Oberlin Moves to Get Some Game

While other small liberal-arts colleges worry about too much emphasis on sports, the Ohio institution hires an athletics director to reverse its history of losing

BIOGRAPHY: Vin LanannaBy BEN GOSE

Oberlin College is having a bonfire and spirit rally, and if it's not the first one ever, it's the first in a very long time. For more than a generation, the teams here have been so bad that there hasn't been much to cheer about.

The bonfire, held in Tappan Square, the heart of

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