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News highlights from the past week

Navy Yard Shooter Blames Neuro-Frequencies:

Former navy reservist and military contractor Alexis Aaron, the man who shot and killed 12 of his coworkers at the southeast Washington Navy Yard last week, claimed that he was the victim of mind control leading up to the at-tack. In communications retrieved by the authorities, Aaron is reported to have at-tributed actions to electro-magnetic frequencies, or ELF waves — a communication technology used by the Navy that some conspiracy theo-rists believe has the ability to monitor and manipulate the neuro-frequencies of Ameri-can citizens.

Senator Votes Against His Own Filibuster:

In contrast to his 21 hour–long speech rallying GOP support against Obamacare, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz voted with Democrats on Wednesday in order to pass a spending plan that would provide government funding for the healthcare reform. !e vote, which was ultimately unanimous, will allow Sen-ate Democrats to amend the measure, putting an end to the threat of a government shutdown.

Syria to Relinquish Weap-ons to the U.N.:

Members of the U.N. Secu-rity Council recently agreed on a declaration that would command Syria to relinquish its chemical weapons. !e resolution, which will pass through the rest of the Coun-cil’s 15 members on !ursday, does not impend the use of force should Syria decline. !is compromise was in deference to Russia, who refused to pass the resolution should military action be enforced.

Sources: !e New York Times and CNN

Outside the Bubble

Elizabeth DobbinsStaff Writer

The Community Festival and the Culture Festival are combin-ing this weekend to form one culture-centered event that will take place this Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. in Tappan Square. The two festivals, which used to fall on consecutive weekends, were ultimately combined in an effort to streamline and expand the event.

Sponsored by the College, the city of Oberlin, Oberlin’s In-ternational Student Organiza-tion, Oberlin Young Educators, the Spanish in the Elementary Schools Program and the Ober-lin Center for Languages and Cultures, the festival will serve as a celebration of different cul-tures and provide an opportunity to bring the town and College together.

“I just want everyone to come out, enjoy the uniqueness of Oberlin, celebrate it and just enjoy our community,” said Mag-gie Robinson, the administrative secretary of the College’s Office of Community and Government Relations.

“I believe it will just make the celebration even bigger and bet-ter, and it will just open it up to another dynamic,” said Robin-son. “It was a good combination because you don’t have to come

back to the Square on the week-end and then go back on another weekend when everything can be done inclusively.”

“The Culture Festival has slightly stronger emphasis on different languages and cultures than, say, U.S. Anglo languages. Whereas the Community [Festi-val] was … to bring together the College and community. That

said, the Community Festival also had an idea of celebrating the diversity of the Oberlin com-munity, and the Culture Fest also had the idea of bringing together the town and the College,” Sebas-tiaan Faber, director of Oberlin Center for Languages and Cul-tures and professor of Hispanic Studies, said.

As a result of the Festival’s

expanded goals, the event now boasts a wide variety of activi-ties and diverse representation. Cultural groups and local res-taurants will contribute food, and the Oberlin High School Marching Band, Taiko Drum-ming, O Steel, Missionary Alli-ance Gospel Choir and a Conser-

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College and community members groove alongside Bolivian dancers as they perform at last year’s Culture Festival. This year’s festival will take place on Saturday, Sept. 29 in Tappan Square. Courtesy of Dale Preston

Kate GillNews Editor

A standing ovation ushered novel-ist Toni Morrison onstage as students, faculty and community members awaited the Convocation in Finney Chapel last Friday evening. !e Toni Morrison Society, which just celebrat-ed its 20th anniversary, was largely responsible for the event, but Morri-son’s visit also speaks to the "edgling relationship she has forged with the College in recent years.

In August of 2012, the Toni Mor-rison Society, founded in 1993, moved its headquarters to Mudd library. On the #rst "oor sits a small administra-tive o$ce that, according to Founder and Board Chair of the Morrison So-ciety Carolyn Denard, is one of many library sites, including the Auburn Avenue Library in Atlanta, the New

York Public Library, and the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.

After Morrison won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993 — #ve months after the organization was founded — her society, which now boasts over 600 members, burgeoned.

“When we were looking for space here,” Denard said, “there was a space available in the Oberlin library in Mudd Center, and we were delighted, because of our history, to be housed in the Oberlin library.”

!e Convocation was framed as a sit-down with Morrison and featured College President Marvin Krislov and Gillian Johns, associate professor of English, who asked a series of ques-tions, both personal and professional, in reference to Morrison’s work.

“So many students have been taught to write what they know,” Mor-rison said of her teaching methods. “I

tell my students: You don’t know any-thing. You’re 18, I don’t want to hear about your girlfriend or your grand-mother. Forget about it. Write about something you don’t know.”

According to Krislov, he was not scheduled to participate, but ulti-mately replaced Dr. Meredith Gadsby, associate professor of Africana Stud-ies and chair of the department, when her travel plans went awry. “She is here in spirit,” Krislov said at the Con-vocation. Although Morrison spoke at Oberlin in the spring of 2012, her quick return implies a deeper a$nity for the College.

“Mrs. Morrison always has an open invitation,” said Denard in an email to the Review. “!is time, Presi-dent [Krislov] invited her to speak for the Convocation, and it coincided with our Anniversary; it was a great alignment of events.”

President Krislov echoed Denard’s sentiment, remarking in an interview, “If it were left up to me, I would have her here every semester, every week, whenever she wants.”

Morrison, who has been to cam-pus on three separate occasions since 2009, was born eight miles shy of Oberlin in Lorain County, and through family and friends has maintained a connection to the area. But aside from her more obvious geographical ties, Morrison seems to appreciate Oberlin as a locus of social justice.

In separate interviews, both Kris-lov and Denard referenced Morrison’s fondness for Oberlin and its history.

“Oberlin has a history she ad-mires,” Denard said. “[It was] the #rst institution in the country to admit African Americans and women. [Mor-rison does] indeed feel a connection because it is close to home.”

Morrison Greeted with Standing Ovation

With more members than in recent seasons, the cycling team prepares for a strong season.

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vatory jazz ensemble will provide the soundtrack for the day-long event. The Kendal Lawn Chair Brigade, Obie Jump, Dance Diaspora and OCircus are among the groups to perform at the bandstand.

“I hope the Festival is a fun venue for College students and community resi-dents to join together for food, fun, mu-sic and more,” said City Manager Eric Norenberg in an email to the Review.

The community aspect of the festival also extends to the cultural groups who are represented at the event. Student groups such as Oberlin in Solidarity with El Salvador, as well as the com-munity group Santa Elena Project of Accompaniment, an organization that promotes human rights for workers in Guatemala, will be in attendance. The Oberlin Center for Languages and Cul-tures has also been working with the College to help organize the cultural component of the event.

“One of the missions [of the Center

for Language and Cultures is] to encour-age knowledge about other language[s] and cultures,” said Faber.

Several departments from the city will also be participating. The Ober-lin Recreation Department will offer crafting activities, the Underground Railroad Center Implementation Team will be sharing information about the second phase of its project, the Oberlin Municipal Light and Power System will be offering free CFL light bulbs, and the Oberlin Police Department will be mak-ing ID cards for children and running a bicycle auction.

The festival will also boast bounce houses, a tour of Tappan’s trees, a voter registration booth, free blood pressure screenings from Mercy Allen Hospital, a Chinese lion dance and crafts jointly offered by Ginko Gallery, the Allen Me-morial Art Museum and the Firelands Association of Visual Arts.

“It is a celebration of Oberlin,” Rob-inson said, “and it is celebrating just all of Oberlin. Its uniqueness, its diversity.”

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At last year’s Culture Festival, groups brought activities and set up booths. This year, the Community Block Party and Culture Fest are combining into a larger, day-long event. Courtesy of Dale Preston

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Richard R. Love, OC ’66, is the scienti!c director of the Interna-tional Breast Cancer Research Foundation. For the past 20 years, Love has been conducting breast cancer clinical trials in Asia and establishing new global standards for breast cancer care. He shared his thoughts with the Review on his Oberlin experience, his work in Bangladesh and his plans for the future.

Tell me about your experience at Oberlin.

!is woman I was talking to in this previous class [when I lectured this afternoon] is from Kenya, and she was talking about the unusualness of the commu-nity [at Oberlin] and the degree of isolation from the real world. And she said that she thought there was still a sense of things being di"erent, and when you go out into the world, there is still racism, and I can very much remember that at the time. And I think that egalitarian kind of mindset, as I think about it, was set by my four years here at Oberlin. I have never gotten away from it.

Did you know you wanted to work in global healthcare when you went to medical school from Oberlin?

No. When I went to medi-cal school, I was thinking about global health issues. !en [later] at medical school, I knew I want-ed to get into cancer research, and it took me 15 years in aca-demia to become secure enough academically and reach out to do cancer abroad.

How did you decide to go to Bangladesh and develop your own treatment center?

I went there for my clinical tri-al. I went to Bangladesh because I was looking for women for my clinical treatment trial and I thought there would be women in Bangladesh who would be eli-gible for that trial. Indeed, there were. One of the things I’ve been involved in, in major ways, is to show that we can involve people who are poor or less educated in our clinical research and do it ethically while enriching our sci-ence. For the most part, clinical research is only done on wealthy people. And mostly Caucasian, upper-middle class people. We lose a lot by not expanding the

realm of people in our studies: ethnically, genetically, etc.

Why did you pursue oncology of all !elds of medicine?

I trained in the Hopkins sys-tem and trained in the cancer ward. At that time, in 1972, there were systemic treatments for cancer, and we were just begin-ning to make headway in leuke-mia. And this ward was predomi-nately a leukemia ward, and it had adolescents and younger adults with leukemia. One day, I overheard a conversation be-tween two young men from the ward. One patient had a history of rebelling against the treatment and leaving when he began to feel better and only returning when

he felt sick, since he wasn’t fully treated. !e second man was a young [person] who had barely graduated from high school. His story was that he had developed leukemia and wanted to see the world. His doctor had promised him one year, and on his way to California from Baltimore, he collapsed in Colorado because of anemia. He was shipped back to Baltimore and began to get treatment. !is man was in trouble. !e #rst man, !urman, turned to the second man and said “What are you doing here?”, and the second man replied, “Well a year ago, the doctor said I had another year left to live. My time’s up.” I kind of thought that if this is how people with life-threatening diseases, who have had far fewer opportuni-ties than I have had, think about life and the big questions and face things head on, then I guess those are the kind of people that

would be inspiring to work with.

What has it been like to see the evolution and advancements of oncology through your years of work?

I guess I would say I’m ambiv-alent. It’s true that there has been signi#cant progress, and it’s true that the morbidity due to these new treatments has decreased. I remember going on rounds and dealing with men with testicu-lar cancer when we were just on the brink of a proper treatment for it. I remember seeing them as they were su"ering horribly from the treatment, and the head doctor continued to force more treatment on these people that could barely swallow. To move from that to circumstances where we can cure people with

minimal symptoms is obviously nothing short of a miracle. Hav-ing said that, I #nd the dispari-ties in treatments and outcomes among speci#c populations very, very sad. And it’s very sad in this country, and it’s also sad to com-pare circumstances in this coun-try with circumstances in coun-tries like Bangladesh. My positive feelings on the progression of cancer treatment are tempered by this reality that we’re not mak-ing the population e"ects that I would like.

What are your plans for the future?

To keep doing what I’m do-ing. I don’t plan to go anywhere else; I’ve made connections, met amazing partners and people. I #nally feel like I’m beginning to make sense of the problem that I’m trying to address. Like I said, we don’t need mammogram ma-chines, we don’t need education. !ese women know that they have breast cancer, they’re smart people. !irty-#ve% of children under the age of #ve are mal-nourished. !ese women who are mothers are more worried about feeding their children and getting them to school and they just keep covering up their tumors as they get bigger and bigger. Feeding your children and getting them to go to school is what any good mother does. How do you expect them to seek treatment when they are having such a di$cult time feeding their own children. My goal is making this care more accessible to women like these. I don’t need to go anywhere else.

