ME MEW Volume 124 Number 10 Established 1874 November 17 1995 Hayden to leave Oberlin circumstances unclear V by Sara Foss Members of the General Faculty ously if Hayden is gone it mean admissions committee when con- the College will have to rethink when Vice President of Admissions tacted were unaware of Haydcns it is with admissions and Financial Aid Thomas Hayden upcoming departure Miller said admissions has bee will not be employed by Oberlin next Associate Professor of English a major agenda item since Dye too year though the circumstances sur- Pat Day a member of the admissions office Admissions has been a re rounding his departure are unclear committee said During the time major problem he said adding thi Neither Hayden nor President Tom has been here admissions has a rethinking of the admissions pre Nancy Dye returned messages left at done a number of good things cess may allow for more opportuni their offices and homes throughout When Tom goes admissions will be ties for students especially student to the week in quite good shape He added that of color It Vfi Director of Admissions Debra admissions is in better shape than Associate Professor of Math Chermonte said I dont know any- it was when Hayden first took office ematics Susan Colley chair of th m thing about that Its not something Assistant Professor of Religion admissions committee pointed ou IF 5 I can talk about since it has not been AG Miller also a member of the that Oberlin is not the only school confirmed admissions committee said Obvi See Need page 21 MRC interns resign today 1 effective at semesters end it The resignations The resignations which are ef- Students this week said that th fective at the end of the semester appointment of Nieves to oversee th- follow a rash of come on the heels of several changes office was a problem because Deai changes and lack to the MRC an office which has had of Student Life and Service of stability little stability since it was created in Charlene Cole made it without con 1993 under the name of the Office of suiting students who use the office by Geoff Mulvihill Multicultural Affairs OMA I dont really see that student The most recent changes to the really had a voice on anything that Diem Nguyen and Robin Russell structure of the office came this week gone on there senior Vine Raising awareness Speakers discussed and presented the results are resigning from their jobs as in- as the office moved from its old home Schleitwiler said of the substance use survey during Drug and Alcohol Awareness week terns in the Multicultural Resource in Daub House to a new space in Schleitwiler also said that stu programs held throughout the week photo by Matt Yarrow Center MRC today Stevenson Hall Assistant Dean of dents did not hear about changes di Student Life Julia Nieves became the rectly from Cole supervisor for the four interns who Cole has not sent a formal lette looks of ii use work in the Committee at the office to campus describing changes Nieves is the second person who the MRC But she said the responsi drugs alcohol on campus has overseen the office this year Ear- bility for informing campus of th lier this year Ken Holmes assistant situation in the office is not her Were trying to get information out memory loss and vomiting to the dean of Student Life and Ser- alone Statistics for to students on things that are continu- I think the problem is probably vices supervised the office which Part of what the internship i ally problematic equal to other college campuses substance use at has never had a permanent director Oberlin were Six- hundred and forty- two stu- said Joe DiChristina co- chair of the See SCOPE page dents responded to the survey Out of Alcohol and Drug Education Com- displayed those people 43 percent were first- mittee by Jessica Christensen years 25 percent were sophomores With the survey was also a feed- Oberlin unable to During last weeks Drug and Al- and 32 percent were listed as other back section asking students How do cohol Awareness week programs the Of the respondents 61 percent were you perceive your drug and alcohol Alcohol and Drug Education Com- female Ninety- eight percent were in habits The responses ranged from retain coaches 8t- age mittee presented the results of a sur- the o22 yearsof- bracket complete abstinence to alcoholism by Hanna Miller letics as over half of the Yeowomc vey sent out last spring to assess the One answered I do teams have welcomed a new coac I think the problem student dont use of various substances among drugs Sometimes I feel like an out- Nobody is more familiar with in the past two seasons Oberlin students is probably equal to sider because of this Another stu- the agony of defeat than Oberlin ath- Coaches are reluctant to remai The committee sponsored sev- that at other college dent said I think I have a healthy letes Three of Oberlins five fall in a losing program And winnin eral discussions including one en- campuses drug and alcohol usage I wish how- teams finished dead last in the NCAC isnt easy when a teams leadershi titled Mixed messages surrounding Joe DiChristina ever I could quit smoking unable to win even one conference is shaky the use of drugs here there and ev- cigarrettes game It doesnt lend itself to stabil co- chair of the Alcohol erywhere to publicize survey re- and Drug Education Fifty- four percent of the respon- I think its dismal when five ity said junior Nell I lanssen co- cap sults dents said they did not know whether teams w in only four games in the con- tain of the womens volleyball team Committe Brochures with some of the sur- there were any drug or alcohol pre- ference lamented Director of Ath- Its really difficult because we hav vey results printed on them were Seventy percent of the respon- vention programs at the College letics Don Hunsinger to help the coaches adjust The vol placed in all of the dining halls and dents said they had used alcohol in Senior Kasey Melski a Resident Saddled with low recruiting bud- leyball team has had three coaches ii many co- ops the past 30 days Forty percent re- Coordinator on the Committee said gets a dearth of equipment and thus the last three years The main goal of Drug and Al- ported using marijuana in the past the Committee wants to make sure far a demonstrated inability to rise to The Athletics Department AD cohol Awareness week is education month that the student body is aware of re- the top Oberlin athletics arc in a sad is trying to reverse the trend of resig and awareness of potentially addic- The survey summarylisted sources at Oberlin She added state Its enough to make a coach nations However the search for tive or abusive substances according drunk driving suicide rape and ad- Great discussion has been happen- want to get out of tow n someone to blame has been futile to organizers Barbara Mchwald co- diction as serious possible conse- ing In the last two years eight The departments attempts to deter- chair of the Alcohol and Drug quences of drug and alcohol abuse Though Residential Life and Oberlin coaches have done exactly mine the source of the problem bear Fduetion Committee and Commons Some of the less serious problems Services docs not offer rehabilitation that The turnovers have been a strange rescmblencc to Abbot and Coordinator of Dascomb said listed included missing a class See Committee page 4 particuarly dramatic in womens ath See Turnover page 13 The Oberlin Review r Nicaragua Sister Theater and Dance rinri inu ruA yu iu Inside November 17 1995 Co- op vote held Dilemma Nationals Agaln Guide Members of OSCA voted on whether Renovation X Keely and Du and Fall Oberlins cross country team sent to continue to support the Nicaraguan Forward make this weekends perfor- 14 to Arts Calendar 9 Editorials 6 their top runners Regionals Sister Co- op but the votes have not mance choices particularly difficult and Hugh and Shannon Fox made Briefs 2 Letters 8 Finn yet been tallied rewarding Nationals for the second year Comics 1 1 Security Notebook 3 Sports standings 13 News 3 Arts 8 Sports 15 v vw the mmwvnii hot publish oia tiiaiicsciviig the user izzvz vllap f 1 J Pace 2 News The Oberlin Review November 17 1995 The Oberlin Review established IS74 The Bridge changes VOLUME I 24 NUMBER 10 ISSN 0029- 7256 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 17 1995

Published by th tludenlt o ObwUn Cdkxja every Friday during the fall and spring semMtera eicept hokday and eiaminaliixi periods Subscription 30 per year Advertising rates 6 per column inch Second class postage paid at Oberlin OFSOME Ohio Entered as second class matter at the Oberlin Ohw post office April 2 1911 name to POSTMASTER SEND CHANGES TO Wilder Bca 90 OBERLIN OHIO 44074 1 08 1 Offee of Fjblicahon Burton Basement Oberlin Ohio 44074 2 1 6 775 8 1 23 by Julianne Walden campus awareness of multi- racial is- group we find similarities but we re- Editor m- Chief Geoff MufvihJI Managing Editor Traci Manning sues said Hemmasi alize there are differences Renard News Editor Sara Foss Business Manager Michael Murphy Juhanne Walden Photo Editors Allison Hales OFSOME Organization For Renard said they are doing more said Asaociste News Editor Kristen SchuKj Mike Cleson Students Of Multiple Ethnicities things to make more people aware Hemmasi said there were only Commentary Editor Ther ssa Giron Photo Adviser Alei Wsrnow Mara Nelson Production Managers Kirti Barnawal is the new name of an old group of the substantial group of people of six or seven members last year but Arts Editors Joshua Adam Sadie Ishee are around 12 Clsire Kociak Computer Manager Ross Patty The Bridge multiple ethnicities Its something this year there people Associate Arts Editor Laren Rusin David Reeves OFSOME addresses issues spe- thats not talked about attending the bi- weekly meetings Sports Editors Nachie Castro Review On Una Coordinator Jonsthon Rochkrnd bi- Hanna Mirier Advertising Msnagers Carter Beer cific to racial students According to Hemmasi the Senior Vincent Schleitwiler has Copy Editors Gaby Gothib Ad Designer Chelsey Johnson Co- facilitators Farzaneh group is sometimes political but is been involved in the group for four Ben Jones Production Staff Michelle Grove Layout Coordinator Per Eiaenman Susanna Henighan I lemmasi and Rebecca Renard both more of a resource center We want years and said students can talk Layout Staff Shana OMara Gladys Spring born stated similar reasons for the to make other people aware that this about a lot of issues you really Amy Pare Typesetter Sherry Black juniors cant Atsuko Sakurai name change I lemmasi said the old group exists said Hemmasi raise in other settings Dan Spalding Ellen Wefts name was ambiguous to the purpose In addition to discussions Zach Williamson of the group and it didnt say much OFSOME is also working on creat- a will re- about the group I Within the group we ing library which have is sources such as Interrace magazine Quote of the Week Renard said the old name find similarities but we i unfair in a lot of ways because it and other sources dealing with mixed realize there are differ j to 4 implies a responsibility of a person race issues Renard said they want 1 was gritting my teeth just to keep forward who is of mixed race to be the bridge fences establish a foundation that subsequent I I kind of felt like a fly that had its wings between the two races It dele- gitimizes Rebecca Renard groups can use pulled off our existence as people of I Co- facilitator of OFSOME Renard said OFSOME is work- Tamarine Cornells mixed race who exist outside of the ing on a Winter Term project to get Senior and member of cross- country team particular races we are made of Hemmasi said the group was the library off the ground is trying to On a recent race see story page 16 Hemmasi said the new name originally created for AfricanA- merican bring speakers to campus and is also better represents the purpose of the and white mixed students The attempting to display exhibits on the group which is to provide a place group is now inclusive of all mixed history of mixed race issues and stu- where people of mixed race can dis- races dents on campus Hemmasi also said News cuss issues that affect them that arent According to Renard members they are planning a discussion with Summary addressed in other groups of OFSOME are also involved in Zami about interracial relationships The change in name is also ac- other groups such as Asian Ameri- Renard said the program will be pre- Student Issues companied by a slight change in the can Alliance Abusua and La Uni6n sented by people from both organi- Alcohol Awareness Week ended lack of a voting student member on groups direction In the past the zations Thursday The results of last years the General Faculty Committee the group has been oriented toward Because the group is so ethni- Renard said This organization drug use survey were tallied and Colleges reaccreditation process within group discussion but this year cally diverse we wont be able to re- is not setting out to be divisive Its a displayed at dining halls and co- ops and noon classes page 2 they are trying to promote more on late on everything we say Within the discussion and support group and several programs and discus- sions were organized by the Alco The group formerly known as The hol and Drug Education Commit- Bridge has adopted a new name 1 Design ideas at Mul- shared tee page Organization For Students Of tiple Ethnicities OFSOME The Co- ops voted this week on whether group meets to discuss issues of environmental charrette to continue financial support to the mixed race people and ways of pro- Nicaraguan Sister Co- op Oberln moting awareness of these by Chanel Chambers nic University and serves as one leaving minimal impact on the envi- Students Cooperative Association issues page 2 model of the self- sustaining environ- ronment has been making annual contribu- The project to design and con- mentally positive building that orga- Saturdays session began with tions since 1993 to help Nicaraguan The environmental studies center struct an earth- friendly environmen- nizers of the environmental studies the presentation of results from the women buy