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A GE THREE D-P- hi Invitation Brings American Pictures, Tonight Lords bt Spate of Criticism at7:00 p.m. in Rosse Hall Off to Rocky bcz-- -- d and T 1 Lie ivenvon ioiieffian Thursday, March 31, 1988 Established 1856 Volume CXV, Number 19 Finance Committee Lays Foundation for 88-8- 9 Allocations By Mario Oliverio, II are The Kenyon Journal, Generics, Kenyon doesn't mean they're going to get as much Musical Stage, Ice Hockey Club, Sacred money as they want." Just as the federal government is finishing Earth Alliance and men's and women's Rugby The $150,000 for next year's budget is up its budget for the next fiscal year, "I'm very disappointed that I wasn't informed I coming from the projected 1,500 students' Treasurer Bill O'Hearn and the Finance earlier that the budget forms would not be $100 activity fee charge. O'Hearn is counting Committee are just beginning to lay the in on time," laments O'Hearn. on more students than that. "I predict that groundwork for the budget at Kenyon. A rough estimate of the amount of money they'll be more students which means more As of 2:30 p.m., Mar. 28, which was the that hasn't been requested is somewhere be- money in the supplemental budget money to be allocated in Money will deadline for budget requests, 46 student tween $30,000-32,00- 0. The total amount of the fall". also organizations had submitted the forms. money requested by the priority organiza- come from zero-balanci- ng procedures which collects the money from organiza- Thirty-fou- r were by special interest groups, tions, service organizations and special in- student such as the Water Polo Club or the Black terests is $110,721, $1,995, and $33,530, tions with leftover funds from last year. This Student Union. Six requests were submitted respectively. Capital expenditure requests, money is put back into the budget. O'Hearn is counting $10,000-30,00- 0 in sup- by Service Organizations. Service Organizat- money for a piece of equipment (such as a on the ions, such as the Chase Society or Amnesty lamp or a boat), is $21,724. This puts the sum plemental budget. International, are clubs which have no way of of all the requests, official or expected, Treasurer Bill O'Hearn see BUDGET page two raising money for their operations since hovering between $190,000 and $200,000. members do not pay dues. Six requests were This brings the David Stockman of Ken- Kenyon Adopts Sorority Proposal also submitted by priority organizations such yon College to the second problem. Accor- Kenyon President Philip H. Jordan, Jr., in fairs Committee but is primarily a tech- on- as WKCO and Kenyon Film Society. ding to O'Hearn, the Finance Committee a letter dated Mar. 16, 1988, officially ac- nicality giving Kenyon the option to deny, According to O'Hearn there is a problem. ly has about $150,000 to dole out. In order to cepted the recommendation of Senate to rather than revoke recognition. As of 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, many student come in under budget the Finance Committee grant local sorority status to Theta Alpha The question of national affiliation re- organizations had not submitted a request must "consider each individual request and Kappa. This letter finally made official the mains left until the Committee on Social form including some priority organizations then cut accordingly." O'Hearn asserts, "The policy under which most of Kenyon has been Life, which Senate recently voted to create, such as Reveille and Pierce Hall dark room. Finance Committee makes it so as many acting since the Senate report was made pub- can present suggestions following a Among the negligent special interest groups organizations as possible can function. That lic last February. thorough investigation of Kenyon social life. Jordan's letter came the day after Dean of This committee is expected to report Events Stress Plight of Homeless Students Thomas Edwards passed on his sometime during the 88-8- 9 school year, at recommendation "that the sorority ... be which point Theta Alpha Kappa may apply each night in dramatize the By Tony Ziselberger outside order to recognized by the College . .. in accordance for national affiliation if the Senate decides plight of the homeless. Campers have been with the proposal submitted by the Senate, such affiliation to be acceptable at Kenyon. sleeping on the chapel lawn in tents and card- Over the past several years the problem of dated January 27, 1988." Edwards noted also Meanwhile, another report on the impact board boxes, and have been talking to pass-ersb- y by homelessness has increasingly come to be that "matters addressing national affiliation, of sororities at Kenyon is being prepared in an attempt to educate. Rather than Advisory Council on the seen as a catastrophe of epidemic proportion. housing and conditions of probationary the President's eat at the dining halls, the campers have Women at Kenyon (PACSWAK) For a variety of economic, political and status are addressed in the Senate's proposal, Status of bought food from outside using contribu- on a survey completed by 248 Kenyon social reasons the number of people living all of which I approve." based tions from the Kenyon Environmental Com- The responses the survey show a without housing or in substandard housing The official adoption of the Senate recom- students. to mittee. For each day during the week that a mixed reaction to the Greek system in has increased at an alarming rate. Increasingl- mendation apparently implies that, in com- camper (or any student signed up) doesn't eat general, but a fairly strong rejection of y, women and single parent families are be- pliance with the original document, Theta in the dining halls, ARA will donate sororities specifically. Over 79 per cent of the ing driven into the streets by a lack of affor- Alpha Kappa now begins its probationary $5 to Interchurch services, a relief respondents said they did not want to see dable housing. In an effort to bring these period "of no less than one and no more than organization in Mount Vernon. sororities formed at Kenyon. Interestingly problems to the attention of the Kenyon three years" toward full recognition. This actual enough, among the more than 160 women community, several Kenyon students are In addition to the above activities, campers period means little in terms of the passersby sorority which has respondents, the vote against the formation spending this week staging activities to are soliciting contributions from to functioning of the The goal recognized by the Student Af of sororities here jumped to over 90 per cent. educate the community about homelessness, be donated to Interchurch services. already been is $1,500 (one dollar from and to raise money for relief projects. for the week the campers The week's events, grouped under the title each student). As of Monday, this SAC Shuffle "Kenyon Homelessness Awareness Week," had raised approximately one third of to Experience Staff were in large part put together by senior goal. Eckstine expects about 20 to 30 By Paul Singer student space. According to Jordan, the stu- each night, although she Chad Smith, who was moved to do some- people will sleep out dent space question will take up a significant is room for many more. thing about the problem through one of his hastens to add, there According to a statement circulated Tues- part of Edwards' attention next year. wishing to join the campers, she classes. The events of homelessness aware- Anyone day by Kenyon President Philip Jordan, During Edwards' absence from the SAC, is welcome. ness week have included the showing of a points out, Dean of Students Thomas Edwards will be Dean of Academic Advising Donald Omahan people con- Ed- video on the problem of homelessness, lec- Smith hopes to see Kenyon on special leave of absence next year. will serve as Acting Dean of Students. Jordan tures by Smith and by Bill Faith of the Ohio tinue to seek solutions to the problems of wards will leave the SAC for the 88- - 89 told the Collegian that the College is now conclusion of Coalition for the Homeless and a trip to a homelessness following the school year to become the full time staff beginning to search for what will apparently Both Smith formed Com- in Columbus stage show. Funding for these Homelessness Awareness Week. member heading up the newly be a temporary replacement for Omahan Merves the Kenyon. events has come from a grant from the and Professor Esther of mission on Social Life at the Academic Advising position. McKnight Fellowship and from the Activities Sociology Department point out that there The Social Life Commission was originally Jordan made it clear that Edwards has and Office. are numerous ways for Kenyon students chartered by Senate as a way to investigate every intention of returning to the Dean of involved.