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Student survives fall from Old K bullseye; College assesses safety HENRI GENDREAU

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A student is recovering from getting ready injuries after falling from one for bed when I heard the of the Old Kenyon bullseye windows on Saturday night, an sirens and I heard the heevent the College is currently licopter. ... I knew pretty investigating as an accident. quickly that something Alexander Beatty ’19 was air- serious was going on. lifted to The Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center Meredith Harper Bonham, after he fell from the fourthvice president for student f loor window in the division affairs housing of the Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity.

A family member said Beatty, pus Safety Bob Hooper cited who was discharged from the Family Educational Rights the Wexner Medical Center and Privacy Act (FERPA) and Wednesday, met with a wrist the Health Insurance Portaspecialist and is expected to re- bility and Accountability Act turn to his home in Baltimore (HIPPA) in declining to release soon. the full report.

“We certainly want to do a “I was at home getting ready full understanding of the de- for bed when I heard the sitails of what happened,” said rens and I heard the helicopter, President Sean Decatur, who and then my phone rang, and I awoke around 11:15 p.m. Sat- knew pretty quickly that someurday to a phone call notifying thing serious was going on,” him of the news.

Meredith Harper Bonham ’92, “I was in touch with the staff vice president for student afas the response and support fairs, said. work was going on.”

Shortly afterward, Dean of A student called Campus Students Hank Toutain called Safety around 11 p.m. to re- Bonham to share the news with port a student had fallen out her. of a window. Director of CamDKE president Em- page 6

ANSWERS

by BILL GARDNER

wo days after an alumnus publicly accused Kenyon of mishandling his sister’s campus sexual assault case this year, President Sean Decatur announced via a Student-Info email that the College would hire an independent firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of its sexual misconduct policy and compliance with Title IX and the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).

“Over the past two days, some have raised serious questions about our policies and practices,” Decatur wrote in his email Wednesday. “These questions must be addressed, and I believe that the best way to respond is with an honest, independent and thorough assessment.”

Decatur said the audit would gather information from all campus constituencies, evaluate Kenyon’s procedures for handling Title IX cases, as well as their training and education methods. The administration will also “examine cases and other related data,” Decatur wrote. The College will share the findings from this review with alumni and the Kenyon community at the end of the process.

In a post on his personal blog Monday, which he also shared on his Facebook page, the alumnus, Michael Hayes ’14, wrote that his sister, Chelsie Hayes ’18, was raped on Nov. 7, 2015 in a residence hall on campus.

Hayes said his sister fell asleep after taking her prescribed page 3 medication and drinking a bottle of wine

Master Plan changes take shape Today and tomorrow, members of Kenyon’s Board of Trustees will hold their annual spring meeting to discuss the operations and future of the College. The Master Plan, according to President Sean Decatur, will be a main focus at the meeting.

The following articles detail the latest on the steps Kenyon is taking to institute the Master Plan.

Board chairman Brackett B. Denniston III ’69 did not immediately respond to multiple calls and emails seeking comment.

Farr Hall RACHEL MITCHELL Farr Hall, including the Village Market and student apartments, is slated for demolition during summer 2017.

Kenyon’s plans for downtown Gambier will be discussed at this week’s Board of Trustees meeting, according to Chief Business Officer Mark Kohlman and President Sean Decatur.

With a projected price tag of $18 million, projects in the Village renovation will include the demolition and replacement of Farr, a new Village Market in place of the Black Box Theater and several new North Campus Apartment-style residences on the former sites of the Gambier Grill and the old Student Activities Office building.

Decatur said the College has already raised $12 million for the project.

Jeanne Poland, co-owner of the Gambier Deli, said at first she was not

A rendering of the Farr Hall replacement and new student apartments.

Courtesy of Gund Partnership

sure what the deli’s fate would be. She has been in contact with the College about what a new space might entail.

More than anything, Poland fears the interim year when she will most likely not be able to conduct business.

“I never felt like the College treated us unfairly,” Poland said. “But the logistics are my worst nightmare.”

Although she’s anxious about the time it will take to build the new building, Poland is confident business will pick up quickly. “I don’t think Gambier will forget us,” she said.

Farr’s destruction affects more than just the Village Market and the deli: WKCO, the College’s student-run radio station, has made its home in the basement of Farr Hall for over 40 years, and Farr’s demolition means the destruction of the WKCO studios.

WKCO’s co-general manager,Teddy Farkas ’16 wrote in a text message to the Collegian that he and other members of the executive staff are attempt-

ing to secure a permanent future home for the station.

According to incoming co-general manager Julia Waldow ’17, also the Collegian’s art director, the College has indicated it may move the broadcast booth to an undetermined location in Peirce Hall, but that these plans remain up in the air.

Farkas also said WKCO staff were not involved in these relocation discussions. “We have tried with little success over the past year to get in contact with proper administrators about organizing a space for the future when it first occurred to us that we may have to move,” Farkas said.

No definite plans for a permanent WKCO space have been released.

Next year’s general managers, Waldow and Adam Brill ’17, and next year’s studio manager, Seth Reichert ’17, will meet with Kohlman on May 6 to discuss the studio’s future location pages 4-5 and components.

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Village Record April 20 - April 26 April 20, 11:13 a.m. — Fire alarm activated due to cooking/burning food at Wiggin Street Coffee. No smoke or fire reported. Alarm reset.

April 20, 12:03 a.m. — Fire alarm activated at the Kenyon Athletic Center (KAC) due to cooking/burning food. No smoke or fire reported.

Alarm reset.

April 20, 6:32 p.m. — Report of passengers in black truck taunting persons out of the window and driving recklessly in front of Peirce Hall.

Knox County Sheriff ’s Office (KCSO) contacted. KCSO stated they would follow up with owner of vehicle.

April 20, 10:15 p.m. — Concerned call from parent of student in Norton Residence Hall. Safety responded. Vitals taken and in normal range with no fever.

April 21, 11:17 a.m. — Fire alarm sounded at the Health Center. No smoke or fire reported. Maintenance contacted.

April 22, midnight — Students reacting oddly to ill student lying on the ground in New Apartments. Safety contacted. No other action required.

April 22, 10:15 p.m. — Report of offensive graffiti written on walls in Mather Residence Hall. Maintenance notified.

April 22, 11:39 p.m. — Standing water causing safety hazard in Peirce.

Maintenance/custodial staff contacted.

April 23, 12:15 a.m. — Alcohol found in Norton without approval. A group of students took responsibility. Responsible students left without incident.

April 23, 12:33 a.m. — Report of offensive graffiti written on walls of Mather. Maintenance notified.

April 23, 1 a.m. — Student reported a sticky substance on door of McBride Residence Hall.

April 23, 6:20 p.m. — Student complaint of headache from falling the evening before in McBride. Safety responded. Student transported privately to urgent care for further evaluation and treatment.

April 23, 10:57 p.m. — Student fell out of bullseye window in Old Kenyon Residence Hall. Safety responded. Multiple injuries sustained. Student transported to The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center for further evaluation and treatment.

April 23, 11:57 p.m. — Intoxicated student in Manning Residence Hall.

Safety responded. Student transported via squad to KCH for further evaluation and treatment.

April 24, 12:49 a.m. — Water fountain broken at gathering at Colburn Hall. Water supply shut off. Maintenance notified.

April 24, 11:33 a.m. — Student who had cut hand on broken glass came to Campus Safety. Safety officer assessed cut. Student privately transported to urgent care for further evaluation and treatment.

April 24, 6:27 p.m. — Employee complaint of severe pain in shoulder in Peirce. Employee transported privately.

April 24, 11 p.m. — Fire alarm sounded in Acland Apartments. No smoke. No fire. Maintenance notified. Alarm reset.

April 25, 2:32 a.m. — Employee reported strong odor of illegal substance in Ascension Hall. No one found during sweep of building.

April 25, 2:32 a.m. — Fire alarm sounded in North Campus Apartment (NCA). No smoke. No fire. Alarm reset.

April 25, 3:55 a.m. — Student complaint of severe leg pain in New Apts.

Safety responded. Student refused further evaluation by squad, or to be transported to KCH. Student said leg pain had subsided to a dull ache. No other action required.

April 25, 7:45 p.m. — Student reported loss of power in Mather. Safety and maintenance contacted. Panel found to have been opened and fuses turned off. Power restored.

April 26, midnight — Students found in unauthorized area in Gund Gallery rummaging through cupboards. Student found to have illegal substance and paraphernalia on person. Items confiscated, tested and turned over to KCSO.

StuCo tries out a cup-free Peirce GRACE RICHARDS For two days last week, AVI removed all paper cups from Peirce Hall as part of a Student Council initiative to promote sustainability.

Both Student Council president Phoebe Roe ’16 and Matt Meyers ’17, co-president of Environmental Campus Organization (ECO) and sustainability chair for council, said feedback was mixed, with limited negative feedback beyond a few disgruntled comments from friends, perhaps because students were informed ahead of time through posters and emails.

Meyers said excessive paper cup use at Peirce wastes money and resources. Students typically use 1,500 to 3,000 paper cups from Peirce every day, and Meyers called this use a waste of resources.

“In terms of climate action, these are the small things that we can afford to go without,” Meyers said. On its website, the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions defines climate action as a plan with concrete steps to reduce an institution’s contribution to climate change by limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

According to Meyers, the council originally planned to remove paper cups from Peirce for an entire week, but the administration shortened the period without paper cups to two days, due to the high number of prospective students visiting early in the week.

Meyers hoped removing paper cups would encourage students to return borrowed dishes to Peirce.

Roe said removing the paper cups was an effort to tangibly address sus-

CORRECTION The article “After 25 years, Jeanne Poland is still the cold-cut queen” (April 21) contained a number of inaccuracies. See the Collegian’s website for an updated version of the article, as well as a list of the corrections.

The first installment of “Art of Perception” (April 21) stated 60 people attended the opening reception for the Senior Studio Art Exhibition; this figure referred to the number of people in attendance during one portion of the opening. The reception attracted more than 530 viewers overall.

