What do Amnesty International, a literary magazine named Hika, and a game called Nerf Wars have in common? The answer is Billy Callis, Class of 2006, who happily juggles all of the above, and then some.

Involved in Amnesty since high school, Callis is co-president of the Kenyon chapter. The group works to protect human rights through letter-writing campaigns and campus awareness-raising activities. "My parents raised me to always think about those less fortunate or those who can't stick up for themselves," says Callis, a political science major from Cincinnati, Ohio. At Kenyon, Callis helps organize the group's annual fundraising event, Jamnesty, a night of musical performances held every March.

As for Hika, the College's oldest student-run publication, Callis works with others in judging and editing submissions, which may include fiction, poetry, and essays. He enjoys writing himself and has taken a number of creative-writing courses at Kenyon. "Some of my most memorable seminars have been in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction writing," he says.

And Nerf Wars? Well, classify that under gratuitous fun-it's a game that he invented together with some of the first-year students in Norton Hall, where Callis served as a resident advisor in 2004-05, his second year as an R.A. "I had a cool R.A. my first year," Callis notes, "and I wanted to be able to help freshmen make the transition from home to Kenyon."

Callis's other activities range from WKCO, the campus radio station, to the Kenyon chapter of Hillel, for which he has mediated discussions on such topics as interfaith relationships and Jewish identity. And when he's not volunteering, he can be found jamming with his blues punk band, Marquis de Rad, or just kicking around a soccer ball.