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Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 9-27-2007 Kenyon Collegian - September 27, 2007 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - September 27, 2007" (2007). The Kenyon Collegian. 84. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/84 This News Article 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]. Established 1856 Volume CXXXV, Number 5 www.kenyoncollegian.com PB News The Kenyon Collegian Thursday, September 27, 2007 Thursday, September 27, 2007 The Kenyon Collegian News THE KENYON COLLEGIAN Gambier, Ohio Thursday, September 27, 2007 12 Pages Anti-semitic vandalism outrages campus my God’ and covered her mouth. “Re: [ALLSTU] Prejudice at that I felt safe in my dorm. Which will come forward with informa- by CaroliNE EichlER I didn’t really know how to react, Kenyon” was sent out ten minutes I do … I received nothing but sup- tion. “We’d love to find out who Staff Writer I guess. … I went to a corner of my later at 12:25 p.m. port from my hall.” is responsible,” Hooper said. “All On Saturday, Sept. 22, a room and broke down.” Hillel responded person- Bragin said that because the of us feel that that kind of behav- swastika was found drawn on a One of the student’s friends ally to the all-stu sent out by second swastika was found on ior is not tolerated.” Jewish first-year student’s door found the CA and told him what the student’s friend, offering to the door of non-Jewish students. In cases like this, campus in McBride Residence Hall. The happened. According to the CA, have the student come down to “I would like to think it was ran- safety generally gathers infor- symbol appeared in purple cray- “I had to write an incident report, Hillel House. The student said, dom graffiti. I would really be mation and gets the Student on on the nametag made by the because it was taken as seriously “I went over to my CA to get my disappointed if it was directed Affairs Center and the Dean’s resident’s Community Advisor as … the biggest incident that [nametag], and the two [Hillel] towards Jews specifically,” he Office involved. If they succeed (CA). Other profanities drawn would happen in a freshman House managers … greeted me said. He acknowledges, however, in identifying the perpetrator, in purple crayon were found dorm.” and supported me and were ap- that “[the incident] happened the case will go to the SAC for throughout McBride Residence The CA notified Security palled.” on Yom Kippur, a particularly disciplinary action. Hall, including another swastika and contacted Hillel and The The house managers walked holy day on the Jewish calendar.” According to the student, on the door to the room of two Office of Residential Life. He with the student to The Office Bragin said he hopes this was just “I was so surprised that it hap- non-Jewish students, and im- also collected other crayon- of Campus Safety, where a Safety a coincidence. pened here. … It’s so great and ages of male genitalia. Purple marked evidence from around officer escorted the three into a On Monday Sept. 24, Hillel everyone’s so open to all ideas. It scribbles were found on posters the residence hall. “I have around conference room. According to sent out a statement via e-mail was not a usual thing that I would throughout the dorm. twenty-five to thirty pieces of the student, “we talked about reporting what had happened and expect.” At the same time, the The student, who wishes vandalism with nasty comments what happened and I wrote up an recognizing its significance. student recognizes that “Kenyon’s to remain anonymous, found on them. Vulgar. Some of them official report and it was classi- According to Bob Hooper, not perfect. I hope somebody the symbol in the midst of the seemed like they were inside fied as a hate crime.” Marc Bragin, director of campus safety, the who knows—I know somebody daily routine: “I finished writing jokes,” he said. director of Hillel House, was also incident is still under investiga- knows—will come forward and ‘Shana Tova’ [and] looked up At 12:15 p.m., an acquain- contacted. tion. He said that the lack of say something. This shouldn’t be to admire my work and I saw a tance of the student sent out an “I was really pleased with information in the case is “really happening in 2007.” swastika written on the star made all-stu with the subject “Prejudice the immediate response that I frustrating.” “Prejudice is an issue wheth- by my CA to indicate that it was at Kenyon,” detailing what had received from Security,” said the Hooper said his department er you choose to acknowledge it my room.” happened but not naming the student. “Marc Bragin came back has been talking to people who or not. It’s how you deal with it The student was dumb - student. with me to the dorm to see the live in the area where the incident that makes the place a commu- founded. “My friend said ‘Oh A response with the subject other swastika and to make sure occurred, and he hopes someone nity,” the student said. Reading days to be Greek Week finishes with DKE on top re-evaluated Nevertheless, the crucial issue with- BY RyaN BurNS in the debate is the utility that reading Staff Writer days provide to students. “We feel that Reading Days, at the end of each students should have adequate time to semester and in October of first semester, prepare for their exams, but we want were originally set aside to ensure that to make sure that it’s being used wisely,” students had enough time to prepare said Sheffield. Some administrators and for exams without distraction. While faculty are concerned that most students professors were allowed to hold optional do not actually use the time to study and review sessions, they could not assign feel that the prohibition on assignments anything that was due on the days set aside and mandatory class periods is only ben- and could not hold classes or any other eficial if students commit themselves to mandatory event. preparing for exams. Yet the question of reading days has Student Council president Jarrett once again been raised by Student Council Moreno ’08 acknowledges that some and Senate as faculty and administrators students might use the time to relax, debate the merit of setting aside several but argues that most are certainly busy days between the end of classes and the studying. “If you go to the library over beginning of exams. Professors often reading days, you’ll see a ton of students scramble to get through their assigned there preparing for exams, writing papers, material as the semester ends, and could and having group study sessions, he said. benefit from more lax rules concerning “Moreover, each student has his own par- reading days. They might re-schedule a ticular study habit and different amount cancelled class over reading days or allow of work, so it isn’t fair to categorize those students to give presentations, thus freeing that aren’t studying from early in the more time during the semester. morning till late at night as lazy.” Logistical problems also arise, es- Moreno maintains that “it doesn’t pecially during the spring semester when feel like reading days are free from manda- honors students are required to read their tory commitments anymore,” and that he projects to outside examiners. “It’s often is concerned that the number of days set Brendan Mysliwiec quite difficult to arrange for outside ex- aside might decrease. “If anything, we aminers to come, and the honors students should have more, not less,” he says. As part of Greek Week celebrations, all organizations were invited for a “water-pong” tournament on the South Quad. Pictured above are Marcus Hough ’08, Chris Willoughby ’08, and Adam Szczepanski ’10 defending Psi themselves already have a full set of exams Moreno’s concerns are currently Upsilon fraternity honor as Christian Glason ’08 tries to sink a ball into one of their cups and win the game for in front of them,” said Ric Sheffield, vice being raised in Student Council and Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. After a week of events that ranged from pie eating to community service, points were provost for academic affairs. “Why not Senate, where student representatives are tallied for the winners of each competition and Delta Kappa Epsillon fraternity won. allow them to come during reading days attempting to protect the distraction-free as well?” character of reading days. News The Kenyon Collegian Thursday, September 27, 2007 Thursday, September 27, 2007 The Kenyon Collegian News Student Council Alumnus donates funds to revive and reopen Beta temple September 23, 2007 • The council approved the minutes of the last two meet- ings. • Vice President of LBIS Mike Roy spoke to the council about the new federal legislation that allows the fed- eral government to wire-tap networks. In order to facilitate this new policy, Kenyon was presented with two options: —spend a substantial amount of money to reconfig- ure the network so that the government has access to it or, —make the existing network private, so that everyone using the network is known.

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