Interview by Elizabeth DobbinsPhoto by Simeon Deutsch

Off the !uff: Richard R. Love, OC ’66, Scientific Director of the In-ternational Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Richard R. Love, OC ’66, scienti!c director of the International Breast Cancer Research Foundation

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2:27 p.m. Sta" at Philips gym reported a missing folding chair from an o$ce on the #rst %oor. It is a black padded chair reportedly valued at $125 with red and yellow lettering on the seat and back.

5 p.m. A Firelands Apartments resident reported an odor of natu-ral gas on the #rst %oor. O$cers, members of the Oberlin Fire De-partment, an HVAC technician and members from Columbia Gas responded. !e possible source of the smell was a burner control knob partially open on a two-burner stove.

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8:34 p.m. A resident of Fire-lands Apartments reported wit-nessing numerous %ies emerge from the exhaust fan above the stove in his apartment. A main-tenance technician and plumber responded, and all gas lines were checked. No leaks were located.

7:58 p.m. O$cers were re-quested to assist a student who fainted in Baldwin Cottage. !e student believed it was a result of donating blood earlier. !e student told o$cers she was OK and was transported to her dorm room.

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9:59 a.m. O$cers and mem-bers of the Oberlin Fire Depart-ment responded to a #re alarm at the Oberlin Inn. A patron acti-vated the alarm by smoking in the room.

4:16 p.m. A student reported that a large window fell out of the frame and shattered on the third %oor of South Hall. A main-tenance technician responded to repair the window frame, and cus-todial sta" cleaned up the glass.

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12:04 a.m. O$cers responded to a noise and unauthorized party complaint at a Goldsmith apart-ment. !e live band was shut down, and attendees were asked to leave.

1:03 a.m. O$cers responded to a report that a window had broken in East Hall. A resident observed four males outside the room at the time the glass shat-tered. !e incident is currently under investigation.

5:59 p.m. O$cers and mem-bers of the Oberlin Fire Depart-

ment responded to a #re alarm on the second %oor of Langston Hall. Smoke from a burnt grilled cheese activated the alarm. !e area was cleared and the alarm was reset.

10:34 p.m. O$cers and mem-bers of the Oberlin Fire Depart-ment responded to a #re alarm on the second %oor of South Hall. Smoke from a dirty oven activated the alarm.

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8 a.m. Members of the custodi-al sta" reported a round wooden table and three padded wooden chairs missing from the #rst %oor lounge of Fairchild House.

4:34 p.m. O$cers and mem-bers of the Oberlin Fire Depart-ment responded to a #re alarm on the third %oor of Burton Hall. An unattended candle activated the alarm. !e candle, lighter %uid,

matches and glass pipe — which were all in plain view — were con#scated. !e alarm was reset.

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4:18 p.m. Reports of individu-als perpetrating scams through the Oberlin Classi#eds were re-ported to both Safety and Se-curity and the Oberlin Police Department.

6:40 p.m. O$cers were re-quested to assist a student who both twisted her ankle and hit her head after falling down the steps at Dascomb Hall. !e student was transported by ambulance to Mercy Allen Hospital.

11:53 p.m. Several residents of Saunders House reported a loss of electricity. Facilities Operations sta" members were contacted to address the problem.

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Erin Amlicke

With a fast-approaching launch date of Sept. 28, the Oberlin App — a collab-orative effort among the Oberlin Busi-ness Partnership, the City of Oberlin and the College — will soon be available for all smart phones. Unlike most familiar applications, this app does not cater to a small niche of users but rather at-tempts to reach the entire community of Oberlin.

The development took a great deal of planning and research. As Zac Sebo, co-founder of Citizen Sync, the company that developed the app, said, the app puts all things Oberlin onto “one offi-cial platform.” The software features six different resource categories, including City Information, Oberlin College, Visi-tor Information, Business Directory, Lo-cal Events and Local Offers. Each button leads to various subcategorical pages that range from informative summa-ries of local laws and policy to company “splash” pages, which Sebo described as profiles for local businesses. Through the profiles, users can access an image gallery, a brief description of the busi-ness and contact information.

According to Janet Haar, the execu-tive director of the Oberlin Business Partnership, each Oberlin business automatically receives a “splash” page without charge, which will provide ex-posure for companies who do not have an established presence online.

Even so, the marketing capabilities of the app expand beyond the current lo-cal business community. According to Oberlin Housing and Economic Devel-opment Officer Carrie Handy, Oberlin’s

“untapped resources” — namely the art museum, concert series and lectures — are still “the best kept secret[s] of Lorain County.”

Handy said she hopes the app will work to encourage new businesses to

take root in the town. “We have a lot of available land, and in the future we hope that this can become a destination for both manufacturers and other business.”

This outlet for local businesses is particularly appealing to Haar, who considers the platform both user- and owner-friendly. The Oberlin Business Partnership — comprised of Oberlin’s working Chamber of Commerce, a Na-tional Main Street organization and the Lorain County Visitor’s Bureau — has long been dedicated to the transfer of information from business to consum-er. The new application simplifies this exchange by directing consumers to business websites, advertisements and coupons. Agencies even have the oppor-tunity to secure special advertisements for additional purchase.

“Logically,” Harr said, “getting some-thing in the electronic field and social media is where we need to go.”

While the developers of the app were quick to voice their excitement, the Oberlin business community was more tentative, largely due to a lack of com-munication between the developers and business owners. Ruth Aschaffenburg, the owner of Bead Paradise II, cited the shop’s Facebook page as one of her most important advertising tactics. A mobile platform that gives consumers the ability to “click-through” to her web-site will only increase her site’s traffic. However, other major downtown busi-nesses such as Ginko Gallery & Studio and Ben Franklin, were surprised to hear that such technology was implemented. Ginko Gallery owner Liv Burgess saw a potential gain for her consumers, who often travel to Oberlin for her business

but are not sure where else to go once they’ve arrived.

“I think that an app that puts all of that information in one place makes a lot of sense.”

On the contrary, Ben Franklin owner Krista Long said that she hasn’t encoun-tered many customers who would need further directions or store information. Nevertheless, she was clear that more publicity for the shop is undoubtedly better. As Long noted, “It’ll be interest-ing to see how it materializes.”

According to Sebo, although the City of Oberlin and the Oberlin Business Part-nership have been the largest and most consistent contributors to the app, the College has played a major financial and architectural role in its development. Since the college helped fund the app, it has its own featured page on the initial landing site, leading to four school-cen-tric categories: College Announcements, College Events, Student Life and Visitor Information. These pages further branch off to include links that describe vari-ous elements of campus life and events, such as meal plan arrangements, Oberlin slang and links to student groups.

As Haar explained, some businesses have been “really excited about it, be-cause they understand it; [whereas oth-ers] aren’t too sure about it because they’re not sure about what we’re doing.” To her, the tentative attitude of some store owners can easily be changed by assuring them that the progressive tech-nology will not tarnish Oberlin’s histori-cal past.

“We don’t want to change the past,” said Haar, “but we want to make sure that we are there for the future.”

City, College Launch App to Promote Oberlin

The Oberlin App will feature events and an-nouncements from the College and Oberlin community. Users will be able to peruse such outlets as local events, city info and Oberlin College student life. Courtesy of Eric Norenberg

Rachel Saks

Although there was consider-able dissent from KHC members when they discovered last semes-ter that KHC would no longer be an OSCA member, some are now able to find a silver lining to the departure.

“I think it was ultimately good because the co-op wanted out last year,” said Samia Mansour OC ’10, the Senior Jewish Life In-tern. “In the past there have been continuous issues with the way that kashrut interacts with OSCA policies, and that was a big part of the issue last year. The OSCA health inspector wanted to be

able to have access to the co-op anytime they wanted to get in the space, with or without someone from Kosher-Halal being there, which compromises the integrity of kashrut.”

KHC is no longer supervised by OSCA health inspection, and instead is inspected by the Lo-rain County Health Department through Campus Dining Services.

“It’s just a better system for us,” Mansour said.

Contrary to popular belief, this change in management did not result in CDS funding the co-op. According to Michele Gross, Director of Dining Services and OSCA liaison for Housing KHC

will continue to “run financially basically the same way OSCA [is],” said and Dining.

“They’ll collect the fees from the students and then they’ll pay their bills. In the sense that Oberlin owns the co-op buildings and all the equipment, Oberlin owns KHC and all the equipment. Oberlin has a financial connec-tion to any kitchen. If Fairchild gets a new stove, Oberlin buys it, not the co-op. But what you run as your co-op, buying your food, buying your cleaning solution for the floors, all of that you pay for from the money that you’ve paid OSCA.”

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Silver-Swartz, the current dinin-loose ends coordinator of KHC, admits that the split from OSCA has been isolating.

“It’s kind of frustrating,” he ex-plained. “It was nice to be part of the co-op dining system in Ober-lin, and it kind of doesn’t make sense that we’re not in that orga-nization, since we’re a dining co-op and we do things pretty much exactly like OSCA does.”

Although preparing to sepa-rate itself from the cooperative system, KHC still continues to operate much like other co-ops in the association.

“In terms of everyday func-tions [KHC] is pretty much the same,” Mansour said. “It’s still set up like an OSCA co-op. They still have all the same sort[s] of positions and jobs and it runs the same way. We have DLECs and Cleanliness Coordinators … all the same jobs that we had last year.”

Still, some things have changed. The co-op has eliminat-ed the positions of Board Repre-sentatives and has added a Mem-bership Secretary.

“We sort of have to do our own advertisement and recruitment because we’re not part of OSCA,” Mansour noted.

Because of their newly inde-pendent status, students who apply through OSCA to dine in a co-op can no longer be placed into KHC through the waitlist. Additionally, while KHC was part of OSCA, students who

preferred to be in other co-ops might be placed into KHC and end up remaining there for many semesters.

“That’s what happened to quite a lot of past members,” said Silver-Swartz.

“Right now, we’re under ca-pacity which is a problem,” Sil-ver-Swartz said. Although mem-bers currently put five hours a week into working at the co-op, KHC still struggles to fill its work chart, and fewer members are trained to be a head cook. De-spite these difficulties, the co-op continues to function with very few canceled meals.

In terms of its members, the small group remains fairly di-verse. “There’s no place in the United States — and I think the world — where you have Kosher-Halal, a place where Muslims and Jews can come together and eat,” said Halal Rabbi Shimon Brand. “This is really important for Oberlin — it’s a space where you could be religious, but its not about religion. It means that peo-ple can come together as people. What it does is allow for the kind of interaction of a group of peo-ple that normally may not find their way together.”

While the co-op prioritizes dietary restrictions, the limited number of members allows it to admit anyone who wishes to be part of the co-op, which, even after complete separation from OSCA, will continue to function much as before.

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L!""!#$ "% "&! E'("%#$The Gun Debate in OberlinTo the Editors:

The room was packed like sardines at the Ober-lin City Council Meeting on Sept. 16, and the dis-cussion was lively. In a nutshell, there are people who want to openly carry guns in public places like parks, and there are others, like me, who are against this! If the council meeting is an indica-tion, I am with the majority. The problem is real, and I was not aware of it until a few gun enthusi-asts openly carried guns at the Oberlin Juneteenth celebration!

To make matters worse, I’m told that a couple weeks ago, an Oberlin College student carried an assault rifle into the Slow Train Cafe! Before these incidents occurred, I was unaware that Ohio law permits certain gun owners to openly carry. In other words, some gun owners can openly carry weapons in our public places, and they have the law on their side!

