Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio. Established as the Oberlin Collegiate Institute in 1833 by John Jay Shipherd and Philo Stewart, it is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second oldest continuous institute of higher learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the oldest conservatory that continues to operate in the United States. in 1835 Oberlin became the first college in the United States to accept African-Americans, and the first to recognize women in 1837.
College of Arts & amp; Science offers more than 50 majors, minors, and concentration. Oberlin is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association and the Five Colleges of Ohio consortium.
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History
19th century
Both the college and the town of Oberlin were founded in northern Ohio in 1833 by a pair of Presbyterian ministers, John Jay Shipherd and Philo Stewart. The college is built on a 500-hectare (2.0 km km) land specially donated by the previous owner, Titus Street, founder of Streetsboro, Ohio, and Samuel Hughes, who lives in Connecticut. Shipherd and Stewert named their project after Jean-Frà © monlin Oberlin, an Alsatian minister whom they both admired. The vision of ministers is for religious communities and schools. The founder of Oberlin boasted that "Oberlin is unique in good terms," ​​and college has long been associated with progressive causes.
Asa Mahan (1799-1889) accepted the position as the first President of the Oberlin Collegiate Institute in 1835, also serving as chair of intellectual and moral philosophy and a professor of theology. Mahan's liberal view of abolitionism and anti-slavery greatly influenced the newly founded college philosophy; Likewise, just two years after it was founded, the school began accepting students of all races, becoming the first college in the United States to do so. Colleges have some difficult beginnings, and Pdt. John Keep and William Dawes were sent to England to raise funds for college in 1839-40. A nondenominational seminary, the Postgraduate School of Theology of Oberlin (first called Department of Theology ), was established beside the campus in 1833. In 1965, the supervisory council chose to stop the undergraduate instruction in theology at Oberlin, and in September 1966, six faculty members and 22 students joined the Divinity School of Vanderbilt University. The role of Oberlin as an educator of African-American students before the Civil War and thereafter is historically significant. In 1844, Oberlin College graduated the first black student, George B. Vashon, who became one of the professors at Howard University and the first black lawyer to be accepted at the Bar in New York State.
The African Americans of Oberlin and those who attended Oberlin College "have experienced tremendous challenges and remarkable achievements since their founding in 1833. African American students and other colored students have used education and activism to influence campus, city and many efforts have helped Oberlin remain committed to its values ​​of freedom, social justice, and service. "College's approach to African Americans is by no means perfect. Although highly anti-slavery, including recognizing black students soon from its founding, the school began separating its black students in the 1880s with the waning of evangelical idealism. Nonetheless, Oberlin graduates contributed a significant percentage of African-American college graduates in the late 19th century. The college was listed as a National Historic Landmark on December 21, 1965, because of its significance in recognizing African Americans and women. Oberlin was also the oldest coeducational institution in the United States, having received four women in 1837. These four women, first enrolled as full students, were Mary Kellogg (Fairchild), Mary Caroline Rudd, Mary Hosford, and Elizabeth Prall.. All but Kellogg passed. Mary Jane Patterson graduated in 1862 as the first black woman to earn a B.A. degree. Soon women are fully integrated into the campus, and consist of a third to a half of the student body. The founders of religion, especially evangelical theologian Charles Grandison Finney, see women inherently morally superior to men. Oberlin stopped operating for seven months from 1839 and 1840 for lack of funding, making it the second oldest continuous coedational art of operation.
Mahan, who often conflicts with faculty, resigned his position as president in 1850. In his place, the famous abolitionist and pastor Charles Grandison Finney (already a professor on campus since his inception) was made president, serving until 1866. Leadership Finney, lecturer and student Oberlin increase their activity in the abolitionist movement. They participate together with the people in the city in a bid to help a fugitive slave on the Underground Railroad (where Oberlin is a key dismissal), as well as to fight the Fugitive Slave Act. A historian calls Oberlin "the city that started the Civil War" because of its reputation as a den of abolitionism. In 1858 both students and lecturers were involved in the controversial Oberlin-Wellington Rescue of a fugitive slave, who received national press coverage. Two participants in the attack, Lewis Sheridan Leary and John Anthony Copeland, along with other Oberlin residents, Shields Green, also participated in John Brown's Raid in Harpers Ferry. This heritage is commemorated on campus by the ancient installations of Cameron Armstrong in 1977, the "Underground Railroad Monument" and monuments to the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue and Harper's Ferry Raid.
