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Constitutional Rights Ladies' Field Hockey PRftefi Conflict with Dominates Denison PG-1- 3 ACINEREI 00ON FILMS RELEASE Religious Beliefs University EDI 7 YL 7 Y fpe Kenyan Collegian Volume CXV1, Number J Established 1856 Thursday, September 29, 1988 News Briefs College Discovers Radon in Rosse Hall By Eric Grodsky mer, Taylor sent two more letters, the second scheduled. This communication has been South Africa addressed only to the provost. In this letter, released to the community a full 10 months Radon is one of the few naturally occuring Taylor wrote that, due to the unusual radon after Taylor's initial note, and over a month Kenyon Speaker Detained radioactive gases on the earth, resulting from level, he would prefer not to have classes in after the College achieved first hand On Sept. 21, at 4:30 a.m., Amy Thornton an underground breakdown of uranium. Rosse Hall in the fall semester, and would be knowledge of the radon problem. Why has it who came to Kenyon last January as the first Radon is relatively harmless if allowed to holding his office hours at his home on W. taken this long for a carcinogen such as speaker in the "Struggle for Southern Africa" escape into the atmosphere. If contained, as Brooklyn St. On Aug. 3, in his first reply to radon to become an issue "of . significance series, was detained by the security police it is in over eight million homes in the U.S., Taylor, the provost stated the college would to students"? Joe Nelson, Vice President of under the state of emergency regulations in radon becomes a very serious health hazard. run tests and wrote "I will notify you as Finances and the individual in charge of cam- Cape Town, South Africa. The official The gas lodges itself in the lining of the lungs soon as I . have information that is pus grounds said that while Taylor's tests reason for her arrest was that Ms. Thornton and breaks down, damaging adjacent cells. useful." were good information, they were not cause was "helping to prolong the state of emergen- Radon is second only to smoking as a cause The college ran preliminary tests Aug. 5-- 8, for action. Apparently, Nelson and the cy in South Africa," a catch-a- ll accusation of lung cancer, and is quickly becoming an and received the results of this test on Aug. American Lung Association are in disagree- regularly used by the government to detain EPA priority. 25. Taylor posted a note on his office door in ment on this point. Nelson, the president, anyone voicing opposition to the state and its Last Dec, Professor Ken Taylor (inter- -' Sept. saying he would be holding his office and the provost all call attention to the lack policies of apartheid. viewed at the request of the Collegian) tested hours at home due to high levels of radon, of EPA guidelines concerning acceptable Chairperson of the Cape Democrats, the level of radon in his Rosse Hall office. and the music department wrote the provost radon levels in public buildings. patron of the United Democrat Front and The preliminary test indicated a level of 33.3 requesting the test results. Browning visited They also stressed the fact that radon is on- anti-aparthe- veteran id activist, Thornton picocurries per liter (PCi1), 13.3 units above Rosse, but instead of bringing the test results, ly dangerous after long term exposure. This spoke at Kenyon on the history of the what the EPA considers a "health hazard" in tore Taylor's note from his office door. On policy is similar to many in the past, notably African National Congress and her friend- homes. Taylor sent a note to Dean Ward Sept. 15, Taylor received a note from the tobacco companies stressing at one time that ship with Nelson Mandela. Both are now and, receiving no reply, obtained a more con- provost chastising him for indirectly inform- cigarette smoking was only harmful in long political prisoners at Pollsmoor Prison. Con- clusive test from the American Lung Associa- ing students of the high radon level. Brown- term cases. cerned individuals should contact Amnesty tion. The results of this test showed a level of ing wrote that there was no point in issuing Looking back over the development of the International or Pamela Scully (X5597) and 27 PCi1. information "of no significance to students." radon problem, Browning concluded that the Clifton Crais (X5816). Taylor notified President Phillip H. Jor- On Sept. 27 the first information about information "should have gotten out Consulate Provides Asylum dan as well as Provost Reed Browing, and radon in the Gambier community was releas- sooner." Nelson agreed, saying "that would In South Africa, four people are receiving again received no response. Over the sum ed, and a test date of Oct. 10 has been see RADON page eight asylum in the American Conslate. Murphy Marobe and Mohammad Valli Moosa, of- ficials of the anti-aparthe- id United Exxon Foundation Sponsors Political Forum Democratic Front; Vasumuzi Kanyile, chair- U.S. Representative New Gingrich and dential Election '88" is designed to give each whether they see themselves as speaking in- man of an education committee opposing public advocacy lawyer Mark Green, two of man a chance to present an aggressive case dependently, or as participating in a Bush-Dukak- is apartheid; and Clifford Negobo. the nation's most combative political par- for his candidate. In the process, they will debate. All escaped from custody earlier last week tisans, will battle over the upcoming discuss the issues and the major weaknesses Green, attorney and former consumer ad- while at a hospital receiving medical Presidential election tonight, at 8:00 p.m. in of the opposition. vocate with Ralph Nader's "Raiders," was a treatments. The South African government Rosse Hall. However, as John Elliott, chair of the 1986 Senate cadidate for New York. He has stated publicly that they will not be re-detai- ned Sponsored through a 1983 grant from the Political Science Department, notes, what will present the case for the Democratic if they leve, but the group has efus-e- d, Exxon Education Foundation, "The Presi issues they will speak on rests more on Presidential candidate, Massachusetts Gover- saying that they will stay at the Consulate nor Michael Dukakis. In a recent article in as long as restrictions on dissidents exist. the New York Times, Green took issue with A fifth man, Max Mankazama, attempted to the negative campaigning by the republican join the four but was refused by the consulate Students 'Rate the Debate' ticket and outlined some possible responses on the basis that he was not in any immediate for the Dukakis camp which do not involve trouble. Mankazama was arrested as he left 10 Mike George low-blo- w for low-blo- w tactics. the building. If, on the other hand, he chooses to speak Debate Dukakis Bush independently, he may choose to focus on "Anti-Genocid- e" Bill straight domestic issues, Elliott notes. Green Held Up in Congress is, he further noted, more interested in anti-genoci- in- A bill that would give force to the de 5 economics and governmental conflicts of treaty first introduced 40 years ago terest. by President Harry S. Truman and adopted Gingrich, a conservative Republican con- by the U.S. just two years ago is still caught gressman from Georgia who is up for re- in the Senate. election this year, will tout the candidacy of Senator William Proxmire, WI-- D, has urg- 5.1 Republican hopeful George Bush. Gingrich is ed support for the treaty for 19 years; how- 5.6 6.0 a former history professor and, according to ever, it lacks support from the conservative Robert Novak, mediator of the event and Republicans, led by Senator Strom Thur- Of the 270 students polled on Monday, the day after the Presidential debates, most columnist for the Chicago Sun-Time- s, "an Kenyon students seem to feel that neither candidate was in great form, or that the is mond, SC-- R. engrossing political theorist." Gingrich Concerns of the conservative opposition debate was significantly better than usual. known for his antagonistic relationship with include the possibility that American Indian However, 163 (60.4) people thought that Michael Dukakis was better than George former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill and nations will react to the suffering imposed by Bush, compared to 77 (28.5) who thought that Bush did better than Dukakis. 30 the current speaker, Jim Wright. It is in this settlers during the 19th century. (11.1) reported that they thought the debate was even. see EXXON page eight Sept. 29, 1988 PAGE TWO OPINION Character or Colorpatterns? This week's debate, fikc this week's appearance by Rob Lowe, fits perfectly into the American political system. On T.V.-an- d in person we have been shown (hat democracy is little more than show biz, that politics and actors are interchangeable, and that the American voter is expected to choose by dazzle, not by depth.