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Stories from the Week of February 19-25, 2001
Monday:
Goat Island Performance Begins Semester of Emerging
Artists/Visionary Educators
Events
Cutting-edge visual artists, conductors, choreographers,
and performance groups will present works-in-progress at
the College during spring semester as part of the
Maverick Artists/Visionary Educators Series, sponsored by
the Henry Luce Initiative in the Emerging
Arts.
Monday:
Eating
Disorders Awareness Month Starts February
19
Oberlin's
month-long eating-disorders-awareness program starts
today with a free lunch and informal discussion about
eating under stress, coping with unhealthy eating, and
changing one's relationship to food.
Monday:
Haskell
Lectures Offer New View of Paul; 2nd Lecture Is
Today
Princeton
theologian and author John Gager will offer a new
interpretation of St. Paul during the Haskell Lectures,
three public addresses titled "The Apostle Paul and the
Beginnings of Christian Anti-Judaism."
Monday:
Plain
Dealer Reviews French Kicks, an Obie-NYC Group
An article in the February 16 edition of the
PlainDealer--"Underground
Fans Get Their Kicks from Oberlin
Exes"--reviewed
the French Kicks, a quartet of Oberlin alums who will
perform February 19 at the Euclid Tavern in Cleveland.
Monday:
Faculty
and Staff Notes
Members of the
faculty and staff publish and speak.
Tuesday:
Back
from Brazil, Students Present Ideas for Ecological City
Development in Oberlin
Think one person can change the world? Or the town of
Oberlin? Four students do, and they spent Winter Term in
Brazil learning how to initiate change in Oberlin. They
will share their observations of green development in a
presentation Tuesday, February 20, in the Adam Joseph
Lewis Center's Hallock Auditorium.
Tuesday:
"Global
Policy Warrior" Randall Robinson to Speak February
20
Randall Robinson, known for his work on the inequities
and atrocities of the African diaspora, will speak
tonight in the Carnegie Building's Root Room.
Tuesday:
All Brahms, All Evening with the St. Petersburg String
Quartet
The St.
Petersburg String Quartet, quartet-in-residence at the
conservatory, will present a free public concert February
20 in Finney Chapel. Monique Duphil, professor of piano,
will join the group for the evening.
Tuesday:
Mead-Swing
Lecture to Look at Ethics in Science February
21
Questions
raised by the increasing commercialization of science
will be explored tomorrow in a public lecture by Jeffrey
Kovac, author of "The Ethical Chemist," published in a
1998 issue of the journal of the Council on Undergraduate
Research . "Professionalism and Ethics in Science" is the
title of Kovac's Mead-Swing lecture, to be held in King
306.
Tuesday:
Classical
Persian Music to Be Heard at Oberlin Next
Monday
Amir Koushkani, an international artist known for his
musical and technical artistry on the tar and sitar, will
perform Monday, February 26, at
7:30
P.M. in
Kulas Recital Hall. Percussionist Hamin Honari and
vocalist Seemi Bushra Yasmeen Ghazi--both trained in the
classical Persian style--will join Amir. The program will
include instrumental improvisation between Koushkani and
Honari, and Ghazi's rendition of Persian lyrics by the
poet Rumi, and others. The Oberlin Shansi Memorial
Association, the James Hall Fund for Musicology, the
Muslim Students' Association, and the Department of
Religion are sponsoring the free public event
Tuesday:
A
Matter of Taste Opens Next Tuesday at the Art
Museum
Traditional
African objects from the art museum's permanent
collection will be shown in A Matter of Taste: The
African Collection at the Allen Memorial Art Museum
beginning Tuesday, February 27, through Sunday, June 3.
Tuesday:
Two
Oberlin Alumnae Nominated for $10,000 New-Writers
Award
Barnes and
Noble has announced the five nominees for its
2000
Discover Great New Writers Award,
and two of them are Obies: Myla Goldberg '93 (for Bee
Season) and Tracy Chevalier '84 (for Girl with a
Pearl Earring). The $10,000 award will be announced
in March.
Tuesday:
Fussers
Is Online--Partly
The faculty and staff entries in Fussers, the nickname by
which Oberlin College employees know the College
directory, are now on line. The Fussers
online version
gives basic contact information for Oberlin College
faculty and staff members, including e-mail address,
campus mailing address, and office telephone number. The
Office of Human Resources will update directory
information monthly, says John Appley, assistant director
of college relations, web. "An online directory of
students' e-mail addresses is scheduled to appear in the
fall," Appley
says.
Tuesday:
Weekly
Sports Report
The tennis
teams played last week, as did the basketball and track
and field teams.
