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Volume CXXII, Number 16 Established 1856 Thursday, March 30, 1995 Provost James D. Geiitoe Resigns By Greg Nock was coming to Gunton, something I was looking a provost is crucial, I concluded News Editor Kenyon." forward to with great enthusiasm that it was essential that I come to Lehigh Provost because his abilities have so im- campus for consultation."

an- Vice-Preside- Provost James D. Gunton and Academic nt pressed me," he said. "However, Oden will hold meetings with nounced his resignation, effective Alan Pense President Jordan and I agree that the Executive Committee of the June 30, on Mon., March 27. He said, "Lehigh is de- we must now move quickly to make faculty and senior administrators began the job last summer. lighted to welcome Jim an interim appointment with board on Thurs., March 30, and Fri., Gunton will return to Lehigh Gunton back as a fac- approval. Because the selection of March 31. University as a tenured professor ulty member. We value in the physics department. Before his work as a skilled coming to Kenyon, Gunton served teacher. He has contin- Sexual Harassment Policy as Lehigh's dean of the College of ued to do significant Arts and Sciences. work in his field of Revision Process "This was an exceedingly dif- physics, and will be Continues ficult and painful decision for me able to share this By Kristen Filipic to make, since Kenyon is indeed a knowledge with his stu- Senior Staff Reporter special place, with a marvelous dents as a professor. We faculty, student body, administra- are pleased he is return- For over a year, Dean of Students Craig Bradley and Equal tion, and staff," said Gunton. ing." Opportunity Officer Wendy Hess have been working on revisions of Kenyon "However, upon considerable re- President-Elec-t College's sexual harassment policy. Kenyon currently defines sexual liarassment as "any use flection, I have concluded that my Q Robert A. Odcn, Jr. ar- of privilege or power to impose sexually on another. . .Sexual harass- prior experience and interests are Jama D. Gunton (photo from Public Affairs) rived on campus Wed., more compatible with a university March 29, to discuss ment also includes repeated and unwanted sexual behavior such ass physical than wiih a liberal-art- s college." ully and of his fellow senior ad- the appointment of an interim pro- contact (e.g., sexual invitations, sexual innuendoes) which create a hostile, intimidating or offensive living, working or learning President Philip H. Jordan, Jr. ministrators in his short time here." vost for 1995-9- 6. Following that " said, "Losing Jim Gunton is a great "I'm very sorry to lose him," selection, a national search will environment disappointment; he's done a mas- said Dean of Students Craig Brad- begin. According to Hess, there will be two policies in place next year, one which deals with "the con- terful job. He has gained the trust, ley. "As a member of the search "I regret that I won't have the lower end of the sexual violence respect, and affection of the fac- - committee, I was excited that he opportunity to work with Jim tinuum," such as verbal attacks, sexual innuendoes, and stalking, and ; another which deals with sexual assault and rape. Swim Teams Dominate Nationals, Again : Hess said that "students were confused by the current policy" ; because all forms of sexual violence are considered sexual harass- By Meredith Mathe "Carla has been a wonderful the 1 -- meter board. ment Staff Writer team member for four years and a Sophomore Matt Miller took Bradley also is "planning to work with students, staff and great player," said head coach Jim first in the 50 freestyle with his faculty to sec if there arc changes that we could make to make our s Senior Carla Ainsworth ob- Steen. Ainsworth's 26 titles sur- time of 20.43; sophomore Dave sexual harassment and sexual assault policies and adjudicatory served that "people like fast passed the previous mark held by Phillips took first in the 500 free in procedures more intelligible." While he believes that ?what we have swimming and if everyone at a Patty Abt '87. Abt won 23 titles 4:30.30. First-yea- r student Torstcn docs work," he sees payable improvements in the system. meet swims fast, people push each from 1984 to 1987. Seifert's time of 15:51.39 in the In addition to the policy revisions, a sexual assault resource in other to do better." When it was "Breaking the record the 1650 free placed first Senior John manual is being developed. I less believes dial this manual will help time for Kenyon to push this March, 50 was probably the most signifi- Rule won the 100 backstroke in tin; entire community understand both Kenyon's policy and the Kenyon really shoved. The Ladies cant for me because of the three, 50.53, and senior John Cave took procedures for filing complaints. took their 1 2th consecutive NCAA that was the record I didn't already the 100 breaststroke in 57.05. .Seniors Sarah Bothe a.,.l Kate Cotnerford have discussed the: title and the Lords their 16th, fur- have," Ainsworth said. "It was Sophomore Pedro Monteiro policy changes with I less. Comcrford said that she and Bothe "felt III ther extending both teams' really most rewarding for me." broke the NCAA Division record confused" by the current policy, and that the revisions are designed ; domination over Division III. The Ladies also excelled in in the 200 butterfly by a significant to make the policy 4,au approachable thing." She is "relieved and first-year The Ladies travelled to the relays. Petrock, stu- margin with his time of 1:48.11, pleased" that revisions are underway.: Bothe emphasized that the : Wesleyan University in dent Rachel Schiming, junior which brought the crowd to their ; changes being discussed include not just policy revisions, but (lie Middletown, Connecticut, where Shelley Baker, and Ainsworth look feet. Coach Steen said, "Pedro entire way in which "sexual violence is handled" at Kenyon. She in in for He they proceeded to conquer the likes first the 200 medley 1:47.01. trained real hard that event praised the sexual assault resource manual, because the policies and ; of Bates, Bowdoin, Carleton, Hope, Widi their 1:36.37 time in the 200 made a big improvement over his procedures will be described clearly for both the complainant and the

Williams, and 53 others. The free relay, Ainsworth, Petrock, freshman year." accused. Comcrford also emphasized that increased education and : women's final points totalled 527.5. Drejer, and Baker took another The men also had excellent communication arc the main goals of the changes.

first-placehighlig- Some hts for first Kenyon also won the 400 relays. The 400 medley team con- Junior Hillary Linn mid Sophomore Elliott Holt, Women's the women were first-year student free relay with the team of Drejer, sisting of Rule, Cave, Monteiro, Network coordinator, believe that the College needs to make AnnaDrejer' s 200 individual med- Baker, senior Stephanie Martin, and senior Andy Eaton took first changes in its handling of sexual harassment complaints Linn said s ley victory in 2:07.33, and her 400 and Ainsworth finishing in with their time of 3:23.50. The 400 that many women who try to press charges "feel like they're tiic ones; DM inanNCAArecord-settingtim- e 3:30.42. The 800 free relay team free relay, in 3:01.91, was won by being punished." She asked whether the Department of Security and

first-years of 4:27.92. Sophomore Katie added another victory, finishing the team of Ken Heis ; Safety could be doing more (o make women feel safe at Kenyon. Petrock's swim in the 200 back- in 7:40.02. and Nathan Gardner, junior Chris Linn and Holt believe that the Kenyon community would be stroke was also a record at 2:05.89. The men's championship Churchill and Eaton. Another first better served if the public were more informed of ongoing investiga- Most noteworthy of the ind- meet took place at Miami Univer- was seen by Gardner, Eaton, tions. Holt said that the College ..should release an official statement ;;; ividual performances were sity in Oxford, Ohio, where they Phillips, and junior Mike Dawson without mentioning the names of either the complainant or the Ainsworth' s first place sweeps in competed against 57 schools. with their time of6:46.88 in the 800 accused whenever a sexual harassment hearing is held. Kenyon the 50, 100, and 200 freestyles. In When the smoke cleared, free relay. could do this "and still protect the rights of the accused." Linn agreed setting NCAA Division III records Kenyon's points totaled 687.0, The 200 free relay team of that not informing the public is doing a disservice to the Kenyon in these three events, Ainsworth soundly beating second place I lope Heis, Churchill, Eaton, and Miller community. Holt added that not publicizing these cases also does a won her 26th career national tide, College's total of 295.0. set an NCAA record in their event disservice to the accused because die truth gets exaggerated when the most achieved by any male or The men took first in a host of with a time of 1:21.11. Of this rumors spread. female athlete ever in any division events, including diving, where victory Churchill commented, "we Bradley said that die College would definitely make such an

3-me- of college swimming. Her times John Butcher won the ter were focusing on that goal all sea- announcement "if wc think there's some usefulness in that" He said were 23.53 in the 50, 50.57 in the competition and also placed sec- son and to break it was really see POLICY page two 100, and 1:49.95 in the 200. ond and broke a Kenyon record on fulfilling." NEWS page two March 30, 1995 Search Committees Hire Cooper, Gensemer Replacements By Stephanie Adams multicultural director, she hopes to Co., she worked at De Pauw Uni- She praised the "strong tradi- Roy Wortman, professor of his- coa- versity and Wichita State in Kansas tion" of the CDC, she said she tory, said, "Maureen Tobin is Senior Staff Reporter strengthen the various student litions on campus. Furthermore, she in career planning related posi- hopes to develop more outreach thoughtful, very well organized, Kenyon recently completed said she was "looking forward to tions. She has worked at Ohio S tate programs in the dorms in order to and has a good sense of planning two searches for new administra- working with different groups since September. get the CDC "out of the office." for CDC activities and goals. She tors. Pamela Frost will replaceMila that includes faculty, staff and In a telephone interview, she Furthermore, she cited the "ongo- will relate very well to the students Cooper as the assistant dean of administration." said the CDC job at Kenyon ap- ing" challenge of establishing of Kenyon." studentsdirector of multicultural Dean of Students Craig Brad- pealed to her because she wanted relations with future employers as Dean for Academic Advising affairs, while Maureen Tobin will ley said, "Pam Frost was selected to be at a small, liberal arts college one of her priorities. She charac- Elizabeth Keeney said Tobin was become the new director of the based on the input from all involved. where there is more opportunity to terized her work philosophy as "to chosen because of "a good mix of Career Development Center She emerged as the clear leading work on a one-on-o- ne basis with work hard but have a great time." experience, enthusiasm, vision, and (CDC), taking over from Barbara candidate." students. Search committee member a wonderful 'fit' with Kenyon." Gensemer. Cooper is currently on "Pam Frostwas an impeccable maternity leave and soon hopes to candidate that stood out to us from return to school to earn her Ph.D. the very beginning of the search Gensemer, who is finishing up a process," said senior Wendoly five-year program in clinical psy- Ortiz. "The committee is ecstatic RAP Discusses 'Endangered' Black Male chology, plans to begin her that she will be joining the Kenyon internship. community." By Gianna Maio ner-cit- y counterpart reflected daily look within himself to bring Frost is the Coordinator of Cooper expects to return in Staff Reporter in the bathroom mirror. about change rather than wait Multicultural Support at Central July for most of the month, and All four panelists agreed that for someone else to take the lead. College in Pella, Iowa. She gradu- help Frost acclimate to her new "People see me walking it is important not to forget your Said Jones, "I rememberone ated from Central with a bachelor' s environment. down the street with my hat heritage as a successful black male of my first classes at Williams. degree in history, a minor in soci- Tobin, the assistant director of turned backwards and my baggy just to counteract the stereotypes. Our math professor asked us ology and a secondary teaching the Arts and Sciences Career Ser- clothes and they roll up their Sheffield said, "Marvis (Hood) where we thought the poverty certificate. At Drake University in vices at Ohio State, received her windows. The thing they don't should continue to wear his hat line was. I was thinking around Iowa she earned a master's of sci- undergraduate degree in marketing know is that I'm walking to the backwards. In my day, our way of $10-- $ 15,000 a year, since my ence degree in public with an emphasis in English Lit- library," said junior Brothers rebelling was growing afros. Don' t mother raised us on $20,000. administration. eral ure and psychology from Xavier United member Marvis Hood at stop doing African American People raised their hands and $35-50,0- a Feb. 27 discussion on the state things, because hopefully it will were saying between 00 In a telephone interview with University . She earned her master's the Collegian, Frost said, "I'm re- degree in college student personnel of black men in America help educate the rest of society, I couldn't believe it" It was ally excited about coming to at Indiana University. After work- The discussion, sponsored who is part of the problem." then that Jones realized he would Kenyon. I can't wait." As the ing for a time at Procter & Gamble by the Racial Awareness Pro- Mason added that he does not have to recognize he was in the gram (RAP) and the Brothers invest much faith in statistics, and minority and rely on himself to ADP Contests Kenyon's Legal United fraternity, focused on that the microcosm is the place to make an impact. whether the black man is an en- look to bring about change. He The other three panelists Motion; No Decision Reached dangered species and what can also raised the point that Kenyon agreed with Jones that looking . be done to fight stereotypes such College is an 81pcrcent tuition de- up to famous figures in society On March 10, Kenyon Col- motion. The position stated in this as those expressed by I Iood. pendent institution, so the voice of as role models is not ideal, espe- lege motioned for summary Memorandum is that, "This case Four black male members the students is an influential one. cially for black males. Their judgement in the lawsuit filed by turns on a simple breach of con- of the Kenyon College faculty Mason, a graduate of responses were prompted by a the Kenyon Chapter of the Alpha tract by Defendant Kenyon and administration were invited Wesleyan and Stanford questi on from senior Alex Dashe, Delta Phi fraternity (ADP) and College. The weight of all avail-ableeviden- ce to lead the discussion. Visiting Univeristies, said, "When I was in who asked who they think are ADP's alumni group, the East Wing concerning Kenyon's Assistant Professor of Art college students didn't wait for a positive leaders for the black Association. Summaryjudgement breach of contract is strictly ad- Dawoud Bey, Assistant Director voice from above, but rather took male community. is "a procedural device designed to verse to the movant" of Admissions Christopher action when they felt it necessary." SaidJones, "One leader can- terminate litigation without a trial "In view of the admitted Jones, Associate Professor of Bey also reflected on growing not speak for everyone. Black when there is no genuine issue as breach of the Agreement by English Theodore Mason, and up in a society where young people males are individuals." to any material fact," stated the Kenyon College and the conse- Assistant Professor of Sociology were not afraid to take action. Bey Mason added, "We are all Memorandum. quential damage to ADP, Plaintiffs and Legal Studies Ric Sheffield was a part of the desegregation leaders; many traits of leaders Within this Memorandum, respectfully requests that this Court expressedtheirviewsonthe prob- busing experiments and was bused are in us. Look around the room Kenyon attempts to demonstrate deny Defendant's motion," it said. lems all black men in society to predominantly white schools leaders will come from here." that ADPs claims are unfounded. No decision has yet been filed face, regardless of class or level from the third grade through high Bey mentioned Johnetta On March 24, ADP filed a in the Knox County Court of Com- of education. school. He then went on to receive Coles, president of Spelman Memorandumcontesting Kenyon's mon Pleas. Sophomore president of degrees from Empire State Col- College, and June Kelly, founder Brothers United Jamion Berry lege and Yale University. and director of the June Kelly opened the discussion by address- Said Bey, "I have shown up at Gallery in New York's Soho as IKnujim (Eflllpgtatt ing the grim statistics in the Dec. offices for ajob interview and have examples of who he considers 4 issue of the "New York Times been told that the delivery entrance role models.

