Opinions

Opinion: Be yourself for Halloween

The first time Halloween rolled around after I started college, I found myself without a costume. I was two months into my very first...

Opinion: The ugly truth of Korean beauty standards

Looking back at my life growing up in Seoul, I noticed how quietly misogyny started seeping into everyday life in the form of beauty...

Opinion: It’s okay to be ‘Deathly Afraid’

It’s the spookiest time of the year, and everyone is gearing up for the season’s festivities. Back home, I never really celebrated Halloween, but...

Opinion: The Cornell Daily Sun demonstrates the power of student voices

This article includes discussion of sexual assault. Sept. 21 the Cornell Daily Sun, Cornell University’s independent daily student newspaper, published an editorial revealing the names that became...

Austerity the way forward for Greece

Author: Anthony Labarga   Swamped by the extravagance and rampant corruption of their finance ministry, Greek politicians have been left with no choice but to accept another...

Editorial: Aid Not Symetrically Beneficial

Author: The Occidental Weekly Editorial Board   In 2009, Occidental instituted a financial aid policy that lowers the funding for students on need-based financial aid should they...

Heeding timely words from nature’s visionary

Author: Ethan Weiss, Opinions Editor Oh, how the times change. Ninety-nine years ago, the city of San Francisco was fighting a fierce battle over the fate...

Campus Safety Should Open the Window to Community

Author: Sam Van Buren In a time when going green is becoming increasingly necessary, Campus Safety should explore energy-saving and cost-cutting alternatives to their patrol cars...

Editorial: Requesting Return of Bookstore Policies

Author:  The Occidental Bookstore's new policy, which forces students to prove that they dropped a class in order to return books, represents the continuation of a...

Taking advantage of the landscape

Author: Emma Lodes Living and learning while hidden in the concrete maze of Los Angeles, it is easy to forget that the world is not a...

Bringing class back to academia

Author:  When an individual attends class, he or she most likely expects to see a professor lecturing, donned in work-appropriate apparel as they should be,...

Recruitment in the age of social media

Author: Malcolm MacLeod While the use of social networking in college recruiting was once limited to NCAA Division I and II collegiate athletics, the NCAA passed...