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...
Steve Volk is a professor of History and founding director of the Center for Teaching Innovation and Excellence at Oberlin. In 2011, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie...
Oberlin College’s 44-year-old athletic facilities, Philips gym and Robert Carr Pool, are slated to undergo major renovations this March. Additions to the space will include a new fitness center, more...
Known fondly by many as “Auntie Na,” Detroit-based community organizer Sonia Brown is the proprietor of a house that many consider to be more than a home. The owner of a space that serves copious purposes...
