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Established 1856 Volume CXXXV, Number 21 www.kenyoncollegian.com PB News The Kenyon Collegian Thursday, April 3, 2008 TThursday,HE April 3, 2008KENYONThe Kenyon Collegian COLLEGIANNews Gambier, Ohio Thursday, April 3, 2008 12 Pages Gocial and Greeks clash Fraudulent e-mails sent deal of information that, if true, said, but those activities were not BY SARAH FRIEDmaN qualifies as capital-H hazing,” said “at that level that we’re concerned News Editor to College accounts Gocial. “It felt to me like that was about people’s safety or health.” significant enough behavior that I An anonymous Psi U pledge BY SARAH QUEllER Roy said he became aware of the The Collegian interviewed couldn’t not act on it.” said that when Gocial entered News Assistant first e-mail “almost immediately,” several fraternity leaders who, at Over the two nights, Gocial the room, “we were sitting on and LBIS updated its spam rules the last moment, requested that and members of Residential Life the floor and she said “are you During the past week, stu- to block the e-mails, which were their comments not be published. staff spoke to members of Psi Up- guys cold?” and we said ‘no, we dents have received three e-mails sent from a Cornell University The Collegian will present an silon, Zeta Alpha Pi, Delta Kappa aren’t cold,’ and she said ‘you from LBIS warning them about account. Griggs said LBIS staff updated and comprehensive report Epsilon, Delta Phi, Phi Kappa look cold.’ She said, ‘Why are you three separate fraudulent e-mails members blocked messages from next week. Sigma and Beta Theta Pi and dirty?’ and we told her we had asking for personal information the account, sent out a warning Between 11:00 p.m. and 3:00 observed the behavior of Peeps O’ been playing football, which was that could be used to initiate email to students and employees a.m. on Monday, April 1, and be- Kenyon. They visited DKE, Beta, true. We hadn’t been drinking or identity theft. Director of Infor- and “updated the Helpline staff so tween 11:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. on Psi U and Phi Kap, said Gocial. anything, either. Then she went mation Systems and Institutional they could respond to calls.” Tuesday, April 2, Dean of Students “Our goal was really to do a back upstairs. She wasn’t there Research Ronald Griggs sent out According to Griggs, a second Tammy Gocial conducted surprise check-in, honestly,” said Gocial. very long, just kind of asked us a an e-mail informing students that group of e-mails, with the subject inspections of the “Work Week” “We were looking for people to few questions and left.” the fraudulent messages could be “!!! Attention !!!—Verify Your pledging schedules of seven Greek be doing what they said [on the “[Gocial] has contacted our part of a “disturbing trend: hack- Account Info,” arrived between organizations. Work Week schedules] they would national fraternity,” said Ben Plot- ers looking for College Web mail 7:47 and 7:48 a.m. Griggs said Gocial said that the Office of be doing.” nick ’10, a Psi U. “She’s done so in accounts they can take over to use employees reported these messages, Campus Safety received a phone In the aftermath of the inspec- a very accusatory manner, kind of for further fraud.” and some LBIS staff received the call from “a very concerned per- tions, two organizations, which saying things that are pretty bla- Griggs said “alert students message. He said the message was son” who described hazing prac- she would not identify, violated tantly false about our fraternity. and employees” reported the first blocked by about 8:15 a.m. and he tices and named Greek organiza- pledging rules and may face ju- It’s her word against ours.” message to the Helpline and to sent out another warning e-mail at tions, but did not connect the two. dicial action, said Gocial. Other other LBIS employees on Sunday about 8:35 a.m. The caller, who Gocial said she groups were doing activities she —Lindsay Means contributed at about 3:15 p.m. About 450 e- Roy said such e-mails aim to could not identify, shared “a great would prefer they “tweak,” she reporting. mail messages bearing the subject “enter systems on campus” to col- line “UPGRADE YOUR Kenyon lect information to “potentially Also in this issue Webmail ACCOUNT NOW ” compromise other systems.” He were sent to the Kenyon communi- said LBIS would never ask for per- E ty 2:44 and 2:48 p.m., according to sonal information by e-mail. Roy Griggs. Vice President for Library A & Master Slash Slave hits Hill 9 and Information Services Michael see FRAUD, page 4 In Student Council Sacks leaves administration, elections, only one returns to teaching sociology position contested BY SARAH FRIEDmaN people and can bring them together been an invaluable colleague for me BY LINDsaY MEANS run, he or she must write a letter News Editor to accomplish something larger.” during these first years at Kenyon,” News Assistant of intent and get 20 signatures she said. for Student Council positions After six years in administra- Sacks’ career Sacks’ responsibilities as her The nominees for the 2008 or 40 signatures for Senate position, Senior Advisor to the President Sacks first served in adminis- senior advisor “have ranged from Student Council elections have tions. “Some people kind of get Howard Sacks will step managing a major portion of been announced, with 10 candi- bogged down with the process or down from his current posi- the campaign planning process dates running for 9 positions. All discouraged because they think tion and return to teaching to developing a robust collabo- elections except that for Student it’s a lot to do,” said Shikany. “But sociology, which he did ration with [the Ohio State Council President are uncontest- really, it’s not a lot to ask, and at Kenyon from 1975 to University]about teaching to ed. According to Vice President if they’re not willing to do that 2002. carrying out innumerable proj- of Student Life Ann Shikany ’08, much, then they probably won’t “I have never intended ects related to sustainability,” who organized the election, many be willing to fulfill the duties of to abandon teaching, and said Nugent. students are nominated but few the position.” my plan is to return,” he He also plans and exe- decide to run. Shikany starts the Many of the candidates have said. “I love teaching, and I cutes special initiatives Nugent process by soliciting nominations previous Student Council experi- miss working with students deems important, and that has for positions from other students, ence, though only two are running and my colleagues as a fel- been one of his favorite parts faculty and administration. for the positions they held in the low faculty member.” of the job. “I think it’s really According to Shikany, past. According to Shikany, there According to Presi- valuable work,” he said. “I can though many students were nom- is not a lot of interest among the dent S. Georgia Nugent, see the impact it has on the inated—five or six for Student Kenyon student body in Student he spoke with her about College. It enables me to work Council and Vice Presidents and Council. “I know that for some his decision over the sum- with a wide variety of people three or four for each chair posi- of the positions, like the VP posi- mer and then informed the … and it’s probably one of the tion—very few students decided tion, it’s a lot of work—way more faculty in late August. most creative aspects of the to actually run. work than it’s probably worth to “His deep knowledge work that I do because I get According to Shikany, any just put it on your resume,” she of and care for the Col- to invent.” student can run for any position said. “Also, I feel like people just lege and our surrounding One special initiative on Student Council, and only two aren’t that involved, and there’s a community have been real GocHampaIGN.com Sacks said he is proud of is positions have requirements—in sense among the students that the touchstones,” said Nugent. Sacks is currently senior advisor to the president. Food for Thought, an ongo- order to be eligible for Chair of Student Council doesn’t do a lot. “He is a sensitive and imagi- ing local-foods project that Student Lectureships or Student Our biggest problem is that while native thinker, with a really remark- tration as interim associate provost developed a local food system for Council Treasurer, the candidate at bigger schools, they have a lot able ability, not only to plan, but to while the College looked for a new Knox County “in a way that has also must have served one semester on more resources and responsibility, carry out projects effectively.

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