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Administration Claims No Risk After Rape
BY NINA LALLI

There have been no arrests yet in the case of the alleged rape outside Drag Ball on April 14. A woman went to the police at 11:20 p.m. reporting that she had been raped in the parking lot outside Wilder Hall. She was subsequently brought to a sexual assault care unit in Lorain.
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Clothesline Project: First-year Jess Carr hangs a t-shirt as part of an annual exhibit in Tappan Square to raise awareness of sexual assault.
(photo by Pauline Shapiro)

The World
Summit Opponents Undeterred by Police Force
BY BILL LASCHER

As thousands of activists from across North America gathered at Quebec City’s Laval University in anticipation of an afternoon march against the Free Trade Area of the Americas last Saturday, some stopped to watch a swim class practicing in a pool below their convergence center. Separated by large round windows, the calm, carefree atmosphere of the aquatics center contrasted with the electricity raging through the gathering brigades of students, workers, intellectuals, socialists, anarchists, Quebecois nationalists and activists of just about every stripe.

 

Arts
Rollercoaster of Love: Play Relives Heyday of Jazz
BY
KARI WETHINGTON

The lifestyle of jazz musicians is a mystery to mainstream America and is even more enigmatic when juxtaposed against the middle-class family values of postwar America, which is exactly what Warren Leight’s autobiographical play Side Man does.
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Sports
Women’s Lax Loses Two On Way To Tournament

BY BLAKE REHBERG

Oberlin Women’s lacrosse has suffered a rough season, losing two recent games to Colorado and Denison to drop their overall record to 3-8. After losing a strong class of players last year the team has been in a rebuilding process.
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