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10.1.2015

VOLUME CXLIII NO. 6 12 pages

Poor retention and longer lines plague AVI

PARKOUR HARDCORE

BILL GARDNER | STAFF WRITER

KRISTEN HUFFMAN | COLLEGIAN

Parkour, a recreational activity that involves launching oneself onto and off of hard surfaces, is taking off at Kenyon. Gordon Loveland ’19, above, and other local practicioners of the art can be seen on the north side of campus honing their craft. Read inside to see what inspires them — p. 10.

MV killings prompt Kenyon safety alerts EMILY SAKAMOTO MANAGING EDITOR

Students on Wednesday morning may have glanced at their phones and seen that a person of interest in a double-homicide in Mount Vernon was at large. The homicides were the number-one trending item on Facebook’s homepage for a time on Wednesday. Sandra Lee Stelk, 50, of Mount Vernon and Jamie Lynn Barber, 23, of Newark, Ohio have been identified as the victims of the killing. They were found Wednesday at a home in the 18600 block of Coshocton Road, between Mount Vernon and Gambier. Travis Bonham, 31, son of Stelk, remains a person of interest in the case. According to Knox County Sheriff David Shaffer, he was believed to be driving a 2011 black Dodge Charger registered to Sandra’s husband, David Stelk, with the licence plate “STELK2.” Barber, Bonham’s girlfriend, split her

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Marianne Cunningham, beloved Village Market employee, dies

time between a home in Newark and the Stelks’ home, according to Shaffer. Shaffer said in a live-streamed press conference Wednesday afternoon that he didn’t know if Bonham was armed. (A Kenyon email warned students he was dangerous and was not to be approached.) At the time of the press conference, detectives were processing the home of Sandra and David Stelk and had not yet had the opportunity to discuss with David Stelk the availability of weapons within the house or locations of weapons, according to Shaffer. In a 911 call, Stelk’s daughter told an operator that her mother had been assaulted and was potentially dead, with “blood all over her” and “blood by her head.” Both Stelk and Barber were dead when authorities arrived on the scene. Six elementary schools, including Wiggin Street Elementary, one middle school and one high page 2 On the record with drone expert Guiora

During lunch hours in Peirce Dining Hall, 59-year-old Diane Newton decorates flatbread pizzas and loads them into the ovens. She has been working at Kenyon for 38 years, and she and the other 75 members of the AVI staff are currently responsible for feeding more than AVI PRESSURED 1,700 students per day. ON ALL SIDES IN “I’m an old fart,” Newton THE SERVERY said, slicing a pizza for a line of waiting students. “It’s time for As daily traffic me to go!” grows at Peirce, But for Newton and other AVI struggles to AVI staff members, days are keep enough workonly getting longer. When students arrive on campus each ers on duty to deal with the crowds. fall, AVI struggles to hire the employees it needs to keep up with increasing numbers. Now, with the largest first-year class Kenyon has ever admitted, the lines are stretching longer during meals, and the staff members behind the counters are beginning to feel overwhelmed. “We are understaffed; we have been understaffed for the last four years,” an AVI employee, who spoke anonymously out of concern for her job security, said. “I’ve been here for [more than 20] years, and I’ve never seen a problem like this.” The issue lies not only in hiring new employees, but also in retaining them. “AVI has a bad reputation, and it’s something that’s been an ongoing thing,” the staff member said. “When page 4

ALEX PIJANOWSKI NEWS EDITOR

Marianne Cunningham, a longtime employee of the Village Market and honorary mother of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, died Monday at Hospice of North Central Ohio in Ashland. She was 66. “Marianne is absolutely irreplaceable,” Village Market Manager Tim Newton said. “She’ll just be missed so much by myself and many people in the Gambier area.” Besides her longtime presence at the Market — Newton estimated Cunningham had worked at the market more than 20 years — she was close to the Kenyon football team and Beta Theta Pi fraternity, which significantly overlap in their membership. Alec McQuiston ’16, a member of the football team and a Beta, said the Betas would serenade Cunningham on Valentine’s Day, part of a fraternity

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Cunningham at the Village Market, where she worked for many years. tradition. “She was there for years and years and always supported the Betas,” McQuiston said. Cunningham will be honored with a commemorative plaque at the Beta Temple. “We’re definitely going to teach our younger pledge classes, and our new incoming actives all about her, because she was our Beta sweetheart,” McQuiston said.

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Jill Shriver, administrative assistant for the Philander Chase Corporation and the Kenyon Institute, called Cunningham “full of energy and life.” “I think she adored everyone and made everyone feel like they were welcome, no matter when they stopped at the market,” Shriver said. Maya Kaufman contributed reporting. Men’s soccer earns P.12 no. 1 ranking

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NEWS EDITORS: MAYA KAUFMAN AND ALEX PIJANOWSKI

Civil Rights, Title IX Coordinator Andrea Goldblum on 2014 Clery Act numbers: “I think, this year, you will see [Clery Act] numbers go down, particularly in liquor law violations, drugs and burglary. Some of that has to do with how things were classified in the past, and so, there will be some changes there. Some of it ... where the Good Samaritan policy falls in, with liquor law viola-

Kenyon declines to join Common App alternative GABRIELLE HEALY OPINIONS EDITOR

Watch out, Common App. The Coalition for Access and Affordability, an organization created to improve college access, announced on Monday a competitor to the popular college application. The Coalition’s website states “a growing amount of research” indicates applicants with disadvantaged backgrounds frequently struggle to complete the standard college application process effectively. Kenyon is not among the 80 institutions that will accept the new application. All the Ivy League schools, as well as Oberlin College and Swarthmore College, are members. President Sean Decatur said the College chose a “wait-and-see approach,” regarding the new platform. The offering, according to Inside Higher Ed, has several new components. There is

a portfolio portion, in which students may answer questions about their educational goals starting in ninth grade. The application itself aims to streamline questions to line up with work students have completed in class, while allowing students to enter their personal information only once. Lastly, college applicants will now be able to share their applications online with anyone, including college admissions officers, before submission. Diane Anci, vice president of enrollment and dean of admissions, said the Coalition is something to watch with “considerable interest.” She noted how navigating a sophisticated technological platform may present challenges for guidance counselors who are “already feeling quite stretched.” At this point, it is unclear whether the Coalition app will be the only type accepted by member schools. The Coalition does allow more members to join. The new application opens for the class of 2020 in the summer of 2016.

Village Record Sept. 23 – Sept. 29

Sept. 23, 1:19 p.m. — Fire alarm sounded due to burnt food in Gund Gallery. No smoke. No fire. Alarm reset. Sept. 23, 9:29 p.m. — Student reported verbal harassment by an individual in a vehicle. Sept. 24, 11:21 a.m. — Fire alarm activated in Olin Library. No smoke. No fire. Maintenance called to repair smoke detector. Alarm reset. Sept. 24, 9:20 p.m. — Student complaint of knee injury causing extreme pain in Gund Residence Hall. After ice and Tylenol, symptoms did not subside. Student transported to Knox Community Hospital (KCH) via squad for further evaluation/treatment. Sept. 24, 9:55 p.m. — Fire alarm activated in Church of the Holy Spirit. No smoke. No fire. Maintenance called to repair smoke detector. Alarm reset. Sept. 25, 4:04 a.m. — Student complaint of sweats and chills in a North Campus Apartment (NCA). Safety responded. Sept. 25, 1:23 p.m. — Student reported items taken from vehicle without authorization in New Apartments lot. Sept. 26, 1:30 a.m. — Safety located broken exit sign in Old Kenyon Residence Hall. Maintenance notified. Sept. 26, 6:50 p.m. — Student reported vehicle taken without authorization at Manning Residence Hall. Safety responded. Student used tracking to locate vehicle. Vehicle found. Sept. 26, 11:24 p.m. — Intoxicated student in an NCA. Safety responded. Squad called. Student transported to KCH. Sept. 26, 11:29 p.m. — Underage student witnessed with alcohol at registered party at Old Kenyon. Sept. 26, 11:29 p.m. — Registered party shut down at Old Kenyon due to multiple infractions. Sept. 27, 12:27 a.m. — Safety received call concerning loud group and broken glass in an NCA. Students cleaned up broken glass. Sept. 27, 12:44 a.m. — Safety found an abandoned laundry basket with missing wheel at NCAs. Moved to trash shed. Sept. 27, 3:20 a.m. — Student wrecked bicycle. Injured left knee and ankle. Transported to KCH via squad for evaluation/treatment. Sept. 27, 2:24 p.m. — Contracted company employee vehicle rolled from parked position and hit two other vehicles in South 1 parking lot. No injuries. Damage sustained. Knox County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) responded and completed report. Sept. 27, 4:54 p.m. — Employee reported license plate was taken from vehicle via loosening of screws at Allen House. KCSO responded. Plate found. Sept. 28, 8:08 p.m. — Fire alarm activated due to residents heating water below smoke detector in Taft Cottages. No smoke. No fire. Alarm reset. Sept. 29, 3:53 p.m. — Student residence with funnel and tubes in Acland Apartments. Thought to be beer bong. Items confiscated by Safety officer. Sept. 29, 5:46 p.m. — Tree branch struck parked vehicle in Manning fire lane. No injuries. Damage sustained. KCSO responded.

tions. ... But, it does not, then, become a disciplinary referral. The other thing to remember about Clery is it doesn’t report all crimes, and it only reports certain crimes in certain geographical locations. That is sometimes a point of misunderstanding for people.”

