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    Jones, ASU fans seem to hit it off  Dec 12, 2007
    "Jones, 37, is fully aware of such. He was a wide receiver on the last Brave team that won a Southwestern Athletic Conference championship, in 1994. He has had coaching stints at Central Michigan, Oberlin College, Kentucky State, Concordia University and, most recently, the University of Cincinnati.But foremost to Alcornites, Jones knows the Lorman culture."That's going to be one of the first things we address," Jones said. "Our stadium is too big not to have it filled. I'm a guy who's very... (The Clarion-Ledger)

    Alcorn faithful soak up new boss' sermon  Dec 12, 2007
    Before that he was the Oberlin College defensive coordinator. And before that he was the defensive backs coach and recruiting coordinator at Kentucky State University. (The Clarion-Ledger)

    Cincinnati Assistant New Head Coach at Alcorn State  Dec 12, 2007
    In 2004, he was defensive coordinator at Division III Oberlin College. "We believe he knows how to win," said Malvin Williams, interim president of Alcorn. (Cincinnati Sports -- Rivals.com)

    Braves tab '95 grad as new coach  Dec 11, 2007
    In 2004, he served as defensive coordinator for Oberlin College, an NCAA Division III school in Ohio. Jones has ties to George Ross, Alcorn's incoming president. (The Clarion-Ledger)

    Council discusses campus sustainability goals  Dec 11, 2007
    Cobean presented the example of a two-week energy competition at Oberlin College in 2005, which reduced electricity use at the school by an average of 32 percent, saved over $5,000 in utility costs and reduced carbon dioxide emissions by about 68 metric tons. Whitman and Forbes Colleges already have some meters in place. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)

    The Global Warming Playbook  Dec 8, 2007
    Unfortunately, says David Orr, the head of environmental studies at Oberlin College and one of the foremost green thinkers in the U.S.: "There has been a leadership failure on this issue. It's been a leadership vacuum.". Orr is looking to inspire candidates to fill that vacuum. (Time.com)

    Karlgaard follows father's footsteps  Dec 5, 2007
    The younger Karlgaard is the athletic director at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, which is near Cleveland. Oberlin is an NCAA Division III school. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)

    BTH | The Housing Project  Nov 30, 2007
    Swarthmore College, Oberlin College and Wesleyan University are among the schools included. Many other universities, such as Cornell University, have student governing bodies pushing for such housing. (Daily Orange, NY)

    Making history in the Mideast  Nov 27, 2007
    In the end only Henry King, president of Oberlin College, and Charles Crane, heir to a plumbing fortune, took off for the Middle East. Neither knew anything about the region. (Boston Globe)

    Flowering Plants Evolved Quickly Into Five Groups  Nov 27, 2007
    The lead author of the UF paper is Michael Moore, a former postdoctoral associate in the Soltis lab and current faculty member at Oberlin College. Charles Bell, the fourth author, is another former Soltis postdoctoral associate, now at the University of New Orleans. (Science Daily)

    Dutch woman joins guerrillas in Colombia  Nov 26, 2007
    then an undergraduate at Oberlin College in Ohio. "But Tanja was very composed and helped others overcome their fear.". (Yahoo News)

    Real estate developer sues foundations, U.'s  Nov 26, 2007
    The three Ivy League universities, along with the University of Notre Dame, Oberlin College, Spelman College, the Carnegie Corporation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation all invested in Realty Financial Partners V, a firm that is a limited partner in LR5-A, which was the actual entity that issued the loan. In a statement filed with the Massachusetts Superior Court, Princeton, Harvard and Yale said that they had no involvement in managing the loan and are also protected from... (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)

    The radicalization of 'Eillen' — Dutch woman joins guerrillas in Colombia, grows disillusioned  Nov 25, 2007
    "We were all frightened," said Jacqueline Downing of Oakland, California, then an undergraduate at Oberlin College in Ohio. "But Tanja was very composed and helped others overcome their fear.". (International Herald Tribune)

