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Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Editor’s note: Daniel Garcia-Archundia ’17, a political science and Spanish double major, studied in Santiago, Chile, in fall 2015 as a Benjamin A. Gilman scholar and wrote about his experience in his hometown newspaper, the Woodburn (Oregon) Independent, republished below. For my college semester abroad, I lived in Santiago, Chile, for three and a half months. While there, I studied education and social justice. Unlike a great majority of study abroad programs, I did not live at a university…

More Than a Phling

Student Life From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Philander’s Phling, a dance borne out of student ingenuity that lived for more than two decades, is coming back to campus after a hiatus of several years. The event at 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, in Thomas Hall, also known as the “new side” of the Peirce Hall servery, is paid for by Kenyon’s Phebruary Phunds, designed to support non-alcoholic student social activities that fight the winter blues. Trevor Kirby ’16, senior class president from Ventura, California, and Sam Clougher ’17, junior class…

On the Main Stage

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

The winter main-stage production is theater favorite Our Town, the sentimental fable that cautions viewers to take stock of their lives.   The Dance, Drama and Film Department will present Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama at 8 p.m. on three nights at Bolton Theater: Thursday, Feb. 4, through Saturday, Feb. 6.   Famously moving, and spanning the lives and deaths of residents of a small American town, Our Town invites the audience to participate in a meditation on the human condition…

Taking Lessons from Flint

By Sean Decatur

That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Safe drinking water is something that most of us take for granted in the United States. This is why the still unfolding narrative of Flint’s poisoned water provokes powerful emotions: sadness (so many needlessly harmed), anger (the failure of systems and individuals to act in the best interest of the public) and frustration (the absence of an easy solution to correct this human-generated problem). I’ve read about the crisis closely, from the perspective of a chemist, as an educator and as a citizen…

A Negotiator’s Insight

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Many students in the U.S. foreign policy class “America and the World” are interested in careers in the field, and they’ll learn from a master of diplomacy during a visit by former Ambassador James Pardew, who helped negotiate the end of wars in the former Yugoslavia. Pardew will give a talk at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2, in the Community Foundation Theater in the Gund Gallery about how his insights apply to 21st century foreign relations, including the conflict in Syria. He also will talk with students…

Kenyon Mourns Toby Lord

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Florence “Toby” Sells Lord, longtime administrative assistant to Kenyon’s Department of Art and Art History, died Sunday, Jan. 24, at her home in Gambier. She was 96. Born in Pennsylvania on April 14, 1919, Florence Pauline Sells grew up there and in Duluth, Minnesota. She was a 1941 graduate of Allegheny College. Toby joined the Kenyon workforce in September 1969 as a secretary in the Office of Admissions. Three years later, she became secretary to the dean of student development for two years…

Work Focused

Student Life From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

India Amos ’17 shadowed the jobs of not one, but two alumni during the winter break. She spent a week at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance in Washington, D.C., with James Fleming ’91 and Anna Bammerlin ’14, who shadowed Fleming last year. USAID is the lead federal agency to provide response to foreign disasters. Fleming guides disaster relief and disaster relief reduction in all areas of the world except sub-Saharan Africa. Bammerlin, a program…

‘A Building for Everyone’

Athletics From Alumni Bulletin - 8 years ago

Editor’s note: Ten years ago, the Kenyon Athletic Center opened its doors to the Kenyon College community. To commemorate this anniversary, we are republishing this article from the spring/summer 2006 issue of the Alumni Bulletin. They gazed. They grinned. Fingers pointed, superlatives flowed. "Fantastic." "Fabulous." "Spectacular." When the new Kenyon Athletic Center (KAC) opened its doors on Jan. 25, the campus community collectively gaped in wonder — at the indoor track and the array of new…

Kenyon Mourns Dan Younger

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Daniel P. Younger, 62, a former member of the Kenyon administration who ran the now-closed Olin Art Gallery and taught art history, died Monday, Jan. 18, at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He had been treated for pancreatic cancer for several months. “Dan was one of the finest and dearest people I have ever encountered in my life,” said Simone Dubrovic, associate professor of Italian. “His gentleness, generosity and sweetness were beyond what words can express, and they will accompany…

Gambier Grill Bows Out

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

With a long-term vision to enhance student residential life and promote the small-scale charm of the village of Gambier, Kenyon has decided to not renew a lease for the Gambier Grill. The Grill, at 100 E. Brooklyn St., will close no later than June 30. Mindful of the need for local social and recreational alternatives, the College is exploring opportunities to at least temporarily operate the Peirce Pub as a late-night bar and restaurant with beer and wine sales. A new bar and restaurant eventually…

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