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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 the Board decided not to adopt a...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Anticipated changes to FYS come with curricular tradeoffs
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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...
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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...
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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...
