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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
York as told by Elsa’s
Author: Haley Gray The old man shuffling down York Blvd. is comically overdressed. Even under the oppressive Los Angeles heat, he wears long pants and a...
2014
Can Occidental Shake It?
Author: Taylor Majewski It's a Wednesday. You're walking through the quad on the way to your second class of the day, and the ground starts to...
2014
Professors’ Road to Occidental
Author: Marina Dart This school year, Occidental welcomed many new faculty members to campus, but two stand out from the rest for their particularly fascinating life...
2015
Just for kicks: inside Occidental’s Intramural Sports
Author: Marina Dart Although they do not host the huge crowds that varsity sports games have been known to draw, Occidental’s intramural sports (IM) teams have...
2016
Delightful Delia’s: A heart as full as her burritos
Author: Griff Wynne The sun peeks through your cheap blinds and you pull apart your crusty eyelids, feeling around your bed for your phone. You find...
2010
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2011
$10 Million, 70 Locations, 35 Years of Excavated Art History
Author: Haley Gray Two years ago, in his inaugural address to the student body, Occidental College President and native Angeleno Jonathan Veitch declared that "Los Angeles...
2012
We Don’t Always Have School Spirit . . . But When We Do, It’s On Facebook
Author: Sam Ovenshine With the loss of a class at graduation each May and an influx of new freshmen in August, collective student bodies have short...
