Nuclear Represents Best Option
Leo Lasdun, Contributing Writer
September 13, 2019
If you watched Chernobyl, HBO’s harrowing dramatization of the 1986 nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine, you probably noticed brooding scowls, gloomy stoicism, and pointed downtroddenness. It’s not surprising that a show targeted toward a mainstream audience would play up the tropes surrounding the...
Student Life Leaves Student Priorities, Voices Behind
David Mathisson, Columnist
September 13, 2019
Last Friday, when the police were patrolling campus and handing students jaywalking tickets in excess of $100, student voices called for a better solution. At the time, Campus Safety largely dismissed those voices. It took over a hundred people speaking up to gain administrative support for a solut...
College Should Respect Any Future Appeal Decision
Booker C. Peek, Emeritus Professor of Africana Studies
September 13, 2019
Oberlin College should pay the Gibson family a lot more than the almost $25 million that the very fine Lorain County jury awarded if it is a fact that former President Marvin Krislov and Vice President and Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo aided and abetted the student demonstrators to engage in act...
In Face of Adversity, Obies Keep On Keepin’ On
September 6, 2019
Over the course of the summer, many people around the country seemed to suddenly be worried about Oberlin students. An explosion of media attention following an initial verdict in the lawsuit filed by Gibson’s Food Mart & Bakery against the College and Vice President and Dean of Students Meredi...
Big Pharma Lawsuits Won’t Sufficiently Address Opioid Crisis
Jackie Brant, Opinions Editor
September 6, 2019
In a landmark case that concluded on Aug. 26, Judge Thad Balkman of Oklahoma ordered biotech company Johnson & Johnson to pay the state $572 million for their hand in the prescription opioid epidemic that continues to ravage the country. When I first learned of the case, I didn’t understand how the...
Examining Oberlin’s History Rewarding, Provides Insight
Nathan Carpenter, Editor-in-Chief
September 6, 2019
Editor’s note: This column is the first in 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. Through the decades, Oberlin has demonstrated a strong commitment to documenting and preserving its own hi...
Administration Must Return Our Eggs
David Mathisson, Columnist
September 6, 2019
Following student-organized CDS boycotts this past April, the administration offered several changes to available meal plans: $200 in Flex Points tacked onto the first-year and sophomore meal plan, reinstatement of the 200- and 100-meals-per-semester plans available to juniors and seniors, and prom...
Gibson’s Case Trivializes Actual Racism
Nicholas Isherwood, OC ’81
September 6, 2019
Like many alumni, I have followed the legal battle concerning Gibson’s Food Mart & Bakery with interest and horror. Decades of Oberlin students have enjoyed Gibson’s tasty doughnuts and other treats, and have come to know the family. I am not at all surprised that the jury ruled in favor of Gibson’s....
Media Coverage of Gibson’s Verdict Misses the Mark
June 18, 2019
Editor's note: Due to the scope of national media attention, the Review took the extraordinary step of covering the Gibson's verdict outside of normal publication dates. Because of limited staff capacity, the Review does not moderate comments during the summer, and letters to the editors in response t...
Solidarity Vital in Confronting Anti-Abortion Legislation
May 24, 2019
In recent weeks, reproductive rights have come under attack in numerous states across the country — most notably Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio. Ohio’s “heartbeat bill,” one of the first to be passed in 2019, bans abortion after six weeks into a pregnancy and makes no exceptions for cases of rape ...
AAPR Must Address Living Wage
May 10, 2019
At their core, the recommendations that the Academic and Administrative Program Review’s steering committee will submit to President Carmen Twillie Ambar in just a few weeks are a vision of Oberlin’s future that is informed by its past and present values. Sure, it’s a vision developed by a 31-pe...
Michelle Liu