The Collegian regrets these errors.

AVI removed paper cups for two days last week to promote campus sustainability.

Photo by Drew Meeker

tainability, driven by student feedback regarding sustainability as an increasing priority.

Sarah McPeek ’19, who will be a co-manager of the Brown Family Environmental Center (BFEC) next year, expressed enthusiasm about the initiative.

“I did see lots of people using [plastic] cups or starting to bring their own things, which is what we want to encourage people to do,” McPeek said.

Roe suggested removing paper cups from Peirce entirely next year may be possible, especially if thermoses are distributed to students. The council will likely circulate a survey to gauge student reaction, according to Roe.

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Open letter from alum garners national attention Continued from Page 1

and a few beers at the Cove and was assaulted “by a boy who insisted to her and to others that she was ‘too cute to be a lesbian,’” Hayes wrote.

“Despite her documented injuries, a bed stained with her own blood, her sexual orientation, and the combination of that much alcohol and prescription medication in her body, the college concluded — both initially and on appeal — that there was insufficient evidence to conclude that it was more likely than not that the college’s policy on sexual assault had been broken at all.”

Decatur sent an initial campuswide email Tuesday afternoon after alumni and students reacted to Hayes’s post, which, as of 2 a.m.

Thursday, had been shared 879 times on Facebook. Mic, an online news site, and Teen Vogue picked up the story, publishing articles about the letter on Tuesday and Wednesday night, respectively.

“Over the past 24 hours, the Kenyon community has been made sensitive to issues regarding sexual misconduct,” Decatur wrote Tuesday. “I and no other College administrator can comment on any student conduct case of any type. To do so violates the rights of privacy, and would, in turn, multiply the pain felt by everyone involved. This may seem to

some that the College is hiding behind the law, but I believe that this is simply the right thing to do.”

Mark Ellis, associate vice president for communications, sent an email Wednesday informing parents of the recent sensitivity to the College’s Title IX policy, and included links to Decatur’s two letters in the email.

“I think that we have a really valuable opportunity here to work with the administration to fix some of the issues that we face,” Christina Franzino ’16, a student leader of the Sexual Misconduct Advisors (SMAs), said. “I think there are deeper issues of the legislation being broken … and needing to be more survivor-centric and needing to acknowledge the realities of trauma on a college campus in ways that it doesn’t currently.”

On Monday night, students found copies of Hayes’s letter taped to professors’ office doors in Ascension Hall.

After reading the letter, first years Jackie Dicks and Hannah Farr organized a meeting Tuesday morning with Civil Rights Coordinator Andrea Goldblum, asking her to respond. A Collegian reporter accompanied them to the meeting, but Goldblum asked that the conversation not be recorded. Goldblum explained the Title IX policy in detail, and assured them both the process was designed to be fair and equitable.

Dicks and Farr appreciated Goldblum met with them, but were not fully satisfied with her responses.

“I think there are still a lot of unanswered questions,” Dicks said.

“We expressed a lot of concerns, and I don’t necessarily feel like all of those were met.”

Farr and Dicks both said they do not feel safe on campus under the current policy and that Hayes’s post disturbed them.

“Some of the details really hit close to home, so I was just kind of in shock,” Farr said. “Also reading some of the evidence, the details within it, I was just like, ‘How did this happen?’”

Decatur said in an interview with the Collegian he has “a great deal of confidence” in the system which Kenyon adopted last year, though he stressed that he can’t comment on any specific case.

SPORTS, a band comprised of current and former Kenyon students, tweeted Monday they were “disappointed in @KenyonCollege today.”

After Decatur’s email to students and alumni on Tuesday, SPORTS wrote another tweet that they were “feeling unsatisfied” with Decatur’s response, tagging Decatur’s handle.

Nathan Durham ’17, a sexual misconduct advisor (SMA), commented on Hayes’s post, writing that he has yet to witness justice for survivors of sexual assault at Kenyon.

“As an SMA, I’ve never seen a just outcome for a survivor handed down by this administration. Not once,” Durham wrote. “This is heartbreaking.”

Decatur, the Council of Social Justice and Diversity (CSJD) and students have scheduled events in the wake of Hayes’s letter and Decatur’s response.

CSJD organized a Title IX discussion Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Horn Gallery. Around 50 students attended. Audrey Neubauer ’19, said the talk helped her think more clearly about Title IX, but the general confusion about the policy concerned her.

“This is a dialogue that requires a lot more time and involvement,” Neubauer said. “I think this is a conversation that everyone should want to be a part of, and, because that isn’t necessarily realistic, something every Kenyon student should be required to be a part of.”

A “Sit-in in Support of Survivors of Sexual Assault” has been organized by sophomores Cayla Anderson, Rachel Arens, Hannah Levy, Grace Riley and Hayley Yussman. The sitin is scheduled for today from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Old Side of Peirce Hall, according to the Facebook event. Yussman said they originally planned to hold the event in the atrium of Peirce, but changed the location to Old Side per a request from

the SMAs, who wanted to minimize the possibility of triggering survivors going to Peirce for lunch.

“In my opinion, the administration has not responded in a supportive, uplifting way to these survivors, but rather has attempted to sweep these issues under the rug, letting the perpetrators go free with very few repercussions,” Arens wrote in an email to the Collegian.

The sit-in is not associated with any particular campus group.

Franzino said the SMAs have taken a neutral stance on the sit-in and any further organized demonstration due to their status as a third-party resource for anyone affected by sexual misconduct on campus. She added SMAs will be on hand at the sit-in to speak with anyone who may feel triggered or otherwise want to talk.

With the Board of Trustees meeting starting today, and its members lunching in Peirce, Yussman said sitin organizers will try to direct board members and administrators into Old Side to see the demonstration.

“I think a big issue on Kenyon is sort of a complacency with political issues. Nobody really does anything,” Yussman said. “They might complain about it and then not have any larger dialogues. With Sendoff, when everyone came together to have more discourse, something happened.”

ON THE RECORD DAVID PEPPER

OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIR GABRIELLE HEALY David Pepper has been the chair of the Ohio Democratic Party since January 2015. A Cincinnati native, he first won election to the Cincinnati City Council in 2001, and has run for several statewide offices, most recently Ohio attorney general in 2014. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he teaches election and voting rights law.

How do you respond to the sense of anger and anxiety that seems to be sweeping the minds (and ballots) of young voters?

I talk to young people all the time.

I can’t say I’ve heard anger as much as real concern about economics and real frustration that our system isn’t addressing problems like income inequality, the student debt situation.

Maybe anger fuels some of the Trump side. To me it feels like less anger and more like frustration and deep concern.

What are your strategies to reenergize and re-engage Ohioans, the majority of whom stayed home during the 2014 midterm election?

We have to take on these issues every day; we have to do it at all levels.

It can’t just be during the presidential

election years. We have to help people understand there are no “off-year” elections. Every year there are people on the ballot that can make a difference on everything from income inequality, criminal justice, the job market. Another is to make sure that on our side, our candidates really do this for public service, it’s not just some game or they’re looking to help themselves, which is often what politics feels like to people. We also have to have a better infrastructure where we’re talking to voters all the time, not just a couple months before the election.

How do you select eligible candidates for office on the state and local level?

We do a lot of recruiting, a lot of training. Oftentimes people self-select, and we emphasize that we want you here to do a public service. Once they get there, we really need to make sure they’re doing the job well. We’re going to be a little more forceful than we have in the past.

A 2015 Cleveland.com article (“Here’s what David Pepper has been up to since taking over the Ohio Democratic Party,” Jan. 21) reported that you’ve been traveling the state to meet with grassroots activists since you became party chair. Who have you been meeting with, and what have they been saying to you about the upcoming pres-

idential election?

We’ve been having town hall meetings all over the state, and we invited anyone and everyone who had an opinion about how we could do better. It was from all those meetings with all those activists we have a strategic plan we put in place, the 16/18 plan, meaning we have to win in 2016 — when the whole country needs us — and 2018. It’s not good enough to win the presidency; we have to win every year. It was everyone from all parts of the state, rural areas, urban areas, and that initial input has been a critical part of what we’ve been doing.

Many voters are criticizing the “superdelegate,” or “unpledged” delegate system, especially after Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, said effectively the superdelegate system protects party leadership from grassroots candidates. As a superdelegate, how do you rectify accurately representing Ohioans at the convention and your role as a leader in the Democratic Party?

So what I’ve tried to do is stay neutral.

I’ve not committed to either side. My number-one goal has been to work for both candidates and get to know both candidates. I’ve actually not declared, because I didn’t want to get ahead of the people. So my goal has been to wait until

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pretty close to the convention to wait until it all plays out. As chair, I have the superdelegate position because I represent the party; it’s not personal. The number one goal the party has is to have everyone in Ohio feel like the party was fair to them, however the chips fall. We’ve worked really hard to be neutral. I’ll make a decision based on seeing everything play out. I’ve met both candidates.

I think they’re both better candidates because of the primary, and between the two of them they’re nailing the biggest issues that people really care about.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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The future face of Kenyon’s campus Library will be ‘centerpiece of campus,’ with student resources, technology BILL GARDNER Students concerned about the destruction of the Olin-Chalmers Memorial Library may have to wait a little longer to find out when the College will tear it down.

Two weeks ago, construction crews began drilling holes in the soil around the library to test the structural soundness of the ground where the College will be building a new, six-floor structure, according to Mark Kohlman, chief business officer. But both President Sean Decatur and Kohlman said they did not know when Kenyon would tear down the old library or break ground on the new one.

