Student Senate On Supporting UAW
Henry Hicks and Austin Ward
March 6, 2020
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. This statement was originally released in an email to the entirety of the student ...
A Note of Thanks from OSTF’s Producing Artistic Director
Paul Moser, Professor of Theater OSTF Producing Artistic Director
March 6, 2020
The Oberlin Summer Theater Festival is closing its doors and will not be offering a 2020 summer season. Nagging fiscal and staffing problems that we’ve found increasingly challenging to overcome have finally come to a head and made the operation unsustainable. A group of us started OSTF in 2009 as an e...
Don’t Buy Into Mass Coronavirus Hysteria
Leo Hochberg, Columnist
March 6, 2020
Coronavirus has now spread to 81 countries after breaking out in Wuhan, China just a few weeks ago, with over 97,800 confirmed cases and 3,332 confirmed deaths as of March 5. As is typically the case with contagious diseases, false news, overblown risk assessments, and conspiracy theories have spread quickl...
Why Tear Down Our Heroes? We Need Them Now
Peter Takács, Professor of Piano
March 6, 2020
Saturday night, I went to Finney Chapel to hear Beethoven’s first two symphonies. It was exhilarating — hearing fresh, committed performances of revolutionary music. The student performers were on the same wavelength with each other and with our wonderful conductor, Professor of Conducting Raphael...
Oberlin Must Be Sure to Take Care of Neighbors, Workers
Booker C. Peek, Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies
March 6, 2020
Most of us agree that Oberlin College must pay all its workers a living wage. But perhaps not all support this view. There is no universally agreed-upon definition for what amount of dollars represents a “living wage” — a sum for one person or a family of four, for those living in the most expe...
Pro-UAW Activism Shows Best of Obies
February 28, 2020
With only one day’s notice after President Carmen Twillie Ambar announced the College’s plan to formally consider outsourcing 108 United Automobile Workers jobs, over 600 students and other community members assembled outside of the General Faculty meeting on Feb. 19 to voice their support of union...
In Congressional Race, Let the Boys Fight; A Woman Will Prevail
Ilana Foggle, Columnist
February 28, 2020
For the past year and a half, we have seen constant coverage of one primary and one primary only: the Democratic presidential primary. At this point, many Oberlin students and community members have already decided who they will be voting for as the Democratic nominee for president. Yet, if you asked O...
Join OCSA in Coronavirus Support
Yan Jin and Rena Wang
February 28, 2020
Editor’s Note: All interviews in this article were conducted in Chinese and have been translated into English by the writers. Responding to the outbreak and spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus, the Oberlin Chinese Student Association started a fundraising campaign Jan. 27, seeking donation...
Beethoven’s Dead — Can We Move on Now?
Clayton Luckadoo, Contributing Writer
February 28, 2020
With Beethoven’s 250th birthday coming up, there are innumerable plans to celebrate the prolific composer worldwide. Among other activities, Oberlin Conservatory students will perform the legend’s complete symphonies and string quartets in his honor. While this is a grand undertaking, and the inten...
An Open Letter to Students
Susan L. Phillips, OC ’76
February 28, 2020
It’s with sincere and profound sorrow that I want you to know that the Susan Phillips Social Justice Scholarship Fund spring interviews have been suspended indefinitely. I know that this will disappoint the students who have benefited from stipends each summer for the past four years, and will d...
Students Call for Open Dialogue Regarding UAW
Jess Wilber, College third-year, Jemma Johnson Shoucair, College second-year
February 28, 2020
As students of the Oberlin community, we are writing to call on our fellow students and faculty members in an appeal to President Carmen Twillie Ambar. It is time to launch an open dialogue with the entire Oberlin community to discuss and explore creative ways to retain individuals who have made i...
Athina Apazidis, Staff Cartoonist