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Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 11-16-1978 Kenyon Collegian - November 16, 1978 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - November 16, 1978" (1978). The Kenyon Collegian. 1004. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/1004 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]. Colleg Established 1856 ;CVI, Number 10 Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio 43022 Money: the root of new o I Council's first concerns By SUSAN J ACOBY really be the body of investigation for asked about alternative ways Staff Writer such a matter. To to cover temporarily settle the damage, Kurella replied, Vice-Preside- nt "I'm things, Maureen -- not aware of any other source. We .. The "Renaissance Man and Corcoran moved that council should don't budget damage." Woman" has been the object of not decide until the matter has been this Fall. Most of these juny pranks investigated more thoroughly by an Another important issue brought elicited chuckles from mentions appointed committee. up at Sunday's meeting was the Middle-Pathe- rs and were then easily In a short interview Mr. John Student Activities Fee Referendum. amoved. However, such was not the Kurella, manager of Business Ser- "A non vote is a 'no' vote," Gould 'ase with Ine mysterious Halloween vices, pointed out that there is an reminded council, who, with the "T-p'in- This, along with g" paim job. the actual provision in the Student exception of freshman members, will i - of trees, may cost Student Handbook (p. 63) dealing with this be conducting voting in the a total of $1 13.95, and was type Council of damage. It reads: ". residences they represent. (R. A.'s by or he first topic addressed the new damage to property when the per-patrat- will be conducting freshman voting). 1 - -- i - 5T L i . .. suncil on Sunday. is not known will be charged Voting will be held on Thursday, Council is now faced with the to the Student Activity Fund." Said November 30, from 8:00 p.m. Student Council President Chris Gould and Secretary Morris decision of whether or not to pay this Kurella, "If there is substantial 1:00 a.m., in an all-o- ut effort to raise Thorpe (backs to camera) bang the gavel to open the first given them by Maintenance. As suspicion that students didn't do it the 50 1 votes needed to pass the meeting of the 1978-7- 9 Student Council in Lower Dempsey n;w treasurer, Mark Hallinan for instance, damage done at a fee raising, despite the fact that a eiy Sunday. remarked, Council's funds are ex-irem- football game, it would be a different concert may draw potential voters to Following is a list of the newly-electe- d representatives: Farr: limited this year. But it has matter. But this took place Rosse sometime outside of during the evening. Ed Kist. Caples: Mona Koh, Michael Brownstein, Joe Wilson. ken Council's custom to pay for maintenance hours . Main- Hallinan ." remarked that the passage Watson: Ted France. Mather: Elizebeth Dickinson, Meg images done outside of specfic tenance people to the issue is had work overtime of critical for next year's Handel. Freshmen Women: Nancy Silbergeld, Anna Grimes. residence halls. Many questions were to clean it up. He continued, financial survival of many Bexley: John McGarry. Manning: Mark Brown. Old Kenyon: brought up by new members, such as organizations, "Council, since they're being such as The Collegian David Hooker, Guy Vitetta, Steve Coenen. Freshmen Men: hv it was necessarily assumed that charged with it, maybe and has an Hika, which are already in Matthew Shwartz, Ed Corcoran. New Apts.: Craig Beidlin, Chin students why did the damage, council obligation to investigate; since it's trouble. All students (excluding B. Ho, Eric Stahfeld. Leonard: Greg Rickoff, Fred Grubb, Val must pay the bill, what would happen hurting everyone, they should make seniors) are strongly urged by council Schaff. Hanna: Clay Paterson, E. Graham Robb. Bushnell: if they didn't, and if council should their peers aware." Upon being Continued on page four Betsy Tittle. Identifying 'nameless grumblings' By ROBERT A. RUBIN with claims of inadequate health care on weekends, pointing out that the "We need to know what people are Health Service is open Saturday concerned about in a concrete way," mornings, and that both she and Dr. said Health Associate Ann LeBlanc Sinton are on call 24 hours each day. in response to student concerns about "Sure it's more difficult to get health the Health Service in last week's care on weekends," LeBlanc said. Collegian. "It's just as if you were in the