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With 76 colleges under investigation as of August regarding Title IX policies, Kenyon has amped up its anti-discrimination protocol. The College’s intent is for students, faculty and administrators to fully understand the policy and their rights.

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Ask any student who arrived on holds schools individually responsible campus early for Community Advisor for addressing and preventing cases of (CA), Upperclass Counselor or athletsexual assault. Schools that fit into this ic training, and they’ll likely say they category — like many higher educaspent more time than previous years tion institutions — are also required learning about Title IX. There has been to have Title IX coordinators to mana push to understand both national age complaints of sexual misconduct, and Kenyon policies regarding the sexwhich can include sexual harassment, ual misconduct aspects of the law, with violence and assault. faculty and administrators receiving With 76 colleges as of August under training over the federal investiga“I think one of the misconcep- tion for allegedly summer as well.

Neither nationtions is that gender equity only mishandling cases al nor College polibenefits one gender. [Title IX] is of sexual assault, cies have changed, the White House but as more high- meant to make sure that everyone on has introduced a college campus, regardless of their profile campus many initiatives gender, has equal opportunity. to clarify colleges’ sexual assault cases receive national atresponsibilities reJill Engel-Hellman, tention, the presgarding Title IX Director of Housing sure on higher eduand sexual misconand Residential Life cation institutions duct. These efforts to enforce existing policies is mountinclude a task force, President Barack ing.

Obama’s March reauthorization of the Mariam El-Shamaa, Kenyon’s Title Violence Against Women Act and a QIX coordinator since 2009 and director and-A published in April by the U.S. of equal opportunity, said, “Recently Department of Education’s Office for there’s been so much attention on this Civil Rights (OCR), all of which served topic that it’s become … very clear to clarify exactly what a college’s Title to people that this is something that IX responsibilities are. needs to be taken seriously.”

“There was a lack of clarity about what the OCR, what the Department What is Title IX? of Education, was requiring of us,” ElTitle IX is a 1972 law that primarShamaa said. ily serves to prevent gender discrimiHead Women’s Basketball Coach nation in educational programs that Suzanne Helfant, who also serves as receive federal funding, such as cola senior women’s administrator and lege athletic teams, but the statute also a Title IX coordinator for page 4

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New office institutionalizes efforts to increase diversity, equity across the board MADELEINE THOMPSON EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

According to the last U.S. Census, which was completed in 2010, by the end of the current decade no one race will make up a majority of American children under 18. It also projected that by the year 2043, the U.S. will be a majority-minority nation, in which no single racial group constitutes the majority. Last week, Kenyon President Sean Decatur introduced a new initiative that will be tasked with keeping the College on a par with and ahead of those statistics.

The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI) will institutionalize Kenyon’s efforts to reach students of all geographical locations and backgrounds, and to provide an education

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We live in a world that, in a few years, is going to shift significantly. ... Right now it’s shifting culturally and linguistically. How do we prepare our students to handle the world?

Ivonne García, Associate Professor of English

that represents various demographics and perspectives. Associate Professor of English Ivonne García, who will lead the ODEI as associate provost for diversity, equity and inclusion, called diversity not just important but “crucial.”

“We live in a world that, in a few years, is going to shift significantly,” García said.

“Right now it’s shifting culturally and linguistically. How do we prepare our students to handle that world? To be leaders in that world? ... We cannot ignore the future.”

García said the ODEI would not be policing departments but would

be available to work with them on increasing diversity in their curricula.

“I want to be a resource for the faculty,” García said. “I’m not somebody who’s going to go, ‘Well how much diversity do you have?’”

Instead, the goal will be to raise awareness about various diversity efforts that already exist on campus and give them the support they need, as well as filling in gaps between reaching out to high school students interested in Kenyon and keeping in touch after they graduate. Snowden House, Unity House, the page 2 Diversity

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Walk into a first-year dorm and you will see a fairly standard assortment of wooden doors to mostly double rooms.

What do Kenyon’s maintenance workers see? Work orders. “Our old work order system was 12-15 years old, just outdated technology,� Facility Logistics Manager Clint Baker said.  “We couldn’t extract the data from it that we wanted.�

Thus, nearly two years ago, Kenyon administrators began to work with the software company WebTMA as part of Kenyon’s Middle Path Partnership project, and purchased a web-based program to begin implementation of a new work order system.  On Aug. 1, 2013, Baker came to Kenyon to begin to prepare the system for its release in the summer of 2014.  To do so, he spent hours walking through Kenyon’s 157 buildings and cataloging

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An easier way to file work orders can be found online. the correct room numbers and locations of the more than 4,200 rooms around campus.  “If it has a roof and electricity in it, then it has maintenance needs,� Baker said.  Since the new work order system has been accessible to students, over 1,300 work orders have been requested, equaling nearly 200 per week.  Since the system’s release there have been a few glitches,

most recently that the program was missing some bathrooms in the Kenyon Athletic Center but, as Baker said, “any implementation this size is going to have its bumps in the road.�

Student responses to the new system will trickle in as the year progresses, culminating in the work order system’s first great challenge: winter in Ohio. Â

Village ReCoRd April 24 – April 30

Aug. 28, 5:00 a.m. — Unidentified male entered students’ room Leonard Residence Hall, urinated in their trashcan, then left with the trashcan without further incident.

Aug. 28, 7:49 p.m. — Student reported clothes stolen from laundry dryer in Gund Residence Hall.

Aug. 29, 8:47 p.m. — Student dislocated knee in First-Year Quad. Transported to Knox Community Hospital (KCH).

Aug. 29, 10:35 p.m. — Students, underage or providing alcohol to minor(s), found to have alcohol at unregistered gathering in Old Kenyon Residence Hall.

Aug. 29, 10:50 p.m. — Students, underage or providing alcohol to minor(s), found to have alcohol at unregistered gathering in Old Kenyon.

Aug. 30, 5:52 a.m. — Blue stair covers removed from staircase in Old Kenyon.

Aug. 30, 11:56 a.m. — Individual asked students for wire hanger in order to enter a locked vehicle in Horwitz lot. Upon Safety Officer investigation, individual was an ex of a Kenyon-affiliated service provider. Individual did not have approval to enter vehicle. Knox County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) contacted. Trespass letter given. No charges were pressed.

Aug. 30, 12:41 p.m. — Student reported that a fallen tree branch took down wire from pole by Crozier Center for Women. AEP Ohio, a unit of American Electric Power, contacted and live wire safely taken care of.

Aug. 30, 9:02 p.m. — Fire alarm activated by cooking in McBride Residence Hall. Lingering smoke. No fire. Alarm reset.

Aug. 30, 10:30 p.m. — Intoxicated, underaged student found injured in Mather Residence Hall, in which they did not reside. Safety responded. Assisted with injury and escorted to residence.

Aug. 30, 10:34 p.m. — Intoxicated, underaged student found injured in Mather, in which they did not reside. Safety responded. Assisted with injury and escorted to residence.

Aug. 30, 10:47 p.m. — Student injured hand in a New Apartments residence. Safety Officer(s) responded. Injury required stitches. A fellow student transported to KCH for treatment.

Aug. 30, 11:30 p.m. — Student on public property received underage consumption citation from KCSO deputy.

Aug. 30, 11:30 p.m. — Intoxicated, underaged student found injured in Mather, in which they did not reside. Safety responded. Assisted with injury and escorted to residence.

Aug. 30, 11:45 p.m. — Intoxicated, underaged student in McBride assisted by fellow student.

Aug. 31, 12:31 a.m. — Intoxicated, underaged student(s) in Hanna Residence Hall assisted by fellow student.

Aug. 31, 12:57 a.m. — Intoxicated, underage student in McBride requested assistance from CA. Aug. 31, 1:30 a.m. — Group of students entered McBride with the intent of being disruptive.

Student(s) did not comply with request for identification.

Aug. 31, 1:45 a.m. — Student found a person asleep in bed in Leonard. Individual awakened and moved to correct lodging without further incident.

Aug. 31, 2:10 a.m. — Student found another student in Taft Cottages residence unauthorized. Student fled before CA arrived.

Aug. 31, 9:43 a.m. — Visiting prospective student had seizure in McBride. Squad responded and assessed. All vitals within normal range. Individual not transported to KCH. Aug. 31, 11:15 p.m. — Student in Caples Residence Hall placed unauthorized item on stove to cook water. Item caught fire. Student extinguished fire, requested check up. Safety Officer(s) responded.

Sep. 1, 10:23 a.m. — Damage received to basement window in Davis House.

Sep. 1, 1:34 p.m. — Jar of illegal substance found unattended near office in Gund Commons. Item turned over to Campus Safety. Contents tested positive and turned over to KCSO. Sep. 1, 3:33 p.m. — Fire alarm sounded in Farr Hall. Young child activated pull station. No fire. No smoke. Alarm reset.

Sep. 2, 4:41 p.m. — Fire alarm sounded due to burnt food at the Kenyon Inn. No fire. Smokey area ventilated. Alarm reset.

