January 2011
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Watchamamblog:
Happy 82nd Birthday to Claes Oldenburg! To celebrate, we’re posting this classic film from the original 1970 installation of the AMAM’s Giant Three-way Plug, which contains some great soundbites from the artist. The film was shot and created by Richard Haass (OC 1973).
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Jeffrey Levi '75 Appointed to Advisory Group by... →
Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) announces that Jeffrey Levi, PhD, Executive Director of TFAH was appointed today by President Barack Obama to serve as a Member of the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion and Integrative and Public Health.
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Does College Make You Smarter? →
Dean Sean Decatur contributes to debate surrounding “Academically Adrift” in the New York Times.
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The Official Blog of the Allen Memorial Art... →
amamblog:
When the AMAM reopens this fall, on display will be two full-length pendant portraits by British artist Sir Thomas Lawrence the museum was recently able to reunite after they spent decades apart. Lady Eleanor Wigram was acquired by Oberlin in 1986 in memory of AMAM Chloe Hamilton Young; the…
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Fenty to teach at Oberlin in the fall →
Former Mayor Adrian M. Fenty will return to his alma mater Oberlin College as a distinguished visiting professor of politics, a featured lecturer and a career adviser in the Department of African American Studies.
Fenty, a 1992 graduate who majored in economics and English at the Ohio college, will participate in in a politics course in the spring, according to a news release issued by the...
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Oberlin College recognized by the Carnegie... →
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has selected Oberlin College for its 2010 Community Engagement Classification. Only 311 U.S. colleges and universities have achieved the classification since it was initiated in 2006, and Oberlin is one of only 27 baccalaureate colleges nationally to be awarded the classification.
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"Girls" on track, HBO on board →
On Friday, the network announced that it had picked up Dunham’s new comedy series, “Girls,” which she’ll write, direct the pilot and executive produce alongside Judd Apatow. According to HBO, the show, which takes place in New York, is “a comic look at the assorted humiliations and rare triumphs of a group of girls in their early 20s.”
- Melissa Maerz,...
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Campus Building Winter Term Hours →
Center for Information Technology
Help Desk
The Help Desk will maintain its normal business hours throughout winter term. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-noon and 1:30-4:30 p.m. During those hours, you can: 1. Visit the Help Desk in Room 005, Mudd Center Level A, 2. Call the Help Desk at 775-8197, or 3. Send the Help Desk an e-mail at cit@oberlin.edu. (You can do this any time, but the account will...
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How College Students Spend Winter Break →
Washington Examiner columnist Erica Jacobs praises winter term as a “time of growth.”
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The Big Read presents: Pleasantville →
The Oberlin Community Big Read Film Series “Censorship, Media Control and Falsehood at the Movies” presents: Pleasantville.
Tonight (Wednesday, January 5th) at the Oberlin Public Library in the Community Room at 7pm.
Free popcorn! Discussion will follow the film.
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Blog no. 3: Hangzhou Journalism
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ATTENTION: In order to fully appreciate the once-timeliness of this entry, one must dutifully transport oneself back one week to Tuesday, December 28th. Tumblr, it seems, is all-together blocked in China, and the inordinate e-hoops demanding they be jumped through that stand between my authorship and your readership have delayed quite a bit this bloggy business many of you have...
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