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The Oberlin Review

Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review

Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review

College Must Engage Community on Cuts

Editorial Board February 10, 2017

Administrators constantly state that the College’s current financial model is unsustainable. Expenses exceed revenue, mostly generated from an increasing tuition, and the situation will likely continue...

Berkeley Protesters Exercising, Not Curtailing, Free Speech

Rowan Bassman, Contributing Writer February 10, 2017

Hateful speaker and Breitbart News senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos was prevented from speaking at University of California, Berkeley on Feb. 1 by students and community members in a massive, successful...

Corporate Activism Undermines People’s Power

Sami Mericle, Opinions Editor February 10, 2017

Joining the rush of activism that has greeted President Donald Trump’s first few weeks in office, corporations — particularly those that cater to liberal millennials — have been eager to prove that...

Philosophy Departments Lack Diversity

Jackie Brant, Opinions Editor February 10, 2017

Despite having been warned about unequal gender distribution in the field, I was disappointed when I walked into my first day of Problems of Philosophy last semester and found few women in the room. While...

Students Demand Administrative Transparency

Andrés González, Kai Joy, Contributing Writers February 10, 2017

Oberlin’s administration has a transparency problem. The administrative body and the Board of Trustees have continuously left students out of both mundane and critical decision-making, and students are...

Guns, Not Bears, Threaten Ohio Schools

Amber Scherer, Columnist February 10, 2017

In the first confirmation vote to ever require a tiebreaker, the Senate confirmed Betsy DeVos as education secretary Tuesday. DeVos was one of President Donald Trump’s most controversial cabinet nominees,...

To Enable Social Mobility, Start Before College

Ben Silverman, Columnist February 10, 2017

A study by The Equality of Opportunity Project recently featured in The New York Times painted a dramatic picture of the socioeconomic statuses of students in elite colleges and universities: Students...

Stalinist Left Attempts to Silence Free Speech

Bob Gross, Oberlin Visitor February 10, 2017

To the Editors: As much as those on the left see Trump as a Hitler in the White House, moderates like myself see the left as wanting a Stalin in the White House. In Stalin’s Soviet Union, speaking...

I Live for the Applause

I Live for the Applause

Brian Tom, Contributor February 10, 2017

Student Senate Candidate Statements

February 6, 2017

Elections are currently live for Student Senate, and will remain open until 9 p.m. Friday or until a 20-percent participation threshold is reached. Listed below, in alphabetical order, are the candidates...

Journalists Must Remain Adversarial

Editorial Board February 3, 2017

“You’re not supposed to be sycophants,” Barack Obama told journalists in his final press conference as president. “You’re supposed to be skeptics; you’re supposed to ask me tough questions.”...

Oberlin Must Stand by Community Bill of Rights

Ellen Mavrich, Contributing Writer February 3, 2017

The arctic ice is melting. The beginning of a great extinction is upon us. The money being invested into fossil fuel infrastructure must be redirected into renewable energy now if we are to truly address...

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