Capoeira Captivates Students
Victoria Garber, Arts Editor
February 3, 2017
Filed under ARTS, Dance, Features, Recent Stories
Student Composers Premiere Accessible, Enjoyable Electroacoustic Music
Daniel Markus, Arts Editor
February 3, 2017
Filed under ARTS, Features, Music
With the lights off and many audience members’ eyes closed, the speakers in the David H. Stull Recital Hall growled to life, unleashing a fizzing array of overlapping synth sounds. The various beeps and hums that followed comprised College first-year Fox Milenski’s “The Floor Shatters Beneath Me,â€...
Musicians Perform Winter Tours
Samantha Spaccasi, Staff Writer
February 3, 2017
Filed under ARTS, Features, Music
Many Oberlin students spend Winter Term taking classes, interning at a nonprofit or learning a new instrument. But for student musicians, January presents the perfect opportunity to go on a short tour, as several student bands did this year. College seniors Emma Blackman and Rob Jamner are members...
Alumna Welcomes Students Back
Thelma Morris, OC ’54
February 3, 2017
Filed under Letters to the Editors, OPINIONS
To the Editors: Winter Term has just ended. Oberlin was quiet, with few students on campus involved in research with faculty, bookmaking, writing, theater work and practicing an instrument. Many of you were engaged throughout the world in diverse projects. Many of you went home to think, reconne...
Self-Insight Can Be Gained from Solitude
CJ Blair, Columnist
February 5, 2016
Washington, D.C., is a metropolis of history, politics and tourism that has become one of the most popular residences of Oberlin alumni. Yet despite the draw that D.C. exerts on Obies, I felt out of place when I spent my Winter Term there studying invasive plants. While I left my internship with a wea...
Performance Art Grapples with Girlhood, Grieving
Louise Edwards, Arts Editor
February 5, 2016
Filed under ARTS, Features, Recent Stories, Theater & Film
For her final performance in the Winter Term Performance Art & Technology class, College sophomore Elizabeth Grooms filmed herself with Periscope, an app that allows users to livestream anything and viewers to leave comments on the video. She performed her installation alongside classmates at Storage...
Winter Term Committee Must Revise Grant Policy
December 11, 2015
Filed under Editorials, OPINIONS
With the end of the semester fast approaching, many students are organizing housing and transportation funds for Winter Term. While some students can afford to front the costs of living and dining for the month of January, many require funding or scholarships to supplement projects that do not receive pa...
Winter Term Creates Air of Detachment
Margo Josephson, Contributing Writer
March 6, 2015
Filed under Commentary, OPINIONS
Oberlin fluctuates between a place of safety and an isolated hub of culture trapped in the Midwest. I return to campus each semester with a different mindset. Sometimes I crave the seclusion of the College and its fierce social justice spirit. Other times I panic at the thought of being in the hinterlands,...
Winter Term Contextualizes Social Justice Concepts
Erin Ulrich, Contributing Writer
February 20, 2015
Filed under Commentary, OPINIONS
I think it goes without saying that Oberlin is a stimulating place; the social rigor parallels that of the academic, resulting in an inevitably challenging yet invigorating environment. However, what I find more often than not (as I know many other people do) is how isolating the Oberlin bubble can be...
Students Challenge American Perceptions of Cuba
Elizabeth Dobbins, News Editor
February 20, 2015
Filed under Campus News, NEWS, Recent Stories
Many Americans think of images of rum, and beaches when they think of Cuba, but there is more to the story, according to Professor of Hispanic Studies Ana Cara. Cara and the eight students who traveled with her to Cuba over Winter Term hope to challenge common American perceptions of Cuba during “Imagining...
Just Ask Us: Winter Term is Orientation 2.0
February 13, 2015
Since Oberlin’s inception in 1833, it has oft been discussed what the best time to be at Oberlin is. Here at Just Ask Us and We’ll Tell Ya, we’ve been doing the cutting-edge research so you don’t have to (you’re welcome, reader). We dove headfirst into the extensive (and public) Oberlin Re...
Yeomen, Yeowomen Gear Up for NCAC Meet
February 6, 2015
Filed under SPORTS, Swimming and Diving, Varsity Winter
With the NCAC championships around the corner, the swimming and diving team has kicked off its preparation for the conference competition. The Yeowomen will look to extend the success they saw in January, while the Yeomen seek to improve their conference standing from last season. The Yeowomen finishe...
