Kenyon Alumni Bulletin: Volume 30, Number 1; Fall 2007
Features
The Haunted Kenyon Tour
Truth or truthiness? Whether you believe them or not, ghost stories form a vivid part of Kenyon lore. Here are some of the most fabled haunted spots on campus.
Along Local Roads
The Food for Thought program has led Kenyon students to ideas, experiences, and relationships that go far beyond the use of Knox County produce in the dining halls.
Loose Suits and Dangling Modifiers
A participant recalls the brilliant but eccentric cast of characters, penetrating literary insights, and unforgettable softball games of the 1950 Kenyon School of English.
Lightning Rod For Tumult
Charismatic but controversial, Leopoldo Lopez '93 emerges as a rising star of Venezuela's opposition movement.
The Editor's Page
Garden Year
Letters to the Editor
Along Middle Path
Keen to be Green
Newman's Own College
Freelancing the Light Fantastic
From juvenilia to juvenile author, junior Ann Pedtke builds up a record of publications
Kenyon in the News
The Hot Sheet
Fitted jeans, formal Fridays, Facebook follies, and six other things we love about Kenyon
Sound Bites
What's your Kenyon Quotient?
Amazing Corn Maze
A Nonet of Fellows
With nine winners, Kenyon continues as a top producer of Fulbrights
Inspirers and Igniters
Students sing the praises of Thomas Turgeon and Adam Serfass, winners of the 2007 Trustee Teaching Excellence Awards
Sports
No Limits
Energy over illness, joy over hurt: Elly Deutch won't let setbacks slow her down
Sports Round-Up
Books
Imbibing with the Uninitiated
Reviews
Office Hours
Burning Question: Is the printed book dead?
Microsoft CEO Bill Gates recently said the death of paper-based books is imminent. A survey done in 2004 by the National Endowment for the Arts reported literary reading is in dramatic decline, with fewer than half of American adults now reading literature. What does this mean for the future of print publications? We asked David Lynn '76, editor of the Kenyon Review.
Sabbaticals are in the books
What's New in the Classroom?
Musings: On Being Wrong
Physics professor Benjamin W. Schumacher celebrates an underrated condition.
Souvenirs Retrouvés
Karen Snouffer commemorates her father's WWII service in art
Alumni News
Alumni Digest
Class Notes
Seeking the intellectual return
A hedge-fund honcho reinvents himself as a film financier
For the love of bones
From mere fragments, Gina Sorrentino seeks larger stories.
In Memoriam
Obituaries
The Last Page
Becoming Ghosts
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