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EVEY WEISBLAT NEWS EDITOR Helen Cunningham ’21, also a Helpline worker, said that while she’s happy for the opportunity to work Starting Jan. 1, student employees on campus, it often feels like there’s can expect a 3 percent raise, which a disconnect between what students translates to about 25 to 32 cents per get paid and the amount of work hour depending on pay grade. they put in. Each year, the College updates Helpline workers, for instance, go its student wages in accordance through a whole semester of training with yearly changes in the Ohio’s before they take on the full responsi- minimum wage. This policy fol- bilities of the job. “We’re pretty highly lows a Constitutional Amendment trained to have this job [at Helpline],” (II-34a) passed by Ohio voters in Cunningham said. “The campus November 2006, which updated the would fall apart without us.” minimum wage to match the yearly The College divides its student rate of inflation. employees into three levels, depend- “This coming January, the rate ing on the extent and difficulty of the increase happens to be a 3 percent work done. Level 1 positions, like of- increase over what we’re currently fice assistants, make the equivalent paying,” Student Employee Coordi- of the Ohio minimum wage, cur- DEVON MUSGRAVE-JOHNSON nator Heidi Norris said. “So it wasn’t rently $8.30. Level 2 positions, such like there was any discussion or mo- as Helpline workers and teaching as- tions were determined jointly by the put,” she said. “If there is a panel again, petitive with non-campus employ- tivation behind the increase; we were sistants for intro labs, make slightly Student Employment Task Force students should be on it, especially ment jobs,” she said. “It’s just because simply continuing with the plan that more at $9.47. Finally, Level 3 posi- (now disbanded) and the corre- students who are on work-study.” people don’t have other options that was put in place years ago.” tions, namely Community Advisors, sponding departments.” According to Vice President they work here at all.” Students have expressed frustra- make the most at $10.98. However, Benji Adekunle-Raji ’17, for Finance Todd Burson, Kenyon While Cunningham admitted tion over the student payment system, Ball said he thinks the three-tier who was on the Task Force, said that spends effectively one percent of its that students have fewer qualifications which they say indicates a dissonance system represents “a gross oversim- the working group did not “decide operating budget on student wages, than the professional staff, she argued between the values the College es- plification” of the range of work done student wages.” Instead, he said that which translates to around $1.5 mil- that their compensation should bet- pouses and the reality of day-to-day by student employees. He said it’s “ri- the “ad hoc committee” was responsi- lion . “I do not see this criteria chang- ter correspond with the work they do. life on the job. diculous” that Kenyon has decided to ble for analyzing the student employ- ing soon,” Burson said. “Based on the “I’m not saying we should get paid the “I would bet that if you asked each pay its students less than $10 an hour, ment structure’s equity, and making information at hand, it is my under- same amount, but we should get paid member of the administration indi- considering how much of the Col- recommendations for improvement. standing that senior staff believes that something that’s reflective of the work vidually what they think the mini- lege’s work-force they make up. “Just The group, he said, did not have any the current structure is fair.” we actually do,” she said. mum wage for the nation should be because the minimum wage is low real power. Cunningham also commented on Ball summarized his frustration that they would say $15 an hour,” doesn’t mean that our college should Cunningham also criticized the the lack of diversity in job opportuni- at the situation: “I think it’s stupid said Graham Ball ’21, who works for prescribe to that standard,” Ball said. lack of say students have in determin- ties for student workers. that we get paid so little,” he said, “so Helpline, “and yet I’m being paid less According to the Kenyon web- ing how much they get paid. “I think “They’re not paying us enough for I’m not gonna be thanking the col- than $10 [an hour].” site, “pay grades for student posi- that the wage should have student in- the campus employment to be com- lege for my 3 percent raise.” New policies and initiatives Northwestern professor to give characterize the fall semester MLK Day of Dialogue speech TOMMY JOHNSON maining $35 million earmarked for the annual DEVON MUSGRAVE-JOHNSON NEWS EDITOR operating budget via the Kenyon Fund and the EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Kenyon Parents Fund. Over the course of the semester, the Colle- In 2019, the annual Martin Luther King gian has covered 27 new initiatives launched, Responding to Jr. Day of Dialogue will feature a keynote policies implemented and statements released Government Changes speech from Leslie M. Harris, professor of by student government, faculty councils and The Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion history at Northwestern University. administrative offices. (ODEI), the Center for Global Engagement The committee responsible for organiz- According to President Sean Decatur and (CGE) and the Office of Civil Rights have all ing this year’s Day of Dialogue was com- Vice President for Student Affairs Meredith worked with the Office of Communications prised of Associate Dean of Students/Direc- Harper Bonham ’92, there’s no single reason to respond to the Trump administration. In tor of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Chris for the uptick in activity, though Bonham be- September, ODEI and CGE reached out via Kennerly, Assistant Director of Academic lieves Campus Senate finalizing its constitution email to the student body, encouraging trans and Ceremonial Events Courtney De- played a role. Both Bonham and Decatur also students to consider applying for a passport in Cosky, and Associate Provost for Diversity, referenced the College’s response to external the wake of the U.S. State Department using Equity and Inclusion Ted Mason. Accord- events and the role of new hires. less inclusive language in a recent update to the ing to Mason, the group also received help passport webpage. from President Sean Decatur and members Our Path Forward In October, ODEI released a statement ar- of the President’s Office. Professor Leslie M. Harris. | COURTESY On Oct. 13, the College launched the pub- ticulating its availability to students in response Harris focuses her teachings on pre- OF NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY lic phase of its largest capital campaign to date, to the Trump administration’s plans to poten- Civil War African American history, but with hopes to raise $300 million by 2021. Thus tially change the federal government’s defini- she has taught classes on everything from globe,” Mason wrote in an email to the far, the campaign has raised $226 million. The tion of gender. In December, in reaction to a race, gender and sexuality in U.S. histo- Collegian. “The topic of slavery is so often goal of the campaign is to build Kenyon’s en- draft of the U.S. Department of Education’s ry to the impact of Hurricane Katrina on ignored. And when not ignored, it is, more dowment, which could produce 5 percent re- proposed new Title IX regulations, the Office of New Orleans. often than not, certainly misunderstood. turns annually. The campaign aims to raise Civil Rights issued a news bulletin articulating “Perhaps the best thing about Prof. Har- Prof. Harris’s scholarship does a fascinat- $125 million for scholarships and financial aid, that the office will continue to operate as is until ris’s scholarship is that it broadens and ing job of documenting slavery’s ‘reach.’” $60 million toward academics and $80 million changes are finalized. deepens our understanding of a part of U. to construction and infrastructure with the re- page 2 S. history and certainly the history of the page 3 2 Thursday, Dec. 13 | kenyoncollegian.com Redefined Campus Senate AVI expands on planned ban creates, revises College rules on dish removal next semester

