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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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Rising Star “Nao” descends on LA with a triumphant performance
Twenty-nine-year-old British musician Neo Jessica Joshua, known by her stage name “Nao,” is making her mark as a leader of the new age of funk....
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Professor presents new book “Scienceblind,” warns against intuitive follies
Millions of people believe that dinosaurs coexisted with humans, that the continents are stagnant and that the sun rotates around the earth, according to...
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Azmari x Kikuyu: a visual and sonic exploration of resistance, love and revolution
Olani Ewunnet (senior) and Waruguru Waithira (sophomore) curated "Azmari x Kikuyu," a visual and sonic exploration of East African resistance, love and revolution, as...
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Students and staff sizzle at the stove during Iron Chef competition
The aromas of garlic potatoes and roasted sesame seeds wafted through the JSC Quad Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. as six teams —...
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Cast of spring musical “A Little Night Music” waltz throughout Keck Theater
The Occidental theater department brought audience members back in time to 1900s Sweden with the opening of the musical “A Little Night Music” by Stephen Sondheim...
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Reimagined or déjà Vu — Occidental commemorates MLK’s “The Future of Integration”
During a time when racial discrimination and segregation were common practices in the U.S., civil rights activist the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood...
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“Inside Out Writers” (IOW) discuss resilience, recidivism and writing process
Just off the corner of Lexington and Vermont Ave in Pasadena, CA, stands a white and brown two-story building. On its upper-right corner, a large, rectangular sign...
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MAC senior comps draw roaring crowds in a packed Thorne Hall
Media Arts and Culture (MAC) seniors presented their comprehensive projects April 13 and 14. With emphases in either production or critical media studies, MAC...
