Sundance, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) people, is the executive director of the Cleveland American Indian Movement and the business coordinator for the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association. On April...
Last week, Oberlin City Schools announced that it will expand its preschool program from four days a week to five for the 2022–23 academic year. OCS officials hope this decision will grant children greater...
Former Oberlin City Council President Heather Adelman joined Oberlin College as its new sustainability manager Monday. To avoid a conflict of interest, Adelman announced her resignation from City Council...
Ohio Updates
COVID-19 cases are slowly rising again in Ohio. Between April 1 and April 28, the state recorded 20,759 new cases, 585 hospitalizations, and 55 deaths. There has been a daily average of 1,247...
Thursday, April 21, 2022
1:51 p.m. Campus Safety officers observed that the lettering on the “Welcome to Campus Safety” sign located in the lobby of the Campus Safety Office displayed profanity....
This week, the Council of Chief State School Officers named Oberlin High School history teacher Kurt Russell as the National Teacher of the Year 2022. To celebrate his accomplishment, teachers, students,...
On Wednesday, the College announced that it would loosen its mask mandate by making masks optional in dorms and residential areas. Less than 48 hours after the announcement, the College reversed the decision...
The Career Development Center recently welcomed Anthony Pernell-McGee as its new executive director. Pernell-McGee replaces former Executive Director Dana Hamdan, who stepped down from her position last...
Members of Oberlin’s identity organizations are collaborating to start a POC Coalition on campus. Students originally came up with this idea to create a safe space where students of color could discuss...
Two lawsuits with Oberlin College as a named defendant — the 2019 Gibson’s Bakery suit and a 2020 hiring discrimination suit filed by former Dance professor Alice Blumenfeld — have progressed this...
Julian Mitchell-Israel, OC ’21, is the field director for the Amazon Labor Union, an independent union that recently won the first Amazon union election in the United States. He studied at Oberlin and...
Editor’s note: This article discusses anti-Black racism and sexual assault.
Last week, the College finished circulating its fourth Higher Education Data Sharing Sexual Assault Campus Climate Survey....