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Musical Treasures

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

When Mei Han, visiting assistant professor of Asian music and culture, began instructing the Chinese Music Ensemble a year ago, most of the students were unfamiliar with Eastern instruments and the accompanying musical notation. A year of playing gave the group maturity and experience, as well as eight new members of the ensemble who rapidly learned the skills required to perform. The Chinese Music Ensemble played its second concert at Kenyon in December and was met with an almost capacity crowd…

Diplomatic Dialogue

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Cuban poet, literary critic, translator and journalist Víctor Rodríguez Núñez, NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor of Spanish, divides his time between Gambier, Ohio, and Havana, Cuba, where nearly all of his family members reside. Here, Rodríguez Núñez responds to President Barack Obama’s announcement that the U.S. will restore diplomatic relations with Cuba, after the U.S. ended formal ties in 1961. What was your reaction to the restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba? Were you surprised? I…

Gaining Perspective

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

As a former police officer who transitioned to academia, Glenn McNair, associate professor of history, has a unique perspective on the recent events in Cleveland, New York City and Ferguson, Mo. McNair, who focuses his research on relations between African Americans and the criminal justice system, offers his insight. Are the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police a racial problem or a police problem?  It’s both. It’s a race problem because it’s just a continuation of a very long history…

Write On

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

The smell of fresh-baked pies accompanied the clatter of keyboards during Kenyon’s take on National Write-In, a three-hour event on Dec. 7. More than 20 colleges and universities from around the nation participated. At Kenyon, more than a dozen students took part in the write-in, putting pen to paper and fingers to keyboard in the Bemis Music Room above Peirce Hall. Most students typed away on imminently due papers, a few worked on sketches and some simply read. “This is the first time Kenyon has…

Stronger Words

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

The Five Colleges of Ohio, Inc., in collaboration with the Ohio State University, has been awarded a $2 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a postdoctoral fellowship program to support the teaching of foreign languages. This is the largest grant the consortium of colleges has been awarded since its foundation in 1995. The joint endeavor will give 10 recipients of OSU’s doctoral degree in languages appointments to two-year teaching positions at Kenyon, Denison University…

Merry Reading

That's So Kenyon From The Kenyon Review - 9 years ago

As the nights grow long and holiday gift lists ever longer, we at the Kenyon Review often ask each other to recommend titles for cozy winter reading and inspired giving. Perhaps you, too, crave trustworthy suggestions at this most cool and festive time of year. Here’s our selection of books that enriched our days, kindled our imaginations, reached in and grabbed us and didn’t let us go. Enjoy! David Lynn, Editor You’ve read and studied Joyce. You think you know everything about Ulysses. But The…

Living Art

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Student dancers and choreographers, joined by a faculty choreographer, will take the stage Friday, Dec. 12, and Saturday, Dec. 13, in the fall dance concert. The students involved have been rehearsing ever since auditions were held at the beginning of the semester. Pankti Dalal ’17, a math major from Southampton, Mass., along with Stephan Beavers ’15, a dance and history major from Columbus, Ohio, is choreographing a piece called “time was lost tomorrow.” “Movement-wise, it is a blend of contemporary…

Admissions Dean Named

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Diane C. Anci, vice president for enrollment and dean of admission at Mount Holyoke College, will join Kenyon as vice president of enrollment and dean of admissions and financial aid on July 1, 2015. President Sean Decatur announced the selection of Anci after a national search. She has worked in admissions at Mount Holyoke, in South Hadley, Mass., since 1990. Mount Holyoke is a highly selective, residential liberal arts college for women, with an enrollment of about 2,180. “Diane Anci is well-versed…

Secrets of Family Weekends

By Lynn Douglass

That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

 It was on a computer screen that we first experienced the rolling green Kenyon lawn. Now it’s my daughter’s front yard, at least until spring of 2015.  As the August of my daughter’s freshman year approached, she thought she might concentrate on writing. But she was equally concentrated on her dorm room and its co-occupant.  When I left her in Gambier, on an overcast afternoon, she and her new roommate were debating if they should bunk their twin beds to create more space. It would be like stacking…

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