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Residents address Caples vandalism CAMERON MESSINIDES | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

More than two months after black students circulated an open letter titled “You Are Not a ‘N-Word,’” administrators and students are still working to address incidents on campus that, as the letter states, leave black students feeling “targeted, hurt, and silenced.”

Most recently, Community Advisors (CAs) in Caples Residence Hall and Diversity Advisors (DAs) held meetings with residents of the building on April 29 to discuss vandalism in the Caples elevator that some students of color “perceived as threatening,” according to Jenna Rochelle ’18, a north campus Head CA. The vandalism began when a student hung up a poster advertising the April 6 and 7 staged readings of the play Baltimore. The poster featured a character wearing a shirt that bore the hashtag “#BLM,” denoting the Black Lives Matter movement, whose mission is to intervene in violence inf licted on black communities, according to their website.

Someone then tore the hashtag out of the poster.

In response to the vandalism, some residents began writing “#BLM” and “#BlackLivesMatter” on the elevator walls, which are already covered in drawings, art and messages.

Someone then crossed out one of the hashtags. page 2

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Students connect through prison education program EVEY WEISBLAT NEWS ASSISTANT

Next fall, 11 Kenyon students will drive 50 minutes to the Richland Correctional Institution in Mansfield, Ohio, where they will sit down with 10 incarcerated students for their English seminar, In Transit. The course will be taught by Assistant Professor of English Kathleen Fernando, and it will span five hours on Monday evenings, including time for transportation to and from the Mansfield prison facility.

“My hope is that we are going to be able to break down boundaries,” Fernando said about the course. “For Kenyon students, it’s an opportunity to see incarcerated people as human, in a humane light, because often we think of incarcerated individuals as inherently criminal.”

In Transit has its roots in the summer of 2016, when Maya Street-Sachs ’17, looking to learn more about education in prison, centered her John W. Adams Summer Scholars Program in Socio-Legal Studies project on researching various models of prison education. “Her project was basically exploring education in prisons,” Fernando said. “In the sense [of] college students going into prisons and learning with prisoners.”

When a Collegian reporter reached out to Street-Sachs on Facebook, Street-Sachs said her idea for the class emerged from the national trend of universities and colleges making an effort to take part in the education-in-prison movement. “I was firstly inspired by all of the education-in-prison

courses and programs that already exist (regardless of economic/logistical/social barriers within institutions),” she said in a Facebook message. “I knew Kenyon could join this list.”

The research indicates that prison education decreases overall recidivism rates and leads to better lives for prisoners when they return to their former lives, StreetSachs said. “The data shows that educating those behind bars (the vast majority of whom will enter back into society within a few years) strengthens and empowers individuals, families, and communities,” StreetSachs said. “[It] lowers the recidivism rate immensely, lowering our prison population in the long run.”

Street-Sachs said that it was difficult to “[create] a learning environment that would serve as an open space for all students involved.” By putting college students into a prison setting, there are going to be “obvious themes and problems” such as “privilege, race, etc.,” she said. The course will also include literature that focuses on that state of flux. “In Transit means one is in travel, but also it means transition,” Fernando said.

Fernando hopes students will “come out of this class seeing the incarcerated individuals as readers and thinkers, rather than criminals.”

“As an institution, and as a community, we are very ready for a class like this,” Fernando added. “After the elections last year, there’s been a shift. … Students want to do something different. [They] want to contribute to their communities.”

SHANE CANFIELD

With fewer than 150 cups left in Peirce, AVI has switched to disposable bowls and cups.

With students holding onto dishes, AVI turns to disposables BILL GARDNER STAFF WRITER

Resident Director of AVI Christopher Wisbey said he ordered 1,000 cups over spring break. Now, they are all gone.

Manager of Business Services Fred Linger remembers when the budget for dining utensils in Peirce was $15,000 for the 2010 academic year. In 2018, the College spent $25,000 on replacing plates, bowls and cups — and Director of AVI Christopher Wisbey suggested that number may go up to $30,000 next year.

In Wisbey’s view, the students are forcing that number to go up.

“We have probably less than 150 cups in house right now for a campus of 1,600 students,” Wisbey said. “So you can obviously tell that that doesn’t work out.”

AVI has switched to disposable bowls and cups for the rest of year because students have taken dishes without returning them, according to a statement issued via Facebook on April 19th. Wisbey said the change was necessary because AVI no longer has enough dishes for students who come for Kenyon summer camps. At the beginning of the year, he said AVI had about 2,000 cups. Wibey also said he has only $4,000 left of page 2

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CORRECTIONS In last week’s article “Senior Arts Show 2018,” the Collegian incorrectly named Matthew Garrett’s ’18 work as “An Object Misses Itself, Marina, Amborella Trichopoda.” It is actually named “An Object Misses Itself.”

In addition, the photo for the article “Softball splits series against Hiram” was mislabeled. The photo actually shows Keely Sweet ’20 delivering a pitch in the 4-3 loss.

The Collegian regrets these errors.

Student leaders look to more action from administrators Continued from Page 1

On April 17, Teddy HannahDrullard ’20 posted a photo of the crossed-out hashtag on Facebook and wrote, “Some people just like to hurt people.”

The April 29 meetings focused on community dialogue and civility, according to Assistant Director for Upper Class Residences Jonathan Blount, but residents also discussed promoting inclusion in the building.

“It was also about looking at how to make all of the residents of our community feel safe … and kind of helping people understand why certain actions might be threatening to other residents of the community,” Rochelle said. Caples is currently home to theme housing for both the Men of Color (MoC) and Sisterhood.

The conversations surrounding the vandalism are one of several actions that faculty and administrators have taken this year to address issues of race and inclusion at Kenyon.

Jacky Neri Arias ’13, assistant director of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI), cited a racial trauma group run by the Counseling Center and ODEI’s effort this year to recognize “groups that are culturally affiliated or do some sort of diversity work on campus … for their service throughout the year.”

The Community Planning Group (CPG) recently sent a list of recommendations to President Sean Decatur based on notes collected from the 20 small group meetings facilitated by the CPG on April 3. The CPG recommended that the College bring in programming, perhaps through the Difficult Dialogues National Resource Center, to train faculty and staff on leading “difficult conversations” and change the diversity and inclusion component of Orientation, according to Decatur.

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Eric Sutton III ’18, although encouraged by the conversations in the small groups, would like to see more action from the administration. “I think often we have conversations about ‘What’s the student body have to do to correct this?’ … and obviously there’s responsibility on the student body, but there’s also responsibility on the institution,” he said. “It’s also a responsibility of the people who make the rules and regulations of our campus, and we have to allow some of the weight to fall on them.”

Juniper Cruz ’19 agrees. Cruz appreciates that administrators place students on committees to discuss policy changes, but she would like to see some faculty members and administrators take the lead on these issues instead of relying on student work. “I think there is a time where staff members who are in charge of doing the work to ensure a stronger community and a more accepting community have to do more self-education and stop relying on students to change the school,” Cruz said, “because it is really coming down to a few students who are overworked, and it’s exhausting and daunting.”

Sutton believes the administrators care about making Kenyon more inclusive, and he noted that apathy, especially in the student body, is a significant obstacle to making progress toward that goal.

Sutton also emphasized that this is not an issue exclusive to Kenyon.

He referenced recent incidents at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. The incidents included a racist threat found in a restroom and a racist slur spelled out with rocks in the DePauw Nature Park, according to a May 2 Indianapolis Star article.

“We have to do better,” Sutton said. “It’s not just Kenyon, if it’s other colleges in our conference. … This is clearly a bigger problem.”

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AVI Director: “Students’ fault that we don’t have dishes” Continued from Page 1

the $25,000 he allocated for replacing dishes in Peirce.

“It’s disappointing where, you know, it’s not our fault that we don’t have dishes. It’s the students’ fault that we don’t have dishes,” Wisbey said. “If students wouldn’t take our stuff, then we wouldn’t be using plastic and paper.”

Wisbey said that he has been working with students to make sure that students return more dishes in the future. Erin Keleske ’18, a member of the Environmental Campus Organization, has also been thinking of ways to curb dish and cup theft. She said the theft of Peirce cups directly impacts the community.

“It’s bad for the environment, it costs a ton of money and is a health threat,” Keleske said. “People frequently bring peanut butter or fish out of the dining hall and leave them in bins in random hallways and stairwells, posing a threat for students, staff and visitors with food allergies.”

Keleske said that there are a few options to

help combat this issue. AVI cannot afford to place workers at every door to make sure students don’t walk out with cups. Instead she wants the community to make sure students don’t take them into other buildings. That would mean Community Advisors checking for cups during room checks, a no-tolerance policy in the modular units and enforcement from faculty in academic buildings. This rule is already technically in place, but that the College needs to do more to enforce it, according to Keleske. The Board of Trustees also talked about the issue of stolen cups and how much the College spends on replacing them at their Spring meeting.

