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The Dumbest Campus Controversies Of The Last Decade [TEASER]

If Books Could Kill

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The Importance of a Caveat in Oberlin Culture

This story is hardly all there is to Oberlin. It's an outlying story about a small number of students plucked by the tabloid most adept at trolling its readers from the stream of campus news. There are dissenters at the school, and students at many campuses often complain about food in overwrought ways. Yet Oberlin culture reframed a banal sympathetic complaint in a way that alienated millions.

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