Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 2-24-1977 Kenyon Collegian - February 24, 1977 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - February 24, 1977" (1977). The Kenyon Collegian. 958. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/958 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College Archives at Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Kenyon Collegian by an authorized administrator of Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Kenyon Co! iesianEstablished 1856 Volume CIV. Number 19 Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio 43022 Thursday, February 24, 1977 Committee on Social Life Kenyon Culture Shock By RICK WESTON called the Social Board. Membership Organizations -- Committee will i irTJ More money, more student of the board will consist of 17 combat the "problem of student participation, better use of existing students. However, the voting apathy. We the committee don't facilities, and more cooperation members are only 5 students. They know if it is a cause or a symptom. between campus organizations will consist of the chairman of the board The committee felt that Kenyon be needed to remedy Kenyon's the Student Senate Vice President, should provide opportunities for "inadequate" cultural life, according the IFC President and the three student input." This committee to the newly formed Senate Ad-Ho- c chairmen of the social sub- would hopefully see that an "in- Committee on Social Life. committees. It would be a permanent dividual's residence hall needs are The committee, which consists of committee. The board shall en- met, without the individual say for Dean Edwards and student courage and oversee appropriate example, he is an independent being representatives of social programs The pool room in its heyday student and activities for dependent on either fraternities of organizations and committees, Kenyon students," he said. Student Council." The All College sprang from Senate discussion of The Ad-Ho- c Committee on Social Events Committee will organize debate over whether a second Life also submitted a proposal for "dances, concerts and big events." semester rush would open more the creation of three new sub- The Scheduling and Allocations Peirce Hall Pool Room social options for students first committees under the jurisdiction of Committee will "hold the money semester. A senator stated that this the new Social Board: the Scheduling power." would alleviate only part of the and Allocations Committee, the All When asked wouldn't the creation Keeps the problem, and suggested that a com College Committee and the of these committees lead to a new Ball Rolling group look more closely into social Residences and Organizations bureaucracy, Lentz replied that life in general. Committee. Lentz hopes that the "creation of this committee the By CHARLES GLASRUD Edwards thinks the room's biggest John Lentz, Vice President of the creation of the Residences and (Continued on page 2) problem is its low profile. Bud Senate and chairman of the com- The Peirce Hall poolroom has Gollwitzer, the Student Council mittee, explained that "the com- been around for almost fifty years representative who has been put in mittee was organized to develop now, and has remained much the charge of the room's operation comprehensive analysis of social life History on the Run same as two generations of students agrees: "It needs advertising," he on campus." He mentioned that have come and gone. The architect says; "there are freshmen and even members of the committee were "What's Happened to History?" will be addressed gave it elegance; the years have given sophomores who don't know about concerned whether the "fraternities the question by it a dusty dignity; and the students, it it." To this end, tournaments are were stifling social life with an in- historian John Lukacs Monday seems, don't give it as much use as being organized. An IFC tournament tense first semester rush," but that night. they used to. is in progress, and business has most of the problem seemed to lie Lukacs, a professor of History at When Peirce Hall was being built picked up as players have come in to with a "lack of cooperation and Chestnut Hill College in Penn- sylvania, has eight in 1928-2- 9, the Collegian wrote: practice, according to Gollwitzer. An coordination." authored books, "Everything about Peirce Hall tends intramural tournament is currently Lentz felt that there was a "failure including The Great Powers and use Eastern Europe (1953), to make the students perfectly being organized; a sign-u- p sheet is in to facilities to their potential. Decline and comfortable in attractive surroun- the poolroom. After spring break a Buildings such as Rosse, Peirce and Rise of Europe (1965), The Passing dings, serve them the best of food, freshman tournament will be held, the KC are being used, but events are of the Modern Age (1970), and A Li poorly scheduled sometimes a lot New History the Cold War, which "and provide all the advantages of a probably with singles, doubles and of WM one week, nothing the next. We is frequently used as a college text on good club. The building itself mixed doubles competition and have a Social is policy. will be surpassed by none in prizes. ' Committee and there American foreign .no communication between it and His The American colleges and universities Don George and his son Larry most recent book, Last Prof. John Lukacs campus organizations. We also have European War (1976), advances the today." operate the room these days. Don is Monday's lecture will draw from On the second floor was the card the friendly, talkative man who also a lack of adequate resources." thesis that World War Two, up to the his work Historical Consciousness, room, now the Reveille office; the works downstairs in the Peirce Lentz thinks that problem of Pearl Harbor, was just that; that money will be solved with next year's published in 1968. Women's room, which boasted a Shoppes. He's not sure why more postwar Europe has become a pawn raising activities fee Lukacs was born in Hungary and "lavandar and purple combination" people don't use the room these days. of the student of the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. The from 51 to 55 dollars, jhe problems book was by came to the United States in 1946. He ceiling it later became the music There is a relatively small crew of lauded the eminent of scheduling and of communication historian in holds a diploma from Cambridge room, then the Student Council regulars who play, and Don too A. J. P. Taylor the with the organizations could be British Sunday Observer, University in England, and a degree room, and is now the Black Student thinks that a lot of students don't and reaped eliminated with the creation of a new praise in pages from Budapest University. Union; and the Peirce Hall pool even know the room exists. His idea the of Horizon, the social board: "We have a proposed Lukacs, whose son Paul is a junior room. "The billiard room offers an to increase the room's popularity is American Historical Review, and the amendment calling for a new New York Times here, has been a visiting professor innovation in room decoration: the to hold a tournament with a eood Book Review, overiding committee, which will be among others. at La Salle College, Columbia walls are cream, the ceiling a deep (Continued on page 2) University, and the University of rose, while the floor is a two-tone- d Pennsylvania; a Fulbright professor brown cork composition. When the at the University of Toulouse, rose colored hangings are placed, and France; and visiting professor at the billiard tables installed, a most Gallows Set for Dramatic Execution Johns Hopkins University and the unusual and pleasing combination Fletcher School of Law and will be evident." o Diplomacy. He is the recipient of a Today two of those four tables By TIM HAYES o number of academic honors and remain; they are massive, with in- I awards, and was recently elected - tricate inlay work. Dean Thomas Fresh from the pen of Kenyon . 3 President of the American Catholic Edwards, under whose jurisdiction graduate Dudley Sanders '76, Fear of Historical Association. Peirce Falling will premier tomorrow night I Hall falls, says the other two ' The lecture, sponsored by ')1 o the original tables were for three-cushio- n at 8:00 in Colburn Gallery. The J Kenyon Symposium, will be in the billiards, which lost popularity. One production, under the guidance of Biology Auditorium at 8:30 p.m. of the tables now in use came from director Scott McGinnis and President Lund's house; the other producer Sarah Allen, will be the was purchased more recently. first contribution to Kenyon drama Ponty There is no sign from the Gambier Ensemble Theater. today of the Re-sign- "rose-colore- his directing ed d hangings;" the McGinnis, making original cork floor is badly worn and debut, calls the play "an attack on " . ) : t in need of renovation. The money, theatrical convention." The setting is We'll have a winter weekend after Edwards points out, is not easy to a platform, a gallows, which is all. The Jean-Lu- c Ponty concert has come by. gradually built during the course of been rescheduled for March 5 at 7:00 Rosen-fel- d, Several years ago, Edwards ex- the play. Rob Rubin, Rick p.m. plains, the College discussed the Sarah Owens, Todd Faus, and "We got lucky, so to speak" when question of whether the poolroom Stan Merrill are brought together to it' came to re-signi- ng Ponty on such should build the gallows and are given their short notice, Social Committee continue operation even at a I L financial instructions from an unknown voice.