An Oberlin professor has accused another professor of trying to murder him. In response, the alleged would-be murderer is suing his accuser for sullying his good name. Life in academia can be killer.

Oberlin College is considering the controversial possibility of revising its policy on trigger warnings in order to allow professors to teach "books" and other academic material, rather than just reciting trigger warnings nonstop all semester. Is the world ready?

Last February, Oberlin College in Ohio ground to a halt, canceling classes and holding campus-wide meetings when a figure wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood was spotted near the college's African Heritage House following weeks of racist signs being posted on campus. As it turned out, the shadowy figure was just a person …

A day after Oberlin College canceled classes when a month of racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic graffiti graffiti culminated in the early-morning sighting of a figure wearing Ku Klux Klan robes, an Oberlin police spokesman suggested that the report of the KKK figure may have been mistaken, and that the college had…

A figure "wearing KKK regalia" was spotted at Oberlin College this morning, the culmination of a month of racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic graffiti being discovered on buildings around the Ohio liberal arts college's campus. In response, the school has cancelled all classes and non-essential activities, instead…

"Highly intoxicated" Oberlin student Andrew Whiteman tried to break into a drug store, and when the cops came to arrest him, he said he was a 100-year-old immortal vampire and threatened to eat one cop's kidney, and suck another's blood.

The New York Times—that arbiter of youth culture—reports on the "green" student houses springing up around the country, focusing on the one at Oberlin. (Voted as one of the top annoying liberal arts colleges by this very website!) "All year they studied together in the living room at night so they would not have to…

As it turns out, Oberlin has sort of a "secret" website, as secret as any website called Oberlin Confessional can get. You can type in your anonymous confessions in the "booth!" After the jump, excerpts from November 27th alone:

Says our on-the-ground Oberlin College correspondent: "Here's an announcement... you poop in the Environmental Studies building toilet and get a quarter." Oh God. It's true.

After much discussion, we have come to the conclusion that it might be possible that Oberlin is not, in fact, the most annoying liberal arts college in the world. (Though there's some pretty strong evidence in its favor.) So we've come up with a list of contenders. We acknowledge that most people probably don't have…

This afternoon, we received an email. It read: