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Local News Bulletin News briefs from the past week Strategic Planning Steering Committee Takes Steps Toward Transparency The Oberlin Strategic Planning Steering Committee now has an updated website that will provide a list of speaker events in addition to information about previous strategic plans and the current climate of higher education.

Student members of the committee are holding a listening session Tuesday, Sept. 30 and Wednesday, Oct. 1. The student members, double-degree senior Sophie Davis, College sophomore Ryan Dearon and College junior Machmud Makhmudov, will answer questions and field conversation topics regarding the strategic plan. The Committee is an organization tasked with creating economic and developmental recommendations for the future of Oberlin College and Conservatory.

185-Year-Old Fortepiano Finds Home in Conservatory Oberlin acquired its first performance levelcondition fortepiano this summer. The 185-yearold piano belonged to an 19th-century Italian noble family who barely used it for 170 years. In 2012, the piano was sold to Marcella Calabi, who restored the piano but struggled to find a home for the instrument.

When Oberlin acquired the instrument from Calabi this summer, Oberlin historical piano technician Robert Murphy restored the piano to performance condition. The piano had its first performance at Oberlin Sept. 13, when pianist David Breitman and violinist Marilyn Mcdonald performed Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas nos. 9 and 10.

SFP Plants Flags in ‘Call to Action’ Elizabeth Dobbins News Editor

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 2,133 Palestinians killed in this summer’s Operation Protective Edge.

“This is not a vigil,” said a sign posted in front of the display. “This is a call to action. It is a recognition of our complicity in these acts of violence. It is a refusal to be silent.” The sign also encouraged viewers to sign a petition “demand[ing] the divestment of tuition money from corporations that perpetuate and profit from Israeli occupation.”

About 80 students and community members gathered near the flags on Wednesday afternoon to share statements of solidarity with the Palestinian people and to bring attention to various protests and initiatives, such as the push for College divestment from six companies involved in Israeli occupation. The informal gathering opened with a moment of silence and featured

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.

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chants and a variety of student and community voices before closing with a unity clap.

College senior and SFP member Victoria Velasco says she hopes the

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event will be a call to action. “The goal of the action was to draw attention to the complicity of all of us here at Oberlin College in the continuing massacres in Palestine and to also

call attention to the connections between the struggles of all oppressed peoples with Palestinian struggle,” See Wilder, page 4

Parties Clash Over Redistricting Proposal Michael Lindy A committee of the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission, scheduled to meet on Sept. 11, was called off due to disagreements among mostly Republican lawmakers on how to proceed.

The redistricting proposal due to be finalized by this committee would have created a bipartisan panel to draw up Ohio districts. This map would then require at least one minority party vote to take effect.

Without this proposal, the debate over Ohio’s redistricting process will continue, and legislators will be unlikely to propose the new plan on the 2015 ballot.

Fred Mills, a former GOP legislative staff member who now heads the committee, canceled the meeting when he found that there was little consensus on how the redistricting proposal should be set out. Mills told the Columbus Dispatch that he is planning to move the meeting to October, but is waiting to hear a decision from Republican leaders.

The issues of contention have been the number of minority votes that should be required to pass the redistricting map and the procedures used for when committees reach an impasse.

While Democrats have said that they are willing to go forward with a map that only requires one minority party vote for approval, Republicans have been much slower to reach a resolution.

According to Ohio Democratic Representative Dan Ramos, the Republican leaders are purposefully delaying the vote.

“In 2012, Democrats in Ohio secured more total votes for Ohio House and U.S. House races than their Republican counterparts, but hold just 40 percent and 25 percent of the seats in these bodies,” Ramos said in an email to the Review. “Given these facts, it is no surprise that Republican leaders continue to hold up this process, as it directly threatens their ability to win elections.”

Oberlin College Democrats Co-Chair and College sophomore Ben Miles said the delay by Republicans is “clearly a political move.” Miles went on to say that Republicans have used their power over the appointment board to make districts into “ridiculous shapes that look like snakes.”

“Under this system, even though Ohio votes will keep being 50–50, Republicans will always get a two-thirds majority in districts,” Miles said.

The alterations Miles referred to are largely prevalent in the state’s first and second districts, where areas have been altered to make already strong Republican foundations even firmer. Others, like John Boehner’s eighth district, have seen almost no change at all, giving their incumbents almost guaranteed wins.

Lorain County’s ninth district is perhaps the most “snake-like” of all the Ohio districts. In an effort to consolidate Democratic Representative Marcy Kaptur and former representative Dennis Kucinich into the same district, the ninth district

stretches over 120 miles across the Lake Erie shore, at one point being connected only by a 20 yard-wide bridge and a beach that is occasionally flooded.

This process of redrawing districts to benefit the majority party, commonly known as gerrymandering, is considered to be one of the leading contributors to the steep decline in voting in U.S. districts.

According to a recent article in The New York Times, the proportion of counties in the U.S. won by a margin of less than 10 percent has dropped from 35 percent in 1996 to 18 percent in 2012, meaning that here are now fewer competitive districts than there once were. Though gerrymandering is not the sole cause of this problem, experts have determined that is a major factor for heavily afflicted states like Ohio.

Other Republicans, such as Ohio State House Representative Matt Huffman, have recognized the need for coming up with a solution to the disagreement over how to draw districts that would not result in further gerrymandering.

“If we have no way to resolve [the disagreement], it means the federal court is going to draft the districts. I don’t want to turn state business over to federal courts,” Huffman told the Columbus Dispatch.

However, others, such as Miles, are less wary of the court system.

“At this point, even if Ohio was forced to yield to the federal courts, it would be much more fair and nonpartisan than what we have now,” said Miles.

“The only reason an impasse would happen is if Republicans disagreed to allow a minority party vote.”

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Student Innovators Bridge Digital Divide Molly Brand After successfully creating a device that allows underfunded schools to engage students with audiovisual content related to their lessons, five College students are attempting to raise $50,000 in order to take their project to the next level.

The device, which the students are promoting through LumenEd, the company they founded, operates in communities that do not have access to the internet and is equipped with a digital library of over 1,500 educational videos ranging by grade and core subject. The projector also contains a USB port for teachers who need access to customizable content.

For co-creator and College senior Saksham Khosla, the device, known as the Bright Orange Box, has the potential to make a powerful impact in areas where students have little exposure to such technology.

“We wanted to see if kids in a classroom in India — who have never been exposed to the internet and don’t usually have video content available in the classroom — if we could provide a way for them to gain access to these materials or some avenue of audiovisual learning,” Khosla said. “We thought that we could potentially improve learning outcomes in the classroom, which can help us circumvent the problems of infrastructure, teacher motivation and social pressures that the kids might be facing outside of school.”

Khosla, along with fellow College seniors Shiva Mandala and Prakash Paudel, first came up with the idea for the box in early 2013, while considering their respective lifestyles in their home countries in Southern Asia. Although the trio received good educations, India has an adult literacy rate of less than 75 percent and an underfunded education system.

According to Khosla, parents will often remove their children from school to have them help work in the fields, thus limiting their children’s chances at passing the public exams in commerce, science and humanities that determine which college or professional training program a student goes into.

The three applied for a grant from the Oberlin Creativity and Leadership Program and were given $1,500 to put together their first device. Paudel reached out to College junior Thomas Kreek for help with creating the hardware, and in the summer of 2013, Khosla, Mandala and Paudel traveled to India to test their product for the first time.

While in India, the trio spent two weeks with a class of underprivileged students in New Delhi, where they worked with Joanna Sundharam, a Teach for India Fellow at the Nigam Pratibha Balika Vidyalaya school in the North district of Delhi. She reported that her class of approximately 30 fourth graders were more engaged than ever and remembered their lessons much better.

“So I took a couple of math class-

Joanna Sundharam, a Teach for India Fellow at the Nigam Pratibha Balika Vidyalaya school in the North Delhi district of Delhi, shows her class the Bright Orange Box. The device was invented by five current Oberlin seniors who sought to provide underfunded classrooms with access to high-end technology.

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es, I was teaching them shapes, and I taught them a couple of things about circles,” Sundharam told the founders in an interview. “The fact that there was a video accompanying it really improved their understanding. When [they] took a test they did really well on that. I think a lot of that had to do with the fact that they could understand all the concepts visually. Because it was part of the video and they were so excited about the whole thing, they were really listening and most of them got it.”

The LumenEd team also placed a Bright Orange Box in the classroom of Anurag Gupta, who taught at the same North Delhi school.

Gupta was one of the teachers who ran the Pen-Pal Program, a unique feature of the device that links the Bright Orange Box to computers in classrooms across the United

States, allowing them to communicate by sharing videos.

“I remember the first time I showed them a video in which there were kids from Iraq, Iran and different parts of the U.S.; for the kids it was a very new thing,” Gupta said.

“And in response, my kids planned how they should record their video so that it was [as] impressive as the other classroom’s video. A lot of introspection happened for the kids — how to make their videos better, how to introduce themselves. I think those sorts of questions came out very well when they were doing the Pen-Pal Program.”

Upon returning to Oberlin, the team decided to apply for LaunchU, an Oberlin Winter Term program that is designed to help students transform an idea into a sustainable business model. At this point, College senior Henry Harboe, a close

friend of the team, was brought onto the project. Harboe had created his own biking advertisement start-up called Traffic-Ads the previous year, and he, Kreek and Paudel won first place in their division at LaunchU with LumenEd, earning another $1,500 in prize money.

LaunchU Entrepreneur-in-Residence John Knific said that their biggest challenges were deciding whether LumenEd is primarily about the content or about the device and figuring out a sustainable financial model, a challenge that every growing venture must face.

“A financial model requires you to look at the value of your product, what you charge for it, and then determine if there’s enough market opportunity to scale that up,” said Knific.

During the spring of 2014, the team applied for and received a $10,000 grant from the Davis Projects for Peace to use for their pilot program that summer. Kreek, Khosla, Mandala and Paudel went to India and assembled six devices by hand, then set them up in schools, working with teachers to match content with lesson plans.

“We didn’t want to be a teacher replacement,” said Khosla. “We wanted to ease the burden on the teacher; to make her teaching more effective; to make her command over the classroom better and to make the students more engaged with their learning. That’s why we actively work with teachers for two to three weeks before the program See LumenEd, page 4

ODE Increases Testing Standards for Public Schools Emma Paul Staff Writer Although the Oberlin City Schools recently received an overall B grade on their annual evaluation from the Ohio Department of Education — the highest grade the school system has ever received — the school system received a D grade on “indicators met,” a section requiring 80 percent of students to pass each standardized test given at the end of the school year.

While the drop in grade does not necessarily signify a decline in the quality of schooling, it does reflect the increased expectations of the ODE, which, prior to the past year, required only 75 percent of students to pass the standardized tests.

According to John Schroth, superintendent of Oberlin City Schools, the increased threshold is a part of the Department’s long-term education plan.

“It’s a part of the ‘Race to the Top,’ which has been this whole thing since the report card went into place some 15 to 20 years ago,” Schroth said. “Every year, or every other year,

[the ODE] would be steadily raising the cut score until it gets to 100 percent.”

Not all grades struggled to meet the new cut score. Fifth, seventh and eighth grades fell behind, but high school scores remained relatively unaffected.

“What the test tells us is that, although we have issues at the middle school, once they get to the high school they’re pretty well prepared and [are] passing those cut scores,” said Schroth.

This past year marked a transition from Ohio’s Department of Education standards to Common Core State Standards. The standardized tests given were a blend of both new and old materials.

“Last year was a tricky year also because it was an overlap year,” said Robin Diedrick, a fifth grade teacher at Prospect Elementary School.

“We were supposed to be teaching Common Core Standards last year, but we were still taking state tests. … They were supposed to only test kids on the things that would overlap between what the state standards were and the Common Core Standards.”

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Viebranz, who has an extensive background in math and science, is in the process of analyzing the most recent test scores with support from the teachers.

According to Schroth, these new programs may present some risks.

“This year, we’re implementing the new math curriculum and doing that data analysis so we can find where our shortcomings are in our curriculum,” Schroth said. “Though, you run the risk with some of this stuff of getting so caught up with it you end up teaching to the test, and that’s one thing we don’t want to get bogged down in.”

The concern of “teaching to the test” is reflected in the changes Viebranz is implementing. Instead of more standardization, Viebranz stresses individual student attention by keeping close records of students who had issues with material in the past, so teachers are aware of who in their classroom might need extra assistance. “[For] teachers who understand the connection between instruction and assessment,

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Viebranz described the changes in curriculum as primarily a shift in what is taught at which grade level, requiring teachers to reexamine their own curriculums.

“If we think of it in terms of having the responsibility to give students the opportunity to learn the things that they’ll be tested on, we have to get teachers to rethink this alignment, and a lot of that just involves communication,” said Viebranz.

Ultimately, both administration and teachers agree that the school district’s report card does not convey the full story of Oberlin’s schools.

According to Schroth, the report card fails to reflect many of the school system’s strengths.

“The state report card has some good information in it, but nowhere does it talk about world languages; nowhere does it talk about art or music,” Schroth said. “There’s nothing here about economics. There’s nothing here about health.

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Off the Cuff: Gilda Rodríguez, visiting assistant professor of Comparative American Studies and recent keynote speaker Oberlin Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative American Studies and Politics Gilda Rodríguez participated in the Sept. 24 Comparative American Studies Keyword: Citizenship panel discussion. Rodríguez joined fellow Oberlin professors Steven Williams, Harrod Suarez and Gina Pérez in Wilder 101 to discuss the many dimensions of citizenship.

She spoke with the Review about the concept of citizenship in the U.S. and Mexico.

What was the goal of the Keyword: Citizenship panel?

To open up dialogue about citizenship.

It’s something that a lot of us in Comparative American Studies are thinking about, but also something that a lot of students have expressed interest in talking about. [Citizenship is] something that is sort of a common theme in a lot of our classes.

The keyword last year was privilege.

The idea is to choose a word that is sort of buzzing around that people are interested in talking about; that there’s sort of already a conversation going on around on campus, in classes, in the research that people are doing, [that] the faculty are doing, and just general conversations that people are having on campus — and having a space, a dedicated space, to have this conversation.

How do you think citizenship is defined in America?

Well, like I said in my little talk, I think that we have many different definitions of citizenship and that when we talk about citizenship we have so many different ideas about it. … We are often talking at sort of cross purposes about [the different definitions of] what citizenship is. The idea that one person has is not the idea that the person they’re talking to might have about

Thursday, Sept. 18 2:07 a.m. Officers were requested to assist a student who was ill from alcohol consumption on the third floor of Kahn Hall. The student was coherent, answered the officer’s questions and was escorted to their room.

Friday, Sept. 19 7:40 a.m. Officers and members of the Oberlin Fire Department responded to a fire alarm at the Austin E. Knowlton Athletics Complex. Contractors working in the area created dust which activated the alarm near the press box elevator. The alarm was taken offline until work was completed.

8:35 a.m. A staff member reported that their vehicle was hit while parked in Robertson Lot between the Kohl Building and Lorenzo’s Pizzeria. The rear quar-

citizenship.

But I do think there is an overemphasis in U.S. discourse on legal status and belonging to a nation state. … I think [this] is misguided, and I wish there was more of an emphasis on the doing of citizenship, the act of citizenship, on people being engaged in their communities, being politically active. In the panel there was a distinction between the being and the doing of citizenship. And I think we tend to emphasize in U.S. discourse the being versus the doing. I wish we emphasized more the doing, and it bothers me that the being of citizenship is also too weak to serve [as] official recognition by the state.

You’ve done some work in Mexico. Do you think the definition of citizenship, how people think of citizenship there, is significantly different than the U.S.?

Not overall. Not in the mainstream. I think that citizenship in Mexico, among people in general, that the mainstream of Mexican society is very similar [to that of the U.S.]. I specifically work on indigenous populations that migrate from their communities to other parts of Mexico and increasingly to the United States. So for them, the identity of Mexican, or considering themselves Mexican citizens, may not be their primary identity or might not be an identity that’s useful to them or that they claim.

They primarily see themselves as [a] member of their hometown community, their indigenous communities. Those communities are the ones they’re invested in, that they primarily participate politically in, but that’s something if they’re not engaged with Mexico and if they come to the United States, with U.S. politics, if they have to contend with them. So in that sense, there are people within Mexico to whom citizenship means something else. But for

ter panel and tail light were damaged. The vehicle was unoccupied at the time of the incident.

1:35 p.m. Officers and members of the Oberlin Fire Department responded to a fire alarm on the second floor of Fairchild House, which was activated by smoke from a cooking chicken. The alarm was silenced and reset, and a work order was filed for cleanup.

Saturday, Sept. 20 11:30 a.m. A staff member reported that a light pole fell on the sidewalk near Hall Annex. A work order was filed for repair and glass cleanup.

1:30 p.m. A custodial staff member reported vandalism in the gender neutral bathroom on the second floor of East Hall. The toilet paper holder was torn from the wall and broken.

6:50 p.m. A staff member reported falling, twisting their leg and injuring their knee while walking down the stairs by the ramp at Talcott Hall. They went to Mercy Allen Hospital for treatment.

Oberlin Visiting Assistant Professor, Gilda Rodríguez, participated in Wednesday’s Keyword: Citizenship panel discussion.

the bulk of Mexicans, the understandings of citizenship are very similar to the majority of the U.S. I’m Mexican myself. I grew up in Mexico. The understandings of citizenship, the everyday discourse and media discourse are not that different [ from that of the U.S.].

How do you think the possession of legal citizenship affects people’s social or political interaction with the community?

The possession of legal citizenship is always a huge privilege. … In my work … with so many people who are undocumented, it’s clear to me that having legal citizenship is such a huge privilege, and I work with people who are, as they call them, doubly undocumented … who don’t have any type of documentation from the Mexican state.

They don’t have birth certificates or Mexi-

8:12 p.m. Officers were requested at the Austin E. Knowlton Athletics Complex to assist an ill visitor. An ambulance was requested and the visitor was transported to Mercy Allen Hospital for treatment.

Sunday, Sept. 21 7:46 a.m. An officer on patrol observed the letter “C” missing from the aluminum pedestal sign at the Science Center. A work order was filed.

Monday, Sept. 22 7:20 a.m. A custodial staff member reported that the first aid kit was taken off the wall in the first-floor kitchen in Langston Hall. A work order was filed.

9:05 a.m. A staff member reported non-offensive graffiti, done in black paint, at the east door of the second floor of Hall Annex. A work order was filed for cleanup.

2:30 p.m. A student reported that the carbon monoxide detector was activated at their village

can passports or anything like that. So even in Mexico they have trouble getting recognized. Even if they never leave Mexico they have trouble having access to rights. So legal status is a huge privilege in many ways.

The doing of citizenship is not necessarily connected to that. These people who do not have legal status and are not necessarily constrained by that, they can still engage in politics. I know people who are extremely active despite that. … The lack of status does keep them back [ from] the possibilities for actions. The possibilities for mobility are extremely limited.

At the same time, I think that having legal status in the nation-state … means that sometimes we get really complacent.

There’s not much required from us. As a U.S. citizen — I’m not a U.S. citizen myself, but when one is a U.S. citizen — there’s not much required of you. There’s not compulsory voting, for example, in the U.S. Other countries have that. But other than jury duty, if you get called to do that, there’s not very much you have to do. You have to pay taxes, right? That is pretty much all you have to do. And even that, some rich people like Eduardo Saverin, who is one of the founders of Facebook, for example, he gave up his U.S. citizenship. He moved to Singapore and gave up his U.S. citizenship so he won’t have to pay taxes.

And there’s other sort of things, cases, but that’s sort of in terms of the economic dimension of them. But it doesn’t require a whole lot of you. So those two dimensions, the being and the doing, are connected.

There’s a connection that goes on. … Legal status I think is a privilege, but it also allows many of us to forget the practical dimension.

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housing apartment on College Street. Officers and an HVAC technician responded, and the detector was found to be disconnected from the outlet. The batteries were changed, and the detector was plugged in with no further problems.

3:26 p.m. A Philips gym staff member reported damage to an Oberlin College athletic van. The van, which was parked in the Union Street lot, sustained damage to the left rear bumper. Members of the Oberlin Police Department also responded for a report.

6:38 p.m. A student reported a stove fire in the kitchen of Fairchild House. Officers responded and discovered that cooking oil caught fire on the stove. The stove was cleaned, and a maintenance technician was advised to replace the fire extinguisher.

6:53 p.m. Officers responded to a reported suspicious person at Langston Hall, who entered the dorm as a student was exiting. Officers responded and checked the entire building, but the individual was not located. Students were

advised to call Safety and Security if the person was seen.

Tuesday, Sept. 23 10:35 a.m. A facilities staff member reported damage to a College vehicle parked in the Union Street parking lot. There was an approximately 10 inchlong scratch and gray paint on the bumper molding. There was also a dent and scratch in the front of the left rear wheel. Photos were taken of the damage.

5:06 p.m. A grounds staff member requested assistance from officers at the ash dump where two contractors were arguing over mulch. It was agreed that there was a misunderstanding, and the incident was resolved.

8:21 p.m. Officers and members of the Oberlin Fire Department responded to a fire alarm at the South Hall elevator. The motor stopped functioning, which created a slight haze of smoke and activated the alarm. Out of order signs were placed on the door until repairs are made.

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Oberlin Honors Undergraduate Research Laura Paddock 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 included an alumni panel, a poster session and oral presentations by student researchers.

According to Afia Ofori-Mensa, visiting assistant professor of Comparative American Studies, Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research and the organizer of the celebration, the goal of the event was to raise the profile of undergraduate research on campus.

“This event has been going on for a number of years,” said Ofori-Mensa.

“It’s an opportunity for undergraduates participating in summer fellowships, such as the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship or the Oberlin College Research Fellowship, to show off their work.”

The celebration began on Thursday, Sept. 25 with a panel of three alumni who conducted undergraduate research during their time at

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. Mike Plotz

Oberlin. The members of the panel relayed the impact that undergraduate research had on their careers, saying that they hoped to inspire other undergraduates to pursue summer research opportunities.

The alumni panel was followed by a poster session the next day in the Bent Corridor of the Science Center, where students presented their work and discussed their summer research using their posters as visual aids. The program is perennially popular; according to Marcelo Vinces, director

of the Center for Learning, Education and Research in the Sciences at Oberlin, there was not enough space for all undergraduate researchers to present due to the programs’ sheer number of applications.

This year’s program is similar in many ways to the 2013 celebration however, the event will now include presentations from the natural sciences, an element absent from last year’s program. “[I feel it’s] valuable to see the work people are doing in the scienc-

es,” said undergraduate researcher and College senior Aria Dean.

According to Vinces, the summer research opportunities and the celebration promote a cross-talk between different disciplines.

“It’s a rare opportunity to learn about different fields other than the one you’re doing research in,” Vinces said.

Undergraduate researcher and College senior Tiffany Henry described the two fields of study as a binary on “opposite ends of the same spectrum.”

Despite the opportunity to build connections between the social and natural sciences, some social science researchers feel the format of the celebration is not ideal for presenting social science research. Dean, a Studio Art major who began her research on the philosophies of architecture the summer after her sophomore year, said she feels that this type of visual presentation is not an effective approach for displaying her research.

“Posters wouldn’t work for my kind of research,” said Dean. “They work for science research, but a post-

er doesn’t work for philosophy.”

College junior Amethyst Carey, a Sociology major whose research focuses on access to education in relation to race, income and residential stratification, echoed these concerns.

“Social science lends itself more to verbal explanation or oral presentations, just because of the subject matter,” said Carey.

Henry, also a Sociology major, examined the beauty and beautification processes of Jamaican immigrants in the United States and how those processes change in the context of American culture. Henry, who focused on how she can analyze and dissect society in a larger global context, shared concerns about the underestimation of social sciences and humanities within the undergraduate research community at Oberlin.

Eboni Johnson, OC ’97 reference and instruction librarian and member of the alumni panel, feels that undergraduate research provides a valuable opportunity.

“It’s really cool that as undergraduates students have an opportunity to contribute to the scholarly conversation,” said Johnson.

Nonprofit to Promote Public Health in Oberlin Melissa Harris Lorain County Health & Dentistry, a nonprofit organization that works to provide affordable healthcare, is requesting a grant to build a community health clinic in southern Oberlin. If the grant is approved, the new clinic will provide both primary and preventative medical care, oral health and vision services and discount fees for uninsured patients who qualify based on Federal Poverty Guidelines.

The clinic, which would be located at 260 South Main Street, would also feature a prenatal and women’s health center, pediatric services, adult and family medical care, and general dentistry.

In addition, the clinic would offer behavioral services, which are expected to help alleviate the stigma associated with attending a mental health center.

According to Carrie Handy, the city economic developer and housing officer, this clinic will mainly serve southern Lorain County residents and address the transportation difficulties of accessing the other four LCH&D locations.

“Lorain County Health & Dentistry’s locations are currently all urban. They’re currently in Elyria and Lorain; they didn’t have anything in southern Lorain,” said Handy. “Based on their client locations they knew that a lot of people from southern Lorain

were traveling to Lorain and Elyria to get service, so they wanted to open something in this area.”

According to LCH&D President Stephanie Wiersma, cost and transportation are two of the biggest obstacles for the clinic’s lowincome, uninsured and underinsured patients.

“Anyone can come to any of our sites, but locating a community health center site in a neighborhood where there is need may be based on income status, for example, or locating [an area of high need] takes away that transportation barrier that so often interferes with individuals and families getting regular access to healthcare,” Wiersma said.

The clinic will address the financial aspect of accessibility by providing a sliding-scale fee based on patients’ incomes.

Oberlin Community Services plans to expand their scope of community outreach by collaborating with LCH&D. As OCS strives to provide “direct assistance, referrals, outreach services and educational support” to the local community, the LCH&D’s clinic will provide affordable medical services in an area with previously limited access.

“OCS is also now part of the United Community Assistance Network,” said Oberlin City Manager Eric Norenberg. “It’s a network of agencies across the county, so if one agency doesn’t have funding to provide a certain type of assistance, one of the others

Wilder Bowl Installation Protests Occupation of Palestinian Territories Continued from page 1 said Velasco. “And it’s part of not only trying to educate our peers but also trying to build coalitions amongst student groups so we can better be in solidarity with Palestine and also, of course, we wanted to call attention to the divestment resolution, which has been ignored pretty much by the administration since it was passed by Student Senate.”

The installation and event are part of the International Day of Action on College Campuses for Palestine.

This day of action was internationally held on Tuesday, but due to scheduling conflicts in Wilder Bowl, the black flags were installed on Wednesday, causing the installation to coincide with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.

“The Day of Action [has] provocative timing,” said College senior and SFP member Jacob Ertel. “I think that the mourning of Palestinian deaths and the condemnation of Israeli genocide against Palestinians and a religious holiday are not mutually exclusive occurrences. We don’t have to celebrate Rosh Hashanah and not be appalled and continue to condemn Israeli acts of violence and war crimes. … We don’t have to see them as conflicting in any way.”

Members of J Street U, who are holding their own

vigil to commemorate lives lost in Operation Protective Edge next week, said in their event they hope to emphasize finding a path towards peace.

“We are saddened by the polarization within our community and want to offer a productive path forward based on establishing conditions for a sustainable, real peace,” members of J Street U said in an email to the Review. “To resist the divisiveness of the moment, we are bringing the memory of these dead together in an act of shared mourning, one that also acknowledges the asymmetrical power reflected in the number of dead. And while this act of mourning must reflect the power endemic in the conflict, so too must it reflect upon the power present at the event itself; the unique power of Americans to help bring about an end to the root causes of the death: occupation and conflict.”

J Street U will be holding a vigil Wednesday in Wilder Bowl.

“The goal of this vigil is to seriously grapple with the loss of life in Gaza and Israel, to present a vision for a better future and recognize our responsibility to make choices to achieve it,” said members of J Street U. “[Our] vigil is an opportunity to address the deepened divisions in our campus community and to shift the conversation away from blame and towards a politics of responsibility.”

in the network will hopefully be able to provide that assistance.

They can’t provide health care, so you add this component of a health and dentistry organization right there a few hundred yards away, and we think it’s a great opportunity, because if somebody comes in needing health care and the health care folks find that there is some other need that this family has, they can contact OCS and vice versa. We think there’s going to be a great opportunity for collaboration and synergy.”

OCS sold their South Main Street property this month for $150,000 to LCH&D. If LCH&D receives the two-year grant of $650,000 a year from the Health Resources & Services Administration “New Access Point,” this land will be used to build the health clinic.

If built, the clinic may also benefit the community by providing an economic boost.

“It will have some good paying jobs, which is important to us [in] the city,” Handy said. “The annual payroll, once it’s fully operational, will be about $650,000–$700,000 dollars, so it would be income tax revenue for the schools and the city. They do like to hire locally, so hopefully we’ll get some local residents employed there, as well.”

If LCH&D receives the HRSA’s grant, construction on the new center is expected to begin by May 2015.

LumenEd Founders Launch Fundraising Campaign Continued from page 2 goes live to make sure that the content they’re using is mapped onto every single lesson plan, depending on topic, subject matter, difficulty [and] grade level.”

This year, the team of seniors is working on scaling up its organization, raising money and finding a manufacturer who will be able to make more devices at an affordable price. The goal is to have devices in between 50 and 100 schools in India. They plan to launch a crowdfunding campaign by December 2014 with the goal of raising $50,000 before the end of the academic year.

The team’s long-term goal is to help students and teachers in India; in order to sustain LumenEd financially the team is working out a system wherein American schools would pay to participate in the Pen Pal Program, thereby subsidizing the expenses for Indian schools.

“I think most of the team is decided that this is worthwhile [to pursue] after school,” said Kreek. “For me it became clear this summer when basically everything possible went wrong, and no one gave up, and I realized at that point that these people are pretty serious.”