Ultimately, Keleske said it is up to the community to stop taking dishes from Peirce.

“At the end of the day, this is more than just an issue of logistics and busy schedules.

It’s an issue of privilege,” she said. “There are dish return bins inside of Peirce because people were too lazy to walk to dish return and were throwing them in the garbage can on their way out of the building. That’s insane to me.”

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College to Student’s research reflects on AFDS at Kenyon attend CIC conference CAMERON MESSINIDES EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

BETÜL AYDIN NEWS EDITOR

In an effort to address issues of inclusion and diversity, the College will send a team of faculty and administration members to attend a four-day conference in Atlanta, Ga. over the summer.

The decision to participate in the Diversity, Civility and the Liberal Arts Institute has not been prompted by a specific event, but is meant to resolve a more general problem, according to Associate Provost for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Ted Mason.

The event is hosted by the ​​​​​​ Council of Independent Colleges (CIC), a consortium which includes Kenyon. According to the CIC website, the Institute is meant for colleges “that have students who are concerned about issues of equity and social change, or that are facing the challenges of diversity and civility.”

Mason noted that the reason for applying was not tied to anything specific.

“We wanted to be ahead of the curve because we knew that colleges such as Kenyon, invariably, are going to run into this kind of thing in a greater or lesser degree,” Mason said. “We have been thinking about free expression, we have been thinking about inclusion and diversity, so … how do we think about inclusion and free expression working together, not in tension or contradiction?”

Kenyon is one of the 25 CIC member colleges and universities that were selected through a competitive application process.

Mason, Associate Professor of German Leo Riegert, Associate Professor of Political Science Abbie Erler and Associate Dean of Students and Director of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Chris Kennerly will be attending the Institute.

“I was really excited to participate in this Institute because we are increasingly seeing tensions between diversity, civility and free speech both at Kenyon and at campuses across the nation,” Erler wrote in an email. “As an institution that is committed to all three values, we need to find a way to negotiate these tensions and create an environment where people can express their opinions without fear of being silenced but also in a way that is respectful of the fact that there are many different points of view on campus.”

Riegert said he was looking forward to reading broadly about diversity and civility, and talking to others about their views. “[I really look forward to] listening to what others have to say. … They will hopefully give me new perspectives and maybe ways of thinking beyond this divide or ways of bringing it together. ” The Institute requires the participants to implement what they learn and report back in a year. “The team represents Kenyon,” Mason said. “We are a team that is trying to bring back information so that the entire community benefits.”

Nearly 50 years after black students at Kenyon released a statement of policy that asked the College to “provide room in the present curriculum for studies in Black culture,” and 25 years after an African and African-American Studies concentration first appeared in the Kenyon course catalog, on April 23 Meera White ’18 presented the Oral History of African Diaspora Studies at Kenyon College, an independent study project she has pursued this semester.

With the oral history project, White aimed to gather the recollections of faculty, staff and students on the creation of the African Diaspora Studies program and its impact on Kenyon.

White interviewed seven current faculty members as part of the project. Some, like Ric Sheffield, professor of sociology and legal studies, and Ted Mason, associate provost for diversity, equity and inclu-

sion, were instrumental in the program’s founding. When they first proposed the program, they faced criticism both for its interdisciplinary nature and its focus on race. “We even had a public forum ... in which it was ... debated,” Mason said in an interview with White.

“I’ll be honest with you, I sat there and thought, ‘I’m living in a time warp.’”

In her presentation, White also discussed Crossroads, “a group of Kenyon faculty and administrators who share an interest in the issues of African and African Diaspora Studies.”

Established in 2002, the group meets every summer to discuss a topic related to African diaspora studies. Past topics have included cinematic and visual representation, state violence and gender and sexuality, a topic that Crossroads will be returning to this summer.

As part of the oral history, White also took stock of where the African Diaspora Studies program stands today. At the end of the presentation, White shared quotes from Mason and

Professor of American Studies Peter Rutkoff, who both cautioned against making the African Studies Diaspora program the only academic home for black students at Kenyon. “I think African American students at Kenyon need to have a home that’s a much broader base than a particular program,” Rutkoff said. “There should be no place that’s not home.”

In an interview with the Collegian, Associate Professor of English Jené Schoenfeld, who is the current director of the program, noted the program’s importance to students of color at Kenyon. “I think [African Diaspora Studies courses] shouldn’t be the only kind of home,” she said, “but I think another important thing they offer is a chance for students of color to be seen.”

As for White’s project, she will soon publish the oral history online as part of Digital Kenyon’s Community Within collection. White tentatively plans to put the project online by the end of May.

COURTESY OF KENYON ARCHIVES

Meera White ’18 pointed to Black ReEducation at Kenyon, founded by Barry Goode ’69, as a precursor to the African Diaspora Studies program.

ON THE RECORD

NATE SILVER

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF FIVETHIRTYEIGHT EMILY BIRNBAUM AND GABRIELLE HEALY STAFF WRITERS

Statistician and journalist Nate Silver is the founder and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, a news analysis website that uses statistics to explain prominent stories. His accurate predictions during the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections elevated him to national prominence. He will be the commencement speaker at the 190th Commencement on May 19.

What’s one of your pet peeves when you see members of the media interpreting polling data? Is there one particular thing that gets miscommunicated that you’d like to clarify?

I think after 2016, I think people not communicating the margin of error in polls is a big one, and not explaining [that] when a candidate is only a couple of points ahead of that candidate, [he or she] is going to lose a fair amount of the time, although not most of the time. There’s still a lot of cherry picking of polls. If you have five or six surveys of the race, you should probably be trying to represent the average, or at least give people what the range is. Instead, people are trying to write stories that fit their narrative and so they’ll kind of pick and choose which stories and which polls they use a lot.

I think right now people are maybe a little bit too obsessed with the polls of the midterm elections in November, but as we get into September, October, then those are a lot more reliable.

You suggested right after President Trump’s election that perhaps his polling numbers would affect the President’s judgment, and he might abandon some of his sig-

nature policies if his polling numbers didn´t appear good to him. Do you think that’s been happening?

The healthcare bill they tried to pass last year, along with firing Comey, were maybe the things had the biggest downward effect on Trump’s approval ratings. One can imagine a scenario where Democrats take the House and Trump starts to actually be cooperative and bipartisan and that could actually help him, maybe. But he has improved from a 39 percent approval rating to 41 percent, which doesn’t seem like much, but 41 percent is closer to being “normal.” It’s closer to being where Obama was at this point eight years ago, or where Reagan was at this point two years into his term. Now it’s a little different in that that 40 percent doesn’t seem to move for any reason, people are very fixed in their views of Trump. But from an approval rating standpoint, being big outlier in the first year where Presidents are usually very popular, he’s kind of caught up to the back of the pack. Not to Eisenhower or whatever, presidents who were really popular, but there were several presidents who were kind of embattled at this point in time, and also those presidents learned on the job. I don’t come to a judgment of whether Trump can learn on the job in the third or fourth year, but in the abstract, it wouldn’t be that surprising if he has a bad midterm and then recovers and then potentially wins reelection, like what happened to Clinton and to Regan and to Obama. It’s a very common track.

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graduate and preparing to launch into the real world. How do you remember feeling and how do you reflect on that time, as someone who has experienced post-grad success?

I went abroad and I came home my senior year. Going abroad is great, but it sets up your senior year in a really weird way. You’ve taken the bulk of your coursework, you kind of have one foot out the door already, so I had a fair amount of senioritis. I wish I had done a little bit more thinking about what I want to do next.

Can you give us a preview of the speech?

I have no idea what I’m talking about yet. I haven’t given any thought to it until this call today. [laughs]

This interview has been edited for length and Let’s go back to when you were an under- clarity.

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Kevin Peterson to serve as new Title IX Deputy Coordinator Peterson will review the College’s policies to ensure its continued compliance with Title IX. MAYA LOWENSTEIN STAFF WRITER

ing training sessions for faculty, student employees and student groups throughout the year. These The newest employee for the training sessions are intended Office of Civil Rights and Title IX to educate Kenyon employees of is Deputy Coordinator Kevin Pe- their responsibilities with respect terson from Mount Vernon Naza- to the policies from the Office of rene University (MVNU).

Civil Rights. The faculty trainOn March 2, a Kenyon News ing sessions are 30 minutes longer Bulletin announced via email the than the student training sessions, hiring of Peterson, who will work which last one hour. with Samantha Hughes, Kenyon’s Professors, however, tend to civil rights/Title IX coordinator. view their role under the Title IX Peterson will take over for Linda policy in different ways.

