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The Oberlin Review

Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review

Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review

College sophomore and Student Senator Jesse Docter listens at the trustee forum on Thursday night. The forum included discussion of divestment and student input in decision making.

Students to Trustees: We’re Not Being Heard

Tyler Sloan, Editor in Chief December 4, 2015

With final exams looming and fall semester coming to a close, the Board of Trustees-Student forum in King Hall on Thursday night was sparsely attended. Still, students and trustees engaged in discourse...

Review Security Notebook

December 4, 2015

SECURITY ADVISORY Abusua, Oberlin’s Black student union, sent an email to Afrikan Heritage House residents Tuesday regarding a verbal assault that allegedly took place in the Saunders Lounge around...

Sal Talarico will serve as the new interim city
manager.

City Council Appoints Interim City Manager

Jack Rockwell December 4, 2015

As City Manager Eric Norenberg prepares to move to a new job in Milford, Delaware, City Council has decided to promote from within. City Council met on Nov. 30 to pass an ordinance appointing Sal Talarico,...

College sophomore Gloria Lewis dances in front of Wilder Hall, where students gathered for a Black Lives Matter protest on
Friday, Nov. 20. Dozens of people marched through the hallways of the Science Center and King Hall and throughout campus
chanting “Say her name” and “Black Lives Matter.” 

The protest culminated in a gathering in front of Wilder Hall, where attendees
engaged in conversations and other forms of creative expression about racism on campus.
The protest follows numerous campus events that have focused on the systemic oppression of people of color in higher education institutions. Black faculty and staff held a teach-in at Dye Lecture Hall on Wednesday, Nov. 18, and many also contributed to an
open letter of support for campus protestors at Oberlin College, University of Missouri, Yale University, Ithaca College, Claremont
McKenna College and elsewhere (“Staff, Faculty of Color Stand with Campus Protestors,” Nov. 20, 2015).

Feature Photo: Black Lives Matter

Tyler Sloan, Editor in Chief December 4, 2015

CDS and Students Discuss Cultural Appropriation

Sydney Allen, Editor-in-Chief December 4, 2015

Following claims of Campus Dining Services appropriating traditional Asian dishes, representatives from the South Asian, Vietnamese and Chinese student associations met with CDS to discuss students’...

Oberlin Man Murdered in Apartment

Oberlin Man Murdered in Apartment

Xiaoqian Zhu December 4, 2015

Twenty-four-year-old Steven L. Davis was found shot to death in his apartment last Tuesday, Nov. 24 — the first murder in Oberlin since a 1999 stabbing. Oberlin Police Department officers received a...

Students Ticketed by State Police at ’Sco

Louis Krauss, News Editor November 20, 2015

College sophomore Alizah Simon unsuspectingly encountered undercover state police officers outside the ’Sco on Friday night. For carrying a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, Simon was confronted and ticketed by...

College sophomore Carlos Armstrong smokes a cigarette in Tappan Square. The public park will become a designated smoking area for students after the College implements the tobacco-free policy on July 1, 2016.

Tobacco Ban Enforcement Remains Unclear

Jake Berstein November 20, 2015

As the College inches closer to July 1, 2016, the day the tobacco ban goes into effect, it remains unclear how the ban will play out in practice. “Exactly how the ban will be enforced is extremely...

Tamika Nunley, assistant professor of History

Off the Cuff: Tamika Nunley, Assistant Professor of History

Tyler Sloan, Editor in Chief November 20, 2015

Tamika Nunley is an assistant professor of history who specializes in the Civil War era, specifically surrounding issues of race, gender and slavery. Nunley joined the faculty this fall after receiving...

Council Delays REC Discussion Until Late December

Oliver Bok and Tyler Sloan November 20, 2015

Oberlin’s City Council decided to table the issue of how to allocate $800,000 in Renewable Energy Credits until late December following weeks of tense debate. At Council’s weekly meeting on Monday,...

Students and faculty members discuss the most recent draft of the Board of Trustees’ Strategic Plan at a listening session on Monday. Students expressed concern over the Strategic Plan’s language, which they called ambiguous and unpromising.

Community Calls for More Details in Strategic Plan

Oliver Bok, Editor in Chief November 20, 2015

Almost all the students at the listening session on Monday had the same overarching question in reaction to the Strategic Plan draft: Where are the specifics? “This whole document doesn’t say anything;...

Community Funds Scholarship for Undocumented Students

Leila Miller November 20, 2015

After sustained student activism, the College is beginning to develop resources for undocumented students, who often face financial and emotional strain and require more institutional support than those...

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