2016

Floating Library drifts into Echo Park Lake

Author: Gregory Feiner Renting a paddleboat at the Echo Park Boathouse seems to be something that everyone always means to do, but never quite gets around...

Criticism of Cam Newton is unwarranted

Author: Dylan Bordonaro Although the Carolina Panthers continued to experience growing pains in Super Bowl 50, the organization has firmly established itself as a top contender...

Fantastiprov: when life gives you lemons, improvise

Author: Cory Lomberg A performance by Fantastiprov, Occidental's improv comedy troupe, gives little indication of who the individual cast members actually are. Instead, the audience comes...

Kanye West’s TLOP is a flop

Author: Benj Salkind When Kanye West released “Only One,” a sweet, crooning love song to his daughter North on New Year’s Day in 2015, I thought...

Step by step: Learning to appreciate Southern California’s wilderness

Author: Malcolm MacLeod As a first year, I was part of the Nature Writing Cultural Studies Program (CSP) taught by professor Keith Naylor of the religious...

Hookup culture stigmatizes queer students

Author: Chance Ward It's about three trap songs after 1 a.m. and, from off-campus house parties to dorm room kickbacks alike, the natural migration to The...

InternAway to fund student summer internships in US

Author: Cory Lomberg The Hameetman Career Center (HCC) will fund approximately 20 students’ unpaid internships in any U.S. state this summer through InternAway. This new program...

Campus Safety Advisory Committee holds first community meeting, discusses student demands

Author: Drew Jaffe   The Campus Safety Advisory Committee — born out of last semester's occupation of the Arthur G. Coons Administrative Center — held its first...

Choreographers bring pizzazz to Dance Pro 2016

Author: Emily Holguín After over a week of social media hype, students gathered in a sold-out Thorne Hall Friday to witness one of Occidental's most anticipated...

What in the World 7

Author: Ximena Santiago Tajikistan. President Emomali Rahmon has proposed three new national holidays that would individually honor wrestling, horse riding and flower planting. These holidays would...

Fuller brings resilience, on-base skills to top of lineup

Author: Tim O'Donnell The Occidental baseball team (20-5 overall, 15-3 SCIAC) has made quite a bit of noise this season, having won 18 of 19 games,...

Club sports deserve institutional support and funding

Author: Kara Alam Occidental College has a proud history of student athletes who dedicate their time, energy and money to participating in club sports. But despite...