Yan Jin and Saul Kester
December 7, 2018
Oberlin will have its first ever ExCo Showcase on Thursday, Dec. 13 to commemorate the Experimental College program’s 50th anniversary. The Experimental College was founded in 1968 to supplement Oberlin College’s traditional curriculum, offering atypical courses generally taught by non-professors...
Anisa Curry Vietze, Senior Staff Writer
December 7, 2018
Student Senate and the Student Finance Committee collaborated with other student government organizations to arrange this year’s Constituents’ Week from Dec. 3 to Dec. 7. The week-long event was created to build community and to help students better communicate with their student representatives. “We...
Gabby Greene, News Editor
December 7, 2018
December 7, 2018
Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018 5:41 p.m. Campus Safety officers were requested to assist a student who struck themself in the head with a piece of ice. Friday, Nov. 30, 2018 10:45 a.m. Officers were requested to assist an injured student at a Village Housing Unit on Elm Street. The student was transported...
Gabby Greene and Andrea Wang
November 30, 2018
Bobalin and Yeoba are two student-led boba businesses now in operation at Oberlin. Organizers for both businesses found that selling boba raises many questions about appropriation and ownership. Boba — also referred to as bubble tea — originated in Taiwan in the 1980s; nowadays, it forms...
Anisa Curry Vietze, Senior Staff Writer
November 30, 2018
The Barefoot Dialogue program, which has been expanded this year as a presidential initiative, is an opportunity for Oberlin students to regularly meet for a meal and engage in intimate and vulnerable conversation. Dialogue sessions are entirely led by students, as student facilitators plan each session...
Roman Broszkowski, Senior Staff Writer
November 30, 2018
Editor’s note: Senior Class President Ify Ezimora works for the Review as Sports Editor. The second Vice President and head of the event planning committee Jenna Gyimesi is News Editor. Oberlin’s Senior Class Council kicked off their celebrations Thursday evening with Senior ’Sco Night in Wilder...
Yan Jin
November 30, 2018
Ray English, Emeritus Director of Libraries at Oberlin College and a member of Oberlin’s branch of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, joined 619 other volunteers from CCL in Washington, D.C. on Monday, Nov. 19, to advocate for bipartisan climate policies. The volunteers participated in over 400 congressional...
Mikaela Fishman, This Week Editor
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Claire Wang, Staff Cartoonist
Ananya Gupta, Managing Editor
December 8, 2018
Leo Lasdun, Production Editor
December 7, 2018
Solarity, Oberlin’s take on college rave culture, is returning this semester with an exciting lineup of performers. Tomorrow evening Lizzo, a hip-hop artist who became hugely popular with hit singles such as “Truth Hurts” and “Good As Hell,” will headline the event. Numerous student DJs will open her performance, including 2NDWIFE x hearteyes...
Kate Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor
December 7, 2018
Rarely have I smiled so hard as I did at the Cat in the Cream this past week at not one but two fantastic performances by students from local Oberlin schools. Kids from Prospect Elementary School and Langston Middle School wowed packed houses on Monday and Wednesday — Monday night’s offering was a poetry reading by the middle school students,...
Carson Dowhan, Senior Staff Writer
December 7, 2018
Early-week shows typically aren’t the most popular, but indie rock bands Snail Mail and Why Bonnie might have brought one of the biggest weeknight crowds to the ’Sco this semester. They took the stage to play their new releases on Tuesday night. Students raved over the performance. “The way Lindsey Jordan [of Snail Mail] carried herself...
Kate Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor
December 7, 2018
Lauren Elwood is a College sophomore from Bangor, Maine, who’s making her Oberlin mainstage debut as choreographer of —and a dancer in — the acclaimed musical Cabaret. Elwood, a Dance and Theater...
Gabe Schneier, Staff Writer
November 30, 2018
Andrew V. Uroskie is an associate professor of art and the director of graduate studies in Art History and Criticism at Stony Brook University in New York. Uroskie specializes in late modern and contemporary...
Nathan Carpenter, Editor-in-Chief
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Joseph Maiville, OC ’07, is the evening circulation desk supervisor at the Mary Church Terrell library. He first visited Oberlin as a prospective student in the spring of 2003 and has lived here ever...
Sydney Allen, Editor-in-Chief and Maranda Philips, Staff Writer
November 30, 2018 • No Comments
Jesse Milan Jr. is the president and CEO of AIDS United, an organization dedicated to fighting the AIDS epidemic in the United States. He delivered a convocation address Tuesday titled “You are the Keeper...
Maranda Phillips, Staff Writer
December 7, 2018
College junior and volleyball player McLean Sammon has her hands full: She’s a Neuroscience and Psychology double-major with a minor in Dance, and she teaches yoga twice a week in the new Patricia...
Ify Ezimora, Sports Editor
November 30, 2018
Malaika Djungu-Sungu and Jada Kennerly met for the first time as roommates during orientation week this fall. Both first-years, Djungu-Sungu is 17.5 hours away from her home in Arlington, TX, while...
Abby Bellows and Leah Ross
December 7, 2018
Finding Solace Abby Bellows I used to look at my reflection in windows when I ran by, focusing on my stride — how my legs moved past one another, how my feet landed — but I could never bring myself to look up at the rest of my body, knowing I couldn’t look at my chest without sending myself into a mental spiral. It was already hard enough...
Ify Ezimora, Sports Editor
December 7, 2018
The John W. Heisman Club’s recently-announced Next Generation Board sets the foundation for a commitment to engaging with and prioritizing the voices of current students and recent grads in athletics. The board, in its creation, consists of recent Oberlin College graduates: 2018 grads Monique Newton, Federico Consuegra, and Jackie McDermott; and...
Christian Ikeokwu
December 7, 2018
In high school, I competed as a member of the rowing team. Unfortunately, as Oberlin doesn’t have a rowing team, I’ve retired my unisuit and taken up life as a non-athlete. Through that process, I’ve been surprised by which aspects of being an athlete I miss and which I don’t. The most striking thing I miss is the team dynamic. Your teammates...
Alexis Dill, Sports Editor
December 7, 2018
Members of the 2018 North Coast Athletic Conference Championship women’s basketball team were honored with a ring ceremony during intermission of the men’s basketball game Wednesday, which followed the Yeowomen’s first conference victory of the season. They beat the Kenyon College Ladies 51–47. The Yeowomen had an exceptional season last...