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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 00d D Volumne XCX D Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, April 5, 1973 No. 17 KC Class Of '77 Former Hobart College Dean Receiving Letters Mean Selected For VP admissions by John Graham program, York said, by Ann Rosenberger "Diversification of the student body Dr. McKean had the rich admin- A istrative in The Kenyon admissions procedure is always a goal of the admissions The search for Kenyon' s first experience both academic of and non quali- this year remains nearly the same committee, but it is notourprimary Vice President of the College has academic affairs that to fied him to do the McKean as in past years, and the size and goal.' Kushan agreed, saying that resulted in the selection of John work. Dr. ar large-scal- e, does composition of next year's freshman any organized project R.O. McKean. Dr. McKean is a realize the necessity of hiring er women class will closely approximate this to redirect the admissions towards native of Cortland, New York and to aid in the revamping and ng direction of the year's class, according to Admis- making Kenyon a microcosmic re- is presently serving as the Dean of female population of the sions Director John Kushan. flection of the "outside world" is Hobart College in Geneva, New York student body and has begun to on He interview applicants positions Two factors may the pro- not feasible at the present time. will officially begin his new job for er alter in his department. cedure slightly this year, however, Lower application rates and lower in Gambier in July, 1973. ed Dr. McKean did his undergraduate said Kushan; "We are considering birth rates will force the college to The recent hiring of Dr. McKean he work in history at the College of men's and women's applications compete for students in the next as Vice President of the College was ill William and Mary. He received his together for the first time this year," several years, said Kushan. As preceeded by a rather interesting Doctor of Education degree from he said. "We are unsure as to such, a rigidly structured admis- set of circumstances. The com- Cornell University. His major in- whether this will alter the freshman sions plan, involving any type of plexities of the college as an ad- in quotas or percentages in ministrative community many terest area was Student Personnel class make-u- p. Also, the number terms of are y th in Higher Education. of applications this year is slightly acceptances, is not now possible. and diverse. To effectively direct s. A. -.-Jlu..-... His position as Dean of Hobart below last level." He stressed, however, that the goal Kenyon's affairs, the administrative to year's College from 1968 until the present of a diversified' student body must duties must be organized into ap- Dr. John R. O. McKean e. remain, in an informal way, an propriate divisions, each under a has given Dr. McKean in depth ex- ie perience in both the academic and important one. specific leader. President Caples determined these four areas to be: 3- - of stud- academic, which includes admis- extracirricular activities ie In he on the sions, the registrar and the various ents. particular served to which direct- academic departments is under the Committee onStudents 5d Off ed all aspects of Anecdofe direction of Provost Bruce Haywood; Student life. je to his work at Hobart, Dr. financial matters, under the guid- Prior JP McKean as Dean of Students ance of Mr. Samuel Lord; develop- served ie and professor of history at ment, which involves the college's assistant id Y Objet Allegheny College in Meadville, An d'Art SI relations with the public; and finally Gagnon's Rochester, Minnesota stu- Pennsylvania. His responsibilites by Kerry the non academic responsibilities of Pechter dio said that "Renaissance Man included supervision of students in which involves athletics, health, spi- ill And Woman'' was "created as a the areas of academics, counseling ritual guidance and all extracirricu-la- r ;d When Wallace Stevens placed a permanent and lasting tribute to and events. It was this final area social affairs. jar in Tennessee, the wilderness the beauty and excitement of liberal Evidence of Dr. McKean's con- that was lacking in organization and ly rose up to it, no longer wild. But education as found at Kenyon Col- cern with the unity of the student's unity. Thus, in the words of Pro- ig ) the bronze statue rising on the lege.'' college life is expressed in his re- vost Haywood, a qualified personage d. library's front lawn June 1, though The sculptor himself said, "I hope quest to change his The was needed to effect a cohesion title. th it does not give of bird or bush that I am able, in a small way, position was originally advertised between the life of the students in oe either, could stimulate and oppo- to compliment the intrinsic beauty as Vice-Preside- nt for Student Af- ROBERT PENN WARREN the classroom and the life of the lalks site response here in Gambier. and spiritual dignity which seems However, Dr. McKean felt students outside the classroom." fairs. about literature, John Crowe "Renaissance Man and Woman" to permeate the entire campus at this suggested a dichotomy in the The desired product of this cohesion le Ransom, the Kenyon Review, is the name of the statue, which Kenyon College." academic and social life of the stu- is a new oneness in the Kenyon id and himself. See pages 4 and 5. will stand eight or nine feet tall "Renaissance Man And Woman" His present title, ex- community. dent. instead ia The college still aims for a fresh- and will look very much like this identifies more in form with the presses his belief in the importance ' This deficiency being recognized 450-47- photograph. It's final resting place, current "New Realist school of of the college as a complete coor- man class of 5, said the and a definition of the position being ia chosen in the fall of 1971 by sculp- sculpture, in the opinion of an un-revea- led dination of both these aspects and director, and anticipates achieving formulated, the quest began. In- tor Charles Gagnon, will be the source, than with the ab- of the student as a unified whole. The that goal again this year. Approxi- terestingly enough, the higher eche- s. grassy plot between the Chalmers stract figuratism of, say, Henry duties of the position have not been mately S5o of the applications Ken- lons of the academic world annouce ty Library and Middle Path. Moore, but belongs to no particular altered. The Vice-Preside- nt of the yon receives are accepted, yielding needs such as this through advertis- en There was some controversy dur- school except, of course, ours. College is still responsible to the about 800 applicants, of which ing. The media employed for pub- Dn site-pickin- g. De- "lost-wa- x the Chap- 45-5- ing the The Art The method" by which President and supervises ng 0 decide to attend Kenyon. licizing Kenyon's annoucement was partment, according to an undis- is cast entails the immersion lain, the Dean of Students, the Dean According to Kushan, college ad- it The Chronicle of Higher Education. he closed spokesman, wanted to put of a wax model into a plaster- of Student Development, the college mission plans, as well as budget The audience size of this chronicle is the statue in its newly created like substance, which is then fired, physician, the director of athletics, and planning procedures, are based can be realized by the fact that there in sculpture garden behind Colburn driving off the wax and leaving a and the director of Smythe House. on this size of the freshman class. were over two hundred applicants for ly He will also maintain close contact From an application folder con- job. Of the five finalists chosen es the with the Provost and all represent- taining the student's application, was one woman. When asked en there ative student bodies. high wo- to information from the student's if there was a preference for a Although Dr. McKean does not school, and information from the man to fill the position, Mr. Hay- officially begin his assignment until student's interview, the faculty ad- wood commented that many of the July he will be introduced to the re missions committee and Mr. Kushan members of the selection committee Kenyon Community the weekend of a woman to ts accept or reject each student, based had hoped for due "the April 6,7, and 8 and will present a on academic ability and on adapt- need for women's voices in admin- panel discussion on Saturday April ability to the "Kenyon experience. ' istrative procedures." However, 14th. "Academics must be our first consideration," said Kushan. "Fit- ness for what we call the 'Kenyon Bremner Guest At experience' is also a crucial con- Vf) sideration.