Tension in Oberlin

watson84
Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:15:56 +0000

I was just looking at the Oberlin Review (school newspaper) and read an article about the assault of three Obies in two days during Thanksgiving break by a group of teenagers. The article can be found here:

http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/ocreview/

I know that crime occurs everywhere, but the article said two things that esp. concerned me;

1. This article said this really wasn’t out of the ordinary at Oberlin.

2. One of the victims said he thought the attack may have been motivated by socio-economic tension between the school and town. Are the"town- gown" relations really that bad?

I don’t know, maybe I’m blowing things out of proportion…what do ppl think?