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MSIIK - E - N -Y - O - N c E - G -- I - A -- N Volume CXXVII, Number 17 ESTABLISHED 1856 Thursday, February 24, 2000 USA Today Senate's sex assault vote approaches honors two Subcommittee completes discussions; recommendation may be approved next week well-receive- d" at 'in- its BY KONSTANTINE SIMAKIS "pretty last eclectic subcommittee, which Davidson is to revise some of Thursday's Senate meeting, is the News Editor cluded six students, Associate language before the next meeting. Kenyonites result of over five months of discus- Dean of Students Cheryl L. Steele, After a set of recommendations and debate by the Senate's is said, the Sen- BY SUSANNA OK The Kenyon College Senate sion Dean of Students Donald J. approved, Hamilton fi- on sexual miscon- to a fo- Staff Reporter is perhaps one week away from subcommitee Omahan and Assistant Professor of ate plans host community nalizing and voting upon the long-volley- ed duct a collective that since its Mathematics Judy A. Holdener. rum like the one it held in Rosse Hall For the third year in a row, details of its recommen- Sept. 8 formation has spent ump- Hamilton said Senate plans to Dec. 8. "As far as getting it out to Kenyon College has produced stu- dations regarding the school's teen hours filtering proposed laws vote on whether to support the rec- the community, we think it's best to dents who rate amongst the best in policy on sexual assault, members and policies through the panoramic ommendation at next Thursday's 4 have another forum like what we the nation. The only difference, of the Senate told the Collegian lens of Kenyon sexuality. p.m. Peirce Lounge meeting, al- had earlier. however, was we used to produce yesterday. "Our work in formulating though he and Associate Dean of "Now with a more concrete only one. This year, Kenyon has The current incarnation of the recommendations is finished, and Students Cheryl L. Steele both said idea, we'll be able to ... say, 'This is turned out two: recent alum An- recommendation, which Vice Presi- now it's in the hands of the Senate Senate would need to discuss the what Senate passed. We're support- thony Togliatti '00 and Erin dent of the Committee on Student as a whole," said Hamilton, who issue further. ing this as what an entire semester Wimmers '00. Life Aaron Hamilton '01 said was participated as a member in the According to Hamilton, the of work has brought out.'" Or at least, so says USA To- only vocal opposition to the recom- The subcommittee met once day. mendations' most recent incarnation per week nearly every week of last Togliatti and Wimmers were Tightening the screws on was a matter of semantics; Associ- semester, for meetings that selected from a pool of 828 nomi- ate Professor of English Adele see SENATE, page three nees to be honored as two of the student-grou- p spendthrifts 60 members of USA Today's 2000 Just for Kicks All-US- A and College Academic Team. BY KONSTANTINE SIMAKIS member Andrew Burton '00 to the council at its Feb. Each year, nominees are News Editor submitted asked to describe their outstandi- 13 meeting by Vice President for the V ng original academic or intellec- Kenyon College Student Coun- Committee on Student Life Aaron tual endeavors in their own words. cil will vote Sunday on a proposal Hamilton '01, actually offers an USA to amended version of the college's ' Today's judging panel selects tighten the screws on spendthrift I - . - fiii ' - . T . their choices for the best under- student organizations, and to shift official registration process. graduates in the nation from those power in the making and breaking If the proposal is passed by Stu- submissions and supplemental fac- of organizations a privilege tradi- dent Council and, subsequent to ulty recommendations. tionally held by the Business and that, by Kenyon's Senate, campus ' Past Kenyon winners include Finance Committee to the groups finishing the semester with -- J: 1 '-- N 1999 First-tea- m honoree Shaka college's Student Life Committee. a negative balance in their account le- - seven-pag- e writ- f Smart will find themselves ostracized from '99, for his research on The proposal, l- - t i in . X - see USA TODAY, page three ten by Student Life committee see COUNCIL, page three ' i U I Prolific author Joyce Carol Oates