My opposition to the Ohio gun law is basic: I know that criminals can get their hands on guns. I know that people with severe mental problems can get their hands on guns. I know that people make mistakes, both the professionals and ama-teurs, and shoot the wrong person. (Does George Zimmerman come to mind?) So, if I am in a park and see a person carrying a gun, I will leave the park, since I am a practical and, in most cases, ra-tional person. The gun carrier could be a criminal, mentally challenged or just looking for a shoot-out. I think that most rational people would do the same, i.e., leave the park, especially if they are with children.

Is this a “victory” for the person carrying the gun? If so, it is a hollow victory to have citizens, including grandparents and children, leave a pub-lic place so that a gun carrier can exercise his/her rights under the law. Some laws need to be changed, like the gun laws. The recent incidents have made that blatantly apparent to me. I found out, at the council meeting, that various churches in Oberlin are pulling together to do something about changing the Ohio gun laws. Oberlin has allies on this issue because National Rifle Asso-ciation activists have taken advantage of the law being on their side to flaunt their ability to “open-ly carry” in Parma, Cleveland Heights and other communities!

I believe that the open carriers are making more enemies than friends. If we join together with our allies in communities such as Parma, we can change the Ohio laws.

The Trayvon Martin case, if nothing else, should motivate us to change the current gun laws and prevent the Stand Your Ground law from be-ing passed in Ohio. Do we really want to go back to the Wild, Wild West?

–Sally McMullenOberlin resident

Correction of Student Working Group ProposalsTo the Editors:

Thank you for your coverage of the student working groups. We are writing to clarify a matter that was addressed in the Sept. 20, 2013 Review arti-cle “Administration Begins Implementation of Sev-eral Working Group Proposals.” As the article right-ly points out, the working groups proposal called for more budget support related to workshops and trainings. Dean Estes was correct that the MRC budget allocation for workshops and trainings was increased significantly (by 80 percent) to try and meet some of the rising demand for those work-shops and trainings. Dean Williams is also correct that more will need to be done in future budget years given the significant increase in demand for these important educational programs. We regret any confusion on this point given the importance of MRC trainings and workshops for the educational experience of all students.

–Alison WilliamsDirector of the Multicultural Resource Center

and Associate Dean for Academic Diversity

–Eric EstesVice President and Dean of Students

Responsible Investment En-courages VotingTo the Editors:

This weekend, Oberlin College seniors have the duty to vote for responsible investing at Oberlin. The Senior Gift Survey is being readministered, and it’s time to stand up for our community.

The first time the survey was administered, there was a clerical error: Instead of giving the So-cial Choice Scholarship as an option, the Respon-sible Investing Organization — a student organiza-tion — was incorrectly given.

The Social Choice Scholarship is a groundbreak-ing new fund in the endowment, one that both sup-ports need-based tuition assistance — for a student from Northeast Ohio — and advances the adoption of responsible investing according to Oberlin’s values and priorities. In the spring, we will hold a policy symposium in which our community — of students, residents, faculty, staff and alumni — will come together to discuss our values and formu-late a responsible investing policy to apply to the scholarship.

Last year, over 70,000 foreclosure cases were filed in our Ohio. According to ESOP, an Ohio-based community organization, “Today’s numbers underscore the need for continued funding of fore-closure prevention counseling and relief programs that help keep families in their homes and stabilize

Education More !an Return on Investment

The Obama administration recently announced plans to formu-late a ranking system for institutions of higher education, taking into consideration a new set of key factors, including graduate’s earning potential, percentage of lower-income students, tuition cost and graduation rates.

Ideally, the president hopes that the new ranking system — to be announced before the start of the 2015 academic year — will serve as the basis for federal aid to colleges and universities. Ohio is one of the few states in the country to have already adopted programs that award funding based on graduation rates and “educational out-comes.” Congressional support for this plan is currently unclear, but if the legislation passes, federal aid will be tied to this type of crite-ria by 2018.

What makes Obama’s proposed system different from popularly revered higher-education rating systems — namely U.S. News and World Report — is that it takes into account the “success” of gradu-ates in terms of earning potential.

This approach is not entirely novel, though. PayScale, a financial analysis firm co-founded by a former Microsoft manager, recently released a ranking of colleges and universities based solely on the salaries of graduates.

Oberlin is held in varying esteem by these ranking systems. Ac-cording to the PayScale ranking, Oberlin comes in #53 among other liberal arts colleges in the U.S., with the average graduate’s start-ing salary coming in at $38,800, and a mid-career salary of $83,000. (“Mid-career” is defined as full-time employees with at least 10 years of experience in a particular field, and who hold only a bachelor’s degree). Conversely, the more traditional ranking system — which takes into consideration a variety of factors including first-year re-tention, graduation rate and high school rankings of students — puts Oberlin at a far more impressive #25 relative to similar institutions.

Rankings that focus solely on earning potential put liberal arts colleges at a disadvantage when compared to other academic insti-tutions that focus primarily on mathematics and sciences — fields that offer significantly higher starting salaries than the arts or humanities.

Although earning a degree in aeromechanical engineering might guarantee a more impressive starting salary, it is troublesome to think that this is now the basis of evaluating a quality education.

Perhaps the impulse for this conclusion is partially defensive, de-rived from Oberlin’s emphasis on spawning well-rounded, change-the-world types who don’t necessarily seek direct economic com-pensation for the investment they’ve made in this, admittedly, exceptionally pricey education. And perhaps the stance that educa-tion’s value is rooted primarily in its ability to foster critical and cre-ative thinking while expanding the horizons of those under its tu-telage is inherently privileged and dismisses the fact that, for many, education is a stepping stone to a better economic future.

So while a criticism of Obama’s new ranking system might be pre-emptive considering the lack of details regarding the criteria, we hope that the concept of education as an investment on which we hope to reap immediate returns is not adopted within the Ameri-can mindset. After all, creativity and unconventionality of thought have been the cornerstone of academic, intellectual, cultural and economic progress in the U.S., and it seems tenuous that Obama would attempt to steer the next generation of learners to a more corporate-based approach to education.

See Letters, page 6

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communities.” With a $720 million endowment, Oberlin College has a crucial role to play in this stabiliza-tion, and the establishment and sup-port of the Social Choice Scholarship is a first step.

So if you are a senior, cast your vote and encourage your friends to do the same. If you are not, you still have a crucial role to play. Consider donat-ing to the scholarship; each donation shows Oberlin College that we’re seri-ous about responsible investing. You can also familiarize yourself with the issues, participate in the upcoming conversations around responsible in-vesting or organize with RIO.

But this isn’t the end; it’s just the beginning.We have a lot of work ahead to get our dollars, from the Se-nior Gift and in the general endow-ment, to work in our community.

Responsibly,The Responsible Investing

Organization

Stricter Regulation of Power Plants Needed in Reducing Envi-ronmental HarmTo the Editors:

Thank you for the full coverage you gave to the Environment Ohio report on Ohio’s gas-fired and coal power plants (“Report Lists Ohio as Top Polluter,” The Oberlin Review, Sept. 20, 2013). Also on Sept. 20, Gina McCarthy, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced the Obama adminis-tration’s aggressive plan to enact stronger regulations to limit carbon emissions for new power plants. The regulations would limit new gas-fired power plants to 1,000 pounds of car-bon dioxide emissions per megawatt-hour and new coal plants to 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide, a reduc-tion of some 700 pounds per mega-watt-hour for the average coal plant.

This is good news for reducing harmful greenhouse gases in the en-vironment but does not address pol-lution from existing power plants. Enacting stricter regulations on all power plants is essential to protect our environment and health and re-duce the impact that carbon emis-sions have on climate worldwide.

I urge all readers to learn more and take action. Volunteers and staff members of Environment Ohio

will be on Tappan Square during the Oberlin Community and Culture Festival on Saturday, Sept. 28, dis-tributing literature and collecting signatures on a petition to EPA Ad-ministrator McCarthy.

There are countless books, web-sites, newspaper accounts and jour-nal articles to inform one’s thinking on the impact of coal power plants on the climate and environment. This book is a good start: The Carbon Crunch: How We’re Getting Climate Change Wrong — and How to Fix It, by Dieter Helm (in the OC library and many OhioLINK libraries). I would be more than happy to help anyone seeking more information.

–Alison S. RickerScience librarian, Oberlin College

In Discussing Navy Yard Shooting, Dis-respecting Disabled Persons Not An OptionTo the Editors:

I was outraged and frustrated by the editorial printed in last week’s Review, “Washington Navy Yard Mas-sacre Was Avoidable,” The Oberlin Review, Sept. 20, 2013. One of the ar-ticle’s major points was that one of the best ways to stop gun violence would be to prevent “crazy” people from “getting [their] hands on a gun.” This is a tired premise that comes up pretty much every single time we as a nation discuss gun control; not only is it lazy, but it is counterproductive, beyond insulting and inaccurate.

Before I discuss the issues I had with the article, I do want to make a small note. The alleged mental dis-ability of Aaron Alexis, the Navy Yard shooter, is not relevant to this par-ticular article; my point would still stand regardless of his mental condi-tion. However, I would like to point out that Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, the president of the American Psychi-atric Association, said that “it’s too early to tell what the real motivation was in this recent case.” We do not know Alexis’s diagnostic informa-tion; thus, it was highly irresponsible for the author of last week’s column, or anyone else, to speculate.

Painting all people with mental disabilities as violent and uncontrol-lable is a trope that I honestly wish would disappear as fast as possible from our national consciousness. The fact is, people with mental dis-

abilities are more likely to be vic-tims of homicide than neurotypical people (Appleby et. al., 2001). (Neu-rotypical is a term for people without a mental disability, used in scientific writing and by the mentally disabled community; its antonym is neu-roatypical). Furthermore, the vast majority of people who are violent are neurotypical, and there is little to no evidence of a correlation between most types of mental illness and vio-lence (American Psychiatric Associa-tion, 1994). Our focus should not be on preventing the mentally disabled from acquiring guns; it should be on protecting them from guns.

I am glad that this horri!c incident has opened a national conversation on mental healthcare reform. Mental healthcare reform needs to be talked about, whether or not it’s relevant to the Navy Yard shooting; on this point I agree entirely with the column.

The reform that the author and I seek, however, is only going to hap-pen when we stop vilifying people with mental disabilities. By calling them “crazy” (which, by the way, is considered a slur against the neu-roatypical) and equating them to out-of-control murderers, we do not make it more likely that they will receive the treatment they need. We make it more likely that they will end up in jail. As of 2003, the rate of men-tal disability in prison is three times higher than in the general population (Human Rights Watch, 2003) and has not declined since then. The major-ity of these prisoners will not get any treatment in jail.

This is why this stereotype needs to be shut down permanently. It’s not just unsupported by the facts. It pre-vents real people from being treated or even from being seen as full mem-bers of society. Yes, we absolutely need to be having this conversation about mental healthcare reform. But rather than framing it as an issue of protecting neurotypical people from the “crazies,” we should be talking about the fact that mental healthcare is a basic human right, and that the current state of mental healthcare, as well as the rate of criminalization of the mentally disabled, is appalling.

The Navy Yard shooting was a needless tragedy, and the conver-sations that it has sparked around gun control and mental healthcare reform are necessary ones. As we de-bate what should be done in the af-termath, we need to ensure that we are not scapegoating some of soci-ety’s most vulnerable members.

–Alice FineCollege sophomore

Voting for Student Senate of Utmost ImportanceSophia Ottoni-WilhelmOpinions Editor

"e Student Senate Elections are open right now online until Sunday, Sept. 29 at 8 p.m., or until quorum is met (20 percent of the student body). Yes, this seems pretty weird. Why is the voting cut o# after just one-!fth of us vote? Have statistics shown that 580 of us are enough to determine what the entire student body wants? Either way, it is important for students to exercise their democratic right to vote. "ere are many candidates run-ning this year on a variety of platforms. Some are promis-

ing to bridge the Conservatory-College divide while some promise to address dining options at Stevie. Alejandro Belgrave, Joshua Rosner, Jesse Vogel, Topaz Ross Kelso, Kevin Kresnak, Andy Garcia, Emma Snape, Machmud Makhmudov, Lauren Vandemortel, Casey McGuire, Rebec-ca Ho#man, Aaron Appel, Ziya Smallens, Paul Paschke, Joe Greenberg, Kiki Acey, Kianna Eberle, Maxime Berclaz and Arianna Gil are this election’s candidates. You can look up their statements on the Student Senate website to hear what they have to say about themselves. Whatever you believe, whatever you want — be sure to add your vote to the pile (hopefully you’re in the lucky 20 percent).

