Oberlin Alumni Magazine: fall 2001 vol. 97 no.2
Feature Stories
One Week in Manhattan
Defining Words
[cover story] Marriage: For Better? Or Worse?
Business Unusual
Plotting the Past
Message from the Dean
Letters
Around Tappan Square
The Business jof Cheating Stirs New Solutions
A Record Year for Legacies
Survey Says...
Cast a Vote for Alumni Trustee
A Student's Perspective
Distinguished Speakers
In Memoriam
Oberlin Revisited
Bookshelf
Alumni Notes
Profile
Losses
The Last Word
Staff Box
One More Thing
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  Feature Stories  
   
  One Week in Manhattan
With words and photographs, two alumni in New York City capture the activity, the emotions, and the redefined normalcy of the days following the attacks on America.

by Rich Orloff '73 and Naeem Mohaiemen '93
 
   
  Defining Words
Five first-year students share their college application essays.
 
   
  [cover story]
Marriage: For Better? Or Worse?
Recent U.S. census figures suggest that marriage rates are falling. Is this truly the case? Alums with and without the legal right to marry weigh in.

by Kristin Ohlson
 
   
  Business Unusual
Businessman Tom McMakin reaps a Great Harvest financially, while keeping his values and entrepreneurial spirit intact.

By Carolyn Hirschman '84
 
   
  Plotting the Past
Author Tracy Chevalier gave life anew to Johannes Vermeer's most celebrated portrait in Girl with a Pearl Earring. Equally imaginative is her newest effort, Falling Angels, which addresses the social customs that accompanied death in Victorian England.

By Joanna Gajewski '93
 
   

LETTERS  
AROUND TAPPAN SQUARE ALUMNI NOTES: PROFILE
ALUMNI NOTES: LOSSES
BOOKSHELF
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