Harboe also said that he hoped to expand their office space.

“We hope to raise enough money between now and when we graduate in the spring, that we’ll have enough money to sustain a small team working [ full-time] in an office space somewhere like Cleveland or Chicago,” said Harboe.

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September 26, 2014

Letters to the Editors Radiolab Event Highlights Best of Oberlin College 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, standing-room only crowd at Finney Chapel eviscerated all these worries. We met engaged, enthusiastic and inquisitive young people, and we weren’t even in classes. It was Friday night, and the subject was NPR. Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich told heartfelt stories about the role that Oberlin had played in their lives, but it was in the showing, not the telling, that Oberlin revealed itself as such a remarkable place. We felt it in the jazz coming from windows on College Street, the random student who eagerly stopped to chat, the buzz of the Slow Train Cafe and the smile on almost every face as we entered Finney.

The visit certainly left me nostalgic, but more than anything it left me optimistic for the future

of Oberlin and for those lucky enough to attend. After this recent trip, I remain committed to ––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich told heartfelt stories about the role that Oberlin had played in their lives, but it was in the showing, not the telling, that Oberlin revealed itself as such a remarkable place.

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–Marty Frazier OC ’07

College Neglects Needs of NonConservatory Music Ensembles Nathaniel Sher Contributing Writer If you’ve ever strolled through Wilder Bowl — maybe to get to Mudd, maybe to leave Mudd, maybe to stare at Mudd’s ominous face only to turn around and go back to bed — you’ve probably heard the rumbles of bass and drums bleeding through the thin walls of Wilder 404, Oberlin’s only practice room for College bands. Yes, it’s true: Oberlin has one rehearsal space for nonacademic ensembles.

While Oberlin loves to flaunt impressive statistics about its booming music scene — the number of Steinways, (Conservatory) practice rooms and shows on campus — the fact that there’s only one measly

space for College bands is omitted from all of its websites, brochures and tours. So let’s take a tour, shall we?

Way up on the fourth floor of Wilder Hall and down one of its dark hallways, you’ll find a solitary –––––––––––––––––––

The fact that there’s only one measly space for College bands is omitted from all of [Oberlin College’s] websites, brochures and tours.

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ful of people granted access — only the nine bands that wake up the earliest on the first day of each semester to sign up can use the room — and have therefore been vouchsafed the key, you can try your hand at the door’s timeworn lock. If you manage to get through, your eyes will instantly stick to the room’s windowless walls. If you can peel them from the patchy paint job, you’ll then be struck by the carpet’s age-old filth: possible bloodstains, vomit and who knows what else. You’ll see a curious stump of what once was a full-grown metal pipe jutting out from the ground, ready to impale an unsuspecting rocker. You’ll notice three closets

just big enough to store equipment — instruments and speakers hauled all the way from home — for six of the nine bands. Your eyes will suddenly lose focus, and you’ll imagine with envy the endless halls of Conservatory practice rooms.

On an architectural scale of one to ten — ten being the niceness of the new football complex — Wilder 404 can be considered a one. But it is at least on the scale because it does exist; Oberlin does provide non-academic bands with something, and for that we’re thankful. And just to make things clear, most people don’t mind the ramshackle condition of See College, page 6

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Journalists Must Remove Racial Slurs from Lexicon A student newspaper at a high school in Pennsylvania this week found itself at the epicenter of an issue that has for decades posed challenges for journalistic outlets nationwide: what to do about the fact that a popular and profitable athletic mascot is widely regarded as a racial slur.

Sports teams at Neshaminy High School in Langhorne, PA, share the controversial mascot that serves as the official name of the NFL team from Washington, D.C. For over a year, the Neshaminy Playwickian has attempted to distance itself from the epithet by refusing to print it, despite forceful opposition from the school’s administration. Last week, these tensions came to a head as school officials suspended the publication’s student editor-in-chief and faculty advisor.

These suspensions came only three months after administrators froze the paper’s social media accounts and deducted $1,200 from its annual budget.

The Review’s Editorial Board, joining a growing number of scholastic, regional and national newspapers, finds the actions of NHS officials abhorrent. We’ve opined before on the importance of unrestricted journalism at academic institutions (“College Rankings Devalue Breadth of Knowledge, Ignore Human Element,” The Oberlin Review, Sept. 12, 2014). A newspaper’s choices regarding the language choices it makes, especially in the case of a racial epithet, are no less important.

Both national and local sports teams have seen their share of offensive and racist mascots. Stereotypes of Native Americans have long been a common trope.

In Ohio, as many as 11.2 percent of high school sports teams use the likenesses of Native Americans in mascots such as “Braves,” “Warriors” and “Savages,” along with several more overtly offensive epithets. Until 2007, Oberlin High School was among these, using the name “Indians” until members of the Muskogee Tribe argued that the former mascot desensitized fans to the dehumanizing nature of such stereotypes. The Cleveland Indians, for their part, are still represented by the same scarlet-colored caricature introduced 64 years ago as “Chief Wahoo.”

The Washington team’s name, however, goes beyond racist caricatures. In a Sports editorial last year, then–Sports editor Rose Stoloff emphasized that the slur has its origins in colonial violence (“Offensive Names Plague NFL,” The Oberlin Review, Oct. 11, 2013) with some historical accounts suggesting the term referred not to perceived skin color but to blood, due to the bounty white settlers in the French and Indian War placed on Native Americans’ scalps.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle have urged owner Dan Snyder to change the team’s name. President Obama said he would do so were he in Snyder’s position, and in May, 50 U.S. senators sent a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell petitioning a name change. Yet their efforts seem to have been in vain. Snyder has repeatedly said he will never change the team’s name, and even after the United States Patent and Trademark Office revoked six of the team’s trademark protections in June, the federal government has little power to force Snyder’s hand.

This does not mean, however, that journalistic publications aren’t speaking out — or, rather, retracting. According to the Pew Research Center, 24 major news publications and journalists, including seven ESPN-affiliated journalists, restrict or ban the Washington football team’s name. The Editorial Board believes this alteration of discourse is not only a change for the better, but a journalistic duty.

Similar strategies have had measurable success in the past — for example, the Associated Press’s decision to remove “illegal immigrant” from its style guide last year prompted The New York Times to reconsider its use of the term. On the subject of offensive slurs, the latest edition of the A.P. guide prescribes that “racial epithets” not be used except in direct quotations when there is a “compelling reason” for their inclusion. Millions of people read the nation’s newspapers, magazines and blogs every day. By taking the initiative to remove racist slurs from their vocabulary, publications have substantial influence over the language used in public discourse, and, in turn, by their readers.

And the discourse surrounding the Washington team’s name is in urgent need of change. A word despised by the vast majority of Native Americans, one whose impact is compounded by years of structural and physical violence, is a powerful, damaging racial slur. While changing everyday lexicon is only one small step in addressing deeply-embedded prejudices, it is an important one. Journalists, with the influence they hold over the language of the day, have a responsibility to do their part.

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SFP Installation Sparks Debate Oberlin Students for a Free Palestine launched an installation on Wednesday in Wilder Bowl titled “2,133 Black Flags” in observance of Palestinian casualties during Operation Protective Edge this summer. On its Facebook page, SFP stated that the installation, which featured a large banner posted beside a graveyard-like display of flags representing Palestinian deaths, was organized in solidarity with Tuesday’s International Day of Action on College Campuses for Palestine.

The display, scheduled to remain in place until Saturday, Sept. 27, elicited a variety of responses from students and community members. The following are two students’ impressions of the installation. Each response reflects the student’s personal views only. These opinions are in no way intended to represent the views of other community members or any student organization.

Focus on Religion Disregards Humanitarian Message

Concurrence with Holy Days Causes Students Discomfort

I am actually very surprised that an installation intended to raise awareness of the death of Palestinians is viewed as expressing anti-Jewish sentiment. Despite my limited knowledge about the Jewish faith, I believe that raising awareness about injustice is not at all contradictory to that belief system. I don’t believe that to be pro-Palestine means to be anti-Israel, and I never thought that this view would be seen as anti-Semitic.

This seems to me to be more of a humanitarian issue than a religious one.

I really do not mean to trivialize any pain that Oberlin Students for a Free Palestine’s actions may have caused, but I also feel that the driving force behind the choices and opinions of the pro-Palestine movement is not at all anti-Semitic — including, as a part of that movement, the support for divestment from Israel. I feel that everyone just wants to live happily and peacefully, but that people have different ways of supporting that. It is not out of hate for Jewish people that these organizers are working; it is out of a love for humanity. I recognize that some pro-Palestinian activists and their actions do become anti-Semitic, but I also feel that it is important to recognize the movement as a whole as one that is in solidarity with Judaism (though it may not necessarily be in solidarity with Israel).

Interpreting this installation as expressing antiSemitic sentiment perpetuates the idea that Jews are uniformly pro-Israel and anti-Palestine, and this is problematic in its own ways. As someone whose family has struggled through inter-religious conflict, I would ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

What I find tough about the “2,133 Black Flags” installment is figuring out why it upset me so much. I myself am uncomfortable with the actions of Israel and the IDF, and I support awareness for Palestinian casualties.

As an American Jew, I don’t align with Israel. The rest of the world, however, thinks otherwise. As attacks on Jews living in Paris in July made clear, Israel’s actions impact Jews around the globe. Anti-Semitism is still alive, and many are incapable of understanding that Jews are not all of the same mind. This summer, for the first time, I felt like I was in danger because of my Judaism.

In a perfect world, religion would be absent from this conversation, but the timing of this protest left me feeling unsafe. The Oberlin Students for a Free Palestine organized their event in observance of the International Day of Action on College Campuses for Palestine, which was Tuesday, Sept. 23; however, they ultimately held the display from Sept.

24–27, coinciding with Rosh Hashanah, among the holiest days in Judaism. If this was an oversight, SFP should issue an apology for its insensitivity. Instead, it responded with the excuse that its membership, too, includes Jews. The flags and a harshly worded sign were placed right outside where I attend religious services. That caused myself and others

It is not out of hate for Jewish people that these organizers are working; it is out of a love for humanity. … Interpreting this installation as expressing anti-Semitic sentiment perpetuates the idea that Jews are uniformly pro-Israel and anti-Palestine.

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In a perfect world, religion would be absent from this conversation, but the timing of this protest [in relation to Rosh Hashanah] left me feeling unsafe. … The flags and a harshly worded sign were placed right outside where I attend religious services.

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hope that everyone would support me, regardless of religion, regardless of the occasion, for each and every day that I chose to remember the lives that were lost.

considerable discomfort as the message almost seemed to be that the IDF’s actions were somehow our fault.

Causing productive discomfort is one thing, but this installation went beyond that in poor taste. I believe there were better avenues for raising awareness this week, such as a moment of silence or a prayer for peace during High Holy Days services. I hope that this sparks conversation about what anti-Semitism looks like on our campus and nationwide, and I hope that we can continue a meaningful dialogue in the future.

–Maansi Sahay Seth College third-year

–Maggie Bussard College third-year

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College Bands Lack Support, Rehearsal Space Continued from page 5 the room; if anything, it probably complements the grungy aesthetic of many of its users. But its condition is telling: Oberlin undeniably neglects non-academic musicians.

And this neglect becomes ever more distressing when put in the context of Oberlin’s reputation as a mecca for musicians. Indeed, many College musicians both literally and figuratively buy into the hype every year, only to be painfully disillusioned by the lack of resources available for their kind of musical expression.

If Oberlin wants to uphold its mostly sound reputation as a destination for musicians, it should work to patch up its holes. For starters, the College could offer students an additional practice space so that more than just nine

early-bird bands can have a place to play. If the institution really wants to get serious, it could also equip the rooms with a used drum set or two, and maybe some speak–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

If Oberlin wants to uphold its mostly sound reputation as a destination for musicians, it should … offer students an additional practice space so that more than just nine early-bird bands can have a place to play.

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ers; this would mean that in the future, students won’t have to lug

their own drums or speakers from home, and those without access to a storage closet won’t have to schlep their equipment to and from Wilder and up and down its four flights of stairs every time they want to rehearse. If Oberlin really is a supporter of music, then it should show non-academic bands more respect and help foster an environment conducive to expression for all its student musicians, academic and non-academic alike.

If you share any of these grievances or would like more information, you can contact College sophomore Julian Geltman of the up-and-coming Oberlin Gear Co-op. The Gear Co-op is working to give non-academic musicians a voice and to build them a more accommodating musical environment.

College Athletes Must Lead by Example Machmud Makhmudov Columnist In my experience, varsity athletes at Oberlin integrate well into the broader campus community.

While some may disagree, I’d bet that most would safely acknowledge that we’re not the dominant cultural force on campus, as is the case at many larger state schools. At the very least, I can speak for the baseball team here. Under some circumstances, however, the privileges that many athletes enjoy on college campuses manifest themselves in the form of blatant disregard for the purpose of collegiate athletics. Nowhere is this more evident than in the case of Jameis Winston, last year’s winner of the Heisman Award and the quarterback at Florida State University.

Winston was barred from playing in Saturday’s game versus Clemson University as a result of yelling obscene and derogatory language toward women in Florida State’s outdoor student courtyard last week. Originally, the quarterback was suspended for only the first half of the game, but after evidence surfaced that Winston had misled campus administrative officials regarding the slur he had used, his suspension was extended to the entire game.

In isolation, the length of this suspension might be deemed appropriate. However, Winston has a history of finding himself in trouble. In November of 2013, the Florida State University Attorney’s Office reopened an investigation into a sexual assault case involving Winston. Though he was acquitted, the Attorney’s Office later discovered that the officer who ran the investigation also did contract work for the Florida State Seminoles’ booster club, raising questions of a biased investigation intended to protect the quarterback’s eligibility to continue playing.

On two separate occasions, Winston has also been found guilty of shoplifting, first in 2013 at a Burger King restaurant and then again in 2014 at a Publix supermarket. In neither case was Winston prosecuted to any meaningful degree. The obscenity incident is just one in a string of questionable decisions that the Heisman winner has made.

Florida State’s prescribed punishment of a onegame suspension is laughable considering Winston’s history. By repeatedly allowing the quarterback to skirt harsh punishment for his egregious behavior, Florida State is failing as a leader in the realm of college athletics to demonstrate that integrity takes precedence over ratings and profits.

Unfortunately, contemporary American culture facilitates this kind of behavior in major college athletics and largely allows it to go unquestioned.

Many have argued that given Winston’s age, his –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

By repeatedly allowing [Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston] to skirt harsh punishment for his egregious behavior, Florida State is failing as a leader in the realm of college athletics to demonstrate that integrity takes precedence over ratings and profits.

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– behavior can be explained away as typical college stupidity. As a 20-year-old, I’m not excused from making a few less-than-intelligent decisions myself. However, the public platform that comes along with being a major Division-I athlete carries with it expectations of a certain amount of personal responsibility.

As much as I may want to believe otherwise, there aren’t many people who watch me play baseball and subsequently look up to me as a role model. However, athletes such as Jameis Winston do have that kind of public image and impact. Athletic departments and the NCAA should recognize the extent of the influence that their athletes have and ensure that they remain outstanding examples of what collegiate athletics is all about: hard work, humility and respect.

