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O-team leaders “build that sense of family” for a new class
Occidental College welcomed a new class of first year students Aug. 17. Behind the scenes of orientation, student leaders and the Student Leadership, Involvement,...
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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...
2013
Staff Profiles: Campus Dining’s Michael “Meesh” Montygierd
Author: Emma Lodes|Donovan Dennis The Pacific glows an azure blue through a wall of windows 18 stories above the California shore. Chic and modern seats, petite...
2014
F.E.A.S.T. cultivates more than the land
Author: Malcolm MacLeod To the left of the Tree House classrooms, slightly down the hill from the Greek Bowl and next to the Urban and Environmental...
2015
Behind closed doors: inefficiencies, inconsistencies and the culture of silence inside ResEd
Author: Henry Dickmeyer Michelle Ito (sophomore) looked forward to becoming a Resident Advisor (RA) for first-year students when she applied for the position last spring. She...
2016
Fantastiprov: when life gives you lemons, improvise
Author: Cory Lomberg A performance by Fantastiprov, Occidental's improv comedy troupe, gives little indication of who the individual cast members actually are. Instead, the audience comes...
2011
Taking Back the Boulevard
Author: Anne Ewbank Crossing Colorado Boulevard can be alarmingly similar to playing Frogger. Pedestrians hurry across the street to avoid being flattened by cars racing above...
2011
Tours Paint Unvarnished Portrait of Occidental
Author: Kaitlyn Reeser As the academic year comes to a close for current Occidental students, the future class of 2015 is still engrossed in the process...
2012
Campaign Semester: Students work in the field for 2012 elections
Author: Sarah Corsa|Sarah Corsa|Sarah Corsa|Sarah Corsa|Sarah Corsa Ohio is not most people's idea of an exotic study abroad location. For junior Jordan Dias, however, it not only fit...
2013
Students get a taste of Turkey during break
Author: Drew Jaffe|Clark Scally Some professors use Los Angeles as a classroom, others the world. Some take
their students to the Hollywood sign or the Getty. Others...
