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Vol. CXLVI, No. 6

College to monitor library demolition with 24/7 live stream

Workers begin the preparation for Olin and Chalmers’ final days. | BELLA HATKOFF BETÜL AYDIN NEWS EDITOR

Library demolition begins in earnest as Chalmers comes down. | FINN HUNSAKER

With the start of the demolition of Olin and Chalmers Memorial Library on Sept. 24, the College set up a live stream to document the process, which was announced through a Kenyon Digest email the same day.

To stream the construction, the College is working with a company called Multivista.

“There are several companies out there that document construction projects, and we get calls from all of them for every proj-

ect. This is the first project where the scale of the project made sense to document it in this way,” Chief Business Officer Mark Kohlman said. “We wanted to provide access to the community to see what was going on in real time.”

The stream will be available through the Kenyon website until the completion of the new library. After construction is complete, there will be a time-lapse showing the entire process — from the destruction of the current library to the completion of the new one.

Middle Path preachers face exceptional amount of protesters EVEY WEISBLAT NEWS ASSISTANT

cluding students, residents and the occasional faculty member. Although there have been counter-protests in the past, this year saw an Whether walking to class, savoring the last unprecedented number of individuals convey flashes of summer or on the way to Wiggin their disapproval by remaining on the scene.

Street Coffee for an afternoon pickup, those “Usually people don’t come and conwho were on Middle Path on Sept. 20 may gregate out here,” George Costanzo ’19 said. have encountered three preachers from New “People [who] came over [have] just been doMartinsburg Christian Church in Martinsing homework and chilling or having converburg, Ohio, who set up to engage in their trasations with them — it has not gotten heated at dition of preaching to anyone who passed by. all yet, which is incredible.” Costanzo saw the The Martinsburg preachers were careful preachers on his way to class and decided he not to go south of the Gates of Hell, which needed to do something. mark the College’s official property line. They “It feels like little Pride,” he said, decked set up their signs, many of which contained ofin rainbow gear and holding a sign that read fensive language against women and the LG“safe space.”

BTQ+ community, on a small strip of Middle “We’re just gonna chill ’cause this is our Path. space,” Costanzo said. “This is New Martinsburg Middle Path.”

We’re just Christian Church, Justin Martin ’19, who gonna chill about a 20-minute attends the preachers’ demdrive from the College, ’cause this is our onstrations every year, said sponsors a “campus space. This is Middle he’s concerned with the lack ministry” which travels of introspection on behalf of Path. to colleges around Ohio the preachers. “What sort of about three days a week disturbs me, every year, I ask George Costanzo ’19 in the fall and spring. these people if they’re worried “Yesterday we were about people that’ll see their at Akron University,” Jerry, one of the preachmessage hurting themselves,” he said. “And ers who has been part of the ministry for eight they’re genuinely not worried about that.” years, said. “We go all over, every major colMartin speculated that if the preachers lege in the state of Ohio — Bowling Green, OU confronted the possible repercussions of their [Ohio University], Ohio State, Youngstown words, they wouldn’t be able to live with themState — to teach young people the word of selves. “You can’t deal with that in any serious God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” way or the whole circus act has to stop,” he It wasn’t just the Martinsburg preachers said. congregated on Middle Path that Thursday. At Both Martin and Costanzo stressed the any point between about 11 a.m. and late afimportance of showing first years that this ternoon there was a crowd of anywhere from behavior won’t be tolerated at Kenyon. “If one 10 to 30 people on the strip of Middle Path, inperson walks by and sees that these people are

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being pushed back against, one person who might not be entirely sure of who they are yet, that’s worth it,” Martin said. Costanzo agreed: “The first years that are seeing [the preachers] for the first time,” he said, “I wanted to show them that this is the place that they’re in.”

A woman approached the group of students talking to a preacher. In a steady but emotive voice, she rebuked the preacher’s interpretation of Christianity. “I’m a Christian, and my godliness and my Christianity encourage me to be empathetic and kind and non-judgmental,” she said. “It doesn’t encourage me to spread hatred.”

The woman told the preacher that the signs, which endorse hatred, conveyed the opposite of Christian values. “All sorts of people are supposed to be received with prayer and thanksgiving,” she said.

“That’s right,” the preacher responded, “but not sin, not sin, not sin.”

Preachers and counter-demonstrators meet on Middle Path. | BELLA HATKOFF

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ODEI sponsors drive with Ken Harbaugh holds town the Human Rights Campaign hall in second visit to Kenyon BETÜL AYDIN NEWS EDITOR

EVEY WEISBLAT NEWS ASSISTANT

To add to the variety of registration opportunities on campus, the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI) held a voter registration drive on Sept. 20. This event helped to supplement efforts from Gund Gallery and Kenyon Democrats. ODEI partnered with the Human Rights Campaign, a LGBTQ+ civil rights advocacy group and political lobbying organization, to host the drive.

Members of Unity House, Crozier Center for Women and the Human Rights Campaign volunteered at the table in front of Peirce Hall to help students with registration.

“There is a statistically significant amount of trans people who don’t want to register to vote because of possible prejudice in the process,” Grace Harris ’20, co-manager of Unity House, said.

Harris noted that, while one of the purposes of the drive was to make sure that trans students specifically had this opportunity to register in a space where they felt comfortable, it was also open for anyone who had not yet registered to vote.

Around 200 people stopped by the table and about 50 people registered, according to Assistant Director for ODEI Timothy Bussey.

“We really wanted to make sure that we had a queer organization that was also facilitating the voter registration drive,” Bussey said. “We’re very thankful to see the work that’s already been going on campus to get

people encouraged to vote and participate in civic engagement, but we wanted to also make sure that we were creating very visible opportunities for our trans students here at Kenyon.”

Bussey recently published an article in The Conversation about the barriers the trans community faces during both voter registration and the voting process itself, such as obtaining correctly gendered IDs. “ID laws for transgender people vary by state, and they often involve numerous hurdles. This ranges from restrictions in state law to bureaucratic obstacles involving complex layers of medical, state or federal paperwork,” Bussey wrote in the article. “An analysis by the Transgender Law Center shows that fewer than 10 states have laws that allow people to change their gender markers without cumbersome amounts of paperwork and documentation.”

Bussey also noted that some students stopped by the registration table after seeing the protest on Middle Path. “Some of them were telling us that had happened, but a lot of them were also expressing a lot of good feelings,” he said. “They had just walked by this very charged space and on the way to Peirce, they actually saw our table, and I think it provided some uplift there.”

In addition to the registration drive, the Human Rights Campaign also held an Equality Academy Training open to the Kenyon community on Sept. 25, where Kyle Marcum, a representative from the organization, spoke about ways in which the community could get involved with supporting LGBTQ+ rights.

A student registers to vote at ODEI’s table outside of Peirce Hall. | ERYN POWELL

CORRECTIONS

In “LGBTQ+ forum provides students space to voice concerns, suggestions,” the Collegian wrote that the name-changing clinic was for both government-issued IDs and K-Cards. This clinic is for government-issued IDs only. The Collegian regrets this error.

Ken Harbaugh fields a question during his town hall in Brandi. | BELLA HATKOFF EVEY WEISBLAT NEWS ASSISTANT RONAN ELLIOT CIRCULATION MANAGER

On Sept. 23, over 40 students and faculty gathered in Brandi Recital Hall. After a brief introduction by Schuyler Stupica ’19 of Kenyon Democrats, Ken Harbaugh — Democratic candidate for Ohio’s 7th district seat in the House of Representatives — took the stage. He wore a white polo shirt and gray stretch pants, and moved back and forth across the room as he talked. He spoke casually but sincerely, conveying a sense of urgency without panic.

Harbaugh, a former U.S. Navy pilot and one-time president of Team Rubicon Global, a disaster relief organization run by veterans, has never held public office before.

He presents himself as an outsider candidate — someone not attached to the politics in Washington, whose views are founded in policy at the broad and local level. His campaign centers around door-to-door canvassing, much of it done by Harbaugh himself.

“I’ve actually been really surprised at how rarely I’m asked what party I’m from,” Harbaugh said. “I think that’s a really, really hopeful sign. Ohioans, for the most part, still think for themselves, and they’re not walled in by the R or D label.”

