Opinions
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...
Opinions
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...
Opinions
Opinion: It’s okay to be ‘Deathly Afraid’
Levi Lee -
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...
Opinions
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...
Opinions
Programming Board: Give us a female artist for this year's SpringFest
A female artist has never played at Occidental College’s SpringFest concert. Although the event is only five years old, students are already eager for...
Editorial
Expensive AHVA comps lack appropriate funding
The Art History and Visual Arts (AHVA) department designed its senior comprehensives (comps) requirements to simulate professional environments for artists, art historians and filmmakers....
Opinions
Occidental's curriculum must keep up in the age of technology
In the 21st-century American job market, it is imperative that students preparing for the professional world be technologically savvy. Despite the arguments that technological...
On Campus
Mind the cap: students need more work hours
Today's students are overwhelmed by tuition hikes and debt obligations. According to Financial Aid Research at The Chronicle of Higher Education, the price of...
Opinions
Media coverage distorts Muslim religion, ignites fear
The beheading of journalists by ISIS and the shootings in Ottawa have rapidly escalated Americans' fears of terrorist threats. In a poll conducted by...
Opinions
Occidental offers potential for social progress
I am a black man. At least that is how I identify myself, my heritage and the face I see when I look in the...
Opinions
Wage gaps between President, faculty need to decrease
Despite Occidental's high tuition, relatively low endowment and the growing income gap within the institution, President Jonathan Veitch's 2011 salary was in the 79th...
Editorial
All students should show up to conversations on diversity
Last week, the Occidental community saw how far we still are from understanding racial equality on campus. An attempt by two Occidental students to...
