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Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 10-14-1971 Kenyon Collegian - October 14, 1971 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - October 14, 1971" (1971). The Kenyon Collegian. 2349. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/2349 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]. 00ci DSltrQ Volum e XCIX M Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, Oclober 14, 1971 No. 3 Mark Strand to Read poeH; Vosofcs His Appointment by Gay Garth death by nighfall." To the Students of Kenyon College -- and the Coordinate College: This Sunday, October 3 7, Mark With images that often lie within You are aware through the news media that President Nixon Strand will be in Gambier to read the area of the fantastic, Mark is asking me to serve as a public member of the Pay Board es- some of his poems, at 8:30 in the Strand is charting a novel territory tablished as a part of Phase II of his program aimed at the con- Peirce Hall Lounge. He is a young on "Black Maps", the name that trol of inflation in the United States. poet whom critic Donald Justice he gives to the third section of The Pay Board is to be composed of fifteen individuals: five has characterized as "one of the his volume "Darker' . In it's representatives of labor; five representatives of management, best, maybe the very best of the vastness this territory extends be- and five members representing the public. new poets.' yond any mere subjective reality, The Pay Board's function is to develop general standards and to his The epigram third book, beyond any dark area known as the review specific requests for adjustment of wages and salaries. entitled "Darker' reads thus: unconscious, it extends to what he It will cover all elements of compensation including wages, salaries, calls "the darker." and fringe benefits and promulgate regulations in regard thereto. I have a key "Darker is Mark Strand's third You may ask how this invitation came about. How will acceptance walk in. so I open the door and volume of poetry. His previous of it affect my duties as President of Kenyon College? For how long? and I It is dark walk in. books include "Sleeping With One MARK STHAND, author of three How much will it require me to be away from primary duties here and I in. It is darker walk Eye Open", published in 1964, and books, will give a reading of his in Gambier? Why would I accept the assignment? "Reason for Moving' , published in poems Sunday night in Peirce I don't know how the invitation came about or who recommended This is the door through which he 1968. His poems have also appeared Hall Lounge at 8:30. Photo by me. I hope time will prove there was sufficient reason for it, but my was a long in dealing with the leads the reader to view with him, in many periodicals, including THE Edward J. Kubancek, Pittsburgh, guess is that is from experience type of matters which will come before the Pay Board. the levels of the light and darkn- ATLANTIC, THE NEW YORKER, bright Scholarship, on which he PARTISAN Last Wednesday evening, (October 6, 1971), I had a telephone ess of the inner and outer self, REVIEW, AND THE NEW traveled to Italy. In 1965 he was YORK call from Mr. James Hodgson, the Secretary of Labor, who advised and the light and darkness of our REVIEW OF BOOKS. a Fulbright Lecturer the Univer- at me he was calling on behalf on President Nixon. He advised me that life and death, and the light in our He was born in Summerside, sity of Brazil at Rio de Janeiro. I was being invited to be a participant in "Phrase II of the Pre- death and the darkness in our lives. Prince Edward Island, in 1934, and He has taught at Yale University sident's Program." He described the Pay Board to be established Ashe says in his poem "The Room" attended Antioch College and Yale and he is now teaching at Columbia as part of Phase n which it was desired I join. I told Secretary we are shown: "death by daybreak, University. He received a Ful- - University and Brooklyn College ' Hodgson I could not answer his request until I had checked with the Kenyon College Board of Trustees, my colleagues, my wife, and With a little help from their friend my doctor. I was asked to give an answer by noon Thursday as the President proposed to go on television Thursday night to explain Phase n. Eco Clean Up I called Bishop Craine, the Chairman of the Board of Kenyon, and Activists was to I Thomas, Vice Chair- Act unable reach him. called Mr. Richard by Margaret Allen and Jude Ross cal problems, and to activate the only for EMPTY cans (aluminum, man, who agreed to contact Bishop Craine and Mr. John Smale, Vice As some members of the Kenyon student body to take care of the tin, etc.) and bottles. Sounds very Chairman. I told Mr. Thomas that in duscussing the requirements of Community may have realized over Gambier area. The first task they simple, doesn't it? But, alas, this the job with Secretary Hodgson in regard to time demands and the the summer, Americas "fruited have undertaken is to get students too has its complications. Each can physical place of being of the Pay Board, acceptance of the invitation plains'' slowly into are turning trash to throw their bottles and cans into will have two liners: one for cans, would mean working in Washington almost continuously on a seven-da- y piles. A large percentage of the the receptacles on campus provided one for bottles. The committee asks week, from about the 13th or 14th of October until Thanksgiving. trash piling up consists of bottles specifically for recycling. For the that when depositing glass, place it This would mean my colleagues at Gambier would have to be willing and cans, which can be reused if Women's College plastic garbage in the receptacle carefully-avo- id to assume extra burdens if I was to have this time away. they Co-ordin- are recycled. cans (furnished by .the ate breaking it, because the glass must Mr. Thomas called me about 10:00 p.m. saying he, Bishop Craine, The members of the Environmental Council) will be appearing shortly eventually be separated into colors and Mr. Smale had concluded: Committee and their advisor Dr. near all rubbish chutes. They will by hand. On the Hill cardboard 1. I had their permission to accept the appointment if I wished Anderson are trying to create an look like normal plastic garbage boxes have been placed in each to undertake it and had the agreement of my colleagues. awareness of this and other ecologi cans, but they aren't! They are lounge and next to each trash can 2. They assumed I had no doubt about my health and I believed in the hallways. Use these recep- this would not adversely affect it. tacles for recycling purposes only. 3. Generally, they believed it was a good thing for citizens to When enough cans have been col- - assume public assingment and that if I decided to take it anies I had their blessing as well as permission. "For roughly the past hundred My wife agreed to my acceptance with her usual selfless under- years man has been moving, standing of my problems and my nature. by Power Haywood College SPC rapidly, to head of the Linda Urban ject then if it believes Council acted slowly at first, and now Mr. has agreed act as the for the One ii' r'ie more bedeviling prob- without an adequate understanding of toward an ecological crisis. The six or seven weeks I will be practically full time in Washington. lems facing campus government the project, SPC can ask Council end of a livable environment. I plan to return to Gambier as often as possible in this period, this year is that of determining and to reconsider its action at one ad- Now, having realized and cursed during which time I shall keep two commitments away from Gambier in Kenyon's the meeting Gambier defining the powers and functions of ditional meeting which would include the pollution problems left by behalf, as well as Board at the October 23, a commitment in Gambier October 29 and 30, and Special Projects Committee. both a representative of the pro- generations of environmental From Founder's Day November 2nd. its inception in 1965, as one ject as well as a member of the rape, we have launched into new of the standing of the The request must then be I should be back to normal at Thanksgiving. committees SPC. and bigger things. Environmental Student Council, it was an autono- accepted, rejected or sent back I am willing to accept the assignment because I believe a citizen, crises, for this, the next, and all mous body consisting of three fa- (if is a monetary question) for regardless of party, when asked to assist in a Presidential program, it succeeding generations." culty members, five students, and one final revision. If Council dis- should do so if he believes his efforts can aid in the solution of a Folstad fa Dean.