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is a strength. “I think we’ve done a good job communicating [consent] and we have great processes in place,” she said. Murnen is also an investigator for Title IX cases at the College. The responsibilities of investigators include interviewing the complainant and respondent as well as gathering evidence that may be relevant for the case.

Hughes acknowledges the “full range of generations represented” among the faculty. Professors from the Gen X and baby boomer generations may not be as familiar with some of the language and nuances of the policy. Hughes, who identifies as a member of Gen X, says personal pronouns were not openly discussed when she was a college student in the ’90s.

Professor of Humanities Tim Shutt is wary of the liability of the College’s employees under the Title IX policy.

“I think the recent deal to abandon the ‘innocent until proven guilty standard’ uniquely for this sort of offense when... all other crimes you are innocent until proven guilty,” he said. “Why is this especially heinous? I think this standard is unconstitutional.”

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Professors’ perceptions of their role under the Title IX policy vary.

Shutt added that he holds his office hours in Philomathesian Lecture Hall in Ascension Hall to avoid any possibility of accusations from students. “I do not want to be in any place but a public space with anyone,” Shutt said.

Peterson, who will start his position on June 1, looks forward to working at Kenyon, where students from different faiths and backgrounds “can be fully part of the campus community and are accepted,” he said. Hughes stated

that the feedback from the students who were involved in the interview process was very positive.

Peterson’s background is in Title IX, residential life and programming as well as in mission work.

MVNU is a Christian institution and a “dry campus” with regards to alcohol consumption, but, Peterson believes the cultures at MVNU and Kenyon still share similarities. Peterson believes “anything that happens at Kenyon also happens at MVNU.”

Computer science hampered Campus Senate extends deadby lack of faculty, courses line to revise its constitution TOMMY JOHNSON NEWS EDITOR

If it were up to Professor of Mathematics Noah Aydin, Kenyon College would begin offering a computer science minor right away. He has not even proposed it to the Curricular Policy Committee (CPC) due to his perception that administrators are concerned with the program’s capacity to meet student demand.

According to Aydin, who has an interest in theoretical computer science, a member of the administration expressed caution towards starting the minor at this point.

“Computer science is a popular subject and discipline, and I am sure there would be a lot of demand for it — I am not sure if it will exceed our capacity,” Aydin said in an interview with the Collegian, “but also I am not sure if that is a reason they should keep us from offering it.”

In 2016, Provost Joseph Klesner arranged a task force of a dozen faculty members and Ron Griggs, vice president for library and information services, to look at computer science at Kenyon. They unanimously recommended that the College begin developing a computer science major.

While President Sean Decatur says the College would need to hire at least two more faculty members before it could begin offering this major, Professor Aydin says that the College has enough classes and resources to offer the minor.

Currently, the College offers a scientific programming concentration, but only has one full-time computer science professor,

Visiting Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science James Skon.

Professor Aydin emphasized that scientific programming, an interdisciplinary program, is not a substitute for computer science. The number of scientific programming concentrators is usually 10 students or fewer. Professor Aydin suspects that computer science would attract more students.

He characterized the lack of a computer science program as a major hole in the College’s curriculum.

“We are virtually alone,” he said of Kenyon’s lack of a computer science program.

“Not just peer institutions, but take any liberal arts college and you’ll find computer science.”

This gap, Aydin argues, sets back Kenyon students who are interested in computer science fields.

“They are disadvantaged,” he said.

“They can still do some things, there are still some students who have entered computer science fields, even graduate school in computer science … It is still possible, but you are disadvantaged.”

President Decatur confirmed this concern, saying Kenyon does not offer enough intermediate or advanced courses necessary for graduate programs or careers in computer science.

Aydin credited the school with hiring Professor Skon but expressed frustration at what he perceived as the administration’s reluctance to take the next step.

“Personally, I am not sure if I agree with this argument,” he said. “If it was up to me I would go ahead and offer it.”

RONAN ELLIOTT CIRCULATION MANAGER

Campus Senate — a group of representatives from the student body, staff members and faculty — had aimed to revise its constitution by the end of this year, but the deadline is now expected to stretch into early September.

The revision has been in the works since October. In the past, Senate has acted both as an advisory body and as a source of legislation on campus. While day-to-day affairs regarding student life are passed through Student Council, Senate communicates directly with Kenyon’s president to pass legislation and make substantive changes.

Senate representatives agree that the organization’s current constitution is outdated.

“The last major update to it was when women were admitted to the College. It’s been too long since it’s changed, and basically the structure doesn’t represent what we do anymore,” Benjamin Douglas ’18, a co-chair of Campus Senate, said.

The constitution references a number of organizations that no longer exist and describes Campus Senate as an intermediary between Student Council and the president. While Douglas acknowledges that this is an important role, he also believes that Senate should act as a “sounding board” for other organizations on campus.

“It’s so that, when groups are considering making decisions and they want opinions of other groups, they have a place

where they can go and communicate that,” Douglas said. Campus Senate gets input from Student Council and other organizations on campus in order to fully represent campus opinion.

Laura Kane, director of student engagement, assistant dean of students and head of a Campus Senate subcommittee, believes one of the core problems is clarity. “A constitution should be a roadmap for how to conduct business,” Kane said.

“The Campus Senate wasn’t functioning at all last year. Because it wasn’t functioning, other things on campus couldn’t function.” Organizations such as Student Council and Greek Council require the Senate to ratify internal changes.

These complications arose due to confusion surrounding the purpose of Campus Senate. “We spent a lot of time clarifying the role of staff representatives in Campus Senate,” Kane added. “Previously they hadn’t been represented equitably.”

Campus Senate completed their first draft in February. They had hoped to have a draft of the new constitution approved by the end of the year, but due to the unexpected scope of the project, that deadline is no longer feasible.

Despite these difficulties, Douglas expressed optimism that Senate will one day have a more positive impact on campus.

“When people say ‘This feels very Kenyon’ about anything, I think what they’re talking about is a sense of community and a sense of belonging,” Douglas said. “And I think the Campus Senate has a really incredible power to be that place.”

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Once a struggling journalist, alumnus now a SXSW executive DORA SEGALL STAFF WRITER

For Hugh Forrest ’84, the most significant part of returning to Kenyon on April 10 to receive his honorary doctor of humane letters was sharing the stage with Professor Emeritus of English Perry Lentz ’64, who presented an award to another alumnus.

Lentz was his favorite professor, particularly in his introductory course.

“He was such a commanding teacher,” Forrest said.

“Very strict, but also brilliant.

You could never predict what he was going to say.”

Now, Forrest is the chief programming officer at South

by Southwest (SXSW), both an Austin, Texas-based company seeking to promote music, film and digital media and an annual series of conferences and festivities held every March. But he began his career as an English major.

Before he became involved with SXSW, Forrest worked in journalism, running his own blog and living off of Ramen noodles.

Forrest attributes much of the holistic track of his career to his time at Kenyon, where he participated in various extracurricular activities.

He practiced violin, became a brother of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and played basket-

ball.

“Even within the context of Kenyon sports, we were not very good, but I certainly enjoyed the camaraderie and competition,” Forrest said of his basketball career, which he continued after graduation until he suffered several injuries.

As for violin, Forrest picks up the instrument every now and then. “I probably psych myself out on this,” Forrest said. “The first time I pick it up after three months or five months, I go, ‘Wow, this is really easy. I don’t know why I don’t do it more often.’ And the next day I realize, ‘I suck at this. This is why I don’t play anymore.’”

Forrest believes that the amount he wrote and read at Kenyon strengthened a basic but crucial skill, constructing a good sentence, which has helped him in a variety of pursuits.

Following graduation, Forrest moved back to his hometown of Austin, where he founded his own publication, The Austin Challenger, motivated by his undergraduate publication, The Gambier Journal. Forrest often published under different names to create the sense that he was working with a team of writers. Forrest wrote for a number of other publications, including The Austin Chronicle,

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an alternative weekly newspaper.

Forrest claims that he was invited to work with SXSW in 1989 because he owned a Mac Plus computer and a laser printer. The company launched after a group of people discussed the desire to bring Austin’s creative scene to a larger audience.

In 1994, he helped launch SXSW’s Interactive and Film events, then known as the Film and Multimedia conference. “In reality, I barely understood multimedia at all,” Forrest said. “At that point, most people didn’t know what [the Internet] was. Most people were focused on CDRoms.” He said that SXSW was “in the right place at the right time” for social media.

They presented their coverage of creative content on Friendster and later moved to platforms such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Friendster’s founder and CEO, Jonathan Abrams, was the event’s first well-known guest speaker.

Today, Forrest is focused on developing SXSW’s gaming component and attention to cryptocurrency. In October 2016, the company organized a one-day festival at the White House, “South by the Lawn,” following President Obama’s appearance at SXSW Interactive the March prior.

