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...fact, the campuses that have been experiencing the most problems have names like Berkeley, Standford, Oberlin, University of Michigan, Amherst, Dartmouth and so on," he said. "It is almost safe to say that the more the campus appears to be publicly dedicated to fighting racism, the greater the volume of racial incidents and racial tension on those campuses...
Rounding out the panel were Claudia Card, a philosophy professor at the University of Wisconsin, and William P. Norris, professor of sociology at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. Card discussed "Homophobia and Lesbian/Gay Pride," explaining a lesbian, gay or bisexual's fear of the shame from public exposure, while Norris presented a case study of Oberlin entitled "Homophobia in a Liberal Institution...
...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...