2013
2013
Raising amateur a-Ware-ness
Author: Joe Siegal The NCAA tournament, aside from being the most exciting college sporting event in America, is also a reminder of just how lucrative college...
2013
Femen’s ‘Topless Jihad’ does not liberate all women
Author: Haley Gray Amina Tyler is biding her time, waiting in a family home. She has remained out of the public eye since members of her...
2013
Margaret Thatcher, Sheryl Sandberg, Hell and Feminism
Author: Jacob Surpin Is it bad that I thought Margaret Thatcher died around the time that "The Iron Lady" came out, in 2011? It was a...
2013
’42’ dodges greater social issues in baseball
Author: Damian Mendieta Intended to be an inspirational biopic about the man who broke baseball’s color barrier, “42” is instead a more watered-down version of Jackie...
2013
Denim dictates individuality, but brand identity supersedes
Author: Ben Tuthill One-hundred and forty years ago last week Levi Strauss & Co. put out its first pair of riveted denim work pants and somehow...
2013
Limitations of the Arabic program leave students without classes
Author: Lucy Feickert Arabic students at Occidental are expressing frustration with the lack of advanced Arabic classes the department offers, limited by low student enrollment and...
2013
Catcher Munoz forgoes draft, focuses on pre-med program
Author: Alex Nieves It was a typical summer day in La Verne, Calif. when current Occidental catcher Victor Munoz (sophomore), then a senior at Claremont High...
2013
Sexual Assault Task Force holds first Town Hall Meeting
Author: Daphne Auza Students, faculty and staff members filled nearly two-thirds of Thorne Hall on Thursday morning to attend the Sexual Assault Task Force's first Town...
2013
Pope Francis has bona fides to restore Church integrity
Author: Clark Scally The 266th head of the Roman Catholic Church is Francis I, formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires prior to his Mar....
2013
Forum debates hiring sustainability officer
Author: Emma Lodes Students, faculty and administrators discussed the possibility of hiring a sustainability officer for the college at Occidental’s second annual Sustainability Forum last Thursday....
2013
Trade policy reform needed to curtail Mexican immigration
Author: Emma Lodes A peasant woman in Oaxaca, Mexico bends over her colorful, intricate weaving. Dusk falls over the small, deserted cornfield, empty since her husband...
2013
Hip hop, Spoken Word Club encourage student creativity, self-expression
Author: Haley Gray "Always keep your shoulders poppin'." That’s the one thing Ben Toney (junior) wanted Occidental students to take away from last Thursday’s hip-hop workshop....
