The Weekly

This week's show is a special episode about Juneteenth, made up of segments by The Weekly team: Nina Auslander-Padgham, Eric Schank, and Casey Troost. First, Nina and Eric present a segment on the Oberlin Juneteenth festival, how it is different this year, and address potential town and gown tensions as more students participate in the parade. Afterwards, Nina Auslander-Padgham interviews Annessa Wyman, an Administrative Assistant at the College, about her personal involvement in planning Juneteenth festivities for the last decade. Finally, Casey Troost's segment is on the history and meaning of Juneteenth with interviews with African American locals: Ms. Margaret Christian, honoary Juneteenth board member and local historian; featured poet LaTonya Fenderson Warren; Valerie Lawson, chairperson of the Juneteenth executive board; Adenike Sharpley, professor of Dance at Oberlin; and Shelley Shepard. This episode originally aired on WOBC Oberlin, 91.5 FM, Oberlin College and Community radio at 3:00 pm EST on August 2nd, 2021. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

In this episode, The Weekly's co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 chat with Reggie Goudeau '23, the opinions columnist from The Oberlin Review, about his recent Opinions article about kneeling during the national anthem and his experiences with Oberlin administration. Reggie's article was originally published in The Oberlin Review on June 11, 2021. The next segment is Nina Auslander's interview with Ruth Hardy, Vermont state senator and Oberlin alumnus, class of 1992, about her political career and life during the pandemic. This episode originally aired on WOBC Oberlin, 91.5 FM, Oberlin College and Community radio at 3:00 pm EST on June 28th, 2021. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

In the first episode of the summer semester, The Weekly's hosts Owen Anderson '23 and Jaimie Yue '22 feature an audiojournalism project from Casey Troost ‘22. Casey interviewed three Oberlin alumni for her final project in Rhetoric 402: Tutoring Lab. Casey's interviews focus on the alumni's post-Oberlin lives and how their jobs as Writing and Speaking Associates benefitted them after graduating. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

In this Bonus Episode, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 interview Dante Xavier on his new album "Black In My Own Way" featuring Avery Brooks, distinguished musician and actor and Oberlin alumnus, Class of 1970. To listen to the full composition visit the DX Experiment on YouTube, Spotify, or www.HarpSpaceHappening.com for streaming links and a free download of liner notes for the Black In My Own Way Album. This interview was originally aired on WOBC-FM in December of 2020. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Content warning: This episode contains discussion of anti-Asian racism and gun violence. In this episode, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 have a conversation about Jaimie's newest article for The Oberlin Review about the Asian Cultural Arts Festival that occurred on May 5, hosted by the recently rebranded Asians in America Alliance (AAA) and the importance of AAA as an identity and political student organization. Later on, Jaimie's interviews with Elise Steenburgh '22 and Amber Scherer '21 for the article are broadcast. Jaimie's article was originally published in The Oberlin Review on April 30, 2021. This episode originally aired on WOBC Oberlin, 91.5 FM, Oberlin College and Community radio at 1:00 pm EST on May 10th, 2021. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

In this episode, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 chat with Zoe Martin Del Campo and Khalid McCalla, the sports editors of The Oberlin Review, about the columns they ran in the section this year, including “Zoe and Khalid Advise Everything.” The next segment is the extended cuts of Zoe and Khalid's column debates. The first centers around the question, which would you rather fight: a shark in the ocean, a lion in the savanna, or an alligator in the swamp? Next is "The Great Tendie Debate," and finally there is “Rodent Rampage.” This episode originally aired on WOBC Oberlin, 91.5 FM, Oberlin College and Community radio at 1:00 pm EST on May 3rd, 2021. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Content warning: This episode contains discussion of anti-Asian racism, gun violence, and stabbing. In this episode, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 speak with Jonas Nelson '24, a writer from The Oberlin Review, about his Off the Cuff interview with Professor Rick Baldoz and his op-ed for The Washington Post on the Atlanta spa shootings that killed eight people, six of them Asian American women. Later on, Jaimie and Owen have their own conversation about the rise in anti-Asian sentiment during the COVID-19 pandemic and the #StopAsianHate movement. Jonas's article was originally published in The Oberlin Review on April 7, 2021. This episode originally aired on WOBC Oberlin, 91.5 FM, Oberlin College and Community radio at 1:00 pm EST on April 26th, 2021. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

