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...

Lessons Learned: All roads of personal growth lead to Rome

Since coming back from my study abroad semester in Rome, Italy, I have spent the last few months dwelling on the experience I had...

Opinion: Capoeira is a ‘jeito’ of life

The other night, I dreamt of berimbaus (single string gourd instruments) singing in the distance and gravelly voices whispering along to “Deixa eu passar.”...

Opinion: Even if the bubble bursts, AI will survive

It seems like it’s become impossible to navigate contemporary daily life without encountering some form of AI. From Google automatically incorporating Gemini into its search results...

Opinion: Lessons in accessibility from a year of online learning

If you asked me what Zoom was this time last year, I would have had no idea what you were talking about. When President...

Letter to the Editor: Greek Council Letter of Accountability

To the Occidental College Community, Greek Life at Oxy would like to collectively acknowledge the egregious systems which have contributed to our privileged position as...

Opinion: Stop letting people you don’t know tell you what your taste buds should think

I was, as I often am, curled up on my couch before bed catching up on my YouTube subscriptions. Inspired by a craving for...

Opinion: A guide to modern adulthood during a pandemic

At the beginning of the semester, my social media feed was filled with pictures of out-of-staters’ views from their airplanes and geotags signifying they...

Opinion: We can grow up, too

The first adult I confided in about my delayed manifestation of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms was my commanding, intellectual, Black, mid-30s high school...

Opinion: Don’t be fooled by the memestocks, r/WallStreetBets carries more power than you’d think

Having grown up on the internet, from Club Penguin chats to teenage Omegle hangouts to Tumblr, Twitter and Reddit, I’ve learned that internet subgroups...

Letter to the Editor: To fund the oppressor destroys any pretense of neutrality #OxyDivest

An uncomfortable truth that Occidental has tried to distance itself from is the direct role it took in funding South African apartheid 40 years...