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Newly elected Student Council Representatives Bexley: Lisa Bailey Caples: Lilly Goren, Claire Howard, and Carrie Martin Farr: Kim Lusk Hanna: Bob Hurley and Rob Klamar Leonard: Sean Cottle, Jeff Moritz and Tony Desbordes Manning: Beth Welty Mather and McBride: Lisa Sanstrom and John Welchli New Apartments: Ellen Mastrangelo, Emily Resnick and Sanjay r Yathiraj Old Kenyon: Jamie Norton, Renee Pannebaker and Cilia Wright J At-Larg- e: Brian Kearney 77ie New Rhythm and Blues Quartet will perform at tomorrow's IFC picnic Established NRBO to play at Kenyon 1856 The By Bill Hirsch Nominally a Rhythm and Blues band, NRBQ will, without hesitation, put any- The New Rhythm and Blues Quartet thing and everything into an evening's Kenton (NRBQ) will appear at the Inter-Fraterni- ty show. The band takes slices of rocka- Council picnic tomorrow in the billy, jazz, bop, blues, swing, pop and n n South Quad to formally kick off rush. straightforward rock and blends them The picnic will start at 5:00 p.m., with, into a satisfying mixture that never fails food provided by ARA and the Kenyon to please. The end result is, as Billboard band The Expanding Spatulas opening puts it, "straight ahead rock and roll, up. NRBQ should start their show at with all sorts of extra elements thrown Ljlj about 7:30 p.m. into the mix." It has earned the band respect and a devoted following. NRBQ was formed in the mid-sixti- es Stylistic matters aside, the musician- in New England and for the last ten years ship of the band is outstanding; if you Volume CXII, Number 2 Thursday, September 20, 1984 has featured Terry Adams on keyboards, are looking for a weak link, you will bassist Joey Sampinto, guitaristvocalist not find one. The addition of a horn Al Anderson and Tom Ardolino on section (The Whole Wheat Horns) gives drums. the band still more talent and texture. Bookstore takes steps to beat shoplifters Lastly, the band has an honest sense By Michael Pierce so that the packages are harder to rip relax in the evenings and that is fine. After years on the road, nine albums, of humor. Yes, there are many acts out open, and been stricter in making stu- We like having students hanging and rave reivews from everybody (includ- there with talent and a good product that The Kenyon Bookstore has become dents leave their bags at the front of the around." ing Elvis Costello and Billboard get up there and joke with the audience, more aggressive this year in its fight store. Finefrock said that the shoplifters are magazine), the band still resists the easy but how many will put on old Chip- igainst shoplifting, according to "We have lost a lot of paint in the art just not students, but also people from definition. munks tune into their repertoire? Bookstore Manager Jack Finefrock. department, so we are going to start put- Mt. Vemon or townspeople and that "When we first set up the store," said ting the art supplies in a locked case," when a shoplifter is caught the Knox Finefrock, "we let people have the roam according to Finefrock. The cost of th County Sheriff will be called. Music groups use Peirce of the store. We did not make them leave ecase will be about $1,000. their bags in the front. We wanted Another way to deter shoplifting that The types of shoplifters range from By Bob Warburton sectional rehearsals of the Knox County people to be honest, but for some people Finefrock is considering is the installa- an extreme case of a person who was Symphony. He said it could also serve it electro-magnet- was too much of a good thing." tion of an ic or radio de- overheard bragging that he had never Several functions are being booked rehearsal space needs for "large or The bookstore loses about six percent vice that would alert employees when paid for anything that he had gotten at for the new Peirce Music Room, Music medium size ensembles" and be used as of its gross sales to shoplifters, said merchandise is illegally taken. Such a the bookstore to people absentmindedly Department Chair Paul Posnak said, a new site for most junior and senior Finefrock. "To put that into perspective system would cost around $10,000 and walking off with something they were even as the installation of sound block- recitals. if there was no shoplifting we could Finefrock said, "I almost bought one this using in the bookstore without paying. ing and absorbing materials is taking "All of these were done in Rosse," lower the price of textbooks fifteen to summer." Shoptlifting has, according to Finef- place. said Posnak. "Rosse was constantly like twenty percent or hire two more profess- The last resort to deter shoplifting, rock, "caused an upward pressure on According to Posnak, the Peirce Grand Central Station at rush hour." ors." according to Finefrock, would be to prices," even though the bookstore is Music Room will be used to serve an Last year, the College opted to trans- To try to curb shoplifting the "close the store at 5:00 p.m. and not to not run to make a profit. "In fact," said extremely wide variety of performing form what once was the pool room into bookstore has relocated a mirror so that open on Saturdays and Sunday, but we Finefrock, "we lose money on textbooks groups. These include the Community the new music room. "The administra- employees can see the back room, li- do not want to do that. Students use the and have to sell pens, paper, and sweat- Chorus, the Chamber Singers, the tion acted very responsively and quickly mited student access to the textbook de- bookstore as a place to meet or just to shirts just to break even." Kokosingers, the Owl Creeks and even to our needs," Posnak explained. Now, partment, placed tape over some items he said, the logjam at Rosse Hall has eased up considerably. "Before, it was Construction at Rosse fixes just ridiculous." The Peirce room will be important for more academic music department func- AC and installs steam pipes tions. Posnak said he will teach his His- tory of Jazz course there and other voice By Scott C. Seckel number of boilers needed to heat the or instrument courses may be taught in campus. Next year new steam lines will that area. ' The work that is and has taken place be installed running from Ransom to The Music Department also had to 2 V in front of Rosse Hall is the result of Peirce and from Manning to Old Ken- consider the possibility of the noise level two different projects the replace- yon. disturbing students in the first-flo- or ment of an air conditioning compressor Peirce study lounge along with residents in Rosse and the installation of steam The College has taken other steps to above in the third-flo- or apartments. pipes according to Dick Ralston, the become more energy efficient, the most Sound tests were conducted at the end head of the Maintenance Department. notably of which is a competition be- of last year to determine what sort of tween dorms in which the dorms try to problem existed. According to Posnak The air conditioning compressor in reduce their energy costs in the month a program was adopted to soundproof Rosse burned out shortly before the be- of February. The winning dorm gets a the room. ginning of freshmen orientation and re- pizza party. Last year Old Kenyon won First, a new soundproof door, custom i t quired a large crane to remove it, accord- and the college saved money. built, will be installed. The door to the ing to Ralston. The replacement took Reveille office, located directly down about a month to complete, because the the hall from the music room, will also parts needed are not kept in stock by the be soundproofed. Sound absorbing cur- manufacturer due to low demand and tains will then be hung in the Peirce Run-of- the College had to wait until there was f Held music room and a sound absorbing pile 1 enough demand for the manufacturer to rug has already been laid. Posnak said re-sta- rt production. The new compressor that these measures will be completed has been installed and the cooling sys- hopefully by the end of September. i tem is operating smoothly. Once the installations are completed, The run-o- ff election for Senior the Jazz Band will attempt to use the The steam pipes are being installed Class President, between Deobarh Peirce Music Room as a permanent re- pipes which that ensemble is 0';... ; to replace the old steam and Brian Kearney will be hearsal area. Because rK . Johnson were installed in 1928. The old pipes completed tonight, at both dining very large, with amplified sound, the deteriorated making them inefficient is not certain that even those had halls.