To The Editors Regarding Palestine
Paul Van Doorn’s recent statement (“Statement on Israel-Palestine at Oberlin,” The Oberlin Review, Feb. 9, 2024) opens with the complaint that “students have lost their ability to use reason and...
View ArticleEditorial Board Stresses Communication from Administration to Students
Last week, students and staff began to notice an odor in Wilder Hall, the College’s Student Union and the home of dining establishments like the Rathskeller and DeCafé. Each floor, which usually...
View ArticleIvy Leagues’ Mandatory Standardized Testing Policies Classist
What comes to mind first when hearing “Ivy League school” are the following words: pretentious, expensive, and exclusive. In the United States, very few undergraduates can say that they went to an...
View ArticleOberlin Needs National Security Concentration
Oberlin College and the Politics Department should consider adding a National Security concentration. An International Affairs concentration, Journalism concentration, and a Business concentration have...
View ArticleNicaragua’s Proceedings Against Germany Transforms Human Rights
On March 1, Nicaragua instituted proceedings before the International Court of Justice, alleging that Germany violated international law by funding Israel and defunding the United Nations Relief and...
View ArticleStudents Should Consider South Hall Residency Next Semester
I was on a walk one night last spring when I stopped in my tracks in front of South Hall. I gazed up at that public-library-looking-ass building, and it dawned on me: I would live here one day. Don’t...
View ArticleStudent Expresses Queer-Palestinian Solidarity, Rejects Pinkwashing
Like many things that I have seen, heard, and read about from the past six months — and 76 years — of genocide, the statement from Palestinian activist and poet Yaffa that every queer Palestinian they...
View ArticleGoYeo Meal Plan Harms Student Health
On Thursday, Dec. 23, 2023, the last day of my first semester at Oberlin, I walked into DeCafé and bought four packs of peanut M&M’s, two cans of Red Bull, and a bag of kettle corn. This was not a...
View ArticleSupport, Don’t Judge Others’ Postgrad Plans
A couple of weeks ago, I met up with a friend who I hadn’t seen in a while for dinner. We exchanged pleasantries, chatted about life, and of course, because we are both second-semester seniors, the big...
View ArticleCollege’s Response to Norovirus Has Room for Improvement
The Norovirus outbreak that battered Oberlin earlier this semester is nearly over. Congratulations team, and a special shout-out to everyone who got sick and survived; you’re troopers. But this...
View ArticleOffice of Study Away Should Offer More Tailored Guidance, Opportunities
When thinking about studying abroad, millions of thoughts pop up all at once. From where, to when, to how, to why — these questions become seriously overwhelming sometimes. When looking into the...
View ArticleKeep Green Acres Green
To the Editors: Regarding the City’s plans for development of the Green Acres area east of town, not all residents are pleased with the idea. In fact, I know quite a few residents are actually against...
View ArticleOberlin Student in Favor of Energy Innovation Act, Concerning Green Acres...
To the Editors: The choice of whether or not to develop the Green Acres property is a difficult one. It forces the Oberlin City Council to choose between housing development, which could spur economic...
View ArticleAlums Should Fight for Annunciation House in Texas
To the Editors: A legal battle currently unfolding in Texas is connected to Oberlin in various ways which speak to the College’s ongoing engagement with the struggle for human dignity. Migrants...
View ArticleBlack Excellence Fatigue Impacts Oberlin
College students are often tasked with not only general academics but also establishing some form of academic ambition. Students at Oberlin especially strive to establish themselves by being a part of...
View ArticleEditorial Board Appreciates College Support, Recognizes News Industry Decline
This weekend, the Editorial Board, Oberlin students interested in journalism, and other members of the Review staff had the pleasure of attending a journalism career panel organized for the Review’s...
View ArticleReview 150th Anniversary Inspires Student Journalist
In journalism classes, the first-week syllabus and course expectations are usually accompanied by a spiel about the bleak future of the field. We’ve studied the decline of print, the downsizing of...
View ArticleAnti-SLAPP Laws Are Necessary to Protect Freedom of Speech, Discourse
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation or SLAPP suits are frivolous lawsuits intended to unjustly stifle free and protected speech and criticism. Many SLAPP suits involve real estate issues or...
View ArticleZionism is De-Colonialism: Liberal Origins of Modern Israel
Since the Oct. 7 massacre, during which Hamas militants brutally murdered children and Holocaust survivors because they were Jewish, some Oberlin students have attempted to delegitimize Israel,...
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