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Peirce door Simpson takes back Chuck D raps on Wind ensemble gears Men's lax wins two MIA, p. 4 her night, p. 6 racism, p. 8 up, p. 10 games, p. 12 NB1B irjr.'c SC - E - N -Y - ON C -- O -- L E - G -- I A -- N Volume CXXIX, Number 22 ESTABLISHED 1856 Thursday, April 18, 2002 Angered villager threatens students called BY ROBBIE KETCHAM the College switchboard protections of privacy, told secu- opposite the students," said Hum- Humbert told the Collegian that he News Editor around midnight Thursday morn- rity that, "a small pickup pulled up, bert. "They were screaming and has indeed experienced disruptive ing reporting a group of Kenyon and a man with a gun yelled 'stop' yelling and carrying on. I sort of students in the area before. He has In what Director of Security College students running and and fired a weapon ... The students just wanted to make sure they not experienced any significant and Safety Dan Werner called a making noise in the College Park said that the man was holding a stayed until Security got there and disturbance since the incident, he "very rare" occurrence, a gunshot area, which is owned by Kenyon. rifle and told one of the students, to send them a message." Accord- said. was allegedly fired on Kenyon Three security officers responded 'Stop or I'll drop you.'" A shell ing to the Security report, Humbert The students told security that property early last Thursday morni- to the complaint and found two casing was found on Kenyon prop- told the Kenyon officers, "It was Humbert then waited until security ng. Edward Humbert, a local resi- students walking toward the se- erty, and deputies took photo-gjap- hs after 12 a.m., and he was tired of arrived, at which time he volun- dent angry with loud behavior by curity vehicle, with Humbert "to show that Mr. Humbert all the noise down here. Mr. tarily turned the students over to two students late at night, appare- walking behind the two students was on Kenyon College property Humbert also stated that he has the officers. "After officers spoke ntly fired the shot in the direction with a gun. when he discharged his weapon." lived here a long time and never with Mr. Humbert," the report opposite the students. The report continues that the "I fired a gun in the direction heard so much noise late at night." see GUN, page two According to a report filed students, whose names the Colle- with Kenyon security, Humbert gian will not release due to legal Spring has (finally) sprung ... FRA still in planning tect Graham Gund, who also de- BY BRYAN STOKES II signed the Philip Mather Science News Assistant Quad, are $45 million. "The es- Plans remain under wraps timates are higher than we had .- -". " . ' -, for Kenyon's new Fitness, Rec- earlier anticipated," explained . I FT- t V reation and Athletic facility Managing Director of the Philan- ..If C (FRA). "We're moving forward. der Chase Corporation Douglas We don't have any plans to show Givens. "Now we go back and yet, but we are moving forward do ... what they call value engi- y and it's starting to come to- neering, and go back through the gether," said Special Assistant to process and see if things should il the President for Student Facilit- cost that much, or if you should ies Development and Interim change building materials, a Athletic Director Doug Zipp. whole bunch of things." The FRA is rumored to be Aside from finances, several at least three times the size of other issues remain to be de- Wertheimer Fieldhouse and cided. Although the full offer- have not been ALL mostly glass. Preliminary plans, ings of the FRA Amy Gailesc ', recruit- published by the Collegian on released, according to a Students enjoy the gorgeous April weather that graced Gambier with its presence this week. In response to November 6, 2001 report a struct- ing brochure, the structure will the 85 weather, people gathered outside to read, work, nap or just hang out. ure 240,000-250,00- 0 square definitively house such items as feet in size. a weight and fitness area, study Fundraising for what could and social gathering space, and 50 years later, trailblazer returns competition become Kenyon's largest struct- a 200 meter indoor A native of Philadelphia, Ballard demic prowess. "Kenyon was rig BY BRYAN STOKES II ure will be handled by Special track. attended a segregated public high orously intellectual, with big parties on simi- - AND JAMES LEWIS f Assistant to the Dean of Students Ernst ind Wertheimer school. In 1948, Ballard became one the weekend," explained Ballard, "rig- in a of limbo. News Staff James Steen. "Steen is a very larly wait state of the first two African American stu- orously intellectual all week long, good will be torn salesmen. He's very good "Wertheimer One of the first African Ameri- dents to enroll at Kenyon. The other, mainly because of the presence of the at down, unless the Village and the getting people interested," can students to graduate from Kenyon Stanley Lamarr Jackson, went on to veterans when I got here in 1948. said Vice for Develop- Zoning and Planning commis- President College, Allen Ballard '52 returned to become a government lawyer and now There were really no impediments to ment sion deny us," explained Givens. Kimberley Klesner. the Gambier Hill on Monday to give resides in Maryland. education. There was nothing like ( Klesner funds for As for Ernst, which was built in plans to raise a reading of his newest book, Where Ballard graduated Phi Beta W.E.B. DuBois who, when he went the a small group 1982 as the Ernst Athletic-Recreation-Convocati- on project from I'm Bound, and a lecture on historical Kappa from Kenyon, receiving a de- to Harvard, had to live in a separate of fin- Center, select donors. "We just fiction. gree in Political Science. Although he Black home; he couldn't live on cam- ished it "We discussed the issue at the up a big campaign, Where I'm Bound is a work of was a minority on the hill, Ballard pus." meeting ... would be unfair of us to go to Parent's committee historical fiction, tracing the lives of found no hindrance to his own aca see BALLARD, page two still not sure what we're people five minutes later and say We're Joe Duckett, an escaped slave and ' e with it." have this new project." going to do Union soldier, his wife Zenobia and Although Kenyon has yet to The actual composition of the his daughter Cally. While Joe gallantly Tonight: Partly Cloudy. High: Saturday: Mostly cloudy. High: assign a budget to its latest ex- building also remains a mystery. fights the Confederate army, his wife low: is looking at a build- 83F, low: 62F. 62F, 32F. pansion, it is working to curb ex- "The architect and daughter strive to make their own glass," said Friday: PM thunderstorms. Sunday: Scattered showers. cessive cost. Estimated costs ac- - ing that does include slavery and reunite them- escape from High: 74F, low: 41 F. High: 56F, low: 32F. cording to the website of archi see FRA, page two selves with Joe. 2 The Kenton Collegian NEWS Thursday, April K Ballard: Talks about life, liberty and Kenyon Tbui CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE bus sometimes on Saturday nights : r; n r ' - In fact, during his time at because they had the blues night- a Kenyon, Ballard only experienced clubs down there, and we had f , overt racism once. "There was good time. So it's like everything ' - . t - one professor, who ... didn't stay else, but that hurt because we were ' long at the College. He gave a test, supposed to be part of the whole X i - . j and I got a 100 on in it, and it was college, but the college revolved so y in a difficult subject. He accused heavily around fraternities that you me of cheating. And the dean, definitely felt hurt from being ex- Dean Bailey at the time, said, 'this cluded." is ridiculous that he cheated.' He Following his time at Kenyon, said, 'give the test over again, ev- Ballard moved on to Harvard, erybody, and give it objectively.' where he received a Ph.D. in gov- So I got 100 again, and the guy ernment with a focus on Soviet have the guts to apologize. studies. Until 15 years ago, Ballard n didn't I had the highest grade in that taught at the City University of class, and he did not have the grace New York and was Dean of Fac- to apologize," recounted Ballard. ulty there for five years. Currently, Socially, however, Ballard he holds a joint professorship in and Jackson were outcasts. "Most history and African studies at the the social life revolved around State University of New York at of Nearly 50 years after his graduation, Allen Ballard chats with the Collegian in the Kenyon Inn on Tuesday.