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The Oberlin Review

Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review

Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review

Trustees to Reduce Endowment Payout, Student Senators Say

Oliver Bok, Editor in Chief October 2, 2015

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...

Oberlin PD Restructures Force

Louis Krauss, News Editor October 2, 2015

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...

Ann Backey, an employee of the Bon Appétit Management Company, serves pasta at Stevenson Dining Hall. Campus Dining Services has recently suffered from understaffing problems, and some employees say they feel very overworked.

CDS Workers: We’re Overworked, Disrespected

Oliver Bok, Editor in Chief October 2, 2015

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...

Green Acres Discord Prompts Housing Study

Katherine Kingma, Staff Writer September 25, 2015

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...

An inside view of the College’s new supercomputer, SCIURus. The updated system replaced its
10-year-old predecessor last spring, and opened for use this month.

New Supercomputer to Enhance Data Processing

Melissa Harris, Editor-in-Chief September 25, 2015

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, senior social scientist and
professor at the Frederick S. Pardee RAND
Graduate School, spoke about the gender
gaps in quality of care for cardiovascular disease
and diabetes at Oberlin last week.

Off the Cuff: Chloe Bird, RAND sociologist and professor

Oliver Bok, Editor in Chief September 25, 2015

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...

Review Security Notebook

September 25, 2015

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...

Feature Photo: Kent Wong, UCLA professor and activist

Feature Photo: Kent Wong, UCLA professor and activist

Oliver Bok, Editor in Chief September 25, 2015

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...

The Oberlin Gasholder Building, constructed in 1889 to store coal gas, will house the new Underground Railroad museum. The planning group is still finalizing
a construction timeline amid budget constraints.

City to Transform Gasholder into Museum

Kerensa Loadholt September 25, 2015

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...

Two facilities workers complete a work order. The College and the UAW have been at loggerheads
over an administrative proposal to record how long facilities workers spend completing work orders.

UAW, College Gridlocked Over Contract

Andrea Wang September 25, 2015

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...

Local News Bulletin

September 25, 2015

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 Joint Vocational School in Pittsfield Township is currently engaged in a legal battle with the city of
Oberlin. Oberlin sued the Lorain County Vocational School last June in an attempt to legally annex the school.

Vocational School Resists City Annexation

Oliver Bok, Editor in Chief September 25, 2015

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...

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