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Thursday, October 18, 2012 • Volume CXL • No. 7 • www.kenyoncollegian.com • 12 pages Kenyonthe Collegian Serving Gambier, Ohio Since 1856 Vying for the Vote Franklin Miller, Famed Vying Professor, Dies at 100 for the Vote In Ohio, early voting has gained popularity since its legalization in 2005. Should students cast their ballots now or wait until Nov. 6? By LILI MARTINEZ Thirty-four states and the District in several states, saying it can lead to EDITOR-IN-CHIEF of Columbia now allow “no-fault” or election fraud, although a study con- It was a day that would go down in “no-excuse” voting, meaning everyone ducted by the News21 Voting Rights Kenyon history. can vote early, even if they are also able Project — a Carnegie-Knight Initiative On a cold, rainy Wednesday at 3:56 to vote on Election Day. Ohio is among on the Future of Journalism Education a.m., Gambier residents cast the final them. Seven other states allow early vot- — showed that since 2000, fraudulent votes in an election that made Kenyon ing with a valid excuse — for those who ballots only accounted for 0.000003 — briefly — famous nationwide. It was will be away or have unavoidable work percent of total votes cast. Nov. 3, 2004, and some Kenyon stu- commitments or religious obligations Ohio is on the front lines of the dents could claim the dubious honor that prevent them from going to the early voting debate. The Obama cam- of having waited upwards of 11 hours polls on Election Day. paign sued the state in September to to cast their ballots at the last polling In the years since the 2004 election, prevent early voting from being cur- station in the country to close. The early voting has become a prominent tailed on the three days leading up to GREENSLADE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVES Knox County Board of Elections had subject of national debate and scruti- Election Day. Romney argued the suit Franklin Miller Jr. working with a physics student in a laboratory. provided two voting machines to serve ny, especially in swing states like Ohio. was an attempt to restrict military vot- the 1,607 registered voters of Gambier And there is no doubt that the practice ing rights — members of the military By JULIE FRANCE Over the course of his career, Miller Village precinct. Each machine was able is on the rise. In 2008, 29.7 percent of were to be allowed to vote on the Satur- AND DAVID HOYT helped welcome new members of the to accommodate 45 voters an hour — votes counted in Ohio were cast early. day, Sunday and Monday before Elec- COLLEGIAN STAFF growing department. In 1964, Miller meaning it would take around 18 hours This year, President Barack Obama’s tion Day, but not the general public — Franklin Miller Jr., a professor invited Greenslade and his wife to his for everyone to vote. re-election campaign is encouraging while Obama portrayed the lawsuit as a emeritus of physics and a fixture in the home in Gambier, now the Crozier Thanks to 2005’s Substitute House early voting as a way to prevent long push for equal voting access. A federal Kenyon and Knox County communi- Center for Women, after a cocktail Bill 243, which legalized early voting, Election Day lines and machine glitch- appeals court sided with the Obama ties for over six decades, died on Thurs- party in honor of Greenslade’s job in- it’s unlikely history will repeat itself es like those Gambier experienced in campaign on Oct. 5, 2012 and the day, Oct. 4 at the Autumn Health Care terview at Kenyon. “At eight o’clock, when Gambier voters go to the polls 2004. Governor Mitt Romney’s cam- United States Supreme Court affirmed Center in Mount Vernon in the compa- we all went into the back room, Frank- this year. paign has fought against early voting see OHIO, page 3 ny of his family. He was 100 years old. lin turned on the television set and we Miller, who earned his bachelor’s watched The Ed Sullivan Show because degree in mathematics from Swarth- they had four young men from Liver- Kenyon Signs Non-Drilling Lease more College in 1933 and his Ph.D. in pool,” Greenslade said. “They banged physics from the University of Chicago on drums and played on guitars and A local landowner began drilling for oil established,” Kohlman