cows to support them- charrette drew experts on regenera- tal studies center is well on its way center in Oberlin want to build eight community brainstorming ses- selves and their families page 2 tive designs from around the coun- with the conclusion of the first pro- Participants represented a wide sions held previously The partici- try this weekend The charrette pro- gramming charrette range of interest and backgrounds pants then broke into teams to dis- Senate approved the appointment vided an oppurtunity to share a va- A charrette is an architectural One of the most exciting parts cuss further ideas and presented them of two students to the Health Plan riety of collected information for the term that refers to an intensive plan- of the charrette was that there was a to the larger group By the end of the Committee It also discussed the design of the ccnterpage2 ning session at which a group of good mix of people and there was a day the participants had developed a people decide the purposes and goals good exchange between people who set of preliminary recommendations Administrative Issues of their project have experience in this kind of thing for the uses of the center The community program and people who are learning about it On Sunday participants re- Vice President of Admissions Tho- Multicultural Resource Center in charrette as dubbed by organizers for the first time said Brad Masi viewed the previous days work mas Hayden will not be employed terns Diem Nguyen and Robin took place Nov 10- 12 in Wilder and OC93 one project organizer along with a slide presentation on by the College after this school year Russell resign today stating reasons Asia House Its purpose was to dis- Lyle opened the Friday session landscaping The details arc unclear Members of of instability of the offices direc cuss the content and uses of the fa- with a lecture entitled Ecological Sunday afternoon several stu- the Admissions Committee question tion and organization The other two cility and to compose a document Design Principles and Practices dents involved with the project pre- the need for the position of Vice interns resigned last year stating summarizing this information which drew about 70 participants sented the results of their research in President of Admissions page 1 personal reasons page 1 The charrette was facilitated by The lecture was followed by a slide subjects ranging from Oberlins re- John Lyle co- founder of the Center show on the Center for Regenerative gional character to the principles of Sports for Regenerative Studies in Pomona Studies and a discussion on efforts ecological landscapes Why do coaches k- ave Oberlin coach for losing teams which con- Calif and author of two books on re- there to develop regenerative sys- Participants ended the charrette follow- There are a variety of factors in- tributes to a high coaching turnover generative design tems by forming a set of up ques- cluding a small budget and low rate Of five teams only lour won The Center for Regenerative Regenerative systems provide tions that are to be discussed at the morale Coaches dont want to conference games this season Studies sits on a 16- acrc plot of land continuous replacement and renewal next charrette which is planned for 2 page I on the campus of California Polytech of energy in their operation thereby Dec Corrections News Briefs

ness on the part of the college to ad- students can enter data about them- A page I story in last weeks Review staled that a search had opened College receives dress global crises selves and select from among for a special adviser for the Asian- American community The position is environmental The project which has received 180000 different scholarship actually for an assistant dean for Asian- American students 860000 total obtained final ap- sources The page 3 article Chapter of Feminists for Life on Campus in studies center proval last Saturday from the execu- The scholarship service is free last weeks Review incorrectly reported that the chapters visit was spon grant tive committee of the Board of Trust- Florian Gerhardt sored by SURF and the Office of Chaplains Only the Office of Chaplains Oberlin College has received a ees sponsored it SEO will be half- million dollar gift towards build- Florian Gerhardt The page 3 article in the Nov 3 issue of the Review said the four Nov 23 ing the new 25 million 10000 closed year retention rate of African- American students is 26 percent Twenty New square- foot environmental studies scholarship six percent is actually the graduating in four years rate center service available The Student Employment Office In the Commentary section of last weeks Review Caleb The grant was given by alumni will be closed on Nov 23 and Nov Wertcnbakcrs name was misspelled John Libby Bowen Morse of Penn There are three new scholarship 24 Yan NY President Nancy Dye said search engines available on the The office will go back to regu- The Oberlin Review strives to publish all information as accurately as 5 that the gift was given to effect campu- internet lar business hours 10 am to pm 1 possible If you feel the Review has made an error please call 775- 8 23 Fi- on Nov 27 swide change and to support an Using the Oberlin Office of to Wilder Box 90 or e- mail to oberlinedu write OREVIEWtocvaxa ever- growing capability and willing nancial Aid World Wide Web pages Florian Gerhardt The Obcrlin Review November 17 1995 News Pace 3 4 7 Student Senate discusses noon V 4 classes by Marcus Conti demic year and will not assess itself through standard procedure A Stu- The Student Senate ran into the dent Outcome Assessment has been proverbial wall this Sunday during its if developed by each individual depart- 4 weekly meeting Other than unani- ment to determine what students have t J mously confirming the appointment gotten out of their Oberlin education of two students io the Health Plan The subject of noon classes Committee Senators found it diffi- whether to hold them or not initi- j V J cult to agree on anything else ated debate amongst senators Sena- Thj meeting began with an in- tor Dan Persky a sophomore drafted J formation session with Associate a letter to the Faculty calling for the Dean ot the College Carol Lasser termination of noon classes Lasser spoke about Oberlins at- After arguing the senate agreed tempts to conduct an accreditation to redraft the letter and possibly ask process that is worthy of this insti- for changes in noon class scheduling tution But at least one Senator was not in General Feelings Sophomore Student Senator Andreas Pape expresses approval at a recent Student Senate Obcrlin will be up for favor of this move meeting This week Senators appointed reps to the Health Plan Committee photo by Matt Yarrow reaccrediiation after the next aca I like noon classes Im not a morning person Senator first- year Toshio Mana said Senator sophomore Blair OSCA to decide whether to Heiserman brought the lack of a vot- ing student member on the General co- Faculty Committee to the attention of continue to support sister op the Senate He stated that the faculty is not opposed to student represen- note between pur- by Kristen Schultz their loans once they sell calves eggs tion to the importance of making per- the differences the tation but is opposed to a student and chicks restocking the fund so that sonal connections between these poses of the Nicaraguan co- op and vote former Oberlin Student Cooperative more women can receive loans women and Americans OSCA the being survival and Persky saw the issue of a student the latter being an alternative Cam- Association OSCA members have This year OSCA will not be Swords noted that she was per- to vote as an issue for the senate to take Dining Services Fishkin been voting this past week to reaf- sending students to visit the sister co- sonally inspired by her own visit to pus thought a stand on We are not going to get in 1 that the Nicaraguan women be firm their commitment to the Nica- op due to several factors There are Nicaragua as a delegate Jan 994 might any respect unless we take on the fac- raguan Sister Co- op Project and have some basic logistical problems ac- and that her interests were influenced able to relate better to members of the ulty said Persky recently started planning to bring cording to Swords but there are also by the experience Vermont Mountain Coop as they are Many senators said they were Nicaraguan Sister Co- op members concerns about OSCAs purpose in mostly farmers Visiting Oberlin displeased with the meetings results to Oberlin sending the delegates and the imbal- It angered me because my would be especially unique in com- Senator Noah Bopp said Out of all Voting was held this week to ance between the benefits for del- country had such an impact on parison the meetings of the Senate I have been determine whether to support the egates and the benefits for people in peoples dayto- day lives and such Im not sure its going to be the to this one has accomplished the project as well as to determine a negative impact she said same kind of experience for them least whether 2000 or 4000 will be Swords and Fishkin went on to said Swords donated to the rotating loan fund for It angered me because my had the project country such an The following is a compilation of impact on peoples weekly reports from the Office of Se Co- coordinator of the project dayto- day lives and curity senior Alicia Swords thinks that this such a negative impact Nov 9 935 pm Resident of Talcott will in Security years vote result continued reported damage to clothing from for the support project though the Alicia Swords cleaning products poured into the votes have yet to be tallied Unknown damage Co- co- laundry extent of Livery year OSCA members Sister op coordinator on her visit to Nicaragua to clothing no suspects are known must vote on whether or not to con- 1145 pm Officers responded to Oberlin Inn Upon arrival it was tinue to support the Nicaraguan Sis- Barrows Hall upon receiving a report learned the detector had been ter Co- op Project Since 1993 of an injury Student was transported that activated by a piece of burned paper OSCAs participation in this project to Allen Memorial Hospital for treat Everything OK and alarms has consisted of an annual monetary Nicaragua These concerns are ex- ment checked 14 were reset donation as well as sending a del- plained in the Nov issue of the Nov 10 855 am Staff reported a Officers and Oberlin Fire egation of students every year to visit mill an OSCA publication possible breaking and entering to the 1005 pm Dept to a fire alarm at Nicaragua Instead of the delegates from Center for Service and Learning Of of a dispute amongst subjects Upon responded lo- it was OSCA funds the project in San Oberlin visiting Nicaragua this year ficer responded and observed screens arrival subjects involved were South Hall Upon arrival learned that the alarm was acciden Juan de Limay jointly with the Ver- there is the possibility that two or and storm windows removed from the cated and conferred with Subjects sis- tally pulled Alarms were reset mont Mountain Co- op by contribut- more women involved with the building No apparent entry was made were then transported home co- Nov 13 111 Student reported ing an annual donation of 2000 to ter op will visit Oberlin There arc to the building Nothing appeared to 635 pm Officers and Obcrlin fire pm the theft backpack from Old the fund although last year OSCA already plans for these women to visit be missing department responded to a fire alarm of her Co- Barrows Backpack contained as was able to contribute 4000 the Vermont Mountain op and 226 pm Resident of Kade reported at Barrows second floor kitchenette sorted and notebooks wallet The loan fund is a project of the Swords and sophomore Sara Fishkin her wallet and keys were stolen from Upon arrival it was learned that text co- acti- miscellaneous items and 5 to 10 womens section of the Union of another axrdinator hope that the her room No suspicious activity was smoke from burned beans had cash The complainant later contacted Nicaraguan Farmcrs and Ranchers women will be able to come to observed in the area Wallet contained vated the alarm advise the back a non- profit citizens association of Oberlin as well miscellaneous items and 30 cash 708 pm Officers and Obcrlin Fire our department to in- had been located all items in Nicaraguan agricultural producers Plans for the possible visit 400 pm Resident of Keep reported Dept responded to LordSaundcrs pack tact The money OSCA donates is used clude an educational week of speak- the theft of her wallet and keys from kitchen reference a fire alarm Upon Nov 14 Staff from the directly by people who need it and ers and movies about U S foreign her room Complainant later located arrival it was learned that the alarm 140 pm Computing Center reported the theft is controlled by the women who ben- policy in Nicaragua Swords said the her wallet in the rest room but keys had been activated by the rooms heat of computer components from a com efit from it womens visit would give them a arc still missing Everything checked OK chance to learn about co- in the 12 re- puter at the Computing Center The ops 954 pm Officers responded to I lall Nov 1136 am Officers S value of damage was estimated at The project originally consisted U just as delegates had learned Auditorium upon receiving a request sponded to Burton upon receiving a 2100 No at this time of approximately 40 women receiv- about co- ops in Nicaragua from their for assistance with a subject who had request for medical assistance It was suspects slic- Officers responded to ing loans to buy cows It has ex- past visits She said that the goal fainted Upon arrival subject was learned that an employee while 820 pm Mudd upon receiving report of a sub panded over the years to support 200 would be to educate more Americans found to be sitting on the steps Sub- ing food had cut her finger Subject ject with a gun Upon arrival the sub- women with loans to buy cows and about the Nicaraguan womens expe- ject was transported to Allen Memo- was transported to the emergency was located and it was learned chickens These women pay back riences but she drew special atten rial Hospital via ambulance for ob- room for treatment and released ject that the gun was a prop Subject was servation 1152 am Officers responded to a advised by of ficers not to walk arounc Nov 11 710 am Officers and report of a small fire in Kosher Co- Hot news tips Oberlin Fire Dept responded to op kitchen It was learned that stu- with the prop Student reported that he Woodhaven reference a fire alarm dents had extinguished the fire prior 1032 pm and two female friends were follower Upon arrival it was found that the to officers arrival and that the flames a male the area ol Call x8123 alarm had been activated by water appeared to have come from a gas bv suspicious in South Main Street The suspect re dripping on the furnace Personnel line Personnel were contacted for portedly stared at the female subjects were notified for repairs repairs l left area Obcrlin Police De- We want to know 345 pm Officers responded to 411 pm Officers and Oberlin ire then the partment was notified of the incident Phillips Gym upon receiving a report Dept responded to a fire alarm at the Page 4 News The Oberlin Review November 17 1995 SCOPE will define mission for resource center

