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Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 10-27-2016 Kenyon Collegian - October 27, 2016 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - October 27, 2016" (2016). The Kenyon Collegian. 2419. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/2419 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the College Archives at Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Kenyon Collegian by an authorized administrator of Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ESTABLISHED 1856 October 27, 2016 Vol. CXLIV, No. 9 For Senate, a second chance GABRIELLE HEALY AND GRACE RICHARDS NEWS EDITOR AND STAFF WRITER Campus Senate may be back in business. The student body’s elections of Ben Douglas ’18 as Campus Senate student co-chair and Emily Margolin ’17 as the senior class representative, announced on Oct. 20, mark an attempt to revive a governmental body that has not met once this semester. Last semester, a reevaluation of the organiza- tion’s role showed its exact function was not clear. This semester, with the student co-chair posi- tion vacant, Senate has been unable to meet. Last VP nominee Tim Kaine week’s election — which garnered 190 student votes, according to Student Council Vice Presi- dent of Student Life Emma Mairson — indicates the potential for Senate to make a comeback. to visit campus Newly elected student co-chair Douglas said COURTESY OF HARRELL KIRSTEIN | HILLARY FOR OHIO organizing the first meetings of the new body will be crucial to making Campus Senate a viable Tim Kaine, the Democratic Party’s nominee for Vice President, will speak at Kenyon this evening at 5 p.m. to encourage Ohio organization. His priorities include addressing voters to take part in early voting for the Nov. 8 election. Kaine, a U.S. Senator from Virginia, is on the campaign trail for Demo- issues regarding mental health and community cratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. The event will be held in Tomsich Arena in the Kenyon Athletic Center and doors will engagement. page 2 open at 3 p.m. Zombie epidemic invades Gambier Haunted dryers and a mysterious voice: Just in time for Halloween, Kenyon gets spooky. pgs. NATALIE TWITCHELL | STAFF WRITER 6-7 On Saturday Oct. 22, approximately 30 brave students and an ambu- lance escorted “zombies” on Middle Path to be quarantined in Weaver Cottage. The zombie outbreak, part of Robert A. Oden, Jr. Professor of Biology Joan Slonczewski’s Biology 211: Health Service and Biomedical Analysis class, was based on a quarantine in Weaver Cottage that actually occurred during the 2009 Swine Flu epidemic. Inspired by the Centeer for Disease Control’s zombie protocol, the event was designed to get students thinking about emergency preparedness, a goal Slonczewski believes they met, based on the response to the email campaign. “It gains the attention of people who would have otherwise just ignored thinking about it, ” Slon- czewski said. Jess Khrakovsky ‘18, one of the event leaders, wrote in an email to the Collegeian: “We got mostly stares, laughs, and pictures taken by prospective students and parents; however, there were some elementary school-aged children who were extremely excited about the event and even brought their own face masks .” At Weaver Wednesday, the class distribut- ed Zombie Preparedness Kits, consisting of emergency supplies financed by the Kenyon Campus Community Development Fund, a fund which promotes interaction between students, faculty and community. JESS KUSHER | COLLEGIAN 2 Thursday, Oct. 27 | kenyoncollegian.com Students elect new Senate reps Pub strives for Cove crowds ham and President Sean Decatur sit BILL GARDNER sibility that could debut as early as this semester, Continued from Page 1 on Campus Senate. NEWS EDITOR according to Chair of the Housing and Dining “I would like to be as directly in- Committee Liz Eder ’17. Though the Pub’s li- Senior Class Representative Mar- volved and connected to Senate as At 11:30 p.m. on Saturday evening, the Ohio quor license limited its hours to 1 a.m. when it golin hopes Senate can address the I can be,” Decatur said, citing the State University football game played to a nearly opened, Eder said many groups and individuals concerns of students and student or- smoking policy as an issue Senate empty Peirce Pub. AVI workers leaned against have commented on the Pub’s hours to Novak. ganizations and provide space for col- might tackle due to its impact on all the bar and occasionally glanced up at the door, “It’s just really empty usually, early on,” Eder laboration between group representa- Kenyon community