change is often followed by policy change. RONAN ELLIOTT tainers, as well as plastic utensils, that students Continued from Page 1 “I do think that some new hires have been CIRCULATION MANAGER can use when they don’t have time to sit down connected with restructuring — for exam- for a meal. In addition, AVI hopes to experi- For Bonham, this trend of College depart- ple, the retirements in Health and Counsel- Hundreds of cups and plates disappear ment with a grab-and-go lunch bar in Peirce ments communicating stances to the student ing led to restructuring as well as new hiring from the dining hall each semester, and food- Pub. As currently envisioned, the lunch bar will body is attributed both to external factors and — that is accompanied by a review of poli- service provider AVI spends around $18,000 be open from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and will offer a administrative hires. She cited the creation of cies and procedures,” Decatur wrote in an each year replacing them. This, according to small selection of sandwiches on a first-come, her position in 2015, the College’s hiring of Ja- email to the Collegian. student, faculty and staff groups, must change. first-serve basis. net Marsden as vice president for communica- On Dec. 3, a news bulletin sent on behalf of “This is not for the students to come in, grab tions in April 2017 and Samantha Hughes’ work New Hires Student Council, the Faculty Executive Com- a couple sandwiches, and go eat upstairs,” Wis- as Civil Rights/Title IX Coordinator as factors At the beginning of the academic year, Tim- mittee, Campus Senate, Senior Staff and Staff bey said. “This is for students who are in a hur- leading to increased communication. othy Bussey assumed the role of ODEI’s assis- Council announced that, beginning next se- ry, who have told us: ‘I don’t have time to eat. tant director. He has rearticulated the office’s mester, students will no longer be permitted to That’s why I take a dish.’” New Initiatives commitment to LGBTQ+ students through remove dishes from Peirce Dining Hall. Dish While the costs associated with dish replace- College departments also launched new ini- updates to the office’s web page and a push to collection bins will be removed from public ment have risen steadily over the past ten years, tiatives this year. The first of these is “Kenyon make MyBanner, Kenyon’s online student por- places, and students found to have Peirce dishes in recent months the number of missing cups Listens,” a series of facilitated conversations tal, more inclusive by giving students the option in their residences may be reported to the Of- has begun to decline. Wisbey believes that a spearheaded by Carrie Knell, the College’s om- to self-select pronouns. fice of Student Rights and Responsibilities. cultural shift is already taking place at Kenyon, budsperson. According to Associate Provost “There is a significant cost associated with and that students are becoming more aware of for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Ted Mason, Making Revisions the practice of removing dishes from Peirce,” the costs of their actions. He believes that now is a goal of this initiative is to build the College’s Campus governance groups such as Stu- the news bulletin said. Beyond the financial the perfect time to enact a policy change. capacity to handle tension by increasing oppor- dent Council, the Faculty Affairs Commit- strain it puts on AVI, the piles of dirty dishes “I think these last 10 years we’ve had tunities for conversation. tee and Campus Senate, as well as members that collect around campus pose health and blinders on,” Wisbey said. “And now, with the The Office of Admissions introduced its of the College’s Student Affairs Division, have sanitation problems. Dish collection bins in help of ECO and some other student groups Catalyst initiative in September, which com- enacted or discussed changes to long-existing the libraries and residence halls have attracted on campus, we’ve kind of made some noise: bines summer academic programs like Kenyon policies and procedures. rodents and insects, and pose a danger for stu- ‘Listen, this is not okay. We’ve got to make Educational Enrichment Program (KEEP); K- First, in September, the faculty revised their dents with airborne food allergies. this change.’” STEM, the science, technology, engineering and handbook to explicitly recognize diversity ini- However, the school’s primary concern has mathematics summer program; and the Ken- tiatives in regards to staff promotion and tenure been the price of dish replacement. “The aver- yon Academic Partnership (KAP) and Camp 4. evaluation. In October, Campus Senate final- age cost of the dishes are between $7 and $8 The “Eat Well, Sleep Well, Be Well” cam- ized its constitution after a two-year process, apiece,” Chris Wisbey, resident director of AVI, paign, created by the Cox Health and Coun- emphasizing its role as a forum for students, fac- said. “Each red cup is $1.10. Silverware ranges seling center, has included panel discus- ulty and staff. This constitution will go into -ef from 30 cents to 55 cents. You take out a plate, sions and speakers and hopes to promote a fect on Jan. 1, 2019. That same month, Senate ap- a fork, and a cup — that’s like $9 walking out.” more health-conscious culture among the proved a rewrite of the College’s Matriculation Wisbey is worried that money spent on replac- student body. Oath to better articulate Kenyon’s values. ing dishes will be unavailable for other uses, In November, Campus Senate began to cir- such as quality-of-life improvements to the Health and Counseling culate its draft of a new protest policy, which servery as a whole. “I’ve got all these cool ideas Alongside the “Eat Well, Sleep Well, Be would be its first update since the Vietnam War. I want to do for the spring semester,” Wisbey Well” initiative, the Cox Health and Counseling At the same time, members of the faculty and said. “One is looking at doing Nitro coffee on Center has been part of several changes result- staff created a formal College policy that clari- a tap ... maybe bringing music into the dining ing from the transition of the Peer Counselors fied the rules and procedures for political cam- hall. But I can’t do that if I can only spend mon- (PCs), the former Sexual Misconduct Advisors paigns and candidates that come to campus. ey on dishes.” (SMAs) and Beer and Sex advisors into depart- Also in November, the Collegian reported on a While a ban on the removal of Peirce dish- mental organizations. committee of six students and staff putting to- es could solve many problems, it also raises Health and Counseling and the Office of gether a new student handbook that they hope logistical issues. Even when other students Residential Life decided in September that CAs will be clearer and easier to read; the committee take their food to go, finding seats in the din- would be required to sit in on the Beer and Sex aims to put it into effect on Jan. 1, 2019. ing hall can be difficult. In an effort to enlarge meetings that occured in first-year residence Bonham said that Campus Senate’s final- the eating space, the school is making Peirce halls. The Beer and Sex advisors are currently izing of its constitution was consequential for Lounge into a dining area and imposing re- a departmental organization under the super- many changes this semester, as rewriting that strictions on groups seeking to reserve rooms vision of Health and Counseling, though their document brought attention to the Student in ADR during dining hours. leadership told the Collegian in September that Handbook’s limitations. In order to accommodate students with they will reevaluate this relationship in January. “I think it’s just been an evolutionary busy schedules, AVI is also considering a num- In October, 16 of the 17 former SMAs de- process over the last few years because once ber of “grab-and-go” options for future meals. A Peirce bowl taken from the servery cided to break from Health and Counseling to you start it’s like peeling an onion,” Bon- The servery plans to offer small take-out con- and left in the snow | BETÜL AYDIN create a new student group called the Sexual ham said. “Once you start working on one Respect Peer Alliance (SRPA), primarily in re- area and realizing that there are fairly sig- sponse to the loss of confidentiality and the nificant intersections with another area, CORRECTIONS discontinuation of their 24/7 hotline, changes then it opens up other opportunities for en- In the Dec. 6 issue of the Collegian, an article titled “Stagefemmes presents experimental that came after Director of the Cox Health and hancement and clarification.” play on life at Kenyon” mistakenly attributed the word “Kankedort” to Chaucer’s Canterbury Counseling Center Chris Smith’s hiring in Oc- Tales. The word actually appears inTroilus and Criseyde. tober 2017. Decatur said that administrative Matt Mandel ’19 contributed reporting. TheCollegian regrets this error.

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CORTNEY JOHNSON tory and shows that “the legacy of slav- The students are currently compil- spring, but this trip was the first led en- STAFF WRITER ery and institutionalized racism is such ing a scrapbook to document and re- tirely by students. a persistent part of the American econ- flect on the experience. The finished The students held a Q&A session On the first weekend of December, nine omy and polical system.” book will be housed in the Kenyon on Wednesday night. They discussed senior American studies majors visited the “I think there’s a lot to be said — and Archives. the museum and memorial’s impact on Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Museum we talked a lot about this — about being “It will be in the archives hopeful- them personally and in relation to their and National Memorial for Peace and Jus- in the place where things happened and ly for a long time, so if people want studies. They hope that a fall trip will tice in Montgomery, Alabama. … being forced to confront intense visual to come back and look at it and see become a tradition in the Department The Legacy Museum depicts Ameri- representations of such a major aspect of how we made this happen and what of American Studies. can racism from slavery to the present- American history,” Bresica-Weiler said. it meant to us,” Brescia-Weiler said. day mass incarceration of people of The National Memorial for Peace and Jus- Assistant Professor of American Stud- Cameron Messinides ’19, co-editor- color. American studies major Maria tice uses sculpture and writing to honor the vic- ies and History Francis Gourrier ’08 in-chief of the Collegian, is an Ameri- Brescia-Weiler ’19 said the mission of tims of racial violence.The site focuses on lynch- and his “Race, Ed. & Student Rebellion” can studies major and went on the trip the museum extends beyond just his- ings and where they have occurred nationwide. (AMST 391) class visited the museum last to Montgomery.