Continued from page 1 ing unfair Im trying to be fair but I resigned citing personal reasons for Nguyen said Im not really bitter 1993 respectively is that they have a responsibility to dont have all the answers she said leaving about anything Russell has worked in the office inform the community of whats go- Cole said Nieves appointment During that semester Nguyen Russell also said she thinks the since its creation She and Nguyen ing on Cole said They are admin- is not permanent Nieves will super- and Russell said they frequently problems in the MRC can be fixed have been seen by students as the istrators They are not students vise the interns on an interim basis worked 100- hour weeks and were I do have the utmost faith in heart of the office Cole said she wants to involve only until the office has an official still not keeping up with demands Charlene Cole she said T ve never Senior Julie Kim a former co- students jn making permanent direction from a faculty committee on Nguyen said the workload has seen an administrator who cares so chair of Oberlin Korean Students As- changes to the office pluralism and equity that was ap- been lighter this year and that the of- much about Oberlin students and who sociation worked closely with I asked Julia if she would work pointed last week fice has had more administrative sup- has so much passion for the Oberlin Nguyen when she was an officer in with the interns until the end of the Since the office has been in ex- port experience Students should give her that organization year Julia is supervising the interns istence it has never had an official a chance She was always visible She The center still belongs to the stu- mission The interns have done coun- She said the office is changing Both Nguyen and Russell had wasnt just some name within the dents she said seling for members of specific cam- for the better but the change is not been interns in the office since they administration or some title Kim The Standing Committee on Plu- pus minority communities as well as fast The process of change is going graduated from Oberlin in 1994 and said ralism and Equity SCOPE which programming to take a long time Im really impa- was appointed last week by the Gen- Last semester the two OMA in- tient right now and I dont want to eral Faculty Council is in charge of terns other than Nguyen and Russell wait for changes to take place Need for VP position Im trying to be fair by some but I don t have all Second awareness questioned the answers Continued from page 1 1992 Prior to the appointment he Charlene Cole week planned having difficulties with admissions was director of admissions for the col- Admissions has been diffi- lege Dean ofStudent Life and Continued from page 1 been lively and informative cult The circumstances have changed Haydens vice presidency has Services programs through its office it does The Alcohol and Drug Educa- in the last number of years Colley been marked by a slip in the yield or guiding the office and defining a mis- have information about where to go tion Committee plans to hold another said Specifically she pointed to percentage of admitted students who sion for it Some of the available places to con Alcohol Awareness Week in the affordability issues as something ad- enrolled most notably in 1993 The A year ago an ad hoc commit- tact are Nord Center Lakeland In- Spring Such programs are part of the missions offices at most colleges arc following year the admit rate jumped tee on multiculturalism completed a stitute and the Lorain County Coun- ongoing effort to illuminate the po- struggling with to over 70 percent report to define a mission for what ci I on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Stu- tential dangers of the use of drugs and Day said a question that will was then the OMA According to dents can also contact the Counsel- alcohol probably have to be addressed is Senior Noah Bopp a member of Assistant to the President Diana ing Center on- campus coordinator the Admissions Committee said It Roose the new committee has not yet the Residential Life Office or any Mehwald said that Alcohol doesnt matter who came up with fi- met though it will soon That com- commons axirdinator Awareness Week was not a one- time We need a new face nancial aid problems a 70 percent mittee will be asked to formulate its look at substance abuse and the prob- to start feeling good admit rate We need a new face to start own goals and those will likely in- I am always open to conversa- lems related to it but just an on go- about ourselves feeling good about ourselves again clude defining a function for the tion and sharing of information ing way to look at these issues again He described Haydens departure as MRC Mehwald said Students can drop Its lihe week not to judge be- an opportunity to start again with Cole said the changes that have in and see me havior its about getting people to Noah Bopp some new ideas been made in the office this year arc According to Kirsten Bohl a think about their behaviors Member ofAdmissions In 1992 the incoming class was temporary and that she does not plan Co- op Area Coordinator on the DiChristina said Committee considerably larger than anticipated to attempt to fix them without direc- Committee the response to the pro- The Alcohol and Drug Educa- and in 1993 it was considerably tion from students and faculty I grams offered during the week has tion Committee was created through whether to retain Haydens position smaller than anticipated hope I dont get rocks painted and been small but worthwhile the Office of Residential Life and or re- divide its duties Other faculty Fall 1992 saw charges of racism marches against me because be Mehwald said the sessions have Services Im members questioned the need for a within the admissions department vice president for admissions in ad- from two African American admis- dition to directors of admissions for sions employees Dwight Hollins and n both the Conservatory and the Col- Valerie Raines Bell In addition stu- lege dents alleged that the College lacked commitment to the recruitment of stu- Day said he thought the im- dents of color and that the employ- J provements to financial aid begun ees complaints were symptomatic of Bill Navel saved these during Haydens time at Oberlin that fact would continue During that time Abusua pro- Hayden was promoted to the tested at the Office of Admissions position of Vice President of Admis- twice in the wake of the admissions kids from drowning but hes sions and Financial Aid in March employees complaints e J not aliieguard Writ for ews Verleeta Wooten found j8123 An M m m S several new but stars orvirif shes not an astronomer

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TUTU o 11 svhew o Practctm m Jotrna LESM Registerfor Expository Writing 107 Earn creditfor something practical For information call Geoff x8123 Page 6 The Oberlin Review 7 November 17 1995 Lack of institutional support for MRC The Oberlin Review leads to resignation of two interns established 1874 To the Editor history in the office they are highly lack of commitment to their positions EditorinCh- ief Geoff Mulvihill aware and can accurately articulate and to students of color and queer stu- Managing Editor Traci Manning We feel the need to inform the the concerns and the needs of both dents Despite the new administra- Commentary Editors Oberlin Community of the recent communities Aside from their sup- tion things at Oberlin have obviously changes concerning the Multicultural port there is currently no adminis- not changed Theresa Giron and Mara Nelson Resource Center Amidst the changes trative support for these two commu- In conclusion the concerns we in location structure and staffing re- nities have expressed arc only a small part fer to MRC article in the Review Nov 2 There has been and there of the larger issues facing students of Mte Zl T 10 the two full time interns Diem continues to be a clear lack of higher color and queer students Until Nguyen and Robin Russell have both institutional support for the interns in Oberlin provides these students with y w y ft resigned effective at the end of this the MRC We as students who work the necessary long- term stable po- resm semester During the previous year in closely with Diem and Robin recog- sitions of support students will con- the Office of Multicultural Affairs nize the institutional dismissal of our tinue to feel marginalized students The resignations of Diem Nguyen and Robin Russell from their po- Diem and Robin held the positions of concerns that has resulted in their res- will continue to feel unsupported stu- sitions as interns in the Multicultural Resource Center MRC only add to Asian American and Lesbian Gay Bi- ignations This type of dismissal is dents will continue to distrust the ad- the atmosphere of upheaval the office has lived under since its creation in sexual respec- in fact a dismissal of Asian ministration and students will con- 1993 Community Interns direct tively This year under Dean Cole American and Queer students This tinue to leave Oberlin However the problems that exist and have existed in the office can- positions required to be situation seems to be a pattern in the not be located in one person Though it is easy to direct our anger toward their them for ail of the different Oberlin administration as it is remi- Charlene Cole who has executed many of the most recent destabilizing responsible that the MRC Valerie Young Um changes effecting the office she is not to blame Even the interns Nguyen communities supports niscent of both DeCruz Ji We are very concerned about former Assistant Dean of Student Co- Chair of the and Russell do not blame Cole directly for their departure their resignations for several Life and Director of Asian American Asian American Alliance The changes Cole made to the office namely who would oversee it reasons 1 They have been the primary Affairs and Elisa Grajales former Katie Howard and where it would be located were designed to be temporary The deci- institutional for Asian Ameri- Dean and Advisor and Co- Chair of the sions about the permanent structure of the office will and were always support Assistant can and Lesbian Gay Bisexual stu- Counselor for Latino Students They Lesbian Gay Bisexual Union intended to involve the students Therefore Coles intention did not seem dents on Because their too resigned as a result World Co- op to be to exclude students from the process and such criticism of her is this campus of of Oberlins Third undue Nevertheless though the plans were temporary it was a mistake on Asian American Studies deserve Coles part to overlook students in the previous changes whiclvaffected an office so intimately involved in serving the students themselves more attention in all departments But the greatest problem of the office lies beyond structural changes The Student Committee for concerns but she declined to make Granted these changes simply add to the confusion and frustration of Asian American Studies met with any tangible commitments Tremen- students and staff alike but the ultimate downfall of the office is that it Dean Feinleib on Tuesday Oct 24 Essay dous amounts of time and energy has always lacked a defining mission to inform her of the long history of by Asian American have been put into redressing these Like expecting a car to drive itself just because all the parts are well AAAs efforts to address the exclu- Studies Commiioo issues by generations of Oberlin stu- made expecting that an office can survive on the quality of its parts alone sion of Asian Americans from the dents who rightly deserve educa- is ridiculous The office was made up of enthusiastic intelligent people Oberlin curriculum and to discuss on a hunger strike last spring and at tional resources that are directly rel- like Nguyen and Russell who were young involved and visible Unfor- possible responses that the college Princeton where students occupied evant to them As an ongoing effort tunately they were also utterly abandoned by the College and left with can make to this problem at the the office of the president for 36 hours we are planning another public cam- no more than an amorphous idea of the goals and authority of the office present time We now want to inform both cases received national me- paign to raise awareness and under- The message to Charlene Cole should be the students want to be the rest of the campus of a few of our dia attention and it was agreed that standing in the college community involved The students and the interns related well with one another be- immediate plans to raise awareness these issues should receive priority on of Asian American studies as a dis- cause the interns were recent graduates and were aware of minority stu- about these issues on campus and to Oberlins agenda The absence of cipline and of the long ongoing dent issues on a personal level rather