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...
2010
Jeremy Gong (first-year, Undeclared)
Author: I am very dissatisfied with the food dispensing systems that are established on this campus. I offer a short anecdote: One Saturday evening, upon...
2008
The Moving Monument
Author: Jessica Stevens The planning and implementation of civic works projects is rarely a cut-and-dry task in the City of Los Angeles. The history of the...
2010
Sean Embrey-Stine (first-year, undeclared)
Author: As most Oxy students must have noticed, there has been a lot of anti-oxy sentiment around campus recently. Students are upset with Occidental, understandably,...
2014
Leno leaves on a high note
Author: Noel Hemphill Four thousand six hundred and ten episodes later, James "Jay" Leno's stint as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" is over.Feb. 6 marked...
2014
Sports in Brief Issue 2
Author: Ryan Whalen|Tim O'Donnell Women's Lacrosse (3-0 overall, 3-0 SCIAC)The Occidental women's lacrosse team has started off its 2014 campaign with clutch victories over three top...
2014
Miyazaki’s final film epitomizes career-long aesthetic
Author: Malcolm MacLeod It was a quote from engineer Jiro Horikoshi that inspired Oscar-winning animator and head of Studio Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki to tell the aeronautical...
2014
Rising Stars- Spring 2014 Part 1
Author: Spencer Donaldson Baseball (Pitcher Will Nahmens No. 26) Pitcher Will Nahmens began playing baseball at the age of five in his native Redwood, Calif. “I used...
2014
Students call for more reading days
Author: Clark Scally An Associated Students of Occidental College (ASOC) survey issued Feb. 1 to gauge student interest in additional reading days has revealed discontent with...
2014
Exploring a new faith In India (but not the one you’d think)
Author: Ben Poor “See this bindi?" my host sister Hasani asks."Yeah," I say, noting her gold dot between her eyebrows."My mother says, 'If I don't wear...
2014
Recent hire of 10 tenure-track professors is largest in five years
Author: Juliet Suess Occidental hired 10 new tenure or tenure-track professors in eight different departments. These 10 hires mark the most tenure appointments in one year...
2014
Pop culture detracts from electronic dance music
Author: Cordelia Kenney Broadly defined, "Electronic Dance Music" (EDM) has undeniably transformed the music scene, and intrinsic to EDM's success in the U.S. is the festival...
