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#oberlin Interns hard at work in the Alumni Office stuffing registration packets - KLM (Taken with instagram)
The Oberlin Commencement/Reunion Tumblr will be quite active as we head into this weekend’s festivities. We’ll be reblogging highlights here, but follow their blog for vicarious adventures.
Acornometrics: Better late than never - Jeremy Denk at Oberlin College
In celebration of the release of Jeremy Denk’s new CD “Ligeti/Beethoven” we are posting Larry’s never-before-published review of Jeremy’s concert in Oberlin last January. As you will see below, Jeremy’s concert that week contained much of the same repertory as his new CD (which, by the way if…
It is from January, but here’s an audience review of the January Rubin Institute for Music Criticism performance by Jeremy Denk ‘90.
When people asked me what I was doing after graduation, I said I was going to India. Everyone was going to graduate school or getting married…or going to graduate school AND getting married. I didn’t want to go to graduate school and nobody wanted to marry me…so I went to India.
(Source: notablankbook)
Afrikana Community Responds to Bigotry
This work of art was written in our school’s newspaper to shed light on the rampant racism on campus. Content warning for anti-black slurs.
We, the concerned members and allies of the Oberlin Afrikana community, are sick and tired… Read more.
A piece by members of our campus community published in the Oberlin Review, and the response from alumni in the following week’s issue. There has been an open forum and a large group discussion on the topics since the publication of both letters, plus a follow-up news article in the Oberlin Review.
(Source: shakaiseigi)
People Who Studied Abroad #302:
Ishmael Beah, former child soldier and author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy SoldierFrom:
Sierra LeoneStudied:
He fled Sierra Leone for New York City, where he lived with a foster mother and studied at the United Nations International School. After high school, he enrolled at Oberlin College and graduated in 2004 with a degree in Political Science.
Girls HBO screening and swag.
Catch the premier of Girls (the new show by Lena Dunham ‘08) tonight on HBO.
only the black woman can say ‘when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole…race enters with me’
(via Why Lena Dunham’s ‘Girls’ Is Like Nothing Else on TV — New York Magazine)
Behind the scene article on Girls, by Emily Nussbaum ‘88.
Help Fund The Local Strangers' 1st Album
These guys are amazing musicians and are so very close to meeting their goal. Only $10 gets you a download of the new album once it’s finished. I’ve known Matt since he was a freshman at Oberlin and I have to say he is one of the nicest and most talented guys I’ve ever had the pleasure of letting sleep on my floor (you know I love ya Matt!)
Yay Matt Hartgering ‘06!
Oberlin College Commencement/Reunion Blog: Commencement/Reunion Weekend 2012
Register for Commencement/Reunion Weekend 2012
Friday, May 25, through Monday, May 28
Come back to Oberlin and exercise your mind, body, and sense of fun.
