Oberlin Blogs

I'll do anything for a contra dance.

There's something to be said for a small liberal-arts college in a backwater hamlet a charming slice of small-town America that has two newspapers. And there's something more to be said a college that has two newspapers ( The Oberlin Review , The Oberlin Grape --for which I am a copy editor), three non-fiction magazines ( Wilder Voice , Vox , In Solidarity ), a literary journal (formerly The Plum Creek Review , formerly Enchiridion , now The Plum Creek Review --again), a genre-fiction magazine ( Spiral ) and doesn't have a journalism department.

It's been over a week since the final performance of the Johnson Family Circus. I'm in an extraordinary position to continue reliving the show for days, weeks, even months after.

There's nothing quite like the Oberlin College Marching Band.

The Storytelling Exco has been the pillar of my college experience -- performance on the outside and therapy on the inside.

The bike coop at Oberlin is a community project that promotes environmental responsibility.