Campus News

Changing Spaces

Students will move into new apartments in downtown Gambier next semester, and the Village Market is on schedule to move to its new location in June, as renovation work in downtown Gambier continues. After that, major work begins on Farr Hall. The Kenyon Bookstore will move into the space vacated by the Village Market and Gambier Deli and will remain there from July to November as crews renovate the space the bookstore has occupied for decades. The downtown renovations are part of a long-term plan…

High Marks

Kokosing Nature Preserve, Kenyon College’s natural burial cemetery, has been officially verified as a conservation burial ground by the Green Burial Council — the highest rating the council offers for natural burial cemeteries. The certification is an official recognition of the preserve’s sustainable practices and efforts to offer people environmentally friendly burial options. “To receive the highest level of certification, following a rigorous application process, affirms that Kokosing Nature…

Kenyon's Quiet Revolution

By Sean Decatur

A casual reader of the Jan. 31, 1947, issue of the Collegian might miss the small sidebar article under “News Briefs,” but the ripples of the impact of the closing sentence can be felt on campus today, more than 70 years later. The short report recaps a visit to campus by “Negro poet” Langston Hughes, who “won the acclaim of an enthusiastic Kenyon audience.” In addition to his formal talk and reading, Mr. Hughes spoke informally in Peirce Lounge, and, as the article concludes, “…one of his most provocative…