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The Oberlin Review
In many of my previous Bulletin articles, I treat Oberlin College and Conservatory as some special place. I leverage its historic reputation and cultural identity to examine or make a point about some aspect of Oberlin living. But this assumes that Oberlin is unique, which is something I have increasingly questioned in the past months....
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On Sept. 22, Oberlin College placed 59th in U.S. News and World Report’s annual ranking of liberal arts colleges for 2027. This put Oberlin down a single slot from last year’s ranking. U.S. News describes the Best National Liberal Arts College Rankings as comprising “institutions [that] focus almost exclusively on undergraduate education and tend to...
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Every Tuesday at 6 p.m. — or a few minutes before, for those vying for the first reading spot — Oberlin Writers convenes at the Oberlin Public Library. They gather in the Owen Room, off the right side of the main library, to pass around drafts of book chapters, screen plays, short stories, or recipes...
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Last weekend, Cleveland Chamber Choir, led by Director of Choirs and Professor of Choral Conducting Gregory Ristow, performed Joby Talbot’s evening-length tour-de-force, Path of Miracles, at a variety of churches in the Cleveland area. Talbot wrote the piece in 2005 about Camino de Santiago, a religious pilgrimage from France and Portugal to Galicia in Spain
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In kindergarten, your teacher probably asked you to draw a picture. In middle school, your class might have put on a skit. Maybe in high school, you had to write a short story. Creative assignments like these help younger students who are yet to master the process of writing think through and express their ideas....
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On Saturday, Sept. 26, New York City-based synth-pop duo Mmeadows graced the Cat in the Cream’s stage as well as the minds of Oberlin’s young musicians. Before their evening performance, Kristin Slipp and Cole Kamen-Green held a masterclass where they addressed stigmas about electronic music, the freedom that has come with their embrace of technology,...
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With a likeness in first names but stark juxtaposition in genres, three student bands took to The ’Sco Friday Sept. 25 to showcase their talent and novel setlists with the assistance of the Oberlin Rock Collective, a new student organization centered around student rock music and its promotion within Oberlin’s campus. The bands featured on...
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In Sidney Lumet’s 1976 black comedy Network, an overzealous Diana Christensen cheerfully — and perhaps a little menacingly — claims that she wants nothing more out of her life as a TV network executive than a 30 share and a 20 rating. Paddy Chayefsky’s script is sharp, witty, and a perfect satirization of the cannibalistic...
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Ideastream Public Media and PBS Western Reserve announced Sept. 17 that their boards had approved an agreement to merge to create a combined public media organization. The new organization will serve more than 4 million people across the Northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania regions, including Oberlin. Spokespersons at both organizations confirmed that the
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Memories are powerful. They make us who we are; our experiences, moments of joy, tears, anger, and calm, shape who we become. Though memories made alone can be forgotten with time, memories made with friends or family can last forever. Forgotten Island, the brand-new animated film from DreamWorks, is an everlasting tribute to the power...
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