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Skills for a Lifetime

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Editor’s note: The following is the prepared text of the address delivered by statistician and writer Nate Silver H’18 at Kenyon’s 190th Commencement on May 19, 2018. More coverage of the Class of 2018’s Commencement is available here. Thank you to President Decatur and to the whole Kenyon College community for having me here today and for giving me this honorary degree and this opportunity to speak with you. It’s a really wonderful honor and something I’ll always cherish. And more importantly…

Life Work

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Editor’s note: The following is the prepared text of the Baccalaureate address titled “Life Work” given by Associate Professor of English Sarah Heidt ’97 to the Class of 2018, delivered on May 18, 2018. Watch video of the speech here, or read a Q&A with Heidt about her speech. Those of you who have taken classes with me or been in department meetings with me know that I like to start things with a brief stretch of quiet, offering everyone time to settle in and get ready for what’s going to happen…

Sale of the Year

Student Life From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

A familiar marker of fall in Gambier, the Harcourt Parish Rummage Sale provides Kenyon students and Gambier residents with everything from hot dog costumes to fuzzy green carpets and coats that can handle Ohio winters. Now, for the first time in its almost 80-year history, the overwhelming size of the sale has motivated the parish to turn operation of its popular event over to the College. By harvesting end-of-the-year donations from residence halls and reselling them at the Gambier Community Center…

Professing Wisdom

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Click here to watch video of the 2018 Baccalaureate ceremony, or read Sarah Heidt’s speech. When seniors gather on Samuel Mather lawn for Kenyon’s Baccalaureate ceremony Friday, May 18, at 1:30 p.m, they will be addressed by a faculty member beloved in the Kenyon community: Associate Professor of English Sarah Heidt ’97. Imparting wisdom on students is not an unfamiliar mission for Heidt; she was chosen to give the 2010 Baccalaureate address, and in 2015, she gave the Founders’ Day address as well…

Six Questions With Nate Silver

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

The 190th Commencement was held Saturday, May 19, at 10:30 a.m. Click here to watch video and read the transcript of Nate Silver’s Commencement address. Acclaimed statistician and writer Nate Silver will address the Class of 2018 on Saturday, May 19. Silver, the founder and editor of the website FiveThirtyEight, has gained fame for his exceptionally accurate and occasionally counterintuitive political prognostications, especially his predictions for the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. Prior…

Celebrating 2018

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

The 190th Commencement was held Saturday, May 19, at 10:30 a.m. Click here to watch recorded video of the ceremony. Kenyon’s 190th Commencement ceremony will feature an acclaimed statistician and writer, four retiring faculty with a combined total of more than 100 years of service to the College, and the 400-plus members of the Class of 2018, who will parade down Middle Path one last time before taking themselves and their diplomas out into the world. The ceremony is scheduled to be held on the…

Fulbright Fellows

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Twelve Kenyon seniors and recent graduates were awarded J. William Fulbright Fellowships this year, with one senior selected as an alternate — tying Kenyon’s record from 2009 and 2010 for the most Fulbright fellows named in one year. Recipients of the coveted Fulbright fellowship receive grants to serve as an English teaching assistant (ETA) or conduct research abroad, and Kenyon is consistently a top producer of grant-winning students among liberal arts colleges. Alice Cusick ’18, a Chinese and…

Artistic Reflections

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

When Dani Gorton ’18 needed inspiration for her senior capstone project, the studio art major looked at her Gambier surroundings and considered how the Hill has influenced her, as a person and as an artist. She turned her reflections into a series of paintings now on display at the Gund Gallery’s annual senior exhibition, which runs through May 19 and includes works from 19 studio art majors. Gorton’s series of oil paintings, titled “No Place Else,” explores how feelings and emotion can be imbued…

Game On

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Joey Schutz ’18 has more than just his upcoming graduation to celebrate this spring. Schutz, a video game developer from Chattanooga, Tennessee, recently released to much acclaim “Winter, 2001: Someone tell Luigi I love him,” an independent video game project he completed for Professor of Art Claudia Esslinger’s “Experimental Film and Video” course last year. Since its January release, “Winter, 2001” has been featured on gaming website Warp Door and has secured a spot on PC Gamer magazine’s list…

Science and Sound

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Knox County Music Interactive (KCMI), an organization founded this year by students at Kenyon, has announced its inaugural Notewave Festival, an afternoon of live music and interactive exhibits exploring the science of sound. The festival will take place Sunday, May 6, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Schnormeier Event Center in Ariel-Foundation Park in Mount Vernon. Admission is free, and food will be available for purchase on the event grounds. Local artists Six Miles to Nellie and Sarah Goslee Reed will…

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