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Spreading the Word

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

The staff at the Kenyon Review is excited about the redesign of the literary magazine. Now, with a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), they can share their enthusiasm. The grant will help cover the costs of promoting the redesign, including advertising, social media marketing and letters to subscribers. “In the past, we’ve always come out with four issues a year and they’ve been around 200 pages an issue,” Managing Editor Abby Serfass said. “Through lots of discussions…

Close to Home

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Late in September 2013, local author Loranne Marsh Temple contacted Brianne Presley ’16 to discuss illustrating Simone Comes Home, a book inspired by Temple’s granddaughter who was diagnosed with Prader-Willi Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. Prader-Willi Syndrome hinders development in a child but also requires testing after birth that prevents a timely homecoming. Simone Comes Home is a book that tenderly explains the delayed arrival of Simone, one of Temple’s 18 grandchildren. “I got her name…

Open for Discussion

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

 Members of the Kenyon College community are joining the national conversation provoked by recent events in New York, Cleveland and Ferguson, Mo. Last week, President Sean Decatur wrote about the search for lessons in the tragic deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and Tamir Rice.  “All of us at Kenyon make a commitment to lead well-examined lives, to understand the complexity behind tragic events, to learn lessons from both history and present-day, and to apply these lessons as we move beyond the…

The Search for Lessons in Cleveland, Ferguson and New York

By Sean Decatur

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Maybe it is because I am the father of a 12-year-old boy or because the tragic event unfolded in my hometown of Cleveland. Regardless of the cause, the Nov. 22 shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by a Cleveland police officer was a disturbing event for me. Just two days later, a grand jury chose not to indict a police officer in the August shooting death of Michael Brown, igniting protests around the country, including violent clashes in Ferguson, Mo. And then, as I was editing this blog last…

Artistic Reflections

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

An overriding theme would be hard to find in this year’s Open Studio that was held on Friday, Dec. 5, in Horvitz Hall. Ditto with materials or form. What visitors experienced when the senior art majors opened their studios to display finished works — as well as those in progress — was variety. “We encourage them to make themselves vulnerable, to try new techniques,” said Karen Snouffer, professor of art. Snouffer, along with Barry Gunderson, professor of art, teach the senior seminars, preparing…

Star Power

Student Life From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Kenyon faculty and staff are brushing off their dancing shoes for the annual “Dancing With the Kenyon Stars” charity event, to be held in Rosse Hall on Friday, Dec. 5, at 8:30 p.m. The annual event pairs students from the Ballroom Dance Club with staff and faculty members who learn a dance over the course of the semester. The pairs perform in front of a panel of judges and students, who vote on the best dance of the night. For some participants, the event is a high-profile initiation into Kenyon…

Discussing Democracy

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

The success of the Center for the Study of American Democracy (CSAD) at Kenyon was first driven by a major startup grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) that the College has now amplified with matching donor contributions. The 2007 NEH We the People Challenge grant of $710,000 has been matched, as required, by $2,130,000 in donations to Kenyon. CSAD’s endowment now stands at $2.8 million and is expected to grow. This endowment and additional operating gifts provide nonpartisan…

Campus Commute

That's So Kenyon From Alumni Bulletin - 9 years ago

One of the most common questions I’ve heard in the course of my first year at Kenyon is: “What is it like to live in Cromwell?” Or, its familiar variation: “Is it strange to live in the middle of campus?” More than a year after my official arrival at Kenyon, Cromwell Cottage does indeed feel like home — even more so since my family fully moved into the house this summer. In many ways, living in Cromwell is similar to living in any 100-plus-year-old home in a rural setting. The house has its quirks…

Turning Pages

Student Life From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Stacked next to copies of the student newspaper in Peirce Hall, the Bookstore and other prime locations around campus is a new glossy magazine featuring a black-and-white cover photo of architect Graham Gund ’63. If it looks like The New York Times Magazine and reads a bit like the Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin, that’s not an accident; the editors used both as inspiration. Gabe Brison-Trezise ’16 and Henri Gendreau ’16 launched the first issue of The Collegian Magazine in November. “We thought…

Making the Goal

Athletics From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

For the second consecutive season, the Lords soccer team made a deep run through the NCAA Division III tournament. The postseason stretch capped a 2014 schedule stuffed with impressive accomplishments, record-breaking performances, a title-clinching victory and a steady stream of both team and individual accolades. Ranked as high as No. 2 in the nation, the Lords gained the right to host the first four rounds of the national tournament. They handled Heidelberg University with ease in the first round…

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