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I LIBRARY A NOV 1 8 19G8 Vo ARCHIVES d wit tfrftir Co 0 Vol XCV Kenyon College GamJbier Ohio November 14 1968 Na 9 Senate Studies Columbia o 9 Security Role Students Hits End Womens Hours Protestors The Undergraduate Dormitory Council at Columbia College has elimi- In a relatively quiet nated on i session restrictions womens visiting hours marked by the eating According to a of marsh- New York Times report of November 8 the student mallows and french organization fries Campus exercised authority delegated to it by the Dean last Wednes- Senate passes day Dean some new legislation Carl Hovde delegated to the council responsibility for setting and discussed and enforcing student participation dorm regulations He maintained a veto power because V in policy- making of the legal liabilities of the university According a Several senators munched on to the Times Columbia is now the only Ivy League college I msrshmallows without supplied by the restrictions on womens hours The action also barred unescorted 1 WKCO reporter while passing a women above the main floor in the dormitories 1 bill Previously meant to clarify the College womens hours were 5 to 10 pm Monday through Thursday position on 5 pm to 2 demonstrations The new am Friday noon to 2 am Saturday and noon to lOpm section in the handbook will read Sunday The The College welcomes and encour- Times reported Dean Hovdes statement on the new legislation- ages I am serious discussion on any issue convinced that good sense and proper order will be maintained from mere after t all points of view but cannot is all nothing people can do at one time that they cannot condone do at another behavior designed to pre- and it is in my opinion altogether unlikely that alterations vent obstruct or interfere with any in visiting hours will have any effect on PROF PAUL EIDELBERG sexual behavior attacked moral relativism in last Thurs- of its activities and programs days lecture The bill is designed to prohibit various obstructions including any violent anti- military recruiterdem- Council Considers onstration Senate then moved to extend w- IS Eidelberg Hits omens hours in fraternity lodges that Hours Abolition the ing have telephone and plumbing facili- Stimulated by student confusion and students arranged among them- ties The hours for these lodges over rs the midnight ending of womens selves when tohavepartiesandwhen will now be the same as they are hours the Moral last Saturday Student Council to be quiet Decay in the dorms but women are not spent much of its meeting this The prospects of pas sing abolition In a permitted in other lodges except Monday lecture delivered last Thurs- which has led to a crisis of identity discussing the possibility legislation were uld between noon 9 considered Council day in Rosse Hall Professor Paul in our society Further we and pm of eliminating womens hours fail must One Senatorpointedoutthatinthe President David Hoster a member Eidelberg angrily attacked the moral realize that the myth of tine common Murray Horwitz noted that Ken- of ive Joint Statement on Rights Senate said he thought that relativism of todays society and good is not a myth but an actuality and Free- yon is undergoing the greatest ake doms of there is a moderately good chance indicated how it has led to the low We Students there appears change in 144 years should also stop flattering our and that now is of passage in the Senate but that quality of political the phrase The student body should the time to and social life youth by regarding them as thepro- question the principle he wouldnt want to guess what in have clearly defined means to par- of womens America phets of a new morality hours the President would do Presented as ticipate in the formulation and ap- One the third and final in Mr Eidelberg also expressed fear councilman remarked that The executive committee of Coun- a series of plication of institutional policy af- after midnight lectures entitled Poli- for our national security because this Fall Dance Sat- cil which is comprised of the three 6S fecting academic and student af- tics Mr Eidelberg began by our belief in moral relativism leads urday if one did not want to go to officers will ICi fairs The Joint Statement has consider possible discussing the disunity and apathy logically to a decline of patriotism the concert in Peirce there was no legislation to t been endorsed by various be recommended to which characterizes politics today a true moral relativist could not national other place to go Another member Senate We have a whi h duos groups including the American As- pointed out ml governmiit possibly believe that his countrys that if women were In view of recent rumors con- not govern sociation of University Professors allowed in I r he said and an election ideals were worth fighting for the dorm all night and cerning Security officers exceeding in and the National Student Associa- parties were to v which fundamental issues were Professor Eidelberg then turned continue into the authority and of the feeling that hardly tion early morning discussed Not only the to the philosophy of Americas athletes with games they have been misinformed Coun- political The senators were concerned that the next day might machinery is responsible founding fathers He noted that the not get enough cil decided to establish thatSecuriry however this idea be called to the attention sleep there is likewise a low Declaration of Independence held is aware of the regulation concerning quality of the Finkbeiner committee on Abolition of of citizenship among the natures law supreme over man- hours Paul Halpern searching of student residences constituency faculty organization observed would made conventions and that the docu- shift these prob- The members passed unanimously Mr The question of Securitys right lems to the Eidelberg pointed to Justice ment was addressed only to those students He raised a motion to send a copy of the William to search students rooms was the question of who Douglas dissenting Su- with the virtue of civility The is responsible regulation to Security Chief James preme opened One senator pointed out the Court decision on obscenity for shaping the life style of stu- Cass to the Dean to Founders believed that a government gap between administration policy and the Presi- as an example of todays moral dents the administration or the dent could rule without the consent of and the asking the Deanfor clarification ii relativism For Douglas said Eidel- action of security officers students themselves brutish people and said efforts were being See COUNCIL Page 6 berg right and good have no made Several councilmen related their Mr Eidelberg expressed the view to correct this gap The hope was universal meaning Douglas experience at other colleges in- failure that government must support in- expressed to condemn Ginsburg for obscenity that occasions of enter- cluding Brandeis where hours were See DECAY Page 4 Potential Watson amounts to a confession of ignorance See SENATE Page 6 either non- existentor non- enforced concerning how man should live Fellows Named Professor Eidelberg asserted that ur laws must reflect a definite Kenyons four nominees for the moral standard for morally neut- lucrative Watson scholarships have ral laws are subversive of society Large Alumni Donors been announced by the Provost We should not be content to feel Tony LoBello Joel Fisher Steve that our human nature will provide Landsman and Dave Hoster are the necessary discrimination for Kenyons choices One hundred stu- human nature is changed by cultural To Be Made Kenyon Kings dents from 25 schools are eligible influences such as advertising for the 50 scholarships available Both teaching and enforcement are The Watson fellowship provides necessary to create a moral society The ways of Big Business and the traditions of Old accepted practice in college fund raising 6000 to enable college graduates Lnlike the moral relativism which England are simultaneously making their way into To raise the alumnis level of giving Martin said of outstanding promise to engage in Permeates education today teaching Kenyon fund raising efforts You have to go out and stimulate them Prizes are a year of travel and independent must stress the concern for others Large contributors to the annual Alumni Kenyon being given this year to the categorized contributors study abroad which is basic to a morality of Fund will find themselves classified as Kenyon Martin unveiled some samples to the Collegian in The year of planned study and moderation We must stop stressing Earls Lords or Kings A gift of 100 to 499 his Bexley office For the Earl a key chain with travel it is hoped will give the confers the honor of Kenyon Earl on the donor four knives arranged around a square metal plate fellows an opportunity to take stock one of 500 to