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Every plastic napkin holder in Peirce Dining Hall bears the same message: Kenyon’s food is now 42-percent local. But conceptualizing the community, economic and dietary impacts of local food is difficult for students to do when sitting down for dinner.

Kenyon touts its local foods program, which is a joint effort with AVI Foodsystems. Local food encompasses food grown and raised in northeast Ohio. But this bubble extends further, including local suppliers whose products may be grown elsewhere, such as the quinoa and some of the citrus fruits. This portion factors into the percentage. Last year, this program cost the College $436,892.71.

Kenyon started providing a few local meals in 2004, but the program expanded in 2006 with the arrival of AVI and a desire to make better use of Kenyon’s location in the midst of a large farming community. “The decision was made

by Kenyon with AVI to … not only provide great food for the students, but it was also to increase our spending in the community,” AVI Resident Director Kim Novak said.

In the summer of 2006, AVI hired John Marsh as the director of sustainability to expand the local foods program. “In that year ..

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we didn’t really do too much, and there was no record-keeping whatsoever,” Marsh said. “Then we started buying and keeping track and we were about 15 percent [local foods].”

Over the years, the percentage of local food has increased annually, as AVI has found new ways to procure local foods. Kenyon’s location means greater access to foods without having to resort to industrial food. Most of the local food purchased is dairy, beef and eggs. Additionally, Peirce gets hydroponic lettuce for the salad bar.

Hydroponic produce is produce grown in an environment using only water, rather than soil, to grow the vegetables. “A big chunk of our local food is in the dairy group,” said AVI Sustainability Assistant Charlotte Graham ’13, who refers to herself on Peirce’s social media platforms as “the local foods girl.” “The milk up there in the dispensers, the two-percent and skim milk, comes from a dairy up in Wilmot, Ohio. On the weekends we have the frozen yogurt that comes from the same dairy.

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“I know for a lot of my friends who will snort Ritalin and then drink, it gets them drunk really quickly,” an anonymous source who uses Ritalin recreationally said. “Even if it’s only half a pill you get drunk really fast.”

The anonymous user, a Kenyon senior, has a prescription for Ritalin that she no longer needs.

She typically pays $250 for 180 pills, which are not covered by her insurance, and snorts one or two at a time. She uses Ritalin

primarily on the weekend to enhance the effects of alcohol and gives pills to her friends for recreational use.

On college campuses across the country, the unprescribed use of medications (such as Ritalin and Adderall) intended to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is increasing, according to researchers at the University of Michigan.

A number of students prescribed these medications feel

that the distribution of such drugs without a prescription is offensive.

“I think it’s pretty shameful and dumb,” Nick Leibowitz ’18, who has ADHD, said. “Because they’re kind of dangerous, … it seems like it’s trivializing something that’s really not trivial.”

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Charlotte Graham ’13, AVI sustainability assistant on eating seasonally: “Because we’re running a local food program, a lot of people growing up don’t really eat seasonally because you can go to the grocery store and get whatever you want every time. ... I feel like it’s an important part of your education that you didn’t really bargain for that you have to learn how to eat seasonally if you’re going to eat in this dining hall because we buy local food.”

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Lack of salt leaves several injured

Feb. 18, 6:23 p.m. — Student felt faint, hit head and bit tongue in the New Apartments. Safety and squad responded. No transportation required.

Feb. 20, 10:00 p.m. — Student group found to be distributing alcohol in non-approved manner in Old Kenyon Residence Hall.

Feb. 21, 12:33 a.m. — Underage, intoxicated student in Bushnell Residence Hall. Safety responded and assessed.

Feb. 21, 2:07 a.m. — Underage, intoxicated student in Norton Residence Hall. Safety responded and assessed.

Feb. 21, 2:54 p.m. — Student vehicle collided with College vehicle on Maintenance hill. Damage sustained. No injuries reported.

Feb. 21, 10:25 p.m. — Window pane broken on one of the double doors that leads to patio of Old Kenyon.

Feb. 21, 11:05 p.m. — Underage, intoxicated student in Hanna Residence Hall. Safety responded and assessed.

Feb. 22, 3:31 a.m. — Underage, intoxicated student in Caples Residence Hall. Safety responded and assessed.

Feb. 24, 1:45 p.m. — Report of missing framed drawing that had been hanging on wall in Tomsich Hall. Frame was found. Drawing still missing. Theft report filed with Knox County Sheriff ’s Office. Under investigation.

Feb. 25, 12:35 a.m. — Student fell on ice and injured elbow outside of Gund Commons. Safety responded. Student transported via squad to Knox Community Hospital.

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The Sophomore Class Committee did not report any updates.

The Housing and Dining Committee will begin to repaint the Caples Residence Hall elevator.

First-Year Council is planning a Weaver Wednesday event for April.

The Buildings and Grounds Committee reported that the beet sugar de-icer is not effective. To determine priorities for the Master Plan, they will distribute a survey for student feedback.

The Business and Finance Committee did not have any updates.

Campus Safety will put up anti-vandalism posters over spring break.

The Junior Class Committee raised $1,100 at the class auction and did not meet.

The Senior Class Committee met to discuss plans for senior week.

The Student Life Committee approved two new student groups, Kenyon Media Arts Critics and the Kenyon Fishing Club. Student Council approved both organizations.

President Sean Decatur visited Student Council to discuss an initial draft of the 2020 plan. He encourages discussion and feedback from students. The 2020 Committee’s goal is to have a final draft of the plan to present to the Board of Trustees at their April meeting.

Samantha Hughes and Jill Engel-Hellman visited Student Council to discuss the new sexual and gender-based harassment and violence policy. Their goal is to make students more aware of the policy by incorporating it more into the student experience and to reduce sexual violence on campus. Under the new policy, the Student Conduct Review Board will no longer hear sexual misconduct cases; rather, they would be investigated by a hired third party in conjunction with a Kenyon representative.

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cORRECTION In last week’s issue, the photo in the article “Bringing sexy back: Rocky Horror returns to Kenyon” was misattributed to Katie Lovins ’17. Cheyenne Cardell ’15 took the photo. The article “College pursues changes in Greek pledging process” (Feb. 19, 2015) misidentified Elizabeth Trout ’15 as the secretary of Epsilon Delta Mu. She is the sorority’s president. The Collegian regrets the errors.

Take the path less traveled: every Kenyon student has to take that advice literally and walk in the snow in order to avoid slipping on the slick pathways crisscrossing campus. Icy surfaces are consistently an issue during the winter months, but Middle Path in particular has been treacherous.

Director of Campus Safety Bob Hooper said that iced-over walkways have always been a problem on campus in the winter. “It’s just been something we’ve struggled with,” he said. “I think with the added-on sidewalks in the last number of years [it] just gives everybody more area that needs to be covered.”

He was in conversation with Buildings and Grounds about to how to remedy the situation. “I was talking with [Buildings and] Grounds … [and] all of us that have a part or responsibility in this are going to all sit down and see if we can [come] up with a more efficient way to deal with it,” he said.

As for calls received by Campus Safety, Hooper reported that there have not been many. “We’ve had a few people that have called,” he said. “Everybody’s kind of taken the necessary precautions.” He confirmed that this has been more or less the case in previous years: “Mostly minor,” he said. “Every once in a while you can get that. But that happens everywhere.”

Dan Johnson ’15, chair of the Buildings and Grounds Committee, explained the apparent lack of salt to Kenyon not being one of the first locations to receive it. “So the reason there’s a lack of salt is just because salt’s rationed around the state of Ohio,” he said. “It goes through the towns first and then we kind of get whatever isn’t allocated.

There’s been a salt shortage the entire year, it’s something we’ve known about and [are] just kind of working to deal with.”

Hooper said that although salt has been in high demand lately, there should be no problem getting more. “Everybody’s had to use quite a bit of salt,” he said. Kyla Spencer ’18, who sprained her ankle at an ice rink off campus a few weeks ago and was on crutches for a while, said that getting around campus was often tricky and that she fell a few times due to the ice. “For the first couple days when it was like really, really icy … my crutches would be wet and then everyone’s shoes would be wet from the ice … and one time my crutches just slipped out from underneath me [in Peirce] and I just hit the ground,” she said. She did not sustain further injuries from her falls on campus.

Campus Safety as well as Buildings and Grounds is making efforts to reduce the ice on campus with the resources available, such as a mixure of beet juice as a de-icer, though some pathways inevitably remain treacherous.

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Rise and fall of the blue light system Blue lights might be disappearing from the Hill in the future, which would help pull Kenyon’s technology into the 21st century. Kenyon’s emergency call buttons, colloquially known as the blue lights, sit on top of the poles on which the buttons lie, and are in need of an upgrade according to Director of Campus Safety Bob Hooper.

“Currently this is in the very beginning stages to explore potential Emergency Phones,” Hooper wrote in an email to the Collegian. “We’re continuing to look at other options.” While no definitive plans of improvement have been made, Hooper agrees there is a need to replace this antiquated technology.

“Our current emergency phones are becoming difficult to have replacement parts,” Hooper wrote. “There are 11 that are here from the late 1980s, and we have continued to place additional phones around the campus. With the increase in technology, we hope to find a system that meets all the campus’ needs for the next 25 years.”

Grounds Person Sharon Franz, who has worked at Kenyon for almost as long as these call buttons have been on campus, has seen firsthand the way technology has evolved. “Back then and in the late ’80s and ’90s, things were a little different than they are now, and not everybody had [cell] phones.”

Emily Olson ’17 said she has never seen the call buttons being used, and that due to their remote locations, students “don’t really know why they exist.” She added the buttons “are not located where students would need them. … You don’t really see them, so they’re not really useful.”