The Equal Justice Initiative’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice, one of the two sites American studies students visited on their recent trip | CAMERON MESSINIDES MLK day speaker to In reading sponsored by BSU, poet talk about community Danez Smith discusses their work GRANT MINER a reading sponsored by the sert] Boy” — won the 2014 Continued from Page 1 “We were particularly interested MANAGING EDITOR Black Student Union. A na- Lambda Literary Award for in following out some of the threads tive of Saint Paul, Minnesota, Gay Poetry. On Jan. 21, Harris will deliver from last spring’s community conver- On Tuesday, Dec. 12, poet Smith is the author of several Smith’s poetry often deals an address titled “‘Community’ Is sations,” Mason wrote. “Of the names Danez Smith performed for poetry collections and chap- with the intersections of a Verb.” Her research, much like we considered, Prof. Leslie Harris a packed Peirce Pub during books, one of which — “[in- queer themes, social justice Kenyon’s annual Day of Dialogue, seemed the most appropriate. Some of and matters of race and iden- focuses on the overlapping of com- us were quite familiar with her work tity in America. munities. For example, Harris’ first and were excited that she was able to “Let’s make a movie called book, In the Shadow of Slavery: Af- accept our invitation.” Dinosaurs in the Hood. Juras- rican Americans in New York City, Harris will deliver the address sic Park meets Friday meets 1626-1863, looks at the “impact of in Rosse Hall at 3 p.m., and the The Pursuit of Happyness,” northern and day’s sched- Smith said in the poem “Di- southern slav- ule will be nosaurs in the Hood,” per- ery on the defi- We were adjusted formed on Tuesday. “There nitions of class, particularly in order to should be a scene where a lit- gender, citizen- interested in following allow stu- tle black boy is playing with a ship and politi- out some of the threads dents and toy dinosaur on the bus, then cal activism pro- from last spring’s com- faculty looks out the window & sees mulgated by New members the T. Rex, because there has York’s blacks and munity“ conversations. to attend. to be a T. Rex.” whites,” accord- Classes dur- According to those at- ing to the North- Associate Provost of Diver- ing the day tending, Smith gave a very western Univer- sity, Equity and Inclusion will be held involved, animated perfor- sity website. Ted Mason earlier than mance, even singing one of This year’s their sched- their poems. Afterward, they day of dialogue uled times. held a Q&A, where many also follows a series of “Kenyon Information on other members of the audience Listens” events in which were scheduled activities and dis- asked about Smith’s work and spearheaded by Carrie Knell, the cussions during the day is still creative process. College’s ombudsperson, with the forthcoming, but Mason ex- “They had very emotional goal of bringing the community pects a Q&A and a follow up deliveries, but in a very genuine together to start conversations. discussion in Peirce. Danez Smith in Peirce Pub on Tuesday, Dec. 12 | ERYN POWELL way,” Claire Oleson ’19 said. 4 Thursday, Dec. 13 | kenyoncollegian.com ODEI, CDO team up to workshop with LGBTQ+ students The event last Thursday provided strategies for coming out and navigating the workplace.

BETÜL AYDIN ODEI and the CDO in terms of having some On a similar note, Bussey highlighted the “Given the student interest and engage- NEWS EDITOR LGBTQ+ career-related workshops and pre- situational nature of coming out. “We really ment, we would love to do maybe a work- sentations,” Bussey said. emphasize the sort of individuality of peoples’ shop each semester and part of this was, we Last Thursday, in a collaboration be- The workshop began with a presenta- experiences and also making sure that people wanted to see kind of what the pulse was and tween the Office of Diversity, Equity and tion on statistics and data about LGBTQ+ are aware of certain sorts of practicalities such if this is something of interest, and I think it Inclusion (ODEI) and the Career Develop- people in the workplace, what types of is- as state non-discrimination protections.” is,” Schott said. “We sort of opened the floor ment Office (CDO), students had a chance sues queer and trans employees face and Bussey and Schott started planning this for ideas too. If students do have ideas or to learn about strategies and resources to how those issues impact their careers. Ac- event in the beginning of the semester, and topics that they want covered specific ques- navigate the workplace as a person who cording to national data, about half of LG- both noted that they plan on holding similar tions that they have, we would love to hear identifies as LGBTQ+. BTQ+ people in the workforce are not out. events next semester. that feedback so we can customize.” The workshop, titled “How to Come Each segment of the presentation was fol- Out as LGBTQ+ at lowed by a discussion dur- Work,” was facili- ing which the students who tated by Lee Schott, We wanted it attended the event could ex- associate director to be more of a press their own experiences, of CDO, and Tim- conversation than a pre- concerns or strategies. othy Bussey, as- scriptive presentation. “We wanted it to be more sistant director of of a conversation than a pre- ODEI. The event scriptive presentation, be- took place during Associate“ Director of Career cause career development Common Hour in Development Lee Schott in general is very dependent Chadeayne Dining on each individual circum- Room. This was one of the first times the stance, so we can’t really say ‘Here’s the right two offices collaborated on a project about way and here is the wrong way to do it.’ It LGBTQ+ issues, according to Schott. was just an opportunity to get together and “I knew that this was something that talk a little bit,” Schott said. “It wasn’t a huge I wanted: To make sure that we did have a group of students but they were engaged and clear and distinct collaboration between the they did offer input and ask questions.” Lee Schott and Timothy Bussey work with students in Chadeayne. | ERYN POWELL As Gaskin construction wraps up, foundation of library laid Gambier Deli prepares to open, construction on the new library to start with tower crane.

BETÜL AYDIN the start of January, according to campus, two new English buildings in those spaces, hoping to get card lizing into the site and they will NEWS EDITOR Construction Manager Seth Mil- have opened up earlier this semes- access on both those buildings be starting to pour concrete and lam. After the completion of the new ter: The English Cottage, the wood- here in January at the latest, so do foundations out there,” Mil- As the fall semester comes to a library in 2020, these spaces will be en house near that way people lam said. “Then during the first close, construction on Gaskin Av- rented out for commercial use. Lentz House, can come and part of January, that’s the next enue nears completion. The construction for the is composed I know [the Deli go freely,” Mil- big change everybody will see The construction project in- Deli was completed on Nov. 1 of faculty of- owners] are lam said. when the first tower crane shows cludes new student apartments, and the operators are now pre- fices, whileexcited about getting Olin and up and starts being erected out study spaces with seats for 100, a paring the shop. Keithley open again. Chalmers Me- there. Then the second tower renovated Gambier Deli, a space “The space is shaping up very House, the morial Library crane will show up mid- to late for Kenyon’s WKCO radio sta- nicely,” Millam said. “I know they brick build- was completely February on that project.” tion, three new offices for the -Of are excited about getting open again. ing next Construction“ Manager Seth demolished as Though an official end to -con fice of Student Engagement and a It has almost been a year since they to Bailey Millam of Oct. 25. The struction on campus may still be new restaurant: Chilitos Fresh Mex closed; there is definitely at least one House, has next step in the a ways away, those missing the and Margaritas by Fiesta Mexicana class that has never ate at the Deli two seminar rooms and several fac- construction process will be erect- Gambier Deli’s “Down and Out owner José Avalos. before, so there will be some new ulty offices. ing a tower crane. “The concrete in Gambier” bagel with lox will be The College will begin to move experiences going on there.” “We are still kind of working company will be here the day af- able to get their fix after returning furniture into the study spaces by Meanwhile, on the west side of through some of the final touches ter Christmas. They will be mobi- from winter break.

