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NEWS

Dye pay exceeds $400,000
By Josh Keating, Douglass Dowty and Ben Newhouse
Responding to claims in The New York Times this week that President Nancy Dye is the third-highest paid liberal arts college president, the Chairman of the Oberlin Board of Trustees said that he "didn't really care" what the media thought of Oberlin.

OC Fund nearing end goal
By Ben Newhouse
After confirming an anonymous gift of $2.5 million to the Oberlin endowment last week, the New Oberlin Century Campaign's fundraising surpassed the $161 million mark, making it just $4 million shy of its $165 million goal.

Also in news:
• Hard times persist for Oberlin schools
• Con reaches out to local youth
• Fighters for Alaska
• Oberlin attacked from right
• Kwanzaa festival kicks off this week
• OSCA Members to receive record year-end refund
• Off the Cuff: Ann Sorich
• Security Notebook
• Community Events Calendar
• News Briefs

SPORTS

Yeomen swimmers open season with two wins
By Ian Mark
The Oberlin College swimming and diving teams will look to make waves this year in a conference that has been consistently dominated by two teams over the past several seasons.

Battling Bishops stop Yeomen, 24-7
By Mary Annaise Heglar
The Oberlin College football team tumbled from their lone perch of second place in the NCAC to a four-way tie for the runner-up spot last weekend after a loss to Ohio Wesleyan University.

Also in sports:
• Yeomen poised to improve
• Equestrians finish fall season
• Undefeated Chiefs keep on rolling
• Club Corner: Rugby team upsets Purdue
• In the Locker Room with Jamie Schupach, athletic trainer
• NCAC Roundup

ARTS

Hansel's gingerbread home for the holidays
By Sara Ris
A seasoned opera singer once told me that she was most successful when she thought of her audience as children. Familiar, aesthetically pleasing, and constantly in motion, Hansel und Gretel is the perfect opera for this mindset.

Faulkner lives onstage
By Eric Klopfer
Alternately radiating with youthful exuberance and crackling with brutal intensity, "Quentin," a one-act theatrical adaptation of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, opened last night in Wilder Main.

Also in arts:
• Trio of performers rocks for RAINN benefit
• CME: Technical Wizardry
• Nine absurd lives, live at the Cat in the Cream
• In the Garage: Gretel dishes out interesting morsels
• Arts Preview: Tarantino, enough already
• Pop Culture Digest: Tenacious DVD: The D's antics compiled at last!
• Arts Calendar

COMMENTARY

• Charles Hall's will for Oberlin
• Education for sexual issues
• RAs worry over ResLife training in coming year
• Senate protects forest lands
• Cooking for Gertrude Stein
• Petition for Islamic Studies not just an Arab cause
• Test your eco-knowledge
• Bell ringers needed
• Bill Long grant applications
• Country rope course with a swing
• Perspectives: What are your favorite and least favorite dining halls and why?
• Editorial: Gay registry a good start
• Corrections