Nathan Carpenter, Editor-in-Chief
May 10, 2019
Tensions remain high between Oberlin’s unionized hourly workers and the Academic and Administrative Program Review steering committee. After weeks of collecting community feedback, the committee is wrapping up its work and preparing to submit its final recommendations to President Carmen Twillie Ambar...
Jane Hobson, Staff Writer
May 10, 2019
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Western Division ruled last week that Ohio’s congressional map is an “unconstitutional partisan gerrymander” and ordered that the district map be redrawn by June 14, leaving enough time for the map to come into effect for the 2020...
Ella Moxley, Senior Staff Writer
May 10, 2019
Oberlin’s HIV Peer Testing has been unable to offer private, free HIV tests for the past semester due to state-level changes in health funding and newly-updated standard practices around HIV testing. They anticipate that they will not be able to continue these services until spring 2021. The state...
Keifer Ludwig, Staff Writer
May 10, 2019
Students opened a chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy in March to help reduce drug-related harm and foster sensible conversations about healthy and unhealthy drug use. In addition to educating the Oberlin community, the organization supplies free and anonymous drug testing. College junior Rachel...
Lu Zucker, Staff Writer
May 10, 2019
Students, faculty, and community members of all ages marched handcrafted costumes, puppets, and intricate floats through the streets of Oberlin on the morning of Saturday, May 4 as a part of the annual Big Parade. Since 2002, this celebration has showcased creative expression and community in...
Mikaela Fishman, This Week Editor
Clair Wang, Staff Cartoonist
Kate Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor
May 10, 2019
If you saw this year’s Spring Back performance or have attended a Contact Improvisation jam — either the weekly events or last Sunday’s special 12-hour jam — chances are you have encountered Professor and Chair of Dance Ann Cooper Albright. On April 9 of this year, Albright was awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial...
Lu Zucker
May 10, 2019
Graduating seniors in the Creative Writing Program read their work aloud to an audience of about 70 at the Cat in the Cream on Monday, May 6, their final chance to present their work as undergraduates. The event was organized by Madi Mettenburg, Creative Writing major representative and graduating senior. Mettenburg credits the large crowd with...
Carson Dowhan, Senior Staff Writer
May 10, 2019
Detroit-based singer-songwriter Anna Burch gave an intimate performance at the Cat in the Cream Tuesday night as a stop before her show at the TREEVERB Music Festival in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on June 1. Burch has been a part of a few folk-rock bands in the past, one of which is Frontier Ruckus. Her stab at the indie-rock genre is a stark contrast...
Aly Fogel, Staff Writer
May 10, 2019
Last Wednesday, the Cat in the Cream was packed with students chatting under the venue’s familiar twinkling lights, nibbling on cookies, drinking tea, and anxiously waiting for their peers to come on stage and take off their clothes. It might seem unconventional, but shows like these have become a celebrated tradition at Oberlin over the past...
Jackie Brant, Opinions Editor
May 10, 2019
Chambers, an innovative new Netflix horror series, premiered last month and has received mixed reviews amidst a growing genre of horror-themed TV shows. The storyline follows the main character Sasha, a Native teenager living in Arizona who receives a heart transplant from a girl named Becky (Lillya Scarlett Reid). After Sasha connects with Becky’s...
Clair Wang, Staff Cartoonist
May 10, 2019
OUI Banquet Brings Award-Winning Author to Campus, Raises Funds
May 10, 2019
Students Reflect on Conflict Kitchen Talk
May 10, 2019
OMTA’s Spamalot Presents Hilarious Monty Python Adaptation
May 3, 2019
Audience Fills Birenbaum for “Moonlight, My Heart”
May 3, 2019
Katherine MacPhail, Arts & Culture Editor
May 10, 2019
Mikaela Fishman is a senior Visual Arts major and the This Week editor for the Review. She researches, writes, and creates the graphic design for the centerfold spread of each issue. Her spreads have covered...
