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The dancers move as one, bending with their arms extended. Suddenly, the movement breaks as gracefully as it began. A dancer moves forward, a rhythm sweeping through them. This is “Navigating Proximity,” a dance project created by Assistant Professor of Dance Kora Radella’s “Advanced Modern Dance Technique” course. “Navigating Proximity” was performed Thursday, Nov. 2, in the Gund Gallery. The dance was inspired by the gallery’s photography exhibition, “Urban Cadence,” which features images of Johannesburg…

Healthy Goals

Student Life From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Christopher Smith, a former public health advisor with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), joined Kenyon on Oct. 16 as director of the Cox Health and Counseling Center. Smith arrived just as the telltale signs of fall began to hit Gambier: the sight of gold-crowned trees, the crunch of leaves beneath your feet on Middle Path and, with the arrival of the “Kenyon Krud,” the sounds of coughs and blown noses. We sat down with Smith to discuss his holistic, community-oriented approach…

Lords Advance

Athletics From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

The Kenyon Lords have earned their fifth-straight spot in the 2017 NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Championship, facing the Transylvania University Pioneers in a first-round game this Saturday. Kenyon (15-2-3) was one of 20 at-large teams that earned a berth into the tournament. Transylvania (17-1-0), which won the Heartland Conference Athletic Conference (HCAC) tournament, was one of 42 teams to collect an automatic bid. The game will take place at Otterbein University’s Memorial Stadium in Westerville…

Celebrating Literature

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Colm Tóibín, an acclaimed author whose novels include “Brooklyn,” “The Blackwater Lightship” and “The Master,” will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Kenyon Review Literary Festival, held Nov. 10-11. Tóibín, who was born in Ireland in 1955, is this year’s recipient of the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, chosen by Kenyon Review editors in conjunction with the Kenyon Review Board of Trustees. His Denham Sutcliffe Memorial Lecture will be held Saturday, Nov. 11, at 8 p.m. in Rosse…

Making a Home

By Tariq Thompson '21

Student Life From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

It may come as a shock to many, but in my short time at Kenyon so far as a first-year, I’ve come to an important realization: Gambier is nothing like my hometown of Memphis. There are no late nights on Beale Street, no impromptu lunches in Midtown. I haven’t smelled barbecue since I arrived here. And — most of all — I’m still struggling to cope with the severe lack of sweet tea. Not to say that the lack of these things makes Kenyon bad — it’s just that missing home can be a bit hard. In my first…

Radiant Autumn

That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Kenyon looks great in every season — but especially in autumn. You’re certain to fall for Kenyon when you see our collection of this season’s most beautiful Instagrams from Gambier. [View the story "Falling for Kenyon 2017" on Storify] [View the story "Falling for Kenyon 2017" on Storify]

Street Scenes

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Lagos, Nigeria, was among the fastest-growing cities in the world from 2000 to 2010, along with Karachi, Pakistan; Shenzhen and Beijing, China; and Bangkok, Thailand. Lagos’ growth, which was born of millions of stories of migration, labor, desperation and hope, is the subject of the Gund Gallery’s fall exhibition, “Urban Cadence: Street Scenes From Lagos and Johannesburg.” “They say, ‘Lagos is growing into the ocean,’” said Uche Okpa-Iroha, one of the photographers featured in the exhibition. …

“Due Honor and Respect”

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Kenyon’s annual Founders’ Day ceremony is an opportunity to “invoke the memory of the famous and the humble who have made a College in this place,” in the words of Professor of Drama Jonathan Tazewell ’84 P’15, who delivered this year’s Founders’ Memorial opening remarks. In addition to remembering those in the College community who died in the previous year and honoring several faculty and community members with awards, the ceremony — held in Rosse Hall on the morning of Oct. 26 — marked the final…

Dimensions of Biodiversity

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Kenyon has been selected to play a critical role in the National Science Foundation’s “Dimensions of Biodiversity” study to better understand and describe the role and scope of life on Earth, with a focus on Sphagnum (peat moss) as an ecosystem engineer. The foundation awarded the College a $389,805 grant to “use peat mosses as a model to better understand the connections between DNA sequence variation, plant traits and ecological function,” according to the award abstract from the NSF. Kenyon…

Family Weekend Reflections

By Ralph Gardner Jr.

That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Editor’s note: Writer and former Wall Street Journal columnist Ralph Gardner Jr. P’11,’16 recently reminisced about Family Weekends spent at Kenyon with his daughters Lucy ’11 and Gracie ’16. His essay, originally broadcast on WAMC public radio, is excerpted below. I shouldn’t be talking to you right now. I should be at parents weekend. That’s where you could have found me on this weekend, or thereabouts, for much of the last decade. We have two daughters, both now beyond college. They attended…

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