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Stories from the Week of February 12-18, 2001
Monday:
Disasters:
What the United Nations and Its World Can
Do
The effects of
natural disasters could be less if governments worldwide
would do the right thing--before the disasters strike,
says Ben Wisner, research associate in the Environmental
Studies Program. Variations of Wisner's editorial have
appeared in newspapers in the U.S. and abroad.
Monday:
Washington,
D.C., Alumni and Students Discuss the Bush
Presidency
A five-person
panel was the focus of The State of Our Union, a January
9 forum about the Bush administration sponsored by the
Oberlin Alumni Club of Washington, D.C., and the
College's Career Services Advisory Committee. The forum
convened Oberlin alumni with various government-related
backgrounds for a participating audience of about 80
alumni, Winter Term students, and others in the large
committee room of the Dirksen Senate Office
Building.
Monday:
Faculty
and Staff Notes
Members of the
faculty publish and present.
Tuesday:
Wendell
Logan Piece to Receive World Premiere at Chicago's Museum
of Contemporary Art This
Weekend
Doxology Opera: The Doxy Canticles, a
music-theater piece in one act by composer Wendell Logan,
professor of African-American music, and librettist Paul
Carter Harrison, will have its world premiere at the
Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago this weekend.
Tuesday:
February
13 Art Museum Talk to Proceed Despite Absence of
Sculpture
Today's Allen
Memorial Art Museum Tuesday Tea will feature a talk about
Edmonia Lewis (1845?-1911), a sculptor who worked in the
neoclassical style. Museum docent Hannah Weinberg, a
sophomore from San Francisco, will give her talk using
slides of Lewis's sculptures. Lewis, the first
African-American sculptor to achieve international
recognition, attended Oberlin College in the 1800s.
Tuesday:
For
Students: $5 Tickets 30 Minutes before February 13
Apollo's Fire Concert
A limited
number of $5 student rush tickets will be available to
all students beginning at 7:30 this evening for the
concert by Apollo's Fire that begins at 8:00. Alumna
Jeannette Sorrell leads Apollo's
Fire.
Tuesday:
Human
Rights Activist and Alumnus Maghan Keita to Speak
February 15 and 16
Noted human rights advocate, scholar, and author Maghan
Keita '72 will present two addresses at Oberlin College
Thursday, February 15, and Friday, February 16, as part
of the College's Black
History Month observance.
"The Return of the Black Knight: Africans in Arthurian
Lore" is the title of the talk he will give Thursday, and
a lecture titled "Race and the Writing of History:
Riddling the Sphinx" will be delivered on Friday.
Tuesday:
Haass
'73 Named Director of State Department Office of Policy
Planning
President
George W. Bush has appointed alumnus Richard Haass
director of the State Department's Office of Policy
Planning. According
to Reuters
news service, "Haass, who will have the rank of
ambassador, was previously director of foreign policy
studies at The Brookings Institution. He also worked as a
Middle East specialist for the National Security Council
under former President George Bush." An article
in Wednesday's Washington Post says that in his
new post Haass "could have a hand in Israeli-Palestinian
affairs."
Tuesday:
"Global
Policy Warrier" Randall Robinson to Speak February
20
Is there an unpaid debt still due for the 250 years that
Africans were enslaved in America and for the decades of
white supremacy that followed? Randall Robinson, who is
known for his work on the inequities and atrocities of
the African diaspora, maintains that America should pay
remuneration to African-Americans just as the German
government paid $60 million to victims of Nazi
persecution and the United States paid the Japanese who
were interned in World War II. He will discuss this topic
at Oberlin College Tuesday, February 20.
Tuesday:
Weekly
Sports Report
Swimming and
diving join basketball and track and field as the sports
in which Oberlin competed last week.
Wednesday:
Oberlin
Ranks High in Production of World's Top Economists, Says
Researcher
Oberlin ranks
sixth in the world among undergraduate institutions
educating the top 100 economists in the world, according
to a researcher at the Free University of Belgium. Tom
Coupé's unpublished online paper describes how he
arrived at his findings.
Wednesday:
Preservation
Hall Jazz Quartet Plays Cat in the Cream February
16
The
Preservation Hall Jazz Quartet--featuring alumnus
Benjamin Jaffe on bass--will perform in concert Friday,
February 16, at 8:00 P.M.
at the Cat in the Cream coffeehouse. The Jazz Studies
Program is sponsoring the event. Opening for the ensemble
will be Blues Connotation, an ensemble of Oberlin-student
jazz performers.
Wednesday:
Swimmer
John Limouze Takes NCAC Championship
John Limouze, a
senior from Wyoming, Ohio, has become the 2001 North
Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) champion in the 200-yard
butterfly.
