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Gambier-boun- d b-b- jsjew Ladies soccer coach Gladder Visits series spotlights Profs take center stage Lords and Ladies all sets her goals, page 2 than abroad, page 6 rural life, page 8 in Othello, page 10 chalk up wins, page 16 IK - E - N -Y- O - N C O -- E - G -- I - A -- N Volume CXXVII, Number 15 ILESTABLISHED 1856 Thursday, February 10, 2000 College renumbers courses Trustees head for Gambier Faculty lauds new system; Council group Meeting to herald 'unparalled' changes, says President Oden fears numerable problems for students BY JESSICA ANDRUSS President Robert Oden, Jr. said he paign and updated plans of the to will BY GRANT SCHULERT handle course enrollment. News Assistant believes this year's gathering Building and Grounds Committee. Editor in Chief The college has now pur- promote "substantive discussion Less than two-thir- ds of the way chased that software, and plans to The Kenyon College Board of on the College's future" resulting through the most ambitious cam- Come next year, English 1-- 2, incorporate the new numbering Trustees will meet Saturday to or- in the announcement of exciting paign in Kenyon's history, the col- 9-- Biology 10 and other familiar system into the 2000-0- 1 course ganize the budget of the upcom- changes "unparalleled in the lege has garnered $76 million, with courses at Kenyon will be gone. listing. ing scholastic year. Although the College's history." $30 million coming directly from The classes themselves aren't Not everyone is calling the appropriation of funds is a standard Central to the agenda are the gifts of the trustees. going anywhere, but their tradit- shift a completely positive one. goal of the February meeting, evaluation of the Capital Cam see TRUSTEES, page two ional one- - and two-dig- it numeric Some concerns about these suffixes are being replaced by a changes have been brought for- The Calm Before the Phling new three-dig- it system ward by the Academic Affairs morphing, for instance, Art 12 into Committee of Student Council. 112, and Anthropology 10 into According to Brent Shank, vice 110. president for academic affairs, one According to Registrar Richa- major concern is how the number- rd Switzer, this change has been ing system will affect course se- advocated by members of the fac- lection by students. ulty and the Curricular Policy Shank's concern sprouts from Committee for a number of years, the fact that the renumbering in- ' tf-''-r- I J't but he wanted to wait until Kenyon corporates a clear distinction be-se- e -- ''If f ' ""k. aquired a new software program SYSTEM, page four x In the wake of tragedy, Kenyon rethinks transportation policies modes of transportation. BY LUKE WITMAN administration has already Staff Reporter The stepped up to promote the safety of Fay Venetsanos The Kenyon College administ- student athletes in the meantime, in- Decked out, gussied up and ready to face the music, Lauren Hansen '02, left, and Addie Gaumer '02 preparty in ration is currently reevaluating its stituting a temporary new policy re- Manning Residence Hall before Saturday night's Philanders Phling festivities. Phling is the semiformal celebration off-camp- blues. transportation policies, practices garding transportation to us held each February in Kenyon Colleges Peirce Hall as a relief for students suffering from the wintertime and procedures so as to ensure the sporting events. For the duration of safety of student athletes and the season, members of the campus' coaches as well as all other Kenyon basketball, swimming, diving and Dilapidated KCTV seeks to rekindle smothered students and employees traveling in track-and-fie- ld teams will be trans- off-camp- groups to us events. ported to sporting events in chartered flames with new outlook, digital technology The analysis follows the Jan. buses with professional drivers. 