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2.5.15 VOLUME CXLII NO. 16 The Collegian 16 pages Today and tomorrow, the Destigmatizing mental health issues Board of Trustees meets to discuss Kenyon’s present and future. Some topics include:

» Wrapping up 2020 discussions » Revisiting the campus master plan » Panel about connections between lib- eral arts education and career opportuni- ties, roles of undergraduate research and internships » Plans to release amount of future tu- ition increases

COURTESY OF THE COUNSELING CENTER AND KRISTEN HUFFMAN Lef: Counseling Center staf pose for a group photo inside the newly renovated building. Right: the Counseling Center. Djerassi, a creator 34 percent of students visited the of her freshman year, Young and prescribed an anti-de- went to see a Kenyon coun- pressant medication in the Counseling Center in 2014. selor. “I learned that going spring of 2013, during her of the Pill, dies home was an option, and I sophomore year. She took cit hyperactivity disorder learned that I wouldn’t be another medical leave of SARAH LEHR | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MAYA KAUFMAN FEATURES EDITOR (ADHD) adversely afect penalized for it,” she said. absence for the fall 2013 se- An embodiment of the their ability to thrive at Ke- “And as soon as I found that mester. well-rounded liberal arts “I was overwhelmed nyon. Although Kenyon of- out, I knew that was what I Director of Counseling ideal, Carl Djerassi ’43 with anxiety, and I felt like I fers a variety of resources, had to do.” Services Patrick Gilligan died in his San Francisco was drowning.” Amy Young a number of students have Young took the second said students with mental home last Friday due to ’16, formerly of the Class of found mental health condi- semester of her freshman health conditions withdraw complications from can- 2015, is one of a handful of tions too overwhelming to year of but during that when their “sufering has cer. He was 91. Tough students who each year fnd remain at school and have time “wasn’t really address- gotten to be so signifcant best known for his scien- that mental health condi- withdrawn for periods of ing the problems that had that it begins to compro- tifc achievements, includ- tions such as depression, time. arisen,” she said. Young was mise their ability to partici- ing the synthesis of a key anxiety and attention def- During the frst semester diagnosed with depression pate in their life page 3 ingredient in the frst oral contraceptive, he devoted COURTESY OF PUBLIC his later life to writing and AFFAIRS to supporting the arts. What is 0.25 credit really worth? During his adolescence, Djerassi fed Nazi persecution in Austria, his birth country, frst immigrating to Bulgaria and LAUREN ELLER then to the United States. Upon the Djerassis’ arrival in New STAFF WRITER York in 1939, a taxi driver cheated Carl and his mother out of the last $20 they had. A few years later, Djerassi wrote then- Not all .25-credit classes are First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt requesting a college scholarship. created equal. Or so they say. He later remarked in a 2012 Collegian article: “I had the idea Some of these classes, which that she was sort of the queen of America,” he said. He did provide half the credit of a regular win a scholarship to Tarkio College in Missouri, but trans- course, often have a reputation at ferred to Kenyon his junior year. Djerassi’s son, flmmaker Kenyon for having heavier work- Dale Djerassi, said, “He always had tremendous afection for loads than other .25 credit classes, Kenyon as a great institution of higher learning.” even with the same intensity as a STEPHANIE FONGHEISER | COLLEGIAN At Kenyon, though Djerassi majored in chemistry, he full .5 course. lived in Douglas House, a residence which was typically re- But there are reasons behind the Students in a beginning ballet class earn .25 credit for their work in the course. served for the protégés of poet and Kenyon Review founder .25 credit structure, though some John Crowe Ransom. His literary surroundings perhaps students may feel some such offer- rolled in introductory biology in her .5 lecture courses. “I feel like proved prophetic since he later became a poet, playwright ings are equivalent in workload to and chemistry labs, both of which I spend probably more time doing and author. His interests at Kenyon extended beyond the sci- .5 classes. count for .25 credit, said the work- things in lab,” she said. “It might entifc. He wrote a column for the Collegian called page 4 Kay Burrows ’18, who is en- load in those classes is close to that not be as difficult, espe- page 2

New stats on Inside: figure-drawing An educated... Swimming blows INSIDE THIS P.3 class of 2019 P.9 studio P.11 dorm? P.14 competition out of water ISSUE LIFE ON THE HILL AS IT HAPPENS: WWW.THEKENYONTHRILL.COM 2 THE KENYON COLLEGIAN | THURSDAY, FEB. 5 | KENYONCOLLEGIAN.COM President Sean Decatur on the passing of Carl Djerrasi ’43:

“[He was] someone who was able to combine insights and thoughts from a wide range of disci- NEWS plines; someone that showed excellence in huge accomplishments in the scientific area but was also very active in thinking about the social and political implications of the scientific work he was EDITORS: EMILY SAKAMOTO doing. ... He was someone who embodies the ideal of what the liberal arts education should be.” AND VICTORIA UNGVARSKY

Student council Village council

Sunday, Feb. 1 Monday, Feb. 2

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The Business and Finance Committee (BFC) held a supplemental t
Te Village will hold public hearings Tursday, Feb. 5 at the Gambier Com- meeting last week. Student Council voted to approve all BFC budget munity Center on its entrance into a gas aggregation program. Electric will allocations. be discussed at 4 and 6:30 p.m. and natural gas will be discussed at 4:30 and t
The Campus Safety Committee reported that a lighting walk occurred 7 p.m. last week to fix dead lights and to decide where new lights should be t
Te Village and the College assessed a leak near the North Campus Apart- working. The Committee is also looking into a new emergency re- ments, and the Village took care of a leak Sunday, Feb. 1 on East Brooklyn St. sponse system. t
Spring Dumpster Day will be Saturday, May 2 and Fall Dumpster Day will be t
The Greek Council Representative reported that bid week went well. Saturday, Oct. 3 from 8 a.m. to noon. t
The Senior Class Council is planning Fandango and Senior Week. The t
Stick-it-to-the-Village, in which residents can rid themselves of unwanted Baccalaureate speaker will be announced at Fandango this Friday, Feb. branches, will be Mondays, April 13 and 20 depending on weather. 6. t
Te Village Administrator reported to Council that various repairs to the t
The Junior Class Council met last week and set up a list of donors for wastewater treatment plant are underway. the junior class auction. They are looking for new members. t
Council approved the 2015 budget. t
The Sophomore Class Council will set up a workshop about summer t
Council moved the frst reading of an ordinance lowering wastewater rates internships in collaboration with the Career Development Office. for the coming year by four percent. t
The Buildings and Grounds Committee met with Chief Business Of- t
Council passed the frst reading of an ordinance to increase pay for full-time ficer Mark Kohlman about the best possible de-icer. Buildings and employees by three percent. Grounds is looking to use beet sugar, an organic alternative to salt. The t
Council approved the second reading of an ordinance to raise the base pay main drawback is price: one barrel, or 50 gallons, costs $650. of the wastewater operator by $3 an hour. t
The Multicultural Council spoke about its goals and tried to define its policies, which will exist as an umbrella entity over the current cultural groups on campus. t
The Academic Affairs Committee discussed the problems with sched- uling athletic practices during common hour. The committee is also Credit where credit is due? considering changing the pre-med curriculum to reflect changes in the content of the MCAT and the possibility of implementing a standard- Continued from Page 1 ized excused-absence policy. In order to squeeze or ft all of the classes in t
The Student Life Committee did not meet. cially since we don’t take that you need to get a science degree, by neces- t
The Housing and Dining Committee will begin a pots-and-pans drive tests, but I feel [I spend] sity, it’s the labs that ... [have] .25 credits.” this week. more time on lab than I do “Christopher Bickford, Assistant Professor of Biology on lecture homework.” —Steven Schmidt Christopher Bickford, assistant professor of biolo- fnishing write-ups not into their schedules with- gy, runs .25 science labs. “I done in class, and that his out weighting certain class- Village RecoRd would say there’s a moder- dance class requires a bit es less than others. ate workload outside of the of external work at some “In order to squeeze or class,” he said. points as well. ft all the classes in that Jan. 28 – Feb. 3 Tough science labs may “Our technique class- you need to get a science Jan. 28, 8:19 p.m. — Student reported theft of running shoes from Kenyon have a reputation as more es are .25 but our theory degree, by necessity it’s the Athletic Center locker room. rigorous .25 classes in classes are .5,” Professor labs that end up having .25 Jan. 28, 10:55 p.m. — Group of students entered Mather Residence Hall; one terms of the work required, of Dance Julie Brodie said. credit value associated with student witnessed with a beer bottle. Christian Lee ’18, who is “And there are a couple rea- it,” Bickford said. Jan. 29, 2:07 a.m. — Non-student reported physical assault by student at the enrolled in both an intro- sons we’ve done this. We do Balinda Craig-Quijada, Gambier Grill. Campus Safety contacted. Student cited for underage consump- ductory physics lab and an require less outside work professor of dance, added tion. introductory dance class for our technique classes that the .25 structure of Jan. 29, 2:56 a.m. — Student injured toe at Hanna Residence Hall. Trans- — each worth .25 credit and there’s usually some technique classes allows for ported to Knox Community Hospital privately. — said he has not experi- kind of written response, non-majors to ft them into Jan. 30, 1:01 p.m. — Couch damaged in lounge in Mather. enced much discrepancy some readings that are as- their schedules more easily. Jan. 30, 11:24 p.m. — Intoxicated, underaged student in McBride Residence between his classes so far. sociated with the class “What we like about that Hall. “In terms of the work and work, but it’s not as exten- [is] … our dancers … need Jan. 30, 11:24 p.m. — Intoxicated, underaged student in McBride. time commitment, I think sive.” to keep working and keep Jan. 30, 11:37 p.m. — Students found to be having unauthorized gathering they’re about the same at Brodie said making that facility ongoing ... but with alcohol in the New Apartments. this point,” Lee said. technique classes .25 credit also it really opens up our Jan. 31, 12:00 a.m. — Student reported items taken from residence without Bickford described the allows students to take as classes to non-majors and permission in Norton Residence Hall. key diferences between many of them as possible in people outside the depart- Jan. 31, 12:01 a.m. — Intoxicated, underage student in Leonard Residence .5 and .25 science courses: order to keep up their skills ment who perhaps need Hall. “Where that outside work without exceeding the total fne arts,” she said. “Tey Jan. 31, 12:17 a.m. — Unregistered party shut down in the Acland Apart- happens … may be a little credit limit each semester. can take a modern class, a ments. diferent,” he said. “In a lec- “We need for our ma- ballet class, African dance Jan. 31, 1:25 a.m. — Unknown person damaged visiting exhibit at the Gund ture course … the work is jors and minors to be tak- and those sorts of things, Gallery. kind of front-loaded ... We ing technique on a regular and they don’t have to Jan. 31, 7:16 a.m. — Student drove through yard in the New Apartments. Yard expect students to come to basis, which means that necessarily decide wheth- damaged. class prepared to discuss they have to repeat those er they’re going to take a Feb. 1, 12:35 a.m. — Unregistered party shut down in the Wilson Apartments. the material. We expect courses, and they add them class in their major or take Feb. 1, 1:30 a.m. — Male individual yelling offensive things in hallway of Mc- you to come to lab prepared as overloads,” she said. “For a dance class. Tey can do Bride. Individual left building before being identified. to do the lab but the level of that to be feasible for them, both,” Craig-Quijada said. Feb. 1, 9:45 p.m. — Student residence found with alcohol in McBride. Alcohol preparation might not take we can’t really require as As for the workload of disposed of appropriately. quite the time that it would much outside work.” .25 classes, professors try Feb. 3, 3:20 p.m. — Window pane broken from inside building at Old Kenyon in a lecture class.” Te methodology for .25 to keep that in mind when Residence Hall. Lee said there is not in- labs in the science depart- allocating outside-of-class Feb. 3, 11:55 p.m. — Student residence found with large amount of trash inap- tended to be much work ment is similar. For many work. Bickford said he tries propriately stored in the Taft Cottages. for his physics lab outside science majors, it can be to “remain cognizant of the of class besides reading the difcult to ft all the re- fact that lab courses are .25 lab manual and perhaps quired lectures and labs credits.” THE KENYON COLLEGIAN | THURSDAY, FEB. 5 | KENYONCOLLEGIAN.COM 3 With rise in social media, Kenyon comes to more homes Elimination of supplement continues to afect admissions.

