It has been nearly three years since the Musikos Collective first hit the stage at Oberlin. Founded by three cello students in spring 2022, the...
The Performance and Improvisation Ensemble, or PI, is a uniquely collaborative ensemble that explores cross-cultural music. The ensemble engages...
CORRECTION: In the article “Djembe Orchestra Highlights Connection with West African Dance” (The Oberlin Review, Sept. 20, 2024), the Review...
This semester, the Conservatory announced a new Bachelors of Music in Recording Arts and Production, spearheaded by Director of Conservatory...
Fall 2025 will usher in a new program at the Conservatory: Music Theater. Faculty from Baldwin Wallace University’s Conservatory of Performing...
On Sept. 27, Student Senate sent out a survey to gauge student opinion on a proposal to limit tap access to residential buildings to only their residents between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. As of Tuesday, the survey has received more than 900 responses, more than 80 percent voicing concern and only about 13 percent...
During Homecoming weekend, Oberlin College held a dedication ceremony in Tappan Square to honor the life of George Boyer Vashon, OC 1844, the College’s first Black graduate. The College placed a plaque near a tree that was planted and dedicated in May to honor Vashon’s enduring legacy. Vashon...
This past weekend, Oberlin College celebrated the creation of a new professorship in Economics that was donated to the College by two Oberlin alumni and their families: Frank, OC ’64, and Paula Sloan; Richard Morgenstern, OC ’66, and Devra Davis. The donation will fund a new assistant professor position...
This past weekend, the Oberlin Alumni Association of African Ancestry reunited on campus in person for the first time in nearly a decade. Attendance of the event exceeded the expectations of OA4 co-chairs Carolyn Ash, OC ’91, and Ambre Dromgoole, OC ’15, who didn’t realize the scope of what they...
Last week, the U.S. News and World Report released their college rankings. Out of 211 ranked national liberal arts colleges, Oberlin placed 55th, four positions lower than last year, tying with Gettysburg College, Connecticut College, and Wabash College. This follows a drop of 12 positions the year before,...
Israel Invades Lebanon, Expands Bombing to Yemen; Iran Fires Missiles in Response In the past week, Israel has rapidly escalated its military campaign against the so-called “axis of resistance,” a regional network of political and militant groups backed by Iran that include Hamas, Hezbollah, and...
On Tuesday, faculty, staff and students gathered in room 106 of King Building for a lecture titled “Immigration and the 2024 Election” to address the recent harm inflicted on Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio after former President Donald Trump’s inflammatory statements during the Sept. 10...
Alex Da Corte, Philadelphia-based Venezuelan-American conceptual artist, drove to Oberlin Oct. 1 to present his nearly three-hour long film Rubber Pencil Devil. The film featured 57 distinct sequences presented alongside live commentary from the director. Double-degree fifth-year Orson Abram, one of...
On Saturday, Oct. 5, Drew Matott, co-director of Peace Paper Project and master papermaker, will lead a demonstration of papermaking in the Mudd Center Contemplation Garden. Students will be able to turn articles of clothing into paper, expressing their creativity and sentiments through art. Matott will...
With the air growing colder and the leaves growing redder, the mist of October is finally creeping into Oberlin. Halloween grows closer, and plenty of students are preparing to be in an appropriately spooky mood. If you ask, you’ll hear whispers of the ghosts that haunt Tank Hall and Johnson House;...
Despite the notion that animated films are primarily for kids, they exist for everyone. Films such as WALL-E, Toy Story, and Ratatouille tell meaningful, emotional stories that appeal to a wide range of viewers, regardless of age. Today, I’m happy to report that Dreamworks’ new animated film, The...
Pray tell, do your ears share what others hear? Or are they hollow? Harvested with a collection of nests and frayed willow bark. If you could pray, tell me what language you speak? I have many inquiries left untouched… perhaps your phone disconnects when a call is heard, mayhaps you...
What if walls could talk? This is the question that Professor of Studio Art Sarah Schuster’s retrospective exhibition in the Richard D. Baron ’64 Art Gallery — titled “If Walls Could Talk” — aims to answer. “I thought, ever since I came here, I could almost hear the faculty and the students...
On Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., over 300 members of the Oberlin community packed themselves into the Cat in the Cream to hear a talk titled “Social Media is Changing the Way You Speak.” The speaker, Adam Aleksic, is more commonly known across social media platforms as The Etymology Nerd, where he has...
the silhouettes of their bond visible still at the last glow of the sun they experience each other and the life of the night as it begins to stir standing there in silence holding hands no rush to go back inside there is so much beauty and comfort in being in love and just being… – amidst sounds...
The best horror filmmakers of the modern era understand that when you want to make a second hit, you have to do two things: you have to shake it up, and you have to go big. We saw this with Titane (2021) and Us (2019), and now French director Coralie Fargeat follows up her brutally simple Revenge (2017)...
Aaron Helgeson, OC ’05, received a double-degree in Composition and Theater. Deciding to further his education, he went to graduate school at the University of California, San Diego before coming back to Oberlin to teach Composition. Helgeson was named an Artist Fellow with the Boston Psychoanalytic...
Heather Radke is a freelance nonfiction author and contributing editor and reporter at Radiolab. Her book Butts: A Backstory, about the cultural history of the buttocks, was published in 2022 and was praised by Time, Esquire, and Publishers Weekly, among others. On Wednesday, she gave this year’s Jesse...
