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Creative Choreography

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Beach balls and dancers alike will glide through the air at the Department of Dance, Drama and Film’s annual Fall Dance Concert, held Dec. 13–15 at 8 p.m. in the Hill Theater. The concert features seven new dances and one dance-film conceived and created by Kenyon students. Inspired by the creative freedom of youth, Catherine Kelly ’19 choreographed a dance that employs colorful beach balls and the lively music of Aretha Franklin and Lesley Gore. She hopes the piece will encourage the audience…

Walkman on Middle Path

By Oliver Pearson ’22

Student Life From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

By the end of my first week at Kenyon, I had mastered the art of the Middle Path Wave. For some it’s more of a nod or a smile, but for me, it’s still a wave. The goal was to meet as many people as I possibly could, even between classes, and the physical act of the wave took practice. While I didn’t want to appear too excited, sometimes an emotionless royal wave can be worse than even a nod. It began to work, as the people of Kenyon seemed happy enough to always wave back or smile in return. But there…

Why Latinx?

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Burning Question: Why Latinx? By Ivonne M. García, William P. Rice Associate Professor of English and Literature In September 2018, Merriam-Webster announced that it was officially adding the word Latinx to its dictionary, a word its editors had begun “watching” for inclusion the year before. The Oxford English Dictionary, meanwhile, has not officially recognized the word, but does include Latinx (pronounced la-TEEN-ex) in its free online resource. For many of us in the Latinx community, who…

Connecting to Community

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

On a planet increasingly threatened by climate change, environmental sustainability — maintaining an ecological balance — may no longer be enough. Instead, some communities have begun to focus on resilience — the ability of an ecosystem to bounce back from a disturbance and regain balance. Last fall, Kenyon launched the Rural Resilience Initiative, which aims to examine Knox County — an area that has worked to preserve its rural character — as a resilient community and provide a deeper understanding…

Joyful Reading

Arts & Culture From The Kenyon Review - 5 years ago

Every year, the Kenyon Review celebrates the holiday season by asking their editors and staff to enthuse about the favorite books — new and old, in any and every genre — that have captured their imaginations. Here, we share their recommendations so that you can put these titles on your own reading list or perhaps find the perfect stocking stuffer for the book lover in your life. David Lynn ’76, Editor “Improvement,” by Joan Silber, is the quiet, fascinating work of a master of form and substance…

A Critical Eye

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Claire Koelling ’19 has long been fascinated by questions of identity and representation. Growing up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with childhood friends who were Egyptian American, Koelling noticed how her friends’ culture wasn’t often reflected in her school’s curriculum, or in the museums and galleries they visited. She found this puzzling, especially given her hometown region’s notably large Middle Eastern population. “In high school, as I was growing my awareness and my interests in art, visual literacy…

Life, Unscripted

Kenyon in the World From Alumni Bulletin - 5 years ago

On an April afternoon, more than halfway through her first semester at Kenyon, Hanaa Ibrahim ’22 stood in front of an intimate gathering of her peers in Peirce Dining Hall’s Bemis Music Room. She had agreed to speak as part of the Diversity Advisors’ Storytime, a bimonthly series that invites Kenyon community members to share their personal experiences. For Ibrahim, it was an opportunity to paint a more nuanced picture of her home, Palestine. Wearing traditional Palestinian dress for the occasion…

Conducting Fieldwork

Athletics From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

A new synthetic playing field will be ready for use in the fall of 2019, just in time for Kenyon’s fall sports season. McBride Field, the existing turf field, is currently shared by six programs: football, field hockey, men’s and women’s lacrosse, and men’s and women’s track and field. Both soccer teams occasionally use McBride as well. With no permanent lighting on McBride, afternoon practice is limited to 4 to 7 p.m. in the fall and 4 to 5:30 p.m. in early spring — which puts a squeeze on the more…

Changing the Conversation

By Sean Decatur

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

When I think about the power of philanthropy, my mind jumps to the power it has to transform the lives of individuals; to turn aspirations into reality; to inspire others to effect change. But when I read of Michael Bloomberg’s gift of $1.8 billion to Johns Hopkins University, I also was reminded of the power a gift has to change a conversation (in this case, a national conversation), moving our collective thinking beyond what can’t be done to what, in fact, must be done. As Mr. Bloomberg highlights…

Your Brain on Gratitude

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Assistant Professor of Psychology Leah Dickens spends a lot of time counting her blessings — because her job as a social psychologist is to explore the emotional experiences of pride and gratitude, and how these feelings can be beneficial to a person’s self and relationships. In preparation for Thanksgiving, we asked Dickens to share some of her research. What are the psychological benefits of gratitude? Work that I’ve been involved in shows that a state of gratitude can lead you to help not only…

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