2011

With 31 Paths of Study, Students Face ‘Major’ Indecision

Author: Anne Ewbank Occidental's campus is often described as a "bubble," an environment where students are  somewhat isolated from the outside world in more ways than...

Ten Students Occupy L.A., Thirty More March in Support

Author: Haley Gray A team of student organizers have been building a network on campus in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street Together movement. The Youth...

Men’s Basketball Opens Season with Two Game Homestand

Author: Jeremy Shapiro The Occidental men's basketball team faced a tough stretch of opponents to open the season. The Tigers narrowly lost their first game, 78-72,...

Banned Super Bowl Ads Profit from Rejection

Author: Sam Byrne The Super Bowl is over, the players have hung up their cleats, spectators have gone home and Packers fans have finally started to...

In the “Big Easy”, A Hard Job to Accomplish

Author: Hillary Alexander In the six years since Hurricane Katrina, only one in five houses in the Lower Ninth Ward, a neighborhood in eastern New Orleans,...

Mafia Returns to Campus with Double the Participants

Author: Ryan Strong   After a one year hiatus, Programming Board revitalized the game of Mafia this year with two times the participation of the 2009 competition....

Black Boar Succeeds as Lodgy, Alternative Hangout

Author: Eric Gullicksen The Black Boar has struck a perfect combination of genuine charm, coziness and the sort of light irony that appeals to bar patrons...

Student Media Organizations Slated to Move to Newcomb

Author: Ben DeLuca, Lauren Siverly Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Student Life Tamara Rice announced plans to renovate Johnson Student Center (JSC) at a...

President’s Day

Author: Sam Ovenshine On a relentlessly sunny day in mid-November, Critical Theory and Social Justice professor Thaddeus Russell is sitting in the President's office, explaining an...

First Amendment Not Reserved for Majority Opinion

Author: Alex LaRose "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or...

American T.V. Media Delivers a Junk Food Diet

Author: Riley Kimball "Every news broadcast is censored. It's just that in China, we're very aware of it." So said my host brother in China. Like most...

Volleyball Wins First SCIAC Tournament

Author: Ryan Graff The Occidental women's volleyball team (21-8) claimed its first SCIAC Tournament Championship on Nov. 5 with a thrilling 3-2 victory over the 15-ranked...