Kate Fishman and Katherine MacPhail
October 23, 2020
While COVID-19 complications and the three semester plan have created a budgetary shortfall for the College, the current deficit is almost $5 million less than originally projected and is expected to improve further. This positive forecast has prompted the Board of Trustees to roll back the faculty wage...
Anisa Curry Vietze, Editor-in-Chief
October 23, 2020
This Election Day, Oberlin voters will decide whether or not to renew two separate tax levies which fund the Oberlin public schools. The levies — Issues 21 and 22 on the ballot — are both property taxes and would last for five years before going back on the ballot. “Prior to this election, the...
Anna Farber, Arts & Culture Editor
October 23, 2020
A car drove into the exterior of the Ginko Gallery yesterday around 2:30 p.m. No one was seriously injured and there was only minor damage to the wooden siding next to the windows. The driver was a Ginko’s artist who was dropping off an order at the store. “[She] is a friend who makes and...
October 23, 2020
Thursday Oct. 15, 2020 9:50 p.m. A student reported the theft of their bicycle from the west side of Barrows Hall. The bicycle is blue, black, silver, and white in color, with the words “Aspect” and “Scott” on it. The bicycle was not locked at the time of theft. Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020 7:52...
Olive Hwang, Production Editor
October 21, 2020
College second-year Selene Siyun Pan is the founder and director of Nudge, an intercollegiate mentorship program for international students from the greater China region. Originally from Shanghai, Pan studied in Costa Rica for two years before coming to Oberlin College as a Bonner Scholar. In the few...
Nico Vickers, This Week Editor
Darielle Kennedy
October 23, 2020
As Student Senate’s Race Relations and Equity Liaison, one of my missions is to put the voices of oppressed people at the forefront when addressing issues that impact their communities the most. I want to give people that are experiencing injustice...
Khalid McCalla and Zoë Martin del Campo
October 23, 2020
These opinions do not reflect the views of The Oberlin Review staff. However, we are amazing and knowledgeable about many things, so we’re glad that you trust us to settle these debates. Question: Which is the more happenin’ spot: Slow...
October 23, 2020
Current students have never before experienced an Oberlin October without a fall break — and we don’t want to whine, but it’s harder than we expected. While normally midterms would be followed by a week-long chance to relax and regroup, this year...
Sydney Rosensaft
October 23, 2020
The craft store Ginko Gallery & Studio’s back room is usually filled with people, eagerly waiting to cuddle a newborn kitten. Petting a kitten lowers a person’s heart rate to provide stress relief, as well as releases serotonin and dopamine, two...
Deljou Abadi, Director, Iranian Refugees’ Alliance, Inc.
October 21, 2020
Editor’s Note: This statement is part of a broader conversation about allegations brought against Professor of Religion and Nancy Schrom Dye Chair in Middle East and North African Studies Mohammad Jafar Mahallati. These allegations began with an Oct....
Ella Pike
October 21, 2020
People materialize onto the screen for my 9:00 a.m. Greek History class. Connecting to audio, they turn on their cameras, heads bowed within seconds to stare at their phones. By 9:05, two people have turned their cameras off, and the black squares stare...
Student Senate
October 21, 2020
Dear Educational Plans and Policies Committee and Educational Policy Committee, We write today to ask that Oberlin College and Conservatory cancels classes on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, considering students’ health and safety amid the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Booker C. Peek
October 21, 2020
"Trump Has Won A Second Term!" will read the headlines in America and throughout the entire world some time after Nov. 3. If that becomes our world, all Americans should rejoice over the fact Trump won’t task our National Guard, police forces, and,...
Audrey Kolb, President, Friends of Westwood Cemetery
October 21, 2020
In his letter, Let Us Lift Our Memorials Above Ground, Mr. Brunberg raised some legitimate concerns about the maintenance of, and regulations around, section S of the Westwood cemetery; but they are concerns that the Friends of Westwood has been addressing...
Claire Brinley
October 23, 2020
Drew Dansby, Production Editor
October 9, 2020
Limited access to traditional practice spaces has created new roadblocks to making music and learning collaboratively for Oberlin Conservatory students. However, even in the face of challenge and change, Conservatory students have mostly retained and adapted their practice habits, even while many are practicing in their dorm rooms. This semester,...
