Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 5-1-1997 Kenyon Collegian - September 11, 1997 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - September 11, 1997" (1997). The Kenyon Collegian. 526. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/526 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]. Volume CXXV, Number 2 Established 1856 Thursday, Sept. 11, 1997 Housing crunch sends KOKOSING DECLARED 'SCENIC RIVER' off-camp- students us V 3 i College residences filled to capacity housing when he arrived. BY MAUREEN FOLEY campus Residential Life administrators gave Staff Reporter Chanduwadia several options, including . ' he - 1 . If Kenyon were a motel, its No Va- joining a student's double single, but " ' -- :. cancy sign would be blinking right now. As chose to live off-camp- us. late as last week, the Office of Residential Chanduwadia has secured a room in a Life was scrambling to find a space for house near the Snowden Multicultural Cen- ter and said the Office of Residential Life every student. I The creative solutions employed by was "more than fair to him." housing staff to resolve the crisis included The off -- campus accomodations option allowing 12 students to live off-camp- us, for students is a "one year only fix," said and converting uncharacteristic rooms into Dean of Residential Life Doug Zipp. living space for first-ye- ar students. Zipp cited the unusually large freshman In the past, Kenyon has maintained class and the high return rate of sophomores strict policies against off-camp- us living. and juniors as the reason for this year's One of the students now living off crisis. campus, Daanesh Chanduwadia '98, re- Zipp does not see "capacity figures" of turned this fall without a secure housing housing as detrimental, rather they are ad- arrangement. The Office of Residential vantageous for the college. Zipp said he has Ravid Slaiftcl in 27 in Life had received no records for no plans for avoiding a housing crunch Ohio Governor Ceorjje V. Voinovich visited Kenyon's Center for Environmental Studies on August order to Chanduwadia and subsequently had no the future. declare the Kokosing an official "Scenic River." The governor concluded his visit with a canoe trip down the river. Kenyon rises two places in Senior Class President Kate Masley defeated Brooks Martin annual collese rankings Senior Class Representative Malcom Auchincloss ran unopposed this category. BY DAVID SHARGEL For listing of toD 40 national lib- - Junior Class President Dean of Admissions John News Editor eral arts colleges in U.S. News Geoff Loose defeated S te ve Berson, George Cuiea and Anderson said, "We have always World Report, see page I. Jason DeRousie and received high ratings in academic Kenyon rose two places from Junior Class Representative U.S. News Macalester all tied for 27. reputation, graduation rate and last year to rank 31 in Sarah Ross defeated Tim Foad annual Swarthmore remains the best lib- alumni giving rate and lower rat- and World Report's 1998 Sophomore Class President to the nation's best colleges. eral arts college in the country, ings in areas directly related to guide Noelle Aiello defeated Charles Miller Kenyon's overall score out of 100 according to the report released endowment including faculty re- financial resources." Sophomore Class Representative is 8 1 .0 while the academic reputa- Sept. 1. sources and resources Trace I lancock defeated Josh Rosenfeld, Maraleen Shields tion score is 3.1 out of four. The major improvement for Kenyon's financial fac- and Doug Vaskas Tied with Kenyon is Colo- Kenyon comes in admissions rank for 1998 is 64, while the is 62. rado College, topped by Barnard, selectivity. This year has seen a ulty resources rank page three Bucknell, ConnecticutCollege and jump from a score of 61 to 38 in see RANKING receives another blow in bank TODAY: Kenyon The college is still exploring the current and proposed new bank cloudy. 