JACK STUBBS Media Producer Mary Keister to Kenyon. During the 2012- Admissions at a Glance STAFF WRITER said. 2013 year, 4,058 students ap- Te success of social me- plied to Kenyon. Te next year Total Applications to Kenyon Te rise of technology and dia also depends on how big brought a 63-percent increase social media over the past few the academic institution is. in applications, bringing the years has been especially evi- For a school as small as Ken- total number of applicants up dent for the Ofce of Admis- yon, “Te goal of social me- to 6,627. Tis number contin- sions and the Ofce of Public dia is ofen just to get Kenyon ued to increase this year, with Afairs at Kenyon. Improve- on people’s radar,” Whitney 7025 students applications ments and various develop- Hawkins, assistant director of submitted. Tis shif also in- ments in the world of tech- the Ofce of Admissions, said. cluded an increased number nology and social media have “Te hope with social media is of international students ap- signifcantly altered the way that it will also encourage pro- plying to — and ultimately these two ofces operate and spective students to reach out enrolling at — Kenyon. “Te network with prospective stu- to us.” Hawkins also believes hardest part is to accurately dents. the rise of social media has represent Kenyon through Public Afairs is in charge helped prospective students social-media platforms of printing all of the materi- get a more accurate sense of like Twitter or Facebook,” als for Admissions. Typically, what Kenyon is like. “Social Hawkins said. Number Applications of Public Afairs reaches out media also helps to connect Te rise of technology and to three main populations: prospective students with cur- social media has allowed Ad- alumni, current students and rent Kenyon students,” she missions and Public Afairs to 2013-2014 2014-2015 prospective students. “Te said. interact with prospective stu- Year type of social media platform Two years ago, Admis- dents in new ways. However, used depends on which pop- sions decided to remove the even with social media, “it’s increase in apps regular-decision ulation you are trying to ac- supplemental essay from the still difcult to portray the real 5.8% from last year 6,600+ applicants cess,” Patty Burns, director of Common Application. “Re- ethos and culture of Kenyon,” new media, said. Because of a moving the supplement re- Hawkins said. For the Ofce generational gap in social me- moved one more obstacle that of Admissions, the decision dia use, print communication prospective students have to to strike the supplement from 258 169 166 is not totally obsolete. “Te contend with,” Hawkins said. the Common App, as well as accepted ED1 applied ED2 college admissions process Tis change in the application the increased availability of applied ED1 doesn’t happen in a vacuum, occurred at the same time social media and technology, and parents might be involved as a dramatic increase in the has certainly afected the pro- INFORMATION COURTESY OF DARRYL UY in the process, too,” Social number of students applying cess of admissions at Kenyon. Students discuss Kenyon’s mental health resources For students seeking leave, the College ofers a myriad of resources to make the transition as seamless as possible. I’m always really cautious about creating a dichot- omy between students with mental health issues and without, because all students experience it. I think it’s Continued from Page 1 Students are permitted to port Services Erin Salva, he “pretty important when you’re talking about mental request personal or medical decided to take a year off. here the way they really want leaves of absence, for which “They knew [taking time health to universalize because ... everyone’s diferent.” to.” they must submit a declara- off] was best for me even Tim Jurney ’15, Peer Counselor A member of the Class of tion-of-withdrawal form to though I didn’t know what 2017, who asked to remain either Toutain or Dean for was best for me,” Levin said. anonymous, decided to take a Academic Advising and Sup- “They obviously had seen itive influence.” ter also has a psychiatrist semester off after the anxiety port Hoi Ning Ngai. people like me.” In fall 2014, Young gave a who comes in once every two brought about by a rigorous The College has a manda- Levin was discouraged by TEDxKenyonCollege talk en- weeks. course-load and side effects tory withdrawal process for his grades. Additionally, his titled “Beyond Understand- While mental health con- of an anti-depressant proved students who endanger other anxiety caused his speech ing” about her experience ditions can affect students’ unmanageable. individuals or have condi- impediment to return, which with depression. Kenyon experiences, Tim Ju- “My parents and I decided tions that prove unmanage- caused him even more stress. The anonymous sopho- rney ’15, a Peer Counselor, that it made sense to step back able, but, according to Gil- While at Kenyon, he saw a more did not see a counselor emphasizes the importance of and have a semester where I ligan, the College has “never counselor twice a week. prior to taking time off, say- not marginalizing those who could regain some emotional invoked this policy.” “[The Counseling Cen- ing that the Counseling Cen- experience such conditions. stability,” she said. The stu- Toutain said he frequently ter] really helped me keep ter needs to do a better job of “I’m always really cautious dent spoke with Dean of Stu- agrees with students who re- my head in the game … so advertising itself. “I feel like about creating a dichotomy dents Henry Toutain and her quest time off. that I’d have a high-enough it’s kind of an unspoken thing between students with mental academic advisor, who she “Although this is a place morale level to actually get to go to the Counseling Cen- health issues and without, be- found out had also taken time that is devoted to teaching things done,” he said. Howev- ter at Kenyon,” she said. “I cause all students experience off from his schooling. “It re- and learning, this is also a er, Levin was discouraged by think a lot of people I know it,” Jurney said. ally made me feel like I was place that puts a very high the lack of nearby resources, that go to Kenyon would ben- President Sean Decatur making the right decision premium on health,” Toutain such as a speech therapist. efit from going there, but cautioned against discount- once I realized that it wasn’t said. “You may ... be dealing Young, who was on con- they just don’t know that it’s ing mental health. “Mental so taboo,” she said. with a health issue that really ditional enrollment upon re- an option. I didn’t know that health issues are fundamen- Although mental health is going to be damaging if you turning to Kenyon in spring it was an option.” tally health issues,” he said. conditions themselves can don’t address it currently.” 2014 and was required to In the fall 2014 semes- Toutain echoed the impor- cause students to struggle, Roberto Levin, formerly of see Gilligan, also found the ter, 549 students visited the tance of destigmatizing men- there may be aspects of Ke- the class of 2017, found that Counseling Center beneficial. Counseling Center, about 34 tal health conditions. “To nyon that exacerbate symp- his ADHD, in addition to “He’s just been fantastic when percent of the student body. the degree that we can speak toms. stress-induced anxiety, was I felt I was slipping, when I According to Gilligan, about more honestly … about is- “Kenyon really is so small, affecting his academic per- was getting really worried 10 percent of college students sues of mental health, we’re and it’s so isolated,” the formance, but he initially re- about something, whenever seek counseling nationally; all better off,” Toutain said. anonymous sophomore said. sisted taking time off. After I felt like I was going crazy,” on campuses with fewer than “Whether it’s physical or “It really does make you feel he and his parents spoke with Young said. “Everyone [at the 1,500 students, the average is whether it’s mental health, claustrophobic and a little Toutain and Director of Stu- Counseling Center] is just an slightly over 18 percent. it’s challenging to be a Ken- lonely.” dent Accessibility and Sup- incredible and very, very pos- Kenyon’s counseling cen- yon student.” THE KENYON COLLEGIAN | THURSDAY, FEB. 5 | KENYONCOLLEGIAN.COM 4 Pass/D/Fail deadline hits before classes reach midterms REGAN HEWITT STAFF WRITER Other colleges allow for things that would never happen at Kenyon ... but it’s all based on the philosophy Since the start of spring semes- of that school.” ter, the Ofce of the Registrar has “Ellen Harbourt, Registrar sent out at least fve emails contain- ing information about the Pass/D/ Fail deadline. For anyone who full-semester courses and April 27 majority of Kenyon students never might still be unaware, the dead- for second module. Modules, like Pass/D/Fail a class, according to the line is tomorrow, Feb. 6, at 4:30 p.m. semesters, block of academic time. Ofce of the Registrar. “Typically, According to the 2014-2015 Wittenberg University makes stu- it’s used on [quantitative reasoning course catalog, the Pass/D/Fail op- dents decide in the third week of classes],” Harbourt said. tion is there “to encourage students the semester. “I’ve never had a problem with to experiment with disciplines … However, bigger universities the deadline,” Katherine Goodwin they might not otherwise try.” Es- tend to have longer periods for ’15 said. “However, I think that if sentially, the Pass/D/Fail option al- Pass/D/Fail options. Te University lots of students are having an is- lows students to take courses out- of Virginia allows students to con- sue … [the College] should add side their major that will not hurt sider the option until April 4. Tufs more time to add/drop week so that their academic standing or overall University allows upperclassmen to students can get out of classes that GPA — unless, of course, they fail decide by Feb. 18 but allows fresh- they’re not enjoying, rather than the class. KRISTEN HUFFMAN | COLLEGIAN men to Pass/Fail classes until April just having to pass/fail them.” If a student passes the class (a Kenyon students pass by the Ofce of the Registrar on their way to class. 1. Michigan State University is one Christiana Binkley ’17 said, “If C- or higher), a “P” will show up on of the few schools with an earlier [the College] is going to give you their transcript and earn them class Support Hoi Ning Ngai wrote in change, said. “However, it’s always deadline than Kenyon’s, making its that much time, you shouldn’t be credit, but it will not afect their an email to the Collegian. Both the four weeks from the beginning of students decide “Credit/No Credit” allowed to pass/fail as many class- GPA. Of the 16 credits required to professor and the student’s advisor the semester.” by Jan. 16. es.” graduate, students are only allowed are obligated to sign the Pass/D/ Other colleges in Ohio do not “[Te Pass/D/Fail deadline] Students who have a problem to earn up to two credits through Fail in order for the student to use have substantially diferent dead- all depends on what that college’s with the deadline may petition the Pass/D/Fail option. it. lines. At other schools, the deadline policies are,” Harbourt said. “Other the College, but those petitions are Each individual instructor can Te Committee on Academic may depend on whether the college colleges allow for things that would generally not well-received. “It’s determine whether their course Standing determines the Pass/D/ operates on quarters, semesters or never happen at Kenyon ... but it’s rare that [petitions] pass, except in will be ofered as a Pass/D/Fail op- Fail deadline and the issue is still trimesters. Te College of Wooster all based on the philosophy of that extenuating circumstances like ill- tion. “Students should always con- brought up from time to time. “[Te allows students to choose a Pass/D/ school.” ness, concussions, etc.,” Harbourt sult with instructors early — it is faculty] have discussions about Fail option until six weeks into the Not many students had com- said. “If you want an academic student responsibility to fnd out whether it should be changed,” semester (approximately Feb. 20 plaints about Kenyon’s deadline policy changed, you have to talk to whether the P/D/F option is al- Registrar Ellen Harbourt, who has this semester). Oberlin College’s compared to other schools. In fact, a faculty members about it because lowed prior to the P/D/F deadline,” worked at the College for 15 years Pass/D/Fail deadline is March 2 for lot of frst years were not even aware they are the people who make the Dean of Academic Advising and and has never seen the deadline the frst module courses, April 6 for that Pass/D/Fail was an option. Te policy.” A Renaissance man: Djerassi ’43 embodied liberal arts

Continued from Page 1 formal, yet warm. “He was a with Chavez. Te pair asked interests.” Despite being the Te one word I would use to describe him is very courtly scholar,” she said. Djerassi to give them a sign af- author of around 1,200 aca- “On the Other Side,” about life generous.” Dale described his father as a ter he reached the other side — demic articles, Djerassi even- in Europe. simultaneously demanding fickering lights or a slamming tually chose to wind down Soon afer graduating “Brant Russell ’02, who directed a play by Djerassi and loving parent, who held screen door, for instance. Djer- his scientifc career in favor of summa cum laude from Ke- liberal politics alongside an assi said he would fush a toilet becoming a patron of the arts nyon at age 19, Djerassi ac- cause he felt the epithet didn’t professor part — Professor Carl “Old World sense of manners.” since the two of them were full and an artist himself. Many cepted a position at the phar- give due credit to his colleague Djerassi — was what he really Tose liberal politics caught of shit. consider Djerassi’s collection maceutical company CIBA, Gregory Pincus and because of valued about his career,” Dale the attention of President Rich- As a self-described “Jewish of the works of abstract painter where he helped develop the the phallo-centric implications said. ard Nixon, who included Djer- atheist,” Djerassi had no inter- Paul Klee to be the largest pri- frst antihistamine to treat al- of attributing all inventions to Former Kenyon trustee assi on his list of enemies later est in religion but engaged with vately held Klee collection in lergies. Concurrently with his “fathers.” He told the Kenyon Harvey Lodish ’62 H’82 P’89 made public afer the Water- the cultural side of his Jewish the world. Additionally, Djer- employment at CIBA he pur- Alumni Bulletin in 2012: “Te worked at Djerassi’s Stanford gate scandal. Ironically, it was identity. “Te fact that he was assi wrote fve novels and nu- sued a PhD at the University nourishing maternal environ- lab the summer before Lodish’s Nixon who presented Djerassi forced to leave his homeland merous short stories, poems of Wisconsin, which he com- ment is much more important senior year at Kenyon. Lodish, with the National Medal of because of his Jewish parent- and plays. pleted at age 22. Tese accom- than a puny sperm. I’d rather now a professor of biology and Science in 1973. To commem- age never lef him,” Dale said. Brant Russell ’02, now an plishments did not go unno- be called the mother of the biomedical engineering at the orate the occasion, Djerassi’s Despite the hardships of his assistant professor of drama at ticed; Syntex, a pharmaceutical Pill.” Massachusetts Institute of graduate students gifed their refugee youth, the suicide the University of Cincinnati, company in Mexico, ofered Mothering the Pill, howev- Technology and a co-founder professor with the ofcial pho- of Pamela, his 28-year-old directed a reading of Djerassi’s him a job. So, Djerassi made a er, was far from Djerassi’s only of several biotechnology com- to of Nixon and Djessari, com- daughter with his second wife play, Insufciency, at Kenyon in pro-and-con list: CIBA or Syt- scientifc contribution. Among panies, said of the experience, plete with a frame bearing the Norma Lundholm, proved to 2012. “Te one word I would nex? Te list overwhelmingly other insights, he pioneered “It made me very aware of the inscription, “Support your lo- be the greatest tragedy of Djer- use to describe him is gener- came out in favor of CIBA, but techniques for understanding way that academic scientists cal enemy,” according to Djer- assi’s life. “Tat was just a gut- ous,” Russell said of Djerassi. Djerassi rejected the meticu- molecular structures. Kenyon can work with industry and assi’s son. Djerassi displayed wrenching tragedy of enor- “He was generous with his lous reasoning of a scientist, President Sean Decatur, who develop important drugs.” the photo in his Stanford ofce mous proportions,” Dale said. time. He was generous with and lef for Syntex, which was holds a PhD in chemistry and “I’ve heard from so many as an expression of his pride Djerassi founded the Djerassi his insight. His output is gen- then a small company lacking who pursued graduate studies people the signifcance of him both at winning the medal and Resident Artists Program to erous — he was an extremely CIBA’s notoriety. Te risk paid at Stanford University while in their lives and I don’t mean at making Nixon’s enemies list. honor Pamela, who was a poet prolifc writer and thinker.” If of. At Syntex, Djerassi and two Djerassi served on Stanford’s in a general, ‘Hey, thank good- Djerassi held on to that and painter. “He shared his any single tendency held con- colleagues developed the hor- faculty, said Djerassi “was real- ness for the birth control pill’ cheeky sense of humor to the love and his grief very publical- stant throughout Djerassi’s life, mone necessary for what, in ly on the leading edge of doing kind of way,” Dale said of his end. He developed a close ly,” Margot Knight, executive it was his compulsion to create. 1951, would become the frst work, including work that a lot father. “I’m talking about very friendship with his personal director of the program, said. “He was not only a brilliant sci- oral contraceptive, also known of students taking [Kenyon’s] personal relationships.” trainer, a man named Jorge Djerassi’s passion for the entist, but also one of these Re- as “the Pill.” organic chemistry courses and Djerassi was not a man Chavez. “[Chavez was] straight arts blossomed later in life, in naissance men,” trustee Alan A proud feminist, Djer- labs would think was sort of one forgot easily. Physically, he out of the Mission District of part due to the encouragement Rothenberg ’67 P’96 H’10 said. assi praised the Pill’s societal routine, that people had always was athletic with a slight limp San Francisco with a check- of his third wife, poet and bi- “He was constantly reinvent- efects; it allowed women to done.” from a teenage skiing accident. ered and challenged youth, ographer Diane Middlebrook ing himself.” prioritize education and ca- Patents such as those neces- His small stature contrasted who overcame everything H’99. Phil Jordan, Kenyon’s Carl Djerassi is survived by reers by deciding if and when sary for the Pill proved lucra- with his intense personality. in order to be a champion of president from 1975 to 1995, his son Dale Djerassi, his step- to have children. Djerassi dis- tive, but Dale emphasized that Director of the Kenyon Insti- life,” Dale said. Days before said of the couple: “Tey just daughter Leah Middlebrook liked being labeled the “father his father valued the pursuit tute Sarah Kahrl remembered his death, Djerassi discussed shared so many interests and and his grandson Alexander of the birth control pill” be- of knowledge above all. “Te Djerassi’s manner as polite and the aferlife with his nurse and supported each other in those Djerassi. THE KENYON COLLEGIAN | THURSDAY, FEB. 5 | KENYONCOLLEGIAN.COM 5 Corporate, family foundations support college programs