100 students tested for STDs MAYA KAUFMAN | NEWS EDITOR

Last week, Knox County Health Department (KCHD) 2015 STD Testing staff members administered 100 sexually transmitted disease at Kenyon tests to Kenyon students at no cost — almost as many tests as at last semester’s three free clinics combined. The clinic, held at the Cox Health and Counseling Center tests on on Sept. 21, was part of a program launched last semester in Feb. 23 conjunction with the KCHD, according to Director of Health Services Kim Cullers. The clinics are funded by an Ohio Detests on partment of Health infertility prevention grant, which proMarch 23 vides free testing and treatment for gonorrhea and chlamydia to those 13 through 39. tests on The three clinics held last semester administered a total of April 6 109 STD tests. No appointments were required to get tested, and students gathered in the conference room in the counseling center to tests on fill out the prerequisite paperwork. Sept. 21 “For the most part, Kenyon’s a pretty sex-positive campus,” Claire Robertson ’17, a Beer and Sex advisor, said. “If you wanted it to be something that was like, ‘Nobody can know that I’m getting tested,’ you’d probably have to make an appointment because there were people around, but for the most part that isn’t really the campus we’re on. It’s pretty OK to just go get tested. No one’s going to judge you for that.” Robertson said the spike in the number of tests administered could be due to students wanting to get tested after the summer. Results were sent to individuals via text message one week after the clinic, a method Robertson favors. “I think that it’s pretty reflective of the modern era that we live in that you get STD-tested and you get your results texted to you a week later,” she said. The next clinic is scheduled for Nov. 16.

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Two women were found dead Wednesday in a home on Coshocton Road, above. Continued from Page 1

school were placed on lockdown during school hours on Wednesday. In July 2014, Bonham was indicted by a grand jury on a fourth-degree felony charge for stolen property after he was found in possession of a car that had been reported stolen, according to Knox County Municipal Court records. He also has nine convictions for do-

mestic violence in Licking County. He’s been involved in 16 cases in Newark since 2003 and was released from a prison sentence at the Ross Correctional Facility last year, according to Licking County Municipal Court records. Shaffer was unable to comment on how the two women were killed. At print time, the Knox County Sheriff’s Office did not have a suspect in custody.

CORRECTION In “Class Clash” (Sept. 24), Isabel Landers ’18 was mistakenly recorded as correctly answering “green” for the color of Kylie Jenner’s hair. Landers in fact incorrectly answered “blonde,” while Thomas Rosenfeld ’17 answered “green.” The corrected junior class total of 11 and the sophomore class total of 10 is reflected in this issue. The Collegian regrets the error.

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College to go carbon neutral

News Briefs

President Decatur will sign a pledge to create a carbon-neutrality plan. ECO to install dorm-room recycling bins

NATHANIEL SHAHAN FEATURES EDITOR

Carbon neutrality is in the future for Kenyon. At Sunday’s Student Council meeting, President Sean Decatur announced that in the coming weeks he would sign a pledge sponsored by the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) to set a path for carbon neutrality at Kenyon. He will follow in the footsteps of over 685 other college and university presidents already committed to carbon neutrality. Carbon neutrality is defined by the ACUPCC as “having no net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.” Upon Decatur signing the pledge, Kenyon will have two years to put in place a plan for carbon neutrality, the timeframe required by the ACUPCC. The pledge was designed in 2007 by the ACUPCC, which aims to unite colleges and universities in the fight against climate change. Many of Kenyon’s peer institutions, including Oberlin College and the College of Wooster, have already signed on. The initiative for carbon neutrality at Kenyon has been largely student-led. Last semester, three members of the Environmental Campus Organization (ECO) came together in an independent study to develop a plan for Kenyon to go carbon neutral. Last spring, the three students, Matt Meyers ’17, Sarah Oleisky ’16 and Lauren Johnstone ’15, presented their proposal to the board of trust-

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President Sean Decatur said the College will go carbon-neutral. Above, solar panels at the Brown Family Environmental Center. ees and Decatur. Last week, Oleisky and Meyers met with Decatur, Chief Business Officer Mark Kohlman and Director of Green Initiatives Dave Heithaus. Decatur said he would be willing to sign the pledge after he is presented with a timeline and list of what the College would be required to do during the next two years. Heithaus, Meyers and Oleisky plan to work on the timeline in the coming weeks. Heithaus will spearhead the plan over the next two years, though students will be heavily involved. Meyers plans to work with Heithaus next summer to conduct an emissions inventory tracking the College’s emissions, a step required by the ACUPCC. Meyers said emissions generated by the College include much more

than just the College’s electric and heating bills, such as student travel to and from Kenyon. After the emissions inventory is completed the plan will be designed by Meyers, Heithaus, ECO and the sustainability advisory council, a collection of students, faculty and staff pursuing sustainability projects. The cost of going carbon neutral is currently unknown, according to Heithaus, though by signing the pledge Kenyon agrees to pay $2,000 in dues annually to the ACUPCC. Though Decatur’s pledge requires Kenyon to make a plan of action, carbon neutrality is still years away. Decatur said the College had much work to do, but in terms of actually going carbon neutral, “in principle, one can set an infinitely long timeline.”

Rusty Barceló to talk on diversity The college president faced controversy during her tenure. LAUREN ELLER NEWS ASSISTANT

Nancy “Rusty” Barceló, president of Northern New Mexico College (NNMC), has been doing diversity work for years. Today, Barceló will give a common-hour lecture on diversity in higher education at the Community Foundation Theater as part of Hispanic Heritage Month. “She has been an outspoken critic throughout her career, especially about lack of diversity in higher education,” Professor of Spanish and Director of Latin@ Studies Clara Roman-Odio said. “She has challenged leaders of universities to take advantage of the experience of the minority faculty and their wisdom.” Last week, Barceló stepped down as president of NNMC, even though she had two years remaining on her contract. She said the board tried to talk her into staying, but that “there are so many things I want to do,” like starting up a diversity institute. Barceló’s attempts at reform, however, created some enemies. A September 2014 article on the New Mexico Mercury website accused Barceló of cutting funding to the school’s programs in English as a second language (ESL) education and evening practice sessions for the general educational development (GED) test. The article reasoned that, because NNMC was founded to educate Spanish speakers, these changes hindered its mission. A few programs were recently cut at NNMC due to financial issues, but none of them was a diversity program, according to Barceló. However, when she arrived at NNMC, she cut its heritage arts programs and reduced the Spanish-language program, as reported by the NNMC

Study Group. On its website, the Study Group defines itself as working “to provide a clearinghouse for information regarding the practices and policies of Northern’s Administration and Board.” “It was what the board wanted us to do,” Barceló said of the programs that were cut. “They wanted us to take a hard look at our programs.” Barceló’s talk will focus on the changes that have been made since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the need for a continued focus on efforts to increase diversity and equity. Barceló said there needs to be a greater focus on diversity when evaluating institutions, and that everything from curriculum to policy and procedure must be examined. “If in fact the population in 2050 … is going to be predominantly people of color, why aren’t we looking at those populations as economic engines for the future?” she said. “That’s what higher education … should be focusing on.” Barceló’s concern for focusing on previously underprivileged groups applies to Kenyon, which has fallen under scrutiny for the amount of care it gives these issues. In the national College Scorecard, Kenyon was ranked in the bottom five among US News and World Report’s top 25 national universities and liberal arts colleges for its percentage of low-income students and students of color. On how to increase this diversity, Barceló said increasing scholarship opportunities is important, but that the key is how the faculty and staff teach students. “If you come in with your own preconceived notion of what a student can be, eventually they’re going to feel isolated, they’re going to feel pushed out and they’ll leave,” Barceló said. She said it is not merely a matter of admitting students, but also about the institution doing everything it can to make those students feel welcome. “I created the diversity programs,” she said. “They didn’t even exist at Northern before I arrived.” Regan Hewitt contributed reporting.

