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The Grape is Oberlin College's student news and culture magazine, published bi-weekly since 1999.
Mar 11, 2023
The Many Faces of the Anti-Woke Warrior
by Fionna Farrell Opinions Editor Anti-woke fervor seems to have reached its zenith in 2023. If you ask me, I don’t necessarily think...
Mar 11, 2023
Why Tell Stories While the World is Burning? (A Cheerful Article?)
by Captain Ruffles Contributor It’s a cliche at this school to remark that “nothing I do as an individual matters in a capitalist...
Mar 11, 2023
That Happens Here, Too?: On the Ineffectiveness of Oberlin Hazing Training
by Ellen Efstathiou Staff Writer Roughly a month ago, Oberlin students opened their emails to find an unexpected message from Vector LMS:...
Feb 19, 2023
Superimposing the Human Voice (Or, Why ChatGPT Isn’t a Better Writer than You)
By Fionna Farrell Opinions Editor It’s common fact, among writers, that writers are the saving grace of humanity. How heavily it weighs...
Feb 19, 2023
“In Case I Go Missing” Binders: When Gender Violence Got Commodified
By Catherine Gilligan Contributor CW: discussion of gender based violence and sexual assault A little over a month ago, a woman went...
Feb 19, 2023
Returning to White Noise
By Saffron Forsberg Editor-in-Chief The Grape published its first article on Noah Baumbach’s White Noise, tastefully titled “BREAKING...
Dec 11, 2022
It’s Not the Economy, It’s You: The Rise of Corporate Mindfulness
by Katherine Doane Contributor “For instance, the darker your skin, the more likely you are to be ‘loitering.’ Though a Patagonia jacket...
Dec 11, 2022
College, or the Haven of Unspoken Loneliness
by Ellen Efstathiou Contributor One of the first activities during my year’s on-campus orientation was to go to the Allen and look at...
Dec 11, 2022
Who Are We, and What Have We Become: Individualism on the Left
by Hanna Alwine Contributor Picture this: a twenty-something Ohioan who smokes cigarettes, is really into farming, wears Carharrt jeans,...
Dec 11, 2022
Christmas Cheer is Annoying
Jewish Views on Christmastime by Max Miller Staff Writer As the air turns brisk and the amber leaves begin to fall, I have no choice but...
Nov 21, 2022
Who Killed Z-Library?
by Saffron Forsberg Editor-in-Chief On the morning of November 4th, user-beloved book pirating site Z-Library was seized by the FBI. The...
Nov 21, 2022
You’ve Got Mail (a ton of it): How Substack is Changing the Way we Interact with our Inbox
by Hanna Alwine Contributor It’s November again and days have gotten so short they almost don’t exist. Every Monday, Wednesday, Friday I...
Nov 21, 2022
I Never Had Twitter, But I’m Leaving Twitter Forever
by Fionna Farrell Opinions Editor illustration by Maia Hadler, Art Director It’s hard to underestimate the role that Twitter has played...
Nov 20, 2022
Guys, please be more uncool: Oberlin should be open about its guilty pleasures
by Zach Terrillion Staff Writer illustration by Ginger Kohn, contributor What defines a guilty pleasure? According to the ever-reliable...
Nov 8, 2022
Obieweekends: Death or Rebirth of Obie Party Culture?
by Julian Crosetto Layout Editor I party… kind of… or at least I partied enough last year to consider myself qualified to speak on...
Nov 8, 2022
How Many Chances Does a Jeen-Yuhs Deserve?
by Reggie Goudeau Features Editor October of 2022 is far from the first time Mr. West has been in the news headlines for controversial...
Nov 8, 2022
Just Two Regular Joes: Why the Senate Race Is So Tight, and What it Means for our Future
by Fionna Farrell Opinions Editor The fated Tuesday is upon us, and the race for Ohio senate couldn’t be more nail-bitingly close. By the...
Oct 14, 2022
The Final Word on Harry Styles
By Anna Holshouser-Belden Staff Writer Singer, songwriter, actor, fashionista, One Direction member, contestant on the X factor, “king of...
Oct 14, 2022
Roe v. Wade and the Myth of Autonomy
By Skye Jalal Staff Writer One Tuesday afternoon this summer, while getting off the train from work, I saw a group of women standing on...
Oct 14, 2022
Try Guy, Wife Guy Tries Cheating
By Ellen Efstathiou Contributor I got a phone for the first time when I was twelve, which also meant that this was the first time I...
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