Campus News

Trustees again decide not to divest college endowment

Board of Trustees Chair Art Peck sent an email to students, faculty and staff Oct. 14 announcing that the Board decided not to adopt...

Oxy SJP and ASOC recognize three-year anniversary of Oct. 7, 2023

More than 70 people gathered around the Lucille Y. Gilman Memorial Fountain Oct. 7 for a candlelight vigil organized by Students for Justice in...

Booth Hall renovations remix music program

Booth Hall, the home of Occidental’s music department, is undergoing a renovation process that will transform the building into state-of-the-art classroom, rehearsal and performance...

Prof. Zachary honors great-grandfather’s founding of town turned state park

Anita Zachary, visiting assistant professor of the Occidental College Writing Program, was the keynote speaker at the Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park’s 50th Rededication...

Administration plans overhaul of college’s marketing strategy

Author: Melina Devoney Occidental’s Communications, Marketing, & Community Relations department is in the preliminary phase of a conceptual and visual makeover of the college's image to...

Economics department selects new tenure-track professor

Author: Charlotte Umanoff The economics department hired Jesse Mora as a tenure-track professor following a comprehensive search and selection process in late January. Mora, currently a...

Eagle Rock women’s club celebrates centennial

Author: Carmen Triola Exactly 100 years after a group of suffragette Progressives in Eagle Rock opened the doors of their own Corinthian-style clubhouse in 1915, nearly...

ResEd changes roommate questionnaire to address gender, sexuality

Author: Lily Goldfarb Residential Education (ResEd) recently added a question to the Roommate Questionnaire, sent to next year's incoming first-years, in order to accommodate roommate preferences...

Student working group proposes new constitution

Author: Rachel Cohn Members of four branches of the Associated Students of Occidental College (ASOC) are in the process of reviewing a proposal for a new...

ASOC senators propose senior week ball

Author: Charlotte Umanoff Associated Students of Occidental College (ASOC) Senior Senators Antoniqua Roberson and Mari Peña announced plans to organize a formal ball during senior week...

World News 4.0

Author: Ximena Santiago Greece. An anonymous Greek collector recently spent $23,000 on a cracker that survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The 103-year-old English biscuit...

Geo Jocks: Shrinking Mountains

Author: Emma Lodes Of all Earth's natural wonders, mountains stand out as one of the most majestic, unignorable phenomena. They are prone to frigid, unpredictable and...