In this episode, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 speak with Zoe Kuzbari '22, a sports senior staff writer, and Zoe Martin Del Campo '22, a sports section editor, from The Oberlin Review, about the return of spring sports. Later on, Jaimie and Owen interview Leela Miller '24 about her preview of Fires in the Mirror, a digitally screened theater production. Both articles were originally published in The Oberlin Review on April 2, 2021. This episode originally aired on WOBC Oberlin, 91.5 FM, Oberlin College and Community radio at 1:00 pm EST on April 12th, 2021. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

This week, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Owen Anderson '23 and Jaimie Yue '22 have a conversation about Jaimie's feature article on Tiffany Fung, an Oberlin graduate from the class of 2012, for the Office of Communications. After graduating with a degree in Art History, Tiffany Fung earned her Master's in Scientific Illustration at Zuyd University in the Netherlands and co-founded the Biotic Artlab illustration studio in 2020. After the co-hosts' segment, there is an extended cut of Jaimie's interview with Tiffany. A print version of Jaimie's article was originally published on Oberlin College's website on February 23, 2021. This episode originally aired on WOBC Oberlin, 91.5 FM, Oberlin College and Community radio at 1:00 pm EST on March 29th, 2021. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

In this episode, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 speak with Joshua Jackson '23, an arts section editor from The Oberlin Review, about his interview with College third-year Cyril Amanfo, Double-degree fifth-year Max Addae, and Double-degree fourth-year Mark Ligonde, the trio behind The Blackberry Poets. Joshua's article was originally published in The Oberlin Review on March 10, 2021. This episode originally aired on WOBC Oberlin, 91.5 FM, Oberlin College and Community radio at 1:00 pm EST on March 22nd, 2021. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

In this episode, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 speak with Walter Thomas-Paterson '24, a senior staff writer from The Oberlin Review, about his interview with Rabbi Megan Doherty, the director of Hillel and Jewish Campus Life. The segment is followed by an extended cut of Walter's Off the Cuff interview with Rabbi Doherty on the Heartbeat Bill. Walter's article was originally published in The Oberlin Review on February 24, 2021. This episode originally aired on WOBC Oberlin, 91.5 FM, Oberlin College and Community radio at 1:00 pm EST on March 15th, 2021. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

In this episode, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 speak with Ella Moxley '22, one of the News Editors from The Oberlin Review, about the vaccination plan for the Oberlin City School District (OCS). Ella's article was originally published on The Oberlin Review on February 26, 2021. This episode originally aired on WOBC Oberlin, 91.5 FM, Oberlin College and Community radio at 1:00 pm EST on March 8th, 2021. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

In this episode, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 speak with The Oberlin Review production editor, Alexa Stevens '22, about food insecurity and volunteerism by local organizations in and around Oberlin. After Alexa's segment, the hosts interview Editor-in-Chief of The Oberlin Review, Anisa Curry Vietze, about her article on the ongoing One Oberlin initiative during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both articles were originally published on The Oberlin Review on February 19, 2021. This episode originally aired on WOBC Oberlin, 91.5 FM, Oberlin College and Community radio at 1:00 pm EST on March 1st, 2021. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

In this episode, "The Weekly"'s co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 speak with The Oberlin Review writer, Zach Bayfield '22, about his review of Steel Magnolia, a new restaurant in downtown Oberlin. Zach discusses his dining experience at the restaurant, his connection to international cuisine as a Toronto native, and the importance of supporting small businesses during COVID-19. After the conversation is an audio clip of Zach's Interview with Shontae Jackson, the owner of Steel Magnolia. Finally, there are two audio journalism projects produced in the fall 2020 semester by Finn Miller and Zach Gershon, both in the Class of 2024 and the WOBC News Workgroup. This episode originally aired on WOBC Oberlin, 91.5 FM, Oberlin College and Community radio at 1:00 pm EST on February 22nd, 2021. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

