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Thirty-Three

Athletics From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

After four days of intense competition at the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Kenyon Lords and Ladies walked away with respective first- and second-place finishes. The national title for the Lords was their second in a row and their NCAA-record 33rd in the past 35 seasons. The runner-up spot for the Ladies was also their second in a row, coming up just shy of adding to the program’s stockpile of 23 national titles. The Lords’ effort was workmanlike…

Strokes of Genius

Athletics From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

March 22, 2014 Results: Lords win second straight and 33rd overall NCAA Championship. Ladies break away for runner-up finish, Zarka named Diver of the Year. Visit Facebook to view photos. With a combined 55 national championship titles already amassed, the Lords’ and Ladies’ swimming and diving teams seek out two more titles at this week’s 2014 NCAA Division III Men’s and Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships. Beginning Wednesday, the four-day meets will be held at the IUPUI Natatorium in Indianapolis…

Food Fancy

General Kenyon From Alumni Bulletin - 10 years ago

Local produce. Farm internships. Composting. Just when it seemed that there was nothing left to learn about food at Kenyon, the Kenyon Alumni Bulletin has reported some dining-hall developments we bet you never knew about before. Snout to tail You may know Kenyon buys whole hogs and steers instead of packaged cuts or ground meat for its food service. It’s part of the College’s commitment to the local agricultural community. What you may not realize is that a whole steer is more than chuck and brisket…

Campus Greening

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Scanning his office computer, Sustainability Director Ed Neal noticed that two windows were left open in a student’s room in Hanna Hall. And he saw that heat to that room had automatically switched off and the room temperature had leveled to 55 degrees. From his online monitoring perch, Neal could see that Kenyon’s plan to save energy and money was clicking. As one part of an ambitious, $7 million energy-conservation project, rooms in six residence halls have been outfitted with thermostats, motion…

Creative Energy

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

The work of ten studio art majors will be in the spotlight in the first of two Gund Gallery exhibitions of senior capstone, opening on March 19. A reception at 5 p.m. kicks off the free exhibition, which continues until March 28. A second senior exhibition opens on April 3. “Working to create a cohesive body of work for the gallery show has been a process of discovery and evolution,” said Mary Defer of Garrettsville, Ohio. “The studio art senior capstone has allowed me to really develop and synthesize…

By Design

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Technically, “ARTS Special Topics 191” is an introductory drawing class, but Associate Professor of Art Read Baldwin ’84 engaged his students to use the art form as a tool to re-evaluate some campus spaces through design. Baldwin got his inspiration for the project from the master plan, an ongoing vision of how the Kenyon landscape will look in the future. He decided to let his students come up with their own additions, based on their experiences of living on the Hill. “I sent them out across campus…

Master Class

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Hip hop photographer Jonathan Mannion ’93 transformed a Horvitz Hall studio into a professional workshop to conduct an intensive three-day crash course for Kenyon’s aspiring student photographers. Called back to the Hill as a Mesaros Visiting Artist in February, Mannion, a psychology and art double major, worked with photography classes taught by art professors Greg Spaid ’68 and Marcella Hackbardt. “It was very hands-on, and he was an excellent teacher,” said Spaid, who had Mannion in class at…

Kokosing Nature Preserve

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

A public, nature preserve cemetery and a nine-hole golf course will be developed on land that has long been home to the Tomahawk Golf Course in Knox County. The Philander Chase Corporation, a nonprofit land trust associated with Kenyon College, purchased the 51-acre golf course in 2013 with the intention of forever preserving the land as green space. Converting the property into a nature preserve for natural burials – to be known as the Kokosing Nature Preserve – protects the land and meets the…

Pressure of Perfection

Athletics From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

One deep breath, three dribbles, spin ball in left hand, bounce a bit from the knees, and shoot. For Maureen Hirt ’14, that is the formula for success at the free throw line, a place where pressure and uncertainty combine into a test regularly graded by hundreds of critical basketball fans. It’s also a place where Hirt, a 5’8” shooting guard, comes closest to perfection. Entering her senior season, she already reigned over all other NCAA Division III players by converting 92.3 percent (84 of 91)…

Prize-Winning Poetry

Arts & Culture From The Kenyon Review - 10 years ago

Michaela Jenkins, a junior at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, South Carolina, took first place in this year’s Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers presented by The Kenyon Review. Jenkins’s poem “Indigo Sister” was selected by KR Poetry Editor David Baker from more than 1,000 submissions. The runner-up is Dahlia Ahmed, a junior at Miami Arts Charter School in Miami, Florida, for her poem “Open in the Spring.” Both poems will be published in…

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