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Music Matters

December 22, 2009

Marsha Lynn Bragg

With winter shutdown (aka winter break) soon upon us, the sounds of music have come to a standstill.

The nature of long music

December 7, 2009

Chris Gollmar

I'm not one of those folks who has some sort of otherworldly emotional or psychic connection to music, but there is something about especially long pieces of music that gets to me.

Giggin'

November 25, 2009

Will Mason

Performing in Cleveland as an Oberlin student.

The Next Best Thing

October 19, 2009

Marsha Lynn Bragg

One of the benefits of working at a college or university is having access to some of the best writers, scientists, academicians, researchers, musicians, artists, social reformers, environmentalists, and politicians of the day.

Essays and Sunshine Scouts

October 19, 2009

Joe Dawson

Setting: Science Center Atrium, Thursday, October 15, Midterm week. Joe begins typing his 5th page of a roughly 6-page paper...

Anything for Art

September 10, 2009

Alice Ollstein

Finally, after almost 20 hours of waiting, I had original paintings by Goya and Toulouse Lautrec in my hands.

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