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The Oberlin Review

Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review

Characters Kelly (Gugu Mbatha-Raw, left) and Yorkie (Mackenzie Davis, right) begin a relationship
that will undergo the test of time in “San Junipero,” the fourth of six new episodes in season
three of Netflix’s Black Mirror.

Black Mirror’s Abyss Stares Back

Christian Bolles, Editor-in-Chief October 28, 2016

Science fiction has always been fascinated by the cost of progress. Legendary genre writer Isaac Asimov’s pioneering I, Robot explored the murky line between artificial intelligence and humanity, proving...

Feature Photo: Petros Klampanis

Feature Photo: Petros Klampanis

Text by Christian Bolles, Arts Editor October 28, 2016

Greek-born double bass player Petros Klampanis stopped by the Cat in the Cream Thursday night for a Performance and Improvisation Series guest recital. After studying double bass performance at the Amsterdam...

Burglars Rob Lorenzo’s Twice

Oliver Bok, Editor in Chief October 28, 2016

When Lorenzo’s Pizzeria owner Larry Cariglio went to use his generator for a catering job on the morning of Oct. 15, he had a problem — the generator wasn’t there. Sometime between Friday at midnight...

Eboo Patel, president of Interfaith Youth Core

Off the Cuff: Eboo Patel, President of Interfaith Youth Core

Oliver Bok, Editor in Chief October 28, 2016

Eboo Patel is the founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core, an organization that works to promote interfaith dialogue on college campuses. In 2007, Patel published an autobiography titled Acts of...

Trustees listen to student concerns about Title IX at the Trustee Forum on Thursday night in King. Student activists also raised the issue of adding student representatives to the board.

Students Call for Representatives on Board

Sydney Allen, Editor-in-Chief October 7, 2016

As the trustees conclude their first campus visit of the semester, student activists are fighting for a change to College governance: student representatives on the Board of Trustees. Former Student...

Feature Photo: Leyla McCalla Trio

Feature Photo: Leyla McCalla Trio

Christian Bolles, Editor-in-Chief October 7, 2016

Leyla McCalla, a Haitian-American musician living in New Orleans, has toured the world on the tail of her 2013 debut album, Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes. She brought her cello, guitar...

MacArthur Genius Alison Bechdel, OC ’81, author of the award-winning graphic novel Fun Home and co-creator of the famed Bechdel Test, returned
to Oberlin to present to an audience of students and professors Tuesday.

Bechdel Returns to Oberlin to Talk “Fun Home”

Julia Peterson, Arts & Culture Editor October 7, 2016

Editor's note: This article contains mentions of suicide as well as spoilers for the graphic novel and musical Fun Home. Of all the brilliant lines from Fun Home, the stage musical based on the autobiographical...

Lights shine on the Kohl Building, which was partially funded by money raised in the Oberlin Illuminate
fundraising campaign, Thursday night. The College officially concluded the campaign
June 30.

Fundraising Campaign Rakes in $318 Million

October 7, 2016

Trustees, donors and volunteers will celebrate the end of Oberlin Illuminate, the most successful fundraising campaign in the College’s history, at a dinner tonight. Over the course of the seven-year...

Confidentiality Limits Dialogue at Trustee Forum

Louis Krauss, News Editor October 7, 2016

The Board of Trustees held this academic year’s first forum yesterday, inviting students to King Hall for intimate conferences with trustees, often the most direct channel for the community to address...

Framing of Race Series Seeks to Address Oppression

Oliver Bok, Editor in Chief October 7, 2016

While a distinguished speaker giving a talk on an important social issue might not be new at Oberlin, the event series that sponsored this talk, The Framing of Race, is. Duke Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva,...

Environmentalists Must Rally Behind Clinton

Kelly McCarthy, Contributing Writer October 7, 2016

No good thing comes without a cost. More than a century of rapid technological advancement has sent global temperatures skyrocketing at a rate 10 times faster than precedented by natural history. We’re...

Candidates Neglect Climate Change Dialogue

Amanda Tennant, Layout Editor October 7, 2016

With only a few weeks left until the general election, the candidates have debated a variety of domestic and foreign topics. Yet climate change and the United States’ role in combating it has barely...

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