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Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 4-12-2001 Kenyon Collegian - April 12, 2001 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - April 12, 2001" (2001). The Kenyon Collegian. 388. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/388 This Book 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]. Nl \\, 0\'1'\11 )'\\ FI,\IIIZl' ., A & E S\,()RI\ Honors Day Awards, Simpson gets dunked, Capoeria weekend Owl Creeks give spring Baseball tearn on 4 pg.4 pg.6 festival, pg. 8 concert, pg.12 game win streak, pg. 15 • -H-E o....I...J.,K· E·N ·Y·O·N -0 - -E -0 -I -A -N Volume CXXVllI, Number 21 ESTABLISHED 1856 Thursday, April 12, 200t Council confronts election emergency I BYTARYNMYERS dent Life George pr~c~dures. faT. fixi.ng the dat~s "elections;-vill be conducted. b~. I NewsAssistant Slllll'\! COl '\( II Polychronopoulos '02,"So itturns wlthl." ~he guidelines of .1~IS the ~mmltee ~n Student .Llfe Till'> \\'11 h. oul we have a letter of intent for Consitutton and for supervrsmg (Article Ill, Section z.b). This was gtectlons-c-and the lack of every position, with the exception all elections of students to the cffice . part of the difficulty around which candidates-dominated the discus- "Elections of Student Lectureships and Social of Campus Govemment"(ArticieIII, the ensuing debate f~used during sion for Student Council members Board. The only position we have Section1.t), it later also stales thai su COUNCIL, pag~lWO this week as polls opened yester- "Secretary vote two letters of intent for is Senate day to vote on next year's *Smoking Co-Chair ". So Student Life said government positions. that in order to preserve the integ- McHaney presents With only one position run- "Environmental rity of the elections, they will vote ning opposed-Senate Co-Chair not to extend the deadline," he -c-the elections were nearly post- statement made said, It is important to note that poned, despite clear instructions in that there was not much response even if a candidate is running un- two images to voters the campus government constitu- in teems of .letters of intent and opposed, he or she still has to tion that elections are to "be held called an emergency meeting of receive 40 percent of the vote to Co-Chair candidate sends letters to leaders on the 12th Wednesday of the sec- the executive board of Council. get elected. "Ibelieve that every member in this round of elections. ond semester" (Article III, Section They voted to extend the deadline The question of who has the of the Kenyon community is en- The position is a non-voting 2.c.iii) each year. to Monday, April 9. This would authority to change deadlines for titled to a fair and equal voice in seat, but in cases of a tie, it is the Upon checking in at the Stu- have pushed the date of the elec- elections is very unclear in the the Senate, and Iwill make every Co-Chair that holds the tie-break- dent Activities Center around 3 tions back. "By 4 o'clock, we handbook, Although it is stated effort to listen and relay the opin- ing vote. This race is between two p.m. on Friday, Student Council received a number of letters of that "the Council shall be respon- ions of the Student Body," said vetemnsof student leadership,Jun- President Ruth Crowell '02 saw intent," said Vice President of Stu- sible for establishing election junior Mike McHaney, one of two iors Ludi Ghesquiere and Mike candidates for Senate Co-Chair in McHaney. PIECE OF THE PAST WITHOUT THE TOOT, the ongoing election. In his formal letter of intent A McHaney made this state- submitted to the Student Activi- ment in his public letter of intent ties Office, Gbesquiere said that that he addressed to the Kenyon his "lack of association with either student body. However, the Col- the primary policy-making bodies legian has obtained a copy of a on campus or any special interest private letter written by McHaney groups prepares me for a more addressed to the leader of a cam- Objective role within the Student ... pus Greek organization. In tbis Faculty Senate. letter, he pledges his support spe- While Ghesquiere sees his cifically to the Greeks, saying "If lack of associations as an advan- Iam elected as Senate Co-Chair I tage, M.cHaney has chosen to treat will do my best to assure that the the issue in a separate manner. Greek system at Kenyon contin- McHaney sent a numberof similar ues to thrive." letters to leaders of rnost),Y Greek The issue is whether these