In 1866, James Fairchild became the third president of Oberlin, and the first alumnus of the school to reach that rank. He himself is a committed abolitionist, Fairchild, at that point the chief of theology and moral philosophy, playing a role in Salvation-Oberlin Salvage, hiding the fugitive slave of John Price at his home. During the Fairchild leadership period, the faculty and physical factory on campus have grown dramatically. In 1889, he resigned as president but remained chairman of systematic theology. (In 1896, Fairchild returned to the Oberlin leadership as acting President, serving until 1898.)
Oberlin College is also prominent in sending Christian missionaries abroad. In 1881, students at Oberlin formed the Oberlin Band to travel as a group to the remote Shanxi province of China. A total of 30 Oberlin Band members worked in Shanxi as missionaries over the next two decades. Ten died of illness, and in 1900, fifteen Oberlin missionaries, including wives and children, were killed by Boxers or Chinese government troops during the Boxer Rebellion. The Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association, an independent foundation, was formed in their memories. The Association, with offices on campus, sponsored an Oberlin graduate to teach in China, India, and Japan. It also hosts the scholars and artists from Asia to spend time on the Oberlin campus.
20th century
Henry Churchill King (1858-1934) became the sixth president of Oberlin in 1902. In Oberlin from 1884 onwards, he taught in mathematics, philosophy, and theology. Robert K. Carr served as president of Oberlin College from 1960-1970, during a tumultuous period of student activism. Under his presidency, he increased the physical factory of the school, with 15 new buildings completed. Under his leadership, student involvement in college affairs is increasing, with students serving on almost all college committees as voting members (including the Supervisory Board). Despite this achievement, Carr clashed repeatedly with students on issues relating to the Vietnam War, and he left office in 1969 (with Ellsworth C. Clayton's history professor taking over as acting President), and was forced to resign as President 1970.
Robert W. Fuller's Oberlin (and Princeton) commitment to educational reform - which he demonstrated as the dean of Trinity College - led his alma mater to make him the tenth president in November 1970. At the age of 33, Fuller became one. from the youngest college president in US history. During the Oberlin presidency - turbulent time in Oberlin and in higher education generally - Fuller reshaped the student body by tripling the minority enrollment in college. He also recruited and hired the first four African-American athletic coaches at a white-dominated American college or university, including Tommie Smith, the gold medalist of the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City.
In 1970, Oberlin created the cover of Life as one of the country's first colleges to have shared dormitories. Fuller was eventually replaced by the long-time Dean Conservator Emil Danenberg, who served as President from 1975-1982, when he died at the office. In 1983, after a national quest, Oberlin hired S. Frederick Starr, an expert in Russian and Eurasian affairs, as well as a famous musician, as the 12th president. Starr's academic and musical achievements are excellent for stewardship at the College and Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. However, despite increasing minority employment, Starr's tenure is characterized by clashes with students over issues such as divestment from South Africa and dismissal of a campus minister, as well as Starr's general approach to Oberlin reframing as "Harvard of Midwest." After a fierce clash with students going on his front yard in April 1990, Starr took a presidential leave from July 1991 - February 1992. He officially resigned in March 1993, effective until June of that year.
