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Born in the Eastern Region of Nigeria and educated at Oberlin and the University of Chicago, Essien U. Essien-Udom (literally, in Ibibio, Essien, the first son of Udom and grandson of Essien) has an almost Jeffersonian aversion to urbanization: "It is very important that we preserve the communities. In the village you're not just a part of the crowd, going to the theatre or whatever, anonymous; you can be a whole man....In my village if I saw someone ten times a day, we would shake hands ten times a day. If I came...
...Oberlin College Alfred M. Gruenther, president, American Red Cross, onetime NATO commander LL.D...
...Oberlin College, students collected in ten days the largest sum to date, $2,709.10 to help with court costs of Negroes arrested in Nashville, Tenn...
Wayne is angry because it has a unique opportunity to serve Detroit's growing passion for culture and research. Oberlin-educated President Clarence Hilberry, 57, has as his models Harvard and California. Already Wayne has one of the country's best language departments, a fine medical school, and a new university press that publishes six learned journals, including the lively Midwest Journal of Political Science. Last year U.S. foundations gave Wayne $4,724,000. Ford alone gave $700,-ooo to launch Wayne's vibrant new Monteith College, an experimental liberal arts school designed for intellectual independence...
...search of quality need regard as second choice such vigorous institutions as Antioch, Carleton, Grinnell, Hamilton, Haverford, Kenyon, Mills, Oberlin, Reed, and California's Oxford-inspired Associated Colleges (Claremont Men's, Harvey Mudd, Pomona, Scripps). All are tough to get into, and worth it. The California group's freshmen come almost entirely from the top 5% of their high school graduating classes. Pennsylvania's Haverford has long been a sort of pocket Harvard, has an impressive faculty-student ratio of 1 to 7. Iowa's Grinnell is known as "the Harvard of the Midwest...