Closing Dascomb Dining Presents As Many Problems As It Solves
March 9, 2018
Filed under Editorials, OPINIONS
While the administration’s potential decision to shut down Dascomb Dining Hall may reduce costs during a time of financial stringency, the decision has far-reaching implications that jeopardize the already-delicate balance of Campus Dining Services. Despite President Carmen Ambar’s transparency ...
Students Shouldn’t Bear All Cost of Incoming Financial Decisions
Duncan Reid, Contributing Writer
March 9, 2018
Filed under Commentary, OPINIONS
After listening to President Ambar’s presentation and going over the notes, one thing kept repeating itself in my head: That just doesn’t add up. President Ambar mentioned that our tuition is similar to our peer institutions, and thus a 3 percent increase is reasonable. While our tuition is roughly si...
Comic of the Week
Melissa Harris, Editor in Chief
March 9, 2018
Filed under Editorial Cartoon, OPINIONS
Britton’s Argument Collapses Under Scrutiny
March 9, 2018
Filed under Letters to the Editors, OPINIONS
Editorial To the Editors: Jacob Britton’s argument about the Founding Fathers and AR-15s is bold and contrarian, and I admire him for having the courage of his convictions. However, his argument does not stand up logically or empirically. At a time when American politics is infected from the top ...
Community Should Reflect Upon History of College Spaces
Kameron Dunbar, Columnist
March 9, 2018
Editor’s Note: This article contains mentions of sexual assault. I walk into North Hall every day. Most days, I forget that the official building name is “Langston Hall,” in honor of John Mercer Langston. That name may not be familiar to many, but this one may be: James Mercer Langston Hughes. ...
Founding Fathers Would Approve of AR-15 Sales
March 2, 2018
Filed under Letters to the Editors, OPINIONS
To the Editors: This letter is a response to the op-ed by Booker C. Peek regarding AR-15s and Constitutional law (“Constitution Does Not Automatically Permit AR-15s,” The Oberlin Review, Feb. 23, 2018). Toward the beginning of their case, Peek briefly reflects on the tragic mass shooting in Florida...
Students Must Protect Entirety of Oberlin, Not Just Specific Parts
Kameron Dunbar, Columnist
March 2, 2018
This article is part of the Review’s Student Senate column. In an effort to increase communication and transparency, Student Senators will provide personal perspectives on recent events on campus and in the community. President Carmen Ambar delivered her 10th comprehensive presentation on Oberlin’...
Lack of Gun Control Puts U.S. Education System at Risk
Nathan Carpenter, Columnist
March 2, 2018
In the more than five years since the December 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, it has become clear that gun control in the United States will not be achieved through the avenues that we have already explored. Congress has proven that it has no interest in challengin...
300-Meal Plan Scams First-Years Out of Tuition, Meals
Ilana Foggle, Contributing Writer
March 2, 2018
Filed under Commentary, OPINIONS
On April 21, 2017, I came to “All Roads Lead to Oberlin” after putting down my deposit for Oberlin a week earlier. I wanted to meet fellow incoming Obies, learn more about my home for the next four years, and convince my dad that, contrary to popular belief, going to Oberlin would not make me turn ...
Journalism Program Would Revitalize Academics
March 2, 2018
Filed under Editorials, OPINIONS
President Carmen Ambar is future-oriented. She thinks, as she says, in a “doubly futurist” way, in that Oberlin needs to reconfigure its coursework and infrastructure to not only serve children being born today who will be applying for college 18 years down the road, but also to equip them with too...
ObieHub Rams Expectations Hard
Madisyn Mettenburg, Production Editor
March 2, 2018
Filed under Commentary, OPINIONS
To anyone disillusioned with democracy — which is to say, anyone who has been keeping up with even a fraction of the hellstorm coming out of Washington — the Oberlin College administration’s decision to let the people pick a name for the new student website may have seemed fraught. PRESTO, Oberl...
Appeasement Policies Will Not Fix Doping
Duncan Reid, Contributing Writer
March 2, 2018
Filed under Commentary, OPINIONS
Four years ago, in something out of an Ian Fleming novel, the Russian government engaged in a conspiracy to successfully facilitate Olympic athletes doping and cover evidence that makes what Lance Armstrong did at the Tour de France look like petty crime in comparison. The world was appalled when the oper...
Melissa Harris, Editor in Chief