organizations, as well as Peeps statements made privately on the O'Kenyon and Kenyon Student part of McHaney conflict with his Athletes. public letterofintent, adding com- He cites his own voting bls- plication toiheonly contested race su LETTER, PIJU three Robbk~ History returned on Saturday as a retired et-year-old switching locomotive completed a 300-mile journey from Kentucky to Gambier. It will join the current Red Caboose currently at the Gap Trail. Mulligan Rille: a review ADAMSAPP the deadline for using it this year Ban on smoking might become reality Senior News Editor nears, it begs the question: is it working? Crowell '02, AJys Speosley '01"and can be met." The policy will be Once in a while, everyone Although final numbers will Andrew Dinsmore '01 states that, enforced "thrccgh room flnes due makes a mistake. Some are just not be available from Registrar for "All smoking is banned in student tosmoke damage, evidenceof smok- able to get out of tbem a little a few weeks, Dean for Academic A 14-0 ~pus Senate deci- ing found during fire inspections, easier than others.lbe unofficially residence halls. 'Residence haiIs' Advising Jane Martindell was sion establishing full voting status and through CNRA involvement. named 'Mulligan' rule is under- are defined as the Kenyon College happy about the cule's use this for a new Senate secretary and a buildings of Old Kenyon, Hanna, When these methods are exhausted, going its first test this, year, and as #~MUWGAN,ptlUfowr· proposal to establish an lndepen- Leonard, Bushnell, Mather, Caples, the office of Security and Safety dent student representative were and Watson." Further, "shared air may be invited to take action as they III' \111 \( 1\\ \I'IIi{ l{11'()1~1 eclipsed Tuesday by heated debate apartments, such as the Taft Cot- see fit." ~vera resolution banning smoking tages, Bexleys, Acklands, and New "Kenyon is statiStically signifi- Thursday: Windy, high of 76, Saturday: Partly cloudy, higb of In all residence halls. Apartments, will be researched by cant in that there are more smokers low of 46. 66, low of 42. The resolution, proposed by Residential Ufe to see if both the at Kenyon than at other comparison Friday: Partly cloudy, high of 59, Suaday:_show ....hi&bof low of 3? low Student Council President Ruth needs of smokers and non-smokers IN SENATE, JHlq two 65, of 39. 2 THE KENmN COUEGIAN NEWS Thursday, AprO 12, ZOO! Council: holds firm on deadline, elections go on CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE idea of extending the deadline to opposed." tion to Senate. to do it anyway. Let them do it. Sunday's Student Council meet- people thai didn't get their aCI Also discussed at the Council The Council also delved into They have power and authority . .. ing. logelh.er,"saidJuniorClassrepre- meeting was the seemingly end- the issue of the campus-wide We should definitely give them The concern that those who sentative Nick Deifel. "I don't less issue of how 10 balance the smoking poll they are sponsoring. the polls ..• If we give them a .. did not get their leiters in on time think those are the type of people loss of a student vole on Senate Crowell discussed the results ac- proposal, we will lose face either would not be as commiued to the we want on Student Government." stemming from the decision to cumulated thus far, which seemed way." position was also raised. "I think At the same time, the Council make the Greek Council seat voice to indicate that most people think The Council agreed that this the people who got their leiters of members were wary about the ap- not vote on all issues but those smoking is a problem oncampus. was the wisest decision to make intent in are the people who are parent lack of interest in student pertaining to Greek Council by- "Ithinkthallhisissilly,"said based on the circumstances and most interested in doing the job," government. "I think it's kind of laws. Spensley '01 proposed what Coppins. "I think this is some- possible outcomes at hand. said Senate Co-Chair Andrew an embarrassment that thereareso she termed "the easy solutionv-c- thing the trustees wanted to do. They then revisited the pro- Dinsmore '01. "I have a problem. many people who are running un- that the now elected Director of All we're doing is being their posal of a blanket statement with begging the student body to opposed," said Treasurer Pete Communications (a.k.a. secretary) scapegoat, so that when people concerning environmental get leiters of intent in." Coppins '01.