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Voters Reject Living Wage
By Emma Dumain
After months of bitter dispute over semantics and unrelenting campaigning, through means varying from community forums to an inflatable rat, on Tuesday, Oberlin ultimately rejected the Living Wage charter amendment...

Ashenhurst and Mealy Elected to City Council
By Jon Beckhardt
At the elections on Nov. 8, the intense competition for school board seats contrasted sharply with the uncontested city council election.

Also in news:
• Campus Disturbed by Violent Attacks
• Handicapped Students Find Challenges
• Symposium Teaches Conflict Resolution
• Panel Dissects the SOA and its Protests
• Speaker Says Post-9/11 Prejudices Still Remain
• Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Mini-Course
• Public Forum is Strategic Plan Progress Report
• Inmates Tell Their Stories
• State Referenda Fail, Oberlin Levies Pass
• Speaker Dissects “Republican War on Science”

• Science: Weekend Computer Party
• Off the Cuff: Samantha Schongalla
• This Week in Oberlin History:
   Escaped Inmate Receives Oberlin-style Compassion

SPORTS

Field Hockey Makes History
By Michael Mullalay
“It’s a natural high, knowing we made history,” beamed first-year Holly Sloofman when asked about the past week’s events.

Swimming Makes Splash
By Sam Vanderpol
Currently, the Oberlin College men’s and women’s swimming and diving squads are unstoppable.

Also in sports:
• Cross Country Women Have High NCAA Hopes (Newsbrief)
• Outside Oberlin: Think You Know B-ball?
• Yeomen Fall Due to Stingy OWU Defensive play
• In the Locker Room with Meg Reitz and Jessie Oram

ARTS

Music Ensemble Conquers Contemporary Pieces
By Nathan Heidelberger
Crowds turned out in large numbers to Warner Concert Hall Thursday night to hear the prestigious Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble’s program of works by living Hungarian composer Gyorgi Ligeti.

Boredom Gets More Than Giggles
By Laurel Fuson
The new semi-improvised comedy, Boredom, had been pre-filed in my mind under that tired category of “been done before.” I sat down and thought, yep. It’s all there.

Also in arts:
• Turovsky Art Challenges Eyes and Ears as Backdrop
• Orchestra Dazzles Audience
• OJE keeps swinging under baton of Marcus Belgrave
• Japanther duo receives Recognition Past its home
• Turovsky Leads Famed I Musici de Montreal
• Short Cuts: Unrecovered, Squid, Whale.
• Wanton Distraction: Blog as public/private expression
• O Style: A trendy discussion

COMMENTARY

• Editorial: The Bubble is Not Bulletproof
• Obie On The Street: Allison Hourcade
• Letters
• Cartoon:
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