30 next to Palme House. , V Mostly BY JAMES RAY in the form of first right house did not meet state all of its options but the prospects properties - IT The Y-- percent chance of Senior Sta Reporter building and fire codes and was are not promising. of refusal. showers. H 65-7- 0. movement of the house The agreement also states the The Board ofZoning Appeals too large for the lot. The lot was the The FRIDAY: Partly sunny. H 70s. college is part of an agree- college will finance the modifica- denied Kenyon' s request for a vari- only feasible location to place the by the SATURDAY: Fair. L 50-55- - H 7075. Gambier tion of the proposed bank into a which would house, according to college offi- ment the Peoples Bank of ance last Tuesday, structure, SUNDAY: Fair. L55-6- 0. H 75S0 with the college this sum- wooden frame clapboard have allowed the college to move cials, and represented the last made the college as well as the movement of the on the future option for the future of the historic mer. It specifies that the house currently Street. n have long-ter- m control over house away from Wiggin bank site to a space on Ward Street residence. will New Halogen Lamp The college is currently un- able to move the structure due to Rules. P.3 extinguished in freshman residence the denial of its variance request. En- Fire that the day alter Harlem Spiritual ... c i... : i "It is understood approximately 4:30 a.m. on Sep smoldering for an undetermined BY DAVID SHARGEL the meeting the bank told the col- semble to perform. P.8 tember 5 when he noticed smoke period of time, after which the fire Editor lege that it would sue them if the News entering department was dispatched in or- coming from aroom. Upon wasn't moved soon," Cy . building resi-den- ts building smoke. tragic situation the room Downes instructed the der to clear the of Jamele Adamsprofile. P.6 A potentially Wainscolt, concerned citizen said. did a really nice last week when Secu- to evacuate while "Downes for the Horn Gallery offers students a was averted Kenyon will likely pay simultaneously thebuilding's alarm job," said Dan Werner, director of rity and Safety officer J.P.Downes demolition of the house. .,. ..... creative P. 7 : , ; . outlet . was activated by.the smoke Swnritv and Safctv. extinguished a small fire in system ...The, agreerneniiWas .reacneu X-- i VoUeybaUtohostGLCAtpurney hallway? ! J 2vfi the fire waxapparently caused McBride residence. entering the viitf i this suirurier with die dropping of weekend. P.12 I extin- by a desk lamp that fell onto some this 7 Dowries was performing nor- Downes proceeded to - see BANK page two flammable material. mal rounds through the hallway at guish the fire, which had been 2 tTOrje enpon Collegian NEWS Thursday, September 11, 1997 Security Chief discusses department's new direction BY NED SALTER relations. Since last year the de- 19-year-o- Staff Reporter 'If I could help one ld, and they come partment has seen an increase in the number of part-tim- e officers During his first four months back to me in three years and say, "You know and Werner hopes to eventually as director of Security and Safety, a couple of things you said really sunk in," my increase the number of full-tim- e Daniel J. Werner has made few officers. The department has also changes in department regulations. whole career would be a success.' acquired a new vehicle, new radios Instead, he plans on reforming and Daniel J. Werner, and new uniforms. unifying existing policy enforce- Wemer said, "We have excel- ment director of Security and Safety lent officers a -- that do nice V - job out "What we're looking for is there. We want to be there for the more accountability," said Werner. part of their social education, 21 students do it here than in Mount campus. If people make a call we "If we walk into a party and there year-old- s have the right to leam Vernon. will arrive." is only a bag of chips the party how to drink responsibly. At the "I'd rather have students stag- Though Werner's previousjob doesn't open. That's not a change Daniel J. Werner same time, the department will ger home than drive to their dorms was as a Knox County Sheriffs in policy, that's a change in en- enforce state laws prohibiting un- drunk," said Wemer. deputy, he stresses that he and his forcement." of the education students receive is derage drinking, as it has While changes in policy officers are not here to be police Departmental policy requires social education. consistently done in the past have been minimal, Werner has officers. 19-year-o- that money spent on alcohol at Wemer said, "Students go to "Drinking on campus is a seen numerous changes within "If I could help one ld, parties must be equal to the amount class four hours a day. That gives no-wi- n situation," said Werner. the actual department. Former and they come back to me in spent on food and alternative bev- us 20 hours a day of social educa- "I'm against a dry campus sim- Director Melanie Remillard has three years and say, 'you know a erages.