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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...

Late Night Robbery Puts Students on Edge

Author: Lisa Kraege On Friday, Feb. 20, at about 10:30 p.m., four male Occidental students reported to Campus Safety that they had been robbed of their...

Student activists demand Veitch’s resignation

Author: Sarah Corsa Oxy United for Black Liberation is demanding President Jonathan Veitch’s immediate resignation, claiming that he mishandled issues of diversity and sexual assault on...

Double your Major, Double your Fun

Author: Elizabeth Cutler Is double the major double the fun---or at least, double the education, career benefits and prestige? Student newspapers and educational publications have already...

Maura FitzGerald (senior, Theater)

Author:  To the Oxy Community:Please learn how to park. You are college students, so it's safe to assume you are all relatively smart people. Your...

Alma Carolina Garcia (sophomore, undeclared)

Author:  This is a response to last week's post by Eva Zaret regarding the lack of females at Campus Safety. It's wonderful that you...

Fantastiprov’s New Troupe Hits An Early Bump

Author: Ian Mariani|Ian Mariani On the evening of Sept. 3, students filled Thorne Hall to see the nationally recognized improvisational comedy group known as Upright Citizen's...

Travyon Martin, deemed guilty before proven innocent

Author: Jacob Surpin   In some sense, there is little more to be said about Trayvon Martin. As William Finnegan wrote in The New Yorker, "The killing...

Blinded by the Light, Academy forgets Dark Knight

Author: Gerry Maravilla Well, it looks like they completely missed the mark again. By "they," I mean the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science: the...

Campus Safety Should Open the Window to Community

Author: Sam Van Buren In a time when going green is becoming increasingly necessary, Campus Safety should explore energy-saving and cost-cutting alternatives to their patrol cars...

Are We Still Getting What We Pay For?

Author: Sarah Spinuzzi Fifty-eight thousand four hundred and thirty-two is a big number. That is the total expected cost of the 2011-2012 school year at Occidental,...

Max Weidman (senior, ECLS)

Author:  I think I hate the planet.When I was a kid I used to watch Captain Planet. I didn't realize at the time that I...