It was a less than eventful Sunday afternoon at the Slow Train Cafe until various students spotted a customer armed with an AK-47 assault rifle in line for a cup of coffee. Last week, dozens of protesters...
Environment Ohio, a statewide, citizen-based environmental advocacy organization, recently released a report detailing Ohio’s power plants as the second most polluting in the country. The plants are...
For the past several years, Oberlin students have grown accustomed to the Pharos-Uniprint system. Under this system, students sent their docu- ments to the printer, swiped their identification cards at...
The Oberlin administration is incrementally implementing many of the proposals put forward by student working groups in the wake of the bias incidents last spring. Although several of the proposals have...
Thursday, Sept. 12
9:26 a.m. Officers reported an incident of vandalism at Fred Shults Field. A six-by-four foot piece of sod was pulled up on the northeast corner. Several empty beer cans were also found.
4:28...
For the past several years, campus has been home to the Writing Center, an outlet for students to convene and work on their essays alongside trained writing assistants. Given Oberlin’s plethora of writing-intensive...
Oberlin’s chief of police received an email from Brian Kuzawa, a resident of Ashland County, on August 2, the day before the Oberlin Family Fun Fair. In the email, Kuzawa argued that as an Ohio resident,...
Over the summer, the Lily McGregor Sky Bar — part of the newly constructed Bertram and Judith Kohl Building — experienced some welcome changes that, according to the new Assistant Dean of Technology...
Thursday, Sept. 5
1:30 a.m. Officers were requested to assist a student who was ill from alcohol consumption in Noah Hall. The student was transported to Mercy Allen Hospital for treatment.
11:03 a.m....
Last week, Oberlin students made the trek to Ashland, OH to participate in a procession and prayer vigil that called for immigration reform. Joined by more than 40 other local activists, a dozen students...
The future of the Johnson House Carriage Barn, the wooden structure behind Johnson House and next to the Arboretum, remains in limbo. The current discussion over the barn was prompted by the plans to demolish...
When Walmart opened on the outskirts of Oberlin in 2006, Ben Franklin saw a drop in business, a drop some fear Watson Hardware will also experience in wake of the recent arrival of Ace Hardware on 297...