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Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 9-4-2014 Kenyon Collegian - September 4, 2014 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - September 4, 2014" (2014). The Kenyon Collegian. 63. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/63 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]. “Feast” your eyes on the latest community collaboration: food trucks and film Pg. 9 Serving Kenyon College and Gambier, Ohio Since 1856 9.4.2014 VOLUME CXLII NO. 2 The Collegian 12 pages New ofce institutionalizes eforts to increase diversity, equity across the board MADELEINE THOMPSON EDITOR-IN-CHIEF We live in a world that, in a few years, is ITLE According to the going to shift signifcantly. ... Right now it’s last U.S. Census, which shifting culturally and linguistically. How do was completed in 2010, “we prepare our students to handle the world? T by the end of the cur- Ivonne García, Associate Professor of English rent decade no one race will make up a majority that represents vari- be available to work with With 76 colleges under investigation as of August of American children ous demographics and them on increasing di- under 18. It also pro- perspectives. Associate versity in their curricula. regarding Title IX policies, Kenyon has amped up its jected that by the year anti-discrimination protocol. The College’s intent is Professor of English “I want to be a resource 2043, the U.S. will be a Ivonne García, who will for the faculty,” García for students, faculty and administrators to fully un- majority-minority na- lead the ODEI as associ- said. “I’m not somebody derstand the policy and their rights. tion, in which no single ate provost for diversity, who’s going to go, ‘Well racial group constitutes equity and inclusion, how much diversity do IXMAYA KAUFMAN | NEWS ASSISTANT the majority. Last week, called diversity not just you have?’” Kenyon President Sean important but “crucial.” Instead, the goal will Ask any student who arrived on holds schools individually responsible Decatur introduced a “We live in a world be to raise awareness campus early for Community Advisor for addressing and preventing cases of new initiative that will that, in a few years, about various diversity (CA), Upperclass Counselor or athlet- sexual assault. Schools that ft into this be tasked with keep- is going to shift sig- efforts that already ex- ic training, and they’ll likely say they category — like many higher educa- ing the College on a par nificantly,” García said. ist on campus and give spent more time than previous years tion institutions — are also required with and ahead of those “Right now it’s shifting them the support they learning about Title IX. Tere has been to have Title IX coordinators to man- statistics. culturally and linguisti- need, as well as filling a push to understand both national age complaints of sexual misconduct, The Office of Diversi- cally. How do we prepare in gaps between reach- and Kenyon policies regarding the sex- which can include sexual harassment, ty, Equity and Inclusion our students to handle ing out to high school ual misconduct aspects of the law, with violence and assault. (ODEI) will institution- that world? To be leaders students interested in faculty and administrators receiving With 76 colleges as of August under alize Kenyon’s efforts in that world? ... We can- Kenyon and keeping in training over the federal investiga- to reach students of all not ignore the future.” touch after they gradu- summer as well. “I think one of the misconcep- tion for allegedly geographical locations García said the ODEI ate. Snowden House, Neither nation- mishandling cases and backgrounds, and tions is that gender equity only would not be policing Unity House, the al nor College poli- of sexual assault, to provide an education departments but would Diversity page 2 cies have changed, benefts one gender. [Title IX] is the White House but as more high- “meant to make sure that everyone on has introduced OHIOLINA FESTIVAL CHARMS CROWD — TURN TO PAGE 8 profle campus a college campus, regardless of their many initiatives sexual assault cases gender, has equal opportunity. to clarify colleges’ receive national at- responsibilities re- Jill Engel-Hellman, tention, the pres- Director of Housing garding Title IX sure on higher edu- and Residential Life and sexual miscon- cation institutions duct. Tese eforts to enforce existing policies is mount- include a task force, President Barack ing. Obama’s March reauthorization