2008

Ground-breaking Season Comes to a Close

Author: Henry Meier While Occidental's Women's Basketball team finished their season with a tough loss to La Verne in the final game of the inaugural SCIAC...

“Yes” On Prop 8 Does Not Equate to Hate

Author: Don Rowe This past Sunday, a member of the Oxy community declared to a group of students that he did indeed vote "yes" on the...

LA Art Walk Overshadows its Needy Neighbor Skid Row

Author: Mallory Nezam It's a cold night as four girls and I feed our dollar bills and quarters into the ticket machine at the Highland Park...

‘Ask Your Mama’ Brings Jazz To Oxy

Author: Morgan Flake A trumpet blasts from the back of the auditorium as Dr. Ronald C. McCurdy approaches the stage. A screen lights up with images...

Physics Department Searches for New Professor

Author: Erik Parker, Torch Staff This semester, the Physics Department has welcomed numerous guest speakers as part of a search for a new physics professor....

Princeton Review Ranks Oxy Number One for Most Liberal Students

Author: Sam Haller and Anna Oseran The Princeton Review is one of the most respected college ranking systems in the world. This July Occidental students made...

Alana Saltz

Author:  Dear Editor,There are several mistakes in the story "Celebrating the High Holidays with Hillel." "Sedakah" is actually spelled "Tzedakah." "Teshuva" does not mean the...

When Music and Politics Collide

Author: Aidan Lewis As the Nov. 4 election draws near, and candidates have less and less time to make their concluding remarks, I thought I might...

Center for Gender Equity Opens its Doors

Author: Katie Presley Last Thursday Occidental's Center for Gender Equity (CGE) opened its doors to campus for the first time, serving snacks and cake in Stewie's...

Sex Education the Mary Roach Way

Author: Sommer Hamilton People our age must be too busy bonking to read about author Mary Roach's latest publication-at least that's the impression the audience demographic...

Oxy Breaks Records at Undergrad Research Conference

Author: Sommer Hamilton This year, the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) invited more students from Occidental than from Harvard, Caltech, USC, UCLA and Berkeley combined....

Alex Garett (sophomore, Psychology)

Author:  Today, I woke up with a wide smile on my face. I felt on top of the world and nothing could take that smile...