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General Faculty Vote to End Prohibition on Proctored Exams, Adopts First-Ever Grading Guidelines

The Oberlin Review

Last week, General Faculty approved revisions to the Honor Code Charter, ending a long-standing prohibition on faculty proctoring exams, and adopted formal grading guidelines for the first time at the College of Arts & Sciences. These changes, intended to reinforce academic integrity and bring clarity to grading standards across the institution, are set

Abe Frato, OC ’26

The Oberlin Review

Abe is a fifth-year Trombone Performance and Computer Science major from Stockholm, Sweden. As a Photo Editor for the Review, Abe saw every corner of campus and town, biking to the water treatment plant and greenhouses at the edge of town, and attending everything from Classics lectures and TIMARA concerts to athletics practices and community...

Erin Koo, OC ’26

The Oberlin Review

Erin is a fifth-year Violin Performance major from Hong Kong. As a longtime Layout Editor, she helped redesign the visual identity of the paper and credits the McDonald’s on Main Street as the birthplace of many of the Review’s best design ideas. She jokes that she cares about every aspect of the paper except its...

Eloise Rich, OC ’26

The Oberlin Review

Eloise Rich, College fourth-year and Comparative Literature, Cinema and Media, and French major, is closing out her final year at the Review as a layout editor. As president of the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association, Eloise serves as the Review’s eyes and ears, keeping the office informed on everything happening in co-ops before anyone knows it’s...

James Foster, OC ’26

The Oberlin Review

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 and national tension, and willing to approach difficult st

Chloe Ko, OC ’26

The Oberlin Review

Chloe Ko is a graduating fourth-year Biology and Psychology major. She has been working for the Review as an Arts & Culture editor since fall 2023. Throughout her time, she has covered important stories related to Oberlin’s artistic and cultural spaces. She has developed a team of dedicated writers, prioritizing curiosity and a capacity for...

Travis O’Daniel, OC ’26

The Oberlin Review

Travis O’Daniel joined the Review in the fall of 2023 as a production editor, then stepped into the conservatory editor position, before serving as managing editor of the Review for the past two years. O’Daniel is a vibrant performer in addition to a reporter. He’ll be graduating with a degree in Communications, but he started...

Yasu Shinozaki, OC ’26

The Oberlin Review

Yasu Shinozaki, College fourth-year and History major, has been at the Review since his second semester at Oberlin, beginning in Arts & Culture before moving into News. Known for his encyclopedic knowledge of campus and town life, Yasu consistently used his wide network of community contacts and strong sense of local dynamics to develop small...

Arianna D’Italia, OC ’26

The Oberlin Review

Arianna D’Italia, College fourth-year and English and Psychology major, has been production manager for the past year. Possessed with an almost supernatural ability to spot the single misplaced em dash buried in 2,000 words at 1:47 a.m., she tweaks sentences with intense precision. She has kept the production room running through deadline delirium, printer c

Layla Wallerstein, OC ’26

The Oberlin Review

Layla Wallerstein, College fourth-year and Politics major, brought to the Review an unmistakably sharp editorial instinct and uncanny ability to stay tapped into the conversations shaping campus life. Beyond the paper itself, Layla also helped found the Collegiate Journalism Network, expanding opportunities for collaboration and connection between student jo

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