Mrs.
Rosa Parks Remembered
By Daniel Domaguin
Activist, fighter, role model, civil rights leader Mrs. Rosa Parks passed
away in Detroit of natural causes on October 24. Pam Brooks, Assistant
Professor of African American Studies, says Mrs. Parks was �soft-spoken,
diminutive in size, unassuming, but a fighter of fierce courage and
determination.�
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Place Like Home: A Review of the GLCA Student of Color Conference
Review By Mary Annaise Heglar
It doesn't look like a very long way on a map, but Greencastle, Indiana
and Oberlin, Ohio are worlds apart. I, and eight other students, found
that out immediately when we stepped out of our vans for the annual
Great Lakes College Association's (GLCA) Student of Color Conference
at DePauw University on October 7, 2005.
Members of the Muslim Students Association gather in
Wilder to break their fast together. The community is extremely diverse
and includes people from all over the world. The languages that could
be heard over this meal included Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Turkish, and
English.
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UMich
Incident Inspires Hate Crime Awareness
By Tiffany Beason
A recent hate crime, committed at the University of Michigan, sparked
alarm at Oberlin. On Wednesday, October 5, 2005 Oberlin students and
staff gathered in the Multicultural Resource Center (MRC) to brainstorm
programs to spread awareness of such crimes.
Famed
Playwright of African-American Experience Passes at 60
By Thomas J. S. Shannon
August Wilson passed away on October 2 from liver cancer. Considered
a great playwright of his time, he was born Frederick August Kittel
(He changed his name to August Wilson to honor his mother after his
father's death in 1965) in 1945 to a baker and a cleaning woman.
 Prof.
Ali Yedes, advisor of the MSA, discusses the details of a prayer at
a tarawih session in the MSA prayer room in Wilder. Tarawih prayers
include reciting the Qur’an with the intention of completing it
by the end of the month. The book seen in the foreground is a Qur’an
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