Sunday was not Harbaugh’s first appearance at Kenyon. In April 2017, before Harbaugh had officially launched his campaign, Kenyon Democrats brought him to campus to speak. After Harbaugh declared

his candidacy, Kenyon Democrats worked with him over the summer to organize another visit.

The event, structured as a town hall, gave audience members a chance to pose questions to Harbaugh and get answers directly.

It was a format chosen to showcase Harbaugh’s personal angle and his penchant for community engagement. While Harbaugh enjoys the town hall format, it isn’t his preferred way of interacting with constituents.

“My favorite is probably a one-on-one with a stranger,” he said. “[Someone] who didn’t sign up, who just opened the door on a Saturday afternoon. That, I think, is the gold standard in understanding — in understanding what’s going on, in understanding how the way I talk about something is received. I really look forward to those conversations.”

Over the course of an hour, Harbaugh spoke about subjects ranging from the opioid epidemic to the Affordable Care Act to politics within the Trump administration.

He also talked about getting young people to vote in November. When a student asked Harbaugh how to change the minds of people who refuse to register to vote, he said it only truly frightens him when young people skimp on performing their civic duties.

“The ability of young people to question, to accept and often demand change is the most powerful force in our society today,” he said. “But unless we translate that energy and that idealism and that ability to question into votes, it’s not gonna matter, because we’re still a democracy.”

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Peirce Pub closes, limiting late-night selection for students

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AVI to retain liquor license through the spring of 2019, will use space for monthly events.

TOMMY JOHNSON NEWS EDITOR

In terms of late-night food and beverage options, Kenyon students will find themselves in limbo, at least for the duration of the fall 2018 semester.

On Sept. 20, Mark Kohlman, Kenyon’s chief business officer, announced in an email sent to students and employees that, effective immediately, Peirce Pub would be ending its Friday and Saturday night food and beverage operations after just over four semesters. AVI will still retain its liquor license for student events through spring 2019.

Originally, AVI’s commitment to operating the Pub was to end in spring 2018. In this partnership, AVI obtained a liquor license to operate the

Pub and the College subsidized costs.

Wisbey said that AVI renewed its liquor license for this school year due to delays in the construction of Chilitos Fresh Mex and Margaritas in downtown Gambier.

“We committed to staying open through the fall,” Wisbey said “But the first three weeks just show that students don’t use it as it was intended, and it made more sense to close it.”

According to Kohlman’s email, the average attendance was between six to ten students on a given night, equaling about $60 in revenue. When the Pub first offered the food and beverage operations, attendance was more robust.

“The first few semesters, the sales were really quite reasonable. We were still sub-

sidizing it, but it was a number that I was comfortable We committed to staying open with in terms of having an through the fall ... but the first three option for students at night weeks just show that students don’t use it as it on Friday and Saturday,” was intended and it made more sense to close Kohlman said.

Beyond just a loss in stuit. dent interest, Kohlman and Wisbey attribute the Pub’s Christopher Wisbey, Resident Director of AVI closing to an inability to reach a clientele beyond the dents and faculty and staff and spring semester. students. Wisbey said the Pub Gambier residents, and they Despite the Pub’s closing, could not be advertised to also have a base of people who Kohlman said it is important community members since it come from Mount Vernon and for students and community did not have its own private en- other parts of the county.” members old enough to drink trance. Kohlman said having In the near future, Kohlman to have options in Gambier. community members patron- said he expects Chilitos to be Wisbey said bars with the caizing a business is necessary this sort of base. pacity to serve a high number for it to succeed in Gambier.

As for the Pub, student of people are a fixture in col“When you look histori- groups will be able to reserve lege towns. cally, the places that have done the space for events with alco“Every campus has the colthe best are the places that hol and food and the College is lege bars,” he said. “I almost pull in people from outside of partnering with AVI to put on think that’s part of the colGambier,” he said. “They have one late night event per month lege experience, to a point, to a core customer base of stu- until Chilitos opens in the have that.”

ODEI and CGE issue joint response to U.S. passport changes Administators urge trans students who want passports to apply in the immediate future.

TOMMY JOHNSON NEWS EDITOR

Overnight between Sept. 12 and 13, the State Department shifted its language surrounding gender transitioning on its website. This has prompted Kenyon’s Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI) and Center for Global Engagement (CGE) to recommend that trans students consider applying for passports sooner rather than later.

On Sept. 14, the Office of Communications sent out an update informing students of the changes and reminding them that support funds exist for students in need of getting a passport.

The State Department’s website changed its wording from “genders” to “sex markers.” According to Timothy Bussey, assistant director of ODEI, people were initially worried that the website’s language change might indicate a change to the policy for transitioning individuals getting passports.

This has not yet happened.

As of now, those who are transitioning from male to female or female to male can still qualify for a two-year provisional passport,and those who have completed their transition, as determined by a physician, can get a standard passport that is valid for 10 years for adults and five years for children under 16. The State Department still does not offer appropriate demarcation for those identifying as nonbinary.

“At this point, there has been no change to the policy,” Bussey said. “Trans people [identifying as male or female] are still able to provide certain

documentation and get correctly gendered passports.”

The rapid response from ODEI and the CGE was due to Timothy Bussey’s new position in ODEI, which caters to the needs of LGBTQ+ students, according to Ausec.

“If it hadn’t been for Timothy, we would’ve found out about it at some point, but he was on the ball looking out for the needs of our students,” she said.

Bussey and Ausec suggest that, for both trans students who are interested in studying abroad and trans students who simply want a federally issued ID with the correct gender markers, now is the best time to act.

“So right now, we kind of know the lay of the land. Policy hasn’t changed,” Ausec said. “So if the policy hasn’t changed, the thought is that if you get your passport now, whatever you have put on there as your sex/gender marker will remain with you until your passport expires.”

Both Ausec and Bussey said that there are benefits to having a correctly-gendered passport beyond the ability to go abroad.

Passports are useful for seeking employment, Bussey said. Moreover, having a correctly-gendered federal document can safeguard against trans-exclusive legislation a state government might pursue, according to Ausec.

Both administrators said that students should not hesitate to reach out to their offices with questions and concerns. Students in need of financial assistance to cover the cost of getting a passport can contact either Bussey or Meghan Mason, the assistant director of the CGE.

DEVON MUSGRAVE-JOHNSON

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Knox County Sheriff’s Office will issue jaywalking citations Campus Safety is working to improve street lighting in order to reduce risk of an accident.

HENRY TERHUNE STAFF WRITER

In an all-student email sent out on Sept. 13, it was announced that the Knox County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) will begin to crack down on jaywalkers in downtown Gambier. The email urged students to use crosswalks, and warned that increased enforcement of this law will result in KCSO issuing citations to community members who do not use the marked crosswalks.

Bob Hooper, director of the Office of Campus Safety, says that although jaywalking has always been against the law, this crackdown is the result of an increas-

ing trend of jaywalking among students. “Safety is becoming an issue, not just for us, but for the Sheriff’s Office,” he said.

Even in light of the upward trend in jaywalking over the past several years, this year is reportedly particularly bad. Chief Business Officer Mark Kohlman noted that, during his tenure here, he has seen “students walk in every possible direction across the streets without looking,” and crossing the road wherever they wish in order to take the shortest route, though he did not mention any specific incidents. Kohlman believes that this is not due to problems with the streets or

crosswalks themselves, noting The problem is worse in the that “there are plenty of logical evenings, particularly when stuspots to cross the road.” dents are traveling to or from On Gasparties, ackin Avenue, cording to There are plen- Hooper. At the constructy of logical tion blocking these times off the side- spots to cross the road. there is still walk might traffic movbe a contrib- Chief Business Officer Mark ing through uting fac- Kohlman Gambier, tor, though leading offialternative cials to worry routes such as Middle Path are about accidents. When it comes to still open to foot traffic. Kohl- issuing citations, Hooper says the man adds that Gaskin Avenue KCSO “may not be given a choice, is a one-way street, and that stu- because again, safety is at the root dents walking or riding bikes the of this. It’s not that anyone wants wrong way is a big issue. to [issue citations].”

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Campus Safety is working to improve the lighting on these streets to increase visibility and reduce the chance of an accident in the evenings. They are working to make people aware of the problem to ensure that students are safe, according to Hooper.