    Usury lawsuit names Harvard, Princeton, and Yale endowments  Nov 22, 2007
    Besides the Ivy league schools, the suit names the University of Notre Dame, Oberlin College in Ohio, Spelman College in Atlanta, the Carnegie Corp. of New York, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago, all also represented by Rich. The defendants argue in court papers that the usury law's requirements don't apply to them because they had no involvement in managing the Meadow Creek investment, and that state law shields limited partners from such claims. (Boston Globe)

    Changes at City Theatre  Nov 22, 2007
    Now, she has an appointment to teach theater history next term at Oberlin College in Ohio. But she will continue to be based in Pittsburgh, where her husband teaches at Allderdice High School. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)

    Harvard, Yale, Princeton `Loan Sharks' Charged 42% Interest, Lawsuit Says  Nov 22, 2007
    Besides the Ivy league schools, the suit names the University of Notre Dame, near South Bend, Indiana; Oberlin College in Ohio; Spelman College in Atlanta; the Carnegie Corp. of New York; and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago, all also represented by Rich. Legal Strategy. (Bloomberg)

    Rocky Horror Show’ actress and Winona native finds success is sweeter closer to home  Nov 1, 2007
    She got a double degree in vocal music performance and theater from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. The performance bug bit her early. (Winona Daily News, MN)

    Fusing jazz and Broadway in his compositions  Oct 31, 2007
    Exit stage right to Oberlin College. The Ohio liberal arts school sent Weiss a flier proclaiming, Think one person can change the world. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)

    Penn State gains rankings for improving sustainability  Oct 30, 2007
    Oberlin College in Ohio topped the Sierra Club's list, followed by Harvard University and Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. Penn State was the only Big Ten university ranked, although Northwestern University received an honorable mention. (Daily Collegian, PA)

    A long journey home  Oct 30, 2007
    After a distinguished musical career and several trips around the world, he taught at Oberlin College and was a member of the New York Civic Opera. He now owns a studio in New York City, he said. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)

    Spooky sounds  Oct 26, 2007
    A graduate of Oberlin College, Conservatory of Music and Boston University, organ music has been Jones' lifelong love. He assumed his first regular position as an organist at age 14 and has played since. (Seacoast New Hampshire)

    Concert kicks off county and city's bicentennial celebration  Oct 25, 2007
    During his career, Frierson has taught music at Oberlin College in Ohio, performed backup vocals for Harry Belafonte and served as a member of the New York Civic Opera. The concert will launch the Black Heritage Project in Columbia, which will focus on the contributions African Americans have made to Maury County s history. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)

    Full Story »  Oct 24, 2007
    Coleman attended Oberlin College in Ohio to pursue a double major, in Political Science and Music. He said he initially focused more on his political coursework than music, but he couldn't afford to stay at Oberlin and wound up playing his clarinet in NYC's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts while at Juilliard. (Boulder Colorado Daily, CO)

    Spotlight on... Artist in Residence Francois Clemmons  Oct 19, 2007
    He received his Bachelor of Music at Oberlin College and his Master of Fine Arts at Carnegie-Mellon University and went on to delight audiences around the world with both his operatic performances and his moving Negro spirituals. Clemmons founded the celebrated Harlem Spiritual Ensemble and also played the role of Officer Clemmons on the well-known children's television program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. (Middlebury College -- The Campus, VT)

    Being Thomas Jefferson  Oct 7, 2007
    Mr. Edmondson, 27, moved to Philadelphia in 2002 after graduating from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. "I wanted to go to a mid-size city on the East Coast," he said. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)

    Do central bankers still matter?  Oct 5, 2007
    "There is no evidence of any generic tendency for governors to be thought weak until proven tough, no money to be paid from betting on such doubts, and no need for governors to diverge from normal stabilization policies to establish their counterinflationary credibility upfront," concluded Adam Posen of the Washington-based Peterson Institute for International Economics and Kenneth Kuttner of Oberlin College. Their work strongly suggests Mr. Carney should keep up the Bank of Canada's inflation... (Globe and Mail -- Business)

