2016

‘Starchitect’ speaks at Disney Concert Hall

Author: Malcolm MacLeod   An older man wearing thin glasses and a postboy cap admires a tall paper structure with billowing folds like sails in the wind....

Rugby captains lead Oxy team toward rebound season

Author: Tim O'Donnell Last spring, the Occidental Men's Rugby Club — to put it gently — struggled. Normally a stalwart program (recent accolades include a Sevens...

We fuel ISIS’ success through consumption of media

Author: Chance Ward Our generation’s intimate connection with social and mass media makes threats against global humanity visible in a way that was never before attainable....

Queer student survey reveals rifts in community

Author: Stephen Nemeth Center for Gender Equity (CGE) Graduate Assistant Kevin Franco organized a two-part initiative designed to evaluate the experience of queer students at Occidental....

State-sponsored Capitalism

Author: William Pottenger The United States' economy does not obey the laws of traditional free market capitalism because of the outsized role that the government plays....

Men and women sweep at SCIAC Multi-Dual

Author: Peter Johnson With a whopping 74 lifetime or season best personal records set at the latest SCIAC Multi-Dual April 2, the track and field team...

‘Tragedy hipsters’ selfishly create hardship hierarchy, criticize media

Author: Kara Alam The second terror attack to strike Europe in less than six months calls for consumers of Western media to examine how we react...

Water polo beats Caltech, falls in senior game

Author: Ryan Whalen The final week of regular season games was a busy one for the Occidental women's water polo team (3-11 overall, 1-7 SCIAC) as...

“Speak softly and carry a big stick”: the political implications of toxic masculinity

Author: Charlotte Umanoff As a contributor to the right-wing online magazine The Federalist so quaintly and condescendingly put it several years ago, feminists have recently fallen...

On anonymity and dialogue: Oxy Confessions revealed

Author: Lauren Rewers|Chloe Woodruff In some ways, looking at old posts from the Oxy Confessions Facebook page is akin to opening a time capsule — a...

Students protest denial of Armenian genocide in quad

Author: Carson Malbrough   To increase public awareness of the 1915 Armenian genocide, the Occidental Armenian Students Association (ASA) held a silent protest Thursday in the Johnson...

Athletes of the week

Author: Brody Barkan Jamie Cooper- Baseball After missing a chunk of the season due to a heel contusion, outfielder Jamie Cooper (junior) stepped up in the first...