Campus News

Christopher Grant named new associate director of Campus Safety

Christopher Grant was selected for the position of associate director of Campus Safety, according to a school-wide email from Campus Safety sent March 20....

Off-campus housing policy poses challenges

Residential Education & Housing Services (REHS) sent an email Feb. 2 to the sophomore class sharing the Third-Year Live Off Application. The application, which...

SJP conducts 3 a.m. protest outside Board of Trustee member’s house

A group of over 50 students arrived outside the house of Lisa H. Link, the former chair of the Board of Trustees, at 3...

Mock Trial brings ‘luck’ and ‘grit’ to regionals, championships

Occidental’s Mock Trial team placed seventh out of 28 at the American Mock Trial Association’s (AMTA) Regional Tournament Feb. 28-March 1. They advanced to...

OSAC’s partnership with Callisto represents a larger self-reporting movement

Content warning: This article contains discussions of sexual assault on campus. Nov. 12, 2021, the Oxy Sexual Assault Coalition (OSAC) led a demonstration in response to an...

HathiTrust opens up new horizons for scholarship at Occidental

Occidental’s Senior Director of Collections, Systems and Services Brian Chambers announced the college’s new membership with HathiTrust in a campus-wide email Oct. 27. The...

Occidental’s first micro forest will have macro impact

An untraveled nook between the Norris Hall of Chemistry and Arthur G. Coons Administrative Center will soon be transformed into a thriving, interactive micro...

Kim Bryant Lundy, Assistant Campus Safety Director, dies at 68

Assistant Campus Safety Director Kim Bryant Lundy, whose survivor-centered work with the Occidental community left an indelible mark, died Oct. 22. She was 68...

37 professors sign pro-Palestine email, face pushback from colleagues

Occidental’s faculty received an email letter signed by 37 professors establishing solidarity with pro-Palestine movements Oct. 21. English professor Warren Montag sent the email...

Anticipated changes to FYS come with curricular tradeoffs

As President Harry Elam’s tenure comes to a close at the end of the 2023-2024 school year, Occidental is culminating an administrative and academic...

Study abroad rates climb slowly after COVID-19 pandemic

Students are slowly studying abroad again, according to Robin Craggs, the executive director of the International Programs Office (IPO) who said the rate of...

Robin Maxile’s foundation of racial equity has been a ‘real gift to our community’

Robin Maxile joined the Intercultural Community Center (ICC) in summer 2021, just as Occidental began to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, Maxile...