Archive
2018
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...
2007
Bright Lights And Revelations
Author: Amy WIthey Muse: there is no other band quite like them. The combination of lead singer Matthew Bellamy's lyrics on theology, the Apocalypse and the...
2010
Film Festival Contrasts Media Depiction of Arab Life
Author: Jill Marucut The Arab Film Festival enlightened the Writers Guild of America in Beverly Hills this past weekend with an unusual program. Despite being a...
2010
Folk Dance Troupe In Step with Diversity
Author: Julie Xu Occidental's Folk Dance Troupe boasts a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It consists of students, faculty, alums, family and...
2007
From Doodling to Daydreaming
Author: Erik Parker, Torch Staff I wish this wasn't something that I'm proud of, but I am. One of my greatest skills is entertaining myself...
2016
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...
2007
Panel Highlights Teach for America Controversy
Author: Marjorie Camarda Last Wednesday night, October 24, students gathered in Johnson 200 for a Panel on Race, Income and Education. The event was organized by...
2016
‘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...
2008
Looking into the Future
Author: Chad Wyszynski For most of us, the time beyond graduation is an insidious void toward which we're traveling much faster than we'd like. Well-meaning relatives,...
2016
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...
2007
Thaitalian
Author: Jacob Goldstein When it comes to cuisine, there is fine line between excitingly exotic and just plain strange. Old Town Pasadena's Thaitalian, a Thai-Italian fusion...
2016
“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...
