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Scope and Contents This folder consists of the single issue of Asia News, published in 1977. Asia News was a single-edition journal published in newspaper format by the Oberlin College Asian American Alliance. It was designed to further unity and cohesion inside and outside the Asian and Asian American community. Presented as a source of news, Asia News focuses on Oberlin's internal politics. The...

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The Barrows Front dates from 1981. It is an unillustrated publication primarily dedicated to news, history, and external politics related to the dormitory Barrows Hall. It also includes general features on events at Oberlin College and student prose and poetry.

Scope and Contents This file contains a single-edition political journal intended to create publishable representation of Oberlin College's diversity of background, experience, and opinion. Published in 1994, the goals of The Big Picture declared in the official charter by its editor and publisher (both student-held positions) are: to provide an arena in which members of the Oberlin community can discuss national and international events of current political importance; to take...

Scope and Contents A single-edition student anarchist journal published by the Oberlin Anarchist Collective in 1990, featuring political articles, poetry, visual art, and biographies of anarchists of history. The Black Oak contains articles focused on current events at and outside of Oberlin. It condemns Oberlin's history as an international institution and endorses anarchist organizations. Articles include topics such as: atheism, flag burning, the Oberlin arch ("Arch of...

Scope and Contents Below the Belt dates from ca. 1988-1995. It is a satirical publication laid out as a newsletter. Below the Belt often incorporates facetious academic articles (i.e., featuring articles titled "Popular Misconceptions of the 20th Century"), satirizes the Oberlin College administration's politics ("Covert Operations: College Considers Inviting CIA to Recruit"), and spoofs other Oberlin student publications...

Scope and Contents This file contains a single-edition satire publication, published in 1947 by a team of six self-identified Sams. Bloman contains a combination of short poems, absurdist visual art sharing space with written pieces, short stories, vignettes, and peer reviews (ex.: "Interesting Boys I've Known"). Through Bloman, the six Sams satirize the romanticized language and cultivated angst in creative poetry and prose journals...

Scope and Contents A single-edition satire publication published in 1984. Blot #1 satirizes the turgidity of academic mathematic and philosophical journals. Blot #1 describes itself as an "independent forum for material which shows the free play of ideas in all areas...[of] literature, artwork, sciences, music, anthropology." Beginning with a "Title Apropos Subject at Hand," the publication favors a letter-to-the-editor style...

Scope and Contents This folder contains a single issue of Bridges, an outreach newsletter published by the Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association (OSMA) in 1993. The issue in this file features items from "Creative Activities for Teaching about the Countries and Regions of the World: India" (Stevens and Shea Publishers, In., 1988). Bridges is a two-page publication with an insert from OSMA explaining the Asian Outreach Program, advocating...

Scope and Contents Burnt Star is a literary magazine for poems, short stories, plays, essays, and creative works, accompanied by visual art edited by Oberlin College students in the 1960s. The editors of the Burnt Star claim no affiliation with the Oberlin College Yeoman. The submissions are not required to be from Oberlin students and include content from students at other institutions as well as student...

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Published in 2001, Bursting Your Bubble is a single-edition publication (true to its name). It contains an unrestrained, furious rant aimed at the Oberlin student population. The anonymous author rages at the class hypocrisy, faux-allyship, and bigotry inherent in higher education they have witnessed on Oberlin College's campus. The introductory page features quotations from Audre Lorde and bell hooks.