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The Oberlin Review

Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review

Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review

$10 Term Bill Fee Funds Carbon Neutrality Efforts

Waylon Cunningham, Contributer March 14, 2014

Next semester, an extra $10 will be tacked onto term bills in order to finance Oberlin’s Green EDGE Fund. The Board of Trustees approved increasing a proposal last week to increase the Green EDGE Fund...

Joel Steiker, OC ’78, speaks at the Responsible Investment Organization’s symposium about respon- sible investment techniques. Steiker is a fund manager at Murex Investments.

RIO Investment Symposium Assesses Community Standards

Elizabeth Dobbins, Staff Writer March 14, 2014

Students, faculty and community members congregated in the Adam Joseph Lewis Center this weekend, foregoing the sunshine to attend the Responsible Investment Policy symposium. The symposium, which was...

Chris Crass, an author, activist and organizer, who will give a talk on Sunday entitled “Anti-Racist Organizing in White Communities”

Off the Cuff: Chris Crass, author, activist and anti-racist organizer

March 14, 2014

Author, educator and organizer Chris Crass is often at the forefront of multiracial and feminist movements. Crass sat down with the Review this week to talk about his experience as an activist and his...

Heated Senate Plenary Meetings Draw Audience

Madeline Peltz, Staff Writer March 14, 2014

Since Fearless and Loathing began recording Student Senate plenary meetings in February, Student Senate’s agenda has been a topic of much debate on campus. Persistent conflict in light of disagreements...

Q&A: Shane Joseph, College Sophomore and Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient

Madeline Stocker, News Editor March 9, 2014

On Wednesday March 12, Joseph will assist the College with a bone marrow transplant drive. Consisting only of a cheek swab and several pieces of paperwork, bone marrow drives have saved hundreds of lives...

Security Report: Feb. 27 — March 4, 2014

March 9, 2014

Thursday, Feb. 27 12:53 a.m. – Officers were requested to assist a student who injured her ankle while playing Frisbee at Williams Field House. An ambulance was summoned and the student was transported...

Leonidas Donskis is a member of the European Parliament and a philosophical and political scholar.

Off the Cuff: Leonidas Donskis, Lithuanian scholar of philosophy and politics, human rights advocate and member of the European Parliament

Rosemary Boeglin, Editor-in-Chief March 9, 2014

Leonidas Donskis is an author, politician and leading Lithuanian public intellectual. A strong advocate for civil rights, Donskis sat down with the Review to discuss his thoughts on European politics and...

Students and community members utilize the equipment on the second floor of Philips gym. The new gym, which is located in the basement of South Hall, will open this Saturday.

New South Campus Gym Promotes Community Fitness

Ava Keating March 9, 2014

South Campus’s new 24-hour fitness center located in the basement of South Hall is scheduled to open this Saturday. Administrators and students say they are optimistic that the new athletic facility...

Construction Begins this Spring on $32 Million Hotel Complex

Louis Krauss, News Editor March 9, 2014

The College will break ground on the construction of a new hotel, restaurant and conference center as an attachment on the Oberlin Inn later this spring. The Inn, which will soon be replaced by a projected...

Governor Kasich Faces Challenge with Democrat FitzGerald

Madeline Stocker, News Editor March 9, 2014

Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald arrived at Oberlin last Thursday, addressing an audience of students, faculty and community members in regards to his candidacy. FitzGerald, the Democratic candidate,...

More than a thousand students gathered in Finney Chapel for a convocation in response to persistent hate-related crimes on last spring’s Day of Solidarity. Zoe Madonna

One Year Later, Campus Commemorates March 4

Rachel Weinstein, News Editor March 9, 2014

Students and faculty commemorate the one-year anniversary of Day of Solidarity this week, hosting a series of events and forums in an effort to extend the conversations sparked last spring. “Some...

College junior Andrew Follman leads students at a RIO meeting on Thursday night. The organization will host a responsible investing symposium on March 8 and 9.

RIO Investment Symposium To Seek Community Consensus

James Koblenzer February 28, 2014

Although it was excluded from this month’s College-sponsored Oberlin Symposium on Divestment, the student-led Responsible Investing Organization will host its own symposium on March 8 and 9 to discuss...

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