To the Editors: As a high school teacher, I’m constantly regaling students with the wonders of Oberlin and encouraging them to apply. Posters and pennants fly from my classroom windows, and the new viewbook sits prominently on my front table. Students grow tired of these entreaties, and when I begin a sentence with “Back at Oberlin,” many eyes roll reflexively back into sockets, as teenage eyes are sometimes wont to do. So when a group of high school seniors accompanied me to the Radiolab event this past Friday, I panicked that perhaps I’d let nostalgia oversell my Oberlin experience to them. What if our journey to this promised world revealed my memories as completely fraudulent? Walking into an electrified,...

I understand that your first passion was music. As a former Conservatory student, could you tell me a bit about how you first got involved with acting? I was planning my winter term [as a sophomore], and I had a friend over at Johns Hopkins University. They had a famous playwright in residency during that period named Edward Albee. He wrote Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Zoo Story; he’s one of the greatest American playwrights of this whole century, I think. So I kind of snuck my way into Johns Hopkins. I wasn’t really supposed to partake in the program. But I went to Baltimore anyway, and got to meet Edward Albee and do some scenes. Really, just being in the same room with this playwright as he tau...

I’ve been an ObieGame player three years running, and I still don’t know how to answer the question, “What is ObieGame?” How do you respond to that question? The way that I’ve described it most frequently over the years is that it’s a treasure hunt with a plot. And secondarily, I think I’ve described it as an interactive story. Do those do full justice to it? I don’t know. … Technically it fits into a genre of activity called “alternate reality games.” But that’s sort of an amorphous term and one that’s in some ways fallen out of vogue. I would say that treasure hunt with a plot fits best, especially because it’s geographically and population-focused. How did ObieGame get its start? ...

Anyone who has taken a 20th-century Art History class at Oberlin will recognize Giorgio de Chirico’s 1915 painting “La Solitudine,” in which a classical reclining sculpture is pictured sitting in a piazza while a train races along the background horizon, reminding the viewer of time’s endless march forward. With incongruous shadows shooting off in every direction and a nausea-inducing tilted perspective, Corin Hewitt, OC ’93, deemed the work “psychologically trying” in his April 12 Artists on Artists talk, “Giorgio de Chirico’s Metaphysical Interiors.” Brought back to the Allen Memorial Art Museum by members of the student-run Exhibition Initiative, Hewitt — a true Oberlin grad at heart — began...