Anisa Curry Vietze, Editor-in-Chief
April 9, 2021
Former Vice President and Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo stepped down from her administrative position earlier this week, according to an email President Carmen Twillie Ambar sent to students this past Monday. In January, President Ambar announced that Raimondo would leave the Dean of Students...
Casey Troost, Senior Staff Writer
April 9, 2021
For some of Oberlin’s downtown businesses, the warming weather has coincided with an uptick in sales and hopes for a busier second quarter. After a hard year due to the pandemic, owners and managers are excited at the prospect that the vaccine rollout and summer trimester will bring economic recovery. In...
Anisa Curry Vietze, Editor-in-Chief
April 9, 2021
Oberlin’s dining hall workers signed a four-year union contract with AVI Foodsystems through the United Auto Workers in February. Negotiations between the dining workers and AVI started in September and ended in October, followed by a ratification vote in November. The contract follows the College’s...
Olive Hwang, Production Editor
April 9, 2021
Obies designed posters in support of dining hall employees at the recent Student-Worker Solidarity Art Build. The event, hosted by the Student Labor Action Coalition, was part of last week’s TGIF gathering in Wilder Bowl. College third-year and SLAC Treasurer Mira Newman believes that students...
April 9, 2021
Lorain County Updates Lorain County reported 268 cases and 13 hospitalizations in the period from April 2 to April 8. In comparison, two weeks ago there were 248 cases for the period between March 25 and April 1. Given that cases rose for much of March, health officials continue to urge caution despite...
April 9, 2021
As spring returns to Oberlin, so do beloved campus traditions and scenes, like the familiar sight of students sprawled in Wilder Bowl to soak up the spring sun. With the rollout of vaccines in Ohio this month, things are looking up even for currently prohibited Oberlin traditions. Among these are the weekly DJ sets and concerts held at the Dionysus...
Daniel Fleischer , Staff Writer
April 9, 2021
As the spring semester draws to a close, the class of 2021 is reflecting on the many, many, many changes that have occurred in Oberlin over the last four years. From a new college president to the Academic Administrative Program Review to a global pandemic — and with massive overhauls to the campus dining experience every year — graduating fourth-years...
April 9, 2021
When Ashley Tisdale posted a picture of one of her 2004 Disney Channel red carpet looks to Instagram many years later, she condemned the outfit as “cringe-worthy.” However, Tisdale’s post provided a crucial opportunity to investigate trends that move the dial of what body types and aesthetics we deem acceptable — because attempting to achieve...
April 7, 2021
Editor’s note: This article contains mentions of suicidal ideation in children. Eden Wurmfeld, OC ’91, and Margaret Munzer Loeb’s new documentary Chasing Childhood explores modern childhood and the ways that overparenting can damage children’s mental health. Interviewing teachers, child development experts, families, and plenty of children,...
Anna Farber, Arts & Culture Editor
April 7, 2021
Over the last year, many of us picked up new skills or hobbies. For College fourth-year Luke Volkert, his practice writing music for film during the pandemic quickly grew into more than just a way to kill time. After scoring a three-minute short film, Volkert collaborated with Boston University student Jake Zaoutis on a new project: writing the score...
Students, Community Members Support One Another in Getting to Vaccination Sites
April 7, 2021
Daniel Fleischer, Staff Writer
March 17, 2021
College fourth-year Matthew Sato started his journey through Oberlin’s Experimental College as a student in ToadsCo. Sato has been a ToadsCo instructor for the three years since, and last semester he...
Kate Fishman, Managing Editor
February 12, 2021
In a Zoom conversation punctuated by laughs, co-op knocks, and vigorous nods, College fourth-years Evelyn Morrison, Anna Aubry, and Lauren Elwood gathered to speak on their forthcoming senior performance...
Casey Troost, Senior Staff Writer
February 5, 2021
Samuel George, OC ’07, is a self-taught documentary filmmaker who, since picking up the craft, has made 15 films and won several awards. His latest project — recent winner of the Gold Award at the...
Kushagra Kar, Opinions Editor
March 10, 2021 • No Comments
College fourth-year Henry Hicks has served as chair of Student Senate since spring 2020. College fourth-year Jasmine Mitchell has been on Senate since fall 2020 and currently serves as the vice chair....
Katherine MacPhail and Kushagra Kar
March 5, 2021 • No Comments
Naeem Mohaiemen, OC ’93, is a Bangladeshi filmmaker and academic, currently Mellon Teaching Fellow at Columbia University, New York, and Senior Fellow at Lunder Institute of American Art, Maine. He was...
Walter Thomas-Patterson, Senior Staff Writer
February 24, 2021 • No Comments
Rabbi Megan Doherty has served as director of Hillel and Jewish Campus Life for four years. Before coming to Oberlin College, Rabbi Megan worked at Mishkan Ha’am Reconstructionist community in New York...
Katherine MacPhail and Khalid McCalla
April 2, 2021
Every morning at 3:45 a.m. President Carmen Twillie Ambar’s alarm goes off to ensure she can get an intense workout in at the gym before she starts her day as Oberlin College’s 15th president. Over...
Zoe Kuzbari, Staff Writer
March 19, 2021
College third-year Audrey Kamal had never played a varsity sport before walking onto the field hockey team. She brings that same determination and passion to her various extracurricular activities, including...
Zoe Kuzbari, Staff Writer
March 12, 2021
College fourth-years Lucy Fredell and Sydnie Savarese have both been playing soccer for nearly their whole lives. Coming to Oberlin, they found a lovely and supportive community on the varsity soccer...
April 9, 2021
Practice doesn’t quite cut it anymore for College first-year Alaina Di Dio, one of the pitchers on the softball team. Di Dio is hungry for some strikeouts. She is ready to compete. “You can throw pitches in practice for hours, but when you finally get a batter in there, it’s just you against them,” she said. “Every single batter, every single pitch...
April 9, 2021
College third-year and women’s tennis player Alandria Bellamy stays busy. Her work ethic has led her to become one of the College’s top women’s tennis players while also maintaining a strong academic standing. While the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered her athletic career, Bellamy refuses to let it knock her off course. Instead, she plans to use...
April 7, 2021
Even as bills that could prevent transgender women from joining women’s college sports teams are introduced in various states around the country, Oberlin athletes and administrators feel confident that the College’s protections for trans athletes will hold. Still, these rulings set a worrying precedent. While the NCAA’s guidelines on trans athletes...
Zach Bayfield, Staff Writer
April 7, 2021
In its first official competition in 391 days, the Oberlin College baseball team hosted the Hilbert College Hawks for a thrilling doubleheader this past Friday. The Yeomen ended up splitting the series, dominating the first game in a 14–5 victory before dropping the second game 10–0. Despite the lopsided final score, the Yeomen’s first victory came...
April 2, 2021
In December 2020, the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball announced that they would retire their offensive name following the 2021 season. Although many viewed the announcement as long overdue, it was still good news to activists who have advocated for the switch for years. Unfortunately, that excitement was diminished when, recently, team owner Paul...