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Before The Cut – Fall 2015 Issue 4

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Hillary Clinton: the most honest candidate in the race

Author: Rachel Cohn I cannot pretend to have read each of the thousands of online articles devoted to criticizing Hillary Clinton, but I can tell you...

New policy allows student preferred name, gender changes

Author: Sarah Corsa With Occidental’s adoption of a preferred name and gender policy, students can now change their names and genders on internal Occidental records such...

Bubba Watson wins again in the Pacific Palisades

Author: Dylan Bordonaro For the second time in three years, 37-year-old Bubba Watson won the Northern Trust Open at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades. The...

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....