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Kenyon Collegian College Archives Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 11-9-2006 Kenyon Collegian - November 9, 2006 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - November 9, 2006" (2006). The Kenyon Collegian. 106. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/106 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College Archives at Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Kenyon Collegian by an authorized administrator of Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Established 1856 Volume CXXXIV, Number 10 www.kenyoncollegian.com PB News The Kenyon Collegian Thursday, November 9, 2006 Thursday, November 9, 2006 The Kenyon Collegian News THE KENYON COLLEGIAN Gambier, Ohio Thursday, November 9, 2006 16 Pages Gambier voters tussle with new laws Lacking adequate ID, some cast provisional ballots while more machines expedite voting process ter served as the local polling place Systems and Software, consist votes could be tampered with Poll worker Joan Slonczewski, BY MichAEL Fivis both for Gambier and the College of a large touch-screen display somehow. I’m still sort of skepti- a professor of biology at Kenyon, Staff Reporter Township, and voters used new and a sealed, transparent plastic cal.” Gambier precinct poll workers placed the blame of the provisional Though they encountered no iVotronic voting machines. Voters panel that allows voters to see said that 483 votes had been cast ballots on the law itself for being 10-hour lines or television crews had to sign in, show identifica- their choices printed on receipt with two hours remaining until the unclear. as in 2004, Kenyon students and tion and then hand a ticket to an paper as they progress through the polls closed at 7:30 p.m. “The law has a poorly written Gambier residents headed to the attendant who oversaw the opera- computer-generated menus. When asked how many people part in it,” said Slonczewski. “If you polls on Tuesday to cast ballots for tion of the voting machines, which Despite the evidential paper had problems with identification vote ahead [of time] you can vote the midterm elections, facing new could be initialized only with the trail, the idea of electronic voting that interfered with their voting, directly on a paper ballot with just laws requiring particular types of attendant’s electronic key. The still left some uneasy. “I thought the three workers sitting behind four digits of your social security voter identification. iVotronic machines, designed by it was cool,” said Sara Hirsch ’10. the check-in table pointed to a number. But on Election Day it has Gambier’s Community Cen- Omaha, Nebraska-based Election “But my only concern is that our stack of yellow papers. Thirty- to be on a provisional ballot.” eight provisional ballots had been Ohio’s revised voting laws, cast throughout the day, nearly all which now require Ohio residents Ladies Field Hockey by students with insufficient iden- to present a government-issued tification, poll workers said. photo ID or other form of iden- Just down the hall in the Com- tification with an Ohio address in munity Center, College Township’s order to be able to cast an official poll workers said that throughout ballot, were met with controversy the day just one provisional ballot before Election Day. Many Demo- was cast there. One of the poll crats and even Kenyon professors workers said that at least one voter, felt that these changes, enacted a Kenyon student, decided not to by a Republican-controlled state vote at all upon discovering he’d legislature to curb voter fraud, have to choose between filling would suppress Democratic votes out a provisional ballot or miss- (“Voters must show ID at polls,” ing class. see VOTE page 4 Board votes to sell Bemis mansion BY CHARLotte NUgent who was in office from 1995 to Editor-in-Chief 2002, that gave a certain prospec- Ali Kittle The board of trustees last week tive buyer the first chance to buy decided to sell Halcyon Hill, the the house, said Paul Goldberger, Lauren Keiling ’08 fights for victory. Ladies field hockey won their first ever NCAC tournament and Mount Vernon mansion Kenyon chair of the board’s Buildings and won the first round of NCAA tournament agaisnt Juniata College yesterday. The ladies will play at gained in September upon the Grounds Committee. The agree- Ursinus College on Saturday. (See story page 16.) death of Ruth Bemis, because it is ment did not specify a selling price, not useful to the College. Goldberger said. “We just don’t see a use for it The prospective buyer is still because of the distance,” said Bill interested in purchasing the house. Bennett ’68, chair of the board of “An appraisal is both expected New College-wide committee to over- trustees. The house sits on Route and