Stella Ramos

37 Articles

Alexandra Fulcher named new Title IX Coordinator

Alexandra Fulcher was named Title IX Coordinator in a campus-wide email from President Jonathan Veitch Jan. 16. She began the position Jan. 27. This announcement concluded...

From the green room: Tierra Whack on social media, The Human Centipede and sticking with it

Shortly after Tierra Whack arrived at Occidental Oct. 19, I sat down with her in my Marine Bio 101 lab room, which had been...

Whack wows at revamped FallFest

Grace Schafer Perry (first year) had a hard time believing Tierra Whack, her favorite rapper, was playing FallFest until Whack was center stage at...

Building community from concrete: Oxy Arts staff perspectives on the summer opening at York Boulevard

As students flooded out of Occidental to their summer adventures in May 2019, the Oxy Arts staff prepared for their own long-awaited summer adventure:...

“This is for the queers” : Q&A with Are You The One Season Eight’s Jenna Brown ’16 on representation, romance and reality TV

Once upon a time, the pinnacle of reality dating television either featured women fighting other women for the pursuit of happiness with the “ultimate...

Coming and going: Occidental professors share their sabbatical stories

Now and then, a favorite professor will seemingly vanish for a semester (or two). Often unknown by students, the realization of disappearance will hit...

Food stamp friendships: Addressing classism at an affluent institution

It's always the same gut feeling. First, there's a sharp pang that starts near my sternum, followed by a sinking sensation trickling down into...

Stories from SpringFest 2019: Joey Bada$$, artisanal honey and moshpits

The crowd pulsated with anticipation as the smooth downbeats to the beginning of "ROCKABYE BABY" trickled in, signaling Joey Bada$$ was about to take the stage. Blue...