Ella Moxley, News Editor
August 20, 2021
Today the Oberlin Office of Financial Aid will begin distributing block grants to students after the College received nearly $4 million from the federal government under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. In total, roughly 2,700 current and recently graduated students — or around 75 percent of the student body — will receive grants between today and October. Other funds from the allocation will be used to purchase personal protective equipment and maintain favorable health conditions on campus. The...
August 20, 2021
After several missed deadlines in releasing housing assignments this semester, Residential Education is now asking returning students to live off campus to accommodate the largest number of students Oberlin has ever had on campus. On-campus housing assignments for returning students were initially promised at the end of July, but on July 30, ResEd emailed students saying that housing assignments would instead be sent out the week of Aug. 9 due to unforeseen circumstances. Students have yet to receive...
Katie Kunka, Production Editor
August 20, 2021
The College has appointed Valerie Hotchkiss as the new Azariah Smith Root director of libraries, according to a Tuesday Campus Digest email. Hotchkiss’ appointment is long-awaited, as the position has been vacant since October 2020. Prior to her appointment, Hotchkiss worked for five years as a university librarian for Vanderbilt University. There, she oversaw 11 locations, including the Annette and Irwin Eskind Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center, which achieved LEED Gold status...
Ella Moxley, News Editor
August 20, 2021
The College raised $80 million dollars for the Sustainable Infrastructure Project through climate bonds this July. Oberlin is the second institution of higher education in the U.S. to use climate bonds to fund sustainability projects on campus, after Stanford University. The College announced the acquisition of the climate bonds in an Aug. 6 email, just as the first phase of construction on the geothermal project is wrapping up. Climate bonds are loans used for projects that have a verified...
Gigi Ewing, News Editor
August 13, 2021
The College will no longer test vaccinated individuals who are exposed to COVID-19 unless they are symptomatic, according to an announcement earlier today. This change is in line with Ohio Department of Health and local guidelines but goes against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations. The updated policy comes after a student tested positive for COVID-19 last weekend, the first known case on campus during the entire summer semester. An ObieSafe update sent on August 7...
Kush Bulmer, Production Editor
August 13, 2021
Some students claim that mold issues in College buildings have been recurrent in recent years and detrimental to their health, interfering with their coursework and jobs. For students who say they have struggled with mold induced illness, a proposed state bill promises to promote awareness about mold exposure in Ohio. House Bill 251, dubbed the Ohio Indoor Safe Air Act, is cosponsored by State Representatives Joe Miller and Allison Russo. The bill would require that the director of the Ohio...
Eric Schank, Production Staff
August 20, 2021
When the College launched the Sustainable Infrastructure Project, it advertised that the project would expand to include the broader City community, such as City government buildings, churches, public schools, and other community spaces. However, at this time, the College does not plan to broaden the project to include single-family residential buildings; instead, ground-source heat pumps will facilitate the exchange of geothermal energy between vertical wells under North Field and buildings around...
Nina Auslander-Padgham, Staff Writer
August 20, 2021
The City of Oberlin, under the leadership of City Manager Rob Hillard, launched a Social Equity Working Group in March 2020, to address various equity needs in the Oberlin community. After the initial research and data collection phase, the project is now turning its focus to specific actions that will address areas of inequity in Oberlin. Currently, subgroups under the overarching working group are transitioning into phase two of the project — Education, Awareness, and Feedback. The new phase...
August 6, 2021
KidSpeak, LLC, a new speech and language development clinic, hosted its ribbon-cutting ceremony on July 27. Located in Suite 1 at 23 Eric Nord Way, the clinic offers individualized and group therapy to patients of all ages. The clinic specializes in early intervention, diagnosis, and treatment of communication disorders, filling a gap in the City’s accessible speech and language resources. In addition to offering individual therapy services to children and adults for issues such as articulation,...
Olive Hwang, Production Staff
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...
Gigi Ewing, News Editor
March 5, 2021
Editor’s note: This article contains mentions of assault and racism. In a Black History Month post on Instagram last week, College third-year Nasirah Fair highlighted...
Katherine MacPhail, Anna Farber, and L. Joshua Jackson
November 13, 2020
Eight years ago, Tappan Square spontaneously erupted into celebration after President Barack Obama was elected to a second term. While Joe Biden’s election to the presidency...
Katie Kunka, Production Editor
August 6, 2021
Assistant Dean of Students Monique Burgdorf wears many hats. Currently, she serves in the Center for Student Success as a liaison primarily to low-income and first-generation...
Gigi Ewing, News Editor
July 30, 2021
In preparation for Solstice, the joint Solarity and Drag Ball event happening on Saturday, Oberlin Students for Sensible Drug Policy hosted a trip-sitting workshop to train...