said. “The po- in 1939, was instrumental in the de- told me how they wanted to hold my sition that the Board [of Trustees] velopment of Kenyon’s physics depart- hand … and we said, ‘Yep, Beatles, we’ve near campus with the College’s approval. has taken is that the College will be ment. When the College hired him in never heard of The Beatles,’ and then By ROSALYN AQUILA lation. When drilling occurs in a well, a good neighbor. While we have not 1948, he was one of only two profes- went back and started to drink sherry NEWS EDITOR according to Kohlman, the company yet decided that we will allow drilling sors of physics at Kenyon. He remained again. That was my introduction to Ke- A mobile drilling rig operated by needs access to 40 acres for a complete on College property, we don’t want to with the department until he retired in nyon, really.” Kilbarger Drilling — a land-based, unit. In this case, the full 40 acres in- be in a position where [the College is] 1981. Although Miller belonged to contract oil and natural gas drilling cluded some of Kenyon’s property. Ac- the reason another property owner is “Franklin formed the backbone of the department of physics and made company with clients in Ohio, Ken- cording to data from the Knox Coun- being denied the resource, the money [the physics] department,” said Miller’s great contributions to that field, in- tucky, New York, West Virginia and ty auditor, the College transferred a that comes with it, the free gas they get longtime friend and colleague Professor cluding authoring six editions of a Pennsylvania — began operating last 1.162 acre parcel of land near the drill- and all that stuff.” Emeritus of Physics Thomas Greenslade popular textbook, College Physics, week in a field south of campus. ing site to Mary Jane Laymon on Aug. The College has only signed a Jr. “He did a lot when he first came here. he was a man of many other inter- Located on non-Kenyon property 2, 2012. This transfer completed the non-drilling lease on one other occa- He had a heavy teaching load … because ests. “He just never could do one across State Route 229, the rig is drill- full 40 acres the company needed. sion, on land north of Gambier. The it was just him and Elbe Johnson who thing at a time,” longtime friend ing a 4,000-foot-deep vertical well in On the same day, Laymon trans- College also denied a past request, taught a full physics major.” Professor Emeritus of Classics Bill order to explore the area for natural ferred a nearby 2.658 acre parcel of according to Kohlman. “We denied Miller was born on Sept. 8, 1912, McCulloh said. “I remember see- gas deposits, according to Chief Busi- land along the north bank of the Ko- one request because they didn’t really along with his twin brother Henry, in ing him in the evening … he’d be ness Officer Mark Kohlman. kosing River to Kenyon. need our acres to make the unit,” he St. Louis, Mo. There, his father, Frank- watching TV, and grading proofs Though a local family owns the “None of the drilling happens said. “It just would’ve made it easier lin Miller Sr., a judge and a lawyer, and … and listening to music on head- land where the drilling rig is working, on the non-drilling lease property … for them.” his mother, Maude Barnes, a writer, phones at the same time.” the College did have a role in its instal- those are the conditions that we’ve see RIG, page 2 raised him. see MILLER, page 3 INSIDE THIS CGE Hosts Global Balm in Gilead Boasts Young Beekeepers Lords Football Suffers P.3 Engagment Week P.7 Large Ensemble Cast P.9 Serve Up Some Honey P.11 First Conference Loss ISSUE OCTOBER 18, 2012 LIFE ON THE HILL AS IT HAPPENS: WWW.THEKENYONTHRILL.COM 2 THE KENYON COLLEGIAN NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2012 CSAD Announces New Writing Study Advances By MADELEINE THOMPSON Summer Scholarship NEWS ASSISTANT “ On day one, from Quest We’re trying to find out what writing By MADELEINE THOMPSON provided the money to establish something.” for Justice to an introductory is in these really large, expanded defi- NEWS ASSISTANT CSAD in 2008. “It’s an oppor- Similar to the process of par- biology course, Kenyon Col- The Center for the Study of tunity for students to take part ticipating in the science or legal lege is a writing school.