The contruction of the Gambier Deli was completed on Nov. 1 and the owners are now putting finishing touches on the space, preparing for its opening.| CHUZHU ZHONG Thursday, Dec. 13 FEATURES kenyoncollegian.com 5 Club sports offer alternatives to the Division III competition

SOPHIE KRICHEVSKY tight-knit supportive group. attention. Each semester, the ath- STAFF WRITER “I think that [support] really letes participate in tournaments and CAMERON AUSTIN shaped my freshman year … every- matches against club teams at other OPINIONS EDITOR one was always nice, and whenever Ohio colleges: Denison University, From squash to soccer, from I missed a throw, I’d apologize, and Case Western Reserve University cheerleading to frisbee, athletes of everyone was like ‘Never apologize, and Oberlin, to name a few. Team all levels can find a home in Kenyon you’re fine.’ I just felt like I could members enjoy spending time with among 11 different club sports. learn,” said Izzy Kotlowitz ’20, who one another both on and off the field Despite their popularity, club has played for Ransom since her (or KAC court, if you will). “There’s sports often seem to fall into a gray first year. a strong sense of camaraderie,” cap- area at Kenyon: Who is considered In part, this supportive environ- tain Jackson Fletcher ’21 said. a student athlete at Kenyon? When ment is due to the fact that many Kenyon cheerleaders invest sig- asked this, however, Ransom Ul- on the team had never played be- nificant time into their sport, with timate Frisbee president Alexis fore joining. Reape joined the team cheer coming close to a year-round Katrina Peterson ’20 and Nick Downey ’21 at the KAC. | BEN NUTTER Reape ’20 didn’t think this was a as a first year, and, though she was commitment. The cheerleading relevant distinction. “I wouldn’t say an exception to this trend, seems to team practices seven hours per week I consider myself an athlete,” Reape think that this will change over time. during football season and four said. “I consider myself an ultimate “I think as the sport gets bigger and hours during basketball season, in frisbee player.” bigger, you see more high school ul- addition to time spent at the games Though organized under the Of- timate programs develop,” she said. themselves, according to captain Jas- fice of Student Engagement, these “My freshman year, [Georgie Lell- mine Wilson ’19. The cheerleaders groups have an athletics point person man ’20] and I were the only two arrange their own transportation to in Head Golf Coach Grant Wallace, people who had played before … away football games, and they even who helps the teams reserve space, This year, we have people who played performed at Dancing with the Ke- purchase equipment and arrange all four years of high school.” nyon Stars on Dec. 7. travel. The teams are funded by the Katrina Peterson ’20, captain of Wilson remembers a team of Business and Finance Committee, Squash Club, feels that club sports only eight cheerleaders her first year though they undertake a significant have allowed her to participate in at Kenyon, but the team has grown amount of fundraising on their own. athletics without the demands of a to about 14 for the 2017-2018 season. Katrina Peterson ’20 winds up her swing on the court. | BEN NUTTER During the fall and spring sea- varsity team. “Squash is definitely The team frequently goes unrec- sons, Ransom Ultimate can be a big part of my life … but at the ognized for the hard work they do, found practicing at the intramu- same time, I’m not waking up for 5 Wilson said “When I tell people I’m ral fields or across the street from a.m. practices five days a week, so it’s on the cheer team, they don’t think the Kenyon Athletic Center (KAC) definitely a lot more chill than oth- that I’m a student athlete,” she said. three afternoons a week. After prac- er sports,” Peterson said. In a typi- “They’re just like, ‘Oh, that’s just an- tice, they often cram around an Old cal semester, the Squash Club plays other club.’” Co-captain Brittany Side table for team dinner. They matches against a club team at The Beckley ’20 said that she frequently also drive to several scrimmages Ohio State University. Unfortunate- wears her cheer uniform around and tournaments each semester. ly, due to scheduling issues, the club campus on game days to bring more Some are as close as The College of could not compete this semester, attention to the team. “I try to repre- Wooster or Oberlin College; others though they maintained their week- sent,” she said, “because when [stu- are as far as Myrtle Beach, South ly three-hour practice schedule. dents] don’t come to football games, Carolina. Between practice, team Club Soccer also finds itself they’ll be like ‘Oh, I didn’t know you dinners and road trips, the team competing against other colleges, were on the cheer team, let alone that spends a lot of time together, and is a though their matches receive little there was a cheer team.’” Sarah Ashkar ’22 dodges, while Nick Downey ’21 swings. | BEN NUTTER

Class

Clash Faculty Total: Senior Total: Junior Total: Sophomore Total: First-Year Total: Compiled by sam brodsky 27 19 19 20 16 Answer Anna Aydinyan Dounia Sawaya ‘19 Daniela Grande ‘20 Emma Spivack ‘21 Ben Pimstone ‘22 The newly constructed English building contains Kluge Matz a seminar room named P.F. Kluge I don’t know. P.F. Kluge Kluge after which Kenyon professor?

As the part of the West Quad project, the parking UndergroundWeekly Scores I don’t know. In front of Horvitz 6 feet under Underground I don’t know lot in front of Horvitz will be moved where?

The KAC hill has become Making the hill more They’re moving the famous for what proposed An escalator Being a hill Adding dirt Sledding modification? gradual debris What solution, popular among students but unpopular among alumni, has Paving Middle Path Are they paving it? Paving it Paving it Paving it Salting it been proposed to prevent ice and sleet on middle path? 1 2 4 3 0 6 Thursday, Dec. 13 | kenyoncollegian.com Candle lighting ceremony brightens eight Hannukah nights Ceremony offers home away from home for students whose families celebrate the holiday.

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On Dec. 3, the second night of Hanukkah, students gathered at Rothenburg Hil- lel House to eat latkes, spend time with friends and light the menorah. Hillel hosted candle lightings every night of Hanukkah, which this year fell between Dec. 2 and Dec. 10. Kenyon’s Jewish chaplain, Marc Bragin, led prayers and encouraged students to share traditions from home, all while wearing a stuffed blue hat in the shape of a menorah. Blue Semmelhack ’22, who at- tended the candle lighting, said that she hopes in future years to add cooking tradi- tional meals to her list of Ke- nyon Hanukkah traditions. “I don’t have the same family traditions,” she said. “I can’t carry [those traditions] when I’m outside of home. So I’m making new ones at school.”

Clockwise from left: 1) A col- lection of menorahs at Hillel. 2) Blue Semmelhack ’22 joins in the celebration. 3) A candle being lit. 4) Chaplain and Hillel direc- ton Marc Bragin wears a plush menorah hat, bringing some festive cheer to the candle light- ing. 5) Nate Gordon ’20 strikes a match. | ARMIYA SHAIKH

At College’s 21-plus events, beer tasting and spiked eggnog

DANTE KANTER dents didn’t overindulge. “We had hot cocoa OSE, hosts the event. This year, an email sent plus events hosted entirely by the OSE. “We FEATURES EDITOR with Baileys and Kahlúa,” Wallace said, “we out by Sriya Chadalavada ’19, senior class presi- wanna make sure that we’re doing our due didn’t have tequila shots.” The pre-registered dent, asked seniors to control themselves during diligence hosting these events, that we’re mod- In the past semester, the Office of Student events were filled to capacity. According to the festivities, warning that the previous Senior eling what we expect of students on Friday and Engagement (OSE) has hosted a beer tast- Wallace, the hot chocolate and eggnog event Soiree had the highest rate of hospital runs that Saturday nights,” Wallace said. Most of all, the ing, an art workshop serving wine and most garnered 120 attendees in total. year. However, measures are taken each year to administration wants to see Kenyon students recently an event in Peirce Pub that served “We hear upperclassmen say that they deterr students from over drinking. Two safety have fun. spiked hot chocolate and eggnog. wish there was something to do where they officers were present at the event this year, and “I think of Summer Sendoff and being able “We’re making sure we have an appropri- could have a drink, and it wasn’t just beer drinks were only served for two of the event’s to see students enjoying themselves, to be able ate amount of alcohol,” Kim Wallace, the as- from a keg, or it wasn’t just cheap wine from a two-and-a-half hours. to have more events like that throughout the sociate director of student engagement, said. box,” Wallace said. “We would hate for someone to ruin a be- year, where students are having a really great “We’re making sure that people aren’t con- According to Vice President for Stu- loved tradition,” Wallace said. time and interacting in a way that maybe they suming alcohol on an empty stomach. We’re dent Affairs and Chair of the ATF Meredith So far, there have been no reports of ex- wouldn’t normally interact? That’s fulfilling for making sure that we’re doing at least what the Harper Bonham ’92, Kenyon student’s atti- treme or dangerous intoxication from the 21- us,” Wallace said. policy calls for student organizations today.” tudes towards drinking are changing, with In March 2017, the Alcohol Task Force many students having little to no exposure (ATF), a group of students and administrators to alcohol before matriculating. “I think that assembled by President Sean Decatur, released when my generation [of Kenyon students] the ATF final report, detailing the schools saw their parents socialize, the alcohol flowed plans to encourage a safer, healthier drinking more freely,” Bonham said, “but the world has culture on Kenyon’s campus. changed in terms of expectations of keeping One of the items on their agenda was to students safe.” Although there is no available “support the Office of Student Engagement’s data on students from previous generations, efforts to fund … more Kenyon-sponsored over half of the class of 2022 answered on events that encourage 21-plus students to “Think About It,” an online course required drink responsibly.” For the beer and wine for all incoming freshman, that they “never” events, which required attendees to sign up or “seldom” use alcohol. beforehand, organizers checked students’ Before the formation of the ATF, one 21- birth-dates through a Kenyon database before plus event has run annually for decades: Senior approving them, and their student identifica- Soiree, a mid-fall, formal wear celebration for tion cards were checked at the door. The hot the senior class hosted in Thomas Hall. Soiree, chocolate and eggnog event was open-door, which features an open bar, has garnered a rep- with AVI employees who possess bartending utation for a high rate of Good Samaritan calls licenses checking identification, serving alco- and hospitalizations of intoxicated students. hol from behind the bar and ensuring that stu- The Senior Class Committee, overseen by the AMELIA MOTT Thursday, Dec. 13 ARTS kenyoncollegian.com 7 Annual ‘Dancing with the Kenyon Stars’ continues to dazzle