    From the Top’  Oct 4, 2007
    That money will come in handy for tuition to her top three choices for college where she will major in piano performance: New England Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory and Oberlin College. Her dream is to become a concert pianist and eventually a college-level professor. (Montana Standard, MT)

    WPB preacher who championed rights dies  Sep 17, 2007
    A full scholarship brought him to Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, but doubts of his musical ability prompted him to switch to Oberlin College to study sociology. Though he occasionally thought about turning to ministry, it wasn't until his senior year that he pursued it by enrolling at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University. (The Palm Beach Post)

    Martha Craig, retired professor, Shakespearean scholar; at 75  Sep 7, 2007
    Dr. Craig grew up in Oberlin, Ohio, where her father, Dr. Clarence Tucker Craig, a noted theologian, was on the faculty of Oberlin College. Her mother, Rena Catharine Stebbins, later became dean of women at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. (Boston Globe)

    John Gofman, anti-nuclear activist & lipid researcher, has died UCB, Sep. 04  Sep 5, 2007
    He earned his A.B. in chemistry from Oberlin College in 1939, and completed one year of medical school before deciding that he needed to learn more chemistry. It was a fateful decision, because he entered graduate school at UC Berkeley in 1940 at a time when the university had become the center of high energy physics research. (University of California Newswire, CA)

    Leaders urged to fight corruption- Saaka  Sep 4, 2007
    Prof Saaka, 61, a lecturer in political science at the Oberlin College at Ohio in the United States of America, promised to restructure the PNC to make it viable enough to contest for power in the 2008 elections if he is given the nod as presidential candidate. "I would bring my experience, expertise and knowledge to bear on the Party in changing its fortunes, if delegates give me the mantle to lead them", he added. (Ghana Web, Ghana)

    New Hillel director plans expanded programming  Aug 31, 2007
    As Jewish students at Cleveland State University, Case Western Reserve University, Oberlin College and other area colleges return to campus this fall, many may find it harder to ignore the call of getting involved at their on campus Hillel. Gary Coleman, new executive director at The Cleveland Hillel Foundation, promises there will be many changes to increase Hillel s visibility and provide students with a variety of enticing new programs and events. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)

    John Gofman, at 88; considered father of antinuclear movement  Aug 28, 2007
    After finishing high school during the Great Depression, he attended nearby Oberlin College. After graduating, he enrolled in medical school at Cleveland's Western Reserve University. (Boston Globe)

    Beyond the Hill | Oberlin's mission is to have greener grass on its side  Aug 27, 2007
    As concern for global warming increases, Oberlin College in Ohio is committed to rooting out the problem. Oberlin has been an early leader in battling what may be the most exciting crisis in world history. (Daily Orange, NY)

    Hunt: Cyrus Jones takes Lincoln track to new heights  Aug 2, 2007
    " His first season coaching the Lions, in 1974, was a real learning experience. Jones had very little knowledge of track and field. He read books and talked to various college coaches around the country. Eventually, he picked up enough information to help develop Lincoln's athletes into great performers. "I remember calling [former Olympic track star] Tommie Smith on the phone," Jones said. "Tommie was the head coach at Oberlin College. He talked to me about the sprinters using the starting... (ESPN -- College Sports)

    Yesterday's rocker takes a new stage  Jul 27, 2007
    After a year at Oberlin College, he and a classmate left for early 1980s-Boston, bent on living rock 'n' roll. They called themselves The Del Fuegos, with Zanes on lead guitar and vocals. (Somerset Daily American, PA)

    Pavone Passing on Jazz Tradition to New Wave  Jul 20, 2007
    "There's such focus on rap and hip hop. Often, their parents may have been jazz listeners. Some just do seek it out. ... They've been lucky to be exposed to it." "Plus," he continued, "we are at the height of jazz education. Twenty-three years ago, except for Oberlin College [in Ohio], you hardly could find a jazz department. Now, it's so widespread. Everybody has a jazz department," he said. He also credits a younger generation's interest in jazz to the Internet, where, he said, students are... (Litchfield County Times, CT)