NATHANIEL SHAHAN greatly in size. The An- ing that the College ap- NEWS ASSISTANT drew W. Mellon Foun- proaches foundations Most of what [the College Relations Center does] is ... look dation, founded by the with a request to support around and say who out there has gifts to give and has an interest and “Charles Koch Foun- daughter of the industri- certain programming. a purpose that matches what we do.” dation,” “Kraft Foods,” alist Andrew Mellon, is Specifically from the “Heidi McCrory, Vice President for College Relations “Ernst & Young,” “United a large corporate foun- Mellon Foundation, Ke- Way of New York City” dation with a $6-billion nyon has “received gifts and the “Community endowment, according to support … the Writing this money is not politi- supports universities and way a large research in- Foundation of Mount to its website. Some small and Thinking [pre-orien- cal; President Sean De- other non-profit organi- stitution like The Ohio Vernon and Knox Coun- family foundations, tation] program, … [and] catur explained that the zations to explore the in- State University might. ty”: these are just a small meanwhile, are adminis- the Center for Innovative College is a non-partisan stitutions that foster so- However, many donors sampling of the 400-plus tered within the family, Pedagogy,” Klesner said. institution, noting that a cietal well-being.” “give to the Kenyon Fund foundations, corpora- without a large corporate Some of the founda- gift “that was promoting Many corporations are on behalf of employee- tions and organizations staff. tions who give to Ken- specific partisan activ- also listed among the Col- matching programs — as listed on the Kenyon Many of these founda- yon may sound familiar, ity by the College would lege’s sponsors. Director opposed to, say, the An- website as having donat- tions have certain inter- such as the National Sci- clearly be over the line.” of Annual Giving Shawn drew Mellon Foundation, ed money to the College ests and Kenyon applies ence Foundation, or even As for the Charles Koch Dailey wrote in an email which contributes to spe- during the 2013-2014 fis- to receive funding for the Mellon Foundation, Foundation donations, to the Collegian that cor- cific faculty and curricu- cal year. certain programs from which gives to many non- “one was a grant for porate gifts, from entities lar-development projects Annually over the past the applicable founda- profit institutions. How- CSAD [the Center for the ranging from Johnson that we propose to un- five years Kenyon has re- tions, according to Mc- ever, Kenyon also receives Study of American De- & Johnson, the health- dertake,” Galipault wrote ceived “anywhere from Crory. Gund Gallery, for money from some donors mocracy],” Decatur said. care and pharmaceuti- in an email. $4-8 million a year in example, is in part fund- who may not have been “These are pretty clearly cals company, to Google, Kenyon relies on gifts corporate and founda- ed by grants for art from associated with the Col- connected to events that generally go to support- of all sorts both for the tion grants and gifts,” ac- the Mellon Foundation. lege. Charles Koch, one of are about fundamental ing the Kenyon Fund operation of the College cording to Vice President “A foundation could de- the Koch brothers — who economic issues and ap- and are given through and to support specific for College Relations fine what it’s interested have made a name for proached from a non- “matching-gift programs programming. As em- Heidi McCrory. Much in supporting,” McCrory themselves as the billion- partisan way.” for their employees.” The phasized by McCrory and of this money is coming said. “Most of what [the aire backers of many con- McCrory said cer- Kenyon website provides Dailey, the College’s op- from foundations, which College Relations Center servative politicians and tain gifts from the foun- information on corporate erating budget does not donate to Kenyon for use does] is … look around super PACs — adminis- dation helped fund the matching for gifts. This just come from tuition in specific programs. and say who out there ters a foundation that has CSAD conference last money supports opera- dollars and donations “Usually we initiate the has gifts to give and has given money to Kenyon. spring: “Total gifts from tional costs, from profes- from students and alum- grant or gift,” McCrory an interest and a pur- It may be surprising to the Koch brothers’ foun- sor salaries to electricity ni; the College also re- said. She explained that pose that matches what certain members of the dation [are] less than bills to financial aid. ceives gifts from specific foundations “are set up we do.” Kenyon community that $30,000 over five years,” Meg Galipault, di- foundations and corpo- for the whole purpose of The College then pre- this high-level political according to McCrory. rector of corporate and rations that not only keep making gifts and grants pares grant applications donor has given money The Charles Koch Foun- foundation relations, Kenyon in operation, but to nonprofits” and are for these various foun- to a small liberal arts col- dation gives money to noted that Kenyon’s also support for institu- “legally bound to give dations. Provost Joseph lege, especially one with many academic institu- small size prevents it tions like CSAD and oth- away money every year.” Klesner elaborated upon a reputation for having a tions; their website ex- from receiving large cor- er programs created by These foundations vary this strategy, explain- liberal student body. But plains that their “giving porate funding in the the College. ON THE RECORD AINISSA RAMIREZ MATERIALS SCIENTIST

texting all the time you’re just hav- losing the ability to deal with fail- PHOEBE ROE STAFF WRITER ing short sound bites. I think what ure and I would say just hang in we’re going to fnd is that as we get there, try it a diferent way, and they Ainissa Ramirez is, according more and more entrenched in tech- would say just tell me the answer. to her website, “a science evange- nology, the thing that is important Tat’s what it’s about; it’s about fg- list who is passionate about get- is our human skills you can’t teach uring out [the answer for yourself]. ting the general public excited with a robot. And it’s also about having a better about science.” She has also been relationship with failure. It’s not an associate professor at Yale Uni- How do you see technology af- who you are; it’s just the process of versity and a research scientist fecting students today? learning. at Bell Laboratories and Lucent I think it’s a generational thing Technologies. Tis past Monday, because when I was at the library How does that play into sci- Ramirez spoke at Kenyon in a [in college] we didn’t have Wi-Fi. ence? lecture called “What’s Big about Even the library is diferent. Te li- Over the last week I’ve been on Nano: Basic Science, Economic brary used to be quiet; you used to the news talking about Defate-gate Impact & Societal Issues.” hear “shh.” Te library isn’t quiet [a controversy surrounding the ac- anymore. People are talking, not on cusation that the New England Pa- CORA MARKOWITZ | COLLEGIAN Have you thought at all about the phone, but they’re having con- triots purposefully used defated Ainissa Ramirez speaks to a group of Kenyon students. [what will happen] when we’re versations. When I was teaching footballs during a championship living with robots? Will we still I would say, OK, no cell phones. If game] and everybody wants the actly where it’s going to go but you know how coaches are trying need the communicative tools there was a laboratory and they had precise answer, and in science you when you drop it you have no idea. to fnd a small knob of how they we use now? a question, I would say just write it don’t have the answer. ...You have Tere’s a feld in science called cha- can perform — maybe coaches Te data is showing that the in the corner of your notebook and to keep studying it, [because] that’s os theory — this randomness that should do a better job of control- more that we get connected, we’re look it up later. It’s artifcial at this not good enough for the general falls right with [football]. [Ramirez ling fumbles. It sounds silly and losing some human skills. We’re point but you have to carve out that public — they want the answer. and her coworkers] found two people say we want to do the big losing our empathy; I remember space. teams and they looked exactly the important stuf, but that is one when I was at Yale [University], You’ve also written about foot- same except for how they recovered of the small spaces that is really one student ... said, “I’ve never You’ve also taught and talked ball in the past. fumbles. One did a better job of re- open for an advantage. had a long conversation.” Tat’s about how students have a dif- It’s more than just vectors and covering fumbles and we said they how you discover who you are, cult time with failure. collisions — things like that. When did a better job of controlling chaos Tis interview has been edited what’s important to you. If you’re Right. I thought people were you throw [the ball] you know ex- and they had a better season. So for length and clarity. 6 THE KENYON COLLEGIAN | THURSDAY, FEB. 5 | KENYONCOLLEGIAN.COM The Kenyon Collegian welcomes your opinions @KenyonCollegian. Share your thoughts: #QuickComplaints. OPINIONS Write to us! Submit letters to the editor at EDITORS: MATTHEW ELEY AND [email protected]. ANNIE SHESLOW

STAFF EDITORIAL EDITORIAL CARTOON Trustees should focus on aid, endowment Starting today, Kenyon’s Board of Trustees will convene in New York City to address a variety of issues — some old, some new and more pressing. Regardless of the subjects, they all have one thing in common: money. Kenyon feels the issue of scarcity a bit more keenly than its better-endowed peer institutions, and it would be foolish to act on the more superfluous aspects of the master plan that would beggar the College of the funds it has. Another goal of this meeting is to plan for the next capital campaign, the last one — We are Kenyon — having raised more than $240 million for the College between 2007 and 2011. What should the next campaign spend its money on? We urge the trustees to prioritize Ke- CARTOON BY CHANDLER DAVIS nyon’s economic accessibility, both for those looking to migrate to the Hill and those already on it. While a beautiful campus, full of modern amenities and extras, may attract more applications, we Local perspective more insightful than stats imagine that a school with a more gen- ing individuals needed to re- erous financial-aid program would have MATTHEW ELEY But as far as as Kristi Layton’s P’18 own per- the same effect, and upon more of the OPINIONS EDITOR spectively fund and justify the kinds of students we’d like to enroll. tax. But the story’s conclusion sonal experience with the Afordable Care Act, I We hope the board uses its resources In last week’s article, — in which Layton personally don’t think it’s prudent to chalk a local business to assist students with things they have “Obamacare in Knox County” was not pleased with the ACA “owner’s bad experience with the program up to little sway over, for example in the vein (Jan. 29, 2015), writers Na- — cannot be smoothed over nationally-assumed problems.” of the commendable Summer Intern- thaniel Shahan and Deborah by good intentions and gener- ship Stipend Fund which, among other Malamud began an excellent alities as Slonczewski provides. things, provides for students in need of insight into how the local area Individual stories are hard to professional attire. If the College feels a has received and benefted quantify for a good reason, and she used to pay for want of an vidual interviewed and the re- financial pinch, we hope it will be from from the Afordable Care Act they get in the way of sound insurance navigator suggests porters. giving out more aid awards or increasing (ACA). Part of their ascertain- conclusions. But not giving either the ACA is needlessly It is easy to discount the the Student Activities budget for funding ing local sentiment involved those personal experiences due complex or Layton was unable value of individuals in regards events that will enrich the community, interviewing Kristi Layton diligence is akin to trustees vis- to give it due diligence. I am to their personal experience rather than from putting a ballroom in P’18 of Centerburg. iting Gambier twice yearly and sure neither conclusion was regarding those national polit- the Kenyon Inn. Te piece also prompted a assuming they know the situa- Slonczewski’s intended one. ical issues with which we are so Lastly, the Collegian encourages the letter to the editor by Professor tion as intimately as residents Layton’s experience, though attuned. Te Collegian writers trustees to be more transparent in their of Biology Joan Slonczewski, — which they do, so I suppose anecdotal, is certainly not a sought to circumvent this per- goings-on. Likely only a minority of stu- printed in this week’s issue on there is a precedent. singular appearance. To dis- spective by specifcally seeking dents are aware of the meeting taking the adjacent page. Slonczews- But as far as Layton’s own miss it an “individual having to out local impressions that will place over the next few days, in spite of ki’s remarks in support of the personal experience with the pay more” on account of pre- have not made it to the nation- the fact that many decisions made there ACA are ones worth reading ACA, I don’t think it’s pru- vious poor insurance (which al perspective and thus, more will greatly affect them. It would behoove and I do not wish to contest dent to chalk a local business Layton, we might assume, likely than not, to the Hill. the board to establish a relationship with them with local anecdotes. In owner’s bad experience with chose rationally) and their the community, so as to lessen the feeling Knox County, one would fnd the program up to nation- lacking access to an insurance Matthew Eley ’15 is an Eng- that important changes made to Kenyon personal stories both for and ally assumed problems. Slon- navigator, when the news story lish major from Howard, Ohio. are being handed down from above. against the ACA, as we have czewski’s assertion that Layton did not specify either of these Contact him at eleym@kenyon. both the healthy and the ail- incurred costs twice of what details, is unfair to the indi- edu.