“That’s something that I

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Hugh Forrest ’84 helped transform SXSW into a household name.

never would’ve imagined,” Forrest said, recalling that Obama chose to attend SXSW in person rather than appearing over video. “My involvement with SXSW has certainly opened up some opportunities that I never would’ve anticipated, and that’s been really neat,” he added.

In 2017, Forrest launched “Tech Under Trump,” a series of sessions with a focus on media in today’s political climate.

Now, Forrest is moving a convention previously held in Frankfurt, Germany to

Stockholm, Sweden this coming September. He is also updating the music portion of SXSW to appeal to younger audiences, noting that people involved in that realm of the festival take more interest in social events than the panels and workshops attended by those in tech and film. Forrest stresses that although SXSW has reached widespread success, it took 30 years of trialand-error to reach the point they have today. “It takes a long while to be proficient at anything in life, at least in my experience,” he said.

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Amanda Goodman

Joey Chimes

Shara Morgan

Isaac Susser

What is the name of the Dance, Drama and Film department’s award ceremony?

The Tommys

The Tommys

The Daytime Emmy Awards

Is it like the Tommys or something?

I have no idea

What city has the biggest urban population in Ohio?

Columbus

Cincinnati

Columbus

Cleveland?

Cincinnati (either Cincinnati, Cleveland, or Columbus)

Which famous artist recently released the song “Lift Yourself ” with the lyrics “Poopy-di scoop Scoop-diddy-whoop” and so on?

Kanye West

Snoop Dogg

Oh my gosh, Kanye West, my hero

Kanye West is pretty obnoxious

Obviously Kanye West

With which animal is the disease syphilis believed to have originated?

Rabbits

Rabbit but that’s a trick question

Sea cucumber

I want it to be penguins

Pigs

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“Monks, Mongols, Manchus” caps off Ruth Dunnell’s career James P. Storer Professor of Asian History Ruth Dunnell will retire after 30 years at Kenyon.

DANTE KANTER FEATURES EDITOR

Before Associate Professor of History Nurten KilicSchubel, the director of the Asian and Middle Eastern studies program, had heard of Kenyon College, she knew about Ruth Dunnell, current James P. Storer professor of history and department chair.

“I was a graduate student in Turkey, reading her work,” Kilic-Schubel said. “When I tell other scholars I work at Kenyon, the first thing they ask me is if I know Ruth.”

Kilic-Schubel helped organize “Monks, Mongols, and Manchus,” a series of talks by scholars who had inf luenced and been inf luenced by Dunnell’s research. Last Saturday afternoon, staff, students and alumni attended the event.

Dunnell’s specialty is premodern inner Asian history, with a focus on the history of the Mongol empire. In 2009, she published a complete biography of Genghis Khan, and is one of the few living schol-

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Scholars from across the country gave talks to celebrate James P. Storer Professor of Asian History Ruth Dunnell (left).

ars who studies the Tangut people of western China. She has worked at the College since 1989 and will be teaching her last class next Spring.

When Dunnell was in high school, China underwent the Maoist Cultural Revolution, making it, like the Soviet Union, an enemy of the United

States. Dunnell said that a desire to understand these “enemies” was at the root of her early academic work. She was one of two seniors at her high school who took the opportunity to enroll in a class at her local community college. She took an introductory class in Russian language. The other

Fraternities and Ensemble bring jazz to local schools JUSTIN SUN | STAFF WRITER

For the first time in over 20 years, jazz will return to East Knox Local School District. Kenyon’s Beta Theta Phi (Beta) and Delta Phi (D-Phi) fraternities and members of Kenyon’s Jazz Ensemble have collaborated to not only prop up the school district’s existing band program, but also create a new after-school jazz program.

The venture started a year ago after the Betas raised money for and donated 20 instruments to East Knox Local School District. Wyatt Ernst ’18, then the vice president of Beta, had the idea to bring jazz to Knox County schools after he volunteered at New Orleans’ Preservation Hall, an organization that teaches jazz in schools without music departments. After that first donation, Ernst wanted someone to teach jazz in the classroom, but he was not able to teach it himself. When Max Lazarus ’20, a member of the Jazz Ensemble, heard of the opportunity, he immediately emailed Ernst.

“I got an email right back that was like, ‘Can we meet tonight?’” Lazarus said. “It just kinda kicked off right away.”

Over two years, Ernst’s fraternity has raised more than $8,000 through a combination of benefit concerts at the Village Inn and solicited donations from connections Ernst made at Preservation Hall. Besides the 20 instruments, that money went toward repairing and paying off the rentals on the school district’s existing instruments. The D-Phis contributed $400 this year as well and plan to collaborate with the Betas more in the

future.

The Betas hope to continue supporting East Knox’s music departments and eventually branch out into other schools around Knox County. Ernst is excited about the lasting impact their venture could have. He stressed the importance of working with the local community.

“I think that the money that you raise and the service that you do will be much more beneficial to this county and this area than just giving it to a charity,” he said. “It’s all about building bridges.”

Lazarus has been teaching a group of about a dozen seventh, eighth and ninth graders after school every Tuesday as part of East Knox’s new jazz program.

He focuses on the fun of playing music, teaching his students how to improvise and express themselves through their instruments.

“I try to focus on things that I personally didn’t receive out of a public education and things that I felt are super essential to just being a musician,” he said.

“Music is fun and I want to show that that’s what music is, because I feel like school and education takes it away.”

East Knox Local School District will have a concert on May 9 at East Knox High School. Lazarus is excited about the jazz program’s first performance.

“It’s gonna be our first gig ever, as a band, and I think the kids are very excited to show what we’ve been working on,” he said. “We got two songs that we’re gonna be performing, and I don’t want to give too much away, but one of them is gonna be an Art Blakey tune.”

student enrolled in accounting.

Dunnell enrolled at Middlebury College, where she continued her studies in Russian. “I had these romantic visions for my future,” Dunnell said. Her goal was to work as an interpreter for the United Nations, but in her sophomore year she took a class in Chinese history, fell in love with the subject and switched her major to history, passing up the opportunity to be a part of the first exchange program between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Dunnell went on to earn a master’s degree from the University of Washington, and a doctorate from Princeton University.

The topics on Saturday ranged from blood oaths in feudal Japan to mosques in contemporary China. Many of the speakers shared with the audience how Dunnell had assisted them in their lives and research. Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan Donald Lopez spoke on the semester that he spent with Dunnell in Ann Arbor, researching the Tibet-

an Panchen Lama’s visit to the Qing court in 1780. University of Pennsylvania Professor of History Christopher Atwood gave a presentation in which he analyzed a series of medieval Mongol population censuses.

He acknowledged the obscurity of his topic, but admitted that there would be at least one person in the audience who would appreciate it, gesturing to Dunnell.

“I have always been scared of Ruth Dunnell,” University of Michigan Professor of History Hitomi Tonomura said before she began her presentation. “I hope she will continue to haunt me for a long time.”

“Everyone who we invited said ‘yes’ right away,” KilicSchubel said. “These are prominent scholars at a very busy time of the year, but they came for Ruth. Ruth is a respected scholar, and her scholarship has connected Kenyon to the rest of the academic world. In her time here, the history department has become globalized — we have Ruth to thank for that.”

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Kenyon professor connects with transformation and tradition through her art Assistant Professor of Art Sandra Lee presents a collection of her work at the Gund Gallery.

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The faint scent of fermented vegetables will be filling the air of the center room of the Gund Gallery from April 23rd untilMay 27th. The smell is part of THE BEND, an introductory show recently premiered by Assistant Professor of Art Sandra Lee. “I was bringing in fermented vegetables, Korean spices, Korean fermented vegetables, I was using that as a metaphor for transformation,” Lee said. “I have these common materials, like garlic, but once garlic goes into this environment, it can be fermented and it totally transforms, it becomes another version of itself.”

THE BEND, which incorporates many artistic practices like sculpture, video and a new spin on traditional gardening, functions as a recent overview of Lee’s work and focuses on the theme of change. Before coming to Gambier, she worked abroad in Beijing and Seoul, Korea. The pieces on display were designed in these three locations.

The newest piece, at the center of the room, is Ferment, Foment, a study of traditional rock gardening, and the Korean practice of fermenting vegetables. The piece is a collection of

different materials, some more unconventional than others, organized in the style of a garden. These materials include bamboo, branches, construction mesh, concrete, yarn, dried seaweed and fermented Korean vegetables and spices. Jars with various foods in the process of fermentation are placed in sealed jars around other structures like blocks and miniature trees, recalling both the organization and controlled life of a garden.

The fermenting garlic is just one of many transformations of the mundane on display. Lee has featured everything from footage of a rapidly changing neighborhood in Beijing, Jimenqiao Village, 2017; a sizeable tower of vertical interlocking shirt cuffs, Loop (day out), 2007/16; and treated brick meant to suggest a reflective pond, Sidewalk Soswaewo, 2016.

