four Chain No Wailing Callaghan and Dick younger days in "Father and Son" broken is our own fault Shopping and sophomores Dave Meacham may give the team good either At Big Bear Cntor Oscar Handlin: A critical look at neu- (because we leave rooms unl- 9-- 9 Daily Thomas, Dennis McKnew, and depth. tralism, Its development and the disas- ocked) or a matter for law en- trous form it has now taken forcement: jolly but ineffective KENYON COLLEGE Saul Bellow writing on "The Writer as Cass, or the proper police. CUMULATIVE BASKETBALL STATISTICS SUMMARY Moralist" But College issues THROWS SHOTS RE. FOULS POINTS James R. Killlan, On the Impact when the No. FIELD GOALS FREE Jr.: keys Avg. No. Dis. No. Avg. spending on private and admits its employees, AUs. Scored Pet. Att. Scored Pet. Missed No. of federal research Games 47 2 174 9.15 economy its .377 46 30 .652 135 57 3. industry and on our blanket is not in order. Tom F 19 191 72 1.93 waiver Collins, 14 9 .643 23 22 1.57 18 0 27 For 14 27 9 .333 then the student has no Kuehl, Bill 41 .640 105 141 7.85 43 5 161 8.95 ALSO 18 143 60 .420 63 means of Schmid, David 167 185 9.75 67 4 231 12.2 of protection save that 224 93 .415 81 45 .555 Special Supplement on Children: Randy 19 2 136 10.05 Livingston, 29 14 .483 126 41 3.16 33 Some fascinating views of children by constant patrol (impossible when 13 172 61 .390 Klug. Ken 5 .31 23 1 45 2.8 43 21 .489 6 3 .500 25 Dr. Robert Coles, Jim Brosnan, Walt 'be dorms supposedly locked) 16 2 34 2.12 are Pettibone, Alan 16 10 .625 28 26 1.65 24 Kelly, Ogden Nash and others. or 16 34 12 .354 the inconceivable Crawley, Paul 10 45 32 2. 21 1 50 3.1 physically 60 20 .333 15 .675 Bob 16 0 157 12.1 Every month stategy back Chenen, 23 13 .565 122 59 4.2 22 the of carting everything 1 184 72 .392 Atlantic provides a Farney, Brian .625 66 40 2.67 32 1 115 7.56 .A and 96 45 .470 40 25 many forth each vacation. 15 1 6 1.2 platform for of Lynn, John 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 4 3 .750 world's most ar- Thus I ask that the College be Others 159 the 1138 59.8 ticulate and creative responsible for any damage or 336 202 .601 828 751 39.6 335 18 19 1138 468 .414 men and women. The Own Team Totals 826 880 46.3 276 5 1281 66.5 'heft resulting its employees' 486 .428 483 309 .640 is always enter- from Opponents' Totals 19 1135 413 21 1478 67.2 result .412 565 342 .605 1033 1155 52.5 w negligence 1378 568 taining and Informa- (cleaning, doors left Kenyon 1961-6- 2 22 418 23 1376 62.5 .361 558 364 .652 1090 968 44.0 oc- ng 1402 506 tive, often brilliant, unlocked, and aid in pre-Venti- Opponents' Totals 22 988 364 1268 66.7 etc.) 498 .399 460 272 .591 profound. 1960-6- 1 19 1246 60.8 casionally un- Kenyon .677 772 338 1155 or prosecuting any 1056 401 .379 521 353 More and more, the Opponents 19 421 1389 66.1 authorized .357 483 258 .570 1127 Atlantic is finding Its entry. 1959-6- 0 21 1547 552 73.1 Kenyon 403 .675 1010 360 1533 r 1380 565 .409 598 way Into the hands of (and this seems the easier Opponents 21 981 389 1014 56.3 386 .295 432 242 .560 discerning readers. 1958-5- 9 18 1310 1350 75.0 w. curse) guarantee that my room Kenyon 547 356 .650 1040 328 your copy today. ON 18 1197 497 .416 Get S remain locked, and unpolished if Opponents S SALE 14 games NOW 1962-6- 3 5 Lost All V necessary. Coach Robert W. Harrison Won 3 11 Ohio Conference J. E. Schofield '65 2-25- -63 MARCH 13, 1963 PAGE SIX KENYON COLLEGIAN

Dean," said Kluge. Monell claim- Self-Stud- y . . . ed it would be the "best thing for Languages . . . GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT (Cont. from page 1) the entire community to have the Dean handle all judicial matters." 1) A more fiery (with Steve Herbst (Cont. from page Sugden added, "The stu- a lan- supplying much of the fuel) ex- Senior will be required to learn SUPPORTED handbook clearly states that by crook before APPRAISED, change of ideas developed in last dent guage by hook or has sole responsibility may Thursday's public discussion of the Dean receiving his diploma. He As an opposing point of view the one of controlling, and that only in handling judicial cases. Ju- language courses ar- the proposed changes in the ju- take elementary Collegian offers the following within the limits of reason. 11-1- Ken-yo- n, responsibility belongs his 1- -2 2 system. dicial in on the or level at ticle, contributed by Philip Mc M. dicial LENTZ'S "Gentlemen's Agree-ment- hands alone." but these courses may not be Pittman. " included among the minimum is the first positive step in If adopied, the new Judicial "I'D WORRY about the objec- number required for a degree. Criticism of the fraternity sys- the necessary direction. It is not Board would provide for three tivity of the Dean if he handled A satisfactory grade in a lan- tem on the Gambier hill is not a document which binds every