Editors-in-Chle- f: Courtney Coughlin, Bertram Tunnell Magazine." Berry quoted the is around back." Despite his many Sheffield, who was raised Managing Editor: Amy B. Collier article's statistic that the leading experiences with ignorance, Bey in Mount Vemon and graduated News Editor: Greg Nock cause of death of black men be- feels that "I haveaheightened sense from Case Western Reserve Uni- News Assistant: Anne Dugan tween the ages of 15 and 24 is of difference and I need to main- versity, "couldn't wait to leave Perspectives Editor: Steve Lannen homicide. He also pointed to a tain my oppositional voice since it mid-Ohi- o" when he was grow- Features Editor: J.E. Luebering statement in the article that it's is so minimal." ing up. He looked to role models Sports Co-Edito- rs: Reverdy Johnson, Gwyneth Shaw BusinessAd Department: Amy B. Collier, Ted Hunter, Noble Jones impossible to be a successful Jones, a graduate of Williams such as Arthur Ashe because he Copy Editor: Gianna Maio black man and not see your in College, stated that he also had to see RAP page nine Galley Editor: George W. Stone Circulation Manager: Kate Comerford POLICY Professional Advisors: Michael Matros, Cy Wainscott EUROPE: Production Assistant: Stephanie Adams continued from page one Editorial Board: Rachel Baer, Amy B. Collier, Courtney Coughlin, that if a sexual assault occurred with rumors than a sense of an $199 ONE Steve Lannen, J.E. Luebering, Greg Nock, Bertram Tunnell and the perpetrator was not appre- unsafe situation" while an invest- WAYCARIBBEAN hended but the victim was able to igation is underway. He also The Kenyon Collegian is published every Thursday while the College is MEXICO: in session, except during examination and vacation periods. The views provide a description, that descrip- emphasized that the accused is al- expressed in the paper do not necessarily reflect the views of Kenyon tion would be given to the ways presumed innocent until $189 ROUNDTRIP College. Yearly subscriptions are $30.00; checks should be made payable community in order to increase the proven guilty. you can beat these XoThe Kenyon Collegian. We encourage letters to the editors. We cannot likelihood of identifying and ap- Bradley also said that any stu- If accept anonymous or pseudonymous letters. Our mailing address is prehending the assailant. He dent wishing to offer input is prices, start your Kenyon Collegian, Student Activities Center, Gambier, OH 43022. believes that "in a case that's welcome to discuss ideas or opin- Letters can also be submitted by VAX, addressed to either of the editors, own airline! months old the usefulness is lim- ions with him. TUNNELL or COUGHLIN no later than the to Air-Tec- Tuesday prior h LTD publication. ited." Bradley acknowledged that "It's important for people to 212-219-70- 00

427-530- rumors do distort the truth in such feel they can come talk to us about The Kenyon Collegian office phone numbers are (614) 6, 5307 situations, but said "I'd rather live this," he said. info aero tech.com March 30, 1995 page three OPINION OTTERS TO THE EDITORS Baumann Reacts to Adler and Schubel; Protects 'Turf March 21, 1995 ment tradition that does back at least ready-to-han- isn't settling for certainty. Not ask- Thus, not to ask whether the au- d, like a cookie cut- To the Editor: to Bacon, ofconquering nature rather ing, not thinking and not loveing the thors are right or not is ultimately ter. Thus, as a doctoral student, than living according to it, subject- truth are in fact the modes of dog- not to be fair to their viewpoint, or studying Renaissance history, and In your last issue before vaca- ing it scientifically and rationally to matism. I am glad to welcome even to take it seriously . They chal- doing a dissertation on a barely tion Professors Adler and Schubel human will and "solving" human Professor Schubel to the fight against lenge you to ask; to refuse that disguised atheist German human- took another shot at me in what no problems by doing so. It is precisely dogmatismandpolitical correctness, challenge is already to trivialize ist, I read contemporary scholars doubt many hoped would be the end not about staying in harmony with but whatever is the logical connec- them, first into mere historical ar- who "knew" that there were no of the argument. And if it were only nature, (which, I would imagine, tion he has in mind? tifacts, and second by subjecting atheists in the Renaissance. Yet a matter of Professor Adler assert- falls well short of the development The real and more interesting them to the dogmatic view of our their "knowledge" was in fact nothing his turf rights as aknower of Lao of the technology of antibiotics). charge is that to read a text for its contemporaries that the questions ing more than their distaste for the Tsu I might have serenely let mat- Within that agreement, liberals and truth means not to read it in its they demand to be asked and which heresy-huntin- g of previous gen- ters go. But, as patriotism is said to conservatives disagree about historical context, and thus inac- they purport to answer, cannot be erations of scholars and thus an be the last refuge of the scoundrel, wheather the more effective way of curately. If this were true it would asked and cannot be answered. expression of their contemporary, so hermeneutics seems to be that of overcoming nature is by govern- mean that the only way we could Finally, when an author isn' t given tolerant, liberal views. academics. Thus he and his college ment or by the private secotr. It is understand a text is by not asking if the respect of being taken seri- Thus, not only do I come to Professor Schubel used the occa- this superficial it is multi-cultur- resemblence which true. But why on earth is the ously, what happens is that he or more al but also to sion lo warn against the allegedly has apparently suggested the paral- latter a condition of the former? she is then judged by the historical more historical conclusions than unhistorical and uncontextual ways lel of Lao Tsu and Newt Gingrich to Indeed, to turn it around, if we context of the historian's day (e.g. my interlocutors. I am happy that Straussians are said to texts. read Professor Adler. want to know if a text is true, it is Aristotle supported slavery because we have much common ground in