Regardless of the fact that technology has changed over the years, Franz said she believes these call buttons still have a purpose on campus. “I mean, what if your cell phone battery is dead?” Franz said. “What if there is a real dire emergency and you have no way to get a hold of someone and you’re down over the Hill or you’re down on the athletic fields?”

Despite a difference in opinion as to whether or not the buttons are necessary, Campus Safety plans on continuing their search to find a suitable upgrade.

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Additionally, Kenyon elects to buy local red meat, which is rare for a college, according to Novak.

However, AVI does not purchase local poultry. “It’s about two-times to three-times more expensive,” Marsh said. “It’s actually difficult to source the quantities of poultry that we would use. It’s thousands of pounds of chicken a week.”

With the many advantages of local foods comes a difficult reality: local food is not cheap. Sometimes local prices are similar to industrial prices, such as for the cream in the coffee creamer dispenser, which is only one or two more dollars per gallon, according to Graham.

But often, due to the small size of the farms and dairies, prices can be more expensive. Choosing to go local can add an additional $100,000 to the budget every year, which Marsh says is manageable for Kenyon. “But you kind of reach a point where everything you do starts costing more,” Marsh said. Because of this fact, Peirce and AVI are likely to stay at the 42-percent mark, as it is most cost-effective.

Although access to fresh foods has increased, the lack of availability can prove difficult, as many students

If you ask most people where does your food come from, they say the supermarket. They have no idea how it’s produced.”

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Peirce Dining Hall features locally made jams and jellies. face limited fruits and vegetables options throughout the year. Eating seasonally, or based on what is available in different growing seasons, means less variety during certain parts of the year.

“Over the course of the fall, the types of vegetables available changes, which I know gets on some people’s nerves,” Graham said. “We’re feeding people locally, so we have to

eat seasonally here. But I know that some people really want their zucchini all year round.”

But AVI insists that eating seasonally has benefits. Marketing Director for AVI Rich Trimbur says that knowing what things will be available leads to better planning for AVI: “That’s sort of a unique thing that John [Marsh] does working with [AVI Executive Sous Chef]

Meagan [Stewart], planning out the menus for the entire year, knowing what’s going to be in season, and that’s kind of unique to our program because we know what we’re going `to get locally and we can work with the farmers in the area,” Trimbur said.

Outside of AVI, Kenyon has worked in other ways to promote sustainability. Professor of Sociology and Director of the Rural Life Center Howard Sacks asserts that Kenyon students have played an active role in expanding sustainability in Knox County, from penning editorials in the Mount Vernon News in 2001 to creating a series of articles with the Central Ohio Restaurant Association to designing a tabletop exhibition that was display in offices, libraries and lunchrooms across Ohio.

“If you ask most people where does your food come from, they say the supermarket,” Sacks said. “They have no idea how it’s produced ... But it’s a very important thing. What we’ve tried to do with all these proj-

ects is to show it’s not just a decision that affects each of us individually; it has profound effects on our local community.”

Student groups like People Endorsing Agrarian Sustainability (PEAS) are also involved in increasing knowledge of Kenyon’s local food. “As PEAS, we get to meet some local farmers in the area and sort of develop relationships with these farmers and see that side of it,” CoPresident Laura Gumpert ’17 said.

“Because it is so cool that we’re at this place that is so surrounded by farms and get to take advantage of it.”

Having hit the 42-percent mark, Peirce still intends to maintain its mission of sustainability and benefitting the community. “Increasing outreach to the community is fundamental to the program, according to Novak. “It wasn’t all about being the greenest campus in the United States,” she said. “We want everybody to know that we are sustainable and green. We want to help the community and I think that really shows where Kenyon [has] a good heart.”

Reinert leaves mid-semester

McNair’s talk draws crowd

Associate Professor of Drama Andrew Reinert is on leave from the College, without a definite return date.

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Jonathan Tazewell, Thomas S. Turgeon professor of drama, walked into the History of Clothing and Fashion class on Feb. 16 and announced there would be changes: its instructor, Associate Professor of Drama Andrew Reinert, would not return.

In an unusual mid-semester move, Reinert is currently on leave from the College, according to Tazewell. Tazewell did not respond to an email and phone message from the Collegian seeking comment.

Kris Conant, administrative assistant for the drama department, notified students in the course via email that their Friday, Feb. 13 class was canceled.

Conant declined to comment.

“He didn’t contact us and tell us,” Gabby Mitchell ’15 said of Reinert. Mitchell is one of 13 students in the History of Clothing and Fashion class.

“The last time we saw him … we were taking an exam. I [said] I’ll see

you on Friday. And then we never saw or heard from him again,” Mitchell said.

In reaching out to Reinert for comment via email, the Collegian received an automatic response that read, “Professor Reinert is currently on leave.

Please direct any inquires to the Department of Dance, Drama and Film at dancedramafilm@kenyon.edu.”

The Collegian could not reach Reinert through other means of communication, including his office phone and his home phone. As of press time, his Facebook profile had been deleted.

Reinert, who joined the Kenyon faculty in 1990, specializes in costume and set design. He is an integral part of designing the costumes for the dance department’s productions.

The History of Clothing and Fashion course is attempting to proceed in Reinert’s absence.

Currently, Rebecca Wolfe, assistant professor of drama, has taken over teaching the course.

In addition to switching professors, the course

has also changed locations. It is not apparent whether or not Wolfe will continue teaching the class after spring break.

Mitchell gave her syllabus to a dance professor to be passed on to Wolfe.

“Our professor, Professor Wolfe, is doing pretty great for someone who didn’t know they were going to have to do this,” Mitchell said.

Several drama faculty members said they were unable to suggest reasons for Reinert’s departure from the classroom.

Additionally, college administrators declined to disclose the exact details surrounding Reinert’s leave.

Provost Joe Klesner did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

“One thing about college is that you use those first few weeks of a class to really get to know your professor’s style and what they expect of you,” Mitchell said. “I was just starting to get a handle on Professor Reinert.”

Henri Gendreau contributed reporting.

Associate Professor of History Glenn McNair’s academic research focuses on crime and criminal justice, but he hasn’t just studied the subject — he’s lived it.

“I’ve spent a dozen years in law enforcement, and four of those years as a police officer on the street,” McNair said. In addition, McNair pointed out that he’s an African-American man and has had what he describes as “weird experiences with police officers, like getting pulled over at gunpoint.”

McNair gave a talk entitled “Why Police Shoot Black People: A Police Officer’s Perspective” on Monday, Feb. 23.

His talk showcased both the perspective of a former police officer and that of an AfricanAmerican citizen. “I have a unique background that will allow me to give a perspective that I haven’t really heard or seen in the media anywhere since [the events of Ferguson] happened,” McNair said, in an interview with the Collegian prior to the talk.

Speaking without notes to a nearly full Community Foundation Theater in the Gund Gallery, McNair divided his presentation into two parts.

First, he focused on the use of violence against AfricanAmericans, as well as police officers’ perceptions of themselves and police culture.

Police officers work within a job McNair described as “isolated” and “authoritarian,” which can sometimes translate to a similarly aggressive lifestyle. McNair also noted that policing in America is inherently racist — based on separation of neighborhoods — and increasingly militarized.

However, he emphasized that police officers often do not perceive themselves as black or white, but rather as “blue,” and strive to stick together, which is why public criticism of police departments or officers by other officers rarely occurs. “Their [work] culture is heightened because it’s a life-and-death situation,” McNair said.

He also went over the Homeland Security policy on use of deadly force — which he indicated was often, but not always, the general police guidelines — for his audience to gain an understanding of what went wrong and what went right in the various violent events that McNair showcased.

The second portion featured seven video clips, which McNair played once without his commentary and then a second time, during which he paused the videos and added commentary to explain the situation from both the policeman’s point of view as well as those of the citizens’ in the clips. These video clips included well-known incidents, such as those resulting in the deaths

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of Eric Garner and Tamir Rice.

McNair said, “I want to explain what went wrong with [these incidents] just from the perspective of a police tactical response. Race has a lot to do with it, but it’s also responding to situations in way that reflects poor training … or reckless attitude.” In many of the videos, McNair pointed out that instead of “de-escalating the situation,” which is what police officers are trained to do, these policemen heightened the sense of fear and panic.

During the interview, McNair said he wanted the talk not only to interest Kenyon students, but also to encourage a continued discussion about issues related to race and law enforcement. “My impression is that young people are far more outraged about this,” he said. “I felt like the stories petered off after December. …

Young people are more willing to question authority … and I want to engage that.”

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Greek alumni share careers Successful alumni returned to campus to speak to students.

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Several successful Greek alumni in an array of fields returned to campus on Saturday, Feb. 21 to speak to about life after Kenyon The room was near capacity when Felix Janssen ’16, Greek Council’s alumni relations coordinator, began the event by thanking the four alumni, Caitlin Cody ’05 of Epsilon Delta Mu, Sam Baker ’13 of Delta Kappa Epsilon, John Furniss ’97 of Alpha Delta Phi and Jody Tyrpak ’91 of Theta Delta Phi. “We couldn’t have this event without alumni like you, [who] stay involved after Kenyon,” Janssen said.

The first annual Greek alumni panel was held last year, when Greta Greising ’16, then the Greek Council’s alumni relations coordinator, created and developed the event.

This year’s Greek alumni panel, like last year’s, “[was] open to the whole campus,” Bhusal Sharma, president of greek council, said. Though last year’s event was a success, complete with résumé reviews, a luncheon and attendance by Greek and nonGreek students alike, Bhusal Sharma said that this year “Janssen … along with [Director of Career Development] Scott Layson modified the program a little bit.”

The alumni told the stories of their career paths from 4-5 p.m. Caitlin Cody ’05, who currently heads the Alumni Leadership Council, told attendees about her work in advertising.

