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Amplifying Activism

Student Life From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

When Emma Welsh-Huggins ’17 woke up on the morning of June 12, 2016, she noticed news alerts crowding her phone screen about a mass shooting at an Orlando, Florida, nightclub. The massacre at the gay nightclub, Pulse, left 50 people dead, including the gunman, and 53 wounded. “I remember waking up to seeing that that had happened and feeling just so sick to my stomach,” said Welsh-Huggins, a sociology major from Columbus, Ohio. Frustrated by the lack of congressional response, Welsh-Huggins decided…

Alumni on Parade

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Less than a week after celebrating the Commencement of the Class of 2017, Kenyon welcomed back generations of previous graduates for Reunion Weekend, May 26-28. More than 1,100 people traveled to Gambier from 42 states and six countries, according to the Office of Alumni and Parent Engagement. This year’s event hosted class years ending in two and seven, from 1967 to 2012 (older alumni were able to gather for a Post-50th Reunion in late April). This Reunion also saw the Chasers, Kenyon’s oldest…

'The Poetics of Failure'

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Editor’s note: The following is the prepared text of the address delivered by Associate Provost Ivonne García at Kenyon’s Baccalaureate ceremony on May 19, 2017, celebrating the Class of 2017. Watch a video of Professor García's speech here. Thank you, President Decatur, Provost Klesner, faculty and staff colleagues, and thank you, Class of 2017, for inviting me here today to share a few words before you graduate tomorrow. It is a great honor and a great pleasure to be here. I checked with Kenyon…

'Love the Journey'

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Editor’s note: The following is the prepared text of the address delivered by Shaka Smart ’99 H’17 at Kenyon’s 189th Commencement on May 20, 2017. More coverage of Commencement is available here. Thank you, Sam. Good morning, everyone! This truly is a glorious day. You made it! Did any of you have that moment in time when you didn’t know for sure whether or not you would make it? I sure did. It was my very first week at Kenyon. I was in English 1-2 with Professor Ted Mason. Professor Mason came…

A Bittersweet Moment

By Elizabeth Weinstein

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

I’m not at all sure my son wants to graduate this week. Nathaniel was all done with finals the other day and I texted him: Congratulations! Looking forward to graduation? My phone buzzed after a pause. Hmm, I’ll have to get back to you on that. Not really sure how I feel about it yet. I have mixed feelings as well. Revisiting Kenyon’s campus through an online virtual tour as a warmup to writing this blog post might not have been such a good idea, I realized, wiping a tear from my eye. Commencement…

Learning Through Limitations

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Editor’s note: The following is a transcript of the address that Professor of Music Ted Buehrer ’91 gave to the Class of 2017 at a dinner in February 2017. Two years ago this August, our family got a dog. This came after much pleading from our kids, but especially from our then-12-year-old daughter. Quite frankly, she wore us down over several months with her constant pleading and questions: “Why can’t we get a dog?” “Dad, if you got any dog you wanted what kind of dog would you get?” “Did you know…

Baccalaureate Trailblazer

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

When Associate Provost Ivonne M. García stands before the Class of 2017 on Friday, May 19, to deliver this year’s Baccalaureate address, she’s not going to sugarcoat life. “I’m really thinking about the idea of the obstacles that one faces,” she said. “Something around the notion of the poetics of failure. … What seems to be a failure at a particular moment in your life could be the best thing that ever happened to you.” García, who also is an associate professor in the Department of English and…

Taking the Stage

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Kenyon celebrated 445 members of the Class of 2017 at its 189th Commencement ceremony at the Kenyon Athletic Center Saturday, May 20. University of Texas Head Basketball Coach Shaka Smart ’99 delivered the Commencement address. "Today, more than ever, the world you’re inheriting needs you to choose a path that makes you come alive and follow it unapologetically," Smart said to the graduating seniors. "You won’t regret it." Smart rose to fame by leading the Virginia Commonwealth University Rams…

Titans of Tennis

Athletics From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

After sweeping the 2017 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Championships, the Lords and Ladies tennis teams prolonged their reigns as the conference’s most accomplished programs. Since the start of championship play in 1985, the Lords’ total of 20 NCAC titles leads all conference teams, while the Ladies’ tally of 16 titles ranks first in the women’s count. Even with all that success, the tandem titles this season marked just the sixth time in the programs’ histories that the Lords and Ladies…

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