Created in the 1960s during the Vietnam War, the Student Senate was the product of one of many student demands for increased decision-making power within the College. To say that Oberlin’s Student Senate was active in this period would be an understatement; it was a participatory democracy where different student groups organized and presented.
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Editor’s Note: This article contains discussion of sexual harm. In his Feb. 9 article in the Review, Zane Badawi laments what he sees as President Carmen Twillie Ambar’s failure to condemn “genocide” (“Indifference to Palestine Exposes False Progressiveness at Oberlin,” The Oberlin Review, Feb. 9, 2024). With so much misinformation in Badawi’s piece, it’s hard.
Iranian-American activists seeking to oust former Iranian officials from U.S. academia to hold them accountable for the Islamic republic’s poor human rights record say a U.S. college that suspended one former official last month needs to do more. Alliance Against Islamic Regime of Iran Apologists (AAIRIA) also tells VOA that the suspension of Mohammad Jafar…