21st century
Nancy Dye became 13th president of Oberlin College in July 1994, replacing Starr. The first female President of Oberlin, he oversaw the construction of new buildings, increased selectivity from student bodies, and helped to raise endowment funds with the biggest capital campaigns of that time in college history. As president, Dye is known for its accessibility and inclusiveness. Especially in his first few years, he is a regular participant at student events such as soccer games, concerts, and dorm parties. Dye served as President for nearly 13 years, resigned on June 30, 2007. Marvin Krislov served as College president from 2007 to 2017, moved to take over the presidency of Pace University. On May 30, 2017, Carmen Twillie Ambar was announced as the 15th president of Oberlin College, in the process of becoming the first African-American and second woman to hold the position.
The first and only union expert employed by Oberlin, Chris Howell, argued that the college was involved in an "illegal" tactic to try to decree the voice of its service workers in July 1999 to become a member of the United Motor Workers Union. Howell argues that college workers are looking for unions to represent them in response to government efforts to "speed up work" to meet the "mounting budget crisis".
In February 2013, the college received a large number of press focusing on the so-called "No Trespass List," a secret list administered by colleges that prohibits individuals from campus without legal process. Student activists and surrounding municipal members join together to form a One City Campaign, which seeks to challenge this policy. On February 13, 2013, a forum at Oberlin Public Library with more than 200 people attending, including campus administration members, Oberlin city council and national press, sees speakers comparing campus atmosphere with "gated community."
In September 2014, at Rosh Hashanah, Oberlin Students for Free Palestine placed 2,133 black flags on the main square of the Campus as a "call to action" to honor the Palestinians who died in the Gaza-Israel conflict in 2014. In January 2016, hundreds of Oberlin alumni signed a letter to the Oberlin administration stating that this protest was one example of anti-Semitism on campus.
By 2015, students are organized to protest campus dining departments and food contractors for alleged cultural abandonment and cultural insensitivity.
In early 2016, an Oberlin professor, Joy Karega, blamed Israel for the attacks of Charlie Hebdo and for ISIS, which sparked a reprimand of faculty and administration. After five and a half months of discussion, the school delayed and then fired him. The following week, the home of a Jewish professor in Oberlin was damaged and a note read "Gas Jews Die" was left at the front door of his house.
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Academics
Oberlin is ranked 26th best national liberal arts college in USA edition USA 2018 Edition & amp; World Rank Ranking Best.
Of the nearly 3,000 Oberlin students, nearly 2,400 enrolled in the College of Arts & amp; Science, a little over 400 at the Conservatory of Music, and about 180 or so at the College and Conservatory under a five-year double degree program.
College of Arts & amp; Science offers more than 50 majors, minors, and concentration. Based on students graduating with certain majors, the most popular majors over the last ten years have been (in order) English, Biology, History, Politics, and Environmental Studies. Higher university science programs are considered strong, especially Biology, Chemistry and Physics. The campus is home to the world's first undergraduate Neuroscience program.
The Conservatory is located on a college campus. Conservatory admissions are selective, with more than 1400 applicants worldwide auditioning for 120 seats. There are 500 gigs each year, most free, with concerts and recitals almost every day. The Conservatory is one of the recipients of the National Medal of Arts 2009. Allen Memorial Art Museum, with over 13,000 holdings, is the first college art museum in western Alleghenies.
Higher Education Library
The Oberlin College library has branches for art, music, and science, and central storage facilities. The library has a collection of printed materials and media and provides access to various databases and online journals. Over 2.4 million plus items available on campus, Oberlin students have access to over 46 million volumes from over 85 Ohio institutions through the OhioLINK consortium. In the summer of 2007, the main level of the main library was transformed into an Academic Commons that provided integrated learning support and was central to academic and social activities.
Experimental Academy
The college "Experimental College" or the ExCo program, a student-run department, allows any student or person interested in teaching their own classes for a limited number of college credits. ExCo class with focus definition on material not covered by department or faculty.
Winter term
Another aspect of Oberlin's academics is the winter period during January. This term was created to enable students to do something beyond regular course offerings on campus. Students may work alone or in groups, either on or off campus, and can design their own projects or choose from a list of projects and internships established by the college each year. Students must complete a three-year winter project of their four at the College of Arts and Sciences. Projects range from serious academic research to joint writing in scientific journals, to humanitarian projects, to making avant-garde movies about Chicago's historic neighborhoods, to learn how to bartend. The full-credit project is recommended to involve five to six hours per business day.
