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The Grape is Oberlin College's student news and culture magazine, published bi-weekly since 1999.
Mar 27, 2022
The Grape in Print: A Love Letter to Physical Media
by Saffron Forsberg Arts & Culture Editor [originally published summer 2021] I’m not sure if you were aware of this, but you can hold The...
Mar 27, 2022
OSLAM returns to in person performance
by Daisy Vollen [originally published summer 2021] Like many performance-based groups on campus, Oberlin’s lauded slam poetry team,...
Mar 27, 2022
Happy Birthday Big Parade! Part 2
by Priya Banerjee Editor-in-Chief [originally published summer 2021] HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG PARADE! WE LOVE YOU! In the last issue of the...
Mar 27, 2022
Son House/Mississippi John Hurt Concert Retrospective
by Wyatt Camery Features editor [originally posted Spring 2021] This week, I’m looking back at a double feature concert from April 1965...
Feb 21, 2022
Winter Oberland!
by Izzy Halloran [originally posted February 2021] If you’ve walked through Wilder Bowl in the past month, you have probably noticed the...
Feb 20, 2022
The Many Lives of Eddie Henderson
by Jane Wickline [originally posted fall 2020] I interviewed my longtime teacher, Oberlin Jazz Trumpet Professor Eddie Henderson (who...
Feb 18, 2022
Local History
by Eleanor Cannon [originally published in fall 2020] “All politics are local” — is one of the most recognizable phrases in American...
Feb 18, 2022
The Arb at Tappan: New Lunchtime Friendliness Downtown
by Saffron Forsberg Excerpt: Though The Arb offers a clean, fresh college-town atmosphere, vegan options, and smoothies, it does not...
Feb 16, 2022
El Centro Volunteer Initiative
by Samantha Perez, Belkis Moreno, Kaytlen Cruz, and Selene Pan Artwork by: Larisa Bushkin [originally posted fall 2020] Since Oberlin is...
Feb 16, 2022
Oberlin College Opens its Doors, While Five Community Restaurants Close Theirs
by Fionna Farrell [originally posted fall 2020] Excerpt: These restaurants served as our haven from cultural emaciation—not just in terms...
Feb 16, 2022
Transition During a Pandemic: The First-Year Experience
by Ava Carubia Excerpt: Many first year students are left to navigate two new experiences simultaneously: college and life during a...
Feb 16, 2022
Most Sincerely Dead - Honor and Comfort for the Deceased
by Lila Cohen [originally published spring 2020] At my grandfather's funeral this April, I felt very alienated from the process of...
Feb 16, 2022
Oberlin and the Anti-Labor College
by Cameron Avery [originally published spring 2020] On February 18, as many of us know by now, the College made public its intention to...
Feb 15, 2022
The Sunrise Movement and TikTok: an Interview with Wiley Smith
by Alia Schreiber-Goldstein [originally published spring 2020] Is TikTok a valuable social media platform, you may ask? My answer is yes...
Feb 15, 2022
The Age of Environmental Censorship
by Wiley Smith [originally published spring 2020] Since the Trump administration took power in 2017, the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
Feb 15, 2022
Maintaining College Town Culture Amid Bead Paradise Closing
by Saffron Forsberg [originally published spring 2020] This year will be Ruth Aschaffenburg’s 32nd and final year owning and operating...
Feb 12, 2022
Duality of 1965 Commencement: MLK Jr. and Secretary of State Dean Rusk
by Serena Zets [originally published 12/6/19] This is a part of the continuing Features column profiling radical past speakers and...
Feb 11, 2022
Dissipating Dangerous Fentanyl Myths
by Miriam Khanukaev [originally published 11/15/19] Content warning: discussion of drug usage Last Tuesday, an unknown substance found in...
Feb 11, 2022
Oberlin’s “Visiting” Assistant Professor Problem
by Cameron Avery [originally published 11/15/19] Oberlin, as we all know, prides itself on being a bastion of liberalism; an institution...
Feb 9, 2022
A Brief Profile of Kwame Ture & His 1996 Speeches at Finney Chapel
by Serena Zets [originally published 10/11/19] This is the beginning of a new Features column profiling radical past speakers and faculty...
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