2016

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...

‘Hamilton’ doesn’t hesitate

Author: Gregory Feiner As hard as it is to believe, one of most important and popular hip-hop albums of 2015 was a Broadway cast album about...

Star Wars take center stage in Thorne Hall

Author: William Stupp Last Friday, in a concert hall not very far away, a medley of Star Wars music blasted out of Thorne Hall. The program...

What in the World 9

Author: Ximena Santiago Minnesota. Employees at a Burger King in the Minneapolis suburb of Coon Rapids smashed the windows of the fast food joint after receiving...

Senior tennis player and geo major Bonis-Ericksen rocks

Author: Sydney Bowman Keilani Bonis-Ericksen (senior) is finishing her standout tennis and academic career at Occidental with her best season yet. A geology major and Spanish...

Advice for first years: slow down, expect unexpected

Author: Emily Hoguín Trigger warning: sexual assault, mental illness One night, during the late days of my freshman year, I was enjoying a familiar post-party kickback with...

‘Dry Land’ reveals reality of adolescence

Author: Tessa Sternberg A dim blue light shines on a mildewy floor, focusing on a single drain. The sounds of splashing and shrieks of children fill...

‘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....