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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the College Archives at Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Kenyon Collegian by an authorized administrator of Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Thursday, September 27, 2012 • Volume CXL • No. 5 • www.kenyoncollegian.com • 16 pages Kenyonthe Collegian Serving Gambier, Ohio Since 1856 Intruder Sighted in KAC Locker Rooms College Faces Harsh Shifts in Financial Aid

By DAVID McCABE MANAGING EDITOR

In early February, administrators presented the Board of Trustees with a summary of how the College would spend nearly $113 million over the course of the 2012-13 fiscal year. That summary included the $25,452,213 the College had budgeted for need- and merit- based financial aid, the second largest expenditure by function next to the funds devoted to instruction. The Board approved the budget. But two months later, as the Office of Admissions began hearing back from admitted students, staff members there quickly realized demand for financial aid was much higher than what had been budgeted. What went wrong with the model that had been carefully DAVID HOYT | COLLEGIAN crafted to determine who would come to Kenyon, and how much aid Kenyon Athletic Center (KAC) staff members will temporarily check all IDs in an effort to enhance student safety. they would need? “That’s the million dollar question,” said Vice President for En- By LAUREN TOOLE and Assistant Facility Coordinator Chris his upper right arm.” rollment and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jennifer Dela- NEWS EDITOR Cowles inspected the building and found no Safety was immediately contacted, and hunty. The Kenyon Athletic Center (KAC) in- one matching the description given. Safety and Newell arrived about 15 minutes It’s actually more like the $700,000 question. The class of 2016 creased security measures at the facility last “At the time, not much was done,” New- after the call was made, according to both alone required $7,423,871 in financial aid, or $678,859 more than week following two separate incidents of re- ell said. The student-athlete “kind of de- Director of Campus Safety Bob Hooper and was budgeted for their class. ported public indecency. These preventative scribed him as confused, so we thought may- Newell. They inspected the building, but did Every other class required less aid than was expected, however, tactics will develop as the year progresses and be he had just walked into the wrong locker not find anyone matching the description. bringing the net additional cost for all aid to $280,493, according to become part of a larger security initiative at room.” Campus Safety was not called. “We feel like we missed an opportunity Teri Blanchard, the College’s associate vice president for finance. the KAC, according to Justin Newell, assis- The following night at 7:30 p.m., Newell with the time period lapse,” Newell said. Now, as the College prepares to fill the gap in the budget created tant director of athletics and director of the received a call at home informing him that “We inspected the whole building again, but by these unexpected requests, it will have to grapple with not just KAC. another female student-athlete had reported no one was there.” the immediate need to stay in the black, but also with the idea that On Tuesday, Sept. 18 around 4:30 p.m., a a man watching her shower in the recre- Uncertainty surrounding the descrip- this might not be a simple statistical blip: this might signal a shift in female student-athlete reported that an older ational locker rooms. This time, however, tion of the individual also made the search the economics of higher education, leaving more students in need of man had peeked his head into the female he was naked. An email sent to student-ath- problematic. “It makes it pretty difficult for more aid just as colleges are seeking to increase revenues. athlete locker rooms twice while she was letes after the incident described the man as showering. Newell and Equipment Manager “balding, with a hairy body and a tattoo on see KAC, page 5 see AID, page 3 Education Key Component in Sustainability Initiative

By CAROLYN FLEDER and an educational piece that will be staff will be able to see the real- and energy the College spent last remain in an area where many stu- HENRI GENDREAU designed specifically for Kenyon to time energy usage of almost every year compared to this year and ener- dents gather, such as Peirce Hall. STAFF WRITERS help get more awareness of how we building on campus on a monitor. gy goals the College hopes to meet. In addition, the College plans to Kermit the Frog was right: It’s use our energy,” Chief Business Of- This “dashboard” may include a vir- “Basically anything can be acquire up to 50 iPads and other tab- not easy being green. But it’s about ficer Mark Kohlman said. tual room, where students can see, stored in these kiosks,” Peery said, lets with the assistance of Ameresco to get a whole lot easier. The College plans to install two for example, a space heater’s effect but she added that specific inter- Inc., the company that is spearheading A new aspect of the College’s electronic kiosks that will inform on the environment, information active devices are still in discus- the ECP, which the College will 20-month-long enterprise, known the Kenyon community of its en- about the College’s carbon foot- sion. One kiosk will move around as the Energy Conservation Project ergy consumption. Students and print, data on how much money the campus while the other will see SUSTAINABILITY, page 2 (ECP), to improve energy-efficiency — which involved the extensive re- placement of lighting, pipes, show- erheads and other devices — is in its Energy Conservation Initiatives developmental phase. “Now that [the ECP] is becoming completed, the campus isn’t really aware, I feel, of the environmen- New Lighting tal changes that have happened,” New Electric, Steam Anna Peery ’14, administration Fixtures liaison of the Environmental Cam- in 29 Locations and Natural Gas Meters pus Organization (ECO), said. in 24 Locations Peery also serves on the Behavior Modification Committee, which is the Office of Sustainability’s adver- Water Fixture tising and planning arm for the new Illustrations: The Noun Project phase of the project. Retrofit New Boilers “The next step in this project is in 27 Locations in 7 Locations GRAPHIC: WILFRED AHRENS

INSIDE THIS Financial Aid Editorial: On Student Self- Frisbee Team P.4 Affects Housing P.6 Quote Review P.11 Publishes Novel P.15 Starts Season ISSUE SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 LIFE ON THE HILL AS IT HAPPENS: www.THEKENYONTHRILL.com

2 THE KENYON COLLEGIAN NEWS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 Sustainability: College Closes“ Gap With Peers’ Standards

continued from page 1 Heather Doherty, program President S. Georgia Nugent that young people care about I think some people wished that some manager for the Brown Family agreed the College has been slow today. … So that also is a reason use to try to raise awareness of en- Environmental Center (BFEC), to initiate sustainability efforts why it makes sense for a college ergy usage. Although the specific of these things had happened a little said she was delighted to see the in the past. “I think sometimes especially to be thinking about plans for distribution are still in sooner, but I certainly am happy to see project put in place. that’s okay, to not be on the cut- [environmentalism].” the works, the College hopes it happening now. She said that such energy- ting edge, because you actually Neal agreed that the ECP these tablets will enable students efficient efforts were a long time learn from the experience of oth- is helpful on many fronts. “The to more closely monitor the sus- “ Heather Doherty , program manager for the in the making. “Until now it ers,” she said. “We moved a little charge I have as the sustainabil- tainability efforts. The College Brown Family Environmental Center just hasn’t been a top priority,” more slowly, but by the time we ity director [is] to use our en- is also exploring converting the Doherty said. “I think some peo- did that, there were more oppor- ergy as efficiently as we possibly information on the kiosks and energy usage. “If you don’t know, pancy sensors that regulate tem- ple wished that some of these tunities, like this energy contract can,” he said. To him, though, iPads into a smartphone appli- you’re not going to change your perature, more efficient lighting things had happened a little and so forth, that had developed the project has become about cation that all students could behavior,” Kohlman said. “If you and EPA-approved water fix- sooner, but I certainly am happy during that time.” more than that. The educational access. The idea, according to know more about what’s going tures, including low-flow shower to see it happening now.” Peery said that while the component encourages personal Sustainability Director Ed Neal, on … potentially we’ll see a fairly nozzles, sinks and toilets. “This In fact, the College, while ECP is an attempt to keep up involvement, which provides the is to provide “tools for people to substantial reduction just from project enabled us to do a whole boasting a variety of sustainabil- with the range of colleges and opportunity to not only reduce make good decisions.” that.” group of things that normally ity initiatives such as a focus on universities that have improved our negative impact on the en- “Just knowing where you’re More specifically, the Col- would have taken us a lot longer local food, does not rank as high- and promoted their energy effi- vironment, but to do something at is a very useful tool,” he said. lege expects to see a 28 to 30 per- to do,” Kohlman said. ly as some of its peer institutions. ciency, more than anything, it is positive. Kohlman agreed, and said cent reduction in energy usage. But the project isn’t just In 2011, the College Sustain- common sense. Doherty said she hopes the that this element of the proj- Neal said he remains con- about acruing good karma. “It’s ability Report Card, an indepen- “I think there is influence outcome of the ECP will ulti- ect is vital to foster awareness of fident that the College will not just being eco-friendly — dent evaluator of sustainability from other institutions, but I mately promote environmental how the community uses energy. achieve this reduction. “I can say this is saving [the] College a lot that rates colleges based on sur- also think that the cost was a improvement and create sus- “It will allow us to get some real that we have seen a 22 percent of money,” said Peery. veys and data collection, gave big appeal,” she said. “It’s better tainability-minded students. “I direct feedback on usage and reduction at this point,” he said. The $7.5 million project is be- Kenyon a “C+” — ranking it environmentally, it’s also better think the more we can do … the what’s going on,” he said. Kohl- “And we don’t have everything ginning to pay dividends. With fourth among The Five Colleges financially — so why not?” more our graduates, I hope, will man expects the kiosks to be up complete, so I’m relatively sure expected savings of $600,000 of Ohio, just slightly better than Likewise, Nugent pointed be people who have the energy to and running by, appropriately, we’re going to hit our mark.” a year, the College already has The College of Wooster’s “C-.” out the College’s sustainability go forward with these things [in Earth Day. The educational component seen its lighting costs slashed by Neal said the Office of Sus- as a priority among prospective mind],” she said. Kohlman said the educa- is the final phase of the ECP. 18 percent, according to Neal. tainability remains hopeful that students. “[Sustainability] has Neal was similarly optimis- tional component could reduce Throughout the spring and sum- While Ameresco guarantees after 15 months, when the proj- been a pretty front-burner ob- tic. “I think the behavioral mod- the College’s energy usage by as mer, maintenance workers went this payback (and will make up ect is estimated to be completed, jective for Kenyon — [to] really ification portion of this project is much as seven percent. He said into the College’s 125 academic, the difference if it is not met), the Kenyon will improve this score. think about the environment in really going to make a nice im- this part of the ECP is at the residential and administrative $600,000 savings is a conserva- “I think that this project is defi- which we live and preserve it in pact,” Neal said. “My experience heart of the project and would buildings to replace, renovate tive estimate. “Our expectation nitely going to help us there,” many different ways and protect with the college community is if influence the choices students and retrofit. The improvements is that we’ll do better than that,” Neal said. “They won’t give us it. It also happens that sustain- they know what better is, then and staff alike make about their they implemented include occu- Kohlman said. credit for things in progress.” ability seems to be the one cause they will definitely do it.” Student Council Sunday, Sept. 23 • First Year and Junior Class Representatives did not attend the meeting. • The Committee on Academic Standards did not inform student members about budget changes to off-campus study because the changes were already in motion. However, members did discuss the language requirement changes, which should be finalized by next week. The Curricular Policy Committee has not met. • The Business and Finance Committee (BFC) has 14 members and may add more. • Outdoors Club was approved for a backpacking trip, but not granted funding for a canoe trip. The BFC wants to conserve funds for newly-approved groups. • The BFC will only allocate money to groups that have their paperwork in order because of the large number of groups this year. • The BFC began working on changing its bylaws in regards to Fun Funds. The BFC does not believe they are improperly allocating the money, but would like to have the potential to have more control over these funds. • Currently, the BFC spends $24,000 a year on the Mount Vernon shuttle. They feel this expense is an improper use of the Student Activities fund and that funding for the necessary service should come from elsewhere. They will continue funding the shuttle through this year, but will explore other funding options. • Student Life held fall group approvals this weekend. Forty groups could have applied for group approval, but only 13 attended the group approval meeting this past Saturday. Student Council agreed with all of Student Life’s recommendations. The approved groups include HerCampus, NightCAPS, Beyond Therapy, the Queer Women’s Collective, Kenyon College Democrats, the Billy Shakes Project, Brave Potato, the Black Student Union, People Endorsing Agrarian Sustainability (PEAS), Spoken Word, KAC Heads, Recognizing Each other’s Abilities to Conquer the Hill (REACH) and the Food Co-op — a merger between past groups the Kenyon Food Co-op and the Cooking Club. • Two-Drink Minimum was tabled. They have to submit a constitution and get a faculty advisor in order to receive the Student Activities recommendation. • Party People was also tabled. Everything, including the constitution, met Student Activities’ standards, but the group only has one member. If he can get more members, then the group will receive approval. • The Safety and Security Committee wants suggestions for committee projects. It does not have any knowledge about a blue-light safety review, and will continue to talk with Campus Safety concerning the recent outbreak of thefts. • The Buildings and Grounds Committee will talk with Greg Widener, superintendent of buildings and grounds, about placing more covered bicycle racks on campus. • Fall rush will begin on Oct. 6 for Greek Life. • Matthew Metz ’13 proposed a change in shuttle hours to coordinate with the Knox County Board of Elections’ early voting hours. Student Council suggested Metz approach Director of Student Activities Christina Mastrangelo about such changes to see if they are even possible under the terms of the shuttle contract. Student Council tabled the proposal until more information about the feasibility in accordance with the shuttle contract can be obtained. • Student Council will continue to discuss the off-campus study payment changes. Marne Ausec, director of the Center for Global Engagement, will attend next week’s meeting to answer Student Council’s questions about the fee change, the language requirement change and the timing of these changes. • A BFC co-chair presented complaints about the Collegian, mainly concerning the publication’s new quote review policy. The new policy forbids writers from sending quotes to interviewees prior to an article’s publication. This especially concerns BFC members because many people claim to have been misquoted in the past. Mastrangelo and Greek Council have advised people not to grant interviews to the Collegian. • Other members of Student Council raised concerns about the Collegian’s professionalism, claiming that, in the past, reporters have snuck into BFC meetings and trespassed onto fraternity lodge grounds. • The BFC also presented concerns with funding the Collegian. Last year, there were talks centered around the way the Collegian received funding, and the BFC is disappointed that the Collegian has not resumed those talks this year. • The BFC does not want to micromanage the Collegian and acknowledges that is not their role. The Collegian, however, receives $16,000 per year and receives much less attention from the BFC than other organizations that receive substantially less funding. The BFC has no current intentions of stopping funding to the Collegian. • Student Council plans to discuss their concerns about the Collegian with Dean of Students Hank Toutain and may pass on their concerns to Writer-in-Residence P.F. Kluge, who advises the Col- legian. • The Presidential Search Committee does not include any students from Student Council. Student Council finds this disconcerting given they are the students’ elected representatives. Even if they do not have direct representation on the committee, Student Council would like the students on the Committee to communicate with Student Council and will contact them to discuss this. • A Student Council member suggested more transparency with Student Council. The minutes are available online at studentcouncil.kenyon.edu. They plan on sending a student-info email with the link to better inform students. — Grace Hitzeman THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 NEWS THE KENYON COLLEGIAN 3 Aid: Class of 2016 Overruns Estimated Allotment continued from page 1 The short-term solution to Breakdown of Financial Aid Budget end the fiscal year with a bal- anced budget is fairly simple: ad- First Years: Juniors: ministrators will likely take the money out of a $1.5 million contingency fund established for op- $678,859 $58,428 erating expenses. (Separate funds OVER Budget UNDER Budget cover unexpected maintenance costs on College buildings and equipment failure). “That’s why you budget a contingency, because you don’t really know on a $113 million budget what’s going $280,493 to happen,” Blanchard said. Total Aid Budget Gap What the increase in aid UNDER Budget UNDER Budget means in the long-term, however, is more complicated. Fi- Sophomores: Seniors: nancial aid costs follow a class for four years, so the class of 2016’s aid requests will have to be fac- $234,918 $105,020 tored into every College budget through their graduation. Although the class of 2016 required significant- “The operating contingency Total Aid Awarded: ly more aid than expected, surpluses in the aid can handle [the additional re- allocations for the upper classes lessened the quests] this year, but when you’re effects of this shortfall. Above is an explana- modeling forward, those are real tion of how each class contributed to the gap. costs to real students,” Blanchard $25,738,206 said. SOURCE: Kenyon Office of Finance “We confront a number of possible strategies and choices, said, many schools became more tuition. The revenue from these year’s yield — the percentage of than providing prospective stu- said. “People now know this is none of which are very attrac- “need-aware” — meaning admis- students can be used to fill gaps students who accepted Kenyon’s dents with only a fraction of the the new normal.” tive,” said President S. Georgia sions officers consider a student’s in colleges’ budgets, and are often offer of admission — and factors funds they require, in a practice For the class of 2016, the Of- Nugent. need for financial aid along with used to subsidize financial aid for in academic ability, geography known as “gapping.” Adminis- fice of Admissions and Financial These strategies include ac- their application. students who need it. and socioeconomic status. As the trators said Kenyon is one of only Aid adjusted the formula they cepting more students who can “More colleges became more Nugent called this system class of 2016 began to form, ad- a handful of institutions that use to evaluate financial need to pay full tuition, considering a stu- aware, and some of these students “broken.” missions officers found that more does not “gap.” reflect that a family’s home eq- dent’s need more heavily before [who were] completely capable “But no one,” she said, “is students who required financial The requests come at a time uity is not an indicator of their accepting him or her and offering academically, in fact some of willing to disarm unilaterally.” aid based on need were accepting when many families are still deal- ability to pay for college. The Of- a student less than 100 percent of them extra capable, were cut out College presidents, she said, do their offer of admission. ing with the aftermath of the fice requested $200,000 in extra their demonstrated need for fi- of other admissions pools and not want to ban the use of merit “The class of 2015 was sort of 2008 global financial crisis and aid to cover the additional grants nancial aid. our offer of admission was both aid at their institutions, because an anomalous year, and our mod- the reality of an economic re- offered to accepted students who The unexpectedly high yield the most academically desirable competing schools could use el was based on the class of 2015,” covery that has been slower than were receiving those offers as a re- of students requiring financial aid and also the best financial one, that to their advantage. Kenyon Delahunty said. “We didn’t ex- expected. As home prices have sult of the changed formula. could have been a consequence of so we saw a higher yield on those awarded $4,908,630 in merit aid pect to have the high yield that fallen, home equity has become a Despite the continued slug- other institutions adopting poli- students,” she said. this year. we had on students that needed much less liquid asset for families gishness of the U.S. economy, cies like these to reduce their fi- According to Delahunty, Every year, Delahunty’s of- very large grants.” who have to pay college tuition. Delahunty cautioned that this nancial aid expenditures, accord- more of Kenyon’s competitors are fice builds a predictive model for Kenyon also guarantees they “You’re finding that the after- year’s financial aid expenses may ing to Delahunty. using merit scholarships to lure the financial aid budget using will meet 100 percent of dem- shocks of the recession are fully not be a new norm. “I don’t think This past year, Delahunty students who can pay close to full data collected about the previous onstrated financial need, rather hitting families now,” Delahunty one year makes a trend,” she said. Take Back the Night Expands Scope of Week’s Discussion By MADELEINE THOMPSON prayer and candlelit service discussion] is an established NEWS ASSISTANT dedicated to survivors of sex- thing.” Take Back the Night, a ual assault at the Church of Other events included the week-long student-run pro- the Holy Spirit. The Canter- queer women’s discussion, a gram that strives to open dia- bury prayer service was also a long-standing tradition for logue and bring awareness to focus for Stark. “I’d like [the Take Back the Night; the community members about event] to be much more in- queer men’s discussion; sup- sexual assault, began Sunday, ter-faith in the future,” Stark porters’ and survivors’ groups Sept. 23. said. “That was something I and guest speaker Latoya Pe- This year, Molly Silver- didn’t quite get the chance terson. Tomorrow features a stein ’13, Greg Stark ’13 and to do. [Queer men’s discus- meet and greet with SMAs Maureen Hoff ’15 co-chaired sion and Canterbury prayer and the “Speak Out” forum. the series of events. Stark has pervice] were the most im- The week’s events will end always been part of what he portant. I think it’s great to with the Light Up the Night calls “feminist positive sexu- provide even more ways [for Carnival on Ransom Lawn ality” groups, but he was not people to get involved] with- and the Alpha Delta Phi involved in planning Take out overwhelming people.” New Directions Fundraiser Back the Night last year. As Tonight’s event, the wom- at the Village Inn. one of the founders of the en’s discussion, will focus Silverstein hopes students Queer Men’s Society, Stark on the hookup culture at can be sensitive to the is- felt the queer men’s discus- Kenyon. Counselor Nicole sues addressed by Take Back sion, which was introduced Keller, Sexual Misconduct the Night and be aware of DAVID HOYT | COLLEGIAN last year, proved especially Advisor (SMA) Emily Estus sexual misconduct on cam- important because it estab- ’14 and Kelly Menzel ’15 will Anonymous submissions hang from the branches of Take Back the Night’s “Positive Sexualitree.” pus. “Honestly, I think Take lished a “space for queer men lead the event. culture?’” Menzel said. “Do sion has grown since its first Silverstein said. “Obviously Back the Night is never going to talk through their experi- “The majority of cases of we as individuals create this appearance last year. “The men need a place to talk to get old until sexual assault ences.” sexual misconduct at Kenyon lifestyle, or is this something conversation generally turns about it that’s a male space, gets old,” Silverstein said. On Wednesday, Canter- happen during a hookup … so that we’ve been sucked into?” into ‘women are the assault- so we’ve always done the “It’s not necessarily a week of bury Kenyon, the Episcopal the kind of tagline is ‘which Silverstein is excited to ed and men are the aggres- men’s event. … But this will events; it’s a reaction to the Campus Ministry, offered a came first, the hookup or the see how the women’s discus- sors,’ which is generally true,” be the first year [the women’s culture.” 4 THE KENYON COLLEGIAN NEWS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 Aid Packages Cause Housing Imbalance for Some Seniors

