Kenyon in the News

Director of Public Affairs Shawn Presley was quoted in the Sunday, October 16, New York Times in a story about the popularity of drinking games among college students. The Times reported that a whole new industry has taken off around drinking games, making them more popular, more intense, and more dangerous, according to college administrators, who say the games are just thin cover for binge drinking. Kenyon is mentioned along with Bucknell University as an institution that banned drinking games on campus but later dropped the restriction. "It became apparent that the ban wasn't going to work," Presley was quoted as saying. "And we didn't want to drive the games underground." Kenyon outlawed drinking games briefly in the fall of 2003.

Kenyon's football team was featured in the sports section of the October 12 Columbus Dispatch. The Lords garnered attention by upsetting the defending conference champion College of Wooster on October 8. The story noted that the revitalized team is making strides in the North Coast Athletic Conference. "The big difference is the kids have worked so hard at this," third-year coach Ted Stanley was quoted as saying about the team's improving record.

The October 10 Columbus Dispatch quoted Professor of Drama Tom Turgeon in a story about Josh Radnor '96, the star of the new CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. Written by Dispatch television critic Molly Willow '00, the story mentioned Kenyon's track record of producing graduates who excel in the field of acting, citing such stars as Paul Newman '49. Turgeon, who recalled directing Radnor in the role of Romeo, was quoted as saying, "I never get the sense that someone's going to make it or not, but I often get the sense of people I hope will make it because I admire what they can do, and he certainly fell in that crowd."

The Kenyon Review was mentioned in the September 26 New York Sun. The Sun reported that the Review held a kickoff party for its upcoming November 10 gala that will honor sportswriter and fiction editor Roger Angell and novelist/philosopher Umberto Eco with the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. (See the story on page 1.)