To begin Season 4, The Weekly's new co-hosts Jaimie Yue '22 and Owen Anderson '23 talk with The Oberlin Review's senior staff writer, Casey Troost '22, about her On The Record article interviewing Samuel George OC '07, a documentary filmmaker for the non-profit Bertelsmann Foundation in Washington, DC on his film “Go-Go City: Displacement & Protest in Washington, DC.” After the discussion is the extended cut of Casey's OTR Interview with Samuel. This episode was originally aired on WOBC Oberlin, 91.5 FM, Oberlin College and Community radio at 1:00 pm EST on February 15th, 2021. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

We're excited to announce that the Weekly will return for Season 4 this spring with co-hosts Owen Anderson and Jaimie Yue! To kick of the new season, we're airing a bonus episode featuring an interview Anisa and Sarah did with Jad Abumrad back before the pandemic. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Anisa, Johan, and Sarah are joined by Molly Bryson, Editor and Chief of the Grape, to talk to Alex Blumberg '89 about his his time at Oberlin, his evolution as a journalist, and the future of podcasting. Alex worked on This American Life and created Planet Money before co-founding the podcast network Gimlet Media. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Catch up on Oberlin's news with this week's Week in Review. Tune in at 9pm on March 9th to wobc.org for our full program! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Johan talks with Aaron Zitner '84, news editor at the Wall Street Journal's Washington Bureau, about his time at Oberlin and the role of data journalism. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Listen as Anisa Curry Vietze and Katie Lucey discuss Oberlin's latest news stories. Get a sneak peek into our upcoming episode about UAW as college negotiations continue. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Johan and Ella talk to Afrikan Heritage House Historian Deverrick McAllister about the 40th anniversary of the Winter Term Underground Railroad Reenactment and the history of Afrikan Heritage House at Oberlin. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Oberlin Review news editors Katie Lucey and Anisa Curry Vietze discuss the headlines from this week's edition of the The Oberlin Review. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

As first years Kate Steifman, Ella Newcomb, and Lena Golia wrap up their first semester, they talk about their experiences so far and their hopes for the future with Jen Crainic, a fourth year who has one month left at Oberlin before graduating in December. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Oberlin Review news editors Katie Lucey and Anisa Curry Vietze discuss the headlines from this week's edition of the The Oberlin Review. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Johan checks in with recent Oberlin grads Oliver Bok, Daniel Markus, and Melissa Harris about their experience as student journalists at Oberlin and how it has impacted their post-grad life. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Johan and Sarah talk with Faith Ward '22 and Anna Silverman '22 about the September Climate Strike, the work of Sunrise Oberlin, and youth environmental activism on campus and around the world. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Nathan Carpenter, Editor and Chief of the Oberlin Review talks to Dr. Tim Uyeki, class of ‘81, while he was back on campus to give a talk entitled “From Avian Influenza to Ebola and Public Health: Reflections of a Clinician and Epidemiologist.” Uyeki is the Chief Medical Officer in the Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Center for Disease Control. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Oberlin Review news editors Katie Lucey and Anisa Curry Vietze discuss the headlines from this week's edition of the The Oberlin Review. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Sarah talks with Dr. David Tempest '72, who biked from Seattle to Oberlin to be inducted into the Heisman Club Hall of Fame. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Oberlin Review news editors Katie Lucey and Anisa Curry Vietze discuss the headlines from this week's edition of the The Oberlin Review. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Johan, Roman, and Daniel talk with RadioLab host and Oberlin alum Robert Krulwich about his time at Oberlin and his views on current campus culture. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Introducing a new feature of The Weekly! The Oberlin Review news editors Katie Lucey and Anisa Curry Vietze discuss the headlines from this week's edition of the The Oberlin Review. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Sarah and Roman talk with Student Senator Kirsten Mojziszek about new changes to Title IX being pursued by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Johan and Roman talk with Prof. Charmaine Chua about Oberlin, private higher education, neoliberal reforms, and her decision to leave. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Sarah Dalgliesh and Daniel Markus talk to Student Senate Chair Kameron Dunbar about the AAPR process and report. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Roman and Johan sit down with Ambassador Abercrombie-Winstanley and talk what life is like in the Foreign Service, what the world is like today, and where foreign policy could evolve to. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