“I am a creative strategist,” she said at the event. “I’m the person who a brand comes to, and says, ‘Here’s our problem,’ and I have to marry that problem with what the consumer actually wants.”

Attendees also heard from Baker, who works as a mortgage loan analyst for Standard Financial Group in Portland, Ore., Furniss, a partner at Bricker & Eckler LLP in Columbus, Ohio, and Tyrpak, the director of operations and strategic initiatives at Ernst & Young in Cleveland, Ohio.

“The Alumni Panel was incredibly run and attended,” Madelyn Cook ’17, President of Zeta Alpha Pi, wrote in an email to the Collegian. “I loved hearing about how the alum[ni] are still able to apply the leadership skills they developed through their involvement in Kenyon Greek life to everyday scenarios in the workplace. … Anecdotes like the ones they shared give me faith my choice to go Greek will continue to enrich my life experience and leadership abilities far beyond my years on the Hill.”

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for students with learning disabilities to succeed,” she said.

“I wouldn’t say it’s super prevalent for partying, recreational use,” the anonymous senior said.

Mike Durham, substance abuse educator and counselor at the Counseling Center, said the results of a national substance-use survey indicated that Kenyon is similar to many other colleges with respect to use of drugs and alcohol.

To quantify this, he utilizes the Core survey, a web-based survey that attempts to determine students’ attitudes about and perceptions of drugs and alcohol, as well as their actual usage. All results are anonymous.

“I utilize [the survey results] to see trends and to see if we’re different in … areas from other colleges,” Durham said.

Durham explained that the results of the Core survey could not distinguish between what percentage of students are using ADD/ADHD medication as prescribed and what percentage do not have prescriptions.

Kim Cullers, nurse practitioner and director of health services, added that there are some data on what percentage of students use ADD/ADHD medication based on information provided by incoming first years a few years ago.

“I did actually do some data-collecting on that a couple years ago with all incom-

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When students fill out their medical health history, they indicate on that whether they’re on ADD meds ot not. And I think it was about 17 percent.”

Kim Cullers, nurse practitioner and director of health services

ing freshmen and that’s selfdisclosure,” she said. “When students fill out their medical health history, they indicate on that whether they’re on ADD meds or not. And I think it was about 17 percent.”

Cullers also explained that the motivation for students to use these drugs when they are not prescribed to them may be based on exaggerated, false stories. “I think there is some anecdotal evidence that using medications when you don’t have this diagnosis can enhance the ability to study and concentrate and focus,” she said.

Erin Salva, director of student accessibility and support services, agreed with Cullers. She explained that while ADD/ADHD medications enhance the focusing ability of students with those disorders, they’re not necessarily that effective for non-prescribed users. “In other words, if you don’t have ADD, and you take [those] ... stimulant medications, it’s likely not to do you any good,” she said.

The anonymous senior said that she uses Ritalin for a weekend night energy boost. “You need it to get you through the rest of the night … so you take it before you go out,” she said. “It’s like drinking two cups of coffee.”

Durham said that in his time here he has seen no indication of students habitually abusing these medications. “I came in ’06,” he said. “I haven’t had one person come asking for help getting off of it. It’s very addictive, so I think that if people are using it, and I’m sure some are using it nonprescribed, they’re not doing it habitually.”

Ultimately, it is difficult to quantify what percentage of the student body abuses these drugs, though both students and administrators know that abuse happens here at Kenyon and campuses everywhere.

Leibowitz added that people here have approached him suggesting he profit from his medication. “I think there have been more times here where people have said …

‘You could make money selling this,’” he said. “That’s putting both myself and whoever’s taking my medicine in danger healthwise but also in terms of being expelled.”

The consequences of the sale or purchase of medications used to treat ADD/ ADHD can be dire. “If someone has a prescription and they give someone one of their pills or they sell one, clearly that’s illegal and that would be charged as distribution and that’s a felony,” Durham said.

Briefs College reexamines party policy with new committee What’s the best way to spend a Friday night? Figuring out the new regulations to the party policy.

The College has formed a new committee to review Kenyon’s party policy. This commitee, headed by Associate Dean of Students Tacci Smith and featuring students, faculty and administrators, will update the policy established in 2011 to ensure it is in line with the needs of both the College and its students.

“It’s kind of every four, five, six-ish years,” Smith said about the frequency of the updates. “We sort of look at if there’s a reason … that require[s] us to make changes.”

A student death of acute alcohol poising and hypothermia in 2005 prompted the creation of the party policy, which received minimal updates in 2008. In 2011, the College established a committee to formally update it. This new panel will meet through this semester and in the fall, with the goal of implementing a revised policy in 2016.

The 2011 update focused primarily on large parties, including party training. This update will likely address policies for smaller parties, such as those thrown in apartments.

“For little parties in people’s rooms ... there’s not a whole lot of guidelines for those,” Smith said. “That is because we wanted those to be sort of organic and easy and fun and that’s happening, but the numbers are getting really large.”

Smith is adamant that large parties will remain on campus. “We like big parties,” she said. “The whole point is that [all-campus parties are] a better space because there’s

more people to help [be] eyes and ears. It’s easier because it’s usually only beer parties — they’re in spaces that can hold a lot of people.” Smith also works with national Greek organizations to help balance Kenyon policies with the desires of the national groups.

“A lot of those risk management policies [at national greek organizations] want parties to be BYOB and so I work with those nationals to say we cannot do BYOB.” Kenyon provides alcohol so it can better monitor the amount served at parties, and therefore, to the students.

All-campus parties can only serve wine or beer, as they have relatively low alcohol content, and drinks must be served by a sober bartender over legal drinking age. Registered all-campus parties must provide alcohol, rather than run on a bring-yourown-beer system, so Campus Safety can regulate the amount at the party. With hard alcohol, found at smaller parties, it is much easier for students to drink too much. “Almost all of our alcohol poisonings so far this year have been hard alcohol,” Director of Campus Safety Bob Hooper said. Even so, Hooper said it is unlikely that hard alcohol would be banned on campus. “If that were to happen, I think there would be other factors that would have to come into play,” he said.

“Do I see it coming imminently? No.” The committee had its first meeting this past week and will continue to meet throughout the year to finalize an updated policy.

— Written by Victoria Ungvarsky, with Julia Waldow contributing reporting

Phi Taus take the next step — chartering

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Kenyon’s Phi Kappa Tau (Phi Taus) fraternity has completed another step toward becoming a national Greek organization.

Up until now, the Phi Taus were a colony of the national Phi Kappa Tau organization, but their colony has now been chartered.

The Phi Taus began the process of becoming a national organization in October 2013; they have followed the many steps to going national in accordance with the rules of the College and the national organization. They worked with Director of Student Activities and Greek Life Laura Kane throughout the colonization process: “At each stage ... both parties have to kind of sign off and then when they go from colony to full chartering and full recognition of full status, each party has to sign off,” Kane said.

“So Greek Council did that in December … but then the national organization has to give that [approval] too. So this is the last piece of the puzzle.”

Kane emphasized that it took a lot of work for them to go national. “You have to demonstrate a commitment to academics and service and ... philanthropy and even raising money for your own chapter.”

President of the Phi Taus Peter Granville

’16 believes that the process brought the group together. “It’s been a lot of work and we’ve loved it so much,” he said. “The way that I know that this is a successful group is that we’ve made this boring bureaucratic stuff very fun.”

Chartering is a new start for the group, thus every member is uninitiated. They will be fully initiated on April 24, and they will sign the charter on April 25. “We want to just be in the community and make things better around it,” Granville said. “And now we can do that because we have this ... put aside, and we can do whatever we’re most passionate about,” he said.

The effects on other Greek organizations will be minimal. President of Greek Council Manjul Bhusal Sharma ’16 explained that while individuals within the organization and in other organizations expressed some concerns about the strict requirements of the national organization, no Greek organization on campus explicitly opposed Phi Taus going national. “In a tangible way, I don’t think there’s any way it affects other organizations,” he said.

— Katherine King

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ASK A PROFESSOR What is your favorite Kenyon building?

“Probably Peirce. I like the view out the dining hall window, the high ceilings and the staircase in the entrance. ” — Assistant Professor of Economics PJ Glandon

“I’m quite fond of Ascension. It looks like what a college should look like, I think.”

— Professor of Philosophy Joel Richeimer

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An educated home: DePascuale crafts a hacienda Associate Professor of Philosophy Juan DePascuale’s colonial home features a wood shop and art from around the world.

MILO BOOKE STAFF WRITER

Getting a good home in Gambier can be a matter of life and death. “When I arrived at Kenyon, the only way you could purchase a house in Gambier was to wait until a faculty member died,” Associate Professor of Philosophy Juan DePascuale said. “It happened to be the case that I was about to get married and Professor [Alfred Denis] Baly of the religious studies department died.”

The coveted Ward Street home that DePascuale was lucky enough to get is a white colonial with vibrantly colored, hanging tree ornaments near the front porch.

The house was built in 1856, and its age originally left DePascuale feeling out of place. “I didn’t like the house. It was ... very rigid, very formal,” he said. “Everything was divided. What I tried to do was turn an American colonial house into a hacienda, a place that would be comfortable for a Latin American. The idea was to try and

create a sort of circular movement, more open. I redid every single room in the house.”

DePascuale’s home has undergone a massive amount of work, done almost entirely by the professor himself. “I’m a carpenter,” he said. “I built the decks. The deck took me two years to do. I built the tower for the children over there [in the backyard]. This has been a lifetime project essentially.” The house is sprawling and meticulously crafted, a testament to the hours of work DePascuale has put in.

DePascuale is so serious about carpentry that he transformed his garage into a wood shop. He finds that carpentry helps him with his other passion in life, philosophy.

