At Oberlin and across higher education in general, those studying STEM and those studying humanities rarely branch out toward their disciplinary other. By extension, the practice of glorifying hyper-specialization...
The spring of 2018 marked the second semester of my freshman year of high school. At the time, I was 14 years old, and I was starting to hear discussion among my peers regarding their exhaustive, and often...
Hanna Alwine, Opinions Editor
• September 16, 2022
I am trying to break my habit of checking Instagram every morning. I know I do it not because I want to know what has changed between 1 and 7 a.m., but because my morning scroll has become a ritual. There...
It’s no secret that there is a large discrepancy in the quality of different first-year dorms at Oberlin. While some have air conditioning, several lounges, and pool tables, others have hot, sticky rooms,...
Two days before the majority of students returned to campus, President Carmen Twillie Ambar announced that Harness Health Partners had decided not to provide a number of essential reproductive health and...
These past two and a half years of COVID-19 have made approaching health exceedingly challenging. In communities like Oberlin, where most students work, eat, and live together full time, this is especially...
The Third World Program House, located in Price House on South campus, has a rich and important history at Oberlin College. It was established in 1973 upon the principles of Third World Internationalism...
On May 20 of this year, the Oberlin Fossil Fuel Divestment Working Group sent a call to Oberlin officials to join the College’s commitment to campus-wide carbon neutrality by 2025 with a public pledge...
This fall, Oberlin welcomes its largest first-year class on record for the second year in a row. Many departments, such as Campus Dining Services and the Office of the Registrar, are figuring out how to...
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month is underway, and I’ve taken some time to reflect on what it means to be Asian-American at Oberlin. There have been some wonderful events on campus,...
It has been almost one year since I graduated from Oberlin. The Memorial Arch in Tappan Square still looms in my mind, as do the words of many of my professors. The Oberlin mindset of aspirational compassion...
