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New comedy group Academy Award Ladies basketball out deleted, page 2 page 4 1033, page 6 preview, page 9 of tourney, page 12 - N T'H E JVE-N-Y-O-- C -- o LL E -- G -- I -- A -- N Volume CXXVI, Number 17 ESTABLISHED 1856 Thursday, March 4, 1999 Polish leader Walesa Waite donates $1 million to campaign Orchestra room in Storer Hall named for Waite in gratitude to speak in April Kenyon trustee Charles Waite the and his wife Angela recently do- 'We're overwhelmed by commitment to BY DAVID SHARGEL nated $1 million to the capital the College's music program that the Waites "Jf ' win. Editor in Chief campaign "Claiming Our Place: - The Campaign for Kenyon." The and others have shown in this campaign.' In perhaps the most signific- money will be used in part to Benjamin Locke ant speaking event of the year, supplement the building costs of former President of Poland Lech the orchestra room in the new mu- rooms, faculty offices, a green to the undergraduate careers of his Walesa will visit Kenyon April 20. sic building, Storer Hall, which room, a lobby, a recital hall, and a children Charles "Chad" Waite Jr. Walesa began as an electrician will be attached to the existing recording studio. '77 and Catherine Waite '81, as in a Gdansk shipyard in 1967 and music building, Rosse Hall. Charles Waite, a graduate of well as his daughter-in-la- w, Susan became the leader of the Solidari- Storer Hall, which will be Harvard Business School, has a Butterfield Waite '78. He has ty movement which started there ready for use in the 1999-200- 0 longstanding connection with served as a member of the Parents' during a worker strike in 1980. academic year, will add practice Kenyon College which dates back see WAITE, page two Walesa, terminated from his elect- rician job, climbed the perimeter COMPS ARE HISTORY wall L Au- Lech Walesa of the enin Shipyard in X gust of that year and encouraged was elected the first non-commun- ist his fellow workers to fight for free Prime Minister of Poland but n 1 fc trade unions, which were eventua- was defeated in the 1995 presiden- lly conceded by Polish commun- tial election. ists. The new union which was One Time Magazine descrip- is i-i- created was christened "Solidar- -' tion of Walesa said that without v ') ity." Walesa, Poland's transition from i Walesa was interned after a communism to democracy might government crackdown in 1981 never have occurred. The Solidar- 4 and 1983, is thought to be an released a year later. In ity movement - Walesa won the Nobel Peace Prize. essential turning point for Polish Six years later, in 1989, Walesa see WALESA, page three Smart honored for academics, activities BY SETH GOLDEN Staff Reporter Megan Buhr chili dinner, history majors share good times and good food. The gathering, Shaka Smart 99 has been sel- At the history department also celebration for seniors, whose comps had just been completed. ected to USA Today's 10th annual held in Weaver Cottage Friday, was a All-US- A College Academic First Team. A panel of judges chose 20 Student Council tables proposal students from 984 nominated by schools across the country based Greek Council develops alternative option Friday on the criteria of grades, awards Rainy. and activities, leadership roles and proposal which will ultimately BY HILARY LOWB RIDGE 30s. public service. Smart, featured in Erin Mahan make it a more autonomous High 40s, low Shaka Smart '99 Senior Staff Reporter lSA Today's Feb. 25 edition, re- body, with its own governing Saturday ceived a $2500 cash award for his search on legal and social identifi- Student Council has tabled system. multiracial people in the Cloudy. selection. cation of the proposal for "Senate 2000," "We are proposing that the "It totally came out of the blue United Stales, studying race-consciousn- ess a proposal to merge Student Greek Council has a separate High 40s. Chi- -- 1 was pretty surprised; obviously in the south side of Council and the campus Senate Greek Senate consisting of fac- Sunday I co-captain-ing the basketball was thrilled. It's a really nice cago, into one governing body and re- ulty and administration that we honor big Cloudy. to have especially to make team, being a basketball move any Greek vote. Council would answer to as opposed to summer