    Descendent of Wright brothers was 'independent, strong-willed'  Jul 15, 2007
    Years later, when Katharine Wright Chaffee enrolled in Oberlin College in Ohio, it was Orville who paid her tuition, her daughter said. "She admired his mind very much," her daughter said. (North County Times)

    Katharine Chaffee, 84  Jul 15, 2007
    She received her master's degree in social work from Syracuse University in upstate New York, having first attended Oberlin College in Ohio and then received her bachelor's degree from the College of Wooster in Ohio. She contributed her expertise as a gardener to a number of local organizations. (North County Times)

    Ohio college gets $4.5M grant from NJ foundation  Jul 10, 2007
    July 9, 2007, 6:27 PM EDT OBERLIN, Ohio (AP) _ The Bonner Foundation of Princeton, N.J., awarded Oberlin College a $4 ... Oberlin College: www. (Newsday -- State)

    School mired in claims of cheating  Jul 9, 2007
    " Some of those kids see the good -- the very good -- in Haqq. "He will do absolutely anything, and I mean anything, to make sure we get into college," said graduate David Scorttino, who just completed his freshman year at Oberlin College in Ohio. "I had a crazy family experience. Mom wasn't all too there. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Summer solace: hot tips for every kind of reader  Jul 8, 2007
    Stirring true story by former Sierra Leonean boy soldier, who joined the civil war at the age of 13, before escaping to the States and graduating from liberal arts university Oberlin College in Ohio. The Comfort Reader. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)

    Library lectures to explore WWI  Jul 7, 2007
    The legacies of the First World War and its continued relevance to our lives will be explored in the program "The Soldiers' War: Consent or Coercion?" by two leading authorities - John Horne, professor of modern European history, Trinity College, Dublin; and Leonard Smith, Frederick B. Artz Professor of History, Oberlin College. Each is uniquely designed to introduce two distinct opinions on subjects related to the war. (The Examiner)

    A Web That Thinks Like You  Jul 4, 2007
    He has been thinking about it since the summer after his sophomore year at Oberlin College when he became fascinated with the notion of the universe as a vast computing system. That dovetailed with research Spivack was doing on the mind and discussions he was having with his grandfather about organizations and why communities work or fail. (BusinessWeek)

    Rawlings-Blake to enter race for council president today  Jun 14, 2007
    Raised in the Ashburton section of Northwest Baltimore, Rawlings-Blake graduated from Western High School in 1988, Oberlin College in 1992 and the University of Maryland School of Law in 1995. Rawlings-Blake spent a year as an attorney at the Legal Aid Bureau. (SunSpot.net)

    What happens to kids raised by gay parents?  Jun 10, 2007
    Annie O'Neill, Post-Gazette Rebecca Meiksin, a 22-year-old graduate of Oberlin College, doesn't feel as if she's any different from anyone else just because she was raised by a lesbian mother in Squirrel Hill ... A graduate of Allderdice High School and Oberlin College, in Ohio, she says her life "always felt normal to me. A lot of my mom's friends are gay, and she's really politically active. She took me to gay pride marches and whatnot. I remember sitting out on the deck at New York New York... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)

    Greener pastures: Luther College harvesting years of ecofriendly ventures  Jun 10, 2007
    Middlebury College in Vermont and Oberlin College in Ohio have been working on it for decades, he said. St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)

    A&M appoints student activities director  Jun 3, 2007
    Prior to Rhodes, Stackman served as interim dean of students and associate dean of students at Oberlin College in Ohio. Linda Gates, the dean of students at Oberlin College stated, "I have found him to be one of the most collaborative colleagues I have worked with. His greatest skill is his ability to listen and to be open to new ideas.". (The Battalion, TX)