In March, the College posted an updated version of the new library plans from the architectural firm run by alumnus Graham Gund ’63 H’83, Gund Part-

nership, which is designing the give feedback on the plans and project. These plans, displayed in get an idea of how they will funcChalmers, included changes to tion in the future space. the design of the special collecKohlman said the College tions room did not have and the aran estimated It’s going to be chives room, budget for the the centerpiece but the exnew library at terior of the of campus, in a lot of ways, this time. building re- and we want it to be susTimmy mained the Broderick tainable; we want it to same. ’16, chair of Kohlman reflect our campus values.” the Buildings said the Coland Grounds lege did not Timmy Broderick ’16 Committee, have a spesaid the new cific timeline on when the proj- library would act as an “academect would be completed, but said ic commons” for the campus. the College had their first round The College is considering movof meetings and workshops with ing the Student Accessibility and Bright Spot, a consulting firm Support Services (SASS), the Cabased out of New York work- reer Development Office (CDO), ing with the administration on Office of the Registrar, Helpline construction plans for the new and the Writing Center into the library. These meetings includ- new space, according to Brodered the library staff so they could ick and Ronald Griggs, vice pres-

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ident of library and information services (LBIS). Griggs hopes the move will increase student traffic through these particular offices.

Broderick said one of the College’s goals for the new library was to design the space so it could evolve with new technology. In the plans, there is a “sandbox room,” a space that will remain virtually empty so the College can move new technology into it in the future.

“Whatever technology becomes prominent in the next 20, 40 or 50 years, they can adapt the space to that use,” Broderick said. “I think that’s what a lot of the plans are trying to do, make [the library] so it’s not necessarily up to date now, but up to date 40 years from now.”

An attached parking garage is also laid out in the plans, according to Griggs and Kohlman.

They did not have a timeline or

an approximate budget for the parking garage.

The Sustainability Council, a group of students, faculty and staff devoted to reducing Kenyon’s carbon footprint, along with the help of Griggs, intends to submit a proposal to the Buildings and Grounds Committee during the board meeting on Friday for the new library to be Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum, the highest level of sustainability a building can achieve. Griggs and Broderick said the new library would be one of the largest buildings on campus, and they want it to reflect Kenyon’s progressive environmental mindset.

“It’s going to be the centerpiece of campus, in a lot of ways, and we want it to be sustainable; we want it to reflect our campus values,” Broderick said.

Demolition permit in hand, College seeks variance approval to replace Black Box NATALIE TWITCHELL While Village Council has approved the demolition of the Black Box Theater, the College is still seeking approval from the Gambier Planning and Zoning Commission to construct a new building on the site.

The first floor of the planned building at Chase Avenue will be the site of the Village Market. The second floor will house either 12 or eight students in two apartments, depending on the final floor plan, according to Chief Business Officer Mark Kohlman, who represented the College at the Commission’s meeting on April 19. Square

footage has already been cut from the plans in the process, according to Kohlman. The College is in the process of negotiating the plans with the Village, according to President Sean Decatur; the project is slated for completion in 2017.

The Black Box will be a topic of discussion at this week’s board of trustees meeting.

“We’re at a point of really making decisions about moving the project forward,” Decatur said, in reference to plans for the Village. “For this meeting, that’s the focal point of the conversation and the focal point of any concrete decisions to be made.”

At the commission’s meeting on April 19, community

members were vocal about their concerns over the impact of the construction and the move of the market. Any restriction the Village places on deliveries will jeopardize the existence of the market, due to the small size of the deliveries, according to Kohlman. Betsy Heer, a member of the commission, pointed out that construction traffic would obstruct access to the diesel pump at the gas station.

Kenyon owns that building and is the largest purchaser of diesel fuel.

Some students involved in theater expressed converns over potentially losing a performance space. Jono Bornstein ’18, a member of theater troupe

Brave Potato and a cappella The College is working group The Broken Legs, said with the theater department tearing down the Black Box is to find what Decatur called a not in the “functioninterest of ing Black Box We’re at a point the perforspace,” by mance arts September. of really making community. decisions about moving Kenyon has “If I not decided the project forward. For came to the whether the College as a this meeting, that’s the fonew theater, prospective cal point. which will be student and handicap-acI saw that President Sean Decatur cessible and there was feature bathno student rooms, will theater to use, I think it would be a new building or the result be a very different thought pro- of renovation, according to Decess of making a decision to catur. He hopes to have the thecome to Kenyon,” Bornstein ater open by September, pendsaid. ing board approval.

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Three NCA-style apartments slated for Cove plot, will host theme housing EMILY BIRNBAUM Kenyon is constructing three North Campus Apartment-style houses on the former site of the Gambier Grill behind Farr Hall.

The College plans to move program houses such as Unity House, Hillel House and the Snowden Multicultural Center into these new residences.

“One of the goals is to bring

those programs into a more central location on campus,” said Jill Engel-Hellman, director of housing and residential life and assistant dean of students. “We’ve talked with the students that are part of these programs and they’ve agreed that this would be a good move and in the best interest of these programs.”

Hannah Davidoff ’18 lives in the Hillel NCA this year as a co-

manager. Though she does not think it necessary to separate the Hillel House from the rest of the NCAs, she believes the move could be positive, opening up an NCA for students who do not live in theme or program housing.

The new apartments will be built in accordance with Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards, according to EngelHellman. This will provide the

campus with “a new level of accessibility,” she said.

The apartments, along with several second-story apartments that will be located above new Village retail spaces, will house up to 52 students.

The College will be discussing the timeline and price of this projects during the board meetings this week, according to Chief Business Officer Mark

Kohlman. “Our goal is to kick off the Village restoration project this summer with ‘Phase One,’ which would include whatever we’re going to do in that area,” Kohlman said, referring to the area where the new apartments will be built.

The administration has yet to decide how the non-program housing spaces will be used, according to Engel-Hellman.

Sunset Cottage likely to be demolished as West Quad moves forward GRACE RICHARDS The sun is setting on Sunset Cottage. A former private home that has hosted part of the College’s English department since the 1970s, the cottage may be demolished as part of the College’s plans to construct an entryway to an underground parking garage, according to Jesse Matz, professor of English and chair of the department.

In an April 26 meeting, the English department and Chief Business Officer Mark Kohlman discussed plans for two new English buildings, designed by Gund Partnership, the Cambridge, Mass. firm headed by Graham Gund ’63 H’83. Matz said these plans will soon be finalized.

“We’ll be sad to see it go, but what we’re getting in place of it is going to be wonderful,” Matz said.

Current plans include two new buildings constructed near Lentz House, one larger building to the southwest of Lentz with 15 offices, and one smaller building built into the side of the hill between Lentz House and Bailey House comprising of two classrooms and three offices.

Earlier discussions included the possibility of moving Sunset Cottage to another location, but the depart-

ment decided against this measure.

According to Matz, moving and renovating Sunset would have been prohibitively costly, and it may have been impossible to renovate the building so it would be fully accessible.

“Fifteen of our professors are in a building where a person in a wheelchair cannot get to them, and I think that’s wrong,” Sarah Heidt ’97, associate professor of English, said. Both new buildings will include elevators, according to Matz.

The new buildings were designed with the goal of creating more common spaces for students, as well as enough office space for English faculty, Matz said. The English department has 26 permanent and visiting members, and one administrative assistant. Sunset Cottage currently houses 15 offices.

Not everyone is looking forward to the upcoming changes. According to Matz and Heidt, Kohlman said some alumni have expressed nostalgia about their time spent in Sunset and disappointment over losing a piece of Kenyon history.

“I’m sentimental about it,” Katharine Weber, Richard L. Thomas visiting professor of creative writing, said.

The Kenyon Review was published out of that building for some years. It

has a lot of meaning for people.”

Weber, whose office has been on the second floor of Sunset for the past three years, said the poor condition of Sunset would make cost-effective renovation difficult. Weber expressed concern over the new buildings having just two new classroom spaces and two extra offices, with the department split into three smaller buildings without a central gathering point for faculty.

The Denham Sutcliffe Memo-

rial Library inside Sunset, more commonly known as the Sunset seminar room, will be recreated in one of the new buildings. Heidt said workers may remove the original woodwork from the walls of the seminar room for use in the new building.

According to Matz, the new buildings will likely be constructed before Sunset is demolished to minimize disruption to the department, though no timeline for construction has been established.

In a Tuesday English department meeting, Kohlman informed the department the trustees would not vote on construction this weekend, according to Heidt. The date of a trustee vote on the building plans has not been determined.

Top images, rendering of the new Farr Hall. Master Plan. Below, Sunset Cottage. Photo by Sonia Prabhu

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Admins, DKEs focus on injured student’s welfare Decatur and Bonham plan no immediate administrative changes after Saturday’s accident Continued from Page 1

met Yeazell ’17 said the fraternity was hosting a mixer with members of the Theta Delta Phi (Theta) sorority earlier in the evening but that most had left by the time the accident occurred.

Beatty was standing near the bullseye window when he broke through the screen, according to Yeazell. Beatty was conscious the entire time medical staff was attending to him, he added.

Bonham said the College is not currently considering making changes to its policies surrounding Greek life and residential areas.

“We’ve been so focused on the needs of the student who was injured, as well as his friends and those other students who were affected by the event,” she said.

Decatur added that, “Right now there are no plans to make any changes to division housing or any changes to the party pol-

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I think people are seeing it as what it was, and what it was was a horrible accident. ...

But we were very lucky.

Emmet Yeazell ’17, Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) president

icy, or any of those things.”

Despite Decatur’s claim that division will not be affected, the DKEs nonetheless are looking to change their use of the space.

“We’re probably not going to be throwing too many more events in the Bullseye for the rest of this semester,” Yeazell said.

On Sunday morning Yeazell contacted the president of the DKE national fraternity, who offered to come to Gambier.

Yeazell told him a visit would not be necessary, but that he would continue to provide him with updates on Beatty’s condition.

“A lot of brothers have been

able to get to Columbus to see him,” Yeazell said.

“I think people are seeing it as what it was, and what it was was a horrible accident,” he added. “But we were very lucky.”

Bonham said Safety officers were the first to provide emergency care on the scene, and also contacted the College Township Fire Department.

Beatty was first transported to Knox Community Hospital before being taken to OSU by helicopter. Upon arrival, Safety shut down the Archon all-campus party taking place on South Quad.

Alex Pijanowski and Emily Sakamoto contributed reporting.