PHOTOS BY BELLA HATKOFF JAMES SUSSMAN dollar ballots that were collected at the petitors broke with previous compe- STAFF WRITER end of the evening. For the past seven titions. The majority of student per- years, all proceeds have gone to the formers were underclass students, The glitz and glam of Gambier’s Knox County Winter Sanctuary, a local and, for the first time ever, Kenyon best dancers were on display last Friday emergency homeless shelter. Whoever staff and faculty competed against night at Kenyon Ballroom Dance Club’s received the most votes took home the each other. The gender representation annual Dancing with the Kenyon Stars. glittering disco ball trophy. also shifted this year, with more men The event, in its eighth year, kicked Contestants sometimes played participating than ever. off at 8 p.m. in Rosse Hall. Modeled af- out small scenes in their routines: a Visiting Instructor of Spanish Agne ter the reality TV show Dancing with the couple at odds arguing with samba Karosaite, who danced with Oliver Stars, the competition paired members slides, old friends reunited in the dip VandenBerg ’20, described him as “a of the Ballroom Dance Club with vari- of western swing and a Star Wars physicist, a mathematician and a mu- ous members of the faculty and admin- battle set to a Paso Doble, a Span- sician combined to make the perfect istration to choreograph and perform a ish modern dance. In between per- dance partner. [VandenBerg will] ex- dance. The students then spent months formances, longtime host, Professor plain why your spins go wrong and back coaching their staff partners, preparing of Music Ben “Doc” Locke cracked it up with science. He’ll count the steps them for their moment in the limelight. jokes about Facebook friends he and put them into a spreadsheet. He’ll Four judges evaluated the dances: shared with the contestants and the even measure the tempo of the song to Professor of Dance Balinda Craig- judges. When all the votes had been make sure it’s not too fast.” Quijada, Dean of Academic Advising tallied, Assistant Director of Admis- Dancing with the Kenyon Stars Thomas Hawks, Professor of Psychol- sions Guy Hatch and Nyota Mbuyu embodied the liberal arts experi- ogy Irene López and Director of Green ’20 whisked away the prize. ence, as students and staff used Initiatives Dave Heithaus — but the Emily Ward ’19 and Juliana Del- their eclectic knowledge of both crowd determined the grand prize win- sante ’20, co-presidents of the Kenyon statistics and swing to create a ner. Upon entering the auditorium, Ballroom Dance Club and organizers night of dazzling dance moves. In Ali Fox ’21 and Associate Professor of Chemistry James audience members were offered two- of the event, said that this year’s com- total, attendees raised $692.32. Keller show off their moves for the crowd.

The four judges were impressed by the acts, with almost Paige Bullock ’21 dances the Paso Doble with Vice Presi- Assistant Director of Admissions Guy Hatch and Nyota every pair receiving a perfect score of forty points. dent for Communications Janet Marsden. Mbuyu ’20 were the first-place winners of the night.

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: TARIQ THOMPSON ’21

DANIEL OLIVIERI STAFF WRITER Thompson is now the co-president of Kenyon Magnetic Voices, a spoken word If Tariq Thompson’s ’21 poetry were group on campus. They run events they a piece of furniture, it would be a cof- call “Hestivals,” in which people per- fee table from 1976. “The bottom of the form spoken word poetry. “That scene,” legs would be very scratched and worn, Thompson said, “is kinda what keeps the edges would also be very scratched me going. Because I guess if it were just and worn. On the left side there’s a light me in my poetry class, [...] I would still ring because people put their cups there be enjoying myself but I wouldn’t be get- so many times. But the top of it is not ting the same energy and interactions shiny but glowing, if you know what I that I want.” mean. That’s what my poetry would be,” Thompson often writes about himself Thompson said. and his family. However, he feels that tak- Thompson started writing poetry ing Advanced Poetry (ENGL 301) with Tariq Thompson ’21 in front of Finn House | COURTESY OF EMILY BARTON when he came to Kenyon for the Ken- Visiting Assistant Professor of English yon Review Young Writers Workshop. Andy Grace ’01 has pushed him to explore This pre-writing process is common When he writes or performs a He had come in with an idea for a dys- new subjects. “I wrote this poem because for Thompson: He will think about a poem, Thompson’s goal is to create a topian novel and was planning to spend my friend and I were talking about cher- topic, take notes on it, and revisit it re- connection. “When I do spoken word I all his time writing that. During the ries and we found this cherry called a Black peatedly; eventually, it all comes togeth- just want people to feel the same thing workshop process, however, he switched Republican Cherry,” he said. “And for the er. Thompson’s ideas can come from that I feel,” Thompson said. “So maybe to poetry. At the end of the program, he rest of the week that fruit was stuck in my anywhere. For example, he explained, for a certain poem that’s anguish, and performed one of his poems for all the head, and I would routinely write down “One of my most recent poems I started maybe for a certain poem it’s an in- other students and faculty and loved the fruits that I would think of randomly, or because I was just walking down Middle tense love I have for something. Or an feeling. When he went back to school, he I would play around with rhymes, and by Path and I was singing — like freestyle emptiness or a confusion. I want peo- joined its literary magazine and started the end of the week I had this poem that singing — and I said something and I ple to feel what I’m feeling and I want arranging open mics. had been marinating in my head.” was like, ‘I really like that.’” to get that across.” 8 Thursday, Dec. 13 | kenyoncollegian.com Advanced poetry class presents a variety of poignant work Communty members were invited to enjoy cookies, coffee and orginal poetry on Sunday.

