Features Archives — The Kenyon Collegian

“200 Collegians Seeing God:” Kenyon’s MDA crisis of 1968

On the weekend of October 11, 1968, one year after ex-Harvard professor Timothy Leary commanded the crowd at the first “Human Be-in” in… Read More

by Dante Kanter
November 21, 2019
A Mount Vernon club cultivates snow-sports enthusiasts

With winter coming fast, many students are preparing to bundle up and stay indoors. The Mount Vernon Ski & Snowboarding Club, however, presents… Read More

by Jackson Wald and Dora Segall
November 21, 2019
Kenyon professor starts Profcast to highlight work, academic interests of collegues

How do you pronounce Neanderthal? Is it “Neanderthal,” or “Neandertal”… Read More

by Dante Kanter
November 18, 2019
Kenyon’s Badminton Club fosters competition, collaboration

The weather outside is a dismal wintry mix, but the energy on the Multi-Activity Court (MAC) in the Kenyon Athletic Center is anything… Read More

by Tommy Johnson
November 14, 2019
At Lashley’s Training Center, fitness and community blend

The large, nondescript warehouse-type building with corrugated plastic sides at 14261 Parrot Extension in Mount Vernon hardly looks like the place for a… Read More

by Francis Byrne
November 7, 2019
In 1963, four students defied the odds in the College Bowl

In 1963, a group of four Kenyon students—John C. Gerlach ’63, Neal M. Mayer ’63, Perry Lentz ’64 and Michael P. Underwood ’65—travelled… Read More

by Jackson Wald
November 7, 2019
Kenyon College’s ominous history still survives on campus

One only has to do a topical Google search in order to discover that Kenyon may be haunted. In recent years, Kenyon has… Read More

by Rebecca Turner
October 31, 2019
Kenyon’s Fermentation Friends bond over all things yeasty

Kenyon’s newest student organization, Fermentation Friends, held a well-attended and lively meeting last Tuesday in celebration of all things bacterial. Read More

by Heather McCabe
October 31, 2019
Local brewing company offers wide selection of craft beer

For almost 150 years, there were no breweries in Knox County fully permitted to sell glasses of their draft beer. However in 2017,… Read More

by Adam Schwager and Becca Foley
October 24, 2019
A course in meteorology saved Kenyon from shutting down

At the beginning of Kenyon’s 1941-1942 school year, no one would have been able to predict that by 1943, the school would almost… Read More

by Jackson Wald
October 24, 2019