Outside Contributors
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Editor: Yes, Israel is a settler-colonial state. Calling it so matters.
Feb. 7, 2024, in response to a Statement of Concern signed by 61 Occidental faculty members, Associate Professor of Classics and Chair of Comparative...
Opinions
Opinion: Maintaining friendships during COVID-19 is harder than ever. Here’s why I keep trying.
When it comes to friendships, I’ve always preferred quality over quantity: the kind of friends with whom you can talk about anything and who...
Opinions
Opinion: Practices for sustaining movements and yourself to avoid activist burnout
To end the injustices that permeate our local, national and international communities, we need movements — not martyrs. A culture of selflessness to the...
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Opinion: Can I be happy while working overtime?
I am currently taking a leave of absence from Oxy and working as a counseling intern at a high school; my main job is...
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“Don’t even read this, it sucks”
I love creating. I love cooking, sewing, writing, scrapbooking, songwriting and singing. Yet the second it comes time to share that joy, I revert...
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Mental health can’t wait for summer
I often hear people say, “It will be better when the semester ends,” “I’ll sleep when it is summer” and “I’ll figure out my...
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Why I talk about my mental illness
Since my first year, when I heard about Oxy from the Inside (OFTI), I knew I wanted to speak at the event. I shared...
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Let’s start using “y’all” again, y’all
Orientation four years ago was a blur of new experiences and an overload of new information. While I remember sitting in Thorne for lectures,...
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Self-responsibility: The perfectionist’s alternative to self-care
I actively hate the term self-care. I realize this is unpopular. For a long time, I viewed the concept as a justification to abandon discipline...
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Should Oxy rescind an honorary degree to a racist recipient?
In his book “Applied Eugenics,” written in 1918, Paul Popenoe wrote: “No matter how much one may admire some of the Negro's individual traits,...
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Therapy Mythbusting: Why you should trust therapy
I recently had a conversation with a friend where she expressed concern about her boyfriend. I gently asked if she knew if he had...
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Appearance isn’t everything: health is not equivalent to weight
Society idolizes skinny. It judges fat. It does this to the point that it claims thin is always healthy and chubby is always unhealthy....
