CYCLES OF HISTORY This photo appeared in the 1955 Hi-O-Hi yearbook under the heading “Bicycles Symbolize Casual Atmosphere.” As a student four decades later, Gary Shteyngart ‘95 saw the bikes in a different light. In his memoir Little Failure, he wrote that Oberlin students tend to think of their bikes “as extensions of themselves, one of the few objects they may fully possess without ideological heartache.” 40
CO UR T E S Y O F OBERLIN COLLEGE A R CHI V E S
Class Notes