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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...
2013
Graduating senior profiles
Author: Lucy Feickert Benjamin Finser Economics major Benjamin Finser (senior) will be leaving sunny Los Angeles for Chicago after graduation where he has a job as an...
2013
Staff Profiles: Campus Dining’s Homer Umaguing
Author: Donovan Dennis In front of a small kitchen stockroom and surrounded by late-night snacks, Homer Umaguing greets students and makes coffee orders with a genuine...
2015
Dance Pro Through the Ages
Author: Stephen Nemeth|Jane Drinkard|Sarah Safuto The entirely student-run and -choreographed Dance Production is known for including students from all areas of the Occidental community.From different years,...
2016
From Braun to bouquet: How alums found love at Oxy
Author: Melina Devoney|George Newton According to the college's Office of Institutional Advancement, 2,672 living Occidental alumni are married to or in a domestic partnership with another...
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
Oxy alums teach for america
Author: Daphne Auza Only eight percent of kids growing up in low-income communities graduate college by age 24, according to Postsecondary Education. Teach For America has...