“This is a garage that is no longer a garage,” he said. “It’s where the real philosophy takes place. I built this workshop in 2004, with the money that I won from the Alpha Delta Phi teaching award. Before that I had a basement workshop.”

In the back of his workshop hangs an aged photo of his grandfather’s workshop. A carpenter by

trade, DePascuale’s grandfather made doors, windows and furniture in his Argentinian shop.

DePascuale described his own workshop as a “romantic connection” to his family and his past.

DePascuale’s oldest son has kept the generational passion for carpentry alive, assisting in some of his father’s previous projects.

Equally impressive as the workshop and the craftsmanship of the house is the vast collection of art that sits inside of it. DePascuale and his wife Carola have collected a lifetime’s amount of art throughout their world travels. “My wife is a sociologist [who studies] Brazil and we were in Brazil in ’82-’85 and we went into the Amazon,” he said, indicating a shelf covered in figurines and paintings. “These are from deep inside of the Amazon.”

The couple are also proficient artists, and several of their works line the house. His wife is a quilter and fiber artist, and one of her quilted pieces hangs near the staircase.

One of the most striking piec-

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What I tried to do was turn an American colonial house into a hacienda, a place that would be comfortable for a Latin American. The idea was to try and create a sort of circular movement, more open.”

Juan DePascuale, Associate Professor of Philosophy

es sits in the living room. It is a sculpture of an unorthodox-looking wooden lumberjack with an intriguing backstory. “When my wife was in Brazil, she was living in a favela outside of São Paulo,” he said. “We spent eight weeks touring Brazil. We found this little shop that had these amazing wooden sculptures made by a local guy. They were gigantic parrots.” The size of the pieces made them too large to carry and DePascuale was forced to leave without any sculptures. However, he couldn’t get the artwork off his mind, and asked his wife if she could return to the store and ship some pieces home.

“She went back and somebody else had come and bought everything,” DePascuale said. Not to be deterred, his wife asked for the location of the artist’s home. She trekked deep into the woods to a small shack and found the artist, who was taken aback at receiving

a visitor. All of the parrot sculptures were gone, but the artist had completed a wooden self-portrait.

“And so she bought it. It’s a little memento from our 1986 trip around Brazil,” recalled DePascuale.

The art in DePascuale’s home presents a timeline of his and his family’s life and travels. He described his collection of art as a “little bit of his personal history.”

A painting by his daughter, Sophia DePascuale ’16, hangs on one of the hallway walls, near a painting he acquired when he studied religion in Japan one summer.

Art from his native Argentina is interspersed throughout the living room, creating a cacophony of artistic styles when viewed in conjunction with the Asian pieces. A walk through this elegant home is a stroll through the fascinating life of Juan DePascuale: philosopher, carpenter and art collector.

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— Professor of Sociology Marla Kohlman on Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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Senior vocalists find fulfillment in final performances LAUREN KATZ STAFF WRITER

This past weekend, students and parents filled Brandi Recital Hall four separate times to support four seniors as they shared the capstone to their Kenyon music experience. Conor Dugan ’15, Hannah Foerschler ’15, Julia Morris ’15 and Megan Shaw ’15 presented their senior voice recitals, and each performance ended with a rousing standing ovation from the impressed audience.

The Kenyon music department encourages students to study music from a variety of genres and time periods. This guideline led to four diverse and distinct recitals covering classical and musical theater pieces from artists ranging from George Frideric Handel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Stephen Sondheim and Darren Criss.

Choosing the songs for the recital is a lengthy process, which generally begins in April of the student’s junior year. The students must submit a possible program of pieces, to which the department can then suggest changes. Morris reflected on the experience, and was thankful that the department acted as a useful second opinion; she initially chose to pursue a rigorous song collection by composer August Müller, but was dissuaded by the music department, and ended up choosing a cycle by composer Benjamin Britten, which was a

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I remember in a car ride my mom brought all of these cassette tapes, and one of them was a Kidz Bop version of Broadway songs. That was my first introduction to musical theater and singing.”

Conor Dugan ’15

better fit.

Students like Dugan, however, started planning their programs the minute they declared the music major. While he chose a selection of Mozart songs fairly early in his process, he added other selections based on rewarding experiences he had along the way.

“When I decided I was going to become a music major and knew I was going to be having a recital, which was probably the end of freshman year, I began to explore songs with the idea of creating a repertoire to pull from,” Dugan said. He described how he studied in a 19th-century music history course at Kenyon and a Franz Schubert piece inspired him. His emotional attachment to it and to what he learned made him want to explore it though performance.

Foerschler enjoyed watching her work coalesce to create a rewarding final product. “Singing the [Samuel Barber] with full piano accompaniment was really exciting for me, because you hear Mozart and Bach all the time, and [a lot of people are just more accustomed to musical the-

ater],” Foerschler said. “But to hear the Barber come together like that … was challenging, but so much fun.”

Some students, like Shaw, find a serendipitous connection with their performances. Her rendition of “A Change in Me” from Beauty and the Beast was not only her favorite song to sing, but also connected her favorite message to convey. “As a senior it was meaningful because the song is about your dreams changing,” Shaw said. “That really resonated with me — the idea of letting the changes that happen over time happen, and take you in different directions.”

After all of the work that they put into the recital, the seniors find it hard to believe that their journey with the Kenyon music department is coming to a close, especially because the department has been so supportive in fostering passions that oftentimes began in childhood.

“I have always had a passion for singing, ever since I was young,” Dugan said. “I remember in a car ride my mom brought all of these cassette tapes, and one of them was a Kidz Bop version of Broadway songs. That was my first introduction to musical

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Foerschler performed her long-awaited senior vocal recital in Brandi. theater and singing. … When I came to Kenyon, I had always been singing, and wanted to continue.”

Foerschler simply grew up surrounded by music.

“I grew up in a very musical family,” Foerschler said. “I was raised to sing. So, I knew that’s what I wanted to pursue in college. … The [music] department is just delightful. It’s more than I ever could have hoped for in my college experience.”

While Morris is unsure of what the future will bring, she is certain music will always influence her life.

“I would really love to pursue music after college,” Morris said. “I don’t know in what capacity yet. … At one

point I was thinking music therapy because I was interested in combining my two majors, but at this point I think I would just like to go into music more intensely.”

Shaw feels similarly. She knows that music will be a constant, because, for her, there is simply no other option.

“I can’t really separate music from everything else in my life,” Shaw said.

“Music has always just been ... interwoven in everything I have done. My dad’s a musician, so I grew up with music in my house all the time. … My life didn’t exist pre-music; it’s always been a part of my life. I can’t imagine that it won’t be in the future.”

Dead Man’s Cell Phone enjoys strong reception The independent project, directed by Alice Stites ’17, brought film noir mystery to the Horn Gallery.

SAM ROSCHEWSK STAFF WRITER

What do you get when you mix black-market organ sellers, a dead man in a café, and lobster bisque? The answer might surprise you. This past Friday, Feb. 20, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, written by award-winning Sarah Ruhl and directed by Alice Stites ’17, went up in the Horn Gallery. Stites’s directing and intriguing character interpretation brought the mysterious and poetic script to life. Due to the Horn’s intimate setting, the audience truly felt as if they were part of the strange film noir-esque world of the play.

Stites’s show was distinct because it was realized outside of the usual campus theater groups such as Brave Potato or StageFemmes. She

applied independently for funding through the Horn Gallery Theater Grant, the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services (ODADAS), which provides funding to students to put on non-alcoholic events, and Fun Funds, which provides funding for non-alcoholic events open to the whole campus. This play was something Stites was passionate about and wanted to share with the Kenyon community. “The first time I read it, I just fell in love with it and couldn’t get it out of my head,” Stites said, “and I knew I wanted to bring it to life.” Her dedication to and love of the play showed in the performance itself, and that was truly what brought the show to life. She clearly spent time analyzing the play and working to understand the characters in the show, and she showed an apprecia-

tion and for Sarah Ruhl as a playwright, and worked to bring her prose to life.

The set design and overall feel of the play were particularly striking. The Horn Gallery is a challenging space to put up productions because one can only hang three to four lights at a time, whereas a performance in the Black Box Theater would allow for more equipment. In addition, the Horn has no backstage area, so the Dead Man’s Cell Phone crew improvised and hung a curtain across the back of the space. Their creative use of the space served to set the tone. Another thing that was different about this show than in most campus plays is they used a projection screen to help set the scene. In the church scene, they showed a projection of a stained-glass window, and in the scene in Gordon’s moth-

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Dead Man’s Cell Phone turned the Horn into a film noir scene. er’s home, there was a large family portrait. There was always a clue of where the scene was even before the scene began. Lastly, the use of classic film noir music between scenes was particularly striking, and it kept the audience in the scene even when they were in blackout.

Avery Baldwin ’17 gave a memorable performance as Gordon, a man who dies in the café at the very beginning of the show; at the beginning of act two, Gordon gives a long monologue that

answers all the audience’s questions from act one. His presence seemed to fill the stage, and the audience was hanging onto every word he said. In the first act, Gordon was only a name, but Baldwin brought him to life, casting out any positive assumptions the audience or even Jean, the protagonist, might have developed about Gordon and giving them a concrete character to hold onto for the rest of the show.

Though the show was generally strong, Lily Schneider’s

’18 portrayal of Jean, the protagonist who find’s Gordon’s cell phone, was a bit confusing. Schneider played the part so the audience was led to believe that her character was the age of a college student, or maybe younger. It was revealed later in the show that the character was nearly 40.

She overplayed the “innocent” aspect of her character and didn’t fully explore the complexity of Jean that the script offered.

Overall, the poetry of the script was made meaningful through thoughtful direction, creative set choices and memorable actor performances. “I think the script allows a lot of room to interpret who your character is,” audience member Emily Bernstein ’18 said, “and I think that all the actors did that very well.” The mysterious and poignant tone of the play left audience members thinking about the show for the rest of evening.

