Student publications

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Abomination features poems, short stories, and visual art published by the Oberlin Writing Workshop, a collaborative community. Dating from 2014, the publication is a slender staple-bound booklet. Pages feature text and images. Written works include personal narratives, flash fiction, and poetry.

Scope and Contents Alternatives ranges in date from 1976-1982. It was founded as a forum for progressive campus activism in the late 1970s and early 80s, and published by the Oberlin Political Caucus, a non-profit chartered student organization. The publications are thick, durable magazines. Subjects include the Women's Movement, anti-nuclear campaigns, environmental activism, educational and labor equality, divestment from pro-apartheid corporations, LGBTQ+ rights, and draft...

Scope and Contents Ample Cleavage was a feminist magazine published twice a semester with the intention of spreading radical feminist ideas on Oberlin College's campus. The publication is a thin magazine composed of academic articles, poetry, student op-eds, visual art and photographs. Run by an editorial board composed of Oberlin students, the publication's articles both humorously and seriously explore topics such as lesbians, female masturbation, rape culture, and structural...

Scope and Contents The Oberlin College Archives holds issues of Ao Tung from 1974-1987, 1990-2003, and 2006. Ao Tung is an undergraduate journal that was an annual publication of the Oberlin College East Asian Studies Program.Ao Tung is published in stapled paper booklets. Published content includes historical and literary articles, essays, prose, poetry, and playwriting from both students and Oberlin College faculty. Some topics of...

Scope and Contents The Oberlin College Archives holds the 1950 Archways. Archways was a collection of daily inspirational writings published by the Oberlin College YMCA and YWCA with the intention of helping students with some common problems. The issue in the Archives' collection features a compilation of Archways highlights from a previous issue absent from our collection. The writings consist of student submissions in the form of prayers for...

Scope and Contents The Oberlin College Archives holds issues of As I Am from 1994-2007 and 2013. As I Am is an Asian American literary journal. It features thoughts and concerns of the Asian American community at Oberlin College. Short personal narratives, poetry, and interviews are interspersed with visual art addressing facets of Asian American identities. The publication is primarily stapled paper bound with a cardstock cover. Each issue is...

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...

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 "BIPOC Lenses is an Oberlin student-run magazine that unites many different POC organizations under one publication to showcase the beauty, talent, and art that students of color create on campus." Issues are printed and offered digitally. Issue 1 (undated, ca. Spring 2022) contains articles on the overturning of Roe v. Wade and reproductive justice. Issue 2 (undated, ca. September 2022) includes a photographic section in celebration of Latinx Heritage Month with semi-nude models. The...

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...