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For more information, please contact [email protected]. vrvr 1 IU UJ 1 1 0 1 4 Vol. XCV Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, Sepiember 19, 1968 No. 1 College Optimistic o. 9 "Si - -- w: - US i-- y i - About Girls' School A dean of women has not been going to have to push the wo- sing of the hurdle in federal appointed yet, and construction men's dorms." He remarks that funds will make it more easy to i on the women's dormitories has construction of the bio build- find private funds. not yet begun, but College off- ing will a great require deal of Bids will be opened October 1 icials are generally optimistic patience that from students who will on construction of the two new If Kenyon's coordinate college for have to attend classes in Mather girls' dorms. Complete women cost is will open next Septem- while the new building is being estimated at ber. $2,625,000, $1,855,000 completed. coming from an HUD loan. According to Provost Bruce The president remarks that Each of the three-stor- y dorms Haywood, candidates for Dean of "we're behind" on the fund rais- will house 159 girls and a "resi- Women will be I interviewed soon, ing. Pledges Trir iiilfl have ben received dent adviser." The buildings will CLEARING A PATH for progress, workmen chop down but it is unlikely that the new for $1.6 trees and million, and $600,000 air-conditio- in be fully carpeted and will be ned. buildings at the site of the women's college. Clearing dean will be in residence before cash will be com- has been received. Mr. Wil- According to a pub- pleted October 1. July. It is contemplated that she liam Thomas, vice president for lic relations release, "the archi-Se- e will be in Gambier for long development, notes that the pas COORDINATE, Page 4 weekends on several occasions. It appears that the builders are Council Debates "comfortably confident" that if they begin work on the dorms Committee Demands Open before the middle of October they Assembly can be finished on time next fall. Cutting ; But provost . , the admits that "we Is! The first meeting of thisxi year's Councilrt ....eliminating Discussion recommend are going to have to have alter- with Leibman the Student Council featured an ami- mandatory attendance. claim- He ; nate plans available." by ing able visit by Saga Atten-weile- r, Sam Barone Pete ed that required attendance per- It has not yet been decided how rs, discussion of the purpose "Kenyon is ready now. mits assembly planners to "do many women will be admitted or Conditions are better than they were the of Council, and four years ago. The debate concerning shoddy jobs" and that it takes what the name of the coordinate school is now more receptive to outside ideas." the of So claim spokesman abolition assembly attend- away from students "the right to college will be. for the "Committee." ance requirements. be more responsible." mid ; Kenyon's new President, Wi- The "Committee." formprlv ' Mr. fail Attenweiler told the repre- Other lliam Caples, observes functioning as "The Kenyon representatives pointed that during ; sentatives that he "will spend :ive out the value of the opportunity the summer, financial patterns New Approach Committee To End The War In your money as wisely as I can." ake for dialog in the assemblies and went well, as federal funds that Vietnam," has broadened its He noted he is to re- 'hatj" that trying that perhaps a different approach, had been frozen were freed bv plane of interest to affect a train some of the improperly such as better planning, would be the secretary of H.E.W. The Col Sampled In greater sector of the Kenyon stu- oil trained personnel in the kitchen dent body. u. advisable. lege received all it had requested i-- and to provide more better-prepar- ed and although H.U.D. funds were cut Last Monday evening, a group hal food. Mr. Silber remarked that the Frosh Schedule 60 per cent. of over 35 students, both fresh- IClt Council college does "not allow students President David Hoster Kenyon is also the first recipi Freshman orientation this year men and upperclassmen, gather- t discussed to behave like adults." He said the role of Council in ob-jectiv- )la! ent of bonds issued by the Ohio concentrated, with varying de- ed to discuss "Committee" ies legislation he was not so much concerned and the responsibility Higher Educational Facility Com- grees of success, on dialog rather and activities. .ml involved in administering the stu- with good or bad assemblies. He IrJ mission. The $1.5 million in tax-fr- ee than dictation. Leading the slate of issues was dent funds of $48,000. He em- complained that the college takes v; The heavy ored bonds, to co-spons- a issued help private schedule of addres- that of the speaker series, phasized the importance of com- role as father, and asked "what i schools build at lower interest ses of past years was dropped in by the Political Sci- munication between Council and kind of communication can take rates, will cover the entire cost of part for discussion seminars with ence Department and the Public rr the students. place" when one talks in terms of the girls' commons, which is about 10 freshmen and four Ken- Affairs Conference Center. "Com- k Steve Silber asserted threats. that "it is scheduled for completion by Sep- yon upperclassmen. The seminars mittee" claims maintain that the outrageous to require assembly 1, The debate will be continued tember 1969. were designed to be open discus- schedule of topics is "irrelevant." attendance" and proposed that next Monday. Mr. Caples notes that "we're sions on matters freshmen con- The first speaker to appear will sidered relevant to themselves, be Morris I. Leibman. Mr. Leib- Stockyard Disorder rather than the required assembly- man, a Chicago lawyer, addresses -type mass meetings where, it the Kenyon community tomorrow was felt by orientation planners, night in Rosse Hall. most of the information was The "Committee," ignored. vehemently Convention Chaos Discussed opposed to Leibman's presumed The appearance of upperclass endorsement of Hubert Hum- by Richard Gelfond advisers for headquarters is another incident Both students also disagree as the first time mark- phrey, Democratic Presidential be- to ed the orientation program. Two Kenyon students who which Mr. Dorfman views as the nature of the marchers and A nominee, planned some form of ing depicted new approach to worked at the Democratic Na- in a biased fashion. the McCarthy supporters. Ira the adviser sys- confrontation at his lecture. tional He points to the fact that objects Dorfman is critical of both tem at Kenyon, the system seeks Convention in Chicago The major objective of the ef- were thrown from the McCarthy groups. "The McCarthy people to combine peer conversation with have returned to Kenyon with fort seems aimed at an open headquarters onto the police. The were there to nominate the already functioning faculty- - radically different interpretations their question and answer session. In police man. They student advisory plan. Upperclass of events that occurred there. action in this case he feels didn't care how they the event this request advisers will be that would Joel Marks, who lives near was certainly merited. did it or what the price might be associated with be denied, two or three the dissenters would Chicago, worked at the Joel Marks places the blame to their party or country." He freshmen in varying rise J! Hilton relationships and leave the auditorium. g for the Hotel for Eugene du;--n- for the violence clearly on the feels the rest of the convention rest of the McCarthy year. One of the goals of the "Com- the shoulders of the authorities in was in a "conciliatory mood and convention. Ira Dorfman mittee" is to establish a second worked Chicago. For thing, he points was willing to talk things out. He at Convention Hall for a one campus newspaper. The "Com- hason believes, however, that man of Hubert Humphrey to the incident relayed to him by after mittee" feels Wednesday night the McCarthy that its views are Wednesday night of convention friends of his who were involved Disobedience not being represented sufficiently week Mr. in They men gave up on the party and Dorfman went to the the march. contend that in The Collegian, and that The r'ot area. the began when sought to be a purely destructive He believes that the violence first In Perspective Collegian "in the past has failed Police in one line of policeman physically force against Humphrey. Grant Park certainly The fall issue of Perspective to come out for anything." The "overreacted." drove the marchers into another Mr. Dorfman feels the march- However, he also will be devoted to the tonic of "Committee" remarked also that feels that line of police across the street. ers were an angry disaffected the press coverage of Civil Disobedience, according to since The Collegian was financed the "As soon as this initial contact group of people.