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Kentucky comes to Cheever with southern comfort poetry

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2011 Pulitzer finalist Maurice Manning invokes idyllic summer warmth.

BAILEY BLAKER ARTS ASSISTANT

For a brief moment, in Finn House’s Cheever Room, Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at Transylvania University Maurice Manning took his audience out of the deep freeze of the Ohio winter and transported them to warm summers in the Kentucky countryside.

After an introduction from Professor of Creative Writing Lewis Hyde, Manning began his reading by diving into the stack of loose pages of poetry he held in his hands. This large stack of papers did not contain poems from Manning’s published collections, but rather newer poems, some written as recently as a few weeks ago. Starting with “Like Flicks of Flame,” a poem about the inherent beauty found in a pair of moth’s wings, Manning created an instant connection with the audience.

The atmosphere in Cheever throughout the reading embodied the warmth and

lightness found in Manning’s poetry. Manning’s melodic southern drawl, combined with the nature imagery found throughout his poems, worked to create an organic and ultimately charming experience for his audience. “I want to feel that a poem can be as natural as breathing, and walking through the world,” Manning said in an interview with the Collegian.

The presence of the natural world is prominent in Manning’s work. Poems such as “Like Flicks of Flame” and “To Birds” are filled with the images of leaves floating on streams, birds resting on battered clotheslines and the decaying wings of a moth. All of these images are familiar to anyone who has spent any time in a rural setting, but Manning plays with this by placing a deeper meaning on the familiar and questioning our notions of what is beautiful. “I’ve been thinking about the big ideas we elevate in our culture, like

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I think it really takes someone who has finesse to be able to write something that has serious undertones, but does it in a way that you can laugh and smile through it.

Meera White ’18, Kenyon Review Associate

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Maurice Manning reads from a selection of his latest poetry. beauty and art,” Manning said. “How do we make those designations? I like the mental gameplay that comes with challenging those conventions.”

Kenyon Review Associate Meera White ’18 found a sense of home in Manning’s poetry. “It was nice to hear something that was so regionally distinct,” she said. “I’m from the south, so it was nice to hear something that sounds like the people that I’ve been around.”

Manning’s use of the everyday as subjects for his poems, for White, was something distinctly rural.

“The idea [is] taking what’s in your yard, or whatever you have, and making the most of it,” White said.

“Being an outdoors person and paying attention to the little things… people in cities don’t do that.” White enjoyed the humorous tone of Manning’s work.

“He just came off as witty and fun, but it wasn’t so comical that there wasn’t any meaning behind it,” she said. “I laughed during it, and I think that’s a very good indicator of whether it’s a good reading: … if there’s a joy in it, not just a seriousness, but a joy.” White also admired

Manning’s ability to balance humor with a deeper meaning. “I think it really takes someone who has finesse to be able to write something that has serious undertones, but does it in a way that you can laugh and smile through it,” he said.

After a brief question and answer session, Manning turned his focus on the creative writing students in the audience. He asked three students to tell him about the most recent poem they had written.

Emily Bernstein ’18 was one of the students Manning questioned after his reading. Manning’s personable style of writing appealed to Bernstein as both a reader and a writer. “I’m always reaching for a way of writing that is ... personal without being ‘teenage-girl angsty,’” she said. “[Manning] reaches this concept of personal stories wrapped around hu-

mor wrapped around these metaphors wrapped round the landscapes he grew up with.”

Manning is currently involved in a collaborative exhibition at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA) in Chicago entitled Convergence: the Poetic Dialogue Project.

The project, curated by Beth Shadur, consists of 20 pairs of visual artists and poets. Manning’s partner Sergio Gomez is a painter based in Chicago. “He has these wonderful dreamy paintings,” Manning said.

“I love looking at paintings, especially paintings that clearly came from the mind of the painter. … I feel a kinship with that process. There is some aspect of a poem where it can just spring out of your head.” The exhibition runs at the UIMA in Chicago from Feb. 6 to March 22, 2015.

ON THE RECORD

JONATHAN SEHRING ’78 PRODUCER OF BOYHOOD

ELANA SPIVACK ARTS EDITOR

Jonathan Sehring ’78 said that “nobody in their right minds” would finance a project over a 12to 13-year period, but Richard Linklater’s Boyhood was too good for Sehring, president of Sundance Selects and IFC films, to turn down.

From its inception in 2001 to its many award nominations, including Patricia Arquette’s recent Oscar win for best supporting actress, Sehring has played an integral role in the film’s production.

What did your role in producing Boyhood entail?

I oversaw the financing end of the production. I wasn’t out hiring people. When you’re working with an auteur filmmaker, and I consider Richard very much of that auteur school of filmmaking, your role as a producer or the executive producer is much different than the producer of a studio movie or the producer of another independent movie because the filmmaker is very much the writer, producer, director. So I considered myself the facilitator to help Rick enable

his vision.

What’s some of the criteria that you have for picking films and projects?

First and foremost you always look for a great story or a great concept and you go from there. I like to work with filmmakers that are writer-director-producers because I enjoy helping them get their vision from page to screen.

What were some of the greatest difficulties that you encountered over the course of the 12 years of film production?

It is surprising when I say there weren’t any major difficulties. I would say the greatest difficulty I had from my role, and there were three other producers involved, including Rick, but I think I could speak for everybody and say probably the greatest difficulty we had was … reassuring the financiers that at the end of the day we would have a finished project that would be more valuable than the money that was invested in it over a 12-year period.

What do you think of Boyhood’s exponential success in the awards world?

Nobody could have dreamed it. It was an incredible run and we were just all so thrilled for Patricia. If I have one disappointment it was Rick not coming away with something at the Oscars because what he did was so unique and will never be, I don’t think, repeated in the history of cinema.

What was the most rewarding part of working on this project?

The relationships we all developed with one another over the 12year period. You have to take a giant step back and look at what we accomplished, what Rick set out to do and what he did, and through that time when you have a cast that comes together every year, it really was like an extended family.

Which successes of the film process did you find most surprising?

The single probably most-rewarding thing for me was the fact that the movie touched so many people. I always relate it to looking at your own family photo album.

You love them but when you start sharing them with people, invariably people get bored by them and that’s kind of what this project felt like. We had no idea [what the] re-

ception was going to be like. Nobody really wanted to let go of it and share it with other people for fear that they wouldn’t like it.

Is it rare for an independent film to get so much attention?

Yes. I’ve never seen an independent film go so far and get so close to winning best picture. It was a first — best picture, best director. The fact that until they opened the envelopes it was a coin toss… it was great for the entire industry. It’s very, very unique.

How did your liberal arts education prepare you for your career path?

I could have done grad school in biology or art history because I wanted to be a birdwatcher or an art historian, and my father told me, “Son, you should get a real job.” So back to the liberal arts education — it was great. Taking art history courses or taking courses in English literature... they gave me the ability to do a critical analysis of things, and it gave me a love of literature and storytelling and visual arts through art history.

What does the future hold?

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Producer Jonathan Sehring ’78 Back to work today. Ethan Hawke [“Father” in Boyhood] directed a documentary that’s pretty incredible called Seymour that we’re releasing in two weeks. My main job is as a distributor, not as a producer. My role as a producer kind of ended with Boyhood, although we’ve toyed with the idea of getting back to the production game.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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OPINIONS EDITORS: MATTHEW ELEY AND ANNIE SHESLOW

EDITORIAL

Keep party policy moderate, realistic Kenyon’s current approach to parties and underage drinking sensibly recognizes that drinking will occur and does what it can to ensure that it occurs responsibly; the Collegian hopes any updates that are made to College party policy will retain this spirit. A new committee has been formed, headed by Associate Dean of Students Tacci Smith, to review Kenyon’s party policy, and though it’s met only once, any changes it makes will be widely felt.

The New York Times hosted a discussion in its Opinions pages titled “You Must Be 21 to Drink?” (Feb. 10, 2015) in response to the hard alcohol ban recently enacted at Dartmouth College. Kenyon’s own President Emerita S. Georgia Nugent, who has long been an advocate for lowering the drinking age, wrote that “when it is legal for an 18-year-old to drive, marry or serve in the military but illegal for him or her to drink a beer, the illogic of the situation is patent. As a result, the overwhelming response of young people has been, not compliance, but contempt for the law.” Nugent’s disagreement with current drinking laws was ref lected in the culture established by her presidency.

The Dartmouth ban, a result of alcohol-related incidents on campus and mired in a history of Greek hazing and sexual assault, may make sense for that institution. But Kenyon has had no such catalyst, our record devoid of an alcoholrelated death since 2005, though even that is too recent. There have been no official proposals of a hard alcohol ban at Kenyon, and we hope there never is. Banning hard alcohol could force its consumption underground and would thus be dangerous in addition to unnecessary.

The student handbook currently states that “it is [Kenyon’s] goal to support a campus culture in which severe intoxication is not acceptable.” What is more important, however, is that measures like the Good Samaritan Policy remain in place in the event that severe intoxication does occur.

The party policy review committee is looking for more members. Ideally, students from all corners of campus would be involved, and we urge anyone interested to join.

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Four exams on one day? Give me a break GRIFFIN BURROUGH OPINIONS ASSISTANT

If you’ve ever eaten a meal with me, you’ve probably heard that I believe I can outrun a bear. I feel that when presented with a bear intent on eating me, it’s smarter to try to outrun it than it is to try to scare it. My father figure, Fletcher Hartman ’18, informs me that a bear can run 22 miles per hour and that there’s no way in hell I can outrun a bear. Nevertheless, I feel running is the best course of action. But do you know what’s a worse idea than trying to outrun a bear? Poking the bear. That sounds like a dumb idea, indeed. But let’s do it anyway.

