Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 4-23-1981 Kenyon Collegian - April 23, 1981 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - April 23, 1981" (1981). The Kenyon Collegian. 803. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/803 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]. The Kenyon Thursday, April-.n, 1981 --;;unte cvn. Number 25 Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio 43022 - Hedge, Travers, McCartney also elected Thorpe Will Succeed Mechem as Council President more people involved, particularly us as a community. I want to work McCartney said: "It was one thing people now outside Student Council, with the other members of the trying to convince people that I could in committee work. There is going to Executive Committee to try to do it; now I'm there and I've got to be a lot more community in- achieve this goal." be able to do it. There's some ap- volvement; we are going to invite Reflecting upon the election, prehension, but I'm looking forward faculty and administration to Travers noted that she was "ex- 10 it. meetings on a regular basis, if only to tremely pleased" with the support "I think it's a good Executive observe how Council operates." she received, pointing out that she Committee; I think. we'll "respects" her opponent for a "fine work well together. "We've already Hedge defeated George Carroll in -ace. " got some ideas for next year," the vice-presidential race. This year's Concerning the election, treasurer finished the energetic freshman. ,chairman of the All College Events :l! Committee, Hedge hopes to expand = the emphasis on large, all-campus Three Receive Honorary !events, and is considering the ~ possibility of attracting a "major Inational act" to perform in the ARC Degrees at Convocation next year. MorrisThorpe, elected t981-82CouncilPresident By MARTHA LORENZ Tuesday, with over 651170of the Communication is the main focus student body voting. of newly-elected secretary Travers, Morris Thorpe, Tom Hedge, Lynn Thorpe, whose imaginative ad who edged classmate Zali Win for the Travers, and Paul McCartney will campaign helped him edge his three position. "I am hoping to promote serve on the 1981-82 Executive opponents, hopes for greater communication within the com- Committee of the Student Council. community involvement in Council munity between all groups," noted The four were victorious in the activities next year. Dan Mechem's Travers, "and to reduce the sense of election held on Monday and successor says he will "try to get fractionalization which could weaken Council Schedules Campus-Wide Assembly to Discuss DrugAbuse greatly cut the costs involved. year so that Kenyon would hold a By TODD HENGSTELER William Chadeayne, the trustee who concert with a nationally prominent is Kenyon's legal counsel, is band, while Denison would provide a currently exploring the possibility of shuttle service to Gambier for the At its meeting last Sunday, Student the association. It would take a few occasion. The following year Kenyon years to get such an association would supplement Denison's Budget, Council took action on the issue of DianaSchaubreceived a HenryG. Dalton Fellowship drug abuse at Kenyon. A proposal arranged and functioning smoothly. and so forth. calling for a campus-wide assembly Another proposal is the formation This plan has a good chance to By SALLY McGILl, presentation of prizes and awards in of a union with Denison, so that the work because Chadeayne is also legal several categories, including to discuss this topic was passed after Members of the Kenyon College schools would supplement each counsel at Denison. President Honorary Degrees, Fellowships and lengthy consideration of available community gathered in Rosse Hall options. other's concert budgets. The crux of Jordan, Provost Irish, and the Awards, Departmental Prizes, on April 21 for the 1981 Honors Day this idea is that Denison would Trustees have begun to consider this Faculty Awards for Distinguished Council considered a report from a supplement Kenyon's budget one matter. Convocation. This entailed Accomplishments, and College subcommittee responsible for listing Prizes. President Philip Jordan (he various possible measures presided over the ceremonies, Council could take in response to the Ph.ysics Prof. Franklin Miller prefacing the awarding of the honors drug situation. These proposals with remarks about the recipients as included formulating a written the "pace-setters" and "the best and position for Council to adopt, calling the brightest" of the Kenyon for more enforcement by the ad- Will Retire A ter this Year community. ministration, and encouraging peer The awarding of Honorary pressure. University for eleven