Boycott the Circus

To the Editors:

From Oct. 25 to Nov. 3 the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus will be performing at the Gund Arena in Cleveland. This company has one of the worst records of documented animal abuse of any animal entertainment company in the United States. The company relies heavily on elephants, tigers and other non-native animals, frequently captured from the wild and placed into a lifetime of forced performance. The animals are trained by violent and painful means with the use of metal prods, hooks and electric shocks. These intelligent, highly social and sensitive creatures are then kept for the vast bulk of their time in undersized cages in which they can neither socialize nor move freely. Oberlin Animal Rights would like to ask the Oberlin community to boycott this circus. Our group will be protesting at this event.

–Chris Holbein
College senior