Spring break is great, isn’t it? Do you know what isn’t great? Being punished for having spring break.

You know exactly what I mean.

To get to our glorious freedom we have to run over hot coals and broken glass. Yes, I’m talking about midterms. “But Griffin, midterms happen because it’s the middle of the term and they are a necessary part of your course.” I’m not complaining that we have midterms; I’m complaining that we have all

of our midterms on the same two days.

By the time you read this you will have survived Wallowing Wednesday. For all who pass this day, Friday is tomorrow. I’ve known people to have four midterms on the same day. Now, if a student does badly on a test, it’s the student’s fault. If an entire class does badly, it’s the teacher’s fault.

If the entire population does badly on their midterms, it’s the system’s fault and it’s time for a change.

So now that the hype is built up I better have a damn good solution to this potential conundrum.

I don’t have a brilliant mic-dropworthy solution; I simply ask that professors think of how much work students have. Professors, don’t assign midterms on Woeful Wednesday or Failing Friday. Instead, look to Majestic Monday or even the week before. After all, students have enough to do this week.

John Nash, eminent game the-

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orist, made his name with a simple idea: Adam Smith was wrong.

Instead of everyone doing what’s best for themselves individually, everyone should do what’s best for themselves and also helps the group. Our group of Kenyonites needs to work together. No longer should we be staying up through the long hours of the night because we have French, economics and statistics midterms on the same day. Instead we should be up

til 2 a.m on different nights studying for each of them. It falls to you, our esteemed professors, to think about what’s best for the group and not all assess students on the last day before break. It’s spring break, after all; we shouldn’t be punished for it. Now excuse me, but I have to outrun an angry mob of bears.

Griffin Burrough ’18 is undeclared from Summit, N.J. Contact him at burroughe@kenyon.edu.

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Eating disorder awareness fliers elicit painful feelings KATIE FINNIGAN DESIGN CONSULTANT

Last Sunday, as I was finishing my share of the Lunar New Year Celebration vegetarian selection in Peirce’s Thomas Hall, I saw a few people I believed to be Peer Counselors walk around the tables and distribute advertisements for National Eating Disorder Awareness Week (NEDAW) that described the events that would be taking place throughout the week, in addition to debunking some misconceptions about eating disorders. “‘You don’t have to be skinny to have an eating disorder’ — FALSE.” “‘Eating disorders are caused by exposure to media’ — FALSE.” As I read the paper advertisement placed in front of me, and watched as the students placed ads

on every other table in Thomas, I felt a burning sensation in my chest — Fear? Anger? Heartburn?

— that I have never been able to articulate, and that I am still vaguely unsure how to.

To myself and others, the eating culture in Peirce has been a source of turmoil during my Kenyon career — not because of the food that AVI so lovingly dispenses, but because the constant exposure to an allyou-can-eat environment is taxing. I am sure that all students are familiar with this feeling, but when you have an eating disorder, the prospect of having to choose what to eat in front of your peers, and then eating with them, is often completely overwhelming.

Although I have appreciated the communality that is built in Peirce

meal after meal, I can’t escape the fact that I feel that I am prepping myself for battle, against my anxieties, against the desire to consume too much or too little food, against the lingering remnants of the disorder that has sadly defined much of my Kenyon career.

So when I saw the NEDAW advertisements being dispersed in New Side, I had an urge to rip them up, not because I don’t support NEDAW or the Counseling Center, but because I felt that Peirce was not the place to explain what an eating disorder is, or what it is not. The building has been my personal Mecca of disordered eating, and I thought it was hardly necessary to remind those with eating disorders of the urges they fight against, when they are already hyper-aware

of them.

When I tried to think of where the advertisements could go, so that students, faculty, staff and community members could see them, I was hard-pressed to think of a space that wouldn’t cause pain to someone with an eating disorder. Obviously not the bathroom, another hub of disordered digestion or purging of food. Wiggin Street Coffee or the Bookstore?

Maybe, but not ideal, given that people still eat there just like they do in Peirce. Residence halls?

I know I would not want to face a reminder of eating disorders in my place of residence, my “safe space.”

What’s left, then? The Gund Commons computer lab? The greenhouse? Other places on campus that most of the student body avoids or

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I had an urge to rip them up, not because I don’t support NEDAW or the Counseling Center, but because I felt that Peirce was not the place to explain what an eating disorder is, or what it is not.”

never comes into contact with? I soon realized that as much as I wanted to tear down the advertisements, I didn’t know where else to put them. Honestly, I wanted them out of my life, out of Gambier. Just as I want eating disorders to be out of my life, to be out of the lives of my friends, my family, individuals of all gender identities and ethnic backgrounds; to be erased from my past, present and future.

Am I being too sensitive, overlooking the need to raise awareness about a group of disorders that are largely misunderstood by the pub-

lic? Probably. However, I hope this article will do as much to raise awareness about the prevalence of eating disorders in every sphere, but especially Peirce, as much as the NEDAW advertisements have. Simply put, eating disorders will not be out of my life any time soon.

The process of making peace with that fact has been a long and arduous one, but I feel closer to peace than ever before — and that’s something to advertise.

Katie Finnigan ’15 is a psychology major from Valencia, Calif. Contact her at finnigank@kenyon.edu.

Islamophobia persists

Less bang for the Buckeye Building

Although most of Kenyon remains silent, it is time to speak out against Baehr’s racism.

More than a front door: buying building not the best way to get to know Mount Vernon.

MUHAMMED HANSROD CONTRIBUTOR

A white man once explained to me that the difference between Islam and Christianity is that Christianity promotes love whereas Islam is legalistic. Despite the obvious Islamophobia of this assertion, my response to his prejudice was deafening silence. Arabs and Muslims have long been unfairly characterized in this country as exotic, angry, violent and legally obsessed. Why should I have to defend my humanity? This semester, Richard Baehr ’69 delivered a campus-wide lecture at Kenyon in which he made blatantly Islamophobic statements. This time I refuse to be silent.

In the Feb. 19 issue of the Collegian, Professor of Political Science Fred Baumann commented that Baehr “presented a great deal of powerful factual information that I think the Kenyon community badly needs to learn and think about.” Respectfully, I completely disagree that Baehr’s rhetoric is in any way “factual.” In his lecture, Baehr asserted among other absurdities that Israel is the only “successful” country in the Middle East because it is the only country in the region not run by Muslims. Baehr’s online magazine The American Thinker also teems with Islamophobic propaganda. One article entitled “Islamophobia, Hell Yes!” brazenly dehumanizes Muslims. The author of the article proclaims, “If we are going to defeat the terrorists, we must become Islamophobes” and that “substantially all terrorists are Muslims.”

In another article on The American Thinker’s website, the author argues

that there is no Muslim Shakespeare, sarcastically asking Kenyon College professor Vernon Schubel, “If there is a Muslim playwright with such genius at exploring the universal human condition, please let us know so we can read him.” I invite the author of that article to read a sampling of Islamicate literature including Rumi’s Masnavi, Ghalib’s ghazals, Mahmoud Darwish’s insightful poetry and the memoirs of the South African anti-apartheid activist Fatima Meer. The American Thinker shamefully imagines a world in which Islam is an inherently violent religion and Muslims are potential terrorists. I think a reasonable person can safely conclude that Baehr is unapologetically Islamophobic for airing these deeply hurtful views both on his public website and on our campus.

Painting an entire global community with a dehumanizing brush should be unacceptable. Unfortunately, outrage toward Baehr’s obvious prejudice seems to have come from only a small fraction of the Kenyon community. Why has the Kenyon community remained largely silent in response to Baehr’s lecture?

Is Kenyon observing Imam Ali’s advice, “Silence is the best reply to a fool?” One would hate to think that for some at Kenyon the victims of this hurtful and dangerous prejudice, most of whom are brown or black, do not matter as much as others. I, for one, can remain silent no longer.

Muhammed Asad Hansrod ‘17 is a religious studies and Asian studies major from Durban, South Africa.

Contact him at hansrodm@kenyon. edu.

MATTHEW ELEY OPINIONS EDITOR

Downtown Mount Vernon, like most downtowns, has seen better days. Any of the more longstanding professors can recall the old Ben Franklin craft store and the department store Stage that towered over Main in three excessive but grand stories. Those anchors and many satellites are now gone, but into the vacuum have graciously stepped Central Ohio Technical College, Mount Vernon Nazarene University and now possibly Kenyon. Where once Mount Vernon residents could go to get a tailored suit, milkshakes and Christmas presents, they may now acquire an education. It’s a grand improvement.

The old Buckeye Candy Building is the most recent potential addition to a tremendous group of downtown properties either owned or managed by educational institutions. It has breathed a new, albeit different, life into the town. And it is gracious of Kenyon and the Ariel Foundation to reinvest in a downtown residents were not able to maintain due to the temptation of Coshocton Road’s big box stores. But I think the College can do better.

Last week the Collegian reported on a lovely old building not far from here (“Seeing double: historic infirmary evokes Ascension Hall”): a relative of our own Ascension but perhaps grander, if not in need of some fixing up. If Kenyon is truly interested in investing in the county, they could do no better than to restore the place; it meets many of the goals embodied in the Buckeye Candy Building but more capably.

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Like the Buckeye building, the former seminary only needs to be brought up to state building codes; but assuming that Ariel is willing to pay most upfront costs as the administration has insinuated with the warehouse, we at Kenyon know the affordability of maintaining old buildings.

And the Buckeye warehouse has only sat vacant for a few years; the residents of Knox County have been at a loss much longer as to what do with the infirmary aside from turning it into a haunted house. Much like the impasse we are at with Bexley Hall, the infirmary has been a thorn in the side of its owners for some time –– but we at Kenyon have the largesse to fill a major hole in the Knox County architectural landscape.