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KATE RIDLEY ANNIE SHESLOW CONTRIBUTOR Needless to say, my assumptions OPINIONS EDITOR When I frst saw the were proven incorrect when Bakkhai Te harshest thing a posters for the Kenyon was entirely accessible and became my professor ever commented College Dance and Dra- “ on one of my papers was ma Club’s production of new favorite play. It didn’t matter that that “my technique became Bakkhai, I wasn’t con- over 2,000 years had passed since its a parody of what I was try- vinced it was for me. Even ing to achieve.” Admittedly, afer it garnered rave re- frst production; Bakkhai still addressed my strategy of bleeding dry views from my friends, it topics to which my friends and I could every possible meaning of still took me until Satur- relate.” a William Carlos Williams day afernoon to actually poem and then continuing buy a ticket. I didn’t as- to beat it to a pulp with an sume it was a bad produc- analytical stick deserved tion, nor did the subject arecent translation and problem is with us, not criticism, but I am not sure matter look boring. In- modern costuming, this them. Obviously we can’t it merited being branded as stead, the mistake I made does not take away from be expected to like it all, the “Weird Al” Yankovic of was believing I wouldn’t the fact that something but even trying to would critical writing. be able to relate to a work so old could be made as count as progress. Tough I was taken back of theater written 2,420 entertaining now as it As students, we should by the professor’s biting years ago. was when it was frst per- attempt to get the most words, I felt reassured both Needless to say, my as- formed. Sure, I had nev- possible out of the docu- by the fact that it was accu- sumptions were proven er particularly disliked ments and concepts pre- rate and that I knew I could incorrect when Bakkhai reading Te Canterbury sented to us. Simply put, always sofen the blow by was entirely accessible Tales or looking at Re- there’s no better time. Af- discussing the paper in of- and became my new fa- naissance paintings, but I ter college, we’re probably fce hours. vorite play. It didn’t mat- had never been able to re- not going to be reading Both these facts indicate ter that over 2,000 years late to them, either. I cer- books or analyzing plays my faulty, misinformed re- had passed since its frst tainly didn’t think that I to make a living; cul- lationship with authority. production; Bakkhai still found them as wonderful tural exposure is going I am the child of a former addressed topics to which as their frst audience did. to have to be on our own Peace Corps volunteer and a nearby park. I was shocked heard is not a chore but a my friends and I could re- What I am now real- time and our own initia- Dead Head who guided me that a fellow human being privilege. late. Of course, these top- izing is that maybe this is tive, so let’s take advan- to Montessori kindergarten existed on such a diferent I don’t want to be ics were namely partying because I simply assumed tage of the opportunities and then 12 years of Quak- plane that his two minutes standing on some kind of hard and experiencing they could not be as en- we have now. It’s possible er school, during which I became more precious than already-nostalgic soap- sexual tension. But others tertaining or relevant, that your next obsession sang a lot of children’s gos- a family scrapbook bedaz- box, but I can say the “real included the strength of without ever giving them will be a Gregorian chant pel songs and learned that zled with diamonds. I knew world” outside the Kenyon familial bonds, fghting the chance. Reading Te from the 10th century, or for ideas in which we be- Canterbury Tales, I never a dark romance from the lieve and the desire to be considered how much I 19th century. You never free from societal norms. could relate to the Wife of know until you give it a Although the produc- Bath’s desire for indepen- chance. tion was aided by the ex- dence and power in a pa- Te chance to speak to our ignorance, errors and issues in a space cellent directorial edits triarchal society. When Kate Ridley ’18 is un- in which constructive comments are encouraged and heard is not made by Assistant Pro- we have trouble grasping declared from Piedmont, a chore but a privilege. I don’t want to be standing on some kind of fessor of Drama Ben Vic- the importance or delight Calif. She can be con- “ already-nostalgic soapbox, but I can say the ‘real world’ outside the cellio ’98, which included of old works, maybe the tacted at ridleyk@kenyon. Kenyon bubble is almost as scary as MTV’s Real World , in the sense that there is a lot of yelling and no one listens. ”

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conficts get solved by tak- the producer did not want bubble is almost as scary Dear Editors, ing time to talk them out on to discuss my mistake con- as MTV’s Real World, in a personal, vulnerable level. structively in his ofce, and the sense that there is a lot I’d like to add some points to your informative article, “Obamacare Naturally, my consen- I had a Dorothy Gale-like of yelling and no one lis- in Knox County” (January 29, 2015). sus-and-compromise-lov- realization that I was not in tens. Kenyon helps students Obamacare benefits all Americans by stopping denial of coverage ing heart chose Kenyon for Gambier anymore. identify, analyze and speak for “preexisting conditions.” To recall what “preexisting” was like, go the tight-knit community As an editor of the Opin- helpfully about what mat- see the Michael Moore film, Sicko. and chance to learn from ions section of the Collegian ters, though these voices Obamacare also limits the annual increase of insurance cost. Nev- professors who valued sim- this year, I have seen the probably will not be heard ertheless, some individuals have to pay more because their previous ilarly egalitarian “Kum- campus produce enlighten- on the same clear register quality of coverage was poor, and because people lack access to in- baya” methods of working ing responses as well as ar- outside the College, or will surance navigators to find the best price. The Republican leaders of through issues. gumentative ping-ponging not be heard at all. I know I Ohio have done everything they can to block success of Obamacare Although I knew I was and dirt-slinging to address have little authority to harp by refusing to hire navigators, and refusing to publicize help for the naïve, I realized just how conficts. Certainly the on postgraduate reality health exchange. sheltered my defnition College is imperfect, and a like some collegiate Andy Your article cites a retired professor who feels inconvenienced. of authority was when I quick fip to Yik Yak proves Rooney when I have barely However, before Obamacare, some of your Kenyon professors could worked as a lowly intern for that students (and possibly experienced it. However, I not afford to retire because we support family members who were in- a production company in humanity as a whole) can do think there is value in capable of getting their own insurance. Thanks to Obamacare, we will Manhattan this summer. be consistently terrible. the shelter of the Kenyon be able to retire some day. One day, I made a mistake While felding the con- bubble, if only for the way with the phone and ended stant criticisms in the Opin- it amplifes and echoes our Sincerely, up putting the second-in- ions section can be frustrat- tiny voices. Joan Slonczewski command producer on hold ing sometimes, the chance Professor of Biology for two minutes. He yelled to speak to our ignorance, Annie Sheslow ’15 is an at me, and like an adult, I ex- errors and issues in a space English major from Wilm- cused myself from the ofce in which constructive com- ington, Del. Contact her at to break down in tears at a ments are encouraged and [email protected]. 8 THE KENYON COLLEGIAN | THURSDAY, FEB. 5 | KENYONCOLLEGIAN.COM UPCOMING EVENTS FEB. 5 | 8 P.M. FEB. 5 | 4:15 P.M. FEB. 6 | 7 P.M. FEB. 7 | 8 P.M. A+E FILM FILM FILM CONCERT FRANCOPHONE FILM ANITA: SPEAKING FRANCOPHONE FILM FES- KNOX COUNTY EDITOR: ELANA SPIVACK FESTIVAL: À BOUT DE TRUTH TO POWER TIVAL: LE DERNIER DES SYMPHONY SOUFFLE ROSSE HALL INJUSTES ROSSE HALL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION THEATER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION THEATER Bakkhai features debauchery and dichotomies galore

DAVID FALLER and Dionysos (Issa Polstein tainly as far as appearance and tempting to convince Pentheus STAFF WRITER ’15) wanted to capitalize on the costume, he embodied both of his divinity. Some of the excitement to ensure he was versions submitted, but when middle sections of the almost Te theme at the Bolton acknowledged as a god. Elders it came to embodying the be- two-hour play were almost Teater this year seems to Kadmos (Alex Kirshy ’17) and haviors, there was a discon- tedious — lulls in the action be the merging of worlds. Teiresias (Adam Zaremsky ’15) nect. Te instances of playful- (not that much happened on Te Ballad of Bonnie Prince led the Teban believers, wel- ness felt colored by something stage at all, per standard Greek Chucky, staged in October, coming Dionysos with open much more solemn. Likewise, dramatists) lef little for actors fused an ordinary Scottish arms. Kirshy and Zaremsky the bursts of anger had some- to work with — but there was boarding school with a mon- were a fun pair, especially in thing holding them back as almost always some staging or archy gone horribly wrong, one of the play’s more comedic well. What for a traditional visual trickery to hold atten- while Euripides’s Bakkhai, per- sequences during which they character should have been a tion. formed last weekend, featured tried to avoid Kadmos’s grand- STEPHANIE FONGHEISER | COLLEGIAN necessary through line was out It wasn’t until the end, the mystical realm of a Greece son Pentheus (Max Pescherine Te chorus and dancers of KCDC’s Bakkhai run amok. of place. But this Dionysos was though, that the impact of plagued by gods combatting a ’17). Both roles required a tran- a character designed to be mis- the play became apparent. modern disbelief in the super- sition from the comedic to lect. Tus, at the end of the translation aptly adds another matched, and Polstein’s perfor- Dionysos’s fury toward Pen- natural. But where the worlds the serious. Teiresias seemed play, his previous behavior did for good measure, and the pro- mance emulated this erratic theus’s was revealed to have in Chucky coexisted, seam- like a kooky old man, but a not confict with his newfound duction’s director and Assis- depiction, highlighting it in a no bounds, and the punish- lessly transitioning from high straight-comedy actor would sorrow but exacerbated it, tant Professor of Drama Ben roundabout way. ment he inficted on Pentheus, school to quasi-medieval king- have thrown of the solemn making it all the more heart- Viccellio ’98 seemed to have Dionysos serves as the crux Kadmos and Agave (Pentheus’ dom to some liminal region in tone necessary for later scenes. breaking. Te tension peaked made it his mission to empha- of another dichotomy: that of smother) was horrifying even which both manifested, those Zaremsky’s past performances when Agave (Julia Greer ’15) size as many as possible. Most Dionysian and Apollonian at- to his followers. Compounded in Bakkhai were constantly proved him to be most adept fnally realized that she had signifcant were those relat- titudes. In this way, Dionysos by the atmosphere (magnif- at war. Also known as Te at Teiresias’s style of comedy, murdered her son, Pentheus, ing to Dionysos, the core of opposes Pentheus, the Apol- cent and dynamic lighting uti- Bacchae, Te Bacchai or Te and here he managed to juggle and she and Kadmos attempt- the play; Euripides’s depiction lonian representative. Viccellio lizing shadows, immersive use Bacchantes, all deriving from zaniness and gravity with im- ed to reassemble his dismem- had conficting characteriza- emphasized this through cos- of sound, and a creepy chorus), Bacchus, which derives from pressive fnesse. bered body. Greer’s perfor- tions. Te chorus of bakkhai tuming: those with the favor of the moment was powerful. Bromio (another name for Di- Similarly, the role of Kad- mance was haunting, and in conveyed a Dionysos who was Bacchus were garbed in tradi- And the words of Pentheus’ onysos), Bakkhai refers to the mos was mostly perfunctory, that moment established Dio- kind and carefree, concerned tional Greek outfts, while Pen- guard, afer seeing the havoc female followers of Dionysus, but Kirshy gave him emotional nysos as an antagonist. only with pleasure. But the theus’s mooks wore suits and wreaked by Dionysos, re- the god of fertility, wine and weight, making his silly antics Dichotomies infested this character Dionysos was angry generally resembled the Secret turned hauntingly: “Wisdom ecstasy. the result of an afect acquired play. Euripides intended a and vengeful and focused on a Service. is knowing the will of the gods Bacchic revelries had through age and experience few, cultural context provides single, prideful goal. Tis made Te majority of the plot and doing as they ask. Tere is thrown Tebes into a tizzy, rather than diminished intel- some more, Carl R. Mueller’s Polstein a curious choice. Cer- revolves around Dionysos at- nothing wiser for man.” Artist profle: Ashley Tompson’s world of whimsy, war

ELANA SPIVACK with war imagery. “I always have very doing things that made me seem like ARTS EDITOR bright paintings, utilizing the im- I was Chinese.” agery of girlhood: pink, polka dots, Using the found objects to show At any given time, Kenyon stu- bubble-gum — that sort of thing,” her mother’s past and China’s his- dents are dealing with a colossal she said. Using everything from tory as well as her own poppy, candy- amount of work. Tey have to-do family photographs to Chinese pro- toned images, Tompson can rec- lists flled with unfnished obliga- paganda posters, she creates a dark oncile her own identity. “My art has tions, chores and assignments that twist of the carefree and sinister. “I always been the way that I’ve dealt might be put of until long into the also tend to work with a lot of found with life and I fnd it to be a very nec- night. Te concept of a laundry list imagery and family photographs be- essary act,” she said. “I don’t think exists to a much lesser extent for Ash- cause I like to tell stories with my art that I could be a human without it. It ley Tompson ’15 because for her, a and I found a lot of really interesting allows me to give meaning to expe- self-driven artist as well as a declared photographs of my mom from 1966 riences, and to understand why cer- studio art major, work will never be when the [Chinese Cultural Revolu- tain things happen and the ability to done. Tough Tompson is currently tion] started,” she said. empathize with people. I don’t think deep into her senior exercise, art is no Friend and art history student Vir- I would have a relationship with my hassle for her. It is not a source of anx- ginia McBride ’15 has worked closely mom without art.” iety so much as the creed by which with Tompson, and the two share Tompson’s artwork reaches COURTESY OF ASHLEY THOMPSON she lives; it permeates every corner of ideas and knowledge to help each beyond her class portfolio and Hor- Artist Ashley Tompson ’15 plays with themes both sweet and sinister. her life, inside and outside the class- other. “Ashley’s work is deceptively vitz Hall. She is applying to gradu- room. personal — beneath a candy veneer of ate school for art now, but also works Gus fnished (“...and he can ft his terms of class projects than in an “I wake up every morning and pop-culture imagery, her works con- on independent projects on the Hill. whole fst in his mouth”). Tomp- evolving body of work, and it’s dif- I’m very thankful I have a purpose,” tend with a complex and ofen pain- During her sophomore and junior son added, “Not that [a] gag joke can’t fcult to distinguish her art from the Tompson said. “I get kind of fanati- ful family history,” McBride wrote in year, she presented her work at the be art. I defnitely think a gag joke rest of her life.” cal about art in a way. I feel like it has an email to the Collegian. Horn Gallery, in one joint show can be art, but not my most power- Tompson perceives no unpleas- the ability to save lives and that it can Tompson’s relationship with her show called Old Boobs, New Boobs ful art.” Additionally, she creates art ant demands in her art classes. Cre- assign value to things and that art Chinese mother and her own identity with Hallie Bahn ’14 that juxtaposed for her friends. For one such project, ating work is an obligation, but not should have a sense of morality. … I as a mixed-race woman has heav- happy-go-lucky images and bright, she and James Karlin ’15 once pre- one for class. It is an obligation that don’t know how else to process what ily infuenced her art. “When I was childish pictures with pornography. sented a friend with a lady-beetle pi- seems to arise from within her. She happens to me and the world around younger, I used to be very ashamed Last year, she showcased her work in ñata flled with hand-dipped chicken believes art should be something that me without art.” Kenyon boasts that of my mom, just of the cultural difer- an exhibition called Bling Bling and wings. “I would love to do a birthday elucidates somebody’s point of view its students follow their passion, and ences that I didn’t understand at all,” Edible Tings, which showed more party performance piece where we fll and evokes a strong response. How- Tompson exhibits exactly the sen- she said. “She’s very rude; she greets manically sweet images. a piñata with sauce-drenched meat or ever, while she must venture into dark timent Kenyon advertises, and then my friends by saying they look like She has done humorous gag art ribs,” she said. “Like a meat cake. I re- places while she paints, art alleviates some. they’ve gained a few extra pounds, before, once collaborating with Gus ally like meat.” misery rather than perpetuates it. “I Her art mainly addresses irony she pees in the shower, she talks re- Riley ’16 on a fnish-this-sentence- McBride elaborated on Tomp- think there is no misery in art and I and juxtaposition. Ofentimes she ally loudly, she asks people how much inspired project. Tompson posed son’s perpetual motion through art, like to be able to laugh while I paint,” will juxtapose saccharine sweetness their homes cost. I would try to avoid the start (“Jesus is back and…”) while saying, “She seems to think less in she said. THE KENYON COLLEGIAN | THURSDAY, FEB. 5 | KENYONCOLLEGIAN.COM 9 Casting director Klapper spotlights theater industry careers Theater students got a closer look at the audition process, as well as less conventional routes to success, in Stephanie Klapper’s workshop.

