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
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 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 John Crittenden
http://www.goyeo.com/news/2011/10/29/XC_1029114658.aspx
The Yeowomen Cross Country team enjoyed one of the best seasons in school history this year. Competing without their best runner from last year, they collectively rose to the challenge in winning their third consecutive North Coast Athletic Conference Championship on October 29. The Yeowomen also placed fourth as the host team in the NCAA Great Lakes Regional Championship this past Saturday, November 12. The dominance exhibited by the team throughout their season earned them an at-large invitation to Nationals, which will take place on November 19 in Winneconne, Wisconsin. Continue reading
By Eve O’Connor
In November of 2005, homelessness activist Diane Nilan packed her life into her RV “Tillie the Turtle” and began traveling the United States to promote awareness about homelessness. She has helped homeless families all across the country through legislative advocacy, emergency assistance, her non-profit HEAR US: Voice and Visibility for Homeless Children, and filming and producing documentary films that examine the unseen lives of homeless people. Continue reading
By Noah Martin
The results from the survey distributed by the Student Finance Committee concerning allocation of funding for student organizations are in: the student body overwhelmingly supports funding for organizations like Solarity. With these results in mind, SFC increased Solarity’s funding from last year and allocated $1,593.89 (out of the $3,635.89 requested) for their next event: The Voyage. Continue reading
By John Crittenden
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John A. Lawrence ’70, current chief of staff to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, returned to his college stomping grounds in October to give a talk on “Politics Inside the Beltway.” Packing Wilder 101 with students and community members, Lawrence spoke about the present state of partisan politics in Washington D.C. from an insider’s perspective. The Oberlin Initiative in Electoral Politics and the Oberlin Alumni Association hosted the lecture and subsequent Q&A session. Continue reading
By Tommy LaVoy
Midterm week at Oberlin College is not the best time to schedule an event if you are hoping for a large audience. Professor Steven Volk acknowledged this when he thanked the half-filled Craig Auditorium for showing up this past Thursday. The speaker for the evening was Jacqueline Garcia Salamanca, a social psychologist, an advocate for migrants’ rights, and the daughter of a migrant Mexican farmer. 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 Noah Martin
Ten students sat in a gloomy room on the third floor of Wilder, the afternoon sun from what was possibly the last warm day until Spring barely peaking through the dusty windowpane. They were discussing the allocation of the Student Activity Fund (SAF) toward funding the Students for Environmental Sustainability’s (SES) participation in a protest in Cleveland. Continue reading
