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News OPED Features A&E Sports fouse, Wimmers earn National Day of Si- Folksounds Saturday The Heidi Chronicles, Softball sweeps Miller award, page 2 lence, page 6 at 8 p.m., page 8 Fri. and Sat., page 10 Wittenberg, page 16 H - E K-E-N-Y-O- N c O -- L E -- G -- I "A -- N Volume CXXVI, Number 19 ESTABLISHED 1856 Thursday, April 8, 1999 Reaccreditation implements testing ing a standard examination to as- creditation review. As stated in this BY LAUREN JOHNSTON 'Our hope is that this study ... will lead to Editor in Chief sess the general education skills of letter, The College is requiring all improvements in all aspects of our educational Kenyon students near the end of members of the sophomore class As a precursor to an upcom-reaccreditati- on their sophomore year, the results to take the test as a condition for mission.' ng review sched of which are expected to enable pre-registeri- for their junior-yea- r uled for October of 2000, Kenyon --Professor of Mathematics Bradly Hartlaub Kenyon's Self-Stud- y Steering classes." Will noted that nifl be conducting a self-stud- y to Committee to assess the curricu- though "Kenyon has traditionally document the College's goals for dents in relation to the goals set Provost Katherine Haley Will lum in preparation for the reac see TESTS, page three student performance, its academic before them, said Professor of announced in a letter sent to all support programs and the ac-performa- nce Economics Bruce Gensemer, who sophomore students on Monday of Kenyon stu-- will act as coordinator of the study. that the College will be implement Warning system broken OSU's Frye 'What's up, Doc?' As tornado season approaches, Gambier must raise money for new warning siren cost almost $18,000, money that to speak BY DAVID SHARGEL Editor in Chief has yet to be raised, said Gambier Village Administrator Dick Baer. on Gambier's tornado siren, the According to Director of Se- Walesa only highly effective method of curity and Safety Daniel J. Werner, students and the commu- there is currently no viable way to BY BILL MUELLER I! warning . , Staff Reporter nity to take shelter from a nearby alert the entire campus and sur- L twister, is broken and will most rounding area to tornado warnings In preparation for Lech J likely need to be replaced. issued by the National Weather Walesa's 20, iLOOK Service. "We have a couple op- visit to Kenyon April The system, which now sits of Ik Student Lectureship Commit (bubb K quietly rusting affixed to the secu- tions," said Werner, "but none as A tee has Tim Frye, pol- DUG UP rity office, is normally tested ev- good as the siren. I think it's criti- arranged for k itical science professor at Ohio i QQ YEAR ery other Friday but has been si- cal." State University, to give an infor OLD FOSSIL lent for months. A new system will see SIREN, page two mative lecture tomorrow in 1 Philomathesian at 4 pjn. .' J ., Walesa, former president of English department Poland and 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner, will deliver a lecture discussion of Eastern Euro changes requirements . ' -- 4'"" pean politics and his own personal r"?-- J experiences and with communism BY SCOTT CGULDIN Also, under the new system, only the labor Frye, speciali- teen-lev- el courses will movement AND JENNY MCDEVITT one unit of Europ- Mqai Buhr zing in the field of Eastern For the Collegian be accepted toward the major. The ean politics, will present a lecture HeathService employees surprised college physician Tracy Schermer department has also considered Schermer, who sees entitled "Poland's Surprising Tran- - with this gorilla yesterday for his 50th birthday. Beginning with the class of changes to the senior exercise. see LECTURE, page three 150 students each week, has been with the college since 1981. 