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Ray Rice Coverage Blames Victims of Domestic Violence Maggie Menditto Columnist Accompanied by his wife Janay Palmer at a May 23 press conference, Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice spoke to reporters about a violent physical altercation that had transpired between the two in an Atlantic City casino. Apologizing for what he called the couple’s “situation,” Rice took the opportunity to thank his fans, his coaches and his family for sticking by him throughout the ordeal. He was “still the same Ray,” he said, still the same guy that “you know or used to know or [have] grown to love.” In a poorly chosen metaphor, he said, “Failure is not getting knocked down; it’s not getting up.”

The incident in question occurred on Feb. 15 of this year, when the 206-pound NFL player struck a blow to his then-fiancée in a casino elevator, sending her into the opposite wall and knocking her unconscious. When the two arrived at their

floor, Rice then attempted to drag his wife into the hall with no apparent concern for her well-being. On May 20, Rice evaded prosecution for aggravated assault charges by enrolling in a pre-trial program that would drop all charges within one year.

Rice and Palmer appeared together at the media function three months later to publicly address the “situation.” At the end of Rice’s prepared statement, he turned the floor over to his wife. She, too, thanked those who had supported them, but she then went on to say that she “deeply regret[ted] the role she played in the incident that night.” The soundbite of this quote went on to grace media outlets ranging from angry feminist advocacy groups to the Twitter account of the Baltimore Ravens.

An unfortunate amount of the media coverage in this controversy seems to surround Janay Palmer’s decisions.

To ask questions like why this woman would choose to stay with her abuser is to blame the victim rather than to face the larger issues at hand. The NFL

and the Baltimore Ravens almost succeeded in allowing a domestic aggressor to retain his idolized and revered status in the community, and Ray Rice nearly escaped the incident with little to no penalty. What does this teach people in positions of power and notoriety about the consequences of their actions? What does this passivity and compliance say about our societal standards?

TMZ publicly released the surveillance footage of the attack on Sept. 8, sending waves of shock and outrage across the internet. Before the video was made public, Rice had received a mere two-game suspension from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, a shockingly lenient punishment for the severity of the crime and the magnitude of Rice’s fame. Pressured by angry responses to the graphic and disturbing video, Goodell changed his decision, and both the NFL and the Ravens suspended Rice indefinitely.

The trivialization of Janay Palmer’s traumatic experience is reflected

in society’s reaction to her attack.

We’ve watched, commented on, judged and shared the video footage thousands of times, minimizing her pain and obsessing over her victimhood. Yet this is just one major example indicating a larger cultural –––––––––––––––––––––––––––

What does this teach people in positions of power and notoreity about the consequences of their actison? What does this passivity and compliance say about our societal standards?

––––––––––––––––––––––––––– attitude surrounding domestic violence: It is easier to blame the victim, the circumstance and the singularity of the incident than it is to address and attack the widespread pain and suffering inflicted by domestic violence. A more appropriate way to ap-

proach this footage would be to ask how we as a society allowed this to happen and how we can change — how, in other words, we failed Janay Palmer.

In its first “Thursday Night Football” telecast following the summer of controversy, CBS decided to pull Rihanna’s singing of the “Run This Town” chorus, dropping the music from all future telecasts soon after.

Explaining this decision, Chairman of CBS Sports Sean McManus said that Rihanna’s history as a victim of domestic abuse was “among several factors but not the overriding one” considered in the decision. Rihanna’s penalization for being the recipient of a beating is upsetting, disturbing and dishearteningly reflective of the same societal attitude towards domestic violence victims seen throughout coverage of the Ray Rice ordeal. In her response to the punishment, Rihanna addressed CBS on Twitter, writing, “F--- you!

Y’all are sad for penalizing me for this.” I couldn’t agree more.

Climate Marches Necessary Protests Challenge Oberlin Students to Spark Democratic Action to Provide Unreciprocated Tolerance Chloe Vassot Contributing Writer

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Kimoon graced the public spotlight last Sunday as images emerged of him proudly sporting a U.N. baseball cap and a graphic T-shirt that read, “I’m for Climate Action.” Next to him stood New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, former Vice President Al Gore and primatologist Jane Goodall, who was toting her trusty toy monkey mascot. The event bringing such a group of esteemed individuals together?

The People’s Climate March, at which an estimated 310,000 people gathered in New York City to demand immediate action on climate change issues.

The march, organized to coincide with the U.N. Climate Change Summit, was planned with great goals in mind. With the march now behind us, the question is this: Will its impact be as great as the goals it promoted?

At its heart, the People’s Climate March was concerned with amplifying the voices of people around the world. The need for global leaders to heed popular consensus has never been greater than with the issue of our global environment. The type of loud and unified democracy that the People’s Climate March exemplified is sorely needed around the world and, just as pressingly, in the United States.

The calls of climate change activists have fallen on willfully deaf ears in the U.S. government for far too long, and they have thus resulted in only negligible improvements to climate-related legislation. Our current Congress has proven itself deeply ineffective, meaning that one of our most relied-upon methods of spurring change in a democratic manner has been rendered nearly useless. The power of the people to effect policy change has stalled, and this must be remedied.

When speaking specifically about America though, there is, of course, the unfortunate reality that a large segment of the population does not believe that human actions are exacerbating climate change, or that it even exists.

Given this, there is no guarantee that voicing popular opinion will prompt our government to increase its focus on environmental issues.

According to a recent poll in The New York Times, 54 percent of people said that human activity such as burning fossil fuels caused global warming, 31 percent said natural pat-

terns in the Earth’s environment were the primary causes and 10 percent said global warming does not exist at all. That means at least 41 percent of the public will not see the necessity of legislation to combat the anthropogenic contributions to climate change.

It is incredibly difficult to argue with climate change deniers. In the Oberlin bubble, it seems that everyone is aware of the current problems our little blue planet is facing, but –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

The type of loud and unified democracy that the People’s Climate March exemplified is sorely needed.

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– outside of liberal enclaves, the atmosphere is much different. I grew up in a conservative area where people attempted to tell me that polar bears were not dying but simply migrating. (They could never answer as to where.) There is a very large portion of the U.S. population that refuses to accept our environmental reality, and as these people vote, we continue to elect climate deniers to government offices such as the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, halting any efforts to change the current situation.

We need more People’s Climate Marches.

We need the people who care about this planet to unify in educating the rest of the public and force our government officials into action to help protect our planet’s future, as well as our own.

Following the U.N. Climate Summit on Sept. 23, Ki-moon was positive about what was achieved, calling it a “historic day” for international commitments to curb the effects of climate change. It’s possible that the People’s Climate March had something to do with that success; if that is the case, then the rest of the U.S. must emulate that technique.

The U.S. needs loud democracy from passionate citizens for our country and for the good of the international community.

For too long America has been the spoiled rich child of our planet, making huge messes and refusing to help clean up. That pattern of behavior must change. We need to force our leaders to act, and we need to do it in a way that is impossible to ignore. The good of the planet depends on our success.

CJ Blair Columnist I was sitting in Professor Erik Inglis’s Art History class last week when he proclaimed the goal of the day’s lecture was to ask how Jesus came to be represented as he is today.

He meant this, of course, in a pictorial sense, but my mind flashed back to 18 years spent living in the Bible Belt, inspiring me to consider that question more generally. When events occur like the picket staged by Brother Jed and his fellow preachers last week, it can seem all too easy to deem one particular display as the “accepted” representation of God, and therefore of Jesus.

However, this situation is no different than other controversial topics, in that there’s much more to it than meets the eye.

My opinion, of course just a single voice, is that my lifelong encounters with Christianity are sufficient to address the bizarre nature of last week’s demonstration. I’m from a small city in central Kentucky, a reasonably conservative dot in an aggressively conservative state. In my town alone, there are mega-churches with congregations in the thousands where pastors drive Porsches and the youth don’t know a single line of scripture. Then there are churches so small and so secluded that they serve the dual function of being A.A. meeting places because there’s no chance the meetings will be walked in on. Amid all that, I sit in a bit of a theological limbo. My upbringing and ethics point me towards atheism; however, the amicable encounters I’ve had with middle-of-the-road congregations have allowed me

to consider what religion does aesthetically and emotionally for its followers, even if I never hop on the bandwagon myself.

One of the greatest difficulties non-Christians face is seeing some of the hostilities and displays of bigotry from certain Christians and trying not to label all of them narrow-minded and backward.

That’s a considerable challenge if the sample is a group like the demonstrators last Wednesday. But maybe this personal experience can make some small progress toward redeeming that image.

My grandmother is a member of a Presbyterian church in my hometown, a denomination known for its progressive politics. Occasionally I go there, usually to play saxophone along with the choir. This is a group of very down-to-earth people, deeply involved in the community, who you wouldn’t know were Christian unless you asked them. Few of them, if any, take the Bible literally, and anything that doesn’t read as a morality story from which they can learn and better themselves is disregarded, especially if it promotes hate.

I say all this to address a growing argument — one that I often find myself associated with — that suggests that Christians really don’t do anything but spread hate and ignorance in a world that doesn’t have time to hear it.

Let my grandma’s quaint little congregation be the anomaly, the counterargument that begs people like myself to reconsider their stance. While there are too many Christians like the ones who spread hate and condemnation, there are just as many who take the

sense of community and spiritual fulfillment they gain from their religion and apply it to living a wholesome life. Why does it seem like there are fewer of the latter type? Because they don’t go around waving their beliefs in your face like they would a new Rolex.

I had a saxophone teacher in middle school who went on to be a missionary in Thailand at the height of the political turmoil following the 2007 elections. I found this odd, because he was a very spirited guy who never once mentioned religion to me in our lessons. All the blog posts he wrote about his work never mentioned that he was a missionary. He only ever spoke about educating children, providing food and making sure schools were kept safe.

I consider this a golden example of practicing what you preach. It’s an example many Christians need to follow, one in which the interpersonal aspects of their religion take precedence over the spiritual elements without compromising them.

With my personal feelings at a place as liberal as Oberlin, it’s incredibly difficult to fight for Christianity. Not doing so, though, would be hypocritical.

Of course, the more inflammatory followers are harder to support, but the only real way to approach that hostility is to listen and to be polite. If we attack it head on like some students did last week, nothing will be accomplished. If we just remember that there are in fact well-meaning and progressive Christians, maybe it will take us one step closer to hearing the opinions of the radical ones, and in turn, maybe they’ll hear ours.

Tink (left) and B

Wes Mandrych and his pugs have been a Doggie Doo costume contest fixture for at least five years. “Yoda’s taken a couple of second prizes as a Navy SEAL; he had a Navy SEAL outfit. And [Max is] the reigning champ, coolest dog right now. He’s defending his title today as King Arthur.” The following day, the pugs and their owners were bound to “Woofstock,” a fundraising walk and festival held in Cleveland, and then on to “PugFest.” Why travel all over northeast Ohio for dog festivals on the last few weekends of summer? “We all have too much time on our hands, we all love our pugs, and we all spoil our pugs.”

Max (left) and Yoda

Bogart

True to the theme of the Doggie Doo, both the soap and the loofah sponge started their lives with owner Mary Zudell as rescue dogs — Penny just last month. They have been attending the Doggie Doo for four years, although never before dressed up. Why the shower costume? “We just have wacky ideas come in our heads. … And it’s just get an idea and go from there. We do crafts all the time, so it just comes natural to dress up the dogs.”

Seen at the Doggie Doo...

B, a Scottish deerhound, and Tink, a Portuguese Podengo Pequeno, are both regulars at area dog shows with the Lorain County Kennel Club. According to Georgina Nagy, the unlikely duo’s owner, “This little one is a grand champion, bronze-level grand champion. And B only needs a few more points to complete her championship.”

Although they were just recently accepted by the American Kennel Club, Portuguese Podengo Pequenos were bred thousands of years ago to hunt rabbits. Nagy, who owns a total of four Portuguese Podengo Pequenos and two Scottish deerhounds, picked the tiny Tink up to sit in her lap. “This is a very big couch potato.”

Creature Comforts Although going to see the “Ginko kittens” has become a byword for a de-stressing kitten cuddle session, the socialization that the kittens get in the back room of this small Main Street art boutique is vital for their adoption prospects. As Liz Burgess, OC ’73 and owner of Ginko’s Gallery and Studio, said about the situation, “It’s been a really wonderful symbiotic relationship between the students and the kittens. … They’re held, they’re loved, they’re played with, and so they get used to all sort of people and they decide people are the best thing in the world. If anything, they’re over-socialized! And I never thought about the fact that students don’t have warm, fuzzy pets on campus, and they miss them.”

Burgess fosters the kittens through the Community Action to Save Strays project, a trap-neuter-return group in the Oberlin area. Nearly 10 years ago, Burgess began taking in a few of the tiniest kittens to raise as a personal project. “I put them in the back storeroom,” said Burgess, “because I didn’t think it was quite appropriate for them to be in the store.” Now, she helps take in some of the almost 100 kittens that College junior CATSS rescues each year.

Miles Schwartz and However, her focus remains Athena on the young kittens. “I take them from one day to about four or five weeks and raise them until they’re healthy enough and old enough to be adopted. If they get too big, they’ll come up into the gallery!”

College sophomore Jaye Goldschneider and kitten Clay

These birds, keeping College first-year Hannah Rodgers company as she works, are a much-beloved feature of the Language Lab.

Dumpling

The chickens cared for by students working at the Adam Joseph Lewis Center enjoy grazing the hazelnut patch in their movable coop.

Penny (left) and Zack

Bogart was surrendered to Pet ResQ of Ohio when his owners were no longer able to take care of him. After a diagnosis of bone cancer and failed attempts at medication, vets were forced to amputate one of his legs. “He’s getting along well,” said Director of Pet ResQ Carrie Graham. “He’s got a splint on the other leg because of his size; it helps support him.” Bogart is one of the organization’s hospice dogs and wasn’t up for adoption. With the motto of “keeping death row dogs on this side of the bridge,” Pet ResQ uses events like the Doggie Doo to raise awareness and find homes for its rescues. Although potential owners must go through a formal adoption process, Graham said, “We have gotten a couple adoptions here in the past, and we’ve had quite a few inquiries this year.”

Teacher’s Pets

In their sixth year at the Doggie Doo, this pair seemed completely unfazed by the heat and commotion of the event.

Owner Jennifer Stolarski explains, “Junior’s a rescue dog, second-hand mutts, and I got Miley as a baby. But they like to go to nursing homes and see everybody. They love attention, they love kids, they like elderly people. But they’re just good dogs, they’re really good dogs.” The two entered the costume contest as Peter Pan and Dorothy.