J V to read unpublished work in Bolton BYALYS SPENSLEY Oates who won her first stitute. Oates has also been pub- for a short story in 1959 at in Review, most AND JENNY MCDEVITT award lished the Kenyon to Asso- with her short Collegian Staff the age of 20, according recently in 1997 ciate Professor of English William story "Faithless." She is currently Literary giant Joyce Carol Klein received her bachelor's the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Oates will speak at Kenyon Col- degree from Syracuse University Professor of the Humanities at lege in the Bolton Theater Mon- and a masters' degree in English Princeton University. She and her day, Feb. 28, at 7:30 p.m. from the University of Wisconsin. husband operate a small press to- Eddy Eckart Leibowitz A highly prolific writer who She has accumulated numerous gether and publish the Ontario Re- As scientists worldwide debate the source of global warming, Jon air. students took has published over 70 books, Oates other awards: the Rosenthal Award view, a literary magazine. '01 punts a football into the oddly Springlike Kenyon to fields unseasonable weather. has twice been nominated for the from the American Academy In- "She can write on almost any- the yesterday celebrating pleasant Nobel Prize in Literature and won stitute of Arts and Letters, a thing," said Klein, "Apparently the the National Book Award in 1969 Guggenheim Fellowship, the O. only thing she cannot write about i Ism wi i tm Umm for her novel them. Her work in- Henry Prize for Achievement in is herself. Asked to write about 'the Friday: Showers. 64 F, lo Sunday: Scattered showers. cludes novels, short stories, poetry, the Short Story, the Elmer Holmes making of Joyce Carol Oates' she Hi plays, literary criticism and essays. Bobst Lifetime Achievement was not, of course, found speech- 47F Hi 56F, lo 35F Oates' new novel, Blonde, is based Award in Fiction, the Rhea Award less, but the topic did defeat her. 'I Saturday: Rain. Hi 62F, lo Monday: Partly cloudy. Hi on the life of Marilyn Monroe and for the Short Story and member- write in order to find out what I 40F 56F, lo 37F is due out in April. ship in the American Academy In see OATES, page two bur 2 The Kenyon Collegian NEWS Thursday, February 24, 2000 History of diversity on college's largely Caucasian campus becomes more colorful upon closer look the students was exhib- BY ANDREW BURTON nation of Unbeknownst to many a local resident, the history of Kenyon College AND DENSIL PORTEOUS ited more expressively in a student Staff Reporters rally held at the steps of Rosse encompasses more than just ghosts, Paul Newman '49, campaign who Hall. Community members funds and entrepreneurial Episcopalians. In hopes of spreading aware- Yearly, issues of diversity spoke at the open-mi- c affair in- make their way to the forefront of cluded Kenyon President Robert ness, the Brothers of Alpha Delta Phi together highlight an aspect of our minds as members of the Oden, Jr., and many more attended This theme is Kenyon College community. Al- as supporters. the college's plenteous past. week's diversity. though many have often ques- The subsequent campus tioned the college's commitment awareness had many beneficial at Kenyon, which included obtain- community issued by the Lambda shadowing of what was yet to in creating an environment of di- results for those activists; they ing a certain signature and a se- Chapter. Healy said he felt disaf- come in the next few years with the versity both in thought and in were able to reach those who could ries of photographs. filiation from the organization was Civil Rights Movement; however, race, culture and ethnicity there and did make a difference. According to Rob Healy '91, necessary to make the national fra- a precedent was set here. have been many instances in the Their message reached as far the fraternity chapter's president ternity publicly address the issue The local Betas were ready to college's history where the stu- as the Board of Trustees; one im- that year, the Kenyon Dekes were of racism. give up their charter as part of Beta dents have supported not only an portant by-prod- uct of the outcry unaware of any project the pledges Theta Pi Fraternity, Incorporated acceptance but also a sincere de- was the creation of the position were required to fulfill.