J-Basics Vox Pops - Spring 2023

Oberlin College is on a land blessed. It was founded nearly 200 years ago by a group of Christian expats from the Northeast. This flat piece of land was meant to serve a utopia of Christianity. A practical one. It was to be a realm for both learning and labor. Still, as many Oberlin students and community members know, Utopia doesn't exist. Not here at least.

The college's Sustainable Infrastructure Program, which will convert buildings throughout campus to geothermal heating to help meet the institution's goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2025, is entering its third and final phase. In the midst of so many changing policies, it's unclear how the college is coordinating sustainability efforts, or where students stand in all of this.