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Volum XCIX Kenyon College. Gambier, Ohio. April 7. 1972 No. 11 r V All College Commitment i v.
Margaret by Allen, Mark Denton, dichotomous directions of the meet- those specific complaints, a pattern Elizabeth Forman, Charlotte ings. Addressing herself to Mr. that was further substantiated in the Jones Marcus' comments, one student more constructive kinds of sugges- It is difficult to assess the effect asked, "Where's the romance of the tions given. That pattern consists in that the meetings on Wednesday will classroom in taking a hit of speed confusion about how it is thatweare have, and even more difficult to see to do two papers in one day?" This defining "curricular endeavors", what kind of effect all the talk could dichotomy between the way in which and the kinds of activities we legiti- possibly have on a new curricular Kenyon conceives of itself, and what matize by including them within the structure. For the discussions to a is actually happening here was one of scope of the curriculum. - J- great extent seemed to go indichot-omo- us the themes that emerged from the This confusion about what is legiti- directions. There were some meetings. Thus, the difficulty in as- mately curricular was raised in one whose comments assumed a theoret- sessing their import is understand- of the small group meetings by a ical nature, talking about such con- able when what emerged was signs question about the college's funding cepts as Liberal Arts education. The of confusion and attendant frustra- and granting departmental status to
comments of others assumed the tion. Consequently, it would be un- a non-cre- dit activity, viz. Physical form of concrete complaints and fair to level the charge that students' Education. The college in doing this possible solutions, without incor- contributions to the meetings were has made one step towards acknow-
simple-minde- non-acade- porating the theoretical ramifica- merely negative, merely d, ledging the validity of mic
self-interest- tions. One of the questions asked at ed kinds of activities. However, it fails to make Rosse Hall poignantly embodied the complaints. There was a pattern to a further commitment to similar
"co-curricu- kinds of lar activities", such as providing the instruction in and facilities for such efforts as film making, dancing, potting, etc. It has made one step in the right direction; it must make others. Sieve Christy, landscaper, and his crew are busily beautifying the otf Another suggestion that emerged by MarkHasslesDenton and portion of Middle path which is found in downtown Gambier. The Phil Chimento from group meetings was one about the report that the student members ot the curriculum Com the advising program. In the station wagon has nothing whatsoever to do with the project, accordi- This is first three mittee have presented to the community at large. However, prior to this days hearings with the faculty dur- ng to a reliable spokesman for Christy, and he denies any connection time, there would have been little to report, as the committee was engaged ing vacation it was pointed out that with the Art Annex. The woman in the background is a suspected CIA in laying a groundwork for a new curriculum. The way in which this was we ought not to pin any hopes for agent sent to investigate recent developments along Middle Path. done was to examine and rework such notionsas 'course', 'Major', 'class- improvement of the curriculum on Photo by Leslie Rodnan. room meetings', 'prescribed distribution' and the "Liberal Arts" perspec- the advising program. A student tive on education in general. Consequently, the committee has not formu- asked if this did not have something lated any specific proposals, but rather has established certain directions to do with the curriculum itself. The Strong thon Our Roots in which it would like to see the college move in terms of curricular struc- faculty is merely a mediator between ture. The aim of the committee discussions with the Faculty over Spring the student and the curricular re- Break and at the Wednesday Meetings with students has been to present the quirements. He is there channeling academic community with the ideas and problems that we have been dis- his advisees into their seventh guid- cussing over the past few months, and to encourage discussion, critical ed elective and giving them their re- - gardens in the woods. Apparently review, and supplementation of these ideas. Hopefully, specific proposals by Margarot Allen For those interested in edit- many of the stones have fallen out of will emerge from these college-wid- e discussions. ing any of the campus publica- Remember Middle Path Day? Last line and need to be replaced. The One proposal has already emerged, viz. a three-ter- m calendar proposal. year, as most will readily recall, gates are also in disrepair and will This is not tied to a new curricular structure, although a rationale was tions (COLLEGIAN, HIKA. there was one full day set aside for be rebuilt by a hired stone mason. found in the course of committee discussions. The proposal, which would REVEILLE, or PERSPEC- the by two-thir- specific purpose of restoring the He will be paid with funds raised allow for one-thi- rd courses, ds courses and year courses, arose TIVE) or in managing radio beauty of the Gambier community. various members of the community out of the committee's considerations of course structure and teaching station WKCO for the next It was a most successful spring specifically for that purpose. rhythms with the possibility of the following benefits in view: (1) the pre- school year, applications will clean-u- p which involved almost For those who would liketobegar-bageman-for-a-d- ay vention of the overload of work occurring at the end of the first semester be due on Tuesday, April 11. everyone in Gam- there will be six-we- ek living or residing and in the cycle of tests and papers; (2) the opportunity for a Applications should be of ap- bier. It was a memorable day be- route available in (3) "trash cards" wider variety of course combinations; the opportunity for a short period proximately one or two pages cause in everyone was brought together Rosse Hall all day. All you need do is of intensive work in one-thi- rd (4) courses; making tutorials more feasible length and should include a to gather- one-thi- celebrate the beauty of this area pick a card, follow the route by virtue of their shorter duration (i.e., rd of the year); (5) the op- in a statement of the applicant's truly constructive way. This ing trash on the way, and leave your portunity for instructors to re-thi- nk their courses in terms of both organ- year it is hoped that this feeling of bag at the end of the route. At the ization of material and structure. The present status of the proposal is that qualifications, a proposed staff, an idea of any changes, community can be renewed on April end of the day the village truck will Faculty Council has approved it for the academic year, 1973-7- 4 and it has format 8th with even more participation than collect the bags from the various been presented to the Faculty for their approval at either the April or May and a vague sketch of what he there was last year. All are invited stopping points.It's a nice way to take Faculty meeting. plans io do and what that togotoRosse Hall anytime between a walk. And speaking of walking, One of the foci of Committee discussion has been the educational pheno- should cost. You are asked to
9:30 dit-tomaste- a.m. and 5:00 p.m. to receive Middle Path is missing its gravel. menon known as "the major" and the possibilities of variation on this. The type your applications on rs tools for their work and assignments Another project will be raking the result has taken the form of whatis called a "synoptic major". This is not so that they may be for specific projects which have been stones back onto the many paths all meant to replace the normal departmental major, but rather is a supple- distributed to the Publications planned in advance. There will also over campus. ment for those students who would feel better served by interdisciplinary Board. Turn in applications io be Day! All The will not refreshments served there for Remember Middle Path studies. Committee develop a list of permissible interdisci- Professor Church of the Eng- those who've up groups in the village plinary majors. The projected view the will a built wildappetities the children's is that student formulate lish Department. from working with the land. are invited (4-- h Club, Scouts, etc.) COHERENT program consisting of courses from two or more departments According to the chairman of the and so are all the adults ... in- with advisors from each department who will also serve as the compre- port cards at the end of the semester. Path 9:30-5:0- Day committee, Mrs. Klein, cluding students. 0, Satur- hensive examination committee. This has been, and will continue to be a Would it not be better if the curric- stu- there are various interesting proj- day, April 8th, in Rosse Hall. topic of discussion both in the Committee and the Community until a specif- ulum bespoke faculty interest in dent If we did away with ects expected to De accomplished ic proposal is reached and voted upon. interests? if the by the end of the day. Mr. Roelofs Other issues discussed have been the reduction of graduation require- requirements, or curriculum's diversification requirements were is in charge of a stone-layin- g crew. ments to sixteen units and the concomitant reduction of the maximum expressed in of the maximum one interested in finishing the io allowable number of courses to four per year. There seems to be general terms Coacor number of courses in ones major Parkway in front of Hayes Grocery agreement in the Committee to lower the graduation requirements to six- in the report to Student Council on this program and the minimum number of and Farr Hall with stones is cert- Victorious teen, however student members' courses in other departments (with- ainly needed and most welcome. matter, the Council members objected that without a concurrent reduction of the student out specifying those departments), This project was started last year The results of the number of Guided Electives required an inordinate amount of the on pre-empt- ed The then we would be transferring the because the area was so trampled voting for the referendum student's total time would be by Guided Elective courses. as of responsibility of justifying the cur- 'hat the possibility of maintaining the revised Constitution are point was well taken. The reduction of the maximum number courses per and the en- riculum from the structure to the Srass there was impossible. The follows: Of the men, 376 bal- year to four was not meant to preclude the auditing of courses student and the professor. One fur- stone-wo- 108 gaging in independent study. These rather should be encouraged in accord rk done last year is much lots were cast, 268 for and and faculty. The Committee ther suggestion about the advising mi"e pleasing than the mud that against and of the women, 259 with the interests of individual students has to considering and approving program was that a student at what- "lust be sidewalks 242 and also devoted a significant amount of time washed off the ballots were cast, for would by new course offerings for next year. Another item on the agenda of the Com- ever pointhe feels appropriate maintenance after heavy rain. 17 revised Con- against. The be allowed to select his own advisor, . The "once-exquisit- lo- mittee is a review of the College's honors program. e" garden must now be voted one stitution Lest there be any misunderstanding, the Committee's efforts have di- that need not be in his major oted behind Ascension is to be re- ap- on by the faculty and then but toward RESTRUC- department. This would help in elim- stored. This project will be continu- rected not toward the removal of structure, rather proved by President Caples. of the Committee, is inating departmentalism. ed over the summer by a few pers- TURING. Our personal opinion, as student members For the first time men and wo- than negative way. These are but three of the sugges- ons who will study the area and that structure should be understood in a positive, rather men will be participating to- the college, tions emerging from the meetings. 'an a better garden to be finished It is not merely constraint imposed by a paternalistic attitude of gov- four-ye- We need to keep in mind the one structured ar college program. kinds "ext fall. But hopefully, it will get a gether in but it is, rather, an intelligent ordering of the dealing the aims of a of attitudes they indicate. We must solid beginning on Saturday. ernment rather than Structural schemata should be rigid enough to accomplish in- see that this past Wednesday has craig persons with each other as two separ- Liberal Arts education and at the same time be flexible enough to meet Johnson will direct gone towards coming to understand to the can be ate governments on the basis dividual students' needs. Any structural schema has to account for both of Bishop's Gates, which a confusion about what is curricu- sen The of fragile, nebul- these opposing tendencies in higher education, and the choice between any from Brooklyn Street. of a number lar. Next Wednesday we need to think Sates of a two such schemata should be made according to the criterion of which allows are the starting point ous "agreements." through the implications of this stoned stepped path which leads to the greatest order AND the greatest flexibility. April THE KENYON COLLEGIAN 7, i97j Page 2
