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WEBApr 5, 2024 · Pop-funk artist Molly Grace kicked off the ’Sco season for the Oberlin community with one of the first concerts of the 2024–2025 year. Her music is fun and upbeat with a ’70s flair, bringing together an enthusiastic crowd. Grace entered the stage in a sparkly tassel bodysuit and a bouncy blowout.... Off the Cuff.
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WEBSep 13, 2024 · Oberlin College Announces Minimum Wage Increase for Student Workers. Walker Prince. September 6, 2024. Oberlin College recently announced an increase in the student minimum wage to $12 per hour, effective from the start of this fall semester. This new rate surpasses Ohio’s current minimum wage of $10.45.
College Introduces LSAT, MCAT, EMT Winter Terms
WEBNov 10, 2023 · Career Exploration and Development has launched three new Winter Term projects for the 2024 term. They are preparations for the Law School Admissions Test, the Medical College Admissions Test, and an Emergency Medical Technician training project. The courses were created to provide students with pre-professional programming and prepare them for their careers, according to Anthony...
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WEBSep 6, 2024 · Cheptegei competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics and placed 44th in the women’s marathon. Her killing has drawn renewed attention to incidents of domestic violence in Kenya, where 38 percent of women experience intimate partner violence over the course of their lives. 0. Like This Story.
Oberlin’s New Ranking Shouldn’t Define Students’ Education
WEBSep 22, 2023 · President Carmen Twillie Ambar released a statement on the updated U.S. News rankings to calm the anxious feelings Obies and prospective students were feeling after the rankings came out. She was right when she said the main reason that Oberlin fell 12 spots in the rankings was a widespread shift in the rankings’ methodology.
Cooper Community Resource Center Unveiled to Public
WEBApr 7, 2023 · On Thursday, March 30, the new Cooper Community Resource Center opened to the public for the first time since Oberlin Community Services acquired the building and surrounding property. The building, located at 500 E. Lorain St. in Oberlin, is approximately 27,000 square feet and located on a four-acre property. It …
Decade of Student Activism Preceded Oberlin’s Divestment from …
WEBThroughout the 1970s and 1980s, college students across the country protested and demanded their colleges divest from companies that were doing business with South Africa due to ongoing apartheid. This concern led to the creation of the Sullivan Principles, which were aimed at governing American companies’ investments and operations in South Africa.
Oberlin Students for a Free Palestine Meet with Board of Trustees ...
WEBMay 24, 2002 · Last Wednesday, representatives from Students for a Free Palestine and Jews for a Free Palestine met with Board of Trustees Chair Chris Canavan, OC ’84, Vice President Matthew Lahey, and Board of Trustees Chair of the Investment Committee Sean Gavin, OC ’98, to discuss how the student organizations could submit a formal proposal for divestment from Israeli companies amid Israel’s war in ...
“Urinetown” Takes a Comedic Look at Dark Societal Issues
WEBDec 6, 2019 · Urinetown’s ensemble cast rehearsing for its opening night, which took place Thursday. Described in the director’s note as “an eerily relevant takedown of Capitalism’s worst case scenario,” the Oberlin Theater Department’s production of Urinetown, a darkly satirical 2001 musical, is still uncomfortably applicable to our political ...
Strange Acquisitions: How We Got The Carnegie Building
WEBApr 19, 2019 · Born into a lower-middle-class farming family, she always had dreams of a more luxurious life. She would eventually help inadvertently endow an Oberlin College building through deception in both Canada and Ohio. Bigley’s early experiences in Canada were crucial in leading her to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Citizen’s ...