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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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Lil Yachty makes LA his rockstar playground for a day
Lil Yachty brought "The Teenage Tour" to Los Angeles Saturday Sept. 16 at The Novo. The eccentric rapper rose to fame on Soundcloud and...
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Living Mythologies highlights Queer, Trans and Intersex POC artists’ experiences
Living Mythologies is a performance art show founded on ceremony, relevance and healing. The show, which took place Feb. 11 and Feb. 12 in...
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Whips, wax and wicked pain, Mistress Cyan dispels myths of BDSM
exLos Angeles's most respected and renowned professional dominatrix (as described by LA Weekly), Mistress Cyan, gave a talk to approximately 40 Occidental students about the Bondage and...
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Afro-Cuban culture explored through beats, rhythm and dance
The vibrations of Afro-Cuban batá drums reverberated throughout the corridors of Booth Hall Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. during Occidental’s Afro-Cuban Drumming Ensemble Concert in...
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A tasty tour through the Museum of Ice Cream
The Museum of Ice Cream reminds guests that ice cream is delicious. With gigantic gummy bears, scratch-and-sniff banana walls and the Instagram-famous sprinkle pool nestled inside a bubblegum...
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“Rhinoceros” challenges fascism and our choices
Rhinos rampaged throughout Keck Theater April 28 for the opening of the Occidental theater department’s studio show “Rhinoceros” by Eugene Ionesco. Director Laurel Meade originally planned for the...
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East LA graffiti legend Chaz Bojorquez visits Occidental, possibility of collaboration
More than 40 students and off-campus guests gathered at 6:30 p.m. April 18 in Choi Auditorium for the CSP 99 event, "Calligraffiti: From the Streets...
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Echo Park Film Center examines Japanese incarceration through archived films
The Echo Park Film Center (EPFC), a non-profit organization dedicated to broadening community access to cinema, opened its doors for the fourth screening of the “Race...
