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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
Of What We Lose
Author: J. Mohorcich Let's start with an allegory. A student — call him Sebastian — is accepted by Occidental College. He comes to school here. He learns...
2011
All Work and No Pay
Author: Sarah Spinuzzi Students are ordering iced coffee again, and it's leaving rings of condensation on the tables and benches. Others are flocking to the CAE...
2012
Editorial: Fewer hospitalizations, humiliations with better alcohol strategies
Author: The Occidental College Editorial Board Just one weekend before Occidental invites crowds of alumni and community members to celebrate the school's 125th Anniversary Founders Day,...
2011
Monologues Have One-Sided View of Environmentalism
Author: Alex Zeldin Since I started my Occidental education, I have never seen such a reckless disregard for both the environment and the people who work...
2011
AGC Renaming Opinion
Author: Ryan Graff, Staff Writer When students returned from winter vacation, it was not made apparent that the road formerly known as Coons Road, which runs...
2012
One dollar, one vote
Author: Benjamin DeLuca It takes a village to win an election--a really, really expensive village. According to the Washington Post's data, President Obama, Mitt Romney and...
2012
Student productivity ‘Arrested’
Author: Ella Fornari Occidental should have been courteous enough to leave a note before Fall Break started that film crews were coming to campus last Tuesday. Students...
2012
Ending the failed war on drugs
Author: Joe Siegal Following a first term in which President Obama's policies reinforced the status quo in the United States' "war on drugs," American voters on Nov....
