OBERLIN’S ALTERNATIVE STUDENT NEWSPAPER

ISSUE FOUR COVER ART

Front Cover: Brian Do

Back Cover: Saffron Forsberg

Saffron Forsberg and Teagan Hughes Co-Editors-in-Chief

Reggie Goudeau Features Editor

Fionna Farrell Opinions Editor

Hi reader!

Raghav Raj Arts and Culture Editor

Isabel Hardwig Bad Habits Editor

Julian Crosetto Layout Editor

Maia Hadler Art Director

Writers

Can you believe it’s once again short-sleeves weather? Cold-brew weather? Languishing-on WilderBowl-like-a-well-loved-housecat weather? Frankly, I can’t! Maybe it’s just because I’m graduating, but this semester seems to be happening at warp-speed. Soon, Ole Teagan and I will bid y’all adieu. We’ll pass the torch to a couple other ambitious Grape-lovers who only sort-of have any idea what they’re doing, as tradition dictates. Gahh! It’s #snrszn all over again, I fear. And while I’m certainly ready to graduate and head on to bigger places and things, I gotta say; I’m really going to miss The Grape. I’ve been teaching myself how to keep this shrieking Grape-baby alive since last summer and now what….I just gotta pass her off to somebody else? Trust that they’ll be as much of a geek about this Thing as I am? It’s the great tragedy of every undergrad student org. For, I feel like I came of age in The Grape, as cheesy as that may sound…The Grape saw me at eighteen and it sees me now, in my very-early-twenties, wandering dopily through that first cusp of adulthood. It’s probably been the most stable touchstone of my Oberlin experience. How strange to just let it go on without me! The thing is, though, that’s why student newspapers exist; they exist to carry generations of faltering voices and those geeks who let them be known. The Grape will allow so many other young writers to find their footing here, as they, like me, try on voices and selves between welcoming newsprint pages. I am but a mere chapter of The Grape’s adorable student-journalism legacy…and I choose to regard that as a pretty special thing.

- Saffron