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[thenewyorker]

That was not snark! I lived in Cols for ten years and worked at various natural foods establishments: Sunflower on High, that place on Grand (I forget the name now). I was eight years at a restaurant on King Ave.
Those small places must have folded?

[dellaroux]

That was not snark! I lived in Cols for ten years and worked at various natural foods establishments: Sunflower on High, that place on Grand (I forget the name now). I was eight years at a restaurant on King Ave.
Those small places must have folded?

OK, sorry...

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Was Sunflower the place with the baskets, north of the campus? I was trying to remember that one's name the other day.

There are (still) several on King, both in the Short North/Victorian Village area, and on the other side of the river, I believe.

But--If by "Grand," you mean "-view," you're in trouble...

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[chomp96]

Are the sports teams still the Lords and Ladies? ugh

You're confusing Denison with Kenyon, which 30 miles north.  Both are solid SLACs with a lot of well-to-do East Coast students, but Denison seems a bit less pretentious than it's rival.  (This is from a neutral observer.)

Kenyon's teams are still the Lords and Ladies, and they play in a jaw-dropping new athletic facility that looks like it belongs at Ohio State U.  http://www1.kenyon.edu/athleticcenter/  Denison's nickname is the Big Red.

Despite the somewhat isolated locations, I suspect that most Forumites could be quite happy at any of the Ohio Five (Denison, Kenyon, Oberlin, Wooster, and Ohio Wesleyan) SLACs.

[thenewyorker]

Are the sports teams still the Lords and Ladies? ugh

You're confusing Denison with Kenyon, which 30 miles north.  Both are solid SLACs with a lot of well-to-do East Coast students, but Denison seems a bit less pretentious than it's rival.  (This is from a neutral observer.)

Kenyon's teams are still the Lords and Ladies, and they play in a jaw-dropping new athletic facility that looks like it belongs at Ohio State U.  http://www1.kenyon.edu/athleticcenter/  Denison's nickname is the Big Red.

Despite the somewhat isolated locations, I suspect that most Forumites could be quite happy at any of the Ohio Five (Denison, Kenyon, Oberlin, Wooster, and Ohio Wesleyan) SLACs.

Thanks chomp96. I was confusing the two. I am a graduate (a loooong time ago) of Wooster (COW swimming!, COW baseball! You get the idea.) We were the fighting Scots. While I was at Wooster there was a vote at Kenyon on whether to change the names.

[whistle_pig]

Granville is one of the idyllic college towns on the planet, imo.  Benefits of "both" worlds. Beautiful, nicely laid out New England style town (no surprise ...it was founded by Presbyterian missionaries, sent from Granville, MA). Parents, alums, visitors love the place with some exceptional lodges and eateries. Close to Columbus with many commuters; town and surrounding countryside has lots of very upscale housing, and a minimum of college-town slums (probably because students are required to live on campus all 4 years, thus no market for slum lords). It's a politically mixed bag.  Call it "diverse." The campus is not.  Lots of BMWs.  The U. has been dramatically transformed over the past 15+ years as a past pres pulled off a monumental change, getting trustees to vote no more on students living in frat/sorority houses.  And they are aggressively going after more scholarly students.  That said, as another noted, it is not at all like Kenyon or Oberlin. Lots of Ugg boots, little or no purple hair ...on girls' legs and armpits. The admin is very mature.

Big problem for students is the limited class #s and enrollments, which is probly a plus for teaching faculty. But flies in face of the promo of the place.  Olin funded a science bldg which says something positive. And the new bio/sci bldg is spectacular.  Students from all 50 states; lots of Chinese and other internationals.  Been noted by Posse Fdn (Chicago and Boston programs) but the reality is that blacks & whites appear to mix modestly little.  Getting a name as a smaller place that produces number of drama, TV, public personnas.