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Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 1-31-1991 Kenyon Collegian - January 31, 1991 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - January 31, 1991" (1991). The Kenyon Collegian. 581. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/581 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]. / / College Bowl Margaret Atwood Williamson Speaks Sponsors Second to Read from on Journeys Annual Tournament her Poetry in Iraq 1/ m t if(tuynu QInlltgtau Established /856 Kenyon Group Marches on Washington D.C. for Peace House. Crowds IBthered at the ellipse to would probably say closer to 200,000 or listen to speakers including the Rev. Jesse 250,000 than to 300,000," she said. Jackson and National Organization for Because of this discrepancy and a general Women President Mollie Yard. dissatisfaction with their coverage, Speak. The organizers at Kenyon were both happy Out has written a letter to the national news and disappointed with Kenyon's turnout. media expressing their concern over the "We were surprised (that 50 many came) "disinfonnation war." because Kenyon tends to be reluctant to "The coverage was biased," Miller said. spend money on 'things that don't include "They portrayed it as a throwback to the pro- drugs or alcohol," said Becki Miller. Speak- tests of Vietnam, and the anti-American sen- Out march organizer at Kenyon. "Yet com- timent. There were an extraordinary number pared to the crowds at the Teach-Ins, the of American nags and other symbols of group was not really that large." patriotism there. We think we have just as much right as Americans to express our opt- The march was attended, according to its nions as do the pro-war protesters." orsanizers, by about 300,000. The official Flora Waite, another Speak-Out police count-of the crowd was 75,000. Miner organizer, was pleased and relieved by her ex- said she was disheartened by this discrepan- periences at the march. "It made me realize, photo by Erir Grodsky cy. personally, how many people there are that rne Kenyoll <"Ol1/ingem gUThers on Ihe sleps of Ihe Natural His/Q(v Museum as rhe,.vprt>pore 10 "We were upset by the national news really support and agree with me. Because of march for peace. coverage. Obviously, by looking around, the biased news coverage, it was good to see By Kelley Ragl.ad vans from the college to drive for the noon there were more than 75,000, although I the other side for once." event. Other students drove the distance Last Saturday, 70 to 80 Kenyon students, themselves to lake part in the demonstration. alums and faculty traveled to Washinaton The march was preceded by a short rally Review Sponsors Literary Weekend D.C. to participate in a march protesting the on the mall. complete with speakers and By Katie Bishop U.S. war in the Persian Gulf. music. Actual marching began at 1 p.m., and Earlier in the day, they will discuss the cur- Speak-Out, a new group designed to pro- ended in late afternoon at the ellipse, taking Friday, February I will mark the beginning renl national debate about an and obsc:cnity test the war. organized students and rented the marchers on a route past The White of a much anticipated literary weekend at with lewis Hyde, taee Professor of Art and Kenyon. The diverse authors highlighling the Politics in Peirce Lounae. Budget Cuts Revamp Housing Office weekend include Canadian novelists Mar- On Saturday at 1:30 in Hill Theat.er, poets garet Atwood. and Graeme Gibson, four Cheryl Clarke, Karen MitcheU, Marilyn Students-Residential Life has been ter- African American women poets, and noted Nelson Waniek and Carolyn Beard Whitlow minated because of the budget crunch that is American poet. Gerald Stern. According to will engage in a reading and panel discussion affecting Kenyon as a whole. It is a result of David H. Lynn, assistant professor of after reading from their works. Clarke is the efforts to streamline the administration. In- English and associate editor of the Kenyon author of three books of podry, indudina: stead of this position, the administration Review, this group includes "some of the the recent Humid Pitdl. Fellow pod Joy plans to create a place for two area coor- most exciting writers creating work loday." Harjo has wnnen that Clarke's poetry '"I\u dinators to fulfill the duties previously They are all from different backgrounds, and always touched that place in me that covered by Keister. at varying stages of