to call inself a scape-goat- s, the better; perhaps, population, which, on yon has no right Jewish community exists at Kenyon down the male me scape-goa- To leader in the field of liberal educa- too, tne wieraer ts Ihe Editors: has been offended. the whole, I don't think would hurt I the better. Well. have found the in rumors. (and the College too much. Besides, it tion. There is a persistence If these "rumours" are true scape-goat- s; I believe the College is wrong in ultimate in wierd The hushed muted voice may con- I pray they not) would leave us with a couple of are an investigation in the criticize Criticism; I am discontent as the most which could be calling itself an "innovator" demn as unmistakeably seems in order. How did a Jewish empty dormitories do we with Discontent. emmin-entl- field of liberal education. But vociferous denunciation. In the lull of prayer book come to be used as a turned into something else y want an innovator? I certainly don't. I am happy with the thought, Gambler's winter, "RI'MOrR" of a stage prop in the place? Why more useful than surplus hous- first I like Kenyon just as it is, basically. illusory or otherwise, that a large particularly disturbing incident be- was there no protest over the use of ing. I am not much of a believer in Guided electives? Creativity? These part, perhaps even the majority, of gins to its ugly head. A petition the book on of in- the guided electives either. Of the raise the part those and I am as free the Kenyon community, is too wise over the last few three arguments supporting them in are surface issues, has been circulated volved? Was the use of the prayer to dis- to follow this terrifying fad. Ce- be two as any other Kenyon student weeks protesting what must book sanctioned? While the Kenyon the "Education" sheet, the first I (or with other rtainly, all the people with insensitivity: a absurd to be other agree with the College associate termed incredible community reels with the charges seem too patently when But, judging from this of an authentic Kenyon students) on them. But are. sheet on Jewish prayer book was reportedly and innuendoes which are thepoisons than exagerations in you disapprove of Kenyon's conser- "Education the Styx", there is a abused during performance(s) of of rumour, official explanations and sentiment. The third, namely that vatism, you are striking at the very vocal minority at Kenyon, in search "The Importance of Being Earnest' : apology to the Jewish community "guided electives are good because soul of its conception and philosophy; of hosts of absurd scape-goa- ts to Bewilderingly, in the course of the here seems long incoming students are unsure of overdue. and beyond that, at the very soul and pillory. play, the prayer book was flung down what their interests are and expos- Signed, philosophy of the English University, Signed, on the floor of the stage. ure to different disciplines allows AHAD HA'AM which this College is designed to Steven No doubt there will be those who him to define his interests, and de- Schaufele, 75 emulate, and which to me is so will argue that this is at most a termine what it is he would like to To ihe Editors: fatally The author of this To the Editors: slight offense and should be dis- major in", I think is a valid argu- attractive. was dis- piece I am referring to says "It is I missed. No doubt even "Jews" will The sheet which recently ment. But I feel that Kenyon's guid- search out the Blake Remnant. probably no idle claim that Kenyon argue that a book is a book. I would tributed about the campus, "Educa- ed elective requirement is too high. That it may be called into readiness, tion in the Styx", made some re- is a leader in the Platonic version argue that no book--l- et alone a I believe that, if a student were to will you help by makinga visibleear marks which were extremely, and, of liberal education", as if this is a Jewish prayer book which religious take, say, three or four guided elec- of corn out of the follow ing in my opinion, overly con- pitiful and unworthy ideal. I want Jews would kiss if it should accident-l- y critical tives (in addition to a course in a shibboleth? I to at a college fall to the ground, bury if it should cerning this College, for which tentative major) during his freshman very much be educated English Blake defines Jerusalem happen to have a great of affec- which subscribes to the Platonic be damaged--shoul- d be so abused. deal year, as I am doing, considering the as Liberty. She is the Divine Vision in I have The matter does not end there how- tion. It is a spirit of honest and experience he has already had in high version of liberal education; in every individual; the Emanation individual reply that I am writing wanted for years to have such an ed- ever. There is the incredible insen- school, his interests will become of the Giant Albion; the Holy City of this Now, I'm getting it. Please sitivity of those actors who knew the article. settled enough topermithimtomake ucation. Peace; and, in happy copulation. She To begin with, let me present my don't take it away from me. If you book to be a prayer book. At the risk a decent choice at a major. is the Bride of the Lambe-t- he agreements with the I to go enroll of seeming pedagogical, I mustpoint criticism. Now, on to my points of argument. don't like it, you're free Marriage of Christ and His Church. agree that the College a too whose philosophy of ed- out the significance of books to the is bit Someone asks why creative writing in a college The purpose for which Blake, populated to you "People of The Book". During the fit its designation as is not credited toward an English ucation appeals to more, but alone, lived was to lay the found- a liberal-art- s college. please leave Kenyon and English , Holocaust, the Torah (Bible) and "small" major. I should think the reason its ation of Jerusalem in Lamberth-- to old-fashio- other Jewish books were smuggled But the only solution to this would patent: if theEnglishDepartmenthad philosophy whole for us poor ned 'build Jerusalem in England'sgreen be to the admis- who have the out of Nazi, Europe, at great per- simply decrease to evaluate a student's creative bastards and pleasant land'. For She lay in Either we could cut the women misfortune of liking that which is not sonal expense. Parchment sections sion. writing in view of deciding whether ruins, marked as a Harlot for not of the Torah, for example, were out entirely, as it was their arrival, to grant a B.A. in English or not, popular. putting off the Human Form. I cam- in sewn into the linings of jackets, in- feel, which has crowded the how could they do it? The only cri- In closing, let me just say that, Jesus & Blake w ere Transgressors de- pus and the Saga lines (this, however, my opinion, the world seems to be side the soles of shoes to escape teria they could set up would be from the womb; coming to defy the I in- say no is a move think most of us, suffering from a very unfortunate self-jealo- tection. To those who offense terribly arbitrary, and this would us miseries of Religious cluding myself, would consider un- fad the moment: has been done, I reply, I am offended. be grossly injust. One can never at it is the "in" heavens. Both were born to the desirably drastic), or we could cut thing to be discontent, and to criti- History has been offended. Whatever count on good creative work being illicit act. Blake renounces the To be socially acceptable, it judged as good by anybody. If an cize. chastity of official Christianity. The seems, one must find something--ANYTHING--- to English major has shown appreci- Body of his espousal is 'a Woman criticize; the more able aptitude and ability in writing Continued on Page 8 &rrtMitetobbl creatively, the English Department by Rick Lesaar might recognize this fact by grant- ing him a B.A. "with honours", or "They have vilified me, they have crucified me, yes they have even some such thing, but I think it's A Report... to wish Brief criticized me." Richard J. Daley folly for the degree itself by James Klein to be based, in whole or in part, on Recently I too have been the object of some criticism. Apparently, some Thanks to the miracle of modern communications, this article, written creative work. people feel that my attitude toward the Faculty is one of cynical disrespect; Sunday night, will not be in print until Thursday afternoon. Between this This leads me to another criti- and though I have attempted to abstain from using this column for my per- time, students will once again vote on a campus government constitution. cism, namely that Kenyon does not the sonal ends, yet I think this is a matter of enough import to merit an excep- This time, there are to be no open meetings, no discussion, not even present the creatively able student vsas tion. That said, some thoughts on education: distribution of a whole document. Because last time that sort of thing with a fertile environment. Such a Any theory of education must rest upon a set of assumptions whose pur- disastrous. complaint, to me, is ridiculous. I pose it is to provide a standard to which one can appeal in order to assign Members of the constitution committee have insisted that students were certainly suffer from no relative values to the myriad works and thoughts of man. Now the question inhibition bullied or tricked into voting against the constitution. Some of the committee to my creative activity, which, in- of value, as is often the case with matters of no little importance, raises members insisted that their beloved documentwasn't read, that Kenyon and deed, takes up a lot of my in turn several associated questions. Some of the more useful (when they free time Coordinate College students, like Florida voters, opted for uniformed pr- --w- hich I'll get to in a moment. My yield answers) are these: (1) By value, do we mean absolute and objective ejudices. Perhaps. But their new solution was to make the constitution even feeling on this criticism is thatwho-ev- er worth?--th- e dictates of some moral philosophy? (2) Do we perhaps instead more inaccessible, harder to find and read than ever before. can make it must be making mean that which will enable us to, as it were, play the games of society it Inconsistency has marked the life of the proposed constitution. Its most because his own creative ability old and more often than not be able to count ourselves on the winning side? is persuasive critics argued that the document was plagiarized from the not very impressive, and (3) Or do we even mean the aquisition of those abilities and attitudes that therefore Kenyon one, that there were no new thoughts, no new attitudes to student it is not respected as he will cause us to be dissatisfied with the present condition of man, and will- feels it government anywhere. These people successfully engineered the defeat of ought More on this question ing to work for its improvement? If we consider these alternatives I think later. the proposal. Then, in a meeting of "Concerned Students" (it was a small Elsewhere on the sheet, Kenyon is that it will appear obvious that each could be considered a desirable end of meeting), these critics did an abrupt about-fac- e and accepted the constit- accused of placing "so much em- of education. More importantly though, we should realize that they are not in ution when amended to retain much of the old Student Council method phasis on the acquisition of the least mutually exclusive. Here let me say, as you have probably by now ... representation. They with the representation . . . also agreed Mr. Ceaserthat facts that the serious student of guessed, that I favor all three ends; that education of considerable value clause was the only valid objection to the defeated proposal. That kind simply cannot spare the time to should make us wise, worldly and wishful. The question now becomes this: sit political opportunism, perfectly acceptable inSanDiego, is repulsive to me. down with other students and teach- how might such an education bo gained? Student government is big nor important enough to justify being u- ers and put forth ideas and philoso- neither My answer here can not be as precise as I would like it to be, but if I nethical. all-rou- phies on subjects nd other than those walk you it, itwillperhaps takeon a form whose edges will slowly But then, the entire referrendum (the first one) was unethical. Both the presented in specific W ho become more distinct and perceptable. As a first