December 4, 2020
Lorain County Updates In the past two weeks, between Nov. 19 and Dec. 3, Lorain County saw 2,285 new COVID-19 cases. A total of 7,777 confirmed cases have been recorded in Lorain County as of Dec. 3, according to Lorain County Public Health’s data, meaning that 29 percent of all known cases have...
Ella Moxley, News Editor
December 4, 2020
After months of work on the part of College students, faculty, and community members, a new organization called the Center for Food Innovation @ Oberlin officially launched last month. The organization, led by Executive Director Bara Watts, seeks to create a more substantial food network within Lorain...
Ella Moxley, News Editor
December 4, 2020
Oberlin professors face greater challenges in balancing academic and parenting responsibilities this semester because of the COVID-19 pandemic. With so many children attending school on Zoom, parents everywhere have had to take on new teaching and supervising roles at home. Some are concerned that these...
Nico Vickers and Anisa Curry Vietze
December 2, 2020
The College postponed the start of the spring 2021 semester from its original start date of Jan. 7 to Feb. 1, in response to the surge in COVID-19 cases nationwide and in Lorain County. President Carmen Twillie Ambar announced the delay in a Nov. 22 email to the Oberlin community, explaining that the...
Katherine MacPhail and Anisa Curry Vietze
November 20, 2020
In the final full week on campus, President Carmen Twillie Ambar reflected on a challenging year for the country and for colleges across the nation. The College shifted to a three-semester model, de-densifying the student body’s presence on campus; established a Presidential Initiative for Racial...
Nico Vickers, This Week Editor
Anna Farber, Arts & Culture Editor
December 4, 2020
As any longtime resident will know, the people of Oberlin are always looking for a way to help each other out, and not even a global pandemic could get in the way of that. In a creative solution to some of the challenges of COVID 19, Oberlin residents came together online in the Facebook group “Oberlin – What do you have? What do you need?”. In...
L. Joshua Jackson, Arts & Culture Editor
December 4, 2020
As Associate Professor in both Theater and Africana Studies, Justin Emeka, OC ’95, has built a unique position for himself at Oberlin. This semester, Emeka worked with Professor of Theater, Matthew Wright to develop the Theater Dialogue Series: a roundtable discussion that provides space for Theater department students and faculty to reflect on important...
Casey Troost, Staff Writer
November 20, 2020
What do 17th century France, 1980s Hollywood, and 2020 pandemic-stricken Oberlin College have in common? Listeners can hear them all this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday by tuning in to Oberlin’s mainstage audio production, Neil Bartlett’s 1989 adaptation of Molière’s The Misanthrope. Associate Professor of Theater, Costume Designer, and Director...
Olive Hwang, Production Editor
November 20, 2020
Three nights a week the booms of Japanese drums shake the halls of First United Methodist Church, as eight members of Oberlin College Taiko perform in remarkable synchronicity. Striking their drums with determination and confidence, they build up a rhythm sure to invigorate any audience, virtual or live. In North America, taiko refers to the...
Daniel Fleischer
November 18, 2020
Every Saturday, the sounds of West Afrikan drumming and dancing feet reverberate from St. Paul’s Community Church in Cleveland. Organized by the Djapo Cultural Arts Institute, the classes hosted here bring together people of all ages and backgrounds through traditional Afrikan Diasporic dance and music. In addition to leading these community classes,...
Afrikan-American Genealogy Group Bridges Gaps Between Community and Students
November 13, 2020
Anna Farber, Arts and Culture Editor
November 13, 2020
Last spring, he shepherded over 100 students who were studying abroad home from their host countries. Now, with the suspension of Oberlin’s Study Away program this semester, Director of International...
October 21, 2020
The pandemic has been a particularly challenging time for practicing musicians. Professor of Piano Peter Takács is an expert on Beethoven and has performed and recorded his complete 32 Piano Sonatas....
Kate Fishman, Managing Editor
September 18, 2020
Editors note: This interview contains discussion of rape and sexual violence Alumna Anne Reeder Heck’s book, A Fierce Belief in Miracles: My Journey of Healing, is being released this month. Heck,...
Casey Troost, Staff Writer
November 13, 2020 • No Comments
Alum and previous Student Vice President Machmud Makhmudov, OC ’16, delivered a talk this Friday titled “Policy in Presidential Races,” where he shared lessons from his experience as a policy analyst...
Anisa Curry Vietze, Editor-in-Chief
October 28, 2020 • No Comments
As Health Commissioner for Lorain County Public Health, Dave Covell works closely with Ohio’s Department of Health and Governor Mike DeWine to control and mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Ella Pike and Ella Moxley
October 9, 2020 • No Comments
Jessica Horn is the Women's Rights Advisor and Director of Programs for African Women's Development Fund and serves on the board of the Fund for Global Human Rights. Horn has spent over 20 years working...
Zoë Martin del Campo, Sports Editor
December 4, 2020
Fourth-year Alex Scott’s eyes light up when he describes the communities that have defined his College experience. During his second year at Oberlin, he was encouraged to join the men’s lacrosse team...
Zoe Kuzbari, Senior Staff Writer
November 6, 2020
Meg Parker, OC ’19, and Julie Schreiber, OC ’19, are no strangers to organizing events. During their time at Oberlin, they both worked as Program Board officers and student managers at the ’Sco in...
Zoe Kuzbari, Senior Staff Writer
October 30, 2020
The soccer field is College third-year Nic Jandeleit’s second home. Jandeleit grew up playing soccer in Menlo Park, CA, and has since established himself as a dominant force on the College varsity men’s...
Khalid McCalla, Sports Editor
December 4, 2020
In the shadow of Cleveland, Ohio, tucked away in the cornfields, lies a small town and one of the nation’s premier academic institutions, Oberlin College. But you already knew that. What you didn’t know was that the cross country and track and field team kept going under the pressure of COVID-19 and its formidable odds. They trained harder than ever before,...
Zoe Kuzbari, Senior Staff Writer
December 4, 2020
This past Saturday, Sarah Fuller became the first woman to play a regular-season game in one of college football’s Power 5 conferences by starting kickoff during the second half for Vanderbilt University. Fuller, a fourth-year and starting goalkeeper for Vanderbilt’s women’s soccer team, was asked to play for the Commodores this week after the team’s...
Khalid McCalla, Sports Editor
November 20, 2020
The Oberlin College Athletic Department, the Heisman Club, and the Presidential Initiative on Racial Equity and Diversity hosted “The Fist is Still Raised: A Conversation with Dr. Tommie Smith.” Tommie Smith, gold medalist in the 200 meter dash at the 1968 Olympics, is famous for the human rights demonstration that he and his teammate, John Carlos, performed...
Zoe Kuzbari, Senior Staff Writer
November 20, 2020
Last week, Head Volleyball Coach Erica Rau, added another notable title to her list of accomplishments: she was elected as Division III Women’s Director for the American Volleyball Coaches Association. Rau already oversees the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and works as an assistant athletics director, the senior woman administrator, and the deputy Title...
Zoe Kuzbari, Senior Staff Writer
November 13, 2020
This past Halloweekend, the Oberlin College Men’s and Women’s Swim and Dive teams competed in their very first virtual meet. Competing against teams from Hiram College, Wittenberg University, and the Pennsylvania State Behrend, the Yeowomen earned three team victories and the Yeomen won two. Each college competed against the clock in their own respective...