As of now, KCSO has not issued any citations, but the Campus Safety and Health and Counseling Center Committee to Student Council has indicated that this might be subject to change. Bob Hooper and Campus Safety remind students that this is an issue of safety and urge everyone to be mindful about how they use the roads.

ON THE RECORD ALVIN B. TILLERY, JR.

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY CAMERON MESSINIDES EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Alvin B. Tillery, Jr. is an associate professor and associate chair in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University.

He spoke at Kenyon on Sept. 24 and 25.

Your talk poses the question ‘Is Black Lives Matter Winning?’ What’s your take on that question? Is there a clean answer?

It’s not a clean answer. It’s ‘yes’ and ‘no.’

I think that they are winning in terms of public sentiment, in terms of their impact on certain broader struggles of marginalized communities. I think they have some success — especially in places like Chicago, they had some electoral successes. In terms of stopping police shootings, they haven’t been winning.

Tell me about your other work on [Alexis de] Tocqueville and critical race theory. For someone who is not familiar with either, how would you say these two are relevant to politics in the U.S. today?

Well, we live in very tumultuous times for American democracy, and we have elected a president in part by courting and generating racial resentment on the part of lower-status white voters. And that’s the first time in the history of modern presidencies that this has happened. We see an incredible spike in hate crimes, an incredible spike in hate speech, and it beckons the question, ‘Is Tocqueville’s concern that we would devolve into a society that wasn’t able to live as a multiracial democracy — Is that happening?’ So, that’s why I think it’s relevant. I think Tocqueville had very ominous predictions about the racial future, and we’ve far exceeded any standard that he would have believed possible … So for him the answer was that there was a ‘master race’ inherent in psychology on the part of whites that was very, very hard to root out. And I think that’s something that we have never really attempted to do in American society.

After Obama’s reelection in 2012, several pundits predicted that the GOP

might work with Democrats for something that would line up more with the Democratic platform today. We obviously didn’t see that happen. Why did they miss that?

Well, I think that would have made more sense for the Republicans, but I think Trump fundamentally disrupted their ability to do that. I also think that our electoral institutions really advantage and privilege, even, the most ignorant and backward elements of American society with regard to race relations, so that’s a real barrier to progress moving forward.

I do think that the Trump style of election is really the last gasp of the old order.

You have very aged, rural, low-status, lowincome whites who embrace this ‘Build a wall’ mentality, and they’re dying off, and they’re being replaced by a more tolerant generation of millennials. So I think that the Trump playbook for winning elections is not really going to be available for much longer. And I think that what really happened in 2016 is that Trump did hyper-mobilize that one third of the white population that has those attitudes.

But more dangerously, the gender element has been under-explored. I think that you have a lot of college-educated, suburban whites who voted for Trump because they were not ready to handle a woman leading the republic, and I think that’s a much bigger problem than the ‘Build the wall’ crowd, because that’s a much bigger segment of the population. So Trump flipped 200 counties that had voted twice for Obama, and he didn’t flip them because the white folks there woke [up] in 2016 and said, ‘Aha, I’m going to be racist today.’ I mean, he flipped them by hyper-mobilizing low-status whites that hadn’t turned out in those cycles, but also convincing upper-status whites that there was something they just couldn’t pull the trigger on with Hillary Clinton. And, survey data shows that might just be a skepticism toward women’s leadership, so that’s a much bigger problem that has to be tackled in society.

In general, what do you think a Democratic strategy should look like for 2020?

I think someone that can really energize

the Obama coalition of young, urban, educated whites and people of color across the mainstream. That’s the winning playbook. I’m not even sure President Obama realized how important that playbook was, because he didn’t really do much to nurture it while he was in power. He spent his time saying he was ‘president of all people,’ which he was, but the loss of millennial voters in 2016 is a huge reason why we’re here. And why President Obama didn’t do more to hold that coalition together is a big mystery.

But I think to win in 2020 — and again, this won’t make me popular — will take a young, progressive politician out of the mold of a Frank Capra movie, like a Beto O’Rourke.

Or an older man of color with some real gravitas. Deval Patrick or someone like that.

I think that that hyper-mobilizes the base because those 200 counties that Trump flipped are filled with working-class white male voters who unionized, who had no trouble voting for Obama, who have no trouble rooting for African Americans as sports heroes, who don’t hold hard-and-fast racist views, who were just opposed to Clinton.

Does your research or your position as an academic sheds any light on how to address issues of diversity and civility on campus should be addressed.

These are tough issues, and administrations are often wedged into really difficult cul-de-sacs because of who their constituents are. I don’t want to offer Kenyon any advice, but in general I do think that power dynamics tend to not disappear on campus. What I’m always struck by is the person saying ‘n——r’ or telling a joke or dressing as a slanty-eyed Asian American on Halloween — this kind of ‘it’s just free speech, it’s just a joke’ — I think this is really reflective of the power dynamics in our broader society … There are all these contrarian viewpoints that get short shrift because they don’t replicate the dynamics of the powerful, and I think that puts college administrators in a very difficult position, because often people where you sit want reform and want action. People that sit above, you assume, are typically more conservative.

So how do you manage that? I don’t know. I

Alvin B. Tillery, Jr. | COURTESY OF NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

know that I never want to be a college administrator. I’ll stay being a researcher.

What might you say to students who are maybe looking to address these issues on campus, but also entering the broader world, with these movements and the national politics you look at? What can they do to prepare themselves for dealing with those rhetorical devices and arguments?

I would say read broadly. Engage widely.

Keep your passion and know it all boils down to the foundational issues of the republic, which are equality, liberty and citizenship …

The future modal Kenyon alum is not going to look like or have the same values that the modal member of the Kenyon trustee board does today. And in all of these great fights where there were dynamic changes at universities — in my generation it was freeing Mandela, and the generation before it was divesting endowments of industries in South Africa.

Derek Bok was able to get Harvard to divest by pointing out that the divestment argument was the argument of the future donors, alums, parents of Havardians, not the argument of bankers who were invested in South Africa themselves. So power comes from reminding power that you will one day have power. I think that’s the best advice I can give.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Novelist P.F. Kluge ends 25-year term as Collegian’s advisor Before P.F. Kluge was writer-in-residence, he wrote for the Collegian as the editor-in-chief.

DANTE KANTER FEATURES EDITOR

Kluge and the rest of the Collegian staff saw the pub“Any Collegian issue that’s lication as a medium to exworth a damn should please press personal opinions on some people and tick off oth- the state of campus life. “One ers,” Writer-in-Residence P.F. of the things I did was to call Kluge ’64 said. After 25 years the paper a ‘ journal of opinin the position, Kluge stepped ion,’” said Kluge. “The idea down last week as faculty ad- was to be controversial. To visor to the Collegian. As ad- take shots and get shot back.” visor, Kluge met once a week These controversies included with Collegian staff members an article demanding that the to discuss the previous week’s library stay open on Saturday issue. “It was a difficult job,” night, and a public opinion Kluge said. “I’m not the edi- poll on different members of tor, I’m not the publisher. I’m Kenyon’s faculty. In his juthe advisor. Sometimes, I felt nior year, Kluge served as ediit was worth it, and sometimes tor, but he stepped down his I felt it wasn’t.” senior year and served as the As a student, Kluge joined editor emeriti. the Collegian in his first year A semester after his gradat Kenyon. uation One of his in 1964, The idea was to Kluge’s earfirst articles for the newsly success be controverpaper covered sial. To take shots and was writthe pajama ten about get shot back. parade, a in the Colnow-defunct legian: “P Kenyon tra- P.F. Kluge ’64 Frederick dition run by Kluge, forthe PEEPS fraternity. During mer editor of this fortnightly the parade, with the Dean of and father of an extremely luStudents in attendance, ju- cid prose style contributed an niors and seniors beat first article to the October 2nd ediyears and sophomores with tion of LIFE magazine.” Kluge paddles. “The pajama pa- would go on to edit for LIFE, rade,” Kluge wrote in 1961, “is report regularly for The Wall a senseless, painful ugliness, Street Journal and contribute passed on from year to year to well-known magazines such under administration smiles as Playboy and Rolling Stone. as ‘tradition.’”

