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Twirls for a Cause

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

Vice President for Student Affairs Meredith Harper Bonham ’92 mastered her rock step, triple step. She learned to make her hand motions dramatic. And she went to five stores to find a satin dress with the right amount of flare when she spins. When professors and administrators learn ballroom dance moves, that means it’s time for Dancing with the Kenyon Stars. The event Dec. 4 in Rosse Hall paired faculty and staff with members of the Ballroom Dance Club for dances including the tango and the rumba…

Documenting Culture

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

An exhibit by Professor of Spanish Clara Román-Odio and two student researchers featuring photos, stories and video interviews about Latinos who live in Knox County will open Dec. 1 in Olin Library.  The project called Latinos in Rural America required hundreds of hours of research and interviews by Román-Odio and two fluent Spanish majors in the Latino/a Studies concentration, Patricia Mota ’16 and Amelia Dunnell ’17. The exhibit featuring colorful, bilingual banners with photos by Mota of area…

Eye on the World

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

A recent graduate and an art history student curated an exhibit showing a slice of thousands of architecture, nature and street life photos taken by late Professor of Religion Denis Baly during his travels starting in the 1960s, including to the Middle East and Europe. The exhibit on display Nov. 30-Dec. 18 in the Gund Gallery’s Meier/Draudt Curatorial Classroom is called Remembering Baly and is described as an attempt “to show the spirit of that indefatigable traveler and scholar who explored the…

Recognizing Heritage

Student Life From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Manny Loley ’16 grew up on the Navajo reservation and hopes to inspire Kenyon to recruit more Native Americans. Emma Schurink ’17 plans to move after graduation to South Dakota where she has worked at a Lakota Sioux reservation YMCA. Hannah Ewing ’16 wants to become a doctor to continue her work in Native American health clinics.  The three students who lead the organization Indigenous Nations at Kenyon shared their experiences with native communities in a talk in November for Native American Heritage…

Window to Art

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

The three students who live in New Apartment A1 on North Campus want people to peek in their window. That’s because there is an art gallery inside the vacant bedroom that previously held one roommate’s shoes. Two apartment residents, Guy Bailey ’17 and Rose Bishop ’17, teamed with friend Eileen Cartter ’16 to start Gallery @ A1 for student art, viewable only through the large, rectangular window. People walking by in early November saw a sculpture that Bailey, a studio art major, made of found items:…

Season High

Athletics From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Competing in the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Division III Tournament for the first time since 1996, the 2015 Lords soccer team fortified its position as national contender and, with just one senior on the roster, continued to cement the groundwork for a promising future. The heartbreaking Nov. 21 loss to Calvin College finalized the Lords’ record at 19-2-1, a mark that tied the program single-season record for wins, originally set by the 1990 team. The loss to Calvin occurred in the quarterfinal…

Heading On

Athletics From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

A shot by Henry Myers ’18 from the top of the box with 20 seconds left in regulation found its mark and gave the Kenyon College Lords soccer team a 3-2 victory over the Tufts University Jumbos, the defending national champions. More importantly, the Nov. 20 win at Mavec Field thrust Kenyon into the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Division III Tournament for the first time since 1996. With about 40 seconds left and the score knotted at 2-2, Jeremiah Barnes ’16 had a throw into the box from the right…

Quarterfinal Quest

Athletics From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

The Kenyon College Lords passed two difficult tests in last weekend's opening rounds of the NCAA Division III men's soccer tournament. The road ahead doesn't get any easier, as Tufts University, the defending national champion, comes to campus to battle the Lords in Friday's third-round contest at Mavec Field. Kenyon and Tufts will vie for a quarterfinal spot in the tournament beginning at 11 a.m. Following that contest, a 1:30 p.m. match between Franklin & Marshall College and Calvin College is…

Sit-in for Solidarity

by Henri Gendreau '16

Student Life From The Collegian - 9 years ago

They sat for an hour. Some looked straight ahead. Some held signs reading “Protect Black Students” and “We Stand with Mizzou.” Roughly a hundred students, faculty and administrators staged a sit-in Wednesday at Peirce Hall, following a sit-in Monday and campuswide discussions over the weekend about racial intolerance and insensitivity at the University of Missouri, Yale University and other schools. “We really wanted the whole campus to join us,” said Tomas Grant ’16, president of the Black Student…

Green for Graduation

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

John Green ’00, who says Kenyon helped shape parts of his young adult best-sellers, will give the 2016 Commencement address. "I am so excited to deliver the Commencement address,” he said Tuesday, Nov. 17, in a statement to the College. “It's such an honor to be invited to speak, given that it took me more than four years to graduate from Kenyon. This was not a future I imagined at my own Commencement, and I look forward to it." Green, who stayed an extra semester to earn lost credits he missed…

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