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Summer Sendoff

That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Signaling the end of spring semester classes, the Summer Sendoff – a Kenyon tradition since 1990 – takes place on Friday on campus lawns. Social Board selected noise-pop duo Sleigh Bells as the headliner for this year’s concert, which starts at 7:30 p.m. on Ransom Lawn. Hip-hop artist Brother Ali will open the show. “We like to choose an opener that complements the main act but is a different genre so that we can satisfy the most number of students,” said Lauren Berke ’14 of Hastings-on-Hudson…

Ecosystem Exploration

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

When Professor of Biology Siobhan Fennessy and Professor of Art Marcella Hackbardt set out for Peru over spring break in March, they felt something like nineteenth-century explorers. Fennessy, along with two other professors and a graduate student from Pennsylvania State University, collected samples of the scarcely studied wetlands in the middle of the Andes, while Hackbardt photographed the expedition. “It felt very glamorous to have her with us,” said Fennessy of Hackbardt. “It was so National…

Happy Poem in Your Pocket Day!

That's So Kenyon From The Kenyon Review - 10 years ago

While today is the official national Poem in Your Pocket Day, at Kenyon we got things started earlier in the week. On Tuesday at dawn, Kenyon Review's team of “Ninja” poets stalked the campus to post poems from railings, porch pillars, in the library, and on clotheslines along Middle Path. Signs read “free poems to available pocket” encouraging all to take a poem and button. Poems were shared in classrooms, hallways, and the dining hall. Kenyon College’s bookstore offered a 20% discount on…

Overcoming Evil

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

After Eva Mozes Kor arrived by cattle car at the Auschwitz concentration camp with her 10-year-old identical-twin sister, Miriam, in 1944, her Nazi captors told her she had two weeks to live. The fact that she recently celebrated her 80th birthday demonstrates the spirit of a survivor. Kor visits Kenyon this week on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in Peirce Lounge to speak about the unspeakable: her experience as a human guinea pig in the horrific genetic experiments conducted on twins by Nazi physician Joseph…

Spring Jazz

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

  Seasonably warm weather will be complemented by cool jazz on Saturday in Rosse Hall. The Kenyon Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Professor of Music Ted Buehrer, performs its spring concert at 8 p.m. The free concert features guest performer Pete Mills, a Columbus-based tenor saxophonist, recording artist, and instructor at Denison University. “Movin’ Uptown” by jazz legend Benny Carter opens the concert, followed by “Freckle Face” by Sammy Nestico, and “Seven Steps to Heaven” by Miles Davis…

Deciphering Dioxins

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

A gene proved to be the ticket to a national conference for Jenny Shoots ’14. The molecular biology major from Wooster, Ohio, used her research to apply for the Pfizer Undergraduate Travel Award to the Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting in Phoenix in March. She was selected as one of 11 recipients – and the only one from a small liberal arts school. Shoots cloned DNA encoding of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor from a salamander.  This protein mediates the response of animals to toxic pollutants…

Fine Revival

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Fine and Dandy was one of the biggest hits of Broadway in the 1930-31 season, totaling more than 255 performances before it went on tour for a year. But the final show on the road was the last time the musical comedy was seen until now. On Friday, April 18, Musical Theater and Opera Workshop students, accompanied by the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, will play restored orchestrations in a concert performance at 7:30 p.m. in Rosse Hall, thanks to the diligence of Katharine Weber, Richard L. Thomas Visiting…

Contemporaries and Counselors

Student Life From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Kenyon offers an array of counseling services to students to help with everything from friendship conflicts to depression. But that came as something of a surprise to Tim Jurney ’15 when he was a first-year student because he watched others around him struggle without knowing where to turn. “There was just a disconnect,” said the Spanish area studies major from Minneapolis. So with the help of Patrick Gilligan, director of counseling services, and fellow students Charlotte Reed ’15, Gina Rickert…

Amish Neighbors

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

A musical window into the world of the Knox County Amish community will open on Tuesday, April 15, at 11:10 a.m. at Peirce Hall. “An Amish Sing” features the Jacob Beachy family in Peirce Lounge, as part of the Kenyon Rural Life Center’s Visits series of free public forums. “Singing, clearly, is a central part of Amish community life,” said Howard Sacks, director of the Rural Life Center and professor of sociology. “Singing together is one of the things that unites the community, and there are…

With Honors

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Kenyon celebrated students and teachers Tuesday with the annual Honors Day Convocation in Rosse Hall, highlighted by teaching awards for Katherine Elkins, associate professor of comparative literature and humanities, and Zoë Kontes, associate professor of classics. The Trustee Teaching Excellence Awards recognize a senior and junior faculty member for "exemplary teaching informed by creative scholarship." Elkins was honored as a tenured faculty member who has been on the faculty for at least ten…

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