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...
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the editor: Take Back the Night event encourages survivors to share their stories
We all know that Oxy has had a tumultuous past with sexual assault. I remember when I was on a tour of the school...
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Think the NZ Shooting “isn’t us?” History says otherwise
There should be little surprise about the recent mosque attack in New Zealand. Sadness, yes. Shock, maybe. Surprise, no. These continued attacks — in New Zealand,...
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Armenian women show that feminism is more than a t-shirt
Feminism is more than raising a poster with a feminist slogan and more than a t-shirt that says “feminist." Feminism is about women breaking...
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College admissions should show fairness, not favoritism
A few weeks ago, I was reading a high schooler’s essay about her experience learning English and her relationship to American culture through cinema. In...
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Should Oxy rescind an honorary degree to a racist recipient?
In his book “Applied Eugenics,” written in 1918, Paul Popenoe wrote: “No matter how much one may admire some of the Negro's individual traits,...
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Oxy should take more measures against mental illness
Our generation is experiencing a record-breaking mental health epidemic. 48.2 percent of college students experience anxiety and 34.5 percent experience depression, according to the Association for...
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You can’t swipe left on human interaction
At the end of my senior year of high school, I was dating a guy named Jack from my local college. I told my...
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Therapy Mythbusting: Why you should trust therapy
I recently had a conversation with a friend where she expressed concern about her boyfriend. I gently asked if she knew if he had...