By MADELEINE THOMPSON because they can’t live with the NEWS ASSISTANT group of friends that they want From choosing a room- or in a location that they want,” $6,956 per year mate to participating in the Dugas said. “The housing situ- Average Kenyon Apartment Room Rate for Seniors lottery, housing at Kenyon can ation at Kenyon is sometimes Not Receiving Need-Based Aid cause considerable, sometimes stressful because it involves unnecessary, stress. Paying for friendship groups and locations housing, however, should not and a random lottery process factor into that stress, accord- that is hard to predict.” ing to Campus Senate Co- Clark said the pressure Chair Monty Clark ’13. housing causes might also have With this in mind, Clark to do with Kenyon students’

will present the issue of hous- lack of communication about The Noun Project ing and financial aid to the Sen- or acceptance of each other’s fi- ate this year with the goal of nancial situations. educating members about the “There’s a very huge discon- subject. “Currently what I’m nect between the student body interested in is that as a senior, and accepting socio-economic my [housing] options were lim- differences because I think it’s ited, and I wanted to see if it’s a an invisible diversity, and there- $4,540 per year problem or if it’s just a problem fore nobody talks about it, and as I view it,” she said. people feel ashamed because of Cost of a Kenyon Residence Hall Double and the As it stands, financial aid it,” Clark said. “I don’t think Maximum Financial Aid Allowance for Housing only covers the cost of a dormi- that necessarily it’s just housing Source: Fall 2011 Data from the Kenyon Office of Finance, Office of Accounting GRAPHIC: WILFRED AHRENS tory double, which at Kenyon is that’s the problem. I think that $4,540 per year. For first years it’s our culture — and not just package. “I think they know money they wanted that they to the revenue Kenyon would Dugas agreed, but she be- and sophomores, who almost within the Kenyon culture — what the situation is, and we could spend on housing, you’d lose if financial aid covered the lieves the next housing focus exclusively live in dormitory it’s our society, where we don’t try to disseminate that in all of still have a bunch of kids who average room rate, the total should be on renovation. “I doubles, receiving the maxi- feel pride in our socio-econom- our mailings and communica- didn’t live in non-residence cost of such a change would don’t know if that’s the best mum $4,540 in financial aid is ic differences.” tions, so I would like to think halls because there just isn’t be $661,006 per year. In addi- use of Kenyon resources or not, rarely an issue. Director of Financial Aid [students and parents are] well- enough housing,” Blanchard tion to this cost, the increase but it would be nice in an ideal But for some juniors and Craig Daugherty said the Col- informed,” Daugherty said. said. “There’s kind of equal in housing aid would disad- world to say that students got to most seniors who wish to live lege’s housing difficulties exist, Still, a study headed by As- opportunity, but what it also vantage first years and sopho- live wherever they wanted,” she in apartment housing and are in part, because of Kenyon’s sta- sociate Vice President for Fi- showed, under the average mores whose average room rate said. “For me it’s about renova- awarded aid, the difference tus as a residential campus and nance Teri Blanchard shows room rates, is that there prob- is much lower than that of a se- tion, and it’s about making sure they pay between a dormitory its dedication to maintaining seniors on financial aid do face ably is a bit of disparity between nior. that our spaces that we have, double and an apartment sin- a community-based environ- some disadvantages because those with need-based aid and “Could it be changed? the doubles and singles in our gle or double may make them ment. most live in higher-priced hous- those without because the aver- Sure,” Blanchard said. “Is it apartments and our residence rethink their housing option. “I think it makes perfectly ing than a standard double. age room rate tends to be a little high enough priority for that halls … are all [in] tiptop shape.” Even so, students are normally good sense for an 18-to 22-year- Blanchard’s study suggests bit higher.” to happen? From my point of Clark said she hopes first able to figure out a way to live old population that everyone seniors on need-based financial According to Blanchard’s view in looking at this data, I and foremost that Senate, and where they want, according to does stay on campus and have a aid may have a housing disad- study, if financial aid were to think it’s … clear this is really a then students, can become Alicia Dugas, assistant dean of chance to interact and become vantage. She said this is because cover the room rate paid by the senior issue. So do you change more educated about the par- students for Housing and Resi- friends in and out of the class- the average room rate for se- average senior, individual fi- the whole plan to correct some- ticulars of housing in relation to dential Life. room,” Daugherty said. niors is higher than the cost of nancial aid housing allotments thing that isn’t broken for [all] both financial aid and availabil- “I don’t have a lot of stu- Like Dugas, he does not see a standard double by $2,416, would rise by $2,416. Such a classes?” Blanchard suggested ity. “I don’t think that there’s dents come to me, but the ones many students who feel they leaving that difference to be change would cost the College that such a financial policy one single answer,” said Clark. who do end up coming to our are at a housing disadvantage covered by the student. an additional $320,642 per could be implemented for se- “I think awareness is going to office are really disappointed because of their financial aid “If everybody had all the year in financial aid. Added niors only, if at all. be the biggest solution.” All Things Considered: Knell Discusses Media’s New Role By ERIC GELLER get out of their cars until the segment STAFF WRITER is over. “These stories are not being During a talk in Higley Audito- told on commercial radio,” Knell said. rium last night, National Public Ra- Since commercial news organiza- dio (NPR) CEO Gary Knell shared tions have scaled back coverage of in- NPR’s unique approach to journalis- ternational events, NPR sends show tic storytelling, its dedication to fill- hosts and reporters to experience ing in the essential gaps left by others complicated situations firsthand, in the news business and its ongoing Knell said. For instance, Morning mission to reinvent itself. Knell, who Edition host Steve Inskeep once had joined NPR last year after 12 years as tea with the late U.S. Ambassador to the CEO of Sesame Workshop, vis- Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, which ited Kenyon after his daughter, Lu- added a personal dimension to his re- cia Knell ’13, conveyed to Student porting on the ambassador’s death a Lectureships his interest in speaking few weeks ago. here. For Knell, NPR’s foreign af- “I assume most of you were fairs reporting is vital for informing strapped into car seats [and] forced Americans about places where their to listen to Morning Edition,” Knell government engages in activities on joked as he began his talk. One of their behalf. This type of program- the challenges NPR faces in the ming, he said, introduces listeners 21st century, he said, is figuring out HENRI GENDREAU | COLLEGIAN and readers to stories they may not how to keep news fresh for a genera- National Public Radio (NPR) CEO Gary Knell discussed innovation and reinvention in public radio. be searching for, which will broaden tion of young people who are trying their horizons. to be responsible media consumers. were writing those updates. “It’s very dives” into subjects like the environ- which allows anyone to submit a re- Still, Knell acknowledged these In the digital age, Knell said, NPR hard to figure out how to sort out all ment, science and technology. These corded story about “life and overcom- attempts at innovation will not be has to grapple with how to “separate of this information and make choices “deeper dives” are most evident in ing obstacles.” easy, and encouraged the audience fact from fiction.” He recounted how about what is important,” Knell said. three of their programs: Planet Mon- “I’ve listened to hundreds of these to give NPR feedback about its op- NPR senior strategist Andy Carvin “News doesn’t move in a straight line ey, which informs listeners of the ev- things. I’ve never, ever found one erations. “We want you to, if you’re was aggregating tweets from partici- the way it did before.” eryday ramifications of economic [that was] not worth listening to,” willing, help us reinvent NPR,” Knell pants in the Arab Spring last year. Knell also said NPR is developing issues; RadioLab, a program that Knell said of Story Corps. These sto- said. “We need you to help us figure The problem: there was no easy way to “a Pandora [radio service] of news” makes scientific concepts approach- ries, he said, produce “driveway mo- this out. We need to know that this verify the identities of the people who that will let listeners “take deeper able and engaging; and StoryCorps, ments” where listeners don’t want to content is connecting.”