LAUREN KATZ STAFF WRITER She went through a lot of diferent stages in her the- atrical career, and clearly had a lot of diferent interests Partially thanks to the Ca- within theater from the beginning. ... I feel like hearing reer Development Office’s “about the path that her career took was enlightening, many emails, it is impossible and defnitely relevant to me because I could see my ca- for Kenyon seniors to forget reer going a couple diferent ways within the theater.” that the threat of post-grad unemployment looms large. Rachel Kaplan ’15 Luckily, the drama depart- ment has noticed the high stress, and has chosen to take It would be irresponsible of time at SUNY Purchase, action. us to ignore such a valuable Klapper developed her pro- On Saturday, Jan. 31, cast- resource.” ducing and directing skills. ing director and Kenyon While Klapper has been in After graduating, she found parent Stephanie Klapper — the business for over 20 years, herself falling into the cast- mother of Caitelin McCoy ’17 her path toward opening her ing field. At first, the job was — held a Q-and-A workshop own agency, Stephanie Klap- meant to supplement her in- to better inform drama stu- per Casting, was complicated, terest in directing, but that dents of what to expect when and was the product of hav- soon changed. entering the theater profes- ing tried her hand at a num- “Casting was about mak- sion. The workshop was split ber of different areas in the ing a picture happen,” Klap- PHOTO COURTESY OF STEPHANIE KLAPPER into two parts: a discussion of performing arts before cast- per said. She enjoyed placing Casting director Stephanie Klapper P’17 provided career and audition insights. Klapper’s past experience and ing. actors together in order to a set of mock auditions. As a senior in high school, help make a story unfold, and It is no surprise this is Klapper dabbled with film- eventually, Stephanie Klap- to me because I could see my shop,] they learn the lingo, the second year that Kenyon making, and came to the con- per Casting was born. career going a couple differ- … they learn about headshots has invited Klapper to lead clusion that this was the ca- Klapper acknowledged ent ways within the theater.” and résumés and they learn a workshop. From being a reer for her. Though she had that her path was rare, and Klapper devoted the sec- how much preparation is in- member of The Casting So- never made a film before, she typically professionals do ond part of the workshop to volved for a single audition.” ciety of America to casting was accepted into the film not fall into the casting field. mock auditions. She brought The workshop is just one projects that have won Tony program at State University However, sharing her experi- in “sides,” or scenes from example of how the depart- Awards, Klapper has a lot of New York (SUNY) at Pur- ence helped workshop par- plays, and invited partici- ment hopes to better prepare of experience and advice to chase, and found herself in a ticipants, including drama pants to audition in order to their students for gradua- share. freshman class of 60 students major Rachel Kaplan ’15, un- help them understand what tion. On Friday, Feb. 4, they “In response to demand — more specifically, 58 men derstand that nothing is set she looks for when she casts a will hold another workshop for a greater focus on career and two women. in stone, and that drama stu- production. at 4:10 p.m. in the Hill The- tracking, the drama depart- Klapper struggled with dents have the option to dab- Playwright-in-Residence ater, with Megan Dobkin ’95, ment has made a real effort in the demands of the depart- ble in many fields until they and Professor of Drama Wen- who worked in development recent years to prepare majors ment and took a semester off find their passion. dy MacLeod ’81 was particu- and as a producer along with for the more pragmatic as- during her sophomore year. “She went through a lot of larly excited about this aspect her husband, director David pects of a life in the theater,” She jokingly explained dur- different stages in her theat- of the workshop. “Our grad- Dobkin (Wedding Crashers). Assistant Professor of Dra- ing the workshop that the rical career, and clearly had a uates are very well thought “As a department, we put ma Ben Viccellio ’98 wrote school wanted her to “suffer lot of different interests with- of in the wider world,” Ma- great focus on the work, but in an email to the Collegian. more” and that the time away in theater from the begin- cLeod said. “They know what probably not enough on navi- “[Klapper] is a Kenyon par- was useful because when she ning,” Kaplan said. “I feel like to do when they get the job, gating the transition into the ent; bringing her in to share returned, she realized her hearing about the path that but they need to know more ‘real world,’” Viccellio said. her wealth of knowledge and heart was in drama. her career took was enlight- about how to get those first “We are working to remedy experience was a no-brainer. During her remaining ening, and definitely relevant jobs. [Through the work- that.” Figure drawing focuses on the art of the human form

Students practice art and appreciate the physical form. You think you know it, but you really don’t until you actually see it. It turns into [something] other than this form that every- BAILEY BLAKER and the beauty of hu- in drawing form.” ARTS ASSITANT man anatomy. Every session focuses one thinks they know — into shapes and shading, spheres and “I’ve been obsessed on a student model and “rectangles.” When you look at with drawing the fig- his or her relationship your upper arm, what ure since I’ve started,” with the student artists Meg Gardella ’16 on drawing the human body do you see? Do you see Gardella said during in the room. Each mod- your freckles? The defi- this week’s drawing ses- el holds multiple poses in high school,” Jurney said. “So when you see and shading, spheres nition of your muscles? sion. “It’s just such a for varying lengths of said. “[The session] is how people draw you, and rectangles.” The Have you ever looked at transient form that is time — some last as an opportunity to force and you see how beau- shapes and the shading your arm and thought constantly interesting briefly as 10 minutes, myself to the next level. tiful the drawing is, it are all present within of a sphere? How about to people.” That inter- others as long as 30 … It was like a chal- doesn’t really matter the work of the student a rectangle? est is apparent when minutes. Every pose is lenge; if I can do this, what my body looks like artists who attend the Seeking out such de- considering that many discussed by both the then I’ve gotten as far as — it’s still beautiful.” sessions each and every tails is the goal for Meg students who attend the model and the session’s I’d like to have gotten.” For Gardella, inter- week. Their care of and Gardella ’16 and the weekly sessions are reg- student proctor to en- Jurney, who has partici- est in the human form dedication to the art of other dedicated student ulars. Gardella said the sure the model’s com- pated in the sessions as comes from both its fa- the human body is what artists who participate sessions are meant as a fort. For Tim Jurney both a model and an art- miliarity and complexi- makes the sessions such in Kenyon’s communi- resource for students ’15, modeling for the ist, enjoys the dynamic ty. “You think you know a rewarding experience ty figure -drawing ses- looking to enhance community sessions between the two groups. it, but you really don’t for those involved. sions. This group of their skill at drawing presents not only an After every pose, Jurney until you actually see The community fig- students, which ranges the human body. “[The opportunity to further requests to see the stu- it,” she said. “It turns ure-drawing sessions from 10 to 15 attendees sessions are] mostly for his artistic experience, dents’ sketches. “I think into [something] oth- are open to students ev- each week, has created artistic purposes,” she but also a personal you are the most critical er than this form that ery Monday 7:30 to 9:30 a community centered said. “[They are] for stu- challenge. “I struggled person of yourself at any everyone thinks they p.m. in Horvitz Hall around the art of form dents who are interested with body image a lot given point in time,” he know — into shapes 316. THE KENYON COLLEGIAN | THURSDAY, FEB. 5 | KENYONCOLLEGIAN.COM 10 Booking shows and shuttling stars: inside the Horn Students at the Horn take a hands-on approach to bringing talent to the Hill.

ELANA SPIVACK Te money goes toward pay- ARTS EDITOR ing artists and providing food and lodging. Te Horn must weigh an Te Lumineers. Macklemore. artist’s popularity on campus with Yung Humma. Te Cunninlyn- his or her cost to perform. Col- guists. Tis might seem like a lison described how a great band hodge-podge of musicians, but might be available, but would cost these artists all have a common $5,000 dollars — about one ffh of thread: the Horn Gallery. Garage- the Horn’s budget, and if only 10 rock indie bands, Grammy-win- or 20 students come, it might not ning groups and Pop 40 artists be worth it. have performed at the Horn Gal- Rather than hire an agent to lery. But how does the Horn fll book shows, the leaders and man- its lineup? What sort of business agers of the Horn book shows process must occur before the fun themselves. From contacting begins? agents to picking up artists from COURTESY OF SONIA PRABHU Charlie Collison ’15, Horn the airport, the students take full Khalif Diouf, better known by his stage name Le1f, is one of the many acts brought to the Horn every semester. senior advisor, and Rebecca responsibility for the Horn’s sched- Saltzman ’15, a co-manager along ule and operation, sometimes go- up contracts for a band, she would that from time to time we’ll get a band from the airport and get- with Lewis Turley ’17, know the ing through the Student Activities have to turn the reins over to the boxed out of dates because we are ting lost in an Ohio feld on the routine cold. Tey have both Ofce (SAO) to fnalize deals. Te SAO. “I couldn’t sign personal not as efcient as a concert venue way back. On a darker note, he worked with the Horn since their Horn tries to book all its acts by the contracts, they [the SAO] had to that people are paying tickets at. … also recalled getting to open for frst year at Kenyon. Tey learned beginning of the semester, though sign personal contracts,” Lightner We have to gauge whether people DJ Rashad, a producer and elec- all aspects of running the space, things can fall through. It can take said. “Good business practice is will like it or not.” tronic musician who fathered a from building maintenance to ac- anywhere from two weeks to six for you to be the person to speak Collison also asserted that the genre called the Chicago Footwork commodating artists. “We usu- months to close a contract. from the beginning until the end Horn’s collaboration with the SAO Scene; fve months afer his per- ally make dinner for the bands. … Valerie Lightner ’15 brings an but unfortunately, you would then has been largely successful. “Both formance at the Horn, DJ Rashad We’ll make tons of chili and give it outside perspective to the Horn’s have to switch over to these other Annie [Vleck, a past adviser] and died of a heroin overdose, which to everyone,” Saltzman said. “And booking process. Lightner, a people so I would just have send of Kim [Blank] … have been very ca- vaulted him to posthumous fame. they love it,” Collison added. “And Cleveland native, has done semi- all this work to this other person pable people, especially with the Te Horn provides a space for they eat restaurant food all the professional work booking bands who didn’t necessarily know what documents and stuf like that,” he people to share a love of live mu- time. for large and small venues since was happening or what protocol said. “Maybe you don’t get to see sic rather than educate people Of course, the Horn is not ex- her freshman year of high school, is.” However, Collison described the thing the whole way through ... about the booking business. Col- actly cheap. It takes money to fund and had plenty of experience un- how the Horn handles conficts Tere’s no way to work around it. lison noted his absolute love for myriad musical performances. der her belt once she got to Ken- fuidly despite encountering ob- But Kim and Annie had and have the Horn’s presence, and that its Saltzman discussed how funds yon. stacles with booking. “Ofentimes been very helpful.” priority of student entertainment from the Business and Finance She worked with the Horn only things will fall through and some- Te Horn has also had inter- will always trump making prof- Committee usually clock in be- her frst year at Kenyon. Having one will not be able to book a date esting encounters with artists. it. Lightner articulated the busi- tween $24,000 and $28,000. Next established her name in the book- or something like that and because Saltzman mentioned getting to ness point of view. “I do under- to Social Board, the Horn Gallery ing game, Lightner took issue with we try to do things as democrati- take a nap with one of her favorite stand [live performance] is an art has the highest budget, primarily the Horn’s scheduling etiquette. cally as possible,” he said. “It’s a punk musicians, Jonathan Rich- form, but you do have to think of because it is an events space. She did not like that while drawing very slow process which means man. Collison recalled picking up it in terms of a business,” she said. Mystery and media: Esslinger discusses Host exhibit

SAM ROSCHEWSK STAFF WRITER I think we reached a pretty good balance of having a spirit to it, an ethos, and maybe a mystery to it — not just science and technology.” “Artist Talk” doesn’t quite sum up the creative and “Claudia Esslinger, Professor of Art thought-provoking presenta- tion Professor of Art Claudia Esslinger gave last Tursday in a new way. “In my past, as gestive.” er think. By the end, I was at 6 p.m. in the Commu- an artist, I was a printmaker For the duration of the surprised to fnd that even nity Foundation Teater on frst,” she said. “Printmakers presentation, Esslinger though the video footage her new Gund Gallery in- layer images; very ofen it’s showed a video which used lasted about a half hour, I felt stallation piece called Host. more than one image. … I do techniques similar to the as if I had only been sitting Te piece uses custom-pro- the same thing with video, video layering seen in the in- in the Gund Gallery’s Com- grammed digital media and and they play against each stallation. Te ethereal mu- munity Foundation Teater video layering to show the KATIE LOVINS | COLLEGIAN other.” At the presentation, sic, and Esslinger’s voiced- for fve minutes. “It was un- interaction of technology Professor Claudia Esslinger speaks about her exhibit, Host. she revealed why she chose to over poetry and prose-like usual, unlike anything I’d and the environment. move onto video as opposed speech, made the flm a ever experienced before,” Esslinger’s installation choice poignantly attacks the Feller, assistant professor of to continuing with print- spiritual experience simi- Addy Wagner ’18 said. Te gives of an ethereal vibe, supposed tension between music. Giblin programmed a making, she said, “I see it as a lar to her installation. One flm was truly an original and there’s a sort of spiri- the way we interact with the majority of the piece, accord- natural transition to use the part that particularly stuck and unusual way to present tuality that comes with her natural world and the way we ing to Esslinger, who said he technology of the age.” out was video footage of a these ideas, but it was efec- technique of video layering. interact with technology. We had once told her he believed Te talk itself was more forest with foreign and ex- tive, provocative, and made “We didn’t want the technol- ofen believe that technology that “programming is just of a performance piece ac- otic plant life. Layered over for an overall enjoyable and ogy to overcome it though,” and nature come from com- like painting,” in the sense companying her installa- those images was a business- thoughtful experience. Esslinger said. “I think we pletely diferent realms and that it takes a lot of creative tion, which perfectly paral- man with a tape measure As an attendee, the pre- reached a pretty good bal- they cannot be reconciled efort. leled her ideals and the tone and ruler trying to measure sentation lef me feeling ance of having a spirit to it, an with one another. Esslinger’s Esslinger’s inspiration for of her art. “I’m not someone out the lengths of leaves and haunted and questioning ethos, and maybe a mystery piece suggests, however, that Host came from many places, who likes to be explicit or po- such. Tis efect seemed to life around me for the rest of to it — not just science and perhaps this is not the case. including her ideals, her col- litical [in their art] but there grasp the strangeness of our the evening, wondering how technology.” Indeed, when Esslinger worked collab- laborators’ ideals and physi- are of course implications,” natural environment when I connect technology to my walking through the exhibit, oratively on this project with cal material. However, she she said. “I’m very interested juxtaposed with technology. life and how every element it almost feels as if it’s living Tom Giblin, associate pro- also incorporated her previ- in being a little bit more am- Every image that fashed on of my life seemingly inter- and breathing. Tis artistic fessor of physics, and Ross ous experience as an artist biguous, a little bit more sug- the screen made the view- twines. THE KENYON COLLEGIAN | THURSDAY, FEB. 5 | KENYONCOLLEGIAN.COM 11 ASK A “Scout Finch, to make “Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Ap- PROFESSOR sure she is okay.” parently, he was an amazing FEATURES Which famous — Visiting Professor of talker.” EDITORS: INDIA AMOS figure would you Creative Writing — Professor of English and Lit- Katharine Weber erature Jim Carson AND MAYA KAUFMAN have brunch with? Te Heidt of living: Norton’s resident professor Associate Professor of English Sarah Heidt calls the First-Year Quad home.