Thomas M. Keck, OC ’92, is the Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics at the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a Senior Research Associate at the Campbell Public Affairs Institute. He delivered the annual Oberlin Constitution Day Lecture on...
Melissa George, OC ’12 is a lecturer and the director of Afrikan Heritage House. After earning her Bachelor of Arts at Oberlin College, she earned a master’s degree at Rutgers University and worked in community-based participatory research. Prior to working at Oberlin, she worked on CDC-funded public...
Soomin Kim, OC ’19, is the winner of three Morton Gould Young Composer Awards and the 2024 University of Florida Call for Scores by Women Composers, as well as a cofounder of Rattlebox, a new music chamber ensemble. She has written for the Breaking Barriers Festival, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Northern...
Ian McEdwards, fourth-year Clarinet Performance major and Ohio Federation of Music Clubs Agnes Fowler Collegiate Scholar, is a dedicated proponent for new music on campus. His clarinet performance and recent compositional work explore multiphonics and other advanced extended techniques. He is currently...
This fall, the Conservatory welcomes guest conductor James Feddeck, OC ’05, back to the stage to conduct Oberlin’s orchestra, chamber orchestra, and fall opera while Professor Raphael Jiménez is on sabbatical. Feddeck, who also received an M.M. in Conducting from the Conservatory in 2006, is a renowned...
Nathan A. Greenberg Professor of Classics Kirk Ormand specializes in researching sexuality in the ancient world, archaic Greek poetry, Sophocles, Euripides, Lucan, and the Greek novel. He recently published a book chapter in the new Oxford Critical Guide to Homer’s Iliad. Ormand’s essay delves into...
Executive Director Zachary Thomas co-founded Writers in Residence in 2017, an organization dedicated to empowering youths in juvenile justice systems by teaching creative writing workshops and giving them a voice. This program started as a student-run organization at John Carroll University when Thomas...
Margaret Kamitsuka is the Francis W. and Lydia L. Davis Professor Emeritus of Religion at Oberlin College. She taught Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and Religion courses for over 20 years. She received her doctorate in religious studies from Yale University and is the author of Feminist Theology...
Fourth-year Yuuki Okubo is a guard for the Oberlin men’s basketball team. Originally from Los Angeles, Okubo was an internet sensation who went viral multiple times before coming to compete on the court for the Yeomen. Off the court, he is a Psychology major with a minor in Anthropology. This interview...
Fourth-year Ethan Price is an assistant defensive line coach for the football team. He played football his first two years at the College, but transitioned into a coaching position after injuries forced him to step away from the game. He is on the pre-medicine track, majoring in Biochemistry with a minor...
Assistant Athletic Trainer JoAnna Simon is an athletic trainer for the Oberlin men’s basketball, football, baseball, and women’s tennis teams. She arrived on campus in 2021, and this piece focuses on her experiences and expertise in the world of football. This interview has been edited for length...
Both Oberlin’s men’s and women’s teams celebrated wins among the Homecoming festivities this past weekend. The women’s soccer team reveled in the air of excitement and nostalgia as they bid farewell to their seniors who have demonstrated the true essence of Oberlin athletics. The men’s soccer...
Fifty-seven years in Oakland, four World Series Championships, six pennants, 17 division titles, and seven Hall of Fame players — the Athletics did not just play in Oakland, they became an integral part of the city. On Sept. 26, the now former Oakland Athletics played their last game at the Oakland-Alameda...
The WNBA playoffs kicked off Sept. 22; the semi finals are currently underway, with the New York Liberty leading the Las Vegas Aces 2–0 and the Minnesota Lynx and Connecticut Sun tied 1–1. Coming off back-to-back championship seasons, the Las Vegas Aces entered the playoffs as clear favorites for...
The Heisman Memorial Trophy, the most prestigious award in American collegiate football, is annually presented to the best player in the sport. First awarded in 1935, it is named after Oberlin’s very own John Heisman, a pioneer in the development of the modern game of football. Heisman coached the...
Shohei Ohtani, nicknamed Showtime, is largely considered one of the greatest active players in Major League Baseball, and it’s easy to see why. To say Ohtani has dominated Major League Baseball since his arrival in 2018 would be an understatement. The Japanese designated hitter and pitcher has performed...
The Oberlin College women’s soccer team delivered a commanding performance Saturday, notching a decisive 7–0 victory over Olivet College at home. This performance marked the Yeowomen’s largest margin of victory since 2017, boosting their season record to 3–3–1. Behind contributions from 10...
On Sept. 15, Wittenberg University, located in Springfield, canceled all school events through Sept. 22. This decision, along with the choice to move classes online, followed the statements made by former President Donald Trump during the Sept. 10 presidential debate in which he claimed that Haitian...
The Singapore Grand Prix has long been a highlight of the Formula 1 calendar, renowned for its dramatic night race setting and the unique challenge posed by the Marina Bay Street Circuit. In 2024, the street circuit became the second track in F1 history to feature a fourth drag reduction system zone,...
Every September, Major League Baseball celebrates Roberto Clemente Day, a day that stands for so much more than baseball. Roberto Clemente was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, a city that, at the time, was known for sugar production. His professional baseball career started when he was 17 years old and...
At the Paris Olympics in early August, American long jumper Tara Davis-Woodhall took gold in the women’s long jump with an outstanding leap of 7.1 meters. Typically, after winning a gold medal, esteemed athletes head back to their home country for a “victory lap.” This usually includes taking a...