    Doctoral Student in Entomology Wins Fulbright to Study Dengue in Peru Davis, May. 25  May 26, 2007
    Mans, from Palo Alto, received her bachelor of arts degree in environmental studies in 2003 from Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, and her master's degree in epidemiology, with an emphasis on infectious diseases, from UC Davis in 2006 ... Her first research experience: studying the West Nile virus with Mary Garvin at Oberlin College. (University of California Newswire, CA)

    A symphonic encounter awaits for the SV Orchestra's 2007-08 season  May 25, 2007
    William Grant Still (1895-1978), acclaimed as the dean of African-American composers, was born in rural Mississippi and studied at Wilberforce University and Oberlin College, performed with W.C. Handy and Paul Whiteman s orchestras, and was a gifted multi-instrumentalist. A composer of ballets and symphonies first performed at Howard Hanson s Eastman School of Music, Still was a busy composer, orchestrator, conductor and performer on Broadway as well the world concert circuit. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)

    Give a little, take a little  May 22, 2007
    " Shane Clipfell, an assistant with Merchant at Eastern Michigan, pulled himself out of the running for the head position, Gragg said. Clipfell went to Michigan State as an assistant coach. Coming out of high school as a top prospect, Gilbert transferred to Division III Oberlin College from Ohio after her sophomore season. She led the nation in scoring as a junior, averaging 31.1 points and was second her senior season, averaging 31.3 points. In 1994 Gilbert was promoted from men's assistant... (Echo Online, MI)

    Spartans asst. tabbed head coach at E. Michigan  May 22, 2007
    This is Gilbert's second stint as a head coach; she formerly spent eight years (1994-2002) as the head women's basketball coach of NCAA Division III Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio ... Oberlin retired her jersey in 1994 and in 2001 she was inducted into the Oberlin College Athletic Hall of Fame. (ESPN -- Women's Basketball)

    Dicaprio to Polluters: Go Green Now  May 21, 2007
    David Orr, the chair of environmental studies at US university Oberlin College put it differently: "Sooner or later, it is film, music or poetry that move people. It's a necessary step in forming political discussion.". DARK BUT HOPEFUL. (Planet Ark, United States)

    Gary Rosen, musician who created children's classic 'Teddy Bear's Picnic'  May 19, 2007
    He went to Oberlin College and in 1968 received a bachelor's in sociology. While there, he played in the band Ant Trip Ceremony, which released "24 Hours" -- an album that spawned an Internet cult following. (Boston Globe)

    Pianist, flutist perform Sunday  May 18, 2007
    Rotondi is a graduate of Oberlin College and the Diller-Quaile School of Music. She has worked as pianist, accompanist, and piano teacher in the Butte area for many years. (Montana Standard, MT)

    Artist, activist and author turns 90  May 18, 2007
    Major clients, to name but a few, were Oberlin College, the former Mt. Sinai Hospital, University Circle, and the Jewish Community Federation. Graphic designs for these organizations and others are featured in his new book. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)

    Let's have a word or two with a young word expert  May 16, 2007
    Maia's family: Brothers Linus, 15, Galen, 14, and Blaise 10; parents Pennie, a physician in family practice, and Vincent, a stay-at-home dad who previously taught physics at Oberlin College. Katie Byard can be reached at 330-996-3781 or. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Living)

    David Turnbull, at 92; taught physics at Harvard University  May 8, 2007
    His mother attended Oberlin College for two years and tutored her eldest son through dyslexia. The family "belonged to a strict Presbyterian sect," Dr. Turnbull wrote, and "at home the Bible was read aloud, one chapter each morning, serially from Genesis through Revelations. . . . Admiring my father I wanted to accept his beliefs, but I became skeptical of them quite early.". (Boston Globe)