approximation to an an- courses". constitution committee and its waged their mimeograph war in frori are you trying to kid? I find plenty critics swer, let me say that education of the aformentioned character takes place of the ballot box in and Gund to a kind of time to discuss ANYTHING Peirce Commons, and both resorted each and every time one is brought into contact with the Platonic ideal of with Cou- ANYBODY--teacher- of propaganda never before seen in a Kenyon election. And the Student that s, friends, fel- which is both essentially and vitally human. The medium for this con- ncil has taken steps to insure that we never see it again. low students, etc. Are you saying tact is beauty. Significantly, though it remains elusive to describe, we do When the inconsolable. Rumors that therefore I am not a constitution failed, faculty members were possess a common conception of its effect and a common desire to be the serious guesses were no' student? Let me you were that the faculty had approved it, though the results means of its production. tell that my were officially announced. Many of the teachers decided that the students At some time, grades, as a whole, are respecta- each of us has probably had the very powerful conviction simply being pernicious or spiteful; they, with theirguarantecs of freedom do--t- bly above average: in that the thing to he of life--- is by three of the enjoy end our one art or another, be it in action and control of all academic wondered why we didn't five courses I'm taking this year, I affairs, philosophy or painting, to evoke that state w here the chest is so much heav- the promise of have been a continued ineffectual vulnerability. ier that breathing is ; running perpetual A rapid and shallow where one finds his entire being So the constitution was temporarily dead. Senate cancelledStudent Cou- vibrating from within like a fine piano average, and B in another. I am wire; where some inner energy has ncil elections, superceded its constitutional authority and summarily ma built to the point where the only escapes are to run away or to down comfortable in the certain knowledge break the members of the Coordinate College "undergraduates of Kenyon", there- cry- - And cry not that most, if not all, of my and because one is frightened or threatened, but because teachers by allowing--o- a rather r forcing, take your choice--the- m to enter into one is experiencing true beauty. Not something which is merely pleasant, in the past 12 years of my education illicit union w ith the men. President Caples The Coordinate Cou- would be shocked at the idea I approved. but that which has the power to reach out and touch, and there to stir a hid- that ncil, .Senate am not a apparently the only groupable to read the constitution, demurred; den excitement, which can be likened to the awakening of an old and sleep- serious student. My second its rescinded its interpretation and allow ed the Student Council to go on with ing memory which snowballs in delight as each new thoughts on this topic are that there detail comes rushing so w bu- are too many people in college now- elections, that the men and omen could together create the student foreward. dget 1972-7- for 3. This the president vetoed: too he said. This, we are convinced, is the thing to do. It is also the thing which adays who don't really belong there, divisive, all The old constitution, in a humourously was resu- but the slightest handful are incapable of doing. intellectually, and are therefore appropriate season, Here then is the role of the rrected. alternative to use up extravagant Those opposed to it have been neatly cut-of- f. no teacher. The teacher though perhaps unable to write the treatise or paint forced amounts There is of time in doing work which is over to the proposed constitution. It's either that document or nothing, because the picture, yet creates something equal to them. If he is truly leaching, he De" heads, of spending Senate and President Caples apparently want the to be just that. is creating the excitement and the tension which will perhaps one day en- their instead time choice in free, informal spite die besteffortsof the Coordinate andStudent Councils, no compromise able some among his students to touch the vitally human deep w ithin others, discussion, which in is possible. If the constitution student gover- and to there stir a similar excitement. The man w ho teaches in the past was always an important doesn'tpass, thenwhat little this manner nment there is will be wiped coed- must surely know the meaning of Jules Michelet's dictum: factor of university life (and in Die out because it doesn't coincide with the "l'humanite est ucation 1. elle-mem- Middle Ages, was mandate for July son oeuvre a e". Those who thus teach w ill never almost the ONLY receive my dis- So, I hope you And respect. They deserve only praise. factor, from the academic point of voted for the proposed constitution. I hope it passed. view.) no matter what the President, the Dean faculty member So to those who feel they have been unjustly I or your favorite criticized, say again with you. gover- I high-hor- tells that's the most cynical Mayor Daley: "I resent the insinuendos". am saving my biggest se thing I've ever said about student for last. This is the claim that Ken nment in particular or Kenyon in general. it
April 7. 1972 THE KENYON COLLEGIAN Page 3 PACC Probes media is only a part, due,Press ispres-entl- y crisis is of thoughtand outlook thathe Wicker the speaker continued, to the in- a defender of the American by Buzz Norton adequacies of liberal reform, and Regime and the principles that are middle of the politics. Yet, at- On Tuesday night Mr. Tom Wicker, road its foundation. He said at various tempting to avoid predic- P.A.C.C. distinguished visitor in "dire times and at various places that: Wicker hope residence, ended a two day stay in tions", Mr. expressed the youth movement is in many cases in President Gambier with an address to a full Nixon's welfare reform forsaking "rule by reason" in the and revenue sharing proposals. but desultory Rosse Hall audience. name of "idealism"; giving free Wicker, along with with Mr. Wicker, an associate editor his duties rule to their passions under the the Times, is the author of numerous guise of and columnist for the NEW YORK progressive iconoclasm; magazine articles, 6 novels and 3 and he hinted con- TIMES wandered over a rather that this trend, if political books. He is the 3rd and tinued, wide range of topics in a lecture would result in the downfall last P.A.C.C. in residence of the regime ef- which was officially but misleading-l- y visitor with disasterous for year. accruing titled "The News Media and The this fects there from. He indi- Government: Conflict Over Civil cated that the intellectuals in this Liberties". The speech dealt prim- country, products of the more philo- sophically arily with the general malaise of Diamond oriented "Academy" did not have American society; with whatWicker by Josh Bill "the regime in their bones" labeled "The Many Failures of and that modern journalists in as American Life and Purpose atHome This past week Kenyon College much as they represent this intel- and Abroad". Constitutional liber- entertained and was entertained by lectual community, are likewise ties of the media were discussed only Professor Martin Diamond, an guilty of this change. as a symptom of that general condi- eminent scholar of PoliticaJ Science. Basically he supported the kind of Martin Diamond, noted political scientist, came to Gambier as a tion. Invited to address the Public Affairs thinking and behavior which are peculiar to Distinguished Visitor in Residence at the Public Affairs Conference Wicker began with a discussion of Conference Center Seminar Profes- the American Regime and Spiro Agnew, current cases involv- sor Diamond had three meetings essential to its survival. These he Center. Mr. Diamond addressed himself and his audience to the Drob-le- m ing thesubpeonaof journalistic notes with that group, one lecture in Rosse referred to as the "pieties of the of the mass mpdia and modern democracy, the topic which the and the recent attempts by the fed- Hall, and discussions with various regime" and he supported the kind PACC is exploring this year. Photo by Leslie Rodnan eral government to obtain prior re- political science classes. In his en- of citizen who best represents and straint orders barring publication of gagements with the P.A.C.C. and at supports those pieties. In the United the Pentagon Papers--a- ll manifes- the Lecture he directed himself to States in 1972 he said the best ex- Thokur To Em tations of the government's "cam- the broader element of political ample of this kind of man is the paign against the press". science rather than to the more television character from "All in the Connections were then drawn with specific issues of the P.A.C.C. top- Family," Archie Bunker. Archie, ofc the failure of preventive detention ic "The News Media vs Modern De- Professor Diamond, asserted is a So statutes, and mocracy". He stated from the outset basically decent human being, a is Spoken increased wiretapping by Brad Smith can be made between Superstition the associated governmental infor- that he was not an expert in this field basically tolerant human being Lar-wi- (pointing out in On Monday night the annual ll and Faith on scientific grounds be- mation depositories. All of these but this was not a serious handicap that other regimes Lecture on Philosophy and Rel- cause they're both irrationals, is problems, according to Wicker, are for this accomplished scholar. Very the citizens sought to exterminate with whom they igion was given by Dr. Shivesh worshipping an image of a god any crucial to the conflict existing be- few who heard him would say that he those differed), Thakur, who recently joined the more superstitious than worshipping tween the need to maintain both order was not interesting (if not exciting) and that he can be made to accept Faculty. The title of this particular God? and individual liberties. or that he did not make a sizeable certain essential changes, he said justice an of lecture was "Knowledge, Faith and Concluding, he said that a man of Progressing to a theme which he contribution to their general under- that racial is example certain which Superstition". faith should avoid calling others would frequently reiterate, Wicker standing of the topics at hand. social changes, are spoke of the mostpressing of modern Professor Diamond has had and is absolutely essential to the maintence Mr. Hettlinger began with a brief superstitious "except on Sundays problems: "the wicked maldistribu- having what must have been, for it (or creation) of a decent society. He history of the Lecture This and holidays". Series. tion of income", a problem which is presently, a fascinating career as said that these changes can be series has included by All in all, the lecture was inter- addresses will "dog your days and haunt your a political Initiating an realized by appealing to Archie's Dewey esting, entertaining and stimulating. scientist. Bertrand Russell, John and an basic beliefs (the pieties of the Prof. Thakur has an easy and con- nights". active concern for politics as a Robert Frost. Hettlinger then ment- regime). And gave exam- fident manner combined with a good The modern predicament, a phe- Trotskyite Communist he has come he some ioned Prof. Thakur's degrees and of wit. nomena of which the government v. through such a complete revolution ples these pieties: the represen- teaching positions, and finally pres- tative form of government and ented Thakur himself. a-b- Archie's ultimate willingness to ide Thakur started out with what by the decisions of the law- sounded like an invocation to the makers, the sanctity of the dollar and muse. He spoke of Kenyon being "an the basic notion that monetary suc- island in America" and said that he cess means personal worth (Archie (or one was glad to get away from will accept a Jackie Robinson or a the mainland for a while. He finished Sammy Davis Jr. who has "made-it- " by Kerry Pechter capstones of undergraduate educa- money-wise- ); and finally Pro- by saying that he was honored to tory, but in the pursuit of knowledge tion." fessor Diamond said that Archie speak in the same series as the afore Provost Haywood delivered his for its own sake". Curriculum change will be neces- knows deep down inside thathe mentioned speakers, etc. manifesto week on the predica- By guiding the study of man, the can't last sary. "We shall need to acknowledge be a loyal American who values the ment of small college education, humane college would afford the stu- He started off the lecture proper by that a thoughtful student may wish to memory of an Abraham Lincoln and warning of the temptation to imitate dent an opportunity to "glimpse the calling the three words of the title as ' ' make his major study something still be that much of a "louse". He the methods of the large universities better being that man might become types of