than an administrative one This ask that people actively educate Asian American studies also calls into struggle on this campus to correct the office is something students care about in a way they do not care about themselves as well question the validity of Oberlins racist exclusion of Asian Americans the Student Employment Office At the meeting with the Dean rhetoric to provide a rigorous liberal from the curriculum through a pro- Therefore when deciding the future of an office addressing we provided her with a copy of a arts education obstructing attempts test in the form of a teach- in on multicultural issues in- Cole would do well to ask the students for their booklet containing a sampling of to recruit and particularly retain Asian Thursday November 30 Current put Such an effort to include students if it had been made earlier may documents from the 25 year history Americans Oberlins commitment to changes that the administration is have avoided the instability and disorganization that led to the loss of two of organized attempts by Asian- develop a comprehensive and socially making in the institutional structures good people who were service to the Oberlin of community American students to redress the rac- responsible educational program on which are supposed to support stu- ist exclusion of the Asian American American culture and society cannot dents of color specifically the experience and perspective from the allow a discriminatory exclusion of Multicultural Resource Center have Haydens departure Oberlin curriculum Members of the Asian Americans This perpetuates disregarded any student input The committee raised a number of points the racist myth of a silent and invis- dialogue has been disappointingly be It was noted that resources for under- ible minority The interdisciplinary minimal between the new adminis- wont gen- field was tration and the students who seem regretted students Asian studies represented of color are of American erally allocated in a manner that leads developed in the late 60s to redress to have initiated most of the con- Thomas Hayden the current Vice President of Admissions and Fi- to divisive competition between this exclusion incorporating scholars structive dialogue This is an utmost nancial Aid will not be back at Oberlin next year and unlikely many its groups eg the English departments from a number of more established concern as Diem Nguyen the Asian at Oberlin will shed any tears over his departure job description which asks for a spe- disciplines in the humanities and so- American Community Intern has of- During Haydens time in his current role Oberlin has seen its yield cialist in African- American literature cial sciences including English his- ficially resigned and will not return decrease its admit rate increase and its stature in such measures as The or Asian- American Latino or tory sociology politics art and art next semester As our single admin- US News and World Reports annual ranking of colleges plummet Th Native American literature which history creative history and psychol- istrative link disappears it is hard to areas most responsible for that fall from the top 10 to out of the lop 20 all agreed was truly problematic An- ogy trained Asian Americanists are imagine that the administration will arc largely areas Hayden oversees admissions and financial aid- related other point which was raised is that no less qualified than other scholars provide permanent positions of sup- areas Asian Americans arc the fastest in these fields There is often an em- port for Asian American students Whether he is to blame or not is not an easy question to answer growing minority at Oberlin College barrassingly ignorant misconception and recalls vividly how many Asian though the question of whether the presence of a vice president is needed as well as many other colleges and that Asian studies and Asian Ameri- American administrative positions to oversee the work of two directors of admissions is easy It does not universities Many of these other can studies are synonymous which have been obliterated from the insti- Alter all theres been little evidence Hayden has helped Oberlin in his schools have recognized and ad- also serves to perpetuate the racist tutional structure In light of recent role dressed this lack of curricular repre- denial of the long history of Asians developments we fervently hope Haydens departure provides the opportunity that the office desper sentation and other resources for in this country Also discussed was that this does not mark another 25 ately needs to perform a thorough make- over Rather than rushing to re- Asian Americans colleges that have the opportunity provided by the job years of marginalization of these place him with another ineffectual or possibly detrimental vice presi recently added Asian- American spe- searches now ongoing in the English pertinent concerns by the Oberlin dent the College should focus on correcting the problems that were ere cialists programs and departments Womens Studies Creative Writing College administration and faculty ated throughout Haydens tenure include Williams College Bowling and History departments all of which Fixing these problems is not impossible but the department needs a Green State University Pomona Col- leave open the possibility of hiring Members ofthe Asian American fresh view to do it Without Hayden and the campuss doubting inipres lege Cornell University Yale Univer- an Asian Americanist although Studies Committee are Christine sion of him to overcome it stands a better chance sity Columbia University Brown such a specialty is not listed as a pri- tlam Vincent Schleilwiler Bianco University Hunter University the ority in any of these cases Isaki Wo- nJae Hur Jeffrey Cahnsao in this box the editorinch- Editorials are responsibility of the University of Wisconsin- Madison We left the meeting cautiously Ji Young Um Anupama Tantri ief manain editor and commentary editors and and the University of Michigan to optimistic The Dean seemed recep- Maria Kong Sophia J liae Rick do not necessarily reflect the views of the staff of the name a few programs and courses tive and more knowledgeable than Lin Viet Ir Yeana Doh Liza Turner Review are currently being developed at many previous administrators who Maria Kong Rebecca Turner Mina Northwestern where students went have been approached with similar Lee and Jennifer Lin The Oberlin Review November 1 7 995 Commentary Page 7 Recycling is not that complicated everyone can do their part On the day Link magaine took be put in this bin not realizing the clable at this time No other plastic is REUSABLE possibly same oveuhe niailroom I knew something havoc and confusion they would Essay recyclable in Obcrlins bins category as newspaper had to be done to save the recycling cause newspapers NOT recy- by David Bishop program 1 had helped to start roughly The following ARE recyclable All food waste should be rinsed clable in any of thi 3 bins mentioned three years ago All of the recycling in the PAPLR bins or w iped off All bottles and cans need the town recycles them and theres bins were filled with the recyclers paper meaning white col- touch than other paper If you dont to be TOTALLY empty and rinsed if always the phantom GREEN bin nightmare a glossy paper magaine ored lined computer and envelopes want the magazine or catalog call or possible Please no food ice REUSABLE ncased in plastic with a plastic disc without plastic windows write most have 800 numbers J cream corrugated cardboard a ind glossy paper pamphlets shrink thicker paper the colored Crew and Link both do You dont shakesand gum are not recyclable layer of brown bumpy wavy wrapped in more plastic and page recycling bin signs the Renovation have to be bothered by magazines and frequent popular additions to the cardboard between two sheets of flat sized thicker white paper insert X and Bill Frisell signs and that in- catalogs you dont want RESIST Paper bins brown cardboard Most shipping Plastic w rap and plastic discs are not sert in the evil Link package are all PROTEST CALL boxes arc made of this material RE recyclable in ANY bin and glossy made of this material If one side is The following arc NOT NOT USABLE Recyclable with newspa magazines are ONLY recyclable in shinyglossy it belongs in the Glossy thicker glossy paper just NOT NOT recyclable NOT in pers the Glossy Paper bin Paper bin like their paper cousins except they any bins telephone books recyclable I could no longer wait for the envelopes with plastic win- are shiny and smooth and of poster with newspapers time when the new system would dows recyclable IF and only if the board grade consistency FOOD other books not recyclable be allowed to begin and new bins entire rectangle of plastic film is re- one side glossyone side not carbon paper what our mid- because of the binding glue REUS and signs will not magically allevi moved mentioned above these must be put term grades came in ABLE ate all the confusion I want lo try in the Glossy Paper bin NOT the wax paperwaxed paper STYROFOAM the big evil and help this system function more If you dont want to bother rip- Paper bin Bank One sent out cards plastic wraps bags and other not recyclable Period REUS- smoothly ping open the sides of the envelope of this type around the same time Link plastics not marked 1 or 2 the Co- ABLE Any company that takes it and tearing a slightly larger rectangle mass mailed their nightmare CALL Op Bookstore recycles certain types makes hard plastic out of it Bad On- campus recycling is not around the plastic film so youre sure LINK PROTEST If you have a of plastic bags complicated There are three types of lo get ALL the plastic there is usu- doubt about whether something is contaminated paper nap- With this information in hand bins newspapers etc are mentioned ally more than youd think please recyclable or not throw it out dont kins tissues plates cups etc and taking the time to notice what is at the end The bins are 1 Paper 2 just throw the envelope away Dont risk contaminating the bin Or save manila yellowtan envelopes a recycling bin which of the three GlassMetalPlastic and the new bin contaminate the entire bin If youre it and ask someone who would with or without bubble- wrap inside kinds it is and whats a trash bin we on the bowl 3 Glossy Paper sick of the envelopes ask whoever know file folders and dividers but they are as a community can recycle well and sent it to please NEVER send you one REUSABLE prosper now when the new system It is true that the name Paper is again the Oberlin Administration The following ARE recyclable in Fed ExPriority Mail envelopes arrives and forever or at least until misleading Most Paper would be Bank One and ATT are big offend- the GLASSMETALPLASTIC bins grey cardboard REUSABLE the rules change again more accurate but Paper it is The ers here PROTEST RESIST glass all colors bottles jars gray cardboard cereal shoe name comes from recyclers glee and and jugs only No dishes pots etc etc boxes Thank you for your time and noy that different types of paper no The following ARE recyclable metal aluminum tin and bi- tissue paper for wrapping or conscientious recycling longer had to be separated andor in the GLOSSY PAPER bins metal cans CLEAN aluminum foil packaging REUSABLE some sorted due to the current high de- glossy paper magazines cata- No scrap metal or appliances would say it is in the same category If you have any questions about mand for rccyclables They happily logs pamphlets inserts etc Glossy plastic ONLY plastic with a as newspaper recycling send them to The Lorax exclaimed WOW All paper can paper is shiny and smoother to the number 1 or 2 on the 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Page 8 The Oberlin Review November 17 1995 Keely and Dus drama captures audience Jane Martins show It is as though the audience is overlooked but in an intimate show a silent witness to the action which which focuses so much on her compelling unfolds a discomforting thought character these little slips are ones drama poses dif- The sparse design and lighting she really cannot afford to make ficult allow the characters alone to fill the As the dogmatic Walter one of A7rt8 questions stage Indeed in the one scene where Keclys captors Christopher Weaver by Rumaan Alam the four main actors share the stage also has a very strong performance The most successful and the emotion is almost overwhelming Mis compact and neat frame is effective drama raises difficult This production which features deceptive at times his fervor is questions and leaves them largely some rather strong performances nothing short of frightening unanswered Such is the nature of draws on the subtleties of the various Maurice Tscherny as Cole Keely and Du an engaging and relationships on- stage to create a Keclys rapist ex- husband also has a compelling play by Jane Martin captivating evening As Du Becky dominating presence an attitude which is currently being produced by Phillips is absolutely amazing w hich mirrors Weavers performance the Oberlin Student Theater Phillips achieves the perfect blend of a little too closely at times Association the maternal and the fanatic Du Although an implication of this The play tells the story of Keely comes across as a grandmother in is Walter and Coles common bond a young woman raped and some scenes a fundamentalist in of fanaticism there is not enough vVv impregnated by her ex- husband others One of the most affecting room on stage for another Walter When she seeks an abortion Keely scenes in the play is the point where Tschemy is a strong actor but does is kidnapped by a radical group of Du breaks down and explains her not fill out his character as much as anti- abortion activists who intend to personal convictions to Keely It is he should in his brief time on- stage hold her captive until her seventh Phillips strongest moment Ultimately there is little plot month and therefore force her to carry As Keely Chelsea Knight resolution The story is frightening the child to term During her captivity displays remarkable versatility as an and at the same lime far too credible A