When I landed a job catching butterflies with the Forest Service, I didn’t expect to fall in love with toads. Yet as I worked all summer to restore a butterfly habitat in Michigan, I found myself looking...
Using Oberlin as a case study to address issues such as free speech, anti-Semitism and institutional racism, Nathan Heller explored the mindset of the modern student activist in the May 30 issue of The...
This summer, like many of you, I watched the Rio Olympics. As the games wore on, I was happy to see many of my Oberlin peers enraged by the blatantly sexist remarks by reporters and the subpar treatment...
Oberlin students likely spent the summer plagued by the question, “Is Oberlin really like that?” in reference to The New Yorker journalist Nathan Heller’s investigation of student activism on campus...
When I interviewed for the position of the Review’s Opinions Editor at the end of last semester, I stumbled over the first question: “Why do you want the job?”
At the time, I couldn’t honestly...
Roger Copeland, Professor of Theater and Dance
• May 8, 2016
In what must surely be one of the greatest lawyer jokes of all time, Groucho and Chico parody the jargonized mumbo-jumbo of legally-binding contracts in the “contract scene” in the Marx Brothers’...
I’ve written about a range of topics over the past four years, from international affairs to domestic politics to half-baked political theory. This is quite a week on which to end my column for the Review....
By now, it’s commonplace to hear diehard Oberlin food justice activists, and even mainstream Americans, talk about the agricultural company Monsanto with anger and hatred. Its name has become synonymous...
About two weeks ago I published a blog entry on my website, GQzine, called “Dear Diary, Humiliation, Grief, and a Call to Action.” I wrote about an experience I had at a meeting about privilege and...
To the Editors:
This has been an intense school year at Oberlin College.
Such is not a surprise. Oberlin is renowned and highly respected for its tradition and legacy of encouraging intellectual...
Editor’s Note: This op-ed contains discussion of medical malpractice, ableism, transphobia and homophobia.
In February of this year, The Guardian acquired a leaked report describing how a single Mercy...
