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Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 9-16-1976 Kenyon Collegian - September 16, 1976 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - September 16, 1976" (1976). The Kenyon Collegian. 941. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/941 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]. The is: '- Kenyon -ft. Collegian O Established 1856 Volume CIV, Number 2 Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio 43022 Thursday, September 16, 1976 Hon. Colin Jackson, M.P., Sonatas Set To Give British View For Sunday y Of World Problems Recital The Department of Music will present harpsichordist Julane By PETER KAY government's Foreign Affairs Group. Rodgers on Sunday, Sept. 19 at 4 v. p.m. in Rosse Auditorium. The Colin Jackson, a a The Honorable Jackson's travels have given him i program will contain the major member of British Parliament and vast knowledge of China. He has met national styles of late Baroque established commentator on world with such world leaders as Indian harpsichord music. France is affairs, will give a lecture in Rosse Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, represented by the Pieces de Clavecin Hall entitled "The World in Crisis Jordan's King Hussein, President in D Minor (Louis Couperin) and the 1976 A View, from the House of Suharto of Indonesia, and the late Pieces in A from Nouvelles Suites de Commons," on Monday, September King Faisal of Saudia Arabia. He has Pieces de Clavecin (Rameau); Italy 20, broadcast on BBC television and by four sonatas of Domenico St. College, radio and writes a newspaper f A graduate of John's Scarlatti; and Germany by two of J. Oxford, Jackson became a Barrister column, syndicated on four con- S. Bach's most mature works, the and entered Parliament in 1964. tinents. In addition, he has written a Chromatic Fantasie and Fugue in D Since then he has served Britain as book entitled The New India. minor, BWV 903 and the Italian Chairman of the Council for Over the past twenty years Jackson Concerto.'BVJV 971. Education in the Commonwealth, has spoken to over 400 colleges and Miss Rodgers is a Chairman of the Fabian Inter- universities in forty-nin- e states on member of the national and Commonwealth such topics as "China on the World music faculty at Wright, State University in Dayton. Bureau, and in 1968 as Joint Stage," "The New Cold War She earned the B.Mus. degree from Lewis and Chairman of the Anglo-America- n Russia versus China," and "The Clark College Parliamentary Conference on Africa. Energy Crisis A First Hand and the M.Mus. and DMA degrees from the Vice-Chairm- University He is presently an of his Report from the Arab World." of Oregon. She has studied harpsichord with John Hamilton and Alan Curtis and has participated in a masterclass They Fly Harpsichordist Julane Rodgers with Gustav Leonhardt in England. Through with a static line, is, made that the backpack is connected to the airplane by a cord which automatically . deploys the main parachute. The McKeanTakes Charge The Air . chance of a malfunction with this ystem is one in perhaps thousands, )ut all come nonetheless jumpers Off-Camp-us irmed with a reserve parachute and Of Study ufficient training to use it should the leed arise. Though not required to activate he main canopy, jumpers are t r . )rovided with a dummy ripcord to Program Operations vV practice pulling in preparation for ater jumps. Experienced jumpers say By hat falling through the air at 120 CYNTHIA SAVAGE n.p.h. is at least the second-mos- t Measurable sensation known to man. With the resignation last spring o' 1975-7- 6 Off-Camp- us Studie: By Vice-Presiden- manipulation of the body and coordinator Don Reed, t :imbs a jumper can control and vary John R. O. McKear his rate of descent both laterally and assumed yet another duty as office! vertically, do loops, turns and rolls, in charge of student affairs. and hook up with other jumpers in freefall. The placement of OCS in the & vice-presiden- rr Such adventures are still 'in the t's office was "logical," future for Johanna, Tim and Alan. according to McKean, and was a Sunday's clear skies and light winds move ordained by the president of made it an ideal day for jumping. the college, Philip Jordan. Riding in a jump plane is an ex- The program involves advising perience in itself. Four jumpers, each before and after a student wearing two parachutes, and a pilot undertakes off-camp- us study. McKean, in . fill up every available inch of a With the charge of "all student life outside of Cessna 182. When at 2800 feet the academia," believes the transferal door is opened; the last thing one of John R. O. McKean the OCS program from its separate feels inclined to do is get out. But the office to student affairs is only part This fall, for the first time, OCS moment of choice was already past Greatest of Ease of an effort begun to "place func- will be introduced at a general and ten minutes later all three had tions where they belong." meeting. McKean will elicit the help drifted safely to earth. of students previously involved with at the dropzone and Asked his experience, Tim Off-Camp- By DON TABER jump. Arrival about Asked where he ranks OCS in us Study to acquaint introduction to the personnel of the replied, "It's the only way to fly." priority with his other organizational others with various alternative study Club less can It has become somewhat of a Columbus Sport Parachute Alan was articulate. "What tasks, McKean replied, "You don't plans and to give insight into per- nerves. The in- . Kenyon tradition over the past few settled everyone's you say wow!" He alone went set priorities, you manage your time. sonal experiences with OCS. years that every fall a few of the more structor was Bob Wagner, a young, up for another jump, and came home I have re-organiz- ed." He refused a Off-Camp- adventuresome souls among us take husky ex-Mari- ne drill instructor with a sore rear end to show for it. suggestion that his office might be us Study is a "very well to the airways in their whose proficient reassuring manner Whether or not they come back for vice-preside- order to make overburdened and said simply "that constructed program,", the nt first parachute jump. This year being instills enormous confidence. Winds more, it will doubtless remain an remains to be seen." said, and the review no exception, the past weekend saw gusting to 25 knots prevented the unforgotten experience. Jumping is committee continues to conduct a three Kenyon students take the three from jumping on Saturday, but conducted all day Saturday and search McKean sees" no reason why his for new programs which plunge. Alan Robin, Tim Fenerty they were able to complete their .Sunday each week at Centerburg, activities should divide his attention might be endorsed. McKean forsees and Johanna Pyle, after about four ground training. with instruction available both days. to the program any more than Reed's "no phasing out" of previously hours of training, joined the ranks of Sufficient training for safely And for those who can't get enough, duties as assistant to the provost selected programs. the airborne. completing one's first jump is a jump center located near Marion hampered his involvement as comprised of four parts: parachutes, every evening operates except program coordinator. Mrs. Sharon Dwyer, once a The drive to Centerburg Com- their general functioning and Monday. Anyone interested in student abroad on the program, is Vice-Preside- munity Airport Saturday morning maneuvering, exiting the aircraft, further information invited to OCS, developed in 1972 to ac- works with nt McKean was a tense one. Whether the result landing falls and emergency attend a meeting this Friday at 6:30 commodate twenty Kenyon students, to disseminate information about of a dare or culmination of a lifelong procedures. United States Parachute in room 10 Watson or to consult boasts 72 participants this year, a overseas opportunities throughout desire, there is an incomparable Association basic safety regulations posters on display in the dining halls number that fluctuates according to the Kenyon community; she also flavor of excitement about one's first require that one's first five jumps be and various dorms around campus. the size of each individual class. handles the application files. September 16, 197( THE KENYON COM EGIAN Page 2 C NO HO! NOW YOU'RE TOO T FAR. 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