    Suzy Merchant Begins To Build Coaching Staff  May 2, 2007
    Gilbert spent the previous eight seasons (1994-2002) as the head coach of NCAA Division III Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio ... Oberlin retired her jersey in 1994 and in 2001, she was inducted into the Oberlin College Athletic Hall of Fame ... Playing Honors: Two-time first team Division III All-American (1990, 1991); Two-time NCAC Player of the Year (1990, 1991); Honda Division III Athlete of the Year (1991); Champion USA/WBCA Player of the Year (1991); Set 24 school records and 10 conference... (Msuspartans.com)

    Track & Field  Apr 29, 2007
    - More Than 4,200 Athletes To Compete At Stanford Invitational - Accepted College/Open Entries For 2004 Stanford Track Invitational - Jason Goff Throws Javelin Career-Best 209-10 - Accepted High School Entries For 2004 Stanford Track Invitational - Jill Camarena, Sara Bei, Ian Dobson Earn All-America Honors at NCAA's - Ian Dobson, Alicia Craig, DMR Gain All-America honors at NCAA Indoors - Eleven Athletes To Compete at NCAA Indoor Championships - Sarah Hopping And Donielle Colich Earn Top Marks... (Gostanford.com)

    Cross Country  Apr 29, 2007
    For previous season releases, please visit our. 04/27/07Athlete in Focus: Evan Moore. (Gostanford.com)

    - Jason Cowley on the world of the boy soldier  Apr 29, 2007
    He attended Oberlin College in Ohio and decided to write a memoir because he knows he has been given a second chance in life, 'a second life even', and he wants to bear witness so that others may learn from his experience. He is tormented by guilty memories, but refuses to give in to them. (Guardian Unlimited)

    Mary Crisp, 83; GOP leader backed ERA, abortion rights  Apr 26, 2007
    the youngest of eight children of Elizabeth Patch and Harry Dent, she graduated in 1946 from Oberlin College with a degree in botany. She did graduate work in political science. (Boston Globe)

    EXCHANGE RATES -- Study abroad? Try scrimping abroad.  Apr 25, 2007
    was constantly sneaking across the front desk, said Rood-Ojalvo, 21, a junior at Oberlin College in Ohio. kept on getting all these looks, and having my friends open side doors for me to get in. (Somerset Daily American, PA)

    Neighbors: Boice’s new book a reflection of her medical practice  Apr 24, 2007
    Boice graduated from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland six years after earning a bachelor s degree in violin performance and environmental studies from Oberlin College. She decided after attending college she needed to get real life experience and see what the world had to offer. (Montrose Daily Press, CO)

    Mary Crisp, 83; GOP official rebuked by Reagan over views on ERA, abortion  Apr 24, 2007
    the youngest of eight children of Elizabeth Patch and Harry Dent, she graduated in 1946 from Oberlin College with a degree in botany. She later did graduate work in political science at Arizona State University. (Los Angeles Times)