VIv 1 Keely forms an unusual relationship actress She achieves a range of The cast and crew handle a with her guard the maternal and emotion and expression which is challenging play and subject matter seemingly simplistic Du incredible considering that she is very well Student director senior Abigail handcuffed to a bed for most of the In the tradition of the most Cotler has done a strong job of play Her initial reaction to her thought provoking literature and confronting the audience head on just captivity specifically the handcuffs drama the play ends with a as Keely is confronted by her own she is wearing is so affecting that I frustrating exchange between the title dilemmas The show runs without an felt claustrophobic just w atching it characters Why Keely asks intermission and it is not a short Knight has a strong performance Why Du echoes Although there evening The action and pace are such as an uncertain young woman are no easy answers this show raises that the is almost on by all the right questions audience always confronted horrific circumstances 1 the edge of its seat waiting to see I ler only weakness in the show is her Keely and Du is being performed what will happen enunciation her words are in Little Theater tonight and Saturday The intimacy which Little occasionally incoherent In a larger at 8 pm and Sunday at 2 pm Theater affords works well with this production this may be easily Admission is 2 students J others Kidnapped Keely Chelsea Knight stars photo by Nell Farrelb Fall Forward dancers integrate various influences Video thing that exists in lime and space and His work is about creating color and her exploration of it Hamburger metaphors for things that have sound all said happened to me Byrd said He said contribute to that his pieces dont come from an This is not the first dance concert inspiration as such but from an image effect to feature works created and that he works through performed only by TIMARA Although Byrd dislikes stating by Traci Manning students But it is the first by c a specifically what his pieces are about group of five TIMARA students he said his two pieces come from his This years Fall Forward is an under the direction of electronic ideas on the body and losing control eclectic mix of the many music instructor Kristine Burns of the body as you get older and i j permutations on dance From They perform improvisational exorcising guilty feelings but he improvisational explorations of pieces based on a technique Burns likes to leave the final show ing open sound to a piece thats sexier than a calls compositional imaging Each Calvin Klein ad the concert offers not piece begins with prc- performance Earlobe is based only works from dance students but meditation and visualization The Jv idea Technology in Music and the Related performers then use the color patterns on the of your Arts TIMARA majors and faculty and movements from the head being blown up members as well visualization in the performance to the size of a two- Video is an integral part of many Harlobe is based the on idea story building of the pieces including senior Sofia of your head being blow n up to the jj Klatzkers sound and video size of a two- story building then Kristine Burns These Arc My The walking from one earlobe to the composition TIMARA video includes images of dancers and other Burns said The sounds made instructor cornfields and several unrecognizable by the performers are words or forms superimposed and phonemes from the definitions of to the interpretation of the audience electronically manipulated The car and earlobe displayed on the Alongside all the modern composition builds from a slow hiss projection screen The abstract technology that is transforming and pop of static to a richer fuller images on the screen beg n as footage modern performance are three pieces sound as the images Hash on the of cars as well that use only the body to explore screen The resulting piece gives the feel issues such as sex and spirituality of the performers as children with Sophomore Bee Conants Triad is Feedback is a collaborative sound motion and color as their toys a beautifully choreographed and effort between senior choreographer Although the piece is on the cutting expertly danced piece that exudes dancer Debbie Gordon and senior edge of multi- media performance it sexuality as the dynamics shift TIMARA major Joel I lamburgcr The is not at all intimidating it is between the three dancers title is indicative of more than the engaging honest and above all fun Senior Fvy Gildrie who along music as Gordon actually creates the Burns is not the only faculty w ith senior Carey Storan created and sound by dancing on the MIDI dance member to work on a piece for Fall performs Vanity Fair said their map that I lamburgcr built The result Forward this year Associate piece is definitely about A delicate moment Sophomores Jonathon Lee and Bee Conant show is a striking contrast between Professor of Art Jeff Byrds piece is persecution The performance the majestic powers of dance The name of their piece is Triad and is Gordons fluid movement and its mote performance art than dance Not spawned from pieces in their a part of this years Fall Forward As in past years Fall Forward is a translation into white noise and only does he incorporate movement Performing Womens Biographies collaboration between the various creative media here at Oberlin electronic music The piece focuses he uses text and video and ccn hells photo by Alex Warnow See Fall Forward page 1 1 on Gordons interaction with this out a gosnel tune The Oherlin Review November 17 1995 Arts Page 9 Ren X features first- years by Amy Paris all be on the same wavelength when roles are the members of a therapy What began as a Winter Term discussing the work group small parts that add funny project for Adam Rhodes is now the Overall Rhodes did not seem to scenes to the main plot newest student- wrilten and directed think that there were many problems The group is made up of Sandy play Renovation X with the fact that the cast was new Bilus who plays Todd a character One of the first things that I The actors are so talented they who believes he is Winniethe- Pooh noticed about the cast after the dress make my job easier Rhodes added Li Latimer whose character thinks rehearsal ended was how close they Rhodes wrote Renovation X as she is Smurfettc Aaron Schmookler seemed to be with one another It was a Winter Term project last year The who plays a character who acts like a as if a group of friends had decided basic plot of the play deals with lien horse Rachael Keast who plays the to get together to do this project One played by Corey Wallace and the girl Queen of Hearts and David Ellis of the explanations for this bonded that he loves Beth played by Jessica who plays Sey more someone waiting cast may be that most of them are Umphress Wallace and Umphress to be beamed to his home planet first- year students express themselves well in both their Leading them all is Sasha Pollack As Rhodes explains the movement and speech creating their dominating psychiatrist concept was an all first- year show and realistic characters who could live The parts in the main story arc Friday November 1 7 I cast it as such with the inclusion of down the hall from you well acted but the best entertainment one sophomore transfer The story revolves around their lies in the interaction between the ACture Durasie The Asian Other in the Writings of Marguerite Duras Unfortunately the actor originally relationship and the people who affect smaller parts These characters make Marie- Paule Ha Professor of French and Italian Ohio State University cast in the role of the mother Amy them Beth Hilton plays Jocelyn who the audience laugh and create a lively Reception following in Bailey House Wilder 112 430 pm Sponsored Weidstrom became ill and junior also likes Ben adding difficulties to atmosphere for the rest of the action by the Department of Romance Languages Missy Johnson had to take her place their romance Jeremy Ellison- That the basic plot exists in such Open Rehearsal The Oberlin Choristers directed by Dr Mary Goctze Otherwise the show is all new Gladstone plays both Gil Bens unusual surroundings makes the play performing a piece written for their anniversary celebration First Church students a unique idea designed to arrogant friend and Gilbert someone more than a typical romance fellowship Hall 430 pm introduce them to what theater is like Beth meets in England two very Everything that goes on outside the Junior Recital Rashard Allen baritone Kulas Recital Hall 630 pm at Oberlin Rhodes said similar roles which add to the main story enhances the play creating Film Desperately Seeking Susan Kettering 11 1 730 930 and 1130 When asked w hether the mainly exaggerated humor of the play These an original group of people with very pm Sponsored by OFS first- year cast members added two actors Hilton and Ellison- entertaining interactions Renovation Concert InAC- hord and The Oberlin Obertoncs with the Kenyon complications to the production Gladstone effectively bridge the gap X is amusing and worth seeing this Kokosingers Fairchild Chapel 2 8 pm Rhodes responded that they all have between the realistic characters of weekend Concert The Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble Timothy Weiss really diverse experiences Since Ben and Beth and the offth- ewall Renovation X is being performed conductor Lutoslawski Chain I Colin Matthews Suns Dance Andrew each of the actors has a separate farces of the therapy group tonight and Saturday at 8 pm and Imbrie Dream Sequence Hans Werner Henze Symphony No 1 Finney acting history the actors spent the Soon after the opening of the Sunday at 2 pm and 8 pm Chapel 8 pm first few days defining the language play the audience realizes that there Performances will be held in Wilder Performance Kecly and Du Little Theater 2 students 3 others 8 that they would use so that they would is something odd about most of the Main Tickets are 2 OCID 3 pm Sponsored by OSTA other characters The most unusual others Performance Renovation X Wilder Main 2 OCID 3 others 1 more at the door 8 pm Dance Concert Fall Forward Warner Main Space 6 general public Modernism at the AMAM 5 seniorsstaff 4 children and students 8 pm Queer Coffeehouse The Cat in the Cream Coffeehouse 10 pm by Sonya Fatah Performance The drama group Secrets will give a performance focusing on the HIVAIDS dilemna facing our country Question and Answer The Allen Memorial Art session to follow Starlight Lounge 7 pm Museums current exhibit focuses on the influence of European Modernistic Art on American artists Saturday November 18 It is a collaboration between the Museum and the colleges English Department Covering an extensive Film Red Firecracker Green Firecracker Kettering II 1 730 930 period in art history it is a product of and 1 130 pm Sponsored by OFS many months of hard work and ranks Junior Recital Molly Barth flute Kulas Recital I lall 430 pm high on the list of must- sees on Junior Recital C Neil Parsons trombone Kulas Recital Hall 630 pm campus this week Dance Concert Fall Forward Warner Main Space 6 general public The exhibition entitled 5 seniorsstaff 4 children and students 8 pm American Responses to European Junior Recital Noah Gcrtz saxophone Warner Concert Hall S pm Modernism is based on the works of Performance Renovation X Wilder Main 2 OCID S3 others more artists such as Braque Modersohn- at the door 8 pm Becker Joseph Cornell Degas Performance Keely and Du Little Theater 2 students 3 others 8 Marin Matisse Sisley Stcichen and pm Sponsored by OSTA Bourke- White Senior Recital Erik Schmalz trombone Kulas Recital Hall 8 pm Amy Kurlander curator of Concert Bill Friesel Band featuring Kermit Driscoll an Joey Baron modern and contemporary art at the Finney Chapel 6 students 10 staff and faculty 15 others 8 pm AMAM who selected the pieces Discussion Prevention of HIVAIDS within the Oberlin community says the exhibition is not designed Starlight Lounge 7 pm as a chronological comparison between specific European and American schools OUllldayy November Instead Kurlander has attempted to show how young ft American artists in the late 19th and Junior Recital Amy Mendillo oboe Kulas Recital Hall 130 pm 20th centuries have been affected in Reading Race Friendship and Oberlins Unusual Book an all campus x the creation of their work by forum on Bomb the Suburbs Billy Wimsatt Co- op bookstore 2 pm contemporary European art The European Modernism Amadeo Modiglianas Head of a Man c 1915 Sponsored by the Friends of the Library paintings prints drawings and 1 ejtaliarKjOndisplay at theMAM photo courtesy of AMAM Performance Renovation X Wilder Main 2 OCID 3 others I more photographs chosen for the exhibition Professor of English at the college interdisciplinary endeavors in the at the door 2 and 8 pm are from the Museums permanent who is currently teaching Modern Museum Performance Kecly and Du Little Theater 2 students 3 others 2 collection and cover a number of Poetry Symbolism to Imagism will In previous years the Museum pm Sponsored by OSTA different artistic movements ranging discuss how visual modernism has has been isolated from the activities Junior Recital Harris Sheldiick horn Warner Concert Hall 3 pm from Impressionism in the 1880s to had an impact upon Wallace Stevens organized by the College and the Concert Oberlin Choristers Katherine Plank director w ith Mary Goetze the Dada movement in the 1920s poetry He will also address some attempt to bring it into the main guest composer and guest conductor Finney Chapel 330 pm While analyzing the two cultural important literary visual exchanges in sphere of campus life can be seen in Senior Recital Michael Szabo trombone Kulas Recital Hall 630 pm styles Kurlander observed that American Modernism during the the recent exhibition organized in Film The Match Factory Girl Kettering 1 1 1 8 and 10 pm Sponsored European Modernistic art differed 20s collaboration w ith the Conservatory by OFS from its American counterpart in that Peter Schmidt a professor from Junior Recital Courtney Sedgwick viola Kulas Recital Hall 8 pm the former adhered to particular Swarthmore University will speak on Along with the symposium and Concert Eric Hoffbauer live jazz guitar The Cat in the Cream philosophies or schools of art William Carlos Williams and the the Oberlin College Modern Poetry Coffeehouse 9 pm whereas American artists visual arts Eliabeth Joyce from course the exhibition is yet another Concert The Davis Brass Kulas Recital Hall 9 pm experimented with a variety of Edinborough University will present collaborative endeavor that is aimed Discussion AIDS Awareness panel members will discuss history nonconformist styles following their a paper on Marianne Moore and at bringing the Museum in closer research and behavior of the disease Starlight Lounge 4 pm instincts and creating art through the collage while DickranTashjian of the contact with the college mainstream tree reign of their imaginations University of California at Irvine will Since the program is a serve as moderator and formal The exhibition American Responses Fueisdayv November 21 collaboration between the Museum respondent to European Modernism is on view and the English Department the The exhibition which has taken in Ripm Print Gallery through I eh Guest Recital Mmeri Yamashita violin Kulas Recital Hall 8 pm sNinposium will revolve around several months to organie is funded II IWh The symposium will take discussions conducted by a number by the Andrew Mellon Foundation plat e on Saturday Nov IS at Eisher Unless otherwise noted admission for events is free of professors David Young an organization which promotes Hall between 9 am and I pm Page 10 Arts The Oherlin Review November 17 1995 Circle with a Smile reaches rock- stardom