First-year students can expect a gift to arrive at their dorm door this month: a small recycling bin, courtesy of Kenyon’s Environmental Campus Organization (ECO). The College gave ECO $10,000 last year for 300 recycling bins, which will be ordered next week. The plan is to make sure all first-year dorm rooms have bins. If money is left over, ECO may buy bins for areas such as the Kenyon Athletic Center or the bookstore, according to Director of Green Initiatives Dave Heithaus. They do not have the money to put recycling bins in all upperclassman dorms yet, Heithaus said. According to Heithaus, ECO chose to target first-year dorms because it wants first years to get in the habit of recycling. “Coming in, they don’t know what to expect in terms of solid waste,” he said. “If you show up, and there’s a recycling bin in my room, and it very clearly tells me to recycle. It becomes a routine.” ECO members will deliver the bins to first years personally so they can open a dialogue about proper recycling practices. Though every hall has recycling bins, a bin inside the dorm rooms could remind students that recycling should always be part of one’s routine, according to ECO member Sarah Oleisky ’16. By the end of the year, ECO hopes to have recycling bins in all dorm rooms on campus, Heithaus said. There are no plans as of yet regarding how ECO will fund this. This year, Heithaus hopes to follow through on more green initiatives, and is currently working on how professors can incorporate Kenyon environmental spaces into their curricula. “Now’s the time,” he said. “We’ve got the interest, we’ve got the staff and we have a responsibility to do these things.” — Emily Birnbaum

StuCo may raise student activities fee At Sunday’s Student Council meeting, Dean of Students Hank Toutain posed a question: “Should we raise the student activities fee?” The $150-per-semester fee joins the health and counseling and room and board costs on top of tuition. Student Council’s Business and Finance Committee (BFC) allocates the money to student clubs and organizations on campus. “Even large clubs are not getting all of the funding they want right now,” Student Council President Phoebe Roe ’16 said. “Right now, the process is a lot of looking at events and seeing how many people attend, so a lot of the time the smaller organizations that have fewer connections or fewer members … end up not getting a lot of things that they want.” This week, Student Council members are tasked with gauging their constituents’ opinions on a possible hike. Sophomore class representative Cayla Anderson said people she’s spoken with “would prefer that the fee not go up.” Generally, senior staff reviews the student activities fee every three years to make sure it is keeping up with inflation rates in the U.S. But this year, it is a topic of conversation in part because of a few conflicts identified by the BFC, according to Roe. BFC co-chair Alejandro Henao Gallego ’16 said the BFC would suggest that any increase in funds would “go towards groups that don’t get a lot of funds right now,” because smaller groups have been going to the BFC requesting money that is being given to larger groups with higher costs. If Student Council members report on Sunday that their constituents are interested in an increase, the BFC will compile data on how additional funding might affect students activities on campus. There is no deadline for Student Council to make its recommendation. — Emily Birnbaum

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AVI workers must get used to long hours, long lines Continued from Page 1

they get people here, they don’t give them enough training and don’t encourage them to stay. New people are forced to work here six days [a week] after they’ve been here for two weeks.” AVI Executive Sous Chef Meagan Stewart said making staff members work six days is not the fault of AVI, but rather of their union contract, which requires AVI employees to work five days per week. Employees with the least seniority may be forced to work an extra day per week if AVI needs someone to fill a spot, however; because of AVI’s inability to hire new employees, this is beginning to happen more often. “Obviously, if there’s a cook on Sunday that we’re missing, we don’t want to go without him because Sunday’s our busiest day,” Stewart said. “That’s not an AVI thing. That’s in their union contract. So, unfortunately, we have to abide by that contract.” This can be daunting for new employees in the dining hall, especially after seeing the number of students they have to feed after their first day on the job. “After your first meal serving 1,700 students, it’s like, ‘Holy crap, this is a lot of people,’” Stewart said. “So this is not necessarily a job for everyone.” Local union representative for the AVI staff and dining hall worker Helen Gains said management is forced to fill spots almost every day because of missing workers. Gains believes the six-day clause in the union contract is partly why AVI has trouble keeping the dining hall staffed. “Some people in the past … have quit because they were forced to work six days repeatedly week after week,” Gains said. “We’ve

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Students flood the servery at Peirce Hall at lunchtime, when the dining hall sees its highest volume of traffic during the course of a normal day. lost some good workers.” Kim Novak, resident director of Peirce Hall, said the staff members’ union contract also permits them to take 16 vacation days throughout the year. With a total of 210 serving days, this means AVI staff members are currently allowed to miss almost eight percent of those days. This may explain why some dining hall employees feel overworked. “Some of them don’t take them all, but some of them do,” said Novak, who added that the missed days means AVI has to fill more spots. Novak agreed the dining hall is understaffed. In the past month, AVI hired two new “platers” to help accommodate the staff members and are currently looking to hire four more. These platers will load the food onto plates and set them out for students so

chefs may focus primarily on cooking and baking. According to Novak, this is the first time in four years AVI has been able to add staffing. Novak said she isn’t sure whether or not these six new positions will be enough, but hopes they will take some pressure off the staff members. “Sometimes it hits you in the face like ‘Boom, oh my gosh, we have hit our limit,’” Novak said. “So now we’re working to fix that, because I want the employees to be just as happy as I am, and I’m not happy if the employees aren’t happy.” Students are beginning to take notice of the growing lines in Peirce. Alexander Miller ’19 said that he has had to wait up to 25 minutes for his food during lunch hours, and said he thinks the service in the dining hall could be better.

“I think [the service] here is as good as it can be for how they are staffed, but I think, overall, it’s subpar,” Miller said. Sam Meyerson ’17, however, said the wait for food hasn’t changed much over the past few years. “It isn’t noticeably different from any other year,” Meyerson said. “The freshmen class is bigger. That might be why the lines are longer.” Another AVI staff member, who also spoke anonymously, agreed the dining hall is understaffed, and asked students to show sympathy before complaining about the time it takes to get their food. “The College is taking in all these extra people, and the kids complain about the lines, then the College gets on us to hurry up,” the staff member said. “And that’s not right.”

ON THE RECORD AMOS GUIORA ’79

COUNTERTERRORISM EXPERT ERICH KALETKA STAFF WRITER

Amos Guiora ’79 travels the world sharing his views on drone policy and counterterrorism. A former advisor to the Israel Defense Forces, and a professor at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Guiora has written several books. He has twice taught at Kenyon. Guiora will deliver a lecture titled “The Dilemma of Terrorism for Democracy” on Monday, Oct. 5 in Brandi Recital Hall. How do you feel your Kenyon education helped to shape your views today and contribute to your academic interests? Kenyon taught me how to critically read … how to engage in scholarly debate and discussion and Kenyon certainly taught me how to write. I wouldn’t say that Kenyon shaped me, but I would say that it was incredibly important in my development. I knew I was going to go to Kenyon when I was 12 years old. John Rinka was Kenyon’s greatest

basketball player of all time. When I was 12 years old, there was an article about him in Sports Illustrated. He was a small guy and I said to myself, if John Rinka can do it, I can do it, and that brought me to Kenyon. I applied early decision to Kenyon. No other place really interested me. You wrote an article in January about edgy journalism and the Charlie Hebdo style. Could you elaborate on your feelings on political correctness? What about the current PC craze at college campuses across the nation? I think that, in the long run, it will significantly harm your generation’s ability and willingness to engage in rigorous discussion. I think that’s doing all of you a disservice. It’s not always pleasant to hear certain things, but the whole idea is discussion on a college campus –– again, within the context of civility –– and denying you guys that rigorous discussion, within the context of civility, seems wrong. The whole idea of a liberal arts education is that we can agree and we can disagree, but at the end we break

bread and have a beer. Do you feel like there’s a disconnect between how the government views terrorism and how the populace views terrorism? The population is concerned about terrorism. The population is not concerned about counterterrorism, and I think that’s a very big difference. That disconnect, or lack of concern, or unconcern, or no concern, about counterterrorism gives the administration extraordinary wiggle room, and I think that the media –– by the way, I don’t know what the hell “media” means today –– gives the administration a pass in terms of its counterterrorism policies, and I find that very troubling. Where do you see the drone field going and evolving over time? I think it’s the warfare of the future. I think, from the American perspective, it’s a minimization of boots on the ground. The failure to create and articulate an effective drone policy, by my standards, is rooted in the law, and also in a sense of mo-

rality. Drones are here to stay. Drone warfare is kind of like the Wild West at the moment, and that’s obviously troubling. Damage, you know, enormous damage can be caused, and the lack of controls raises really important questions. I don’t know what is preventing ISIS from getting a drone. They seem to get their hands on pretty much anything else, right? That may well be their next step. How can liberal arts students use their skills and knowledge to get involved with the counterterrorism effort? Learning language — there were no language requirements when I was at Kenyon. Learn languages and you learn cultures; learn cultures and you understand other people. With languages, I would think that a Kenyon graduate who has language and analytical skills would be a welcome addition to things like the CIA, FBI and the military. But I would think that, to make yourself appealing, learn relevant languages. I would think that Arabic or Farsi would be very much welcome. I think that the beauty of a

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liberal arts education, as I recall, is that it gives you the skills to “understand the other.” If you have the opportunity to travel and see places in the world, there is nothing like getting out there. The more you can see, the more you can engage, the more you can meet with people; I think that’s enormously beneficial. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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ASK A PROFESSOR What was one of your most memorable or favorite academic breaks?