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The Collegian in ’61. Kluge is seated, second from the left. | COURTESY OF KENYON ARCHIVES

first time to Kenyon in 1987,” said Kluge. “My appointment was just a year at a time for a while, and then it was three years at a time. Once I was here sort of permanently I advised the Collegian.” Kluge admits that as an advisor, his relationship to the Collegian had its ups and downs. “I had

moments when I was very proud and moments that were not so pride-inspiring,” said Kluge, “but I’ll always keep an eye out for [the Collegian staff ].” His parting advice to the Collegian is for its writers to enjoy themselves. “I want you to have fun writing it, and I want other people to have

fun reading it,” said Kluge. “I know I did.”

After his resignation last week, Kluge was replaced as advisor by William P. Rice Associate Professor of English and Literature Ivonne García, who before her academic career worked as an award-winning journalist in Puerto Rico.

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Troyer’s of Apple Valley offers Amish-made local produce Amish-inspired grocer’s began as a deli, expanded to cafe, butcher’s and vegetable seller.

ELIZABETH STANLEY STAFF WRITER

Lyle and Ruth Ann Troyer were both born and raised in Holmes County, Ohio, a county known especially for the large Amish community established there in the early 1800s. While they are no longer a part of that Amish community, they share their Holmes County background with Mount Vernon and its surrounding communities by providing their clientele with the fresh and delicious taste of authentic Amish recipes and products.

It all started with Troyer’s Country Cupboard, a small deli originally owned by Sam and Connie Troyer but given to Lyle and Ruth Ann Troyer in 2007. While the two couples are not in the same family, Ruth Ann Troyer worked for Sam and Connie at their store before she and Lyle took it over.

While they owned it, Lyle and Ruth Ann Troyer sold meats and cheeses as well as delicious, homemade baked goods. Every morning from Monday to Saturday for six years, they would bake pies and pastries to sell that day.

“I can’t believe we did it for six years,” Lyle Troyer said, “but we still had time to get ready and leave and be at the store for the time we opened up.

We always started at 6 [a.m.] or a little On the Troyer’s of Apple Valley before, did our breads and pies, and website, Justen Troyer wrote about we were ready to open up by 9.” his parent’s store and its products.

Troyer’s Country Cupboard found In writing about the café, he emphahuge success, and the store soon be- sized how cooking and food has alcame much too small for the size of its ways been a way in which his family clientele. In 2013, Lyle and Ruth Ann comes together.

Troyer started looking for a space “Mom has been cooking up a with more room to grow. In the sum- storm since she was quite young and mer of 2014 the since I’ve been Troyers bought a eating it, it’s Here at Troyplot of land along been the best Mount Vernon’s food ever,” er’s, we want State Route 36 you to enjoy excellent Justen Troyer and built their wrote. “Here food. new and imat Troyer’s, we proved store, want you to Justen Troyer, Troyer’s Troyer’s of Apple enjoy excelManager Valley. With the lent food. The addition of grosame excelcery aisles of spices, Amish candies lence that Mom puts into meals with and snacks, canned goods and other the family is displayed in every sandgrocery staples, a bakery, gift shop wich or meal you get here.” and more meats and cheeses, Troyer’s Troyer’s of Apple Valley’s light of Apple Valley has grown to be three and sunny café, cheerful deli counor four times larger than its precursor. ter and variety of food products and Towards the far left corner of the produce offer customers a warm store is Troyer’s Café, offering soups, and inviting environment in which sandwiches, smoothies and drinks to finish their shopping lists and and anything else a hungry shopper fill their stomachs. While not all of might need. Customers can choose to Troyer’s products are Amish-made, order their food to-go, or take a shop- its strong connection to that comping break and sit down to eat at the munity makes it a kind of bridge tables and booths. between worlds.

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Troyer’s bakery offers a selection of goodies. | NOAH DVERSDALL

An outside look at Troyer’s of Apple Valley | NOAH DVERSDALL

History of ultimate frisbee on the Hill takes the cake (tins) CAMERON AUSTIN OPINIONS EDITOR

Did Kenyon invent ultimate frisbee? No — students at Columbia High School in Maplewood, N.J., formalized the sport and its rules in 1968. But did Kenyon students play a footballinspired game with a circular cake tin from 1942 onward? Most certainly.

William “Bud” Southard ’43 and his brother Tom Southard ’51 created the game in 1942, when Bud was at home in Lakewood, Ohio for spring break. The game was to be played with a nine-inch Ovenex cake tin, which was tossed underhand between players. Fields were to be about 60 yards long and 30 to 40 yards wide.

Other rules of the game were inspired by touch football: Each team received four downs to cross the field, and players could toss the cake tin laterally if they had not yet been touched by the opposing team.

While these rules are a far cry from those of modern ultimate frisbee, the game created by the Southards was molded by the equipment on hand. Current frisbeers have at their disposal aerodynamic discs specifically designed for long-distance throws; Bud and Tom had a cake tin that could not be tossed any farther than 40 yards, even in the best conditions.

Bud was involved in campus literary life, and the game first spread through those same circles after the spring break of 1942. The game was frequently seen being played outside Douglass House, a free-wheeling residence inhabited by many aspiring writers and poets — Southard included. Many Douglass residents had come to Kenyon to study under Professor of English John Crowe Ransom, noted poet and literary critic. The House, located in downtown Gambier, had an atmosphere distinct from the fraternity-dominated residence halls of South Campus.

The Collegian playfully “exposed” Douglass House in 1941, sending a reporter there to interview Southard and his housemates. The reporter narrates, “Southard is the perfect host. He not only invites you to sit on the floor but offers to remove the pile of unpressed pants which were there before you were.” Though disorganized, Southard was well-liked by his peers at Douglass. They affectionately nicknamed him “Ace” for his consistently high grades, so Southard’s sport quickly won the moniker “aceball.”

Though once confined to Douglass lawn, aceball soon took over campus. When TIME sent a photographer to Kenyon for “The Edu-

cated Man,” a 1950 piece about the changing social perceptions of higher education, the photographer took numerous photographs of students playing aceball on South Quad.

Though the 50-plus photos went unpublished, USA Ultimate Magazine quoted Tom Southard explaining that aceball was “the only thing [the photographer] saw there that he didn’t see someplace else,” as a rationale for the photographic surplus.

It is unlikely that the New Jersey inventors of ultimate frisbee were influenced by the rules of aceball, and the Kenyon frisbee team SERF did not come into existence until 1977, long

after the Southards had left campus. In some sense, however, frisbee roots reach further back at Kenyon than they do for ultimate itself. SERF member Peter Reinhart ’20 reacted positively to seeing the historic TIME photographs: “That’s what we do nowadays, on the weekends or whenever we get the chance: Just throw around outside on South Quad, right where they were doing it way back when.”

So whether you play for Ransom or SERF, or just enjoy tossing a frisbee on a sunny afternoon, maybe we should all pause for a moment — and be grateful we no longer throw around rusty cake tins.

Kenyon students toss around a cake tin in a football-like game on South Quad in 1950. | COURTESY OF KENYON ARCHIVES

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Slam poet Dominique Christina inspires crowd at Hestival Kenyon Magnetic Voices hosts first Hestival of the year, showcases Kenyon’s creative talent.

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of the term “Hestival.” Two years ago, Delucchi and sevThe spoken word group eral close friends, including Kenyon Magnetic Voices Luke Hester ’20 (whose last (KMV) hosted their first name inspired the “Hest” in Hestival of the year on Satur- “Hestival”), started hosting day, Sept. 22 in Peirce Pub. It small art festivals for friends. featured prominent slam poet While Hestivals have been Dominique Christina. While independent of KMV in the these events typically feature past, they are now one of the readings, a gallery of visual clubs most important activiart and a lip sync battle be- ties. tween sets of poetry, SaturChristina made a resoundday’s Hestival was different ing impression during her due to the presence of the es- short visit, both on- and offteemed performer. stage. During her visit she Christina holds a num- also hosted a workshop for ber of slam poetry titles, in- members of KMV. Many aucluding 2011 National Poetry dience members noted her Slam Champion. She is also a performance, as well as her two-time winner of the Wom- inf luence on the student poen of the World Slam Cham- ets she worked with earlier in pionship. Among the poems the day. Multiple poets cited she read were “Karma,” “Star her encouragment to be honGazer,” “Chain Gang” and est and daring as inspiration “The Period Poem,” as well as for reading poems they might two pieces from her upcom- have otherwise shied away ing book, Anarcha Speaks. from sharing.

