Opinions
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
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...
2012
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...
2011
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...
2012
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...
2012
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...
2012
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,...
2013
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...
2013
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...
