Content warning: This article contains discussions of sexual assault. Through my work with Survivors of Sexual Harm & Allies at Oberlin, I’ve met a number of people who have experienced sexual harm, both at Oberlin and outside of it. While their experiences differ in a variety of ways,...
At the Covelli Centre in Youngstown, OH, approximately one hour and thirty minutes east of Oberlin, three men committed an assault. This seemingly ordinary event is incredibly representative of America’s current political moment. President Donald Trump is in the middle of a packed political rally...
This past September, news broke of a civil lawsuit concerning a brutal gang rape of a woman at Cornell University in October 2024. The public backlash she has faced has been alarming and disturbing, and in the wake of this major news case, American stand-up comedian Shane Gillis added fuel to the fire...
“[C*nt] is one of the few remaining words in the English language with a genuine power to shock,” feminist writer Germaine Greer said. As we have attempted to reclaim ‘c*nt’ within the past 30 years, we’ve been thrown into the boxing ring of internet provocative sensationalism. I have begun...
Why do people watch sports? Is it for entertainment, team loyalty, or something else? Following a 2018 Supreme Court decision, the expansion of legalized online sports betting has dramatically changed what it means to “follow sports.” Gambling is now an integral part of being a sports fan; even if...
This Wednesday, in his official capacity as Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani released a statement for the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks. The statement’s tone was measured and mournful. Mamdani described Hamas’ attacks as “horrific war crimes.” He made specific mention of the more...
On Oct. 31, 2026, violin and guitar duo Fire and Grace will perform in a faculty and guest recital in Kulas Hall. The duo, Consisting of Assistant...
On Oct. 3, 2026, 17 conservatory students in their last year at Oberlin competed in the annual Senior Concerto Competition. Held in Finney Chapel,...
Last weekend, Cleveland Chamber Choir, led by Director of Choirs and Professor of Choral Conducting Gregory Ristow, performed Joby Talbot’s...
On Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, the Juilliard String Quartet performed works of Beethoven, Kurtág, and Ravel in Finney Chapel as part of the Oberlin...
On Sept. 19, 2026, the Oberlin Orchestra, led by Director of Orchestras Raphael Jiménez, performed the world premiere of Atlantic Procession...
Socialist candidate Greg Levy is running for Senate in the state of Ohio as an independent leftist alternative to Democrat Sherrod Brown and Republican Jon Husted. In addition to regular concerns from Democratic voters that a left-wing political candidate will split the left-leaning vote and lead to...
The Oberlin community is mourning the deaths of Pipo Nguyen-duy, a longtime Oberlin College professor of Studio Art and Photography, and his wife, Tran Nam Phong, after police discovered both with fatal gunshot wounds in their residence on South Pleasant Street on the morning of this past Wednesday,...
On Oct. 20, Oberlin College President Carmen Twillie Ambar, Oberlin City Manager Greg Holcomb, and Superintendent of Oberlin City Schools David Hall spoke at the annual State of Oberlin address. The town and College community were invited to attend and hear about new goals and continued projects concerning...
The Office for Disability and Access celebrated Disability Awareness Month this October. As the number of college students identifying as disabled has increased by almost 50 percent in the last decade, colleges and universities are grappling with how to address the volume and variety of students’ needs....
This midterm season, Oberlin residents will have the opportunity to vote in 16 races across the national, state, and local levels. In the order in which they appear, here is a brief summary of all candidates whose names will appear on the ballot at the Oberlin polls. Governor & Lt. Governor Vivek...
Five proposals are on the ballot for Oberlin voters’ consideration in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections. Early voting and mail-in voting are already underway. Polls will close Tuesday, Nov. 3. There are three proposals to renew taxes from the City of Oberlin and Lorain County, a proposed new tax...
On Oct. 5, the Oberlin City Council unanimously passed Ordinance No. 26-65 AC CMS on its third reading, immediately eradicating the Public Works Department and Planning and Development Department, and establishing the Building and Zoning Department, Parks and Recreation Department, and Utilities Department....