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 NEWS THE KENYON COLLEGIAN 5 Kenyon Questions Usefulness“ of Newly Released Rankings

By SAM COLT ings, such as a college’s acceptance cepted students who chose to the rankings comes from their PHOTO EDITOR It’s not good for higher education. So it’s rate or its student-to-faculty ratio, enroll. In August, Emory Uni- use as a starting point in the col- In U.S. News & World Re- are widely published and eas- versity President Jim Wagner lege search process. “Rankings port’s annual ranking of Amer- very hard to be proud of rating well in a ily accessible. Other metrics, like admitted the University had mis- are a hassle to us. Parents and ica’s top liberal arts colleges, Ke- survey that is so badly constructed. faculty pay, are more difficult represented itself in data it sent to students will use them. It’s a be- nyon ranked 32nd, a spot the to know for certain without the groups that rank colleges for at ginning point before getting to College shares with three other President S. Georgia Nugent participation of the college in least 12 years. what really matters, which is fit,” schools: Bucknell University, “ question. “Good people do bad things he said. College of the Holy Cross and officials and uses in determin- ing false precision and author- Vice President for Enroll- because of the rankings,” Dela- Some high school students Mount Holyoke College. ing its rankings. “We expect our ity, encouraging gamesmanship ment and Dean of Admissions hunty said. “I’ve heard of admis- are also skittish about the rank- This ranking, however, relies students to make reasoned judg- between schools and obscuring and Financial Aid Jennifer Dela- sion deans being pressured to ings. “I find college rankings on a limited data set, according to ments based on data appropriate- important differences between hunty said she thinks the rank- increase their score averages in helpful and accurate, but at the President S. Georgia Nugent. ly analyzed, but U.S. News asks institutions. ings ignore how well a student order to gain in the rankings. same time, they aren’t vital to “They reward you for how presidents for judgment based on The Presidents’ Letter asks for “fits” a college entirely. “The It’s presidential and board pres- decision making because I want much money you can spend per no data, with no analytical rigor,” two commitments from its sig- equivalent for us in Admissions sure that forces them into doings to go to a school [that best fits] student. That’s a huge factor. And reads the statement. natories. First, signatories agree would be to choose all kids based things like that.” me, not what others consider the they reward you for how many “It’s like ranking your ham- to refuse to fill out U.S. News’ on their SAT scores and their Despite U.S. News’ clout, ‘best,’” Maria Moraitakis, a se- people you can exclude from your burger at McDonald’s. It was reputational survey. Signatories GPAs,” she said. “If you look at many high school counselors are nior at the private Pace Academy college. That’s not good for the good, not so good, lousy,” Nugent are also asked to abstain from us- it, the order [of the rankings] is wary of relying too much on the in Atlanta, said in an email. American public,” Nugent said. said. “That’s it. That’s a nuanced ing the rankings in promotional almost directly correlated to en- rankings. “[The rankings are] not For those who do not par- “It’s not good for higher educa- instrument? And, as a president, materials or as an indicator of the dowment.” In aggregate, a col- a tool I use often at all,” said Myr- ticipate in or give credence to tion. So it’s very hard to be proud you shouldn’t be ranking all these quality of their college or univer- lege’s financial resources indeed na Kennerly, a college counselor college rankings, distinguish- of rating well in a survey that is so colleges. You can’t possibly know sity. account for 35 percent of their at Mount Vernon High School. ing similar institutions from one badly constructed.” all these colleges.” Nonetheless, it is difficult to ranking in the liberal arts college “I know when I look at those another is an imperfect system. In fact, the College does not Three years later, in what is ignore how rankings may influ- category. rankings that they are skewed, Both Delahunty and Stahlman provide any information for rat- now called the Presidents’ Let- ence a prospective student or par- Journalists, including the and I’ll tell my students that. You recommended the National ing or ranking schools. Instead, ter, Nugent again signed a state- ent. “Yes, we know that people New Yorker’s Malcolm Gladwell, have to remind kids that you can Survey of Student Engagement Kenyon posts data on its website, ment developed by the Educa- look at those rankings, particu- have criticized U.S. News for how go to two or three publications (NSSE) as a possible substitute readily available for any interest- tion Conservancy that sought to larly U.S News, and so we certain- it weights its data. For instance, and get different rankings.” for traditional college rankings. ed parties. eschew U.S. News’ rankings and ly don’t want to be at the bottom U.S. News weights 22.5 percent Jeff Stahlman, a counselor Whereas traditional rankings In the past, Nugent has been develop an alternative ranking of that list,” Nugent said. of its ranking of liberal arts col- at New Albany High School, focus on hard numerical data, vocal about her view of college system. The magazine’s methodology leges on what it calls “undergrad- echoed this sentiment. At New the NSSE seeks to understand rating systems. On Aug. 19, 2004 “We believe these rankings is available online. Each year, the uate academic reputation,” which Albany, up to 40 percent of se- the experiences students have at she released a joint statement are misleading and do not serve publication sends a statistical sur- consists of a survey given to col- niors go to colleges and univer- college. The Council of Indepen- along with 14 other liberal arts well the interests of prospective vey to all of the schools it seeks to lege presidents and a survey given sities out of state. “I think [the dent Colleges, of which Kenyon college presidents on their view of students in finding a college or rank. On its website, U.S. News to high school counselors, both of rankings are] ridiculous. They’re is a member, participates in the U.S. News’ rankings. university that is well suited to claims 92 percent — 1,280 of the which are subjective. based on faulty premises, I think NSSE annually.

One point of contention has their education beyond high 1,391 institutions it surveyed — Some schools are acutely there’s no question about that,” “We need to give the con- been the peer assessment survey school,” the letter said. The letter returned answers to its survey last aware of U.S. News’ effect on he said. sumer a way to evaluate the in- the publication gives to college also accused U.S. News of imply- year. Some data used in the rank- their yield — the number of ac- Stahlman said any value in vestment,” Delahunty said.

KAC: Security Increases Hispanic Heritage Month continued from page 1 were locked, and only a KAC cess system options for the locker “ staff member could let users in. rooms to make sure only autho- us to follow through when the As of Monday, Sept. 24, locker rized individuals can access those Celebrates Latino History description we had … could have room doors must be shut at all spaces. Newell said they are also By LAUREN KATZ been a hundred different people,” times. For now, a student worker looking at installing video sur- STAFF WRITER said Hooper. will check all Kenyon ID cards at veillance outside the locker areas. By acknowledging and celebrating The motive of the individual a makeshift desk located by the Permanently moving the As part of ADELANTE’s is also unknown at this time, front doors of the KAC. New- front desk closer to the KAC’s celebration of Hispanic Heri- the Hispanic Heritage Month, we are Hooper said. “Was it somebody ell does not know how long this entrance and making ID checks tage Month, the society has acknowledging those realities. who just got confused about policy will continue. mandatory are both measures organized activities geared to- what door to go into?” he said. These more immediate mea- under consideration, said Newell. ward raising awareness of Latin Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature “ Clara Román-Odio “Was it on purpose?” sures are indicative of a longer- These steps are meant to pre- American culture. In addition Although many unanswered term safety initiative Newell said vent similar incidents from hap- to honoring Latin American questions still surround the he hopes to institute at the KAC. pening again and provide more history, the society plans to di- faculty, staff and students, and Latin American Literature events, the Athletics Department This is Newell’s first year, and he information if they do. “[These rect the community’s attention we all hang the flags and have Clara Román-Odio, the direc- and Campus Safety have made a said that when he first arrived at measures will] increase the secu- to the new Latino/a studies a ceremony to say a little some- tor of the concentration, said cooperative effort to increase se- Kenyon, “I felt like the building rity of everyone’s belongings as concentration. thing about Hispanic Heritage Latino/a studies is important curity, according to Hooper. Af- was a little insecure anyway.” well as the safety of our students, ADELANTE is a mul- Month. It’s always wonderful.” not only for the education of ter the incidents, all locker room The KAC administrators are which is my number one con- ticultural campus group that A performance by a Do- the students but also the educa- doors, recreational and athletic, currently pricing out different ac- cern,” Newell said. focuses on Latin America, al- minican Bachata band contrib- tion of the country as a whole. though students of all nation- uted to last year’s success. This “Latinos will have a signifi- Village Record alities are welcome. “We try year, ADELANTE will build cant role to play in the future to raise awareness on campus upon that event with a Latino of this country,” Román-Odio Sept. 20, 12:32 a.m. — Theft: student reported theft of their belongings in Peirce Hall. Safety- of concerning Latin America and dance party complete with DJ said. According to the U.S. cen- ficers completed report. Latin American students, and Danny Diaz. sus, by 2050, Latinos will make Sept. 20, 2:15 a.m. — Alcohol: intoxicated student in Norton Residence Hall assisted by just try to inform people about “[Diaz] is also going to give up 30 percent of the popula- Safety officers. certain issues and their cul- lessons in how to dance Salsa tion. Sept. 21, 11:04 p.m. — Drugs/paraphernalia: students found to be using illegal drugs outside ture,” said ADELANTE Presi- and Merengue, I think it’s go- “By acknowledging and of Caples Residence Hall. dent Sarai Martinez ’15. ing to be a lot of fun,” Garcia celebrating the Hispanic Heri- Sept. 21, 11:27 p.m. — Alcohol: students found to be drinking underage in Caples Residence The month’s traditional said. tage Month, we are acknowl- Hall. opening ceremony began on ADELANTE also planned edging those realities, and we Sept. 22, 11:43 a.m. — Vandalism/damage: unknown individual(s) caused damage to com- Saturday, Sept. 15 with flags an exhibition of photojournal- are welcoming students who mon area and restroom in Gund Commons. from every Latin American ist José Galvez’s work in the come from that background,” Sept. 22, 12:18 p.m. — Suspicious person: suspicious person on campus in a non-residential country fluttering in the former Gund Gallery on Sept. 25, fol- Román-Odio said. area. Trespass letter given. Olin Art Gallery. lowed by a lecture. There will Garcia agreed that knowl- Sept. 22, 11:33 p.m. — Alcohol: student received citation from Safety officers for underage “If you go to the Olin Gal- also be a meet-and-greet today edge of Latin American culture consumption on public property. lery, you will see we have 18 in Peirce Lounge to discuss the is imperative for the future. Sept. 23, 1:25 a.m. — Vandalism/damage: unknown individual(s) pushed Campus Safety flags up, and that is always a re- Latino/a studies concentration, “Anyone who is not familiar golf cart down a hill near Old Kenyon Residence Hall. Damage to cart, which was really fun activity,” said Assistant which the College created last with [Latin American] culture trieved. Professor of English and faculty semester in response to student may find themselves at a disad- Sept. 24, 5:07 p.m. — Medical injury: student received bee sting outside of McBride Resi- advisor of ADELANTE Ivo- demand. vantage in a very short time,” dence Hall. Assessed and treated by Safety officer. nne Garcia. “We gather with Professor of Spanish and she said. 6 THE KENYON COLLEGIAN OPINIONS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

STAFF EDITORIAL On Quote Review The Collegian’s New Policy

n last Sunday’s Student Council meeting, the minutes of which can be found on page 2, a rep- Iresentative from the Business and Finance Committee (BFC) aired his concerns about recent changes to the Collegian’s interview policy. “They used to send me which quotes they were going to include in an article before they published it, and they’ve just stopped doing that,” he said.

The representative was referring to the decision Quote read back maintains accountability be- ity and accuracy in every facet of our reporting. of this year’s editors to do away with a “quote re- tween interviewer and interviewee: if a source is Each week, the Collegian publishes thousands of view” policy that allowed anyone interviewed by concerned that he or she misstated a fact, the source words of copy, much of which is written by nov- this paper to review their quotes before publication can have quotes read back over the phone or in per- ice reporters. Every word is read by at least seven and edit for language or substance. son by a Collegian editor. Likewise, if a source is different staff members. Still, errors will evade this This revisionist quote policy gave interview- concerned that his or her words have been mis- rigorous editing process. If that happens, we will ees the power to change meaning after the fact, a transcribed, the source has the option to have the correct them promptly — as recommended in the power with the potential to undermine the candid- quotes in question read back. If we determine that Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics ness of their quotes and, in turn, the insight of our a mistake has been made, we will revise the quote. — and make sure we’re taking measures to prevent reporting. We cannot, in good faith, allow that to We have arrived at this decision after months of similar mistakes in the future. continue. discussion among our editors and a careful consid- That’s why, after a series of recent inaccuracies As more of our sources expect free rein to strike eration of the practices of collegiate and profession- in our sports section, we are in the midst of add- words from the record and redraft, it has become al news organizations. The Associated Press does ing two fact checkers to our editorial staff. It’s also increasingly difficult for our reporters to provide not allow quote approval. In August, The Harvard why we will be holding our reporters to even higher perceptive coverage of this campus. Crimson announced they planned to do away with standards. We require our reporters to voice-record Over the course of the last year alone, sources quote review, claiming interviews that could later all interviews and to save those recordings for at have asked to revise their quotes to make them be revised ceased “to fulfill their purpose — to cap- least two weeks after publication to ensure that sound more eloquent. One source asked to add ad- ture and channel the forthright, honest words of quotes can always be verified for factual accuracy ditional information to the body of a quote; an- Harvard’s decision-makers to all those who might and wording. other asked that a quote be taken off the record be affected by the decisions.” And last week, The The representative of the BFC characterized retroactively. All of the above situations violated New York Times announced they too were prohibit- this policy decision as “backtracking in terms of established rules of journalistic ethics. ing “quote approval.” the accountability and transparency you have with When interviews are given on the condition As editors, we always want to make sure the Col- interview subjects.” In actuality, this policy pro- that quotes be sent back and changed after the fact, legian is held to the highest ethical standards and tects our sources while simultaneously doing right we are failing in our mission as a newspaper and follows the best journalistic practices. And in in- by our readers, who deserve to hear the facts as they effectively becoming an extension of the Office of stances like this one, when other news agencies are are and not a revised or augmented version. Public Affairs. implementing policies that we firmly believe will Since we announced this policy change to our It is worth noting that many of our most promi- benefit the Collegian, we will follow suit. staff at our fall training session, we have heard from nent sources at Kenyon do not request to see their We take misquotations seriously and, as with all multiple members of the campus community that quotes in advance, including President S. Georgia other errors, strive to avoid them. To those we have they are nervous about consenting to interviews Nugent. misquoted in the past, we can only say: we regret without prior review of their quotes. The truth is Although the Collegian will no longer allow that we have damaged your trust in us, but know that we would rather go without a quote — no mat- sources to revise their quotes, we will continue to that as the school year continues, we will continue ter how useful — than permit sources to use our offer quote “read back” as a courtesy. to implement new policies to improve accountabil- pages to mislead our readers.

