The nationwide mental health crisis disproportionately affects incarcerated youth. Most of us are familiar with the concept of mental health, whether we have personally gone through a crisis, witnessed our loved ones struggle, or seen a (typically inaccurate) portrayal in various forms of media. We know...
I was in a work meeting when, after noticing we had forgotten to respond to an email for days, my coworker exclaimed, “I hate being a flaky Oberlin student!” It had never occurred to me that this was such an institutional problem, but after hearing them say that, I realized that the flakiness of...
To the Editors: My name is Derek Chaffins, and I am a registered nurse at Mercy Health - Allen Hospital in Oberlin. I am writing to you as one of three nurses on the negotiating committee for our union, representing the dedicated healthcare workers who have served this community tirelessly — especially...
“Working hard or hardly working?” This phrase has shaped some of the most harmful mindsets in our society, particularly affecting older generations and continuing to influence younger ones. The belief that hard work is the ultimate path to success — and that if someone isn’t thriving, they simply...
Oberlin has a reputation for activism. The institution has historically pushed the boundaries, empowering and encouraging marginalized people to agitate for their rights and interests on this campus. Oberlin brought important civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr., to campus, and it’s...
On Jan. 19, a ceasefire deal went into effect in Gaza, allegedly putting a stop to the horrific genocide and colonial violence being enacted by Israel against Palestinians. The ceasefire purportedly meant Israel’s retreat from Gaza, the return of Palestinian hostages and prisoners, and allowing in...
From March 10 to March 14, the International Contemporary Ensemble traveled from New York City to Oberlin for a weeklong residency filled with...
This weekend, Oberlin Opera Theater presents its spring 2025 production of Mozart’s La finta giardiniera, or The Secret Garden Girl. The story...
Oberlin’s 2025 celebration of Black History Month focused on the theme of “Art, History, and Resistance,” wrapping up with a guest lecture...
It has been 100 years since Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich finished writing his first symphony in 1925. When Symphony No. 1 premiered the...
Next to be welcomed to the Finney Chapel stage by the Artist Recital Series is world-renowned violinist Midori, whose prodigious career has broken...
Recently, the Trump administration has cut funds from the National Institution of Health and the National Science Foundation. Additionally, all federal grants and funds may be subjected to budget cuts or additional restrictions impacting the disbursement of funds. Universities across the United States...
Last Thursday and Friday, the Oberlin Board of Trustees convened in Oberlin. In consultation with outside experts and faculty, the trustees discussed the country’s current political landscape, implications for Oberlin, and the question of academic freedom. At the end of the board meeting, the trustees...
Kendal at Oberlin has finished the first phase of a planned 10-year master plan to renovate facilities, improve living spaces for residents, and ensure the financial sustainability of the community. According to Kendal at Oberlin CEO Seth Vilensky and CFO Ann O’Malley, phase one of the plan, which...
Today and Saturday, Oberlin College is hosting the WASH Economics Conference, an event co-organized by Oberlin, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The conference, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, brings together academics...
On April 10, 2024, Oberlin was selected by Blooming Philanthropies to receive funding through the organization’s Youth Climate Action Fund. The City of Oberlin distributed the initial $50,000 funding last summer in the form of microgrants between $1,000 and $5,000. Bloomberg Philanthropies has now...
On Thursday, the Office of Residence Life held the housing lottery for Woodland Hall, as construction of the new hall continues. Construction began in 2023 and is projected to be completed this summer in time for students to move in for the fall semester. Assistant Vice President and Dean of Residence...
Sudan Accuses UAE of Violating Genocide Convention; Files Case Sudan has recently filed a case against the United Arab Emirates in the International Court of Justice, accusing it of violating the Genocide Convention by arming the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group that the Sudanese Armed...
This Saturday, Drag Ball will grace The ’Sco’s stage for a night full of campy horror and candid artistry, continuing Oberlin’s tradition of over 20 years. The event will be hosted by Comatose, a drag artist based in Kent and Cleveland, and headlining the show will be Megami, a New York City-based...