by Traci Manning The one disappointment with information on the band than the 1 50- the piece Warner said was for all word feature in the magazine offered Two Obcrlin students arc taking their linking and calling Suskin should be available in the year off to be rock stars And themselves the internet magazine stores after Thanksgiving Although a thanks to a review in Link magaine the magazine didnt include their late October release was planned the of their latest album it looks like they web address CWASs homepage on plant that is manufacturing the CD might just be on their w ay the World Wide Web includes song needed to push back production to Oberlin band Circle With A samples lyrics and the bands have the new Garth Brooks album in Smiles third album Suskin was biography stores for holiday shoppers according featured in Links Anonymusic to Warner column which features relatively At the moment any In the spring CWAS hopes to unknown bands on independent labels good review is good resume touring in the Northeast and College junior Dave Warner the for me and good for Midwest The Northeast is the logical only member of the band currently at us choice with lots of venues in close proximity There are plenty of fans in Oberlin said that fellow members Dave Warner Brian Straw Ron Butler and Brian Ohio not just in Oberlin but also in f7 Circle with a Smile Alter are taking a year off to go to New Dayton where their album was York and be rockstars CWASs e- mail address was recorded at Cro- Magnon a label Circle with a Smile Fortune reigns photo courtesy Sherman Warner Straw who will be a sophomore included however and the band has which has recorded albums by the and Butler who will be a junior were received many responses already Breeders and Guided By Voices They the club circuit having played at With the impending release of both TIMARA majors at Oberlin Warner feels that the overall also have a large following at Earham several New York clubs including the album and their upcoming tour it while Alter attended Ball State response would have been greater College in Indiana near Richmond CBGB the Pyramid Club and Spiral seems that the new Garth Brooks University Warner will join the rest had the homepage been mentioned where Alter Butler and Straw went to over the summer before deciding to album will not deter CWAS from the of the band in New York next semester giving readers a chance to get more high school Theyre no strangers to take time off to finish the album quest for rock- stardom Butler is currently interning at the David Geffen Company in New York While on the phone with Ty Wegner Howe battles limitations of language at Link magazine Butler asked if he could send CWASs tape along with other material he was sending for a Susan Howes inarticulate has turned her into a popular works such as Thorow Silence She battles with her review Wegner gave a non- committal rewords historian as well as a poet Her poetry Pythagorean Silence and The historical consciousness her uh yeah okay at the time but later poetry stems from this passion and one of Nonconformists Memorial feelings of guilt concerning the called Butler back He said that after history the goals of her work is to give voice Thorow was written in the actions of her ancestors and how so listening to Suskin on his walkman to those who have been oppressed or New York Adirondacks while Howe much of history is written by for three days straight he was going by Laren Rusin shut out by the way history has been was leaching a poetry workshop oppressors to feature it in the magazine recorded there She describes the town as a The Nonconformists Although none of them saw the Susan Howe is one of the Her audience at the reading travesty compared to the beauty of the Memorial gives voice to those who review until Link arrived in Warners leading experimentalist poets of our Sunday Nov 12 consisted mainly of lake next to it While she was there were silenced or shunned by the New England mailbox and he e- mailed it to the rest time and her style is an attempt to the students in Guest Writer a creative she heard poems inhabited by founders of Puritan of the band they are pleased with the work around the limitations of writing class that is intensively voices Thus she wrote about the The title is taken from a twisted coverage At the moment any good language Her desire to tenderly lift studying Howes work She began by impossibility of naming something Puritanical tract about ministers of review is good for me and good for from the dark side of history voices reading a selection of her poems and how people take things from that time us Warner said that are anonymous slighted including segments from her more nature that they do not have the rights Howes work is difficult because to Thorow is her literature of of her unconventional use of words savagism and their placement on the page She She talks about her experiences Finding Way Your Around during World War II 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t 4 Pace 12 Arts The Oberlin Review November 17 1995 Howes poetry incorporates senses r P i Continued from p 1 0 describes her work as writing as Dickinsons use of spacing line drawing making reference to the breaks dashes and punctuation that abstract use of lines spacing and were erased by the editors in an words Her lines will go in all attempt to make her poetry fit a directions and words will be conventional standard misspelled partially hidden or typed over and upside down and Editing is a big issue for Howe backwards She said the idea of authoritative Howe describes her poetry as a editing is dead She hopes other description of thought that peoples work will not be incorporates the senses it is hard for manipulated the way Dickinsons has 0 as The question and answer session people to think of poetry t something you see not just hear alter the lecture was filled with La This manipulation of language is a probing intelligent questions about Lbi constant struggle lor Howe to try and l lowes w ork She expected to hear a ii i make words convey what she feels lot of hostility towards her style Later in the evening I lowe gave which has been described as elitist i i a presentation on the works of Emily and unreachable by most of the Dickinson Howe is fascinated with population ATI voices in history that have been In response she talked about the The Oberlin Trombone Choir blew its own horns this past Sunday in silenced or suppressed due to the extensive time she has spent in the 76 Trombones led the big parade Finney Chapel photo by Wendy Smith belief that they w ere unconventional library doing research on the Emily Dickinsons manuscripts suppressed voices in history and how difficult to understand but she were never intended to be published she has struggled with Harvard admitted I never expect to have a and once editors took hold of them University to get the rights to see mass of readers I am puzzling and Heard a great hey rearranged the poems until they Dickinsons manuscripts difficult My work is out of my were far different from the originals She also addressed her readers hands if it dies away it will thus altering her voice Howe noted saying she realizes her work is w band lately She writes with a social and historical agenda but wants the cr reader to come away with more than TELL US X8123 pizzicato fivo that She hopes people will learn o about the process of reading and new abumj the writing through her work N O N C O 3 d a dynamicloudfun o o stylishgracefulsexy 1 Now through Thursday November 23 700 935 off 3 Arts in o c Saturday 1111 Demi Moore GaryOldman The Review to Friday 1117 o i dramaticchilling The Scarlet IV dark elegant wicked BOOKSTORE m Zl marveloussensitive 774- 3741 37 W CoStg 9 zcoopWoedptaofcfiadu l Letter fascinatingpure The R 0 featuring JOEY BARON and KERMIT DRISCOLL Guitarist with Elvis Costello John Zorn Vernon Reid Allen Ginsberg and the LA Philharmonic ii

Bill Hi- sell is the Clarlc Kent of tlie electric guitar SPIN Magaanc 11 Saturday November 18 1995 Finney Chapel 8 pm H 6 Students 10 Staff Seniors 15 Others m Sponsored 1 y Cone or I H o n r d The Obcrlin Review November 17 1995 Sports Page 13 Oberlins inspired next Close- up on Oberlin generation of coaches YD Ln pi fS 1 1 i Coaches have teams assistant coach last year on their lives common goals Born in Lorain and raised in Monolovich like James has Cincinatti she has known about coached for several years at summer different back- Oberlins tough academic demands camps and other sports programs Athlete of the Week grounds for a long time Oberlin dont have Before accepting her position at First- year Clara Stemwedel was dumb nothing she said erupting in Oberlin she recently completed a an all- purpose athclete on Wednesday by Amy Kremen self- assured warm laughter Thats masters in counselor education at night a personal opinion Virginia Tech During Oberlins meet against Walking to Annies for ciga- She recalls her own athletic ex- I always intended to keep my Ohio Wesleyan University on v i rettes making snide remarks about periences at Kentucky State Univer- options open Manolovich said but Wednesday Stemwedel won the 1000 the football team in casual conversa- sity as an asset but is quick to point I definitely wanted to have coaching meter Freestyle finished second in tion the average Obies participation out that in college being an athlete be a part of my life somehow the 500 meter Freestyle and was part I 1 in daily athletic activities is something you earn because stu Manolovich has played hockey for f the four- woman team which fin turn f Sports are rarely even an years eventually training in the de- ished second in the 200 meter 1 t Oberlin jocks top priority and velopmental camps for the United Freestyle Oberlins athletic reputation is con- I love the States Field Hockey Team She also ran up a new lifetime

avcrage 1 sistently considered poorerthan- commute its better When this effort was cut short best time in the 000 meter Freestyle This school isnt exactly a than the beltway due to a torn ligament in her knee The Ycowomen lost to OWUs eople coachs wet dream Soccer coach Chris Manolovich became even more in- swim teamofmanyp- by a However Chris Barker Mindy Barker spired to coach in going through her score of 139- 90 Clara Stemwedel Manolovich and Inez James own rebuilding process I get On his minute bike Oberlins new head coaches can ex- five gratification out of getting other rode home to work plain w ith remarkable ease how com- from people to achieve certain goals I ing here is actually the next logical wasnt able to achieve she ex- step in their careers Not only that plained This Weeks Events but they are all wildly enthusiastic She cited dents must be able to make the friendliness culture Womens Basketball Saturday and Sunday at Johns about coaching at a school where and sense of community she felt upon grade before they can commit to Hopkins Tournament academics and other pursuits are con- playing interviewing at Oberlin as important Mens Basketball Saturday at Adiran College sidered more important than sports She was inspired by the role factors unique to the school that she Tuesday 730pm vs Thiel Oberlin possesses a true sense model presented in one of her weighed in her decision to come here Swimming Thrusday November 30 at Miami of of the student- athlete said James coaches to focus her avid athletic in- Besides coaching she is excited Ohio Invitational the new head coach of womens vol- terest into a career option Similarly about being able to pursue some of Indoor Track Sunday 6 vs Heidelberg leyball James became this years Manolovich and Barker were also her other interests here such as teach- pm head coach replacing Fenny Graves both draw n to coaching because of a ing tli st aidCPR creating commu Hiram Definacc Thiel and Walsh in a last minute decision She was the significant impact their coaches had See New page 14 Coaches high turnover rate bothers many Continued from page 1 has twice the budget of Oberlin and tough conference though most of the Obcrlin to take a similar position at in recent years Theyre like a par- a strange resemblance to Abbot and it doesnt offer a football program member institutions do not have Clarcmont Colleges in California ent said Bopp Theyre saying Costellos confused Whos On First Oberlins reputation for strong aca- The Athletic Department was unable Hold on you cant go out tonight