Residents of Harvey House may be the only students with the fortune to live with an officially permitted dog. Yaya has arguably been the house’s mostloved resident since she moved in with Faculty-in-Residence Vannessa Peláez-Barrios at the beginning of last year. “I love the idea that people can come and if I’m here, I open the door … but if not, they know that there is a pet that’s friendly, and it helps for some students just to hug a pet or pet her. And she loves attention.” Many Spanish House visitors have spread Yaya’s reputation before that of her owner — as Peláez-Barrios said, “Some people I didn’t know, I’m walking on the streets, and they’re all, ‘How is Yaya?’ And I [think], ‘I don’t know you!’”

Faculty-in-Residence Vannessa PeláezBarrios and Yaya

Associate Professor of Philosophy Tim Hall’s African grey parrot Maddie is an occasional visitor to his classes.

Miley and Junior

CALENDAR Fauxgrass Friday, Sept. 26 at 8 p.m.

The Cat in the Cream

Coffee Talk: What Happened in Gaza This Summer?

Saturday, Sept. 27 at 4 p.m.

Mudd 202

Richard Murphy Musicology Colloquium: Carol Hess Saturday, Sept. 27 at 4 p.m.

David H. Stull Recital Hall

Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism: Lecture by J. Brent Morris Monday, Sept. 29 at 4:30 p.m.

Mudd Library 050, A-Level

This four-piece group from Michigan earned its name by blending traditional bluegrass with the modern and progressive. They toured extensively through the Midwest and Northeast before landing in Oberlin, providing what Local Spins called “a modernistic flair with an injection of funk, prog rock and more.”

With the Wilder Bowl display highlighting one side of the Gaza controversy this week, J Street U will be holding one of its regular coffee talks on issues concerning Israel and Palestine. The discussion will focus on giving a historical context to the violence that ensued this summer and asking what can be done to promote peace and justice moving forward.

This colloquium, featuring author and award-winning musicology scholar Carol Hess, will focus on how the American view of Latin American music has shifted over the last century. From the “Good Neighbor” policies of the 1930s and ’40s through the communist threat during the Cold War, reactions to Latin American music have reflected international politics as often as they have reflected the music itself.

The lecture’s title, “Be Not Conformed to This World: Oberlin and the Antebellum Fight for Freedom and Equality,” promises an inspiring and informational history of both the College and the town’s significant roles in the abolition movement. The author will be holding a book signing afterwards in the lower level of Mudd library near Moffett Auditorium.

We Question While We Walk: Building Community Through Popular Education in Albany Park, Chicago Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 4:30 p.m.

La Casa Hispánica (Harvey House) Isabel Valenzuela and Tony Nelson will share their experiences with the Centro Autónomo, a community center in one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the country. The presentation, given in both English and Spanish, will involve issues of immigrant rights, radical pedagogy and community building.

Panel Discussion: Getting to Know Oberlin and Lorain County Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m.

Wilder Hall 112

Oberlin Debate Series: State of the Climate Debate with Patrick Michaels and Judith Curry Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m.

Nancy Schrom Dye Lecture Hall, Science Center

The Oberlin Young Educators will host a panel of community leaders from Oberlin and the broader Lorain County. Speakers range from the lead gardener at Legion Field to representatives of the well-known Oberlin Community Services, the Lorain City Council and the Oberlin Project. The evening will begin with refreshments at 7 p.m.

This debate will pit an ecological climatologist, author and Nobel Peace Prize winner against a climatologist and president of the Climate Forecast Applications Network, a firm that translates weather and climate research for governments and industries. Curious about the state of the climate? These two highly qualified speakers are sure to provide a lively discussion.

THIS WEEK EDITOR : HAZEL GALLOWAY

Tink (left) and B

Wes Mandrych and his pugs have been a Doggie Doo costume contest fixture for at least five years. “Yoda’s taken a couple of second prizes as a Navy SEAL; he had a Navy SEAL outfit. And [Max is] the reigning champ, coolest dog right now. He’s defending his title today as King Arthur.” The following day, the pugs and their owners were bound to “Woofstock,” a fundraising walk and festival held in Cleveland, and then on to “PugFest.” Why travel all over northeast Ohio for dog festivals on the last few weekends of summer? “We all have too much time on our hands, we all love our pugs, and we all spoil our pugs.”

Max (left) and Yoda

Bogart

True to the theme of the Doggie Doo, both the soap and the loofah sponge started their lives with owner Mary Zudell as rescue dogs — Penny just last month. They have been attending the Doggie Doo for four years, although never before dressed up. Why the shower costume? “We just have wacky ideas come in our heads. … And it’s just get an idea and go from there. We do crafts all the time, so it just comes natural to dress up the dogs.”

Seen at the Doggie Doo...

B, a Scottish deerhound, and Tink, a Portuguese Podengo Pequeno, are both regulars at area dog shows with the Lorain County Kennel Club. According to Georgina Nagy, the unlikely duo’s owner, “This little one is a grand champion, bronze-level grand champion. And B only needs a few more points to complete her championship.”

Although they were just recently accepted by the American Kennel Club, Portuguese Podengo Pequenos were bred thousands of years ago to hunt rabbits. Nagy, who owns a total of four Portuguese Podengo Pequenos and two Scottish deerhounds, picked the tiny Tink up to sit in her lap. “This is a very big couch potato.”

Creature Comforts Although going to see the “Ginko kittens” has become a byword for a de-stressing kitten cuddle session, the socialization that the kittens get in the back room of this small Main Street art boutique is vital for their adoption prospects. As Liz Burgess, OC ’73 and owner of Ginko’s Gallery and Studio, said about the situation, “It’s been a really wonderful symbiotic relationship between the students and the kittens. … They’re held, they’re loved, they’re played with, and so they get used to all sort of people and they decide people are the best thing in the world. If anything, they’re over-socialized! And I never thought about the fact that students don’t have warm, fuzzy pets on campus, and they miss them.”

Burgess fosters the kittens through the Community Action to Save Strays project, a trap-neuter-return group in the Oberlin area. Nearly 10 years ago, Burgess began taking in a few of the tiniest kittens to raise as a personal project. “I put them in the back storeroom,” said Burgess, “because I didn’t think it was quite appropriate for them to be in the store.” Now, she helps take in some of the almost 100 kittens that College junior CATSS rescues each year.

Miles Schwartz and However, her focus remains Athena on the young kittens. “I take them from one day to about four or five weeks and raise them until they’re healthy enough and old enough to be adopted. If they get too big, they’ll come up into the gallery!”

College sophomore Jaye Goldschneider and kitten Clay

These birds, keeping College first-year Hannah Rodgers company as she works, are a much-beloved feature of the Language Lab.

Dumpling

The chickens cared for by students working at the Adam Joseph Lewis Center enjoy grazing the hazelnut patch in their movable coop.

Penny (left) and Zack

Bogart was surrendered to Pet ResQ of Ohio when his owners were no longer able to take care of him. After a diagnosis of bone cancer and failed attempts at medication, vets were forced to amputate one of his legs. “He’s getting along well,” said Director of Pet ResQ Carrie Graham. “He’s got a splint on the other leg because of his size; it helps support him.” Bogart is one of the organization’s hospice dogs and wasn’t up for adoption. With the motto of “keeping death row dogs on this side of the bridge,” Pet ResQ uses events like the Doggie Doo to raise awareness and find homes for its rescues. Although potential owners must go through a formal adoption process, Graham said, “We have gotten a couple adoptions here in the past, and we’ve had quite a few inquiries this year.”

Teacher’s Pets

In their sixth year at the Doggie Doo, this pair seemed completely unfazed by the heat and commotion of the event.

Owner Jennifer Stolarski explains, “Junior’s a rescue dog, second-hand mutts, and I got Miley as a baby. But they like to go to nursing homes and see everybody. They love attention, they love kids, they like elderly people. But they’re just good dogs, they’re really good dogs.” The two entered the costume contest as Peter Pan and Dorothy.

Residents of Harvey House may be the only students with the fortune to live with an officially permitted dog. Yaya has arguably been the house’s mostloved resident since she moved in with Faculty-in-Residence Vannessa Peláez-Barrios at the beginning of last year. “I love the idea that people can come and if I’m here, I open the door … but if not, they know that there is a pet that’s friendly, and it helps for some students just to hug a pet or pet her. And she loves attention.” Many Spanish House visitors have spread Yaya’s reputation before that of her owner — as Peláez-Barrios said, “Some people I didn’t know, I’m walking on the streets, and they’re all, ‘How is Yaya?’ And I [think], ‘I don’t know you!’”

Faculty-in-Residence Vannessa PeláezBarrios and Yaya

Associate Professor of Philosophy Tim Hall’s African grey parrot Maddie is an occasional visitor to his classes.

Miley and Junior

CALENDAR Fauxgrass Friday, Sept. 26 at 8 p.m.

The Cat in the Cream

Coffee Talk: What Happened in Gaza This Summer?

Saturday, Sept. 27 at 4 p.m.

Mudd 202

Richard Murphy Musicology Colloquium: Carol Hess Saturday, Sept. 27 at 4 p.m.

David H. Stull Recital Hall

Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism: Lecture by J. Brent Morris Monday, Sept. 29 at 4:30 p.m.

Mudd Library 050, A-Level

This four-piece group from Michigan earned its name by blending traditional bluegrass with the modern and progressive. They toured extensively through the Midwest and Northeast before landing in Oberlin, providing what Local Spins called “a modernistic flair with an injection of funk, prog rock and more.”

With the Wilder Bowl display highlighting one side of the Gaza controversy this week, J Street U will be holding one of its regular coffee talks on issues concerning Israel and Palestine. The discussion will focus on giving a historical context to the violence that ensued this summer and asking what can be done to promote peace and justice moving forward.

This colloquium, featuring author and award-winning musicology scholar Carol Hess, will focus on how the American view of Latin American music has shifted over the last century. From the “Good Neighbor” policies of the 1930s and ’40s through the communist threat during the Cold War, reactions to Latin American music have reflected international politics as often as they have reflected the music itself.

The lecture’s title, “Be Not Conformed to This World: Oberlin and the Antebellum Fight for Freedom and Equality,” promises an inspiring and informational history of both the College and the town’s significant roles in the abolition movement. The author will be holding a book signing afterwards in the lower level of Mudd library near Moffett Auditorium.

We Question While We Walk: Building Community Through Popular Education in Albany Park, Chicago Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 4:30 p.m.

La Casa Hispánica (Harvey House) Isabel Valenzuela and Tony Nelson will share their experiences with the Centro Autónomo, a community center in one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the country. The presentation, given in both English and Spanish, will involve issues of immigrant rights, radical pedagogy and community building.

Panel Discussion: Getting to Know Oberlin and Lorain County Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m.

Wilder Hall 112

Oberlin Debate Series: State of the Climate Debate with Patrick Michaels and Judith Curry Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m.

Nancy Schrom Dye Lecture Hall, Science Center

The Oberlin Young Educators will host a panel of community leaders from Oberlin and the broader Lorain County. Speakers range from the lead gardener at Legion Field to representatives of the well-known Oberlin Community Services, the Lorain City Council and the Oberlin Project. The evening will begin with refreshments at 7 p.m.

This debate will pit an ecological climatologist, author and Nobel Peace Prize winner against a climatologist and president of the Climate Forecast Applications Network, a firm that translates weather and climate research for governments and industries. Curious about the state of the climate? These two highly qualified speakers are sure to provide a lively discussion.

THIS WEEK EDITOR : HAZEL GALLOWAY

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OSTA, OCircus Present First Mime Workshops Liam McLean Staff Writer 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 Gymnasium to promote the legitimization of mime as an art form.

BiLi followed up Friday’s festivities with a master class on Saturday morning about the fundamentals of miming.

College sophomore Amanda Siskind, co-chair of the Oberlin Student Theater Association and treasurer of OCircus, was the primary organizer of the two events.

According to Siskind, BiLi, whose son plays soccer for the College, emailed the school in the hopes of performing for the community.

OSTA and OCircus coordinated both days of the event.

“Mime is [about] creating an illusion,” BiLi said at the start of Saturday’s lecture, surveying the crowd of about 20 that had assembled in rows of folding chairs. Late afternoon light slanted through the windows that overlooked BiLi’s perch on the stage; the crowd was hushed and rapt. Even the group of children in the audience fell silent as BiLi commanded the crowd’s attention.

After a brief introduction, BiLi demonstrated some familiar mime techniques: the classic mime walk, the tugging of a rope and the ubiquitous “wall trick.” Throughout these demonstrations, he offered insights on some of the central principles of miming.

“Mimes have to have a great memory,” said BiLi. To illustrate the maxim, he pantomimed or-

dering a drink at a bar and emphasized that his orientation at the bar in the scene must remain consistent to sustain the illusion.

BiLi showed how the movement of his eyes indicates the height of an invisible ball tossed into the air, demonstrating how the mime’s facial expressions convey the scene’s subtleties.

BiLi thoroughly engaged the crowd, even insisting at one point that everybody stand up and mime pouring and sipping a drink. Later, he invited volunteers to the front of the room to practice the “wall trick.” Toward the end of the lecture he performed a routine with several masks intended to enhance characterizations. Audience reactions ranged from laughter to, in the case of one small child, tears.

BiLi is particularly devoted to combating what he deems to be harmful stereotypes associated with the art form. He lambasted the popular image of the street mime, as well as the idea of the striped T-shirt as a standard mime uniform, which he considers an absurdity that “should be removed from the minds of people and thrown in the garbage.” These clichés trivialize mime and its artistic merits — a trend BiLi seeks to reverse.

“The idea is that mime is an art form. Therefore, you should consider mime … as a form of entertainment. And like you would consider going to the opera, going to see a dance show, or going to see … a play at the theater, you would go and see a mime show.”

The next morning at 11 a.m., 20 students filtered into a dance studio in South Hall for an introduction to some basic mime tech-

niques. The attending students, many artists in their own right, expressed their hopes that this exposure would enrich their abilities in their respective art forms. “I do improv comedy,” said College second-year Harley Foos. “A big part of improv is pantomime. It gives the scene another dimension.”

Other attendees had less defined goals in mind, though they were no less enthusiastic about the chance to dabble in a new art form. “I’m here because it’s basically a free resource to learn from somebody who’s studied the craft for a long time,” said College firstyear Eliana Meyerowitz. Over the course of an hour and 15 minutes, BiLi broke down the fundamental techniques he demonstrated in his lecture and challenged participants to engage with their bodies. He opened the class with a warmup, during which he requested that students isolate different parts of their body to introduce the intense focus and precision that mime demands from its practitioners.

Precision is one of the cardinal concepts that BiLi seeks to impart in his teaching. “I want to show my students that in mime the techniques are not necessarily spontaneous; that you have to learn them and practice them,” he said. “When I show a technique like the walk, there is a lot of technicality that goes into it, because you cannot improvise that, you have to follow a sequence of movements.” Beyond technical principles, BiLi also aims to promote the importance of stage presence and narrative creativity.

This creativity was on full display during BiLi’s performance on Friday, which followed his lecture.

The mime performed his signature skit, “The Window Washer,” the tale of a sprightly worker who peers through the windows he washes for a glimpse at the private lives of those within. The skit ends with a suggestive encounter with

an undressing woman.

At the heart of both the skit and mime as an art form, BiLi asserted, is poetry. “In mime, there is a notion of sensitivity. You have to be See Mime, page 12

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.

