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Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 10-24-2013 Kenyon Collegian - October 24, 2013 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - October 24, 2013" (2013). The Kenyon Collegian. 275. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/275 This Book 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 Collegian The Collegian10.24.2013 | VOLUME CXLI | NO. 8 Welcome, Mr. President This week, Kenyon officially inaugurates Sean Decatur with educational workshops, pomp and circumstance, and — yes — a party. For Inauguration coverage, see Page 7 Probation for Peeps after hearing Board to vote on K- GABE BRISON-TREZISE NEWS EDITOR Card expansion plan The Greek Society Peeps O’ Kenyon will serve a six-month LAUREN TOOLE readers on most of the academic EDITOR-IN-CHIEF probation term for providing al- buildings on South Campus, plus cohol to underage students fol- When Director of Campus Safe- Gund Commons and the Kenyon lowing their Sept. 9 parade ty Bob Hooper announced that the Athletic Center (KAC), before the through first-year dorms, accord- College plans to extend its K-Card Board of Trustees. The project will ing to Sam Ebert ’14, co-pres- access system across campus at a re- also include the addition of biomet- ident of the group. The panel, cent meeting with the other heads of ric readers to the locker rooms at the consisting of three administra- safety at the Five Colleges of Ohio, KAC. If approved, installation of K- tors, that issued the probation they all responded with three words. Card readers could begin as early as sentence also levied a $100 fine “It’s about time.” next semester. against the group for property This weekend, a committee will “Once everything gets ap- damage sustained during the pa- present its proposal to install K-Card proved, we’re ready page 3 rade. “We accepted and agreed that the parade sort of was somewhat HENRI GENDREAU | COLLEGIAN Volleyball snaps 30- of a catalyst for some raucous be- Peeps parade participants march through Mather Residence Hall on Sept. 9. havior on the part of the fresh- men,” Ebert said, asserting that Students Hank Toutain in order and full free-spirited events,” game losing streak first years who joined the parade to “get credit for time served,” said Ebert, who added that the were responsible for the property according to Ebert. Toutain de- Peeps “may or may not” hold Deb BRIAN HESS AND Scott ’14 said. NINA ZIMMERMAN damage itself. He added, though, clined to comment, writing in an Ball, their annual fall drag party, SPORTS EDITORS Head Coach Katie Charles “Given the nature of the hearing, email, “It would be inappropriate in the spring. said even during the losing streak, we thought that it was a fair com- for me to comment on any spe- The Peeps elected to have an On the eve of the 13-month the Ladies never lost sight of the promise, because while there’s no cific Conduct case.” administrative panel hear their anniversary of their last win, the light at the end of the tunnel. “We way to prove us guilty, there’s no “We’re not appealing the case, since the Student Conduct Kenyon volleyball team struck played a challenging schedule and real way to prove us innocent of property fines. We’re just ap- Review Board could not be con- gold again. The Ladies beat Al- the girls have played really well,” those things.” pealing the fact that we’re pretty vened, according to the Peeps’ legheny College 3-0 on Saturday, she said. “A win was gonna come. Regarding the alcohol charge, much stagnant for a month and advisor, Kyle Henderson ’80, as- Oct. 19, snapping a 30-game los- It was just a matter of when.” Ebert said the group was not would like that time back,” Ebert sociate vice president for college ing streak dating back to Septem- In front of a packed house of “being very judicious in how that said, referring to the fact that the relations. The three administra- ber of last year. nearly 400 on Senior Day, the La- was being passed out.” group could not throw parties or tors who heard the Peeps’ case “We made a decision to turn dies fed off of the palpable energy The College mandates a six- hold other events while their case were Assistant Director of Mul- the season around and, despite coming from the crowd, which month minimum for probation was pending. ticultural Affairs Monique Jerni- a tough loss at Wooster, the past contained more family and friends sentences, but the Peeps have ap- “It does damage our organiza- gan, Associate Dean of Students two weeks had been building to- than usual because of Family pealed their probation to Dean of tion not to have alcoholic events and Director of page 2 wards that,” Co-Captain MaryJo Weekend. page 15 2 THE KENYON COLLEGIAN | THURSDAY, OCT. 24 | KENYONCOLLEGIAN.COM President Decatur on the computer technology of his youth In an interview last week, President Sean Decatur lege,” he said. “Those were the days when you had described the collection of hardware he used before to carry your own boot disk with you. The comput- NEWS and during his college years. “I had a TRS 80, the old ers didn’t have hard drives, so you had to carry two Radio Shack machines. I had a Commodore Pet, so disks, one to boot the computer, one to store your SENIOR EDITOR: SAM COLT EDITORS: GABE BRISON-TREZISE & SARAH LEHR that was the precursor to the Commodore 64. ... I data on. ... It was so cool when I had a cassette drive; think actually I didn’t have my own computer at col- you stored your programs on cassette tapes.” NEWS BRIEFS Deb Ball in question Students propose weekend hospital shuttle Continued from Page 1 ’16. The Peep “came up to her and After meeting with Student Council, the dean of Akuma said the rides will probably be free at first, started opening the box,” Edmeier students and the manager of business services in the but that SHAC would “see how costly it is to make this Multicultural Affairs Chris Ken- said. Lee included this anecdote in past month, the Student Health Advisory Committee service available” and possibly “attach a little bit of mon- nerly and Director of the Office of her report, one of several considered (SHAC) is finalizing its plan to offer weekend shuttle ey to it” if necessary. Student Rights and Responsibili- by the panel. rides to the Mount Vernon Urgent Care Center, fill- SHAC will set up a phone number students can use ties Samantha Hughes. Jernigan Both Ebert and Henderson ing a longstanding gap in the Kenyon Health Center’s to request transportation to the Urgent Care Center, and Kennerly did not immediately characterized the hearing process services. and group members plan to take shifts over the course respond to emails requesting com- as fair, though Henderson added, Daniel Akuma ’14, president of SHAC, said the of each Saturday and Sunday. “We’ll probably just do a ment, and Hughes previously wrote “I think the penalty they received group was waiting to meet with the Office of Campus few hours during the weekends, have someone who is in an email that she could not dis- was a little bit severe for the conduct Safety to iron out the details of its plan. on call for the first hour out of four total hours, or some- cuss any specific conduct review which they were found to have com- “We’re scheduling a meeting with them to find a thing like that,” Akuma said. case. mitted.” way that we can collaborate with them,” Akuma said. There are also plans to work with Greek organiza- Henderson, who was president Another condition of the Peeps’ “It could even be a triage system where the students call tions and other student groups to build a larger pool of of the group in 1978, attended the probation is that the group ensures Safety, and then Safety lets us know to go pick them available drivers. judicial hearing. “The three admin- future iterations of the parade are up.” Early in the semester, the group met with Student istrators on the board listened very sober, held outside, and run during The Health Center is not open over the weekend, Council to present its idea. “They had a lot of recom- carefully to the evidence,” he said. the spring rush period, “so that we which means students who need medical assistance mendations for us to improve the weight of our request,” “They had written evidence from don’t have to worry about being mis- must either find a ride into Mount Vernon or call 911 Akuma said. One of the Council’s suggestions was to the report by the CAs [community taken for targeting freshmen,” Ebert to request an ambulance. The latter option can be very survey the student body about the demand for weekend advisors] primarily, and then they said. expensive, costing anywhere between $200 and $500. rides. questioned the co-presidents of the Ebert also decried what he de- Last year, SHAC asked the College to address the is- “The word out there is that [students] want this ser- Peeps, Sam and Ellie [Tomlinson scribed as the student body’s stig- sue by employing students who could be trained to pro- vice,” Akuma said.