In honor of Alex Beatty ’19, windows were lit up in division housing in Leonard Residence Hall to spell out DKE on Monday.

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New StuCo prez promises better campus communication EMILY BIRNBAUM Philip Gray Clark ’17 was elected next year’s Student Council president on Wednesday in an election that marked a drastic increase in voter turnout, with more than 500 students casting ballots, according to current Student Council president Phoebe Roe ’16.

“This year, there have been a lot of issues for Student Council to work on,” Roe said. “I think we’ve been effective at getting student input, and then getting results. By serving students, we’ve gained a better reputation among students, so I imagine that had something to do with the increased voter turnout.”

Clark, a Housing and Dining Committee member and risk manager for Greek Council, beat out George Costanzo ’18 and David Resnekov ’17.

“My short-term goals are first and foremost establishing a clear and direct line of communication between the senior administration and the student body,” Clark wrote in an email to the Collegian.

“I have not served on Student Council this past year, but in no way, shape or form do I think this will impede my presidency. I will serve the students with every ounce of my energy to ensure that this place reflects the College that we, the student body, want.”

Winners have until Sunday, May 1 to accept their offers.

Though Alex Swaim ’18 had not yet accepted his position as of print, he ran uncontested for Student Senate co-chair. The polls opened on April 20 and closed mid-day

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Philip Gray Clark ’17

Senior Class President

Sam Clougher ’17

Sophomore Class President

George Costanzo ’19

StuCo president-elect Gray Clark ’17. Photo by Nathaniel Shahan

Wednesday.

“Do I think that the council is perfectly representative of the student body? No,” vice president for student affairs Sarah Adrianowycz ’16, who penned an op-ed in the Collegian on the Council’s lack of diversity in March, said. “But I think generating voter interest and showing people that Student Council can matter is an important step to obtaining contested elections and a genuinely representative group of campus leaders.”

Clark hopes to do just that. His short-term goal is to establish “a clear and direct line of communication between the senior administration and the student body,” he said.

“We rallied when Sendoff was changed and the Cove was demolished, but I want to see that over every issue on this campus,” Clark said.

“I want students to come to me with their issues and qualms, and I want to see students passionate addressing

the issues they see are worth addressing.”

Adrianowycz hopes the new leaders will take their power seriously.

“For council next year to matter, they have to keep acting like they do and going about obtaining genuine change,” Adrianowycz said. “Have the conversations, solicit student input, and for god’s sake, pursue the issues that matter.”

Roe has faith this Student Council will follow through with the momentum created by this year’s council.

“There are a lot of great conversations happening, and certainly some tension, but tension is necessary for change,” Roe said.

“There are so many amazing student leaders on this campus and I’m so excited that some of them are interested in Student Council and are going to be a part of it next year. I’m excited to see what they do. I’ll be watching from afar.”

Co-Chairs of Business and Finance Committee Malik Ahmed Khan ’19 Guillermo García Montenegro ’17

Senior Class Representative to Student Council

Benjamin Grannis ’17

Chair of the Buildings and Grounds Committee Edgar Martin ’17

Vice President of Student Life Emma Marison ’17

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ZOE CASE A cast of characters including Leonardo DiCaprio, a word-crazy spelling bee contestant and an anthropomorphic crocodile appeared in the Ballpit Whalers’ first improv comedy show on Sunday.

Justin Martin ’19 and Jacob Skolnik ’19 — who has since left the group — founded the Ballpit Whalers to address the lack of accessibility and opportunity for improv comedy on campus. The name of the one-hour romp, Please Clap, comes from a line presidential hopeful Jeb Bush delivered to an audience during a speech in New Hampshire.

Held in the lower level of the Horn Gallery, the show was cozy. About 20 students gathered in the space, sitting on cushions or on the f loor to watch the seven performers.

First years Tobias Baumann, Emma Easley, Jessie Griffith, Justin Martin, Conner McEldowney, Devon MusgraveJohnson and Daniel Olivieri performed their own mix of sketch and improv comedy.

The show held some moments of true ingenuity. Many of the sketches were circular and held a dramatic arc, the mark of a good joke. Musgrave-Johnson, who is also a Collegian arts assistant, por-

This show seemed like a group of friends sitting in a room with one another riffing, and maybe there’s no shame in that.

Justin Martin ’19, left, and Jessie Griffith ’19 practice their improv in Bemis. Photo by Jesseca Kusher

trayed Leonardo DiCaprio, who was constantly chasing after the improvised Oscars.

At one point, the group set up a clever situation in which Amazon Inc. brought them anything they wanted if they just wished for it aloud. One of the more shy characters in the sketch, played by Olivieri, wished for self-esteem.

Some sketches or scenes seemed cut short, or felt underdeveloped. The group set up one situation in which the

obvious resolution was that Griffith’s Anne Hathaway needed to turn into a zombie, but the sketch went off in an entirely new direction with a new prompt from another member.

This is the nature of improv, of course, as sometimes jokes just don’t land or drift off into waters unknown. Especially with the long-form nature of some of the Whalers’ sketches — two of the sketches reached a length of 20 minutes

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— sustaining a thread at times proved difficult.

The inexperience of the group showed when members rushed more substantial jokes. Some of the players ended scenes too early in a game called “freeze,” ensuring the drama and comedy of the on-stage joke never fully rang with the audience. On the other hand, the only way to mitigate inexperience is to gain experience, and it is obvious these performers could be

even more successful if given more time to listen to one another, to fully appreciate one another as comedians and to gain more of an instinct as a group. One of the particularly good moments came when group co-leader MusgraveJohnson beckoned Griffith to the stage for a skit with a wordless look.

The show’s production needed work. Watching this show seemed like watching a group of friends sitting in a room riffing with one another, and maybe there’s no shame in that. That very well might be the style of the Ballpit Whalers: to bring personal, intimate, side-splitting improvisational comedy to campus.

If so, they were refreshingly honest.

McEldowney says he hopes the group will attract more audience members when it stages its second show in the fall, including “anyone with a pulse and a sense of humor.”

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Thursday, April 28 | The Kenyon Collegian Taking cues from artists such as Wayne White DYLAN MUSLER and Pablo Picasso, Dylan Musler created three 96-inch-by-85-inch paintings that explore the fluidity of relationships over time. For Musler, the process of creating these paintings mirrored her ideas about relationships. “What’s cool about paintings is they go through a lot of developmental stages,” she said. “The paintings aren’t like the original plan; they change. They will look ugly at times, but you just have to push yourself to work through it.” The planning and effort Musler put into her piece paid off, making the potentially grotesque imagery beautiful instead.

To construct What lies under the surface, Kelsey Ewing scavenged wood KELSEY EWING and metal fencing from behind Horvitz Hall. Her sculpture, which features beautifully sanded tree branches configured into an intricately twisted shape, acts as a commentary on the impact of human industry on the environment. “For this piece, it symbolizes our parasitic relationship with the environment, more so in the past, and how we’ve tried to conquer it,” Ewing said. “Hopefully in the future it’s more symbiotic where we work with nature.” The piece reflects this in its manipulation of color. The bottom half of the sculpture is consumed by charred and blackened wood entwined with rusted fencing. The damage peters out as the branches reach upwards, culminating in several intricately woven, glistening white branches hanging from the ceiling.

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In Coaxial Focus, Brooks Barwick BROOKS BARWICK juxtaposes the clinical experience of looking through a microscope lens with the delicacy of nature. His encaustic paintings feature nuanced blues, reds and purples that draw the viewer in and capture the way light shines through the thinnest flower petal. Intricately formed, Barwick’s work includes dots and scrapes within the paint to forge a sense of movement. “I’ve been thinking a lot about biological forms, organic forms,” he said. “It’s about cosmic versus microscopic, big versus small.”

Movement The second of two installments

by BAILEY BLAKER and DEVON MUSGRAVE-JOHNSON Combining commentaries on human nature, loss, nostalgia and the impact of human industry on the environment, the annual Senior Art Exhibition opened in the Buchwald-Wright Gallery last Monday. It is on display through May 21.

Photos by Drew Meeker and Devon Musgrave-Johnson

Jessye HolmgrenJESSYE HOLMGREN-SIDELL Sidell produced three intricate pen drawings that reflect her perceptions of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Each piece incorporated a balance of white space and extreme attention to pattern. The decision to draw in pen was an easy one for Holmgren-Sidell. “I wanted to use something that would allow me to be equally as fine and detailed and obsessive in my process,” she said. The final product reflects this sense of obsession and the amount of time and effort she put into each element of the piece; HolmgrenSidell estimates she spent 100 hours on each of the three pieces.

What began as two large hunks of foam MEG GARDELLA turned into a dynamic testament to the way movement affects art. Meg Gardella created her pieces by hacking away at insulation, allowing her movements to dictate the art and form a canvas with intricate yet chaotic detail enhanced by her choices of color. “I used foam because I wanted to be able to make a mark that was palpable and a record of the movement,” Gardella said. “It’s deeper than just a paint stroke.” Instead of employing conventional methods to add neutral colors, Gardella poured Latex paint onto the foam. “The paint is almost like another tool, another medium,” she said.

Constructed from various SOPHIA DE PASCUALE wooden structures and covered in bright, saturated oranges, yellows and blues, De Pascuale’s sculpture commands the viewer’s attention. Inspired by the playfulness of Spanish architecture, De Pascuale used color and form to invite the audience into the feeling tof the style. “They make these huge, beautiful pink and blue spaces that are supposed to match the landscape,” she said. “I like the idea of making something that you look at that makes you feel like you’re in that kind of space.”

Max Beatty’s first piece derives its beauty from simplicity. Arranged close on the stark white wall of the gallery, Beatty’s ink drawings of MAX BEATTY whimsical rectangular shapes and forms showcase his attention to detail. Each piece is subtle in both its coloring (black ink with occasional splashes of gray) and its construction (smaller configurations of cubes and squares). Around the corner, Beatty’s second untitled work takes the simplicity of the line and transforms it into a surrealistic three-dimensional sculpture. Thick black metal lines start on the wall of the gallery and move outward into a freestanding structure that invites viewers to walk inside its confounding shape. “I’m trying to make these spaces into these almost habitable drawings,” Beatty said. “It’s a unique experience I think, and I want people to really feel the space that they’re in.”

