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Buell came to Harvard only two years ago after more than 20 years at Oberlin College, where he served as dean of admissions, chair of the English Department, and chief officer of an Oberlin-based foundation that exchanges with Asian institutions...
...ridicule of peers cuts most deeply of all. Students like Za'kettha find themselves reviled as "uppity," as trying to "act white," because many teenagers have come to equate black identity with alienation and indifference. "I used to go home and cry," says Tachelle Ross, 18, a senior at Oberlin High in Ohio. "They called me white. I don't know why. I'd say, 'I'm just as black...
Amazing -- and not always, at the time, likable. His 1973 addition to Oberlin College's art museum has a checkerboard exterior and a comically oversize Ionic column inside. Outrageous! The molecular-biology lab at Princeton, designed in 1983, has a wild Argyle sheathing of bricks and oddly orientalized archways. Ridiculous...
...Crimson, I believe, did well in its articles to contrast the paucity of Harvard's facilities for addressing issues of race relations with the many at other schools such as Yale, Princeton, Boston College, Oberlin and the University of California at Santa Barbara and Berkeley. The implication, one I whole-heartedly agree with, is that we, and our administration, should work to create and do more...
Proponents of the Oberlin plan say that completing college in three years, instead of the traditional four, saves a year of tuition payments and expedites the college process...