“Star Gazer” combines femiTariq Thompson ’21, conist theory leader of with a tenKMV, exder love plained that She has a dypoem in orChristina namic story. der to show encouraged She is a dynamic person. him to be how Christina overcame honest and the pain of Mo Kamara ’22 write on a sexual astopic that sault. “She has a dynamic sto- he had previously been relucry. She is a dynamic person,” tant to pursue. Thompson deMo Kamara ’22, a first-time scribed reading at this weekperformer at the Hestival, end’s Hestival as a cathartic said. experience. “It felt good beClub leader Marc Deluc- cause I got to be truthful,” he chi ’20 opened the night by said. For poets like Thompexplaining the etymology son, whose preffered medium

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Dominique Christina (left) and Mark Delucchi ’20 (right) perform poetry at Hestival. | ERYN POWELL

for poetry is spoken word, live events like Hestivals and open mics are a necessary part of the creative process.

Thompson explained that certain nuances are lost when the poem, written for spoken word, is read rather than heard.

KMV is currently the only organization on campus for spoken word poets. In the

Lighthouse screens Born in Flames SAM BRODSKY STAFF WRITER

It wasn’t your typical Friday night at the Ganter-Price Hall. There wasn’t any beer. There wasn’t any dancing.

Instead, the space had a sofa, a Moroccan rug, a handful of students and a projector, showing the radical feminist, sci-fi, vérité film, Born in Flames.

The showing of Lizzie Borden’s 1983 film was hosted by new creative student collective, Lighthouse, and the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity (AD). Held on Sept 14., the film was screened to a mixed crowd of students. The screening kicked off a semester-long film series that will showcase “visionary films conventionally overlooked for their subject matter or the identities of their creators,” according to an allstudent email.

The program will be curated by the creative collective on campus known as Lighthouse.

There were a variety of technical difficulties that obstructed the Born in Flames screening. The organizers of the event fumbled for half an hour around a projector before they were

spirit of giving spoken word a voice at Kenyon, the club plans to increase activity to include monthly Hestivals, workshops every weekend and more guest poets.

Delucchi wants the club “to be a space for people to discover their writing process.” Thompson hopes that this Hestival and his continued work in KMV will make

Despite technical difficulties, the group fostered deep discussion.

able to show the movie. Once the image Friday’s screening. She was inspired to was finally on-screen, the sound did show the film on campus after watchnot work. After the sound was finally ing it at a do-it-yourself art show over fixed, the movie froze halfway through the summer. the screening. The hosts then decided “I saw this film over the sumto stop the movie and instead held a mer and felt like it would be a good group discussion about the themes and way to start conversation [at Kenyon] ideas behind it. about collectivizing and to ask ourPart of the reaselves when violent or son for these techphysical intervention I saw this film nical difficulties is is necessary, if ever,” over the sumby virtue of LightBing said. “Screening house being a stu- mer and felt like it would Born in Flames is a dent-organized col- be a good way to start way to start dialogue lective, according and ask questions: at conversation. to Gabrielle Bing what point do we start ’19. As a group infinding violent independent of the Gabrielle Bing ’19 tervention unacceptCollege, Lighthouse able?” has to jump through Set in an alternate a variety of hurdles before running future in a socialist-dystopian Amertheir events smoothly. For example, ica, Borden’s film follows different the school does not help with any of groups of women as they organize and their events, they can’t send all-sturebel against a sexist and racist governdent emails, and they are not allowed ment. One group of women prevents to sponsor events without partnering sexual assault on the streets through with a College-affiliated organization. guerilla intervention on their bicycles, Bing is one of the founding memwhile another group leads the cultural bers of Lighthouse and the organizer of revolution through underground femi-

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people feel inspired to write and perform with more confidence and encourage new people to read. Kamara expresses hope that a team might be formed to go to competitions.

The message across the board, from the newest members to club heads, is the same: Listen more, write more, perform more.

nist radio stations.

The movie itself is more of a collage than a movie. It pulls together simulated news media, radio broadcasts, documentary footage, narrative filmmaking, surveillance footage and a poppy, ’80s-infused soundtrack in a radical and unique style. The result is a collage of mediums, a puzzle of images put together with a montage and a certain raw approach.

“Our goal as a social and creative collective is to not only to create art and hold events in our campus that are spontaneous, or unusual,” Bing said.

“But also to remix the spaces in our campus in new and interesting ways.”

Putting aside the technical hiccups, it was powerful to see this type of radical film presented at Kenyon, in a typically all-male space. According to Bing, this is part of the goal behind Lighthouse.

It is unusual for a fraternity to open their space for a sober event attended by majority women to discuss a feminist film, according to Bing.

“I think that’s amazing, and I would love to see more of that here,” she said.

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Gund Gallery screens documentary tackling border politics School of the Americas Watch organization speakers talk about state of immigration in U.S. DYLAN HARTMAN STAFF WRITER

Tuesday night’s presentation at the Gund Gallery Community Foundation Theater began with the screening of Somos Una América, a 2012 documentary short describing the history of the School of the Americas Watch (SOAW) and its longterm opposition to U.S. involvement in Latin American politics.

The film opens with the 1980 assassination of government critic Archbishop Óscar Romero at the hands of a group of Salva-

doran soldiers. The ensuing outrage was amplified by the discovery that these soldiers had been trained in Fort Benning, Georgia at the School of the Americas (SOA), a U.S. training site for Latin American soldiers and police officers. This was the first of many correlations between U.S.trained soldiers and coordinated assassinations of anti-governmental figures in Latin America.

After the film, Dévora González and Maria Luisa Rosal, two organizers from SOAW, an organization that advocates

A discussion of the movie after the screening. | BEN NUTTER

for the closure of the SOA (re“It was after the murder of Ósnamed the Western Hemisphere car Romero that a lot of SalvaInstitute for Security Coopera- dorans started migrating to the tion in 2001), spoke on the orga- United States,” González said. nization’s recent readjustment to “My mom went to [the border] in address broader issues.

1986 and she was separated from “We definitely evolved from her eight year-old son at the time. just the closure of the school,” So, this has been happening.”

González said. “And I’m hesiIn 2016 the SOAW began tant to say ‘just the closure of the organizing protests along the school.’ It was everything and it Mexico-U.S. border in order to still is everything because it is a call attention to the connection premiere training site for Latin between U.S. militarization and American soldiers, police and Latin American migration. now U.S. border patrol.”

“We want to physically plant In recent years SOAW has tak- our feet at that wall, which is en steps to dia physical rectly address manifestaWe want to U.S. immigration of the inphysically plant tersection of tion policies. our feet at that wall, Although issues,” Rosal issues of fam- which is a physical mani- said. “We like ily separation festation of the intersec- to look at forand unjust eign and dotion of issues treatment of mestic policy immigrants as two sides at the U.S. Maria Luisa Rosal, SOAW of the same border have coin.” received inBut the creased attention in the last year, speakers were insistent that González and Rosal explained the readjusting of focus withthat these problems do not ex- in the SOAW to encompass the ist in a vacuum and have a long- branching effects of U.S. imperistanding presence throughout alistic action does not represent the history of U.S. relations with a shift in core beliefs. A clear emLatin America. phasis of the night was the exis-

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tence of a single purpose which transcends the changes that the future holds.

“I can’t predict the future, but what I can tell you is what we’re fighting for,” González said, “and it’s really the end of U.S. foreign policy and the end of U.S. intervention in Latin America.”

The presentation, part of the Earlham College Border Studies Program speaker series, was coordinated with the Gund Gallery’s Documents from Interference Archive display, which contains many pieces of protest art from throughout the SOAW’s history.

The difficulty of synthesizing such large and complex issues into a simple action plan or concrete explanation was a major motif of the night. “How do we make the connection between what’s happening at the border, what’s happening in Latin America still … and the School of the Americas?” Rosal asked.

The answer the speakers and the organization seemed to settle on was an emphasis on and the importance of the actions of individuals. “My mom was able to explain it to us even at a young age,” Rosal said. “We’re here because [the] United States is there.”

