Oberlin Community, College Reflect on
Town-Gown Relationships Post Gibson’s Litigation
Posted By: Harlowe, 9/17/2022 11:36:20 PM
Last week, Oberlin College announced it would pay Gibson’s Bakery the sum of $36.59 million in damages and attorney’s fees. With litigation now concluded, members of the community are reflecting on the circumstances of the original incident and the culmination of five years of litigation. Karen Schaefer is an Oberlin resident who has worked as a freelance public radio journalist for the last 20 years and has written about the College on a number of occasions.[Snip]“You have to remember that this was the night after the election of 2016 had occurred,” Schaefer continued “I think everybody in this town, which is mostly liberal,
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Aside from Ms. Schaefer’s 2016 election result observation, a fourth generation Oberlin College student expressed the same feeling about the political atmosphere but went further in stating her dissatisfaction with Oberlin College’s involvement with the protests and litigation. The Gibson family and legal team hope the Oberlin community will continue to patronize the bakery; however, Oberlin College has not made any statement pertaining to future business with the bakery nor has it extended an olive branch to the Gibson family—perhaps that will take time and a change in Oberlin College’s administrator(s).