belief. He used optimism as which does not fit our present no- said that by using these "pieties", in order to compete for limited per- and to "equip himself to help his so- an example of Faith; Superstition tions of the department's major pro- plus some "soft soap" aspersuasive sonnel and fiscal resources. ciety realize that vision". The Pro- as "something the other chap bel- gram." "We shall need also to en- weapons one could convince the con- Sounding vaguely aristocratic, Mr. vost spoke of the barbarism of the ieves; and knowledge is a deep sure that our students see their work servative majority in this country Haywood the large universities as a blinder to faith. cited dual revolution as something more than to this vision. courses institute his essential social among students, differentiating that simply juxtaposed to the courses of changes. He first dealt in depth with Knowl- of nots (Black, Puerto Smallness is one of the necessary the "have their prime interest. Thus they must But what the criterion is that dis- edge, and proffered the definition virtues of the humane college de- Ricans, Chicanoes and increasingly be able to make telling choices from tinguishes the essential social s "a justified, true belief."As an poor whites)" who are interested in fending against barbarism. "The among thoughtfully proposed alter- change from the non-essent- ial, Pro- example chief virtue to smallness is the op- he used Jhe statement natives" fessor Diamond never "Chou-En-L- indicated. ai a ton of Chow portunity for dialogue between eats "Smallness is one of the neces- This may be one of the weaknesses Mein everyday". While one may teachers and students, the chief fail- ". . . the small 'humane' college sary virtues of the humane col- of his presentation. For while he BELIEVE not ing of the university that this dia- this to be true, we are lege defending against barbar-- must see its own necessary role established a basic format for social JUSTIFIED in He logue has broken down." At the thinking so. said in addressing the fundamental innovators to follow, he did not out- hat Knowledge humane, ideal college both students must satisfy three questions of humanity through line a basis for judgement within requirements (1) it happens to be and teachers will be committed to of and upward the different arts and sciences." that format to be applied to specific true (2) I believe (3) I have good the acquisition skills this dialogue, promoting an integ- it the issues. Why is racial justice essen- grounds social mobility, from that of rity among men that cannot exist "A school that does not attend for believing it. Chou's eati- and ng of affluence" who "look tial ecology or a national health habits fail to be knowledge be- "children elsewhere. to the moral issues of the use of which service considered non-essenti- al? cause they only one requirem- critically upon institutions The result of dialogue, integrity, pure knowledge only leads us to satisfy In any case his visit was both en- ent. seem to want to prepare them for and smallness will be the formation kind a of Hitlerian morality." lightening and entertaining and he middle-cla- ss professions" and who of the academic community, devoted ext came proved himself to be an superstition, which was desire esthetic training. to interdisciplinary study. The able wimed as In his only specific reference to rhetoritician as well as an "an irrational, unfounded Where the diversified university teachers, and the students in turn, author "lief". A curriculum change, the Provost superstition has three packaged de- of the infamous DEMOCRATIC offers synthesized, should be aware of many approaches stated, "We should not scorn any Possibilities U) it (the belief) is un- REPUBLIC (the text-boo- k used in partmental programs, prostituting to the fundamental questions of man, en- justified opportunity which promises to 11-1- but true (2) it is unjustified needs, the ap- Political Science 2). to governmental allowing free choice among the off-camp- and itself rich our students' experience us false (3) it is unjustified but must see fu- small "humane" college proaches. "For the foreseeable study, experiential learning, ither true nor false. He referred own necessary role in address- likely to its ture our society seems ut "ack to special programs abroad--b- the Chou item as an example ing the fundamental questions of hu- the choice or worse, to neglect "'asuperstitution. force neither should we suggest that these manity through the different arts very possibility of choice. We Faith the are identical with the academic work was said to be synonymous and sciences, and allowing the stu- colleges must seek to pre- THRIFT ith in the of the college." religious belief, and, as such, dent to achieve, ideally, a synthesis serve a rich alternative." -- 1 evolves Because the Provost also offered - giving assent to metaphysi-t- al of his own. Mr. Haywood considers Gambier, belief(s), statements nearly contradictory to antology, a way of life, What the Provost wants us to avoid of course, thefirstplaceforthe sur- and deep those above, such as a disparage- MART conviction. is something like the decline of vival of the humane college. He fears "e ment of experiential learning, ("The thendiscussed the relationships Renaissance ethical reason into a at Kenyon, however, some fragmen- een knowing that is being and the knowing Knowledge and Superstition neoclassical didacticism and the tation into departments, a "splitting this that is understanding are not the conclusion was that they are kind of blind reason satirized by of the student between work in one contraries), Knowledge and Faith land of Laputa. A school same) and a lauding of the special (he Swift in the department and limited work in Open all night said, small college cohesiveness, his Faith can "tconsitute Know- - that does not attend to the moral others". "We have not succeeded in "TO. comment above on curriculum was for your delight and Superstition and Faith issues of the use of pure knowledge translating into the curriculum any aith more confusing than concluding. can't truly be Superstitious). only leads us to the kindofHitlerian sense that the interdisciplinary is 0 belief, did he introduce any new he said, can constitute morality that allowed the bizarre ex- any than Neither "OWledep the essential mode, more JnHnr c;,,r,Q-:Ht;r,- n hut by German doctors in questions, it seemed, unless they 1 periments we have suggested that independent A ''ef can are new to the administration. be neither. No distinction WWII, done "not for a German vic study and synthesis should be the i:
April 7, 197J Page 4 HE KENYON COLLEGIAN Fradkin Aft or Dark Festival Starts Friday by Lesli Fradkin is terribly upset with this record. I AiFfcw HJsxeC THE KINK KRONIKLES in a Floods. . n. . A 1 1' r, nevernn.AV O 1 They could perhaps understand this making. This in itself implications are. can't (Reprise 2x5 6454) by Greg Andorfer Dendent film couple of instances but I have no a wider acceptance of what be. It would be a contradiction in depicting reflects complaints. This album will notblow This is an eskimo print these film makers are attempting, terms. Some call Ray Davies a genius. coming you like ' ALONE TOGETHER " two men discussing the hunt. contem- An obvious analogy is that of mod-er- Some call him insane. Actually, he's over both technically and as a n Mason and We have a line of thought. The game in large sense we both. Reprise has just put out a new did but it still is that's porary artists search for a medium music must I might they hope to catch, and even an ul- a new for a Varese Kinks LP and it is a joy to kutists all that counts. also mention and self expression. develop ear or the live side recorded at the something (the suspended a Subotnick. Our idea of music our Kink-novic- es that terior The independent cinema is often and alike. As a rep- unexpected. the beauty--i- con-ditioni- club in a eyes) that allow for s basically a ng resentative collection of the last 5 Troubador L. A. features resented and resisted by the public. idea of band behind Mason this week the Kenyon film past 150 years. We years of Kinkdom, it is an almost very tight backup Earlier Indeed their efforts may lie outside of the 101 films (aprox. 17 complete success. is by no means for some snappy renditions of Festival had It and program- a greatest hits album (we already "Pearly Queen", "Feelin' A- hrs) to be prescreened "A-LO- NE weekend. This bought that, remember?). lright"? and some tunes from ed for the festival this to nearly 8 so 28 tunes in all some familiar, TOGETHER . was reduced hrs. bleary eyed people, some so obscure that even collectors please forgive us watching for a whole could not locate them: there are the THREE we've been familiar ones like "Lola", "The Jackie Lomax (Warner Bros.) week. The Kenyon Film Festival is an Villiage Green Preservation Socie- Lomax ever I have loved Jackie open competition with cash prizes c ty", "Victoria", "Apeman", "Sun- he came out of England and J since ($1000 this year) with film submit- ny Afternoon", "Waterloo Sunset", that place known for its ex- isn't ted by from all over and there are the obscure 0 mean ports? If you liked "Home Is In My film makers the country. Actually we are quite really obscured!) ones like "Polly", Head", this is more of the same. continuing suc- a-ma- fortunate for some "Autumn Almanac", "King Kong", John Simon produced and did an zing cess for the KFF. Festivals of this "Susannah's Still Alive", "Wonder-boy- ", job transforming simplistic type are often short lived and lack plus several never-befo- re re- rock tunes and turning them into gut amongst film- leased cuts from the never released stampers. Ooops! I would say that sufficient reputation Kinks album (already a legend) Lomax might have one of the more makers to draw a large amount of "Four More Respected Gentlemen". distinctive voices in rock but find film. This is the sixth year that There are liner notes from the out for yourself. Kenyon has put together a festival inevitable John Mendelsohn which (in a whisper--o- f varying success) HENDRIX IN THE WEST range from the refreshingly infor- and it definitely is developing some mative and comprehensive to the Jirrfc Hendrix (Reprise) sort of reputation. It ranks re-specte- dly two men discussing Ihe coming hunt banal and trite. Still, it's a long way Well. . . I know this is another with the larger festivals, from those absurd notations of ear- posthumous record . . . well what notably the Ann Arbor Film Festival good lier LP's by them. could he do now that I didn't hear and the Foothills Festival in Cali- any idea or prototype of "the now need a new openness, a ne What is important is to learn approach. before . . . well? Everything, that's fornia. film". in what. This could be the definitive The response to the Sixth Annual to appreciate and understand these Similarly the independent film live Hendrix album. No guitar acro- Kenyon Film Festival has been good. films on their own terms. Thus the challenges our idea of the "mea- critiquo batics, no feedback, no jive. Just The Festival operates independently independent cinema challenges our ning" of a film. To say that I liked great listening. Highly recommended--espec- of ai y other film festival as opposed "taste". Art is seldom in "good the pacing, or colour and pattern is The music? well, an encyclopedia ially for those who want to to many schools (Denison, etc.) that taste". Depending on the obliqueness often enough said. That is under. could be written to accurately de- may some frantic versions of Sgt. screen the "package" deals such as and subtetly of the artist, art 1 scope but suffice to say, hear Continued on Page scribe its Pepper's Lonely Hearts' Club Band the winners of the Ann Arbor Festi- appear to be in good taste. But its Kinkdom really whatever Ray is and "Johnny B. Goode". val. We are able to see films not Davies MAKi it and that's just fine included in the package programs by that you TOGETHER me. Let it be realized and are not subject to some other Xenomania Hits Young (Raccoon) will hear no staggering musician- Jesse Coling festivals decisions. Besides there is
