Karim Sharif
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You can’t put a price on a neighborhood
Gentrification has continually been at play in Occidental's own backyard — in fact, our school has ultimately been complicit in gentrification, sometimes very deliberately. As the...
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Issues regarding MSI curriculum and administration’s response should be addressed
The Associated Students of Occidental College (ASOC) and the Diversity and Equity Board (DEB) released their full report on the Multicultural Summer Institute (MSI) Nov. 9....
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Working hard or hardly surviving the workload
As my undergraduate career nears its end and my job search begins, I’ve started mulling through the standard set of post-grad anxieties. Did I...
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Getting detained and other reminders of who I am
This summer, on the same day as the violent unrest in Charlottesville, Va., I was reminded of the gravity of a situation I had...
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Your interpretation of ‘Skinny Love’ is wrong (but so is mine)
A few months ago, I was fortunate enough to see Bon Iver at the Hollywood Bowl. I feel painfully cliché saying it, but I’m...
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Sinking America: neoliberalism embodied on a college campus
The ship is sinking. Say it with me. The ship is sinking.
The argument goes like this: people are stuck in the hull of a...
2017 Top Articles
Letter to the editor: Meditating on 9/11 and how Islamophobia has shaped my identity
As I write these words down, it is the 15th anniversary of 9/11. Today is also Eid al-Adha, one of the holiest days in...
