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I can’t help but feel wind-whipped by a hurricane of changes to life at Oberlin over the last few years. I believe our administrators care about our quality of life. Yet after every new reform I am left with that all too familiar, bitter, metallic aftertaste of profit-first decision making.  Many students — not just…

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We were recently at a conference in Florida. On this trip my highlighted stories included three Cuban men, two being our Uber drivers (they knew minimal English, but kindness and a smile is a universal way to communicate). The third was a young man who worked at the in-hotel Ice Cream Shoppe… calorie temptation! I introduced myself and he instantly related my name to a Cuban soccer player (named Robinson, there again, language gap), as we bantered daily, I started to call him my cousin, my last dish of ice cream was bigger than the previous.

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