“I used brick, sidewalk brick, very, very common Ohio sidewalk brick,” she said of Sidewalk Soswaewo, “but through the treatment of glazes, polishing and sanding, it starts to become like a portable pond, reflective service, for contemplating, like a pond in a garden.”

“It’s kind of a ‘construction garden’,” Lee said. She went on to explain that this piece was

inspired by the heavy amount of construction disrupting daily life in the area. “I was really interested in how there are always traces of people, building gardens in these places in between … They get destroyed, new ones get put up again, so this constant push and pull, forcespace.”

Lee said she wanted the name of the show to reflect the shifting environments and the transformation of their inhabitants and objects. “That’s sort of the idea of THE BEND, something’s kind of coming, something percolating underneath,” she said.

Lee says she also thinks the timing is apt for a show focusing on what she describes as “portable culture” in light of the sociopolitical and socioeconomic

ANNMARIE MORRISON

Assistant Professor of Art Sandra Lee’s exhibition THE BEND is on display in the Buchwald-Wright Gallery until May 27.

realities of today. “I really do think urgent times are always happening, but it definitely felt very appropriate,” Lee said.

The pieces reflect the struggle to organize space aesthetically under adverse conditions, but this general practice of aesthetic organization is something we all have in common.

“They’re these daily creative acts,” Lee said, “constantly sort of playing themselves out dayto-day. I’m inspired by the moving of materials, the placement of objects, so people can have a place for themselves.”

“That portable nature of it is I think something a lot of people can relate to,” Lee added, noting that the installment itself is a collection of pieces from former periods brought together into a temporary space. “You’re relocating, you’re setting up again and again, and you’re doing it with older parts of yourself, and where you project yourself ... It’s that in-between space I’m interested in.”

THE BEND will run in the Gund Gallery until Sunday, May 27.

Soccer Mommy performs a playful, grungy show at the Horn ULYSSES YARBER ARTS EDITOR

From high-school sweethearts gone sour to cannibalistic lovers aiming to eat your heart out, Soccer Mommy captures the emotional ups and downs, but mostly downs, of falling in and out of love.

Last Wednesday Soccer Mommy of Nashville, Tennessee played at the Horn Gallery. Kenyon’s own indie duo Day Moon, made up of Alex Inciardi ’21 and Molly Walsh ’21, and singer-songwriter Annie Blackman ’20 opened.

Soccer Mommy, the stage name of 20-year-old Sophie Allen, is known for her indierock, bedroom-pop style, that manages to be simplistic, but poised, grunge, but clearcut, and has been hailed by The New York Times as “The Future of Indie Rock.”

The Horn was packed — the crowd nodding, swaying and singing along. Soccer Mommy and her band swung through hyped-up hits like “Your Dog” and the hoppy, ’60s-esque “Last Girl.”

They meandered through the

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Soccer Mommy performed an hour-long set for a full house on Wednesday night at the Horn Gallery.

lilting cadence of “Blossom (Wasting All my Time)” and alternated between complimenting and cracking jokes about the campus, praising Kenyon’s horror movie vibe.

Despite the serious tone of her songs, Soccer Mommy was playful with the audience, promising to meet and take pictures with audience members after her set.

Just like in her recorded tracks, the music was pur-

posefully patchy in parts, her voice sometimes dissonant, the guitar passionate, but not perfect, echoing the unraveling relationships and broken expectations of the songs.

“It was really cool to see her live, and the Horn was definitely a good space for her to perform– kind of intimate, but also with enough room to dance,” Eleanor Evans-Wickberg ’21 who attended the concert said. “She had a good

set, and it ended too soon in my humble opinion!”

Soccer Mommy names inf luences like her contemporary Mitski, as well as favorite bands like Hole and Sonic Youth.

Growing up with the music of Taylor Swift and Avril Lavigne, Soccer Mommy’s unique lyrics succeed in being catchy, personal and relatable but never surface-level. In addition to the Times, publica-

tions such as The Fader, Rolling Stone and Pitchfork have featured Soccer Mommy as an up-and-coming artist set to change the face of rock, an incredible accomplishment for a musician the same age as most Kenyon students.

Before dropping out of New York University after her second year, Soccer Mommy came out with two full-length albums, For Young Hearts and Collection, then released her third album, Clean, this March. She is set to join Paramore and Foster the People on tour this summer.

On divulging such intimate emotions with millions of strangers, Soccer Mommy is frank.

“I think it would be harder to not be personal … sharing it with an audience because it’s not intimate, like when you share it with such a large internet of people, it’s not like playing it to a person, it’s definitely different,” she said.

Though with not quite the intimacy of a heart-to-heart, Soccer Mommy still played a show brimming with emotion, moving the audience both to dance and to cry.

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Annie Blackman’s honest songs resonate with intimate crowd DYLAN MANNING ARTS EDITOR

Her writing process can take anywhere from a couple of days to a few months, depending on whether she is at school or at Her lyrics are poetic, her chords fresh — home for the summer, or how long she wants although Annie Blackman ’20 is not a prothe song to be. In terms of subject matter, fessional musician, she already has a large Blackman said, “A lot of it is about relationrepertoire of songs and quite a few fans. ship stuff, romantic feelings. It’s easiest to This was clear in her performance opendraw from those feelings for me.” ing for the band Soccer Mommy on WednesIn high school Blackman was nervous to day, April 26 in the Horn Gallery. The crowd perform because she was worried that the was small but intimate and full of fans who subjects of her songs would be embarrassing, knew Blackman’s songs by heart, singing but by the end of senior year, with college with her during many of the verses and all on the horizon, that fear went away. She first of the choruses. performed in June of her senior year of high Blackman has worked hard to get to school, and her first Kenyon show was at where she is today an Environmental Camas an artist. She bepus Organization (ECO) A lot of it is about gan learning guitar event in October of her the summer before first year. relationship stuff, sixth grade, inspired romantic feelings. It’s easiest She draws inspiraby Taylor Swift, who tion from Pinegrove to draw from those feelings for — a Kenyon band that was just beginning her ascent to fame. me. also happens to be from In middle school Blackman’s hometown Blackman wrote Annie Blackman ’20 in Montclair, New Jerseveral unfinished sey — as well as Sidney songs but did not Gish, Frankie Cosmos begin to write complete songs until her first and Mitski. “If I try to emulate someone, it’s year of high school. As she matured emomore in lyrics than in melody, but every time tionally, so did her music. “It was a combiI find a new artist, I try to think about how I nation of me being ready to commit time to can pull from it,” Blackman said. a whole song and also having all of these new Blackman is unsure if she is interested feelings,” she said. in pursuing songwriting professionally, but She often comes up with verses during definitely wants to keep music in her life. class: “Instead of doodling, I’ll try to think “Whatever I want to do in my professional of rhymes.” After coming up with lyrics for future, I want it to have to do with writing, the first verse, she begins to craft the music but not necessarily music,” she said. “It’s while writing the rest of the verses. She desomething I plan to keep doing forever, but veloped this style of songwriting out of nenot with my career.” cessity. “I don’t have a tight grasp on guitar theory,” Blackman said. “I’m not someone Music can be found on annieblackman. who is super great at technical stuff. ... I rely bandcamp.com and on soundcloud.com more on lyrics.”

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Singer-songwriter Annie Blackman ’20 opened for Soccer Mommy at the Horn Gallery on Wednesday, April 25.

Sincere Stagefemmes production navigates inconvenient love Black Box performance, Trudy and Max in Love, tells a modern romance in a minimalist set.

ULYSSES YARBER ARTS EDITOR

edith Rupp ’19 as Trudy, the sociable young-adult author, while Talia Light To enter the theater, audience Rake ’20 and Jeffrey Searls ’19 played members had to climb over the stage multiple characters with ease. The and walk across the set to their seats. play focused on love as the characters Before the lights explored the comwent up, Trudy and plications and inMax in Love had conveniences of true That is what already created a connection. made the sense of intimacy.

The set was sparse whole thing magical for and minimalistic. A The play, written by the multi- me, to see the show, and coffee pot created talented Zoe Ka- and be able to work on an office space, a zan (known for her it with friends. f loor lamp created acting roles in The an apartment. DurBig Sick and Ruby Miles Shebar ’20 ing scene changes, Sparks) and prothe actors made no duced by Stageeffort to hide the femmes, was performed on Thursday shifting of tables and the changing of and Saturday evening of last week in costumes, which they took off a rack the Black Box Theater. of clothes incorporated onto the set.

Trudy and Max in Love is split into With the actors forced to both play over 20 small vignettes. These small their characters and present themscenes show the couple meeting at selves as performers, the production’s dinner or giggling in their apart- self-awareness broke down the barriment. er between fiction and reality.