Wednesday:
Off-Campus
Calendar Launches
People can now
plan connections with Oberlin folks and events all over
the country and abroad by viewing the Oberlin Online
Off-Campus Events Calendar, which launched February
21.
Wednesday:
CWRU's
Voices of Diversity to Perform Scenes from I'm Not
Rappaport February 21
The Voices of Diversity from Case Western University
University (CWRU) will come to Oberlin to perform as part
of a multiyear initiative to nurture campus community and
improve dialogue about multicultural issues. 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.
Wednesday:
Works
by 2 Oberlin Composers to Be Featured by Cleveland
Composers Guild
Two Oberlin
composition professors are among the new members of the
Cleveland Composers Guild whose work will be showcased in
a free public concert of chamber music this Sunday,
February 25, in Morley Music Hall, on the campus of Lake
Erie College in Painesville, Ohio. The performance will
introduce many Cleveland-area listeners for the first
time to the works of Jeffrey Mumford and Anna Rubin,
assistant professors of composition.
Wednesday:
Former
Chinese Political Prisoner Yongyi Song to Give Talk Next
Week
Yongyi Song--an expert on China's Cultural Revolution and
former political prisoner--will give a free public
lecture, "Human Rights and Freedom in China," February
28, in King 306.
Thursday:
Talk
to Explore Body Images through Art
Stephan Jost,
curator of academic programs and exhibits, will give a
lecture and lead a discussion from in the Allen Memorial
Art Museum's Print Study Room next Thursday. In "Chasing
the Ideal: Body Images through Art" Jost will talk about
how the ideal body image has changed in western art
during the last 500 years. The event is part of the
campus
observance of Eating Disorders Awareness
Month.
Thursday:
Wendell
Logan to Be Interviewed on
WCPN
Wendell
Logan, professor of African-American music, will be
interviewed February 22 on the "Around Noon" program of
WCPN (90.3 FM), the Cleveland National Public Radio
affiliate. He is expected to talk about the Cleveland
performance of his Gullah Island Suite, which the Oberlin
Jazz Faculty Octet will perform in Rheinberger Chamber
Hall this Sunday, February 25.
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 in
Fisher Hall.
Thursday:
Kate
Sullivan to Bring Edith Piaf to Oberlin March
1
The French chanteuse Edith Piaf is virtually unknown to
today's younger generations, especially in America. But
her charisma and the singular drama and mystery of her
life and music are being reintroduced to audiences
nationwide by Boston actress and singer Kate Sullivan. On
March 1, Sullivan will bring her solo show--Edith Piaf:
The Little Sparrow--to Oberlin for an exclusive
appearance in the Hallock Auditorium of the Lewis
Center.
Thursday:
Choir
to Perform with Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall in
March
The Oberlin College Choir, a select ensemble of students
from the College of Arts and Sciences and the
Conservatory of Music, will perform Bach's Cantata No.
56, "Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen," with the
Cleveland Orchestra and bass-baritone soloist Thomas
Quasthoff at Severance Hall March 1, 2, and 3.
Friday:
Oberlin
Korean Students Conference Ends
Today
"Reunification:
Empowering the Korean Diaspora" is the theme of the third
biennial Oberlin Korean Students Association (OKSA)
conference, which will continue on the College campus
today. The OKSA
web site
has full particulars.
Friday:
Circus
Extravaganza Debuts Tonight in Hales
Gymnasium
Odditorium, an
independent and interdisciplinary circus extravaganza,
will be performed Friday, February 23, and Saturday,
February 24, at 8:00
P.M. and
10:30 P.M.
in Hales Gymnasium. Directed by Zack Hickman, a senior
from Lynchburg, Virginia, Odditorium is entertainment the
whole family can enjoy.
Friday:
Night
Fractal Opens Tonight in Warner Main
Space
Night
Fractal, a multidisciplinary exploration of our
universal connections, begins tonight at 8
P.M.
in Warner Main Space. Directed by senior Alexis McNab,
Night Fractal is an original script adapted from
creation texts and cosmological theory that will bring
the audience on a journey through space, time, and
consciousness.
Friday:
Student-Organized
Climate-Change Symposium Is
Tomorrow
Oberlin experts in environmental studies, economics, and
geology will examine global warming and its implications
in an interactive symposium on climate change Saturday,
February 24, beginning at 10:00
A.M.
in the Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental
Studies. The organizers--who were coordinated by Megan
Forney, a sophomore from Brunswick, Maine, and Paige
Wiegman '00, 2020 Project Coordinator for the
Environmental Studies Program--invite those interested in
specific issues to submit questions by e-mail before the
event.
Friday:
Transitions
Seven
people join the College staff, and six leave.
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