their literary careers. responds to millie and music." _ The first area coordinator, under the con- Margaret Atwood is the aulbor of len Clarke is also the IonS lime editor of C0n- trol of the Assistant Dean for Student Housing novels and probably best known for The ditions, a literary m.,azinc with an emphasis Services Stewan FitzGibbon III, will be HQndmQid's TQle, which was made into a on writing by African-American women and responsible for dealina with summer con- movie. It is set in the United Slates during the lesbians. Mitchell, who lives in CDcInnati. ferences, house managers and hall govern- future and tells the story of a young woman won the 1989 £ishth Mountain Poetry Prize ments. The second coordinator, under Dean held captive for breeding within a religious for her first volume of poetry. 1Jw &tilll for Academic Advising Richard Switzer, will fundamentalist society. In addition to her Hill. She has been praised by novetist Toni oversee Residential Advisors and Freshman other novels Surj(l("ing, Life Before MQn, Cade Bambara for her -resonant voice" and Council. and CQt's Eye, she has written 20 volumes of "sure eye." A professor ofEnslish at the Uni- poetry. versity of Connecticut. Waniek -mar well Both positions will be live-in positions. Graeme Gibson's novels include Five Legs, have the most: wicked timing in poetry today"" The first coordinator will probably be housed Communion, and PerpetuQ/ Motion, a dark ......... to __ ... Phenoo.W_ in Manning, while the second will live in comedy about a man's struale with his vision is the author of The HOlM PIIKY ud IWO photo by Rob BfWrm Gund. This system is common at other col- for technclogy in nineteenth century On- other collections of poems. By Cindy Wittman leges, and, according to Keister, "I think tario. He was the recipient of the 1990 Carolyn Whidow,lD assIstInt pro ••• "I'''·''''1 students will be very well-served with this new Toronto Arts Award for Writing and Enll;,h at Bristol CommW1lly eiIIlIlt \0 Robert E. Keister, Assistant Dean of model." Publishing and is a founding member of the Rhode Island. is lhe lIWIfd·wil t¥1itiitI Students tor Residential Life, will be leaving Keister has no immediate plans for the Writers' Union of Canada. He has had work writerThe of.""WiId__ Meat ... after three years in Kenyoo's administration. future. Instead, he intends to follow his wife publi$hed in Asia, Europe and Latin America Due to the elimination of his position, in her job search after she completes her doc- in addition to the U.S. and Canada. Both Al- Keiner will depart at the end of the semester. toral program this summer. Keister will re- wood. and Gibson will read from lheir works _ wiIIlJe:~::~ Kcnyun - The position of Assistant Dean of main in Gambier until the end of June. on Friday at 8:00 p.m. in Hill 'lbeater. SHWRITBllI,..,. ,.~.iO.}" ....,...~.,*~.-...~.. PAGE TWO OPINION Jan. 31, 1991 Addressing the Rape Campaign THE READERS WRITE "I am twenty-one years old. 1 can't drive my car late at night alone in the city. There The Kenyon Collegian encourages leiters 10 the Editor. All are parts of the city Ican't walk through, even at three p.m. Ican't pull up to that fann- submissions must be signed and typed. double-spaced and are house and ask direcnons, even though I'm lost. I can't drink too much. I can't invite due Tuesdays at noon in the Gund Commons mailbox. The Edi- you in. No, you can't pick me up for a first dale ... 1 have to meet you in a well-known, tors reserve the right 10 edit all material while maintaining the well-Itt restaurant. Iam a woman of the nineties. Iam cautious and in control, but Iam original intern of the submission. Leuers ond columns do not nOI free." necessarily reflect the views of the staff. This editorial is not going to talk about how many women are raped per hour in this country or how many rapes go unreported, or how many co-eds are raped by that seem- ingly friendly guy down the hall. Rape happens, and the fact that il happens is one of the mosr frustrating limitations in a woman's life. "Blind Patriotism" Charge Denied The rape signs around campus have been posted with JOOd intentions. However, To the Editors: government's actions are jusnfled does not there is somethint very divisive about the entire campaign, It tends to imply that every mean that Iagree with everything my govern- date or physical encounter between a man and a woman is potential rape, 1 sincerely;regret that my statements in the rnem does.