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Risky Business

The short version is that Oberlin College asserted that the insurers wrongfully refused to settle the case prior to trial, blaming the insurers not the college for the ultimate trial debacle… [More]

I’m surprised anyone will still insure them. Those companies are quick enough to cancel gun owners.

I’ve been following Oberlin happenings for a while, and for a while before that.

Coincidentally, guess what I just happen to be wearing right now, seriously, not staged or I’d have done my hair:

And as long as we’re on the subject of insurance claims, let me introduce you to one of my guilty entertainment pleasures…

[Via Michael G]

Nazi See Nazi Do

Exclusive: Oberlin College’s 17-Year Refusal To Return Artwork Stolen By The Nazis From A Jewish Holocaust Victim [More]

Defending the depredations of the despicable is SOP for academic fascists.

[Via Michael G]

Asking for a Second Helping

Oberlin College Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach Subjected to Disciplinary Hearings for Defending Women’s Sports [More]

Time to go Gibsons on them.

[Via Michael G]

Hell to Pay

Oberlin College Sues Insurers For Refusing To Cover $36 Million It Paid Gibson’s Bakery For Defamation And Other Torts (Update)- .
Four insurance companies have told the college to pound sand. Have you ever rooted for insurance companies ever? There’s a first for everything. [More]

I’ve been following this story for some time because I have a bit of history with Oberlin.

We actually drove there yesterday to tour a Frank Lloyd Wright house deeded to the college, and I had time to stop in at Gibson’s and buy a t-shirt.

I’ve always liked Wright even though I am presumptuous enough to question some of his design choices. I learned about Fallingwater in college and his son’s Wayfarer’s Chapel was a regular place we’d take visitors to see when we lived nearby in SoCal.

Here’s the house, and also there was the weirdest non sequitur of a sticker on the back of a sign at the entrance to the property:

[Via Michael G]

The End of the Rainbow

Finally, The Gibson’s Bakery Family Has Been Paid By Oberlin College [More]

What is it they say about payback?

Let’s hope this further discourages alumni from donating.

[Via Michael G]

Sorry Not Sorry

Notice what is not in the statement: An apology. Oberlin College still appears not to understand or accept what it did wrong. It considers itself the victim. [More]

That sounds like a mental disorder.

[Via Michael G]

Pay Up!

Gibson’s Bakery Wins! Ohio Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Oberlin College Appeal [More]

Their MO tells me they’ll appeal to the federal courts and do anything to forestall payment.

[Via Michael G]

It’s Academic!

Oberlin Faces New Controversy Over Islamic Scholar’s Support Of The Rushdie Fatwa [More]

Send him over to Gibsons to shoplift and complete the circle.

[Via bondmen]

So On Top of Everything Else, ‘Progressives’ are Deadbeats?

Ohio college racks up millions in interest on cash owed to bakery over false racism allegations – The school and a former dean were found guilty of libeling the bakery as racist [More]

I’ve been following this because false accusations of being haters are made all the time against cultural traditionalists and gun owners, I’ve covered Oberlin’s anti-gun shenanigans in the past, I’ve posted plenty about the town’s “progressive” nonsense over the years, I admire the bakery owners’ courage to not resort to woke cowardice in the face of ginned-up media hostility, and I used to pass through there all the time on the way to my buddy’s airfield (since relocated).

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