Security Report
April 28, 2017
Filed under NEWS, Recent Stories, Security Report
Thursday, April 20 2:27 a.m. Students reported an unknown individual walking out of their Union Street apartment. The Oberlin Police Department responded. Nothing was reported missing or damaged. The area was searched with no results. 2:37 a.m. Students reported an unknown individual, possibly intoxicated, attempti...
College Raises Tuition, Overhauls Room and Board
Louis Krauss, News Editor
April 21, 2017
Filed under Campus News, NEWS, Recent Stories
Attending Oberlin College will cost $69,372 next academic year thanks to a 2.8-percent tuition increase announced by outgoing Vice President for Finance and Administration Mike Frandsen via email Tuesday. The email lists significant changes to student dining and housing options that raise minimum...
Administrative Turnover Stalls Plan Implementation
Melissa Harris, News Editor
April 21, 2017
Filed under Campus News, NEWS
With significant turnover in senior administrative positions at the end of this year, faculty members are navigating different avenues of maintaining the Strategic Plan implementation committees’ goals during a major transitional period. Wednesday's faculty meeting opened with President Marvin Krislov's...
Purchasing Committee Addresses Nike Scandal
Sydney Allen, Production Editor
April 21, 2017
Filed under Campus News, NEWS
The College’s Purchasing Committee is preparing a response to a recent discovery that Nike — one of the school’s largest apparel providers — breached Oberlin’s Sweatshop-Free Apparel Code of Purchasing by buying from factories with unsafe working conditions and failing to permit outside...
Myers Named Permanent MRC Director, Aims for More Outreach
Johan Cavert
April 21, 2017
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Toni Myers is now the permanent Multicultural Resource Center Director after serving as interim director since May. In addition to supporting the MRC's goal of creating a welcoming space for students of diverse backgrounds, and identities, Myers hopes to expand the center’s community outreach and...
City Upgrades Alert System, Saves Money
Louis Krauss, News Editor
April 21, 2017
Filed under Community News, NEWS, Recent Stories
City Council will save thousands of dollars on the city’s emergency alert system by joining the Lorain County Wireless Emergency Notification System. The city’s alert system allows those who subscribe to receive notifications via text, phone call or email of various hazards such as...
Off the Cuff: Mindi Kuebler, Activist
Melissa Harris, News Editor
April 21, 2017
Filed under NEWS, Off the Cuff, Recent Stories
Mindi Kuebler is the director of the Human Trafficking Collaborative of Lorain County. Kuebler founded HTCLC in 2009 after working as a forensic nurse, specializing as a sexual assault nurse examiner. She runs the HTCLC with her professional partners Shawn Cleveland and Kristi Miller. The...
Security Report
April 21, 2017
Filed under NEWS, Security Report
Friday, April 14 1:35 p.m. A Safety and Security officer assisting a student at a Village Housing Unit on Professor Street found drug paraphernalia, which contained a substance consistent with burnt marijuana. A bong was confiscated and turned over to the Oberlin Police Department....
Course Catalog Unveils Cluster Plans
Sydney Allen, Production Editor
April 14, 2017
Filed under Campus News, NEWS, Recent Stories
Though many of the course clusters slated for next school year are not currently available in the course catalog, they will still launch this fall. Despite the hiccup in the “soft opening” of the program, as described by Associate Dean of the Curriculum David Kamitsuka, the program will kick off...
Altercation Leads to Arrest in Harassment Case
Melissa Harris, News Editor
April 14, 2017
Filed under Campus News, Community News, NEWS, Recent Stories
An intoxicated man verbally harassed three students with racial slurs and threatened them with a knife in the Asia House parking lot Monday morning. The perpetrator, Geoffrey George Raymond Basel, a 28-year-old white man from Columbia Station, Ohio, was reported to have been under the influence of alc...
Border Patrol Agents Detain Undocumented Man
Louis Krauss, News Editor
April 14, 2017
Filed under Community News, NEWS, Recent Stories
Federal Border Patrol Agents arrested a man on his way to Oberlin Municipal Court April 5 after learning his visa had expired. Naranbaatar Ganbaatar, a 30-year-old Mongolian citizen, was charged with felonious assault following an incident on Feb. 15 when he allegedly attacked a bus passenger on the way to...
Council Mulls Bringing Medical Marijuana to Town
Jenna Gyimesi, Staff Writer
April 14, 2017
Filed under Community News, NEWS, Recent Stories
City Council is considering bringing the medical marijuana industry to Oberlin in hopes of revitalizing the local economy. Councilmembers in favor of a resolution allowing manufacturers and distributors to set up camp in town are hopeful that others will get on board with the proposal. A law passed in Colu...