The ramifications of political and social issues like gun violence and sexual assault on college camJACKIE ARKUSH puses shrink to an almost comical level in Jackie Arkush’s Legacy series. Sculpted with modeling clay, each of her three pieces depicts rooms that are at once familiar and surreal. “Rooms hold meaning and ideas,” Arkush said. “We can see a room and recognize it and relate to it without ever being there or knowing what has happened there.” In Newtown, CT, U.S.A., Arkush refers to the tragic Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting that occurred on Dec. 14, 2012 in Newtown, Conn. The piece takes the traditional scene of an elementary school classroom and transforms it into an eerie landscape lost in time. The small scale of Arkush’s Huntsville, TX, U.S.A communicates the wrongness of minimizing larger issues by showing a holding cell where executions take place. The last piece in the series, Gambier, OH, U.S.A., is the most arresting. To address the issue of rape on college campuses it confronts the audience with a scene that is extremely familiar: a typical Kenyon dorm room.

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Annitto ’16 raises charitable funds with Horvitz art sale ALEX PIJANOWSKI In an art sale opening today, members of the studio art program will show off their efforts and also support a good cause. Kenyon’s art department will give at least half of the proceeds from each sale to art programs at Wiggin Street Elementary School, with the other half compensating participating artists.

The inaugural Annual Charitable Art Sale will take place in the lobby of Horvitz Hall today and tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Leah Annitto ’16 worked alongside Associate Professor of Art Read Baldwin ’84 to organize the event.

“I had been thinking for a while that it would be really nice to have some kind of charity event,” Baldwin said. “I pitched the idea to [Annitto], and she just ran with it. She’s done a fantastic job.”

The show features more than 200 works from more than 50 artists.

The collection in the Horvitz lobby includes paintings, photographs, and sculptures, nearly all from class projects. Christopher McCann ’16 submitted a series of 27 food-related photographs, collectively titled Mouthful, to be sold individually.

“It’s so cool to see how different the work is, especially because a lot of this stuff I recognize from being from different classes,” McCann said. He said that many of the classroom works on display would only have had the chance to “exist once” without this chance to showcase

them. Besides submitting 31 pieces, McCann helped arrange lighting and photograph printing.

Some artists — for example, those whose projects were less costly to produce — agreed to give more than half the proceeds to charity, and all professors who submitted to the show will forego 100 percent of the proceeds.

“The reason that we wanted to give some to the artist is that art is very expensive to make,” Annitto said. She added that most artists will only receive enough from sales to cover the costs of materials.

Like many other artists, Gabe Avis ’17 will negotiate the price of his work with prospective buyers.

Avis, who submitted three blackand-white photographs of landscapes from Yellowstone National Park in Montana and from northern Michigan, said of the sale, “It’s a great cause, and I’m glad to be a part of it.”

“The base of support we have been getting from students has been one of incredible excitement,” Baldwin said.

Annitto said she and Baldwin considered other candidates to support, but decided on Wiggin Street Elementary due to its close ties to the College. Many children of faculty and administrators attend the school, located about a mile west of the Village, on Wiggin Street.

“Although they’re not necessarily as needy as other schools in the

The sale features over 200 student submissions available for purchase. Photo by Alex Pijanowski

Knox County area, they are the one school that we have a very personal connection to, as Kenyon students and as the Kenyon community at large,” Annitto said.

“The fact that 50 percent of the proceeds go to charity, and are going

to support the arts program at Wiggin Street, was something that really made me want to submit as much as I could to the show,” McCann said.

Annitto expressed hope that students would continue to organize the show, and that each successive

leader would use the sale’s proceeds to support a cause of their choosing.

“That will be part of the personal touch,” she said. “The idea is to give to something that’s not directly at Kenyon, but is part of the Kenyon community.”

Jazz Ensemble concludes year with an off-beat flourish The spring concert grooved with Hank Levy’s “Whiplash” and a number of jazz standards CLAIRE OXFORD Professor of Music Ted Buehrer opened up the doors of Rosse Hall on Sunday afternoon, hoping sounds of the Kenyon Jazz Ensemble spring concert would reach students lounging outside.

The 19-person ensemble directed by Buehrer performed eight pieces, from “Pennies from Heaven,” featuring the crooning vocals of Lily McBride ’17, to the group’s closing song, “Whiplash” by Hank Levy, arranged by Erik Morales. The group brought some funky f lavors in the song “Basie-Strait Ahead,” with electric bass and metallicsounding keyboard contrasting some more traditional jazz pieces like “S’Wonderful” — a romantic tune with vocal solos from McBride and old-school lyrics that rhymed such words as “glamorous” and “amorous.”

Levy’s tune “Whiplash” inspired the title of a 2014 film of the same name, which tells the story of the relationship between an intense, abusive music instructor and an ambitious young drummer. The movie brought attention to the

On Sunday, members of the Jazz Ensemble performed Hank Levy’s “Whiplash,” a wildly syncopated piece, with flair. Photo by Emily Stegner

song, which Levy composed in the 1970s. Sterling Nelson ’16 suggested the piece for the ensemble; he first learned “Whiplash” with his high school jazz ensemble, and thought Kenyon’s jazz group would enjoy the challenge. The song has a complicated, counterintuitive beat structure that does not

follow the standard 4/4 time.

To the average listener trying to tap their foot along to the beat, it might sound rushed and unpredictable.

“It feels a little bit disorienting and it feels a little bit like every measure there’s a hiccup or it doesn’t feel like it f lows in the normal way that we lis-

ten to so much musically in 4,” Buehrer said before the show.

“And yet at the same time, if we perform it well, which I think we will, it’ll still groove.”

Groove it did. After the concert ended, guitarist Andrew Clarkson ’16 said the band’s energy and execution was strong, in part because of their

trip to New Orleans over spring break. “It was just really awesome to go listen to music and experience the city,” Clarkson said. “It brought us all together, [and] probably helped us to get to the point we were today.”

In New Orleans, the ensemble had the opportunity to play with other college jazz groups.

The group received feedback during a performance in front of a panel of professional, local jazz musicians, and also played outside in a well-trafficked area of the French Quarter. This experience, according to Buehrer, fostered greater camaraderie and musical talent in the group as a whole as they looked ahead to their spring concert.

This concert marked the close to six seniors’ Kenyon jazz careers. Nelson, one of these six, viewed the concert as a bittersweet ending. “When I came to Kenyon I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to continue music into college,” he said.

“I’m not a music major, I mean, I play for fun, but that’s about it, and I’ve been really fortunate to be involved in both jazz ensemble and symphonic wind ensemble all four years here.”

Thursday, April 28

INDIA AMOS I remember when I first truly realized my culture and I were not the center of the world. Sure, sure, it’s something we as Kenyon students know to be true. But I’m talking about the first time I actually felt it.

I was walking down Avenida Corrientes in Buenos Aires about a week or so after my orientation ended, and I, the fledgling Argentine, was finally on my own.

I was trying to buy a local burner phone, and some of my U.S. friends mentioned they’d had good luck on this particular street. After an hour of meandering, I found the suggested shop. It was a dinky little thing tucked in an arcade, but it looked legitimate enough for me.

Upon entering, I was immediately greeted by two Argentine men. I asked the older of the two about a phone, and my Spanish, in all honesty, came out shaky and

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Discussing a certain mindset is vastly different from trying to use a new one, and it took me a few more moments of quiet frustration and futile attempts at communication to realize that nobody was obligated to make my study-abroad experience easier.

garbled because I was so nervous.

The older man gave me a confused look and then muttered something to his friend about the gringa. We spent about five minutes trying to understand one another before I gave up and left.

I immediately joined two of my program friends in a café, lamenting how the shop owners couldn’t understand me. I considered myself a globally aware individual before heading to Argentina, a Kenyon-trained, politically correct citizen of the world. I study anthropology on the Hill, along with modern languages, so I spend the majority of my time on campus discussing culture and ethnocen-

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Despite my academic preparation for cultural exchange, my first instinct was to fault the other party instead of acknowledging the fact that my Spanish (and my confidence) were subpar. Those men had no obligation to understand my North American accent and, though I wished for a moment they had spoken at least an ounce of English, they sure as hell had no obligation to.

I’m not ashamed to admit this mistake because, whether we like to talk about it or not, I think it’s a problem a lot of students my age face the first time they go abroad.

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Amos ’17 in Buenos Aires’s San Telmo barrio. Courtesy of India Amos

vastly different from trying to use a new one, and it took me a few more moments of quiet frustration and futile attempts at communication to realize that nobody was obligated to make my study-abroad experience easier. My happiness and my success depended on me, and I had to constantly remind myself I was no longer in a country where my culture and my language were dominant.

Once I realized this — actually realized this for myself and didn’t just read and memorize it from a textbook — everything got a little easier. I bought my phone, made some Argentine friends and truly began to enjoy myself abroad.

I don’t remember why I chose to study in Argentina. I don’t think I had a concrete reason, but now, I can’t imagine myself anywhere else.

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Seminar puts students to work at KCH, fire department Class members head to Mount Vernon to work alongside doctors, learn tricks of the trade HANNAH LEE LEIDY

out of wheelchairs to volunteer etiquette, that students must complete For some students, a course re- before they may begin volunteering. quirement is worth more than an They then meet in a weekly seminar opportunity to earn school credit — at Kenyon to discuss topics related to it’s a passion. their service through biological and In Health Service and Biomedi- sociological lenses. cal Analysis, a biology course taught Student volunteers at the hosby Professor of Biology Joan Slon- pital’s emergency department perczewski, are required to volun- form tasks such as cleaning rooms teer at Knox Community Hospital after patients leave, sterilizing equip(KCH) or with the College Town- ment, chatting with patients and obship Fire Department; Slonczewski serving doctors’ work. developed the course as part of the “This helps students to see things Kenyon Community Service and that they encounter in the comOutreach munity setting in Program’s healthcare — the commuWe formed such real-life issues — nity exand then compare a great relationperiential that with what we ship with KCH, and I really learning. know biochemicalTwo stu- wanted to see that continly and biologically dents in ued with Kenyon students about these condiparticueven if the class wasn’t con- tions,” Slonczewski lar, Kay tinuing after the semester. said.

