Divya Prakash

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‘Unflappable’ Communications Director Jim Tranquada to retire after 23 years

Most Occidental students know Communications Director Jim Tranquada best for two things: strolling down the Quad picking up litter and sending out emails on...

Kevin de León aprueba $1 millón para la renovación “largamente esperada” de la piscina en Highland Park.

Read in English here. Traducido por Diego Santiago '25 Highland Park ha cambiado mucho a lo largo de los años, pero la piscina y baños comunitarios...

Kevin de León approves $1 million for ‘long overdue’ Highland Park pool renovation

Highland Park has changed a lot over the years, but its community pool and bathhouse center on Piedmont Avenue, constructed in 1948, has not...

Everyone’s talking about mental health on campuses and ‘Oxy is no exception’

Three-quarters of college students reported moderate or severe distress between 2020 and 2021. Sixty percent of students during that same period met the criteria for...

Michele Elam on art, her cats and the meaning of education

When Stanford professor Michele Elam and Occidental College President Harry J. Elam moved into the Annenberg House at Occidental in the summer of 2020, they...

Going for a spin at Arroyo Records

Daniel Clodfelter dreamt of starting a record store since he was a teenager, and as of September 2020, that dream is located at 5123...

Opinion: What we talk about when we talk about weather

During the many occasions on which life throws you together with people you don’t know very well, chances are, you’ve talked about the weather:...

La luz al final del túnel: LA Metro adapta a la pandemia y la reapertura

Read in English here  Traducido por Jackson Eddy '22, Caroline Palumbo '23, y Jessica Borovoy '24 Con una extensión de 1.433 millas cuadradas a lo largo...