https://freerepublic.com/tag/oberlincollege/ en-us Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:51:58 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4341530/posts VIDEOWhen you see the thumbnail for this video you might think it is a bit hyperbolic with the images of Mao's Little Red Book. However, just a few seconds into this video, you will agree that the images were entirely appropriate after hearing this Oberlin College Commie student speak approvingly of political assassinations, including that of Charlie Kirk, and lovingly quoting Mao to justify them. BTW, I'm not exactly surprised these rantings are from an Oberlin College student since that school has had a reputation for promoting Communist ideology for years. Rumble https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4341530/posts#comment Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:51:58 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4187505/posts The Grünbaum heirs tried in vain for 17 years to get Oberlin College to return the drawing, including multiple demands and a civil lawsuit. But it was a recent criminal seizure warrant out of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and attendant bad publicity that appears to have swayed Oberlin College finally to give up the stolen property. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is an update to our October 1, 2023, exclusive report, Oberlin College’s 17-Year Refusal To Return Artwork Stolen By The Nazis From A Jewish Holocaust Victim. See that post for full details on a drawing, Girl With Black Hair, by Austrian... Legal Insurrection https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4187505/posts#comment Fri, 6 Oct 2023 18:33:14 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4186332/posts The Manhattan D.A. recently issued a criminal seizure warrant for ‘Girl With Black Hair’ in the possession of Oberlin College’s Allen Museum. Court records in a civil case reveal that the college has been fighting at least since 2006 against return of the drawing. This is in contrast to the college’s repatriation of an item of Native American craft returned to the Nez Perce tribe in 2002. Are items stolen from Jews during the Holocaust less worthy of return than items obtained from Native American tribes? ... Oberlin College was in the news recently after a drawing, Girl With Black... Legal Insurrection Foundation, https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4186332/posts#comment Mon, 2 Oct 2023 12:56:03 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4181665/posts The Biden administration has made a deal with Iran to release $6 billion in frozen funds in exchange for the release of five American prisoners. The agreement issuing a blanket waiver for international banks to transfer sanctioned Iranian money from South Korea to Qatar without fear of U.S. sanctions includes the release of five Iranian citizens held in the U.S. The Iranian-Americans include businessmen Siamak Namazi, 51, and Emad Shargi, 58, along with environmentalist Morad Tahbaz, 67. Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed off on the deal late last week, but Congress was not notified of the decision until Monday,... UK Daily Mail https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4181665/posts#comment Mon, 11 Sep 2023 20:43:00 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4173671/posts Oberlin College is embarking on another legal battle now that it has finally paid out $36.59 million in damages to a local bakery for falsely accusing the business owners of racism. This time, the college is suing four of its insurance providers after they failed to reimburse the school for the multimillion-dollar judgment in the Gibson Bakery’s case. After a years long legal battle, Oberlin agreed to pay the massive sum to the bakery in September 2022. Gibson’s Bakery sued the college in 2017, accusing the school and one of its administrators of hurting its business and libeling it over... National Review https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4173671/posts#comment Tue, 8 Aug 2023 12:20:21 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4133108/posts The son of a millionaire surgeon has been charged with domestic terrorism for the second time in a month over his role in violent Antifa protests in Atlanta on Saturday. Francis 'Frankie' Carroll, 22, from Kennebunkport, Maine, is one of six people charged after riots over the death of a protester who allegedly shot a police officer. Details also emerged on Monday about the privileged backgrounds of several other rioters - most of whom travelled from their peaceful hometowns outside of Georgia to wreak havoc in the state. A police car was torched and buildings were vandalized on Saturday during... UK Daily Mail https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4133108/posts#comment Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:11:04 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4115717/posts The Gibsons have collected the over $36 million owed them. Sadly, David Gibson and “Grandpa” Allyn Gibson did not live to see this day. By stretching out the appeals Oberlin College waited them out, but the rest of the family survives. We wish the Gibson family well. Legal Insurrection https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4115717/posts#comment Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:05:50 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4098187/posts "Just this month Oberlin had to pay $36 million for defaming a local bakery with false accusations of racism. Oberlin has a track record of politically motivated dishonesty and can’t be trusted to give an honest assessment of Mahallati’s past. Our concerns have nothing to do with academic freedom or unorthodox views—they’re about Mahallati’s past and his apparent leading role in covering up the Iranian regime’s atrocities. I’d like to thank Ranking Member Foxx for her commitment to investigating higher education’s ties to hostile foreign regimes when Republicans retake the majority, "Republican Study Committee Chairman Banks told Fox News Digital.... Fox News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4098187/posts#comment