On Campus

Oxy SJP protest and confrontation with security at Stritikus’s inauguration expose strong divides across campus communities

A crowd of roughly 30 Occidental Students for Justice in Palestine (Oxy SJP) protesters attempted to force their way through Campus Safety and Code Four private...

Break-in at Telefund prompts ongoing investigation by LAPD

According to an email from Campus Safety, a break-in occurred at Telefund, Occidental’s student fundraising program, at 3:20 a.m. April 23. CCTV footage shared with...

Occidental students hold hunger strike demanding college divestment, student and immigrant protections

April 21, 10 Occidental students began a hunger strike for immigrant justice, student protections and college divestment from genocide, according to Occidental’s Jewish Voices...

Kemp Lecturer Tom Nichols outlines the death of expertise and how to fix it

Tom Nichols, author of "The Death of Expertise," gave a talk in Choi Auditorium April 8 as the 2025 Jack Kemp '57 Distinguished Lecturer, where...

Dining Services struggles to respond to food inflation, staff shortages

Occidental College’s Marketplace and Tiger Cooler, the two main sources of food on campus for students, have struggled to respond to inflation and industrywide labor shortages,...

FEAST hosts first farmers market at Bruce Steele Garden

On Sept. 20, Occidental’s Food, Energy and Sustainability Team (FEAST), a student service which manages the Bruce Steele Garden on campus, hosted their first...

Student organizations kick off the year with the Involvement Fair

Occidental hosted the Involvement Fair Sept. 8th, an event for the college's clubs and departments to share information and promote themselves to students on...

Peeping Tom incident on campus raises student anxiety

Aug. 24, three days after first-year students moved into dormitories, a man was seen looking through the blinds of first-year rooms, according to a...

‘It doesn’t meet the threshold’: Students who reported anti-Asian texts to the college detail the process, the search for solutions continues

Content warning: This article discusses texts that emerged in February between two Occidental students that included genocidal, racist speech toward Asian people. A series of...

Exploring the Atlantic Ocean, the depth of Black Studies and more with Justin Dunnavant

Seventy years after the graduation of Occidental's first Black students, Dr. Janet Stafford '52, George F. Ellison '52 and Barbara Bowman Wright '52, the...

Green Bean opens with a festive gathering after a two-year hiatus

Occidental's student-run coffee shop, the Green Bean, was decorated with fairy lights, colorful ribbons and balloons tied down to Yerba Mate bottles Feb. 5....