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Gambier, Ohio THURSDAY, FEBRUARY. 10, 2005 12 Pages OhioLINK faces large funding cuts BY MAX THELANDER tronic journals that aren't used in some specific fields." next round will no doubt take out would not, since many periodical Staff Reporter much are used sometimes by some Professor of French Mort an even larger percentage," said titles are more general. people, and they will certainly be Guincy echoed this feeling. "It is Ileithaus. "Because the first set Consortiums like OhioLINK, OhioLINK, the state's online affected," said Damon I Iickey, Di- in the nature of advanced research will target the least-use- d, the next which links the holdings of public library consortium that provides rector of Libraries for the College that progress in the field is made cut will by definition take out more and private colleges and universi- re- access to a wide variety of of Wooster. when an individual reads an article heavily-use- d titles." ties as well as state libraries, are sources, is facing a serious bud- "Losing 4 of downloads that maybe only a handful of other Another feature in danger of relatively uncommon in the aca- get crunch. The online system may seem relatively minor, but people have read," he said. being cut in order to save money is demic wortd. currently serves over 600,000 keep in mind that current research Furthermore, the number of the OhioLINK's table-of-contents "When I talk to colleagues students, faculty and staff at 85 usually is very specialized," said journals cut from OhioLINK's indexing, which allows users to from other states, they are amazed colleges and universities in Ohio, Ray Ileithaus, Jordan Professor offerings is guaranteed to rise as search the tables of contents of at the resource we have," said Lau- including Kenyon. of Environmental Science and long as budget cuts continue. At books in addition to their titles rie Finke, Professor of Women's On Feb. 3, the Ohio General Biology. "Very few scientists least 800 more periodicals are and subjects. This type of search- and Gender Studies. "It's virtually Assembly passed the state's fiscal may download articles that are slated to be cut in 2006. ing makes it possible to find infor- unique in this country in coordi- year 2005-200- 6 capital budget and extremely important to scientists "This is just a first step; the mation that a regular title search nating state library holdings. It's allocated about $1 million less to a brilliant idea." OhioLINK than the consortium Phantastically Phun LInique as it may be, the sys- says it needs in order to be ad- tem is clearly well utilized. equately funded. Consequently, rr "I use OhioLINK at least two OhioLINK's administrators will or three times per week to locate be forced to cut services, includ- and order books," said Michael ing discontinuing availability of Levine, Professor of Psychology. 490 of the least-use- d periodicals. Michelle Mood, Visiting As- These represent all disciplines sistant Professor of Political Sci- and 4 of total downloads. In ence, said, "OhioLINK is the only addition, membership fees, of thing that allows me to teach the which Kenyon 's share would be variety of courses I do, since our between $900 and $2,500 per year, library holdings are not compre- may need to be instituted for the hensive. It's one of the key things first time. keeping me connected in my "The cuts will result in scholarly work, since I am work- fewer electronic materials avail- ing at this small liberal arts college able for immediate desktop deliv- and unable to make timely trips to ery to faculty and students," said a university's research library."

Chris Barth, Kenyon's Director --V The dependence on Ohi- of Resources. oLINK to faculty, Information "It Kevin Guckes' isn't limited may also result in loss of some as indicated by similar statements Philanders Phebruary Phling, held last weekend, was a night of dancing and fun for many additional functions such as da- from students. Kenyon students. tabases." "OhioLINK is a vital part of my "Even databases and elec see OhioLINK, page two Controversial "academic bill of Kenyon to adopt WebMail2 BY JEFF FORCE Manager Sasha Ablovatski, who Staff Reporter is responsible for most of LBIS's rights" proposed in Ohio Senate work on WebMail2, emphasized it BY SEAN RYAN law, is a prohibition of "persistently comment. Over the summer, Kenyon's that offers "many more options Staff Reporter introducing controversial matter into Bias in acidemia lias been a ccatse current WcbMail interface will be for sorting and listing mail, how the classroom." celebre for many conservatives for some completely replaced by WebMail2, messages are deleted ... we need

"It's a cure dial's worse than the Grace Murray '05,co-editor- of Tlie time. The foremost critic of academia which has been run for tlie last two new documentation because there disease," saidProfessorofl Estory Reed Kenyon Voice, a left-leani- ng political di- is tlie conservati ve commentator David years by Gabe Schine '05. are so many options." BrowTiing, referring toarecent proposal gest on campus, called SB 24 "a waste I lorowilz, whose "Academic Bill of WebMail2 is more secure than Schine never liked Kenyon's by Ohio Senator Larry Mumper (R-- of time." N lurray also said, "If students Rights" is llic basis of SB 24. 1 Iorow-it- z the current e-m- ail client and offers WcbMail system and started run- larion) to codify an "academic bill of wanted a bill of rights they would write celebrated (he introduction of SB numerous options for tlie user, as ning WebMail2 from his computer. rights" in response to many conserva- one and lobby to have it made into law," 24. IBs website, FrontRigcMag.com, compared to WcbMail, which Griggs said the school "wanted to tives' criticism ofsystemic lias in higher adding, "I do not see this happening." headlined a story oh it "hidoctrinalion does not allow as much configu- see if it met the needs of students," ' education. ' In addition, Jv lurray questioned how one Meets Its latch in Ohio.' ration. Ronald Griggs, Director of so while LBIS did not offer direct Semite Bill 24 (SB 24), as it is would decide exactly what "controver- I Iowcvcr, many Kenyon profes- Information Services, described tech support for WcbMail2, known, would mandate "a learning sial" material is. sors feel a legislative remedy is not WebMail2 as "faster and better... they supplied hardware. Recent environment in which the students Daniel Epstein '05, editor of Tlie needed. Peter Rutkoff, Professor of eventually links on the Kenyon changes to the login screen of have access to a broad range of seri- Kenyon Observer, a conservative pub- American Studies, said that the bill website will point towards it in- WcbMail2, including the addition the is "feels like IcCarthyism" to him. of the current client." System ous scholarly opinion pertaining to lication, said that while he concerned stead see WEBMAIL2, page three subjects they study." In addition, the with the problem of bias in the class- Religion Professor Vernon Schiibel that as to how pluralistic edu- bill requires nondiscrimination against room, he does riot believe legisla- sees questions 't ... r students and professors seeking tenure tion is not needed to ''enforce intellectual cation under the new system would have Cloudy. I Iigh: based upon their political views. freedom." to be. I Ie wondered that,, with such a Tonight: Snow Shower. High Saturday: Partly However, the most controversial Members of the Kenyon Repub- law, if American history professors 25F, low: 16F 38F, low: 30F.

ry Showers. High: part, which headlined a Jan. 28 Cohan-bu- s licans and the Kenyon Democrats did would have to teach "tlie 'pro-slave- Friday: PM Snow Showers. Sunday: 43F, High:3rF, low:23F. low: Dispatch article on the proposed not immediately respond to requests for see BILL, page two 36F. The Kenyon Collegian NEWS Thursday, February 10, 2005 OhioLINK: 490 academic journals on the chopping block CONTINUED from page one Unfortunately, says Hickcy, such State Senate President Bill Harris got people who want to keep the sta- to local library budgets, including

work. . . I've known professors who cuts to higher education may fuel a (R-Ashlan- d), whose district includes tus quo," said Harris. "But we think Kenyon's," said Barth. require its use for their courses, to vicious cycle, by making Ohio unat- Gambier, also recognizes the deficit the tax reform will have a major im- Many in the academic world get books that otherwise can't be tractive to "brain-based- " industries, as a problem. pact in helping us through economic believe that the gradual weakening supplied," said Ted I Iomick. which in turn hurts the economy and "We're faced with some major developments, and in our efforts to of OhioLINK may have a negative Caiti Lundberg '07, who is reduces tax revenue further. shortfalls in our revenue. We just keep the business and industry that impact on the state's overall attrac- - studying Russian music and his- "Ohio's economy never fully don't have what we had in the past. we have, and attract others." tiveness to scholars, particularly at tory, said, "I use OhioLINK so recovered from the move of heavy Last fiscal year, we had to use a lot of In addition to tax breaks, this smaller schools. col- much! The other CONSORT industries overseas, and we haven't 'one time' money. What the governor message shows up in Ohio's 2005-200- 6 "Kenyon is very regional; the leges don't have many Russian been as good as some other states has done is talk to all his department capi tal budget, where the state's loss of OhioLINK makes it more language materials at all, so most at attracting knowledge-base- d in- heads and asked them to cut their Third Frontier program, allotted $50 so," said John Kinsella, Professor of of my research material comes dustries," explained Ilickey. "As a budgets back to (lie very minimum of million, is one of the largest single English. "From a scholarly point of from other OhioLINK colleges. result, our economy is not recovering growth, or no growth. The state con- line items. The goals of the Third view, it severely lessens the attraction My research would suffer greatly quickly from the recent recession, and stitution requires us to have a balanced Frontier program are to "build world-clas- s of the college if small library stock if research materials are cut back.". it probably won't ever be the same as budget," I Iarris told the Collegian. research capacity, support early holdings cannot be supplemented Many educators view the it used to be." OnTuesday,Taft revealed sweep- stage capital formation, and finance from external sources." problems facing OhioLINK as a Access to Ohiol JNK's resources ing changes to Ohio's tax system, sig- advanced manufacturing technolo- The loss of resources like reflection of larger issues affecting is significantly less expensive man nificantly reducing business taxes, in gies." OhioLINK may even encourage the state's higher education and individual access purchased at each a plan that will bring in $8(X) million "I think the progress we're mak- professors, seeking the best research economy. Decreased tax revenue member library would cost. Still, less revenue over the next (wo years. ing with Third Frontier is very good," environments, to move to larger and federal aid has led to statewide the resources do not come cheaply The state needs "to send a clear said Sen. I Iarris. schools. budget cuts. The cuts have been ac- - OhioLINK's total annual budget message, tliat Oliio is open for busi- Apparently, OhioLINK isn't "OliioIJNK provides access to 1 1 companied by a shift in funding pri- is about $ million - and legislators ness," Taft is quoted as say ing in the part of this "world-clas- s research journals that basically even the 'playr-in- g orities as well. I Dgher education's are wary of raising taxes to cover the Associated Press. capacity." As a result of the budget field' for faculty and students at share of the budget has decreased costs. I Iarris agreed with the governor, changes, more and more expenses Kenyon and at larger universities," from 17 to about 12Cr of the slate Governor Taft is quoted in the and along wilhTafl. is a key supporter formerly covered by (lie slate have said I Ieithaus. budget since 1990, while the correc- Jan. 23 edition of the Ohio Suite lan- of the tax reform plan. been sliifted to the local level. Regardless of the statewide im- tions system and local governments tern as saying, "Higher education "Any time you're making "Many costs have been sliifted pacts , the effects will almost certainly have received larger shares. is more important to our economic changes of that type, you've always out of the OhioLINK budet over be noticed here al Kenvon. "OhioLINK, as a program, is luture man ev er oeiore, ana ins pretty small potatoes and largely administration has increased funding