Creativity and Leadership
Created in 2005 as part of the Ohio Northeast Ohio Entrepreneurship Program (NEOCEP), Kauffman College Initiative, and sponsored by Burton D. Morgan and Ewing Marion Kauffman, the department is focused on supporting and highlighting entrepreneurship within the student body. This is done through a series of classes, symposia, Long Term Winter programs, grants, and scholarships available at no cost to current students and in some cases, recent alumni. One such occasion is the Creativity and Leadership Fellowship, a one-year fellowship for senior graduates that includes a salary of up to $ 30,000 dollars to advance entrepreneurial ventures.
In 2012, the Department of Creativity and Leadership announces LaunchU, an open business accelerator for students and alumni of Oberlin College who are pursuing entrepreneurial ventures. A three-week, selective intensive program that connects participants with entrepreneurs and other business leaders selected from the region around northeastern Ohio as well as the vast network of Oberlin University alumni. LaunchU culminates in a public pitch competition before an investor panel of investors, where participants have the opportunity to be awarded up to $ 15,000 in funding. The winner of the LaunchU 2014 pitch competition is Chai Energy, a Los Angeles-based green energy startup that focuses on modernizing and personalizing home energy monitoring. In 2014 LaunchU announced the creation of an online network to build stronger links between entrepreneurs in Oberlin College students and alumni networks with a focus on attracting younger alumni.
Campus culture
Political activism
The Oberlin student institution has a long history of activism and a reputation as liberalism. The college was among the Princeton Review's "Higher Education with Conscience list in 2005.
In the 1960s, Memorial Arch became a gathering point for College's civil rights activists and anti-war movement. Oberlin provides disproportionate participants in Mississippi Freedom Summer, rebuilding the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in the Carpenters for Christmas project, supporting sponsored NAACP sitting in Cleveland to integrate building trading, and with SCLC participating in demonstrations at Hammermill Paper. Emeritus Professor of Sociology (1966-2007), James Leo Walsh stated that the students, "... carried dozens of protests against the Vietnam war from peaceful security to surrounding local naval recruiters", to Oberlin in 1995. On In November 2002, 100 college students and faculty students held "artificial funerals" for the Oberlin spirit "in response to the government that laid off 11 workers and reduced the working hours of five other workers without negotiating with the union." Oberlin students have protested the fracking example in Ohio such as "the first industrial gas conference and crack in the country" in 2011.
In 2004, student activism led to a ban on selling Coca-Cola products across campus. However, this is lifted in spring 2014 and students can now purchase Coca-Cola products from student unions.
In 2013, after discovering hate messages and allegations of people wearing the KKK cloak, president Marvin Krislov canceled the class and asked for a day of reflection and change. In a public statement, he stated that the investigation had identified two students believed to be responsible, who had been expelled from the campus. One of the responsible students told the police that he "did it as a joke to see the college overreact".
During autumn 2014 of the semester, the Oberlin Student Action Coalition held a petition to allow workers while the four-hour dining room to shift to eat one meal of food eaten by the college every day. The petition collected more than 1,000 signatures and resulted in workers having the opportunity to put food into the management provided with styrofoam containers to eat after their shifts.
In May 2015, temporary students took over their school administration buildings to protest a $ 2,300 tuition increase between the academic year 2015 and 2016. Students initially proposed, "... moving from providing aid to scholarships based on need, loosening on-campus meals and housing requirements, reducing food waste and temporary workers at Campus Dining Services... "to Vice President Director of Finance Mike Frandsen on Monday, April 27, 2015, in which their demands were denied for publication. $ 10,931,088 is allocated for management salaries for the 2013-2014 school year, mostly from student tuition.