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Letters must also be received no later than the Sunday Chief Copy Editor David Hoyt Washburn prior to publication. The Kenyon Collegian prints as many letters as possible each week subject to space, interest and appropriateness. Members of the Photography Editor Sam Colt Faculty Advisor P. F. Kluge editorial board reserve the right to reject any submission. The views expressed in the paper do not necessarily reflect the views of Kenyon College. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 OPINIONS THE“ KENYON COLLEGIAN 7 Student Literary Scene Needs Grassroots Culture Change Once in a while you’ll get a Harry ers, it just needs nerds. At heart, we Kenyon’s depressed literary scene doesn’t need Potter/Hunger Games moment that nerds are story-seekers. We are those die-hard Kafka enthusiasts ... it just needs nerds. brings the giddy geek to the visible who find compelling narratives in ev- surface of even the most prudent, fun- ery possible media. In this way, we’re I’ve never been able to tell. fueled all-boys school, I might find the hating Dursley, but on the average, we all English majors, and as such, we One person in my hometown did kind of irrepressibly bookish commu- sequester ourselves to the fringes of have an interest in coming out of our know the word “Kenyon” — my soph- nity I longed for at Kenyon. Kenyon society. metaphorical comic book-filled closet “omore year English teacher. On a cer- And for the most part, I have. But The worst part is that we’re hiding — better, we have a duty. We have in- tain spring afternoon, she accosted me it seems to me that most students here from ourselves. I’ve found that Ken- herited a tradition steeped in the best By BEN ROS in the hall between periods. She had are more likely to spend time with an yon Review events and literary journal kind of literary juice, and we are cur- OPINIONS EDITOR noticed the Kenyon sticker painstak- intramural team or KACing than meetings are ill-attended. Our under- rently failing to champion it. I have It seems to me that Kenyon’s stu- ingly centered on the back window of with Joyce or Atwood. Don’t let me be graduate journals are poorly funded thought it is simply the nature of a dent body is not living up to its reputa- my beat-up, hand-me-down Subaru misunderstood: I mean not to dispar- and lack any serious digital presence. literary journal to be unpopular and tion. We find ourselves trodding in the Forester. I’d wounded her pride as an age Kenyon sports, it’s simply that I’ve What might be the intellectual stu- largely unread, but I have thought too giant footsteps of our literary past, and educator of the language by not com- now come to know a school that vastly dent corps of a school renowned for that if there’s anywhere that we might that makes me sad. To illustrate why, I ing to her immediately after opening differs from my pre-pre-orientation its English department is instead an change that nature, it is here. We are give you the story of a young nerd. my acceptance letter. vision. Kenyon’s healthy relationship abundance of enthusiastic first-years charged with carrying on the legacy of Kenyon is not in the vocabulary of Kenyon’s reputation, I soon with athletics is nothing like the meat- that haven’t yet noticed the puzzling predecessors like John Crowe Ransom the 8,000 or so that live in my home- learned, did survive in some unfre- head-dominated atmosphere of idiocy absence of upperclass English majors into the twenty-first century — espe- town. When I told them where I was quented nook of the local library, shar- that I barely survived in high school. at every literary function. What might cially those English majors who, per- going to college, my friends and fam- ing shelf space with Doctorow, Wright Unfortunately, however, those be a campus that leads its sister schools haps in 20 years’ time, would like to ily were indifferent. I can’t imagine the and Lowell. I found that Kenyon does nerdy, introverted, beautifully odd in the field is instead a group of talent- say “I went to Kenyon,” and not have situation was unique. have a name, and not an insignificant people are still hiding. Sure, you’ll see ed recluses too browbeaten to submit to say “it’s in Ohio.”

“It’s in Ohio” was my necessary one, but only a few have heard it — a few of us on Peirce’s lower floor, fur- to or participate in their own school’s Let us do so. rejoinder to so many blank faces. that it wasn’t respect that we lacked, tively guzzling caffeine to push our- student journal. Ben Ros ’14 is an English major, Worse still were the hesitant nods and but notoriety. I took heart in the hope selves into that last chapter of Game of Kenyon’s depressed literary scene a Writing Center consultant and the reticent smiles that filled the blank — that as the unliked, pudgy editor of Thrones, or the next episode of Doctor doesn’t need die-hard Kafka enthu-“ editor of Hika. His email is rosb@ sympathetic or apologetically offered, the school newspaper at a testosterone- Who, or that last Skyrim side quest. siasts or scatterbrained Thoreau lov- kenyon.edu. Letter to the Editor: Residency Enough for Voting Rights I’ve heard it said that Kenyon stu- It’s also worth noting that a good Moreover, it isn’t at all clear what dents ought not to vote in Gambier or number of students stay in or eventu- By neither law nor logic does a future move makes someone a stakeholder. Kenyon that they ought at least to refrain from ally return to Gambier after gradua- mean much about present voting. students quite plausibly should care voting on issues that matter only to per- tion. When I last checked, among the about the local secondary schools. manent residents. many Kenyon alumni in Knox County which students are said to have no stake “The Ethicist” replied: “Your voting When new and talented young facul- I disagree, and here is why: are lawyers, medical doctors, secondary (such as tax levies or school board elec- was more than ethical; it was admirable. ty are weighing a job offer from Kenyon, First of all, while it is true that most school teachers, business CEOs, fire- tions), some years ago a Kenyon student ... It is irrelevant that few students pay the quality of the local school system is students will leave Gambier when they fighters, therapists, librarians, ministers, “wrote to “the Ethicist” at The New York property taxes. We eliminated economic one of the many things they often take graduate, the fact is that many Ameri- farmers, a regional planner, a reporter, an Times Magazine with a question about requirements for voting long ago: you into consideration. When Knox County cans are similarly mobile. According insurance agent, a health commissioner this very issue: needn’t own property; you needn’t pay public schools are well funded and well to a 2005 report in Migration News, in and more. “I am a student at Kenyon College. a poll tax. Even people too poor to pay run, all local enterprises have an easier the four years that it takes to get a Ken- At what point in the lives of such Some local residents were upset that hun- nearly any taxes may vote.” time attracting the best young workers, yon degree, about one fifth of American citizens is it appropriate for them to take dreds of students were allowed to vote for To expand on the point: in American and all of us consequently benefit. citizens change the county in which they seriously their local civic duties and par- a property tax that will fall entirely on democracy we do not differentiate be- It makes perfect sense that students live. If all such mobile voters were to self- ticipate in elections? The earlier the bet- the permanent residents. Many students tween stakeholders and non-stakehold- who live in Gambier should vote in disenfranchise, we’d lose 20 percent of ter seems to be the clear answer: studies favor the measure as a way to finance the ers once something is on the ballot. “Per- Gambier. And remember to register! The the voting population. By neither law show that young voters become lifelong local elementary school. ... Was it ethical manent” residents with no children may deadline is Oct. 9. nor logic does a future move mean much voters. for us to vote? —Anonymous, Gambier, vote on school bond issues and landless — Lewis Hyde, Richard L. Thomas about present voting. As for the question of local issues in Ohio.” renters may vote on real estate tax issues. Professor of Creative Writing Letter to the Editor: Student Votes Crucial in Elections I disagree with Jane Simon- ton’s position ironic when the Col- rights to kick in except the 30-day ees have children who attend those ployees. So, the school levy vote mat- ton’s piece “Knox Deserves Proper legian has done such good work residency requirement before Elec- schools, which include Wiggin ters to you and to Kenyon’s future. Representation” (Sept. 20). The informing students about local po- tion Day. You are not a second-tier Street Elementary School in Gam- Please register and vote. All gist of her argument is that stu- litical issues prior to recent elections. voter. bier. In recent years, school levies the way down the ballot. Reg- dents probably shouldn’t vote in If you are a U.S. citizen of voting On the November ballot, there have been decided by narrow mar- istration closes on Oct. 9. Mount Vernon local elections. age and a resident of Gambier, then will be a levy in support of Mount gins. Your vote could be crucial. And Don’t suppress your own vote. I do agree that you should be an in- you are a full citizen of this place. Vernon schools. Many of your pro- having quality local schools helps — Kyle W. Henderson ’80, Associate formed voter. But I find Ms. Simon- There’s no waiting period for your fessors and other Kenyon employ- Kenyon attract and retain good em- Vice President for College Relations

Cold Cereal By HOLLY ANDERSON 8 THE KENYON COLLEGIAN FEATURES THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 Themed Housing Moves In With New Fall Programs By CELIA CULLOM “We hope to have our first Saturday STAFF WRITER dinner for club members in the next Ever wonder what it’s like to live in a few weeks,” Halper said. “Also, for our themed house? With weekly meetings all-campus event in October, we are for members and monthly programs either making fall pies or homemade for the entire campus, these organiza- Halloween candy.” tions keep themselves busy planning BE: Victorious events and promoting their causes. BE: Victorious aims to connect the Here’s a look at what they have been up Kenyon community. While the group to and where they are going this year. was founded to create a community for Coffeehouse (Creative Writing) Christian athletes, non-Christians as New to campus this year is the Cof- well as non-athletes are welcome to at- feehouse. Although it isn’t officially list- tend meetings and get involved. ed as a registered organization on Org- “Religion is mostly a visible factor Sync yet, Janet Wlody ’13 and other in our weekly meetings,” Lianne Cas- members hope to provide a welcoming tile ’13 said. “We meet Wednesday eve- environment where people can express nings and will have a discussion group their ideas and practice their writing for about an hour. In the past the topics skills. have pulled in passages from the Bible “Our house will be helpful to stu- to guide the discussions.” dents preparing portfolios for admis- Other than weekly meetings, BE: SAM COLT | COLLEGIAN sion to writing classes,” Wlody said. Victorious has hosted one event this The Earth flag hangs outside the themed housing of ECO/PEAS, North Campus Apartment 220A. The organization has yet to host any year, an open house that got the year off events this year, but it plans to develop a to a good start. “A big event coming up is our Ni- going on and coming up on campus,” house, at which they served muffins. bigger presence on campus in the com- “We had freshly baked cookies, fruit geria/China/Botswana Independence Britt said. The event was a success, according to ing weeks. and other snacks, and people brought Day Celebration on Saturday, Sept. 29 ECO/PEAS Jurney, and members are working on “We are in the process of planning over games, and we essentially had a at 7:00 p.m.,” Alex Britt ’15 said. “We’re If you’ve ever wandered through the more programs for the near future. our first writing workshop under the game night while getting to know each also hoping to collaborate with ECO/ North Campus Apartments, you’ve “Oktoberfest is going to be so cool,” guidance of Kenyon Review staff and other,” Castile said. PEAS on an Oktoberfest celebration.” probably seen a flag with a picture of the Jurney said, “and the Beer and Bacon faculty advisors,” Wlody said. To get involved with BE: Victori- Along with events planned for the Planet Earth hanging from Apt. 220. party with the Peeps is always a classic.” Kenyon Food Co-op ous, you can attend events and weekly entire campus, members of the Interna- That’s the ECO/PEAS house. While Along with planning events, mem- Striving to break the monotony meetings on Wednesdays at 10:10 p.m. tional Students at Kenyon (ISAK) get the Environmental Campus Organi- bers of the ECO/PEAS house are try- of Peirce, members of the Kenyon in the Bemis music room on the second special perks. zation (ECO) and People Endorsing ing to get a sustainability grant to build Food Co-op prepare occasional home- floor of Peirce. “We’ve … started doing movie Agrarian Sustainability (PEAS) are a hoop house (a type of greenhouse) cooked meals for students. “Most of our events will be focused nights for our members, which are re- separate groups, they share a similar and a winter garden. “We want people to realize it can on service or community, so if you want ally fun,” Britt said. dedication to the environment and sus- Anyone interested in either orga- be really fun and not too much work to to help out or have some fun with new The goal of the International House tainability. nization is encouraged to get involved. create a delicious home-cooked meal,” people, come on out,” Castile said. is to create an environment in which ev- “[Sustainability is important] be- ECO meets on Sundays at 4:00 p.m. in said Elizabeth Halper ’15, president of International House eryone can share his or her culture. Britt cause without the planet, all other hu- the Horn Gallery and PEAS meets on the Food Co-op. “Especially when you The International House has long said that anyone is welcome to attend man problems become irrelevant,” Tim Mondays at 6:00 p.m. in Peirce Pub. do it in a group of people who really en- provided Kenyon with programs that events and become involved. Jurney ’15 said. “Protecting the beauti- “Come to the meetings. We love joy it.” highlight the diversity of students, “If people would like to be in- ful and critical nature around us is one new people,” Jurney said. “Meet n’ Greens” has been the and this year will be no exception. volved in ISAK and the International of the most important things we can The Bike Co-op, Buddhist House, only event hosted by the Food Co- After almost 90 people showed up House, they should definitely come to do.” Community Service House, KacHead op this year. Due to the event’s to their first event, a pancake break- the weekly ISAK meetings. We grab To spread awareness about their House and Outdoors Club could not success, the organization looks fast, the organization is ready to kick brunch together every Sunday at 12:00 message, members of the ECO/PEAS be reached for comment before the forward to upcoming events. things into high gear. p.m. and just chat about everything house have already hosted an open print deadline.

