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Members of the Oberlin Community Benefits Coalition meet in the Oberlin Public Library to discuss the next steps for their organization. OCBC hopes to create more jobs and further community interests by forming Community Benefit Agreements with new development projects in town.

Community Coalition Aims to Work with Developers

Elizabeth Dobbins, News Editor • October 3, 2014

The Oberlin Community Benefits Coalition, founded in March of 2014 in response to the Oberlin school district’s K–12 campus proposal, is now looking to organize and expand its mission. OCBC is an organization...

Lt. Mike McCloskey poses with one of the Oberlin Police Department’s new body cameras. McCloskey said he hopes the camera will pre-emptively improve the officer’s relationship with the public and decrease the number of public complaints.

OPD to Begin Using Body-Worn Cameras

Madeline Stocker, News Editor • October 3, 2014

The Oberlin Police Department is preparing to add body-worn cameras to their arsenal of technology this week in an attempt to increase both officer accountability and public trust between officers and...

A group of actors congregate in a round robin for an informal, spontaneous performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. College sophomores Jay Shapiro and Chris Puglisi organized the experimental outdoor reading that took place Saturday.

Students Organize Informal Shakespeare Performance

Maggie Bussard • October 3, 2014

An exciting experiment in directing and acting occurred on Saturday when students met in Wilder Bowl for an open reading of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. College sophomores Jay Shapiro and...

Junior Ellie Huizenga dribbles past a Wittenberg defender in a 2–1 double-overtime victory last Saturday. The Yeowomen have won eight consecutive games.

Women’s Soccer Wins Double-Overtime Thriller

Bri DiMonda • October 3, 2014

The women’s soccer team won its seventh consecutive game this past Tuesday, pushing its record to 7–3 and leaving the team with its greatest number of wins in any season since 2002. The win, a 1–0...

Students listen to alumni panelists discuss the undergraduate research they conducted at Oberlin. The panel was part of the Celebration for Undergraduate Research, which honored research by natural and social science students.

Oberlin Honors Undergraduate Research

Laura Paddock • September 26, 2014

This year’s annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research displayed student research findings from both the natural and social sciences and provided a platform for interdisciplinary discussions. The celebration...

Double-degree saxophonist Nathan Rice performs a solo during Tuesday’s Celebrating John Coltrane Concert. A group of jazz musicians represented Coltrane’s diverse repertoire with dynamic interpretations of his music.

Coltrane’s Life Work Honored in Student Concert

Vida Weisblum, Arts Editor • September 26, 2014

Late jazz legend John Coltrane would have been proud Tuesday evening when a collective of Jazz majors assembled at the Cat in the Cream to pay tribute to the saxophonist with a celebratory performance...

BiLi the Mime performs the ubiquitous “wall trick” for a small group of students. As a guest of the Theater department, BiLi followed his Friday performance with a master class on the fundamentals of miming the following day.

OSTA, OCircus Present First Mime Workshops

Liam McLean, Staff Writer • September 26, 2014

For the first time in Oberlin’s history, students are introducing the art of mime as a branch of the Theater department. Last Friday, Sept. 19, the artist BiLi the Mime lectured and performed at Hales...

First-year Hannah Cook controls the ball in a game this season. Cook was named NCAC Player of the Week for her efforts last week and currently leads the team with four goals.

Women’s Soccer Begins Conference Play on High Note

Sloane Garelick • September 26, 2014

The Oberlin women’s soccer team has been on a roll lately, winning its past five games, including a 1–0 victory over the Muskingum University Fighting Muskies on Wednesday. Last Thursday, the Yeowomen...

Cleveland resident Don Bryant speaks against Israeli occupation at a demonstration on Wednesday. SFP planted black flags in Wilder Bowl to call attention to the lives lost in Operation Protective Edge.

SFP Plants Flags in ‘Call to Action’

Elizabeth Dobbins, News Editor • September 26, 2014

Students for a Free Palestine installed 2,133 black flags in Wilder Bowl this Wednesday in a call to action against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. The flags represent the approximately...

College seniors Kate Hanick, Seth Flatt, Aubrey Pongluelert and Nick Olson and College sophomore Simeon Deutsch stand in line moments before Art Rental officially begins. Throngs of students camped out at the Allen Memorial Art Museum Friday night to ensure they got their top picks.

Honor Code Aids Resolution of Art Rental Debacle

Louise Edwards, Staff Writer • September 19, 2014

Art Rental occurs every semester, but last Friday night — the night before Art Rental — students and staff witnessed a spectacle that made the experience memorable. The evening began innocuously enough....

