Student Responds to Backlash Against AAA Teach-In
Editor’s note: This article was written in response to wide backlash against an event organized by the Asian American Alliance and the Muslim Student Association titled Holi Against Hindutva. This was...
View ArticleAlum’s Article on Gaza Genocide Contains Numerous Misrepresentations
Since an open letter from Oberlin’s Jewish students was published in November (“Open Letter from Oberlin’s Jewish Students,” The Oberlin Review, Nov. 17, 2023), there have been several op-ed responses,...
View ArticleApril is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Not Consent Month
All across Oberlin’s campus, you can find pink posters with white birds kissing perched on a golden frame, one bird asking the other “Is this cool?” This aesthetically pleasing and amusing poster is to...
View ArticleHousing Pressure on Green Acres Heavily Due to Oberlin College
To the Editors: Thank you to both writers who commented last week on a particular space in town, the bit of land just east of IGA and the landscaping company, known as Green Acres (“Keep Green Acres...
View ArticleOberlin Should Rethink Study Spaces
When I want to focus or study, I always crave a quiet space and a lot of natural sunlight. Naturally, libraries are my main hub for when I need to get in the zone and do a lot of work, but I find...
View ArticleStudents Senate Needs Transparency, Communication
Created in the 1960s during the Vietnam War, the Student Senate was the product of one of many student demands for increased decision-making power within the College. To say that Oberlin’s Student...
View ArticleLong Live Student Resistance
On Jan. 17, Israel destroyed Israa University, Gaza’s last standing university, according to the United Nations website. There are no universities left in Gaza. This, along with the murdering of...
View ArticleStudent Addresses Obies for Israel Letter
Every hour that passes, 15 people are killed in Gaza — six are children. Thirty-five people are injured. And according to the Israel Defense Forces’ own report, in the first six days of the war, 42...
View ArticleWe Are Not at War
A letter from an Oberlin student, to his community. Why must there be another letter about the war in Gaza? How can anything new and productive possibly be said, now that so much energy and ink has...
View ArticleAlumni Responds to Students’ Nonfactual Rebuttal Article
An April 26 article in the Review was titled, “Alum’s Article on Gaza Genocide Contains Numerous Misrepresentations.” Although the article purports to address my own previous writing in the Review, it...
View ArticlePersian Should Be Added as Language Option at Oberlin
While Oberlin offers several languages such as Arabic — which should be expanded — it does not offer Persian as a language option. This should change. Persian is another interesting and important...
View ArticleProfessors Talise, Weedie Were Vital to Oberlin. What Now?
I have only taken two Dance classes here at Oberlin. The first was awful. For two years, I wrote off dance at Oberlin. Finally, this semester, I took Dances of the African Diaspora with Professor...
View ArticleResponse to OFI Misses Point
On May 3, Nimala Sivakumar’s article “Student Addresses Obies for Israel Letter” was published in the Review as a response to my letter, “Zionism is De-Colonialism: Liberal Origins of Modern Israel”...
View ArticleSeparate Ukraine Aid From Israel
On Tuesday, April 23 the U.S. Senate approved a $95.3 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Despite a Senate that often struggles to pass bills, the bill had large bipartisan...
View ArticleLetter to Our Oberlin Community
The College and City of Oberlin have always been a place of change and liberation. At the center of the abolitionist movement in the 19th century, Oberlin has always excelled at being a community with...
View ArticleFrom Kent to Palestine, Honoring Martyrs Means Taking Action
This past Saturday was the 54th anniversary of the Kent State massacre. On May 4, 1970, four Kent State University students — William Knox Schroeder, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, and Allison...
View ArticleODA Needs Reality Check
May is Celiac Disease Awareness Month. Unfortunately, the Office for Disability and Access has demonstrated that they do not see Celiac as a serious condition that warrants housing and dining...
View ArticleDemocratic ‘Weird’ Strategy Harmful for All, Especially Progressives
Minnesota Governor and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz made waves in the American political world by deploying a new — and, by many metrics, effective — tactic against Kamala Harris’ opponents....
View ArticleIncrease in Biodiversity on Campus Would Increase Student Wellbeing
Oberlin College has pledged itself to sustainability. In its efforts to be carbon neutral by 2025 it has made great environmental progress, having on-campus emissions since the first greenhouse gas...
View ArticlePhones Impact Students’ Mental Health, Should Be More Options
Two years ago, campus dining looked a little different. Instead of alphabetically organized orders lining the counter of Azariah’s Café and a table in front of the Rathskeller, long lines extending...
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