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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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Moore Lab of Zoology: How genetics and 39,000 specimens of Mexican birds offer insight into climate change
Tucked away behind the BioScience building in the new Anderson Environmental Center, the Moore Lab of Zoology holds 39,000 specimens of Mexican birds — the world's...
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C. Riley Snorton speaks at Occidental as 2020 Stafford Ellison Wright Black Alumni Scholar-in-Residence
C. Riley Snorton, professor of English language and literature at the University of Chicago, spoke in Choi Auditorium as the 2020 Stafford Ellison Wright...
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Residential Education and Housing Services announces new Themed Living Communities in Norris
Residential Education and Housing Services (REHS) announced via campus-wide email Dec. 12 that it will implement new Themed Living Communities (TLCs) in Norris, an...
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Following unionization, non-tenure track faculty negotiates contract with college administration
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Non-tenure track (NTT) faculty at Occidental voted to join the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 721 May 14, 2019. According to past coverage in The...
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‘Just… vibrant. Magnetic’: Remembering Ilah Richardson ’23
Marahyah Ilah Richardson, a first-year student at Occidental College, died Jan. 27. She was 18 years old. Known by friends and family as “Ilah” and...
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District 14 City Council candidates discuss homelessness, BRT at Feb. 3 forum
Eagle Rock community members gathered at a forum hosted by The Eagle Rock Association Feb. 3 to hear from the five candidates running in the March...
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Literary wine bar is literally fine
Review by Pablo Nukaya-Petralia Stuffed between shiny stacks of graphic novels and Cheshire Cat tchotchkes, The 1894 Wine Bar at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena invites customers to celebrate the...
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Young and old alike rock and roll at Moonlight
The intersection of San Fernando Road and Hawthorne Street is a safe haven for roller skaters. Constructed in the 1940s, this giant one-story warehouse was...
