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Kenyon Generations

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

“When I was a student, ‘networking’ was a word I didn’t like very much,” Libby Panhorst ’13 told the crowd of students and alumni. “But I’ve found it’s really just talking to people, asking good questions and articulating what it is that you want.” Kenyon students past and present engaged in plenty of good conversation when the Kenyon Regional Association of Cleveland brought 75 people together at the Market Garden Brewery one night in January. Ian Bell ’18, an economics major from Chagrin Falls…

Bending Toward Justice

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

One evening early in February 1968, a group of nearly 40 students walked into the All-Star Triangle Bowl in Orangeburg, South Carolina, ready to play a few frames. Before the students could step onto a lane, they ran into a problem: They were black, and the owner of the bowling alley refused to allow persons of color to bowl. As the students returned to the alley the next two nights to protest, their numbers swelled, and tensions escalated. On the protest’s third night, students lit a bonfire near…

Unexpected Kenyon

by Natalie Kane '18

Student Life From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

During my sophomore year, I worked as an overnight host for prospective students visiting Kenyon, and one of the questions I was asked most frequently was some variation of “What made you choose Kenyon?” For me, the most concise – but probably least helpful – answer is that it was a combination of many factors. As we close in on the application deadline once again, I’ve been thinking back on what I expected when I applied to Kenyon, and the ways those expectations have been exceeded since I’ve arrived…

Defending the Ultimate Other

Society & Politics From Alumni Bulletin - 7 years ago

This is an abridged version of the original story published in the Alumni Bulletin. Read the full article here. Bruce Hardy knows his way around a prehistoric stone scraper as well as a state-of-the-art digital microscope — and both are key tools in his research on humanity’s mysterious, often maligned cousins, the Neanderthals. The Kenyon professor of anthropology is one of perhaps a hundred researchers worldwide who, working with scant evidence from archaeological sites mainly in Europe, try…

Prize-winning Poets

by Frances Saux '18

Arts & Culture From The Collegian - 7 years ago

In her junior year of high school, Michaela Jenkins ’19 was shopping at Target when her mother called to pass along a message from “a college in Kenya.” Apparently someone there wanted to speak with her. Jenkins understood that her mom meant Kenyon, a school then mostly unfamiliar to her; she only knew of the College because she had submitted a poem to the Kenyon Review’s Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, an annual writing contest that welcomes entries from high school sophomores and…

The Numbers Game

Athletics From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

A math major and starting guard on the Lords basketball team, Alexander Powell ’18 compiles advanced statistics both to prepare for a career in sports analytics and to design solutions for his team’s success on the hardwood. Reviewing the previous basketball season, Powell took cues from Head Coach Dan Priest and generated possession-based statistics to demonstrate how much the Lords’ progress hinged on things like rebounding percentages and free-throw rates. Individual offensive ratings soon were…

Making Their Cases

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Some immigrants seeking asylum in Ohio have powerful voices working on their behalf: Kenyon students. A class of 21 students teamed with the nonprofit Immigrant Worker Project last semester to research cases for nearly a dozen immigrants seeking protection in the U.S. from difficult conditions in their home countries. The upper-level political science class, “Immigration, Citizenship and National Identity,” aims to help students learn about the complexities of the immigration system and the people…

Guardian of the Forest

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

If a tree falls in the forest and no one’s around to hear it, how do you stop illegal logging? This is a real problem in the world’s rainforests, where the buzz of chainsaws often is drowned out by the cacophony of nature. Topher White ’04 is helping to solve the problem by converting recycled cellphones into the world’s first audio-based system to detect illegal logging. He founded the non-governmental organization Rainforest Connection in 2013 to deploy his system in protected rainforests in Sumatra…

The Year in Review

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

From hearing an inspirational Commencement address from best-selling author John Green ’00 to celebrating the early success of a budding novelist on the cusp of graduation, Kenyon enjoyed a memorable 2016. Here are this year’s 10 most-read web articles. 10. Snowy Scene, Feb. 16, 2016 This is a collection of photos taken by Kenyon students, faculty and staff to document the beautiful aftermath of an overnight snowfall. 9. Meeting the Class of 2020, Aug. 26, 2016 Nearly 500 members of the Class…

2016 on the Page

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Kenyon alumni have a lot to say — and, happily for readers, many of them say it on the page, with eloquence, imagination and expertise. Here’s a short list of notable books by Kenyon authors that appeared in 2016, compiled by Alumni Bulletin book editor Dan Laskin. FICTION AND POETRY “Sweetbitter,” by Stephanie Danler ’06 (Knopf). In this sensual and emotionally tumultuous coming-of-age novel, Danler’s heroine Tess arrives in New York, lands a job in a fine restaurant and struggles to develop a…

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