2009

Duncan Marks (sophomore, Undeclared)

Author:  I'd just like to take a few moments to give a shout out to all of the Oxy athletic teams and the athletes they...

CDC Director Unveils Penchant for Poetry

Author: Chad Wyzynski To call last Tuesday's performance of Valerie Savior's The Contraries simply "a poetry reading" would be to overlook both the uniqueness of her...

Date Night with Jack

Author: Jack Greenbaum As finals week rapidly approaches, it's likely that only loyal cinephiles will be attending the multiplex for their celluloid fix. So instead of...

Four Years at College and All I Got Was a Burger and Fries

Author: Berit Anderson In about three and a half months, myself and many of my closest companions of the last three years will be drawn up...

Alpha Male Inspires Dance, Drag and Drums to Fight Cancer

Author: Jessica Gelzer Last Friday night, April 3, the Cooler was filled with screaming fans and inquisitive observers to watch Alpha Male, an annual mock male...

OxyEngage Explores SoCal

Author: Hillary Holmes Before Oxy students began packing or thinking about coming back to school, many first-year students were already on campus ready to participate in...

Women’s Soccer Misfires After Season-Opener Sweep

Author: Emily Phillips After a rigorous preseason training schedule, a new Assistant Coach, and four non-conference games under their belts, the 2009 Women's Soccer team is...

The Office of Alumni Relations

Author:  In her April 15 op-ed "Alumni Network Fails Students," Opinions Editor Sasha Pokrovskaya '09 makes some pointed criticisms about Oxy's Alumni Sharing Knowledge network....

OSL and ResLife Programs Seek to Engage Students

Author: Claire Larson This year both Residence Life and Housing Services (ResLife) and the Office of Student Life (OSL) plan to bring changes and new options...

Religious Groups Surprisingly Open-Minded at Oxy

Author: Chloe Jenkins-Sleczkowski Religion is a scary thing. No, really. It's one of the few things that genuinely terrifies me. The existence of a set of...

Acclaimed Documentarian Divulges Advice and Anecdotes

Author: Kara McVey In 1955, a man named Albert Maysles strapped a 16mm camera to his hand, and, together with his brother David, journeyed across Soviet...

Oxy Keeps Classes Small Despite Growing Student Body

Author: Chloe Jenkins-Sleczkowski The beginning of the 2009 school year posed new challenges for the Occidental staff and administration as a result of the unusually large...