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WOBC News Presents: The Weekly

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WOBC News is proud to present The Weekly. Our team leads a diverse array of campus journalists and other guests through illuminating discussions of campus issues and a broad range of other topics relevant to the Oberlin community. The show was co-created by Johan Cavert '20 and Daniel Markus '19 in 2017. Season 2 featured producers Roman Broszkowski '19 and Sarah Dalgleish '19. The team expanded in Season 3 with the addition of Katie Lucey '20, Anisa Curry-Vietze '22, and Ella Murray '20. Se ...
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This week's show is a special episode about Juneteenth, made up of segments by The Weekly team: Nina Auslander-Padgham, Eric Schank, and Casey Troost. First, Nina and Eric present a segment on the Oberlin Juneteenth festival, how it is different this year, and address potential town and gown tensions as more students participate in the parade. Afte…
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In this episode, The Weekly's co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 chat with Reggie Goudeau '23, the opinions columnist from The Oberlin Review, about his recent Opinions article about kneeling during the national anthem and his experiences with Oberlin administration. Reggie's article was originally published in The Oberlin Review on June…
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In the first episode of the summer semester, The Weekly's hosts Owen Anderson '23 and Jaimie Yue '22 feature an audiojournalism project from Casey Troost ‘22. Casey interviewed three Oberlin alumni for her final project in Rhetoric 402: Tutoring Lab. Casey’s interviews focus on the alumni’s post-Oberlin lives and how their jobs as Writing and Speak…
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In this Bonus Episode, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 interview Dante Xavier on his new album "Black In My Own Way" featuring Avery Brooks, distinguished musician and actor and Oberlin alumnus, Class of 1970. To listen to the full composition visit the DX Experiment on YouTube, Spotify, or www.HarpSpaceHappening.com fo…
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Content warning: This episode contains discussion of anti-Asian racism and gun violence. In this episode, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 have a conversation about Jaimie's newest article for The Oberlin Review about the Asian Cultural Arts Festival that occurred on May 5, hosted by the recently rebranded Asians in Amer…
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In this episode, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 chat with Zoe Martin Del Campo and Khalid McCalla, the sports editors of The Oberlin Review, about the columns they ran in the section this year, including “Zoe and Khalid Advise Everything.” The next segment is the extended cuts of Zoe and Khalid’s column debates. The fi…
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Content warning: This episode contains discussion of anti-Asian racism, gun violence, and stabbing. In this episode, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 speak with Jonas Nelson '24, a writer from The Oberlin Review, about his Off the Cuff interview with Professor Rick Baldoz and his op-ed for The Washington Post on the Atla…
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In this episode, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 speak with Zoe Kuzbari '22, a sports senior staff writer, and Zoe Martin Del Campo '22, a sports section editor, from The Oberlin Review, about the return of spring sports. Later on, Jaimie and Owen interview Leela Miller '24 about her preview of Fires in the Mirror, a di…
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This week, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Owen Anderson '23 and Jaimie Yue '22 have a conversation about Jaimie's feature article on Tiffany Fung, an Oberlin graduate from the class of 2012, for the Office of Communications. After graduating with a degree in Art History, Tiffany Fung earned her Master's in Scientific Illustration at Zuyd University in the…
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In this episode, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 speak with Joshua Jackson '23, an arts section editor from The Oberlin Review, about his interview with College third-year Cyril Amanfo, Double-degree fifth-year Max Addae, and Double-degree fourth-year Mark Ligonde, the trio behind The Blackberry Poets. Joshua's article …
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In this episode, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 speak with Walter Thomas-Paterson '24, a senior staff writer from The Oberlin Review, about his interview with Rabbi Megan Doherty, the director of Hillel and Jewish Campus Life. The segment is followed by an extended cut of Walter's Off the Cuff interview with Rabbi Dohe…
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In this episode, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 speak with Ella Moxley '22, one of the News Editors from The Oberlin Review, about the vaccination plan for the Oberlin City School District (OCS). Ella's article was originally published on The Oberlin Review on February 26, 2021. This episode originally aired on WOBC Ob…
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In this episode, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 speak with The Oberlin Review production editor, Alexa Stevens '22, about food insecurity and volunteerism by local organizations in and around Oberlin. After Alexa's segment, the hosts interview Editor-in-Chief of The Oberlin Review, Anisa Curry Vietze, about her article…
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In this episode, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 speak with The Oberlin Review writer, Zach Bayfield '22, about his review of Steel Magnolia, a new restaurant in downtown Oberlin. Zach discusses his dining experience at the restaurant, his connection to international cuisine as a Toronto native, and the importance of su…
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To begin Season 4, The Weekly's new co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 talk with The Oberlin Review's senior staff writer, Casey Troost '22, about her On The Record article interviewing Samuel George OC '07, a documentary filmmaker for the non-profit Bertelsmann Foundation in Washington, DC on his film “Go-Go City: Displacement & Protest…
