Kenyon Collegian College Archives
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 9-13-2001 Kenyon Collegian - September 13, 2001 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - September 13, 2001" (2001). The Kenyon Collegian. 393. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/393 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the College Archives at Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Kenyon Collegian by an authorized administrator of Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. mourns trans-cultur- Knox County Simpson puts things Students win major Olin Gallery al Mens Cross Country 4 terrorism, p. in perspective, p. 6 award with food, p. 7 exhibit, p. 9 wins GLCA, p. 12 - E 7vSK - E - -Y- eedj, H y N ON ;Pan. i des ,; and j -- -- -- -- ;s in - !SI 01, 'V$L he isi. C O E G I 'A N Volume CXXVTX, Number 3 ESTABLISHED 1856 Thursday, September 13, 2001 The second plane, Kenyon community United Airlines flight 175, a Boeing 767 Boston to Los Angeles flight with 65 passengers aboard, strikes the South grieves with nation tower of the World Trade Center Tuesday at Quick to react to news concern- that we are a community and that to- BY ADAM SAPP 9:05 a.m. This came ing the terrorist bombings at the World gether we will get through this very Senior Production Editor fifteen minutes after the Trade Center in lower Manhattan and difficult Oden said in his state- time," North Tower was hit by On other day, that city would the in ment. any Pentagon Washington DC, a previous passenger jet. have a world The Kenyon administration established, Many Kenyon students hail from seemed away. Both 110- - story towers affected the 1 Broadway lights, subway trains and through a series of meetings through- the areas most by tragedy. later collapsed. busy streets of New York don't easily out the day on Tuesday, a response The New York City, Boston and Wash- blend into the land- included religious ser- ington metro areas represent a high serene pastoral plan. The plan DC For full stories on the mid-Septemb- er in Gambier. for conversa- of the student and alumni scape of vices, resource centers percentage effects in the Kenyon But it wor- In particular, there are a wasn't any other day. Gambier tion, rest and relaxation areas for populations. and Knox County and and students whose parents and New York seemed inextricably ried and stressed students, places numberof Communities see this linked as the televi- for services and goods that family members worked at the World students, glued to donating page and pages two and sion sets around campus and to the will benefit those at the scene of the Trade Center and near the Pentagon AP Photo four. Internet updates on computers in their tragedy. After canceling classes for the some still with no word on the status rooms, watched in shock and disbe- day, President Oden, in a statement of their family members. lief the events occurring in New York released to all students on Tuesday af- Administrative response to stu- and Washington. It was seemed so ternoon, offered his condolences. dent needs has been a touch and go Student Council far away, and at the same time, so "Even given the massive trag- procedure, and as Dean for Academic yet, is performed by the Academic Af- are confronting, please know see ATTACK, page two BY TARYN MYERS very close. edies we fairs Committee. , Senior News Editor In response to such unused Student Council immediately portions of the constitution, Sen- began work on its main goal this ate Student Co-Cha- ir Ludi year, that of simplifying both the Ghesquiere '02 asked Student governmental process and the Council President Nick Deifel '02, campus constitution, at its second "Nick, how much stuff like this is meeting of the year Sunday. in there?" Members began by taking a "There's a lot of stuff like this v straw poll that resulted against es- in there, Ludi," replied Deifel. tablishing the "Committee on In- "There are lots of things that never not cohesive." '"- formation and Technology" this get followed. It's " year, a committee that is outlined Vice President for Academic -- 4 "f - -- i s, J in the constitution but has been ne- Affairs Elle Erickson '02 agreed, glected the past few years because, saying that the constitution has "no its main job, meeting with LBIS, see COUNCIL, page three FYC Elections the proposal to remove the Greek Amy Gallesc BY BRYAN STOKES II vote from the Senate altogether Kenyon students gather in Gund Commons Tuesday night to watch news coverage of the attacks. Staff Reporter and the possible" revision of the The newly convened class of policies on verbal consent, as well Mixed reviews for Beer and Sex 2005 elected the 30 men and as the smoking ban in freshman cation series has fostered a lot of sexual misconduct and the third on women who will represent them as dorms. Although much of the de- BY NICHOLAS MATLIN support within the school commu- a combination of both topics. Each members of the First Year Coun- bating on these issues may be done Staff Reporter nity. While some sophomores gathering is designed to be very cil (FYC) Sunday. by seasoned veterans, both Deifel The Beer and Sex program at proudly claim that they abstained informal and comfortable, hope- Already, they have a consid- - and Senate Co-Cha- ir Ludi dis- Kenyon was created by students, from the sessions, others feel that fully contributing to an open erable amount of work cut out for Ghesquiere '02 agreed that while as and is designed to educate fresh- it aided their orientation into the cussion of the topics presented. them, as the agenda, according to freshman representatives are, RainsO men about the potential conse- college experience. One sopho- Freshman Emily Student Council President Nick Ghesquiere put it, "handicapped is a very three quences of combining alcohol and more said, "I found Beer and Sex claims that "Beer and Sex Deifel '02, includes such topics as see FYC, page the members of sexual activity and about other as- to be worthwhile. I learned a lot open environment; ac- -- to at the discussion groups are very :. - pects of a social life in college. from it: not only what expect I : i Vi .! $4 si!:- &S w This fall marks the second Kenyon, but what to expect at col- cepting of what other people have Low Saturday: Mostly sunny. High year that Beer and Sex has been in lege parties in general." to say." Tonight: Isolated storms. 67, low 42. existence. Originally created by The Beer and Sex series is Other freshmen, however, 47F. sunny. High 69, Shayla Myers '02 and Pete split into three separate meetings: have trouble relating to the Friday: Partly cloudy. High 64, Sunday: Mostly see SEX, page three low 46V Coppins '01 last year, the peer edu the first on alcohol, the second on low 41. ' 1 " i ii.u-a;- M tm r " i: 2 The Kenton Collegian NEWS Thursday, September 13, 2001 Attack: Kenyon community reacts to tragedy CONTINUEDT)NTINIJF.D FROM PAGE ONE J Advising Jane Martindell explains, the Breece, "and it'satime in our life when Associate Dean of Students As for furthering the dialogue the news and reading the papers administration is constantly in need we can change everything and help." Cheryl Steele felt that, no matter how between the week's events and stu- does very little. of student response in order to better There was also a Gambier resi- one deals with the events of the past dent interest academically, Provost "We're still in the middle of serve the College's needs. dent who on Tuesday drove to Wash- week, that the best thing for students Ron Sharp and Oden have been ac- this, I think," said Oden. "Is there in possibilities, going to be a war? From what I've . "This experience is uncharted ington DC to pick up a stranded friend to do is to get back into the routine of tively engaged the I the odds ground for all of us," said Martindell. who was doing business two blocks life at Kenyon. "Things like this make but as Oden explains, nothing is cer- seen and heard, think are I "My advice would be that if things from the Pentagon and was unable to you think about, at least for a moment, tain to be decided for a while. "The decent, but really, don't know to next." are bothering you, please find some- arrange any other form of transporta- what's important in life," said Steele, wise course here is just to get what's going happen one and talk about it. If you spot some- tion out of the city. "but we thought it was important for through this," he said. "Kenyon has As Gambier and the world clean-u- p and investiga- one that is struggling, be a friend and Blood drives have been estab- everybody to get back into a routine. I a long tradition of talking through watch the turn to re- listen to them; if you feel comfortable lished both at Kenyon and in surround- don't think there's disrespect for the things, but we're not going to do it tion take place, thoughts normalcy, both talking to your faculty members, ing areas in Knox County to respond people who died yesterday by going right now.