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...

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...

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...

Following unionization, non-tenure track faculty negotiates contract with college administration

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...

‘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...

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...

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...

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...

For the love of Scoops

Since it opened in 2012, Scoops in Highland Park has served customers cones stacked with vanilla cardamom ginger snap, miso maple butterfinger, cilantro mint...