MILO BOOKE While I was over there, I ap- “I might not have gotten to STAFF WRITER plied for the faculty-in-resi- know him had that not been One of the things I like about it is ... there’s just this really nice Tucked away in the First- dence job and got accepted, the case, and that’s actually feeling of, not just calm, but quiet. I feel like I’ve gotten to interact Year Quad is a dorm room so I moved in when I got been sort of lovely.” In fact, with people more informally than I do in the classroom.” unlike any other. Associate back.” they share the same taste in “Sarah Heidt, Associate Professor of English Professor of English Sarah Although living in a frst- music. “At the beginning of Heidt ’97 lives on the bot- year dorm as a professor the frst semester, I was fn- tom foor of Norton Resi- might seem like a daunting ishing a syllabus and it was function is to be here and to work done. Heidt believes than I do in the classroom.” dence Hall, in a cozy space proposition, Heidt said she a Wednesday night, and the do some degree of program- the numerous gadgets people Unfortunately for Heidt, more reminiscent of a Brook- genuinely enjoys her living music started up and I was ming,” she said. “Trying to tote around with them can be this living situation will not lyn apartment than a col- situation. “I’ve been away for like, ‘Man, that’s so cool, but think through what kind too distracting for a studious be long-lasting. She will lege dorm room. Numerous so long and I’ve moved 12 I got to keep doing my sylla- of programming I was go- environment. “Even if people move out of Norton and bookshelves lined with nov- times in the last seven years bus,’” Heidt said. ing to do, I started realizing are working quietly, they’re into a house at the end of the els recently mailed back from and I’m kind of sick of that, However, not all the noise how much everybody is pro- ofen talking or working qui- school year. “It was a really England, acquired while but I wasn’t quite sure where has been as pleasant as the grammed already.” etly but checking messages, nice convergence of what I teaching in Exeter last year, I was going to move to when tunes coming from upstairs. She decided to host quiet- and communicating with needed and what the Col- line the wall. Te couches are I came back,” she said. “It As dorm residents know, the hour sessions for three hours people that way,” she said. lege needed,” she said. Te plump, comfortable and pro- was really helpful to me that plumbing system is noisy. on Tursday nights. “Te “It has felt like a kind of very opportunity to live in a frst- vided by Kenyon. However, it was a thing that was avail- “Tis is probably too much only rules are that you can’t low-key way to make a space year residence hall was a blast despite the lived-in feel, Heidt able at a good time for me, information, but we’re all on bring your computers or de- where people can also prac- from the past for Heidt. “I’m hasn’t been here very long. but it’s actually been a really the same plumbing system, vices. It’s actually one of the tice shutting that stuf of, for a Kenyon grad,” she said. “I moved in in August wonderful place to live. I ac- so I know when someone has things on the sign,” Heidt at least a little while.” “Tat was one of the reasons when I got back from run- tually like the fact that I can fushed a toilet somewhere said. “Some people read, and Tese sessions have prov- I thought this would be sort ning the Kenyon-Exeter pro- hear my neighbor.” else in the building,” she said. some people sit and write. en highly rewarding for of fun, because it was like I gram last year with [Professor Heidt has embraced the “Te water pressure drops, Somebody came and put dec- Heidt, giving her the chance was starting over.” While fu- of English] Sergei Lobanov- opportunity to live with and and I know to get out of the orations on a T-shirt one eve- to get to know her students on ture generations of Kenyon Rostovsky,” Heidt said. “I had communicate with frst-year way. If I don’t time things ning. Sometimes people take a more personal level. “One students won’t be able to en- actually been away for three students. Due to the close right, everyone is taking a naps, and even bring blankets of the things I like about it is joy the serenity of quiet hours years, which is weird at Ken- proximity between Heidt shower at the same time, 25 and pillows. At the end of the that by the end of the couple in her apartment until May, yon. I ran Kenyon-Exeter in and her upstairs neighbor, minutes before classes.” frst night of quiet hours, I of hours, there’s just this re- current frst years will still be 2011 to 2012 and then had a they have become friendly. Te most notable feature think I had two or three peo- ally nice feeling of, not just able to fnish their essays, or sabbatical in 2012-2013, and “We actually have bonded of Heidt’s presence in Nor- ple that had fallen asleep.” calm, but quiet,” she said. “I be quietly lulled to sleep by was then asked to go back partly over the fact that I can ton is her frequent quiet-hour Te lack of technology feel like I’ve gotten to interact the sof scratching of pens in and co-direct Exeter last year. hear his music,” Heidt said. congregations. “Part of my allows students to get their with people more informally this tranquil home.

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Associate Professor of English Sarah Heidt’s Norton Hall residence is a cozy space more reminiscent of a Brooklyn apartment than a college dorm room. 12 THE KENYON COLLEGIAN | THURSDAY, FEB. 5 | KENYONCOLLEGIAN.COM Tis Shipley has sailed: Kenyon alum hits the small screen

CLAIRE OXFORD Shipley, according to his former me and my brother on as clients.” FEATURES ASSISTANT professors. “He had a wacky streak, Shortly thereafter, he and his particularly in his playwriting,” Pro- brother signed with TBS to pro- Justin Shipley ’11 is in the Carib- fessor of Drama and Playwright-in- duce their comedy, Wrecked. “We’re bean, but not for a vacation. “I’m ac- Residence Wendy MacLeod said. fnishing up production this week tually down in Puerto Rico shoot- Associate Professor of Anthro- and then we’ll go into edit for the ing for the next two weeks and my pology Sam Pack, who had Shipley next few weeks,” Shipley wrote. days are pretty jam-packed,” he in his course “Te Anthropology “If the pilot tests well and we get wrote in a Facebook message to the of Borat,” wrote in an email, “He picked up to [do a] series, we’ll Collegian. A drama major while he quickly distinguished himself as have a 10-episode run on TBS this was at Kenyon just four years ago, somebody who understood and ap- summer/fall. To the credit of TBS, Shipley has already made remark- preciated the power of satire. One they’ve been incredibly cool and able strides in the television indus- of the course assignments involved generous, and we’ve been executing try — he co-wrote the pilot for the the students producing their own our vision with a really phenomenal upcoming television show Wrecked Borat-esque mockumentaries. Jus- amount of creative control, espe- and is currently overseeing its pro- tin decided to play the role of a ren- cially for new writers. It’s a dream, duction in sunny Puerto Rico. egade professor based not-so-loose- really.” “My brother [Jordan Shipley] ly on me. It hit a little too close for Shipley credits his Kenyon ed- and I are a writing team; we pri- comfort at the time, but I can laugh ucation, and its emphasis on the PHOTO COURTESY OF JUSTIN SHIPLEY marily write comedy for TV,” Shi- at the memory now.” structure of storytelling, with help- pley wrote in an email. “We sold In addition to Shipley’s quick Justin Shipley (lef) and his brother Jordan (right) write comedy for TV. ing him succeed in the industry. a half-hour comedy pilot to TBS wit and distinct voice in his writing, “I’ll be the frst to say this sounds in early 2014, and this past fall we Assistant Professor of Film Jona- time at Kenyon, he found that his gestible way.” pretentious,” Shipley wrote, “but got [the] green light to go into pro- than Sherman spoke to Shipley’s af- drama courses, in particular, “In- After Shipley’s graduation, he having an Aristotelian understand- duction. We’re currently … shoot- fability. “He’s just very personable, tro to Playwriting” with MacLeod, landed a job as actor Josh Radnor’s ing of the mechanics of storytelling, ing the pilot, which follows a group very charming, very funny and very helped him refne his style of writ- ’96 assistant on the set of Liberal and a vocabulary in which to dis- of survivors trying to survive on a talented,” he said. “I’m sure he’ll go ing and gain a stronger appreciation Arts, which was shot here on cam- cuss those mechanics, is invaluable deserted island after their plane into feature flms eventually, but for the structural aspects of story- pus. Tere, he met Jesse Hara, one in this industry. Other flm schools crashes.” you could kind of tell that it was telling. “It laid such a solid foun- of the flm’s producers. “After we tend to focus on the skills of pro- In marketing this idea to po- gonna be TV to start. Just based dation for my writing,” he wrote. wrapped on Liberal Arts, I started duction, and while it’s important tential buyers, Shipley highlighted of his sense of humor and style of “Wendy’s a brilliant playwright in writing full-time and throwing to have an understanding of that, its humor. “We basically sold it to writing. … [It’s] kind of shorter, her own right, but she’s also so stu- scripts at [Hara],” Shipley wrote. things change so rapidly in this in- the network as LOST with jokes,” funnier.” pid talented at breaking down the “He fnally saw the pure, unadul- dustry.” he wrote. While there was not a flm ma- mechanics of storytelling and con- terated genius of my writing, and At the end of the day, Shipley Humor isn’t anything new to jor for Shipley to choose during his veying them to her students in a di- when I moved out to L.A., he took wrote, “story will always trump all.” Jewish culture thrives on campus with new Hillel House The Rothenberg Hillel House serves as a space for both Jewish and non-Jewish students to celebrate Jewish culture.

INDIA AMOS FEATURES EDITOR We program things so that they are inclusive for everybody. If there are things you don’t know, we want to teach you and help you Paul Silver ’75, who cur- rently works as an associ- understand.” ate professor of medicine at “ George Washington Uni- Marc Bragin, Jewish Chaplain and Director of Kenyon College Hillel versity, attended Kenyon at a time when there were not only fewer Jewish students on campus. house. “[Conceptually, the now have an NCA [North on campus, but also no Alan Rothenberg ’67, house] worked great, but Campus Apartment].” designated place for them namesake of the new Hil- the house [itself] was really Te NCA is home to to practice their religion or lel House, noticed these is- falling apart,” Bragin said. Hillel’s two programming culture. “Te genesis [of sues from Silver’s time had “Te foundation was crack- managers, Julie Hartman Jewish organizations on not been addressed when ing, and I would get up ’15 and Julia Kaplan ’17. campus] was probably Marc his daughter came to Ken- from my ofce chair and it Hartman and Kaplan were Goldstein [’72] and I,” Sil- yon in 1992. “Kenyon was would just slide to the other able to choose their apart- ver said. Silver and Gold- getting a very poor yield side of the room, because it ment’s other residents. Hil- stein started the Union of out of Jewish students who was so crooked.” lel also has a building man- Jewish Students: Dar’Khey applied to the College,” he Not only did the con- ager, Ben Marx ’17. Yisrael, a group that made said. “What we discovered struction of the new Hillel Kaplan enjoys being a way for Hillel, the world’s was a lot of Jewish kids who house allow for tradition- part of Hillel and especially largest Jewish student or- wanted to go to Kenyon and al amenities, such as two likes being a manager. “It’s KRISTEN HUFFMAN | COLLEGIAN ganization, to come to cam- brought their parents along, separate kitchens to ensure a really rewarding job,” she pus. their parents wondered … kosher cooking, but the ad- said. “I really enjoy creating Julia Kaplan ’17 and Julie Hartman ’15 are student managers. Dar’Khey Yisrael, which, whether it was possible to ditional space also allowed [an event], planning it and according to Silver, trans- be Jewish at Kenyon.” for certain aspects of Hillel executing it. And you really “I think things have been held on Saturday, Feb. 7, at lates as “Path of Israel,” Before the Rothenberg to be separated for the frst reap the rewards as a man- changing since the building 6 p.m., will be a screening came into being when Hillel House’s dedication time since the organization ager. I really like interacting [was built], and [Hillel] re- of Everything is Illuminated Goldstein was a senior. this past October, Hillel arrived on campus. In past with other students who are ally want[s] it to be sort of in the new house, accompa- However, it was not un- was held in what used to be years, students lived in the also interested in Jewish life, a multi-purpose center be- nied by pizza and popcorn. til April 1975 that Kenyon called the “Kat House.” “It Hillel house, but one of or- or just getting to know peo- cause it’s such a nice space, “We program things so had its frst kosher Passover was a women’s dorm,” Jew- ganization’s recent changes ple in the community.” where other clubs can use all that they are inclusive for dinner, which Silver said at- ish Chaplain and Director was to provide housing for From traditional Shab- the facilities. I don’t know if everybody,” Bragin said. “If tracted nearly 70 students. of Kenyon College Hillel its student managers outside bat services on Friday eve- a lot of people know that, there are things you don’t “I few in from New York Marc Bragin said. “It really of the Hillel House. “We ning to movie screenings and it would be really great know, we want to teach you these trays of frozen food, used to be a house. It got wanted to separate out the on the weekends, all Hil- if they did.” and help you understand. which were specially sealed donated to be used for Hil- living component with the lel-sponsored events are “I also don’t know if peo- But we also want you to feel so they could be cooked lel in the ’90s.” program part,” Bragin said. open to both Jewish and ple who are Jewish or not like you can come no matter in non-kosher ovens,” Sil- Bragin said the old Hil- “Living in the Hillel house non-Jewish students. Sa- feel included yet, and that’s what and that you’re always ver said. It was this mas- lel house left much to be de- was kind of an old model mantha Shanker ’17, who something we need to work welcome here any time, be- sive event that solidifed sired, which helped spring for Jewish life … and that’s helps manage Hillel’s so- on,” she continued. cause our doors are always Dar’Khey Yisrael’s presence the construction of the new kind of separated so that we cial media accounts, said, Hillel’s next event, to be open.” THE KENYON COLLEGIAN | THURSDAY, FEB. 5 | KENYONCOLLEGIAN.COM 13 Upcoming WKCO album showcases student musicians Fever Bliss, SPORTS and Rich After Taxes are among the bands featured on the com- pilation.

