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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....
2016
Hillary Clinton: the most honest candidate in the race
Author: Rachel Cohn I cannot pretend to have read each of the thousands of online articles devoted to criticizing Hillary Clinton, but I can tell you...
2016
Administration must maintain campus dialogue, momentum
Author: After students led by Oxy United for Black Liberation — headed by members of the Black Student Alliance and Coalition at Oxy for Diversity...
2016
Campus Safety, though controversial, deserves applause
Author: Carson Malbrough Occidental is a school that prides itself on fostering a sense of community for students, faculty and staff. In order to protect this...
2011
When Students, Faculty Don’t Break Bread, Intellectualism Fails
Author: Jack McHenry If one listens closely, there are stories of a bygone age at Occidental College when teachers and students mingled freely in the quad...
2012
Information rules in the Third Industrial Revolution
Author: Anthony Labarga On Feb. 1, Facebook Inc. filed what is known as an S1 document with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Until now, Facebook has...
2011
Penn State Leadership Loses Its Reputation for Integrity
Author: Jack McHenry For nearly half a century, the Penn State football team was one of the most successful in the country. Under coach Joe Paterno,...
2012
Military policy puts perpetrators before assault victims
Author: Nicolette Gendron As "The Guardian" of London has reported, the U.S. military has "a dirty little secret." In the year 2010, 3,158 sexual crimes were...
2012
As college costs rise, loan market could be next bubble to bust
Author: Anthony Labarga The collapse of the consumer mortgage apparatus and the subsequent contraction of the global economy has been a disaster for anybody who was...
