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Sparking Debate

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Conversations started from the moment Steve Lambert’s public sculpture was illuminated outside Gund Gallery. The sign's statement — "capitalism works for me" — and corresponding true/false poll sparked discussion around campus and on social media, particularly among students.  Chris Kwan ’16, a history major from Singapore, said the sign made him remember debates from the “Quest For Justice” class he took his first year at Kenyon. “All of my friends really have different views on capitalism and…

On Israel

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

While conflicts in Israel and the Middle East are well documented, Richard Baehr ’69 says another story is less well known. On Monday, Feb. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Gund Gallery Community Foundation Theater, Baehr will give a talk titled “Israel, the Middle East and Media Bias.” Baehr is a co-founder of and chief political correspondent for American Thinker, an online political magazine, and is a management consultant in the health care field at Richard Baehr and Associates. His talk will address…

Reimagining Equality

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

In 1991, one woman’s decision to speak before the Senate Judiciary Committee sparked changes in the workplace, politics and the media. On Feb. 16 at 7:30 p.m., the same woman — now a law professor at Brandeis University — will address the Kenyon College community in Rosse Hall as part of the Faculty Lectureship series.   When Anita Hill testified in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas more than 20 years ago, much of the nation stopped to watch the live-televised event. It…

Hitting the High Notes

Student Life From The Collegian - 9 years ago

Editor’s note: The Collegian reviewed a rehearsal of the Ransom Notes’ performance in the Great Lakes quarterfinal of the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella. A half-dozen students, many of them in stocking feet, sprawled on top of each other in the center of the Rosse Hall stage around 9 p.m. last Tuesday night. The members of the a cappella group Ransom Notes were enjoying a break from rehearsing for the Great Lakes quarterfinal of the International Championship of Collegiate A…

Master of Science and Arts

Alumni News From Alumni Bulletin - 9 years ago

Editor’s note: Kenyon alumnus Carl Djerassi ’43 H’58 died on Friday, January 30.  We are republishing this 2012 Bulletin interview with the famed scientist and artist best known as the creator of “the pill.” An obituary from The New York Times can be found here. Carl Djerassi, a scientist and an artist, portrays himself in one of his poems as a “master of chemical transmutation.” He is that, but he's much more. He harbors a complex creative urge that continually seeks new ways to express his preoccupations…

Power of a Protein

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

What makes frogs less sensitive to the toxicity of dioxin pollutants than other life forms? Professor of Biology Wade Powell and the students working in his laboratory will continue to explore the answer for three more years, thanks to a $302,527 renewal grant supporting Powell’s research from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Powell’s project, titled “Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AHR) Multiplicity in a Frog Model of Dioxin Toxicity,” examines the way in which the protein…

Exploring the Tragedy

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Fans of Greek gods, dancing, wine, disguise and revenge will want to see Euripides’ tragic play Bakkhai, which will be performed by the Kenyon College Dance and Dramatic Club in the Bolton Theater Thursday, Jan. 29, Friday, Jan. 30 and Saturday, Jan. 31, at 8 p.m. First performed in 405 B.C., the story focuses on the god Dionysus’ efforts to clear his mother’s name and exact revenge upon the city of Thebes for not allowing its citizens to worship him. Death and destruction follow in the play, which…

Collaborative Comedy

Student Life From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Kenyon’s Fools on the Hill comedy troupe will be joined by the Princeton Triangle Club for “Hilarity on the Hill,” an evening of music, sketches and improv comedy Wednesday, Jan. 28, at 8:30 p.m. in Rosse Hall. The Triangle Club, whose past members include Jimmy Stewart and F. Scott Fitzgerald, has created musical comedy written and performed by students and directed and choreographed by professionals for more than 100 years. The troupe is making a special one-night stop at Kenyon as the group travels…

Leaving the Hill

By Noah Weinman

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

About half of each class studies abroad, and though the common saying is “junior year abroad,” most of us opt for a single semester. Leaving Kenyon is hard. One of the best things about such a small school is that the addition of a new class can change the personality of the whole campus. Each year is then unlike any of the other years, so there’s not a strong feeling of “been there, done that” to make your abroad decision easier. I’m abroad. Well, I’m not abroad yet. I’m boarding my plane to Cape…

Bringing Back Artifacts

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

With the recent controversial loan of a Greek artifact from London’s British Museum to the State Hermitage Museum in Russia, the issue of repatriation has resurfaced. Does art have a national home, and when is it appropriate to repatriate artifacts? Associate Professor of Classics Zoë Kontes dives into discussion, along with three other experts, in The New York Times’s opinions feature “Room for Debate.” Kontes, who specializes in the study of old world archaeology, supports the repatriation of…

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