Search Committee Announces Transition Team Formation
Johan Cavert
April 14, 2017
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The Presidential Search Committee created a transition team at the end of March to help ensure a smooth entry for the College’s next president and their staff. The team is composed of 20 representatives from the faculty, student body, Board of Trustees, staff and the alumni association. Manish Mehta, Chemis...
Off the Cuff: Teresa Bejan, Professor of Political Theory
Melissa Harris, News Editor
April 14, 2017
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Teresa Bejan is an Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Oriel College. Before teaching at Oxford, Bejan worked at the University of Toronto and was a Mellon Research Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Columbia University. Bejan’s research brings perspecti...
Security Report
April 14, 2017
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Thursday, April 6 11:15 a.m. Conservatory staff reported that posters advertising performances were torn down from various areas in the Conservatory. The incident is under investigation. 4:36 p.m. Safety and Security officers assisted an injured staff member at the Philips gym weight room. The individua...
College Takes on Millions in Additional Debt
Sydney Allen, Production editor
April 7, 2017
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The College received a $41-million loan last Thursday from the Ohio Higher Educational Facility Commission, a governmental group that issues revenue bonds to colleges and universities. A significant portion of this money will be used to pay for the Philips gym expansions, the renovation of Carr...
Faculty Seeks to Build on Partnership Program Model
Melissa Harris, News editor
April 7, 2017
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The Student-Faculty Partnership Program is looking to expand next semester. The program seeks to engage students and faculty members in a semester-long collaboration to improve teaching quality. As different groups at the College have recently grappled with questions of transparency and structures...
SPIDIE Issues Recommendations on School Diversity
Louis Krauss, News editor
April 7, 2017
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Looking to revamp the College’s policies on diversity requirements, the Strategic Plan Implementation Committee for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, or SPIDIE, will present its recommendations to general faculty for approval Wednesday. The hope is that administrators will begin discussing the recommend...
Alan Norton Named Interim Vice President of Finance
Johan Cavert
April 7, 2017
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With the departure of current Vice President of Finance and Administration Mike Frandsen set for July 1, the College announced last week that Dr. Alan Norton will fill the position as interim vice president until administrators select a permanent replacement. Norton has considerable experience working...
City Resists State’s Income-Tax Collection
Jenna Gyimesi
April 7, 2017
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City officials are staunchly resisting a recent proposal by Ohio Governor John Kasich that would give the state centralized control of each city’s business income tax. Local officials fear the program is a stepping-stone to state regulation of local matters, leading Oberlin City Council to pass a res...
Off the Cuff: Kevin Bruyneel, Babson College Professor of Politics
Melissa Harris, News editor
April 7, 2017
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Kevin Bruyneel is a politics professor at Babson College who currently studies the relationship between colonialism, race and collective memory. He recently published a book on these issues called The Third Space of Sovereignty. Bruyneel is currently researching the role of white settler memory in Ameri...
Security Report
April 7, 2017
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Thursday, March 30 1:16 a.m. A Safety and Security officer on a routine security check of Finney Chapel encountered four students inside the building. The students said that they didn’t think they should be in the building but found a door unlocked and entered. The students were identified and ask...
Administration Suspends Research Status
Melissa Harris, News Editor
March 31, 2017
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A budgetary move intended to save Oberlin money has indefinitely eliminated funding for the faculty Research Status program. Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Tim Elgren and Dean of the Conservatory Andrea Kalyn announced the suspension in an email to faculty March 15, a decision they say could...
Student Senate Selects Task-Force Representatives
Sydney Allen, Production Editor
March 31, 2017
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Student Senate chose junior student senators Thobeka Mnisi and Josh Koller to join a five-member taskforce to investigate the merits of adding a student representative to the Board of Trustees. The task force will also include three board members, currently unnamed, and could begin meeting as early as...