13 student-drive- n required and senior Nick organization's own funds, KCTV accident in which a Van drivers are now BY BEN THORP Weizmann in new two-pag- e form Ferraro decided to start from purchased nearly $6,000 van containing 11 Kenyon to sign a release Staff Reporter equipment, which swim team members returning stating they will follow specific scratch and reorganize KCTV. digital editing will enable them to produce from a meet in North Carolina instructions. At the beginning of last semes- The organization has been in they say 1980s but has shows every three weeks. crashed, resulting in the injury of Another recent decision by ter, the six remaining members of existence since the on "It's planned to be a mix of the several students and the death of Kenyon faculty will put cell the Kenyon College Television Sta- never produced programming Tom Green Show, The Daily Show swimmer Molly Hatcher '00. phones in all vans available for use tion staff found their vital editing any regular basis. After increasing their staff to and a regular news station," said co-anch- or An official college statement rel- in the event of an emergency. equipment in a Manning Residence was to ob- Franklin. With a versatile eased Jan. 20 states that a committ- Final changes in policy will Hall storage closet, engulfed in stu- 20, the group's next step satisfied their mix of seriousness and comedy, the ee is already being formed to overh- not be made public until the senior dents' junk and peculiar pieces of tain machinery that to break free from the aul Kenyon 's current transportation faculty approves the committee's broken wood. needs. With the help of the Kenyon show hopes see KCTV, page two policies. Included in this committee decisions, said Shawn Presley, Needless to say, the limited Filmmakers Club and the will be members of the school's news director for the College Re- staff's editing equipment was no physical staff, According to It;; Wi tyt fosaft education and athletics lations Center. longer operational. M im i security and safety personnel, mem-tar- s Presley, recent media coverage of But instead of making a rash Friday: Mostly cloudy. Hi Sunday: Partly cloudy. Hi of the student affairs staff and the accident that took Hatcher's attempt to rectify the situation other campus employees. The pur- life has compelled the committee quickly and perhaps shoddily, the 37F,lol8E 37F,lo20F pose of this review board will be to to refrain from divulging informa- members sophomores Sam Saturday: Snow. Hi 37F, lo Monday: Scattered snow in F, F survey all policies and institutions tion about the review process Franklin, George Kambanis, Roger 1 8 F showers . Hi 42 lo 2 5 regarding vans and other on-camp- us order to minimize media pressure. Schwartz, Dean Simakis, Brooke 2 The Kenyon Collegian NEWS Thursday, February 10, 200(1 Ibui Young new Ladies soccer coach sets her goals I I IIIMI 111)111111 LIJ I IN imUJJIUW, UJ....U..W'IW'Hm.j'.' i; '." ' , - and becoming the Scanlon said she lead- BY JOHN PICK and 32 assists hopes Staff Reporter top-scori- ng player in Minnesota ing the Ladies will enable her to collegiate soccer. construct a team similar to For the more pessimistic As an assistant coach at the Macalester's 1992 Minnesota In- I Kenyonites, it's hard to think that University of New Hampshire for tercollegiate Athletic Conference : coming to Gambier is what they the past two years, Scanlon expe- Champions. Scanlon was a sopho- have always wanted. Jen Scanlon rienced the intensity of a Division more forward on that squad, which is not one of those cynics. For her, I program. "She really understands went to the NCAA playoffs, and Gambier's tight-kn- it community the drive to complete," said said she feels that the Kenyon amid central Ohio's rolling hillsides Amanda Ozment '02. women's soccer program has the was just the place in which to kick-sta- rt The Fullerton, Cal. native has same promise. La- a soccer-coachin- g career. been playing soccer since the age According to Scanlon, the Kenyon College hired the 26-ye- ar of five. After graduating from dies have felt they have been un- old Scanlon last month to take Macalester in 1995, she stayed on derachieving in previous years. charge of the Ladies, its women's as an assistant for coach and men- "The girls want to be challenged," A ''"' soccer team. tor John Leaney. In addition to her she said. "They really want to start '. Scanlon is accustomed to work at University of New Hamp- raising standards." the liberal-art- s environment: She shire, she has also been involved Ozment agreed. "We have a """ ,tv spent her college days at with the Olympic Development lot of talent that Coach Scanlon Macalester College in St. Paul, Program. seems to know how to funnel to- Minn. According to Scanlon, Scanlon said she will con- gether." Macalester and Kenyon share the tinue to consult her predecessor, "She's really going to be a mentality that athletics do not Scott Thielke, who will continue great asset to the program," said completely define one's college to coach the Ladies tennis team.