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Suspected incapacitated driver drove onto AGC steps, arrested by LAPD

Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) arrested a suspected incapacitated driver on Occidental College’s campus the morning of Oct. 5. According to Director of Campus...

Occidental College announces online instruction for Fall 2020

In a campus-wide email, President Harry J. Elam Jr. announced Occidental will abandon its plans for any in-person classes in the fall, opting instead...

ASOC shares remote academic programs for first years ahead of college announcement

This fall Occidental College will offer first-year students access to Oxy Immersive, a completely remote 8–14 unit program combining coursework and community-based internships, according...

LAFD extinguishes grass fire on Mount Fiji near Yosemite Recreation Center

Director of Campus Safety Rick Tanksley sent a campus-wide email alerting the campus to a brush fire on Mount Fiji 1:55 p.m. Oct. 24....

Update: LAPD arrests man staying in RV on Campus Road following recent incidents

LAPD officers arrested a man Oct. 4, in connection with Friday morning’s incident in which a helicopter and multiple ground units were deployed after...

LAPD helicopter responds to Campus Safety trespassing call

LAPD officers responded to a Campus Safety request for assistance in serving a warning to an individual staying in an RV near 1700 Campus...

ASOC election results announced: Nina Srdić Hadži-Nešić wins ASOC president

The Associated Students of Occidental College (ASOC) announced election results via email 12:04 p.m. April 19. Nina Srdić Hadži-Nešić (sophomore) won the position of...

UPDATE: Donor Barry Crosthwaite ’80, Bill Davis ’80 among five alumni in “Aryan Alliance” yearbook photo

In a photograph printed in a 1980 edition of La Encina, Occidental College’s yearbook, donor Barry Crosthwaite ’80 is pictured in front of the...

Donor and former trustee Jennifer Townsend Crosthwaite among three alumnae in ’84 yearbook blackface photo

Update: A second photograph, printed in a 1980 edition of La Encina, depicts donor Barry Crosthwaite ’80 and four other alumni with the caption...

After false bomb threat at Occidental, 12 buildings searched and secured

A college employee discovered a bomb threat note on the floor of a bathroom in the Arthur G. Coons (AGC) Administrative Center at Occidental...

UPDATE: College issues response to footage of Trustee Selleck ‘55 confronting camera crew

Director of Communications Jim Tranquada issued a response May 8 to footage of Board of Trustees member Cathie Young Selleck '55 pushing a camera...

Video of Trustee Selleck ’55 shows confrontation with camera crew at vigil for sexual assault survivors in 2014

https://youtu.be/49ukBt8KOao The edited footage presented here shows only the incident between Selleck and the camera crew. The video is part of unused footage from The...