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On a Green Mission

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

With three new programs up and running, and many more on the horizon, the Office of Green Initiatives (OGI) compares this semester to an Indiana Jones-esque mission to fight the enemies of “entrenched behaviors.” In response to the College’s 2016 Second Nature Climate Leadership Pledge Carbon Commitment, the director of OGI, Dave Heithaus ’99, and 10 student interns are implementing new programs throughout campus to make progress toward achieving carbon neutrality. Here are three steps being taken…

Digital Storytelling

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Kenyon professors and students can now get dedicated help with various multimedia tactics — from blogs to podcasts to videos — to share their scholarship, supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Ashley Butler is the College’s new digital media instructional technologist. The $400,000 Mellon grant pays for part of her salary, for faculty workshops and for equipment that Kenyon faculty can check out from the Center for Innovative Pedagogy.   Joseph Murphy, director for the center…

Dedication to Downtown

Student Life From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

The first students have moved into new apartments being created by the Village revitalization project — serving as leads on the changes that will bring new retail and programming activity to the center of Gambier. Ez Raider-Roth ’19, from Cincinnati, is co-manager of the new Unity House with James Lituchy ’20, from Encino, California. They said the new house behind Farr Hall is more accessible, has more storage and has vinyl tile floors that are easier to clean than the carpet in the previous location…

Complex Comedy

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

The Kenyon College Dance and Dramatic Club presents “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” the absurdist comedy by Tom Stoppard, in the Bolton Theater on Thursday, Oct. 12, at 8 p.m.; Friday, Oct. 13, at 8:30 p.m; and Saturday, Oct. 14, at 2 and 8 p.m. Equal parts humorous and ponderous, grave and irreverent, the play is a metatheatrical, intellectual vaudeville that hinges on nuance and dichotomy. Expect healthy doses of “tumbling, stage combat, mime, physical comedy and coin tricks” tempered…

Whose Weekend?

By Elaine Lipworth

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

There was no such thing as Family Weekend in England, where I was born, raised and educated. College was for students, not for parents (whose only function was sending food parcels full of Cadbury’s chocolate and McVities biscuits — or some extra cash). Even if a mid-semester get-together had been the norm, I can’t imagine that I would have relished the prospect of my mother, father and brother turning up from Manchester to hang around with me and my “super-cool-intellectual” friends in London. The…

John Green and Growing Pains

By Carolyn Ten Eyck

Student Life From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Beginnings necessitate endings, and so, when I first set foot on the campus of Kenyon College, I said goodbye to a lot of things. I said goodbye to my family, my friends and a lot of my high school interests. It’s not that I was embarrassed about the books I read or the music I listened to in high school — far from it. But coming to Kenyon and hearing people talk expertly about books I’d never heard of made me want to expand, to stop rereading and try something new. At 15, my favorite book was …

Kenyon Mourns Charlie Jacobs

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Charles H. Jacobs, a longtime Kenyon employee and member of the College community, died early Sunday morning, October 8, 2017, following a long illness. He was 75. A native of Gambier, where he was born on March 24, 1942, Charlie attended elementary school in Gambier and high school at St. Vincent de Paul in Mount Vernon. He went on to serve in the U.S. Navy, from which he was honorably discharged in 1960. Charlie joined Kenyon as a member of the grounds crew in 1973 but soon moved into the role…

Exercising the Mind

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

When Tobias Baumann ’19 embarked on his summer break this year, he had two main goals: He wanted to enrich his Kenyon education, and to go on an adventure. The perfect opportunity arose when his advisor, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Joy Brennan, recommended a monthlong program that would place Baumann in a Zen Buddhist monastery in China. A religious studies major from Mount Vernon, Ohio, Baumann has always been fascinated by the search for meaning and the idea that “there’s more to…

A Vital Voice

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz conducted a lively conversation at Kenyon on Monday, Oct. 9, about his work and his views on race and identity. After a brief introduction by Associate Professor of English Ivonne García, Díaz spoke to a packed Rosse Hall about his thoughts on the country’s political climate, the state of higher education, and television shows and literature about zombies, which he described as “fantastic fictions of white racial genocide.” Díaz also took audience questions…

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