Well, ObieTalk is all over the place. Where it used to exist mostly online and in the gossip-filled first-year dorm rooms, the anonymous forum has now been featured on the Oberlin blogs, on the front page of the Review, and was even the topic of a student forum facilitated by the Oberlin College Dialogue Center earlier today. After all this, it seems evident that the controversy swirling around the rise of bigoted posts on the site is sparking a long-overdue conversation about ObieTalk and the purpose of anonymous forums in general.
Opinions
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Editorial: ObieTalk Useless If Obies Don't Talk
May 7, 2012
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Editorial: High Expectations Make for Enlightened Campus Drug Culture
May 7, 2012
If you — student, professor, prospie or visiting parent — notice students greeting each other with calls of “Happy holidays” and sleepy grins today, don’t be surprised. But don’t be too quick to judge either.
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Editorial: Drag Ball Revamp Deviates from Tone of Event's Past
May 7, 2012
By the way, Drag Ball is this weekend.
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Editorial: Fearless? Not Re: the Internet
May 7, 2012
Our publication experienced the Information Age’s version of the existential epiphany when we found ourselves one recent Friday morning with a glaring yellow error page in the place where our website should have appeared. Never before had the tenuousness of our grip on reality been so starkly revealed — after all, what a news source is is simply information that can be accessed. We could no longer be accessed. Some fine line between presence and absence, relevance and obscurity, being and not being had been crossed.
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Editorial: Solar Array an Important Step Toward Sustainability
April 27, 2012
Environmentally conscious Obies can finally rejoice! This week, the Office of Communications announced plans to construct a 2.27 MW solar array on 10 acres of agricultural land adjacent to the Athletic Fields.