K-1- Bill: Kenyon community invisible to most state legislators," for 2 schools. skeptical ' CONTINUED from page one On a local level, said I hckey. 'A couple of years ago , At the same time, the governor Browning said notsuppiirtarxirtion.ccwhoareinfavor the presidents of the Five Colleges has declared the of closing (lie state's position," or if he would have leach tlx; tliat he does not tliink such ideological of lower taxes. As a result, Browning of Ohio met with Governor Taft. budget deficit, which is estimated at views ofpeople vv ho tliink non-Qirisli- an discrimination has widely occurred in said, many faculty members never find When one of them mentioned Ohi- some $720 million and which he has religions are Satanic in his Introduction his nearly 38 y ears at Kenyon, during themselv es facing the sorts ofchallenges oLINK, he said, 'What's that?'" called "dire," one of his top priorities. to Religion course. some of which he served as Provost for which die entered academia Browning and Professor of Politi- Schubel said, "My fear with the I Iowcver, Baumann and Brown-

escribed cal Science Fred Baumann both self -d- bill is that tlie legislation is designed to ing both echoed diat such problems are conservatives, also feel die law prev ent academics from having a posi- not nearly as bad at Keny on. Baumann February 2 - February 8, 2005 is unnecessaiy and potentially harmful. tion, nol to protect students from being said, "Keny on is a place with a certain Browning said his opposition amies penalized for holding a different one." degtueof intellectual div ersity ." Brown- from a natural distrust of regulation by Another problem Mumper feels ing concurred, say ing that while Ox: fac- Feb. 3, 2:45 p.m. - Underage possession of alcohol in room at legislation. I Ie also said tliat he feels needs to be addressed is tlx; "indoclri-natio- n' ulty (and student body.as well) is mosdy McBride Residence. ' such legislation would open tlie dixir to of y oung college students , many li beral , tix're are a number of outspoken li ligation and cause professors to w orry of whom "haven't had a chance to fomi conserv ativ es among its ranks. Feb. 3, 3:26 p.m. - Underage possession of alcohol in room at about anotlier type of discrimination. tlxir own opinions." Empi rical evidence f the recent McBride Residence. ran In April of last year. Browning Rutkofl'dismissed this idea.saying election supports at least Browning's wrote an article in The Chronicle of that he lias ' 'more faith in students than first claim. In dxi Gambier precinct, Feb. 4, 9:30 a.m. - Fire extinguisher missing from Old Kenyon Higher Education, describing tlie prob-lc- m to worry about iixloclrination." Brown- where many: faculty members and Extinguisher was replaced. ol "bias in (he academy. I Ic said bias ing said llial.alllKuiglilx'aunnxlersUuxl students voted, over ninety percent is primarily tlie result ofalownumhcrof some xxiple worry ing about tlieirchil-dre- n of votes cast w ere for Democrat Feb. 4, 11:50 a.m. - Underage possession of alcohol in room al conservative .students seeking cniiloy-nieiili- n adxxing alien views to tliosc under Jolm Kerry. A search on die Web site Caples Residence. university tcaching.say ing "after which (Jx'v w ere raised, he said dial it is finxJracc.org showed dial in dx recent four years of classnxim sxining wilh ixxanuiji h issue in colleges.aixl not ax: election cycle, current and retired fac- Feb. 4, 3:12 p.m. - Report of lire extinguisher being discharged liberal faculty members (conservative Ik: worried about w hen he sent liis son ulty aixl suiff liv ing in die Gambier aixl outside-McBrid- e Residence in the hreezewav. Extinguisher w as students often feel tliat (lie integrity of to college. Baumann said dial he docs N kxnitNenxinZIPaxJes gave $8343 to replaced. (tlieir studies are susxxt" not see tlie tmlh in tlx; charge.saying tliat Ini(x:raticpresidentialauidii.lalesiaxl

Conservative websites, such as students learn to tell professors what tlx; dx' IXnuxralic party , while only $3(X) Feb. 5, 10:27 p.m. - Underage possession of alcohol at McBride I Iorowitz's. have documented multiple professors want to hear, but as life was given to dx Republican xuty . Bodi Residence. gx"s insimKCsof W)fessor's biases translating on, tlieir views continue to cluuige aixl Baumann aixl Browning ixxed dial dx: into discrimination against students. A mature. sjilil seems to be greater ixw dian in Feb. 5, 11:07 p.m. - I'nderage possession of alcohol at I'eirce common topic is assigning students to What both Brow ning and Bau- previous years. Hall. write xix-r- s criticizing I 'resident Bush, mann see as most deleterious about Despite such an imbalance, w hile refusing to give credit to papers academic bias, however, is tlie lack Baumann noted tliat w hen he talks Feb. 5, 11:13 p.m. - Underage possession of alcohol at Peirce supporting tlie president of true discussion tliat ilx'y see as tlx" to Kenyon's top applicants, who are Hall. Discrimination against conserva- liallmark of a liberal education. mi doubt also considering oilier more

tive students was one of tlie reasons for Baumann said dial in order to gel a . "prestigious" schools, he frequently Feb. 5, 11:28 p.m. - Underage consumption of alcohol at Peirce SB 24 's proposal, according to Senator tnie liberal arts education, student need finds dial how Kenyon is set apart is Hall. N IuniXT. "( Amscrvativ e students need to gel both sides of an issue, something diat "we still argue lxrc." to liave tlieir rights defended and need to tliat is kicking when professors all be- In dx end. Rutkofi" said, "Let dx Feb. 6, 12:20 a.m. - Intoxicated unruly student attempting to enter be respected by faculty aiid administra- lieve tlie same tiling. Browning noted ideas How. like a dxuisaixJ flowers." Phling at Peirce Hall. Student was transported back to his resi- tors" of whom "80 icrcent of so... are tliat at many colleges, it is often difficult Tliis "wide openness," according dence. card-carryi- Denxxxats, liberals, or si xialists.or ng to assemble paix'ls featuring professors to Browning, is "somctiiing wonderful Communists," said N kniiXT. w ho suixrt die war in Iraq, who do about Keny on." Feb. 6, 12:30 a.m. Underage consumption of alcohol in I lorwitz Lot.

Feb. 6, 7:38 a.m. - Vandalism to bicycle in front of Farr Hull. Due to editorial error, the settlement of a lawsuit filed by tlie East Wing Association, tlie alumni organization of Kenyon's Alpha Delta Phi fraternity (tlie ADs), against tlie College was jnisportrayed Feb. 6, 7:40 a.m. - Vandalism writing on walls in reslroom at Farr last week ("I Iistory of Greek life at Kenyon long, colorful," Feb. 3, 2005). The lawsuit was settled out of Hall. Maintenance was notified. court with an agreement thai the Ganler Assembly I Iall would be built by tlie ADs as a College building; the Ganler was not built with money from tlie settlement, as originally reported. Feb. 8, 12:10a.m. - Tampering with fire fighting equipment - fire hose unraveled at Ernst Center. The Collegian apologizes for any confusion resulting from tliis error. Thursday, February 10, 2005 NEWS The Kenyon Collegian 3 WebMail2: LBIS promises "faster and better" service

CONTINUED from page one specific e-m- ail addresses while soon be encrypted so that students mation about VebMaiI2 has been Schjine encourages other stu-

of links similar on the e-m- ail. to those main writing an e-m- ail word-of-mout- Additionally, can check their safely while spread quickly by h, dents to take initiative in making WebMail site, represented LBIS VebMaiI2 can automatically sort traveling, even if they connect from because so many students disliked improvements to life at Kenyon.

taking full control the e-m- ail of client. incoming or stored based a hotel or airport. WebMail to begin with. "If a student can make something Schine wanted to make sure "by the Kerr-Dalto- on subject lines or authors, and Ian n '06 said he en- VebMail2 is based on an better, go and do it," said Schine. time lie graduated, nothing had to be sent messages can automati- joys the "little tilings that WebMail2 "open-source- " platform called "Students can help out with mak-

be done" and felt the College was cally filed with received e-m- ails does right... messages show if they HORDE. An advantage to open-sourc- e ing technology better, and there are "very supportive" of his efforts. for easier tracking. have been sent directly or as part of coding is that anyone can always resources available." One of the features Web- of Ablovatski said that WebIail2 a list, you can view headers, change contribute to the platform because WebMail2 is currently avail- is that it Mail displays how much is a good choice for students who character encoding, and have better all of the code is available online able at http: webmaiI2.kenyon.edu. is e-m- ail space remaining for stor- use more than their personal com- control over the display." He feels and shared under public licenses. Default settings will be established which w as age, previously difficult puters to check e:mail because "it is that the filters WebMail2 offers Anyone w ho can program in PHP, soon by LBIS, and the help links for students to determine. It also universally available... it is oil the are very useful since "students get a computer scripting language will point to updated information. informs the user w hen they last Macs in Middle Ground, and now a lot of email, so you need to sort designed to be embedded in Web Schine recommends that users

logged on. e-m- ail An integrated Kenyon at the station in the book- out the messages you have to read pages, can offer new features or bug "change the color scheme to Bar-

directory will Kerr-Dalto- allow searches for store." lie said soon all access will right away." n said infor fixes to the project. bie." Senate discusses punishment for illegal off-campus living BY SHEA DAVIS percussions. room rate for everyone who stays just as we are liberal arts to the nth dano. "We're doing it forthe crunch Staff Reporter "How would such a change on campus. .All of those questions degree," he said. "That's how we period until more housing is built affect the character of the college, come into play the nature of the define ourselves.... We are very and then we'll go back the other stiff," said "That's pretty Dean one way or another?" Omahan said. residential college, the nature of residential. We always have been. I way. I like a residential college." of Residential Life George Barbuto "I low would such a change affect Gambier, maybe even the nature of felt that that's something that's very Freshman representative Mike of the current punishment for stu- the character of the community? Mount Vernon." important to us. Should we change? Zabek said the problem would solve

off-camp- dents who live us illegally. We have to be considerate of our Vice President of Academic Now that's a very interesting ques- itself once more and better College "That's a heck of a price to pay to neighbors." Affairs Jackie Giordano '05 agreed tion." housing was made available.

off-camp- live over there." Omahan also mentioned the that us housing represented Student Council President "The solution to this problem The Senate debated this issue financial issues that could accom- a larger issue. Nick Xenakis suggested that the will be constructing more dorms, at their meeting last Thursday. Cur- pany the movement of students "Are we a residential college or college should maintain the status constructing better housing, mak-

off-camp- rent College policy states that any us. not?" Giordano said. "When we're quo. "We already have some rules ing it so that people really want to

off-camp- student caught living us "At some point, the College making changes about what we are on the books," he said. "Why not live on campus," Zabek said.

