LGBTQ+ Solidarity More Important Now Than Ever
Jackie Brant, Opinions Editor
October 11, 2019
The Supreme Court is in the process of hearing three different cases from New York, Georgia, and Michigan that will decide the future of LGBTQ+ rights in the workplace. Two of the three cases have been combined because both plaintiffs were fired immediately after coming out as gay in their workplace...
Arctic Melt and Sea Level Rise: Wake-Up Call for Gen Z
Ananya Gupta, Managing Editor
October 11, 2019
Scientists around the world are finally coming to the realization that the Jonas Brothers were right in 2006 when they sang, “I’ve been to the year 3000. Not much has changed but they lived underwater.” The consensus among several reputable international institutions — the U.S. National Oc...
Senate Progress On Transparency Sets Example For Administration
David Mathisson, Columnist
October 11, 2019
This semester, Senate has made transparency a priority in order to bring together our community and foster cooperation between students and the administration. Senate is working to release more information to students this year than at any time in the recent past, improving the student body’s acces...
Lever Press Represents Lever for Change
October 4, 2019
The current generation of college students faces many existential challenges. For good reason, the fight against climate change has recently received significant attention in the national media and in this publication, but it is not the sole crisis that we must contend with. Another fight that has ...
Carmen Ambar and Bobby Fuller: Contrasting Two Presidencies
Nathan Carpenter, Editor-in-Chief
October 4, 2019
Editor’s note: This column is part of a series that will focus on Oberlin’s history as a town and an institution. The series will be published regularly throughout the fall semester. “The time is ripe for a new look at the fundamental propositions and the fundamental building blocks that underlie...
Meet Your Student Senators: Part Two
Joshua Rhodes, Contributing Writer
October 4, 2019
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. In an effort to raise awareness for what Student Senate is, each senator has written a statement explaini...
Religious Beliefs Exploited for Personal Agendas
Kushagra Kar, Production Editor
October 4, 2019
Religion is the oldest form of control. From the implicit consequences of pre-colonial missionary efforts to the tangible control over rhetoric shaped by King James’ Bible, the pervasiveness of religious institutions throughout history cannot be ignored. By placing themselves in positions of reli...
One Oberlin Implementation Compromises Catholic Values
Claudia Baker, OC ’19 and Thomas Valle-Hoag, OC ’19
October 4, 2019
Many voices have already spoken up regarding the austerity measures recommended by the Academic Advising Program Review steering committee, an effort now known as One Oberlin. In the interest of highlighting a plurality of views on the subject, we want to speak against the austerity measures as Ca...
Nuclear Power Requires Critical Analysis
Shogo Ishikawa, Contributing Writer
October 4, 2019
The dangerous narratives employed in the article “Ishikawa Employs Dangerous Nuclear Narratives, ” written by Production Editor Christo Hays, surprised me (Sept. 27, 2019). Hays claimed that most of nuclear power’s existing problems, such as issues of waste disposal and fuel rod cooling syste...
National Popular Vote Represents Opportunity for Ohio
September 27, 2019
This week, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, a step that many felt she should have taken months ago. Calls for Trump’s impeachment date back to 2016, just after he became the second presidential candidate since 2000 to win the White Hous...
Meet Your Student Senators
Joshua Rhodes, Contributing Writer
September 27, 2019
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. It has been two weeks since Student Senate had our first weekly plenary meetin...
Ishikawa Employs Dangerous Nuclear Narratives
Christo Hays, Production Editor
September 27, 2019
For those who don’t keep up with the weekly jabs published in the Review’s Opinions section, here’s the short of the nuclear energy debate that has graced the past two editions: College third-year Leo Lasdun wrote a pro-nuclear energy article in which he cited a NASA study claiming that nuclea...
Michelle Liu