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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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Then vs. now: A brief look at campus activism through time
Since Occidental's founding in 1887, students have raised attention to issues affecting the campus, the Los Angeles community and the world at large. Here are...
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KOXY hosts last show of the semester featuring Duckwrth and G.L.A.M.
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KOXY hosted its last show of the semester on the Arthur G. Coons (AGC) steps, with Oakland-native G.L.A.M. opening for LA rapper Duckwrth April 12. Although the show...
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Occidental’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter brings Kimberlé Crenshaw to campus as the 2019 Reunitz Lecture
The Occidental College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa brought Kimberlé Crenshaw, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Columbia University,...
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“A Taste of Oxy” offers more than just food to campus
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Twelve cultural clubs participated in “A Taste of Oxy” April 5. "A Taste of Oxy" was a food market experience that provided students with an...
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Sky Ferreira studies the game
The album cover for Sky Ferreira’s new single “Downhill Lullaby” draws a line back to Julee Cruise’s artwork for her 1989 record “Floating into...
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Miles and minutes make the heart grow fonder
Once upon a time, people's phone calls were constrained to the privacy of their own home and the length of their phone's cord. Now,...
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“Art and Activism” hosts local artists panel and social justice organizations
Four artists of different disciplines, Deidra "Krucial" Cooper, Lynnée Denise, Kohshin Finley and Keith Wallace, spoke during Oxy's "Art and Activism" event in Bird Studio April 4. The...
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Stories from SpringFest 2019: Joey Bada$$, artisanal honey and moshpits
The crowd pulsated with anticipation as the smooth downbeats to the beginning of "ROCKABYE BABY" trickled in, signaling Joey Bada$$ was about to take the stage. Blue...
