Volume 33 Number 3 Spring/Summer 2011
In this issue
Steen Begat
The amazing streak has ended, but in a way that only underscores Jim Steen's legacy as a coach—not just of swimmers but of other coaches.
Tangled in the Social Network
Living with Facebook, alumni discover new opportunities, but also questions and complications.
Inked
Intellectual passions inspire Kenyon students' tattoos.
Phenomenal
Shaka Smart '99, a quintessential student-athlete at Kenyon, coaches his way into the Final Four.
Death on the Tracks
Stuart Pierson's gruesome death during a fraternity initiation in 1905 sullied Kenyon's name, tested its president ... and remains a mystery.
Kenyon In Season
Departments
The Editor's Page
New media, renewed magazine
Letters to the Editor
Along Middle Path
Bugs and Backpacks
A Taste of Hollywood
Kenyon's culinary director cooks for a post-Oscar party.
Test your KQ
Pass/Fail
Writers Find Happy Medium on Radio
The Hot Sheet
Raccoons, random complaining, and five other things we love about Kenyon.
Gambier is Talking About...
Kenyon in Quotes
Books
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Recent Books by Kenyon Authors
Office Hours
Kong Size
A biologist brings out the giant ape in his students.
Burning Question: Why is it that the Middle Eastern uprisings took the world by surprise?
With sudden speed this spring, people across the Middle East rose up to reshape their world. The Alumni Bulletin asked Provost Nayef Samhat to help put the events in perspective.
Hunting for answers
With spears, cowhide, and "ballistics gel," a professor and student test a theory on Neanderthal technology.
Alumni News
Give it another shot
Not many Kenyon graduates face a career decision quite like this one: environmental activist or professional football player?
This is New York City
In the 'homelessness tsunami'
Joy Eckstine '89 is a social worker with the soul of a poet.
Memory man
At an age when many people are struggling with memory, ninety-two-year-old Harold Wilder '41 is helping others recover and develop theirs.
Obituaries
Alumni Digest
The indelible "K" on Wooster's field
Charles Adams '58 of Vermilion, Ohio, sent us this story of a close call with disciplinary officers at Kenyon and Wooster in his college days.