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Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: Everything changes and nothing remains still
When I was little, I had extremely strict rules and expectations for my future: be a computer engineer like my father, start a nonprofit...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: Ask yourself, why not?
Every morning before middle school, my mom would say to me: “Be kind, be courageous and don’t mumble.” Much of my college experience has...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: A love letter to shared spaces
I grew up an only child, and it is safe to say that I came to college with a fear of shared spaces — communal bathrooms,...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: An obvious metaphor between the moon mission and college
There’s a scene in Samantha Harvey’s 2023 book "Orbital" in which an astronaut on the International Space Station tells his daughter that progress is beautiful....
Opinions
Letter from the editor: Flora Adamian
It is no secret that journalism is at a tipping point — financially unstable newsrooms continue to downsize, profit-driven parent companies lay off full-time...
Opinions
How Oxy Confessions contributes to a culture of sexual assault
Today, college campuses remain pernicious cesspools for sexual predation. An estimated 23.4 percent of females, 21 percent of TGQN (transgender, gender queer and non-conforming)...
Opinions
President Pence and the end of LGBTQ rights
While Donald Trump's track record on LGBTQ+ rights is questionable at best, his vice president has a far longer history of taking just one side...
Opinions
Not-so-Noble Peace Prize: the arbitrary selection of Nobel laureates
The Nobel Peace Prize is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious awards on the planet. Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee,...
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Issues regarding MSI curriculum and administration’s response should be addressed
The Associated Students of Occidental College (ASOC) and the Diversity and Equity Board (DEB) released their full report on the Multicultural Summer Institute (MSI) Nov. 9....
Opinions
No more disbelief over accusations of sexual harassment
When I first heard the news of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, I felt several emotions, among them anger, disgust, frustration and empathy for the...
Editorial
Journalists face a dilemma when covering sexual assault
As journalists, our job is to report facts; we seek to report what happened to whom, when, where and if at all possible, report...
Opinions
Spacey turns ‘coming out’ into a weapon
There is a long and ugly history of associating gayness with pedophilia. Homophobes characterize gay men as predatory, and use this as an excuse...
