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“when i was a student, oberlin college had an annual dance performance called ‘fall forward’ and 20 years later that still f ***s with my ability to remember how this time change works” Author Rumaan Alam ’99 ( Rich and Pretty and That Kind of Mother ), on Twitter
“(C)ooking [in Pyle co-op] and doing lunch and dinner one day a week for a hundred some odd people was really my first introduction to the making-it-happen style of cooking where whatever you’re given, whatever challenges are thrown at you, you need to end up with food that can feed a hundred people. That was pretty intense, pretty wild, and pretty fun.” Chris Morocco ’03, deputy food editor at Bon Appétit
“I was not pre-med, and public health and infectious diseases weren’t on my radar at the time. I’m one of these people who has too many interests. What Oberlin did was introduce me to many different disciplines and ideas and perspectives.” Tim Uyeki ’81, epidemiologist and chief medical officer for the influenza division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
“Reminder: Wearing cologne is a choice— usually a bad one.” Rani Molla ‘08, data editor at Recode, on Twitter
“To rectify centuries of imbalance, you have to do something radical.” Christopher Bedford ’00, director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, explaining why the museum will acquire only works created by women in 2020, as a response to the fact that only 4 percent of its current permanent collection is created by women
“Sophie graduated from Oberlin College with a BA in religion and creative writing, so you know she can hang.” From the website Broadway World about Sophie Zucker ’15, a comedian who is a writer and actor in Apple TV+’s Dickinson
“This is not, fundamentally, a story about Oberlin. It’s a story about how parts of the national media have developed an unhealthy relationship with college campuses, treating the low-stakes controversies that characterize students as far more important than they actually are. It’s also a story about how public debate is pushed to focus on the stories of tiny numbers of college students—young adults who are still learning how to think about the world—by a bad-faith right-wing press.” From the Vox.com article, “One of the most famous incidents of campus outrage was totally misrepresented,” by Zack Beauchamp
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