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A namesake illuminates California’s homelessness crisis
Meeting Jimbo Miller Two James Millers sat together on a curb outside of the Third Avenue Charitable Organization (TACO), a homeless services organization in downtown...
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‘A big point of pride’: Occidental’s research community
Occidental students are conducting research across fields ranging from organic chemistry to canine cognition, often working closely with faculty mentors in labs, fieldwork and...
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‘A sobering example’: Occidental’s 1920s KKK club reflects culture of Jim Crow era
Walking into the Ahmanson Reading room on the main floor of the Mary Norton Clapp Library, one of the first sights students come across...
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Reflections on First-Stage Writing Portfolios Amidst AI and Virtual Learning
Occidental students submitted their First-Stage Writing Portfolios March 1. The portfolio essays are part and parcel of the First-Year Seminar (FYS) curriculum and prime...
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Local Muralist Celebrates Community Heritage
From Wild Style graffiti to mosaic masterpieces, the Highland Park area boasts a diverse body of street art. Vivid murals cover the exteriors of...
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Delightful Delia's: A heart as full as her burritos
The sun peeks through your cheap blinds and you pull apart your crusty eyelids, feeling around your bed for your phone. You find it,...
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Stretching into the community: a look at local yoga studios
Yoga is traditionally a spiritual practice intended to lead individuals to enlightenment through controlled breath, meditation and exercise. However, according to the Yoga Health...
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Complex Narratives of Gentrification & Displacement
Around 2:30 a.m. Lidia Delgado, 40, left her home in Highland Park to make the 115-mile drive north to Bakersfield, where her estranged husband,...
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Step by step: Learning to appreciate Southern California's wilderness
As a first year, I was part of the Nature Writing Cultural Studies Program (CSP) taught by professor Keith Naylor of the religious studies...
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Fantastiprov: when life gives you lemons, improvise
A performance by Fantastiprov, Occidental's improv comedy troupe, gives little indication of who the individual cast members actually are. Instead, the audience comes to...
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From Braun to bouquet: How alums found love at Oxy
According to the college's Office of Institutional Advancement, 2,672 living Occidental alumni are married to or in a domestic partnership with another Occidental alum....
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In Florence, a Statue that Launched a Thousand Side Trips
Author: Michael Patton In early September, during my first days in Rome, I took a few organized tours with my study abroad group to the Roman...
