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Stories from the Week of February 26-March 4,
2001
Monday:
David
Dorfman Continues Semester of Emerging Artists/Visionary
Educators Events March 5
Cutting-edge visual artists, conductors, choreographers,
and performance groups will present works-in-progress at
the College during spring semester. Choreographer and
dancer David
Dorfman
performs March 5 in Wilder Main.
Monday:
Classical
Persian Music to Be Heard at Oberlin February
26
Amir Koushkani, an international artist known for his
musical and technical artistry on the tar and sitar, will
perform tonight in Kulas Recital Hall. Percussionist
Hamin Honari and vocalist Seemi Bushra Yasmeen
Ghazi--both trained in the classical Persian style--will
join Koushkani.
Monday:
Winter
Term 2001 Celebration
Students who
participated in the 2001 Winter Term program will share
their experiences with the College and community during
the Winter Term Celebration February 26 in Wilder Main.
Monday:
Charles
Beebe Martin Lectures Begin March 5
James J.
O'Donnell, Professor of Classical Studies and Vice
Provost for Information Systems and Computing at the
University of Pennsylvania, will present the Charles
Beebe Martin Classical Lectures 2000-2001, titled "The
Lives of Augustine," at Oberlin College beginning March
5.
Monday:
Faculty
and Staff Notes
The College and
Conservatory Faculty Council election results are
in.
Tuesday:
Working
with the Presidential Inaugural Committee on the
Celebrating America's Youth Concert
During her
second Winter Term, Lily Matini joined the Presidential
Inaugural Committee Advance Team, which put together one
of the inaugural events of the new presidency:
Celebrating America's Youth. The January 19 concert, at
the MCI Center in Washington, D.C., featured many
celebrities and took a lot of hard work, much of it
Matini's. It was also fun, says Matini.
Tuesday:
Times
Includes Oberlin Connection in Story about Celestial
Brown Dwarf
A New York
Times story of February 21, "Surprise
in the Heavens as Energy Is Detected in a Brown
Dwarf,"
mentions the involvement of a researcher at Oberlin
College in the discovery of "powerful, stormy radio
emissions" from objects that are neither planets nor
stars. The abstract
of the paper on the topic, "Discovery of Radio Emission
from the Brown Dwarf LP944-20" shows that the Oberlin
connection is Kate Becker, a senior from Huntington
Woods, Michigan, and an honors student of Dan Stinebring,
associate professor of physics.
Tuesday:
A
Matter of Taste Opens February 27 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.
The exhibition, curated by Sharon Patton, Cowles Director
of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, addresses westerners'
changing perceptions about objects from Africa, and how
those perceptions determined the character of the Allen's
collection. Programming for the exhibit includes
children's
workshops and a Community Day.
Tuesday:
Kate
Sullivan to Be on the Radio February 28, Sing at Oberlin
March 1
Boston
actress-singer Kate Sullivan will talk about her
portrayal of the legendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf on
the WCPN FM (90.3) Around Noon show
Wednesday,
February 28. Sullivan is reintroducing the legendary
singer to a new generation of American audiences in her
solo show Edith
Piaf: The Little Sparrow,
which she will present Thursday, March 1 on
campus.
Tuesday:
Weekly
Sports Report
The teams
competing last week were basketball, track and field, and
tennis.
Wednesday:
Kelsey
Cowger Wins Music Award
Kelsey Cowger,
a double-degree junior from Omaha majoring in musicology
and politics, has won the Lake Michigan Scholar Search,
sponsored by the Chicago Civic Orchestra, a training
orchestra affiliated with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
As part of her prize she will deliver a preconcert
lecture at Symphony Center May 20 before a Chicago Civic
Orchestra concert.
Wednesday:
Former
Chinese Political Prisoner Yongyi Song to Give Talk
February 28
Yongyi Song--an expert on China's Cultural Revolution and
former political prisoner-- will give a talk, "Human
Rights and Freedom in China," tonight.
Wednesday:
Discussion
of Dying to Be Thin: 8:00 February 28 at Women's
Resource Center
Laura
Hieronymus, Oberlin's health services director, will show
the Nova video Dying
to Be Thin
and lead a discussion afterwards tonight at the Women's
Resource Center. The program is part of Celebrating
EveryBODY,
the College's participation in Eating Disorders Awareness
Month.
Wednesday:
Student-Produced
Spanish-English Vo(i)ces Prints Its First
Issue
Coordinated by
Sebastiaan Faber, assistant professor of Spanish, 15
Oberlin students and staff members put together the first
issue of Vo(i)ces over Winter Term. Diana
Guillermo, a senior from Salinas, California, is the
editor-in-chief, and Ian Bergman, a sophomore from
Vashon, Washington, is the coeditor. Groundwork for the
bilingual newspaper began over fall break with
McGregor-Oresman
scholars.
