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Book Club reads outside an ‘academic context’
According to Book Club president Sage Dezerin (senior), around 20 dedicated members attend the club each week and around 50 more students signed up...
Culture
Anahid Yahjian tells a story of hybridity through MAC residency
Occidental’s Media Arts & Culture (MAC) department welcomed this year’s Artist-in-Residence, filmmaker Anahid Yahjian ‘11, Sept. 8-11. The residency included three events: a film screening...
Culture
UEP course ‘demystifies the chicken’
Fostering chickens is essential coursework for "Urban Sustainability: Raising Animals as a Part of Regenerative Agriculture," an Urban & Environmental Policy (UEP) course. According...
Culture
RAINS affirms Indigenous and Native identities on campus
For Indigenous students at Occidental, Resilient Alliance of Indigenous and Native Students (RAINS) is working to create a dedicated space to explore cultural identity and foster...
Culture
Letter from my first semester of college
I usually type notes instead of jotting them down on paper. When I write, I use a special pen. But, this pen can’t be...
Culture
Club Quarantine: A queer safe haven in the form of a virtual dance party
When Toronto’s COVID-19 lockdown began in March, DJ and artist Ceréna met up with her friends virtually to play music and hang out over...
Culture
Letter from the road
“I always thought the colors in Tennessee were perfect,” Molly said, “But I think nature is just good at colors. Everywhere I go, the...
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Letter from the smokey, sheep-filled mountains
I have always wanted to see bighorn sheep in the wild. A couple weeks ago, I spontaneously went on a drive that winds up...
Conversations from Quarantine
Conversation from quarantine: My mother, canoe expeditions and the inexplicable pull to water
Since quarantine began, I have been living at home with my parents in Maine. I remember missing them so much when I was at...
Culture
Letter from my off-campus house
I never had a queen-size bed, and I did not think I would have one this soon. Whenever I would stay at a relative’s...
Culture
Occidental’s theater department goes digital, taking the black box to the Zoom box
When Occidental’s new president Harry J. Elam Jr. announced July 15 that classes would be remote for the Fall 2020 semester, he said the...
Culture
Oxy Arts transitions In Plain Sight exhibition and internships to remote setting
Oxy Arts and In Plain Sight — a coalition of 80 artists — opened the "WE LIVE! Memories of Resistance" art exhibition Sept. 14,...
