By Eve O’Connor
De Vries with fellow runners, high school 5K run
First-year Caroline De Vries embarked on a “spiritual journey through running” covering 100 miles this November. She was inspired after reading about runner Buzunesh Deba in a New York Times article about the New York City Marathon, where Deba took second place on November 6, missing first by mere seconds. What began as an athletic pursuit soon became a transformative intellectual experience. Continue reading
Photo by Carolyn Weinstein
Here at Oberlin we pride ourselves on being greener than the average human being. The College provides its residents with easily accessible ways to be environmentally friendly, which encourages us to act as such. The residents of Oberlin hold ourselves to higher standards of environmental care and awareness. Sadly, however, this environmental consciousnesses seems to slip from many of our residents’ minds when alcohol enters the picture. Of the many environmentally unfriendly behaviors exemplary to drunks, the one most deserving of condemnation is that of busting glass bottles. Continue reading
By Gabe Kanengiser
Over the past hundred years, popular music has made its shape in various genres. In the 1920s, popular music was marked by jazz and blues styles, while nearly forty years later it was defined by artists such as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Marvin Gaye. However, during the eighties and nineties, despite Michael Jackson’s reign, the emergence of far too many boy bands, various meaningless and crass hip-hop artists, and the unfortunate number of “plastic-platinum” pop-singers, it seems that the quality of popular music declined. Continue reading
By James Kuntz
Suicide.
It’s a loaded word, one that has taken a firm grip on campus this semester–and with good reason. Since the spring, two Oberlin students have committed suicide, in addition to the recent attempt at Burton dormitory preceding the Thanksgiving weekend. Continue reading
By Harlee Ludwig
Written by Daniel Kessler ’12 and directed by Michael Cunningham ’14, Hypnosis for Salesmen completed a five show run at the Little Theater. Though the acting was above par, the story line was hard to follow, which gave the impression that the plot was not really thought through. Continue reading