Just behind Slow Train Cafe in the Richard D. Baron Gallery is FIT, 2026, an exhibit on display from Oct. 9 through Nov. 14. The exhibit highlights recent work made by Oberlin College Studio Art faculty and staff, including Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Grant Brownlow, Julia Christensen, R Kauff, Zé Kielwagen,...
This week at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, College third-year Esme Tobias, who works as a gallery guide and a student assistant to the Education Department, took College and community members back to an early reckoning with art, religion, and sexuality during the Renaissance period. The event, “Saint...
Drawing connections between religion and the evolution of language, Affiliate Scholar Francesca Chubb-Confer delivered a talk on Wednesday titled “Islam and the Poetic Imagination.” The talk was presented by the Religion department and fully supported by the Mead-Swing lecture series. Chubb-Confer...
A beach with endless waves. A wooden wall. A rental house on the edge. A countdown: 34 days. Suddenly, piercing blue eyes, matted hair, perfect teeth. A wistful, confident woman makes almost-believable promises. A single tear falls down her cheek. A dreamlike sea of blue, gray, and amber tones emanates...
Fifteen years have passed since the legendary stop-motion animation studio Laika began development on its most recent release, Wildwood. The state of animation has changed a lot in that time and now faces an incredibly existential threat from artificial intelligence. Despite all that, Wildwood kept moving...
ACROSS 1. Place for parting words? 8. Prepares to jump scare 18. Wailing spirit 19. Customizable Nintendo avatar 22. Trial run 23. Autonomous monasteries 24. Major artery 25. Summon 26. “Gosh!” 27. Hawaiian coffees 29. Public prosecutor 30. Ghost in the machine glitch? 33. Dash type 35....
Last Friday night, Oct. 2, Oberlin students packed into The ’Sco for an evening of drag performance and queer representation. The show was hosted as a partnership between Oberlin’s Office of Gender, Sexuality, & Attraction Initiatives and LGBTQ+ Lorain County, a nonprofit organization that facilitates...
This Saturday, Oct. 10, the Writing Center is hosting its 50th anniversary celebration. Alumni, faculty, and current students will meet and discuss their experiences with the Writing Associates program. To mark the occasion, I talked to Professor Emeritus of English Len Podis, the founder of the Oberlin...
Ian Page, OC ’08, is one of two inaugural visiting artists for the first class of Oberlin’s BA+BFA Integrated Arts Program. Working primarily in mixed-media sculpture, Page combines photography, film, sound, and physical materials in his work. Since graduating from Oberlin in 2008, Page has had solo...
Michael Shifter, OC ’77, is the former president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a policy forum based in Washington, D.C., where he spent nearly three decades in senior positions. Shifter writes and comments frequently on U.S.-Latin American relations and has testified multiple times in the U.S. Congress...
Mark Pinsky, OC ’79, is the president and founder of CDFI Friendly America, an industry giant that brings capital and political support to Community Development Financial Institutions, a financial mechanism designed to boost autonomous access to economic resources among communities historically denied...
Professor of Music Education Jody Kerchner has been teaching at Oberlin for 31 years now, and has continued working with young singers as a guest conductor at various public schools and choral conferences. She has also delivered keynote speeches, workshops, and research presentations across the globe....
Charlotte Beers Plank, OC ’11, studied Organ Performance and German at Oberlin, where she also participated in any singing opportunity she could. After graduation, she pursued a master’s degree in Library Science and continued her involvement in organ performance as a church musician. This June,...
Double-degree fourth-year Catherine Yates has established herself as a revered cellist at Oberlin. In high school, she held principal roles in three youth orchestras, and since arriving at Oberlin her renown and prowess has only multiplied. She was selected for Oberlin’s 2026 Danenberg Honors Recital,...
