2009

Tiger Track Runs Over Their Competition

Author: Sharen Cervantes On Feb. 21, Occidental's Track and Field team will ring in the 2009 season at Pomona-Pitzer with the Annual All-Comers Meet. They are...

Late Night Robbery Puts Students on Edge

Author: Lisa Kraege On Friday, Feb. 20, at about 10:30 p.m., four male Occidental students reported to Campus Safety that they had been robbed of their...

Oxy Baseball Comes Out Swingin’

Author: Dean DeChiaro Not until Feb. 20 will it really matter that the Oxy boys of summer are playing some of their best baseball in years,...

Women’s Soccer Ends Season in Stride at SCIAC Tournament

Author: Emily Phillips Leaving their hearts on the field, the women's soccer team finished its hard-fought 2009 season with a 1-0 loss to rival Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS)...

Mixed Martial RA Rules the Ring

Author: Soo Jin Kim Since becoming a professional Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter, Connor Bell (junior) has fractured his jaw and nose, separated some ribs, gotten...

Noah Azarin (sophomore, Physics and Economics)

Author:  The Occidental College Administration, intelligent and friendly that it is, only wishes us the best. In its opinion, "the best" consists of quality academics,...

Pub Crawlers Peruse York Ave. in a Battle of the Bars

Author: Michael Darling Sometimes, one does not want to go to another crowded Oxy party and see the same old faces. Conveniently, for those of us...

9/11 Tribute Ship Tasteless

Author: Richie DeMaria On Nov. 7, 2009, the Navy officially commissioned the USS New York LPD-21 in the city of New York. The Navy usually reserves...

Enthusiastic Quad-Sitters Defeated by Apathy of Oxy’s Student Body

Author: Davida Persuad During my senior year of high school, between the meetings, practices, rehearsals and occasional academics, I embarked upon the tedious journey of applying...

Shoshone Johnson (senior, CTSJ)

Author:  This letter is dedicated to everyone who did NOT write a letter to the editor or post a comment on the busy forum underneath...

Summit Encourages Civic Engagement in Mainstream Media

Author: Sam Slesinger On Saturday, March 21, local journalists, talk show personalities and interested mediaphiles congregated outside of Mosher hall for the Local Media for Social...

Asobi Seksu Dabbles in Dream-Pop

Author: Thomas Schryver Five years after their inception, New York collective, Asobi Seksu, is back with their third LP, Hush.Asobi Seksu, which is Japanese for "playful...