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Chen, Zhou Among Final Candidates for Composition Department Position Louise Edwards Staff Writer The shrill whistle of a piccolo cast an eerie, mysterious mood for the opening of Composer-in-Residence Chen Yi’s lecture on Sept. 22.

This tranquil solo began like a loon call on an open lake but was quickly interrupted by thunderous percussion.

The contrast in the dynamics and texture of these disparate instruments was a bold move and demonstrated the uniqueness of Chen’s compositions.

Both Chen and her husband, Zhou Long, also a composer-in-residence at Oberlin, spent the week giving master classes, visiting classes and hearing their own compositions performed by Conservatory students. Both Chen and Zhou are candidates for a position in the Conservatory’s Composition department as well; Professor of Conducting and chair of the

search committee Timothy Weiss said that a total of six finalists will visit campus throughout the semester.

As finalists, Chen and Zhou both have outstanding qualifications as internationally recognized composers. Zhou won a Pulitzer Prize for Music for his first opera, Madame White Snake, and received the Elise L. Stoeger Prize from Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society, the most prestigious prize awarded for the composition of chamber music.

Chen received the Charles Ives Living Award in 2001 and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005. Both currently hold positions as distinguished professors at the Conservatory of Music and Dance at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.

During her lecture on compositional technique, Chen casually mentioned composing a piece for cellist

Yo-Yo Ma. Having suggested that Composition majors play each other’s work, she shared an anecdote from an interaction with Ma. He had been using a conventional fingering for a portion of the piece she had written based on a Chinese folk song.

However, Ma, unsatisfied, asked her to sing the entire folk song out loud. He then made his fingering more challenging in order to match Chen’s style of singing. Chen ended the story by explaining that one can learn a lot from performers of a piece about how to notate a composition.

Chen also expressed her love of writing for children.

“If you can write for kids, it is very good because they learn very quickly,” she said.

A five-movement choral piece, arranged for girls ages six to sixteen with different ranges of singing abilities, showcased her skill in catering to the performers of her music. The lyrics of the

movement for the youngest age group consisted of just four Chinese characters, while the eldest girls sang a movement with 15 different intertwining parts.

Chen also urged students to write choral music. “I want to encourage you to write for a choir, because there are choirs everywhere,” she said.

Chen and Zhou’s work, played in an Oberlin Sinfonietta concert on Sept.

23, reflected a thoughtful interweaving of Chinese and Western influences, a characteristic reflected in many of their pieces.

Chen’s “Happy Rain on a Fall Night” drew inspiration from a poem by Du Fu from the eighth century Tang dynasty. Weiss, who conducted Tuesday’s concert, said the melodic contour of the piece matches the speech inflection of the poem when recited in Chinese, taking advantage of the musical nature of Chinese tones.

Zhou’s piece, “Bell Drum Towers,” was a tribute to the eponymous towers in Beijing, near where Zhou grew up. During the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties (1271–1912), the bell towers served as central points of reference for time and place. Additionally, the bell is the heaviest in China.

Percussion played an important role in the piece’s instrumentation; sometimes the rhythm would be front and center with clear, defining beats, while at other times the beat faded into the background, growing increasingly distant. This mirrored how one conceptualizes time. Sometimes it is loud and demanding, while other times its passing goes nnoticed.

Weiss will also be conducting another concert featuring different works of Chen and Zhou on Friday, Sept. 26 at 8 p.m. in Warner Concert Hall. The couple’s work will be paired

with that of Augusta Read Thomas and Bernard Rands, another composer couple.

“There are not too many of those combinations [of composer couples] in the contemporary field,” Weiss said.

Weiss had already been planning to perform the Chen and Zhou works as well as to record Thomas’s Bassoon Concertino. “Since I had those three, I thought it made sense to add the Bernard Rands piece,” Weiss said. He also said that while the other pieces are busy, energetic and loud, Rands’s Scherzi is more contemplative and filled with space, balancing out the other pieces.

The Composition department experiences regular turnovers in its quest to keep its innovative edge.

Fortunately, both Chen and Zhou can offer valuable perspectives and have been well-received by students in concerts and classes alike.

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Coltrane’s Life Work Honored in Student Concert Vida Weisblum Arts Editor 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 featuring many of his works. The student musicians skillfully captured Coltrane’s dynamic and colorful repertoire, and more importantly, their candid performance displayed the enrapturing effect of Coltrane’s music.

Michael Odé, a Conservatory sophomore Jazz Percussion major who organized the performance, sent out an email to friends and fellow jazz musicians a few weeks ago that detailed his intentions to put together a concert in honor of the saxophone idol. “Everyone who plays jazz has been influenced by Coltrane,” said junior Jazz Saxophone major Jake Abramson, “but Mike did a really good job of choosing musicians who had [been particularly influenced by Coltrane’s music].” According to Zachary Warren, Jazz Trombone major and senior, the group of musicians rarely rehearsed the set list as a group.

Odé garnered a slew of enthusiastic responses from several fellow jazz musicians, and together the group produced a varied yet streamlined production. Despite not being a saxophonist, Odé has strong ties to Coltrane’s brand of jazz.

“John Coltrane has been a really big influence on my musical development,” Odé said. “He’s probably one of the main reasons I went to school to study jazz.” The musician’s developed passion for Coltrane has been fueled by similar admiration for the saxophonist among Odé’s professors, including Billy Hart, assistant professor of Jazz Percussion. “The thing about Coltrane’s music is that it’s very spiritual,” said Warren, who is taking a semester off but returned to campus for the concert.

“Just to play that music is an experience within itself.” For Warren, Coltrane’s music is more than just an inspiration, but “flows through” those who play it and listen to it. “It’s not about being wrong or right,” he said. “It’s about playing what you feel.”

The first act of the show included some of Coltrane’s earlier works, including songs from his second album, Blue Train, while the second act featured music from

later in his life, such as Coltrane’s familiar version of “My Favorite Things”. Whereas many other jazz performances — albeit technically sound — lack a theme, the Coltrane concert provided a unifying reason to gather. Though the audience was mostly composed of Conservatory

Jazz majors whose music careers have all presumably been touched by Coltrane in some manner, the vibe in the Cat was welcoming toward people who just wanted to listen to some Coltrane. Not only did See Celebratory, page 13

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.

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Cajun Band Carries on Rich Musical Tradition Mysterious ArHannah Morris “This song is about how life’s too short to sit at home on your computer on Facebook and tweeter… Tweeter? Twitter?” drummer of the Pine Leaf Boys Drew Simon mused as he introduced the band’s first number, “La Vie est Trop Courte,” at the Cat in the Cream Sept. 19. Simon’s slipup underscored the Pine Leaf Boys’ anachronistic vibe as they played a nearly two hour-long set of Cajun tunes.

Cheerful front man and accordionist (Cajun accordionist, to be specific) Wilson Savoy was eager to inform the crowd that this was not the Grammy Award-nominated quintet’s first visit to Oberlin. Sporting a backwards baseball cap and a wide, toothy grin, Savoy was joined onstage by guitarist Jon Bertrand, whose thin, oldfashioned mustache was barely visible under his ten-gallon hat.

Rounding out the quintet, and decidedly more conventional in appearance, were Simon on drums, Thomas David on electric bass and Courtney Granger on fiddle.

The set was a fairly even mix of original songs from the band’s own albums, including its 2007 record, Blues De Musicien, which includes covers of upbeat Cajun classics, some country, waltzes and 1950s Jerry Lee Lewis-style rock ‘n’ roll.

Savoy’s raspy voice lent a modern twist to songs whose roots go as far back as the early 20th century. Before even playing the first note, he encouraged the audience to get up and dance, citing Oberlin’s reputation for having one of the best social dance scenes in the country.

For the first few songs, the audience was hesitant, but once the band launched into a rowdy cover of Jerry Lee Lewis’s “Keep Your Hands Off of It,” nearly half of the audience was on its feet. The band slowed down as Granger lent his classic country croon to several George Jones covers, including the standout “If My Heart Had Windows.”

Savoy addressed the set’s only shortcoming when he explained to an audience member that he would have to wait a few songs to play a request because it sounded too similar to the

previous song. “To some people, a lot of these songs might sound the same. Not to me, but to the untrained ear.” That was sometimes the case, as it was hard to distinguish one fiddle solo or bluesy, down-and-out lyric from the next, but the band’s unyielding enthusiasm never ceased to sustain the crowd’s attention.

All members of the band are Louisiana natives and clearly proud of the unique Cajun culture from which their music stems. There’s nothing quite like the contrast between the musicians’ Southern twang and fluent French. On the subject of Creole versus standard French, Savoy said, “We understand them, but they can’t quite understand us!”

Despite the light-hearted banter, Pine Leaf Boys recognize that Cajun music and culture is still something that many people are unfamiliar with, and take seriously the responsibility of sharing it with the world.

People often mistake Savoy’s handmade Cajun accordion for things as varied as a concertina or a saxophone. He even claims that an audience member once

thought the band was singing in Chinese — “We were in England, and I think the song was in English!”

Granger shared a piece of Cajun music history as he introduced a song called “Newport Waltz,” explaining that the song was written by a group of Cajun musicians, the Balfa Brothers (including Granger’s uncle, Dewey Balfa), after playing the Newport Folk Festival in 1964.

According to Granger, it was the first time Cajun music was brought outside of Louisiana, and despite being warned that the sophisticated crowd would ridicule “chank-a-chank” music, the Brothers received a standing ovation. “Ever since that day, [my uncle] would come home and tell the people, ‘What you have in your backyard needs to be played in your front yard, amongst the people. Be proud of what you have,’” said Granger.

The Pine Leaf Boys are clearly proud of what they have, and thanks to them, the legacy of Cajun musicians sharing their rich tradition with us deprived Northerners carries on.

Pine Leaf Boys members Courtney Granger (left), Drew Simon, Wilson Savoy, Thomas David and Jon Bertrand give an enthusiastic performance at the Cat in the Cream. The band returned to Oberlin last Friday to reprise their delightful 2012 performance.

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tifact Discussed at Object Talk Aviva Blonder Staff Writer A small crowd gathered around one of the many glass cases that line the walls of the Allen Memorial Art Museum this past Sunday for the Museum’s first “Object Talk” of the semester.

On this particular afternoon, everyone’s attention was focused on “Lipit-Ishtar,” a small clay cone covered in cuneiform that dates back to 1939–1928 B.C.E. According to College senior Rachel Webberman, a student docent, the cone was donated to the museum by the Oberlin College Classics department in 1942. Because the piece was likely looted from one of several sites by the Tigris River in what is now Iraq, the exact origins of the object are unknown. An assyriologist at the University of Chicago matched it with seven other pieces, which are located in several different collections around the world. The inscription on the cone references “a house of righteousness,” or a law code, that predates Hammurabi’s famous code by 200 years.

Webberman, a Religion and Classics major with a particular interest in ancient religions and the Hebrew Bible, spent last Winter Term in a program at Oberlin where she “learned a lot about how to help people think through art and what questions to ask.” Jason Trimmer, curator of education, has been teaching the program since eight years ago when he began working at the Allen. The program’s final project entails writing a sizable research paper about an item in the collection of the student’s choice and giving a brief talk about that particular object. Webberman chose the cuneiform cone because of her interest in the ancient world, particularly the ancient Middle East. “I think that it’s one of the only things that you can look at and seriously have no idea what it is,” said Webberman.

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Organ Pump Excites Late-Night Audience Maggie Bussard An Oberlin tradition began again on Sept. 19 when a large crowd poured into Finney Chapel for the first Organ Pump of the year. By the start of the show at midnight, the room was packed with a mixture of new and returning students, all waiting expectantly for the debut of the Organ department’s performing cast.

The house lights dimmed and the emcee of the evening, Conservatory sophomore Jay Yau, dressed in a pink trench coat, large sunglasses and heels, stepped on stage to begin the show. Yau’s sarcastic enthusiasm brought the event to life, especially for those who were less knowledgeable about organ performances or classical composers. This Organ Pump did not have a particular theme, but, as is customary, the creepy, decorative skeleton hung in a potted plant off to one side of the stage.

The first work of the program was the finale from Charles-Marie Widor’s second symphony, performed

by Conservatory junior Mitchell Miller. His energy gave the evening a lively start and literally caused the room to shake from the vibrations of the Finney organ, granting the audience a taste of what to expect during the finale. The piece finished with thunderous applause — an excellent beginning to the event and the year.

Next, Conservatory senior Richard Gray played 20th-century French organist Jehan Alain’s “Premiere Fantasie.” This piece is strongly reminiscent of a film score in that it tells a story through varying intensities and rhythms, the motifs sounding like dramatic cues. The work begins in a piercingly high register, but quickly mellows to a leisurely stroll before cycling through a number of different character studies, adding color and flavor to the musical narrative.

The third act was the highlight of the evening.

Miller returned to the stage, this time performing on the celesta to accompany double-degree junior Christine Jay as she sang selections from the Review Safety and Security reports from the first few weeks of the semester. Jay had a gripping performance style, convincingly portraying a dismayed Safety and Security officer admonishing the audience. Her body language deftly complemented the reports of excessive alcohol consumption, a carbon monoxide detector that needed new batteries, unauthorized parties and a stolen bike.

She finished off the list with the Lord’s Prayer, inviting a great deal of laughter; she then outdid herself when she began to sing Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” before deciding better of it and gracefully exiting the stage.

Once the crowd settled down, Conservatory sophomore Rees Taylor Roberts performed the fugue from Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in D Major. Roberts put on not only a pleasant listening experience, but also an enjoyable viewing experience. The piece involved some very complex foot manipulation; Roberts looked to be dancing on the pedals of the organ even while seated. At one point, he lifted his hands up as if to say, “Look Ma, no hands,” which drove the crowd wild.

The penultimate piece of the evening was an Organ Pump debut performance from Conservatory first-year Natalie Mealey, who played Simon Preston’s “Alleluyas.” The crowd was very welcoming to the newcomer, and she played music eerily suggestive of a haunted carnival with poise and confidence.

The final work of the program, César Franck’s “Piéce Héroïque,” performed by Yau, was a fantastic way to finish off the concert. Before beginning, Yau invited the audience to come onstage and lazily played the theme song to “Jeopardy!” while the crowd ran in a frenzy to find space to lie down. Yau’s performance provided the floor shaking finish; at first the vibrations were barely noticeable, and the tension in the room built as the crowd waited for the highlight of the Organ Pump experience. The music created the ideal atmosphere for lying still on the stage of the dark chapel, and, as the second half of the piece built in volume and drama, it at last provided the sonic vibrations so traditional to the conclusion of Organ Pump.

The Oberlin Review, September 26, 2014

The Epicurean: L’Albatros Lives Up to Hype Matt Segall Columnist This is the second in a biweekly column highlighting our local culinary scene.

Restaurant reviews, research, interviews, recipes and more will all come together in order to identify what makes the Cleveland experience unique.

