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For more information, please contact [email protected]. special: kenyon Kidnapping!t T"i ft (See Centerfold) collegiaEstablished 1856 17 Volume CIV, Number Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio 43022 Thursday, February 10, 1977 TJ T11 A Taste of Tenure at Kenyon By ORION CRONIN disrupt real evaluations which must The Tenure Process be dispassionate and not concerned usually with personality," Haywood said. Professors are first hired Tenure is a delicate matter, for two years. The preliminary confidentiality. surrounded by evaluation begins at the end of the Haywood called the faculty vote in third semester of teaching, with a tenure proceedings important as well. second evaluation to follow during A tenure decision determines He was emphatic in stating that the third year. whether a professor is assured a "not only we in the administration, but the continued job with the College, or is Evaluation tenure which academic community in general for once again cast into the job market. assures unlimited employment at consider the prime evidence in How much say do students have in Kenyon (on the condition that the evaluation to be that which comes v this crucial decision? Potentially a department in which the professor from those teaching in the same large amount, although the final teaches is not dropped from the subject." An average tenure dossier, J is left to members of the curriculum, or severely curtailed for action the provost said, contains between professor's department, the financial reasons) begins during the 12-2- 0 student letters, 4-- 8 by fellow president, and the provost. sixth year of a professor's career at department members, and 4-- 8 from ' Kenyon. "A large part of the other sources. process," Haywood said, "is to build In an interview Monday, Provost up a large enough volume of in- Bruce Haywood explained the six Haywood noted that, during his formation on the faculty member in year process that leads to a decision. fifteen years here, there has never question to make a fair decision." been a Or,..:, tili Haywood, who handles all tenure case where the administration A tenure candidate's department has made a tenure decision cases, said that student opinions are over the members are requested to submit a an "enormous" part of tenure objection of the voted concensus of written evaluation of faculty department their Feminist Germaine Greer proceedings; students must know members. colleague's teaching abilities in how to play that part to its maximum keeping criteria described in the To Address Kenyonites potential. He stressed the importance faculty handbook. These criteria Although names of professors By CORY abundant praise and criticism, and of "particular and comprehensive come under four headings. The first KARKOW under consideration for tenure are one of the feminist movement's most comment" from students in "an considers "the quality of the supposed to be confidential, This Lec- spirited advocates, Greer is as evaluation of professing and member's teaching in the classroom, Monday, Faculty Haywood did say that seven are tureships will sponsor colorful as her writings are con- profession." the laboratory, and the office," what promises currently in the process of being to be a troversial. which is described as "requiring most unusual lecture, reviewed. delivered by feminist spokeswoman Born in Melbourne, Australia, she "Routine praise or blame is not (Continued on page 4) Germaine Greer. The subject of pursued her academic career with an very helpful" to the College as it almost fanatic determination, considers tenure candidates, Energy Outlook Brightens winning a Junior Government Haywood said. "The extent of one's Scholarship at age 12, at her acquaintance with a Drofessor's Melbourne convent school. teaching abilities" is taken into She left home at age 18, graduating account as student comments are Gas Seeping Back to Kenyon two years later from Melbourne noted, he continued, but all student University with a combined English contributions to the evaluation - of By JEROME MINDES level of curtailment, effective im- will not be curtailed at all. and French degree. From there, she faculty members are encouraged and mediately, is identical to the level went on to teach at a girls' high appreciated. On Wednesday, February 9, under which the College was For the past week, in compliance school and tutor in English at Sydney Samuel Lord, Vice President for operating on February 2. At that date with Columbia Gas Company's University. In 1964 she entered Evaluation of professors for Finance, announced that the College cutbacks were imposed on Rosse demands that the College operate at Cambridge as a Commonwealth tenure is not publicly announced was informed by the Columbia Gas Hall, the Chapel, the swimming maintenance level, the gas burners Scholar, earning her Ph.D. in because it might lead to "parades, Company that it could return to an pool, and the fieldhouse. were burning no more than an Shakespeare three years later. She petitions, and speeches which might 85 maintenance level. This raised In i addition, Dick Ralston, average of 150,000 cubic feet of gas has since worked as both an actress maintenance head, announced the per day. Under present curtailment, and journalist, as well as a teacher at arrival and installation of a third oil the college is burning between Warwick University. She is best burner. Of the College's eight fur- 180,000 and 200,000 cubic feet of gas known however, as the author of the naces, three, rather than two, now per day. Only four of the five gas bestseller, The Female Eunich. ( : -- V operate on oil. Oil, though more burners are now in use. Due to Greer has been described as a r dim; expensive, minimizes the College's warmer weather, the one gas burner woman who takes every opportunity reliance on the availability of gas is not in use because it is not needed. to defy convention. Yet she has also resources. Ralston considers these "to be ex- been termed "a good old-fashion- ed cellent conditions." idealist and humanist who wants a i f 7 Vilil! f! Due to this improved situation, the world where children need not fear level of heat has been increased in According to Vice President adults; where men and women do not Rosse Hall, the Chapel, and the McKean, "The present conditions take each other for granted, but swimming pool. By early next week, look bright. If things continue as adopt a new set of values and joyful the College should be able to they are now, it is highly unlikely that ways of living to produce a true -- v Vs determine whether it can afford any the College will be forced to close" human liberation." J heating increase in the fieldhouse. prior to the scheduled spring The lecture will be in Rosse Hall, Dormitories, according to Ralston, vacation. at 8:30 p.m. Admission is free. New Week-en- d Respite h " i i ",' " ' Columbus it: Shuttles Launched -- - i- - - -- -- i in. ft rtm -i.Ti mil . n ii By JOHN WEIR take a couple of trips back and forth. mi. a.J However, the three dollar fare covers By MICHAEL KAUFMAN At last students climbing the walls round-trip- , Rosse will resound with a heavenly sound this Sunday, when Oberlin from February in Gambier can only one not a whole day Music Conservatory freshmen Nancy Lendrim and Cindi Mowery will escape to February in Columbus, of back and forth travel. Sign up for present a concert of music for two harps. thanks to a weekend bus service the buses in the SAC, by Friday Be For Lendrim, the journey to Kenyon will be a homecoming. organized by sophomore Robbie v. V afternoon. warned that reser- Daughter of Frank Lendrim, a former professor in Kenyon's Music Fisher. vations are on a first come, first serve Department, the freshman harp major now lives in Williamsburg, "I talked to students, and it basis. where her father is currently chairman of the Department of Music at seemed to me that the desire existed So shake off the Gambierium the College of William and Mary. Before she arrived at Oberlin, for such a program," Fisher said. "It Tremors and bop off to Columbus. It Lendrim attended the Salzedo Harp Colony in Camden, Maine. seems possible that the whole thing may not be any wanner there, but it is livelier. Mowery, on the other hand, received most of her instruction from the could work . ." The first shuttle Take a Saturday off and go National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan. Originally from buses will make four runs each way, see a movie or dine at a French (or " Lafayette, Indiana, she also studied at Ball State University in nearby leaving this Saturday from Gambier Columbian?) restaurant. Or just Muncie. at 11:00 a.m., and returning from "hang out." "That's what I'm going The girls, who are already accomplished harpists, recently performed Columbus as late as 1 :30 a.m. Round to do," remarked a prospective in Indiana Virginia their winter projects. Their musical trip cost is $3.00 a significant Columbus commuter; "find myself a and for term Robbie brilliance needn't be harped on, however, as the recital itself should be saving over public transportation Fisher decent lamppost and hang out.