Opinions
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Opinion: Wellness was never meant to be an achievement
I’ve started to wonder how much I actually know about my body. When I exercise, I can see my heart rate, calories burned and how...
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Opinion: Amidst recent backlash, MSI is more important than ever
I came to Occidental, thousands of miles away from my home in Virginia, completely unfamiliar with my surroundings but eager to learn. Participating in...
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Opinion: The Sparkletts plant sits vacant. Here’s what to do.
During my second week at Occidental, I had to get my medication from the CVS on York Boulevard. As I was heading home, I...
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Opinion: Write for your inner child
There is a scene in the 2010 animated Walt Disney movie “Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue” where Lizzy, a young human girl, works on...
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Lessons Learned: How to heal yourself through helping others
While the world was on pause, the leaves outside my little brick house continued to change and the scent of snow meandered through the city....
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Letter to the Editor: On the Foreign and the Familiar
Hello there. Perhaps the most challenging part of this letter is identifying its addressee — whether it is the Editor, the Reader, or the...
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Lessons Learned: How to talk about philosophy without getting punched
Philosophy is a notoriously pretentious subject. It evokes names like Kant and Aristotle and Kierkegaard, that belong to dead white men who probably said and did a lot of...
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Opinion: Affirmative action may die, but racial diversity in higher education need not
In front of the U.S. Supreme Court is currently a case known as “Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard,” which is revisiting the...
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Opinion: Responding to Kanye’s perpetuation of antisemitism
In early October, I was scrolling through my Instagram feed and saw that Ye West (formerly known as Kanye West) made some antisemitic remarks online. Around...
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Letter to the editor: Occidental underutilizes its small classes
At my high school in New York City, all of our classes were conducted in a seminar style. Because classes catered to student discussions,...
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Opinion: Independence means turning off location tracker, parents!
With all the hullabaloo around conspiracy theories that cite vaccines as vehicles of covert government surveillance through microchips, it’s easy to forget that there...
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Opinion: On the African History section of bookstores
Lacking. This is the overall quality and conclusion that many African-descended and African people can come to when visiting most bookstores in the United...