Scott Gill-Jacobson, Robert O’Malley, Assistant Director of Visiting Assistant Sarah Schnebly ‘16 Stephanie Penix ‘16 Housing and Residential Students Professor of Anthropology Fac/Staff Life Fac/Staff Totals so far: Gambier Students: 20 Grillin’ Faculty/Staff: 15 Vs

What major city’s schools recently shut down for a week because of a Chicago Chicago Chicago Chicago Chicago teacher strike?

On what day was the iPhone 5 to be Nov. 5 I don’t know Sept. 21 Sept. 30 Sept. 21 released?

What percentage of Americans did Mitt Romney claim were dependent 48% 47% 47% 47% 47% on the government?

Who founded the Kenyon Review? Philander Chase Philander Chase Philander Chase I don’t know John Crowe Ransom

What Hollywood couple recently raised $4 million for the president’s Brad and Angelina Brad and Angelina Brad and Angelina I don’t know Jay-Z and Beyoncé reelection campaign?

Total Correct 1 2 3 2 By Daisy VanDenburgh THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 FEATURES THE KENYON COLLEGIAN 9

Chile By SIMON HOELLERBAUER “ CONTRIBUTOR A few days ago, as my Living with a host family and inter- host brothers and I were acting with them on a daily basis has clearing the table after dinner, I grabbed an- definitely been one of my favorite other piece of bread from experiences here in Chile. the bread box and started “ munching on it as I put Simon Hoellerbauer ’14 some dishes in the sink. “So you’re the reason there never is any bread!” ily and interacting with lot, especially when eating my host brother Seba said them on a daily basis has serves as a great excuse to accusingly (he had been definitely been one of my not study for a big exam sent to buy bread be- favorite experiences here the next day. fore dinner). In reflexive in Chile. Although I bare- Speaking of academ- self-defense, I said “No, ly ever see my 20-year-old ics (But who wants to do of course not!” But after host sister, I spend a lot that? Studying abroad is thinking for a few seconds, of time with my 10- and for having fun, plain and I had to concede, “Yeah, 12-year-old host broth- simple, no?), my experi- probably. I can’t help my- ers. You would be amazed ence here couldn’t be more self. It just calls to me.” at how much Spanish you different from my experi- My host mother can learn from two pre- ence at Kenyon. Unlike at laughed. teenagers, since they still Kenyon, where I can roll I don’t really know why think you’re cool and want out of bed five minutes I like the bread so much. to talk to you all the time before class begins, here, It’s not anything extraor- (not so much the 20-year- I have a 30-minute com- dinary. But I sure eat a lot old who has had 14 differ- mute. If I miss my bus in of it here. In fact, quite ent foreign exchange stu- the morning, the chances often Chileans simply eat dents live in her house). of me making it to class once for dinner. It literally From a purely academic on time are about the means 11, and it consists standpoint, living with same as the Millennium of bread with avocado, a host family is great be- Falcon’s chances of mak- COURTESY OF SIMON HOELLERBAUER cheese and a host of other cause you can practice a ing it through that aster- Simon Hoellerbauer ’14 poses on a bench in Chile, where he is studying through ISAF-Butler. random toppings — some- language without ever hav- oid field alive. Second, my Next semester, he plans to continue his travel and study in Russia. times scrambled eggs — all ing to leave the house. classes are really large, and accompanied by tea. Re- Plus, from a cohabi- I barely have any home- and not skip the reading to to understand it sounds love the bus drivers who gardless of what we’re eat- tation standpoint, living work. Which is great, be- eat ice cream in one of the like gibberish. I love the drive with the door open. ing, it’s the fact that we’re with a host family means cause I have plenty of time many parks instead. fact that it’s spring, which I love that I’m here for eating together that makes you can just raid the fridge to explore Santiago, but But I love it. I love it all. means it’s freezing in the three more months, and it such a great experience. whenever you’re hungry, also bad, because it doesn’t I love Chilean Spanish, mornings and sweatingly I’m sad because that’s just Living with a host fam- which I happen to be a help me stay motivated which is sometimes so hard hot during the day. I even too little. Note-orious Gospel Choir“ Returns to Campus By JANE SIMONTON tion to the rejuvenation of ice way.” sic to the table,” she said. FEATURES EDITOR Gospel Choir. “It’s pretty low-main- “Also, we try to make it After a year of silence, Gospel Choir is about how the music “The fact that I’m tenance because we know very interactive. When Gospel Choir is back and makes us feel. You just have to be able to leading the Newman this is new and we’re try- [Neviska] and I arrange ready to sing. The Choir, Club should have been ing to make this an en- for the group, it’s a work originally led by Alice snap and clap, and to stomp and sway. a deterrent to my lead- joyable and repeatable in progress. So if we try Adebiyi ’11, took a hiatus ing this group, but, you experience for everyone,” to do something and it of sorts in 2011-2012, but “ Busola Olukoya ’15 know, you’re not a college Olukoya said. “So, when just isn’t working, some- is now surging back under student if you’re not over- we employ musical prop- one else in the group will the leadership of Busola Choir, so I made sure to Religious Life (BSRL); I committed,” Olukoya erties like [canons], they make a suggestion and Olukoya ’15 and Tristan join in my freshman year. work as a tour guide and said. aren’t as elaborate as we’ll try that and … we’re Neviska ’13. Well, Gospel Choir wasn’t as a library assistant at Conveniently, Olu- [Professor of Music Ben] back in business.” Olukoya first learned really a thing last year and both the circulation desk koya will not have to take Locke’s, but they get the The group is unaffili- about the Choir during so myself and [Neviska] and welcome desk of the more time out of her busy job done.” ated with other musical the summer before she decided that we were go- Olin and Chalmers Li- schedule to listen to audi- A key feature of the organizations on campus, came to Kenyon, when ing to take over this year.” braries; I’m a host for Ke- tions, because the Choir interfaith choir will be Olukoya said, but it finds Adebiyi visited her in Ni- The group faltered last nyon’s overnight program operates without tryouts. its commitment to giving support in other ways. geria. year, Olukoya said, due to for [prospective] students, “Gospel Choir is about every member a say in the “We’re independent,” “[Adebiyi] was in Ni- the busy schedules of its and I try to help out in the music and how it way the organization con- Olukoya said. “We have geria doing a Project for leaders, though Olukoya Mrs. Wolfe’s fourth grade makes us feel,” Olukoya ducts itself, Olukoya said. the amazing support from Peace in my village and is busy herself. class at Wiggin Street El- said. “You just have to be “We set our rehearsal some wonderful Kenyon she came down to see me “I’m a member of the ementary School; and I’m able to snap and clap, and time based on our partici- students, staff and mem- in Lagos. We had lunch Neuroscience Club, KC- a Peer Counselor, too,” to stomp and sway.” pants’ schedules, so the bers of the BSRL.” together, and we had so Meds, International So- Olukoya said. While Olukoya said little time commitment But the music is what much in common,” Olu- ciety at Kenyon (ISAK); Olukoya is also a lead- she was “under oath” to is a plus for students. It’s matters most. koya said in an email. I’m an Upperclass Coun- er of Newman Club, Ke- keep the group’s reper- very personalized because “You just have to love “She told me all the things selor and a REACH Men- nyon’s Catholic campus toire secret, she said she students get to choose the genre of music we she’d been involved in at tor for two wonderful ministry, but she said her will run Gospel Choir their own robes and get sing,” Olukoya said. “Be Kenyon, and we got re- freshmen; I serve on the involvement with New- just like it was run before to bring their voices and ready to go wherever the ally excited about Gospel Board of Spiritual and man Club has no rela- it took a year off: “the Al- their kinds of gospel mu- music takes you.” 10 THE KENYON COLLEGIAN FEATURES THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 Separation Anxiety: Twins and Quads Split by College

By WILLA SACHS STAFF WRITER For most of us, leaving home to go to college means goodbye dinners with friends, sleeping in our own beds for the last time and hugging moms who are unsuccessfully trying to hide tears behind their sunglasses. It means adding “Gambier, Ohio” to where we live on Facebook and starting life in a completely new place. It means participating in endless orientation activities and learning to navi- gate the craziness of course schedules. But for twins and other sets of multiples separated by college choices, leaving home is even harder. “[My twin is] my best friend,” While some students are very a tune. They are both interested in Emily Moore ’16 said. “Back home close to their twins or sets of mul- human behavior and human interac- we always did everything together. tiples, others are at the opposite end tion, but Steve Quam looks at that We were really cliché: we had all of the spectrum, like Will Quam ’14 through a lens of literature, and Will the same interests, we played soccer and his twin, Steve. Quam looks at it through stage per- together, we had the same group of “A lot of people have this idea of formance. Will Quam said that while friends. So it’s weird now, because twins reading each others’ minds, he much respects his twin, their lack we were always … together, and now speaking their own languages and of commonalities made separating we’re not.” only hanging out with each other,” from him in college a much smooth- Being apart from her twin adds to Will Quam said. “[My twin and I] er transition than it might be for the strangeness of being on her own are the opposite of that. We talk oc- twins who, as Will Quam said, speak in a new place, Moore said, but a con- casionally. We have very different their own language. stant flurry of texting and Skype calls interests [and] very different person- Regardless of how close they are helps bridge the gap between Kenyon alities. And [we] have never read each to their respective multiples, Moore, and Iowa’s Grinnell College, where other’s minds or spoken our own lan- Hoehn, Quam and Ben Kress ’14 her twin goes to school. guage.” said they never considered going to Paul Hoehn ’14 also calls his twin The feeling of being a twin, in the same school as their siblings. his best friend. fact, is one Will Quam said he can- Kress, a quadruplet, said he “We have a really good relation- not articulate. looked forward to being known as ship. We don’t really fight with each “People always ask me what it’s his own person at college. Top, from left: Will Quam ’14 and his twin, Steve Quam; Katie Moore other; [we have] none of the normal like being a twin,” he said. “And I “I knew I’d go to a different col- ’16 and her twin; Paul Hoehn ’14 and his twin, Jack Hoehn. Above: sibling rivalry,” Hoehn said. “Every- don’t know; I don’t know what it’s lege than my siblings. Our interests Ben Kress ’14 and his fellow quadruplets, Allie, Tom, Michael (younger thing we did socially was always to- like. He’s a brother who happened led us to different places, [and] I was brother of the quads) and Megan. gether. We did all of the same extra- to be my womb-mate, at one point excited. No one had to know I was a curricular activities, practically. We in our lives, for nine months. We just quadruplet. It wasn’t just like, ‘Oh, I am, and they can’t tell the differ- beneficial for him and his twin to had almost completely overlapping happened to be born on the same you’re one of the Kresses,’” he said. ence, which is weird. … I thought it split up. friend groups.” day, but we’re very different.” The desire to establish a sense of was really important for us to be in- “In high school I was always semi- Hoehn’s twin, Jack, attends Will Quam is more of an extro- individuality apart from a twin, trip- dependent [in college],” Moore said. worried about people viewing us as Oberlin College and visits a couple vert, he said, while his twin Steve let or quadruplet is common amongst “It would be cool to go somewhere one person, and I thought that was times per semester. Frequent online Quam is more of an introvert. Will sets of multiples, Moore said. where someone knows who you are.” problematic, but in college no one chatting makes the distance more Quam is interested in music and the- “There are people I’ve known for During the application process, would do that, because he’s not here,” manageable. atre, and Steve Quam cannot hold 10 years [who] still don’t know who Hoehn decided it would be socially Hoehn said.

Pupil to Professor: Lottenbach Values U.S. Education By JESSICA BOLTER assistants, and actually the assistants University; the University of Califor- STAFF WRITER tended to be better than the profes- nia, Los Angeles and the University Assistant Professor of Philosophy In Switzerland I stayed in the same city [for “ sors,” he said. “The professors tended of Pittsburgh. He applied for many Hans Lottenbach didn’t go to his uni- to be horribly bad. Some of the profes- tenure-track jobs and accepted one at versity’s graduation. In fact, nobody university]. I didn’t move. Nothing changed. sors were completely useless, I mean at Kenyon. did. At the University of Zurich, Lot- It’s not college life; you don’t live in a dorm, complete frauds.” He said the differences between tenbach said, “Nobody welcomes you, you don’t have a meal plan at some cafeteria. As someone who was attracted to his life as a university student in Zu- and nobody says goodbye.” “ the idea of a career in academia, Lot- rich and the lives of Kenyon students Instead, he received his diploma in tenbach said he decided that he did are everywhere. Hans Lottenbach, assistant professor of philosophy the mail. not want to be involved in a system “In Switzerland I stayed in the Lottenbach grew up in Zurich, that he did not respect. same city [for university]. I didn’t Switzerland, where all education, “I realized that I have nothing move. Nothing changed,” he said. from kindergarten through university, “The top high schools are extreme- have to force yourself to fulfill the very to learn from these people; actually, “It’s not college life: you don’t live in is public, and students generally attend ly rigorous. You are under constant easy requirements.” I never had to learn anything from a dorm, you don’t have a meal plan at the university in their city, a stark con- pressure to learn, so after you finish … Lottenbach did not realize his in- these people because they were in- some cafeteria.” trast with a place like Kenyon. you want to relax a bit,” Lottenbach terest in philosophy at first. He pur- competent,” he said. “That’s the reason It’s difficult for many Americans “[In America,] with the right high said. “[The universities] give you in- sued diverse subjects, including clas- why I left.” to understand this concept, Lotten- school degree you have access … to all credible choice: you can do whatever sics, history and politics. After taking Lottenbach came to the U.S. to bach said, because it is so unlike the the universities. It’s a very different sys- you want, you take a class, you don’t several philosophy classes, though, he pursue a doctoral degree in philosophy transition from high school to college tem,” he said. “It’s not the universities have to write a paper [and] there are was hooked and decided to continue at the University of Pittsburgh. When in the U.S. that choose their students, it’s actually no exams.” on that path. He majored in philoso- he got there, he found an environment “Going to college [in the U.S.] is students who choose the schools.” Some students have stayed in the phy with minors in history and sociol- different from the one he had left in a big deal … because students for the Lottenbach did not just escape the Swiss university system for 20 years. ogy. Zurich. first time are leaving their homes, go- stress that usually accompanies the But this degree of leniency, while ide- “I was interested in what I found “In graduate school … you’re part ing to a different kind of place, a new American college application process, al for many, presented challenges for in classical philosophy. The quality of of a class, you take the same classes, life. It’s a big break,” Lottenbach said. he also escaped the tuition. Lottenbach. the reasoning, the arguments [and] required courses with the same kind As different as Kenyon is from “I paid a nominal registration fee, “You had to control yourself, so the intellectual discipline … struck me of people,” Lottenbach said. “The so- what Lottenbach grew up with, he the equivalent of $100 or something,” you had to set your own plan what to as impressive, so I stuck with it,” Lot- cial engagement is closer since you’re said he feels that he has found his he said. do since there’s nobody who would tenbach said. forced to be together, which was dif- niche here. And after years of working under force you [to],” Lottenbach said. “The As interested as he was in philoso- ferent from in Zurich, [where] you “This kind of teaching job suits incredible stress in high school, Lot- trick was to find a way of actually phy, Lottenbach said he became frus- meet people loosely.” me well,” he said, “since it seems this tenbach said many students felt they limiting your time and finishing fast trated with his professors. After graduate school, Lottenbach is something that I might have a small deserved a reprieve in university. without any outside pressure. So you “Most of the teaching was done by held visiting positions at Princeton talent for.” THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 ARTS THE KENYON COLLEGIAN 11 One Year to Make 149 Seconds: Caputo ’15 Self-Publishes Novel