standard procedure,” said the 229 in Mount Vernon, several prospective buyer, who wished to miles from Kenyon. “We would remain anonymous because the ap- see expansion of campus diversity like Kenyon to become a walking praisal and deal are not complete. campus.” “I have always intended to pay fair BY SARAH FriedmAN mitted to looking at all areas of annual Marilyn Yarbrough Disser- Because the decision was made market price. There was no deal Staff Reporter the College and improving upon tation/Teaching Fellows on campus to sell, the College is now bound other than that I would have first diversity,” said President S. Georgia from two to four. The Yarbrough by an agreement made by former right of refusal. I’ve had this agree- “What do we mean by diver- Nugent. is a Kenyon fellowship that recruits Kenyon President Robert Oden, sity?” is a question the College has According to Ric Sheffield, young scholars to teach at Kenyon see HOUSE, page 5 been working to answer ever since associate provost and associate while they finish their disserta- the creation of a diversity task force professor of sociology and legal tions. Often, according to Britz, consisting of professors, adminis- studies, it will “keep diversity on the scholar is a minority or person trators and trustees in September the front burner” and make sure with a multicultural specialty. Peep through the Foxhole! 2004. policies to increase diversity are Financial aid for students of In the most recent trustee carried out. need, regardless of race, will be in- See story, page 7 meeting, on Oct. 27, the “whole Also, a “strategic faculty search creased, thus increasing economic slate [of the task force’s recom- oversight initiative” will help fill diversity. The capital campaign, mendations] was approved by the more faculty positions with women currently in its quiet phase, looks Opinions editor trustees,” said Jennifer Britz, dean and minority candidates, said to raise financial aid by 150 per- Hannah Curran gets of admissions and financial aid. Britz. cent, according to Vice President up close and personal As one of the ten initial recom- According to Nugent, the for College Relations Sarah Kahrl. mendations, the Trustee Special with the women at College’s efforts to “diversify pro- The College will provide aid for the Foxhole, Newcas- Committee on Diversity was creat- gramming on campus” will af- first-generation college students tle’s only strip club. ed, intended to be an “ongoing key fect “lecturers invited, music, art and both low-income and middle element of College governance,” exhibitions and artists” invited class students who cannot afford according to Britz. to campus.The College will also The committee will be “com- focus on increasing the number of see DIVERSE page 5 News The Kenyon Collegian Thursday, November 9, 2006 Thursday, November 9, 2006 The Kenyon Collegian News Capital campaign gears up, is ‘hitting benchmarks’ BY ALlison BUrket targeted programs. The current campaign is slated to of new endowment,” said Horvitz, for a new campaign to move Kenyon News Editor “It’s the nature of campaigns to raise the funds for the renovation of which “still leaves us less well-endowed forward.” shift over time,” said Kahrl. “It’s like Peirce Hall, the construction of new than our peers, but it closes the gap.” Following the retreat, Kahrl “We’re in good shape,” said Vice a conversation with about a hundred art facilities and expansion of student With annual returns of 4.5 per- explained, was a year-long process President for College Relations Sarah people at once, as donors begin to housing. cent on the endowment said Kahrl, to determine the priorities of the Kahrl of the progress of the College’s make their wishes known and plans go “I’m really pleased that we have “It takes many million dollars to campaign. capital campaign toward its $230 mil- forward. It’s a process of coordinating a lot of early support for capital pro- move the needle on the operating lion target. “Our plan to raise signifi- all of those wishes in the planning grams, particularly the art building end and the dollar end that actually ªOther fundraising announce- cant support for Kenyon is ambitious, stage of the quiet phase.” and Peirce Hall,” said Kahrl. “That will gets paid out.” A $1 million donation ments it is being met with enthusiasm and it Official statistics on the progress enable us, when we get to the kickoff, to the endowment for financial aid, Aside from the progress of the is reaching our expectations.” Kahrl of the campaign will not be released to have an even more specific focus on for example, only generates $45,000 campaign itself, Kahrl reported to the updated the board of trustees about until the June public announcement endowment.” in financial aid each year.
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