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Internationally acclaimed musician and educator Wynton Marsalis, winner of nine Grammy Awards and the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, will be the featured speaker at Kenyon’s 191st Commencement on May 18, 2019. Marsalis was nominated by a committee of faculty, staff and students. President Sean Decatur extended the invitation from the College to deliver the address. Through his prolific touring, recording of albums, and advocacy of the arts, Marsalis inspired generations…
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For the sixth straight season and the 15th time in program history, Kenyon’s men’s soccer team earned a berth in the NCAA Division III Tournament, racking up a total season record of 18-1-3 before falling to Case Western Reserve University at a third-round game in Cleveland on Friday, Nov. 16. Despite keeping the score tied at 2-2 through overtime, the team came up one goal short in a penalty kick shootout, allowing Case Western to advance. The Lords jumped into the bracket of 62 teams starting…
It’s 2009. I’m 10 years old, and my baby sister is two. My family is on vacation — that year, my Mom took us to Orlando. My favorite older cousin is with us, my aunts and uncles in tow. Our time there is a blur, and the end of each day leaves me exhausted and ready for bed — I even miss home a tiny bit, despite the fun I’m having. And yet, at the end of each day of this vacation, I find myself returning to a room filled with people I love. My mother is on the phone with one of her friends; my sister…
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove was the keynote speaker at this year’s Kenyon Review Literary Festival, held Nov. 5–9. Dove is this year’s recipient of the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, chosen by the esteemed literary journal’s editors and board of trustees. Her Denham Sutcliffe Memorial Lecture, named for a legendary Kenyon professor of English, was held Friday, Nov. 9, at 8 p.m. in front of a sizable Rosse Hall crowd. “I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t around books,”…
For those seeking a seat among the sunlit tables of Thomas Hall from 8:45 to 9:30 a.m. on a Tuesday, it might be surprising to find the familiar faces of Chaplains Marc Bragin, director of Hillel House, and Rachel Kessler ’04, the head of Harcourt Parish — not stationed at a podium or featured in a campus-wide email, but sitting among students, eating fried eggs and discussing the merits of “VeggieTales.” For the past three years, Bragin and Kessler have made a point to break with the usual structure…
Human perception is dominated by detection of motion, change and contrast. Our attention is drawn to that which appears out-of-the-ordinary, while things that occur regularly fade into the background, failing to register significantly in our consciousness. The horrific and senseless violence at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh this past weekend was a shocking event, something that laid bare the danger of anti-Semitism in our society. But as we mourn the lives that were lost and the fabric…
The hardships of living in New York City as an undocumented immigrant did not prevent Dan-el Padilla Peralta, an assistant professor of classics at Princeton University, from pursuing his dreams for a successful academic career. On Monday, Oct. 29, at 7:30 p.m., Peralta will speak at Kenyon about his experiences in the Gund Gallery’s Community Foundation Theater. Peralta’s lecture shares a title with his 2015 memoir: “Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League…
During its October meeting, the Kenyon College Board of Trustees approved the promotions of four faculty members to the rank of full professor. Provost Joseph L. Klesner said the work of the faculty Tenure and Promotion Committee is reaffirming. “The committee members and I regularly read of the terrific teaching our colleagues are doing, of their remarkable successes as scholars and artists, and of how, by their service to the College and community, they make this place work,” Klesner said. “This…