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Kim Russell, head coach of the Oberlin women's lacrosse team in Ohio, said school officials harangued her and pressured her to recant over a 2022 Instagram post expressing opposition to biological males who identify as female competing in women's sports. She appeared in an August 2023 documentary by the Independent Women's Forum called "Burned at the Stake: One NCAA Coach's Battle to Protect Women's Sports." (Photo courtesy of the Independent Women's Forum)

Oberlin coach says she was rebuked, shamed over post defending women in sports

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

A student rides a bicycle on the campus of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, March 5, 2013. Oberlin College has completed paying out a $25 million judgment to an Ohio bakery that won a libel lawsuit against the school after a shoplifting incident involving three Black students. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

Oberlin College finishes paying $25M judgment in libel suit

Associated Press

In this Nov. 22, 2017, file photo, pedestrians pass the storefront of Gibson's Bakery in Oberlin, Ohio. (AP Photo/Dake Kang, File)

Oberlin College begins payment of $36M to bakery that was smeared as racist

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Illustration on an apology from Oberlin College to Gibson Bakery by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

An Oberlin apology letter to Gibson Bakery

By Mark Labaton

In this Nov. 22, 2017, photo, pedestrians pass the storefront of Gibson's Food Mart & Bakery in Oberlin, Ohio. (AP Photo/Dake Kang) **FILE**

Oberlin to appeal $31.5 million jury award over protests against Gibson’s Bakery

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 22, 2017, file photo, pedestrians pass the storefront of Gibson's Food Mart &amp; Bakery in Oberlin, Ohio. A jury has awarded $11 million to a father and son who claimed Ohio's Oberlin College and an administrator hurt their business and libeled them during a dispute that triggered protests and allegations of racism following a shoplifting incident. (AP Photo/Dake Kang, File) ** FILE **

Gibson’s Bakery family accuses Oberlin College of trying to wait out cancer death

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 22, 2017, file photo, pedestrians pass the storefront of Gibson's Food Mart &amp; Bakery in Oberlin, Ohio. A jury has awarded $11 million to a father and son who claimed Ohio's Oberlin College and an administrator hurt their business and libeled them during a dispute that triggered protests and allegations of racism following a shoplifting incident. (AP Photo/Dake Kang, File) ** FILE **

Gibson’s Bakery wins $6.5M in attorney’s fees against Oberlin after $25M in damages

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Snowflakes of Oberlin Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Jury rebuke of Oberlin College suggests a limit to campus political correctness

By Suzanne Fields

Correction: Obit-Charles Reich story

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

Attorney Lee Plakas talks Thursday, June 13, 2019, in Elyria, Ohio, about the decision in his clients' lawsuit claiming Oberlin College hurt their business and libeled them. In the background are Allyn W. Gibson, Allyn D. Gibson, Cashlyn Gibson, 11, David Gibson, and Lorna Gibson. A jury in Lorain County awarded David Gibson, son Allyn Gibson and Gibson's Bakery, of Oberlin, $33 million in punitive damages Thursday. That comes on top of an award a day earlier of $11 million in compensatory damages. (Bruce Bishop/Chronicle-Telegram via AP)

Ohio college says $44M award to business not ‘final outcome’

By MARK GILLISPIE - Associated Press

In this Nov. 22, 2017, photo, pedestrians pass the storefront of Gibson's Food Mart & Bakery in Oberlin, Ohio. (AP Photo/Dake Kang) **FILE**

Oberlin College ordered to pay Gibson Bakery $33 million over anti-bakery protests

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Correction: Oberlin College-Racial Dispute story

By MARK GILLISPIE - Associated Press

Four generations of Gibsons after jury verdict. (Legal Insurrection Foundation]

Ohio jury awards $11 million to bakery owners targeted by Oberlin College student protests

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Students walk in downtown Oberlin on March 5, 2013 in this file photo. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Oberlin College withdraws subpoena targeting conservative news outlet

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

A lawsuit filed last year by a student expelled from Oberlin College in Ohio reveals that every student who went through the college's formal sexual assault adjudication process was found responsible on at least one count.(Associated Press/File)

Oberlin College sex assault conviction rate 100%

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

Oberlin College seeks dismissal of business’ lawsuit

Associated Press

Racial dispute at beloved bakery roils liberal college town

By DAKE KANG - Associated Press

Suspect in 4 slayings in Massachusetts to appear in court

By CRYSTAL HILL - Associated Press

Christina Hoff Sommers (Screen grab from American Enterprise Institute)

Christina Hoff Sommers, speaker at Oberlin, triggers debate about feminist ‘trigger warnings’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

University of Virginia students walk to campus past the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. Rolling Stone is casting doubt on the account it published of a young woman who says she was gang-raped at a Phi Kappa Psi fraternity party at the school, saying there now appear to be discrepancies in the student's account. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) **FILE**

CHRISTOPHER HARPER: Sensationalism over eithics in sex assault stories

By Christopher Harper - The Washington Times