To our friends in the Oberlin community:
We are the three officers of the Oberlin Alumni Association and are proud to be part of Oberlin’s long and proud tradition of standing upright and facing issues...
Roger Copeland, Professor of Theater and Dance
• November 20, 2015
To the Editors:
In a feisty essay published in last week’s Review, columnist Cyrus Eosphoros delivers the following ultimatum to Oberlin’s faculty: “If a professor feels like putting their students...
To the Editors:
The Review’s Nov. 13 article “Concerns over Parking Grow as Magpie Closes” fails to mention that the former RAX Restaurant had seating for 60 customers with a parking lot for 63...
I have no objection to professors warning students that some information discussed in their classes may be emotionally challenging or difficult to hear. In fact, it is part of a professor’s job is to...
The Paris terrorist attacks were shocking, but one particular detail was especially surprising: One of the suicide bombers who attacked the Stade de France was a Syrian refugee, according to his passport....
James O’Leary, Contributing Writer and Frederick R. Selch Assistant Professor of Musicology
• November 20, 2015
A close friend and colleague from Paris sent me a dispatch from her university. She wrote:
“I’m just coming out of the Sorbonne, where the French president and members of the government had come...
The most pressing issue facing newly-elected City Council members is the allocation of Renewable Energy Certificates, a benefit of Oberlin’s EPA Green Power Partnership. RECs were originally intended...
Megs Gisela Bautista, College fifth-year and Student Senate Liaison
• November 13, 2015
To the Editors:
To the Black students here at Oberlin College, as well as at the University of Missouri, Yale University, Claremont McKenna College, Howard University, Ithaca College and college campuses...
Content Warning: This article contains discussion of common triggers (rape, violence, abuse), as well as suicide and hostility to consent.
I am sick of appearing reasonable to people who believe common...
To the Editors:
Never underestimate the power of one small change. Just change one letter in a word and the meaning of that word is completely changed. Removing the letter “g” from “sing” gives...
To the Editors:
Oberlin Students for a Free Palestine wrote to the editors of The Oberlin Review earlier this semester. In the Oct. 9 letter, “Board of Trustees Condones Violence,” we reviewed the...
Journalistic ethics have been under close examination this past week. It seems like everyone has something to say about activists at the University of Missouri calling for privacy in the face of national...