routine where the answers are no- Oberlin is unable to adequately demics to match the offer from Clarcmont The department is trying to gain in- body and I dont know fund necessary equipment and facili- Oberlins narrow focus on aca- forcing Graves to make the move dependence The committee is com- There is not one coach in this ties Jones Field House the next demics has often served to damage west The decision was made late in posed of College faculty who have department that is not terribly frus- project of the Heisman Club is cur- the Athletics Department Bopp sug- the summer leaving the department been accused by observers of attack- trated said Hunsingcr But its rently in such a condition that it is gested Oberlin views their coaches as little lime to find a replacement By ing athletic problems with academic nobodys fault It didnt take a day to barely useable to practice outdoor professors They think someone can that time the applicants theyre get- solutions get to this point sports in such as soccer and lacrosse just fill in if a coach leaves Said ting arent the cream of the crop said Oberlin fans have watched too Teams hav sometimes had to Bopp If a professor leaves you can Hanssen many of their teams be trampled upon Although the situation is wrangle over basic transportation just cancel the class but if a volley- Graves was replaced by James who this year punctuated by too few vic- muddled the problems are clearly not We had trouble getting a van last ball coach leaves you cant just not coached the squad to a 4- 27 season tories Behind the scenes the depart- new Many of them arc rooted in the year said I lanscnn We had to face have volleyball this year record ment has been the perpetual loser past In the past the administration the decision of leaving behind our Recruiting is further hindered by Among the many coaches that have has not been supportive said the high turnover rate among coaches Andy Aspcngren former left the most painful loss has been Hunsingcr We were pushed so far There is not one The volleyball coaches cant re- womens swimming coach also left that of Katharine Perry- DeLorenzo down it wont be easy to get back coach in this depart- cruit said co- captain senior Libby not long before the start of the sea- Perry- DeLorcnzo named NCAC Grubb Theyre calling up potential son Aspcngrcns position was split Coach of the Year for two consecu- out is terri- Oberlin athletics have long suf- ment that not players and saying Well I might not into two positions swimming intern tive years led the Yeowomen lacrosse fered from a lack of moral support bly frustrated1 be here next year You want to know and womens trainer Mens swim- team to Oberlins first NCAC Cham- often playing home games in front of the program will succeed The last ming head coach Dick Michaels took pionship in 11 years Perry- crowds that are mostly fans of the Don Hunstnger Director two volleyball coaches Penny Graves over the helm Were lucky Dick DeLorenzo resigned to take a posi- opposing team Yet it is the lack of of Athletics and current coach Inez James have Michaels could fill in said swimmer tion at Skidmore College financial support that has placed the both been under six- month contracts junior Kerry Shea But it was still We did everything in the world department in dire straits assistant coaches really hard because we didnt have to keep KP said Hunsingcr But I The AD budget is colossally Recruitment is made even more The future of the volleyball advance notice It really has a nega- think KP felt recruiting was very dif- low said senior Noah Bopp a mem- difficult by Oberlins small financial coach position is uncertain Its exist- tive effect on the team ficult Our financial aid isnt compa- ber of the Athletics Committee Its aid packages Although no Division ence depends upon the findings of the The department is unable to rable to other schools I think she got laughable We arc completely unable III schools offer athletic scholarships Title IX investigation which is still maintain as many positions as they a job she perceived to be better to attract the student athletes that we other schools arc able to produce proceeding The investigation was would like Until last year the Bopp didnt fully agree with want greater financial aid packages for po- initiated in 1 993 after two female ath- womens basketball coach was a part- Hunsingcrs assessment I think we tential athletes letes filed a complaint Title IX of the time position In the process of trans- did a reasonable job of trying to keep The departments low funding Were not in the same ballpark 1972 Education amendments prohib- forming the job into a full- time posi- KP said Bopp But some people has resulted in a near inability to con- in financial aid said Bopp There its discrimination on the basis of gen- tion the department was forced to dropped the ball duct a successful recruiting season arc a plethora of horror stories about der by any institution that receives eliminate five interns The mens la- Were going in the right direc- and to compete with the salaries of- the student who was everything government aid Until the investiga- crosse coach still works part- time tion said Hunsinger The people in fered to coaches at other institutions Obcrlin wants but they end up at the tion is complete the department is The department operates under the top are interested in the same The departments budget was slashed College of Woostcr unable to offer a longer contract the watchful eye of the Athletics things we are Its going to be a meta- under S Frederick Starrs adminis- Obcrlin has lost athletes to other Weve been really low priority said Committee which is responsible for morphosis I hope to see some real tration As many involved in the de- schools in the NCAC that arc not Grubb making policy recommendations The difference in two years A lot of things partment like to point out Vassar nearly Oberlins equivalent in aca- Graves who coached the volley- relationship between the department need to be fixed College also a Division II program demics The NCAC is traditionally a ball team during the 94 season left and the committee has been strained Oke Sjpawrls Jdim tEfla Review ttesmmi sumdl wirfitteo GaM 11811230

spends 1 l Pace 14 Sports The Oberlin Review November 17 1995 Yeomen lose final game to Gators 55- 0

history to rush for 1 XX yards in a season Sophomore quarterback liven hough the game was a Ky le Adanison broke the conference complete shut out Allegheny scor- record for completion percentage ing eight touchdowns and the Yeo- with a 679 average completing 142 men ero the Yeomen put up a good passes out of 209 He is one of two ight Saturday on Dill Field taking quarterbacks in Allegheny history to on the second ranked Allegheny Col- throw over 2000 yards in a season lege lor Oberlins season closer According to Peterson In spite Head coach Pete Peterson said t- of our inability to win a football j z i NiiJ r Ay From an effort point of view its game I think we were a better foot- probably our best overall effort all ball team particularly on offense year Allegheny has a good solid For at least the third consecu- team but theyre not quite as power- tive game Oberlin has been playing ful as they were last year Theyre not ironman football utilizing some tpiPs as strong as Wittenberg is this year team members on offense and de- but theyre probably the second best fense Myers played a solid game for team weve played the Yeomen at both outside line- Dont let the final score of 0- 55 backer and running back He said throw you for a loop The score is ac- Weve put a lot more points We put tually proof of how significantly the a lot more drives together on the of- team has improved since last season fense which is something we didnt v a r 7 In their final game of the 1994 sea- do very well last year son the Yeomen lost to Allegheny in Allegheny played an outstand- a demoralizing shutout 0- 83 ing rushing game gaining 17 first Senior Brandon Myers said dow ns in 46 rushing attempts with a Rolling right Oberlin quarterback sophomore James Parker urgently looks downfield while evading an We made some big improve- net rushing gain of oncoming Allegheny lineman photo by Sashi Kaufman ments this year The Allegheny Com- 339 yards 0 lead scoring on every possession and one from a muffed punt In the goalie led the team with 13 single game epitomized our efforts over bined with net yards in the first quarter three from runs second quarter it scored only once on tackles and five assists a total of 1 8 the season Ive felt a lot of frus gained passing the a short run into the end zone Jeremy Schnorbus had a total of 1 1 I Gators gained 398 Fbotball making him the leading tackle for the I offensively averag We put a lot more The second half looked more season with 141 total Saturdays game U ing 65 yards per Allegheny 55 Oberlin 0 drives together on the promising as the Yeomen gained their 1 play offense which is second possession from an intercep- Last Saturdays game wraps up tion by junior Albert Wong The the season for the Yeomen with a fi- tration for the past four years that Ive on the hand had something we didnt Oberlin other score at the end of the third quarter nal record of 0- 10 Altogether they played for the team but really well last Im a weak game in the rushing category do very however was 0- 41 Allegheny con- scored 72 points with Myers and proud of the people played with num- Ive with a net gain of 45 yards The year tinued to play a strong game in the sophomore Johnny Willis leading the showed a lot of heart and Theyve bers were more even in the passing Senior Brendon Myers fourth quarter scoring once off a team at two touchdowns apiece emotion Al- gain column with Oberlin and On differences between short seven yard run and the final Myers also led the team in rushing Allegheny carries some strong legheny racking up 48 and 59 yards the football season last time off an interception netting 286 yards followed by first- team members Junior tailback Kyle respectively year and this year s Defensively junior Adam Shoe- year Justin Velicevich who netted Smesko is the ninth player in NCAC Allegheny quickly gained a 27 maker the Yeomens starting soccer 1 33 Willis led the Yeomen in receiv- ing totaling 383 yards followed by Brooks- Church with 315 Yeowomen add numbers look to In NCAC statistics Oberlin fell into the number nine slot in every 3- category except pass defense w here improve on 20 record this season it placed seventh by Richard Kong last year and they just might have the holds the NCAC record for most re- improved in every single statistical Myers said One of the strong players to do it First- year guard jections in one season category Gilbert said This year we things is leadership We did have Walking into Philips Gymna- Penny Boyle and sophomore forward Replacing Wells as the teams want to continue that progress Were eight seniors They helped bring the sium something just might catch Ellen Kazary head a promising group strongest low- post player will be looking forward to winning seasons freshmen along and those guys did your eye You just might see five of new players that include seven sophomore forward Carrie Losneck in upcoming years come a long way members of the womens basketball first- years and two sophomores Five- foot 9 Losneck last seasons team practicing against another five The one key loss will be that of MVP led the team in scoring aver- If the confident and optimistic Peterson said We graduate members of the team And if you graduated center Dec Wells The age with 134 points per game re- attitude shown in a recent scrimmage eight seniors who have been an im- look closely you will see several schools all bounding anil steals last season Also against Lakeland Community Col- portant part of the football team for other players waiting on the side- time career expected to contribute valuable play- lege prevails throughout the season four years who have really helped lines to get in on the action leader in re ing time down low are sophomore this progress might come rapidly Al- us hang on as a football team Theyre Before this year we werent center Sophie King though the Yeowomen were out- a fine group of young men Ive re- even able to hold team scrimmages 5- foot 1 1 first- year scored they were not out- played as ally enjoyed working with them for sccond- Basketball explained yrar head coach 4 Womens center Jana Cay lor the team exhibited a new level of the past two years I know each and and Oberlin basketball legend Ann First games and Kazary competitiveness every one will go on to be successful Gilbert With nine new additions Johns Hopkins Tournament Compared to The feeling that we could win alumni and support Oberlin in the Nov 18- 19 to the team we have better practices last year we have a games was definitely lacking last sea- future Theyre good guys they re- because were able to run more drills bounding Wells proved to be a force lot more bodies co- captain Losneck son King said This season we want ally are Its too bad they didnt have and play against each other The in the paint during her four years at said We have some new post play- to really work hard in every game ex- more success than they had womens basketball team is looking Oberlin She is also the teams all- ers who have moves pecting to be competitive to improve on a dismal 3- 20 record time leader in blocked shots and The projected backcourt starters Only time will tell whether or Peterson is already looking arc Boyle and senior off- guard May- not the womens basketball team will ahead to next season as he tries to day Levine Levine is currently be able to sustain this feel- good revitalize a program that almost went studying in London but she will re- mindset during the course of a gruel- extinct under the former administra- join the team in January As for ing NCAC schedule In the past tion Peterson said We are way Boyle coach Gilbert commented youth and inexperience have hurt the ahead in our recruiting efforts for Penny is the best ball handler on the teams chemistry and cohesiveness on next year Weve had about 100 team by far She will have an imme- the court The Ycowomcns first young men visit campus already diate impact on our program chance to prove history wrong will which is nearly equal to the entire With increased depth and talent be at the Johns Hopkins Blue Jay of visits from last The ft number year the team looks to crash the boards Classic on Nov 18- 19 Their first quality of the young men we are re- sluxtf more consistently from the out- home game will be against Notre cruiting has improved academically 1 1 K 1U side and minimize turnovers Weve Dame of Ohio on Dec 2 and athletically limit to stoH rWGfee n ooMeepG i if i Tab sm m to 0