Conspicuous Silence on Attack in NairobiSam WhiteColumnist

There’s no doubt that my time at Oberlin Col-lege has broadened my outlook on the world. I’m surrounded, for the most part, by people who care about what happens outside of their every-day lives — at least more than people at my insu-lar, wealthy, suburban high school. I’ve caught on, often to the point where I’m the one in a given group of friends who knows what’s going on in the world; the one who explains the head-lines to the others.

But one horrific event this past week has raised serious doubts for me in how engaged I really am.

I vividly remember the day when, last December, news broke of the mass

shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. I re-member how I heard the news. I was in Slow Train, peacefully enjoying my latte while failing to stay focused on all the pa-pers I had to write when the news stories showed up on my Facebook feed adorned with com-ments and shares from my friends. I remember the shock, the horror, the sinking feeling in my stomach that robbed me of my ability to focus on academics for the rest of the day. I remember feeling that, even though this tragedy was taking place hundreds of miles away, it affected me, too. Everywhere I looked, the screens of people’s Mac-Books, blaring with the latest headlines from every conceivable news source, affirmed the ter-ror. Everywhere I walked, I overheard hushed conversations echoing the same thoughts that plagued my mind.

I remember even more clearly the mo-ment, four months later, when I found out about

the bombings at the Bos-ton Marathon: I was in Slow Train, once again procrastinating on Face-book, when the story showed up in my news feed. Within minutes, the story was showing up on MacBook screens around me. Within hours, it was the talk of the town. The feeling was the same, with the added burden that this time it was my hometown, that people I knew were there, were present, were in harm’s way. I tried to be a world-ly Obie and put the small, isolated bombing in per-spective: elsewhere, this might be a daily reality. I couldn’t. I struggled to fo-cus on my classes, I con-tacted friends and family at home incessantly, and the Boston headlines be-came my daily bread un-til I knew the danger had passed.

And I remember last Saturday. I wasn’t in Slow Train when I found out. It wasn’t the first thing I saw in my Facebook news feed. It wasn’t un-til I walked back into my room in Afrikan Heritage House, and my roommate asked me, “Did you hear about what’s happening in Kenya?” that I knew what was happening in Kenya.

In all three tragedies, one thing has been true: that those of my friends and peers who are most directly affected are those who care the most. I’m guilty of this, as is most everyone else. We’re all human.

But after Newtown and after Boston, an-other thing was true: Everyone cared, regard-less of whether they were personally affected. After Nairobi, I heard the same conversations, the same concerns, but only in one building on campus: my dorm. The A-House com-munity came together to support those affect-ed. At Soul Session that night, everyone present observed a moment of si-lence. Students sang the Kenyan national anthem. The unity was incredible and enduring.

Outside the dorm the hushed conversations are absent. The headlines are there, but they’re dif-ferent; the impassioned, fiery op-eds are miss-ing; the speculation is non-existent.

I know we all care about what happened in Kenya last weekend, but why aren’t we showing it?

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After Newtown and after Boston, another thing was true: Every-one cared, regardless of whether they were personally a!ected. After Nairobi, I heard the same conversa-tions, the same con-cerns, but only in one building on campus: my dorm.

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Sean ParaColumnist

!is is my "rst semes-ter eating in a co-op. I was quite miserable last year on a CDS meal plan and was overjoyed last spring when I got into my "rst choice co-op, Old Barrows. Now, twice a day, I saunter all the way across campus to en-joy a meal made by a peer instead of the detestable and questionable food I was forced to endure at that timeless bastion of medioc-rity and #avorlessness, Ste-venson Hall. OSCA is by and large a better system than Campus Dining Services. Simply put, it provides bet-ter food for a large part of the campus at a lower price. !e time I invest each week, three hours cooking and an hour cleaning, is well worth it. However, now that I have been eating in Old Barrows for a month, I have noticed some #aws in the OSCA sys-tem, #aws that are not ad-dressed and are shabbily ex-plained when I bring them up, despite the importance of consensus in the OSCA manifesto.

!e extensive bureau-cracy and attachment to procedure is, in my analysis, the main institutional #aw in OSCA. Interim, it seems, is interminable. !is is now the fourth week I have eat-en at Old Barrows and we are still electing positions. However, the real problem with interim is the lack of a regular schedule of cook-ing and crews (cleaning the co-op, for those of you not familiar with OSCA). Meals get canceled all the time due to this lack of regularity, a pretty big problem in an institution designed to feed people. Even having discus-sions/elections almost ev-

ery meal, we have yet to "ll some major positions or dis-cuss food policy. !ere must be some way to streamline this process and get the co-op fully functional more quickly. !e election process itself is clunky, as "rst we discuss the position, then nominate candidates, have them make speeches, leave the room and then vote on them, even if there are ex-actly as many candidates as there are positions. Often, by the time a candidate is be-ing voted on, half the people who came to the meal have already left. I have voiced my concerns on these issues, and in response been told that this is the best way to have everyone’s voice heard. Is it? What is the merit of a process that ostensibly has everyone’s voice heard but in fact prevents co-ops from e$ectively ful"lling their main function? !e current membership of Old Barrows did not choose to have this administrative system — it was passed down over time.

!e predominance of vegetarian food is another concern I have with OSCA. I was told Old Barrows is meat-friendly and did sometimes serve meat, but I have yet to see any in the co-op. From what I have seen, 50–60 percent of the co-op is vegan or vegetar-ian, yet so are 100 percent of its meals. I have voiced my concerns about this as well, and in response I have been told it is the “lowest common denominator” to have vegetarian and vegan food. Yet, is this not an ex-ample of a signi"cant part of the co-op simply not hav-ing its dining preferences attended to? Is this not ultimately a tyranny of the majority? I have talked to a lot of people who want meat

to be served, and yet none has been. Obviously, OSCA’s tight budget precludes hav-ing meat all the time, but it would be more representa-tive of the preferences of the co-op membership to have meat sometimes, a fact that food buyers and much of the OSCA community choose to overlook.

I love OSCA. I am very happy to be a member of it. It is a far superior way to eat on campus than through Campus Dining Services. But this does not mean it is without #aw. An organization theoretically built around consensus should be more aware of the weight that history, con-vention and custom place on it. !e way discussions work, the way meals are served and the entire struc-ture of OSCA have evolved through generations. While consensus is espoused as the fount of all decisions in OSCA, no one wants to point out how much of the way things work is prede-termined before new mem-bers join each year. !is is not a bad thing, but it must not be overlooked. !e bu-reaucracy of the organiza-tion should be streamlined to create a more e%cient system. Most importantly, however, the limits of con-sensus on decision-making, the weight of precedent and the marginalization of the membership on issues of food policy and admin-istrative structure must be brought to light. !ese #aws do not invalidate the organization by any means; it is simply that OSCA as a whole and its members as individuals should critically appraise its multitudinous facets rather than accepting them outright.

Aaron Pressman Contributing Writer

With rates of violence involving teen-agers on the rise, more and more U.S. cit-ies have been proposing and implement-ing curfews, prohibiting minors from being on the streets during nighttime hours. I don’t know if local politicians have simultaneously lost their sense of logic and their trust in the United States Constitution, but these laws are some of the most ridiculous ones in the books.

The most recent curfew proposition occurred Monday, when a city council member in Oakland, CA, one of the most crime-ridden cities in America, sug-gested that Oakland jump on the band-wagon and join hundreds of other U.S. cities by implementing its own teenage curfew. The proposed curfew would bar minors from being in any public place from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. and from being on the streets during school hours. The law would mean that minors could be hit with fines or even jail time just for being on the streets or in businesses at a pro-hibited hour.

Current curfews in other cities are very similar, with each city holding slight-ly different laws regarding the prohibited hours and the maximum punishments. Each curfew does, however, have a few characteristics in common in all cities: They are ineffective, unconstitutional and they create unnecessary profiling.

Although banning teenagers from roaming the streets at night would re-duce crime in theory, the laws overlook a lot of societal complexities. In general, teens intending to commit crime do not have any problem breaking the curfew as well. The parents of these children are not effectively regulating their children’s behavior and no curfew law is going to stop them. The people the curfew laws keep off the streets are innocent teenag-ers who would otherwise be engaging in perfectly legal activity. These teenagers and their parents have a respect for law and society, and therefore are going to be the ones who obey the curfew regula-tions. Taking the good children off the streets and leaving the mischievous ones does nothing to lower the crime rates.

Further, many children do not have a safe place to stay at night. This is partic-ularly prevalent in lower-income cities, where many children deal with abusive or uninvolved parents. With these curfew

laws, these children can face legal reper-cussions for trying to escape their unsafe homes.

The curfew laws also lead to a very poor use of police resources. The curfew laws are most necessary in cities with the highest crime rates, which are often also the cities which need productive use of police resources the most. Each minute an officer spends busting a 17-year-old for walking to the drugstore to get medi-cine for his sick grandparents is an extra minute for a mugger to get away.

Furthermore, these laws are unconsti-tutional and go against the basic princi-ples of this nation. The First Amendment provides the right to peaceful assembly and the Fifth Amendment provides the right to due process of law, both of which are completely undermined by curfew laws. Curfews have historically been a dictatorial tactic used by oppressive re-gimes or a rare regulation in states in dire emergency — not something that is implemented each night in a country founded on freedom and liberty.

The law sets police up for further constitutional rights violations by allow-ing for profiling on account of age, race and many other factors. Police are not allowed to detain someone without rea-sonable suspicion of a crime being com-mitted. However, by implemening curfew laws, police are allowed and encouraged to detain suspects merely on the basis that they think they are underage. This can be incredibly problematic, espe-cially because most states do not require citizens to carry identification cards. Police can further use this law to pick and choose suspicious-looking teenag-ers during curfew hours. This gives free reign for police departments to detain minorities and those who they think look “sketchy.”

It should be the responsibility of par-ents to tell their children when to be home — not the responsibility of the government. Parents know their children personally and can determine their ma-turity level when deciding whether or not to institute a curfew.

Freedom and security are not mutu-ally exclusive. In fact, society functions best when they coexist. Government, it’s time to stop overstepping your bounds because you think it will make society safer. This is the land of the free. Start acting like it.

OSCA: &e Good, the Bad and the Gluten-Free

Curfew Laws Ignore U.S. Constitution

Libby SalemiColumnist

When I "rst came to Oberlin, I was under the impression that I would be con-sidered normal and maybe even slightly conservative when thrown into a popula-tion of super bizarre, politically correct, environmentalist hippies. What became evident after talking to an RA about the im-pact that our energy and garbage waste has on the world, is that I am the super bizarre, politically correct, environmentalist hippie my brain never fathomed I could be. And since I’ve accepted this identity, I’ve also ac-cepted the duties and anxieties that come along with it.

On good days, you may see me run-ning around the dorms turning o$ the light switches at timed intervals. On slightly more stressful days, I’m in a state of pan-ic, practically pulling my hair out from the anxiety that the dripping faucets and

shower heads are giving me. But as much as these little ine%ciencies chip away at my armor, I can understand why students for-get to turn o$ the lights or turn the faucets o$ all the way. Sometimes we forget. We’re all human; I do it, too. In a lot of the dorms, the faucets and showers are crap and I have to use all of my body’s strength to get them to turn o$. It’s completely understandable that sometimes they’re left to drip for a lit-tle longer than they should. It’s totally OK. I’d prefer if it didn’t happen, but I can (kind of) let it slide.

