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A Arthur Schlesinger, Theatrical Double: Lords Football Jr. Speaks on JFK The Zoo Story and Finishes Second Administration Talley's Folley in NCAC enyjon Collegian Volume CXVI, Number 8 Established 1856 Thursday, November 10, 1988 News Briefs Kenyon Sees Alcoholic's, COA's Needs yon Friends. with issues differently. KAAG1 is designed By Adam Blankenship Law Adds to The catalyst for all the groups is the for students beginning treatment and It is well-document- ed that in any com- recognition that people with certain problems KAAG2 for those who have been sober for a Discrimination munity ten-perce- nt of the population consists have special needs. In the case of a student in year or more. Stacey Sapper, a sophomore, of alcoholics. Gambier, according to Dr. KCOA, he or she enters college without the says that without KAAG she could not have In a study of 400 employers in the New Tracy Schermer, director of the Health and experience of a normal family life. "The stu- remained sober while at Kenyon. "The group York City area, researchers have discovered Counseling Center, is no exception. dent harbors a lot of negative feelings such is run by the participants," Sapper states. that the new, tougher immigration laws pass- As recently as three years ago, a Kenyon as guilt and anger and tends to become "We talk about a lot of different issues ed in 1986 have led to discrimination. Spon- student who suffered from alcoholism had depressed often," says Schermer. "What the related to alcoholism; taking responsibility is sored by Governor Cuomo, the study noted few places to turn. There were no organized counselor does is to guide them in a process a big issue." Like the KCOA group, the that the employers discriminated against support groups or counseling sessions at of understanding the disease their parent(s) students in KAAG go through a process of citizens or legal aliens simply because they which a student could share and discuss live with, their treatment, and hopefully to recognizing that a problem exists and then looked foreign. problems with fellow students or professional evoke some forgiveness." Begun last year, finding solutions with the help of fellow counselors. Coping with what many people KCOA presently has thirty members who students. "Only in the groups can we learn Virus Scares Nation call a disease was left largely to the students. meet once a week with Colbertson. Both about the more subtle aspects of their prob- A computer virus was introduced last "There has always been a need for counseling Schermer and Colbertson believe the need for lem. Feelings can be broken down and under- Kenyon even Wednesday by Robert T. Morris into the na- and support groups at though this group will grow as more students become stood," adds Colbertson. tional security computer system. The virus, we have only begun to face the problem aware that it exists. Special Kenyon Friends is an aftercare pro- discovered later in the week, was designed to within the past few years." says Schermer. In the health questionnaires completed by gram that works in conjunction with in- only by replicate itself through telecomputing; how- Despite the recent attempts the the class of 1992 this summer, fifteen terventions. An intervention occurs when ever, due to an error in programming, it students, faculty and administration to come students identified themselves as children of friends of someone suspected to be an af- multiplied repeatedly until it froze up many to grips with a devastating problem that alcoholics while statistically there are approx- alcoholic ask the Health and Counseling Kenyon's newly-founde- d sup- of the computers that it came in contact with, fects millions, imately 150 students who fall into the Center to intervene. "Friends know best of all innovative for a college its li affected some 6000 computers, and caused port groups are of category. who is an alcoholic. They see a difference in a nationwide scare. Morris is a first year size. Presently, the Health and Counseling The seventeen members of KAAG are fac- someone when they're drunk and when graduate student at Cornell. Center sponsors several alcohol support ed with more serious problems than the they're sober and realize that they have a groups under the direction of Camille Col-bertso- n, students in KCOA they themselves have the problem," notes Schermer. Colbertson actual- Dual Income 'Essential' part-tim- e Alcoholic Counselor and disease. In KAAG, the issues are no centered ly does very little besides organizing meetings Education Coordinator. Among them are the around understanding or forgiveness,-bu- t re- between the student and his or her friends; A recent study shows that two sources of Kenyon Children of Alcoholics, Kenyon maining sober in a college atmosphere. The the friends guide the person from start to income has allowed 40 of American AlcoholAwareness Group and Special Ken program is divided into two groups that deal . finish. "The intervention is always initiated families to achieve the buying power that by negative feelings that a friend develops for most families had 10 years ago. Conducted Enters Stages the person because they have an alcohol by the Economic Policy Institute, the study Development Knal concludes that without new economic see SUPPORT page eight policies, there is little help that the current of the Campaign for Kenyon generation will be able to live better than the By Shax F. Riegler one before it. On July 1, 1984, the Campaign for Kenyon officially began. This massive fund-raisin- g Singapore Denies Eng mission ends June 30, 1989. Today is the kick-of- region Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yew f celebration for the final of in- has stated that the adoption of English as a the campaign, the New York area, which national language for that country, has led to cludes Connecticut and Eastern Penn- sylvania. the erosion of traditional values. He has call- ed for a return to the traditional Mandarin. $35,000,000 was the ambitious goal set for the Campaign. A Resource Planning Com- Big Bro. Ban Gays mittee of two faculty members, two students, i and a parent worked closely with Douglas Big Brothers, the organization which helps Vice for Development. f. X find Givens, President companions for fatherless boys, may 1 This goal was set after formulating the needs ' discriminate against gay and bisexual men, a of the college and a strategy for obtaining California Superior Court judge recently rul- them. Working with the board of trustees for " ed. The judge ruled that the Unrah Act "' approximately two years before the start of did not pertain to Big Brothers. the Campaign, they devised a list of goals, a If1 Employee Theft time schedule, and a strategy. Since the According to the FBI, employees at a beginning, the staff has methodically gone nuclear plant in Rocky Flats, CO, have been through the plan, day by day, region by Development finishes up four-yea- r raising. pilfering thousands of illegally constructed region. fund items since 1968, including a $15,000 hard- Central to the strategy was the division of wood staircase. The government, while hav- the nation into regions, to be focused on in ed the purpose with such dedication. "It has were 15 regions, which all centered around a ing found many of the items in Energy consecutive order. This required the aid of really enhanced Kenyon's relations with far 'flagship' city. Department employee's possession, has made alumni everywhere. Kimberlee Klesner, Direct-to- r flung alumni," she said. All of the staff work Gambier served as region one. Each region it con- in concentric no efforts to recover the estimated $1 million of Development, noted the fact that dur- was done from Gambier because only moved out from this center loss. ing the Campaign over 500 alumni have serv- - centrated on a few regions per year. There see CAMPAIGN page eight PAGE TWO ...OH BY THE WAY pAMHO, Bp FoRR H LEe :n Th4oUOHr THAT f&ZHAPS YoO COULD SlCW THIS... UH... you LE.O-AL- Contract iAt to have FCC pO TWS, 8tT You Kk)W... Mf WAOE- - WKCO Presupposes TouRL IWSliTS. ITS OUST BASIC i&Ai-ifiES- j i THE. LiKB. Bill Rights has always been the OtirA' ToimE . wAS EELBAseS. AJ& One of the most controversial elements in the of m t!m A PlA5HAH havm'ir yA x. rtf.. - 'C" Just freedom of expression. The Supreme Court has been called on time and time again to T s.' I I OM DA SHoW, AVp X TL, V 1 WiNfi(A TAWK. Yoo x LWPwriirAD clarify the scope of this right, particularly with regard to the media. What is considered F'joiNIN OS LOU. X KNOtS t Hoi IT CAfJ "obscene" or "offensive" has been a primary source of this controversy, with particular concern given to the exposure of children and infringement of community standards. This battle over freedom of expression effects our community through the guidlines under which our college radio station operates.