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Hidden gem: Bloomberg Terminal serves as a financial tool

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Tucked away on the third floor of Ascension Hall, in a closet-sized room labeled “Faculty Storage,” sits a Bloomberg Terminal. It may appear to be just another computer, but this one is fully loaded with Bloomberg software, which allows for the analysis of financial data and, theoretically, the ability to place trades in securities markets. This terminal is equipped with a special keyboard, showing multicolored keys denoting specific functions such as “M-MKT” and “QUOTE.” Created by Bloomberg L.P., a subscription to a Bloomberg Terminal creates access to an immense database of financial data, news sources, pricing for securities and just about any piece of information on a financial market anyone could want or need, plus the facilitation of trade placement in securities markets. Knowing how to operate a terminal is a must in the world of finance.

Mike Weaver ’96, global head of securities lending and finance at the financial services firm BlackRock, will be

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If you are willing to ask a few questions and poke around, you’re usually able to get the answer you’re after.”

Will Melick, Professor of Economics

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The Bloomgberg Terminal, located on the third floor of Ascension, hosts financial data. giving a demonstration on the Bloomberg Terminal in association with the Career Development Office’s [CDO] finance panel today at 7:30 p.m. in the Community Foundation Theater in the Gund Gallery.

The idea of a Kenyonowned Bloomberg Terminal began with Professor of Economics Will Melick. Shortly

after coming to Kenyon in 1998, Melick discovered that the editor-in-chief and cofounder of Bloomberg News was College Trustee Matthew Winkler ’77. Aside from a few suggestions to Kenyon’s thenpresident Robert Oden, nothing came of Melick’s interest until 2006 when he met Winkler while serving as a faculty advisor on a trustee sub-com-

mittee relating to technology at Kenyon. Winkler secured a Bloomberg Terminal for Kenyon within 30 days, free of charge. The subscription usually amounts to $24,000 a year.

Unfortunately, aside from occasional use by students researching projects, the investment club and economics professors gathering examples for

class, the terminal has gone largely unused.

College endowment managers used the terminal in Ascension but they were soon given their own, located in Eaton Center. Melick said he “was hopeful [the terminal] would be widely used” when it arrived, but he acknowledged that he has not done much to promote the machine.

Additionally, Melick recognizes the difficulty in using the machine for classes. It is not easy to transport and the location makes demonstrations difficult, limiting the number of people who know how to use the device. However, tutorials are available online and on the terminal itself.

Melick hopes that the machine will one day be housed in a better location, preferably a computer lab. He believes the terminal could be used by students interested in environmental or international studies for tracking data relat-

ed to subjects such as carbon emissions or the debts of certain governments.

However, the learning curve is steep and the availability of financial data on the Internet has somewhat replaced the need for terminal, especially in terms of simple data collection. It is, in Melick’s words, “a practitioner’s tool” meant for financial professionals, not students.

But Melick also said that “if you are willing to ask a few questions and poke around, you’re usually able to get the answers you’re after.” And for any students interested in finance, learning the terminal is a must. In an email, Director of Investments Stephen Archer, who serves as Kenyon’s Bloomberg representative, thanked Winkler and said he hopes “the students’ access to such a calculable tool is helpful in furthering their finance and investments education.”

ODEI to connect campus efforts

Flood evacuates hall

Concerns about equity on campus spark College to discuss and enact change in aspects of student life regarding diversity.

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Advisory Council (DAC), the Discrimination Advisors and the Kenyon Educational Enrichment Program (KEEP), along with its Recognizing Each Other’s Ability to Conquer the Hill (R.E.A.C.H.) program, will now fall under the ODEI umbrella.

A few of the office’s seven official charges include advising the president, supporting diversity education programs and carrying out efforts in equal opportunity hiring. The office itself will be financially supported by a small portion of a $100,000 presidential discretionary grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — which makes grants to institutions in higher education — and by the existing budgets of various campus groups.

Decatur said the idea of creating the ODEI had been in the works for a while, especially amongst the DAC, which is composed of faculty, administrative and student representatives. “I think we have good people doing the work for both establishing this office and getting us on good footing for coordination moving forward,” Decatur said. He also acknowledged

that the ODEI’s goals set a high bar for Kenyon, but said it was “one we should aim for.”

For Associate Dean of Students Chris Kennerly, who has been named director of the ODEI, equity is one the most important aspects of the initiative. “We haven’t had a chance to address a lot of the equity kinds of things,” Kennerly said. “For example, ... students being able to afford to participate in all the aspects of Kenyon.”

Kennerly cited last year’s change in the way North Campus Apartments are priced to make them more affordable for upperclassmen as an example of what he hopes to achieve, and noted other efforts towards equity such as helping to bring parents to campus for graduation and paying for the Graduate Record Examinations required for admission to most U.S. graduate schools. “There are lots of other small things,” he said.

Qossay Alsattari ’16 has been a member of several diversity-focused groups, including the DAC, since his first year at Kenyon, and called the formation of the ODEI a “keystone” step in developing Kenyon’s inclu-

siveness. “It reflects our seriousness as a community to kind of have a more diverse student body,” Alsattari said, praising the tangible commitment the office represents.

He has specific hopes for his involvement with the office, too, such as being able to give suggestions about curriculum changes and attracting more diverse students to campus. “I think at Kenyon, we need to see a lot of curriculum changes to make it ... more well-rounded,” Alsattari said.

As for whether or not Kenyon will successfully be able to implement and follow through on the many ideas and aspirations of those involved with this latest diversity initiative, García is confident in the community’s willingness to do the hard work. “Kenyon students are like none I have ever met at any of the institutions I have worked [at],” García said.

“In my experience, Kenyon is ideally situated and the students are going to benefit tremendously from being able to have this office that is diversity, equity and inclusion. When you think about it, there can never be anything wrong with those three words.”

Several students who were on campus early for Orientation or sports preseason during the week of Aug. 17 suffered a rude awakening when the south end of Leonard Residence Hall’s basement was flooded with up to four inches of water. Due to Middle Path’s high elevation relative to Leonard’s, the dorm’s basement is prone to flooding from run-off during rainy seasons.

Of the four double rooms and three single rooms affected, only nine of the 11 spaces in the hall were occupied by students by the 17th. Four students were on campus during the initial flooding period, and the other five were notified via email the Saturday before movein of their housing predicament.

Students affected were offered two options: move to a Mather Residence Hall double with their roommate for the price of a triple,

or move to a Mather double alone and pay the price of a double room.

“It is unfortunate and I did complain a lot because it sucks to live in Mather and I am 21,” Asha McAllister ’15, one of the students affected by the Leonard flooding, said.

There is no exact time frame for the construction response to the flooding that is hindering students from moving back into their original room assignments, according to Associate Director of Housing and Residential Life Lisa Train. Maintenance is choosing to fix the outdoor construction to block all possible future floods and to concentrate on room renovations as a secondary precaution against future flooding.

Train wrote in an email to the Collegian that, “[We] are hopeful that it will be done by the end of the semester, possibly earlier.”

Meanwhile, McAllister is attempting to make the best of the situation. “Overall, I’m just happy that I do have a place to live,” McAllister said.

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College implements training to address gender divide Student groups and faculty were subject to extensive Title IX training as the College soul-searches on how to deal with issues of sexual discrimination. their gender, has equal opportunity.” women in athletics at the A substantial part of CA College, said, “The change training focused on manin policy is not really a dated reporting, which is change of policy. It’s just required of all employees more of an awareness that of the College. Mandated these are our responsibili- reporting means that emties.” ployees are required to notify a Title IX coordinator Impact of Title IX on of any information they Kenyon hear regardIn light [ Title IX] is meant to ing sexual of recent misconduct. make sure that everyone on Only health national and federal a college campus, regardless care workattention of their gender, has equal ers, includfocused on ing counopportunity.

Title IX, selors at the Jill Engel-Hellman, the College Counseling Director of Housing and decided to Center, and Residential Life raise awareclergy are ness of the exempt. law’s conditions. During Trevor Kirby ’16 said that this year’s New Student the increased Title IX trainOrientation, first-years were ing for CAs has made him required to attend a session more comfortable with the on Kenyon’s sexual miscon- prospect of handling cases duct policies, in addition of sexual misconduct. to “Real World: Gambier,” “In the past, we were told a short skit that illustrates that we were ‘mandated rethe issue. porters,’ but we weren’t reCAs also received hours ally given the background of extensive Title IX train- of where that information ing. Jill Engel-Hellman, was going, who it was going Kenyon’s new director of to,” Kirby said. “But I think housing and residential life, this year they really stressed assisted with the training what exactly the process and currently holds a posi- looks like.” tion at Kenyon as a deputy Title IX coordinator.

The Problem of “I think one of the mis- Underreporting conceptions is that gender El-Shamaa hopes that equity only benefits one an increased understandgender,” Hellman, formerly ing of mandated reporting a Title IX coordinator at will counteract the drastic Denison University, said. underreporting of cases of “[Title IX] is meant to make sexual misconduct. A 2007 sure that everyone on a col- study conducted by the U.S. lege campus, regardless of Department of Justice statContinued from Page 1

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ed that one in five women will be a victim of attempted or completed sexual assault while attending college, yet many school’s sexual misconduct numbers are much lower. Last year, Kenyon reported 18 incidents of nonconsensual sexual intercourse on campus.