What I can’t understand is why the hell there’s so much garbage on North Quad all the time this year. Every weekend there’s an entire 30-rack of Black Label beer cans scattered around the Wisdom Tree. People dump piles of cigarette butts on the ground for reasons that I can’t even imagine. Seri-ously, how do you even manage that? And there are always some nasty food items and wrappers just chilling out all throughout

the week. Why? Why can’t we just pick our stu$ up? Is it just laziness or do we actually not understand that garbage belongs in a garbage can? Because if the second one is the problem, I think I might have to transfer out of here.

My guess is that the cans and bottles are from underclassmen who don’t want to get caught drinking. !is is understand-able. But if you’re so worried about getting caught, then why are you drinking in a pub-lic space where pretty much everyone can see you? !ere’s absolutely no logic in that. Go drink in your rooms, children. You’re do-ing it wrong.

I take a lot of pride in going to a school with such a gorgeous campus, so it ba&es me when people are so willing to dump their crap all over the quad. We’re super privileged in the sense that we live in a funky little town that gives us plenty of green space to run around in being idiotic. But, instead of being the fun and loveable

kind of idiot, lately we’ve been abusing that privilege by being the kind that ruins every-thing for everyone else. If you leave garbage all over, you’re damaging the environment. If you’re leaving glass bottles all over, you’re probably damaging some Flying Horsec-ow’s feet. It really doesn’t take that much ef-fort to throw the wrapper from your DeCafé bagel in the trash bin 30 feet away from you, or take that PBR can to the recycling bin in East. No one will know it was you. Just ask any athlete that’s ever lived there. I understand that we’re all busy and tired, but if you go here you probably want to be an instigator of change; this is something really small and easy that you can do to be a good person or to at least keep someone (i.e., me) from their next panic attack. It’s not that di%cult. Bottom line: pick up your shit and keep North Quad — and every other part of this campus, for that matter — pretty.

Sunny with a Chance of Cynicism: Keep Oberlin Pretty

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At Oberlin College, all obies needs to do to join an organization is write their name down and show up. However, there is quite a bit more effort and coordi-nation involved in getting a job or even a volunteer position in the “real world”. Because of this, it is crucial to establish a database on the careers of family members, friends, acquaintances and alumni. It is not enough to simply know names and occupations; it is essential to determine how your own skills can aid others and how another’s career can aid you; In other words, to land a job, it is crucial to know how to network.

The study of social networks is an important subfield of sociology. Through the tracing and analysis of two-person friendships called dyads, social scientists have uncovered trends, identified influential individuals and — to a certain extent predict — real-world events. It is relatively easy to befriend a person, but to maintain the connection requires work. The strength of interpersonal con-nections entirely depends on how much effort an individual puts into the rela-tionship. If you do not regularly keep in touch with people, they will no longer be of assistance to you as you begin a job search.

“Referral networking is more about ‘farming’ than ‘hunting.’ It’s about culti-vating relationships,” said Ivan Misner, who is considered the father of modern networking by CNN. This sentiment is prevalent among successful business-men. The simplest way to be a good networker is to be a good friend. Bob Burg, author of five books on the science of networking, said, “The ones receiving tons of referrals and feeling truly happy about themselves continually put the other person’s needs ahead of their own.”

To network, it is important to get your name and portfolio out there. If there is a person you admire, send them an email about how you enjoy their work and include information about yourself. Even if they are not hiring, it is good to keep a dialogue going — they might even suggest you to another employer. This tactic also goes beyond online interactions. To make connections, walk up and introduce yourself to people while at events and cocktail parties: Get com-fortable meeting new people and making small talk. These are both necessary skills in order to succeed in the job market. Lastly, ask those around you if they know anyone in the field you are interested in. Be open about what career you’re pursuing. You never know — one of your friend’s parents might be involved in the same line of work.

Also, you must come to terms with rejection, which is inevitable. You are not always the person for the job. This is not a personal insult (unless you are told otherwise). However, a person with an extensive, well-maintained network can overcome rejection quickly and begin work on the next project.

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Ask questions. You are not expect-ed to know everything on day one. It is far better to ask questions when you do not know something than to pretend you do and make potentially embarrassing errors.

Work sincerely, even when nobody is watching. The results will speak for themselves.

Take yourself seriously. You are a real person with skills, an education and work ethic. Even if you are clueless sometimes, there is noth-ing to be ashamed of.

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Be nice. Does this need to be explained? Workplace rela-tionships matter, and people prefer to work with an amiable, friendly person than an angry recluse.

Always offer to help. Nothing demonstrates your capability

like lending a hand. This may lead you into another project at

work, possibly with your supe-riors.

Look people in the eye. Eye contact will demonstrate a level of self-confidence, and your coworkers will think you’re listening to them. Hopefully, you are.

Dress well. There is no reason not to look good. It connotes self-confidence and self-care.

Always have a project that is outside of your job. These side-voca-tional projects often become great passions. Additionally, if you find yourself with a light load at work, ask around for other tasks. Keep yourself busy.

Send thank-you cards. After an internship or summer job, send your boss a card thank-ing them for the opportunity. It will help your employer to remember you, maybe when a job is opening up. Also, after a job interview, send your inter-viewer a quick email thanking them for their time.

When you are new to an office, it is good to intro-duce yourself to people you see in the hallways, elevator and kitchen. And try to remember everyone’s name. When you meet someone new, always say, “Nice to meet you, [Name],” to help you internalize the name.

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Send clear emails. Always include a subject that sums up the content of the email. Don’t include any slang, and always capitalize the begin-ning of sentences. When sending job appli-cation emails, your subject line is the most important part, so make sure it is eye catching. You want to ensure your email gets opened!

When looking for a job, use LinkedIn to find the head of human resources at your

desired company or organization. Then try to find his or her person-

al email and send your résumé directly to him or her. Many

HR heads are on Twitter and use this platform to

find hires.

Communicating Across CulturesFriday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m.

Rev. Dr. Michael Oleksa gives a presenta-tion in Wilder 101 focused on cultures and their effects. Oleksa will talk about how cultures influence the way we understand each other.

Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni BaSaturday, Sept. 28 at 8 p.m.

Masters of the ancient traditional lute, the ngoni, will be performing at the Cat in the Cream. The eight-piece group combines the feel of a rock band with gospel cho-ruses.

Oberlin Orchestra: Raphael Jimenez, conductorSaturday, Sept. 28 at 8 p.m.

The Oberlin Orchestra is performing at Finney Chapel with guest soloist Gregory Fulkerson violin, Professor and OC ’71.

SWAP Membership MeetingSunday, Sept. 29 at 2:30 p.m.

The Oberlin Book Co-op is hosting a meet-ing for to recruit new members, vote on bylaws and discuss ways how to improve the co-op.

Poetry Reading: Elton Glaser and Lynn PowellSunday, Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m

A reading at FAVA by Elton Glaser, author of The Law of Falling Bodies and Translations from the Flesh, and Lynn Powell, author of two poetry books, Old & New Testaments and The Zones of Paradise.

Fragments of Life: African Art In and Out of ContextMonday, Sept. 30 at 4:30 p.m.

The first of three talks in the African Art Series titled “Fragments, Pathways, and New Geographies,” will be held at the Allen Memorial Art Building, Classroom 1.

Film Screening: Mean GirlsThursday, Oct. 3 at 9:30 p.m.

Celebrate International Mean Girls Day by watching the amazing and forever-a-classic film at the Apollo Theatre. “On October 3, he asked me what day it was.”

This Week Editor: Olivia GerickeWriter: James KolbenzerSources: CNN, Organization Science, Focused Issue: Management of Technology, The Go-Giver, Networking Battles to Run the World, New York Times

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,e Oberlin Sinfonietta, conduct-ed by Timothy Weiss, gave its -rst performance of the year on Tuesday, Sept. 24, presenting a contemporary program with works by Stephen Hartke, Steven Stucky, Pierre Jalbert, OC ’89, and Richard Danielpour, OC ’78. ,e concert program painted a comforting dreamscape. Each work on the program was distinguished by its unique sonic qualities, yet to-gether they inhabited a world that could only be accessed through these speci-c works.

,e -rst piece of the evening, Gradus, was composed in 1999 and was as comforting as it was ominous. ,e arrangement for bass clarinet, violin, cello, bass, vibra-phone and piano created a rich and dense sound. While the thickness

of the deep tones made for some overwhelming moments, the over-all e.ect was never negative. In fact, these moments intrigued, and their gravity captured the listener.

,e piece Partita-Pastorale, After JSB by Steven Stucky was described by the composer as “a kind of day-dream about Bach.” It was as if tran-scribed Bach melodies had been recalled and interrupted by brief tangential daydreams veering from the subject at hand, yet never quite leaving. Stucky continued, “the in-terruptions are themselves remem-bered keyboard bits by Bach,” and thus, the daydream never departed from Bach, as di.ering textures of memory presented his work to the audience.

A particularly exciting aspect of

Logan BuckleySta! Writer

“,e origins of any political revolu-tion parallel the beginnings of life on our planet. ,e amino acids and pro-teins lie inert in a volatile primordial brew until a random lightning strike suddenly brings them to life.” ,is foreboding quote, attributed to José Antonio Marcha, begins Raul Ramos y Sanchez’s debut novel America Libre, which was published in 2009 as the -rst volume of a trilogy. ,e sequels, House Divided and Pancho Land, followed in 2011 and 2012. It’s certainly indicative of what is to come: ,e novels tell the story of a Latino family in Los Angeles in a near-future United States where debates over immigration become

toxic and racism toward Latinos and Latinas leads to violent con/ict. ,e author discussed his writing last Friday with community members and Ober-lin students.

Ramos was born in Cuba before Fidel Castro came to power, grew up in Miami and eventually moved to the Midwest. He worked for many years in advertising, witnessing the ways in which Latinos and Latinas were over-simpli-ed and grouped together as a monolithic group, despite the diversity of people covered by those umbrella terms. He described advertisers as “reaching for the lowest common de-nominator” in their attempts to market products to Latinos.

Eventually, Ramos decided that -c-tion was an avenue that would allow

him to depict the diversity and com-plexity of Latino culture in the United States. He expressed a -rm belief in the ability of books to increase toler-ance by humanizing the “other” and also described the unique situation in which Latinos in the U.S. -nd them-selves. While the country’s history of tension over immigration goes back to its founding, Ramos described the position occupied by many Latinos as being immigrants who can say, “My an-cestors once lived on this land.”

His fear is that building tensions, perhaps sparked by a local event — in the books, an innocent Latina bystand-er is shot — could result in an ethnic war over territory in the United States.

Matthew Sprung

It’s not every day that Conservatory students get to perform with Grammy award–winners. However, last Saturday was one of those special days. ,e Performance and Improvisation Ensemble class played alongside the internationally acclaimed jazz band Trio Globo for the -rst half of their show at the Cat in the Cream. Commonly known as PI Ensembles, the student musicians were prepared for this performance by their coaches, Professor of Ad-vanced Improvisation and Percussion Jamey Haddad and Asso-ciate Professor of Jazz Arranging Jay Ashby. Distinctions between students and international artists broke down into a ever-shifting synthesis of a variety of genres. In one song, Grammy-winning cel-list Eugene Friesen smiled and counted o. beats along with an Oberlin violinist as if they had played together for years.

Trio Globo consists of Friesen on cello, Glen Valez on per-

cussion and Howard Levy on piano and harmonica. Levy, also a Grammy-winner, is best known for being a founding member of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. ,e “Globo” in the band’s name is true to form, as their music stretches across multiple musical tra-ditions and can only fall under the title of world music. Jazz and classical were most apparent, along with a heavy Middle Eastern in/uence and dashes of Carlos Santana. Emphatic Brazilian per-cussion created a base onto which each musician added their own unique sound, namely, a euphonic onslaught of solos from almost the entire 10-piece ensemble. No one in the packed house could keep their hips from swaying to the samba spell.