pro- my Mom proud and the people in brother, teaching a reached this decision because of the current system where we are High 40s, low 30s. my family proud, because I know gram for inner-cit- y high school a counter proposal in the works regulated by the Campus Senate" on faculty selec- Monday stuff like that means a lot to them," students, working by the Greek Council. said President of Greek Council said Smart tion committees and the In response to the recent Candice Jones '00. "We feel that Cloudy. The panel ofjudges chose the Multicultural Admissions Com- - proposal of "Senate 2000," this proposal is a fair comprO-se- e High 40s, low 20s. Madison, Wis. native for his re- - see SMART, page two Greek Council has developed a COUNCIL, page two 2 The Kenyon Collegian NEWS Thursday, March 4, l Old Kenyon fire remembered MP3 files deleted Three separate memorials honor victims of 1949 fire from student drive BY MORGAN FRITZ was then rung once for each of the donate funds for plaque as part Staff Reporter fire's nine victims. About 25 stu- of the tree remembrance. LBIS enforces 'academic use only' policy dents, faculty and alumni attended. Another service, organized , . u. ..: -- i ir . .) : ,i Three memorial services were Two smaller services fol- by Apple Plotnick '00, was held BY DANIEL CONNOLLY uy ic lluul,1:: miu rtcuci lus. in nis held Saturday in honor of the vic- lowed later in the evening. A ser- at midnight. The service in- Senior Staff Reporter mail. Some students were fiUk I tims of the 1949 Old Kenyon fire. vice organized by Old Kenyon cluded a speech from Associate up their allotted space with MP3 de- I The first of these services, House Manager NoelleAiello '00 Professor of English Timothy The administration has files, slowing the network and held at Old Kenyon at 7 p.m., was was held at 10:15 p.m. and fea- Shutt, followed by singing by the leted large sound files that students threatening to fill the drives. organized by the Lady Rosse tured music from a student sing- attendants of the service. have stored on the campus com- Dennis Bae '02 said thatLBIS Historical Society. During the ing group the Stairwells. "The All three services were or- puter network in violation of rules had deleted about 300 MP3 files service a firsthand recollection of symbolic meaning of their name ganized and executed indepen- for fair use over the past few days. that he had stored on the H drive the tragedy was read by Zach as well as their wonderful voices dently of one another. As far as Library and Information Ser- about one week before Frederick Nowak '99, prayers were offered gave a means of immediate re- the need for these memorial ser- vices system manager Dan had sent his allstu. LBIS sent him by the Reverend Steve Carlsen, membrance," said Aiello. vices, "the fire is too important Frederick sent an e-m- ail to all stu- an e-m- ail sayiivg that the files announc- rector of Harcourt Parish and In addition to the service it- an event to go by without truly dents Saturday afternoon would be deleted'the next day, Bat Michael Cooper, Hillel advisor self, Aiello plans to plant a tree significant and fitting com- ing that he would delete MP3 for- said. and Dean of Students Donald J. outside of Old Kenyon. "I think a memoration," said Lady Rosse mat sound files that students were LBIS guidelines stipulate thai Omahan made the closing re- permanent rememberance is nec- Historical Society member and storing on the campus network. information stored on the campus marks. The Blake Bell in the essary," she said. Aiello hopes Old affiliated scholar in history An- MP3 is a method used to com- network must be used for aca Bullfinch Spire of Old Kenyon Kenyon's current residents will drew Richmond '96. press audio (usually music) into a demic purposes, said Frederick in relatively small space on a com- his e-m- ail. puter drive. The sound reproduced Josh Ruberg '99 said that he from an MP3 file is of CD quality. had read Frederick's warning be Council: different proposals The relatively new MP3 format is fore LBIS deleted about 20 MP3 controversial, for it is often used files which he had stored on theH CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 execution of our rules and regu- discussion about the role of stu- illegally to distribute copyrighted drive.