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...

Windstorm Reveals Flaws in Occidental Emergency Plan

Author: Rachel Stober   Last Wednesday night, the Santa Ana winds caused most of campus to lose power until mid-day Thursday and prompted the evacuation of four...

Learning from the L.A. Civil Unrest

Author: Jacob Surpin   April 29 marks the 20th anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest, an event catalyzed by the acquittal of three of the...

AGC Road Renaming: Name Game or Blame Game?

Author: Ryan Graff When students returned from winter break, it was not made apparent that the road formerly known as Coons Road, which runs through the...

Facebook Causes Without Effect

Author: Sarah Spinuzzi There is no doubt that Facebook has changed the world, or a least the way the world communicates. It is, however, doubtful that...

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...

New treatment of infant HIV provides limited hope

Author: Lucy Feickert Recent news stories have been lauding a cure for auto-immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), an event with the potential to bring hope and health...