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Kenyon Mourns Professor Natalia Olshanskaya

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Natalia “Natasha” Olshanskaya P’04, an 18-year member of Kenyon’s modern languages and literatures faculty, died Wednesday, Jan. 20. The much-loved professor of Russian, who had been suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, was 66. “Natalia Olshanskaya’s dedication to her students, and to the craft of her teaching, embodied the values of Kenyon,” President Sean M. Decatur said. “She contributed to the College community in countless ways, and we will miss her.” “Natasha was renowned for the…

Turning the Tide

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

When researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education asked 10,000 middle and high school students if their parents cared more about their personal achievement or whether they were kind, 80 percent said their parents most valued achievement. The school aims to change that message at the college admissions level through “Turning the Tide,” a national initiative to reshape the admissions process in a way that values students’ ethical and meaningful intellectual engagement and puts a new perspective…

Class Acts

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Two students run a new after-school class for local Latino youths to help them prepare for college, teaching the application process and how to use their bilingualism to learn vocabulary words for the SAT and ACT. Mary Sturgis ’16 and Alexa McElroy ’16 said materials and instruction in Spanish are not widely available on financial aid forms, college essays and the timeline for submitting applications. “The fact that there are not more classes like this is very upsetting,” said Sturgis, a double…

Having Mercy

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Josh Radnor ’96 returns to the spotlight with the PBS show Mercy Street, which debuts Sunday, Jan. 17. Based on real events, the six-hour dramatic series focuses on the chaotic world of a hospital during the Civil War.  The actor plays Jedediah Foster, a civilian contract surgeon who grew up in a privileged slave-owning household in Maryland. “He’s a Union loyalist working at a Union hospital in a Confederate-occupied town,” Radnor said of his character. “But he’s not an abolitionist.” Radnor is…

Turn to Face the Strange

By Sean Decatur

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

I remember the first time I heard a David Bowie song (before Let’s Dance and the perpetual airplay of the videos from that album on MTV made it impossible to not know his music). My music experience in the 1970s was more James Brown than David Bowie. When I was in middle school, my well-documented obsession with the Beatles had not yet begun; in fact, Bowie was my gateway to the Beatles. One day, some high school students arrived at the middle school to perform at a school assembly, and a senior…

Empowered to Act

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Photo: Jules Desroches '18 asks a question during a panel discussion. On Monday, Jan. 18, Kenyon highlighted the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with its annual Days of Dialogue celebration. A schedule of events in the afternoon focused on the theme of “Give Us the Ballot.” “The central efforts in the early civil rights movement were about voting, such as removal of the poll tax,” said Yutan Getzler, associate professor of chemistry, who led this year’s programming. With recent Supreme Court decisions…

Course of Exploration

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

When her father, a colonel in the Indiana National Guard, was deployed to Iraq and Kuwait in 2008, Haley Townsend ’16 wanted to learn more about a region of the world she said she knew “absolutely nothing about.” “That was a formative time for me,” said Townsend, who was a high school student in Greenwood, Indiana, during her father’s deployment. “I didn’t quite understand what was going on or why he was there or what was happening.” At Kenyon, Townsend rekindled her interest in the Middle East…

Inside the Review

Student Life From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

By Elana Spivack ’17 Much of the unsolicited work submitted to the Kenyon Review, one of the country’s most respected literary magazines, goes through a first line of student readers. Being a Kenyon Review Student Associate is a great responsibility. I’ve done the job since my first year at Kenyon, and here’s how selective the publication is: one piece that I recommended has been published out of the many dozens I’ve read. While Review editors read submissions from well-known writers, I join other…

Striking a Pose

Athletics From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from an article by Sarah Lloyd ’17 published in Swimming World Magazine June 25, 2015. Amy Cuddy recently released a book called Presence in which she documents her research into how body language affects thoughts and actions. The book references how the Kenyon swimming and diving team used the research to its advantage. When the Kenyon College Lords and Ladies swimming and diving team walked into the large theater in the athletic center for the first official…

A Radical Label?

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Editor’s note: The following essay by Professor of Religious Studies Ennis Edmonds first appeared in the Huffington Post. It is a response to an essay by Professor of Religious Studies Vernon Schubel that was published in the Huffington Post on Dec. 11, 2015. Recently, one of my colleagues, Professor Vernon Schubel, posted a blog titled "What's in a Name: What's Wrong With "Radical Islamic Extremism." I share his disagreement with the politics of insisting that the president or any other person…

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