Underreporting may be due to the belief that reporting incidents can have negative repercussions for the victim. A July New York Times article entitled “Reporting Rape and Wishing She Hadn’t” was one of many that have adressed this idea.

“I think getting better, clearer information out to students about … what will happen … and what will not happen if you report will ease many students’ fears about reporting,” ElShamaa said.

campus understands what the issue is about,” Decatur said. “There were several panels and events last year around the issues of definition of consent … and we’re just going to continue along those paths this year on the education [and] prevention front.”

Patrick Gilligan, director of counseling services, and Counselor Mike Durham are currently planning a series of workshops focused on preventing sexual misconduct, with the intention of keeping the conversation going.

“I think the mandates flowing from Title IX are a little too heavily loaded towards mandated reporting and administrative responses and judicial processes,” Gilligan said. “To a lesser degree, Title IX gives consideration to preventing sexual assault, and I think Campaign for Prevention that’s where most of our colUltimately, by emphasiz- lective efforts need to be.” ing the enforcement of Title The workshops, which IX policies, will occur I think getting better, throughthe College hopes to clearer information out to out the acabetter un- students about ... what will demic year, derstand happen ... and what will will solicit how to prenot happen if you report students’ vent these thoughts on will ease many students’ the potential incidents fears about reporting. from occurcauses and Mariam El-Shamaa, ring. Presicontributing dent Sean Kenyon Title IX Coordinator factors of Decatur emthe issue. phasized the importance “Maybe the reason that of maintaining an ongoing sexual assault persists is beconversation on the issue of cause we don’t know enough sexual misconduct. yet to create collective and The College wants to meaningful solutions,” Gil“make sure that everyone on ligan said.

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Know Your

Title IX

What is Title IX? Title IX is part of the Education Amendments of 1972 and protects people from sex-based discrimination, which includes sexual harassment.

Who has confidentiality?

Many employees of the College do not have legal confidentiality. However, counselors, clergy and medical staff are able to keep information in confidence. Sexual Misconduct Advisors also have confidentiality, meaning that they are not required to report incidents to a Title IX coordinator.

To whom do I report? đŏ đŏ đŏ đŏ đŏ

Mariam El-Shamaa Jill Engel-Hellman Lisa Train Suzanne Helfant Samantha Hughes

What are my options after reporting an incident?

Professional support, such as counseling; ability to file/not file a formal complaint with the College; ability to report/not report to local law enforcement; alternate housing accommodations; a no-contact order; access to legal services and/or an investigation.

Village Market restores some hours in wake of staff shortage EMILY SAKAMOTO NEWS EDITOR

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Village Market Manager Tim Newton greets customers with a smile despite staff shortages that have led to longer work shifts.

Those looking to satisfy their craving for a midnight snack may have to alter their definition of “midnight” for the time being.

The Village Market, Gambier’s sole grocer, is currently short-staffed following the hospitalization of two key employees, one of whom is Mary Ann Cunningham. Market Manager Tim Newton did not release the name of the other employee for reasons of confidentiality.

“I know the Beta [fraternity has] always loved Mary Ann,” Newton said.

“They serenade her every year.”

Two new employees

have been hired and Newton is on the hunt for a third; training the new employees is part of the delay in the Market returning to normal operating hours.

Beginning Sunday, Sept. 7, the Market will extend its closing to 10 p.m.

The following week, the establishment will return to normal business hours, from 8 a.m. to midnight except on Sundays, when it opens at the delayed hour of 10 a.m.

The Village Market staff expressed sympathy regarding the needs of the Kenyon student body and the community as a whole.

“We’re just asking everybody to anticipate their needs,” Newton said. “Just bear with us.”

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Early-arrival Peirce meal requirements create confusion SARAH LEHR AND GRAHAM REID COLLEGIAN STAFF

Kenyon’s simple, noswipes-required meal plan makes trips to the Peirce Hall servery painless during the school year, but this year the situation proved more complicated for students who arrived early. Groups sponsoring early arrival are technically required to purchase half of their meals from Peirce, but for the last few years, enforcement of this rule has been lenient, in line with Peirce’s usual school-year “open-door policy.”

Recently, however, the College began requiring early arrivals to swipe their KCards at the servery entrance, and later switched to requiring wristbands distributed by AVI workers to access the dining hall.

Associate Dean of Students Tacci Smith, who also serves as the director of New Student Orientation and community service, estimated that around 800 upperclassmen arrived early this year, and meal purchases peaked at over 400 students on Saturday, Aug. 23 when the first-year students arrived. Groups like pre-Orientation programs, athletic teams, Sexual Misconduct Advisors and and the Collegian must prepay AVI to feed their early-arrival participants before they are covered by the normal meal plan when the official school year starts. Per student, AVI charges $3.60 for breakfast, $6.00 for lunch and $6.90 for dinner.

Smith characterized the requirement for early arrivals to purchase half of their meals at Peirce as both “confusing” and “difficult to monitor.” After the K-Card swiping system led to long lines, AVI reverted to only checking wristbands.

Smith also said she expressed opposition to requiring K-Card swipes when the plan came to her attention in early August. Smith had concerns about delays and said that, in her understanding, the College’s business office primarily intended to discover if a similar system would be feasible for summer conferences, which often host non-student groups who pay for meals in Peirce.

“I said, ‘Summer conferences had all summer to figure this out,”’ Smith recalled. “So you’re basically telling me that [students are] going to kind of be the guinea pigs?”

Manager of Business Services Fred Linger said the College tried K-Card scanning in part with an eye to conference possibilities, but also to verify that only students registered for meals ate in Peirce. “The part of this we were pleased with was that the count did seem to be accurate,” Linger said of the number of diners revealed by K-Card scan receipts.

AVI Resident Director Kim Novak found headcounts performed by check-in cashiers as students entered the survey yielded numbers within five to 10 percent of the number of students whose meals

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At one point during the week before classes started, students were required to swipe their K-Cards before eating in Peirce. were paid for — a reasonable figure given the potential inaccuracies of headcounts gathered by a person.

Novak worried that Peirce’s previous “honor system” for early arrivals lacked accountability. She believes that proper organization, such as tentative arrival schedules and more check-in cashiers, could overcome the long wait times in future years. “The card system can work,” she said. She also acknowledged that such a change would have a downside: losing “the Kenyon culture of entering and leaving [Peirce] at your own pace.”

Yet the laidback culture at Peirce isn’t going anywhere any time soon. Linger noted that the business office is not

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The part of this we were pleased with was that the [head]count did seem to be accurate.

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considering requiring K-Card swipes during the regular school year.

Peer Counselor Katie Moss ’15, who arrived on campus early for training, emphasized the importance of flexibility in scheduling meals.

The Peer Counselors decided not to purchase breakfast or lunch at Peirce on Monday, Aug. 25, because they ate during their training with Counseling Center staff.

Though they were allowed to arrive as early as Saturday, Aug. 23, the Peer Counselors decided not to prepay for Peirce meals — despite the

Health Center migrates south MANNY LOLEY STAFF WRITER

Middle Path isn’t the only part of Kenyon to undergo a recent transformation. The Health and Counseling Center, previously located in Sparrow House near Caples Residence Hall, was also gutted this summer in order to make the move to its new home on West Scott Lane, behind the post office and across from the Office of Campus Safety. The building will be dedicated on Oct. 23.

After experiencing heavy student traffic in years past, the physical Health Center building has doubled in size to better serve students, according to Director of Health Services Kim Cullers.

“We have updated equipment and more privacy,” Cullers said. “Everything we did in the older Health Center we can do better [here].”

Cullers added that the former Health Center experienced multiple other issues, such as heating and cooling problems and poor ventilation.

According to Chief Business Officer Mark Kohlman, the Gund Partnership designed the new Health Center for a total price of

rule requiring that groups do so — before their first day of training. They opted to pay only for dinner on Monday, Aug. 25, the first meal they were required to buy as early arrivals. Moss believed those meals would have gone unused by Peer Counselors, thus wasting the group’s funds.

“Last year we made arrangements ahead of time to have everybody eat all [their] meals in Peirce,” she said. “[A]nd then people were just seeing their friends and eating out anyway.” Moss did not think that any of her fellow Peer Counselors abused the system

Jury trial scheduled in Zingarelli case

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The Health and Counseling Center moved from Sparrow House this summer. $3.2 million including furniture and equipment.

Health Center staff expect that the office’s new location will bring more students through its doors, a theory supported by Emily Smith ’15. “The central location of the new building will definitely make it more convenient,” Smith wrote in an email to the Collegian. “It’s also a much more inviting space. There are windows everywhere; everything feels bright and welcoming.”

Counselor Nikki Keller echoed Smith’s sentiments about the benefits of the center’s new location. “I think

it just has a feel of being more open and central to students,” Keller said.

“It feels like we are more a part of campus than we were before.”

The new Health Center contains a total of five rooms, one of which is an emergency room equipped with oxygen tanks, a stretcher and emergency medical supplies. The office of Counseling Services operates out of the second story of the Center.

An elevator makes the new Health Center handicap accessible.

If there’s one downside to the new building, according to Keller, it’s having to break in the new furniture.

by eating unpaid-for meals at Peirce this year.

