The Board of Trustees will meet at the College next weekend, and according to Student Senate Liaisons Megs Bautista and Jeremy Poe, they appear set to lower the endowment payout, an action that could have...
City Council unanimously approved the Oberlin Police Department’s plans to restructure its format by increasing the number of sergeants and reducing the number of lieutenants last Monday. The revision...
The Lord-Saunders Dining Hall did not open for dinner on Sunday night, and some stations in Stevenson Dining Hall went unfilled.
While the closures may have been nothing more than a minor inconvenience...
The Oberlin City Council is inquiring about the city’s housing needs following its rejection of an affordable housing proposal last spring. The Council will evaluate these findings before moving forward...
The College’s new supercomputer, SCIURus, is now open in the Science Center for student and faculty research, reasserting Oberlin as a leader in supercomputing capability among liberal arts colleges.
The...
Chloe Bird, OC ’86, is a senior sociologist at the RAND Corporation and professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School who specializes in the differences in healthcare between women and men, particularly...
Thursday, Sept. 17
12:16 a.m. Officers responded to a loud noise complaint at a Village Housing unit on South Professor Street. Students agreed to leave the area. A second complaint was filed at 2:16...
Kent Wong, professor at University of California, Los Angeles and director of the Center for Labor Research and Education, gave a talk at the College yesterday titled “Undocumented and Unafraid: A New...
Oberlin has found a new use for an old building: a museum commemorating the city’s role in the Underground Railroad, housed in the Gasholder Building on South Main Street behind McDonald’s. City Council...
The United Auto Workers, the labor union that represents facilities workers, is clashing with Oberlin College over proposed procedural changes. The College’s plan would levy a more rigid time-evaluation...
News briefs from the past week
Career Center Names Interim Director
The Career Center named Gayle Boyer its interim director on Tuesday following former director Richard Berman’s departure. Boyer...
The city of Oberlin wants to expand city limits to include the Lorain County Joint Vocational School, but the school doesn’t want to join.
JVS is currently located in Pittsfield Township, an unincorporated...