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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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FallFest feels like a ‘lucid dream’
For the first time in a year and a half, Remsen Bird Hillside Theater was transformed into a concert venue Oct. 23 for the...
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Making legends human with Mirin Fader ‘13
In 2018, Occidental alumna Mirin Fader '13 boarded a flight for Lithuania. She was bound for Prienai, a town of fewer than 10,000 residents...
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Light at the end of the subway tunnel: LA Metro adapts to pandemic and reopening
Spanning 1,433 square miles across LA County, the 140 bus lines and six rail lines of LA Metro form a vast network that connects...
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Professor Mary Jane Hewitt, Black Studies and Occidental’s slow road to racial progress
Between 8 and 9 a.m. May 5, 1978, all was quiet on Occidental's campus as students, faculty members and administrators eagerly read the newspaper,...
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Cross House’s last lap
For 15 years, a faded yellow building on Avenue 46 near Occidental’s campus has been known as “Cross House.” The three-unit lot has been...
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Economics professor Woody Studenmund takes a seventh-inning stretch
Woody Studenmund arrived in California in the fall of 1970 with a broken leg and a fever of 102. He had no luggage, no...
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The perfect salsa, a starry night, these are our little loves
From cooking our favorite meals to stargazing or dancing around our houses, these stories from our staff share the moments in our daily lives...
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‘Irreplaceable’ Vince Cuseo, dean of admission and vice president of enrollment, to step down in June
The Office of Admission is currently holed up — reading and sorting through thousands of applications during the second stage of its admissions process....
