Features Archives — The Kenyon Collegian

Bob Dylan’s concert at Rosse in 1964 was a sight to behold

If a current Kenyon student were told that the king of folk, Bob Dylan, once performed at their school, it would elicit an… Read More

by Fred Giron-Giessen
October 3, 2019
A new Mount Vernon club puts roundnet front and center

Across the exterior of Wiggin Street Coffee hangs a series of posters reading, in boldface type, “Mount Vernon Roundnet Club.” The club, founded… Read More

by Jackson Wald
October 3, 2019
Feeling ill? A unique health store opens in Mount Vernon

Josh Kuhn, owner of Old Mr. Bailiwick’s Plant Based Remedies in Mount Vernon, donned a silver-colored vest and suit pants when he greeted… Read More

by Dora Segall
September 28, 2019
Cane Rush: a retired first-year and sophomore competition

According to the November 12, 1947 edition of the Kenyon Collegian, the annual Cane Rush began with “a shot, a cry of ‘Banzai!’… Read More

by Jackson Wald
September 26, 2019
Need a ride? Meet the last Lyft driver based in Knox County

It took Molly Fording ’23 three tries to find transportation to John Glenn Columbus International Airport last Friday. After discovering that the GoBus,… Read More

by Dora Segall
September 19, 2019
As night descends on Kenyon, late-shift employees clock in

Thursday night: Time to cram some French vocabulary or scribble down a chemistry problem set, right? Not for everyone, as it turns out. While… Read More

by Ariella Kissin and Cameron Austin
September 19, 2019
Author talks 1,700 mile trek through America’s heartland

In September of 2012, Ken Ilgunas set out to hike the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, stretching 1,700 miles from Northern Alberta through the… Read More

by Dante Kanter
September 12, 2019
Kenyon has debated paving of Middle Path for half a decade

A recent post on the popular Facebook page “Overheard at Kenyon” ignited an online debate over paving Middle Path, often described as the “central… Read More

by Dante Kanter
September 5, 2019
New Symposium lecture series will feature faculty, alumni

When Brandon Rakowski ’20 studied abroad last year at Oxford University in Oxford, England, he created a tradition that he was inspired to… Read More

by Sam Brodsky
September 5, 2019
Pelotonia cyclist John Looker faked cancer for over a decade

For ten years, Columbus resident John Looker convinced the world that he was fighting brain cancer. Looker was a vocal participant in Pelotonia’s… Read More

by Sam Brodsky and Dante Kanter
August 28, 2019