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Renovating the Retail Landscape A recent article in USA Today focused on a problem many communities across the country are facing: What to do with the cavernous spaces left behind by big-box retailers when they downsize or expand elsewhere. USA Today’s Haya El Nasser discussed some of the solutions with Luce Visiting Assistant Professor of Emerging Arts Julia Christensen, who has spent six years documenting the trend in big-box reuse for a book due out in November. An exhibit of her photographs that appear in the book is currently on view at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University.

Oberlin College Day of Service Participants Learn and Labor During Orientation Week, more than 300 new Oberlin students will take part in the College’s 12th annual Day of Service (DOS). By engaging in a wide variety of volunteer projects at community organizations throughout the city and the surrounding area, new students connect with non profit groups and realize how important they are to the greater Oberlin community. DOS also provides Oberlin and Lorain County citizens invaluable services and resources.

“Sister President” Johnnetta B. Cole to Help Celebrate Oberlin’s 175th Anniversary On the occasion of the 175th anniversary of Oberlin College and community, “Sister President” Johnnetta Betsch Cole ’57 will give a special convocation talk in Oberlin on Wednesday, September 3, at 8 p.m.

Abington Grant Empowers Summer Interns A $32,500 grant from Cleveland’s Abington Foundation set the stage for seven Oberlin students and three recent graduates to put their liberal arts skills into practice this summer by serving as full-time interns at a variety of professional sites throughout Cuyahoga and Lorain counties. The grant also supported two internships in summer 2007 and two during winter term 2008.

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Let the Games Begin: Music by Composer Zhiyi Wang ’04 to be Featured at the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Former Browns Running Back Lee Suggs Joins OC Staff

Art Museum Receives $590,900 NEH Grant

Oberlin Junior Teaches Ohio Migrant Workers ESL

Young Pianists Play to Win in 14th Oberlin International Piano Competition

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