Since many Kenyon students are far from singular in their interests and activities, some early arrivals fell into more than one group, and therefore their respective groups risked double-paying for those students’ meals. AVI leaves it up to the groups involved to avoid double-paying for one student’s meals: figuring out if there’s any overlap is “the responsibility of the group,” Novak said.

Despite the organizational challenge, Novak enjoys the early-arrival period. “It’s really a great joy for us because it’s a great time for local foods and produce,” she said. “Everyone’s in pretty good spirits to be back.”

A jury trial has been scheduled in the case brought by former student Stephen Zingarelli, who accuses the College of breach of contract and negligence, among other charges, related to its handling of a 2012 sexual assault accusation against him.

A trial date of April 7, 2015 with a pretrial hearing on Dec. 8, 2014 was scheduled on Aug. 20 in the Knox County Court of Common Pleas.

“The scheduling of a hearing date and trial date in this case is a routine part of court proceedings, and our attorneys are treating it as such,” the College said in a one-sentence statement, provided by Director of Public Affairs Mark Ellis in an email to the Collegian.

Zingarelli was acquitted by the Common Pleas court on June 26, 2013 on charges of rape and gross sexual imposition. In December of 2013, he filed a lawsuit against the College, Ellen Kaufman ’13, who was a Sexual Misconduct Advisor

(SMA), and the student who accused him of sexual assault. It is the Collegian’s policy not to name those who identify as victims of sexual assault.

Zingarelli alleges the College violated Title IX and its internal investigation process, as outlined in the Student Handbook, in how it handled the sexual assault accusation against him, and that the College was negligent in the training of SMAs. The suit claims his accuser made a false report and, based on Kaufman’s advice, destroyed text messages showing “the voluntary and consensual nature of the sexual relations between them.”

One of Zingarelli’s lawyers, Gregory O’Brien of Cleveland-based firm Cavitch Familo & Durkin, declined to comment.

Richard Lovering, one of the lawyers representing the College with Columbus-based firm Bricker & Eckler, declined to talk about the case, and would not say whether he thought it was likely that the case would ultimately make it to trial.

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Keep up Title IX focus

Faculty and student groups spent more time than ever before discussing Title IX in various training sessions this summer. The 42-year-old law protects against gender-based discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funding and includes categories such as education and sexual harassment.

The latter has been extensively covered in the news over the last several months as more colleges and universities — 76, as of this August— came under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education for allegedly mishandling incidents of sexual misconduct.

Kenyon is not on that list, although many of our peer institutions are. The Collegian applauds the College’s efforts to educate our community on their rights and duties regarding sexual violence, and to protect their privacy when complaints arise — but we should not get extra credit just for doing our homework.

In addition to these measures, we would like to see the awareness campaign be ongoing rather than intermittent. There should be structured conversations on the subject, and the College is due an honest and transparent look at its own history with sexual violence, which has not been innocent. After all, omission from an accused group is hardly inclusion in a blameless one.

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Integrity: your best study strategy BEN ADEKUNLE-RAJI & EMILY TANJI CONTRIBUTORS

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear students, I promise, we won’t bite. I’m a long-time Gambier resident, and I often take my Golden Retriever, Sandy, on a walk through north campus.

It’s okay to say ‘hello,’ even make eye contact, although I’ve heard that in some large, urban areas, that’s not acceptable behavior. But this is Gambier, Ohio.

We won’t bite. And if you’re missing the canine you left behind at home, Sandy would love to meet you.

She is a trained and certified therapy dog.

Sincerely, Phil Samuell

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The Kenyon community takes academic integrity very seriously. As students, we hold the trust of our professors to work with freedom but without supervision or suspicion. Therefore we must continue to keep that trust by adhering to academic integrity.

As student members of the Academic Infractions Board (AIB), we tend to feel some sympathy for those who choose to cheat under difficult circumstances. Academic pressures can be daunting, especially when exams and last-minute assignments pile up. In fact, most of our cases last spring involved infractions made during midterms and finals week. However, there is no excuse for academic dishonesty at Kenyon.

If you are tempted to cheat, fight the temptation. Violating Kenyon’s honor code comes with severe penalties, and Kenyon professors can easily identify signs of academic dishonesty. And once suspicions arise, professors are required to report academic infractions to the AIB. Both the professor and the accused student must then attend a hearing to give their statements. The punishment for an academic infraction at Kenyon is always more severe than simply failing the as-

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Violating Kenyon’s honor code comes with severe penalties, and Kenyon professors can easily identify signs of academic dishonesty.”

Ben Adekunle-Raji and Emily Tanji, AIB Student Members

signment/exam in question. For example, the minimum punishment for students found guilty of academic dishonesty is a double zero — a zero grade for both the plagiarized and another assignment.

But the worst cases to deal with are those that involve consistent academic dishonesty. Multiple infractions committed by the same student demonstrate a blatant disregard for Kenyon’s academic standards and regulations. More importantly, it tells the AIB that you are not willing to abide by Kenyon’s academic standards. If the AIB encounters such a student, the board will recommend that this student permanently leave Kenyon.

To end, here are some tips: any statement, idea or answer that isn’t your own should either be left out or cited. If you are referencing outside sources in a paper, especially when it is not required, remember that your professors want to evaluate your work, not someone else’s.

If you’re stressing about an assignment or exam, chances are your peers are stressing as well. Set up a study session, talk to your professor or get some tutoring. Pro-

fessors try to be understanding when students request extensions, as long as the request is legitimate and timely. Moreover, Kenyon professors are always willing to listen to you during office hours, and there’s always email if you can’t meet with them in-person.

When taking exams on computers, be advised: Kenyon uses software programs that allow professors to monitor your computer screen (screenshots make for compelling evidence).

As a Kenyon student, you have a standard to uphold, and the College accepted you because it believes in your ability to meet those standards. Realize the benefits don’t outweigh the costs; getting kicked out of college for academic dishonesty is pretty awkward.

Best of luck and welcome to Kenyon.

Ben Adekunle-Raji ’17 and Emily Tanji ’16 are student members of the AIB , a subcommittee of the faculty Committee on Academic Standards. They can be contacted at adekunlerajib@kenyon.edu and tanjie@ kenyon.edu.

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FEATURES EDITOR: VICTORIA UNGVARSKY

QUICK COMPLIMENTS “Luca Agunos ’18 is the most kind and caring person I know.”

- Kraig Davis ’18

“Kraig Davis ’18 has the ability to brighten up anyone’s day by making them laugh.”

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Read Baldwin ’84 and Wendy MacLeod ’81 met at Kenyon as students and later returned to the Hill in 1990. Their home, inspired by New England architecture, includes antique furniture and student and faculty art.

An Educated Home with Professors Baldwin and MacLeod In the second installment in a multi-part series, the Collegian explored the art, architecture and memories of two beloved professors RACHEL DRAGOS STAFF WRITER

It is often difficult to distinguish where the College ends and the Village of Gambier begins. A similar relationship exists in the home of Professor of Drama Wendy MacLeod ’81 and Associate Professor of Art Read Baldwin ’84. Filled with art, photographs and student gifts, it is hard to disentwine the home from Kenyon and Kenyon from the home.

Baldwin and MacLeod met as students at Kenyon. The two never imagined that they would later return to Gambier, much less that they would raise two boys who would be Kenyon students as well — Avery Baldwin ’17 and Foss Baldwin ’15.

As MacLeod and Baldwin prepared for dinner one weekend, Baldwin recalled the confluence of events that led the two back to Gambier, beginning with a one-year position as a replacement for a professor on sabbatical for MacLeod in 1990.

“We were living in New York City at the time and thought we had just come out for one year,” Baldwin said. “[Later], they said, ‘Three years,’

and we said, ‘Three years, we would be okay with that.’ And then the year after that they said, ‘What if we were able to endow a chair for you, Wendy?’ … It was right around then that we decided we had better find a house.”

MacLeod and Baldwin found a small home fairly easily, located a few blocks east of where the Kenyon campus blurs with Gambier. “It was for sale around then for $49,000, which was a pretty good price even then in 1992,” Baldwin said. “So we bought the house and had two boys and realized very quickly that we didn’t have enough room for them.”

At this point, Baldwin decided that he would build his own addition.

“My grandfather was an architect and I have always been interested in architecture and design, as well as painting,” he said.

For years, Baldwin’s job was building the multi-story addition to engulf the smaller home. “I was not teaching full time then,” he said. “I was building this house you see back here, full time. It got closed in after about a year, and then it took another five years to get it fully livable. And then another two years to get it fully finished.”

“Before, when this wall was roughed in,” Baldwin said, gesturing to the far wall of the house, “we had a trampoline out here. So all of that first year, [our sons] were just jumping on that trampoline. Eventually, it became the living room.”

MacLeod noted the New England architectural influences in her husband’s design. “We spend the summers living in New Hampshire, and it ended up looking like a New England house because I think Read always misses New England.”

Before beginning the addition, Baldwin had some construction experience but had never taken on a project of that scale. “It was really exciting,” Baldwin said. “I mean, the first three months were really exciting.”

