Oberlin 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleArianna 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...
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