Stand-up comedian talks laughter and loss in new memoir

Adam Cayton-Holland discusses his new book, Tragedy + Time, in Kenyon Review reading. just ‘get it all out,’” he said. He wrote as much as he needed to in order to reach that catharsis, no longer imposOn the evening of Sept. 18, Cheeving any limits on length. “I turned er Room of Finn House welcomed a in this book maybe 200 pages longer literary voice from a less-than usual than [the final draft] is,” he said. source: comedian Adam Cayton-HolThe first piece Cayton-Holland land, whose newly published memoir read was one of the many chapters Tragedy + Time addresses grief with a that didn’t make it to print: “Wakeblend of humor and poignance. The up Call,” a dramatic retelling of his book, published Aug. 21, contained challenges in waking a young Lydia. his reminiscences on his relationship He read with a comedian’s expreswith his younger sister, Lydia, who siveness: From a mimed kick from committed suicide in 2012. his chair as he narrated his childhood “I wrote a number of things [about self kicking open the bedroom door, her],” he said. “I didn’t think I could to his exaggerated descriptions, his do comedy anyreading elicited more, I was feeling round after round I didn’t think I so crushed … So I of laughter. could do comedy just started writHis second ing.” These piec- anymore ... so I just started reading came es were an outlet, writing. from the end of he explained, that the book. There, “allowed me to get Adam Cayton-Holland, he took on a more back to my job.” comedian and writer serious tone, reOne essay, titled f lecting on the “On Koi Pond Relong process of his moval,” was featured in Professor of family’s grief. Cayton-Holland conEnglish Janet McAdams’s Theft and fided that he preferred to “read things Imitation (ENGL 103). that make me happy in this book, as However, Cayton-Holland said the opposed to the ones that crush my brief pieces weren’t enough to fully soul,” and that, despite its melanwork through what he was expericholy, he viewed this chapter as one of encing. After the production of the the former. “It sort of ends on what I third season for Those Who Can’t — a think was my main takeaway in writtruTV TV show for which he is a writing this book,” he said, “so I like to er and actor — he began working on share this ... for people who have been the novel in earnest. through similar things.”

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ton-Holland chose not to focus on the tragedy of the events. He felt that writing about them allowed him to “reclaim that narrative” and remember Lydia as she had been before her depression.

“She was this really unique, quirky, funny, would’ve-thrived-at-Kenyon type of girl,” he said.

Kenyon students, most of whom had heard about the event through their English classes, comprised a large part of the audience.

“I knew that students would really respond to the writing,” Rich-

ard L. Thomas Visiting Professor of Creative Writing Katharine Weber said. She also noted that there is “an increasing interest in nonfiction that goes beyond straightforward memoir.” Weber cited Cayton-Holland’s writing technique and the emotional authenticity of the book as additional points of attraction.

Cayton-Holland doubts this will be the only book he writes. “I’m gonna take my time … wait for that eureka moment,” he said. “I’ve got a few ideas and I’m really excited to try the next thing.”

Adam Cayton-Holland reads from his new memoir, Tragedy + Time. | ERYN POWELL

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OPINIONS

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ARMIYA SHAIKH

STAFF EDITORIAL

Posture and confidence at Kenyon Slouching is one response to the stresses of Kenyon; standing straight and walking confidently is another.

EVE BROMBERG CONTRIBUTOR

backs and dropping of shoulders.

The excuse can be made that carAs a senior, I’ve been battling rying tomes in a backpack leads feelings of anxiety of being or- to a certain forward incline, but dinary and failing to stand out. I believe this habit would exist In a world of competition, you without heavy bags. This tencan never really feel too com- dency would be common — even fortable in your own skin. When without the weight of adulthood! we try our hardest and give our The way one carries oneself is best attempts, there’s an internal telling. pulse that carries us to the next Confidence is a fickle thing. step, ideally to many ascending We try to feel good about oursteps ahead. The motivation is selves and our progression as huearnest, but still, anxious feel- mans through the arching narraings are crippling; looming un- tive of our life, but it is often met derneath is the big metaphysical with the angst of being young black hole of the real world. It and criticism of academia. While seems harsh, scary and generally my observation on posture is unappealing. pedantic, I believe that it points While we’re at Kenyon, we’re to something larger. The desire lucky to not have to care for for invisibility on a small cammuch beyond academic endeav- pus is contagious, and none of ors or choice of fruit at a Peirce us, however extroverted, is fully meal. While we’re here, we’re immune. Reasons for not wantmeant to be here — we have a ing to be seen are far and wide bed to sleep in, a — you’re P.O. box for mail avoiding and an ALT PIN someone, The pressure every semester feeling and weight of — but so often lousy about the world slowly piles it feels like stuan exam or dents here are on, but let’s not buckle just having trying to fight under this weight yet. a bad day. against their Being place by shrinkcritical ing themselves to make their and having high standards is presence unknown. We are here good. We should strive toward to contribute, be molded and excellence, but one of the many grow, and yet people at Kenyon reasons college fails to resemble have notably poor posture. We the world is you aren’t able to hide ourselves in the hunching of view yourself as a person. And

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in fact a total dedication towards excellence is neither realistic nor healthy. Being in an environment where others are constantly belittling themselves leaves little room for self-reflection and correction, and even less room to be yourself.

This piece is not an attempt to make everyone present themselves in a specific way; it’s a suggestion. There is nothing wrong with firmly accepting your place here and carrying yourself with the appropriate confidence. Push your shoulders back and lengthen your spine. Simply walk with determination. While I acknowledge that the early years of adulthood can be difficult, we are in a time of becoming. The pressure and weight of the world slowly piles on, but let’s not buckle under this weight yet.

The inward collapsing of most students is a coping mechanism against the stress of having to exist solely as a student in this environment. If we start to give ourselves room to be people, there may be some relief. In accepting that who we are is enough, we’ll realize that we can stand straight regardless. There will be nothing to hide from and only things to encounter.

Eve Bromberg ’19 is a philosophy major from Brooklyn, N.Y. You can contact her at bromberge@kenyon.edu.

Ban on CA Collegian interviews must end In our last issue, we covered the changes to the College’s Beer and Sex program in an article called “CAs attendance required at first year Beer and Sex groups.” Despite the fact that the Community Advisors (CAs) appeared at the forefront of this story, their voices unfortunately went unheard in our coverage.

As stated in the article, “the Collegian has made attempts to reach out to various CAs who said that they were instructed not to talk to reporters.” When we reach out to CAs, we get the same answer time and time again: They don’t want to talk to us for fear of losing their jobs.

As reporters, it is our job to get at a story from every possible angle and deliver nothing less than the whole truth as we are able to uncover it, but we can’t do this when those whose stories we cover are barred from speaking with us.

When employers ask students not to speak to us, at best

we miss a perspective and at worst we arrive in the dangerous territory of misinformation. We don’t know how individual CAs feel about the new policy because they weren’t allowed to tell us.

In the past, CAs have been allowed to speak with us within the presence of their employer or a supervisor. This too is not good enough. Unless everyone is allowed to speak candidly without fear of retribution, some element of the truth will always be lost.

We implore the Office of Residential Life to reconsider its policy regarding this matter.

The staff editorial is written weekly by editors-in-chief Cameron Messinides ’19 and Devon Musgrave-Johnson ’19, managing editor Grant Miner ’19 and executive director Matt Mandel ’19. You can contact them at messinidesc@kenyon.edu, musgravejohnsond@kenyon.edu, minerg@kenyon.edu and mandelm@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.

The Kenyon Collegian reserves the right to edit all letters submitted for length and clarity.

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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Ken Harbaugh deserves the attention of Ohio’s 7th District

Current representative Bob Gibbs has failed to be present in the very district he represents.

SCHUYLER STUPICA CONTRIBUTOR

Since the beginning of 2018, U.S. congressional candidate Ken Harbaugh has hosted or attended more than 100 free public events to speak with voters in every part of our district. How many such events has our current congressman Bob Gibbs advertised in that same amount of time? The number can be counted on one hand.

As Harbaugh often says, the word “present” is in the word “representative.”

In the eight years that Gibbs has been the congressman for Ohio’s 7th Congressional District, he certainly has not been present or accessible to his constituents.

When asked to hold a proper town hall for constituents, Gibbs would only agree to answer questions via a Facebook Live “town hall.” He has made little effort to seek voter feedback and has not agreed

to a debate with Harbaugh. Gibbs went ing the opioid epidemic and ensuring to Washington and people here in Ohio that Ohioans have access to jobs that pay have hardly seen him since. a living wage.