do-it-your- ship on The Kinks were self re- this record. Another of the a real sense of the hopes in what (and still are) terrible musicians, re- corded at home Youngbloods each year's festival will be like. Choir Out but they played refreshingly sloppy in- Breaks leases. I found this affair to be The purpose of the Festival is to It's been a big year for the Kenyon Mrs. Lendrim 's famous sloppy joes and were always a show. They still triguing: "6 Days on The Road" was both offer film makers a forum for College Choirs. This summer, for were served, along with Choir po- English essays, middle class are. included as was "Peace Song". It their art as well as increase aware- the second time in the history of the pcorn and soda. The day was verj hangupSj Dead end streets, Victorian goes without saying (then why am I ness of film as a medium for expres- school, a group of about forty singers successful and resulted in over parlours, Knights in Young-bloo- ds Transvertites, saying it?) that is you dig sion. What was formerly known as are going to tour Europe. The group, $1,000 profit. Sometime next week creaky 20th century armor if this stuff, you should make this underground film making has in re- accompanied by Dr. and Mrs. Frank (to be announced in Newscope), is what you look for in a rock record, your very own. cent years come to be called inde- - T. Lendrim, will fly from Boston on THERE WILL BE A SPECIAL SALE then look no There isplenty further. May 31, and the evening of June 1 OF THE BEST CLOTHES LEFT of lyrical ambiguity for maximum they will be giving their first concert FROM THE AUCTION. Several rugs comic effect andplenty of little gems at the American Cathedral in Paris. will be Since many of witticism to ponder. Ray thinks also available. of packed of concerts and au- Son Three weeks the FradkinClapton really not for the world hates the Kinks. He says by Leslie Fradkin strange reason, that students were around sightseeing will follow, with visits to to get a that if nobody hated them, they might It had to happen some day. The sun plays incredibly well on this LP, ction, this will be a chance on Blind Faith). five countries. The European Tour bargain. All other items start writing love songs. Then where was shining. The birds were back. even better than great the Lady is being completely funded by the donated would we be? Back to "You Really Spring was almosthere. Where were Oh . . . back to the tunes. is not sold at the auction were by Boogie", a students and money-makin- g ven- to Rummage Got Me", I suppose. God save the all the super stars? What happened followed "Mandarin the Harcourt Parish to all those super sessions we used weird SkipSpence instrumental, with tures have been in the planning since sale. This will be the last chance to Kinks just as they are. year. to rave about? Skip shining on Mandolin, and no last support the Choir, as their payment HARVEST Sooner or later, a group like this doubt, shining it as well. Redding The manufacture and sale of Ken- must go in by the end of April, so re-ma- yon Christmas and don- Neil Young (Reprise) was bound to happen. God only knows next offers a ke of "All Day notecards this please turn out and buy. Any year and was the apprec- This is not so much a review as a how long (or short?) it will last. A And All Of The Night' with Quaife last first such ations would also be greatly complaint. We waited over a year for few unemployed musicians got to- doing his usual redundant Kink bass undertaking. The Choir members iated. Another thousand dollars would pattern and doing a contacted all residents of Gambier, each me- this and what do we get?-n- ot a step gether--to blow the lid off musical Eric superb be needed to pay $200 of and forwards but rather, a peculiar ren- reality. This is not only an album Dave Davies imitation . . . almost took shifts in mailing out the mber's expenses. dering of the status quo. Young has you'll want to own but one you'll but not quite . . . keep trying Eric! orders received from alumni and The Choir tour will begin in Paris, not progressed so much as he has never let rot on the shelf. You know Side two features what will proba- parents. Notecards were also sold then continue on to Geneva where the on me-tha- Her- bly be the single--- a spring tour. The Choir purchased American stood still and for t's a step . . . like those old Herman's rendition of the group will sing at the hit--"O- a and backwards. "Out On The Weekend" mits LP's, huh, kids? old Chiffon's ne Fine Day" used popcorn machine and have Church. Freiburg Frankfurt sounds like another "Cowgirl In The So who is Hot Buns, you ask. Just with Clapton on lead vocal, Spence sold popcorn and assorted refresh- Cologne will be the stops in Ge- No-o- ments A the Sand". One was enough. Make no seven average guys. ne special: on Piano and Quaife on an old rusty at all the weekend movies. rmany, including a cruise on mistake, I like Neil Young. But this Skip Spence (formerly of Moby tin pan alley slide whistle. This benefit concert was held inDempsey Rhine. An evening concert in the Hall in on album is confused- -: in terms of pro- Grape) on Guitars, Mandolin, Piano blows right into 19th Nervous Break- February, and some other American Church in the Hague duction goals, arrangements (two and Vocals; Nicky Hopkins on Piano down which occupies the rest of the donations have been received June 8 will be the last performance (ex-Ji- the sickies by Jack Neitche), and gener- (electric); Noel Redding mi side (and even provides some of the throughout the year. Before last Sat- on the continent. The next day ally boring material. Definetely a Hendix and Fat Mattress) on Guitar, music). A long senseless jam, ob- urday's auction the prof it figure was Choir flies to England, and the r- three-butto- hand-me-dow- up over $6,200. there. n- n. 12 String Guitar, Bass and Vocals; viously intended to fulfill some emaining two weeks are spent (ex-Buffa- lo Last Saturday, We- THE SPOTLIGHT KID Bruce Palmer Spring- greedy record executive's desire not the Choir's final Concerts will be given at large-sca- Captain Beefheart (Reprise) field: on Bass, Guitarron, Organ), to have to leave his bed in mid re- le money-makin- g effort stminster Abbey, St. Peter's Chape' s (ex-Kink- s) on cord. took place in Rosse Hall from 12:30 Martin's-in-the-Field- Captain Beefheart probably has a Peter Quaife Bass in the Tower of London, St So, should ya get it? Sure, why to 6:30 P.M. Tom Wilson, profes- Square, very certain select bunch of freaky and Percussion; and the inimit- not on Trafalgar able Eric Clapton on Lead Guitar You have all the other great super sional auctioneer and a Kenyon grad- the Abingdon School, the music fe- weirdo people who can tolerate his uate, and, of Ginger on sessions. . . like Super Session and donated his services. The auc- Ross-on-Wy- University music only because it offers an al- course, Baker stival in e, the the Masked Hot tion included donations from faculty, the ternative to peanut butter an jelly. So Drums. The sound is an exciting Marauders. Buns Church at Cambridge (where will be touring soon (in students and local businesses. Tel- we have a new matured (if that is the blend of West Coast rock, British order to Choir will stay atGonvilleandCaius din-nerwa- i make big) and will evision sets, re, church right word) Beefheart- - still growling funky blues and African percussion it kick off in stereos, clothing, College), St. Wulfram's Wheeling, a' (he posses a 6 concepts, provided by the unlikely West Virginia (which silver, books, furniture, Grahtham, the cathedrals 12 octave range), appliances and still producting jerking rhythms. combo. Tunes are as follows: on seems as good a place to start as and many other assorted Hereford, Liverpool and rew 1 any;. items went to the W'iU This is closer to the Buddah releases side . . . "Good Time Boy", the One would imagine they will highest bidder. hnrniicrh Slolitcooinu trinS The Phi Kaps the than to the Zappa stuff. More blussy. old Buffalo Springfield song sung by go cross country and when they get garnered a bowling chide a fwilicht cruise on they go game and some plastic home As usual, his lyrics are insane. As Bruce and Skip with Clapton and across, will back, scattering dope plants, Thames, a visit to Churchill's Hopkins trading the groupies in their waste. buy, a dinner at the Wards' and he says- -' There noSantaClaus solos in a short jam; Go Mr. and restingplaceatBlenheimPaa' ain't Roelofs' on the Evening Stage", so don't wait "Lincoln County Lady", a new Eric america! The LP was produced by services as a wood chopper and Bladen Parish Church, a lun Clapton song, new were put on the block, Ed- till next Christmas to get it. similar to BADGE with the exciting production team of and Dean eon visit at Gredington, the estate" 3 acoustic guitars Noel Redding and Harvey wards' family came out of the soj HEADKEEPER played bySpence, Brooks, raffle Lord and Lady Kenyon, and a (12-Strin- A for gift coupons Palmer and Redding g), for Once In Lifetime Productions. at local stores and group' Dave Mason (Blue Thumb) to Stratford-on-Avo- n. The Hopkins on Harpsichord, Quaife Does this mean restaurants with two winning London Yet another fine effort from this on there will be no tickets. return to the UJS.A. from Bass and Clapton on a more Hot Buns albums? The Choir members spent brilliant musician. Mason can do magnificient Is this a twelve Wednesday, June 21, refreshed Guitar playing (I send-u- p like hours in Rosse, from 9 sumn everything: write, sing, play, pro- expidition. would Blind Faith? Not a A.M. in the eager to begin work on their say, by the way, morning, setting up duce. I have read elsewhere that he that for some chance. and organizing. jobs. April 7, 1972 THE KENYON COLLEGIAN Page 5 Capias' Capers
by Rob Murpny Caples added that the work of the structured. Pay Board has passed its most dif-- Caples also commented on the shif- In a recent interview, an amiable ty performance of the representa- jnd salubrious President Caples "I can go to Washington and I tives of Ohio to the Pay Board, who spoke about his situation on the Pay first-ha- can scream 1 were requesting wage increases for and gave a nd report at people, can Board state employees. They claimed they its doings of late. He began by curse and pound the table and w hadn't raised these salaries in two talking about George Meany, the get rid of all my frustrations years. Yet, their percentage in- L-C- accomp- IO president who, I because of this ought to be was up, indica- by two other board members, crease for salaries anied healthy." ting that something was definitely out talked out on the board on March 26, of down in condemning its work and effective-jes- s. order. "What these birds ficult stages. "Actually, we're run- Columbus done--th- ey Caples explained his action as had took the ning ahead of our target Wages are wage system of Ohio resulting simply from politics: of the state down to about 4.7 now, and if we're and they moved and the "George Meany wants to get Nixon the bottom staying that much under the 5.5, top of it up, and then they put a minus out of the White House." According we'll come in someplace below one and a two job grade him, Meany predicts the two major 3. minus at to But prices aren't doing as well, and the bottom of Then they they campaign issues will center around it said so the whole damn thing may have to hadn't raised anybody's salaries." the figures for unemployment and be sacked. I hate to walk out of some- What they had been doing in actuality the price of food in November, which thing that seems to be working, and was granting raises, yet on the pay till come off the Consumer's Price these are interesting men to work scale everyone was coming up to the Index on August 30. If these figures with. I thought I would just get away level of zero again. By this method are down at this time, Meany can from a couple of weeks of emotional of juggling percentages, they actu- only be silent and satisfied. "But involvement with it and think about ally thought they could claim thatno other things and then take a good look one in the state's employ had re- "Caples described Meany as '. . . at it when I get back there inApril." ceived a raise in two years. "These a very shrewd and a very Looking back to the economic situ- guys had not read the law, they had powerful man, in extremely ation in August of 1971, Caples felt not read the regulations, their good health for a man of 77 that the 90-d- ay freeze was neces- figures were phony . . . that is one years old and he has this Bronx sary. As forgetting the machinery in of the slyest tricks I've seen." again was accent as finely honed as a motion afterward, Caples appreciative of the full rein granted Finally, President Caples com- raior.' " he in good "As them. "I would rather have some- mented that is health. body tell me: this is the objective I a college president, I can't scream Meany, 1 think, anybody I to on a believes that if he's want you to get to, and then not tell at and have carry going to war (against the has start this me how the hell to getthere.I'd rath- behavious norm that sometimes Administration) got high in I go to he's to doitnow er have the right to make up my own frustrations it can . . ab- Washington I can peo- . he's all for controls to be mind." The fact that Nixon gave them and scream at solutely the same on all people; rich, a free hand drew much criticism ple, I can curse and pound the table in-betw- een " poor, and so on. from people who wanted to see the and get rid of all my frustrations. I Yet OUGHT to Meany is apparently contradict- actions of the Pay Board as more be healthy." ory, as these controls have been successful only in the field of wages, which, of course, would be his major concern. Wage control is only a piece DCiiragj of controlling an entire economy, and Sfcag Opens Tfaiuipsdlay in this Caples believes, "with very The magical