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Stirring it up in the Marketplace kitchen

Most Occidental students are still in bed when the first shift of Marketplace staff report to the kitchen, where they labor throughout the morning...

Occidental Students React to Farmers Field Proposal

Author: Mirin Fader Farmers Field, Anschutz Entertainment Group's (AEG) newly proposed $1.3 billion stadium at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles, has generated a diversity of...

Former Tigers Score Successful Pro-Athlete Careers

Author: Emily Phillips For most Division III student athletes, the likelihood of continuing their athletic career after graduation is slim. Instead, most seniors spend their last...

Watts Embraces ‘Civic Virtue’

Author: Morgan Flake, Contributor As an Oxy student, you've probably visited a few neighborhoods outside the Oxy bubble. Definitely Pasadena and Highland Park, probably Santa Monica...

Morgan Flake (junior, UEP)

Author:  Did you know that over 50% of sexually active people in the U.S. will acquire an HPV infection at some point in their lives...

New School Approach

Author: Lilliane Ballesteros Charter schools offer students "alternative educations," but each charter school offers its own version of what alternative education means. In essence, charter schools...

Teeing Off

Author: Kelly Neukom While many people think of golf as an old man's sport, the Occidental golf team insists that it is anything but. "Golf is...

Fellowship Advisor Leaves Oxy for UC Riverside

Author: Erik Parker, Torch Staff Early this month, the Office of Fellowships, Scholarships and National Awards saw the departure of its director, Gwen Hill. Hill...

Clubs Plan Genocide Awareness Program

Author: Michelle Park & Julie Xu The Office of Religious and Spiritual Life (ORSL), in coordination with various on-campus organizations, will put on a variety of...

FYF Fest Kicks Up the Hype, the Jams, the Dust

Author: Aralyn Beaumont FYF, formerly known as Fuck  Yeah Fest, came back to the Los Angeles State Historic Park on Saturday, Sept. 3 surrounded by self-made...

Complaints Spur Crackdown on Neighborhood Parties

Author: Ryan Strong President Jonathan Veitch recently received a strongly worded letter from local resident Rick Taylor complaining about off-campus partying and threatening to take his...

College Cuisine: Hot Dish

Author: Caroline Olsen-Van Stone Before last week, I knew Minnesota as nothing more than the home of Garrison Keillor's radio show "Prairie Home Companion," lots of...