By PAIGE SHERMIS The next step to self-publish- wrote me little jacket blurbs,” A&E EDITOR ing involved hiring an editor. Caputo said. The novel begins with a car Luckily, Caputo had a connec- By March of his senior year, accident. Knocked into a pur- tion in the business. the process was nearly finished. gatorial dream world, the pro- “[My] editor was the first Through the self-publishing tagonist is forced to search for teacher I ever had in high school website Lulu, Caputo ordered his lost manuscript and fight an … she taught my ninth grade $400 worth of copies of his book. evil sorceress before all can be re- English class. After she left the Caputo never seriously con- solved. school, she went on to become sidered getting his novel pub- For author Zachary Caputo this … big-shot editor in Austin,” lished by a house, as he knew it ’15, however, the story did not Caputo said. would be unlikely for a first-time end when he wrote the last page. Caputo contacted his former author to be published formally. In order to present his work 149 teacher and secured her services “The worst part about writ- Seconds as officially as possible at a deal price of about $400 for ing a novel is trying to get it pub- for his high school senior proj- four months of editing. lished, which is why I am self- ect, he elected to self-publish the “She made edits on this pro- published. If you actually want book. gram where she would keep my to get your novel published by a The long process began his ju- original text and then make publishing company, it is such a nior year. her changes in red, and it was hassle,” he said. “I published a short story for a optional to change the text. I “[Authors] have to submit Romanticism class in the style of would [then] send my changes to [their] manuscript in a certain James Joyce, so it was very stream her, and we went back and forth format. It sits on someone’s desk of consciousness. I gave it to my for about four months, for prob- for eight months to a year before teacher, and she said ‘This is re- ably about 30 or 40 emails,” Ca- anyone even reads it, and if they ally good, you should turn it into puto said. like it, they will give it to some- something longer,’” Caputo said. The plot of Caputo’s novel one else and it then sits on their Following his teacher’s sug- concerns an unnamed protago- desk.” gestion, Caputo decided to ex- nist who gets in a car accident Utilizing his photographer pand his work into a novel for his and whose heart stops beating, father’s business connections, senior project. for 149 seconds. Clinically, he is Caputo was able to pay an ad- “At my school [the Austin dead. During this time, he finds vertisement agency a discount- COURTESY OF ZACHARY CAPUTO Waldorf School in Austin, Tex- himself in a supernatural house, ed amount to design his novel’s Zachary Caputo ’15 self-published his novel for his high school se- as], we had to do senior projects where each room leads him to a cover. 149 Seconds nior project. He hired an advertisement agency to design the cover. before we graduated. Some peo- different world. With the help of Caputo introduced his novel ple hand-make cowboy boots, a guide, the protagonist search- to the public during his senior and family members, Caputo tial publishing. After more edits, some people go on an expedi- es for a manuscript that he loses project presentation, in which he sold his book independently on he hopes to have it back on Ama- tion into the wilderness for two in the first room of the house. gave a dramatic reading on stage Internet sales giant Amazon. zon by summer 2013. weeks and someone else made a Along the way, an evil sorceress while sitting in a large armchair. These sales helped to defray Caputo has ambitions to chicken coop. I spent most of the thwarts the protagonist’s pro- He also explained the process of Caputo’s out-of-pocket expenses write another novel. summer [before my senior year] cess. self-publishing to about 500 of to self-publish, which added up. “The most awesome part of writing [149 Seconds],” Caputo Along with the editing, Ca- his peers and their parents. These costs included paying writing the novel is just writing said. puto focused on the aesthetics of The school did not want Ca- the editor, the ad agency, the it,” Caputo said. “There were By November of his senior his novel. puto to sell physical copies of 149 costs of buying books from Lulu days where I would get in the year, Caputo’s first draft was “I designed a cover, got an ad Seconds after his presentation, so and renting the stopwatch that zone and just write for seven complete. For his project, he agency to do the final design and he distributed order forms and appears on the book’s cover. In hours … like 5000 words a day. wanted to do more than simply had them print that all out for sold copies through the school total, Caputo came out with a That is such a good feeling, when print out his work — he wanted me. I [also] had a couple of re- bookstore. loss of only $100-$200. you get this flow of inspiration the final product “to look like a views done from editors and au- In addition to these school Caputo has been gradually that isn’t stopping and you’re to- novel.” thors in Austin that read it and orders and purchases by friends tweaking his novel since its ini- tally just channeling it.”

Lo-Fi Duo Littless Creates Folk-Infused, Jaunty Sound By LUCAS ROPEK “ guitar lessons in fifth grade and I hat- play my favorite songs on guitar, STAFF WRITER ed that too. But I picked it up again but I’d get really sick of that, so I’d There’s something wonderfully We kind of got impatient about recording last when I got into high school, and I try to play my own songs. It wasn’t disarming about Littless, a Kenyon March, so we just recorded a bunch of songs on liked it more at that point because until last year that I started playing By SAMUEL COLT band founded in Dec. 2011. Many it was just me doing my own thing. in front of people, so it’s been a re- PHOTO EDITOR of their tunes are heartfelt love songs, a cassette tape. And then we literally just held up Then I guess I started writing. But I ally interesting process. I guess I get often jaunty, that function as tanta- the tape recorder to GarageBand. never did anything with the songs I a little nervous, but not as much as I lizing odes to dysfunctional, bitter- wrote until we formed Littless.” used to.” “ Carmen Perry ’15 sweet romances. Today, Littless sounds a lot like Recently, Littless played a benefit Littless is fronted by its two short story “The Last Good Coun- recordings this year.” The Moldy Peaches and She & Him. concert on campus. They described it troubadours, Carmen Perry ’15 and try,” yet they deny any special signifi- On their Bandcamp site, you can “I used to be really into She & as a “garage punk concert.” James Karlin ’15. Perry possesses cance. “It’s Nick’s little sister,” said hear the crackling, scratchy sounds Him,” Perry said. “It was at the Community Ser- the soft-spoken, mildly disaffected James, referring to the fictional Nick of their recordings within record- “Except Zooey [Deschanel] vice House where they’re raising vocals of a young Kimya Dawson. Adams who appears in more than ings — ghostly tunes reminiscent of sucks,” Karlin said. “I hate Zooey.” money for the Transition Mission,” Karlin could be an Adam Green. To- two dozen of Hemingway’s short The Mountain Goats’ The Coroner’s “Shut up,” Perry said. Perry said. “It’s funding for special- gether, a cool, charming, playful vibe stories. Littless appears in the incom- Gambit, in which John Darnielle It’s this playful sort of banter- needs kids from around here. We permeates their work. plete story, attempting to run away recorded most of the songs on his ing that translates well in the mu- played and Young Crooks played. With a sparse, bare-bones ap- from home with her older brother. Panasonic RX-FT500 boom box. sic of Littless. In the Perry-penned It was a lot of fun. We messed up so proach to music, the two band mates “There’s no real reason we called This lo-fi style of production is both “Feet Asleep,” the singer chides “re- much, but it didn’t really matter be- make wondrous sounds with a pair of it that,” said Karlin. “It’s just what a blessing and curse. It sometimes sentment is growing again / just as cause everyone was going crazy.” acoustic guitars, a banjo and a glock- sounded the best.” catches the listener with its scratchy, I begin to feel clever / you slam a When asked whether they enspiel. As a joke, Perry and Karlin Perry said that the recording as- romantic aesthetic, but at other great weight on my head.” The lyr- have ever considered playing post- tagged themselves as “devotional pect the least glorious aspect of mak- times it comes across as muddy. ics are honest and vulnerable, but Kenyon, they both shrugged and music” on their Bandcamp webpage. ing music. “We kind of got impatient Despite their lack of enthusiasm they bite back at the audience with raised their eyebrows. “I never re- Littless is actually a mélange of folk- about recording last March, so we for production values, Perry and jokes. Much of Perry’s music has this ally thought about music as a serious pop and indie, with perhaps a trace just recorded a bunch of songs on Karlin make up for it with their en- whimsical quality. Her lyrics pun, thing, it was just always something I of punk. a cassette tape. And then we liter- joyment of music and performance. confess and ridicule all in the same enjoyed doing,” Perry said. This un- “You can just call us folk, to keep ally just held up the tape recorder to Both played several instruments be- breath. pretentious attitude is evident in the it simple,” Perry said. GarageBand on our MacBook and fore coming to Kenyon. “I guess I originally started writ- band’s music. The effect is delightful, The duo explain that they took recorded it onto the computer that “I played piano for a long time ing songs to kind of get things off and Kenyon students should look their band name from a character in way, and then loaded it onto Band- when I was younger,” Perry said. “But my chest,” Perry said. “I never re- forward to hearing more from this an unfinished Ernest Hemingway camp ... Hopefully we’ll get better I really hated it. And then I took two ally wrote poetry. … I would try to band in the next few years. 12 THE KENYON COLLEGIAN ARTS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 Eye of the Entertainer