fairy-tal- e kingdom of en identities. The intricacies of the organizing of the Cosmic Box Play- little modesty, that we've done a Serendip is the setting of the Ken- plot of KING STAG are much too dif- ers, the Children's Improvisational pretty good job. Mr. Meany thinks yon College Dramatic Club's forth- ficult to explain here, and will be Theatre Group. David Bergman, our we've done a good job ... in fact coming production of THE KING infinitely more appreciated when resident prologue and epilogue he thinks we 've too good light-heart- done a job.. STAG, a ed 18th cen- they are exposed in the glittering writer has written new lyrics and People so often forget that union tury fantasy by Carlo Gozzi. and excitingly staged production. an epilogue for the production. Mr. leaders are just as much politicians The play contains all the necessary The ingenuity and skill of the cast Parr, the technical director heads tale-magi- as congressmen; they are appointed elements of a delightful fairy cians and crew are masterfully exhibited a hard working crew while Miss or elected and have constituencies an evil prime minister in this unique treatment of the play. Marley is in charge of the elabor-t-e to answer to as well." and this beautiful daughter, a talking The cast of KING STAG is com- costumes. On the personal side, Caples de- parrot, a laughing statue and of posed of 20 actors and 6 musicians, Tickets are now available at the scribed Meany as "... a very course, a happy ending. Buttheroad and includes both veterans, and Hill Theatre Box Office, Monday thru shrewd and a very powerful man, in leading to this happy ending is newcomers to the Hill Theatre stage. Friday, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Admission extremely good health for a man 77 Some of the performers who are is free to Kenyon students upon pre- - well known to the Gambier commun- "1 have some doubts in my mind ity audiences are Jim Dunning, a whether or not without the labor veteran of 5 Kenyon productions, input, you can really do the job Douglas Anderson, last seen as Peter in THE ZOO STORY, plus Rob
as l M I a public board." I iTTtll II I Eichler, Bill Slusser and Jane in The to One of the Drama department's years Hershcopf. newcomers the old . . . and he has this Bronx Le-B- olt Hill Theatre include freshman f "backstage stalwarts," Dick accent as finely honed as a razor." - Joanne Berg, Harlow Keith, Janice did much work for "Earnest" Caples compares Meany to Louis Paran and Jim Fenhagen. The mu- as well. He is another designer XIV in terms of the latter's state- sicians are headed by Tom Allen, of special effects that guarantee ment: moi". "L'etat; c'est a junior who composed his original an evening of "magic, music, and The Pay Board now consists of music for the show. He is well merry-making- ." seven public members and Caples is known in the community for his undecided as future on He to his it original musical score for Aristo- sentation of their IJ).'s, and $2.00 explained his situation "When THE KING STAG as: phanes' "Lysistrata" and for his for all others. will something changes in structure and be presented on April 13, 14, 15 and substance like this, then you ought Assistant Stage Manager for April 20, 21, 22 at 8:30 p.m. at the to take a look at it, particularly "Stag," Susan Slribling appeared Hill theatre. It promises to be a where you may have philosophic dif- in last year's production of joyous evening of magic, music and Pegi Goodman has designed cos- ferences with it I have some doubts "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern." merry making. i" a dozen Kenyon my own mind, whether or not with-'- ut tumes for half "King the labor input that you can reall- productions, including y do Ihe cast the job you have to do as a pub-t- ic Slag." She appears in board. You take the labor input out next Thursday. -- and the business input out; well . . . r The Kenyon Collegian somebody that thinks they can figure charmingly complicated by great out all the things that can happen in feats of magic and mysterious evil "us economy is a lot smarter than doings of those who possess strange A Journal of Student Opinion lam." ,and unusual powers. The "magic" Box 308, Gambier, Ohio 427-22- 43022 (614) 44 ext. 301 Caples is looking more closely into in the show is achieved by highly "is commitments at Kenyon at this complex special effects, carefully Editors: Liesel Friedrich Contributing Editors: Barbara Lee toe of the year what with architect- executed by the cast and crew. In Denise Largent Kerry Pechter Associate Editors: Jim Kallstrom Sports Editor: ,. ural plans for the summer, coedu-cauo- n, fact those involved in any aspect of Richard Clarke Steve Stettler housing, May urged not to Political Editor: Gerry Chalphin duties for the the production are Jim Wright closing of the Photographers: Leslie Rodnan of the year and the perennial divulge the technical secrets Assistant Editors: Adam Gilbert fund-raisi- Carolyn Smith ng Michael, the he does for Kenyon. He special effects for Mr. Rob Murphy Jeff Wolin Plans to have discussions with the. show's director, is confident that Gay Garth Rob Murphy vice-chairm- will Assisant the The chairman and the two en the various magical happenings to Editor: Ross Sam Barone of the Pay Board once he has deter delight and surprise audiences of One of the conjurors of the spe- Headline Editor: Dorie Hunkie Faculty Advisor: Roberta Dunn mined his philosophical viewpoints all ages. cial effects is junior John Him-m- el. Staff: John Adams, Robert Adams, Margaret Allen, Rosecrans Baldwin, Jr.,
a-b- with and their reactions and thoughts ut The plot of KING STAG deals For last year's productions Ellen Finsberg, Leslie Fradkin, Kitsy Hanson, Greg Hunt, Jim Klein, Les Koch, of this will also be decisive as to a handsome young prince, ruler of "Sergeant Musgrave's Dance" Rick Lesaar, David Lopatto, Jim Lucas, Carl Mueller, Robyn Snodgrass, Marc romantic pursuits Speiser, Hobart Taylor, Art Underwood, Larry Wirtenbrook. whether Caples continues on the Serendip, whose he designed the scenery and was ard thwarted by the evil prime min- or respectfully resigns. Since are producers of "The Importance of he first Caples has been and the confusing results of of the year, ister Being Earnest." aay on business for 16 days. magical transformation andmistak-- April 7, 197J Page 6 THE KENYON COLLEGIAN
Kenyon traditionally has hadonenf by Steve Stettler ander Chase), but there are many wider economic and geographic ted interviews in tiie aouui, uie ui.c to, and the lowest men's attrition rates In recent years, one of Kenyon's misconceptions about this century range, and hopefully, with a wide school we were compared it Un- country, and the College and pop- I heavily with, was Duke the was un most prevalent, growing, and a half-ol- d school. The following, range of abilities. don't want to see competed students at prepared for the fact that women ular sports has been the game of taken from a candid interview with us with 400 entering valedictorians; iversity. And, there are accept- leave schools more easily and "run down the College". The rules Mr. John Kushan, director of Ad- we need roomfor growth." Kenyon's Kenyon now who turned down for are relatively simple: anystudentof (Mariann) Admissions department, unlike that ances at Princeton, Amherst and missions, and Mrs. John The Admissions Deportment Kenyon is eligible to play (seniority Ward, and female ad- of many other schools, is nota direct many other "name" schools. assistant first see "continues to admit a means nothing; some of our best missions representative at Kenyon, descendent of the public relations Mrs. Ward and Mr. Kushan token basical- moron fifty mid-weste- m players have been freshmen). Com- may help to put some of these mis- office. Kenyon's powerful foursome Kenyon as a warm, friendly, and (Kushan-Tutchings-White-Wa- non-pressur- ed mence by making light of a course or taken notions about the Kenyon stu- rd) is ly non-competiti- ve, misfits to each incoming class,' professor, and then skillfully allow- perspective. often brutally frank, and relaxingly environment with a greater dedica- dent in their proper more reasons than men. Thus,' ing that criticism to bloom into a All right, we've all heard that informal, and they'll tell a visiting tion to learning than they have seen the high rate of attrition in the pioneer these are tough times for private student if it seems that Kenyon is at most institutions. Visiting Ohio of women (a rate which de-creas- class has ed "The faculty also receives its In fact, the American Coun- not the place for him. Mrs. Ward State students are amazed to find schools. each year) shocked the shore of lampoons. Their depart- cil on Education has just announced added that she will not choose a stu- the library occupied on weekends, cam. pus. However, even during that year not-so-hidd- team mental infighting, and en that nationwide college admissions dent because he seems to fit her and the members of a visiting stereotype: "This Kenyon's attrition rate was no higher figures were down 5 last year. De- idea of the Kenyon from Oberlin wished they could stay desires to wreck the life than any other similar college, 1971 was Kenyon's best place is a different experience for here because "there's more going and of every innocent student they spite this, we presently have a year ever for admissions, and this everyone." It is for this reason that on at Kenyon". This reinforces Mrs. significant!) meet." often-prais- lower rate of attrition than our year we are up another 10 in appli- Kenyon's ed student Ward's opinion that much dissatis- seemingly apple-pi- e content cations. Kushan attributes this to the guides are not trained to memorize faction today comes from the old arch, rival, Denison University. Outof full fledged condemnation of the continuing benefits of opening the the dates of buildings and spew out "grass is always greener in the the twelve girls who originally left Ke- non-exist- ent opportunities afforded College to women (we also now at- historical facts, but are a varied nyon from of one in the "Kenyon experience". tract more men than before coedu- group of volunteers who attempt to Mrs. Ward and Mr. Kushan see its first class women, seven have It seems that about three quarters of cation), Kenyon's greater efforts at show visitors what it is really like Kenyon as a warm, friendly, returned. Another illusion is about to be student body are convinced that un- in Gambier". the non-pressur- broadcasting its image in areas "to live and learn ed environ- 1) basically crushed: one cannot get accepted at they should not be here because: familiar with the College (a recent K., but isn't it true that Kenyon 0. ment." Kenyon by calling the Admissionsof-fic- They really are not that smart, and recruiting trip to the South brought is just a haven for dissatisfied e in June or July, crying, andask-in- g if Kenyon was really a good school in twenty new applications), and the Haverford and Bryn Mawr aspir- syn- catalogue" theAd-missio- accepted, or other school's to be taken in. Every year ns they wouldn't have been fact that "Kenyon is still able to ants? The Admissions office doesn't idea, coupled with the Kenyon, and drome. This office leaves less than ten 2) They are too good for attract a good care whether Kenyon was an appli- now very student". fact that transfering is openings for acceptances the should have gone to that Ivy League Mr. after Of course you know that Kenyon cant's first choice or not fashionable, causes many students to to school where they made waiting list official closing date, accomodate lowered its standards for admission Kushan estimates that about one change schools too easily for the are: a lack of good students who find themselves in instead. The results this year. In a sudden fit of effi- - third of an entering class at Kenyon wrong reasons. "I think it's a shame appreciation for anything which Ken- a bind because of unwise applic- are coming here by default, but kids are playing hopscotch with their might to a vehement ations. They must meet all the same yon have offer; Kushan feels "that there needn't doesn't think that should matter if a says She education," Mrs. Ward. admissions criteria and have no desire to attend a "name" school student wants to take advantage of a be any lonely people here, and urges anyone thinking of transfering chance of receiving financial aid, so where all that's wrong here will good liberal arts education. Ken- blames a block In the person, to visit the other school for a few they are not jeopardizing the other suddenly be made right; and a large- yon's deadline for final decisions is not the place, for any loneliness days and find out if the things that students accepted. Such late accep- ly wasted, inactive, ineffectual life late, May 1, so that a student will are wrong here are better there. tances are special cases, though, and in glorious Gambier. that exists." have heard from all his choices, and She also warns that many schools require