Emily Barton and Thomas Israel Hopkins, Oberlin’s Newest Creative Writing Faculty
Kate Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor
September 21, 2018
Filed under ARTS, Literature & Poetry, On the Record
Professors Emily Barton and Tom Hopkins are the two newest faculty members of Oberlin’s Creative Writing department. Barton is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing — one of the two recently hired tenure-track faculty, the other of whom is Chanda Feldman, who was hired as a visiting as...
Students Bare Innermost Thoughts During Diary Reading Open Mic Night
Text by Kate Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor
September 21, 2018
Filed under ARTS, Literature & Poetry
Brave students recited their diary entries aloud to the audience of the Cat in the Cream at the Diary Reading Open Mic last Friday night. The excerpts could be from any time period in their life. Some entries were funny, others emotional; still others were deeply poetic or revealing. Each one was a window...
New Eric Baker Nord Performing Arts Annex Offers Top-of-the-Line Performing Spaces, Needed Facilities
Katie Lucey, Arts & Culture Editor
September 14, 2018
Filed under ARTS, Theater & Film
Hall Auditorium is getting an upgrade that will revolutionize the future of theater at Oberlin. A semester after the acclaimed success of Angels in America, the epic two-part performance that received high praise across campus last spring, the renovations and expansions of the Eric Baker Nord Perfor...
Ari Lennox Delivers Powerful Performance
Carson Dowhan
September 14, 2018
The line to enter the Cat in the Cream wrapped around the hallways of Hales Annex before R&B artist Ari Lennox’s show Saturday, Sept. 8. “Over 100 people were in line by 7:30,” manager and College senior Hanne Williams-Baron said. “At 330 people, we reached full capacity.” The sold...
Concert Commemorates Anniversary of World War I’s End Through Music
Heather Do
September 14, 2018
Although the first World War ended 100 years ago, a lot of emotions still permeate our collective memory of the monumental conflict. These emotions were channeled through music when Oberlin Conservatory hosted the two-day public event “Creative Arts and Music in the Shadow of War: Commemorating the...
“FRONT International” Brings Site-Specific Art Exhibitions to Oberlin
Priya Banerjee
September 14, 2018
Filed under ARTS, Visual Art
FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art presented its first group of internationally acclaimed artists and their equally diverse art earlier this summer. From July 14 to Sept. 30, over 100 chosen artists will display their works at selected locations around Cleveland. Exhibition venues...
Adriana Vergara, Musician and Activist
Jane Wickline
September 14, 2018
Incarcerated people launched a widespread strike Aug. 21, protesting the dismally low wages they are regularly paid for their labor. The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, codified the prohibition of enslavement and involuntary servitude — with one key exception being incarcerated pe...
Oslam Open Mic Highlights Talent of New Poets
Kate Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor
September 14, 2018
Filed under ARTS, Literature & Poetry
Each time a poet took to the stage and announced their name and pronouns followed by “I’m a first-year,” the audience erupted into a chorus of snapping and cheering. This was “Back 2 School Open Mic,” hosted by OSlam, Oberlin’s poetry collective. The event, which occurred last Friday at the...
Video Highlights Womyn of Color on Campus
Levi Dayan
September 7, 2018
Filed under ARTS, Dance, Recent Stories, Theater & Film
Much of Oberlin student activism centers on promoting racial equality. However, no matter how much effort is put into making the school a more inclusive space, many students struggle in navigating certain aspects of Oberlin simply because they are Black at a predominantly white institution. Kiéla...
Imperfect and That’s OK: Deem Spencer Brings Introspective Rap to Oberlin for Orientation
Gabriella Spielberg
September 7, 2018
Deem Spencer put on an entertaining show at the ’Sco Saturday night, with his jerky and frenetic dancing and many bottle-flip attempts. His work is introspective and powerful, and his music high quality; however, his performance fell a little short. The show got off on an awkward foot — when it...
Hannah Sandoz
Claire Wang, Staff Cartoonist