real "We can's check up on nameless world." grumblings," she said Tuesday. LeBlanc also cleared up some "When we identify a problem we've errors in the Collegian's two-pa- rt done the best we could to rectify it." series on the Health Service. "Dr. FN LeBlanc said that the Health Sinton is not a General Prac- Service Committee was not being titioner," she said. "He is a specialist used by students in the way it should in Family Practice." She said the be. "Only two or three people came distinction was important since a to the general meeting last week," "GP" is not required the three-yea- r she said, adding that the committee internship demanded of Sinton. t- - -- offers an opportunity for students She said her own training was not - o who do not wish to directly confront at the John's Hopkins Medical in to' LeBlanc or Dr. Herbert Sinton with School, but at a School of Health 3 complaints the chance to express Services allied with the Baltimore licenced Betsi Orth congratulates Karen Yeaw after her performance in the 100 them in a concrete and effective center. "I am not to meter butterfly in the OAC Championships. Yeaw's time showed the manner. prescribe medication in Ohio," greatest improvement on the team. The Health Associate disagreed Continued on page four The lazy terrorist: bad guy or social victim? particular time at deprived of the ability to experience credibly lazy and as such do not By NANCY SILBERGELD and blow fire and vomit blood from because of the at the wake sensation will feel aggressive." deserve to receive our respect as Staff their mouths. which it has surfaced Writer Paradoxically hippies political fighters. is "Count Dracula, a real live of the very demise of the hippie are the love Their rhetoric people who aggressive heavy, threats and venom chilling, "Fantasies figure and the first mass culture. I spoke to the generation and also a very are being evoked in historial but in fact they do very ""Jay's its (terrorist chic) images ... a generation. little and dif-fere- is seeing a revival today create society which are very nt murdurer," of these people were what they do is paltry. Less than than traditional fantasies; with four recent Dracula plays on large number s, According Selzer the 2,000 people have been killed by acts big peace-nik- thoroughly idealistic to aggression tee new fantasies are 'malevolent, Broadway. now in the 70's they have of hippies is channeled to an ene- of terrorism globally and a "ster and " says Popular terrorist thriller books on in the 60's, depraved, from these idealistic my American bourgeois society, proportion of that number includes ael Selzer, the same point. moved far Professor of Political the market illustrate . to perversity." i ne accusation made is that the deaths of terrorists themselves the wenceat Brooklyn College. "From Sherlock Holmes through orientations observed that without enemy destroys community, history, toll is not devastating." hat is implicit James Bond you have a working of Selzer in all this? "the people with whom I and tradition. "However when you "Anything terrorists do has no errorism has virture doing battle with vice. exception become "chic." In a were already losing examine the hippie's solution one consequence, they don't achieve very clure Nowadays all that has changed was speaking entitled just that, last chic them finds that the accusations are in fact much," says Selzer. Selzer describes Monday, who is the interest . terrorist for ex-plo- guy and November 6, Selzer rl who is the good now descriptions of their own solutions. terrorist goals as Utopian and hence have heroes was just a passing fad and the phenomenon guy? We don't non-politic- al of terrorist bad moving on to anything, it Hippies are forever searching for the and furthermore ob- dements the terrorist is even they're ... being disseminated by anymore, They spoke of the moment when they can say, 'Oh serves that violent outbursts are not media. the victim," Selzer says. doesn't matter. perhaps novelty in one's life wow,' (this hedonism is destuctive to related to goals in any significant Fashion Black Sunday and need to have speaks to the fantasies, Thomas Harris' boring. They the same ends). A lot of what the way. The Trinity because everything gets undercurrents of the time," Lewis Perdue's something that will hippies were protesting were in fact What is the point of exploring the r by Selzer have a need for ad-'"seme- cited says. nts Implosion were stories phenomenon of terrorism then, if it Christian Dior do something for them." things to which they were strongly in which evil triumphs over good.