And that is important as non-turf enough a An interesting, pro- obvious that first we must under- he was a Greek gentleman, Locke that we all seem to be opposed to pedagogic issue to deserve reply. tecting point emerges from this, I stand it. And since understanding was an apologist for the Glorious dogmatism or to projecting our course, now that writ- Of I'm think. Multiculturalism typicllay it means, (at least initially if not, as Revolution and the rising bour- own prejudices on to the past But I ing can't let the Lao Tsu question points us to the unfamiliar and ex- Professor Strauss taught, prima- geoisies) which actually is itself I would hope at a minimum that go entirely either. My main point otic. But it tends to assume that we rily), understanding it as it was merely a dogmatic projection of they would realize that there is no was that a paticular citation from already know ourselves well enough. intended to be understood by its the proudly objective scholar or choice to be made between under- Lao Tsu was remarkably unpro-gressive The failure to look far back enough author, in turn, we must under- his proudly objective teachers. standing a text sympathetically and and unliberal, allegedly a into our own tradition and see both stand its historical context, as best Paradoxically, it is the unwilling- within its context and asking about misinterpretation. Still, after the how diverse it is in itself and, above we can, as its author understood ness to accept the contemporary its truth, that they are inextricable smoke of erudition clears, we dis- all, how peculiar (in both senses of that context. Thus, as R.G. and dogmatic version of the his- linked, and that therefore we should cover that in Professor Adler' s view the word) its current dominant mani- Collingwood said, you can't un- torical context which is what get to talking about texts and their is Lao Tsu a lot like Machiavelli, festations are, can lead to seeing derstand Thucydides if you think a usually seems to be meant by crit- truth, rather than evoking bogey-perso- ns Ronald Reagan and Republicans in false or superficial analogies with trireme is a steamship. Thus not ics of Straussians who say that for the children. What say: general.Well, okay, but last I looked other cultures or kinds of thought. In surprisingly, and entirely contrary they do not read contextually. For "No fight, no blame?" (Or does none of those were high on the list of other works, serious to the caricature concocted by Pro- the students of Strauss the text that really mean "Repeal the ban Most Popular Progressives on multiculturalism for Westerners fessors Adler and Schubel, Leo engages and in many ways devel- on assault weapons?") American campuses. So, in fact, it might well (though not necessarily) Strauss did not teach his students ops its own understanding of its appears my main point wasn't begin with serious reflection on the to read without regard to the his- context; for the indignant critics, Sincerely, wrong. My second point, (and where West. And consider too how odd torical context, much less to "rush Hisorical Context seems to exists Fred Baumann we do disagree), was that the this argument has become, so that to impose valuej udgements" about "neoconservati ves" Professor Adler now the sinister Straussian them. Nor (as anyone who has ever Skinner Defends Pollack is mad at would have been appalled Eurocentrist insists on the true di- read any textual interpretation by by the passage too. But, Professor versity and significance of ancient Professor Strauss knows full well), To the Editors: there's not much to it. Satire is Adler responds, Lao Tsu is really Chinese thought, while the cham- did the author of "Persecution and I am aware that one of your constantly misunderstood. It is also just like them because they both pion of multiculturalism resolutely the Art of Writing" subscribe to columnists, Judah Pollack, is not extremely difficult, a lot harder to favor limited government. 1 Iere Pro- identifies it with the Republican the "simplistic hermeneutical prin- the most popular writer on campus. write than a few sentences on what fessor Adler is fundamentally party. ciple that the meaning of a text is And I wouldn't be surprised if you the new president said at a news misleading, not because he is wrong Well, then, on to textual inter- transparently evident on its sur- were feeling some pressure to dump conference or a glorified adver- about Lao Tsu (his turf), but be- pretation. Here is where Professor face." (Here I pass up the cheap his column. This, I assure you, would tisement for a play posing as a cause he doesn't understand Schubeljoins the fray. Unfortuately, shot of quoting Professor Adler to be a mistake. Maybe it would re- preview. Judah Pollack produces American conservatives (my turf; Professor Schubel's attack on himself about taking the minimal lieve some of the immediate solid satire and he takes aim at woof-woof- )- Professor Adler cor- "Straussians" is a caricature which, trouble to investigate the subject pressure, but remember, you are a many. (For instance, in his latest rects the translation I used of Lao conflated with Professor Adlcr's before pronouncing on it etc.) newspaper, not some official book- column that you rejected, he made Tsu from "doing nothing" to "doing indignation, gives a wholly inaccu- Whatever my sins as a teacher or let for the college which everyone is fun of the magazine I write for.) nothing contrary to nature." Well, rate picture of how the late Professor reader of texts, they aren't my supposed to like. Nor is the rest of Such is the nature ofopinion. Don' t while there have been some tradi- Leo Strauss read texts. So it is nec- teachers' sins. your newspaper so strikingly original be afraid of it. Embrace it. It has tionalist conservatives, (usually essary to correct the picture. Now, however, for the other and brilliant that you can afford to lose rejuvenated your newspaper more religious and mostly not American, First, the easy stuff. Professor side of the coin. If historical under- a solid thoughtful columnist, I should than I think you know. like, say, C.S. Lewis), who truly Schubel observes that there are all standing is your intention, say satirist, like Judah Pollack. Besides, can you imagine have had something in common with kinds of historical questions about understanding the author One of the first critics of people paying such attention to the Taoist love of an unchanging meaning, transmission and influ- hisotrically is not possible unless Jonathan SwiftVGulIiver'sTrav-els- " any of your other pieces? I can't. cosmic order, the conservatives Pro- ence of a text that don't require you you can comprehend the author's said that once you get through fessor Adler is so concerned about, to ask about its truth. Sure enough, understanding of the text. Indeed, the little people and the big people, David Skinner'95 hardly seem to. By constrast, Newt and so what? But he also worries you cannot even understand the Gingrich, Jack Kemp and Phil that asking about the truth of a text author's historical context without Gramm are all for doing something, will lead to the inculcation of a understanding the the aulhors's Spratford Pleas For Pollack natural or not, about ending crime, dogmatic "politically correct" line. understanding of the text beacuase debt, low savings, welfare, and abor- Specifically, he moves directly from your own understanding of the Dear Editors: lost and we would be relagated to tion and promoting the pursuit of a attributing to me the view that not context is in part (often in large I'm writing to offer my sup- discussing the finer points of die future technological Utopia. Just asking about the true and the just is part) compounded of your under- port for Judah Pollack's opinion composition of processed chicken think about Gingrich' s well-know- n shirking intellectual responsibility, standing of the text Now part of column. It has come to my atten- patties. Judah's sentiments are enthusiasm for Alvin Toffler's fu- to the assertion that there are people the author's understanding of the tion that his wonderful writings shared by many on the campus and turology and for all kinds of who in the academty and the House text is that in some importan t sense, mightbe taken from die Collegian's unfortunately, we don't speak up him often enough. Please hight-tec- h. Taois? I think noL So- of Representatives who want to she she or they, is or are, giving a pages. Please reconsider this ac- to praise cial engineering of the Right? I'm preach virtue and the superiority of truthful account of the subject tion! Although some of his consider this my wholehearted sup- afraid so. What that suggests, more Western Civilization. Say again? amtter. (Even Jacques Derrida got columns have been thought to be port and applause for his writings generally, is the fact that the conflict What do these two th ings have to do indignant when, according to him, offensive by some, his rare talent and please continue his column! between American conservatives with each other? Asking isn't an- his critic, the American philoso- and dry sense of humor entertain Thanks so much! and liberals proceeds, for the most swering, thinking isn't pher John Searle, misunderstood many. Without his column many part, securely within the Enlighten indoctrinating, and loving the truth and thus misrepresented him.) an exciting dinner debate would be Melanie K. Spratford'98 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT page four March 30, 1995 4 Jesus Christ' Actors Shine Despite Technical Problems By Rachel Orr Perhaps stronger acting along Despite technical difficul- Pilate was played by a woman did actor's style into their roles. a more dramatic ending ties, the singers presented fine not at all detract from the play; Perhaps the show would have Senior Staff Reporter with would have provided a clearer performances. Sophomore Mila Berg proved she could play the been better had it been performed Although Andrew Lloyd storyline. Thigpen portrayed a remarkable part, especially through her strong in Bolton, or another area which Webber and Tim Rice's "Jesus Another problem- - with the Mary Magdalene. From her first solo, "Pilate's Dream." Howard would have provided a better set- Christ Superstar" was not an show was the acoustics. Often in dancing entrance to her melodi- added a great touch of comedy re- ting with a larger stage. However, overall spectacular performance, musicals, the talent of the pit ous performance of the familiar lief through his solo, "King Herod's the simple scenery of the Rosse it definitely proved that there are band is masked by the chorus of number "I Don't Know How to Song." These two characters de- stage was a definite plus. As they many talented students in singers, and the musicians do Love Him," Thigpen demon- spite their relatively small roles, say, less is more, and the two black Kenyon Musical Theater. not receive the attention they de- strated her talents in both singing made considerable impressions sidepieces and cross in the center "Jesus Christ Superstar," is serve. However, this was not a and dancing. Sophomore Scott since they incorporated more of an added to the mood of the play. a very challenging musical to problem in the Saturday night Strickland, once again proved Themes of Holocaust and Imaginary produce well. One of the main show due to a combination of his singing abilities in the role reasons that this musical is diffi- weak microphones and loud vol- of Jesus. Senior Marc Lacuesta Animals Pervade Dance Thesis although cult to stage is because the ume from the band. The also sang well, he By Sarah Hurst five movement piece. storyline is developed through instruments were heard quite well tended to be too melodramatic Staff Reporter "Carnival of the Animals" song without relying on any dia- so well, in fact, that one had to throughout the play. rounds out the performance on a logue. Therefore, it is crucial that strain to hear the voices of the Sophomores Amanda Kay Juxtaposing solemnity and more light-hearte- d note. Withchil-dre- n the characters act while they sing lead singers. Yet when the heart Berg and Adam Howard, famil- playfulness in a two part concert, pretending to be various in order to deliver the message of the story is described through iar with the stage from past Julia Eisinger prepares to present animals as the focus of this second of the musical. The singing was song, it is crucial for the audi- productions, excelled in the her senior thesis exercise in honors half, Eisinger says that "one can excellent, yet something else was ence to hear exactly what the musical realm as well in their dance at Hill Theater on March 3 1 expect to see turtles, elephants, needed to draw the audience com-plete- ly characters are singing so they respective roles of Pontius Pilate and April 1. swans, baby birds, and even a wild into the performance. can understand the plot. and King Herod. The fact that With the aid of Jeremiah ass running around on stage." This Budzik to orchestrate lighting for piece is set to the same music as Bly Plays Guitar, Speaks From His Heart the entire performance, Eisinger's the first half, except this time per- production is ready after a year of formed by Camille Saint-Saen- s. By Amy B. Collier panied himself on a guitar from background. thinking and formulating. Eisinger has relied on the help re- Divided into two halves, the of lighting designer Jeremiah Senior Staff Writer Iran and chatted with the audience. An animated reader, he Beginning with a work by peated nearly all of his poems, first part, "GewaltHerrschaft" (rule Budzik to draft a lighting plot. He looked like the traditional Emily Dickinson, Bly explained varying the intonation and em- of violence in German), dedicates After intense concentration and beat poet an eccentrically at- that ifone feels a poem in the heart, phasis in each performance. This itself to the Holocaust Eisinger light manipulation, Budzik is tired man with a shock of white then that poem is understood. Tak- practice, he noted, helped one to consulted survivors' narratives and pleased with the results. "I'm re- hair taking to the stage the night of ing out the guitar, saying music understand a poem or piece of documentaries in order to produce ally happy with it," says Budzik, Wednesday, March 22. Robert Bly helps the understanding, he began writing from all angles. Bly also and enrich her dramatization. Set to "The dancers look wonderful, and sat, stood and paced the Bolton to recite his own poems and medi- "conducted" his speaking with the music of Dimitri Shostakovich's my lights stage as he read his poetry, accom tations with a simple tune as see BLY page nine 1940 Piano Quintet, op. 57, it is a see DANCE page nine Fulton Fulfills Promise, Presents Precise Poetry at 'Review' Reading By Professor Lewis Hyde Intermittently it garbles the voice Our Mary to Me") and ending ited herselfto poems about women. It's best to conscript them, the Special to the Collegian of anyone speaking into it, as if with several that recreate Ovid's for her work has a much wider way jazz repeats a slip until it protecting an undercover agent or Daphne and Apollo story. One range of concerns. One aspect of sounds right There is an art of The week before spring break, Mafia informer. Fulton had actu- of these, "A New Release," re- her poetry that interests me, for poetry here, one that willingly con- Alice Fulton, a poet who teaches ally brought her own microphone, vises the script so that Daphne is example, is her attention to the ac- fuses the distinction between at the University of Michigan, so she clearly wanted an amplifier, a mixture of Emily Dickinson and cidents of life. Why are people bom accidents and essences, between came to read as part of a celebra- but halfway through the reading the Amelia Earhart while Apollo has in a particular town, with those par- what happens and design. Or tion sponsored by the "Kenyon audience rebelled and we unplugged a touch ofFrank Sinatra and Elvis. ticular parents? Why do people meet rather, in this art, as in jazz, what Review" honoring the twenty-fift- h the offending device. In the original, Cupid has a certain person and fall in love, happens becomes substantial by anniversary of women at Kenyon. Even before that, it was clear struck Daphne with one of his rather than another person? There is virtue of poetry. We were a slightly spare au- that the poems were wonderfully arrows; in Fulton's revision, he design to any life, but there are also Again and again Fulton's po- dience in Peirce Lounge that precise and complicated. In re- has sent her hit records. In my random elements and it isn't al- ems pull off that small magic trick, evening, and there was the usual sponse to this twenty-fift- h favorite section of these new po- ways obvious which is which. making a world from the contin- fuss with a microphone. The Col- anniversary, Fulton chose a group ems, Fulton likens Daphne's In terms of classical philoso- gencies of language and event lege seems to own one public of poems having to do with metamorphoses to the quantum phy, accidents are non-essential They do so, however, conscious address system, and I suspect it is women's experience, beginning shifts of subatomic particles. attributes of something (hair color, of the fragility of such creations. the one my uncle assembled from with one that reproduced some of My one disappointment with for example, is an accidental attribute Fulton's poems exhibit a desire as a heath kit just after World War II. hermother's family stories ("From the reading was that Fulton lim- - of humans; if a person's hair turns well for real substances, what in from brown to grey, he or she is still her poem, "Self S torage," she calls 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 j human.) In her poem, "The Pivotal , "inflammatory abstracts: love, for- Kingdom," Fulton writes: giveness, faith." When we turned F I m EH off the crackling microphone that 3 l s 3 As Socrates said night we were, without quite real- life's intrinsic izing it enacting an element of By RachelIEngelke popular cult movies. It's not just "Blade Runner" the soul accidental art, for her poems are to but Fulton's a an Wed., April 10 Biology Staff Reporter film, it's event. The catchy 5, p.m. to the body.... often located on the edge between avid tunes, audience participa- Aud. the clarity of desired substances "Reefer Madness" Harrison Ford stars as Rick tion, and countless number of In my book inclusions are not and the static of surrounding Friday, 8 p.m., Rosse Hall viewings on the Deckard, a former cop who is re- part of "Rocky" accidents, though accidents exist accidentals. This 1936 anti-marijua- na fans has been the reason for its luctantly assigned to track down movie has become a cult classic. undying longevity. Bostwick and cyborgs, or artificial humans, built It's very silly, sometimes funny, Sarandon star as Brad and Janet, through genetic engineering. In House Specials: All-U-C- an Eat & Salad All-Americ- Mon: Pizza but nonetheless still popular. Lilian the an straight couple Set in Los Angeles in the 21st Pizza Discounts! Save $$$ Miles' frenzied piano solo is a high- who are stranded with a bunch of century, thescifi thriller is remark- Wed: Thurs: All-U-C- an Eat Spaghetti light weirdos in Transylvania, headed able in its special effects and visual by Dr. Frank N. Furter (Curry). appeal. Rutger Hauer co-stars as "The Rocky Horror Picture Its story of sex, transvestites, the leader ofthe androids and Sean Delivery Available 7 Nights a Week 5 p.m. - 1:45 a.m. Show" and rock music has become one Young makes a star-turni- ng per-