A thousand copies have been distributed on campus (Mudd,
Peters, and Wilder) and in Lorain County. The group plans
to produce a second issue before spring break.
Wednesday:
Free
Seminar to Focus on 16th-Century Flemish and Dutch
Painting and Prints
Larry Silver,
one of the country's leading experts in art history, will
give a seminar at Oberlin College March 7-16--free and
open to the public. Titled The Rise of Pictorial Genres,
the program will include six afternoon classes and two
related evening lectures.
Wednesday:
New
York Times Runs Feature Story on Novelist and Oberlin
Alum Alan Furst
The February 26 edition of the New York Times ran
a feature story in the "Arts" section, "Alan
Furst: A Spinner of Spy Novels Whose Heroes Still Fight
the Nazis,"
that includes links to the paper's February 4 review of
the latest historical spy novel by Alan Furst '62 as well
as an excerpt from it. The book is Kingdom of
Shadows.
Thursday:
Student
Spends First Winter Term on the
Beach
Sarah Dolecki, a first-year student from Martinsburg,
West Virginia, spent this past Winter Term creating a
photojournal of her encounters along Venice Beach, in
Venice, California. An excerpt from the journal is posted
on the Oberlin Online Students
web site.
Thursday:
Bell
Hooks Returns March 2 to Talk about Her Latest
Book
Writer bell hooks--professor of women's studies at
Oberlin from 1988 through 1994--returns to campus to talk
about her latest book, Salvation:
Black People and Love.
The free public event will take place in the Afrikan
Heritage House lounge. In Salvation, hooks--a
poet, educator, and social and cultural critic who has
published more than 20 books--addresses whether
institutionalized and historic racism have made it
difficult for black people to give and receive love. A
book signing will follow the discussion.
Thursday:
Showing
of Warrior Marks to Introduce Women's History
Month at Oberlin
The Women's Studies Program is sponsoring or promoting
six
events
in March to celebrate Women's History Month. The first
event is a showing of Warrior
Marks,
a documentary by Alice Walker about female genital
mutilation. The film will be shown March 8 in the Oberlin
Public Library Community Room.
Thursday:
Green
Chemist to Speak March 7
Carnegie Mellon chemistry professor Terry Collins, a
specialist in inorganic and green (also called
sustainable) chemistry, will speak at Oberlin College
March 7. The free public lecture, "Sustaining a High
Technology Civilization," will take place in Kettering
Hall, Room 9. Collins's lecture will explore how green
chemistry is addressing the maintenance of societies that
are increasingly dependent on technology.
Thursday:
Minister
and Wife to Talk on Homosexuality, Social Justice March
8
"Social Justice
in the Bush Era" is the title of a community address that
cleric and activist Tony Campolo will give March 8 in
Finney Chapel. That same afternoon, Campolo and his wife,
Peggy Campolo, will present opposing views in "Dialogue
about Homosexuality and the Christian Faith."
Friday:
Next
Weekend's Senior Dance Concert Examines Nature of Contact
between Self and Other
Still BurniNg--a dance piece in nine parts--is the
project of Jason Corff, a senior from Stow,
Massachusetts. Corff and a company of 12 performers will
examine how the relationship between self and other can
be negotiated. The work incorporates music and
art-installation pieces. Still Burning runs Friday
and Saturday, March 9 and 10, in Warner Center Main
Space.
Friday:
Middle-East
Expert Rashid Khalidi to Speak a March
9
"The Question of Jerusalem: Aspects of a Solution" is the
title of a free public talk that Middle-East expert
Rashid Khalidi will give March 9 in the Atrium of the
Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies. A
related
film series
starts Monday, March 5. The president of the American
Committee on Jerusalem, Khalidi is a professor of
Middle-East history and director of international studies
at the University of Chicago. He is the author of
Palestinian
Identity: The Construction of National
Consciousness.
Friday:
Forum
on Teaching Careers for English Majors to Be Held March
9
The English
department is sponsoring an information session to
explore careers in teaching March 9 Wilder 112. Forum
speakers for The Exaltation and the Exhaustion include
Rebecca Cross '83, a teacher at Langston Middle School in
Oberlin; Linda Lipkin '84, a teacher at Cambridge Rindge
and Latin School in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Amit
Prakash '98, a teacher at Capital Hill Day School in
Washington, D.C. The alums will answer questions after
the session during an informal 6:30 dinner in Stevenson
Dining Hall
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