“I spent a month this summer working on an archaeological dig in Turkey — it was amazing. I’ll be absorbing it for the rest of my life.” — Professor of English Jennifer Clarvoe

“I directed the Exeter program two years ago. ... We were on the Isle of Skye ... [when] somebody said, ‘So, Kenyon’s on break.’” — NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor of English Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky

Alum brings flair (and Kenyon books) to Colbert set

Jim Fenhagen ’76 adds The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to his list of successful television set designs. FRANCES SAUX STAFF WRITER

Last spring, Kenyon’s drama program invited Jim Fenhagen ’76 to campus to give a lecture about his career. While in Gambier, he learned he had been offered the job of designing the set for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which premiered on CBS on Sept. 8. Fenhagen, who majored in drama at Kenyon, has been a freelance set designer for a wide range of companies, including PBS, MTV and ESPN. Recently, he has done work for CBS This Morning, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, The Meredith Vieira Show and The View. He has won 20 Emmy Awards for his designs. Fenhagen received the Colbert call the day before his lecture. “I went into the lecture the next day … and at the end I said, ‘I just got The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,’” he said. He acknowledged the coincidence of receiving the job offer to design his most high-profile set yet while in Gambier: “My career began there,” Fenhagen said. Fenhagen is still quite involved with Kenyon, as his son, Aaron Fenhagen ’17, now attends the College. And while Fenhagen has finished his work on The Late Show, Kenyon artifacts will remain on the show: After his visit to Gambier, hundreds of books from Olin and Chalmers libraries became props on the new set. Fenhagen wanted the set to showcase Colbert’s intellectual side and suggested a twostory library with a winding staircase in a single corner of the set. “Colbert loved that idea,” Fenhagen said. They just needed to find books. Fenhagen found a serendipitous solution

to his book problem while visiting Kenyon. While describing his ideas for the set to Liz Forman ’73, a former admissions officer, Fenhagen learned that Carmen King, the College’s fine arts and humanities librarian, had recently removed a number of old books from the library shelves. “They were basically reorganizing the library and had all these pretty old books that they needed to get rid of,” Fenhagen said. King boxed up about 50 boxes of books and The Late Show paid for the shipping. “I don’t know exactly what was going on in the library, but they needed to purge and we needed books. So it was perfect.” King declined to comment for this article. As a student at Kenyon, Fenhagen designed sets for student theater productions. After graduation, he took his talents to theater companies in California and his hometown of Washington, D.C., before pursuing his MFA at the New York University School of the Arts, now the Tisch School of the Arts. After completing graduate school, Fenhagen returned to Kenyon as a set designer for the Kenyon Festival Theater, a professional summer theater company run out of the Hill Theater between 1980 and 1984 under the direction of Ted Walch ’63. Fenhagen spent the summer living in the New Apartments with his actors. He’d soon have another change of scenery. The 1980s were the decade when cable television took off. Fenhagen began landing more commercial jobs in TV and moved back to New York. “I ended up being at the right place at the right time,” he said. He also attributes much of his success in television to his theater background. For his work on the PBS children’s show Where in the World is Carmen

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Jim Fengahen ’76 poses with comedian and new host of The Late Show Stephen Colbert. Sandiego?, which won him his first Emmy Award, Fenhagen said he applied his experience in the theater. “There was the detective’s office, and the train station, and the map of the world,” he said, giving examples of playful, dramatic qualities of the show’s set. Today, he works in a New York City office, where his design company, Production Design Group Ltd., has merged with Jack Morton, a communications firm. He works with several assistant designers and his daily schedule varies. On any given day, he might take the train into the city from his home in Montclair, N.J. to meet with his team, or he might design from the privacy of his home office. The rest, he said,

is “just like an art job,” and involves working in the shop or finding fabrics and furniture. “Then some days when the show is ready to go we’ll be installing,” Fenhagen said. “I’ll go directly to the TV studio and work there all day. So I’m either designing, or I’m in my office working with my staff, or I’m in the TV studio.” After The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, his latest work can be seen on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, which debuted on Comedy Central on Monday. After polishing up the set designs for two of late-night television’s biggest premieres this year, Fenhagen said, “I’m about to be able to take a deep breath.”

Classics professor hits the airwaves with WKCO show MILO BOOKE FEATURES ASSISTANT

By day, she’s a professor of Latin, but one night a week, Associate Professor of Classics Zoe Kontes becomes an indie rock guru. She hosts a radio show on WKCO 91.9 FM that takes place every Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m, and in a new addition to her longtime solo show, she has decided to team up with Rachel Mitchell ’16. Kontes’ weekly show is called Dalliance, a reference to a song by the British rock band The Wedding Present. Kontes admires the band so much that she recently purchased a collection of their records, as well as a limited-edition comic book featuring the band members. Mitchell has had a radio show throughout her time at Kenyon and took a Latin course with Kontes. They ran into each other over the summer in Philadelphia, where Kontes was working, and decided to combine their passion for radio into a joint show. Mitchell said she’s enjoyed the experience of working with Kontes. “It’s so nice to have someone else on my show that takes it so seriously,” Mitch-

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I loved being on the radio in college, so when I got here, I signed up [for a show] my second semester of teaching.

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ell said. “She has so much passion for the music and the radio.” The title of the show is In medias res, Latin for “in the middle of things.” In medias res will take place at 6 p.m., replacing the first hour of Dalliance. Kontes’ show will then continue as scheduled until 8 p.m. They will continue to play indie rock music, but both Kontes and Mitchell will also conduct brief, one-minute lectures on topics of their choice to break up their music and allow both to talk about anything on their minds that particular day. Kontes’ passion for radio and indie rock dates back to her own college days. She had a radio show as an undergraduate at Bowdoin College. “I loved being on the radio in college, so when I got here, I signed up [for a show] my second semester of teaching,” Kontes said. She has consistently

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Associate Professor of Classics Zoe Kontes, right, and Rachel Mitchell ’16 host their WKCO show every Tuesday. been on the airwaves since 2008. Her show at Bowdoin exclusively focused on indie rock and was called Sludgefest an homage to a song by the indie rock band Dinosaur Jr. Kontes has also routinely attended music festivals, particularly when she was on sabbatical last year in Philadelphia. She plans on seeing Kurt Vile, a solo indie rock performer, over October break.

Although she sticks to playing indie rock, each show she airs tends towards a particular theme. Sometimes she just plays new music, or will focus a show on a particular band she’s been listening to that week. Kontes is a huge basketball fan and once played a song for every team participating in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament according to the order in which they were

eliminated. “I spend many hours planning my radio show,” Kontes said. “It’s two hours every week that I absolutely look forward to. My friends listen all over the world, so it’s about connecting to my students and my friends everywhere.” One of her friends, a scientist researching in Antarctica, routinely listens to her show and even calls in from the icy continent.

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UPCOMING EVENTS OCT. 2 | 7:30 P.M. Theater STOP KISS BLACK BOX THEATER

OCT. 2 | 8 P.M. Theater

ALMOST BLUE HILL THEATER

OCT. 3 | 8 P.M. reading

Tarfia Faizullah and David James Poissant

OCT. 3 | 8 P.M. Speaker

ROGER ROSENBLATT BRANDI RECITAL HALL

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Student art installations vibrant but vulnerable Members of Professor Claudia Esslinger’s Installation Art class create thought-provoking pieces across campus. BAILEY BLAKER ARTS EDITOR

From chickens to consent to commentary on economic diversity, student-artists sparked conversation this week with interactive projects constructed around campus. These projects were created as part of Professor of Studio Art Claudia Esslinger’s Installation Art class. This week marks the class’s first major project, which, according to Esslinger, aims to “intervene” in everyday life on campus. Esslinger characterized intervention as an interaction with students. “It’s different than something one would just look at,” Esslinger said. “The goal is for it to not be just observed but interacted with.” Having taught installation art for the last six years, Esslinger has seen a definite shift in the way students have approached social issues through art. “I think there’s more emphasis on a consideration about ecological issues, as there is on all of the campus,” she said. For example, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), 31 percent of food produced in the U.S. was disposed of uneaten. Food waste, specifically in Peirce Hall, inspired Claire HarnEnz ’17 to create a photo series showcasing the genetically modified chickens the Kenyon Farm raises for AVI. “At the Kenyon Farm, we raise chickens for Peirce, and like 120 of them just got taken to slaughter yes-

terday and 50 percent of them will end up in the trash,” HarnEnz said. “The chickens that I’ve taken pictures of will actually be served at Peirce in this next week or so.” The artist selected a group of chickens to bring into the studio for a photoshoot. She then printed and laminated the photographs and placed them on the dish return in Peirce Hall. HarnEnz spent four hours Sunday evening assembling the piece, but was shocked when she found them missing on Monday morning. AVI staff members removed HarnEnz’s photos within 20 minutes of the servery being open. “I’m really disappointed that I can’t put it up like how I wanted to,” she said, “and I don’t think that anything that I do will be as powerful.” Kim Novak, AVI resident director, said the removal was the result of a misunderstanding about placement. “In our communication she was thinking one thing and I was thinking another,” said Novak. HarnEnz’s project, now installed on the walls surrounding the dish return, will be on view in Peirce until the end of the week. This is not the first time that student installation pieces have been tampered with. Last year, a few incidents of vandalism destroyed a piece about issues in the Middle East. A see-through trophy case that was placed over the stone post at the Gates of Hell was also targeted on the basis