Wednesday:
NCAC
Names Basketball Player James Knight Athlete of the
Week
The North Coast
Athletic Conference (NCAC) has named James Knight, a
senior forward from Chicago, Men's Basketball Player of
the Week for the week ending February 11.
Wednesday:
Changes
in African-American Society after the Civil
War
Elsa Barkley
Brown, a distinguished scholar of African-American and
women's history from the University of Maryland, will
present a lecture titled "Considering the Social
Identities of African American Men: The World of Edward
McConnell Drummond" at 8:00
P.M. Friday,
February 16.
Wednesday:
Filmmaking
at Oberlin; Coming into Focus
A thriving
student filmmaking community has been developing at
Oberlin--albeit well below the official radar--for
several years. The first major blip occurred last May
during Student Film Night, a three-hour screening of 13
film shorts before an over-capacity audience. The article
is from the current issue of Around the
Square.
Wednesday:
CWRU's
Voices of Diversity to Perform Scenes from I'm Not
Rappaport
The Voices of Diversity from Case Western University
University (CWRU) will come to Oberlin to perform
February 21. The performance will include selections
from I'm Not Rappaport--the 1986 Tony
Award-winning comedy by Herb Gardner that focuses on the
lifelong friendship between two elderly men, Midge, an
African-American building custodian, and Nat, a white
union radical.
Thursday:
Photographer
and Cultural Historian Peter Hales to Speak February
22
In "Virtual American Landscape: Real and Ideal"
Peter
Hales,
professor and University Scholar in the Department of Art
History at the University of Illinois, Chicago, will
explore aspects of the contemporary landscape from film
to Internet-based computer games. The slide lecture is
February 22 at 4:30 P.M.
Thursday:
Closer
Debuts in Little Theater Tonight
Closer,
a microscopic look at relationships, debuts this evening
at 8:00.
Directed
by Patrick Mulryan, a senior from Olean, New York, the
production examines the ways in which people try to get
to know each other and grow close.
Thursday:
Haskell
Lectures to Offer New View of Paul, Beginning
Sunday
"Few figures in
Western history have been the subject of greater
controversy than St. Paul," says Princeton theologian and
author John Gager. "Few have caused more dissension and
hatred." Gager will offer a new interpretation of this
seminal figure of the Christian faith during the Haskell
Lectures, a series of three public addresses titled
The Apostle Paul and the Beginnings of Christian
Anti-Judaism. The first lecture is Sunday, February
18 at 7:30.; the other two lectures are Monday, February
19, at 8:00 P.M.
and Wednesday, February 21, at 4:30
P.M.
Friday:
AmeriCorps
Volunteers Help Build Oberlin
Community
On Martin Luther King Day, while photographers were
snapping President Clinton slap paint on a wall at the
AmeriCorps headquarters in D.C., three Obies were quietly
going about their work as AmeriCorps volunteers in
Oberlin.
Friday:
Radio
Interview with Steven Isserlis Airs at Noon Today;
Cellist Plays Tomorrow
Steven
Isserlis
'80, returns to Oberlin this week for an Artist Recital
performance tomorrow, February 17. Today Cleveland
National Public Radio station WCPN (90.3 FM) will air an
interview with the cellist on the program Around
Noon, which begins around noon. A 1998
interview
with Isserlis by the Internet Cello Society is on
line.
Friday:
Millennium
Collective Improvises Music and Dance Tomorrow
The Millennium Collective, an ensemble of musicians
specializing in improvisation, will present a free public
concert of music and dance improvisation Saturday,
February 17, at 4:30 in Warner Concert Hall. Nusha
Martynuk, associate professor of dance, will join the
ensemble for the performance.
Friday:
Times
Reviews Flextronics, High-Tech Company of Alumnus Michael
Marks
The
Technology section of yesterday's New York Times
ran a story about Flextronics, "the world's
second-largest company in an industry known as
electronics manufacturing services." Michael Marks '73 is
Flextronics' chair and chief executive. In
"Ignore
the Label, It's Flextronics Inside,"
the Times reported that ". . . Mr. Marks is a
remarkably informal and hands-off manager for someone who
is running a company whose roughly $12 billion in revenue
in 2000 may grow to $20 billion over the next year." This
past fall Marks endowed a professorship in psychology at
Oberlin and named the chair in honor of Norman
Henderson,
professor of psychology. See "Student
-Prof Relationship Inspired Endowed
Chair"
and "Chair
in Psychology Endowed in Honor of Professor Norman D.
Henderson."
Friday:
Faculty
Chamber Musicians to Play All-Brahms
Program
Today
The third
concert in the Oberlin Faculty Chamber Music
Series--Sunday, February 18, at 4:00
P.M.
in Finney Chapel--will feature the music of
Johannes
Brahms.
The concert is free and open to the public.
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