Mercedes Dorame is a visual artist focused on Native experiences in conversation with natural and celestial elements. She currently has several pieces on display in “The land is a being who remembers everything,” a new exhibit in the Stern and Ellen Johnson Galleries at the Allen Memorial Art Museum....
Mouhamed “Mo” Toure’s inclination for entreWpreneurship started around high school, but growing up alongside his mother’s apparel line meant business was always a family effort. Now a second-year student-athlete on Oberlin’s basketball team, it’s only fitting that he should already be running...
Professor Caroline Jackson-Smith, known to many as Ms. Caroline, is a Professor of Africana Studies and Theater who has been teaching at Oberlin College since 1989. Having directed over 40 theatrical productions at Oberlin, her most recent show was Standing Strong, which took place from April 16–18....
When DeKaleb, “DK,” Thomas was asked to become a part of the storied success of Trinity High School football in his senior year — after never playing an organized down — he had to say yes. He needed a change. “I got tired of the situation I was in,” Thomas said. “I was leaving an AAU tournament...
Lukas Verling, third-year goalkeeper, started his soccer career in Lichtenstein playing for the youth national team at age 14. Then he came to Oberlin, and in his first game suffered a season-ending injury. Now he is the Yeomen’s primary goalkeeper, but his path was far from easy. Verling grew...
James Foster, College fourth-year and Politics and Law & Society major, moved through the ranks of the Review over four years: production editor, sports editor, and ultimately, editor-in-chief. Along the way, he helped shape a paper attentive to student voices, responsive during moments of campus...
On Friday, Oct. 9, Oberlin High School hosted its annual homecoming game, except this year something was different. Traditionally, the football game is the headline of homecoming festivities. However, this past August, the school district cancelled the high school's football season. In lieu, the Phoenix...
For second-years Katherine Noller and Martin Gomez, Oberlin’s Early Invite meet was about more than finishing near the top of the results sheet. The pair entered swim and dive’s first meet of the season looking to put months of training to the test. By the end of the weekend, both had earned recognition...
On Oct. 9, the Oberlin College Heisman Club Hall of Fame welcomed four new members, recognizing former student-athletes whose achievements both on and off the field have left a lasting impact on Oberlin athletics. The 2026 inductees, Steven Friedman, OC ’89; Leslie Bosworth, OC ’05; Kimiko Hammons,...
While many Oberlin students disperse far and wide for fall break, fall and winter season student-athletes stay on campus for various team requirements including practices and games. At first this obligation might seem like a damper on fall festivities and relaxation, but student-athletes get to compete...
In the weeks leading up to fall break, field hockey pulled off three consecutive victories over Washington & Jefferson College, Wittenberg University, and Transylvania University. These victories brought field hockey’s conference win total to the highest it's been since the 2013 season. Fourth-year...
On Friday, Oct. 9, Oberlin High School hosted its annual homecoming game, except this year something was different. Traditionally, the football game is the headline of homecoming festivities. However, this past August, the school district cancelled the high school's football season. In lieu, the Phoenix...
In sports and in life, you might think the more information you have at your disposal, the better. Thomas Hobbes wrote scientia potentia est: knowledge is power, and what is information if not the substance for knowledge? After an exam, students want information: What did I get wrong? What did I get...
Women’s soccer opened North Coast Athletic Conference play last Saturday with a game that tested its ability to compete under pressure. After playing 90 scoreless minutes against DePauw University, the Yeowomen left Greencastle, IN, with a 0–0 draw, a clean sheet, the tie earning them their first...
This fall, a new student-run club launched at Oberlin. Squirrels in Sports, co-led by College third-year Rachel Reiter and College fourth-year Zoe Torimoto, aims to provide career development resources to Oberlin students seeking to work in the sports industry. Through internship and alumni databases,...
The last questions in my interview with second-year volleyball captain Mara Geiger and first-year Kira Geiger were simple: How are you similar? How are you different? Naturally, I wanted to know what the two sisters, both playing on the Oberlin College volleyball team, think they share, and where they...