de-registe- without permission could be red has to pay the bills for operating the at our heart, I think that just being just enforce those?" According to Barbuto, the from the College. residences," he said. "If the number like every one else is not right for us. Xenakis added that students college has enough beds to house

off-camp- According to Barbuto, Dean of students to fill those beds shrinks Just because other schools are doing should be allowed to live us almost every student enrolled. of Students Don Omahan said the then something's going to have to it doesn't make it right for us." as long as the housing crunch However, he added that allowing decision to allow students to live happen . . . one way to deal with the Omahan agreed with Giordano. continues. a few students to live off campus

off-campus could have larger re problem would be to increase the "We're residential to the nth degree, "I agree with Nick," said Gior allows for some "flexibility." Student Council authorizes BFC to Village Council grants continue efforts to raise activity fee space to Head Start BY ANDY CLAUTICE Sophomore Class President Shawn Gulati expressed doubt that BY ROSE BABINGTON added, humorously, that the pro- Staff Reporter Nelie Zanca had similar experi- first-years could be convinced of Staff Reporter gram would "hold opportunities ences with her committee and was the same. "I don't know how many for folks to become involved" with

re- after-scho- After lengthy discussion emphatic on the need for education. freshmen ... have to deal with the The Gambier Village Coun- ol events and their annual

garding the proposed $25 increase "People just don't know enough budget at all," said Gulati. cil meeting on Feb. 7 served as chili cook-of- f. Though no official to Kenyon's student activities about this," said Zanca, who sug- Student Lectureships Chair Ian closure on many issues left over vote was taken, Council gave its fee the fee paid each semester by gested the possibility of a common Kerr-Dalto- n '06 set aside the debate from 2004 and was highlighted by general endorsement to go ahead each student that goes toward student hour presentation on the topic in or- about which students should be per- the proposal to establish a Knox with what was seen as "a wonder- groups and campus events Student der to make the case to the student mitted to vote in the poll, stressing County Head Start program in ful use of our facility," according Gouncil voted Sunday to authorize body. Vice President for Academic instead the general importance of the Gambier's Community Center. to Council member Lee Cubie. the Business and Finance Committee Affairs Jackie Giordano '05 also vote itself. "We need to go forward," The Council emphatically Mayor Emmert distributed his to move forward with efforts to pro- expressed a hope to "explain the said Kerr-Dalto- n, "regardless" of endorsed the use of a currently 2004 Report at the meeting, which vide information about the increase budget process" to students, in which students will vote or whether empty classroom in the Com- Council member Betsy Heer called to Kenyon students. After two hopes of explaining the benefits the the Council thinks the measure munity Center for the creation of a "nice State of the Village." In the weeks of these advertisements and increase would bring. will pass. Xenakis agreed with the Head Start's "fifth location in the report, Emmert detailed "things we

educational forums, members of the Senate Co-Cha- ir Meredith thought and put the measure to the county," according to Peg Taze- did in the last year and . . . thi ngs to student body will vote on whether to Farmer '05 also raised the question vote. well, Executive Director of Head do in the upcoming year," includ- implement this increase. of whether juniors should even be In other business, after consider- Start in Knox County. ing the Village's ongoing work The need for what Student permitted to vote in the poll, as the ing letters of intent and discussing a The program, which would with handling water usage and Council President Nick Xenakis increase would not take effect until few candidates, Brendan McCarthy consist of both a morning and waste. '05 termed an "education campaign" the 2006-0- 7 academic year. Seniors '07 was approved by the Council to an afternoon session for children Cubie, head of the Streets and was clear as various Council mem- are already blocked from voting in replace Allegra Ouroussoff, who is between three and five, would run Utilities Committee, reiterated the bers presented their experiences with such polls by current legislation. no longer attendi ng Kenyon College, during the day, Tuesday through "need for pit meters in helping

other students. Junior Class Presi- Giordano opposed any efforts as Social Board Co-Cha- ir alongside Thursday, from September 2005 to detect small leaks which may

dent George Williams mentioned to block juniors, stressing that first-years Dan Poppick '07. to May 2006, according to Mayor be part of our problem in under-billing- ." that members of his class commit- and sophomores had not yet Housing and Grounds Chair Kirk Emmert's February Report. Later in the meeting the tee disapprove of the idea, with had the opportunities to fill leader- Steve Hands '06 also informed the Benefits of the new I lead Start Council unanimously adopted both

six-pers- some suggesting that the number of ship roles in student organizations Council that the on I lousing location include its proximity to the ordinance for the installation student organizations be cut down and thus feel the effects of the current Lottery for this year will include Kenyon students. Although Taze- of pit meters and the ordinance to instead of more funds being raised. budget crunch, and Williams added groups seeking blocks in dorms. well said that several students with amend the hourly wage of village Junior Class Representative Hayes his agreement. This measure is to prevent available transportation currently volunteer workers. Wong agreed with the perceived Zanca stated her opinion that, block housing from being broken by at the Mount Vernon Head Start, The council also voted unani- resistance, saying "It's really hard with the proper education, sopho- single pairs of roommates who claim "a number of Kenyon volunteers mously to continue the village's to make the case for an over-thirt-y mores could be made to under- one room from the block and will ... don't have transportation" but Regional Planning and Area De- percent jump" in the fee, currently stand the need for the increase, but be balanced by fewer Sets of rooms could walk the short distance to velopment Foundation of Knox at $95 per semester. First-Ye- ar Council Representative being set aside for the purpose. Meadow Lane. Tazewell also County memberships in 2005. Looking for Did you know that mixing alcohol and Coming February 18! any can even FacultyStaff vs. Students Volleyball! something to do medication be dangerous, Contact Ksenia at next weekend? life-threatenin- g? sokolyanskakkenyon.edu for more The Kenyon Collegian FEATURES Thursday. February 10, 2005 Los maestros nuevos Observatory Relocated BYASHLEIGH CHIN the river forced the observatory Students tutor Spanish at Wiggin Street StafFWriter to close even if the sky was clearer at higher locations. BY JOANNA RICHARDSON Spanish. into their recess time. The Miller Observatory has "The new observatory loca- First-grad- StafFWriter e teacher Stacey "I think it really fulfills a just re-open- ed for viewing after tion feels better located than the Baker stressed the importance need, not just for Wiggin Street, being moved to a new site. The old one was," said physics major Last semester, Rich Bar- of the program because she has but also for Kenyon students who move was a result of the Fit- Elliot Rushton '05. "There are tholomew '06 teamed up with noticed the influx of Hispanic are interested in leaching," said ness, Recreation and Athletics virtually no buildings nearby so Kelly Biclen '07 and Lauren families in Knox County Newland. "There are only a few (FRA) facility, which resulted it really cuts down on any light New land '07 to create a program "This program helps with the spots available for tutoring there. in a building that blocked part pollution." that brings Spanish classes into self-estee- m issues for the Spanish Especially for students interested of the western horizon of the Rushton has worked in both the curriculum for the first-graders speakers who attend the elemen- in modern languages, this pro- observatory at the old location observatory locations. lie added at the Wiggin Street Elemen- tary school,", said Baker. vides a unique opportunity." and worries about the effect of the only drawback would be that tary School. Meeting Mondays, The program, which began As for the curriculum, Bar- the FRA's skylights On the dark- it isn't easy to reach by walking, ednesdays and Fridays for forty last semester, w rapped up success- tholomew, Bielen and Newland ness. so driving is necessary. minutes each session, the Foreign fully, according to Bartholomew. have created a program that The new site, located right According to Turner, in Languages at Elementary School Both the students and faculty in- incorporates three activities per off Route 229, is stationed on lop addition to moving locations, program to e (FLES), hopes giv the volved are very excited to begin session to reinforce one main idea. of a hill. According to Associ- money has been allocated to up- first graders a good foundation of again this semester. Bartholomew said that he hopes ate Professor of Physics Paula grading the telescope mounting the Spanish language. However, some changes will that this way of learning will make C. Turner, the new location is and some of the other equipment With the aspiration to bring be implemented. Whereas Kenyon Spanish fun and entertaining for "probably the best astronomy of the observatory. She has plans Chinese into the elementary students taught Spanish during the kids, while at the same time site available to us." to get a sort of research team go- school, Bartholomew followed class time last semmester, they making the language pertinent to Turner explained that the ing, so that a student is always

the cre- will on-ca- necessary procedures to now teach during recess: after the kids' lives so that they will feel construction of the new site ll for observing, any time ate a Chinese immersion program lunch from 12:00 to 12:40. Thus, comfortable using it. took place in October and No- a clear night comes. She also is for the Wiggin Street Elementary, the once mandatory class has now Baker confirmed that the vember of 2004. The telescope trying to cultivate some interest while Bielen and Newland both become a volunteer activity for the program structure made an im- was installed at the new location among students who might like wanted to bring French into first-grader- s. Baker said she was pression on the students. "After on Dec. 3. The new site has a to do observational projects. the curriculum for the younger pleased with her students' positive the program began, some of the horizon that is less blocked and The Miller Observatory is students. While the elementary reaction to the program. kids started using Spanish words the darkness of the night sky is named after Professor Emeri- school did not have a large de- "The kids absolutely loved in the classroom," she said. better than the previous site. tus of Physics Franklin Miller, mand for Chinese or French, it," said Baker. She added that With the program leaders op- Turner also said that in the who still lives in Gambier and there was an increased interest in when she surveyed the class to timistic about the new semester, summer the higher altitude of remains active in the Kenyon

the Spanish re-dedicat- language. According see who was willing to attend the "Everyone is ready for the new the new location will help keep community. The ion to Bartholomew, Wiggin Street el- voluntary Spanish class, ten out of semester to FLES to begin," said the observatory open longer at ceremony at the observatory's ementary wanted Spanish taught, the seventeen students in her class Baker. She added that the kids night. The new observatory is new location will be held dur- as "there are a lot of migrant work- said that they would definitely par- keep asking her: "When does about 150 feet higher than the ing this year's Alumni Weekend, ers in the area" who speak fluent ticipate, even though it would cut Spanish class start up again?" old site. Previously, mist from on Feb. 17. Kenyon receives OEPA grant

BY MAX THELANDER cases of high-profil- e universi- pollution is universal, Bain said, Staff Writer ties that were in non-complian- ce so is the responsibility for deal- wlpjiMTiJiT: with environmental regulations. ing with it. When most people think of The problem most likely existed "Certain departments are What's the worst thing to adversise in a pollution, they think of power long before this. more prone to pollution, but plants, cars, and industry-b- ut Here in Ohio, the Five Col- everyone generates battery Super Bowl commercial? probably not college campuses, leges have come together to waste, light bulbs, sewage, pa- especially not the idyllic ones in form the Environmental Health per, food waste and garbage," rural Ohio. However, the Ohio and Safety (EHS) Roundtable. she said. "Academic freedom is Environmental Protection Agen- The group brings together EI IS . tied to academic responsibility "Curtains." cy (OEPA) has recently award- managers from each of the five and to being a good community Ira Oaks '07 ed a $50,000 grant to the Five schools into a single, coopera- member. Pollution can be a Colleges Consortium of Ohio to tive team. Kris Pohlman, an en- tremendous problem if we are address exactly that topic (The vironmental education special- not mindful of our neighbors

Five rs. Colleges of Ohio include ist, was recently hired by the and our co-worke- Proper Kenyon College, Denison Vni-versit- y, Five Colleges with the charge disposal is more costly than Oberlin College, Ohio of coordinating these efforts. prevention." Weslyan LIniversity and the "Coordinating the EIIS The training is not just for College of Wooster). The grant project at each of the five faculty, either. "Feminine hygiene products." will fund a collaborative project colleges is a large task," said "Students will be involved; Elaine Driscoll '08 among the schools called "Pol- Pohlman. "We must communi- the goal is to train any involved lution Prevention on the College cate and coordinate our efforts parties with expertise in their

