Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian Archives 9-19-2019 Kenyon Collegian - September 19, 2019 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - September 19, 2019" (2019). The Kenyon Collegian. 2504. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/2504 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the 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]. ESTABLISHED 1856 September 19, 2019 Vol. CXLVII, No. 5 After a year-long delay, Chilitos restaurant opens its doors Jose Avalos, Chilitos owner, has been working to open the restaurant for two years. Chilitos is located underneath the new Gaskin Avenue Apartments. | BEN NUTTER EVEY WEISBLAT the lease agreement in early 2018, hiatus to relocate, further reducing which he’s never sold before. from the bar. NEWS EDITOR and was told his team would have Gambier’s dining options. Besides boasting a full bar, Chil- Avalos plans to keep the hours access to the space in late August Chilitos fills a much-needed and itos’ beverage options differ slightly from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., with the After seemingly endless student of that year. However, due to con- long-anticipated space on campus: from its Mount Vernon counter- bar open until 2 a.m. on weekends, speculation and a year-long delay, struction delays, they couldn’t “Change is good, and we’re ready parts. Rather than serving its mar- though he said these hours may be Gambier’s long-awaited fast-casual actually move into the space un- for change,” Sophie Barrio ’20 said garitas in schooners, the restaurant subject to change. At least until No- restaurant, Chilitos Fresh Mex and til March or April of 2019. From of the restaurant’s opening. serves them in 16-ounce mason vember, when he can put it up for Margaritas, is finally open for busi- there, Avalos had planned to have Other students are just as en- jars. Margarita and beer pitchers vote on the Village ballot, Chilitos ness. The first customers gathered the restaurant open by the start of thusiastic about the restaurant are also available, along with draft will not be selling alcohol on Sun- around a patio table at around 1 the fall semester, but the opening opening its doors. “I’m really, really beer by the glass. days. p.m. on Wednesday; the students was delayed by a few weeks as he excited about the opening of Chi- Avalos repeatedly stressed the For Avalos, who has never said the restaurant had asked for a waited for food and liquor licenses litos,” Helen Cunningham ’21 said. importance of one thing: Chili- opened a restaurant in a college photograph of them to commemo- to come in. “I think it’ll be a great addition to tos is not a full-service restaurant. town, the Chilitos in Gambier is rate the moment. “Everything has been here for our thriving Gambier downtown.” Unlike Fiesta, waitstaff will not be something of an experiment. It’s The Gaskin Avenue restaurant, some time and we’ve been already For Gambier residents, students attending tables, and patrons will a chance to see what works, what from Fiesta Mexicana owner Jose ready on our side,” Avalos said. and visitors from Mount Vernon have to walk up to a counter to or- doesn’t, and what best fits the needs Avalos, has been just over two years Chilitos’ opening comes after a and surrounding areas, Chilitos der before seating themselves. As a of Kenyon students. in the making. The College first -an slew of dining and retail changes offers the best of both worlds: Fi- fast-casual restaurant, the menu is “Everything could change,” nounced its plans for the new res- that have swept downtown Gam- esta’s authentic Mexican food and limited, but the food comes quick- Avalos said. “We want to see how taurant in August 2017 via a blog bier in the past few years: The famous margaritas, but with an ly. everyone wants [things]. That’s post that said Chilitos would open Gambier Grill, affectionately nick- American twist that adds supreme Food prices are comparatively what we said in the beginning — by fall 2018. Instead, for a number named “the Cove,” closed in early fries (with queso and bacon), Philly cheap, Avalos said, with an average that we would do [it] for the kids of reasons, mainly construction-re- 2016, leaving the Village with only steaks, chicken tenders and burg- meal costing $9. Chilitos also has of the college, and that’s what we’re lated, the restaurant’s opening suf- one consistent late-night meal op- ers—among other items—to the free Wi-Fi and plenty of charging doing. We’re going to go with what- fered a year’s worth of delays. tion, the Village Inn. In November mix. Avalos said that he is especial- ports — not to mention a plethora ever they want — if the customer is Avalos said that he finalized of 2018, the Deli took a year-long ly excited about the Philly steaks, of flat screens to watch television there, we’ll be there.” Punctured gas line leaves North In this issue buildings without hot water, dryers ELLIE KLEE ning and screaming … I need to ac- NEWS EDITOR tually get out of here.” 50 years of Campus Safety and the College For most students, going to class Township Fire Department arrived coeducation without pants is just a bad dream. For quickly to evacuate Mather and Mc- Nate Wiener ’23, it was a Wednesday Bride. Residents were unable to re- morning. turn to the dorms while Columbia Wiener was in the shower at Gas “assessed the situation and areas around 8:20 a.m. when “an improp- were purged of any fumes,” accord- page 3 erly marked gas line was punctured ing to the email from Kohlman. CHUZHU ZHONG during the installation of a sign-post That left Weiner stranded in his in front of Allen House,” according navy blue towel, boxers and a wom- to a Student-Info email from Chief en’s volleyball T-shirt he borrowed Nate Wiener ’23 arrives to Business Officer Mark Kohlman. from a friend. “So I go get breakfast,” his English class in a towel. | The gas leak affected Mather Hall as he said. “I have nothing else to do. COURTESY OF NATE WIENER Kenyon at well as McBride Hall, where Wiener And then I’m still locked out of my lives. dorm room, so I have to go to class.” and a pair of pants. Night “I hear an alarm go off. And I’m At 10:09 a.m., a Kenyon Alert an- Some buildings on North campus like, ‘I’m in the shower, this can’t be nounced that Mather and McBride were still experiencing a gas outage happening,’” said Wiener. “‘I’m just had been reopened. After back-to- as late as 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday. gonna stand here for like two more back morning classes, Wiener re- Hot water and clothes dryers were page 6 minutes and brush my teeth.’ Then turned to his room at around 11:30 unavailable in those buildings until JACKSON WALD I realized, oh, there are people run- a.m. to retrieve his phone, his wallet the line was repaired. 2 Thursday, Sept. 19 | kenyoncollegian.com Students give input on possible Chalmers Library furniture Visitors to Peirce Lounge tried out potential new library couches, chairs and other furniture. Students were offered the chance to try new library furniture before purchase. Visitors filled out surveys detailing their chair and couch preferences. | SARA HALEBLIAN RONAN ELLIOTT choices. ites among the study chairs, said. “[The chairs are] private, about when it’ll get done, [or] NEWS EDITOR “We’ll have to order furni- the reading chairs and the but you’re still in the open. It’s if it’ll get done while they’re ture like six months out from chairs designed for relax- like the nooks we used to have here. But there’s only so much On September 10, students when the building will open,” ation. In some categories there in Olin ... They give you that we can control in a construc- arrived at Peirce Dining Hall Mark Kohlman, Chief Busi- were clear winners — wooden sense of, ‘I’m studying with tion project. So it was a good to find Peirce Lounge filled ness Officer, said. “So we need chairs with padding, for ex- my friends, but I have a little opportunity for the students with furniture samples. The to know which pieces of furni- ample, were favored over those of my own space.’” to try a lot of different things.” event, which was open to the ture are going where, and how without. In other categories, Badertscher considered the There will be another event public for three days, allowed many of certain types of chairs students enjoyed several of event a success; over 300 peo- on September 19, this time students to try out chairs we’re going to need. These are the choices. One popular chair ple visited during the three displaying office furniture and couches and offer their the concepts that we’re work- was designed to be an enclosed days the furniture was on dis- such as desks and cabinets opinions on what the library ing on, and we wanted to get study space, with a built-in play, and more than 270 of rather than seating.