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Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 1-27-1983 Kenyon Collegian - January 27, 1983 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - January 27, 1983" (1983). The Kenyon Collegian. 845. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/845 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]. At . the easel with s . Cag.rs siu Baldwin-Wallac- a JlUgpRP j Jaka and Ehmdcrais. Into Rosse ftiilPlggC 2 it S Volume CX, Number 14 The ESeoini Thursday, January 27, 1983 n n LJL jv7 vr. rivjr i n Townsend plans leave for Ph.D. PACC seminar explores criminal justice By Jenny Russell Dean By Lisa Disch for Academic i Advising Margaret IV K Townsend will be taking Why do we punish people? time off next year to "We have jails, but we have very work on her dissertation little idea why we use them only i! tor her Ph.D in history that we're supposed to," Professor at Washington Fred Baumann commented as he University. explained the subject of this year's Dean Townsend will PACC seminar, "Crime and Punish- ment: Issues in Criminal Justice." V be teaching the .m r . Women's Studies The seminar, which is sponsored by l the Science course, a team-taug- ht Political Department, project, in the fall. In will extend over three days, April 7 through April 10. the spring she will : concentrate solely on There are several conflicting points : '.i I finishing the disser- of view about the role of punishment i tation. Townsend ex- in the criminal justice system and the I ways its use can be justified. First, L it pects to return to her Dean position in the fall i some say the threat of punishment of 1984. In the interim, can actively deter potential criminals the College will be hiring from committing crimes. Punish- Harry Clorand Fred Baumann 4 ment can also be in it Professors one-ye- ar defended that a replacement. r i In his in his This could be a present ! makes retribution for crimes. ment. lecture and book, Professor Jerome Skolnick, of the Capital Punishment, Berns tries faculty member who i Finally, liberals advocate punishment For University of California Law School would take a year off for the purpose of rehabilitation. to improve the reputation of at Berkeley, presents a sharp from teaching. Dean of Academic Advising Margaret Townsend The conference will also address punishment as a retributive force. He criticism of American criminal one of important aspects of argues that it is not merely vengeful, Before coming to Kenyon in 1978, Townsend taught at Utica College the most justice and advocates jail reform. criminal justice: the question of but beneficial and necessary to William Kunkle, Cook County of Syracuse University in New York from 1969-7- 5. There she taught personal responsibility for crime. society. This is the stand he will take mainly history and women's studies courses. At Kenyon, in addition to deputy and prosecutor of the murder This has been brought the at the conference in April. Berns' Gacy in ad- advising, she has taught a seminar for the history department entitled to trial of John Chicago, public visit is the first of two lectures He "The Ancien Regime and the Enlightenment." forefront of attention because dresses the due process question. of the many successful pleas of sponsored by the PACC. law on When asked about her time at Kenyon so far Townsend responded, asks, 'Is the too soft criminals criminal insanity in recent court or are bail laws and the insanity "It has been rewarding. I found it very interesting to work with Kenyon Dr. Willard Gaylin, eminent cases. defense necessary to guarantee students and faculty. In the future, I would like to bridge the gap psychoanalyst and professor at Last night Walter Berns presented constitutional rights?' between academic affairs and student affairs." Columbia University, will give the a conservative approach punish- - Science to second lecture. Unlike Berns, he will In past years the Political Department has offered a seminar, not be participating in the con- taught by Professor Baumann, on Coinless charge phones coming after spring vacation ference. He has just written a book the same topic as the Conference's. entitled The Killing Bonnie By Charles Needle all lines are busy at the moment dorm, and more than one in most of Contrary to usual practice, this Garland, a consideration of the trial Undoubtedly, every student at Arnold Hamilton, Director of cases. year's conference duplicates the topic of a brutal murderer who won public Kenyon has experienced some Campus Security, said that Kenyon At present, Kenyon has access to of Professor Harry Clor's Criminal sympathy despite his violent crime. amount of frustration and anxiety has ordered 37 coinless charge-a-ca- ll eight toll recording trunks, making it Law seminar. In order not to limit His lecture will challenge society's when placing a call outside of telephones to be installed in all possible for no more than eight participants in the PACC seminar to the notions of responsibility for crime. College. Either someone on the hall dormitories and in other locations outside lines to be open at one time the sixteen students of Clor's The rest of the conference will also is calling home for the fourth time around campus. According to Mr. on the PBX system. The present seminar, the course has been ex- include Daniel Robinson, a professor this week, or the Mount Vernon Hamilton, at least one of these new method of placing calls is "very panded to two sections. Clor teaches of psychology at Georgetown. His operator recording you phones will be installed in every inefficient and very expensive," one and Baumann the other. informs that paper questions the extent to which according to Hamilton. According to Clor, the substance social science can determine a of the seminar has not changed, Students placing outside calls from criminal's responsibility for his WKCO returns from extended vacation except for the fact that distinguished a new charge-a-ca- ll telephone will crimes. He concludes that it can do visitors Burns and Gaylin will each instantaneously reach an operator in very little. By Peter were Over see PACC page 8 Terhune only shop charts available. Warren, Ohio instead of in Mount Since suggested some the beginning of the second the phone, LPB Vernon. In the past, in order to reach semester, the airwaves in Gambier check points, and on hearing the the Mount Vernon operator, calls ... have been strangely silent. Returning results, drew the same conclusions had to be routed through the students found that WKCO was no that Collings and Little had; the Gambier substation. This station has longer to be heard. The reason the power supply was the problem. become outdated and cannot handle station was down was an equipment "We ran a test with an enough calls at once, said Hamilton. malfunction that occurred before oscilloscope, and figured that the in were Christmas vacation. Physics condensers the power supply The new dialing-ou- t method will j: t ' lim im tat professor Peter Collings and WKCO no good." also enable students to place collect, 'I Engineer John Little have been New condensers and diodes arrived third party, or credit card calls. in- - working on the problem. from LPB on January 25 and In addition, the United Telephone "3 icrrn.;- "Someone was on the air," said stallation began immediately. Little Company of Ohio will be installing 0 1 Little, "when they heard a pop and predicted that, if everything went as three more coin phone stations in then a hum. People listening at that planned, KCO would have been on Gambier. One will be located at the time heard the same thing. That sort the air by Monday night. However, head of Bexley Place, and two will be II' of noise usually means a problem they were not able to resume installed outside the Ernst Center. with the power supply." broadcasting until yesterday morn- Although Little and Collings ing. Once all of these phones have been figured that this was the problem, There will be some additions and installed, there will be a total of 56 - they had to do a complete check of changes to WKCO this semester. pay or charge-a-ca- ll stations around '1 the control board. This took them Station Manager Mike Green stated campus available for student use. Someone splattered blue paint on the rear of Leonard early last some time because has no that KCO has recently acquired two The PBX system will be used ex- WKCO Friday morning. Damage has not yet been estimated. useful diagrams of the board. new Technics SP-2- 5 turntables and clusively for placing calls within the The South Quad saw another incident of vandalism at the end of last They board's new pre-amplifie- rs. Also, the station college. With the new system, there contacted the semester when students threw wet snowballs through windows in manufacturer, LPB, to obtain some will soon double the amount of will be approximately 25.5 students Hannah, Leonard and Old Kenyon. Chrysler photo documentation but were told that records coming in each month. per phone. January 27, 1983 Page Two OPINION WEARS AM Striving for journalistic integrity EQUAL.