Sometimes saccharine and someThe play was entirely student-run, times heartbreaking, the four ac- which was new for some of the actors brought a unique quality to the tors. Shebar found the experience space: Miles Shebar ’20 starred as unique. “I hadn’t worked with peers Max, the playboy novelist, and Mer- since high school, in terms of direc-

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tion and production,” he said. “That finding new depths a scene or line is what made the whole thing magical with each rehearsal. for me, to see the show, and be able to “There were multiple moments in work on it with friends.” the show that attested to the page and Erica Christie ’19, the director of the stage being two very different the play, agreed. “Working with your things,” Shebar said. peers as a director, is a really special Rupp also highlighted this process. thing,” she said.

“When you think strictly in terms of “In the opening note that Zoe motivations and wants and objectives Kazan wrote in the play, and what … your judgment of the character, or ended up being our tracking theme what you would think otherwise has throughout the process was, ‘Let the to go away, and that’s where more seams show’,” Christie said. “Just the truth will come out of it,” Rupp said. idea that it was a simple set, and we Relying on the actors’ ingenuweren’t supposed ity and the director’s to hide the fact skill, the play envelThe set was that we were in oped the audience with sparse and a theater, and it its charming dialogue was really use- minimalistic. A coffee and raw emotion. ful that it was in pot created an office Christie,Rupp and Shea black box, be- space, a floor lamp crebar cited the genuine cause there are ated an apartment. romance as especially exit signs everyresonant with Kenyon where and a full students. garage … Our goal was to use as The play, published in 2016, is much of that as we could to our ben- timely, and it delves into the compliefit.” cations of modern-day relationships, Because of the play’s relevance to which on any college campus, mired today’s romantic landscape, the ac- in hookup culture and a constant tors often struggled to discern the pressure to look to the future, feels true intentions of their characters, relatable.

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STAFF EDITORIAL

Vol. 145 signs off As one of our staff members said during our last night in the Collegian office, “It’s been wild.” It really has. Kenyon has embarked on tremendous shifts this year, and they were not just cosmetic.

This year, we broke a story about a racially motivated stop by the Knox County Sheriff ’s Office. We wrote several in-depth articles about The Good Samaritan, and we chronicled the stripping of student support groups’ confidentiality. Though the events of this past year have each had an effect on our campus, they are not isolated incidents. We believe that they are symptoms of Kenyon’s underlying culture of privilege and exclusion.

These are all stories that have implications for community dialogue and action as we decide how the College will look and feel in the future. We thought about our responsibility to our readers at every step of the way because we understand the critical role student journalists play on college campuses across the country.

We are deeply concerned about the legacy of these events and hope that they won’t be forgotten over the summer. As we’ve been saying all year — we have work to do in order to make this place an inclusive space for intellectual pursuit, and we hope these changes and conversations won’t stall out simply because of our distance from them.

To break away from this privileged culture — a culture that routinely marginalizes underrepresented students on this campus — we must continue to strive for accountability and transparency. Those who have power on this campus should be held accountable to the student body for their administrative decisions, and they should promote open communication, and receptiveness to new ideas, instead of constantly trying to explain their reasoning and never modifying their stance.

Although changes in administrative policies are necessary to move forward, we as students do not have direct inf luence over those decisions. We do have direct inf luence over our own actions. We must hold each other — and ourselves — accountable for being complicit in Kenyon’s systemic cultural issues. No one is going to swoop in deus-ex-machinastyle and save us from ourselves.

As activist Winona LaDuke said when she visited campus this year, “Don’t just say what’s wrong. Envision what’s right.”

If you want this campus to change for the better, work to change it.

The staff editorial was written this week by Vol. 145 editors-in-chief Bailey Blaker ’18 and Gabrielle Healy ’18 and managing editor Lauren Eller ’18. You can contact them at blakerb@kenyon.edu, healyg@kenyon.edu and ellerl@kenyon.edu, respectively.

The opinions page is a space for members of the community to discuss issues relevant to the campus and the world at large. The opinions expressed on this page belong only to the writer. Columns and letters to the editors do not reflect the opinions of the Collegian staff.

All members of the community are welcome to express opinions through a letter to the editor.

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The Collegian cannot accept anonymous or pseudonymous letters. Letters must be signed by individuals, not organizations, and must be 200 words or fewer. Letters must also be received no later than the Tuesday prior to publication. The Kenyon Collegian prints as many letters as possible each week subject to space, interest and appropriateness. Members of the editorial board reserve the right to reject any submission. The views expressed in the paper do not necessarily reflect the views of Kenyon College.

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The case for valuing originality of student artists ELIZABETH IDUMA COLUMNIST

are famous, but not because the into Horvitz Hall to see mirrormusic makes them feel anything like drawings of your peers linat all. Attending Kenyon means ing the walls or the sculpture of Our campus is filled with we are surrounded, like we may a slanted picnic table with f lies such a wide range of artists that never be again, by smart artists speckling the food that only beit doesn’t make sense how little who have yet to drink the need- come visible when the distance attention they receive, especially to-make-a-profit poison that has between the observer and the art from other artists across disciturned so many ge- is shortened. plines. It is niuses into caricaAs artists and students with time we trade It is time we tures of themselves. tightly packed schedules, we have in our obThe audience to choose carefully which art we session with trade in our for the Kenyon consume. We fear wasting time loving what obsession with loving Filmmakers Film on something that we might not was already what is already given a Festival or for seenjoy. It feels safer to know the given a fivefive-star rating. nior thesis plays art has already been criticalstar rating. like Sharing Souls ly acclaimed before we give it a Instead, we

by Kyla Spencer ’18 chance. This is a reasonable menshould recogwas thin, but campus screenings tality, but its believers will alnize that Kenyon artists really for Call Me By Your Name and ways find themselves last in line. want the same thing: someone to Capote were filled.

This argument grows incredibly appreciate our work.

At least some of the seats at weak when we remember apps On April 25, Amanda Goodman ’18 released her EP, Please these screenings were occupied like Bandcamp and Soundcloud Don’t Ghost Me, on Bandcamp. by people who have already seen are free to download.

Why shuff le the “Today’s Top After listening to the 16-minute them. Why is it that we would Hits” playlalbum on repeat all day, I was re- rather see a movie ist on Spominded of my appreciation for we’ve already seen Spotify tify when we honest lyrics and effortless vo- twice than see doesn’t offer could tune in cals. The Soccer Mommy concert the hearts of our to WKCO and at the Horn Gallery later that peers poured into the personal opinions hear what our night was like transitioning from their projects? and anecdotes that Rarely do friends and dark roast coffee to decaf. college radio does. classmates want The concert was as forgettable people have the so badly for us as Seeb and Whitney at Summer chance to disto hear? Spotify Sendoff later that week. It’s not cover great art, doesn’t offer the personal opinthat these shows lacked the heart which is why we go to major feaions and anecdotes that college and creativity that can be found ture films, because someone else radio does. Let’s fall in love with in other Kenyon student-pro- has already decided that they are each other and the mediums duced work like Please Don’t Get good and worth seeing.

We spend money at galleries through which we translate our Scared by Lucky and Shedding Velvet Goes Platinum by Shed- when the senior studio art show at souls. ding Velvet, both released earlier the Gund Gallery, running April Elizabeth Iduma ’20 is a film this year. It just feels like the ma- 30 to May 19, has transformed jority of the people in the crowds the sleepless nights of art stu- major from Silver Spring, Md. at these shows seem to only be dents into every medium imag- You can contact her at iduma1@ there because the performers inable. You don’t have to walk far kenyon.edu.

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Kenyon Q’s: Strategies for dealing with post-Sendoff Scaries Hannah Lee gives tips for avoiding unwanted interactions as the semester winds down.

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Dear Hannah Lee, This past weekend was great and all, but now that the haze of Sendoff and carpe diem has lifted, I’m facing my first case of the post-Sendoff Scaries. I realize that I may have acted recklessly at times. Kenyon often feels like such a safe bubble, but what happens when I want to hide from people within that bubble? Is this place too small for such shenanigans?

Signed, Shameful Dear Shameful, Ah, the post-Sendoff Scaries.

Not that I’ve ever called them that, but I know exactly what you mean.

This past weekend was a blur of music, friends, randos and maybe one or two decisions that seemed

fairly innocuous until after you followed through with them.

On Monday morning, we awoke to reality and the realization that Kenyon is much more fishbowl-y than it seemed over the weekend.

Suddenly it seems like everywhere you turn, you’re surrounded by people who either witnessed or participated in your rather shameworthy moments. My limited time in adulthood has taught me that avoidance is the best way to address regretful decisions. Try out a few of these maneuvers and techniques to avoid running into that rebound hookup or stranger who fell asleep on your couch.