Saturday , midnight, Wertheitner of THE pop-culture phenom-enon- s formance as a young cyborg who Fieldhouse of the last IS years. thinks she's human. Ridley Scott's Phone: Tim Curry, Barry Bostwick, Fellow Kenyon students will play 1993 director's cut is a major im- VylJtfOVTTV JOj 427-560- 4 or 427-215- 2 and Susan Sarandon star in this the parts of the movie's heroes provement on the 1982 original, We accept Personal Checks, Visa, 1975 spoof of horror movies that Saturday night in Wertheimer. especially in the dropped Ford and Mastercard has rapidly become one of the most FUN FOR ALL!! voiceovers. March 30, 1995 page five ARTS & ENTER TAINMENT Legacy of Spacemen 3 is Apparent on Spiritualized's 'Pure Phase' By Andrew Kotowicz Pierce's lyrical delivery is still The influence of the Space- compliment to either Spiritualized WKCQ Reporter completely deadpan, and the mu- men 3 slowly burns on in or Spacement 3. Their new album, sic, still repetitive. Pierce's ability underground rock. The band Fly- "Further," should be out on Drag Trying to turn people on to the as a composer, arranger and pro- ing Saucer Attack produces lo-- fi City label next month. Tune-i- n and drone-roc- k a-cert- now defunct kings, ducer, however, has reached ain soundscapes that lie somewhere zone-ou- t, baby. Spacemen 3, has usually yielded r . degree of sophiscation. between the Spacemen's droning

- same .'V- se the results: they are constantly V Songs like "These B lues" and "Lay minimalism and the luscious (WKCO already has a pre-relea- accused of building their songs up Back In The Sun" are simple, but noizebath of My Bloody Valen- of "Further" and will take requests to intensity, but failing to deliver. shining moments on the album. tine. They provide the perfect atpbx5411.) To which I can only say, "You just Take "Funhouse" era Stooges, don't get it, do you?" clean it up, add a string section, Women ofCalabash Visit Kenyon This is not, of course due to keyboard, harmonica saxo- and Kenyon College will host the Latin Americans, and peoples of the any fault on the part of the listener. Spiritualized phone, and drench the entire thing musical ensemble Women of the Caribbean. Performances are inter- Spacemen 3 is definitely not for "Pure Phase" was released on in mind altering effects like Calabash on Saturday, April 1, at woven with dialogue about the history everyone. The lumbering, relent- March 28. On "Pure Phase," Pierce, fa-zo- r, and there flanger, etc., you 3 p.m. in Rosse Hall. and nativeplaying techniques of their less nature ofmost of their work, to or Jason Spaceman, to which he is have Pierce weaves the songs it Combining contemporary in- instruments. the average listener can seem ob- referred in the liner notes, draws with spacey, electronic together fluences with the rich heritage of The performance, sponsored by scenely repetitive. I would not be from the same pool of influences interludes that make you feel like traditional African musk, this group the Black Studnet Union, Crozier the least bit surprised if I learned as Spaceman 3. For instance, he headin' the local science down to uses instruments made from bam- Center for Women, Social Board, that the Spacemen 3 were indeed still emulates the sonic meltdown center to take in the latest hard-shelle- boo, d gourds, or wood Twenty-Fiv- e Years of Women at government specialists in mind the Stooges and the MC5, the of Omnimax movie. and their voices to perform music Kenyon, and Fun Funds, is free and control, on a mission to hypnotize mellow side of the Velvet Under- "Pure Phase" is far from flaw- of Africans, African-American- s, open to the public. the masses with rock (all under the ground and the minimalism of 80s less, and at times, "Pure Cheeze" guise of stringy-haire- d British junk- underground new wave champi- seems like a more appropriate title. Violins Featured in King's Noyse ies who still live at home with their ons, Suicide. This much has gone For your music dollar, you'd be The King's Noyse, an ex- Rosse Hall. parents.) unchanged. better off going back and check- ample of that most popular In addition to director Douglass, After Spacemen 3's breakup The title of the album's opening out the newly re-released Renaissance consort, the violin the ensemble is composed of Rob- in 1991, Sonic Boom (Pete ing track, "Medication" indicates Spacemen 3 records. "The Perfect band, will present Kenyon ert Mealy, violin and viola; Scott Kember) went on to form Spec- that there is quite a bit of thematic Prescription," for instance, is just College's second Kenneth Taylor Metcalfe and Jane Starkman, vio- trum, and Jason Pierce formed continuity between the music of what its title suggests, and it's Concert on Saturday, April 1 . The las; Emily Walhout, bass violin; Specialized, whose new album Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized. available over-the-count- er at many group, which takes its name from Barbara Weiss, harpsichord; and of finest record boutiques. jour the collective term used in the soprano Ellen Hargis. "Gump" in- Takes Six At Oscars WKCO Renaissance for a number of The program offered at Kenyon By Rachel Engelke struments, as in a "noise of is entitled "Buckeburgand Its Legacy: Staff Reporter Top Five Albums violins," will perform at 8 p.m. in The Violin Band in Germany." Well, it was definitely a predictable night in Hollywood. The 1. Mike Watt came out in high fashion, the political causes were represented stars Ball-ho- g or Tugboat?, Bookstore Bestsellers well pleading for the National Endowment of the Arts was the Columbia Five BestselUng books from the Kenyon Bookstore leader of the evening and, as always, Oscar overlooked some of the are not listed by order of'popularity. best films of the year to stick with the comfortable. But that's a given. 2. Archers of Loaf Vee Vee, Alias "Celestine Prophecy" BEST PICTURE: James Redfield, Warner BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: 3. Guided By Voices "Forrest Gump" "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories" Dianne Wiest "Bullets over BEST ACTOR: Box, Scat James Finn Garner, Macmillan Publishing Co. Tom Hanks "Forrest Gump" Broadway" 4. Ivy "Shipping News" BEST ACTRESS: ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Realistic, Seed E. Annie Proulx, Simon & Schuster Quentin Tarantino, Jessica Lange "Blue Sky" 5. Portishead "Daisy-Hea- d Mayzie" BEST DIRECTOR: Roger Avary "Pulp Fiction" Dr. Seuss, Random House Go Discs Robert Zemeckis'TbrrestGump" ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Dummy, "Chicken Soup for the Soul" BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Eric Roth "Forrest Gump" London Jack Canfield and Mark Hansen, Pubby Health Comm., Inc. Martin Landau "Ed Wood" information courtesy of WKCO

(Ed. Note: The following is not a com- Veruca Salt, Hazel and Squash DelAmitri Camp Nowhere plete listing of Columbus area events. Blossom April 12, $7.50$10.00 Simple Twist of Fate Art Exhibits Information isfrom the Columbus Dis- Wed.,$12.50$14.00 DanzigMarylin MansonlKorn Fatal Fury patch unless otherwise noted.) Newport Music Hall April 18,$18.50$20.00 To be released on April 4: "The McLean Mix: 1722 N. High SL Ekoosdk Hookah Hellhound Rainforest Installation" April 19, $5.00$6.00 The Pagemaster April 3,4 Music Upcoming Concert Information Palace Theater Priscilla: Queen of Desire Main Gallery 34 W. Broad St Silent Fall Mount Vernon Nazarene College of Boxcar Jackie Terrasson Trio Branch Rickey Arena, (614)469-093- 9 information courteiy Fri., 8 p.m., $16 Ohio Wesleyan University, Johnny Cash VideoTJlalI "Photorealism? includingpaintings

368-318- "Shadowlands" Yakeshi Yamade Weigel Hall Auditorium (614) 7 April 8 $20.50$23.50 by 3-- Wexner Center for the Arts Westerville Curtain Players April 28 8:30 pm., $7$5 N. High St. at 15th Ave. The Samples Fri and Sat, Main Gallery and Foyer Gallery Harlem Road April 8, $8.00 Movies 5691 Mount Vernon Nazarene College Columbus Symphony Orchestra Mahler's Symphony No. 2 Newport Music Hall Opening Friday: "Before theYelbw Kid: Precursors ("Resurrection") 1722 N. High St. Circle of Friends Lectures of the Comic Strip"

Fri. and 8 $9 - $40 228-358- through April 21 , Sat, pjn., (614) 2 Tommyboy Ohio Theatre, 39 E. State St. Born to Be Wild Alasdair Maclntyre OSU's Cartoon, Graphic and Pho- "Should We Continue to Pay for Moonlight Drive Tank Girl tographic Arts Research Library the Liberal Arts?" 17th Mall Jackyl April 7, $5.00$6.00 information courtesy of AMC 27 W. Ave. tonight, 8pm 292-053- 8 Sat,$16.50$18.00 The Samples call (614) Slayter Hall Auditorium, Denison Newport Music Hall April 9, $12.50514.00 New Video releases: 1722 N. High St Samiam Wes Craven's New Nightmare April 10, $4.50$5.00 Love Affair FEATURES page six March 30,1995 Urban Pirates snd Anti-Tap- es Maeck to Introduce Midwestern Premier of His 'Decoder' Three-Da- y Visit of German Filmmaker to Include Discussion, Party

By Luebering tended to make people content and '- J.E. TVS - rtrtM-- ' 3T' ...i.v.- ii?re-' Features Editor passive, she explains. "Decoder," If You Go... however, portrays Einstiirzende "Total serendipity" is how Neubauten band member F.M. IV01T rebellious use of music Donna Heizer, visiting assistant Einheit's -- r I professor of the Integrated Pro- German avant-gard-e film- against Muzak and its effects. gram of Humane Studies (IPHS), maker Klaus Maeck's In the film, Einheit notices the describes German avant-gard- e screening of "Decoder" incessant Muzak piped into a fast-foo-d three-da- y is filmmaker Klaus Maeck's WHEN restaurant. "What the visit to Kenyon. connection between these dumb-face- d Heizer recounts that last fall Today at 7 p.m. and contented people, she first contacted Maeck to se- MERE . gorging themselves on one ham- cure a copy of his 1983 cult classic Biology Auditorium burger after another, and the "Decoder," along with two other monotonously happy Muzak ooz- films by the Hamburg native, for ing out the speakers?" he asks. r - . her Art and Authority II class. mons, with music provided by the "Perhaps there is some sort of rea- Maeck, who has remained in con- Art Brutes. son for poisoning the air with tact with Heizer since then, called According to Heizer, Maeck's acoustic junk and our bodies with pi? m her in January with a question: "Decoder" became a "real under- this plastic food?" since he would be in New York ground phenomenon" when it was The film then follows Einheit City in March, would she mind if first released in Germany. Soon as he discovers that Muzak can be he called her? after its first showings in small manipulated so that it becomes a "Would you mind if I gave theaters, the film quickly spread "brain poison." He eventually cre- "anti-tape- " you a plane ticket to come out across Europe. . ates an filled with here?" Heizer replied. "Decoder" which explores manipulated Muzak, the sounds of society in "Decoder" was "very Portrait of William S. Burroughs" Maeck's visit begins today the potential for information tech- rituals carried out by urban pirates, visionary," notes Heizer, adding (1988) and "Liebeslieder Love with a 7 p.m. screening and discus- nology to control people's lives and frog noises which, when that he "was way ahead of his Songs : The Music ofEinsturzende sion of "Decoder" in the Biology was popular for two primary rea- played, induces nausea at a fast-foo-d time." Neubauten" (1994), both of which Auditorium. This screening will sons, explains Heizen the music restaurant and mass civil The film also features an ap- Heizer has placed along with be the Midwestern premier of the and the questioning of American disobedience across the city. pearance by William S . Burroughs, "Decoder" on reserve in the film, which has only been shown commercial imperialism. The Because of the film's empha- a Beat poet and hero of European library. He has also produced nu- publically twice in the United film's music is by the groups Psy- sis on music, "Decoder" has little avant-gard- e culture. merous music videos. States, according to Heizer. chic TV, Soft Cell, and dialogue. Because the dialogue also According to Heizer, Maeck Maeck, who was 23 when he Maeck also will be available Einsturzende Neubauten, all of alternates between German and did a significant amount ofresearch made "Decoder," currently owns a for open discussion on Friday from which were involved with the de- ...English, Heizer has placed synop- into Muzak before making "De- publishing company in Hamburg 1 to 3 p.m. in Timberlake House. A velopment of industrial music. ses of the film in the bookstore to coder." His constant interaction and, according to Heizer, is still public reception and party will be The film itself revolves around aid comprehension. with early industrial music groups immersed in avant-gard- e culture.