recommendations by trusted Much of the student criticism falls has time to make a good selection place restrictions on transfer stu- high school counselors. They have on the administration, who after all ciency, the admissions offices the of early depos- without worries dents which could shortchange them add- "concerned only with money, and changed their criteria for automatic generally proven to be valuable its, etc. "Some of the best scholars in the long run. Mr. Kushan feels five-memb- itions to the College. aren't doing too cool a job managing admission and saved the er in the world are IvyLeague rejects," Kenyon students have a great respect Kenyon, since 1969, has been in a that". The faculty also receives its faculty committee which reviews says Mrs. Ward, "And if we're a for one another and a great willing- change the add- share of lampoons. Their depart- applications a lot of duplicative pa- period of great with safety school, we're a safety school to to one not-so-hid- ness talk another. Because ition of women, restructuring of the mental infighting, and den perwork and wasted time. No longer for Amherst and Harvard. "She feels of this, he feels that there needn't campus, and now serve curriculum desires to wreck the life of every is any student who doesn't fit the that the reason Kenyon does not have de- be any lonely people here, and reform. Under such stress there is innocent student they meet are "over 550 scoring on each board, a greater reputation is that the Col- mile-lon- blames a block in the person, not the bound to be much dissatisfaction in cried up and down that g and upper 15 of his high school lege cares more about education than place, for any loneliness that exists. the However, it would make sand and stone road to knowledge class category exactly an "academ- a name. Especially with the coming ranks. He also is concerned with the trend "Kenyon that we called Middle Path. Finally, we pro- to be by the faculty much-need- that experience" ic risk" studied ed curriculum reforms, toward transfers, stating that if stu- hear so much an awful lot be- test the general ineptitude of those committee. Mrs. Ward reassuringly Mrs. Ward feels we are justifiably about de- dents really took a good look at what tter if our alma four people labeled "Admissions commented that the quality of stu- looked upon as one of the fine group we'd start seeing Hall they were putting themselves into, mater for what recognizingits Hidden in Ransom Kenyon co-educati- it is, partment". dent who decides to come to of midwestern onal insti- they would not transfer so easily. positively under a stack of applications and the has increased every year she has tutions. We are now more competi- shortcomings, and getting "They take their problems with ahead strange delusion that Kenyon is been here, and that the admissions tive with schools like Oberlin (which involved in the dynamic days them, and in most cases go to an en- Xe everything it's cracked up to be, office does not take any students incidentally has a decrease in appli- of us. Gambier won't turn into vironment which will be far more won'ttumin-t- o they continue to admit a token moron merely to fill a class. cations this year) and Grinnell. When York City, and Kenyon mid-weste- hostile to them than Kenyon College not and fifty rn misfits to each So, if the qualify of student has in- Mrs. Ward and Mr. Kushan conduc Harvard, but that's really incoming class. Let's face it, Utopia creased every year, then how do and Gambier," he says. what it's all about, anyway. definitely does not exist in this "re- you explain the apparent imbalance treat of virtue in seclusion from the of abilities in each class? Says 50,000 Vices of the World" (to quote Phil Kushan, "We want students from a JOBS
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ContinuedLoonevfrom Page 4 Tooncreation--o- phasis on n Time Lunatic Ravings personal films, some thrillers, some neither standing the film in its own language. consciousness as dictating the con- -- nors, even some boring ones and by Gerry Chalphin It is obvious that there is as yet an tent and form of the work has effected some reekers. (You should have seen inadequate critical language for the the established film industry, an in- the films that weren't selected for film. What we have for the most part dustry that has a long history of the screenings this weekend. Art the end of the academic year approaches, the otherwise impregnable As is borrowings from the other arts. pandering to and creating public really isn't the essence of sensual year begins to Memories--bot- h good and bad--- of cynicism of a senior soften. There is often a tendency todismiss taste at the expense of the artist. It reality as one film puts it, is it?) four years have merged together leaving one a little sentimental, if not any tiling for which we have not found is not unexpected that in recent years There will be five DIFFERENT a somewhat dazed. One thinks of a Kenyon which was four years younger and language. Vet a too great haste to we have witnessed a gradual break- and EXCITING showings this week- give words to an apprehension may down of the totally monopolized films end. Friday at 4:00 and at 8:00. Sat- yet surer and more confident of itself. New people, perspectives and view- do injustice to the work and toone's of the past. Independent cinema is urday, after Middle Path Day, at have moved into Gambier.Jeaving in their tracks the as yet still un- points own thoughts. We have to be prepared pointing a new direction and one so 4:00 and then again at 8:00. And a settled dust of Kenyon's former insularity. The tranquil, composed, even to face the necessity of developing important that even the industry is festival winners showing on Sunday haughty confidence in a detached, academic way of life has been demolished. new standards of judgement and per- forced to take notice. again at S:00. The early showing haps ultimately of new So much art--on- e will run approxmately two As one prepares to leave after four years, he sees Kenyon in transition, aesthetic. for musn't think hours. Probably the most significant con- we take such musings too seriously. The festival is held outside the usual hoping to find a new identity for itself. tribution of independent film making In any case the Kenyon Film Festi- weekend Film Society screenings, point, I'm not at all sure what kind of new identity this will be. A At this is the sense of films as a creation val should prove interesting if thus to meet expenses, screenings and a new will both come, if not new campus constitution curriculum this and product ofits director. Thisem- - nothing else. There are many 'good' will be $1 per showing or $3 for a vear, then certainly next New living groupings will emerge, hopefully festival ticket for the entire week- can be charged to making the overly elongated campus a little more compact spiritually if end. The tickets gy your account at the bookstore or will probably be new forms of social activity. Psycholo not geographically. There Dept. purchased at the door. campus-wid- e extravaganzas. And, Room parties will replace or divisional The judges for this year's festi- somewhat needless to add, fraternities, unless they reform and recompose NotJung Enough val are Edgar Daniels and Dan 42. themselves, will die. by Marc Spieser Psychology of Motivation Fleckles. Mr. Daniels is chairman The of English at Bowl- The underlying cause of these likely changes is not easily identified or determination of behavior by of the department The Psychology Department's maturation, early experience and ing Green and a religious devotee assessed. It appears, however, that Kenyon, as a whole, is moving in the Offerings: behaviorist theory will be examined to independent film. He has been a
non-acade- direction of increased individual definition of both academic and mic while patently ignoring Freud's work judge at other major festivals and goals. If so, such a movement is probably based on the premise that 11. Introduction to Psychology as in the subject. Prerequisite: Psych- has written numerous articles on ology 11. film for various journals. Mr. the individual students are more able and willing to define these goals a Biological Science Fleckles of the Art Department will such a premise, it is reasonable to expect that the Coll- 43. Perception themselves. From Emphasis is placed on the human also bring a strong interestand idea Each organism bom- ege will, in allowing its students more individual power, attempt to reduce and infrahuman research that is cal- is continually of the importance of whatisgoingon barded with information from its en- its own legal responsibilities for the student's actions and welfare. Indeed, culated to remove any cherished il- in this medium. A third judge, Stan vironment and lusions that you may have about your itself. This course VanDerBeek, a renowned film mak- Dean Edwards' recently proposed contractual housing arrangement seems deals with the senses. This is the softening before nature of information er, unexpectedly cancelled his visit to be heading toward such a result. available and how you are subjected to PSYCHOLO- it is collected, to Gambier. As last year we will not-quite-so-cy- Unfortunately, the of the nical sorted, organized, forgotten. from perspective senior, GY 39, B. F. SKINNER AS GOD. and again have a student ballot. Prerequisite: Psychology this situation is not quite so attractive as it first appears. As the areas of 11. 12. Introduction lo Psychology as and responsibility become increasingly formalized (as any 48. Personality Theory performance a Social Science contractual arrangement would require), the notion of any sort of community A study into the illogical absurd- (academic or otherwise) developing among students, faculty and administ- Emphasis is made on throwing a ities of the Neo-Freudi- an school. Non-Behavior- token course to ists Of ration will be decreasingly realizable. Perhaps it is my own reified mind, particular interest are Erich and Freudian reactionaries. You will Fromm's theories of socialism and but the of such a community (even if it is only a spiritual sense of loss note that this is not a prerequisite Rollo May's sex fantasies. Prere- community) is not particularly appealing. In a time of rising college ex- for any other course in the depart- quisite: Psychology 11. penses, Kenyon's will increasingly depend on its claim to provide ment. survival 100. Independent Study a college experience might be obtained else- Psy- different andor better than 21. Statistical Methods in 100A. Senior Seminar where at lower cost. With the end of the claim to an academic community, chology Required of all senior Psychology Kenyon will have to come out of its transition period with a new identity to The role of descriptive and infer- majors. I 1 offer. ential methods in the analysis of ex- 100B. Research perimental data. Emphasis isplaced Semflnar on justifying the acquisition of anew 200-20- 1. Advanced Psychology System 1125 computer for the De- This laboratory course features partment Prerequisite: Psychol- intense psychopatholical inquiries ogy 11. into the residents of McBride Res- Sonia Sanchez, poetess, play- 22. Experimental Psychology idence. wright, and black studies pioneer, CEDAR POINT in experimental General methods 300-30- 1. Pathology of Adolescent design are came lo Kenyon under the au- psychology and research Loss long-ter- Confusion and Ideniry spices of the Black Student Union, considered in detail: the m ANNOUNCES effects of listening to Neil Diamond Continued advanced studies into the to read her poetry and discuss and reading NEWSWEEK magazine muddled thoughts and intrigues of literary techniques with Kenyon ft South. u FIFTH ANNUAL will be among the studies made. McBride students. Photo by Leslie Rodnan. 37. Abnormal Psychology u 1 u The development, dynamics, social $,4 - u significance and the potential for en- 7 ' .... . HO I 11 U re I joyment of deviant behavior will be Km li na- .riu discussed with emphasis on the mil nx ture, scope and diversity of psycho-patholog- y. IIMI si; aim: h mi The problem of mental Yes,there are alot of health will be evaluated. Prere- quisites: Psychology 11. good reasons for women dOUEMUSY 41. Psychology of Learning The historical development of to quit smoking. corps stimulus-respon- se theories will be reviewed, followed by the more cur- few INTERVIEWS rent positions of Skinner, Skinner, Skinner and Pavlov. Experimental Find yours. findings will be applied to the oper- ant conditioning of students to sali- ( ) That "Smoke Pretty" ad makes me furious. Whoever made vate at the end of the class period. that up knows where the money is fewer women than men are A GREAT SUMMER Prerequisite: Psychology 11. quitting. But they won't get rich over my dead body. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY ( ) I want to be a teacher. How can I discourage kids from smoking when I smoke? ( ) I know my father's been trying to quit. How can he with AREA AUDITION WRITE: STEREO me still puffing away? ( ) I want to wake up feeling fresh and clean again. I've had it Akron, Ohio with nicotine hang-ove- r in the mornings. Saturday, April 15 CEDAR POINT TAPE me most is: If you quit for good, The University of Akron ( ) The thing that appeals to LIVE SHOW DEPT. smoked. John S. Knighl in most cases it can be as if you never Auditorium SANDUSKY. SALES ( ) Somewhere in the back of my head I've been nursing the Interviews 1:00 PM OHIO 44870 illusion that smoking is really only dangerous for men. I've just Auditions 3:00 PM Ohio distributor needs cover- seen the latest statistics. The death rate for women who smoke
