May 9, 2025
Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration canceled a $90,000 grant to Oberlin faculty working to train undergraduates in collaborative research ethics, according to open data from the nonprofit Grant Watch. The grant, issued in February 2024, had been set to run through 2026, but was terminated in late April 2025, according to a Grant Watch report. The grant sought to train students involved in Oberlin’s ongoing project to create an oral history of Africatown, Alabama. Robert...
Máxima Oxholm-Barraza, Staff Writer
May 9, 2025
One of Oberlin’s last remaining large unions, OCOPE, is entering a new round of negotiations this summer — and its members say what’s at stake goes far beyond wages and benefits. The Oberlin College Office and Professional Employees, a unit of Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 792, represents approximately 125 administrative and paraprofessional staff across the College, according to a 2022 article in the Review. These workers perform essential roles at the College...
May 9, 2025
On Wednesday, Robert S. Danforth Professor of Politics Eve Sandberg taught her last class before her retirement after 35 years at the College. As she left, a number of students, faculty, and staff surprised her in the entranceway of King Building to commemorate her career at the College and the impact that she has had on their experiences at Oberlin. “It was touching to see the number of people from all swaths of Oberlin — both the College and the community — who turned out to give Professor...
May 9, 2025
Oberlin enrolled its class of 2028 containing 701 students this past fall, a 10 percent decrease compared to the class who entered in the fall of 2023, according to self-reported data provided to the Review by the Office of Institutional Research & Analytics. The losses occurred almost entirely among students identifying as white. Underrepresented students of color made up a greater proportion of the fall class compared to the year prior, disproving widespread predictions that the Supreme Court’s...
Swaranya Sarkar, Senior Staff Writer
May 9, 2025
After a 42-year career at Oberlin College, Susan Jane Colley, the Andrew and Pauline Delaney Professor of Mathematics, is retiring. For over four decades, Colley has been a pillar of the Mathematics department, her impact stretching beyond the numbers and formulas she taught. Dr. Colley arrived at Oberlin in 1983 after completing graduate school at MIT, and quickly became known for her dedication to students and her ability to make complex mathematical concepts accessible. “Every single really...
Sylvia Ewart, Staff Writer
May 9, 2025
On Wednesday, the floor of Azariah’s Café filled with students protesting the recent College announcement that Azzie’s will hold the Oberlin Campus Store in the fall, arguing that the change was symptomatic of a larger removal of communal spaces on campus without student input. The Oberlin Bookstore on West College Street, operated by Barnes & Noble, will close in June, and the Campus Store will reopen in fall 2025 in Azzie’s. The space in the back of Azzie’s that currently holds periodicals...
Lily Nobel, Production Editor
May 9, 2025
May Declared Mental Health Awareness Month Councilmember Libni López made a proclamation declaring May Mental Health Awareness Month for the City of Oberlin, emphasizing that many in the community have faced barriers to access mental health care such as the availability and affordability of care, and systemic inequities interwoven in seeking access to any medical treatment. Lopez also brought up the findings of the new Social Equity Plan and Social Equity Survey, stating that 28 percent of respondents...
May 2, 2025
On April 21, the Oberlin Social Equity Plan Steering Committee presented the final draft of the Oberlin Social Equity Plan to the City Council. The draft plan identified areas in need of social equity improvement in infrastructure, Oberlin City government, and community. Totaling 97 pages, it includes policy recommendations and goals for increasing the supply of affordable housing, improving the community-based policing model, and broadening educational opportunities in Oberlin City Schools. Work...
May 2, 2025
On Tuesday, April 22, the Oberlin City Board of Education voted unanimously to join the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding and its lawsuit against the state of Ohio’s EdChoice program. This program, which was introduced in 2005, provides vouchers for students to attend private or charter schools in lieu of attending Ohio public schools. The Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding, which is an organization composed of local governments and school districts,...
November 11, 2022
Nikki Keating, Editor-in-Chief
November 4, 2022
Editor’s Note: The reporter who wrote this article was an ambassador host for prospective students during the Multicultural Visit Program. Last week, the College welcomed...
March 18, 2022
The Asian Diaspora Coalition held a vigil on Wednesday in honor of the victims of the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings, as well as for all people who have been subjected to sexualized...
Máxima Oxholm-Barraza, Staff Writer
April 25, 2025
Omukoko Okoth is a fourth-year Economics major with a concentration in Mathematics and Business and a minor in Politics. He is a student leader and mentor, having served as...
Skylar Brunk, Staff Writer
April 25, 2025
Calliope Lissak is a fourth-year student majoring in Comparative American Studies and Classics with a minor in English. On Monday, April 14, Lissak was honored in a campus...