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...
When I left to go to college, my mom made a simple request. She told me to record a one second video on my phone every day and send it to her. She said these videos could be of absolutely anything, from...
The remainder of this month is all about countdowns. Six hours until reading period begins. Six days until the first day of finals. Eleven days until the majority of our student body makes a break for...
When I was walking through Tappan Square the other morning, not at all minding the puddles, I stumbled over a disembodied marble hand.
All around in the grass there were broken pieces of statuary. Half...
College fifth-year Libby Salemi went on medical leave during the second semester of her first year. After dealing with panic attacks that made it impossible to focus on her studies, she decided to take...
