Kenyon Alumni Bulletin: Volume 29, Number 4; Spring/Summer 2007
Features
Concert Grand Tour
So you're the Kenyon music department and the College budget finally includes money to buy the perfect piano for Rosse Hall. Big, beautiful sound. Expressive keyboard action. A winning personality. Your next step?
Eye on Terrorism
Kenyon alumni in diverse professions are grappling with one of society's big challenges.
The Forty-Year-Old Freshman
A writer, former Kenyon swimmer, and professional adventurer takes on the ultimate challenge: come back to college and test your lingering sense of eternal youth.
Crusader Against Cruelty
Animal rights activist Jeff Dorson '80 was so determined to stop dog-fighting in Louisiana that he went undercover, risking his own life for the sake of a more humane world.
The Editor's Page
Loving Lincoln
Letters to the Editor
Along Middle Path
Then and Now
Gambier is Talking about...
Kenyon in the News
The Hot Sheet
Paint, Pageants, Paradise, and six other things we love about Kenyon
Sound Bites
Test your KQ
A First Job--at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Molly Flanagan was looking ahead to her final semester at Kenyon, when a call came from the White House
Books
Guns, Drugs, and Elvis: A Guide to Research for Fiction Writers
A novelist and creative writing teacher revises the injunction to "write what you know"
Reviews
Sports
A Level-Headed Optimist
A Sri Lankan sophomore embraces the joys of tennis and Kenyon
Sports Round-Up
Office Hours
Burning Question: Will it help or hurt to increase the minimum wage?
This winter Congress voted to raise the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour (although, at press time, the legislation was bogged down). Proponents argue that an increase will help workers; opponents contend it will eliminate jobs. What do economists say? We asked Assistant Professor of Economics Jay Corrigan.
Little Metal Things
Pilgrimage souvenirs help art history professor Sarah Blick recreate the world of the Middle Ages
Faculty Digest
Touching the Page, Finding the Past
Alumni News
Alumni Digest
Tenacity, with a Contemplative Streak
A Kenyon football standout with a taste for political philosophy, Zack Space '83 now represents his alma mater in Congress
Beyond the Buzzer
Lords basketball star Shaka Smart '99 plays bigger arenas now, as a coach at Clemson
In Memoriam
Obituaries
Donald S. Rothchild '49
Helen Zelkowitz h'06
Caleb Gottinger '10
The Last Page
The Corrections
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