,e walls of musical genre began to crumble from the get-go. ,e brass section and upright bass, a standard jazz setup, jived with the historically classical string section in perfect unity. ,e most notable broken musical expectation was the harpist, who leaned in and plucked her instrument as if it were an upright bass.

“It’s very personal; it’s about reaching down into your souls and -nding this new language, however it -ts for you,” Friesen ex-plained. “,at’s really what it’s all about: getting to play for people who dig what you play.”

It was truly admirable to witness the genuine collaboration between artists and students. Watching the musicians was a les-son in the skill of improvisation that transcended de-nitions, es-pecially considering they had only practiced together two or three times before the performance.

During the changeover, as the students left the stage, the audi-ence broke out of their mesmerized adulation when Friesen again addressed the room. “Playing with these amazingly talented stu-dents here at Oberlin has been a highlight of our 20 years together as a trio,” he said. “,ere’s only a few places in the world where the

Trio Globo, Students Unite for Memorable Performance

Sinfonietta Creates DreamscapeAmerica Libre Author Discuss-es Work, Cultural Stereotypes

See Trio, page 13

See Alumni, page 11See Ramos’s, page 13

Members of Jamey Haddad’s Performance and Improvisation Ensemble class focus intently on musical cues from Trio Globo. The Grammy award–winning group performed alongside Conserva-tory students, melding Middle Eastern in"uences with traditional classical and jazz stylings. Rachel Grossman

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Daniel HautzingerSta! Writer

With self-styled “indie folk” bands like Mumford & Sons, the Lumineers and the Head and the Heart at-taining wild success, it was only a matter of time before more underground musi-cians began to enter a simi-lar realm with a truer indie sensibility. Last Monday in Fairchild Chapel, Angel Olsen and the opener Pil-lars and Tongues took dif-ferent paths to circumvent the camp!re chorus cliché and demonstrate more ac-curately how indie folk can sound.

Pillars and Tongues, a trio from Chicago, tapped into the underground by muddying up their songs with an experimental vibe. Over violin drones played by Elizabeth Remis, the three members’ voices "oated in a tightly interlocking mesh. Forgoing the simple har-monizing of a Mumford & Sons song, each singer in-stead bracketed their own melodies within the others’ chants, forming a fabric that rolled upon waves of surging chords from singer

Mark Trecka’s harmonium. Ben Babbitt’s bass lines and occasional drumming pulsed underneath this shifting music, which at one point unraveled into a New Age-y soundscape full of drones, drum machine, synth loops and wordless vocalizations.

#is is aspirational music that desperately at-tempts to achieve transcen-dence through ungrounded songs and striving vocals.

It mostly ends up pleasant and amorphous, with each song fairly indistinguish-able from the next.

Angel Olsen followed an opposite course by letting her clear voice take center stage in simple tunes con-sisting of only two or three chords. Many of her songs were imbued with rootsy Americana and felt time-less, as though they were issuing from the window of a white-paneled farmhouse

into the expansive night. One was reminiscent of a cover of a ’50s pop standard. Subtle touches, like a bolero rhythm and dissonant sus-pended notes snuck into chords, added variety to the instrumentals, which con-sisted of Olsen on guitar ac-companied by a bassist and drummer, who later left to allow Olsen to end her set solo.

But what really marked Olsen’s performance were

her lark-like vocals. Bare melodies became beautiful with Olsen’s voice as their vehicle. Tinged with a very slight twang, her verses were handled with exquisite control and subtly varied through emotional in"ec-tions. Rather than approach a note head-on, Olsen would instead dip below and swoop up to the pitch before, then tumble the held note through her crys-talline vibrato. #e intrica-cies of her vocals recalled a hawk in "ight, diving, cir-cling, soaring and occasion-ally emitting a "inty cry.

It’s no surprise, then, that the highlight of the set was the three songs Olsen played without her band. In the intimate, darkened

Fairchild Chapel, it was possible to succumb to her hypnotic guitar and luxuri-ate in the gentle caresses of her voice. #e show ended in pleasurable, unthinking contentment.

Fairchild Chapel was an excellent venue for both acts. Pillars and Tongues’s drones called to mind Gre-gorian chant, which felt ap-propriate in such a space, while their passionately

harmonized vocals expand-ed to !ll the chapel, which has the perfect acoustics for choral music. #eir songs became devotional hymns in the semi-dark, with reli-gious inconography illumi-nated in the windows above them.

Olsen was able to proj-ect her voice e$ortlessly through the small space, and the echo from the stone walls gave an extra lift to her focused vocals. And who doesn’t want to see a solo set in which the lone musician is only feet from you, elevated by two or three small steps?

#ough they abandon the catchy inclusiveness of their more popular breth-ren, Pillars and Tongues’s and Angel Olsen’s brands of indie folk take the genre and turn it on its head. Whether that is through ex-perimentation and sound-scapes or stripping the mu-sic to its basics to showcase a beguiling voice, it is !rmly grounded in an indie ethos. A quiet rebuke to the bois-terous Lumineers and oth-ers, Angel Olsen and Pillars and Tongues are reclaiming the indie in indie folk.

the Sinfonietta performance was the presence of composer Jalbert, whose piece Tran-scendental Windows depicts Ti$any windows seen from di$erent angles. #e product of the musical interpretation was, like many other works on the program, exquisitely moving. An especially strik-ing attribute was the emotion encapsulated by Leo Zipo-ryn, who played both English horn and oboe on this speci!c piece. #e sonic qualities of the English horn, as well as the sounds of the other mu-sicians, "oated out onto the audience and painted the stained blend of vibrant colors and dreamscape Jalbert cre-

ated. At the conclusion of the piece, Jalbert took to the stage and received much-deserved applause from both the audi-ence and the performers.

#e program before in-termission focused on pieces that evoked dream-like im-agery. Richard Danielpour’s adaptation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus, Book 1 featured Assistant Professor of Singing Kendra Colton, OC ’83, and also pre-sented the sonic qualities of a dream. Danielpour, OC ‘78, presented a slightly more ro-mantic composition, especial-ly in comparison to the others pieces. Colton’s round and gleaming voice soared within and throughout the ensemble, and the piece itself also had a

worldly depth, rich language and polished lyrical melodies, which the instrumentalists and Colton explored to the de-light of the audience.

One can only be excited to see where the Oberlin Sin-fonietta will venture in future concerts this semester. To see such a delightful pro-gram featuring the music of Oberlin alumni, and all from contemporary composers, is an experience to be relished. #e Oberlin Sinfonietta’s next performance will take place on Nov. 7 in Warner Concert Hall, with a program featur-ing Franz Schreker’s Chamber Symphony, as well as Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, arranged by Julian Yu.

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Experimental musician Kevin Drumm returned to Ober-lin this past Saturday at Fairchild Chapel for his second show since he visited in April of 2011. Sponsored by the Con-servatory’s Modern Music Guild, the Chicago-based musi-cian played a brief candlelit set of freeform improvisation that was both jarring and strangely meditative.

#e evening opened with a performance by a group of students including Conservatory junior Noah Chevan, Col-lege senior Regina Larre Campuzano and double-degree senior Devin Frenze, who began the night with their own improvisation session, set against the backdrop of a trip-tych of projections. Illuminated by shifting images of black and white static, the trio incorporated looping rinse cycle-esque sounds alongside Larre Campuzano’s drifting vocals and increasingly fractal, aggressive noises. As the volume and frequency of sound increased, so too did the density of the projections, enveloping the performers in a wash of light and shadow that set an appropriately eerie tone for the per-formance to come.

Emerging from the back of the chapel with a sly grin, Kev-in Drumm strode through the rows of pews to take his place amid his equipment in the ambulatory. Framed by candela-bras on either side and the constant glow of the Apple logo on his laptop, Drumm appeared almost holy — the lone standing !gure in the dark chapel, bathed in warm light. His expression remained stoic as the !rst strains of ghostly, ambient sounds began to emanate through Fairchild’s stone interior. Ambulance sirens and instances of wavering static drifted through the chapel, bouncing and echoing before fading out again.

A veteran of Chicago’s experimental music scene, Drumm got his start in the early ’90s, quickly becoming one of the world’s most eminent prepared guitar players. His work has since expanded from the scant and quiet sounds of his early recordings to the louder, denser feel of his most recent works.

Drawing upon in"uences like Iron Maiden, Heavy Load and the New Blockaders, Drumm’s particular brand of im-provisation can best be described as a blend of drone metal, noise music and musique concrète — a form of electro-

acoustic music that derives its sound from electronic syn-thesizers or sounds recorded from nature. Unrestricted by rules of melody, harmony or metre, Drumm’s style presents an approach that is informed by its own sense of rhythm and pace.

While his performance was brief — lasting just under 10 minutes — its intensity carried the weight of what one would expect from a much longer performance. #e wispy sounds at the performance’s beginning coalesced into more forceful noises, recalling images of machinery run amok. While some members of the audience appeared to slip into a trancelike state, a few others quickly !led out of the room as the music’s intensity grew, indicating that Drumm’s hy-brid noises were not for everyone. Unfazed, Drumm contin-ued his experimentation as though in a trance of his own. Even after the performance’s abrupt ending, many remained in their seats, as though they had not quite re-emerged into reality. And with only a mu%ed “#anks” and another sly smile, Drumm slipped out, while members of the audience remained trans!xed, rooted to their seats.

Eerie Experiments: Kevin Drumm Returns

Angel Olsen, Pillars and Tongues Put the Indie in Indie Folk

Alumni Compositions Featured in First Sinfonietta Concert Continued from page 10

Angel Olsen (left) performs at Fairchild Chapel. Olsen set herself apart from a host of indie-folk imitators by enveloping her group’s tight harmonies in drones and synth loops. Rachel Grossman

Conductor Timothy Weiss leads the Sinfonietta in Warner Concert Hall on Tuesday night. The program featured two pieces by Oberlin alumni. Rachel Grossman

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1. Students wait in line to enter the museum early on Saturday morning. !e most dedicated partici-pants began camping out around noon the previous day. 2. College senior !eo Carney hangs a Japanese woodblock print on his dorm room wall. !e Allen Me-morial Art Museum boasts more than 1,700 such prints, as well as paintings, decorative arts and carpets from Japan, China and Korea, in its Asian collection. 3. A student shows o" her recent acquisition to those waiting in line. Students have been expressing joy at their hard-earned #nds — or frustration at missing out on their favorite pieces — since 1940. 4. While larger works are often hot-ticket items, smaller pieces arguably make for easier transport. !is semester, works by Calder, Chagall and Dalí were snapped up #rst. 5. College sophomore Ben Stock peruses the museum’s available works and makes his selection. !e col-lection has expanded to over 300 pieces since Professor Ellen H. Johnson began the program.

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Ramos’s aim with the trilogy was to “create a negative future in [the] hopes that [it] never happens in reality,” citing as a model dysto-pian novels like George Orwell’s 1984.

!roughout the talk, Ramos empha-sized the diversity of those people grouped together by the terms “Hispanic” or “Latino” — people with di"erent skin colors, coun-tries of origin, native languages and more. In creating the characters in his books, Ramos strove to present characters that re#ected the reality of life for contemporary Latinos and Latinas without being limited by stereo-types. Describing his approach to writing, Ramos said, “Anyone who chooses to write or communicate has to avoid the easy, the facile stereotype.”

!e problem he and others are up against is illustrated by the story of a short-lived proposal to turn America Libre into a movie. !ough producers liked the gen-eral idea, they immediately began propos-ing changes to the characters and plot in order to bring them in line with mainstream

ideas of what Latinos and Latinas should or should not be — the main character must be single, for example, and there cannot be a blonde Latina character. !e movie, said Ra-mos, “was headed to stereotype city,” so he pulled the plug, trusting the books to speak for themselves.

