2014

Sports in Brief Issue 2

Author: Ryan Whalen|Tim O'Donnell Women's Lacrosse (3-0 overall, 3-0 SCIAC)The Occidental women's lacrosse team has started off its 2014 campaign with clutch victories over three top...

Miyazaki’s final film epitomizes career-long aesthetic

Author: Malcolm MacLeod It was a quote from engineer Jiro Horikoshi that inspired Oscar-winning animator and head of Studio Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki to tell the aeronautical...

Rising Stars- Spring 2014 Part 1

Author: Spencer Donaldson Baseball (Pitcher Will Nahmens No. 26) Pitcher Will Nahmens began playing baseball at the age of five in his native Redwood, Calif. “I used...

Students call for more reading days

Author: Clark Scally An Associated Students of Occidental College (ASOC) survey issued Feb. 1 to gauge student interest in additional reading days has revealed discontent with...

Forget the flight, remember the road trip this summer

Author: William Stupp At the end of this semester I will drive home to St. Louis. I am not sure what route I will take to...

Huerta talks education, workers’ rights in Thorne Hall

Author: Christian Morales Political organizer and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta spoke in Thorne Hall on Tuesday to discuss the importance of education in combating...

That drop sound: the one about Gareth Emery’s new album and the emotion in dance music

Author: Jack Butcher As of April 6, 2014, at 10:47 p.m., the Top 5 singles and albums in the dance category on iTunes could not be...

MAC comps highlight many aspects of film creation

Author: Ella Fornari Most students will conduct extensive research and write lengthy papers for their senior comprehensive projects. Media Arts and Culture (MAC) seniors do comps...

Alumni should communicate frustrations to administration, not Telefund

Author:  Annual giving to Occidental last year amounted to over $18 million, or 4 percent of the school’s annual budget, according to the 2013 annual...

Women in the Locker Room

Author: Juliet Suess Feminism in Sports: Part 2 of 2 Women in sports are regarded, all around, as inferior to their male counterparts. Female athletes cannot play...

Three Americans in the world

Author: Ben Poor My parents are disappointing. This seems like a horrible thing to say, as I sit in an amazing resort with them on a...

Identity crisis in the Amazon Jungle: Balancing land rights of national parks, indigenous communities and big oil in Yasuni

Author: Ella Fornari The Galapagos are an archipelago of volcanic rock 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador and have a special place in scientific history...