    OIT wins nationwide collegecampus ecology competition ... SPAC summer festival auditions held in Yreka ... Greenhorn plan takes shape ... Community pride in Siskiyou County ... File server with cancer patient data stolen from UCSF office ... Cynthia Whitcomb to teach pitch workshop for writers ... FBI arrests Sacramento man for sabotaging energy facility ... Storm recovery continues along East Coast, but thousands still blacked out ... Spring storm clogs Sierra with blizzard, helps western Nevada firefighters ... Spring planting behind in North, ahead in South a recent crop report shows ... ';var marqueewidth="350px";var marqueeheight="20px";var marqueebgcolor="#FFFFFF";////NO NEED TO EDIT BELOW THIS LINE////////////var pauseit=1;var marqueespeed=1 //slow speed down by 1 for NSvar copyspeed=marqueespeedvar pausespeed=(pauseit==0)? copyspeed: 0var iedom=document.all||document.getElementByIdif (iedom)document.write(''+marqueecontent+'')var actualwidth=''var cross_marquee, ns_marqueefunction populate(){if (iedom){cross_marquee=document.getElementById? document.getElementById("iemarquee") : document.all.iemarqueecross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8+"px"cross_marquee.innerHTML=marqueecontentactualwidth=document.all? temp.offsetWidth : document.getElementById("temp").offsetWidth}else if (document.layers){ns_marquee=document.ns_marquee.document.ns_marquee2ns_marquee.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8ns_marquee.document.write(marqueecontent)ns_marquee.document.close()actualwidth=ns_marquee.document.width}lefttime=setInterval("scrollmarquee()",20)}window.onload=populate;function scrollmarquee(){if (iedom){if (parseInt(cross_marquee.style.left)>(actualwidth*(-1)+8))cross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(cross_marquee.style.left)-copyspeed+"px"elsecross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8+"px"}else if (document.layers){if (ns_marquee.left>(actualwidth*(-1)+8))ns_marquee.left-=copyspeedelsens_marquee.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8}}if (iedom||document.layers){with (document){document.write('')if (iedom){write('')write('')write('')write('')}else if (document.layers){write('')write('')write('')}document.write('')}}Thursday, April 19, 2007OIT wins nationwide collegecampus ecology competition  Apr 20, 2007
    Winning schools in the contest are: California State University, Chico; Mount Wachusett Community College, Gardner, Massachusetts; Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey; Richard Stockton College, Somers Point, New Jersey; Oregon Institute of Technology, Klamath Falls, Oregon; University of California at Santa Barbara; Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio; the Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey. The National Wildlife Federations Campus Ecology Program has been an integral... (Yreka Siskiyou Daily News, CA)

    Things fall apart Kate Jacobs and friends deconstruct old hits at The Goldhawk  Apr 19, 2007
    After graduating Oberlin College, Jacobs sailed into the Mile Square City in 1981, on the wave of artists and bohemians that moved in during the early 1980s. She lamented that the city is no longer as fertile to artistic forces as it was twenty years ago. (Union City Reporter, NJ)

    'Low Carbon Diet' Aims to Take Bite Out of Global Warming  Apr 19, 2007
    "With 400 cafes in corporations, universities and specialty venues nationwide - including Yahoo!, Oberlin College and the Seattle Art Museum - Bon Appetit will encourage chefs and diners to think about how their food choices could help ease the climate crisis," York explained. To accomplish this goal, the new "Low Carbon Diet" will include. (CNSnews.com)

    He gives 'Entourage' an assist  Apr 8, 2007
    His father, a doctor, and mother, a homemaker, discouraged him and he eventually pursued a career as a concert pianist at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music before switching his career focus back to acting. After appearing in various television commercials, he landed his first TV show speaking part on CBS's "Dave's World" in 1994. (Boston Globe -- Living)

    Loyalty serves 'Entourage' assistant very well  Apr 6, 2007
    An Oberlin College graduate, he worked as an assistant to several casting directors while starting his acting career. "I ended up doing a whole lot of research for this role without knowing it," says Lee, who doesn't recall specifically bizarre Ari-like requests so much as the sense that "It was just like the end of the world every day. The intensity of it was as if we were trying to stave off the violation of the species or something.". (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)

    MELLINGER, Glen. D.  Apr 5, 2007
    A 1949 graduate of Oberlin College, Dr. Mellinger received his PHD in social psychology from the University of Michigan in 1955. He served as a research officer for the U.S. Information Agency in Washington D.C. and Teheran, Iran before coming to California in 1959. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)

    Opera finds its roots in the heartland  Mar 31, 2007
    Following the opera trail the last two months has involved entering a surrealist sinkhole at Oberlin College in Ohio. I encountered an operatic Abu Ghraib in Austin, Texas, and the spirit of a Ponca Indian chief in Omaha. (Los Angeles Times)

    SUNY OSWEGO TO HOST RESIDENCY WITH ACCLAIMED MIRO QUARTET  Mar 29, 2007
    The group is familiar with making connections with students, having formed in fall 1995 in Oberlin College. The quartet consists of violinists Daniel Ching and Sandy Yamamoto, John Largess on viola and Joshua Gindele on cello. (Oswego Palladium-Times, NY)