Campus: A Blan-kenhor- Consortial Approach from the upper echelon of the special areas," said Darcy n, to Education and Training." administration to each employee Biology Materials and JSLJ "Pollution, like Visa, is 'ev- of the college. EIIS concerns Lab Technical Director at Ken- r erywhere you want to be.' Each are also vast, from recycling to yon. "For instance, if a student individual is to integral and chemical storage and handling is working in biology, it is to all "Birdies for badminton." responsible for its generation blood-born- e to pathogens and of our advantage that they know Joshua Mabra '05 and remediation," said Emily many more." how to work safely and wisely, Bain, Kenyon's Environmental The grant will be evenly generating the minimal amount Health and Safety Specialist. split among the schools and of pollutants." "In the past, the industrial and designated to a wide variety of Blankenhorn pointed out manufacturing realms have been tasks, including P2 education that she sees great potential, be- ( EPA regulatory targets. Now, and training, updating policies yond conforming to regulations, colleges and universities are in and procedures and hazardous in the grant's implementation. 14 Anything thought-provoking- ." the - spotlight." waste management. "The grant is a wonderful , Donovan Ortega '08 v So much so, that the U.S. The training will not be lim- opportunity for all of us to learn EPA made pollution preven- ited to those working in areas to protect our environment for V tion on college campuses a top like chemistry and biology. Fac- current populations as well as 1 priority in 2003 and established ulty members that will receive future generations," she said. a new office specifically to ad- training come from the art and "It will also provide an oppor- dress the issue. The topic came theater fields in addition to the tunity to maintain the resources BY MARA ALPER1N to light following several recent sciences. Since (he creation of we currently have." Thursday, February 10, 2005 The Kenyon Collegian 5

o Thursday,iverFebruary 10, 2005 ion Common Hour: Lecture and Discussion: "Institutions and Differential Economic Growth in North and South America after 1400", Stanley Engerman Hayes 1 09

Lecture and Discussion: "Slavery and Its Aftermath in the United States", Stanley Engerman 7:30 p.m. Higley Auditorium 0 Lecture and Discussion: "Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism", Amos Guiora '79 i 8:00 pjn. Philomathesian

Friday, February 11, 2005 Chinese New Year Celebration 5 9:00 p.m. Rosse Hall

KFS Film: Before Surise 8:00 p.m. Higley Auditorium

Saturday, February 12, 2005

Sports: Lords Basketball vs. Earlham 7:30 p.m. Touisich Arena

Knox Symphony with Young Musicians vSt County 8:00 p.m. Rosse Hall

KFS Film: Before Sunset 8:00 p.m. Higley Auditorium WE'RE SHORT ON Tuesday, February 13, 2005 TACO MEAT Common Hour: Lecture and Discussion: "To Be 'Foreign' irt America", Camilla Cai THIS WEEK: "WUV, TWOO WUV" Bemis Music Room "If music be ti if food of loyf, play on." William Shakespeare Lecture: From Melotti's Sculptures to Calvino's Invisible Cities: Architectures of Lightness "Love may not make the world go 'round, but I must admit that it makes Ascension 120 TI IE RIDE WORTI IWI HUE." SEAN CoNNERY t, "Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, i Wednesday, February 14, 2005 pi i1ladelphia." a i iigi ier tax bracket or a i iolding pattern over Judith Viorst Lecture and Discussion: "Early Expirence and Brain Development: The Bucharest Early Inter "if love is blind, then wi iy is lingerie so popular?" anon. vention Project", Charles H. Zeanah, Jr. 4:00 p.m. 5 " vl i en love is not madness, it is not love." Auditorium Higley Pedro Calderon de la Barca Sports: Ladies Basketball vs. Ohio Wesleyan " vl io, being loved, is poor?" oscar wllde 7:30 p.m. Tomsich Arena The Kenyon Collegian OPINIONS Thursday, February 10, 2005 The Kenyon Collegian

Editors-in-Chie- f: Michael Ludders, Bryan Stokes II Managing Editor: Michael Vandenburg Senior News Editor: Charlotte Nugent News Editor: Amanda Lewis News Assistants: Dayne Baughman, Megan Shipley Features Editor: Mara Alperin Features Assistant: Jenny Lu Opinions Page Editor: Mario Strahinov Arts & Entertainment Editors: Ted Hornick, Katie Weiss Sports Editors: Sara Kaplow, Mick Reynolds Editorial Assistant: Willow Belden Photo Editor: Kevin Guckes Photo Assistant: Steve Klise Layout Assistant: James Beale Online Editor: Jen Colby Online Assistant: Erin Carr Senior Business Manager: Jesse Lewin Distribution Manager: Zannie Carlson Gay marriage not religious issue Copy Editors: Rose Babington, Dayne Baughman, Aerin Curtis, BY REV. KARL STEVENS valve for luslfulness, but proclaiming it combined the elements of sex Stephen DeSanto, Ellen Guigelaar, Sean Hoffman, Ted Lawrence, Samantha Guest Columnist his own celibacy and saying "I wish and property. The church became Ley, Brendan Mysliwiec, Jess Rosenberg, Megan Shipley, Taryn Gilbert, that all were as I myself am." The concerned with marriage because it Shelly Parver, Jesse Oppenheim Three days after President Bush New Testament sees celibacy, not was also concerned with maintaining Faculty Advisors: John Elliott, PR Kluge was sworn in for his second term, marriage, as normative. public order. Great families formed legislators led by Senator Wayne In this claim I am supported by marriage alliances, consolidating Act now to preserve OhioLink Allard of Colorado announced that most of the leaders whose voices property, but also reducing the As an institution for higher learning, Kenyon 's mission is to engage in edu they would try, once again, to pass have come down to us from the first chance that allied families would go cational discourse and scholarly research. In order for Kenyon, and other similar a constitutional amendment that thousand years of Christian history. to war with each other. To ensure institutions, to accomplish this task, it is essential that the necessary resources are would ban gay marriage. Among the Their opinions on marriage range peace, the church bestowed its bless- available to faculty and students. main promoters of the amendment from the vitriolic to the grudgingly ing on this practice. But noblemen For this reason, it is deeply distressing to note the disparate state ofOhioLINK's are members of the Values Action accepting. St. Jerome thought that all tended to set aside their wives as (VAT), finances as described in our page 1 article "OhioLIXK faces large funding cuts.' Team a group of legislators marriages were accursed. Gregory soon as a more profitable marriage In a state known for its educational diversity and small colleges, OhioLINK is an dedicated to promoting conserva- the Great thought that sexual con-tinen- cy alliance presented itself. essential system providing a plethora of useful print and electronic publications, at tive Christian values who have ties must be the predominant Far from blessing such oppor- no cost to the member institutions. It is a system based on the basic premise that to James Dobson's Family Research characteristic of the elite that should tunism, the church began to excom- sharing intellectual resources is far more beneficial to the community at large than Council and Don Wildmon 's Ameri- govern human society. St. Augustine municate men who divorced their hoarding them can Family Association. thought that marriage was only the wives. Church leaders might have One must question the priorities of a state government that tries to encourage The language used to frame least imperfect form of copulation, a seen themselves as maintainers of growth by tightening the valve on theoretical research. To deprive OhioLINK oil the laws and amendments that these venal sin, not a mortal one. public order, but they weren't about the $1 million which it so desperately needs is unwise. Surely there are other state groups promote is blandly legal, go- So how did heterosexual mar- to set their theological concerns no farther than defining marriage programs which are of lesser importance than this. ing riage overcome this bad reputation entirely aside to please the secular The most disturbing aspect of the proposed budget is the slow death which as a legal union between one man and and move to the center of normative authorities. OhioLINK appears slated for. With 800 periodicals due to be excised from the! one woman as husband and wife, and Christian life? How did something Instead, they came to exercise catalog in 2006, one can only expect the trend to continue, rendering the renowned; setting all religious rhetoric aside. that Christians throughout the first more influence over tlie secular insti- I Kystem ineffective. Yet can't help wishing that the millenia saw as abhorrent become tution of marriage, agreeing to sanctify Those who have come to benefit from OhioLINK's vast catalog, replete with religious rhetoric was present, that something that conservative Chris- it as long as it could be molded to fit obscure journals and powerful databases, should not stand idle and permit the it was explicit rather than implicit, so tians today are so vociferously de- their theological understanding. They that we could have a state to deprive them of access to the information that they need in order to have ai clear statement fending at the beginning of the third continued to uphold celibacy as the complete educational experience. Action must be taken to preserve this institution. of what the theological concerns of millenia? preferrable arrangement and wrote Kenyon 's Library and Information Services (LBIS) department has already begun these groups really are. Asking myself this question, I hagiographies of purportedly virgin a fundraising and petitioning campaign to fight the cuts. When senators stand up and went off to the library and unearthed kings like Henry of Germany, who Simultaneously Kenyon must prepare for the worst IfOhioLINK is destined debate the amendment, some will Georges Duby's marvelous book Tlie was married but, allegedly, never to become outmoded, then this and future Kenyon administrations must innovate undoubtably be open in their religi- Knight, the Lady and the Priest: Tlie consumated his marriage. and add to our own resources, lest we lose our ability to remain academically osity, but I suspect that they will bury Making ofModern Marriage in Me- There are still church leaders who competitive. any chance of a clearly articulated dieval France. Duby presents 10th see the material and spiritual world in Besides this threat, there are plenty of existing reasons to add resources and. theology under a mountain of rheto- and 1 1th century France as the set- opposition to each other and view sex kvork reforms on LBIS. Kenyon 's network systems are often unreliable, and the ric, engineered to play well with the ting for a clash between two ideolo- with a great deal of suspicioa I do not new Perfigo system has yet to be fine tuned to allow consistent residential access. voters. gies, one secular and one religious. believe this, and in these concerns I LIsers often inexplicably lose data permanently from network drives. The numbetj This is a loss to a religious per- The Christian leaders were don't share any commonality with pf journals and books available throughout the library aught to be augmented in. son trying to sort out just what all this concerned with purifying themselves the clerics of 10th and 11th century order to provide standalone research capabilities. Sturm und Drang about marriage has and the world in anticipation of the France. But I do share their under- In the end, fiduciary concerns must defer to academic concerns if academia to do with God. Conservatives to apocalypse, which they expected to standing of the object of the religious I feel about a authentic relation- is to thrive either at Kenyon or in the state ofOhio. Those holding the purse strings whom speak squeamish arrive at any moment. It is not my quest as full and should come to the conclusion that a small deficit, or a shaving from the endow homosexuality in the church, and intention to belittle their aspirations. ship with God. It seems to me that if pent, is worth every penny when knowledge is at stake. gay marriage in particular, because What they wanted was godliness. the church were to pose a theological it seems like a further infringement They understood the right relation- question about marriage, it would start of the secular world on religious life. ship with God to be the object of by asking how it is a help or a hin- Otlice: Chase lower at the top ot Pence Hall's stairway main But heterosexual marriage is itself an human life, and they believed that drance to the religious quest Once it Mailing address The Kenyon Collegian, PO. Box 832, Gambier, OH 43022. re- it Business address: EO. Box 832, Gambier, OH 43022 infringement of secular norms on sex, even in the context of marriage, had asked that question, could begin

