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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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iPhone 6 exploits our addiction to technology
David Hearne carefully positioned his cot and blanket outside the entrance of a Verizon Wireless store in Salisbury, Md. Last Friday evening, a native...
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Ebola outbreak prompts rapid vaccine research
The Ebola virus currently plaguing at least five West African nations has up to a 90 percent fatality rate, and yet, according to the...
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Alumni donations should meet students' basic needs
The rate at which new construction projects are being started on our campus can, at times, be staggering. These building renovations and capital projects...
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Anecdotes from the Archives Gender Equality on Campus: then, now and beyond
The Occidental Weekly, September 1944: A headline on the front page reads “'Men Only’ Theme for Men's Stag Night.”“‘For Men Only’ is to be...
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Traveling alone allows for alternate perspectives
Before spending three weeks in India this summer, I had never left the continent. It was never on my parents' radar to wander the...
On Campus
Weight room policy strengthens athletics
Melinda Houston, a professor in the Kinesiology department and Occidental's first full-time head conditioning coach, is shaking things up in the varsity weight room....
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Letter from the Editor
Journalism is a dying field, or so I am told almost daily. There is no future in it, no jobs and certainly no money....
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"Yes" is sexy; Bill 967 redefines sexual assault assault on campus
Emily Sulkowicz was raped in her dorm room at the start of her junior year. Now, Sulkowicz is the girl carrying her mattress around...
