Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 2-5-2015 Kenyon Collegian - February 5, 2015 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - February 5, 2015" (2015). The Kenyon Collegian. 2369. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/2369 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]. KCDC impresses with mainstage spectacle, Bakkhai Pg. 5 Serving Kenyon College and Gambier, Ohio Since 1856 2.5.15 VOLUME CXLII NO. 16 The Collegian 16 pages Today and tomorrow, the Destigmatizing mental health issues Board of Trustees meets to discuss Kenyon’s present and future. Some topics include: » Wrapping up 2020 discussions » Revisiting the campus master plan » Panel about connections between lib- eral arts education and career opportuni- ties, roles of undergraduate research and internships » Plans to release amount of future tu- ition increases COURTESY OF THE COUNSELING CENTER AND KRISTEN HUFFMAN Lef: Counseling Center staf pose for a group photo inside the newly renovated building. Right: the Counseling Center. Djerassi, a creator 34 percent of students visited the of her freshman year, Young and prescribed an anti-de- went to see a Kenyon coun- pressant medication in the Counseling Center in 2014. selor. “I learned that going spring of 2013, during her of the Pill, dies home was an option, and I sophomore year. She took cit hyperactivity disorder learned that I wouldn’t be another medical leave of SARAH LEHR | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MAYA KAUFMAN FEATURES EDITOR (ADHD) adversely afect penalized for it,” she said. absence for the fall 2013 se- An embodiment of the their ability to thrive at Ke- “And as soon as I found that mester. well-rounded liberal arts “I was overwhelmed nyon. Although Kenyon of- out, I knew that was what I Director of Counseling ideal, Carl Djerassi ’43 with anxiety, and I felt like I fers a variety of resources, had to do.” Services Patrick Gilligan died in his San Francisco was drowning.” Amy Young a number of students have Young took the second said students with mental home last Friday due to ’16, formerly of the Class of found mental health condi- semester of her freshman health conditions withdraw complications from can- 2015, is one of a handful of tions too overwhelming to year of but during that when their “sufering has cer. He was 91. Tough students who each year fnd remain at school and have time “wasn’t really address- gotten to be so signifcant best known for his scien- that mental health condi- withdrawn for periods of ing the problems that had that it begins to compro- tifc achievements, includ- tions such as depression, time. arisen,” she said. Young was mise their ability to partici- ing the synthesis of a key anxiety and attention def- During the frst semester diagnosed with depression pate in their life page 3 ingredient in the frst oral contraceptive, he devoted COURTESY OF PUBLIC his later life to writing and AFFAIRS to supporting the arts. What is 0.25 credit really worth? During his adolescence, Djerassi fed Nazi persecution in Austria, his birth country, frst immigrating to Bulgaria and LAUREN ELLER then to the United States. Upon the Djerassis’ arrival in New STAFF WRITER York in 1939, a taxi driver cheated Carl and his mother out of the last $20 they had. A few years later, Djerassi wrote then- Not all .25-credit classes are First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt requesting a college scholarship. created equal. Or so they say. He later remarked in a 2012 Collegian article: “I had the idea Some of these classes, which that she was sort of the queen of America,” he said. He did provide half the credit of a regular win a scholarship to Tarkio College in Missouri, but trans- course, often have a reputation at ferred to Kenyon his junior year. Djerassi’s son, flmmaker Kenyon for having heavier work- Dale Djerassi, said, “He always had tremendous afection for loads than other .25 credit classes, Kenyon as a great institution of higher learning.” even with the same intensity as a STEPHANIE FONGHEISER | COLLEGIAN At Kenyon, though Djerassi majored in chemistry, he full .5 course. lived in Douglas House, a residence which was typically re- But there are reasons behind the Students in a beginning ballet class earn .25 credit for their work in the course. served for the protégés of poet and Kenyon Review founder .25 credit structure, though some John Crowe Ransom. His literary surroundings perhaps students may feel some such offer- rolled in introductory biology in her .5 lecture courses. “I feel like proved prophetic