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Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review

28th Amendment Should Be Published
Kash Radocha, Senior Staff Writer • February 14, 2025

Among the restructuring and chaos occurring in Washington after the commencement of the Trump Administration, the National Archives and Records Administration needs to officially...

Revolution Without Strategy is Just Chaos
Nikki Keating, Editor-in-Chief • February 14, 2025

It takes just a glance — at a headline, a TikTok clip, or an infographic — to sense it: our country is spiraling toward darkness. From anti-transgender legislation to...

Black Authors Defy What’s Accepted To Create Change
Ella Powell, Opinions Editor • February 14, 2025

Black authors are not being listened to by people who hold high positions in institutions and society in general. Black writers, educators, and scholars have continuously...

Case Against Birthright Citizenship is Stronger Than You Think
Oliver Niehaus February 14, 2025

President Donald Trump’s recent executive order attacking birthright citizenship has reinvigorated the debate surrounding the constitutionality of birthright citizenship...

Statement From Several City Councilmembers Following 2024 Election
November 22, 2024

Dear Oberlin Community, Thank you for reaching out to us regarding the recent election results and their potential impact on our City and community.   As a collective response from the three of us,...

Professor Believes Trump Term is Chance for Democrats to Re-Organize
Marc Blecher November 15, 2024

To the Editors: The stupor many Americans are feeling provides the crucial, clarifying starting point: we’ve all been fumbling around in the dark, not seeing our country for what it really is. Something...

College Should Reinstate Arabic Professorship
Dorothy Koster Washburn November 15, 2024

To the Editors: There are two trends in collegiate academia that I believe are counterproductive. 1. The particularization of subject matter in a given subject. No longer do survey courses have an important...

Resident Requests that Students use Crosswalk Button
Richard McDaniel October 11, 2024

To all the new first-year students, I say “Welcome to Oberlin!” To all returning students, I say “Welcome back!” My purpose in writing is to ask of the entire student community a simple act —...

Your Humanities Degree is Valuable
Delaney Fox, Editor-in-Chief • February 14, 2025

Perhaps, if you’ve been paying attention, you’ve noticed that Oberlin is changing. In 2024, Oberlin announced the addition of five new majors to the College — Business, Financial Economics, Data...

Progressives Remain Unprepared for Trump
Isaiah Johnson, Opinions Editor • February 7, 2025

In just a little over a month, President Donald Trump has initiated a swath of assaults against the most vulnerable communities in the country and beyond. Over 1.4 million undocumented people in the United...

Bolivian Student Reflects on Flaws in Immigration System
Noah Zemans Góngora February 7, 2025

“We are a nation of immigrants.” Yes, we are a nation of immigrants, as the signs protesting President Donald Trump’s new immigration policies say. Fear and anger have spread across the United States...

A Bathroom Bill zine has been distributed across campus.
Admin Should Resist Bathroom Bill
Pelham Curtis, Columnist • February 7, 2025

In a zine that appeared around campus as classes started this week titled “Pissed Off About the New Bathroom Rules?” an anonymous trans person wrote, “The worst part of all of this is that the college...

Students gather for SFP protest
Executive Order Threatening Protester Deportation Dangerous, Unconstitutional
Zane Badawi, Columnist • February 7, 2025

On Jan. 29, President Trump issued Executive Order 14188, titled “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism,” in which he declared, “It shall be the policy of the United States to combat anti-Semitism...

Tougher Criticism Needed in Writing Workshops
Lauren Moore, Columnist • February 7, 2025

A couple of weeks into my first year, I sat in a circle with my workshop group for my first-ever collegiate Creative Writing course — Introduction to Fiction Writing. We timidly muttered compliments...

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Vital to Workplace
Gabrielle Barnett, Columnist • February 7, 2025

Students gather to rally in support of Palestine.
SFP Rallies Against Board of Trustees
Zoe Goldstein, Emma Kellstein, Rafael Rio Hart, and Pelham Curtis December 6, 2024

This speech was originally delivered for the Dec. 3 demonstration outside of the Cox Administration Building. Students gathered to protest for divestment in preparation for the Board of Trustees’ arrival...

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