The first few minutes before The Maids starts, two sisters, Claire, played by College third-year Mia Richardson, and Solange, played by College first-year Alice Rosenberg, primp and preen as coquettish music plays, improvising little bits for laughs. These tongue-in-cheek moments only become more menacing...
Since 2012, the Allen Memorial Art Museum has implemented a faculty-curated exhibition residency where professors spanning a wide range of disciplines work with AMAM staff and Oberlin College students to create an exhibition related to a class. A panel with Mildred C. Jay Professor of Medieval Art History...
This semester, Shansi will host their inaugural visiting artists through their Visiting Artist and Practitioner Program, along with Shansi’s partner institution for the program, Keystone Foundation, an organization that focuses on Indigenous communities and ecological development in the Nilgiri Biosphere...
Artist and graphic journalist Victoria Lomasko presented her latest book, The Last Soviet Artist, a sociological and creative panorama of post-USSR Eastern Europe. The event, titled after her book, happened Wednesday in King 106. Assistant Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies...
Son of mine, swaddle of placenta. You came out red and I had clean hands, swaddle of wooden carriage, swaddle of beggars’ arms, swaddle of lurch of new town. The umbilical of fate’s string; I hung myself with the cord of my belly button once. But one thing is blood will always catch up. The blood...
ACROSS Common feminine name Regions, zones Mountain range traditionally thought to be the dividing line between Europe and Asia Biblical figure who was the brother of Cain Language family spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa Spanish-speaking country with the largest Japanese population ...
Folk-rock artist Allie Sandt catalyzed a shift in the emotional experience of music at The ’Sco this past Saturday. At just 22 years old, her vocals exude a richness and maturity reminiscent of a young Adele. Sandt was previously the primary songwriter, singer, and bassist of indie rock band Seeing...
Each semester, student-run dance troupes such as VIBE Dance Company, CHOREO Dance Crew, and Kinetic come together to present their work at the Student Dance Showcase. While SDS usually takes place late in the semester, this year it was programmed for March 14, giving the dance groups less time than typical...
Dr. Dorothy Washburn, OC ’67, donated $2,170,000 to hire a full-time lecturer in Arabic starting next fall. Washburn previously published a Letter to the Editors expressing her desire for Oberlin to have a strong Arabic program (“College Should Reinstate Arabic Professorship,” The Oberlin Review,...
Ani Zakarian is a College fourth-year studying Politics and currently serving as president of the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association. Next year, OSCA will renegotiate its rent contract with Oberlin College. The last rent contract, negotiated in 2020, ended the Kosher-Halal Co-op and Fairchild Co-op...
College third-year Juwayria Zahurullah is a co-chair of Oberlin Students for a Free Palestine, and has helped organize numerous events with the organization over the last few years. Zahurullah also acts as Racial Equity Committee Chair for Student Senate and is a co-chair for Oberlin’s Muslim Student...
Assistant Professor of Trombone John Gruber gave a solo recital with Collaborative Pianist HyunSoo Kim on Sunday. In addition to his teaching and performing on campus, he is principal trombonist of the Akron Symphony Orchestra and has held tenured positions at the Adrian Symphony, the Lansing Symphony,...
This year, Conservatory audition weekends featured the first round of Music Theater auditions, a program not only notable for its debut but for its incredible starting size, both in terms of faculty increase and the robust applicant pool. In addition to incoming first-years and transfer students, several...
Associate Professor of Voice Kendra Colton, OC ’83, has had a robust performance career during her 20 years at Oberlin. With a focus on classical and Baroque performance, she has also premiered and recorded many modern works. She gave a recital with Collaborative Pianist Tatiana Lokhina on Feb 16 and...
Since 1996, Radio Diaries has handed a tape recorder to nearly every age group and profession and asked them to share their extraordinary stories. The stories themselves are broadcasted on NPR’s All Things Considered, This American Life, BBC and on the Radio Diaries Podcast. Founder and executive producer...
