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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Earth Month 2019: sustainability and environmental justice
Earth Month at Occidental highlighted the importance of environmental justice, sustainability and conservation through speakers and events on the quad. Beginning March 30 and...
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PULSE After Dark present their second visual album
“PULSE After Dark” showcased their second annual visual album in Choi Auditorium April 26. Maya Crawford (senior), co-president of PULSE, said the process of...
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Paradox of the nihilistic pop singer
When 17-year-old Violet Valenski looks straight into the camera and says, “I don’t believe in love, love’s not real,” I sink into my seat....
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Students for Justice in Palestine launch #OxyDivest campaign
The Occidental affiliate group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) launched their #OxyDivest campaign with the release of the "Oxy Divestment Handbook" April 12. The handbook outlines what...
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POC Formal planned for April 30
The fifth biannual People of Color (POC) Formal will be hosted April 30 at the Avalon Bardot, according to POC Formal committee members Kass Wolde (first...
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A behind-the-scenes look at Oxy’s “Urinetown”
Members of Occidental’s theater department debuted Greg Kotis and Mark Holman’s “Urinetown” in Keck Theater. The production ran April 12–14 and will run April 26–27 and...
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Fourth annual “Oxy From the Inside” seeks to de-stigmatize mental health on campus
Oxy from the Inside (OFTI), an event created to de-stigmatize mental health on campus put on by Active Minds, took place in Choi auditorium...
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Anniversary of the apocalypse
Twenty years ago, hip-hop came to the end of a decade that saw commercialization sweep the genre into American popular culture for the foreseeable...
