January 21, 2000

Green Building at Oberlin Is a New Dream House for Environmental Studies

By ZOE INGALLS

The new environmental-studies center at Oberlin College is a tan-brick building, nothing fancy. But inside, with its soaring, arched ceiling and sun-filled atrium, it is an inviting place. On a clear fall day -- bright, with a brisk wind whipping up scraps of litter -- it's still full of the sounds and sights of construction: whirring drills and rasping saws, stacks of lumber and crumpled cheeseburger wrappers. The blare of radios is overlaid with the whistling of carpenters who match

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