Zack Bruell is not an attention-monger. You will not find him competing on “Iron Chef ” or “Chopped.” You will not hear people speaking his name in New York or Los Angeles. But he happens to own five of the most popular restaurants in Cleveland. He is more local hero than national treasure.

L’Albatros Brasserie and Bar, his casual French outpost, has earned some of the highest Zagat ratings of any Cleveland restaurant, in addition to being one of the most talked-about restaurants in the city. Its proximity to Severance Concert Hall, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art makes it an ideal spot for a meal before a night on the town, or a drink and snack to finish out the evening. Best of all, L’Albatros’s modestly priced menu is affordable even to diners confined by a college budget.

A small open kitchen begs for your attention immediately upon entering the building. The honesty and transparency of this feature is a confidence-builder for the diner and has become a hallmark of many

Cleveland establishments. My dining companion and I opted for outdoor seating on the patio, complete with a cabanatype lounge, and were instantly met with decent bread and olive oil.

Attractive prices and even more attractive offerings served to whet my appetite as I perused their lengthy menu.

With over 20 entrée options alone, they offer an absurd number of dishes. While a long menu makes sure there is “something for everyone,” that is something one typically expects at a hole-in-the-wall Chinese joint, not an upscale eatery. Mostly unfazed by the epic scroll in front of me, I ordered one item from each main section of the menu — the charcuterie board, a white pizza and the burger — to spotcheck their execution. Since I only had an hour to eat, I asked our server to put the whole ticket in at once, rather than staging the delivery in appetizer, entrée, etc.

My request was handled with expertise.

The burger arrived first. Like any true American, I have consumed many plates of burgers and fries in my lifetime. Unlike most Americans, after eating so many burgers, most simply do not cut it. But L’Albatros’s burger hit all the right marks.

Its loosely formed, tender patty is the polar opposite of the Feve’s dense, gritty meat-puck abomination. The toppings are expertly applied to highlight the flavor and texture of the quality beef and wisely tucked under the meat so they don’t slide out from within the bun. And the fries!

L’Albatros Brasserie and Bar’s charcuterie board offers a varied assortment of delicious samples. Columnist Matt Segall visited the popular Cleveland eatery and gave the restaurant a glowing review.

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Noisily crispy even 15 minutes after being brought to the table, I suspect they are twice fried in beef fat — unarguably the best way to make a french fry. Upon finishing our plates, my dining companion declared that L’Albatros’s burger was one of the best he’d ever had. While I can’t quite agree with him (the Black Label burger at Minetta Tavern tops my list), L’Albatros’s is an honorable contribution to the burger canon.

The charcuterie (cured meats) plate was the highlight of the meal. I appreciated the variety of the five distinct meat products on the board, and at $12, with near-excessive amounts of each option, this is the best deal in charcuterie that I have come across. They don’t compromise on quality either; four of the five items are made in-house, which is a rarity in American restaurants. My favorite was the chef ’s terrine — a mixture of pork and veal studded with pistachios. Surprisingly, there was a sweet, chai spice aroma on the finish, which pleasantly counteracted the rich mouthfeel up front. The knowledgeable busser informed me that the chefs often use allspice, cardamom and cloves in their long-form terrines. The only disappointment on the board was the imported prosciutto, but going up against the four miraculous house-made patés, terrines and sausages, it is understandable that the still-luxurious ham paled in comparison.

Last came the pizza, which our food runner heroically managed to squeeze between the burger and charcuterie plates on our small two-seat table. But the positivity surrounding the pizza ended there.

The size of the thing was a joke. At less than 7 inches in diameter, no perfectly charred crust, deliciously aromatic olive oil or melty parmesan could justify the $12 price tag. Hopefully our pizza’s size was a few standard deviations below the mean, and I’m inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Minus the pizza, which we clearly could’ve done without, my bill totaled $16 including tax and tip. I’d be hardpressed to find such a deal that does not compromise execution, service or atmosphere anywhere else in the country. Restaurants this popular tend to decrease in quality over time as they grow complacent, but for now, L’Albatros is living up to the hype.

Webberman Leads Talk on Cuneiform Cone Continued from page 11 The Winter Term intensive, which first began in 1990, is, according to Trimmer, “a great opportunity to spend intensive time in the galleries.” Students spend four hours a day in the museum learning about educational philosophies in light of the collection, so that they get a better understanding of the range of objects on view. They also go on field trips and learn about possible career paths. The mission of the program, according to Trimmer, is for “[the students] to get comfortable as instructors and to stimulate interest among visitors.” Trimmer said that bonding as a group was very important. Webberman

agreed that having an enthusiastic group of students involved in the program was one of the highlights of the experience.

According to Trimmer, many students in the program ultimately apply for assistant positions at the Allen or find internships and entry-level jobs at other museums, and many have gone on to graduate school in museum studies. He recommended participating as “the best way to get involved with the museum,” since the application process for the Winter Term program is less selective than the application process for most jobs. Finally, Trimmer said he would urge all students at Oberlin, regardless of their interest level in museum studies, to visit the museum at least once during their time here.

Mime Show Excites, Engages Despite Small Turnout Continued from page 10 a little bit poetic,” he said. “This character of the window washer, there is a little poetry behind it, because he’s a sensitive guy.”

Spry and animated on stage, BiLi evoked an earnest passion for his art that he later expressed in an interview, reclining meditatively on a couch in South Hall following Sunday’s master class. The French-born

artist began his formal training in 1976 under the tutelage of Stella Bensadon, a disciple of influential mime artist Marcel Marceau. He elaborated on his long-held passion for the form.

“As an art form, [mime] is extremely powerful because, in fact, you can tell stories about anything, stories that are very abstract, something very visual, something very real, something very unreal and surreal.” He also emphasized the crucial participatory

role that spectators play in interpreting the mime’s movements. “The job of the mime is to create an illusion, so for that illusion to take place you have to have some brain power … behind it.”

Siskind expressed overall satisfaction at the community response to the events. Though she regretted the small turnout, she noted those who did attend “were very invested in it, and that was really nice to see.”

The Oberlin Review, September 26, 2014

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La Yegros Kicks Off U.S. Tour at Oberlin Colin Roshak

big cities, including New York and Chicago. Clearly, the Cat in the Cream provided a more intimate setting than De la Guarda, and the band brought more than enough energy to fill the space.

At first, La Yegros looked uncomfortable crammed tightly into the small space while the audience remained seated. Later on, after the accordionist encouraged the audience not to be shy, many began dancing, and the band started to smile and connect with the audience. La Yegros, standing in an illuminated puddle of dimmed red spotlights, performed a number of styles, ranging from rap to some-

thing comparable to an LMFAO song superimposed over the IncepEnergetically taking the stage in tion soundtrack. The overlapping of white-winged shoes and a bright such diverse styles intrigued listengreen headpiece, Mariana Yegros, ers, but was less melodic and more the conservatory-trained lead of an acquired taste. singer of the Latinx group La YeWhen they performed the title gros, kicked off her band’s inaugusong to their debut album Viene ral U.S. tour at the Cat in the Cream de mi, the group was more enerthis past Sunday. The group, who gized and danced around the stage, performed on campus in honor of which garnered a positive response Latinx month, received national from the audience. During “Señora recognition after appearing as part Chichera,” the audience even joined of the experimental theater De la in at the chorus. La Yegros perGuarda. Having already performed formed confidently and with prein front of an audience of thoucision. With a strong emphasis on sands, the group plans on continuinstrumentals, Yegros herself only ing to play in front of audiences in took the leading role a few times.

The group, unlike most modern music groups, functioned as an ensemble rather than just as accompaniment to one lead performer.

While the collaborative aspect of the performance was admirable, the audience struggled to connect with the performers, and although the music was lively, the impersonal approach of the performance sometimes made the music difficult to enjoy. Yegros rarely took the time to explain the inspiration or meanings behind the songs; instead, each song was merely followed by “Muchas gracias, thank you very much.”

Despite the band’s lack of continuity and minimal interaction with the audience, the experience was engaging in an unconventional way.

La Yegros performs for an intimate crowd at the Cat in the Cream in honor The group can be expected to have of Latinx Heritage Month. The concert was the first in the Argentina-based a successful tour as they venture to band’s inaugural United States tour.

Erin Ulrich perform at bigger venues this year.

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Celebratory Coltrane Concert Wows Audience at Cat Continued from page 11 audience members get to hear classics from a beloved artist, but they were also treated to the sheer passion and impressive talent of a group of young musicians.

Although the performance centered on a renowned saxophonist, each of the instrumentalists included in the performance — trumpet-players, pianists, bassists, and guitarists — all contributed to the musicians’ fierce zeal for Coltrane and honored the aspects of their own skill that have been influenced by him. The event did not appear to feature the saxophone at the exclusion of other instruments; even Jazz Saxophone major and double-degree sophomore Mel Maetzener, who played a starring role, appeared in the second act playing an alto clarinet. During some of the songs, more than one musician would perform on the same instrument, creating a powerful sound that positively affected the crowd’s spirit. The concert was exciting, with each of the performers getting a brief moment of glory during their solo. Though Ode was the only musician who was featured on every song of the evening, the true zenith of the concert occurred when Jazz Percussion major and senior Zaire Darden’s unbelievable drum solo in the second act caused jaws to drop.

Ode said that the highlight of the performance was “the [uplifting] vibe in the room.” Jazz Trumpet major and sophomore Noé Mina said she agreed: “It was cool, too, because not all the musicians that play get to come together for one concert.” Ode nodded his head in agreement. “It’s hard to pull out one [highlight] collectively,” he said.

With regard to his experience, Warren said, “[It was] a blessing to hear everybody express themselves on stage [and] to sit and listen to somebody else [interpret the] special melodies [of Coltrane].”

Ode is set on making the event an annual one, and fellow Jazz majors are similarly enthused about the impressive outcome of the concert.

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The Oberlin Review, September 26, 2014

IN THE LOCKER ROOM

Cross Country Siblings

This week, the Review sat down with two sets of siblings on the cross country team, senior Lola Coombs and sophomore Garret Coombs and junior Joshua Urso and first-year Sarah Urso to discuss cross country routes, their competitiveness and how much they hang out at Oberlin.

Is it weird going to school with your sibling?

Sarah Urso: Not really, because we’ve been through high school together, and we’ve been through so many schools together that it just seems like a continuation of that.

Garret Coombs: I say no.

Lola Coombs: I would say it’s not weird; it’s a good time. Garret and I didn’t go to high school together, so it’s like being reunited from middle school days.

Joshua Urso: Generally it’s not that weird, but at times it can be because I’ve been here for two years, so it’s kind of different bumping into my sister. [She’s] intruding on my college experience. [Laughs.] She’ll tell our mom something and then I’ll go to tell her that and she’ll already know.

Sometimes to make it fun, we’ll do a loop in the cemetery or jump in the Arb. JU: Southern Seven is my favorite. It’s just sheltered from the wind way more than any of the northern routes. I like Northern Seven too, even though it’s actually closer to like six and a half. There are a lot more trees that way so it’s not freezing when it gets colder. You do have to change what runs you do, because doing the same runs every day would be awful.

Lola Coombs (top left), Garret Coombs, Joshua Urso and Sarah Urso

Did you always think you’d end up at school together?

LC: I mean, it was Garret’s decision because he was the younger one. He followed me here. [Laughs.]

I didn’t have any say in it.

year of high school.

JU: I started running cross country junior year of high school. I always did track, though. Our parents never really ran other than just to stay in shape, but since I started getting more into it in college, my dad started getting into it and trains for half-marathons now. A lot of the time during my runs over the summer he’ll actually run with me or Sarah.

How long have you been running cross country? Do your parents run or did they used to run competitively?

SU: I’ve been doing cross country since seventh grade, so a long time.

Our mom runs just for physical exercise.

GC: Our parents run for fun, and I think we both started freshman

How competitive were you with each other growing up?

SU: I don’t think Josh and I were really competitive as far as running goes, because he’s a boy and I’m a girl, so obviously he’s going to be faster no matter what. The only thing competitive I think would be board games.

JU: Board games get really

intense.

GC: I feel like I was more competitive with [Lola] than she was with me.

LC: It was more in Garret’s mind.

I didn’t care as much.

How has your relationship changed since you’ve been at school together?

LC: I would say our relationship has gotten closer. We’re better friends now because we’re teammates and we had a class together last year, so I’d see him there.

JU: I would say it has changed a little bit; we’ve become closer, but it hasn’t been that long since she’s been here.

Is there anything you do other than run to stay in shape?

SU: Even in season, besides run-

ning, we do strength circuits.

GC: Sometimes we snowboard together.

LC: Running is like the only form of exercise I really do, which is probably bad. I guess I just live to run.

JU: Over the summer, I play pickup games of soccer and things like that. Whenever I’m not in season for cross country, I’ll do a little bit of lifting to prepare for track.

Do you run the exact same route around campus every day during practice?

SU: A lot of our routes start out the same, but then they diverge off the further you go. We have really weird names for all of them. Some have a different variety of corn fields.

LC: They all kind of start out on College or Lorain. I like the Alpaca Six and I hate Southern Seven.

Do you and your sibling hang out a lot here?

LC: Sometimes I make Garret go to sibling brunch with me. Last year we did that a lot. Also, sometimes I make him study at Slow Train with me.

JU: Sarah and I both are in the same astronomy class, so we’ll work on the problem sets together then.

A lot of times she’ll just find me in the atrium or the science library and we’ll study together. Whenever I get tired of Stevie, I pretty much tell Sarah that she is going to Agave with me.

Anyone else in the family that might come to Oberlin?

SU: We have a younger sister.

She’s a junior in high school and I just have this strange feeling that she’s gonna come to Oberlin.

JU: Every time [our sister] sees us, she says, “When I come to Oberlin…”

She’s funny.

GC: I’m the youngest, so no.

LC: Yeah, our older sister missed out on the Coombs opportunity.

That’s her bad, I guess.

Interview by Nate Levinson, Sports Editor Photo by Simeon Deutsch

— Women’s Volleyball —

Yeowomen Drop Games to DePauw, Manchester Harrison Wollman The volleyball team dropped two games on Saturday, falling to the nationally ranked DePauw University Tigers and Manchester University Spartans, pushing its record to 4–10.

In the morning contest, the 19th-ranked Tigers proved too tough for the Yeowomen, as they completed a three-game sweep by the scores of 25–16, 25–14 and 25–17.

Sophomore setter Meredith Leung kept the Yeowomen in the game offensively, distributing 10 assists in a game where at least seven different Yeowomen had at least two kills.

First-year Megan Cox anchored the Yeowomen on defense with 10 digs.

The afternoon match against the Spartans was more competitive, but a pivotal 26–24 third set loss proved to be the dealbreaker as the Spartans came out on top with scores of 25–18, 22–25, 26–24 and 25–19.

Sophomore outside hitter Ave Spencer led the Yeowomen with 12 kills, and junior defensive specialist Molly Powers contributed 21 digs in a strong effort.

Assistant Coach Brian Ambrose acknowledged the talent level of the Tigers in the first game loss and knew coming into the game that that the Yeowomen would have to be firing on all cylinders if they wanted to have a chance at an upset.