of the Mariam El-Shamaa, Kenyon’s Title Violence Against Women Act and a Q- IX coordinator since 2009 and director and-A published in April by the U.S. of equal opportunity, said, “Recently Department of Education’s Ofce for there’s been so much attention on this Civil Rights (OCR), all of which served topic that it’s become … very clear to clarify exactly what a college’s Title to people that this is something that IX responsibilities are. needs to be taken seriously.” “Tere was a lack of clarity about what the OCR, what the Department What is Title IX? of Education, was requiring of us,” El- Title IX is a 1972 law that primar- Shamaa said. ily serves to prevent gender discrimi- Head Women’s Basketball Coach nation in educational programs that Suzanne Helfant, who also serves as receive federal funding, such as col- a senior women’s administrator and lege athletic teams, but the statute also a Title IX coordinator for page 4 CORA MARKOWITZ | COLLEGIAN Bloomberg Terminal A look inside the home Professor McLane speaks Men’s soccer earns INSIDE THIS P.3 focus of panel P.7 of two professors P.8 today at 4 p.m. P.12 fourth-place ranking ISSUE LIFE ON THE HILL AS IT HAPPENS: WWW.THEKENYONTHRILL.COM THE KENYON COLLEGIAN | THURSDAY, SEPT. 4 | KENYONCOLLEGIAN.COM 2 Work order fling improved PHOEBE ROE Class of STAFF WRITER Walk into a frst-year dorm and you will see a fairly stan- dard assortment of wooden doors to mostly double rooms. What do Kenyon’s mainte- nance workers see? Work or- ders. 2018 “Our old work order sys- New to the Hill this academic year are 450 frst-year students with tem was 12-15 years old, just impressive statistics and interesting backgrounds. outdated technology,” Facility Logistics Manager Clint Baker HANNAH STEIGMEYER | NEWS EDITOR said. “We couldn’t extract the data from it that we wanted.” Tus, nearly two years SOURCE:KENYON.EDU STUDENTS OF ago, Kenyon administrators An easier way to fle work orders can be found online. COLOR began to work with the sof- FROM 39 ware company WebTMA as the correct room numbers most recently that the pro- STATES 20% part of Kenyon’s Middle Path and locations of the more than gram was missing some bath- Partnership project, and pur- 4,200 rooms around campus. rooms in the Kenyon Athletic chased a web-based program “If it has a roof and elec- Center but, as Baker said, “any AVERAGE HIGH SCHOOL to begin implementation of a tricity in it, then it has mainte- implementation this size is go- GPA OF new work order system. nance needs,” Baker said. ing to have its bumps in the 120 On Aug. 1, 2013, Baker Since the new work order road.” RECRUITED ATHLEATES came to Kenyon to begin system has been accessible Student responses to the 3.9 to prepare the system for to students, over 1,300 work new system will trickle in as its release in the summer of orders have been requested, the year progresses, culminat- 2014. To do so, he spent hours equaling nearly 200 per week. ing in the work order system’s “Notable” walking through Kenyon’s Since the system’s release frst great challenge: winter in NUMBER OF REDHEADS IS 157 buildings and cataloging there have been a few glitches, Ohio. Receiving internal and/or Village ReCoRd external aid April 24 – April 30 Representing Aug. 28, 5:00 a.m. — Unidentifed male entered students’ room Leonard Residence Hall, urinated 65% in their trashcan, then lef with the trashcan without further incident. Aug. 28, 7:49 p.m. — Student reported clothes stolen from laundry dryer in Gund Residence Hall. Aug. 29, 8:47 p.m. — Student dislocated knee in First-Year Quad. Transported to Knox Commu- 20 nity Hospital (KCH). Countries Aug. 29, 10:35 p.m. — Students, underage or providing alcohol to minor(s), found to have alcohol at unregistered gathering in Old Kenyon Residence Hall. 48 HAVE Aug. 29, 10:50 p.m. — Students, underage or providing alcohol to minor(s), found to have alcohol RELATIVES WHO WENT at unregistered gathering in Old Kenyon. TO KENYON Aug. 30, 5:52 a.m. — Blue stair covers removed from staircase in Old Kenyon. 63% Aug. 30, 11:56 a.m. — Individual asked students for wire hanger in order to enter a locked vehicle Have taken calculus in Horwitz lot. Upon Safety Ofcer investigation, individual was an ex of a Kenyon-afliated service provider. Individual did not have approval to enter vehicle. Knox County Sherif’s Ofce (KCSO) contacted. Trespass letter given. No charges were pressed. Village CounCil Aug. 30, 12:41 p.m. — Student reported that a fallen tree branch took down wire from pole by Crozier Center for Women.