By Erica M. Lee and David Edward Clark
Ed Helms. Photo by David Roswell.
Ed Helms ’96 has been on The Daily Show, The Hangover, and he returns on The Office on September 17th as Andy Bernard.
F+L: Tell us your best fabricated Oberlin story.
By David Edward Clark and Erica M. Lee
Amory Lovins in Finney. Photo by Mike Craig.
We talked to Amory Lovins last night before his Convocation Lecture. In his own words, “In ’76, I published a Foreign Affairs paper that redefined the energy problem, and I’ve been real busy ever since.”
F+L: Okay, we hope you like puns for this one. We want you to think about when you first got turned on to energy. When and where did the bulb go on, who or what flipped the switch and how did you initially go about spreading the light?
Amory: Oh dear.
By Erica M. Lee
Veronica Mars again, because she's my favorite spy. www.bloxer.de
I, Erica Mei-Ling Lee, 19-from-California-majoring-in-English, was the undercover freshman. The thing is, I’m not a reporter. David and I had planned for me to infiltrate the freshman class, but this lasted for all of a day. Everything I wrote after 2:47 p.m. on Day 2 was false because we decided to start crazy rumors. When the rumors got boring, we dropped the project. This is a bit of what I learned during my brief stint of super spy shit. I really did wear the wire.
By David Edward Clark and Nick Perry
Elimination of guest meals and DeCafé reductions are results of Oberlin’s 10% cut to operating costs across all divisions of the College and Conservatory. This translates to a $160,000 to $200,000 reduction in Campus Dining Service’s budget.
By Erica M. Lee
New Parking Plan
Parking is now assigned by seniority and permits have increased $50 to $150/year. The increase in parking permits is due to the College’s initative to go green. The two major construction projects, N. Professor St. and the Litoff Building, have caused the College redistribute cars to less central lots. Students must register their cars before September 4th.
By Erica M. Lee
The Airport Oberlin Shuttle Service has expanded their route to run on weekends. The buses leave from Oberlin at 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., and they depart from the Airport at 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.. These scheduled trips cost $10.
By Erica M. Lee
In a few weeks, CIT will double Internet connection speed. The College signed a contract with Time Warner Cable last spring that provides a fiber link, which allows for an increase of bandwidth speed of up to one gigabit per second. Our bandwidth is currently 90 megabits per second and will double to 180 Mbps.
By David Edward Clark and Erica M. Lee
William Schulz '71 uctv.tv
“The most immoral action that someone can do is to fail to mourn their losses…that most of our impulses to strike out or harm another person emerge out of a failure to acknowledge, honor, and process our own losses in life, that most of our pernicious, cruel cruelty emerges out of a failure to recognize the ways in which we have been harmed.”–Bill Schulz
Bill Schulz graduated in ’71 and went on to be the President of the Unitarian Universalist Association from 1985-1993 and the Director of Amnesty International U.S.A. from 1994-2006. We met Bill in Washington D.C., where he currently works as a Senior Fellow for the Center for American Progress.
F+L: So. Let’s start with your favorite Oberlin story.
Veronica Mars, teenage bamf. http://schizoid.us/
By The Ninth Grader/Erica M. Lee
2:19 p.m. Finally got up the courage to wander outside, after grueling day yesterday. Goal: Stop obsessing about the website and fall into undercover persona. Can’t find super-secret recorder. Bad sign.
2:23 p.m. North Quad: Empty except for Frisbee. Where are the hordes? Swipe is currently not working, so I cannot attack Barrows.
2:31 p.m. Wilder Bowl: Empty. Wtf.
2:35 p.m. Couldn’t open OCMR. Have actually turned into a freshman.
Super Spy Bond. http://artofmanliness.com/
By The Ninth Grader/Erica M. Lee
12:42 p.m. Watched the Barrows migration to Stevie.
1:20 p.m. Barrows Lounge: Empty
1:27 p.m. Dascomb Lounge: Empty
1:34 p.m. Talked to my First Freshman.
1:37 p.m. Just got rejected to hang out by 2 first years—or at least, they left without inviting me to come along.
1:45 p.m. Showed Ted Waddelow, a Barrows R.A., my wire, and asked him where all the freshmen were.
1:50 p.m. Gave up. Walked back to my room to hide. Continue reading