anti-Muz- thrown for him on Saturday from 8 -- "using music in an ak Maeck's exploration of infor- in part influenced the creation of Maeck's visit is sponsored by p.m to midnight in Gund Com- - way," says Heizer. Muzak is in mation technology's impact on the film, theorizes Heizer, as did the Office of the President, the Burroughs' work. Luce Professorship ofArt and Poli- ' Maeck's other films include tics, the department of religion, His Vivid' Poetry Lauded for Its 'Deep "Commissioner of the Sewers: A and IPHS. Power McDonald to Read from Works Cropsey To Speak on Plato By Amy Rich tience cattle, stones, human ex their vision links Senior Staff Reporter If You Go... perience, sky By Eric Harper the deep horizons on every side." Staff Reporter If You Go... Texas-bor- n novelist Elmer McDonald's poems "derive a BUT "The lecture is not for a select Kelton has described Walter great deal of their power from the M4T McDonald's "vivid" poetry as "the Poet and fiction writer land itself," writes poet Andrew group ofpeople. The goal is for the as a whole to learn some- Political philosopher visual imagery of the high plains' Walter McDonald's Ohio Hudgins. "The rest of their deep students wide-ope- n thing new about Socrates," said Joseph Cropsey lecture flat and sky and their Poetry Circuit power comes from McDonaI his 's emotional impact the people clear, but never cold, eye; his sure Pamela Jensen, professor of politi- 'Plato Socrates by Way upon Reading on who live there." sense ofphrase and rhythm; his love cal science, ofthe upcoming lecture of Parmenides" McDonald will share that vi- of a land that requires much love by Joseph Cropsey, the last event MEX sual imagery when he reads from Sunday at 8 p.m. from those who would love it" of this year's Bradley Lecture Se- Monday at 8 his work on Sunday at 8 p.m. in Before teaching at Texas Tech ries. pjn. Peirce Lounge as part of his tour University, McDonald served as a Cropsey, a prominent politi- WHERE of Peirce Lounge the Ohio Poetry Circuit pilot in the United S tates Air Force cal theorist and professor of Biology Auditorium McDonald is currently the and taught at the Air Force Acad- Political Science at the University Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Education. emy. His experiences in the Air of Chicago, will present his lecture tion of seven of the philosopher's

ce on Socrates by Way dialogues." English and poet-in-residen- at Much of McDonald's poetry Force, primarily during the Viet- "Plato of Texas Tech is based on his observations of the nam War, are another influence on Parmenides" As Jensen further explained, University, West Texas plains in which he his work and serve as the sole topic ' on Monday at the lecture is also an opportunity t 0 i ...I u t lives, as evidenced by his book ofhis collection of fiction, "A Band U y.UI. Ill Ull for students to broaden their knowl- ' SerVeS aS titles: "Where Skies Are Not of Brothers: Stories from Viet- Biology Audi- edge and understanding of I j torium Prinrtn Socrates, the study whom is I director of cre--L Cloudy," "Rafting the Brazos," and nam," in addition to several of his of i S 1 fi 1 ative writing. "The Digs in Escondido Canyon." collections of verse. the evening often limited to "The Republic." JasephCropsey Waiter McDonald HeistheauthOT He describes this region in "McDonald is many things: The intent of Cropsey's lec- of fourteen collections of poetry which he lives as "a thousand miles pilot professor, poet and writer of sey will conduct an informal dis- ture is two-fol- d. He first hopes to and one book of fiction, in addition of parchment under the will of short stories," Robert Flynn writes cussion entided "Are the Ancient further explain the views that Plato to having had more than 1,200 heaven." in his prologue to "A Band ofBroth- Thinkers Relevant to Modern presents in his works, but he also poems published. "His subject is-Texa- s," reports ers." "Yet, above all these things, Times?" at 4:15 p.m. in Peirce hopes to explore Parmenides His many awards and honors former "Kenyon Review" editor or in all these things, he is a teacher. Lounge. views on metaphysics and the cos- range from three National Cow- Terry Hummer, "and he's big Not an educator...but a teacher in "The lecture will be a continu- mos. boy Hall of Fame's Western enough to deliver it" its simplest and finest meaning; a ation of the topics discussed in his "The lecture will attempt to Heritage Awards to the title of Poet Naomi Shihab Nye has person who lives what he means." book 'Plato's World,"' said Jensen. show Parmenides as one of Texas Professor of the Year in observed, "Borne of the grit of McDonald's latest book, The new book, explains Jensen, is Socrates' teachers, and at the same 1992, awarded by the Council for labor and the apprehension of so "Counting Survivors," will be pub- a "reflection on man's place in the time show what Parmenides' own the Advancement and Support of many simultaneous worlds of pa lished this April. cosmos, by way of the interpreta see CROPSEY page rune March 30, 1995 page seven FEATURES Women's Health Symposium Exudes 'Positive and Progressive' Spirit By Courtney Coughlin Senior Kate Comerford found makes experimentation with new treme dating situation on this cam- acupuncturist Stephanie Kaplan thought-provokin- g. Co-Editor-in-C- Hill's lecture identities pus, hief difficult it was humorous and '76, natural healing practitioner "This talk was particularly poi- "Brown was helpful because enlightning to learn that the situa- Ann Kyle, and social worker Relationships.body image and gnant for me since one of my closest she focused on issues related spe- tion has not changed since Brown Merrill Tomlinson '73. midwifery were among the sub- friends experienced the worst side cifically to Kenyon relationships was a student," noted sophomore Of the Women's Health Sym- jects addressed during the of an eating disorder," she ex- of all kinds," said senior Sarah Lincoln Brown, a member of the posium, Bothe said, "The spirit of Women's Health Symposium plained. "It makes me so angry and Bothe. "Due to her professional 25 Years of Women Committee. the weekend was positive and pro- workshops offered Saturday. frustrated to realize where the pres- training and the fact that she went After a small group session, gressive, and the lectures and Women and a few men sure to be thin comes from and I to Kenyon, I think she offered es- the panel presentation "Choices in workshops offered were diverse of all ages gathered in Peirce see so many women at Kenyon pecially useful and relevant Health Care" took place. The panel enough that anyone, male or fe- Lounge to register for a wide vari- suffering from it" insight" consisted of certified professional male, had the opportunity to learn ety of workshops on women's Hill has co-author- ed a cur- "Despite the sometimes ex midwife Abbey Kinne, licensed a great deal." heal th.Choicesfortheday included riculum guide for the prevention Dr. Phoebe Brown's "Like, Love ofeating disorders and related con- For Senior Art Exhibitions, Perspective Is AH and Lust What Makes It Last," Dr. ditions, such as negative body perspective" to capture certain Upconawitz. Laura Hill's lecture "Body Image image, with Professor of Psychol- By Eva McClellan "a smile" or image that a regular pho- Since high school, Peck has Through the Ages," and a panel ogy Michael Levine. Staff Reporter tograph involved with discussion on health care options, After attending two morning cannot been art because Foran gallery accustomed "You capture more than one she enjoys "working with my among others. workshops, participants dined in art to serene month-lon- g exhibits, the single image," Adams explains. hands and creating something "The symposium was a high- Lower Dempsey. The speakers sat weekly rotation of artwork at the "You capture a moment in time, a from an idea that's in my head light of the year-lon- g celebration at different tables to facilitate dis- Olin Art Gallery caused by the continuous moment in time." that's not necessarily reality." of 25 years of women atKenyon cussion in areas of their expertise. yearly exhibition of senior art ex- An array of Dalesandro's Reality also can be inter- because it was truly a team effort," The afternoon sessions in- ercises, which continues through sculptures set against the backdrop preted as the distorted images of said Director of Alumni and Par- cluded Brown's lecture on April 22 is a striking change of ofthree paintings fraught with geo- Smith's work. The drawings she ent Affairs Lisa Schott. "We relationships, both platonic and pace. metric shapes and shimmering with has selected to display will mostly couldn't have accomplished all we romantic. Brown examined rela- The artwork of Jamie Mont-gomer- y, stained-glass-lik- e luminescence be oil stick on paper. "Themati-call- y, did without the students who tionships at Kenyon in particular Chris Adams and completes the exhibition. some of the work is about guided the planning, contacted and explored what issues couples Elizabeth Dalesandro itself pro- The work of Katherine Peek, presenting internal and external speakers, and publicized the event" should consider for long-ter- m com- vides a striking examination of Sloan Smith and Heather Knape identity and emotion," she ex- Dr. Laura Hill, a licensed clini- mitments. the concept of perception. This will be featured in Olin Gallery on plains. "The forms are mostly cal psychologist, has extensive As a Kenyon graduate of 1 979 week's exhibition, which ends Monday through Saturday, April derived from distortions and ab- clinical experience in helping and a woman who married a man Saturday, features city scenes by 8. Their exhibition will be the third stractions of the human figure." people with eating disorders. In a from her class, she claimed, "I Montgomery, montage photogra- of five senior exercise exhibitions Some of the inspirational art- morning workshop. Hill offered married a man that I never had a phy by Adams, and sculpture and this spring. ists in her life include Francis an informative and engaging lec- date with." She discussed the pros paintings by Dalesandro. Peek's exhibited works will Bacon, Max Beckmann and Ross vi-ronm- ture on body image. She used slides and the cons of Kenyon as an en ent The different perspectives include five or six paintings and Bleckner. "I think that their work from history and advertisements to for relationships and the self-portrai- portrayed by Montgomery's col- three sculptures, many. ts. is formally very beautiful, yet explain that body image reflects specific "rules" for couples on this orful works, each of which has a She is interested in print sublime and bizarre at the same the norms of specific cultures and campus as compared to other envi- story beneath it, are comparable making Japanese prints in par- time, she says. how it is used to control women ronments. to the photo montage works of ticular and admires the worksof Knape will exhibit a collec- 33-billion-dol-lar-- and to maintain a a-year In addition, Kenyon's small, Adams. He likes to "play with a Judy Chicago and Magdelina tion of her photographs. diet industry. static population, said Brown,

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' FEATURES page eight March 30, 1995 Assitant Professor of Philosophy times when it's not polite to do Andrew Pessin attended Yale Uni- that For example, when you're versity as a physics and philosophy having ordinary conversations with major, while there he primarily imt)ll1ti1i(tt mini '! t --. tti't i- - non-philosophical people, or even pre-me- " took physics and d classes, '. t' with philosophical people in a more "then rounded it out with philoso- relaxed mood, you don't want to phy." After deciding not to go to be challenging all their premises medical school, Pessin spent two ' and forcing clarification. They'll years in California "reading all the " ,7 - resent it, and it won't make for humanities which I had missed t good friendships or relationships. during college." A year at Boston Sometimes you want to let an un- University's"Science,Philosophy clear statement lie or a bad and Religion" graduate program argument go through because other followed, where he decided to pur- things are more important. sue pure philosophy. He ultimately earned his doctorate in philosophy Q. What do you do in your spare at Columbia University. time?