Baldwin did all of the work himself, with some help from his a stonemason. “So 22 years after we bought the first part [of the home], here we are today,” Baldwin said.

Since completion of the home, Baldwin and MacLeod have taken their time with decorating their home. “Some people think that you build a house and then you go out and buy all the furniture and you stick it

in,” Baldwin said. “I think Wendy and I have always had the approach of starting minimally and buying things as we went along.”

In addition to a variety of Baldwin’s own artwork, which includes paintings featuring Ohio and New England landscapes, a print series of endangered animals and a variety of contemporary art — the home also features art by Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Craig Hill and photography by Associate Professor of Art Marcella Hackbardt.

“As professors, we can’t afford to buy that much art, so we make a lot of it.” Baldwin said. “We’ve incrementally added things as we’ve gone along, which I think … gives the place a sort of history, creates a sort of organic expression of interest in interior space and design.”

Baldwin and MacLeod have expressed a sincere interest in student art throughout the years. A gift from one of Baldwin’s former students hangs in the kitchen. In MacLeod’s upstairs office hangs a piece of student artwork that Baldwin found in the trash one day after his class and brought home. The painting, with

a bright red background, features a lightly painted wheelbarrow. “I like it because it reminds me of the William Carlos Williams poem, ‘The Red Wheelbarrow,’” MacLeod said.

“A lot of great student art goes to waste every year,” Baldwin said. “The Kenyon community should be buying more.”

Photographs join the student work on the walls. In the open dining room, MacLeod and Baldwin have adorned a cabinet with dozens of family pictures, over which one of Baldwin’s New Hampshire landscape paintings hangs. The dining room table is a find from Mount Vernon’s Second Time Around store.

MacLeod and Baldwin agreed that the central living room area, with its beautiful fireplace and open floor plan, is one of their favorite parts of the home. “This is probably where we spend the most amount of time,” MacLeod said. “If it were a chilly night, we would have the fireplace roaring right now,” Baldwin added.

Most Kenyon students live on the Hill for only four years, but these two professors have settled in and turned their house into a home.

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UPCOMING EVENTS SEPT. 4 | 4:10 P.M. SPEAKER

MAUREEN MCLANE CHEEVER ROOM, FINN HOUSE

SEPT. 6 | 10:00 A.M. READING

“CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS”

SEPT. 6 | 11:00 A.M. CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS

SEPT. 6 | 9:00 P.M. CONCERT

STUDENT ACTIVITIES FAIR

ROZWELL KID WITH PINKY HORN GALLERY

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Bass, banjo, bluegrass and the pastoral unite at Ohiolina In second year, festival again marries Ohio and North Carolina folk culture, and to a much larger turnout.

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During his set at the Ohiolina Music Festival, veteran performer Eric Sommer remarked to the crowd piled on haybales and blankets on the grassy slope in front of the stage, that he has not seen many live music venues stick around for long. Ohiolina, however, may have staying power.

The festival, which celebrates the folk musical traditions of Ohio and North Carolina, came back for its second year on Aug. 30. With new additions such as local food trucks, baby goats and a side stage that allowed more bands to perform, it came back even bigger than the first time.

One of the founders of the event, Chris Koenig, said the idea for the festival stemmed from a simple love of music.

“My wife and I met in North Carolina, and are both from Ohio,” he said. “We love this type of music, [we] met some people who had a great farm and we’ve just taken it from there.”

Ohiolina took place on a family farm not far from Mount Vernon and the Kenyon campus. A total of 419 people bought tickets to the event — a huge increase from last year.

Eleven different artists performed, all representing the Ohio and North Carolina area. The first act, Rabbit Hash String Band, began at noon, and the last, the Spikedrivers, ended close to midnight.

Larger bands took to the main stage, where band members could spread out with their array of guitars, banjos, mandolins, upright basses and varying forms of percussion.

Solo acts and smaller bands performed on the side stage between main-stage acts.

Some of the acts were relatively new. Two bands, the Mighty Troubadours and Buffalo Wabs and the Price Hill Hustle, had only been together in their current formats for about 10 months. Koenig noticed both bands in Columbus. He spotted he Mighty Troubadours at a weekly bluegrass jam they frequent, and reached out to Buffalo Wabs

and the Price Hill Hustle after attending one of their gigs.

Other bands had been together for much longer. The Hackensaw Boys, who have been playing together for 19 years, didn’t know anything about Ohiolina until Koenig reached out to them. “They found us, which is great, because we’ve had a good time,” Hackensaw Boys guitarist David Sickmen said.

Koenig also reached out to bands who had performed at Ohiolina last year, like Buckles and Boots, the husbandwife duo of Jessi and Brian Maxwell, and Noah Shull, who brought his friends Barry Chern and Tom DeLombarde to perform with him.

Koenig found the bands by searching online, attending other bluegrass festivals and through word of mouth. “I feel like the bluegrass, string band, fingerstyle guitar movement is kind of a niche category, and it’s easier to find people [to play],” he said.

Shull agreed. “The folk music scene is pretty close — knit, and the circles intertwine here and there; they intersect,”

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Rabbit Hash String Band’s Dueling Banjos perform on the side stage at Ohiolina on Saturday. he said.

The performers fell in love with the festival’s pastoral setting just as Koenig had. “It just feels so intimate,” said James Wooster, who played with the Mighty Troubadours earlier in the show and the Ginger Lees that night. “It feels like people are pretty attentive to what’s going on.”

“We didn’t know what to expect when we got down

here, but it was just like an old hoedown,” Ian Mathieu of Buffalo Wabs and the Price Hill Hustle said. His bandmate Casey Campbell agreed, saying people were “really receptive.”

Ohiolina was hardly the last stop for anyone. Both the Mighty Troubadours and Buffalo Wabs and the Price Hill Hustle plan to record their first full-length albums

by the end of the year. The Hackensaw Boys are starting a European tour that will take them through the rest of 2014.

Buckles and Boots just moved from Columbus to Memphis, Tenn. Shull and Chern had to leave early to perform a gig in Columbus that same night.

Sommer summed up what each performer was striving to do: “Play music and be good at it.”

McLane to share poetic tradition and personal muse

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“Tradition usually mean[s] conservativeness; I think that’s total bulls—,” visiting poet and New York University Associate Professor of English Maureen McLane said. “I’m interested in a tradition of experiment. … I think a person makes her own tradition.”

McLane, who will be speaking at Finn House today at 4:10 p.m, will expose her own tradition of poetry to Kenyon. Her event, “A Reading with Divagations,” sponsored by the English Department, will feature both her recent and older work, and McLane will also discuss her personal experience as a poet and scholar.

McLane has written four poetry collections: This Carrying Life (2005), Same Life (2008), World Enough (2010) and This Blue (2014). She also researched and wrote Balladeering, Minstrelsy and the Making of British Romantic Poetry (2008) and Romanticism and the Human Sciences (2000, 2006).

She co-edited The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry (2008).

This Blue, published by Mac-

There can be interesting conversations about things — poems, music, porn, anything.”

Maureen McLane

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Author Maureen McLane will be speaking today at 4:10 in Finn House. millan, met critical acclaim upon its release. Her assortment of nature poems move with a distinctive voice of “elegant unease,” wrote Jeff Gordinier wrote in the New York Times review of the quote.

“These are poems that keep you on your toes, and McLane makes you aware of that right from the start,” he said in the review McLane’s reach extends beyond poetry and literary criticism. Her innovative memoir-criticism hybrid, My Poets, also published by Macmillan, was named a finalist in the 2012 National Book Critics

Circle Award in Autobiography.

In this work, McLane guides the reader through her own impassioned experiences with her poetic heroes, visiting old classics like the works of Percy Shelley and Geoffrey Chaucer as well as the contemporary artistry of Louise Gluck.

Her piece also exemplifies her firm belief in the fluidity between different kinds of writing. Of the different processes between poetry and criticism, McLane said she “reject[s] that distinction”, saying, “Things can coexist in the mind and create weird, interesting hy-

brids.” The genre-combination also depicts the multi-faceted nature of McLane’s intellectual and even personal views. “I think it’s richer and truer to the texture of my mind than an engagement with a single genre or mode,” she said.

“Part of what I in my life have chosen to take in is poetry. … [Others] can chose to take in punk music or physics or mechanics.”

McLane first became attracted to poetry and literary criticism in school. In her essay My Impasses: On Not Being Able to Read Poetry, she recounts her first poetry classes in college, and the incredible passion that arose in her from struggling to decipher poetry. Likewise, she came to value literary criticism by being immersed in it. “Someone hands you an essay, and you think it’s interesting,” McLane said. “It’s also part of a conversation. These are things one could talk about. …

There can be interesting conversations about things—poems, music,

porn, anything.”

After her collegiate love affair with poetry, McLane developed her distinct poetic style by absorbing parts of her life and environment.

“Other than the tradition of poetry itself, just responding to things I’ve been exposed to my whole life — that’s been a huge prompt and goad,” she said, mentioning comments she’s overheard, sociology readings and conversations with friends about subjects that inspire her. Her talk will showcase current and past poetry— “I’ll be hopefully creating some links among [my poetry] so people will have some idea of the links or swerves, and perhaps there will be some links for their own work,” she said.