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We're excited to announce that the Weekly will return for Season 4 this spring with co-hosts Owen Anderson and Jaimie Yue! To kick of the new season, we're airing a bonus episode featuring an interview Anisa and Sarah did with Jad Abumrad back before the pandemic. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-weekly/support…
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Anisa, Johan, and Sarah are joined by Molly Bryson, Editor and Chief of the Grape, to talk to Alex Blumberg '89 about his his time at Oberlin, his evolution as a journalist, and the future of podcasting. Alex worked on This American Life and created Planet Money before co-founding the podcast network Gimlet Media. --- Support this podcast: https://…
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As first years Kate Steifman, Ella Newcomb, and Lena Golia wrap up their first semester, they talk about their experiences so far and their hopes for the future with Jen Crainic, a fourth year who has one month left at Oberlin before graduating in December. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-weekly/support…
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Nathan Carpenter, Editor and Chief of the Oberlin Review talks to Dr. Tim Uyeki, class of ‘81, while he was back on campus to give a talk entitled “From Avian Influenza to Ebola and Public Health: Reflections of a Clinician and Epidemiologist.” Uyeki is the Chief Medical Officer in the Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respir…
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This year's commencement speaker is David Sedaris, who recently published Calypso, a new collection of stories. We'll ask him for his advice for graduates, how he went from drug addict and college dropout to critically acclaimed writer, and, most importantly, whether he really fed his tumor to a snapping turtle. Really? Please be advised that this …
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In this episode, we talk to Bridget Flynn, Oberlin's sustainability manager, and Rachael Hood, a student activist and campus leader on sustainability issues. We discuss the role of the Office of Environmental Sustainability, how Oberlin is becoming more sustainable, and, most importantly, the NEXUS pipeline, which will run through Oberlin. --- Supp…
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Before becoming President Ambar's chief of staff, Ferd Protzman, OC '75, worked an award winning journalist for the New York Times, Washington Post, and International Herald Tribune. He's also the author of six books for National Geographic. More importantly, though, he went to Oberlin in the 1970s, and we have a lot of questions. Were Oberlin stud…
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Editor's Note: Due to technical issues with WOBC's radio transmitter, the recording of this show has significantly decreased audio quality. We have done as much as possible to repair the damage, and we apologize for the issues. On May 30, 2017, Carmen Twillie Ambar was named as the 15th President of Oberlin College by the Board of Trustees, and is …
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Editor's Note: Due to technical issues with WOBC's radio transmitter, the recording of this show has significantly decreased audio quality. We have done as much as possible to repair the damage, and we apologize for the issues. On November 9, 2016, an Oberlin student walked into Gibson's Bakery, an Oberlin institution over a century old. While acco…
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Editor's Note: Due to technical issues with WOBC's radio transmitter, the recording of this show has significantly decreased audio quality. We have done as much as possible to repair the damage, and we apologize for the issues. In March of 2018, President Ambar opened up the books. Well, sort of. In presentations, she detailed Oberlin's financial i…
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In our final episode of the season, Johan and Daniel talk to actor Bob Odenkirk about how he rose from a late night sketch show on his college radio station to fame on Better Call Saul and The Post, what it takes for an Obie to succeed in sketch comedy, the state of comedy and sensitivity and more.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotif…
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6. Donald Trump is up at 3 a.m. tweeting, and out golfing on the weekends. Republican voters seem to be showing strong support for Roy Moore, who was recently accused of multiple sexual misconduct violations with minors. Numerous diplomatic posts at the State Department remain vacant. Voters are angry. The list goes on, and it’s clear the state of …
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After years of deliberations, student protests, and closed-door meetings, the Board of Trustees Rejected a proposal by Student Senate to add any student representation to the body, with Chair Chris Canavan, OC ’84, saying “A healthy board is one on which every trustee feels absolutely comfortable thinking out loud. Trustees are no less human than s…
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Did you know that many students refer to non-athletes as “Obies”? The divide between athletes and non-athletes has been getting a lot of attention lately, after Professor of English Yago Colás began hosting monthly discussion sessions on the issue. Captain of the Track and Field Team and nationally accomplished athlete, Lilah Drafts-Johnson, along …
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The Weekly is joined by India Wood, a senior trainer with Oberlin’s Preventing and Responding to Sexual Misconduct (PRSM) program as we talk with New York Times bestselling author Peggy Orenstein (OC '83) about her research and her most recent book "Girls and Sex.” We discuss intimate justice, hookup culture, consent, alcohol, and sex on college ca…
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For academic departments looking to hire new faculty, each year normally begins with submissions of requests to a subcommittee of the General Faculty Council — except that didn’t happen in 2017, as in the wake of financial pressures, the College implemented a hiring freeze. Oberlin Review News Editor Sydney Allen joins Managing Editor Daniel Markus…
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What does it take to be heard at the highest levels of college governance? Do students have a right to be members of their Board of Trustees, the body that makes all of Oberlin’s financial decisions? In our inaugural show, host Johan Cavert and Oberlin Review Managing Editor Daniel Markus discuss efforts to get a student representative on the board…
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