Q. Tell me about the evolution of A. What spare time? your interest in philosophy throughout your undergraduate and Q. Let me rephrase the question. graduate work. '"v I i What kind of music do you like or ! 7 literature do you read? A. I could even go back a bit further than my undergraduate work. A. I like all kinds of music, al- In some respects I've always been though I definitely concentrate interested in philosophy or in be- mostly on jazz. I play guitar and ing philosophical, driven by an piano, and have composed a lot of interest primarily in the nature of songs, though I haven't had much the mind. ... I remember being iTtmii time to do so lately. I'm a fan ofold pretty young, 12 or 13, and just movies, and I like long novels. In thinking the following question: 1 fact, after college I moved to Cali- teinInterview by Andrea Emmert "When I think about myself, what fornia thinking I'd go to graduate am I thinking about and what's and form considerations. The sheer tion to show that even given that which is somehow more central. school in literature. I wrote a novel doing the thinking?"That question content is and can be very interest- assumption, helior she should study Are there some areas philoso- while there, but never tried of out always gripped me. That question ing since philosophers ask some philosophy. Even given that other phy which infect all the other areas? publishing iL Personally, I liked it led to my being interested in all of the most fundamental questions things are interesting, you should Some areas might be more periph- a lot, but by the time it made the sorts of other things too ques- about things. No matter what you're study philosophy because it will eral. Then, perhaps philosophy of round ofmy friends, most ofwhom tions about the nature of the world. interested in, there's a philosophi- inherit all that interestingness. mind is most important, because I were distinctly less impressed than ... I ended up doing my dissertation cal aspect to that thing. You might might argue that philosophy of I was, I realized that it needed a on the philosophy of mind. I was say "I'm not interested in philoso- Q. What is the relationship be- mind is underneath ethics in some little reworking before I could sub- interested in the nature ofconcepts phy, I'm interested in physics." By tween literature and philosophy? respect. You really can't have a mit it anywhere. Nothing major, in particular, trying to get a better studying philosophy you really fully fleshed-ou- t, coherent ethical just new plot, new characters, new angle on what we mean when we study everything else. There are A. A tough question. Each is ex- theory unless you delve into issues style, things like that. ascribe a concept to someone, when philosophical questions raised by tremely worth pursuing, studying, in philosophy of mind. However, we say that somebody or even physics. If you study pure physics enjoying but perhaps indepen- it may also be possible to delve Q. You have appeared on David something has a concept. There you might not get to the philo- dently of each other. Maybe that's into philosophy of mind without Letterman a few times. Can you are a number of competing theo- sophical questions, but ifyou study because good fiction writers aren't delving into ethics. So by this cri- tell me about those experiences? ries about how best to understand the philosophy of physics you're so frequently trained in philoso- terion, philosophy of mind would the concept of concept. ... I fo- going to get both the physics and phy. ... And good philosophers be more important than ethics. It A. I joined MENS A in New York cused on one contemporary the philosophy. Philosophy is a aren't so frequently good writers. may even be that metaphysics is City, and Letterman wanted 63 philosopher named Jerry Fodor, very parasitic discipline it On the other hand, philosophically more important than philosophy of MENSA memebers to do a skit, who had a particular view of con- largely depends on something else. stimulating fiction can be truly ter- mind because philosophy of mind which involved passing a soda can cepts which I criticized and It's always the "philosophy of rific. Beckett comes to mind here: raises the most fundamental meta- from the soda machine upstairs attacked and tried to develop an something." ... Then there's also although you don't find any ex- physical issues. Even if you set a down to him on the stage. The alternative to. I was very fortunate the form, the process. Learning plicit philosophy being done in his criterion there's no guarantee that camera passed by me for half a that Fodor was in New York and how to think clearly is something works, there's a philosophic type it's going to be easy to apply it and second, so that was my half a sec- teaches at the City University of that's relevant to just about every of reflectiveness, analyticalness, get a distribution. So having said ond on Letterman for the year. The New York and Rutgers Unive- other discipline. The distinction and quest for clarity. all that, I guess I'd say there's no next year they wanted to do a skit rsity, so I was able to sit in on a between the empirical sciences and clear answer to your question. called "The Fat Guy, The Strong couple ofhis classes, show him my philosophy is a very recent one, Q. Do you feel there are any philo- Guy and The Genius," and they work, and get his feedback. really only in the last few 100 sophical issues which are intrinsically Q. Has the philosophic way of needed the "genius." So they just years. Newton saw himself as do- more important than others? thinking affected your daily life or randomly called up six guys offthe Q. Do you intend to continue pursuing natural philosophy for him routine? MENSA list from the previous year ing this topic over the next several physics was just a species of phi- A. That itself is a philosophical and had us audition. ... I got picked years, or do you have new interests? losophy. If you think about the issue. Certainly some things inter- A. It's certainly affected my daily for the skit The skit involved way physics proceeds, it is fre- est me more than other things. The life. Do I do things the way I do Letterman taking us around to A. I still do and will have an inter- quently similar to the way problem is the criteria of what because I am a philosopher, or, am various people and asking if they est in the philosophy of mind...but philosophy proceeds, so form and counts as important is itself up for I a philosopher because I do things had something for the fat guy to after spending a few years absorbed process are also considerations. ... grabs. One possible criterion of the way I do? I can't separate those eat, the strong guy to break, and a in a topic it's refreshing to look at Philosophy is worth studying be- importance would be practical rel- two questions. My philosoph-icalnes- s question for the genius to answer. some other things. My focus here cause it's got the most interesting evance. If that's the case maybe is with me throughout all I was braced for awful philosophi- is more in metaphysics and the questions, it encompasses just ethics and applied ethics are the my waking hours. ... I also know cal questions like "What's the philosophy of religion. The things about all other disciplines, and it most important areas of philoso- that sometimes you have to know meaning of life?" but it aimed out I've written and published have all focuses on developing the most phy. Metaphysics would be the to turn off the philosophicalness. that most people asked trivia ques- been in philosophy of mind so far, basic critical and analytical skills. least important in that respect As you notice here, I sometimes tions. "Who hit the most home but I'm aiming over the summer to I answered the question that way Maybe philosophy of religion ask you 4o clarify your question, runs in the American League in do some work in these other areas. because the question was asked in would be somewhere in between "Do you mean this or do you mean 1974?", "What's the area code of a way inviting a defensive answer. them because you study the argu- that?" That's the philosopher in New Jersey?", "What's the New Q. Why should a student study The implication was "Other things ments for and against the existence me. Ifbeing a philosopher is insist-in- g York State sales tax?" It's unfor- philosophy? are more interesting than philoso- of God and that may have practical on extreme clarity of tunate because I could do better phy, why should I study relevance. ... If the criterion is presentation and only accepting with "What's the meaning oflife?" A. First of all, there are two sorts of philosophy?" So I was trying to purely within philosophy then good arguments or criticizing bad than I could with the trivia answers. There are both content use the questioner's own assump what's important is something arguments, then there are certainly March 30, 1995 page nine ET CETERA DANCE 7 CROPSEY BLY continued from page four continued from page six continued from pagefour are there to enhance that beauty." philosophkwcrc,"explainedJcnseii. gestures like those of a band direc- RAP Cropsey is Distinguished Ser- tor. vice Professor Emeritus at the It was the conversation be- Summer Term 1995 continued from page two University of Chicago, where he tween the poems that was really simply had none in his immediate has taught since 1958. He earned intriguing. Bly was eager to share surroundings. his undergraduate degree from the story of each poem's genesis, He realizes that people, black Columbia University and has gone telling stories about his daughter Make Your males in particular, need commu- on to publish several books, in- and granddaughter, the shaman nity members as role models, and cluding "The History of Political who interpreted his dreams, his that is what he hopes to achieve as a Philosophy," which he co-author- ed wife's opinion of his writing, and Own History faculty member here. Jones echoed with Leo Strauss; "Polity and the taxi driver who brought him Sheffield's sentiment, saying that Economy: An Interpretation of the the guitar from Tehran. 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574-949- 0; 574-056- 3 1227-2- 9 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107; tel. (215) fax (215) SPOR TS page ten March 30, 1995 Lords Baseball Struggles Rev Goes off the Hill to Visit Vitale By Doug Wise better game. Inspired by the aroma By Rev Johnson classic Dow Jonesers up and premier center in the ACC. That's of grilled chicken wafting across down all season long. It just goes right all you Joe Smith fans, Tim Staff Reporter Sports Co-Edit- or the diamond from left field, senior to show how crazy this game can Duncan is for real, and he'll be Most of Kenyon's students co-captain John Cunningham Off the Hill: So, Dick, what is be. The Big Ten was really down the best pro between the two. departed campus for spring break scored on a wild pitch to send the your impression of this year's this year. Can you imagine for a Eddie Sutton, the Larry weary from the stress of midterms game into extra innings. tournament? moment how fun it would have Brown of the college ranks, can't and anxious for a little relaxation, In the bottom of the ninth, Dick Vitale: It's the Big Show, been to watch Michigan had be celebrating for too long, maybe a little sun. The Kenyon with runners on first and third with the Big Dance, the Grandaddy of Webber, Howard, and Rose not cause he's got UCLA, and Ed College baseball team did not. only one out, it looked as if Kenyon 'em all, baby. I tell ya, what a taken the high road to the NBA? O'Bannon, my choice for player Their work was just beginning. had the win. But a failed suicide great game. When a team like OTH: Speaking of the NBA, what of the year, coming up next The In the inaugural Bennigan's squeeze attempt let Urbana off the Old Dominion can come in, in the do you think about Jordan's re- Bruins are rockin and roll in', and Kenyon Spring Break Classic, held hook.and the visitingBlue Knights first round, and take out the hot- turn? Jim Harrick is escaping the wiz- in Tallahassee, Florida, the host pulled out a 9-- 7 victory. test team in the land in Villanova DV: What a boost for the game! ards shadow more and more Lords would find their first taste of After the heartbreak of the early in three OTs, you know you're The greatest ofall time coming out everyday, but it is sad that he competition in the 1995 season, game, the Lords fell easily in the witnessing one for the ages. But of retirement to reestablish him- won't get the monkey off his back and come away disappointed. second, losing 12-- 0. The home Steve Lappas' team '11 bounce self. Michael Jordan, wow! Hey unless they cut down the nets in In their first doubleheader of opener had been frustrating, but the back. Hey, they've got the one of did you see that shot he made Sat- Seattle and bring 'em back to La the year, the Lords suffered two Lords would have topull themselves the best players in the nation in urday to beat the Hawks. He got a La land. agonizing one-ru- n losses to Hei- together for a twinbill atJohn Carroll Kerry Kittles, the Big East player standing "O" from the opponents' In the other semifinal, noth- delberg College. They rebounded University on Sunday. of the year. Watch for him on my fans. He's the best, the NBA better ing could be finer than to be from the next day to chalk up a tie and an Junior Aasem Khalil and se- All-Ameri- ca team nextyear.He's be ready for showtime, baby! Carolina. Stackhouse and Wallace impressive 6--0 win over Olivet nior Dave Hicks would combine a PTPer, baby! But come on, why are you slam jam bam anchor the College. The victory was rookie forces for the Lords and surrender OTH: What were some of the asking me about the NBA? They best starting five in the country, John Hobson's first collegiate start, only two earned runs to JCU in the other games that surprised you? fired me when I was there, you're but their lack of depth will be put and he responded with a phenom- first game. But defensive errors D V: Well, you've gotta start with reminding me how bad a coach I to the test against Strollin' Nolan enal one-h- it shutout performance. would prove costly as Kenyon the Arizona Wildcats, and their was. I'm struggling to make a liv- and the Hogs. Dean Smith, the After Kenyon's first seven stumbled to a 5-- 2 defeat. John upset loss at the hands of Miami ing doing this. Michelangelo ofcollege coaches, games, the Lords were shooting Carroll went on to win the second (OH). Lute, baby, you're the best OTH : What do you see as some of has his players hitting on all cyl- par with a record of three wins, game by a score of 10-- 2. dressed coach in the game, what the trends now that we've gotten to inders, which they proved in their three losses and one tie. That's The story of the weekend for happened out there in Dayton? I the Final Four? win over Kentucky, a team very when things began to go downhill. the Lords was defense and clutch tell ya though, those kids from D V: Well we've seen how the pre- similar to Arkansas. It was brick In the second doubleheader hitting. Kenyon swung the sticks Miami, what a great win for them. tenders went home early, the clock city for Kentucky as they failed to with Olivet the Lords were denied for 22 hits over the weekend, but And coach Herb Sendak, he's struck twelve on Cinderella, and make me a genius for picking both games, the beginning of a left 3 1 baserunners stranded. gonna be getting some offers from the elite teams remain. Teams like them to go all the way. Rickie five-gam- e losing skid. Kenyon Errors allowed five unearned big name schools in the offseason, Alabama and Arizona State showed Pitino, my paison, how could you broke out with a dominating 10--2 runs to score in the doubleheader at maybe a little interest up at Wis- how their athleticism excited the let me down like that? You're victory over Ripon College, but John Carroll and partially held the consin? My favorite player on crowd and gave them a couple of making me look bad. ended their southern swing with door open for Urbana to turn a 4-- 3 that team? It's gotta be Devin wins, but they just weren't big The Big Nasty, Corliss two losses to North Coast Athletic Kenyon advantage into a 6--4 Blue Davis. He makes my All-Ha- ir enough or deep enough to play Williamson, is looking for a re- Conference rival Wooster. Knight lead. - team, with those crazy things On with the big boys. Let me tell you peat performance from last year's The Lords returned to Ohio Kenyon entered yesterday's his head. a secret though, "Super" Mario dance where he was named MVP. with a 4-10- -1 record and hopes of game against Muskingum on a six And how about Michigan Bennett and AntonioMcDy ess can Isn't it going to be great to watch getting on the winning track last game skid with hopes ofcorrecting State losing in the first round to flat out play they are future himtradedunkswithStackhouse? Saturday at home against Urbana. some of these mistakes. With the little Weber State? Jud, your last lottery picks, Bennett may be ready Dipsy-Do- o Dunkaroo, baby!!

