Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review

Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review

Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review

Faculty and administrators enter King Building Room 306 for Wednesdays General Faculty meeting. With impending administrative turnover, faculty is reckoning with the viability of the Strategic Plan.

Administrative Turnover Stalls Plan Implementation

Melissa Harris, Editor-in-Chief April 21, 2017

With significant turnover in senior administrative positions at the end of this year, faculty members are navigating different avenues of maintaining the Strategic Plan implementation committees’ goals...

College Bookstore Manager Tammy Herman reorganizes clothes Thursday.
The College’s Purchasing Committee will soon respond to the discovery
that Nike breached the College’s Sweatshop-Free Apparel Code
of Purchasing.

Purchasing Committee Addresses Nike Scandal

Sydney Allen, Editor-in-Chief April 21, 2017

The College’s Purchasing Com­mittee is preparing a response to a recent discovery that Nike — one of the school’s largest apparel providers — breached Oberlin’s Sweatshop-Free Apparel Code of...

Toni Myers, the new permanent director of the MRC, sits outside Wilder Hall. Myers hopes to expand community
outreach and may sponsor a Social Justice Leadership ExCo next semester.

Myers Named Permanent MRC Director, Aims for More Outreach

Johan Cavert April 21, 2017

Toni Myers is now the permanent Multicul­tural Resource Center Director after serving as interim director since May. In addition to sup­porting the MRC's goal of creating a welcoming space for students...

City Upgrades Alert System, Saves Money

Louis Krauss, News Editor April 21, 2017

  City Council will save thousands of dollars on the city’s emergency alert system by joining the Lorain County Wireless Emergency Notification System. The city’s alert system allows those...

Off the Cuff: Mindi Kuebler, Activist

Melissa Harris, Editor-in-Chief April 21, 2017

  Mindi Kuebler is the director of the Human Trafficking Collaborative of Lorain County. Kuebler founded HTCLC in 2009 after working as a fo­rensic nurse, specializing as a sexual assault nurse...

Security Report

April 21, 2017

  Friday, April 14 1:35 p.m. A Safety and Security offi­cer assisting a student at a Village Hous­ing Unit on Professor Street found drug paraphernalia, which contained a sub­stance consistent...

Associate Dean of the Curriculum David Kamitsuka shows the classroom spaces in StudiOC to faculty members participating in the course cluster program this fall. Four course clusters are available next
semester, three of which are exclusive to  first-years.

Course Catalog Unveils Cluster Plans

Sydney Allen, Editor-in-Chief April 14, 2017

Though many of the course clusters slated for next school year are not currently available in the course catalog, they will still launch this fall. Despite the hiccup in the “soft opening” of the program,...

Altercation Leads to Arrest in Harassment Case

Altercation Leads to Arrest in Harassment Case

Melissa Harris, Editor-in-Chief April 14, 2017

An intoxicated man verbally harassed three students with racial slurs and threatened them with a knife in the Asia House parking lot Monday morning. The perpetrator, Geoffrey George Raymond Basel, a 28-year-old...

Federal Border Patrol Agents arrested a man outside of Oberlin Municipal Court April 5. Naranbataar Ganbataar, a Mongolian citizen, was apprehended for a visa overstay.

Border Patrol Agents Detain Undocumented Man

Louis Krauss, News Editor April 14, 2017

Federal Border Patrol Agents arrested a man on his way to Oberlin Municipal Court April 5 after learning his visa had expired. Naranbaatar Ganbaatar, a 30-year-old Mongolian citizen, was charged with felonious...

City Council is considering a plot of land on the corner of East Lorain Street and Oberlin Road as a potential location for medical marijuana businesses. After Ohio authorized the commercialization of the drug for medical purposes last fall, council is discussing benefits to the local
economy.

Council Mulls Bringing Medical Marijuana to Town

Jenna Gyimesi, News Editor April 14, 2017

City Council is considering bringing the medical marijuana industry to Oberlin in hopes of revitalizing the local economy. Councilmembers in favor of a resolution allowing manufacturers and distributors...

Search Committee Announces Transition Team Formation

Johan Cavert April 14, 2017

The Presidential Search Committee created a transition team at the end of March to help ensure a smooth entry for the College’s next president and their staff. The team is composed of 20 representatives...

Teresa Bejan, Associate Professor of Political Theory.

Off the Cuff: Teresa Bejan, Professor of Political Theory

Melissa Harris, Editor-in-Chief April 14, 2017

Teresa Bejan is an Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Oriel College. Before teaching at Oxford, Bejan worked at the University of Toronto and was a Mellon...

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