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General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

As soon as the Kenyon Bookstore reopened in its former location in the south end of Farr Hall last Friday, March 16, students returning from spring break filled its study tables and stuffed chairs. “I thought it would be noisier because of the new open space, but it’s really nice. It’s a really good place to study,” said Elizabeth Lemire ’21 of New Hartford, New York, working on her laptop in the textbook section. The Kenyon Bookstore is the nation’s longest continuously operating college bookstore…

Middle Path Tunes

That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Check out last year's Middle Path Playlist. Middle Path is Kenyon’s central artery. Especially between classes and during the lunch hour, Middle Path is as busy as a downtown sidewalk in a major city. This year, it was my job to put together a Middle Path Playlist. The premise was simple: when I saw someone with headphones in on Middle Path, I would ask them what they were listening to. (I had some help from my fellow blogger Tariq Thompson.) The first song on the playlist is a bluegrass tune my…

Looking to Lead

Athletics From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

At the 2017 NCAA Division III swimming and diving championships, the Emory University Eagles achieved the feat of sweeping both the men’s and women’s first-place trophies. The only other team to do the same is Kenyon’s Lords and Ladies. They’ve done it 23 times. With the 2018 championships on the horizon, the Kenyon squads, which last pulled off the sweep in 2009, have the potential to upend Emory and come home, once again, with a pair of first-place trophies. The championships will be held at…

A Better Way Forward

By Sean Decatur

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Note: This post was originally published on March 14 as a letter to the editor on the website of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Gallup’s new poll of student attitudes about free speech (“College Students Want Free Speech — Sort Of,” The Chronicle, March 12) has struck a chord with college and university leaders because it echoes the dissonance many of us are experiencing on campus today. But as much as the poll gets right about shifting attitudes, its central premise — that free expression and…

The Gatekeepers

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

As one of the literary world’s most prestigious publications, the Kenyon Review is accustomed to receiving submissions from well-known authors and poets. But, each year, the journal also opens its doors to a flood of literary works from unknown writers and counts on Kenyon students to serve as gatekeepers. Between classes, Kenyon Review interns and associates can be found sprawled out on the couches of Finn House, clicking through thousands of unsolicited submissions. Each short story, essay and…

Global Journey

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

World travel always has been on the itinerary for Cayla Anderson ’18: From the ripe age of 2, she was carrying a homemade passport created with markers and crayons. “I’ve always wanted to be international, even though I grew up in rural Ohio,” recalled Anderson, who is originally from Springfield, Ohio. In high school, Anderson put her passport to work, studying abroad in France her junior year and setting her sights on the Peace Corps when she got older. With nearly 200 study abroad programs…

Lab Leader

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

As a member of Professor of Biology Chris Gillen’s research team, David Anderson ’19 examines the life cycle of mosquitoes, among the most adaptable animals in the world but also one of the most dangerous. “Our lab focuses on the eradication of mosquitoes,” said Anderson, a biology major on the pre-med track at Kenyon. “They are responsible for more than one million deaths per year because they transmit diseases such as yellow fever, the Zika virus and malaria.” Anderson’s research earned him…

Landing on Top

Athletics From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Tanner Orr ’19 made history at the North Coast Athletic Conference track and field championship meet this year, becoming the first Kenyon student to ever win first place in the long jump event. Orr’s jump of 21-11 3/4 also broke the Kenyon record of 21-10 1/4 set in 1971 by Perry Thompson ’72. We asked Orr, a religious studies major from Shelby, Ohio, about his athletic strategies, his academic interests and what it’s like to compete alongside a teammate and older sibling. How do you push yourself…

Spotlight on Spanish

Student Life From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Sofía Alpízar Román ’21, a political science major from Poás, Costa Rica, came to Kenyon with a love for writing and a passion for people. She has always aspired to marry these interests as a professional journalist, and once on the Hill, she felt energized and inspired by the dozens of like-minded young writers who were spreading their ideas through blogs, articles and essays. “I thought, ‘Why am I not doing that, too?’” she said. “But I think that English was, and still can be, a barrier for me…

Prize Poems

Arts & Culture From The Kenyon Review - 6 years ago

The Kenyon Review is pleased to announce that Audrey Kim, a sophomore at Conestoga High School in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, has won the Review’s 2017 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers. Kim’s first-place poem, “What I Left Behind,” was selected by KR Editor at Large Natalie Shapero from a pool of 984 submissions from more than thirty states and 24 foreign countries. Entries came in from nations including Australia, Botswana, Canada, China, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Georgia, Germany…

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