Oberlin College News

Making eye contact, and touching another person with both force and sensitivity while improvising a dance that you want to look at least a little bit graceful is intimidating as hell.

Oberlin College Faculty Unanimously Endorses Open Access , press release, November 20, 2009.

PETA2, the youth division of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has announced the 2009 Most Vegetarian Friendly Colleges.

Oberlin College has adopted an open access policy . Here's an excerpt from the press release : The Oberlin College General Faculty unanimously endorsed on November 18 a resolution to make their scholarly articles openly accessible on the Internet.

Today Mayor Michael A. Nutter announced the appointment of Lewis Rosman as Legislative Affairs Director.

There's little doubt that global warming is the biggest environmental journalism story of our time.

Wheaton College's abolitionist origins are a matter of historical record. No one doubts that the school's founders were adamant in their opposition to slavery; the written record of the time bears it out.

Dan Chaon's new novel, Await Your Reply , is both an entertaining thrill ride and an incisive look at the way we live today, a world in which technology has fractured our existence and called into question the ever-mutating nature of identity.

Oberlin College will still celebrate its annual safer-sex party Thursday night, but the price of admission is steeper this year.

Most people today recognize the fact that women in America have had the right to vote for some time.

Mercersburg Academy faculty member James Brinson has been named the academy's fourth carillonneur.

Sunday's Numbers, a weekly feature from The Plain Dealer AP file Reynolds aluminum foil is one of Alcoa's products.

Early one morning in March, the law banged on the door of an apartment on Thompson Street in Greenwich Village.

Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher and Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner - the two Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate seat held by George Voinovich - will be speaking this weekend at the Power Shift Ohio Summit.

They didn't get a chance to perform tonight, but six members of the Newark High School Sinfonia were thrilled just to be in the White House.

Judge-elect Chuck Patterson will change offices in the York County Judicial Center in January.

In a study of executive pay at private colleges and universities released today, it's the former president of an area college who stands out with a big payday.

The Green Jobs Day will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Tuesday, November 3, 2009, in the LCCC Stocker Arts Center cinema hall .

Alan Houston, a professor of political science and an internationally recognized scholar of early-modern British and American political thought, has been appointed provost of Eleanor Roosevelt College at UCSD.

Church's Birthday / Today is the 124th birthday of Robert R. Church, Jr., the Memphis-born banker and entrepreneur who in 1917 organized the Memphis Branch of the NAACP, the first branch in Tennessee.