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ESTABLISHED 1856 January 24, 2019 Vol. CXLVI, No. 14 MLK Day of Dialogue events focus on ‘community as a verb’ BETÜL AYDIN NEWS EDITOR Mason said. “I think particu- larly for a place like Kenyon On Monday, Kenyon that prides itself on an idea marked Martin Luther King of community — and I don’t Jr. Day with the 10th annual think we’re wrong about that Day of Dialogue, headlined — but what do we actually by keynote speaker Leslie M. mean when we say that and Harris, professor of history at how do we know? So getting Northwestern University. Ke- inside of those questions, I nyon students, staff and fac- think, is what her work is go- ulty gathered in Rosse Hall to ing to help us do.” hear Harris deliver her talk, Mason was on the commit- “Community is a Verb: Ac- tee that organized this year’s cess to Equity in Higher Edu- Day of Dialogue events, along cation.” with Assistant Director of Harris is a scholar who Academic and Ceremonial specializes in African Amer- Events Courtney DeCosky ican history, with research and Associate Dean of Stu- interests including pre-Civil dents/Director of Diversity, War African American labor Equity and Inclusion Chris and social history, slavery in Kennerly. the U.S. and African Ameri- During the address, Harris can women’s, gender and sex- talked about the role of high- uality history. Before joining er education in establishing Northwestern in 2016, Harris an equitable society. Harris and panel participants answer questions following the keynote address. | ERYN POWELL was a faculty member at Em- “No matter what kind of ory University. During her school we are, we have to be In addition to Harris’ key- their understanding of com- Kenyon is the place that we time there, she co-founded aware of the diverse world note address, the Day of Di- munity. make it.” and co-directed the Trans- in which we live in now, but alogue program included “I’ve begun to meditate on Prior to the afternoon ad- forming Community Project, also the world that our stu- remarks by President Sean how Kenyon College students dress, the 16th annual Dr. an initiative that aimed to in- dents will live in the future. Decatur, a performance from can continue to make the in- Martin Luther King Jr. Cel- crease dialogue about diver- she said. “I would ask the Ke- the Chamber Singers and a tentional choice of being a ebration Breakfast was held sity and race in higher educa- nyon community to consider panel that included Mason, part of the Kenyon commu- in partnership with Mount tion. if they are living into com- Assistant Professor of Sociol- nity each day,” Jenkins said Vernon Nazarene University. “Her scholarly work as a munity as a verb. Community ogy Austin Johnson and Mi- during the panel. “I’d say Harris also served as key- historian is about how com- is not a place that you arrive chaela Jenkins ’19, a sociolo- what is more challenging is note speaker there, focusing munities form themselves,” at, it is a place that you create gy major and president of the choosing this community not on the theme “Sisters in the Associate Provost for Diver- and recreate through your ac- Black Student Union. Each only as it is, but as it could Struggle: Pioneers of the Civ- sity, Equity and Inclusion Ted tions day after day after day.” panel participant discussed be: Intentionally saying that il Rights Movement.” CAMERON MESSINIDES Government shutdown leaves students uncertain, worried DEVON MUSGRAVE-JOHNSON our lives.’” Hyman’s mother has been fur- EDITOR-IN-CHIEF loughed because of the shutdown. In the first week of the semester, stu- Since the shutdown began, she has been dents made their way back to campus, fi- looking a way to supplement her income. The Gambier Deli reopened downtown on Jan. 3 page 6 nalized their schedules and prepared for “It’s hard because she’s a very qualified the academic and extracurricular rigor of chemist and there really aren’t any tempo- Kenyon’s campus. As the routines and dai- rary positions available for chemical ana- ly rhythms set in, there is still one looming lysts,” Hyman said. Affiliated Scholar previews web series on campus page 7 factor of uncertainty: The government is in Now, Hyman’s mother is one of the partial shutdown, and hundreds of thou- thousands of furloughed Americans fil- sands of Americans are left without pay. ing for unemployment. Other government On Jan. 21, this shutdown became the workers, like Matt Harrington’s ’22 father, BEN NUTTER longest in U.S. history. Even though Col- who works for the Department of Justice, lege operations, including dining and fi- do not qualify for unemployment. That’s nancial aid, remain relatively unaffected because they have been deemed “essential” by the shutdown, many students returned by the federal government and are there- to campus unsure of when their parents’ fore still working without pay. next paycheck would arrive. They still For most of these workers, tomorrow don’t know. will mark the second missed paycheck “It’s a stressor,” Miriam Hyman ’21, should the shutdown continue, but be- whose mother works as a chemist for the cause they are slated to receive back Environmental Protection Agency, said. pay for hours worked once the govern- Spring semester exhibitions open at Gund Gallery page 7 “We as a family have some savings, so ment re-opens, they do not qualify for we don’t have to worry about losing our unemployment benefits, according to house or not being able to pay Kenyon tu- the Labor Department. Ladies swim team dominates at home meet page 11 ition because I’m on scholarship — but it Harrington, a resident of the D.C. is this concern of ‘we only have so much area, expressed concern for his hometown time before this starts seriously impacting should the government page 2 2 Thursday, Jan. 24 | kenyoncollegian.com Students, faculty react to longest shutdown in U.S. history Continued from Page 1 “We’re all about helping com- ute the government was put on “It’s the longest shutdown imperceptible until it’s not,” munity needs,” YMCA Execu- partial shutdown. because it’s not really about Rowe said. “We just assume shutdown continue. “[A contin- tive Director Nick Clark said As the government shutdown securing the southern border that the government is going ued shutdown] would complete- in an interview with the Mount enters its 34th day, 800,000 federal for either side,” David Rowe, to be there — and most of the ly destroy my hometown and its Vernon News, stating that al- workers and even more government professor of political science time, it is. Even when it’s not economy,” he said. “It can’t go though exercise is a stress reduc- contractors struggle to continue and interim director of the there, you can coast on inertia on like this for much longer … er, things like gym memberships through daily Center for for a while. But then, suddenly, It’s not sustainable.” are usually the first to go when life without It can’t go on the Study of things will start happening.” In 2017, with about 364,000 people are worried about money. the promise of American Patterson also expressed con- government employees, the Dis- On campus, students like wages. Trav- like this for Democracy, cern over reactions to the shut- trict’s Office of Revenue stated Britny Patterson ’19 are also el Security much longer ... It’s not said. “The down. “I think it’s important, that the federal government is facing another impact of the Agency lines sustainable. shutdown especially for Kenyon students, the largest single employer in government shutdown: the in- grow longer is about es- not to grow numb to things the area. ability to apply for govern- as airports are Matt“ Harrington ’22 tablishing like government shutdowns. It Efforts to help furloughed ment jobs. A political science forced to shut whether or is important to call your sena- workers and those working major, Patterson had hoped to down their not Con- tor, make your government do without pay are surfacing across spend her break applying for terminals. Meanwhile, President gress is a coequal branch with what is supposed to do and be the country, including in Mount jobs with the Department of Donald Trump and Speaker of the the president.” aware of [the impacts of the Vernon. According to the Mount State and the Department of House Nancy Pelosi continue to de- The effects of the govern- shutdown] even before you en- Vernon News, the local YMCA Defense. Though there were bate the practicality of a wall along ment shutdown will only grow counter [them],” she said. “The will waive one month of mem- already hiring freezes on these the U.S. southern border as well as in magnitude as it continues, words ‘government shutdown’ bership fees for employees af- departments, rumors of the the morality of Trump’s proposed according to Rowe.