A couple of weeks ago, I met up with a friend who I hadn’t seen in a while for dinner. We exchanged pleasantries, chatted about life, and of course, because we are both second-semester seniors, the big question came up. “So, what are your plans for next year?” This has been the moment I’ve...
On Thursday, Dec. 23, 2023, the last day of my first semester at Oberlin, I walked into DeCafé and bought four packs of peanut M&M’s, two cans of Red Bull, and a bag of kettle corn. This was not a spontaneous splurge. For the past several weeks, I had been stockpiling junk food just as Yeobie...
Like many things that I have seen, heard, and read about from the past six months — and 76 years — of genocide, the statement from Palestinian activist and poet Yaffa that every queer Palestinian they knew in Gaza had been killed by Israel since October 7th shattered me. The horrific hypocrisy of...
I was on a walk one night last spring when I stopped in my tracks in front of South Hall. I gazed up at that public-library-looking-ass building, and it dawned on me: I would live here one day. Don’t ask me why I made a whole moment out of it; it was not a very ambitious goal. I moved in last...
On March 1, Nicaragua instituted proceedings before the International Court of Justice, alleging that Germany violated international law by funding Israel and defunding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. The Nicaragua case comes after the case filed by...
Oberlin College and the Politics Department should consider adding a National Security concentration. An International Affairs concentration, Journalism concentration, and a Business concentration have been recently added at Oberlin, which is a major step in allowing for concentration and exploration...
Oberlin Conservatory has a longstanding tradition of premiering new operas over Winter Term. The New Opera Commissioning Program, founded by...
Oberlin will be in the path of totality during the solar eclipse April 8. A variety of OCLIPSE events will be held on campus that day to celebrate...
March marks the seven-year anniversary of ARTEMIS, an all-women jazz supergroup from New York City. Founded on International Women’s Day in...
There is certainly no group out there quite like Imani Winds. The virtuosic quintet finds ways to combine the sounds of the past with futuristic...
The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is one of the most retold in history. Audiences may recognize more contemporary adaptations such as Hadestown...
On March 18, Director of Planning and Development Carrie Porter presented plans to develop the 15-acre Green Acres property owned by the City. The plan proposes dividing the property into parcels for the development of 17 market rate single-family homes, creating a public park, and leaving an area for...
Oberlin Community Services received $1.28 million in federal aid to assist in developing the Cooper Community Resource Center. The funding will improve and expand various resources, including a food pantry, emergency financial assistance, educational outreach programs, counseling services, and community...
On March 23, Oberlin released admissions decisions for prospective students who applied for Regular Decision for the class of 2028. During the reading period for applications, Oberlin admissions counselors reviewed 9,699 first-year applications to the College of Arts & Sciences. Before the Regular...
Oberlin City Council convened Monday for a regular meeting. Council President Eboni Johnson, OC ’97, presided over the meeting. Council Vice President Michael McFarlin was absent. All other Councilmembers were present. City Law Director Jon Clark summarized his memo to the Council, noting that...
Voters went to the polls Tuesday, March 19 to vote in primary and special elections in Lorain County. 48,687 citizens cast their votes in Lorain County, making up 22.1 percent of registered voters. President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump won the Ohio Democratic presidential primary and...
Israeli Missile Kills Six Humanitarian Aid Workers and Palestinian Driver Monday, six foreign aid workers with the World Central Kitchen and their Palestinian driver were killed in an Israeli airstrike. The workers were delivering food that had arrived hours earlier in Cyprus, and were struck after...
Last Wednesday, representatives from Students for a Free Palestine and Jews for a Free Palestine met with Board of Trustees Chair Chris Canavan, OC ’84, Vice President Matthew Lahey, and Board of Trustees Chair of the Investment Committee Sean Gavin, OC ’98, to discuss how the student organizations...
On April 3, LatinXcellence, a panel made up of four Latinx Oberlin professors, spoke at the Cat in the Cream. They discussed the importance of the visibility of Latinx and Hispanic people at Oberlin College and in higher education. The four panelists included professors from multiple fields: Visiting...
On March 29, Beyoncé released her eighth studio album, Cowboy Carter, the second installment of what is set to become a trilogy. Beyoncé rides into her album cover on a white horse, her long white hair flying behind her. She wears head-to-toe American garb, from her unadorned cowboy hat to her red,...
The Crane Wives, a band formed. in Michigan in 2010, has been an indispensable part of my development. I started listening to the band in 2018 after I stumbled across their album The Fool in Her Wedding Gown. I instantly loved the band. My music taste at the time consisted mainly of musical theater and...
Dr. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, associate professor and director of the MFA Creative Writing program at the University of Maryland, visited Dye Lecture Hall April 3 to read some of their recent and selected works. Bertram’s expertise and talent is widely recognized, as they previously held positions at...
The premise of Love Lies Bleeding alone is enough to cement it firmly into the canon of lesbian cult classic cinema: Kristen Stewart as a lonesome, futchy gym manager who falls hard for a hot-headed female bodybuilder in a pulpy, sexually-charged thriller released by A24. What’s not to love? Throw...
Learning the rules before you break them is a common sentiment across many disciplines, and radio work is no different. There are guidelines to keep in mind whether one is a podcaster or broadcaster, as well as generally accepted techniques for style and clarity. The field has been around long enough...
When the day grows long, a tangle of limbs drag across the hardwood floor, impatient with themselves. I climb to the windowsill, contort my body like geometry, wiry, knob-kneed, gravity-bound, watch as my mother, all the colors gathered in the small of her palm, begins to paint. Maya...
ACROSS 1. Baby horse 5. New York county bordering Pennsylvania 10. Sicilian volcano 14. Ocean predator 15. “Over the Rainbow” composer Harold 16. Colored part of the eye 17. Suspicious 19. Airport area 20. Violin bow application 21. Miner’s find 22. Temperature control syst. 23. Small...
