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Oxy JVP and SJP stage encampment for divestment ahead of Board of Trustees meeting
Occidental’s Jewish Voices for Peace (Oxy JVP) and Students for Justice in Palestine (Oxy SJP) set up an encampment on the Academic Quad around...
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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....
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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...
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SJP conducts 3 a.m. protest outside Board of Trustee member’s house
A group of over Occidental students arrived outside the house of Lisa H. Link, the former chair of the Board of Trustees, at 3...
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Department of Education Title IX changes lead to new interim sexual misconduct protocols
Occidental College has implemented Title IX policy changes to comply with the new guidelines issued by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos May 7....
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Cause still unconfirmed, missing mailbox replaced on Eagle Rock Boulevard
https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v8.0The national reckoning with a potential systematic undermining of the United States Postal Service (USPS) reverberated locally when, in early August, a USPS collection...
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Library digitizes and expands access to resources for remote semester
Due to the college's remote instruction for the fall semester, the Academic Commons is closed to visitors until further notice, according to its website....
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Occidental College announces online instruction for Fall 2020
In a campus-wide email, President Harry J. Elam Jr. announced Occidental will abandon its plans for any in-person classes in the fall, opting instead...
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ASOC shares remote academic programs for first years ahead of college announcement
This fall Occidental College will offer first-year students access to Oxy Immersive, a completely remote 8–14 unit program combining coursework and community-based internships, according...
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Occidental community eyes July 15 announcement as others abandon hybrid model
Since the beginning of July as the number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to surge nationally and in Los Angeles, local and...
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ASOC constitutional amendments pass, drawing student concerns about election process and newly-formed executive committee
The April 24–27 Associated Students of Occidental College (ASOC) election passed newly proposed ASOC constitutional amendments 421–45, which introduce an ASOC executive committee, among other changes, and go...
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For many non-tenure track faculty, the future remains unclear amidst the pandemic
Amid the school-wide hiring freeze announced by President Jonathan Veitch via email March 31, the lack of finalization of non-tenure track (NTT) faculty union’s contract negotiations and COVID-19...
