Club Scene

What would Kenyon be without student clubs? Here’s a glimpse of what students are doing outside of class these days.

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Kale smoothies, gluten-free pasta…

… and yes, organ meats, too. Here’s the latest news from the Peirce Hall servery, where sustainability coexists with creative cuisine.

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This Funny Thing Called Love

Happy Valentine’s Day, dear reader. The Bulletin celebrates the season of roses, chocolate and cut-out hearts with a look at the world’s favorite emotion.

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Also In This Edition

Old Kenyon lights up purple against an indigo night sky on the evening of Inauguration to formally welcome Kenyon’s nineteenth president, Sean Decatur.

Arts & Culture

Funny Girl

An aspiring actress, comedian and writer keeps the campus laughing.

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Alumni News

Click on the Music

Where do international studies and Spanish fluency lead? For Anne Pomeroy ’07, to a producer’s post…

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Alumni News

The Guitar Writer

The music, the history, the gear—Dave Hunter ’84 writes about the world of electric guitars.

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Kenyon in Quotes

“We writers know that good dialogue is precious. Especially the kind that you can’t-no-way-not-a-chance make up on your own.”
- Jennifer Gooch Hummer ’87, in a blog at Sanfranciscobookreview.com

General Kenyon

Treasures in Glass

Professor of Humanities Timothy Shutt reflects on the values in the Old English epic "Beowulf."

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Athletes for Equality

Students formed the group Kenyon College Athletes for Equality, aimed at ending discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered athletes. The group’s first project was a video promoting Kenyon athletics as a safe zone. The video racked up almost 3,000 hits within days of its release.

Margin of Error

80 
Percentage of Kenyon students who are pro-choice.

60 
Percentage of Kenyon students who drink coffee.

72 
Percentage of Kenyon students who have used a rotary-dial telephone.

Missing Words

The Kenyon Review invited the campus to create “erasure poems” in conjunction with the 2013 literary festival, which featured poet Carl Phillips.
You “write” an erasure poem by artfully removing words from an existing poem. Challenge: turn the Odyssey into a haiku.

Class Notes

Recent Class Notes
’83

John N. Cannon, Shaker Heights, Ohio, recovered well from total knee replacement in the spring and summer, and now needs a hip replacement. But after Oktoberfest, he headed off to Austria and Prague.

’76

Joel E. Turner and Timothy P. O'Neill '76 recently visited Ben Drake, professor of English at Kenyon from 1972 to 1976, at his home in Peachtree City, Georgia. Their talk ranged from Shakespeare to Milton to the Kokosing to Ben’s work with the Highlander Center to the birds and trees in the woods behind Ben’s home. Ben revealed that he was using a replica/copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio as a stand for his computer — a copy he had bought from Terence W. McKiernan in 1976. Tim subsequently “delivered the folio back to Terry in Boston, a truly poetic reunion.”

’21

Charles W. Scarborough Jr., Arlington, Virginia, is a high school special education teacher who fosters life skills and aids in career planning. Brian R. Sellers and Julia D. Cullen biked 200 miles from Bushwick to Hudson, New York, along the Empire State Trail in September.

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