By Cate Battey
(Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
While watching former Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul’s lecture in Finney Chapel this Sunday, April 7, I couldn’t help but imagine it fitting for him to have eight arms.
By Cate Battey
Liebeskind (left) and Golding on tour. Photo courtesy of Andrew Follmann
Over Winter Term, while many of us will be recuperating from the sleepless tornado of finals and exploring the passions we put into hibernation for the past semester, several Obies will be going on their first ever cross-country music tour. Sophomores Leo Liebeskind (guitar, harmonica, vocals), Jordan Golding (guitar, vocals, bass guitar), and Andrew Follmann (website designer, band manager) will be driving from Louisville, Kentucky to San Francisco, California, and back to Oberlin, promoting their recently formed duo, The Learning Center. Continue reading
By Cate Battey
Dear Self,
Remember the days when the smell of cigarette smoke would churn a stirring resentment in your heart? When that unabashed twelve year old would cough while walking by smokers as a form of protest? Those days have come and gone. You decided to try a cigarette from one of your nicotine-ridden friends in that fatal last week of summer and realized, most concretely, that nicotine high is, in fact, real. Continue reading
By Cate Battey
The tree saplings you’ve noticed while walking through Tappan Square were recently planted as part of a carbon offset initiative started this year through the Green Edge Fund and the Student Senate Environmental Sustainability Working Group (funded by the SFC and Green Edge Fund). Continue reading
By Cate Battey and Noel Myers, Responsible Investing Organization Representatives
Have you ever thought about where your money goes when you deposit it in a bank? How about when you pay $50,000 in tuition charges to Oberlin College every year? RIO, also known as Responsible Investing Organization, hopes to change the way students think about the value of monetary decisions. Continue reading
By Catherine Battey
I am infatuated with autumn. No, more than that; I am addicted to it. It’s always been this way. While many of my friends would lament about the passing of summer, I would revel in the end of the dog days of August. The beginning of school, the resumption of homework, schedules and tests were, to me, a small price to pay for the magic that comes with the changing of seasons.
Photo by Tess Harris
By Catherine Battey
So the boy who asked me to have phone sex with him in the eighth grade friended me on Facebook last night. Before I go any further, no, I did not have phone sex with him, and yes, you are right to assume I had no idea how to whisper dirty nothings at the tender age of thirteen. Continue reading
By Catherine Battey
If you’re walking to class one day and notice a Rolling Stones-esque pair of lips staring back at you from a heavily postered bulletin board, have no fear: ObieWear is here. ObieWear, a new student-designed apparel initiative, is successfully transforming our idea of conventional college apparel. ObieWear was started in September 2011 as a Creativity and Leadership Fund project, satisfying both the CnL’s desire for an enduring student-design initiative (there was a temporary one several years ago for a college fashion show) as well as the ObieWear members’ desire to create alternative college apparel options. Continue reading
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