E-m- ail address: collegian8'kenyonedu ligious life. The scriptural evidence could interfere in this religious quest. to articulate good and bad forms of WWW address: httpjarchives kenyoaeducollegian in support of marriage is mixed. Je- They were, for the most part, disin- Christian marriage, the morally good Telephone number (740) 427-533- 8, Facsimile: (740) 427-533- 9 sus proclaims the indissolubility of clined to look for the presence of being those matrimonial unions that The opinion page is a space for members of the community to discuss issues relevant to the campus in 19, but and the worid at large. The opinions expressed on this page belong only to the wnter. Columns and marriage Matthew goes God in material things and worried aid the religious quest, the morally bad letters to the editors do not reflect the opinions of Vie Kenyon Collegian staff. All members of the on, at the disciples' prompting, to that believers become overwhelmed being those that detract from it. community are welcome to express opinions through a letter to the editors. Vie Kenyon Collegian pronounce that celibacy is prefer- by worldly concerns. Christians have come to view the to edit all letters submitted for length and clarity. The Collegian cannot accept reserves right able for anyone who can manage it. Opposing them was the secular heterosexual marriage as normative. anonymous or pseudonymous letters. Letters must be si gned by indi viduals, not organizations, and In 22, states that that it must be 200 wordsor less. Letters mastalso be received no laterthan iheTuesday priorto publication Matthew Jesus leadership, who thought of the wealth It is important to remember Vie Kenyon Collegian prints as many letters as possible each week subject to space, interest and "in the resurrection they neither mar- and property that they had inherited hasn't always been so, and the fact appropriateness. Members of the editorial board reserve the right to reject any submission. The ry nor are given in marriage, but arc as a gift that must be passed down that it is normative doesn't necessar- views expressed in the paper do not necessarily reflect the views of Kenyon College. like angels in heaven." If resurrec- to their own progeny. They were ily make it holy. There is, of course, tion is seen as the goal of Christian concerned with the stewardship of no way to pass a law that vill insure it is Advertisers should contact Jaimie Gesler for current rates and further life, then Jesus makes very clear their families' possessions and held that marriage holy. A constitutional

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a saint of the same name by 34-to-a-pa- he is credited with sending leading mobster. This was dur- cheesy, ck valen- us how lucky we all are to have Gelasius Pope around 498 A.D. the very first valentine, but ing Prohibition and Capone tines wc used to give and friends, family, and people He did this to draw attention the oldest known surviving wanted to get rid of all com- receive in elementary school. that love us. As Liz Mote '07 away from the Roman fertility valentine was written in 1415 petition that interfered with Well, who says anyone is too muses, "we have holidays for festival that occurred around by Charles, Duke of Orleans, his monopoly over the city's old for a Ninja Turtles valen- so many things that probably the same 'time, declaring the to his wife w hile he was im- prostitution, gambling, and tine? They're a fun, easy way make less sense, why not have rituals un-Christi- an. prisoned in the Tower of Lon- bootlegging outfits. But Mo- to bring a smile to someone's one for love?"

As for the pa- mass-produce- holiday's don. The first d ran was a leading crime king face, and they run less than $3 And if you are in a rela- tron saint, no one knows ex- Wal-Mar- American valentines were sold himself a hard man to simply a box at t. tionship, celebrate what you actly what happened to Saint I by Esther A. lowland in the knock off so it's thought that . Or, if you're not looking to have and who you have; you Valentine, whether he died in 1840s. Capone tried to take out Bugs's write out a whole lot of names, could buy them something, prison or was beheaded, but Of course, there is more lower ranks. Ever since, Febru- simply buy a few cards for your or as Jess Freeman-Slad- e '06 we know he was considered than this to the history of Va- ary 14, 1929 has been known as closest friends at the bookstore suggests, "simply find a way to be a martyr and canonized lentine's Day. In 1929, Febru- the day of the Saint Valentine's and write them a personal to surprise them romanti- by the Catholic Church. Cur- ary 14 w ent dow n in record as Day Massacre. note. However, if you're not cally. There's nothing like a rently, the Catholic well-place- Church one of the bloodiest days in the So, with all this fasci- into getting mushy with cards d Hollywood kiss

hi-stor- recognizes three saints by the world of crime. At the S.M.C nating y, how is it that and candy, just make sure you to change a day." In the end, name of Valentine or Valenti-nu- s. Cartage Company Garage in Valentine's Day is now view ed wish your friends and loved we're all alive and free to live According to The History North Chicago, seven men in by so many simply as a day to ones a happy Valentine's our lives however we please, Channel Program, "one legend business suits were found rid- remind those of us without sig- Day maybe you could even and if that isn't something contends that Valentine was a dled with bullets. These were nificant others just how lonely give your parents a call. Or that's worth at least a smile priest who served during the the men of George "Bugs" vvcare? An unfortunate but true simply get all of jour friends on February 14, I don't know third century in Rome. Moran, one of the city's most fact, as Adricnnc Boris '07 ob- - in one room and watch some what is. Midyear changes cause trouble BY LORA PACHT rules and teaching style. you remember everything Staff Columnist Nearly all of the students you learned during the first Collegian not fair to all with whom I have discussed semester, if and one professor Dear Editor, After twelve years of the topic say that they wish either neglected to teach you schooling, one aspect of col- they could have remained in a concept completely or did According to an op-e- d piece recently written by the editors of lege life I was more than pre- their old class, and that they not teach it in the same way the Collegian, there are a few requirements for what gets published: pared for was full year courses. miss their old professor. A as your new professor, you are "Articles which we deem to be well-writte- n, articulate, mature and The unexpected part of these friend and fellow Italian already behind. comprehensible are published." Also, the editors claim that the paper classes that I find slightly classmate Phoebe Claggett I am already discovering "follows no ideology, and none of the editors desires to change this." annoying is the switching of '08 emphatically states: "I re- that success in first semester Shortly after the elections, the Collegian published a hackneyed professors each semester. ally have not liked the switch Italian class in no way guar- and very poorly written op-e- d on the influence of the Christian right It was during the first to a new professor. I am way antees success in the second in getting George W. Bush reelected. One week later, Bryan Stokes . semester of intro Italian class too used to my old professor's semester. I recall my profes- II wrote a response that covered two-third- s of a page with a gray that I discovered that the next teaching style, and now I am sor making a few comments DacKgrouna. in Dota letters, tne words . voice lrom the tower were term I would be thrown under having more trouble than I had to me during the first class emblazoned at the top of the piece. He dissected the previous op-e- d anew professor's watchful eye first semester." So why switch of the new semester about and then went on to explain his reasons as a Christian for finding it so and unique instruction. I was at all? how my study habits from last objectionable while also supporting many conservative viewpoints so confused upon hearing the Naturally, I am not aware semester will have to change My initial reaction was that Mr. Stokes most likely had allowed news that I could only wonder of the various scheduling for this semester, as it will be the poorly-writte- n piece to be published so that he would have an why the class would switch to or reasons much harder and require a lot administrative easy liberal target to take pot shots at. While that may not be true a new professor right in the for switching the professors more work. Even for someone the way in which the articles were published led me to think there middle of the year, especially around, but from a student's like me who did not have to was at least some conservative bias on the part of the editorial staff. in an introductory language point of view, it appears to be change professors, I still have If the editors-in-chi- ef had lived up to their claim that they course. Languages are difficult more work for the professor had to adjust to new expecta- publish only "ajrticles which they deem to be well-writte- n, enough to learn, and I had only and more stressful for the stu- tions. articulate, mature and comprehensible," then it seems clear that recently become comfortable dents. Not only do the profes- I am not writing this ar- they would have returned the op - ed to the author and had him with my class and professor sors have to form a classroom ticle to propose a solution to make the necessary revisions. As the piece was published, very at the end of first semester. relationship with a handful of the problem because I am few people wouldn't have been able dissect its arguments. Had Luckily, due to a class con- new students, but the students not aware of the reasoning the editors stuck to their purported requirements for publishing a flict, I was able to stay with the have to adhere to a new set of behind the switching of pro- piece, then maybe Mr. Stokes' response could have actually stimu same professor, but my class-Mate- s rules and adjust to a new teach- fessors, any possible solution lated some sort of intelligent debate instead of arousing accusa had to move on. So, even ing style. I could offer might not even be tions of conservative bias. It may be true that the paper "follow s though I was fortunate enough I am sure that for certain feasible. However, it is neces- no ideology, and none of Lhe editors desires to change this," but. ,'o be able to remain with my the does not sary to shed some light on the classes switch for the readership to believe this, then the editors and staff must original professor, I sit in my present as much of a problem, and possibly think of issue, live up to their claims that they only publish pieces fit for print. Italian classroom every day but for language courses, some ways to save the profes- and observe the new students be the adjustment can nearly sors some hassle and alleviate Sean Lvons '07 struggling to acquaint them- impossible. Starting to learn some of the suffering on the selves with the professor's a new language requires that part of the students. The Kenyon Collegian ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Thursday, February 10, 2005 Measuring Measure for Measure '05 A fantastic revisit of a Shakespearean classic confronts sex, love and law . . . with David Bowie? Any play that opens with a liness through shards of the audience through the complex with comedy, Vaught's ham- sure that culminate in a clear young girl genuflecting to the recognizable. This production plot. Gitenstein shone the most ming, which worked so well mass marriage, this production sounds of Dionne Warwick's was successful in reframing during her emotional pleas to for the character of the Duke, refused to inscribe answers on warbling has my attention. It's common items by placing them her captured brother Claudio, took the humanity and reality a play that ends in questions, a quick trick, juxtaposing what together on the stage a sort with a guttural edge and the out of the Duke-as-Fria- r, turn- forcing the audience to cast we expect to be high culture of rebirth through re-contextu-aliz- ation. low subtle tones of rage that ing the otherwise dark and their own opinions and leave with what we know, though inflected meaning- - into her disturbing scenario into a sort the theater wondering. And adore, as low culture a trick, And that sort of rebirth iambic speech. of disjointed farce. However, 400 years after Shakespeare occasionally successful and oc- is what many directors of Andy Vaught '05, as the Vaught reclaimed the role by put the quill to parchment, casionally not, that set the tone, Shakespearean plays strive for. Duke, was also able to lend the final act of the produc- the fact that twenty actors on for last week's production of However, while the Bard was meaning to his plentiful tion, playing the Duke with a a Kenyon stage can still rouse Measure for Measure. granted new shades of meaning scenes. However, unlike Ket- tinge of tentative softness that the audience to wonder with his Assistant Professor of through set and costume, the tler and Gitenstein, Vaught's worked well against his earlier words is an achievement in and Drama Daniel Kramer di- actors were not always entirely acting seemed to be, at times, bombast, creating a believable of itself. rected the show, and his dark elucidating. Brian Kettler '08 in conflict with his character. character able to rule with both Kramer's production of sense of humor was evidenced stood out as Claudio simply be- Vaught's performance as the power and compassion. Measure for Measure rein-

his-exaltatio- in n of the anach- cause he refused to let Shake- Duke in disguise revealed one In general, the mix of vented the old by mixing it ronistic. By placing the Duke speare sound like Shakespeare. of the few times in this play spectacle and Shakespeare with the new, and the constant

self-conscious in a business suit, a whore in Instead, he handled the words that theatricality worked amazingly well, mak- anachronisms and theatrical re-framin- gs hot-pants and Juliet in a car- with a sort of tough noncha- took away from the effective- ing this production one of the jolted an old text into digan, Kramer crafted a world lance, crafting a character ness of the production. Vaught best to take the Bolton stage life for a fresh audience. While that was more evocative than that was strong, sympathetic, was undeniably effervescent, in years. However, the big- viewers may not have under- reflective. Instead of simply and, most importantly, entirely charming and enchantingly gest complaint repeated again stood every on-stag- e choice, recreating a single time period, comprehensible. Kettler was slick as the Duke, especially and again as the audience left they left the theater with the Kramer, with the help of As- the best when caged, impress- in the final act. However, as the theater was that the end of play still unraveling in their sociate Professor of Drama An- ing the audience with his brutal the Duke-as-Fria- r, Vaught kept Measure for Measure was too minds, personalizing a piece drew Reinert's visually loaded delivery of delicate words and the same grandiose manner, the ambiguous; what does it mean of Shakespeare and investing set and Associate Professor of the force of emotion behind his same mugging, crowd-workin- g to have Isabella alone in the it with something altogether Drama William Marshall's fan- metered appeals. techniques. While this choice rain onstage at the end of the new and relevant. tastic yet familiar costuming, Sarah Gitenstein '05, too, does show character continu- play? In a text that offers no final tapped into an overriding mood stood out for her apt handling ity, the combination of Vaught Editors 'Note: Reviews of Kenyon that spans many centuries. The of the language. Unlike Ket- in voluminous green robes, answer to the Duke's marriage Drama productions are anonymous darkness, the cherubs pressed tler, Gitenstein has a more his face fully exposed, with proposal, the fact that the audi- because we all live in a small com- against barbed wire, the Duke's theatrical acting style, but it such buoyant acting made ence is left with this confusion munity where the writers have purple tie and the sounds of works; she used her facial the Duke-as-Fri- ar a bit too may be Kramer's biggest victo- worked with, or hope to work with, in productions David Bowie all combine to expressions and vocal pitch to over-lhe-to- p to be believable. ry. Unlike many previous pro- participants create a sense of otherworld- - evoke sentiments and guide the Instead of investing the story ductions of Measure for Mea under review.