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Natalie Wardlaw ’16 sits among the many resin hummingbirds she created as part of her installation art project. of the piece disrupting tradition. Though her installation may not be considered provocative, the collection of resin hummingbirds created by Natalie Wardlaw ’16 have already been subject to vandalism. “One of the birds has already been stolen,” Wardlaw said. “No other birds have been taken, but I’m interested to see how many will be left by the end.” Other projects, such as Leah Annitto’s ’16 consent bench and Anna Shinbane’s ’16 gallery simulation,

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One of the birds has already been stolen. No other birds have been taken, but I’m interested to see how many will be left by the end.” Natalie Wardlaw ’16

have also sparked conversation across campus. Esslinger believes student reactions, whether positive or negative, are important when creating this type of art.

“Part of the conversation is always that part of the reaction might not be positive,” Esslinger said, “especially if you know [the project] is going to be provocative.”

Writer Roger Rosenblatt headlines Review’s lit fest ERICA RABITO STAFF WRITER

Some might curl up with a good book in chilly weather. The Kenyon Review celebrates fall weather –– and literature –– with its its annual literary festival, which kicks off tomorrow at 8 p.m. with a reading by Tarfia Faizullah and David James Poissant. Since 2007, the celebration has brought in renowned poets, novelists and essayists, among other writers. This year, the Review is taking a new direction with a panel on New Journalism and literary nonfiction. Keynote speaker Roger Rosenblatt began writing professionally as a columnist for The New Republic. Following a period as editor at the Washington, D.C.-based magazine, he went to The Washington Post as a columnist. Until 2006, he continued his journalistic work as an essayist for Time magazine before retiring from journalism and to write fiction and memoir full time. Since 2002, the Review has been giving out The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. This event, a gala dinner in New York City, helps to raise money for the scholarships for the Young Writers Program, but also puts prominent writers in touch with the Review. “After doing that for a few years, our

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KR associates cut out poetry fragments in preparation for this weekend’s literary festivital. editor, David Lynn, and our board of trustees felt very strongly that they wanted to see if they could find a way to bring the honoree of the award back to Kenyon, to kind of bring the excitement and literary merit of that person back to campus,” said Abigail Serfass, managing editor of the Review and a founding member

of the festival. One way the festival attempts to include the local Kenyon community is through guest speakers. Tory Weber, associate director of the Review, noted how this year’s recipient of the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, Roger Rosenblatt, factors into the festi-

val. “This year we’ll have a panel discussion on journalism, ‘Beyond New Journalism,’ because Roger Rosenblatt has written fiction and nonfiction, but he also has a big career in journalism,” Weber said. This talk will take place Saturday at 2 p.m. at the bookstore. Rosenblatt has visited Kenyon before. Two years ago, he taught a two-week memoir master class, which Natalie Wardlaw ’16 participated in. “He really valued extremely clean and intentional writing where every sentence had to count,” Wardlaw said. “He definitely valued your expressiveness, but wanted to keep you reigned in and keep you making conscious decisions for each phrase.” Another event new to the festival this year is bookmark-making session using the letterpress in Bexley Hall. This attraction comes from the KR Associates 1939 Press workshop run by Ellen Sheffield, visiting instructor of art. This collaborative class, held for the first time last year, taught participants about basic typography, page design and other old-fashioned methods of printing. The Kenyon Review Festival is a way for Kenyon and all Knox County to be enveloped in the world of literature, if only for two days. Literary festival intern for the Elizabeth Ovieda ’16 said she was excited for the event, and encouraged students to attend.

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Mal Devisa and Swings bring positive vibes to Horn

Opened by Kenyon band Mortal Combat, Mal Devisa and Swings captivated listeners with their experimental styles. DEVON MUSGRAVE-JOHNSON STAFF WRITER

When the Horn Gallery opened its doors on Friday for a concert featuring Mal Devisa and Swings, the few students who had been waiting awkwardly outside trickled in. This might have seemed like a bad omen for the rest of the performance, but thankfully the show hit full swing by the end of the night. More experienced concertgoers who knew not to arrive at a Horn show on time showed up fashionably later. While the bands present — Mal Devisa and Swings, with Kenyon’s own Mortal Combat as the opening act — did not inspire moshing or wild dancing at any point in the night, their music did incite head-bobbing and toe-tapping. “I could definitely feel a good vibe,” Austin Hulse ’19 said. “It was a lot of fun and it seemed like a really positive environment.” Both Mal Devisa and Swings are musical acts that are find-

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I think that everyone experiences music in a different way, which is part of what makes it so rad to be in a crowd of 30 different people who have 30 different stories.” Mal Devisa

ing a balance between attending classes, touring around the country and working to produce albums. Devisa, who is a as soulful as she is skillful, is about to start recording her third album. Her first two, 4U and For Daisy with Honey, are currently available on Bandcamp. Devisa said she will stay true to the sounds of her live performances, which ref lects an indie-soul style and often include elements of spoken word. Her powerful sound and talent on the bass guitar reverberated at the Horn as audience members stood in appreciation of the surreal nature of her music. “I think that everyone experiences music in a different way,

which is part of what makes it so rad to be in a crowd of 30 different people who have 30 different stories,” Devisa said before her performance. And even as the gathered crowd eclipsed 30 people, the sentiment of her statement rang true. Swings, a band composed of Dan Howard, Jamie Finucane and Zach Lewton, are juniors at Oberlin and Hampshire Colleges. The band is currently in the process of finishing their second album. They are getting ready to tour across the country this fall, something they are taking the semester off to do. “I’m really excited to get to see so many parts of the country that I’ve never been to and to be able to play our music in so many different places,” Lew-

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The band Swings mesmerized the crowd at the Horn Gallery on Friday. ton said. By the time the band began their set, it was hard to discern the real hipsters from those coming from the ’90s-themed party “Fresh Prince of Gambier,” which was being hosted by the Archons at the same time as the show. In any case, the general atmosphere re-

mained positive. Overall, the night was mellow but successful. According to Horn co-managers Sonia Prabhu ’16 and Lane Yates ’18, the goal of the Horn is to provide students with a fun and safe place to decompress. This goal was certainly met on Friday.

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EDITORS: GRIFFIN BURROUGH and GABRIELLE HEALY EDITORIAL

Peirce congestion demands new look at meal plan Say what you will about the prudence of spending millions of dollars to construct the North Campus Apartments, one thing is certain: They have nice kitchens, at least by college standards. But every time a student cooks a meal in an NCA, she passes up a meal in Peirce that’s already been paid for. While Kenyon’s meal plan is surely convenient — eat what you want, when you want — it is inflexible in another sense. As of last year, just over a third of students ate breakfast at Peirce on Wednesday, Peirce’s busiest day. Nearly every student paid for it, though. With rare exceptions, it is next to impossible to opt out of the meal plan, which last year cost $6,530 for the academic year. The meal plan requirement hardly seems sensible given that a sizable number of students live in NCAs and other residences that come outfitted with kitchens or kitchenettes. We’ve spoken with a number of students who expressed a desire to make more frequent use of their kitchens, but who feel guilty whenever they miss meals in Peirce. Given that AVI is understaffed and its staff overworked, it would not only benefit students for the College to offer a way out of the meal plan; if some students who go to Peirce for every meal instead made some on their own, it could also reduce the burden on AVI employees, many of whom now work long hours and extra days to make up for the shortage in staff. And if a goal of apartment living is indeed to accustom students to greater independence, the College should incentivize students to cook for themselves. Such a change could also reduce the congestion in the Peirce servery, which manifests in long, winding lines at the comfort and fusion stations during both lunch and dinner. The congestion has only worsened over the past few years as the size of Kenyon’s student body has ticked up. Operating in the servery during peak hours is stressful for students and AVI employees alike. Kenyon’s mandatory meal plan and the heavy traffic in Peirce suggest a need for change. A positive step would be letting students opt out of the meal plan, or even certain aspects of it, like breakfast or weekend meals.