Fortunately, we have an opportunity Harbaugh graduated from Yale Law to elect someone who will truly repreSchool and flew reconnaissance missent us in Washington: Harbaugh. While sions as a Navy pilot for nine years Gibbs takes his voters for granted, Harbefore becoming president of Team baugh has been Rubicon Global, a disasholding town ter-relief organization halls and going that has helped train over As Harbaugh door-to-door often says, the 50,000 veteran and ciacross our district vilian volunteers to reword “present” is in the to ask voters about spond to natural disasthe issues that are word “representative.” ters around the world. most important to Recently, Team Rubicon us. While Gibbs helped families after the lines his pockets with huge donations hurricanes in Houston and Puerto Rico. from corporate PACs, Harbaugh reIn the latest chapter of his service-orilies on individual donations. Harbaugh ented career, Harbaugh is now running is committed to fighting for affordable for Congress so that he can help fix the health care and high-quality education, political disaster in Washington. investing in renewable energy, combatHis two campaign slogans, “Country

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CROSSWORD Across 1. American truck brand 4. Tattie accompaniment, in Glasgow 8. Class for some immigrants 11. My Chemical Romance genre 12. White cliffed town 13. Decree 15. Paired with an “up,” so over this 16. District of Columbus, home to Blue Jackets and Clippers 17. Cold War combatant 18. Kenyon’s rival in memeing 20. Kenyon’s rival in swimming 23. Like a shiny Pokémon 24. Kung ___ chicken 25. Sure, at the Sorbonne 26. Suit and tie, perhaps 30. Dwindle 33. ____ vulgaris, a common skin condition 34. Sixteenth of a pound 35. Ohio institution, founded 1824 40. Togo’s neighbor 41. The “touch” variety was the envy of all my middle school classmates 42. Spiky Chinese fruit 44. Ocean painting

49. Slip up 50. Compete 52. Look up and down, probably two or three times 53. Nearby residence of the Fighting Scots 56. Namesake of the Fifth College of Ohio (first initial and surname) 59. Landlocked nation of Southeast Asia 60. Warning!

62. Tokyo, once upon a time 63. Narcissus’ admirer 64. Quinine-infused water 65. Striped feline, stripped of its vowels 66. Christmastime calls 67. Exeunt 68. Look through glasses, for some

Down 1. Change implemented by John Calvin 2. Tiny eukaryotes 3. Like Gund Gallery or New Side 4. Seaweed 5. Not odd 6. Contraction of 5-Down 7. The Devil Wears _____ 8. Enjoyment, on the internet 9. Ardent affirmation, in Argentina

Cameron Austin Opinions Editor 10. Performing a rodeo trick 12. Lentils, in Mumbai 14. Hammer 19. ___-Life, common abbreviation for Kenyon office 21. Lip balm brand 22. Colin Kaepernick sponsor 24. To many decimal places 27. True Grit actor 28. Pro-recycling campus organization 29. Wife of Mitt 31. Does not fold 32. Hunger Games victim 35. Indispensable employee 36. Invade one’s personal bubble 37. Major federal science donor 38. Oops, to a Midwesterner 39. Voodoo god 43. Primordial mother 45. Derivative of sin 46. Shoelace caps 47. Soon-to-be brother or sister 48. Blue donkey, often missing a tail 54. Trendy neighborhood, in both Manhattan and London 55. General ____ chicken 56. Central Ohio ice cream artist 57. Subpoena 58. And so on and so forth 61. Briny bagel topper

Congrats to Camille B. ’21, Meredith S. ’21, Claire S. ’21, Emma W. ’21, Emily C. ’21 and Katerina T. ’21 for completing last week’s crossword! Did you finish this crossword? Email a photo of your finished crossword to collegian@kenyon.edu for a chance to get a shoutout!

above party” and “Service before self,” reflect Harbaugh’s promise to always pursue what is best for our nation and for Ohio. We need a leader and public servant like him to represent us in Washington, but the only way he will get elected is if we get involved.

Ken Harbaugh is the right choice for Ohio’s 7th Congressional District, and there is too much at stake to sit on the sidelines. Volunteer for his campaign, register to vote by Oct. 9 and show up to the polls come election day. Let’s help him win on Nov. 6.

Schuyler Stupica ’19 is an international studies major from Sylvania, Ohio.

She worked as a field fellow for the Harbaugh campaign this past summer, and she is currently the campus organizer for the campaign. You can contact her at stupicas@kenyon.edu.

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Jillian Countey racks up two Men’s soccer starts NCAC play more clean sheets for Ladies strong, falters at Case Western MARLI VOLPE STAFF WRITER

JOHN CARROLL KENYON WITTENBERG KENYON

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On Wednesday, Sept. 19, the Kenyon College women’s soccer team earned their third consecutive win of the season against the John Carroll University Lobos. With a final score of 1-0, Samantha Hayes ’21 scored the game-winning goal in the 93rd minute of extra time.

It was a well-executed goal; Olivia Dion ’22 worked into space on the right flank, and was then able to cut the ball back inside and put it in the middle of the box where Hayes met it with her foot.

“In the second half of John Carroll we started connecting more in the midfield and in the final third of our offense,” Annie Hesse ’20 said. “This definitely helped us stay in the game and gave us the opportunity to put one away in the first half of overtime,” The fight was not easy, but keeper Jillian Countey ’20 ended the game with a career single-game high of 11 saves, which resulted in her third shutout of the season and the 15th of her Kenyon career.

The Ladies’ second game of the week came against Wittenberg University on Sept. 22. The game ended in an uneventful 0-0 draw. Even though she did not score the game-winning goal, Hayes came out on top with a total of four shots, followed by Jaidyn Cook ’22 and Fallon Raviol ’20, who had two shots each.

Within the first 30 minutes of the game, Countey held strong, and the Kenyon defense held strong to keep the Wittenberg Tigers even with the Ladies.

“The team was excited for our first conference game against Witt,” Hesse said. “We definitely played better in the second half but had difficulty finishing opportunities up top. Caroline [McNeer ’21] did an outstanding job of shutting down their best offensive player which helped keep our team in the game.”

After 90 minutes of play, the teams went into overtime. The Tigers nearly scored on a header attempt, but Countey was able to make the save with her right hand. Throughout the rest of the overtime, Kenyon could not muster any shots, while Wittenberg took four, two of which were saved by Countey.

The Ladies will return to the field this Saturday, Sept. 29, when they travel to play against Denison University.

goal by Anderson for his team-high sixth of the season. Wittenberg finally got on the scoreboard with a goal in WITTENBERG 1 the 82nd minute of play. Kenyon reKENYON 5 sponded with a late goal in the 89th CASE WESTERN 3 minute by Tomas Muñoz Reyes ’22, KENYON 0 making the final score 5-1 in favor of the Lords.

The Kenyon Men’s soccer team be“It’s always great to start off confergan North Atlantic Athletic Conference play with a win,” said Bret Lowry ence (NCAC) ’19. “Our attacking has been play this past excellent and we’ll look to It’s always weekend by keep bagging goals, but we great to start traveling to can also look to improve on Wittenberg off conference play with our defending and focus on College. The a win. keeping clean sheets.”

Lords are havHowever, the second ing a strong Bret Lowry ’19, Captain game against Case Western start to the Reserve University didn’t go season, with as the Lords planned. They six wins and one draw going into the lost 3-0 to the Spartans. This was Kecontest against the Tigers. They had nyon’s first loss of the year, and given a slow start to the match, but after 16 that the Spartans were unranked, the minutes of play, David Kim ’19 scored Lords will likely take a plunge in the for the Lords to give them the first national polls from their current posilead of the match. This continued with tion of seventh, according to the Unitanother goal exactly four minutes lated Soccer Coaches Poll. er by David Anderson ’19, assisted by The Kenyon men’s soccer team will Kim. The scoring did not stop there, continue their conference play at Denwith Kenyon rattling off two more ison to take on the Big Red on Saturgoals by Scott Upton ’22 and another day, Sept. 29 at noon.

CHRIS ERDMANN STAFF WRITER

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Lords football goes into bye week focused on beating OWU

A bye week may be just what the doctor ordered as Kenyon still looking for breakout game.

