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The Oberlin Review

Teach-Ins Are Inadequate Without Non-Violent Protests
Gregory Amenta, Staff Writer • October 4, 2024

Although Oberlin pro-Palestine groups launched a 200-person strong encampment on Wilder Bowl in late April, the organizers dismantled it after less than 48 hours. According...

Proposed Curfew Could Harm Student Health, Wellbeing
Lauren Moore, Columnist • October 4, 2024

I still remember my first Halloweekend at Oberlin. My friends and I had just left Organ Pump, and outside stood someone I knew. I saw her there, alone and clearly disoriented,...

Soomin Kim
Alumni for Oberlin Values Calls on Students
October 4, 2024

In 2020, Oberlin College outsourced 108 long-time custodial and dining positions. Much of the Oberlin community saw this as unnecessary, out of line with Oberlin values, and,...

Abstaining from Presidential Election Should Not Impact Local Elections
Rhys Hals, Columnist • October 4, 2024

During the Democratic primary earlier this year, the “Uncommitted National Movement” arose, led by Arab Americans angered by the ongoing genocide in Palestine. This year,...

Alumni Responds to Students’ Nonfactual Rebuttal Article
Karen Bekker May 3, 2024

An April 26 article in the Review was titled, “Alum’s Article on Gaza Genocide Contains Numerous Misrepresentations.” Although the article purports to address my own previous writing in the Review,...

We Are Not at War
Gavriel Vavel ben Yosef v’Chava Marshall Engel, Chair of Obies for Israel • May 3, 2024

A letter from an Oberlin student, to his community.  Why must there be another letter about the war in Gaza? How can anything new and productive possibly be said, now that so much energy and ink has...

Housing Pressure on Green Acres Heavily Due to Oberlin College
Aliza Weidenbaum April 26, 2024

To the Editors:  Thank you to both writers who commented last week on a particular space in town, the bit of land just east of IGA and the landscaping company, known as Green Acres (“Keep Green Acres...

Alums Should Fight for Annunciation House in Texas
Steve Volk April 19, 2024

To the Editors:  A legal battle currently unfolding in Texas is connected to Oberlin in various ways which speak to the College’s ongoing engagement with the struggle for human dignity. Migrants...

Criminal Justice System Direly Needs Racial Reform
Gabrielle Barnett, Columnist • September 27, 2024

Dozens of people had slowly lined up in front of  Missouri governor Mike Parson’s office last Tuesday, holding papers covered with thousands of signatures advocating for the halting of the execution...

Texas is More Than a Lost Cause for Democrats
Lauren Moore, Columnist • September 27, 2024

This year, my family gathered for Juneteenth at my cousin’s home. While family members gathered and talked, she worked diligently in the kitchen, cooking food from her home in Senegal. Her friends, also...

Oberlin’s Failure to Divest is Nail in Coffin of False Progressivism
Pelham Curtis and Olivia Wohlgemuth September 27, 2024

On Aug. 14, the Oberlin Board of Trustees put out a statement in Campus Digest formally denying the proposal to divest from Israel. The proposal, which garnered support from students, faculty and staff,...

No Choice on Israel-Palestine
Zane Badawi, Columnist • September 27, 2024

In June, George Latimer defeated incumbent U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman in a New York House race that hinged tightly on the former’s support for, and the latter’s criticism of, Israel. Bowman,...

Israel Mocks Democracy in Al Jazeera Shutdown
Nikki Keating, Editor-in-Chief • September 27, 2024

Earlier this week, Israeli soldiers infiltrated an Al Jazeera-occupied West Bank Bureau based in Ramallah and delivered a notice to shut operations down. Despite the territory being under Palestinian control...

L’union fait la force: Understanding Election’s Impact on Haitian Communities
Gabrielle Barnett, Contributor • September 20, 2024

Haiti’s motto, “L’union fait la force” – “unity makes strength,” represents the courage of the people when they are together and is tied to their cultural identity of liberation. Known as...

61 Years After Birmingham Church Bombing, Fight for Justice, Action Continues
Nikki Keating, Editor-in-Chief • September 20, 2024

On Sept. 15, 1963, 61 years ago, four young girls — 14-year-olds Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, and Carole Robertson and 11-year-old Cynthia Wesley — were murdered in a bombing at the 16th Street...

Oberlin Must Change Its COVID-19 Response, Adopt a Culture of Care
Pelham Curtis, Columnist • September 20, 2024

There is a saying, born out of activist circles, that has made its way into the common vernacular: we keep us safe. In a country where many people feel left behind by the push for a return to normal and...

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