Campus News

Black Box Moves North

This summer the former bank building on Chase Avenue that housed the Black Box Theater will come down, and the theater’s new home will go up next to the Craft Center on the north part of campus. The new theater building will be 2,000 square feet and is expected to open in September 2016 with universal access, which was lacking in the old bank building that dates to 1905. “A plethora of student-run theater organizations, combined with a high number of drama majors, student interest and initiative…

Earning Tenure

Three members of the Kenyon faculty were awarded tenure, or appointment without limit, by action of the Kenyon College Board of Trustees during its meeting in Gambier on April 29. These faculty members are promoted to associate professor, effective July 1: Daniel E. Hartnett, assistant professor of Spanish B.A. Wabash College, M.A. University of Virginia, Ph.D. University of Virginia Daniel Hartnett joined the College in 2009. His doctorate dissertation focused on the political and social uses…

Work to Do

By Sean Decatur

How can this happen in the Kenyon community?  And when will it stop?  Those are the questions I receive often — with more intensity this week, but far too many times over the course of the past three years. I hear these questions from survivors of sexual assault and their families and friends, who endure pain. And I have heard from the accused and their families and friends, many who believe that no system of campus adjudication is fair. When a complaint involving allegations of sexual misconduct…