SZA’s laid-back vibe and confident stage presence satisfied concert-goers. Her show sold out well before she took the ’Sco stage last Friday night to perform hits from her Liam McLean Staff Writer Bryan Eubanks, despite what some lis- teners may assume, does not aim to trans- gress. His intention is not to push boundar- ies. Instead, he describes his development as an electronic artist as an organic evolu- tion from his original work with acoustic instruments — primarily the soprano sax- ophone — to his current style, an elusive concoction of trance-like electronics, inte- grated acoustic sounds and ambient noise. Beginning at 8 p.m., Fairchild Chapel’s resonant dome became an echo chamber for a zealous hubbub of around 30 stu- dents. Two tables supported an eclectic ar- ray of electronic instruments. The front ta- ble was reserved for Eubanks and boasted an open-feedback synthesizer, a computer for samples and a transducer, a device that channels frequency through a metal plate to produce sound. The rear table was set up for William Johnson, a double-degree sophomore pursuing majors in Studio Art and TIMARA, who opened the eve- ning with a performance using a modular synthesizer. Johnson began with an improvisational performance involving synthesized drones and wails. The more unsettling elements induced visible wincing and ear-plugging among the crowd. His work seemed to capitalize more on sonic “shock value” than anything; the music lacked build, and the hellish din that exploded in the middle of the piece was gratuitous. The perfor- mance’s saving grace was a single descend- ing riff, the only melodic portion of the per- formance — and a surprisingly infectious one at that — which added a sense of cohe- sion to the chaos. Following a brief intermission in the whiplashed aftermath of Johnson’s perfor- mance, Eubanks took the stage, command- ed the attention of the audibly excited crowd with an unassuming, “Hey,” and pro- ceeded to fill the room with his uniquely organic sound. He performed his recent composition “Object,” a solo work that the Berlin-based artist developed on a February visit to the Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm. Ac- cording to Eubanks, the piece evolved from a number of fragments he recorded during this visit. “Object,” like most of his works, is continually explored and rediscovered through performance and improvisation, and has yet to be finalized. The artist, by his own admission, is also apt to explore sonic extremes, but his ex- ploration, particularly in Monday’s perfor- mance of “Object,” was sparse, deliberate and meaningful. Rather than bombarding the resonant room with an urgent cacophony, Eubanks let his music live and breathe in the space. The first sound was a sustained tone which he channeled through a small microphone. The tone’s emergence was so unobtrusive that it was difficult to pinpoint the exact moment of its materialization. Eubanks joined this raw undercurrent with the clap of two wooden sticks, a percussive inter- jection that recurred throughout the piece and served as the only deliberate acoustic sound that occupied the space during the improvised performance. The organic na- ture of “Object” made Eubanks’s simulated soundscape receptive to outside noises. The clicking of a pen, the rustling of a page, a passing car horn and a distant coughing fit seamlessly integrated into the chapel’s sonic centerpiece. Grounded by the tone that opened the piece, the composition evolved over the course of the performance into a cohe- sive collective of sounds: a noisy, jarring sample that became a recurring motif, an unsettling ringing from the transducer and the occasional murmur of white noise. As the music progressed, its sounds became decidedly more organized with a better- defined rhythmic pulse. The highlight of the concert was the deft interplay between Eubanks’ acoustic percussion of the clap- ping sticks, a sample of rhythmic beeps and a subdued bassline that merged to achieve an unexpected groove. Eubanks takes “shoegazing” to a whole new level; he remained fully fixated on his feet for the duration of the concert. While the resulting emotional disengagement might seem to be a limitation of a live per- formance, Eubanks, surprisingly, could not have presented a more charismatic stage presence. His lack of onstage flair seems intentional: the sound, not the artist, was the predominant force at Monday’s per- formance. While it may not appeal to the majority of concertgoers, Eubanks’ music is a sage and salient voice to the niche he’s created for himself, regardless of how unas- suming his persona may be. latest EP, Z.

SZA Delivers Vibrant, Playful Performance

Sam Winward • September 19, 2014

A $15 ticket can be tough to justify on a college budget, but at 10 p.m. last Friday, 20 minutes before the ’Sco doors were set to open, tickets to see the altR&B and neo-jazz singer SZA had already...

A view of the new Austin E. Knowlton Athletics Complex. The complex will host a multitude of Homecoming activities this weekend.

New Complex Drives Athletics Overhaul

Sarena Malsin, Staff Writer • September 19, 2014

The football team will play its first-ever game under the lights in the new Austin E. Knowlton Athletics Complex against The College of Wooster Fighting Scots on Saturday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. Not only will...

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