Arianna D’Italia, OC ’26
Arianna D’Italia, College fourth-year and English and Psychology major, has been production manager for the past year. Possessed with an almost supernatural ability to spot the single misplaced em dash...
View ArticleOff the Cuff with Cecilia Conrad, Oberlin 2026 Commencement Speaker
Cecilia Conrad, Ph.D. in Economics, is this year’s Commencement speaker for Oberlin College. She is the founding CEO of Lever for Change, a nonprofit affiliate to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur...
View ArticleStudents Demand More from Administration on Divestment, ICE Protection,...
To the Oberlin College and Conservatory Administration and Board of Trustees: Your students need you to do more. For the past four years, we have consistently asked you, as stewards of our education,...
View ArticleOff the Cuff with Arianna D’Italia, OC ’26
Arianna D’Italia, College fourth-year and English and Psychology major, has been production manager for the past year. Possessed with an almost supernatural ability to spot the single misplaced em dash...
View ArticleMeet the Team Behind the Review’s Success: Inside the Production Room
What is the backbone of The Oberlin Review? Is it the News section, staying on the pulse to cover developing stories at Oberlin big and small? Maybe it’s the Opinions section, serving as an open forum...
View ArticleResLife Should Reprioritize, Restructure
Having now worked for Residence Life for nine semesters, I have never seen as much dissatisfaction expressed with housing at Oberlin as this year. It started off with the opening of the...
View ArticleWhat Is to Be Done? Reform Without Surrender
I arrived at Oberlin in August 2022: Covid was receding, the 2024 election was two years out, and AI was a buzzword I had barely heard. Looking back over the past four years, so much has changed at...
View ArticleYou Can’t Control What Other People Think of You
As I write the words of my final article for The Oberlin Review, I can’t help but fall into the trap of reflecting on my last four years here at Oberlin — remembering friendships and joys but also...
View ArticleWhy You Should Struggle to Write
I like to puzzle. I like to sit at a cold table in South Hall for hours on end and arrange hundreds of pieces of cheap cardboard into garish pictures — pictures I wouldn’t be caught dead hanging on my...
View ArticleOberlin Students are Fine Without the Rave
About a month ago, The Oberlin Review published an article titled “Oberlin Students Crave the Rave: Steps We Should Take to Improve the Party Scene of Oberlin College” (The Oberlin Review, March 13,...
View ArticleDuring Finals, Slow Down With Impromptu Strolls
What better time to return to bad habits than the end of the semester? This sentiment emerges in my mind as I sit on my couch with heavy eyes at 3 a.m. For many, the constant debate of which aspect of...
View ArticleThis Year’s Graduates Should Consider Effective Altruism
How can we do as much as possible to make the world a better place over the course of our lives and our careers? We’re both second-semester seniors, and with graduation approaching, this question has...
View ArticleAfter May Day, Students Should Retain Momentum and Energy
What is political organizing? When I began working toward a May Day action back in December, I had only one mental image of organizing. I imagined meetings with dozens of attendees, motivational...
View ArticlePolitical Art Must Be Bold
Political commentary in art should never be subtle. Artists who seek to foment discourse, stir up the consciousness of their audience, and encourage real change need to be direct about their political...
View ArticleDemocracy Loses when City Council Public Comments Become Suggestion Boxes
After three years as City Councilmembers, it has become clear that the period for public comment at City Council meetings, function like a suggestion box. Each person receives a maximum of three...
View ArticleAltered Honor Code Reflects Priorities for Enforcement over True Integrity
Recently, the Student Honor Committee has decided to change the Honor Code charter to allow professors to proctor tests, revoking the prohibition against it that has been in place for 96 years since...
View ArticleThe Implications of Power, Politics, and White Supremacy in Art
Earlier this month, in my East Asia in Western Art Music class, a discussion of the intersections of John Cage’s music and Asian influences prompted Conservatory second-year Faith Meshida to assert...
View ArticleAgainst Living In the Moment: Why I Obsessively Record
I stopped taking photographs in the middle of last year and now, I am back at it. Do not concern yourself by wondering what camera, what frame size, what setup, what editing software I use. I have...
View ArticleOberlin Isn’t Immune to the Housing Crisis
Affordable housing is something that’s on everyone’s mind. In recent years, many of the conversations about affordable housing have centered around people’s living conditions in medium-to-large...
View ArticleAVI Can Do Better: Students with Dietary Restrictions Are Left Unaccomodated,...
Dining halls are notoriously disliked in college campus culture, and Oberlin College is no different. Seton Hall University’s The Setonian, for example, discussed in 2025 how some students are...
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