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Editor's Note April 3, 2014: A funeral will be held at the Emerson Funeral Home, 1629 East Nettleton Ave., in Jonesboro, Arkansas, on Saturday with visitation at noon and a graveside service at 2 pm. In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions in Shawn's memory be made to the Shawn Presley Scholarship Fund at Kenyon College, Office of Development, 101 Chase Ave., Gambier, Ohio, 43022, or the Capital Area Humane Society, 3015, Scioto Darby Executive Court, Hilliard, Ohio, 43026. Shawn Presley…

Kenyon, United Way Partner to Host Poverty Simulation

Society & Politics From The Collegian - 11 months ago

Imagine a family that struggles to make ends meet on a week-by-week basis. Now imagine that you are at the center of that family. A poverty simulation coming to Kenyon next Wednesday hopes to raise awareness of economic inequality. The simulation stems from Kenyon’s partnership with the United Way of Knox County, the local chapter of an organization that strives for social change through projects on education, financial stability and health. The poverty simulation places participants in the roles…

Planet Power

Student Life From Kenyon News - 11 months ago

The campus-wide Week of Sustainability this year explores the many steps that lead to a healthy environment as the Environmental Campus Organization (ECO) joins forces with other student groups. “This year we’re really focusing on working with other groups because we want to show the variety of ways you can be environmentally aware or be sustainable other than going to ECO meetings or turning off lights and recycling things,” said ECO Co-coordinator Brett Miller ’15 of New York City. “It’s not only…

Very Peculiar

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 11 months ago

Best-selling author Ransom Riggs ’01 returns to Kenyon on Tuesday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m. to discuss his writing, his career and his collection of vintage photographs during “A Very Peculiar Evening with Ransom Riggs.” The free event at Rosse Hall, which is being livestreamed at ransomriggs.kenyon.edu, features the author of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and its sequel, Hollow City, both fixtures on the New York Times young-adult bestseller list. A book signing will follow Riggs’s talk…

Making the Class

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 11 months ago

With a record-shattering 6,627 applications received and 1,631 offers extended, Kenyon’s Class of 2018 is starting to take shape. “Everything about this year was unprecedented,” Jennifer Delahunty, dean of admissions and financial aid, said about this year’s applicant pool. Applications were up 63 percent from last year, driving Kenyon’s acceptance rate down to a highly selective 24.6 percent, an historic low for the College. Previously, the lowest acceptance rate was 29 percent in 2007, “before…

Firing Line

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 11 months ago

A public panel discussion at Kenyon takes aim at “Gun Culture and the Second Amendment” on Tuesday, March 25, at 11:10 a.m. The panel, featuring local firearms enthusiasts, will include a discussion about the history and tradition of guns in rural Knox County followed by comments and questions from the audience in Peirce Hall. The event is part of a series of public forums, called Visits, which are planned by the Kenyon Rural Life Center. Each Visits discussion focuses on an issue important to…

Vetting Venezuela

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 11 months ago

Leopoldo López ’93 is a leading opposition figure against Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, successor to former president Hugo Chávez, who died 11 months ago. This week, López was arrested after three deaths following an anti-government rally in Caracas. Maduro supporters accuse López of inciting unrest, while human rights groups such as Amnesty International say his arrest is an attempt by the government to silence its political opponents. Provost Joe Klesner, who had López in class when he…

Roomful of Teeth

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 11 months ago

The Grammy-winning ensemble Roomful of Teeth brings its vocal adventuring to Kenyon College in a free concert on Thursday, March 27, at 8 p.m., in Rosse Hall. The octet, founded in 2009, describes itself as “mining the expressive potential of the human voice.” Roomful of Teeth won a Grammy for best chamber music/small ensemble performance for the album Roomful of Teeth. Nominations included best engineer for classical album and best contemporary classical composition for “Partita for 8 Voices,…

Thumbs Up: When We Got Our Envelopes

That's So Kenyon From The Thrill - 11 months ago

It’s that time of year. The Kenyon Admissions Twitter account is full of smiling students with their Thumbs Up letters. In the spirit of admission, we asked community members to share the story of when they found out they were admitted. Their stories are funny and heartwarming. I got off the wait list about two weeks before my high school graduation. The guy who called me said the admissions committee had looked over my application again and told me that, upon further inspection, they were so…

Songs of Spring

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 11 months ago

When the Chamber Singers took the stage in Rosse Hall Auditorium on Saturday, they wrapped up their annual spring tour that took the a capella choir from Gambier to Boulder, Colorado. But this year represents more than just the conclusion of a successful tour: It also marks the 30th anniversary of Professor of Music Ben Locke’s career at Kenyon. To recognize “Doc Locke,” as he’s known around campus, Kenyon invited all Chamber Singers alumni to return for a reception and dinner, as well as the spring…