By Tess Harris
Intramural Softball: The Diamond Queens vs. The Snotrockets (bitter rivals)
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Oberlin Bike Culture
By Tess Harris
Sold to IvyDate
By Owen Henry
At some point this past week, in between multi-night research binges and the subsequent hours I spent completely devoid of thought, I noticed someone had invited me to join IvyDate (just as they did many of you). Continue reading
Forum: WTF is Student Government?
By Owen Henry
It’s finally official: student government at Oberlin is irrelevant. Anyone who suspected otherwise was among the 12 students who bothered to come to the recent “What the Fuck is Student Government” panel in Wilder this past Thursday, which made the holding of the panel a most egregious error: before the panel they at least had 12 people who thought our student government had even a semblance of power or authority. After what was said, that number has likely dropped. Continue reading
How to become a FOSSIL
By Harlee Ludwig
In my first semester at college I enrolled in a dinosaurs class in the geology department because it counted as a science requirement. The visiting professor had just defended her thesis at Yale. Her name was Michelle and she was young enough to appreciate humor and the hilarity of googling “hipster dinosaurs” and the video by the whitest kids you know titled “Getting High with Dinosaurs.” During one of the first classes she gave us a seven-point list on how to become a fossil; little did I know that becoming a fossil is pretty much the same as becoming a successful human being. Continue reading
Be Careful What You WWOOF For
By Catherine Battey
We knew we might have gotten the short end of the stick when we called our WWOOF host from the Belize City airport upon arrival, expecting a ride back to the farm, only to be told we would need to take a taxi, then a bus, then a car, to reach our destination. Continue reading
Reflections on John Bolton Lecture
By Owen Henry
I have good news and I have bad news.
The bad news is that, as I sit here typing this piece, I can look to my left and see a world return to the blank white canvas upon which creation is painted. It inspires a gentle peace and quiet sense of reflection in me, and I will be using this as an excuse to leave my house as little as possible until it is neither cold nor wet. As a consequence, I will not be writing about Student Senate this week. Continue reading
The Dictator
By Owen Henry
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
If you were watching the Oscars on Sunday, you probably saw Baron Cohen, in character as the protagonist of his latest film “The Dictator”, spilling the ashes of Kim Jong-Il all over Ryan Seacrest. If you are among those unfortunate few who didn’t, it is doubtless you are now heading over to YouTube to watch it; you may even be headed over for a repeat visit. Just please come back afterwards, I’m not finished with you yet. Continue reading
Midnight Cowboy: Sex, Money, and Great Clothes
By Harlee Ludwig
www.rottentomatoes.com
Directed by Andy Sold ’12, Midnight Cowboy went up in Little Theater this weekend. The story was an adaption of the novel by James Leo Herlihy and consisted of many crowd pleasers including humor, nudity, denim, sex, and southern accents. Or at least they pleased me.
Lieutenant Dan Choi at Finney Chapel
By Eve O’Connor
www.colorlines.com
Lieutenant Dan Choi, a Korean-American veteran of the Iraq War, was discharged from the military under its absurd “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy after publicly announcing that he is gay. He has since been a vocal opponent of the policy and stood with President Obama as he signed its repeal in November 2010. Choi gave a passionate and entertaining talk in Finney Chapel on Tuesday, complete with Oberlin-deprecating humour. He spoke on his efforts to overturn “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and to prove “I am somebody” to his family and country. Continue reading