By CALEB BISSINGER she said. But when she hit her if it’s really good, you don’t EDITOR-IN-CHIEF tweens, she rebelled. “When I notice it as much. It’s just all Jaime Cohen ’15 plays a lot was in fifth grade, I started a together.” of piano — two to three hours club with six of my friends and At the moment, Cohen’s of practice a day, by her own went to each other’s houses on classical roots are taking a count — and she’ll be playing Friday nights and watched back seat to showtunes, but even more over the next few musicals; that was our social she hasn’t altogether ditched months. A pianist for hire, activity. When I got into mid- Bach and Mozart for Rodg- she’s lending her classically- dle school, I bought a bunch ers and Hammerstein. “I’m trained digits to a host of stu- of Broadway songbooks, and I trying to learn a concerto, but dents. “Right now, I’m doing a would play through those and I don’t think I’m going to do couple senior recitals — two try to sing along.” anything with that this year vocalists, a flautist, possibly a That passion for musicals or next.” cello and someone’s … senior followed Jamie to Kenyon. As if that weren’t enough, comps,” she said. “I’m going to She’ll be the one-woman or- Cohen has also decided to be accompanying the Cabaret chestra in Brave Potato’s pro- learn some jazz, yet another show, and the musical, both duction of Urinetown this style in her ever-expanding this semester and next semes- fall and Ordinary Days next repertoire — though she ad- ter, for Brave Potato.” semester. mits she hasn’t yet mastered If she sounds virtuosic, “Playing solo, I get nervous the art of improvisation. blame her gene pool. When and my hands shake and it’s Once she’s got that down, she was just five years old, Co- not good for piano,” she said. she hopes to tackle rock. “I SAM COLT | COLLEGIAN hen’s mom started giving her “But I like being up there. I keep trying to find piano stuff Jaime Cohen ’15, a classically-trained pianist, has a passion for showtunes. piano lessons. “She started me like doing the piano for shows that I could do with rock,” with a bunch of other students because I’m the music.” Cohen said. “I have a book Theatre & Dance. The degree, timistic about the fate of the If all else fails, there’s al- who were my age,” Cohen That may sound like a star- that’s The Who music just for which she learned of on a mu- musical in the 21st century: ways the classical music cir- said. “She’d have group classes ring turn, but Cohen wants piano, but it doesn’t sound sical theatre blog, focuses “on “Modern musicals are much cuit. “There’s one guy who was every month, so I got to play the music to shine, not her. quite right.” accompanying or pit orches- more minimalist. The old mu- my year in high school who for other people.” “The only time you really no- This keyboard maestro has tra,” she said. sicals have huge orchestras, was really good at classical pi- For Cohen, who grew up tice the orchestra — if you’re big post-grad plans, too. Co- While she admits she but a lot of musicals that have ano. He came in second in an outside Chicago, classical not involved in music and hy- hen said she’d like to pursue hasn’t encountered a lot of come out recently have been international competition,” music became an extended- per aware of that — is if they a graduate degree in collab- people her age who “want to just piano, or piano, drums, Cohen said. “Sometimes I family affair. “I’ve played with mess up. ... The meld between orative piano at the University be on the showtunes side of guitar. I like the sound of that thought my mom liked him my mom, little sister, cousins,” the singers and the orchestra, of Michigan School of Music, things,” Cohen said she’s op- a little bit better.” more than me.” Photographer José Galvez Captures Latino Faces of U.S. By SARAH LEHR immigrant?’” A&E EDITOR In fact, Galvez does not At 10 years old, José ask his subjects much at all. Galvez walked into the of- He will ask permission to fices of the Arizona Dai- take a photo, and he might ly Star for the first time. ask for their age or their Galvez was a shoeshine boy, place of birth. The effect and one of the reporters had is that each image stands requested his services. As a alone. No backstory factors nod to this memory, Galvez in. entitled the presentation “I don’t want a picture that he delivered at Kenyon to need too much explana- on Sept. 25, “Shine.” tion. I want the picture to After that first day at the work really quickly with Arizona Daily Star, Galvez the viewer,” he said. developed a fascination When Galvez spoke at with journalism. When he Kenyon, he elaborated on told his high school guid- the context of only a few ance counselor about his of his pieces. In one case, desire to become a jour- SAM COLT | COLLEGIAN he described being at a gay nalist, the counselor sug- José Galvez delivered a presentation entitled “Shine” on Sept. 25 in the Gund Gallery Foundation Theater. Galvez takes black pride parade near his home gested he look for work in and white photos of Latino life in the U.S. in South Carolina. He saw a print shop. “He thought I two Latino men in wigs, should do something more read our paper,’ they always develop an in-depth under- “I just love the uncer- The photos that Galvez ball gowns and high heels blue collar, something more said.” standing of what they are tainty, the magic [and] the showed at Kenyon had who were part of the pa- suited to my ethnicity,” said Soon Galvez began covering. “I’ve been doing surprise,” he said. a powerful simplicity to rade. Immediately, he knew Galvez, a Mexican-Amer- photographing Latino life this for my whole life and Galvez’s photos are not them. The focus was on the he had to take their photo. ican who was born in Ari- across the United States. I’m going to keep doing it.” in color, either. He said of subjects, and the subjects “What I wanted to say zona. For him, capturing these of- Even Galvez’s materi- black and white photos: were almost always people. with that image was that After college, the Los ten-overlooked faces is not als have held constant over “You really have to get into “My work is not about we [Latinos] are every- Angeles Times hired Galvez a temporary project, but the years. He uses a camera the image. You really have immigration,” he said. one. We’re students, we’re as a photojournalist. “I rather a lifelong dedication. that is over 50 years old and to think about the story, “It’s about people who are workers, we’re profession- walked around the barrios “I’m not a helicopter another that is around 30 as opposed to being influ- here [in the U.S.], whether als, we’re out there in the taking photos and then had journalist,” he said, refer- years old. Galvez prefers us- enced by colors. You are they be Mexican-Ameri- tobacco fields [and] we’re to fight to get them into ring to journalists who re- ing film cameras because he not just going, ‘Wow, look can like me or Puerto Ri- gay guys dressed up as beau- the paper,” Galvez remem- port on a topic for a short likes waiting to see how his at those reds. Look at those cans or Cubans. … I don’t ty queens on the back of a bered. “‘Mexicans don’t time and, as a result, never shot turned out. yellows.’” ask [subjects], ‘are you an pickup truck,” he said. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 ARTS THE KENYON COLLEGIAN 13 Kenyon Grads Perform in Politically Incorrect Rock Musical By PETER FROST STAFF WRITER Revisionist history has never sounded this good. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, the latest musical from the Columbus theatre company Available Light, turns history on its head, boldly smashing politics and rock ‘n’ roll together with a good dose of humor and ir- reverence. The production brings together two Kenyon alums: Robyn Rae Stype ’12 and Pam Welsh-Huggins ’83, a theatre veteran and the musical director of the show. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, described by Welsh-Huggins as a hybrid of Schoolhouse Rock and the Sex Pistols, tells the story of the seventh U.S. president, casting him as something of a rock star. Alex Timbers and Michael Fried- man wrote the musical, which made its Broadway debut in 2010. The show is equal parts Western and emo rock show, but it is also MATT SLAYBAUGH politically relevant during such Robyn Rae Stype ’12 and Amy Rittberger in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. The musical runs from Sept. 20 to Oct. 13 at Riffe Center Studio One in Columbus. a charged election year. “It plays fast and loose with the facts,” said crazy things people do in Ameri- hand, took a decidedly different more than anything else. “My edu- to hold true for the project that Stype. “It’s more about the truth can politics.” route than Stype, pursuing an cation from Kenyon prepared me brought the two graduates togeth- of the matter than the fact of the Stype interned in Columbus English major before entering the to be a professional curious person, er. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson matter.” with the New Players Theatre this world of performance. Now 50, opening me up to new things in so isn’t afraid to bend the rules and Stype, who graduated this past past summer and was cast as an Welsh-Huggins dabbled in acting many different venues and areas.” blur the boundaries between fact, May from Kenyon, first heard understudy in their production of after graduating from Kenyon be- She encourages current drama fiction and parody. “The show asks about the show through her sis- King Lear. fore realizing she wanted to work majors and potential entertainers a lot of really compelling questions ter and was immediately drawn to “I think its important to keep behind the curtain. “As the musi- to embrace the curves in the fu- about who Jackson was, but it asks the musical’s originality and flair. in mind that you can do theatre cal director, I assemble the band ture ahead. “Middle Path is that these questions in ways that are ex- “I remember being taken aback by anywhere,” said Stype, an Ohio and train the singers, acting as straight line, right down the mid- tremely entertaining and uproari- how politically incorrect the show native herself. “In a city like Co- the midwife of a director’s vision dle, through everything we do at ously funny,” Welsh-Huggins said. was willing to be,” she said. “Then, lumbus, there are always opportu- of what the show should be,” she Kenyon,” she said. “Real life me- “And if I may say so, badass.” after I listened to more of the nities. You may have to work hard said. “Basically, I’m there to make anders more. Once you leave Gam- Bloody Bloody Andrew Jack- soundtrack, I started to see how to make them opportunities, but if it sound awesome.” bier, there are no more straight son runs from Sept. 20 to Oct. this would appeal to a wide variety you do the research, they’re there.” Welsh-Huggins said her time lines.” 31 at Riffe Center Studio One in of people who may be sick of the Welsh-Huggins, on the other in Gambier taught her a way of life This philosophy also seems Columbus. advertise with us. The Kenyon Collegian recently revised its advertising rates, making them more competitive and affordable for College-affiliated and student groups.

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By MICHAEL BUSE STAFF WRITER Small, but United

The Ladies field hockey continued from page 16 team extended their winning streak to six games this coaching days. She treaded the sidelines of Hartwick College, week, with wins over Deni- then the State University of New York at Cortland, where she son University, Oberlin Col- coached Semit, and most recently Ball State University. At half- lege and Bethany College. time, when the Ladies were up by two and making their weary Kenyon stands undefeated in way back to the benches, DeMarco pulled out the gummy bears. the North For DeMarco, gummy bears are a quick way to replenish sug- FIELD Coast ar and curb appetite. For the Ladies, gummy bears are a sign of HOCKEY Athletic change. Needham only allowed water on the sidelines. Now they 6-2 Con- have candy. And they love it. ference Gummy bears are one of a number of endearing things De- SEPT. 23 BETHANY (NCAC). Marco does for the team. Once, at a game against Wittenberg COLLEGE “This University, she gave each girl a bracelet. She said that when they McBRIDE is far bet- wore them they would always be together. Against Denison, they FIELD ter than were all wearing the bracelets. W 5-1 I think The players say last year their main problem with Needham’s PLAYS NEXT: any of us coaching system was that it did not promote this kind of team de- SEPT. 27 | 4:30 could have velopment. “It was very much an individual game,” said Ladman. P.M. expected, COURTESY OF MARTIN FULLER “There was structure, we knew what to do, but it was more that at COLLEGE although you focused more on what you did right and what you did wrong OF WOOSTER Sydney Carney-Knisely ’14 made six saves on Saturday against Oberlin College and two saves WOOSTER, we knew than how to change as a whole.” When it came time to interview on Sunday against Bethany College. Over the course of the week, she only allowed three goals. OHIO we had for a new coach, the Ladies got involved. Hall said, “We ranked the talent day against Bethany College well.” Next Saturday the Ladies the people who we interviewed, and we ranked Jacque first. We to do it,” Maddie Breschi ’16 as Cecilia Depman ’15 scored This young team’s recipe take on DePauw. A victory wanted her.” said. three goals to give the Ladies for success lies in the basics. would leave the winner — With the new team focus, the Ladies are talking to each other Against Oberlin College a comfortable 5-1 victory. It “We focus on doing small DePauw or Kenyon — the on the field more. “When you hear someone behind you saying last Saturday, the Ladies took would be tough for any team things right and holding each lone undefeated conference your name, it’s such a boost to your confidence. You know some- control of the game early, out to stop the Ladies right now, other accountable on and off team. “If we win [against the one’s there watching you and helping you out,” Ladman said. shooting their opponents as they sit undefeated in the the field. That’s a lot easier Tigers] it would be a really big DeMarco’s words are also increasing the team’s confidence. Hall 7-2 in the first half. Despite conference alongside the with such a small team be- confidence booster,” Breschi said, “I felt attacked by Chrissy’s words. … Jacque’s helping me their dominance, Kenyon DePauw University Tigers. cause we’re so close, and we said. get better.” only managed to take a 1-0 “We’ve done well, surprising can be responsible for each So far, the Ladies have By the final 10 minutes against Denison, the Ladies were lead to halftime off a goal people,” Breschi said with a other,” Depman said. done better than anyone tired. Another player was injured: Morgen Barroso ’16 had from Christine Bloom ’16. smile. “Overall, everybody just could have asked. “We’ve def- sprained her ankle. The Ladies led 3-0, but Denison kept cycling Early in the second half, the Earlier this season it was wants everyone to do well. No initely met out goals. There’s in new substitutes. It was only a matter of time before they over- Ladies allowed an Oberlin hard to believe that this team one’s competitive for a spot or always room for improve- powered the Ladies and put a goal past Carney-Knisely. DeMar- goal, but Kenyon quickly re- would compete for a confer- competitive with each other. ment, but we’re definitely do- co called a timeout to let her girls catch their breath. The small sponded with a goal from Bre- ence championship. “There It’s just important our team ing really well,” Depman said. but close-knit team huddled together. DeMarco spoke to them schi, giving the Ladies a lead was a lot of uncertainty going stays together,” Breschi said. Depman is cautious about quietly, and they were ready to go again. The Ladies — and their they would keep. That goal into the season, with a new “We’re on a roll and I predicting the team’s future, new coach — won the game, 3-1. gave Breschi a five game point coach and almost half the think we’re just going to keep but still optimistic. “We could “I’m not going anywhere. I really enjoy it here,” DeMarco said streak, which she maintained team being freshmen,” Dep- going with the momentum,” take the conference title, after the game. And in her office, just below this year’s team -pic until the next day. man said. “We’ve definitely Depman said. “We’re all really yeah,” she said. “But I don’t ture hangs, a sign that reads, “It’s nice to be important, but it’s Things were easier on Sun- come together as a team so excited.” want to jinx it.” more important to be nice.” Tennis: Lords Ready for Spring Men’s Soccer Takes a Draw continued from page 16 ing that self-discipline re- “I think this tournament quires outside motivation we really ... made a state- difficult to get them back. “It’s pretty hard in the off- ment as well that last year in First Conference Game … But, you know, getting season to be self-motivated was not a fluke,” Heerboth By KEVIN PAN them back physically is real- to go out every day because said. “I think we’ll really STAFF WRITER MEN’S SOCCER ly key. ... We jump into prac- you don’t have to be … and be ready to defend that sec- Lords soccer is a little more 4-4-1 SEPT. 25 tice and then we jump into you’re thinking, ‘well, I ond place and hopefully get than halfway through their sea- at JOHN CARROLL PLAYS NEXT: matches in less than two don’t have a competitive first.” son, with an overall record of UNIVERSITY SEPT. 29 | 2:30 P.M. weeks after they get back.” match again for the next And the ghost of last year 4-4-1. They recently played out UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, at DePAUW UNIVERSITY That quick turnaround can four and a half months, why lingers. “Seeing Emory win a draw at the home of confer- OHIO GREENCASTLE, IND. L 0-1 put unfit players at risk for would I practice today?’” it and celebrate it, that was ence rival Denison University injury. Heerboth said. “It’s very a feeling that’s still with me on Saturday, marking the third melee ’14 said. “I think given gressed we have experienced It isn’t all bad, accord- easy to get in that mind- and that’s going to stay with time out of the two’s last four the conditions of the game, we coaching changes and line-up ing to Burgin. In fact, it can set, so I think you have to me for a long time,” Burgin matchups that they have tied. will take a draw; however, you changes, but through it all we be decisive. “A good friend motivate your teammates, said of the team’s loss in the The game was evenly can never be fully satisfied with have stayed resilient,” Jemison of mine always said that you have to tell them ‘come final of the NCAA Divi- matched, with Kenyon at- lost points.” said. “We just need to stay hun- championships aren’t won down today, we’ll all be sion III Championship last tempting 13 shots to Denison’s The team’s most recent gry and confident as a team in season, championships there.’” year. “I think it motivated 14. The game ended up going matchup against non-confer- going into the rest of our con- are won in the off-season, Despite strong showings a lot of us and I think we’re into double overtime, but nei- ence foe John Carroll Univer- ference games, and there is no and I think that’s absolutely across the board last week- going to work harder than ther team could pull ahead. sity ended in a 0-1 defeat. John doubt in my mind that we can true,” he said. “If you want end — even after Razu- we’ve ever worked this year, Although the game ended in a Carroll dominated most of the win the [North Coast Athletic to come in and have a suc- movsky, the team’s number because honestly it was a draw, Captain J.J. Jemison ’13 game by keeping the ball on Conference], which is our ulti- cessful season when you’re two player, withdrew from worse feeling losing in the said, “I think it is clear we were Kenyon’s side of the field. The mate goal.” in really good shape and play due to a back injury — finals than it was losing in the better team after watching Lobos managed 17 shots, sig- The Lords will be going to are really hitting the ball last season’s success created the quarters the year before. film, but there are many fac- nificantly more than Kenyon’s Indiana to play DePauw Uni- well, it’s all predicated on a new challenge. “We’re … I think that’s going to be tors that led to us not getting four shots. Goalie James Smith versity on Saturday. The Lions the work that you put in in targets,” Burgin said. “We a huge motivation and really the result we wanted. The game ’13 managed to make a season are 1-1 in NCAC games with the off-season. I think that’s were national runner ups kind of force us to push our- against Denison was a battle, high in saves, with seven. their only win was against Deni- what sticks with me — that last year, we returned all of selves even when we don’t like always, but under such ter- Looking ahead, the Lords son. It could be a tight game, if I want to have a good sea- our starters, and we have want to.” rible conditions it was hard to will face stiff league competi- meaning the Lords will have to son then I know that I re- three freshmen coming in Coach Thielke cautious- say either side was actually play- tion in coming weeks. And stay level-headed and focused. ally need to work as hard as this year who are all going ly agreed. “I think things ing good soccer.” the team has gone through “Our goal for the rest of the I absolutely can in the off- to contribute in some way, look good for us,” he said, “I would not use the word many changes, but Jemison has year is simple: Win the rest of season.” so everybody looks at us as “but it’s still a long way happy when I think about the viewed it as progress. our games,” Parmelee said. “So Sometimes, though, hav- a target.” away.” Denison game,” Andrew Par- “As the season has pro- that is what we will try to do.” THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 SPORTS THE KENYON COLLEGIAN 15 Football Loses Lead, Comes Up Short Against Bears FOOTBALL 2-2 SEPT. 22 PLAYS NEXT: at WASHINGTON OCT. 6 | 1:00 P.M. UNIVERSITY ST. LOUIS, MO. OBERLIN COLLEGE McBRIDE FIELD L 23-28