years before Degrees occurred first. Doris Bean settling at Kenyon. Miller's career Crozier, sometime dean of the Although some representatives plans were soon set lied as well. Coordinate College at Kenyon expressed skepticism concerning the "I love to teach," he says. "I believe College, received a Doctor of likelihood of students who use drugs that if I can transmit information to Humane Leuers Degree. Graham de to show up in order to defend their students than the world can continue Conde Gund, a 1963 Kenyon positions, Council ultimately decided to move forward." graduate, now an architect and upon the assembly idea. The It is often said about Miller that he developer, received a Doctor of Fine assemblyis tentatively scheduled for "wrote the book" on physics, As any Arts degree. Finally, James Corson May4 in Peirce Hall; all students are student who has taken Physics 11-12 Niederman, a 1946 graduate of urgedto attend. knows, this statement is absolutely Kenyon, now a Clinical Professor of President Dan Mechem is true. Miller authored the text for that Epidemiology and Medicine at the arranging a Council-sponsored course, College Physics. The book is Yale School of Medicine, received a "Hunger Night" for the evening of used at over 300 colleges and Doctor of Science degree. Thursday, April 30. Proceeds will go universities in the United States, with to the Knox County Hunger Fund. fifty-four of them in California Seven students obtained Mechem is hoping that student alone. Miller is just putting the Fellowships and Awards. The Dr. Franklin Miller will/rove Kenyon at 1M end of lhe year participation will be substantial, and finishing touches on the Beinecke Memorial Scholarship went encourages everyone to be a part of By CHRIS BURKE involved in radio and film-making, fifth edition, which is due out in to Nicholas Pappas. This prize thisworthwhile event. and he has dabbled at one time or January. He attributes the book's provides two years of graduate study Dr. Franklin Miller, Professor of another in nearly all aspects of phenomenal success to his ability to with all expenses paid. Diana Schaub Council also discussed the Physics at Kenyon since 1948, is college life. Above all, it is Miller's "put myself in the student's shoes. I and Joseph Wilson each received a organization of a Concert retiring at the end of the school year. humanity and morality that set him like to think of the book as an ex- Henry G. Dalton Fellowship in Association which would involve Dr. Miller is a member of that select apart from ordinary men. He has tension of my teaching and per- American Studies, which provides COOperationfrom other schools. The group of teachers whose high in- earned the perfect compliment: to be sonality." support for working in American prOposed association would be telligence and sheer enthusiasm for called a wise man. In addition to teaching and Studies at the graduate level. For the cOmposedof 10 to 15 small schools in teaching make an indelible im- Miller graduated from Swarth- writing, Miller has developed more first time since 1956, a Kenyon Ohio and surrounding areas. The pression on even the dullest student'S more in 1933 with high honors in unorthodox methods of teaching. in student has won a Marshall arrangement would provide that mind. His achievements extend far mathematics and went on to study the 1960's he produced and edited 66 Scholarship. Brian Rance will study bands play at successive concerts at beyond the academic realm, physics at the University of Chicago. short single-concept films about economics at Oxford with this the COllegesconcerned, which would however. Miller has been extensively lie taught physics at Rutgers continued on page eight COntinued on page eight Page Two The Kenyon Collegian C:-:- _"""S Toward Better Education The Chalmers Library, as well as some of the departmental facilities, is in serious need of new books. Many subjects are understocked or suffer from a plethora of antiquated publishings. We have a solution which we would like to offer for your consideration. For lack of a better name, we will refer to this idea as the "Buy a Book" plan. Similar in nature to the "Buy a Brick" proposal, this plan provides that alumni donate funds for books to be purchased in their names. The name of the alumnus whose philanthropy provides us with a book will appear inside its front cover. Hopefully, the idea will be attractive enough that we will be able to update and generally improve the selection of books available at minimal cost to the College itself. Clearly, the education we receive depends very much upon the materials to which we have access. Without the proper facilities, we cannot fully utilize our educational opportunities here.