CASSIE COALE still “searching for a gap in the minds of people I know ca- the poets could have guarded a mouth-breather’s snore to be STAFF WRITER the greenery.” sually or who I pass on Middle themselves, or written a circle much of a comfort.” Thirteen students read their Path each day,” Virginia Kane around their emotions, they The reading was almost en- On Sunday, Dec. 9, the work that evening: Jonah Zitel- ’22 said. “I now understand them chose vulnerability. tirely organized by Liendo, who members of Visiting Assis- li ’20, Sloane Wilten ’20, Tariq in a differ- “In eighth “fell into the role” by making tant Professor of English Andy Thompson ’21, Claire Oleson ent light.” grade I burned posters and sending Facebook Grace’s ’01 Advanced Poetry ’19, Mary Moore ’20, Cat March Thomp- [The read- my hand on invites and emails to the stu- Workshop (ENGL 301) sat in a ’19, Julia Louizides ’20, Paola son stood ing] presented a stovetop dent body. When it was her turn row on the left side of Cheever Liendo ’20, Jordan Horowitz in front of a rare opportunity to and woke up to read, Liendo opened with the Seminar Room, clutching pa- ’20, Sophie Hargrove ’20, Hud- many un- glimpse inside the minds smelling some- bold line, “Oh, Jigglypuff, Queen pers in their hands. As they son Farr ’19 and Annie Brock known fac- thing exqui- of All Attention Whores!” sat, the audience shuffled in ’19. Each approached the stage es and told of people I know casu- site,” Hargrove “I had such a great time,” and unwrapped themselves with the same composure. In them his ally“ or who I pass on read from her Liendo said. “There were little from their scarves, hats, and their chairs, the audience seemed most ba- Middle Path each day.” wonderfully fragments of memory that I’ll coats. The first poet, cool expectant – each line of poetry sic hopes strange poem carry with me — some lines and collected Ellen Morrissey defined a previously untranslat- in a voice Virginia Kane ’22 “Rotgut.” Lat- from different poems, the sen- ’20, walked to the front of the able experience. that made er, Zitelli de- sation in my chest when some- crowd and spoke of “impen- Some of the listeners knew them seem scribed the thing felt particularly poignant etrable hedges which have al- nothing about the poets they as elusive as they might have sound of a flourescent lights. — and I just hope that oth- ways been there. Dense and came to hear. After the reading, felt to him. “I want offspring “The electric hum is no language ers who came and experienced dark green, my father’s favorite this unfamiliarity disappeared. free of wickedness,” he said. she knows,” he read. “It is little these poems for the first time color.” The poem, “Real Con- “[The reading] presented a rare “I need to still be living — more than a waveform, a gur- got something to take home versations,” ended with her opportunity to glimpse inside 20 years from now.” Where gle in the throat, too similar to with them, too.” ON THE RECORD DAVID NUTTER AWARD-WINNING TELEVISION DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER networking at a nearby golf course I’m always nervous. To me it’s the SAM BRODSKY ARTS EDITOR where I would often come across tele- first episode every time. I don’t treat vision executives and directors. It was some episodes with more importance actually there that I met producers and than others – to me, they’re all im- David Nutter P’21 is an accom- other directors. My “break” was meet- portant and they’re all vital. I always plished television director and pro- ing the creators of “21 Jump Street” on work my hardest, channel my best en- ducer known for directing Game of a golf course. ergy and care the deepest I can about Thrones, The Flash and The Sopra- the material. It’s true, the Red Wed- nos. In 2015, he received a Primetime In the 1990s and 2000s you devel- ding scene was a climactic moment in Emmy Award for Outstanding Direct- oped a reputation for being the “pi- the series, but that the episode felt so ing for a Drama Series for his work on lot-whisperer”–the first 16 pilots you powerful that I just wanted to give the Game of Thrones. He will be screen- directed all went on to become series, audience what they wanted. If you’re ing the ninth episode of the show’s and you are famous for directing ex- not in the middle of something, push- fifth season, “The Dance of Dragons,” cellent pilots. How did you develop ing it, personally, as much as you can, and host a Q & A today from 7 p.m. such a sense for directing these type then the audience won’t be able to care to 9 p.m. at the Kenyon Athletic Cen- of episodes? either. So I always try to communicate ter. He is the father of Ben Nutter ’21, I learned the key to directing and express my devotion so it comes photo editor for the Collegian. through my work on the X-Files. In across on the screen. directing that show I realized that the You initially enrolled in the audience is everything. But I also have You recently directed “Rising,” a COURTESY OF DAVID NUTTER University of Miami as a music ma- to be interested in the material as well. short film about an American neigh- jor. How did you first come to be I have always loved shows and mov- borhood coming together, despite What piece of advice would you directing television, and how did ies that explore the supernatural, spe- racial differences, to survive a flood. give to current Kenyon students who you first make it into the film and cifically the relationship between the The film deals with timely topics want to have careers in film or televi- television industry? supernatural and family – shows like such as natural disasters, race and sion? How can they get started? When I was in high school and in Smallville. But with pilots, it’s always nationality. How did you go from di- I think that writing is a great way college I wanted to be the next Billy important to create a world that’s be- recting more fantastical shows – like in. As a director I love writers, be- Joel. After some time I realized that lievable. No matter what the world is, Game of Thrones – to this, and what cause I need them to keep working. I wasn’t gonna be that, so I thought if you create a world that is believable did that switch feel like? The most important thing I tell peo- to myself, “What else could I do with the audience will be hooked, and once It wasn’t a switch at all. I bring ple is, don’t worry so much about get- music?” In my third year of music the audience cares, once they’re invest- the same energy and devotion to ting a foot in the door. You have to be school, I took a business and music ed, then you will get that great energy every project I get involved with. I yourself, you have to work hard, you class, and that involved making mu- and reaction from them. For me, it’s want Game of Thrones to feel real, as have to be dependable and you have sic for movies, and I liked that a lot, about getting people excited and mov- real as national topics. There is not a to be considerate. You have to work and then I took some film classes ing them in some emotional way. Also, big difference in how I work between as hard as you can, and you have to and so on. I remember a Super 8 film if you end a pilot on a hook for the sec- different projects; to me, it’s about be able to move people. Just put your class that I loved, because my pro- ond episode, the audience will always bringing the right attitude and ener- heart in your work, and the rest will fessor was incredibly inspirational. be left wanting more. gy. If you direct something with the work itself out. Those are the best di- There was a creative outlet in film mindset that it can’t be “profound,” rectors, in my opinion: the directors that I could actually grab onto, and You directed the infamous “Red then you will never be able to move that care. You have to be willing to put that I felt to be very special. I kept Wedding scene” from the third sea- people. If I treated Game of Thrones yourself out there. Also, don’t sweat taking film classes, and I loved mak- son of Game of Thrones. How did as something superficial, I wouldn’t the small stuff. Look at every moment ing movies. After some time I moved you handle it? Were you nervous be able to move people. I approach as a learning moment. Keep your head to Los Angeles, trying to get a job about executing it well, and do you Game of Thrones and “Rising” with up high and believe in yourself. as a director, and I got an agent, but ever get anxious about directing the same mindset – get the audience my agent didn’t really help me very a show that receives so much hype invested, move them and make them This interview has been edited for much. I mostly met people through from fans? feel something. length and clarity. Thursday, Dec. 13 OPINIONS kenyoncollegian.com 9 STAFF EDITORIAL Student voices should inform pay raises

