FEATURED STORIES

• After Minneapolis

  Excerpts from an online faculty forum following the death of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer.

• Blight to the Heart

  Celebrating Oberlin’s role in securing the right of women to vote. Sort of.

• Is There Life on Mars?

  Scientist Patricia Straat ’58, who died in October 2020, believed there was life on the Red Planet.

• Keeping It Together

  Facing a daunting opponent, Oberlin had a winning season. It wasn’t always easy, it wasn’t always fun, but with the determination of a responsible student population, we kept the numbers down and kept the campus (relatively) safe.

FROM THE PRESIDENT

• The Seeds of Equal or Greater Benefit

OBEREACTIONS

• Life Lessons from OSCA

• Sew Nice

• Remembering Old Friends

AROUND TAPPAN SQUARE

• Black Student Athlete Group Stays in the Game Despite Canceled Seasons

• Obies Staying Safe

• Bat Lit Crazy

• Presidential Initiative Strives to Match Mission to the Moment

• Oberlin to Launch Integrative Concentration in Global Health

• Whale Snow: One Question for Chie Sakakibara

• Bluegrass Guitarist Chris Eldridge ’04 Named Visiting Faculty at Oberlin

• Alumni Office Picks New Pilot

THOUGHT PROCESS

• Borough of Agriculture

• High Notes and Misdemeanors

• Mister Rogers’ Neighbor

• Latter Day Conversion

• The Goat

• Guendelsberger’s On the Clock: The High Stakes of Low Wages

• Recent Releases

CLASS NOTES

LOSSES

ENDQUOTES

• Novelist Alan Furst ’62, Kristina Mani, Roland Kelts ’90 & more

Staff