Jacob Whitney
19 Articles
Campus News
Oxy SJP protest and confrontation with security at Stritikus’s inauguration expose strong divides across campus communities
A crowd of roughly 30 Occidental Students for Justice in Palestine (Oxy SJP) protesters attempted to force their way through Campus Safety and Code Four private...
Campus News
Kemp Lecturer Tom Nichols outlines the death of expertise and how to fix it
Tom Nichols, author of "The Death of Expertise," gave a talk in Choi Auditorium April 8 as the 2025 Jack Kemp '57 Distinguished Lecturer, where...
Opinions
Opinion: First, they came for the green card holders
Within a couple weeks of my first piece on the brazen authoritarian shift we’re witnessing in our government, the disappearance and detention of green card and...
Opinions
Opinion: What happened in ‘Minamar’ (sic) is — sort of — happening here
Reflecting on the actions of the second Trump administration and the fears that we are descending into a complete authoritarian dictatorship, I am reminded...
Campus News
College, SJP and JVP protestors announce agreement to consider divestment, encampment will come down
May 7, Occidental president Harry J. Elam Jr. announced via email to the college community that the administration reached an agreement with Occidental Students...
Opinions
Opinion: Red line, green line, is a formal deployment of NATO advisors to Ukraine beneficial?
Tensions spiked between the NATO alliance and Russia Feb. 26 when NATO member Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico claimed multiple NATO members were considering deploying troops to...
Opinions
Opinion: Desperation and delusion — I watched Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview so you don’t have to
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson interviewed Russian president Vladimir Putin, Feb. 6, 2024, claiming his goal was to get Putin’s side of the story. Unlike...
Sports
Occidental’s baseball team credits its recent successes to its focus on ‘getting back to square one’
Occidental’s baseball team notched a 13-10 win in a scrimmage against Biola University on Jan 27. According to co-captain Declan Sklut (senior), the team sees this...