With over 1,100 positions available (though some hold more than one position), student laborers make up a sizeable portion of Kenyon. Yet even with the 3 percent pay raise (see: “Three percent pay raise offset by frustration with wage levels” p. 1), students are largely dissatisfied with the wages they currently earn. To this end, we urge the rein- statement of the Student Employment Task Force, so that students can better leverage their collective bargaining power to end the unfapir treatment of student workers. The Student Employment Task Force, now disbanded, was a committee originally made to examine the state of student labor and wages on campus. The College routinely uses students for positions for which they may not want to pay a professional. In some cases, once a student becomes employed by the College, they’re told that there is only enough money to pay for a certain amount of hours per week, and this amount is rarely enough to finish the job ANNA ZINANTI on time. While students interviewed in our piece agreed that not all positions must be paid like a professional, the discrepancy be- tween labor and compensation is too large to Expanding digital access will prepare the go unchanged. This problem is further aggravated by matters of class. Many students who work for College for a future of universal accessibility Kenyon do so not for extra spending mon- ey, but for work-study or personal financial Technology must be designed so as to enable everyone to succeed. need. This allows the College to use worker precarity to gain unfair amounts of power ERIN SALVA the need for digital inclusiveness. The event that if we build accessibility in right from over the laboring student body. CONTRIBUTOR was supported by President Sean Decatur; the beginning, we can actually drive down As it stood before, the Student Employ- the Office of the Provost; the Office of Diver- costs,” he said. ment Task Force was an ad-hoc committee David Berman visited Kenyon College sity, Equity and Inclusion; the Office of Com- The goal of Kenyon’s digital accessibil- that acted from an advisory standpoint. We in October 2018 to address eAccessibility munications; the Office of the Registrar; the ity initiative is to put strategies and tools in suggest that this new committee be made and inclusive digital design. Berman is a Gund Gallery and the Kenyon Review. place to create a culture of inclusive design. into an official body of both students and web accessibility expert who, over the past Berman’s Common Hour talk centered SASS will plan a range of trainings and members of the administration with real thirty years, has been dedicated to promot- on inclusive design and its importance. For workshops throughout the academic year power to change worker compensation. Ken- ing digital accessibility worldwide. He is example, Alexander Graham Bell, a 19th- on topics such as website accessibility, how yon should value all work students do on the also the chair of Carleton University’s Ac- century inventor and engineer, credited with to create accessible documents, Moodle ac- Hill — not just what’s done in the classroom. cess Network for Accessibility Information creating the first telephone, began his work at cessibility tips and captioning of digital me- Technology. His book published in 2013, a private school for girls dia. A steering commit- The staff editorial is written weekly by “Do Good Design,” is available in the Ken- who were deaf or hard of tee with representatives editors-in-chief Cameron Messinides ’19 and yon Bookstore. hearing by creating the The inclusion from across campus has Devon Musgrave-Johnson ’19, managing edi- As director of Student Accessibility and “harmonic telegraph” of people with been meeting regularly tor Grant Miner ’19 and executive director Support Services (SASS) for the past 20 — a hearing device for disabilities is often over- this semester to ensure Matt Mandel ’19. You can contact them at years I have occasionally been asked to of- the deaf. Bell went on to looked when developers ... progress in a variety of [email protected], musgravejohn- fer guidance on ways to improve accessibil- create the microphone, areas concerning digital [email protected], [email protected] and ity at Kenyon. I’ve discovered that barriers amplifier, loud speaker do not design for all users. accessibility. [email protected], respectively. to access exist not only in the buildings and and the telephone. This “ SASS and the CIP walkways but also in the emerging tech- history of accessible in- are also co-sponsor- nologies designed to create new pathways novation and technological advances under- ing a monthly Digital Accessibility Design to learning in the classroom. Technology is scores Berman’s core message: “When we de- Award (DADA) for campus members who The opinions page is a space for members of the an integral part of our lives from social net- sign well, everyone benefits.” utilize accessibility resources and tools to community to discuss issues relevant to the campus working and communication to basic access A lunch workshop followed the Com- create accessible materials or further the and the world at large. The opinions expressed on this page belong only to the writer. 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Members of the editorial board reserve the right to reject any (CIP) and SASS co-sponsored a Day of eAc- ating accessible documents, instructional submission. The views expressed in the paper do not cessibility with Berman as a kick-off event to materials and emails announcing campus Erin Salva is director of Student Acessibil- necessarily reflect the views of Kenyon College. promote digital access initiatives on campus. events, stressing that planning ahead can ity and Support Services at Kenyon College. The event was designed to bring awareness to benefit all and reduce costs. “It is the idea You can contact her at [email protected]. 10 Thursday, Dec. 13 | kenyoncollegian.com Social media depicts tailored, distorted image of college life

MIA SHERIN One particular meme summa- trek to the Kokosing River Trail sole- could also be more subtle than that: college, these people are few and OPINIONS ASSISTANT rizes the relationship many college ly “for the ’gram.” Our activities be- Maybe we’re simply trying to con- far between. students have toward social media: come less for our own happiness, and vince ourselves. Does this winter break bring ex- CAMERON AUSTIN OPINIONS EDITOR “Sure looks like you’re having a lot more for the artificial happiness that Admitting that we play this citement or anxiety? Whether you are of fun in college,” says a relative. The comes from winning the made-up game of self-deception does not thrilled to tell your friends from home student retorts, “Yeah, Karen, that’s game that everyone is playing titled, amount to turning our backs al- about your new experiences or wor- Bags will be packed. Planes will because I don’t post pictures of me “Who Can Make It Seem Like They together on college. But we should ried about comparing your new life be boarded. Reunions will be had. crying in the library on Facebook.” Are Having The Most Fun?” be able to have hard conversa- to theirs, both feelings may ring true. For one of the first times since com- For better or for worse, we all culti- For many tions about the When packing your bags, remember ing to Kenyon, many first years will vate a particular image on social me- of us, college Does social messier, less that you are not your curated social meet with friends they haven’t seen dia — acceptable to relatives, future does not wholly publicized bits media profile. When boarding your for months. Only through the care- employers and friends back home. match up with media allow of the transi- plane, unplug from your accounts. fully tinted window of social me- Instagram and Snapchat have al- our expecta- us to cultivate a false tion. Once we And when reuniting with friends, dia have many first years seen their ways had an innate sense of compe- tions: It’s either reality and fool others accept that ad- have the courage to be the real you. former high school peers. While tition. We all strive to make it seem too difficult or ­— or worse, ourselves? justing to col- their Instagrams show lives filled like our lives are always together and too easy, too “ lege is an im- Mia Sherin ’22 is an undeclared with parties and an abundance of our outfits always on-point. How- loud or too qui- perfect process, major from Wilmette, Ill. You can friends, is this the true representa- ever, when starting our first year of et, too far away we can be hon- contact her at [email protected]. tion of their first semester at college? college, it feels even more critical to or too close to home. We want to est with our peers and find solace Cameron Austin ’20 is a math- Or does social media allow us to feed into this competition. There is a convince our followers and friends in the fact that they are probably ematics and philosophy major from cultivate a false reality and fool oth- sense of urgency to get photographic that we made the right choice, that feeling the same way. While some Chattanooga, Tenn. You can contact ers — or worse, ourselves? evidence of nights out, or to make the we are making the right choice. It people may love everything about him at [email protected].

Cameron Austin

CROSSWORD Opinions Editor

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Congrats to Brennan Steele ’19, Conner McEldowney ’19 and Abby Kastenberg ’19 for submitting a correct solution to last week’s puzzle!

Did you finish this crossword? Email a photo of your finished crossword to [email protected] for a chance to get a shoutout! Thursday, Dec. 13 SPORTS kenyoncollegian.com 11 Lords basketball’s woes continue as first win remains elusive Kenyon lost both games against Denison University and Mount Vernon Nazarene University.

DAVID COSIMANO the start of the second half, With 8:19 left in the game, ison went 8-22 while Kenyon points a piece. Cate also add- STAFF WRITER the Lords jumped out to an Denison made three consecu- went 12-33. Four Lords play- ed nine rebounds to his stat- early lead with a three-point- tive three-pointers, taking a ers finished the game with line as well. It was an overall Over the weekend, the er from Matt Shifrin ’19 and 55-45 lead. As time ran down, double digits: Shifrin fin- rough game for the Lords as Lords basketball team trav- several free throws from Alex the Lords trailed by dou- ished with 19 points on the they were down by 22 going eled to Granville, Ohio for a Cate ’20. However, this lead ble digits, and the team was day, while teammates, Elijah into halftime. They never North Coast Athletic Con- did not last, as Denison found forced to start fouling. This Davis ’22, Christian Wata- could get anything going of- ference (NCAC) matchup an answer to Kenyon’s ear- strategy proved to have some nabe ’22 and Cate finished fensively only shooting 35.5% with Denison University. The ly scoring success, tying the success, bringing them with- with 13 points, 11 points and from the field. Lords put up a strong fight game up again at 35-35. The in five points with about five 10 points, respectively. Looking ahead, Kenyon will against Denison, but ended up rest of the game was a con- minutes left, but this was not Last night, the Lords went face Wittenberg University on falling to the Big Red 70-61. stant back-and-forth between enough for the Lords. Denison to Muskingum University to Saturday, Dec. 15 at Tomsich At the end of the first half, the two teams, but Denison’s would end up going eight of 10 face off against The Fight- Arena. Then they will have to the two teams headed into the ability to heat up from long on their free-throw attempts ing Muskies. The Lords fell wait three weeks before play- locker tied at 30-30. When range ended up being crucial by the end of the game. by a score of 86-60. Davis ing their next game on Jan. 5 they returned to the court for in their win. From behind the arc, Den- and Cate led the team with 10 against Allegheny College.

