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The Oberlin Review

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The Oberlin Review

Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review

Dr. Carmen Phelps, a Multicultural Resource Center director candidate, speaks to students on Wednesday. Two
other candidates, Dr. Millicent Carvalho-Grevious and Dr. Teresita Levy, will visit the College Friday and Monday, respectively.

Search for MRC Director Continues as Candidates Visit College

Xiaoqian Zhu December 12, 2015

Only three candidates remain in the search for the new director of the Multicultural Resource Center. The first candidate to visit was Dr. Carmen Phelps, the director of Student Engagement for the Office...

Junior Ben Venerdi propels himself over the bar during Oberlin’s spring 2015 season. The Yeomen and Yeowomen started their season strongly at Mount Union College, with sophomores Lilah Drafts-Johnson and Monique Newton earning NCAC Player of the Week honors for their performances.

Oberlin Races Ahead With NCAC Honors

Sam Kreisberg December 11, 2015

The track and field team opened its winter season last Saturday in Alliance, Ohio, compet­ing in the Purple Raider Toy Drive Invite. Oberlin was joined at the invita­tional by host University of Mount...

Syracuse, NY, punk band Perfect Pussy delivers a passionate, experimental performance at the ’Sco Monday night. Frontwoman Meredith Graves,
center, provided politically charged vocals that unified her band’s sound.

Triple Bill Cohesive Despite Stylistic Differences

Danny Evans, Arts Editor December 11, 2015

Perfect Pussy, Fielded and PWR BTTM each appeal to very different audiences. Perfect Pussy, a punk band from Syracuse, NY, has earned comparisons to everyone from hardcore icons like Earth Crisis to British...

In College senior Preston Crowder’s play The Monsters Underneath, Giselle (College junior Zoe Davidson) argues with her daughter Syn (College sophomore Deja Alexander). The play, which deals with the effects of abuse and subsequent healing processes, premiered at Little Theater Dec. 3–6.

Actors Impress in Psychological Drama

Louise Edwards, Arts Editor December 11, 2015

Editor’s Note: This article discusses sexual violence and abuse. In College senior Preston Crowder’s play The Monsters Underneath, the Warington siblings descend on the family home in Moore Hills,...

Construction workers assess the situation within the new Lewis Gateway Center, which the College borrowed $18 million to build. The rating agency Moody’s Investors
Services recently downgraded the College’s credit rating partially because of the College’s debt level.

Moody’s Downgrades College’s Credit Rating

Oliver Bok, Editor in Chief December 4, 2015

The College has too much debt and depends too heavily on students for revenue, analysts from Moody’s Investors Service say. Moody’s, one of the two most important credit-rating agencies along with...

College sophomore and Student Senator Jesse Docter listens at the trustee forum on Thursday night. The forum included discussion of divestment and student input in decision making.

Students to Trustees: We’re Not Being Heard

Tyler Sloan, Editor in Chief December 4, 2015

With final exams looming and fall semester coming to a close, the Board of Trustees-Student forum in King Hall on Thursday night was sparsely attended. Still, students and trustees engaged in discourse...

Sixth-grader Tnadja Williams reads her poem “Grandmother” from Eileen Hickerson’s and Nicholas Sakola’s class anthology, “Put Your Attitude into Space,” at the Cat in the Cream. The event featured Langston Middle School students reading poems written in classes led by Writers-in-the-Schools Director Lynn Powell and
College students in the Teaching Imaginative Writing workshop.

WITS Poetry Residencies Expand

Louise Edwards, Arts Editor December 4, 2015

Seventh-grader Leo Carter read his poem “Sequoia Trees” at the Langston Middle School poetry reading and book launch at the Cat in the Cream Monday. “So tall, it looks like they could / shishkabob...

Senior center and Review Sports Editor Randy Ollie protects the ball from his Muskingum University opponent in the Yeomen’s home opener Tuesday night. The Yeomen’s 102–94 victory over the Fighting Muskies brought them to a promising 2–0 to start their season.

Yeomen Firing on All Cylinders

Harrison Wollman, Staff Writer November 20, 2015

The men’s basket­ball team kicked off the 2015–2016 campaign with two impressive victories, defeating Kalamazoo Col­lege Saturday with a score of 91–81 and Muskingum University on Tuesday to the...

Students Ticketed by State Police at ’Sco

Louis Krauss, News Editor November 20, 2015

College sophomore Alizah Simon unsuspectingly encountered undercover state police officers outside the ’Sco on Friday night. For carrying a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, Simon was confronted and ticketed by...

College sophomore Carlos Armstrong smokes a cigarette in Tappan Square. The public park will become a designated smoking area for students after the College implements the tobacco-free policy on July 1, 2016.

Tobacco Ban Enforcement Remains Unclear

Jake Berstein November 20, 2015

As the College inches closer to July 1, 2016, the day the tobacco ban goes into effect, it remains unclear how the ban will play out in practice. “Exactly how the ban will be enforced is extremely...

Students and faculty members discuss the most recent draft of the Board of Trustees’ Strategic Plan at a listening session on Monday. Students expressed concern over the Strategic Plan’s language, which they called ambiguous and unpromising.

Community Calls for More Details in Strategic Plan

Oliver Bok, Editor in Chief November 20, 2015

Almost all the students at the listening session on Monday had the same overarching question in reaction to the Strategic Plan draft: Where are the specifics? “This whole document doesn’t say anything;...

As Lucretia, Conservatory senior Rebecca Printz rests while Tarquinius, played by Conservatory senior Michael Floriano, lurks in a doorway. 'The Rape of Lucretia,' performed Nov. 11, 13, 14 and 15 by Oberlin Opera Theater and the Contemporary Music Ensemble, uses sexual violence against the title character as a metaphor for the destruction of Western Europe during World War II.

Field Crafts Sensitive Production of ‘Lucretia’

Louise Edwards, Arts Editor November 20, 2015

Editor’s Note: This article discusses sexual violence and suicide. At the end of the opera The Rape of Lucretia, which the Oberlin Opera Theater and the Contemporary Music Ensemble presented on Nov....

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