We might make the infirmary a dormitory up to par with the North Campus Apartments and retain the

inevitable name of the “Graham Gund Hall Extension Office.” And we might still host the SPI Spot STEM program in the commodious space of the infirmary. By virtue of being off Ohio Route 3, it is more easily accessed than the Buckeye building, which suffers from the lack of parking and poor traffic patterns that helped kill downtown in the first place.

Now that we live in the modern age, where the Onion must label its material “satire,” I will note here I am speaking in jest to a partial extent: I believe Kenyon should purchase either building. I don’t believe it disingenuous of Kenyon to invest in Mount Vernon, but I think that we must admit that we are doing it for our own satisfaction rather than value for Knox Countians. As a local , I must say that locals think of Kenyon as those aloof “people over there on the Hill” to roughly the same extent that Ohioans think of Knox County as those aloof people over there in the hills. What Mount Vernon needs is to be visited, not reached out to.

I respect President Sean Decatur’s effort to further a relationship with Knox County. But the Buckeye building stretches an already thinly maintained campus and decentralizes the locus of the Hill while giving the downtown little more than warm bodies. “Built on a bluff and maintained on the same principle,” an old professor of mine used to quip about his own alma mater, Carthage College; spreading from the Hill without being aware of the realities of Knox County could lead to a similar status for us. There are better, more genuine ways for Kenyon to invest in Knox County, if only to reinvest in itself.

Matthew Eley ’15 is an English major from Howard, Ohio. Contact him at eleym@kenyon.edu.

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Kenyon historian puts a personal Stamp on College records Thomas Stamp has obtained a variety of Kenyon artifacts, including Philander Chase’s bed.

CLAIRE OXFORD FEATURES ASSISTANT

One of the only occupied offices in Bexley Hall is piled high with documents and historical items from Kenyon’s past; this space is the dominion of Thomas Stamp ’73, College historian and keeper of Kenyoniana (all things related to Kenyon) who invented the title for himself after working at Princeton University for a time and hearing about a keeper of Princetoniana.

While Stamp said he was exposed to history from childhood on, with his father and one of his grandfathers passing down local Pittsburgh and family history, he didn’t fully realize his interest in unearthing the past until he worked in Kenyon’s archives as a student at the College. “One of my student jobs was working with Tom Greenslade the elder, … the College archivist at the time,” he said.

“I became very interested in Kenyon history thanks to [him. He was] really my mentor in a lot of ways.”

While at Kenyon, Stamp majored in English, and didn’t really consider history as a major. “I guess because my high school history teachers were so bad, I didn’t even consider

majoring in it in college, and in fact I didn’t take a history class here until my senior year,” he said, “and then I loved it but it was far too late to major.”

After graduating Kenyon, Stamp attended graduate school and earned his Master of Arts from Northwestern University. Shortly after graduate school, he worked in communications for Princeton for seven years, then was offered the position of Director of Public Affairs at Kenyon. After holding several other positions, Stamp was able to propose the “Keeper of Kenyoniana” position to the Board of Trustees.

Stamp’s position is multifaceted. “He’s kind of the guardian of the history of the place that nobody else has bothered to write down,” Professor of American Studies Peter Rutkoff said. Stamp researches Kenyon’s history, answers questions about it, leads tours of the campus for students and visitors alike and gives at least two public presentations each year on historical topics of his choice.

Stamp also spends a large chunk of his work day writing. “I make a point of putting everything I’ve learned about Kenyon history down on

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paper so that there’s a record of it … because one of my long-term projects is to write a complete history of the College, beginning with its founding in 1824,” he said. “The goal is to have it just before the College’s bicentennial in 2024.” Another major writing project Stamp has been working on is the Kenyon Companion, which in his words is “sort of a College history in encyclopedia form.”

Another of Stamp’s more engaging roles on campus is as an historical tour guide, taking visitors interested in history on a two-hour trek through Kenyon’s rich past and architecture. “[Kenyon has] played an important role in a lot of American educational history and also, through its alumni, American history in general,” Stamp said. “Especially around the time of Civil War there were many Kenyon men involved with politics at the time and involved with the war. Good friends of Lincoln were from Kenyon.”

While remarkable alumni have left their mark on the College’s history books, Stamp said he is especially fascinated by the stories embedded in the campus architecture and Kenyoniana. He is

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College Historian Thomas Stamp enjoys Kenyon’s architecture and teaches a class on the topic. particularly fond of Peirce Hall. During its dedication, Kenyon’s President William Foster Peirce said it would be the last building Kenyon would ever need, acording to Stamp.

“He normally had more foresight than that, but for a while it looked like Kenyon might never be able to build another structure because of the Great Depression,” Stamp said.

As the keeper of Kenyoniana, Stamp has also been amassing “new things all the time, new old things,” he said. Some notable objects he’s collected have been former Kenyon President William Foster Peirce’s desk, College founder Philander Chase’s bed, and early graduate Alfred Blake’s, Class of 1829,

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glasses. “When I went down to meet the [Blake] family and see the pieces they were offering for sale they showed me [the glasses] and insisted that I try them on,” he said. “And I said, you know, I won’t be able to see through these, I have a very complex prescription — [but I could] see perfectly.”

Stamp also teaches the occasional course on history of architecture or history of education. For instance, his seminar from last year, The History of American College and University Architecture and Planning, was a favorite among his former students. In addition to organizing class trips around campus, to spots such as the top of Peirce Tower,

he still found time to invite students to his home.

“One of our last seminars he made us dinner,” Sarabeth Domal ’15 said. “It was honestly one of the best times I’ve ever had.

We went up to his house … and he made like two different types of lasagna, a salad and an entire cheesecake … and then had class in his really awesome living room, which is covered in books.”

“He’s kind of one of the best kept secrets,” former Stamp student and Collgian staff writer Ben Payner ’15 said, “because he’s not an advisor, he’s not interacting with tons of students everyday … but I think everyone would benefit from taking his class or talking with him.”

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What NBC News anchor was suspended for lying about an Iraq War helicopter incident?

Brian Williams

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What large comedy reunion event happened two Sundays ago?

SNL’s 40th anniversary

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Parts of what iconic cataract have frozen due to extreme cold?

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Who does Unsung Heroes Week celebrate?

The employees of AVI, Safety and Maintenance

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Two close losses, one in overtime, end the Lords’s season ANNA DUNLAVEY SPORTS EDITOR

The men’s basketball team has suffered five losses in the month of February, all of them by margins of five points or fewer. Two of those losses came this past week, with the Lords ending their season in heartbreaking fashion. On the cusp of the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) tournament, the Lords dropped two critically important games.

Last Wednesday’s loss to Wittenberg University ended with a score of 80-75, and the final game of the season, against Wabash College, resulted in a one-point overtime loss of 6867.

“I give our guys a lot of credit,” Head Coach Dan Priest said. “It would have been easy to get pretty discouraged, even last week, going into the end of the season, and they still played really hard and put in a lot of heart and emotion.”

The Lords kept pace with Wittenberg throughout the first half, but the Tigers, who held a 31-26 lead when the

game hit halftime, scored nine points within the first 90 seconds of the second half.

The gap between the Tigers and the Lords only increased over the next six minutes, but when they were down by 14, Tim Connolly ’16 was able to bring them back. The Lords scored 14 unanswered points with 10 minutes remaining in the game, and Connolly was responsible for eight for them.

Almost half of Connolly’s team-leading 20 points came from that run. With the game tied at 51, Bennett Grigull ’18 hit a free throw for the Lords to take a 52-51 lead.

The Lords could not hold the close lead for long. The Tigers quickly overtook them, and with a little less than three minutes to go, the score was 72-62. However, within that minute, a 3-pointer and a jumper each from Cooper Handelsman ’15 and Jonathan Amador ’15, and a 3-pointer from Connor Garrity ’15, once again brought the game to within one point. The game was decided at the free-throw line with 30 seconds left, after

two different Wittenberg players were fouled and both made their free throws. The final score of the Lords’s final home game of the season was 80-75 in favor of the Tigers.

The Lords kept their hopes up, however, as they headed to Wabash College for what would be their final game of the regular season. The Lords kept pace with the Little Giants over the first half, but the home team came off the court at the end of the half with a slight lead of 30-28.

In the second half, the Little Giants began to take charge; they were leading by five points with just over four minutes left in regulation when Handelsman got the Lords within one.

He scored two layups on consecutive Lords possessions.

The Lords and Little Giants then traded the lead over the final minute of the game, but it was forced to overtime at a 59-59 tie.

Under other circumstances, the Lords might have been able to better capitalize on their overtime chance. In this game, however, the Lords were

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Tim Connolly ’16 was key to the Lords’ effort against Wittenberg. made to pay for the 28 personal fouls they committed over the course of the game.

Offensive powerhouses John Bray ’15 and Brian Com-

ey ’16 had already fouled out by overtime, and Phillip Crampton ’18, who went into overtime with four fouls, fouled out during overtime. Amador also

entered overtime with four fouls, but he ended up having a foul committed on him, with only four seconds left and the score at 68-65 in Wabash’s favor. Amador made two of his three free throws, bringing the Lords within one, and although Garrity grabbed the rebound and took a shot in the final three seconds, the Lords could not get that final basket. Overtime, and the season, ended there.

“We were a pretty good team,” Priest said of the season.

“We just had trouble with one basket here or there, one rebound here or there.”

For the team’s four seniors, the Wabash game marked the end of their college careers, but they largely went out on a high note. Handelsman ended this season with 108 total points, the fifth-best single-season mark in Kenyon history. The last time the team played Wittenberg, on Jan. 21, Bray hit his career high of 25 points in a single game. “Our seniors had a lot of resolve,” Priest said. “All four of them played big roles in both games.”