    Paul Lauterbur, 77; Nobel laureate called 'father of MRI'  Mar 28, 2007
    and Sharyn Lauterbur-DiGeronimo of Selden, N.Y.; and a daughter from his second marriage, Elise, a student at Oberlin College in Ohio. Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)

    Philip Murray, 85; owned island store, helped others  Mar 27, 2007
    Graduating from Nantucket High School in 1939, Mr. Murray went off-island to Oberlin College in Ohio, a brave act in those days for an island youth, who had to take the boat to Woods Hole and the train to Ohio, said his daughter, Diana Swets of Westborough. He joined the Army and while at Camp Picket, Va. (Boston Globe)

    Former child soldier tells Broward students about horrors of war  Mar 24, 2007
    " At 26, he is a former African child soldier, rap singer, diplomat and overnight literary sensation. Beah spent two hours reading from his memoir, A Long Way Gone, and answering questions from dozens of students. Beah was forced into the army at the age of 13 to fight for Sierra Leone's army against a rebel group. By his own account, he killed dozens of people over two years, until he was rescued by the United Nations child protection organization. His family -- parents and two brothers -- were... (Sun-Sentinel.com)

    Good conduct for Kitty Beller-McKenna  Mar 20, 2007
    Her bachelor's work was done at Oberlin College. She received a master's of music in choral conducting from New England Conservatory. (Seacoast New Hampshire)

    Financial, not artistic, obstacles face China's contemporary dancers  Mar 19, 2007
    In a 1992 article for Contact Quarterly, Roger Copeland, who teaches dance and theater at Oberlin College in Ohio, described choreographers' struggle to create in the repressive years after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Certainly, censorship still exists. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)

    Report accessible to average citizens like yourself  Mar 12, 2007
    Flannery Cerbin of La Crosse is a student at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. She was an intern at the Tribune in January. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)

    Scholarships Are Not Just for the Needy  Mar 12, 2007
    Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and Washington University in St. Louis are active scholarship dispensers. So is Tulane University, which was slashing tuition by nearly 50% for sought after students even before Hurricane Katrina smashed into New Orleans, says Hamborg of Human Capital Research. (BusinessWeek)

    Nurture their nature  Mar 11, 2007
    When she got older, she went to Oberlin College in Ohio, dropped out at 19 and moved to Nantucket to study photography and art. She worked as a personal chef, sailed on a wooden boat to the Caribbean, went to graduate school in art and then, in the early '90s, became an assistant professor of fine arts at Trinity College in Connecticut. (Cape Cod Times, MA)

    Ann Coulter no longer welcome in the Chronicle  Mar 9, 2007
    Born in Philadelphia and raised in New Jersey, Malkin graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio. She has been a columnist and editorial writer for both the Los Angeles Times and the Seattle Times before moving to Washington, D.C. Her columns are concise, witty, hard-hitting and more than capable of irritating and exasperating liberals without her feeling the need to insult. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)

    Black history  Mar 9, 2007
    Oberlin College Lecture -- 4:30 p.m. today, the Adam J. Lewis Environmental Studies Center, Hallock Auditorium, Oberlin College. Sylvia Hood Washington will present Ball of Confusion: African Americans and Modern/Postmodern Environmental Action. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)

    Mays Selected as 2007 Nike's So You Want To Be A Coach Participant  Mar 8, 2007
    2007 Class of Nike's So You Want To Be A Coach Kendra Agee, Wright State Ashley Awkward, Mississippi Kristina Baugh, Providence College Cobie Carlisle, Jacksonville State Kezia Conyers, Appalachian State Cheri' Craddock, Washington Lesley Dickinson, James Madison Lani Edmonds, Ashland Chrissy Givens, Middle Tennessee State Valonne Givens, Bethune-Cookman College Megan Griffith, Columbia Erica Hallman, Kansas Cameo Hicks, Washington Jennifer Hoffman, Siena Heights Elizabeth Honegger, Bowling... (Tulsahurricane.com)

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