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Yesterday I experienced my last Harry Potter Day at Kenyon (most likely). Harry Potter Day is this amazing tradition in which Residential Life and various organizations on campus (the Bookstore, Peirce Dining Hall, the Village Inn) create a beautiful day dedicated to Harry Potter and how nerdy Kenyon is. All day I saw Hogwarts House colors being worn by Kenyon kids as well as little witches and wizards scurrying around campus doing a Harry Potter scavenger hunt. For dinner we had a Harry Potter themed…

Gaining Ground in Germany

Athletics From Kenyon News - 11 years ago

After donning his purple-and-white Lords uniform for the final time last fall, Brett Williams '13 is back on the gridiron—this time, professionally—as a running back with the Osnabruck Tigers in Germany. Part of the German Football League 2, the country’s second-most elite American football league, the Tigers recruited Kenyon’s top ball-carrier the day after he joined a social network of aspiring pro-football players. Williams, a three-time All-North Coast Athletic Conference selection who led the…

Residence Halls 101: Helping You Fill Out Your Housing Preference Form

By Ariana Chomitz

Student Life From Kenyon News - 11 years ago

The research for this piece was compiled by Busola Olukoya So, you’re an accepted-and-decided Kenyon student. Congratulations! Once you’re past the thrill of that thumbs-up on the outside of your envelope, you realize that the inside is actually stuffed with paperwork and there’s STILL more to do. One form that may be troubling you is the housing survey—where exactly, will you call home next year? We’re here to break down your five residence options with real student input and up-to-date photography…

One Monstrous Caterpillar

Investigating Metabolic Scaling

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 11 years ago

With funds from a National Science Foundation grant—and the help of a monstrous caterpillar—interdisciplinary teams of Kenyon students and professors have been exploring one of life's most intriguing mysteries. The focus is metabolism itself, "the fire of life," and more specifically a remarkable consistency seen in creatures from bacteria to blue whales. Faculty in both biology and mathematics are investigating metabolic scaling, or how the rate of metabolism changes with the size of organisms…

Islam's Diverse Paths

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 11 years ago

GAMBIER, Ohio (February 13, 2011) Muslim homosexuality. Mystical poetry from the 13th century. And, yes, even in-your-face punk rockers. It's all part of the flowering of Kenyon's multidisciplinary explorations into the world of Islam. An array of campus events this semester highlights the vitality of that exploration, both in and out of the classroom. "We're one of just a handful of liberal arts colleges that offer anything like this," said Vernon Schubel, a religious studies professor and director…

Language of Death

Arts & Culture From Alumni Bulletin - 11 years ago

You must be the Death Man. The comment, from a Kenyon mother, startled me. Were my invisible scythe and hourglass showing? Then I realized she was talking about my class, "Meanings of Death," which her two sons had taken. The mother told me that when the boys' grandfather died, the younger son took charge of arrangements for the devastated family and spoke about the class at the funeral. Who would have thought, the mother observed, that a liberal arts course could be relevant? The course, which…

Kenyon President Sean M. Decatur Launches Higher Ed Blog

Notes from Ransom Hall

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 11 years ago

Some reflections on week one at Kenyon College Some boxes have been unpacked, pictures are on the shelves, and my computer is connected to the Internet; already, Ransom Hall is feeling like home. Thanks to all who have been welcoming and helpful over the past few days, especially the staff who have help prepare my office and Cromwell Cottage for my arrival. For those of you in Gambier for the summer, I hope to see you on or around Middle Path. The excitement of my first week at Kenyon has been…

Going Green

Literary and online virtuosity bring young-adult author John Green '00 fans of all ages.

Alumni News From Alumni Bulletin - 11 years ago

This review of "The Fault in Our Stars" first ran in the Spring 2012 issue of the Bulletin. First, of course, there are the novels—witty, articulate, touching, immensely popular. Then there's “vlogbrothers,” the ebullient YouTube video blog that has drawn more than 200 million views since it launched in 2007. There are the Twitter posts, with over a million followers. And the Foundation to Decrease World Suck. And, of course, “nerdfighters,” an unseriously serious mass movement of readers, fans…

Telling Stories

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 11 years ago

Since his early days as a self-proclaimed "little liar," Carlos Price-Sanchez has always liked telling stories. A poet and a rising high school senior from Wayne, Pa., Price-Sanchez was drawn by that passion to the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop, where he hopes to get "criticism from thoughtful people" and meet other aspiring writers in the high school ranks. Similar desires attracted 200 students from 42 states and several countries to the Kenyon campus for one of the workshop's two two-week…

Legal Minds

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 11 years ago

The culture shock of coming to Kenyon from her large urban high school in Denver – with a 60 percent minority enrollment – only deepened the interest of Elizabeth Cheever '14 in the role diversity should play in American schools. She’s tackling the topic in depth this summer with research examining the history of affirmative action rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court, beginning with the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954. “Kenyon was quite a change for me, but it gave me all these opportunities…

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