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The Oberlin Review

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The Oberlin Review

Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review

Associate Dean of Students Dana Hamdan explains the Career Communities initiative at an information session Wednesday, Dec. 5 in King Building.

New Career Communities Pilot Announced

Sydney Allen and Roman Broszkowski December 7, 2018

Associate Dean of Students and Interim Director of the Career Development Center Dana Hamdan unveiled the pilot for the Career Communities program in a series of four information sessions earlier...

ExCo Program Turns 50

Yan Jin and Saul Kester December 7, 2018

Oberlin will have its first ever ExCo Showcase on Thursday, Dec. 13 to commemorate the Experimental College program’s 50th anniversary. The Experimental College was founded in 1968 to supplement Oberlin...

Students fill their cups with hot cocoa at the Constituents Week event “Hot Chocolate with Ambar” Monday, Dec. 3 in Wilder Hall.

Student Representatives Reach Out During Constituents’ Week

Anisa Curry Vietze, Editor-in-Chief December 7, 2018

Student Senate and the Student Finance Committee collaborated with other student government organizations to arrange this year’s Constituents’ Week from Dec. 3 to Dec. 7. The week-long event was created...

Students and community members gathered in Wilder Bowl last Sunday night for the Grand Menorah Lighting Ceremony sponsored by Chabad at Oberlin. The event opened with remarks from President Carmen Ambar, followed by an a cappella performance by the Obertones. Rabbi Shlomo Elkan lit the menorah and led the crowd in three Hanukkah prayers. The event provided an opportunity for members of the Jewish community and others to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah.

“As an Oberlin student, I'm often really busy with my classes and other commitments and I don't make practicing religion a priority,” College senior Juliet Flam-Ross said, “but it was a really amazing feeling to be walking into the library to work on a paper and run into a Jewish practice that made me feel like I was home.”

Attendees were encouraged to bring gently used books for Chabad’s People of the Book project, an effort that donates books to people incarcerated in Lorain County.

Grand Menorah Lighting Unites Oberlin

Gabby Greene, News Editor December 7, 2018

Joseph B. Maiville, OC ’07, poses behind the circulation desk in Mudd library.

Joseph B. Maiville, Evening Circulation

Nathan Carpenter, Editor-in-Chief December 7, 2018

Joseph Maiville, OC ’07, is the evening circulation desk supervisor at the Mary Church Terrell library. He first visited Oberlin as a prospective student in the spring of 2003 and has lived here ever...

Security Notebook

December 7, 2018

Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018 5:41 p.m. Campus Safety officers were requested to assist a student who struck themself in the head with a piece of ice. Friday, Nov. 30, 2018 10:45 a.m. Officers were requested...

College sophomore Katie Kim passes out boba outside of Warner Concert Hall. Kim runs a small business Bobalin which she started last year after getting an honorable mention and $2,000 in the LaunchU competition.

Boba Businesses Open Debate on Campus

Gabby Greene and Andrea Wang November 30, 2018

Bobalin and Yeoba are two student-led boba businesses now in operation at Oberlin. Organizers for both businesses found that selling boba raises many questions about appropriation and ownership. Boba...

Students serve themselves at a dialogue dinner hosted at David Dorsey’s home as part of the Barefoot Dialogue program.

Sustained Dialogue Encourages Connection

Anisa Curry Vietze, Editor-in-Chief November 30, 2018

The Barefoot Dialogue program, which has been expanded this year as a presidential initiative, is an opportunity for Oberlin students to regularly meet for a meal and engage in intimate and vulnerable...

Seniors celebrate at Senior ’Sco Night, an event sponsored by the Senior ClassCouncil.

Senior ’Sco Night Raises Funds for Undocumented Student Fund

Roman Broszkowski, Senior Staff Writer November 30, 2018

Editor’s note: Senior Class President Ify Ezimora works for the Review as Sports Editor. The second Vice President and head of the event planning committee Jenna Gyimesi is News Editor. Oberlin’s...

CCL Fights For Climate Change Policies

Yan Jin November 30, 2018

Ray English, Emeritus Director of Libraries at Oberlin College and a member of Oberlin’s branch of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, joined 619 other volunteers from CCL in Washington, D.C. on Monday, Nov....

Jesse Milan Jr.

Jesse Milan, Jr., AIDS Activist

Sydney Allen and Maranda Philips November 30, 2018

Jesse Milan Jr. is the president and CEO of AIDS United, an organization dedicated to fighting the AIDS epidemic in the United States. He delivered a convocation address Tuesday titled “You are the Keeper...

Rabbi Shlomo Elkan and wife Devorah Elkan standing in front of their home with two of their children holding books from the book drive.

Chabad Sponsors Book Drive

Jenna Gyimesi, News Editor November 30, 2018

Chabad at Oberlin College Student Group is hosting “People of the Book Project: Bringing Books into Prison” through Sunday, Dec. 2. The group is seeking gently used books that will then be...

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