In December 2015, Black Student Union Oberlin issued a series of 50 special demands from colleges and conservatories including promoting certain black faculty for powered positions, employing more black teachers, firing other faculty members, and earning a minimum of $ 15 per hour for all campuses. workers and health care insurance in their contracts. The supervisory board responded by appointing several individual faculty and with, "reviewing the allocation of faculty positions by considering how they would contribute to the interactional diversity within the curriculum" in the 2016-2021 college strategic plan. Colleges oppose dismissing employees in response and neglect to issue formal responses to many other demands even though it has sought to cut salaries and health care funds for administrators, office workers and library support staff of the Office and members of Professional Professional Workers Union during contract negotiations. Many college workers still get the minimum wage. More than 75 students protested against college efforts to change administrators, office workers and library support staff during contract negotiations in spring 2016.
LGBT Advocacy
Oberlin is also known for his liberal attitude toward sexuality and gender expression. Oberlin has been consistently ranked among the most friendly college campuses for LGBT students with numerous publications, including The Advocate, Newsweek, and The Princeton Review.
Student Cooperative Association
The Oberlin Student Cooperative Association, or OSCA, is a non-profit company that houses 174 students in four residential cooperatives and feeds 594 students in eight food cooperatives. The budget is over $ 2 million, making it the third largest in North America behind the Berkeley Student Cooperative and the Interagency Cooperative Council of Ann Arbor, and by far the largest relative to the size of the institution on which the student works.
OSCA is fully executed by students, with all participating students working as chefs, buyers, administrators, and coordinators. Each member is required to perform at least one hour per week cleaning if they are able, encouraging accountability for society and space. Most of the decisions in OSCA are made by a modified consensus. Oberlin prohibits all fraternities and student associations, making the cooperative the largest social system that students run on campus. In addition to four housing/fed OSCA and three co-ops, Brown Bag Co-op is an OSCA-supported grocery store that sells private portions of food at wholesale prices. OSCA also funded Nicaragua Sister Partnership (NICSIS), a "sister cooper" with Nicaragua's National Union of Farmers and Ranchers (UNAG). NICSIS works as a micro-loan program with a mission to empower women members from the community and provide superior benefits to workers. Outside OSCA, other Oberlin co-ops include Bike Co-op, Pottery Co-op, and SWAP: The Oberlin Book Co-op.
In Spring 2013, the OSCA Board of Directors made a decision in a closed-door meeting to remove Kosher-Halal Co-op from the Association after a budget dispute and kitchen inspection. Although KHC serves Kosher and Halal food, its membership is predominantly Jewish, and some alumni write that they believe the expulsion was anti-Semitic.
Music
In addition to the Oberlin Conservatory, Oberlin has available musical opportunities for amateur musicians and students on campus. Oberlin Steel, a steel pot ensemble founded around 1980, plays calypso/soca music from Trinidad and Tobago and has performed at the Oberlin's Illencination event for over 30 years. Oberlin College Taiko, founded in 2008, explores and shares Japanese taiko drums as a form of traditional and contemporary art. The university-run, fully self-administered Oberlin College Marching Band (OCMB) was established in 1998, performing at various sporting events including football, women's rugby and year-round battles. There are a number of cappella groups, including Obertones (all-male), Nothing But Treble (all-women), Acapelicans (all-female), 'Round Midnight (co-ed, jazz/folk), Pitch, ed), and Challah Cappella (co-ed, Jewish). Other well-known music organizations include the Black Musicians Guild and the Arts and Sciences Orchestra. Students in the college can form group rooms and receive training through the Conservatory. The student composer also provides a request for musicians to do their work.
Movies
Thomas Edison's picture show was performed in Oberlin in February 1900. Only seven years later, Apollo Oberlin Theater opened, installing sound equipment for the 1928 release of The Jazz Singer, the first talkie. Theater has since become a mainstay in the Oberlin community in a convenient location on the southern campus, and in 2012 (after a year of renovation) became the center for The Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman Cinema Studies Center for Education and Production Media. The area above the theater includes an editing lab, an animation area, a recording studio, and a small projection screening room.
