Gregory Pyke

I tried to post pictures following the new scheme. Got as far as seeing my four photos on the page and writing a caption for each one. No button or other indication of how to finish so I put a check in the box left of each photo and exited out of the Collections. Later I signed in again and looked: no photos. 
I use Google Photos all the time and have posted pix on Instagram and Facebook so I am not a complete novice at posting pictures but I am stumped. I can see that a couple of people have succeeded and god bless 'em. 
Plenty of bigger problems, I know. 

Robert Baker

Greg, I saw some photos from you in the gallery, with captions. There were three photos, including one of Ted Gest and his wife with another couple. 

Gregory Pyke

Thanks Robert. I will look again. Sounds like you were able to see the pix I posted. Hope triumphs!

Paul Lawn

Thank you, Thomas Ilgen for your memorial to David Corwin. As a sportswriter and sports editor of the Review, I always admired Dave's skills and exploits on the gridiron, despite his having always to play on undermanned teams. We re-connected when I brought my beloved Kaidog (a 69-kinds of dog who adopted me through a friend and was the smartest farm dog anyone could ever wish for) for his veterinary check-ups. David was the kindlest, gentlest, most empathic vet imaginable and was always up on progressive developments in his field that made things easier for Kai, particularly as Kaidog got older and battled hip dysplasia and lyme disease. Mortality comes way too soon for dogs, and too soon for the people who care for them. Thank you, Dave, for living a good life.
 

Richard Zitrin

This is a wonderful and compassionate memorial statement. Thanks!

Shirley Smith (Kirsten)

Here in Berkeley CA, we are collecting petition signatures for an important Citizens Ballot initiative, FIX OUR STREETS and SIDEWALKS.. The website for further information is www.berkeleyansforbetterplanning.org

This ballot initiative, if it collects 3,000 signatures will appear on the NOV. 2024 ballot. There is a competing SAFE STREETS initiative.. (both can be on the ballot and Berkeley registerred voters can sign both) but note the comparative chart at the end of my video that marks out important differences between the two. If the other only succeeds at attaining 3000 signatures, the parcel tax to property owners will be higher and imposed for an extra two years. RE: this competing SAFE STREETS measure, there is no oversight or periodic evaluations.

Here's my video --(The Chart with measure Differences appears at the end)

https://youtu.be/89NI0AA2yt0?si=6kvTzc99mVmkYAIn   (this Oberlin alum site won't let me use You tube function to highlight link)

Please message me if you are a Registered Berkeley voter and want to sign our Fix the Streets and Sidewalks petition. Or you can email me at shirley_kirsten@yahoo.com

iPhone  510-439-8567   by text

Marc Landy

Dennis Hale and I worked on the Activist together. We would sit at a table in front of Zilch Florist (the Activist office was upstairs - it had a certain reputation for non-editorial activities) and try to recruit Freshmen  by sporting a sign that said "we are the people your parents warned you about." We have been colleagues in the Boston College Political Science Department for more than forty years, where we destroy young minds.

We have spent the last five years writing a book together - Keeping the Republic: A Defense of American Constitutionalism. It is our effort to distill our thoughts and understandings of the Constitution, American Political Thought and American Political Development.

It is available from U. Kansas Press (https://kansaspress.ku.edu/) as well as Amazon.

Jean Poppei (Eisenberg)

This seems like a very timely book!  I'll look for it.  

Shirley Smith (Kirsten)

I am glad to see this.. (Me: Member Jewish Voices for Peace--Berkeley CA)

Apr 30, 2024 3:30 AM

Frank Duhl

I, also am excited to see Oberlin students joining the thousands across the country to denounce the war in Gaza and demand that Oberlin divest and call out Israel's genocide in Gaza. 

How can alumni show the students our support?  

Ted Morgan

Bravo!  Good to see this on Oberlin's campus!  Agree wth Frank --how can Alums support this?

And, thank you Shirley; yours is a very important voice.

Ted

Daniel Miller

I'm more than ecstatic that Oberlin has entered the struggle to prevent the ethnic cleansing going on in Gaza and the West Bank.  We need more like this.

As a contributor to Jewish Voice for Peace, it feels good that they are finally being heard.

Donald Salisbury

Thank you for posting this Shirley, and I also would like to supposrt students in resisting both the genocide in Gaza and violent oppression of Palestinians on the West Bank.

