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College
to Explore New Housing Options
President Nancy Dye said this week that the College will soon embark
on a new mission: to build new housing facilities for the 21st century.
“We want to put together a task force to study what type of
housing will be built,, and on a tight budget,” Dye said.
“This is a strategic goal,” she added. “This is
a very good time to move forward.”
Such facilities, Dye and Dean of Students Peter Goldsmith believe,
will likely be apartment or town-house style, keeping in tune with
student desires for less rigid dormitory living. Dye said these
new edifices will be “more amenable to what students want.”
Adding new housing will also achieve the College’s long-term
goal of reducing the burden on the city for housing students.
“We need to have fewer students living in the town,”
Dye stated. “We really need to be housing more of our own
students.”
—John
Byrne
Hi-O-Hi
Fails to Organize
Barring
a major turn of events, there will be no yearbook this year. With
no officer list and, apparently, no one waiting in the wings to
take the job, Hi-O-Hi just might not make it.
Student organizations must file an officer list with the Student
Union office in the spring in order to remain active the following
school year.
There will be a table at the activity fair with past copies of Hi-O-Hi
and a sign list for interested people. There will also be a meeting
next week in Wilder to try and get an editorial board organized.
—Rachel
Decker
New
Student Housing Held Up for Safety
New housing on East Lorain Street that was supposed to be ready
by the beginning of the school year still has yet to be completed,
because the owner has not yet received a cer
ificate of occupancy from the city.
As a result, Oberlin College students are being forced to find alternate
living arrangements.
City Manager Rob DiSpirito said that the owner had not yet met all
of the city’s safety requirements; many of the buildings are
as yet unfinished.
Only one has received a certificate of occupancy, DiSpirito added.
Some students are living in temporary houses.
Others, choosing to forgo such amenities as cabinets and phone lines,
have moved into the unfinished houses. Despite these hardships,
the tenants are sticking with it. “To be honest, when those
houses are finished, they’re pretty nice,” said senior
Cory Mescon.
—Jesse Baer
Students
to Protest WTO
A protest
to be held in Washington, D.C., is scheduled for the 28th of this
month and Oberlin’s CARAW (Campaign Against Racism
and War) plans to attend. This organization, dedicated to sharing
their underlying message of “No To Bush’s War on Iraq,”
is an open forum in which all College students are welcome to share
their political ideas.
CARAW is not only dedicated to the Anti-War movement, but also to
improving the qulaity of life for all nations.
Approximately 30 students, attended a CARAW action meeting on Sept.
18th. There they discussed the current courses of action being taken
by the Bush Administration, the history of CARAW and its role on
campus, as well as nationally, in years past, and also what they
hope to accomplish this year.
The foremost goal of CARAW this year is organize on a long-term
basis, networking with other regional colleges and universities,
as well as having a lasting impact on the anti-war movement.
—Rachel Decker
Michael
Dirda, OC ’70 Will Visit Oberlin
Pulitzer Prize winning alum Michael Dirda, writer and senior edi
or of Washinton Post Book World, will be dropping by Oberlin on
Saturday, Sept. 28.
His schedule includes a booksigning at 3:30 at the Oberlin Bookstore
and giving a talk at the Friends of the Library Annual Reception
and Dinner entitled “Looking for a Good Time: Reading, Libraries,
and the World of Books.”
Dirda’s writings have also appeared in periodicals such as
The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplent and Smithsonian Magazine.
He received the Pulitzer for Distinguished Criticism in 1993.
—Greg
Walters
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