L. Joshua Jackson, Arts and Culture Editor
October 9, 2020
With much of the Afrikan Heritage House community off-campus, and others socially distancing on-campus, residents have to take concerted steps to build Umoja. The Black community at Oberlin College did just that by translating the 50-year tradition of Soul Session to the digital space, sharing Black expression and creativity both on and off-campus. In...
Ella Halbert
October 9, 2020
The Student Union, Program Board, the ՚Sco, and other student organizations have taken on the monumental challenge of fostering community in a time of separation. By collaborating in new ways, students involved with these organizations have come up with innovative ideas. As a member of the Program Board, I’ve experienced firsthand the time and effort...
Claire Brinley
October 9, 2020
Across 1 Dads, familiarly 6 “You ____ what you sow” 10 Cat, in Spanish 14 To delight 15 Or ____ 16 Newcastle ___ Tyne 17 Reason behind something 18 Big name in credit cards 19 Learning method, with “by” 20 A stubbed one is painful 21 Yemen’s third-largest city 23 Dazed, drunken state 25...
Crossword Answers: “Switching” It Up
October 7, 2020
Walter Thomas-Patterson
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,...
Anna Farber, Arts and Culture Editor
September 11, 2020
Jacey Davidson, OC ’20, started the Instagram account @oberlinoverheard, or Oberheard, in 2018. Oberlin Overheard features short, droll quotes heard around campus that are submitted by Obies via Instagram...
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...
Katherine MacPhail, Anisa Curry Vietze, and Kate Fishman
May 25, 2020 • No Comments
College fourth-years Ananya Gupta and Nathan Carpenter have served as the respective managing editor and editor-in-chief of The Oberlin Review for the past two years. As the first members of the Review...
Johan Cavert, Sarah Dalgleish, Anisa Curry Vietze, and Molly Bryson
May 8, 2020 • No Comments
Alex Blumberg, OC ’89, is an award-winning audio journalist and co-founder of the podcasting company Gimlet Media, which was recently acquired by Spotify for $230 million. Before starting Gimlet, Blumberg...
Zoe Kuzbari, Senior Staff Writer
October 23, 2020
Ana Richardson, OC ’18, graduated as a two-time All-American and four-time National Collegiate Athletic Association national qualifier thrower on the women’s track and field team. During her time at...
Zoe Kuzbari, Senior Staff Writer
September 25, 2020
Assistant Women's Basketball Coach Maureen Hirt joined the Oberlin community in 2019 and has abundant experience coaching and supporting Division III athletics. She was chosen to be a Women's Sport Foundation...
Zoë Martin del Campo, Sports Editor
September 11, 2020
Coach Alex Hanna did not have a traditional path to her coaching career. Before coming to Oberlin, she worked for the Cleveland Browns in various capacities and assisted with organizing 20 youth football...
Zoë Martin del Campo, Sports Editor
October 21, 2020
This past week, the North Coast Athletic Conference canceled the Winter Sports Championship, suspending conference-sponsored competition for the winter season. For Oberlin, this affects the basketball, swimming and diving, and track and field teams. While the news did not come as a surprise to most athletes after the cancelation of the fall season, it is still...
Khalid McCalla, Sports Editor
October 9, 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 teams at this small liberal arts college refused to let a pandemic stop them. Like many, they saw their plans...
October 9, 2020
After the National Football League successfully completed three weeks of competition without incident amid the COVID-19 pandemic, this past week brought some bad news for the league. Last Tuesday, the NFL experienced a wave of positive COVID-19 tests. Three players and five personnel for the Tennessee Titans tested positive, forcing the team and their most recent...
Zoe Kuzbari, Staff Writer
October 9, 2020
With Oberlin College student-athletes returning to practice, coaches of contact-heavy sports have had to navigate new policies and regulations to ensure the safety of players and staff. All fall contact sports, including men’s and women’s soccer, field hockey, and football, started their practices in smaller groups and have gradually expanded the number of...
Arman Luczkow, Production Editor
October 2, 2020
While many of Oberlin’s varsity teams began new COVID-safe practices during the first week of classes, club sports have struggled to create new routines. Oberlin is now five weeks into classes, but many club sports have yet to begin practicing as a result of pandemic-related challenges. Club sports requiring person-to-person contact, as well as those that practice...