Swimming gets one “Fast Chance” Tennis takes two wins The Lords competed until 3 a.m. on Saturday.

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Once called the “Last Chance Invitational,” the Fast Chance Invitational, which Kenyon hosts annually, offers swimmers in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) one last chance to swim their fastest times in an unscored meet.

The selections for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Championships come out only a few days after this meet each year. This past weekend, a number of Kenyon swimmers posted NCAA B-cut times, and according to the unofficial psych sheets released by usaswimming.com yesterday, Kenyon will have swimmers competing in all of the events at the 2015 NCAA Championships.

Many of Kenyon’s swimmers headed to nationals had already swum times that qualified them for the NCAAs before this weekend. Consequently, only around twothirds of the team competed at the Fast Chance meet. While some swimmers took advantage of the chance to rest and prepare for championship races, others used the opportunity

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Trevor Manz ’17 is one of the swimmers who will compete at nationals. to swim events that they don’t normally compete in, just for fun. “It’s a different kind of meet, so people are swimming different kinds of events,” Head Coach Jess Book ’01 said.

Some athletes did qualify for the championships just this past weekend. For example, on the Ladies’ side, Ellie Crawford ’18 posted a B-cut time of 2:19.95 in the 200-yard breaststroke, which earned her a slot in the nationals lineup. She ranked 15th out of the 34 qualified swimmers in that event, and the top 17 make the cut.

Swimmers who do not make it into one of the top spots in their events still have a chance

to compete. For the Lords, Austin Pu ’17 had a season-best time of 45.27 in the 100-yard freestyle, which was enough to seed him 19th, one of the first spots eligible if somebody in that event cannot swim.

Kenyon can have up to 18 men and 18 women qualify to swim at nationals. Those who make the cut will stay on campus over spring break to train, and will compete in Shenandoah, Texas through March 18-21. This is the same pool where nationals was held two years ago, and Book is excited to head back. “It’s a very fast pool,” he said. “We’re excited to go.”

Coming off a week where they won two of their three matches, the men’s varsity tennis team appears to be ready for their spring season.

All three matches pitted the Lords against highly ranked collegiate competition, with Kenyon defeating Carnegie Mellon and Case Western Reserve Universities, both of which are currently ranked in the top 10 in the country.

“Getting those wins is a good start to the season, and I’m really looking forward to the rest of the season,” Michael Liu ’18 said of the weekend.

While a late rally from Washington University in St. Louis prevented the Lords from a perfect week, they nearly pulled off the upset. The team held early 3-1 and 4-3 leads before Washington rallied for two points to prevent the upset.

The Lords, currently ranked 12th in the nation, did not let the loss hang over their heads, easily dispatching Carnegie Mellon, ranked at ninth in the country, the next day by a score of 6-3. The Lords won the first two points, and extended their lead to 4-1 when Wade Heerboth ’15 defeated Carnegie Mellon’s Abhishek Alla, the

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11th-ranked player in the country, in the number-one singles match.

After the win over Carnegie Mellon, the Lords went on to play Case Western in a match that lasted just over six hours and ended past 3 a.m.

Despite falling to an early 4-1 deficit against Case Western, the Lords rallied to their second-straight victory, 5-4. Davis Thrailkill ’15 finished off the rally by defeating Case Western’s Kevin Dong in three sets to earn the Lords their fifth and final point. The victory was the Lords’ third win in their last four matches.

The wins this past weekend could provide the Lords with momentum for their next match. The team will travel to California to take on Concordia University on March 6. “As long as we stay healthy and bring the same fight and toughness to every match, I think we’ll just get even better over the course of the season,” Liu said.

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Loss to Wittenberg Tigers ends Ladies’s postseason run REBECCA DANN SPORTS ASSISTANT

The women’s basketball team ended their regular season this past Saturday on senior day with a triumphant win against the College of Wooster, 71-51. The game marked the Ladies’s first win after a six-game losing streak, bringing their overall North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) record to 5-11 and their overall record to 7-17.

“The win against Wooster was definitely really good, especially because we were able to share the ball so well and we had quite a few players [score] in double digits,” Avery Anderson ’15 said. “So

when everyone is contributing like that it’s really fun.”

At the start of the first half, Wooster managed to score the first basket, putting them in the lead. Just 30 seconds later, Kenyon tied the score 2-2, as Anderson scored a layup. Sarah Hobbs ’15 followed suit and scored Kenyon’s second layup of the game, bringing the team into the lead.

Wooster then tied the score back up with two good free throws, but the Ladies quickly retaliated as Griffin Tullis ’18 scored a layup bringing the score to 6-4. From this point on in the game, Kenyon maintained their lead. With just three minutes remaining in the first half, Kenyon led the

Fighting Scots by 13 points, 32-19. Wooster put in a good effort to close the gap between the scores before the end of the first half, and managed to score another five points, but the Ladies still held a considerable lead of 32-24 at the end of the 20 minutes.

The Ladies gained even more momentum in the second half, increasing their lead from eight to 21 points by the time there were two minutes left in the game, bringing the score to 66-45. Wooster made four free throws within the next 30 seconds to up their score to 66-49, but Tullis made a 3-pointer to bring Kenyon back up to a 20-point lead. Wooster and Ken-

yon managed another layup apiece within the last minute of the game, making the final score 71-51.

Tullis, Anderson and Bailey Dominguez ’17 each contributed an impressive 13 points in the game. Molly Rubin ’16 also had a strong performance, as she managed to score a total of 10 points.

“I don’t think our last home game could have been any better,” Head Coach Suzanne Helfant said. “I thought that it was a tremendous team effort. I thought our three seniors played exceptional games and I thought that we honored them in a way that we were really proud of everything that they’ve done for our

program.”

This past Tuesday, the Ladies entered the post-season conference tournament and played against Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. The two teams appeared evenly matched during the first half, but Wittenberg gained the lead with just five minutes left in the period and Kenyon was unable to catch up for the remainder of the game.

“Wittenberg is a tough team and they came out really ready to play,” Anderson said. “We just made some mistakes, some mental errors at the end of the game, but we fought with them the whole time.” With five minutes left

in the second half, the Ladies were only behind by one point, but Wittenberg quickly pulled ahead again, and the Ladies lost 67-61 and were eliminated from the tournament.

“It was a great game,” Helfant said. “I was very proud of our team. I was very proud of the way they battled them. It was just kind of the story of our season, though.: we got close but we just couldn’t get over the hump. This year has been a great learning experience for our younger kids.

I think we’re going to grow tremendously from it. I think that our three seniors were great leaders for this program and we’re going to miss them.”

Levant, Winters honored by NCAC after Kenyon Classic Ladies place third, Lords eighth in home track and field meet.

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The track and field team hosted their only home meet of the indoor season, the Kenyon College Classic, on Saturday, and despite snowy weather in the area, nine out of the 10 schools invited were able to attend. The Ladies raced to a third-place finish out of the women’s teams, and the Lords took eighth place on the men’s side.

“It’s always good being at home,” Head Coach Duane Gomez said. “I think [the runners] are more relaxed, and their friends are there cheering them on.”

The North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) also recognized the strong individual performances of two of the team’s captains, Emma Levant ’16 and Noah Winters ’15, by selecting them as two of the NCAC’s sprinters of the week.

This was the first time Levant was named NCAC sprinter of the week. “It’s definitely an honor because the award is typically given to athletes that I really admire, so it’s neat for me to be put on the same level as them,” Levant said.

Levant, a multi-eventer, won the 60-meter hurdles race in a time of 9.43 seconds. She also put up two fourth-place finishes, in the long jump, where she reached 4.77 meters, and in the high jump, where she reached 1.48 meters.

“There are a number of technical things that I still need to work on, but I was lucky enough to have everything come together for me during all of my events,” Levant said.

“It was especially fun to have that happen while we were at home.”

Sprinter Winters finished first in the 400-meter dash with a time of 51.80. Winters then took fourth place in the

200-meter dash with a time of 23.74, and was part of the 4x200-meter relay, which finished in eighth place with a time of 3:40.39. “I was content with it,” Winters said about his performance at the meet. As for being named sprinter of the week, Winters said, “I was happy to have it happen.”

Distance runner Nat Fox ’16 took first place in the 3,000-meter race with a time of 9:00.69, a personal best for him by almost 20 seconds. “He ran really, really well,” Gomez said of Fox. “It was the best race I’ve ever seen him run.”

In field events, Devron Martin ’18 had her best outing of the season in the triple jump. She won the event with a jump of 10.27 meters.

Subei Kyle ’17 claimed first place in the 400-meter dash. Kyle, who twisted her ankle while finishing her leg of the 4x200-meter relay at the All-Ohio Championship

two weeks ago, put the injury behind her last weekend and posted a personal best time of 1:03.01.

Lucas Herweyer ’15 also posted a great finish after coming back from injury.

Herweyer, competing in only his second meet of the season, placed second in the shot put with a throw that measured 15.46 meters.

Gomez and his team believed that competing at home made the event a bit more relaxed. “It’s the most fun I’ve ever had at a track meet,” Tanner Zaas ’15, one of Winters’ 4x200-meter relay teammates, said. “Everybody was running fast, everybody came off the track with a smile, everybody was pumped up.”

“It’s always kind of fun to run at home,” Winters said.

“We put so much time in down there so it was nice to see the affirmation.”

Next week, some of the

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Harlee Mollenkopf ’17 placed second in the 5,000 meter run. team will compete at Denison University’s Last Chance Meet to get qualifying times for the NCAC Indoor Championships. Levant and fellow multi-eventers will start their portion of the NCAC meet

this coming weekend, and the rest of the team will compete March 7-8 at DePauw University. “We have a lot of people going to conferences for the first time, so that will be fun,” Gomez said.