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Kenyon Collegian - September 15, 1977

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Lowell EnergyOutlook Brightens for'77-'7- 8 By MARGARET MELVIN does not approve the plan, then 60 students can expect difficulties with Deadat seventy-tw- o The expansion of heating facilities the year old system." and a proposed renovation of To insure that there is enough heat '40, considered by Robert Lowell Gambier's water system make a and hot water, all eight of the "conf- many to be the foremost recurrence of last year's fuel and College's boilers have been retubed, time, died essional" poet of our water crises unlikely, according to speeding up the heating process and suffering a at- Monday after heart Richard Ralston, Superintendent of K making it more efficient. Although tack. Buildings and Grounds. four of the boilers can burn gas or "The outlook for this winter is oil, all will be fueled with gas. is Lowell came to Kenyon from "Oil good," said Ralston. He added, "We ; y not as popular as gas because it is Harvard in 1937, to study under are preparing for almost anything. If ft almost three times as expensive," John Crowe Ransom, the all goes as planned, new acknowledged founder of the New t a water Lord explained. J system will be installed at Kenyon. Criticism. He lived and worked with Also the College is prepared for a a gas such literary lights as Ransom, Robert Lowell However, should shortage shortage of gas with their two 20,000 occur this winter, Kenyon can fall Randell Jarrell, Peter Taylor and receipt of countless awards for his gallon oil reserve tanks." back on its 40,000 gallons of oil on Robie McCauley, served as Associate poetry, prose, and translation The winter of '77 at Kenyon in- reserve. This is enough to provide the Editor of Hika (then a publication adaptations. The publication of such volved much more than drastically Richard Ralston entire College with heat and hot which attracted submissions collections as For the Union Dead, low temperatures. The effects of an the frozen ground, should be averted water for two and a half weeks. nationally), and was published in the Weary 's Lord Castle (Pulitzer Prize, energy crisis were aggravated by a by the installation of a new system. If first issue of the Kenyon Review. 1946) have and Life Studies assured three-da- y water shortage. "Kenyon the upcoming plan is approved, work Another possible energy source, his place as one of the major poets of coal, cannot be used at Kenyon The influence of his mentor was closer to shutting down last year should begin in approximately one the twentieth century. because its coal burning plant was Ransom was deeply felt. He later than any of the other private colleges month. "The base plan for the entire in torn down in the sixties. Coal, maintained that "the kind of poet I this area, such as Denison and system has already been approved by Lowell had revisited Kenyon on said Sam Vice however, is used to produce the am was largely determined by the Wooster," Lord, the Federal Housing Administration; many occasions, most notably as an now all we need is College's electricity. "There is a fact that 1 grew up in the hey-da- y of President of Finance. approval of the instructor for the Kenyon School of A last year's second said threat of a