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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Ori Josell, President of Obies for Israel
• April 26, 2024
Since the Oct. 7 massacre, during which Hamas militants brutally murdered children and Holocaust survivors because they were Jewish, some Oberlin students have attempted to delegitimize Israel, refusing...