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Like many true musical talents before them, WKCO’s latest project started in a basement. Indeed, the WKCO headquarters in the basement of Farr Hall is where it all started for the radio station’s lat- est project: a compilation of student bands to be shared with the Kenyon community. “I feel that a lot of people who play music on campus don’t know who else plays music or don’t know what other kind of music is being played,” Erin Delaney ’16, who is spearhead- ing the project, said. “So I thought CORA MARKOWITZ | COLLEGIAN this would be a cool way to do a slice- Kenyon students compile the works of fellow student bands for a CD WKCO will distribute. of-life type thing.” Te compilation will showcase hand people something physical and thing that’s a little diferent, that’s pop band or a pop-punk band,” Dos- putting a new song on the WKCO the Kenyon music scene, which is say, ‘check this out,’” Delaney said. still similar.” Delbridge frst records setter said. SPORTS doesn’t try to compilation. a community in itself. “One of the “But it will also be on Bandcamp so guitar and vocals, then works of the sound like anything specifc, but in- most exciting things ... for me about you can download it.” track. stead “sort of [does] what feels right,” Rich Afer Taxes coming to this campus, musically, is Below, read about some of the “I’m defnitely excited,” he said of Washburn said. Dossetter and Perry that I found bands that had people I artists featured on the compilation. the compilation. “I think it’s going to began playing together during their Charlie Collison’s ’15 solo project, knew in them and that I wanted to be really well received. ... I think it’s sophomore year along with Karlin Rich Afer Taxes, draws infuence listen to on my iPod,” Delaney said. Fever Bliss going to get a lot music that’s really and Catherine Dwyer ’14. from Oneohtrix Point Never and WKCO fnds itself right in the good on campus to a lot of people Since then, Washburn has joined Andy Stott, artists who experiment middle of it all, not only as a plat- Matt Delbridge’s ’16 solo proj- that wouldn’t get it otherwise.” the group and SPORTS released with sampling and electronic music. form for listeners but also for musi- ect, Fever Bliss, draws infuence With an EP released this past their debut album in June; they are Rich Afer Taxes is a project centered cians who use the station’s recording from Te Replacements, Guided by fall, Delbridge is looking forward to currently working on their sopho- around computer music, and Collison studio. Many of these acts will be Voices, and Sparklehorse. A guitarist sharing his music with a larger audi- more efort. Teir infuences range simply records his music on his com- featured on the compilation. since seventh grade, Delbridge has ence. from Tommy Ramone to Rilo Kiley puter. “Tat’s the beauty of digital au- One of the project’s goals is a experimented with folk and rock, to a hint of J. Geils. dio work’s basis today in production is showcase at the Horn Gallery, where talents which he drew on in Fever SPORTS As a band that enjoys playing live, that you don’t need instruments,” he bands and artists will have the op- Bliss. SPORTS hopes the WKCO compila- said. “If you’re so inclined, you can do portunity to perform their music “I don’t really try to sound like Comprised of Carmen Perry ’15, tion will encourage students to go it all on your computer.” Collison has live. Te compilation will also be one particular person,” Delbridge Benji Dossetter ’15, James Karlin ’15 out and see their live performances. also begun experimenting with feld handed out for free as a physical CD. said. “I fnd when I do that I just hate and Jack Washburn ’16, SPORTS SPORTS records at the WKCO re- recordings and says that electronic “I feel like it’s better if you can the music I write, so I try to do some- ought to be dubbed “either a power- cording studio and is planning on music is “a totally open game.”

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Which planet is currently in Pluto, she said Mercury Mercury Mercury Mercury retrograde? sarcastically

What policy is the Housing Point deductions Assigning more and Dining Committee Lottery-point deductions Housing-lottery Point deduction in the lottery people to [be] CAs considering changing? point system

Which Miss Universe competitor sported a pixie cut Miss Jamaica, or Kaci Fennell Miss Russia and was a crowd favorite but Jamaica Miss Poland Me. lost to Miss Colombia? Weekly Scores 4 2 2 2 THE KENYON COLLEGIAN | THURSDAY, FEB. 4 | KENYONCOLLEGIAN.COM 14 SCOREBOARD MEN’S TENNIS INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD BASKETBALL TENNIS SPORTS FEB 6 | 7 P.M. FEB 7 | 12 P.M. FEB 7 | 1 P.M. (WOMEN) FEB 8 | 9 A.M. (WOMEN) AT CASE WESTERN RESERVE AT BOB SHANNON 3 P.M. (MEN) 11 A.M. (MEN) EDITOR: ANNA DUNLAVEY UNIVERSITY INVITATIONAL AT OHIO WESLEYAN AT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CLEVELAND, OHIO GRANVILLE, OHIO UNIVERSITY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS DELAWARE, OHIO Ladies drop close home contest to Allegheny Gators Despite a strong showing throughout, the Ladies lost 66-61.

and holding onto it for the re- played well enough to win. Un- REBECCA DANN SPORTS ASSISTANT mainder of the first half. The fortunately, they made big plays Ladies led by seven points with in the last minute and a half Ladies basketball suffered a just two minutes left in the first and the ball wouldn’t fall for us close loss on their home court half after a steal by Anderson in the last minute and a half.” this past weekend, falling to followed by a layup by Griffin The Ladies still showed sev- Allegheny College 66-61. This Tullis ’18. The Ladies main- eral impressive performances. second consecutive loss brought tained their lead at the end of Tullis lead the team with 11 to- the Ladies’ North Coast Athlet- the first half, 35-21. tal points, while Sarah Hobbs ic Conference (NCAC) record Though the Ladies retained ’15 followed closely behind to 4-7, while boosting the Al- that lead into the second half, with a total of 10 points. “We EMILY STEGNER | COLLEGIAN legheny Gators’ up to 6-4. “It Allegheny slowly managed to played great defense, but we was a tough game,” Avery An- catch up, tying the score twice. just couldn’t convert enough on Te Ladies lost to Allegheny in a close game on Saturday. derson ’15 said. “Allegheny has Both teams fought to gain an offense, and so, we fell a little step back and focus on the the season to have a week off,” always been a really good team advantage on the other but bit short there, but we did fight things that we need to improve Helfant said. “The basketball and they’re one of those teams neither team was able to pull the entire time,” Anderson upon and one of those things is season is extraordinarily long, that never stops playing, so you ahead. said. “So I think as far as effort definitely finding ways to score and when you get a week where have to play consistently well With just two minutes left in goes, it was a good game for us.” on offense because we’re creat- we can give [the players] a mid- for 40 minutes in order to beat the game, Allegheny led Ken- The team will continue ing a lot of turnovers with our week break and give them a day them.” yon 62-61. The Ladies were un- practicing this week despite defense, but we aren’t always off to recharge their batteries, Both teams appeared to be able to get past their opponents’ not having a game scheduled capitalizing on those opportu- I think its really helpful for us. evenly matched at the start of defense to score again, allowing midweek, which is usually the nities on offense.” We’re going to watch some film the first half, as the lead quickly Allegheny to score a total of norm during the height of the This coming Saturday, Ke- of us playing and not just scout jumped back and forth between five points in the final 21 sec- season. nyon will play Ohio Wesley- our opponents, and I think that the Ladies and the Gators. Ke- onds of the game to win 66-61. “I think it’s nice that we have an University (NCAC 5-6), to really is a way to reinforce some nyon managed to gather more “I thought we fought really a week to prepare for them,” whom they lost earlier in the positive things that maybe you momentum 10 minutes into hard,” Head Coach Suzanne Anderson said. “This sort of season 51-43. lose sight of when you lose a the game, gaining an 18-17 lead Helfant said. “I thought we gives us a little bit of time to “I think it’s a good point in close game.” Women’s swimming and diving dominates dual meets The Ladies beat both Ohio Wesleyan and Wittenberg this weekend.

ANNA DUNLAVEY it does mean they have a the Ladies began to switch dies who had won the SPORTS EDITOR good chance of competing gears a little for these two day before returned and at the meet, depending on meets. While some swim- won again. Crawford fn- Tis past weekend the how many “A” cut times mers rested in preparation ished frst in the 200-yard women’s swimming and there are in the event by for the NCAC Champion- breaststroke with a time diving team met for their the end of the season. ships, others kept swim- of 2:25.25. McLeod won fnal two dual meets of the Te wins kept coming ming their fastest for a the 50-yard freestyle with season, taking a decisive in the individual events. chance to qualify for the a time of 24.39. Townsend victory in both of them. Townsend earned an in- NCAA championships in touched the wall frst in On Friday, the Ladies beat dividual victory in the 50- March. Head Coach Jess the 200-yard freestyle host Ohio Wesleyan Uni- yard freestyle, fnishing Book ’01 said the meets with a time of 1:55.87. versity 183-22, and on Sat- with a time of 24.57, and show the team is in a good Tere were also some new urday won a home contest Kaestner won the 100- position right now. “It was winners on Saturday: Al- over Wittenberg Univer- yard freestyle, with a time appropriate for where we exa Korsberg ’17 swam her sity 234-57. of 53.05. Te freestyle vic- are in our season,” he said. frst individual victory of Te atmosphere at tories did not stop there. “It refected well for where the season, touching the these dual meets is much Jenner McLeod ’17 won we are.” wall frst in the 1,000-yard more relaxed than it will the 200-yard freestyle at “It’s a funny transition freestyle with a time of be next week at the North 1:57.84, Kanchi Desai ’18 period because some peo- 10:37.92. Coast Athletic Conference won the 500-yard free- ple are starting to rest for Cooper, Kaestner and (NCAC) Championships. style at 5:07.96 and Mari- conference,” Cooper said. Williamson all notched “Dual meets for us are ah Williamson ’17 won “We swam very well, con- two victories this time. just good practice to race,” the 1,000-yard freestyle at sidering it’s an odd transi- Cooper won both the 100- Hannah Cooper ’15 said. 10:26.83. tion time.” yard backstroke, with a EMILY STEGNER | COLLEGIAN “Tey’re more for fun.” Ellie Crawford ’17 took Te divers on both the time of 59.60, and the 100- Saturday marked the Ladies’ fnal home dual meet. Te Ladies started Fri- the top spot in the 100-yard men’s and women’s sides yard butterfy, with a time day night’s meet with a individual medley, fnish- did not compete at Fri- of 57.99. Williamson took bang. Te 400-yard medley ing with a time of 1:02.30. day’s meet, but on Satur- the top spot in both the Saturday was also the more chances to compete relay team of Katie Kaest- Cooper placed frst in the day, in the fnal dual home 200-yard butterfy, with team’s senior day, which with the Ladies, includ- ner ’16, Haley Townsend 50-yard butterfy with a meet of the season against a time of 2:05.43, and the was bittersweet for Cooper ing one more chance at ’16, Alyssa LaFrenierre ’15 time of 26.44, Celia Ober- Wittenberg University, 500-yard freestyle, with and her fellow seniors. “It’s home. Te Fast Chance and Jacque Garcia ’15 won holzer ’15 placed frst in Maria Zarka ’16 was back a time of 5:03.81. Kaest- very difcult being a stu- Invitational, the fnal op- the event with a time of the 50-yard backstroke at and ready for competition. ner fnished frst in the dent-athlete at Kenyon, so portunity to qualify for 3:59.32, a National Colle- 27.46 and Laura Duncan She won the one-meter 100-yard breaststroke at part of me is excited for the the NCAA champion- giate Athletic Association ’17 placed frst in the 50- event with a fnal score of 1:06.01 before winning the next chapter of my life, but ships, will take place on (NCAA) “B” cut time. Al- yard breaststroke with a 221.40, and later won the 200-yard individual med- I’m also really sad,” Coo- Feb. 21. Before that, how- though this does not mean time of 30.08. three-meter event with a ley at 2:08.15. She was also per said. “I love this team ever, the Ladies must com- they have automatically Because of the upcom- fnal score of 267.90. named one of the NCAC’s and I love competing with pete in next week’s NCAC qualifed for the NCAA ing championships, which On the swimming side athletes of the week for the them.” Championships at Deni- Championships in March, start a week from today, of things, most of the La- second time this season. Cooper will have a few son University. THE KENYON COLLEGIAN | THURSDAY, FEB. 5 | KENYONCOLLEGIAN.COM 15 Losses put Lords on the wrong side of conference tournament

