Oona Milliken

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Lessons Learned: How to engage again, after all this time

Last year, during the very beginning of the plague, The Occidental published a series called “Letters From,” in which dispersed Occidental students wrote about...

Miembros de la comunidad de Highland Park levantan inquietudes sobre la contaminación del suelo en York Park

Read in English here Traducido por Jessica Borovoy '24  Hoy en día, la esquina entre York Boulevard y N Avenue 50 es un parque de juegos...

Highland Park community members raise concerns about soil contamination in York Park

Today the corner of York Boulevard and N Avenue 50 is a playground, but in the 1980s, it was a Shell-owned gas station, according...

Swimming in “media soup” with Special Collection’s Dale Stieber

Dale Stieber, director of Occidental Special Collections, has her hands full with different media and archival duties. Between library management meetings and helping Helena de...

Cross House squatters challenge college’s housing plans

At the end of August 2021, an Occidental employee notified the college that they had seen people inside a vacant college-owned property formerly known...

La reapertura de $350 millones de LAUSD genera un nuevo mandato de vacunas, pruebas semanales y rastreo de contactos

Read in English Traducido por Jackson Eddy '22 El Distrito Escolar Unificado de Los Ángeles (LAUSD por sus siglas en inglés) reabrió sus puertas a los estudiantes el...

LAUSD’s $350 million reopening prompts new vaccine mandate, weekly testing and contact tracing

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) re-opened their doors to students Aug. 15 with a $350 million effort to curb the spread of the virus in...

Opinion: Don’t be fooled by the memestocks, r/WallStreetBets carries more power than you’d think

Having grown up on the internet, from Club Penguin chats to teenage Omegle hangouts to Tumblr, Twitter and Reddit, I’ve learned that internet subgroups...