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Student Life From Kenyon News - 10 years ago
Sure, the fall season makes the perfect backdrop for Kenyon College. But these Instagram pictures suggest that winter on The Hill is just as beautiful.
Sure, the fall season makes the perfect backdrop for Kenyon College. But these Instagram pictures suggest that winter on The Hill is just as beautiful.
The New York Woodwind Quintet, one of the world’s oldest and finest woodwind ensembles, will brighten the season by performing at Kenyon on Saturday, Feb. 1, at 8 p.m. The free concert at Rosse Hall features an ensemble considered a pioneer in woodwind chamber music and now in residency at the Juilliard School in New York City. The quintet has been performing worldwide for about 70 years, has commissioned many compositions, and has recorded a number of albums. The quintet includes Mark Goldberg…
I have a confession: I’m not too big on traditions. The thing is, though, Kenyon is. Some of them I like; Stepping on the Peirce seal is an obvious do-not (ahem, parents). Signing the Matriculation book inscribes your name on (Kenyon) stone paper. And there’s no denying the illumination of Old Kenyon was just awesome. These traditions are great, don’t get me wrong. For me though, they themselves don’t make Kenyon Kenyon. That spot is reserved for the sacred rule of Middle Path: no cellphones. Yes…
The drumbeat of racial equality and justice will be heard at Kenyon during a week-long celebration of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. that begins on Saturday, Jan. 18, with a day of service. The theme for King-related events is "Drum Major for Justice: Servant Leadership and Political Action" and includes the annual Day of Dialogue on Monday, Jan. 20, and a panel discussion on King’s politics hosted by the Kenyon Center for the Study of American Democracy (CSAD) on Wednesday, Jan. 22. Ivonne…
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama welcomed Kenyon President Sean Decatur and other invited college presidents to a White House conference on Thursday, Jan. 16, aimed at increasing higher-education opportunities for low-income and disadvantaged students. The White House event is intended to launch a plan of action, and Decatur arrived with a commitment to fine tune and coordinate existing Kenyon mentorship programs to improve college preparation, academic success, and post-graduate…
In theory, summer internships provide students with invaluable experience in their fields of study. In reality, many of these internships are unpaid, putting them out of reach for some students. To make this opportunity accessible to more students, Kenyon created the Summer Internship Stipend Fund, which is designed to provide students with financial need a means to accept these internships. “We have students who spend their summers earning money so they can’t accept an unpaid internship,” said…
Ransom Riggs ’01, who wrote the best-selling, young-adult novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, discussed his work and his new book, Hollow City, in a recent New York Times story. Riggs was inspired by his collection of haunting, vintage photographs to write the peculiar novel about a home on an island near Wales for children with unusual abilities. The novel was published in 2011 and a film version is expected in summer 2015. Hollow City, which follows the children into World War II-era…
The twenty-six-year-old patient on the operating table had neither arms nor legs, but if he’d been awake, he would have been smiling. Brendan Marrocco had been waiting for this moment for years. The young Army infantryman had been the first veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to survive losing all four limbs. In 2009, a roadside bomb pierced the armor of his Humvee, shearing off his limbs and severing one of his carotid arteries. Marrocco, who later told reporters that he’d felt no pain…
Can you really fall in love with a college? At Kenyon, you will. One glance at its stunningly beautiful campus is all it takes to fall head over heels in love with this hilltop haven in Ohio. Intrigued? Watch our new movie to see why "you will."
When the night of the Grammy Award nominations rolled around in December, Justin Roberts ’92 decided to unplug. He turned off his phone and went to a concert down the street from his home in Chicago instead of waiting by the computer to see if his name was on the list. “I didn’t want to be thinking of it,” he said. But when he turned his phone back on later that night, it lit up with messages of congratulations. “Recess,” Roberts’ most recent children’s album, produced by Liam Davis ’90, had received…