BEN PAYNER From here on out every game means STAFF WRITER something and every win becomes more At this time last week, the important this time of year.” Lords faced critical upcom- “Tim Connolly ’16 ing games against Oberlin and Allegheny Colleges. Wins onset. With the game tied at 0-9 from the 3-point line. Te against both would have them 4-4 afer two minutes of play, Yeomen outscored the Lords sitting in fourth place in the Oberlin went on a 13-2 run by 20 in the paint (42-22), 11 conference and in line to host over the next eight minutes in second-chance points (13-2) a home game in the conference and took control of the game and nine in bench points (15- tournament for just the second with an 11-point lead. Al- 6). Oberlin outplayed the Lords time in fve years. Afer losing though the Lords cut the def- in every facet of the game. contests versus both Oberlin cit to six with two minutes lef Te Allegheny game was and Allegheny the Lords now in the frst half, they went into perhaps even more difcult fnd themselves outside the the half trailing by 10 points. to swallow, a 59-56 home loss. conference tournament at 6-13 Te second half was more of Although they played a better overall and 4-8 in conference. the same as the Lords closed overall game, poor shooting With six games lef and sit- the lead to six early on and nev- once again led to the Lords’ ting out of eighth place via a er got closer than eight points demise. As a team the Lords CORA MARKOWITZ | COLLEGIAN tiebreaker, there is still time for from the lead over the fnal 12 went 20-63 from the feld Te Lords had shooting troubles in their 59-56 home loss to Allegheny College. the Lords to get back into the minutes. Tim Connolly ’16 led (31.7 percent) including 3-20 postseason picture, but they the Lords with 16 points on (15 percent) from three. Con- Comey’s ’16 foul trouble to ter,” Handelsman said. “We cause from here on out every need a spark. Someone needs 5-14 shooting. John Bray ’15 nolly, Bray and Handelsman register new career highs in still have a third of the confer- game means something and to step up, especially on the of- added 13 points on 4-8 shoot- struggled to get it going ofen- minutes (20), points (12) and ence season lef so if we learn every win becomes more im- fensive end, where the Lords ing. Cooper Handelsman ’15 sively, combining for 25 points rebounds (5). from these games and make portant this time of year,” he have been colder in recent was the only other Lord to and shooting 9-31 (29 percent), Team leaders Handelsman adjustments we can win some said. games than a Gambier winter. score more than fve points. including 0-8 from beyond the and Connolly are doing their important games down the Last night the Lords fell On Jan. 28 the Lords fell Te statistics in this game arc. A lone bright spot for the best to keep everyone focused. stretch.” short of a victory over the at Oberlin 62-50. Cold shoot- were telling. Te Lords got out- Lords was frst-year backup “We just have to stay focused Connolly echoed his senti- Oberlin College Yeomen. Te ing coupled with a bad start rebounded 39-24 and shot 37.5 center Phillip Crampton ’18, on being positive and fxing ment. “Te losses are tough, close game ended in a 93-91 doomed the Lords from the percent, which includes going who took advantage of Brien our mistakes to make us bet- but we’re moving forward be- Lords loss. Track fnishes last Lords win in two weekend meets

ANNA DUNLAVEY teams. His win in the mile run Men’s swimming and diving had all first-place finishes Friday and Saturday. SPORTS EDITOR was the only individual Ke- nyon win of the day. Lagasse Carson would go on to win the 50- doesn’t feel like anything just yet,” ANNA DUNLAVEY The indoor track team trav- finished the mile in 4:26.93, SPORTS EDITOR yard backstroke with a time of 24.49 he said. “It feels like the regular part eled to the College of Wooster and teammate Nat Fox ’16 later in the meet. of the season. It feels like one more for the second time in as many took third in the same event at Te men’s swimming and diving Te freestyle relay team that step we’ve completed, and we’re now weeks to compete in the Fight- 4:39.81. Winters had a third- team had their fnal two dual meets took top honors consisted of Joey moving onto the next step.” ing Scots Invitational on Sat- place finish in the 400-meter of the season this past weekend and, Duronio ’16, Austin Pu ’17, Wes Caldwell won the 100-yard free- urday. Last week’s North dash, which he ran in 52.08, as usual, they blew their North Coast Manz ’15 and Caldwell. Manz and style for the second time in two Coast Athletic Conference and Hightower took second in Athletic Conference (NCAC) com- Caldwell also performed well in the days, this time fnishing at 45.37. He (NCAC) Quad meet only fea- the 60-meter dash with a fin- petition out of the water. Te Lords individual events. Manz scored an also won the 200-yard freestyle at tured four teams — Kenyon, ish at 7.25. won Friday’s meet at Ohio Wesleyan individual victory in the 50-yard 1:40.14. Caldwell’s two wins in four host Wooster, Ohio Wesleyan Samantha White ’17 fin- University (OWU) 185-29, and a day butterfy, fnishing at 22.71. Caldwell days helped him on his way to earn- University and Allegheny Col- ished third in the 800-me- later, won a home meet against Wit- landed two frst-place fnishes, one ing his second NCAC Athlete of the lege) — and this meet consist- ter run, crossing the line at tenberg University 247-53. in the 50-yard freestyle with a time Week honor this season. “I was kind ed of the same four teams, plus 2:32.10. Ellen Corcoran ’18 Tis weekend’s meets came at of 20.67 and the other in 100-yard of surprised,” Caldwell said. “It’s Denison University. Both the notched another third place a bit of a transition period for the freestyle with 45.25. fun.” Lords and Ladies placed last in finish for the Ladies in the mile team. Some team members are be- Alex Seaver ’17, Arthur Conover Conover, Friday’s top 200-yard the meet. run, with a time of 5:34.93. Ai- ginning to rest for the NCAC Cham- ’17 and Joe Guilfoyle ’15 fnished freestyler, swam the 500-yard and The relay teams on both sha Simon ’15 was right be- pionships — which begin next week frst in the meet’s other freestyle 1,000-yard freestyle events on Sat- sides were strong. The Lords hind her in fourth place for at Denison University — and others events. Conover took the top spot urday, winning both with times of 4x200 relay, which consisted that event, finishing with a are still trying to swim their fastest in the 200-yard freestyle at 1:43.22, 4:42.28 and 9:34.76, respectively. of Oliver Hightower ’18, Noah time of 5:48.25. Edwards took to qualify for the upcoming Nation- Seaver touched the wall frst in the Trevor Manz ’17 also had two vic- Winters ’15, Colton Orr ’18 fourth place in the 400-meter al Collegiate Athletic Association 1,000-yard freestyle at 9:46.92 and tories on Saturday. Manz won both and Ar’Reon Watson ’18, fin- dash, clocking in at 1:04.35, (NCAA) championships in March. Guilfoyle won the 500-yard freestyle the 200-yard breaststroke, fnishing ished first at 1:34.12. Hightow- The Lords and Ladies also “At this time, we’re all doing at 4:42.30 at 2:07.86, and the 200-yard individ- er and Winters also ran in the competed well in non-running diferent things because we’re pre- In other strokes, Ian Reardon ’17 ual medley, fnishing at 1:54.10. Lords’ other relay, the 4x400 events. For the Lords, Lucas paring for diferent meets,” Austin was frst in the 100-yard individual Magee, Manz, Funk and meters. Alton Barbehenn ’17 Herweyer ’15 placed second in Caldwell ’15 said. His teammate medley at 53.59 and Daniel Jurgens Caldwell were the top-fnishing and Tanner Zaas ’15 rounded shot put, with a throw of 13.8 Kevin Magee ’15 agreed. “Tere ’16 won the 50-yard breaststroke at 200-yard medley relay team with out that team, which finished meters, and Kevin Phillips were some really fast swims, and 27.12. a time of 1:32.48. Funk returned to third with a time of 3:36.56. ’15 finished third in the high then there were some not-so-fast Tere were fve more races for a the relays at the end of the meet to The Ladies had two third- jump after clearing a height of swims but good technique swims, total of 16 in Saturday’s home meet compete in the winning 200-yard place relays of their own. The 1.73 meters. good strategy swims, that are setting against Wittenberg, but the Lords freestyle relay, along with Duronio, 4x200 relay team of Jonah Ed- For the Ladies, Casey Brum- ourselves up well for Conference,” still swept them all. Saturday, mark- Jurgens and Percy Gates ’16. Te wards ’18, Emma Levant ’16, back ’17 finished fourth in the Magee said. ing the last home dual meet of the team fnished with a time of 1:24.91. Gillian Blackwell ’18 and Su- triple jump after reaching 9.74 Te Lords won all 11 of their year, was also Senior Day. Te con- “I think that we’ve had consis- bei Kyle ’17 finished with a meters, and Funmilayo Lawal races on Friday at OWU, including tributions of the nine senior Lords tently good relays this year, which time of 1:49.51. Edwards, Kyle ’18 had a seventh-place finish nine individual wins and two re- were celebrated, and three of those didn’t happen last year,” Caldwell and Blackwell returned for the in the weight throw, reaching lay wins. Te meet began with the seniors earned individual victories. said. 4x400 meters, this time joined 9.60 meters. 400-yard medley relay and ended Curley won the 200-yard but- Te Lords do have one more by Claire HarnEnz ’17. They This coming weekend, the with the 400-yard freestyle relay. terfy at 1:54.49, and Magee won home meet, the Fast Chance Invi- finished the event with a time Lords and Ladies will head to Te medley relay team, composed of the 100-yard backstroke at 52.85. tational on Feb. 21. For individual of 4:17.06. Denison University to com- Harrison Curley ’15, Nicholas Guts- Magee said that the idea of his time Lords, this will be the last chance to Sam Lagasse ’16 had the pete in the Bob Shannon Invi- che ’17, Ryan Carson ’17 and Ryan with the Lords coming to an end has qualify for the NCAA champion- best individual finish for both tational. Funk ’16 won with a time of 3:31.66. not quite resonated with him yet. “It ships. Lauren Toole ’14 wins. The Collegian Always. SPORTS SPORTSThursday, Feb. 5, 2015

Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015

KRISTEN HUFFMAN | COLLEGIAN Squash is back in season: club team returns to the court After years of competing nationally, club squash has sufered from lack of interest. Now, it’s being revitalized.

ALEX PIJANOWSKI and by finding a lack of gested rebuilding the STAFF WRITER such opportunities upon team, the proposition We have one of the fnest facilities in the country here. It does arriving at Kenyon. struck Lenard as “a great make me wish that somehow we could use it for the purposes Nestled deep within “When I was a fresh- idea.” intended.” the bowels of the Ke- man, the team had, I Lenard and Kohrman “John Knepper, Club Squash Coach nyon Athletic Center guess, discontinued,” handled the bulk of the (KAC) and inconspicu- Kohrman said. “A large clerical work in get- ously situated near the amount of seniors [grad- ting the project off the squash teams are outside nard said. He added that “It’s great that we’re bottom of the staircase to uated], and they [had] ground. Luckily, because of Ohio, as far away as “the team right now is in revamping the squash the basement is a memo- made up the majority of the club was successful Chicago and St. Louis. a good place.” club in the sense that rial of sorts to Kenyon’s the team. It was kind of in the recent past and has However, interest Knepper said that, we’re getting a lot of dif- club squash program. It hard to get other people increased its member- in the club picked up even though Denison was ferent people from all was not consciously de- to be actively involved all ship, regaining certifi- enough last semester for tough competition, he different levels, with dif- signed as such — rather, year long.” cation from the College Knepper to organize a thought “it was a fun af- ferent histories of athlet- it is the sort of memorial Nicky Lenard ’15, the required little more than scrimmage with Deni- ternoon.” He also hopes ics and squash experi- which human hands have captain of the team, has attending a few meetings. son. Kenyon’s renascent that Kenyon can play ence, to come down to forgotten, but which time different memories from The help of Knepper, the program’s first true test host to more scrimmages these incredible courts has not. This one lonely his freshman year. He team’s long time coach, came when it welcomed in the future. “We have we have, and play pretty bulletin board is filled recalled that, during his who has been involved the Big Red’s squad to one of the finest facili- consistently,” Kohrman with various papers fur- first two years at Kenyon, with Kenyon’s squash the KAC. The encoun- ties in the country here,” said. nishing information like the team still enjoyed program since the KAC ter with Denison could Knepper said. “It does Where recruitment tournament rules, brack- the high levels of interest opened, was invaluable. very well have been dis- make me wish that some- is concerned, measur- ets and team rosters, and organization that al- The team isn’t back to couraging, as Kenyon’s how we could use it for ing success is a rela- most of which date from lowed it to appear at the the competitive level it is a team currently in the the purposes intended.” tively simple matter. the 2009-2010 academic national tournament. was at a few years ago, process of rebuilding, Another benefit of “Getting people down year. The team’s coach, John but it is definitely in a re- and Denison’s program is more scrimmages on the to the courts is usually Kenyon enthusiasts of Knepper, said that came vival period. “Right now, an established one and a home courts as opposed enough,” Kohrman said, the sport will be glad to as a result of two or three we don’t have a team, per regular contender at na- to travelling is more “because then they real- discover that, thanks to years of incoming first se,” Knepper said. “We tionals. spectators from the area. ize how much they enjoy new leadership and in- years with an interest and have a recreational club.” For Lenard, his team’s Knepper likes to joke that it.” creased interest, the club background in squash. Planning a scrimmage scrimmage with the Big in Ohio, “people think Knepper added that team is being rejuvenat- “Kenyon was lucky in the for the program was a Red put into clearer fo- squash is just something the KAC’s nice courts ed this year. Kenyon’s sense that we got some bit difficult. Knepper cus what sort of pro- you get at the farmer’s are a major factor in at- squash squad has been players in here that knew said he wasn’t sure if he gram Kenyon’s club is market.” More student tracting players, and that practicing two times the game and were pret- would be able to retain at the moment. “It defi- spectators at games could each year there are a few per week (Mondays and ty good,” he said. “We the nine players needed nitely opened up our eyes boost interest in joining prospective students who Thursdays) since the be- had two or three years of to make a team between to what a more intense the team as well. “I don’t reach out to him to find ginning of the year. The very successful competi- setting up a scrimmage squash program looks know how you build en- out about the program. club faced its first inter- tive squash.” Knepper and the actual date of the like,” Lenard said. “We’re thusiasm for squash at Will the team be able to collegiate competition in noted that the team was scrimmage. “[Arrang- much more recreational.” Kenyon if everything you compete at the national two years last semester, even able to reach 30th ing a scrimmage] has to While a victory against do is out of town,” Knep- level again? “I sure hope when Denison Universi- in the national rank- be done many months Denison is perhaps out of per said. so,” Knepper said. ty’s team visited Kenyon ings. However, he added, in advance,” he said. “I reach at the moment, it One aspect of the pro- The team is currently for a scrimmage. “those players have left couldn’t do that, because seems realistic that Ken- cess that Kohrman has seeking individuals with Gabe Kohrman ’17 is and graduated, and they I couldn’t field a team.” yon’s team could be rea- especially enjoyed has the desire to play squash one of the student lead- haven’t been replaced.” Another problem is that sonably competitive in been the opportunity to in a more organized set- ers of the organization; Although different there are not many in- the near future. facilitate squash at the ting; those interested he serves as the group’s from Kohrman’s, Le- tercollegiate squash pro- “Even though we team level for a diverse may contact lenarde@ke- treasurer. Kohrman was nard’s first-year expe- grams close to Kenyon. didn’t get too many wins, group of individuals nyon.edu or kohrmang@ motivated to help rebuild rience pushed him to Aside from Denison, [the match] showed that, without having a level of kenyon.edu. the team by a personal work toward the same which has a competitive if we want to, we can go intensity that might drive desire to play squash in a goal. When Kohrman ap- and highly ranked pro- out there and compete away those without much Anna Dunlavey more organized manner, proached him and sug- gram, the closest college with other teams,” Le- experience in the sport. contributed reporting.