Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 4-2-1998 Kenyon Collegian - April 9, 1998 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - April 9, 1998" (1998). The Kenyon Collegian. 544. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/544 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]. 1 '' 1 11 Volume CXXV, Number 20 ESTABLISHED 1856 Thursday, April 9, 1998 Final plans in place iimc"! Student Council imPresident Runoff between Hilary Lowbridge '99 35.6 and Kevin Pepper '99 29 Adrian Amedia '99 21 for campus building Abstain 13.5 five lack tne space to accommo- BY JESSICA ANDRUSS seven to times our endow ings, Vice President Student Life studentfaculty research and News Assistant ment. The most pressing need date Laura Maestas '01 52.5 identified was the need for im- appropriate animal lab facilities. Christopher Acker '99 34 President Robert A. Oden Jr. proved music and science facili- The desires to eradicate these Abstain 13.5 ties. inadequacies culminated in 1996 addressed students and faculty Affairs with plans for campus construction Rosse Hall, home of the mu when a campaign which Oden la- Vice President Academic Colin Yuckman '01 42.1 at a common hour presentation on sic department, is in need of more belled "wildly ambitious" was be- Chris Carmody '99 39.8 accessible faculty offices, more gun to raise money for building Tuesday. Abstain 26.5 A symbolic additions. ground breaking The additions, Treasurer forRosse Hall will drafted by Graham Nels Christiansen '01 69.4 take place on April Gund Associates in 28 at 4 p.m. and Cambridge, Mass., Senate Co-Ch- air construction will were designed to Will Sugden '99 79 begin shortly after add to the feeling of commencement. the existing arch- Chair of House and Grounds Christie Masterson '99 48.1 The upcoming itecture, which Bradley Dreifuss '01 37.3 construction is could best be de- scribed as "colle- largely a result of Chair Lectureships giate gothic archi- of Student the efforts of the Eric Bescak '99 76 tecture," said Oden. Campaign Plan- He also assured ning Committee. Chair of Security and Safety the audience that The committee is a Runoff between Josh Prime '99 22.5 Mil Graham Gund, who group of trustees, and John Weibull '99 32.1 graduated from '01 17.9 alumni, faculty, Justin Jones Kenyon in 1963, Abstain 14.6 parents and stu- was careful to pre- dents who began Kate Bennett serve the "winding Chair of Social Board meeting in 1995 Buildings and grounds chief Tom Lepley discusses logistical characteristics so Brian Goldman '01 : 77.9 with the hopes of concerns involving upcoming campus construction essential to the vo- targeting Kenyon's Runoff election being run today through and cabulary of Kenyon's style" in his greatest needs. They found that in- practice rooms, better heating Saturday until noon on the VAX. creased endowments could create air ventilation, a middle-size- d work. The long vertical windows and many more endowed faculty chairs concert hall and increased lobby columns of Rosse Hall, strengthen available financial aid. space. majestic in which Oden called "Kenyon's Senate discusses The committee belived that in- Higley Hall, built the late in ad- 1 Parthenon," will remain the creased endowments would also 960s and the last major science dition. enable Kenyon to better compete building to be constructed, as well The new building will provide with colleges such as Carelton, as Samuel Mather and Philip task force report see CONSTRUCTION page two alcohol and the role Grinnell, and Oberlin, who have Mather, the other science build BY CHARLIE PUGH ceptions of in the lives of Staff Reporter that drinking plays awards grant the students. "Some students per- Gund Foundation Wednesday's Kenyon Col- ceived that more drinking was -- i --i -- i lege Senate meeting covered a going on than there actually was," multitude of different issues, but he said. "Most people saw alco- to support science scnoiarsnips focused mainly on the Task Force hol as a central part of their lives." financial need grams, and we are grateful to the 1 who has SENATE page two Kenyon has recieved a $ .5 at Kenyon report concerning drugs and alco- see demonstrated academic Gund Foundation for going beyond million grant from the George and has hol. achievement in secondary school, their level of giving for most Gund Foundation of Cleveland in The report dealt with the involvement in school or commu- grants." order to establish the Gund Sci- problem of alcohol abuse on and promise for a suc- The Gund Foundation has program. nity service Kenyon's