Rental art
The Oberlin Museum has a unique art leasing program. At the beginning of each semester students camped in front of the northern gate of the Allen Memorial Art Museum campus to get first choice of original paintings, lithographs and paintings by artists including Renoir, Warhol, DalÃÆ', and Picasso. For five dollars per semester, students can hang these works on the walls of their dorm rooms. The program was started in the 1940s by Ellen H. Johnson, an art professor at Oberlin, to "develop students' aesthetic sensitivities and encourage regular thinking and discrimination in other areas of their lives."
Sustainability
In 2006, Oberlin became one of the charter bodies to sign the ACUPCC and set the date of target climate neutrality for 2025. Oberlin's innovative center, Adam Joseph Lewis for Environmental Studies, built the Department of Energy labeled as one of the "milestones" 20, incorporating a 4,600-square-foot (425-square-meter) photovoltaic array, the largest of its kind in Ohio at the time. AJLC is also equipped with living machines, parks, gardens, and a solar parking lot.
The school uses biodiesel, hybrid and electric vehicles for a variety of purposes, offering financial support to local transport companies that provide public transport to schools, and has been home to the co-operative Bicycle Co-op, since 1986. Each dormitory monitors monitor and display real time and electrical and historic water use. Some dorms also have special lights that display colors depending on how real time energy is used compared to the average historical energy usage. The school's Campus Committee on Responsibilities of Shareholders provides opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to make sound proxy suggestions and decisions. A student council, Dana EDGE Green Oberlin College, manages a set of accounts to support local sustainability, resource efficiency, and carbon reduction projects. The Green EDGE Fund, created in 2007, allocates grants to environmental conservation projects and verifiable carbon offset projects within the Oberlin community, as well as loans from revolving funds for projects at Oberlin College that reduce resource consumption and have calculated financial savings for college.
In 2007, Oberlin received the "B" rating from the Sustainable Endowments Institute Sustainable Sustainable Report Card, and was featured among schools as "Campus Sustainability Leader". In 2008, Oberlin received an "A-" on the Annual College Sustainability Reporting Card. It was also listed as a school with a green conscience by Plenty in their green campus rankings. In 2011, the College received a card A in the Sustainability Report. Oberlin College participates in AASHE's Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (STARS) in early 2012. Oberlin College is one of only 43 institutions that receive Gold rankings in STARS.
According to a 2010 article in The Oberlin Review , the renovated dormitory can use more electricity. This is the case for some dormitories being renovated during the summer of 2008. College architect Steve Varelmann called the numbers "erratic and probably unreliable." According to Varelmann, a possible explanation for this phenomenon is that previously non-functioning equipment begins to function again after renovation. Students can also be blamed for their behavior: "What electronic devices are they using? Do they voluntarily reduce the use of light? Does the space have increased usage due to improvements achieved from renovations?" John Scofield, professor of physics at Oberlin concluded that "We are building more and more efficient buildings, but we use more energy."
Campus publications and media
Oberlin students publish a variety of magazines. The largest publications of colleges are The Oberlin Review and The Grape. The Oberlin Review is a traditional weekly newspaper, focusing on current events, with a circulation of around 2,500. The Grape is an alternative newspaper run by Oberlin students.
In-campus magazines include Wilder Voice, a magazine for creative nonfiction and long-term journalism, The Plum Creek Review, a literary review containing student-written fiction, poetry, translation and art visual, Headwaters Magazine , environmental magazine, and The Synapse, science magazine. Spiral is a magazine that focuses on fiction genre. The College also produces quarterly alumni magazines, while the Conservatory publishes its own magazine once a year.
WOBC News Corps, a WOBC-FM news division made in February 2010, produces an air-conditioned local news segment every hour. WOBC, a large student organization with significant non-student membership, also maintains an online blog focusing on local music and events.
