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Ruby Turok-Squire '16 | Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. Albert Camus, Defence of Freedom, 1960. This morning, I learned...
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Simbarashe Runyowa '15 | The Clinton Global Initiative brought together over 1000 students, social entrepreneurs, and changemakers from around the world to Washington, DC, this weekend.
But first, thoughts on the Hunger Games.
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Tess Yanisch '13 | The dilemma I am attempting to resolve is whether or not I should buy an e-reader, and, if I get one, what kind I should get. This might seem like an oddly personal and peripheral topic, but it is not. I tell you now, without any exaggeration whatsoever, that my dithering represents the struggles of our society's collective conscience.
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Ruby Saha '14 | What's a safe space, you ask? Good question. I'm not sure either.
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Marsha Lynn Bragg | SJI sessions stimulate, inspire, and cause students to examine why they are involved in the issues and causes they are involved in.
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Marsha Lynn Bragg | I felt privileged that they were willing to share their stories with me and allow me to observe and participate in their quest of discovery and definition.
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Tess Yanisch '13 | Oberlin's second convocation of the semester took place last Wednesday. The speaker was Gloria Steinem. It wasn't the first time the famous feminist has been at Oberlin--she was here in 1972--and, listening to her talk, I wondered how the political and activist atmosphere here has changed since then.
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Tess Yanisch '13 | There's an advantage to working in the Science Center: while working in a library surrounds me with the supportive aura of thousands of books, it also distracts me with the subtle temptations of
thousands of books.
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Tess Yanisch '13 | At long last, the thrilling conclusion to my Fall Break adventure: the Rally to Restore Sanity! Warning: contains a ludicrous number of pictures of protest/polite-dissension signs.
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Sam Jewler '10 | The end of the year is always a time for reflecting on what you've accomplished. Having alumni salute you for it makes those feelings all the more meaningful.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | Times in recent memory where my brain has screamed I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW LUCKY I AM TO GO HERE
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Sam Jewler '10 | I always thought Earth Day was a bunch of baloney. But this year, with the inspiration of my fellow student environmentalists, we're planning to make Oberlin's Earth Week one to remember.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | Raising awareness on campus about a problematic, popular fruit.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | Long, cold winters, unethical fruits, and other Oberlin oddities.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | On Friday, January 22nd, I saw Barack Obama, much like Mr. Hedgehog of Striking Viking Story Pirates fame. Words to describe this experience: cold, line-y, hilarious, inspiring, cameratastic, fan-tastic, fun-tastic.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | What did Obama do? He brought people together, not just the diverse group at the Stocker Center this afternoon, but two very alike people who had never talked before as well.
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Sam Jewler '10 | What's the right way to protest when the stakes are highest? From Vietnam to climate change, Obies are constantly testing the boundaries of this question.
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Eli Goldberg '12 | To do: make policy for a multi-million dollar corporation, create awesome trans activism, have the dorkiest party in the world...
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Sam Jewler '10 | Then a woman in the front row stood up. She was sobbing. The Lieutenant Governor couldn't ignore her emotional plea.
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Sam Jewler '10 | Students from all over Ohio descended on Oberlin last weekend to learn about and organize for our generation's greatest battle: turning back climate change.
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Tess Yanisch '13 | A nutshell of the rest of my Social Justice Institute experience, complete with gender-neutral pronouns and a definition of counternarratives.
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Tess Yanisch '13 | I first heard about the SJI in the admissions packet I got at the beginning of the summer. It wasn't terribly clear about what exactly the SJI was going to be, but I filled out the application anyway and sent it in, figuring it would be interesting if I got in. I did, and I attended the first session of it today. I still wasn't very clear about what it was until it started. . .
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Sam Jewler '10 | Why were we there? How did the world see us?
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | "If we had duct tape, we'd help Klebanoff know what's good for him." - Prof. Paul Dawson speaking about Ben Klebanoff (Student Senator and wunderkind).
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Alice Ollstein '10 | A few things I learned on yesterday's patrol with the Samaritans, a group that sends a group out to the desert every day looking for migrants in need of water, food, medicine or simply a friendly face.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | It was by far one of the more entertaining things one could have done on Valentine's Day, and it was for a good cause. There are only so many ways to make free chocolate taste better, and that's having it come out of your nose from laughing too hard.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | To learn the routes of migration, we did in a couple of easy hours what takes most migrants four excruciating days.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | Today my program spent the afternoon in court. It's not what it sounds like.
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John West '10 | So, yes, I'm eschewing that obligatory
hello my name is John. I'm a blogger. I'm really cool. Here's some stuff about me post, at least for the time being. Bios are dreadfully difficult to write, and, though my fellow bloggers have been covering Oberlin's reaction to this latest election pretty
darn well, I figured I might as well add my two cents.
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Daniel Tam-Claiborne '09 | It is hard for me to describe the atmosphere I witnessed that night, but it was certainly nothing like I had ever experienced before. Surrounded by friends and strangers, new faces and old, it hardly mattered whether you knew the person standing next to you or not--but you were inevitably going to give them a hug.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | When I tell my kids where I was when this part of history was made, I will say this: I was in Oberlin. The best place in the world.
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Elizabeth Houston '06, Admissions | Just so you can be as cool as the rest of the voting community.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | The election results may come down to our little state, and the town and college of Oberlin is rising to the challenge.
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Max Strasser '09 | Debate on the Israel-Palestine issue is vibrant and varied on Oberlin's campus. It is dominated by left-leaning voices (as are most things). But maybe that's not so bad.
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Max Strasser '09 | In case you didn't catch it, Oberlin College was on the front page of the New York Times yesterday. It's a good story, but in my opinion, it's lacking.
