Booker Peek, Professor Emeritus, Africana Studies
• November 22, 2013
Dear Editors,
Many agree with former Vice President Dick Cheney that we have the world's most awesome military, one that is more powerful than those of Russia and China combined. And Dick Cheney argues...
With controversy on the rise regarding the Student Senate bill that would ban tobacco on campus, I would like to respond to Machmud Makhmudov’s commentary piece titled (“Tobacco-Free Policy Would Reaffirm...
The typhoon that decimated the central Philippines last week is but the newest and most urgent reminder about the growing realities global society will have to confront in the face of climate change. At...
Paul Buser, Contributing Writer
• November 15, 2013
With new iMacs in Mudd library and computer labs around campus, where do the old ones go? I’m talking about the the ones that are almost as flat as the new ones, and just as functional. I followed these...
Sam White, Contributing Writer
• November 15, 2013
Today marks the fifth day of a hunger strike led by Yeb Saño, Philippine delegate to the United Nations’ climate talks in Warsaw, Poland. In an emotional appeal on Monday, Saño expressed the grief...
To the Editors:
I’m sitting in Azariah’s Café. The snow from a few days ago still lingers, as the leaves reach the peak of their falling. Soon there will be no more, and the ground will be blanketed...
Prospective students have descended upon campus in the past few weeks to determine if Oberlin is the school at which they can imagine spending four formative years. The perception these impressionable...
The last couple of weeks have been a blizzard of diplomatic activity. For the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart, Mohammed Javad Zarif,...
To the Editors:
Student Senate would like to take the opportunity to correct a few inaccuracies in the recent Review article (“Campus Divided over To- bacco Ban,” The Oberlin Review, Nov. 1, 2013)....
When I joined a co-op last year, I was really excited to break free of the athlete-oriented culture I had been immersed in during my glorious and short stint playing varsity soccer. I couldn’t wait to...
Last week The New York Times published an article citing declining in- terest in the humanities at colleges across the nation. Quoting faculty from Stanford and Harvard, as well as our fellow small liberal...
Last week, The Oberlin Review published an article titled “Campus Divided over Tobacco Ban” (Nov. 1, 2013). As a member of the team working to implement a tobacco-free campus, I would like to take...
