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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...

Literary L.A.

Author: Daina Solomon Why do we love book fairs? Is it the fun of meeting some of the best writers on the planet and hearing brilliant...

ECLS Comps Serves Up Classics With a Twist

Author: Caroline Osborn The English and Comparative Literary Studies Comps process has undergone a makeover. In previous years, professors charged graduating seniors with the mastery of...

Women’s Volleyball Reaches Dissatisfying End of Road

Author: Brenda McNary On Oct. 27, the Oxy women's volleyball team put up a fierce fight against the Whittier Poets and came out victorious. Team spirit...

Collaboration Celebration

Author: Daina Solomon This weekend won't be an ordinary Homecoming at Occidental College. This year, as we celebrate the inauguration of Occidental's 14th president, Jonathan...

Paley Center Makes Media Accessible to the Intellectual and the Nostalgic

Author: Jocelyn Coffin Are you ever craving that episode of the "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" which you haven't seen in years? Or that one Super Bowl...

The Empire Strikes Back

Author: Cordelia Kenney AT&T's $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom is eliciting substantial criticism from consumer advocates and lawmakers alike. Among the bigger deals...

Coach Brian Newhall back at the helm of resurgent Occidental men’s tennis program

Author: Lauren Taylor It's a bit of a misnomer to call Occidental men's tennis coach Brian Newhall "new." The winningest coach in program history, Newhall gave...

NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Names 2010 Champion

Author: Gil Alcaraz On April 5, the NCAA men's basketball tournament finished its 71st year. Every year, the teams that performed well during the regular season...

Practical Classes Would Better Serve Students

Author: Brittany Wightman Occidental students have the opportunity to learn about everything the postmodern Renaissance man might want to know. Unfortunately, the college does not offer...

Tours Paint Unvarnished Portrait of Occidental

Author: Kaitlyn Reeser As the academic year comes to a close for current Occidental students, the future class of 2015 is still engrossed in the process...

Don’t Restrict Expression

Author: Rebecca Rodriguez In recent weeks, society and the media have called the role of performance art into question. Multiple news outlets, including "The Morning Call,"...