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Athletics From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Head Women’s Basketball Coach Suzanne Helfant came into this season, her 23rd at Kenyon, with another talented roster — one that had seen a lot of playing time and had helped the Ladies attain 37 wins during the previous two years. But after the loss of a big senior class in 2017, some wondered if Kenyon might take a slight step back. That has been far from the case. “If we approach the season with a mind-set that we’re not going to look too far back or too far forward, I’ll think we’ll be fine…

Living Up to Our Aspirations

By Sean Decatur

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Editor’s note: This is the first in an upcoming series of reflections by President Sean Decatur on race, identity and the role of liberal arts institutions in exploring complex and controversial topics. Read the second installment. From its earliest days in Gambier, Kenyon has seen itself in the model of Winthrop’s “city upon a hill,” set apart from the world, but with a light others could follow. We speak often of the importance of community at Kenyon, and while we are typically vague in defining…

Social Space

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

The new academic building in Kenyon’s West Quad will house the history, sociology and political science departments and feature lab and teaching space for anthropology. This will cluster many of the faculty who contribute to the interdisciplinary programs of American studies, Asian and Middle East studies, international studies, law and society, public policy and women’s and gender studies. “We are bringing several departments together that are currently scattered and that have a good capacity…

Theater Cheer

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Annie Weisman’s tragicomedy “Be Aggressive” will be presented by the Kenyon College Dance and Dramatic Club (KCDC) on Thursday, Feb. 1, through Saturday, Feb. 3, at 8 p.m. in the Bolton Theater. With a Greek chorus of cheerleaders, iridescent pom-poms, and the best of early-2000s pop music, the mainstage production challenges traditional theater by exploring the complexities of identity through the eyes of a teenager from Southern California. The show follows 17-year-old Laura as she recovers from…

Confronting the Unknown

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Click here to watch the Kenyon Unique lecture live on Saturday, Feb. 24 at 8 p.m. This year’s Kenyon Unique lecture will feature the professor known for his class on death and who wrote these lines to dedicate the conservation burial ground at the Kokosing Nature Preserve: Every culture crafts and makes its own a sacred tale to tame this nameless zone;as Orpheus found and lost Eurydice,a mother’s love restored Persephone.Love called forth from darkness Lazarus,such love as strong as death will…

Theater as Empathy

Alumni News From Alumni Bulletin - 6 years ago

The first time Harrison David Rivers ’04 saw himself reflected in a character onstage, he wept. He was in New York City in 2007, and the musical was “Passing Strange” — about a young, middle-class African-American musician who struggles to find himself as he travels through Europe. To Rivers, it was a revelation. “Oh, that’s me,” he thought. Three years earlier, Rivers had been a dance and drama major at Kenyon, where he performed with the Chamber Singers and portrayed Linus in “You’re a Good Man…

Kenyon Remembers Rowland Shepard

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Rowland Shepard, professor emeritus of psychology, died Jan. 7, 2018, in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, at the age of 91. Born June 9, 1926, in Cincinnati, Rowland Hughes Shepard earned his bachelor’s (1948) and doctorate (1954) from the University of Cincinnati. The first positions he held after receiving his doctorate were as chief psychologist for the Summit County (Ohio) Mental Hygiene Clinic and then as a staff clinical psychologist at the Veterans Administration hospitals in Perry Point, Maryland…

Here Comes the Sun

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Travel down Middle Path in the heart of Gambier on a sunny day, and a glistening array of solar panels might catch your eye. Installations on the Village Inn and, most recently, on the Village Market are advancing Kenyon in its goal of achieving carbon neutrality — all while helping students learn the ins and outs of the solar power industry. The solar power installations were designed and implemented by students in “Solar Power Systems: Science, Policy and Practicum,” a physics course co-taught…

Silver for Commencement

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Nate Silver, the statistician and journalist best known for correctly predicting the electoral outcome of 49 states during the 2008 presidential election and all 50 in 2012, will give the graduation address at Kenyon’s 190th Commencement ceremony on May 19. Silver was nominated by a committee of faculty, staff and students, and President Sean Decatur extended the invitation from the College to deliver the address. After his stunningly accurate 2008 prediction, Silver was named one of the world’s…

Treasures of the Archives

Arts & Culture From Alumni Bulletin - 6 years ago

Hand-written, unpublished poems by W.B. Yeats, medieval illuminated manuscripts, a two-volume first edition of “Lolita.” These are just a few of the gems that can be found in the Greenslade Special Collections and Archives, which is full of significant primary sources that are rare, valuable or fragile. In the digital age, when information is ubiquitous, these precious objects have started to play a more important role at colleges: The opportunity to work in-person with such materials is a draw for…

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