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Althea Lamel ’13
“I realized I had come a long way from the student who sat in that class three years earlier doubting herself. I had become the articulate college student who had intimidated me so much in my first...
On the emergence of political awareness
Ruth Adler Rosensweig ’68
“Before coming to Oberlin, I had never seen a demonstration or sit-in or even considered challenging government or college administration policy.”