James F. Clark Professor of Mathematics Robert (Bob) Bosch, OC ’85, is fascinated by the interactions between mathematics and art. He currently uses optimization techniques to create pictures, portraits, and other works of art. Bosch is the author of Opt Art: From Mathematical Optimization to Visual...
Artist Tiffany Calvert, OC ’98, blends traditional and modern techniques to create stunning pieces in her own distinct style. Utilizing a diverse arsenal of methods, including fresco painting, digital painting, digital modeling, and artificial intelligence, Calvert’s approach to art is refreshing,...
Natalie Winkelfoos is in her 12th year as the director of Oberlin Athletics. During her time at Oberlin, Winkelfoos has been named the Division III Administrator of the Year by Women Leaders in College Sports in 2015 and the Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year in 2018. This interview has been...
JJ Gray is a second-year Economics major on the men’s basketball team and the co-chair and founder of the Asian Student-Athlete Group. Last week, Gray was awarded North Coast Athletic Conference second-team honors for his athletic performance this season on the basketball court. This interview has...
Kevin Farner is in his second year at Oberlin College as the Campus Recreation Coordinator and the only full-time employee of College Lanes, Oberlin’s on-campus bowling alley. In his role, Farner is responsible for the daily operations of College Lanes as well as the organization of all College-sanctioned...
For decades, professional sports teams in Cleveland were a laughingstock. From 2003–2019, the Cleveland Browns missed the playoffs, spotlighted by a winless 2017 season. The Cleveland Guardians were so bad in the 1980s that the 1989 comedy film Major League portrayed the Guardians as a joke. The...
2025 marks the 30th year of the professional establishment of the world’s game in the U.S. and Canada, and it is shaping up to be an anniversary filled with pride. Major League Soccer is experiencing unprecedented growth in the U.S., and it’s the perfect time to recognize the growing popularity of...
The Oberlin College softball team notched their first win of the season in dramatic fashion, defeating Randolph College 5–4 to close out their competition at the Grand Slam Triangle Classic in Raleigh, NC. After a tough loss to Eastern Mennonite University earlier in the day, the Yeowomen regrouped...
The legend of LeBron James does not stop. On Tuesday night, the Lakers star forward surpassed 50,000 combined points in the regular season and playoffs, nearly 6,000 more than any player in NBA history. Lakers icon Kareem Abdul-Jabbar retired in 1989 after 20 seasons and is second all-time with 44,149...
As cheers rang through the Heisman Club Field House last weekend, the Oberlin College track and field team ran, leapt, and threw in the North Coast Athletic Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships, which were hosted at Oberlin for the first time since 2017. Star jumper Namu Makatiani leapt to...
The Oberlin College baseball team traveled down south to Kentucky this past weekend and delivered an impressive series win over the Berea College Mountaineers, securing wins in two of the three games. The Yeomen wasted no time asserting their dominance in the series opener with a commanding 13–0...
In their first two games under new Head Coach Malory Nadrah, the Oberlin College women’s lacrosse team outscored their opponents by an average of 14 goals per game, en route to the program’s best start since 2022. Key performances from first-year Kylie Thompson, fourth-year Izzy Sunday, and third-years...
For over 150 years, baseball has relied on the human eye to call balls and strikes. Until now, umpires had been entrusted — across all levels of the game — to call games to the best of their abilities, with no technological help. An umpire’s strike zone judgment is famously known to cause both...
Coming off of a 8–12 season a year ago, the Oberlin men’s tennis team is confident heading into the 2025 season. The team hopes to build off their solid performance in the North Coast Athletic Conference tournament last season where they beat No. 3 DePauw University 5–3 before falling to No. 2...
The Oberlin College men’s basketball team closed the 2024–25 season with a hard-fought 13–13 record, including a 5–11 mark in North Coast Athletic Conference play. While their journey ended in the first round of the NCAC Tournament against The College of Wooster, the Yeomen were competitive throughout...