since he later became a poet, playwright ings are equivalent in workload to and chemistry labs, both of which I spend probably more time doing and author. His interests at Kenyon extended beyond the sci- .5 classes. count for .25 credit, said the work- things in lab,” she said. “It might entifc. He wrote a column for the Collegian called page 4 Kay Burrows ’18, who is en- load in those classes is close to that not be as difficult, espe- page 2 New stats on Inside: figure-drawing An educated... Swimming blows INSIDE THIS P.3 class of 2019 P.9 studio P.11 dorm? P.14 competition out of water ISSUE LIFE ON THE HILL AS IT HAPPENS: WWW.THEKENYONTHRILL.COM 2 THE KENYON COLLEGIAN | THURSDAY, FEB. 5 | KENYONCOLLEGIAN.COM President Sean Decatur on the passing of Carl Djerrasi ’43: “[He was] someone who was able to combine insights and thoughts from a wide range of disci- NEWS plines; someone that showed excellence in huge accomplishments in the scientific area but was also very active in thinking about the social and political implications of the scientific work he was EDITORS: EMILY SAKAMOTO doing. ... He was someone who embodies the ideal of what the liberal arts education should be.” AND VICTORIA UNGVARSKY Student council Village council Sunday, Feb. 1 Monday, Feb. 2 t The Business and Finance Committee (BFC) held a supplemental t Te Village will hold public hearings Tursday, Feb. 5 at the Gambier Com- meeting last week. Student Council voted to approve all BFC budget munity Center on its entrance into a gas aggregation program. Electric will allocations. be discussed at 4 and 6:30 p.m. and natural gas will be discussed at 4:30 and t The Campus Safety Committee reported that a lighting walk occurred 7 p.m. last week to fix dead lights and to decide where new lights should be t Te Village and the College assessed a leak near the North Campus Apart- working. The Committee is also looking into a new emergency re- ments, and the Village took care of a leak Sunday, Feb. 1 on East Brooklyn St. sponse system. t Spring Dumpster Day will be Saturday, May 2 and Fall Dumpster Day will be t The Greek Council Representative reported that bid week went well. Saturday, Oct. 3 from 8 a.m. to noon. t The Senior Class Council is planning Fandango and Senior Week. The t Stick-it-to-the-Village, in which residents can rid themselves of unwanted Baccalaureate speaker will be announced at Fandango this Friday, Feb. branches, will be Mondays, April 13 and 20 depending on weather. 6. t Te Village Administrator reported to Council that various repairs to the t The Junior Class Council met last week and set up a list of donors for wastewater treatment plant are underway. the junior class auction. They are looking for new members. t Council approved the 2015 budget. t The Sophomore Class Council will set up a workshop about summer t Council moved the frst reading of an ordinance lowering wastewater rates internships in collaboration with the Career Development Office. for the coming year by four percent. t The Buildings and Grounds Committee met with Chief Business Of- t Council passed the frst reading of an ordinance to increase pay for full-time ficer Mark Kohlman about the best possible de-icer. Buildings and employees by three percent. Grounds is looking to use beet sugar, an organic alternative to salt. The t Council approved the second reading of an ordinance to raise the base pay main drawback is price: one barrel, or 50 gallons, costs $650. of the wastewater operator by $3 an hour. t The Multicultural Council spoke about its goals and tried to define its policies, which will exist as an umbrella entity over the current cultural groups on campus. t The Academic Affairs Committee discussed the problems with sched- uling athletic practices during common hour. The committee is also Credit where credit is due? considering changing the pre-med curriculum to reflect changes in the content of the MCAT and the possibility of implementing a standard- Continued from Page 1 ized excused-absence policy. In order to squeeze or ft all of the classes in t The Student Life Committee did not meet. cially since we don’t take that you need to get a science degree, by neces- t The Housing and Dining Committee will begin a pots-and-pans drive tests, but I feel [I spend] sity, it’s the labs that ... [have] .25 credits.” this week. more time on lab than I do “Christopher Bickford, Assistant Professor of Biology on lecture homework.” —Steven Schmidt Christopher Bickford, assistant professor of biolo- fnishing write-ups not into their schedules with- gy, runs .25 science labs.