members, chosen by the all cases," the Chairman objected. 11-1- system fraternity man to a code of b- faculty guage 2 course will be taken only a recent issue; the nom- President from a list of 10 In the proposed Board, Finkbeiner as proof of proficiency. A satisfac- has been under fire for the past ehavior or a doctrine of moral ar- a inees submitted by Student sees a "much greater chance for tory score on a College Entrance few years, but it did come to bitration under an imposed hie- Council, and four students, ap- fair decision if the people who Examination Board Achievement a crux about a year and a half rarchy of power mad maniacs; it pointed by Student Council. make the decision do not have a Test (about 550) or a grade of 3 ago. Joe Wharton and Pat Ed- does, in fact, concern only the The present Board consists of whole backlog of personal infor- on the Advanced Placement Test wards approached the Pan-Hellen- ic presidents. It is designed to do 12 students appointed by Stu- mation on the defendent." will also show proficiency. Council and suggested that three things for the fraternity non-votin- g strongly presidents: dent Council and two The hope of the Committee is the fraternities had best "I see re-evaluat- faculty advisers. Herbst rebutted with don't consider the possibility of a ion 1) It defines the presidential or human value that students who have had in- the informational program. office, and gives it some of the in having teachers act as jurors." sufficient preparation in high ob- character which it was lacking HERBST, a Board member, school or who have completed the by Whar- The recommendations of office pro- 1- (realizing, course, that the jected in principle to the Junior Board member Tom Col- -2 course at Kenyon will study ton and Edwards were but the is only as strong as posals. "What I'm worried about lins and Committee member Per- over vacations to be able to dem- the man who first positive statements from the holds it). is faculty judging students," he ry Lentz sided with Finkbeiner. onstrate proficiency as soon as Asso- powers that be: the Alumni 2) is an aid to problem is dis- faculty-stude- nt It the execution stated. "The what "I think the Board possible. The CEEB tests will be ciation, the Faculty Council, the advantages of that office, for it gives the advantages and the will improve judicial processes. given during the fall registration administration, and only casual- might have. Psy- president a medium in which to proposed Board I don't see any inherent evil in the period and at the end of each ly from the student body itself. chologically and principally it is Board," commented Collins. semester. work, and by which to define the new EVER SINCE WHARTON and wrong to have the faculty med- Lentz foresees respect in college axiom "gentlemanly co- mutual The committee also recom- Edwards have left the campus, dling in student business." the proposed Board, something nduct" be re-alignm- mended that the CEEB test ent pro- the call for a 3) In so strengthening the pres-ident- al Herbst thinks it would be em- that allegedly would be lacking given as part of the final examin- gram has not died out; because office it more realistically barrassing for a student to stand 11-1- if the Dean alone tried all student ation in 2 language courses, we have hit fairly smooth times, places the fraternity within the before his teachers playing the cases. With an autocratic Dean, not to determine whether the stu- it is not so loud. But this is no larger working organism of the role of jurors. "The embarrass- "It could turn into a cat and dent is proficient, but to