In my second year of high school, I transferred from Princeton High School to the Hill School, excited to have a real fresh start after going to school with the same people for nine years. I had done theater growing up, so I decided to sieze the new opprotunity and join the Ellis Theatre Guild at the...
On Aug. 14, the Oberlin Board of Trustees released its decision addressing the April proposal for divestment titled, “Oberlin College Board Response to Student Initiated Proposal for Divestment.” The proposal, submitted in accordance with the divestment resolution published by the Board in 2014,...
With Elon Musk on track to become the world’s first trillionaire by 2027 according to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, he is the ultimate example of the “American Dream.” Born in South Africa, Musk immigrated to Canada through familial citizenship when he was 17 and attended Queen’s University...
Last semester I had a friend visit me, and when looking for places for us to hang out, I noticed a distinct lack of third places. Wilder Hall was always crowded, the dining halls didn’t offer the most consistent seating, and taking over a random lounge didn’t seem very appealing. After much discussion...
As someone from Washington, D.C., where the lack of voting representation is an everyday reality and politics are very different, I was immediately drawn to Ohio politics and the state level voting process. This interest deepened during my time at The Oberlin Review, where I delved into local politics...
I, as I’m sure was the case with many Oberlin students, spent my Tuesday night watching the presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Following the altogether embarrassing June debate between Trump and President Joe Biden, a lot was riding on this event...
Fall 2025 will usher in a new program at the Conservatory: Music Theater. Faculty from Baldwin Wallace University’s Conservatory of Performing...
Last Saturday, ConPALs facilitated a new update to the Racial and Social Justice in Music training for incoming first-year Conservatory students....
On Tuesday, Professor of Viola Peter Slowik’s third-year students performed all seven of Paul Hindemith’s viola sonatas. The studio recital,...
On Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Finney Chapel, the Silkroad Ensemble will perform their new program: Uplifted Voices. Rhiannon Giddens, OC ’00, the...
Editor’s note: This letter refers only to student teachers in the Secondary Private Lessons program who are paid directly by the College. Dear...
On Sept. 5, President Carmen Twillie Ambar sent an email to the Oberlin community announcing the creation of five new majors at Oberlin: Business, Financial Economics, Communication Studies, Recording Arts and Production, and Music Theater. Environmental Science and Data Science were approved by faculty...
Downtown Oberlin has seen major changes in recent months; The Arb at Tappan Square and Ginko Gallery have closed; The Oberlin White Squirrel, Wood Fired Wonders, and Taco Flavored Kisses have opened; and For Ewe has changed location. The Oberlin White Squirrel, an artsy gift shop located at 133 S. Main...
This summer, Oberlin’s Impact Investment Platform was expanded. The platform, which promotes “socially conscious investment,” has a new goal of investing $100 million in funds that promote this value. The platform was established in 2013 with $5 million allocated from the endowment; later, a...
On Wednesday, the League of Women Voters of Ohio visited Wilder Bowl with their new promotional Airstream vehicle. Volunteers from LWVO worked alongside OC Votes students and faculty to register eligible Oberlin students to vote and inform them about Ohio voting policies. The Airstream has been traveling...
This past summer, 202 students received funding for internships, research fellowships, and other programs through the Career Exploration and Development Center’s new Internship+ program. Internship+, which was announced in fall 2021 and went into effect this year, allows third-years to receive up to...
This past August, two major mental healthcare institutions in Lorain County, The LCADA Way and The Nord Center, merged to form Riveon Mental Health and Recovery. The partnership enabled the creation of a crisis receiving center, currently under construction, which will offer a “one-stop shop”...
On Saturday, Sept. 7, one of the two hot water boilers that Oberlin operates suffered a cracked tube in its heat exchanger. This resulted in the supply of hot water temporarily stopping in all buildings that were converted by the Sustainable Infrastructure Program, which includes 56 buildings and 90...
In the Allen Memorial Art Museum’s collection of 16,000 works, only 35 are moving images or video works. Since 1984 — when Bill Olander, former director and curator of the AMAM, left for the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City — the AMAM’s collection has lacked an effort to showcase...
On Sept. 18, College third-year Isabel Handa will present a workshop teaching the basics and choreography of hula. In collaboration with Oberlin Shansi, Handa was awarded the AAPI Experience Grant to learn about this Hawaiian cultural practice and engage with the AAPI community at Halau Ka Pua Mae’ole...
For a franchise whose major theme centers on the natural blind spots of humanity, it’s admittedly a good joke that Alien: Romulus is as simple a concept of: what if Alien was remade using modern horror gimmicks? One would think they would run out of ideas after the ambitious scope of Ridley Scott’s...
Without having seen the original 1988 dark comedy, I went to see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the long-awaited sequel that director Tim Burton and actor Michael Keaton have been trying to get off the ground since the original debuted 30 years ago. While the reviews have certainly trended on the positive...
On Sept. 27, Oberlin College Libraries will present two opportunities to discover phantasmagoria, a form of horror theatre using magic lanterns to project images. The show will guide viewers back in time to the Victorian era and before. Three people have been crucial to put this show into motion....
From four new auditioners last semester to 24 this semester, CHOREO Dance Crew has shot up in popularity. The questions arise: How did CHOREO gain popularity so quickly? What lies ahead for this up-and-coming group? Interviews with CHOREO’s three directors — College third-year Annalise Curl, College...
what you said like a spare thread that you pulled out of your sweater brushed me off your delicate shoulder and looked the other way i gained more leaving you then i ever did loving you thought your words true so effortlessly blind to the pitchforks you threw ground me...