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LETTER TO THE EDITORS

Renegade founder responds to Amateur Thespians To the editors: As a former Kenyon theater geek and Kenyon College Dance and Dramatic Club president (20052006), I read last week’s article about the Amateur Thespians Club “New theater group welcomes amateurs to the stage,” (Sept. 24) by Erica Rabito with great interest. When I entered Kenyon in 2002, the fall theater department production was The Fantasticks, which provided only two female roles in a cast of fewer than 10 actors. While it was a terrific production, it left a bunch of interested students (particularly first years, as well as the majority of the disproportionately female acting community) without onstage roles to play. But defining “roles” as simply acting opportunities is very short-sighted.

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The nature of doing theater at Kenyon is mainly about becoming part of the Kenyon theater community — whether or not you’re onstage.”

Renegade Theatre (of which I was a co-creator) was founded not just to allow for exclusively firstyear acting opportunities, but also opportunities for first years to direct, write, design costumes and sets and do lighting and makeup. Now in its 10th year, it is by nature passed down from the rising sophomores to a new group of talented first years, so that it can facilitate more productions that provide more opportunities for all firstyear thespians, onstage and backstage. It wasn’t meant to give the same 10 first years the same 10 star

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spots — it was meant to create a specific environment where the students at the very beginning of college life got to play all the parts, even those normally reserved for seniors doing their thesis productions. When so many talented students come out of the high school theater experience at the top of his or her game (winning all the biggest roles over and over again), it’s inevitably a letdown when their first college production puts them in the chorus or in the wings. But the nature of doing theater at Kenyon is mainly about becoming

part of the Kenyon theater community — whether or not you’re onstage. There is no magic number of plays or theater groups that will give everyone a starring role, but there are endless ways to be involved in Kenyon theater, and there are lots of different ways to get your foot in the door before you ever step foot onstage. And if, as Sonia Calzaretta ’18 said, the Amateur Thespians Club is designed to be a place for people who “audition but aren’t good enough,” perhaps the best thing to do is get backstage and be a sponge so you can become better. So don’t just wait for your starring role to feel included in Kenyon theater — go out for all the roles, especially the ones that make you an asset to your fellow thespians. Jessica Carbone ’06

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Pride Weekend colors Kenyon MADELINE THOMPSON CONTRIBUTOR

I am delighted to have been a part of the planning of Kenyon’s first Pride Weekend, a reunion for alumni and visit day for prospective students. This event is dedicated to bringing LGBTQIA (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer/Questioning Intersex Asexual) alumni back to campus, connecting them with current students, investigating the history of Kenyon in this domain and showing prospective students the resources that Kenyon has to offer, including the various student groups on campus. Kenyon has had an LGBTQIA alumni association for several years, but hasn’t had an event in over a decade. We want them to be able to reconnect with each other, with Kenyon and with its current students and to see how Kenyon currently treats LGBTQIA issues and explore where we can go in the future. The last meeting of LGBTQIA alumni was at the dedication of Unity House in 2003. Did you know that one source of Unity House’s funding is set to expire next June, after same-sex marriage has been legal for a year? It happened a lot faster than anyone expected and we’re working on extending that fund. Now we want to discuss why same-sex marriage was held as the capstone, and what the focus of Kenyon’s LGBTQIA associations should be, because trans, queer racial minority, intersex, asexual and pansexual issues often are unsupported and under-acknowledged. We want to explore how the Kenyon community, with our history as a predominantly white, upper-class institution, can acknowledge our history and work to spotlight and support communities that are underrepresented both at Kenyon and in the world at large.

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As for prospective students, we want them to know that they are welcome at Kenyon, no matter how they identify. LGBTQIA students are celebrated and involved in the campus community. Because queer life isn’t something prospective students are always comfortable asking about, just advertising this event can be comforting for students worried about how they will fit in at college. By giving them a chance to get to know Kenyon students who identify as they do, and experiencing the campus environment for themselves, we hope they will leave knowing Kenyon is a place where they can feel at home. When all three groups (alumni, current students and prospective students) are on campus together, it presents us with a unique opportunity to connect the past, present and future of Kenyon. By unifying as a community we can talk about where we have come from and where we want to go. I hope that you will come and add your voice to the conversation — we want everyone’s involvement to make Kenyon the best it can be. Madeline Thompson ’16 is a psychology major from St. Louis. Contact her at thompsonmr@kenyon.edu.

Don’t be so proud of our Pride Upcoming Pride Weekend recognizes only white, cis-gendered voices SAM LAGASSE CONTRIBUTOR

“Visibility is false empowerment.” For the past two and a half years, I have been looking to place these words. In that time, they have driven me to an impasse, haunting my ideals of justice for our community. They are the same words that I repeated this past Saturday, my brow quivering in fear and rage, when a close friend asked that I refrain from writing this op-ed. She charged, rightfully, that my words might detract from the celebration of the LGBTQ community. For her, conversations about justice seemed less significant than the College’s intentions. “This will be the first time that we can show solidarity,” she insisted. Who is included in solidarity? Who is counted among our peers? These questions are ones that are not asked often. They are questions that threaten to pull back the veil, revealing our solidarity to be nothing but an illusion. Those individuals opposed to my op-ed agreed, on separate occasions, that Kenyon has never been a home to transgender students or queer students of color. If it has, then their significance has not amounted to much in the eyes of Pride’s defend-

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ers. “We don’t have queer alumni of color.” “We don’t have transgender students.” They offered these statements as justification for the selection of this weekend’s headliners and speakers, who, at the time of my writing, are entirely white and cisgender. The logic of these justifications is distressing. It is a logic that gives support to institutions that perpetuate the exclusion of trans-

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Next weekend will naturally deliver its hot commodity: a respectable LGBTQ ‘diversity,’ free from the realities of racism, classism and gender discrimination.”

gender people and queer people of color. Next weekend, there will be a silence to which many will pay no attention. In this silence is another version of our history, which says that the comforts and liberties of gay, white conservatives have always been afforded by the exclusion of transgender people and people of color. Next weekend will naturally

deliver its hot commodity: a respectable LGBTQ “diversity,” free from the realities of racism, classism and gender discrimination. Over the course of the next weekend, more transgender women of color will be murdered. More queer undocumented youth will be denied funding for higher education — education that we will, in the meantime, squander by our immense privilege. (This is the same privilege that sanctions the selection of only white and cisgender voices — that allows us to see everything beginning with marriage equality.) The narratives we share about ourselves will have afterlives beyond this hill. That we have made our celebration of Pride into a celebration of white, cisgender people alone is farcical. It is dangerous. That the students and staff administering this event have yet to respond to calls for wider representation is irresponsible. Accordingly, I speculate that our Pride will remain whitewashed. Our Pride will remain cisgendered. Our Pride will remain veiled in the politics of respectability. And it is this Pride, I hope, that will be dared to account for its erasures. Sam Lagasse ’16 is an English and religious studies major from Stamford, Conn. Contact him at lagasses@kenyon.edu.

A week ago, four guys were driving down Wiggin Street while I was walking back to my dorm. They said nothing to the guy walking a few yards in front of me, but as they passed me, the driver rolled down his window and yelled, “Hey, show us your tits!” They did the same thing to another woman behind me. My instinct was immediately defensive. My backpack is usually big enough to be used as a weapon, but I was pretty sure it wouldn’t help. Even though it was the middle of the day and the sun was out, I felt cold. What would I do if these men pulled up next to me, or next to the woman behind me? Did I have enough time to call Safety? I have no idea if these men are affiliated with the College. I hope they aren’t. And of course, they could have just been making a dumb joke. While there’s probably not much we can do about private citizens driving down

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What happened reminded me again of how the ‘Kenyon bubble’ is perhaps more like a net: It has holes and frayed knots letting people in and out.”

the street spewing vitriol, I bring this up because I’ve been noticing something I’ve dubbed “social injustice fatigue.” This is when people, usually not a part of the group affected by a particular brand of oppression, express how sick and tired they are hearing of the need for equity for all, or hearing about the details of institutional racism, to name two examples in a long list. Getting catcalled, though trivial compared to other social justice concerns, reminded me that inequality is far from over. I’ve seen it happen in myriad ways, during conversations in person and in posts on Yik Yak, both on campus and at home. As the facility of disseminating information about social injustice has grown, more and more people are able to access it, and perhaps that’s where this comes from. What happened reminded me again of how the “Kenyon bubble” is perhaps more like a net: It has holes and frayed knots letting people in and out. Because of this fluidity, and because the world is changing so fast, I wonder how some are willing to say they’re done hearing and learning about these issues, because they theoretically “already know about them” and “just want everyone to be equal.” It generally falls to activists, in whatever form they may take, to educate the people around them about social issues, due to a generally inconsistant level of education about them in American society. Feeling tired of hearing about oppression and how it’s still prevalent seems menial in comparison to those who are living it each day, knowing they’re suffering due to ugly problems mostly out of their control, and the insidious ways our society has managed to maintain the status quo under the radar. Saying one is tired of hearing it is, at its core, a mechanism for silencing someone, and thereby continuing the cycle of systematic oppression. This is not to say you’re a bad person if you’ve done this. Everyone can grow and change, especially at college. But letting people speak their truths is an essential part of creating change, and our community has to be open to hearing it. Disengaging for a couple of days can be OK, of course, especially if the news is tough to handle and process. But flipping an off switch and deciding that one knows everything already, and needs no more information is weak, and we can do better. Gabrielle Healy is undeclared from Fairhaven, Mass. Contact her at healyg@kenyon.edu.