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Before Sunrise and spite of lliis, or maybe because of it, the same smart, fuimv, touching Chinese tradition comes to Kenyon Before Sunset the film lx-come-s far more power- dialogue that marked the first film. is the New Year. y of Friday and Saturday, 8:00 PM fully romantic than any ordinary The diameters simply have a differ- This Friday Chinese Come and celebrate the ear the Rooster in Rosse Hall 9:00 P.M. The night w ill feature a pe- Higley Auditorium multiplex lov e story. More than the ent perspective on life than they did at rformance by Ohio Chinese Musical Artists and a plethora of CliiikH' typical shallow surface attraction and nine years ago. It's a testament to the food. We can neither confirm nor the rumors that there will he Richard Linklater is one cliche "emotional" moments that one skill of Linklater and his actors that deny fireworks. Come ;uid enjoy! of today's premier independent usually sees, Before Sunrise is a star-tling- ly they remain true to the essence of directors, a status he achieves by real look at two people on the the characters v liile allowing them avoiding many of the pretentious, brink of adulthixxl. They are being to age logically. Before Sunset has Students' skills to rock NIA show self-conscious- ly "hip" trappings its pulled away from each other by their more of a sense of urgency than The Nu Iota Alpha sorority w ill present a Talent Show on Friday that tend to plague lesser indie r, which is to be expected commitments and responsibilities, predcoess Feb. 11. from 9 P.M. to 11 P.M. in Gund Ballroom. Baked good-wil- l films. Linklater (Dazed and Con- 1 1 but they have just enough youtliful mm characters who no nger have be available, and many worthwhile talents w ill be on display fused) is known for telling simple their entire lives of tliem. In idealism left to take this chance. One ahead so come and show love for y our peers! Or show them y our singing stories that ring true with audiences senses that they may view it as their keeping with that, the film takes dancing magic tricks. First through third prizes will be awarded to because of their richly drawn char- in real time, Jesse and chance to is place giving e-m- last do such a tiling. This the best acts. For more information, please ail Williamsst or acters the director's for and knack a story of two people who are unsure, Celine about 90 minutes to catch up Kelleherc(a kenyon.edu, the heads of the NIA sorority. noticing the little things that niiike and maybe a little scared of what the and ultimately m;ike a decision. up everyday life. Perhaps nowhere future holds who find some com- Taken together, these films ;tre a is this more evident than in his 1995 fort in each other for one night. moving meditation on life, love and Symphony promises rousing music film Before Sunrise, and its sequel, Nine years later, Celine and growing up, from two characters The Knox County Symphony, featuring winners of the Young' last year's Before Sunset. Jesse meet up again in Paris in Be- who were obviously meant for each Musicians Competition, will perform on Saturday, February-12- , 2005 j Before Sunrise is the story fore Sunset. To say too much alxml other, but who may ultimately be at 8 P.M. in Rosse Hall. The group, conducted by Dr. Benjamin lAxkc. of the chance meeting between the circumstances of lliis meeting forced ajxirt by their radically dif- will perform a variety of numbers, including an execqn from Don Celine (Julie Delpy), a French would spoil the ending of the fust ferent circumstances. The whole of Giovanni and The Ixml of the Rings Symphonic Suite. Tickets are grad student, and Jesse (Ethan film, but if Sunrise is about looking the two films is more than the sum available at the door for $10 general admission and $3 for students. Ilawke), an American traveler, towards the future, then Sunset is of the parts, and seeing Jesse and Ce- on a train in Europe. On a whim, alxml looking back at your past and line twice, separated by nine yeais heats up they decide to gel off and spend wondering what might have been. of experience, giv es the viewer ad- Carribean party Gund the night together in Vienna. They Hie characters have settled into their ditional perspective on how people This Saturday, February 12, be part of a delightful Kenyon pari) spend the night strolling through the adult roles more comfortably, and, can change, or not cliange, over the experience. Enjoy Raggae, Salsa, I lip-Ho- p, Raggaelon, Merengm city, conversing about life, love and as such, they have lost some of their years. Sunset also contains one of the and more at the Students of Carribean Awareness Carribean Dance

! anything else that jumps to mind, earlier idealism. Each of them has best endings in recent film history, Party Be at Gund Commons-thi- s Saturday from 10 P.M. to 2 AM knowing that they only have this what might be called a "gcxxJ" life, stunning lxth for its simplicity and and have a blast! one night together before they must but they also have regrets and unful- its profundity. With Before Sunrise move on. In these few hours, they filled dreams, ;md they're reaching a and Before. Sunset, Linklater has not Learn to dance to the of gonss quickly develop a deep connection point where they have to confront the simply made a p;u'r of films alxuil sons (Ionic directed and understanding of one another, fact that those dreams may never be people Hilling in love; there would see the Kenyon College Gamelan Ensemble in action, Spiller making the aimi ng morning all the realized. be nothing special about that. lie by Assistant Professor in Asian Music and Culture Henry Kenyon 's will accompany a Sudanese dance more difficult. This is not to suggest that has crafted two beautiful, touching premier gong group demonstration and workshop presented by Ben Arcangel at 4:30 P.M This may not sound like much Before Sunset is a "downer." The and utterly unique films alxiul love (lie filrii on Tuesday, February 15. The performance will take place in Bcnii-Musi- c of a story, and in truth, is Oscar-nominate- d script (by Lin- itself. 201) will basic Indonesian dance a bit light on traditional plot, but in klater, Ilawke and Delpy) is full of Room (Peirce and include - Jason Smith lessons for the audience. Thursday, February 10, 2005 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Kenyon Collegian Love reaches the airwaves BY DAN POPPICK 10. Hob Dylan - Girl from self-loathin- g would certainly Guest Writer the North Country: Of all the be part of the Mcgabot; just be- incredible songs Bob Dylan cause they're negative doesn't I don't think I know anyone wrote, pertaining to love or mean they're not important. ... YJ he-cau- love se the-Nort- who likes songs solely anything else, Girl from h 6. Men Without Hats they're about love. That's Country is one of the Safety Dance: I like this song a pretty lame reason to like an- best because of its deceptive because of its timely relevance: ythingactually, it's not even a simplicity. It seems like a "We can go when we want to. reason. To put it in a broader simple little folk ballad, but the night is young and so am I." 4 context, the logic behind lik- as is typical with Bob, it's not. How right you are, Men With- ing love songs because they're The tune is pretty, of course, out Hats, how right you are. about love is akin to that of the but ' here we have a man who 5. Johnny ('ash Delia 's t 1 following statements: doesn't seem entirely sure Gone: This upbeat little coun- "I like flowers because whether he's in love with a try ditty looks at memory in a a' a tin, they're plants." woman or with his pristine similar manner to that of the "I like tectonic plates memories. How very Michel aforementioned Dylan song, because they float on molten Gondry. except in this one the woman lava." 9. John 'Lennon Oh isn't metaphorically haunt- This is circular logic. You Yoko!: lie wrote a lot of songs ing the man: she's literally a cannot like something solely for her, but most of the ones ghost and she's not happy. for its defining property. he did with the Beatles were 4. Ol' Dirty Bastard -- My reasons for liking love as he a veiled, if were little Baby I Got Your Money: "Just http:www.canoe.caybuperBowl2U02Gallerysuperbowl08.html songs, if I consider them with ashamed of himself: "I once dance! If you caught up in the The former Beatle takes a the musical introspection, are as important had a girl, or should I say, she holy ghost trance If you stop! shot at and the Messianic. if not moreso than the actual once had me." No, John, you I'ma' put the killer ants in your songs themselves. We may as- both had each other, and that's pants." Not-s-o Bowl?! sociate these songs with a great why the Greatest Band Ever 3. The Grateful Dead Super day, beautiful scenery, a person had to break up. This song is Stella Blue: Jerry Garcia Paul McCartney is NO Janet Jackson. or an infinite number of other more straightforward. It was had one of the most underrated N reasons. obviously something no one voices in all of rock and roll, BY GEOFF NELSON and IcCartney just happened to beat That said, the following list else understood, which sort of and this is certainly his most Humor Columnist out Stone Phillips and a sixth grade of the ten greatest love songs made it nicer. beautiful song, if not his best. Algebra teacher from Milwaukee? Every year the Super Bowl It's not that the halftime show time ng. of all is a definitive one; 8. Beck - Debra: "I Simply gut-wrenchi- halftime show is arguably the was bad: it was just The that is to say, I am entirely picked you up late at night 2. Frank Zappa Broken boring. most watched piece of music and right about every single one of 'after work I said, 'Lady, step Hearts are Well, most moving moment of the night for Aholes: entertainment in human history. these, and if you disagree, you inside my Hyundai.'" they are. came during "I ley Jude," when the The resources for this spectacle are entire crowd held up posters that all are entirely .wrong. Why, you 7. Nine Inch Nails Clos- 1. John Coltrane Ac- limitless, and theoretically the show ask? I don't know. Just sort of er: If love was a gigantic robot knowledgement: If you've fit together to make a red, white and should always be entertaining. Yet blue that a feeling but feelings are all made up of smaller, weaker ro- heard it, you know. If you design repeatedly spelled somehow, given all these factors we've got. So let's talk about bots think Mighty Morphin' haven't, you're wasting your the words "Na" and "Na". How is pointing towards excitement and this for the fans at the For our feelings: Power Rangers lust and time until you do. game? overall success, we ended up with the price of your five hundred dollar Paul McCartney. It's not that I have ticket, you get the chance to hold up a the details anything against Mr. N IcCartney, but piece of poster board and completely Finding this the poetry is best in we could do? block your own view of the show. The halftime show, in the plan- Brilliant. BY ELIZABETH SEIGLE plains the ambiguity embedded that we don't understand it. He ning stages, appeared to take some It has also been rumored that Guest Writer in much of his work. His poems assures us that the act of "get- steps forward After last year's Janet the stunt. In are not written for his readers. ting" a poem is really as simple Pepsi sponsored poster Jackson fiasco, the directors of the a shocking show of taste, Pepsi was all Paint- Rather, his poems encourage as reading it. Calling artists! Super Bowl finally refused to allow not mentioned in the display. Instead, ers, readers to explore the depths "Poetry is . . . about atten- singers, and poets alike MTV to produce the show. I'm sure we can reason that Pepsi assumed that must of the imagination, emotion tion to detail," he says. "To be gather round for a night this marriage of MTV and the Super all and memory. The voice of his holy in small things. Everything we would associate the colors, red, of artistic merit. This Thursday, Bowl seemed like a good idea at first poems creates a certain cadence is animated, singing all the white and blue with their product Lavan Younger Poet Award re- Who handles the combination of mu- that the reader can almost feel time if we just look." So come Since when can a company advertise cipient Peter Gizzi will reveal television than or self. What may sic and better MTV? simply by putting forward their brand to Kenyon w w within his her and look, and feel and listen. hat he means hen But think about it for a minute.. color? Pepsi is not the only group that he appear to be disjointed syntax Gizzi's collections of says, "poetry is a tactile me- This is a network that once aired favors red, white and blue. For all I is really the rich color of the poetry include Periplum, Ar- dium." a show called "Jackass". This is a net- could have been the poem's background small tificial Heart, and the recent know, America For someone whose "first work that currently has a game show inconsistencies that miff the Some Values of Landscape and title sponsor of the halftime placards. experience with books" and w here ugly male contestants attempt "From the producer of Tlie Gulf War: words" was to, Gizzi reader initially, and then cause Weather. His poems can be read being read to convince unwitting females to let A faking lite Middle East Our Satidbox has an epiphany-lik- e sense of under- in the anthologies Sixty Years of made quite a presence in them into their homes didn't Si- and the more recent Iraq: Wliat, Me standing. American Poetry, Real Things, today's circle of poets. In his lence the Lambs start with the same Beginning with the title Nouveaux Poetes Americains, of Worry? America now brings you the poetry reading, which will take premise? This is the same network Super Bowl I lalftime show." place in Peirce Lounge, Gizzi and allowing his words to fol- The Best American Poetry, that made Dan Cortez famous, if onl y . My final thought on the placards will low thereafter, it is not common The Gertrude Stein Awards in share his gift of language briefly. All of this makes MTV the is that the only words on them were for Gizzi to complete a poem in Innovative North American with those who choose to be most irresponsible television network While this is an one sitting. Ideas come to him Poetry, and An Anthology of "Na" and "Na". touched. ever. And the producers of the Super obvious reference to "I ley Jude," is unexpectedly. They seem to take' New American Poets. In addi- His work takes the reader Bowl take the biggest moment of the it really a tribute to N IcCartney? This on the personae of myriad char- tion, Gizzi garnered artist grants on a journey that challenges the television year, with an unlimited is supposed to be one of the greatest acters, ranging from animated from the Fund for Poetry, the senses. He says, "...for a poem budget and turn it over to MTV, no songwriters of his generation and die to bleak, rigid to abstract. His Rex Foundation, the Howard to touch its readers, it must questions asked This would be like only lyric that they could think to show poems often elicit a powerful Foundation, and the Foundation leave some space between the giving my high school self the keys to 90 million people was "Na, Na". Was w aura. Gizzi says, "poems are for Contemporary Performance words. As important as hat is a mansion and a no-lim-it credit card the only other option "Brought to you incredibly haunted. The act of Arts. Currently teaching in and in the poem is what's left out." And yet, for all this progress in by Pepsi"? writing a poem is a form of pos- directing the M.F.A. Program Gizzi will demonstrate the ef- network selection, we ended up with Fora sporting event that is steeped session." in Creative Writing at the Uni- fectiveness of this skill for a one of the most boring spectacles in so heavily in entertainment, not sports, He expands this by explain- versity of Massachusetts at Am- willing, receptive audience. recent memory. I low did Paul Mc- the producers ofthe half time show can ing that poetry is no simple ca- herst, Gizzi has edited a handful Gizzi calls poetry "a Cartney get chosen to perform? After ill afford another blase performance tharsis. "Some poets drink, some of notable works, including the puzzle that you have to figure last year it was clear that they wanted like McCartney's. If next year's show scowl, some ride boxcars," he poetry journal oblek and the out. There's no sum total that's someone who offered absolutely no is going to involve any former Beatles says. "It's not easy baring your Exact Change Yearbook. quantifiable to every reader. chance of scandal. And somehow it had better be more exciting. So until soul for the living." Apparently Peter Gizri will be reading a selec- What you get out of a poem is they came up with Paul. Did they John Lennon 's revived corpse is fight- not. He claims that poetry scares tion of his poetry in Peirce Iaxuigc at what you're supposed to get." just put tire mimes of the three blandest ing a cage match against Ringo Starr, most of us because we think 7:30 P.M on Thursday, February 10. Perhaps this observation ex people anyone could think of in a hat I won't be watching. 10 The Kenyon Collegian SPORTS Thursday, February 10, 2005