Ian Robertson ’19 brought in 82 yards receiving for the Lords in their loss to Wittenberg. He leads the team in receiving yards with 412. | COURTESY OF KENYON ATHLETICS BEN ERJAVAC STAFF WRITER

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The Kenyon Lords’ football team suffered another tough loss this weekend, falling to nationally ranked No. 17 Wittenberg University 3-45.

The game occurred the night of Saturday, Sept. 22, under the lights at Wittenberg’s storied Edwards-Maurer Field.

The game coincided with the Tigers Champions Night, an annual event held for all past

North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) champions.

The game proved to be a challenge for the Lords, who entered the game with an overall record of 0-3. The Tigers, with a record of 2-0 this season, continued to build off their dominance after going undefeated in the regular season last year. The Tigers are expected to make a decent run in the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament this year.

The Lords’s offense, which has been a bright spot this

year and average 290 yards in the air per game, was held to 172 yards. Unfortunately, the Lords’ ground game was held to just 68 yards. On the contrary, the Wittenberg Tigers amassed a total of 543 yards overall, 207 through the air and 336 yards on the ground.

Given the Lords’ strength on offense, they beat the Tigers in time of possession by over 10 minutes, and claimed a higher conversion percentage on third downs (47.1%).

The Lords only committed four penalties for 35 yards,

compared to the Tigers’ 10 penalties for 125 yards; this discipline should help the Lords in further contests.

Wide receiver Ian Robertson ’19 led the Lords with eight catches for 82 yards, increasing his totals for the year to 39 catches for an overall of 412 yards. On defense, Sam Dickey ’20 led the team with 13 tackles and one sack for a loss of two yards, bringing his current season total to 49 tackles.

The Lords go into their bye week hoping to turn things

around against their upcoming opponent, Ohio Wesleyan University (OWU, on Oct. 6. The game will be held at Shelby Stadium in Delaware, Ohio at 2 p.m.

The Lords are expected to have a fighting chance against the Bishops, who are currently 1-1 leading up to their game against the Depauw University Tigers this coming Saturday. The extra week off should give the Lords time to prepare and recover in time to faceoff against the OWU Bishops.

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Ladies overcome high error count, team starts 1-0 in NCAC Early struggles didn’t affect Kenyon in come-from-behind wins versus Gators and Cougars.

JORDY FEE-PLATT STAFF WRITER

KENYON ALLEGHENY KENYON CHATHAM

HEIDELBERG KENYON

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The Kenyon Ladies began conference play on Saturday in Meadville, Pa. with a dominant three-set win over host Allegheny College: 25-18, 25-20, 25-18. The win snapped a short two-game losing streak, moving the team to 10-3 (1-0 NCAC).

Early on in the first set, the Gators kept pace with the score knotted at 14.

Kenyon then proceeded to win five of the next six points.

The second set was controlled throughout by the Ladies, and an 8-1 run in the final set finished off the match in style. Mackenzie Bruzzio ’20 contributed mightily to the 37-20 overall kill advantage with a strong 10 kills, while Delaney Swanson ’19 tallied nine.

Despite the relatively easy win, the Ladies committed 23 errors. As the conference schedule begins to heat up, the team will look to address this issue.

“This weekend was a really great test for our team. We struggled on our side of the net by making a lot of errors. I think our team learned a lot about pulling together and overcoming mistakes,” Head Coach Kendra Mosher said. The error issues continued into the second game of the weekend as they racked up 30 of them.

In a surprisingly difficult second match, the Ladies had to go the distance to prevail in a come-from-behind win against Chatham University. Facing adversity, the team needed

strong production from a variety of sources in a scrappy game Saturday afternoon. Four players had doubledigit kills, once again led by Bruzzio with 18 kills and Swanson with 15 kills. After losing an extremely close first set 25-23, the Ladies were clearly def lated. They committed 12 errors in the ensuing set and fell behind two sets to none.

The third set saw Kenyon trail 1714. This was a wake-up call for the Ladies, who proceeded to score six straight points at 18-18, leading to a 25-19 win.

They carried their momentum into the fourth set for the Ladies, who took an emphatic 25-19 win into the deciding frame. Without much trouble, Kenyon finished off the tenacious Cougars 15-7.

The reliable Meghan Cason ’21 was a huge key to the turnaround, accounting for an astonishing 61 of the 67 assists in the match. With the triumphant win, the Ladies’ record now stands at 11-3.

In their third game on Sept. 25, the Ladies fell to Heidelberg University by a score of 3-1. The Student Princes’s Morgan Strenk led her team to the hard fought win. Kenyon didn’t catch many breaks, but once again, Swanson registered 25, now tied for sixth-most kills in Kenyon single-game history.

Adding to the good news, Saturday proved to be a milestone day for Swanson. She joined just four other players in Kenyon history who have achieved both 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs in their careers. Swanson currently ranks fifth in all-time kills on the Hill.

Tonight at 7 p.m., the Ladies will look to improve in this area as they return home for out-of-conference opponent Otterbein University.

Mackenzie Bruzzio ’20 goes for the kill. She averages 3.11 kills per set so far. She also has 457 kills over her first two seasons, and already has 168 kills. | FRANCIS BYRNE

Ladies show promise and fortitude at ITA Central Regional Tennis ends fall season on high note as first years adjust to collegiate tennis, ready for 2019.

JACKSON WALD STAFF WRITER

The Kenyon women’s tennis team competed in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Central Regional Championships this past weekend in Kalamazoo, Mich. The event featured a singles bracket consisting of 128 competitors and a doubles bracket containing 64 teams from 22 different schools.

The Ladies were looking to build on their performance in last year’s Championships, in which the Ladies doubles team combined for a 12-4 record.

In particular, three Ladies found significant success in the singles bracket: Annie Reiner ’19, Erika Oku ’21 and Anna Winslow ’22.

Reiner dominated her first match, defeating Millikin University’s Shelby Jones (6-0, 6-0). She continued on in her

next match against University matches without dropping the tournament, two Kenyon of Chicago’s Lauren Park, but more than three games in a teams advanced to the quarPark could not finish the match set, winning the matches 6-3, terfinals, while one team won due to an injury suffered in the 6-1; 6-0, 6-2, and 6-2, 6-1 re- the consolation bracket. The first set. Reiner eventually ad- spectively. matches were played in eight vanced to the round of 16, be“Our biggest strength game pro sets. Reiner and Ceyfore falling to by the fourth would have to be our overall lan Can ’21 teamed up, winoverall seed, Amanda Band- attitude on and off the court,” ning their first three matches rowski from Hope College.

Winslow said. “We are con- with scores of 8-0, 9-7, 8-6.

Oku, who went into the stantly pushing each other to The team of Oku and Magtournament with sole pos- fight for every point and are gie Sweeney ’19 also won their session of the seventh first three doubles seed, cruised through matches, 8-2, 8-2, 8-5.

We are constantly her competition in the Daria Beshentseva pushing each other to ’22 and Ilana Blackfirst three rounds, only dropping four games in fight for every point and are really wood ’21 would go on total, and winning a set supportive of one another. to win the consolation 6-0 in each of her vicdoubles bracket, detories. However, like feating a team from Anna Winslow ’22 Reiner, Oku would fall DePauw (9-7) in a in the round of 16 to a heated contest. player from Hope College, first really supportive of one anThis championship marked year Claire Hallock. other.” Winslow eventually the conclusion of the Ladies’ Winslow, like her team- fell to the second overall seed, fall season. Oku and Sweeney mates Reiner and Oku, also sophomore Majorie Antohi are both coming off an exadvanced to the round of 16. from University of Chicago. tremely impressive 2017 camWinslow won her first three In the doubles section of paigns. Oku was named to

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the All-NCAC First Team as a first year and won the NCAC Newcomer of the Year Award as well. In addition, Sweeney was named to the All-NCAC Second Team for the second straight year. After a successful first couple of tournaments, the team knows where they can improve and where their strengths lie.

“Each of us all have our own strengths and weaknesses, so we work on those individually,” Winslow said, “but having support from teammates motivates us a lot to keep improving. We have a really strong group of girls and think we can make a big impact this spring as long as we stay positive and work hard.”

The Ladies will play their first two games of the spring season against the University of Northwest Ohio and Centre College in February 2019.