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Advancing Opportunity

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

On Feb. 5, President Sean Decatur joined fellow college and university leaders in New York City for the annual American Talent Initiative Presidential Summit. The gathering advanced the work of the American Talent Initiative, a coalition of more than 100 colleges and universities with consistently high graduation rates that aims to educate at least 50,000 additional high-achieving, low- and moderate-income students by 2025. “Too many talented students in America do not have the financial means…

Leaping Ahead

Athletics From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

It’s the start of a promising season for Kenyon student-athletes participating in spring sports. Take a look at what’s to come for the Ladies and Lords in tennis, lacrosse, softball, baseball, track and field, and golf. Women’s tennis The Ladies opened the previous year winning 13 in a row, which was the best start in program history. By season’s end, the team finished with a 21-3 record and No. 22 ITA ranking, won the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) tournament and advanced to the second…

Notable Nomination

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Few college students can add “Oscar nominee” — and winner — to their resumes, but on Sunday, Feb. 24, Ruby Schiff ’21 attended the 91st Academy Awards in Hollywood. Schiff, a psychology major from Studio City, California, served as an executive producer of the Academy Award-winning short-subject documentary “Period. End of Sentence.” The 26-minute film examines the stigma and lack of education surrounding menstruation in a rural Indian village, with the tagline “A period should end a sentence, not…

Storytelling and Startups

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Watch the Kenyon Unique livestream here starting at 8 p.m. and available as a recording following the live event. Entrepreneur Nicole Van Der Tuin ’07 will share her experience as a financial technology pioneer in this year’s Kenyon Unique lecture Saturday, Feb. 23, at 8 p.m. Her lecture, titled “Storytelling and Startups: An Entrepreneur’s Journey to Tackle the $5 Trillion Global Credit Gap,” will be held in the Gund Gallery’s Community Foundation Theater. Van Der Tuin is the co-founder and CEO…

Top Five for Fulbrights

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Kenyon is ranked fifth in the nation among baccalaureate institutions for producing winners of the J. William Fulbright Fellowship in 2018-19. This marks the 14th time Kenyon has appeared on the list, published in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Last year, 12 Kenyon students were selected as Fulbright winners, going on to teach English or conduct research in Argentina, China, Colombia, Germany, India, Russia, Spain’s Canary Islands, Taiwan, Thailand and Togo. This honor gives students “a leg…

Enlightening a Dark Past

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

A few weeks before graduating from Kenyon, Eric Sutton ’18 found himself next to a crying stranger in Montgomery, Alabama, where they stood shoulder to shoulder before a row of tall steel columns. The two men from Indiana — one black and one white, one young and one old — had traveled to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice on a journey of remembrance. “I saw my family’s last name on a pillar, and then he’s crying maybe three pillars down, and he had seen his family’s last name as well,”…

Dramatic Inquiry

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Kenyon students will present “Machinal,” a landmark of the expressionist theater movement, on Thursday, Jan. 31, Friday, Feb. 1, and Saturday, Feb. 2, at 8 p.m. in the Bolton Theater. “Machinal,” which means automatic or mechanical in French, was written by Sophie Treadwell in 1928. It centers around a woman’s journey of finding her identity in a patriarchal world and explores the conditions of society that would drive a woman to commit murder. Treadwell was inspired by the real court case of Ruth…

Bridging Science and Art

By Mae Hunt ’21

Student Life From The Collegian - 5 years ago

Lyceum, Kenyon’s newest student literary journal, was a runaway hit. The editors of the new science writing publication printed 150 copies, which quickly vanished into the hands of curious, excited members of the Kenyon community. “I felt bad because I kept on telling people I would give them a copy and then we ran out,” Miriam Hyman ’21 said. Hyman, along with Sarah McPeek ’19, Anu Muppirala ’19 and Graham Ball ’21, founded the publication. The debut issue featured creative nonfiction, poetry…

Preserving a Culture

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Kenyon College has made available extensive research on the Gullah culture of the South Carolina and Georgia Sea Islands, a culture closer to 1715 than 2019 in its vernacular. The Gullah Digital Archive is based on years of study done by Professor of American Studies Peter Rutkoff and Professor Emeritus of History Will Scott with assistance from Kenyon students and Ohio public school teachers in the Kenyon Academic Partnership program. “This is an important cultural resource,” Rutkoff said. “It…

Food Findings

Society & Politics From Alumni Bulletin - 5 years ago

Jenna Rochelle ’18 started researching the experiences of low-income students on Kenyon’s campus, and ended up uncovering a hidden community. Her anthropology honors thesis, “Born with a Plastic Spoon in Mouth: Food in the Experience of Low Income Students,” examined the everyday marginalization of low-income Kenyon students, particularly in their interactions with food. Rochelle said she chose to explore food because it is an everyday necessity that is laden with significant cultural meaning. What…

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