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Billie Streets ’86

By Paris Gravely --- Billie Streets '86, Oberlin Alum and Manager of Corporate Events at Madison Square Garden, spoke in Wilder on Wednesday night about being a black woman in a predominantly male profession, a subject that is important to many Oberlin students. However, only female athletes attended, probably because it was explicitly advertised to athletes. Is the taboo about athleticism at Oberlin overriding Oberlin's self-proclaimed love of Intersectionality? What does this say about our priorities?