@alciblade
Interesting.
While there were plenty of corn fields when I attended in the mid-late '90s, it certainly wasn’t a dry town when I attended.
The local Oberlin Inn served alcoholic beverages, one can buy alcohol from a supermarket a 15-20 minute walk from campus, and the campus had a small bar which was frequented mostly by college faculty, staff, and guests of the former two. While 21+ students could also go, it was mostly a much older crowd there.