On Aug. 14, 2024, the Oberlin Board of Trustees rejected Students for a Free Palestine’s Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions-based proposal to divest from Israel and shared a response explaining why....
May is Celiac Disease Awareness Month. Unfortunately, the Office for Disability and Access has demonstrated that they do not see Celiac as a serious condition that warrants housing and dining accommodations.
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This past Saturday was the 54th anniversary of the Kent State massacre. On May 4, 1970, four Kent State University students — William Knox Schroeder, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, and Allison Krause...
The College and City of Oberlin have always been a place of change and liberation. At the center of the abolitionist movement in the 19th century, Oberlin has always excelled at being a community with...
On Tuesday, April 23 the U.S. Senate approved a $95.3 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Despite a Senate that often struggles to pass bills, the bill had large bipartisan...
Ori Josell, President, Obies for Israel
• May 10, 2024
On May 3, Nimala Sivakumar’s article “Student Addresses Obies for Israel Letter” was published in the Review as a response to my letter, “Zionism is De-Colonialism: Liberal Origins of Modern Israel”...
I have only taken two Dance classes here at Oberlin. The first was awful. For two years, I wrote off dance at Oberlin. Finally, this semester, I took Dances of the African Diaspora with Professor...
While Oberlin offers several languages such as Arabic — which should be expanded — it does not offer Persian as a language option. This should change.
Persian is another interesting and...
An April 26 article in the Review was titled, “Alum’s Article on Gaza Genocide Contains Numerous Misrepresentations.” Although the article purports to address my own previous writing in the Review,...
A letter from an Oberlin student, to his community.
Why must there be another letter about the war in Gaza? How can anything new and productive possibly be said, now that so much energy and ink has...
Every hour that passes, 15 people are killed in Gaza — six are children. Thirty-five people are injured. And according to the Israel Defense Forces’ own report, in the first six days of the...
On Jan. 17, Israel destroyed Israa University, Gaza’s last standing university, according to the United Nations website. There are no universities left in Gaza. This, along with the murdering of academics...