On Middle Path: If you’re strolling along, enjoying the blue skies and flowers in bloom, nothing ruffles your cool like catching sight of a kid you’d rather avoid. Thankfully, Middle Path is strategically lined with buildings (read: hiding places) every few meters. If said person is approaching in the opposite direc-

CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Greek offer 4. Crew action 7. Urine component 11. “Covered!”

13. Not a fruit of the Spirit, say 15. 2:1, in music 18. Copies 19. Once Christian, now interfaith, service before Commencement 21. Image-embedding technique; or, perhaps, a spicy sausage 22. Brain-to-brain communication 24. Down 25. Computer manufacturer, with an 8-bar logo 28. Mr. I Am 30. Travel checkpointers 33. Pipes and faucets 35. Commencement speaker, when in trouble 39. Maximally delicate 40. Slimy fish 41. “haha” 42. The Aral or Caspian 43. “Harper Valley _ _ _,” a well-known country song 46. Smallest prime 48. Split, according to 46-Across 52. Fashion accessories for Commencement 57. Deprives

59. Variety of soothing tea 60. Like a bachelor 61. Himalayan monster 62. It is, in Paris 63. Recently changed from a 2400 to a 1600 scale 64. Immediate computer storage

DOWN 1. Megan’s moniker for Drake or Josh 2. Andean Empire 3. Roadside rut 4. Like Friends episodes, nowadays 5. Writing three pages over the limit, for instance 6. Disinfectant rag 7. To bring together states 8. Like color-blindness or sickle-cell anemia 9. In-dorm animal friend 10. Donkey 12. Truck food soon on “every corner,” according to one Trump supporter 14. emos tsuj toN 16. Cauldrons 17. Jazz singer Fitzgerald 20. Farm _ _ _, an annual benefit festival 23. Onstage discussion group 26. Yellow transport 27. III times LXVII

tion, make a beeline toward Ascension or duck into the Church of the Holy Spirit. Wait it out a few minutes, giving them enough time to journey past you. Emerge tentatively. If the coast is clear, continue on your merry way.

At Peirce: The best part of Peirce is that you have multiple seating options.

Someone you want to avoid sits on Old Side? Bask in the bright sunshine on New Side. Are they more unpredictable? Play it safe by venturing all the way downstairs into the Alumni Dining Room or Peirce Pub. Better yet, completely cloister yourself away in some dusty corner on the third floor.

In Class: If you have a class with the person you’d rather not relive past moments with, avoiding them ranges from extremely easy to rather difficult depending on the nature of the class. If you share a science course together in one of the spacious science buildings’ lecture halls, sit be-

hind them and across the room. If they’re studious, they’ll keep their eyes on the professor instead of searching for you.

If you have a class built around small, seminar-style discussions, the challenge increases. Your best option is to vary your seating choice. Sit on the same side of the table as the person of interest (or disinterest, rather), but not between them and the professor, to play it safe. Keeping a couple of students in between you and them offers a solid buffer, too.

In Your Dorm: Completely adjust your schedule so that it’s the opposite of whomever you’re trying to avoid.

Do they always leave the building at 8:45 a.m. to go to breakfast?

Head to Peirce at 8 a.m. so that you can enjoy a nice, relaxing meal and then bolt well before they arrive.

Make an effort not to hang out in their hallway, too, unless you want to be certain of an awkward run-in.

If you live on the same hall, heaven

forbid, start using your window as an entrance/exit.

Okay, okay. So maybe these suggestions are a little unsustainable and may only make your life harder. After all, Kenyon proves that it’s impossible to hide from someone forever.

It’s not the best situation in the world, but you’ll need to decide if you want to own up to your weekend misadventures and offer apologies if necessary. An alternative is to do what most students do: sheepishly laugh and shake it off.

Never underestimate a light-hearted joke’s ability to clear the air. At the end of the day, being able to laugh at your own awkward situation makes you feel a little more in charge of it.

Hannah Lee Leidy ’18 is an English major with an emphasis in creative writing. She loved her semester of running Kenyon Q’s, as she found it much easier to give advice to anyone else aside from herself.

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Ladies tennis takes home second consecutive NCAC trophy DYLAN GOODWIN SPORTS EDITOR

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Kenyon Ladies tennis won their second straight conference championship at the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) tournament this past weekend in Indianapolis, Ind. In addition to winning the NCAC championship, the team also earned an automatic bid to the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) tournament. The Ladies were the No. 1 seed in the conference and faced off against Allegheny College in the first round, DePauw University in the semifinals and Denison University in the championship.

The first game against Allegheny was a rematch of the last game of the season, when the Ladies won 9-0. Kenyon won this matchup 5-0.

In the doubles competition, the Ladies got out to a quick 1-0 lead after Diana Aboubakare ’18 and Erika Oku ’22 dominated their opponents in straight sets, 8-0. The Ladies only lost one set the entire match. Grace Winslow ’18 and Annie

Reiner ’19 won each of their singles matches by a score of 8-0 with Reiner sealing the victory in the last singles match.

The following day provided the only true challenge in the entire tournament for the Ladies as they won 5-3 against DePauw University.

Kenyon was down 2-1 after the doubles matches as Aboubakare and Oku lost their first doubles match as a pairing this season. Maggie Sweeney ’19 and Grace Winslow ’18 evened up the score after they defeated their opponents 8-3.

Going into singles play, the Ladies had to play catch-up. Aboubakare and Oku bounced back immediately from their initial doubles loss by downing each of their singles opponents with ease. After the two victories, the Ladies needed two wins out of the final three singles matches to advance, and Ilana Blackwood ’22 and Winslow once again provided the spark when they each won their matches. Winslow had to go the full distance after a close second set where she lost 6-7. But she bounced back to blank her opponent in the final set 6-0 to advance the Ladies to the championship.

“The hardest part of the DePauw match was the weather conditions. We had not been practicing a lot outside and the wind made it a lot more difficult for us to play our normal game.”

Reiner said.

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Grace Winslow ’18 played a crucial role in game two during Kenyon’s run in the NCAC tournament.

tive NCAC championship after defeating the Denison University Big Red 5-0. Sweeney and Winslow led off the day in doubles with a win after beating their opposition 8-3. Their performance was followed by Blackwood and Ceylan Can ’21 who also beat their opponents 8-3, and Aboubakare and Oku came in to give the Ladies a 3-0 lead going into singles play. Aboubakare beat out her opponent by scores of 6-1 and 7-5.

Reiner stole the show, however, and she cel-

ebrated on the court with her teammates after winning her last set 6-0. In addition, Reiner was also awarded the much-deserved NCAC Player of the week after her performances.

The Ladies are waiting to see who they will be playing in the NCAA tournament, but they will find out in the next few days. “We know that we are gonna be having much harder competition, so with this in mind we have to make sure we go out there really strong from the first point,” Reiner said.

Men’s tennis wins 12th Lords baseball wins four of five straight NCAC trophy games heading into Wooster series ADAM SCHWAGER STAFF WRITER

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The Lords tennis team won its 12th straight North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Championship over the weekend to earn the conference’s automatic qualifying bid to the 2018 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament.

The Lords started play as the NCAC regular season champions and the top overall seed in the tournament. As the top team in the conference, they started off the tournament facing the eighthplaced Allegheny College Gators in the quarterfinals on Friday morning. The Lords made quick work of the Gators, with only the first doubles match of Weston Noall ’18 and Alex Rieger ’18 requiring more than 11 games.

In the semifinals they faced the fifth-seeded Ohio Wesleyan University Battling Bishops, who had just upset the Wabash College Little Giants in the quarterfinals. The semifinal matchup was another blowout, with the Lords winning 5-0 again. Both the first doubles and second doubles were tight, but the Lords prevailed to take a 3-0 lead entering singles play. It was crucial to win those

games in order to preserve their best singles players for the finals the following morning.

In the finals, the Lords faced their biggest rival, Denison University Big Red. This was a rematch from earlier in the season when the Lords came out on top 9-0. This final would be a little tighter, as Brian Weisberg and Vlad Rotnov of Denison were able to pull off a first for the tournament by defeating the Lords in a match. That third doubles match made the overall score 1-1 before Austin Diehl ’20 and Jacob Zalenski ’20 were able to prevail in a tiebreaker to keep the Lords up 2-1 after doubles. Zalenski then put the Lords up 3-1, before Denison’s Patrick McGuigan was able to help the Big Red crawl back and make the score 3-2.

However, once the Big Red had started to develop some hope, Nicholas Paolucci ’20 put away his match to put the Lords up 4-2.

At this point, the only thing that stood between the Lords and the NCAC championship was one win. With three matches that went to three sets, the championship could have gone either way had NCAC Player of the Week Diehl not come back and put away Denison’s Jamie McDonald to clinch the 12th consecutive championship.

