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Established 1856 Volume CXXXV, Number 14 www.kenyoncollegian.com PB News The Kenyon Collegian Thursday, January 24, 2008 Thursday, January 24, 2008 The Kenyon Collegian News THE KENYON COLLEGIAN Gambier, Ohio Thursday, January 24, 2008 12 Pages Also in this issue LBIS changes band- Four students win new award8 Features width, site, virus policy group in order to provide it to the BY Nick MOHAR-SCHURZ students.” Staff Writer When the LBIS staff met with Library and Information Servic- students at an open forum in No- es recently made three major changes vember to talk about the residential to its services: residential network network, “slow connections was a top bandwidth has doubled, the Web site priority,” said Griggs. Wireless access has been redesigned and the manda- points were also unreliable during tory installation of antivirus software power outages. To deal with this prob- for Macs has been revoked. lem, LBIS replaced the oldest wireless Due to “tremendously higher access points on campus—those in student usage this fall,” the College’s Lewis, Norton and Farr Halls, which residential network bandwidth has were installed in 2004. been doubled, said Director of In- “We’ve replaced about 40 per- formation Systems and Institutional cent of the access points with new Research Ron Griggs. Most of this ones that seem to be more reliable increase is likely due to the growing … we still have more to replace,” he popularity of online video watching, said. he said. Although doubling the band- Because of an increased on-line width helped the situation, Griggs COURTESY OF DOUG GiVENS demand for larger videos, such as said that there is still probably more Sixteen acres of Tom and Dorothy Jeglas’ property will be preserved for agriculture. those provided by sites like YouTube, demand than is being supplied be- “the amount of bandwidth we’d al- cause bandwidth is used for academic located for students was completely and non-academic purposes. It is dif- Former Kenyon professors put used up for hours at a time,” Griggs ficult to distinguish between them, said. he said. Now at 60 megabits per second, Furthermore, he said, the Col- conservation easement on property Kenyon’s bandwidth is “a little closer lege has a “responsibility to provide The easement, a legal document cial chimneys for chimney swifts and a to the top of the list” when compared [the student] with entertainment re- BY SARAH FRIEdmaN specifying the future use of a piece section of a barn for barn owls, and are to those of other Ohio schools, Griggs sources … it would be a grim place on News Editor of land, will protect their land from part of the bird sanctuary intended to said. “In terms of bandwidth per stu- the Hill” if there were only classes. In December 2007, Tom and development, no matter who owns it protect species native or naturalized to dent, we’re ahead [of the Ohio State The Academic Affairs Commit- Dorothy Jegla, both former Kenyon in the future. It prohibits the building the Ohio habitat, he said. University and Oberlin College].” tee sponsored the November forum, biology professors, finalized a conser- of cell phone towers, playing fields or “We have over 120 [species] that Director of Information Access and LBIS meets with this group regu- vation easement mandating that the other developments and encourages we have identified on the property and Megan Fitch said, “this is something larly, but Griggs said that he is trying 35.79-acre property they have owned protection of “a diversity of habitats … there are undoubtedly many more,” that everyone [at all colleges] is having to talk with more student groups this since 1972 will remain a bird sanctu- and places for birds to nest,” said Tom. said Tom. “There are over about 70 to grapple with.” semester. File sharing, Internet games ary and agricultural area. Such nesting places include two artifi- see JEGLAS, page 2 Griggs said that water pipes are a and the connection of game systems good analogy when trying to under- to the campus network are all to be stand bandwidth. People “want more discussed in the future. water” just as students want more Retired postmaster Woolison honored things coming into their computers. •New Web site BY TEddY EismEIER Many of them also signed a book recognizing his many family mem- “We’ve made the pipe twice as big but On Wednesday, Jan. 9, the Col- Staff Writer with remarks and personal notes bers and co-workers who were in I think we’ll have to keep growing the lege unveiled its new Library and for him. attendance. pipe,” he said. Information Services Web site, which Recently-retired Gambier Post- Emmert and President S. Geor- “I’m overwhelmed,” he said. The College’s 30 megabits re- will be much easier to use, said master Charles “Chuck” Woolison gia Nugent offered remarks during “I’ve enjoyed serving all of you over served for classrooms, labs and faculty Fitch. was honored Wednesday, Jan. 23, the event, which took place in Gund the years. I just hope and pray that and administrator computers did not The new site was an in-house de- at a retirement party sponsored by Commons lounge. Nugent read a I have made a difference in your change, said Griggs. “We also didn’t sign, with the redesign team including Kenyon College and the Village of resolution to be voted on by the lives.” want to steal bandwidth from that see LBIS, page 3 Gambier. Woolison received recog- Board of Trustees at their February nition for his long years of service meeting, recognizing Woolison for to the community, as well-wishers his service. from the Kenyon and Gambier com- “Because of Chuck, we associate munities turned out for Woolison’s kindliness, friendliness and warmth retirement party. with the phrase ‘going postal,’” Nu- The 64-year-old Woolison of- gent said. ficially retired from his post on Emmert read a proclamation Jan. 1, 2008, after 36 years with the declaring Jan. 23 “Chuck Woolison postal service, 25 of those years as Day,” in Gambier, thanking the re- Gambier’s postmaster. He is known tiree for his cheerful personality and to Gambier residents as a friendly his hard work with the post office. and helpful presence at the post Fred Linger, the College’s busi- office shared by locals and students. ness services manager, encapsulated Gambier Mayor Kirk Emmert said the undercurrent of goodwill and that Woolison was a perfect fit as a gratitude that ran through the small-town postmaster. afternoon’s events. “If central casting could send “I suggest you stay up until over the ideal postmaster, it would midnight,” Linger said to Woolison, be Chuck,” said Emmert. “because this is one of the best days At the ceremony, Kenyon fac- a man could live.” ulty and staff andG ambier residents Following the brief program, formed a line to greet Woolison. Woolison addressed the gathering, ROXANNE SmitH Chuck Woolison, Gambier’s recently retired postmaster, at the ceremony honoring him. News The Kenyon Collegian Thursday, January 24, 2008 Thursday, January 24, 2008 The Kenyon Collegian News Jeglas: property preserved for birds, agriculture, natural energy From page 1 can build or develop or put busi- nesses on the land … Supposedly the species that have actually nested on land has a lot less value now.” the property that we have found, “I’d rather get less for it later and some are quite unusual.” and preserve the land than be able Sixteen acres of the land is to get more for it,” said Dorothy. protected for agricultural use, Many farmers make the op- which can also benefit birds such posite decision because they need as meadowlarks, said Dorothy. the revenue from selling their land, That land currently grows corn and she said. “Taking a hit on what soybeans on a rotating schedule, you can get could be a problem for according to Managing Director of someone.” the Philander Chase Corporation Doug Givens, who has become •Why protect the land? involved with the land through Though every lot into which the P.C.C. large properties are often divided The easement also encour- must be at least five acres each, some ages organic farming and natural landowners turn the land into lawn sources for energy, like wind and area that cannot support wildlife, solar power, said Tom. It forbids said Tom. harvesting trees. “They have to stay COURTESY of DOUG GIVENS “As I see [it], our property is for the woodpeckers,” he said. The Jeglas’ easement protects their property against future development. like a little jewel for the animals and birds in this sea of agriculture •Role of the Philander Chase and building,” said Tom. Corporation The Corporation is “simply In this arrangement, “no money which often subsidizes agricul- To the Jeglas and to Kenyon The Jeglas granted their prop- a holder of the easement,” said changes hands,” said Tom, but the tural—but not conservation—ease- College, there is also a historical erty to the Philander Chase Corpo- Givens.