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...minister Sylvester Graham touted the Graham diet - centered on caffeine-free drinks and vegetarian cuisine and supplemented by the eponymous graham cracker - as a cure for not just obesity but masturbation (and the subsequent blindness it was thought to cause). The diet became so popular that the students of Oberlin College were forced onto it for a brief period in the 1830s before they successfully rebelled through mass dissent in 1841. Thirty-five years later, an English casketmaker named William Banting became famous by pioneering the concept of a low-carbohydrate diet, which helped him lose 50 lb. He published...
...endowment drop in the second half of last year, according to a study by a group of campus business officers. That reduction in funding has set off a scramble to freeze hiring, cut hours and hunker down until the economy improves. "Institutions will have to manage with less," says Oberlin's vice president for finance, Ron Watts. Here's a look at how schools are getting creative with their wallets...
...said. “She would find the insight you didn’t know you had, and that was really wonderful.” Barbara Ellen Johnson was born in Boston, Mass. on October 4, 1947. One of two Presidential Scholars from Massachusetts in 1965, Johnson graduated from Oberlin College four years later and continued her education at Yale, where she received her Ph.D. in French in 1977. The “Yale School”—a group of deconstructionist literary critics and theorists including Johnson’s thesis director, Paul de Man?...
...that reflects their current address. And while some states like Ohio will accept alternative ID in the form of a utility bill, producing one can be a tall order for students, who tend to live in dorms and whose utility costs are folded into board fees. The president of Oberlin has issued utility bills for zero payment to all students to allow them to fulfill local residency requirements, and he is urging other schools to do the same. But elsewhere, many students are stuck...
...term, the optional winter term in January that will be implemented along with the new calendar in 2009-2010. Debate focused on the purpose of a J-term, its logistics, and possible classes. Harris, a Jewish studies professor, emphasized that unlike existing winter terms at MIT, Dartmouth, and Oberlin, the “J-term will be completely and totally optional—if students want to stay home for five weeks and do nothing, that’s a great thing.” Potential offerings Harris suggested included the practical—classes on PowerPoint; the less conventional?...