Amy Rothstein

I also add my voice to thank you,Shirley, for your support of Oberlin students who are protesting all the horrors that are happening in Gaza. It's gratifying to see similar protests taking place on colleges accross the nation. 

Amy Rothstein

Patrice Tarnoff (Goodkind)

Ditto to all of the above. Given many events/board decisions of the last few years I had been feeling pretty discouraged about Oberlin. It is so good to learn about the students who are protesting and to see in these comments the support of my classmates. I also feel strongly that "No one is free until everyone is free." 

Jeffrey Liebman

Some of my  Oberlin 1968 classmates seem to be in a rush to support the currrent antii-war movement.   I share feelings of horror and total disgust, but I believe we must  beware of false analogies with Vietnam.  Just a few examples:         

Vietnamese rebels did not attack innocent American civilians with murderous and rapacious intent   to send a message of primitive savagery.

Vietnamese leaders did not call for the murder of all Americans. The Hamas leader has declared war against all Jews worldwide.

Vietnamese soldiers did not ruthlessly endanger civilians by hiding behind them in civilian hospitals

Let’s apply our reasoning skills that came with an Oberlin education to understand the long,  complex, and divisive history behind this  horrific Middle East conflict and to support efforts towards a 2-state solution, the only viable path forward.  

Ralph Shapira

VERY STRONGLY DISAGREE that the terms "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" apply, but think it unwise to debate it here to avoid the risk of damaging friendships.

Liz Ryan (Cole)

I agree with all three of Ralph's points.  I recommend Robert Reich's "What's Really Motivating the Protests".  https://robertreich.substack.com/p/whats-really-motivating-the-protests?utm_source=substack&publication_id=365422&post_id=144252943&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=false&r=17d8f&triedRedirect=true

Steve Kravitz

A couple of  thoughts and questions:

If Hamas and Hezbollah gave up their guns and rockets and stopped threatening to wipe Israel off the map (take a look at the Hamas charter), there would be no more war.

If Israel gave up their guns and rockets, there would be no more Israel.

 How come there weren't protests in front of Wilder on October 8 after roughly 1200 men, women, children and babies were murdered, raped, tortured, burned and beheaded by Hamas killers and roughly 250 men, women and children taken hostage?

Ariel Sharon returned Gaza to the Palestinians in 2005. Hamas took over in 2007 and since then, Gaza has been Judenrein. No Jews allowed. That's apartheid!!

Why are Jewish college students being harrassed, threatened and marginalized?  What do they have to do with Israeli policy?

Why no Wilder protests about Darfur, Rohingya and Uyghur persecution and genocide?  Guess it's easier and more PC to pick on the Israelis. Better press coverage too.

Civillian deaths in Gaza would end immediately if Hamas surrendered. Not "gonna"happen.  They prefer a high civillian death count. Gets better press and more campus protests.

Steve Kravitz 

Shirley Smith (Kirsten)

Robert Reich lives a stone's throw from me here in Berkeley. I find his substack postings about Gaza very contradictory. On the one hand he believes in Free Speech and Peaceful protests.. On the other hand he can't seem to criticize or fault Biden, whom he characterizes as an "adult in the room," through this Gaza "GENOCIDE." Yes I said it, and will call it out for what it is.  I email Reich frequently and copy to JIm Zogby, founder of the Arab American Institute.

Daniel Miller

Bulldozing people's homes; fencing off their orchards and fields; destroying their irrigation systems; restricting where they can live; bombing their homes, apartments, hospitals, everything; forcing them to flee to refugee camps in a small part of their land and then bombing those camps; "allowing" the survivors to return to their homes after their homes have been totally destroyed; preventing humanitarian aid to the victims is the very definition of ethnic cleansing.  What else can you call the West Bank settlements?  What else can you call the total destruction of infrastructure in Gaza?

Ted Gest

See this new article in the Oberlin Review covering some of the latest developments.

The encampment at Wilder lasted for only about a day but the Board of Trustees may
consider divestment proposals at their meeting in June.

Ted Gest

Here is the Review link: 

https://oberlinreview.org/32810/news/encampment-teach-ins-fundraisers-held-to-support-palestine/

Carol Kaimowitz

To all those who speak of, consider, oppose or favor divestment, I refer you to this NY Times article which appeared today.:

Call to divest from Israel put students and donors on collision course

Regret I couldn't make it easier to find.

Robert Baker

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/business/brown-university-divestment-israel-gaza.html?searchResultPosition=1