By RICHARD PERA of the season by a score of 28-23. STAFF WRITER The defense played well but With 10 minutes left in the gave up crucial third down situ- second quarter, momentum was ations, while the offense stalled shifting in the Lords’ direction. with multiple three-and-outs. The After Washington University in Lords lost the time-of-possession St. Louis held Kenyon to 14-0, the battle by nearly six minutes and Lords rallied with a 21-yard field turned the ball over three times. goal by Sam Howard ’15 and two “We played well, but we didn’t touchdown receptions (34 and 32 execute at really critical times,” yards) by wide receiver Carlo Ga- defensive lineman Garrison An- gliardo ’14. derson ’15 said. “We gave up some “Listen up, they don’t respect third-and-ones on defense, didn’t us at all,” defensive back Luke convert some on offense, and it Bissinger ’13 said in the visitors’ kind of killed us.” locker room during halftime. “I thought we fought for four

Defensive lineman Ryan Rosen quarters, and that I was happy BILL STOVER | WUSTL PHOTO SERVICES ’14 agreed. “They didn’t expect it with,” Monfiletto said. “We didn’t Dan Shannon ’13 was 19-of-33 for 217 yards and three touchdowns, but it was not enough for the Lords to keep a lead. to be hard. They didn’t want it to give up at all. After looking at the be hard.” film, there are just some blatant you crazy.” we hadn’t had in the past.” on Monday, and Monfiletto says “Guys, the fact of the matter errors that are easily correctible. If Despite the frustration, there Shannon was 19-of-33 for 217 that he is dealing with “symp- is, we’re going to get into the end we win the time of possession and were signs of development in the yards and three touchdowns, but toms of a concussion.” The run- zone,” Head Coach Chris Monfi- the turnover battle, then we win Lords’ offense. Shannon and Ga- he also had two interceptions and ning back will be sidelined un- letto said in his halftime speech. the game. We did not do either of gliardo connected for three touch- a fumble. Gagliardo led Kenyon til he is “100 percent back to “So protect the ball and let’s pos- those two things.” down passes, the third from six receivers with 138 yards and three health,” and the coaching staff sess the ball for the majority of The Bears’ offense also strug- yards out in the fourth quarter. touchdowns on 10 receptions. stressed this week that they will this half.” gled to score. The Kenyon defense They were Gagliardo’s first scores The Lords’ running attack be abundantly cautious. In the end, the Bears won the forced three punts, two missed of his college career after moving was hindered in the first quarter The Lords are 2-2 and will en- fight. The offense began the -sec field goals, and turned the ball to offense for his senior season. when starting running back Brett joy a bye this Saturday. The team ond half with a drive deep into over on downs four times. The de- “It felt pretty good,” Gagliardo Williams ’13 lowered his head will return to conference play WashU territory, only to have a fense surrendered just 21 points, said. “I’m glad to get that off my into a tackler. Williams stayed in when they host Oberlin College pass by Dan Shannon ’13 tipped, enough to win the game. It was back. I’ve been waiting since senior the game for one play until team- on Oct. 6 in a game that Monfi- intercepted and returned for an the interception return that was year of high school. In the end it’s mates noticed him shaking in letto says is a must-win. 84-yard touchdown. The home the difference in Kenyon’s second all about winning, but it was a nice the huddle. He remained on the Anderson knows they can. crowd was rejuvenated and the loss of the season. feeling when it happened. ” bench for the rest of the after- “We honestly think that we can Kenyon sideline was stunned. “Saturday was a winnable “That’s the one encourag- noon. Without their starter, Ke- win every game that we play,” he The Bears took a 21-17 lead and game,” Monfiletto said. “We ing thing coming away from the nyon averaged just over two yards said. “It sucked to lose like that, the Lords never fully recovered. should have won the game. That’s game,” Monfiletto said. “We were per carry on 20 attempts. but we know we can hang with WashU held on for its first victory the frustrating thing. It’ll drive able to create a passing attack that Williams visited a physician anyone.” Men’s Ultimate Hosts Tournament to Begin Season

By GABRIEL BRISON-TREZISE score that last point. We started STAFF WRITER thinking about the next game At last weekend’s Kenyon Fall before we’d finished that one, Preview, tie-dyed T-shirts served let them build up some momen- as jerseys for the men’s ultimate tum, and after they scored two in team, SERF, since many new a row, there was never really any players had not yet been issued coming back.” official uniforms. In the single-elimination Fifteen teams from nine championship bracket, the X schools and three states descend- team, which had secured a bye ed on Gambier to compete in the into the quarterfinals, lost to two-day tournament, SERF’s Oberlin College, 13-9. “We were second annual fall invitational. missing a couple of our key play- Jordan Rhyne ’13, one of the ers. Right off the bat, we went team captains, organized the down three or four to zero, and tournament largely by himself, right before half it was 6-2 and contacting teams and collecting we came back to 6-6, which was all of the bid fees. really big. … They just kind of Kenyon fielded two teams in just pushed through after half, the competition. “We paired peo- COURTESY OF JORDAN RHYNE and we never really kept up after ple who we thought were of equal that,” Piper said. Mitchell Schwartz ’13 and his SERF teammates finished fifth and sixth in the Kenyon Fall Preview. The tournament, skill level and divided them,” said Although Kenyon finished re- which included 15 teams from nine schools, will not factor into their collegiate series, which starts in the spring. Sam Kaplan ’14, another of the spectably in fifth (X) and sixth team’s three captains. In decid- teams each won their first two. ing their pool. “It was one of the X. “I was kind of surprised how (Y) places out of 15, Kaplan said ing the teams, Kaplan noted, the Kenyon Y faltered in their third best days of ultimate I’ve ever easily we rolled them. … It was the tournament was less about captains also tried to evenly split and fourth games, losing con- played,” said Alex Piper ’16. The nice to see that we got our mental winning and more about giving the handlers and cutters (simi- secutive matches to teams from team capped off their undefeated focus back,” Kaplan said. younger team members playing lar to quarterbacks and wide re- Case Western Reserve Univer- Saturday performance with a 12- Kenyon Y was then elimi- experience. “The fall season is ceivers, respectively, in football) sity and Carnegie Mellon Uni- 10 victory over the Ohio State nated from championship con- not affiliated with the collegiate between the two squads, X and versity. Kaplan, Y team captain, University, their closest match of tention, losing in disappointing series at all. The fall season is Y. Rhyne captained the X team said, “we definitely lost some fo- the day. fashion to Case Western Reserve. purely to get experience and to along with fellow SERF captain cus ... we got too confident in our Both Kenyon teams earned “[The Case match-up] was a play some good ultimate,” Ka- Rob Heavner ’15. ability.” spots in Sunday’s championship really tough game,” Kaplan said. plan said. Piper added, “I was ex- All teams played four matches Kenyon X, meanwhile, ex- bracket. The Y-team won their “We were actually up 12-8 at pecting a lot of fun, also a lot of on Saturday, and Kenyon’s two celled throughout the day, sweep- play-in game against Ohio State one point … and we just couldn’t exhaustion; I got both of those.” MEN’S SOCCER: Match Against Denison Ends in a Draw P. 13

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SPORTSThursday, September 27, 2012 Tennis DeMarco Energizes Ladies Looks to With a morale boost and winning streak, field hockey is flourishing under their new coach.

Spring By ANNA DUNLAVEY SPORTS EDITOR

“What was that?” Season Kenyon field hockey’s new head coach, Jacque DeMar- co, was addressing her assistant coach, Brenda Semit. She By CALEB BISSINGER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF had been looking all over the field, but had failed to see the fluke ball that whacked midfielder Rachel Hall ’15 below At the close of their 2012 season, her right eye. As Hall left the field, DeMarco began swap- Lords tennis had a lot to be proud ping the Ladies’ positions to include Hannah Drake ’16, one of. The Intercollegiate Tennis Asso- of only three Kenyons substitutes on Thursday. ciation (ITA) ranked them second The Ladies were playing Denison University, a team that in the nation and first in the region. was undefeated in the North Coast Athletic Conference. Paul Burgin ’13 was 11th in the Denison’s roster is larger than Kenyon’s. Denison used eight country, and Michael Razumovsky substitutes in the game to Kenyon’s one. They had the lux- ’15 ranked third after he reached ury of a substitute goalkeeper, while Kenyon’s Sydney Car- the final four of the NCAA Divi- ney-Knisely ’14 had no one backing her up. It was an uneven sion III men’s tennis singles tourna- matchup. But the Ladies were used to it. This year, they are ment; he’s only the third player in finding their strengths even when their weaknesses are more Kenyon’s history to do so. visible — and, they are doing it under a first-year coach. These accomplishments raise The Ladies should be a much larger team. When the two tough questions: Can they do class of 2013 were first years, seven joined the field hockey it again? And, can they do it better? team. Now, only two remain. There are a total of four mem- The answers are months away, bers of the class of 2014 on the team, including two who are but a strong showing at last week- abroad; there had once been nine. Many former players cite end’s ITA Central Region Champi- unhappiness with their former coach as a major reason for onship bodes well. Wade Heerboth leaving. ’15 and Robert Turlington ’16 Chrissy Needham, DeMarco’s predecessor, had played fought back from a close shave in Division I field hockey, and when she came to Kenyon in the third round to claim the dou- 2010 she instituted more structure than any coach before bles title 8-6 over the tournament’s her. But structure, it turned out, was not what the Ladies top-seeded pair, and Burgin made it needed. to the finals of the singles champi- Hall said that it was hard to connect with Needham. onship, but where he lost 6-2, 6-3 to “She was very strict, not very personable. … I didn’t have the tournament’s number-one seed. that coach-player relationship.” Stephanie Ladman ’14 said “I just ran into someone who was that under Needham, “I was never totally confident in what better than me,” Burgin said. I did. I was very self conscious, and I lost confidence in my- Next month, Heerboth and self.” Turlington will compete in the The Ladies seem to be taking to DeMarco’s methods, doubles bracket of the National however. The game against Denison continued after Hall’s Small College Championships, injury, and soon Maddie Breschi ’16 scored the first goal of where they will face the top Di- the game. Kenyon had the early lead, but DeMarco kept vision III regional teams from pacing. She walked up and down the sidelines, pausing oc- around the country. “I’m just hap- casionally to give Hall a rub on the back. py to be going there at this point,” That pacing habit dates back to DeMarco’s assistant SIMON SZYBIST | COLLEGIAN Heerboth said. “I have no expecta- see COACH, page 14 Jacque DeMarco, in her first season as head coach, has guided the Ladies to six wins so far. tions, and I think … we’ll just go in there with no pressure whatsoever. When you’re playing with no pres- Women’s Soccer Adds Two More Wins to Record sure ... good things can happen.” By MEREDITH BENTSEN goal, scored with fewer than But while Heerboth and Turl- STAFF WRITER WOMEN’S SOCCER three minutes left, clinched the 4-5 ington have another tournament Offensive star Rebecca Ro- win for the Ladies. “It was not to look forward to, the rest of the maine ’15 garnered her third SEPT. 25 PLAYS NEXT: an easy victory. We did not play VS COLLEGE OF WOOSTER SEPT. 29 | 12:00 P.M. Lords will have to wait until the North Coast Athletic Con- GAMBIER, OHIO at DEPAUW UNIVERSITY the best we could have, but we spring, and that wait won’t be easy. ference (NCAC) player of the L 0-1 GREENCASTLE, IND. got the job done,” Detchon said. “With tennis kids, they’re not used week award of her career as she “We did not give up on each to having an off season. It’s very helped the Ladies climb to a 4-5 seph. Romaine scored twice, more, Earlham slipped one by other when we were behind … bizarre to actually have an off sea- record. once assisted by Heather Amato Wolfe. Both teams fought for We fought until the end. This son,” Head Coach Scott Thielke After a tough scoreless loss ’13. Clara Fischman ’13 scored another goal but neither man- is the mentality we want going said. “Taking two weeks off from to Carnegie Mellon University to cement Kenyon’s victory. aged to score again in the first into conference.” having coaching is a long time for on Sept. 15, the Ladies toppled After their impressive vic- half. A smaller team physically, The Ladies suffered a loss a tennis kid. Taking three months both the College of Mount St. tory over Mount St. Joseph, the the Ladies put up a strong de- against their first NCAC op- off — that’s just a whole other story Joseph and Earlham College Ladies returned to Gambier to fense, even against Earlham’s ponents of the season, the Col- for them.” In part, the off-season last week. Coach Kelly Bryan face a tough Earlham team at rough playing. lege of Wooster, on Wednes- means months without formal was extremely positive about home this past Saturday. Earl- The second half proved the day. They have a chance to even coaching. the outcome of these games. ham kept the Ladies on their true test for the Ladies. Earl- their conference record against The off-season can also rob play- “[The] team has been battling toes throughout the match, ham came back with a goal to DePauw University this Satur- ers of their endurance. “Getting through illness and had gutsy which the Ladies won 4-3. The tie the game early in the second day. them back physically is probably performances [last week],” she Ladies held a 2-1 lead in the half, and then gained a lead of Captain Sarah Heminger ’13 the biggest thing,” Thielke said. said. first half with two goals by Ro- 3-2 in the 69th minute. said, “if we continue to build on “Mentally, it’s not necessarily that Goalie Lauren Wolfe ’14 had maine — her first came in the An unexpected goal by what we already have, we will a shutout with five saves in the first 18 seconds of the game. Charlotte Detchon ’13 tied be in a position to be a threat in see TENNIS, page 14 matchup against Mount St. Jo- After Romaine scored once the game, and Romaine’s third the conference.”