Despite lackilig iin indoor fa- meet the following weekend at cility, the men's indoor track team Denison; however, the invitational began competing inside in late event was unscored. This time, the January, having spent most of their Lords' sprinters carried the team,

training time outdoors. The team with four top-fiv- e finishes. The began their season with a tenth-plac- e team finished particularly well in

finish at the NCAC Relays the 400-meter event, with Balthrop held at Denisou University on .T;tn finishing second in a time of 53. 15, 29 with a score of eleven points. Rosen in fifth, Trinh in sixth, sopho- The team, which lacked com- more Sahadeo Ramharrack in eigth,

petitors in a number of categories,-poste- d sophomore Marcel Wieth in ninth

sixth-plac- a number of fifth and e and first-ye-ar Shawn Gulati in tenth. finishes, notably by senior The Lords also began competing in

5,000-meter Tyler Newman in the the hurdle and pole-vaulti- ng events, relay and tlie 800-meter relay team which expands their variety and in comprised ofjunior Andrew 1 lam-mac- k, the future will allow them to gain first-year Thai Trinh, junior more points. Zach Rosen, and first- - ear Brandon Next up is the Capital Univer- Balthrop. sity Invitational in Columbus on The Lords fared better in a Feb. 11.

After warming up al the at tlie NCAC Relay event Cameron NCAC Relays al Denison Umvcr-sit- y followed thill up with a in at Deni- on Jan. 29 with a ninth-plac-e son with a height of 8'6. as well as

third-place tlie 200-met- cr finish, the Ladies demonstrated finish in Alix Sug.irman their abilities at the Denison Big dash and a first-plac- e finish in tlx; A member of the equestrian, team takes a jump in a competition this past weekend hosted by the Red Invitational, an unscored, yet 55-meter dash Slie was followed Univ ersity of Akron. higlily successful event for tlie team by junior teammate Anna Esty, Sophomore Katie Walker, a high who placed sixth in that event. BY SARA KAPLOW tion, senior Julie Devine took first Alix Sugarman and Laura .school Ail-Americ- an long jumper, Senior Emily'Rom took second Sports Editor in intermediate fences and fifth in Venlgen, were granted honor- set a new Kenyon College record in place in tlie high jump with a lieiglil Over the weekend, the Ke- - intermediate flat. Sophomore able mention in the novice Hat tluit event with a jump ofl 7T 0.00. of 4"08.00. to round out tlie fifth of nyon' College Equestrian Team Shannon Selerowski came away and fences classes. That mark not only broke a record tlie top-tlir- ee finislies for tlie team. ventured to the University of with fourth place in intermedi- On Sunday, Devine took set in 1985 but also automatically The Ladies also placed w ell in tlie Akron to compete against a ate flat and sixth place in novice fifth in intermediate fences,'

3,000-nict- er qualified Walker for the NCAA race, w ith senior Jen i plethora of Ohio schools such fences. while Ventgen placed fourth first-ye- Champiousliips at tlie end of the Quimby placing fourth and ar i as Denison University, The Also on Saturday, sophomore in novice flat. Colfer took season Emily Bierman placing tenth i Ohio State LTniversity and Lake Christopher I lana wait won the ad- fourth in the advanced walk Walker was not the only Like their male counterparts, Erie College. Overall, the team vanced walk trot canter category trot canter.

impressive team member at either tlie Ladies next put foot to track at j performed well and a number of and qualified for Regionals later In addition to llanawalt, event. Junior Katy Cameron and tlie Capital University Invitation in i members qualified for regional in the spring. Junior Christy Golfer Devine, senior Lindsey Eckert tlie sophomore Pheobc Stone combined Columbus on ele enlh. ! competition. rode her way to fifth in advanced and junior Tracey Siegrist will

to place tliird in the pole-vau- lt relay ! On the first day of competi walk trot canter. Two first-year- s, be attending Regionals. Lady swimmers post season-best times at Princeton BY MARIO NUNO WHELAN ing back in their last duals meet Staff Reporter of the season. The women's swim team "The team came together brought their dual meet season and rose to the challenge of a to a close this past weekend in great team," said junior Dani- a meet against the Princeton elle Korman, "which sets us Tigers. As preparations have up well for the championship already begun for the North meets to come." Coast Athletic. Conference Korman dominated the meet this Thursday, the Ladies butterfly events this weekend, took only a fraction of the team capturing individual wins and to Princeton, and left the diving season-best times in both the team home to train as well. Al- 100-yar- d and 200-yar- d but- though the Tigers were able to terfly. She posted a 57.94 in rack up 32 unanswered points the 100, and broke the NCAA in the diving portion, the Ladies qualifying time for the 200 in fought hard, losing 168-12- 6. Of 2:04.77. fourteen swimming events the "The atmosphere was one Ladies captured seven, during conducive to great swimming which four swimmers posted and that was what happened," season best times, with one said Korman simply. Making breaking the qualifying mark sure to maintain the fierce level for Nationals. of competition set by' Connors L f Setting the pace was and Korman, junior Rachel Kevin Guckes sophomore Jessica Connors, Smith and sophomore Rebecca A Kenyon swimmer practicies at the Ernst Center before the NCAC competition, which takes place this Thurs- who ruled the breaststrbke Allison each posted season best day, Friday, and Saturday in Canton, Ohio. events this weekend with a 1: times in their events as well. 100-yar- 500-yar- and will be Division III National Titles. 05.58 win in the d and Smith captured the d this weekend." workouts swimming a'season best 2:21.09 in the freestyle event in a time of 5: While a portion of the significantly fewer yards this This year they hope to take 200-yar- week as well as shaving down Conference and continue on d. However, not yet 03.34, while Allison snatched team will wait until after this

breast-strok- 200-yar- meet. to capture their 22nd national satisfied with just the e the d backstroke 2: weekend's Conference meet to for the big events, she continued to 04.10. heavy-tape- r and shave for Na- "Training this week is going title. When asked whether 200-yar- will on race there were any team rituals capture another win in the d "It turned out to be a very tionals, much of the team to focus preparation," individual medley with a highly competitive and success- be heading to Canton, Ohio this said Korman. "It's about swim- or superstitions performed time of 2:08.83. ful meet," said Smith, "and it Thursday for the NCAC Cham- ming fast but swimming easy." before the big meets, Korman As the meet progressed, the really gave us a chance for pionships, tapered and ready to Since the 1983-8- 4 season revealed the team's simple intensity level only got higher, some tight competition before go. This portion of the team has the Kenyon women's swim motto: with the Ladies holding noth we face Denison at Conference already begun relatively lighter team has won 20 of 21 NCAA "Swim fast." Thursday, February 10, 2005 SPORTS The Kenyon Collegian 1 1 Despite struggles, Lords vie for playoff spot Following two big wins, Lords look to clinch playoffposition; play Earlham on Sat. for Senior Night

BY JON PRATT 67-6- Hiram 5 in overtime. The Staff Reporter Lords then defeated Oberlin Up 5- - 67-4- until this point in the on Feb. by a score of 6. season, the Lords basketball f team has been struggling. .Go Against Oberlin, most of fl back to their 76-6- 7 loss to Wa- the Lords' points came from bash on Dec. 4, when 30 fouls the inside as they tallied were called on Kenyon. After 50 points, from w ithin the 0-- that game, the Lords were 7. three point arc. Throughout Fast-forwar- d to Jan. 22- - when the game, the Lords earned the Lords lost to Oberlin in eighteen points from three overtime 74-7- 3, leaving them pointers. Their three-poin- t with a 2-1- 5 record. shooting average in the sec- But now look at the ond half was one of their A Lords. Within the last week highest of their season, at 57 and a half, Kenyon has beaten percent.