Following Ramos’s talk, he answered questions from the audience on topics such as media coverage of issues a"ecting Lati-nos today and the importance of seeing peo-ple as individuals to counteract racism and prejudice. Discussions of events such as the recent shooting of a teenager in the Mexican city of Nogales by the U.S. Border Patrol and the lack of media coverage such events tend to receive cast further light on the fears that Ramos depicts in his books.

Some questions raised by members of the audience remained unresolved, howev-er. Several students asked Ramos about the viability of $ghting racism and prejudice on an individual level rather than treating them as systemic and institutional problems, but no de$nitive conclusions were reached.

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“!is is my $rst job as a translator,” Cedric Watson told the crowd in a quiet moment during his performance at the Cat in the Cream last Friday, which was one of his $rst collab-orations with Sidi Touré as In-ternational Blues Express. Tou-ré, a Malian singer-songwriter, admitted early in the show that his English was shaky, and after-ward spoke to the audience ex-clusively in French, leaving the Texas-born Watson to translate. According to French speakers in the audience, Watson’s transla-

tions were haphazard and gen-eral, as acknowledged by the inexperienced translator, who often mangled Touré’s elegant phrasing or missed his gist en-tirely. Fortunately, however, the musical translation — between Watson’s Creole-style $ddling and Touré’s traditional Malian “Songhai blues” — was perfectly smooth, resulting in a cross-cul-tural blend of radically di"erent sounds that somehow worked completely naturally.

Touré, born in Bamako, Mali in 1959 and dressed in jewel-toned clothing, presented a stark contrast to the much

younger and American Watson, out$tted in jeans and #annel, complete with a #eur-de-lis on his belt buckle. !eir di"erences were underscored by the dis-

parate appearances of Watson and Touré’s bandmates, a Loui-sianan percussionist in cowboy boots, and another Malian in-strumentalist with a dress style

similar to Touré. As such, Interna-tional Blues Ex-press appeared to be split evenly between Mali and the Deep South.

In spite of Touré and Wat-son’s cultural di"erences, In-ternational Blues Express’s sound seems to have been conceived with a slight em-phasis on the African side of its background. For the $rst half of the show, Touré took the musi-

cal lead, providing most of the vocals and the banter between songs, although Watson’s talent-ed $ddle work was a constant presence throughout the set. !e Touré-led songs were char-acterized by messages of peace and unity delivered in French, focusing particularly on the political turmoil occurring in Touré’s native Mali. For the sec-ond half of the show, however, the creative in#uence was more balanced between the two pri-mary performers. A high point was Watson’s soulful rendition of “Pa Janvier,” a traditional Cre-ole folksong, which dazzled the enthusiastic Cat audience. Wat-son led in both voice and violin, which represented a signi$cant departure from the preceding music. Overall, both the Creole blues and the Malian sound were strongly represented in the musical selections for the evening.

While Watson’s French may

have been shaky, his throaty, evocative vocals were anything but, and his mastery of the $d-dle was apparent in technique that belied his casual appear-ance. Watson’s otherwise sti" stage demeanor disintegrated while he was playing, especially in the moments in which the group was clearly just jamming and having a good time. As for Touré, his reedy warble perfectly complemented the style of his guitar playing, which, while less of a centerpiece than Watson’s $ddle, was quietly competent and e"ective. !e remaining two members of the band were likewise excellent, $tting e"ort-lessly into the fun, cheerful at-mosphere cultivated by Touré.

!e bluesy common ground that both traditional Creole and Malian music have allows them to be combined in interesting ways to create a genre richer than either of its already satisfy-ing components. International Blues Express exists in this per-fect blending and is simultane-ously more accessible and more complex for it. Nothing can be lost in translation because the translation is part of the beauty. Just like the unconventional friendship between Watson and Touré, the Mali-Louisiana mar-riage is far from obvious, but when dealing with talent like the International Blues Express, unorthodoxy becomes a virtue.

International Blues Express Joins Creole, Malian Traditions at Cat Show

walls in music are coming down like this, and it’s very unique, so thank you.” After that, the audience got to witness the otherworldly musical connection Trio

Globo has built over the past 20 years together. At one point, all three musicians had their heads down, not acknowledging each other visually but seeming to feel each oth-er’s next move. Valez showed his mastery on the drums in a ravenous solo that made a mockery of what the audience thought they knew about tambourines and wrist mus-cles. His $ngertips exploded with force, making the tambourine sound like a full drum set and mimicking the hiss of a rattlesnake’s tail.

Howard Levy then showed Oberlin its mistake in not accepting him as a student back in 1969 when he played harmonica and piano simultaneously. After making a few jokes, he stood alone on stage and played a harrowingly beautiful rendition of “Amazing Grace” on his harmonica, stomping his boots to the beat. !e potent vibrations rang so forcefully that it was di%cult to keep one’s eyes open as the warmth of the music resonated in the cavities of one’s bones and soul.

At the conclusion of their set, the members of Trio Globo invited their Oberlin col-laborators onstage, ending the night with deserved applause and a $nal embrace.

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Trio Globo Breaks Musical Walls

Performing as International Blues Express, Sidi Touré (third from left), Cedric Watson (second from left) and their band sang Songhai blues, a traditional Malian style that calls to mind both African melodies and music of the deep South. E!e Kline-Salamon

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!is week the Review sat down with men’s tennis players junior cap-tain Soren Zeliger and "rst-year Ian Paik to discuss expectations for the upcoming year and how Head Coach Eric Ishida is adjusting in his second year with the team.

What do you expect from the ten-nis team this season?

Soren Zeliger: De!nitely a better !nish than last year. "at’s the most concrete goal that we can set. Also a better record, since our team is improved already. It’s hard to have expectations, though, since a lot of things are changing. We have six !rst-years on the team, and [senior] Charlie Marks and I are the only up-perclassmen on the team.

Ian Paik: Everything is kind of new, so I don’t have many expecta-tions. I do want to be in the top half of our conference, at least.

What does having six !rst-years mean for the team?

SZ: It means we run sprints on the regular. "at sets the tone early for a very new team.

IP: [Head Coach] Eric [Ishida] always emphasizes that we don’t have any tradition. A couple years ago, they didn’t win a single match. He says that anything we do starts a new tradition.

Tennis is a very individualistic sport, but you guys compete as a

team. How do you feel about that dynamic?

SZ: College tennis is very team-oriented. If you come to one of our matches, we’ll be getting loud and yelling across the courts. It’s really nice to have high energy out there.

Aside from the on-court stu#, we eat together, and we’re all very close, so even though we play an in-dividual sport, it’s still a very tightly knit team.

IP: It’s still a team atmosphere even though we go out there and

compete on our own.

Do you have a better backhand or forehand?

SZ: It’s kind of day-to-day. His-torically, my backhand has been more solid, but as of late my fore-hand has been a little more of a weapon.

IP: My forehand is more e#ec-tive, but my backhand looks a lot better.

What makes tennis unique?SZ: You have to do a lot of dif-

ferent things in tennis. You have to run, hit a moving object and think how your ball is a#ecting your op-ponent and how their ball is a#ect-ing you.

IP: If you go to a tennis match and you watch someone who you know outside of tennis for the !rst time, you’ll see their demeanor completely change. Tennis athletes are a little crazy.

How are things di"erent now that Head Coach Eric Ishida is in his second year with the team?

SZ: I think he’s a little more com-fortable with changing things. He knows how things are here, and he’s better able to make changes to the way we practice and also to the cul-ture around the team. He’s the best tennis coach I’ve ever had, and out-side of that he’s a great dude.

What is it like being a !rst-year tennis player?

IP: We almost make up the ma-jority of the team, so I don’t see myself as a !rst-year amongst the team. It’s just: I’m on the team, and so are all of these other people.

What professional tennis players do you try to emulate?

SZ: Andy Murray is my boy. I get compared to him just because we’re both tall, white and have curly hair. I think I actually play like him a little bit.

IP: My favorite player is [Gael] Mon!ls. He’s on the Professional Circuit. He’s just a goofball out there and is a crowd pleaser. You can tell he’s having a good time.

Do you have any pre-match rituals?

SZ: Not yet. Do you have any ideas for us? "e team is looking for suggestions.

IP: PBYP [Poop before you play].

If you could play one sport other than tennis, what would it be?

SZ: It’d be awesome to be re-ally good at football and be a really great wide receiver.

IP: Soccer.

Interview by Nate Levinson, Sports editor

Photo by Yvette Chen, Photo editor

IN THE LOCKER ROOM Soren Zeliger and Ian Paik

Soren Zeliger (top) and Ian Paik, men’s tennis players

Tyler Sloan

Men’s Ultimate Frisbee had a successful start to its season with its two squads !nishing in ninth and 15th place out of 28 teams at the "eodor Seuss Geisel Memorial Ultimate Tour-nament hosted by SUNY Bu#alo’s team, Green Eggs and Ham, last weekend. "e young squad, divided into two separate teams for the weekend, carried over 20 !rst-years with them. "e roster now has more than 40 players in total. "e tournament, the team’s !rst this fall, hosted 28 teams to compete on the chilly campus in up-state Youngstown, NY.

"e student-coached club team drove nearly four hours and spent the weekend trying new combinations of players on the !eld in an attempt to achieve the best re-sults. Senior captain Alex “Bubbles” Kapiamba led the way for the Oberlin Flying Horsecows, acting as both player and coach. "e Takoma Park, MD, native serves as either the handler or cutter, chang-ing positions as he sees !t.

“I’ve been trying to push [the team] to master the basics, but it’s been easy because the freshmen

have lots of experience,” said Kapiamba. With seven players on the !eld at a time, the Horsecows have updated their start-ing lineup to include four !rst-year starters. Kapi-amba has been impressed with the skillset of the in-coming class and believes that with the new talent, the Flying Horsecows have a real chance at success this year.

First-year Henry Weissberg, a Brooklyn na-tive, looks forward to con-tributing to the team. He has been playing Ultimate since his freshman year in high school and is one of many in the class of 2017 that will take the !eld this fall.

“In practice, I feel like a lot of what we have done is stu# that I have done before, but I am still learn-ing a lot of new things. I’m looking forward to [the season],” he said. Weiss-berg believes that after the other !rst-years with less experience catch up on the basics, the Horsecows will excel at upcoming tournaments.

Ultimate does not have a regular league because it is still considered a club sport, but the team will be competing at a number of competitive tournaments

throughout the fall. Ac-cording to Kapiamba, the team’s biggest rival is Ke-nyon College. "e Horse-cows will meet SERF, Kenyon College’s team, at Ohio State University on Oct. 19 during their next tournament.

“Kenyon is always our biggest game,” said Kapi-amba. “We are working hard to prepare for it.”

"ough Kapiamba is happy to take on the dual role of player and coach, the team is looking to bring a separate coach in with its budget in the spring. As one of the larg-est club teams on campus, Ultimate receives a budget of approximately $15,000 a year. A lot of this money is allocated toward renting vans and staying in hotel rooms during tourna-ments, but the team has tried to save as much as possible to a#ord a hired coach. "is is still in the works, Kapiamba says, and the team still needs to discuss the distribution of funds.

For now, Ultimate will continue to train for up-coming events under the watch of its captains. "e Flying Horsecows will play during halftime of the Yeo-men football game on Oct. 19 to promote the squad.

Horsecows Prepare for Kenyon

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steroid use, for example, causes its recipient to produce more testosterone and to develop masculine features. Facial hair growth and quickly broadening shoulders are much more eas-ily detectable, not to mention more stigmatized, in women than in men.

With the rising prevalence of drugs other than steroids — drugs which do not cause their users to bulk up so obviously — one would expect women to be just as implicated as men. Is it possible that women are simply more ethical than men? Do women have more boundar-ies when it comes to competi-tion? This seems unlikely. As a female athlete with a natural affinity for competition, I well understand the pressures of competition and the want for any sort of edge.