On April 7, 2023, The Oberlin Review published an article titled “College Ethnographic Collection Demands Increased Awareness, Reckoning with Our Colonial History.” This story centered around Associate Professor of Anthropology Amy Margaris, OC ’96, and an ethnographic collection of approximately...
“Elevate: Body & Mind” is an exhibit centering Northeast Ohio artists of color. It invokes emotion in its viewers by looking into human psyche through portraiture in order to understand the inner workings of identity and its effects on artists of color. From the shining, reflective style of Brandon...
Pop-funk artist Molly Grace kicked off the ’Sco season for the Oberlin community with one of the first concerts of the 2024–2025 year. Her music is fun and upbeat with a ’70s flair, bringing together an enthusiastic crowd. Grace entered the stage in a sparkly tassel bodysuit and a bouncy blowout....
Oberlin College Libraries recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Mary Church Terrell Main Library in Mudd Center and plans on continuing celebrations throughout the year. Azariah S. Root Director of Libraries and Professor of English and Book Studies Valerie Hotchkiss spoke with the Review...
Les Leopold, OC ’69, is an author and the executive director of the Labor Institute and is on the steering committee for the Alumni for Oberlin Values. His recent book, Wall Street’s War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do About It was inspired by...
Justin Nobel is an award-winning journalist who reports on issues of environmental justice. His book Petroleum-238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It was published this month. Nobel lectured today in Wilder Hall on his decade of research for the book. The book talk was...
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...
On Oct. 13 at 4:30 p.m., Benjamin Muir’s Senior Recital Orchestra will perform at Warner Concert Hall. It will be the first large-scale orchestra of its kind to perform at a senior recital in the last five years. The orchestra welcomes non-Conservatory performers from the community and the College. A...
Every April, the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion collaborates with the Peer Support Center and Survivors of Sexual Harm and Allies to offer resources and education aimed at promoting consent and preventing sexual harm. Consent Month consists of a series of workshops and lectures, covering...
Chair and Professor of Theater Matthew Wright is a recipient of the 2023–2024 Excellence in Teaching award. He fell in love with theater growing up in rural Florida and pursued a theatrical education and received at BA at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. After both observing and performing in...
Matthew Rarey is an associate professor of African and Black Atlantic Art History, as well as the chair of the Art History department. His book, Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic recently won the 2024 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the College Art...
Holly Handman-Lopez is an assistant professor of Dance at Oberlin College and has choreographed numerous works, including her three most recent engagements: Ancestra, L’Orfeo, and Oberlin Dance Company. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Recently, you choreographed three mainstage...
Third-year Jacob Epps is a two-sport athlete playing both football and baseball at Oberlin. He suits up at wide receiver and defensive back in football and plays third base for the baseball team. Epps is also co-chair of the Black Student-Athlete Group. This interview has been edited for length and...
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...
On Saturday, Sept. 7, Oberlin’s men’s and women’s soccer teams defended their home pitch, with both teams winning their home openers and consequently their first wins of what are sure to be fruitful seasons. The men’s team faced off against Chatham University. In a hard fought defensive first...
The New York Mets, the team with the highest estimated payroll in the MLB, are an underdog. When current owner Steve Cohen bought majority ownership of the Mets in 2020, he wanted to show he was serious about making the Mets a perennial playoff contender once again. Their last appearance was in 2015,...
Rachael “Raygun” Gunn took the world by storm at the 2024 Paris Olympics after a controversial breaking performance that heralded both criticism and fanfare. Raygun’s Olympic debut — a combined three-round total score of zero (no, this is not a typo) — transcended the breaking community, with...
Last Saturday, Oberlin women’s tennis competed at the Wooster Invitational. Following a solid start at the Allegheny College Invitational, the women’s tennis team built on their momentum in the competition with 11 total victories across singles and doubles. The team has established themselves as...
Headlined by new coaching staff additions and four core values, the Yeomen prepare for year two of the ‘Pont era.’ This Saturday, September 7, the Oberlin College football team kicks off their season at Calvin University. Head Coach John Pont is returning to the helm and is set to take the field...
At the end of every semester in Oberlin, the Cat in the Cream holds an event that radically departs from the usual concert, Conservatory recital, or trivia night. The metamorphosis is subtle yet striking; excited parents, siblings, and grandparents from the Oberlin community fill the seats to face a...
Ilona Maher Shines Light on Women’s Rugby Ilona Maher entered the spotlight three years ago at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics where she used social media to show what the Olympics look like for athletes behind the scenes. This year, at the age of 27, Maher represented the United States in her second Olympic...
Last Saturday, the cross country team competed at the Wooster Invitational. Following their great performance last year at the NCAA Regional Championships, the tenured Ray Appenheimer transitioned from his role as head coach to associate director of athletics. This created many questions surrounding...
As we enter the 2024–2025 NFL season, fans of the sport may notice an unfamiliar accessory on the helmets of certain players. Created in 2010, the Guardian Cap is a soft shell exterior attached to helmets to reduce the impact of potentially concussive blows. These additions were officially introduced...
Champions League Final The final of the Champions League, which will take place at Wembley Stadium in London, is now set. Borussia Dortmund will face Real Madrid. Dortmund managed to beat Paris Saint Germain in Paris after winning the first leg 1–0. The second leg saw Dortmund win 1–0 again...