Word: oberlin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...native of Columbus, Duffy, 30, graduated from Oberlin College in 1980, then went to work as a military-affairs reporter in Washington. Five years later, he signed on with TIME, reporting first on the Pentagon, then moving to Capitol Hill before joining the campaign trail last year to cover George Bush, Michael Dukakis and Jesse Jackson. His time in Washington has given Duffy an appreciation for one of the first principles of reporting governmental affairs: hurry up and wait. Duffy has spent entire days -- followed by long nights -- waiting outside closed doors to learn the latest twist about tax- reform...
...said, 'He is a humorous man.' We didn't believe him," says Tyugu, a molecular-biology major. "But when he went on to ask, 'Who would like to apply for an exchange program?' I thought, Why not take a risk?" This autumn Tyugu is enrolled at Ohio's Oberlin College, while 55 of her Soviet peers are at 25 other liberal-arts colleges in eight states. The arrangement is part of an unprecedented Soviet-American undergraduate swap that will send a comparable number of U.S. students to Soviet universities next fall...
...highest powers like Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev." Not all the teaching goes unchallenged. At Wheaton, Sabyrova takes issue with an American textbook that describes the Soviet economy as entirely planned. "It is wrong," she insists. "With economic reform there are a lot of changes in our country." Meanwhile at Oberlin, Killu Tyugu, who did not initially believe it was possible to study in America, is amused to find that her fellow molecular-bio students are poring over the same (U.S.-published) textbook she used back home. Typing away on an Apple computer, she revels in her good fortune: "Right...
Honorary trustee Jesse Philips said that it would be productive for students to gain first-hand knowledge of the situation, especially in light of Oberlin's recent decision to divest...
College President Starr told the Review, "It's very important that the Oberlin campus get facts on their own, as opposed to operating in a vacuum, which they have been doing up until...