campus. While binge ence Scholars been giving to the college since cessful academic future. was a great deal of The program, one of 85 grants for drinking given Preference for the scholar- 1959 and has provided funding totalling $5.9 million the Gund attention, members of the Senate will be given to those stu- buildings, scholarships and other Friday: Mix of sun and clouds. Foundation has approved during ships expressed more concern on the Cleveland area. resources. High 50 meeting 1997, dents from the effect that drinking had on the aca- its last quarterly of Former chair of the Cleveland will help Kenyon 30-3- a year. "This grant demic and social aspects of col- Saturday: Fair. Low 5, high 55 will fund four scholarships Gund es- attract and retain the most deserv- Trust Company, George The grant given to Kenyon is the lege life. Sunday: Chance of showers. High 60s much-neede- d tablished the foundation in 1952. ing students by providing Associate Professor of Politi- largest. President Foundation grants have totalled Monday: Chance of showers, be aid," said college cal Science Stephen Van Holde The scholarships will to brings almost $280 million date. 60-6- Robert A. Oden Jr. "This High 5 granted on a competative basis to also focused on the students' per recognition to our science pro one student in each First-ye- ar class -- oTTT FEATURES: A&E: SPORTS: NEWS: OPED: scores first win. P. 1 6 security Tobias Wolff to speak on Softball Day some An inside look at and recognizes academic of silence makes P. 12 Award Lvfety. P. 8 & 9 Monday. achievement. p. 2 noise. P. 7 2 The Kenton Collegian NEWS Thursday, April 9, 1998 Miller award recognizes 'pursuit of education' Students who make unusual or 'I'm one of the many Kenyon graduates who became and University of Chicago gradu- award in appreciation of the significant contributions to the col- ate who retired from faculty members who encouraged lege are now eligible for the new a teacher due in substantial part to the close relation- the college in 1981. him and others to become college Franklin Miller Award. ships developed with the faculty at the college.' The award is being funded by professors. The awards, which will be pre- Edward Ordman '64 Edward T. Ordman, a 1964 gradu- "I'm one of the many Kenyon sented by the provost and will take ate of the college who majored in graduates who became a teacher the form of Kenyon Book Store for the award, and students may be ulty as well as a distinguised mathematics and is now an asso- due in substantial part to the close credits, will recognize the pursuit rewarded for any effort the provost physicist, teacher and textbook ciate professor of computer sci- relationships developed with the of education outside the class- deems appropriate. author. ence at the University of Mem- - faculty at the college," said room. Franklin Miller Jr. was a long- - Kenyon's Miller Observatory is phis. Ordman. There is no application process time member of the college's fac-- also named after the Swarthmore Ordman said that he funded the Grand Entry Senate: Book Store examined CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 plight of the college Book Store. Greek Council President Ciuca As a result of the report, the role Some concerns have been ex- said that the Greek Council met with of resident advisors was heavily dis- pressed as to the future and direc- security to discuss how parties were cussed. The fact that RAs are expected tion of the bookstore, and espe- run, and to discuss changes that to act as both a confidante and a dis- cially the abundance of used would benefit the student body. Also, ciplinarian seemed problematic, and books making the store more con- in regards to the Sexual Harassment the concern was voiced that these two gested. Task Force's collaboration with roles may indeed prevent either ofthe Student Life representative VOICES, he said "We will have a jobs from being completed effec- Hilary Lowbridge '99 said that the program to educate the student body. tively. popular sentiment expressed was The program is going very well." George Ciuca '99, an RA in that the Book Store suit the needs Lowbridge also stated that Lewis, stated that more incentive of the college community first. the spring elections were pro- is needed for RAs of the future. "The Book Store needs to be the gressing very smoothly. Sara Rcder "The incentives free room are best bookstore for Kenyon Col- Finally, Dean of Students Traditional Native American dancers make their Grand Entry into not enough, you really have to the best Donald J.