Athletics
University sports teams are Yeomen and Yeowomen. The name Yeomen appeared in the early 1900s (decades) as a result of combining the former moniker team with the official motto of the school. At the beginning of the program, football players and other athletes are known only as the Oberlin Men or Men "O". Finally, when the athletic department becomes more cohesive, Yeomen's mascot is adopted, drawing phonetic "O" Men and the official school motto "Learning and Labor". When women's sport becomes more common, "Yeowomen" is adopted to describe a mascot that represents female athletics. In 2014, the school announces that an albino squirrel will become its official mascot, although the team will continue to be called "yeomen" and "yeowomen".
Oberlin participates in the NCAA Division III and the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC), a conference that includes Kenyon College, Denison University, Wooster College, Depauw University and others. Kenyon has traditionally become Oberlin's biggest rival. Recently, leaders from the Athletics Department and various sports clubs have spoken in support of increasing institutional support for the team, requesting that Higher Education provide access to professional sports coaches and team transport. The campus also hosts several private sports teams, including the Ultimate Oberlin team.
Baseball
On Friday, May 8, 2015, the Oberlin baseball team won the NCAC championship. The championship was the first for Oberlin as a baseball team since joining NCAC in 1984.
Football
The Oberlin football team was the first team coached by John Heisman, who led the team to a 7-0 record in 1892. Oberlin was the last college in Ohio that defeated Ohio State (win 7-6 in 1921). Although in modern times, soccer teams are more famous for losing 40 games (1992-1996) and 44 games (1997-2001), Yeomen has enjoyed limited success in recent years.
Cheerleading
In 2011, Oberlin embarked on a new effort to showcase the cheerleading team. In 2006, a cheerleader fell from the top of the pyramid at a football match, beginning the death of the Oberlin Cheerleading Club. The injuries encouraged the school to restrict the club's activities, banning stunting and falling, after which participation failed. The club's charter, however, remained intact and was used to bring the squad back in 2011. The trials were held in the spring of 2011 and the cheerleader team was active at the first home football game of Fallen Oberlin, a 42-0 victory over Kenyon College. The squad also cheers for the basketball team and participates in spirit building activities and services on campus and in the community.
Ultimate
Oberlin has a male and female club team, known as the Flying Horsecows and Preying Manti. The Horsecows had traveled to the College Nationals in 1992, 1995, 1997, and 1999. The Manti qualified for the Nationals for the first time in 1997. After a failed 2006-2007 season, Horsecows Fly hired a coach to work them into form, and made it to the regional championship tournament. Both teams qualify for Third Division players in 2010.
Famous people
Faculty
Alumni
See also
- List of Oberlin College and Conservatories
See also
- The Oberlin Mountain (Glacier National Park) - named after the campus.
References
Further reading
- Barnard, John. From evangelism to progressivism at Oberlin College, 1866-1917 (The Ohio State University Press, 1969). full text online for free
- Fletcher, Robert Samuel. History of Oberlin College: From its foundation through the Civil War (Arno Press, 1971)
- Hogeland, Ronald W. "Coeducation of the Sexes at Oberlin College: Studies of Social Ideas in Medieval America Nineteen," Journal of Social History, (1972-73) 6 # 2 pp.Ã , 160-176 in JSTOR
- Morris, J. Brent. Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism: Higher Education, Community, and Struggle for Freedom and Equality in America Antebellum. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
- Waite, Cally L. "The Segregation of Black Students at Oberlin College after Reconstruction," History of Education Quarterly (2001) 41 # 3 pp 344-64. in JSTOR
Primary source
- Oberlin College. Oberlin College Public Catalog, 1833-1908: Including Main Event Account in University History, Illustrated College Buildings (1909) Online
External links
- Official website
- Official athletic website
- Oberwiki, Oberlin wiki
- Ã, "Oberlin College". Encyclopedia Americana . 1920.
- Ã, "Oberlin". EncyclopÃÆ'Â|dia Britannica (issue 11). 1911.
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