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...Oberlin College in Ohio has a relatively substantial cooperative housing system in which the actual buildings are owned by the college but the maintenance is run by an independent student group. According to housing and dining coordinator Anne Ludlow, about 150 students live in the co-ops and pay about one-third of the board which students in regular dorms are charged. In return the students spend four hours a week doing housework in the co-ops as well as ordering and preparing food. Ludlow attributes the popularity of Oberlin's co-ops--which are about 30 years...
Writer Skow (Oberlin '53) was not rejected by Harvard or Yale. He never applied...
...Flynn '85 says he transferred to Harvard from Oberlin Conservatory to major in Applied Mathematics. Since his arrival in Cambridge this fall, Flynn adds that he has returned to his first love--the piano...
...wall). The students have received offers of some $1.3 million in financial aid, compared with less than $1 million in 1978. Luis Nuñez, 17, who has seven brothers and sisters and whose mother is on welfare, has already been accepted by eight colleges, including Carleton and Oberlin, and has received a commitment from New York's Union College for $11,650 in financial aid, enough to cover the whole year. "I want to be a doctor," says Luis...
...Oberlin, Mathematics Professor Samuel Goldberg teaches students how to "weigh risks and make complex decisions and not be overwhelmed." His system of analysis, balancing probabilities and consequences, can be used to help make important personal decisions, such as whether a cancer patient should have chemotherapy, and to tackle public policy questions, such as whether to build the B-l bomber...