members. waiting for more students to arrive. Thirty min- said. “People just associate Cove O’Clock with tives. Margolin anticipates discussion Kaylin Allshouse ’19, the sopho- utes later, they began to trickle in. It wasn’t long midnight.” of the College’s party policy and Title more class representative to Senate, before people were dancing on stage and order- Opening the Pub on Wednesday nights is IX policy, among other issues. feels a revamped Campus Senate will ing food and drinks. another suggestion the Housing and Dining Whether Douglas and Margolin be more viable because they are few- But for some, Peirce Pub still hasn’t been able Committee and members of Student Council are able to make progress in their er members than Student Council, to fill the void that last semester’s destruction have brought to Novak, according to Eder. No- new positions will shed light on the meaning each rep has to demonstrate of the Gambier Grill, popularly known as the vak said she hasn’t heard students pushing for effectiveness of the revamped Senate a significant commitment to the job. Cove, left behind. the Pub to open on Wednesdays, a weeknight structure, which de- “Because Stu- “I think what made the Cove so magical a when some students used to frequent the Cove. creased membership dent Council is so lot of the time was that it was halfway between Eder added that the Pub probably wouldn’t and introduced a I would like to large, I feel like it south campus and north campus,” Henry Nash begin operating on Wednesdays until AVI see representative from be as directly would be hard for ’18 said. “There would be this time of the night more profits on Fridays and Saturdays. “It’s not Staff Council (an involved and connected anything to move where parties would end, and people would just going to be exactly the Cove,” she said. “But I elected body that to Senate as I can be. through it and get sort of converge in the middle. And the move- think, for working with what we have, it’s pretty represents Kenyon done,” she said. ment further south has sort of isolated the crowd good.” staff members). President Sean Decatur “With Senate, be- that goes to the Pub.” Additional entertainment during weekends Associate Profes- “ cause there are only With two months of business behind them, is one change the Pub is already enacting. Last sor of English Sar- four or five [stu- AVI Resident Director Kim Novak is working to weekend, stand-up comedy group Two Drink ah Heidt ’97, who is interim faculty dent] members, it’s easier for us to make the Pub a more popular — and profitable Minimum had their first performance in the co-chair of Campus Senate, said last push our class agendas and to really — campus destination. The Pub has not been Pub. On Friday, AVI plans on hosting a World year’s reevaluation intended to clarify focus on one or two things at a time making a lot of money this semester, according Series special, with $2 hotdogs and pulled-pork the purpose of Senate and the lines of and give it our all.” to Novak. AVI rakes in between $400 to $850 per sliders. Novak added that students interested in communication between Senate and Allshouse echoed student co-chair night during the weekends, and garners crowds bringing a band to the Pub should contact Ethan other decision-making bodies. Douglas’s attention to mental health of anywhere from 150 to 350 people, depending Fuirst ’17. Heidt believes Senate can address issues, and added that she would like on the events happening around campus. Most Some students, like seniors Dylan Barrett issues of general concern to the cam- Senate to prioritize sustainability on traffic arrives between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m, when Smith and Vince Femia, are still nostalgic for the pus, since it is “the only body on cam- campus. the Pub closes. Cove. Both said they are not satisfied with the pus” that includes representatives Colin Cowperthwaite ’18 served as “The Pub has not been making a lot of mon- drink options in the Pub due to a lack of variety, from the faculty, the student body, student co-chair of Campus Senate ey … [but] we’re not giving up,” Novak said. and said the Cove was generally cheaper. They the staff and the administration. last academic year and is currently “Our promise is the same as the [College’s]: We also think the Cove was a more convenient cam- “The big thing we were doing in the studying abroad in Prague, Czech Re- will provide the Peirce Pub as an option since the pus bar. spring was working on reorganizing public. In his absence, he hopes Sen- Grill is gone, and we want to make it fun.” Later “Peirce Pub is trying too hard,” Smith said.