Burrows According to ’18 and Slonczewski, about Kay Burrows ’18 Santi one or two Kenyon Acero ’18, students volunbecame so committed to their work teered at the hospital before she first at the hospital that after finishing taught Health Service and Biomedithe course in the fall they founded cal Analysis in the fall 2015 semester, the Knox Community Hospital Vol- but 50 requested to continue volununteers, a club that takes a group teering after the course finished. of 12 Kenyon student volunteers to Last semester, Slonczewski apthe hospital’s emergency room for proached Burrows during the course weekly shifts. and asked if she would help create a The hospital offers an orienta- group for students who wanted to tion, covering topics ranging from continue volunteering beyond the how to transport patients into and course.

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“We formed such a great relationship with KCH, and I really wanted to see that continued with Kenyon students even if the class wasn’t continuing after the semester,” Burrows said.

Before students volunteered at KCH, “The only time [the hospital] saw Kenyon students was when there were drunk kids that came in, so I think all of their past interactions with Kenyon students weren’t very positive,” Acero said. “Bringing in the volunteers let Kenyon show a new side to the hospital.”

“They were able to see a lot more of the kids who take Kenyon more seriously, who are more into the academic side of things and are genuinely interested in helping out their community while also gaining medical experience,” Acero said.

The staff engages the students in medical discussions and answers their questions, whether this involves showing them patients’ scans, researching information or entertaining other possible diagnoses. Burrows and Acero attribute the club’s success to the hospital’s enthusiastic and “amazing” staff providing them with one-on-one experiences and serving as role models.

In future semesters, Acero and Burrows want volunteer work to expand to areas of the hospital beyond the emergency room. They are talking with the supervisor of another floor in the hospital about bringing in volunteers to that section. If KCH

Kay Burrows ’18 and Santi Acero ’18 run the Knox Community Hospital Volunteers. Courtesy of Santi Acero

grants them this access, the club expects to double their number of volunteers.

“I personally hope to expand the volunteers beyond the hospital,” Burrows said. “KCH absolutely

needs us, but I think it’s really valuable for students to get experiences in so many different fields, like outside of the hospital in a home health care setting or just in a primary care physician’s office.”

Sophomore Class Total: First-Year Class Total:

Senior Class Total:

Junior Class Total:

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Emily Tanji ’16

Meli Taylor ‘17

Russ Brunner ‘18

Gabby Eugenio ‘19

Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of what nuclear disaster that occurred in present-day Ukraine?

Chernobyl

It’s not Chernobyl, is it?

Chernobyl

Chernobyl

Chernobyl

What artist of “Little Red Corvette” and “Purple Rain” died last week at the age of 57?

Prince

Prince

Prince

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What 17-year-old Hunger Games star makes a cameo appearance in the music video for Beyoncé’s new album Lemonade?

Amandla Stenberg

I have her face in my mind. Jennifer?

The girl who plays Rue

I don’t know any of the actors in the Hunger Games.

A little black girl?

Which Kenyon varsity sports team is the only one besides the swimming and diving teams to have won an NCAA championship?

women’s tennis­­ (in 1993, 1995 and 1997)

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Thursday, April 28

OPINIONS

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EDITORIAL

Independent audit a positive step, but we can’t stop there When President Sean Decatur announced late Wednesday the College would charge a firm with conducting a comprehensive audit of Kenyon’s Title IX policy and procedures, the decision was a swift and necessary one. It was a decision that showed the administration is serious about reducing the incidence of sexual assault on campus; it was also, unfortunately, an entirely reactive one.

As individual students, student groups and alumni responded to an alumnus’s open letter alleging the College mishandled his sister’s rape case last semester, one sad reality seemed to underscore discussion across campus: This is nothing new.

We dedicated our first issue of the year to stories regarding sexual misconduct. Throughout our time reporting on the Kenyon community we have heard numerous stories of students who have been dissatisfied with the way the College has processed cases of sexual misconduct under Title IX of the federal law banning sex discrimination in education. Even after the College adopted new Title IX procedures before the start of this academic year — which eliminated the conduct review process in which accuser and accused had to meet face-to-face — it’s not clear the policy is doing its job.

The finding Michael Hayes ’14, the alumnus, referenced in his letter was a product both of federal policy and of the College’s system of enforcing it. Those conducting the audit should take care to determine whether any issues they uncover are due to how the College has implemented government-mandated policies, or rather to flaws in the policies themselves; if the latter, the College should lobby the appropriate legislators to pass more survivorcentric laws.

Mark Ellis, Kenyon’s associate vice president for communications, wrote in an email to parents last night that, “the safety, health and well-being of Kenyon students is our foremost concern.” For the College to walk the walk, however, it needs to pull out all the stops in working toward a sensitive sexual misconduct adjudication system that delivers reliably just outcomes for survivors.

It’s encouraging to see students are talking about this important issue, both virtually and in public forums. We encourage you to keep the discussions alive. Hayes’s letter apprised many students of a fact of which Kenyon’s sexual misconduct advisors were already painfully aware: Kenyon is not the bubble we sometimes perceive it to be. Nor is any college. Not when a quarter of college women say they have been sexually assaulted. The only way to redress this crisis is through sustained conversation, activism and evaluation of how misconduct cases are carried out.

HAVE OPINIONS? Are social media an effective tool for creating change on campus?

Ready to mulligan a course? Why? How do you feel about the relationship between students and the Board of Trustees?

Write to us at kenyoncollegian@gmail.com

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‘Hashtag activism’ may be way of the future Facebook shares of sexual misconduct letter show potential of social media to rouse College community MAYA LOWENSTEIN Who remembers the good old days when Facebook existed purely as a platform to share spring break vacation pictures and wish your uncle a happy birthday? Now, when I inevitably succumb to procrastination and check my social media accounts, Facebook no longer offers the mindless form of distraction I seek and instead serves more as an actual news source and space for sharing ideas, articles and videos.

Media outlets have named the recent popularity of using social media to promote a cause as “hashtag activism.” Notable examples of hashtag activism include #BlackLivesMatter, #YesAllWomen and perhaps the campaign that started it all: #Kony2012. I admit I used to think hashtag activism was mildly annoying. Surely this wasn’t what Mark Zuckerberg envisioned Facebook to be. On a less petty note, I was at a loss about what hashtag activism actually accomplished. Surely a real, live protest could pack a

bigger punch.

Recently, I’ve had a change of heart. I realize Facebook statuses and Twitter hashtags are the virtual megaphones of our generation.

The power of social media lies in our ability to access such platforms from the palm of our hands.

With the click of a button we have the power to start a movement.

Twitter played a major role in allowing activists to organize protests during the 2011 Arab Spring revolutions. Supporters of the Arab Spring movement who could not attend protests still showed their virtual solidarity.

Earlier this week, an open letter titled “To Kenyon College, for failing my little sister,” written by Michael Hayes ’14, addressed Kenyon’s failure to properly address an issue of sexual misconduct. The essay has over 700 shares and hundred comments showing support and chastising the College for what Hayes says was its inept response.

I am thankful this article was shared with the community, as it

has jump-started a dialogue about an issue plaguing college campuses around the country. There is much room for improvement in addressing sexual assault at Kenyon.

I’ve heard professors and parents lament about the decline of “real” activism on college campuses. My response to this argument is that the popularity of hashtag activism doesn’t have to detract from other forms of protest. In November 2015, members of the Kenyon community held a sit-in to show solidarity for students experiencing racial intolerance at schools such as the University of Missouri and Yale University.

Next time you find yourself scrolling through Facebook newsfeed on a “study break” I urge you to celebrate and engage in hashtag activism. Like, share, comment and enjoy the freedom to express yourself.

Maya Lowenstein ’18 is a film and sociology major from Toronto. Contact her at lowensteinm@kenyon. edu.

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In and out of classroom, we must confront sexist norms DANI GORTON Our campus has a gender ratio of 55 percent female students to 45 percent male students.

I want to start a conversation.

I feel as though there is a silence surrounding sexism on this campus. I am not referring to the aggressive, loud, misogynistic attitudes that are in fact alive on this campus; I am talking about the subtle sexism that quietly puts the majority of women below the minority of men.

For the purpose of this article, I will write as if there is a gender binary, but I do want to clarify there exist other genders besides those of men and women. I also want to clarify that I understand my experience as a woman on this campus is not universal and that the issues I speak about are from my personal experiences.

I have begun to grow comfortable with the horrible feeling of uselessness that accompanies a night out at Colburn Hall when all I feel valued for is my body. I feel worthless and powerless — as if everything I love about myself is meaningless. I have grown furious after hearing a large party thrown by women was shut down, but a larger party thrown by men only

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I have begun to grow comfortable with the horrible feeling of uselessness that accompanies a night out, ... when all I feel valued for is my body. I feel worthless and powerless.

feet away was allowed to continue.

Leaving a classroom after discussing abortion, I have felt disgusted that the four women in the class made eye contact sadly while men discussed the best thing for our bodies while brushing our points aside. I have felt my stomach drop and my face grow hot as the word “pussy” was thrown around carelessly. I have found myself frustrated in a class where the professor paid more attention to the men than the women, but I failed to articulate this feeling to the professor. I have found myself dressing differently to avoid getting an up-down on Middle Path. I have found myself speechless and unable to call out these subtle forms of sexism I see around me. Or if I get the chance to rebut a sexist comment, the offenders laugh at me, telling me it’s not a big deal.

Well, it is a big deal. It matters.

