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Stories from the Week of January 8-14, 2001
Monday:
Oberlin
College Is on Winter
Term
Winter
Term--most of January--allows students to pursue academic
interests outside Oberlin's regular course offerings and
complete individual or group projects of their choice.
Oberlin Online will carry news about this year's Winter
Term projects as it learns about them.
Monday:
African
Artist May Take Up International Studies As Oberlin
Student
Oumarou
Hamadou, a native of Cameroon, Central Africa, and a
first-year student at Oberlin, sells his traditional
African bowls, goblets, and trays--made with western
techniques--at Uncommon Objects, an art gallery in
Oberlin.
Monday:
Willard
Quine '30, Influential Philosopher
Alumnus
Willard Quine, whom the New York Times calls "one
of the most influential philosophers of the 20th
century," died December 25 in Boston at age 92.
Obituaries for Quine appeared in the
New
York Times
(which mentions Quine's Oberlin honors thesis),
Washington
Post,
Boston Globe, and other news media.
Tuesday:
How
to Write a Book: Mickey Pearlman to Give Instructions at
Oberlin Public Library January
16
"The Evolution of a Book from A to Z: How to Get
Published and What to do When" is the title of a talk
that author Mickey Pearlman will deliver
Tuesday,
January 16, at the Oberlin Public Library.
Tuesday:
Today's
Gallery Talk to Focus on Medieval
Art
This month's Tuesday Tea at the Allen Memorial Art
Museum will feature a gallery talk by Sara Hallberg,
curator of education, on objects
in the newly reinstalled medieval case in the museum's
East Gallery.
Tuesday:
Tonight:
D.C. Alumni Association Panel Discussion on State of the
Nation
Oberlin's
Washington, D.C., Regional Alumni Association and the
Career Services Advisory Committee will hold a reception
and panel discussion at the Dirksen Senate Office
Building tonight as six alumni panelists tackle the
topic: "The State of Our Nation: Oberlin
Perspectives."
Tuesday:
Weekly
Sports Report
The men's and women's basketball teams played last
week.
Wednesday:
Sungmin
Yoo: Violinist, Concerto Competition
Winner
"Music is the primary thing," says violinist Sungmin Yoo,
a senior from Seoul, South Korea. " It's who I am, it's
what I do." Yoo recently played the Sibelius Violin
Concerto with the Oberlin Orchestra. Her love of music
has determined the course of her life, and forced her to
make difficult decisions.
Thursday:
9
Receive McGregor Research and Teaching-Assistantship
Grants
Nine members of the College Faculty received grants from
the College's McGregor Fund in December. The grants are
similar to those offered through the McGregor-Oresman
Fund in the past. They enable faculty to hire students to
help on research projects or undertake teaching
assistantships during spring semester.
Thursday:
Scott
Sheppard '98 Leads Astronomers to Find 11 More Jupiter
Moons
Alumnus
Scott Sheppard, a graduate student in astronomy at the
University of Hawaii, is the lead investigator for the
just-released discovery of 11 more moons around Jupiter,
bringing the total of known moons to 28. At Oberlin
Sheppard was an honors student in physics. The story is
being carried on CNN.com,
astronomy.com,
and other news sources. A press
release
is on line.
Friday:
Earning
Their Keep
The Oberlin
Student Cooperative Association
celebrates the 50th anniversary of campus cooperatives
this year. Among OSCA's buildings, Keep has been a
cooperative the longest, gaining that status in 1965.
(Tank
Hall
became the first coop in 1963, notes Robert Haslun,
secretary of the College.) The homelike dormitory,
designed by Chicago architect Normand Patton to house 50
women and board an additional 30 men, was built in 1912.
The story is from the winter issue of the Oberlin
Alumni Magazine, now on line.
Friday:
Film
Critic Gregory Taylor to Speak Tuesday, January
16
True, it is
winter term, but expect any film buffs remaining on
campus to come in out of the cold next Tuesday for a talk
on film and criticism to be presented at 4:30 in Rice
Faculty Lounge. The speaker--Gregory Taylor --is director
of the film-studies program at SUNY Purchase. He is also
a candidate for the College's position in film studies
that will be left vacant when Daniel Goulding, professor
of film studies and theater arts, retires at the end of
the school year. Taylor is the author of Artists
in the Audience: Cults, Camp, and American Film
Criticism (Princeton
University Press).
Friday:
Today's
Times Carries Interview with Jazz Writer
Geoffrey Ward '62
The
January 12 issue of the New York Times has an
interview--"'Jazz'
Writer Swings Passion into His
Work"--with
alumnus Geoffrey Ward, whose latest collaboration with
filmmaker Ken Burns, Jazz,
is currently airing on PBS television stations
nationwide. On Tuesday, cnn.com ran its own profile of
Ward, "'Jazz'
Writer Brings Life Passion to Viewers,
Readers."
Friday:Transitions
Four College employees have new job titles.
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