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First years make campus their parkour playground

Alex Hill and Gordon Loveland, both ’19, bring parkour to Gambier.

Hill is currently attempting to master flips. He has taught himself to jump from distance into a kong vault — a movement that involves launching oneself over an obstacle hands first, tucking one’s legs in and bringing them through the arms — and ending with a drop landing. Parkour can also serve as an outlet for those struggling mentally. This was the case for Hill. Before doing parkour, he described himself as “very unhealthy and upset all the time.” One day, he decided to make a change. He took up parkour, and started lifting weights and eating well. “I don’t want to be restricted by anything,” Hill said. “I want to be as free as I can be and parkour

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It’s a struggle for some to drag themselves down to the KAC to get a workout in. But for two thrill-seeking first years, exercising at the KAC doesn’t even cut it. The two have endeavored to explore Kenyon’s campus by participating in parkour. Parkour is an activity that involves moving quickly through, on or around anything in one’s path, typically in an urban area, by running, jumping and climbing. Alex Hill ’19, from Portland, Ore., started his parkour career at a gym a few months back and has hardly gone a day without it since. “Everything I’ve learned since I left home has been self-taught,” Hill said. Gordon Loveland ’19, who originally hails from Cleveland but now lives in Mount Vernon, became intrigued by parkour when he met Free Bound, a Cleveland-based parkour group. “They were just this great group of guys who did parkour,” Loveland said. “My friends and I met up with them and they taught us for two years.” The two first years met when Loveland saw Hill doing parkour outside Mather and McBride Residence Halls. Hill was dismayed when he arrived at Kenyon during orientation week because he didn’t think there would be any suitable places for parkour, and he felt shy doing it in front of his new classmates. “One day I just got angry and decided that I needed to do it, and it turns out that Kenyon is a really good space,” Hill said. “The dorms have a lot of walls and bars.” The two said the best places on campus for parkour are in between Mather and McBride, near Caples Residence Hall and on the train near the Gap Trail. Aside from spraining his ankle once, Hill

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Gordon Loveland ’19, left, vaults over the Caples patio wall. Alex Hill ’19, right, climbs the side of Bexley, showing off his parkour skills. has avoided injury practicing parkour. Hill’s friend, Noah Dversdall ’19, has not been so lucky. Dversdall suffered a concussion after jumping on the parkour bandwagon. “I was doing it very lazily,” he said. The accident occurred at Kenyon when he hit his shins on a pole and landed on his head. After missing several days of classes, Dversdall said he was back to normal but had decided to retire from his short-lived parkour career. Parkour is more mentally than physically challenging, according to Hill and Loveland. “Physically, a lot of people can do parkour, but you have to train mentally so that you don’t freak out,” Loveland said. Hill is currently attempting to master flips.

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Senior Class Total:

He has taught himself to jump from distance into a kong vault — a movement that involves launching oneself over an obstacle hands first, tucking one’s legs in and bringing them through the arms — and ending with a drop landing. Parkour can also serve as an outlet for those struggling mentally. This was the case for Hill. Before doing parkour, he described himself as “very unhealthy and upset all the time.” One day, he decided to make a change. He took up parkour, and started lifting weights and eating well. “I don’t want to be restricted by anything,” Hill said. “I want to be as free as I can be and parkour seemed to be my way of doing that.”

Junior Class Total:

Loveland was inspired to try parkour from playing video games. “I just thought it was insane to navigate a city in any way,” Loveland said. “Parkour really appealed to me because of the idea of mastering your environment.” Hill and Loveland have toyed with the idea of starting a parkour club at Kenyon. When practicing parkour, they often attract small audiences, especially outside of McBride and Mather. Hill is hesitant about starting club because he still considers himself a beginner and does not feel confident enough to instruct others. He does urge anyone interested to come practice parkour with him.

Sophomore Class Total: First-Year Class Total:

Hannah Zipperman ’16

Schuyler Vanderveen ’17

Matt Carney ’18

Sawyer Hiton ’19

Name one of the cities the Pope visited in the U.S. this past week?

New York, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia

New York City

Philadelphia

New York City

Dallas

Which rapper previewed his debut album last week on NPR?

Fetty Wap

I don’t know.

Drake

Biggie Smalls

The CEO of which car manufacturer recently resigned?

Volkswagen

General Motors

Ford

General Motors

Which New York Yankees legend died at the age of 90 last Tuesday?

Yogi Berra

Mr. Baseball

Yogi Berra

Alex Rodriguez

Weekly Scores

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SPORTS EDITORS: ESTEBAN BACHELET and NOAH NASH

SCOREBOARD MEN’S SOCCER

FIELD HOCKEY

SEPT. 26

WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY

GAMBIER, OHIO W 5-0

SEPT. 27

DEPAUW UNIVERSITY

GAMBIER, OHIO W 1-0

Lords tennis shows skill at ITA

Sam Geier ’16 and Nick Fiaschetti ’17 advance to semifinals. JESS KUSHER STAFF WRITER

The Lords tennis team had a successful showing at the 2015 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Central Region Championship over the weekend, as the team sent two singles players and two doubles teams to the semif inals of their respective brackets. Among the f ive Kenyon doubles teams that competed in the ITA tournament, which featured 34 Division III schools, two Kenyon teams made it to semif inals. Sam Geier ’16 and Tristan Kaye ’17 advanced to the semif inals in one bracket, while Nick Fiaschetti ’17 and Nicholas Paolucci ’19 advanced to the semis on the other side of the bracket. Out of 128 teams, Kenyon was one of three schools represented in the semif inal round. They were joined by the University of Chicago and Case Western Reserve University. In singles play, Geier and Fiaschetti both won their f irst three matches and made it to the round 16. Geier, who received National Collegiate Athletic Association All-American honors for the 2014-15 season, was seeded number three this past weekend. Fiaschetti was seeded number 28. Also in singles, Max Smith ’18 and Michael Liu ’18 advanced to the singles consolation quarterf inals and f inals, respectively. However, due to time constraints, Liu’s f inal match against Peter Harris of Baldwin Wallace University was postponed. In addition to the ITA Central Region Championship, Kenyon also sent four students to compete in the St. Louis Collegiate tournament, a sister tournament hosted also hosted by Washington University in St. Louis. Darius Loghman-Adham ’19 made it to the quarterf inals in singles and Smith, paired with Caleb Couvertier ’18, advanced to the doubles semif inal round. Head Coach Scott Thielke said he was proud of the team’s work over the weekend. “Our doubles play was really strong,” Thielke wrote

VOLLEYBALL

WOMEN’S SOCCER SEPT. 29

CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY vs

GAMBIER, OHIO L 2-0

SEPT. 30

OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

DELAWARE, OHIO L 3-0

THIS WEEK IN KC ATHLETICS Volleyball loses to NCAC foes Volleyball (6-7, 0-2 NCAC) is in the midst of a four-match losing streak after dropping three consecutive matches against conference foes, falling 3-1 to the Oberlin College Yeowomen (6-7, 2-0 NCAC) at home Friday and 3-0 on Saturday to Denison University (7-5, 1-0 NCAC) in Granville, Ohio. “I think our youth showed a little on the court,” Carter Cassell, the Ladies’ assistant coach, said. “We played well in spurts. We just didn’t have the consistency that we needed.” Nine of the 20 players on the Ladies’ roster are first years, six are sophomores, three are juniors and only one Lady is a senior. According to Cassell, having a young squad is not necessarily an obstacle. “I actually think youth is a benefit because we are young and we’re excited to be here,” he said. The Ladies showed promise against the Yeowomen and almost pushed the game into a decisive fifth set, leading 17-10 after a kill by Schuyler Stupica ’18. Oberlin fought back to tie the match at 22, eventually taking the set 25-22 off two Kenyon errors. The Ladies lost the match three sets to one. Delaney Swanson ’19 led the team with 12 kills while Lauren Kerr ’18 led the team with six blocks. Errors were once again the Ladies’ downfall as they took on Denison on Saturday; Kenyon committed 19 errors to Denison’s 10. Tierney McClure ’19 and Swanson each had nine kills. The Ladies, despite battling in the first set, dropped all three sets, losing 3-0. “Both losses were tough,” Cassell said. “We didn’t think we played our best.” The Ladies lost again late Wednesday night 3-0 to conference foe Ohio Wesleyan University. The Ladies will look to get back to their winning ways at Hiram College on Oct. 3. — Esteban Bachelet

Ladies soccer loses winning streak COURTESY OF KENYON ATHLETICS

Nick Fiaschetti ’17 returns the ball in a match at the ITA tournament.