Kate Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor
May 3, 2019
Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Dance Talise Campbell is the director of this weekend’s Oberlin Dance Company show, Tracing Our Roots: A Look Into the Past As We Move Into the Future....
Kabir Karamchandani, Staff Writer
April 26, 2019
Author Andrea Lawlor is a visiting lecturer of English at Mount Holyoke College and a fiction editor at Fence magazine. They published a chapbook of poems, Position Papers, in 2016 and their first novel,...
Jackie Brant, Opinions Editor
April 19, 2019
Robert Owen is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Oberlin. He specializes in gravitational theory, astrophysics, computation, and general relativity. Currently, he is involved in studying black holes...
Nathan Carpenter and Katherine MacPhail
May 10, 2019 • No Comments
College senior and Review Editor-in-Chief Sydney Allen is a classic Obie with a wide range of interests. Throughout her tenure as a writer and editor, Allen has covered a broad range of campus and community...
Sydney Allen, Editor-in-Chief
May 3, 2019 • No Comments
Manu Karuka is an assistant professor of American Studies at Barnard College and author of the book Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad, which was...
Gwen Cappel-McCoy
April 26, 2019 • No Comments
Rabbi Megan Doherty, director of Hillel and Jewish Campus Life, is approaching the end of her third year at Oberlin. Hillel and Jewish Campus Life build community as well as provide various religious and...
Jane Agler, Sports Editor
May 10, 2019
College senior Jenna Gyimesi can be found on every corner of the campus. At the Review office, we know her best as our hardworking News Editor, but she is also a varsity field hockey player, an...
Sydney Allen, Editor-in-Chief
May 3, 2019
College senior, field hockey player, and Religion major Katie Ryan-O’Flaherty was recently named Oberlin’s first recipient of the $25,000 Jacob’s Prize for the Study of Religion. Her submitted...
Jane Agler, Sports Editor
April 26, 2019
While “In The Locker Room” interviews often focus on members of the Oberlin community associated with varsity athletics, College junior Sean Kuo is a prime example of the flexibility and fun...
Alexis Dill, Sports Editor
May 24, 2019
The Preying Manti, Oberlin’s women and trans Ultimate Frisbee team, won the 2019 national championship title in College Station, TX, with a 13–7 win over the No. 1-seeded Bates College on May 18. Oberlin overcame the odds, as they entered the game as the sixth overall seed. They returned to campus to a surprise celebration organized by the Flying...
Julie Schreiber, Senior Staff Writer
May 24, 2019
Earlier this year, I applied for a fellowship from the Watson Foundation, an institution that provides yearlong fellowship that gifts recent college graduates $30,000 to travel the world studying a topic of their choice. About a month before I heard back, I had my first dream about it. It’s probably better described as a nightmare, actually. I walked...
Alexis Dill, Sports Editor
May 10, 2019
The primary election for at-large seats on Lorain City Council took place Tuesday, and although candidate and former Oberlin College Head Volleyball Coach Inez James was not one of the three candidates to move on to November’s general election, she had a memorable campaign. Last Friday morning, just four days before the election, James told herself...
May 10, 2019
Every year, there are several sporting events or stories that dominate social media platforms for a few days or, in some cases, weeks. This year, we’ve seen the internet flooded with news ranging from Tiger Woods’ Masters win and the New England Patriots’ historic Super Bowl LII title to the voices of NBA players after the death of Los Angeles rapper...
Alexis Dill, Sports Editor
May 10, 2019
In the bottom of the fifth inning in game two of Oberlin College’s Senior Day match-up with the Hiram College Terriers last Sunday, College senior and baseball captain Brendan Mapes stepped up to the plate with two outs and two runners on. With a 1–2 count, he drove an outside pitch just out of the second baseman’s reach and into right field for...
Jane Agler, Sports Editor
May 10, 2019
Oberlin’s Hammer Throwers Compete With Passion, Win Big, Despite Dangers
May 3, 2019
Shanks’ MindSpa Centers Mental Health
May 3, 2019