As for her upcoming works, McLane said she is working on a new book of “more lyric poems,” as well as “a long narrative project” that animates a character she explored in her first book of poetry, This Carrying Life.

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First night of “Feast” film-and-food-truck series whets Gambier community’s appetite for more delights to roll in INDIA AMOS ARTS EDITOR

Feasting and film culminated in one delicious evening this past Saturday, all thanks to Student Activities Office, which partnered with the Gund Gallery and Cinearts to bring this event to campus. “Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art,” an exhibit curated in the Smart Museum in Chicago, it opened in the Gallery this July and inspired the first night of a “Dinner and a Movie” series of food trucks and film screenings.

In regard to the exhibit itself, Director of the Gund Gallery Natalie Marsh said the exhibit celebrates artists who “explore the exchange — the meaningful exchange — of food and drink, which is central to their artistic practice.” Keeping the “Feast” theme in mind, Cinearts planned a fourpart, food-related film series to accompany the exhibit.

At the event on Saturday, Taco Sherpa, a food truck hailing from Granville, Ohio that specializes in Korean barbeque, offered Kenyon community members an alternate dinner option. The truck parked along

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The Taco Sherpa food truck from Granville, Ohio fed community members before the screening of Chef at the Gund Gallery.

Middle Path in front of the Gallery, selling bulgogi tacos and other delicacies to curious customers — even taking payment via K-Card.

Afterwards, organizers screened the 2014 film Chef in the Gallery’s Community Foundation Theater. Directed by Jon Favreau, the movie is based loosely on celebrity chef Roy Choi’s story about leaving the restaurant busi-

ness to start his own Korean taco truck.

Emily Sussman ’15, a Cinearts member and Gund Gallery associate, explained how everything tied together. “The way we’ve organized this ‘Feast’ series [is that] it’s supposed to kind of work with what’s going up in the Gallery right now,” she said.

“For every movie … we’ve brought the appropriate-

inspired cuisine food truck that goes with the movie.”

Cinearts works closely with the Gallery to choose films that will be well-received on campus. “We [in Cinearts] do not operate entirely independently from the Gund Gallery,” Sussman said. “We strive to have at least one [film] series per semester that’s related to what we’re doing up in the Gallery.

So ‘Feast’ kind of talks about coming together as communities.”

Marsh expressed her enthusiasm for the collaborative project, saying, “We’re excited to work with Cinearts because it’s fun to work with students who explore the theme of an exhibition.”

The camaraderie of feasting has not been lost on the organizations who helped to

bring these food-related exhibits to campus. We like to work with as many organizations as we can on campus so we can get as much attention as possible and have the means to have all these great programs that we do,” Sussman said.

Because the people of Gambier and Kenyon are so intertwined, the “Feast” program has pulled the already close-knit stitches of the community a little tighter, allowing citizens, students and faculty to bond by eating together on Ransom Lawn.

Professor of Religious Studies Ennis Edmonds, who attended the Chef screening, said, “I think the movie [reflected] ... what we were aiming for at Kenyon: to bring people together, to work cooperatively [and] to achieve certain goals.”

Sussman also saw similarities between the ethos of the series and the spirit of Gambier.

“Certainly in ‘Feast,’ there [are] a lot of works that are inherently sociological [and] anthropological in nature,” Sussman said. “For a lot of Kenyon students, that’s a draw. There’s a lot of ritual in eating.”

This year, a Dream five years in the making begins again LAUREN KATZ STAFF WRITER

Nestled between those “Student-Info” emails about pool hours and upcoming auditions, there sometimes hides an invitation to join a reading group.

Those who don’t simply glance over it have the opportunity to enter a world of Chinese culture and literature that has captivated Kenyon students for the past six years.

Spearheaded by Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies Anna Sun and Professor of Asian History Ruth Dunnell, a group of students and professors spend an hour every Friday from 4:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. in Evans Seminar Room in Timberlake House reading aloud to each other from Dream of the Red Chamber. This novel is not just any book; written by Cao Xueqin and translated by David Hawkes, the 17th-century Chinese classic is 120 chapters long and is split into five volumes.

Professors first mentioned the book when brainstoring for a new seminar, “What it Means to be Human in Asia.” “Faculty members from the Asian studies department all recommended

readings [for the seminar] … and I recommended a chapter from Dream of the Red Chamber,” Sun said.

After Sun’s presentation on the novel, the faculty realized they were hungry for more. Dunnell offered to organize a reading group in which they could finish the novel, and from there, the Dream Reading Group was born.

“You see scenes from everyday life, from marriage to death, from religious ritual to great banquets,” Sun said of the novel’s plot. “You hear about politics, economics, legal cases and also a lot of poetry-making.”

There seems to be something for everyone. While Sun is more attracted to the cultural aspects of the book, Dunnell is fascinated by the translation.

“The translation itself is an extraordinary work of art, which really makes you appreciate the challenges that face someone who is trying to bring a whole cultural world into a conversation with other cultural worlds where they don’t speak the same language,” Dunnell said.

Considering the wide variety of topics Xueqin covers in his novel, it is no wonder the readers were hooked. The group met ev-

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ery Friday for an hour starting in 2008. At the end of the spring semester of 2014, they succeeded in their goal of finishing all five volumes, despite the challenges of shifting group members— students graduated midway through the project, and professors went on sabbatical.

Sun, who went on sabbatical for a semester in 2011, did not let the distance stop her.

“When I was doing research at Princeton three years ago, I skyped in every Friday,” Sun said.

“I bought a microphone for this purpose.”

Sun’s devotion to the reading group caught the attention of Joe Blundo from The Columbus Dispatch. He was interested in the idea that this group read only one chapter a day but fully intended to finish the book. At the time of his article’s publication in 2011, the group was only at Chapter 70 out of 120.

After completing such a large project, the dreamers felt unsatis-

fied with simply parting ways. In the end, they decided to start over with Volume 1, which began on Friday, Aug. 29, 2014.

As the group moves forward, the two leaders have few changes they wish to make. “I think my goal is to introduce our students to great works of art outside of the Western canon, in this case the greatest Chinese novel ever written,” Sun said. “It is a necessary part of a strong liberal arts education, especially today, to teach students that we share the same human values and concerns across cultures. And what better way to do it than through great works of art, such as a terrific novel?”

Dunnell’s goals concern the future and connect to the Kenyon curriculum.

“I have been trying to think of ways that I might be able to use the novel, or at least one volume of it, in a course … or [as] the centerpiece of a seminar,” Dunnell said.

Dunnell has high hopes for the future of the novel, but for now she enjoys the tradition of sitting down weekly and reading with a small group.

“Particularly in a world where everything is so rapidly changing, it seems to me so necessary for us to find places to root ourselves,” Dunnell said. “For anyone who establishes a relationship with a work of fiction, … you have something to hold on to and something to go back to. It’s comforting.”

At the end of the day, the relationship they’ve established with the novel seems to be the main reason for the group’s continuation. They found a tradition that they love, and they plan to keep the novel in their lives for a long time.

“I think it’s so important to do this,” Dunnell said. “Even though it becomes more and more difficult because the calendar keeps getting more and more crowded, I just want to push it all back and say, ‘No! This hour is mine!’”

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Leaving a legacy, Harcourt Parish rector pursues new path Reverend Helen Svoboda-Barber, a descendant of Philander Chase, departs the Hill for N.C. VICTORIA UNGVARSKY FEATURES EDITOR

This past July, Harcourt Parish bid farewell to Reverend Helen Svoboda-Barber, the Gambier community’s longest-serving rector since the 1800s. Svoboda-Barber left Harcourt Parish after 10 years to pursue new opportunities as the rector at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Durham, N.C. Although she began at Harcourt in 2004, Svoboda-Barber’s Kenyon legacy began over 190 years ago with Bishop Philander Chase. In 1824, Chase founded the College as an Episcopal seminary and assisted in the establishment of Harcourt Parish only three years later. SvobodaBarber is Chase’s great-great-greatgranddaughter, and she grew up hearing stories about him.

“When I began doing a national job search, the first thing I did was check to see if there were any Episcopal churches founded by Philander Chase that were looking for a new priest,” Svoboda-Barber wrote in an email to the Collegian. It turned out that Harcourt Parish was the perfect fit, and she and her husband, Shawn, and then-six-month-old son, Charlie, relocated to Gambier in 2004.

During her time at Harcourt Parish, Svoboda-Barber sought to strengthen the church’s spiritual core, while encouraging greater engagement with the Kenyon community. “Over the past 30 or 40 years, the College [has] evolved in ways that separated it more from the Parish,” she said. “But in the last five years or so, the Parish has worked hard

to understand where the College is now and where it is going, and to find ways it can be meaningful to the College now and into the future.”

She cited the Parish’s increased focus on community service as a way of engaging students. In particular, Svoboda-Barber loved the Rummage Sale as a way to get students involved with the Parish and help the community. “It’s terribly hard work, but so much fun, too,” she said. “The literal tons of stuff we keep out of the waste stream, the number of students and community members we help, the nonprofit agencies that receive the grants from the sale … [is] phenomenal, and very memorable.”

