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Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: Everything changes and nothing remains still
When I was little, I had extremely strict rules and expectations for my future: be a computer engineer like my father, start a nonprofit...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: Ask yourself, why not?
Every morning before middle school, my mom would say to me: “Be kind, be courageous and don’t mumble.” Much of my college experience has...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: A love letter to shared spaces
I grew up an only child, and it is safe to say that I came to college with a fear of shared spaces — communal bathrooms,...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: An obvious metaphor between the moon mission and college
There’s a scene in Samantha Harvey’s 2023 book "Orbital" in which an astronaut on the International Space Station tells his daughter that progress is beautiful....
2011
Is Obama Gambling Too Much in the Name of Green?
Author: Alex Zeldin President Obama will soon have to defend what may be the first scandal in his administration. Solyndra, a manufacturer of solar energy panels...
2011
Occidental is Stalling on Skotcheim’s Amethyst Commitment
Author: Alex Zeldin In 2008, Occidental College President Robert A. Skotheim signed a pledge in full support of the Amethyst Initiative. The Amethyst Initiative is an...
2011
Date of the Union: Bipartisan Gimmick Doesn’t Signal Real Unity
Author: Jill Goatcher Straying from the usual dinner and a movie, date night got a makeover this past Tuesday. The annual State of the Union address...
2011
Hardly a Charity Event for the Single Ladies
Author: Jill Goatcher With the leader of Libya, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and his family in the midst of a bloody battle to hold onto power, it...
2012
Music industry fails to create, innovate
Author: Adrian Hairapetian Recently, Mumford & Sons, an English folk-rock band formed in 2007, released their long-awaited, second studio album "Babel." The 12-track record sold 600,000 copies...
2012
Mourning the loss of print News(week)
Author: Ian Mariani Newsweek will halt production of its print edition starting December 31 of this year after 80 years of publication, but is anyone surprised? Newsweek's...
2012
Recent Israel-Gaza conflict revives two-state debate
Author: Ella Fornari After years of rocket fire and jilted rhetoric from both sides, the news of rocket fire in Israel and Gaza two weeks ago first...
2013
Summer abroad
Author: Sarah Corsa When I walked up to one of the tables at the Summer Abroad Fair last month, the first question the representative asked me...
