– Louisa Nye (New Jersey)
– Arielle Lyons (Chicago, IL)
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Recently, we were passing between the AJLC and Harkness and somebody noticed the chickens. I think I was talking about the co-op system, and they were like, “What are the chickens for? Do people cook the chickens in the co-ops?” And I was like, “No …” but I couldn’t really tell them what the chickens were for.
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Argentinian guitarist and quantum physicist Alberto Rojo will be joined by students in performing a set of Latin American music, including songs by Jorge Luis Borges and others. La Nacion, a leading Argentinian newspaper, has called his music “far from the complexities of the scientific world and closer to the mystery that dwells in the stars.”
I mentioned something about how people of different genders can live in the same room, and so a mom asked, “Okay, so how many people do that?” and I said, “Oh, I don’t know percentage. I can find that out for you if you like, but it’s not particularly high.” And she was like, “Well, if no-one wants to do that, then why even go there?” And I was like, “I don’t know what you mean. Can you explain what you mean to me?” And she was just like, “Just why even go there?” And she said that like three or four times and just never actually articulated her question. So then I basically had to explain gender roles and things to her.
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The first night of the annual Improv Conference will feature four professional groups from around the country, who will also lead workshops taking place all day on Saturday. Oberlin’s three resident improv groups — Kid Business, Primitive Streak and The Sunshine Scouts — will perform alongside members of the Advanced Improv ExCo to wrap up the conference with a show on Saturday night.
on some of their most memorable moments with prospies and parents
West Virginia Water Crises: The Chemical Spill and Beyond Monday, April 13, 7 p.m. Hallock Auditorium, AJLC This ecolympics-sponsored event will feature a group of volunteers from the West Virginia Clean Water Hub who will discuss the response efforts to last year’s chemical spill that contaminated the drinking water of over 300,000 West Virginia residents. The discussion will also consider the crisis in light of exploitative practices at the commercial and regulatory levels that perpetuate ongoing water contamination.
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Daniel Ho Monday, April 13, 8 p.m. Cat in the Cream
Higher Education and Sustainability Monday, April 13, 8 p.m. Dye Lecture Hall, Science Center
Harry and the Potters Concert Tuesday, April 14, 10 p.m.–1 a.m. The ’Sco
Daniel Ho has won six Grammy awards for producing and performing on albums of Hawaiian and Hawaiianinfluenced music. The Hawaii native studied at the Grove Music School in Los Angeles and today performs original songs in English and Hawaiian around the world. He is famous for producing Hawaiian-language covers of Prince’s “Nothing Compares to U” and Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’.”
Tom Ross, president of the University of North Carolina system, and David Orr, former Environmental Studies professor, will lead a panel discussion on the challenges of sustainability for colleges in an era in which both technology and higher education are rapidly changing. Panelists will take questions from the audience following their remarks.
This Massachusetts-based cult group is the progenitor of the growing genre of “wizard rock,” which now includes bands like The Whomping Willows and The Parselmouths. The band’s best-known songs include “Save Ginny Weasley,” “Voldemort Can’t Stop the Rock” and “Luna Lovegood is Ok.” Proceeds from the concert, sponsored by the Oberlin Harry Potter Alliance, will be donated to charitable causes.
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The different people, and [that] they don’t really care what people think about them.
– Annabelle Caso (New York, NY)
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Everyone seems really genuine, doing their own thing, which is different than coming from high school where people are more concerned with fitting into one specific look.
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The whole campus seems super self-sufficient. It’s basically like a little town, which is really surprising. Everyone seems really independent, and I think it’s really interesting. … Everything looks like a museum.
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– Naomi Fireman (Chicago, IL)
How nice the campus is, … all the green space there [is]. It’s interesting because it’s right next to the downtown.
Every self-respecting Obie who has ever gone through the admissions process — that is to say, every self-respecting Obie — knows that, in fact, all roads do not lead to Oberlin. The Review can now conclusively narrow the field to two — State Route 58 and State Route 511. Apparently undeterred by the paucity of navigational alternatives, the next three weekends will see the arrival of hundreds of accepted students for the College’s admitted students’ program. This year marks the first time in history that the College received over 7,000 applications, competing for slots in a class that isn’t likely to exceed 750. The number of applicants exceeded last year’s figure by almost 22 percent, which President Krislov attributed in part to the College’s decision to eliminate the $35 application fee previously leveled for all applications. To this day, some still recall their experience visiting Oberlin — “prospie-ing” here — with fondness or irony. This week, the Review talked to prospies and tour guides about the surprises and challenges of visiting Oberlin.
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– Paul Kiefer (Seattle, WA)
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I really thought that the town was going to be really small, rural, and there was not going to be a big connection with the school. … But it just seems like the connection is so much greater than I thought, and the town is so cool even though it’s tiny.
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college guide revisited: Two sophomores and a junior sat down with the Fiske Guide to Colleges, 2015.
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CALENDAR Caucasian Chalk Circle Thursday, April 16, Friday, April 17, and Saturday, April 18, 7:30 p.m. Hall Auditorium This play by German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht premiered in the mid-1900s in a student performance at Carleton College and has since then become one of the most-performed German plays. The plotline is framed as a parable-within-a-story, where the misadventures of the main character illuminate the perils of the “temptation to do good.”