By Angela Suico

With a few minor differences, each floor of Rice Hall appears to be almost identical. Uniformly spaced benches sit outside the faculty offices and bulletin boards featuring educational opportunities and lecture advertisements line the walls. But the third floor, which houses the Religion, History, and Jewish Studies departments, exhibits one crucial difference. Several of the office doors and one large bulletin board hanging across from the entrance to the department offices display an additional type of document: the syllabi for the current semester’s courses. Continue reading →

By Quinn Hull

Princess, a beautiful sheep.

Sheep are inconspicuous little ones – smaller than you’d think. Any leaf, twig, bramble or spur that touches their fluffy wools immediately gets caught in them, so sheep can be neatly camouflaged in their environs. It’s not particularly strange, then, that after arriving at the last house on Prospect Street, I didn’t see them at first. They were nestled in between two mid-sized bushes, munching thoughtlessly on grass and staring, it so happens, right at me.  Continue reading →

By Angela Suico

firstchurchoberlin.org

Every Friday night at a few minutes before 7:00 p.m., a small group of students gather in the lounge of Barnard House on the famously liberal campus of Oberlin College. After greeting each other, they sink into the room’s mismatched chairs and couches and discuss typical college-life concerns—Facebook statuses, extracurricular activities and off-campus excursions. Continue reading →