The case of Marion Jones’s fall from fame is rather il-lustrative. Jones was the first

woman to win five medals at a single Olympics and was re-garded as the fastest woman on earth. Yet seven years later she was stripped of her medals and charged with perjury once she finally admitted to drug use. The derailment of Jones’s career is tragic, as is any dis-covery that a revered athlete cheated his or her way to fame. But the case of Marion Jones, is, I think, all the more tragic be-cause she is a woman.

It took much longer for women to be regarded as stel-lar athletes. Young girls, and even college athletes to a cer-tain extent, still constantly have to affirm their athleticism to their male counterparts. Fig-ures like Marion Jones, women who are unequivocally strong and athletic, help girls and women prove to others, and to themselves, that they can be regarded as true athletes. The discovery that Jones used drugs called this into question. When Barry Bonds was exposed for

steroid use he was perceived as a cheat, but his drug use didn’t call into question the athleti-cism of drug-free men. Jones’s drug use called into question the athleticism of women as a whole. The discovery that Mar-ion Jones, the fastest woman on earth, could not have achieved her superhuman speed with-out the increased production of male hormones undermines the very idea that women and girls can be athletic.

So maybe the reason more professional female athletes do not take advantage of per-formance-enhancing drugs is because they recognize this pitfall. Or perhaps this concept is just the reason we don’t hear about women and drugs more often. The discovery of drug use in athletes we revere is dis-appointing, but to me, it is all the more disappointing when that athlete is a role model for amateur female athletes who desperately need one.

Editorial: Female Athletes Use Drugs, Too

Ellie Huizenga

Oberlin streets are littered with a diverse array of cyclists, ranging from little kids on training wheels to students biking to class to the Oberlin cycling team. !e team, founded in the fall of 2010, spends hours biking the roads of Oberlin, and members enjoy the chance to see the many di"erent areas of northeast Ohio on rides with the team. Junior Max Haight noted that he initially joined the team for the chance “to explore the sur-rounding Oberlin area in order to gain perspective on our geogra-phy.” Haight’s devotion to the team has developed since then, and now he competes in races as well.

!e cycling team races in the Midwest Collegiate Cycling Con-ference with other schools in the Ohio area. !ere are no Division I, II, or III designations in cycling competitions, so all schools race together. But as junior Adrian Bennett described, “!ere are dif-ferent categories which get more and more di#cult and re$ect rid-ers’ experience and prowess, so the %rst times you race you won’t be thrown into the mix with a bunch of seasoned hardcore racers — you’ll be in the company of fellow beginners.”

Cycling, like other sports, re-quires more than just physical exertion. “Bicycle racing, despite being a rewarding pursuit, does involve su"ering, both physical and mental. Even so, minutes after each race or challenging ride I %nd myself dreaming of the next one,” Bennett said.

While the team rides together three times a week, not all mem-bers are there for the same reason. Some are involved so that they can ride often and stay in shape, while others want to push themselves with a structured training plan so

that they can compete in confer-ence races in the spring.

Bennett is looking forward to starting a new season with more competitive racers. Last year only two members of the team traveled to races, but this year looks more promising.

“I am hoping to guide a new, larger group of riders into their %rst racing season this spring,” he said. One new member of the team is %rst-year Scott Russell, who commented on the friendly nature of the team.

“!e goal is not to go out and win every race and crush the com-petition, but to have fun and see improvement in your own ability,” he said. Russell has been an avid cyclist for many years and knows the cycling team will provide an excellent opportunity to show o" his ability as a cyclist.

Another %rst-year on the team, Claire Appelmans, is equally excit-ed to see what role she will get to play as the season progress.

“I thought the perfect outlet to learn about and use my bike would be to %nd a cycling team at Ober-lin,” she said, talking about why she joined the team. Appelmans was on the cross country team in high school and understands the euphoria and anticipation that can come before any race. She noted that she was particularly interest-ed in seeing how the “competition plays out and how cyclists treat each other on race day.”

Looking back at prior cycling seasons, Haight commented, “During racing season, we live, eat and sleep bikes. Everything is focused toward getting better. It’s an addiction.” !at addiction will continue for the Oberlin cycling team this season, and, led by Ben-nett and Haight, the team will have more members compete in races than ever before.

With New Members, Cyclists Anticipate Strong Season

Junior Adrian Bennett focuses on a race. The Oberlin cycling team is back in action and is preparing for more competition and a larger roster this year. Courtesy of Adrian Bennett

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Sarah OrbuchSta! Writer

!e Yeowomen had a dominant showing in their double-header home opener this past weekend. After be-ginning their season with "ve tough games on the road, playing at home provided a much needed change of pace. Despite a narrow loss against the nationally ranked DePauw University Tigers on Saturday, the Yeowomen handily outdid the Earlham College Quakers 3–0 the following day.

On Saturday, the Yeowom-en’s defensive unit held the Tigers to an impressive "nal score of 1–2, even though the Tigers’ o#ense averaged 3.61 goals per game last season. In her season debut, junior Claire Yeske returned to the "eld with force, scoring the lone goal for the Yeowomen.

“We knew this was a must-win game for us,” said junior forward Jodi Helsel on the game against the Quakers. “We played really well on Sat-urday, which motivated us to work harder and get the de-sired result on Sunday.”

!e Quakers were unable to penetrate Oberlin’s defense, making the Yeowomen’s "rst conference victory a 3–0 shut-out. Oberlin dominated o#en-sively as well, racking up 12 shots on goal.

!e "rst half remained 0–0 until "rst-year Maureen Co#ey found junior Elizabeth Raskin in front of the net with two minutes left. One point ahead of the Quakers, the Yeowomen were able to continue their strong play in the second half.

In the "rst 10 minutes of play in the second half, "rst-year Jennifer Krakower scored her "rst collegiate goal. With less than a minute left on the clock, Helsel passed the ball to "rst-year Claire Miller, who managed to put the ball in the net just moments before the buzzer sounded.

Junior goalkeeper Carmen Azevedo had a fantastic week-end as well. Against the Tigers, she "nished with an impres-sive 13 saves. Her dominance continued into Sunday, when she only had to make one

save against the Quakers and earned her second shutout of the season.

“I think this weekend showed huge improvement from last weekend,” said sophomore mid"elder Taylor Swift. “We are all "nally work-ing together as a team. Our passes came together, and we "nished all of our shots in the shooting circle.”

Athletics Director Natalie Winklefoos was excited about the Yeowomen’s performance this past weekend. “I am very pleased with the win and

the e#ort against DePauw. I am even more excited about the overall progress with the program. !is is the "rst of many wins for the "eld hockey team.”

!e Yeowomen look to continue their winning streak this weekend when they travel to !e College of Wooster on Saturday and Kenyon College on Sunday. “!ese teams are de"nitely going to be tough,” said Swift, “but I think our performances this past week-end made statements to the rest of the conference. We will

de"nitely have to play hard, but I think we can "nish those games strong.”

Helsel agreed. “I think we are going to play well these next two weekends and con-tinue to show the conference that Oberlin "eld hockey is a force to be reckoned with.”

!e Yeowomen currently sit at 2–5 overall and 1–3 in conference. !ey return home for Homecoming Weekend on Friday, Oct. 4. !e opening touch is set for 4 p.m. against Denison University.

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The prevalence of performance-enhancing drugs among professional athletes has been well documented. Slews of baseball players, includ-ing the infamous Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Jose Canseco, have cap-tured media attention for months on end for their il-licit use of steroids. Track stars Tyson Gay and Ben Johnson were stripped of their Olympic medals fol-lowing allegations of per-formance-enhancing drug use. And, most recently, cyclist Lance Armstrong is being sued left and right after he was disgraced for blood doping.

But there is one large contingent of athletes that is curiously missing from these scandals: women. However, female athletes are not immune from turning to drugs to make themselves more competi-tive. Track stars Regina Jacobs, Kelli White and, most famously, Marion Jones, were all clients of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, which sold performance-enhancing drugs to scores of athletes. Both the Chinese and East German women’s swim teams tarnished their records after they were complicit in performance-enhancing drug scandals.

Yet, with the one excep-tion of Marion Jones, there has not been a female ath-lete with a drug scandal to match the high profile of the likes of Barry Bonds or Lance Armstrong. Per-formance-enhancing drug use seems to be simply more common among men than it is among women.

One reason for this may be practicality. Anabolic

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Yeowomen Secure First Conference Win

Tennis Fall Season Ends on a High NoteSarah Kahl

!e men’s and women’s tennis teams both showed tremendous promise at each of their matches last weekend. !e men hosted their an-nual invitational, while the women traveled to Greencastle, IN, where they competed in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Central Region Championships.

On the women’s side, senior Brenna Sheldon headlined the team’s e#ort at the three-day event, advancing all the way to the semi"nals of the ITA Cen-tral Region Championships. “It was actually a really fun match,” exclaimed Sheldon. “We played really well and got to see what we were individually capable of, while having the support from our team.”

Seeded 10th in the 128-person "eld, Sheldon made it to the tournament’s "nal four after defeating Denison Uni-versity’s Kelsey Geppner 6–2, 6–1 on Sunday morning. Sheldon then battled the region’s top-ranked player, Megan

Tang of the University of Chicago but fell short to the tournament’s top seed by a 6–3, 6–1 scoreline.

“It was also great seeing everyone play at this tournament. We got to do so because of our high ranking from last year,” said sophomore Alexandra Kahn. “It’s also nice spending a lot of time with the team so early. !e "rst-years honestly "t right in.”

After dropping her "rst match in the main draw, junior Grace Porter ended up making it all the way to the semi"nals in the consolation draw be-fore falling to the No. 1 player, Taylor Di#ey of Kenyon College.

In doubles play, the No. 1 duo, Shel-don and Porter, advanced to round 16 in the main draw before being upended by a pairing from DePauw University.

“Doubles is something I’m really looking forward to improving in,” said Sheldon. “With a great team dynamic, we can just go so far and have so much fun, especially once we learn how to work with each other.”

!e men’s tennis team hosted four regional opponents this weekend at its annual invitational event. After open-ing their season last weekend with an invitational at Kenyon, the Yeomen played on their home courts for the "rst time this fall.

On Saturday, rookies Ian Paik, Jer-emy Lichtmacher, Abraham Davis, Lu-cas Brown and Paul Farah all picked up singles wins. Returning sophomores Parker Oka-Wong, Brandon McKenna and Callan Louis each earned victories as well.

In doubles action, the duo of Cal-lan Louis and Farah continued their impressive run. After going 3–0 at Ke-nyon, they registered two more wins over the weekend with victories over Baldwin Wallace University and Al-legheny College, each by the score of 8–6. Other doubles winners included the duo of Davis and Paik, who dis-patched their Case Western University opponents by a score of 8–2.

“Last year there was a di#erent feel, almost like a slight expectation to lose.

!is year we have a more winning atti-tude,” said junior captain Soren Zeliger.

On Sunday, the success contin-ued with Paik, Zeliger, McKenna and Brown, all of whom picked up singles wins. Zeliger, after disappointing three-set defeats on Saturday, impres-sively picked it back up with the score of 6–2, 6–1. In doubles action, the duo of Gilbert and Brown picked up a win over Baldwin Wallace University by an 8–3 margin.

“It’s almost like we’re a new team,” said Zeliger. “It’s honestly exactly what Oberlin’s tennis needs. In the past, we didn’t have the best reputation or any-thing, but now we can start fresh. And we’re already beginning to see that in the results.”

!e Yeomen will continue their play next Sunday with a home match against Findlay University at 12 p.m., while the Yeowomen will "nish their fall season on Saturday, Oct. 5 when they host Carnegie Mellon Univer-sity at 11 a.m. as part of Homecoming Weekend.

Sophomore Dyaami D’Orazio dribbles through the mid"eld. Field Hockey put up a tough "ght against nationally ranked DePauw University on Saturday and achieved its "rst NCAC victory on Sunday. Yvette Chen