Although Svoboda-Barber wanted to strengthen the connection between Harcourt Parish and Kenyon students, her true passion was delivering the message of God. As rector, she served as the head of the Church of the Holy Spirit and acted as a spiritual guide to her parishioners.

Svoboda-Barber cited the people of Harcourt Parish as her favorite part of working there. “Everyone who attends makes a conscious choice to be there — no one is attending to be seen or because it’s the thing to do,” she said. “They are witty and intelligent and dedicated and faithful.”

One of her favorite memories of her tenure is the “Maundy Thursday” service each year, which takes place on the Thursday before Easter to commemorate Jesus’ last supper with His Apostles. “That service traditionally ended in the dark, with [Professor of Drama] Jon Tazewell and me belting out ‘Were You There’ so loudly that the roof almost flew off,”

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Reverend Svoboda-Barber emphasized the importance of community, at both Harcourt Parish and Kenyon.

Svoboda-Barber said. “The intensity of that moment, repeated yearly, has been a high point of my ministry.,” But her enthusiastic singing is not the only mark she has left. SvobodaBarber greatly influenced Gregory Stark ’13, who is now studying in the seminary at Yale Divinity School.

“Her focus was very much on fostering those individual relationships between parishioners and students and people in the community,” Stark said. Svoboda-Barber helped develop Stark’s spiritual beliefs and she baptized him into the Episcopal Church during his sophomore year. Stark spoke about her dedication to encouraging the relationship between students and the church: “[She] was really key in making sure there was still an Episcopal student ministry … [and] making sure there was still a

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The Parish has worked hard to understand where the College is now and where it is going, and to find ways it can be meaningful to the College now and into the future.”

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presence on campus,” he said.

Rebecca Ogus ’14, a former member of the College’s Episcopal student organization Canterbury Kenyon, fondly remembered Svoboda-Barber’s welcoming nature. “In inviting the congregation to Eucharist [the sacrament of Communion], she made sure to note that it was not the Episcopal Church’s altar or Harcourt Parish’s altar but God’s altar and ‘you are welcome here,’” Ogus wrote in a Facebook message to the Collegian.

“In a world where so many people have been rejected and traumatized by organized religion, to me this felt

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like a way to get back to the root of love, compassion and acceptance that is present in Christianity.”

After a decade at Harcourt Parish, Svoboda-Barber is excited to take on new challenges, but she will always think fondly of her time at the parish her great-great-great-grandfather started. She hopes new generations of students will not be afraid to stop by.

“Just wander in any Sunday morning at 10:30 and see what you find,” she said. “You might make a new friend, you might hear something to ponder, you might even find something you didn’t know you were missing.”

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Amelia Li ’15

Harrison Montgomery ’16

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Which famous Kenyon alumna just won her sixth Emmy?

Allison Janney ’82

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What was the name of the victim killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo. on August 9?

Michael Brown

Michael Brown

Michael Brown

Mike Brown

I don’t keep up with American news. I’m an international student.

What movie was the most successful at the box office this summer?

Guardians of the Galaxy

Guardians of the Galaxy

Guardians of the Galaxy

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The John Green movie?

Which of the four current Kenyon classes had the largest number of applicants ever?

Class of 2018

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Ladies soccer impresses in opener Team secures 2-1 win, 1-1 tie at home ALEX PIJANOWSKI SPORTS EDITOR

Taking full advantage of a home doubleheader to open their season, Kenyon women’s soccer won one game against Manchester University, of North Manchester, Ind., and tied the other against Adrian College, of Adrian, Mich., this past weekend.

The team’s reigning top scorer, Co-Captain Becca Romaine ’15, expressed positive feelings about both results, including the tie. “[With a tie], you don’t get that loss, but then you realize what you have to work with,” she said. “You get the learning experience from a loss without actually having the loss.”

Kenyon’s offense was bold, making 19 shots on goal.

“We want to attack as a team,” Head Coach Kelly Bryan said. “We want to have some diversity in the way that we’re attacking, and not have things be predictable. We’ve got more than just one or two people that are capable of getting into the attack, and that’s something we haven’t had in the past.”

Kenyon sports fans should expect a very competitive season because last season’s top two scorers — Romaine and Co-Captain Maggie Smith ’17 — are both returning and in top form. Additionally, Co-

Captain Marie Laube ’16 will anchor the defense.

Romaine scored twice against Manchester, which pulled her within a goal of Kenyon’s all-time fourth-place goalscorer Shannon Maroney ’00. Entering this season, Romaine’s points-per-game average is 1.42, which makes her the fourth-most-efficient scorer in the team’s history.

Despite this proximity to Kenyon greats, Romaine does not generally give much thought to statistical glory.

“I’m a forward, so that’s kind of my job — to try to score, or create scoring opportunities,” she said. “I base a lot of my personal success off of that, only because that’s what I should be doing. … But, I try not to think about it — I think it’s kind of silly to get caught up in those kinds of things, because it is a team sport.”

First-year forward/midfielder Emma Klug ’18 is one new player to keep an eye on.

Through two games, Klug has made three shots on goal.

Though it will be difficult for anyone else to score often on a team with two forwards as dominant as Romaine and Smith, Klug shows great promise, and the experience she gains this year should prepare her for a feature role soon.

On the defensive side, rookie players Heather Pacheco ’18 and Campbell Fee ’18

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Maggie Smith ‘17 scored the team’s only goal on Saturday. have stepped into important defensive roles.

The Ladies also have two excellent goalkeepers, Alissa Poolpol ‘16 and Anna Schueler ’17. Over the weekend, the pair stopped nearly every shot that came their way, combining for 16 saves out of 33 shots faced.

Only two of those shots entered the net.

Bryan expects a lot from this talented team, which showcases a good mix of young and experienced players. Many first years have taken advantage of openings left by last year’s departing seniors.

“They’re doing it with the leadership and guidance of our returning players,” Bryan said.

“It’s been a really nice mesh so far, and now we need to keep

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effort.”

On the men’s side, Sam Lagasse ’16 finished first out of 34 with a time of 15:37.2, followed by Nat Fox ’16 in fourth place with a time of 16:40.4. Additionally, Jackson Pine ’17 and Andres Herrera ’16 finished nearly together in 14th and 15th places, with respective times of 17:50.7 and 17:51.2.

“Both groups ran very smart races, they ran in groups quite a bit, they paced themselves

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getting our younger players ready.”

Smith, one of those returners, said her responsibilities have increased.

“I need to step up my leadership this year,” she said. “We have nine [first years], so we have a lot of them, and all of us — as upperclassmen, as returning players — need to step up and help guide them.”

Smith said that although the team struggled with injuries last year, she expects a promising season this fall.

“I think, all in all, this is going to be a very strong season for [the team],” she said. “We are all very motivated, we want this, we all want to get into the [conference] tournament.”

Ladies and Lords each claim first place After two weeks of pre-season training, Kenyon cross-country competed in its first meet this past Friday. Both the men’s and women’s teams participated in the Kenyon TriMeet, along with Mount Vernon Nazarene University and Ohio Wesleyan University. The meet was an unscored 5K run for the men and a 4K for the women.

“It was a very good start and we’re very happy with it,” Head Coach Duane Gomez said.

“Our goal was to try and run a team race as much as possible, people running in training groups, staying together. … Everyone ran a really good

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The women’s crosscountry team also had success, and sweeping up the top four spots out of the 39 runners. First was Molly Hunt ’18, who finished with a time of 15:28.7. Susannah Davies ’18 followed and finished at 15:30.3. Not far behind, Abby Arace ’16 and Mollie O’Leary ‘17 crossed the finish line with times of 15:36.1 and 15:41.0. Additionally, Samantha White ’16, Claire Naughton ’17,

Cece Dye ’18 and Madeline Frank ’18 claimed sixth, eighth, ninth and tenth places.

“I think the Tri-Meet is always very casual, because going into it it’s always a good two hard weeks of preseason, and people tend to be a little tired,” Lagasse said.

“So, there’s never any real pressure, but what Coach Gomez wanted us to do was team running, and running hard, and going out there and doing our best.”

The cross-country program enters this season with youthful teams, especially the Ladies, who lost four of their top five scoring runners last year.

“I know that this year especially we’re a young team,” Lagasse said. “I

think all our top runners are juniors. It’s difficult to say right now how that’ll play out towards the end of the season.

But I think that it’ll be a growing year for us, and we’ll try to work with what we have.”

“We have a real nice group of freshmen, sophomores [on the women’s team], and some upperclassmen who are really good leaders,” Gomez said. “[B]ut the women are pretty young and the guys are more veteran.”

The team runs next in Delaware, Ohio at the Ohio Wesleyan Invitational.

“The meet at Delaware is huge; it’ll be 12 teams, and it’s going to be a very competitive race,” Gomez said.

On Nov. 16 of last year, Lords football vacated Deeds Field in Granville, Ohio following a bitter 42-7 defeat at the hands of archrival Denison University, marking the somber end to a 4-6 (4-5 NCAC) 2013 season. After emerging from an offseason rife with strenuous weight training and conditioning sessions, the Lords are now primed to take the field next Saturday for their opener against Marietta College at McBride Field.

