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Keeping an Open Mind

By Wilson Captein '18

I was one of the few kids in high school who knew what I wanted to major in well before I even applied for college. I was positive I would be an English major, there was nothing anyone could do to change that, and I was incredibly defiant when people challenged that, telling me, “You might want to keep an open mind.” Overwhelmingly, the biggest piece of advice that kept getting drilled into me senior year was, “Don’t get too set on a major; just have fun and experiment, take classes you’ve never…

Part of the Story

Now approaching its 160th birthday, the Kenyon Collegian knows a bit about growing with the times. The staff will hold a panel discussion titled “How Media Affects History” Saturday, April 4, at 4 p.m. in the Gund Gallery’s Community Foundation Theater. Panel members — including Andrew Welsh-Huggins ’83 P’17, legal affairs reporter for the Associated Press, and David Shipley P’17, senior executive editor for Bloomberg View — will answer questions concerning the historical effects of media coverage…

Speaking Freely

Mark Twain once wrote that Americans enjoy “unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and the prudence never to practice either.” Martha Bayles believes that prudence may have gone out of fashion. The nationally known cultural critic and frequent contributor to the Boston Globe, Weekly Standard and Claremont Review of Books will present “How Not to Defend Free Speech: With Friends Like Hollywood, Charlie Hebdo, and U.S. Higher Education, the First Amendment May Not Need…