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Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian Archives 2-17-1983 Kenyon Collegian - February 17, 1983 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - February 17, 1983" (1983). The Kenyon Collegian. 848. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/848 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the 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]. 4 first for women 3 4 An afternoon Rebuttals to a llettlinger kid stuff fJS& defend Berns Nursery School b s 0 w I o Fundraiser Volume CX, Number 17 The ESesOEH Thursday, February 17, 1983 Established 1856 1 Lav; links financial aid to registration By Andrew K. Smith inappropriate." The president said comments we can make to bring President Philip Jordan said that he had not anticipated that the about a change in the regulations. Friday that the College is studying measure would become law. "I don't think the measure was and preparing to comment on a law "It came up in a form that was carefully considered or weighed," he that would deny financial aid to politically very potent, and that was added. "It proceeded on the very students who fail to register for the not quite foreseen," he said. "The basic notion that monies provided by draft. amendment was being followed by taxpayers should not provide a The law, the Solomon Amendment the Higher Education Association in benefit to a person who declared to the Military Selective Service Act, Washington, but they did not believe himself as unwilling to stand for was passed by Congress last fall. Its it would succeed." military service under conscription. proposed regulations are to go into The University of Minnesota has "We're not in the business of making effect July 1 for the 1983-8- 4 already filed a suit contending the judgments about registration for the to right: Council members Mary Chalmers, Soula Stefanopoulos, Paul Left law unconstitutional because it draft. I won't say whose respon- McCartney, and Martha Lorenz, and Dean Kathryn Adkins academic year. Under the amendment, schools discriminates against poor and sibility I think it is to enforce a law will not be permitted to process middle income students, because it like that, but I don't think it's the Council discusses calendar applications for federal loans and penalizes students without the benefit colleges' responsibility." grants for male students born in 1960 of a trial, and because it punishes Jordan said he thought education By Charles Needle few weeks of first semester. or later who have not submitted a only males. was a convenient target for the some suit) At its February 13 meeting, Rockwell responded to statement in their application "We are following it (the amendment. singling Student Council discussed a proposal Council members' objections that the acknowledging their registration with closely," Jordan said. "There are a "Solomon was not out he was the set forth by the Academic Policy break would place a great financial Selective Service. Although women number of cumbrous features to the education," said. "That Committee, outlining the need for burden on the families of those who are not required to register for the amendment. We are taking a look at occasion that presented itself first to has some kind of vacation period in the live far from Kenyon, saying that the draft, those desiring financial the regulations and seeing what make the point. Solomon apply law to month of October. In a letter to Committee feels that "academic assistance would have to declared he wants to the Council President Paul McCartney, reasons seem to favor the financial file the statement and all similar kinds of benefits." University have Faculty Committee Chair Kirk imposition it would place on indicate that they are Officials of Yale they will compensate any Emmert expressed a need to alleviate families." exempt from the draft. announced In addition, Rockwell pointed out student denied aid under the law with what his committee sees as an intense Jordan recently ' academic and emotional burden that the week break would not only discussed the amend- . ; w-Tf- T ' Yale funds. is silent on how placed on faculty and students prior alleviate some tension felt by ment with other private "The amendment is colleges are to deal with the to the existing Fall Break. students, but also that which felt college administrators at the he said. "As I un- According to Student Committee by members of the faculty. The a financial aid con- regulations," it, Yale is doing is not representative Karen Rockwell, the change would "help them in dividing ference in Washington, derstand what Rock- illegal, and I would take a position proposal calls for a week-lon- g their workload," commented D.C. essentially same as theirs. We vacation the third or fourth week in well. "There is a good deal the want to continue assisting needy and October. The College would also After much debate, McCartney of concern in the higher deserving students to get their leave the October Reading Break as it and Rockwell agreed that a vote education community education, but we're not going to stands and decrease the number of would not be in order, since the about colleges in the role pursue an illegal course." days for Thanksgiving break to four opinions were divided roughly in of enforcing a principle reliance at Kenyon (Thursday, Friday, and the half. Instead, Rockwell will present requirement of this "Our is not on federal funds but on in- weekend). the issues at the Committee's next kind," Jordan said. stitutional funds," he said. "That "Kenyon is one of the few schools meeting. "We all agree that to ask A will continue to be the case. We will, on the semester system with a long Under old business, Council guest the colleges to be the i-- 1 il Kj will i within the resources available to us, Fall Break," Rockwell pointed out. See BOARD page 6 enforcing agency is Kenyon President' Philip Jordan She added that the Academic Policy meet need." Wesley Tutchings, Director of Committee has been discussing this P. Aid, af- proposal for the past two years. Four day Thanksgiving vacation proposed Scholarships and Student Kenyon is in a better Dean Townsend and Dr. Shepard re firmed that many colleges. also reported to the Committee that By Anne Noonan some of the questions being discussed to take this period as a "break" or position than "The vast majority of our loans the two-t- o three-wee- k period prior to right now in the Senate Sub- vacation rather than study. In an federally assisted," Tutchings final exams is crucial for those Reading periods are they a committee on Reading Periods. effort to curtail this situation, the are not ... year they totalled students who are having academic break from studying or a time to Professor Royal Rhodes, a administration decreased the October said. "This We've only recently difficulty. They see the proposed catch up and prepare for exams? Are member of the committee con- Reading Period from two days to one. $200,000 (13). been eligible for federal aid." week break in October as a necessary they too short to be beneficial or too sidering this year's calendar, said, As a result of the mixed response Tutchings said he was not sure break in the calendar before the last long to be used wisely? These are "There is not enough time for faculty to this change, the subcommittee, College make up or students to prepare for exams." whose members include Rhodes, and whether the could the lost aid. The committee feels that the one-da- y students Lisa Disch, Morris Thorpe nice if a college like Yale has Wanna reading break in October and the two and Paul McCartney, took a survey "It's Freshman vounded at money," he said, 1 can't say days at Christmas are not sufficient. this past fall. From the 340 responses the "but yet whether we're going to supply the By Jenny Russell From 1979 to 1980 the October they received, a proposal for (Dean of Admissions) Reading Period wasalways fourdays: establishing guidelines for better, difference. John Kushan had an admissions Freshman Jeanne Edelen was walking home Saturday night when she Thursday, Friday and the weekend. more productive reading breaks was according to meeting to discuss the regulations, was struck by pieces of a ping pong table thrown out of a window from A problem arose when students chose created. They felt, but no policy has been established." 1 1 punish ii was wrong to Hanna. It took 30 stitches to sew up her head wound. i ii'i "j Disch, that "it Co-Cha- 1ji , Jim Rossman, ir of the At Monday's IFC meeting Dean Robert Reading stated that objects I' the people who are here to work" Financial Aid Committee, said he had been before .during parties. He suggested and who could use the two day break thrown out of windows supports President Jordan's that grates and screens were needed over certain windows to prevent this beneficially. statements. type of incident. IFC President Jim Peters point out that several such The proposal stated that the a politically touchy screens have already been installed in various locations around campus. October Reading Period should be "It's position," Rossman said. "If you Reading went on say that many students feel that their "right to two days and one weekend long and to oppose the amendment you'll be party" supersedes the other rights of students, such as the right to study scheduled for the third weekend of criticized as supporting draft or the right to sleep.