establish easily to ani- indication that the issue should College community, for the fr- ment could lead mouse game." a norm by which candidates for be dropped. aternity president is the frate- mosity between students and admission may be judged. It will As recently as last year Dean rnity's strongest contact with the faculty." FINKBEINER said if he "could be up to the individual instructor pro- Edwards told Interfraternity College through Interfrater- This is precisely what the be convinced that the Dean would to determine what weight shall be the the designed to com- Council unless the fraternity nity Council. The agreement is posed Board was not ride roughshod over individual given the CEEB scores in deter- that recep- system could justify its own ex- not a document which leads to the bat. rights" he might be more mining students' final grades. "rat-on-your-bud- at Kenyon dy" home rule Senior Jim Monell echoed tive to the quartet's plea. "We STUDENTS embarking on the istence, fraternities saying, "If our to as much would probably slide into oblivion situation, it is rather a step toward Herbst's beliefs, were trying write in study of another foreign language student-facult- y within of only a few controlling function which aim is to improve protection as possible for the will be given college credit for the matter that years. perform. relations, the best way to achieve individual." elementary courses taken in the the fraternity should this end is not to have students The expanding population of second language, provided they The critics call for reform, and and faculty wrangling over decis- Kluge then compromised his or- campus presents in have shown proficiency in the the itself the in the "Gentlemen's Agreement" ion making." iginal stand. "In cases where the first step along this possible slide. first. All advanced language they are given the seed for that KLUGE commented, "The fac- Dean or the accused would fear So problem is con- of carry Col- the one which to- unfair treatment of the case, then courses will, course, reforms. It is a simple step ulty should not be legislated into lege credit. tinues to press, and because the position of the case would be referred to a ward a strengthening of the fr- the trying students. According to Com- pressure is, temporarily, not so student-facult- y Curriculum aternity body, and that on the most The influence of faculty on stu- committee to ren- great, it is apt to be forgotten. But mittee Chairman Bruce Haywood, basic level. It is impossible to dents is best felt in an informal der a fair decision." it must not be forgotten, for now chairman of the German depart- say what further steps may need fashion. The meeting of minds is the time when those steps may Herbst stuck to his guns. He ment, "As long as colleges keep be taken, but the seed seems to be should not come about with puni- be taken which will see fra- did, however, appear willing to on giving credit for elementary the planted, and so the tree should tive intentions." ternity system through those meet the Committee on its own language studies, high schools grow. If presidents can a- Rev. Richard Hettlinger, one of may the "Maybe you should have won't work hard at giving their times which seek to destroy which the eight Committee members, de- terms. ssume the responsibility to students sufficient language pre- it. fended the proposals. He said in an advisory board to the Dean, they aspire, then the fraternity paration." No matter what form fraternity of order to agree on some standard consisting of faculty and students, system is exhibiting a measure "We're doing what many other reform should take, it boils down self-respe- ct of conduct it will be necessary to but the board should not have the that responsibility and de- colleges are now doing," Haywood to one thing: increased responsi- have faculty participation in jury power to reverse the Dean's which is rightfully its own. said, "that is, awarding college bility to the individual fraternity decisions. He feels cisions." furthermore credit only for college level work. unit, and increased responsibility a "need to balance each offense PROFESSOR Bruce Haywood Forty per cent of last year's en- immediately puts on the mask of with