I want the opportunity to talk about these feelings and these experiences and to make them into a conversation. I want to see if oth-

CAs dutifully help students after hours GABRIELLE HEALY I’m a little mortified to admit I have to hype myself up before I go on weekend duty as a Community Advisor. I listen to Beyoncé, eat a dinner I really like and watch Gilmore Girls. I’ve always done this, but ever since a bystander physically pushed me a few weeks ago while I tried to assess a situation involving the safety of another student, I’ve felt a little nervous. This feeling sucks because being on duty is one of the most time-consuming and regular parts of the job — making sure everyone is safe and that students are following policy.

By putting their hands on my body, the bystander violated my space and my agency as a female student-employee trying to help another student. They did it so I wouldn’t reach out to Campus Safety after assessing the other student’s condition, thereby hypothetically getting someone into trouble with the College.

Students usually ask us not to call Safety because of the threat of disciplinary action, but it’s rare for someone to physically interfere with the situation in this way. It wasn’t good, and I want to be clear that something as overt as this is unusual.

What happened to me a couple of weekends ago gets to the

crux of a fundamental misunderstanding about our job that’s become apparent to me as I’ve been working. More than anything, we’re here to help students, not to get them in trouble, at least in my experience. One of the best parts of my job is that I get to buy pizza regularly for my residents. I’m (obviously) a student, and a person, too. When we have to write people up for failing to adhere to College policy, I’m no less pleased about it than the students are. We’re happy to help. And we’re also stoked when we don’t have to bother you to turn down your music on a random Tuesday, to paraphrase something fellow CA Madeleine Manly ’18 texted me. And the job feels like so much more than just being your neighborhood hardass about stuff people do afterhours. I don’t want to speak for all CAs, of course, but I’ve never not found this to be the case.

Especially with Sendoff coming this weekend, I wanted to write this as a reminder to the student body. It’s the worst feeling when people get annoyed and hostile when we’re just trying to do our jobs and keep people safe.

Gabrielle Healy ’18 is an English major from Fairhaven, Mass.

Contact her at healyg@kenyon. edu.

ers share my feelings and then discuss a way to change the situation.

We women are the majority here but it rarely, if ever, feels like it.

To call upon a specific example, men host the majority of all-campus parties. This is the most quantifiable place where I can see a gender imbalance and inequality.

Yes, there is the annual lighlighter party the Zeta Alpha Pi sorority throws and a decent number of parties hosted by co-ed organizations like the PEEPS, Archons and sports teams, such as the swim team’s annual Shock Your Mom party. But no sorority on campus has the freedom to throw a party in the way fraternities do. Though some have lounges, none has its own “house.” No group of women has a house like the Ganter, Pink House or the Delta Tau Delta lodge, or even something not technically College-sanctioned like the Duplex or Port, but that is one co-ed option and there are many male-dominated options.

Kenyon has a male-centric culture

in which men get to be the hosts: They get to invite, to decide and to hold the power. There is nothing wrong with men hosting parties. The problem is the absence of a female presence in hosting parties.

On a smaller scale, there are spaces in which women could host more parties. Registering gatherings in NCAs and inviting friends lets women attempt to create a space for themselves, but not at the same scale. I have found fewer women host parties in the way men do. And I believe this is because the more private social scene reflects the large-scale parties where men are “in charge” of hosting.

The Cove was one of the few spaces without this patriarchal dynamic. At the end of the night, you could feel welcome because you were not invited or asked to go there. Now that that scene is gone, women rely more heavily on the male-dominated party scene.

Rather than ending up in a neutral, communal space, we depend heavily on the pre-existing social structure in frat houses and men’s spaces as the only option for women.

The majority of sexism I experience at Kenyon is harder to call

out. It can be as simple as overuse of the word “pussy.” Though our language is hard to change, we use words with major misogynistic connotations; we have just recently begun to use the term “first year” instead of the word “freshman.” But our language is gendered and leads to, in a subtle way and perhaps by no intention of the user, the lowering of women.

The casual use of misogynistic language speaks to an underlying attitude that promotes a disrespect for women. This is most obvious in objectifying language and slutshaming, but we allow ourselves that dialogue without any counter, pro-woman argument. This may be a universal problem. The argument that people everywhere are using this terminology may be true, but can’t Kenyon be different? And shouldn’t it be?

We at Kenyon are not immune to anything. Let’s start talking .

Let’s see if our discussion can lead to a change in our surroundings.

We cannot stay silent about the subtle sexism around us. We need to speak up for equality.

Dani Gorton ’18 is an English and studio art major from New Haven, Conn. Contact her at gortond@kenyon.edu.

College admins, trustees and students need to work together Not long ago the student body expressed outrage over What do Kenyon’s student the administration’s decision body, administration and to change the date of its beboard of trustees have in com- loved event, Sendoff, without mon? If your answer is “Noth- receiving input from the stuing,” “I don’t know” or even dent population.

“What Both stuexactly is dents and adIn my experithe board ministrators of trusthave expressed ence attending ees?”, doubts and disdinners with the trustees, you’re not content with I sense a general lack of alone. regard to the awareness about campus There trustee’s deciis a dis- culture, including students’ sions regardconnect ing the Coltraditions and aspirations between lege’s budget. for the College’s future. these segIn my experiments of ence attending the Kendinners with yon community. Within any trustees, I sense a general lack organization or institution, of awareness about campus trustees are expected to allo- culture, including students’ cate funds, among other du- traditions and aspirations for ties, in the best interest of its the College’s future. So, where members. do we go from here?

Similarly, the administraTo promote change among tion at Kenyon, according to them, each of these segments Kenyon’s mission statement, of the Kenyon community should be working to “afford must, first and foremost, acits students a higher sense of knowledge that this pervasive their own humanity and to in- disconnect exists and examine spire them to work with others the role it plays in perpetuatto make a society that would ing its existence. When perusnourish a better humankind.” ing the Kenyon website, one But the actual interaction be- can see, on the Board of Trusttween the student body, the ees page, only the names of the administration and the board individual members. Nowhere paints a starkly different pic- is there a mission statement, ture. a promise to advocate for the

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best interests of the larger Kenyon community or even a short description detailing the board’s hopes and activities.

Though information is available regarding the various administrative positions and who currently holds what titles, the provided text is fairly limited and legalistic, confusing readers about who holds responsibility for which campus policy. The student body, though recently active and outspoken about these issues, often waits to advocate for more information and clearer standards until multiple unfavorable outcomes have already occurred.

Each of these segments of the Kenyon community can improve its communication with the others. It is likely the student body, administration, and board have similar goals but lack the necessary understanding of one another to achieve them. A focus on facilitating clarity and discourse, both in person and across informational media, as opposed to finger-pointing and blaming, would likely fix these issues.

Hayley Yussman ’18 is an English and political science major from River Forest, Ill. Contact her at yussmanh@kenyon.edu.

Thursday, April 28

SPORTS

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Softball snaps losing streak with victories on Senior Day Struggling with a dugout depleted by injuries, Ladies have gone 2-3 since Saturday wins JACK PIPPEN KENYON ALLEGHENY KENYON ALLEGHENY CAPITAL KENYON CAPITAL KENYON KENYON HIRAM HIRAM KENYON

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Kenyon softball’s slump finally came to an end on Saturday as the Ladies swept Allegheny College to end their Senior Day on an upswing. On Monday, Kenyon lost a pair of games to Capital University (Columbus, Ohio), before splitting a doubleheader with conference fellows Hiram College on Tuesday.

The Ladies (16-21-1; NCAC 5-90) came into their Senior Day clash with Allegheny (7-19; 3-11) following a 10-game losing streak. The team’s five seniors looked to bounce back in the final stretch of the season. The first game started like many previous ones, with the Ladies giving up three

runs in the first two innings.

This time the team rallied behind their seniors, as Jane Ghublikian ’16 doubled with the bases loaded and Madi Maldonado ’18 singled up the middle, each hit scoring two runs.

Pitcher Austen Whibley ’19 maintained the Ladies’ 4-3 lead for the rest of the game to snap the team’s losing streak. Whibley’s complete-game win included six strikeouts and three earned runs on eight hits and three walks.

Kenyon won 3-2 in the second game of the Allegheny doubleheader.

Whibley again impressed, allowing just two hits and no runs on 13 at bats.

On Monday the Ladies stumbled against Capital University (18-18). Kenyon lost the first game of a doubleheader 7-1. In the second game, they kept the score closer but still lost 8-5.

Ghublikian impressed with two runs.

Kenyon traveled to Hiram (12-22; 6-6) on Tuesday and avoided another extended losing streak with a 10-3 win in the first game. The Ladies fell to a game-winning homerun in the second game, a 4-3 loss. The seniors continued their strong performances, with Danielle Elizarraraz ’16 going 3-3 with a run batted in and Ghub-

Nicole Horita ’18 catches against Ohio Wesleyan University on April 17. Courtesy of Kenyon Athletics

likian adding two hits.

The Ladies were happy to end their losing streak and win the games for their seniors.

“Ending the losing streak was super important because it helped us turn the corner and so we can finish the rest of the regular season games on a high note,” Masen Colucci ’19 said. “Even though we might not have had the outcome we wanted with this

season, the seniors gave us the right mindset we need to continue.”

Thanks to a schedule of only doubleheaders, Kenyon has played six games in four days. The tough schedule may have contributed to the injuries that plagued the Ladies during their slump. Colucci, Britny Patterson ’19, Amanda Ogata ’19 and Emily Olson ’17 all remain sidelined as the season winds down.

“It’s really upsetting being injured to the point that I missed all of conference,” Patterson said. “But I’m so proud of my teammates and all the work they put in.”

The Ladies’ record now stands at 16-21-1 overall and 5-9 in the North Coast Athletic Conference; they travel to DePauw University (24-13; 14-0) for their final regular season games Saturday, April 30 at 1 p.m.