Tue, 4 Oct 2022 18:19:47 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4096056/posts Regarding the $36 million Oberlin College has been required to pay Gibson’s Bakery: Leaving aside fees paid by the college to Washington lawyers and the cost of insurance, the $36 million might have been spent as follows: (1) By giving each of the 295 underpaid members of the full-time faculty an outright grant of $122,033. (2) By reducing this year’s tuition bill to all 2,658 students by $957. (3) Or the money could have been left in the endowment, to generate $2 million a year. Note also that the $36 million cost of Oberlin College’s campaign against Gibson’s Bakery equals... Cleveland dot com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4096056/posts#comment Mon, 26 Sep 2022 02:12:29 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4093344/posts Following a failed appeal, Ohio’s Oberlin College is finally set to pay $36.6 million in damages that the courts have awarded to a local bakery in a defamation case. In a Sept. 9 statement, Oberlin announced that it had “initiated” payments to Gibson’s Bakery, a 137-year-old, fifth-generation family business that was wrongfully accused of racial profiling after a shoplifting incident involving black students. In April, an Ohio appeals court upheld a jury’s finding that the college, in its handling of student protests over the 2016 incident, committed libel, slander, and interference with business relationships against the bakery. On Aug. 30,... The Epoch Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4093344/posts#comment Wed, 14 Sep 2022 17:11:06 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4092119/posts Oberlin College is finally paying out the full $36.59 million in court-ordered defamation damages to a mom-and-pop bakery that it slandered as racist. The leftist school had previously fought desperately to avoid paying the judgment. The move by the school to finally pay what it owes the bakery comes after the Ohio Supreme Court refused to hear its appeal, according to a report by WKYC. Oberlin College had been ordered to pay Gibson’s Bakery $33 million for defamation damages in 2019 after Meredith Raimondo — now an ex-dean — orchestrated a woke mob into slandering the family as racists for... breitbart.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4092119/posts#comment Fri, 9 Sep 2022 17:58:17 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4089449/posts Hopefully the long, hard road Gibson’s Bakery has traveled in its fight with Oberlin College has come to an end. The Ohio Supreme Court just refused to accept jurisdiction over Oberlin College’s appeal (the Court also refused to hear the Gibsons’ appeal seeking to reinstate the full punitive damages award). It was a 4-3 decision, and it means the Gibsons now can collect approximately $36 million. Legal Insurrection https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4089449/posts#comment Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:18:07 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4089574/posts Hopefully the long, hard road Gibson’s Bakery has traveled in its fight with Oberlin College has come to an end. The Ohio Supreme Court just refused to accept jurisdiction over Oberlin College’s appeal (the Court also refused to hear the Gibsons’ appeal seeking to reinstate the full punitive damages award). It was a 4-3 decision, and it means the Gibsons now can collect approximately $36 million. We received quotes from the Gibsons and the trial team: “Oberlin tried to frame this case with claims and issues that weren’t on trial. This has never been a case about a student’s first... Legal Insurrection https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4089574/posts#comment Tue, 30 Aug 2022 21:56:30 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4088768/posts An Islamic studies academic dubbed the "Professor of Peace" at Oberlin College in Ohio endorsed the campaign to assassinate U.S. and British writer Salman Rushdie because the famous novelist depicted the Muslim prophet Muhammad irreverently. A 24-year-old man named Hadi Matar allegedly stabbed Rushdie on Friday in the neck and liver during the author’s speech in Chautauqua, New York. Rushdie is on a ventilator and cannot talk. According to law enforcement officials, Matar’s social media footprint showed that he was a fan of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization. Matar was also sympathetic to radical Shia... MSN https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4088768/posts#comment Sat, 27 Aug 2022 17:14:48 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4074520/posts Modern-day historians look back at the Soviet criminal system with a mixture of sorrow and disbelief. For example, Lavrentiy Beria, head of Stalin's secret police, often boasted, "Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime." Beria was bragging that he possessed a fearsome array of tools that could banish any political opponent to the gulag. An accusation became the legal equivalent of a conviction. Decades later, a similar philosophy began to take hold on college campuses across the United States. For example, a lawsuit against Oberlin College in Ohio revealed that every male accused of a sexual peccadillo... American Thinker https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4074520/posts#comment Tue, 28 Jun 2022 11:45:35 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4054548/posts The Gibsons suffered horrific stress as a result of Oberlin's lies and involvement in protests as well as boycotts, which culminated in the college and its former dean of students Meredith Raimondo being ordered to pay out $44 million for defamation in 2019. That was later reduced to $33 million, but Oberlin has arrogantly declared that it still won't pay out after losing a state court appear earlier this month. It has also refused to apologize, despite multiple college staff and numerous resources being deployed for the protests and boycotts. Meanwhile, Raimondo has landed on her feet with a cozy... The Daily Mail https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4054548/posts#comment Wed, 13 Apr 