2002, the English department will According to English Depart- implement changes in the require- ment Chair and Associate Profes- evacuates Mather ments majors must fulfill in order sor James Carson, the increase in Discharged extinguisher to graduate. These changes will in- required units comes largely in re- -. Volunteer Department called to clear air of chemicals clude an increase in the total num- sponse to the Department's study Fire ee ber of units required to graduate, of students' transcripts, which re-s- Werner. Weibull continued to assist the from four and one half to five. ENGLISH, page two BY JESSICA ANDRUSS Auxiliary officer John A. fire department in evacuating the News Assistant Weibull '99 was the first to arrive building, along with fellow Secu- Students sleeping in Mather on the scene. He noticed students rity officers Troy Steinmetz and Residence were woken early Sun- evacuating the building, and began Greg Von-Freyman- n. The evacua- it might Friday Sunday day morning by a fire alarm activ- searching Mather's hallways and tion took much longer than were so ated by the chemicals from a dis- stairwells in an attempt to locate have, as "some individuals thunderstorms thunderstorms hear the charged extinguisher. Security off- the source of the alarm. "When I intoxicated they couldn't high 54, low 67 high 65, low 51 icers received the alarm at 3:40 made my way up to the third floor alarm" and had to be assisted out- m. College I noticed some white smoke ... the side by security officers, said and notified the Monday Township Volunteer Fire Depart-me- nt closer I got to the kitchen area the Werner. Saturday upon finding chemicals still less able I was to breathe or see. It "This is a real serious prob- thunderstorms cloudy our togering in the air, said Director felt a bit like being tear gassed," lem," he said. 'Tire is one of high 75, low 40 high 68, low 48 Security and Safety Daniel J. said Weibull. see MATHER, page two 2 The Kenton Collegian NEWS Thursday, April 8, 19 Fouse, Wimmers Feel the beat win Miller award Joseph Fouse '99 and Erin student, she is a member of the Wimmers '00 have been named Community Choir, the Chamber this year's recipients of the Singers, and the varsity volleyball Franklin Miller award. team. Also a recitation leader in I The awards are given to stu- organic chemistry, Wimmers is dents who make unusual or signifi- active in the Student Affiliates of V 7 cant contributions to the academic the American Chemical Society. environment of the College. It is She was a Summer Science ; - named for Franklin Miller Jr., a Scholar last year, working with . .; long time member of the Kenyon Assistant Professor of Chemistry faculty and distinguished physi- Elizabeth Ottinger, with whom she cist, teacher and textbook author. conducts her honors research. Fouse was recognized for Both Fouse and Wimmers bringing classical music to WKCO were awarded $100 to the Book- Radio, his work as an Honor store. "It's nice since the profits go Scholar, and his status as a finalist in into the scholarship fund," said this year's Mellon Fellowship compe- Wimmers. "It also means I can fi- tition. He will attend Yale University nally getting justify myself a -- W . "i, i next year to pursue graduate studies. Kenyon sweatshirt." . ' . r! - . i Wimmers, a chemistry major, The awards are funded by A, - - , won the recogni- Edward T. associ- Miller award in Ordman '64, an Megan Buhr tion of her outstanding perfor- ate professor of computer science mance at the College. A Merit List at the University of Memphis. Seth Fangboner '00, frontman for The Evil Beat, plays to the audience at the Battle of the Bands. The Evil Beat won the Batde Friday night, earning the right to open for De La Soul at Summer Send Off. Mather: fire alarm CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE forcing air into the building with English: departmental changes biggest fears here. Students so in- large fans before allowing students toxicated they can't hear an to return to their rooms at 5:10 CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE 'I think the exam, regardless if you cut down alarm or exit a building that may ajn., an hour and 14 minutes after vealed that "many seniors were be burning on their own have the official evacuation com- taking low amounts or no English the reading list or not, is enough to fulfill the more problems than just alcohol menced, said Werner. Though at all during their senior year." exercise. Doing both would be too much.' poisoning." there were no serious injuries, Carson contended that this trend '99 The fire department used Weibull did receive oxygen after contradicts what should be a pro- Michael Barmach positive pressure to force the inhaling the chemicals, said gression in the level of work stu- chemical out of the building by Wemer. dents do over the course of all four McMullen. Currently, senior English m- years in college. "Seniors should The second significant change ajors choose between taking the be doing their best work then, in- stipulates that only one unit of teen-lev- el exam or writing an essay of su- stead of none at all," Carson said.