This year's commencement speaker is David Sedaris, who recently published Calypso, a new collection of stories. We'll ask him for his advice for graduates, how he went from drug addict and college dropout to critically acclaimed writer, and, most importantly, whether he really fed his tumor to a snapping turtle. Really? Please be advised that this episode of our show contains foul language, mentions of drug use, and other topics unsuitable for young listeners. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

In this episode, we talk to Bridget Flynn, Oberlin's sustainability manager, and Rachael Hood, a student activist and campus leader on sustainability issues. We discuss the role of the Office of Environmental Sustainability, how Oberlin is becoming more sustainable, and, most importantly, the NEXUS pipeline, which will run through Oberlin. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Before becoming President Ambar's chief of staff, Ferd Protzman, OC '75, worked an award winning journalist for the New York Times, Washington Post, and International Herald Tribune. He's also the author of six books for National Geographic. More importantly, though, he went to Oberlin in the 1970s, and we have a lot of questions. Were Oberlin students in the '70s very similar to Oberlin students now? What was it like to go to Oberlin during the Vietnam War? Also, what does the job of a chief of staff even entail? On this episode of our show, we find out. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Editor's Note: Due to technical issues with WOBC's radio transmitter, the recording of this show has significantly decreased audio quality. We have done as much as possible to repair the damage, and we apologize for the issues. On May 30, 2017, Carmen Twillie Ambar was named as the 15th President of Oberlin College by the Board of Trustees, and is the first Black woman to hold the position in the College's history. After settling into the job, she announced that under her leadership, the College would begin an Academic and Administrative Program Review (AAPR), a sweeping audit of all college offices, programs, and departments. Under AAPR, a steering committee of faculty, staff, and students will conduct research and analysis from now until next spring, subsequently making recommendations to the board. In her previous role as President of Cedar Crest College, Ambar initiated a similar process. But is that a good thing? Many faculty members don't think so. At Cedar Crest, AAPR resulted in the proposed elimination of five majors; sustained lobbying efforts by students and faculty only saved two of them. What's more, the process was opaque, deceptive, and at times disturbing. No notes were taken of steering committee meetings, leaving no record of how and why certain decisions were made; a faculty member was fired after being told in writing that they would not, leading to a lawsuit against Cedar Crest; and Ambar's chosen consulting firm, Stevens Strategy, made fraudulent claims in a presentation to the Cedar Crest board and engaged in a practice of ranking majors by their financial value. Should we be worried? (Daniel is very worried.) We'll ask President Ambar about that, and also find out why she thinks Oberlin is the best college in the country. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Editor's Note: Due to technical issues with WOBC's radio transmitter, the recording of this show has significantly decreased audio quality. We have done as much as possible to repair the damage, and we apologize for the issues. On November 9, 2016, an Oberlin student walked into Gibson's Bakery, an Oberlin institution over a century old. While accounts differ, eventually, the student and store owner Allyn Gibson ended up across the street in a fight, along with two other students. The students—all of them Black—were arrested and charged by the police; Gibson, who is white, didn't get charged. Protests erupted. Students massed outside the store chanting "no justice, no peace!" and encouraging a total boycott of the store that many students still follow today. Pro-Gibson's counter protesters, many of them from motorcycle gangs, came to town to support the store and, often, intimidate students. Oberlin made national news headlines in The New York Times and other publications. Eventually, the students plead guilty to a set of reduced misdemeanor charges and accepted fines, and everything seemed to be in the past. But almost a year after the initial incident, the Gibson family sued the College and one of its dean's, Meredith Raimondo. How did we get here? We'll talk to Luke Fortney and Jake Berstein, editors-in-chief of The Grape, to hear about their investigation into the story. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Editor's Note: Due to technical issues with WOBC's radio transmitter, the recording of this show has significantly decreased audio quality. We have done as much as possible to repair the damage, and we apologize for the issues. In March of 2018, President Ambar opened up the books. Well, sort of. In presentations, she detailed Oberlin's financial issues, tuition dependence, and the many decisions by her predecessors that left the College in the significantly compromised financial position it now finds itself in. Or... did she? While Ambar's presentation was long and students peppered her with questions, how much did we actually learn? Johan and Daniel spoke with Sam Schuman, staff writer at The Grape, and student senator Josh Koller to find out. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