You could not have asked for conference season awaiting, there game it wasn't supposed to this year. They 're on my all-wind- ex Here's a little secret for all a better day to play baseball, and isn't a better time for that than the end so soon. You were supposed team they clean the glass. you Carolina fans. The Tar Heels you could not have asked for a present to ride the back of player-of-th- e Those teams that win, they just signed Vince Carter from out year candidate Shawn Respert have that special ingredient, those of Daytona Beach, the second-best into the "Sweet Sixteen." But se- two or three superstars, the great high school guard prospect Wednesday's Scores riously, Jud, you're a great coach . guard, the dominating big man. in the nation after Stephon and a wonderful man, the game is Allen Iverson, you're this year's Marbury out of Lincoln High in Men's Lacrosse: going to miss you. Diaper Dandy, but you couldn't do Brooklyn. Carter's arrival along OTH: What about the Big Ten it all by yourself against Carolina. tobacco road tells me he knows Kenyon 17, Oberlin 13 and their poor performance? You needed Othella, your big man something about Jerry D V: Hey, it was loser city baby! who failed to show up and left you Stackhouse's future which most Leading Scorers: They got six teams in the dance hangin withadonutoffense.noth-in- g of us can only speculate upon. and only Purdue made it past the in the middle. My gut tells me he is going pro, Rob Zelinger 5 goals first round, and that only by the OTH: What do you think about and I would make him the num- skin of their teeth. They had Gene 4 1 the Final Four? ber one pick in the draft He's Dave Genest goals, assist Keady pulling his hair out in that D V: I tell ya, we're looking at two unstoppable, like another famous Doug Trafelet 4 goals win over Wisconsin-Gree- n Bay. great semifinal matchups. All hail Carolina alum. Any more games like that and Big Country! He and his Cowboys This weekend promises to be Mike Costanzo 2 goals, 2 assists he'll join me on the all-chro- me provided the biggest surprise of scintillating, and I for one can't dome team. the show. The big man from OSU wait. It's going to be awesome, Josh Cole 1 goal, 3 assists Those other teams were all was outplayed by Tim Duncan, the baby, with a capital 'A'! Women's Lacrosse: Wooster 12, Kenyon 11 Qive yowrsdfa Leading Scorers: Meg Moriarty 8 goals Brtakl Emily Hopper 2 goals, 1 assist THE VILLAGE INN Restaurant & Tavern Baseball: Tues-Thu- rs 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. Fri-S- at 11a.m. -- 10 p.m. Muskingum 1 1 , Kenyon 5 Sunday 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Closed Mondays Hobson (L) 1- -3 VisaMastercardAmerican Express accepted. RBIs: Koepke, Schwoy March 30, 1995 page eleven SPORTS Lords Lacrosse Defeats Oberlin, Improves To 5-- 1

By Danny Walker The scoring burden was also car- ing time," Coach Bill Heiser said. goals. Junior Josh Cole also played safely and efficiently to the attack- Staff Reporter ried by senior Mike Costanzo. "We "I was impressed by what I saw." very well, adding seven points to ing players all game. wanted to show those guys that The Lords wrapped up their the team's offensive output. The dominance continued on If you have noticed particu- they weren't all they had talked spring trip with an 11-- 7 victory The Lords suffered another the defensive end of the field. larly bright expressions on the faces themselves up to be," Costanzo over Guilford College. Kenyon setback as sophomore standout Physical play and big hitting char-

la- 1-- of the members of the men's said. "They didn't show us the re- jumped out to an 1 2 lead at one Toby Rand went down with a knee acterized the defense, as crosse team, it's not just because spect we deserve so we had no point and seemed to have the game injury; his status for the rest of the sophomores Tim Cook and Haz- they are chuckling to themselves choice but to take it from them." won, when Guilford went on a season is still questionable. The ard definitely made their presence about the first-year player's new The game served as a barom- scoring flurry towards the end of loss of Rand will test the team's felt to the Pioneer offense. hair cuts. A host of on-field accom- eter for the improvement in all parts the game. But in the end Kenyon's depth in the midfield and more of The win was particularly im- plishments have spurred on a of the team. "It was a really big win strong defense and superior ball the load will have to be carried by pressive because the Lords refused well-deserv- ed excitement about the for us because it showed how hard control prevailed and the Lords veterans Jim Barham and Dave to play down to a clearly inferior young season whichis full ofpromise. we worked and how well we are returned to Gambier with an im- Genest "Losing Toby is going to team. "We let them know from the The Lords began their pro- playing as a team," senior Elliot pressive 3-- 0 record heading into be tough but this team has proven start," Barham said, "that this was ductive spring trip with a game Cundiff said. "I'm really proud of Thursday's game against peren- it's toughness all year," Genest our game. We could have let this against Haverford, a team they lost all these guys and I'm really ex- nial powerhouse, Ohio Wesleyan. said. "We'll just have to dig a little one get a lot closer but we kept our to last season. The match promised cited about what we can accomplish Strong play by goalie Geoff deeper." With the OWU game be- level of play up and they just to be a tough one as a confident this season." Hazard kept Kenyon in the game hind them, Kenyon looked to couldn't hang with us out there." Haverford team entered the game The next test for the Lords for a while, but it soon became rebound against the Pioneers of So the Lords roll on with an coming off a strong season and came from Catawba College. There clear that the Bishop's 5 1 shots on Marietta. The Lords had obviously impressive 4-- 1 record and high was anxious to continue their suc- was no letdown from the Haverford goal would be too much for the not lost their confidence from hopes for a strong season. Right

cess against the Lords. But it was game as Kenyon rudely handed Lords; the final score was 21-- 7. break, as they crushed Marietta now, there doesn't seem to be any 1 8-- just not meant to be for Haverford, Catawba an 3 beating. The Lords "Their program is just so strong," 1 6--3. The offense was brutal, rack- reason why they could not do ex- as the Lords prevailed 18-1- 3 in a had the game in hand from the senior Jesse Dougherty said. "We ing up a total of twenty points. The actly that. The Lords played their game which featured strong play beginning, and Catawba was ca- hustled and played our little hearts scoring barrage was led by Cole first home game against Oberlin from Kenyon's veteran attackers. pable of little resistance in the face out but they were just relentless." and Trafelet, who both scored seven Wednesday, they go up against St. Junior Doug Trafelet paced of the Lord's brutal rampage. "This Kenyon was not without its points. The Lords also had no Vincent College on Saturday. The all scorers, squeezing offnine goals game allowed us to rest some of bright spots, as sophomore trans- trouble running the middle of the next home game will be Monday, and frustrating the Haverford de- our starters and give some of the fer Ryan Weber continued his field as Barham and Genest deftly Apr. 1 1 against Denison at 4 p.m. fense with several crafty moves. younger guys some valuable play impressive play and scoring two controlled the ball, delivering it on McBride Field. Baker Shares Swimmers' Experiences at NCAA Championships By Shelly Baker swimming requires physical drive, reached nationals, we know we The meet lasts three days, and you don'tget another chance. Each Special To The Collegian emotional strength, patience, per- have earned it and are ready to each person can swim up to three event is run again at night and that sistence, and belief in oneself. experience it individual events and four relays. is when you determine who wins While most students leave for These noble qualities are embod- Starting a few weeks before The events are spread out in such a each event and how everyone else spring break, the swimmers stay at ied by each person on the team, and our two biggest meets, conference way that you generally have one places. Kenyon. Our national champion- looking around at all of them, I can and nationals, we begin to taper. event per day, and perhaps some Nighttime sessions are usu- ship meet is the first week of break feel a sense of pride and accom- This is a change in our training relays as well. At the meet, we ally very high in energy, with all for the women and the second week plishment which enables our muscles to rest have two sessions each day: pre- the teams cheering and the swim- for the men. This year the women's They know the amount of train- and thus prepare to swim our fast- liminaries and finals. The mers extremely ready to race. The meet was in Middletown, Con- ing necessary, the painstaking est at the big meets. We slowly but preliminary session begins in the relays are a big part of the meets, necticut at Wesleyan University. technique work, the incredible drastically cut the amount of yard- morning at 1 1 a.m., but we usually with four swimmers each perform- The men swam at Miami Univer- mental strain and sometimes even age we do each day, and instead get there by 9 am. at least to begin ing a leg ofthe relay. We've always sity in Oxford, Ohio. anguish.Swimmingcanbethemost focus on technique and resting. our warmup. had really fast and exciting relays Generally, while we are still intensely painful thing imaginable, During taper, you begin to The amount of yardage we do at Kenyon, especially at nationals in Gambier, we live in dorm rooms as when the distance swimmers feel oddly strong, for suddenly you for warmup varies depending on against the best in Division HI. somewhere like Norton, or apart- train pace sets,seemingly endlessly, are storing great amounts of en- the type of event that day. I do the The national meet is fun, es- ments for those of us who have on intervals so fast that I literally ergy that you previously had been 50 freestyle the first day, and there pecially when we get to celebrate them. It is a time of team bonding, wonder how they can physically do expending every day. Mentally, is also the 200 freestyle relay and our victory, the culmination of all not just because we are some ofthe it They train two times every day, you feel amazing. Before a big the 400 medley relay that day. Of our hard work. only people here, but because we amassing upwards of 17,000 yards meet you finally get to shave your all the people that swim that morn- are all focused and excited to swim at their peak training times in the legs (and arms, and head, etc.). ing, only a total of two heats will fast at nationals. season. The feeling of diving into the pool make it back to swim at finals at WOODSIDH It is now that our final chal- The sprinter group, which in- at nationals wearing a paper suit night Each heal has eight lanes, so lenge has arrived, and we are all cludes me, will someday look back (suits made of this very tight very that means that the top 16 swim- Bed and Breakfast ready to see each other at our best fondly on those hypoxic sets offast thin skin-lik- e material) and being mers will qualify for finals. The This is what we have worked for 50's without breathing, or the 100's rested and shaved is truly amazing top eight are in the final heat and thenext9-16areinth- e Located on State all year long, and it is indeed a long at sprint pace, or the killer 200's for even glorious and outstanding. consolation season. The things that we are now time. It's similar for the You feel absolutely buoyant heat Route 308 at the capable of doing, and the potential breaststrokers, backs trokers, and like you can just tear across the top You have to race in the morn- corner of Chase for our fellow teammates and our- butterflyers. of the water. There is no feeling ing to get a spot at night because if selves to perform beyond what we Basically, we all train like like this that I can think of. you don't make consols or finals. Ave. and Woodside have expected is really amazing. crazy, swimming many miles ev- Drive. I have seen my fellow team- ery day and lifting weights to the Three bedrooms mates perform in ways that point of muscular failure. But the absolutely blow my mind. I'm sure most important aspect here is the THE COLLEGIAN with private baths, this is true in many sports, but fact that we love doing this, regard- very pleasant and there's something about the nature less of the pain or the time IS LOOKING FOR A SPORTS of swimming which is inherently commitment You have to love it if quiet. Ideal for unique. A swimming race that is you are going to give so much of STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER parent visits. well done can be one of the most yourself to the sport Graduations exciting things, both to the swim- Of course, some days I can FOR THE SPRING SEASON. mer and his or her teammates. remember hating it and wanting to through '98 Regardless of how one may lead a normal non-swimming life. INTERESTED? EMAIL REV booked. relate with any particular team- But I must say that overall there is mate, there exists a profound and nootherexperiencelknow ofwhich JOHNSON (JOHNSONRP) OR 427-271-1 undeniable respect for the training creates the degree ofcomplete per- 401 Chase Ave. that has been done, the goals that sonal satisfaction as a well done, GWYNETH SHAW (SHAWG) were set, and the unwavering de- fast race. This takes hard work to Gambier, Ohio sire. The desire to achieve in achieve. And by the time we have SPORTS page twelve March 30, 1995 Lords Basketball Reaches Sweet 16 By Conan Kisor foot-4-inc- h forward. timely three-pointe- rs by first-year nam ent contest time in school history that a Ke- Senior Staff Reporter Czartoski had help from se- guard Dontay Hardnett and. Although Ohio Northern con- nyon basketball player has received nior co-capta- ins Jamie Harless and Harless. Then the Lords penetrated trolled the first period, leading that honor from the NCAC. Harless