Lords tennis player in Egypt’s ITF event Henry Barrett ’19 had the unique opportunity to play in doubles and singles in Cairo.

FRANCIS BYRNE STAFF WRITER

TheCollegian recently had the chance to sit down with Henry Barrett ’19, a member of the Lords men’s tennis team. Barrett had the unique opportunity of being in- vited to the F29 Cairo 15 Futures tournament in Cairo, Egypt. This tournament is part of the International Ten- nis Federation (ITF) pro circuit. Barrett was invited to the tournament through a friend of its director, and ul- timately had the chance to play in the doubles competi- tion. Last season, Barrett helped lead the Lords to a 12th straight North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) cham- pionship.

Why were you invited to this tournament?

Barrett: I got invited through a friend of the tourna- ment director. When I was there practicing — I wanted to get there early to adjust — he saw me and asked me to play doubles with him. He’s a full time pro from Romania, so I couldn’t refuse that offer.

How was the competition?

Barrett: The guy I played in singles was a 25-year-old pro from Italy named Kevin Portmann and I lost in the second round of qualifying for singles. Score was 6-4, 3-6, 3-6 in a 3-hour match. Doubles I played the main draw. The scoring was updated live while I was playing doubles around the world via the ITF Pro Circuit App. [The] Chair umpire guy mispronounced my name, which I thought was funny. And the guys we played in doubles were the 4th seed who ended up making the finals; one was from Italy and one from Venezuela. One of the guys we lost to in doubles is currently ranked No. 379 in the world.

How would you describe your match with such a high-caliber player?

Barrett: We lost 1-6, 2-6 and it was the most difficult match I’ve ever played, but it was such a cool experience I’m so grateful to have had.

What would you say were the most useful things you learned from the experience?

Barrett: It was great to practice with pro players from around the world and see how professional they were with their preparations. I hope to take some of what I learned at my first pro tournament in Egypt into our upcoming spring season. Henry Barrett ’19 had some free time in between matches for sightseeing. | COURTESY OF HENRY BARRETT 12 Thursday, Dec. 13 | kenyoncollegian.com Ladies gain momentum before Ladies basketball wins three in a row their Florida trip in December.

JOE WINT STAFF WRITER

Last Saturday, the Kenyon women’s basketball team faced off against Wittenberg University. The game ended in a Ladies win with a score of 70-67. This was an important win after their North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) loss to Ober- lin last Wednesday. Paige Mati- jasich ’20 and Jessica Gerber ’19 led the team in scoring, with 14 and 12 points, respectively. The team was able to get 26 points from the bench and shot 36 per- cent from three-point range. Only two days later, the Ladies had one of their best performances of the season as they defeated Case Western Reserve University with a Paige Matijasich ’20 dribbles past Wooster defender. She averages a team-high 16.2 PPG this year. | COURTESY OF KENYON ATHLETICS final score of 74-62. The Ladies posted a season depth, amassing 27 points from ter, closing the margin to just high in points in Tomsich Arena their bench. In all, a total of 10 dif- eight points and putting up a this season against Case Western. ferent players scored for Kenyon. total of 20 points. The Spartans Matijasich and Grace Connery ’22 Late in the third quarter, Ken- shot nearly 50 percent in the sec- led the Ladies with season-high yon led by 21, their largest lead of ond half, adjusting to the Ladies’ scoring totals, netting 24 and 17 the game. The Ladies had held the defensive intensity. points respectively. The two com- Spartans, a team that prior to the Case Western scored two quick bined had 50 percent shooting game was ranked as a top 50 of- buckets, making the margin a from downtown, shooting 8-16 fense in NCAA Division III rank- mere eight points; however, the La- overall. Connery provided great ings, to just 42 points. They worked dies’ defense held strong, keeping energy off the bench, replacing El- incredibly hard in rotation, main- them from crossing that margin. lie Schaub ’21 — who had a great taining their game plan. The Ladies In the following Kenyon posses- game herself, putting up 15 points especially focused on the Spartans’ sion, Gerber found Matijasich and and going 5-6 from the line. most effective ways of scoring: the drained a deep three to push Ken- Ladies break from their huddle during the win. | BELLA HATKOFF Matijasich and Lane Davis ’19 three-point shot, and points in yon up, 65-54. After this, there was grabbed a combined 23 rebounds, transition. Communication was no way back for the Spartans. Kenyon was dominant from tip- season, which is a promising sign about half of the team’s total of 43 key for the Ladies as they held the The Ladies kept their winning off, as they did not trail for a single for a team looking to make a run at rebounds that game. The Ladies Spartans to 30 percent from three streak alive last night with a 63-55 second in the game. The Ladies de- the NCAC championship. dominated on the boards, put- on 9-31 shooting, while holding win against Mount Vernon Naza- fense has really found its form as After Christmas, Kenyon will ting up a total of 21 second-chance them to just 14 points in each of the rene University. Matijasich had an- they were able to force 19 turnovers travel to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. points compared to Case Western’s first three quarters. other huge night as she scored 19 in the win. Along with the defense, where they will face off against Ra- 10. Led by Connery and Sharon The Spartans showed their de- points on 7 of 15 shooting, while the three-point shooting has im- mapo College on Dec. 28 and Mes- Hull ’19, the Ladies showed great termination in the fourth quar- also going 3-5 from behind the arc. proved since the first game of the siah College on Dec. 30. Kenyon swim and dive teams will travel to Weekly Florida to face U.S. Coast Guard Academy Scores think the tough training this year really Women’s Basketball Lords showed at our mid-season invite, where Ladies we had some fantastic swims that put us KENYON 70 CHRIS ERDMANN right in the thick of the national cham- JACKSON WALD 12/8 STAFF WRITER STAFF WRITER WITTENBERG 67 pionship race.” CASE WESTERN 74 This winter break, the swim team 12/10 KENYON 62 The Kenyon men’s swim team has will be heading now to Venice, Fla. to The Kenyon College women’s swim- KENYON 63 had a strong fall season swim against The ming and diving team was nothing short 12/12 MVNU 55 thus far, securing three I think we have United States Coast of commanding last weekend, winning first-place finishes. In an extremely Guard Academy the title at the Total Performance Invita- their most recent swim and Washington tional for the second year in a row, and meet, the Lords hosted talented team this year University in St. the third time overall. The Ladies finished Men’s Basketball the Total Performance and are building up to Louis on Jan. 3. with 2,721.5 points, 600 points more than Sports Camp Invi- something really special. “Down in Flor- the distant second-place team from New 12/8 KENYON 61 tational at the Steen “ ida, we will keep York University. DENISON 70 KENYON 60 Aquatic Center, where Brooks McCoy ’19 training hard but In the beginning of the season, the Kenyon placed first switch a little bit Ladies dominated in invitationals and 12/12 MUSKINGUM 86 with 3,124 points. to focus more on events with multiple teams, but faltered David Fitch ’22 put fast swimming and in one-on-one events. Aside from their forth a strong performance, winning pace rather than building an aerobic incredible performance at the Total the United States Coast Guard Academy, both the 50-yard freestyle (20.30) and base,” McCoy said. “I think we have Performance Invitational, the Ladies on Jan. 3 in Venice, Fla. While the Ladies the 100-yard butterfly (47.74). In the an extremely talented team this year placed first in the Kenyon College Re- are currently the number-one ranked process, he broke the 100 butterfly var- and are building up to something re- lays, and second in the Malone Invita- women’s swimming and diving team in sity record that has been standing since ally special.” tional. However, they were not able to Division III, Washington University in 2009 by .12 seconds. Following their trip down to Florida, secure victory in point-based matchups St. Louis is ranked seventh. The United “It’s been a great year so far,” Brooks they will continue their season with against Denison University and Michi- States Coast Guard Academy has also McCoy ’19 said. “We took a couple a meet against Ohio Northern Uni- gan State University. competed well as of late, placing second tough dual-meet losses early but we’ve versity at the Steen Aquatic Center in The Ladies’ next event is against at their last event, the CT Cup held at been putting in hard work all year. I the Kenyon Athletic Center on Jan. 11. Washington University in St. Louis and Wesleyan University.