Instruction Head coach Ann Gilbert shows two of her expanded 3c0 squad the essentials of the game during a recent practice photo by iCu2 Sashi Kaufman The Oberlin Review November 17 1995 Sports Page 15 Yeofish beat up on OWUs sparse numbers

by Hanna Miller The Yeomen blew the Battling Matt Soler and sophomore Josh Davis Bishops out of the water 98- 76 claimed first and second place Six men can be a very powerful The match got off to a slow start respectivcley Davis had to fix his up l force Six men can lift over 1000 as the timing goggles midway through but still pounds and even managed to earn a second place fin- play a mean game Mens Swimming ish of full court bas- Davis joined with first- year Jesse ketball Wednesdays meet Carew to produce another 1- 2 finish Oberlin 98 Ohio Wesleyan 76 But six men in the 200- meter IM V cant defeat the Senior Eric Nordstrom took top Oberlin mens swimming team system malfunctioned After five honors in the 200- meter freestyle and r Ohio Wesleyan arrived at minutes the system was repaired r the 100- meter butterfly Oberlin Wednesday night with a the thrashing began The Yeomens next meet pits meager team of six men to face The highlight of the meet was them against Baldwin- Wallace on Obcrlins 16- man squad the 500- meter freestyle First- year Saturday

v v Deja vu in cross country

jjf J seasons finale f by Nachie Castro ended up running in a blizzard ended last years season with The VsjvN v- v V V V14 The miserable conditions were mens team which had been shoot- Obcrlins cross country team not all that were standing in the way ing for Nationals will now be losing had its final meet last Saturday as the of the Yeorunners path three seniors including team leaders top seven runners from the mens and seniors Mitch Douglass and Darian the womens teams drove to Alma Heading into the race the Yeo- Davies V f Michigan to compete with the top men knew that the team they would Darian and Mitch will be v- v teams from the Ohio Kentucky and be gunning for was Earlham missed both on the course and off v y Michigan areas and to try and place Unfortunately they werent said assistant coach Tina Chase The seniors on the will be W r- X high enough to get the learns into the able to catch enough of the Quakers team National tournament to finish ahead in the final point tally missed but there are still high expec- Not just the Plague A member of the Lorain County Thunderbirds tations as how the next season will during a recent game The Thunderbirds are one of the team which Last year the team sent thenfir- turn out utilize the Williams Ice Rink photo by Mike Oleson styear Hugh Finn and then sopho- Mulligan feels that the reasons more Shannon Fox to the National that Fox and Finn finished 1 23rd and Looking ahead to next year the tournament where the top intercol- 103rd last year was their inexperi- runners arc hoping to add to what is New coaches come legiate runners go to compete against ence in competitions that size I becoming the vanguard of the cross the other top runners in the country think it was just they werent ready country team Weve been doing a for the magnitude of that kind of lot of recruiting said Chase and for many reasons This years outcome would meet he said I think the second had a lot of visits The continuing success of the team looks good at this Continued from page 1 4 recruiting trips prove to be the same Regionals time around both of them understand Theres so much talent here went well considering the obstacles the difference between point although a lot will ride on how is nity service opportunities for Oberlin said Manolovich with an amazed we had to overcome head coach well next years crop of runners in po- able to fill the shoes of the departing athletes and teaching a form of mar- shine in her eyes Its just incredible Tom Mulligan said The weather The teams both finished members tial arts called Shing- I that theres so much to do at a school was not kind to the runners and we sitions near to the ones that they that is so small More than once she Less enthusiastic about formal expressed a curious desire to sec the leaching than Manolovich Barker co- op dining experience first- hand opted to lead the bowling class this Barker meanwhile is finding semester He is also planning to lead great pleasure in the quiet and a Winter Term project in downhill friendly nuances of small- town life skiing one of his passions Still he enjoying the friendliness of the is as imbued with as fervent a desire townspeople and students as well as mm to help others to learn as Manolovich walking his dog in Obcrlins neigh- and James borhoods He comes to Oberlin most re- I love the commute he said cently from coaching and teaching referring the five minutes it takes him physical education in Washington to bike to work Its better than the D C area schools He referred how- Beltway 1 ever to a vast variety of other job I experiences that he has had from WANTED individuals student orga- I I being a graphic artist to selling un- nizations to promote SPRING BREAK derwear at JC Penney as important Earn MONEY and FREE TRIPS CALL V experiences that he brings to coach- INTER- CAMPUS PROGRAMS 18- 003276013 ing httpwwwicptcom Finding the teaching of middle schKlers tiresome Barker had been lit It SI t hi 1 looking to move on to working with Serving Oberlin for 13 Tears tt older athletes for a few years While ewe a free talking about this seasons Yeomen K4 J soccer players it was evident in the RfiO fondness of his tone that Obcrlins type of athletes are what makes 52 12 S Main St behind Gil coaching fulfilling for him 775- 0118 Date Tims 8- 9 PM I believe in winning at Thursday dont any r This coupon is good lor cost he said Explaining that be- 1130 cause the soccer team really gave Off C01AR IF I everything they had and adding ft a Large Vegan Pizza Location Wilder Hall 1 01 Oberlin they had what equates success by I I putting together sportsmanship fair HSWtW sfEStf9 MM call1800KA- PTEST play and supporting each other To RSVP j m1 All three coaches expressed an 7m IHArHAflKMSILl1G extended interest in partaking of w hat Step in and enjoy beer and pizza the Oberlin community has to offer night Monday- Wednesday Besides coaching however much of V their lime here thus far has been spent unpacking into new houses and of- fices as well as going on off- campus v 1 1 Football loses final game The Yeomens third straight winless season on Saturday was closed by Alleghenys Gators They lost by a score of 55- 0 This season was the high- est scoring for the Yeomen in years the team boasted one of their largest rosters as well see page 14

pQirfe 1 1 Pane Id 3 The Oherlin Review November 7 995 Womens swimming loses first two meets Team it with a time of 50305 She added a a shot to w in Michaels said refer- believes second- place finish in the lK- yard ring to the teams meets against Ohio has a chance in backstroke Wesleyan and Baldwin- Wallace With a time of 1 13506 in the Last year Ohio Wesleyan Uni- upcoming meets 1 100- coc- j yard freestyle the other aptain versity narrowly defeated the nip- i Yeowomen by a score 1 28- 1 02 I r l senior Grace Davenport contin- of yJ j n by Jeff Glickman ued to smash her lifetime bests Im- OWU scored 26 points on diving proving from a 1214 last year the which proved to be the difference in v The Yeowomen headed into their swim earned her a second- place fin- the meet This year OWU wasnt able J ish to claim that advantage but the Bat- J t r first dual- meet of the season expect- l D ing defeat Everyone was psyched According to head coach Dick tling Bishops did have 22 team mem- MU but we realized that although it would Michaels She really has busted bers compared to Oberlins 12 be nice to win it is not our focus through Davenport also finished junior Kerri Sutton said second in the 500- yard freestyle Kusner had another good meet What the team did not expect Other notable Yeowomen on swimming to a first place finish in was an adventurous bus ride home the up and up include first- years the 100- yard breaststroke and the Our bus ride w as hell Sutton said Lydia Bright Julie Chor and Clara 200- yard IM Kusner secured another A high voltage w ire was down block- Stemwedel The team has a lot of top finish in the 100- yard backstroke ing the road The bus got stuck in the excellent recruits Shea said Bright claiming second mud When the bus driver attempted raced to a lifetime best in the 10H- Davenport won the 200- yard to turn around and the whole team yard freestyle Stemwedel was sec- free w ith a time of 20604 and added had lo get out of the bus A wrecker onds off finishing a second place finish in the 100- yard third in the 200 and free Womens Swimming 500- yard freestyle Sophomore Amanda Eichel races and Chor had took second in the 100- yard breast- Wednesday s meet a lifetime best in stroke finishing behind Kusner Ohio Wesleyan 1 39 Oberlin 90 the 100- yard fly The best swims of the meet Chor is going came from Stemewedel who swam a pushed the bus out of the mud How- to do well She has a good bit of abil- phenomenal 112478 in the 1000- es er nobody could save the ity in the butterfly Michaels said yard free and contributed a second Yeowomen from being sunk by Sophomore diver Hannah place finish in the 500- yard free Denison I32- SK Borthwick brings experiancc new OWU finally pulled ahead by 39 Although the team was unable to to the team and won the one- meter points to win the meet but much of w pull oil the win the Yeowomen were diving competition Borthwick is their success was owed to their size pleased with their perlromancc joined by beginning diver junior We are a better team Shea said I Juinor Kerrv Shea Said We swam Elisabeth Edelstein According to They just won number- wise better than in previous years Michaels The divers arc going to The Yeowomens next meet is Co- captain senior Jenny Kusner really help the team Saturday at Baldwin- Wallace Col- a won the 400- vard Individual Medlev These next two meets we have lege u m Form One of Oberlins first divers in years Hanna Borthwick during their meet against Ohio Wesleyan University photo by Jeff Glickman Oberlin runners relive Greek epic by Atsuko Sakurai run 26 miles before The energy theyd stored from bagels and muf- It was in 490 BC that a Greek fins at breakfast eventually started to if u h soldier ran 26 miles from Marathon wear out Even if Id eaten a seven to deliver a message to Athens He course meal I wouldve run out of was determined he was on a mission fuel Cornelius said After a certain Almost 2500 years later last point the race was run with pure de- Saturday three members of the cross- termination I U ii 1 country team seniors Tamarine Cornelius David Schneider and jun- At the last mile a wretched hill ior Maggie Russcl- Ciardi duplicated awaited the runners That was kind that feat at a race held in Columbus of a pain in the butt Schneider said It seems that they too were on a mis- Schneider finished at 1 208 pm av- r V J sion Its just something you have eraging 7 10 a mile He recalls feel- to do if youre a distance runner ing light- headed for a while After i f III i w III said Russcl- Ciardi Just for the chal- mile 18 everything in the world was i lenge of it annoying he said Experienced Hi T- marathon runners had warned her HTin Jtj t mmne V f j tc The Oberlin trio faced the mon- that mile 20 marked a wall They a were right 1 was gritting my teeth 1 r- y- strous challenge with pack of 6500 i rmHm J other runners Schneider explained just to keep forward she said 1 that speed and ability among the run- kind of fell like a fly that had its ners varied vastly Who would be able w ings polled off Cornelius stepped t7 to cross the finish line before pass- over the finish line at 1253 pm f 00 ing out Only time would tell Three minutes later Russcl- At 9 am the gun was fired and Ciardi followed achieving her per- s slowly the crowd of runners spilled sonal goal to finish the run without 4 out onto the road Some had to wait walking and to finish under four 3 We had to stand there for a minute hours She said she had been in pain said Cornelius There were so many since the 1 3th mile the most she had J people ever previously run Sticking it out Eventually all runners took the for twice that distance she finally road They ran on Hat land They ran faced the hill at the last mile By that up a couple of hills They ran through time youre half dead she said a five- lane highway And they kept The three Oberlin runners are running With a full season of train- unsure whether they would face the Threading the defense Sophomore Ryuji Iwasaki spikes the ball past two Ohio Wesleyan University blockers ing under their belts the Oberlin run- challenge of a marathon again The on their way to victory during one of the Oberlin mens club volleyball teams five games last weekend It was ners were able to run smoothly for a excruciating pain that they felt as they all of the NCAC Tournament in which six and at Oberlin part Preseason conference teams came played while Even the sub- freezing tem- crossed the finish line still lingers Oberlin finished fourth losing to the College of Wooster in the semi- finals Wooster then went on to defeat perature was not an issue once they Cornelius explained The more the Case Western Reserve University in the finals The regular season doesnt begin until Feburary but the teams got going pain recedes the more I think hey are prepping now in expectation of a competitive season photo by Mike Oleson But none of the three had ever that was really cool