How The Kenyon Collegian Website Is Organized

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The Kenyon Collegian site is organized around a news homepage that surfaces a few highlighted stories at the top, then groups the rest of its coverage into named sections such as News, Features, and Arts. If you want the single most important story of the moment, start at the top; if you want a specific type of coverage, use the section labels instead of scrolling the whole page.

The homepage layers, top to bottom

The homepage is not a flat list of articles. It stacks several distinct areas, each with a different job:

  • Top Story — one lead article given the most prominent placement. In the captured page, this was a CSAD discussion with Sarah Longwell about voter behavior and her book.
  • In the News — a cluster of shorter, timely campus items. Examples from the same page: a gratuity charge added to K-Card purchases, removal of blue light phones by Campus Safety, a StuCo Soiree theme reveal, a new NYC summer program, and a search for a new Gund director.
  • Featured — a smaller set of highlighted pieces, often with a section label attached (for instance, "Section: News"). The Dean Kennerly retirement story and the arrival of a historically Black fraternity, Kappa Alpha Psi, appeared here.
  • The Latest — the most recent items across sections, mixing News, Features, and Arts. This is where you go to see what just published rather than what editors chose to spotlight.

A practical reading order: scan Top Story for the headline of the day, check The Latest for freshness, and dip into In the News or Featured when you want breadth rather than a single lead.

Section navigation

Beyond the homepage blocks, stories carry section tags that tell you what kind of content you are reading:

Section What it covers Example from the page
News Campus events, administration, student government, institutional changes Dean Kennerly's retirement; new fraternity chapter
Features Longer human-interest and campus-life pieces Faculty and staff free meal at Peirce Hall; a romance how-to; students and iPad learning
Arts Performances and cultural coverage "Morganized Crime sets the stage for Sunday night Tiny Rug"

The homepage also exposes Sections and Learn More navigation areas, which are the entry points for browsing by category rather than by recency. If you already know you want arts coverage, going through the section label is faster than reading The Latest and filtering mentally.

Finding a specific kind of story

Match your goal to the area:

  • "What's the big story right now?" → Top Story.
  • "What just happened on campus?" → The Latest, then In the News.
  • "I want feature writing, not hard news." → the Features section.
  • "I want performance and culture coverage." → the Arts section.
  • "I want editorially selected highlights." → Featured.

Subscribing and supporting the paper

The site carries a Subscribe Today or Donate link pointing to kenyoncollegian.com/subscribe/. The page text states that yearly digital subscriptions are available, but the captured excerpt cuts off before any price is given, so no figure should be assumed. Treat subscription as a paid option the site advertises, and check the subscribe page itself for current terms.

A note on the publication

The Kenyon Collegian describes itself as serving Kenyon College and Gambier, Ohio, since 1856, which places it as the campus newspaper for that institution. That context explains the content mix: student government, campus offices, Greek life, academic programs, and arts events dominate, rather than national or wire news.