“Our strength numbers went up and our physical weight numbers have gone up,” said Head Coach Chris Monfiletto, who is entering his third year at the helm.

“That’s something that we track pretty carefully, just to make sure everybody’s healthy more than anything else.

We’re in a lot better shape than we have been in the last two or three years, which is great.”

After losing a graduating class of 19 men, players with less game experience will need to step up to fill spots on the depth chart.

“It’s more challenges, not really from a physical standpoint, but from a mental standpoint,” Monfiletto said.

“They have to be as prepared as possible to play at a higher level of maturity than they actually have.”

In addition to the 19 seniors from last year’s roster, the Lords will be without receiver Jibri McLean ’17 and defensive lineman and co-captain Garrison Anderson ’15 due to injuries. Fortunately, starting quarterback and cocaptain Jake Bates ’15 is again at full health after battling a broken thumb all of last season. Bates brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the field, according to Monfiletto. “[Bates] has a full understanding of what we’re doing offensively,” Monfiletto said. “He coaches the other quarterbacks, and he knows what the running backs are doing and he coaches the running backs, and he coaches the Oline because he knows what the O-line is doing. His ability to learn all that stuff has been really, really impressive.”

Monfiletto sees the intelligence of his student-athletes as another competitive edge. “We’ve changed a lot about what we’ve done from an offensive and a defensive standpoint and our guys are really smart and they’ve learned it,” he said. “I think that’s what our strength is. We’re a different school from anybody in our league, anybody in our conference that we play against.”

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Volleyball Ladies volleyball continued their trend from last season (4-23) and suffered four losses this past weekend in the Otterbein/Capital Tournament.

The Ladies’ first set of matches on Friday against Capital University began promisingly, as they won their opening set. Unfortunately, things then took a turn for the worse, and the team did not clinch another set.

The next day, the Ladies took on 23rd-ranked Otterbein University and Case Western Reserve University. The team struggled and was unable to produce a winning set.

The Ladies now have a new coaching staff in place, with Head Coach Amanda Krampf and Assistant Coach Carter Cassell at the helm, and the players have shown signs of success.

Tierney McClure ’18 leads the team in kills with a total of 15, and Lauren Kerr ’18 is a close second with 12. CoCaptain Hannah Shank ’15 leads the team with 37 assists, and Rachel Thorson ’18 leads the team in digs with a total of 15.

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Gambier to Glasgow Zarka ’16 reflects on diving at the Commonwealth Games

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A small, Division-III liberal arts school rarely gets the opportunity to welcome back one of its own athletes from an international competition.

But when Maria Zarka ’16 returns to the diving board for the Kenyon Ladies later this year, she will be doing so with a wealth of experience gained from her time representing Tonga – an island nation in the South Pacific – at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Scotland.

Of course, Zarka is no stranger to high-pressure situations, or to performing well in them. She won a national diving title in each of her two collegiate seasons so far, and earned the Female Diver of the Year award following the 2014 NCAA DivisionIII championships. Nevertheless, the atmosphere at the Games was unlike anything she had seen before.

“It was a different world,” she said.

“It was a very big venue, with lots of

people and cameras.” She even once collided with an underwater camera obstructing her path as she attempted to exit the pool following a dive.

Zarka placed 13th in both the one-meter and three-meter diving events, which was not good enough to advance to the next round of competition. Still, simply being in close proximity to some of the finest athletes in the world changed her perspective on the nature of competition. “[The Games] definitely opened my eyes to see how much better I can get, and how much further I can go if I work as hard as I can,” she said.

“Maybe I should try to get stronger and go for those higher, more elite dives, and try to do that, because that’s what the best people in the world are doing.”

In one such encounter, Zarka and her coach met Matthew Mitcham of Australia, who was the gold medalist in 10-meter diving at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She also said that, for

a few moments, she was walking beside Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt in the athletes’ village.

Despite her Tongan heritage, Zarka grew up in Hawaii and had not been immersed in the Tongan culture. She was the only member of Tonga’s diving contingent, but had many chances to spend time with Tongan athletes competing in other events. Most of the other athletes representing Tonga had similar backgrounds, having grown up in countries like Australia or New Zealand.

Because of this, Zarka acknowledged that she did not grow as close to her Tongan roots as she might have under other circumstances.

“It would have been different if I’d gone to Tonga,” she said.

Even if she did not meet many native Tongans, Zarka said it was apparent to her that there was an entire nation behind her diving efforts. After returning to the athletes’ ready room and checking her cell phone following a dive, Zarka was surprised

to find that she had received over 100 Facebook friend requests from supporters.

“People just [are] so excited that you’re there, they don’t even care how you do,” she said. Some, she said, even sent pictures of their children.

Because she was the only diver representing an Oceanic nation, Zarka also attracted the support of citizens from other nations in the region.

Kenyon’s diving coach, Andy Scott, served as Tonga’s diving coach at the Games, and accompanied Zarka to Scotland. He said that his attendance at the Games was an important experience, both for his coaching in general and his ability to help Zarka improve her diving.

“For me as a coach, one of the benefits was having 10 days on the pool deck alongside some of the best diving coaches in the world, and working with Maria every day for 10 days,” Scott said.

Scott added that the Games gave him a clearer picture of how he can

coach Zarka to continued collegiate success and future success at higher levels of competition.

“I certainly feel like it was motivating, because we just realize how much better she can be, if she and I are capable of working together to figure out how to make these changes,” he said. “I need to figure out, and communicate, and give her the tools to make those changes, but ultimately she has to do it.”

He added that “there are definitely some things that we have to try to fix this year,” but he thinks just going to the Games made him more aware of “the little details.”

Although competing in an event of this magnitude may seem like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Zarka hopes to make it anything but.

Next summer, she will attempt to compete in the Pan-Pacific Games in Papua New Guinea. If that prospect materializes, Zarka’s return to campus for her senior year will be all the more triumphant.

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Ladies field hockey began their season with two impressive wins this past weekend in Danville, Ky. against Centre College and Sewanee: The University of the South. On Saturday, Kenyon defeated Centre 1-0 with a goal by Rachel Hall ’15, assisted by CoCaptain Julie Freedman ’15, in the second half. Centre could not get any shots past first-year goalkeeper Sarah Speroff ’18 .

“Our defense really held their own and we definitely dominated our game against Centre,” Hall said.

The next day, the Ladies defeated Sewanee 3-2. In the first five minutes of the game, Sewanee managed to score, but Kenyon retaliated with a goal by Co-Captain Maddie Breschi ’16, assisted by Hall.

Fifteen minutes into the second half, Sewanee scored to retake the lead, but shortly

Lords soccer kicked off its season last weekend with two wins over Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and La Roche College. The Lords outscored their opponents 7-0, and jumped to fourth in the national D-III rankings.

The Lords faced a difficult match-up in their season opener, taking on 18th-ranked CMU. From the beginning, Kenyon controlled most of the play and put the Tartans under heavy pressure.

After 31 minutes, the Lords opened their season tally with a stunning left-footed volley from Jeremiah Barnes ’16, assisted by Dalton Eudy ’17.

“When Dalton picked up his head, I knew the run to make since we had been working on it in training,” Barnes said of the play. “He played a great ball and I connected well.”

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The Ladies totaled 42 shots; their opponents mustered 12. after, Kenyon tied the score 2-2 with a goal by Christine Bloom ’16 assisted, by Freedman. Kenyon finally took the lead with two-and-a-half minutes remaining, as Cecilia Depman ’15 scored the winning goal with an assist from Breschi.

“We have a lot of new players this season which is really exciting,” Hall said. “We worked really hard throughout preseason and have bond-

ed greatly already. This weekend we worked really well together.”

Hall added, “I think we have so much potential and I am really excited to see us succeed and remain a force in the conference this year.” With two wins under their belt, the Kenyon field hockey team will take on Washington College and compete in the Consolation/Championship Games in Frostburg, Md. next weekend.

Amolo ’17 drew a foul in the box and buried the penalty kick low in the bottom left corner of the goal.

After the break Rei Mitsuyama ’15 scored, taking the score to 3-0.

“Beating a ranked opponent with goals from three different players showed that we have the ability to compete with any team out there,” Mitsuyama said.

This momentum carried into the Lords’ second game.

Grant Carney ’15 scored with a header in the 19th minute.

Amolo scored two more goals to cap a performance which earned him NCAC Player of the Week.

Stephen Margaria ’18 contributed the weekend’s final goal. He collected the ball in the midfield and rifled a shot from distance into the corner of the goal. It was a fitting end to a positive weekend.

“The boys did well,” Head

Men’s Soccer Coach Chris Brown said. “We’re not at our best yet, but [we] did more than enough to get the job done. If the boys focus on hard work and execution then they can cash in on their potential.

We have good depth, and that should keep everyone on their toes.”

The Lords were convincing enough for college coaches to vote them the number-four ranking in the country. But the players ultimately give little thought to this status.

“It’s awesome that people see us as one of the top teams in the country,” Cameron Scott ’15 said. “The rankings right now won’t mean much at the end of the season, so we’re just concerned with winning the next game we play.”

The Lords carry a 2-0 record into this weekend, as they take on Otterbein University on Friday and Heidelberg University on Sunday.