Opinions
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
Sinking America: neoliberalism embodied on a college campus
The ship is sinking. Say it with me. The ship is sinking.
The argument goes like this: people are stuck in the hull of a...
Editorial
Letter From the editor: Jane Drinkard
Occidental Students, Faculty and Staff, According to President Donald J. Trump, we at the Occidental Weekly — as part of “the media” — are “the...
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Editor: Rhonda Brown, CDO
Feb. 1 marked my one-year anniversary at Occidental. I’ve always found that an anniversary is a good time to be retrospective, and as I...
Editorial
Editorial: A look at journalistic ethics
In the haze following the 2016 presidential election, there has been a crackdown on fake news and a very justified air of frustration toward...
Opinions
A child labors in Santa’s sweatshop
As I struggle to light a cigarette with my shaky, frozen hands on a bench in Boston, surrounded by the cheers of my gleeful...
Opinions
10 months of recovery: my struggle with post-concussion syndrome
Early one morning last February I turned over in my sleep, and rolled off the side of my lofted bunk, my head colliding with...
Opinions
Letter from the editor: The remedy to broken trust is the benefit of the doubt
We have to stop with this “ignorant till proven woke” philosophy that is pervasive across college campuses. It’s petty, pompous and unproductive. We have...
Opinions
Letter from past editors reflecting on the occupation
Last year, college media faced a crisis both practical and moral. Wesleyan College’s newspaper was defunded by the school’s student government for an opinions...