One of my resolutions this year was to start watching more movies. I am someone who likes to be up to date on popular culture, but I realized that I really had no idea about the current state of film. I’d seen Barbie, because of course I had — it was the event of the summer. However, out of all of...
David Lengyel is the Observatory and Taylor Planetarium Coordinator for Oberlin College. As Oberlin prepares for the total solar eclipse on April 8, Lengyel has been meeting with an eclipse committee, helping organize the main event, and giving presentations around Lorain County. This interview has...
Jan Weintraub Cobb, OC ’71, is currently the President of the Alumni Leadership Council. Established in 2014, the ALC oversees the Oberlin Alumni Association and helps with any events or actions of the association. Cobb, as president, works on the Council with current students and alumni during the...
Emily Winfield is a prevention specialist at The LCADA Way, an organization dedicated to providing support for people struggling with addiction in Lorain, Medina, and Erie Counties. A graduate of the University of Mount Union as a public health major, she helps people in Lorain County struggling with...
Mike Telin, OC ’87, and Daniel Hathaway are visiting teachers of Music Journalism who have been reporting on the classical music scene in northeast Ohio since 2008. Their website, Cleveland Classical, has become one of the most respected digital publications in the region. They began teaching in 2011...
Could you share a bit about your background as a singer and a voice coach? I’m a graduate of the [Oberlin] Conservatory, 2003, just over 20 years ago, which is crazy. I grew up in a small town in Michigan, and at a young age I happened across a teacher who introduced me to classical singing. I studied...
Elizabeth Hanje is a fourth-year Vocal Performance major from Alabama. This February, the Tanzanian-American soprano won first place after performing in the 36th annual Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers Concert of Arias at Houston Grand Opera and received a $10,000 cash prize. Hanje is a...
Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, documentary filmmaker, teacher, and Zen Buddhist priest. She will be visiting campus Tuesday, March 19 to give a talk on Zen and the Art of Realizing Fiction in Dye Lecture Hall from 6–8 p.m. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. JR: How does being a...
College fourth-year Sofia Tomasic and College first-year Bella Schmitt are members of this year’s Drag Ball committee. Alongside other committee members, they have been working to plan the event and provide a new vision in hopes of making the event more exciting and invigorating for students. The 2024...
Laura Carlson-Tarantowski is a renowned scenic director and is a scenic designer and lecturer in Theater at Oberlin. She is in the midst of construction for the upcoming production of L’Orfeo, and talks about process, journey, and collaboration. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. What...
Lauren Mills is a third-year midfielder on the women’s lacrosse team. A double major in Neuroscience and Biology on the pre-medical track, she is constantly on the run. When Mills isn’t on the field, she can be seen working at the gym desks or preparing samples for other Biology class labs in the...
For student-athletes, finding a space that can support both their academic and athletic goals is hard enough. But the student-athlete experience is at its best when they are supported equally. College fourth-year and Bloomington, Indiana native Abby Cannon found that in Oberlin, a school that could support...
For graduating seniors who play sports in high school, a major factor in their college decision can center around sports. Whether someone is looking to play a varsity sport in college or keep their passion for their sport alive with club or intramural sports, having their sport offered can be the difference...
On Sunday, the undefeated South Carolina Gamecocks beat the Iowa Hawkeyes 87–75, in a rematch from the 2023 Final Four. The tournament took place at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, and was the first time since 2007 that the Final Four was hosted in Cleveland. With the top offensive teams competing...
MLB Seoul Series During the week of March 17, Major League Baseball brought their game to the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea for the first leg of the MLB 2024 World Tour. This year, the tour will span three continents, stopping in South Korea, the U.K., Mexico, and the Dominican Republic....
When Jared McCain donned his Duke jersey and stepped on court this season, he was focused on just one thing — leading the Blue Devils to victory. Although Duke lost in the Elite Eight to NC State, McCain was a bright spot throughout the season. As a freshman, he led his team in scoring in three of...
While many students were on break, spring sports teams had to stay back and continue their season, including the tennis, baseball, softball, track and field, and lacrosse teams. While some teams were in Oberlin for most of the break, other teams took road trips elsewhere to compete in tournaments. Women’s...
America has its own sport that is the same only in name, but to the rest of the world, football is elegant, precise, and most importantly, actually played using one’s foot. Played and celebrated across multiple countries and continents, billions have dedicated themselves and their viewership to teams,...
USWNT Wins Concacaf World Cup This Sunday, over 30,000 people gathered in San Diego to witness the finale to the Concacaf W Gold Cup, which had caused controversy last week after forcing the Canadian and U.S. teams to play in less-than-suitable conditions. Team captain Lindsey Horan and the USWNT...
Last Thursday night, I tuned in to the UC Berkeley vs. Stanford game in the Pac-12 tournament for women’s basketball. This was the last year of the conference’s existence and the teams inside were upset-prone to each other, making for exciting games. As a conference based on the West Coast, the Pac-...
Any athlete or fan knows this moment: a player falls to the ground, clutching his leg. The whistle blows, and the game freezes. An athletic trainer or coach rushes out to the injured athlete while other players take a knee. For a minute or so the crowd is silent and watches. Then, the player rises to...
On the weekend of March 2-3, the Oberlin baseball team continued their impressive start to their season as they completed a series sweep against Berea College. The games show an impressive start to the season as they were able to bounce back from two losses. On Saturday, March 2, the Yeomen won two...
The Oberlin men’s tennis team triumphed in matches in an easy victory against Otterbein University at home and a scrappy win against Ohio Northern University on the road last week. The Yeomen easily dispatched the Otterbein Cardinals on Oberlin’s indoor courts last Wednesday. The Oberlin squad...