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Stories from
the Week of September 3-9, 2001
Monday: Law
Expert Opened Convocation Series September 4
Constitutional law
expert Stephen Carter opened Oberlin College 's annual Convocation series
Tuesday, September 4 at 8 P.M. in Finney Chapel.
Carter, who has helped shape the national debate on issues ranging from
the role of religion in politics and culture to the role of integrity
and civility in daily life, was named by Time magazine as one
of 50 leaders for the new millennium. His address, "Reflections on the
Public Square," will mark the opening of Oberlin's 169th academic year.
Monday: Faculty
and Staff Notes
Warren
Darcy presents; Dan Chaon's new book garners national reviews.
Tuesday:
Hiroshima-Nagasaki
A-Bomb Exhibition Comes to Oberlin Tomorrow
Oberlin College and
the cities of Oberlin, Hiroshima and Nagasaki are sponsoring an exhibition
of photographs, drawings and artifacts from the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki at the Firelands Association of the Visual Arts (FAVA)
Gallery. The exhibition will open September 9, with a reception from
3 to 5 P.M., and will run through September 22.
"We're very fortunate to host this exhibit, since these artifacts rarely
travel outside Japan," says Diana Roose, assistant to Oberlin President
Nancy S. Dye. "Oberlin is the only site in the US for the exhibit in
this first year of the new millennium."
Wednesday:
First-Years
POP in Early
Two weeks ago,
128 fledgling Obies descended on the campus to participate in the College's
Pre-Orientation Program (POP). This outdoor orientation program, for
first-year and transfer students, was designed to relieve the anxiety
many students feel at the start of their college careers by introducing
them to other like-minded people before classes start.
Wednesday:
Two
Exhibitions Open at the AMAM
Two
new exhibitions have opened at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Chinese
Art: Culture and
Context and Collecting
the Vanguard: Art from 1900-1970. The exhibitions, which feature
works from the Allen's permanent collection, will be on display in the
Sculpture Court and the Stern Gallery through August 2002.
Thursday: Mother
Jones Names Oberlin One of Top 10 Activist Schools
Mother
Jones has named Oberlin one of the "top 10 activist schools
of 2001." According to the September/October issue of the independent,
nonprofit magazine, student participation in last November's protest
of The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (formerly
known as the U.S. Army School of the Americas) in Fort Benning, Georgia,
earned Oberlin its spot in the rankings. The poll also praised the history
of student activism in America, citing last year's flawed presidential
election, race relations on college campuses and poverty wages for university
employees as factors responsible for raising student ire across the
nation.
Friday:
Norman
C. Care: 1937-2001
Norman
S. Care, emeritus professor of philosophy, passed away Tuesday, September
4. He was 63.
A member of the Oberlin College faculty since 1965, Care also was a
member of the Professional Advisory Committee of the Center for Biomedical
Ethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and
was an invited participant in the First Global Future Generations Kyoto
Forum in 1994. The Care family has established the Norman Care Memorial
Fund for Mentoring Oberlin Students. Gifts may be made to the fund through
the Oberlin College Office of Development and Alumni Affairs, 50 W.
Lorain St., Oberlin, Ohio 44074.
Friday: Oberlin
College Hosts Journalism Conference September 15 and 16
Oberlin College will
host the campus's first journalism conference Saturday, September 15
and Sunday, September 16. The conference will feature speakers from
local and national publications, and workshops to help individuals prepare
for a career in journalism.
Friday: Bookmobile
Rolls into Town
The Mobilivre-Bookmobile project, a 1959 Airstream Overlander filled
with artist books, zines and independent publications, will roll into
Oberlin Monday, September 10. Coordinated in part by two Oberlin graduates--Ginger
Brooks Takahashi '99 and Fereshteh Toosi '98--the bookmobile project
was started to create a network for artistic communities and to bring
examples of independent media to people who might not otherwise have
access to the alternative publications.
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