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We hope to remain one of the top teams nationally and regionally, but that will require a great deal of work. Losing as many starters as we did this past year is always tough, but the showing in the ITA tournament is encouraging.”

Scott Thielke, head coach

in an email to the Collegian. “We were the only school to have two teams in the f inal four. Nick [Paolucci] will be a great addition to the team. He should be a starter not only in doubles, but also singles.” Geier, a team captain, also felt good about the weekend tournament. “It’s been a couple long days, but it’s been a lot of fun,” Geier said. The team drove down to St. Louis early Thursday morning, where they were met by hot and humid weather. The 16-person squad stayed Thursday through Sunday and returned Sunday night before f inals the next day. Before being interviewed on Saturday, Geier had just lost in the ITA singles round of 16; however, he remained optimistic for the remaining matches. “In dubs we’ve got two teams

in the semis,” Geier said. “We’ve got a good chance that both of us will make it to the f inals, which would be really cool.” Although the Lords’ doubles did not make it to f inals, they returned to Gambier after this last tournament of the season feeling conf ident. “We hope to remain one of the top teams nationally and regionally, but that will require a great deal of work,” Thielke said. “Losing as many starters as we did this past year is always tough, but the showing in the ITA Tournament is encouraging.” The Lords next compete in Februrary, when the team will begin their spring season. The Ladies team will participate in the women’s portion of the ITA tournament from Oct. 2-5 at Kalamazoo College (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

Two of the best women’s soccer teams in the Great Lakes region clashed Tuesday afternoon amid a downpour at Mavec Field. The Case Western Reserve University Spartans (6-1-2) of Cleveland defeated Kenyon (7-4-0) 2-0, ending the Ladies’ seven-game winning streak “When the weather and conditions are like this you have to figure out how to do it ugly,” Head Coach Kelly Bryan said. “They did a better job playing in it than we did.” Both teams were red-hot coming into the contest. The Ladies had just dispatched their first conference opponent of the season, Wittenberg University, 3-1 to extend their winning streak. The Spartans won four of their last five games and boasted one of the best defenses in the country, only allowing two goals in eight games. “We expected a great battle and we got one,” Bryan said. The Ladies showed promise in the early moments of the first half. A foul was called in the 12th minute leading to an attempt on goal by Marie Laube ’16, but the Spartan goalkeeper was equal to the shot. The teams traded shots and field positions throughout the first half, punch for punch, and headed into halftime tied at zero. “I wasn’t unhappy with how we played in the first half,” Bryan said. The Spartans came back from the break a different team. Immediately after the whistle blew for the start of the second half, the Spartans turned up the pressure, sending more players forward. The wind changed directions and blew north-south into the faces of the Ladies defending. About a minute into the second half, Spartan Rachel Hammond rushed down the right sideline and crossed a high, looping ball that slipped past the grasp of Kenyon goalkeeper Alissa Poolpol ’16 and the Kenyon defenders, leaving a Spartan to pounce on the opportunity. The Spartans added one more goal to seal a 2-0 win over the Ladies, though both teams finished with eight shots on goal. The game was called about three minutes from the final whistle due to poor field conditions. “We never really got our offense going today,” Bryan said after the game. “We weren’t decisive in the attacking third.” The Ladies were not able to play their game and were stifled by a strong Spartan squad. “The ball was moving super fast and when you’re playing in the rain it really weighs you down,” Claudia Brown ’19, the second-leading scorer for the Ladies, with five goals, said. “We weren’t playing badly but we never really attacked inside their 18 [-yard box].” The Ladies next play DePauw University on Oct. 3 at home. — Esteban Bachelet

SPORTS The Collegian

Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015

COURTESY OF KENYON ATHLETICS

Dalton Eudy ’17 dribbles down the sideline at Mavec Field in a game earlier this fall. Eudy has two goals and one assist in the Lords’ eight games this season.

Lords ranked #1 overall for first time in Kenyon history Men’s soccer’s first foray into NCAC play this season proved a wild success, with four players scoring in the 5-0 victory. PETER DOLA STAFF WRITER

For the first time in program history, Lords soccer is ranked first in the nation. Last weekend, the team (8-0-0, 1-0-0) opened its North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) play with a dominant 5-0 win over Wittenberg University (3-6-2, 0-1-0). Two minutes into the game, Woo Jeon ’18 fired a shot from 20 yards out into the lower-right-hand corner of the net, just barely out of reach of Wittenberg keeper Jack Snider. The

Lords also struck twice late in the half, in the 34th and 37th minutes. Both goals came off the foot of Alberto Carmona ’19, putting the Lords up 3-0 at halftime. The second half brought more of the same, with Aaron Bogle ’19 scoring his first goal of the year, slipping the ball past the keeper in the 64th minute off a beautiful through ball from Tony Amolo ’17. Five minutes later, Bogle repaid the favor, crossing the ball to Amolo, who volleyed it over the outstretched hands of the Wittenberg keeper and into the topleft corner of the net, scoring his

ninth goal of the year. Following the win, and formerly top-ranked Tufts University’s (Medford, Mass.) loss to Brandeis University (Waltham, Mass.) this week, the Lords moved up to number one in Division-III soccer in two national polls. Throughout the year, the Lords have consistently impressed and ably compensated for the loss of many talented seniors. Coming into the season, the Lords were ranked ninth in the country, and have steadily climbed in the rankings since, moving from third in the country, to second, to first in consecutive weeks.

“We understand it is a challenging position and we need to be consistent to maintain it,” Amolo said. “On the other hand, it’s just a mid-season ranking. The final season rankings matter the most. The games are going to get harder as we play our conference teams” The Lords look to defend their new rank in the nation against DePauw University (6-1-2) on Oct. 3 at home. Wednesday’s game against Case Western Reserve University was postponed due to poor field conditions. A makeup date has yet to be determined.

Football earns second conference win of young season NOAH GURZENSKI STAFF WRITER

This Saturday, Lords football (2-2, 2-1 NCAC) emerged victorious for the second-straight week, picking up a 32-17 win over the Allegheny College Gators (0-3, 0-2 NCAC). Leading the way for the Lords was Jake Bates ’16, who threw three touchdowns on 21-25, passing for 276 yards. For his outstanding performance, Bates was named North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Player of the Week. “[Bates] has gotten better every week,” Head Coach Chris Monfiletto said. “In the first week of the season, we had a

lot of dropped balls and the dropped balls have decreased over the course of the last four weeks, so that’s helped him out a ton, too.” On their first possession of the game, the Lords worked their way down to Allegheny’s 18-yard line. Facing a thirdand-10, Bates threw a short pass to Blake Calcei ’16, who made the catch just past the line of scrimmage and proceeded to dash down the right sideline and into the end zone for the score. On the ensuing twopoint conversion, John Clark ’18 plowed through the Allegheny line to give Kenyon an 8-0 lead. After the Lords’ defense forced Allegheny to go three-

and-out on their first possession, the Lords engineered a 12-play, 61-yard scoring drive that Calcei capped off with a one-yard touchdown run. Lining up for another two-point conversion, Clark put his passing abilities on display, finding Greg McIntosh ’16 in the back of the end zone to extend Kenyon’s lead to 16-0. On their next drive, Allegheny found success by running the spread option. After picking up a 43-yard gain on the ground, Allegheny running back Tyler Smith got the Gators on the scoreboard with a threeyard touchdown run. Following the extra point, Allegheny trailed Kenyon 16-7. They then

attacked Kenyon after forcing a punt on the ensuing drive, ending with a 25-yard touchdown pass, making the score 16-14. Converting on a 27-yard field goal attempt, Szabi Simo ’17 and the Lords tried to put some distance between themselves and Allegheny. The Gators responded with a 31-yard field goal of their own to bring the score to 19-17. Intent on extending the Lords’ lead, Bates started off the Lords’ next drive with a bang, hitting Brian Hunca ’17 38 yards down the left sideline to put the Lords in the red zone. Facing a third-and-11 from the Allegheny 14-yard line, Bates connected with Ian Bell ’18 for

six. After Simo’s extra point, the Lords recovered their twopossession lead, going into halftime ahead 26-17. In the third quarter, Bates found Hunca for a six-yard touchdown pass to move the Lords’ lead to 32-17, where it would stay for the rest of the day. Although the Lords couldn’t muster any more points in the second half, the Lords’ defense stymied the Allegheny offense, keeping the Gators out of the end zone for the remainder of the game. Lords football returns to McBride Field on Saturday when they take on DePauw University (3-0, 2-0 NCAC) for a 1 p.m. game.