8-Tr- age. Tod 50 ack tapes is more than 20 higher than for women who don't. We've corne a wholesale prices. Large earn- long way baby, but I'm not going any further. ings. NO INVESTMENT. encouragement. Send a postcard Contact: Now all you need is help and VISIT today to: Women and Smoking, Rockville, Md. 20852. And we'll rtitouront Mr. Harris THE Lake Erie International, Inc. send some free booklets to help and encourage you. ccxktaili 344! West Brainard Road U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. tcove in Mt. Vrnon Cleveland, Ohio 44122 This space contributed as a public service. An Advntur in hn Dining Page 8 THE KENYON COLLEGIAN Big teoeks deadly Wesleyan for This year's lacrosse appears, by built a 4-- 0 lead and hung on for a as Kenyon outhustled 59-4- 6-- 1. The Lords builta all indications, good and plenty good. brilliant 5 upset win. JohnHopkins loose balls 4-- on by by Jim Lucas and Carl Mueller No longer does Kenyon fade away in (yawn) B team fell before surging 1 halftime lead scores and away one 6- Mueller, Gaddis the fourth quarter to give Kenyon the following day by a -3 Cronin, Eric valiantly DAR Crosses the Bar goal losses. This year's team has margin in preparation for the tow Tom Bmggman. Wesleyan of goodness and virtue, and of the golden past, winning attitude. to within one goal but Cronin Once the shining star depth and a new finale with Western Maryland. closed no longer smiling. The goal to in- the Daughters of the American Revolution are group, The tow of Baltimore started the Dave Cronin (two goal and two as- batted in a good garbage organized in 1890 and restricting membership to direct lineal descendants season brilliantly for the Lords. sists) Dave Barclay, Paul Gaddis, sure the Lords first victory over now numbers 200,000 members who promote the Mary's fell to Kenyon in the O.W.U. since 1968. of Revolutionary leaders, Mt. St and Brad Faus tallied for Kenyon in maintenance of geneological records, and 9-- crop; Kevin study of UJ5. History, had serving teams 0. Dave 5-- Kenyon's freshman opener for both a tenacious 4 victory in the mud DAR Brugg-ma- n, Americana. But times are changing, the has recently "Taken respon. Cronin, with three goals and one at Westminster. Again Taverner McDonald, Brad Faus, Tom sibility of alerting the nation to impending dangers (communism disguised assist, Bob Voiles with one goal and played well under pressure in the Rick Saloman and Eric as "New Left"). According to Mary Conner (in DAR magazine, Novem. co-capt- good as any the three assists and ain Charlie goal and the ability of Heaps, Puntel Mueller, should be as team ber, 1968), "we need more education against well organized communist Capute with two goals and one assist and freshman Rich Soloman to clear in the conference. Watch this Saturday tactics and propaganda which stirs crime and anarchy in our streets, fans led the scoring barrage. Miguel the ball proved instrumental in the against Oberlin (away) this promotes disarmament, and saps our National will for sur. Tavener did a fine job in the nets victory. at 2 p.m. and as it hosts Ohio Un- moral decay, with a great deal of assistance from The first Ohio Conference test for iversity next Wednesday, April 12 vival". Founding Have Hioh Ideals. Bob Heaps and Denny Puntel, the the upstart stickers of Bill Heiser at 3:30 good and plenty good. Fathers other Lord co-capta- in. came last Saturday against Ohio Note: Richard Clarke our regular So Thai's How They Kept Them Down on the Farm 7-- week Following an easy 0 scrimmage Wesleyan. Bruce "No goals no writer is on vacation this But even Mary Conner will need a strong frown to dispel the recent di- victory over Anne Arundel Commun- glory' Duncan controlled the open- soaking up the rays in sunny Califor- scoveries of Dr. Burke, a consultant to the Smithsonian Institute. According ity College Kenyon took onU.M.B.C, ing faceoff to set the tone of the game nia. He will be back next week for to Dr. Burke, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison 18-- authors of an 5 drubbing of the stats and cliches. (In spite of Political Science 11-1- 2, he DID include James Madison), all Lords in 1971. Kenyon jumped to grew marijuana on their plantations. James Monroe started smoking Halli-na- the lead on a score by Bobby n marijuana and hashish while in France, he continued when he returned to with less than ten seconds gone, E3ip America. Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor and Franklin Pierce smoked troops. In a to his family, Pierce described dope B-- And dope with their letter by Richard Clarke and W should prove tougher. tine was only good thing about the war." Prior to saying that Kenyon's seldom celebrated base- it will take more than the strong arm smoking, it "the marijuana was used to season food, to cure insomnia and ball team got off to a promising junior Bill Gorski at third base, the Civil War, of Ameri-ca- and tension. And this is the Daughters of the n Marty Hunt start this past Monday by upsetting the keen eye of Kurt Karakul at impotence to reduce of a Golden Age? the widely acclaimed Mt. Vernon shortstop, the cool glove of sopho- Revolution's idea Laudod College of the Nazarene by a count more John Moroney at second, the An Interesting Concept for 13-- of 2. Starting the season with the experience of Jamie Kroeger at The University of Toledo Department of Health Education is now offering rare handicap of not being able to first, the celebrated fielding of a credited course in sex education. According to the Toledo University Excollonco make their spring "tour", the Lord Frank Rahel and rookie Rich COLLEGIAN, the "idea of the course was conceived when the department quick by Richard Clarke nine displayed a remarkable quality Schwartz in center and left, and was asked after the Kent State riots to develop some courses which were Kenyon's stellar guard Marty Hunt of spiritbolsteredbythel5-20spec-tator- s -- thinking Mark Rackozy behind the more relevant to the needs of college students'". "It's tough to get more the encour- was recently named the winner of the pouring into bleachers. plate, and the inspirational relevant than sex" said Dr. Fulton of the department. It is basically a
key Ken- in de-cisi- Pitching the to Hymes on Gregory Award 1971-7- 2 Ohio Con- seemed agement of spirited Jeff lecture course, with topics covering "sex and society, morality and ference basketball season. The yon's opening success, combined right field to win the challenging making, reproduction, problems associated with conception and draw- to come. award is given annually to the most with an inexplicable talent for games yet birth and teaching children about sex." Only forty people have enrolled valuable player in the Ohio Confer- ing walks. Right handers Bob Price It will take full time efforts from for the Toledo course. However, Dr. Fulton cited the University of Houston, ence in each particular sport. and Pat Clements' split the pitching coaches McHugh, Morse, Butch where "about 1000 students enrolled for sex classes". Reactions seem to Hunt led the Lords in scoring anc chores for the Lords. "Battingprac-tice- " Black and trainer George be favorable at Toledo. The COLLEGIAN quoted Morris Stanley, a fres- was one confident Kenyon hit- support the rebounding with 24.0 and 9.0 aver- Christman, plus from hman in Education, "He tells you just like it is . . .1 have learned more in ages respectively. His 24 points a ter's evaluation of the hurlers the fans. Coach McHugh has said that this class than in any other." Yeah, Right On. All Power to the Relevant contest was tops in the Ohio Confer- 'Naz' threw at the Lords. the fans alone bring in thirteen runs. Penis. Indeed, as word spreads, the Ken- That's about 1 run per fan so far, ence, just edging out Oberlin's Vic Denison Exposes Itself Guerrieri. Hunt's selection marks yon nine seem to be coming into Mt. Vernon Nazarene has been de- After a survey taken at Denison University, the DENISONIAN printed the fourth time in the last six years their own. But as formidable as feated, but the job is just beginning the and some ramdomly sampled answers. The question "What that a Kenyon player has been the the Nazarenes we are, Heidelberg for the Lords. results is your picture of a D.U. woman?" the typical answer was: recipient of the award in basketball. "guys" "... Uh, make that heavy on the snobby side"; or, ' They shit". The girls From 1968-7- 0 John Rinka, the lead- response was different: "Ha, ha, ha, homey as or, "I don't think e ing scorer in Ohio Conference his- hell!" bag live up to our image of being very social, snobby and To the question tory won the award. from Pagethese2 ample, we'd like to see health food fast". Continued letters the thing your eye when you a DU woman?" In addition to the Gregory Award, Crowned', The Universal Church. enthusiasts writing about nutrition, "What is first that catches see the most notable response was hair, and '. To the que- Hunt was also named to the All Con- The American Liberty Bell or what kinds of foods to select when "Her her posterior' stion "Women What DU men looking one young lady answered ference 1st team, along with Cap- aborted; cracked in pride. At this eating institutional food. How about are for?" "An easy Women any changes ital's Mike Stumpf, Otterbein's Jack juncture we proclaim Liberty articles on creative ways in which lay". answered the question "Are there should Baldwin-Wallace- you'd like to see in DU women?" with much more vehemence; "They Mehl, 's Dean Mar- throughout the land. We ring-i- n the students decorate their rooms? Or the to men are tin and Wittenberg's Pat Beasley. In fiery Son of Man! a column by backpackers on person- tell Denison men get lost", or, Want more right, "... "What a rather surprising move, the Lords' Signed, al tips they've picked up in the placed on a higher level". One man answered the same question with: needs changing is the social system, not the people' '. Jim Smith was given only honorable AElhelred Eldridge woods, and comments on surround- mention obviously ing which good spots consideration, Tongue of Ihe Church areas are for overlooking the fact that he was the overnights? MilHield. Ohio 457G1 VISIT conference's 5th leading scorer with On a more intellectual level we'd THE a 20 game average and carried the like to see book reviews, lecture rtitouront To the Editors: Lords' during Hunt's absence from reviews and essays. How abouta po- cocktail The KENYON COLLEGIAN, in its the team from December to January. litical science professor's reaction In Mr. Vtrnon present form, is ineffective in its dcove to Nixon's trip to China? Or reviews necessary role of creating meaning- An in Fin of interesting senior honors Advtnturt Dining ful dialogue among the different ele- projects ments of our population. We feel the or expositions about the workings of the college? The MAVIS problem lies in incorrect beliefs editors might even wish to concerning the nature of a small col- reprint articles from other lege newspaper. In attempting to magazines which are important to them, and which serve the same purpose as the they wish to share ..m SPORTING GOODS with the COLUMBIA SPECTATOR or the community e.g., George HARVARD CRIMSON our paper Wald's May 4th address in the NEW YORKER. fails, for it has neither New York The paper should be flexible in . City nor Boston to fall back upon. Al- the shop for gals 212 South Main St-- of so, much of what is reported dupli- terms shape and form. We would NEWS-COP- hope for the widest possible range cates what is learned from E, Mount Vernon of participants including UlM! guys and to a lesser extent word students, shP fr of mouth. professors, otherpeople livingwith-i- n Gambier and those In The following suggestions for im- outside. Main Street . Mount Vernon provement are purely personal, and this way the COLLEGIAN willnotbe should be taken as an indication of considered a waste of resources, the directions in which the paper but will become an integral part in should go. Please keep in mind that the future development of the Kenyon our purpose is to get members of community. New fall colon the community writing and talking Signed, wiih Sero shirts about ideas, activities, thoughts and Adam Gilbert, '74 feelings which excite Levi's & Lee's them. For ex Todd Gordon, '74 for men and women Also, Bass Weejuns and Clark's Desert Boots
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