Men’s lax knocked out of Ladies win 5 straight, get first seed Women’s tennis opens NCAC tournament play Friday conference tournament GILLIAN BLACKWELL

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Lords lacrosse has fallen out of the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) championship tournament. For the fourth year now, the Lords (11-4; NCAC 6-2) have made it to the final four in the NCAC championship tournament. Wednesday night the Lords, seeded number three, played Ohio Wesleyan University’s Battling Bishops (OWU), the second seed on OWU’s turf.

Kenyon entered the game with a 11-3 record, and they fought a hard battle against the

Bishops (13-3; 7-1), eventually losing 8-4.

Less than a minute into the game, Shevelson blocked a goal

by OWU attacken, Max Tennant. The game was fast-paced and violent, both teams slashing one another with their sticks. In the end Kenyon made 14 shots on goal, while OWU made 24.

The teams won eight face-offs each, and Shevelson saved 16.

Though Kenyon will not be advancing to play Denison University (14-1; 8-0), the Lords can look forward to next season with returning midfielder Will Swain ’19, whose current stats have him winning around 60 percent of all his face-offs.

Attackman Nick Vitale ’19 defends in an April 13 game against Oberlin College. Courtesy of Kenyon Athletics

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Since turning in a 2-2 performance against nationally ranked competition at the Midwest Invitational on April 1, the Ladies have stepped up their game by winning their last five matches. These wins have brought their overall record to 13-9 (NCAC 3-0). Heading into the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) tournament on Friday, the Ladies have secured the first seed.

The Ladies’ first win in their streak came against Allegheny College (6-12; 1-2) when they traveled to Meadville, Pa. on April 10 and beat the Gators 8-1. All the Ladies played strongly in their matches, but Jenna Murray ’17 delivered a particularly dominant performance at the third singles position, sweeping the match with a 6-1 win in each sets.

The Ladies next traveled to challenge the College of Wooster (3-17; 0-3) and claimed a 9-0 victory on April 13. Elise Altschuler ’16 caught fire at the sixth singles spot as she did not drop a game against

Annie Reiner ’19 plays against Ohio Northern University on April 24.

Reiner won in the fifth singles position. Courtesy of Kenyon Athletics

her opponent, winning both sets 6-0. The second and third doubles teams of Maggie Sweeney ’19 and Grace Winslow ’18, and Diana Aboubakare ’18 and Murray, also played perfect matches, conquering their opponents 8-0.

Rounding out their stretch of matches on the road, the Ladies traveled to Oberlin College (12-9; 2-1) on April 16 to face off against the nationally 36th-ranked Yeowomen. Even though this was a tougher match, the Ladies still achieved victory, winning 6-3.

Winslow again proved vital as she safely secured a point in the fifth singles position, winning 6-1, 6-0.

She teamed up with Sweeney at second doubles to salvage a close 9-7 win.

The Ladies played their next

two matches, against Ohio Wesleyan University (7-6; 1-2) and Ohio Northern University (Ada, Ohio; 16-3), on their home Vandenberg Courts. They won both by scores of 7-2 and 8-1, respectively.

In their last match on their home courts, many of the seniors showed strong performances against Ohio Northern University. Heather Fantry ’16 dominated her opponent in the sixth singles position, 6-1, 6-0. The Ladies’ third doubles team of Altschuler and Claire Cohen ’16 took down their competitors with ease, 8-0.

On Friday the Ladies travel to Granville, Ohio to take on Wittenberg University (5-15; 0-3) in the first round of the NCAC tournament.

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Paul Henshaw ’16 pitches in an April 16 game against Oberlin College. Henshaw pitched again in a 5-2 win over Wittenberg University on April 23. Courtesy of Kenyon Athletics

Two wins and four losses hand Lords control of their fate

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Kenyon baseball split a four-game series with Wittenberg University over the weekend, and on their last road trip of the regular season lost both games of a doubleheader to the College of Wooster.

On Saturday, the Lords (20-13; NCAC 6-6) played at home in the

first two of four contests against the Wittenberg Tigers (9-22; 2-10). Kenyon took the first of those games 5-2, and dropped the second by a score of 4-3, as Wittenberg’s pitching staff limited Kenyon’s offense to three runs in the fifth inning.

The first of the Sunday matchups ended in a lopsided 14-3 Kenyon victory. Phillip Nam ’17 was an offensive powerhouse, batting in five runs. Other than a hiccup in the fourth when two Wittenberg runners crossed the plate, Jesse Bogacz ’18 put in five good innings of work to earn the win. Bogacz left the game with four strikeouts, five hits, one walk and an earned run, and Ross Scheinberg ’19 threw two no-hit innings in a non-save situation to secure the win.

Bogacz has been pitching commandingly for most of this season;

on April 17, he threw a completegame victory against Oberlin College (13-20; 5-7) and fanned 13 batters. He has set down 52 batters this season, second on the team to Sam Gillespie ’16.

Kenyon’s fortunes reversed during the second game in Springfield.

Had it not been for some late-game offensive heroics, the game would have ended in a similarly uneven score. The Tigers scorched Lords pitching for 14 runs to win the final game of the weekend. In an outing he would probably prefer to forget, Alec Manning ’18 started the game but gave up five runs — four of them earned — and Wittenberg chased him from the game by the end of the third inning.

Jono Chafe ’17 said his team’s offense was not to blame for its inconsistent scores against Wittenberg.

“I think it all comes down to pitching,” Chafe said. “You never know what you’re going to run into.”

In the fourth inning of the Lords’ 4-3 loss, Chafe contributed a triple that plated sophomores Cormac Jewell and Mikey Arman, but was thrown out trying to advance to home after misreading his thirdbase coach’s signal.

On Wednesday afternoon, the Lords faced Wooster (22-8; 10-2) and lost twice, 6-4 and 12-1. Wooster shut out Kenyon for the first eight innings of the second game.

Kenyon’s pitching never quite found a rhythm during the team’s 12-1 loss. Four pitchers had already left the game when Matt Delbridge ’16 entered in the sixth inning with two on and one out, and promptly coughed up three runs, including one on a seeing-eye grounder that

eluded the glove of third baseman Matt Contreras ’19. Delbridge settled down and held Wooster scoreless for one-and-two-thirds innings. Kenyon’s lone run came in the top of the eighth when John Nahra ’16 singled in Connor Jewell ’18 from third.

The Lords close out their season with a four-game homestand this weekend; all four games are against fellow conference team Allegheny College (17-12; 8-4). Chafe said Kenyon’s performance against the Gators will have a significant impact on playoff seeding. If Kenyon can take three of four from the Gators, they will host a series and be seeded second in the NCAC tournament.

“We’re really trying to get to Chillicothe, which is the ultimate goal,” Chafe said, referring to the Ohio city hosting the conference tournament.

Ladies capture second, Lords sixth, at Spring Invitational CAMERON MESSINIDES Under some of the bluest skies Gambier has seen in months, Ladies track and field racked up 146 points and finished second out of seven teams while their counterpart Lords finished sixth at the Kenyon Spring Invitational, Kenyon’s only home meet of the outdoor season.

Several Ladies took home top times in track events. Samantha White ’16 dominated in the middistance category, finishing first in both the women’s 800-meter and 1,500-meter runs. Jonah Edwards ’18 blazed to first place in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes, and her time of 12.47 seconds in the 100 was just 0.39 second shy of a Kenyon record.

The Ladies notched accomplishments in the field events as well.

Jadah Jones ’18 broke the previous Kenyon hammer-throw record of 122 feet and two inches with her throw of 123 feet, three inches. The new record did not stand for long.

Minutes later, Funmilayo Lawal ’18 threw a shattering 124 feet, 11 inches.

Records, personal and otherwise, are the gasoline of track and field, and the Lords and Ladies scrape and sweat for every bit of fuel they can get. Many turn to a ubiquitous trick of the trade: the warm-up routine.

Eric Sutton ’18 has his pre-run routine down. Hours before any event, he retreats to Peirce Pub to play as many games of pool as he can.

The soundtrack is crucial. During the pool games, he listens to Kanye West or Rihanna. Later, when the team gathers to watch the field athletes perform, he selects a handful of jazz tracks, looking to slow his heart rate.

Finally, as he prepares for his own sprints, he puts on “something like Yo Gotti,” Sutton said, referring to the Memphis-based rapper. “To get my mind in it.”

Isak Davis ’19, on the other hand, described a relaxed approach to preparation. If he could forget he was even on the track team in the hours leading up to his runs, he would. An hour before his events on Saturday, he was finishing homework. Twenty minutes before, he took a nap.

But Davis’s apparent nonchalance Ohio winter survived. Even the Ke- es, fast-twitch muscle warm-ups or masks his long fight just to run for nyon runners toward the rear of the secret handshakes — always fight. the team. In October 2015, gearing pack received full-throated cheers The Lords and Ladies next comup to train with the cross-country for finishing a race as grueling as pete at the Denison Last Chance team and begin his career as a Ken- the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a Meet on April 29 in preparation for yon runner, Davis suffered a stress head-back, eyes-shut, all-out sprint the North Coast Athletic Conference fracture in his upper femur. The inju- across the finish line. Everyone re- (NCAC) Multi-Event Championry put him on crutches for six weeks. spects a good fight. And the Lords ship, which begins on April 30, and For a month afterward, he had to and Ladies, no matter how they arm the NCAC Outdoor Championships, perform leg-strengthening exercises. themselves — naps, hip hop, stretch- which begins on May 6.

Over winter break, he ran for the first time since he learned of the fracture.

If you saw Davis run on Saturday, you might not guess he was sitting on the sidelines just a few months ago. He finished fourth in the men’s 1,500-meter run and third in the 800. Alton Barbehenn ’17 claimed the Lords’ only first-place finish of the day, a time of 56.38 seconds in the men’s 400-meter hurdles, and Colton Orr ’18 finished second in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.52.

Resilience was in the air at the invitational. The sunshine brought Kenyon fans and their picnic blankets to the lawn around Wilder Track, Samantha White ’16, right, won both the 800 and 1,500 meter races an open-air celebration of another at Saturday’s invitational. Courtesy of Isak Davis