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For more information, please contact [email protected]. r Vol. LXXXX No. 4 Gambier, Ohio, November 22, 1963 Twenty-fiv- e Cents .F.C.CONSIDERS FALL DANCE 9 BEGINS BAN AGAINST V TONIGHT IN PEIRCE DISCRIMINATION Billy Lange and his orchestra with comfortable armchairs in- will play for the formal dance in stead of "Due to national or external benches. Custom light- Great Hall tonight from 11 p.m. ing pressures, no Kenyon fraternity fixtures illuminate the new to 3 a.m. Fraternities will hold eating area. shall discriminate on the basis There are recrea- parties from 8 o'clock until mid- tional 1 of race, nationality or religion." facilities on the lower level, night. which 4 can be converted to a O This statement came out of an Marty Conn and his Conn Men banquet room. The f- addition is - hour's meeting on November 11 will perform for tomorrow even- connected to the main building of the IFC with Michael Burr '66. ing's activities, playing in Peirce by means of a large foyer which Burr, who charged fraternity dis- from 10 to 2. Fraternity lounges serves as a television lounge. A crimination in a recent issue of will be open before the dance, and picturesque formal garden occu- the Collegian, was pleased with there will be informal fraternity pies the court between the annex the statement, which the presi- parties during the afternoon. and the Great Hall. dents will probably ratify on No- Guests are expected to be daz- "The weekend promises to be vember 25. zled by the opening of the new one of the best yet," exclaimed Peirce Hall addition. The new Social Committee member Dave Apologizing for the delay in dining hall features Tudor decor, Banks. meeting with Burr, IFC president Joel Kellman remarked "We have been looking forward to this Student Council and Planning meeting." Kellman admitted Burr's charges "aroused atten- tion." "We aren't taking it light Committee Discuss Problems ly," he claimed, adding, "We are Lodge Hours Extension; Way Wants Honors Dorm; studying the system. We realize Film there might be shortcomings." Reapportionment; Mankowitz Wants Dorm Society Seeks Funds For Independents CLAIMING KENYON was "too The Student Council unanim- The Planning Committee of the big a place for discrimination," ously accepted an IFC subcom- Student Council, chaired by Wil ' ti.. Burr asserted that "national con- mittee report asking the Senate liam Hylton '65, convened Novem- cern makes it imperative for us to extend women's hours in the ber 11 to consider the quetsion of to take the lead ... in not prac- fraternity lodges. In order to the new upperclass dorm and to ticing discrimination, either in secure the same hours in the hear two interested students, Jeff Interior view of new Peirce Dining Hall. college admissions or in fraterni- lodges as now exist in the lounges, Way, '64 and Carl Mankowitz '66 ties." the fraternities would have to in- present contending views on the Architect Reviews New Although he had documented stall phones and sanitary facili- issue. This meeting was the first Buildings; suggested. proof of discrimination. Burr ties, the report of a series in which the committee Suggests New College maintained that he did not intend Tom Collins, chairman of the will invite interested parties to Approach for to sue the College for the frater- new Peirce Hall Committee re speak on the problem. nities. quested the investigation of im by James Morgan, A.I.A. proving communications in the AFTER SOME preliminary in formation provided as background to awarding, by real Burr felt it was wrong to dis- new addition. Observing that Two major buildings were com- the default for the committee members and pleted ly, of commissions for design criminate against a person "for the loudspeaker does not have an last week in Gambier, yet the observers, Way offered his con- I dormitory something that's not the kid's extension in the new section. would say that they aroused of the new freshman ception of the dorm. The build less regrettable, fault. This kind of discrimination Collins suggested that a bulletin comment and interest here and, infinitely more ing should be an "honors dorm," College's most is not justifiable." He conceded board be provided to hold an than did five photographs publ- an addition to the with luxury facilities provided to distinguished building to the Rid the fraternities' right to deter- nouncements now read over the ished simultaneously in TIME make the lot of the honors stu- engineering firm mine their membership qualifica- loudspeaker. magazine of new buildings at er Company, an