Yasu Shinozaki and Layla Wallerstein
April 19, 2024
On Saturday, The Oberlin Review celebrated its 150th anniversary with panels featuring current staff and notable alumni, and networking events for students to make connections with and receive advice from alumni in the field of journalism. The events were attended by around 50 alumni, current Review staff, and students interested in journalism. The morning panel, moderated by former Editor-in-Chief Kushagra Kar, OC ’23, featured members of the current Review staff and College fourth-year Hazel...
April 19, 2024
This month, the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and Preventing and Responding to Sexual Misconduct, in collaboration with the Peer Support Center, the Sexual Information Center, and Survivors of Sexual Harm and Allies, have organized consent workshops to inform students about consent in a variety of situations in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month this April. “The Office of EDI and PRSM started Consent Month in 2018 when PRSM was still a fairly new organization,”...
Yasu Shinozaki, News Editor
April 19, 2024
Last January, the Center for Information Technology opened the Project Management Office. The office will coordinate large-scale IT projects, handling details such as budgeting, scheduling, and communications. The office’s first project was the updated Services Portal, which launched the week of March 25. The new portal, accessible to students on Oberview, presents an updated interface through which students can request services from CIT and the Office of the Dean of Students. IT Project Management...
Lily Nobel, Production Editor
April 19, 2024
All In For Oberlin, Oberlin’s yearly fundraising campaign, occurred April 10. Students for a Free Palestine ran a counter-campaign, encouraging potential donors to withhold donations until Oberlin pledges to divest from Israel. Despite the SFP campaign, members of the Office of Advancement reported a successful fundraising day. “The response was phenomenal, with the campaign resulting in a record-breaking amount raised,” said Director of Annual Giving Ayla Sweeney, in a written statement...
Karthik Ranganadhan, Senior Staff Writer
April 5, 2024
The City of Oberlin has been making preparations to meet the anticipated influx of people and large gatherings for the total solar eclipse that will take place Monday, April 8. Oberlin Fire Chief Robert Hanmer estimated that 10–15,000 people would come from out of town to view the eclipse. The College will be hosting OCLIPSE, a two-hour viewing party on Bailey Field, where organizers will provide eclipse-viewing glasses, host musical performances, offer snacks, and host a screen printing...
Lily Nobel, Production Editor
April 5, 2024
On March 23, Oberlin released admissions decisions for prospective students who applied for Regular Decision for the class of 2028. During the reading period for applications, Oberlin admissions counselors reviewed 9,699 first-year applications to the College of Arts & Sciences. Before the Regular Decision announcement on March 23, 223 students were already admitted, having applied under a binding agreement to Early Decision I or II. Twenty-nine students who were admitted last year but took...
Layla Wallerstein, News Editor
April 19, 2024
Oberlin City Council convened Monday for a regular meeting. Council President Eboni Johnson, OC ’97, presided over the meeting. All Councilmembers were present. Council scheduled a special meeting to discuss the Oberlin Enrichment and Activity Center and Police Exercise Equipment. Steering Committee Established for Oberlin’s Climate Action Plan Council voted unanimously to waive the rule for three readings and to move an ordinance creating a steering committee for the City of Oberlin’s...
Yasu Shinozaki, News Editor
April 5, 2024
On March 18, Director of Planning and Development Carrie Porter presented plans to develop the 15-acre Green Acres property owned by the City. The plan proposes dividing the property into parcels for the development of 17 market rate single-family homes, creating a public park, and leaving an area for future development. The plan comes after City Council directed City offices to look into developing Green Acres with single-family homes last year. Based on the plan presented, the City would subdivide...
April 5, 2024
Oberlin Community Services received $1.28 million in federal aid to assist in developing the Cooper Community Resource Center. The funding will improve and expand various resources, including a food pantry, emergency financial assistance, educational outreach programs, counseling services, and community meals. The funding was allocated from the agriculture and rural development budget for 2024 signed by President Joe Biden March 16. Oberlin Community Services applied for the funds through Senator...
November 11, 2022
Nikki Keating, Editor-in-Chief
November 4, 2022
Editor’s Note: The reporter who wrote this article was an ambassador host for prospective students during the Multicultural Visit Program. Last week, the College welcomed...
March 18, 2022
The Asian Diaspora Coalition held a vigil on Wednesday in honor of the victims of the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings, as well as for all people who have been subjected to sexualized...
Karthik Ranganadhan, Senior Staff Writer
April 19, 2024
College second-year Tanisha Shende is majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics with a minor in Sociology. She was named National Student Employee of the Year and Student...
Layla Wallerstein, News Editor
April 5, 2024
David Lengyel is the Observatory and Taylor Planetarium Coordinator for Oberlin College. As Oberlin prepares for the total solar eclipse on April 8, Lengyel has been meeting...