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Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review

Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review

Professor Talise’s Africana Studies dance class.

Professors Talise, Weedie Were Vital to Oberlin. What Now?

Celeste Wicks, Columnist May 10, 2024

  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...

Persian Should Be Added as Language Option at Oberlin

Zachary Stout May 10, 2024

  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...

Alumni Responds to Students’ Nonfactual Rebuttal Article

Karen Bekker May 3, 2024

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,...

We Are Not at War

Gavriel Vavel ben Yosef v’Chava Marshall Engel, Chair of Obies for Israel May 3, 2024

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...

Student Addresses Obies for Israel Letter

Nimala Sivakumar, Production Editor May 3, 2024

  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...

Long Live Student Resistance

Pelham Curtis May 3, 2024

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...

Students Senate Needs Transparency, Communication

Nikki Keating and Andrea Nguyen May 3, 2024

  Created in the 1960s during the Vietnam War, the Student Senate was the product of one of many student demands for increased decision-making power within the College. To say that Oberlin’s...

Mary Church Terrell Main Library provides study spaces for students.

Oberlin Should Rethink Study Spaces

Ariel Papas, Columnist May 3, 2024

  When I want to focus or study, I always crave a quiet space and a lot of natural sunlight. Naturally, libraries are my main hub for when I need to get in the zone and do a lot of work, but I...

Housing Pressure on Green Acres Heavily Due to Oberlin College

Aliza Weidenbaum April 26, 2024

To the Editors:  Thank you to both writers who commented last week on a particular space in town, the bit of land just east of IGA and the landscaping company, known as Green Acres (“Keep Green Acres...

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Not Consent Month

Avery Russell, Columnist April 26, 2024

All across Oberlin’s campus, you can find pink posters with white birds kissing perched on a golden frame, one bird asking the other “Is this cool?” This aesthetically pleasing and amusing poster...

Alum’s Article on Gaza Genocide Contains Numerous Misrepresentations

Zane Badawi and Jonas Nelson April 26, 2024

Since an open letter from Oberlin’s Jewish students was published in November (“Open Letter from Oberlin’s Jewish Students,” The Oberlin Review, Nov. 17, 2023), there have been several op-ed responses,...

Student Responds to Backlash Against AAA Teach-In

Nimala Sivakumar, Production Editor April 26, 2024

Editor’s note: This article was written in response to wide backlash against an event organized by the Asian American Alliance and the Muslim Student Association titled Holi Against Hindutva. This was...

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