appropriate mutual judg- New Faculty . . . questioned how extensive the in- tering freshmen who submitted "home rule." Home rule is not, ment." (Cont. page 4) tercourse between faculty and stu- CEEB scores would have received and apparently cannot be, an ac- from Rev. Mr. Hettlinger thinks that dents would be if the jury trials a language exemption. With the ceptable thing on this campus. who is leaving to do French gra- by faculty stu- involving both and were closed, as proposed. "You changes in high school language The expanded sense of respon- duate study, hopefully at Princeton. making, a de- dents in decision can't have closed trials and hope teaching, within a few years, vir- sibility which is being asked of John R. Knepper, A.B., Kenyon. "interchange and exchange sirable for profitable debate." tually every entering freshman the fraternities is strictly social. 1962, has been hired as Assistant of two bodies ideas" between the will have the ability to be ex- What is being asked of the frater- Director of Admissions. Since would be engendered. Just how effective the protes-tant- s empted," he predicted. nities is simply a concrete state- graduation a year ago January. AFTER thoroughly criticizing were in changing Committee "WITH THIS new rule, every ment of an adherance to a set of Knepper, 24, has been studying the proposed Board on principle, sentiment is difficult to estimate. prospective freshman will want to common sense principles of be- history on a scholarship at the V. Herbst declared his own plan to Two insiders have informed the take the CEEB test," he opined. havior and these principles are of Rochester, and expects to re- improve local jurisprudence. "I Collegian that there is little pos- "He would then submit the score already present; it is only the ceive his M.A. in June, 1964. Bruce want the Dean of Students to be to the College. If he pass, matter of a- sibility of any major changes be- didn't putting them down on Rogers (Kenyon, '62), present the sole arbiter in judicial pro- he could study over the summer paper which seems so painful. In dmissions assistant, departs to do ing made in the standing propos- ceedings with appeal only to the and take the test in the fall." its essence, the reform issue is divinity study at Harvard neS President." als for campus government. It is He concluded, "The College is not one of reporting, but rather fall. Kluge, Monell, and Sugden con- known that President Lund has interested in the level of achieve- curred. "The burden of punitive tentatively approved in principle ment and not in the number of responsibility should lie with the spent the Committee's recommendations. hours in class. The present system penalized the students Mrs. Robert Bowen Brown The Committee is scheduled to who had received good high For that substantial book to Kenyon College lost a long-tim- e 23 years. present its final report to the had lived in Gambier for appease slighted parents, the school language preparation. The friend and loyal supporter last Bookstore suggests you ingrat- President on or about April 10. new system will reward them." She was a member of the Church iate yourself with these offer- Thursday with the death of Mrs. ings: Frances Hearne Brown at Mercy of the Holy Spirit and was active in the Alumnae Association of Our Man Stanley Hospital. Philip Hamburger Bryn Mawr College. (New Yorker) She was the widow of Robert Towards a Better Bowen Hold Me! Jules Feiffer Brown, who was associated Her passing saddens the Collet All works of Ian Fleming with Kenyon College as secretary community and leaves a conspi1"" vice-preside- Happiness Is A Warm Puppy Tomorrow and nt from 1940 until uous gap in its ranks. She will & Charles Shulz his death in 1960. Mrs. Brown O Ye Jigs & Juleps! missed. Virginia Cary Hudson Music: Roger Sessions: Second String Cooper played by New 3-31- Quartet 63 3-31- Music Quartet. EX EX 61 For vacation reading: ; ' Armance Stenday PB Bessemer Den-isovi- one day in the life of Ivan ch PB On Revolution new Hannah Arendt - VAN RHODEN STABLES Here to Stay John Hersey - i ' ENGINES COMPRESSORS RIDING The Fall Camus PB Lawrence of Arabia Various authors PB Mount Vernon, Ohio KENYON COLLEGE Open Daily Brandon, Ohio BOOKSTORE