42-3- all-conferen- The Kenyon basketball squad Chris Donovan, who were the fo- inside; junior Che Smith converted 5 at halftime, the Lords battled was named first team ce, made its second straight appear- cus of the Manchester defense a three-point play, hit a bank shot, back in the second half. In all, the becoming the first Kenyon ance in the NCAA Division HI throughout the game. Harless was then got fouled with 1 1:46 left in two teams exchanged the lead player to receive that honor three tournament. This year they ad- held to 12 points, while Donovan the game and converted both free-throw- s. seven times. With just over 11 straight seasons. vanced to the "Sweet Sixteen" on scored 16 and brought down 10 Within two minutes, the minutes to go in the game, Harless Donovan finished his career 46-4- Mar. 10 at Bloomington, Illinois, rebounds. Lords had a 5 lead. went on a two-minut- e, nine-- point as the conference's all-time lead- where they lost to Manchester The Lords' 57-5- 5 victory over The contest's climax came shooting spree that brought the ing rebounder. He led the NCAC College, 84-6- 5. The defeat came Wooster, a team with a record of with 12 seconds to go, when a Lords up 60-5- 8. During the game's this season with an average of 12.3, after two key tournament victories 26-- 4 and two previous win against Meech three-point- er tied the score final two minutes, the Lords drew which put him in the top five in the for the Lords a 74-7- 2 win at Kenyon in the regular season, left at 55. During the Lords' next pos- enough fouls and converted enough nation. Donovan was third in the

Ohio Northern University on Mar. just about everyone at the game session Smith hit a five-foot free-thro- ws to hang on to win by conference this season in scoring and

heart-stoppi- 2, and a ng come-from-behind stunned. Halfway through the first turnaround jumper with three sec- two points. blocked shots, dropping 18.6 points 57-5- 5 victory over the half, things did not look good for onds left, capping the Lords' Donovan hauled in 12 re- and rejecting 1.6 shots per game. College of Wooster on Mar. 5. the Lords, as they were down 23-- 6, comebackand insuring their57-5- 5 bounds for the Lords before fouling Harless led the NCAC in scor- The season-endin- g loss to battling the Scots' biggest guns, victory. Smith led the Lords with out with 36 seconds left ing, averaging 20.1 points, and for Manchester proved explosive for Craig Bradley and Scott Meech. 19 points. The Kenyon squad will be the second consecutive season, was

Kenyon senior Todd Czartoski, At halftime, the Lords were still The Kenyon win at Wooster graduating six seniors this year. first in three-point shots made per who brought down seven rebounds losing by 14. came three days after another close Czartoski, Donovan, Harless, An- game with 3.4. He also reached and led the Lords with 20 points. But, during the second half 74-7- 2 Kenyon victory over Ohio drew Miller, James Murray, and double figures in scoring in 64 "The inside opened up a bit the Lords came out shooting. In Northern at Ada, Ohio. Harless Tom Oakes. Donovan was named consecutive games, topped by a more in the second half. I just had two minutes the Wooster lead was exploded for 36 points and three the North Coast Athletic Confer- career-hig- h 42 points against more opportunities," said the 6- - reduced to seven points, thanks to steals during the First-roun- d tour-- ence Player of the Year, the first Waynesburg this season. Moriarty Leads Ladies Lacrosse Into New Season Sports Briefs Team Rallies to Defeat Wittenberg after Two NCAC Losses

By Gwyneth Shaw Indoor Track Championships Co-Edit- or ' Sports In the indoor track conference championships, the Kenyon men's

nine-tea- m 1-- and teams placed seventh in the North Despite having only a 2 women's Coast record in its first three games, the Athletic Conference. Senior captain Dave Putz and sophomore Ke- women's lacrosse team is settling nyon Warren were the individual winners for the men. Putz placed in and getting ready for what coach first in the 55 meter hurdles with a time of7.84. Warren was victorious Susan Eichner calls "a dogfight" in the 300, breaking the school record in 36.5 1 . Warren also was third in the North Coast Athletic Con- in the 55 dash in 6.78. The men totalled 37 points overall ference (NCAC). After losing to The women scored 6 1 points, only four away from the fifth-plac- e Denison and Ohio Wesleyan last finisher. First-yea- r student Anastasia Krajec was first in the 500 in week, the Ladies rallied to defeat 1:24.61. Gretchen Baker, a sophomore, finished second in the 3000, 1 in 400, Wittenberg, 10--6 on Sunday. with a time of 1:02.20. Senior Rani Woodard was third the The team faced a tough sched- sophomore Keri Schulte was fourth in the 1500, and senior Jennifer Emily Hopper defends against Wittenberg Anderson finished fourth in the 1000. ule in its first three games, (By Gwyneth Shaw) especially since the team did not play together during the second was Saturday against Ohio "The big problem has been Tennis Teams Win over Break week of spring break. With only Wesleyan, another tough NCAC the lack of confidence," Eichner The Kenyon women's tennis team ventured south for spring three days to prepare before the opponent. While the Ladies were said. "As the game progressed, break, while the men's team went to Hilton Head, S.C. Both had Denison game played in victorious over OWU last season, people began really gaining in con- successful trips as the women won four ofsix team matches; with their Granville the Ladies had their the team struggled during this meet- fidence and taking chances. victory over Case Western Reserve last week, the Ladies are now 5- - work cut out for them. ing, losing 12-- 7. "What's really important for Leading the way in defeating teams from the University of the The 17-- 5 score of the Denison The team's outlook was us now is to get that confidence South, Shorter College, Oglethorpe College, and Washington and win did not tell the whole story. brighter against the Battling Bish- level up, especially in our next two Lee University was first-year student Ali St Vincent Playing in the

co-captain Senior Meg Moriarty ops, as the game proved much games." number-on- e singles slot, she has a record of 7-- 4. Junior Lori scored all five goals on six shots; closer. Moriarty scored a season-hig- h Despite two early conference Mannheimer has added depth with her record of 8-- 2 in number four Moriarty leads the team with 16 six goals, while junior Gillian losses, the Ladies are still in prime singles. goals so far. Senior Emily Hopper Kneass added one. Senior co-captain position to make an impact on the The men have a 5-- 5 record and are led by junior Joe Herban's 7- - was a driving force for the Ladies' Bronwyn Clark and first-year final NCAC standings. With a post- 3 record at number three singles. Daniel Cho, a sophomore, has a offense, bringing the ball down on student Genessa Keith helped out season tournament to determine record of 5-- 3 , splitting time between fifth and sixth singles. They have attack wing. on the defensive end, protecting the conference champion, any posted victories over Findlay, St Joseph's College, Nazareth Col Though disappointed with the goalkeeper Keisha McKenzie. NCAC team has a legitimate shot. lege, Washington" and Lee, and CWRU. loss, Eichner was pleased with her The Ladies seemed to click If the Ladies continue to improve team's performance nonetheless. the best Sunday against over the rest of the season, when New Football Coach Named Denison is the perennial NCAC Wittenberg, earning their first vic- the NCAC tournament is held (here On Mar. 1, Kenyon College Athletic Director Bob Bunnell champion, with a strong record in tory and playing as a fairly cohesive in Gambier) at the end of April, named Vincent Arduini the 29th head football coach in the program's post-seaso- n play; and the Ladies unit. While the Tigers made a brief they should still be in contention. 106-year history. Arduini, 39, spent the last nine years as an assistant were not expecting to pull off the attempt at a rally late in the game, "Anyone in the conference can at Harvard University, the first eight of which were spent coaching the upset. But Eichner recognized the the Ladies were able to use the come in second (to Denison)," defensive line. This year his duties shifted to the offense where he was game as a way to get stronger early clock and get the win, with Moriarty Eichner said. "That's what be- in charge of receivers and running backs, as well as being the in the season. scoring one of her five goals at the comes most important. recruiting coordinator. Arduini arrived on campus during spring "The philosophy behind it is buzzer. "It's a dogfight, and when break, and has commenced recruiting and implemented his offseason to play your best game and see ' First-yea- r student Ashley you're presented with a situation conditioning program. where the weaknesses are," Eichner Davis scored four goals, and first-year like that, that's the test are you said. "But the important thing is student Courtney Braun added going to fight, or are you going to that they competed no matter what one. Davis also had one assist; back down?" StudentFaculty Basketball Game the score was no matter how Hopper had two. The Ladies played Wooster In the student-facult- y basketball game in Ernst Wednesday night pessimistic it looked, people still For Eichner, the Wittenberg on Wednesday, and take on the faculty defeated the students, 38-3- 7. The game was a fundraiser fought until the end of the game." game was something of a break- Earlham at home Saturday at 2 for the Gazebo school in Gambier. Leading scorers for the students The Ladies' first home game through for the very young team. p.m. were Kenyon Warren and Fred Ceppa. Ric Sheffield led the faculty with 9 points. The event raised $300.