“DePauw is a very good team and is ranked nationally, so when you’re playing a team like that you have to be very efficient

in your offense and with your whole system,” he said. “We played well against them, but I think we just didn’t side out at a high enough percentage.”

Leung also acknowledged that heading into the pair of games Saturday, the team was still struggling to put together a complete performance.

“We’re a very young team with a lot of potential, and right now we’re having trouble executing,” she said. “They were two very clean teams that don’t make a lot of errors, and being efficient is one of the things we have struggled with.”

The pair of losses moves the Yeowomen to six games below .500 on the season and 0–1 in conference play. The Yeowomen are coming off a 2013 campaign in which they went 12–19 with a 4–4 conference record.

Head Coach Erica Rau has a strong sense of what the team needs to do in order to take the overall level of play to the next level.

“We need to work a lot on our consistency and highs and lows,” she said. “The talent is all there, it’s just getting them to finish and be confident while knowing they’re a good team.

We’re young, so sometimes we still doubt ourselves instead of moving forward and fighting.

We’ve picked up our intensity level at practice across the board from the coaches and players, and I think that’s going to help us moving forward.”

After graduating just one senior from the 2013 team, the Yeowomen came into this sea-

son looking to improve on last year’s success.

Junior captain Molly Powers said she believes the team still has time to build and turn its performance around.

“The first half of our season wasn’t totally representative of our play,” she said. “We usually take one or two sets from each team, and we’re right there against everyone we play. It shows that we are working hard and we’re at that turning point. We have to keep each other

motivated because our season can only go up from this point, especially with conference ahead of us when conference was our strong point of last season.”

Moving forward, the Yeowomen have a stretch of road games starting with a matchup against the Capital University Crusaders on Friday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. The Yeowomen’s next home game is onWednesday, Oct. 8 against the Denison University Big Red.

Junior Maddy Dunn spikes the ball in a home game this season. The volleyball team enters a Friday road match against the Capital University Crusaders with a 4–10 record. Courtesy of OC Athletics

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— Women’s Soccer —

Yeowomen Begin Conference Play on High Note Sloane Garelick 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 defeated the Lions of Mount St. Joseph 5–1 during their home opener. The team jumped out to an early lead on first-half goals from sophomore and Review Sports Editor Tyler Sloan, sophomore Megan Herrmann and first-year Hannah Cook.

Junior Sarah Willete added a fourth goal for the Yeowomen early in the second half, and though the Lions finally answered back with a goal in the 67th minute, the Yeowomen secured the victory with another goal from Cook late in the game.

Coming off a hard-fought 1–0 victory over the Benedictine University Eagles, the Yeowomen were thrilled to walk away with an easy win against the Lions.

“We really came together and executed our game plan, which was to possess,” said Willete. “Our offensive changes were great, and defensively I thought we were really highly organized.”

Head Coach Dan Palmer was equally impressed with the team’s efforts against the Lions.

“Mount St. Joseph was a tough team to break down, but we did the things that we needed to do to make sure we came out on top,” he said.

On Saturday, the team continued its hot streak, winning its third consecutive game by defeating the Marietta College Pioneers 2–1 on an overtime goal by Cook.

The first goal for the Yeowomen came off the foot of Cook’s fellow firstyear Gwennie Gardiner and gave the team an early 1–0 lead.

“Tyler [Sloan] passed me the ball and I took a touch in the 18,” said Cook.

“I cut back to the right, and I just finished the goal. After it went in, I honestly couldn’t see if the ref was going to call the game over, since there was just a mob of celebration.”

After her two game-changing performances against Mount St. Joseph and Marietta, Cook was named North Coast Athletic Conference Player of the Week.

Though the Pioneers have yet to win a game this season, the game was hardfought from start to finish, and Palmer was proud of the way the team was able to stay focused.

“The [Marietta] game was a difficult game from the standpoint that the team we played was pretty athletic and very physical,” he said. “Going into the overtime, though, I think that they were focused and knew that we had outplayed them; we just hadn’t outscored them to that point in time, so as long as we stayed disciplined it’d be expected that we’d come out with a good result.”

Playing their third game in five days on Monday, the Yeowomen secured another home victory, defeating the Defi-

ance College Yellow Jackets 1–0. Again the Yeowomen got a key contribution from a new player; first-year Lauren Koval scored the only goal of the game in the 30th minute.

The Yeowomen’s strong defensive play also contributed to the team’s victory.

“We possessed well, and our defensive line was absolutely solid,” said Willete. “This is a team that had beaten us the previous two years, so it felt really good to finally stick a win out against them.”

The Yeowomen finally ended the week with the 1–0 win over the Fight-

ing Muskies on Wednesday night. The lone goal came from Hannah Cook, capping off her recent stretch of strong play.

The recent wins have left the team quite optimistic for the rest of the season, but the Yeowomen know that they need to continue to improve in order to keep winning.

“We have a really young team, so we have to be confident in our ability to play because we have all the skills and we have all the talent,” said Willete. “Sometimes I feel like we may or may not doubt ourselves, but we have the potential to be an amazing pro-

gram this season.”

According to Palmer, the team knows that maintaining patience and a consistent work ethic are essential to ensuring future success this season.

“It comes down to how consistently we can execute the things that we do well,” said Palmer. “If we stay disciplined and we execute, then our chances are pretty good in all these games.”

This Saturday, the Yeowomen will take on the Wittenberg University Tigers at 4 p.m. on Fred Shults Field in their first conference game of the season.

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.

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Football Downed 63–10 Continued from page 16 for the Yeomen and their fans, the crowd and post-game created a lively atmosphere which Schenk said he’d only seen happen once or twice before at Oberlin.

“The support was awesome, the amount of people was great, it was a really different feeling,” he said. “I hope that’s something that continues despite our loss.”

The Yeomen have already moved on from the tough loss and have begun preparing for Saturday’s home game against the

Wittenberg University Tigers.

The last time the two teams met, the Tigers came away with a 59–0 victory, and Coach Anderson said the team is looking forward to Saturday’s challenge.

“We have an incredible opportunity coming up here on Saturday,” he said. “We have a nationally ranked opponent coming into our house. We want to compete, have fun and embrace everything that collegiate football offers: the incredible opportunity to play the game that you love at a very high level.”

Editorial: Solo Latest Athlete to Commit Act of Domestic Violence Continued from page 16 before a recent friendly match.

However, media outlets have been quick to equate Solo’s case with those of Peterson and Rice, and have even more readily transformed this story into a dialogue about women committing acts of domestic violence “too.” While Solo should absolutely be suspended for her wrongdoing, the conversation about her case should stop there. There is no excuse for domestic assault, but harping on her case detracts from the larger issue at hand.

I firmly believe that a professional athlete is a professional athlete, and domestic violence is domestic violence, regardless of gender. But does U.S. Soccer have a domestic assault problem? Absolutely not. Part of the reason that this case has received so much media attention is because of its rarity. It is only once in a blue moon that we hear about cases like Solo’s.

Meanwhile, 48 percent of all violent crime arrests in the NFL are domestic vio-

lence charges.

This is an issue that the league deals with on an ongoing basis. This is also incredibly important when we take a step back to think about the different fan bases of the two leagues. The U.S. Women’s National Team has historically attracted a younger female crowd due to its close ties with an amendment to Title IX. The 1999 women’s World Cup team was a direct product of the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act, the act that gave female collegiate athletes the opportunity to compete in equal numbers as male athletic teams had for years prior.

Meanwhile, the NFL directs most of its advertisements and commercial products at its primary consumers: men. So male fans are not only idolizing players in the league but aspiring to be like them.

With respect to Hope Solo and her case, the conversation about domestic violence needs to shift away from a game of pointing fingers and to move toward a unified effort aimed at ending all domestic violence in all sports.

Sports The Oberlin Review

September 26, 2014

As part of a historic homecoming weekend, the football team took on The College of Wooster Fighting Scots in their first game under the lights at the new Austin E. Knowlton Athletics Complex.

No empty bleacher seats were visible on the home side of the new stadium, as the crowded and enthusiastic mass of alumni, faculty and students totaled over 2,000 people.

Despite the overwhelming support from the home crowd, the visiting Fighting Scots soundly defeated the Yeomen 63–10.

The Yeomen started out strong on their opening possession, driving 65 yards on 15 plays while taking 8:04 off the clock. The drive stalled on the Fighting Scots’ seven-yard line, however, and the team was forced to settle for a 24-yard field goal by senior Erickson Andrews.

The Yeomen’s lead didn’t last long, as the Scots drove 75 yards down the field, ending their initial possession with a 12-yard touchdown run.

However, the Scots gave up their lead quickly when junior quarterback Lucas Poggiali connected with sophomore wide receiver Justin Cruz on a 70-yard touchdown on the first play of the ensuing drive, giving the Yeomen their first and only touchdown of the game.

Cruz finished the game with a team-high six catches for 137 yards.

Following Cruz’s long touchdown catch, the Fighting Scots dominated the Yeomen defense, scoring 35 unanswered points in the first half to take a 42–10 halftime lead. They added three more touchdowns in the second half to give them a 63–10 victory.

The Scots finished the game with 574 yards of total offense, dwarfing the Yeomen’s 324.

The lopsided final score simply came down to a lack of execution by the Yeomen.

“We didn’t necessarily follow the game plan as best as we could have,” said senior linebacker Max Schenk, who netted a team-high 13 tackles.

Schenk added that he didn’t think the scoreboard reflected the Yeomen’s overall play.

“There were critical mis-

takes at certain times — it only takes one mistake for big plays to happen that turn the game,” he said.

Head Coach Jay Anderson said that the game highlighted things the team needs to work on, including tackling, converting third downs and flipping the field.

However, both Yeomen coaches and players could still see the positive outcomes of Saturday’s game.

“The feeling after that game should get everyone motivated to get better [and] play smarter,” said Schenk. “It should be a big motivator for changing how people practice or play and maybe finding a new gear that they didn’t have before.”

Anderson also said that the game was a good experience for many of the team’s younger players.

“We’re a young football team, and a lot of young guys were getting some playing time,” he said. “So for a lot of our younger players, that was their first collegiate start on Saturday, and the first time they received extended playing time at this level.”

Cruz echoed Anderson’s

sentiment.

“It was a good opportunity for people who started for the first time, and a good opportunity to showcase their abili-

ties,” he said.

Though the final score was a striking disappointment See Football, page 15

Sophomore Justin Cruz celebrates his 70-yard touchdown in a 63–10 loss to The College of Wooster Fighting Scots last Saturday. Cruz leads the Yeomen with 13 catches for 258 yards and four touchdowns this season.

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— Men’s Soccer —

Ingham’s Late Goal Puts Yeomen on Top Casey McGuire and Tyler Sloan Contributing Writer and Sports Editor

In recent months, sports news has been flooded with horrifying stories of domestic violence, with the scene being mostly dominated by players from the NFL. However, amid the debacle surrounding the now-infamous cases of Adrian Peterson and Ray Rice, one sports star’s charges seemed to have slipped through the cracks. United States Women’s National Team goalkeeper Hope Solo was arrested for assaulting her half-sister and 17-year-old nephew back in June, but so far the team’s coaches and owners have handed down no repercussions to Solo.

The details of the case are eerily familiar to those who have followed the recent influx of domestic violence stories surfacing in the media: Solo, then 32, had been drinking when she allegedly approached her family members and engaged in the violent altercation. She left unscathed, while her sister and nephew sustained visible injuries to their faces. But it’s at this point that Solo’s story veers in an entirely different direction than those of Peterson and Rice.

Peterson, who now faces charges of felony child abuse, and Rice, who will soon go to court to handle his simple assault charges, were both cut from their respective teams almost immediately. Rice was also indefinitely suspended from the NFL. What charges are Solo facing? Two misdemeanors. What consequences have been imposed on her by the U.S. National Soccer Team?

None.

Besides a slap on the wrist

by U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun, who called the abuse “disturbing” in a recent email to USA Today, the league has all but ignored Solo’s incident. In fact, Solo has been more celebrated than ever in recent weeks for tallying the most shutouts ever in U.S. women’s soccer history.

She even had the team’s captain band bestowed upon her See Editorial, page 15

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Following a rocky start to its season, the men’s soccer team managed to tally a win at home on Tuesday, Sept. 23 against the Heidelberg University Student Princes.

With last week’s defeats against Grove City College and Otterbein University behind them, the Yeomen stepped onto the field with a renewed sense of energy and purpose to take on the visiting Student Princes under the lights at Fred Shults Field. However, it took 89 minutes of play before the Yeomen found the back of the net with a game-winning goal from junior John Ingham.

After a tense match of equal possession and numerous scoring opportunities for both the Yeomen and the Student Princes, junior Yeoman Slade Gottlieb chipped the ball over a defender to connect with Ingham, who scored to down Heidelberg in the game’s final minute. This goal was the 21st of Ingham’s career and his fifth of the season. Gottlieb tallied his fourth assist of the year on the game-winning play and was satisfied with the team’s resilience in getting the win.

“After a series of unfortunate, disappointing losses, we came together as a team and responded very maturely. I think that we have set a tone for the rest of the season that I believe is positive, uplifting and is something

that we can build off of,” Gottlieb said. year’s shaky start has increased pres- advancing to the North Coast AthCollege junior and co-captain sure on the talented squad to con- letic Conference playoffs or the NCAA Sam Bernhard also commended his tinue raising the bar. For second-year tournament. team for staying disciplined despite midfielder Dan Lev, this meant that Last year, the Yeomen just missed the tough competition. He credited Tuesday night’s win carried signifi- the cut for the North Coast Athletic the win to senior goalkeeper Oidie cant weight.

Conference finals when they lost a Kuijpers’s standout performance “[Making it to the NCAA tourna- playoff contest against the rival Keand the offense’s ability to capitalize ment last year has] put really high nyon College Lords, and just made on scoring opportunities at critical expectations on what we’re doing this the cut for that national tournament moments. season, and it has put a lot of pressure when they were given an at-large bid.

“Our team won because of a good on us to succeed and to replicate our Looking forward, the Yeomen will performance from our goalkeeper results. There’s a long way to go,” he begin their conference play against [Kuijpers]. And even though we gave said. the Wittenberg University Tigers at away more shots than we took ourWith only six games played so home at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27. selves, we didn’t give away too many far this season, the team will play Last year, the Yeomen tied the Tigers good chances, and then we finally 11 more games before potentially 1–1 after two rounds of overtime play. scored when it counted,” Bernhard said.

The match marked Kuijpers’s third shutout of the season as he pulled off 10 saves to keep the Student Princes off the scoreboard.

Kuijpers has big shoes to fill this year since the Yeomen graduated their All-American goalkeeper Brandt Rentel last spring; he has transitioned into the role well with a .806 save percentage so far this season.

After last year’s record-breaking season, during which the Yeomen went 14–4–4 and Senior Sam Winward dribbles the ball in a game earlier this season. The Yeomen head earned a berth in the into Saturday’s match against the Wittenberg University Tigers with a 3–3 record.

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