Anisa Curry Vietze and Kushagra Kar
May 20, 2022
After nearly two years of data collection, focus groups, and reviews of campus life, the Presidential Initiative on Racial Equity and Diversity committee published a comprehensive report on Wednesday. The report provides recommendations to make Oberlin more racially equitable, including hiring a diversity, equity, and inclusion officer; reviewing the Academic Standing process; establishing the Center for Race and Equity throughout a three-year plan; creating more conscious hiring processes, and more. President...
Gigi Ewing, Managing Editor
May 20, 2022
After a series of international protests, the Alliance Against Islamic Regime of Iran Apologists will return to Oberlin to protest at the class of 2022 Commencement on June 5. The protest will mark the third time that activists have protested the employment of Professor of Religion Mohammad Jafar Mahallati at Oberlin. Mahallati has been accused of covering up crimes against humanity when he served as Iran’s representative to the U.N. in the 1980s. According to Lawdan Bazargan, the protest organizer...
Lauren Krainess, News Editor
May 20, 2022
The Student Finance Committee was able to fund student organizations in excess through the 2021–22 academic year. SFC manages and distributes the student activity fund, and for the past two years had access to a surplus of funds in the absence of in-person events and organization activities. However, SFC has now spent this budget surplus and will return to distribution practices it utilized before the 2019–20 academic year. To receive funding, student organizations must submit semester...
Sofia Tomasic, Senior Staff Writer
May 20, 2022
Students for Energy Justice, Sunrise Movement, the Green Edge Fund, and a group of alumni have written a letter to the Board of Trustees requesting a pledge to divest Oberlin’s endowment from fossil fuels by 2025, the same year that Oberlin plans to achieve carbon neutrality on campus through the Sustainable Infrastructure Program. The letter, which will formally be sent next week, is an attempt to elicit a response to divestment requests, which have gone largely ignored by the board since...
Ella Moxley, News Editor
May 20, 2022
On Sunday, Students for a Free Palestine commemorated the 74th anniversary of the Nakba with a vigil on Tappan Square. The Nakba marks the day in 1948 when over 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes by Israeli forces. The Oberlin vigil featured a number of student speakers and a candle lighting in honor of murdered and displaced Palestinans. College first-year, vigil organizer, and international student from Palestine Farah Sabbah spoke about her exposure to violence as a...
Ella Moxley, News Editor
May 20, 2022
COVID-19 cases have increased on campus over the last week. Between May 13–19, Oberlin recorded 63 positive COVID cases. As a result, co-ops in the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association have worked to adapt to the increased number of sick students. Earlier this week, Pyle Inn sent out an emergency request to other co-ops asking for assistance covering the shifts of co-op members with COVID. The co-op has also moved exclusively to grab-and-go to reduce further exposure among the membership. While...
Juliana Gaspar, Senior Staff Writer
May 20, 2022
At last Monday’s City Council meeting, Councilmember Ray English read a statement in response to his recent censuring. The censure, the first time City Council has taken this action in 15 years, was a response to an alleged breach in confidentiality during an email exchange between English and Jon Clark, the city’s law director. Seperate from the censure, the City Council appointed Michael McFarlin as the newest member of Council on Monday to replace Heather Adelman, former councilmember...
Juliana Gaspar, Senior Staff Writer
May 6, 2022
On Monday, Oberlin City Council held a hearing to discuss the rezoning of Eastwood Elementary School property to allow for an exchange of land with the College. At the meeting, community members raised concerns about the transfer of publicly funded property to a private institution. In the last week of March, the Oberlin Planning Commission unanimously voted 5–0 to recommend that the Council rezone the two-acre property containing the school as a Two-Family Dwelling District so that...
Sofia Tomasic, Senior Staff Writer
May 6, 2022
Mercy Health – Allen Hospital welcomed Carrie Jankowski as its new president in January 2022. Jankowski hopes to increase community involvement and outreach in her new position. Jankowski has worked with Mercy Health for 25 years and served as vice president ancillary and support immediately prior to serving as president. “I felt that I was right for the role, so I accepted [it] and thought it was a fabulous opportunity and the next step in my career,” she said. In this new...
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...
Isaac Imas, Production Editor
March 4, 2022
Over 250 students, professors, and community members attended yesterday’s Russian and East European Studies teach-in on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began...
Kathleen Kelleher, Arts & Culture Editor
December 3, 2021
Big Trees, Inc., the City contractor for the Morgan Street reservoirs’ remodel, has made substantial progress on the conversion to wetland and expects to finish...
Lauren Krainess, News Editor
May 20, 2022
Ella Fahl Moxley, OC ’22, has been involved with the Review since her first semester at Oberlin and has worked as a News Editor for six semesters. She has contributed to...
Kushagra Kar, Editor-in-Chief
May 20, 2022
In 2018, two brilliant and immensely powerful women stepped into an unassuming Oberlin campus. In week one, Anisa Curry Vietze shook the Oberlin journalism scene with her...