Opinions
Opinions
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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It’s time to ditch #bodypositivity for #bodyacceptance
Over the last five years, the body positivity and self-love fad has become so ingrained in our culture — #bodypositivity currently has over 4.1 million posts...
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The news is distressing but it doesn’t have to be
Let us get the obvious out of the way — it is not fun to read the news right now. Between political pundits arguing about who will...
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My not-so-hot Italian semester: how coronavirus hysteria plagued my study abroad experience
While I was studying abroad in Rome, Italy, an IES Abroad Rome administrator emailed all its participants Feb. 24 stating that we would have online...
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College students should not have overlooked Amy Klobuchar
Sen. Amy Klobuchar did the most Minnesota thing ever when she announced her presidential run Feb. 10, 2019, in the midst of a snowstorm. Comically...
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The career fair isn’t fair to introverts
Many of the seniors on campus can attest to the fear that strikes deep in our hearts when thinking about the job we need...
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We need more representations of affirmative consent in media
By age 14, I had pieced together my sexual knowledge using a heavy-handed Catholic lecture on abstinence in Sunday school, a year-long “health” class...
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Connecting on LinkedIn only fosters disconnection
Instagram has a well-documented history as a wrecking ball of young adult mental health, but on LinkedIn, our shameless self-promotion wears the patina of corporate respectability. I...
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Middle Eastern identifying students deserve more recognition on campus
As an Armenian student who has been at Occidental for almost three years now, I am still looking for a recognized Middle Eastern community here....
