2010

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Summer in Sub Saharan Africa

Author: Claire Diggins With very little funding, one local contact, limited cultural knowledge and a few cameras, six Occidental students set out to live and teach...

Film Festival Contrasts Media Depiction of Arab Life

Author: Jill Marucut The Arab Film Festival enlightened the Writers Guild of America in Beverly Hills this past weekend with an unusual program. Despite being a...

Projecting a Brighter Future

Author: Teresa Eilers One hundred and seven blocks south of Downtown Los Angeles in Watts, CA, a massive steel tower rises almost 100 feet in the...

Cyclists take to the Streets at CicLAvia

Author: Riley Kimball On Sunday, Los Angeles' first ever CicLAvia event closed 7.5 miles of downtown road to cars and invited pedestrians and cyclists to roam...

One Man Army

Author: Kara McVey In 1896, a young and idealistic military-buff named Homer Lea enrolled at Occidental College. Within the next 15 years, Lea wrote several books...

Guest Lecturer Bill Nye Advocates For Environmental Action

Author: Riley Kimball Last Saturday, scientist and Emmy award-winning television star Bill Nye "The Science Guy" delivered the annual Phi Beta Kappa lecture to a packed...

Rachel Baer (first-year, Undeclared)

Author:  This past week, The Daily Beast blog reported that Occidental is the 12th happiest college in the nation. I find this extremely hard to...

Spring Intramurals Come to a Close

Author: Emily Phillips After championship games in basketball, 5v5 soccer and doubles volleyball this month, spring intramurals (IM) have come to a close with just two...

Julia Bleckner (senior, DWA)

Author:  As a senior about to graduate I would like to respond to Rachel Baer's letter to the editor about Oxy not being a "happy"...

Baseball Snaps Losing Streak as Last Game Approaches

Author: Emily Phillips After suffering a month-long losing streak, the Tiger baseball team has finally found its rhythm, winning seven of its last 10 match-ups and...

World-Renowned Mezzo-Soprano Brings Operatic Flair to Oxy

Author: Sarah Flocken On Thursday, March 4, renowned mezzo-soprano opera star Frederica Von Stade appeared in Occidental's own Thorne Hall on the only Los Angeles stop...