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https://www.oberlin.edu/
Last activity: 04.08.2026
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United States, Ohio, Oberlin
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+1 440-775-8121
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Apr 21, 2026A small but growing movement wants you to put down your phone. But first read thisGetting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN NEW YORK (AP) — More than a dozen millennials gathered in a brownstone apartment in Brooklyn and placed their phones in a metal colander before two hours of reading, drawing...
Sep 28, 2025Politicizing federal troops in US mirrors use of military in Latin America in the 1970s and ’80s (Opinion)By Kristina Mani In his second term as president, Donald Trump has deployed U.S. military forces in rarely used roles in domestic law enforcement. Besides sending military troops to Los Angeles to counter protests over immigration raids, Tr...
Feb 14, 2025National Politics | Trump calls for withholding federal money from schools and colleges that require COVID vaccinesAll U.S. states allow exemptions for children with medical conditions that prevent them from getting certain vaccines. Most also allow exemptions for religious or other nonmedical reasons. Some colleges started requiring students to be immu...
Dec 3, 2024SF Bay Area Trumpeter-composer Erik Jekabson Displays His Mastery of Orchestral Jazz on "Breakthrough," To Be Released January 17 on Wide Hive Records"Breakthrough," the forthcoming CD by trumpeter-composer Erik Jekabson. Over the past two decades, Erik Jekabson has made himself a pivotal force on the San Francisco Bay Area jazz scene as a trumpeter, composer, arranger, bandlea...
Mar 12, 2024THE MIRROR Music Salon ~ Baroque music surrounding Toshio Arimoto and Renaissance music from the era of Piero della Francesca ~THE MIRROR Music Salon ~ Baroque music surrounding Toshio Arimoto and Renaissance music from the era of Piero della Francesca ~ *View in browser* *TOSHIO SHIMIZU ART OFFICE* Press release: March 12, 2024 ** THE MIRROR Music Salon ~ Baroque ...
Feb 12, 2024North Carolina native Rhiannon Giddens plays on new Beyoncé trackNorth Carolina native Rhiannon Giddens, a prolific folk musician and artist, is helping Beyoncé go country on the new song "TEXAS HOLD 'EM." Why it matters: Giddens is one of North Carolina's most influential artists over the past...
May 26, 2023Oberlin sheep grazing team to reduce solar mowing costs by more than 44%Just as Oberlin College students were leaving campus this past week to enjoy their summer recess, a new group was entering campus by farm truck. On May 24, a class of 70 ewes from the Old Slate Farm in Knox County, Ohio, showed up on campus...
Mar 20, 2022Pianist Jeremy Denk on how practice makes perfect"That's a very good cheese, you know?" said Jeremy Denk. "You could have a more French cheese. But then, you know, sometimes you want a good old German cheese, you know?" Why is this man at the piano talking about cheese...
Jun 17, 20215 Ways To Find Right-Fit CollegesSummer marks the opening of the anxiety-provoking college search season. Since few of the nation’s 2,500 colleges and universities promise to make attending affordable, families are forced to sort through dozens of campuses to find the righ...
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Parsers VC has collected 11 articles mentioning Launch U, among them “A small but growing movement wants you to put down your phone. But first read this” (Apr 21, 2026) and “Politicizing federal troops in US mirrors use of military in Latin America in the 1970s and ’80s (Opinion)” (Sep 28, 2025).

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