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Former Dean of Students and Vice President Meredith Raimondo left Oberlin in October to begin her role as vice president for student affairs at Oglethorpe University. Raimondo has been on sabbatical ...
Justin Nobel is an award-winning journalist who reports on issues of environmental justice. His book Petroleum-238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It was published this ...
Diep Nguyen, a College first-year from Vietnam, jumped with excitement at the sight of Vietnamese food on Stevenson Dining Hall’s menu at Orientation this year. Craving Vietnamese comfort food, Nguyen ...
Much of the debate about Professor Mahallati’s position at your college seems to focus on the question of whether he knew about certain mass executions of dissidents by the regime, and whether, as an ...
It is my sense that since the dismissal from the board of Peter Kirsch and Roberta Manaker, the board has lacked a diversity of views and lost its way. It is heartbreaking to me, with so many friends ...
Edwin Huizinga, OC ’06, is the visiting assistant professor of baroque violin. In addition to teaching private lessons, historical improvisation, and directing the Baroque Orchestra, Huizinga is ...
Before the event started, word about it spread to pro-Hindutva far-right circles, which resulted in mass comments and posts from various websites and news sources and backlash at the wording of the ...
So the critique of African-American music styles is not new. As a younger but no-less- established music genre, rap faces similar criticism. However, critics of rap take a different approach than ...
Originating in South Korea, the term 4B, or “four no’s,” refers to the movement’s four tenets, bisekseu, bichulsan, biyeonae, and bihon: no sex with men, no giving birth, no dating men, and no ...
Amid unrest after the Vietnam War, one of the societal values that was called into question was a term known as SportsWorld, the idea that sports were known for sacrifice and honor, coined by ...
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates was a highly anticipated release in my community, both at home and within the Africana Studies department. I first heard about it from professors and fellow Black ...
The program was originally based at a bookstore called Sisterspace and Books in Washington, D.C. The bookstore featured books by and about Black women and was run by two Black women. In the 2000s, ...