In our final episode of the season, Johan and Daniel talk to actor Bob Odenkirk about how he rose from a late night sketch show on his college radio station to fame on Better Call Saul and The Post, what it takes for an Obie to succeed in sketch comedy, the state of comedy and sensitivity and more. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

6. Donald Trump is up at 3 a.m. tweeting, and out golfing on the weekends. Republican voters seem to be showing strong support for Roy Moore, who was recently accused of multiple sexual misconduct violations with minors. Numerous diplomatic posts at the State Department remain vacant. Voters are angry. 

The list goes on, and it's clear the state of our democracy isn't exactly great. Enter David Orr, Emeritus Professor of Environmental Studies at Oberlin. He and others organized “The State of American Democracy, A National Conversation,” a multi-day conference on the subject, and we were lucky enough to talk to one of the keynote speakers.

On this episode, hosts Johan Cavert and Daniel Markus are joined by Professor Stephen Kinzer, a distinguished journalist, author, foreign policy expert, and Senior Fellow in International Affairs at Brown University's Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs. They discuss the country's cu --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

After years of deliberations, student protests, and closed-door meetings, the Board of Trustees Rejected a proposal by Student Senate to add any student representation to the body, with Chair Chris Canavan, OC '84, saying “A healthy board is one on which every trustee feels absolutely comfortable thinking out loud. Trustees are no less human than students: when we think out loud, we take note of who's in the room, consciously or subconsciously. Most trustees, including those who might otherwise support the resolution, worry that some of us would think out loud less candidly if students were in the room. As chair, that's unacceptable to me.” 

Student Senator Josh Koller and Oberlin Review News Editor Sydney Allen join The Weekly to discuss the future of student advocacy efforts in the wake of the setback and where students go from here. In the second half of our show, we tackle staffing issues in the Office of Disability Resources — the underlyin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

Did you know that many students refer to non-athletes as “Obies”? The divide between athletes and non-athletes has been getting a lot of attention lately, after Professor of English Yago Colás began hosting monthly discussion sessions on the issue. Captain of the Track and Field Team and nationally accomplished athlete, Lilah Drafts-Johnson, along with Student Senators Melvin Briggs and Kopano join The Weekly to examine the divide's origins, its impact on student life, and what solutions students can use to break it down and think more critically about the role of athletics and activism at Oberlin. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

The Weekly is joined by India Wood, a senior trainer with Oberlin's Preventing and Responding to Sexual Misconduct (PRSM) program as we talk with New York Times bestselling author Peggy Orenstein (OC '83) about her research and her most recent book "Girls and Sex.” We discuss intimate justice, hookup culture, consent, alcohol, and sex on college campuses. Plus, great reflections on how Oberlin's culture has changed since your parents went here. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

For academic departments looking to hire new faculty, each year normally begins with submissions of requests to a subcommittee of the General Faculty Council — except that didn't happen in 2017, as in the wake of financial pressures, the College implemented a hiring freeze. Oberlin Review News Editor Sydney Allen joins Managing Editor Daniel Markus and host Johan Cavert to discuss the freeze's rationale, how long it's likely to last, and effects on students and other faculty as the college navigates uncertain financial waters. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support

What does it take to be heard at the highest levels of college governance? Do students have a right to be members of their Board of Trustees, the body that makes all of Oberlin's financial decisions? In our inaugural show, host Johan Cavert and Oberlin Review Managing Editor Daniel Markus discuss efforts to get a student representative on the board of trustees with Student Senators Kameron Dunbar, Thobeka Mnisi, and Josh Koller. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-weekly/support