News
Assault
Raises Safety Concerns For College
by Tobias
Smith
At 1:30
on Sunday morning an Oberlin student was assaulted after leaving a
large off-campus
party on South Professor Street. Shortly after the attack, the student,
a male first-year, went to the Oberlin Medical Center with a fractured
nose and cheekbone, among other injuries.
Three persons, none of whom are students, have been arrested on charges
of assault or complicity. The Oberlin Police Department issued a press
release on Thursday listing all three of the alleged perpetrators as Oberlin
residents, two of them as minors.
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Arts
House Leaves Audience with a Taste
of the Insane
by
Lauren Campbell
Last
week’s production of John Guare’s award-winning play The
House of Blue
Leaves,
directed by senior Joya Colon-Berezin, invited the audience to cry,
to laugh and sometimes to fidget uncomfortably.
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on)
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Sports
Swimmers and Divers Defeat Baldwin Wallace
by Liz
Logan
Oberlin’s
swim team began the season with three losses and a win — two losses
for the women’s team, and one win and one loss for the men’s.
The first meet of the season was held on the home turf of national champions
Denison on Nov. 3. The men’s team lost 88 to 138, and the women’s
team lost 82 to 139.
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Perspectives
Student Apologizes For Signs
To the Editors:
On Oct. 30
I was responsible for placing approximately 40 faux flyers around campus
falsifying warning statements from President Nancy Dye and Attorney General
John Ashcroft and false quotes from terrorists threatening “imminent”
attacks against a student on campus. The fliers warned of an expected
terrorist attack against this individual, urging students to be on “high
alert” and disassociate from the aforementioned person for their
safety and security.
(read
on)
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