dents much easier and more say our tions, but rejected racial or re- VARIOUS COUNCIL members that Yale. Suffice it to that while conducive to study. In this way, Connecti ligious grounds as reasonable used the occasion to blast recent Why? Because to the same de- "competition," Oberlin, a "community of scholars" would gree cut Wesleyan, Swarthmore, Dart criteria. Saga menus. Fred Kluge, inde that Yale's buildings are 2) effect more cohesion among Ken- page 5, col. 1) (Cont. on page 6. col. representative, suggested handsome, stimulating, and prec- (Cont. on pendent Peirce Hall Committee yon's intellects. He complained isely tuned to their function, that the body meet with Mr. Stetson to try to that "at present the student Kenyon's are the same dull, un- C. New Dorm group of A. I. F. Discusses improve menus. lacks a intellects." imaginative and anonymously in- President Chris Scott's proposal Luxury, Way declared, is a stitutional pap that has been quality that should be built into With Students Kluge, Burr, Moore for a committee on elections was served here for twenty years, al- He opposed repeat-(Con- t. Edgar approved. The committee will be the structure. ways accompanied by the same a-polo- getic "We want to sit down and make sure we listen," declared on page 6, col. 3) responsible for running the elec bleat: "We're such a Davis, Alumni Interfraternity Council member, as he and Walter Kluge, of all student government poor college that we can't do any Curtis discussed the new upperclass dorm with students Fred tions afternoon, Nov. 2. offices. The committee's first job better." No poor college could aff- Michael Burr, and Joe Moore Saturday Hackworth, Aigner fact-findin- g committee" and will be to determine the number ord to build a dining hall for Davis evplained that they "were a concerning new of additional independent repre nearly $30 funct- had been briefed on the various possibilities the Officers a square foot, the to make that Freshman ion so Davis expressed "concern for housing men not in fraternities." sentatives required for half of which is still dorm. projortion ill-defin- an independent dormi- group's representation meeting of the ed can only be KLUGE, senior independent argued for In a boisterous that it Council. clothed tory. He claimed, "We pay the same rent, and don't feel we have ate on the freshman class held last Friday in that euphemism for approved seat left-ov- . not able to secure a single room The Council the er space, "multi-purpos- e the same opportunity. We are night, the Class of '67 elected of the freshman class presi room." frequently independents are left with triples in the basement. ing g Hackworth of Shelbyville, personal reasons to get as a non-votin- observer, in John Let it be said at the beginning Independent, have as good academic and dent only recourse is to go off order to facilitate communications Kentucky as president and Ste- that large or small budgets have singles as fraternity men. But their hptivcpn the freshman class and phen Aigner of Hinsdale, Illinois, little to do with whether a buildi- campus. the Council. secretary-treasure- r. ng is or not. Ar- Kluge pointed out that a study as "architecture" JOHN COCKS representing the chitecture is a function of the at- is not germaine to of fraternities Film Society appeared before the Student Council President Chris titude of client, whether in- question. He declared, "Fra- Debate Team the this Council, requesting new projec Scott presided over the meeting, dividual, corporate, or institu are ensconced here. They ternities tors and a larger screen, so the Slightly more tional, towards his surroundings dorms. Now it's our held in Rosse Hall. have three Society could present Cinema was present at -t-hat attitude is usually rather turn. Life should be as pleasant Wins Tourney than half the class scope films, as well as improve a meeting marked by frequent directly related to the vigor of for us as it is for them." "Best showing we've made in the quality of presentation of the catcalling and shouted complaints that client endeavors. queried about a senior years," said Professor Tres-cot- t, in other When five films. He pointed out that the Therefore for "un- debating team thrown at Scott. the blame the dorm, Kluge maintained that advisor to the College holds the Society's profits Mediocrity of Gund Hall and the were a luxury dorm, there squad had just out-talk- ed meeting less it after his of the last 10 years, amounting SCOTT OPENED the addition to Peirce Hall lies not no reason to pull a senior out other teams to win the presiden- was twelve to $1000.