The Lords’ next quest will be in the NCAA tournament later this month, and they will find out their draw on Monday at noon during the NCAA Division III tennis selection show.

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Lords baseball faced off against conference rival Oberlin College last weekend. In game one of the doubleheader, the Yeomen jumped on starter Ross Scheinberg ’19, scoring a combined six runs in the first two innings. But the Lords were able to keep up with Oberlin’s pace and also scored six runs in the first two innings. However Scheinberg settled in, sitting down 15 of the next 17 batters he faced.

Scheinberg pitched seven innings, letting up four earned runs and striking out eight.

The Lords took the lead for good in the third inning after scoring three runs. Alex Hoskins ’21 led off the inning with a double and Joaquin Murrieta ’20 followed with an RBI double that scored Hoskins. Sacrifice flies from Ryan Page ’21 and Matt von Roemer ’18 plated two more and brought the score to 9-6.

The Lords added three more runs over the next six innings and, with Will Allen ’20 pitching

the final two innings, won 12-6.

Game two proved to be a pitchers’ duel. Lords starter Pat Craig ’21 pitched seven strong innings, walking one, fanning seven and giving up one earned run in the third inning.

Over the first six innings, the Lords were able to get a few hits, including a single from von Roemer that was his 200th career hit. “I was thrilled that I could do it on Senior Day, with my whole family in the stands, against one of the best pitchers in our conference in my four years,” von Roemer said.

The Lords’ bats stayed quiet until the team caught a break in the seventh. With two outs, Hoskins worked a walk and advanced to third on a single by Murrieta. Paul Siciliano ’20 hit a chopper toward third which caused a fielding error that allowed Hoskins to score, tying it up at 1-1. Mikey Arman ’18 followed with a clutch single up the middle that plated Murrieta and put the Lords ahead 2-1. Jesse Bogacz ’18 struck out four of the final five batters he faced to secure the win and earn his third career save.

With these two wins, the Lords were able to keep their playoff hopes alive. “I’m glad we won both games and have a real chance to make the playoffs,” von Roemer said.

On Sunday, the Lords traveled to Hiram and won by a stunning score of 24-13. The Lords started the day with a lead-off dinger

from Arman and never slowed down including a six spot in the sixth and a seven spot in the seventh. Matt Contreras ’19 and Siciliano both went 5 for 6 with three doubles and Siciliano had 4 RBIs. On Wednesday, the Lords took on Allegheny in a doubleheader starting at noon. The day didn’t start off the way the team had hoped after they dropped the game by a score of 11-0. But the Lords turned it around in the second game and beat the Gators 6-1.

In game one, Scheinberg took the mound for the Lords, but did not receive much help. He pitched one-and-two-thirds innings giving up eight runs, but only two of them were earned.

The Kenyon bats were not able to get going on Allegheny starter Nate Pastorek, who only surrendered six hits in eight innings.

Game two of the doubleheader started just the way the Lords wanted. They took a commanding 4-0 lead in the first inning and went on to win 6-1. Patrick O’Leary ’20 provided some offensive firepower going 2-4 with an RBI. Craig started on the bump for the Lords. He threw well over seven innings giving up one earned run on three hits with two walks and two strikeouts.

The Lords will end their regular season in Wooster, Ohio this weekend when they take on the No. 1 College of Wooster, according to D3baseball.com.

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Softball season comes to a close against the DePauw Tigers The Ladies had an up-and-down season but look to talented rising seniors to lead in 2019.

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The Ladies softball season came to an end on Saturday afternoon, as the DePauw University Tigers swept the team in a double-header. The two losses came on the heels of two home defeats at the hands of the Allegheny College Gators on Thursday.

With these four losses the Ladies will finish their season at 19-21 overall and with a North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) record of 3-13.

At 3-13, the Ladies finalized their season eighth out of nine teams in the conference, only ahead of Hiram College (2-14 NCAC).

It was a Jekyll and Hyde season for the Ladies: half good and half bad.

They started off the season 16-8 in their non-conference games before they got to the NCAC portion of their schedule.

In their season finale, the Ladies dropped the first game 12-4 before being shut out 2-0 in game two. Although the Tigers made three errors in the first game, the Ladies were unable to take full advantage of those fielding mistakes, as DePauw starting pitcher Emma Baldwin was able to work her way out of trouble. Starting pitcher Keely Sweet ’20 registered the loss for the Ladies, giving up five runs and four walks in less than two innings.

Sweet had an up-and-down season as Kenyon’s ace. The sophomore right hander led the NCAC in innings and finished second in wins with 10, but did so while sporting an ERA of 4.50.

However, that number does not tell the whole story, as Sweet had an ERA as low as 2.7 as late in the season as March 31.

On an individual level, the Ladies produced some strong seasons. Third baseman Madi Maldonado ’18 had a successful campaign in the batter’s box, finishing with a .377 batting average and a team-leading 31 runs batted in. The NCAC leader in

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Madi Maldonado ’18 finished her impressive Kenyon career at DePauw University.

walks from each of the previous two seasons, Maldonado walked 28 more times in 2018 to lead the league for a third straight year. She also scored 53 runs and stole 21 bases to lead the NCAC as well in those categories.

Grace Finn ’21 also had an excellent season in her first year at the collegiate level. She led the NCAC in doubles and was third in overall hits

while hitting over .400. Her 18 stolen bases would have led the NCAC if not for her teammate Maldonado.

The Ladies’ season is over, and the team is sad to see the senior leadership go. The team has a lot to look forward to going into next year.

Rising seniors Austen Whibley ’19, Grace Pilz ’19, and Britny Patterson ’19 will lead the team going forward.

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Golf places 3rd in NCAC tournament MARY LIZ BRADY

Sadiq Jiwa ’18 tees up his drive during the NCAC tournament on a beautiful day at Westbrook Country Club in Mansfield, Ohio.

PETER DOLA STAFF WRITER

On the 72-par, 6,910-yard Westbrook Country Club golf course, the Lords took home a third place finish at the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) tournament. Wittenberg University took home the win after nearly surrendering a six-stroke lead on the third day of play, and were aided by a putt missed by Ohio Wesleyan University on the 18th green that would have forced a playoff.

On a course which played long all weekend, Kenyon’s third-place finish was fueled by consistent play over the course of the tournament.

Ryan Muthiora ’18 led the Lords with a fourth-place individual finish after shooting a +7, 223 over the three rounds.

After a slow start for Muthiora, with a bogey and double-bogey on the first two holes, he rallied off 14 pars coupled with two birdies to keep his score at +2 for the first day. On the second day, Muthiora continued his strong play for the first 14 holes with an overall -2, but finished with three bogeys and one double bogey to end the day +3. After finding his groove

again in day three, Muthiora ended his last NCAC tournament with a +4, 75.

Eric Lifson ’21 finished 13th on the individual leaderboard as he improved his score each successive day with a 78, a 77 and a 75 over the respective days.

Lawrence Courtney ’21 and Sadiq Jiwa ’18 tied for 14th, with overall scores of +14, 231 on the tournament. After shooting an 80 on day one, Courtney improved by eight strokes on day three giving him an even par day and allowing him to jump up the leaderboard. Courtney managed this with four bogeys and four birdies on the round. Jiwa started the tournament well as he held fourth place individually at the end of round one with a +3, 75 and had held the lead individually during the first day of play.

Jiwa then tallied up a 75 on day two and 77 on day three.

Finally, Robert Williams ’19, finished the scoring for the Lords with a +17, 233 on the weekend. Despite shooting a solid 76 during round one and a 75 on the final day, an 82 during the second day pushed Williams down the leaderboard to a 17 place finish.

As a team, the Lords played well on

the longer par-4 and par-5 holes. On par-4 holes the Lords finished second in the tournament, scoring +51, while on par-5 holes the the Lords finished third with an overall score of -2. However, the team struggled on the par-3 portion of the course, finishing with a score of +19, which was fourth worst at the tournament.

Moreover, Kenyon ended the tournament second for overall pars with 156 and fourth for overall birdies with 28.

At the end of the tournament, Muthiora was given the NCAC Dick Gordin Player of the Year award. This award comes after one of Muthiora’s best seasons. After 22 rounds this year, he has managed a just-over-par scoring average of 72.77. Muthiora also has two firstplace finishes, eight top five finishes and nine top-ten finishes.

On his career, Muthiora has played 94 rounds for the Lords, hit 7,071 competitive strokes and averaged a 75.22 overall round score.

Kenyon now awaits bids for nationals next weekend, where the Lords hope to receive an at-large bid to continue their season.

This week in 1980, Kenyon’s karate club took part in the fourth annual Denison University Karate Tournament. The club brought four trophies back to Gambier.

These included two from Brian Victoroff ’81: his second-place finish in kata, or form, and his third place in sparring.