Oberlin and Hiram. If Kenyon The Lords also out-rebound- ed beats Hiram again on Feb. 9, Oberlin with a total then Kenyon will gain the of 31 offensive and defensive eighth and final playoff rebounds combined, com- spot. pared to Oberlin's 23. Junior J Interestingly, this 2004-200- 5 Tyler Rehm scored thirteen Kenyon Lord's team points, sophomore Michael has shown itself to be able Cohen scored fifteen, first-yea- r to come back and prove that Josh Klinger scored ten previous performances did and Formato scored twelve. not display their best abili- "Oberlin is a team in the ties. league in which we carry a Recall when junior Matt size advantage, so we defi- Formato made a statement nitely wanted to attack in- Elena Fernandez after the loss against Hiram side first," said Croci. "Our A Lord goes up for a shot around an oponent last week atTomsich Arena. After beating Hiram College on 4-- on Dec. 4. "We're not wor- execution was excellent, and Wednesday night, the Lords are 5-- 17 and 9 in the NCAC. With three games left to go in the'season, they ried," said Formato at the the guys were very unselfish are still in contention for a play-o- ff spot. time. "We know at some time with their passing." the shots will start to fall." "Our strategy against attitude. We are all looking history of Kenyon basketball Spring BrealT2005Travel After the Lords allowed Oberlin was to stick to the forward to playing spoiler for to score over 1,000 points. with STS, America's 1 a conference victory to slip fundamentals, run through the rest of the season." He reached the scoring re- jStudent Tour Operator to away against Oberlin on Jan. "We have our level 57 our offense and not force taken cord after playing games. Jamaica, Cancun, Acapul- - 22, Head Coach Matt Croci things," said Formato. "We of play up a notch in the past Formato averages 17.5 points said, "I know our players are played with that approach couple of games, and if we per game and he is averaging co, Bahamas and Florida. still motivated to prove we are against Wooster and I think are able to maintain that, 44 percent from behind the Now hiring on-campus better than our record." we gained some confidence. we should finish the way we three-poin- t arc. reps. Call for group dis Those comments are now to," said Cohen. It's not so much that some- want The Lords play their last counts. InformationRese- proving'to be 27 I true. On Jan. we Formato recently became home game on Saturday at 3: 1-800- thing clicked; think rvations -648- 4849 at J:53 a.m., the Lords beat just played with a little more the twenty-firs- t player in the 00 p.m. against Earlham. or www.ststravel.com. 1

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BY WILL O'KEEFE This sentiment was re- NCAC Championship. Division I team, both Wein- Said Weinbach ,"The Stalf Reporter peated by other members of The NCAC! conference bach and Broderick competed great part about our team The 2004-0- 5 Women's the team as w.ell, including is one of the best in Divi- extremely well. is that there is no leader. diving squad is led by Broderick who commented sion III and the Ladies will Just a few hours later the Being such a young team . sophomores Sarah Hillen- that, "In terms of the team, be faced with a very tough Ladies were in the pool again there isn't even a place for brand and Tempe Weinbach. I have made friends and test. They have been doing where Hillenbrand took first seniority, let alone internal I h e future is bright for this developed friendships and everything they can to pre- in the one meter dive, while competition for leadership, very young team with the I never would've expected pare themselves, including Weinbach and Broderick and this makes us closer." addition of sophomore Au- it. All the girls are great competing against the best placed first and second in the The women have given drey Fisenberg, and first-year- s girls. But we are all so differ- opposition they can find. three meter dive respectively. a lot of credit to their coach Colleen Broderick and ent. Somehow, this common Two weeks ago the Ladies Head diving coach Andrew-Campbel- l for helping them get as far Sarah Holzman. Fisenberg interest of ours has brought participated in two meets said "The divers as they have. and Broderick bring a little us together and forced us to over the course of one af- have exceeded all expecta- "He encourages us' to more experience to the team get to know each other ... in a ternoon, the first against tions for this year, and have do our best"," said Brod- as they dove in high school; different setting than anyone the Louisville in the final set themselves up to do great erick, "to push ourselves the other three were all gym- else knows us." Kenyon Swimming & Div- things at the conference meet to obtain realistic goals. nasts prior to switching to Over the course of this ing meet in Ernst. in two weeks." We have so m-uc- h room to diving. - season the Ladies have Not long after they fin- The fact that the diving grow, but we don't get away The Kenyon College competed against the likes ished diving they were on team is so young has several with slacking off. We suffer diving team has been char- of Denison University, the road to the Colleve of benefits; the leadership is as a team if one of us isn't acterized by hard work and LTniversity of Louisville, Wooster where they took shared in many ways, there putting 100 into practice. a high level of camaraderie Ohio L'niversity and Case part in a dual meet. The is no competition between But we never forget to have amongst the ladies. Said Western Reserve LTniversity. first meet was a learning the women. They each genu- fun." Hillenbrand, "We're a small This coming weekend Hillen- experience for the Ladies inely want to see each other The team has increas-

team so we're really close. brand, Weinbach and Broder- as they faced off against the . succeed and all the women ingly high expectations for After practice we just hang ick will be heading to Can- Louisville Cardinals, a Di- mentioned how much that the years to come after a around until our coach yells ton, Ohio where they will be vision 1 squad. Despite the has helped them improve in successful start-u- p season at us to go home." representing Kenyon in the pressure of diving against a their diving. this year. 12 The Kenyon Collegian SPORTS Thursday, February 10, 2005 Swimmers prep for NCACs by fighting Tigers Team members qualify for Nationals against Princeton, regroup to defend conference title streak

BY SARA KAPLOW w arm-u- p for the NCACs in Can- Sports Editor ton, Ohio, to be held beginning With all attention focused Feb. 10. While the NCACs are on the upcoming NCAC Cham- the end of the season for most pionships, part of the Lords' of the competing teams, for the swimming team ventured to Lords it has simply been a final "New Jersey to take on the meet before the NCAA Cham- Princeton University Tigers. pionships, which this year will Princeton, a Division I school, be held in Holland, Michigan. beat the Lords 1 72-- 1 22, despite It may seem presumptuous a couple of NCAA championship-qu- to be thinking of the NCAA alifying swims. meet already; however, the Although the Lords took Lords have dominated the first place in seven of the NCACs since their inception fourteen swimming events, and in fact going back to the the lack of competitive divers Ohio Athletic Conference r allowed the Tigers to come Championship, in which Ke- out victorious. Senior Elliot nyon used to compete. In the Rushton maintained his win- OAC, the Lords won 3 1 straight ning momentum, claiming titles, 37 total before the cre- two of the wins for himself in ation of the NCAC in 1984. the 500-yar- d freestyle and the Despite the new: confer- 1,000-yar- d freestyle. ence, the Lords continued their The five other wins were 31 -- title streak, w inning the first racked up one-by-on- e, with twelve NCAC Championships. junior Travis Brennion and The streak ended dramatically, Kevin Guckes first-year Alex Stoyel both when, in 1997, Kenyon lost A Kenyon swimmer prepares for NCAC competition. The Lords have not lost at the meet since 1997. automatically qualifying for the crown to local rival Deni-so- n the NCAA championships in University by a score of every year since 1986 except members have won titles, in- - This is the last conference 932-91- who their events, the 400-yar- d indi- 3. The following year, 1997. Last year the Big Red eluding senior Tom Ashby, who meet for nine senior Lords, 200-yar- a vidual medley and the d however, the Lords regained finished just 67 points behind enters this year's meet among will leave behind team with breaststroke, respectively. Both the title, which they have not the Lords, the second closest the all-tim- e top conference title increased depth. The games until times were season-best- s for the lost since then. margin since the creation of winners. Ashby, who competes begin Thursday and last sw imrners. Denison, however, has con- the NCAC. in the butterfly and freestyle Saturday and will be followed The meet was both an op tinued to battle closely with the In addition to unmatched events, has all of his nine con- by the Canton Invitational the portunity for qualifying and a Lords, coming in as runners-u- p team success, individual team ference titles in relay events. next day. Ladies beat Yeowomen, maintain conference lead BY MARC STEINER relented, leading the Ladies to Their shooting was streaky, a double-doubl- e with ten points The home crowd grew testy Staff to Reporter a 65-4- 5 victory. Only thirteen however, connecting on only and eight rebounds. Kenyon as the referees continued Whoever said that you seconds into the game Halicki nine of those threes. But their tallied 25 rebounds during the charge fouls against Kenyon. should not read your press sank a three, putting her at third sharp defense, which flustered second half.and their fifteen of- For the game, Kenyon was -- clippings never watched Dana place all time in Ladies' bas- Oberlin into twenty turnovers, fensive boards and hard-nose- d charged with fifteen fouls and

three-pointe- t 13-- 3 the Halicki or Alison Lebar. After ketball history in rs held fast, and Kenyon-wen- into defense spurred a run at Oberlin five. Furthermore, Yeowomen were not charged Jjeing honored in a pre-gam- e made and setting the tone for the halftime knotted at 24. the beginning of the second Ken-yon- 14:17 ceremony for senior night, they game. The Ladies came out fir- In the second half, 's half. It gave the Ladies a lead with a single foul until 37-2- the took immediate control of the ing from long range, attempting rebounding came alive at 7 that they would not in the second half. While three-pointer- Zea-na- h the of- game against Oberlin and never a season high 31 s. behind Lebar,' who nearly had relinquish. Junior Katy fans were frustrated by - contributed six of her ten ficiating, the Ladies were unde- points during the run, hitting terred and pushed their lead to two consecutive jumpers and twenty points behind two more making a lay-u- p off of a steal. Halicki threes. Halicki was the The Oberlin Yeowomen lead scorer for the Ladies with 'A attempted stem the tide by eleven points. penetrating and driv ing hard With the victory over Ober- r 1 Y 1 W to hoop, but the Ladies held lin, the Ladies continued their Oberlin to a paltry five field methodical march towards the goals and 27 percent shooting playoffs and pushed their lead refer- in games i. in the second half. The the NCAC to three ," ees did their part to reward with an 11-- 3 record. The Ladies the Yeowomen for their hard will try to tighten their grip on J i i drives, awarding them fifteen the conference crown Saturday, free throws in the second half. Feb. 12 against Allegheny.

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Kevin Guckes Junior Katy Zeanah dribbles down the court to score during a recent home game. The Ladies are still in control of the NCAC despite a loss to Woostcr on Wednesday.