2022 02:30:13 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/4054232/posts Oberlin College was ordered by Ohio's state appeals court to pay Gibson's Bakery the sum on April 1, but continues to contest the payout, and says it is considering its options. The bakery was wrongly accused of racism after calling the police on three Oberlin black students for shoplifting a bottle of wine. One of its workers - Allyn Gibson - was even attacked by the three shoplifters after refusing to hand over a fake ID, and demanding they hand over the stolen wine. That trio were later convicted - but not before Oberlin went along with its students' union's... daily mail https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/4054232/posts#comment Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:13:03 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4052095/posts Progressive Oberlin College lost a huge case in appeals court last week that forced the school to pay $31 million to a bakery, which it falsely accused of carrying out racist actions in a 2016 incident. Gibson's Bakery – a 135-year-old family business near the campus of Oberlin College – was the site of an unfortunate incident. The owner's son allegedly confronted three black Oberlin students who attempted to shoplift bottles of wine. According to the police report, one of the suspects assaulted a store employee when confronted about the stolen wine. The three students pleaded guilty to attempted theft... The Blaze https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4052095/posts#comment Sun, 3 Apr 2022 22:01:20 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4022191/posts The student newspaper at an Ohio college known for its left-leaning politics published a column addressing the number of white students attending campus concerts. “When there are so few resources for non-white students on campus, it can be upsetting when concerts headlined by artists of color are dominated by white students,” wrote Kayla Kim, a first-year student at Oberlin College.... In the Dec. 10 column titled “Concerts Need to Be Better for Students of Color,” Kim claimed that whites, who comprise the majority of the student population, take over events by displacing black students in the front rows.... ...Kim also... Washington Examiner https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4022191/posts#comment Sat, 18 Dec 2021 00:54:39 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4004909/posts A student at an $80,000-a-year ultra-liberal Oberlin College in Ohio claimed in an op-ed that he was left ‘angry, scared, and confused’ because ‘cisgender men’ installed a radiator in his ‘safe space’ dormitory Daily Mail https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4004909/posts#comment Tue, 19 Oct 2021 14:23:36 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3817913/posts A large crowd comprised of Oberlin College students, employees and community members gathered Feb. 19 inside the campus’ King Hall to protest the institution's recent announcement that 108 college workers could lose their jobs. The protest, consisting of roughly over 800 people, took place during an Oberlin College faculty meeting. The Morning Star https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3817913/posts#comment Thu, 20 Feb 2020 02:25:47 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3794451/posts One of the owners of Gibson’s Bakery and a named plaintiff in the lawsuit against Oberlin College, David passed away at home early this morning surrounded by family after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Legal Insurrection https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3794451/posts#comment Sun, 17 Nov 2019 11:22:58 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3790750/posts I appeared tonight on Tucker Carlson Tonight to provide an update on the Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College case. It was my first time doing an on-set interview, and it was fun. TUCKER: In late 2016, three students at Oberlin college, maybe the most liberal college in the country, tried to rob a small family business near the school called Gibson’s Bakery. Tried to steal a bottle of booze among other things. When they were caught, one of them assaulted the son of the bakery’s owner, physically. One response to that, Oberlin college amazingly attack the bakery as racist and... Legal Insurrection https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3790750/posts#comment Fri, 1 Nov 2019 18:01:04 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3778040/posts In the Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College case, the judgment for the plaintiffs amounted to almost $32 million in damages and defendants were required to post a $36 million bond to secure the judgment pending appeal. Before appealing, Oberlin College filed two post-trial motions, a Motion for Judgment Notwithstanding The Verdict (pdf.) and Motion for a New Trial (pdf.), as explained in our post, Oberlin College Seeks New Trial in Gibson’s Bakery Case. Gibson’s Bakery responded with an Opposition to the Motion for Judgment Notwithstanding The Verdict (pdf.), and Opposition to the Motion for a New Trial (pdf.), as explained... Legal Insurrection https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3778040/posts#comment Wed, 11 Sep 2019 17:13:43 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3766536/posts Judge granted Oberlin College’s motion to stay execution of the judgment, but required the posting of a bond in the amount of the judgment plus three years interest as security. The compensatory and punitive damages of $25 million (after reduction for tort reform caps), plus the over $6.5 million in attorney’s fees and costs, put Oberlin College almost $32 million in debt to Gibson’s Bakery and its owners. Absent some judicial action, the next step would have been for the Gibsons to execute on the judgment, meaning start collecting the money through post-judgment remedies, such as seizing bank accounts and... Legal Insurrection https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3766536/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jul 2019 06:53:52 GMT